2-20--25
(Blocked at the NY Times again. 6 months from now what you see in these posts will be their news. Took 5 hours)
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
The foreign policy masterstroke of the century, which renders Biden's China hysterics obsolete. Russia sees its destiny in Europe and not Asia, and fears China's Arctic ambitions. Team Musk dreams of a Global North Axis to save Western Civilization from being absorbed by the encroaching South. This cohort sees Russia as a cudgel to destroy the globalist EU and and its subversive "EU values", which Putin used as a pretext to invade Ukraine. You need to see the Culture War as the metric of Trump's foreign policy to grasp the enormity of what is in play here. And with Russia holding India's natural enemy at bay, the latter is automatically included in the Western market portfolio as an additional bonus. Putin, in the Right's thinking, just added another chapter to the colonial glamour of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which they hope to recapture.
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Afdeestupple, US21m ago
Politics is Culture War by other means. and the spoils of Vae Victis is that the conqueror gets to rewrite the history books. The route of history can be circuitous with cul-de-sacs, dead ends, and rabbit trails: in short, propaganda, disinformation, conspiracies--there are no historical facts, as they say, only opinions about historical facts. If the current custodians of the narrative (the Left) are out of favor, the field then is ripe for "a man of the people" to weave reality to suit the needs of the time, and the "truth" becomes what people wish to hear. Trump is running with the narrative. The good and decent people of France cast a blind eye on Napoleon's crimes as long as he gave them victories. Or in Kissinger speak: there are no facts, only "interests."
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Trump's Third Temple Quagmire: How the Jews will Abort the Trump Revolution and Destroy His Presidency
"Netanyahu seeks to draw Trump into future attack on Iranian nuclear sites" (Guardian)
"Georgia’s First Jewish Senator Is Losing Jewish Support" (NY Times)
"Saudi Arabia’s Warm Relations With Trump Elevate Its Diplomatic Status" (NY Times)
Trump's war on the globalist Left rages without opposition. The EU, the hotbed of the Culture War, he put under the scourge of Putin. In America, the Left is bereft of its major architects and sponsors: leftwing secular Jews and the billionaires through whom they control the levers of institutions and government. But now, as you can see in Georgia, Hamas shattered that arrangement. Because, most Jewish billionaires are Zionists, and with Israel on the ropes, they were forced to drop the mask of neutrality, join ranks and call in favors: either take up the cause of Israel, or face the wrath of the Protocols of Mammon. This means that Jews are now excommunicated from Civil Rights ranks, the world's largest repository of moral credit, where billionaires were allowed to buy-in like polluters now buy carbon credits. The buy-in also served to keep Jews from the embrace Evangelical Jewolaters, who consider them as Frist Brethren and the enduring foundation of their own religion. "We worship the same God," Evangelicals say. Jews bite their tongue. No Jew could ever say that without committing blasphemy. American Jewry is now essentially homeless. But, aside from a few holdouts, even seculars and atheists are forced to make common cause with Evangelicals. Another fallout of Hamas.
On all other fronts, the Trump Revolution is already a force of history, carrying all before it. He has both the monopoly of violence, and the corrective backlash (think Biden's Drag Queen pedophile groomers) of historical forces on his side. He's simply applying the old Darwinian rules of statecraft ruthlessly: you're either fit (for US purposes) or you don't survive. National "interests" instead of individual (identity) politics. His opening move of making an ally of Putin against China kills all the birds with one stone.
But he's about to stumble into a trap which will be his undoing, because he's forced to pivot from statecraft to priestcraft. And there, as they say, goes the neighborhood.
He has four hooks in him from which he cannot extricate himself, and which stand to turn his triumphs into a Greek tragedy:
1) Evangelical Jewolatry and Third Temple fanaticism
2) The Protocols of Mammon
3) Family--the Kushite is Orthodox, for whom One Israel (the Biblical Deed) is central to their identity.
4) Trump's fatal attraction to Mammon. He thinks everything (even peace) has a price and can be bought.
2-19-25
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Afdeestupple, US29m ago
A rude awakening. Biden applied his domestic (identity) politics to world affairs, where they crashed and burned under the weight of Realpolitik. "Only Ukraine," he told Zelensky, "will set the terms of peace." The Paymaster gets to choose the narrative. Neither Ukraine nor his European "partners" are at the table. "The only thing worse than an invading army," they used to say, "is a mercenary one." "Nations," Kissinger said, "don't have friends, only interests." Biden cynically gave Ukraine just enough to fulfill US objectives: wear down America's enemy. Ukraine was seduced to believe that the US would enter the fray on moral grounds and redeem Ukraine's sacrifice on behalf of freedom. A fatal miscalculation. They should have listened to Kissinger.
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HzAm
Brooklyn16m ago
@Shoffmensch Never liked Kissinger, but he was spot on on this one.
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JimmyG
MD12m ago
@Shoffmensch
“If you’re not AT the table, you’re ON the table.”
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Michael
Idaho33m ago
@Shoffmensch
Your conclusion is flawed. Ukraine persued its own interests. Maybe Russia will get the Donbas (maybe even some or all of Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces) but they likely won't take the whole country. Ukraine did listen to Kissinger. Not their fault that Putin's puppet got re-elected. In politics, as in life, you can't control the uncontollabe.
Sounds like you believe--given the limitations on US "interests" and how far the country would or would not go to protect them (no doubt a US President was not going to send massive amounts of troops)-- Ukraine should have just rolled over and negotiated with Putin to give up some of its territory, and in so doing, all of its sovereignty. Certainly there would be a lot more young Ukrainian and Russian boys alive today if your implied strategy had been followed.
Jimmy Cliff had a good line in one of his reggae songs: "I'd rather be a free man in my grave, then living as a puppet on your stage."
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2-18-25
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
The masterstroke of the century. By alienating Russia, Biden threw it into China's orbit and then cried up hysterics about WW3. Now Trump uses Russia to checkmate China, and grants US business access to Russia's low hanging fruit. Plus he ends the rivers of blood of the Left's countless forever wars.
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(They sat on this all day)
Afdeestupple, US5m ago
The Problem:
1) Trump sees the EU as a dead weight, and the globalist Left that runs it as the greatest enemy to Western civilization. Vance/Hegseth's harsh language opened the Second Front in the Right's Culture War now purging the Left's US redoubts. The enemy, in their view, is one.
2) Europe is broke. It missed the digital juggernaut, and its industrial mainstay is crippled by high energy. It cannot pivot from Welfare to Warfare without massive social unrest, and the average European sees the War as an elitist debacle. Modern wars are fought with either money or religion (Taliban). Europe has neither. "We live in a Post-Christian world," its leaders say.
3) The EU has 27 chiefs and no Commander-in-Chief. Which goes to the heart of its charter as a peace instrument. In that sense, the focus of answering violence with violence has already destroyed the EU vision. Putin feared "EU values" more than NATO. Team Trump is waging Culture War against the EU for the same reason. It accounts for the harsh language of Vance/Hegseth.
4) Finally, it wouldn't take many body bags returning to Berlin to end whatever it is that Europe hopes to gain by prolonging the inevitable. And Germany is afraid to confront a nuclear power with conventional weapons without the US nuclear umbrella. Since last week, they now know that Article 5 does not extend to Ukraine. In short, the EU/Ukraine have zero options. They have all been fired. This is the message of Riyadh.
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Afdeestupple, USFeb. 16
Ukraine merely happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in the Culture War, which Team Trump has now carried to the EU, which they see as the hotbed of anti-American Cultural Marxism. Vance clearly states that the new administration sees the globalist Left as a greater threat than Putin. They've already lumped Ukraine in with the rest of Europe, because Trump sees it as a symptom of the same disease. He's already cut a deal with Putin, and hopes to use him against China. NATO exists to counter Russia, and with Russia as an ally, it has outlived its usefulness to the US. Trump is writing down Biden's losses quickly, and needs Russian commodities to beat inflation. He has nothing to lose in throwing Europe under the bus. The whole debacle goes on Biden's ticket, and Trump gets the Nobel.
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PPaul
PittsburghFeb. 16
@Shoffmensch
Trump’s chance to world peace is slim to none
Inflation will rise because of high unemployment, excessive tariffs and high interest rate, all that have no bearing on Russia
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TC
NYFeb. 16
@Paul The unemployment numbers will include the 200,000 and counting Federal workers he has laid off. Fire Musk and save $8m a month. When the unemployment numbers are announced he will blame them on Biden.
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2-15-25
The New World Order: Putin as Trump's China Sheriff
"Vance Shocks Europe With a Message That He Has Long Promoted at Home"
"German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Minimizes Nazis"
"Zelensky Says Ukraine Is Unlikely to Survive Its War Without U.S. Support" (NY Timers)
"Trump Officials Attack a German Consensus on Nazis and Speech " (NY Times)
The new arrangement should postpone WW3 by another 80 years. Team Trump is now doing to Europe what the Europeans did to the Ottoman Empire when the Colonials carved up the spoils of its demise by drawing a + in the heartland of the Kurds. Trump sees nothing of worth in Sick Man Europe, and his zealots are keen to destroy Pride once and for all. (They're careful to hide the Pride flags in Ukraine these days). Like the cities between Syria and Israel, Europe has been completely sidelined: "What say I give them back to you," Benhadad says to Ahab.
The masterstroke Trump is aiming at here is to carve up the world into 3 spheres, China/Russia/US, and hire Russia to solve America's China Problem. Taiwan is already under the bus, and Greenland becomes a huge mining depot to harvest the North's resources, while Russia holds China at bay in the East. Expect Trump/Musk talk up a Northern Corridor and bridging the Bering Straits. Big India is left to attach to Russia against its main enemy, China. With its commercial wings clipped, China would not so easily to intimidate the Pacific Tigers if they pooled their ranks.
Vance/Musk/Thiel cozying up to Germany's Right is central to their scheme of saving what's left of Western civilization, which they see as still preserved in the former Eastern Block and Russia. The new Prussia gets to glut on Russian resources in the new Drang Nach Osten and put its stamp on the rest of Europe. Trump is in a hurry to get ahead of China in the new digital Era, which will be fueled by the rare earths of the North. Putin is well aware that the Dragon will soon make a move on Siberia, so the lesser evil is to make himself useful to the US. The glue here is the salvaging of Western Civilization, which has become the new Babel for which Musk is willing to leave off rockets (Putin used it as a pretext to invade). Vance is but the poodle of his paymaster, Peter Thiel, who, when not building bunkers in New Zealand, waxes tragic about the sinking West. They're going to Wall-off China and the Global South in order to preserve the land of milk and honey for the children of Japheth. "America is full," the Rev Dobson cursed at the poor wretches huddled beneath the Southern wall. "Your decadence," Vance told European leaders yesterday, "is a greeter danger than Putin." Because, "Pride cometh before Destruction." Whenever you see a Pride flag, look closely, and you will see Destruction not far behind. But there was pride in Genesis 11 before God destroyed Pride in Genesis 19. Trump bestrides the world like swaggering Nimrod, "the beginning of whose kingdom was Babel." The Conservative techbros of Silicon Valley are the new "go-tos" of Babel. "They're out of control," God said, before scattering them. Rather than building a tower to heaven, they were attempting to build the kingdom of God on earth. "Europe is in a post-Christian era," the Shmerckels used to sniff, "deal with it." The go-tos saw no need "to call upon the name of the Lord" as the remnant in Genesis 4. The Shmerkels were building the kingdom of god without Christ. The Trumps/Orbans/Putins want christian civilization without Christ--"with whom we have to do." Although, they'll probably build "the king's chapel" at Mara Lago.
"Mr Zelensky said that if Nato is not willing to offer membership to Ukraine as a security guarantee, an alternative would be “the ability to build another Nato in Ukraine.”
He appeared to be suggesting the creation of a large, European peacekeeping force that could deter any future aggression by Russia." (Telegraph)
So now you have two NATO's. But this puts them right back to where they started: facing an angry Bear without the US nuclear umbrella. The day European troops kill Russian soldiers will mark the beginning of a Russian nuclear response--which the US will not counter. The point of the war for Russia is to get Nato away from Russian borders. Ukraine lost the war because the US is afraid of nuclear confrontation. Up to now, Europe can pretend not to be at war with Russia. That will end the minute European troops march into Ukraine--without US protection. Only the US going to war with Russia can keep Russia from continuing the war, which it will do as long as Europe threatens a heavy European military presence on Russia's border. They're utterly checkmated, and Trump has already decided to make a quick end of it. Worse, he's already formed a US-Russian axis to serve America's biggest threat: China. Ukraine, in this scheme is but a terrified mouse awaiting its fate with the rest of helpless Europe. None are big enough to matter. Except Germany. Create a European army, the fear is, and Germany will control it. And now, they're really back to square one. They took Pride as their mascot, soccer as their pastime, and Climate as their religion. Statecraft meant drafting laws about the shape of carrots. Trump doesn't know what to do with them because they're broke. To form an army would destroy the Welfare state. And now he's left with half a billion people who no longer know how to tie their shoelaces.
2-14-25
"Vance meets with leader of far-right German party, blasts European leaders" (WPost).
The Musk people still see some hope in Old Germany. They don't even bother with any of the rest. These are the pro-Russians. What is Trump up to?
Biden spent his term fearmongering about WW3 with China. Which is what Ukraine was all about: hurl Putin back to make China think twice about trying the same stunt with Taiwan. Trump could care less about Taiwan. And the Right admires Putin and his save-Western- civilization lines. "The enemy is not Russia," Vance told Europe in Munich. "The enemy is within--open borders." In other words, you the globalist who ran Europe off a cliff are in the Trump crosshairs. They showed up in Munich to strategize about Ukraine, only to be hammered with the Culture War. They all know that Trump and Putin have already agreed on the major parts of the Deal, which they will read about on X. The Deal was to be hammered out in the old fashion, conferences, horse trading, embassy balls, with all the old wannabees strutting around like in the days of Waterloo. After two years, and tens of thousand more lives lost, they would have a thousand treaties to sign, one more worthless than the other. Trump needs to move on. He doesn't have time for these squabbles. And the more he humiliates Europe, the greater his revenge on Biden and the American Left. In fact, he's even doubling down on poor Ukraine by demanding $500 billion in rare earths, leaving broke Europe the task of rebuilding.
The US Right wants Putin back in the fold. If Trump can manage that, his China troubles are over, because it is the common enemy of both Russia and India. Trump foreign policy is to save what remains of Western civilization by closing its borders to the South, and living in splendid isolation in the resource rich North. "He's giving 230,000 square miles of the world's most fertile ground to Putin," one European wailed. They need to take a bigger bite. Trump/Musk see the Global North as one happy family. Who knows what plans they have for Greenland if Musk leaves off rockets and schemes closer to home. Imagine all the Lebensraum if the North melts. Don't be surprised if you hear of the Trump-Putin Bridge across the Bering Straits to join the Continents.
2-14-25
The Satanic Leaders of the Reformation
"The savior of the great princes showed up in the form of the young Philip of Hesse, who cannily connected the armies of the greater lords in a series of coordinated attacks on the peasants. Luther knew which way the wind was blowing. Killing peasants was now a godly work. “Let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly,” Luther counseled. “It is just as when one must kill a mad dog.”
Roper estimates that as many as 100,000 peasants were slaughtered in the space of a few weeks." (NY Times)
His followers still hold this mass murderer for a prophet, as they do Calvin who tortured his enemies before murdering them.: "I have exterminated him," he crowed after burning one of his victims at the stake. Cain, they say, must be judged by his time. Calvin and Luther, their followers say, were but men of their times. No evidence exists that Hitler or Stalin ever personally killed anyone. Cain became a murderer for slaying one.
2-13-25
The Trumple Mount and Selling the Birthright (to Esau)
“Witkoff is an animal. He’s a tough New York real estate guy. Trump loves the fact he beat up Bibi, so now Witkoff will probably be the lead negotiator,” a source close to the president told The Telegraph .As peace talks came down to the wire, Mr Witkoff is said to have called Israel from Qatar late on a Friday night to tell Mr Netanyahu’s aides that he would be arriving the following afternoon.
The aides politely explained the Israeli prime minister could not be roused during Shabbat. Mr Witkoff’s blunt reaction took them by surprise.
The New York businessman, who himself is Jewish, explained that the Sabbath was of no interest to him.
Thus, in an extraordinary departure from tradition, the prime minister showed up at his office for an official meeting with Mr Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the peace deal" (Telegraph).
Trump's unhinged Hitler pronouncements are but means to an end. The process needs a fresh start, and Third Temple purists remain the biggest obstacles. Deal making is dirty business, best left to "off the record" "back channels." Bismarck, a pietistic Lutheran, ended up selling his soul to outfox the French. "Like sausage," he said, "you don't want to know what goes on there." At this point, his pronouncements have the predicable effect: all doors are slammed shut: Egypt, Jordan, and Arabia will fail the minute they approach the table. Even with the prospect of losing billions in US aid, they said, no deal. Yet Trump keeps insisting of making an Egyptian fleshpot full of MAGA whore houses out of Gaza. Missing only is the Golden Calf, but perhaps he's reserved for the Trumple Mount, atop Trump Tower, as a tribute to Mammon, the raging bull on Wall Street. No talk yet of building a "good, Bible believing church" in MAGA Gaza, but Evangelicals are OK with that because the Time of Gentiles is over, and the Jews have their own way to God. Which is why Christian tourists start groveling the minute they touch down in Israel, lest the offend "God's Chosen People." What frauds!
I can't get anyone to come to the table, he'll tell the Jews. You've got to give me something. And at this point, the Muslim world is unanimous: that something will have to be two-state. Anything else is a waste of time. And the clock is ticking for the Nobel.
This is of course blasphemy, strictly forbidden in the Law of Moses; "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee" (Ex. 23)
Can Jews live with a partitioned Holy Land, with pagan worship practiced on their holiest site?
Then there is the matter of Jewish defilement. Jews have been unclean (defiled by the dead, Nu. 19) since the destruction of the Temple, which requires the sacrifice of the Red Heifer, and even though the sacrifice takes place "without the camp," the ashes are meant solely for purification within the Temple. Which is why every Jew is required to pray daily for the rebuilding of the Temple. Because Jews consider themselves to be "defiled by the dead," for 2000 years now. What good then is the Land without the Temple? This is the hair-raising thought in the minds of less secular Jews, who know fully well that such thoughts are an irritant to Trump, who sees them as obstinate superstition. He'll give them most of the Land------BUT NO ONE GETS EVERYTHING! But what is he willing to trade? So far he's set to sell Ukraine and Europe down the river to get the Deal. Note that the Jews were ready to resume the war. Now everything is back on course. It took one call from Witkoff. And Hamas is by now afraid to breathe. The whole landscape is so outrageous, no one, but Trump, can make heads or tails of it. They know but that he holds all the cards. If he does not succumb to Third Temple disease, he will get the two-state deal done. He could get the Nobel and Rushmore all in one.
Than again his Hitler talk could actually be the latest tranche of gallows humor. People who spend their lives dodging the hangman, rarely look beyond their nose, or the noose. Can you think of one sane person who thinks Gazans could be removed to places where they would destabilize the government, or that that his pronouncements did not make matters a thousand times worse? But most Jews took them at face value. "Trump," said one Israeli newspaper, "did not give Bibi 100 percent of what he asked for, he gave him 200 percent." But now you've got Witkoff yanking Bibi's chain again, as if to say, "You'll get most of what you want, but only in the interests of Brand Trump. You can do what you want, just as long as it makes Brand Trump look good, If Trump needs you on the Sabbath, you'll desecrate the Sabbath. If he calls on you to sell your birthright for a mess of political pottage, you'll commit the blasphemy of handing over parts of the Holy Land." Likely, there are already hairs standing on end in Jerusalem over the chaos introduced by Trump's Israel Uber Alles rhetoric. Haman, at one time had too much freedom, and then too little,as Escher sent her bodyguards to make sure he made it to the festivities. You can tell that the escorts already put him on edge. Their body language was wrong, because he sensed they no longer feared him. Netanyahu may already sense that his situation has changed, and that he's in the grips of something beyond his control. He was caught by surprise when Trump offered him the moon. But he could no longer refuse it.
The Global North Axis
"Trump’s call with Putin alarms Europe and shocks Ukraine. The announcement of the Trump-Putin call made no mention of Europe or of much of a Ukrainian role, playing into fears that their interests will fall by the wayside" (WPost)
But even more terrified would be China. If Trump can pull this off, his China problem is solved, and the anticipated Sino-US World War pushed back indefinitely. With Russia on his side, Trump straddles both China and India ( a very unsavory masterstroke, with his European allies under the bus--treachery, they used to call it), with India leaning decisively toward Russia-US. Basket case Europe is allowed to go back to daydreaming about its Old Wars and designing a better mousetrap--in this case refining the combustion engine. They're all shrieking in fear at being lumped in with Ukraine, but this is the nightmare they awakened to. They're now in the clutches of their mercenary protector. "The cities that my father took from your father," Benhadad said to Ahab, "I'll give them back to you." Europe is about to be sold down the river. Trump doesn't even bother to call them. They learn of their fate on Musk's chatterbox: X. "We live in a post-Christian world," they used to sniff during the Schmerkle Era, "deal with it." In other words, God is one hand clapping In Europe, neither "striving with pagans," nor "wrestling with Christians," because "God, with whom we have to do" is forced to do with Himself. Been there, done that, and Europeans, like the Calvinists, "found God to be an hard man", so they invented their own system. They had the End (goal) of History on the horizon, minus the fire at the End. They boasted of controlling the weather to 1.5 degrees 100 years out. Gallio (that is, Putin--or Trump) cared for none of these things. They're broke, and prayerless. Their churches are the strongest defenders of Pride. And "Pride cometh before destruction." Europe has moved on from God," they sniffed, "with whom we have to do." Putin, with whom they now have to do, it would appear, will not be so easily dismissed. Because Trump sees shell-shocked Europe as a means to terrorized their Leftwing American offspring.
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(this has the NY Times shrieking in fear. Why they censor it)
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
The Culture War by other means. The Right sees the EU as the breeding ground of all anti-American cultural Marxism, and the traditional values of Putin/Orban as the antidote to Leftwing globalist statism. Musk and the new European politics see Russia as an integral part of the Northern axis against the Global South threatening Western civilization (note Hegseth's border emphasis), with Russia as sentinel on the Eastern Front to deny China access to the mineral rich North. Ukraine has become but a minnow on this MAGA map, and the European Collective of failed Empires reduced to even greater NATO subservience. Obama already, wanted to serve them up under one ambassador. They are left to shiver, with poor Ukraine, on the sidelines awaiting their fate. Old NATO, in this scheme, is rendered obsolete. Team Trump is already sorting them with Ukraine--on the menu, not at the table. They have larger fish to fry.
2-12-25
Trump's Culture War on Europe and The Rise of the Reich
"Kümmert Euch selbst um die Ukraine!" (German Bild) You're on your own, Europe/Ukraine--to face an angry Bear.
The Gazacaust destroyed what was left of German guilt. Trump sees Ukraine as the root of all his impeachment troubles, and the global Right sees the EU as little more than Pride flags, effete succor, and Climate vapors. In its current form, it's an enormous dead weight around the US neck, a basket case of colonial guilt metastasized into religious wokery. Moreover, Trump understands Putin perfectly: why not help yourself to the low hanging fruit next door? He's been talking to Putin off the record with the rest of NATO completely in the dark. Europe has yet to awaken to their nightmare.
His nationalist Right sees Russia as part of a Northern Axis to preserve what's left of Western civilization from being overrun by the over-populated South (that's what Hegseth meant when he told them America has now pivoted to defending its borders at home). That threat, they reason, will be so great that the North will have no choice but to leave off their former squabbles and close ranks to confront the new threat--which will be spearheaded by the Red Dragon and its Pacific Tiger cohorts. The resources of the frozen North figure large in this scheme, and will require the Bear to beard with the Dragon on the eastern front. The point? The US could abandon Europe for 50 years with zero consequences: they're useless until they sort themselves out. He may yet appoint one of Musk's underlings as Euro Czar to keep them from sinking into oblivion on account of their vices.
Putin and Orban drool. They get to write their own ticket--as long as it serves Brand Trump, who by now, has the Nobel in sight. Musk's meritocracy and efficiency machine are the DNA of the Reich. If he wants things done, he'll put the Germans in charge: Russians against Prussians, with Ukraine and Poland as the old buffer zones. This was Musk's message to the German Right several months ago: "get over it (the past), and move on." The Gazacaust makes this possible: the thousand year guilt wiped out by the rubble in Gaza--and as an added bonus, the Netannazis are even crowing about "the voluntary" military expulsion of an entire civilization after they turned it into rubble. Just as Germany created Israel, so now Israel has unshackled Old Prussia (the AFD stronghold is former East Germany, the seat of Prussian power). Moreover, Trump's war on the ICC, Europe's flagship institution, forces Germany to join the rest of Europe to come to its defense--against the US which is left to fend of war crime trials against Israel by itself.
Ironically, the Communists preserved Old Prussia by keeping it from Westernizing. (Some historians trace the origins of WW1 to Rome's retreat from Germany after it lost three legions in the Teutoburg Forest (9 AD), and thus left Germany in its warlike state). The historical line is that WW1 left the old Prussian military fully intact to be used by Hitler, but that WW2 destroyed it completely. This is a delusion. It only seemed to be obliterated because it had no representation above ground. For 80 years it seethed underground, with all its militarism and anti-Semitism fully intact. Anti-Semitism in Germany is worse today than racism in the Old South, because in the latter it was vented through public and intuitional exposure. In Germany, it was simply disappeared and forced underground, under the mantra that Nazi Germany was a one-off, a few bad apples who hi-jacked a perfectly normal country. That perfectly normal country fought to the last man even when it knew the war was lost, because they believed in "the Cause." These chickens are now coming home to roost.
Trump Team's view is essentially that of General Patton who was removed from command because he became enamored by the Prussian aristocratic officer class who led the Germans. In comparison, his own army were mere country bumpkins. But here was real military glory on par with ancient Sparta and the Legions of Rome, going all the way back to the fabled Teutonic Knights. He dreamed of leading them against Russians, whom he considered racially impure inferiors. In other words, the US destroyed the wrong army.
But what does Trump do in a chaotic world. On the one hand, China's economic clout is already bearing down hard, while on the other, he's preoccupied with the world's most intractable religious struggle which threatens to turbocharge ISIS and unleash a thousand 9/11's in Western cities.
If he listens to Musk, he'll put the Germans in charge. And there, as they say, goes the neighborhood.
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Afdeestupple, US4m ago
Shell-shock.
1) No NATO entry
2) No reparations
3) Depopulated
4) The loss of its crown jewels
5) No security guarantees
6) NATO in tatters
7) Europe forced to the Front without the NATO umbrella/Article 5
8) No Trump funds to rebuild, and Europe is broke
9) Both Zelensky and Europe sidelined/humiliated
10) No Plan going forward--for either Ukraine or Europe.
Europe just awakened to its worst nightmare.
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Afdeestupple, US23m ago
@Gary Campanella
Nothing. Trump thinks China would be foolish not to. He gets Greenland, Panama, and perhaps Gaza. China will not start WW3 over any. All fist-bumpable later. "The US made some mistakes," MBS smirked to Biden.
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2-11-25
The Church From Hell
"caviar bumps, mimosas and breakfast pizza. At the brunch (the theme was the Holy Ghost), Mr. Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and right-wing kingmaker, delivered a talk about miracles, forgiveness and Jesus Christ. The guests were enthralled."
“The room of over 220 people, mostly in technology and venture capital, were coming up to us saying, ‘Oh, my goodness, I didn’t know Peter Thiel was a Christian,’” recalled Michelle Stephens, Mr. Stephens’s wife. “‘He’s gay and a billionaire. How can he be Christian?’”
"That reaction — eyebrows raised, curiosity genuine — gave Ms. Stephens an idea: Gather influential people, including in Silicon Valley, to talk about Christian belief."
"Mr. Thiel was the featured speaker at the first ACTS 17 event last May, at the San Francisco home of Garry Tan, the chief executive of Y Combinator. He talked about how Christian theology informs his politics and which of the Ten Commandments he finds most meaningful. (The first and last: Worship God, and don’t covet what others have)."
“There are a lot of easier ways to build start-ups than what we’re doing at Anduril (drone weapons),” Mr. Stephens said during a Zoom follow-up conversation with people who had participated in the event. “We’re doing it because we believe it’s just and moral.” (In other words, on earth as it is in Hell).
"He drew a parallel between his work and that of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the creation of the atomic bomb and who famously recalled that after the first nuclear test, the words of scripture from the Bhagavad Gita came to him: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“That was accepting the fate of the divine in the execution of justice,” Mr. Stephens added. “There’s no love of violence.” (NY Times)
He's talking about weapons of mass destruction here, the latest venture of the billionaires. The inferno of Hiroshima was "the execution of divine justice." This is the latest version of Augustine's Just War Theory: Christians can commit mass murder as long as they do so legally and for the right cause. The Evangelical martyr, Bonhoeffer, who was hanged for trying to assassinate his Fuhrer, had the right end in mind. The Puritan Cromwell seized the British throne by beheading his king. As long as you kill unfeelingly and for the right end, you are doing God's will.
Christianity is becoming the new Woke among the glitterati. Rogan, Musk, Peterson, all the Trumps and their harems, MAGA politicians (and the National Prayer Breakfasts), etc.
Wait for Musk's turbocharged Smart Church. He just made a $90 billion dollar offer for AI. Perhaps even implant the Bible, hooked up to AI software. Thiel's "theme was the Holy Ghost." And even take Christianity to Mars and beyond. Maybe even fire periodic Rapture rockets to keep the faithful looking upward, lest they indulge too much in "caviar bumps, mimosas and breakfast pizza," all while talking about the Holy Ghost. Imagine the size of the offering when the trumpet sounds Musk's Bitcoin give. "That reaction — eyebrows raised, curiosity genuine —" as the NY Times croons. But let's see what Deacon Musk puts on the table.
(They closed Comments on Stephens article while I wrote this)
The fact that Trump has had to resort to unhinged bluster to solve the world's most intractable religious problem demonstrates his limited options:
1) Egypt is already a seething pot of discontent. Either a mass influx of refugees or loss of US money will topple the regime. The US cannot afford to lose the Canal, nor have an Islamic regime mass on Israel's southern border. Likewise the US billions spent on Jordan are not charity. US billions keep the lid on the powder keg to secure Israel's eastern flank.
2) Hamas attacked to brand the Palestinian Plight on Western guilt-ridden consciousness. The sympathies of the American Left and of Europe are entirely on the side of the Palestinians. The ICC, a European creation, is an outgrowth of Nazi war trials, with broad support among the American Left, and a heavy hand in Gaza could touch a global raw nerve--like George Floyd. Sooner of later, Trump will need the soft power of Europe.
3) Few Americans would agree to annexing Gaza, much less driving its occupants from their homeland. The next administration would give it back and pay reparations. Trump's improvisations do not extend beyond the reach of his nose, but even he would have to wonder, "What happens the day after Trump?" His bombast is a recipe for more failed countries surrounding Israel, precisely the default reset which is ISIS. Here even Hamas and Iran look like oases.
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Afdeestupple, US4m ago
MAGA sees nothing of value here, except the minerals (most of which are in Occupied territories). They see the old EU as the breeding ground of anti-American Cultural Marxism, and Orban/Putin as defenders of traditional family values. This is the metric they will use to end the conflict. Next, they will demand a complete makeover of Europe, to pivot from Welfare to Warfare, which will utterly make the European Project obsolete by destroying its Peace charter. Without US peace guarantees (or annexing it like Gaza), rebuilding Ukraine makes about as much sense as building glass skyscrapers in Gaza. There is no good outcome here, either for Europe or Ukraine. "The only thing worse than an invading army," the ancients used to say, "is a mercenary one." The lack of a plan for Ukraine pales in comparison with Europe's enslavement to its US paymaster, who holds veto power over EU commercial and foreign policy interests. But what does Trump intend to do with a failed Europe?
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
" the lens of the Israeli far right and evangelical Christians"
Evangelicals are rapidly becoming Israel's last non-Jewish ally, and they are not a majority in Team Trump, the majority, like Musk, either wear their religion as a cultural artifact, or the latest fashion of Silicon Valley Churchbros. So far, Trump has not teen able to overcome the apocalyptical Third Temple messianics of his Mideast advisors: Rubio, Hegseth, Huckabee. He knows that MBS cannot come to the table without two-state on it, and expect to keep his throne. In his old world, he would say, ok, both of you will have to give me something, the art of a deal is that no one gets everything. But his Embassy must have whispered him into a religious winner-take-all position, which leaves him nothing but the iron fist against the Palestinians, mush like his war against the Left at home. But the backlash will occur as soon as the Evangelicals are gone from the Oval, which they hope Armageddon (in their time) will make irrelevant. Without Evangelical support, Israel, like Trump says, will cease to exist in two years. The transfer plan would topple both Egypt and Jordan instantly, at which point the Islamist march on Mecca will begin. Trump doesn't have a religious bone in him, And yet here he is acting out the last days of End Time Prophecy. Once Trump is gone, Israel will be alone. Most Americans and Europe will end up sympathizing with the displaced. Unless the End is nigh.
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
A hard act to follow for Brother Musk, who's fast running out of superlatives. He's trending to reincarnate as the Last Apostle to fix what's broken in religion. Then it's off to the Suites By And By on his fiery chariot, Amazing Space. So Mr. Stephens sees inventing more lethal wartech as a "Christian calling"! No doubt, in today's world, The Prince of Peace would walk on water clad in riot gear, surrounded by air craft carriers for protection. The only problem I see here is the absence of Brand Trump, who will not take replacing kindly, even if the cause is Christian Mammon.
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2-8-25
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
“I keep getting checks from the government,”
An ode to Leftwing statist misrule worldwide. The Left creates the problem with the working man's taxes, then turns around and creates 5 star "jobs" for itself--again with the working man's tax dollars. Trump is merely starving the monster.
2-7-25
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
Big Stick at home, Big Stink abroad. At home, his war against the Left rages uncontested. The immediate and total collapse of the Left, no doubt, suggests that power politics will work aboard as well. It's one thing to burn your own house down, another that of others. The home war is in the hands of tech bros who see the Bottom Line as the greater part of social engineering. Here the weapon of choice is Less is More: tear it down. In Gaza, however, there's little left except the world's greatest dumpster fire. Moreover, here the people closest to Trump are his Third Temple zealots (Rubio, Hegseth, Huckabee) who pine for the greatest fire of all: Armageddon. This End Time troika sees Israel's isolation as the validation of American Manifest Destiny, the divine instrument prepared to rush to Israel's defense in the Last Days. Hence, Evangelical fervor for Trump to "go big." They cannot wait forever.
2-6-25
Preaching the Anti-Christ
"Saudi Arabia says no Israel normalization without Palestinian state" (Times of Israel)
Instead of preaching the Good News of the Gospel, these Evangelical wife-swapping murderers are now rendering the Cross of Christ of none effect with their Third Temple Crusade. Instead of looking for "the Blessed Hope," they are entirely fixated on building the house of Anti-Christ, where he, like Christ, will declare himself to be God. Not a word about Christ from these Judaizing heretics. In fact, if you preached Christ in Jerusalem, MAGA would have you expelled. Such is the apostasy. The Jews are the last hope of the rotting house of Evangelicalism, and God will destroy them both together. Because nothing so hinders the Gospel as the Evangelical Jew-cult. They have alienated the entire Third World with their Jewolatry and mass murder in Gaza, and in doing so have placed themselves under the wrath of God. Brand Trump will crash in Jerusalem, the MAGA Revolution aborted abruptly. They drew Trump into the quicksand, and already he can no longer retreat, because no Muslim leader dare come to the table after this debacle.
"Israel’s defense minister announced that he had ordered the military to draft a plan to allow people to voluntarily leave." (NY Times).
This is the language of Hitler and Eichmann. According to the Nazis, all Jews "voluntarily" entered cattle trains, and "voluntarily" entered the gas chambers, because Hitler "had ordered the military to draft a plan to allow people to voluntarily" do so. These murderers have merely picked up where Hitler left off in the previous Final Solution. If Trump dismantled the gas chambers of Auschwitz and airlifted them to Jerusalem to be "repurposed," both Jews and Evangelicals would see it as the hand of God. Or they could go the easier route and just ship the sprinkler heads which the Jews could rig up in Hamas tunnels, have "the military draft a plan to allow people to voluntarily" march into the tunnels (all Jews marched "voluntarily" into Auschwitz gas chambers under the benign guidance of Nazi guns), and turn on the gas, with the Jerusalem Symphony playing The Final Solution in the background.
Hell's Prayer Breakfast: On Earth as it is in Hell
"The Ukrainian pastors, members of Parliament and military chaplains who will be attending the National Prayer Breakfast say they hope the message of combating religious persecution will resonate with the Trump administration officials and members of Congress who are sure to also be there" (NY Times)
"Trump, at prayer breakfast, pushes new air traffic control technologies, immigration crackdown" (WP).
Like the Utopian End Of History Left (now in its death throes) , End Time Evangelicals are burning their bridges behind them in a rush to the End. The Great Commission and the preaching of the Cross are now seen as obsolete, as God has shifted to End Time mode, which America is to midwife. With the Third Temple on the horizon and the Gentile nations gathering storm, America must remain rock solid and armed to the teeth. This requires expelling all non-European types, whose inferiors minds are incapable of the lofty tomes of Calvin. At this point the Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdom of Israel are One. God the Father, as it were, taking up again with His wife, Israel, with Christ and His Bride looking on from the sidelines. (The Scofield/Ryrie frauds hold that God's plan of redemption for Israel continued uninterrupted alongside that of the work of Christ). For Evangelicals, Israel checks all the boxes: 1) unlimited divine sanctioned violence, 2) easy divorce/MAGA lechery, and 3) hedonist covetousness. In this respect, they are one with Hitler and Churchill, who saw Christ's (sheep) teaching as the fatal flaw in Western civilization. And that despite 500 years of Calvin/Luther hucksterism to fang the Lamb of God with tooth and claw. Both Hitler and Churchill dismissed them as driveling frauds, whose religious posturing was no more than groveling for a government handout: Too lazy to dig, ashamed to beg. Hitler and Churchill dismissed them as frauds. But in Israel, Evangelicals see the incarnation of themselves: violent, lecherous, covetous. This is the fatal attraction. The sword will devour both, as Jesus said. For Israel and Evangelicals worship the sword, and "he that taketh up the sword, shall perish with the sword."
2-5-25
How the Jews will Destroy Trump's Presidency
"West Bank? No, Judea and Samaria, Some Republicans Say"
" All Palestinians There Should Be Relocated, He Says" (NY Times)
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Afdeestupple, US4m ago
Trump thinks he can get a deal just short of Palestinian statehood. But MBS dare not approach the table without that on the table and expect to continue as the custodian of Mecca. Perhaps Trump's unhinged statements reflect his frustration at this impasse. They show his weakness and lack of options, as long as he caves to Israel's demands that "the Holy Land " cannot be partitioned without striking at the religious heart of Israel's existence: "the Biblical Deed" to all "the Holy Land." Which leaves him with making religious demands, rather than cutting a deal through the art of compromise where no one gets everything they want. His embassy, Rubio, Hegseth, and Huckabee are all Third Temple zealots who see religious compromise as blasphemy. Unless Trump can break free of their counsel, he is condemned to pursue Israel's "interests" as if they are those of the US--which is what Netanyahu keeps whispering to Congress.
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World reaction to Trump's Kushite plan to turn Gaza into a five star "fleshpot of Egypt" was predictable. In his first term, when he isolated himself watching Fox News in his bedroom, when he didn't like what he saw, he would Tweet an outrage and watch his screens turn red-hot in minutes. But he got where he is by dodging the hangman, and gallows humor never needs rehearsing, because it comes from "the other side." In Calvin's time hangings were state festivals, and a quip from the stage was a once in a lifetime added bonus.
But he threw everyone, even Third Temple Evangelicals and the Netanazis, off-balance. Netanyahu's butchers, Beelzebub Shmotricks and his sidekick Benjamin-four-fivers, can't believe what they heard. You can see Netanyahu craftily processing Trump's words a few minutes after they were uttered. Trump caught them all off-guard. The cunning manipulator gains as much (and more) by promising too much as denying too little. But world opinion is unanimous in this: his unhinged statements were off the charts.
Trump has little use for Netanyahu, and reputably doesn't like him. They're two of a kind, with Netanyahu forced to play the groveling savant to snatch whatever scraps may fall his way. He is not in Trump's league and they both know it. Trump could destroy Israel simply by ignoring it, and him. He brazenly led Biden around by the nose, and Trump knows he would be under the bus the minute Netanyahu no longer needs him. He knows he's being groomed to serve Jewish and not Brand Trump interests. But Netanyahu is now in Trump's feral day to day world, and here Trump's instincts are unparalleled. He's learned to keep his own counsel, and trust nothing beyond the sight of his nose. He dropped his bombshell on the spur of the moment, because his instincts told him the time was ripe. The mood of the Sultan could change in a flash, and one court official never left the palace without reaching up to see if his head was still on his shoulders.
He knows he will have to go big to solve the world's most intractable problem: ownership of the ground on which the Third Mosque sits. His off the rails statement is likely a shot across the bow to get everyone to pay attention. It's the talk of the day in the Capitals of the world. Leaders don't know whether to cry or laugh.
If this is so, then his statements are the opposite of what they seem. Instead of putting the Muslim world on notice, they will end up unsettling the Jews. On the one hand, they get far more than they could ever have dreamed off (having Temple Jew Manhattan/Florida as their neighbor in Gaza), and ridding themselves of the Palestinian problem once and for all. For this is the Final Solution of all the Final Solutions--with a stroke. With Gaza as both a US casino and army base, Israel no longer even needs an army. This is what Trump seems to have promised. If it seems too good to be true, the old saying was, it likely is.
The US Left are turning themselves inside out looking for a plan of attack. They need a potent mascot against the US Far Right. They're already casting Musk's crackdown on race theory and immigrant expulsion as racist. LGBT, with which they hijacked the Civil Rights Movement, is over. Now with the EU and the UN at their back (both treasuring up secret rage and resentment and plotting revenge), they can once again take up the cause of the old standby: Colonial Restitution--with the unfinished problem of American slavery as a catalyst, and the Palestinian Cause as the latest symbol of historical White injustice. This is what lies in store for Trump if the Armageddonist tone of his words is intentional.
It's hard to believe that Trump would allow himself to be lured into such a trap. A Machiavellian says one thing with the intention of doing the exact opposite. And he's unto Netanyahu. Rest assured that in his private thoughts, he's wondering if Trump's no strings attached offer is not a tightening noose around his own neck. No one knows until Trump makes his opening move. All the players are waiting on the sideline, waiting to pounce. He's trying to terrify them them into jumping the gun. Until they do, expect more outrages. But for now, the first round goes to MBS, Trump's nearest equal here. He needs him at the table, but knows he'll pay a high price to get him there. World outrage gives MBS cover to hold out for the maximum as the custodian of Mecca, lest he endanger his own throne.
Back home Trump won by trampling woke cows. He will soon find that the sufferings of Palestinians, like US slavery, resonate deep within the global soul, and jet setting Americans will soon detect the moral shadow of Gaza following them in their travels. This was the intent of Hamas's suicide mission. The petro-sheiks were about to throw the Palestinians under the bus, and only global outrage could come to their rescue. Trump cannot win here. The world hates a bully, and for the leader of the free world to double down on human suffering is beyond the pale. Under the Law of Moses, all killing of the inhabitants of the Land who do not submit to become "fetchers of waters and hewers of wood" must be killed. Eichmann's hangman who died recently justified his act by pointing to God's command to destroy Amalek. Evangelicals have been enthusiastic cheerleaders of the mass murder of women and children in Gaza using the same argument. They see the Jews as fulfilling God's plan for their own redemption, outside the work of Christ. After Hitler, they say, Jews have earned the right to reject the imposter (Christ), and look for the coming of the Jewish Messiah. The Rev Hucksterbee falls all over himself signaling to Jews that they are doing the will of God in their murderous campaign against the Samaritans. You never hear Evangelicals talk about a "good church" in Jerusalem, because to preach Ghrist in Jerusalem would be to deny Prophecy. What frauds!
The Left has no plan to counter the onslaught of the Right. But, as custodians of literature and academia, they know the lessons of history. The Greeks had a word for swaggering politicians who didn't: hubris (arrogant pride). An American President can get away with many things. Using Nazi language is not one of them. And this is Nazi language, right out of Mein Kampf. Put perhaps its his way of keeping all the players at the table off balance. Any move in that direction would bring his Presidency to an immediate halt, as US campuses and European cities would explode, and Egypt, Jordan, and Arabia would once again shake with Days of Rage.
He will be tempted to call in US troops to subdue American campuses, which will cost him the midterms, and likely add another impeachment to his legacy. Kent State is still a raw memory, not to be repeated. But if he plays Third Temple here instead of the "give and take" of deal making, he will fall into a ditch from which his Presidency will never recover. Gunboat policy only works if you're the World's Policeman. He's soon to learn that the US no longer is, and as such will need the support of allies to counter the Red Dragon. Europe is already an economic basket case, and would have little to lose by playing the US off against China, because the new Germany sees the US as a greater threat to Europe than Russia. Trump's use of Nazi slogans will rob the US of whatever moral capital it has left after Gaza, and a Third World/EU rebuke at the UN would be a serious blow to US posturing about a "rules based moral order." The EU is keenly aware that the American Right does not distinguish between the American Left and the European establishment, the hotbed of anti-American subversion. Like the entrenched American Left, they will not go quietly. Paper shuffling in faux jobs with five star perks is all they know; "they cannot did, to beg they're ashamed." Like the unfaithful steward, they can still make a lot of trouble on the way out.
1-31-25
Trump's Third Temple Dumpster Fire
"After Mr. al-Assad’s ouster, he repeatedly ranted against Mr. el-Sisi online from Damascus.
“You’re worth one bullet,” Mr. al-Mansour said of Mr. el-Sisi in a video posted on X. It was viewed 1.5 million times."
"Mahmoud Badr, an Egyptian pro-government activist who helped foster the anti-Muslim Brotherhood protest movement that paved the way for Mr. el-Sisi’s ascension, said on X soon after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham swept into Damascus that the group and the Brotherhood were indistinguishable.
“It’s all part of one network and no one can convince us otherwise,” he said, citing widely circulated photos that showed the leader of the Syrian group meeting with a prominent Egyptian member of the Brotherhood. And though anti-Islamist sentiment remains strong among Egyptians, so does anti-Sisi sentiment" (NY Times).
Here we go again. Another experiment of exporting Democracy on the rocks. A few more, and the Caliphate is complete. Egypt and Jordan will soon succumb, and then the march toward Mecca will begin. Iran, with its Bomb, will be the last man standing, and the West will see it as the last stand against resurgent Islamism. The crisis is so dangerous that Trump doesn't have a moment to waste on Ukraine.
His honeymoon at home will be short lived, as the Left regroups. He will soon need a feather in his cap to recoup his political losses. He will cut a "wink, wink" deal with Putin, where Trump looks good and Putin gets what he wants. But this is not yet the stuff of Nobels. And he wants to go out on a Nobel.
Israel will soon find itself dragged to the table kicking and screaming. This is after all the Trump Show, and Trump's instincts are utterly feral--minus conscience, conviction, Crusades. Biden saw the Jews as a second Mary. Trump is without religion or superstition. He knows full well where the crown jewels are in this squabble: Temple/East Jerusalem/Hebron. Gallio cares for none of these. He sees them as little more than superstition, and he delights in slaughtering sacred cows. His embassy (Rubio/Hegseth/Husksterbee) see themselves as custodians of American Manifest Destiny, of which Third Templeism is now a vital component. Trump will soon sense that they're working behind his back to sabotage the Holy Land Partition Deal, which would render Evangelicalism obsolete.
In Europe. Putin is simply wearing out the clock. He put enough economic pressure on NATO capitals with energy/migration to effect regime change. Russia has never won an imperialist war, nor lost a domestic one. By now the Bear understands not to venture too far from his den. He can afford to wait until Napoleon feels withdrawal pangs.
But Trump holds all the cards with regard to Israel, and he's the first President to approach the problem careless of either superstition, or the baying mob of Evangelicals. Because he now owns the Evangelicals. They are in favor only as long as they remain "useful."
His need for political coin soon will force him to call in favors where they exist. Israel is a trove. He will put enough on the table to make Jewish holdouts appear mean and petty. He will give MBS enough to give him breathing room for decades. MBS will need a lot, because Revolution will soon be at the gates of Mecca, preaching jihad to avenge Islam's historic humiliation of having the Third Mosque desecrated daily by infidel troops. The accolade is thus within Trump['s grasp, but Third Temple forces may be too much to overcome.
Israel turned Syria into a beachhead from where ISIS can topple what's left of stable government in the Mideast. Biden provided cover for the rebels to topple Assad, and opened a Pandora's Box. The US runs huge prison camps in northeast Syria full of ISIS prisoners run by the Kurds, America's only Islamic ally in the Gulf, whom Turkey considers terrorists. The US has 2000 soldiers in the region to advice their Kurdish jailers. Many of the ISIS prisoners are Europeans, whom Europe refuses to take back, rendering them stateless. It's only a matter of time before the US washes its hands of the debacle.
Egypt and Jordan will be the next despots to fall to Islamic anarchy (or the Caliphate). Only Iran can match ISIS in blood curdling ruthlessness, so it remains safe. Trump needs a stable Iran to keep the contagion from spreading to Saudi Arabia. Which means Iran's Bomb is here to stay.
Trump has even fewer options here than in Ukraine where Trump Brand doesn't have skin in the game. It will cost him zero political capital if he does absolutely nothing, with the understanding that Putin will make Brand Trump look good.
In the Gulf, he needs stability of any kind. The US already pays Egypt billions to maintain its side of Israel's open air prison in Gaza. But now with Revolution in the air once again that may no longer suffice. So what does Trump do, and at what cost, to keep Egypt from blowing up? The NY Times had high hopes for Syrian "democracy" when the rebels toppled Assad. Now the fear is that a thousand Islamic groups will fight for the spoils. And the Jews want Trump to turn Iran into another ash heap?
Trump would like nothing more than to leave them all to themselves. But he can't. Israel is a borough of Brooklyn and Florida. If he cuts and runs Israel will cease to exist in two years.
He'll have to start from the ground up to establish anything resembling rational statecraft, subject to rules and regulations without which commerce cannot function. He'll have to get the petro-sheiks on board, and for that he will pay a heavy price: the partition of the Holy Land. He must find some a way to diffuse the religious powder keg which the Islamists use to fill their ranks. Egypt is more fragile than even Iran, because while the latter has an educated class who want to Westernize, the latter's chief nemesis is the Islamic Brotherhood of which Hamas is an offshoot. It wouldn't take much to push Egypt over the edge, and the minute it goes, Jordan will cease to exist, and the Revolution will begin its march to the ultimate prize of the Caliphate: Mecca. At which point, the US will have to ring Israel with nuclear bombs.
But nothing will happen until Trump finishes with he Culture War a home, where he has the upper hand. At this point, no has a clue what his opening move will be on Ukraine/Gaza, which will define his Presidency. His goal in Ukraine will be a tidy exit, regardless the cost to either Ukraine or Europe. He sees nothing important here, one way or another. His embassy is currently working the ropes to get the petro-sheiks on board, before he strongarms the Jews. He doesn't have much time before Syria explodes and becomes a haven for ISIS. By weakening Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, Israel accelerated the resurgence of their Sunni enemies. At this point, Trump will have to wager the store to keep Egypt from keeling over. He needs a deal. And when he tells the Jews that he needs a deal they show up at the table--nir niks, dir niks. You will not find Trump wringing his hands helplessly on the sidelines.
1-30-25
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Afdeestupple, US35m ago
It speaks to the times when "gangster" rule is seen as the lesser evil to anarchy (read Leftwing misrule). For many, the Mafia was the court of last resort when the System was weaponized against them. The Left still doesn't grasp what hit them, telling themselves that the new politics must be "fake" like its "news." The US Left is but a mirror of the EU, whose only hope remains that Trump will somehow ride to the rescue to save its utopian delusion. Welcome to the age of Realpolitik. Power Politics is always the domain of the Right.
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1-29-25
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Afdeestupple, US11m ago
The reason this is so effective is because the statist Left no longer bothered to build grassroot organizations to fall back on in case of just such a nightmare. The Left buckled like Assad's corrupt regime because it was all top down, and the imposition of fetish culture drove voters to seek sanity under traditional standards. "Bread and butter" concerns were rendered obsolete with the Left's chicken-in-every-pot Utopia, while the Right preached Revolution at the gas pump. The Left forgot the old maxim of tyrants: keep plying the Corn when pushing the Circus. Trump, if I read him right, hopes to provide Corn by defunding the Circus.
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Afdeestupple, USJust now
Putin, no doubt, eyes Trump's globalist purge with interest. Trump's message to Putin mirrors that to Netanyahu: do what you have to do on Biden/Blinken's dime, but don't tarnish Brand Trump. Trump cannot intervene here without ending up up owning Biden's dumpster fire. Putin has the green light to cement control of all the annexed regions--clearly defined lines make for a quick deal. The Deal will strictly serve Trumpian "interests." Ukraine will emerge depleted, truncated, and ruined, with no hope of entering either the EU or NATO. Trump sees it as Europe's problem, and a symptom of its Utopian bombast. He does not distinguish between the EU Left and the American Left, and will use Ukraine to bring it to heel. For Trumpians, the real war is the Culture War, which they are now waging by other means. Europe has yet to awaken to its nightmare.
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Afdeestupple, US4m ago
@Randolph
"Putin's expectations" versus Ukraine's nightmare: the loss of its crown jewels, resources and industrial heartland--with no path forward because Trump will not grant the requisite security measures, and without them rebuilding Ukraine makes about as much sense as building skyscrapers in Gaza.
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Trump will make his opening move when Putin finishes mopping up. His new gains will be it for now. But Trump will leave Ukraine in limbo to vex Europe, which the Right see as the breeding ground of the Left. The Nationalist Right is the strongest component of his coalition by far, hedonists who see themselves as a ruling elite much like the plutocrat's around Putin and Orban. Trump has nothing to lose here, and Putin can make him look good enough to get the Nobel. Besides, Trump has his own territorial ambitions. What's done is done. He's not about to push Putin back on moral grounds. And if Trump covets Greenland. he will most certainly not intervene on behalf of Taiwan. As the US is pushes back globally, it makes sense for it to consolidate in its own backyard, like Russia and China. So a tidy peace with Russia will put a feather in his cap. Not enough, though, for the Nobel. Poor Ukraine, or what's left of it. A casualty of the Culture War. The last thing a imperialist wants to see is Pride flags flying in Red Square. And they would if the EU had prevailed.
Trump will need a historic development in the Gulf to clinch the Nobel. At this point, the world is too tired to play along to another round of Jewish treachery and deceit: the proverbial "path" to statehood--200 years from now. His Third Temple Troika will proceed with the old conceits: a revived Palestinian Authority, a nuclear umbrella as a reward to MBS, more billions to the despots in Egypt to keep the Hood from regrouping. But two-state is now the Left's last remaining anthem. This means days of rage in Europe's streets, and Colonial Social Justice Reckoning on American campuses. Trump is not a zealot, and he doesn't get "Biblical Deed" Israel. And he knows that even among cutthroats, dealing in good faith is the DNA of deal making. "Look," he'll tell the Jews, "I'll give you the lion's share, but you'll have to give me something. Help me out here. " "Not one hoof," Moses told Pharaoh grimly. Gallio cared for none of these things.... and he drave them from the judgment seat. It will be interesting, when religion is on the table, to hear his "take" on it. The Third Mosque is the powder keg of much of the Third World. If he rhapsodies on it as he did on Gaza with his one-liners, he will ignite it. This is the most coveted real estate in the world , and, ironically, only Evangelical Second Messiah (the Anti-Christ) causes it to hang in the balance. Remove Evangelical protection, and, as Trump says, Israel will cease to exist in two years.
1-28-25
U.S. Envoy to Meet Netanyahu in Israel, and Perhaps Visit Gaza
This could be Trump's opening Mideast move. The situation is simple as apple pie, if you control the politics. Trump does. He can impose a solution on all the parties, Hamas knows it needs to help him get the Noble, and that it will cease to exist the minute the accolade is deemed out of reach. Netanyahu needs to play in order to stay in office. The radicals who keep him in office will have little choice but to tag along. What Witkoff will not do is play Third Temple zealot and the farce of previous US diplomacy which was nothing more than a cover for murderous Settlers to commit genocide on the West Bank. But then the Jews will cost him the Presidency, just they did Biden.
Every Jewish atheist knows that Israel is a religion instead of a country, and that the minute it loses its "Biblical" cachet, it will wither and die, because their only remaining sponsor, Evangelicals, will throw then under the bus. It is Evangelical Third Temple zeal that allows Jews to orchestrate their violence from the Oval office. Witkoff will soon discover that Rubio, Hegseth, and Huckabee are working against him. This will cost Trump having MBS as the table, and there goes the Noble. Because, MBS will demand that Jews willingly put two-state on the table: blasphemy under the Law of Moses.
Two-state will split Trump's coalition, just as Gaza split the Left be driving a wedge between Leftwing Jewish academics and Social Justice BLMs. The global Right, who dream of arranging the world on par with ancient Greece and Rome has no attachment to Israel, only calculated interest. Religion for them is purely ceremonial, great for coronations, weddings, foundation myths, etc. Trump does not get "the Biblical Deed." His instincts are entirely feral and day to day.
But he will have to go for the jugular out the gate, because after Gaza, no Muslim leader can negotiate with Israel without putting the Palestinian Cause up front. Without MBS, Trump is going nowhere.
Before, Trump lured MBS to the table by offering protection from Iran. Now the prospect of a failed Iran threatens his throne domestically. They're all despots over there, some worse than others, all no more than iron fists controlling swaths of sand. ISIS lurks in the deserts. The rebels who took over Syria are holed up in the cities. The Taliban drove Trump out of Afghanistan, so he's not about to try another round of blowing up sand. Afghanistan is somewhat stable, and so is Syria, but compared to both, Iran looks like an oasis of civilization. Israel wants the US to turn Iran into another failed country, because after Gaza, no Jew will be safe anywhere in the Mideast except in Israel. And a nuclear Iran could threaten them there. The US remains its only hope. This is what Trump is left with. If he partitions the Holy Land, he destroys Evangelical Third Temple zeal. If he doubles down by going all in for Israel, he will end up losing not only the Third World, but Europe as well, and unite the Left.
Unlike Third Temple Zealots, Rubio. and Hegseth, Witkoff may actually attempt to hammer out a deal in good faith. Its hard to tell what sort of guarantees he gave Hamas to get them to hand over their insurance policy: the hostages. You would not trust a Third Temple zealot to deal in good faith. The Troika has but one goal: to keep the Unholy Land (called Sodom in Revelation, 11:8) intact for the Second Messiah, who will be the Anti-Christ.
The missing man here is MBS to represent Islam. This is the dismemberer, whose enemies are biding their time: the playboy of Mecca versus the austere preachers of Iran, with the desert crawling with ISIS in between. The historic humiliation of the Third Mosque held hostage by infidels is the powder keg here. Witkoff understands the stakes, and Trump likely chose him for his lack of religious scruples.
MBS dare not come to the table with two-state up for debate. To lure him, Trump will force the Jews to go on record stating their willingness to partition the Holy Land for peace. Trump will even give the Jews the lion's share. But now the historic deceit of Zionism will manifest itself. Jews will refuse to forever sign over political control of their Biblical Land to heathens. The Books of Moses demand absolute compliance to the Law of God: "not one hoof will be left behind," Moses tells Pharaoh. Saul thought he was merely being pragmatic when he "spared the best" of Amalekite plunder. God does not deal, and He doesn't have to cut His losses. Even if Trump offered the Jews Thomas Fraudman's bare-bones scheme, a shack outside of Jerusalem as the Palestine Capital (with a Port-A-Potty for the more civilized among them), it would not suffice. Because Jews are forbidden from dismembering the Land. This will expose the treachery of both Evangelicals and Jews, who define the Holy Land as "from the river to the sea." Two-state, for Third Temple zealots, is the denial that Israel has the right to exist, because Israel and the Holy Land are one and the same. Trump's Third Temple Troika sees two-state as the destruction of Israel, because it destroys the Holy Land by forcing Jews to commit the blasphemy of selling their birthright (to Esau, no less) for a mess of political horse trading so Trump can get his Noble. Wait till he discovers that Rubio, Hegseth, and Huckabee are leading him around by the nose, like Netanyahu did Biden. A deal maker cuts corners to make a deal. But religion cannot deal.
Trump will soon run up against Third Temple zealotry. Rubio, Hegseth, and Huckabee will soon learn the cost of the trappings of power. Trump delights in bringing the holier-than-thou to face their own hypocrisy: the Troika will either commit blasphemy or be fired. Pence is left to skulk around like a vile burglar prowling among the ships after Trump forced him to commit Black Mass. .
1-27-25
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(Beinart is already walking on eggshells with his column. Let's see if they let this through--oops, it just went. They had to remove the article, The Defamation League went ballistic, the billionaires, the Trump thought purges, etc. This is where the Left will now regroup)
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
Apartheid, genocide, open-air prison--the fact remains that ultimately the US owns it all. Because as the President says "Israel would cease to exist in two years without US support."
"Can anyone tell me what US interests are in Ukraine," Obama asked? The question cannot be asked with regards to Israel because it strikes at the heart of American Manifest (Religious)Destiny, which renders it off-limits to rational statecraft. Oil WAS a US "interest", the shipping lanes less so, because a handful of desert nomads can disrupt commerce. Which leaves religion, the US openly funding a religious state under the pretext that democracy within the bounds of creedal statecraft is still democracy. Once you see Israel as a religion first and foremost (like Iran), you understand the need for the US to go "all in" here. Why? Because the greatest danger to religious Israel is the partition of "the Holy Land," blasphemy even to secular American Jews, and an outright denial of the defining element of American End Time religion. "Biblical Deed" Holy Land is what gives Israel its cachet among American Third Temple zealots, and it's what animates the Settlers, who are more potent than all of Israel's forces combined. The Israeli Right, like ISIS, choose ongoing chaos as the lesser evil to rational statecraft, which would force them to give explicit consent to the blasphemy of compromise. The Temple Mount, East Jerusalem, Hebron cannot be put on the table. Why? Religion.
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Afdeestupple, US1m ago
@Dan M
To say that Israel s not a democracy would be to delegitimatize it in the eyes of the American Right who see it as an extension of American Manifest Destiny. They are not pursuing US, but religious "interests" here, which Netanyahu assures them are one and the same. Hegseth, Rubio, and Huckabee are all Third Temple zealots. Democracy is not foremost in their minds, to say the least. Trump will need MBS at the table to win the Noble. It remains to be seen if he can resist this troika to get him there, because he will remain a no-show without two-state on the table.
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1-25-25
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(Dowd has thin skin. She sat on this for 4 hours)
Afdeestupple, US12m ago
Yawn--another day of Leftwing "you're fired" watching. The Left is so weak it cannot even summon outrage, much less a counter vision. Instead of sifting the broken crookery, the Left needs to take stock of the true nature of the conflict. The Right lost the Culture War long ago, and regrouped to orchestrate a Putsch with the weapon of their choice: Power Politics now on open display with the Trump Purge. No argument, no debate, because the Right recognized long ago that the Left sets the terms of debate, owns the dictionary, and controls Info. Without putting too fine a point on it, what you see now is an unapologetic Machiavellian who understands the Clausewitzean nature of politics.
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
If it's any consolation, it is here where the Right will run into a Buzzsaw. Culture to the Left is what religion is to the Right, and like Babylon in the Bible, can be pushed underground only briefly. Hezekiah, one of Israel's most righteous kings, was beside himself when Club Babylon came to admire. The Right preaches religion at home while frequenting what it calls the Left's dens of iniquity in Washington. The people who tried to clean up Hollywood n the 80's, at the end of the day, retired to their homes to watch Hollywood movies. "Culture" has never been the domain of the Right, as the monopoly of violence has neve been in the hands of the Left. Sulla, the great restorer of Rome's agrarian virtues during the day, reveled all night with the seediest creatures of Rome. Culture is the art of vice and compromise. Religion cannot stop until it replaces professors with preachers. Babylon will simply hunker down, then pick up where it left off. Trump has nothing with which to replace it. And the Right could not live without it.
1-23-25
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
"back"?
In other words, Biden's LGBT fixation with regard to the military was non-cultural-war? This is the smug Leftwing self-righteousness which drove voters to Trump. None of Trump's decrees so far came as a surprise to those who put him in office. They were the gist of his talking points, there for all the world to see. From the cushy lairs of the Leftwing, they seemed sufficiently extreme to alienate Americans. The shock now for the Left is the realization that Trump was preaching to the choir. The Left needs to get out--never mind the "more."
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Afdeestupple, US2h ago
Why is there no outcry? Because the American majority who voted for Trump knew this was coming and voted for the lesser evil, nonetheless. This is the handwringing denial of the self-righteous Left. The Left is spent and exhausted, with not a single real cause in sight. Climate, gender, non-borders--all swept aside by Realpolitik.
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@Shoffmensch
Trump was not elected by a majority, not even of registered voters. His popular result was a plurality. And amounted to about 20% of US citizens.
Further, many believed the outrageous and blatant lies his campaign spread through social media, rather than reported fact. "Handwringing" by Democrats had little to do with it.
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Afdeestupple, US35m ago
Trump cannot begin supporting the war without ending up owning it. And owning it means allowing Biden/Blinken's dumpster fire to tarnish Brand Trump. He will remain utterly detached , even if it means letting Putin set the terms. Moreover, the Right sees the war as a useful tool to bring Leftwing Europe to heel. Trump sees it as a handwringing basket case in need of a stern taskmaster to keep it from turning into a Third World country. No one thinks Putin has designs on Berlin or Paris, much less Alaska. A muddle, with Trump as a distant observer. serves his agenda. As they used to say in the old days, "the only thing worse than an invading army is a mercenary one." Europe's greatest enemy is its NATO straitjacket, which keeps it hitched to US foreign and economic interests. So on the one hand Trump wants Europe to cough up more to pay its mercenary overlord, while on the other starving it by vetoing its commercial ambitions.
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It's called backlash. The American majority who voted for Trump knew this was coming, but preferred it to the reign of terror of Leftwing moral anarchy and statism, which used the power of the state to infiltrate its institutions in order to advance its decadent agenda down to the grade school level. Predictably, the Right lost the Culture War, because the soft power through which it is waged is entirely in the hands of the Left: media, education, entertainment. But Realpolitik is sheer violence, and always in the hands of the Right. The minute the Left seizes it, it becomes the Right. What you see now is merely the monopoly of violence throwing off the façade. There is no Law without an enforcer, or without a monopoly of violence. Proof: only victors conduct war tribunals, as in Vae Victis.
1-22-25
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Afdeestupple, US4m ago
"Israel is in an unusually strong position"
Wrong! Israel's situation has never been more precarious:
1) Gaza cost Israel the world's sympathy, and the Palestinian Cause has become the global symbol of historic oppression.
2) Trump knows that only two-state will bring MBS to the table, and he will impose a pragmatic solution on Israel that will strike at the heart of what gives the Jewish state its cachet: "the Biblical Deed." For the Settlers this is an outright denial of the Torah, and for Trump's Right, the repudiation of the Prophecy of their fathers. Both consider the partition of the Holy Land as blasphemy. The result is
3) That the Settlers lose their raison d'être which is what animates them and makes them more potent than all of Israel's forces combined. Simultaneously,
4) It robs Israel of its strongest prop: the fast fading End Time Evangelicals for whom Third Temple Israel is the key to their interpretation of the Bible. With partition and the Third
Temple out of reach, Evangelicals will simply lose interest.
5) But the greatest danger to Israel comes from Europe. Both its changing demographic, its political rightwing lurch, the credibility of its pet project (the ICC), and Colonial guilt are rapidly eroding its unqualified support of the Jewish state. Trump will find that European support can no longer be taken for granted, and that Europe will use support for Israel as a bargaining chip to wring US concessions from Trump.
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
@David Kesler
Gaza has now forced two-state on Israel. Old Line Evangelicals remain its only non-Jewish ally. The clamor at the UN and ICC for two-state will incarnate on US campuses and European streets. Secular Israelis will jump on the bandwagon. Partition of "the Holy Land" is what's on t he horizon. This is the Settler/Evangelical nightmare.
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1-21-25
"Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife" (NY Times)
Hegseth’s church, Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship outside Nashville, Tennessee, is known for its militant zeal to restore Christian America. The family wife-swapping aside, he settled a rape charge by paying off the victim, so nothing untoward happened by Evangelical standards: just ordinary wife-swapping adultery, since the hush money stopped legal proceedings. His appointment as US chief of violence is seen as the work of God stirring the faithful to the old standards. His hard drinking raised a few Leftwing eyebrows, but it seems that whiskey and wife-swapping are par for the course at Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship. Like Calvin and Luther, they find most of their inspiration in the tooth and claw of the Law, hence, their penchant for the Old Testament. "Their feet are swift to shed, blood, and the way of peace have they not known." Should be a good four years for Christian chaplains, now that true religion is restored to the Pentagon, nuclear bombs and all. And with that, the Baptist Rev Hucksterbee in charge of rebuilding the Third Temple, the seat of the Second Messiah who will, like the First, declare himself to be God. Does anyone know if there is a "king's chapel" at Maga Laga, and who preaches there, from the Trump Bible, no less?
Trump wanted to go in on a high note, so he told his man Witkoff to get him a ceasefire precisely on the eve of the inauguration. And make sure you serve the Jews notice, he told Witkoff. Witkoff, a Jew, rings up the Bibi people to tell them he will meet with Bibi at high noon on Saturday. You'll have to wait till the end of the Sabbath, he was told. "I don't care about the Sabbath," he said. In that case, His Excellency will meet with you mid-Sabbath. Mir niks, dir niks. Witkoff enters the room mid-Sabbath and tells Bibi: "Trump wants a deal now." Two years leading Biden around by the noise, and now Trump wants a deal.
Watch what happens to the Rev Hucksterbee now. Trump made Pence commit blasphemy by forcing him to administer the oath of office on the Bible to a Sodomite and his husband. The Baptist thinks he's there like John the Baptists as forerunner to the Messiah. Trump will soon get bogged down in a thousand crises all clamoring for his attention. He has the power to impose a practical settlement on Israel, and will delight in slaughtering the sacred cows of Bibi's zealots. He cannot afford to bomb Iran for fear of handing it over to Islamist chaos. Because, once Iran falls to the Caliphate, Mecca's time will be short. MBS knows he has more to fear from a failed Iran than from a nuclear one. And Trump needs MBS at the table to clinch the Noble. The price will be high. The Wholly Land will cease to exist. MBS dare not come to the table without demanding two-state. But two-state is equally blasphemous for both Jew and Evangelicals. For the one it transgresses the Torah, for the other, it repudiates Prophecy. Trump has zero religious scruples, and delights in forcing the holier-than-thou to come face to face with their hypocrisy. One of his aides burst in to find him watching Evangelical hucksters shake down their followers. "Look at them," he chortled in awe. He gloated in the fact that he could see through them, when no one else could. Now he knows where the pressure points are.
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Afdeestupple, US53m ago
"Ukraine owed Putin something just because he wanted it"
Monopolies of violence do not ask for "something." They take it unless prevented by an equal monopoly of violence. The stakes would have to rise dramatically before Trump intervenes. Putin will not get all he wants, but neither will he relinquish his imperial size gains. Unless, of course, the ICC issues another warrant for his arrest, and he becomes too weak to resist. Daydreaming as foreign policy.
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LLois
Spokane WA39m ago
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The ICC issuing warrants for arrest of international war criminals has about as much impact as our own law forbidding elected officials from accepting "gratuities" from foreign leaders. Witness Trump's opening a personal bank account for unknown people "buying" his bitcoin by depositing money in the dark money account.
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Afdeestupple, US59m ago
Friedman wants to solve Israel's problems by turning Iran into another failed Gulf country, making it fertile ground for default Gulfism: Islamic warlordism. It may nave occurred to Friedman that a stable Iran is all that stands between the petro-sheiks and total Gulf anarchy, to which Islamism is the default reset. Mecca is the plum in this scheme, and the destruction of any political structure is a means to that end. Does Trump have a democratic government in waiting after he topples the theocrats, which he will do if he bombs Iran? Iran is one of the few remaining props resembling any semblance of order in the region. Remove it and you reach critical mass: the domino effect will topple al the rest.
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(they held this up for 7 hours)
Afdeestupple, US15m ago
@A
But remember, in ordinary statecraft, "Interests" is the defining term. Here the US is promoting a religion. Which is why you have the Reverend Huckabee as ambassador to oversee the Third Temple.
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
@Jeff Ritter
But it is precisely here where Israel senses danger. He lives by simplistic day to day street smarts, and his feral instincts make simplistic notions irresistible. Unburdened by conscience, he could impose a compromise, dismissive of the religious scruples in play here.
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1-20-25
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USPending Approval
Not to worry: Enough of them will get through. The lesson of Trump I is to go in early at flood scale to shape the landscape beyond the point of return. The US has now entered "the Executive" phase of the Republic, and the key here is to create institutions at such scale that the next administration will go bankrupt just to undo them. Biden's reckless use of executive decree in his last days in office sets the stage of the avalanche to come. If Trump II succeeds in crippling Leftwing redoubts (media, education), the Left will survive only by decamping to the Center as an antidote to Rightwing excess. In other words, the Left will survive as "the moderate Right." The Left has yet to awakening to its nightmare.
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Afdeestupple, US2h ago
"The Deal" is Act One of Trump 2, and is scheduled as the opening act of The Return to magnify Biden's incompetence and humiliation. Netanyahu has been served notice that he will serve Trump Brand from here on, and he's cutting his losses by handing Trump a triumph in Gaza, hoping that Trump will cast a blind eye on his "special operation" on the West Bank. What comes next?
The danger to Israel here is the crisis of conscience ticking in the Trump Deal. Netanyahu no longer has the option of kicking the can down the road (leading Biden by the nose), Everyone knows that MBS will demand two-state upfront, and that Trump will force Netanyahu to come to the table with that on the table. By simply agreeing to partition "the Holy Land", Netanyahu will be accused of destroying Israel's existential DNA, for to give away as much as one inch of what God gave to Israel is denial of the Torah. Trump is not bothered by religious scruples, all of which are easily placated by more than generous terms. He will give Israel what it wants for the most part--except for a few items of a religious nature. But the moral shock is already seeping in: Trump has begun a process that will end in two-state, which will require Israel to renounce all future political claims to parts of the Holy Land. With this deal, Israel has reached the point of no return. What's on the table? Religion: the Temple Mount, East Jerusalem, Hebron. The dealmaker has his religious work cut out for him.
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@Shoffmensch exactly. Everyone has to make Trump look good, even if Witkoff had zero impact.
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@Shoffmensch Netanyahu will get the slice of Syria the Israels are already fortifying; the Golan Heights and its water are gone forever. The Saudis will make the next real decisions about the Palestinians. I doubt that Trump can out deal the Saudis, but he'll get paid for sure.
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Afdeestupple, US4m ago
"negotiations were still ongoing and that the timing was not clear"
Oh, yes it is! "The Deal" is Act One of Trump 2, and is scheduled as the opening act of The Return to magnify Biden's incompetence and humiliation. Netanyahu has been served notice that he will serve Trump Brand from here on, and he's cutting his losses by handing Trump a triumph in Gaza, hoping that Trump will cast a blind eye on his "special operation" on the West Bank. What comes next? Trump needs MBS to clinch the Noble, and nothing but two-state will bring MBS to the table. This is the nightmare facing Israel now, for two-state strikes at the heart of "Biblical deed Israel." It will also split the Trump coalition, much of which sees the partition of the Holy Land as blasphemy.
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1-13-25
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Afdeestupple, US2h ago
"violated international laws"
Can anyone tell me whose responsibility it is to arrest the "war criminals" Putin and Netanyahu? So if there are no consequences for speeding, is there such a thing as a speed limit? This is the nonesense Friedman engages in here. Putin and Netanyahu invaded because they could--they have a monopoly of violence, which is the only law that exists among nations (who are never friends--Kissinger), proved by that fact that only those who lose wars commit war crimes. China will annex Taiwan sooner or later, because the whole world knows that the US will not start WW3 to save it, anymore than it saved Ukraine from Putin. The globalist End of History did not come with its promise of Perpetual Peace. The wreckage of that delusion is what's left of the EU. As Clausewitz said, Violence is the DNA of statecraft. That is the horizon: "wars and rumors of war."
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AArt Gleiner
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@Shoffmensch: The responsibility falls on all of us. We can pretend that we are helpless pawns, and that it is someone else’s responsibility. But as colonialists discovered in the 1700s, sometimes you just have to take the responsibility that is yours alone to take.
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
And the writer, no doubt, blames Big Government for his discomfort. I grew up in a fire prone area, not far from huge cliffs, We didn't build our houses under the cliffs and call on Big Government to validate our choice. Should be a lot of choice real estate for the working class in California as coastal elites scramble to safety. But in Midland they'll complain about Big Government's refusal to harness its tornados, and Woke judges will allow quack lawsuits to proceed--that is, until Musk gets Planet B (Mars) up and going. The serenity of that place, and, I'm told, fires are exceedingly rare.
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Afdeestupple, US34m ago
From Fake-News to Fake-Redo's. Is this a genuine fox-hole conversion, or merely playing to the choir? He looks at Trudeau/Starmer and sees them toppled by Fake-News. Well, Zuckerberg never preached morality, so his new convictions are merely a half-turn on the weathervane. Reminds me of the Russian/Prussian generals who wined and dined in mansions during their Poland/Ukraine wars: they left their maps on the wall for the opposing general, who left them up when forced to vacate again. The same maps worked for both. Why not?
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Afdeestupple, US1m ago
This is but another result of the Trump avalanche. As they say, "Elections have Culture War consequences." This will sink Starmer,, who will soon join Trudeau. Free speech is little more than "the king has no clothes on" which the Left was able to suppress during its tenure. The furious backpaddling to forestall the Day of Reckoning is too little too late. These are but the first tremors of what's to come--note Meta's desperation. In the old days it was called Backlash.
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Another rich Leftwinger blaming her inconveniences on others. If you have a second home, your carbon footprint is likely 50 times that of working class people--jet-travel, over-consumption, asset-hoarding. etc. Champagne Leftists are the world's biggest polluters. They demand the right to live in the Wild and on beaches while demanding Government protection from Nature. These gilded neighborhoods placed excess over safety, luxury over survival, while boasting about controlling the Weather--by 2 degrees a hundred years out, no less. Any Stone Ager would tell you that fire leaps from tree to tree, and to build your house accordingly. Only fools, the Bible says, build their houses on the sand, because "the rain comes down, and the wind blows hard, and …." I remember the signs from long ago, "Only you can stop forest fires." Flood zones, fire zones--build at your own risk. Your call, as they say. Or as they used to say in a less untitled age, "look before you leap," because there's no one there to catch you.
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Afdeestupple, USJan. 1
"we"
The Left lost the election because they convince themselves of their own myths in their self-righteous choir. The Woke "we" are a minority. May I suggest "we" (pardon the grammar) exit the choir? New Year's Resolution for the Left: You really should get out--never mind the "more."
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@Shoffmensch It would be nice if the people who accuse others of wokeness showed an actual understanding of what it means: being aware of oppression and systematic discrimination. That has affected many groups in this country.
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MMaché
Eagle Creek, ORJan. 1
@Shoffmensch It's always nice when a call for compromise elicits a call to "go back where you came from." But in this case, we all came from the same place and have to coexist. That's not just a liberal bumpersticker but a fact.
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
All companies need do is follow Musk in parking assets in Red states. Who does NY sent to collect damages from companies safely under the protection of High Sheriff Abbott--his busing chutzpah was a shot across the bow. Moreover, with the Culture War heating up, and the Right in power, Blue states will soon be forced to extradite people who run afoul of the Right's list of religious-cultural transgressions. New York will never collect a penny, and go woke-broke in the process.
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"Napoleon," an Italian General huffed, "doesn't fight like a gentlemen. He attacks and attacks and attacks. It's intolerable." NATO is fighting a proxy war against Russia, so Russia goes off the radar. The Black Market and the drug market are unregulated. Which is why states issue licenses to illegals. Putin is pulling a Napoleon here, athwart from "the rules of war." It's a game of asymmetrics: He knows the West lacks the will to escalate to nuclear war. As everyone knows, nuclear powers are immune to attacks from conventional weapons. Rome ultimately cut its losses with the Germans across the Rhine by essentially paying them off. Trump will settle for the old "the" Ukraine arrangement by drawing his Red Line on the Western Border. Muskgroup wants this thing settled posthaste. Trump is not about to spend four years splicing cables. He has even fewer options here then in the dumpster fire of failing nations in the Gulf. No wonder the Left pines for the old days of Climate Conferences where they waxed verbose on things within their control: the Weather.
12-25-24
“They are trying to build a state,” said Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group, which researches global crises. “You can’t build a state while you have a million and one militias running around doing their own things.” (NY Times)
And they all think they have the right to park their harems in Asaad's palaces, and drive his sports cars, and live like MBS. Or else, they'll team up with the Kurds, Iran, IS, Hamas, Houthis, etc. And Israel is goading Trump to do regime change in Iran. One more failed state and the whole region will go Booom. Because chaos takes on its own lifeform when it reaches critical mass, and Islam is fast approaching scale. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, much of Africa, with Iraq is just waiting to go South again. Trump is squished between Iraq and a hard place, because another failed Islamic state would pose a greater threat to the West than a rogue nuclear state. Biden somehow managed to get 2000 US troop back into Syria after Trump pulled them out after taking over from Obama. He'll have a hard time clawing them back, because IS controls the desert and nobody really knows what IS is. 9000 of them are in US prisons run by the Kurds who crave their own homeland in their part of Syria, which Turkey wants to bomb to solve the Kurdish problem once and for all. Then there are the secular Alawite, Druse and Christian factions which Sunnis will try to bring under Sharia law. Trump would like to let them sort themselves out, but will be forced to engage by the Israelis. What's his plan? He knows there is none. This is the Stone Age, which, as the sheiks say, "didn't end when they ran out stones." But the Jews will draw him in.
Putin will use the distraction to wear Ukraine down. This is his lair, and the US is careful not to beard the bear in his den. Trump has no choice but to cut his losses as he did in Afghanistan.
12-24-24
NY Times Claims Jesus was Born of a Jewish Whore and that His Father was a German Soldier
"Why It Matters That Jesus Came From a Dysfunctional Family" (NY Times)
There you have it. The case for the non-traditional family: the wayward mother, the cheated, long-suffering husband, at least two fathers (including one German, the Times gloats), the husband's coverup in order to conform to stereotype morality, a false narratives to hide the obvious--casting sordid lust and adultery as the most holy event in human history upon which was founded a religion which ended up destroying Jewry and the Roman Empire. But the NY Times protesteth overmuch. Everyone knows what the objective and motive is here: the legitimatizing of the Abomination. But to do so they have to de-legitimatize Christ's family as falling far short of the Western traditional mold. That is, His "broken" family would fall well within the purview of LGBT depravity.
But LGBT is the new normal, and legitimate in its own right--not broken and dysfunctional like Jesus's family. Yet here the NY Times plainly states that the Abomination is Abnormal. The one-handed king loathed the thought of appearing to be maimed, so he made his entire court one-handed (with the exception of his bodyguards). So now the NY Times is on record calling Sodomite mirage "dysfunctional." The writer is a former Bushmonger drafted in to advocate for "trans-girls" (Sodomites in dresses) along with David French who can't stop talking about his church problems. Poor Bethebel Moore, a regular feature in the NY Times as long as she remained a thorn in the side of the SBC, has not been heard of since she left--with her hen-pecked husband in tow.
Several years ago the Times ran an article on fasting, and after the writer fasted from 8 to 5 one day, she concluded that Jesus must have had a severe eating disorder--because he engaged in self-harm by fasting so much.
So how did all this come about? Well, a man named Jesus, of obscure origin and even dimmer prospects, managed to gain a following at a time of heightened religious doubt, anxiety, and the cul-de-sac which Jews found themselves in. As a teacher of some originality, he gained a smattering of devoted disciples, a ragged band of down and outers, who after his death engaged in Elvis-sighting chutzpah. The state of Jewry was at such a low point for lack of vision and initiative that the Jewish Zeitgeist was up for grabs. Jesus could not only turn a phrase, but was also apt at slight of hand: miracles. To which followers added the angel at his birth, the slaughter of innocents, the Magi, the Resurrection---it never stops. And therein lies the problem. If you remove all the other-worldly elements of the New Testament, you end up with the Jefferson Bible, a few pages of very dull moralisms, about as inspiring as Kant. And what is said "about" Jesus is tame compared to what He claimed for Himself: "I and the Father are one," "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but through Me." The Pharisees themselves accused Him of blasphemy when He claimed the power to forgive sins outright, without the authority of religious office. He claimed to be the sole arbiter of justice on the Day of Hyper-Phobia, consigning the mass of humanity to eternal damnation in the Hate-Place, for no more than lacking (wait for it) minimal charity toward the poor. Yet, despite all that, pagans and atheists universally confess that "Jesus was a good man." But even historically, such a person would be condemned as a lunatic, fraud, psychopath, and monomaniacal madman. Yet here, at the end of days, such a man is said to be "a good man." In fact, the NY Times never tires of reproaching Christians for falling short of the morality of their founder. "Christianity," they smirk, "Christians should try it."
No honest person talks like this. Any other person, alive or dead, who talked like this would be dismissed as a psychopath and lunatic. Then there is the "why callest thou me good, when only God is good," which has the effect of affirming what it seems to deny. Which is to say, "If I were God, then, yes, I would be good, but since you obviously do not consider me to be God, them how can I be good?" And that on Broadway, where "few," He says, "will bs saved." The rest will suffer eternally, because He will command his angels "to bind them hand and foot and cast them into the Lake of Fire." They call this morality? Yet the NY Times wants Christians to imitate their founder. "Because Jesus was a good man," they say.
I had a Catholic here who told me he stopped believing the Bible and became an atheist because he could no longer tolerate the riches of the clergy and church back home in in Florida (I think he referred to Papa John founder's contraption) when everyone knows that Jesus and his followers were poor. "Who told you that, governor," I asked. He looked at me sharply. "The Bible," he said. "And you believe it? Why would that (Jesus's poverty) be truer than all the rest. The cause of the poor is the last refuge of the religious huckster, which even a fraud like Judas resorted to in order to cover his own swindling, and rebuked Christ for living too high on donations."
Jefferson left himself a few pages of morality when he remade Christ in his own image. He stopped far too short. "His good man" turns out to be the biggest moral fraud and huckster in history--if he is but a man. Jesus himself says He is not "good", if He is but a man.
If then Jesus had a human father, you get Unitarianism. The Holy Spirit falls by the wayside. The New York Times never mentions them because they are extinct. their buildings occupied by LGBT organizations. Christmas would have disappeared with them had their views prevailed.
The first person to believe that Jesus had a human father was Joseph himself. He had to accept the true facts by faith in what was revealed to him in dream, and those who believe that he even existed do so only by believing that the book of Matthew is not a hoax. Because there is no record that Joseph even existed, aside from the New Testament. Nor that Jesus rose from the dead. And here is where the tyranny of numbers comes in Genesis 5 and Matthew five, the major roadblocks to the truth of the Bible. All attempts to cast the chronology of Genesis as other than a straightforward accounting of years back to the creation of Adam have failed. That the 6000 year old Earth is older than the Sun is no more believable than the doctrine that Jesus did not have a human father. Deny it, and your faith will evaporate. The condemnation of adultery in Matthew 5 could be dismissed when divorce/remarriage remained almost non-existent in the church. But now that the numbers have reached the point of no return, the sordid reality is embraced as Revelation. Now that divorce-remarriage adultery has become a rite of passage among Evangelicals, they have "nullified the Word of God by their tradition." Embrace the reality and you have "nullified" the Scripture. The "nullified " Scripture cannot produce faith, You have embraced a faith un-mixer: "the word not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." The effect to the unbelieving eye, is the same as "Jesus had a human father" to the unbelieving ear.
12-23-24
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Afdeestupple, US6m ago
His "interests" (Kissinger) here are legion. He's merely the first of an avalanche to help himself to the low-hanging fruit after the Trumpian peace. Note the sullen pilgrimage of the techbros to make peace with their new master. Putin is in no hurry to settle:
1) Muskgroup wants to cut Ukraine off the day Trump lands in office.
2) German elections are coming up with the Right advancing on a pro-Russian/anti-NATO agenda.
3) The US used the war to weaken Russia. It now suits Trump's agenda to turn "the" Ukraine back into a no-man's land in order to keep Europe on a tether.
4) Trump will find the world changed in his absence.. China is now firmly in the ring, and as Ukraine proves, the days of a rules based order imposed by the world's policeman are over. Putin tested the limits of NATO's strength, and won. Trump will cut his losses by dumping failed assets. He's in no position to dictate terms. The peace will be a muddle, with Europe rudderless and in disarray. Putin could not have dreamed of a better outcome.
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Protestants and Catholics don't lose a wink of sleep if they end up slaughtering a human being. Because they have been taught that the 6th Commandment only applies to premeditated hate-killing. But this killer saw his victim in the same manner as Biden sees Hamas: personifications of something greater. Hence, their killing falls under the broad jurisdiction of "the sword" to which David appealed when justifying his previous military orders to Joab, who as the Nazis protested, was "only following orders." Anabaptists accused Calvin of murder when he tortured and killed those who fell short of his religious schemes in Geneva. He himself was not a politician, he would protest. But nothing happened in Geneva without his consent. David did not kill Uriah. Neither did Joab. He died in battle against Israel's enemy. There is not a shred of evidence that Hitler ever killed anyone. Stalin engaged in subversive activity where he may have, but, again, no evidence. Truman pretended not to feel guilt over killing hundreds of thousands with the A-bomb. His friends knew otherwise. Again, he appealed to his "immunity-with-impunity" as head of the state "bearing the sword not in vain," because, as a French king smirked spinning David's sneer to Joab, "Let God sort them." Killing is a king's reason of state, and he must be ready to engage in mass slaughter at a moments notice. This high-strung state of affairs will of necessity include innocents in times of crisis, because, as everyone knows, evil weeds thrive by entangling with the wheat.
With Democracy, the 2nd Amendment places the Mark of Cain (immunity) in the hands of ordinary citizens, allowing them shed blood under the cover of legal writ. Doing so, turns killing into an act of virtue, because the 2nd Amendment exists to protect the 1st, freedom of religion.
It takes religion to turn sin into evil, because evil needs a strong agent to overpower and sear the spontaneous working of the Law in the mind, "accusing or excusing' (Ro. 2). This, history's Troika of Architects of Murder (Augustine/Luther/Calvin did by Christianizing the Mark of Cain, thus enslaving the Church to the sword. Evangelical arsenals exist to uphold the 2nd Amendment, which exists to protect the Church: "Give me liberty, or give me death" is seen as a rallying cry for the freedom of worship. The Church must retain the monopoly of violence or perish, because "the gates of Hell will soon overrun it." Which is why God established the 2nd Amendment.
This accounts for the loss of murder-guilt in Western society, where the ancient notion of people screaming when they look at the invisible blood on their hands has completely disappeared.
Puritans wrote their act into law before proceeding to behead their king. They would have hanged if unsuccessful. Ben Franklin knew he would hang if the Brits caught him. 40 years ago at the University of Arizona I listened to a professor comparing corporate leaders to the SS (his father was one) who ran concentration camps. This is the jargon of Revolution, and Revolutions require bloodshed as the lesser evil. The Mafia has its origin as a resistance movement against oppressive government, and to this day its church-going hitmen see themselves as soldiers in the cause of justice. They have a high sense of honor (among themselves) and strict codes of conduct (within the Familia).
The Evangelical martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was hanged for trying to assassinate his elected head of state. Eisenhower, considered Robert E Lee, America's greatest killer of Americans, as one of five "greatest Americans." "The sword," David smirked to Joab, "once you pick it up, only the rules of Hell apply," because, as General Sherman said, "War is all Hell."
Yesterday's terrorist is today's Syrian patriot. If the NY killer's view ever prevails, his followers will name cities after him. Hence the grin. Because the 6th Commandment applies only to murderers. Like the Pharisees said, "Yes, of course...what you say is true, but heh, heh, Who is my neighbor?" How can you call tomorrow's patriot today's murderer? Were the Puritans who plotted to behead their king potential murderers when they were yet but potential assassins? Google Bonhoeffer and you will find that he was "murdered" by the Nazis. For what? For trying to assassinate the elected leader of Germany. "The sword," David told Joab, "its one and the other, and both..." It does what it has to do--so move on. That's why this man is laughing. And people pretend to be shocked, shocked, shocked. He opens the newspaper and finds the NY Times casually discussing Israel's daily tranche of murdered women and children, day in and day out. He killed only one human. But as Stalin said, one killing makes the 6 o'clock news, killing a thousand is but mere statistics. This man is but a non-institutional personification of the same evil that masquerades as moral in major institutions like the NY Times. Evangelicals feel no remorse as long as they kill legally. Vigilantes, like the Puritans, obey a more primitive code of justice. Abel, "being dead, yet speaketh." The writer of Hebrews referring to God's statement to Cain, "the blood of your brother crieth unto me." Throughout history, fugitives like Cain were said to be fleeing something from within, which drove them to drink and suicide. But since Augustine, Luther, and Calvin Christianized human slaughter, this check on depraved human nature has become completely seared and unliberated. This is a normal, rich, educated, person who knew he would be caught. But is he more evil that the Israeli soldiers who kill dozens of women and children every day without remorse? The end justifies the means. Whose end? The Puritans', Bonhoeffer's, Barabbas's, Truman's, MBS's. How do you weigh ends, and by what measure? All law is but a human convention, and need has nothing to do with the Truth. The fact that flat-earth denialism is punishable by law does not make flat-earthism true. Flat-earthism is often the law in Egypt, while punished as a crime in Babylon. There is no such thing as evil, only opinions about evil. This is why this killer is laughing. He's a specter of something else.
12-21-24
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Afdeestupple, US5m ago
And who will pay for this snake oil boondoggle? China, which has the world's largest carbon footprint? Why? Because China's fossil driven energy is a third of the cost of Germany's, and its cheap cars in Germany are shutting Wokeswagen plants. Wokeswagen will soon need very few credits. Government mandated snake oil, like Farm Aid, benefits only the likes of Farmer Bill (the biggest farmland owner in America). Note the absence of legacy polluters like oil and auto. Carbonwashing the pollutions of the tech bros will only create more billionaires if mandated at public expense. Even the hype is little more than tech bro propaganda. A month ago, burying trees with smoke belching excavators was hailed as a carbon-lock breakthrough. Fake news.
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
@Geranimo
"All doable. All cost-effective"
Not as long as it's one hand clapping. Fossil fuel China is bankrupting Green Europe. China is transitioning on the back of dirty energy and getting rich doing it. Xi puts more stock in his accountants than in his Generals. Putin lured woke Germany into his gas trap, and Germany has yet to find a Green exist. Woke broke. Trump better come up with a new Marshall Plan, soon.
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How a Christian can slaughter people legally without fear of Judgment using the God-ordained Mark of Cain
"The man allegedly threatened to use his family connections to have soldiers sent to the front “as meat” if they did not give him money, the newspaper said, citing one of the unit’s sergeants" (Telegraph).
Here's how you can kill people legally without transgressing the 6th Commandment. Luther exhorted his flowerers to volunteer as hangmen. Who were these people they hanged legally? Rest assured no one remotely close to Luther. Calvin overrode the Sermon on the Mount by inventing the "the Christian State," in which "pious magistrates" made "copious use of the sword," again, legally. A "Christian king" "not bearing the sword in vain" fulfilled a Christian duty. Stonewall Jackson said war was his Christian calling. "Old Jack," his men would say, "will execute his own soldiers at the drop of a hat." He had the legal right to do so. The key then is to seize control of the monopoly of violence, since legality (or Law) never goes further than the monopoly of violence which underwrites it. The Puritans followed Hazael by murdering their king to make themselves the new ministers of God, Their act of murder immediately transformed them into "ministers of God." David simply put the legal machinery in motion to make Uriah disappear. Abraham did not think a civilized king like Pharaoh would stoop to coarse murder. But he knew he would find himself entangled in the legal machinery on a pretext--and strange things happen in prisons. Note what little it took to get Uriah murdered. You see here the "70 times seven fold vengeance of Cain" which allows those who possess it to kill with a simple nod, without consequences. "The kings wrath is death," one of Henry VIII's officials whispered to another fearfully. When the king needed to kill off one of his wives, his Protestant Archbishop Cramer (who acted as his secret police) would draw up the necessary pretexts to find her guilt of treason whereby the law demanded that she be executed. David appealed to his broad mandate under "the sword." Both Pharaoh and Abimelech reproached Abraham for putting them on the path of moral failure. But only after they were threatened by a greater monopoly of violence. Herod cast all that nonesense aside and simply executed John on a whim. The Pharisees had no such powers, and were forced to appeal to their overlord, Herod, Rome's High Sheriff, whose tenure was secure only as long as he kept the mob from getting out of hand. Mobs, as we see from the circus in Ephesus, made Rome paranoid. Also, Herod was not allowed to stage public executions on flimsy pretexts, lest he create a disturbance. Which is why they contrived the charge of treason against Rome, for "we have no king but Caesar." Pilate bought none of it. But killing one man to keep the peace was well within the "interests" of Rome. "The sword," David smirked at wavering Joab, his co-murderer (although as Evangelicals and the Nazis would say, he was just following orders), give a king a broad mandate. So broad that in the midst of mass murder of peasants, one Medieval king told his henchmen, "Don't ask if some are innocent or not, let God sort them." the State is remains innocent whether it kills the innocent or not, because its sole purpose is to kill or threaten to kill. It is the Mark of Cain that transformed his former act of murder into an institution: the State of Nod. This is what David meant. It is Hell's fang, and War, said Sherman, is Hell. "Don't," said Nuke bomber General LeMay, "use moral and war in the same sentence." He saw the hanging of Nazis is no more that the old rite of barbaric revenge: Vae victis.
US lifts $10m bounty on HTS leader after talks in Syrian capital (Guardian)
And not because he turned himself in. As they say, "Crime doesn't always pay?" But shouldn't he get the $10 million? After all, it was he who did what it took to satisfy the US. Poor Mafia, never became violent enough to become legitimate. A founding father of the new Syria, perhaps even the Noble (Peace, that is--as Evangelicals say, you make peace with war). If a worse monster overthrows him (IS that is) and he loses the monopoly of violence, does his poster go back up? US ambassadors may do well to heed a warning from history when bearding too closely with these new bedfellows. "He no sooner left the palace," it is said of the Sultan's most important counselor, "but he reached up to see if his head was still on his shoulders." Thomas the Fraudman will do well to look to those "12 kinds of lamb dishes" served him in MBS palaces, lest he find himself gnawing on a finger. The Brits will hang us all, Ben Franklin said. Abraham did not have to worry about Sarah or his life under the ministers of God in Babylon--at least not while "serving other gods." Lot had no problems in Sodom (aside from the vexation of hiding his light) until the angels arrived.
So what did this terrorist do to get the bounty on his head removed? He became more violent, violent enough to join the rest of the monopolies of violence. The temporary truce among the monopolies is their inability to out-violence the other ministers of God. Cain invented the State in "the land of Nod," the land of fugitives. Fugitives from righteousness, "the presence of God", which is the Kingdom of God, which Cain forsook willfully, because he could not bring himself "to do well." State legality is no more than meeting the demands of Cain, who gave the state an infinitely broad mandate of morality. David murdered Uriah legally, and the Pharisees "devoured widow's houses" according to "the Law of Moses."
"The mark of Cain" was not a quarantine the he could not be killed, but that his killer his killer would find a "sevenfold" torrent of violence unleashed upon him. Bis descendant, Lamech, after boasting of killing with impunity, anchored his immunity from retribution in the mark of Cain: his protection extended to "seventy and seven fold." In other words, he was untouchable. This, a violent perversion of the mark of Cain, has nonetheless become the definition of the State: a monopoly of violence immune to retribution. David used it to murder Uriah. "The kings," they used to say, "cannot break the law, because he is the law: Rex Lex. That is, until his monopoly of violence is wrenched from him. Which it will be, "for he that taketh up the sword, will perish with the sword." Had Benhadad known of Hazael's ordination, he would likely have had him killed. Up here violence is always fatal: "when you strike at a king, you must succeed,, or else...." The genius of Cain was to impose order on the anarchy of Nod (Nod means fugitive), the land of outlaws. Although, he was able to so only by pointing to his "divine right" to do so. For he carried upon him something unique to mankind. This Lamech exploited into the doctrine of statecraft that has endured to modern times; violence with impunity and immunity. This is the definition of the State, symbolized by the flag, which has its origin in the mark of Cain.
12-18-24
New Nazi Trials: The Brazenness of the Jewish Stranglehold on the US Government
The U.S. Has No Special Panel for Nazi-Loot Claims. Could That Change? (NY Times)
As far as I know the US also does not have "special panels" to look into "looting" during the Crusades, the Thirty Year's War, the French Revolution and the War of the Roses. Note to the Reich: Forewarned is forearmed. Should be enough here for another Spielberg movie.
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Afdeestupple, USDec. 18
Does the US have a "special panel" for Native American claims, for descendants of slaves claims? What business is it of the US to pursue misdeeds by foreign countries, committed on foreign soil, against foreigners?
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Paris, France1h ago
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We all know that there is one set of rules for some groups and another set of rules for other groups. The Holocaust belongs in history books, not on the front pages of major newspapers on weekly or near-daily basis for the past eight decades (yes), but then we wouldn’t have red herrings to distract us from caring for the people who are suffering right now (rather than those that did 80 years ago) and asking who is causing, funding and enabling all that suffering. I would be in favor of the US going after war criminals abroad, if it was done with a modicum of moral and legal consistency, but it’s always just done for strategic purposes, with cynical timing and by cherry-picking, and coincidentally favors the same groups that are lobby-heavy (guilty or not), while disfavoring others (guilty or not). As for stolen paintings and repatriations, this subject is well-known to be a massive revenue-generator for a select few lawyers and their friends. Must be nice being part of the dirty 0.1%.
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Joshua Schwartz
Ramat Gan1h ago
@Shoffmensch
Maybe to deal with looted art works now in US museums and galleries. And many of the descendants of those from whom the art was looted are US citizens residing in the US.
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22000 American Jews participated in the Gazacaust, the mass murder of nearly 50 thousand (mainly women and children) Palestinians, most of which are the relatives of American citizens. Do these American Palestinians have the right to have "special panels" address their claims?
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Revenge attacks in post-Assad Syria fuel fear and mistrust. rebel leaders are struggling to contain targeted violence, as vigilantes seize on the current chaos to settle old scores.(WPost)
Syria was a last ditch effort of Biden to get a few scraps of policy credits before he vanishes. He gave Turkey the go-ahead to lance a festering boil on its border with Syria, which requires annexing a chunk which is infested by Turkey's enemy the Kurds. From here, Erdogan hopes to give the Kurds a knockout blow.
The Kurds are the US's only non-Jewish ally in the Gulf. They run US concentration camps full of IS "terrorists" which the US cannot afford to let go. The US has 2000 troops in the region to keep IS form regrouping. It is now dealing with their enemies (HTS) which just took control of Damascus. IS has no equal when it comes to terror and brutality. Beheading is their favorite sport. And while HTS controls the cities, IS is everywhere in the desert. If Erdogan moves against the Kurds, IS will swoop in and spring all its fighters. This is the new hydra.
Like Putin, Erdogan pines for the glories of the past, which the Europeans parceled out the Ottoman Empire by drawing a line through domains and intersecting it with another to make a plus sign (+). Those are the four corners of Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. The Kurds are largely Westernized Shiites, and seen as a antidote to the beheading brigades and despots that keep the Gulf on a knife's edge.
Erdogan does not pretend to have Western friends, only "interests." He spends his days treasuring up secret wrath and resentment over his helplessness in overcoming Turkey's inability to become a first rate power, big fish like MBS whose wealth makes Westerners swoon. But for want of something (who knows what), Turkey would be the regional power, doe to its mass, strategic location, and educated population, Instead he is forced to a life of petty crime, like a common burglar prowling around the ships, shaking down the Europeans to stem the flow of refugees, and double dealing with Russia to help it evade sections. He is in NATO only because he controls the chokepoint to keep Russia boxed in. But he's s too weak to fully control what passes right under his nose. A grievous slight.
Israel just helped itself to a greater chunk of Syrian land. The US will be hard pressed to keep Turkey from doing the same for security reasons. But US "interests" lie with the Kurds, which the US needs to run its concentration camps with their 9000 IS prisoners.
It remains to be seen if HTS can govern. What happened to all the people who ran Assad's regime, made up Alawite, Druse and Christian? These are largely moderate and secular, the opposite of HTS. Revenge killing will drive them into Europe.
12-17-24
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The Germany We Knew Is Gone (NY Times)
Behind Germany’s Political Turmoil, a Stagnating Economy (NY Times)
The Reich is in real trouble. The causes are innumerable:
1) The threefold Hitler shackle: Israel, NATO, the EU. NATO (the monopoly of violence) is the hinge that binds the other two (artificial creations--the one because its statecraft is little more than a prop in Evangelical doctrine, and the other because it denies the existence of spiritual evil) together.
2) The conceit that the EU was the blueprint for End of History Globalism and Perpetual Peace.
3) That the German Problem which was driven underground after the war could never resurface and overcome German guilt, NATO and the EU.
4) That the majority of Germans were either largely ignorant of the crimes of the Nazis, or brainwashed by a few bad apples.
5) That mankind had outgrown the Earth and now had a mandate to fix its inadequacies. "We can control the weather to within less than 2 degrees a hundred years out," the Kerry fraud boasted to the Chinese. The Chinese rolled their eyes and sent him packing. Here, if they're within 20 degrees two days out, we're thankful. That despite having the largest weather data center in the world 50 miles from here, the size of the Pentagon in the middle of a cornfield. A monster building with a few windows high up. They sit in there playing checkers all day, and ever so often send the new guy to get coffee and stand on a chair to see what the weather is up to: a cloud about the size of a man's hand, he says. Put "chance of rain" at 30%. Half an hour later, now what do you see? Getting darker. Put it up to 50%. 30 minutes later, a few drops on the window. Type in 80% on the internet. And so on until the rain makes a fearful racket and they put out an all points bulletin of 100%? But the Germans swallowed it hook line and sinker. Twenty years ago if you mentioned Hockeyshlager Kurve, Germans would start shrieking in fear. The bottom of the stick represented temps up to the Industrial Revolution, when all of a sudden it went up like a jet in missing man formation. They immediately unhitched from nuclear and coal and blitzkrieged to solar and wind with cheap Putin gas to midwife the transition. And the rest, as they say, is history. Now German electricity is twice what it is in the the US and three times what it is in China. Now what? Both the hard Right and Left are rising on a pro-Russian-Nato-decoupling platform. If you saw Trump smirking at Governor Trudeau recently, you understand what this means. He was merely venting an unpleasant reality: that Canada is no more than a dim moon circling a giant. But Canada has no options. Germany does--if she can break free. This freedom is now what's animating both the Right and the Left. After all, Russianphobia is a US invention. Germans have never feared Russians, and current US NATO policy is tailored to keep Germany from entangling with Russia. Which is why Trump railed at the Nord Stream gas lines. Russian hysteria is purely US propaganda to keep Europe hitched to US foreign policy. No German thinks that Putin has designs on Berlin, and what business is it of Germany to become surety for Russia's neighbors. Look at Georgia, cheek and jowl with Russia. The Bushmonger wanted to bring it into NATO. That's like putting a Chinese air base across the river from El Paso. Everyone knows that the greatest threat to Russia is its shrinking population, only slightly bigger than Mexico's. Putin invaded to keep Groomer flags out of Red Square. The fearmongering logic then is that he wants to carry his Culture War crusade into Europe. No German believes that.
Europe has not risen to the occasion. For eighty years they told themselves that the Regan-Bush boys will always be there. But the cowboys did not ride. Europe is too broke to rearm, and too old to want to. War is a young man's game. The majority of Europe's young are non-European.
The new politics are ready to pursue "German" (not NATO/EU) interests. Initially, they will be joined by "nationalists" from other European nations to break the stranglehold of globalism. But now the specter of the Old Germany appears--too big for Europe, too small for the world.
Dealmaker Trump has an inkling of the potential danger that comes from a rudderless Germany, although he lacks the depth to understand its historic underpinnings. He also underestimates Putin, who is not encumbered with all the distractions of being World Policeman with a four year deadline. Putin knows that Trump will neither escalate nor pour more money into an endless war. This being the case, Ukraine will crack. Ukraine will have to end the war with zero security guarantees, because the US Right sees this as a Culture and turf war, and would rather see Putin in Ukraine than Rainbow flags in Red Square. Trump has few bargaining chips, and he doesn't think Putin has designs beyond Ukraine. And he prefers the politics of Hungary to those of Germany and France. Putin will keep his gains, and the rest of Ukraine will muddle along--outside of NATO, and without NATO peacekeeping troops. In other words, it goes back to being a Balkan mafia: the shadowy statecraft allowed those squeezed between giants. "The cities which my father took from your father, I'll give back," Benhadad said. Wonder who lived there? They could have declared themselves a state and called on either Egypt or Babylon to engage in a proxy war.
Putin keeps his own counsel, and so far his approach to the West has been enigmatic, so much that NATO is more terrified by his non-response than his meatgrinder in Ukraine. No one knows where his real Red Lines are. Biden has been afraid to find out. So what can Trump do? He likely knows that behind that quiet demeaner lies a coiled serpent, and that his customary bluff and bombast could easily land him in one of his snares and traps. Putin will tailor his approach to Trump's vanity. The "deal" will be Trump's, perhaps even Noble worthy, the ultimate prize. "Paris is worth a Mass," a Calvinist prince sniffed, before becoming a Catholic king. It will be a severe humiliation for NATO. It will gain Putin an Imperial size funeral and a place among the Greats. Some of the heaviest fighting took place around Kyrpychne (called Hutterthal until 1945). It is now annexed to Russia. "We come from the Ukraine in Russia," we were always told.
12-16-24
"Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier Into Upheaval"
The Egyptians were afraid of Race Replacement. But when they considered their social problems more closely, they discovered that they were even more afraid of honest work. Which is why Pharaoh called out the national guard in hot pursuit to follow the money. Mammon is the supreme leader of nations, and all are only as good as their currency. Labor (or the means of production) is the ultimate currency, as Marx noted, Walmart and Amazon are nothing but labor capital. It is the most unforgiving coin of the realm. Titus had taken up wokeness. Vespasian gave him a real gold piece. Smell that, he said. It all boils down to economics. Wokeswagen is funny money. A hard teacher.
We were terrorists (heh) when we were weak, but now that we've grown violent enough to become a monopoly of violence--now (heh) we're patriots. Might is right, and only the weak hang. Did they violate any of "the rules of war" to get here? The rules of Hell, that is "the sword", David reassured Joab his fellow murderer who knowingly sent his best soldier to his death--the rules of Hell, he assured wavering Joab, are infinitely broad. Don't give it a second thought. It comes with the trade. Vae Victis. Woe to the vanquished. War, the old preachers used to say when not acting as Hell's feed salesmen for supply the cannon fodder--"all war is a crime, little more than mass murder on a grand scale."
"German Government Collapses at a Perilous Time for Europe"
12-14-24
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, US3h ago
"illegal abuse of women?"
I stopped reading there. I will now continue to see what the "legal abuse of women" portends.
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Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia will fall next. Jordan, as the weakest link, will be first, then Egypt, where the Islamic Brotherhood is waiting opportunity. Note "the Islamist." What drives them? The humiliation of Islam by the West: Muslim oil wealth squandered in Western capitals, and casino cities in the lands of Mecca. To sharpen focus, the radicals use the Third Mosque atop the desecrater Temple Mount as their mascot. Biden, we are told, is talking directly with "the rebels." This is neo-al-Qaeda, still listed as a terrorist organization by the US. Yesterday's terrorist, today's patriot. After hanging the top Nazis, the US courted the rest to fight the new terrorists (the USSR), whom they had just saved from the Nazis. Patton wanted to wipe Russia off the face of the map while the US had the upper hand. MacArthur wanted to do the same with China, again, which the US had just rescued from the Japanese who were now US allies. Trump will throw Ukraine under the bus because the Right which elected him sees Putin as an ally against the Sodomist agenda of the European Left. Musk blames the Left for turning his son into a dragster. His son, like the dragster son of the governor of Montana, merely mimics what he see going on in the fleshpots which the rich frequent, not the least of which is Maga Laga, a wife-swapping den of iniquity.
What does Trump do now?
1) Threaten? He got out of Afghanistan by the skin of his teeth after 20 years and $2 trillion. He will think long and hard before taking the wolf by the ears again, for these are the Sunni suicide bombers. One suicide bomber is worth 10 US Army divisions. They're more potent than the US/Soviet nuclear arsenal combined, and they emerge in the hour of Islamic desperation. That is, when hope in conventional methods fail. They are what keeps Pakistan in constant turmoil.
2) Deal making? Previous schemes were anchored on Saudi participation. But the Saudi's are now forced to demand two-state up front after the Gazacaust. That was before neo-al-Qaeda overran Syria. The rebels are Sunni, as is Hamas. Their goals are one. The playboy sheiks know they're already walking on eggshells. Their
regimes are propped up by petro-dollars--with no backup. Their cities are desert mirages. When the dust of the Toyotas settles, all that will left of them are piles of glass. Look at the length of the beards on these desert hordes. It's how Mideast observers divine their politics. But the Biden people are on it. Europe holds its breath and shudders. They know a dead end when they see it. They wonder if Trump will be whispered into toppling the Ayatollahs. But at this point, the entire Gulf is little more than a game of dominos to topple anything that resembles order in the lands of Mecca. Islamists do not fear chaos, because only the golden age of the Caliphate will bring serenity. Trump's instincts are to let the terrorists wear themselves out. "Stay away," he says. But unless he kicks the Israelis out of the US Government, and the Jews off the Temple Mount, he will be forced to double down and entangle the US in a sand war which Evangelicals will not let him end. This will cost him Europe, which will migrate toward Russia and China to replenish their coffers emptied by US proxy wars.
3) Nation building? Tom Fraudman sees real opportunity here. Maybe get them to read Tom Jeff'son and adopt plural government to dull the carnage of religious fanaticism. The Taliban is now at loggerheads with Islamists for compromising the Revolution. The Islamists think them too modern. The Syrian rebels will find themselves in the crosshairs the minute they moderate--or shorten their beards. Religion cannot compromise the purity of its ideals without losing legitimacy. Don't looks for them to trim their beards anytime soon.
And so another state resets to default: religious tribalism. Think Arabian Nights. These countries are stable only as directed by one will: the Taliban, MBS, the Ayatollah, Saddam, military despots. etc. Remove the one man, and all is chaos, the preferred setting of Islamists.
What sets Sunni Islamists apart is their globalist jihadist zeal, which Westerners convince themselves will recede to the background amidst blossoming Capitalism. But Islamists see Stone Age as a condition to religious purity--much like horse and buggy Amish. They pine for the old ways of the desert--especially polygamy. Most Taliban leaders have multiple wives, an expensive habit, even with Stone Age economics. Trump just appointed his son's concubine ambassador to Greece--the son just took up with another harlot--, alimony from the public purse. France is littered by the estates of their kings' mistresses. Polygamy has always been an expensive habit. Taliban leaders are now turning to corruption to fund bride prices, like Trump, funding lechery from the public purse. He wants to make his daughter in law Senator. He put his Lebanese in-law on the public payroll on the grounds that he's a billionaire in Africa. He runs a small auto lot out of a storefront which generated $68,000 last year. His wife teaches dance in a Pentecostal church in Nigeria. But now he gets to sell access to the Oval along with the Kushite who got the Saudis to underwrite his hedge fund. This is MAGA sleaze.
U.S. Is in Direct Contact With Rebels Who Took Over Syria
They are still listed as terrorists by the US. But now that they have attained the monopoly of violence, they have legitimacy. They are now "the ordained ministers of God" like Biden, Putin and the nuclear lunatic Kim Jung-Un. Elisha was so overcome with Hazael's villainy that he burst into tears before ordaining him, upon which the murderer hastened prophecy by murdering his king (2 Ki. 8). The Mafia are gangsters because they never gained a monopoly of violence. Churchill escaped hanging as a war criminal because, as General LeMay smirked, "we won the war." The only war crime is losing, because as preachers like Spurgeon used to say in a rare moment of honesty, "all war is a crime, mass murder on a grand scale." But then it was back to being Hell's feed salesman to deliver the cannot fodder as the king's chaplain. For wars would quickly grind to a halt without brothels and chaplains to sustain them. Which is why you never hear of Evangelical chaplains preach against the brothels without the camps. A man who is commanded to transgress the 6th Commandment is compelled to sneer at the 7th.
Palestinian Authority Deploys Security Forces Against West Bank Militants
And the corrupt Palestinian Authority, the NY Times tells us, are waging war against their own soldiers at the prodding of the US. That is, the Israelis who control the US government. The irony here reeks to the heavens. For over a year now, the US groveled before the Jews for access into Gaza and even went so far to squander nearly half a billion to build a temporary dock. The Jews simply thumbed their noses at Biden. And now the US threatened (or bribed) the PA to take up High Sheriffhood once again to help the Natennazi Drang nach Osten. "Our People," Biden calls the Jews around him. And so making himself one of "the Chosen People" who he hopes fill intercede for him on the Day of Judgment. The Baptist Rev. Huckster is over there, not to preach the Christ (Christ means Messiah), but to prepare the Temple where the Anti-Christ will proclaim himself as God.
This is what the old hands would have called irrational statecraft. Israel is not the least interested in settling for a normal state with security guarantees from it neighbors. The Temple Jews in the US Government know this, as do their enablers who give them cover, Third Temple Evangelicals. Nations have looked on in disbelief at US suicidal "all-out" support of Natenazism. Because there are no state "interests" here, only religious. Here the US is susceptible to blackmail by its adversaries. Because religion can neither compromise nor retreat. The Jews will not rest until they have cleansed the Temple Mount. Islamists will not rest until they have avenged Islam's historic humiliation: foreign troops in its Third Mosque. This is no more than an American crusade against Islamic jihad.
The world awaits the deal maker. Currently the great captains of the age are making their pilgrimage to Maga Laga where he holds forth from a barstool. Reality will set in on day one: 1) Immigration is a force of nature which cannot be reversed. Immigrants are here to stay. The causes are always the same: a) Famine in Israel, b) a labor shortage in Goshen. By the time the Egyptians sensed the danger, the Jews had made themselves indispensable. If all the Mexicans decided to leave overnight, the US would block the exits to keep the economy from crashing. For Pharaoh, it was the Bottom Line. The swords that underwrite the throne are paid for by hard cash. "Tell me," Vespasian said, handing a new coin to his son Titus who complained about the disgusting urine tax, "what does that smell like?" c) Bring the factories back through tariffs. But Walmart is the cheap opium of deplorables to help them forget their sinking prospects. A $300 coffee makes will have few buyers and need even fewer factories. Trade is the export of surplus and talent. Some people can make silk purses out of sow's ears, others can raise a fine hog and little more. If he only needs a few hogs for himself, why not take the rest of the year off for fishing? Unless, he can trade hogs for silk purses which he can sell on and pay for a house. Benhadad had stores in Samaria before Ahab had "streets in Damascus" because the Syrians were cunning workmen. Tariffs is shooting oneself in the foot. d) Third Temple Disease. Jews will try to lead Trump by the nose like they did Biden, who sees them as a second Hail Mary on the Day of Judgment. Catholics who find "the strait gate" unduly hard hope to compensate by currying favor with His mother. On the Day of Judgment, she will say, "he's with me", and in you go, mir niks, dir niks. Trump's religion is of a piece with the rest of him, barely skin deep, if it exists at all. But if he allows the Rev Huckster to set the tone, he will ignite global Islamism in Western streets. If he doesn't calm Syria quickly, it will once again flood into Europe. These rebels make the Taliban shudder, and they exist to topple Westernized Islamic despots.. His NATO ally, Turkey, wants to use the occasion to settle the Kurdish question once and for all. The hydra has many heads, and every time the US lops one off, 7 worse sprout from the same neck. Islamists see statehood as apostasy, and politics as heresy. When all is chaos, the Caliphate will rule once again. The goal then is to create more failed states. e) Ukraine promises to be a deep ditch. Putin is not without options as before. He destroyed the EU, and has China behind him now. Trump cannot escalate for fear of nuclear war, and his counselors want him to use Putin to settle scores with European globalists. He will neither cut and run, nor offer more than tepid support, which will allow politics to work against both Zelensky and the European Left. Ukraine will either accept terms or suffer complete destruction, because Trump will not intervene. The new Europe will come to terms with Russia on the security question, which will leave Ukraine in limbo. Congress will never allow it into NATO. Europe knows it has to chart its own course, and the quickest way to replenish its empty coffers is to turn Eastward. Trump wants to chastise Europe. He could end up losing it. It is not without options. And the Germans are in a foul mood. Their three-layered straitjacket (the Jews/NATO/EU) is unraveling, and the Old Prussia which was forced underground abruptly after the War by the New Order, sees Russian resources as key to revitalizing Germany. Its depleted economy will get much worse under Trump's tariffs, and the will is lacking to turn the EU into a super state. For 80 years, the West told itself that Germany was hi-jacked by a small consortium of Nazis. Remove the bad eggs, and Germany becomes a normal nation. But ordinary Germans fought to the last man. What happened to the diehards who survived? They stewed underground without representation. This element will team up with their kind in other European countries like Orban's Hungary. Orban is friends with both Putin and Trump. Or rather, he sees "interests" both ways. "The cities which may father took from you, I'll give back," Benhadad told Ahab. Worthless tokens of a turf war. Ukraine is in for a rude awakening. It's a scrap in the larger scheme of things/
12-9-24
Streets in Damascus
"Chinese Carmakers Are Taking Mexico by Storm While Eyeing the U.S" (NY Times)
"thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria" (1 Ki. 20).
The captive "little Jewish maid" would have found a sizable Jewish community when she arrived in Syria, the result of "unrighteous Mammon" preparing "habitations."
Look at your iPhone. A car is Stone Age compared to it. Half of the cars sold in China are electric. The hybrid Shark pickup truck has 430 hp and and goes 82 miles on its electric charge. Most fuel is consumed within 20 miles of home. Find a way to store solar during the day to transfer to your car overnight and see what that does to your fuel bill. Think Walmart and Amazon (the comforts of kings for the masses) for cars. Remember the "Union Made" or "US Made" stickers? "But ain't those goods tainted?" a Southerner asked. "The only problem is t'ain't enough," was the reply.
Europe is broke and getting broker. They forgot that the state rests on violence, and that violence marches on its stomach. China's most potent diplomats are its accountants.
"Supply and demand" was once seen as the lodestone of democracy. Self interest would produce an abundant supply, and creativity would create an appetite to absorb the supply. Communism, with its regimented 10 year plans every 3 years would kill both creativity and supply. On the one hand, the state would pretend to pay while the people would pretend to work, creating drunks and dullards. Do you find your Walmart gadgets dull? They're almost free because the Chinese are so productive and efficient. Why would Communists works so hard? They are light years ahead of the Germans in solar and battery technology. What makes the enslaved Communist mind so creative?
Then there is the Darwinian Supremacist conceit that only the larger brains of the sons of Japhet are capable of safeguarding the intricacies of the Luther/Calvin decrees of prefordamnations. Which is why American Manifest Destiny came to mean that the US would not join the graveyard of civilizations. That is, "Moab is my washtub, over Edom have I cast out my shoe." But "Ephraim has become a cake not turned," and now it is being scorched by the breath of the dragon. Tariffs will make things worse, and will only put Walmart and Amazon out of business. Good luck with your Mom&Pop startups with their $300 dollar coffeemakers now delivered to your doorstep for $15 dollars from Amazon. Previously, Benhadad's gunboat diplomacy allowed him to put "streets in Samaria" before there were Israeli "commercial outlets in Damascus." China is now a hyper-power which can flex its muscles globally. It will exploit the resentful failed countries that make up South America, and broke Europe (awaiting Trump's wrath) is already looking East with hat in hand. Trump's problems will be compounded if he continues Biden's suicidal "all-in" policy toward Israel, which will further isolate him at the UN. What you see in Israel is the last gasp of American Manifest Destiny which was to herald Armageddon. The Reformation was God's final revelation to mankind, and demanded that its custodians remained in charge of the world. But now the inferior "sons of darkness" are massing at the gates. "Bombs away," the Rev. Huckster is no doubt counseling Trump. The Chinese Shark truck, they say, meets and exceeds anything you find in US made brands. That 82 miles per charge taxes me. I could let it recharge while it sits here. I haven't paid a dime for propane in a decade. "You burn propane here then," people ask eying my empty propane tank. "My propane bill is the same as my chiropractor bill," I say. They look shell-shocked and think me dull of hearing, so they try again much louder. "YOU BURN...."
"And my chiropractor bill is the same as my air conditioning bill," I add. A man who chops wood needs neither.
The town burns huge piles of wood every year. I've been plotting to ungrid from the electrical utility for some time. My water bill is zero, and it tastes like the well of Bethlehem. I could use that Shark truck to run my refrigerator and appliances while it sits outside doing solar. Treason, you say, enabling the Chinese takeover of America. I was sitting in church in the deep South one Sunday when the visiting preacher related a story. "My grandfather," he said, "started a business in a garage with a man who bought him out when it was still small." The man's name? The great American patriot, Sam Wall. And there endeth the lesson.
12-8-24
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
Another of Biden's dumpster fires that threatens to set the Gulf on fire and embolden the Far Right in Europe as new refugees arrive. Israel will discover that Hamas and Hezbollah were Red Cross volunteers compared to these zealots. Keep in mind that these are the globalist Sunni suicide brigades which drove the US out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Western euphoria is not shared by "modernizing" Egypt, Jordan,, and SA. Once again, CIA arm-chair spooks were blindsided, as in Afghanistan. Trump threatens to reignite the Sand Wars to solve what is the world's most conflicted religious problem. Islamism has two main objectives: 1) redeem Mecca from the playboy sheiks, and 2) avenge Islam's historic humiliation of having its Third Mosque desecrated by foreign troops. Trump smirks at religion and will try cutting deals by sidelining it. But the Mideast is Religion writ large, and these rebels are of the same vintage as the Taliban, which forced a humiliating retreat on Trump. And all with Stone Age methods. The defining element here is religion, which dies to the last man. Compare that to the 18-25 year-olds who fill Ukraine's nightclubs rather than run into the meatgrinder. Al-Qaeda with its own state. What could go wrong?
Trump's Jewish Dumpster Fires
"In Fight for Syria, a Battle for Domination of the Entire Middle East" (NY Times)
"Sweeping rebel advance resurrects U.S. fears of Islamist takeover" (WPost)
"Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation" (Mt. 12).
Trump just threatened Hamas with fearful things if they don't release the hostages. An idle boast. What's he going to do, make more sand holes in the desert? The Islamists chased the US out of the Bushmonger's two sand wars, and the Taliban ran Trump out of Afghanistan. Now the Sunnis are back with a vengeance, and Sunnis, unlike Shiites, are globalist jihadists and suicide bombers. The Sunnis are on the warpath because Israel destroyed their natural enemy, Shiite Iran. Here's what awaits Trump:
1) al-Qaeda in possession of Syria, the heartland of the Middle East.
2) A new flood of refugees to embolden the European Far Right. Europe is broke, and the old guard is being out-voted. The Germans, especially, are in a foul mood.
3) Higher energy prices. Not only does Iran control vast oil reserves, but also major shipping oil supply routes. That, in tandem with Trump's tariffs, will cause inflation to skyrocket.
Trump will learn very quickly that bluff and bluster is a poor substitute for gunboat diplomacy, when the US, as Weltmeister, could impose its will at will. China's economic might across the globe allows it to "make friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness" and many covet its "streets in Damascus." Trump's first order of business is to shut down all of Biden's forever wars. This he hopes to do by fiat through his rabble of political fixers that make up his cabinet. He's basically ruling from a high-end barstool at Maga Laga, and his picks are basically his fellow barflies who hang on as long as the drinks are on the house. He will soon learn that in politics perks trump sound policy. Caesar was warned early on about the smooth customers who flocked to him. "I'm not worried about the fatcats with the fancy haircuts (the good-timers) ," he said, "but about the lean and the longhaired (the ideologs)." Trump sees himself as an oracle (every barfly does) not in need of the careful stratagems of Ahitophel. When Diocletian, who retired to cabbage growing after organizing the politics of the world, received a delegation urging him to retake the reins of government, he kept holding up his cabbages, saying, "but I grew them myself." Barflies. like politicians, have no friends. "Did I hear you mention affection, Alexander," Kissinger asked his fellow politician. "In our trade, General Haig, friendship is a luxury." That's what Diocletian meant with his cabbages. Mara Lago is Trump's cabbage patch where he hopes to solve the world's problems.
Thomas Fraudman (NY Times) wants Trump to step in and do what has to be done. That is, put the US at the disposal of Israel to hatch Gulf War 3. Israeli troops have already crossed into Syria, and both the US and Israel are bombing rebel strongholds. Meanwhile, Turkey backing the rebels, is bombing US-backed Kurds Turkey instigated this in hopes of crushing Kurdish aspirations of a Kurdish state. The West sees this as a blow to Russia and Iran. But watch both make silk purses out of sow ears here. More global chaos serves both their agendas in that it further entangles the World's Policeman: the US. Both will find ways to exploit another failed state to their advantage.
The Taliban kicked the US out of Afghanistan, a remote backwater compared to Syria. You now have global jihad in possession of the most strategic part of the Mideast, from where it will metastasize into Egypt, Jordan, the Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. These are Sunni Salafists, fundamentalists who dream of a restored caliphate (a global head of Islam). The Taliban is cracking down on them in Afghanistan because they consider them too extreme. Suicide bombing is their specialty. This is what you now have on Israel's northern border. Hamas, while Sunni, is not Salafist. But the rebels are much closer ideologically than their former Shite sponsors, Iran/Hezbollah.
The rebel advance caught the CIA completely by surprise. What does that tell you? That this is the DNA of this region, ready to spring up and regroup at a moment's notice no matter how you try to suppress it. It's the modern version of the German hordes east of the Rhine, and the Parthians east of the Euphrates, waiting to catch Rome off guard.
The Jewish cabal (and Evangelical crypto-Jews) surrounding Trump will seek to lure him into committing the US to take up Israel's warmongering as a vital US interest. He will not be conned by Netanyahu like Biden, but his cupidity and vanity are such that he can be Mammon-whispered by the Kushites to take up the Israeli cause as a strategic US interest. He will soon find himself in a quagmire which will isolate him globally. His ambassador, the Baptist Rev. Huckster, sees nothing but the Third Temple and Armageddon on the horizon. This will alienate Europe, and its restive Muslim population, which the war will increase. A failed Syria suits Putin well, as it drives more refugees into Europe. The Salafist goal is to cleanse the lands of Mecca from the casino culture brought in by the petro-sheiks. Their cities will become heaps of glass in days. "Let the dust settle," Trump says. Wise counsel in the midst of a tempest. And while the Mideast spirals out of control, he is left with Ukraine. And exactly what will he do if Putin doesn't play along? He will enter office in the midst of a dozen dumpster fires, all equally hopeless. At least he doesn't talk about "the rules based order." All is chaos and confusion. The new Babel.
12-2-24
Shamblesheep
USPending Approval
He just provided cover for blanket Jan 6 amnesty. Trump was going to do it anyway. Now he gets to do it without squandering immense political oxygen. This is basically a prisoner swap: all the foot soldiers for a high level target. It's also Biden's revenge for the Democratic Putsch. Watch Trump make political hay with it.
11/26/24
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, USNov. 26
We may assume then, may we not, that Brazilians, who now clear the Amazon to grow cattle and feed, will finally embrace the morals of saving the planet, because as young Macron opines, "there is no planet B." Also that moral meat eaters will be willing to pay ("as the young Dane says sheepishly") for subsidies to compete with Brazilian beef. A sheepish business to be sure. "Piping methane into the gas grid" caught my eye--I take it Danes barbeque with gas from those same pipes. Talk about historic justice: roast (cows that is) by their own petards.
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Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, USNov. 26
@Richard
Big Ag will demand subsidies, which they will then leverage to buy up what scraps pf land remain within the reach of small farmers. Be sure that Silicon Valley is ready with new machines , and hedge funds ready to use them at scale. I like the notion of adding more chemicals to the food chain. Or perhaps if meat becomes too dangerous to eat, it will be to the purpose. The buffalo were wiped out none to soon. I suggest using Columbus as Climate mascot. He arrived just in time to save the planet.
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Shamblesheep
USPending Approval
As they say, "Elections have consequences"--er, self-correction. But the Left is slamming the brakes just as this thing really got going. Example: The B in the acronym, by definition, demands the legalization of polygamy. The + at the end is the great force multiplier, which causes people to dread all the rest of the monsters quaking in the mud waiting to be hatched.
11/21/24
"The Warrant for Netanyahu’s Arrest Also Implicates the United States" (NY Times)
"Had we lost the war," General LeMay smirked, "the Nazi's would have hanged us as war criminals." The Nazi hanging courts were the first in the history of the world to sort what used to be called "mass murder on a grand scale": war. Supreme Court Justice, who presided over the charade, showed up with his very young concubine in tow, and the irony was not lost on the spectacle of murder of an adulterer (the 7th Commandment) sitting in judgment on murderers (the 6th Commandment). The ICC which just threw a noose at Netannazi is an outgrowth of this conceit orchestrated by the US. And now, the NY Times tells us, if they hang Netanazi, justice requires that Biden swing next to him. Biden crowed when the ICC tarred Putin as a war criminal. Now the Times tells us, Biden/Putin/Netanazi are birds of a feather: war criminals. When the Brits denounced Washington as a terrorist, the US put him on Mt. Rushmore. "All politicians are legal rapists and murderers," Abraham told his wife. David murdered Uriah legally. "All covered by the law of the sword," David smirked at quavering Joab. To which General Sherman added, "War is all Hell." Its practitioners are its high priests. Hell I and Hell II is what Sherman would call the Good Wars.
What does Kristof expect the world's Top Cop to do, turn himself in on moral grounds, and perhaps let brother China assume the reins while the prodigal does penance?
11/19/24
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, US1h ago
Let me get this straight: The UN wants to make nations pay for climate destruction, but sees war destruction as par for the course. The fraud here is underwritten by an even greater conceit: that nations with a monopoly of violence can be forced to do anything. The old maxim applies: laws are like spider webs. They trap the weak and feeble, while the strong break their bands. China sees Climate as a strategic weapon: get woke nations to hamstring themselves into poverty while poaching market share (i.e. Britain). MAGA smirks at climate change, and Trump will use it as an ox goad to terrify his enemies. Likewise, Putin sees global breadbaskets in his melting tundra, while his enemies reduce to deserts. It's the new scorched earth tactic, and you can hear Kutuzov in the background: "let it increase."
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11-18-24
Shamblesheep
USPending Approval
Biden seeking revenge for his failed presidency by sowing chaos and destruction for his successor to clean up. Zelensky knows full well the risk of fanning Biden's (the world thanks him for all the wars he did not start) endless dumpster fires. His situation is already precarious, and Trump's wrath is bottomless. Zelensky will soon follow Biden into oblivion, and all Ukraine will get back is the "the" before it. It will never be allowed into NATO, and without security guarantees investment makes as much sense in Ukraine as in Gaza--both Biden/Blinken dumpster fires.
11-15-24
Trump and the Jews
"Gaza War Strains Europe’s Efforts at Social Cohesion" (NY Times)
"My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions....16So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
17But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 18Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 19So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day" (1 Ki. 12).
Earlier, Israel's best king had to vacate Jerusalem because "the conspiracy was strong," and was spared only from certain death when God intervened to thwart the counsel of Ahitophel.
To the degree that Jews cement their hold on the Holy Land, they become an endangered species everywhere else. Europe will soon have to put them in cages to protect them, and in the US they will feel safe only in Florida.
Jews have free rein to sow jewstruction on Biden's tab. He can do absolutely nothing as Jews dig America's grave with their US funded barbarism. The chickens will come home to roost in Europe, the UN, and US campuses. The US is no longer World Policeman, and the West now has to recalibrate to accommodate the flood of non-Western immigrants, most of whom share little sympathy with America's colonial past. Immigrants cannot be deported en masse, chiefly, because the host country finds them so useful.
11-8-24
Blame the Jews
"Democrats Ignored Gaza and Brought Down Their Party" (NY Times)
Bibi was unfaithful to the end to his "good friend Biden." And now he will sully him even further, because everything he does until Trump assumes office will be on Biden's tab. And the more he dumps on Biden, the better Trump will look in the aftermath. Of course, Bibi is already acting by permission. He is to "do what he has to do" under Biden's tenure. Afterward, he will do only what serves Trump's "interests."
Civilian Terror: Russia Hits Ukrainian Cities With Waves of Drones (NY Times)
Likewise, Putin has a two month window. Biden cannot escalate with the House under Trump's paw. European leaders are shrieking with fear. Scholz just fired his finance minister because Europe is woke-broke. Like Biden, they took Pride as their mascot, and pride is always followed by destruction.
Both Netanyahu and Putin know what's expected of them: sow chaos on the Left's watch. Trump need do nothing, except occasionally throw his hands in the air--what can he do? Putin will get as much territory as he can under Biden, then cut a deal with Trump: Ukraine outside of both the EU and NATO, and all squeezed in between the US and Russia: the new Global North. He will try to turn Russian into a responsible partner against rising China, which will begin making serious trouble in resentful South American before long, to consolidate the Global South.
In other words, America will abandon the delusion that the order imposed on the world was anything more than a temporary convention in world affairs. The American Right wants a cultural corridor from Manhattan to Moscow with Deacon Orban in between. Both Orban and Putin pray before images--life-size Mary's holding tiny Jesus with clouds of incense to aid the faithful. Family values by day and hedonist revels by night. The Christian West, they say, is drowning in the flood of immigrants.
"I have made you rich," were the last words of a Russian soldier to his family. His death the next day put $500,000 in the family's account: Coffin money, they call it. But try as they might, they cannot increase the birthrate. The flow of cash is how Putin is able to avoid a new draft. In ancient times, upward mobility was possible only through the army or priesthood. So here, the majority of new enlistees are poor. In WW2 Russian soldiers came from a family of seven, in Afghanistan from a family of 4, and now from a family of 1 or 2. And they can't even shut down the abortion mills, much less offer $500,000 in cradle money. But demographic decline is what keeps the New Right up nights. Hence the appeal of Orban-Putin. Too late.
But a US/Russian axis is the only realistic way of countering China. Likely, Trump will cut South Korea and Japan loose as well to form their own confederation with other Asian Tigers to keep from being swallowed by the Dragon.
Not since Alexander the Great put the world under Western control have historical forces so conspired to put galactic change in the hands of one man. His first term was a ship o' fools, because the heavies kept their distance, convinced that Trump was merely the lancing of a noisome boil. Now they're like flies to the spoil, and they have the Court, the Senate, and most likely the House behind them. Such is their momentum that they're bound to overreach and create a scandal massive enough to thwart their designs. The Left will be waiting for them. At the end of the day, the iPhone which make Trump possible came out of hippie hedonism: the chaos of the 60's. Lantern jawed Hobbesians are well suited to statecraft. But Universities are an infested Babylonian deepstate. And you cannot put Babylon in a straitjacket. Isaiah would have driven the Babylonian ambassadors from Jerusalem with whips. Hezekiah was "glad" to see them. Who does Trump put in charge of US Universities? Preachers?
11-5-24
FSA (Failed States of America): A US Blackhole Surrounded by Dumpster Fires
The US destroyed the Ukraine by playing to "interests." They led Ukrainians to believe that the US would enter the fray on strategic and moral grounds to mop up what's left of the Cold War and bring perpetual peace to the US's NATO axis, the colonial fist over the bogus EU. But US options are limited, chiefly because it fears a nuclear strike on the mainland, and, equally disastrous, a failed Russia next to the basket case that is Europe. Ukraine was thus given only enough aid to keep the conflict going in order to weaken Russia. Trump will cut them all loose to see how they sort themselves out. Obama wanted to serve them all under one ambassador.
But Israel is US religion and cannot be abandoned. This is the blackhole that is now aligning the rest of the world against it. Trump will soon discover that the world changed at warp speed in his absence. The days of World Cop gunboat foreign policy are over and the sharks are circling. It will soon sense China's economic might closer to home--a resentful South America. Trump will try to navigate with "interests" to keep Israel from turning the rest of the region into failed states. He has no friends, only "interests." Bibi is Biden's "good friend," Interesting.
Trump will have to move fast to contain the dumpster fires already spewing toxic smoke into the Oval. Ukraine he will use as a scorpion to chastise Europe. It's not of his making, and he has time to make it useful, Woke Europe is loathe to admit that the war was a fool's gambit, but will, nonetheless, welcome it's end. Trump can make hay here. He's a catspaw on terrified mice.
But how do you put out a religious dumpster fire? Again, Evangelicals will find the horizon much changed. They're dying off, and the New Right is a mix of classic European anti-Semitism and turbo Capitalism: "lovers of pleasure than lovers of God." First, Trump will grant Netanyahu immunity from persecution, which will allow him to break with the Temple brigades. Next, he will swing for the bleachers to win the Peace Noble by solving the Palestinian/Iran problem with two-state. He has the coarse man's view that all religion is but a cloak for hypocrisy, and that given the chance, desert nomads will exchange their Toyotas for portfolios. You see here the Marxist notion that poverty is the root of all evil. Remove poverty and the masses will forsake their religious opium. But religion drove the US out of Afghanistan, and brutal sanctions have not tampered the zeal of Iran's theocrats. MBS will be forced to demand huge concessions from Israel: the crown jewels of the Holy Land. The Left is waiting for the Right to assume responsibility for Israel. And they will need a powerful catalyst to get back into the halls of power. Gaza will become the mascot of global anti-colonialism. Trump will have to slam the brakes on Bibi the day he enters office.
11-1-24
The Bibi/Putin/Biden/Harris Schlacht
"Harris, engaging in back-and-forth with activists, grapples with anger over Gaza
Democrats hoped the vice president’s rhetoric would help rally support, but the worsening situation in the Middle East has complicated that effort."(Washington Post)
"As Russia Advances, U.S. Fears Ukraine Has Entered a Grim Phase" (NY Times)
"Russia’s Swift March Forward in Ukraine’s East"
(NY Times)
"Israel Strikes Near Beirut as Diplomatic Push Shows No Sign of Success" (NY Times)
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Schlacht (slaughter) is what Germans call a battle, foxholes are Graber (graves). You couldn't sue the German government for false advertising in its recruiting efforts: Sign up to slaughter humans, you wouldn't end up in a grave, because you'll already be in one (heh). "War," General Sherman told a group of young boys, "is all Hell. There is no glory in it." This, to Evangelicals like Lee and Jackson is blasphemy, because God ordained war as an instrument to do His will. "War," Stonewall Jackson told his adoring preacher, "is my calling." There was there no "dumb ass to rebuke the madness of the prophet." As long as you kill legally, you're doing God's will. This is the genius of Augustine's Just War doctrine which Calvin honed to perfection: before you kill make sure to get your act written into law (he killed and tortured all his victims legally). All Nazi killings were done legally. David killed Uriah legally, as he smirked at Job: "when you put on the uniform you are licensed by Hell. It's all gray down here, heh." "Don't," said General LeMay who slaughtered hundreds of thousands, "use morality and war in the same sentence." You see, said Hitler, you can't escape the paralyzing effect of Jesus' teaching, no matter how you suppress it. It's what Pagans mean when they tell Evangelicals, "Christianity, Christians should try it." This is what Hitler referred to.
Europeans are made to look on as Putin advances under cover of the US election. The Jews are doing "what they have to do" (Trump). Die Schlacht Ballot Box.
Trump will cut a deal with Putin NATO stays out of Ukraine, and Ukraine goes back to what it was, a neutral buffer zone. On the other hand, what does he do with a bankrupt Europe. If he brings factories to America, to whom does he sell his costly union made goods? America can schlep along as a petro-agricultural state. But the Reich is little more than Wokeswagen, and America does not offer energy discounts to make even these. The West has forgotten the ills of social upheaval. China fears it more than foreign armies. Which is why Xi is keen to put a chicken in every pot, build gleaming cities, fast trains, and cheap cars. It's good politics. The morals of efficiency and the bottom in statecraft. .
The flight of Capital to sweatshops abroad broke the back of the Unions, once a socialist stronghold in the US. Carpetbagging oligarchs will entrench in the West. I was out in Western South Dakota yesterday and saw a sign that read, "All Lives Matter, Until You Trespass On This Property." All the small farms have sold to the rich, and their children move away. The whole state is being bought by Agtegra. No one hunts, because the rich buy all the hunting rights. In ancient days this problems was called "agrarian politics." That it, the dispossessed threatened Revolution unless land was redistributed anew.
Marx used labor as a hammer against the Capitalists who exploited the starving masses by forcing an over abundance of labor to compete with job scarcity. This problem is solved by the guilds and unions who rope off work space and limit who enters it. This is how the workers wrest away from the owners control of the means of production. This is possible in factories, not in offices or agriculture. But unions need government protection, which is why they end up controlling the state: socialism.
The oligarchs will attempt to wall themselves in Red state gated communities. This is what the parasites are doing in Wyoming and Montana. Trump will soon confront the contradictions of his agenda.
He will need to get Israel out of his portfolio, and fast, because Gaza has become a potent mascot to BLM and the alienated social justice Left who will turn campuses into war camps. Strongarm tactics will backfire, unless he's ready to pick up where the Civil War left off. The billionaire bunker building in Montana is to to that effect.
But Trump can solve the Israeli problem only by making Jews blasphemy. That is, sign away their "Biblical deed" for peace in a partitioned Holy Land. Trump doesn't have friends, only "interests." Kingmaker Bibi will need to tune his agenda to suit Trump's, and that quickly.
10-30--24
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
"a moral mountaintop"
Translation: Trump voters quake in an immoral abyss. This is the elitist arrogance that sharpens Trump's Common Man appeal. Over 40, 000 of their Palestinian relatives slaughtered with Biden/Harris bombs, and Kristof wants them to quench their petty sorrows in the interests of his own elitist agenda, to vote for the "lesser evil" to save democracy, the Planet, and yeah, mankind, What cheek!
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Afdeestupple, US2m ago
Earth to Friedman: six days before the Election is hardly the time to add to Harris's innumerable list of exotics. How do you sell elitist algorithms to workers schlepping from paycheck to paycheck? It merely underscores how hopelessly removed the Left is from people who actually work for a living. The situation must be dire when Friedman wants voters to quickly consider the A.I. monster under their beds.
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10-28-24
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, US7h ago
Harris is left to face two debilitating Biden wars which she is forced to support. War fatigue adds to Harris's other woes. The Ukraine war is lost, and the US is tethered to Israel's non-vision for the Mideast. In such times, people vote for change.
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The Reich Closing 3 VW Plants
Shoffmensch, USPending Approval
The quickest way to get to net zero. May I suggest they restructure as Wokeswagen. The 7% wage increase on coming non-jobs caught my eye. No wonder they're skimping on Ukraine. Putin broke the bank. Looks like Germany is due for a new Marshall Plan. Just in time for the Election.
10-28-24
Jews Pulling out all the Stops against Two-State Harris
"Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 70 as UN chief calls civilians’ plight ‘unbearable’" (Guardian)
Another 70 women and children (future terrorists Evangelicals calls them). If you don't call them terrorists, you're being anti-Semitic. Meanwhile, Republicans will not allow one dime of aid for Gaza. All they would need do to remove the roadblock is to include a few $billions for terror prevention centers: abortion clinics or "Reproductive Health Centers."
Iran huddles in fear, knowing they're next if the election gets too close. You can imagine the mood in European capitals as Putin advances. Just today, Germany announced the closing of three VW plants. Woke and broke. Orban is in Georgia today cutting deals with Moscow.
10-27-24
Trump II and the Three Hooves of Blasphemy
"Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind" (Exodus 10).
No Zionist (or Evangelical) can relinquish political designs on 1) The Temple Mount, 2) East Jerusalem (the Old City and City of David), and 3) Hebron (the Tomb of the Patriarchs) without committing blasphemy. But One Israel requires that these three be rescued from the hands of Islam. Since 70 AD, when every Jew prays, "Next year in Jerusalem" at Passover, they have in mind the Old City which surrounds the Temple Mount.
Trump will have to move quickly to avoid 1) a Mideast quagmire, 2) contain Iran, and 3) keep the Left from joining the Palestinian Cause to BLM on US campuses with an angry Third World UN fanning the flames. His only path to peace leads through Mecca. But Saudi Arabia will be forced to demand two-state up front, and not just a "path" to two state.
So far so good. Trump will offer Israel Arab peace guarantees and some extra land in the West Bank. Both Jerusalem and Mecca will come under America's nuclear umbrella. East Jerusalem becomes the capital of the Republic of Palestine, Israeli soldiers vacate the Temple Mount and Hebron, and both sides will prosecute border trespasses as criminal acts, or worse, acts of war. The UN will serve as observer.
This arrangement would satisfy both the conscience of global Islam, and the requirements of secular Jews for a Jewish homeland. Jews, they say, need their own homeland to avoid persecution, since they cannot even trust their protector, America, not to turn against them. A strange argument. Groveling Evangelicals agree that they themselves cannot be trusted, and so are obliged to create a Jewish state in case they (Evangelicals) should become anti-Semitic. Of course, they're simply following the logic of Christian America, where Protestants and Catholics hold the monopoly on violence and can persecute, but cannot be persecuted. Such is the Jewolatry, that Evangelicals have never sought access to openly preach the Gospel in Israel. In fact, according to Evangelical doctrine, a thriving Church in Jerusalem would defeat the purpose of Prophecy, and as such could not be seen as anything but an abomination. If you listen closely, you will see that in reality Evangelicals agree with Jews that Christ was an Imposter. This blasphemy is such a vital component in Evangelicalism that Jewish anti-christs have the status of a second redemptive kingdom of God running alongside "the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ." God will not let His Chosen People perish.
There's your Jewish homeland, Trump will say. It removes Israel's greatest threat with a stroke as Iran can no longer use the plight of Palestinians to stir up religious jihad and risks being annihilated by US nukes. Israel gains the long coveted Mideast acceptance, and "streets in Damascus" in one of the world's richest commercial zones. Iranians will cast of the faded theocrats and join the club.
Settlers will riot and take up arms against Jewish soldiers trying to remove them from land given them by God.
Trump could care less about hooves. You wheel and deal for what you can get and wait for a better day. Wheel and deal ? Did God wheel and deal with Pharaoh? For Moses to concede one hoof would have been disobedience. Netanyahu understands this mentality and its potency. It's what creates suicide bombers. Trump sees it as little more than superstition. It's what drove the US out of Iraq and Afghanistan. When the last skyscraper crumbles, it will take up where it left off. There are no institutions in those barren lands, save religion. Only the iron fist of the despot. This is true of supremacist Israel, a barrack's state pretending to be a democracy. Left to itself, it would either tear itself apart, or be quickly overrun by its neighbors. Like the EU, it is entirely a artefact of the last war. One the one hand, the EU is what play money is to real, the politics of Utopia. It was not forged in Realpolitik, because their mercenary master, the US, huddled them into NATO as an auxiliary to US foreign policy. The chimera of the EU allowed them to play at statecraft. NATO is what's left them. It could end up as the Beast.
The creation of Israel was seen as concrete evidence of American Manifest Destiny: that America, unlike all empires before it, would not join the graveyards of history. It was created to help Israel prepare for the coming of the Jewish Messiah. That delusion is now held by only the good old club of American Evangelicals. Two-state will cause them to lose interest. Israel will continue to exist, alongside the Islamic State of Palestine established on what is called the Holy Land. If the loss of Ukraine marks the end of the American Peace, the loss of the Holy Land is the last gasp of the Reformation. "And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born" (Acts 22). This exchange between two non-Romans would have caused bluebloods of the Old Republic to raise a disapproving eyebrow. They would hardly recognize this Rome. It's 800 years since the founding of Rome, and the brand was as potent as ever. Jesus, John the Baptist, and Stephen could be killed by local mobs at the drop of a hat. Paul's citizenship guaranteed him due process under Roman law regardless of who he was. He could not just be disappeared. The genius of Rome was its ability to absorb and improvise. MAGA is the last gasp of the Reformation.
Netanyahu depends on the theocrats to cheat the hangman. And he could depend on Evangelicals to keep the US on board. But once in office, Trump will no longer need Evangelicals, and Netanyahu will find himself twisting in the wind. The Seculars, Mecca, the UN will all speak with one voice: two state. Biden needs Jews as an extra Mary and is reduced to groveling. Trump merely finds them "useful." He will cut a deal. Rarely has the world seen such a Machiavellian. Although, according the German Spiegel, he does not rise to the level of the current Pope. Germans see him so villainous that they featured him on the cover with the headline: "Du Solst Nicht Lugen."
10-26-24
Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, US21m ago
The Times Frontpage seems to be having a panic attack. If anything, Trump II is a marvel of restraint compared to the avalanche of verbal dislocations of 2016. That, according to the Times then, was the main strike against him. His chief counselors in the Oval were Hannity and Tucker, and his outbursts on Twitter were dark clouds of unknowing. He spent his whole life one step ahead of the hangman, and such people do not have the luxury of a coherent strategy. He lives from crisis to crisis, and improvises the script to suit the hour: street-smarts honed by a life of cunning and instinct. That's his appeal to Everyman who lives from paycheck to paycheck.
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Shoffmensch
Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
If this is the best Democrats have to offer to counter Trump II, they are right to despair. Americans are tired of elitist exotics while their own day to day living prospects fade. Radical Left planks, abortion, gender, Climate, are strangely absent in Harris speeches as she is forced to lurch further to the Right. Instead of intoning about 2 degrees 100 years from now, Trump promises the return of US factories tomorrow. Real Corn versus the Left's endless fetish Circus.
"Do what you have to do," Trump told Kingmaker Bibi according to the NY Times. That is, set the Mideast on fire on Biden's watch. Biden leaked Israel's attack plan in hopes of avoiding a late October Putsch to alienate Muslims and drive Jews Trumpward. More carnage forces Harris more Rightward as she has to side with Israel to retain what's left of the Benjamin Protocols. Evangelicals drool. Bibi is earning his keep.
He will find Trump a hard taskmaster. Megalomaniacs are not led around by the nose, and Trump suffers fools gladly only when they serve the Brand. He craves adulation, as all celebrities do. He wants to go down as a Weltmeister, and not as a pariah. And he wears the thick shortsighted glasses of Hezekiah who shrugged, "Oh well, so long as the bad tidings do not come in my lifetime."
His street cunning will serve him well as the Western world crumbles around him and global powers rise to overthrow the residual structures of Colonial hegemony, principally, the long sinews of Mammon. Currently, only the US can wage commercial war on the strength of the Greenback. The US can print itself into the Black. But look at the Europeans. Both France and Britain are in desperate straits as they cast about for new revenues. The US can print and borrow. That doesn't work for the Europeans, who can only borrow. And the rating agencies have a hard eye on the bottom line. The Welfare State has to be paid in Greenbacks, as does the new military spending.
Gallio cared for none of these things. Trump sneers at global messianics. Biden spent his term globe-trotting as the World Cop trying to maintain the 80 year old American order imposed by the world's only superpower. The roster of lost US wars demonstrates that those days are long over.
Trump will pull up the drawbridge and live on America's savings and legacy--good for decades longer. Factories will return, labor will again fetch a premium, and do it yourselfers will thrive. Why buy union when you can build it yourself--and your neighbors. It will take labor unions to break the back of the oligarchs who dispossess Americans by buying up all American assets, chiefly land.
In the short term, he will enable gangsters like his Kushite son-in-law, who spent his time during Trump I selling the Oval to get world despots to dump funds into his hedge fund. He's the only person alive who gets away with gaming Trump, who likely sees Kushite loot as a backup for Brand Trump.
Trump wants to get Ukraine off the American radar. And now Biden has managed the impossible: he revived the Korean War with Korean troops now engaged in a revived Cold War in Ukraine. All to protect the Allied vanity project of a perpetual peace: the EU. Europe has not practiced statecraft during its entire 80 year occupation. It is now a basket case of pampered political adolescents. Trump will cut them loose, or, rather, turn Putin loose on them to bring them up to speed.
Bibi is in for a surprise. Trump's religion does not rise above the coarse man's superstition. He sneers at One Israel, which is what stands in the way of a commercial peace anchored in unrighteous Mammon. At this point, Muslims want to hear no more of Thomas Fraudman's "path" to two-state. Trump boasts of being the ultimate deal maker. Mammon is "the kingdom of impatience." Fleshpots, like wars and brothels, spring up overnight. Mammon requires two-state posthaste.
Which means two-state under Trump II. Even quicker than under Harris, who would fortwurstle with the UN with the Evangelicals throwing up roadblocks.
He will throw Evangelicals under the bus. He is for abortion when it suits Brand Trump, and nonchalant about abortion when it does not serve Brand Trump. The Pax Americana is broken, and Trump sees nothing to gain by flaying about amidst the broken crockery. His method will allow the world to sort itself out, more by instinct then by design. Then the multi-polars will clash, and global Gaza will loom. "I'll be dead," reasoned Hezekiah, "sufficient unto my term is the evil thereof." End Time Prophecy of the last generation was a check against the despair of annihilation. Israel marked the beginning of the End. But the End is no closer, because two-state is contrary to Prophecy. Society has forgotten what real psychological fear is. "Still," sighed Hezekiah, "it will come after I'm gone." His foreboding was lost on his son Manasseh, who took godlessness to a new extreme. Noah was a "comfort" to his weary father Lamech, who did not live to see the rest of his sons and daughters perish in the Flood. "Will the Son of Man find faith when He returns?" We are left to conclude that all who perished were unbelievers.
10-20-24
Kingmaker Bibi Using Biden Bombs Against Harris
10-19-24
The American Cost of the Gazacaust
"Now, that deal is further away than ever, even after the killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, which has been widely seized upon as a potential opening for a peace deal. Instead, Saudi Arabia is warming relations with its traditional archenemy, Iran, while insisting that any diplomatic pact now hinges on Israel’s acceptance of a Palestinian state, a remarkable turnaround for the kingdom."
“The Abraham Accords were cosmetic; there was nothing substantive about them when it comes to a real, enduring regional peace agreement. Many of the states that signed on did so because they see Israel as a path to influence in Washington,” Mr. Shihabi said.
“But now we see that the U.S. has no power or influence over Israel — to a humiliating degree,” he added, “and that the Israelis have no intention to create a Palestinian state.” NY Times
The gist of Evangelical preaching in the 1980's was this: The Rapture is near. Christian America is all that stands against atheist Communism, and Russia (on horses, which the Bear was raising by the millions) and China (the hordes coming out of the Euphrates) stand ready to swoop down on Israel. God created America for the sole purpose of safe-guarding the Reformation from the Catholic Antichrist, and to prepare Israel for the Second Messiah (because they rejected the First Imposter). The date-setting planets are now lining up according to End Time prophecy: America-Israel against the nations of Antichrist.
Israel has become America's black hole from which it can no longer escape. At home it has completely subverted the democratic voting process by corrupting it with money, and abroad, it unites former adversaries. This is the work of Hamas. Its dead founder will be seen as the Washington of the Palestinian state. Today's terrorist is tomorrow's revered patriot.
Persia is on the rise. It has become the tool of choice of both Russia and China to draw the US into the Mideast quagmire. At issue is a Jewish state versus Holy Land Israel. The UN will create a Jewish state alongside a Jewish one, what Israel fears most. To prevent it will consume all of the US's oxygen. This is the price of Jewolatry.
The Saudis know that they cannot trust the US to protect them from Iran's nukes, and they can no longer afford to ignore Palestinian misery which threatens to re-radicalize the Mideast anew. Thomas Fraudman's mythical "path to statehood" is now seen for what it always was: a carrot of deceit to cover Settler expansion.
This is what awaits Trump II. His Abrahamic Accords have become fossils in Gaza. The petro-sheiks now need two-state to keep their radicals from taking up jihad anew. Iran is the match to this powder keg. They can no longer be denied the Bomb, and as soon as they have it, they dominate the Mideast. The US now has two choices: give the Saudis the Bomb, or include them in NATO's Article 5, which they dare not offer even to Ukraine.
America's messianic jihad to expand NATO eastward drove Putin to seek other alliances, and he is forced to share nuclear knowhow for Iranian support in Ukraine. Previously, he joined NATO in denying Iran the Bomb. Conversely, Jewstruction took away the Ayatollah's scruples about the morality of nuclear weapons. "No one knows where the Ayatollah is hiding," Iranians joke, "except the Mossad." The theocrats know they're in Israel's crosshairs, and desperate people do desperate things to stay alive. This is the work of Hamas.
But the US has no choice but to0 muddle on, the fortwursteln policy of Franz Joseph trying to keep the lid on his empire. On the one hand, Jewish Protocols control the Oval, and on the other, End Time Evangelicals still hold the monopoly of violence: look where the world's most lethal bases are.
The Dragon and Bear look on with lidded eye. More chaos in the Mideast means more turmoil in NATO lands, as refugees pour into Europe, and the Palestinian cause becomes the anti-colonial mascot on US campuses.
The US is in for a rude awakening. It still harbors the delusion of Manifest Destiny, which gained cachet when America found itself Weltmeister after the wars. America did not with the wars, but came in only when the principles had bled themselves dry, just as Alexander did little more than absorb the suicidal wreckage of the Peloponnesian War. The only wars the US won are the war against half-starved Mexico, and off course, the Civil War. The Korean War is still ongoing, it lost Vietnam, the Gulf and Afghan wars, and is now losing the revived Cold War against Putin.
America became Weltmeister by default, and owes its hegemony, not to military might, but to the strength of the Greenback, which, as failed sanctions prove, is now waning rapidly. Cunning China wages war with commerce, and here is where the mischief of the UN comes in. The UN is utterly toothless, except in its ability to name and shame. As with large corporations, one negative incident can sink a company. Lecherers Pharaoh and Abimelech pretended to be aghast that Abraham should hold them in low moral esteem for their roving eye. The Nuremberg Trials where little more than moral preening of murderers and adulterers, comrade Stalin sharing the bench with adulterer Justice Jackson, who arrived from the US with his very young mistress: the irony of an adulterer judging murderers was part of the gallows humor of the moral charade. The Europeans are especially susceptible to moral preening, and hopelessly wracked by Colonial guilt, which the evangelical US dismisses as little more than the collateral detritus of God's inexorable decrees. But US campuses are but extensions of Utopian kingdom-of-man schemes hatched in Europe. Both the EU and UN are moral instruments which China will exploit to increase its market share. In the end, Mammon will conquer all.
Kingmaker Bibi Springing His Traps
“"Fighting Rages in Gaza and Lebanon, Despite Killing of Hamas Leader
"Leaked U.S. Intelligence Suggests Israel Is Preparing to Strike Iran"
"Drone Hits Building Near Netanyahu’s Home in Coastal Israel" (NY Times)
Everyone wants this to end at this point. Except for Benjamin Netanyahu.” (NY Times)
Who leaked Israel's plan? Biden did to sabotage Netanyahu's plot against Harris. See if you can follow this comedy of errors: Biden is forced put the entire US might at Bibi's disposal, who in turn uses it against the Democrats, who in turn leak Bibi's plot against the US, because to expose Bibi's plot directly would would be anti-Semitic. In effect, King Bibi is US Commander in Chief, and the Mossad is running its wars from the Oval." Biden has so many Jews in his administration that he refers to them collectively as "my people." And because Jews are "God's People." he sees them as a second Mary to curry favor with God.
"Be afraid, Harris," Thomas Friedman warned earlier. But what can she do? You can't survive in American politics without Jewish money. Consequently, Harris cannot push for a ceasefire without angering the Benjamin Protocols, nor appease her angry BLM base if she doesn't. And the more Gaza becomes a dust bowl, the more likely Trump wins. Israel has already burned its bridges to the world, and it has zero options expect to go for broke to forestall partition. Which means creating more failed nations in the Mideast and leave the US to deal with the carnage.
But Trump II will be Trump Brand, because celebrities need broad appeal, and you need broad appeal to make it into the history books as a non-villain. Both the Jews and Evangelicals will end up under the bus as soon Trump no longer needs them. Whatever world Trump hopes to remake, he will not allow Israel to derail it. Saudi Arabia knows its time is short if Iran gets the Bomb, and will cut a deal with the US to stabilize the Mideast and guarantee Israel's security. Trump doesn't get the Third Temple, Old Jerusalem, the Tomb of the Patriarchs. No one gets everything, he'll tell the Jews. Now sign.
"Biden Has an Opportunity Now in Gaza, but Only if He Pushes," blares the NY Times.
An idle boast. Because Biden cannot even push King Bibi out of the Oval.
Egypt, Jordan, and the petro-sheiks need this to end quickly before their straitened economies create unrest. Traffic in the Suez Canal is down by half, as is tourism, Egypt's main source of revenue. None of these countries have "rational" institutions, and when despotism fails, they reset to default: tribalism, as in Afghanistan. Iran's fanatical Revolutionary Guard is a nation within a nation, and if Iran fails, it will become the ruling body, and sow religious chaos in the Gulf--with suitcase Nukes.
What Israel needs most of all are non-theocratic entities to deal with. But Israel is in the grips of its own theocratic zero-sum delusion, its all-or-nothing quest for One Israel. At this point, global Islam would settle for partition the Holy Land and guarantee Israel's security. But a partitioned Holy Land is blasphemy, and loses its religious cachet, the world's most potent brand.
Settlers will now demand full possession of the Holy Land's crown jewel: the Temple Mount. This is what awaits Trump II. He'll ride into the Oval on a hurricane, and spend his term on a volcano.
10-18-24
Two-State Harris: Enemy of the Jews
"Biden Renews Cease-Fire Push After Hamas Leader Is Killed "(NY Times)
Biden is back to groveling before the Jews. The blood of tens of thousand Palestinians is ;.entirely on his hands, as without his bombs the death toll would have remained in the hundreds. His "dear friend Bibi" played him for a fool, and will now cost his party the Election. For Israel's greatest enemy is not Hamas, but two-state Harris. The UN is on the warpath against Israel, and Harris will buckle as the International Court puts Israel in the docket to make it pay for Palestinian misery. This is Israel's last war under the US Evangelical umbrella, and without the support of these violent murderers, they are left to their own devices. The new American Right is but another version of classical European anti-Semitism. And the stench of Jewstruction now makes it safe for Germany to through off the Jewish hairshirt imposed by the conqueror. There has been zero repentance. NATO and One Israel will fall together. Both are artificial creations imposed by the victor, and will not outlast America's Manifest Destiny. The Reich will soon be "too big again for Europe," and the Aryans (Aryan is the word Iran) will control the Mideast center through its Shiite proxies. Ancient Persia and Old Prussia.
Netanyahu will not make a fool of Trump, but will be forced to serve Trump's "interests." Trump is not a crusader, and he flies by the seat of his pants. He needs deals, and deals now. He will not allow a Jewish squabble to dictate his foreign policy. If two-state serves his interests, he will impose two-state. If not, then he will simply ignore the problem, as long as the stench of Jewstruction does not waft into world affairs. Evangelicals will find themselves under the bus.
But for now, Harris is enemy number one for the Jews, and must be defeated at all costs. Which is why Netanyahu smirks at Biden's renewed attempt at a ceasefire. A ceasefire would be a feather in Harris' cap to appease Muslim voters. Which is why, Jewstruciton will now increase to fan Muslim anger and deprive Harris' of their vote.
From a strategic point, Sinwar is more dangerous to Israel as a dead martyr than as an alive murderer. For now, instead of going down as a villain who brought misery on Palestinians, he will be remembered as the founding father of the Palestinian state, the Palestinian Washington (whom the British denounced as a terrorist).
Biden wants to make peace now?
1) Jewstruction has yet to accomplish anything in Lebanon. Leave now, and Hezbollah will return stronger than before. Iran is only lying low until it gets the Bomb.
2) To quit now is to invite the two-state process, which will leave Israel entangled with the UN, which will partition the Holy Land.
3) Israel does not have a plan other than total conquest of from "the River to the Sea." And it is just now getting started. It remains surrounded on all sides, and to vacate any ground now would signal weakness. It has no choice but to continue Jewstruction--at America's expense.
4) Netanyahu cannot afford to go back to politics as usual and hope to remain in office. War is his only means of escaping the hangman.
Thomas Fraudman sees Sinwar's death as an opening for the proverbial "path" to a Palestinian state. Here's how it works: the US offers the Saudis protection from Iran's nuclear bombs, in exchange for 1) recognizing Israel, 2) providing Arab troops to police Gaza, and 3) rebuilding Gaza. Just like that. But the petro-sheiks are already in the crosshairs of the extremists who chafe at the casinos going up in the lands of Mecca. This is where the theocrats of Iran come in. MBS, the playboy guardian of the Two Mosques, will be forced to drive a hard bargain to redeem Islam's historic humiliation of foreign desecration of Islam's Third Mosque: in other words, nothing short of kicking the Jews off the Temple Mount will suffice. Jews will be kicked out of East Jerusalem, and be forced to commit the blasphemy of renouncing any future claims on Hebron (the Tombs of the Patriarchs). This is why Adelson's widow is giving Trump $100 million. They see Harris as the Jew's greatest enemy. This is why Netanyahu smirks when Biden wails for a ceasefire. Because a ceasefire now is to play into the hands of the UN: two-state.
Trump promises Jews the moon. They trust him only so far as they witness the Jewolatry around him. He is himself incapable of understanding any of this. "With me," he tells the Jews, "you get everything." But he'll throw them under the bus as soon as they get in his way. But for now, Democrats cannot afford any more defections toward Trump, which makes them grovel before the Jews. Netanyahu sees this and keeps playing his "dear friend Biden."
Israel too is flying by the seat of its pants from day to day. The pressing need now is to defeat Harris to avoid two-state, then muddle along in the fog while Trump is busy elsewhere. But sooner or later the stench of Jewstruction will threaten brand Trump, and Trump will impose a fly-by-night deal: that is, he will cause Settlers to blaspheme by making them renounce their "biblical deed."
Muslims will demand concrete and irreversible two-state bona fides before they sign, and Jews will face the full force of Trump's wrath if they refuse. "You get your state, and peace," he'll tell the Jews as they look at the map of a partitioned Holy Land.
At the rate Jewstruction is creating failed states, it will soon require the entire US arsenal to deal with the chaos. And the quickest way to destroy NATO is to drive more Muslim refugees into Europe. Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon--now add Iran. The radicals in Saudi Arabia are stewing underground, and the glass cities of the Emirates will come down as quickly as they went up. Egypt is a powder keg. Bombing Iran could light the match.
Trump will have to move fast the minute he lands in the Oval to keep the Mideast from exploding. He thinks he can keep the lid on by ignoring the problem. That will not be possible. He'll have to advance the situation, and, lo and behold, he'll cut a deal: two-state. This is what Sinwar accomplished. He exceeded expectations beyond anyone's wildest imagination, by elevating the Palestinian cause to the top tier of world affairs: the Un, the International Court, US campuses. Today's terrorist, tomorrow's founding father.
"Tell them I'm your brother," Abraham told his wife, "because the ordained leaders of the world's greatest civilizations are murderers and rapists." "Go anoint Hazael to be king over Syria," God told Elijah. When Elisha laid eyes on the psychopathic murderer, he burst into tears before ordaining him. Hazael quickly proved Elijah right by suing his newfound powers by murder his king while pretending to soothe his fevered brow. "Don't worry about murdering our best soldier," David smirked at Joab. "It's the nature of our business." "There are no friends here," Kissinger used to say, "only interests." Murderous interests.
10-14-24
Netanyahu Gunning for Harris
"Israeli Strike Hits Central Gaza Hospital Complex" (NY Times)
Kingmaker Netanyahu is pulling out all the stops, for nothing moves the polls like more incinerated children in hospitals. Biden is trying to keep the inferno under wraps until the election, which is why he's sending 100 troops to Israel, hoping to deter Iran. But Netanyahu needs an inferno to flush Harris out of hiding. You have to wonder what Putin is hatching with US foreign policy on hold. Look for China to up the pressure on Taiwan with the US bogged down in Israel and Ukraine. Trump is riding on chaos, and Harris cannot afford more of it. But this is Israel's last window to destroy Iran, and doing so would get Trump elected. Likewise, a Harris win would prolong the war in Ukraine. The stakes here are in the $trillions. Two men hold the keys to the kingdom. What you see on US soil is mere trivia, a reaction to forces hatched overseas.
"Harris and Trump vie for Jewish voters unsettled by Israel-Gaza conflict" (Washington Post)
Pennsylvania is a must win state. Harris needs those Zionist voters. But promise them too much and you lose BLM. Currently, she's trying to appease both. Netanyahu is looking on with glittering eye. Jewstruction in Iran will explode the Democratic party. "Be afraid," Friedman warned Haris. Should be a good next four years for the NY Times, exposing fake news. That is, if Trump doesn't expand laws allowing news outlets to be sued for defamation. You will see the law being weaponized Rightward. The Left wants to sue energy companies on thin legal grounds. Imagine what you can do with the violence glorified by Hollywood. All it takes is a slight tweak of existing laws to catch your adversaries in the cross-hairs. "Give me seven lines in any man's writing," said Cardinal Richelieu, "and I will find something with which to hang him." He hanged a lot of people, so much that one of his fellow priests asked him on his deathbed, "Father, would you not like to forgive your enemies before you die?" "I have no enemies but the enemies of the state," he whispered hoarsely. Mir Niks, Dir Niks. He killed legally. This is of course the Luther-Calvin definition of no-guilt killing: just make sure to draft a law to suit your situation before you kill your enemy.
10-12-24
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Afdeestupple, USPending Approval
Just in time for the election. This will not help Harris, because nothing Democrats have compares with "carte-blanch" Trump II and his Apocalyptic zealots. Israeli suspicion is that Harris will push for two-state, while Evangelical doctrine demands that Israel and "the Holy Land" remain One. In other words, why take a chance on Harris, when Evangelicals will put the entire US arsenal at Israel's disposal to prevent two-state. Evangelical End Time fever thus forces Democrats to go over the top to support Israel. This could backfire. If Tehran burns, US campuses will roar back to life. Biden has not learned his lesson. Netanyahu threw him under the bus months ago, and he should have become wary of remaining this close to such a cunning strategist. Trump has given him the green light to "do what needs to be done", so long as the carnage is done on the Left's watch and does not leach into Trump II. Netanyahu sees Harris as an existential threat to One Israel, and he has nothing to lose by setting the region ablaze to get his man into the Oval.
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Afdeestupple, USJust now
"She struggles." She has to "make an appeal" to Black voters. Why? Because you cannot win with "the lesser evil" when average Americans find the lesser evil wearying and getting worse. With nothing to vote "for", such people shrug and stay home in resignation. Her campaign lacks the enthusiasm to rally the troops, while Trump voters are fired up. Stay-at-home Democrats will cost her the election. Her troubles will get worse if either Netanyahu or Putin feel compelled to sway the election by creating a world crisis. Republicans will make hay with escalation in either the Mideast or Ukraine. Democrats are right to panic. She's losing momentum daily.
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Afdeestupple, USJust now
It's not the polls, it's the momentum. Trump is gaining on every front, because he's creating oxygen while Democrats are keeping no-show Harris under wraps. But the eye of the storm is elsewhere: either Putin or Netanyahu are capable of forcing Harris out of hiding with an October Surprise.
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Neither Putin nor Netanyahu can afford to lose this election. A Harris win will create a Palestinian state, and leave Putin no option but to confront NATO directly. If Trump does not pull ahead by a comfortable margin, you will see a dramatic escalation before the election. Netanyahu is fast turning the Mideast into a pile of rubble with Biden/Harris bombs, and he has the green light to turn Iran into an ash-heap--so long as he keeps Jewstruction from seeping into the new Trump era. This time, though, Iran will strike back with everything its got, because its leaders no longer feel safe. And it's one thing to kill Gazans women and children, another to kill highly cultured Persians. The UN is already gnashing its teeth, and US campuses will roar back to life. Likewise, Harris is in no position to come to Ukraine's defense if Putin escalates. Europe looks like its preparing for a funeral, its leaders to terrified to say anything. Both fronts are black holes for Harris, with Trump cooing world peace from the gally.
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Afdeestupple, US1m ago
Her entire platform consists of "the lesser evil." The lesser evil being the sum total of all the woke and elitist fetishes which she represents, and of which most Americans have had their fill. Her handlers are keeping her under wraps because Americans sense that they can no longer afford to navigate with exotic identity politics in a world set ablaze by Biden policy. Either "the execrable Netanyahu," or Putin could move the needle by forcing Harris to engage in Realpolitik. A Trump win solves all their problems, and a dramatic escalation on either Front would expose hapless Harris.
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Democrat are beginning to panic. Harris is still a no-show, and the plan is to keep her out of site and hope Trump goes off the rails. This is where Netanyahu and Putin come in. They win their wars by setting the world on fire. Either escalation in Ukraine, or de-escalation in Gaza will cost her. The one means WW3, the other, the loss of Holy Land Israel.
10-11-24
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Afdeestupple, US48m ago
Read: "When the war ends, [what's left of] Ukraine must join NATO."
Which is why NATO cannot bring the war to an end. Putin has given the West a nuclear ultimatum, which is why Biden is afraid to escalate further by giving Ukraine permission to use long-range missiles. Why would Putin agree to a peace which puts NATO in his backyard? And NATO cannot force a peace without starting WW3. Moreover, the US election gives him a free hand to cast caution aside. On the one hand, a conflagration would be fatal to Harris' campaign. On the other, Trump will use Putin to bring Europe to heel.
This is simply the law of the Nuke: you cannot bring a nuclear power to heel. Once Iran has the Bomb, it will no longer fear Israel's missile, as it will threaten a nuclear response to a conventional attack. This is what's keeping NATO bombers' out of Russia. It accounts for NATO bluster and grandstanding. The asymmetric here is this: NATO is not prepared to burn the world down, and is afraid to test Putin to see if he is.
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The EU was the blueprint for perpetual peace, "EU values" marching onward under NATO protection. Now both the EU and NATO are on the rocks. NATO was designed to contain Russia, and the EU is a German straitjacket. They still keep telling themselves that the West won the Cold War, and that the collapse of the Soviet Union secured NATO's borders. They should have read their Tolstoy, which shows a complex web of institutions beneath Russia's bumbling politics, not least of which is the idea of Holy Russia, the Third Rome. This Putin revived, and once again forged into the backbone of his military. Casualty numbers are meaningless against this backdrop. The serfs burned their villages to the ground to starve Napoleon's army. Meanwhile, Pride is tearing the West apart, as the Culture War has become civil war.
Moreover, Europe is utterly rudderless, having surrendered self-determination to its mercenary overlord. They will find Trump a hard and ruthless taskmaster. He will put them to the tribute to pay his army, and sell them energy dear. They have become slaves. On the one hand, they are menaced by Putin, and on the other, they are but pawns to US foreign policy, leaving their domestic arrangements askew.
Now what? The US is playing politics with Ukraine, helping it just enough to keep it from collapsing. Why? Because, doing more would invite a nuclear strike on US cities, and the US refuses to cross that red line to spare Europe. Which gives Putin free rein to corrupt Eastern Europe with freebies. Minus a hard border, this corruption will seep into the bowels of Western Europe. He is also free now to enable the Right in its war against the globalist Left. The Right will likely hijack the EU and forge it into an Orban-like front to defend "European Civilization." Which, as Putin says, is what he's doing in Ukraine.
Drang Nach Osten renders NATO obsolete. The Wars and Pride gutted the West, leaving it exposed to elements outside the military complex: immigration and nihilism. The opioid crisis is simply the loss of hope in the lands of plenty, where immigrants see opportunity. Nihilism is what's behind the West's declining birthrate, which Putin/Orban are trying to counter by invoking traditional family values. It is this broad axis which will shape the new Europe, which will see the old Russian/Prussian rivalry fall by the wayside. Putin invaded Ukraine on the back of his Nukes, and the notion that Western decadence guarantees the irreversible retreat of the American hegemon. That's too complicated for Trump. Life on the scaffold is day to day fly by the seat of your pants. Imagine what that means for statist functionaries. Europeans are about to find out.
10-9-24
"We Should Want Israel to Win" (NY Times)
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Afdeestupple, US 21m ago
"We"?
"Can anyone tell me what US interests are in Ukraine?" asked Obama. The carnage in Gaza (and now in the expanding wars) is caused by US bombs. The "we", when it comes to the slaughter of tens of thousands of women and children, would be a very select group. The rest of America recoils in horror at what is being done in their name. America is digging its moral grave in Gaza from which it will never recover. It accounts for the rapid rise of the Global South, which is making hay with the moral damage done to America's international image. And most Americans are keenly aware that kingmaker Netanyahu is helping Trump by fanning the inferno. He will escalate until Harris is forced to take sides, both equally fatal for her campaign.
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Israel will now attempt the destruction of Iran's nuclear program, for which it needs US 30,000 pound bunker busters which Biden is too weak to deny. Just as the expansion of NATO would remove Europe's last threat (Russia), so robbing Iran of its most potent weapon will topple the regime--again, democracy will rise and flourish. This is what Netanyahu is whispering in Biden's ear now. His message to his Temple brigades adds the rest: four more years of Arab cleansing under Trump to create One (read Holy Land) Israel to make full Israeli domination a reality, and then threaten Islamic countries with nuclear annihilation to keep them at bay. As the Kaiser's generals reassured him when he questioned the legitimacy of invading Belgium to deal with France: "we'll pay war reparations." Mir Niks, Dir Niks. You can settle a lot of lawsuits if you own Paris.
Evangelicals are frothing at the mouth, anxious for Armageddon. They should be anxious because of it, for God will draw them up for their wife-swapping adultries, their violence, and convetsousness. This is what causes fleshpot Jews like Thomas Friedman to miss the forest for the trees: the fact that Evangelicals still have a monopoly of violence (note where the military bases are), and they're willing to burn the world down to make the date-setting religion of their fathers come out right. Harris has gone into hiding, because she knows Trump's Apocalyptic horsemen are saddled up and anxious to ride. This is what Israel is counting on: all-out Evangelical support all the way into nuclear Armageddon. There is no equivalent on the Left. Biden can but offer statecraft. Evangelicals are in high The End Is Nigh fever. This accounts for 99 percent of what this is all about. Remove the religious aspect, and the problem resolves itself: Israel will be divided and join a mideast commercial corridor, the petro-sheiks will jail all the radicals as in Saudi Arabia and guarantee Israel's security, and the UN will lend legitimacy. The choice parts of the Holy Land will be in Muslim hands, and Evangelicalism will vanish from the face of the earth. This is why they clamor for nukes on Iran. This is the end of the line for them and there are no exits. They're willing to take down America with them. Jews know what they have here, and one word from Harris will drive the remaining holdouts to Trump. Like Friedman warned Harris earlier: "be afraid." Netanyahu stuck a knife into his "dear friend Biden," and now spends his days plotting against Harris. Jewstruction, with American bombs. The Mossad could just as well run its wars from the Oval.
Why go for broke now? 1) Hamas is weakened and Hezbollah decapitated. But enough remains for them to rebuild, as they have before with Iran's help, 2) Israel has the momentum and Netanyahu is riding high in the polls (give the plebs victories and all is forgiven, Napoleon used to say), 3) Iran has been weakened by recent protests and a strike on its infrastructure would exacerbate its economic woes and possibly topple the theocrats, 4) striking now tars and feathers Democrats further with war crimes, genocide, mass killing, etc., allowing Trump to start with a clean slate without staining his own legacy. Trump, void of either ideology or religion, navigates with primitive instincts incapable of rationalizing mass murder as statistics like Biden/Blinken, or divine vengeance, like Evangelicals. "Get it over with," he tells the Jews. That is, do the dirty work on the Democrats' watch. And the dirtier the work with Harris in charge, the better Trump looks. So why not go for it? Make an ash heap out of Tehran. Democrats are condemned to silence, because you cannot get into the Oval if you offend the Jewish Protocols, and nothing would please Evangelicals more than to turn Iran into Gaza, 5) this will be Israel's last confrontation of a non-nuclear Iran. They already have weapon grade uranium, and even if they're still months out to produce an effective weapon, the program will deliver the desired result if not destroyed now. This is the ticking clock. It's now or never. Once Iran has the bomb, Israel's conventional weapons will become worthless. Look at NATO. They could destroy Russia with conventional weapons in three days. But the first NATO fighter to cross into Russia would provoke a nuclear strike on Western capitals. But the night is far gone at this point. Because NATO's proxy war with Russia has the Bear paranoid, and in desperation he's making friends of his former enemies. No one doubts Russia's nuclear expertise, and what better way to make trouble for the West than to share nuclear technology with the West's enemies. Up to now Putin had a vested interest to keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of Islamists lest they turn them on Russia. Imagine what a suicide bomber could do with a nuclear suitcase bomb. So even if Israel destroys Iran's nuclear program, their future as a nuclear power is guaranteed through Russia.
If Netanyahu strikes Iran's nuclear program, the theocrats will fall and Iran will become another failed country, flooding Europe with refugees. Just what Putin ordered. A failed Iran will unleash a thousands al-Qaeda's, who will take revenge on the playboy petro-sheiks in the Gulf. Oil will go to $200 a barrel, etc.
The petro-states are mirages ruled by the iron fist, utterly void of institutions. They'll come down as quickly as they went up. The West will long for the days of the ayatollahs when the entire Mideast becomes Lebanon. Iraq is fast becoming ungovernable, and sooner or later a strongman will seize control again. Egypt is s seething pot of discontent, as is Jordan. Syria remains a breeding ground for terrorists. One more failed country will set the entire region on fire. Europe (especially Germany) sowed to the wind by underwriting jewstruction. They will reap the whirlwind in the new flood of refugees.
10-2-24
"For the long term, in Mr. Putin’s view, Russia needs more people — to underpin an economy increasingly isolated from the West, to reduce the country’s reliance on immigration, and, of course, to provide the recruitment pool for any future wars" (NY Times)
And there is the Bear's Achilles Heel. He knows that sooner or later the Golden Hordes will pour across his border with China. His choices are limited, Historically, Germans filled his vacancies, and the Reich is currently shambling about in search of life after NATO/EU/Israel. If Germany forms a Baltic Axis, it would absorb Russia.
10-2-24
The Coming Russian-Prussian Axis
"What makes it more frustrating for the neighbors is that Germany is, in fact, in the driver’s seat, especially since the exit of Britain from the E.U. and the decline of France’s influence" (NY Times)
WW1 was the result of Germany's belated entry into the colonial land grab. Unification in 1870 made her an industrial colossus and she was desperate for resources to feed her churning mills. But all the choice countries were already taken, leaving her a scrap here and there. Britain, the world's superpower was keen to keep Germany down, lest she start poaching British assets. Her saber-rattling against rising Germany was the tinder-box that Germany's alliance with Austria ignited. This little historical anecdote is what spares Germany from the debilitating apartheid now crippling the Colonials (France, Britain, Italy), whose unabsorbed immigrants have joined America's BLM in demanding a colonial reckoning. Germany never made the Colonial Club. Additionally, immigrants who decided to become Germans automatically absorbed a share of Nazi guilt, the remains of which make colonial missteps seem trivial. There is a sense that Germany was so obviously toxic that anyone who sought abode there accepted his lot in life by default. Hence, the absence of identity politics in Germany. Destroyed Germany had repudiated her past and was given a new slate to forge a new identity within the EU. These two factors are now what spares her the inner turmoil tearing the rest of the West apart. And now a third historical factor comes into play: the 80 year old unreconciled ghosts (Das Volk) who were driven underground in the quick remake of denazified Germany. This is the old Prussia which is now raising its hoary head in Eastern Germany and waxing nostalgic about giving Drang Nach Osten another go. It's what's causing Germany to throw up borders again without consulting her neighbors. The problem will only get worse as Netanyahu and Putin create more failed countries to flood broke Europe with more refugees.
10-1-24
Nukes Before November: Biden Backs Down
"U.S. Intelligence Stresses Risks in Allowing Long-Range Strikes by Ukraine" (NY Times)
The long-range missiles are supplied by Britain, but are useless unless aimed by the US (likely from a bunker in Florida). Both the Right and Left in Germany are already shrieking in fear of a nuclear attack, and are using nuclear Angst against Scholz. All Putin need do to destroy NATO is to peel off Germany. The Old Reich was forced underground after the war, and now, after 80 years of Sitzkrieg, all the monsters who lay quaking in the mud are hatching. The East (Old Prussia) , especially, resentful of the richer West, is awaking from its undogmatic slumbers (if you went to school in the eighties, most of the technical jargon was from pre-war Germany--they haven't written a book since the war, because Germans were afraid to have opinions. They played it safe with the Stone Age combustion engine for fear of hatching WW3. That and the constraints of their three layered straitjacket: NATO, the EU, propping up Israel). The East does not look favorably on their US conqueror, and considers itself occupied by both NATO and the EU--and forced to wear the Israeli hairshirt imposed on their fathers by the conquerors. Add to that the dire economic outlook brought on by Germany's forced participation in what most Germans see as US military adventurism. The US became Weltmeister by defeating Germany, and Putin is now stoking 80 years of resentment to resurrect the German Problem once again. Conversely, Russia needs allies against its one natural enemy, China, knowing that the Dragon has its eye on its Siberian resources. Russia has a history of inviting Germans to fill its vacancies, and Germany has little to hope for by carrying the baggage of dying Europe. The new alignment will see Germany forming a Baltic coalition, while drawing a hard border between it and Mediterranean countries in an attempt to keep from being absorbed by Third World immigration. This will fail. Their cradles are empty, and God hates a vacuum. But for now, Germany is adrift, which means the post war arrangement is up for grabs. Netanyahu's inferno will drive millions into Europe, and if the US pursues messianics in Iran and adds another scalp to its roster of failed countries, the migrant routes to Europe will become mass graves. Stirring up trouble for the US in the Mideast is war on the cheap for China and Russia, just as supplying Ukraine with bombs serves to bleed Russia. Add now the seething cauldron of the Culture War (Colonialism, Gender, Climate) tearing the West apart, and you can see how a cunning opportunist can accomplish more by secretly enabling the West's enemies than by building army divisions. The US was just kicked out of Africa (the Russians now live in the newly built $300 million base), because Biden's Gender brigade didn't get on with macho African leaders. So much for woksterism as statecraft on the Left. Behind Netanyahu's inferno is Old Line Evangelicalism's need to salvage the last gleam of America's Manifest Destiny: that America will not go the way of nations and fade into oblivion, because as the children of the Reformation, they were chosen to usher in the End by acting as midwife to reunite God's Chosen People with the Second Messiah. This is what's behind the industrial scale barbarism in Gaza and Lebanon which has the world scratching its head. The Democrats have nothing to counter it. Because you cannot win elections without the Jews, and all Jews are Israelis, because all Jews are, in the end, Zionists. Netanyahu is now raising the stakes to force hapless Harris out of hiding, knowing that whatever she says will either bring the Left or the Theocrats off the Reservation. Harris cannot afford to lose any more BLM's, and the rabid Right will howl "anti-Semite" if Harris balks at nuking Iran. The strategic humiliation of NATO is the result of Pride (before destruction), while Evangelicals are driving America off a cliff by cheerleading Jewish barbarism. In play here are two very narrow and exotic ideologies, far beyond the pale of historic statecraft: the rational give and take of rational (self) "interests." The average European could care less about Ukraine, and the average American naturally sides with the underdog: Palestinians. In the end both Pride and date-setting Prophecy are destined for the same ash heap.
Just as the Jews have free rein to draw the US into a Mideast quagmire, so Putin knows that Biden must avoid any crisis that might expose the incompetence of hapless Harris. Meanwhile, Trump gets to sing the anthems of peace. Even Iran is hostage to the election, afraid to escalate lest they end up driving more Jews toward Trump. Which is why Israel is waging jihad on all fronts, knowing that the US will keep its enemies at bay during the Biden term and look the other way while Israel does what it has to do make life so unbearable for Palestinians that they will vacate.
But soon Jews will feel safe only in Israel and Florida (In Europe they already survive only in cages). More chaos in the Mideast will drive more Muslims into the seething streets of Europe. Europe will soon have enough trouble at home to worry about solving moral problems abroad. This was Hamas' masterstroke, and both China and Russia are fueling the crisis from all sides. They knew Israel's reaction would cause carnage in WW2 proportions and force the International Court to criminalize Israel. Europe, unlike the US, does not have a religions attachment to Israel (except for a relic that died with the British Empire), and is only along for the ride as part of NATO. But what is now happening to NATO? Europe feels abandoned by the US and left to face the wrath of Putin on its own. Putin wrecked the EU by destroying its peace charter of "EU values," which rendered a Commander in Chief obsolete. Now it finds itself bereft of both an army and an economy. The Ukraine war destroyed Europe's economy by allowing China to gain market share on the back of high energy. Now it finds itself both broke and unarmed. To arm, it will have to severely curtail the Welfare state, thereby driving angry citizens toward populists. Anti-Americanism will come back as never before, as Europe, having farmed out statecraft to the occupier, is now left to fend for itself. Putin will use Russia's vast resources to gain influence in Eastern Europe, while Europe flails about trying to find direction. Where to from here? Both Right and Left have denounced globalism, and the EU is too bland to convey a sense of identity to fill the vacuum created by the failed "EU values." The appeal of Putin/Orban is the revival of the old standards (nation/family/religion/tradition) which secularist sniffed were outdated in "a Post-Christian" Europe.
Trump will throw out all the messianic rubbish of a "rules based order," and revert to fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants statecraft: that is, "back channels," cloak and dagger diplomacy. As Abraham told Sarah, "the leaders of the civilized world are murderers and rapist" (David proved the point by murdering Uriah after statutory raping his wife). Nations are never more than global mafias defined by the extent of their monopoly of violence. Abraham had no fears in Babylon were he was a citizen. In Egypt, he was no more than an insect to be swatted in the interests of Pharaoh's roving eye. Each mafia has its own rules and morals. The US conceit of a "World Court" to hang "real" criminals was no more than the biggest mafia settling scores. "Had we lost the war," General LeMay smirked, "we would have hanged as war criminals." Biden/Blinken globetrotting as World Cop is a relic of this foolishness. Now world mafias are back to knifing each other over turf wars. When Climate high-priest implored China to set aside trifles like nuclear war in the interest of Climate Armageddon, the Chinse sent him packing. He was peddling his religious vapors, and the Chinese have a nose for religion.
Trump statecraft will revert to every nation for itself. The digital sphere has become so dangerous that nations will survive by isolating themselves behind firewalls. This is the message of the exploding pagers where the Jews weaponized the fabric that animates global Mammon. People will seek refuge in the Stone Age and blood ties (the Caesars used German bodyguards because they could not trust Romans). . Smaller nations will survive by joining larger blocks, and sooner or later those blocks will collide. With digital firewalls will come distrust and paranoia, as nations will race to be the first to decapitate the other by striking the nerve centers. Four minutes, Putin says, is all it takes for his nukes to reach Strasbourg. Gaza is the new blueprint of war as the Jews lead the descent into utter barbarianism: "killing for killing's sake" (Friedman). Nothing new here, except, previously, you had to be a superpower to do it, and write history to prove the justice of your cause. But here the Jews are committing the crime of the century as a fly-by-night country, leaving the US saddled with the morals. They burned their bridges to the rest of the world in Gaza, leaving the US to deal with the broken crockery. This is why you no longer hear the conceit of a "rules based world" invented to prevent all future Reichs. And now Germany is slipping away. The 80 year Sitzkrieg is over. WW1 destroyed Germany but left the Prussian military aristocracy intact. WW2, it is said, was the final nail in the coffin for militaristic Prussia. But Germany never dealt with the forces that started two world wars. They were forced underground while occupied Germany joined the rest of the world. Now Germany is facing a Connotational crisis by trying to outlaw the most powerful political force in the country (the AfD). This is little more than Old Prussia. Prussians never feared Russians, even though Russians always beat Prussians. Once again they see Germany's destiny eastward, and Putin is pulling out all the stops wooing them. The German straitjacket failed, and this is what is destroying NATO.
9-18-24
"America’s Role in the World Is Hard. It Just Got Much Harder."
Poor Friedman, back to preaching global messianics. He sees Blinken globetrotting trying to put out all the brushfires at once. Poor man, still laboring under the same delusion as MAGA, albeit through a different lens: that America was destined not to join previous empires in the dustbins of history. MAGA still hopes Armageddon will ride to the rescue, while Friedman sees the EU as the End of History (that is perpetual peace with a chicken in every pot). With Trump, Armageddon is still on--Netanyahu is playing this angle, which is why he just sabotaged his "dear friend" Biden's efforts in the Mideast. He has a green light to turn the region into an inferno, knowing that Harris is too beholden to "the Benjamins" to protest. Likewise, Putin knows the West has no appetite for NATO body-bags from Ukraine, and the carnage in the Mideast makes Putin's destruction look like child's play.
Exploding pagers are the face of modern war--all now within "the rules of war. and the Christian notion of civilized war" enshrined in the Geneva Convention. "I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child" (2 Ki. 8). Gaza is the face of future wars (war against women and children), which will be won by the nation with the best algorithms. Israel's Pegasus Spyware can hijack your phone simply by dialing your number (your phone will not even show the call). From here they can preside over all the world's digital nerve centers in real time--this is how they were able to weaponize the pagers during shipping simply by tricking the logistics. Add now, nuclear weapons in space--all controlled by AI. The person with the strongest algorithm will preside over all the others. Only the Mossad now has that capability, and the Mossad can depend on its foot soldiers worldwide--including deep inside the US Government. 80 percent of US Jews see the nation of Israel as central to their identity, and tens of thousands of US citizens are members of the IDF (both Governor Schapiro and Obama's advisor Emanuel Rahm were IDF soldiers--it's what cost Shapiro the VP slot). Trump's ambassador Friedman dropped the mask and now openly calls for the total annexation of the West Bank. The Kushite wants to deport Gazans so he can build resorts on their coastline for fleshpot Jews. But Democrats have to grin all this and bear it until November. That is, all but the extreme Left wing which Netanyahu is trying to goad into the excess of riot by trying to get the US drawn into a full blown war with Iran. At this point, all he need do is peel off Harris' extreme Left to sink her campaign. Which is why he's hurling stink bombs into the Oval at his "dear friend" Biden.
Europeans are white-knuckled with fear. The Right is advancing on the back of high energy, which is causing the collapse of European industry. More unrest in the Mideast will drive more refugees into an already restive Europe, and they can expect more millions from Ukraine as the war there worsens. All because their leaders are held hostage by the US election. Again, Putin has more to hope from a change in Western politics than from his army divisions. He's playing the old tricks of statecraft.
What to make of all this? The Parthians and Gauls were always ready to come out of their strongholds the minute they saw chaos within Rome. The US is no longer the World's Cop, and monsters who long lay quaking in the mud now sense opportunity. China cannot be contained, and lesser powers sense that the US is becoming vulnerable. All look out for their own interests, and all have historic axes to grind: national identity politics while the West is consumed with globalist exotics--gender, Climate, race. These are but the symptoms of a debilitating cancer within the bowels of a society which reached the pinnacle of history and found itself looking into the abyss. Ask any European why he should bother to take up "empire" again. And so the retreat into exotics. The immigrant is driven by the promise of experiencing the American Dream. Hence the opioid crisis in the Heartland, and the fatalist hope for Armageddon. "Vanity of vanity," shrieked the rich man, "all is vanity." The despair will worsen as Armageddon fades--as it will. God has an absolute monopoly in three things: 1) "My glory shall I not give to another, 2) vengeance is mine, and 3) the most closely guarded secret in the Universe--"the hour of His coming, which God the Father keeps to Himself." Rest assured, God will not allow Himself to be preempted by the horizon watchers. There are no clues. Because "a wicked and adulterous generation looks for signs." That is, horizon watchers, instead of heartwatchers. "He that hath this hope purifieth himself." The horizon watchers look at the horizon and see ample time to repent, "for the Lord delayeth His coming." And they even exempted themselves from the Great Tribulation.
9-13-24
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Afdeestupple, US4h ago
But Putin cannot be diminished without NATO boots on the ground or supplying Ukraine with ever more destructive missiles. Either will trigger nuclear war. Putin cannot back down and hope to survive. He will go nuclear if pushed further. He knows the West can be bluffed. French does not say how Ukraine could win the war. Time is running out, and sooner or later the European Right will end the war.
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Munich3h ago
@Shoffmensch Putin can be diminished by dismissing the surrender caucus and waiting. It is up to Ukraine to decide if they want to give up their land for peace. But the longer Putin uses up his military to flail around against a much smaller weaker army, the more the chances that Russians realize the emporer has no clothes. By not announcing US weapons will be used to reduce the terror from Russian territory is actually a pretty smart move. You certainly didn't see it coming, but that is a pretty low hurdle.
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Out West2h ago
@Shoffmensch - Then nuclear war it is.
"Those that will trade freedom for security deserve neither."
We know where appeasement gets us. If every time Putin wants to take over a country he simply has to say "Give me that country or I'll nuke you.", and we do it, where do you think that ends?
At some point he'll be saying "Get me a cup of tea or I'll nuke you."
It also send the same message to the world's other nuclear powers.
No, appeasement is not the answer.
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Mike
San Jose1h ago
@Shoffmensch No, he won't. You know what happens if he "goes nuclear"? Russia is destroyed. He knows it and we know it. Everything out of that mans mouth is a lie. He doesn't want anything to do with NATO and the second he attacks a NATO country he gets removed from Ukraine and Crimea forcefully.
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Afdeestupple, US6m ago
Biden/Blinken are sleepwalking into a nuclear Buzzsaw. First it was the tanks, then the F16's--next Zelinsky will demand nuclear missiles. Scholz has gone silent because he knows Putin will carry his nuclear bluff down to the wire, at which point the US will be forced into a humiliating stand-down. The US will not trigger Armageddon to save the no-man's land that is Ukraine. Germany is key here. Both the Right and Left are joined in their opposition to be used as pawns in a US proxy war. In trying to salvage the expansion of NATO, the US could end up losing Germany, the anchor of both NATO and the EU. Historic anti-Americanism is on the rise in a resentful East Germany, and will continue to grow as Germany industry falters due to high energy caused by Ukraine.
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Afdeestupple, US15m ago
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The US "moral world order" shipwrecked in Gaza. Even allies like India and South America are exploiting the conflict in Ukraine. "Nations," Kissinger said, "don't have friends, only interests." "Order" is what you impose if you can. The US no longer can. This is the rude awakening.
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Baiting the Bear and Losing Germany
Biden resists calls to let Ukraine fire US missiles in Russia despite Storm Shadows plan
No nuclear power will allow itself to be destroyed by conventional weapons, nor conquered. Neither Napoleon nor Hitler would have invaded a nuclear Russia. Russia, the largest country in the world, cannot allow herself to be diminished and hope to survive. Her vast holdings are held together by an imperial idea. Lose the idea, and her enemies will pounce to seize her assets.
The messianic expansion of NATO into Russia's backyard was meant to be a demoralizing insult from which Russia would never recover, and cement America's role as World Cop until the End. Europe would be immune from attack--as long as it remained a US vassal. Even after Putin forced NATO's hand by invading Ukraine, NATO, confidant in its 80 year superiority, doubled down to remove NATO's last threat on the Continent. Now the US finds itself staring into a nuclear Buzzsaw. Russia is advancing, and there is no plan B except to keep escalating--all the way to nuclear chicken. Humiliation is as fatal to the US as it is to Russia, so the nuclear showdown will go down to the wire. Biden painted himself into a corner, and now faces burning the world down to save face. Putin will not back off--but someone will have to. And the Germans will begin shrieking in terror--again. Germany has always the weakest ling in NATO, and the most artificial in the EU. She was dragged kicking and screaming into both, and made to serve her US taskmaster. The ties that bind here are very fragile, and if Putin succeeds in snapping a few more bands, NATO will disintegrate.
Germany has nothing to fear from her traditional enemies, France and Britain. And Russia's weakness is its demographics: too big with too little people. Sooner or later, the Golden Hordes will pour across her borders. The math here is fairly simple, and more suicidal wars within Europe will only hasten its end. Consequently, the notion that Russia poses a danger to Germany is lunacy. Scholz has gone silent. He misjudged the Zeitgeist. He will be voted out of office. Zeitenwende, he cried after returning from Washington. By which he meant, "Time to jump on the US bandwagon." History will judge him harshly, because Germany is doing the reverse: its turning away from the West toward the East. 80 years up in smoke.
Putin will not back down and will continue to turn Ukraine into Gaza. But this is the unraveling of the entire NATO idea: 1) make Europe safe from both Russia and Germany. Putin will not allow bigger weapons to turn Russia into Gaza. To counter bigger US weapons, he will unleash nuclear weapons on Ukrainian cities. Now, to save Ukraine would require direct intervention by NATO. But Putin will not fight NATO with conventional weapons--Russia would be destroyed in two days. He will immediately threaten NATO cities with a nucellar strike, and, if the US doesn't back down, the World will burn. "The living will envy the dead," Khrushchev said. Germans used to understand this, which is why they chanted "Better Red than Dead." Because they understood the logic behind MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Scholz wants none of this. What the US and UK do is their own business, he says. And ordinary Germans see themselves used as pawns to serve the US's messianic conceits.
The UK wants to give Ukraine permission to use its long range missiles. However, those missiles us US guiding systems manned by US personal on NATO grounds. In short, American soldiers would aim the missiles from a bunker in Florida.
Biden knows time is running out for Ukraine and that he's about to own another colossal humiliation. He's desperate not to.
The UK, fast becoming a failed nation, is desperate to remain relevant on the world stage. Warmongering is all that's left her. If Biden allows himself to be goaded into escalation, Putin will lash out in Ukraine, forcing the US to escalate further. Then the world will be closer to nuclear war then ever before. Anti-Americanism will again dominate Germany. And Putin wants nothing more than a revived Reich between him and the West. Drang Nach Osten with Russian permission. They cancelled Putin and lost Germany in the process. Now all bets are off, and without Germany, the rest of NATO becomes a basket case of failed nations. Keep your on Germany. Putin will restore Kaliningrad (Prussia's old seat of power) to sweeten the deal. Germany will be forced to refuse temporarily because it would savor too much of a revived Reich. But the German problem is back.
9-11-24
Red October
How Russia’s Steady Advance Threatens Ukraine’s East
Israeli Forces Mount Fresh Raids in Two West Bank Cities
In Ukraine, Putin will now adopt jewstruction and force NATO's hand. If they escalate, he will issue a nuclear ultimatum. If they do not, the rest of the Balkans will become an ethnic no-man's land which Putin will use to destabilize the EU and fuel the rise of Far-Right politics: that is, borders will go back up within the EU. The German Right will reset to "Drang Nach Osten" in order to revive German industry and replenish its coffers. And so God stirred up the scourge of Putin to destroy Pride, for Pride cometh before destruction. And so endeth the Culture War in Europe.
Putin will pull out all the stops in order to get Trump elected. A Trump win is all it takes to make Russia Great Again, for "Gallio (Trump) cared for none of these things." MAGA sees the Democrats as a far greater danger to their children then either Putin or Xi, and both will exploit the Culture War to the hilt. For the Culture War is civil war in the fragmented Western psyche, a spiritual Fifth Column raging within the bowels of the Western world. Pride will bring about destruction. Putin and Xi need but fuel the inferno from the sidelines. While it burns, Xi will build an economic web in the Pacific which even America's allies (South Korea and Japan) will find irresistible. Economics is the face of modern war. and while America builds expensive bases in foreign lands, Xi builds ports and railroads. He harnesses three fatal flaws of the West: 1) the Western delusion that Capitalism thrives only on the back of democracy (leaving the West scrambling to retune its doctrine) , 2) the conceit that nations would put aside warfare to fight global problems (Climate), and 3) the debilitating effects of the Culture War. He will use Putin to control the EU while plundering its market share, and Iran to bleed and blackmail the US in a forever religious war in the Mideast. Here, the worst damage to the US will came at the UN, where the Global South already uses Gaza to mock the US moral world order. The UN is a shaming committee, and if they cancel you, your only hope is Armageddon. South America, Canada, and Europe have long chafed under US hegemony, and see themselves gaining market share as the US weakens.
Israel burned its bridges at the UN with Gaza, and now exists only under the US nuclear umbrella. It dare not come to the table to seek a rational solution to the Mideast's religious problem. The petro-sheiks would strike a deal to crush extremism within an economic corridor (the Saudis and Emirates have order), but the price would be two-state, which would force the Netanazis to commit blasphemy by giving away the choice parts of the Holy Land. The fleshpot Jews would gladly accept such an arrangement, and Israel's "right to exist" would be confirmed by the International Court. But Israel would lose the Holy Land. With Harris, two-state is only a matter of time. Trump will simply revert back to the status quo, while casting a blind eye to Settler expansion. This buys Israel four more years.
To get Trump into the Oval, Netanyahu needs to start reducing the West Bank into rubble in order to fan outrage on US campuses. What does Harris do now? How does she respond to Putin's nuclear threat? And so the coming world-upheaval under Trump will be caused by two men, the one fighting the Culture, the other, a religious, war. With Xi running the two into each other as "useful" to his own rational statecraft.
What you see in Ukraine is more than just the loss of territory. It is the inability of NATO (once again) to impose its will on a weaker nation. And here the West suffers two galactic reversals: 1) the expansion of EU values, and 2) the expansion of NATO. NATO is in two parts: 1) the suppression of Old Prussia, and 2) the containment of Russia. EU values were supposed to work their magic in giving the Reich a new mode of existence (other than starting world wars). The notion (the EU) is not entirely alien to the German psyche (neither was Marxism), and it (Germany) needed a place to land as rationalism emptied its churches. The EU is state-church. The atheist Habermas still whispers "christliche Liebe" in Scholz's ear. Now Germany is left shopping for new church, and it is still "German" enough to go it alone. None of the other colonialists could. Historians have long blamed "the old paganism" as the root of "the German problem", specifically, Rome's unwillingness to civilize east of the Rhine after the Varus disaster. The German problem in former communist Germany is of this nature. Christianity is even deader in the East than in the West, and the symbols of the new Right are entirely pagan. As the EU weakens then, Germany will assert itself more and more, and as the US becomes occupied elsewhere, Putin will fill the vacuum. The new Right could care less about global messianics. Most of them have been in exile for 80 years, forced underground by a pseudo-German bureaucracy subservient to its US overlord. These people see Putin as a liberator, both the Right and the Left.
"Too big for Europe, too small for the world."
"Betrayal" was the grievance that started WW2. Now the East is rising to shake of the misery of an alien straitjacket: US/NATO/EU. Russia solves all of Germany's problems. Germans have always felt at home there, and Russia (except for Stalin's purge) never resented their presence. Watch for the new Drang Nach Osten--and the German Problem once again.
9-4-24
"Netanyahu Is Trying to Save Himself. Will He Sink Harris"? (Today's NY Times headline)
One foreigner determine the US election? And this is not election interference? Does he have accomplices in the US?
"Netanyahu Is Trying to Save Himself, Elect Trump and Defeat Harris" (Tom Friedman, NY Times)
Friedman's entire column is little more than a summary of this page:
"Madam Vice President, have no doubt, this will lead him to do things (read "butcher and maim tens of thousands more women and children in Gaza with Biden bombs) in the next two months that could seriously harm your election chances and strengthen Donald Trump’s. Be afraid."
"I am talking about a group of radical Jewish supremacists whom a former Israeli Mossad chief called “horrible racists” and “a lot worse” than the Ku Klux Klan."
"Netanyahu clearly knows that he has Harris in a bind (and the greater the carnage, the more she squirms). If he continues the war in Gaza until “total victory,” with more civilian casualties, he will force Harris either to publicly criticize him and lose Jewish votes or bite her tongue and lose Arab and Muslim American votes in the key state of Michigan. As Harris will likely find it hard to do either, this will make her look weak to both American Jews and American Arabs."
"Meanwhile, Mr. President, please, please tell me that Netanyahu has not played you for a fool." (Oops, there goes a second invite to dinner at the White House (tuna sandwich/milkshake).
Friedman hasn't even got to Putin (he of the carbon-belching tundra) yet. He had him all cancelled, because China and India will do the moral woke thing and unite against Putin in the face of world ending climate change. The EU was the last hope of old Travelers. Now it's back to the old ways: "wars and rumors of war"--with robots. And because they have no place to go, they have no choice but to stay the course. That is, tech solutions for the world's problems. If there is no spirit world and everything is material, then all problems lack but the right stratagems. But now two men are exposing the true nature of politics: violence. Netanyahu, Friedman says, will use violence in a foreign country to destabilize the US by blackmailing Harris in order to get the world's superpower to serve Israel's interests. Putin is in Ukraine because the EU lacks a Commander-in-Chief--that is, a First Soldier. Ukraine is collapsing fast, and only long-range missiles raining down on Moscow will save it now. Likewise Putin is running out of conventional options. He needs a decisive victory to remain in power. Like Netanyahu, he will do the unthinkable. First he will use his remaining missiles to turn Kyiv into rubble. Gaza has become the blueprint for future war: you attack your enemies' vitals--women and children--and crush his will to live. Europe will now have Gaza in its backyard, which it will see as moral justification to intervene. But only long-range missiles over Moscow and NATO troops on the ground will turn the tide. Here is where you will see the nuclear ultimatum, and Harris' mumbling platitudes. Nuclear chicken works only where the stakes are even. Putin has to win the war to survive. Trump sees nothing of interest here. Ukraine will go back to being a buffer state. What happens to broke Europe now?
You can see from the desperation in Friedman that Netanyahu is burning his bridges. His only hope of staying out of jail is by giving the Netanazis what they want. Which is "no two-state", which would force them to commit blasphemy. Increased carnage in Gaza means greater protests in US cities, and greater turmoil within the Democratic party. Netanyahu is already past the point of return, and only Trump can give him what he needs to keep the radicals from exploding his party. Trump buys One Israel four more years.
Trump will remake the world, and two men will put him in office: The Great Man view of history. Europe sees Trump as a nail in its coffin. They fear Putin's advance, but cannot escalate without raising the stakes and putting Harris on the spot. Which gives Putin the green light to pulverize Ukraine. But Netanyahu remains the real kingmaker. He will force Harris to make a move. And all her options are equally fatal to her campaign. In the end Trump will owe his victory to the Jews. Yet only Russian election interference is on US government radar. But this is the first time in history that a US president will be elected by a foreign government. "Be afraid, Harris," Friedman says. "Be afraid." And that, of a foreign government. And a government, as Friedman say "worse than the KKK." The EU is already destroyed and waiting to see how it should remake itself. Trump will turbocharge the global Right which will hijack what's left of the EU. What monsters lie quaking in the mud here waiting to be hatched is anyone's guess. My guess is that the North will strike a bargain with Russia in order to compete with China which is winning by accumulating market share--while putting its claws in Russia. Instead of playing kingdom of god on earth, they'll have to go back to back room Darwinian statecraft. Dirty politics. So much for EU values. With Harris, they could buy time to extricate themselves from Ukraine gradually. In Trump they will find a hard taskmaster.
But Trump will reinvigorate the Old Left against a now greatly reduced Evangelical hegemony. They're on the run in the Cultural War. DeSantis has become bogged down in Florida with his groomer war against the Mouse, and Trump is making strange noises about abortion. After the Roman conservative Sulla was done with his day's work in the aristocratic Senate, he would spend the night reveling with seedy low-class barflies. Babylon may clothe herself in scarlet, yet underneath it's all low-class vice. Florida beaches are all vice and you cannot put vice in a straitjacket. Babylon is all gilded vice. Which is why you know what to expect from Isaiah after Habakkuk "was glad" to entertain such high profile visitors in the Holy City. The largest Evangelical Church in the US now has LGBT programs, and the preacher (Stanley) thinks Christians should uncouple from the Old Testament, the root of negativism. So much for the literal Bible.
Which leaves Israel as the last hope. The last 100 years of Evangelical preaching was anchored in End Time date setting, and the clock is running out. It's either now or never for Holy Land Israel which two-state destroys. Yet even gaining possession of all the Land means nothing if they do not rebuild the Temple, the focus and keystone of the Old Covenant (which Evangelicals say will be restated once the Temple is built--that is, salvation by the Law of Moses again). To allow a false religion (Islam) in its most holy place will be called blasphemous. Gallio cared for none of these things. Trump is not a crusader, and has little appetite for infernos. And even as shortsighted as he is, he will be forced to draw a line on blowing up the Dome of the Rock, putting Prophecy on hold for ages to come.
9-3-24
Hindoos, Jews, and the Unknown Baptist: False gods Worshipped and the True God Preached
" For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you" (Acts 17)
"Because that, when they knew God, they.... changed...God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things" (Rom. 1).
"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God" (Gal.6).
"Millions of shekels and dollars flow into the movement (Third Temple) from Israel and abroad, not least from Christian fundamentalist groups" (Haaretz).
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"The Israel of God," say the Baptists, can only refer to the Jews who rejected Christ, and kept the Old Temple system with all its rituals as their path to God. In which case, Paul is here giving a benediction not only to the Church, but to a religion which he just pronounced "accursed" for preaching "another Gospel." He's bidding religion he just called "accursed" Godspeed. He calls kosher Jews slaves, and and descendants of a cast-0ut slave: Hagar. It's what Jerusalem became when Jews "loved darkness rather than light. The view from Heaven is even harsher if you you accept the message of the angel recorded in revelation: "the synagogue of Satan," he calls religious Jews, whose inner depravity turned Jerusalem into "spiritual Sodom, where our Lord was crucified." But here he accuses them of preaching slavery and bondage, the children of Sarah turned into the very Ishmaelites who thousands of years betrayed "their own": Joseph. This is what is meant when the New Testament refers to Judaism after Christ. The name means no more than the name "Christian" given to some at birth. God has no spiritual connection to Hagar-Jerusalem, and Judaism's link to the Old Testament is purely arbitrary like the Serb boast that they represent the early Church, and cut off three fingers of their Muslim victims to prove their devotion to the Trinity.
Paul draws a straight line from the God of Creation to gods depicted as birds and reptiles ("creeping things"), and from the God which he preached to the abominations of heathen worship. But these "other" gods, Paul would say "are not another." That is, they are not the same. The difference is what makes them false. It is "the corrupt traditions of the Jewish elders which makes the Scripture of non-effect." Christ denies them a connection to either Abraham or Moses. The "other" god of the Pharisees was not the same God as Abraham worshipped, and the God of modern Jews has a much to do with the God of Abraham as Modi's god Ram. The god of New Testament Judaism was in the same category as "the Unknown God," and Modi's Lord Ram to whom he just built a temple. Take away all the changes and corruptions of the Hindoo gods and you have the God of Creation. Take away all "the traditions of the elders" and you have the God of Abraham. It it the traditions of the elders which turn Jerusalem into "spiritual Sodom" and "the synagogue of Satan."
Save for a Remnant, the Jews of the New Testament did not worship the God of Abraham. Those who did became Christians. The rest perished, because only "spiritual Israel" was ever Israel, and only "spiritual Israel" (the Church) is now Israel. The rest worshipped a god no different from the feathered and reptile gods of the heathen, and God deals with them in the same manner: "He uses the wrath of men (those "without") to praise Him, and the remainder He restrains." Only Christians are God's Chosen People. All the rest are "children of wrath," Ishmaelites and Hagarites, for God does not distinguish between Jew and Greek. He lumps them together as "children of wrath," who will "perish unless they repent." The rich young ruler and Nicodemus were to join the publicans and harlots at the Cross. "A half shekel" (of Atonement) for the loathsome Greeks and human wrecks, and "a half-shekel" for Law-keeping Jews. "Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." The Temple would not survive the statement. A Jew was not to sympathize with "the world," for "God loves only Jews," as the Ultras say. There's the Passover Lamb, he told Temple Jews. All Christian propaganda. 2000 years God demanded sacrifice and now it's all for nothing. All spiritualized, and Jews thrown in with unclean Greeks as if they had not already been redeemed in the Exodus. A Jew is already redeemed in History, and the Temple system is all that God requires to keep His Chosen People close. And now Christians were forced to make this no ordinary man, but God the Son. To round the picture, they invented a spiritual Temple of the heart, with (wait for it) God the Holy Spirit dwelling in the Holy of Holies. 2000 years reduced to rubble in a stroke. But they had to invent a grotesques notion of sin to hijack the Jewish religion. Sin in Judaism is a minor defect, to be mitigated through ritual. And now they so blow it out of proportion that it becomes infinite, demanding an infinite sacrifice. All rubbish to a Kosher Jew. Paul and John chafed under the Temple system, and rather than leaving it, reinvented it as little more than "spirit and truth." The hijacked all the Abrahamic promises and put them into the Church's domain: the Church become "the Israel of God," and the New Jerusalem. Bankrupt Jerusalem is thrown on the dunghill of history as "Hagar" and "spiritual Sodom."
The Evangelicals who donate millions to the Third Temple would never say that the Orthodox monks who chant and burn incense at Holy Land tourist attractions represent the church of Jerusalem where James preached. Or that Unitarians worship the same God as their Puritan forebears. "The other," they would say, "is not another." They are not the same. But the Bride of Christ, they say, worships the same God as the bond woman, Hagar.
Here you see "Christian Fundamentalists" donating to "the other gospel" which Paul calls "accursed." They see God running two kingdoms of God simultaneously: the Church and ongoing Israel. They have Paul blessing ongoing Israel because God still has a spiritual and unbroken connection to Israel, distinct from His ("with whom we have to do") dealings with unconverted mankind, and distinct from the Great Commission of the Church. But Christ is "the end and fulfillment of the Law," and "all things have been put under His feet." But here you have a program, not only outside the work of Christ, but expressly contrary to it. It doesn't even pretend to be "another", because Christ and his followers are so obviously imposters. It is specifically, anti-Christ.
God has no spiritual (or religious) connection to Israel. If He did, Paul would have not have "wished himself accursed for his kinsmen." But here you have "Christian Fundamentalists" encouraging Jews to seek God through the Law and the Temple. No attempt is made to preach the Gospel of Christ to them, because "returning" Jews are obeying God's "other program." That is , they are exempt from the call to "repent and believe", because they are obeying the call to Return, and they cannot do both. Neither is there any attempt to preach the Gospel to Arabs, lest they become converted and preach the Gospel starting from "the other parts of the world, then Samaria, then Judea, and finally end up in 'spiritual Sodom', where our Lord was crucified." Evangelicals are now laboring mightily to make sure that the "fields of Samaria must never again be white unto harvest." Rather those fields will become rivers of "blood up to the horse's bridle," where Ishmael and Esau will finally get what's coming to them: "Esau have I hated." Arabs are God's Non-Chosen People forever. You are not to preach the Good News to them, lest they become blessed and turn Abraham's Promise on its head. And so they have brought "the accursed gospel" into the Church, "casting the Bride's pearls before swine," and "giving that which is holy unto dogs." They would be no less guilty of bidding "accursed religion" Godspeed if they donated to Modi's temple to the god Ram.
Scofield and Ryrie both held that God has two spiritual and religious programs (alongside His "striving" with the children of wrath) ongoing throughout history and eternity: the Church and Israel. If so
1) There is a path to God and salvation without Christ.
2) There is redemption by the works of the Law of Moses.
3) God can forgive sin without an infinite sacrifice.
4) Christ's suffering on the Cross becomes arbitrary, since God could have redeemed the world through ritual and animal sacrifice as He does in His program with Israel.
5) The types and shadows of the Old Testament would have been meaningless to Jews, and understood only later by Gentiles for whom they were intended. In other words, the Law and Temple were a genuine system of salvation for Jews without their pointing forward to "Christ's Day" which Abraham saw.
6) Christ erred when he told Nicodemus and the rich young ruler that they could not enter the kingdom of heaven through the Old Temple System. These were exemplary Jews, so how could salvation by works not suffice for them? Moreover, if God would allow salvation by works once, and will again when the "time of the Gentiles is over," why would He not accept it for Kosher Jews today? Of course he does, wink, wink. As Balaam Graham used to say, "God takes care of the Jews." Why would He let His Chosen People perish when a remedy is ready at hand? This is the wink, wink of the Unknown Baptist who is unto God's secret channels not revealed in Scripture. For what sense does it make for "God to take care of the Jews" during their lifetime, when He then turns around and tortures them for all eternity. Wink, wink--He doesn't. And this power of Jews has turned them into a Protestant Mary. For many Catholics, "the straight and narrow" of Christ is an impossible burden. But Christ will not deny His own mother. And mother are, as everyone knows, over-indulgent. If your in Mary's favor, she will simply tell her Son on the Day of Judgment, "He's with me"--and in you go, mir niks, dir niks. Curry favor with God's Chosen People, and in the End they will intercede for you.
8-28-24
The Fourth Reich--Again!
There remains a strong feeling of having been mocked and colonized by West Germany after unification. There is also deep sympathy for Russia, rooted in persistent anti-Americanism, where Washington is still seen as dominating German foreign policy and leading the country astray.
The AfD wants to pull Germany out of the West, out of the European Union and NATO. Some of its election posters show the German and Russian flags commingled, with the slogan: “The East does it!” or “The East is rising!” (NY Times).
Germany remains the only country among the old colonials capable of becoming a credible nation again. The rest are left to cling to each other and the jaded rags of their faded glory. Ironically, it is Germany which destroyed the former empires which made the US Weltmeister by default, and put Germany in chains which remain to this day, forcing it to seek refuge in the EU, the religion that allowed Europeans to wear their chains more easily. But NATO is but a leash on Europe, and Germany is the only country capable of shaking off the yoke.
Why is this? Because. the Old Prussia, which felt betrayed in WW1 and sought redress in WW2, was forced underground from 1945 on. German (Old Prussia) cumulation of 75 years of unacknowledged grieve, hopelessness, and despair was left to ferment in isolation. Germans were made to accept a bland "all is well" (cars, beer, bratwurst, and Spielberg's colorful Nazi generals) future, while forced to make an abrupt end of their past. But that (Prussian) past simmered and stewed underground: the ordinary German does not take responsibility for two world wars, and resents being held hostage by Israel. The attitude of Germans toward Jews today is precisely what it was in prewar Germany. The Lost Cause South is an exact parallels. There has been zero repentance.
Enter Putin and Gaza. Putin destroyed the EU by forcing it to abandon it founding peace charter which was designed to convert Germany from violence to "values." Gazacaust cancels Holocaust, and, for Germany, the greater the carnage, the greater the distance between Israel and Germany. Which leaves the US. US European policy has always been to keep Germany from going its own way--toward Russia. But just as Hamas is winning its war by destabilizing US campuses, so Putin is weakening NATO by luring its strongest member. Germany's political institutions are weak, because it was denied Realpolitik statecraft under its US master. Now as the strongman fades, forces left to simmer underground for 75 years are bursting out into the opening. For, as the US fades, it's taking sown its two enduring Utopias with it: the EU and Israel. Both suffer from the same conceit: irrational religion palmed as democratic statecraft--messianic Israel and the allure of the kingdom of god on earth through perpetual peace.
Angry Putin Lashes Out: If the West Interferes Expect a Nuclear Ultimatum
'Time for decisive action’: Zelenskiy pleads with allies after massive Russian attack on Ukraine
Invading Russia was a huge mistake. It immediately transforms "the special operation" into the Napoleonic/Wehrmacht framework. No superpower can withstand such humiliation, and Putin is now on the spot not only to repel the invader, but to punish him in a manner worthy of Red Square parades. Besides Gaza is now the face of war. The Jews showed the world how it's done: total war, and the destruction of an entire civilization. "Does His Majesty wish to rule over a desert," a general replied to the king's order to rid the land of inhabitants. But this is precisely what the Jews are trying to accomplish. If they could get away with it, not one Arab would remain in the Holy Land.
Ukraine will now suffer the fate of Napoleon and the Wehrmacht. Russia began the war on the back of its nukes, hoping the threat of WW3 would keep the West from intervening. But NATO keeps supplying bigger and more lethal weapons, which, if unchecked, will ultimately turn Moscow into Gaza. Putin will now turn Ukraine's major cities into Gaza and dare the West to intervene. He's close enough to the November elections to make his move to get Trump back into the Oval, which solves all of Russia's problems. He needs to get Harris talking. She either has to back down (and leave EUtopia to its fate) or bring the world to the brink--both equally disastrous for her campaign. Netanyahu does his part by increasing tension in the Mideast and Leftwing division on US campuses. The greatest danger to Israel is not Hamas, but two-state, which turns Israel from "biblical deed" to just another (rational) nation. Both Evangelicals and Settlers hope Prophecy arrives before Israel's day of reckoning at the International Court at the end of another Trump term. But Gaza is the nail in the coffin of Holy Land Israel. The Europeans will still support Israel--minus the "biblical deed". A small difference to secular globalists. But "Hilltop terrorists" (New Yorkers funded by Wall Street billionaires who hope to atone for their wickedness by being buried in the City of David) are the equivalent of suicide bombers, and more lethal than an army division. Does anyone expect these murderers to transform their fanaticism into wailing at the Wall? Bu the EU/UN will demand compliance, and will gang up on the US. Evangelicals/Ultras/Settlers against the world. But Israel is burning its bridges to the Gentile world in Gaza. Globalist Europe burned its bridges to Russia when it cancelled Putin with the shame of an arrest warrant. Both the German Right and the Left now again clamor for Drang Nach Osten. That is, peace with Putin in order to restore Germany's depleted coffers. And Putin is pulling out all the stops to welcome them back. A major defeat for NATO. But ordinary Germans have larger fish to fry: restoring their economy. But Gaza is Israel's dead end. Netanyahu cannot stop now with the hangman awaiting him the minute he's run out of office. And only the Nazis in his cabinet keep him in it. And they will settle for nothing less than the Old City of David, the Temple Mount, and Hebron (the Tomb of the Patriarchs), all in the hands of Islam. Touching them will make a suicide bomber of every Moslem worldwide.
8-24-24
"{The fall of Vladimir Putin is now only a matter of time" (Telegraph)
The first law of nuclear powers: they do no lose wars. By invading Russia, Ukraine is trying to get Russia to respond in a manner that will finally draw the US into the conflict, and at the same time sow doubt in ordinary Russians about Putin's leadership. But the US will not enter the conflict this close to the election, and war, for Russians, only begins in earnest when the motherland is threatened. The recent invasion was made possible by increasingly sophisticated weaponry supplied by NATO, and, sooner or later, Putin will decide to end the conflict before even more lethal weapons turn Moscow into Gaza. How will he do this? By honing in on NATO's weakest link: Germany. He will threaten Germany with a nuclear strike, while simultaneously assuring the US that it will not be targeted. This is the doctrine now playing out in the Pacific where South Koreans are demanding their own nuclear deterrent for fear that the US will not sacrifice US cities to save South Korea. Putin rode into Ukraine on the back of his nukes, and his unwillingness to use them to end the conflict has left the impression that his nuclear rhetoric is all bluff, rendering them useless. At this point his back is against the wall: 1) he cannot relinquish his gains and expect to survive domestically, 2) Russia cannot afford to bleed endlessly, and 3) Nukes are like guns, useless if unwilling to use them.
The West thinks the taboo of using nuclear weapons is enough to deter Putin. Even China and India, they think, would have to rise up in condemnation and isolate Russia completely. But China will not weaken its own interests by siding with the US, and India sees only increased market share in a weakened US. Again, just as Putin's nukes kept Biden out of Ukraine for fear of starting WW3, so a credible threat will force NATO to back down for fear of starting WW3. What does Putin care about taboos. He's already a war criminal.
The West tells itself that Putin's bluff goes no farther than exploding a battlefield nuke as a warning, which, they boast, would draw a devastating response from NATO. But nuclear doctrine holds that nukes are a deterrent only as MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction in an all-out war). Cornered people like Putin take on the mentality of the suicide bomber. He knows the West will not start WW3 over Ukraine. So what does he have to lose? More bad press?
Truman used nukes to spare the US the death of 3 million soldiers. Why would Putin not use them to spare his? The war would be over in ten minutes and the US would not respond.
Germany is Ukraine's biggest supplier of weapons. But more than that, Germany sets the tone of the European Union. The majority of Germans think they are being made to serve an American proxy war. Putin will soon need to reach for his nukes to survive, and he knows that the US will not risk WW3 to save Ukraine. If German weapons are killing Russian citizens and soldiers, Just War Theory says, then Russia has the right to kill German in self defense. The carnage in Gaza is, after all, no more than Israel's right to defend itself. Gaza is the future of war. "Don't," smirked A-bomber General Lemay, "use war and morality in the same sentence." The US could sell its "rules based order" only as long as it held the monopoly of violence. Now it's wearing itself out trying to be everywhere, and bumping into China everywhere. It now has two failed wars going nowhere with no end in sight to either. China gets to reap without firing a shot.
8-23-24
Israeli security chief condemns ‘terrorism’ of militant settlers
"The head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, has warned the country’s leaders that Jewish terrorism in the West Bank is out of control and has become a serious threat to national security."
"Bar’s letter focused on Jewish extremists known as the “hilltop youth”, violent militants who have been conducting a campaign of murder, arson and intimidation against Palestinians on the West Bank, aimed at driving them from their land, furthering the far right’s pursuit of complete annexation."
"Ben-Gvir hit back on X, telling Gallant to stop attacking him and “to start attacking Hezbollah”, egging on the defence chief to start a preemptive war in Lebanon, a longstanding demand of the Israeli right."
"Attacking Hezbollah" would start a major war which the US would have to join. All options here are equally disastrous for Harris. Which is why the Israeli Right wants the war. Because Harris will side the fleshpot Seculars against the Evangelical Settlers.
"But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you" (Acts 3).
These are the "hilltop Settlers" funded by Wall Street Billionaires and Evangelicals. West Bank real-estate is hawked in synagogues through America and Canada--available to Jews only. The US has a special department with a billion dollar budget to pursue Jewish property sold in Germany during the Hitler era. Such is considered "sold under duress", confiscated and returned to Jews. But here are Netanazis engaging in the very same practice (aided and abetted by the US) on US soil. Mir Niks, Dir Niks.
But Evangelicals see Barabbas not as a terrorist, but as a patriot doing no more than what any Jew was required to do under the Law of Moses: war against the enemies of Israel. And who was the real traitor? Jesus gave legitimacy to God's enemy, the Romans, by granting Rome the God-given right to tax Israel: "render unto Caesar". This under under the Old Covenant, is blasphemy. Then He made friends with other traitors, the Publicans, and helped members of the Roman army: the centurion. His dealings with the hated Samaritans (the forbears of modern Palestinians) rendered Him ceremonially unclean and unfit to enter the Temple.
Barabbas was an enemy and prisoner of pagan Rome, due to his Settler activity. Jesus was a prisoner of the Jews, who had to commit blasphemy in making him a legal prisoner of Rome. Rome wanted to free him, despite the Jews' trumped up charge the committed treason against Rome: "we have no king but Caesar." He was too high profile to stone like Stephen, and they feared the wrath of the people, so they had to resort to Rome's legal system, which did not allow a non-citizen to appeal to Rome. All lies, say Jews, concocted by Christians to make Jews look bad. For no Jew would ever have said, "we have no king but Caesar." Josephus did later, but is considered an apostate to this day.
Which is why Netanazis are calling for a purge of apostate Israeli security chiefs. You see here the roadblock to two-state. The violence of Hilltop Settlers is not to be called terrorism, when the Torah calls it obedience to the Law of Moses. The Secularist would divide the Holy Land so they can go back to their flesh pot revels on the beaches. But the Settlers and Ultras are in the Holy Land to reclaim it as their religious duty, which will requires them to take up arms against an apostate Israeli government that stands in the way of Prophecy.
8-22-24
The Politics of War
Rivers of blood will decide the US election. Currently, the debate hovers around the exotic trifles of the Culture War: 1) Trump as strongman to fend off leftwing vice, 2) Harris as a diversity hire. Neither Ukraine nor Gaza are on the table. That will soon change.
Netanyahu is sabotaging every attempt by Biden to end the carnage in Gaza, because Israel knows that Harris will become a pawn of the International Court to force Jews to commit blasphemy by signing away the "Biblical deed" of the choicest parts of the Holy Land. Without "the Biblical deed", they lose the Evangelicals, their last remaining ally, because once Israel agrees to partition the Holy Land, the Return will lose its Apocalyptic cachet. Settler violence will now become acts of war, and Israel will have to criminalize Jews doing the will of God. This, again, is also blasphemy committed by the state. But as long as the Palestinian questions hangs in limbo, Israel can hope for a miracle. That is, that God will once again "thunder from the hills" and give Israel a decisive victory. But agreement to two-state is disobedience. And only Trump can now prevent two-state.
Things will get ugly for Democrats with upcoming university protests. Harris will be forced to mumble out of both sides of her mouth to, 1) keep her remaining Jewish donors, and 2) keep the Social Justice brigades away from the headlines. She is, after all, a diversity hire, and cannot be seen as a sell-out--with an Israeli husband. The mother of all protests is waiting for them on University Campuses. They can't get too big for Trump. More Biden bombs in Gaza, or a direct confrontation with Iran will force Harris' hand. Her options are all equally bad for her campaign. But here, real war meets the Culture War. She'll have to take sides. Forcing Harris to commit political suicide is now Netanyahu's only mandate.
Putin will bring his confrontation with NATO to a knife's edge, and raise the stakes in Ukraine to the nuclear level. Is Harris willing to risk nuclear confrontation and WW3 on a fool's gambit in Ukraine? Neither Biden nor European leaders can back down without suffering a severe humiliation. All Trump need do is say, "I told you so." Another failed messianic debacle. As with Gaza, Putin knows American foreign policy is on hold in order to get Harris into the Oval.
Harris cannot afford nuclear Angst. But Russia is on the verge of a breakthrough, which will require NATO escalation to preserve what's left of Ukraine. Putin knows American voters have zero appetite for escalation, and Europe cannot. Here the Culture War meets nuclear war. Diversity hires are luxuries, like the conceits of Climate solutions. They disappear in Realpolitik. Putin doesn't need disinformation to get Trump elected. He but needs to shift the focus from the Culture War to real war. He can bluff, because he knows US policy is on hold.
Poor Europe will have to reinvent itself. Its accountants are constrained by the NATO straitjacket, while Xi is waging economic and tech Blitzkrieg. Xi is old school statecraft: he follows the money. "Tell me," Emperor Vespasian asked handing his woke son Titus (who complained about the disgusting urine tax) a gold coin, "what does that smell like"? He needed big money to keep the treasonous Legions faithful. Both China and India love the smell of Russian oil, and are using it to grab European market share. Germany is cutting Ukraine aid because it's broke, and getting broker. It is about to rediscover the first law of "filthy lucre": hold your nose. But it's already too late.
-21-24
Stanley shocked the room by arguing that they shouldn’t so much confront it as accommodate it. “He said he would encourage any gay couples in his congregation to commit to each other,” Visconti recalled.
For the next hour and a half, he listened as Stanley went on to contend that modern pastors must make allowances for gay and lesbian couples to be married in their churches because “that’s as close as they can get to a New Testament framework of marriage.” Visconti remembered Stanley likening same-sex attraction to a disability, something that can’t be helped. An expectation of celibacy, he argued, would be unfair (First things)
Stanley's church in Atlanta numbers 31,000. His views have been all over the news for years with little more than a raised eyebrow here and there. The problem? The marriage texts in the Bible are the divorce/remarriage texts which are left unpreached for the obvious reasons. Because sodomites are only asking for what the church permits adulterers. But herein lies the problem. Jesus' harsh language on remarriage seems utterly unrealistic and unworkable: "the hand cut off," "the eye plucked out," the language of a deranged psychopath in a "He gets us" world. Stanley's 31,000 would reduce to 31. That, Augustine preached long ago, means the Devil wins by a landslide. Elijah thought he was alone. There were 7000 more--out of what, a million? God offers Job (one man) as proof that Satan's victory on earth is less than absolute. "Narrow is the gate that leadeth to eternal life, and few there be that find it." And that when "the Lamb of God took away the sin of the world." So why not? A blanket application of Christ's blood to remove every sin in the Universe. Origen (2nd century) held that victory had to be absolute and include even the salvation of the Devil. Why would God settle for less than total victory? Especially, when people are made to suffer eternally for one bite of an apple. Why didn't God "get" Adam right then and there? The Calvinist had God all figured out and accused Him of being "an hard man"--needlessly. God saw fit not to explain Himself to Job, nor apologize for using him to prove a point. It's too late to rewrite the Bible now. But to apply it to sodomite marriage would mean separating the divorced/remarried. Stanley is simply being consistent. And the 31,000? "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so" (Jer. 5).
8-21-24
The Culture War and the Collapse of the West
"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways" (Ja. 1)
Both Ukraine and Israel are up against historical forces beyond their control, the most obvious being 1) the rise of the Global South, and 2) the debilitating chaos of the Culture War raging in the bowels of the Western hegemon. Evangelicals see much to admire in Putin/Orban's war against decadent globalism, and, conversely, the greatest danger to Israel are the protests at Colombia within earshot of the UN, the world's greatest cancelling mechanism. Only US military intervention could save Ukraine, barring which it will be vae victis (woe to the conquered). Russia fights under a collective will, like Hamas and Iran, not subject to inner turmoil or political double-mindedness. Germany is now cutting funding for Ukraine because it knows the war is on its last legs. The leaders who cancelled Putin are now being turned out of office across the West, and their replacements are eager to resume business with resource rich Russia. Europe is broke, fatigued, and cynical about US global messianics which they are made to serve through Nato. Russia, the world's largest country, is too big to cancel, and too depopulated to pose a danger to Europe. Historically, the Russian problem was managed, not solved. But if you can solve climate, then why not lesser problems? A rude awakening. Scholz will not be reelected. A casualty of the same hubris. Germany's economy is in ruins due to high energy and the NATO economic straitjacket. China's dominance in tech is irreversible. The Peace Dividend only made sense in the years of plenty. Poverty now will aggravate the divisions caused by mass immigration, gender, climate policy, and race. Putin can always help Trump with a "big October" surprise" to highlight the unseriousness of Harris. He's in a position to give an ultimatum which no Western leader could challenge before November. Netanyahu can topple Harris by creating riots at Columbia, splitting Democrats in half. He needs Trump to prevent two-state, which will be the end of "biblical" Israel once it commits blasphemy by agreeing to give up the crown jewels of the Holy Land. Expect both a higher body count in Gaza and a war with Hezbollah which will draw in both Iran and the US, and create another flood of refugees to destabilize Europe further. All this to prevent two-state, Israel's last nail in the coffin. Because under Harris, globalist Democrats will not be strong enough the resist global pressure toward a Palestinian state. But Trump will buy Israel only a few extra years to avoid two-state. On the other hand, more carnage adds to Israel's woes at the International Court, where Israel's fate will be decided. Meanwhile, China and Russia are fanning the flames of discord on all sides behind the scenes, while outwardly assuming the moral high ground by preaching peace. China has become rich enough to fund Iran's proxies to bleed the US in the Gulf, which is trying to keep Saudi Arabia from defecting to China. But Iran is now using the carnage in Gaza to drive a wedge between the Gulf and its Western supporters: the governments of Egypt, the Emirates, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia have long been in the crosshairs of radicals, and Gaza has become a powder keg to ignite the whole region. The entire region descends into chaos if Gaza worsens. Which suits both Stone-Age Hamas and Iran, who thrive on the bottom. Trump buys Israel more time, but an isolated US cannot forestall Israel's day of reckoning at the International Court. Hamas/Iran/Putin are merely leveraging Time. Napoleon knew the jig was up when he heard the November geese honking above. They were early that year. His clock had run out.
The outcome of any contest is determined by how much either side is willing to wager. Erst Waegan, denn Wagen (Weigh before waging). In short, what are the stakes? Russia sees Ukraine as part of its historic identity, without which it ceases to be Russia. This is the cry of desperation. Life in destroyed Gaza is hardly different from open-air-prison Gaza. Europe and Israel are desperate to get back to the comforts of normal life. For Putin and Hamas the stakes are infinitely greater. Both see their cause as existential. You can't win against someone with nothing left to lose. Putin has yet to reach for his nukes, and Hamas yet to unleash its suicide bombers on Jerusalem and the West. A handful of suicide bombers drove the US out of Afghanistan. Throw Islam's third most holy site into the mix----.
8-20-24
The End of Three Religious Delusions and the Curse of Ham
"God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant" (Gen.9).
The American Dream: the delusion of an enduring civilization and Manifest Destiny--Japheth the Elder will end the World, because "the first shall be last," saving the best for last. The Reformation was the the purest expression of the Bible, leaving nothing to be added, and only the superior minds of Japheth could safeguard the lofty distillations of Luther and Calvin. God designated America as the homeland and eternal birthright of the gatekeepers of Christianity, again, to keep the Truth from the pollutions of inferior minds. For there are even fewer black Calvinists and Lutherans then there are Darwinists, because they inevitably end up at the same place to keep the sons of darkness from mingling with their superiors and produce (to quote Aristotle) "issue full of the most dark and monstrous passions.' But now the Global (inferior) South is blossoming and Evangelical Japheth is losing his perch as Weltmeister. MAGA (Like Luther and Calvin trying to find meaning in politics) and the opioid crisis (Evangelical despair) are but symptoms of the same disease. They exchanged the Blessed Hope for a "continuing city" on earth, and now can no longer embrace the first, and are left to witness the transformation of the latter, all the while desperately look to the Jews for "a sign of His coming." America will not end with the American Dream. But it will cease to be Whiteopia, a place where you are always among your own without having to tolerate inferiors. Hence the fatal attraction of Jewtopia: supremacist racism masked as religion. The New York Times consistently defends the need for a racist homeland, for Israel is the only nation on Earth not subject to darkening. In a strange twist of fate, Israel will ultimately be the most Aryan-looking place on earth.
EUtopia: the abolition of war and the delusion of globalist non-violent statecraft--"we live in a post-Christian world--deal with it" (Europeans before the scourge of Putin). They had put the forever wars of Christendom behind them, and could now concentrate on cleaning up God's other mess: Climate. Been there done that--that is, God, "with whom we have to do" (Heb. 4:13). The fevered go-to's of Babel saw no need to invoke Heaven to reach heaven. And they were hardly boasting, for God Himself said, "they're capable of anything if not stopped." The Earth, for Musk, was a good start. He boasts of making the cold Universe bloom like the desert. He just cost on of the Google Guys $1 billion dollars when his friend, the Google Guy found him in his bed. the Googler sued for divorce, but his wife demanded $1 billion dollars or else she would kill herself. He, Googler, took up with here when she was newly married, and when her husband sued for divorce she demanded an annulment instead, and threatened to kill herself if denied, because she didn't want a divorce on her record, being a woman of standards. And now with $1 billion dollars she's Robert Kennedy's Vice President pick. Imagine having her on the hotline in a nuclear crisis--again, threatening to kill herself. But what happens when the Googler finds Musk in his bed across the miles up on Mars? Or if she threatens to blow up the whole Biosphere where they all live happily ever after up there? Two of the smartest men on earth--and utter fools. Evil and Statecraft would soon find them up there. What's the most distinguishing feature in the EU? The lack of a Commander in Chief, the First Soldier, or the overseer of Organized Violence, which is 100 percent of the state. The EU was meant to prove otherwise, and that sin/evil are religious and obsolete categories But God counts hairs and lays traps: "their foot shall slide in due time." God, "with whom we have to do," is never done with. Like the "slothful servant", Europeans found God to be "an hardman" and decided to opt out of His schemes and chart their own course. Babel was the attempt to build the kingdom of God on earth without God. "EU values" marched under the banner of the Pride flag and Pride cometh before destruction. To adopt God's sign of peace (the rainbow) for its flag is meant as a double insult. God could not allow such blasphemy to go unanswered. They are left to tremble under the paw of the Bear--with no end in sight. EUtopia was the shambling process of Darwinism undeterred by religious superstition and bigotry. Let Nature take its inexorable course--and enjoy the ride: football that is. The abolition of war reaped the peace dividend of the Welfare State. "Enjoy the post-Christian era," they sniffed. And, to underscore the point, they adopted Pride as their mascot. When an Austrian man-in-dress won the Euro-vision contest, European leaders said, "This is who we are."
And now, where does Europe go from here. Evangelicals deferred their reckoning by going all out for Armageddon in the hope that Israel will gain complete control of the Holy Land and build the Third Temple. But two-state will be the reality within ten years, and with it Armageddon will be on hold indefinitely. But the EU is broke, rudderless, and worn out. They can no longer muster the spirit to pull themselves up by their bootstraps again. Russia on, the other hand, is able to forestall its demise by adding territory and chapters of new history. Its Achilles Heel is its vast expanse and decaling birthrate. It too will succumb to the descendants of Ham. The first command was to "be fruitful and multiple" so that you can accomplish the second: "subdue the earth." God needs workers, and knows how to import them.
Jewtopia: the delusion of One Holy Land and Messianic/Apocalyptic statecraft--the coming division of the Holy Land. Jewolatry has become one of the greatest dangers facing the Church. Not only in spawning the damnable heresy that God now has two versions of the kingdom of God ongoing (Jews have a path of salvation outside the the crucifixion of Christ), but in bringing the murderous violence of the Jews into the Church and alienating the greater part of mankind in doing so. Evangelical support of Jews' industrial scale slaughter of Palestinians is a blasphemous denial of everything Christ stands for. To save the Gospel, God will now destroy Jewolatry. Israel will not cease to exist, but it will lose its "biblical" cachet, the sole claim to its exceptionalism. The world will now demand two-state as the price of non-isolation. Which means that Israel will be forced to join "the nations." and agree to "rational" terms of statecraft. Which means that the greater part of the Holy Land and its crown Jewels, East Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and Hebron (the tombs of the Patriarchs) will become "foreign" and outside of Israel--with Israel forced to sign the agreement. A two-state settlement will require that Israel agree to relinquish all political and legal rights to most of "the Promised Land." This, for three quarters of the world's Jews (and most Evangelicals) , is blasphemy condemned in the Torah. It is what got Rabin assassinated. For two-state means that Settler activity will now become acts of war, and the state of Israel will be forced to criminalize the Old testament mandate to "go, possess the land." Evangelical support for Israel will disappear the minute Armageddon becomes postponed indefinitely. But Evangelical support is all that keeps Israel's enemies at bay. Imagine needing an Islamic passport to visit the choice places of the Holy Land. The notion created the identify crisis that gave rise to the Crusades. This was the age of relics, and the Holy Places were the fount of all relics. But there is no conceivable path to gain East Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and Hebron outside of divine intervention. Touching these will make a suicide bomber of every Muslim in the world. But to sign-away the crown jewels of Abraham is to commit blasphemy, for as long as the status quo is a fog of unknowing, Jews can claim lack of opportunity. But now the Gentiles will force them to submit to "rational" statecraft, and so become "like the Nations." The hedonist half of Israel would gladly trade the crown jewels for peace in their fleshpots. They would be driven out by the Arabs within months. On the other hand, if the Netanazis prevail, they would impose draconian Kosher on the fleshpots--likewise causing them to seek their debauchery elsewhere. Then the fight would be on to seize the reins of power in the theocracy: that is, which of the thousands of Ultra sects gets to be the Ayatollah. Josephus gives you a foretaste. There was more Jewish blood spilt by Jew on Jew violence within the walls of Jerusalem than by Romans without during the destruction of the city. The Romans and Herod controlled the Jews by using the High Priesthood to play the various factions against each other. In the absence of a king, the High Priest will be Israel's head of state, and the uneducated Ultras will demand hair-splitting details on every aspect of Jewish life. What Hamas did it to hasten Jews to the negotiating table against their will. First and foremost on the table will be two-state, for Arabs will not attend without bulletproof guarantees underwritten buy world governments subject to International Court arbitration. But to even enter negotiations to give up the best part of the Holy Land is already blasphemy to Ultras and Settlers. A divine mandate is always zero-sum. Israel suffered her first defeat through the sin of one man's covetousness at Jericho.
When people say, "London is unrecognizable" they conjure up fears of the descendants of Japheth succumbing to "the Hamitic curse" and becoming extinct through irreversible change of complexion. Is England still England if it no longer looks English? This is what's behind Orban's crusade to save Christian Europe before it's too late. A futile endeavor, because migration cannot be stopped. The West is darkening, irreversibly. Both Adam and Edom mean red (earth). Perhaps all people will look like their common ancestor in the End: "dust thou are art, and to dust thou shall return."
The Tower of Babel was an attempt to prevent the descent into oblivion. Many inscriptions on tombstones, the last gasp for immortality, are no longer legibly, worn away by wind and rain. You will be forgotten all the sooner if your grandchildren no longer look like you. London no longer looks English because it is no longer majority white. God tore down Babel through confusion. Dilution has the same effect. And racial "pride cometh before destruction."
If your grandchildren no longer look like you "you have been scattered." This is the Angst of Babel: oblivion. It is the Angst of MAGA and Orbanism: people who do not look them or their fathers will inhabit their "Continuing City". So what was the point? That is the point, Solomon says. It's all "vanity and striving after wind." One Tower of Babel on top of the other, and all sinking into oblivion. America will join them--unless the Apocalypse intervenes. This is why Evangelicals want Settlers and Ultras to "go for it." If America is allowed to fade--then what was the point of Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism?
There is no meaning outside of the Patient Kingdom of Christ (Rev.1) which began immediately after the Fall. Abel was its first earthly minister. He did no great works, accept that "he pleased God." Lamech, with 500 years left to live, already sighed to "rest from his labors." Noah, only, built a great work. But only eight people lived to tell about it. Abraham, a citizen of Babylon, left civilization to build little altars in the desert. That was the next phase of the Christ's Patient Kingdom marching through time, "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little," that "they without us should not be made perfect." Occasionally, the Patient Kingdom would manifest itself, as when the politicians were made to stand aside in the "king's dale" while the two spiritual giants rejoiced together. "Until I went into the sanctuary of the Lord, then I understood their end" (Ps. 73). But such moments are rare. Then it's back to "seeing the Promises afar off."
From the very beginning, America was seen as a religious entity because of its status as a place of refuge from tyrannical religion. How could a nation founded by Puritans be otherwise? From the beginning it was called "the city on a hill" and the New Jerusalem. Because it was the first of its kind, the notion took hold that it would not succumb to the fate of ancient civilizations and vanish. Initially, the myth was underwritten by the conceit that the Reformation was the sum total of doctrinal perfection, and as such marked the fulness of Time. Then the Deism of the Enlightenment turned Puritans into Unitarians in the 18th century, to be followed by the icy winds of Higher Criticism in the 19th. Jesus was a good man whose teachings would guide science to establish the kingdom of God on earth: the Social Gospel. The attempt to salvage the Bible from the systems of the critics led to the sturdy of the actual words of the Bible: literalism. Until now, the Book of Revelation was seen as a spiritualized version of actual events throughout the Church's history, with the Caesars as Antichrist. But if he's an actual person in future history, he becomes a catalyst to weave together a narrative of events from isolated texts which previously defied interpretation. But if the Antichrist is in the future, then so it the Temple which he is said to inhabit. This, of course, necessitated the Return of the Jews to rebuild the Temple. The Return of the Jews now became the antidote to liberalism, rationalism, Higher Criticism, and ultimately atheistic Communism. Jews and Israel now became an indispensable part of the Bible, and because they rescued the Bible from the Critics and in doing so preserved the doctrines of Redemption, they attained a status of a people to whom the doctrines of sin and salvation do not apply. Jews do not need to be saved, and in effect, defeat the Prophetic purpose if they become saved, because they need to be unsaved in order to "look upon him whom they have pierced and lament." Thus to get Jews saved is to abort Prophecy, because a saved Jew will look on all his former Jewish rubbish like Paul: "dung" to be flung on the manure pile. So what happens to Jews who die fulfilling their divinely ordained purpose to Return? Well, how can God judge them for doing what He ordained them to do, remain unsaved so that they become useful for Prophecy?
The great architect of wealth, fashion, and imperial politics was the great colonializer, the Hamite Nimrod. The Hamitic curse applies only to Ham's fourth son, (non-African) Canaan, whose descendants, the Canaanites, were largely subdued by ancient Israel. But even there, the Canaanite Phoenicians gave the Mediterranean world the software ((you are reading the Phoenician alphabet) in which the New Testament was written. Ham's descendant, Nimrod, is the founder of all that glitters in what the Bible calls "the World": Babylon. Yet to this day, "the vile stream from the fens of Africa" (as Confederate preachers called black people) are seen as the one blight on God's Creation. Abraham Lincoln saw no other recourse but to deport them to Liberia, lest they mar the American Birthright, the American Dream, and subvert its Manifest Destiny. The Hamitic Curse was the Colonial rational for subduing inferiors to make them conform to the divine decree. They conveniently suppressed the fact that the Hamite Nimrod was the first great Colonializer, and that they were conducting the affairs of Empire using a Hamitic script in which their Bible was written. But Hamitic speculation is an adaption of the Greek concept of barbarism. Aristotle taught that the civilized world has a mandate to kill and subdue barbarians, lest they mingle with high-born women, and produce offspring "full of the most dark and monstrous passions." Consequently, once in contact with "the sons of darkness," the European focus turned to protecting "the virtue of the white woman" from "these incarnate devils" (Spurgeon).
8-13-24
Making Israel a Judeo-Christian Nation
'Jews and Christians worship the same God" (Catholics and Evangelicals).
"America is a Judeo-Christians nation" (Catholics and Evangelicals).
"For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge" (Ro. 10))
"For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you" (Acts 17).
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people holding-down the truth in unrighteousness" (Ro. 1).
Israel is the birthplace of Christianity. Most Jews are dual American citizens. Modern Israel exists only as long as Evangelicals maintain their theocratic WASP hold on American policy. Which means that Israel is forced to dance to any tune handed them by their piper (the US). Why then is Israel the most hostile place in the world for New Testament Bible believing Christianity? During the Crusades, there was a church on the Temple Mount. Christians have long sought a staging ground from which to bring the Great Commission to the Middle East, the gateway to much of the non-Christian world. Modern terrorism is a direct result not only of US Jewolatry, but the suppression of the Gospel in the Middle East in order to prop up the Jewish Babel. F0r Evangelicals are the major sponsors of Settler genocidal terrorism, reaping its Satanic fruit by alienating the greater part of mankind from the Gospel: "for the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you" (Ro. 2). Jewish genocidal hatred of Arabs has become an unchecked cancer in Evangelicalism and will destroy what's left of it. In their zeal to build the Third Temple for the revelation of the Anti-Christ (whom Jews will enthrone in it), Evangelicals have made the Great Commission of none effect. Rather than preaching Christ and "looking for the blessed hope," they howl for the Settlers to "get it over with": do what Prophecy demands and take full possession of the Holy Land. And so they have put Christians in the developing world in great danger.
But why have Evangelicals put Israel off-limits to the preaching of the Gospel?
1) Because since Hitler, preaching the Gospel to Jews is considered a great offence, and those offending God's Chosen People will reap the Abrahamic curse. Evangelicals are made sign "non-preaching" contracts when they ask to donate billions to "the Return Project."
2) The Jewish Messiah will only come when Israel is full of Kosher Jews. You cannot have both Christians and Prophecy in the Holy Land. Nothing would so delay the return of Christ as the Holy Land full of Christians. What would be the point? To get Jews resaved? Even if a few unsaved Jews existed, what glory would there be in converting those? Because the Gentile Messiah (and his Gentiles) would have beat the Jewish Messiah to the punch by leaving him only a few Kosher Jews to convert. Again, Christian Jews would do what the Apostolic Jews die Christians did: "go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all nations." But Prophecy demands that Jews (unsaved Jews) remain in the Holy Land. Again, such Jews must remain unsaved, lest they thwart Prophecy. Which leaves the surrounding Arabs who increase like the stars for number. Arabs must remain unsaved lest they leach over into the Holy Land and destroy Prophecy by establishing churches. For nothing would so defile Jerusalem as a thriving New Testament church. Because the Time of Gentiles is over, and with it the Great Commission. The Church is now in the service of Prophecy: midwifing God's return for His wife, for God, they say, divorced his wife Israel so that Christ could take up with a Gentile Bride, but is now anxious to get remarried. Which leaves us with dueling Messiahs.
3) Christians and Jews worship the same God, differing only in dual Messiahs. A small difference in the larger Judeo-Christian context. Jews and Christians are the two sides of the same coin, having the same God, worshipping the same God, and both true religions. Both are saved in their own way. Besides Jews have suffered enough without having the offence of the Cross thrown at them again. That's all over now. Hitler caused the Great Reset. The Return has begun, and Jews are back to being saved by doing the works of the Law: living Kosher, retaking the Land, and separating themselves from unclean Gentiles. Christians are duty bound to facilitate the process, "playing a part," as the NY Times hears them telling Evangelicals, "in which Jews are the stars." But why not give Christians a front row seat in Jerusalem, backed by US military might? Evangelicals are already there, but it seems Jews are the holdout, for I have never heard a single Jew say
"Jews and Christians worship the same God", or that Jews consider themselves part of the Judeo-Christian heritage. Much work needs to be done then. But imagine giving an Altar Call at the Wailing Wall, with Rabbis as Balaam Graham's counselors. And the Church would at long last return to its birthplace. Does the world's largest religion have the right to the place of its origin? But the question is overdone, if you embrace the notion of the Judeo-Christian, the two sides of the same coin.
Is it time then for the Church to leave of preaching and embrace real-time prophecy? Combined Judeo-Christian worship? Prayer? Combined missions? Annexing Israel as a Judeo-Christian state? But again, we run up against the same problem: Prophecy. Jews must remain unsaved in order for Prophecy to work. Which means that surrounding Arabs must likewise remain unsaved, lest they thwart Prophecy by taking the Great Commission into Israel. Besides "Esau have I hated." And in Judeo-Christian worship you are restricted to the Old Bible which leaves the curse upon Arabs intact.
8-5-24
Why Jews Are Cursed by the Abrahamic Curse
"Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.... Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. .. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: " (Gal. 3).
All promises made to Abraham terminate in Christ, and from Him flow fully (only) to all those "who believe in Him." There is not left one "jot or tittle" for unbelieving Jews, who remain under a twofold curse: 1) "the curse of the Law" against all "children of wrath", and 2) the curse against those "who curse Him (and his followers) to whom all the Promises were given." For the Jews cursed "the seed of Promise" (Christ) with the ultimate curse when they crucified the Son of God, for "cursed is everyone who hangeth on a tree." They continue to curse "the seed of Promise" by "crucifying the Son of God afresh" by denying that Jesus is the Messiah: "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist" (2 John 1). In aiding and abetting the world's falsest and most demonic religion, Evangelicals are bringing the Abrahamic curse down upon themselves, and are guilty of bidding anti-christs "God speed."
"Don't worry about the Jews," the Rev Balaam Graham used to say, "for God takes care of the Jews." But Jews are almost extinct, in comparison to the sons of Ismael and Esau who outnumber them a million to one. The increase promised to Abraham came through the salvation of the Gentiles. Israel as a nation is a creation of Gentile nations, and will cease to exist the day Evangelicals become too weak to dictate US foreign policy. Only Christians are God's "Chosen People." All the rest, Jews and the rest of heathendom, are "children of wrath." Historically, only a remnant of Jews, Paul says, escaped the damnation of Hell. God "took care of" believing Jews who "saw Jesus' day" like Abraham. Only when Jews become Christians do they become "God's Chosen People." Which means that only a Remnant of Jews have not "perished." Those who die today without Christ perish, in Israel or not. Evangelicals have the blood of millions of Jews on their hands by exhorting them to keep looking for their own messiah, while being ashamed of the Gospel of the Messiah "who came unto His own."
"We worship the same God," Evangelicals say. But ask a Jew if he worships the same God as Christians. Christ-denying Jews worship the Devil (their father), Jesus says. Which is why the angel calls them "the synagogue of Satan."
He goes on to call Jerusalem "spiritual Sodom" because of the Satanic depravity of Jewish religion. Jesus calls unbelieving Jews worse than Sodom and Gomorrah, and their punishment greater on the Day of Judgment, because "the children of the Kingdom will be cast into outer darkness." Look at Jerusalem in the aftermath of the crucifixion: as in history, only a handful of Jews were saved. Those joined believing Gentiles in becoming "the seed of Abraham." The rest perished. But even in Hell, Evangelicals say, they are God's Chosen People. Such is the mind-numbing rot of Evangelical religion. Conversely, they deny that born again Christians are the only genuine and legitimate children of Abraham, and God's only Chosen People. Such is the blasphemy that the NY Times quotes Settlers telling groveling Evangelicals: " Christians play a part in a drama in which Jews are the stars."
"Christ is the end of the Law", and all that went before are but "types and shadows of things to come." The old rotten wineskins of apostate Jewry were cast on the dung hills of history when Titus burned Jerusalem to the ground and sold Jews into slavery. Until Hitler, Christians saw this as the judgment of God for rejecting the Messiah. After Hitler, Jewish calamity was seen as the price paid for being God's Chosen People, and to preach the the Gospel to Jews as more persecution. But now, Evangelicals have introduced a damnable heresy into the Bible: that there is a path to God, and a way of salvation, outside the Cross of Christ. Paul lumped zealous Jews in with the "overly religious" Greeks of Athens: both worship God "in ignorance." So Greeks worship the true God, though, like the Jews, "in ignorance"? But Evangelicals, no doubt, worship the same God as pagan Greeks.
Then Hitler threw the synagogue of Satan a lifeline, by redeeming Judaism as a "true religion" in the minds of Protestants and Catholics. Before it was lumped together with all other religious perversions. Since Hitler, preaching the Gospel of Christ to Jews is deemed anti-Semitic hate speech, and the race was on to purge Christianity from the anti-Semitic texts of the New Testament. The Defamation League, sensing opportunity when Hamas smote sodomist Golden Calf debauchery (revelers were so far gone that they couldn't distinguish the murderers who swooped in on gliders from the demons in their drugged heads) next the Gazan open air prison, called on nations to criminalize the anti-Semitic libel that Jews crucified Christ. The Evangelical Jewstapo waging Mein Kampf against US universities were silent. Such is the depth of Evangelical jewolatry. It took the White Nationalists (Orbanist cultural Christians--Musk now claims to be such--did you see the look on his face when he was forced to sit next to King Netannazi when he read the US Congress the riot act recently? The Mossad must have something terrible on him, to make him sit next to a mass murderer of women and children for all the world to see) to raise the alarm. For rabid Jews were calling for no less than the repudiation of the entire New Testament. Such is the rot of Evangelical apostasy. They have become an arm of Anti-Christ. Instead of looking for the blessed hope of Christ returning for his Bride, these apostates spend their days pining for the Third Temple, which will be the house of Anti-Christ: "another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." Because Hitler caused the Great Reset. The Time of the Gentiles is over--note the Freudian Dobson cursing the mixed rabble huddling beneath Trump's Wall. "Church Jewmerica is full," he cursed. So much for Missions. The heathens are beating down walls to get within the sound of the Gospel. What hinders? They will mar the American Dream which is Evangelicals' "continuing city," the greatest White-topia (tower of Babel) ever created by man. Hence the appeal of the raceocracy, which is Jewtopia. For Judaism is the most racist entity in the history of mankind. But Hitler made possible the conversion of racism into religion in this one instance. Here in America, the New York Times is all tolerance, multiculturalist, globalist, secular, pluralist. But Israel has the right to be a racist state, they say, an ethnically pure, theocratic apartheid state with ethnic cleansing as its guiding mandate. And as history hurtles along at warp speed, Israel has become the last White (most Jews are Aryan) hope of Evangelical nationalists. The Settlers are doing in the West Bank what Christian Nationalist call for here: the creation of a racially pure state. But this is the church of violent Barabbas, the ideal statesman of Nietzsche, Hitler, and Churchill, who saw the fatal flaw of Christ's teaching that the the Church will march to victory as "sheep to be slaughtered." The biggest contradiction in the Universe is surpassed only by the biggest joke of the Universe: "the wrath of the Lamb." "He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh." Isaac means "laughter." What's the punch line? The terrifying host surrounding General Lamb, the greatest general of all time. "A shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." But since Abel, the kingdom of God is nothing but sheep for the slaughter. And now God is returning as a despised sheep. The Truth marches through history as "a still small voice." Often I hold a baby lamb up and say, now let's see that "wrath of the Lamb" look. The New Jerusalem will smell of sheep, "For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes" (Rev. 7)
7-22-24
Jews as the Synagogue of Satan, Zionism as Religious Sodomy, and bidding anti-christs God speed
"And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city (Jerusalem) which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified" (Rev. 11).
"Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee (Mt. 11).
"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee" (Rev. 3:9).
"For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist....If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds". (2 Jn. 1).
"In one of the hearing’s most farcical moments, Rick Allen, a Republican from Georgia, asked Shafik whether she knew Genesis 12:3. She didn’t recall the biblical passage offhand, so he explained it to her. “It was the covenant that God made with Abraham, and that covenant was real clear: ‘If you bless Israel I will bless you, if you curse Israel I will curse you,’” he said, explaining how this compact was confirmed in the New Testament."
“Do you consider that a serious issue?” Allen asked heatedly. “Do you want Columbia University to be cursed by God?” Shafik responded, “Definitely not.” Allen continued, “Young people are being indoctrinated by these professors to believe this stuff, and they have no idea that they’re going to be cursed by God, the God of the Bible and the God over our flag.”
"This wasn’t an exchange, I’d venture, intended to ensure that Jews feel at home in American institutions. Another Republican, Brandon Williams, compared D.E.I. statements to Nazi loyalty oaths. Naturally, no one pushed back" (NY Times).
"The God over our flag"" is no doubt the god of Generals Lee and Jackson, and the god of the Jews. who Jesus calls the Devil: "ye are of your father the Devil." "Jews and Evangelicals worship the same God," Evangelicals say. Which means they both worship the Devil. Ask them if Jews worship the Christian God. Kosher Judaism is devil worship, the wailing at the Wall but the howling of devils "holding down the truth in unrighteousness." Jews are cursed of God because they inflicted the ultimate curse on "the seed of Promise": "for cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." Anti-christs, John calls them. Judaism exists to deny that Christ is "the seed of Promise." It exists to daily crucify the Son of God afresh. In so doing they heap upon themselves the curses against those who oppose "the seed of Promise." For the promises to Abraham are effective only through Christ, and through Him to those who are "Jews inwardly." "For not all Israel is Israel." John calls unbelieving Christ-denying Jews "the synagogue of Satan" and religious sodomites whose doctrines of devils have turned Jerusalem into Sodom. Jesus calls them worse than the ancient Sodomites, and worthy of greater punishment. You could not utter stronger "curses" against "God's Chosen People." Will "the Flag God" curse Jesus and John for using such language against "God's Chosen People"? Was the "rich man" really in Hell? Or is this just another of the anti-Semitic propaganda texts of the New Testament? "Publicans and harlots" says Jesus, enter into heaven, while "the children of the kingdom" are cast into outer darkness. Throughout history, only a remnant of Jews were saved, and only a handful embraced the Messiah. The rest "perished" as will all Jews who are not "grafted into" Christ. Hell is the ultimate curse awaiting the "the children of wrath." All that is true, tutted the Balaam Graham, to a point: "because God takes care of the Jews." They have their own path to God. Wh9, as Flag-god-man says, is the same as the Christian God. Jesus and John just got a little carried away with the rhetoric when the Jews rejected their schemes and left them hanging. Sour grapes. And since Hitler it is anti-Semitic to preach the Gospel to the Jews, and Evangelicals have to promise not to so much as mention the imposter while helping Jews prepare for the true messiah. The Third Temple will be the house of the Devil, and the anti-Christ will make it his seat of power. "I have come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive" (John 5). This will the the Anti-Messiah. And so Evangelicals bid the Anti-Christ God speed in their Jewolatry.
4-2-24
The Protocols of the Billionaires of Zion holding America hostage, the Last Trump, the Countdown to Blowing up the Dome of the Rock, and Israel's Final Solution to Cleanse the Holy Land of Arabs
The son of David Brooks (NY Times journalist) and his fellow 23000 American Jewish Murderers in Gaza
"Doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza."
23000 of these American murderers rushed back to their real country to join their units in the slaughter of the Palestinian women and children of Gaza. Many are already back, their hands red with the blood of the relatives of their American countrymen. Jews are often accused of "dual loyalty." David Brooks' son is one of these murderers. And yet there the adulterer (he threw his Lutheran wife--now studying to be a rabbi--under the bus for a Wheaton whore) sits, day after day, preening on mainstream media about morals. These American muderers are killing not only the innocent relatives of their fellow American Arabs, but actual American citizens, both in Gaza and the West Bank. Dual loyalty? These mercenary mudererous have but one loyalty: Jewtopia. They plunder America, and hold its politics hostage by playing to the religous conceits of End Time Evangelicals, for whom Israel is what Mary is to Catholics: God will give you a pass if you worship His Mother. Befriend God's Chosen People, and they will intercede for you in the End. Evangelicals share the guilt of the murder of these innocent women and childern with Biden/Blinken, and God will visist their evil upon their own families: "for whosever shall take up the sword, shall perish with the sword."
3-22-24
Now they've got the Kushite on record calling for Israel to deport Palestinians under Trump II (Washington Post). Trump wants Israel to “finish it up and do it quickly."
3-22-24
Utopia vs. Jewtopia
"For many decades, American Jews have built our political identity on a contradiction: Pursue equal citizenship here; defend group supremacy there. Now here and there are converging. In the years to come, we will have to choose." (NY Times).
Beinart is one of the homeless Jews following the breakup of the New Republic, the last holdout of the Neocons. He's merely regurgitating here what I've been saying in the Comments Section for years and months. To wit:
1) The abnormal axis of elite Jews with underclass BLM.
2) The hypocrisy of Marxist Jews who preach Utopia here (tolerance, equality, anti-racism, globalism), and Ortsgebundenheit over there.
3) Evangelical Fundamentalism as the natural ally of Jews.
4) The migration of Jews into the Republican camp.
With the attack of Hamas on the Golden Calf revels near the fleshpots of Sodom, world Jewry was forced to drop the mask. Within days, the Protocols had deposed Ivy League presidents, created the Republican Inquisition to purge US universities, and forced Leftwing Democrats to cheerlead the carnage in Gaza. But here was a real and brazen display of what Jews have historical denounced as an anti-Semite conspiracy theory.
So what happens now. Utopian Jews, as Beinart says, have two choices: 1) stick to their principles and demand in the Holy Land what they preach at home (equal standing of all people under Law). In short, One-State made up of Arabs and Jews; 2) migrate to Israel and become supremacists. In short, Nazis.
This of course tracks Evangelical End Time doctrine perfectly: Israel shunned by the Gentile Nations with Red State Evangelicalism as its only ally.
But Ortsgebundenheit destroys the sphere through which globalist Jews controlled major world events: global finance, media, education, government institutions where world leaders found them indispensable. Because in the age of Reckoning, even the appearance of unwokeness is enough to ruin you. And now liberal Jews who identify with Israel are accused of genocide.
The Palestinian Cause has become the Last Crusade of the rich Left, who need a cause to escape the banality of their globetrotting debauchery. Depravity is the descent into selfishness where the soul, finding ever greater emptiness, takes solace in suicide. Moral credit of some sort acts as a sort of salve, and the surest way of earning it is to take up the cause of the oppressed. Judas knew he was on a sure footing when he invoked "the poor" as a cloak for his designs.
Until recently, Jews of all stripes could congregate with Democrats and BLM, because they knew Evangelicals were bound by religion to side with Israel. They were the architects and sponsors of the most radical forms of Critical Theory, and gained more power while hexing BLM against the Christian Right. When Hamas struck, Jews assumed that BLM would use their Civil Rights merit to rally behind Israel's war against the Palestinians. But BLM went berserk and proved false, throwing its Civil Rights weight behind the oppressed Palestinians.
The situation very quickly reached critical mass, as global outrage demanded a just response on behalf of the Palestinians: two-state, or even one-state. This is what Israel has sought to prevent from day one, using US diplomatic cover to crowd West Bank Palestinians into Reservations, and Gazans into an open-air Concentration Camp.
Utopian Jewry only works where Jews can assume an existence of no fixed abode as they did historically. But the mask is off with Jewtopia. In the age of George Floyd, vague fence straddling is no longer an option. You either move to Israel and live a Spartan existence behind walls, or you side with their victims. Or you can move to the fleshpots of Florida where DeSantis is waging the Culture War against their former allies (BLM and the Groomerphiles), by turning anti-Semitism into a cudgel against all the Leftwing depravities of which elitists Jews are the main architects.
3-21-24
“Do you believe that Israel is an occupying force in Palestine?” [Senator Ted] Cruz thundered, referring to the letter that the professor (Biden's nominee Adeel Mangi) had signed. He's stating the Evangelical dogma that Palestinians are illegals in the Holy Land and as such can be treated as criminals. He's harking at a Final Arab Solution here. And this openly at the highest level of the US Government.
Not since the Salem Witch Trials has there been such public roasting. Senator Cruz was in his element, and you can hear the clinking of Jewish money filling his war chest in the background.
"Have you ever been a terrorist..."?
"I...."
"Is that a yes, or no?"
"Did your parents want you to be a terrorist...?
"I...."
"Can you prove that...then why did they give you such an un-American name...how do you even say that...?"
"I...."
"Do you know any dark skinned people who are not terrorists?"
"I...."
"Can you prove that..."?
"I...."
"Why do you hate America?"
"I...."
"Are your parents still Arabs?"
"I...."
"Is that a yes, or no?"
"Do you deny that God gave the Holy Land to Israel?"
"I...."
"Do you believe that Jews have the biblical right to cleanse the Holy Land of Arabs?"
"I...."
"As a Muslim, do you agree that Israel has the right to blow up the Dome of the Rock and rebuild the Third Temple?"
"I...."
"As a judge, do you promise to help Settlers drive out Arabs from the West Bank?"
"I...."
"Do you agree that Jews have the biblical right, yea obligation, to kill Arabs who refuse to leave the Holy Land?"
"I...."
"Do you agree that under the Christian Rules of War, the Israeli army is allowed to kill Palestinian women because they exist to produce future terrorists?"
"I...."
"Is that a yes or no?"
"I...."
"Do you agree that the Christian Doctrine of War allows Jews to kill Palestinian children because they will grow up to be terrorists?"
"I...."
"Do you agree with Evangelicals that the only good Arab in the Holy Land is a dead Arab?"
"I...."
"Do you agree that America is a White Christian nation?"
"I...."
"Are you ready to convert to White Christian Nationalism?"
"I...."
"Is that a yes or no...?"
"Do you think people who look like you should be allowed to marry white people?"
"I...."
"Are you willing to go back to where you came from if this Committee so decides"?
"I...."
3--20-24
"Chuck Schumer had the arrogance and audacity to seek to instruct another nation as if it were a vassal state, a banana republic” (Senator Ted Cruz).
Cruz is spouting rubbish here. Israel is a vassal state, and the day it loses Evangelical support it will become a banana republic. It is everything the Global Left is not, and the reincarnation of the ugliest chapter of Western civilization: Colonialism. The Civil Rights movement took some of the shock out of Colonial reckoning in the US. In Europe it is now fermenting in Universities, with a huge immigrant underclass to feed on. Palestinians will become the face of the Revolution.
The problem, as everyone knows, is in "the day after". The US is on the hook here for every Palestinian life, which is why Biden is desperate to avoid famine. The world is keeping record--and gloating as it watches the world's superpower self-inflict a mortal blow. Great evils outlive nations. The US will never put slavery behind it.
So what does the US do with Palestinians? Because they now own them. They cannot be deported as Netanyahu's two Nazi henchmen, Smotrich and BenGivr, want. They equal Jews in number. Two-state is out of the question, because Evangelicals will torpedo it. Evangelicals demand Israel to be both "whole" and Ceremonially "holy", which it cannot be as long as it is made to suffer false religion in her midst. Israel, they say, has the biblical mandate to possess and cleanse the land by any and all means as in the days of Joshua. The extermination of 7 million Palestinians would not be unbiblical. Whether Trump would go along with such extremes is doubtful, but his Evangelical handlers would cast it as necessary for "Israel's survival." If Trump provided nuclear cover, every Palestinian would be killed, as it would be too dangerous to simply expel them. Because no other superpower would intervene, Israel's neighbors would be left taking shots from the sidelines.
Trump and the son of Kush could impose the Abraham Accords and put 7 million Palestinians in straitjackets to keep Jews safe.
The Bush sand wars ended when the US decided it had enough of suicide bombers, and huddling behind concrete barriers. And these, save for 9/11, did not ply their trade in American cities. The suicide bomber, like the threat of nuclear war, has already become a distant memory. They could both reappear on the landscape in an instant. "Take heed," they used to say, "to not disturb the sleeping dogs of war."
3-20-24
Jewtopia's Control of American Universities
University of California Could Bar Political Speech on Some Web Pages (NY Times).
This was the hotbed of anti-American Leftwing subversion--until now. Until now sodomy, abortion, genderism, anti-colonialism, globalism, Critical Race Theory, were all par for the course here. The Left is in total control of Federal education, Media, and Culture--where Jews occupy the chief seats. But now open war has broken out the likes of which makes the 60's look like child's play. For back then, Universities, both faculty and students, rose up against the Protestant cultural straitjacket. But now the war is within, and very asymmetrical. The majority are made to toe the line of the Protocols of Zion, who control the American Government. First it was the billionaires of Zion attacking the leadership of flagship Leftwing redoubts--they even toppled a Civil Rights hire at Harvard. Now Republicans, sensing opportunity, are using their governmental powers to take revenge on their most formidable enemy: the Department of Education. No fog of war here. No debate needed. "Are you, or are you not, a Hamas sympathizer," they cry. That's the new purity test of orthodoxy. But the Palestinian Cause has long been discussed as a minority Civil Rights issue, so any remote association will put you in the crosshairs of the new McCarthyism. Now even BLM is suspect. But all the fetish causes of the Left bleed into each other. Universities considered "rights" of every sort as part of academic freedom under the First Amendment. Every fetish could fly their flag and receive University funds for their depravities. Now the Republicans will torch Universities by using anti-Semitism as a catch-all to purge these hotbeds of decadence and subversion. During the 60's such a brazen power grab would have caused Universities to explode. Now they all tremble. Such is the power of the Protocols of Zion. Everyone understands the hypocrisy here. But Hamas has put a cudgel into the hands of the Right which caught the Left completely off-guard. They still don't know what hit them, because they had become so complacent in their conceits. But the Faultline has been there for decades: the unnatural axis of rich Zion and poor BLM. Now Zion is forced to make common cause with the Evangelical Confederacy against their Civil Rights enemies. There is not an ounce of conviction anywhere here. It's all pure politics, but the Left is helpless to stop the carnage.
The Right will overreach here. For they will run into the Buzzsaw of Civil Rights (the unreckoned problem of the slavery of their forefathers), and the religious-cultural straitjacket. The radicals may be forced underground for a time, but they will return with a vengeance. And with it a revived anti-Semitism that will make the world unsafe for Jews, except in Israel and Florida.
“My own view is that it would have been better for him (Jewish Senator Schumer) to do that privately rather than giving a sense of solace to the terrorists — to Hamas,” Hoyer (Democrat) said in an interview.
The Hamas purity test. Jewish Democrats accusing one another of being terrorist sympathizers. Putin could drop a bomb on Europe now and it would hardly make the news.
Over in Europe the inferno has broken out in France's top university, pitting the university against the Government which it accuses of stifling free speech. It's a taste of what lies in store for Israel once the dust settles.
3-19-24
"Israel would become such a pariah in the world and even in the United States, because I look at the numbers and they’re rapidly decreasing. I had to speak out before it erodes.”
Without American support, he added, Israel’s “future could well be over" (Senator Schumer).
"Over" in the sense of legitimacy on the world stage, the arts, media, information through which Secular Jews are able to fend off the the UN. Seculars like Schumer see the Hard Right behind Netanyahu as a dead end: more Settler violence, alienated Seculars, and unceasing calls to boycott apartheid Israel. As a pariah, Israel would still have full Republican support, because Old Line Evangelicals still make up the bulk of its influence. As such it would have full US military protection. The EU would be a casualty as the main patron of the International Court. Right now it's caught between two wars. On the one hand, it is held hostage by being caught flatfooted without an army by Putin and had to mortgage the farm to get US nuclear protection, and on the other, it is forced to provide the US with moral cover as the US rapidly burns through its moral credits in Gaza. But now it's far too late to engage Russia in a nuclear arms race, rendering their small conventional armies less than worthless. Biden used Ukraine to scare Europe into the US portfolio which it hoped to then leverage against China. Trump's plans are more pragmatic and day to day. He'll do what Athens did to the rest of the Greek states after the Persian war: shake them down for protection money. It's what drove them into the fold of Sparta, and the war was on that would destroy them both. Poor Scholz. He put all his money on Biden II. Macron keeps telling him to escalate before it's too late. But Putin likely told Scholz directly that he will take his revenge on Germany if he feels threatened. Meanwhile, Europe is going from broke to broker: the kingdom of god on earth--without an army. No plan, and no end in sight.
3-19-24
"When Mangi appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in December for a hearing about this lifetime appointment, Republican senators did not ask him about his legal background or judicial philosophy. “Do you condemn the atrocities of Hamas terrorists?” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas demanded of Mangi, a Pakistani American with no connection to Hamas or Palestinians other than the fact that he is Muslim, along with 1.8 billion other people across the globe (NY Times).
Republicans can't go wrong here. Which is why Jews have Biden in a chokehold. Trump pounces at every opportunity to poach the Jewish vote. Democrats are left to stew on the sidelines lest they appear soft on terror. And Republicans don't distinguish between Muslims and terrorists. Palestinian children are future terrorists. Universities will now be purged through the same purity test. Hamas has become a hinge of history. This thing has no end. It makes #Metoo look like child's play. This now is a real inferno.
3-19-23
Netanyahu Rebuffs President Biden
But Biden is still forced to keep sending American bombs and missiles to exterminate Palestinians. He has now deployed 1000 US troops to build a temporary port to deliver US aid--the most powerful man on earth left to snivel helplessly while Netanyahu tells him what he may or may not do. Such is the stranglehold of Jews on American politics. He's still hoping Jews will allow him to stay in office. But he's having to make too many strange noises to appease his raging Left. And Trump promises the full package--if need be, Armageddon.
3-19-24
"The answer has to do with a profound shift in U.S. politics and geopolitics when it comes to the Middle East — a shift that the Gaza war exposed, and a shift that has made Netanyahu’s refusal to articulate any vision for Israeli-Palestinian relations based on two states for two people a threat to both Biden’s foreign policy goals and re-election chances" (NY Times)
1) Netanyahu is locked in until 2026. They can't remove him as long as his Hard Right holds, and they, like him, will "hang separately later if they don't hang together now." Only two-state will save Biden now, and the chances of that are nil.
2) This is more than about control of the Land. It has to do with the "biblical deed" of the Holy Land, which puts Israel under the obligation to reduce non-Jews to servitude. On the one hand, Jewtopia is a hedonist dream of the jet-set Jews who fly in to debouch as they did when Hamas caught them in their Golden Calf revels. It's a place all to themselves, where they don't have to put up with people of diverse background and culture. Arabs ruin this picture. But Arabs also stand in the way of the Ultra vision of Kosher Israel. Thus at the end of the day, Israel's biggest problem is its Arab Problem. Hitler's Germany required the removal of the Jewish stain. So here. There is no place within Jewish thought of sharing Lebensraum with Arabs, their traditional enemy. They "understand" Hitler now. But they lack the means to impose a Final Solution, and it would be the "red line" which Biden so far refuses to draw on Israel's extermination in Gaza. But allowing the loathed Canaanite to exist in their midst renders the Holy Land "unholy," just as two-state renders it "unwhole". "The biblical deed" requires both full possession of all the Holy Land, and full dominion of all it's inhabitants. Arabs will have to go.
3) The smoldering ruins of Gaza already mark the point of no return. Netanyahu knows that jihad will spring up again the minute Israel leaves, and proceedings against Israel will gather speed at the UN for reparations. But as long as Israel remains in Gaza, it will become the face of modern Israel. This is what confronts the Jewish Left. If they do not distance themselves from the carnage, they themselves will be cancelled, and shunned at the fashion shows, the five star restaurants, and in the cultural/governments institutions where they rule.
4) On the other hand, the Hard Right knows that the Leftwing cabal will buckle and be made to serve two-state. They have a once in a lifetime chance of seizing the Temple Mount legally. Once out of power, they will not be able to prevent two-state. It's either now or never, because they know that the Seculars will clip their wings to keep the Ultras from gaining control. Senator Schumer we are told over and over, got his inspiration from his female rabbi. America is full of them. These are the original feminists. Their situation will not improve in Kosher Israel.
3-18-24
"This First Amendment case is a flashpoint in a broader effort by conservatives to document what they contend is a liberal conspiracy by Democrats and tech company executives to silence their views, and it taps into fury on the right about how social media companies have treated stories about the origins of Covid, the 2020 election and Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
The final outcome could shape the future of First Amendment law in a rapidly changing media environment and alter how far the government can go in trying to prevent the spread of potentially dangerous claims, particularly in an election or during emergencies like a pandemic" (NY Times).
The Left retains its grip on society by controlling information. Before the internet, any dissent was largely confined to the street corner, because the major outlets determined what the masses could see and hear. But now every opinion has a voice, and many resonate among the masses. But "this people is cursed who know not the Law." The truth is always plain and simple, and Jesus did no more than voice what people already believed. For instance, the masses knew what was going on when they saw the Pharisees "devour widow's houses" legally. They were crooks. But the System was so ironclad and dangerous that to say "the king has no clothes on" would get you isolated.
The New York Times is a monopoly. They are now censoring my Comments. Because of their monopoly status, they could be sued for racketeering.
Only the Left is worried about "fake news". Why? Because information is how you control people, and the Internet is a free-for-all. What are they afraid of? The truth, and the exposure of their depraved lives.
3-17-24
‘We’re Not a Banana Republic,’ Netanyahu Says, Rejecting U.S. Criticism
They would be if Jews had not hijacked the US Government to keep Jewtopia afloat. The US is digging a moral grave for itself by shielding and funding Israel's Final Arab Solution. Liberal Jews like Senator Schumer know what's coming if the Hard Right prevails, because the Ultras do not recognize his female rabbi.
3-14-24
"Schumer Urges New Leadership in Israel, Calling Netanyahu an Obstacle to Peace" (NY Times).
"In his remarks, Mr. Schumer said that Mr. Netanyahu refused to 'disavow Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir and their calls for Israelis to drive Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank.'”
Here you have a classic definition at the highest reaches of the US Government of genocide and ethnic cleansing by the Israeli government, sponsored and funded by the US. It reads like a chapter out of Mein Kampf. The Nazis Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are Evangelical heroes after the manner of the murderer Barabbas. To the Romans, Barabbas was a terrorist, to the Jews a patriot. The Sepoys who rose up to kill and rape their British oppressors were considered terrorists in England, and Spurgeon called on the British army to take revenge against "the incarnate devils." The attack by Hamas will be celebrated as a national holiday by the State of Palestine. One nation's terrorists are always another nation's patriots. The British would have hanged Washington and Franklin as insurrectionists (the old word for terrorists). "Had we lost the war," General LeMay chortled, "the Nazis would have hanged us as war criminals." The "war criminal" Putin will go down in history as one of Russia's "Greats."
Democrats are running out of time to stage a coup. The Civil Rights Left is getting shriller and shriller. The Greta Brats now have a real cause that rivals the heady days of their parents, who rocked collage campuses in the glory days of Woodstock.
Meanwhile,
"Republicans have tried to capitalize on that dynamic, hugging Mr. Netanyahu closer as Democrats repudiate him."
Evangelicals see the carnage in Gaza in keeping with God's command to exterminate the Canaanites. "The only good Arab in the Holy Land is a dead Arab." Jews hate Arabs only slightly less than they loathe evangelizing Christians, and Evangelicals have become fully infected with Jewish anti-Arab hatred. But, say Evangelicals, Hamas is to blame for the carnage, because it hides among civilians. Likewise, Hiroshima was Japan's fault for building ammo factories close to cities. So for the inferno in Dresden. The US is afraid to take out the Iranian leadership, because the cowards live in cities, and not off to the side where they can be safely killed without endangering their own people.
So on the one had, Republicans are trying to sink the Left's vanity project on its last legs in Ukraine (EUtopia), while fanning the flames in Gaza to save the Right's vanity project (Jewtopia), both artificial creations on life-support. The Culture War as total war, or global civil war.
3-13-24
"Biden trying to overthrow Netanyahu, Israeli government claims" (British Telegraph).
Two weeks ago I said Biden was staging a coup to replace his "good friend Bibi", because he now knows that Israel played him for a fool and is actively trying get Trump reelected by making Biden look bad in Gaza. He needs BN out of the way in order to get moderates to sign on to his two-state plan, which he needs now to get BLM back on the Reservation. Too late. Israel has to keep digging itself in deeper to keep the crisis going until Trump II. But to keep it going means more global wrath. At this point they might just as well blow up the Dome of the Rock. Saying this makes the hairs of my Mideasterner readers stand on end. But it's what's coming.
Israel now has three ticking time bombs in its midst: 1) What to do with the Arabs who equal them in number. They would gas them all if they could, but that would be a little much for even Evangelicals. But how do you keep them in check without putting them in Concentration Camps? Rest assured, they're poring over Mein Kampf for clues.
2) The Temple Mount. It's the most vital component of the Holy Land, and yet Islam's Third Mosque stands on it. Even atheists agree that if Israel touches the Mosque, global Islam will go berserk. Yet the Hard Right cannot stop until it fulfills all the "biblical" mandates, and the Temple is the heartbeat of the Torah. Israel cannot seize all the Land "because God gave it to the Jews," and then keep Jews away from the Temple Mount, because "the Gentiles will disapprove." Which, to say, is blasphemy to Ultras.
3) The Seculars in the fleshpots of Tel Aviv who prefer Old Sodom to Old Jerusalem. These loathe the Ultras even more than Hamas, because the Ultras will demand strict Kosher observance throughout the Land. Friedman's female Rabbis will be made to check their Rainbow flags at the airport, and do their wailing (decently dressed) in the Court of the Women at the Wall, "the men apart, their wives apart, all these apart". Jews are the architects of multi-culturalism, pluralism, tolerance (of every fetish), secularism, Church-State separation--over here. There they all become Temple-Staters. Their own little Jewtopia, where they don't have to put up with others.
I see people in Gulf Emirate States logging on. These are the playboy sheiks Friedman is wooing to sign on to Biden's "big" two-state plan. My computer is completely blocked at the NY Times.
3-12-24
"Israel Has No Choice but to Fight On" (NY Times)
"Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive" (NY Times)
Global outrage is such that Israel knows what awaits it as soon as the dust settles and things go back to normal: the UN will be everywhere in Israel tending to Palestinians, and the UN is rife with Third World anti-Colonial axes to grind. So they need to keep bombing to make the UN feel unsafe.
Friedman knows he's a marked man as a Jew. He will become radioactive for not stridently condemning Israel, which is now the purity test of the radical Left. But this he cannot do without alienating the billionaire Temple Jews of Manhattan. He knows that Netanyahu will do his best to get Trump elected, and that turning Gaza into a dumpster fire is the best way to make Biden toxic to his Civil Rights base. On the other had, the Left can't wait for Trump to assume responsibility for Gaza so the Cultural Marxists can start sit-ins and on-campus riots.
3-10-24
"Netanyahu and Biden Escalate Public Feud Over Gaza War" (NY Times)
Don't believe any of it. He's being led around by the nose by the Temple Jews in his cabinet, who are running the US off a cliff to cleanse the Holy Land of Arabs according to the Protocols of the Billionaires of Zion, who can only dream of Hitler's gas chambers as a Final Solution. They seem to have discovered a profound "understanding" of Hitler lately. Biden is forced to keep supplying Israel with bombs without having to ask Congress for money to do so. But his BLM Civil Rights voters who put him in office are on the warpath. So now he's left trying to sneak in food from the sea, because Netanyahu keeps thumbing his nose at him. The body count is already above 30,000, and the world blames him for it. But he's left to whine on the sidelines because he's been infected with Temple Syndrome. He's like the arsonist in charge of the Fire Department, supplying his crew with matches and petrol on the one hand, and water pistols to the homeowners whose houses he sets ablaze. Not since Caligula made his horse a Senator has there been such a comedy of evil in high office.
Thomas Fraudman seems to have gone quiet again. The US Army schlepped him around the Gulf to show how the new sand war is going on. "Better," he gurgles, "to fight terror over there, lest it show up here." In other words, Gulf III. Because, the next step will be striking Iran before it finishes the Bomb. He's been making the rounds in Saudi palaces again to drum up support for Temple Jew Kushner's Abraham Accords, which seeks to create a commercial zone which will turn Hamas leaders into billionaire tech-bros. And throw the Palestinians under the bus. Everyone knows that Israel's greatest danger is its isolation, and if they can but get Islam's petro-sheiks to sign on, it gives Israel legitimacy. The sweetener here is protection from Iran, because Iran's nuclear ambition is directed at both the Saudis and Israel. Without a nuclear shield, they're sitting ducks in Iran's crosshairs. However, these playboy sheiks are already walking on eggshells. They crushed their theocrats by flooding their fiefdoms with petro-dollars, while throwing up forests of skyscrapers and resorts to lure tourists, turning the Gulf into the Mecca of decadence. But Talibanism has not gone away. Meanwhile Iran's zealots bestride the deserts in their Toyotas like the Bedouin of old. Where do they get the money to survive? Likely, by shaking down the petro-sheiks to stay away from the skyscrapers. They also only attack Western cargo ships, leaving China alone. These desert nomads, Fraudman shudders, can hit a target 2 feet square from 400 miles away with their drones. When Pompey the Great was ordered by the Senate to clear the Mediterranean of pirates, he made an example of the worst, and showed the rest how to go from piracy to trade. I'm surprised these fanatics still drive Toyotas. It likely can't be improved. I see one of the locals at Walmart occasionally sitting in his trusty Toyota, and he eyes me warily every time I approach, because he knows I'm trying to divine its secrets. It has so few moving parts, it's but one step from the Stone Age. But here they are giving the tech bros a run for their money (the big money in Start-Ups now is drone warfare, and here it's created in real time). This may be their own undoing, because at the end of the day, they'll forget that a smartly thrown rock will bring the whole contraption to the ground. A rock thrown in the right place will leave even hackers staring at blank screens. Germany's game-changing 5 million dollar Leopards ended up spinning helplessly on their sides with a simple stick of dynamite to blow off their tracks. And lately, much of digital traffic slowed to a crawl because someone cut ocean floor cables laying on the Red Sea floor. It's as simple as dragging an anchor on the ocean floor, leaving Musk to dominate with his satellites. Putin can fry those now. But Iran and its militias have their own Stone Age grid. Among my acquaintances (Sam Price's weightlifting room in his Karate Studio) in the early 80's was an Iranian Air Force pilot who fled the Shah after being caught making critical remarks. They took their weightlifting very seriously, and kindly took me in hand to learn the ropes. One day he sat me down and told me that he detected a grave error in my knowledge. I was not, he told me sternly, to call Persians "Arabs". He had a sharp, quick eye, tall with an aristocratic bearing, He likely went back after the Shah was ousted, and I often wonder if he's part of the current regime.
3-4-24
Hamas and the Sepoys: Spurgeon's Bloodcurdling Revenge Sermon against "the incarnate devils."
The Sepoys rose up against their British Occupiers with rape and slaughter. The British army, goaded on by preachers like Spurgeon, went on a murderous rampage. The murderer never repented, because he only called for what was legal under Just War Theory. He was first and foremost, Caesar's chaplain, kept around to tell the cannon fodder their Christian duty to kill and be killed. He was but a man, tsk, tsk, of his time, his followers say. Unregenerate Cain was but "a man of his time." As was Calvin when he crowed about "exterminating" his enemy Servetus after burning him slowly at the stake. Likewise, regenerate Abel was a man of His time when he suffered martyrdom.
Modern India calls the uprising The First War of Independence. If Palestinians gain statehood, October 7 will become a national holiday. Barabbas, the Jewish Settler, was headed for a Roman gallows as a terrorist. Had Germany won the war, it would be full of Hitler Universities, Strasse, Cities, etc. Had the South won, Lee and Jackson would still be on their pedestals. If the Settlers have their way, Palestinians will soon be reduced to Concentration Camps. Some of the members in Netanyahu's cabinet make Himmler look good. Gaza was universally called an "open-air prison." The prisoners broke out. Hence, universal sympathy for Palestinians against Israel. The world is merely doing what people do naturally: root for the underdog, the oppressed.
"Top Israeli official heads to Washington in defiance of Netanyahu"
Netanyahu has made Biden the global laughingstock. The leader of the most powerful nation on earth is left sneaking around Gaza, air-dropping food to prevent starvation, all while being forced by his Temple handlers to keep supplying Israel with bombs and shielding it from the UN. Biden now realizes that Netanyahu threw him to the dogs in order to keep the war going until Trump II, when the theocratic Nazis in his cabinet will reach for a Final Solution to solve Israel's Arab Problem. Left unchecked, these murderers will pick up where Hitler left off. They speak openly of making Israel Arab-rein. They would gas every single one of them if they could get away with it.
Biden sees what's coming from his Left flank and needs something big to keep campuses from exploding before November. Because Gaza is about to get much worse, and this is a once in a lifetime cause, the likes of which has not been seen since Vietnam and the Sixties brought the US to its knees. The Greta Child was quick to abandon trees for a real cause.
Gantz is Friedman's man, and the choice of the Seculars who took to the streets to fend off the theocrats trying to dethrone the rule of globalist Israeli judges. He's been "invited" to Washington, and everyone knows what this means: Biden has been footing the bill, and he's about to get something in return. Because he now realizes that the Temple Jews around him ran him headfirst into a political Buzzsaw which caused his polls to drop like a stone. He also knows that his old friend Bibi is channeling the Jewish vote in Trump's favor. Because there is zero appetite among Jews for two-state, and only Trump can keep the Holy Land intact. All Jews know this. Trump is their messiah.
The Seculars have their back to the wall. They're not hung up on One Israel by conviction, and would settle for hard borders within the status quo, selling part of their birthright for a mess of pottage, or in this case, the fleshpots of Tel Aviv. Give the Palestinians Old Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and most of the West Bank, and they might take up statecraft. But put Ultras in charge and they'll impose strict Kosher on Seculars and the stews of Tel Aviv. Most of them would be more at home in Sodom than in the Holy City. This is where Gantz comes in, and time is of the essence. In other words, Biden is about to stage a coup. Netanyahu senses treachery, but is left to stew at home while Gantz is off to plot in Washington. The first step will be a six week ceasefire, which everyone knows will end the war permanently, because Biden will demand more and more time. This will be the short window when Netanyahu could be removed and replaced with anti-Trump globalists, for you cannot change leadership with the war ongoing. Arab states will demand an immediate two-state solution before signing on. Ultras/Settlers/Evangelicals will go berserk. Which is why they long for Trump more than the messiah. Without Trump, all hope is lost. That ka-chinging in the background is the Wall Street casino filling Trump's war chest: "for the rich cast in much." The Temple Mount must remain in Jewish hands at all hazards. Without it, the Holy Land ceases to exist. And Muslims will demand full possession of it up front. No more dithering about "paths" to statehood. But they have only till November. Like the NY Times said two days ago, "This is the hottest debate in the world." It will boil down to the Dome of the Rock. No rock, no Temple. Prophecy on hold again, indefinitely, with Ultras/Settlers/Evangelicals huddled together on the same mountain. Like they say, "Evangelicals and Jews worship the same God."
3-2-24
"I have talked with Jewish people living outside of Israel who have said that their physical — and spiritual — existence felt vulnerable during those hours. But more than that: Something of their life force had been taken, forever. Some were even surprised by the magnitude to which they needed Israel to exist both as an idea and as a concrete fact" (Israeli writer Daniel Grossman, NY Times)
Israel exists only as a religious idea, As such it can only exist as long as it remains intact as the Holy Land. Which means that the Jews who would accept partition are few, because two-state would split the Holy Land forever, with the Abrahamic heartlands, the Old City, and the Temple Mount in the hands of Islam. This would kill "the idea" of Israel. It would now be just another nation, like the Gentiles. Trump will prevent the UN from imposing a two-state solution on Israel. But Israelis will now need to live next to an equal number of Muslims in the Holy Land. As Israel's neighbors become wealthier, they will become more assertive. The Palestinian Cause will create more ISIS and Al-Qaedas who will team with Iran to destabilize Westernizing Islamic countries. Iran will soon leverage its nuclear capacity. Evangelical support is good at least until the end of Trump II. The Christian Nationalists are Orban/Serb Cultural Christians, who lack the End Time attachments of Old Evangelicals, and support Israel only as an "interest", or political asset. Europe lacks the biblical attachment, and sees the notion of One Israel as religious nonesense and superstition. They'll call for a reasonable division of the Holy Land with Old Jerusalem as the Capital of Palestine. Because religious sites cannot be desecrated, the Temple Mount will go to Islam.
2-26-24
"How a Slow-Moving Court Became the Center of the World’s Hottest Debate" (NY Times)
Jews agree that Moriah in Genesis 22:2 and II Chronicles 3, where God ordained the place of sacrifice, are the same. For Jews, it's no more than the location of the Ceremonial Temple System, which God ordained to keep Jews pure after choosing and redeeming them. The Paschal Lamb was all the sacrifice God demanded to atone for all the little sins of the People. Big sins, were of course, dealt with by stoning. But for the average Jew, all that was needed is "tithe, washing of hands, etc., "--the hairsplitting rubbish of the Talmud which Jesus calls the "traditions of the elders." The Third Temple will be hairsplitting Kosher on steroids.
For Jews, the story of Isaac's near sacrifice is no more than a test of obedience. It is not a "shadow of things to come" when the Messiah will offer Himself as the perfect sacrifice to pay for the infinite cost of human sin. But this was the revelation to John the Baptist which caused him to cry: "Behold the Lamb of God," and the sacrifice having been made, the curtain of the Holies of Holies rent to show that it was now no more Holy because it had become obsolete with the final and ultimate sacrifice and God had vacated it. But the Temple was built there because God wanted mankind to focus on the meaning of Isaac on the altar: that is substitutionary atonement far above that of "sheep and goats".
But the squabble today stems from Islam's claim that the Rock is where Muhammad ascended to heaven, causing it to become Islam's Third Mosque. iI that Mosque were not there, Israel would have pushed Palestinians out of the Holy Land long ago. But even Hard Right Jews who advocate total war against Palestinians, are silent about the Dome of Rock. But once they gain possession of all the Land, they will have to figure out how to possess the keystone that holds if all together: the Temple Mount. The day Jews lay hands on it will mark the beginning of a conflagration that will engulf the entire world. As the NY Times says, "its the hottest debate in the whole world." It will soon get much hotter. For the Temple Mount is the central nervous system of the Old Covenant. Jews cannot possess it and allow false religion to flourish on it. The purpose of the Return is to Rebuild, and there is no stopping the clock.
2-25-24
"Early last year, the Israeli government decided to relegalize Homesh, but the Supreme Court then required the government to dismantle it once more and ensure that Palestinians who own the land on which it sits can reach it safely."
"Three families live in tarpaulin-covered shelters full of bunk beds for some 50 young men, who study in a yeshiva that is a shabby prefab structure surrounded by abandoned toys, building materials and garbage" (NY Times).
Here's the conflict over "the judges" in a nutshell. Globalist judges know how this looks to the rest of the world. Who pays for "50 young men" who don't work? Wall Street billionaires. Why protects them while they wage war against Palestinians? The Israeli army. Who funds the Israeli army? US taxpayers at the behest of the Jewish/Evangelical lobby.
2-24-24
"Mr. Biden needs the war to end, so he can reassemble the coalition that got him elected in 2020. But Mr. Netanyahu wants it to continue until the complete rout of Hamas, to stave off his own political reckoning from an angry electorate — and potentially help his ally, Donald J. Trump, return to power" (NY Times).
So the more carnage Netanyahu causes, the angrier Biden's Civil Rights base gets, and the greater the chances that Trump wins in November, giving Israel what it needs to forever make two-state impossible. Biden has no options left: 1) if he cracks down too hard on Netanyahu, he fires Trump's Evangelical base and loses his remaining Jewish voters, and 2) if the carnage continues the war within the Democratic party will get worse.
Here you see a split within the Left that is unique to the US. While the European Left is lurching Rightward as it has to now trade "values" for violence to counter Putin, it is doing so without splintering. There are not Leftists who side with Putin. But the US Civil Rights Left is stridently pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel, and demand that Leftwing Jews succumb to a purity test or get booted as apologists of genocide and apartheid.
Cultural Marxism migrated from Europe to the US, where it hijacked Civil Rights. It is now reemerging in European Universities as Anti-Colonialism with Islamic ghettos as its audience. Europe does not have an Evangelical (pro-Israel) buffer zone to counter the onslaught. Which is why only Britain is taking part in the US war against the Houthis, and only because it is so broke it survives only by clinging to the US. But even within Britain, anti-Colonialism is a time-bomb waiting to explode.
The International Court is a European creation, part Utopian and part Colonial guilt, and its European sponsors cannot ignore its rulings like the US. They have long had Israel in the crosshairs, and Gaza gives them occasion to move against it. Trump will simply dismiss its decrees. Europe does not have that luxury and will be forced to side with resentful Global South against the US to bring down the strongman. Anti-Colonial reckoning will become the new fad of Campus protests both in the US and Europe. Europe will become inhabitable for Jews, causing many more to migrate to Israel--or Florida. Even NY City will become toxic as migrants become the majority and swell anti-Colonial ranks. Which is why US billionaires are busy funding West Bank settlements. These are paid for by shaking down Wall Street, protected by US military aid, and given moral cover by Evangelicals. "When the missionaries came to Africa," the locals say, "they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land." The Temple fetish of Evangelicals brought Jewish hatred of Arabs into its ranks, making "the cross of Christ of no effect." End Time Jews they love, Esau they hate. The open letter of Evangelicals in support of the genocide in Gaza has not been rescinded. These murderers have the blood of tens of thousands of women and children on their hands.
Secular Jews like Friedman see all this coming and panic. With Trump/Netanyahu, Judaism will become an Ultra straitjacket for Jews who prefer Sodom to Jerusalem. Friedman's feminist rabbis will be made to pray in the women's section at the Wall--in long dresses, etc., their Rainbow flags confiscated at the airport.
In NY City the Ultras are split into a thousand sects. The vagabond foreign Jews who got caught recently tunneling under a synagogue did so to settle a dispute on whether their later rabbi was the Messiah, who was not dead but only hiding. They themselves did not dig, but hired illegals to do the work for them--never a problem with money, and in court the judges treated them as West Bank Settlers, above human laws. Imagine what will happen when they now add running a state to their religion. Herod, an Edomite, gained the kingship by exploiting the politics of the High Priesthood (who ruled Israel). Like Marxism, the quickest way to run it off a cliff is to let it be "tried". But the only way to thwart the Hard Right is two-state, which is what the Seculars would be forced to accept if they regain power. A partitioned Holy Land ceases to be such for Ultras, who currently have the momentum. But if Ultras gain control, they'll blow up the state with their hairsplitting factions. Thus, two-state would kill off the Ultras, while Ultras will most certainly blow up the state--before or after they blow up the Dome of the Rock.
Israel was a Jewish Utopia until recently. As the Ultra/Settler population grew, they sought to depose the Secular rule of judges. This rift will only get worse under Ultras. But the Hamas attack revealed something far more dangerous: Israel's artificial creation. It is a mixture of "biblical deed", the Holocaust, Evangelical creed, and Western dominance. That is, a final outpost of Colonialism. It was an overnight transplant of democracy amid tribalism. After 75 years it still sticks out like a sore thumb. Yet it survived due to its secular affinity with the West, which overlooked the anomaly of a religious democracy, because its globalist judges kept the zealots in check. Then the theocrats lined up behind Netanyahu, and the globalists took to the streets. They wanted to keep the status quo of pretending to be a democracy in an apartheid state. But the ruin of Gaza means that the rest of the world will now force the globalists' hand: two state. No more apartheid. Else Israel will become a global pariah to all but Red States.
2-23-24
"White House reverses West Bank policy, calling Israeli settlements illegal"
"Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans late Thursday for approval of 3,000 new settlement homes...The expansion plans, he said, were part of “deepening our eternal grip on the entire Land of Israel” (Washington Post).
Biden went all out on Israel, only to discover that the Jews had played him for a fool. Now that they're openly thumbing their nose at him, he's trying to backpedal to appease his Civil Rights base which is completely off the Reservation. Jews will have none of his two-state, because as the Temple Stater just said, they intend to "deepen their eternal grip on the entire Land." They get to kick Biden, because they're confidant of Trump II. But two-state is ond (under Biden), with Evangelicals as the only remaining Jewish ally. They'll blow up the Dome of the Rock under Trump II. Had you listened to preaching during the 80's this would make your hair stand on end: the US (there was not Red/Blue state back then, only Christian America) and Israel flooding the valley of Jezreel with apostate blood. China (the dragon), still a poor country back than, was to swarm out of the Euphrates, ancient Persia revived, etc.
But first Netanyahu needs to make it to November, and Biden needs a scalp fast. But Netanyahu cannot be removed legally. It wouldn't even matter if the International Court issues a Warrant for his arrest. Trump will reverse all that, and put Israel under the US nuclear umbrella, pitting Red States and Israel against the rest of the World. The world can't believe that Netanyahu would dare thumb his nose at it's only ally: the US. But with two-state, Israel's back is to the wall, for partition destroys the Holy Land. And only Trump can prevent partition now. Which is why Trump has already won the election. Trump II even fits the Iran/Hamas script of uniting global Islam against the infidel. This will happen the minute Jews lay hands on the Temple Mount. For the Mount will have to be cleansed of all the abominations.
And so here it is, the world's Superpower held hostage by a tiny nation. It consumes all the oxygen of the Biden White House now. Hardly a word about India, China, Africa--but Israel, Netanyahu, Settlers. Jerusalem--day in and day out. Because Netanyahu rejected two-state, history books will read, Trump had to be put into the Oval to keep the world from imposing it.
2-21-24
"China says US is giving ‘green light to slaughter’ in Gaza" (Telegraph)
Here we go, precisely as I predicted: China moral-washing against the world's moral hegemon. After all, Biden supports Ukraine on moral grounds to send a message to China that it will uphold the "moral order" regards Taiwan. It's the pot calling the kettle black now, all thanks to the moral grave Israel is digging for the US in Gaza. "You made a few mistakes," MBS smirked at Biden when the latter came crawling back after cancelling him. Now he's world citizen number One in Biden's two-state plan for Israel. The rising Global South now has the US in the crosshairs of genocide, the equivalent of a moral nuclear bomb. Germany is not unhappy. To target Israel with its own Holocaust is to essentially wipe out German guilt. Just in time for the Fourth Reich.
There is great danger here for Trump II. Germany is as at home in China as it is in Russia, and China has pulled out all the stops courting Germany. If Trump pushes his luck, the EU could shake off the US straitjacket and glut itself in China's market, sidelining the US. They could go back to beer, bratwurst, and cars and leave the shooting to the superpowers, with a token army for parades. For China has Putin on a leash. And China gets the additional benefit of reclaiming the mineral rich North from Russia which was once part of China. Look at the map. A united Europe straddles the middle ground of the earth, and can play off its neighbors against each other . Xi is a master tactician, and the US has more to fear from his accountants than from his generals. Now he's shedding crocodile tears at the UN for the sake of humanity. They've got the US on the ropes, isolated with Israel. Even Germany now casts its lot with China against the US in calling for a ceasefire. This is the rarest of political oxygen, the supreme moral high ground. China will of course remember Germany's help in binding the strongman, Hamas drew blood and all the sharks are circling. Both NATO and the EU were created to contain Germany, to keep it from backsliding back into its true nature. Such is the suppression that Germany missed the information age altogether. Most government agencies still use the fax machine. Musk is now doubling his factory near Berlin, while the Germans play catchup. Before the wars, Germans wrote all the books and led the sciences. They have not published a single book since the wars. They simply dropped off the radar, convinced that they will never outlive their past. The message of the EU and NATO is: Germany is to be seen and not heard. China is giving it a voice, and it does not have a purity test. There's treachery afoot here. If the US cannot shake the Israeli/Evangelical orbit, it will become totally isolated and China will poach its allies.
2-21-24
Rainbow and the Coming Fourth Reich
"They turned, but not to the Most High"
German society divides into two extremes, because for almost 80 years the traditional German was forced underground as a Nazi, with zero representation in the mainstream. Now the Left is made to confront it head-on, with no middle ground to dull the shock. Twenty years ago when an Austrian man in beard and dress won the Eurovision contest, Europe's leaders were rebuked by (wait for it) the Kremlin for their godlessness. "This is who we are now" as a Post-Christian society, European leaders sneered back. The sodomite is the mascot of "European values", which carried all before it until it threatened to raise the Rainbow flag in Red Square. This is how the Putin/Orban/Right axis sells the war in Ukraine. The Europeans still don't know what hit them, and they have yet to confront the monsters in their midst quaking in the mud now for 70 years waiting to be hatched. The Right will now hijack the EU, and hammer it into the Beast. The following is from the German Spiegel:
"It is a modern school with smartboards in the classrooms and an organizational app for the teachers. The façade is covered with large windows, with a Rainbow flag hanging from the one belonging to one of the teachers’ rooms. Not long ago, unknown perpetrators cut the flag off and stapled a German flag to what was left. Mandel, the school principal, called the police and had them drive into the schoolyard, with the officers then searching for clues."
Someone mumbles at me: "All this right-wing crap being written about Burg is totally exaggerated." Shortly afterwards, a drunk woman topples over into a bush.
"But there are also those in Burg who, after a couple of beers, talk about people with immigrant backgrounds as "whatever else is wandering around." Or those who, right in the middle of the main street, hang a black-white-and-red [Prussian colors] sign from their door reading in Fraktur font [Hitler's]: "Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t steal – the government doesn’t like competition!"
The lesson [on diversity] starts.
The students throw coins and folders at each other, make monkey noises and hit each other’s heads with their books.
In the middle of the period, the teacher sends [Heinrich] out. The bomber-jacket boys are out in the hall and they roar in amusement. The teacher asks them, "don’t you have class?" and drags Heinrich back into the room. Before long, the 45 minutes are up.
As I’m standing with the teacher at the lectern, she asks me at some point, "did you see that in the doorframe?"
I turn around.
"It must be relatively new," she says.
Someone has carved a swastika into it (German Spiegel).
German elites pretend that Old Prussia does not fester underground, leaving it for Putin and China to exploit. The woke Left is utterly clueless, and Trump could care less. Europe is in freefall, and is as little prepared to deal with dangers within as without. Their brains have become "football" mush. The Program was progressing along on automatic creating the New Being. The Old (Creation) Order with its rigid notions of family and morality was seen as heretical as genderism became orthodoxy. The leadership boasted frequently of the new Post-Christian order. "They turned, but not to the Most High." As Putin now takes the hammer to the Program, it remains to be see what grows out of the wreckage.
2-20-24
"In Chaotic Retreat, Hundreds of Ukrainian Troops Feared Captured or Missing" (NY Times)
No Comments allowed at the NY Times, the biggest cheerleader of the Ukraine murder pit. This was always a Groomer war to get "EU (Groomer) values" into Russia, and from there to the ends of the earth. The EU is the Left's Vanity Project, just as Israel is the Right's. For the Left, the EU is the Eutopian End of History heralding the New Man, while Israel is the consummation of Church America's Manifest Destiny. Hence the angst on both sides. They both mortgaged the farm on their delusions, confident that their histories were infallibly destined to a certain outcome within their lifetimes. Now both shiver anxiously on the mountain--waiting for Trump.
The elitist Left hedged its bets by attaching to Civil Rights, only to have BLM turn on them with accusations of the foulest crime in history: genocide in Gaza. Biden gave Israel the go ahead to exterminate Palestinians because the Temple Jews around him assured him that his Civil Rights Left, which put him in office, would remain steadfast because of the moral credits Jews earned supporting BLM when they burned down US cities. He soon realized that he was played for a fool when BLM went berserk and threw elitist Jews under the bus. Then when Biden began backpedaling, Jews deserted him for Trump. The non-Jewish Left was caught in between, and mumbled incoherently before the Republican Inquisition, given the Right it's first scalp, the BLM president of Harvard, who everyone always knew was a diversity hire, a Shabbos Gou like Mayor Adams. Civil Rights is the only religion left to the Left. As Napoleaon said, "Religion is what keeps the poor from killing the rich." And now the Right is using the power of subpoenas to drag Leftwingers to account.
Europe still doesn't know what hit them. They see Russia coming, and Trump leaving. But they took off their armor long ago and took up soccer. With Russia no longer a threat after the Cold War, why have an army? Look at the map. How could Europe be conquered from without. Britain even had the luxury to throw a tantrum and leave the safety of the confederate. The whole affair was a shambles from the beginning, because they proposed a new beginning for Mankind based on science and problem solving, and not, as before, sin and war. Religion, they said, never dealt with problems because they saw them as redeemable only through supernatural religion and thus left them to fester in the earth below. All that was needed then is the "right values" applied through endless committees, and problems would solve themselves. Now they're blitzkrieging building weapons factories. Violence is the new "EU value". Like before.
Israel's problems will have only begun with the complete destruction of Gaza. Gaza will now become the face of protest on US campuses, demanding action at the UN. NATO in Ukraine was to be a message to China. The retreat likely tells Taiwan to compare Ukraine with Hong Kong, still the richest province in China. And the Global South, over which China presides, are now whetting their moral swords in Gaza. Israel dug a moral hole in Gaza for the US, ceding moral market share to China as a result. And so the two Vanity Projects of the world's hegemon seem destined to fall together, and drag their creator down with them.
2-19-24
Before the Hamas attack, Bret Stephens and Harvard professor Lawrence Tribe enthused about seizing Putin's assets through the International Court. But since Hamas, the UN and all its branches have become rogue institutions plotting Israel's destruction, and Temple Jews look on in horror as the World Court now sets the stage for two-state: the partition of the Holy Land, which will turn "the Return" into an empty gesture, forever bereft of the crown jewels that Jews see as the center of their identity. The UN has been a hotbed of anti-Americanism through which the EU could exact revenge against their Occupier: the US. But now the EU needs all the help it can get as it confronts the nightmare of a revived and angry Bear--with nukes. For it was only the US nuclear umbrella, NATO doctrine held, that gave the Bear pause. Now with the US in retreat, how do they quickly become a credible nuclear power? And how do they build a nuclear arsenal without the political structure to define it. They would have to elect a Commander in Chief, a total desecration of the EU Peace Charter as the defining instrument of New World Statecraft. All of a sudden, Rainbow flags seem to have disappeared in Europe.
2-19-24
"Israel Weighs More Curbs on Muslims at Holy Site" (NY Times)
But if you ask Jews, they'll tell you that Israel does not hold Islam's Third Mosque hostage. Who then controls Islam's Third Mosque on the Temple Mount? Jews do.
Were it not for the Mosque on the Temple Mount, Israel would have have been in full possession of the Holy Land decades ago. It would take Israel 10 minutes to reduce all the Islamic structures on the Mount to rubble, and another 30 minutes to expel every Arab within two miles of the Temple Mount? In India, Modi wages war on Muslims by building Hindu temples on mosque sites. So why couldn't Israel do the same here? Because this is the Islamic heartland. All the surrounding nations live on the knife's edge. This area has not advanced from the Arabian Nights. Remove the iron fist and it descends into chaos and anarchy. Big oil and the world's shipping lanes keep it in the spotlight. All the Superpowers have interests here, and competing factions are always jostling for the religious high ground to inflame their masses to wage jihad. The sanctity of Temples, historically, is a higher category than diplomatic immunity. But here you have armed Israeli soldiers deciding who gets to approach the gods of Islam. They must be weak gods.
2-16-24
"But Netanyahu has given no indication that he is reconsidering the operation. Should he ignore the warnings, Biden could look unusually impotent on the world stage. It would present a major puncture to the U.S.-Israel relationship" (Politico).
Biden is now Jew enemy #1 with his anti-biblical two-state heresy. He was lured to give Israel full support to destroy Gaza, and now with Republicans waging war on US Universities because of Hamas, he is left holding the bag in Gaza. He's under the bus and at the end of his wits because Jews can expect deliverance only from Trump II. Gaza is now the focal point of US policy, contaminating everything else, because Trump II will remake the world to save the US Temple State (off-limits to American Gentiles). Ukraine is under the bus. The EU, the other Vanity Project erected on Hitler's wreckage of the Old Colonials, is now turning itself inside out trying to rearm before it's too late. Putin barely roused them from their EU slumbers as long as the US took charge. Trump will leave them to shift for themselves. The Right stands to hijack the EU and hammer it into a Rightwing Superstate, which would be unlike anything the world has seen, because it would be much like Russia, and likely, ultimately include it.
This did Hamas change the world order: 1) Full war within the Democratic Party, 2) Republican war on the hotbeds of subversion (US Universities), 3) destruction of the EU (the root of globalist Groomerism), and 4) the wreaking ball of Trump II who will destroy what's left of the New World Order (international Law/Climate/separation of Church-State. etc).
2-16-24
U.S., Arab nations plan for postwar Gaza, timeline for Palestinian state
Netanyahu rejects Palestinian state, calls it ‘huge reward’ for Hamas (Washington Post)
Shameful Biden tries to reward Hamas terror with a Palestinian state (NY Post)
The mask of the biggest diplomatic fraud in history is off now that Biden knows the Jews played him for a fool. He became the Jews enemy #1 the minute he panicked and called for two-state to salvage what's left of his campaign. Jews do not recognize the right of a Palestinian State. They would allow Palestinians the right to live in Israel only as slaves to Jews: Apartheid. Now, two-state is the new anti-Semitism. That is, to say that Palestinians deserve their own state is to engage in hate-speech against Jews. This is in fact true, because all Jews see Israel as central to their identity, and most Jews see Israel only as the entire Holy Land. Divide the Holy Land then is to destroy the Jewish soul. US Israeli diplomacy has never been more than a covert operation to make the Holy Land Arabrein to prepare the Land for the revelation of the Jewish Anti-Messiah, whom they will enthrone in the Third Temple.
Now it's all Jewish hands on deck to enthrone Trump II. Without Trump II, the West's Jewish vanity project in the Mideast is over. Without the US and Germany, Israel would cease to exist. It could destroy the entire Mideast with its nuclear weapons, but it would go down with it. This is especially true now that Iran is close to the Bomb. The UN and EU will keep agitating for two-state, and Iran will use the Palestinian Cause to destabilize the Gulf. South Africa did not survive the apartheid boycott, and this is what's on the horizon for Israel. The Seculars would accept two-state if they could sideline the Ultra/Settler/Evangelicals for whom two-state is the destruction of their religion for, Israel would now exist next to the Holy Land.
The latest outcry in NY City was over a classroom map of Palestine without Israel on it. The frauds: No observant Jew would allow a map in his home depicting the State of Palestine next to the State of Israel. For where is the "biblical deed" now?
2-14-24
"The elephant in the planning room is Israel, and whether its government will acquiesce to much of what is being discussed: the withdrawal of many, if not all, settler communities on the West Bank; a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem; the reconstruction of Gaza; and security and governance arrangements for a combined West Bank and Gaza. The hope is that Israel would also be offered specific security guarantees and normalization with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states that would be hard to refuse" (WPost)
Biden needs something big and fast to appease his activist Left before the election, and only a sovereign Palestinian state will do. The negotiations in Cairo are to that purpose. The UN, International Court, the EU, and the elitist US Left are fully behind him. They've got the goods on Israel now and will squeeze it for all its worth. If what you read above comes to pass, the biblical Holy Land and the State of Palestine will be one, next to the modern state of Israel. Jews, the world over see the biblical Holy Land (which will now be a sovereign Muslim country) as central to their identity. This new arrangement is not what it was before Israel began its annexation of the West Bank. Now you will have sovereign boundaries, and transgressing them will constitute an act of war--at the UN and International Court. As the main sponsor of the deal, the US will be required to criminalize Evangelical support of renegade Settlers who refuse to give up "the biblical deed' to the Abrahamic heartlands. The Temple Mount is the heart of east Jerusalem, which will become the Palestinian Capital. What you read above is what greater Islam will demand to make peace with Israel and accept it as a legitimate Mideast nation. For Hamas is but a rash of a much greater ill-will, which Iran uses to destabilize the entire region. The petro-sheiks need the Palestinian question settled before Iran's militias turn into something more malign: like ISIS or al-Qaeda. Time is of the essence now that Iran has nuclear grade material. So this is not just about cutting a deal to ease the suffering of Palestinians. The US cannot allow Iran/China to become dominant of Gulf oil reserves and commercial shipping lanes. The whole region is a linchpin of global politics now held hostage by Ultra/Settler/Evangelicals anxious to fulfill Prophecy. The petro-sheiks are anxious to deal, and the US is offering them protection under its nuclear umbrella to keep Iran at bay. The price of protection will be acceptance of Israel, and throwing their commercial might behind a Palestinian State. Here's were it gets treacherous. Iran is gaining Gulf market share by exploiting the un-religious lifestyles of the commercial sheiks, whose gleaming cities have become the playgrounds for Western elites. Taliban types care for none of these. In Egypt, their counterpart, the Muslim Brotherhood which is closely affiliated with Hamas, briefly took control during the Arab Spring. Egypt massed troops at its southern border recently, not because of Israel, but to keep Gazans from spilling into Egypt with Hamas in their midst. The US supports the military dictatorship there to keep the Suez Canal open. The whole region is in a race to modernize their economies, and for that they need stability. That is, protection from the theocrats in Iran and its malitia gangs. So Biden is not in Egypt empty handed.
But, says the Washington Post, Israel is "the elephant in the room." Gallio cares for none of these things. Hamas attacked because it knows the secret conspiracy behind historic US/Israeli policy: to make modern Israel and the Holy Land, One. Settlers are US funded weapons to drive Palestinians out of the lands of Abraham to make it suitable for End Time prophecy. Without Old Jerusalem/Judea/Samaria, Israel becomes just another country. The historical Holy Land will be the State of Palestine. This, and not security concerns, is what's behind Settler expansion. Arab nations will now demand that Israeli put the Settlers in a straitjacket. They can do their zeal by wailing at the Wall for God's intervention. But crossing the Palestinian border will become an act of war, and, if done by US citizens, punishable in US courts.
The mask is now off. Everyone knows what the stakes are: Mideast peace will require the partition of the Holy Land, leaving Israel with leftovers like Tel Aviv, the desert, and the Evangelical tourist hotspot, Megiddo, which is just outside Occupied Territories in the valley of Jezreel where Red States will join Jews in the battle of Mount Armageddon. Which is why the Jews will torpedo Biden's plan and wait for Trump II, which will leave Red States as Israel's remaining non-Jewish ally. The UN, EU, BLM, Iran will become bedfellows.
To summarize:
1) two-state means partitioning the Holy Land
2) All the major "Old Testament biblical" areas will become the Islamic State of Palestine, leaving Israel with the the desert, Christian Galilee, Christian Nazareth, and End Time Megiddo of the Apocalypse. All the crown jewels, Jacob's Well, Hebron, Bethlehem, the River Jordan become Islamic. Israel even gets the Dead Sea, which doesn't do much for the Evangelical imagination.
3) Unauthorized crossing of the border of Palestine will become a crime, and an act of war if encouraged by the Israeli government.
4) Jews, like Gentiles, will have access to the Temple Mount as tourists only.
5) Two state borders will fall under the jurisdiction of International Law.
Is this still the Holy Land? The Temple is missing. Old Jerusalem/Judea/Samaria (where Jews say "Jews became a people") are now (unless "God thunders from the hills") legally in the hands of the sons of Esau and Ishmael. For Ultras/Settlers/Evangelicals this constitutes the end of their religion. For even American Jews will tell you that the Holy Land is central to their identity. "Next year in Jerusalem," is how they end their Passover feast. By that they mean Old Jerusalem, the crown jewel with the Temple in her midst. This is why the billionaires of Zion will buy the next election. For with Trump II, Israel gets to live another four years. A Democrat means full steam ahead for two-state. Biden knows he's been played for a fool, and will throw Israel under the bus to salvage what's left of his campaign. Too late. Netanyahu has enough left in him to make it to November. After while Israel will solve its Arab problem under the protection of US nukes. The gold on the Dome of the Rock is worth about $8 million. Not worth peeling off to a billionaires who makes that much an hour on Wall Street. If Trump gets in, Ultras will have to move fast like Modi in India who just rebuilt a temple on site where the idol Ram was born, where the Muslim invaders had built a mosque after tearing down his temple to show that Ram was but a false god. Modi just took revenge. If Muslims gain control, they will rebuilt the mosque. The Temple is next on the Ultra/Settler/Evangelical agenda. And they'll have 4 years with Trump II. If he gets in, the days of the Dome of Rock are numbered.
2/11/24
Democide in Gaza: The Slaughter of Palestinian Innocents by the American Left
"Biden moving closer than ever to a breach with Netanyahu over war in Gaza" (WP)
Democrats are committing genocide in Gaza. The blood of tens of thousands of innocent women and children is entirely on their hands. They gave Israel a blank check to wage total war against the Palestinians, in order to keep billionaire donors from migrating to Trump. They knew precisely (and even said so) that "Hell would open her mouth without measure" when American-made weapons of slaughter would open up on civilians, Now they're in the dock at the International Court for war crimes. This is the Left's Democaust.
For two decades I commented in the NY Times on the time-bomb waiting to explode within the Democratic Party: the abnormal Jewish/Civil Rights axis. Jews, secure on the Right because of the Evangelical Third Temple fetish, could safely ignore Evangelicals and forge an alliance with their enemies: Civil Rights activists. In NY City, they even installed a Civil Rights Shabbos Goy mayor for good measure. The conspiracy was humming along smoothly until Trump's Orthodox son in law took it upon himself to take One Israel to the next stage by enticing the commercial sheiks of Islam to strike a deal which would smother the Palestinian Cause in a gleaming commercial zone from Egypt to the Pillars of Hercules: the Abrahamic Accords. Hamas, keenly aware of the treachery of the playboy sheiks, had to get the Palestinian Cause back on the International table before it succumbed to US Reservation Syndrome: as Bret Stephens sneered in the NY Times, "None of you is going back to Europe, are you?" With Trump, Israel will have 5 years to implement US Reservation Syndrome as The Final Solution to take care of its Arab Problem.
Jews of every stripe were quick to jump on the BLM bandwagon to burnish their moral credits, which they could then use against Evangelicals in the Groomer Marxist Culture Wars of which they are the architects, guiding the lower class activists in the arts of cultural subversion. Thus, on the one hand, Israel had access to the US treasury and might through the End-Time Right, and on the other, globalist Leftwing cover by attaching to the most powerful moral force of our time: Civil Rights. The path to One (irreversible) Israel seemed secure. Skyscrapers throughout the Mideast would require an iron fist to safeguard the interests of unrighteous Mammon, and nothing has proved so dangerous to Mideast governments than riots on the Temple Mount, Islam's Third Shrine. Once again, the sons of Esau were willing to sell their birthright for a mess of commercial pottage.
The biggest casualty of the Hamas war is the expulsion of elitist Jews from their Civil Rights haunts where they occupied the chief seats in media, government, the arts, etc. Desperate to get back to their cushy lifestyles, they can now be exploited (or blackmailed) to throw their weight behind the machinations of the UN/World Court, which has long chafed at being under the thumb of the US. They are joined by the Seculars in Israel in their mutual loathing of the Ultras ghettoing around the Temple Mount waiting to implement the Ceremonial Kosher laws on the Seculars, most of whom prefer Sodom to Jerusalem. They would like nothing more than to go back to the status quo: hedonism. They know what's coming if the Ultras get to rule One Israel, although they fret needlessly, because the Ultras will splinter into a thousand hairsplitting factions on the first day (while the legions of Titus waited outside, Josephus writes, Jewish factions were slaughtering each other within for control of the Temple).
At any rate, when the dust settles (or after Trump II), the UN will demand a two-state solution. The closeted anti-Semitic EU will join the chorus, and the American Jewish Left, with the Seculars in Israel, will have no choice but to be carried along, leaving Red States as the remaining Jewish ally. During Trump II, waves of suicide bombers will hit the cities of the West, emboldened by the same Leftwing Third World guilt exploited by the 9/11 terrorists. The Leftwing chatter then was, "What did America do to drive the Islamist to it." Those days will come back, all the more terrifying now that Iran has nuclear grade material and very few shipping containers are inspected. They named their military version of the CIA "Quds", which stands for Islam's Third Shrine: Jerusalem/Temple Mount. They want nuclear weapons for just that. A religious war with nukes.
2-10-24
What is the biblical Holy Land? Old Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, Judea/Samaria. The Wailing Wall is the retaining wall holding up the Temple Mount. Everything east of that retaining wall is Occupied Territory. Israel could likely retain a few pockets in the West Bank in two-state, but most of the Holy Land (the most vital part) would become a Muslim state. Israel would no longer be "the Holy Land." Rabin advocated such a deal and was vilified by the rabbis as "an enemy of the Jews" and assassinated. The people around Trump know that two-state must never happen, and therefore will not. There are enough people around Biden who could tell him he's wasting his time. He's left cursing Netanyahu in the most foul language, because they allowed him to run into a buzz saw. Blinken knows full well what's going on here. He sat under Kissinger long enough to know why no Jew could ever agree to two-state. It would be the end of Holy Land Israel, which would kill the Project. And now, to keep the Project afloat, Israel has to make Israel Arab-rein. They cannot create Reservations in such close proximity without turning them into heavily fortified prisons. Only Evangelicals will see the point here. The EU is quiet because they need Biden's money for Ukraine. The price to keep Putin out of Europe will be Islamic terror within it. 20 yeas ago, the West was convinced that Islamic terror posed a real danger to the West. It was soon dismissed as a false alarm. Islamists now have real targets close to home: the gleaming cities of the petroshieks.
2-9-24
"Democrats Can No Longer Stay Silent About Biden" (NY Times)
Because only Trump can save One Israel now from being divided and partitioned. Biden was "Israel's best friend" until he got cold feet over the genocide in Gaza which he authorized, funded, and protected with US military might. Now he's cursing Netanyahu (and likely the Jews) in the most foul language, because he realizes that they played him for a fool and will cost him the election. He's outlived his usefulness, and, by calling for two-state, became a greater danger to Israel than Hamas, because the Holy Land is One Israel, and One Israel is the vital element in Jewish identity, the world over. For there is no Israel without Old Jerusalem, and no Jerusalem without the Temple. Without them, the Torah becomes meaningless.
Trump is on record for One Israel--all the way up to Megiddo where Red States and Israel will annihilate the Gentile nations and Blue States in the last World War. Palestinians will either be killed or expelled. Gaza was already worse than a Reservation--an open-air prison everyone called it--so only complete removal will do now. Imagine a partitioned Holy Land with the choice parts in the hands of Muslims (the Crusades rescued the Christian Holy places, and the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque became Christian churches and headquarters for Knights Templars. When Muslims regained control, they removed everything that was Christian from the Temple Mount, but left all "the Holy Places" in Christian hands, which became the bone of contention between Russian and Britain when the Ottoman empire began to crumble, leading to the Crimean War, which was the forerunner of the World Wars).
Gallio cared for none of these things. Evangelicals do not want to convert the Dome of Rock back into a church, because their religion calls for a Temple on that very same spot, despite that fact that it was a church during the time of the Crusades. You cannot have both Church and Temple on the same spot, and Prophecy demands the Temple. The Jewish Messiah is not coming for the Church. Imagine the disappointment he finds nothing but a horde of Christians when coming back for the Chosen People. "We're full," cursed the Rev Dobson atop Trump's wall at the wretches below, all unwhiteous, in the grips of their skin, that is original skin (Adam, like Edom, means red), whereas the other white race, that is the European Jews in the Holy Land, possess the whiteous which is by Fate. The Arabs around them likely have more Abrahamic blood then they. Such can be had a dime a dozen at Trump's wall. But they will ruin Church America, the City on a Hill, which was never meant to be in the hands of inferiors from the Third World, for they lack the morals and brains to understand the lofty aforedamnations of Calvin. One Israel is Church America's last chance to be One America, for whom God intended it: those who possess the whiteousness by Fate. For it is One America who will stand with One Israel athwart the raging gentiles at Megiddo. Their origins are one (most Jews look more German than Mideastern) and their destiny is one: they become one in Armageddon.
Thus, nothing would be more unbiblical than to build a church where the Bible calls for the Temple. If you built a church there by mistake, Evangelicals would call for it to be demolished to "prepare the way of the Lord", the Jewish messiah of Isaiah. The First having failed dismally, God will attempt another. "Sodom and Gomorrah," Jesus said, "would have repented had they heard" what Jesus preached to Jews. But this time will different, Evangelicals say. You can't expect a Jew to believe what is so obviously intended for Gentiles. No. The Chosen People will have a Messiah fitting their status as God's Chosen People, without having to stoop the level of "sinners of the Gentiles." . Otherwise what "profit is there to being a Jew?" The first Messiah was an insult in that He utterly disrespected the prestige, heritage, and accomplishment of the Jews.
Nothing so hinders Prophecy as Christians in the Holy Land. Which is why Evangelicals are not trying to convert the Seculars of Tel Aviv. Get them converted, and they will either "go into all the world," or worse, try to convert other Jews, making them worthless for the Messiah, because they need to be of the Old Covenant, busy slaughtering in the Temple, when they will realize that they are but engaging in "shadows" of which the real is Christ. This will the real sign which will cause them to repent and believer, for "a wicked and adulterous nation seeketh a sign." And "Moses and the Prophets" which Abraham says they already have? And now the New Testament besides? Too late for than now, Evangelicals say. If Jews didn't repent then, you can't blame them for not repenting after 2000 more years of enduring "the heat of the day." They'll settler for nothing less now than the real Messiah, at the head of an army to deal death to the enemies of the Jews. "Without form or comeliness," indeed.
Two-State is now "on", as they say. This means cutting the Holy Land asunder. Your "Israel Tour" will now stop at the Wailing Wall, from which everything West is the Holy Land. The rest could just as well be San Francisco.
One Israel was always the goal, even as US diplomatic malpractice pretended otherwise. Evangelicals need the Dome of the Rock blown up, and Arabs removed, one way or another. They do not think that the Jewish patriot Barabbas committed murder when he killed Roman occupiers. Why would killing Arabs be murder when God commanded the enemies of Israel to be destroyed, forever? If there is no New Testament, the original Covenant is still in effect to the last jot and tittle, and Jews are commanded to rid the Land of non-Jews. Trump will give them whatever protection they need to do so. And ridding the Land of non-Jews is the only way to prevent two-state. As Brent Stephens sneered two days ago: "Are any of you going back to Europe?' Once the land is cleansed, well, as MBS smirked at Biden--"you made some mistakes." So what? Once a state, always a state. Had the British won, they would have hanged Washington and Franklin as terrorists. "We better hang together now," Franklin reminder his fellow revolutionaries, "or we'll all hang separately later," "They'll kill me because of you," Abraham and Isaac told their wives. Those where the outstanding politicians of their day: Behind the veneer of legality, Abraham said, "rapists and murderers." Cain, demoted in the kingdom of God, went out and invented civil politics as a substitute in (wait for it) Nod (means fugitive--the land of outcasts, which it is to this day).
2-9-24
“It’s our country, all of it — Gaza too,” Capt. Avihai Friedman, a military rabbi, was recorded recently telling a group of soldiers in Gaza. “The whole promised land.”
Husam Zomlot, the Palestinians’ ambassador to Britain, compared resettlement with the mass displacement of Palestinians that surrounded Israel’s founding in 1948. “The Biden administration could end all this tomorrow if it stopped shielding, arming and funding not only Israel but its illegal expansion,” he said (NY Times).
"Shielding, arming, funding". This is what gave rise to 9/11. It is what gives Iran clout in the region. The US spent 20 years fighting debilitating wars to contain terror. China/Russia are fanning the flames on the sides, prodding Iran to draw the US in further. The war will now expand from Gaza to US campuses, suicide bombs in European cities, and the UN, where despots will tut-tut about US war crimes.
2-8-24
The Biggest Fraud in Diplomatic History: The Billionaires of Zion and their Evangelical Puppets.
The fraud/conspiracy is this: US policy is designed to provide Israel with a smokescreen until it gains full possession of One Israel. When Evangelicals and Jews think of Israel they think of the Promised Land given to the Israelites. A Palestinian State would require the partition of the Holy Land with the Palestinian State in possession of the Biblical heartlands (Judea/Samaria) and Old Jerusalem. Where is the Holy Land now? Are you saying the Jewish messiah could come back to Tel Aviv? Perhaps even the Temple in Gaza? It's either One Israel or none. This is what Jews will attempt under Trump. They'll have to blow up the Dome of the Rock to make room for the Temple. This is the secret "biblical deed" policy that animates US policy toward Israel. They never, at any time, negotiated for two-state in good faith, because Evangelical Prophecy and aborted Old Testament religion (minus the NT) will not allow it. When the Israeli ambassador waved his Torah at the UN and shouted, "here is my deed" to the Land, he was but revealing US policy. Israel cannot be partitioned, because it will be the nail in the coffin for both Church America and the jewocratic Temple State. This is the fraud and conspiracy. For no Jew of Evangelical could agree to two-state without committing apostacy.
When Thomas Fraudman of the NY Times croons of a "path" to two-state, he's but perpetuating the same fraud. It's no more than a sop to Islam and petrocrats to keep the Palestinians in perpetual limbo, giving Settlers time to expand until Palestinians are reduced to Reservations. This is in fact what the Jewish plant, Bret Stephens of the NY Times argued two days ago: "Are any of you going back to Europe?" he sneered. This is the diplomatic fraud behind Settler expansion. They need to make the Holy Land safe for the white man. Jews are the other white race, possessing by birth the whiteousness of Fate, and having escaped Original Skin (Adam, like Edom, means "red" in Hebrew)., hence the fatal attraction of Evangelicals.
Fraudman has Biden's ear, which is why he now finds himself under the bus. When Friedman talks about two-state he means "a path" where such things are discussed--forever, while Settlers do what they have to do. But Biden has an election coming up, and his base demands answers now. Gallio cared for none of these things. "We're not a banana Republic," sneered Netanyahu at Blinken yesterday. But when it comes to Israel, America looks like one.
Because Evangelicals need One Israel, and Jews need One Israel. Even the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria would not suffice, as long as the Temple Mount remains in the hands of unclean Gentiles. Islam will have to be ejected from the Temple Mount and all evidence of their presence removed before work on the Temple can begun. For Judea and Samaria are but wailing orphans without Old Jerusalem, and Old Jerusalem but an empty shell without the Temple where God commanded perpetual sacrifice. One Israel or none. It's that simple. Of any plan, simply ask: have they gotten to the partition part yet? If No, roll over and go back to sleep. Or, have they decided on the Dome of the Rock? Well, No...Go back to sleep. The stale old frauds and conspiracy warmed up and served over and over.
If Biden even hinted at this the Islamic world would erupt the world over, including Western cities. Yet the diplomatic fraud demands that Islam be ejected from the Temple Mount. This is why there can be no partition. Which is why you never hear even secular Jews talk about partition. They mumble about vague notions of Palestinian Statehood along the lines of the Palestinian Authority--a state without borders, somehow hovering in the warp and woof of Israel. This is the diplomatic fraud that allows the Settlers to increase their footprint, funded and protected by the US. "You did it to the Indians," they say. And no one would argue that Israel has the right to annex any part of the world it is able to keep--by their own might. Might is always right. The day Muslims gain control of India, they will burn Modi's new temple to the ground and rebuild their mosque. If US Settlers did in Mexico what American Jews are doing in the West Bank, they would end up in US prisons, and the US would find itself tarred and feathered at the UN. Which is what it will soon be because it gives Israel and means and protection to wage war against the non-Jews in the Holy Land.
What will happen to Palestinians under Trump? They're too dangerous to remain within One Israel. Which is why Israel is talking ethnic cleansing. They'll have to either be killed or driven out of One Israel.
This will work as long as Evangelicals control the Oval office. But because they see Prophecy at work, they see no need to plan for the day after the battle of Megiddo, where Israel and the US will take on the rest of the nations in the last world war.
2-7-24
Biden now knows that Jews played him for a fool. When Blinken asked to meet with Israel's top general today, Bibi flatly refused: "We're not a bananas republic," he said. Without the US, Israel would have ceased to be even a state long ago. But Biden is now the Jews' enemy #1, because he's demanding something in return to appease his angry Left. That is, he needs a ceasefire, for which he needs the cooperation of Islam, who demand nothing less than two-state, and two-state now. But that must be avoided at all costs because it will be the beginning of the end of Israel: 1) by keeping the Secular globalist from replacing Netanyahu until the return of Trump, and 2) by keeping the war going until November. For nations do not change governments during war. This of course, makes the US Left even angrier as conditions in Gaza worsen. China/Iran/Hamas all benefit as global outrage at Israel and the US grows at the UN. Hamas did what Putin could not: create a rift within NATO because of Gaza, because two-state is now on the agenda, and the EU will have to support two-state against the US. Both Israel and Ukraine are proxies for the global Culture War: Israel because of End Time doctrine, and Ukraine to keep EU Pride marches out of Red Square. In the midst of all this is Iran backed by China and Russia: in Ukraine with its cheap drones, and in the Gulf with its militias. The US cannot pull out because of Israel, but doesn't have a clue where the real enemy is. They failed in Iraq and Afghanistan for that reason. The Left wants nothing to do with the Mideast, while the Right is squarely behind Putin and Israel. For the Right the real danger comes from the Third World rushing in from the South, which is what will determine the next election. They need for the crisis to worsen to inflict maximum pain on Democrats, who they see as a greater danger than Putin and China, who both see the Culture War raging in Congress as the real war.
2-5-24
Mr. Johnson called Mr. Biden’s veto threat an “act of betrayal” toward Israel.
“Israel is at war, fighting for its very right to exist, while our brave men and women in uniform are in harm’s way on his orders to deter Iran,” Mr. Johnson said. “In threatening to veto aid to Israel and to our military forces, President Biden is abandoning our ally in its time of greatest need. I urge friends of Israel and opponents of Iran to call the president’s bluff and pass this clean aid package” NY Times.
Far-right Israel minister suggests Trump would be better for Israel than Biden (Politico)
Jews are now throwing Biden under the bus. He wagered everything to appease his billionaire donors, and reaped an all-out war within the Democratic Party. BLM social activists excommunicated Jewish Marxist globalist for not condemning the carnage in Gaza, and now Biden is desperate for something to placate his angry Left. He needs a quick fix to get his poll numbers up so he's going nuclear on Israel: two state, which means Israel will become infested with UN agencies who will drone nonstop at the UN and the World Court. Two-state will require the partition of the Holy Land, dealing a death blow to Ultras/Settlers/Evangelicals. It's the end of "biblical deed" Israel, as it will now be forced to relinquish the crown jewels of "the Land": the Old City/Judea/Samaria.
But Biden's angry Left will settle for nothing less than immediate recognition of a Palestinians State. Gallio cared for none of these things. Even Leftwing Israelis know what that means. Everyone to the Left of Netanyahu is a globalist--that is, secularists who know what "kosher" Israel will look like: a straitjacket. Which is why, even Israelis who hate Netanyahu know that only he has the courage to stand up to Biden and wokester Israeli politicians. Which puts American Leftwingers in a precarious position: they, like Biden, are now being tarred and feathered with genocide for not condemning the destruction of Gaza. Without two-state, Europe will become uninhabitable for Jews, and increasingly the US. Jewish institutions in Europe already require an around the clock police presence.
Only Trump can now stop the partition of the Holy Land. But Netanyahu needs to hang on until Trump gets into the Oval. Biden is under the bus. Israel will be seen as having derailed the Leftwing agenda by putting Jewish money and votes at Trump's disposal. This will cause a huge rift between Europe and America, as Europeans are squarely behind the International Court. The Palestinian Cause will become the moral mascot of globalist Western elites--against Trump/Evangelicals and Israel. The Arab Street will become more riotous, and suicide attacks more numerous. The Hamas attack was a suicide mission, intended to provoke Israel to create its own Holocaust in Gaza, which the UN will now use as grounds to create a Palestinian State. Frustration will mount under a Trump term as Israel will be given the green light to impose a Final Arab Solution. The West will be forced to go proactive to find potential suicide bombers before they explode, which will enrage the social justice Left even further.
Biden had no choice. The Hamas attack would have exploded the Democratic Party even if he did not side with Israel. He would have lost the billionaires immediately (instead of later), and the Jewish elites could not be expected to condemn an Israeli response--which BLM demanded. He hoped to at least keep the billionaires. The delusion of the Left. Marxist Jews had convinced themselves that they would be loved for supporting BLM, who would in turn love brother Israel. Instead they found themselves confronted by a snarling mob. The billionaires made things worse by going nuclear on BLM, and now Biden finds himself bereft of both--with Trump and Evangelicals fanning the flames on every side.
Which is why Biden is now backpedaling as hard as he can with two-state. But two-state is Israel's greatest enemy. Hence, Biden has become the Jews' enemy #1. Netanyahu need but make it to November.
Friedman and Blinken have been globetrotting trying to gain support for "the big deal." What's the biggest obstacle? Netanyahu. Secular Jews (outside of Israel) feel the stigma of the "genocide" posters at Biden's campaign stops, and find themselves cancelled. Putin, Friedman said, will be toppled because China will not support him for fear of being cancelled. Everywhere, Chinse tourists will be shamed by the locals if their country supported a war criminal. Manhattan wokesters fear nothing more than village gossip. But now all Jews are being cancelled across the board. They're all in the dock at the International Court, which has had Israel in the crosshairs for decades. Seculars need something big to turn the tide. Nothing less than two-state will do. Partition. They'll all dead-end at the Dome of the Rock. They'll divide Jerusalem--with Old Jerusalem going to the children of Ishmael and Esau. Herod, who built on the Rock, was half Edomite. But now the whole charade will be exposed. Which is that Israel no more recognize the right of Palestine to exist, than Hamas the existence of Israel. No observant Jew could allow a map with Palestine on it next to Israel in his home without forsaking the Torah. This will spill out into the open the minute they sit down at the bargaining table. The Third Temple has to be rebuilt on the Rock. Jews can no longer bear the absence of their Temple.
Too late Biden discovered that Jews played him for a fool. They strung him along with huge billboards all over Israel for his blanket support of the Gazan slaughter which is now tearing his party apart at home. Now that he's backpedaling with two-state he's become enemy #1 among Jews. The most powerful man on earth is left cursing "friend" Netanyahu in the the foulest language--from under the bus. The billionaires have fled leaving him at the mercy of his woke Left.
Rabin was assassinated because of two-state. No Jewish leader can advocate it without putting Ultras and Settlers in a straitjacket to keep them from going on a rampage. For them, two-state is the end of Israel, not because they think it will not survive, but because Jews will have committed apostasy by handing over the Temple Mount and Judea/Samaria to the enemies of the Jews.
But now they're all in a bind. Hamas attacked to blow up the Friedman/Jared Kushner fraud they called the Abraham Accords, which would get MBS on board of "a path (wink, wink--200 years down the road, heh) to statehood". MBS gets US protection from Iran and even nuclear technology. Now it's two-state, and two-state now. This is what's behind the meltdown of the Democratic Party.
Biden now has three full-blown crisis on his hands: 1) Ukraine--which the Republicans will defund, 2) the Border--where they demand measures they know would be suicide for Democrats, and 3) genocide in Gaza. Republicans want the first two to get worse by doing nothing, and now they peeled of 18 $billion for Israel as a stand alone bill with two condition that will give the Left heart attacks: 1) they will not allow Democrats to set terms on how the bombs are used to slaughter more Gazan women and children, and 2) not a dime can used as aid for starving Gazans. Now let Democrats go on record voting against Israel. If Democrats vote against, they lose the billionaires, if for, the BLM Left will go berserk. This is how you weaponize the System. And they even fill their own pockets doing it. All because of Hamas. They knew they would likely die when they attacked. The real war is going on within the Left, which they will now weaponize at the UN and the International Court to force the partition of the Holy Land. This will, of course, force the US Right to close ranks with Israel further, leaving them to fend off the rest of the world. This is in keeping with Evangelical End Time orthodoxy which sees American destiny as cumulating in defense of Israel in the last world war: the battle of Megiddo, which will be the final graveyard of nations. This is the Angst behind two-state. Now all bets, as they say, are off. These are uncharted waters, and "here (as old map makers would say tongue in cheek to tell you they don't know what lies there) be dragons and monsters."
Hamas and Republicans have their enemies on a tight leash through Biden. He needs both a border deal and a ceasefire. The terms will be harsh.
2-3-24
"Jewish voters who typically side with Democrats but now seemed less interested in his views, or President Biden’s support for Israel.
Their concern was with the growing voices on the party’s left flank — especially from the group of progressive House members known as the squad — demanding a cease-fire.
'There was almost an anger with the Democratic Party,' Mr. Kaiman said. 'We constantly hear, what are you doing about the squad?'"
“A lot of what I’m hearing and what I’ve felt myself is that the far left of the Democratic Party has just stabbed us in the back” (NY Times).
Jews only voted Democrat reflexively, to spite the Christian Right. They cunningly saw BLM as a useful ox goad to the same purpose. I said early on that they would throw Biden under the bus no matter what. Why? Because in Trump they get the real deal--with nukes if it come to that. Now BLM is on the warpath, and Jews have no choice but side with the Christian Rigth, their only remaining non-Jewish ally. Germany is quiet as a mouse, and Jews sense treachery. Not that they're surprised. The mentality of Germans toward Jews is what it was historically. They were blackmailed to don sackcloth and fund Israel. Had they won the war, their children would read about Jews only as a fifth column Bolshevik threat within Germany.
Republicans can't believe the political plum Hamas handed them. Besides the votes and the $billions, they get to drown Biden in the Gazan mud. While he's desperately trying to get a border deal and Ukraine funding by attaching it to aid for Israel, House Republicans peeled of the billions as a stand alone vote. Biden could refuse by demanding a comprehensive bill. But he's already in too far. If he refuses to go along with the Israel bill, they'll accuse him of anti-Semitism. But if he signs it, the Left will become even more shrill . The same with the border. He loses votes both if he cracks down, and if the crisis worsens.
2-2-24
Biden's has a plan, says Friedman, "and it's big." It's terrifying for its sheer absence of substance. He keeps serving up the same stale soup warmed over and over:
1) Netanyahu has to go. But he's locked in until 2026 as long as his Gestapo hardliners hold. They can't abandon Netanyahu without joining him on the scaffold.
2) The Saudi Plan. He was over there trying to get MBS to join Israel in a techbro Mideast commercial zone. Gallio cared for none of these things. He and the petro-sheiks are turning the lands of Mecca into the fleshpots of Vegas, leaving the ayatollahs to hold the line against Western decadence. He will only join Israel if he can deliver the crown jewels to the followers of Muhammad: removal of Israeli troops from the Temple Mount, the Old City, and the West Bank. He crushed his own hardline Wahabis. They're biding their time.
3) A revived Palestinian Authority. Utter nonesense. Hamas exists because the PA is a tool of Israeli Occupation.
Hence, there is no Plan because there is no one to plan with. That's why Kissinger wanted to make the Occupied Territories part of the Kingdom of Jordan, and have Egypt annex Gaza. But then, Iran would have its fifth columns within the bowels of its Sunni enemies. Egypt's greatest threat comes from the Islamic Brotherhood which is part of Hamas, and whose ranks are growing as the carnage in Gaza gets worse. The US just lost three soldiers in an outpost put there to contain ISIS. The US has not dared strike back because it fears being dragged into another Afghanistan, where it would have to engage in another war of extermination and incur even more global wrath when images of dead children flood the internet. You cannot fight suicidal zealots with soldiers.
A destroyed Hamas will merely jump back under a different name. In the meantime, the UN is left to take five million starving Palestinians under its wing. The Holy Land will soon resemble a huge Red Cross camp, which the Israel military will dread more than Hamas. For now the UN becomes little more than outrage against Israel. Woke Europe will be only too glad to say nothing. They have long wanted to be rid of Israel, and this is their chance. It's one thing to kill Palestinians, another to kill Red Cross workers. But for lack of a plan, the UN will effectively run the Holy Land. And the revengeful Global South will use the moral carnage to cut the US to pieces at the UN.
2-1-24
Biden Campaigns in Michigan After Ordering Sanctions on 4 Israelis (NY Times)
He gave Israel the green light to slaughter 26,000 (and counting) Palestinians (mostly women and children), and he now visits their kin in Michigan with 4 terrorist Settler scalps. There are a million of these murderous cutthroats in the West Bank (most of whom are Americans) who see Arabs as vermin to be exterminated. And rest assured, these four are considered heroes by the rest, including the hardliners in government. Over in Gaza, anyone who does not speak against Hamas is guilty of terrorism. If these four murderers were to show up in NY City (or Evangelical churches), they would get a hero's welcome. But again, Evangelicals do not see the Jewish patriot Barabbas as a "murderer who rebelled" against the Roman invader. Likewise, since God gave the Land to the Jews, it is the Palestinians who are the Occupiers, and the new arrivals from New York City are only claiming what's theirs.
2-1-24
"Biden expected to issue executive order targeting Israeli settlers in West Bank" (Politico).
"As part of the rollout, the Biden administration will announce it is imposing sanctions on individuals who have engaged in such violence, which has killed or displaced many Palestinians from their lands, the documents say."
He could just as easily have the murderers arrested and tried as terrorists in US courts: the majority of these cutthroats are new arrivals from New York and have dual citizenship. Of course, Evangelicals do not consider Settler Barabbas a "murderer" (as the New Testament calls him). He was a Roman, and not a Jewish, prisoner. Jesus was a Jewish, and not a Roman, prisoner, until the Jews forced Pilate's hand by handing him over as a Roman traitor: by declaring himself "king of the Jews", He committed treason against Rome. Because, as the Jews cried, "We have no king but Caesar." If Christ came today as He was then ("as a servant"), they would "crucify the Son of God afresh". If Evangelicals preached "Christ crucified" on the West Bank, Jews would flee the Holy Land as from a plague. As it is, Israel and Mecca are the only places where preaching the Gospel is a death sentence. Try handing out Gospel tracts in Jerusalem and see what happens. And Evangelicals would be the first to cast stones. Because, as the Rev Balaam Graham said, "God has a special arrangement for Jews." Jews are saved "through the dispensation of works", the Temple, the Ceremonial Law, and the Land. Even the sodomites in Tel Aviv, a Messianic Jew wrote recently in Christianity Today, are living in obedience to God by being in Israel. "Sinners of the Gentiles" need spiritual redemption. Israel had "real" redemption at the Exodus, and the Temple System (they're having to make do with Kosher now) is all that's needed to stay perfect. The notion that the Passover lamb was meant to signify the Cross because God demanded an infinite sacrifice is blasphemy, they say. How could God die? And then Christianity went on to invent three Gods. Did you read (NY Times below) what Settlers tell Evangelicals: "you're playing a part in a drama in which Jews are the stars." This is a blasphemous cult.
"killed or displaced many Palestinians from their lands"
"Their lands"? God gave the land to the Jews, so how is the Holy Land now "Palestinian land"? And new arrivals from New York are forced to "kill" Arabs who refuse to leave. Joshua was commanded to "kill and displace" the Canaanites. How is this different. Because the Law has not slackened since the days of Moses. Which is why the Temple must be rebuilt, again, and again, and again. Netanyahu's hardliners caused global outrage when they called for the expulsion of Arabs from Gaza. But the Return calls for all means necessary to reclaim the Land for its rightful owners. Ask any Evangelical if a Jew commits murder by killing Arabs in the Holy Land. Did Joshua commit murder then also? Would God allow modern non-Jews like Uriah to take up arms and kill Arabs who refuse to be "displaced"? Why not? Because, Evangelicals hold that Prophecy leaves Jews no choice but to obey the half-Bible, since they reject the New Testament. They are commanded to rebuild the Temple as any Evangelical will tell you. And Evangelicals have spent billions helping the Return. Would God not be pleased if Evangelicals helped Jews rebuild the Temple of works salvation? So why could you not help fulfill prophecy by killing Arabs alongside West Bank Settlers? Is Biden bringing God's wrath on America by hindering prophecy? How is Israel to regain the Holy Land without killing its inhabitants as God commands in the Torah. As one of the Montana Cowboys told a reporter, "There's terrorists everywhere." Most Arabs are terrorists to Evangelicals. Why would anyone scruple to kill a terrorist to help fulfill Prophecy?
This is year 5785 for a Torah Jew. The Torah is not the Old Testament, because the New Testament is sheer fraud. Hence, a Jew who takes the Torah literally sees no difference between God's chastisement by the hand of the Philistines and that of the Holocaust: bondage and deliverance, as in the days of the Judges. He is still under obligation to offer sacrifices, and subdue the heathen around him. This is the thinking of the hardliners behind Netanyahu.
1-31-24
"A Biden Doctrine for the Middle East Is Forming. And It’s Big" (Friedman, NY Times).
He's been floating he same vague notions for months: 1) Get the Saudis on board by giving them protection from Iran, 2) revive the corrupt Palestinian Authority, 3) get rid of Netanyahu, 4) chastise Iran, etc., etc.
They can't rid of Netanyahu because they have no one to replace him. The moderates are all two-state, which most Israelis see as Hamas with UN cover. Which means that Israel will keep on turning Gaza into powder, and dig a hole from which it will never escape. Friedman knows what lies in store if Netanyahu stays: the hardliners will impose the Torah on Tel Aviv. If Trump gets in, they'll blow up the Dome of the Rock. Any observant Jew will tell you that "without the shedding of blood there is no foregiveness." But Jews have to content themselves by living kosher, with the understanding that sacrifices will continue the minute they get their hands on the Temple site, which is the only place where God accepts sacrifices. Friedman knows that this is where all this is going and he's trying to get Biden to head it off. He even hopped over to get MBS on board. Nothing will come off it. Under Trump, the Settlers will seize the Temple Mount. In frustration, Islam will unleash its suicide bombers on the West, and the cities of Europe will burn.
1-31-24
The Jewish Reich and the Second Coming of Magabbas.
"Since its unexpected battlefield victory in 1967 that swallowed the West Bank and extended Israeli power to the Jordan River, Israeli democracy has been shaped by the temptation of holding all the Land of the Prophets and by the mythologizing of that idea. If Israel, through divine providence, had gained control of Judea and Samaria, it could not, in the view of the increasingly powerful nationalist religious right, cede them in a land-for-peace deal like that brokered by the United States with Egypt in 1979."
"Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister from 2006 to 2009, describes the situation more bluntly and more personally. 'Mr. Netanyahu is a greater danger than the war, in fact than all our enemies put together,' he told me" (NY Times).
When I say that the "the biblical deed" underwrites Israeli politics, and that to give up any part of the Holy Land is apostasy, I get blocked. Why? Because they all pretend that this is not a zero-sum game which makes talk of two-state useless. But here is Cohen (they exiled him to Paris for some reason) talking about "divine providence" as statecraft. What is that? A Temple State theocracy. Enlightened Jews in the US spend their waking hours warning about creeping Evangelical mandates, and here the frauds are mass-murdering in defense of a Jewish Temple State theocracy.
The murderous Drang Nach Osten by Jewish Nazis is US sponsorship of religious terrorism, for this is done with US money, weaponry--and citizens. Of course, if you see Barabbas as a zealous patriot (and not a "murderer' as the New Testament calls him), then the mass murder of Palestinian women and children only picks up where Joshua left off (which is how Evangelicals see it). But what does Olmert see when he calls Netanyahu more dangerous than all its enemies? He sees Israel condemned for genocide in the International Court, after which it will become fashionable to cancel it and starve it into submission (if the global village points fingers and hisses at you, you will withdraw into a shell). The terms will be harsh for they will require the partition of the Holy Land, with Palestinians in possession of the Abrahamic crown jewels. Rabin was targeted by Rabbis as an enemy of the Jews and assassinated for his two-state plan. The Ultra/Settler/Evangelical/Billionaire axis will prevent a two-state at all hazards. Which is why Magabbas will win the election. That is now guaranteed by the Protocols. The harder task will be keeping the Temple Brigade in power. The hardliners are not cracking, and until they do, Netanyahu cannot be removed. The war keeps the hedonists of Tel Aviv from shutting down Jerusalem, and stirring up a civil war to remove him. Which is why the war cannot end, and the carnage will accumulate to Israel's point of no return. With Magabbas, the hardliners will deal with the Palestinians once and for all--and put a straitjacket on the Seculars. There will be no more Golden Calf revels in the desert. Friedman will do his wailing at the Wall in the Men's Section, with his wife, in long dress, in the Court of the Women. Strict Sabbath keeping will be enforced throughout the Land, etc. But they will soon long for the days of Hamas once they lay hands on the Hedonists of Tel Aviv who see Jerusalem aa a poor substitute for Sodom.
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"Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein delves into this “unholy alliance,” as she calls it, showing how the settlers reap enormous political support and raise money from evangelicals, who, she argues, directly and indirectly subsidize the settlers’ steady takeover of the West Bank, which the Palestinians want for a future state. In return, evangelicals edge closer to fulfilling the prophecy many adhere to that the second coming of Christ cannot happen without the return of diaspora Jews to the Holy Land. "
"The evangelicals don’t want people to get killed, but they believe war is a sign. In whose name will we [Israel] fight these wars"?
"Evangelicals are the only significant power outside Israel that is openly supporting the settlements. No one else does."
"The film shows a religious settler telling visiting Christians that they are bit players in a movie in which Jews are the stars.
The amazing thing in this relationship is each side thinks the other one is stupid. Each side is trying to trick the other."
"You saw all these wealthy Christians and Jews sitting together, saw Christians give testimony about how “before I started to donate to Israel, I had a small shop in Cleveland, and today I have a huge chain of stores, just because I started to donate to Israel.” They think it helps them in their lives." (Excerpts from the NY Times)
Evangelicals are not in Israel to plant churches. Christians are bit players among Jewish stars. The frauds prostitute themselves to grovel before anti-Christs. They do not think these Jews have to be saved, neither on the Settlers in the West Bank nor the sodomites in Tel Aviv. They would become worthless for Prophecy as Christians. Note how the secular NY Times writer sees this clearly.
But a more sinister evil simmers here. By embracing anti-christ Jews (the other white, Germanic, race) as a Biblical duty, they get to hate brown Arabs as a religious duty, because for Arabs to become Christian, they would have to accept the Biblical doctrine that all of Palestine belongs to the Jews. In other words, Arabs would have to embrace Arab-murdering Settlers to become Christians. That is, they would have to embrace anti-christs to receive Christ. This is the blasphemy of the Evangelical Jew-cult.
In addition, Arabs have the misfortune of inheriting Adam's original skin (Adam means red, as Edom), and not the whiteousness which is by Fate. If Mexico was Norway, Governor Abbott's busses would start from Mexico City, with frequent stops at Trump's bedroom. "Church America is full," cursed the Rev. Dobson from the Wall. If they were Nordics, he would beat the bushes in Mexico to "compel them to come in." Those not being cursed with Adm's original skin, and possessing the whiteousness which is by Fate. For most Evangelicals would rather be white in Hell (where they will end up, for racism strikes at the very image of God, and is soul murder) than black on earth.
1-29-24
"At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Elizabeth Magill’s Resignation" (NY Times).
Here you have Hamas attaching Gaza to George Floyd/Civil Rights/Critical Theory/anti-Colonialism. The greater the carnage now, the greater the danger to Israel. George Floyd is waiting for them at the International Court. George Floyd toppled Lee and Jackson. He's Israel's greatest danger. If you see him as Gaza, you know what lies in store for Israel.
Here now is a civil war which pits Jewish Temple Billionaires, and utopian/Marxist/secular Jews. The Marxists are the secular Sadducees of our time, nominally Jews, but Greek to the core. These are the Marxist architects who teach the restive social justice activists how to use the System to frustrate and undermine the Right. The Billionaires would normally not belong to this cohort, were it not for an even more remote purpose: the survival of Israel. They know all too well that Israel is an artificial creation: a mixture of German guilt, Jewish identity/zeal (like the Vatican to Catholics), and Evangelical End Time date setting. The strongest prop here is Evangelicalism. So strong in fact, that cultural Jews can afford to ignore them and even spite them by voting Democrat. Their support for Israel is a huge part of their religious existence, and can be taken for granted, They need Israel more, the thinking is, than Israel needs them. And because billionaires crave the high society of the Manhattan set (arts, fine dining, global jet-setting), they take care not to appear too close to Conservatism, the historical home of the moneyed class. Their thinking is much less refined and more primitive (Trump's billionaire son in law is Orthodox, and had to get special exemption not to wear the skullcap) then their cultured despisers (Friedman, Krugman, Shmemann--secularists, if not outright atheists). It is the latter who feel most threatened by the civil war now raging in the redoubts of the Left, (Government/education/media/art) where they have long occupied the chief seats. But now that BLM rose up to attack Israel in defense of Gaza, and that from within the strongholds of the Left, the billionaires in turn attacked the social (BLM) activists, the custodians of Civil Rights whose favor the educated Jewish Left covets to use as a cudgel to bludgeon the oppressive Right. Gallio cared for none of these things: they need to get back into the ranks of Civil Rights to avoid becoming socially homeless, impoverished--or worse, forced to join ranks with Right-wingers as the chorus to bring Israel to task grows. This is what is going on at the University of Penn now.
The Right, sensing opportunity, are making political hay with all this. They deposed Harvard's black President for not jumping on the anti-BLM bandwagon, which says that Palestinian Rights is the new front of social justice. In response, the Right now criminalizes sympathy for Palestinians as support for terrorists. This is the line of attack which the Right is using to purge Universities, and secular Jews find themselves directly in the line of fire--with Jewish billionaires putting their billions at the disposal of Rightwing firebrands. They need to destroy the Marxist architects of social justice critical theory, because their tools are now used at the very top: the International Court where Israel is being charged with genocide. A big winner here is Germany: Jewish genocide will cancel the Holocaust. They have long wanted to be rid of their imposed burden.
1-27-24
"Top officials from at least 10 different administrations are trying to forge a head-spinning set of deals to end the Gaza war and answer the divisive question of how the territory will be governed after the fighting stops" (NY Times).
Every Biden campaign stop is now hijacked by "genocide" posters. He needs to end this fast--but it's already too late. He gave Israel permission to destroy Gaza and murder its women and children, and ended up destroying the Democratic Party. The Billionaires of Zion forsook him for the real deal: Trump. If Netanyahu can make it to November he'll be fine. But November is a lifetime within the context of global wrath against Israel. Netanyahu cannot be removed unless his hardline coalition cracks, and it has only gotten more strident. They're openly talking extermination and expelling the Arabs from the Holy Land. Not a word of protest from Evangelicals who see all this as the beginning of the End.
In Israel it is the year 5785 (that is, 5785 years from year 1, which Christians call 4004 BC. The notion of a break in the divine program is a fraud, like Jesus the Christ, according to Jews. The New Testament is fake news and disinformation. Gentiles posing as Christians are imposters, who somehow hijacked time to suit their scheme, putting year 1 in the ridiculous middle as if yon can unroll time back to the original Creation.
If Jesus is not the Christ, then Jews are bound by the Torah to exterminate the Palestinians, and enslave what remains. Ask any Ultra or Settler if they stand before the Law of Moses in the same manner as the tribes under Joshua. They are bound by every "jot and tittle" given to the old Israelites, whose racially mixed descendants now look more German than Jew. This is why they must seize the Temple Mount, for the Temple must be rebuilt in the place where God commanded David. It is why there have been no blood sacrifices since Titus destroyed the Temple, because God will accept "the sprinkling of the blood" only on the spot where He commanded Abraham to offer up his son (the Dome of the Rock).
For Evangelicals to be allowed entrance into Israel, they have to agree to this blasphemy. They agree that Jesus was not the Christ promised to the Jews. Moreover, they spend their days in Israel helping Jews prepare the way (apostate John the Baptists) for a Messiah whom the Pharisees and Sadducees would have embraced. Because the fact that the Pharisees who "sat in Moses seat" rejected Him, proves that He was a fraud. This accounts for the Evangelical cheerleading of the horrors of Gaza. After all, God commanded that Jericho be burned to the ground with its inhabitants. This is where you're at, if Jesus is not the Christ, the Old World of the Curse repudiated and the New begun as the New Creation. In fact, the Gentile Uriah's of the world will gain merit by running to the spoil, and all the better if "the blood rises to the horse's bridle," for Palestinians are the Canaanites of old whose utter destruction is ordained of God. As one of the Montana cowboys helping Settlers drive out pagans from the West Bank told a reporter: "there's terrorist all around"--if you like guns, here's your chance to fulfill your calling. They're going to die anyway, so why not use them for target practice. Israel is to Evangelicals what Mary is to Catholics: Jesus will help you in the end for helping his mother. Because Israel is the Father's Jewish wife, they say, while the Church is Christ's Gentile bride. At the Return, God will take back his divorced wife and dwell with her in the Third Heaven (Abraham's bosom) while Christs dwells with fake-chosen sinners of the Gentiles below.
1-27-24
"Beyond Israel’s borders, the scale of casualties and destruction in Gaza is increasingly drawing horror. According to the health ministry in Gaza, more than 26,000 people have been killed, and vast tracts of the narrow strip of land have been leveled. On Friday, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ..." (The NY Times).
They've got Israel where they have long wanted it: entangled in the International Court from which there is no escape. This was the purpose behind Hamas's suicide mission, and it exceeded beyond anything they could have imagined. The biggest winner here is Germany who sees world condemnation of Israel as a means to deliver itself from Israel's stranglehold on Germany. The German mood toward Israel is the same as the South's Lost Cause mentality toward Civil Rights: utterly without repentance. They were made to serve Israel by their US conqueror, and US complicity in Israeli war crimes will become very useful to Europe.
But the greatest danger to Israel comes from the BLM Jews in the US, who feather their nest by casting themselves as the moral conscience of the world. Because BLM excommunicated Jewish cultural elites from Civil Rights, they have become essentially homeless, and their whole fiefdom is threatened: education, media, government bureaucracy. This is not the cohort now agitating against diversity in University: those are the billionaires of Zion. The BLM's on the other hand, are the globalist Marxists, the Utopian secular Left, the statists who gain power by setting the standards of fashion, art, intellectual rigor, literature, Marxist critical theories of every sort, etc. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack, Jews of any sort were all grouped together, as BLM wrath made it impossible to sort themselves out. Now the moral custodians of the world find themselves in the docket at the World Court, and they desperately need to distance themselves from the horrors of Gaza.
But the anti-Colonialists now have Israel (the last white Colonial oppressor) on a short rope, and Europe (Germany) has no choice (wink, wink) but to demand that Israel comply with "International Law". Now comes the push for two-state, the nightmare that caused even Kissinger's hair to stand on end. Two-state with whom? Hamas exists because it was able to gain a monopoly of violence because Israel bribed the corrupt Palestinian Authority to serve as its Sheriff to keep Arabs under control. If Israel is forced to negotiate now, it will have to do so with Hamas, the only entity with Islamic credit. Iran casts itself as the alternative to decadent playboy oil-sheiks. But the NY Times is ready to cut a deal. With whom? Israel is little more than a transplanted Jewish suburb of NY City amidst a snakepit of cutthroat fiefdoms. Give Palestinians UN standing and Hamas will use a failed state as its base of operation. No on thinks they can turn Palestinians into a democratic state. So who gets to run it? Who keeps law and order when Israel withdraws? And they think Hamas will give up tunnels and rockets to become bricklayers?
The greatest threat to Israel's existence is the loss of the "biblical deed" argument. That is out the door in a settlement. The terms of partition will require that both side accept agreed-upon boundaries as final. International Law states that East Jerusalem (the Temple Mount) and the biblical heartlands of the West Bank belong to the Palestinians, forever (aside from divine intervention) off-limits to Ultras and Settlers, whose fanatical zeal is 99 percent of what underwrites Israel's day to day existence. Fanatical Arabs see them as their counterpart--they will die to the last man. Ultras spend their days ogling the Temple Mount in the ghettos of Old Jerusalem, and Settlers see themselves as Prophecy on the march. Evangelicals see their bloodcurdling designs as a means to the End. Those murderers see the extermination of Gazans as the fulfillment of Prophecy, and would like nothing more than for Settlers to make the West Bank Arab-rein. For them the partition of Israel (two-state) will mean that Prophecy has been aborted once again. And they are condemned to remain on the mountaintop, because Protestant doctrine holds that America/modern Israel is the last date on God's calendar. The old wine skins of Luther and Calvin are too exhausted to begin anew.
1-26-24
"U.N. Court Demands Israel Prevent Genocide but Doesn’t Call for Cease-Fire" NY Times
Most of the 25000 dead in Gaza are innocent women and children. Nothing new to report here, the UN says. Such are the rules of war. Just make sure (heh) not to commit (heh, heh) "genocide", the frauds say. They love their perks in Manhattan, and know who their paymasters are.
1-24-24
Is he a US citizen, you say? Most Israelis are. The Settlers, especially, are mostly new arrivals from the US. Cheap land if you qualify--as much as you can wrest from the Arabs. With their "biblical deed" in hand. They're only taking back what God gave to them. Modi just opened a temple to the idol Ram on the site of a mosque, because Hindus say it's where Ram was born. How do you argue with that. I told an immigrant some time ago: as an co-heir with Christ, you have a greater right to the space that is the Oval Office than the President, for "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." If he had need of it for the Lord's work, and had faith enough, it would be enough to say "the Lord had need of it" as Jesus did of the donkey which he took without asking permission. He was only taking what was his. I myself do not have faith to move a mountain, but when the time comes someone with a mustard seed of faith will. Messianic Jews cling to the hope that they have "an extra" in biology. Jesus looks around him and says, "see these believers, that's my family." "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people" (1 Pet. 2), a Jew once told groups of Gentiles. Chosen yes, Evangelical heresy has it, in a spiritual sense, Election perhaps, in a loose sort of way, but....But Paul says bluntly that the promises to Abraham were not made to the Jews but directly to Christ: "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ" (Gal. 3). I which case, if you have need of land now occupied by Arabs (or Jews) for the kingdom of God, and you have faith enough, you have "biblical right" to say "the Lord hath need of it". Or Red Square. But why would you crave a patch when it's all yours? But unbelieving Jews, Paul says, have zero biblical claim to the land, because the Promises to Abraham went only to Christ. Without Christ, Jews have no more claim to the Promised Land than the heathen worshippers of the idol Ram. The are frauds and imposters, the apostate "childern of the Kingdom" which God has cast out.
1-24-24
"On Monday, he [Musk] took his penitence tour to a new level, declaring himself 'aspirationally Jewish' after a visit to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz" (N Y Times).
There goes another one with his "head shorn and his nails pared". They threatened to reduce him to poverty. He will now be very useful. Now he knows who his masters are, and that you can't be both rich and free. "I believe, and therefore I have spoken." "The Word of God is not bound." "The truth is to be shouted from the housetops." "The truth shall make you free." If I understand the controversy, it is that he agreed with a post that elitist Jews had jumped on the BLM/Critical Race Theory bandwagon. Which they did until they were booted from BLM after the Hamas attack. But you can't say that if you're rich, unless you're willing to lose your fortune. After the hair-shirt, he will have to put on a strait-jacket. He paid 44 billion for Twitter in order to broadcast his ideas. Now he will find that holding his tongue is the batter part of hanging on to his fortune.
1-24-24
"Why Fani Willis Should Step Aside in the Trump Case in Georgia" (NY Times)
There goes the NY Times (the Trump/Israel axis). This case was seen as bulletproof until the prosecutor got caught with her skirt down. Ironic that Trump's legal woes, which began with the hush money "to cover his sin of visiting harlots", should now end with the whoredoms of his hangwoman. When Supreme Court Judge Jackson took his every young secretary to Germany to hang Nazis (leaving his wife at home), she never left his side (they stayed in the same hotel), and while he expounded the breaches of the 6th Commandment to the murderers before him, the entire gallery leered at the very young thing by his side, and the irony of an adulterer sitting in judgment (with his harlot beside him) of murderers was not lost on them. You can get away with that if you have a supreme monopoly on violence. You get to write the rules as you go. That was also before the world wide web which turns the whole world into a global gossip-fest. For nothing so terrifies derpraves as the wagging of village tongues. This is what's behind the "mirage act", the sole purpose of which is to grant social normality to abdominal acts to stifle gossip. But here, a case of old fashioned adultery (and that after the Pope just "blessed sodomy") stands to become the hinge of the most abrupt turn of history: the coming terror of Trump II.
1-23-24
"On her first day, she was informed by a manager that 'Jewish lobbyists [read billionaires"] were unhappy she was on the air,' according to legal filings, and urged to avoid potentially controversial topics on social media" (Australian ABC).
No conspiracy here. It's all out in the open. Trump's money troubles are over. For only Trump can save Israel now. With Trump, Israel gets four years under the US nuclear umbrella. The time will short to do what needs to be done, including the Temple.
1-23-24
The Quds Force (Persian: نیروی قدس, romanized: niru-ye qods, lit. 'Jerusalem Force') is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)[3] specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. U.S. Army's Iraq War General Stanley McChrystal describes the Quds Force as an organization analogous to a combination of the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the United States.[4] Responsible for extraterritorial operations,[5] the Quds Force supports non-state actors in many countries, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Yemeni Houthis, and Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.[5] According to Michael Wigginton et al., the Al-Quds Force is "a classic example of state-sponsored terrorism.
What would you think if a rogue country named its military intelligence agency after your town, or rather its own name for you town? Iran exists to reclaim Jerusalem for Islam, even as it jockeys to displace the playboy sheiks who squander their wealth in Western cities. They're making headways with their proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis, the war hardened guardians of the desert who pose a real threat to the oil rich sheiks who are turning their air conditioned cites into Las Vegas. If war breaks out between Sunnis and Shiites, all the latest toys of the sheiks will prove ineffective against these fanatics. Biden offered Saudi Arabia American security guarantees in exchange for their support of American Zion. This deal Iran/Hamas had to derail before it grew to Wall Street proportions. The idea was to create a commercial Sunni zone in the the Mideast to persuade warlike fanatics to exchange their guns and Toyotas for iPhones and market shares. Its how MBS broke the back of Saudi Wahabis. Not that Iran has any illusions of governing Sunnis. But because Shiites control the center, if they could seize Saudi oilfields in Shiite areas, they could cripple the oil sheiks. What would happen if Shiites would seize Mecca and Medina?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the German parliament: "The security of Israel is Germany’s reason of state" (German Spiegel). Imagine how that sounds to Germany's huge Muslim population--or on the streets of Paris, which is tied to Germany through the EU.
Quds is the Islamic name for it's third most holy site, the Temple Mount (and Old Jerusalem), Iran exists to avenge the wrongs of history: reclaiming Islam's third most holy site from Jews, and the Shiites rightful place as the legitimate heir of the legacy of Muhammad, currently in the hands of Sunni imposters, the house of Saud. To add insult to injury, Saudi oil reserves lie underneath (impoverished) Shiite lands. Sunni's, on the other hand, loathe Shiites as infidels and idolaters because they have shrines everywhere. They see shrine-idolatry as an attack on monotheism.
But this fixation on Quds (Jerusalem) by such a powerful and implacable foe will hang over any two-state settlement which is all the talk now. The seculars would gladly settle for the beaches and new Jerusalem, leaving everything east of the Wailing Wall (the Old City--the ghettos where the welfare Ultras spend idling their days gawking at the glories of the Temple Mount). Settlers would be given the option of resettling within Israel, or become citizens in a Palestinian state. Evangelicals would have heart attacks and shriek for months: Jews forced to become citizens of a Palestinian state when God gave the land to them. You would not see the cowpokes of Montana volunteering to help their Jewish friends in the lands of Judea and Samaria once they surrender their "biblical deed". And Jews would, of course, need to serve in the Palestinian Army, even if war should somehow break out between Palestine and Israel. If all the historical problems of the world were gathered in one book, they would not amount to this. Only the heavy hand of Trump can save Israel now, which is why his reelection is guaranteed.
I see 47 degrees by next Friday. These were tough last few weeks with temps below -50 wind-chill. It sleeted for several days than froze, leaving everything entombed in ice--all the gates froze to the ground, doors froze shut. Survival. With the snow gone, I'll be able to get an early start on Spring. Roads are covered with two inches of ice, and even a four wheel drive tractor can't pull a grain wagon up hills. I had to get feed and had to unhook half a mile from home. Even my heavy four wheel drive telehandler struggled to make it up the hill. Now with 30 above, it feels like summer. Three weeks ago while coming across Minnesota with a heavy loaded trailer, both tires on one side blew out at the same time in the middle of the night. Right by a house next to the road. The couple let me unhook in their yard, I drove home 100 miles and came back the next day with extra tires. They helped my with a loader and their own jacks to send my on my way. Otherwise, I would have had to call a wrecker or tire shop in the middle of the night, which would have cost a lot. "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." God bless them for their kindness.
1-23-24
A U.N. office said Israel’s detention and treatment of detainees might amount to torture. (NY Times)
At Columbia University, student protesters say they were attacked with chemicals (NY Times)
Israel Says 24 Soldiers Are Killed as Pressure Grows on Netanyahu (NY Times)
American Jewish elites are losing the war now raging in US institutions as Gaza has become the new face of George Floyd Anti-Colonialism. Hamas exploded a cultural nuclear bomb on the playground of Western elites, exposing the frauds and conceits of wokeism. The crisis is moving at such a pace that even the Right is still finding its footing, while feeding the flames from the sidelines. They quickly jumped on the Billionaires of Zion bandwagon to cancel Harvard's Black president, which they crow over as a woke scalp. It's of a peace with DeSantis' Culture War in Florida (which cost him the nomination) and serves as revenge for the toppling of the statues of Lee and Jackson by George Floyd. But because the Harvard president is black, it puts elitist Jews who toppled her on the wrong side of the Culture War. She was, as they say, a "diversity hire." That is, Harvard needed to show that it was on the right side of the Culture War since George Floyd. When the Christian Greeks "murmured" against the Jewish Christians because of structural racism, the Church appointed deacons with Greek names to deal with it. These were "diversity" appointments. But by attacking a black person, Manhattan elites ran afoul of the most powerful social force on the face of the earth: the legacy of Confederate slavery, and the Reformed Church's Apartheid regime in South Africa. The mask is now off. And Manhattan Jews are left to look down from their heights at the seething masses below. Major Adams is their own diversity hire, to keep the blacks and browns below from torching the towers of the Zionist Billionaires above. "Religion," sneered Napoleon, "was invented to keep the poor from murdering the rich." In other words, the restive hordes need a strong dose of cultural opium to keep them in check. Major Adams. now in the dock for taking every conceivable bribe imaginable, is lawyered by these same billionaires for whom he is what the Palestinian Authority is to the fraud that is West Bank annexation. He servers as a diversity Shabbos Goy (Goy means Gentile--Orthodox Jews hire Gentiles to run errands for them on the Sabbath). The Right's crowing over a diversity scalp puts the billionaires who caused it on the wrong side of the Culture War. That is, they're now made to throw in their lot with Evangelical Bible thumpers.
Gallio cares for none of these things. Where does this leave enlightened, End of History, EU values types like Thomas Friedman and the chattering classes of Manhattan wokesters who burnished their moral credits by jumping on the BLM bandwagon? This is the civil war now raging on the Left, and the NY Times is anxious to get back to normal. They need a quick fix in Gaza, which now means two-statism. That means toppling Netanyahu before November, because they can already hear the angry hoofbeats of Trump's Apocalyptic riders for whom partitioning the Holy Land is blasphemy against Prophecy. The Left is aware, of course, that partitioning would be a crippling blow to the Evangelical psyche for whom End Time Israel is an extension of the American Dream, the City of a Hill--that is, Church America, the last event on God's calendar created for just this occasion: to prepare Israel for their Messiah, which requires the Third Temple, which requires that Israel expel Arabs from the Temple Mount, which would set the Mideast ablaze. There are wheels within wheels here. Hamas may well have started WWIII. They have become the face of Islam against global humiliation --Modi just opened a Hindu temple to the god Ram ("Modi bowed to the idol," the NY Times wrote yesterday) on the site of a demolished mosque. By checking Israel and the West, Hamas will now have to be part of a two-state solution. Israel's situation is now ten times worse than it was. Only the heavy hand of Trump will be able to buy it more time.
1-22-24
"European Union foreign ministers pressed Israel’s top diplomat on Monday to ease civilian suffering in Gaza and move toward supporting the establishment of an independent Palestinian state" (NY Times).
Here's the EU opening a new front against the Jewish state. It, like Israel, is an artifact of the murder-suicide that people call the Good Wars. The EU was designed to be a straitjacket to keep Germany from starting WWIII, but the reverse is true. German guilt is a dead weight around the EU's neck, because its reason of state (by law) is the preservation of Israel, which is now reenacting all the criminal acts of Hitter: genocide, extermination, annexation, racism, apartheid. The most rabid Anti-Semitism lurks in Europe's elite, and Hamas has given them the cover to rid themselves of the charade. And none more so than Germany. They have no more remorse for the Reich, than the South for the Confederacy.
The greatest fraud in diplomatic history has been the US's pretense at working towards a Palestinian state when its ambassadors and aid did everything to undermine it. The Israeli army (funded by the US) is always right behind the Settlers to give them cover and protection as they increase their presence in the West Bank. Everyone knows that Hamas gained credibility because Netanyahu corrupted the Palestinian Authority to act as its sheriff to keep Palestinians under control--Herod was a Roman sheriff. Everyone understands the logic and conspiracy: increase the Israeli footprint to the point where it can no longer be reversed. But because Palestinians already outnumber Jews, they cannot simply be put on Reservations. Hence, the clamor for resettling them in other nations. And this in the age of George Floyd. Palestinians are already seething. What happens if they're now crowded into open-air prisons on the West Bank as in Gaza. The Right has a solution: expel them. Neither the Law of Moses nor Evangelical End Time doctrine requires their removal, as long as they're willing to "fetch and carry" and submit to having their "heads shorn and their nails pared." In Iraq and Afghanistan, the US waged war from within heavily fortified compounds for dread of suicide bombers. The Hamas attack was a suicide mission: they raped Jewish women to provoke a murderous response which few could have hoped to survive. A handful of suicide bombers are worth more than ten US divisions. When the US discovered that, they cut and run back to safety across the ocean. Which is why Jewish hardliners clamor for the removal of Arabs. "Jews have a right to every inch of the Holy Land," Netanyahu tells his followers. That's "the biblical deed." It also underwrites the martyrs complex of Ultras and Settlers, who see their role in restoring Israel as the highest form of obedience. They are not to make peace with the Canaanites, and to give them a portion of the Land given to Abraham is apostasy. Likewise, if Evangelicals see the land partitioned, they will know that Prophecy will have to wait, because the Temple cannot be rebuilt as long as the Dome of the Rock sits on it.
Two-statism is now gaining traction to atone for the carnage in Gaza, just as the Holocaust gave birth to Israel. And American Jews have become largely homeless and cancelled. The price for readmission to their former entitlements will be high: they have to jump on the two-state bandwagon.
Kissinger knew a Palestinian State would destroy Israel, because it will be be a failed state from the beginning, providing cover for Hamas.
Trump remains the only solution. His fire-breathing Evangelical base will demand a strict adherence to "the biblical deed." It remains to be seen if Netanyahu can hold out that long. The moderates and seculars of Tel Aviv are very sensitive to criticism from the EU and UN. In the absence of Netanyahu, they will be carried along with the gathering storm at the UN and EU. So what is Prophecy to do with a carved-up Israel, with the crown jewels, the Temple Mount and the Biblical heartlands, in Canaanite hands? And why? Because, in the age of George Floyd you cannot do what you could: Israel could wipe the Palestinians out. Caesar would have won the war in Afghanistan by nuking all the major cities. Look at the richest man in the world, Musk, schlepping in a Jewish hair-shirt, begging not to be cancelled for a few remarks on Twitter which cost him $77 million in revenue. Woke Reckoning is in the wind, and if you think you have something to say, you better have little to lose.
1-21-24
“'Take a step back, be honest,' Dimon (of Chase, the world's largest bank) said. Trump 'was kind of right about Nato, kind of right on immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Tax reform worked. He was right about some of China. He wasn’t wrong about some of these critical issues.'"
Everyone knows that only Trump can save Israel now that Biden is getting cold feet after watching his extrema Left rise up against him. No conspiracy here. It's all out in the open. The Protocols of the Billionaires of Zion are pulling out all the stops. They bankrolled BLM until Hamas exposed the charade. With Trump, Israel gets to exist four more years. And then? Iran/China/Russia want to draw the US into another quagmire to stir up anti-Americanism in the lands of Mecca. They know that Evangelicals are willing to mortgage the farm to confirm End Time Prophecy. As Israel gets in deeper so will UN condemnation of US complicity. A warrant from the World Court would force the EU to distance itself from the US. This would embolden social justice groups in the US, which could bring the Culture War to a knife's edge.
1-21-24
"Attempts to reason with universities have failed. The money paying for their bad behavior must be taken away. Only then will the behavior stop" (The NY Times on the Trumpist agenda to destroy the Left's grip on government)
The Right thinks it has only 4 years to destroy the Left. Trump is a one-of, and no one can think of a successor. He's a world influencer with a huge ax to grind, and completely at the mercy of those who help him cheat the hangman. Note that the Right has completely abandoned the negotiating table. Sectarianism has replaced secular pluralism, and the Right intends to be the last sect standing. The Left is currently in control of the knowledge industry, the media, and an endless bureaucracy through which they control ordinary Americans. The Right intends to reduce government employees drastically and demand the rest to toe the President's line. They'll purge Universities through endless investigation--in short, a new McCarthyism. You only need to be investigated to become bankrupt and career-less. The pressure will be terrifying. But the biggest change will come by funding Rightwing institutions hitherto barred by the separation of Church/State. They'll have to be careful not to overreach lest they incur the wrath of the masses. Note how Trump is not trying to make hay with the Right's abortion victories. He does not want prayer in classrooms. DeSantis floundered by making the Culture War his platform. The Oval requires a wider base, and Trump is cunning enough to put out feelers even to BLM. Netanyahu's biggest nightmare is that his zealots will attempt an attack on the Temple Mount, which he knows Israel would not survive. The Revolution usually eats its own--that is, the zealots. Trump is not a zealot. If you look closely, you'll see him already applying the brakes. He's cunning enough not to take all the rope handed him.
1-20-24
Netanyahu Is Turning Against Biden (Friedman, NY Times).
I said he would on the first day of the Gazan war (read below). Biden knew Trump's Apocalyptic horse were impatient to ride, forcing him to go hard-Right to head them off. He harbored the delusion of the Left that Manhattan Jews, having jumped on the BLM bandwagon, could now use their hard earned Civil Rights credits in defense of Israel. The hypocrisy burst into the open on the very first day, as BLM tarred and feathered American Jews with genocide and apartheid. A fatal miscalculation on Biden's part which will cost him the election, because he alienated the entire Civil Rights phalanx which put him in the Oval. That's the ballot box. His more immediate concern was the loss of his billionaire donors who made headlines by threatening Universities for not condemning BLM's genocide/apartheid rhetoric. But why, I said early on, would these billionaires donate to Biden, when they can get the real deal in Trump, because with Trump Israel gets to wage total war on Palestinians under America's nuclear umbrella. This is what has now happened. Jewish trillion$ are now flowing into Trump's war chest to stave off the destruction of the Jewish state, which is what will happen under a two state solution. They need to get Trump into the Oval at all cost. This, the Protocols of the Billionaires (and Evangelicals) of Zion, is the latest conspiracy. For all points and purposes, Trump has become the Jewish Messiah to save Israel.
1-18-24
"And because many [the 4000 depraves who tried to outdo the abominations of the Canaanites next to Gaza] were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time..... Like many Nova festivalgoers, Bassis was on drugs when the attack happened. 'I had taken all kinds of LSD and ecstasy,' he says, adding that he had been looking forward to a great day of partying. Drugs may have saved the lives of some festivalgoers, enabling them to run for several hours to safety without feeling pain or exhaustion. Others, though, likely didn’t recognize the danger and kept on dancing" (German Spiegel).
Israel is in three parts: 1) the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea, which rich globalist Jews have turned into Sodom and Gomorrah, 2) Jerusalem, where the Ultras live in ghettos multiplying and waiting for the signal to storm the Temple Mount, and 3) the Occupied West Bank, where Settlers are waging war to expel the Palestinians. It is only here, among the violence of the Settlers (who all speak English, because they're all Americans), that you find American (unlike Jews, they're not allowed dual citizenship) Evangelicals. Why, because they see little difference between the culturally conservative (conveniently white) Settlers and themselves. Evangelicals have their salvation in their own Gentile Messiah, while Settlers are preparing for the Jewish Messiah. To each his own. As the Rev Balaam Graham said: "God has a special arrangement for the Jews." That is, the Temple System, the Land (an enviable "continuing city" denied Christians), and their Choseness. Ultimately, according to Evangelicals, the Jews will look at the Temple System and see that it is (yawn) essentially the same as Christ, crucified and resurrected, the spiritualized version of the Law of Moses for "the sinners of the Gentiles" who need redemption--"so that's what that was all about," they'll say, "interesting." But why would a Jew settle for "shadows" when he has the real deal in Moses, the Land, Choseness? Israel, already redeemed out of Egypt, went into captivity again and again for trifling sins to be sure. But it needs but repent and pick up where the fathers left off just like in the days of the Judges. This is what Evangelicals must embrace to be allowed access into the Holy Land. Which is why you don't see them in the fleshpots of Tel Aviv. They're not allowed to preach, so why go there? In Jerusalem, the Ultras will spit on you if you but mention Christ. But the Settlers are on the front line of Prophecy preparing for Messiah. Preaching the Gospel of Christ to them would cause them to forsake Prophecy and take up preaching the Gospel to all nations. This is why Evangelicals don't have missionaries to Israel. They would ruin Prophecy.
With Gaza, Israel now has its back to the wall. The rising Global South will use it to wage war against the US at the UN, the world's largest moral-cancelling club. The EU, with its sermon on the mount values, is especially vulnerable here. It was created to replace the violence of its past with kingdom of god values. Its large Muslim population will become more and more restive and violent if the EU sides with Israel at the World Court. The civil war among Democrats will leave the cultural Jewish Left homeless (most of Manhattan), as Gaza becomes the face of global Civil Rights. Which is why Trump is not courting Biden's billionaire donors. He already has them in his pocket, and the less noise he makes about Israel, the more Muslims direct their wrath toward Biden. The billionaires know that Trump will give Israel the cover to go for broke: seize all the Holy Land and deal with the Palestinians once and for all. A man fresh from the gallows does not worry about world opinion. Jews now this. With Biden they get more ammo. With Trump, a nuclear shield under which Jews can make Israel Arab-rein. His lifelong trick is to out-bluff his opponents. Hamas knows that Israel can only go so far as long as the US woke left dreads the UN. That factor is gone with Trump. While undoubtedly himself squeamish about shedding blood, his live-another-day existence does not allow for complicated thought. "Israel did it," he'll shrug. It's the oldest trick in the book. Pilate washed his hands to prove his innocence. Oppenheimer, after creating the Bomb, said, "I was only a scientist doing what a scientist does." What the government does with his science is none of his business. All the Nazis who were hanged by the US protested that they were only doing what soldiers do: obey orders. Hitler could have argued that he never shed one drop of human blood.
The fact is that Israel has no choice now but to attempt complete dominion over all the Holy Land. They dread nothing more than a Palestinian state, which they think Iran will hijack. Everyone knows that the US Left, already on the warpath, will go off the rails. Even rich Manhattan Jews will find that they've become toxic globally save only in Israel and Florida. They'll be forced out of US universities and institutions en masse. Those who see Israel as part of their identity thus have no choice but to rally behind Trump to save Israel. With the zealots in control, they'll attempt rebuilding the Temple. Then all bets are off. But Netanyahu is giving Biden the cold shoulder because he needs Trump in the Oval. Which gives Trump access to untold billion$. His legal problems are over. Hamas caused more carnage in US institutions than the past 50 years of the Culture War. They effectively handed Ukraine to Putin and triggered a genocide charge at the UN which will do irreparable damage to the US. It all began, the WWIII histories will say, when a few stone age Bedouins breached the Wall.... "Give me a place to stand," a Greek once crowed, "and I will move the Universe." Egypt, an enemy of Hamas, is watching its canal revenue shrivel as Iran sics the Houtous on global shipping. Musk had to idle some of his factories as a result.
1-14-24
Charles Spurgeon's call to Holy War in occupied India (by British Historian Niall Ferguson).
"The year 1857 was the Evangelical movement's annus horribilis. They had offered India Christian civilization, and the offer had been not merely declined but violently spurned. Now the Victorians revealed the other, harsher face of their missionary zeal. In churches all over the country, the theme of the Sunday sermon switched from redemption to revenge. Queen Victoria - whose previous indifference to the Empire was transformed by the Mutiny into a passionate interest - called the nation to a day of repentance and prayer: 'A Day of Humiliation', no less. In the Crystal Palace, that monument THE MISSION to Victorian self-confidence, a vast congregation of 25,000 heard the incandescent Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon issue what amounted to a call for holy war:
"My friends, what crimes they have committed! ... The Indian (British) government never ought to have tolerated the religion of the Hindoos at all. If my religion consisted of bestiality, infanticide and murder, I should have no right to it unless I was prepared to be hanged. The religion of the Hindoos is no more than a mass of the rankest filth that imagination ever conceived. The Gods they worship are not entitled to the least atom of respect. Their worship necessitates everything that is evil and morality must put it down. The sword must be taken out of its sheath, to cut off our fellow (enslaved) subjects by their thousands."
Those words would be taken literally when the sections of the Indian army that remained loyal, the Gurkhas and Sikhs in particular, were deployed. In Cawnpore Brigadier-General Neill forced captured mutineers to lick the blood of their white victims before executing them. At Peshawar forty were strapped to the barrels of cannons and blown apart, the old Mughal punishment for mutiny. In Delhi, where the fighting was especially fierce, British troops gave no quarter. The fall of the city in September was an orgy ot slaughter and plunder. Mainodin Hassan Khan described how 'the English burst like a pent-up river through the city ... No one's life was safe. All able-bodied men who were seen were taken for rebels and shot.' In a moment of singular imperial ruthlessness, the King of Delhi's three sons were arrested, stripped and shot dead by William Hodson - the son of a clergyman. He explained his conduct to his brother, also a clergyman: I appealed to the crowd, saying that these were the butchers who had murdered and brutally used helpless women and children, and that the government had now sent their punishment: seizing a carbine from one of my men I deliberately shot them one after the other ... the bodies were taken into the city, and thrown out on to the Chiboutra [midden] ... I intended to have them hung, but when it came to a question of 'They' or 'Us', I had no time for deliberation. EMPIRE It was, as Zachary Macaulay's son observed, a fearful paroxysm to behold - the vengefulness of the Evangelicals: 'The account of that dreadful military execution at Peshawar ... was read with delight by people who three weeks ago were against all capital punishment.' The Times had demanded that 'every tree and gable-end in the place should have its burden in the shape of a mutineer's carcass'. And indeed the route of the British retaliation could be followed by the scores of corpses they left hanging from trees along the line of their march. In the words of Lieutenant Kendal Coghill: 'We burnt every village and hanged all the villagers who had treated our fugitives badly until every tree was covered with scoundrels hanging from every branch.' At the height of the reprisals, one huge banyan tree - which still stands in Cawnpore - was festooned with 150 corpses. The fruits of the Mutiny were bitter indeed. No one can be sure how many people died in this orgy of vengeance. What we can be sure of is that sanctimony bred a peculiar cruelty. In the wake of the relief of Lucknow, a young boy approached the gate to the city, supporting a tottering old man, and throwing himself at the feet of an officer, asked for protection. That officer ... drew his revolver, and snapped it at the wretched supplicant's head ... Again he pulled the trigger - again the cap missed; again he pulled, and once more the weapon refused its task. The fourth time - thrice he had time to relent - the gallant officer succeeded, and the boy's life blood flowed at his feet.
Spurgeon never repented, nor did Luther or Calvin. All done by "the ministers of God" as in Calvin's Geneva. You can kill all you want as long as you do it legally. "I have exterminated him," Calvin crowed after burning his enemy at the stake. Luther called on his followers to volunteer "to be hangmen". If God does not condemn these murderers on the day of Judgement, He will have to apologize to Cain. There is not a shred of evidence that Hitler ever personally killed anyone. Nor Stalin, although he was in circumstances where he could have. But they did mass murder as heads of state. And no head of state ever committed murder. That's what David meant when he told squeamish Job: it's all violence up here. And no one bothers to sort it. Job would kill at the drop of a hat, but only as a function of his office. For a king, all acts are official. When King Lamech invoked "70 times 7", he claimed full immunity. A king cannot commit crimes, because he is the monopoly of valence, and cannot be brought to account. Any law above him is pointless.
1-7-24
"In that garden, if the leaves had faded, he would not, and if the animals had died (and I suppose they would, for they certainly did die before Adam came into the world), yet there is no need that Adam should have died." (Charles Spurgeon)
Why did Spurgeon spew this blasphemous doctrine of devils? Because, he feared the ridicule of the Darwinists. He was the prince of ear ticklers, and depended on huge offerings to pay for the temple he had built for himself. With this heresy he contradicts the entire story of redemption, the literal trustworthiness of the Bible, and Prophecy. Since day one, Christians have always understood "the lion lying next to the lamb" as the removal of sin, the curse, and the "groaning of Nature", "the tooth and claw". Imagine the rivers of blood Adam would have witnessed in the Garden of Eden when Tyrannosaurus Rex went for the jugular of a mountainous dino. The shrieks, the screams, savagery unthinkable today. But all there, hundreds of millions of years, day and night, before Adam. But the fraud would have been reduced to very small numbers had he remained faithful to the Scripture: "for by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin" (Rom. 5). He took yearly vacations on package tours with aristocrats. He had servants and a chauffer. He lived like the 1 percent.
So why did he do this? For the same reason Augustine told his Christian Emperor to torture Christians who withdrew from the state church after Constantine turned pagan temples into churches. If you allow them to form their own churches, he said, the state church will splinter into a thousand pieces, and then which of them shall be the true church, because they will all be small cults. This is what lies behind the mass murders of the Catholic Inquisition, which Luther and Calvin inherited and used to murder Anabaptists. Several years ago Hebrew scribe Bruce Waltke was caught on tape bewailing Christians who denied Evolution, saying, "they'll reduce the Church to a small cult." In other words, a Remnant. Neither Luther, Calvin nor Spurgeon were about to labor as poor shepherds to small flocks. They coveted fine living, servants, and worldly prestige. Constantine and the Reformation turned the West into the New Jerusalem, Christian Nations where Christians were forever safe from persecution.
But now they were all made to be the kings chaplains in "the King's Chapel". The Kaiser of Germany and the King of England were made the heads of the Church. Worse, during the Holy Roman Empire, the Pope claimed the right to depose kings, which made him the king over kings: a theocracy, which is what you had in Calvin's Geneva, where blood flowed like a river as sin was dealt with as crime.
Spurgeon was given the equivalent of a state funeral like Balaam Graham. His church quickly faded as they brought in one ear-tickler after another to keep itching ears coming. He and his Temple were the church--the rest was nothing but filling. The fraud even had a Preacher's College. His death exposed the charade. He had so dumbed-down his congregation with Calvinist rot that they were utterly giftless. But even atheists swooned at his oratory, which was little more than vain jangling.
Does it matter if a person believes that animals died for millions of years before Adam? That Adam would have seen the results of tooth and claw all around him, even as he ate only vegetation. This is satanic unbelief. He knew what the Bible said. Yet here he is repeating the lie of the Serpent: "yea, hath God said". The Darwinists were more convincing than the plain Scripture. This is how these hucksters destroyed the Bible. "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you," Paul says (Ro.2). Note: they do not direct their blasphemy against the hypocrite, but against the God whom the hypocrites profess to represent. They neither believed "the oracles of God" themselves, and "made them of none effect" to others by their hypocrisy.
Many Evangelicals today find consolation for their own unbelief in Spurgeon's heresy. While they, like Spurgeon, make a feeble protest that man did not came from apes, they see the first chapters of Genesis as utterly unfactual, because, Spurgeon said, the fossil record proves that animals lived and died for hundreds of millions of years before Adam, which means they could not have all been made on the sixth day with Adam. And there the fraud destroyed both the foundation of Scripture (Genesis) and the doctrine of sin and Redemption.
1-1-24
Israeli minister reiterates calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza
Israel’s far-right finance minister says Israelis who would replace the Palestinians would ‘make the desert bloom’.
“What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” he said.
“If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different,” he said.
He added that if the 2.3 million population were no longer there “growing up on the aspiration to destroy the state of Israel”, Gaza would be seen differently in Israel.
“Most of Israeli society will say: ‘Why not? It’s a nice place, let’s make the desert bloom, it doesn’t come at anyone’s expense’.”
Cheap land--just like in the day of Joshua.
This is right out of the Nazi handbook. Or, if Christ is a false Messiah, right out of the Bible. For if there is no New Covenant, then the Old Covenant, given on Mount Sinai, is still in effect to the last jot and tittle. Luther and Calvin, to make the teachings of Jesus useable for Cain-Caesar's Chapel, leapfrogged over the Gospels and converted Paul into a latter day Moses of the Pharisees, who like Evangelicals could neither "put up their swords" nor keep their trousers up. The Second Amendment, which is the only commandment left these violent wife-swappers, gives them leave to murder their adversaries as long as it's legal. The latest is the license of "stand your ground" law in the Deep South, which allows you to slaughter humans the minute your feel threatened. The Fundamentalist Baptist, Frank Norris, riddled his Catholic adversary with bullets in his church office, because, he said, he reached for his gun. He was unarmed. Preacher Norris had a gun in his drawer in the desk where he wrote his sermons. "How are you different from Cain," journalists asked him. "Thou Shalt Not Kill," he snarled, "only applies if you kill with hate." He went on to pastor two churches at the same time, one in Fort Worth and the other in Michigan. This story is taught only as "unusual" in Evangelical colleges--"he said he felt threatened", they say. Luther called on his followers to volunteer to "be hangmen" and Calvin crowed, "I have exterminated him"(Servetus). If they condemn Preacher Norris, how are they then not also condemning the apostolic fathers, Luther and Calvin? And so they brought "the way of Cain" (bloodshed), as well as the "error of Balaam" (divorce-whoredom) into the church. Which is why pagans sneer at them, "Christianity, you should try it." Pagans, as a whole, think Jesus' teachings are noble, if unrealistic. Catholic/Protestants profess not to understand them, and until they do, they reinvented the violent-wife-swapping Pharisee. Hence, also the allure of gun-toting Settlers exterminating Palestinians in the West Bank. And here they (pagans) are joined by Churchill and Hitler, who both lamented the West's "cheek-turning" religion, as opposed to the war-like religion of Islam. Obviously, Hitler and Churchill saw Luther and Calvin as frauds and religious hucksters, because both told their "pious magistrates" to make ample use of the sword to protect the Church. That, for Hitler and Churchill, is to turn the New Testament on its head, and turn Jesus into Anti-Christ--which they would have preferred. Why do Evangelicals feel at home in the West Bank? Because, here the violent doctrines of Luther and Calvin are in full force, without having to worry about "legality". Settlers can no more commit murder by killing Palestinians than Joshua. And Jews are not bothered by divorce.
"Our father Jacob gave us this well" (John 4). Well, if Jacob is your father, then why do Jews refuse to call you Jews? This was before the event of white Jews, for most Jews in Israel now are Germanic--they look like Bavarians, and have German names. They have less Abrahamic blood than this interracial Samaritan. They were even looking for "the Messiah, who will teach us all things". "You know not what you worship. We know what we worship. For salvation is of the Jews," Jesus says. Yet, this woman, wrong in some of her doctrine, looked for the true Messiah: "I that speak unto thee, am he," Jesus says. Soon Jesus says, Jerusalem and the Temple will be no more sacred than any other profane place on earth: "for the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth." That is the meaning of the torn veil in the Temple. God vacated it, and since then it was no more holy than an outhouse. That goes for the Temple Mount. As children of "our father Jacob", Jacob, do modern descendants of Samaritans (I went to school with some) have a "biblical title" to the lands where their church buildings still stand (Bethlehem and Hebron)? Well, this woman is one of the Chosen People through her father Jacob. But you're quoting the fraud that is the New Testament. Jews say. How can that be a biblical deed? Besides, End Time dogma sees the Chosen People as unsaved Jews getting the Promised Land all spruced up for the Messiah: he washing of pots and pans, kosher, strict Sabbath keeping, sacrifices, etc., etc. (Christ ascended to prepare a place for the Church, and here Evangelicals are preparing the Land for the Messiah). As a Christian, she forfeited her place among the elite. Muslim or Christian, the Return is only for unsaved Jews, and non-Jews, Christian or not, stand in the way of God's wrath when He returns. This is the heretical perversion of the Evangelical Jew-fetish.
The Great Commission given to Jews (the Apostles) was "Get out of Israel into all the world". It's the only hope of salvation in the New Testament, for both "Jew and Greek, for now there is no difference". The New Testament knows nothing of this modern Jew fetish, which is a Protestant copy of the cult of Mary: grovel before the Chosen People and they're bound to put in a good word for you in the End. It is only recently that Protestants invented the damnable heresy that for Jews there exists a hidden path to God as the Chosen People, which makes Jews twice the children of Hell than their fore-fathers. Soon, neither your own error, nor "Jerusalem", will matter, Jesus said, but "spirit and truth". The American Dream is "the continuing city" of non-pilgrims, and as it slips into non-European hands, it rises in the West Bank. Luther and Calvin wanted their cake and eat it too. Which is why they joined hands with Cain-Caesar in "the King's Chapel", where neither violent Herod, nor his lecherous whore Herodias, would feel out of place. The West Bank is the old Temple System before John exposed it as no more than deodorant to sanitize the stink of Herod's bedroom. Having destroyed the Bible at home, Evangelicals are now forced to seek meaning in Jewish messianics: which from beginning to end is anti-christ, which is why it will embrace the Anti-Christ who will be everything Christ is not. Jesus will not come again to save but to judge. He will not come for Jews, but for His Bride, the Church, the New Jerusalem. The Anti-Messiah will be revealed, embraced, and installed in the fake temple. He will promise earthly deliverance, which is all Jews seek. Chosen People do not need redemption from sin, but only deliverance to enter fully into the Promised Land. Evangelicals can only "do ministry" in Israel under organizations who have signed agreements not "to preach Christ" in any form or manner. If Jesus entered Israel as He did 2000 Years ago, Jews "would crucify the Son of God afresh". And Evangelicals would blame him for not respecting Jewish religion. Mention Christ and you will be spat at. For who are "sinners of the Gentiles" to lecture God's Chosen People on religion.
1-1-24
Israeli Justices Reject Netanyahu-Led Move to Limit Court
In other words, by overruling the ballot box, they have made themselves despotic kings. The current government was elected to govern by majority vote. The ballot box is, after all, the will of the majority. This is what is called democracy. You want differnt government, get out and vote. Still not enough? Then get out and convince people to vote your way? Still not enough? Find a country that votes your way? There are none? That makes you a pilgrim.
Is this the end of Netanyahu? The hardliners are all that stand between him and jail. The hardliners are in control. And war is the domain of the iron-fisted Right. They can no more find a Sheriff for Gaza, than a more liberal government for Israel. Globalist liberals would have to get of of Gaza in order to be accepted in the cafes of Paris and Western universities, where their gilded lifestyles are now threatened. The infernal war over judges is what provoked the Hamas attack. And now they're back to infighting. The whole contraption was never more than German guilt, Evangelical heresy, and the hedonistic playground of Wall Street billionaires.
12-29-23
Thousands of American Jews are in Gaza slaughtering Palestinian women and children as members of the Israeli army. The code of the mercenary allows anyone from any country to slaughter human beings under the authority of any other country without committing a crime. Because the Bible sees state-killing as just another function of the "minister of God", and as long as you kill as an employee of the state, your act has no moral ramification whatsoever. For no king ever committed murder--David could not be tried for murder because there is no law against kings committing murder. "The king cannot break the law, because the king is the law," is how it was said in the old days. Americans are in Ukraine killing Russians under the authority of the Ukraine government with US permission. Settlers regularly kill and terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank, over which Israel does not claim sovereignty. With few exceptions, the rest of the world calls the Occupation of the West Bank illegal under International Law. The US abstains from condemning the Occupation outright, but understands the hypocrisy of promoting "the rules based order", while condoning Israel's criminal Drang Nach Osten. Israel does what it does because it has a monopoly of violence over the Palestinians. This translates into Might is Right, which is always the pretext for the next war, and which World Organizations and diplomacy hope to replace with treaties and International consensus. Ambassadors are given immunity because nations are no more than monopolies of violence, and outside of those monopolies it's dog eat dog--unless you're an ambassador, which grants you access into a safe-house similar to what the Mafias use to conduct business among themselves. Aside from brutal aggression, the only other grounds for the Settler war on Palestinians is the promise to Abraham, and then later the birthright of Jacob, which the Palestinian ancestor, Esau, sold for a "mess of pottage". Add to that the command to Joshua to exterminate the inhabitants of Canaan, which is still in effect if the Old Covenant has not been replaced by the New. Settlers, then, are commanded to kill Arabs as a biblical duty in order to redeem the promise to Abraham, Then why, you say, if God gave the land to Abraham, did Abraham later feel compelled to buy a burial ground for 400 shekels in the land God gave him?. Because, he did not yet have the monopoly of violence over his neighbors, you say. Later David paid only 50 shekels for what is now the rarest plot of land in the Universe: the Jebusite threshing floor now covered by the Dome of the Rock. David did have the monopoly of violence over the Jebusites, but would have considered it bad form to commit violence on the very spot where God ordered him to offer the sacrifice of peace. But Settlers and their Evangelical backers know that replacing the Dome with the Temple will require violence, as ordained by God. If Americans have US permission to kill Russians in Ukraine, what happens if Evangelicals end up in the midst of these marauding Settlers whose biblical violence the Israeli government illegal, but winks at? Only the US recognizes Israel's "biblical deed" to the lands of Abraham. Settlers are not brought to account for killing Palestinians by Israel, and Evangelicals say they're only doing what Joshua did. Would the Bible allow Evangelicals to kill Arabs alongside these Settlers to help them fulfill End Time prophecy?
Jesus is a Jew, and yet had no "place to lay his head". His last commandment to His fellow Jews was to get out of Israel--"into all the world" to broadcast the Good News. Gallio cares for none of these things. The good news to Evangelicals and Settlers is the Temple on the horizon, the reinstatement of the Old Covenant with all its rites, sabbaths, washings, rivers of blood--upon which the true Messiah will come to purge the world of evil and reign from Jerusalem. No repentance required. The Temple System is there to deal with any and all sins. The blood of a single sacrifice on the Dat of Atonement gives every Israelite a new slate. Substitutionary atonement does not go beyond that. Just bring your offering, keep kosher, and don't forget the tithe, "for the rich cast in much." This is almost unfathomable to the BC/AD mindset. Jews turn themselves inside out trying to account for this reversal of Time, but because unrighteous Mammon demands it (especially at Christmas), the frauds mumble Before the Common Era (BC) and After the Common Era (AD). But why, you say, is there a Common Era? Among themselves they still pretend to count time from Adam. But transactions in filthy lucre are stamped in exact time, that is, from Christ onward. No Jew will ever say Before Christ, and After Christ. Because Jesus, they say, was an utter fraud. They are not waiting for the Evangelical Second Messiah, because the First never came. This is what these Evangelical grovelers have to submit to. At home the frauds teach that Jesus will return the second time as the Jewish Messiah, this time by making Himself presentable to Jews, without having to worry about "the sinners of the Gentiles" who could keep neither kosher nor the Law Moses. But Jews are saved by keeping the law of Moses, and Evangelicals are there to get the Mosaic System up and running again. The notion that Jews could not keep the law of Moses is another perversion of the Gentile Messiah, they say. For why would God have given the Law, if you cannot keep it? These Evangelical frauds play along, just so they get Jew-credits to gain favor with God. What is the Good News to the Jews? There is none. All the good news is wrapped up in the promises to Abraham, the Land, and the Temple System of Moses. Evangelicals are allowed to talk about the Jewish Messiah all they want. But they cannot mention the name "Jesus" without being kicked out to Israel. "Give us Barabbas," they cried when they rejected the Messiah. What Evangelicals are promoting over there is little more than the patriot Barabbas, compared to whom, Jesus was a traitor. No Evangelical thinks Barabbas was a murderer. He tried to deliver Jews by killing their Roman occupiers. This is the Messiah Jews are still looking for. Which is why Evangelicals don't even attempt to "save" the sodomites of Tel Aviv from their sins. Because a "saved" Jew is commanded to forsake Israel and "go into all the world", rendering him useless for Prophecy. Even Mary initially thought Jesus would "save Jews from their enemies". The notion that the Temple System was only "a shadow" of Christ is absurd. If true, "then what profit would there be to being a Jew'? And then Paul goes one better and calls Christians Jews, that is "inward" Jews. And "the Israel of God". And a Jew is to abandon his Chosen privilege and "get saved"? Poor Evangelicals can only look on from afar. How do you compete with the Law of Moses and the Temple? Real religion in real time and not a "Jerusalem from above". And a real Utopia where you are among you own kind. It's what the American Dream used to be. And now look at at. "We're full," cursed the Rev Dobson at the dark hordes pressing in. But Israel shows how it's done. A Jewish nation for Jews only. And that commanded by God. Add the Wild West lawlessness on the West Bank and you don't even need the 2nd Amendment. And as the Evangelicals say, "there's terrorists lurking everywhere" in the West Bank. Injun country.
Operation Ittai, as you read below is the Evangelical campaign to assist Settlers in their war against the Palestinians who somehow came to live in Judea and Samaria (the Abrahamic heartlands) after Titus sold the Jews into slavery. And of course, any Arab who is saved, would have to side with the Settlers to reinstate the Temple System. And Jews hate Arabs the way their fathers hated the inter-racial Samaritans. "Terrorists lurk everywhere," Evangelicals tell Fox. And Evangelicals are not there to convert terrorists, They're there to help God's Chosen People against the terrorists. If one of them gets killed in a shootout, will Evangelicals call them martyrs, like Bonhoeffer who tried to assassinate Hitler and hanged for it? "Their feet are swift to shed blood, and the way of peace have they not know," Paul quotes David, describing Jews who refused to accept the Prince of Peace. To this day, the oddest notion in Israel is "Blessed are the peacemakers". "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem"? Indeed, after the dust settles. Remember, the script calls for "blood up to the bridles mouth". Because there is no BC/AD in Jewish religion, all the mandates of Joshua are in effect fully, and the Bible does not accuse Joshua of committing murder in exterminating the Canaanites. This is what the rest of the world sees when the Israeli ambassador shouts "this is my deed" holding up the Bible at the UN. God gave ancient Israel license to kill Canaanites. This is what terrifies American Jewish liberals. They know that Ultras and many Settlers see this as the next stage, Liquidation. The Final Solution to make Israel arabrein. For everyone understands that if the promise to Abraham is still in effect, then so is the command to Joshua. For Jews there is no "Old" Covenant because the "New Covenant" is a Christian invention. There is only the Covenant of God with His Chosen People; Forever. Nothing has changed. Not one jot or tittle. This is the internal war that created the Hamas war. The Ultra/Settler/Evangelicals need to get rid of the globalist judges who now rule Israel in pave the way for the next stage of Prophecy. The two wars are the two sides of the same coin. And there are no solutions to either. If the US creates a DMZ to contain Hamas, they'll create suicide bomber on every corner of the Western world. The suicide bombers drove them out of Afghanistan and didn't follow them home and stayed off airliners. They seem to have forgotten that.
12-26-23
From Fox News:
"A group of American cowboys who went viral for their trip to Israel to help out Israeli farming communities in the West Bank say they jumped in to help because terrorism is "lurking everywhere."
John Plocher and Yosef "Yoss" Strain from Montana – along with two other cowboy hat-wearing companions – were spotted en route to Israel on Nov. 6 at New York's JFK Airport, and again when they arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, and photos quickly went viral on social media, with one post on X, formerly Twitter, garnering several million views.
Plocher and his fellow cowboys are volunteers with Operation Ittai, a project spearheaded by HaYovel, a Christian volunteer organization that works in "Judea and Samaria," the area more commonly known as the West Bank. Operation Ittai is named after "a foreigner who stood with King David in the Bible," according to HaYovel.
Operation Ittai is also raising nearly $30 million to bring supplies like protective vests, thermal drones, night-vision goggles, binoculars, flashlights, and security cameras to Jewish communities in the West Bank that Waller says are under threat from "terrorism lurking everywhere."
"All these farms are on the front line, they're all surrounded by Arab villages. And these Arab villages have enough hostility within them to cause major trouble," said Waller, noting that on Wednesday a Jewish husband, wife and baby were shot at and are currently in critical condition.
EVANGELICALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY RALLY IN PRAYER, SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AS WAR-TORN US ALLY FIGHTS BACK
Before any of these frauds are allowed into Israel they sign a statement that they will not engage in the Great Commission. In other words, here are Christian volunteering to deny Christ. The frauds are then made to grovel before Settlers who indoctrinate them in all the damnable heresies of the End Time Jewish messiah, who, unlike Jesus, will be the real deal. Mention Christ and they will curse and spit on you--and kick you out of Israel. So obviously, these Settlers, who are there to drive out the Samaritans who own these lands, and often murder them--these Settlers need not be saved. Because, as Rev Balaam Graham used to say, "God has a special arrangement for Jews." Recently a Messianic Fraud made the claim in Christianity Today that even sodomites in Tel Aviv are in God-fearing mode, because the fact that they are in Israel shows they are in God's plan. That would be Plan A. The Gentile Messiah, Jesus, was but a beggarly affair, "without form or comeliness", a great dishonor to the Mosaic system, with its Temple, long-robed priestcraft, ceremonies, and Pharisees, "as touching the Law, blameless." These cowboys are there to pick up the slack while the Settlers are in Gaza mass murdering women and children. Free labor, plus they quickly raised $30 millions we are told (drones, binoculars, etc.) to help them murder these descendants of Samaritans. Hypocrites. Here at home, they live next to the squalor of Indian Reservations whom they would sooner curse then help. Mexicans who flood in, not for $30 million donations, but to labor in dangerous and dismal places--these the Rev. Dobson cursed on Trump's Wall. "We are a Christian Nation," he cursed, "but we are full." In Israel he would have had to leave out the "Christian". Israel would know how to solve the Mexico problem. Invade Mexico and exterminate or expel its inhabitants. Cheap land--the infidel will have to make way like the Indians. John Owen, Cromwell's preacher tutted that the massacre of the Irish made Cromwell a divinely chosen vessel like Joshua. Palestinians stand in the way of Prophecy. Today, Jesus would likely have thrown the woman down the well. By any political measure, Jesus was a traitor, for these interracial Samaritans posed a real threat to Israeli identity, then as well as today. Jews on the other hand are mostly Europeans. They are blessed where it counts with Evangelicals: white skin. They are the other white race, for 90 percent of the Israeli genepool is Teutonic (most have German names). There are more blondes in Israel per capita than in Germany. $30 million, these racist frauds took with them--not a dime for starving Samaritans. When at home, they begrudge the dark skinned stranger the opportunity to earn his bread with the meanest tasks. They traverse the globe with their $millions to make themselves Jewish proselytes (Jews are to Evangelicals what Mary is to Catholics, a mediatrix to Christ. An Evangelical in Israel is bound to have merit with God. Just go, the Pope told Crusaders, and all your sins will be forgiven. These frauds are a modern version of that). The Pharisees had to go abroad because they stank up their own neighborhoods, where no one listened to them. Like these frauds, they were very careful who they preached to, lest the poor follow them home. They cursed the Samaritans. Jews have retained, along with all their anti-christ doctrines of devils, their ancient hatred of the Samaritans now being exterminated in Gaza. Listen closely to Evangelical doctrine and you will hear the murderous chant that these inhabitants require removing in order for the Old Covenant to once again come into effect, and being in place with all the perfections of Moses (washings, Sabbaths, Holy Days, the blood of sheep and goats), all will be ready for the Jewish Messiah to come rule in Jerusalem. Temple sacrifices will be there to deal with "the sins of the people". The Christian heresy that God required a divine/human sacrifice, Jews curse as idolatry. For the Jewish Messiah will not be God. He could be Elijah. To call Jesus God, they say, is poly-theism. This is what these Evangelical frauds are made to embrace. Jews will be saved by Plan A, which is that God chose the Jews (and none else). To be a Jew makes you saved. And the Temple System is there for mistakes and imperfections. "God be merciful to me a sinner"? No wonder the proud "Pharisee prayed to himself, I thank God..." This vagabond publican was so far gone, he had forgotten his own choseness. The Temple System is all a Jew needs to round out his Choseness. A few imperfection or mistakes here and there to be washed away ("the Pharisee was aghast that Jesus ate with unwashed hands"). Because a Jew is "not a sinner as the Gentiles". A Jew does not need to be "saved". He doesn't need to to repent. That's why you have sacrifices. He is already Chosen. An Evangelical's dream. Jews get to enjoy life. Gentiles have to repent. But if you get close to Jews, you get credit, and you can hope God will give you a pass. The Evangelical Jew fetish is nothing but Popery through the back door. What frauds! And now they're over there helping Jews murder Samaritans. "Terrorists everywhere," they say. Barabbas was ahead of his times. The "terrorists" used to own the land before they were driven off. Then again, by what stretch does the Bible call Barabbas "a murderer". He was a Roman, not a Jewish, prisoner. He killed occupying Romans. He was only carrying on where Joshua left off, just like the Settlers. You think Rome would have cared if he had killed Jews? Paul was a Roman with secular Roman rights. Which is how he escaped the Jews. Jesus and John had only religious Jewish rights.
As Ultras and Settlers remind these groveling Evangelicals: the greatest proof that Christ was fake is that the people designed by God to embrace Him, rejected Him. If He came today as He was back then, they would rise up and "crucify the Son of God afresh". Why? Because, He doesn't work for Jews. He couldn't make it in the Temple System so, bingo, the Temple system is done away with, and bingo, He Himself is the fulfillment of it all. Just like that. And all the sufferings of the Jewish people, all the rituals, all the promises, all the covenants to the fathers--all as if "it were dung". And worse, the accursed Gentile, having squandered his goods in riotous living while Jews bore the heat of the day, are now given the fatter ox and welcomed in at the last hour as if "there were not difference" between Jews and Greeks. There frauds agree with the anti-christs that Christ is "a stone of stumbling", whom the builders rejected because He fit nowhere in the elaborate structure of Moses. And Jews were just supposed to grin and bear it? Again, "What profit then is there to being a Jew"? What was the point of all that. if now all is lever at the foot of the Cross, and Jews are treated like "sinners of the Gentiles"? Except for a handful, they reject, deny, and curse the Son of God to this day. This is what these frauds are promoting over there. They are there to encourage anti-christs to prepare for the Anti-Messiah, whom they will embrace because he will conform to their proud conceits. They curse the Christ who came, and are thus primed to accept a substitute. someone who will recognize Jewish glory, and not treat them like "Gentile sinners". So say that Abraham is to be counted "a sinner like the Gentiles"--well, how could he then boast of his Choseness? And the great Temple. All swept aside in an instance, and now a Jew is to go out to proclaim the Year of Jubilee to their former enemies and make them equals. Again, "What profit would Choseness be, if that is the case." What tricks is God playing here, if this were true. "Choseness", Evangelicals grovel, "is Plan A, the supreme brand." What they wouldn't give to be grafted into Plan A.
12-25-23
"U.S. struggles to revive Palestinian Authority for post-war Gaza role" (Washington Post).
Which proves that the US is the ultimate Occupier of Palestinians. Biden claims he cannot stop Israeli slaughter of Palestinian women and children, and here he is looking for a Sheriff to run the Reservation. He could just as well kick George Floyd. He knows it might cost him the election, and is in a hurry to end it. But Netanyahu and Jewish billionaires have more to hope from Trump than Biden, fully aware that there is no going back to the status quo. Israel will now turn harder to the Right: the heavy fist of violence to keep the Palestinians in line. They know the world will demand a two state solution which even Kissinger knew would be the end of Israel. Why? Statecraft demands a credible negotiating counterpart, and that part of the world is a snake-pit despots who rule by terror and violence. Kissinger wanted to give Gaza to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan. But now you create two more failed countries. Trump has been making strange noises lately. He no longer needs to court Jews for either their money or vote, and so he's at leisure to make overtures to their enemies: BLM. A vote is a vote. Once he gets in, all bets are off. He has neither vision nor agenda, nor loyalty. Evangelicals irritate him, and he could well throw both them and the Temple Jews under the bus. On the other hand, he is squeamish off violence, empathy, perhaps, as a result of a live of cheating the hangman. Then again, if he still has it in for the Muslims, he might give Ultras and Settlers permission to go for broke--seize the Temple Mount. But Gaza will remain a powder keg in Western Universities for years to come, and joined with Critical Theory in Europe, where Muslims have enormous clout, will exert enormous pressure on politics. If the US becomes the face of Gaza, which it will if it underwrites its occupation, it will resurrect a new wave of anti-Americanism which the Global South will channel into more 9/11's. Moral shaming at the UN is the new statecraft. It always was. Machiavelli puts it at the very front. "A prince," he counsels, "must embody all a nation's virtues, publicly, while secretly resorting to diabolical cunning and deceit." Even a lecher like King Abimelech protested that Abraham had forced him on a moral tightrope by being less than candid about his wife, Sarah. Europe still pretends to do "moral", that is, kingdom of god, diplomacy, and despots have a keen interest to burnish their moral credits where they can. One way of doing that is to get their enemies to dig their own moral holes--which Gaza already is, The panic among Jewish elites it that Israel has entered uncharted territory. Hamas attacked because it saw Israel's inner turmoil, and now the war forced Israel hard tight, right into the hands of Ultra/ Settlers. Apartheid talk will now come back with a vengeance, forcing liberal American Jews to either move to Israel, or disown it. But the old anti-Semitism will still target them for being Jews, even if they disown Israel.
12-25-23
What is considered a rite of passage in Evangelicalism (wife-swapping divorce) now ranks lower than sodomy. For Catholics, Jesus' simple prohibition on all divorce-remarriage remains in effect. But the Pope has made it his mission to remove all stigma from sodomy. The German church, the most wealthy and liberal, is full of divorced-remarried people who are afraid to take Communion because the Vatican Catechism states that they "live in public and permanent adultery". The clergy considers all this nonsense, and call on the Pope to throw the whole moral charade under the bus and get with the times. Old Ratzinger's man, Cardinal Muller, whom Franziskus kicked out of Rome says, "Even the Pope cannot change Scripture". "Scripture alone," cried divorce-pimps Luther and Calvin against the Catholics, and then went about fathering every damnable heresy into the Scripture. They are now clamoring for the Government to legislate against sodomy which they say is destroying Church America. But sodomy is no more than an abscess on Protestant Evangelical adultery. Now you would think Evangelicals would find fertile ground among these burdened German divorced-remarried. They should go over there and preach Jubilee. "God has forgiven you," they should cry, "all is in the past." This is what the wife-swapping frauds would do if they themselves were not in crippling bondage to "public and permanent adultery". But now sodomy is in the door, and their children, as the NY Times crooned when Church Montana sought to shackle the dragster in the State House--"the Governor's son," they crooned, "uses pronouns." The children's Pornouns are but the abscesses on church adultery.
The Pope blesses sodomy, and still condemns old fashioned divorce-remarriage between consenting adults as soul-damning sin? Don't worry, this is exactly what the ordinary person think. And what do Evangelicals say? Aside from the heretical frauds in the pulpits, the simple people agree with the Catholics 100 percent here. Their huckster preachers tell them everything will turn out ok in the end--"love the sinner, hate the sin". But they have a mortal wound that has destroyed them, leaving them to resort to the machinations of their founding fathers, the tricksters Luther and Calvin, who joined hands with Cain-Caesar to promote their religion. Now Groomer is in the door, and, once again, they cry for Caesar to ban Muslims and immigrants, lest they overrun their religion.
In case you missed--over in the NY Times section: you're not supposed to draw a connection between the Pope's Groomer fetish and the Catholic Church's howler of still condemning what the Evangelicals threw out 500 years ago: divorce-remarried adultery. Their inhouse Catholic, Douthat, wants to vent the pressure by making use of Catholic annulment mills, which render previous marriages as if they never were. Where no marriage ever was, there can be no divorce. Imagine that. Here's a NY Times writer incapable of giving his fellow divorced/remarried Catholics relief. Look up the Vatican Catechism where it says, "They live in public and permanent adultery". This is why the Pope can bless sodomy but not the divorced/remarried. Can you believe this comedy of errors? But what a door of utterance for Evangelicals here. Why are they silent? Because they know they have destroyed the Bible by their wicked refusal to obey the simple teaching of Christ: "whosoever marrieth her that is put away, doth commit adultery". This is why they feel condemned by these oppressed Catholics, and why they cannot stand before the sodomites. "There is sin in the camp." "Their sin hath found them out." Why? This is a sin against the 7th Commandment, the safeguard of marriage. But Calvin and Luther destroyed the 7th Commandment to buy protection from their depraved princes. The price was to make Herod the head of the Protestant Chapel, with Herodias at his side. And now Sodom is riding into their churches on the back of their own adulteries.
12-24-23
"In keeping with Christian Just War tradition, we also affirm the legitimacy of Israel’s right to respond" Evangelical Statement in Support of Israel.
The list of Evangelical warmongers includes "Pastor, Choteau Baptist Church; Choteau, Montana." These unregenerate wife-swapping murderers suffer from a two-fold spiritual leprosy: they can neither put up their swords, nor keep their trousers pulled up after the manner of their fathers Luther and Calvin, the murderous divorce-pimps of the Reformation. These modern day cheerleaders of mass murder have yet to repent of the murder of the true Christians of the Reformation, the Anabaptists, and will murder them again in the next "Christian Just War". The mass murder of Hiroshima and Dresden, according to these modern architects of murder, was justified by "Christian Just War tradition". The 25,000 mass murder of Palestinians (mostly women and children) by Israel, these Evangelical cheerleaders of mass murder now say, is justified by "Christian Just War tradition." If God does not condemn these unregenerate cheerleaders of mass murder on the day of Judgment, He will have to apologize to Cain. "Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes" (Ro. 3)
12-17-23
"Hatred of Israel is Endangering American Jews" (Frontpage Ad NY Times)
Is that because most Americans cannot distinguish between American Jews and Israel? Settlers murdering Palestinians in the West Bank are mostly American, funded by American billionaires. American Jews have Israeli citizenship by default, and most Israelis consider America their birthright. Thousands of American Jews flocked back to Israel to rejoin their army units to invade Gaza which has now caused over 18,000 deaths, most of them women and children. The global response to George Floyd was not hatred for America. But rather the response of ordinary humans who rise up to condemn the harsh treatment of the weak and the helpless. Europe will now become uninhabitable for Jews. They already require a heavy police presence. Which is like living in a cage.
Gaza is George Floyd, and George Floyd toppled the statues of Generals Lee and Jackson, which were cut apart with blow torches and melted down. These were the stalwarts of the Bible Belt, who epitomized the spirit of Christian America. Their names have become utterly toxic. Unthinkable as recent as ten years ago. Don't confuse wokeness with Civil Rights, the former being no more than (mostly) Jewish elites buying moral credits to keep the hordes below from pulling down the Jewish hoards above. Jewish shop keepers stepped to the side when BLM ransacked their gold and jewelry stores, and refused to press charges. That bargain is now caput, as BLM refused to jump on the Jewish bandwagon to turn Gaza into powder. Colonial reckoning is a worldwide phenomenon and will continue to shake the Capitals of the West for decades to come, goaded by the rising Global South, which has long memories.
Israel was caught napping by Hamas because they had bought their own myths and delusions. Which was that Israelis could expect a normal (Western) existence surrounded by cutthroats not far from the Arabian Nights. Imagine Golden Calf revels next to Gaza.
Ancient Sparta would be a close parallel. They had enslaved the Helots, who outnumbered them 7 to 1, but had to live in military barracks keep the upper hand. An Athenian who lived among them for a week said, "Now I know why Spartans are so eager to die in battle. Because their everyday lives are so miserable." But the beaches of Tel Aviv are the fleshpots where New York Jews go to revel Worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. But even these Jews, wrote a Messianic Jew in Christianity Today, simply be "returning to Israel", are doing God's will, preparing for the Messiah. And how, you say, will that Messiah differ from the first Messiah, whom they rejected? He will need to be very different inorder for them not to "crucify the Son of God afresh". Which is why they will accept the Anti-Messiah (even Messianic Jews cannot bear the name "Christ", which translates the Hebrew word Messiah). Jews, of course, see Jesus as a fraud. Proof? Jews rejected him, except for a handful. Why would God's Chosen People, they sneer, reject a Messiah especially tailored for them. More proof? He was embraced by un-Chosen "sinners of the Gentiles". John, the forerunner of Isaiah, could hardly believe that what he witnessed was "the government of God on earth". Jesus did not give him any more signs. But Messianic Jews, like Evangelicals see no reason to get Jews to became ordinary Christians. The Apostles were such, and Jesus sent them "into all the world". But then, they become less than worthless for God's End Time plan. because how are they "to return" if they're out there preaching the Gospel? The old superstitions still had a hold on Peter. Which brought a "sharp rebuke" from Paul.
But this time will be different, say Messianics and Evangelicals. God will take another shot at convincing the Jews, having failed so miserably the first time. But Plan A is still on, and this time God will not make the mistake of bypassing the Temple, the rituals, the sacrifices and all that is worthy of "being a Jew". Else, "what profit is it to being a Jew" if, having born the heat of the erstwhile day all day long, detestable Gentiles are let in at the last hour and counted as equals. This is of course unbearable. There should be "an extra" (a huge extra) for God's Chosen, whose Messiah will be the crowning moment of Plan A, a world leader who will preside over the glory that is the Temple System. For Jews do not need to be saved. God saved them when He made them His Chosen People. Which is why Evangelicals agree not to evangelize when setting foot in Israel. "God," said Balaam Graham, "has a special arrangement for Jews." Which is what makes them so susceptible to Anti-Christ. He will fulfill all their conceits and superstitions. So fully that they will make a covenant with the Anti-Messiah (Dan. 9). No sin, no infinite atonement. Only more kosher washing of pots and pans--right where the Pharisees left off. This is what Evangelicals are promoting over there. "The Pharisee was aghast when he saw that Jesus did not wash before eating." Today they are ten times worse, having 2000 more years to harden their hearts. For Judaism as a religion exists to deny "that Jesus is the Messiah come in the flesh [and] is a deceiver and anti-messiah" (2 John 2). The Anti-Messiah will be a deceiver, the incarnation of 2000 years of Jewish anti-messiahs. Any Jew who denies that Jesus is the Messiah is anti-christ. For the Messiah came once to save. He will come again only to judge. Evangelicals have spent 200 years helping Jews prepare for the revelation of their Anti-Messiah. Christ came. The Anti-Messiah will be revealed, because he will be among them. .
12-13-23
"a far-right European Union. Until recently, such a thing would have seemed unthinkable. Now it’s distinctly plausible" (NY Times).
They spent the last 77 years doodling under US occupation. Now they're incapable of tying their own shoelaces. They had EU kingdom of god shambling on automatic, and the biggest item on their calendar was preening at Word Cup soccer matches. Russia would soon be in the bank, giving Europe hard, indisputable borders, with no credible adversaries. And it would be the largest economy in the world by far. Weltmeister. All without the old Colonialism. This was the end of history: the kingdom of god--with sin and without the need of salvation. They boasted (not so much anymore) of a post-Christian Europe. Now they're running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The Right is gaining ground, and Trump is on the horizon.
If the Right keeps advancing, the need for a Superstate will become less important, as the new leaders see merit in Putin/Orban statecraft. Which is directed at what? Borderless globalism and its fruit: mass migration. These leaders likewise see China as a distant threat compared to the threat of mass migration. Race replacement is less a strategy than a reality, as in Texas and California. Childless Europe is a huge vacuum, and people do what they have been doing since ancient times: follow the path of least resistance. If life is easier elsewhere, why would any sane person stay put? And so history and time is against the reactionaries. It's already too late. Africa is multiplying rapidly, and Europe will need workers to keep its pension system afloat.
12-11-23
'To Revive Portland, Officials Seek to Ban Public Drug Use" (NY Times)
Meanwhile NY City is begging for Federal help housing immigrants who took NY State up on its offer to provide a comfortable lifestyle to anyone who shows up. Unlike the Right, which looks to religion to perfect what's lacking on earth, the Left, which lacks this safeguard, is forced to seek human perfectibility by pulling on its own bootstraps. In a closed Universe, man is left to his own devices and his only recourse is to muddle along with problem solving. And why, they said, should the State curtail personal freedom and criminalize life-style choices? Now those personal decisions ended up as a depraved collective in the heart of Portland where ordinary citizens fear to tread. So here comes the iron fist of violence--again. In different parts of the world, such an outcome would give way to authoritarian despots who gain legitimacy by restoring order. Freedom, like the Gospel, once lost, never returns. Unless it is brought in from the outside. The only growing churches in Europe are African.
The EU and Israel, both creations of the Reich are at a crossroads. Germany is in the EU only as atonement for the Holocaust, and the EU is the unwilling sponsor of Israel by absorbing German guilt. Gallio cared for none of these things. The Old Prussian would get rid of both Israel and the EU overnight if he could, and go back to his former haunts: the Baltic corridor of the Teutonic Knights all the way up to St. Petersburg. He likely still has enough vigor left for another chapter of Drang Nach Osten, leaving the rest of Europe to stew in their Colonial quagmires. WWI began because Germany, herself colonized by Britain and France until Bismarck made one nation out of all the fiefdoms in 1870, elbowed her way in to get her share of Colonial spoils. Her failure to gain a foothold is the reason her immigrants do not have a hold on her now, as they do in Britain and France. Critical Race Theory, which now rages in the Universities of the rest of Europe, doesn't exist in Germany.
The German elite see little but dead weight in EU hanger-ons, and mouthwatering low-hanging fruit in Russia. Unlike the Baltics who dread the Bear's next move, Germans have never feared Russians. And "Russians," the generals would tell their latest recruits after they had already lost two or three whole armies, "always beat Prussians."
As the global Zeitgeist now lurches Rightward, and nations throw up safeguards to protect their markets and borders, the EU will be forced to revert back to military might as its chief tool of statecraft. The women are on their way out (as the lantern jawed feminists at Harvard, UPenn and MIT) in Western society, as the world rearms. Putin invaded Ukraine because he saw Europe reduced to the equivalent of Portland. "Western decadence", it is called in that part of the world. Orban, and even Putin, are seen as the antidote to stay the rot. Hence, their appeal to Evangelicals, and their own populations, and increasingly, to a large swath of Old Europe.
Poland is increasingly suspicious of Germany. Putin considers it as a non-country like Ukraine. And by a strange coincidence, German and Russian interests and culture (and their history of non-stop wars) now make them natural allies. America's push to expand NATO was meant to prevent Germany from getting too close to Russia. Because from there, they could pivot and absorb the greater part of Europe: the "ribs sticking out of the Bear's mouth".
Then there are the strongmen emerging in Eastern European countries with little affection for "EU values". If Trump weakens NATO, and Europe is forced to become iron-fisted to keep immigrants from Africa from pouring in, the EU will have abandoned its kingdom of god charter. That is, German's 77 year Sitzkrieg. The EU was never more than a German straitjacket to prevent the Fourth Reich. And Germany was forced to submit because of Israel. Which is why the Prussians eye Gaza with considerable interest. German guilt diminishes as global wrath against Israel grows. Germany gets to walk away. Problem solved. How could Germans, of all people, have anything to do with the horrors of Gaza? Again, thanks to Hamas. Several years ago, a German reporter was clandestinely sipping homebrew vodka with Gazans who had gone to University in the Old Soviet Union. "How much does it cost to call Germany from here," the host asked the German. "Five dollars," his comrades chimed in. "And how much from Gaza to Hell," he asked the German. The German kept his peace. "One dime," someone volunteered. "It's a local call," said another.
12-10-23
Temple Jews and Pews: The New Protocols of the Billionaires of Zion, Messianic Jews, and their Evangelical Cheerleaders
"As a Messianic Jew, I am grateful for Gentile Christians who take courageous stands on behalf of Israel" (Christianity Today).
This Messianic fraud is given space in Christianity Today, because it too is beholden to Jewish billionaires. Even Musk, the richest man in the world, was made to grovel in Israel for a post on TwiXer, for even Musk could be driven to ruin by the billionaires. Jewish University elites and their billionaire sponsors, who jumped on the BLM bandwagon to hiss at racist Conservatives, expected BLM to come to the rescue when Hamas smote their Golden Calf revels in the fleshpots of Egypt down from Tel Aviv. "Gallio cared for none of these things." Globe-trotting Jews are the architects of globalism and hide their elitism by currying favor with the oppressed classes, much like aristocrats of old sided with the plebs to keep the middle classes in check. Caesar was killed by his fellow Senators. His successors got the point and made themselves "men of the people" for protection, like Caligula and Nero. "Religion," said Napoleon, "is what keeps the poor from killing the rich." In New York, you've got the hoarders on top (in skyscrapers) and the hordes below. You may wonder why the most sophisticated city in the world would not be governed by a fellow elite. Mayor Adams is Jewish insurance. He's all that stands between the hordes below and the hoards above. A Jewish billionaire, in the heat of the moment, let slip this nefarious scheme. "The president of Harvard," he cried, "is a diversity hire." And who put her there? Globalist Jews who expected Civil Rights credits in return. After George Floyd, elite institutions in the West scramble to cover their white privilege by padding their hires with nonwhites. Which is what Ackerman refers to. In other words, she's not qualified. Had Musk said anything even remotely like that, he would have been hissed out of the country by the Media, the wokesters, and Left. Here not a peep. Mir Niks, Dir Niks.
Globalist Jews jumped on the Civil Rights bandwagon to buy moral credits, which they then turned around and bought cover for Israel's atrocities against Palestinians. Namely, the concentration camps in both Gaza and the West Bank, where the billionaire-funded Settlers now squat on the choicest agricultural land, with roads linking the cheese-cake carve-up, and the Army keeping Palestinians from using the roads that link the Settlements. The UN and the World Court call this whole charade a crime against humanity, but are helpless, because US politicians are forced to use their UN veto for Israel in order to stay in office. The war in Gaza, the German Spiegel quoted an American general in the Mideast, "is all about the 2024 election." Which translates into "Biden is dancing to his Jewish paymasters". Why was the President of UPenn forced to resign, and the Harvard wokster to grovel at the feet of MAGAS in the presence of unsympathetic Democrats? Because the Jewish billionaires threatened to withdraw their billions. This is globalist power of mythical (or conspiratorial) proportions.
This is all (belatedly) covered by all the major news outlets, including the NY Times. Democrats in Congress were forced to side with fire-breathing MAGAS to bring town Leftwing feminist icons, the few who broke through the glass ceiling of the Rightwing Patriarchy. These icons laid the foundation of the Groomer wars which so tax the Right. No more. Hamas rode to the rescue, and put a cudgel into the hands of the Right which they will now use to purge the Universities. And who put it in their hands. Hamas and the billionaires. For globalist Jews expected wokesters to rise up and defend Israel just as they had defended George Floyd. They soon realized the sham they had created. They had overpaid for Civil Rights moral credit, because BLM turned Gaza into the next George Floyd, with Jews as the perpetrators. Now what do they do! These billionaire woke-sponsors, seeing their money turned against them, quickly sided with the Evangelical Right to shut down Palestinian sympathy at US universities with iron-fisted government measures.
What is the average person to think? They grew up hearing about Jewish global conspiracies as anti-Semitic propaganda. And here they see the ancient "conspiracies'" played out in real time. So far, Jewish billionaires have succeeded in controlling the Gaza story by using their billions to pressure institutions and governments to read from the Israeli handbook, while Israel commits atrocities worthy of their Nazi tormentors: geocide, extermination, apartheid, annexation, depopulation, etc. Everyone knows that the coming backlash will make Europe uninhabitable for Jews. And it has already created an irreparable rupture between the Globalist Left and the Civil Rights Left in the US. The repercussions will be world-shaking as Democrats lose their funding, and the extreme Rightwing gains unlimited power. Ukraine abandoned, Putin leering at the rest of Europe as a result, the EU awaiting the awful vengeance of Trump, and who knows what Temple Jews will require from their Evangelical stooges. If they march on the Temple, they'll blow up the world. And all because a handful of desert nomads destroyed the most sophisticated defense system in the world by (wait for it) essentially throwing a rock through the screen. But see my Einstein's Theory of World War IV here. I may have to go back and refine the proofs after Hamas. For this era will be known as the Post-Hamas world. It is what the historic books call a "historic turn" when an event causes the pendulum to change course abruptly. Jerome wept when he heard that Rome had been sacked by illiterate Vandals. Long before, even as Rome persecuted his fellow Christians, Tertullian said, "The fall of Rome will shake the foundations of the world." The Angst about Artificial Intelligence is entirely bogus. One rock will bring the whole contraption down. Again see above. This is what wiser heads see in the Hamas attack. Greek advances in knowledge went downhill very quickly after Plato, and did not resurface until the Enlightenment of the 17th century. In between were the Dark Ages. Impossible you say. A 2000 year gap. End of History Man's two most iconic symbols of achievement, the EU and Israel, are tottering. Both are creations of that other destroyer: Hitler. Huns, Hitler, Hamas. Atilla, Adolf, … and so on and so forth if you do conspiracies. Israel lashed out in desperation and panic. In other words, the best insurance in the world crumbled in the blink of an eye. The world could plunge into another Dark Age (or infinitely worse) in a very short time. This is the unease out there. Israel is an extension of America's Manifest Destiny. Did Hamas the Hun sack America? Can you imagine an America without Israel beckoning on the End Time horizon? End Time doctrine has the Evangelical church on the mountaintop waiting for the Jews to make their End Time move. At this stage in the game, that means taking possession of the Temple Mount. Israel is so internally divided that everything is up for grabs. Biden's Left would throw it under the bus. Which leaves the Republican firebrands who will goad Settlers to go for broke. And the latest development: the Global South has adopted the Palestinian cause as their mascot to exact revenge on their former colonial masters. All eyes are now on the Dome of the Rock, the rock which served as a Jebusite threshing floor, which David bought for 50 pieces of silver, where the Ark of the Covenant sat in the Holy of Holies, and the High Priest entered once a year with blood to make substitutionary atonement, all harking back to the first offering by Abraham when God allowed him to substitute a ram for a man, and accepted a lamb until "the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world".
12-2-23
"Not perfect, but perfect was never on the menu. It’s the Middle East, Jake" (Friedman in NY Times)
I wondered who was feverishly reading this page in New York. But where in my Shoffmensch's Jerusalem Protocols do I use the word "perfect"?
12-2-23
"Margulies, who is Jewish, contrasted Jews’ vocal support for Black civil rights in the 1960s with the present: “Now the Black community isn’t embracing us and saying, ‘We stand with you the way you stood with us?’”
She added, “The fact that the entire Black community isn’t standing with us, to me, says either they just don’t know or they’ve been brainwashed to hate Jews” (NY Times).
Here you see the biggest casualty of the Hamas war: the excommunication of the elitist Jewish Left by the ghetto activist Civil Rights Left. Groomerism was only able to advance into mainstream society (media and education, where Jewish elites dominate) on the back of Civil Rights. This is the George Floyd factor of the Israeli/Hamas conflict which will now roil the Capitals of the West. Before, Jewish institutional power allowed it to hamstring the activist Left when they tried to seek redress for Palestinians at the UN and the International Court. But Hamas has now forced Leftwing Jewish elites to side with Israel, robbing them of their Civil Rights moral cover. Trump's war chest must be overflowing. Which probably accounts for his dismissive sneer at Evangelicals lately. He doesn't need them anymore--where will the go? Also he really doesn't need to court Jewish billionaires--where will they go? Which is why he is now making overtures to BLM to garner votes there. He's allowing his Evangelical base to twist in the wind to present himself as a moderate fixer to fence straddlers. What does this mean for Israel? Who knows? He'll throw them under the bus when he no longer needs them. A man who spent his entire life cheating the hangman lives day to day. Cheating the hangman is Plan A and Plan B. Minute by minute improvising with the Button under his twitching finger.
11-30-23
Prolegomena To Any Further Study of End Times: The Anti-Christ As The Coming Jewish/Evangelical Anti-Messiah
1) The rebuilt Temple foretold by Daniel was the Second Temple destroyed by Titus (AD 70). This does not mean that the Jews will not rebuild a temple on the ruins which Fake-Christ will use as his seat of power.
2) The Messiah was "cut off" (Da. 9:26) when Jesus was crucified (AD 32). From here on, Christ will only dwell "in the midst of His Brethren," the New Jerusalem, which is the Temple of God. The New Covenant did away with the Old, and you are not to seek either new Revelation nor Redemption in the rubbish of the Old. A Jew stands before God like the unclean Gentile, condemned by the Law of Moses which he could not keep, with his only hope in the Christ of the New Testament. He is not to be indulged in his Jewish conceits and strivings about Hebrew words. He is not to call Christ "Messiah" or Yeshuah, when the whole world calls Him Christ and Jesus. He's still holding on to notions that he doesn't really need redemption, but only freedom in Canaan to demonstrate his "choseness". He is no more chosen than any unclean Gentile who believes, and he is to repent on the spot, "while it is called today," and go into "all the world" preaching the finished Revelation of the New Testament. Since Abraham, only a handful of Jews possessed the saving faith of their ancestor, which means that most of "God's Chosen People" perished--so they were "chosen" on earth, but condemned for eternity? But Evangelicals cannot get over Plan A, and neither, they think, can God. Evangelicals give Jews the impression that when it's all said and done, all of "God's Chosen People" will sit in the upper chambers of Heaven with God the Father, while Christ occupies the lower chambers with his mistress, the Church. Protestants confirm Jews in their unbelief by midwiving their attempt to make Canaan kosher once again, because God never quite got over Plan A, of which Plan B, the Church, is a puny substitute: no Temple, no Law, no Land--and worse, unclean Gentiles. The Messiah came once. He will not come again as Messiah. "I will come as you saw me go," He told the Church.
3) The word "anti" does not mean "against" in Anti-Christ as it does in "anti-christs". Moulton and Milligan in their lexicon, after giving several quotations from the papyri and ancient Greek writings, say, "By far the commonest meaning of anti is the simple 'instead of'. . . . This shades into 'in exchange for' or 'in return for.'" In other words, the Anti-Christ will be received as the substitute for the Messiah whom the Jews continue to reject as too trivial and unworthy of Jewish history and experience. "You want us to settle this, after all that," they cried at Paul. "What profit then is there to being a Jew"? We bore the heat of the day for 2000 years, and now we're to sit with these lowlives, whom you're "compelling to come" in and share what God promised to His Chosen People, without giving credit where credit is due? The early Church saw the Anti-Christ as the longed for Jewish Anti-Messiah. And Daniel prophesied that they will "make a covenant with him", which will allow him to set up his throne in the Holy Place, where God dwelt on the Mercy Seat. Which means that Evangelicals have essentially preached the Anti-Messiah to the Jews, who will not be the return of Christ, but the revealing of the Anti-(substitute)Christ, so that the last error will be even greater than the first. Such was their privilege that they make Sodom and Gomorrah seem virtuous, for those would have repented at the preaching of Christ.
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11-28-23
"Biden to Skip U.N. Climate Summit, White House Official Says. He has attended the past two summits and calls climate change 'the ultimate threat' but will miss the talks that are set to begin in Dubai on Thursday....'They’ve got the war in the Middle East and a war in Ukraine, a bunch of things going on,' John Kerry, Mr. Biden’s special envoy for climate change, said last week" (NY Times).
There go the gains of the last Good War: Israel and the EU, both Utopias created on the wreckage of Hitler. Both are artifacts of WWII: the EU to solve the German Problem once and for all, and Israel, to atone for European anti-Semitism which got out of control in Germany. Both are US orphans, which is why Biden is staying at home while "the world burns". Even the Pope is there. But Gallio cares for none of these things, now that he has a real crisis on his hands. The EU was only possible under the US umbrella, and now with China applying pressure from every quarter, the US has little left to prop up its vanity projects. The EU is still hoping to entangle the US by adding what's left of Ukraine to NATO. They're hopelessly broke and so can hardly fend for themselves, which is why the Right is making headways. Rearming will require trimming the Welfare state, and the funds needed to support the flood of immigrants. Putin knows this and is is doing his best to create more refugees in the Mideast and Africa. Which is why Europe is pouring money into securing its borders. Before, "EU values" were the equivalent of Rome's legions, which made walls unnecessary. This is reflexive statecraft shows the lack of vision. Inner turmoil will be its fruit.
The same is true of the West's other vanity project: Israel. Hamas used Stone Age methods to overrun the tech bros, and Israel is now forced to create buffer zones which will make much of its land uninhabitable in the north and east. It has the wolf by the ears in Gaza now, because Biden cannot afford more wrath from his extreme Left. Which means the war will leave Hamas largely intact, and the West Bank will become the next Front. But the real problem is the inner turmoil. Israel, like the EU, has no organic center. Both are held together by the trauma of WW2, but as that memory fades, all the monsters it suppressed are now hatching. Israel, like the EU, assumed it could create an evolving identity, and mature to meet future challenges. But the Ultras/Settlers want to impose the Torah as Israel's Constitution, and that, as the NY Times knows, will be the end of the Golden Calf revels in the fleshpots of Tel Aviv. EU climate religion created Putin, who ramped up dirty oil production to historic levels. And now Israel is destroying the Climate lovefest required to get nations to trust each other enough to form common policy. Biden cannot attend, they say, because he has his hands full with Israel. Even the Pope is there. But because of Israel, Biden cannot. This is strange language. The US was driven out of Afghanistan with sticks and stones, and here it is once again, held hostage by a small band of desert bandits. "They’ve got the war in the Middle East and a war in Ukraine, a bunch of things going on," says Kerry. Bunch of things, indeed. The estimates of the last Sand War are over 4 $trillion. And now, with the nations of the world gathered (including the Pope), Biden is too busy to attend. Israel again. Hamas has the world's superpower bogged down. It smote the Golden Calf revelers only to get its name on the top of the page. It's the largest PR stunt of all time. And now the nations will rage to end this boondoggle once and for all with a two state solution, which is dead in the water because Israel cannot give up possession of the rock beneath the Dome of the Rock, which is where the Ark of the Covenant rested on which God sat until the Ark disappeared, and for which David paid 50 silver shekels. There's your Biblical deed. The other is the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron for which Abraham paid 400. Mosques sit on both. That's why Biden cannot attend. Gallio (the Pope) cares for none of these things. It's all biblical rubbish to him. But Climate--he would volunteer to be Anti-Christ, but he's too shallow even for them.
11-27-23
"Thousands leave behind American lives to join Israel’s war in Gaza" (Washington Post)
Are these Americans'? What if they kill US citizens who are in Palestine? What if some of those Americans fight back? Would the US then label them "terrorists". These "thousands" are members of the Israeli military even as Americans. NY Times writer David Brooks' son is one of them. And they expect these killers to come back and live side by with their Arab neighbors in pluralist America, The UN considers the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as a crime against humanity. How are these American citizens not them committing war crimes with Biden's permission.
11-25-23
So now the Jewish Left knows the time is short before the Israel-State Project blows up. Israel is a contraption cobbled together by German guilt, ancient history, Protestant End Time dogma, and ethnic Utopianism (it's what Putin and Orban are selling to Evangelicalism--a place where can you live among "your own" without being bothered by other people's conventions). But just as George Floyd toppled the statues of Lee and Jackson, so now Colonial reckoning is coming for the Old Empires, and the US will be hard pressed to defend apartheid in Israel while trying to do damage control with Civil Rights activists, now freed from the Genderism of Jewish elites, at home. To get back into the the good graces of the Civil Rights groups, Leftwing Jews would have to settle for One-State, which would put Jews in the voting minority. That would end the Jewish State. But how do you make a clean break with the Palestinians without creating a genuine Palestinian State with its own military? Israel could not cross into a sovereign Palestinian State without triggering a war. Which means that as long it retains the right to do so, it remains an Occupier. And that, in modern jargon, is seen as a crime against humanity. Moreover, the dial will not move until Israel stops holding Islam's Dome of the Rock hostage, above which was the Holy of Holies. That rock will become the bone of contention once they begin negotiating in earnest. The whole world immediately recognizes Jerusalem by that golden dome. But Ultras/Settlers/ Evangelicals have no choice but to blow it up in obedience to Prophecy, for that site will have to be purified according to the strictest rites of Moses before Temple building can begin. Everyone knows this, and also that Ultras/Settlers/ Evangelicals will go on the warpath if the the Seculars give Islam absolute sovereignty over it. This is considered so primitive by the NY Times that it raises all the old Currently Israeli soldiers enter it to check for weapons. Imagine the uproar if Buddhist soldiers goose-stepped through the Vatican. This is the historic humiliations of Islam. Modi can build temples on mosque sites and get away with it because he has a monopoly of violence. He's almost as big as China, which wiped out its Uighurs. You have to have certain mass in order not to get cancelled. Even Musk is now headed for Israel after sponsors avoid him for his Jewish comments. But Israel is made up of bits and pieces, and will come apart the minute its sponsors pull the plug. Hence, the rush to gain legitimacy, for it is no more a sovereign state than are the Palestinians. It needs to stand on its own two feet, and make its own arrangements, in order for it not to be sniffed at as a Jewish-lobbied Utopia for Jews. But now you have a very tiny westernized society in a sea of tribalism and despotism. Who cares, say the Ultras/Settlers/ Evangelicals. For both the Old Testament and Evangelical Prophecy see Israel as a stand alone nation athwart the Gentiles. And if the End Time charts are right, the political winds could not more auspicious. Options are narrowing fast under the sharp knives of Critical Theory, and even Musk is forced to submit to its orthodox wokery. Impatient Ultras and Settlers think their time has come to "go for broke". Which is why they plucked Netanyahu from the scaffold and made him their leader. And rather than weakening Netanyahu as the NY Times thinks, the Gazan War has made him all the more indispensable. Note the doves in the NY Times article photo. There is no room for doves during a state of unending war. Only the iron fist will do: a ruthless expansion of Israel to the point where Palestinians will gladly wear their chains like American Indians on Reservations. That's how China and India would solve the problem once and for all. But they don't have the Rev Al Sharpton holding forth on CNN for all the world to see. China and India are not susceptible to George Floyd earthquakes. The West is. No one has done more to promote Critical Theory wokery than Leftwing Jews. And they would remain entrenched in their ancient seats of institutional power, were it not that for the iron fist that is Israel. Real states are where Utopias go to die. As recent as two decades ago the Left still hymned along with "Give peace a chance". How few remember the Old Utopian Republic. Israel made Leftwing Jews grow horns and claws, and beat their plows into swords to defend the Project that is Israel. It was never more than an a misplaced orphan of the world's hegemon, the US. Now with other hegemons jostling for power, it will become a pawn in global politics, which is largely fueled by invoking the latest wokery at the UN. Fraud that it is, and toothless, yet nations strive mightily to avoid its censures. Despots of old dreaded nothing more than wagging tongues among the masses. Which is why no one as much as mentioned the king's harem (the word means prohibited). People knew what what went on in those cesspools of debauchery, so the threat was "don't even think about it". Wokery is moral washing to preempt wagging tongues, by converting it into fake news and disinformation, the modern version of what the ancients called heresies, or unorthodox. You buy moral credit by adopting fads, fake causes, and the latest snake oil, in the same way polluters by carbon credits to avoid being cancelled.
11-24-23
"Dr. Neel’s lawsuit claims that support for Israel is a component of his Jewish identity. NYU Langone’s decision to punish him for his online posts amounts to religious discrimination, the lawsuit claims" (NY Times)
David Brooks' (NY Times) son is an Israeli soldier. Many young Jews from the US rushed back to Israel to join the invasion of Gaza. Gaza is full of Arab Americans with US citizenship. So how are these American Jews not guilty of killing fellow Americans? Could these Jewish Americans be sued in American courts when they come back? This high profile cancer doctor was fired for posting anti-Palestinian messages. He's an American-with an Israeli-state identity, he says. So what if you're an American with a Palestinian identity? And most American Jews are born in the US. Before, when immigrants arrived in America, they left their religious squabbles at home and did not pursue blood feuds here. JFK had to renounce his Vatican identity when running for President. But here you have a foreign religious war raging in America's streets with the US government essentially calling its own Palestinians terrorists for sympathizing with their kinfolk back in Gaza.
So what are Arabs to think when the US takes up the Temple-State identity of American Jews? As the doctor says, this is a religious war, because there is not such thing as a Jew who does not consider the "Biblical deeds" and Jerusalem as their identity primary. When push come to shove, even the most secular Jew is a Jerusalem Temple Jew. Leftwing Jews demand strict Church/State separation here, then turn around and lobby for the US to throw its full weight behind the Jewish Temple-State. American foreign policy is little more than a Jewish lobby paid for by Wall Street billionaires, China chortles back home. And now that the billionaires have been booted from Civil Rights ranks, Civil Rights activists will demand a reckoning within the Democratic party for its support of Israel. Trump must be awash in cash as a result. He'll promise them Armageddon and worse. So why settle for hamstrung Biden. He's got an all out war raging among Democrats. But Trump will give them the Temple. The latest flap over "reasonable judges" reflects the impatience of Ultras/Settlers to go "for broke": seize all the lands of Abraham, expel the Palestinians, and rebuild the Temple, which will require blowing up the Dome of the Rock which covers the Jebusite threshing floor which David bought for 50 pieces (there's your Biblical deed--the other is Sarah's grave) of silver because God commanded him to build an altar upon it. The Holy of Holies likely sat on that very spot. Here was the first instance of substitutionary atonement when God accepted a ram for a man, and where the High Priest entered once a year with "blood for himself and for the people" (Heb. 9). "There," commanded David, "you shall build an altar". David likely made that spot the place where God would sit on the Mercy Seat, and Muslims did what they did in India: build mosques on temple sites as a final act of humiliating the conquered. The Temple will be rebuilt there only when the last Muslim is killed trying to prevent it, as Muslims warn. But Jews have no choice. God Himself pointed to the very spot when He commanded David. If not there, you could just as well build it in Manhattan. "Reasonable judges" were all that stood in the way of the fanatics until Netanyahu became their ringleader to dodge the hangman. Now they're anxious to cast caution to the wind, assured that "God will thunder from the hills" as in the days of old, to smite the vengeful hordes who will encompass Jerusalem. You don't see Ultras among the carnage in Gaza. They're exempt from the army like the Levites.
The Dome of the Rock (which is what you see in any picture of Jerusalem) is where Abraham "rejoiced to see Christ's day", when He he offered Himself as a substitute for mankind's sins. It is to geography what BC/DC is to time. It is where God sat on the Mercy Seat to judge the sins of the world when the High Priest entered with blood on the Day of Atonement. The golden dome is half of any picture of Jerusalem.
11-23-23
"More importantly, they said, the war has toppled the United States from its moral high ground, with Biden’s lectures to Russia about safeguarding civilian life in Ukraine now juxtaposed with his more muted statements as Israel bombs schools and hospitals in Gaza " (Washington Post).
When I write this at the NY Times, I get blocked. The real casualties, as I said from the beginning, is US moral damage, which will give rise to the old Anti-Americanism which ended in 911. Note the emphasis on "moral". Israel was founded on German moral guilt. Now it's digging a moral pit in Gaza, and Germany can't believe its luck. The more Jewish guilt, the less German. There is now nothing to hold back the old anti-Semitism of the old European aristocracy, which coupled with the influx of Muslim refugees will drive the remaining Jews out of Europe. Add to that the mainline Traveler upper-class Left, now excommunicated for their refusal to see Gaza as another George Floyd. Leftwing Jews saw nothing to condemn while cities burned and Portland became a no-man's land. Manhattan was stocking up on moral credits. Now BLM accuses them of being Colonialists, and excommunicated them from Civil Rights platforms where they used to preen against the Religious Right. Like the Sodomites, they used Civil Rights credits to provide cover for Israel. Where they go from here is anyone's guess. They're left with scaping the barrel to garner support for Israel, which leaves them with little more than Evangelicals. These are the intellectual (as opposed to the activist) Left who largely control Education and Media. They are the architects of Critical Theory, Cultural Marxism, and Genderism, the entrenched Left which provided Israel with Leftwing cover even as it dealt with the Palestinians with an iron fist. That iron fist killed off the Old Left in Israel long ago, for Leftwing governments are no more possible than Utopias. Yet the Left was able to stave off European anti-Semites by advocating all the EU pie-in-the-sky causes. Which leaves the state of Israel with only one remaining non-Jewish ally: Evangelicals, who are going the way of the Southern Baptist Convention.
11/23/23"But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you" (Acts 3:14)
Barabbas was a Roman and not a Jewish prisoner. Israel was under Roman occupation, and by modern standards had the right to rise up against the invader in self defense. Moreover, if the "Biblical deed" to Canaan is in effect today, then it was also in Jesus time. "Go in," the ancient Israelites were told, "and possess the land."
No Jew would have considered the killing of a Roman as murder. God, Mary said, would now "deliver Jews from the hands of their enemies." "Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or not", the Pharisees asked Jesus. Prime Minister Rabin was assonated for dealing in good faith with Israel's enemies. Sharon almost provoked a civil war when he abandoned Gaza. This was not just about property, but about religious principle and dogma. What are you saying when you give away what God commanded you to possess? Jesus said Caesar had the right to his own money, and Jews had to pay in Roman money. The only way to avoid paying was to take up arms like Barabbas. Yes, the Pharisees said, but are you not then complicit in Roman crime against Israel?
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." "As a Christian," I told a migrant not so long ago, "you have a greater right to the Oval Office than the US President, and if you ever need it to further the kingdom of God you have an absolute right to commandeer it as Jesus did the donkey." The donkey was his, so he didn't ask to borrow it. "The Lord hath need it," his owners were told. Christ fulfills and overrules everything that went before. The promises to Israel are promises only to those who "believe like Abraham", for "not all Israel is Israel." Christians prostitute themselves when they grovel at the feet of rabbis to act as handmaidens to help Israel fulfill prophecy. These Evangelical frauds have to promise not to preach the Gospel of Christ to Jews. Not that they want to. Because converted Jews are less than worthless for End Time doctrine. They have their own scheme. I doubt that even one Evangelical ever set foot in Tel Aviv, the fleshpots of Egypt. But they're fascinated by the Wailing types, whom they envy as Plan A in the sight of God. These they see as genuinely God-fearing and devout, when they are ten times more wicked and obstinate than in the time of Jesus, who called them "children of the Devil". They do not worship the God of Abraham but the Devil. Were it not so they would believe in Christ. For whosever denies Christ is anti-Christ. Jews stand before the Law precisely as everyone else: condemned. If they become Christians then they become God's chosen people, otherwise, they remain "the children of wrath". At the time of Elijah, there were only 3000 believers in Israel. A handful were converted in the days of the Apostles. "Ture Israel" was never more than a Remnant. The rest perished. "What advantage then hath the Jew" (Rom. 3)? What's the point of being Chosen, if the majority of Jews have perished? Jews themselves point to their wholesale rejection of the Gospel as proof that it fake. If Christ were the Messiah, God's Chosen would have recognized Him as such. But as long as they observe the Laws and ordinances of Moses, they remain somehow covered by Plan A, according to Evangelicals. This is what they hear from Evangelicals who can't wait to see the Temple grinding along at full speed. Done right, they say, and sacrifices are a reverse type of Christ, and whosever does them is saved. It's merely the Jewish path to God: Plan A. Paul calls all his Pharisaical notions but "dung". Israel and their zeal to once again offer Temple sacrifices contradicts everything the New Testament teaches. To aid Jews in rebuilding their idol is blasphemy against the Gospel. Jesus prophesied the destruction of the Temple. Should you have helped God fulfill prophecy by helping the Romans? Would it have been "lawful" to defend Jerusalem and attempt to thwart prophecy, or should you have helped prophecy along by siding with the Romans? Jeremiah told Jews to surrender to Babylon (Jer. 21) and not resist. In other words, hand over to the enemies of God what God promised to Abraham. Jewish captives pined for Jerusalem of old. Some Judaizing Christians did too. But for the rest, the destruction of the Temple could not come soon enough. Early church writers ignore its destruction altogether. A heap of rubbish--"one stone on another".
11-19-23
"Can Third Temple be built without destroying Dome of the Rock?" Jerusalem Post
Because there is no such a thing as a Jew, no matter how secular or atheist, who is not fixated on the Temple. They're all Temple Jews. Why? Because they all know that there is no such thing as Judaism without Israel, and no Israel without Jerusalem, and no Jerusalem without the Torah, and no Torah without the Temple to fulfill the Ceremonial Law of Moses. The "Biblical deed" holds more power in the imagination of the Ultras and Settlers who make up the frontline in the Reconquest than Israel's army and nuclear arsenal. Why? Because everyone knows they're determined to make Israel their last stand if need be. The depraves on the beaches are there to deprave. Take away their fleshpots, and they will vacate for New York City--where most of them come from.
"As long as there is a Muslim alive," cries Sheikh Abdulla Nimar Darwish, founder of the Islamic Movement in Israel, "no Jewish Temple will be built on Al-Haram Al-Sharif [the Temple Mount]. The status quo must be maintained, otherwise there will be bloodshed."
The Golden Dome is what you see in any picture of Jerusalem. It covers the huge flat rock which was most likely "the threshing floor" where Abraham offered up Isaac, and later became the foundation stone of Solomon's Temple on which sat the Holy of Holies.
"Baruch Ben-Yosef, chairman of the Movement to Restore the Temple, made it clear that the Temple had to be built where the Dome of the Rock presently stands. 'Anybody who says anything else simply does not know what he is talking about,' he said. A prophet does not have the power to change the law which explicitly states the location of the Temple" (Jerusalem Post).
There you have it. The Temple must be rebuilt, but cannot be rebuilt without blowing up the Dome of the Rock, and the Seculars cannot renounce Jewish ambition towards the Temple without declaring war on Ultras and Settlers who would denounce them as apostates. The American Jews who serve as US diplomats have known this all along, offering Palestinians crumbs which they know will continue to be refused, until Israel expansion reduces Palestinians to Reservation status. They know Palestinians will never settle for less than full sovereignty of the Temple Mount, which would cause Ultras and Settlers to take up arms against the government. In short, there can only be one state, either completely Jewish, or completely Palestinian. Israel has the wolf by the ears, and cannot continue to hold him, nor safely let him go. Angst is only amonst the Seculars. The "Biblical deed" people are convinced that God will "thunder from the hills as of old", which, for the Golden Calf revelers on the beaches, means jumping from the frying pan into the fire, literally, for better Hamas than the God of Lot. Evangelicals have made "returning Jews" the Second Great Commission (careful not to thwart them from their task by getting them converted to Christ), while pretending that the fleshpots of the "burning (in their lusts) Jews" of Tel Aviv do not exist. They're not even interested in starting churches in Tel Aviv, lest the hinder prophecy. For why settle for Plan B when you already have Plan A? The Church in their schemes will always remain Plan B, God's backup plan, "tender-eyes Leah to the End. Which is why the Golden Calf reveling hard by Gaza did not so much as raise an eyebrow. Do these people need to be saved? Such talk is meaningless in Israel. They're in Israel to fulfill Prophecy, and as God's Chosen People--well, they're already outside of the Church Age. Return, Reconquest, Rebuild. 12000--half of them women and children--dead in Gaza. This is slaughter in Biblical proportions.
Everyone knows that this is the root and cause of the Mideast conflict. Judaism becomes less than nothing without the Temple. All their kosher rituals are the remnants of the Ceremonial Law of Moses which is still in effect to the last jot and tittle (with 2000 years of Talmudic rubbish added to the "traditions of the elders" already unbearable in Jesus time). Historically, Jews have been able to compensate by telling themselves that they would keep the whole Law if the could. Now they can, because they have full possession of the Mount.
Even secular Jews join in the cry at Passover, "Next year in Jerusalem." That is, when the Passover will be celebrated for real with the High Holy Day at its center: the Day of Atonement. For since Titus destroyed the Temple, these has been no atonement for Jewish sins. Hence, 2000 years of wailing at the foot of the Wailing Wall. Even the lands of Judea and Samaria are nothing without the Temple. It is where God sat on the Mercy Seat that covered the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark disappeared with Jeremiah, so the Temple was without it in Jesus time. The Roman general Pompey, who entered the Holy of Holies, found it completely vacant (Tacitus).
Israel captured the Temple Mount from Jordan in 1967, but declared it off limits to all but Islamic worship. Others can visit, but cannot engage in any religious activity. This is considered apostasy by Ultras and Settlers, and Netanyahu now allows daily Jewish prayers under the protection of Israeli soldiers. Hamas attacked, because, they said, "the Jews will blow up the Dome to rebuild their Temple."
And the Torah demands that the Temple be rebuilt. This is what drives Ultras and Settlers. For Jews who take the Old Testament literally, there is no New Testament break which converts the Ceremonial Law into allegory. They stand before the Law in precisely the same manner as Joshua. Even secular Jews know this. You cannot use the Bible as a deed to the Holy Land by interpreting it spiritually. In which case you could establish Israel in Australia, or rebuild the Temple in Tel Aviv. That would solve all the problems. But the heart of modern Judaism is the rock under the Dome of the Rock. That, say Jews, is where God dwells, even without the Ark of the Covenant. When you hear about peace in the Mideast, or a two state solution, with the Rock left in limbo, go back to sleep. Jews need the rock back in order to revive the Law of Moses. But it was from here that Abraham rejoiced to "see my Day", Jesus said. The significance of the place, we read over and over in secular papers, is that it is Mount Moriah, where Abraham offered up his son. Child sacrifice. What is the world to think of that?
11-18-23
"‘These are biblical lands promised to us’: Jewish settlers in West Bank hope Gaza conflict will help their cause" (Guardian).
"This is my deed to the Holy Land," cried the Israeli Ambassador at the UN while holding up his Old Testament.
Pluralism (Democracy) says you cannot make religious claims in statecraft. Islam's Caliph System, for instance, preaches global jihad to forcibly convert the entire globe. And the Great Commission calls for "obedience to the faith among all nations". The Crusades filled Jerusalem with blood to rescue the Holy Places.
What Ultras/Seculars/Evangelicals argue is that "the Bible deed" gives them the right to use violence to drive out the non-Jewish inhabitants and "possess their land". Joshua exterminated the Canaanites in obedience to God. Which is why Evangelicals have not one ounce of sympathy for the 12000 now dead in Gaza. The extermination of the Canaanites was the will of God. You were not to sympathize with idolaters. God's enemies are your enemies. If you know the will of God, you must line up with it. Prophecy is obviously the will of God. If God has ordained the destruction of the Palestinians, then to help Palestinians avoid destruction is to thwart the will of God. "The Church must stand with Israel," cries Christianity Today.
11-13-23
Shoffmensch's Five Protocols for the (temporary) Peace of Jerusalem
"It’s Mr. Biden who has not learned from America’s mistakes, rushing headlong into the latest war. By backing Israel unconditionally, and failing to champion Palestinians’ rights as well, he made the United States complicit in whatever Israel did next. The costs, in American prestige and power, have already proved substantial. And they could get much worse" (NY Times)
I've been saying this since the war started (as you can see, Kissinger did not allow my Comment today. The old fox knows what I'm getting at with Germany. In four months, they'll write about the German angle). Israel is destroying Gaza under US cover, and the world will accuse the US of complicity in Israeli war crimes in the aftermath. While the UN is no more than shadow boxing, what goes on there sets the mood of global debate, especially in the age of reckoning. Germany, for instance, boasts of engaging in "moral diplomacy". MBS has spent billions trying to improve his global image, because Wall Street had to join the cancelling mob when he dismembered the journalist. And as the world's moral hegemon sinks, others rise in proportion. As Israel heaps up moral guilt in Gaza, it diminishes that of Germany, which would have much to gain if Israel gets bogged down endlessly in Gaza. In essence, Israel is dragging the US down with it as the carnage in Gaza looks like what people see in Ukraine. Despots around the world will now demand that the International Court treat Israel as it did Putin It's all moral shadow boxing, but it's the coin of the day in global diplomacy. Gaza is George Floyd on a global scale, and the aftermath will be devastating.
The George Floyd Left (Civil Rights) has already excommunicated the elitist Groombow Jewish Left (the Culture War) which, because of its globalist institutional reach, was able to attach both Groombow and Israel to the historic Civil Rights cause. Tel Aviv is the Sodomite capital of the world. The Golden Calf "rave" that Hamas broke up was staged just down the road. That coastal strip is where Wall Street depraves go to deprave. Seculars on the beaches, the Ultra Levites Wailing in Jerusalem, and the Settlers in the Abrahamic heartlands, Judea and Samaria. Ultras spend their waking hours being kosher: fringes on garments, ritual meats, washing of pots and pans. These are all that's left them of the Ceremonial Law of Moses without the Temple. For there has been no atonement for Jewish sins since Titus destroyed the Temple, because the Day of Atonement is only possible on its designated site: where Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac. Even secular Jews end their Passover meal with "next year in Jerusalem" in anticipation of a future Day of Atonement. Torah Judaism collapses without the Temple, which is why it would be apostasy for any Jew to forever give Palestinians sovereignty over the mosque that sits where the Temple was. But greater Islam will demand just that in a two state solution. This is the horror among the Ultra/Settler/ Evangelical axis. For as long as everything remains ambiguous and unresolved, they tell themselves, the hand of Prophecy is at work. But where do they go from here? It took Evangelicals almost 200 years of End Time charts to get to the latest developments. But if Islam gains political control of the Mosque, how long before history intervenes again? Ultras and Settlers would have to detach from a compromise and go back to non-activist Wailing, disenfranchised from a political solution. Because they would have to renounce an Israeli government that violated the Torah by giving up the lands that God gave to the Jews. Ultras already consider Israel's secular government as blasphemy, because it substitutes secularism for the Law of God: the Torah. The Law of Moses was Israel's Constitution, to be administered from the Temple by the Levites who were its teachers and judges. They were both priests and politicians, in Jesus time called the Sanhedrim. This is where Israel is headed if Ultras and Settlers get their way: strict Sabbath keeping, gender separation, modest dress, "unmarred beards", endless washings, and droves of sheep and goats headed for the Temple. Ultras and Settlers stand before the Torah exactly like the ancient Israelites. Not one jot or tittle has changed. And Evangelical dogma holds that the Law of Moses will have to be implemented in all its ceremonial forms and legal severity. Even stonings. Buchstablich! Here you have literalism to the very jot and tittle. There is no middle ground in Judaism. Reform Jews are modern Sadducees: everything is allegorized and modernized to bring the Bible up to date. Which is why they're becoming extinct. But the literalists are growing by leaps and bounds. And they're all headed for the Temple. There is no middle ground here. Everyone knows this, even secular Jews, which is why 70 years of American Jewish diplomacy has been the biggest diplomatic fraud in history carried out by American Jewish frauds like Dennis Ross. Not a single one of them ever offered the Palestinians more than crumbs, which guaranteed that the Torah imperatives remained in Jewish hands. This confused muddle was by design, to give Israel time to expand to the point of no return and get Arab states to recognize the status quo in exchange for Jewish/American security and commercial guarantees. It almost succeeded, until Hamas struck.
The diplomatic fraud here is this. Settlers are willing to risk their lives by establishing outposts on Palestinian land. These are people from NY City funded by Wall Street billionaires. Once they drag in a trailer, the Israeli army will put in roads and set up military patrols and checkpoints. Wink, wink. Washington protests, and calls on Israeli to stop expanding. They never say, "Give the land back." Ultimately, Israeli settlements will cover the West Bank, and well, heh, heh, it's like in America, no one is "going back where they came from." But what happens to the Canaanites who outnumber the Jews? Remember South African Apartheid? The world cancelled the white government, and it collapsed. If you're big like the US, China, India or Russia, you get to write your own rules. Might is always right. These four could only be cancelled with Nukes. South Africa did not have a monopoly of violence. China and India do. China destroyed its Uighurs and got away with it. Modi is building temples to the god Ram on mosque sites, which were built on temple sites when Islam conquered India. Even MBS has enough money not to get cancelled. His oil keeps the world economy humming, and, until recently, no superpower would allow the other to seize it. But the US now produces more energy than it uses, and no longer needs Israel as a beachhead to guard Saudi Oil fields. But because Israel is a Jewish suburb of Manhattan, an ethnic Utopia that Orban and white nationalists can only dream of, its citizens take it for granted that come what may, they have the right to decamp for America if their experiment fails.
The Ultra/Settler attempt to end the rule of elitist judges, and the attack by Hamas stem from the same cause: Settler expansion on the West Bank. Liberal judges know that sooner or later global condemnation of Settler violence will turn Israel into a world pariah like South Africa. But Ultras and Settlers are not in Israel to party like the Seculars. Ultras need the Temple to keep ultimate kosher, and Settlers are simply claiming what's theirs. Their own little Utopia, where they can live among their own--or so they think. They don't know what awaits them when the Ultras begin cleansing the Land, There are more Talmudic factions among them than flies on the head of Beelzebub.
Neither Ultras nor Settlers care about the fallout. Israel was always at odds with "the Gentiles". And they're tired of being dictated to by globalist judges in the Holy Land. They'll expel the Palestinians and claim the Temple Mount. And blow up the Mosque that stands in the way of rebuilding the Temple. For kosher Jews have not had their sins forgiven since the Temple was destroyed. Which is why they wail on the bottom. They see their Return as divinely ordained. If so, then the rest follows: Reconquest of all the Holy Land, and the fulfillment of the whole Torah: the Temple and sacrifices. For that they do not need the Israeli army. God will thunder from the hills as before. And the extermination of the Palestinians? All par for the course, for Ultras and Settlers. And for End Time Evangelicals? Here they all mumble. As Christians they could not adopt such measures for themselves. But Jews are saved differently, are under a different dispensation, and Prophecy must needs be fulfilled. Evangelicals have done their utmost to facilitate the Return of the Jews, confident that they are helping God fulfill prophecy. The rebuilt and functioning Temple would make them swoon. Imagine that, Christians yearning for "the blood of sheep and goats". Because then Christ will return to show that He fulfilled all the Law. And if they die, before He returns? Well then, they will still be saved like the Jews in Jesus day, by keeping the Law. Should you try to convince these Jews that Abraham and David were saved exactly like all the Gentiles after them (Romans 4)? I used to run into these Messianic Jews on the East Coast who saw the Greek New Testament as an unclean vessel suited only for unclean Gentiles. They still harbored the conceits of the Chosen People and went about corrupting all the Greek back into Hebrew. In Israel, you can't tell them apart from the Settlers, with all their conceits and superstitions. It wouldn't surprise me if they Wailed at the Wall as well.
If you see one of these Returners, should you help him fulfill prophecy? Absolutely not. His Return is but more of the same rebellion, hardheartedness and obstinacy that got him Removed in the first place. He is to repent "while it is called today" and believe the Gospel, and having done that "go (like the Apostolic Jews of old) into all the world" and not build an idol out of his Jewish conceits. This is the New Covenant which replaced those old rotten wine skins.
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"And who knows what will be left of Ukraine by then?" sneers the German Spiegel.
5 months ago that would have been hissed at as Putinism. Now the frauds can't wait to wash their hands of the Ukraine kill pit and move on. Biden, they say, has the wolf by the ears with Israel, and has the US in over its ears. The China/Putin/ Iran axis came out of nowhere. Hamas pulled a masterstroke worse than the Twin Tower stunt which cost the US $5 trillion, the guilt of destroying Iraq, defeat by the Taliban, etc. What's more, Hamas blew up the Left by splitting the rich Culture War elitists from the Social Justice lower class.
Not that the Germans (or Europeans) are displeased, despite their hypocritical posturing. They've been wanting to get out of the Jewish guilt complex for decades, and this gives them cover to do do. The more Israel turns Gaza into a death camp, the more it diminishes its hold on Germany. And with the Ukraine war lost, it's pulling Europe into bankruptcy.
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"Since Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967, it has maintained a fragile religious balance at the Temple Mount, the most divisive site in Jerusalem: Only Muslims can worship there, while Jews can pray at the Western Wall below" (NY Times).
Muslims on top, Jews below. Globalists can't believe that the hottest conflict in modern times is held hostage to a few religious acres. Now they're forced to listen to the actual words of the Bible, and sit meekly while the Israeli ambassador does statecraft by holding up his Torah at the UN. Fraudsters like Friedman refuse to engage in such primitivism. But now they'll be forced to listen to the reasons why neither Islam nor Jews can allow the other to gain full sovereignty of the Temple Mount, Both sides will sooner accept a perpetual state of war (which they can do in good conscience), rather than commit apostasy (which is what renouncing claims to the Mount would amount to). You can no quote the Bible endlessly in the Comments Section as long as you focus on the conflict. This would have been hisses at several months ago.
The Holocaust created the Jewish state. The carnage in Gaza will likely create the Palestinian state. And the Palestinian state will the beginning of the end of the Jewish state. This is the age of Colonial reckoning, and they've had their eye on Israel for a long time. Take any of the Protocols (below) which will have to be met before greater Islam throws its weight behind a treaty (and there will be none until it does). For instance, (5) a Palestinian state with its own military (there has never been a state without its own military, because a State is no more than a monopoly of violence). Imagine Palestinian jets doing a flyover over the the Old City which will become the Palestinian capital. The oil sheiks sidelined their extremists by appealing to the commercial interests of their citizens, because everyone understands that Mammon requires a stable environment. And nothing makes worldly sheiks more nervous than austere radicals preaching "the sword of Mohammad", especially, to rescue the Mosque on the Mount. It would be in their best interests to make Palestinians rich. But how do you create a state while keeping it disarmed like Israel when they were made to go to Gaza to have their hoes sharpened? Israel will demand a disarmed Palestinian state. In short, little more than a Reservation. Whatever that will be, a state it is not. And how do you contain the Ultras who since the days of Titus spend their waking hours either memorizing Talmud rubbish about the rituals of the Temple, or wailing at the bottom of the Wall because there's a mosque on top. If you're big like India, you can raze mosques built on Hindu sites with few consequences. Israel took control of the Temple Mount in 1967. This is the humiliation of Islam: their third most holy site in the hands of the infidel. How is the world not to think the obvious: if the gods of Islam can be held hostage, then of what sort are they? Imagine the Vatican (with the Pope in it) under the control of Buddhist troops. But because the mosque is already there, what do you do with it if the Ultras storm the Mount. Even atheists are convinced that blowing up the mosque would create Armageddon. The mosque was build on the Temple site, and the Temple will have to be where it was. Ultras and Settlers stand before the Torah exactly the same way Joshua did. Which is why Settlers and Ultras have no qualms of conscience about killing Palestinians. Re-conquest will require dealing with the Palestinians after the manner of the Canaanites. Which is why Evangelicals have no sympathy for Palestinians. Prophecy demands the return of the Jews and the reinstating of both the moral and ceremonial Law to provide the platform on which Christ will return to demonstrate that He is the fulfillment of both the moral and ceremonial Law, upon which, "all Israel will be saved". Which is why Evangelicals make no effort to evangelize Jews, because even the so called "messianic Jews" spoil the plot. If they're even half Christian, they would be afraid to loathe Palestinians, much less take prophecy into their own hands. This Evangelical Temple fixation has infected Evangelicals with multiple heresies, chiefly, that "returning" Jews are doing the will of God, and are saved in their own Jewish way according to some dispensation of non-grace. This is damnable heresy. Only Christians are "God's chosen people." Since the time of Abraham, Paul says, only a few Jews have been saved. Even fewer have been saved since. Which means that so far most of "the Chosen" are cast into outer darkness. There are no holy places or "holy lands" on earth. John calls Jerusalem "Egypt and Sodom" (Rev. 11), because Christians are the Temple of God. Israel was chosen, rejected her calling, and was rejected. Elected in eternity, and then damned to eternal damnation, worse, Jesus says, "than Sodom and Gomorrah". Meanwhile, the rejects "enter in". This is a great stumbling block to the little minds of the Calvinites, who see "God as an hard man". Israel, in the time of Christ, had God all figured out, and except for a handful, perished.
It would be hard to say who would have a greater identity crisis if Jewish hopes are dashed, Ultras, Settlers, or Evangelicals, because you can barely tell them apart when the engage in their Temple mutterings. Two-State would be of some duration, and worse; it's hard to imagine Jews ever again regaining the momentum in the aftermath of WWII. Jews then would confine themselves to historic wailing for divine intervention and leave off violent statecraft. But where do Evangelicals go from here. America's Manifest Destiny was to midwive God's reconciliation with His wife, Israel (the Church being the Bride of the Son), and Evangelicals have always seen themselves as second class citizens of heaven, substitutes, spares, or even unwanted. The focus and climax of the End will be God and Israel, God's first love, and not Christ and his Church (Leah in comparison with Rachel). And so they have confirmed Jews in their unbelief.
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The reason the NY Times is having to run my Comments across the street to have them vetted by Kissinger these days is because I've exposed the entire Jewish lot (atheist, secular, Communist, liberal) as closet Theocrats. For not a single one of the frauds challenged the Israeli ambassador when he waved his Torah at the UN Assembly and cried: "Here is my deed to the Holy Land." That's because they all know that the Divine Mandates and the Religious Imperatives which drive the Ultras and Settlers to wage war against the modern Canaanites are the main arteries of the modern state of Israel, which severed, would cause it to wither and die. The frauds make a show of calling for a two-state solution, while knowing full well that that would require putting religion on the negotiating table first and foremost, which is anathema to Torah Jews. For to negotiate with the wicked which God commanded to be exterminated is apostasy from the Law of God. Even secular and atheist Jews understand the power of these fanatical notions. And the Law of Moses is as much in effect today as the day Moses wrote it. Nothing has changed. For there is no Christian break from its severity. Jews wail at the Wall because they long to be on top of it, fulfilling the Law of Moses with all "the blood of sheep and goats," "the washing of pans", Sabbath keeping, gender separation, stonings, etc.--right where they left off when Titus put an end to the whole charade. They were at each other's throats in the time of Christ. Now they would separate into a thousand factions, one more blood curdling than the other. If the Palestinians want to gain access to the Land, they need but let the Ultras get their hands on the Temple Mount. For that would become the seat of the government, with all the hair-splittings (not of the Law of Moses, but of the Talmud--which is what Jesus refers to as "the traditions of the elders"). You can imagine what lies in store for Tel Aviv--that is, if they can find stones enough.
Only two options are open to Israel after Gaza: 1) annex all the biblical lands and expel all the non-Jewish inhabitants (this they could do by threatening reginal states with nukes to keep them from interfering), or 2) accept a two-state solution. The latter will require Israel to submit to the following:
1) Permanent and unconditional Muslim control of the Temple Mount. Currently, Israeli troops are stationed there; 2) Renouncing all political (not religious) claims to the Biblical heartlands (Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley) ;3) East Jerusalem (the Old City) as the Palestinian Capital; 4) a genuine corridor linking Gaza with the West Bank; 5) a militarized Palestinian state, for there is no such thing as a state without a monopoly of violence.
If any of these conditions are not met, go back to sleep. The violence will continue until both sides are reduced to lunging at each other with clubs and stones. But Israel has never put these concerns on the table, insisting that Palestinians take what's offered to them. But the world is not what it was. Or rather it's reverting back to what it was before 911, when anti-Americanism posed a great danger to the US. Now China, Russia, and Iran are competing for the moral high ground, and moral shaming is a potent influencer in the age of cancel culture. Regional Mideastern powers are flush with cash and weapons and all teem with anti-Jewish resentment. The West is in the early stages of Colonial reckoning, and the activist Left has already excommunicated the old Jewish Leftists which covered for Israel in high places. End Time Evangelicals are going the way of the RINOS, and young Evangelical hipsters disdain the Bible thumping that carefully traced the End Times in Scripture.
And if Trump gets in, all bets are off. As they shudder in Europe: "his revenge will be bottomless." And nothing would so enrage the woke Left as the storming of the Temple Mount. Trump wouldn't bat an eye, and Evangelicals would announce the Second Coming.
11-3-23
"The answer to this question (Gazan War) that can be found in Doha (Qatar) is a surprising one. Because it isn’t informed by the political attempt to prevent the development of an even greater calamity in Gaza and the region at large. Rather, it is the product of pure arithmetic. Allegedly, it all has to do with the U.S. presidential elections set to take place 12 months from now."
"The result of that vote, says a senior U.S. officer in Doha, is dependent not only on Jewish votes, but also heavily on millions of radical evangelicals, who view the defense of Jerusalem – the cradle of their faith – as essential. According to their beliefs, the messiah will only return when the existence of Israel is defended and non-Christians are kept at bay."
"We aren’t currently not only negotiating peace in the Middle East. The focus is on votes for Joe Biden," says the U.S. military officer in Doha. And he doesn’t look happy about it" (German Spiegel).
Biden had to go hard right to head off Trump and his Armageddon brigade, because he knows that the Jewish billionaires will flock to Trump if he doesn't step u to the plate. But in doing so he lost the BLM Left which got him into the Oval the first time. And he's pulling Europe down with him, because they had to come on board as payback for Putin-protection. But Putin will now stir up "days of rage" in their streets. All the more so, if he can expand the war in order to create another refugee crisis.
10-13-23
The modern state of Israel is an artificial creation cobbled together by numerous external factors held together by an internal one. The external factors are 1) the Holocaust, 2)European guilt, 3)Evangelical Eschatology, and 4)Wall Street funding. The internal factor is trauma: the Holocaust and ongoing violence. Note how Right/Left Jews have closed ranks in recent days, whereas, only months before, they were at each others throats because of the Ultra/Settler takeover of government. The Right did not go over to the Left, but the reverse. For no Jew opposes Israel's iron fist against Gaza. Which means that the Jewish Left is now in the West what it is in Israel: dead.
The Hamas attack was a masterstroke of planning and tactics. Add to that their willingness to sacrifice themselves and you have all the elements of a legend among Muslims who see themselves pressed on all sides. Worldly MBS, already walking on eggshells for importing the decadent West wholesale, will now have to put distance between Mecca and Jerusalem, lest Iran raise the specter of apostasy in the custodians of Mecca and Medina.
The Israel-Saudi pact would have diluted the Palestinian cause, and Saudi money would have turned Hamas leaders into casino magnates. MBS needed to get close to a democracy to hide what he does at home, and he in turn would take care of Israel's Palestinian (apartheid) problem.
Instead, Israel is now left friendless once again, its only non-Jewish friends being Evangelicals, whom they would lose the minute they deviate from their Temple focus. So what happens to the Seculars now that their Utopia vanished overnight? The fact that Hamas attacked them in their revels within earshot of Gaza demonstrates their delusion. For the only people surprised by Hamas' violence are Jews. The rest of the world saw it as the venting of a powder keg.
Israel will now become double the Sparta it was before: a military camp. It can win the war, but it cannot win the peace, and worse, acceptance "among the Gentiles". Israel cannot afford to be dragged before the International Court, which it so far avoided only because the Court cannot afford to contradict its paymaster, the US. But the US is in retreat and will no longer find it easy to cast its veto on Israel's behalf at the UN. Which leaves the Evangelicals its only friend in the world.
10-12-23
At this point, world opinion is at best neutral--on the surface. Beneath all the wokewurst hypocrisy there is little sympathy for Israel. Hamas has already accomplished its objective, which is to infame the Arab street with the plight of the Palestinians. Protests in Europe, Times Square (they just shut down Columbia University) and Harvard show that Israel cannot win what is essentially a civil war. For two objects cannot be in the same spot at once. And here you have the third most holy site in Islam atop the Wailing Wall: that's as close as it comes to having two objects occupy the same space at once. Muslims cannot give up the Mount without losing a third of their religion. And the reason Jews have been wailing down below for two millennium is because of what's above. The Temple Ground for a Torah Jew is the very center of the Universe. Without it even the biblical heartlands (Judea and Samaria) lose their meaning. They may try for a new two-state solution again with the corrupt Palestinian Authority at the helm. \But the Temple Mount will remain unresolved.
Then again, the world has changed since the last conflict. The US is no longer able to provide Israel blanket cover at the UN as it did when it bestrode the world. Add now the wokewurst. Biden is taking heavy blows from his BLM extreme Left who demand an Israeli accounting within the framework of Critical Race Theory, Civil Rights and all the wokewurst. Biden cannot afford to lose what the Squad calls the Jewish Benjamins ($20 bills). So now he's shipping military hardware to Israel--for what? They blew the top off Tora Bora and left the Taliban stronger than before. The livestreamed images of Gaza (keep buying cement and rebar stock) reduced to powder will bring days of rage to European Capitals. It may be that Iran thought it had to strike quickly to derail an Israeli-Saudi axis. Yet they have now reenergized US hawks--with Trump breathing fire. But the worst carnage is among the wokewurst. Europeans are forced to jump on the Hamas-cancelling bandwagon against their will to atone for their historic anti-Semitism, and the US political Left is left to squawk out of all sides of their mouths to not lose the Benjamins which put them in office, or their seething mobs who deliver the votes. For no matter how leftwing Jews are, they know that, in the end, anti-Semitism does not sort Jews. They could just as well be the Ultras whom they loathe, and who spit on them at the Wall.
But Biden is sending aircraft carriers, jets, and intelligence gathering hardware. You can imagine the days of rage boiling among the wokewurst. For Israel is where the Left goes to die. And now Manhattan and Harvard have to sign off on the coming invasion right on the heels of the BLM wokewurst which they applauded as social justice for the oppressed. Hamas had no greater friend than the globalist Left. But now they have split the Democratic party.
9-25-23
"Columnist Tom Friedman argues that the West needs to engineer a solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. He says there’s a 'dirty deal' that could end the war and still mean victory for Ukraine.
'If we bring Ukraine into the European Union, that would be one of the most consequential geopolitical tipping points since East Germany was united with West Germany,' Friedman says" (NT Times).
They closed Comments on the article almost immediately. Let Putin keep his gains in exchange for letting Ukraine join the EU and NATO, he says. Which means giving up the Industrial/Agricultural heartland, and worse, access to the Black Sea and its vast gas fields, Ukraine becomes a landlocked country at the mercy of Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia for access to the global market. It becomes a shadow of its former self. And the more it is reduced the more it becomes a liability to the West. Without a massive rebuilding scheme, it will remain poor, and fertile ground for corrupt oligarchs like Orban. German and France have enough domestic trouble already to add to the EU's financial woes. And Republicans will not commit to defending such a hornet's nest. But without the EU and NATO, Ukraine becomes a failed country.
Germany could cut its own deal. Much of Germany wants to go back to the old ways. Germans have always felt at home in Russia, and no German thinks Putin has designs on Berlin. They get access to Russia's resources and market in exchange for letting Ukraine revert back to the no-man's land it was before. That would mean a catastrophic humiliation for NATO, which Germany was forced to join by her conquerors. Scholz has already backtracked on his commitment to rearm Germany. What would be the point? To confront China? They were made to march lockstep with Biden's messianic world order, and have lost the right to look after their own affairs--all while China and India are gobbling up industrial market share on Putin's cheap energy. When this sinks in, Europe will be in the grips of anti-Americanism like never before. What would Bismarck do? Likely, form a league along the lines of the old Teutonic Knights who controlled the Baltic corridor from Berlin to St. Petersburg.
Friedman's "dirty deal" will be the final nail in the coffin of "EU values". The point of the war was, after all, the defense of freedom and democracy, and the upholding of the "rules based order" of the End of History which said that war as an instrument of statecraft would become impossible in an intertwined global world. End of History man Fukuyama was a regular in Ukraine before the war, filling their heads with romantic notions about global freedom. The fool has disappeared from the face of the earth. And now Fraudman calls on the looney Left to get out their nose clamps and cut a "dirty deal" with the war criminal Putin. No more talk of his arrest. No more talk of reparations. No more talk of war crime tribunals. What frauds. Half a million dead and wounded, Ukraine destroyed, Europe reduced to poverty, with the Global South rising on lost European market share, and--OOPS!! A year ago, he even had China cancelled if it didn't jump on the bandwagon, because Chinese citizens would be too embarrassed to travel if China supported a war criminal. "Gallio cared for none of these things." The war cannot go on long enough for China, India, and MBS, the world's biggest polluters. Climate dogma has been the biggest casualty. Big oil is back like never before, creating unbelievable friction within Leftwing ranks. $100 a barrel oil speaks for itself. It's what's driving inflation, which causes social unrest, which loses elections. And now a "shadow fleet" of oil tankers swarms over the deep to deliver Putin's oil to buyers looking for a bargain (which is 3/4 of the world). Insuring such vessels used to by very lucrative for Western insurance companies, now off limits because of sanctions. The profits of one load of oil at market prices will repay the $25 million cost of these vessels. These characters are little more than the dark lords of the underworld like the pirates who once ruled the seas. This is a sizable part of the global economy now beholden to Putin. His Wagner group is already creating floods of immigrants to Europe by staging coups in Africa. This is the New World Disorder. Which is why Putin is in no hurry to take up Fraudman's "dirty deal". He can rule the world through his outlaw gangs.
9-11-23
Elon Musk Has Crossed a Line , screams the NY Times.
No Comments allowed. My Comment yesterday on French (Evangelical turned Groombow) never got through. The ADL (which exists to whitewash Israel's war against Palestinians) demands that Musk adhere to their rules of what can be said and not said regards Jews. "Gallio cared for none of these things." The ADL has made itself a catchall-advocacy group for Leftwing causes, not the least of which is Groomophilia. And here is the main object of the Left's newfound crusade to reign in free speech,, which coming from the Right is fake news and hate speech. The Left demanded Sodomite marriage, not because they wanted to practice monogamy, but to grant legitimacy to their evil. Biden's Drag Queen reading program to grade school children is designed to counter "fake" (read biblical) notions that children may have heard from their parents. He himself believes children are full of depraved lust, and not to allow them to act out their depravity, he says, "is sinful". And just as Sodomy became mainstream by transforming itself into an oppressed Civil Rights group, so now it has hijacked the Holocaust. Jews better take note. There is a growing element within the Right that is pure pagan nationalism, which is rabidly anti-Semitic. The Israeli military gave Jerry Falwell a jet to do his evangelism because he twisted Reagan's arm to give Israel billions. The Democratic extreme Left can't wait to throw "the Benjamins" under the bus. They can ill afford to alienate their main sponsors: Evangelicals. And if Jews go on the attack against Musk, he will become the extreme Left's mascot. "The Republican Party," the NY Times sniffs, "already has a serious problem with some campaign staffers openly trafficking in antisemitic and white nationalist speech." Why? Because it has become fashionable to do so. They know what seethes in the Democratic Left. You know the NY Times is piping to its paymaster when they don't allow comments.
9-5-23
“We see it as a proxy war of the United States against Russia on Ukrainian land,” he says. “The issue isn’t about Russia and democracy. It is about Russia protecting their cultural, national identity against this liberal mania in the west” (Czech politician).
Which is why Republicans do not want Ukraine to become part of the EU, which would mean Pride(before destruction) marches in Red Square. Freedom and Democracy have now come to mean "EU values", and march under the Rainbow flag, with US funded NATO providing security. Republicans know they can destroy the Welfare State by taking away its US funded Peace Dividend. This is why Europe dreads Trump. He will put them to the tribute.
9-3-23
"So I felt sad, talking to friends dropping daughters at college, to hear of rampant anxiety, campuses awash in S.S.R.I.s — serotonin boosters found in drugs like Prozac and Lexapro — and long waits for therapy."
“Back-to-school was always a time of excitement about where the future was headed — new notebooks, fresh supplies,” mused a friend, the mother of a teenage daughter. “But it feels like people are disappearing into sadness. Everybody’s looking for a shrink instead of a sharpened pencil.”
“A lot of my friends with adult children have themselves had to get into therapy because they are so stressed out because of their kids’ problems,” Steinberg noted (Dowd, NY Times).
This among the richest, most educated people in the world. Stress disease, sadness disease, problem disease, fraud disease, unhappy disease, anxious disease--there is even a drug now for "the unknown disease". Look for it, ask your shrink for it.
You can't trade shrinks on the Stock Market, so if you want to cash in on this, buy and hold pharmaceuticals, because these demons have become so powerful that it takes a pharmaceutical straitjacket to control them. Still, don't fall asleep at the switch. The minute you hear that Putin threatened Manhattan with a nuclear bomb, sell, because pharmaceutical stocks will tank. This infestation only thrives on thought fraud: Climate fraud, Gender fraud, Globalist fraud, fake fraud, etc. These basket cases would sober up on the double quick in a real crisis, and the last thing they would ask for are mind-altering drugs to see themselves through it. If you applied Dowd's line of thought here to transportation, you wouldn't drive your car unless you were dead drunk.
Mental problems are to the soul what obesity is to the body: the fruit of bad habits. Anxiety overload is little more than an infestation of fake notions, idolatries, and trifles which the mind uses to mask personal problems. Hence, "keep thy heart with all diligence." All problems are personal, because "the Lord is at hand" to lend a helping hand: that is, "grace to help in time of need." Saul's suicidal thoughts were a symptom of another problem: "rebellion which is as the sin of witchcraft." Moses struck the rock ("that Rock was Christ") in anger and frustration because God was not appearing quickly enough. I was there, God said, and "you did not sanctify me." The problem was not Israel, but Moses' impatience with God. All problems are personal problems, and all personal problems are problems with God. But how was he to know that God was really there? By faith. "He that cometh to God must believe that He is." Well, yes, that's good as far as it goes, and in most cases perfectly true, but what if.... I was there, God said. You did not believe that, which is why you lashed out in anger. Had you acknowledged "the evidence of things not seen", you would "have sanctified Me".
"Now look here, you rebels," he cried. They were rebels, but not against Moses. He had forgotten that God had reduced him from a prince to a lowly shepherd. Before, he took his problems to God: "they're getting ready to stone me," he said. God was ready for them. But now he took their rebellion personally, and responded in kind. Moses stands in the first ranks of the Church's shepherds, and God made a severe example of him for all time. God had made him a shepherd, and shepherds were not to deal with "the heritage of God" as if they were Egyptians. He has a problem? He is to take it up with God, not with the people. But this was the language of a raging tyrant against the redeemed people of God. The Tabernacle was God's home in the midst of their tents, a constant reminder that God dwelt with His children. "Israel is my firstborn," he told Pharaoh, "let my son go." Moses was tasked to verify that constantly, which he would do "by setting God apart". Men do not glory in God's presence, much less throw a tantrum. Obviously, God was not there at that point. I was there, God said. And judged Moses accordingly for his lack of faith. When Moses protested his sentence, God took an even harsher line: "let this be the last time you mention that," he told Moses. Because "the evidence which could not be seen" was there. "This is a hard saying."
9-2-23
What you see to your right is what lies in store if the Left becomes the custodian of the platforms of communication: they're censoring thought here, and while they allow some contrarian opinions, others neve make it. In this way, they make themselves the sole thought-Machers. If other opinions are quashed, well then, they must not exist, leaving the masses to feed on what is is carefully curated to suit the Agenda. As now the algorithms which run the world's systems are handed over to Artificial Intelligence, few will understand where the controls are, and even fewer will know who holds the few lines of code that can turn the System on and off. Israel tricked Iran's uranium sifters into overheating, while tricking the censors to show normal temperatures in the control room. Their Pegasus Spyware can hijack the latest iPhone simply be dialing it. A voting machine is a primitive instrument compared to an iPhone, and the suspicion that they can be manipulated will not go away. The Right left the negotiating table because bureaucratic statism is totally in the hands of the Ivy League, and they are keenly aware that cooking the books takes only a tweak here and there. In fact, propaganda only works through subtlety, so that you can never quite prove deception.
Few Americans see Ukraine fighting for American freedom as the Pole (on left) would have you believe. The Right sees the war as an attempt to get Pride(before destruction) marches into Red Square, the onward march of the EU Groomocracy. In fact, it represents the last gasp of the Globalist conceit of an International Law based order, founded on the hanging of Nazis at Nuremberg. Law is no more than the monopoly of violence. Take away the threat of punishment and law ceases to exist. International Law will exist only when there is an International monopoly on violence, at which point you will have the government of Anti-Christ.
8-28-23
Here we go again. All of a sudden, the NY Times is done with "the alternative" nonsense--after my Comment. You always know what to expect on NY Times frontpage tomorrow by reading here today.
8-26-23
"The Republican Debate Proved That Trump Has What It Takes" (NY Times).
I said that yesterday (see Shambler's Law beside). Proof that the NY Times gets its ideas for tomorrow on what you read here today.
He goes on:
8-16-23
"This week, a group of youths in Montana won a landmark lawsuit after a judge ruled that the state’s failure to consider climate change when approving fossil fuel projects was unconstitutional...Even as local governments in Hawaii seek damages from oil and gas companies, the state of Hawaii is itself being held to account over its climate policy.
A group of youths sued the island state’s Department of Transportation last year, accusing it of shirking its duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and of violating their constitutional rights to a clean environment.
By promoting and funding highway projects that lead to more traffic, fuel use and planet-warming emissions, the department has hurt the ability of young people to “live healthful lives in Hawaii now and into the future,” they said" (NY Times).
The Pharisees so tricked the Law that you could watch your parents starve while you lived it up in your mansion, and still claim to obey the Fourth Commandment to "honor your rather and mother.". The Law of Korban was a legal trick by which you could "donate" all your wealth to the Temple, and have the legal record show that you are penniless. However, the fine print stated that you were allowed to make use of all of it up to your death, upon which it would become the Temple's. Likewise, you could "devour a poor widow's house" on a legal fiction. These parasites ("vipers", Jesus calls them) were the upstanding politicians of their day. They used the Law to "bind heavy burdens on the people", which is why the people loathed it. You already knew the outcome the minute this Montana huckster allowed the legal depravity to proceed. It's called weaponizing government against your fellow citizens. In Texas and Florida you can "judge-shop" to find your own legal assassin to trick the violence of the state to your advantage. Soon the courts will collapse due to overload, at which point the weaponization of the Law will give way to actual violence. For the Law is never more than the sheath of the sword. The Left is under the illusion that to gain an indictment means victory. But indictments are only as good as the monopoly of violence behind them. Mueller indicted half the Russian army at the cost of tens of millions of dollars. Good pay if you can get it. The last gasp of Statism. Which is why the Right is trying to blow up the System with Trump. They'll be left with Orbanism, and as Hezekiah said, "at least I'll peace in my time". The problem with despots is always their offspring. Solomon used whips, his son scorpions.
8-13-23
NATO is ready to cut its losses and throw Ukraine under the bus:
"But this was not enough for Kyiv, unhappy that Jenssen, an important figure and close ally of Stoltenberg, was even discussing the proposition in public.
Kyiv said any land-for-Nato deal would reward Russian aggression. Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said: “Trading territory for a Nato umbrella? It is ridiculous.
“That means deliberately choosing the defeat of democracy, encouraging a global criminal, preserving the Russian regime, destroying international law and passing the war on to other generations.”
Podolyak said that unless Russia suffered a heavy loss in the war, it would continue to pose a long-term problem for the west. “If Putin does not suffer a crushing defeat, the political regime in Russia does not change and war criminals are not punished, the war will definitely return with Russia’s appetite for more.”
But Ukraine’s position is being tested by the slow progress of its counteroffensive which began in June. Although Kyiv has received donations of western tanks and long-range rockets and artillery, its forces have so far made only limited territorial gains against heavily defended Russia positions" (Guardian).
Look at what Ukraine is accusing NATO of: the reverse of everything Biden used to promote the carnage--rewarding aggression, no reparations, loss of territory, no war crime trials, the destruction of International Law, an emboldened Russia. Not to speak of the message to China with regard to Taiwan.
Now what does Europe do? It sees America too embroiled internally to pay much attention to world affairs, and they know that Republicans consider the EU as allies of the American Left. In essence, the enemy within.
The war wreaked the European economy and tethered its politics to Washington. And now they have an angry bear to deal. The Right (Orban and Poland) will hamstring the EU from within, and Putin will use the Balkans to unsettle it from without. To face the crisis, Europe will have to arm rapidly, but cannot do so without destroying the Welfare State founded on the Peace Dividend, underwritten by US security. Biden's defeat in Ukraine is another sign of the rapid retreat of the American Empire, the global policeman guaranteeing "the rules based order". The Right everywhere is on the warpath against what it sees as "Western (think Rainbow) decadence". From Israel, to Orban, to Poland, to the Trump trials--the focus is purely domestic enemies: the sinister decay of the social fabric by the Groomocracy. Israel is attacking its own system to end the rule of Rainbow judges. This is what happened in Hungary, and is now being implemented in Poland. People see themselves oppressed by judges who rule by whim, the vague rubbish of "reasonableness". In short, "the rule of Law" has been hijacked by globalists, and people are overthrowing the rule of judges with their own strongmen. Trump is attacking the System because his followers want him to attack the System in order to end its tyranny over them.
8-2-23
"Pittsburgh Synagogue Gunman Gets Death Penalty," blares NY Times.
Not a word about "a barbaric practice" that most Western nations outlawed as "cruel and inhumane punishment." Nay, the Left wants this man drawn and quartered with his head on a stick. Not a word about boycotting the Swiss drug maker who makes the lethal ingredient that Pennsylvania will have to use to kill the guilty. Frauds. Not a word about the killer's history of "mental issues", "abusive upbringing", or "social inequality."
8-2-23
My Comment in Stephen's column on Portland's Leftwing ruin. No Likes, and the censors took forever to let it through::
Well, as they say, "democracy can be messy." This is playing out in one of the most affluent parts of the nation, and as they say, "elections have consequences," whether here or in Israel. If you live in affluent downtown Portland, you have the means to move to Texas if you crave stronger regimentation. Otherwise, you're left to deal with the results of the ballot box, where the majority gets to impose their will on contrarians. It's your life (or country) to ruin if you want to. People don't go to jail for trying to commit suicide. Freedom and Democracy, and the freedom to move elsewhere. Nature is a hard taskmaster. Drive it out, and it will return with a pitchfork, whether in Florida or in Portland, because it grants you enough rope to hang yourself if you choose.
7-27-23
I'm number 9 in Readers Picks in Friedman column Comments Section under Shreir. Rare for a contrarian opinion. I'm usually hissed out the room,. and yesterday couldn't get past the censors. Biden called his Propaganda Meister down to the Oval (this time without even a milkshake) and stuffed him with syrup to tell "the dear Jewish people" what the Great White Father wants. Now he's plotting with Saudi tyrant MBS to reign in King Bibi, after the Temple Jews clipped the wings of unelected globalist judges.
Comment:
shreir
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Strange: regards Ukraine the Biden line is "no negotiations without Ukrainian consent." But here, we have two sovereign nations arranging the politics of a third in order to (wait for it) thwart the outcome of a legal (albeit "undemocratic") election. And this with "fist-bumped" Bone Saw tyrant MBS, a great defender of democracy.
7-23-23
"Only Biden Can Save Israel Now" (Friedman, NY Times).
Translation: Israel needs to be saved to keep it from turning into a pariah state, in which Friedman and his billionaires will have to do their wailing next to Zealots in big hats and black coats who will impose strict Torah kosher law throughout Israel: gender separation on buses and beaches, strict Sabbath keeping, etc.
"Mr. Biden," blares the NY Times, "does not think much of the judicial restructuring package, going so far as to summon Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times columnist, to the Oval Office last week to convey the message. Mr. Biden urged Mr. Netanyahu 'not to rush' his changes and 'to seek the broadest possible consensus here.'”
A President "summons" a NY Times reporter. The Propaganda summons was one hour and fifteen minutes in the Oval Office memorizing the Church Bulletin. His column reads like a chapter out of Lewis and Clark diaries: the Great White Father in Washington wants only the best for his Jewish children, and he only wants his dear children to be happy, etc.
But no one can draw a distinction between the Jews of Jerusalem and the Jews of Manhattan. For Israel is both a suburb of Manhattan and Evangelical Orthodoxy, the two extremes of the Cultural War. So on the one hand, Evangelicals close ranks with the most anti-Christian people in the world in Jerusalem (Israel, they say is God's wife, while the Church is Christ's Bride), while on the other, Leftwing Democrats are made to grit their teeth and embrace Jewish Apartheid. This toxic brew calls for extraordinary channels, which is why Friedman got the call. Here be monsters, and Biden will need his Leftwing going into 2024. You see the hypocrisy. Arab Lives are the only Lives that don't Matter in the Democratic Party. Because you cannot get elected without Jewish Power Blocks. It calls for much holding of the nose. Biden's summons is thus a call for Friedman to create a larger nose clamp, because Bibi can blow up the Democratic Party by forcing the radical Left's hand to apply Critical Race Theory to Israel.
At issue here is the integrity of the Democratic Party, which, regarding Israel, is made to join hands with Rightwing Republicans. This was possible only as long as "reasonable" judges kept Israel from its worst excesses. Think Critical Race Theory, the most potent political idea in the US. Applied to Israel, it would hand over the lands of Abraham to the Palestinians. This is the hypocrisy Friedman was called on to deal with.
The problem is that the Left in Israel is in the crosshairs of the Left in the US. Why? Because the Left in Israel does not join hands with the Palestinians to demand a democracy for all people under Israeli rule. Why not? Because secular Jews do not trust Arabs not to use their majority to turn the country into an Arab state, because Palestinians under Israeli rule outnumber Jews. Liberal American Jews like Thomas Friedman do not trust Arabs not to use their majority vote to put Jews under the heel. The Two-State solution has become impossible on the scraps of land remaining to the Palestinians. The "reasonable" rule of judges was all that kept the lid on this powder keg: a cloud of ambiguity that masked the hopeless contradictions of a "Jewish democracy."
Everyone knows what will happen once the Ultras impose theocratic rule on Israel. They'll split into a thousand factions. Because "Torah Studies" to the Ultras means the mountains of hairsplitting in the Talmud: the "motes" of the elders.
The Ultras, both in Israel and New York, barely speak English, and eschew science. Israel has nuclear bombs. Current state bureaucrats are largely secular. The money makers are secular.
The Ultras may make an exception of Tel Aviv, but Jerusalem will have to be cleansed from top to bottom if it is to be worthy of the Temple.
Thus on the one, the Left is hamstrung by its distrust of the Arabs who would outvote them, while Theocracy would cause an exodus, both human and capital. God will intervene as in the days of Joshua, they say But God did not intervene in 70 AD, nor in 1945. But this time is different, you say, because this is the End. If they get their hands on the Temple Mount, it will certainly seem like it. The price of oil will go to $500 a barrel overnight. How did it come to this? Simple. To "subdue" (or rule) the earth, you need to "be fruitful and multiply", the opposite of Pride (before destruction). Ultra ghettos and Brooklyn boroughs are bursting at the seams with children. Palestinian districts even more so. And Africa most of all.
7-23-23
“You whores (reasonable Jews), burn in hell,” Itzik Zarka (an unreasonable Ultra) shouted at the demonstrators. “I wish another six million would burn,” Mr. Zarka added, referring to the six million mainly Ashkenazi Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. (NY Times)
But without these Secularists, Israel would become as poor as the Taliban. Plus they make up most of the Army. Yes, but it is these unclean infidels who defile the Holy Land, and keep Israel from entering into her "full inheritance": full possession of the Land, the rebuilt Temple, the priesthood, the coming of the Messiah. Fanatical zeal drove the US out of Afghanistan, and they seem happy with their new utopia over there. And Tel Aviv has even fewer children than San Francisco. The many faces of the global Culture War.
7-22-23
In these days there is no law in Israel, but unelected judges rule by what is "reasonable" in their own eyes. That religion was tried, you may recall, when Montana put "reasonable" speed limit signs on its Interstates. European speed fanatics couldn't believe their luck, and the rest of the world almost died laughing. They're not laughing now, because, "reasonableness", according to the NY Times, is all that's keeping the Settlers and Ultras of Israel from lighting the fuse to Armageddon.
King Bibi is coming and the Democrats are on pins and needles. The judges again. And "reasonable" judges at that. Because, before, Israel demanded a king because they had had enough of judges under Israel's theocracy. They were too hasty. Israel's greatest judge, Samuel, was the fruit of his mother's prayers, and God had already raised up Ruth to secure Israel's future through the prophet David, who would not have committed adultery and murder as a judge.
The modern rule of "reasonable judges" is a fraud cloaked in a fiction. These judges, Thomas Friedman cries, are "Israel's gatekeepers" to save the plebs from the worser demons of their nature. They served to muster "a Jewish state for Jews" as a passable Democracy, with the Palestinians under their rule (who outnumber them) screaming under the bus. Now that the Ultras and Settlers have outmaneuvered what goes on in Tel Aviv with their maternity wards, their children have out-voted Tel Aviv's non-children at the ballot box, and now demand the recompense of the reward, so to speak. That is, to the victor belong the spoils, for the ballot box is no more than the place where such suits are tried. That is, who gets to use the violence of the State to achieve their ends. Not so fast say "the reasonable judges", heh, heh. You will do no more than what is "reasonable," heh, now lets see those new laws you just passed so that we can make them "reasonable."
The new laws will reduce the judges makers of "reasonable laws" to umpires of whether laws passed by "unreasonables" are applied equally among Jews, whether such laws are reasonable or not. But the Settlers have already voiced their aims: Annexation of all the lands of Abraham, and the Torah as Israel's Constitution. You can still live in Israel as a stranger, but you will learn to walk gingerly as an unclean Gentile. Non-compliant Palestinians will be treated like Joshua's Canaanites, for God gave the Land to the Jews and God loves only the Jews. Joshua broke no laws when he exterminated the Canaanites. The historical line from Mt. Sinai to modern Israel remains unbroken. You either accept the Torah literally, or not at all. Not to march on the Temple Mount is thus rebellion and disobedience. This is what's behind the new make over. Gallio, to be sure, cares for none of these things, for Bibi is a secular Jew. But the "reasonables" have him in the crosshairs, and if he doesn't elude their grasp, he will end up in jail. His way of escape is to tinker with the law and the courts, which he can do by re-writing the law, for which he needs the Zealots. He gets to cheat the hangman, while the Zealots get to provoke Armageddon by expelling Arabs and seizing the Temple Mount. Suicide, you say, because the Moslem nations will descend on Jerusalem en masse. But the life of a Settler and Ulra is already on the knife's edge. The dream of the Zealot is to die in the ranks of the armies of Zion, all the better if you fall on the Temple Mount, where God dwells. Once they take up the standards and make their assault, God will "thunder from the hills," and the enemy will be "heaps upon heaps." This is what makes the Left's hair stand on end, and why Biden hurriedly "fist-bumped" Bibi to the White House. Because this toxic brew cannot be allowed to ferment into 2024. Republican can always make political hay in Jerusalem, and Jerusalem is where you to peel off votes from the Democrats, because at the end of the day, Wall Street billionaires and their trophy wives covet a burial plot next to King David. Israel is both a Wall Street suburb, and Evangelical orthodoxy: a toxic brew. For Armageddon is hour 11:59 of the American Dream, when the City on a Hill will ride to the rescue as the hordes emerge from the river Euphrates where they have been quaking in the mud waiting to be hatched.
They need to get rid of Bibi fast, because if Trump gets in, all bets are off. Nothing will be off limits. Europe knows it is in for the mother of all reckonings if he gets in, because he will weaponize the Oval Office to wage the Cultural War, which is currently trying to bind the strongman with a thousand lawsuits. This is the most desperate man in the world with the most to lose. If he loses, everyone will forsake him. If he wins, every malcontent will rally behind his standard. The Left sees nothing by Armageddon from every angle if the stars do not line up in their favor.
Biden had shunned Bibi until now for his part in the scheme to dethrone Israeli judges. Then last week the extreme Left almost lit the fuse of the powder-keg deep within the bowels of Democrats, causing other Democrats to jump on the "hands-off-Israel" bandwagon. Israel, it seems, is not subject to Biden's "rules based order", because "God gave them the land, and God loves only the Jews" (they openly say this). But American elections are coming up, and elections, as they say, "have consequences." You must win elections to stay in power, and you cannot win elections without the Wall Street barons who bankroll the Settlers and Ultras to retake the Land piece by piece on the West Bank, and buy it plot by plot in Old Jerusalem. Because, Republicans can always make political hay in Jerusalem, and if Bibi can get Trump back in the White House, then all bets are off. The Ultras in Brooklyn spend their days dreaming about the Temple Mount, and a galactic shift in Jewish history: the return of the Temple, the Priesthood, and the Day of Atonement. Nothing has changed on the Jewish calendar since Moses, and "without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." Israel is nothing without the Temple, for without the Day of Atonement, Israel remains in her sins. All ended the day Titus destroyed the Temple.
But the Ultras and Settlers cannot move on the Temple Mount as long as these "reasonable" judges thwart their designs. For all acts of the Government are scrutinized by the judges, who have the power to make all acts and laws "reasonable."
7-20-23
That's like using the walls of your house to keep warm. And so the race to the bottom. More heat, more coal, more coal more heat. That's the equation. It's primitive man cutting down the forest around him to harvest the honey in the tree tops. We'll worry about tomorrow--well, tomorrow.
Which means that you (Western man) will have to pick up the slack. You'll have to turn of your air conditioner and close your factories to save the Planet. Otherwise, they'll kill us all.
So, you say, nig law firms are also sueing China for "climate anxiety"? Well, no. And the International Court at the Hague? They're afraid China will drop an H-Bomb on their head. Are there any Climate lawsuits in Montana against China. Are Third World Countries suing China for reparations? No, because according to Critical Race Theory, China, in the end, is still a victim of Colonial aggression.
So how will Woke Leaders of the West respond to China's Blitzkrieg into that carbon night? By picking up the slack, and sue Big Oil, and Big industry into bankruptcy. Such is woke messianics. Kerry is back to preaching to the choir, because China doesn't do religion. So now we have smoking tundra in Russia, belching coal in China, and India rising fast on cheap Russian gas, Brazil's answer to Europe's war on farming is to farm the Amazon, because beef will soon be the next cocaine over there. The other lung of the planet, Congo, is being mined for car batteries. That's more than three quarters of the world doing their best to burn the world down. Britain, which accounts for 1 percent of the world's carbon, is turning into a Third World country for lack of growth. They need "filthy lucre", to pay for the Welfare State, and even the Left knows that they'll be made eat humble pie and fire up dirty energy to get smoke belching factories humming again. Too late. China has industrial market share, and aside from ruinous tariff wars, those factories will not return. If coal, mutter the Chinese, scares the West, then there can not be enough of it. They're building coal plants to stay cool, shrieks the NY Times, while the world sizzles. This is war by other means, because, unless your willing to play Climate chicken, you have no choice but to turn off your air conditioning, and your factories. China's only goal is to be the last man standing. When European ambassadors first arrived in China and presented their credentials, they were refused, because Chinese doctrine stated that China was the only nation on earth. True globalists.
Xi is doing with his accountants what Biden is trying to do with his generals. He's making money with dirty industry, and using his gains to finance projects and strategic assets. Putin offered to help Europe fast-track to zero carbon by offering them cheap gas. Most of the hardware the West needs to go Green comes from China. Refining Lithium is an expensive, complicated, and dirty process. To be competitive you need lots of dirty energy and loose environmental standards. In short, make the world hotter to make it cooler. A real Catch-22. Three thirds of the world could care less. They're too busy catching up with the American Dream and don't have time for religion.
7-19-23
"She’s on a Mission From God: Suing Big Oil for Climate Damages" (NY Times)
How does that work, you say. Tobacco companies, you will remember, were sued into bankruptcy because they sold products which they knew were harmful. Big Oil continues to sell you gas without warning you that burning gas is a crime against humanity because it will fry the planet. Would you still fill your tank, if you read that at the pump? But they're to timid by half. Because car companies do not tell you that what comes out of the tail pipe is a weapon of murder. Would you drive a car with that printed on the steering wheel? But the big fish is the Pentagon and it's recruitment program in High Schools. They sell careers and adventure, while suppressing the carnage on the battlefield. Mothers of dead sons, no doubt, are entitled to billions because the Pentagon hid the dangers of the product they were selling. The cluster bombs now being delivered to Ukraine leave 20 percent of their bomblets unexploded and primed waiting for a child or farmer to stumble over them. Democrats objected to their delivery on that basis. Maimed civilian Ukrainians then have evidence from the top levels of Government that these products will kill civilians long after the war ends. The payout from both the US government and the arms manufacturers will be in the hundreds of billions----!!!!---provided that is, they find a judge to allow the suit to proceed forward.
Enter Montana, where such suits are tried. This is, after all, the place where long before the Jews discovered "the legal standard of reasonableness" (so Thomas Fraudman) as a one-size-fits-all "legal standard", it was invented by Montana, who boldly proclaimed it as their speed limit. The world almost died laughing. But that's where that religion was tried before Israeli judges adopted it to rule over the Jews with the rigor of a Pharaoh. The New York Times can't contain its excitement. They needed to get a Climate case on the docket to get the ball rolling. And the more of these cases "reasonable" judges in Montana allow to proceed, the more the fraud becomes legitimate. In Germany, the courts allowed a Peruvian farmer to sue a German company for contributing to Global warming. If you have a bank account and drive a car, you're not innocent. Farmers, according to the NY Times, are some of the worst offenders because of their "burping" cows and sheep. They know the science, and yet put the Planet at risk. This is how you get your case heard in Montana. Maybe that's why the Chinese balloons were out there. You remember the ancient Chinese proverb: "never interrupt your enemy while he's making a fool of himself."
7-19-23
"China says it will determine its climate policy without outside input, a rebuke to the international approach to global warming" (Washington Post).
"As the world sizzles, China says it will deal with climate its own way" (Washington Post)
Remember your grade school lesson where you never say Chinese faces because they wore such big straw hats? And Biden-Kerry want to "set politics aside" to deal with the "greatest threat ever to face humanity." They're preaching 1.5 degree a hundred years from now. In Chinese that means "get a bigger hat." "It can't be business as usual," says Kerry. That is, war, spies, espionage, assassinations, etc. etc-- that is, politics as usual. Both sides have enough nucellar warheads pointed at each other to annihilate each other, and Kerry wants to sit down in brotherly fashion: "Surely, the bitterness of death is past." But "Gallio would have none of these things." To each his own, says China. If America fries, so much the better for China. Because China doesn't the least threatened by the weather. They'll farm and weaponize the weather. Because in China, only China matters. That's the conclusion they draw from US warheads pointed at Chinese cities. Which leaves the global world order to be observed by white globalists, smug in their colonial conceits. Like the followers of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin, they see themselves as chosen to usher in the final stage of history, and when brother China will see the error of his ways he will repent. Meanwhile, we must abide by the strictest orthodoxy.
This is what they used to call hanging yourself by your own self-righteous petard, the fatal delusion of the Messiah Complex. Because, the West is so far in on Climate, it now has no choice but to muster the courage of its convictions and keep the moral high ground to save the Planet, the polar bears, icebergs, and the isolated tribes of the Amazon, not yet ruined by Christianity.
But all Kerry sees in China is belching coal plants, and the foundations of planned ones. "The Communists kill us all," they shriek in Kawl Y'all Mawx in Man Ten Gallon Hattan. Because the Chinese sense opportunity in Western conceits. Let the West hamstring itself with Stop Oil, leaving more for China. If the world perishes, well, at least there will be no victors. If it does not, them China gets to buy up its assets with the proceeds from dirty coal. "We must get rid of that disgusting urine (used as bleach) tax," said Titus when his father made him co-Emperor. Vespasian handed him a newly minted gold coin. "Tell me," he said, "what does that smell like"? The Legions who underwrote his throne had to be paid handsomely, and where he sat, nothing was off limits. This is the true face of politcs: the iron fist of violence. Let's not kid ourselves, the Chinese are saying to Kerry. When push comes to shove we'll stick a knife in each other. To each his own then. Because the Chinese are willing to play Russian roulette with the heat, while Kerry refuses to play Climate chicken. Imagine showing up in China with 5000 warheads pointed at Chinese cities preaching Climate salvation.
So now what? Bring China to heel through the International Court? Montana judges will allow you to sue for Climate anxiety. And China just announced that it is willing to burn the world down. If you prevail in your lawsuit (and you will out there), the US Government will have no choice but to seize Chinese assets to award you damages. It's what your left with, because China (according to Cimate models) will destroy the Planet. They're shrieking at the top of their lungs in Manhattan today--where all this was hatched by the idle trophy wives of Wall Street Billionaires. Because China's refusal is tantamount to a declaration of war on mankind. All bets are now off because of China's oversized footprint. A stunning and humiliating rebuke.
Can China, then, be sued at the International Court for Climate Crime? No matter. Other nations must do the right thing and leave oil and coal in the ground. But look at Britain. Hamstrung by its Zero Carbon zeal and utterly bankrupt. Even the Leftwing (about to return to power) says you cannot spend what you don't have, because the Welfare State has to be paid for. Britain, they say, will have to regrow. Which means deregulation, and deregulation is messy. Which leaves China. They'll have to ramp up dirty energy to compete, because what you see in Walmart is a product of dirty energy and deregulation. The West is already shlepping to China for its solar technology and chips. If it weaponizes the West's Zero Carbon policy, it will have no need of an army, because hyper-Capitalism is modern war by other means. Have you checked prices lately? "Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears. But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle; 21and the charge for a sharpening was a [g]pim for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to set the points of the goads" (1 Sam. 13). China is rapidly building coal plants in anticipation of European demand for it's "dirty" products. Apparently, the Chinese are not the least anxious about the heat. They'll farm the heat and co-opt it. They've already put many local manufacturers out of business here, because the big equipment auctions are now filled with small implements that were made locally--at a fraction of the price. But the quality, you say. It's iPhone quality. Economics is now war (or poltics) by other means. But, says Kerry, "we need to set politics aside" to save the planet. China's only concern is to save China. If the rest of the world perishes so much the better for China. Ukraine is a casualty of the Climate folly. So much for Biden's "rules based global order." China has its own "rules based order." The Global South will soon have its own International Court. And then it's back to war "where such suits are tried."
7-18-23
"Ukraine aims to sap Russia’s defenses, as U.S. urges a decisive breakthrough" (Washington Post).
Ukraine is bogged down and being cut to pieces by the Russian air force and land mine infestation. Many of the murderous Leopards litter the fertile ground with their tracks blown off. Those tanks can hit a moving target 5 miles out while leaping over ditches at 40 mph with a glass of beer on the gun barrel and not spill a drop. But the clever Germans forgot to account for the landmines, because it only takes a $40 device to render a $5 million dollar tank worthless. But time is running out and Biden cannot let this kill pit become an issue in 2024. If Republicans gain control of the purse, they'll make life hard on free-loading Europe, demanding they turn their US funded Welfare into Warfare. Into the meatgrinder then, they demand of the Ukrainians. But the Ukrainians held out for this long under the delusion that NATO will enter the fray. That, NATO knows, would trigger nuclear war. Eastern Ukraine is turning into an uninhabitable desert, and the Ukraine army is bleeding to death with little to show for it. The US needs a return on its investment. Zelensky has no choice but to increase the butcher bill to keep Biden's billions flowing. Meanwhile, Old Europe is little more than a Pentagon colony called NATO. They have lost completely the right to self-determination. In short, while defending freedom in Ukraine, they have lost it at home. When's the last time you heard a European opinion that was not from the Biden-Blinken script? Meanwhile, the politics of Europe is moving to the Right. They need to end this before it implodes on them. Hence, Biden's desperate call to up the butcher bill. "Where's my breakthrough," Biden cries at the Ukrainians. It may have occurred to him that no one wants a breakthrough more than Ukrainians. "What are you waiting for," shouts Blinken. Just do it, "heaps upon heaps." They lost control of the war. NATO member Erdogan says he will talk to "my friend, Putin." He's keeping his economy afloat doing a brisk business helping a "war criminal." The arrest warrant, reparations, war crime trials, Russia out of Crimea, revolution in Russia--no more of that. If Putin is not driven out, his victory will set a dire anti-globalist tone worldwide. Global sanctions, limitless high tech gadgetry, shaming--all ineffective. If it didn't work in Ukraine, why would it deter China in its own backyard: Taiwan. But they went all in, cut their bridges and now can't find a way out. Except, "FORWARD." Never mind the landmines and air force--full steam ahead. Because all that's missing is "a breakthrough." How careless of Ukraine to forget that. How could they forget "the breakthrough"? Because Biden needs a breakthrough. They're being cut to pieces because they haven't made a breakthrough. They're losing the war because they haven't made a breakthrough. What are they waiting for? But somehow they forgot about "the breakthrough." And the famous German Leopards are lying on their sides with their tracks blown off. Because the Germans forgot to take into account the $40 dollar landmines, the equivalent of Einstein's "sticks and stones." But see the Wrong War here.
Meanwhile, Kerry is over in China on more important matters. "John Kerry," blares The Guardian," "aims to put China tensions aside at crucial climate talks." Because this is no time for business as usual: wars, nuclear anhelation, Uighur genocide--all those can be discussed at leisure, with state banquets, long winded diplomacy, erudite treatises in learned journals, etc, etc, so on and so forth. But this, the Climate Fryer, is Doomsday, and men everywhere will have to set their petty differences (war, genocide, land grabs) and rush to the defense of Gaia, the Earth Our Mother. Which is why they're in no hurry to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, for it serves the purpose of thinning the ranks. Mass starvation in Africa would be a boon for Mother Earth (think elephants, rhinos). The Left would like nothing better than to erase mankind from Russia and Ukraine in order to turn them into a Nature Preserve (perhaps bring back the wolly mammoth and mastodon). That would be climate justice. From eight billion to one billion, the Left says, is what it will take to restore the balance of Nature. That's the equation in Kerry's head as he pleads with the Chinese to "set politics (that is, war, heh, genocide, hey, annexations, heh) aside" and focus on the important concern of saving Gaia, the Earth our Mother. Because, ultimately, it comes down to the Great Removal.
The Climate crisis is so dire that it cannot be politics as usual. That is, heh, War. For war is politics by other means. Let's set aside politics (that is, war), he croons at the Chinese, and save the Planet. Then we can go back to plotting WW3, heh. No need to set "politics aside" for that, for the quickest way do adjust the Planet's temperature downward is to reduce humans from 8 billion to 1. That, if I read Einstein right, WW3 will do. For, said he, WW4 will be fought with (Zero Carbon) sticks and stones. Putin is doing yeoman's work for the Planet by putting Climate criminals into the ground, heaps upon heaps. Kerry would most certainly not "set politics aside" for that. His timing in China couldn't be better, Nature, as it were, providing ample fodder for his sermonizing. "The heat," he croons at the Chinese, "feel the heat." Apparently, the Chinese didn't know about the heat. It seems that the Chinese do not fear the heat. They will weaponize the heat, like Putin, who took Germany hostage by baiting them with their climate conceits, filled his coffers by selling them gas, and then blackmailed Europe to stand idly by while he helped himself to Ukraine. Ukraine is the first casualty of the Climate Fraud. Remember Thomas Fraudman's sermon to Putin? "Your smoking tundra," he cried, "that's what you need to worry about." How can you even think about war, when Mother Nature is on the march? Putin weaponized Mother Nature. "So," the Chinese mutter, "the Americans are afraid of heat. Then there can not be too much of it." More coal mines, then. Because, the Chinese do not seem the least bit bothered by the heat. But the Americans are waxing hysteric. Interesting. Britain is utterly bankrupt due to its Zero Carbon zeal, while China is busy building more coal plans to fuel industry needed to supply Europe with energy intense products. China will both weaponize Climate, and co-opt it. More sun and more heat, they say. More sun means more food. And heat is energy. They'll soon sell you a device to harness both. Busy, busy, busy. They do the Walmart stuff now on their lunchbreaks with the leftovers of their new endeavors. They'll soon sell you an air conditioned solar hat--shipped from China for the price of a cup of coffee here.
The key here is electrification, the greater part of which consists of access to certain minerals. Which is why all eyes are now on the Arctic where Russia has an oversized presence, and which the US seeks to check by adding Nordic countries to NATO. China lost its holdings in Eastern Siberia to Russia and hopes to regain them somehow. A diminished Russia would open opportunities in the Arctic for other nations, which is why Ukrainians are also dying to secure mineral deposits for the coming mineral wars.
Bought corn last week for $5 a bushel. It's now $5.40 since Putin ended the grain deal. This will cause severe shortages in the developing world, and tension there pours migrants into NATO countries.
7-18-23
"The rift burst into public view over the weekend when Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat who leads the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said at a conference of the liberal Netroots Nation that Israel “is a racist state,” leading to a swift condemnation from House Democratic leaders that prompted her to walk back the comment. Now Republicans, working to exploit the discord roiling Democrats, plan to keep the infighting in the spotlight by holding a vote on Tuesday proclaiming that Israel is not a racist or apartheid state and condemning antisemitism." (NY Times)
Many of those Democrats are Jews, and most are bankrolled by Jews. Jayapal said no more than what is stated plainly in UN documents: that Israeli occupation of the West is a crime against humanity. The Palestinians under Israeli rule outnumber Jews, and would outvote them in a democracy. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship make up 20 percent of the Israeli state. The rest live in the no-man's land of Jewish occupation, all of which the Settlers claim as the lands given to Abraham, and on which Palestinians can never be more than "hewers of wood and fetchers of water." If they make trouble, Israel has the divine right to expel them from the land.
There will never be a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli one. Why? Because this is a religious conflict to the death. Islam claims all of old Jerusalem, and no Moslem will agree to recognize Jewish rule over it. If the Settlers move on the Temple Mount, every Moslem state will declare war against Israel, because the Temple Mount is the third most holy site in Islam. But the Jews below wail because of what is above, the Temple site, which, the Rabbis say, is the center of the earth. Brooklyn Jews spend their waking hours dreaming of the Temple Mount. Without it, Israel would cease to exist.
The Settlers have waited long enough. The time has come to obey the command given to Joshua: "Go in, and possess the land." For Jews do not have a break in their history. There is no, BC and AD, before and after Christ. They have only the Torah given to Moses, the Revelation of God given for all ages. It confronts modern Jews in exactly the same manner as it did Joshua. God demands sacrifices. And Jews have not celebrated the Day of Atonement (the Jewish High Day) since Titus burned down the Temple. Which means Jews have no way to be rid of their sins, because God will accept sacrifices only within the Temple. This is what drives the Settlers and the Ultras.
At the end of the day, the most liberal Jewish billionaire will need a Jewish burial. And they all visit the Wailing Wall, where they have to tread very carefully around the Ultras who consider them and their unkosher wives unclean. The Ultras and Settlers are in Israel because there they are guaranteed salvation just by being there. So much the better if they die in the reconquest of the lands of Abraham. The secular Jews of Tel Aviv are there because it's a good place to live. They will decamp for New York and San Francisco when life gets hard.
What this means is that the Ultras and Settlers are the first line of defense against Israel's enemies. Life is easy in Tel Aviv. It is very dangerous in Old Jerusalem and on the West Bank. Secular Jews make up most of Israel's army, but they only exist to come to the aid of the Ultras and Settlers who establish new outpost from which to reclaim the land. The billionaires in Manhattan know this. The New York Times knows this. The liberal Jewish politicians in Washington know this. Which is why, at the end of the day, they dare not cross Netanyahu when he visits the US. The billionaires need the Ultras and Settlers, and politicians need Jewish billionaires to get elected. The Temple Mount is the only issue that unites the Right and the Left. Election is of the Jews, and the Left does not exist in Israel. It ceases to exist in Washington when Netanyahu visits. Because at the end of the Netanyahu controls "the Benjamin's" that you need to get elected.
7-17-23
"In Beijing, John Kerry said the U.S. and China must set aside politics to tackle climate change.
How awfully clever. Because China can be trusted not to use the Climate Crisis for politically advantage. That is, knowing that the woke West is hamstringing itself by fast-tracking Zero Carbon, China can be trusted not to grab market share by fueling its industries with cheap gas. For economics is war by other means. No Roman general was allowed near Egypt, Rome's breadbasket, because you could overthrow Rome by starving it. But there is no Climate Angst in China. And China knows that the West will attempt Zero Carbon even as China ramps up its coal plants. It sees in Kerry "one hand clapping."
Both China and the US have enough nuclear warheads pointed at each other's cities to wipe each other out. But that's not enough "to set politics aside" to tackle mutually assured destruction. But Climate, now that's a real problem. So real, in fact, that no reasonable leader will play politics with it. Nuclear war, well, "war is (heh, heh)," as Sherman says, "Hell." The coming war over Taiwan of which the butchery in Ukraine is but an opening salvo and which would trigger WWIII, well, that's politics as usual, and no one would think of "setting politics aside" to avoid the next Great War. But Climate is Nature, and humans are committing crimes against Nature. Which is why war may be the final solution. That is, Putin is serving Nature by putting criminals in the ground. And no one mentions "setting politics aside" to stop the human carnage in Ukraine. "War is, after all," as Clausewitz says, (heh, heh) "politics by other means." But we're not talking politics here, are we. That is, not (heh, heh) politics as usual. Because Climate is a real problem.
Not in China. Nor in Russia. Putin is waging jihad in Ukraine because of Europe's climate conceits. Here, he crooned, let me help you along with your religion by giving you cheap gas until you get your Green feet under you. Heh. He just pulled out of the grain deal. Food, the Roman Caesars knew, could be more effective than spears. So you may expect Kerry to shlepp over to Russia to persuade Putin to "set politics aside" to save the starving masses in Africa. The New York Times would like to reduce the world's population from 8 billion to 1 in order to restore the balance of nature. Again, Putin's grain embargo is to the purpose.
In all the NATO summits and columns in mainstream newspapers there is not a single mention of "stopping the bloodshed." Why? The globe is criminally overcrowded to the breaking point. Humans are the problem in Kerry's agenda, and the world needs to shed the greater part of them fast.
In Montana, a "reasonable" judge allowed anxious pornouning brats to sue over Climate Angst. Montana has thousands of nuclear sites embedded in its mountains, all of which have Russian nuclear warheads pointed at them, turning Montana into the post of danger. Would this judge allow a lawsuit to proceed over nuclear anxiety? Such is the rule of judges. Pure politics. And Kerry is asking the Chinese to "set politics aside" for the greater good. The Chinese had a balloon out there because they fear those missiles. They'll play Kerry for all he's worth to get him to hamstring himself with Zero Carbon--while they go full steam ahead with coal.
7-17-23
The NATO summit threw Ukraine under the bus. The Spring Offensive has not moved the needle, and Ukraine is being cut to pieces by the Russian air force, and land mine infestation (NY Times). The famous Leopards were supposed to have evened the playing field, except the experts didn't account for the landmines that blow off their tracks. This is like a chapter out of Tolstoy, for no one does the meatgrinder like the Russians. They always lose several armies at the beginning of the war: on the job training. Zelesky's tantrum at the NATO summit showed his desperation. The endpoint was always to draw America into the war on moral grounds. They took Pedocrat enthusiasm for their heroics as a guarantee that the Reagan-Bush cowboys would ultimately ride to the rescue. Old Europe was so convinced of Putin's demise that they served Putin with an arrest warrant. An idle boast by these pretentious crackpots. Ukraine was not invited into NATO, and even the F-16's are not forthcoming. The NATO summit was the last huddle of feeble Colonial pretenders, too feeble and conflicted to arrange their domestic affairs to do more than dance to the tune of the American industrial military complex. Biden is afraid, on the one hand, of goading Putin further, and on the other, of turning the war into a toxic dead weight going in 2024. Meanwhile, Zelensky is trying to keep the billions coming by throwing his army into the meatgrinder to give his sponsors a return on their investment. A stalemate will turn into an armistice, which is no more than a ceasefire, leaving Putin with his gains. Now what to do with Putin. Europe is content to huddle under America's umbrella, but know that a Republican will pull the rug out from under them. Without NATO intervention, Ukraine is left to grind on for years to come. But sooner or later, the military aid will dry up, and no one will invest in the country while the war is going on. The Wagner mutiny not only strengthened Putin's hand, but revealed the folly that Russia is held hostage by a strongman with a strong underground waiting to assume control once Putin is removed. Putin is but part of the Russian fabric. Remove him and Russia will not implode. The war will go on without Putin. This was Biden/Blinken's fatal miscalculation. For they assumed that a strong shove would be enough to end the Russian menace once and for all. Instead, by assuming control of the war, the US reduced Europe to a clinging American colony, leaving it weaker than ever. It survives only under the American umbrella. They know what's coming if Trump wins.
7-17-23
"The protests (Israel) on Tuesday were set off by an overnight vote in which lawmakers — by a majority of 64 to 56 — gave provisional support to a bill that would reduce the ways in which the Supreme Court can overrule elected officials. If the bill passes two further votes in the coming weeks, it will stop the court from using the legal standard of “reasonableness” to countermand the government. Reasonableness is a legal standard used by courts across the world, including in countries such as Australia, Britain and Canada. A decision is deemed unreasonable if a court rules that it was made without considering all relevant issues or without giving relevant weight to each issue or that it applied too much weight to irrelevant factors" (Thomes Friedman, NY Times).
"The Liberals on the Supreme Court Can’t Even Get Cases on the Docket," shrieks the next headline.
Oops! It seems that "the legal standard of reasonableness" only works in Israel. Here at home "the legal standard of unreasonableness" is keeping the Globalists on the US Supreme Court from advancing The Agenda. In Israel, the Messianic Settlers are trying to end the rule of tyrannical judges by replacing their "legal standard of reasonableness" with the Torah and Talmud, because no matter what laws their elected representatives seek to pass, they are always rejected because unelected judges deem them (heh) "unreasonable." But here at home, the inmates are in control, and the Right keeps blocking Biden's agenda at every turn, while the outnumbered Liberal judges can't even get their "cases (all reasonable, no doubt) on the Docket." America, they sniff, has now plunged into an abyss of "unreasonableness." How unreasonable is that, when even reasonableness has become unreasonable because unreasonable judges now rule America by "the legal standard of unreasonableness." But "reasonableness," says Fraudman, is the new "legal standard." That is, if you have "reasoable judges."
So how, you say, is the layman, the ordinary pleb shlepping along behind his dusty plow, to make sense of all this? Well, he will have to engage in a vigorous study of "reasonableness" in all its manifestations in longwinded End of History Theories and twice told tales. Because, rest assured, there is "a legal standard of reasonableness" as Fraudman the Sanctimonious growls. Just as there is "International Law" which only narrowminded bigots are ignorant of. Because Stalin and Churchill hanged Nazis on the basis of International Law. Had we lost the war, General LeMay smirked, Japan and Germany would have hanged us on the basis of (heh) the legal standard of International Law which every reasonable person knows what it is. It doesn't need to be written down because it's so plain. Just as "the legal standard of reasonableness" doesn't need to be written down, because only unreasonable bigots, religious zealots, and fake news conspiracists refuse to be ruled by it. But, reasonableness is out at the US Supreme Court, and America is in the grips of unreasonable judges, while the minority judges of "the legal standard of reasonableness" have to stand by helplessly. So the New York Times. These are dark days, when "the legal standard of reasonableness" is set aside, leaving "every man to do what is right in his own eyes."
What is "the legal standard of reasonableness," then? It is the standard by which reasonable people rule their affairs. It's as plain as that. It is the local version of International Law. And where, you say, can you find the codes of International Law? Codes, you say. Only extremists and Fundamentalists need codes by which they oppress people. Because every situation in life is different and can only be addressed on a "case by case" basis. Which is why you cannot write a one size fits all code. Because every human act is specific to each individual, it requires a specific law tailored to that individual and his specific act--at the very moment of the act. All else is narrow minder legalism. You see then that human freedom can only be guaranteed under "the legal standard of Friedman the Fraud reasonableness." He knows what reasonableness is, and he knows what unreasonableness is, because as the next headline shrieks, "Liberal Judges are silenced in the US Supreme Court." And this, Friedman says darkly, is what the Messianics want to impose on Israel.
You see here the new Babel. Words have ceased to have universal meaning. Justice Jackson and David Brooks are so confused (and depraved) that the word "woman" can now refer to a man. And because words have ceased to have meaning, written law can now mean anything and everything. What's left? The monopoly of violence: the power to install judges who rule from the Bench. Globally, it means having numerous International Courts, each having their own International Codes of Reasonableness hurling arrest warrant against each other, leaving War "where such suits are tried."
The confusion of language and law will bring chaos and anarchy as men talk past each other, each having their own definition of reasonableness. Putinism and Orbanism are the signs of the times: they promise security amidst the coming chaos. Trump is the Right's answer to the the modern debate (the lack thereof). The war in Ukraine is seen as the latest front of the Globalist version of Pedocrat "reasonableness": perversion masked as freedom. Which is why the Right wants Ukraine to lose the war. Trump is the Right's answer to the "legal standard of reasonableness." That it, a cudgel to destroy the System before it secretes itself into every fiber of society. The real war, in their eyes, is the Globalist hijacking of American institutions. Globalist victory in Ukraine will only increase the Left's market share globally. Red States will now become fortresses from which to undermine the Federal government as factions seek a foothold on the monopoly of violence, each with their own definition of "the legal standard of reasonableness." In Israel, it is judges who have a monopoly on violence, for they get to say which version of "reasonableness" is imposed at the point of a gun. This is what you get when language ceased to have meaning. Only violence remains. India is now ruled by people who have a monopoly on violence. The Settlers in Israel now have the monopoly, and will use it to advance their Messianic agenda. Their argument? "God gave them the land." So on one side you have will-o-the-wisp "reasonableness," and on the other a theocratic mandate from God. The sword will decide how "such suits are tried," as society reverts back to brute instinct to escape Babel. And Putin, they said, violated "the rules based order." The Settlers in Israel want to live under clearly defined "rules", because Fraudman's "legal standard of reasonableness" allows only unelected judges to do "what is right in their own eyes."
"Yes, Virgina," blared the headline of the Washington Post in the 80's, "Montana does have a speed limit: it's called reasonable and safe." Because the world almost died laughing when Montana put up "reasonable and safe" speed signs. One front page showed a trooper behind a long line of European sports cars. Well, that religion "was tried", as they say, and the "unreasonable" signs went back up. The Europeans understand numbers and now stay home. But apparently, if I read Fraudman right, New York speed signs don't have numbers on them.
7-3-23
"Efforts by Israel to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank have intensified this year, reflecting the agenda of the country’s right-wing government and prompting international condemnation of a practice that most countries say violates international law."
“'Further procrastination, double standards and stalling in international institutions and subordination to the political will of superpowers are no longer acceptable,' Mr. al-Sheikh (a Palestinian) wrote on Twitter" (NY Times).
Interesting. "Most countries" accuse Israel of war crimes in its war against Palestinian "militants."
The Palestinians have sued for justice at the International Court which just issued a warrant against Putin. But look at the hypocrisy of these non-elected frauds: "procrastination, double standards and stalling in international institutions and subordination to the political will of superpowers." And who is "the superpower" subverting justice for Palestinians at the International War Crime Tribunal at the Hague? The US, on behalf of Israel, neither of which have joined the International Court. But why did NATO declare war on Russia? For violating the global "rules based order" which the crackpots at the International Court pretend to uphold. Frauds, say the Palestinians, who march to the tune of their paymaster, the Superpower US. And the world's most vehement cheerleader of the slaughter of Russians is the NY Times. In Ukraine, people who take up arms to defend the invader, the Times calls patriots. Palestinians who rise up against Jewish invaders, the NY Times labels "militants." Israel calls them terrorists. So what is International Law and the International Court which seeks to enforce it? No more than a puppet of the nation which owns the monopoly on violence. Might is always right, and war is no more than the last Court of Resort where (as the old writers smirked) the suits of power politics are tried on the fields of slaughter. "Had we lost the war (WWII)" General LeMay smirked, "they would have hanged us as war criminals." Don't, he continued, use "war" and "morality" in the same sentence. What is he saying here? That the Nuremburg Trials to bring Nazis to account was nothing more than a hanging posse. Law had nothing to do with it, because there is no such a thing as International Law. It was no more than a raw display of power politics. Supreme Court Justice Jackson, who presided over the charade, arrived in Germany with his very young secretary (minus his wife) who never left his side (they stayed in the same hotel). While he was drawing up Nazis for transgressing the 6th Commandment, the leaders of the world were left to leer at the young woman at his side, and the irony was lost on one: A transgressor of the 7th Commandment hanging transgressors of the 6th: a flagrant adulterer sitting in judgment of murderers. To the victor belong the hangman's noose--and the mistresses.
The International Court is an extension of the Nuremburg Trials convened to hang Nazis for crimes against the Jews. Now the Palestinians want the Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Jew for war crimes against Palestinians. For, as the Times says, "most nations" see Israel's invasion of the West Bank as a war crime. But as General LeMay smirked, "We cheated the hangman because we have a monopoly on violence." Nations with a monopoly on violence do not join International bodies. The minute they do they cease to have a monopoly on violence. Iraqis and Afghans have long called for the International Court to bring George Bush to trial for war crimes. They issued a warrant for Putin in order to curry favor with the US, their Protector. Undeveloped countries are calling on the International Court to force the US to pay reparations for Climate crimes. Neither the US nor Israel have signed on onto the International Court. The Jews refuse because they don't trust the Court not to hand over Israel to the Arabs. The US refuses because the only crime in International Law is weakness. As they used to say in the old days, "the king cannot break the law, because the king is the law." David could not be brought to account for murdering Uriah because he had a monopoly on violence. Law is only as relevant as the violence that undergirds it. Take away enforcement, and law is meaningless. The US cannot be forced to comply as long as it is the chief enforcer. The only law it adheres to is Might, or violence. As Clausewitz smirks, "Violence is simply law by other means." The Putin warrant is a ridiculous hoax as these pretentious frauds know, because they lack the monopoly on violence to enforce it.
The Rules Based Global Order is but an outgrowth of the conceit that the Nuremburg Trials confirmed the legitimacy that some wars are criminal while others are Righteous and Just (Augustine's Just War Theory). But Augustine's followers have never seen one of their own wars as unjust (President Grant called the annexation of large parts of Mexico a war crime). And General LeMay exposed the Nazi trials as no more than a hanging posse. The charade stood for 75 years until Putin exposed its impotence. And the waning strength of the Enforcer, the US.
Putin's crime was to wage war without asking the Chief Enforcer's permission. For when globalists talk about a rules based order, they take for granted the Benign Leader at the top: the US. Which is why the US is not a signator to the International Court, because it is no more than a pretentious fraud under the US umbrella, which they dare not offend. In other words, the US is above International Law. It is above the law because it has the monopoly on violence, and as such always wins at the Court "where such suits are tried": war. War is the only International Law there is. You become a criminal by losing. As General LeMay smirked: "We didn't hang because we won."
The International Court is the conceit that the Court of War (where nations formerly tried such suits) could be replaced by an International Order of Fraternal Debate. That is, Brother China and Brother Russia will present their grievances before the International Court and accept the results of their legal reasoning. If the US uses its military muscle to menace Cuba, it will have to pay damages. The US will be made to compensate devolving countries for rising seas caused by Climate Change. The US will be but one among many, one nation, one vote, regardless of size or might. This is the conceit of the Nazi trial, where Brother Stalin sat next to Brother Churchill to bring Nazis to account.
There were three Popes in the late 14th century, all hurling blood curdling anathemas at each other. The war in Ukraine is the last feeble attempt of dying WASP civilization at global supremacy. For now International Court Global South is in session to challenge the legitimacy of Global Court North. But End of History needed universal legitimacy to be credible. For Globalism is but the missionary arm of the religion of Secularism, and Religion must war against other religion. For logic tells you that there can only be one God. The rise of the Global South undermines the orthodoxy. For now you two Enforcers who will ultimately resort to the Court of last appeal: war. For it is there where such suits are tried. Violence is simply the real face of law.
This is why Ukraine must fight to the last man. It is the Court where "such suits are tried" in defense of The New World Order, which is the Rules Based Order, which prohibits war (without permission that is). Because if Russia wins, China will feel emboldened to violate the New World Order and seize Taiwan. So now you have two competing World Orders hurling anathemas at each other, and it is but a matter of time before they enter the Court where "such suits are tried": war. War smirked Clausewitz, is but "politics by other means." And the NY Times is not calling for the arrest of Netanyahu whom the Palestinians (and "most nations") accuse of war crimes. The Russian invader is a war criminal, the Israeli invader merely defending himself against terrorists. So the NY Times.
“'Further procrastination, double standards and stalling in international institutions and subordination to the political will of superpowers are no longer acceptable,' says Mr. al-Sheikh (a Palestinian). Poor man: he's been beating on the doors of the Hanging Posse at the Hague. And China's Hanging Posse sees no reason to intervene. Netanyahu is annexing the West Bank because he can. He has a monopoly on violence. Ukraine cannot win because Putin has a monopoly on violence. That's the only court "where such suits are tried."
Now if you had a written code of law that all nations agreed to accept, you would have International Law. If these same nations nations managed to agree on who gets to sit on the court, you would have an International Court. And if a nation refuses to abide by the decision of the judges? Well, then the rest of the nations would have to arrest that nation's ruler, or Commander in Chief. And if he calls out his troops. Well then you're back to square one: war.
In short, there is no such thing as absolute law in human civilization: only situation ethics underwritten by the monopoly on violence. Case in point: when the Democrats own the monopoly on violence, abortion is a Constitutional right. Then when Republicans seize control of the monopoly on violence abortion becomes a Constitutional crime. What about innate rights, human rights, absolutes, etc. Cannibalism is a human right if enough people agree to accept it as law. What about absolutes? Name one absolute. God? But now you have added religion to politics, and democracy grants the right to worship any god or none. In essence, it guarantees the right to blaspheme. An International (One World) Constitution would need to grant both freedom of worship and the right to blasphemy, LGBT marriage, and the right to denigrate LGBT marriage, Climate Reparations and Climate Denial, etc, Which is why no one is able to point to one written article of International Law. It exists only in the prejudices and conceits of judges who determine what "human rights" are by sifting the latest Zeitgeist. Frauds. The monopoly on violence is the only absolute "under the sun." All else is revelation accepted by faith. Which is why the Bible is "made of non effect" if tricked into a system, such as the tricks and sophistries of Luther and Calvin to justify their murders and adulteries. They had to resort to systems because their lives were condemned by what the common man reads plainly and simply in the Bible. The plain Word of God is absolute Revelation. Systems are tricks to blur and confuse plain Revelation. Which is why the followers of Luther and Calvin do not read the Bible. Why bother, when their creeds turn the plainest Scriptural language on its head to make it say precisely the opposite of what they read in the Bible. In that sense, the Systems of Luther and Calvin are forerunners of Marxist Critical Race Theory, which attempts to unmask Western Civilization and show it for what it really is: White propaganda. "God said that, did He?" Satan sneered at Eve. "He would, wouldn't He. But let me tell you what's behind all that."
When pagans sneer, "Christianity, Christians should try it," they refer to the absolute statements given plainly in the Bible (especially in the Sermon on the Mount), which, though they seem ridiculous to them, are too plain to be interpreted. But for Luther and Calvin they were to hard to accept, for they were neither willing to risk martyrdom nor "take the spoiling of their goods" by "taking up the cross of Christ." Their Systems exposed their followers to unending sophistry, and made them responsible for the darkest chapters in human history: Slavery, Apartheid (the architects were Calvinists), and the Lutheran Holocaust. Secular "human rights" is grounded in the the repudiation of these religious atrocities grounded in the dogmas of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin. Dogmas and Situation Ethics, the sides of the same coin of unbelief. "He has shown you, O man, what is good and what God requires of you..." (Mic. 6:8). Things get very complicated when you need to make room in the teachings of Jesus for mass murder and mass adultery. This Luther and Calvin had to do. But now what good is the Bible to their followers? Or how do they make sense of it? And if you can do this to the Scripture, then how much more to the Constitution, and any thing else that is written, leaving the notion of Law as little more than the prejudices and conceits in the mind of judges. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah 8:20),
5-24-23
"Bill to Force Texas Public Schools to Display Ten Commandments Fails", crows the NY Times.
"What Has Trump Cost American Christianity?" they chortle in the next headline.
No one has done more than DeSantis to weaponize government in the Culture War in his war against the Groomer Mouse. The NY Times would like to see him as the viable candidate because they know he lacks heft. Despite his billionaire sponsors, he can't get traction.
Which leaves the Supreme Court as the Cultural War's last stand. A Leftist Supreme Court would make short shrift of Red State efforts to gum up Federal law with State initiatives to oppose Biden's pedophilist agenda (Biden, like the Pope is a pedophilist, as when Newsweek named Obama the first Sodomite President. That is, not an actual Sodomite, but someone who promotes Sodomy as a Creation blessing like procreation). Which means that we are now living under the rule of unelected Judges. The Constitution is no more than the latest whim of the Judges who overturn the ballot box from the Bench. This is the tyranny that the Ultras in Israel are attempting to overthrow. Elections are now no more than efforts to stack the Court.
But the US is not Israel. The mainstay of Israel is religious, because they can only justify their war against the Palestinians as God's war against the Canaanites. This is the main argument even among college educated Settlers: Joshua's Final Solution for Canaanites. Hitler lacked the divine mandate of Joshua. But the ends are the same. Take away the divine mandate and Israel ceases to exist. This the Settlers know.
This divine mandate has become a minority view in America. The mainstay is firmly godless, and, like Europe, ready to move on from religion. You know the cause is lost when you need to legislate morality under threat of punishment. Vice becomes all the more potent when driven underground. "The governor of Montana's own son is a Pornnouning Sodomite," the New York Times crowed last week as Montana's legislature was terrorized by a bathroom Dragster. It took the NY Times to out the governor, who would have liked to keep his church troubles out of the limelight. But "judgment must begin at the house of God," and here, sanctimonious Montanans were attempting to cleanse the violent house of Caesar while nurturing Sodomites in their own churches. But the NY Times was only too happy to expose the governor's hypocrisy.
The Cause is lost when "a man's foes shall be those of his own household." When you hear Bob Jones University anxiously inform the Government that "they respect the dignity of every person", you know the cause is lost. They said that because the Government was snuffling around to see if Bob Jones toed the line on Biden's Groomer mandates while gorging on Government handouts. Translation: Bob Jones assured the Government that they do not preach against Sodomy. They found that the "shoe latchets" of Sodom come with strings attached. They "pitched their tents toward Sodom" to get their hands into Caesar's treasury, but found that they were allowed to "sit in the gates" of high office only after having their "hair shorn and their nails paired" after the fashion. They were made to "define Sodomy down" by naming it after the Government fashion. The world "Sodomite" is now hate speech. and the governor of Montana finds himself mumbling about "LGBT people." They "unsinned" sin, and God gave them over to "reprobate" children. The recent revival, Christianity Today wrote, "was too LGBT-affirming for some, not LGBT-affirming for others." This is Groomerspeak. They have "unvexed" Lot. The governor of Montana, the NY Times smirks, "understands" "the real concerns" of Sodomites. This is Groomerspeak. They "pitched their tents toward Sodom" and discovered that they were not "vexed" in Sodom. They can legislate all they want against Sodom in the house of Caesar, when their churches are lurching towards Groomorrah: church divorce-adultery sinking in its own filth with Sodom perched on its head. For Pornounism is no more than an abscess on the cancer of Protestant divorce-adultery. "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge."
"The company’s (Target) website features hundreds of colorful Pride products, including rainbow shirts for men, pint glasses embellished with “Cheers Queers” and a children’s book about pronouns, among others" (Washington Post).
What is "a children's book about pronouns"? Biden's Pedophilist Agenda. To oppose Pornnounism, he said, "is sinful." "Be fruity," said America's first Sodomite President (Newsweek). To which his Vice President (now promoted to "Vice" President) added, "and mutilate." They left off preaching the "hewing" Word of God, and now find themselves clinging to politics. They will end up "worse than the heathen which were before them." The children of those who "sit in the gates of Sodom" end up in the dungeons of vice. Lot's backward wife was obviously not even "vexed". "Not as much as a shoestring," Abraham said sharply. God stayed with him and did not enter Sodom. The child of Promise was conceived on the very eve of Sodom's destruction.
5-22-23
"The war in Ukraine is still largely being fought with 20th-century weapons, like rifles, artillery and howitzers, " sniffs the NY Times, when they could be using a "new generation of military systems" invented by the tech bros of Silicon Valley. "Ukraine Needs Those F-16s," howls David French across the page (French is the latest Evangelical brought on to shame his fellow Evangelicals into not supporting the adulterer Trump. He had to become "LBGT-affirming" to get the post). Here at home, the NY Times recoils in horror when "20th century weapons" are used to kill a few people in shopping malls. Texas and Oklahoma are "barbaric" for executing murderers, and drug companies who manufacture the poison are boycotted. They want the makers of weapons sued for downplaying the dangers these weapons pose. They applaud lawsuits against Big Oil for understating the harm oil does to the environment, and the movement to bring Big Oil before the International Court for Climate Crime. Courts are now allowing Climate lawsuits by children, because the children will suffer for the climate crimes of the adults. They have done nothing to warn high school recruits of the dangers facing them as young soldiers. But shouldn't recruiters be made to show films of 18 year old being cut to pieces in Ukraine? Is the Surgeon General aware of the health risks of being a soldier, which is promoted as a "career choice" to teenagers? Shouldn't the Pentagon be regulated by the Surgeon General as a serious global health risk, like the tobacco companies who once hawked their poisons as Marlboro Man cool? The Air Force was made to pay out $100's of millions when one of its soldiers shot up a church in Texas, so there's money to be made here. Imagine the lawsuits from Iraqis who endured what is now called Bush/Cheney's illegal war of aggression. Will mothers of Russian 18 year olds now be able to bring suits against US arms manufacturers at the International Court for enabling the mercenary murder of their sons in Ukraine? What is the International Court for? Can the employees who build he murderous Leopards be made responsible for the carnage of their tanks? If Scholz supplies the instruments of the mercenary murder of Russians, then how is he not a war criminal to be hunted like Bin Laden, who never set foot in the United States? The NY Times could find itself in the docket for war crimes here as mercenary murder's greatest cheer leader. They are not calling for peace. They're holding out for the victor's spoils, a tribute to the fact that the only war crime is losing. All else is but revenge hanging. Any employee in Hitler's death camps is considered a mass murderer. But no one has promoted the mercenary murder of Russian 18 year olds more than the NY Times. The US estimates the total war dead of the war as over a quarter of a million. "Mass murder on a grand scale," as Spurgeon called war. But for the NY Times, the "20 century weapons" used to slaughter Russians by the hundreds of thousands are toys compared to the hellish incarnation of mass murder being hawked to the Pentagon by Silicon Valley. And the NY Times is impatient to get to the next stage to exterminate sub-human 18 year old Russians. They are not calling for class action lawsuits against the billionaire tech bros who downplay the dangers to human life posed by these instruments of murder. In fact, they glory in their potential to do just that, even as "20th century weapons" delivered the butcher bill by the hundreds of thousands so far. "Give them the F-16s," screams their newest warmonger.
The F-16 does not pretend to be anything but an instrument of mass murder. In law, if you supply the instrument of murder, you yourself are implicated in the crime. If you encourage the use of the instruments of murder, you will be implicated. Will then the mothers of Russians whose sons are killed be allowed to seek justice at the International Court of Law? Because the NY Times cannot plead self defense as Russia has not threatened the US. Biden is playing the part of the mercenary, the soldier of fortune who kills for advantage. And the NY Times is goading the mercenary to kill even more Russians.
But the NY Times sees the techbro beating plows into swords as "saving lives." Truman, the argument is, dropped the Bomb to save lives in defense of freedom. Abortion kills children in defense of "freedom" of choice. Thus, the hellish new weapons coming out of Silicon Valley are not instruments of murder, but agents of peace. Hence, the impatience of the NY Times to get them onto the battlefield in order to make peace. "All we are saying, Is give peace a chance." That is, by way of F-16s, until the Pentagon can be goaded into buying the new instruments of mass "peace" hawked by the tech bros. In Ukraine, a fully automatic assault rife is an instrument of peace. Here, the NY Times would sue their makers into bankruptcy.
5-12-23
Up to now it was:
1) Putin must go
2) Putin must be tried for war crimes
3) Russia must pay war reparations
4) Putin must not be rewarded with as much as a scrap of Crimea. The only "endgame" is for Putin to vacate all of Ukraine including Crimea.
5) Ukraine must be allowed to join Nato
6) Only Ukraine gets to decide when and how to negotiate
7) Nato is in it "for however long it takes."
In private what they see is:
1) Most of the world falling all over themselves undermining US sanctions. Goods are more abundant and cheaper in Russia today than before the war, because the black market broke the back of the monopolists.
2) Old Europe is getting broker and broker as a result of high energy, and unregulated China is gobbling up market share.
3) Trump on the horizon. Europe is already gearing up for Trump II, and if Trump pulls the plug, Zelensky and Co. will go into exile.
4) Republicans will sell the war as a hopeless quagmire and reckless adventurism.
5) No one thinks the boundaries will change with more bloodshed. In short, let Putin have the Donbas and Crimea.
Now they're cutting their losses. And they'll get more desperate as 2024 approaches, because Republicans sees this as a globalist venture to advance Cultural Marxism, now marching under the Groombow flag.
Both sides of the war have now sacrificed too much to negotiate. They must now fight to the finish, like the Confederacy. The difference being, that the war has been good for the US economy, and as the war's underwriter, Biden gets to cut and run like a banker dumping worthless assets. Putin, on the other hand, sells the gains in Ukraine as restoring Russia's place as a historic superpower. Russians will fight for Crimea to the last man, and Putin has the resources to keep the war going indefinitely. He boasts of a pool of 23 million draftees, should the need arise, and as anyone who reads Tolstoy knows, a million dead are on the job training for Russia. Great for parades in Red Square.
5-11-23
The cause: Depression Disease, which the Surgeon General (himself in a chemical straitjacket) diagnoses as stemming from (wait for it)--"loneliness." A Loneliness Pandemic, according to the Surgeon General, who confesses to suffering from the disease. No cure, obviously, although Publicans are calling for more government "mental care" to address mass shootings. And Montana is using Big Government to wage war against the Pedocrat crusade to turn indoctrinated children into pornnounists (like the Governor's son). "The Governor's own son," the NY Times crows, "is a Pornnouner." When the Church fails, Big Government steps in. And the Governor, who confesses to "understand" the "real concerns" of Sodom, is left to impose "the way of Cain," where his religion failed. Politics is "taking the country back to the gods." For, as everyone knows from "the groves of the sodomites" (religious bath houses) in the Bible, Sodom was not god-less. Is there a "Loneliness Ward" in hospitals now, or are they made to check themselves into a lunatic asylum like the Senator to have the disease bombed with psychedelic cocktails strong enough to set Beelzebub back on his cloven hoof? Are there "lonliness surgeons" now to treat the disease of depression caused by lonliness, or will they draft drug pushers from the sreet to ply their trades in hospitals (and churches, since the Rev. Warren, who got rich preaching "purpose", drove his son to suicide for lack of a purpose--what frauds). Is there a medicine for that, you ask--that is for the disease of loneliness? Dope and more dope. Now they're ramping up psychedelic "therapy". But look at the demographic profile: affluent, white, idle. Even Hilary's Deplorables are the children of middle class whites who were not able to pass on their salaries, vacations, pensions: the American Dream in perpetuity. The immigrants around them are thriving by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. For Deplorables, the American Dream means that the children of the kingdom will never need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps as they wait for God to come back for His Chosen. God did not come, and the world is massing at the Southern Border to claim their share of the Promised Land. Which is why the Rev. Dobson cursed the immigrants from the wall as a horde of diseased criminals: "we are full," he cries. The Rev Balaam Graham's son is still jetting around the world preaching the billionaire "He Gets US" creed. He wants the howitzers shipped to Ukraine mounted on Trump's Wall to deter these returning Canaanites who now threaten to rebeard with the children of Joshua. If you want to see "purpose", level a keen eye on the immigrants you see hurriedly filling their shopping carts in Walmart with their urchins in tow. You will not find them in the "loneliness ward" for the disease of depression caused by entitled victimhood, emptiness, and the shallow existence that breeds exotic fetishes like the "prounouning" of the Governor of Montana's son, and the suicidal non-purpose of the Rev. Warren's children. This is the frustration that drives them to drugs. Ultimately, the frustration that leads to suicide stems from the attempt to make silk purses out of sows ears. The American Dream, like all Utopias, is more "vanity of vanities." God did not come, and they're stuck on the mountaintop. And they can see that God is moving on, or rather, God is replacing them. "Replacement Theory" is not the work of Pedocrats, but the hand of God. Extreme selfishness is what's behind the Pedocrat disease of splitting themselves into ever more variants of the incarnations of their Freudian lusts, depravities, and fetishes. The churches are no help because the same diseases rage within them, are are made worse by the simpering self-help Dreck of their priesters. Their self-centeredness inevitable gives way to despair, self-loathing, and mutilation: "For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing" (Ro. 7:8). They cannot deal with reality, because they have destroyed the fabric of reality handed down in Creation. They are asked by President Biden to consider child-castration as a virtue (which to speak against he calls "sinful"), and a Supreme Court Judge is so deranged that she can no longer discern the first moral distinction in the Universe: the difference between male and female. A depressive is someone who has allowed himself to be brain-hacked. King Saul did not succumb to a disease. Judas was not driven to hang himself because of a mental disorder. Sin is a mental disorder. “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” That's how the hewing prophet dealt with the disease of frustration that leads to despair and suicide. This is the ax to the root of the tree. He would soon be minus his "rivers of oil." Saul sought cownfsel in a witch, and Judas in his corrupt priests who told him he was on his own. Cain was depressed ("his countenance fell") because he refused to "do well", by which, God told him, he would "be accepted." This he refused to do, and took himself off into the land of outlaws (Nod means fugitive). He imposed his will on them with the sword by becoming their king. You can be sure "his countenance" was not lifted by being among his own whom he controlled by putting them in a city straitjacket. Cain was depressed because God frowned upon him and his ways. The "nightlife" of the city of Enoch would have done a brisk trade. New York City is full of these dens of iniquity where men go to seek refuge from the disease of loneliness, with the suicide Hotline no doubt plastered on the walls. Abel's countenance was lifted because he sensed God's delight in him, the joy of the Lord, the fruit of the Spirit. For Cain, being this close to God was worse than death. He had a life to live, and he saw nothing but drudgery in Abel's hedged life. "Has thou not made an hedge about him"?
5-10-23
"Mr. Trump cannot be allowed to grandstand or slither away from awkward topics: He needs to face tough and skeptical questioning from the get-go." (NY Times)
The NY Times is calling for a hard moral line against Trump's adulteries. Which provides an excellent platform to address moral issues across the board, not the least of which is the Democratic Party's Groomer Crusade, which Biden elevated to the level of religion when he called opposition to child-whispered castration "sinful." For, DeSantis is waging cultural jihad precisely at this point in his war against Biden's Dragsters in children's libraries, men-in-dresses in girl's restrooms, and the Disney tape promoting pedophilia. Pedocrats "cannot be allowed to grandstand and slither away from awkward topics." Newsweek labeled Obama the first Sodomite President (by which they did not mean that he committed Sodomy, but that, like the Pope, he promoted Sodomy as the gift of God like the Creation blessing of procreation). Obama could not refuse the honor, and has had to embrace it. African leaders saw where all this was headed. "We are poor," they told him. " But if your price is the destruction of our children, take your money and go home." Now Biden is going full Pedocrat with his religious advocacy of pedophilia. But the NY Times wants moral issues on the table. Biden should be called upon to call Trump (who opposes child-whispered castration) "sinful" to his face. Trump must not be allowed to "slither" away from the hard moral questions. And Biden considers child castration not only moral but religious: to speak against it is heresy and "sinful." In other words fake news and disinformation. And sin must needs be exposed.
5-4-23
"As the bill prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors moved toward passage, Ms. Zephyr warned that the measure would be 'tantamount to torture.'” NY Times
The NY Times is on the warpath over Montana's attempt to throw up roadblocks to President Biden's child castration agenda, which to oppose, he says, "is sinful." He rode into office promising to wage war against transphobia, and has since become the champion of pedophilist Drag Queen grooming in children's libraries. Just as Obama was the first Sodomite President (Newsweek Cover) so Biden ran on bathrooms (Groomjo's), or rapists-in-dresses in children's bathrooms. Several weeks ago, the government of Scotland caused an uproar when it housed Dragster rapists in women's prisons (because they said they were women) causing the phobic women to shriek "there's a male in here." Ordinarily, this hate-gendering crime would have added years to the women's sentences, but the uproar was such that they flung the politicians head first from their perches. But now they have a Dragster terrorizing the women's bathrooms in Helena, Montana. and the NY Times is on the warpath. We are not told if Misuse Zephyr has had "gender-affirming surgery" (castration) yet, or if they installed "against the Wall" fixtures (see column beside) to accommodate Misuse Zephyr (and the Governor's Pronouning son, which the NY Times does not say if sHe still churches with the Governor or what bathroom sHe frequents while doing so) while sHe awaits "drying" ("I wish they were cut off" as Paul said). "Let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree." At issue here is Biden's pedophilst doctrine which he rode into office. For the Montana legislature issued laws which run contrary to Biden's pedophilst doctrine which states that opposing child castration "is sinful." No one is calling President Biden a Peodphile, just as Newsweek did not mean that President Obama practiced Sodomy. What Newsweek meant is that Obama embraced the doctrine of Sodomy as equal to the Scriptural doctrine of "be fruitful and multiple" which God then further underwrote with the Seventh Commandment and the eternal damnation of those who transgress it. Obama, like the Pope, sees this doctrine as outdated and a primitive relic of unenlightened man. Again, this makes Obama and the Pope "Sodomists" (those who celebrate the doctrine of Sodomy) and not actual practicing Sodomites. Likewise, no one calls President Biden a practicing Pedophile, but a Pedophilist (one who celebrates pedophilia--which is what the Montana legislature calls "gender-affirming care"). Again, although we are told that Misuse Zephyr has been locked out of the Legislature, we are not told if sHe is barred from leering in women's bathrooms in Helena. If so, President Biden stands ready, no doubt, to fly in a Goomjo on Air Force One which they can set up in the parking lot, so that Misuse Zephyr (and the Governor's son) can do their Groomjoing until they get "gender affirming care," that is, castration. "Let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree."
4-30-23
Another day, another rich white teen suicide at the NY Times. At a $76000 a year boarding school no less. The school paid up and admitted to shortcomings of "mental health." And of course, the parents blame the school for inadequate Freud. His mother is a "clinical psychologist". The millioaire preacher Rich Warren blames his son's suicide on the "disease" of oppression. King Saul was so depressed by the disease that he turned to sorcery. Ahitophel likewise despaired of mercy. Judas visited the Temple before killing himself. His priests were of no help.
What was he doing in a boarding school? But the rich are busy enough with their own vices. "The parents ate grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge." In the late eighties it was wrist slashing and anorexia--both the eruptions of self-loathing and a meaningless existence. The mental rot is in the parents, who pine for a state of perpetual adolescence. Woodstock, for most of them, was the End of History. Mental basket cases. The suicide hotline at the end may even have an option for foreign languages. But most foreigners are poor, and seem immune from the disease. Besides most of them cannot afford the fees of the rich set and are thereby spared infection. And the drugs, which is now all that "cownfsling" is.
And now comes the next headling from the Surgeon General of the United States: Surgeon General: We Have Become a Lonely Nation. I Have a Plan.
"Depression", he says, is at the root cause of the nation's ill health. His plan is about as you can imagine it: the cure but another symptom of the same disease. "Loneliness," he says. More "counfsling" no doubt. They should name him the Drug Czar. Because, you need a strong dose to get you ready for "counfsling." Some surgeon. We are not told the dose it took to get him out of his own darknesss, or if he's still in a chemical straitjacket. But "he has a plan." He has the mushy mentality of a ten year old. But the "disease of depression" is the latest rite of passage, and even conveys the aura of exotic distinction, worthy of a medal. The Senator who checked himself into a lunatic asylum to be duly drugged and then "counfsled" is seen as a heroic figure who brought the mental hobgoblin into the open. These are basket cases stuck in a state of adolescence to retain the "fun" of their teen years. They look in the mirror and see reality, and that causes then to despair. "Fun," cries Solomon, "disappears with old age." "Emptiness of emptiness," he cries. The word vanity is the word Abel. Abel, as you know did not "have a life," so to speak. But his death sets the tone. We know almost nothing about him accept "that he pleased God." If you please God it doesn't matter what else you do not do, and if you don't, what you do. He missed nothing. Even a long "life," James says, "is but a vapor" with eternity ahead. The word "vanity" means breath, or wind. John the Baptist died young, and he was set aside toward the end. "He was but an unprofitable servant" in the Kingdom of God. And yet he was "the greatest man who ever lived." God had a "gap" for him to stand in, and no more. Moses thought he deserved to enter the Promised Land. "Let that be the last time you mention that," God warned him sharply. The Apostles got to have their names inscribed on the foundations of the New Jerusalem, and yet Jesus tells them that nothing compares to having "their names written in the Book of Life" with all the rest.
This Surgeon General has the mentality of a teenager. His plan is to have the Government induce will-o-the-wisp chumminess or clinginess to dispense with "loneliness" which he sees as the root of suicidal depression. He seems barely able to tie his own shoe-laces. What is lacking? Confidence, hope, fortitude. He sees nothing but victims before him, all waiting for the Government to solve their problems. Immigrants are at the bottom of the food chain in America, and many of them are mistreated by their employers. Yet they likely have the best mental health in the nation. Why? Because, like ants, where there's one there are more. They have no backup plan and so they have to stick together. Success for them is reaching the next rung of the ladder. From where the only view is up. That's all the hope you need. "And hope is not frustrated." But what is the fixation of this man? Biden's pedophilist child-mutilating agenda, abortion, and a globe that is over-cooking. No wonder he's a basket case. And this man is the nation's health Czar. Lonely? They have a strong cocktail drug for that. Here's how God solved that with a stroke. Jesus is called "Immanuel" (God with us) to demonstrate that no Christian need ever be lonely, even "in the valley of the shadow of death" (Ps. 23). In addition, Jesus says, "God will install the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, to dwell in and with believers until the End of Time (Jn. 14). "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God" (Mi. 6:8). There it is. No Christian could ever be lonely. God commands everyone to walk with Him, which will leave you often alone but never lonely. This is said to an insanely rich man who offered to donate thousands of rivers of oil. He pretends confusion, which is what theology does when it contorts the simple Scripture into endless books to hide the murders and adulteries of the religious rich. "It hath been told you," the prophet said wearily as if tired of repeating himself to this rich fraud. "Yes, yes, of course, all that---." But what kind of a life is that. It's one thing for a goody-goody like Abel to go through the day praying and meditating and sorting his lambs to see if he can find an even fatter one to present to the Lord. But here is a man with untold wealth--and in his situation, what is he to do? Because what good is all that wealth if you can't enjoy it? Abel didn't mind being around God all the time because Abel was not a go-getter like Cain, who loved the world as it was. With rare exception, most people would find such life not worth living. Which is why the prophet says, "Why do I have to keep repeating what everyone knows...? So what's the point of all the oil? What do I do with my wealth "walking humbly" next to God? "Love mercy"? The rich man had forgotten that too. Rest assured he walked off "sorrowfully" like the rich young ruler. For man is saved by Christ on the Cross, but judged for bearing (or not) the cross. Hell will be full of preachers (and their followers) who know all the formulas of salvation. "I never knew you," Jesus says, because they did not bear the cross of well doing. The Devil believes that the formulas of salvation are true just as he is forced to believe the existence of God. This is no more than mental asset to obvious fact and logic. But saving faith must spring from "regenerate heart of belief." Just as there is a "evil heart of unbelief departing from the living God." Here is where Luther and Calvin deceived their followers by making salvation little more than mouthing the correct formula, and leaving them in their murders, covetousness, and adulteries. Because James calls this "vain" or "useless faith." It is mere assent to what cannot be denied. Which is why Jesus makes bearing the cross requisite for entering Heaven, and not whether you have given assent to a formula. Such faith, James says, is "dead faith", the faith of devils. It is not the regenerate or "quickening faith" of the New Creation. The rich man would have paid large sums for a formula which would have allowed him to avoid "the narrow way" which "few find." For God to settle for a remnant, Augustine argued, makes the Devil the winner. Thus the need for a "Christian nation" and the Inquisition "to compel" people to become Christian. Luther and Calvin likewise sat at Caesar's table, and suited their religion so that the rich did not "walk away sorrowfully." That, James says, is no more than the faith of devils. Which is why Luther called the Book of James rubbish. The Surgeon General is to the point in rooting depression in loneliness. Poor man, he is left to reach for the simpering Dreck of the self-help rubbishers. Because no one has ever succeeded in making God "fun", and, away "from the presence of God", wicked man gropes blindly in the wasteland of Nod. Cain tried to compensate with the City, but the fraternal bonds of the City are little more than barely concealed violence. God did not drive Cain out. Cain simply couldn't stand the presence of God. So much for the Surgeon General's "plan." A grade schooler of the old days could have told that Cain invented the city to that purpose. What shallow frauds. Men would give "rivers of oil" if God would just leave them to themselves, and not insist on "walking with". This rich man was willing to "give his firstborn for the sin his soul"--if he could but keep the rest off-limits to God. Such are the snares of the rich which devour their children. See below.
4-27-23
"The governor (of Montana) wrote that he had met with transgender people and understood that “'their struggles are real, and my heart goes out to them.'” (NY Times)
His own son, the NY Times crows, is a Pronouner Sodomite, and worse, a Groomer: non-binary, language that masks the fact that a sodomite is a sodomite, no matter how he labels himself. If you follow the news, you know that the Montana legislature was shut down because a man-in-dress who got himself elected is now gumming up the affairs of state. Not since Caligula made his horse a Senator has there been such confusion. They made God "to serve" with their adulteries, and now God is punishing sin with even greater sin. For the onslaught of Sodomy in Western society is no more than an abscess on the cancer of Protestant adultery. The confusion of pronouns is of like kind as the Drag Queens in children's libraries: children (indoctrinating them in sodomist and pedophilist depravity) are the target. But the Governor understands that "their struggles are real, and his heart goes out to them." A cannibal's struggles are real. So are a mass murderer's, a rapist's, an adulterer's, a men-stealer's, a sadist's, a pedophile's, a Nazi's. The Governor "understands the real struggle" of men-in-dresses who want to frequent little girl's bathrooms, and his heart "goes out to them." Like Bob Jones University, he no doubt thinks that men-in-dresses have "dignity," because as Bob Jones University anxiously assured the Federal Government when worried about future public funding that "We respect the dignity of all persons." That is, the dignity of cannibals, pedophiles and Hitler. Like the Pope says, "If they love God, who am I to judge." How does Weiberkatuz Dobson "cownfsel" men-in-dresses obsessed with frequenting little girl's bathrooms? That's like asking what the Rev Jim Wallis prayed with Obama in the Oval Office when he knew that Obama kept a list of terrorists he nightly check-marked to be killed. Did the Bruderhof Peace-Rev help him decide who gets to see another morning sunrise? But his peace-prayers got him into the chief seats in the corridors of power. For the Bruderhof Rev loves "the chief seats" in the dens of iniquity. The Rev Wallis gets his "Peace Credits" from snuffling around the Bruderhof, who in turn get theirs by hijacking Hutterite martyrs. What frauds. The Rev. Rick Warren wrote one of the biggest best-seller's of all time: The Purpose Driven Life. His son committed suicide for lack of a purpose. What does the Governor's church have to say about his Groomer son? This is the judgement of God. They "made God to serve with their sin" (Is. 43:24) of adultery, and now God is punishing them with Sodomy. They even boast of having had an "LGBT-affirming" (Christianity Today) revival. And this Governor wants to take "America back to God"? He understands, he says, that "the struggles of Sodom and Gomorrah are real, and his heart goes out to them." Lot, lacking compassion, "seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds." But where Lot saw only wickedness, the Governor sees honest and genuine "struggle". Lot, we are led to believe, should have tried to "understand", and see not "unlawful deeds", but genuine "struggle". In other words, victims. God "strove" with early man because their wickedness "was real." Their "struggle" was rebellion and hatred of God, and God does not "understand." He gives an ultimatum: Repent or perish. There is nothing here to "understand" that is not already "understood" perfectly. They strive against God because they understand His Law perfectly, and hate Him for it. And God dos not try to "understand" why they knowingly and willful commit evil. But the Governor is peddling the Goomer doctrine that these are merely confused, and well-meaning souls in need of "counfsling." This is the simpering sorcery of Weiberkatuz James Dobson. They're rolling on the floor laughing in Manhattan. What a fraud. Do they also have Sunday School class for LGBT youth now in his church? How many others have a "trans child"? How do you "cownfsel" a "trans child" without constantly getting the pronouns mixed up? But they obviously need "cownfsling" to "understand" their "real struggles." Herod installed Herodias in the temple and the priestcraft did a brisk trade, because they "understood" Herod's "real struggles" and their "heart no doubt went out to him." John the Baptist paid the price for "not understanding." He was, as Christianity Today would say, "too non-affirming" of adultery for some. But here they are, waging war against the sodomites in high office, while their own children succumb to what the Africans call the "rich white male disease." Child mutilation (which is the same as the pronouns) is but the new eating disorder that so plagued rich white children several decades ago. That and suicide. Because they no longer know what sin is, they can no longer repent of it, and thus succumb to its ravages. This is the fruit of the self-help sorcery of Evangelicalism. David's sin destroyed his children, for God punishes sin with sin. "You did this in secret," God told him. "The consequences will be very public." Former CIA director Pompeo elaborated. “If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teachers’ unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing.” The question is not what "filth they're teaching in public schools," but "what filth they're teaching" in the Governor's church that turns their children into vocal sodomites. Likely the "cownfsling self-help sorceries" of Weiberkatuz Rev James Dobson to whom the Governor gave millions. With his money, his church can afford to hire a minister for each of the alphabet, (Minister of Trans Youth, etc.) with Minister of Pronouns thrown in for good measure, or even a Gender Czar. But the Governor "understands" what the former CIA Director calls "filth," and their "struggles" are honest, genuine, and "real", and "his heart goes out to them" as they wallow in a cesspool of depravity. He does not speak of a remedy, or if they even need one. The Pope told parents of pronoun children not to seek to change them, because God made them that way. God, as we read, did not enter Sodom, and the angels did not want to enter "vexed" Lot's house. Here angels fear to tread. Lot was vexed with Sodom, the angels preferred huddling in the street to Lot's warm house, and God would not draw nigh, lest His presence be taken (as Christianity Today would have it) as "affirming". "He Gets US," is the billionaire ad that seeks to make "Jesus the hottest brand in town." Today, we are led to believe, Jesus would "understand." Lot was but a man of his times, and suffered "vexation" as a result.
4-21-23
"U.S. Says It Will Begin Training Ukraine on Abrams Tanks in Weeks," gushes the NY Times
Apparently the NY Times is now for the death penalty, or at least the death penalty of mass murder on a grand scale (so Spurgeon), with the bodies of the victims torn to a thousand shreds by tanks and antique land mines. But the fields of mass murder fit the bill of Groomorrah's death cult, as you see in the next headline: "When a Beautiful World Met Humans". For the world was perfect until man arrived, and Putin is but an instrument of healing, to remove the wicked burden. Groomocracy is but the most effective form of birth control to prevent more evil. For those who manage to be conceived, the abortion mills await to prevent them from being born--"reproductive health care," they call it. Those who manage to be born are then Groomed to consider mutilation, which to oppose, Biden says, "is sinful." The tanks and land landmines are thus no doubt funded by the US Health Care System, and soldiers (like abortion killers) are but health care workers. So the NY Times. For if a prenatal abortionist is a doctor, then how much more a soldier, who administers post-natal health care on a grand scale with tanks and landmines. And the law requires that only a medical doctor is allowed to kill babies, because killing babies is reproductive healthcare. Likewise, only doctors are allowed to provide supervised suicide to make sure killing is done the right way. It stands to reason then that an instrument of death such as a tank or a nuclear bomb should require medical certification, and used only under the close supervision of the medical profession. You can imagine the potential for innumerable war crimes if nuclear bombs were rained down on a city the wrong way: that is, "non-doctor assisted." Which is why the NY Times would like to put gun control under the jurisdiction of the Health Department and regulate guns as a public health concern. Mass murder on a grand scale as we see in Ukraine is most certainly a health concern. But the NY Times is not calling for more health inspectors for Ukraine to see how mass murder on a grand scale may become less unhealthy in those parts. Nor is it calling for the Pentagon to be put under the oversight of the US Health Department as a preventative measure to reduce "mass murder on a grand scale" (so Spurgeon). "Our Leopards have the Iron Cross on them," the Germans protested when Ukraine demanded they hand over the instruments of murder. "We've got paint," Zelensky sneered back. The Iron Cross is Luther's cross. Fittingly, if you paint it red it looks like the Red Cross. Just what the doctor ordered. That is, if you think like an abortionist, who, the law says, is a "care-giver," Robert E Lee's chief of artillery (also the Rev of his church) named his cannon after the four Gospels. When Stonewall Jackson heard of it he laughed and gasped, "When the time comes, I'm sure they'll preach the Gospel eloquently." This is often quoted to prove that Christians can engage in gallows humor and pious blasphemy. God will draw them all up under the Sixth Commandment. And if God draws you up under the Sixth Commandment, they will (as with Haman) cover your face even before the sentence of judgment--so terrifying was the king's wrath.
4-20-23
"As Xi Befriends World Leaders, He Hardens His Stance on the U.S." NY times
"Biden to Pledge $500 Million to Stop Deforestation in Brazil." NY Times
"Befriends"? He's also Putin's closest ally. Friend Lulu (Brazil) is now Xi's deputy in promoting world peace. Did Lulu get any monies for his rain forests from Xi? Climate is Colonial Guilt Complex and "Gallio cares for none of these things." Xi will farm the Amazon and sell Europeans their beef dear. He could make French rich, and he can make Brazil rich, but they'll have to shed wokodoxy. And he is so far ahead in carbon-free electrification that his cites are the cleanest on earth. He needs clean air to keep his health care down, and his citizens happy. "Come as you are" is his creed. Back home in Groomorrah, Macron is made to conduct "issue oriented" policy. But all the excommunicated sects make their way to China, and they amount to two thirds of the world by now. Xi excommunicates no one.
Macron went to China as a Frenchman. When he got back he was met by his mercenary protectors (Pentagon II) and made to sit in the corner. He finds obedience hard, and in China complained about being a US slave "vassal." China treated him as an equal and gave him the treatment worthy of a Napoleon. The US made a colony out of Old Europe with Zelensky as overseer. China is like Absalom, who lurked outside the courts telling everyone their bulletproof case mattered little since the System was corrupt. These world leaders who trek to China feel themselves squeezed to serve the US agenda, while getting little in return. China offers to turn Brazil into a world class power and South America has long chafed at what they sense is a US superiority complex. This is also why China and Russia are crowding the Colonial West out of Africa. Biden's $500 million is little more than woke basket weaving rubbish. Chiba in turn offers to turn Brazil into a power to rival the US: loans, no conditions, know how. And they'll farm the Amazon. Expect the US population to decline dramatically as workers migrate South. Lulu is back in town riding high as Xi's peace deputy. this is rare oxygen, and on this level you don't have to worry about holding your nose. He regularly snubs Biden. Imagine what China could do with France. But poor Macron has to pay for his mercenaries. Europe, he complains (and this in oppressive China), has become a slave "vassal" of the US. "Remember," Zelensky tells him, "this is not charity." For, as Biden says, "Ukraine is all about freedom." Xi allowed Macron to forget his chains momentarily and pretend that he was still a Frenchman. Too late. They're all caught in a machine that will grind them to pieces. When secularism becomes Secularism it ceases to be a platform for pluralism and becomes religious. Machiavelli advised his Prince to entertain both a secret and a public face of the state. Publicly, he is to personify the highest virtue, while doing his utmost to destroy his competitors by any means at his disposal, while denouncing even the notion of such a scheme as unworthy of a ruler: hypocrisy and deceit. Merkel, it is said, learned the art of vagueness, or broadspeak to give herself plausible deniability.
4-17-23
"Emmanuel Macron should have stayed home (WPost)
Young Macron seemed undisturbed by Taiwan and groused that Europe was becoming a US "vassal" (slave state). Such apostasy puts him way off the Reservation. Ukraine is, after all, all about Taiwan, and without the US (the thinking is) Putin's tanks would be in Paris (he's in China complaining about the US while paying pennies for US protection?). And the biggest obstacle to isolating Putin is China, with its hyper economy expanding across the globe. Xi is doing with his markets what Biden is attempting with wholesale slaughter of 18 year old Russians. Young Macron's streets are ablaze because the welfare state is running short of money, and he needs his Frenchmen to work longer. Europe is stagnating while China is innovating. Friedman came back last week shocked by what he saw: electric cities, bullet trains, factories the size of small states. Climate Man had no audience there, because China is light years ahead in Green technology, which it exports to the rest of the world (they do the Walmart stuff on their lunchbreaks now just to stir up an appetite).
Poor Macron. This is what he need back home. Instead, the West is consumed with advancing Groomocracy, and with Groomorrah on the line in Ukraine, he is made to serve the Orthodoxy even while his cities sink into poverty. The few pennies left him, he is made to spend on shells for Ukraine, who have their cannon on automatic ($2000 per shell). Remember, they tell their suppliers: "this is not charity." And of course, they already see the $trillions to rebuild. This is the first war in the history of the world where money is not an object.
Aside from the revelations of the Leaks which show a massive coverup on the true nature of the Groomorrah war, it was Macron's attitude in China that is so unsettling to Global elites. It's one thing for Biden to fist-bump a murderer back into respectability, quite another to give China respectability by over-enjoying himself in Xi's presence. China gave Putin cover to carry on his war against Goomorrah, and here is one of their own fellowshipping with the excommunicated. China is turning the US (and its vassals) into obscure woke sects, while rolling out the welcome mat to whosever wants to tread the paths of the China Peace, of which Brazil is the latest ambassador. And Brazil refuses to part ways with Putin. Brazil, India, Iran Saudi, Putin--what was Macron thinking?
Everyone knows perfectly well what he's thinking. It's what Scholz is thinking. The war is lost, and dragging Europe down with it while China bloats on the carnage. That's what Macron was saying when he got caught enjoying himself overmuch in China. His brief moment of reveling was more damaging than the leaked revelations.
With time of the essence (2024), Biden needs closure fast. Which seems to be behind the heightened activity to create a pretext for engaging Nato fully. Only the Dragon behind the Bear gives them pause. Because China cannot afford to let the West achieve its objective: show China what's coming regards Taiwan. The coverup in the leaks shows their desperation: Putin has not folded, and Macron just demonstrated how appealing Brand China has become in a matter of months. No one sees any political upside here, and the potential for a massive anti-American backlash increases by the day. Republicans, like Scholz, are biding their time. The Germans have not burned their bridges: they can't wait to get back into Russia and they've increased their footprint in China. They could care less about Ukraine, Taiwan, or any other Messiah complex. Biden fist bumped MBS, the Mideast is now welcoming the Syrian butcher back into the family, and Europe needs money fast to continue the Program: Chinese markets, and Russian energy. And they have months and not years to keep their streets subdued. They average European thinks like Macron: the US is colonizing the EU in exchange for protecting it. They find obedience hard, and yet, if not the US then who? Germany, despite pledging $100 billion to rearm, has done absolutely nothing. The $100 billion said that war was back, exactly what the EU was designed to prevent. Globalists hoped to finish Putin off quickly and contain China long enough for the New World Order to reach critical mass. They ended up creating second New World Order with its own International Court, arrest warrants, World Policeman. World War is where those suits are tried.
The rise of two New World Orders, each with their own International Court, and their own version of International Law tracks exactly the Protestant conceit that it is the last item on God's calendar. They are the End of History, because, should history tarry, demographic charts show them reduced to the point of extinction by the inferior masses (at which point the wheel would start all over again, unthinkable since, according to Hegel, history is always upward toward human perfection). This is the superiority complex that lies behind the notion of the New World Order overseen by the US. To this day, Jews tell themselves that God's plan revolves around them and that the Church is an imposter: fraudulent history. God scattered them, and burned Jerusalem to the ground when He was done with them and it. The notion that Chinese or Africans could become the major centers of the church is as maddening to this type as the thought that the US could splinter, or join the rest of the Americas in a loose confederation for protection. Or worse, a wasteland of roaming gangs.
4-15-23
Why China’s Leader Hasn’t Called the President of Ukraine
"Never interrupt your enemies while they're making mistakes" (Napoleon).
The war is paying huge dividends to the unorthodox who don't go around smelling money. When Vespasian elevated his son as co-Emperor, the son feeling his oats, called for an immediate end to "disgusting urine tax" (urine was used as bleach). Vespasian, soldier turned First Accountant, asked a servant for a newly minted coin, and handing it to Titus, said, "Tell me, what does that smell like"? China, India, Brazil love the smell of heavy Russian discounts, and the Peace Dividend will keep paying as long as the war endures. The leaks reveal what Biden/Blinken have covered up: that Ukraine is on life-support, even with Ukraine providing no more then the trigger finger after the US aims the weapons, and now the leaks show Special Forces actively engaged in Ukraine. Germany is doing a brisk trade with ally Turkey since the war, as Germany is not allowed to sell to Russia directly, wink, wink. It's what keeps strongman Erdogan in power since his economy tanked before the war. Modi is waging war on his opponents (legally), with the US too occupied to bother. Meanwhile, the world watches 2024 nervously. The war will not survive a Republican victory.
Ukraine is demanding more money and ammo--"it's not charity," they say, since they're saving the world for Groomocracy.
Old Europe sees the arms buildup in the Baltics and know what it means. Saber-rattling will once again become part of European life. If Putin is not driven back, he will use his new assets to destabilize the Balkans. Conversely, Pentagon II in the Balkans reduces Europe to "a vassal" (Macron). They already find obedience hard, and will bolt from the US at the first opportunity.
The war was meant to bring Germany back into line and keep it from undermining Nato. Now China will undermine Nato by giving Germany and France favorable access to China's market. Instead of pitting Europeans against each other (like Putin), China will offer to make them rich--for Europe will need money to make up for the peace dividend lost through the Biden debacle. The war has never been popular save among globalists. The US could end up finding itself very isolated (cancelled) for its misadventure. Everyone wants Xi to pick up the phone and call Zelensky. Everyone but Putin, who is not up for re-election. Republicans will make "peace" a major campaign issue, without (like China) bothering to offer a solution. China hopes the quagmire will cause Republicans to hand over the war to the Europeans and rethink Nato, which would orient Europe toward China to keep Russia in place.
4-12-23
"As U.S. Tries to Isolate China, German Companies Move Closer" (NY Times)
"The World Is Moving Toward Russia and China" (NY Times)
"A Problem for Ukraine: Countries Like Brazil Won’t Sell It Arms" (NY Times)
Why China Could Dominate the Next Big Advance in Batteries (NY Times)
"And Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason" (2 Chron. 23)
Has there been any sighting of Canceller Thomas Friedman lately? The NY Times Comments section looks like a funeral. It's China's "Peace Creed" versus Nato's meatgrinder. And young Macron enjoyed himself too much on his trip, and that on a world stage. He betrayed orthodoxy, and basked in China's "come as you are" creed where even inveterate foes like Iran and Saudi embrace. Meanwhile, Old Europe is back in the Dark Ages forced to watch a World War category blood bath in its backyard. China showed young Macron a gleaming new world, and he found it irresistible. This is what he wants France to be. Why would Taiwan hesitate to join this club, he thinks? No mention of the plight of the Uyghurs (genocide says the US). The long awaited Xi-Zelensky phone call is now unthinkable. So dramatic has been China's recent rise.
Does anyone in China know that the World is overheating? Climate is Colonial guilt turned into religion by rich socialites trying to atone for the crimes of their ancestors in amassing their wealth, and the banality of their consumerist lifestyles which their own math tells them makes them human parasites. In the same manner, Europe had to hamstring itself in the Ukraine affair to atone for the Holocaust. China is still too busy pulling itself up by its socks to think about the past. And as long as Xi keeps plying them with corn and circuses, he will avoid what China fears most: internal unrest. For that he needs a strong economic engine more than an army. The markets of Europe are to that purpose. He can save his army by becoming a better accountant. And knowing the vanity of the young Napoleon, he allowed him to swagger amidst the trappings of Empire on a world stage. Now he's made to sit in a corner.
What caused the change? China's visit to Moscow to give Putin cover and protection (Putin had to mortgage Siberia, which China will now use to power its hyper-expansion--and sell the remainder to Europe, perhaps even through the repaired pipeline). The "close the sky over Ukraine" hawks disappeared when they saw the Dragon behind the Bear. China, it was said early on, "disapproves" of the war. No more. It catapulted China into the role of World Peace Ambassador, the world's most coveted brand, worth $trillions. Brazil and India are both gorging on Russian energy and fertilizer, filling Putin's coffers while selling-on to Europe the food and refined oil products made possible through this exchange. Brazil's leader is due in China this week singing the anthems of peace. It's the second prong of the China Peace now pushed by Putin. India will be on board soon. What is the China-Brazil peace plan? It leaves Putin with his gains, plus breathing room between Russia and Nato? In other words, no Pentagon II in the Balkans. The Biden debacle turned the Balkan powder keg into a nuclear volcano, and pushed the rest of the world into China's orbit. They led Ukraine to believe that their zeal would be enough to draw-in the West to finish Putin off. Now the leaked documents show Western support evaporating fast. The German rush to China are the rats leaving a sinking ship. They cancelled Russia because the woke West convinced them that it had the power to cancel China if it did not toe the Nato line. Now it's every man for himself, and China is where you go to get your share of the peace dividend. Biden/Blinken will end up with a million Russian-Ukrainian dead, isolated (cancelled), and a Taiwan that looks at smoldering Ukraine with horror. 2024 is on the horizon, and Republicans know not to interrupt their enemies while they're making mistakes. Young Macron is made to sit in a corner for his treasonous lack of war zeal (he seemed too happy in China). China, Brazil, and India are in no hurry to end a good thing. Peace sells, and they hope to keep selling it for as long as possible while helping themselves to the freebies.
4-11-23
"From Red Carpet to Doghouse: Macron Returns From China to Allied Dismay" (NY Times)
Not a word about Taiwan, which Biden/Blinken say, is what the Ukraine killpit is all about. Scholz seems to have disappeared altogether. The butcher bill awaits him. For no one can kill Russians like Prussians, and his Leopards will soon put German efficiency on full display. And the people who make them are just doing their job. They don't use the tanks, they only make the tanks. Who's to say? But Scholz, and Scholz alone delivered the tanks. Had he not agreed, none would have made it to Ukraine. And he knew the war was lost months before he sent them, knowing that they will only add to the slaughter.
Back to the stench of death for young Macron. And the drudgery of bondage. He keeps talking about not becoming a US vassal, and the need to forge the EU into the world's third Super State. An idle boast. Nato is the third super state--that is Pentagon II. Germany saw this coming when the US began Nato's Drang Nach Osten when the Curtain came down. They wanted nothing of it, but were told that German consent would be the price of re-unification. With the Soviet threat gone, Europe was left without enemies, and used the peace dividend to build the socialist state, the Utopia that created the impression that the End of History had finally arrived. No more wars and rumors of wars, as global man is so connected that he could no longer create distinct bodies to wage war. Nato, paid for by the US Treasury, was considered a leftover fossil of imperial swagger. EU values would shamble on and on until they conquered all: Mother Hen Mutti with her stacks of Covid charts was the model of the New World Order--all under control. The global mob initially thought they could "unlike" Putin and bring the collective loathing of the world down upon him and those who don't Unlike him. Now they have a World War category kill pit in their back yard with China hymning the anthems of peace. Xi essentially offered the young Napoleon a seat at the table of the new New World Order. The poor man had to come back to his burning cities. And his Master. Mercenaries don't come cheap.
So now they're stuck with the mercenaries and complain about the terms. The terms are: The US will stop Putin by shoring up Nato, which will then be used to stop China from annexing Taiwan. Moreover, EU commercial ties with China will have to be vetted by the US. Young Macron forgot himself in China, which is why he is now in the doghouse. He boasted himself like Napoleon over there, and seemed to be enjoying himself way too much. He wants France to be like China. He left his cancelling hat at home. And now the young Napoleon is made to sit in the corner. "Let not him that taketh off his armor boast himself as he who putteth it on." He came back to Pentagon II because he doesn't have his own army.
4-11-23
"Alvin Bragg Sues Congressman Jim Jordan in Move to Block Interference in Trump Case" (NY Times).
And of course, Jordan will tar and feather Bragg for interfering with a Presidential election at the behest of Globalist One World Government Soros. The Conspiracy has been brewing out there for a long time, and Jordan will simply throw into the legal cogs. He's doing this "because he can," it's pure red meat to the howling mob, and he has nothing to lose. He can do it because he has more power than Bragg, and Might is always Right. This is how the house will burn down. Congresswoman Green calls her fellow House members "pedophiles." You know you've crossed the Rubicon when goodwill is cast aside. Orban, Erdogan, and Modi don't pretend to be nice. And, like Caesar, all the laws are still in place--and all the more dangerous. Modi can throw you in jail by tweaking the law ever so slightly--all at taxpayer's expense. Next: armies of bodyguards.
In Texas a Federal Judge voided an abortion pill approved by the FDA 25 years ago. The claim: it was approved on a political and not a scientific basis when Liberals were in power. Now that the Culture War has become total (global) war, nothing is off the table. Conservatives know they can damage the Democrats by turning Ukraine into a quagmire. They see the war as no more than another Front of the Left to advance global statism over which they will preside. As the war now stalemates, all eyes are on 2024. The leaked documents are creating enormous ill will among allies, and some leaders (because South Korea got caught smuggling arms to Ukraine, and Putin could retaliate through Jong-Un) could be toppled. The revelation that the Mossad stoked the insurrection against Netanyahu is fodder for anti-globalists. Who leaked the documents? Likely, someone who wants to sabotage the war. The Coalition was already greatly stressed. This is a nightmare. And 2024 is just over the hill. Time is off the essence, because a Republican will pull the plug.
Congressman Jordan is now turning the System against the System in order to wreck it. It took one Federal Judge to create a political volcano which will tie the System in knots. In doing so, they create political oxygen which they control, throwing the other side into reactionary mode. It's how the Taliban defeated the US in asymmetrical warfare. The asymmetrics of will determined the outcome. You can never win against arsonists without destroying them totally, because they need but a spark to incinerate your cities. The Taliban were ready to burn their own house down. You're seeing arsonists at work here on every level. Their intent is to destroy suffocating statism by gutting the spiderwebs that support it, the equivalent of a city planner saving a city by leveling half of its buildings. The global Right sees the modern state as parasitic and totalitarian through its endless regulations in the hands of sinister functionaries who need but to rearrange their spiderwebs to ensnare you. The Web is now in the hands of the Right in Red states, and from there they can wage war on the Federal Government by jamming the System to overload. It will self-destruct when it become totally dysfunctional. A judge can now overrule the FDA. A Rightwing Congressman can entangle a court case by raising the suspicion of Leftwing conspiracy to interfere with a Presidential election. You're striking at kings here. Kings do not address each other as "honorable gentlemen." "He is my brother," Ahab gushed at Benhadad after Benhadad tried to kill him. Not long after, Benhadad gave specific orders to have Ahab killed.
Does Jordan have a legitimate concern? No one cares. Everyone knows that this is tit for tat, just as Putin took revenge on the International Court for insulting him with a warrant by jailing a US journalist. In the old days, diplomacy was 99 percent of statecraft. "Diplomatic immunity" allowed you to shake hands with murderers and cutthroats like Stalin without losing moral standing at home. But wokeness pretends to be global religion, and religion cannot give immunity to heresy. And once war breaks out, you recall your ambassadors, as "diplomatic immunity" is the substitute for war. Jordan is using his office to cut the rug out from under Bragg, to tar him as a political hack who prostituted his office for personal advantage and to compensate his Globalist sponsors. He's attacking the System with the System. Likewise, the Judge who ruled against the FDA. Ultimately, all institutions will turn one on another, leaving the Supreme Court to judge. Or every party will remake the Constitution every time they come to power. The crisis in Israel is that if Netanyahu prevails, the majority gets to impose its will on the minority. If the Judges rule against him, they will remain the true rulers of Israel. Why even vote?
4-10-23
"According to Les Echos, Macron said: “Do we [Europeans] have an interest in speeding up on the subject of Taiwan? No. The worst of things would be to think that we Europeans must be followers on this subject and adapt ourselves to an American rhythm and a Chinese overreaction.”
He added it would be “a trap for Europe”, now it had developed more autonomy since the Covid pandemic, to get caught up in crises “that are not ours”. If there was an acceleration of conflict between the American and Chinese duopoly 'we will not have the time, nor the means to finance our own strategic autonomy and we will become vassals, whereas we could become the third pole [in the world order] if we have a few years to develop this'”. Guardian
His handlers edited-out his even more unguarded remarks. He was on his way from a tour of China worthy of a Napoleon, worthy (to his mind) of the great power that France is, but is now made to serve the interests of the US. Taiwan? What, he says, does France have to do with America's squabble? But Ukraine is all about keeping China from annexing Taiwan. But he sees the future and he a pot-o-gold if France hitches her plow to the Chinese star. He needs money to make his economic plan work, and China has a lot of it. He's not about to spend the rest of his life shuttling between a Ukrainian and an American. A year after the invasion, there is still no stated objective, other than hoping that a fatal disease will remove Putin. But until that day, Old Europe will grit their teeth and devote all their energy to the Cause. Meanwhile China is roaring on all cylinders, while the Middle East is buying up European assets with the money they get from selling Europe dirty fossil fuel.
So what did he and Xi talk about for three days? Xi took him from one gleaming city to another, plus all you can eat eggrolls (some of those are stuffed with lobster). At any rate, he let slip the mask and Washington is furious. Europe wants out. They know that Scholz never was in--hence the foot dragging. For 78 years they convinced themselves that the New World Order could be achieved without violence. They has no choice but to sign off on Pentagon II in the Balkans. They're now trying to back-peddle. The terms were: 1) the EU decouples from China economically, and 2) agrees to come to Taiwan's rescue. But as long as the war endures, they're held hostage to Zelensky. They've got the Bear by the tail and cannot continue to hold him, nor safely let him go. The ship is rudderless and headed for the abyss.
4-10-23
"Ukraine is pushing India, a Russian ally, to play a more active role in resolving the war."
Modi is making India rich with cheap Russian energy, which it refines and sells to Europeans. It's how he plies his followers with corn and circuses while cementing his own power. For India as for China, the war is an unexpected bonus, as it keeps a preoccupied US from meddling in their affairs. Why would they help to end it? All the peace talk is for the Twitterhood. It always sells, if you can latch unto it, because, as the stoner children used to chant, "all we are saying, is give peace a chance." They have since become high consuming tech-bro billionaires, with a guilt ridden Utopia complex, in need of a moral compass and you can never go wrong with peace. China currently has a corner on the market through Putin. The leaked documents reveal the dire state affairs in Ukraine, thus far glossed over by Biden/Blinken disinformation. Taiwan looks on and sees itself living in a crater--those who survive. Zelensky does not set foot in Old Europe (except Britain) knowing he will speak to empty halls. Putin invaded because Old Europe could not turn itself into a Super State to counter Russia, and knew that they were too feeble to rush to the standards. Now they're all slinking off to China to cut deals leaving the US holding the bag. Mir Niks, Dir Niks. Musk just announced another Tesla factory there. He hasn't removed the leaked documents from Twitter. Ukraine is drafting men of any kind for its new kill pits, where my ancestors lie buried. It's the best land in the world, with soil dense as flour. Such land, Abraham knew, is best avoided, lest your children's blood make it even richer. Anabaptists vacated it (towns were called Hutterdorf and Hutterthal until 1945) it for that reason. The Ukrainians around here fled after serving time in Siberia for not participating in Stalin's wars. Putin/Biden will end up with a million dead by the time it's over. Sooner of later a Republican will undo Nato's expansion, leaving the EU holding the bag. Russia is too big to fail, Germany too big for Europe, and there are now two New World Orders. Soon there will be an International Court South, hurling warrants to arrest the apostate judges of International Court North. Tit-for-tat. Not only has Putin not been arrested and brought to trial, but Putin arrested an American journalist to show how weak and powerless the West it. Ambassadors are given "diplomatic immunity" to keep from getting arrested. It's how nations attempt to avoid murdering each other. These globalist crackpots have thus destroyed the buffer that often made for peace.
And who leaked the documents? The most obvious candidate is someone on the Right, which sees the war as no more than another front of Groomorrah. The Right wants the war to become a drag on Biden. The Trump debacle is already consuming the political oxygen. Any news is good news in the age of Influencers, because all that matters is the "number of views." From here to election day will be pure gallows theater, and no one can look away from a train wreck.
4-10-23
Scroll down the page and you hear them cry anxiously: "Europe Has Pledged a Million Shells for Ukraine in a Year. Can It Deliver?" Each one of these shells can murder 100 18-year old cannon fodder marched to the field of murder at the point of a gun. Here Nichols Kristof calls for a "smarter way to increase Russian deaths." But the NY Times wants Europe to ramp up production of mass murder (Zelensky just said he's losing 100 a day and 600 wounded). Compare "five dead" to hundreds ("a day"). Great humanitarians. The frauds even make a religion out of mass murder when it suits their political agenda. And as they point out from the leaked documents, "the precise targeting" of Ukrainian weapons is done by the US military from US Army bases. God will hand Biden/Blinken the butcher bill. They're trying to get Israel to deliver lethal weapons to Ukraine. But Israel is at war with Syria, Russia is Syria's protector, and Israel's enemies are closing in. They got South Korea to (secretly) deliver shells directly to Ukraine--previously they only sold to other nations who then transferred them onward, out of fear of Russia. The Stalemate will be a continual bloodbath right in Europe's back yard. They can't stop the butchery, and are now forced to watch human savagery in real time. Germany will soon add to its lists of Ukrainian/Russian deaths when its Leopards cause "Hell to open her mouth without measure." God will hand First Soldier Scholz the butcher bill when he draws him up under the Sixth Commandment. As you can watch soldiers who have killed say on YouTube: "The Sixth Commandment comes without footnotes." Like the Sermon on Mount, it is too simple to be taken seriously, which is why Luther and Calvin simply threw it aside. Luther called on his followers to "volunteer to be hangmen" and Calvin tortured his enemies slowly before murdering them (here lie the origins of World Wars). The West has been in a state of unceasing war ever since, and, in their suicidal extinction, wail about being "replaced." "It is necessary that offenses come, but woe unto the man by who they come." This means that long before "God ordained the sword," He ordained the damnation of those who will bear it.
4-8-23
"French Diplomacy Undercuts U.S. Efforts to Rein China In" (NY Times)
President Xi pulled out all the stops showing off gleaming China to a French leader whose cites are so blackened with smoke by the "pension reforms" of an aging population that King Charles had to abandoned his visit. Everything is new in China, a larger version of Walmart--they now do the US Walmart stuff on their lunchbreaks. Three days, plus all you can eat eggrolls. Over in Japan a Five Star restaurant lost its rating because it only caters to billionaires. It's a Noodle Shop, where the chef cuts his noodles by hand. Imagine what those eggrolls taste like.
Ukraine? All Macron got out of Xi was a vague promise that he will "talk to Zelensky" sometime in the future. That was good enough for the Gaul, enough to get the long-nosed Americans of his back. He wasn't there to play the Puritan.
Taiwan? For which the Ukrainians were called on to throw themselves into the meatgrinder to remind China what they have coming if they decide to act like Putin? "I'm not here to judge," Macron sniffed (woke in Europe is one thing, another in China). Some of those eggrolls are stuffed with lobster, and they would have someone with a tote bag (warmed) full of them following them at all times.
A year ago, China was threatened with cancellation if it did not separate from those who separate from the One World Order under One Policeman. One church, one creed. Rich Chinese sunning themselves on global beaches, Friedman opined, will be ashamed to be called Chinese.
Taiwanese look at Ukraine and see their island turned into a crater. Europe is trying to avert its gaze from the coming human slaughter in the long awaited Spring Offensive, where German efficiency will be on high display as German tanks show the world once again that no one slaughters Russians like Prussians. God will hand First Soldier Scholz the butcher bill.
The US is left holding the bag in this debacle, with Europe cutting deals with US enemies behind its back. Everyone knows that Putin had to mortage the farm to get China's support. Which means that you'll buy your rare Siberian minerals from China. They cancelled the Bear and reaped a Dragon. They could have cut out the middleman (China) by doing "the dirty business of politics" with Putin himself. 90 percent of Germans are of this mind. But you can't say this publicly without being cast out of the synagogue. Friedman was made to cancel MBS only to have Biden welcome him back into the fold with a fist-bump. Now that China-Russia started their own New World Order, Church Europe is off China-affirming the new denomination, with the US left holding the bag of the old stale orthodoxies. "Come as you are," China beams. Iran and Saudi just joined hands in China. It's an easy creed.
No one does Climate better than China, because they understand that the new chips can multiply fossil energy almost infinitely. They know the price of smog in their cities. But until we there, they'll squeeze every once of fossil from the earth, knowing that if you don't burn coal now, you'll deplete your forests later to stay alive. This is where Europe is headed. They wanted to see the promise in their lifetime to vindicate their religion that man stands at the apex of the Universe, and cannot punt his problems by inventing "the god of the gaps". Solve all problems and God becomes obsolete. This is the religion. And to convince the masses, Friedman promises "good paying Green jobs" (read, basket weaving). Abraham was content to die by the same faith by which he lived, "having only seen the promises afar off." There is no "afar off" in Utopias. Hence, they cooked the books. China knows the future will be electric for economic reasons (the path of least resistance), and not because it will save the planet. Religious man says, No, economic ruin awaits if we do not become afraid, very afraid, now to prevent catastrophe. That's because of their Messianic Complex. China doesn't give this nonsense a second thought, because they see the Left's hamstringing solutions a million times worse than the cure. They'll meet the crisis by meeting it head on without as much as acknowledging it. You don't take to the hills because you see "seven lean years" down the road, or by blaming them on the excesses of the previous seven years, like fearmonger Friedman. China is now squeezing the good years for all they're worth in order to sell Friedman his bread dear later on. His "Good Green jobs", his Wall Street friends tell him, will have to wait another day, because investors are putting their money on their hopes: a huge payoff in fossils. Drilling is off the rails, and those are the highest paying jobs in the world. No need for government programs. Even the Saudis are using dirty oil to blanket their scorching deserts with solar panels, which they will use to make hydrogen to sell to Europe. Unrighteous Mammon (Capitalism), ironically, saving the despairing Left. Poor Friedman. In trying to cancel Putin, he ended up driving up energy, and in so doing created a new oil rush that will last decades. China, like Rome, sees all religion (and none) as equally useful. The UN is now in the Mideast holding a Climate Conference. The UN congregates only in the most expensive resorts. And no can outdo these despots when it comes to rolling out the red carpet. They know religion when they see it, and nothing has been as good for high oil prices than Friedman's Good Green jobs religion. Why is why they can afford to host the UN Climate Conference. We're on your side, heh, they tell the UN, because, heh, your own Frank and Barney Flintstone didn't switch to oil because they ran out of stones, heh. The Electric Age is coming, but Europe had to make a religion out of it, and is now at the mercy of energy despots. Because, until Frank and Barney decide to make the switch, those basket weaving jobs will pay less than Walmart, which, as everyone knows, is how Xi built his gleaming (smog-free) cities. Like Rome in the days of Paul, China treats all religions equally, that is, unwokely. Rome built the roads on which "the feet of those who bring tiding of peace" (Is. 52) travel. This will be the Chinese-African century, as the Gospel continues its journey westward and the West sinks into decay. Galatians, Ephesus and the Churches of Asia are now Turkey, where hardly a Christian exists, because, like Jerusalem, they did "not know the time of their visitation." The West will become Serbian, with Orbans at their heads to protected them from from losing their "Christian identity." I once thought North Korea will be evangelized by South Korea, which is not losing ground rapidly as its churches succomb to all the diseases of American Evangelicals. The Gospel will enter through China, for it is China where you will see the next outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
4-6-23
"Saudi and Iranian Foreign Ministers Meet in China After Thaw"
How does President Xi do it, you say? Because he's got Macron and and the head of the EU over there now too. So many wars to end.... Iran is supplying the war criminal Putin with drones, and it's almost got the Bomb, the sum total of all EU fears. Yet here they all are, basking in the Chinese Peace, Iran and Saudi to sell oil, and the EU to make sure they get their share of the steel China will make with that smoke belching oil. Rich Chinese will be ashamed to leave China, Thomas Friedman wrote, if their leaders cozy up to the war criminal Putin. Putin's man just assumed the leadership of the UN Security Council in Manhattan. Why hasn't he been arrested? Because the International Court only indicts people they know they will never have to confront--or the weak, and conquered. Might is Right: that's the sum total of International Law. If it were otherwise, these Russians would not live the high life in downtown Manhattan. "Had we lost the war," Tokyo bomber General LeMay smirked, "the Nazis would have hanged Eisenhower and Churchill as war criminals." What frauds.
Meanwhile, Germany knows that Ukraine blew up it's Nordstrom pipelines in order to draw it into the war, knowing that it had US cover to do so. There is a future reckoning there, for Germans are having to pay through the nose to roast their Bratwursts. The New European Order has not materialized, and Old Europe knows only too well what Pentagon II in the Baltics means. "Gallio cared for none of these things." Republicans will demand that Europe step up and take responsibility for NATO which will require a major rethink, and higher Bratwurst-frying costs. But currently they're back to their old tricks, cutting deals off to the side, while contributing pennies to NATO. That will stop under Republican rule.
Macron will come back from China with a few scraps which he will now cobble into a cease-fire--precisely what Putin wants in order to let reality become the status quo: the old unfinished business of the Balkans which Europe has long learned to live with--an endless squabble of Mafias pretending to be sovereign nations, and half of them already in the EU, with Orban farming them all--his tailor must be at his wits end, trying to hide the obvious, for those oligarchs spend their nights feasting, and his suits keep getting wider and wider. Remember Afghanistan? They thought it would disappear the minute the West pulled out, just like Iraq, which they also left in rubble, but which somehow carries on, none the worse for the 5 $trillion demolition. Such is the Messiah complex. And the biggest fraud of all, the Climate Hoax, the cause of the war and now bankrupting Europe, is vacated by the new oil rush, which China is maximizing to gain market share. To be followed by the land rush as Brazil and Congo turn their forests into pasture to meet Europe's demand for tasty beef. Again, China wears all hats, ten gallon included. Europe, as you know, is in the process of rewilding its farmlands to save the Planet. They're in China now to arrange the backup plan. For in Britain they're already rationing tomatoes because Putin drove up the gas. China does hamburgers too. They can deliver them with balloons if you want. The Walmart stuff they now do on their lunchbreaks, having taken on the harder tasks. That's why Macron, Iran, and Saudi are today feasting with President Xi. The Chinese, like the Greeks and Romans, are not even remotely remotely religious, unless you call being worldly "religious." They wear Iranian, Saudi, and French hats equally well. President Xi probably dines them with all you can eat egg rolls. I used to grab one at the Walmart counter on my way out, but they keep getting smaller and smaller, and even those I have to share with Bander, which I do without resorting to outward fraud, because he knows what his share amounts to. I can't imagine what they taste like in China. And all you want. My next stop would be the dumplings, which come fried and steamed. Go for the steamed if available.
China knows the transition to electricity is inevitable, as chip technology can get maximize energy efficiency a millionfold. But the Secularist Left, always in search of a religion to counter Christianity, turned the transition into religion, and false religion cannot tarry (why Saul made himself priest and lost his throne). They invented End Time charts and are now condemned to meet them. They need their Utopias now, lacking faith to see "afar off." To sift any Idea or ideology, just convert it into Religion and you will soon come to grips with it. For instance, if you're familiar with Medieval handbooks of Theology, you quickly realize that the frauds waxing on and on about the "god particle" in Physics are doing little more than parroting the Scholastics of the Middle Ages without realizing it. What frauds!
4-5-23
"Revealed: UAE plans huge oil and gas expansion as it hosts UN climate summit"
So? What's wrong with Russia taking charge of the UN Security Council? "Remember," the Saudis say, "the Stone Age didn't end when people ran out of stones." The UN demands an immediate cessation of all new fossil projects to reach Net Zero by 2050. Europe wants to beat that deadline. Mid Eastern despots and China see only dollar signs here. They know that the best way to drive up oil prices is to get rich Wester nations to shut down their fossil works. Just as China builds ten combustion car factories for every one Europe shuts down. The demand will be there, they know. "Revealed"!! the Guardian screams in shock. Now why would you have to reveal the obvious? "But remember your Flintstones," the Saudis coo. "The Stone Age did not end because Fred and Barney ran out of stones." The problem is that in Britain they ran out of tomatoes because Putin drove up the gas. They electric age is coming. China is racing to meet it by squeezing the last ounce out of the old fossils.
4-5-23
"A sharp increase in the number of coal-fired plants in China would require even steeper cuts to the rest of the global fleet to meet the world’s climate goals.
In order to meet the Paris climate agreement, all coal-fired plants need to be closed by 2040 and no new ones can come online." Guardian
Why is Brother China building new coal plants? Because all of Europe's smoke belching plants are moving to China, and Europe will need need a lot of steel to rebuild Ukraine which Putin invaded to drive up energy prices which caused Europe's factories to relocate to China which will now ship steel to Europe on smoke belching ships and for which Europe will pay dear--if it has any money left. Add to that the reparations for "climate sins" to Third World nations with rising seas, and Brazil and Congo's demands for billions not to farm their rain forests. No wonder they're only able to contribute pennies to Biden's adventure in Ukraine. Macron is currently in China begging for a slice of the pie. Climate master Biden just opened vast tracts of land in the Gulf and Alaska. "No new\ one," they cry at the UN. All because of Putin. And no end in sight. In Britain they're rationing tomatoes because they can't afford the greenhouse gas, which they now can't afford because of their zeal to cut Greenhouse gasses. Their plans call for agriculture to be cut by half, which will cause ranchers to convert rain forests into pasture.
4-5-23
Macron, in China, Says He’ll Urge Xi Jinping to Work for Peace in Ukraine
China visited Russia last month to grant Putin legitimacy, and now European heads of state are falling all over themselves heralding the New World Order of the China Peace. And Russia just assumed leadership at the UN Security Council in downtown Manhattan. What, exactly, does the UN Security Council do, you ask? It's meant to prevent "illegal wars of aggression." So why doesn't the US just go in and arrest the war criminals right under their nose in New York City, instead of hurling chest-thumping Warrants against Putin who they know is far enough away not to call their bluff? Scholz and Macron would have ended the war 8 months ago, and are impatient to get on with business. Read: Ukraine under the bus--oops! China wants only as much of the war to keep its commercial ventures in place. In the meantime, a weakened Russia not only gives China more access to western Siberia (which it wants back), and a quagmire in Ukraine stands to destabilize the West. Meanwhile, all they have to do is sit back and lament about Western aggression. Does Macron think China will make Putin give up his gains? No. Than what, if you're a Ukrainian, do you think lies in store with a Chinese Peace? Did Macron rebuke China for cozying up to a convicted war criminal? Or suggest that China arrest Putin next time he visits? Or ask if China has any morals at all? Or their treatment of the Uighurs, which the US calls genocide? All forgotten. You an be sure he doesn't carry a Wanted Poster of Putin in his pocket. You do your boasting back home in Old Europe where it's safe to do so. Here you mind your political manners, or else.
4-5-23
They now have no less that 34 counts of felonies against Trump--with "many more to come." Which, as you may know is the old definition of a king--Rex Lex--the king is law. Kings are not subject to normal law in that by wielding a monopoly of violence they could be charged with breaking the law a thousand times a day. "Crying wickednesses in their high places," the Puritans labeled the domain of politics.
Most people see Wall Street as the scene of perpetual crime. The government had to bail out the banks because of the criminal conduct of bankers. Yet none of them was charged. Hilary and Al Gore became inordinately rich by trading on their access to the US Treasurty. Like the unjust steward, they were in a position to say "here, let me reduce your debt by half, heh"--wink, wink).
Rich men in a democratic society need an army of lawyers because another army of lawyers is trying to get at their wealth. Until now, the good old boy system of "live and let live" allowed politicians to commit white collar crime (become lobbyists to plunder the Treasury) with impunity. That pact is now broken, and Democrats will avoid hyper-Red states like Florida and Texas like the plague lest they become ensnared in legal traps set by officials on the public payroll. All they have to do is finger you to get you to bankrupt yourself trying to disentangle yourself.
The more they now add to the charges, the more they create the impression that Democrats are plucking at trifling straws to create a strawman. "Dirty politics" is dirty because it is borderline crime. Here you can generate endless lawsuits, anytime. Like the ancient king who overthrew his enemy said to himself when he was tempted deal harshly with him: this man once had other kings in his clutches, and one day I will suffer his fate.
Add to that the irony of pedophilists (Congresswoman Greene calls them pedophiles--the difference being that a pedophilist is someone who promotes pedophilia, like Pope Francis, Christianity Today and Biden, while a pedophile is someone who actually commits pedophilia--when Newweeks's Cover named Obama as "The First Sodomite President," they did not mean to accuse Obama of being a Sodomite, but only of being a Sodomist, that is, of promoting Sodomy) charging an adulterer for covering up adultery.
What you will see now is a coarsening of politics that will stop just short of violence in the halls of power. That will be left to the Brownshirts who will be given cover to menace (just short of violence) in the public square. In the old days, politicians would refer to each other as "the honorable gentleman from Ohio," etc. Now it's, "what this pedophile from New York advocates is little more than..." The civilized language underscores the violence that simmers underneath politics. Civilized debate was meant to prevent carnage in the street. You don't debate in Hungary, Turkey and India. The opposition wakes up surprised not to be surrounded by prison walls.
In politics as in diplomacy, Bismarck would say, you see only enough to keep the whole sham going. It's all crime, or as he puts it, "sausage making." Religion, on the other hand, must dispense with the "appearance" of hypocrisy. Note the unsavory characters now embraced by China, while preaching universal peace. The honorable gentleman from Russia just assumed leadership of the UN Security Counsel, which of course exists to prevent "illegal wars of aggression." Mir niks, did niks. "Why hasn't he been arrested," you say? Only a religionist would ask that. Wokeness is religion, which is why it must play the Puritan. Genevan tyrant John Calvin tortured his enemies before murdering them, and his Puritan followers took time out from writing their creed (Westminster) to behead their king. Mir Niks, Dir Niks. Religion, unlike politics, cannot stop by half. Bragg will end up pumping gas when it's all over, For, the Inquisition, like Revolution, devours its own. He has enough to establish a beachhead--and get himself into the history books. He will find it infested with nuclear landmines. When you go after a king, you need a knock-out punch. He's going after rhino with birdshot here. 34 counts, to the average person, sounds too much like "if you aim at everything, you're bound to hit it." But how often do you get to put your name in the history books? Robert E Lee could have sat out the war, instead of reaching for glory by murdering half a million of his own countrymen. But he knew the opportunity for immortal fame comes but once. Imagine the greatest soldier of his day passing up a once in a lifetime chance. No one expected him to. Instead of being labeled a slave-beater and traitor, he would have incurred eternal shame as a knave and a coward.
4-5-23
"On the eve of Passover, greater numbers of Jews typically visit the site as a form of pilgrimage. To Palestinians, the presence of the Jewish worshipers is considered provocative, partly because many are hard-line activists who hope to build a new temple on the site. " NY TIMES
Israel annexed the Temple Mount when it annexed East Jerusalem in 1967. The Kingdom of Jordan was given care-taker custody of it. But the Israeli Army occupies it to keep radical Jews from blowing up the Mosque which sits on top of the original Temple. Before Jews lay one stone, the whole Temple site will have to be purged of idolatry. Israeli soldiers regularly storm the mosque to arrest militants. The retaining wall that supports the hill which makes up the Temple Mount is the Wailing Wall (the most holy site for Jews, as the mosque which sits on top of the Wailing Wall is the third most holy site in Islam). The area around the Temple Mount is what is called "the Old City," which is where the Christian "holy sites" are. Most of the residents are either Muslim or the people who attend these Old Churches. However, Israel keeps seizing more and more territory (for parks and infrastructure) and American billionaires fund buy-out programs (encirclement) of Arab properties which they then hand over to Ultras who turn them into Welfare ghettos. For an Ultra, living on Welfare next the Temple within walking distance of the Wailing Wall is like having Abraham as your neighbor. Everyone knows what their intentions are, which is why you see heavily armed Israeli soldiers on mosque grounds on top.
4-4-23
"Democrats are pedophiles," said Congresswoman Greene on CBS 60 Minutes. Why is this charger now regularly hurled at the Left, with considerable affect? Look at Scotland today where a 21 year-old who raped a 13 year-old walked free because, the judge said, "he's only 21." Extreme vice, since the excesses of ancient despots, has always ended in pedophilia. The Drag-Queen crusade aimed at children in public libraries cannot be interpreted otherwise. Biden ran on stamping-out trans-phobia, and no one has done more to normalize what used to be called "the crime that dare not mention its name." He must think the fires of Sodom are myths, because he sees opposition to child-mutilation as "sinful." He's trafficking in pedophilia here, because it is his policy of indoctrination and normalization that so destroys children's minds that they become self-loathing, self-mutilating, and suicidal.
This issue will generate a lot of turbulence in the election on the fringes where it will fire the base along with other potent conspiracy theories. By advocating the indoctrination of children (he calls opposition to such "sinful") so that they mutilate in order to undo Creation, he advocates pedophilia, and someone who advocates pedophilia is a pedophilist (a pedophilist is someone who holds the doctrine of pedophilia even if they don't practice it), just as a Sodomist is someone (like the Pope and Christianity Today) who teaches that Sodomy is as much the gift of God as Precreation (even if they don't themselves commit the Abomination). Conspiracies are political heresies, and what makes heresy so potent is that they attach to truth, just as a malignant tumor needs a healthy host to sustain it. DeSantis made it a major feature of his campaign, but in doing so becomes entangled in the Culture War. That is to narrow to the Presidency. When you see Trump hailed as a modern Spartacus from Africa to the Baltics (and even China), you see that he lashes two raging steeds: Culture and Class. In Waco, he had Rocker Ted Nugent throw firebolts at Zelensky as the latest Front of the Groomocracy. This is a lethal charge even off to the side. It is much too raw up front. Which is why it would have derailed DeSantis.
"Every indictment will make Trump stronger," says Obama man Sydney Blumenthal. Democrats know this but couldn't keep their troops in line. This is a historic opportunity to get into the history books. If you "don't put up your sword," Jesus says, "it will turn on you." What you see here is sheer violence. From here to November 2024 will be non-stop Trump on a global scale. He has the ability to thrash everyman's oppressive Elite. In the Twitter world, mass is simply mass, no matter were it originates. If you're famous for any reason, you're an Influencer, because of your "followers" on Twitter. You're the head of a potential mob. Modi, Orban, Erdogan rule as leaders of mobs who want them to thrash the System. In other words, burn the house down. What replaces it is for another day. It's little more than organized anarchy, but it gets rid of the loathed System. Ask rioters in France if they care if the System crashes. The last time it did, they created Napoleon to contain it. These are stark options.
More indictments against Trump will only fuel the rage. And outrage is all that Trump has. Even his policies (which greatly benefited the Right) did not generate voter enthusiasm. Because these voters are after something much more drastic. DeSantis sputtered because he's seen as little more than a creation of oligarch Koch. Trump, on the other hand, stands by himself on the scaffold. Gallows' humor is always the real deal, because you are what you are, with a noose around your neck. The mob can't look away. Democrats not only handed Trump the ultimate infomercial, but they will now exhaust themselves trying to keep a lid on the outrage. It may not be enough to get him into the Oval, but without it, he would have vanished from the radar.
4-3-23
“A women’s sauna will still be able to consider the protection of the privacy of female customers and therefore tie entrance to someone’s outward appearance,” justice minister Marco Buschmann of the Free Democrats told Die Zeit newspaper.
That proposal has not gone down well with the Green party though, who insist that it would contravene anti-discrimination laws.
Ferda Ataman, the government’s discrimination commissioner, responded that: “This is not about a man wanting to access a women’s space, but about a woman (wanting to do so).” (God's Wall Test of Gender in Germany)
The issue is whether to allow men-without-dresses into Germany's naked (if there is debauchery somewhere in the World a German is likely behind it) woman saunas. In Scotland, the Government attempt to install male rapists in women's prisons brought down the government as the women kept shrieking "there's a toxic male in here." Now you would think this would be the end of naked German bath debauchery in order to accommodate men-in dresses, since men-in-dresses could then still pretend to be women--that is with a dress on to hide "outward appearance," as Justice Minister Marco so artfully smirks. But the obvious is all too obvious to Justice Minister Marco in these naked women when the dresses are cast off, and even David Brooks and Justice Jackson would have no need to "line them up against the Wall" to see who is a man and who is not a woman. That is, if by "outward appearance" Minister Marco refers to what normal people think he refers to, which, since the Fall, called for either "fig leaves" or "aprons" because Adam and Eve reacted precisely like these women when they realized they were exposed. In normal times, politicians would solve the problem by simply telling their wards to put their clothes back on. But these are not normal times, and Discrimination Commissioner Ferda would call the so called "normal" as little more than Fake News and Disinformation. For those man-women, she says, "are real women." But now the German Government will consider "outward appearance" (read "privates") to decide who gets to debouch in naked women's saunas without fig leaves and aprons without being "ashamed". For Government Discrimination Minister Ferda, screeches, "how can you exclude a woman from a woman's sauna" ("outward appearances" notwithstanding), because "this is a woman wanting to do so" (we are not told what, as Justice Minister Marco smirks, Commissioner Ferda's "outward appearance" is, but the world will thank her for keeping her clothes on). And as far as I know, they do not have "biologists" on the scene to determine who is a man and who is not a woman, notwithstanding "Outward appearance" (in Justice Minister Marco's artful language). We must consider "outward appearance", cries Justice Minister Marco. That's the biologist in him. But, apparently, Discrimination Commissioner Ferda did not advance far in her biology lesson in school, because, she says, the naked women in German baths should not be allowed to exclude bathers who do not look like women. That's because she's not a biologist, according to Justice Jackson and David Brooks of the NY Times. Because, according to Supreme Court Justice Jackson and the NY Times, a biologist will flatly tell you that a person who has "the outward appearance" of a man (and that according to smirking German Justice Minister Marco) may, in fact, be a woman (and that according to German Discrimination Commissioner Ferda to counter Justice Minister Marco's Disinformation Conspiracy and Fake News). Biden recently went on record stating that not to allow male rapists in girl's bathrooms is "close to sinful". That is, Fake New and Disinformation. German Discrimination Minister Ferda would agree, saying that these are not male rapists trying to get in "but women trying to do so." Justice Minister at odds with Discrimination Commissioner. We are not told the fate of a person with the "outward appearance" of a woman (that is if you're not a biologists) trying to gain access to a naked male sauna, or if German Discrimination Minister Freda thinks that such would not be a woman (notwithstanding "outward appearance" according to smirking Justice Minister Marco), "but a man trying to do so" (because Discrimination Minister Freda is so obviously not a biologist). And German Discrimination Commissioner Ferda would likewise insist that an outward appearing woman identifying as a man be excluded from naked woman saunas, because they are men (notwithstanding, as Minister Marco smirks, "outward appearances"). Which means that all women will be required to announce their pronoun preference at the door to see who is really a woman and who is a man, despite (as the Smirkmeister smirks) "outward appearance" and if you're not a biologist. A lively debate, no doubt, in German grade schools, where, if I'm not mistaken, they still keep their clothes on. Germany does not allow homeschooling, because, since Hitler, they are on the alert against Fake News and Disinformation.
You're probably wondering why German women who congregate naked would need "protection of their privacy." Any fool could tell them that that's what clothes are for, and that the moral of the "Empower has no clothes" is that he had lost "the protection of his privacy." Or are we dealing with hidden gender-phobia here. Are these women saying that nakedness is somehow dirty? This Puritanicalism by now should be antique. Germany mandates that children be exposed to what twenty years ago would have been considered porn. And here the Justice Minister promises to protect the privacy of adult German women who congregate naked. No such protection for innocent children, who are forced to endure indoctrination and exposure to filth and debauchery in public schools.
Which leaves the question of "outward appearance." He wants the Government to grade people on "looks"? Because Discrimination Commissioner Ferda will inform him that the law does not allow you to take into account the traditional "against the Wall" attributes of gender identification. That is precisely the point of the Pronouns. So how will Justice Minister Marco separate humans in order to "protect their privacy--that is without judging them by "their privates," because, notwithstanding Discrimination Commissioner Ferda, these naked German women shrieking about their privacy, want the Justice Minister to somehow protect their private parts, which the Government says are no more than phobias based on oppressive stereotypes of the past. He could just tell them to put their clothes back on--mir niks, dir niks. But then he would put Ferda out of a job. Ferda, she would have us believe, is not troubled by naked males next to her in the sauna, as long as they call themselves women. Whether she would run off shrieking if they informed her they were not, we are not told. But keep in mind that this has to do with "privacy" and "privates", while in Germany neither have anything to do with the other, which, as you read in your grade school lesson, harks back to a time in Germany when their Emperor was such a fool that it took a little boy yelling "why is that fool naked" for him to understand the purpose of clothes. But here you have naked German women wailing about exposure of their privates, and one German Minister promising to deal harshly with "outward appearing" males, while Commissioner Ferda accuses both the naked women and the Government of mis-gendering. Because, these women fail to see that those women are "real women." These hysterical women are the equivalent of the little boy yelling, "mister, you can't go in there..."
And while German women wallow naked in bathhouses debating whether or not to exclude rapists, in despised Africa, people whom the Master Race referred to as "naked savages" have stepped into the breech. "Watchman what of the night?" The Ashbury Revival, Christianity Today opined, got it just right, "too LGBT affirming for some, too little LGBT affirming for others." Middle of the road Sodomy. As their billion dollar ad says, He Gets US. They unvexed narrowminded Lot. "Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands." It was poor Abimelech (the Ethiopian son of a king) whom the Israelites made a eunuch, who saved Jeremiah when they threw him in a pit. "The vile stream from the fens of Africa," Confederate preachers called them. Abraham Lincoln wanted them gone as they marred the American Dream. "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh." Isaac (the Gospel) means "He laughs" because Abraham's situation seemed so hopeless. God laughs and laughs and laughs. And He always has the last laugh. "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29That no flesh should glory in his presence" (1 Cor.1).
"Ugandan president calls on Africa to ‘save the world from homosexuality’. His comments followed a two-day inter-parliamentary conference held at State House in Entebbe on “family values and sovereignty”, attended by MPs and delegates from 22 African countries, including Zambia, Kenya and Sierra Leone."(Guardian)
22 African countries listening to what the NY Times and Christianity Today would consider Fake News and Disinformation. You can see the African birthrate ticker here. A new soul born about every 3/4 of a second. Already the largest, Africa will have double the population of China by 2040. "We are poor," African leaders told Obama, "but if that's (Groomerphilia) the price, take your money and go home."
4-2-23
"Why Are Israel's Protests Continuing? Because Nobody Trusts Netanyahu Anymore " (Haaretz Jerusalem)
But it's not just Netanyahu. His entire cabinet is made up of Settlers who have the Ultras behind them. All the seculars would have to do is convince 4 Parliament members to withdraw their support in order to trigger a new election. So who is "everybody"? The secular minority who refuse to accept "the consequences" of the election. Because no one questions "the results of the election." So here is the Left clamoring for the violent overthrow of an elected government, Israel's own Jan 6. And the NY Times is all for it. They want the globalist Judges to use the police and army to seize control of the Legislative body before they can put their laws into practice, and create laws to parentally cement the rule of the Judges--in order, as the NY Times puts it, "to save Democracy." For they trust Netanyahu and the people who elected him as little as they trust Trump and the people who elected him. Which is why they're calling on unelected Judges to use the army to save Democracy.
4-2-23
"If the government resumes its attempt to pass laws that would in effect give it unlimited power, the Supreme Court must use its authority to strike these laws down, one by one. First and foremost, the Supreme Court must strike down any legislation that gives the government control of the Supreme Court itself. The Court must do this not in order to protect itself, but to protect the liberties of all Israelis.
If the Supreme Court strikes down such undemocratic laws, and the government refuses to accept its rulings, then the police, army and other branches of the security forces, as well as all public-service employees, must protect democracy and support the Court. They should not obey the illegal orders of a government that is trying to establish a dictatorship." (Haaretz in Israel)
The Ultras and Settlers clawed their way to power, and are now taking the hammer to the Judges who, since Israel's founding, are the final authority in Israel. The Pharisees and Sadducees were left to bicker with trifles, with High Sheriff Herod there make sure that their squabbling does not disturb the peace of the Roman governor in Caesarea. He, in turn, was there to keep and eye on Herod to make sure that he complied with the interests of Rome.
Before Herod seized the reigns of Jewish government, it was in constant turmoil over who got to be Hight Priest. For, lacking a king, the High Priest ruled Israel, and lived like a king. Herod installed his own man, and convinced Rome that he could keep the peace. Rome trusted him and recognized his potential. He proved an incredible administrator and builder. The Temple was his crowning achievement. But he was an Edomite (half), a usurper of the throne of David. He had the clergy in his pockets, and they did a brisk business by essentially turning the Temple into a commercial center. Roman law had replaced Israel's Constitution, the Torah. Hence, the revolutionaries, zealots, and patriots who, like the Apostles, longed for "the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel" (Acts 1). It was not to be. Worse, Rome destroyed the greater part of their religion when it destroyed the Temple, since everything in the Law of Moses becomes bottled up if there is no release for sin, which can be forgiven only through Temple sacrifice. Not since the days of Christ have Jews been in a position "to restore the Kingdom to Israel." That is, legitimate Israel under the Torah. But to do so they have to oust the usurpers: the Globalist judges who make the liberal Sadducees look like Fundamentalists. The seculars see all this and call on the Judges to assert their power to void any new law that would restrict their power (see above). What are they saying here? That these unelected Judges should use the military and police to seize the reins of government, and make their authority permanent and unassailable. The NY Times sees nothing wrong with this extreme measure to prevent Israel from becoming a theocracy. The problem is that the birthrate of the Ultras is now asserting itself in the voting booth, and how do you thwart a majority? The Ultras and Settlers are the majority. And if the ruling principle of the majority is that "God gave the Land to the Jews," then all seculars laws become moot. For once you invoke God on this level, you are bound to rule according to His revealed will: the Torah. The liberal Sadducees accepted only the Five Books of Moses as authoritative. And they could prove from the Books of Moses that "there is no resurrection" (Mt. 22:23). So who gets to determine what the Torah really says? "Gallio cared for none of these things." Neither did Herod. So who keeps the peace once Israel throws off the straitjacket of the leftwing Judges? King Bibi will have to crack down hard. Herod at least had Rome to keep him in check. Read the mountains of interpretations in the Talmud to see what lies in store. You'll be able to eat an egg laid on the Sabbath only if your administer the penalty for working on the Sabbath the next day. I was afraid to read further to see if you are allowed to eat the most fowl creature afterwards.
The Settlers are the Zionists for whom a Jewish Nation is sufficient to round out their creed. The Ultras (Haredi) see Zionist religion as little more than a this-worldly Nationalism, and while both proceed from "God gave the Land to the Jews," the Zionist Settlers are wary of Torah rule. This, for the Ultras, is idolatry. Which is why the Ultras are non-Zionist (the used to be anti). Settlers serve in the military, again, a nod to political expediency. The Ultras refuse military service, because it entangles them in the un-kosher life worldly Jews. If you believe that God gave you the Land, then He will surely help you possess it. The Ultras could care less about the Nuclear program, the Army or police. They create their own oxygen. Their confidence comes from their large close-nit numbers. You always see them walking through Jerusalem in groups. Thus when the NY Times raises the prospect that the institutions of Israel could crumble, for Ultras they could not crumble too soon. They have the Torah. Secular Jews see this as suicidal; Muslims will drive them out of Israel. But what it the Messiah for? And both the Ultras and Settlers are there to prepare for the Messiah. And the Torah is nothing without sacrifices. And there can be no sacrifices without the Temple. No sacrifices, no forgiveness of sin--since AD 70. The Ultras could care less about Iran's nuclear bombs. NY Times Jews line up next to these zealots at the Wailing Wall--fresh from Wall Street. Day after day, the NY Times laments the suicidal depression of America's teens. What must they think when they see the crowds of boisterous Ultras shambling through Jerusalem? They have so little hope because they have so little life around them, and spend their days plotting to reduce human life even more. This is the curse of the anti-creationists. Still they have an idyllic life due to the structures provided by the secularists. The Ultras will remain in the Land even if Israel ceases to exist. They will be less arrogant as a minority in Greater Palestine. The whole charade is but a cloak for their sin and rebellion. Abraham was not saved by the Temple and the Temple will not save his descendants. The message remains the same, "Repent and believe the Gospel."
"So what's the point?" I would ask Messianic Jews on the East Coast. They harbored the conceit that even as Christians they retained an edge as the Chosen People. They insisted on Hebrew names for Jesus, kept Kosher, and pined for their homeland. Superstitious rubbish. Evangelicals confirmed them in their delusions that taking up abode in Israel will contribute to their eternal salvation. They even raise funds to that purpose. After all, why would the Messiah come to Israel if not to save their souls. And nothing would ruin that picture more than an abundance of Christians in Israel. They would in fact ruin Eschatology. The impression is given that the fault of Jews rests on their not recognizing Jesus as the Messiah, which, corrected, will save them. Rubbish. The fault of the Jews rests in not recognizing the need for the Messiah in their sin. "Behold," says John, "the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." There was no greater Jew than John, and that's how he got saved. As for the Temple, the Return of the Jews--with Mary, "things to ponder."
4-1-23
"Farmers (British) ordered to feed cows methane suppressants to help reach net zero."
Britain produces 1% of the world's carbon. They boast of reaching Net Zero by 2050. Already heat pumps are mandated, the combustion engine is out by 2030, no fracking, or coal, agricultural land will be reduced by half, and now this, which will increase costs at the grocer by 33% (read 50%). Don't laugh. Britain is still the destination of choice for immigrants (although much of that has to do with the software--the English language). But you can see Brazilian ranchers count their profits. These new laws will drive the price of beef through the roof and hasten the demise of the remaining Rain Forest. Food of any sort will become the new gold, and if you restrict it one place, it will have to come from another. But this is the land of the Puritans, and Puritans do nothing by half. They fled persecution in England only to hang witches in America. In their zeal to save the Planet, they will end up burning down the Rain Forest, as ranchers seek more pasture. Every time they shut down a factory, China builds ten of the same. They rationed tomatoes this winter because Putin shut down their greenhouses. China is now building factories for fossil fuel cars knowing the demand will be there in London. No matter, say the Brits. We have to set an example. You would expect nothing less from the descendants of the Puritans. It is not an easy creed.
4-1-23
If we create a Constitution (Israel has none) , says Israeli newspaper Haaretz, "secular Israelis will be rescued from the terror of 'Haredi demography' (Ultra birthrates) and the violent fascism of the hilltop settlers, and will be able to continue living here in peace."
There you have it: The terror of Ultra cradles (Haredi is another name for Ultras). Secular Israelis look at large Ultra families and see "arrows in the hand of a mighty man" (they need neither maternity wards nor playgrounds in Tel Aviv). The Left is fixated on population and would like to see the globe's 8 billion reduced to 1. Africa doubles every thirty years. Jewish seculars, they cry, "need to be rescued from this terror." I used to drive through the Ultra sections in Brooklyn. What you see on the walks and overheads would give Pharaoh pause. And now these mega families are sowing terror in Jerusalem--among secular Jews. China is now going through contortions to reverse its one-child policy. Too late. God does not allow you to tamper with the first law of Creation and then say--oops! You reap what you sow. But how could children sow terror? Because since the first Friday, everyone understood that children are "arrows in the hands of a mighty man." And a Constitution, we are told, would rescue seculars form this terror of the cradles, What! A Constitutional Mandate for abortion to deal with the terror of Ultra Birthrates?
Then there are the "violent Nazis on the hilltops": the Settlers. These are the highly educated Orthodox (Trump's son-law belongs to this group and had to get special exemption to not wear the little round cap. Unless his wife likewise got an exemption, her blond hair is a wig, as women cannot show their real hair in public). These still carry the torch of Zionism, and argue no farther than that "God gave the Land to the Jews." Unlike the Ultras, they are willing to get their hands dirty with politics until the Torah can be imposed. But they have the Ultras solidly behind them. And the Ultras, as every knows, consider the Orthodox as little better than the old apostate Sadducees who were little more than Greek sophists. The Roman Sheriff, Herod, cultivated the Sadducees to torment the Pharisees. All that stands in the way now are the tyrannical judges who keep the peace in Jerusalem. King Bibi probably has the religious convictions of Herod--one step removed from the Orthodox. The Ultras themselves are divided into a thousand sects. In Brooklyn they distinguish themselves by wearing the hat tipped to one side, tipped back, the crown caved in (or not), long brims, brim turned down (or up) and a thousand other such trifles. They're all "the one true synagogue"--that is, the others have fallen away. In other words, there is no one Pope, and the Temple will require a High Priest, of which there can be only one, in order to offer sacrifice, of which there have been none since Titus destroyed the Temple. Jews chafed under Herod. And the Ultras will not defile the Temple by allowing King Bibi (or the Orthodox) anywhere near it. Torah sages will be the judges who rule Israel in the Sanhedrin. The Torah does not require a king. It does mandate a Hight Priest. If your last name is Cohen (the Hebrew word "priest") you are likely a Levite. The Hight Priest must come from the line of Aaron. That will be more difficult. Imagine all that going on with Iran watching from the sidelines.
4-1-23
"Mr. Netanyahu managed to stay in office only by forging an alliance with the radical fringe. And with only a four-seat majority in the Parliament, that fringe could take him down at any moment.
The ultranationalist and ultrareligious parties to which Mr. Netanyahu has linked his fate will not lightly abandon their designs. Their way is destructive for Israel, for the peace process, for Israel’s fledgling relations with Arab states and for its long relationship with the United States." (The Editors of the NY Times)
But these outlaws are now the duly elected government of Israel, and no one questions the legitimacy of the election. Netanyahu has an appointment with the hangman if he but loses 4 seats, and any group in this mixed rabble could spring the trap. Note how often "designs on the Temple Mount" crops up in the article. The Ultras with their huge families just across the street in Brooklyn spend their days talking, dreaming, and weeping over the Temple Mount. The Ultras and Settlers are in Israel because of the Temple Mount. It is the linchpin that holds everything together. It amounts to more than all the land of Israel for zealots.
Netanyahu, they say, cannot be trusted. He's laying low until the protestors go home.
The architects of the Left are Jews. Which is why even the ACLU cannot criticize Israel. And now you have King Bibi, alive and well, within the Democratic party. This is the unspoken nightmare in this article. If the zealots proceed,. they'll bring the collective wrath of the Globe down upon their heads. All the rabid Anti-Semites will surface. But "deep" (European) Anti-Semitism does not distinguish between Jew and Jew. For them, there is no such thing as a Progressive or Leftwing Jew. "They make war on the woman" (Israel) because, despite all their schemes, "she gave the world the man child (the Messiah)" and they're left with acting out insane rage over what they can no longer hope to prevent (Rev. 12). "Yet," He that sitteth in heaven laughs, "have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion' (Ps. 2). "Isaac" (the Gospel) means "He laughs."
4-1-23
Only the little people got charged in the Jan 6 mob, which everyone knows did not occur in a vacuum. It revealed one of the greatest Known Knowns: that this was but the fringe of deep and vast forces seething in America's underground. For few Conservatives condemned, most became apologists for it, and not few continue to make political hay with it. They could not get away with this unless they have sanctuary where the Federal Government fears to thread: most notably, Evangelical churches where decapitating tyrannically politicians is a creed as old as the Reformation. The Puritans killed their king while writing the Westminster Confession.
The Brutus/Cato 2nd Amendment zealots are one thing. Taking up the sword against enemies of the Truth another. Since Augustine, the latter has been seen as a Christian duty: the Crusading Martyr is but an extension of the Inquisition, or "the pious magistrate who makes copious use of the sword as the nursing fathers (their Lords Judicial) of the church. The two (the 2nd Amendment against tyrannical government, and the Christian sword against the forces of Anti-Christ) are so joined together in the Evangelical mind that they have become one. This is where the Federal Government would land if it searched for roots and causes. Without which it is merely snipping at twigs. This is the Known Known.
The Right was "not shamed" by Jan 6, and only the riff-raff got caught. These are no more than the agitators in certain parts of London and France, who vanish the minute they see an Iman come into the street. But all the Imams do is preach--borderline perhaps, but carefully nuanced to provide plausible deniability. The Jan 6 rabble was but the froth of a dangerous cauldron in the body politic. Dispensable cannon-fodder. The untrained convicts forced to the front to draw fire so as to reveal enemy positions. The revelation here is the spontaneity of the rabble. The political damage was short lived, and required only that apologists hunker down temporarily. The message is that an unorganized rabble will be thrown to the dogs if they get caught. But the fact that they have learned to lay low, only means that they have had to refine their tactics. Like the Ultras and Settlers in Israel, they are the backbone, or zealots, of forces that are convinced that the time for dialogue, debate, and negotiation is over. Brutus and Cato did not show up on the Senate floor with arguments. This is why DeSantis cannot win. To the zealots, he's still RINO Light, a puppet of establishment billionaires whose only goal is to secure their cushy lifestyles.
Netanyahu too is sufficiently toxic to trust as leader of miscasts. They're all he's got. As Ben Franklin warned wavering Revolutionaries, "If we don't hang together now, we will most certainly hang separately later." The people behind Netanyahu are the Brutus/Cato/Barabbas type. Desperate men. Such men are never far from the scaffold, which is why they elected their own kind. He too has few options with which to cheat the hangman. And he's gone too far for his enemies to deal with him by half. We must make sure that Putin never gets to do this again, his enemies say. Netanyahu has no choice but to give the zealots what they demand, which is an end to the rule of elite judges. Israel will burn, most likely. But "Paris is worth a Mass." Jerusalem is no good to Netanyahu in jail. And he's not the least religious. A condemned man, among condemned men, is what you have in Israel now. They picked their candidate carefully. It's either them or the hangman.
Trump is all gallows humor, a desperate man among desperate men. DeSantis does not move the needle here because he has options. Trump has none. Compare a cell window to King Bibi's commanding view of the Mediterranean from his estate in Caesarea. He doesn't have to burn the house down, only threaten to so credibly. Few care to play chicken on this level. But no one doubts that he holds the fuse. How did it come to this? Politics always comes to this. It is what the Rules Based World Order was meant to prevent. "Wars and rumors of war" that is. God causes "the heathen to rage" against themselves to keep them from "raging against the Lord and His anointed ones" who they accuse of hampering society with their "bands and cords."
4-1-23
Germany rules out any further weapons deliveries to Ukraine
They're getting bolder by the day. Scholz is back from cutting his own deals with China. He likewise knows that America will be preoccupied with Trump until 2024, and that the Republicans will sabotage all of Biden's projects, of which Ukraine is chief. They blame Ukraine for all his troubles. If Trump gets in about all Ukraine will get back is the "the" in front of it. Pentagon II in the Balkans looks like an endless quagmire, now that China is peeling of US assets with its Global Peace Plan. For a while there, Biden/Blinken restored order to the New World Order policed by the US. Now China Inc has become big enough to hurl its own anathema. Deacon Thomas Friedman, convinced that he bestrides the one true church, never dreamed that the heretics would split off and start their own denominations. Iran and MBS are not much on creeds, and were allowed to join without any "preconditions." Easy-believism. Friedman was a fixture in Saudi palaces until he was made to disfellowship MBS for want of orthodoxy. Then Biden turned around and fellowshipped him again with the infamous "fist-bump." Too late for Friedman. He was about regain traction by exposing "the funny business in Ukraine", when Biden summoned him to a banquet: a tuna sandwich and fake-Walmart-milk -with-imitation-chocolate-ice cream-milkshake. There was to be no mention of "the funny business in Ukraine." It's a hard creed. But where can he go?
He threatened China with cancellation-and worse--once Putin was taken care off. His faithful Europeans are now all cutting deals with the Dragon, and angry Republicans do not want Ukraine to win. Old Europe has more to fear from a militant Eastern Bloc than from a shambling Bear. Germany supplied weapons because it was blackmailed into doing so. Because Germany has always seen Russia as a prize to be tamed for Germany's purposes. They're playing their own game here with their hopeless dithering. No one does Sitzkrieg like the Germans. And for a German Taiwan is like a sack of rice in a warehouse in China.
4-1-23
"Will Trump indictment make white evangelicals ditch ‘imperfect vessel’"? (Guardian)
Where will they go, Groomerphile Churches, the "LGBT affirmers" at Christianity Today. Russel Moore left the Slavers Baptist Convention now in the crosshairs of CRT. Bethabel Moore, formerly the NY Times' poster child for anti-Trumpers has fallen off the radar since she fled the Patriarchy. The NY Times made her, and as quickly unmade her, the minute she outlived her usefulness. Poor "He Gets Us" Russel Moore is now religionist at large, since he made himself toxic to Evangelicals by joining the Groomerphiliacs. But will "Evangelicals ditch the imperfect" for "the Abomination"? The two "LGBT affirming" Moores "ditched the imperfect" for "the Abomination." "For a whore," says Solomon, "is a deep ditch" (Prov. 23:27). But the Guardian wants Evangelicals to "ditch the ditch" for the Abyss,
3-31-23
‘Absurdity to a new level’ as Russia takes charge of UN security council
Well, there endeth the matter. Surely, Russia will now do what's right and arrest the war criminal Putin. After all, the UN Security Council serves the interests of Global Peace. You can be sure that "Russia's Illegal War of Aggression" will be the main topic of this august body now. And all in Manhattan, right next door to the NY Times. Is this Russian for or against Putin? Then why is he still in NY City? Did he know of Putin's crimes like the 18 year old's who guarded Nazi war camps and hanged for doing so? Does he condemn Putin's Illegal War of Aggression? Why hasn't he resigned his post in protest? Why hasn't he been arrested? This is like making Al Capone Warden of Prisons. Pharaoh's Egypt was the most advanced civilization on earth. "Pharaoh and King Abimelech are refined murderers and rapists," Abraham told Sarah. "Had we lost the war," Japan bomber General LeMay said, "the Nazis would have hanged us as war criminals." Was Abraham voicing a conspiracy? "How could you do this to me," King Abimelech cried at Isaac? God had threatened to kill his father for kidnapping Sarah? These were "the honorable gentlemen" of their day. By day. At night, according to Abraham and his son, they were murderers and rapists. They plugged Abraham's wells, and Isaac had to keep digging new ones which they also stole. He found safety (and continued blessing) far away in the desert. The King of the Kingdom of God stopped by one day with two of His officials and they discussed politics outside a tent: the Promise (Isaac) and the destruction of Sodom. The two left on official business. God stayed behind to conduct more important business: fellowshipping with his friend, who was "called the friend of God."
3-31-23
Republican Senator Blocks Military Promotions Over Abortion Policy.
The Culture War in the War Department now. Politics is an arsenal of violence, and within the halls of Congress a cultural warrior can sabotage the entire Federal government. As in Israel, the pyromaniacs want but a chief arsonist to mount their assault on the Republic, which they thinks has been hijacked by Soros Globalists. Imagine what Senator Barabbas, who saw the ruling elite as traitors, would do with such power. "Tell them you're my sister," Abraham told Sarah when he left the politics of Babylon, "because they're all rapists who will have me murdered to gratify their lusts." Lot thought he had found political patronage in Sodom, until the citizens turned on him when they tried to rape the Angels. Did Abraham judge Kings Pharaoh and Abimelech too harshly?
Government has now become weaponized (unmasked) as in other parts of the world: Erdogan, Modi, and Putin deal with their opponents by making them die a slow death in unhealthy prisons. Politics is pure violence, and once the mask is off it's every man for himself. Caesar knew that if he didn't overthrow the Senate which controlled Rome, he would not survive their legal maneuvers against him. For the Good Will that makes the rule of law possible was gone. Abraham feared the advanced civilization of Egypt more than the wild mountains Lot dreaded. Laws, without goodwill, become instruments of cruelty and death. The notion of "diplomatic and political immunity" arose from this fact. "Immunity" is no more than a truce among criminals, as in "let live, in order to live." "Its all a sham," says Machiavelli, a substitute for the greater evil of War. . A truce until you get the upper hand. "Diplomatic Immunity" exists became sovereign nation are always "one church." There can be no truce among competing Popes. They exist at the expense of the other. Every nation is an island, and nations are never friends. They give each other "immunity" from crimes only to avoid destructive war. "Diplomatic Immunity" underscores the fact that War is the only International Court, and violence the only International Law where Might is Right is proved. War is the Court of last appeal. The unelected crackpots at the Hague pretend to have abolished this Court with a court of "International Law." Putin just arrested an American journalist--because he could. Now they can generate another Warrant, which they will no doubt hand over to the International Sheriff's office to have Putin arrested and brought to the Hague. Now if that Sheriff had not dithered, he would have arrested Putin before Putin could arrest the American journalist. Tit for tat. The race to the bottom. Republicans will now hold the government hostage--because they can. "Immunity" was always the figleaf of "civilization" until the savagery of the fields of murder asserts itself anew. It is held in check by goodwill, which is why in peaceful times politicians address each other as "the gentleman from Alabama..." Note the insulting language now in the halls of Congress. The Culture War is religious war, the worst kind, for Canaanites must be exterminated. Once "civilization" is cast off, human affairs implode into "the way of Cain," the first politician--the Anti-Christ will be the last. Everyone knows that the frenzy to own an assault rifle has nothing to do with hunting. "The fruit of righteousness," says James, "is sown in peace by them that make peace." Such is the "patient kingdom of Christ" (Rev. 1). The impatient Puritans made peace by beheading their king. Saul, Israel's first king, lost his throne when he jumped the clock. The preacher (Samuel) arrived minutes later. Politics is the religion of expediency for those "who cannot wait upon the Lord to renew their strength."
3-31-23
"The son of a right-wing rabbi, Mr. Smotrich (Israeli Finance Minister) believes that every part of Israel and the occupied territories was promised to Jews by God.
He has described himself as a “proud homophobe” and, like many ultraconservatives in Israel, does not shake women’s hands for religious reasons. He has opposed holding soccer games on the Jewish sabbath and last year suggested running the economy according to the laws of the Jewish Bible.
“They tried many economic theories, they tried capitalism, they tried socialism, but they didn’t try one thing,” Mr. Smotrich told Mishpacha, a religious magazine. “If we implement the Torah, we will have economic abundance,” he added. (NY Times)
He's only a Settler, not an Ultra. The Ultras consider themselves the Levitical Priesthood and the ultimate authority of the coming theocracy. The Pharisees suffered the apostate Sadducees only because Rome gave them no choice. Even with the Roman army around the walls of Jerusalem. the sects were fighting a civil war within. All the spit-hairs of the Talmud will now break out into the open.
What distinguishes these Jews from the Jews in Friedman's billionaire Temple (most Reform rabbis are women with wives) is the absence of the "drug-addled despair" that screams from the pages of the NY Times (always attended by the National Suicide Hotline. Settlers and Ultras know they sit on a powder keg, and yet it is Friedman's lot that shrieks in fear and despair. The Left is now little more than a self-loathing, suicidal, self-mutilating death-cult with nothing left but to contemplate their extinction. "Be fruitful and multiply" is the First and Foremost law of Nature. All else follows from it. The reverse is despair and suicide. Modern man looks at a bleak future and despairs of bringing children into the world. But no human ever regretted being born, no matter how dire his circumstances. Join enough of such minds and you create invincible hope. The Ultras are on welfare in Israel. And yet they are the invisible hand that rules it. None of them are "in therapy". Try to account for that and see what you come up with.
3-30-23
DeSantis will be Trump's running mate. He stands zero chance of getting any traction now and will have to be content with rounding out the ticket. He would make an aging President "safe", and, while untried, does have standing as a credible stand-in, in case Trump goes of the rails. The arrest will fan the Right worldwide as their mascot once again takes the field against the elite globalist New World Order. He had no chance of winning in a subdued theatre. But the political Zeitgeist is on a knife's edge, and Revolution is in the air worldwide. Netanyahu snubbed Biden because he knows the strength of the Brownshirts behind him. He has nothing to lose by turning the Temple Mount into an inferno. It is the radicals that keep the Court from putting him in jail. He will try again, and again, because he's crossed the Rubicon already. Putin and China's Peace Coup are consuming all the oxygen on the world stage. Biden has nothing left to make the Temple Brigade change course. And if Trump gets in every obstacle against rushing the Temple Mount will have been removed. What the arrest does it is that it silences the Never Trumpers who know the system has now been weaponized. From here on it's a race to the bottom. Before, the NY Times cultivated LGBT-affirming Christianity Today to shame Evangelicals into abandoning such a morally compromised leader (they only drew attention to the Groomerphiles now seizing control of major American institutions). But this is new. They will now entangle Soros in the mix, the most loathed figure of the Right. From here to 2024 will be pure theatre. All a Swampmaster need do is keep the swamp in a continual boil in order to rule. Congress will be nonstop outrage for the firebrands who would like nothing better than to burn the house down completely. When you poke the beast make sure you have a strong rope tied to your ankle, for he knows how to pull you in.
3-30-23
"Russia detained a Wall Street Journal reporter, accusing him of espionage."
"Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away" (2 Sam. 10:4).
King Hanun wanted war. Mistreating ambassadors is always a declaration of war. Ambassadors are always enemies of the state which they visit, and do so only under "diplomatic immunity." Because nations are never friends, and co-exist only as "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." This is the ancient law of the jungle, of the tooth and claw, of "the rules of war." This is what Machiavelli means when he instructs his king to display virtue in public, and behave like Anti-Christ in statecraft--because political morality is always in-house and never crosses state lines. The king is law because he has the monopoly of violence, and might is always right. MBS was a criminal until Biden needed cheaper oil. Wesley, who had a seat at the King's table, slammed the book shut in horror. He found himself looking in the mirror, because he harbored the delusion of a Christian king and a Christian nation where "pious magistrates" make "ample use of the sword as the nursing fathers of the Church." "You're just another politician," Machiavelli would have told him, "promoting your cause with the violence of anti-Christ." This is what Clausewitz means when he calls war the true face of politics. A politician is only a soldier in civilian dress. The State is pure violence. It ceases to exist the minute it is perceived to be otherwise. It is the opposite of "the patient kingdom of Christ" (Rev. 1), the Prince of Peace. Violent Cain was the first politician (after he was a priest), the Anti-Christ will be last, his own high-priest as he will demand worship.
Note how the crackpots at the International Court are careful to only indict the weak and defeated. President Xi, they say, is committing genocide with his war against the Uighurs. Which makes President Xi a war criminal according to International Law. But every European leader is now slinking off to China to cut deals (behind America's back) with Xi. Why? Because in war and statecraft, the only crime is losing. "Had we lost the war," said Japan bomber General LeMay, "we would have been hanged as war criminals." "Diplomatic Immunity" from what? Crimes. It's what makes dialogue between nations possible when they're tired of endless war. The old politicians knew that the throne rests on violence, that is, one crime upon another. All nations are founded on wars of aggression. The Mafia will become a great nation full of patriots the minute it achieves a monopoly of violence, and every nation will grant immunity to its ambassadors. Hitler's Germany, had he won the war, would now preside over the International Court safe-guarding the New World Order.
The ancient practice of "diplomatic immunity" is a nod to the "dirty politics" of the monopoly of violence. "Never," said General LeMay, "use morality and war in the same sentence." Spurgeon, before he succumbed to bloodlust and called for the massacre of Indians, held that " all wars are a monstrous crime, murder on a grand scale." This is what all moralists, in time of peace, tell their followers. But then they again become "recruiters of cannon fodder." "Diplomatic Immunity" reveals the true nature of the State, just as "Political Immunity" does the true nature of politics. "Never," Clausewitz would paraphrase LeMay, "use politics and morals in the same sentence." Hence, the need for "diplomatic immunity." Remove it, and monopolized violence becomes political anarchy. Politics is but a mask on violence. Modi and Erdogan are now using the monopoly of violence to go after other politicians, for violence is the true face of politics. "Diplomatic Immunity" ceases the minute one side gets the upper hand. This is now happening in America. The political carnage is not due to a sudden corruption of politics, but because of forces larger than the established order of shared power, which take turns plundering the Treasury. It's the race to the bottom that always ends up Rightwing. "Diplomatic Immunity" is the opposite of religious orthodoxy which cannot afford the implications to its creed by overlooking sin. The Inquisition is preaching by other means. At one time, you had three Popes, each with their own Inquisition, hurling blood curdling anathemas at the other apostates. Popes cannot give other Popes immunity, because Popes, like Globes, don't come in halves. Soon, even Pope Jong-un will be hurling arrest warrants from his International Court. Friedman warned China of excommunication if it sided with the heretic Putin. Church China split off and is now gathering all the heretical sects in a new denomination under an easy creed. "Come as you are." "If you find the perfect church don't join it, you'll ruin it." Meanwhile, Puritan Friedman mutters over his charts to see if he can hold the world to 1.5 degrees 100 years from now. He's the Wesley of the modern age. All other politicians were Anti-Christ. But his own king was head of the Church, as Karl der Bloese still is. And he Wesley, a devout follower of Christ, was his counsellor. Such is life in "the king's chapel" (Amos 7:13). Where Puritan's are forced to look down their long noses to find sin, Bismarck would have told them to put a clamp on it. "You do not," he told his Bratwurst Germans, "want to know what's in that sausage." But there is no room in religion for Known Unknowns. They had to excommunicate MBS, until he was redeemed by his oil. "He could dig (for oil)," and knew sooner or later they would not "be ashamed to come begging." And now Putin created his own Inquisition by arresting an American journalist. He was, after all, in Russia to gather information, and in time of war, any information can be a threat to the State. Note how easy it was for Joseph to find crime in his brothers by planting evidence. Hence the political nose clamps. The political swamp, says Machiavelli, is a substitute for war. The crimes have not disappeared. Hence the need for nose-clamps. Politics is sheer violence, says Clausewitz. Dissembling politics is the hypocrisy that hides this from the masses, says Machiavelli. Take off the mask, and you get tit-for-tat: War. Because every nation is the custodian of International Law, and War is the court where those claims are proved. Might is always Right. .
3-29-23
"The Chinese government, meanwhile, argues that the United States does not have Europe’s best interests at heart when it comes to Ukraine.
Last month at the Munich Security Conference, Wang Yi, China’s newly appointed foreign-policy chief, sharply criticized the United States, appealing to Europeans to act on their own.
“We need to think calmly, especially our friends in Europe, about what efforts should be made to stop the warfare; what framework should there be to bring lasting peace to Europe; what role should Europe play to manifest its strategic autonomy,” he said.
He suggested that Washington wanted the war to weaken Russia. “Some forces might not want to see peace talks to materialize,” he said. “They don’t care about the life and death of Ukrainians or the harm on Europe. They might have strategic goals larger than Ukraine itself.” NY Times
This is what's going on behind Biden/Blinken's backs. China is now dangling the Chinese Peace in front of war-weary Europeans. You would think that having just issued a warrant for Putin's arrest, they would feel tainted by rushing off to China to gain access to the Chinese market when China has just given Putin cover for his war of aggression against Europe. But Europe knows that the war is lost and want it to end, and only China is now in place to negotiate "a settlement." "Settlement" is now the language in Europe. Remember how Putin was to be driven even from Crimea? But now China has put itself squarely behind Putin, which means forever war on Putin's terms. Because Global World Order South rose up overnight, while Global World Order North is tearing itself apart over Groomerphilia (David Brooks and Justice Jackson are so brain-rotted through Groomerphilia that they can no longer tell the difference between man and woman). China, Friedman warned, best get on board to cancel Putin lest it be globally shamed. Gallio cared for none of these things. Global World Order South has its own village gossips, and could care less about Global North shunning. And now European leaders are making the pilgrimage to China behind Biden's back. So much for Taiwan. Biden let them off the hook when Scholz blackmailed Biden to overcommit with the tanks, and now it's Biden's war, because everyone knows that the US cannot afford to lose another major war so soon after being run out by the Taliban. Now they're back to cutting deals with China fresh from consorting with the war criminal Putin. And they're making it known that they will support "the China settlement" in Ukraine. In other words, Ukraine (and Taiwan) under the bus. Biden joined the slaughter against Putin to warn China on Taiwan, and ended up bloating the Dragon tenfold. For now China has a free hand in resource-rich Western Siberia (of which it was robbed during the Opium Wars and pined for it ever since). It is waging economic Blitzkrieg in Africa (which is why you see African churches springing up all over China as African workers bring their faith with them). The Christian revival in China will be unlike anything the world has ever seen. Its sterile Communist ideology is precisely the spiritual vacuum of the Greek-Roman world of the first century (unlike India where Modi's Hinduism targets Christianity) which made it such fertile ground for the Gospel.
3-29-23
From 1378 to 1417 there were three Popes of the Catholic Church each with a full administration who spent their days hurling blood-curdling anathemas at each other, for Popes, like Globes, do not come in half. You either are or not. China with its annexation (those were the terms) of Russia is now busy consolidating the rest of the Southern Globe (BRICS--Brazil, Russia, India, China+) to counter the Northern Global Rules Based Order. And the Third? With Islam pressed hard in China and India, a middle earth Order could emerge after the manner of the old Caliphates.
Thus while the old white Colonials at the Hague hurl anathemas at Putin, they will soon find their own heads on Wanted Posters in Global World Order South, hunted by Interpol South. Iraq will demand justice and reparations for the Bush Wars of Aggression. And the Court where such suites are tried? War. Because Tooth and Claw is the International Law there is.
There's a big push by Woke elites of Global World Order North to seize Russian assets globally to pay for Ukraine reconstruction. That would be tantamount to arresting ambassadors and holding them hostage. You've seen this before. It's called the jungle. But woke End of History man, who can no longer tell a man from a woman, is convinced that the old ways were no more than a vast conspiracy of fake news spun from "the vexations of Lot." Mueller spent a billion dollars issuing arrest warrants for half of the Russian Army. Friedman was convinced that Brother China would join the sanctions against the villain Putin. He ended up joining hands, and building more coal plants. Britain, which accounts for 1% of carbon release is rationing tomatoes in it religious fervor to parade its climate righteousness. When the EU said it would end the combustion engine in 2035, Britain immediately declared 2030 as its target. Now the Germans demanded an exception with the promise that their combustion engines will run on e-fuel. Global South is doing both. Electrification where it makes economic sense and carbon where it does not. They're building new combustion factories knowing they'll own the markets of shivering Europe. Thus Global South is weaponizing Climate against Global North--before the two Globes resort to the ultimate anathema (what "cancelling" was called back then): War. Church split, you say, when both sides claim to be the one true church. For neither Popes nor Globes come in halves. The Climate Crisis, it already seems like decades ago, for "Gallio (over there in China) cared for none of those things," and Putin is using it to wage war by starving Europe with high energy prices. Germany made it through the winter, but has not found a way to keep it's energy hungry industries competitive.
3-28-23
"Netanyahu Cannot Be Trusted" (Friedman, NY Times).
Not one word about the Palestinians in his whole doomsday column. Very telling. But he wants his "Jewish Democracy" back. And the Palestinians who outnumber their Jewish masters? Imagine that. The NY Times is shrieking at the top of its voice over the consequences of Ultras in office (they do not dispute "the results" but only "the consequences" of the election). As usual, the Palestinians are under the bus, because first, "Jewish Democracy", then we'll worry about the Palestinians. But the rule of the Judges is the reason the Ultras and Settlers are demanding a king in this latter day son of Kish, appropriately named Benjamin after Israel's first royal dynasty, the House of Saul. The unelected judges are elite globalists who appoint themselves, and who strike down laws which they deem "unconstitutional" (Israel does not have a Constitution)--that is, contrary to will-o-the-wisp "International Law" which is the bedrock of Groomocracy. But these Tel Aviv types are too few and disorganized to win elections. So they tyrannize from the Bench. Statism. The rule of benign ("trust me"), faceless bureaucrats who have all the latest information at their fingertips. But note, how the Times blames the Bibi coup on American extremism even while gouging themselves. Over here, they see the Trumpist Supreme Court as the rule of terror. Over in Israel, a Leftwing unelected Court is what saves Democracy. Hence, Friedman is against a stacked Supreme Court when it hews Rightward, and for a stacked Supreme Court when it delivers "the consequences" required for The Agenda.
We are not told if King Bibi is the result of fake news, conspiracy, Qanon, etc. Because Friedman does not dispute the "results" but only, "the consequences" of the election. He doesn't think people who think like the Ultras and Settlers should be allowed to vote, because they are a danger to The Rules Based Order put in place after WWII. Because, once in office they will arrange the affairs of government according to their way of thinking, which, to Friedman, is fake information. They pretend to know "what is a women" and "who is not a woman" which David Brooks and Justice Jackson say is impossible unless "you're a biologist." And the Palestinians under the jackboot of Israel? Here there is no confusion. He knows what is a Palestinian and who is a Jew. Because there is not a trace of mixing in his column. Apparently Palestinians are incompatible with "Jewish Democracy." Or perhaps unworthy. At any rate, they seem to have fallen through the cracks in his thinking. You would think, reading his column, that there are no Palestinians in Israel, he's so obsessed by what he sees as the retreat of Groomocracy.
So what does the end of "Jewish Democracy" have in store for the Palestinians under the jackboot of "Jewish Democracy?" What sort of "ocracy" lies in store for them? The Ultras don't think they're even human because only Jews are "made in the image of God and "God loves only the Jews." This is what Friedman is now left with in his defense of "a Jewish democracy." You can see the frustration of the Globalist non-Jewish Left here. They harbor the most rabidly Rightwing government on earth in their Leftwing portfolio for fear of sounding anti-Semitic (the ACLU is rabidly anti-Israel but is forced into silence). What happens if this breaks out into the open in the Democratic Party? That's the smirk on Netanyahu's face. "Gallio cared for none of these things." His only goal is to stay in power and out jail so he can enjoy his estate in world class Caesarea. Like Trump and Putin, he's riding the crisis. He just needs to keep it alive to win. I have a sheep like that. She's so full of stratagems that if she were human she would be in solitary confinement in a Super Max, and you would feed her through a small hole in the wall with a long pole and a strong rope tied around your ankle. Never poke a Swanpmaster. He'll pull you in. This is what Trump will do now. He would have faded without a crisis. They handed him a nuclear hand grenade. His trial will be off the charts and pure gallows humor.
3-28-23
The NY Times pondered the irregularity of "a woman" shooter. We are not told what it really is but it "uses male pronouns." Which, according to the NY Times, makes her a "toxic male" to be pronouned accordingly--although David Brooks and Justice Jackson warn that unless "you're a biologist" you're best left with mere "nouning" and leave the "pro" (as in pronoun) to, well, the pros (that would be the biologists). This is now the second mass shooter (they keep hiding the Denver shooter) of this type. But the NY Times keeps blaming Christians for the rate of suicides among these reprobates whom they constantly groom and use as the mascots of Globalist Groomocracy. In Scotland, the depraved leadership was forced from office when they tried to install male rapists in dresses with woman prisoners. In Israel, it is the relentless agenda of Groomer judges to impose "the vexations of Lot" on the Ultras. Which is why the NY Times fans the fires of a Jan 6 insurrection there. No one doubts the results of the election that brought the Ultras to power. The Left threatens to burn the State down because they refuse the consequences of the election. "Elections have consequences," they warn their followers here. Now they're stirring up Revolution in Israel to get the consequences to suit The Agenda.
3-27-23
"Israeli militancy has always existed. But it was the immigration of the Brooklyn-born rabbi Meir Kahane in the 1970s that helped introduce an American-tinged racism to it. Arabs were no longer just adversaries to overcome in war; they were vile enemies who had to be expelled or killed.
Is it any wonder that Kahane’s earliest and most ardent followers were also American immigrants, like the Boston-born Baruch Marzel? That some of the most radical of the Hilltop Youth West Bank anarchists today consider the St. Louis-born rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh to be their spiritual leader?
Is it a coincidence that some of the most horrid acts of Jewish terrorism in Israel were carried out by the likes of the Florida-born Jack Teitel and the Brooklyn-born Baruch Goldstein?
Their heirs are now key players in the current government.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s ultranationalist minister of national security, once referred to the mass murderer Mr. Goldstein as a hero (but says he no longer thinks so) and until recently had a picture of him hanging in his home.
The far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who recently made news for saying that an Arab village should be “wiped out” and that there was no such thing as Palestinians, was reportedly once arrested on suspicion of being a part of a cell planning to use 700 liters of gasoline in his possession to blow up Tel Aviv’s main highway to protest Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza. (He denies this claim.)" (NY Times)
Why this Jan 6 Israeli Insurrection fanned on the pages of the NY Times? Because the Woke Left (Friedman's Dream Team) tried Woke rule ("give peace a chance") in a war zone and collapsed almost immediately. The Left only exists under the umbrella of Right violence. Utopias cease to exist the minute "they are tried." Now the Left wants to take Israel back to the status quo of the greatest fraud since WWII: the hoax of a "Jewish democracy." The Mafia is a "democracy" within the confines of the Mafia--no organization is more "rules-based" than the Mafia. No society more "honorable" (among thieves). But if they bind the strongman (King Bibi) who made this possible, what do they replace him with? The Rule of the Judges ("Jewish democracy") was still Jewish rule on the backs of the Palestinians, made possible only by the iron fist of the military jackboot in the hands of the Right, with the Globalist Left presiding under the guise of dynastic judges. This is the fatal flaw of a "Jewish democracy." It was a hoax all along, contrived on the guilt of Europe's hatred of Jews, and now the chickens have come home to roost. Because it is a contrivance of bits and pieces hammered together as a ethnocracy, and not organic, its contradictions were bound to surface sooner or later. It's about as much a real state as the war against Russia is a Ukrainian war. It would cease the minute Nato pulls its life support tubes. But how does woke America defend the morality of Israel's war against the Palestinians? Annexation of Palestinian land is necessary to keep Hamas from using those territories for launching missiles against Jerusalem. Palestinians cannot be made Israeli citizens because as the majority they would become the ruling class, etc., etc. Such is the unsavory business of the old statecraft where nations are never friends, and where war is the court of last appeal where the real suites are tried. In short, how can Biden/Blinken fund in Israel what they condemn in Putin: violent annexation? Does the Left really want democratic justice for Palestinians? Israel hijacked the Left. It ceased to exist in Israel a decade ago, and yet the American Left is forced to defend Rightwing Israel because war against anti-Semitism is a hallmark of the Left. Are Palestinians who want Jews to vacate the Temple Mount on which stands the third holiest site in Islam, anti-Semitic? This is the point that is now being sharpened by Critical Race theory. The anti-Bibi Jews now in the streets know that King Bibi will hasten the collective #MeToo moral reckoning already knocking on the gates of Jerusalem. The question is simple: Why not go full Democracy? It's what the wokodoxy call for.
"God gave the Land to the Jews," say the Ultras, "and God loves only the Jews." And God hates Arabs. "Jacob (Israel) I have loved, Esau (Job's Arab ancestor) I have hated." What would you do with the Arab-Samaritans? The End-Time charts of last century require that Israel be Jewish to hasten the End. But Palestinians under Israeli control already outnumber Jews. And there is not a single Muslim in the world who would not rush to defend the mosque on the Mount, now defiled by Israeli troops who control it. Would Arabs allow the Jews to fulfill the last requirement preceding the Messiah, the Third Temple? If King Bibi and his zealots have their way, the Mount will become red hot. If not, full democracy can not long be denied. But now the charts go blank until History provides the next reference. "How long," the martyrs since Abel have cried from under the altar. "One generation (40 years) after the founding of Israel (1948)," we were told in the early eighties. People would sit for weeks at conferences taking notes and marking their Bibles. That was forty years ago.
After the Dream Team debacle, the Right senses its power: "He (Augustus) heard their (the king-making Legions) treasonous cries. He dreaded their calmer moments of reflection." The Ultras know that the Promise to Abraham will only by restored in the manner of Joshua: violence. And violence is never in the hands of the Left unless by trickery. The Isreali Left kept cooking the political books to keep elitist judges as the ultimate power in Israel. Now the Ultras and Settlers are atttempting to pass laws to put power in the hand that bears the sword. Might makes (the) Right.
At any rate, even if the Right backs off now, the Left knows what to expect in the future, as any hope of "Dream Team" rule are now gone. The Dream Team was supposed to show that Israel can be both Jewish and a democracy. That quickly proved false, as the Palestinian element made demands that split the coalition. Everyone knows that Israeli Arabs would get rid of the "Jewish" overnight if they could. They want Jews gone from the Temple Mount, the third most holy site in Islam. The Dream Team quickly realized that their Palestinian component was little more than a Fifth Column. King Bibi rode back to power by default as the chief arsonist at the head of a rabble of pyromaniacs. Even if he caves on the judges, he remains the only credible leader capable of rule, and in due time will pull the same stunt again. Like Putin, the Left sees no option but to take him down in order to make a clean break. Such are demands of woke orthodoxy which requires religious purity. Wokeness is the doctrine determined to prove "dirty politics" false. In this they're reading from the same page as John Wesley, who scorned the notion that his own Christian king was little more than a Machiavellian anti-Christ.
The only other option would be to go full democracy as demanded by the Global Left. After George Floyd, the Jewish Left's argument for a "Jewish democracy" are falling on deaf ears. But as long as the fanatics didn't go rabidly Apartheid in Israel, the Manhattan Left could give Israel cover. So where does the Jewish Left go from here? Some would like for Jews to let go of the State and resume the centuries old identiy of the Diaspora. But Liberal Reform Judaism would quickly go the way of the rapidily assimalating Jews of Germany pre Hitler. They kept their traditions only in Eastern Europe, and those became the Ultras of Brooklyn and Israel after WWII. They would have a precarious existence in Israel without a Jewish state. And Brooklyn Ultras thrive in America only in anticipation of the full messianic realization of what began in 1948. They are the firebrands goading "the State" to assume a more Joshua-like character. ALl the troubles in Israel are hatched in Brooklyn, for there is no difference between the Ultras of Brookly and the Ultras living the the shadow of the Temple Mount. And they demand their privildeges of Welfare and military exemption even while stirring the cauldron of violence. Diaspora, then, is not an option.
Hence it's either King Bibi or go full Utopia: that is, plural govenment. But Hamas in Gaza is the ruling party in waiting, and with Iran they call for the destruction of Israel in order to gain full possession of the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount, the dream of Jews since Titus (AD 70), will be gone forever. Now what happens to the Jews--or Evangelicals who hitched their End-Time star to the creation of Israel? How much will Palestinians charge at the Wailing Wall, for they stand to lose that too?
3-26-23
"The Influential Rabbi Who Wants to Turn Israel Into an Iran-style Fundamentalist State.
The radical theocratic vision of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh aims to uproot secular Zionism, crush the courts, subjugate the army and, in general, bring down the State of Israel as we know it, warns Prof. Motti Inbari, a scholar of Jewish fundamentalism" (Haaretz).
The Rabbi belongs to the Ultras of Brooklyn, and like all Ultras, considers Israel his real home. He wants to restore the Jewish monarchy, does not think non-Jews are fully human (they are not made in the image of God) and thus can be exploited for the sake of Israel, thinks non-Jews should be expelled from Israel, etc. In short, back to Moses (and the Talmudic rubbish that Jews can no longer distinguish from the actual words of the Five Books of Moses). They teach as little science and non-Torah as the State allows them to get away with, and most of them think the world is flat. Yet they are the kingmakers of NY City. Why? They are the Black Hole of Judaism around which all other Jews orbit for three reasons: 1) their fanatical zeal, 2) their enormous families. Cradles always rule. Africa will rule the world by filling its vacuums, and 3) hope. Large families are little cities, critical mass that create their own oxygen and carry all before them: "arrows in the hands of a mighty man." I see this even in a barn full of lambs. In the worst blizzard at night they're at it playing king of the mountain, or butting heads as if the world had no problems. A large family is a force multiplier comparable to nothing else in the Universe. The Ultra strongman has a full quiver. Now look across at the death's head that is Tel Aviv, where the death cult of extinction makes the pagan Canaanites of old look holy. This is what Friedman sees in his own synagogue. These loathsome Ultras are the glue of his religion. Without them, Judaism would vanish.
But now the mask is off. Netanyahu's radicalism has put him in the Putin orbit of outcasts that calls for extermination. Such leaders are so far beyond the pale that to deal with them is to provide cover for their crimes. Netanyahu can thus ill afford to back down without bringing the vengeful wrath down upon him. But now the crisis has turned into something more dangerous than Netanyahu, and which threatens the very existence of the State. In going after Netanyahu, the Left has unleashed something suppressed since Israel's founding:
The problem is that those who oppose him are in the minority. But if they oust Netanyahu in a coup, they cannot expect to govern without destroying Israel's identity as a "Jewish democracy." In essence, why not make a clean sweep of it. Global justice calls for full democracy, which means giving the vote to all the people currently under Jewish rule. Since Palestinians outnumber Jews, such a move would destroy the Jewish state. This is the George Floyd searchlight that will now burn with searing intensity. They will replace Netanyahu with "the Reckoning" that is now shaking Western governments. For it will not do for worksters like Friedman to go back to the status quo of a "Jewish democracy." A Two State Solution is still Apartheid, gerrymandered by the oppressor. These are the chickens come home to roost: either King Bibi's theocracy, or the State of Palestine, because George Floyd made "Jewish democracy" null and void. The messianic Ultras can no longer tolerate the rule of globalist Judges who sanitized Israel for Western consumption under the "Jewish democracy." . Everyone has always known that a "Jewish democracy" is democratic fraud on the backs of helpless Palestinians. This is the unintended consequence of this crisis. You cannot legitimize Israel as a democracy without destroying it as a "Jewish State." And if you allow King Bibi to surround himself with theocrats, you will most certainly have a Jewish State as long it survives. His troubles will be within so his Nukes will be of little use. No wonder Manhattan is shrieking at the top of their lungs. Add Trump and Ukraine and Taiwan will look like child's play. This, like Ukraine, is the unfinished business of Hitler.
3-26-23
Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Who Urged Delay in Court Overhaul
Meanwhile, the American Orthodox Think Tank behind the new Israeli law is back in Manhattan trying to calm the waters (The Orthodox wear caps, the Ultras, Stetson hats and long black coats, and they loathe each other, but stand united behind Bibi). They're passing a law which will make the Supreme Court serve the elective representatives and not the other way around. What does this mean? It means, gender separation at the Wailing Wall where liberal Jews wail while suffering the insults (and spitting) of the Ultras who see them as unclean. Feminists will now be made to do their wailing off to the side with the other women as in Afghanistan. Sabbath keeping will be strictly enforced. Full Drang Nach Osten with regard to all un-annexed lands of Abraham. And the Temple Mount, you say, the jewel of jewels to the messianics? These are the known, Unknowns. Why wait? God has already spoken (to Abraham), "I give you the Land." And to Joshua, "Go, possess it." Enough to get Evangelicals to update their End-Time charts.
"Gallio cared for none of these things." Netanyahu's one goal is to stay out of jail, and he'll burn the house down to do so. For the Apocalyptic Messianics, fire is always on the horizon, and the World cannot come to an end soon enough. This is why a 5 $trillion war failed against a handful of fanatics in Iraq and Afghanistan. Netanyahu knows he's holding kryptonite. But what has he got to lose? And the chief arsonist (they hope), Trump, is waiting in the wings. They gave him the mother of all crisis to ride into the Oval Office. He's even got Soros on the hook. He wins with gallows humor and this is straight from the scaffold, because no one can look away from a train wreck, and any exposure in large doses will do. Like Caesar when he stumbled and fell in Egypt: he grabbed the sand and cried, "Egypt I've got you now." All is grist for the mill of an opportunist. Netanyahu could fire Trump's Evangelical base with a march on the Temple. At any event, he has not shown the slightest hesitation. He holds all the cards, because in the end, Liberal American Jews have no choice but do their wailing next to spitting Ultras--the suicide brigade who make the Taliban look like Red Cross volunteers. Because, everyone knows that the Ultras will repeat Masada without blinking an eye, while Tel Aviv will vacate to the baths of San Francisco. "You better watch those free loaders around you," Caesar was warned. "I'm not worried about the short-haired (the fancy haircuts) and the fat (the good timers), but the longhaired and lean (Brutus and Cato)" he replied. Fanatics. Poor Friedman, his religion of 1.5 degrees is but mere vapors these days. He sneers at the Ultras who meet him on Broadway as antiques. They spit on him at the Wailing Wall. And Netanyahu knows that he has handed Biden a hand grenade. Jews will split from the Democratic Party before they split from Jerusalem, knowing that to the rabid Anti-Semitic Left, "once a Jew always a Jew." And the world is too distracted with Putin and China. Such is life as the World's Policeman. Everyone's problems are yours. The messianic complex waiting collapse. Biden has so many wars going the ammo complex is ten years behind--with China basking in the glow of Global Peace Ambassador. No more God of the Gaps for End of History man--ignorant man running up against a problem he can't solve and invents God to make up the difference. That's before there were techbros. They fine-tuned Mother Nature to 1.5 degrees 100 years from now. They even have a World Court, which no doubt, will sue the China-Putin World Court for infringement, and then with two World Courts at odds, World War is where such suits are tried. And then the race is on to establish a Global Supreme Court to handle appeals from World Courts.
3-25-23
You see here a blueprint of what's coming to America: Orbanism, or Majority Rule. Hungary, like Russia, has a Constitution (as did the Stalin's USSR), but everyone understands that the Law is what the dominant tribe says it is. This is the backlash to Identity Politics which says that the majority must sacrifice to accommodate those "not in the majority" in every whim and fashion. In essence, the Constitutional claims of Democracy are unmet as long as there is not a complete leveling of society. Why should someone have a larger house than others? Climate Fraud applies this leveling globally, demanding that you shut down industry to save Southern nations from rising seas. Bibi and his outcasts are now casting Groomocracy aside to accommodate the wishes of those who voted them into office, unfettered by the Globalist unelected judges who usurped the will of he people at every turn. These judges read from the same Leftwing white-male script as the International Court. In short, the made-up script of the Globalist New World Order, the face of which is Groomocracy. To overturn Israeli law, all they had to do is cry up "human rights." Groomocracy is now the face of Globalist Human Rights. The Right wants Ukraine to lose the war because they sense that the Left promotes it in order to conduct Pride Marches in Red Square. Because Groomerism has become the latest fetish to round out democracy in the West, Orbanism is seen as the lesser evil. But Orbanism is little more than majority rule. It is what you have now in Israel, in Turkey, in India. It is the opposite of Globalism. While Britain is rationing tomatoes to save the Planet, while China is building smoke belching coal plants to enrich China. Putin is funding his war by driving up the cost of British gas, which means that the Climate Hoax is responsible for the Ukrainian meat grinder.
This is what Trumpism is meant to achieve: majority rule.
But how did it come to this in Israel. Because the Globalist lovefest of diversity is a massive fraud promoted by uber-rich white socialites who spend their waking hours jetting around the world's capitals attending white fashion shows. Friedman's Dream Team lasted a few months before it blew up, handing the reins of power to the despised Ultras. Religion. The billionaires of Manhattan are in power only because they can count on the votes of the kingmaking Ultras of Brooklyn who, like the citizens of Rome, live very comfortably by putting the Caesars of the world in place where they can plunder Gaul in order to buy all the votes of Rome.....But Israel is a country, and not a tax farm to be bribed. The Ultras know they have real power, and they are not in Israel for their health. When Tel Aviv vacates for Manhattan, all the the Ultras will still be in Jerusalem. Brutus and Cato could not be bribed. This, for Globalists, means the destruction of Israel. Such talk is meaningless to an Ultra. You cannot destroy the Land, and the Land purged of Sodom is the Land better than before. Settlers are content to live in fly-by-night shacks to attain their purpose. You think they care about smoking tundra in Russia, or the temperature 100 years from now? This is the Globalist conceit. For 2nd Amendment zealots, what exists on the Land matters absolutely nothing, as they would like nothing better than to have the untamed frontier in front of them, untrammeled by the straitjacket of the Left. Majority rule with an up or down vote is the prevailing global mood of the masses, a break from the rule of Elites empowered by a dynasty of unelected judges. This is what's going on in France now.
3-24-23
U.S. Arms Production Can’t Keep Up as Ukraine War Drains Supply
And the Europeans, you say? Back to dithering. They have a welfare state to run and can't be bothered by war. And as the custodians of globalist woke values, they are the Levitical priesthood of the Rules Based Order (read "weak nations are not allowed to start wars of aggression"), and as such must be supported by lay nations of which the US is chief. Now the US is shipping-in Ukraine wounded to next door Minnesota. You would think the Europeans could at least act as nurses. But why bother? This is Biden's war, and Europe can sit back and relax. The EU is off the hook since Scholz blackmailed Biden to overcommit. The US can no longer cut and run, which means that it owns the quagmire with or without the EU. The hope is that both the US and Putin will destroy themselves, leaving Europe to scavenge on the remains. They know the war is lost, and the new borders of Ukraine (if there are any) will be without the annexed areas and Crimea. But they're made to mumble along with the Biden/Zelensky choir. They're left with nothing to do, and have to submit to being lectured by the puppet of a US territory. But wokeness requires that they chant, "We the people of the earth do steadfastly belief that we now forever live in a Rules Based World run by the One World Policeman: the US." Wars of aggression--with some exceptions, ahem--are strictly verboten. But this is a supremacist delusion and little more than the old white man's club of the colonial era. China/Russia/India/Africa will create their own International Court, indict Western officials and seize Western assets. That is, of course, the field of slaughter where such suits are tried. War is but another form of politics, the field of murder but the politics of might of the War Based Disorder. They're drowning in "wars and rumors of war," the US is actively killing Russians by the tens of thousands (unprovoked) and the International Court thinks some of the human slaughter (done by Russia) is against International Law? Of the hundreds of thousands now killed, possibly hundreds were killed contrary to Augustine's Just War Theory. And they no sooner indicted Putin but they demanded more $millions. These crackpots live like Third World despots.
When repeater rifles became available, Generals saw them as no more than ammunition wasters. Because Ukraine has no-limit access to the US Treasury, it doesn't have to worry about wasting ammunition, and they are certain that the US will stock the Ukraine with gleaming hi-tech cities once the war is over. And no end in sight. Musk will have to repurpose his cars and rockets ("he does good with rockets") to forge ammo. Because Zelensky says he can finish Putin off, and drive him out of Crimea. No one believes that. But all are too woke to say anything.
Meanwhile China, basking in the glow of the Saudi-Iran Peace Pact, has become the global "Give Peace a Chance" ambassador. The China Plan is the only plan on the table to stop the carnage and bloodshed. They're everywhere singing the anthems of peace while the US is painting itself into another colonial warmonger corner. What is the Plan? It's the reality that everyone understood a month after the invasion; Putin gets to keep his annexed Russian provinces and Crimea, in return for peace and one Black Sea outlet, a US humiliation greater than all the US lost wars combined. Not that China wants peace. They want the US and Putin to bleed each other until, like Athens and Sparta, they could be taken over by Alexander the Great. China gets unlimited access to Siberia, the Russian market, and gets to menace India. Meanwhile, the International Court (a NATO puppet) keeps hurling insults in the form of indictments, much like Kim Jung Un boasting on starvation rations. Britain is rationing tomatoes to save the Globe from Climate. China is building coal plants to enrich China. Bibi, Thomas Friedman cries, won't talk to me. Apparently, the Messianic Apocalyptic maniacs in control of Israel are not worried about the weather. His old buddy, MBS, is getting richer and richer farming the Climate crisis which Putin weaponized. The war is the direct result of Germany pivoting from nuclear and coal to Russian gas in order to meet Climate goals. Never, Putin smirked, interrupt your enemies while they're making mistakes. When he had them in his grasp, he sprung his trap. Russia is used to winning wars with Old Man Winter. The Climate Fraud was an unexpected surprise. "Beware," Friedman cried at Putin, "your smoking tundra." Any crisis is an asset to the cunning swamp master. You can be sure that Trump is right now scheming to lay plots and snares with his. They had him cooped up in Mara Lago, wasting away for want of a crisis. They had to poke the beast. The front page of the NY Times is once again a Trump infomercial. The swamp master wins by exposure, and in the Twitter age any info will do, as there is now no way to distinguish between fraud, fact, fiction, real snake oil or fake, male or female, etc., etc., etc. Add to that the entertainment value of a bull in a woke china shop, and the bored masses will once again bay for blood. And who knows what monsters lie quaking in the mud waiting to be hatched between now and 2024. The Fox Republicans will use their power to sabotage the Biden government at every level. Again, the Left fails to comprehend the religious instinct to burn the house to the ground in order to hasten Armageddon, This element exists now in Congress. They want Groomocracy stopped at any cost. Trump is but a mere catalyst along for the ride. As you read Tacitus, you see that Caesar could not have overthrown Rome without a vast underground waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Opportunists knew they would become instant millionaires the minute the establishment lost power. These were entitled Romans long corrupted by corn and circuses, resentful of the arrogant class in power. For a hundred years their votes had been up for the highest bidder, and they felt short-changed when they saw how the 1 percent (the Senate) lived. This was a different Rome. The agrarian virtues of the old Republic were sneered at in the city, which had become a seething pot of resentment. Caesar knew the time had come. If not he, then someone else. If not Trump, then someone else. When it's all said and done, the State will resume its true form: violence. Sooner or later someone (on the Right) will refuse to comply with the demands of the institutions that mask the threat of the violence that underwrites them. When these institutions now bare the sword, they will confront the private arsenal in the hands of the Right. This is the message of hyper-states like Florida and Texas, where Federals fear to tread. Moreover, the Left knows that most of the Rightwing citizens of the NRA are ex-military. This is the ticking hand (one hand clapping) grenade of the 2nd Amendment. Like the Messianics in Israel, the flame throwers in Congress are not the least interested in dialogue. They know they cannot prevail on a Groomer platform where both the dictionary and the terms of the debate are defined by the Left. You see why Friedman's hair stand on end. He knows what this means. These zealots know what they need to do and they must obey God or incur His wrath. Imagine how that sounds to a billionaire atop Manhattan. The sanctimonious Left cannot imagine that the Neanderthals will not, sooner of later, see "the scientific facts" confronting the globe. The Neanderthals in Israel are threatening to burn the world down before God burns down the Groomer death cult that is Tel Aviv. That death cult, to rich Manhattanites, is Utopia. To the Ultras it is modern Sodom. And Bibi, Friedman cries, "will not take my call." He used to lounge around in Saudi palaces. Then Biden yanked him down for dinner (the famous tuna sandwich, and the even more famous "chocolate milkshake"--probable Walmart fake chocolate milk with a little ice cream) and told him to keep quiet about "the funny business going on in Ukraine." Putin destroyed the Climate Hoax overnight by creating a new oil rush, leaving the Left in search of another religion. "Biden," one of them cried, "is engaging in climate terrorism by drilling in Alaska." And now Germany (seeing the oil rush) refuses to give up the combustion engine as mandated by the EU. Brits are told to substitute turnips for tomatoes since Putin shut down their greenhouses. They poked the beast in their arrogance, and now find themselves entangled with no end in sight. "Napoleon," his enemies sniffed, "does not fight like a gentleman. He attacks, and attacks, and attacks. It's intolerable." And the beaming face of China is everywhere, singing the anthems of peace while the US sinks in bloodshed and carnage. "Take a good look," they say to Taiwan, "is that what you want?" This was supposed to be Biden's Front against China for the sake of Taiwan. The Germans have completely disappeared. Biden/Blinken are on their own. And no one knows how to cut and run. Putin will not allow Ukraine in NATO, which means that it will become another failed Balkan mafia state the minute the US leaves. And the next Republican President will cut his losses and simple pull out, because this quagmire will require Pentagon II in the Baltics, and the adoption of hapless Europe, who will go back to inventing new ways to advance global Groomerism, which is Republican enemy number one, and which is why they do not support Ukraine. And now cancelled China is goading the US with its Global Peace Initiative, an infomercial worth $trillions in statecraft. Quagmires and nightmares on a global scale. And no end in sight.
Ukraine is now the face of the Globalist New World Order, which says that from here on out International Law (what seems right) is in place, and non-conformist will be punished. Except the New World Order is basically little more than the final gasp of old Colonial Europe. The Right sees it as little more than the face of the rule of Anti-Christ and hence the zeal to provoke Armageddon to thwart it.
Trump has become the face of anti-Globalism. Hence, the whiff of Revolution. The people in the stadiums are not asking for new laws or institutions. They want deliverance from the religion of statism, Statism is government bureaucracy in every aspect of life. Europe is tied in knots because its countless laws can be made to counter each other by clever lawyers. Trumpists want someone to destroy the larger part of the State by ripping out the parasitic legal webs that make freedom impossible. In essence, they want the State to be run by the majority--which is what Israel is now. When Judges ruled, the majority were subject to the whims of the minority. But how does this differ from monarchy? It doesn't. You'll have a ruling class, and all the rest. Religion exists to mediate the difference.
This is what the Trump mob is calling for. They want Trump to smash the existing order and replace it with majority rule, with religion filling in the gaps with mercy. They know that this can never be realized following a legal path. Because the law is institutionalized to protect the status quo. You cannot get out of the System by appealing to the System. Hence the mob. The mob is pure violence. It's Trump's only path to power. He may fail. But the asymmetrical violence in the hands of the Right guarantee that sooner or later someone will not. The Protestant Reformation was a violent political Revolution, and its followers saw violence on behalf of the truth as the instrument of God. The religious path toward a modern overthrow of anti-Christian government thus rests on impeccable and unimpeachable grounds. The Puritans took time out from writing the Westminster Confession to behead their king. Attorney General Garland knows full well that his pursuit of Rightwing extremism would lead him to American pulpits. Add to that the patriot mandate to trigger the 2nd Amendment when tyrannical government takes hold. These are the unspoken undercurrents that you sense in the Angst on the page of the NY Times when this subject is broached. The appeal of Trump is Revolution, and Revolution always means violence. If they get Trump elected by channeling discontents, they can then achieve their ends by weaponizing Government. But the option of menacing the System with the Right's private arsenal to the point of gaining control is there as an alternative. People do not buy guns to hunt. And they practice on human silhouettes with the heart as the main target. Patriots see killing enemies of freedom as a virtue. Which is why people who go to Ukraine to kill Russians are seen as heroes. You don't even have to be a patriot not to commit murder when killing the poor cannon fodder marched to the front at the point of a gun. Which is what most of the Russian dead are. They are told it is their religious duty to die for Holy Russia.
3-24-23
Netanyahu Digs In on Court Overhaul, in the Face of Mass Protests
He either digs in or goes to jail. What would Trump or Putin do? They would do what Erdogan and Modi do if they could get away with it: use your monopoly of violence to keep yourself on the throne. The First Soldier is always first in line to be killed. As Benhadad told his army, "Go only after the king of Israel." But Ahab was already marked for destruction by a "an arrow drawn at venture." Netanyahu is now doing pulling his own Jan 6 by other means. He got himself anointed by a diverse rabble of Messianic outcasts (ordinarily at each other's throats over some bone of Talmudic rubbish) and is now strong-arming his position by changing the law to get the outcome he needs to avoid hanging. Woke Manhattan (whose greatest fear is of village gossip) is in hysterics. Because the fanatics could care less what Groomhattan thinks. They intend to run Groomhattan out of Tel Aviv. Again the Left is hoist on their own narrow conceits here. They went into Iraq assuming Iraqi's would welcome Groomocracy. Then they spent 5 $trillion blowing of the mountaintops of Afghanistan and killing Afghans by the tens of thousands. Today the Afghans prefer the Taliban to Groombow. Because normal people see Groomerism for what it is: a death cult of extinction. Whose in control of Israel now? Not the billionaire Groomers in Tel Aviv. But the poor Ultras with their innumerable children. After Rome's wars, her people stopped having children, as they refused to add to the piles of cannon fodder. The Ultras refuse military service in Israel. Yet everyone knows, they will die to the last man like at Masada before they give up their Messianic hopes. This is the fatal flaw of the Left. The First Immutable Blessing of Nature is this: "Be fruitful and multiply." I see some of this every time I see a new born lamb struggling to its feet and miraculously, in deadly cold weather, find the life-saving milk as if guided by some invisible hand. In -40 wind-chill they have minutes to get up and nurse, after which they can withstand any cold. The mother, knowing this, rakes them roughly with her sharp hoofs to get them up. It's the closest to seeing the original Creation "when the angels sang, and the sons of God shouted with joy." Where you see an abundance of legitimate children, you will always find hope. That is the difference between death-cult Tel Aviv and the Ultras with their large families. Add now Biden's Federally Funded Castration Program and see what you get. Netanyahu is a mere good timer. But he knows he holds the fuse to a powder keg which he can unleash on Israel. A march on the Temple Mount is always on the table, and tens of thousands stand ready to reclaim the crown jewel of Judaism. These fanatics could care less about the army or even about the Israeli government. They are in Israel only because they feel mandated by God to be there. The Taliban are Boy Scouts in comparison. They stand ready to redo Masada. The US keeps losing wars because they think in Groomer (dead-end), rather than religious (Apocalyptic), terms. You only have to read the Groomerheads at the NY Times to see this. They can't see the difference between the Creation blessing of procreation and the stink of Beelzebub, between Creation and Groomer castration. The fanatics behind Netanyahu are ready to burn the house down to fulfill the mandate of God. You don't need an army for that.
3-23-23
“Like thieves in the night, the coalition has now passed an obscene and corrupt personal law,” the centrist leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, said of the latest legislation. The Messianic Zealots who now rule Israel)
For decades now Supreme Court Judges ruled Israel. Elected officials were mere puppets to legislate what the Judges deemed "human rights." Israel has no Constitution, so how do Judges decide what it right? How does the Globalist Court which just indicted Putin decide what's right? Love. What is that, you say? Non-phobia. You must respect "human rights." Nazis deserve respect. Cannibals deserve respect, Pedophiles deserve respect. Nazi-phobia is a violation of "human rights." So is Pedo-phobia. You must respect the Cannibal's taste preferences. And not to allow the Cannibal to engage in Cannibal activity is phobic. This is the Global Handbook of Human Rights and morals.
Now the Temple Mount zealots passed laws allowing elected representatives choose who sits on the Bench. The Judicial Dynasty threatens to veto that law as well, leaving their absolute power unchecked. If new law prevails, Israeli government will proceed on the wishes of the majority, which everyone knows is Messianic, the Left having become extinct. The Judges are all Globalist Leftists, who would put God in jail for giving Sodom a bad name. If they could find "vexed Lot's" bones, they would dig him up and hang him for overreacting. In this they're on the same page as Christianity Today, who rejoiced that the recent Ashbury revival was "too LGBT affirming for some, too little LGBT affirming for others." In essence, they got Sodomy just right: middle of the road Sodomy. But the Holy Spirit, we are told, was there among the Sodomites and in the "preying rooms": "Let us prey." This is why Groomerphiles are in such hysterics at the Groomer Times. Friedman sees nothing short of the Apocalypse. The Zealots are vocal about cleaning out Tel Aviv (expect an influx of adult white males in San Francisco and Manhattan--they come without children). The Culture War, you say, now in the shadow of the Temple. And Putin's annexation of Ukraine? Thomas Friedman would like for you not to use that word when talking about Jews driving Palestinians from their homes because "they're only taking back what God gave them in the promise to Abraham." And God did order the extermination of the original Palestinians, called Canaanites in the Bible. You can imagine what Trump would add to the mix here. Netanyahu knows this. He also knows that woke Jewish billionaires in Manhattan have no place else to go. The most atheistic Jew still pines for Jerusalem. But Netanyahu has one goal in life: dodge the hangman so he can enjoys his rich lifestyle in World Class Caesarea. He needs the fanatics to stay out of jail. He needs them to change the law so that he can no longer be prosecuted. He's go a rabid wolf by the ears here, but he's safe as long as he can keep holding him. The Messianics will now make laws that the Judges cannot overrule. No more Sabbath buses. Ultras in charge of Tel Aviv. Hebron (where the Patriots are buried) will be reclaimed....But all eyes are on the Temple Mount, denied to Jews since Titus sold them into slavery in AD 70. And because the loathed Ultras are seen worldwide as the true face of Judaism, they are the glue that makes Israel what it is: the unflinching brigade which will die to the man rather than relinquish their hold on the lands of Abraham. What does Friedman offer these Jews? Climate Change. These fanatics see as their purpose in life to provoke Climate Change in the form of fiery Armageddon. Which is why Netanyahu doesn't give Friedman the time of day.
3-23-23
"Behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago, the former president has told friends and associates that he welcomes the idea of being paraded by the authorities before a throng of reporters and news cameras. He has even mused openly about whether he should smile for the assembled media, and he has pondered how the public would react and is said to have described the potential spectacle as a fun experience." (NY Times)
Trump only works as an ongoing crisis. He spent his entire life always just one step ahead of the hangman. Crises always consume all the oxygen around them, and as long as you are the crisis you dominate the field. The Democrats are being hoisted by their own self-righteous petards here as they were with the Putin debacle. They knew they could cancel Putin, because China was held hostage by Walmart. Side with Putin, Friedman sneered, and you lose the US market, without which China goes back to being a Third World country. But while the US is bleeding in the Ukraine quagmire, China (the global ambassador of peace now) is picking off plum US assets (like the Iran-Saudi Pact) and making the US look like a colonial warmonger. How does wokeman argue against peace? India is gluttoning itself rich slurping Russian oil which it refines and sells to Europeans. European energy-consuming giants are losing market share to cheap China giants who run on cheap Russian oil. Ruthless unwoke Russian mercenaries are imposing order in Islamist infested Africa. The entire global South is in the China-Putin orbit now. Europe has been reduced to an occupied Pentagon II colony made to serve Zelensky. Scholz is back to Sitzkrieg, under the American umbrella once again and worse off than before. 72 years as American drones left them incapable of tying their own political shoelaces. If the US leaves, they'll become hostage to the Baltics.
The crisis resurrected Russia. You don't see Rainbow flags in Ukraine, because the trenches are a more brutal form of God's "Wall Method" of sorting male and female. Ukraine hospitals are not doing gender surgery. Europe's peace dividend is now going towards jets and tanks. War is back. And war is pure "toxic maleness." Europe is being thrashed by the Putin crisis.
Trump cannot win without a crisis that consumes the national oxygen. He cannot win without the mob. Any crisis and any mob will do, if he can harness it. The Democrats assumed that swampmasters, Putin and China, play by the simpering rules of the Left. Putin and China exist by tearing up the rulebook, with China making hay on the fringes, talking peace while laying snares and traps. But they were able to grab the peace mantel, and you can't argue against peace. Biden gave them a $trillion dollar strategy. The war cannot go on too long for the China-Putin-India axis, because only NATO is bleeding. If Russia in turn become a Chinese puppet, China will be in a position to starve India, and use its ally, Pakistan, to destabilize it. Imagine what it could do with the resources of Siberia. Such is the unsavory business of unwoke swampmasters. Trump could use the crisis to inflame the mob against the coastal elites, the globalist enemies of traditional America. China is big enough to get away with it. Trump will try.
Trump cannot win a conventional (play-by-the-RINO-DINO agreed rule book). He can only win as Spartacus with the howling disenfranchised mob behind him. Which means he has to trample the crony-Establishment. But from here it is but a stone's throw to Jan 6. The Left knows that if he gets in he will destroy the institutions of the Left and bloat their adversaries. If he gets in he will weaponize Government at every level, and the Left will be left howling on the few perches allowed them. The Left is now using the levers of government to destroy him. But this works only so far as they are able to project the violence of the state to follow through. Organized violence is always in the hands of the Right. The minute the Left turns openly violent, it become the Right (Communist Venezuela and China are Rightwing governments, as is the Marxist President of Mexico). The International Court is rabidly Leftwing only because it lacks the power to of coercion --it relies on Rightwing governments to do that, as does the Leftwing EU, now once again under the protection of the US. The fear on the Left is that Trump could harness the arsenal in the hands of the Right (the NRA is made up of retired military--which says all you need to know about the politics in the ranks). All Trump would need do is to give this element in society cover and a larger role in the affairs of state (that is, make open-carry acceptable at Democratic political rallies, for a ram with horns doesn't need to fight those without--an angry toss of the head will do). The ability to menace is entirely on the Right, and you cannot cancel violence. This is the message of the new China-Russian axis. Canceling is village gossip. But it only works in the village. The wokemeisters of the Left fear nothing more than wagging tongues. China or Trump could care less.
Modi, in India, is trampling the law because he has the mob behind him. He doesn't are about the wagging tongues in your little village. Like Erdogan, he is now putting his rivals in jail. In politics you hold your nose, Bismarck said. Here you can fish for crime any day of the week and jail your opponents. In stable times, politicians find it convenient to give each other a pass, knowing that they are but one election away from the receiving end. That era is over now in India, and why should Modi give up his monopoly of violence? The Left, in possession of education, Media, and government bureaucracy finds it easy to weaponize government. This is possible in Europe where an underground arsenal does not exist. When Trump calls for protests, he's appealing to this underground arsenal of resentment to counter the statism of the Left. In essence to counter the state's monopoly of violence. Florida and Texas regularly flout Federal law only because of the arsenal among its deplorables. These will soon become no-go zones to Federal officials. The 2nd Amendment designed to protect against tyranny, will end up imposing Orbanism, which will protect your children as cannon fodder. As politics becomes more violent, the Left will disappear completely, as it has in Israel. The State is pure organized violence, which is why Leftist anarchy never endures. The minute it makes use of organized violence it becomes the Right. Orbanism has broad appeal only as a lesser evil against the Groomerism that is now destroying Western society: people surrendering their freedoms for stability and identity. In that sense, freedom in Hungary differs little from freedom in China.
3-23-23
"My father was murdered there by US marines, who targeted him intentionally with the heavy machine gun mounted on their Humvee.
He heard heavy shooting and went out to help our neighbours’ kids get safely into their homes, but he was shot just outside our gate, and passed away immediately.
The US forces came to our house then, and after a search of course they found nothing – just us, his family were there.
When they realised from all the documents and certificates that he was an academic all his life, who had even studied in the US, they changed their position.
They offered us $10,000 in compensation but we rejected that, because they murdered him in cold blood even though he was only trying to help kids" (An Iraqi on the Bush war).
Were the Gulf Wars illegal according to the International Court? "Laws," the Greeks used to say, "are like spider webs, they entangle the weak and feeble while the rich and powerful snap their bands." A spider built a huge nest next my walkway, and every day as I walked past I would touch it to make him come up through the funnel. All you had to do is touch the web lightly and he would pop up like a rocket. He had huge bulging eyes, and he eyed me very boldly. One day I ran an caught a huge grasshopper and stuck it in his web causing it to vibrate violently. He came up quickly to claim his prize. His method was to grab his victim by the leg and inject it with poison while pulling it into his lair below. I made sure the grasshopper's hind leg was within reach and as soon as he grabbed it the battle was joined. These grasshoppers are built like tanks, their hard legs bristling with spines, and even their eyes are covered with armor. These webs are designed to ensnare only the weak and he didn't hesitate to commence his work. And he was able to grab the grasshopper's leg only because I held it there. Needless to say, he got a good thrashing, and brought his nest down over his ears.
So why does the International Court not indict Bush or Netanyahu or the Chinese for war crimes? Because it's a hanging jury, as was Nuremberg. "Had we lost the war," Japan bomber General LeMay said, "we would have hanged as war criminals."
3-16-23
"Couple returns home to find 80 dumped tires in Britain."
I always went into NY City at night when traffic was low. In those days you could hear gunshots during the night in the poor sections where you were made to park in abandoned shopping centers or street because the plant guards didn't let anyone in before daylight. Once morning I was awakened by howls of dismay and going outside found two Orthodox Jews, a father and his son, (not Ultras, just skull caps) lamenting a grievous crime: someone had used my truck as cover to dump an entire load of tires on the side walk next to their Mercedes dealership. I commiserated with them and left such an impression that they both vowed to relocate to Montana. "A stalled (prosperity) ox and hatred therewith" was always my impression of it. We only had our old maps to navigate with, and most streets had detour signs attached to pipes, which the gangs would turn in the opposite direction with a pipe wrench. We had a high dollar account which the Mafia had an eye on as they hijacked several of our trucks going out of there. All those loads went to Los Angeles, and the company rule was that a driver couldn't stop until he made it to the Deep South and could only leave the truck when it was backed up to a wall. I was in our Pennsylvania terminal one day when a driver showed up with a huge bullet hole in his sleeper, inches below where his head was. All those bullets come down somewhere, and you could see from the hole that it came from above.
3-16-23
Last two months has been a blizzard a week. Corrals disappeared long ago and coyotes walk right up to the barn at night. During the night these lambs jump from ewe to ewe playing madcap and lickity-split. Winds up to 50 mph. Lambs born in this wind-chill freeze within minutes, but are okay if in a non-drafty pen. Strong wind like this will make a drift through a small crack in the wall. Everything is out of the wind, but barn is packed tight. When these lambs (about 60 of them) get done playing they all pile into a snug corner, off limits to ewes, where I give them their creep-feed. Or they jump into the hay feeder and sleep on the fragrant hay. Last winter my well pump failed in the middle of a blizzard, so I had no choice but to fix it in -20 below weather. I was able to get my scissor-lift started (it goes up to 60 feet), pulled the pipe up section by section (the joints were so rusty, I had to cut and rethread each end), and had it running by night. The problem was a rusty hole in the pipe and not the pump itself. Nonetheless, I bought a new pump on Ebay for less than half for a spare. Three years ago the Spring was so wet the vet couldn't get out of his driveway with four wheel drive. I hope to put up two hoop buildings this summer (with material which I cobbled together from auctions) to shelter the whole flock for weeks at a time with their feed inside. My lean-to attached to the barn (the hurricane ripped the one on the other side away--it blew the roofs off and sides out of many new buildings) that you see in the picture is basically an enclosed hay feeder. Out in the open it would have disappeared under a drift long ago. I keep a reserve of twenty round bales at all times now, and double the supplies I need during lambing. Today the drifts on the roads are like concrete. Sitting here in my warm house with my good coffee and listening to the shrieks and rumbles (if the wind finds one loose fiber it will lash it into a rumble) is as close as I hope to come to being "driven up and down in Adria" by Euroclydon. Musk has never been up here in the winter, else he would despair of growing his own food on Mars. Snow will begin melting by Monday. A 30 mph wind turns 30 above into 20 below. Their wind-chill gauges are worthless. At zero (no wind), I do a twenty minute barn check without a jacket. A 30 mph wind with high humidity feels like a knife even with only the face exposed.
3-13-23
"Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow" (Washington Post).
They want to end the war, but can't. With the US bogged down, China is cutting deals with US allies and enemies, as it rearranges the world order. The longer the war endures, the more dire the outlook for Taiwan. "Take a good look," the Chinese are saying, "Ukraine is becoming a desert, and worse, a graveyard. It that what you want?" Ukraine, intended as a message to China, ends up being a warning to Taiwan.
Meanwhile, two thirds of the globe are doing business with Putin. The cancellers are being cancelled. And the Germans think Ukraine blew up their pipeline to draw them into the war. This has been a war against Germany all along to keep Germany from cutting its own deals with Putin and China. Europe has not risen to the occasion and the US overcommitted. Removing Putin, reparations, war crime trials, regaining Crimea--all idle boasts now. For now China is underwriting Putin's campaign against NATO. The longer the Ukraine conflict lasts the less likely the US will start another forever war in Taiwan. Republicans want Ukraine to lose, because the fact that its greatest cheerleaders are the global elite is very telling. This is the Culture War, with Pride Marches in Red Square as its goal. Putin just forced Biden to open Alaska for drilling. No word from Climate Man Friedman. "There, there," he cried to Putin before the war, "is your wound. Your burning tundra. Mother Nature." Several weeks ago Putin had them rationing tomatoes in Britain because they can no longer afford to heat greenhouses.
Can you imagine what went on behind closed doors to get the China-Saudi-Iran pact? Very unsavory business. "Back channels," "off the record," Kissinger would say. Very unwoke stuff. Shouldn't Biden call for MBS to be tried by the International Court for dismembering a journalist? All woke rubbish. China, Biden says, committer genocide against the Muslim Uighurs. But here is China, cheek and jowl, with the major Islamic powers. Picking up the pieces, while Biden, as the German wrote recently, "is in over his head." They can no longer get out. And China doesn't want them to get out.
3-11-23
"Why Are American Teens So Unhappy?" (NY Times)
Read "why are American rich white Teens so Unhappy?" Why? Because they are groomed to behold themselves as "the Abomination" from the cradle. Look at the immigrant families in shopping malls. They look as if they won life's lottery. That's the boon of thankfulness. If comes from feeling blessed. Of which there is no higher state even in heaven. If you have it, don't change anything, even if your abode is under a rock. Several months ago, while in a hurry to get back to my sheep, I stopped to grab a few gallons of gas, and while at the pump met an immigrant trying to get me to look at his very fancy iPhone while gesturing toward his SUV and saying "in the car." I thought he was trying to sell me something (who knows what), and shook my head. After checking my sheep and while fixing dinner it occurred to me that he may have needed help. Perhaps he needed gas for his nice SUV. Gas was almost $5 a gallon, and the math flashed before my eyes. Nonetheless, I grabbed my wallet, and leaving my frugal dinner, Bander and I raced back to town. I hoped to get by with $40, but no matter what it took, I would send him on his way. He was no longer at the gas stop so I looked for him at the the other stations. Finally, I went back and inquired of the manager, who told me that he had left the fuel pump running while he went inside to buy snacks, and then couldn't get the pump working again. The manager, recently from the South, speaks Spanish, so everything was fine. I was never so relieved in my life. And I hurried back to my dinner with my $40 still in my pocket.
Yesterday, while at that same pump, my Nissan won't start. Here's what it is. It has a computer glitch which allows it to start only after you hear the fuel pump cut out. But in the noise around me, I couldn't hear it click, and so no start. After the third time an immigrant came running up to see if he could help, full of good cheer and energy. He would have sent me on my way. But then I heard the fuel pump click and it started right up. This man was too thankful to have worries. The mental straitjacket now afflicting white America tracks what the Africans call "the rich white male disease" with which children are now brainwashed by the US Department of Groomerism. Germany just passed a law allowing women to go topless in public--because men in dresses look like men and don't need tops, so why should real women have to? Scotland just had a change of government because they tried to house rapist men in dresses with women prisoners, causing them to shriek "there's a rapist in here." And even Justice Jackson would understand what gender is meant by the word "rapist", without having to consult "the biologists." Because they refused to "know" the true God, God is now destroying the West by giving it over to utter reprobation. Imagine being governed by men in mental institutions. This is the first time in History that "inmates in control" has become the reality. And just as they boast that men are woman, so now suicidal insanity is but a different category of cognition.
3-9-23
Demon Possession in the Senate
"Cloistered at Walter Reed, Fetterman Runs His Senate Operation From Afar
"[Judas] cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself" (Matt. 27:5).
Months before he died, Bush warmonger, the Evangelical Washington Post writer, Michael Gerson had himself checked into a hospital for "severe clinical depression", and not long after preached a sermon on his "illness" which, when you see it mentioned in newspapers, is always followed by the National Suicide Hotline phone number: the preacher of the Good News made fit to preach by being saved by strong doses of Hellish drugs to keep his deranged thoughts from driving him to "self-murder". That is how the Church viewed suicide throughout history. Sin is a mental disease, which is cured by "the mind of Christ" which every Christian is given in the New Birth. A strong enough dose of drugs would have saved Judas from the halter--at least temporarily. The Bible does not allow you to categorize what goes on in the mind as a biological illness to be treated with material potions. The Gadarenes sought to control demon possession by material means. But this is a spiritual war in the soul, and you do not remedy the soul with "carnal" instruments. Gerson was driven to suicidal thoughts by the blood on his hands which he reaped by whispering Bush into slaughtering tens of thousands of Iraqis. But everything is biological today. Sodomy, Justice Jackson, says is "biological", even if you only think so. Gerson saw his "illness" as an occasion to break a historic "taboo". He was but a victim of biological forces beyond his control. Stop playing the victim, the Book of James says. You're frustrated because "you ask amiss", or you claim to "be tempted by God" rather than take responsibility for your sins. That pressure you sense, he says, is God pushing you down, "For God resisted the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." You cannot "draw nigh to God" because you refuse to "cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts you double minded." God will not open the biological books on the Day of Judgment.
But here is one of the chief officials in America carrying on the national interest while on a heavy cocktail of anti-suicidal drugs. And the NY Times weeps for joy that a historic "taboo" has been broken by such an august figure. If the "illness" can attach to an august and noble Senator, than condolences rather than stigma are called for. What if the President, with his finger on The Button, is made to carry out the nation's interests while on a heavy cocktail of anti-suicidal drugs at Walter Reed Hospital? The Senator checked himself into a mental asylum because he was a danger to himself. In essence, he's lost the ability not only to carry out the basic functions of everyday life, but admits to being controlled by the most dangerous thoughts known to mortal man: self-murder. On the Day of Judgment, Judas, in addition to all his other sins, will be drawn up under the Sixth Commandment to answer for self-killing. The Publican was so "down" he could not even lift up his eyes. Had he looked inside he would have been driven to suicide by the "self-help" drivel of the shrinks and the Evangelical simperers (Weiberkatusser) who call themselves Biblical counfsfslers. The Publican was the farthest removed from suicide. He is known for the overwhelming strength of his prayer, "deep calling unto deep." He prayed with such power because his eye was anchored on the overwhelming grace of the Cross, "from whence cometh his help." He saw the remedy for his sin in the Cross of Christ. He knew he needed mercy, not therapy, or the demon of drugs. Here is the root of the problem. The ax is not laid to the root of the evil tree, allowing every foul bird under the face of heaven to nest there. These are basket cases of emotional wreckage trying to cope with the filth of sin in their soul by covering it with self-help Dreck. You could subdue a demon with the doses now available to the shrinks. But Legion will be back. "And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid" (Mk. 5:15). They understood that they are still as degenerate as he was. But here is the mental state of every born again Christian: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Tim. 1:7). He may have nothing else, but he has "the peace of God that passeth understanding." "Blessedness", the state of every Christian, is the highest category of well being even in God Himself. People commit suicide for lack if faith and hope. It is no coincidence that "the hope of salvation" is "an helmet" (1 Thess. 5:8). The biggest preacher in America, Rick Warren, lost his son to suicide because he preaches nothing more than self-help Dreck. These people are not saved, for salvation is "an helmet" of hope, "a sound mind." The ax has not been laid to Legion, which why they end up seeking refuge in the drugs of the shrinks. They lack a "sound mind" because they lack "the helmet of the hope of salvation." Like the Son of Man, a Christian may be very poor and homeless, but his global mandate gives him the right to be anywhere on the face of the earth as the controlling authority wherever he is (he is the hand of God). He can watch the gates of Hell bear down on him without being "anxious," for "Thou are with me." And above all, he has "the mind of Christ." The notion that you can be a Christian in need of mind altering drugs, or that a Christian can be driven to suicide through the lack of hope is blasphemy. This is precisely where the "quickening" of the Gospel does its work. The Christian Freudians are but unregenerate Gadarenes, who make their victims twice the children of Hell then themselves.
3-7-23
"Netanyahu and his team also dismissed liberal American Jews, viewing them as a dying breed, intermarrying their way to irrelevance. Netanyahu and his allies have instead focused their energies on building support for Israel with Republicans and their evangelical base. " (NY Times)
The days of the Judges of Israel
The "messianic zealots" which make up Israel's new government are "Settlers". These are what's left of the original Zionists (the Kibbutzers) who still cling to Israel as a "safe place" for Jews. Israel for them is the antidote against another Holocaust. Most Kibbutzers were atheist, in that if God existed He would not have allowed the Holocaust. Marxism was their religion, and back then Marxism was on the march to become a global ideology: "Workmen of the world, Unite!" They soon left off their Leftwing delusions as they were forced to take up the sword to defend their own little plot of the globe. The Marxist utopia was tried there. It has not had to be tried in Manhattan which is why Manhattan Jews are so upset at what they see as a betrayal of their dreams. These Settlers now hold the chief posts in Netanyahu's regime.
They in turn are beholden to the Ultras, the Apocalyptic firebreathers who consider Israel's secular government as blasphemous, and the unobservant Settlers themselves as unclean. The Ultras live on state welfare and dwell in the poorest neighborhoods, but they all have enormous families and they vote in blocks. They're kingmakers. These are the people with long side locks, big Stetson hats, and long robes: the Pharisees of our day. "God gave us the Land, and God loves only the Jews," they say. They've been delayed long enough, and they could care less about what Egypt thinks about Joshua's extermination of the Canaanites. Manhattan Jews don't make a move without consulting their woke Almanacs. But God has already said everything there is to know in the Books of Moses. Friedman need but read the Books of Moses to see where all this is going. What he sees makes his hair stand on end.
"A Jewish Democracy," scoffed the Jewish writer Peter Beinart recently in the New York Times. Modi is now turning Indian into a Hindu democracy. He annexed Muslim Kashmir because Pakistan is too weak to resist. Israel is annexing the West Bank because it can. Putin is trying with all his might. Might is right. And the Palestinians? How do Muslims fare in a Jewish Democracy? How do they fare in a Hindu Democracy? Friedman can tell you all that's wrong with a Hindu Democracy: apartheid. Still Muslims can decamp to Pakistan. But Israel is Judaism's last stand. Hence, there is such thing as a Jewish Democracy without the stigma of Apartheid. In the NY Times at least. Putin must be stopped at all costs for annexing Ukraine. But Biden is funding the Israeli military $4 billion a year to contain the Palestinian terrorists under their rule. The American Right reads from the same script, but with this difference: they don't pretend that Palestinians have the right to exist alongside Jews. To comply with the biblical mandate of the Return of the Jews, Jews are commanded to make the Land fit for the Coming of the Messiah. Evangelicals go no further than "God gave them the Land," to which the Jews add, "God loves only the Jews."
Biden's war in Ukraine is a police action by the world's policeman punishing the crime of violating the New World Order that prohibits wars of aggression and territorial expansion. But not only is Israel engaging in a violent West Bank land grab, but it is doing so under American sponsorship. This is what American Leftwing Jews are faced with in the confines of the Democratic Party. Israel is the most fanatical supremist movement in the world. Its charter states that it is a democracy for Jews only (the rest are second class), and the new regime openly states that Arabs can never be trusted not to seek the destruction of the Jewish state. Which means that West Bank Arabs cannot become Israeli citizens. They would commit treason by voting the Jews out. The Ultras hate Arabs with a vengeance and look down upon them as inferiors. When Friedman sees this in America he calls it racist supremacy, fascism, and ethnic nationalism. He wants the US government to label these movements as "terrorist" organizations and treat them accordingly. And of course, Israel is using $4 billions worth of US weapons against Palestinian "terrorists" who defend their homes in the West Bank with sticks and stones. You can see why Climate Man is anxious to get back to the real crisis facing mankind: Mother Nature. How can you even think of war, he preached at Putin, when your tundra is smoking? He had Brother China at the Green Table, India, the Rain Forests--all set to dial down Mother Nature. Putin turned the world into a giant belching smokestack, filling despot coffers while the Climate Frauds are rationing tomatoes in Europe for want of energy to heat their greenhouses. And now Israel stands to blow up the Democratic Party by provoking the Third Intifada, which will rage in the woke streets of Paris and Manhattan and put a Republican in the White House who will end the war in 24 hours.
The Ultras are the counterpart of the Taliban. Like Iran they exists to usher in Armageddon, the purification of an evil world by fire. Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah exist to deliver the third most holy shrine in Islam from the infidel Jews, and the Ultras will never rest until sacrifices resume on Mount Moriah. There have been no sacrifices since Titus destroyed the Temple. And of course, the first sacrifice will have to be the Day of Atonement. Manhattan billionaires could have that Temple built within months.
This fanaticism of the Ultras is 90 percent of Israel. The day the Israeli army steps aside, they'll all ascend the Temple Mount en masse, confidant that they are on the threshold of the Messianic age. They hate Palestinians as the Jews hated the Samaritans. They want them gone, or become hewers of wood and fetchers of water. This is what Friedman is looking at. Democracy, for Ultras, is polytheism. A separate state on the lands of Abraham, blasphemy. And they've even got Nukes. There is zero room in "messianic" Israel for Arabs. This is why Friedman calls for a Jan 6 Israeli insurrection.
But the Ultras are the genuine face of the Jews. His own rabbis are Groomers who would be afraid to confront the poorest zealot in Brooklyn. The Soviets tried to replace religion with ideology. Putin has since spent billions building churches. Depraved oligarchs may engage in fashionable mockery of the clergy--to a point. They and the priesthood know that they will be summoned at the last. The Ultras in Brooklyn are but an extension of the Ultras in Jerusalem. They raise children to populate the lands of Abraham. They spend their waking hours daydreaming about Jerusalem. "For God loves only the Jews," they say. You can imagine what they think about Friedman's Climate fetish. These zealots make Evangelicals look tame by comparison. But how does a Leftwing Jew distance himself from the most Rightwing faction on earth, without repudiating his Jewishness? This is the ticking time bomb within the Democratic Party now. It could blow up on Biden/Blinken.
What these judges have done up to now is simply invalidate the will of the majority when they considered it detrimental to Israel's image abroad. Elected representatives would craft laws only to have them struck down because they violated "human rights", or were contrary to Israeli law. But since Israel does not have a Constitution, Israeli law is what judges deem it to be. In short, you have here a tyrannical Judicial Dynasty telling the masses what laws they are allowed to have.
"You'll have to make a choice," Friedman tells Jews shrilly. Israel has now gone off the rails, and American Jews are left to look elsewhere for their identity. An idle boast. Jerusalem is a decrepit billionaire's last hope. What irks Manhattan Jews to no end is that the loathsome Ultras contribute nothing to Israeli society, while determining the course of the nation. They're all on welfare, exempt from military service, and even get to define who is a Jew and who is not. To Friedman these lunatics are but one stone removed from the Stone Age, and here he is hostage to them because they have come to represent true Judaism, and Manhattan Jews don't have the courage to become atheists. Their Groomer rabbis cower in front of these zealots. They have their mandate directly from God, and "God loves only the Jews," they say. They hate Arabs openly. This is Friedman's church, and he can't get out. He's trying to get his fellow decrepits to cancel the fanatics, because the fanatics have cancelled him. "Bibi refuses to talk to me," he cries. Several years ago Climate Man was all the rage across the globe. The Germans hung on every word he said. He was a familiar sight in Saudi Palaces before the Left cancelled MBS. He was unto "the funny business" going on in Ukraine when Biden invited him to dinner (a tuna sandwich and chocolate milkshake--MBS served him twelve different kinds of lamb dishes) and told him to leave "the funny business" alone. Putin killed the Climate hoax by resurrecting dirty oil, and now the messianic zealots are threatening Friedman's grand plans for a Palestinian state by invoking the Torah: "God gave us the Land, and God loves only Jews," they say. And Friedman can't get out of the church. Because you can't have Judaism without Jerusalem, and Jerusalem is in the hands of Rightwing zealots. And Biden can't win re-election by alienating American Jews. And the zealots can't rebuild the Temple without dynamiting the mosque on the Temple Mount. Which, Friedman knows, they will attempt to do. It's what Evangelicals want them to do. And Bibi needs Evangelicals back in power. The Rev. Jerry Falwell jetted around preaching revival on a jet given him by the Israeli military. I was there. They made sure to call Falwell before they talked to the US President. But no one who matters in Israel takes Climate Man's calls. It may have occurred to him that people determined to burn the world down would have few concerns about global warming.
Several days ago it was Friedman's billionaire buddy Bloomberg holding forth on the dangers of the "messianic zealots" now ruling (and ruining) Israel. He, and all his vices, are part of the "dying breed" the Ultra's hold in such contempt. Driving through Brooklyn, you might think you're in Amish country, as the streets are filled with black clothed Ultra Jews. Bloomberg's lot in their Manhattan towers are dying for the obvious reason: Sodomy is the quickest path to extinction. Brooklyn is full of children--the children of "messianic zealots." In Israel, the Ultras are on welfare, pay no taxes, and are exempt from the military, and spend their days studying Talmudic rubbish (they can't tell the the Torah from the traditions of the elders) and insulting the "unclean" secular Jews around them. They would sooner spit on liberal Jewish Friedman than shake hands with him. And Friedman has to put up with it. Why? Because he looks at all those children and is reminded that he is a "dying breed." Those are the armies of the Ultras, "arrows in the hands of a mighty man." They know Friedman (like Groomer Evangelicalism--the recent Groomer vival, Christianity Today writes, got Sodomy just right, "too much LBGT affirmation for some, not enough for others": middle-of-the-road Sodomy is the new Church Hobby Lobby "He Gets US" creed) is headed for extinction. Friedman wants to get back to his fetish of Climate fearmongering. These zealots (and their carbon heavy offspring) are Apocalyptic arsonists who sneer at Friedman's Angst. And now the maniacs are about to come off the Reservation. It's their Israel now, and yet Friedman and his "dying breed" still need Israel when they die. They all hope to be buried in Jerusalem. Friedman and Bloomberg still identify as Jews. But without Israel, Jews cease to exist. And now Israel has become the most Rightwing corner of the world. And the American Left is forced to embrace it. This is the Angst here.
Which is why Friedman is shrilly endorsing Israel's own Jan 6 insurrection, as elements in Israel's armed forces refuse to follow orders from the new "putsch" government. He doesn't dispute that the new government was democratically elected. He just disputes the election consequences. "Elections," the Left boasts, "have consequences." Now that the democratic elections bear consequences contrary to elitist orthodoxy, they are illegitimate, and the American Left is calling on Israelis to overthrow the "rogue" government by any means possible. Freedman does not dispute "the election results" like the Trumpites. It's the anti-globalist "consequences" of a legitimate election that he rejects. Just as the NY Times is against the death penalty in all its forms, but drools over the weapons that slaughter young Russian boys marched to the front at the point of a gun. Freedman accepts "election results" but thinks governments can be overthrown because of "election consequences." The NY Times is openly calling for an Israeli insurrection here. Not because they consider the elections unfair, or rigged. There is no dispute here. They just don't like the consequences. And if you don't like the consequences--well, then Revolution and Insurrection are justified. If Friedman used such language with regard to an American election, he would go to prison. But here he is inciting the Israeli military to bring a duly elected government to its knees simply because he can't accept "election consequences."
Note the "Republican/Evangelical" angle of the new regime. Most American Jews vote Democrat--even while supporting Israel. Why? Because of Hitler, who created modern Israel. Israel is the historic answer to "Never Again." Even for the most secular Jew. For Anti-Semitism is most potent in the "deep" European Left. No matter how "Teutonic" Jews look, secular Jews like Friedman know that when push comes to shove, he will be targeted as a Jew. This is an insane Satanic instinct directed at Jews for no other reason than for bringing forth the Messiah: "And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child" (Rev. 12:13).
Thus the Ultras know American Jews like Friedman are going nowhere: 1) Because he knows that the future of the Jews lies in those abundant children, and 2) because without Israel the Jewish Diaspora will simply vanish.
But what next for the "messianic zealots"? To finish the mandate of God. Take full control of all the lands of Abraham, and make Israel fully Jewish from one end to the other. Tel Aviv will have to be cleansed of the Sodomites and the the Temple will be rebuilt. They but need to get Trump (or someone like him) back in the Oval.
The Third Intifada will quickly put Friedman in his colleague Bret Stephen's camp. Because this time the Intifada will play out in the streets of Paris and Manhattan. and all the demons of anti-Semitism will be unleashed, leaving Jews no choice but to close ranks with a Republican response.
The crisis in Israel is but a very painful revelation: that Israel has been an apartheid state from the beginning. That Jewish democracy is a contradiction the American Left allowed itself to embrace. That the majority of people under Israeli rule are treated as second class citizens, because if all the Arabs under Israeli rule were allowed to vote, they would outvote Jews. This is "the Woke" nerve that is now gnawing at the vitals of the American Left.
The "Rule of Judges" masked this contradiction, for they constantly overturned the decisions of the elected representatives. They in turn are not elected, but get to chose their own successors from their own "elitist" ranks. Hence, from the onset, Israel has been ruled by a Judicial Dynasty which served to frustrate the aims of "the messianic zealots", and keep them from "dealing" with the unclean Samaritans in their midst. The new laws would allow elected officials to choose judges, much like in the US, leaving the Court subject to political winds.
Biden wants Netanyahu to tone things down. But Netanyahu has cast his lot with Republicans, and could make a lot of trouble for Democrats, especially, as the Culture War is revving up again in the face of Groomerism, which is now tied to Critical Race Theory, and Globalism. Netanyahu knows that a march on the Temple Mount would make Evangelicals swoon. Biden has few cards to play here. The "messianic zealots" are now another front of the Globalist Culture War. Republicans can really make hay here. The Left needs Netanyahu to lose for the same reason it needs Zelensky to win. Because the Left want Ukrainians to fight to the last man to make way for Pride marches in Red Square. If "the messianic zealots" have their way "the dying breed" of Manhattan and San Francisco will double as the Ultras close in on Tel Aviv.
3-3-23
Emmanuel Macron 'abandons EU army dreams'
Which means that the EU is now no more than a component of Pentagon II: another orphan with links to the US Treasury. Why spend money needlessly with the US bogged down in Ukraine? For as everyone now realizes, Manhattan will smolder before Russians cross the Oder. The Peace Dividend is back, funded by the US Treasury. Old Europe was already an entitled basket case. But if Republicans pull out now, Putin walks into Europe. Pentagon II is there to stay then. Caesar Augustus had the sense to draw Rome's boundary at the Rhine and bribe the Germans not to cross it. But ultimately Rome had no choice but to set up shop in Constantinople. The end was not far off.
3-3-23
The E.U. Offered to Embrace Ukraine, but Now What? (NY Times).
The NY Times brought in another German to do what wokesters, Friedman, Brooks, and the other sophists are afraid to do: explain the abyss to its readers. They're got the wolf by the ears and cannot continue to hold him nor safely let him go. They're desperate to end the war, but now China and Russia will not let them do so without a catastrophic NATO humiliation.
The EU Peace Projects, he says, failed. 72 years of moral grandstanding gone overnight. "The EU," he says, "was designed to make war impossible." Now they've got a hot war of World War proportions in their backyard, and a basket case mentality to deal with it. They had outlawed war. Biden is acting like the Global Cop to try to put the genie back into the "rules based New World Order" bottle. Scholz is on a secret trip to Washington to give Biden the unwoke news: that the war has no popular, but only hypocritical woke, support. The mob could turn ugly in European cities overnight, and NATO would see real regime change engineered by Putin. They need to cancel the war, before the mob cancels them. All of Biden's billions will not suffice to turn the tide.
Blinken is getting increasingly desperate in his remarks to China and Russia. They know that while China beats the drum of peace it is plotting mischief by laying snares and traps to entangle NATO in an endless quagmire.
"Mr. Blinken has also expressed skepticism over a push by Beijing for peace negotiations in the war in Ukraine, saying Chinese officials are merely creating a smoke screen to buy Russia more time to press its assault.
Chinese officials say they will happily cooperate with countries in the international system, and that it is the United States fanning the flames of division with its “Cold War mentality.”
They'll bleed Biden in Ukraine to make him dread the thought of meddling in Taiwan. The Global South (two thirds of the world's population) is with Putin. This is already a colossal strategic failure in Biden's foreign policy. By making Ukraine an extension of Taiwan, they unwittingly created a Sino-Russian axis which dwarfs the cancelling power of the US. India is playing the market. It threw Ukraine under the bus for a mess of pottage.
Biden/Blinken are still reading from the Cold War playbook, while China is playing iPhone politics. Just as they reinvented Capitalism by detaching it from democracy, so they are now gaming diplomacy into a hybrid statecraft that is light years ahead of the West. They have NATO so paranoid that they've taken to adopting the most bizarre behavior of their former Iraqi adversaries: shooting up the night sky--they used a missile to bring down a $20 hobby balloon. Meanwhile Scholz huddles with Biden in secret. They can no long end the war, and they have discovered that China will not let them end it. Why fight on the beaches of Taiwan when you can arm the Russian cannon fodder? And if Russia bleeds more, China simply walks into Siberia.
3-2-23
"America Is In Over Its Head" (German writer in NY Times).
"For all they that take up the sword shall perish with the sword." Christ made suicidal violence the law of the Universe by turning the sword into a boomerang. They're trapped, and can't get out. China wants to bleed the US in a quagmire, and a quagmire will become a nesting ground for European Anti-Americanism. They should have read their Tolstoy. Russia always loses two complete armies before they get the meat grinder right. 2024 is the next goalpost. Republicans blame Ukraine for all of Trump's troubles. If they win they'll cut their loses make and end of it, rather than set up a European nanny state under Pentagon II. Ever since Scholz blackmailed Biden with the Leopards, Old Europe went back to sleep. They' quickly realized that Biden's call to arms meant tightening their belts, as you cannot have both war and welfare at the same time. But with Biden bogged down, Berlin is safe. The stakes now are such that Manhattan will smolder before Putin's tanks head for the Brandenburg Gate. Let the cowboys dea with it. They like that sort of thing, as Germans sniffed in the old days. By getting Biden to commit the lion's share, Scholz singled to Putin that he only did what he was made to do by the bully. On the other hand, by over-committing, Biden played into Putin's hands in that Europe is now off the hook and can go back to harmless shambling. The plan was to have Europe take charge and forge a credible counterweight to Putin, freeing the US to pivot fully toward China. The reverse has happened. Old Europe found itself too weak to rise to the occasion. The Germans still suffer war-lag from rebuilding their cities twice in thirty years, and the rest are simply broke. They took one look at the EU superstate and called 911. Even after Biden took Blucher to the woodshed, and Scholz returned to Germany scared out of his wits, he soon reverted back to his old ways. Which leaves the European problem worse than before. Pentagon II leaves Europe off the hook, for now Manhattan will smolder before one Russian soldier crosses the Oder. As the German says, "the Americans are in over their heads." It's their war, let them deal with it. It's every man for himself. What does a sack of rice falling over in a warehouse in China have to do with a German? Don't Germans care about Taiwan. About as much as they do about a sack of rice. Twice in thirty years they pulled their cities down over their own ears, and Biden wants Germans to run off on a fool's errand to fight Russians in Ukraine just so the US won't have to start World War III to keep China from invading Taiwan? "The Americans," the German says, "are in over their heads." The day Republicans pull out, Scholz will sit down with Putin to hammer out a new gas deal, He's paying through the nose for refined products from India made from Russian crude. The Indians are laughing all the way to the bank. Isn't it tainted? As the Southerner said, "the only problem is that "t'aint enough."
The Germans, we are led to believe, "are not in over their heads." And this from the Max Plank Institute. So this is America's war. Scholz and Macron do not want America to win. They already find obedience hard. They've been shivering under the American umbrella like frightened schoolboys since the invasion. But now the cowboys are back as policemen and they're made to grovel at the feet of Zelensky.
So much for Zelensky's "partners." He has but one, Biden. Germany is dithering, and France is ready "to deal." The reality is that Putin cannot be driven out of the annexed Provinces, or Crimea. It would take the entire US Army, the German says. No one doubts that that would mean nuclear war. But now they cannot no longer get out. They burned all their bridges when the mob piled on, and now it is the US that is on the back foot. At best they're left with another unfinished war, leaving eastern Europe bristling like a porcupine in the form of Pentagon II. The US cannot simply pull out without suffering catastrophic humiliation. They'll declare victory by militarizing the entire Baltic Front. The EU is premised on open borders, as EU values will make war obsolete. They EU rose on the ruins of the history of endless war, to demonstrate that war was a needless human construct based on false assumptions, like slavery, or cannibalism. Putin made them lose their religion. They are up to their necks in Biden's human slaughter, forced to confess that violence is the essence of statecraft.
"Gallio cared for none of these things." On the one hand, Old Europe becomes an American colony, or worse, dominated by the battle hardened Baltic states. The cynical option would be for the big guys to wear each other out, leaving the smaller to pick up the pieces. The Superstate is not even remotely on the horizon at the moment, and Germany is too little to be a superpower. If you don't set your sights too high, it may dawn on you that the best grass is always underneath the elephant. It's also free of predators. Germany learned not to get stepped on, and would like nothing better than to go back to dancing with the bear. This war is all about cleaving Germany from Russia to keep it in line with NATO so the US can keep China from invading Taiwan. In short, it is a war on Germany. Hence, Berlin's lack of enthusiasm. As Ukraine goes, so Taiwan. That is the war in a nutshell. Which means that China wants Ukraine to lose. Because if Ukraine loses, other do-gooders will think twice about meddling in other people's wars. If the US loses in Ukraine, what makes it think if will prevail in China's back yard? You can be sure that China is pouring in whatever it takes to help Putin. If push comes to shove, the war may even accomplish the unthinkable: a Sino-Russian axis out of necessity.
2-26-23
"The Israeli government has also pledged to go ahead with the construction of nearly 10,000 new settlement housing units that were approved in recent days. Most countries consider all the settlements to be a violation of international law." NY Times
Which means of course that the NY Times will clamor for war crime trials for Israelis at the Hague. For if Israel is rewarded for its war of aggression, then there goes Taiwan. But the war of aggression is funded by US taxpayer ($150 billion so far), Wall Street billionaires, and Evangelical aid groups. Biden is shedding rivers of blood in Ukraine to promote freedom and democracy, while supporting oppression and annexation in the Middle East. When Ukrainians fight back they're heroes. When Palestinians defend their land and homes, the NY Times calls them terrorists. For the billionaires at the NY Times do not dispute the notion that Jews, among all the peoples of the earth, have the right to impose a Jewish theocracy on people under their rule. A week ago, the Jewish writer Peter Beinart took them to task for promoting the falsehood that a nation can be both Jewish and democratic. And now the fanatics will take theocracy to the next level: Messianic anticipation. The people now in charge rule under the mandate of "God gave the Land to the Jews." That is, of course, the Torah (5 books of Moses), which they will impose as the Constitution. The Torah demands sacrifices, and there have been none since Titus destroyed the Temple. The heathen will need to be expelled, or reduced to servitude. If they resist, they will be dealt with as terrorists. Meanwhile, NATO members have their experts in Ukraine sifting the ashes for potential war crimes, and then we will have indictments, more sanctions, reparations, etc. For only yesterday, the UN demanded that Russia withdraw fully. Meanwhile, the Israeli hardliners now in charge daily boast their intentions. The billions will keep coming.
Meanwhile Putin is biding his time. The US has already lost the global south, which means that more than half of the globe stands with Putin. In return for ammo, Putin is giving Iran advanced jets and missiles, which it will unleash on its two foes, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Iran exists to provoke Armageddon. It could instigate the Third Intifada, which would split the Democratic party. An Iranian-Israeli war would flood Europe with refugees, Putin's weapon of choice. And now China is drawing close to Russia. Ukraine must win, Biden says, or Taiwan is lost. In which case why would China not do what the US is doing, fight a proxy war in Ukraine?
2/26/23
'Younger Christians, though conservative, seem tired of their parents’ culture wars—polls suggest they rate LGBTQ issues, a hot topic among Republicans, lower than gun violence and racial justice." The Economist on the Ashbury revival.
Every major secular media outlet picks up on the same theme. This is Generation Z doing for Sodomy what their parents did for divorce-adultery: normalize it. For 500 years their parents got away with it without consequences (they think), so why incur the wrath of the woke-canceling world needlessly? This was a gathering to atone for homophobia. Their parents filled their churches with adultery, and now God is giving over their children to a reprobate mind (Rom. 1).
2-25-23
"Some say the gathering was...too LGBT-affirming, not LGBT-affirming enough." (Christianity Today)
Too many Sodomites for some, not enough Sodomites for others.
Catholic writer Douthat in singing the praises of the awokening is careful not to mention "the healing" of homophobia. For not even the staunchest atheist among his readers could conceive of a months long praise service in unchanged Sodom. The only change being the excommunication of "non-affirming" Lot.
They ended the revival after the NY Times crowed over the Sodomites on stage. Ashbury Christian University is a hotbed of Sodomy--they even train Sodomite preachers as the NY Times relates gleefully. If this is Christian revival the NY Times cannot get enough of it. They have been preying for this for years. This was no more than a venting of the emotional wreckage of Evangelicalism reduced to self-help rubbish which is all that's left them. They cannot return to the Scripture because they destroyed it with their adutery and violence. They cannot repent without emptying their churches, so they seek "healing" in a ritual of clinging while chanting hipster hymns. They cannot return to the Bible because the minute they open it they hear "Joshua get off your face (stop praying), for there is sin in the camp." They wrecked the Bible by filling their churches with adultery, and are left to clinging to themselves (self worship): the gathering is no more than a collapse of emotional wreckage. "Ruth Graham, reporting from Asbury, notes that accounts of healing at the revival are 'overwhelmingly about mental health, trauma and disillusionment.'” Instead of repenting of their sins (the cause of all these ills) they sought refuge in pure emotion. "They turned, but not to the Most High." "The foundations have been destroyed" by their violence and adultery which meets them on every page of the Bible. Calvin and Luther caused them to sin with adultery and violence, and now God is punishing them with Sodomy. They can no longer repent. "The summer is ended, the harvest is past, and we are not saved." "They mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy" 2 Ch. 36:16).
But this (Sodom affirming) as the new face of Christianity is what Christianity Today wants the world to believe: times have changed, and men are always no more than men of their times. Which is why it's now the NY Times go-to source for all things Evangelical.
There will never be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit where the Word of God is trampled in the mud, which is what unrepentant adultery and violence does. The reason the Sodomites were on stage is because the adulterers were on stage. Both will share the same space in eternity.
Where a Sodomite is the Holy Spirit is not. God did not enter Sodom but remained with his holy saints.
2-23-23
‘No Celebrities Except Jesus’: How Asbury Protected the Revival (Christianity Today).
And then the NY Times featured the Sodomites among the Revival leaders. They are giddy because the vibes from Ashbury are very much in line with the long-awaited awokening for which they have been preying. That is, the unvexing of Lot. They like what they see. Christianity Today is covering up what is plain for everyone to see. Imagine that: the Mainstream media reporting the plain facts--without even trying to put a spin on them. Vexed Lot did not need anyone to put a spin on his surroundings. You can't make Sodom worse, or better. Which is why Christianity Today ignores it. Christian Woodstock. He Gets Us. The NY Times gets it perfectly. They're on board all the way as they never got off Broadway.
"The Asbury revival reminds us that God works in ways we cannot control." (Christianity Today).
If you're a people watcher, you'll get your money's worth here: the Kardashian crowd and all the Hollywood hipster preachers doing selfies.
"‘Woodstock’ for Christians: Revival Draws Thousands to Kentucky Town," crows the NY Times.
The NY Times can't get enough of it, and wonders if it will match the scale of the great revivals of the past. Because the NY Times wants Christians "to try" Christianity: the Bruderhof, the Rev Wallis, etc. And increasingly, they seem to be reading from the same page as Christianity Today. Although, Christianity Today is careful not to mention certain matters. Ashbury Seminary (part of the University) is as broadchurch as Broadway. "Legion" is welcome there. You will not find that in Christianity Today's breathless account. But the NY Times is giddy at what it sees:
“It’s been a very sacred space,” he said. Mr. Drake is [a Sodomite], and said he had reconciled at the revival with a fellow seminarian he had once clashed with over politics he described as “right-wing homophobia.”
"Mr. Drake, who is pursuing ordination in the Free Methodist denomination, said the first days of the revival were a period of healing and unity."
There is none of this in Christianity Today. An oversight, no doubt. As the $100 million (and that's just the beginning to make Jesus the hottest brand in town) Hobby Church Lobby ad puts it: He Gets US. But Sodomites are there in the rooms praying all night with their fellow revivalists. The NY Times wants you to see that. Christianity Today does not. "Woodstock"? And revival? That's like using Pentecost and Gomorrah in the same sentence. Billionaires donate billions to Christianity Today to atone for their debauchery, not to be reminded of it. And Woodstock looks almost Christian compared to what is swept under the rug at Ashbury. But the Woodstock reference is on the mark: people come for the vibes and hope to connect with something. "They turned, but not to the Most High." This is the wreckage of self-help sermonizing, spiritual basket cases clinging to each other in desperation.
Russel Moore, who was hired by Christianity Today to counter homophobia, warns of cynicism. Had he mentioned what the NY Times gloats over, the hair of even the billionaires he shakes down would stand on end. Imagine, "vexed Lot" getting preached to in Sodom. Moore knows that flagrant Sodomites prance around on the stage leading services. In the old days that would have raised some eyebrows. But times have changed. Men are always only men of their times. Don't put God in a corner. And he's now the go-to Rev for the NY Times, explaining how Jesus is relevant for our day. It doesn't get more relevant than Woodstock. Or Broadway. Today Jesus would be on Broadway.
Moore knows about the Sodomites up there on the stage. He broke with the SBC because of Trump's immorality. But he warns you not to be "cynical" even as he doesn't even hint on what you might be "cynical" about. The notion that a Sodomite preacher could not lead a revival might leave some scratching their heads. For what is the chief sin of the modern age, according to Christianity Today? Homophobia. Only that can account for the Pharisaical vexation over these Old Testament Publicans. Jesus would not have been vexed in Sodom is what He Gets Us means. "Woe unto you Pharisees," we read. In essence, judgmental Lot was worse than the people around him.
2-21-23
"[Rev. Jim Wallis] was one of a small group of pastors President Barack Obama turned to for prayer and counsel in the early years of his presidency. (NY Times)
The Rev used to snuffle around the Bruderhof to burnish his sermon on the mount politics. He's always has a taste for the finer things in life, especially, the chief seats in the seats of power, where the Rev is in high demand for "prayer and counsel" among "spiritual wickedness in high places." Like the Bruderhof, he cries up a fashionable "give peace a chance" wokeness when it is fashionable to do so, while recognizing "the reality" (tsk, tsk) that "we live in an imperfect world." Like Moody, Bush and Romney, when it comes to marching off to war to get himself killed--well, "in that sense he's a Quaker." But he recognizes that others have to march off to get themselves killed--to each his own. No doubt in his "prayer and counsel" to Obama, he would intone "moderation," "dialogue," and "love," while (he he), of course, recognizing that the President cannot take his marching orders from the Sermon on the Mount. And so he carried on, year after year, living large in Washington as the Rev to the rich and powerful, He even has a post in the den of iniquities, Georgetown University, where he holds forth on Jesus, that is, when he is not busy "praying and giving counsel" in the Oval Office. The New York Times has only praise.
2-21-23
Some of the Best Weapons in the World Are Now in Ukraine. They May Change the War (NY TIMES).
The NY Times drools over the murderous Leopard tank, the height of German style and engineering, with no less than two machine guns to finish off what its murderous cannon misses. The modern assault rifle used to massacre people in American cities is likewise held by some as the epitome of style. But the Left recoils from those and would banish them from the face of the earth as barbaric relics of bygone evil. But here they are rejoicing over one of the most murderous weapons on the face of the earth, rejoicing over its ability to commit mass human slaughter on a grand scale. If you're for the death penalty on a mass scale, this is the instrument of choice. They thank the Germans for making possible the mass slaughter of Russian 18-yearolds marched to the Front at the point of a gun. This they say is not hate, or Russianphobia. Ukrainians prefer American assault rifles to Russian ones. Here they are objects of horror and evil. Over there they're "the best." Such narrow thinking used to be called Fascism, nationalism, etc. But here it is in the globalist NY Times. They will not bat an eye to kill for "the right cause."
What you have here is Supremacist arrogance. Friedman was so smug in his self-righteousness that he had the war ended within weeks because the Globe would cancel the heretic of Disinformation. Note they do not speak of Truth, as opinions about "so called" facts are always evolving. But they are the custodians of the "informed" lens by which to divine the course of events. Western globalism is the new Supremacy: white coastal elites advancing Groomocracy under the banner of "freedom," which is little more than depraved license. Victory here means Pride marches in Red Square.
2-16-23
Flying fishline in New York City These are the Ultras in charge of Israel now. They're taking over New York City, block by block, because ultra-rich Manhattan (like Tel Aviv) cannot "be fruitful and multiply" because, like Judge Jackson, they can't tell a chicken from a rooster, even though many of them are "biologists." The Comments Section is off the rails. Because Israelites were not allowed to gather Manna on the Sabbath, Ultra's cannot even carry their house keys. So they attach them to their garments permanently. They also have to remain in their homes, which they expand by connecting a fishline to it. In Brooklyn all the telephones are attached by these fishlines, and as long as you remain on the right side of the fishline, you have not transgressed the Law. The photo shows three Ultras jaywalking, without so much as a glance at the posted city ordinance posted by the unclean Gentiles. They're all headed for the Mount, and "God only loves the Jews" (they say that), so who cares with the Gentiles say. Here is where the Settlers come from--with billionaire backing. They could care less what secular Jews think? Why? Because they know that Reform Jews are dying out rapidly. If you're a decrepit billionaire hoping to be buried in Jerusalem, you fund these Ultras. They also vote as a bloc. Kingmakers. The city allows them to run their religious fishlines on public utility poles. Ultras have crews to check the lines constantly since one break would cause a multitude to transgress. And this in the most wicked and secular city in the world. You could take these Jews and drop them anywhere on the globe and they would make it. They have learned to game the welfare state both here and in Israel, but even here only because they act as a unit. Can you eat an egg laid on the Sabbath, the sages ask? Only if on Monday you apply the death penalty for transgressing the Sabbath. I suppose then you can eat the chicken also. This is what they reduce the entire Old Testament to. In two thousand years they have not shed light on a single verse of the Bible, because they know its literal content less then an atheist, and cannot see it for all the rubbish they have piled on it.
2-16-23
Antony Blinken 'warns Ukraine' against retaking Crimea
That would mean a hot war with Nato, which would take Germany and France out of the coalition. They see Putin doubling down and know the end is nigh. They need to cut their losses, but Putin now holds all the cards. He will demand that Ukraine remain outside of Nato. Which leaves him room to meddle, which leaves Ukraine a worse no-,man's land than it was. They will be fortunate to be left one Black Sea port. All that for this. Murder on a mass scale. "War," said Tolstoy, "is how the rich murder the poor." The sons of the rich are partying in resorts, and those with means fled before they could be drafted. Not because they're against war, but like Dwight Moody, when it comes to personally having your brains clubbed out, "in that sense I'm a Quaker," he said. Trump, Cheney, Romney, Limbaugh, the younger Bush, the leftwing writer James Fallow all found their innner Quaker when it came their turn. When the danger passed to left off "being Quakers" and once again wrapped themselves in the flag.
The Race Is On to Rebuild Ukraine (NY Times
Yesterday they were still low on ammunition. When repeating rifles came on the market, officers dismissed them as useless gadgets as soldiers would just keep pulling the trigger and run out of ammunition. Now they're talking about filling Putin's desert with gleaming new cities. The jets Britain promised to end the war, will now arrive (ahem) "after the war." A small detail. Apparently, Putin threatened to level London with his Nukes, and their Health Department (now on strike because they're so broke--they can rebuild Britain when they get done with Ukraine) informed them that Nukes would compromise the health of Brits. But they're already at the table drawing up huge plans for Ukraine. Ukraine is retreating for lack of ammunition. Perhaps they're keeping some in reserve for the upcoming war with China after which the tech-bros will "race to rebuild" Taiwan. "The US is on track to add $13 trillion to its debts," the NY Times said. That's some goalpost. Apparently, some were worried that the US was no longer "on track." With that many countries "racing to be rebuilt," they could easily become sidetracked. But, they boast, "the $13 trillion is on track." "Why are you retreating," an officer radioed his underling. "We're not," the fellow answered. "We're attacking in a different direction." If you have trouble saving money, do the opposite and spend more.
2-15-23
"Khodorkovsky warns West of war with China if Russia wins in Ukraine"
Which means that little Ukraine is tying down two super powers. Does China want Russia to win, if doing so means war with the West, which will leave much of the world destroyed? But China is keeping its distance from the war, hoping that the US will stumble into a hot war. Everyone knows that Ukraine cannot win. Nato would have to step in and destroy much of Russia before Putin gives up Crimea and the Donbas. But those are the crown jewels of Ukraine and their loss means Putin has won. Even Ukrainians in Western jets will not turn the tide. It would take Nato jets to destroy Russia enough to remove Putin. But even handing over "the jets" is now off the table, because once this becomes an air war it will be fought digitally from Musk's satellites. If Musk is killing Russian generals, why would he not be a target? The entire US Intelligence apparatus has been at Ukraine's disposal since the invasion. Without it, the war would have been over in a month. Once the war takes to the air, borders will disappear, because Ukraine cannot allow Russia to remain a safe zone. A jet can be over your city in minutes and differs little from a missile. In an air war, first strike is everything. Ukraine is not striking Russian cities now because it doesn't have big enough missiles. The US is already giving Ukraine smaller missiles. It wants bigger so it can strike Putin's bases in Crimea (which the US says belongs to Ukraine, but will not allow its missiles to be used to reclaim it). In short, the tanks are about as far as Nato can go without triggering a hot war. And would China sit on the sidelines if US destroyed Russia? But if you don't destroy Russia enough to remove Putin, then how can Ukraine win? Even if Putin allows himself to be killed (which he would be) before reaching for his Nukes, what comes after could be ten times worse.
China is in view, because the US will now take up the cause of Taiwan. The idea is to make Taiwan bristle before China invades, because China will blockade it. And then what, have the Navy start blasting Chinese ships?
But if you're the world's policeman, and China breaks the rules (like Putin), you have to respond. Today Ukraine, tomorrow Taiwan, Climate, over-population, shortages, Covids, etc. Everyone will have to do their part. Caesar complex. India, South America, Africa are too busy with life to worry about solving the problems of the Universe. You think a Chinese balloon would have spooked the Africans?
God, they say, is how ignorant man compensates for his lack of knowledge: the God of the gaps. He prays into this void, when he should be busy shrinking the gap between his ears. Then when the crisis comes, instead of solving it rationally, he panics and resorts to violence. Global man thinks he has broken the wheel of endless destruction and chaos. "We're fighting for all of you," says Zelensky. Orphan Taiwan is now also part of the family. "A sack of rice," say the Germans, "just fell over in a warehouse in China." Wonder what they meant by that? Because if Biden loses in Ukraine, he will (we are told) trigger a war with China. And he will lose in Ukraine because he's afraid of triggering a war with Russia. And because China is 100 times more powerful than Russia, why not, the thinking seems to be, absorb Russia in order to dwarf China once and for all. This is rare oxygen, with room only for the three major powers. Scholz and Macron might as well be managers of counties.
2-14-23
"Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are settlers who hold a clear and even radical ideology. They want to criminalize homosexuals and march on the Temple Mount on Passover, which would break the status quo with Palestinians for this holy site. They do not want to make room for Arab Israelis to be equal citizens. For them, only Jews should have supremacy. They are more like a white supremacist group, perhaps closest to the Ku Klux Klan. They think that violence is a legitimate way to assert the religious and ethnic supremacy of Jews." (German Spiegel)
Take out the few acres that is East Jerusalem (the Temple Mount) and you would have a Palestinian State within a month. Remove the Ultras (most are on welfare so they can spend their days poring over "fables and endless genealogies") and the seculars would have to decamp for Manhattan. The Settlers are firebrands from New York funded (as the article says) by Wall Street Billionaires. Most of these billionaires want to be buried in Jerusalem. All the Settlers have to do is claim an outpost on Palestinian land and live there so the Army will have to move in to protect them. Billionaires get a lot for their money here. In these non-working Settlers, Israel has the counterpart to Islamic fanaticism. They're the backbone of Israel, because they'll match the Palestinian body count pile for pile. It's what kept the Russian army at bay until now. The only truth these radicals recognize it the one that promotes the plan of God. "God gave them the land. Not to claim what God has given is to insult God." Barabbas was not a crook. He was a patriot. Democracy here is blasphemy, as it has to be polytheistic. The Ultras who put Netanyahu in power are all outlaws by Thomas Friedman's reckoning. Did you see his last column on Biden's 46 words meant to warn Deacon Bibi not to stray too far off the Reservation? But the Ultras' view the secular government as blasphemous, to be removed by any means possible (Evangelicals cannot sympathize with Palestinians because they stand in the way of the will of God). In the old days, Canaanites didn't even have the right not to be exterminated. And Bibi has no choice but to cater to them or go to jail. Hence, the law to strip the Supreme Court of its power. Judges are chosen by other judges, all of whom are liberal. They have the power to overturn laws made by elected officials. In short, they are a self-perpetuating dynasty who rule the country. As Tel Aviv elites, you can imagine what they think of the Settlers and Ultras. The new law would allow elected officials to appoint judges, making them representative of the popular will. Otherwise, they say, the country will always be held hostage to a minority. But the Settlers now have the majority of the votes. Allow democratic rule, says Friedman, and see what happens to the Palestinians and Tel Aviv, which they have vowed to cleanse. Now, you may find it odd that a US reporter would be bold enough to solicit a warning from a US President intended for the people who govern Israel. The Ultras could care less. Israel is Pentagon Light in the Middle East, and now they're in the driver's seat. Israel is too big to fail, militarily. Politically, they are American kingmakers, because of Evangelical doctrine, and the Holocaust. Financially, decrepit Wall Street billionaires do not seek atonement for their evil by funding depraved Tel Aviv. Everyone knows that Israel survives because of the fanatical zeal of the Settlers. The US spent more money throwing up walls against suicide bombers than it did blowing off the tops of Afghan hills. Meanwhile, Gaza is laying low. Never interrupt your enemies while they're at each other's throats.
Friedman's Dream Team (made up of never-Bibiers) was true Democracy in that it was made up of the mixed multitude. Including Arab's who are Israeli citizens who loathe a Jewish state, and would vote the Jews out as soon as they became a majority. This is why the Left has completely disappeared in Israel. Israel is where globalist go to die, because the Matter was tried there (the Kibbutz), and found itself incapable of tolerating their half-brother Ishmael. Political sermon on the mount only has cache where it has never been tried. And the more outrageous its claims, the greater its appeal to bored socialites trying to find refuge from the banality of their empty lives. So now that The Matter has been tried (again), where to now? As you can see, the inmates are in control, and they have no credible opposition. Until now their boldest endeavors have been hamstrung by the elitist Supreme Court, which also has Bibi in the docket. The radicals have now passed laws to clip the wings of the court so that it can no longer thwart the will of the majority, which is in the hands of firebrand Ultras. What scares Friedman is that these fire-breathers don't bother to argue law or values. They simple quote the Torah, which they hope to make the law of the land. For Israel to be "whole," it will have to reinstitute the ceremonial Law of Moses, particularly the Day of Atonement. But any sacrifice requires the Temple to be standing (which is why there has been no Jewish sacrifice since 70 AD. Any sacrifice elsewhere would be idolatry. For God only dwells in one place: the Holy of Holies. If the Jews storm the Temple Mount, they will do so with the belief that God will "thunder from the hills" to protect them. What does the NY Times do now, because they know the revolution is funded from Manhattan? Evangelicals would be ecstatic, and if Jews start building, people all over the world would read the prophecies of Ezekiel out of curiosity, Iran and Hamas are probably holding their breath waiting for what they know will ignite a powder keg. Because, the temple Mosque (the third most sacred) will have to go. No one believes them when they say they only want to pray on the Mount. The Mount is the crown jewel of Israel. And it would have to be purified before building begins. For the Ultras, to keep the mosque standing, is idolatry.
Now don't tell me that when you read in the atheist German Spiegel of "Jews storming the Temple Mount," you do not feel compelled to read tedious Ezekiel. In the eighties, that statement would have been unthinkable, because the price of oil would have destroyed the US economy.
2-13-23
"U.S. warns Ukraine it faces a pivotal moment in war."
Translation: The US knows the war is lost, and is looking for a compromise (why would Ukraine need to be informed when they share the same bunker with the CIA--this is for media consumption): Ukraine (what's left of it) gets real hard borders and one Black Sea Port (Odesa). Holy Kyiv is now forever anti-Russian, and no one will ever call Ukrainians "Russians" again. They lose the best parts of Ukraine, but at least what they have is not a war zone. For the Palestinians it was always all or nothing. They could have had a genuine state long ago--without East Jerusalem as its Capital. The third most holy site in Islam is in East Jerusalem. Tanks were supposed to have hurled Putin back strengthened Ukraine's negotiation leverage. They're in retreat, and "the jets" are no longer coming. No one in Nato ever thought Putin could be driven from Crimea. But that's what keep morale up in the trenches. The soldiers were promised East Jerusalem for their sacrifice. It's what kept Ukraine united. The problem now lies with the guarantees the US can offer Ukraine. For everyone knows that without a strong deterrent, Putin will keep destabilizing Ukraine.
What are the Taiwanese thinking now? The idea is to make the island bristle with US weapons and hope pluck makes up for the rest. Pluck is no match against Nukes. In the end Biden is left to stare at Russian nukes, because now the war has become so hopeless that only major escalation will reverse Putin's momentum. But how does Biden back down in Ukraine without signaling to Taiwan to accept their fate like Hong Kong? Communist China is an empty shell of Capitalism. I invited a Chinese PhD student to my home some time ago, and because he was such a free wheeling atheist, I took my Bible and began reading Genesis. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the deep, and the Spirit of God...." "The what?" he said. "The Spirit of God," I said, "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." "I'm an atheist," he laughed. "And now you've already got three...?" China has a large footprint in China, and millions of Africans work in China bringing their churches with them. Cultural Marxism has no hold in China outside of the political class. It's been tried. Those dead bones cannot live.
2-12-23
“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner” (Lu. 18:13). A Publican was the furthest thing from religion. He had, the Rev Smooths would say, an inferior view of God, and needed to relax. "He Gets Us," and rather than blame himself this man simply needed to upgrade his understanding of God. As long as he thinks of himself as "bad," he will fail to make improvement through therapy, counfsfling, self helps. He many even need "medication."
No one ever used this verse to warn about suicide, because he was not looking for self-help. He was not frustrated because he had greater trouble than his circumstances. His only problem was with God. All human problems are personal problems. For "the Lord is always at hand." "Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh unto you." And then the next verse, "Cleanse your hands you sinners." That's how James deals with "moral hazards" "addictions", etc. Those are but the unruly limbs of a bad tree, which the hewing prophet would "recover" by laying "the ax to the root of the tree." People do not commit suicide or "moral hazards" in the presence of God. It's the most lethal form of worldliness, atheism and unbelief.
"Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself" (Mt. 27:5). Judas did not succumb to a disease. Here is guilt without the grace to repent. He lacked the grace (regeneration) to take up the cross, and despaired in the hollow formulas of Temple religion. The Pharisee still found help in himself for he "thanked God that he was not like other men." But Judas, like the rich young ruler, looked for more than the slogans of the elders. He was not just another revolutionary patriot like Barabbas. His covetousness had gotten the best of him before: he pilfered donations, and rebuked Christ for neglecting the poor when he saw an opportunity to enrich himself squandered. The Publican looked outside of himself for relief. Selfish Judas had only himself in his hour of need. This is why people commit suicide. David Brooks and his Wheaton girl could not help his rich friend. They likely gave him all the rubbish books of the Manhattan Rev. Hipster Smoothpreach. "He Gets You," Hobby Church Lobby would have told the Publican, and Judas. The Pharisee already had all that.
2-12-23
"Churches often don’t see the moral hazards of gambling or the need for recovery ministry for gambling."
“Kentucky already struggles with drug addiction, and it is immoral for the state to encourage another form of addiction—sports betting,” said Todd Gray, the head of the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
"As the Super Bowl pulls in record wagers, Christians can pull lessons from the opioid crisis to help with treatment."
“The goal (He Gets US) is to invest about a billion dollars over the next three years,” he said. “And that is just the first phase” (Christianity Today).
It could be worse. Those billion dollar ads will leave a footprint about the weight of a Chinese balloon. With that kind of money, they could build a hobby church in every corner of America. Billionaires for Jesus. The Greens (worth $13 billion) attend a Baptist Church in Oklahoma. $13 billion will destroy everything around it. Run! Make the eye of a needle your business logo.
I had not heard that churches had a "recovery ministry for opioid addiction." Nichols Kristoff at the NY Times, many of whose friends are in the grips of it, does not mention it. But they must have had a measure of success, enough to glean "lessons pulled from it," to wage war on the new crisis facing the church: Super Bowl gambling addiction. Is the $100 million dollar Church Hobby Lobby He Gets US hipster Jesus ad designed to that purpose? That we are not told. I also did not see a Hotline. But they seem to be on it. At the Hipster Rev's church you can use your insurance card to cover the cost of "coufnsfling." If Conservatives manage to break the back of the Education Department and channel funds to religious institutions, you'll see Blue Cross/Blue Shield on church signs. And so Theocracy will have come full circle. Remember Heraclitus (500 BC) from you grade school lesson who taught if you push anything long enough it will turn into its opposite, because "the road up and the road down are the same road?" However ridiculous it may seem, most people sense it's true. Here, a rabid Secularism has pushed the Abomination into American institutions so relentlessly, that they have created exactly what they sought to destroy: government sponsored religion. Because the assault on "conscience" is the new oppression.
If the State "struggles with drug addiction" then the Rev's church "struggles with drug addiction." Which is why he wants "addiction" to be addressed by big government, no doubt to keep having to fund a "recovery ministry for gambling" caused by "moral hazards." Why not, instead, have state funded "gambling chaplains" at hazard sites to warn of "moral hazards" to prevent "moral hazards" from becoming an addiction needing the attention of the Pastor of Recovery Ministry for Gambling. This is especially urgent now that Jesus has become "the hottest brand at the Supper Bowl" with the "He Gets US" $100 million Church Hobby Lobby hipster ad. A classmate who served as chaplain for the Philadelphia Eagles once tried to get me to attend an Eagles game (on the players bench). I was tempted, but only to see what he preached in that den of iniquity.
2-11-23
Seculodoxy, Statism, Pentagon II: United States of Eumerica
"Western aid or not, there is little sign of the required breakthrough, or even a plausible answer to what “winning” really means. Is it taking back all the disputed territory, including Crimea? Without regime change in Russia, there is no chance of that" (From chest-thumping Telegraph. They gloated over the "jet coup" for exactly half a day until someone told them about "the risks").
The mob pile-on in the initial days of the invasion would cause a Russian social collapse within a matter of weeks, Russians would rise up to overthrow Putin, and Russia would regroup under EU values. He lost most of his army around Kyiv, and without mobilization (which would cause a Russian uprising), he would soon be driven from even Crimea, a humiliation which would likewise be the end of him. He mobilized, his economy (instead of shrinking like the UK's), will grow this year, and Ukraine is now anxiously awaiting the rod of his anger in the Spring Offensive. Everyone (including Ukraine if it doesn't get jets immediately) expects Ukraine to be hurled back. Now what?
Obviously, the war by now has very little to do with Ukraine vis-à-vis Ukraine. The war is in two parts: 1) Nato intervention was a message to China about the cost of invading Taiwan. 2) The US used the war to gain absolute control over EU foreign policy to keep it from undermining US global strategy. The US needs to keep Putin bogged down to meet both of its objectives: make China think twice about Taiwan, and keep the EU tethered to US interests. At this point they are little more than an American Colony with Deacon Zelensky as Colony overseer. After the Athenian navy destroyed the Persians, they went around to all the Greek states to dictate the new world order. Athens would provide blanket security, while the rest of the Greeks could go about their business of making money. The splendid ruins you see in Athens today reflect the price the weakened Greeks were made to pay for security, leading them to side with Sparta, which caused the (near) world war that left collective Greece too weak to resist Alexander the Great.
Germany and France dithered in the hope that both of their masters would weaken themselves sufficiently to allow the EU to play them off against each other (Germany's gas blackmail that started the war. Now no one in Nato wants Ukraine to win, while the US is best served by keeping Ukraine from losing--without Ukraine winning). By getting US tanks between Putin and Berlin, Germany left itself the option of continuing the blackmail as the US would have to come begging for help. Initially, it was unthinkable that Germany would not take charge of the war once it was understood that "the cowboys" would ride only behind the Prussians. Biden got in a hurry, and taking Scholz for a hapless fool, jumped the gun, only to find himself blackmailed by the wily Prussian. The Prussians get to march in the rear once again. Now that the EU has shown itself without the will to become the Beast, the US's best strategy is to keep the war going endlessly, to deter China, and keep the EU on a tether. In short: consolidate Nato's Drang Nach Osten Plan begun in 1990. That is, keep Putin so occupied and the US so involved in Ukraine, that Pentagon II in the Balkans will have become a fait accompli with Deacon Zelensky installed by the Mother Colony as overseer. With a stroke, the EU is now a US auxiliary, the unruly Balkans have a monster policeman in their midst, and the New Rome has custody of the crossroads and breadbasket of the world: the Black Sea. Without losing one American soldier. No Frenchman would give up one inch of Napoleon's ill-gotten conquests. Which is probably why Republican criticism is so muted. America is the biggest brand around currently. Even the NY Times endorses the New Imperialism. AGA without Trump.
The conventional wisdom is that Nukes are off the table: 1) field Nukes are self-defeating as Russians would rise up if Putin contaminated their own backyard. 2) Putin lacks the fanatical zeal to play the Taliban by striking Western cities with ballistic Nukes.
Which leaves suicidal revenge rising out of desperation. This is the "Putin in a corner" factor. Which is the "Rasputin" factor. No one would put anything past that monster. But the greatest surprise of the war is that it seems but the latest chapter of War and Peace, a mythic Russia which everyone had assumed had passed and existed only in Putin's mind. They had better hope Rasputinism doesn't.
The world's largest arsenal of Nukes is the also the world's biggest problem. No one doubts that Russia "does good with rockets." The only way for the US to get to the Space Station is on Russian rockets. Hitting Manhattan would be child's play compared to that. Now if Russia is forced to retreat from Crimea, you have regime change in Russia. Who takes over? Wagner? Could Wagner get its hands on Nukes? Putting them on the black market would create many billionaires. How would the US get control of them--without raising China's suspicion? Putin boxed up like North Korea would be a non ending nightmare. Iran would most certainly get Nukes, and Saudi Arabia would pay a trillion to join the club. Best to let sleeping dogs lie. They need to keep Putin in power to keep the Nukes off the black market, which means supporting Ukraine just enough to keep it from winning. Putin keeps the Donbas and Crimea, while leaving Ukraine enough coastline to export its goods. Not that anyone would ever agree to this on paper. It would simply be the reality on the ground. Putin, it would be understood would revive the conflict the minute the US leaves. Which means the US is there to stay. Which is what Ukraine wants. It is not what Germany and France want. In the end this is a US war against Germany to keep it from blackmailing Nato in exchange for free Russian gas. They will find obedience hard. "A year ago," writes Thomas Friedman angrily, "no one knew where Ukraine was." And now Zelensky is the biggest man in Europe. He will remain so as long as the US can keep the war going. It's not even costing the US the interest on the interest of the war/energy dividend. Twenty years ago, a conglomerate came into the area and bought up all the garbage collecting businesses. Now a conglomerate is buying up all the grain elevators. Poor Britain tried to buck the trend and go it alone. But even Scholz and Macron know they've been taken hostage. The controllers of the world have to watch as their best plans come to naught. They've found the world too complicated to even nudge: sanctions have hurt them more than Putin, Iran makes drones from washing machines, India/ China,/Africa/South America show themselves willing to sacrifice global values for self-interest, and Putin is no closer to defeat than he was a year ago. If Erdogen loses the next election it will be because an earthquake came out of nowhere. The EU, especially, out of a sense of duty, it seems, is quick to say that Europe is in a "post-Christian" era. You wonder what Scholz's (an atheist) reaction would be, if, while he's weighing his options by himself, he would hear someone quote, "From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God."
2-10-23
"Pentagon looks to restart top-secret programs in Ukraine. If approved, the move would authorize U.S. Special Operations troops to employ Ukrainian operatives" (Washington Post).
"Proponents are said to be arguing that it would not risk escalation because the Ukrainian operatives, and their US Special Operations handlers, would not be involved in combat."
Hitler never personally killed anyone. Stalin committed robbery and would have been in a position to kill, but no record exists. Drone killings are done from a base in Florida. Truman did not drop the bomb on Japan. Neither Pilate, Herod, nor the Jews actually crucified Jesus. But when people heard that high level Russian generals were being killing in record numbers, few had any doubts that the Ukrainians were doing more than loading and firing the guns which were aimed by the CIA. Most people knew this a year ago (read far below). And now its news?
US Special Forces hiring Ukrainian soldiers to kill Russians. They are not training Ukrainian soldiers, but hiring them to carry out US missions, which makes them military contractors such as the US used in Iraq and Afghanistan: mercenaries. This is offensive war. If you hire a hit man to kill someone, both you and the hitman will be charged with murder. Biden/Blinken are lying when they tell the American people that they are not actively killing Russians. "He was killed by the Mob" even if the Mob farmed out the killing to a second or third party. God charged David with murder when he used the machinery of the state to have Uriah killed by a foreign government.
Why is the Pentagon leaking this to the Washington Post now? Because they know that Ukraine cannot hold the line for much longer with what they have, and Biden/Blinken are softening up the American public for an all-out assault by Nato to "finish Putin off." Instead of Putin, Biden has painted himself into a corner where the political consequences of defeat have become too big to fail. Biden stands to be humiliated now, and he cannot afford a loss going into 2024. The Left mortgaged the farm on this war and can no longer retreat. If Putin prevails, the global Right will have a heyday. Thus the Left turned the Cultural War into a hot global war between two nuclear powers. And nuclear powers cannot retreat. China will invade Taiwan the minute the first US soldier is killed in Ukraine, leaving the US to face two nuclear super powers with Old Europe looking on and weighing their options. Why are US Special forces "employing" Ukrainian soldiers and not Polish, Estonian, etc., soldiers. Because, Ukraine is "the Front" against Russia, and the Pentagon needs its own people on the Front. Which means the US is actively at war with Russia. "Blessed are the peacemakers." The opposite is true of the warmakers. War is the force multiplier of the sword, which "taken up," Jesus says, is always suicidal. Violence poses the greatest danger to those who wield it. Christ made that the law of the Universe for all time. "Though it tarry, wait for it, it will surely come to pass."
2-9-23
Pentagon Admits to mass killing of Russian soldiers from American soil. Yesterday the NY Times, today the Washington Post. They must want Russia to retaliate so they can get WW3 going, They know Ukraine can't hold out much longer, and are determined that "Putin must go." Their message to Americans is, we've been killing Russians all along remotely, so we might as well throw the mask off and end the Russian problem once and for all.
"Ukraine’s rocket campaign reliant on U.S. precision targeting, officials say" (Washington Post)
What got the Deplorable hissed at in the NY Times yesterday: that those hundreds of thousands of Russians have been killed by US soldiers on US soil aiming US weapons stationed in Ukraine. All the Ukrainians are doing is pulling the trigger. Aiming is done on US soil. Without the US pointing the missiles, they would land in the middle of a wheat field. Woke Manhattan deceives itself that it is only giving the Ukrainians the tools they need to defend themselves. Now we learn that Biden is conducting the war from US soil with US soldiers on US ground. And the writer said, "The US has its own agenda here." In other words, the US is killing hundreds of thousands of Russians, not on behalf of Ukraine, but for its own strategic agenda (while Russia has not responded in kind). Which means that the US is actively at war with Russia. Two nuclear powers at war. And there's no way to end it. They can no longer get out. Except as the Washington Post says, Biden is killing Russians by the tens of thousands, while Putin has yet to fire a single shot at an American. America is at war with Russia because, I assume, the cause is just according to Augustine's Just War Theory, while the Russians are not at war with the US, because they cannot meet the demands of Augustine's Just War Theory. Now if you're actively killing Russians when Russians refrain from killing Americans, how have you not provoked Russia? Biden is lying to the American people (as the Washington Post points out) by claiming that America has no offensive part in the war. Because, as the Washington Post (yesterday the NY Times) points out, Biden/Blinken are actively killing Russians with US weapons based on Ukrainian soil aimed by US soldiers from American soil. They're not sleepwalking into war. They're actively trying to provoke nuclear Armageddon. All those high ranking Russian generals killed earlier, we now learn, were killed from American soil by US soldiers.
2-9-23
"U.S. declassifies balloon intelligence, calls out China for spying."
Hopefully the Taliban will not discover balloons. The "stone (see Einstein on Stones and Stupidity below) intelligence" on Afghanistan, we are led to believe, will remain classified. In Greek times, you always knew a major battle was imminent when soldiers found fried chicken on the menu. For Alexander would chop heads until he found favorable "intelligence" in the entrails. Just when you thought eggs are already too high.
2-9-23
After showing Germany and France "what Churchill would do" yesterday, Britain today beat a hasty repeat:
"No 10 told PA news the government would not send fighter jets to Ukraine if it put the UK’s safety at risk."
“The UK has significant numbers of Typhoons and F-35s,” Rishi Sunak’s spokesman said. “Of course we would never do anything that would put UK safety at risk.”
Apparently, after huddling with their medical experts, they discovered that sending the cannon fodder into trenches ("graves" Germans call them) could "seriously compromise their health." They banned fox hunting when a millions dollar investigation found that "fox hunting seriously compromises the health of the fox." Yesterday it was all about Britannia assuming the role of European leadership again. Such was the media hype that Scholz was forced to announce that Germany would not be forced to enter a "chest-thumping" contest. This is all this was. The US using Britain to shame Germany to toe the line. Simon Jenkins (the Left's most vocal warmonger at the Guardian up to now) sees matters spiraling out of control and calls for negotiations. Until now only Putin's removal would do. "Don't even think about sending jets," he now shrieks. Apparently, he too thinks that a Russian Nuke on London "would seriously compromise his health." In short, Britain's half-jet will remain grounded. Jenkins is up to his neck in Ukrainian/Russian blood. Now the fool wants to cut a deal. This is all about Boris Johnson's "self interest," he says. The Brexiter exists to undermine the EU to keep it from starving Britain into submission. Yesterday, Germany and France made a show of going along. Nothing will come of it. Russia will now advance, and Nato will either have to intervene or accept Zelensky into exile. Nato intervention will split the coalition, and now you have two Europes, exactly what Putin set out to do. Apparently, Putin threatened to Nuke London, and after consulting the Health Department (now on strike because of Putin energy) concluded that a Nuclear strike on London poses "risks to British safety." Given the history (of blood) you may see the wisdom of putting the Health Department in charge of the War Department, especially, as sending British jets to kill Russians may compromise the health of Londoners. Zelensky even met with Karl der Bloese, that warlike prince, who word has it will be crowned on the ready with hand on sword and buckler. Yesterday, while praying in a mosque, it was discovered that the Head of the Church of England (defender of faiths, he wants to be called) had a hole in his sock. The richest man in England is a man of the people. And that on the day when Zelensky came hat in hand. Translation: Don't come to me, I'm broke too. The cameraman would have been tipped off on the footwear. Apparently, the art of knitting has been lost too. Or perhaps they can't afford the yarn. Their fathers invented Capitalism with needle work (see below). If they ever made a movie of what Adam Smith describes, you would realize that you have never really "worked" in your life. They went from making 4800 pins a day (per man) to less than one, accounting, no doubt, for the hole in their king's sock. He also has an old tweed coat with a patched elbow that he wears on occasion. A great favorite with the press.
"Ukraine unlikely to be sent British jets until war is over, Ben Wallace (Brit Defence Min)says."
Yesterday they were strutting around like peacocks because of "the coup": Zelensky visited the UK before meeting Old Europe. They would have the honor of having led the "jets for Ukraine" movement, and would be amply rewarded for their courage by the US. Silence from Old Europe. By morning the leadership was shrieking about "risks." Imagine that: they volunteered to send jets to kill Russian troops by the tens of thousands assuming that someone had invented risk free war. The Health Department (on strike) must have informed them that killing tens of thousand Russian troop could compromise the health of Britain, in the same manner that it was discovered that fox hunting compromised the health of the fox. After a day of boasting, the Ukrainians are now told that the jets which Britain boasted would end the war, would now arrive after the end of the war: from "jets to end the war" to "jets after the end of the war." A slight alteration made necessary by Nuke Risk Adjustment. But they were crowing in Churchill mode yesterday. The Health Department must have read Putin's telegram and informed the leaders that London, flattened by Nukes, would seriously compromise the health of Londoners. In which case, they said, we'll still deliver the jets--with a minor adjustment--after the war. In which case, they will likely send them to (the) Ukraine. They're so broke, they should probably assume smaller tasks: fixing the hole in Charles' sock before coronation, especially, since he has a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth.
2-8-23
"We (Britain) should admit defeat, give up on our efforts to nurture a plucky national underdog and instead focus on luring established global players to do the work for us. The obvious candidate is Musk." So the descendants of Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations:
"I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day."
If that doesn't already make you cry "Cease and Desist," read the whole chapter where he goes into detail about making pins. Most people are much more concerned about the need to have so many pins than with their making. Imagine spending most of your waking hours concentrating on a tiny pin. And he's just getting started. Hauling freight through Manhattan four months without a break, you feel as if you've become part of the concrete. Imagine what this does to a person. Marx looks at this and thinks he sees something sinister: a hybrid man alienated from his work. He has become a cog in a machine. The art is no longer his as he repeats the same task over and over--just so he can eat. He has no enjoyment in the work of his hands, because the division of labor is now also the fragmentation of the soul. His work is but a means of survival. But he doesn't have the freedom to stop. Those, Marx says, are his chains. And this is not slavery, but institutional (the word today is "systematic"--the System) oppression. When you read Marx, whenever you come to "work," replace it with "race" (or feminism or genderism) and you have a ready made Critical ( ) Theory. Now go back to the pins. Marx would tell you, "This is not going to end well. Alienation will create a monster." "You would have to be an ox (a brute)," he said, "to turn your back on human suffering." The cure, Communism, was worse than the disease. They just didn't get it right, his modern followers say. It will be tried again. Because Marx comes in halves: he can take apart and show you all the parts (Explaining the world--deconstruction--this is where Universities are for the last hundred years). The other half is activism--changing the world (politically--state reparations, state gender marriage, or just statism). The activism is the important part, because it always means political enforcement in Marxism. From the beginning, Marx realized that change will only come through violence, the State or Revolution. All the Critical Theories would be just more jangling, were it not for the fact that the Left knows that they will only come to fruition through the iron fist of law. Once codified in law they will be mandated in kindergarten, where brainwashing and indoctrination will render the iron fist barely visible later on. Conservatives lose here by failing to understand the power of Marx's first half. In like manner, Mein Kampf is dismissed as the mumbo jumbo of a lunatic. That's like saying his speeches are the ravings of a lunatic. He said what people thought, their hopes, conceits, prejudices, their inborn religious anti-Semitic racism. He was but the incarnation of the demons that lurked in the hearts of ordinary German--which is what made him so successful. He described what they wanted to believe. Which means they were no better than he was. They collectively turned a blind eye to the vanishing Jews in their midst. Because their religion instilled in them a visceral hatred of Jews. They wanted the alien stain gone. Now go back to 1930's Germany and apply Critical anti-Jew Criticism and see what you come up with. Marx was a Lutheran from a long line of famous rabbis.
4800 pins a day per man, day after day, six days a week. Soon children were fully employed, as the price of pins dropped and they had to make more and more. "Workmen of the world unite," cried the unemployed Marx, "you have nothing to lose but your chains." Rich man Engels (owner of sweatshops) supported him.
From the Division of Labor to the Worker's Paradise of Karl Marx (a Deplorable sponsored by an Intolerable):
“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands..." "Hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon..." so forth and so on. Why not use the best part of the day for enjoyment, otherwise work will take up your whole day?
Sounds like Huck Finn, you say. Lenin and Stalin put this in the same bin as Marx's view on marriage: children everywhere, and no men to pay for their upkeep. Strict rules on marriage were soon back. (Here's a personal account from 1926 on Soviet attempts to abolish marriage)
Britain is now back to making less than one pin a day, and some are making none.
Britain has its share of world class Universities. What are they teaching there? If you read the article, it's not just a lack of money, but also the knowledge and expertise to do what Musk did. This is where the Industrial Revolution began and made Britain a global power.
Marx wrote his fevered verse studying the sweatshops of London. The UK would have to both deregulate labor and cut taxes to get its industry back. Which, of course, means sweatshops, and ghettos, as supply-and-demand recreate the economic jungle. It would mean poorer poors, but it would also create a middle class to compete with the ultra rich. Now, you have billionaires and all the rest who shlepp along with both parents working. The social net provides corn and circuses for the masses, while the uber-rich get to hoard assets. Bill Gates' divorce papers show him as the largest agricultural land owner in America. Most people didn't even know he farmed. Ancient revolutions usually mean "land reform," and a candidate running on an "agrarian" ticket meant he was a Leftwing populist. Churches were the safety net in darwinian England. Which is why England is stuck with the welfare state. But how do you keep it going without money? Debt is made possible only if someone will loan you money. For that you need a good credit rating. But as your debts increase, your credit score goes down. Brexit has been a total disaster, with Britain getting the odd gig as Pentagon II lobbyist. A 45 year old journalist recently revealed that he was already up to 12 pills a day, which made him go shopping for a pill box to organize them, for they have to be taken in sequence: "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fools back." A man packing a lunch bucket has no need for a pillbox. They tried Bohemia early on in the Revolution, but found fishing-hunting man very unproductive, and somehow the streets full of children who didn't know who their fathers were. That part of the Program was tried.
2-8-23
Ukraine’s President Arrives in Britain for Rare Overseas Trip
This sounds like desperation. Britain is too broke to offer anything, and Sunak has his hands full with strikes. Missing is Old Europe, because they know what's coming. They also know that Brexit types would like to see the EU bogged down in Ukraine with Nato, of which the UK is a member and Pentagon II's chief lobbyist.
Until Scholz agreed to hand over the Leopards, Germany was the chief obstacle to victory in Ukraine. But now Scholz did what what was asked of him, and Russia is advancing. They cannot go back to making Germany the face of the war. Now they need more help. But by allowing himself to be blackmailed by Germany, Biden changed the equation of the original plot, which was to strongarm Germany to assume leadership of the war by giving Scholz the impression that Putin was on his way to Berlin and "the cowboys" would ride only behind the Prussians. Scholz retuned to Germany scared out of his wits and made his famous Blitzkrieg speech. That was then. The old fears came back--with old Habermas whispering in his ears. But the US kept piling on in Ukraine, convinced what Old Europe had reached the point of no return. The woke mob piled on Germany to do its part, with the loudest hissing coming from within Germany. Germany's dithering gave the impression that the coalition was cracking. The US had assumed that Germany would cave at the last. After a huge shouting match, Austin hurried back to Washington to tell Biden of Germany's ultimatum: Germany will ride behind the cowboys or no deal. To signal to the world that the US was the main sponsor of the war, Scholz required two US tanks for each Leopard. That, of course, is now the equation. From here on it's, "You (the US) first." Poland, the Eastern Bloc, Zelensky went silent overnight. They want jets? Germany will send jets-- after the US sends jets. Why rail on Germany when everyone knows that the holdout is the US? Germany will send its share of jets after the US sends the lion's share. Sitzkrieg. They had the Reich cornered, but their impatience got the best of them. Ordinary Germans hissed that they had elected a fool (that stopped overnight). Meanwhile, the US grew its share of the war until it became too big to fail, assuming that they were but filling a gap temporarily until the Reich came around. In the end, they knew Germany would have no choice but to cave. When Germany did not step in to take over, Biden had no choice but to cut his losses and accept token German support. Which means token EU support. Cunning laggards seeing their two adversaries (the US and Russia) keep each other tied down. The US can no longer cut and run without global humiliation, and Russia will think twice about new adventures. Can anyone tell me, Obama would ask, what are Germany's interests in Ukraine? The Grand Plan of Global Freedom? Freedom uber Alles? Zelensky is in Britain because of failed Brexiter Johnson. Sunak talks like Scholz. I would be surprised if Zelensky does not seek exile in Britain before year's end. Florida is unlikely as Republicans blame Ukraine for much of Trump's troubles.
2-7-23
The EU, as Pentegon II
Russia and Ukraine Have Incentives to Negotiate, but the U.S. Has Other Plans (the NY Times).
You can gauge the hissing volume from the Comments Section count: Biden shedding rivers of blood to "garrison the Black Sea"? In Kawl (y'all) Mawxist Man(ten gallon)Hattan this used to be called Supremacist Colonialism. Things must be going off the rails when they bring in a Deplorable to administer the smell test to Intolerables. The stench must be unbearable, judging from the reaction. Woke Manhattan warmongers fueled this war from the beginning by howling for sanctions, tanks, jets, and unlimited $billions. No wonder the Republicans have become obsolete. Biden, the writer says, is building the New Rome in the Balkans to deny Russia access to "its window to the West" in your grade school lesson. Ancient Troy was a superpower because of where it was on the map. The Black Sea is the middle aisle of the world's greatest shopping mall, and Crimea as the checkout desk (which is why the Biden people need Putin out of Crimea--a red flag the size of the China Balloon for a Russian). The Caesars built Rome II at the exit (Constantinople). Turkey is too weak to check the looters. It's why the first salvos of the Wars of Empires (WW1/2) sounded here. Britain and France knew the Bear would gorge himself if he had free access through the chokepoint. The Hutterites farmed next the Black Sea because it's the richest soil on earth. It and the shoreline of the Black Sea is the jewel in Russia's crown. Mention it and debate stops. Biden is fighting memories here, and these ghosts will rise with unquenchable fury. This is the hollowed ground of ancient Russia. To garrison it with Pentagon II is like stationing US troops in Saudi Arabia (the infidel in Mecca), the recruiting tool which ended with 9/11.
The Ukrainians dying by their thousands are drones in a war run from the Pentagon, the writer says. Because 99 percent of the war is high-tech. Not only is Ukraine using real-time CIA intelligence to guide its missiles, but the software that operates the missiles is not given to the Ukrainians. If you buy a Chromebook computer, you do not get the software to run it. You get enough to tether to the Google computers. What does this mean? It means that the brain of the missiles that kill Russian troops is on American soil. The writer scoffs at Biden's misinformation that America has no offensive part in killing Russians, or that this is all about Ukraine. Biden/ Blinken, he says, are advancing the Grand Plan of US foreign policy over the bodies of hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian/Russians. The snarling of the mob in the Comments Section is due to the foul stench coming from the offices of the Times' global moralists: Friedman, Brooks, Douthat, Kristoff. They've become millionaires preaching to the choir. "Scary," was the best Friedman could offer without losing his cushy lifestyle, now underwritten by Ukraine/Russian blood. They had to bring in a Deplorable to vent the manure pile. Judging from the howling in the Comments Section, the stench must be unbearable. They all have mass slaughter on their hands. And now they can no longer get out. They sailed into Ukraine's The Fair Havens only to find themselves holding Euroclydon by the ears.
What does he mean "the US has other plans," with young men dying by their tens of thousands? This should be enough to give them heart attacks. For they sold the war to themselves under the conceit "of what's best for Ukrainians." Rubbish, the Deplorable says. This is the industrial military complex gaining market share by shedding rivers of Ukrainian/Russian blood in order to erect Pentagon II (the New Troy or Rome) on the Window to the West (the Black Sea). That is now the sweat on Scholz's brow. Russians, he knows, do not beat Prussians as long as the Bear is hooked up to German machines. I knew a German who spent most of his career in Soviet factories fixing their machines. Once he made a long trip only to find a new, non-working machine unplugged. Oh, they said. That explained a lot. Not that it mattered. You can't get fired in the System. And the Germans got their fee (in dollars). The Communists were their best customers as you didn't have to worry about competition, Berlin, Bratwurst, Beer, BMW and the Bear. That's the orbit of Ostpolitik. All lost under Biden's Grand Plan. Putin and Old Europe know this. If the Deplorable is right, then Biden's greatest threat is from his Western flank, who do not want him to succeed. This is what happens in the religion of the closed Universe, where all things lack but a scientific solution. They were forced to take the weather by the horns, because it was acting unpredictably. When in 480 BC Xerxes built a pontoon bridge across the Black Sea outlet, and a wind came up to make matchsticks out of the claptrap, he had his soldiers take chains and lash the sea with 300 strokes, poke it with hot irons, and then threw shackles into it to prove his mastery over it. Weltmeister Syndrome. They put chains on the weather, and Putin was but the next problem to be brought under absolute control. In religion-from-below, anarchy is heresy. Bishop Biden is but administering church discipline here. The missiles are his hot irons. Xerxes made it across by building better. He only needed a few boats to get back what the Greeks left of his army. When Caesar stumbled and fell debarking his ship when invading Egypt, to prove that his stumble was intentional and not an ill omen, he grasped the sand with both hands and cried, "Egypt, I've got you now." Quick thinking. Caesar, if you still remember your history lesson, was, at one time, Weltmeister.
2-6-23
Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault
Friedman is back to Doomsday mode. He only knows how to fan a war, he doesn't know how to end one. They led those poor Ukrainians on and in so doing caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands on both sides. "When inquisition is made for blood," from whose hand will God require it here? That smirking balloon seems to have spooked them, causing them to lose their concentration with regard to Ukraine, and loss of nerve with regard to China. And this a week after being blackmailed by Germany to cross the line of no return. The Abrams tanks will add nothing to Ukraine. Scholz demanded them as proof to the world that the US is the major sponsor of the war, and would lose face if it abandoned Germany should Putin single it out for punishment now. Biden caved and paid the asking price for the Leopards. But now, he can no longer cut and run, and because he's bogged down, Germany can go back to dithering. What can Biden do? The Plan was to force Germany into full compliance with Nato and remake the EU into the Beast to serve Nato. Instead, the US finds itself bogged down in a war which the EU views with suspicion, and does not want the US to win. Now Biden can no longer get out without a terrible humiliation, and the plot to make Germany take charge of the war failed. Germany is back to biding its time. It has more to lose from a Russian loss, than a Ukrainian win. Scholz looks at the Grand Plan and sees the Third Ruin of the Reich. From that perspective, he has a lot of room on his ledger to cut his losses. Does he fear for Germany if Ukraine loses? Absolutely not, for Prussians have never feared Russians (just count the German names in Tolstoy, and then find one Russian in all of Germany). Is he worried about Taiwan, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland--the Grand Plan for perpetual peace? He wants nothing more than for Germany to Wandel nach Handel. Both he and Marcon know that unless you kill the Bear, you'll have to deal with him. Friedman thought they could kill the Bear and turn Russia into an extension of the EU. They forgot about the Nukes. They assumed that the EU would step up and assume responsibility for the war. Now they're all huddling in Nato under the US umbrella. If the US goes, all collapses. "Scary," says Friedman. There's no way out. Russia is advancing. "What if China moves on Taiwan now, with the US proxy war on the back foot," the balloon smirked,?" The Ukraine war is, after all, a message to China about Taiwan. "Can anyone tell me," Obama would ask his advisers, "what the US's interests are in Ukraine?"
Northern Europe has a lot of money. But not enough for both a welfare state and a Russian size military. Not to worry. They led the US on with zeal, and Biden assumed that meant taking responsibility. When the war became too big to fail for the US, it had no choice but to agree to Scholz's blackmail: 34 American tanks to Germany's 14. As long as the US has a larger footprint, it can't cut and run. Europe can now go back to its old ways, "a little sleep, a little folding of the hands...and they even have their own Leopards in the street." The US has the EU firmly in Nato to starve China into submission. But now the US has two Cold Wars on its hands. This umbrella is what gave rise to European anti-Americanism, which turned into Cultural Marxism/Critical Theory/Islamism/genderism, etc.
His own Germans were telling themselves that they had elected a hapless fool, because Scholz kept too much his own counsel. He stuck Biden's foot in a beartrap. There has not been a peep from Ukraine, Poland, Boris Johnson of what "the world expects of Germany" since. Old Europe doesn't want the US to win the war. That would be Pentagon II in the Balkans. They're too feeble to attempt Super Power status themselves. But Russia never came into Europe unprovoked. Why would they fear it now? But a stalemate between two super powers would keep them both from meddling in EU affairs. Scholz and Macron are dithering. They lurk, they wait. Never interrupt your enemies whilst they're making mistakes. As for Taiwan? Can anyone, asks Scholz, tell me what Germany's interests are in Taiwan? "A sack of rice," Germans like to say, "just fell over in a warehouse in China." Twice his cities were destroyed last century. He's seen enough rubble. Nothing China or Putin can hatch would come close to what Germany brought down on itself. Just read the NY Times Comments Section: "It's like looking at pictures from 1914 and 1940," they write. Old Europe has had so much war glory that what they see in Ukraine looks like an old stale rerun: young dead men in uniform with women weeping besides. France lost 1.7 million in WW1. They lost 200,000 in WW2, and most of those at the very end when they took up arms. Jesus lived under the heel of Rome and Herod in "the fullness of Time." No one ever said, What might have been if Jesus had the opportunity that.... ?
2-5-23
“We don’t accept that one because it’s not part of our life,” he said, stating, “We are against it” and “we don’t want it” and “the wickedness of a human cannot be considered as something to be discussed.”
Asked specifically about the pope’s [views], he said, “That is the pope — but I’m telling you it is a sin.”
Imagine saying that to the NY Times. This from a black preacher in South Sudan where the Pope just visited. Bob Jones University and Christianity Today would have thrown the Times off the trail with "we respect the dignity of every person." "Wickedness" and "sin." You would not see Pride flags around this man's church. He would likely "persuade" them to come in, in order to show them "the terror of the Lord." On the way home from Africa, the Pope was joined by two of the most wicked clerics of the day, the heads of England and Scottish churches. And guess what the subject was on the way home, with the Pope lashing at his more traditional members over their phobia. "Jesus turned no one away," the Scottish head chimed. "Turn away?" This preacher would walk a hundred miles to preach in a church filled to the rafters with murderers, cannibals, thieves, robbers, and adulterers and abominables.... They would not hear Church Hobby Lobby's He Gets You. "I'm telling you," he cries, "wickedness is not something to be discussed..., it is a sin." No comment from the NY Times. "I believe, and therefore I have spoken." Sudan is hardly even a country. "We are constantly being killed here by Islamists," one of them said recently. "And the only protection we have is from the Word of God. We understand it. Accept this wickedness, and you have destroyed the Word of God." What you have here is the simple use of the Bible. Rest assured the reporter didn't walk away muttering "what a lunatic." He wouldn't have tried to enlighten him. He was on the ropes. "The light shineth in darkness." He likely felt scorched. This preacher would not hold forth on the hobby of church lobby's "He Gets US." Here's what the murderers and cannibals would have heard, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" (Acts 3:19). This man spoke very sharply. Yet the Times reported did not mistake his righteous indignation for anger or rage--or hate.
On the plane, the Pope gives the Bob Jones line for the millionth time: "we must respect the dignity of every person." The rich young lived a very moral lifestyle. In other words, you would not have had to fish about to find an abstract virtue to prove that he was still human (this is what they mean by "dignity"). But Jesus was not the least interested in discussing his merits. As far as Jesus was concerned, he had none. He had nothing worth mentioning. Jesus gave him no hope whatsoever, nor encouragement. He gave him an ultimatum. Like the Sudanese preacher said, "He had nothing to discuss with the abomination." To speak of the human dignity of people whose life is unrepentant evil is blasphemy. This is the difference between Evangelicals and this preacher. "That is the Pope," he says. Who cares what that hireling says? "But I'm telling you it is sin." The Hobby Lobby Hobby Church ad, He Gets US ($100 million) is now all over NY City, They boast of making "Jesus the biggest Brand in town." Hipster Jesus. Such darkness would make the simplest African weep. They were brought up to believe that the Western churches carried Apostolic weight. I know, I went to school with Koreans, who are now in the same crisis as the Evangelicals. God is using these Africans to stand in the breach.
2-5-23
The Temple on the Manhattan on the Wailing Wall Street. The mosque on the Mount sits on top of the Wall. All the impossibilities, conundrums, and contradictions since the foundation of the world do not amount to this. It's a checkmate from every direction. Disturb it and you will blow up the world. It is the center of the human race--just in its earthly contradictions. It created the Crusades, which created the Ottoman Empire, which created the World Wars, which created Israel, which created the Oil wars, and now threatens the Grand Plan of the Universe. Incidentally, it was the cause of the Crimean War (the first clash of Powers over the spoils of Ottoman) when Russia demanded the Holy Places from the collapsing Sultan, and when denied, marched on Constantinople, which automatically threatened British naval supremacy by seizing the historic choke-point that leads into the Mediterranean. And Britain was already gorging itself at Ottoman ports--it had to act fast. The cause was just according to the rules of war, because Britain needed raw materials for its factories. It was just honest trading, and trading needs a huge navy to guard against pirates, and navies require heavily guarded ports, and then, of course, you need to protect goods as they come from inland, and if you can build better factories for the locals, those will likewise need British soldiers to guard them, and British banks to finance them, and British aristocrats to oversee them, and British politicians to make laws to protect the currency, and those politicians will need large estates, and thousands of servants to tend to them....
In West Bank, Settlers Sense Their Moment After Far Right’s Rise
“Now I expect things to go differently,” said Naveh Schindler, 19, a settler activist leading the effort to build the Or Haim outpost. “If I persevere enough,” Mr. Schindler said, “hopefully the government will build it themselves.”
What the NY Times never reveals is how many of these very young "settlers" come from the Ultra's of New York. If you're an aging Jewish billionaire in need of "moral credit" after a life of depravity, there are enough "Temple" organization to cater to your needs. It's no different from shaking down decrepit billionaires to add a wing to a church or a seminary. Note the $100 million "He Gets US" Super Bowl ad about Hobby Lobby's Church Hobby.
"But now there are expectations of an even greater surge. Young settler activists, who believe the land in the West Bank has been promised to them by God, have been galvanized by the presence of their allies in the new government. "
If Manhattan readers saw "promised to them by God" in a Christian context, the Comments section would hiss with ant-Christian--"theocracy," "neanderthals," "Taliban," etc. The Temple Brigade uses a two-prong approach, both funded by Wall Street and Casino billionaires: 1) Real Estate--Most of East Jerusalem which surrounds the Temple Mount is owned by poor Palestinians. Any scrap of land here is worth billions, and the billionaires will fund any effort through bribes, incentives, and legal confiscation to buy it. 2) New York firebrands from New York's Ultra communities (they boast that their Brooklyn Rabbi Schneerson was the Messiah, but awaiting to return when the time is ripe). The Ultra's all have huge families, and the focus of their lives is the Temple Mount and the coveted Hebron hills where Abraham dwelt: the West Bank, which are the Occupied Territories. The NY Times has not taken up the cause of Palestinians in the context of the iron fist of their Jewish invaders. Because, how could Jews invade what is theirs by Divine Right? The problem, in the Comments Section, is always the Palestinians who fail to recognice the divine reality, and refuse to go quietly into the dark night of exile. Because, the Settlers, unlike Putin, want the land as a desert--that is without its inhabitants. This is not just annexation--this is extermination by expulsion. For the hated Arabs will have to go the way of the Canaanites. The NY Times makes a of show of covering the massacres. But you quickly sense the sleight of hand. The Jewish aggressor is not a monster like Putin with his historical myths, dreams of far-gone glory, and moral destiny. Its writer, Bret Stephens, is by any calculus, an Israeli "plant" to advance "the Settler" cause on the pages of the NY Times.
False equivalence, you say, matching Ukrainian freedom fighters with Palestinian terrorists. It's the other half of the same problem: Afghanistan, where the US finally left in disgust, when after twenty years, the Taliban still didn't get "the rules of war," which left the two sides passing each other like two ships in the night, because these fanatics couldn't even be made to wear uniforms according to the rules of war, and wouldn't trade one of their Toyotas for twenty German Leopards. And according to the rules of war, a tank can't shoot at a pickup truck full of Bedouins. For how can you, if they are not civilians, as that would be uncivilized according to the rules of war. The Russians now, are the bad guys in the Good Wars: they give the Leopard his due like the Desert Fox, the noble Rommel. If he caught you violating the rules of war, he would stop the war and give you a Prussian dressing down. For Spielberg, Rommel in his long nosed car is already half the movie. Twenty years in the Afghan desert did not produce one Taliban worthy to be Rommel's chauffer--the haughty air, the uniform, the military cape, the way he takes off his gloves--they did what the Evangelical could not do: clean up Hollywood, by bankrupting it, because you can't make a blockbuster out of a Bad War. Even the war against Japan was a Bad War. There is no market for Japanese memorabilia. No civilized nation would fight like that. Napoleon, his enemies sniffed, wins because he doesn't fight like a gentleman. "He attacks, and attacks, and attacks. It's intolerable," wrote one Italian officer angrily.
Is what Israeli's are doing wrong then? "The American invasion of Mexico," writes US Grant, who earned his stripes as an invader, "was a war crime." He didn't lose any sleep over it. War is war, and "war," as Sherman would say, is why his pious friend, General McPherson, "had to go before to prepare the way for us more hardened sinners."
So is Israeli right and Putin wrong? But those are questions for the expert moralist, the ethicist, the theologians, the NY Times would say. They only cover the story, they don't invent the story. Putin and the Palestinians create the story. But one thing they know: Putin has to go. And the Temple Manhattan which is funded by the Wailing Street? It's all legal, according to the rules of commerce......These billionaires leave their billions to museums when they die. Imagine now, after a life of debauchery, they are given the chance to buy "heaven" credits by financing prophecy? Evangelicals can only drool. In the Jewish imagination, the Temple Mount is the very center of the Universe. Location, location, location, is how the moguls eye property. For a billionaire Jew, the chance of a(n after) lifetime. It the US applied the Putin Sanction Rules across the board, half of Wall Street financiers would be under sanctions for financing Netanyahu's West Bank Occupation.
2-4-23
"Inside story of how the U.S. shot down the Chinese balloon." screams the Washington Post headline. The skin of the balloon was the thickness of a sandwich bag. A pin prick would have done. "That's my Air Force," one of the locals said. They most certainly don't believe in going after rhino with grapeshot--much Force over hot Air. That missile likely cost a million or more. Add the planning to make the sure the balloon war doesn't end up like the Afghan debacle, and bursting a Chinese bubble likely cost 50 million dollars, not counting the fleet now diving for the rubble. I didn't read the article as I'm sure that most of Operation Hot Air will remain classified, and most people don't an need an Inside Story to know that bubbles are full of hot air. They got it as it was trying to escape, which means they shot it in the back.
2-4-23
Remember the old lore that the CIA sent a hair-size drill bit back to Russia with a hole bored through it? This would have been an opportunity to make good that boast: have Musk paint GREETINGS FROM AMERICA: WALMART on it and steer it toward China with a real time camera attached to catch China shooting down its own balloon before its people get to see it. The commercials would have been off the charts. How could they miss it? Or to round on familiar theme recognized by all Chinese, wrap it in a bigger bubble with US Postal Service: No Charge on it. Because a fountain pen which costs 99 cents (with shipping) from China, will cost you $3 to ship several hundred miles within the US. The pen, if made here, would cost you $20 plus tax.
2-4-23
"This art is not our art, and as we study it and admire much of its taste and skill and truth to nature, we cannot but feel, and with grateful hearts that the Pompeiian age is dead, and that we come in a new age; that the gods whom our friend worshiped have faded into night , and that a nobler, higher faith has taken their place, giving purity to our art. This we owe to the work done by Jesus Christ. And if you marvel that our friend Marcus Arrius Diomedes did not feel the same influence, remember that our friend is a Roman, a patrician and a man of great wealth and station, and not a man to shape his tastes after the canons of a Jewish carpenter, crucified just seventy - nine years ago, and of Jewish fishermen who followed him" A journalist hired to record US Grant's trip around the world, commenting on their visit to very wicked Pompeii. They met all the world's dignitaries, attended all the balls, laid a cornerstone for a new church in Geneva--always attended by prayers and the greatest divines of the age. They all thronged to meet the Napoleonic Grant, who was chosen by Lincoln because he needed someone to give war its due: stop playing "gentlemen" and play the butcher to end the war. "He only did what he had to do." Neither he nor Sherman saw war as their "Christian calling," as Lee and Grant. They chose "the game of war" (Sherman) as an occupation without seeing in it "a higher purpose." When Sherman's friend General McPherson was killed, he wrote to his grieving fiancée that religious Mac had "gone before to prepare the way for us more hardened sinners." This writer could give you the Calvin line inside and out. The Serbs cut off three fingers from their dead Muslim enemies, because they are fanatical about Orthodoxy: the Trinity. Lincoln visited Moody's Sunday School to congratulate him on the good work he was doing. 99 percent of the people Grant met in Europe would tell you that Jesus came to die for their sins (WW1 was just around the corner). This is how Orban and Putin talk in their more private moments. The art in Pompeii was lewd, whereas the religious (usually half naked) art in the Vatican was "Christian art." That, he sees as the difference for those who follow Christ. And that at the side of the most successful General of his time. When Putin dies he will call for his Orthodox priests. He would shudder to die as a Muslim. This writer would shudder to die as the pagans whose ruins he has come to admire. Trump would agree to everything he says here. Augustine, Luther, and Calvin would see them as the mark of a Christian nation. As Sherman says, religious Mac "went before to prepare the way for us more hardened sinners." He would revenge Mac by "making Georgia howl." They started the war, he said, I'm going to finish it. Both Putin and Orban would tell you that Christ died for their sins. They would rebuke you for questioning the authenticity of the Gospels. Dostoyevsky "was the most evil Christian" but any Orthodox Russian would call you a heretic for saying he was not a Christian, because Dostoyevsky said Jesus died for his sins. Bush even adds "born again." What then, you would ask Putin, is "the world" that Jesus speaks of? Or "the straitgate"? Are only the drunks and the publicans on "broad is the way"? "But are you born again," Bush would ask Putin? (Both Orthodox and Catholic believe "you must be born again"--they have their own arrangement of it). How could he not believe it. No, Bush would say, have you made a personal decision at a point in time where you said the sinner's prayer. Endless slogans, formulas, rituals, dates, etc. Clinton was born again by going through the most up to date formula, which is "born again" which is a "personal decision" (which if you decide to repent later means "dedicating your life to Christ"--which Clinton has not yet done, but which does not make him "not born again"). You want me to chant your empty formulas, Putin would tell Bush. I have yet to meet a single American (who is not an atheist or of a different religion) who denies that Jesus died for them, or if the Gospels turn out to be true, did not wish to have had Jesus die for them. Even Musk. Putin and Orban will rebuke you sharply in public if you question the Gospels. Are they then Christians like "born again" Bush and "saved" Clinton? "By their fruits," you say, "you shall know them." Are you saying Orban/Putin have no fruit, while Clinton/Bush at least say they made a personal decision to become "saved" and "born again"? How would you distinguish between Orban/Putin fruit (they're staunch believers in family values), and Clinton/Bush fruit without becoming judgmental? Are "fruits" "works religion"? "Know" them of what? Most people think Jesus distinguishes between "born again" and "unconverted" here. And only "born again" can be members of His church. And if the only way to know who is "saved" and "born again" is by their fruits, who gets to say what is "fruit' and what is not? Because Evangelicals are not asking "born again" Bush to speak at Family Value Conferences. They bring in Orban. And Orban is but a smaller verison of Putin. The three fingering Serbs are fanatically about their Orthodoxy.
2-4-23
"There , in quite a primitive fashion , we had our luncheon, helping ourselves and each other in good homely American fashion, for we were as far from the amenities of civilization as though we were in Montana" (A journalist traveling with US Grant on Mt. Vesuvius in 1870's. Naples, below, was full of "professional" beggars (without the drugs), who did a brisk trade emptying Grant's pockets--and then went back to their work benches.
2-4-23
Biden's Deplorables
"When It Comes to Building Its Own Defense, Europe Has Blinked"
"A little sleep, a little folding of the hands...there's a lion in the street..I cannot dig, to beg I'm ashamed"--that's what Biden finds himself stuck with as Old Man Europe settles back on his lees. Biden had assumed an oversized down payment would be enough to get Europe to take control of its own affairs, now that the Bear had thrown off all pretense. Welfare would give place to warfare, and that would have to mean workfare. So Biden.
Then Scholz blackmailed Biden into crossing the line of no return by crossing the red line of escalation with the Abrams tanks. In one quick move, Scholz turned the tables on Biden by cooking the political algorithm: the Prussians get to ride behind the cowboys again. The American tanks mean that Biden cannot leave Germany in the lurch if Putin makes good his threat to punish Scholz for the Leopards. But now that the big guy is bogged down on the Eastern Front, Old Europe is off the hook. Why buy a cow, when you can get the milk free? The price will be high.
On the one hand, then, Biden got what he wanted: the EU united solidly in NATO as a cudgel against China. No more cutting side deals which undermine US Foreign interests. "Streets in Damascus" will now be doled out from the White House. On the other hand, Biden may have sealed the fate of Old Europe. France, Britain, Italy, Spain are left to refinance what remains of their pensions. The only way out here would be to create a common EU treasury, through which broke countries could borrow money on EU credit. But that would mean that the EU would be liable for the safety net (read debt) of failing countries. In France you get to retire at 61 with 75 percent of your previous salary guaranteed for life. In Northern Europe you retire at 67 with 23 percent of your salary. A German would have to work till he's 67 to pay for a Frenchman to lie around on Spanish beaches at 61. This is what the strikes in France are all about. The EU is dead in the water unless it can get its finances in order, for One Strategy requires One Purse. Without that, Germany gets to pay for both tanks and French vacations. But Macron is on the ropes against the unions, as his deplorables refuse to give up their pensions.
But then who pays the war deficit to keep the Bear in his place? The US. The price would be too high for Europeans. Astronomically high. Unthinkably high. Kaput.
And now comes the dreaded shift of power eastward. "He heard their treasonous cries," it was said of Augustus, "he dreaded their calmer moments of reflection." The Legions who helped Caesar overthrow Rome quickly understood their role as kingmakers, and let it be known that Augustus would make huge pay increases, or else. The Eastern Bloc is now bearing the heat of the day, and the US will find their resentment toward freeloading Old Europe useful. As the EU cannot provide for its own security, the mercenary US will have no choice but to set up Pentagon II in the Balkans, with the Eastern Bloc in charge. The US can no longer get out, because without it, Putin will seize the Eastern Bloc and from there dominate Europe, and without it, the US is left to face China alone.
2-3-23
A journalist joined US Grant in a trip around the world in the late 1870's and published a record of the trip. Bismarck had just collected all the bickering German fiefdoms under a Kaiser and settled scores with France. The writer gets to meet all the important people in the world, and spends his free time gauging the mood (or Geist) of the common people, many of whom were caught up in the conflict. "We Germans," one officer told him, "were made to fight one another for hundreds of years in the interests of the major powers. Enough is enough. We don't care what you think." He spends much time in Alsace-Lorraine, which was German before the French took it, which Bismarck too back, and which France got back in WW1, lost to Hitler, and got back in WW2. He sifts the locals. He could just as well be in eastern Ukraine. Then he takes his ruler and draws the commercial lines that he thought he saw in Bismarck's strategy. "The bitterness of death was not past." Germany poured enormous amounts of money into the region, often handing out payments (for damages) to farmers above what their farms were worth, just to make them become good Germans again. But they liked being French. Most took the money and left for France. Back and forth, back and forth--they did not want to live under the iron fist of the Kaiser. You get the sense from the writer that something is missing in Germany. United as they were in their warlike pursuits, they were not as carefree as the French. It's an unsettling account, and you get an uneasy feeling that the Germans are fooling themselves. Try as they will, they will never be liked. It's a long book, and some of it very tedious (especially when he sifts the Americans in Paris--all the rich people in America of which there were legion), but he has a keen sense of what goes on around him, and he's always sitting next to President Grant, who is always talking to world leaders. The class divide (they spend their time with the upper class) is jarring, and the pompous speechifying endless. But you get to listen to the common man in his element in the 1870's.
2-3-23
Furor Over Chinese Spy Balloon Leads to a Diplomatic Crisis
Anyone branding t-shirts, hats, etc, with Big Spy Country with a Balloon on it will make a fortune. It was "yawn," "yawn," all day until a Montanan put the ghastly thing on Twitter, which made the Biden people upgrade to a full blown diplomatic crisis. It looks like a UFO, or a planet in the shape of a masked head. Now the Biden people have to play catch-up. What are people to think when they look up and see a death's head?
But why would anyone make a fuss about this? Our parents used to point out Sputnik when the Russians launched it. Quite a marvel. The US had its U2 plane over Russia. The story here is that China can make silk purses out of sow ears. Did you know something like this existed? That they don't need energy to move about, can be steered, and apparently don't crash? Does the US have them? The US and Canada don't seem to know what to make of them. And they somehow showed up just as Blinken was about to sit down for high level talks. The press conference afterwards would have been a disaster. So this is likely a warning on Taiwan.
2-3-23
Why Chinese Companies Are Investing Billions in Mexico
The problem with the Athenians, their Spartan enemies said, is that they never stop doing what the do best: making the world around them flourish. Sparta was a military camp where slaves outnumbered Spartan 7 to 1. And now the Chinese are down there putting Trump out of business. If they keep this up, you'll be down there earning your bread, instead of Mexicans coming up here. The drug trade will disappear. They're solving Orban's "race replacement" problem by running the New Silk Road through Africa. Yesterday, they were caught, of all places scouting for new opportunities in the last redoubt of Deplorables, where the prospects are so bleak that the US designated it as a Nuke dump decades ago. My first thoughts, when I heard about the Chinafo (I'm surprised the Pentagon didn't pad their UFO folder), is that Musk should leave of poisoning the earth with rockets (for Trump said "he does good with rockets") and take up balloons. This thing even reflects heat away from the earth. How much does it cost to go from China to Montana in a balloon, while watching the world go by? I don't know, but when I saw the picture I said, I want one. They probably made it out of scraps of paper recycled in America. You use your Chinaphone to know when the winds are favorable, life up, and sail around the world for pennies on the dollar, avoiding Ukrainian skies to avoid the poisons of rocket fuel. Busy, busy, busy, the Spartans grumbled. Always busy. The NY Times is alarmed. What good are Nukes when China invades on hot air? They can float a paper airplane into your living room from China. The Romans who were made to carry Greek culture to the ends of the earth, never quite knew what hit them. Even when they had conquered the Greeks, they warned, "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" (think all those almost free gadgets in Walmart--the Romans found that luxury did to Germans what Legions could not). They should have pulled the airship down and have Musk leave off rockets and cars to build these things. How do you pull something like this off? It's still up there like a UFO with no one to refuel it. It even came down from Canada. How do you deal with this. The US spends trillions getting ready to beard the Dragon, and here's a harmless airship hovering over land that the US turned into dragon's teeth. Busy, busy, busy. You better confirm your illegal Mexicans now before they end up in Chinese Mexican factories. As for Chinese factories on the prairies, the land of Deplorables? Not to worry. All the workers will have returned to Mexico. Because if you apply the classic definitions as laid down by Hillary here, that is, that a Deplorable is someone looking for a job ("good work for decent pay"), whereas an immigrant is someone looking for work, you run into contradictions, because, if China is now building factories in Mexico, all the workers in the land of Deplorables will go back home, leaving few jobs to oversee the (now vacated) workers. So much for Chinese Intelligence. How could they have missed it? But I would love to see what makes that balloon go. The problem with the Greeks, the Spartans said, it that they don't know where to stop. They create machines to make machines and so on. Remember the hair sized drill bit that the US sent back to Russia with a hole drilled through it? If China can send a paper airplane into your living room and swat a fly with it--well, my advice to Musk would be to leave off rockets. For here's a kite hovering over the world's deadliest nuclear arsenal. Herein is that famous Chinese proverb, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" For how do you fight WW4 with hot air? And what business is it of theirs to fill Mexico with factories? The NY Times is alarmed. Chinese balloons in Montana yesterday, Chinese factories in Mexico today. They never stop. Give them Siberia and they'll grow prize cabbages, and deliver them to your doorstep by balloon.
Secretary of State Cancels China Trip Over Balloon Incident
Why?
1) Because now the CIA has evidence that China has its own CIA which it uses to spy on the US. That is, instead of the Chinese satellite junk that lights up your night, the Chinese escalated by reverting to Stone Age technology. What next? Smoke signals? Or the dreaded bottles floating across the ocean? Because they no longer teach this in spy school, which is why Montanans were scared out of their wits by this alien Kraken which they took for a UFO. The spooks scared by a ghost.
2) Because the radar deep in the Rockies is so sensitive, a paper balloon is like a camel schlepping over you while you're looking for a gnat, and can no longer see the forest for the tress. The CIA missed it, because they couldn't google it on Google. They boast of the ability to hit a bullet with a bullet with the Patriot missile system. And here they wake up to find a Chinese paper bag rendering their rocket science useless. This is a million times worse than the hole in the hair sized drill bit. What if they found this hovering over NY City, with a device dangling from it? A few cheap lookout towers in the Rockies would have saved the day here. It even got past the Canadians.
3) Because if this technology gets out, Iran will manufacture these paper bags by the million and give them to Al Quade. How you say, did this get through? You're scratching your head at the potential. How hard would it be to arm them? Why is it still up there? Couldn't they tow it back down and learn its secrets. They treat it as if it were a ghost. They seem scared out their wits bit its accuracy. The wind didn't just blow it in. How do you control a paper bag like that from China. If you can do that you have rendered Einstein's nuclear equations redundant. It's the equivalent of pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
"Chinese state media had earlier used the incident to taunt the US."
“The balloon itself is a big target,” the state-backed nationalistic tabloid the Global Times wrote in English on Twitter, which is banned in China. “If balloons from other countries could really enter continental US smoothly, or even enter the sky over certain states, it only proves that the US’s air defence system is completely a decoration and cannot be trusted.”
An idle boast. Likely, they mistook the P for a K and and wrote Big Spy Country in the mission orders, and are now taking to boasting to cover up so glaring an error, adding insult, as it were, to injury. And the US did not shoot it down because it was afraid that the debris from this bag of air might hit one of the few rabbits that manage to exists in no man's land. Their UFOs make more sense than this. A small puncture from a dart over the Rockies at night and no one would be the wiser. Truckers have nothing to do during long hours of desert driving at night but to listen to the high pitched rise and fall of the turbo and to very articulate conspiracy theories--it's the most literary (by far) part of radio. This should be a bonanza. A diplomatic row over a balloon, which they could gave grabbed over the Rockies at night? Musk could have snagged this with his rockets, and floated it to the ground. It sounds like a bad case of "asleep at the switch." Or worse, a coverup. They're so busy with WW3, that they forgot Einstein's warning about Stones and Stupidity. The Chines are throwing rocks here. You only hope the Taliban doesn't discover balloons.
2-3-23
"Push comes to Scholz," says a German in the NY Times. I take it that's the original German. Very clever.
The Times brought in a German to ease the path toward cutting their losses in Ukraine, now that China got caught leering down on the missile silos in Montana. I spent my boyhood in the shade of these fangs of Hell, and unlike Joseph, "remembered my nightmares" from these monsters when I came face to face with Gorbachev on a street corner in Minneapolis. Yesterday, the Times reported that Malmstrom Air Force boasts that they have enough Nukes to destroy the whole world. I saw them every day, and knew I would never live to see 20. I saw many things from the back of my gentle mare Velvet, with our faithful dog Tony (the greatest of sheepdogs) at my side. Once I came upon a Catholic priest (in black habit) sweating and swearing trying to change a flat tire. He hovered around while I assumed the task, not without difficulty, as the reek of whisky was so overpowering that I thought he must have doused himself in it. I remember one instance in particular that would make Americans' hair stand on end, for those missile maintainers spent much of their time behind the hill waiting out the clock--horse-playing and drinking. If what happened that day didn't make it unto the desks of the Pentagon Chiefs, something must have been shredded, because Malmstrom saw fit to send helicopters on the double quick, and that must have made it unto a report somewhere. The helicopters were there within minutes, and had they done a breath test, the obvious would have been way too obvious. An incident like that caused by drunks on the very maw of Hell (right next to a missile silo) would surely interest the Pentagon. There was a crew cab full of them, and they were ten sheets to the wind like drunken sailors reveling in their cups. I ran into them almost every day, and they saw no need to hide their revels from a shepherd boy. I remember it like yesterday. They might as well have been on the dark side of the moon in that remote part of the world. But here they were playing with Nukes. They were on the edge of civilization, day after hot day, with nothing to do. Time stops in that hot sun, and idling in the heat must have driven some of them to the brink of madness. Even Nukes were boring out there (for them at least). Things got more serious when they switched warheads, when the area around those silos bristled like the 38th Parallel. But then it was back to goofing off, day after hot day, wearing out Time on the Sun's anvil. The world cannot end if time has stopped, so what's with the Nukes? And those crew cabs didn't have air conditioning. They never had to roll down the window when I rode up. They were always unfailingly kind, though sometimes I smarted from their tricks. Which is why I remember the helicopters so vividly. Serves them right, I remember thinking gleefully (no one was hurt), as I got more than my own back. I watch as overbold lambs sometimes try to put the cat in his place. He'll get them all wound up chasing him, and then jump being an iron shaft, causing them to bump their nose. The look on that cat's face as he sits just behind the shaft.
The German takes with the right hand what he offers Times readers with the left. He plays to the choir by drawing Scholz up short, while cunningly leaving you with the End Game working in Scholz's head. Look at the Comments section. The writer, even while castigating Scholz's methods, leaves you confirming them: 1) WW3 will begin the day German Leopards cross into Crimea. Putin will reach for his nukes to avoid Russian humiliation. 2) The US has not found a way to break this news to Ukraine without causing the collapse of morale on the Front which would mean Zelensky's exile to Florida. 3) Scholz gets to blame his Germans for hissing him to act against his better judgment. They'll have only themselves to blame. This is rare currency for a politician. 4) If Crimea is off the table, then so are the annexed provinces, as it's all or nothing now. 5) Scholz, the German says, will not go on record saying he wants Ukraine to win the war, because to do so would leave Crimea off the table and force Putin's hand with no room to withdraw without being humiliated. Zelensky insists on Crimea, and the US cannot contradict him without creating massive failure of morale in Ukraine, without which Ukraine would collapse within days. The ominous foreboding in the German is unmistakable, even with his sleight of hand (plausible deniability). They're got the bear by ears, and can longer let him go. Crimea has become the red line, but Zelensky cannot agree without bringing the politics of Ukraine into utter chaos. The cure (a Ukraine victory), Scholz thinks, will be infinitely worse than the disease (an unruly Bear). They keep forgetting that Putin has Nukes. That's what the German says. He keeps saying what Scholz has not done (or done belatedly). But he leaves you looking into the abyss if this goes any further. They can't let Putin keep Crimea without losing most of the rest of Ukraine, and they can't take it from him without starting WW3. And that's the English translation. I would dread to see what it boils down to in the original German: the Schlacht Ukraine, die Graeber (grave-trenches), etc. They seem to be gearing up for WW4 with the balloon Angst, and to fight a Dragon while holding a Bear would be a handful even for a German. But something could have been lost in the translation.
2-2-23
So gloats the NY Times. When those shells hit 18-year-old Russian cannon fodder, there wouldn't be enough left of them to fill a handbag. A Swiss chemical maker would be boycotted if the Times learned that some of its chemicals were used to make execution poison for murderers. But the Times would have you see mass human slaughter as "a lifeline" here. Because only "barbaric" nations use poisons. Those shells are perfectly moral according to International Law, the rules of war, and the Geneva Convention. If you can make peace with violence, than how can you call it violence? The State can only make peace with a monopoly on violence. And now the EU, the school of the New Order, has once again taken up violence as the chief instrument of statecraft. These are the traditional haunts of Republicans. But there isn't much room to go further Right without turning into their opposite, which is what happened to the leftwing Greens in Germany, where doves have become hawks, causing the extreme Right and the extreme Left to join hands. Conspiracies have fallen out of fashion because they can't keep up with the changing political winds which Twitter and go by the hour, giving them the heterodox flavor so appealing to itching ears, and which make conspiracies look like stale orthodoxies.
2-2-23
"Siegert, the German expert on Russia in Moscow, argues that most people in Russia see the world through a colonialist lens. 'There is a certain imperial arrogance toward all others who were once part of the Russian or Soviet empires,' he says. He argues that this attitude is present under the surface and people usually aren't even conscious of it. But Siegert also believes that this nationalist or imperialist thinking is no more pronounced in Navalny than it is among most Russians, including those in the opposition. He claims that, like Russian society overall, they are often self-centered and self-pitying" (Spiegel).
Why is Napoleon's tomb in the center of Paris? Because Napoleon took France to the Super Bowl and ranks with Alexander and Caesar as one of the greatest captains of all time, in the courts where such suits are tried. Weltmeister. End of argument. "He only did what he had to do." Tolstoy's War and Peace professes to be an anti-war polemic like All Quiet on the Western Front, awaiting but the genius of Spielberg to take war glory to new heights. War, he would tell you, is pure style, and none does war style better than Tolstoy. The NY Times fawning over British royalty is Fashion's tribute to brutal Imperialism: the balls, the uniforms, the gowns, the heralds, the uniformed servants, the sheer scale of style. Every stitch on Karl der Bloese's uniform will be carefully scrutinized. His mother's funeral was a catwalk of past Imperial glory (they even stuffed his sister into a uniform), the great captains and all the brave knights, ready to hurl themselves against the foe with sword and halberds. The above German quote is Tolstoy (and Russian literature) in a nutshell. They've been to the Super Bowl and Putin is keeping them from being downsized to the little leagues. "The special operation" is police work in (the) Ukraine, while the real war is with the heavyweight, America. Putin doesn't even bother with European wannabe's. "Only a king," said Alexander, when he hanged Darius' assassins for violating the class pecking order, "can kill a king." So Alexander.
You see this in Hezekiah's excitement when Babylon sent envoys to congratulate him. He had made the big leagues. Babel rose as an ambition to make it into the history books ("a name for ourselves"), failing which, they found fashion ("babylonish") a smoother path than architecture to becoming the name brand of earthly glory through the ages. What animates Russian literature is its Imperial outlook: that is, they breathe an aristocratic/Imperial flair in the careless manner of extreme privilege, a realm so far removed from the misery of the serfs that it can exaggerate its access as a form of entertainment for the masses. Such is Imperialism. You can always tell the size of a writer's country by the length of his literary nose. Imperial conceits is what gives Russian literature its expansive and cosmopolitan flair. It's why the French worship Napoleon. The murderer was Stonewall Jackson's hero. Why? Because you don't make movies out of shepherds, "the abomination of the Egyptians." If the Mafia's Godfather could pull this off, his subjects would become citizens of the first class. From here you get to look down on everyone else. Even as a serf in Imperial Russia, you got to look down on your lessers: Europeans. Today that long nose extends over both Ukraine and Europe, as a Super Power only talks to a Super Power. Putin is but the face of the imperial swagger that still animates Russia. His demise would not extinguish it. Which is why the war is lost. Russians will defend Crimea to the last man , because its loss would greatly diminish the glory of Empire. They need it to stay in the big leagues. It took two world wars to destroy the Idea of European imperial privilege. But Russia is the largest country in the world, a fact which underwrites its imperial conceits. It still gets to swagger. France, Britain, and Germany do not, no matter how much richer they are. Sheer mass is the measure here. Ancient aristocrats considered it beneath their dignity to discuss their wealth, and could be careless off it, as it was understood that they would not be diminished without it, so far above were they above the fray. This is a very long nose. But if you've got it, the NY Times will swoon. You are the Fashion. Why would anyone give this up? If Washington read their Russian right, they would despair--like the German above. They're fighting an Idea here, a very haughty one. It's why the New York Times is gearing up for the Coronation. Babel found Fashion the greater part of ambition and empire in babylonish Babylon, which will endure to the end: it became famous ("a name for ourselves") just for being famous--for which they were once willing to burn bricks. Fashion rules. And Empire is the ultimate fashion. Sheer Russian mass convinces Russians that they still have it. Fashion ist Weltmeister. You either have it or you don't. Such is the conceit of imperial swagger. Add the Culture War and you have a potent brew. The CIA must be getting their information from Google (as in Afghanistan, where they prognosticated that their trillion dollar Afghan army would stand in the breech. As soon as it was safe, they iPhoned the Taliban to see where they were to hand over their arsenal). They must be listening to the Cultural Marxists which surround Biden: that the springs of life are material. In Russia they are a combination of Orthodoxy, history, mysticism. and the peasant soul. It's the ultimate System. The writer Turgeniev called Dostoevsky "the most evil Christian I have ever met in my life." In the Russian System that means no more than that "he was a rascal." Evil did not exclude him from the System. The System (with its scandalous priests) exists to compensate for "evil." In the end, Turgeniev too will call for the priests to come chant and burn incense. Holy Russia is the System. Putin is but a member of it. The madman Rasputin was as Russian as they come. This is a hermit System, the largest in the world. It has not cracked. It works like a denomination or the Vatican: it survives its corrupt leaders. In the end they all need the System. You're as likely to see Putin excommunicated as the Pope.
2-1-23
"U.S. to Boost Military Role in the Philippines as Fears Over Taiwan Grow"
Let the Navy have a go at it now. They've about got the land wars maxed out, with armorers running at peak capacity. Here you'll want to add subs, aircraft carriers, etc., to your portfolio--German's nuclear Dolphin is the equivalent of the Leopard. All that sermon on the mount goodness--the Lion turned out to be a Leopard after all, as they say lamely. You cannot make peace with violence, Germany (one of the world's largest arms exporters) said for 77 years. We only make the Leopards, we don't use the Leopards. Oppenheimer, the father of the nuclear bomb, held himself blameless for Japenese deaths. He's a scientist, he said. What the government does with the science, rests with the Government. Germany will not sell you chemicals if they know you use them to mix your poison to execute murderers. As for 18-year-old cannon fodder, we'll that's why we have the rules of war. Of course, war is always a tragedy, tsk, tsk, and "why does God allow war?" That is of course the specialty of the theologian and the moralist.
2-1-23
A year ago the NY Times wrote a breathless account of the Mozart Group, made up of Westerners to counter the mercenary Wagner Group. Kaput. Disappearing funds, drunkenness, nightclubs. To the Times, they represented the overwhelming odds facing Putin from all corners of the globe. Now no more talk of war crime tribunals. Crimea? Beyond a miracle. Jets are off the table, and Russia is advancing. Now what? Kissinger? --"off the record, back channels..." The real problems will surface when the US decides to cut its losses, and takes Crimea and the Russian territories off the table. Could Zelensky pull this off without getting ousted? The treaty here will have to be ten miles long to cover all the variables, and then require a thousand diplomats to understand it. Such people no longer exist, which is why they hitched their star to winner take all. If they do what they did in Afghanistan, they'll declare the war over and run. Zelensky is begging for jets now, and Biden's "no" doesn't leave too many options. They (the NY Times is the biggest culprit) led the Ukrainians on by playing to their fantasies. The jets will soon become necessary. Then the Sixth Fleet in the Black Sea--now infested with Russian subs. Biden's "no", everyone winks, means "maybe"--case by case, as they say. Each day us different. They're not even stumbling into war anymore. They're merely fumbling the war.
2-1-23
Shock and awe in the NY Times at DeSantis' moral purge of Florida's College Board. Florida and college are where people go to party: the fleshpots of Egypt. You will not find much praying and fasting in either. He's merely pruning the hedge here, and not the threefold hedge of Job either. The noxious brambles that you see around you today are the "7 times worse demons" that boomeranged back from the swept house of the Moral Majority through which Falwell sought to bring America back to God before "the gay agenda" too over. Back then that referred to what the Africans call "the rich while male disease" which is now multiplying faster than the croaking frogs of Egypt. He's making just enough noise to stay on the pages of the NY Times, while avoiding the outrage that would demand an answer from the Never Trumpers. The Times hasn't been able to draw blood, even while boosting his image. Is this an intentional ploy to destroy Trump by boosting his more beatable adversary? No matter. Exposure is the modern currency of influencing, and Influencers reign. You are now famous for being famous: exposure is influence is famous. Your only worry is getting cancelled. This is the formula for DeSantis. He's getting billion dollar exposure from people who are covering him trying to cancel him, while allowing the fleshpots to stew. The billionaires are down there for the fleshpots.
Biden's success is the greatest problem for the Left, and DeSantis' greatest asset. Biden is already too moderate for the Left, and they saw Republican chaos as their chance to replace him with a real game-changer. His age will be a real concern in the second term, and with that the very real prospect that DeSantis will match against Harris in people's minds. Harris has zero political traction. And yet, they're stuck with Harris, because Biden cannot be forced off the platform because of his incredible track record.
The fact that DeSantis is "electable" (Trump was not) means he will be RINO grade by the time he gets to the White House. Trump and Bolsonaro were one-of's because they offered nothing but nihilism, and the masses are not ready for their stern Puritanism. The masses saw the cure (Brutus/Cato) worse than the disease. As Europe now throws of its woke hypocrisy for Realpolitik, the effect will ripple across the pond, as the Left now has to assume responsibility to keep order. A hyper-EU would allow the Colonials to throw off their guilt--a king they used to say over there, cannot break the law, because he is the law. If not, they have a fearful reckoning with Critical Race Theory as their multiplying immigrants demand an accounting. France and Britain are especially vulnerable here.
The problem will be resolved differently in the US. Anything beyond a token reparation is unlikely as the old colonials already have moral cover from the success of America's large Asian and Latino groups. If DeSantis hopes to prevail on an anti-woke platform, he will need to learn to cut very close to the bone, lest he find himself defending the Lost Cause. Slavery (unlike the Groomorrah books), he will soon learn, has nothing to do with woke. Trump got away with throwing thunderbolts here. He would not today.
2-1-23
"Neither is my wariness of the EU attributable only to its development of an EU police force and army. It is also the absolutely fanatical desire on the part of those who run the EU to build what they believe will become, in their Walter Mitty minds, the world's next great super state" (Telegraph).
Had he read Daniel and Revelation, he would have thought twice about Brexit as the "ten horn" conglomerate will consume all around it. He will now be drawn back in. The Church thrives when people think they understand what they read in the Bible. The curse of Calvin and Luther is that their followers become members of their churches by accepting their systems, then see themselves unqualified to read the Bible on their own. For why would you need a Protestant Talmud, if the Bible makes sense literally. Anabaptists were martyred for professing to understand the Bible literally? American church members would often gather to read Spurgeon's latest sermon (which is how he got rich), rather than have one of their own speak from the Bible. No one did more to "dumb down" Evangelicals than Spurgeon, because he afflicted his followers with "preacher boys" trained in his jargon and antics. Boys as "elder" and "shepherds." Because the aged men would not trust themselves to understand what God had written.
If you're a "Ten Toe" (or "ten horns") watcher, you're likely wondering if the Bear will create the Beast here, as the EU scrambles to prevent the enlargement of either Russia or the US (under the pretext of NATO). While Brexit caused the exodus of eastern Europeans from Britain, it has not achieved its main purpose: Africans crossing the Channel in boats. The economy is in tatters, ill-will is at an all time high, and the EU gets to meddle in British affairs through Ireland which cannot be decoupled from Northern Ireland without reviving the IRA. France, equally broke (on paper) has a lifeline in the EU, which is underwritten by the wealthy North. Britain has no place to go, and the EU wants them back (this time they'll have no choice but to support the Project). Putin saw Brexit as the beginning of the end of the Project, but the Beast is back stronger than ever. Italy and France no longer talk about leaving, as there is no place to go. This is the new consensus. Now the EU no longer have to cuddle the malcontents. Notice how Orban has gone silent. He knows what's coming, as the EU can no longer be blackmailed from Russia. That door has been slammed shut, especially since dithering Germany hurled itself against the door last week. The potential here is mind-boggling. But their individual weakness is now the EU's chief strength, as Old Europe (the South) is now so beholden to the EU purse that they'll do anything to stay attached to it. Collectively, the EU would be a hyper-power through the sheer growth of its development eastward. It would give them something to do besides soccer and feMANism. Babel was created by the craving to enter the history books, which made the "go to's" attempt the impossible. Europe is now sinking in luxury. Putin may have jolted them out of their slumbers. No one ever thought the Project would make it this far. But as the exits have now closed, there is no choice but to forge ahead. It will be a monster the likes of which the world has never seen. It will gobble up the Bear and the three bloody ribs sticking out of his mouth (Dan. 7). If the Toes as much as wiggle, they'll create a rush to search Daniel and Revelation, and the NY Times will promote revival by blaring nonstop over the new conspiracy theories, for "my word will not come back void." Putin's corrupt church sponsors his war to keep "the biblical sects" out of Russia. A revival will go where Leopards cannot. “Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth,” Archimedes boasted 2200 years ago. Focus on any part of God's Word will move the world, and nothing causes people's ears to itch more than to wonder if what they see today was prophesied thousands of years ago. "God uses the wrath of man to praise Him."
1-31-23
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse--now this. The worst of it is, the industrial military complex on both sides is so maxed-out churning out ammo to slaughter 18-year-olds, that nothing is left to ramp up the nuclear arms race. Nukes are so yesterday, since we now know that no one will ever use them. Is the treaty not to invade Ukraine still good, or did someone forget to draw one up? How little foxes spoil the vine. Is nuclear war back on now? What now, a lawsuit in International Court? Jets for Zelensky so he can make an arrest? Did Russia give any reasons for its disobedience? Is there a problem somewhere else perhaps? Ukraine is talking about tens of thousands of war crimes already, and mere "non-compliance" would seem like a lesser crime. I'm told that not a single one of Mueller's indictments has been served. "A sack of rice fell over in a warehouse in China," as the Germans say. Still, Russian "treaty non-compliance" must be important, otherwise the NY Times would not have wasted frontpage space to it. I thought treaties went out with the ZiL's. I still see them smoking with the KGB milling about. Today, they would be considered a greater danger to the planet than Nukes. The NY Times did not inform us that Russia violated a treaty when they invaded Ukraine, and now it seems no one ever got around to think one up. I saw not a word of any such thing in 20 years reading German newspapers. Kissinger, on the other hand, was making loud noises in the early nineties not to crowd the Bear. At the end of the day, he's still got 6000 Nukes. And he rode into Ukraine on the back of his Nukes. Ukraine will never get its Russian-speaking provinces back, much less Crimea. If the war endures 5 years, more than a million will be dead, and the Front will be where it is now. If the private Wagner Group can drive NATO out of Africa and Syria, it can gain control of Russia: the Mafia with the world's largest arsenal of Nukes, with fanatical Iran as Enforcer. "WW1," Bismarck warned when the Kaiser fired him, "will start with a trifle in the Balkans." NATO saw nothing but trifles here, which is why they didn't bother with treaties. Drang nach Osten had become irreversible. They're still shambling into something they don't understand. Putin and Iran have been too quiet for too long. They only stop hurling insults when they're hatching something big. The Third Intifada is in the wings. Netanyahu's fanatics are eying the Third Temple.
1-31-23
"Russia Sidesteps Western Punishments, With Help From Friends."
There goes another one. Wokodoxy says that Putin. like MBS, is not supposed to have friends. So Thomas Friedman, a regular in Saudi palaces before the cancellation. Now, every corporation in the world is over there trying to get a slice of unrighteous Mammon from smirking MBS (he knew they would come crawling back, because he knows his own kind). And now this: Africa is cancelling the West in favor of Russia's ruthless Wagner kingmakers. The old orthodoxies are taking heavy blows. Capitalism and democracy (freedom) are the two sides of the same coin, the old dogma said. Super-tyrant China responded with hyper-capitalism. Freedom, they intoned, is the force-multiplier of the soldier. They need to go back and reread their Hannibal (with his elephants) over the Alps (in midwinter) with his mercenaries who almost destroyed Rome (what motivated them?). Mercenaries take the political sting out of war. Putin fears the mothers of Russia more than German Leopards. But everyone loathes a soldier of fortune. His mercenaries trade butchery for African resources. French and American troops deal with militants according to the (Geneva) rules of war, unwilling, as in Afghanistan, to stoop to the butchery of their adversaries. Putin's forensic experts are not in Ukraine collecting evidence of war crimes. These "friends" who are now aiding the butcher, Friedman, not so long ago, assumed were his own friends. Friedman is great friends with billionaires like Bloomberg. They are all friends of unrighteous Mammon. Wagner is able to kick the Western orthodoxies out of Africa by paying market price ("Sold", as in soldier, is the German word for wage) for violence, which it pays for with the local resources (gold, diamonds, oil). You see the Old Colonial here. The colonial West is already on the Woke back foot the minute it enters Africa and is made to face Critical Race Theory in the form of Islamists. Wagner is not woke. They'll empower an Islamist if the Islamist can afford to pay. Such is the penalty Chechnya had to pay for the Soviet half-measures in Afghanistan. In Chechnya Putin fought like an Islamist--to the death. He turned the tide in Syria by fighting like an Islamist--extermination. Wagner are high-tech Islamists, which is why they're replacing the woke armies of the West. General LeMay, who dropped the Bomb, was a high-tech Islamist to the extent that he employed their methods, without having to face their dangers. "Don't," he said, "use morality and war in the same sentence." President Truman, could not have dropped the Bomb, had he not thought like an Islamist--without having to assume the suicidal penalty that they accept. War, Stonewall Jackson would tell his preacher, was his calling, although General Lee warned that we "must not grow too fond of it." Although "it" no doubt refers to war according to the strictest orthodoxies of "the rules of war," and not the barbaric butcherism of Wagner and the Islamists. When General Lee made his preacher his head of artillery, he boasted to Stonewall Jackson that he had named his cannons after the Gospels. "When the time comes." Jackson gasped with laughter, "I'm sure they'll preach the Gospel eloquently." "The dumb ass rebuking the madness of the prophet." Luther exhorted his followers to volunteer as hangmen, and Calvin burned his enemies at the stake (with green boughs to prolong their suffering). They were but men of their times, their followers sigh. Cain was a man of his times. Islamists and Wagner are but men of their times. Wokesters like Lee, Jackson, and the New York Times are obviously not men of their times in that they follow the rules of war in a rules based world.
"Above all, do not fail to rid the country of all those zealous scoundrels that stir up the people by their discourses to make head against us, blacken our conduct, and wish to make our belief pass for a reverie. Such monsters should be smothered, as I have done here, by the execution of Michel Servetus the Spaniard. Do not imagine that in future any one will take it into his head to do the like" (John Calvin confessing to the murder of Servetus). He doens't mention that he used green boughs to prolong the torture. "He was but a man of his times," his follower, J I Packer protests. Which is not quite true, because there is ample evidence that other murderers used dry wood to torture their enemies. Others hold that he acted in his role as a politician-preacher, and politicians cannot be accused of murder if they torture and kill legally. And it is true that it was still legal to torture with green boughs, and while torturing with dry wood would make you a "man ahead of his time," it was still not illegal to be a "man of his time."
Moody hung around army camps preaching to soldiers who he knew would rise up to kill and be killed on the morrow, with the blood and brains of yesterday's battle still on their uniforms--"But was [not] rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet." As for his own preference on "to kill, or not to kill?" "In that sense, I'm a Quaker," he said. To each his own. What was his text, you say, when he preached? I only know what it was not: the 6th Commandment.
1-30-23
If you put the edge of your ruler at the eastern edge of the Black Sea (Georgia) and fetch a compass northward past Belarus' eastern border, you can easily see both sides of the conflict. Look what happens to Belarus if Ukraine becomes part of Europe. It would most certainly follow Ukraine into the EU. Georgia, even farther to the East, is fanatically pro-American. George Bush wanted to bring it and Ukraine into NATO in 2008, but Merkel vetoed the proposal. That straight line, hard up against Russia, would solve the problems of a meandering border. But Merkel knew what Scholz knows: it would require Pentagon II in the Balkans, and the EU would be left to serve their American masters. But it would have left Russia permanently reduced with the Pentagon on its doorstep. This was back in the day when the West contemplated a long conflict with Islam, and Germany saw US adventurism as the greater part of the problem. Terrorism was war without borders, and NATO did not prevent 911. The anarchy in the Balkans could become a breeding ground for terrorists with access to Europe's cities. Germany wanted fewer "cowboys", not more.
Now, of course, i'ts too late. The Bear was allowed to grow, and now the question is how to deal with him. The grand plan from Washington is to guarantee the sovereignty of Ukraine, once and for all. No one, except Ukraine, can say what that means. For Ukraine it means complete withdrawal, including from Crimea. Scholz knows that the US thinks this nonsense. But it is the only clear objective on the table. And it is crystal clear. Scholz thinks Putin would settle for Crimea and the Russian parts of Ukraine. The gas fields connected to Crimea are among the largest in the world, while the Russian parts of Ukraine are the industrial and agricultural heartlands. The rest is mere Lebensraum. But barring a major escalation, this is what a stalemate will yield. It's so heartbreaking that it seems to make mockery of Ukraine's sacrifice. But, unless the jets arrive (and now they're already talking both jets and submarines in Germany, and then who knows what else) this is where Biden and Putin could cut their losses. Ukraine would get to join NATO, the border would be heavily fortified by NATO, and Ukraine could hope for better days after Putin is gone. With NATO that far east, the Balkan mafias and Turkey would have no choice but to submit. But it would take an iron fist on the Eastern Front to control it, precisely the militarism which the EU charter set out to replace. But with Putin gone, the EU could once again hope to shamble eastward, unless an even worse monster replaces him. After emerging twice from the ruins, Germany is done with grand plans. They still haven't gotten used to being normal. And now Biden wants them to take charge of the new Grand Plan? The cure worse than the disease. This is why even Germans mutter that Scholz doesn't want Ukraine to win. It sounds like treason. But Scholz fears even worse monsters.
1-30-23
The Third Temple and Biden's Left Flank on the West Bank
Arriving in Israel, Blinken Urges Calm Amid Fear of Escalating Violence
The CIA Director and Sullivan were there last week, because you can blow up the world from the Temple Mount. A stone thrown here (see my proofs of Einstein's Last Two Unsolved Theorems on Stones, Stupidity, and WW4 below) causes ripples on Wall Street, OPEC, US Elections (Trump), riots in Paris, and most dangerously for Biden, the seething Squad trying to regain their earlier momentum (think Critical Race Theory). Moscow can burn down Manhattan if it can connect the dots from Memphis to the Temple Mount. For the Third Intifada will burn in Manhattan and Paris because of Critical Race Theory.
Nothing is off limits with Iran at Putin's table. Putin proved his Middle East credits when he imposed control on the Syrian war when no one else could. He has the world's largest portfolio of mischief there, and he knows what he can do with it. And because the DINOS have tracked Rightward since the war, he can create whiplash from the Left by exploding the Palestinian Cause to scare the DINOS out of their moderate slumbers. With the country on a knife's edge from Memphis, he knows that a stone in Jerusalem could ignite a powder keg in Manhattan, the Mecca of Woke. For the war woke (rich tech bros) is considered heresy, a betrayal, and hijacking of the old Woke: Civil Rights.
The greatest known Unknown of the war is Putin's and Iran's vanishing act. The West became too distracted by Putin's Nukes to keep an eye on Iran's developing Nukes. Now these two outlaws have become brothers in desperation. What does Putin have that Iran needs? Money and Nukes. What can Iran offer? The biggest terrorist organization in the world, the fanatical Revolutionary Guards, with the zeal to burn the world down to gain control of Mecca. And as everyone knows, the road to Mecca leads through Gaza. These fanatics have not moderated after being bombed to the Dark Ages countless times. They can be counted on to create "heaps upon heaps" in Jerusalem at a moments notice: a nation of suicide bombers, which their enemies fear more than Putin's arsenal of Nukes. They have become the moral authority of a large number of Israeli citizens: Israeli Arabs, the BLMS of the Middle East. Blinken cannot let this get out of hand. For Gaza will make Scholz's Leopards look like toys. Its impact on France and Turkey will tear the coalition to shreds. Turkey is already gaming the Middle East to block Sweden. It blackmailed billions out of the EU by tricking the refugee crisis. They learned to watch their backs in normal times against so cunning an opportunist. Gaza would be a gold mine, and Biden cannot afford to let it drop in his lap. Only last week, Germany had Biden on the back foot with what was muttered as blackmail. The wolf pack is only as good as its last meal (Even in Germany people are muttering that Scholz doesn't want Ukraine to win. A win by either side will destroy Germany as we know it, because the EU will exist only as NATO/Pentagon II). On the other hand, Netanyahu needs Trump back in the Oval Office, and there's no better way to hamstring Democrats then to create a crisis in Jerusalem. The whole world unravels from here. And the fanatics haven't even gotten started. Everyone knows they have their eye on the Mount. Netanyahu needs these inmates from the asylum to stay out of jail, and Republicans back in power to supply the next throve of weapons to keep the lid on after they're done remaking Jerusalem, because the Squad will try to cut Israel off. And Manhattan-Tel Aviv loathe them (the Ultras) more than the Taliban. A potent brew.
1-30-23
"The First Minister (Scotland) said 'trans women are women' but they had 'no automatic right' to serve their sentences in female prisons. Although she wants to allow Scots to self-identify their legal gender, she said they could be forced to serve their sentence in male prisons as 'significant concern arises out of sexual crime'".
So some women have an "automatic right" to go to women's jails, and some do not. Interesting. How do they decide between "the women" who go to women's jails, and "the women who go to men's jails?" By lottery? No, she says. But, by the nature of their crimes, which--surprise--corresponds to their nature, even as they were misgendered at birth. And now the misgendered will end up with the opposite gender again because they acted out the stereotype of the gender assigned them at birth. But that's what Brits spend their money on. And half the nation is on strike demanding more money. Boris is back in London bragging that Putin threatened to shoot him with a nuclear bomb. Biden likely cut off his allowance. They thought Brexit would create an exodus. Britain has become such a basket case, it has united the rest.
Oops. So "violent" criminals are by "nature" male, because rapists are by nature male? Apparently, you don't need "a biologists" to know who is a rapist and who is not a rapist. Because real women have "an automatic right" to be sent to a prison corresponding to their nature. But these fraud manwomen, although "real women," do not have that right. "Send them back to where they came from," she cries--that is to their fellow males. Now she's back to sorting than by God's Wall Method. But Biden wants these manwomen to pick the bathroom of their choice. But even Biden is afraid to send these manwomen to women's prisons if they are caught committing violent crimes.
Britain is hopelessly broke, and getting broker by the minute. Yet this is the national obsession. Remember what Nixon would mutter privately about what caused the ruin of ancient Rome and Greece? African church leaders are threatening to break away, because the majority of English clergy are Abominables.
1-29-23
“The fact we’ve only just made a decision [on sending tanks] and already the next debate [fighter jets] is firing up in Germany – that just seems frivolous and undermines people’s trust in government decisions,” said Scholz .
Zelensky wants the 90 German Tornados which Germany is replacing with the F35 ($110 million each). Now that war is back, everyone is upgrading, and dumping their hand-me-downs on Ukraine. There should be no shortage of steel for Germany's Ukrainian car factories when it's all said and done. The Germans should wait for the body count of the Leopards before they send the jets. But here they are already hissing for the Luftwaffe. Obviously, the Nukes are off the table, as is WW3. A consensus seems to be in the making that perhaps the Russian threat can be removed forever. In which case, Europe would have no credible enemies, and could help itself to Russia's resources. Much of Climate hysteria stems from the notion that the South will crowd into the north as their countries desertify. If so, some will have to move further up the warming North.
And if Ukraine wants to keep going with hand-me-downs, why not? Those 90 Tornados are headed for the scrapyard anyway. The war, and the hissing, will, of course, come to a dead stop the day Zelensky asks for German soldiers. The point is, he's giving far more (in human lives) than the price of those old jets. The jets are the least Germany can do. If German tanks and jets save Ukrainian lives, well--. There is a very sinister element to all this: No one wants to know what the true body count is, and they're all too glad that Zelensky is not providing the numbers. You rarely see bodies, but only the machines.
1-29-23
Ukraine, Gaza, Paris, Oil, Civil Rights
"Israeli settlers attack Palestinians across West Bank as escalation looms."
Last week Germany forced Biden's hand by drawing him further into the Ukrainian war. The blackmail raised eyebrows in the corridors of power worldwide: the coalition was not as sound as portrayed. German and France remain reluctant participants and are keeping their options open. They see themselves used to build Pentagon II in the Balkans, and will throw off their chains at the first opportunity. This is not something NATO wanted Putin to see. From the beginning, he counted on more than his military to gain his prize; the threat of Nukes, Ukrainian nostalgia for the Old Empire, German self-interest, and global sympathy for his Kulturkampf. Like a cunning swamp master, he lurks below the surface, waiting for opportunity to present itself. He knows he's outgunned. Patience and cunning are his only hope. "Never interrupt your enemy," Napoleon sneered (before he got interrupted by Winter), "while he's making a mistake." The West interprets the Bear's quietness as a sign of weakness. A quiet Bear is the most dangerous. What is he thinking? No one knows. He's been too quiet.
Iran could help him open another front: Inflame the Palestinian cause to enrage Biden's extreme Left flank (the radical woke Squad) which sees itself betrayed by his moderate tone. The Memphis ordeal consumed a lot of political capital, and tempers are raw in NY City. Any flare-up in Jerusalem will put wokeness on Red Alert. The NY Times will have to cover it--in woke tone. Now it's in the streets of Paris, currently in the grips of Critical Race Theory, which has the entitled French political elite (they're all far to the Left of Hillary) in the cross-hairs for policies designed to keep themselves in power and Muslims reduced to second class citizens. Iran sees the Palestinians as its path to gaining control of Mecca and Medina, and to freeing their fellow Shiites who live on the oil deposits that made Sunnis rich. Israeli Arabs are so enraged by Israel's hardline government that they can be counted on to join Hamas in Gaza. The Third Intifada could thus jump far beyond Gaza. If it does, Putin will see his war chest multiply, as oil goes through the roof. The Ukraine war caused the West to takes its eyes off Iran. It has not dimmed its hatred of Israel. And this time, the US will be hard pressed to side with the oppressor in the Middle East, while saving the world from tyranny in Ukraine. Without the US to keep things under control in Israel, anything could happen. Iran, Gaza, the Palestinians, and Putin have nothing to lose in setting their house on fire. With chaos, now come the flood of refugees into Europe (Putin's weapon of choice). As Muslims in France take to the street in solidarity with the Palestinians, the European Right fan the flames of "race replacement" angst, the anthems of Putin/Orban. The Ukraine cause already hangs on a thread: a US venture. A significant event elsewhere in the world would spoil NATO's concentration in Ukraine. The Third Intifada will manifest itself in Manhattan and Paris, and split Turkey from the coalition. The fanatics now in control of Israel, if you read the NY Times, seem intent on provoking it. The Fair Havens of today become the Euroclydons of tomorrow in the blink of an eye.
And that, you say, is about as close to a Conspiracy of Everything as you can get. I said nothing about the Third Temple. But do this as an experiment: Could Israel as a Nation cease to exist, and non-Jews gain control of all the Land? In the 80's, 1948 was a big number. It made people "search the Scripture," memorize it, and filled huge Conferences, because the common man felt the Bible had been rescued from the curse of Calvin's endless systems, ten times worse than all the doctrines of devils of the Pharisees. Now they saw the Bible coming to life in History, whereas Calvin had dead-ended right where he started, like a dog chasing its tail, forever trying to square the circle his followers called "decrees." But they erred by anchoring "the hour of His Coming" to 1948. It's just around the corner, again. No one mentions it. Nonetheless, it made people study and memorize their Bibles. And God's "Word never comes back void." If people did that today, for whatever reason, the Republicans would give up and join the Democrats. Have people read the books of Calvin and humans would become extinct on the Earth due to their endless violence and bloodshed.
1-29-23
"Scotland says transgender prisoners with violent pasts will not go to women’s jails"
We are led to believe that violent prisoners of both genders will be sent to "men's jails"? Looks like there are no more feminists in jails then there are in foxholes or Super Bowl games. Mere women "with violent pasts" will still be sent to women's jails. But menwomen with violent pasts will go to men's jails, that is, in accordance with their nature as it is known throughout history. That is: the facts of science. Hence, when Judge Jackson judges a known rapist, she will not consult "a biologist" in sentencing. She will merely apply the (false) stereotype that rapists are male, regardless of their pronoun preference. As for allowing rapists access to the restroom of their preference, well, there she will consult the biologists--because these is no "history of a violent past," and the history of mankind is too full of false stereotypes to use as a rule. Scottish politicians changed course, because the masses were about to rise up and throw them all out of office. The radical feminist were howling that rapists in women's jails had set the Women's Movement back 100 years. They created the Women's Movement as a refuge from toxic males, and now the government was terrorizing them with these monsters. Interesting. The old desert saying, Feathers sticking out of the fox's snout do not add to your knowledge as to the nature of the fox--a rough translation, perhaps. In Scotland, women's jails now mean "women's jails"--in the traditional sense. That is, without the biologists. Women's sports was created because women were barred from the Super Bowl by the Patriarchy who feared losing their privilege. Which is why people (falsely) think "male" finger size when they see a Super Bowl ring, My investigations can now reveal the nefarious secret that the government has neglected to provide molds for female-size Super Bowl rings, which solves the puzzle of their absence on the secondary market. Speculation is rife on when you'll see the first one on Ebay. But the Scottish feminists have their separate but not equal prisons back, content in their ancient privilege. The Patriarchy tried, but failed again, which, I venture, will be the gist of Maureen Dowd's next broadside. It's bound to be a scorcher. If you haven't guessed it by now, Old-time Feminists see men-in-dresses as no more than the (false) beard of the Old Patriarchy. Interesting.
1-28-23
"Israel’s Far-Right Government Raises Risk of Escalation."
Putin's war could easily turn the Middle East into a major conflagration: 1) To escape a prison sentence, Netanyahu had to align with all the monsters long quaking in the mud waiting to be hatched. These in turn are beholding to the ultra-Orthodox who clamor for the land to be purified and for Israel to take full possession of all the lands of Abraham. Everyone knows that they will settle for nothing less then the purification of the Temple Mount. They have declared war on the abomination that is Tel Aviv. Mainstream (read Manhattan) Jews loathe them more than the Taliban. 2) The US extreme Left (the Squad and Bernie) will accuse Biden of hypocrisy if he sides with the occupier here, while trying to drive the oppressor out of Ukraine. 3) Germany is back to Realpolitik as indispensable to Biden's larger plan. It can no longer be blackmailed to provide EU cover for Israel's designs in the Occupied Territories, and Old Europe is the root of global anti-Semitism. 4) Iran is too close to Putin to be put back in the box, and is helping itself to his war chest. The US cannot afford a major showdown with it on behalf of Israel while consuming political goodwill at a fearful rate with its Ukraine crusade. 5) If things flare up, the wealthy secular Jews will decamp for Europe and the US, rather than live under Orthodox rule. 6) Israeli Arabs, seeing themselves reduced further, will side with Hamas in desperation. 7) Biden is beholden to wokedoxy and has little room to maneuver. His base has few Israel sympathizers. 8) Evangelicalism, Israel's major sponsor, is on the rocks. Its flagship, the Southern Baptist Convention, is one incident away from a major assault by Civil Rights groups, and the rest are making common cause with Christian Nationalism (Orbanism), which is rabidly anti-Semitic. The Ultra's could find themselves on their own. If they attempt to provoke Armageddon by marching on the Temple Mount--Turkey would make strong demands on Biden, Iran would cast off all restraint, Paris would burn, and Putin would be everywhere dousing the flames with petro. Netanyahu knows this, but it's either jail or give in to these fanatics, who make the Taliban look like Red Cross volunteers in their zeal to burn the world down. You can cut the fear in the Times with a knife. This is more dangerous than Putin's nukes. It's as if inmates seized control of the country.
1-28-23
"Seven people were shot dead in Jerusalem" (NY Times)
How long would people "shot dead" in Jerusalem make the NY Times frontpage, if 7 people were shot to death every half hour on a daily basis in Jerusalem (as in Ukraine). The Ethiopian civil war killed close to one million last year. The Ten Commandments address the individual in their singular acts (what used to be called "mortal" (damning) sins. Which makes the 6th Commandment so terrifying. Like the Sermon on the Mount, it must be dismissed because its simplicity does not allow for interpretation. All you need to disprove any sin is to push it to critical mass, because, if God punished everyone, He would hand victory to the Devil? "Hast thou considered my servant, Job?" One man defied the statistics. This, for Augustine, is still a defeat, so he revised the church statistics upward by adding to the membership with torture: the Inquisition. Because a Remnant could never amount to a Christian nation, and would, like the Book of Judges, invite persecution. A Christian nation is no more than self defense against persecution. For only the State can persecute. Luther and Calvin persecuted Anabaptists by joining the Augustinian Inquisition of the Catholics. Had the Catholics caught them they would have put them to the stake. But they bought insurance by making "the king's chapel" their own. Taking human life is such a violent assault on the conscience that the mind is forced to go blank when made to contemplate mass human slaughter, and takes refuge in statistics. It is more horrified over 7 dead people in Jerusalem (still comprehensible) than over one million dead in Ethiopia. If you allow yourself to view the Ten Commandments from that angle, you can silence them and make them irrelevant. For God cannot punish everyone, and a Remnant does not even amount to "the day of small things" "a cloud, the size of a man's hand." "Is it not a little one?" That is, as God counts bigness.
1-28-23
"German media reported that the Chancellor presented the U.S. president with an ultimatum: namely that Leopard tanks would only be sent to Ukraine if the Americans sent Abrams as well. In Washington, the leak was seen as an affront. The impression that other countries could blackmail the White House was a dangerous one." (German Spiegel)
Blackmail only works where things have become too big to fail. These are shark infested waters, and nations are never friends. Biden got himself into something which he must now see through to the end. He cannot cut and run without forcing Pacific nations to cut a deal with China. And Biden could not afford to let Germany wreck the impression of a united NATO front. He also knows that Germany and France are not without options. Putin, they know, will be only too glad to cut his losses with modest gains, and refrain from pushing eastward. He'll be dead by the time Russia recovers. Let the US wear itself out protecting its orphan, while Germany and France cut deals on the side. They've got Biden on the back foot. He had no choice but to cave to blackmail. "Did Germany force you to commit Abrams tanks," the press asked the next day? The patience of the wily German paid off. The US demanded that the Germans step up and found itself stepping on a political landmine. To allow itself to be hoodwinked like that by an inferior is dangerous for a superpower. It smacks of insolence, and the Biden people see themselves roughly used. Hence, the howling in Washington. They didn't think the Reich had options. Likely, France put the finishing touch on this coup. Reading Der Spiegel, you would think Scholz had dropped a nuclear bomb on Washington. Up to now, they held him for a hapless fool. And now this.
The Reich gave no more than it had to. Biden will have to come begging again if he wants more. The war was all about bringing the Reich in line with NATO. Now it drew the US in further. Until Tuesday, US doctrine held that tanks were the red line. But without Germany, the US could end up in the ditch, so they gambled by upping the ante. This is the blackmail. Perception is everything here. On the one hand, Putin wants the world to see cracks in the coalition, and on the other, Biden cannot be seen cutting deals with a war criminal: this violates the purity principle which puts negotiations off the table. It's all or nothing for the US. Scholz and Macron are not high church--back channels, off the record, is business as usual to them. Zelensky is playing the high church (woke) game. Crimea is off the table. This, to Scholz and Macron, is political suicide. But it's the orthodoxy, and they have to make at least a show of playing along. Now they're back to weighing their options. Scholz forced Biden to commit more than he wanted to and now "the cowboys" are forced to ride again--this time with the Prussians to the rear. Now. it's "you (the US) first." Pentagon II will create the long coveted hard border between Germany and Russia, providing a secure zone for German industry--a German asks for nothing more than Lebensraum for his factories. Let the superpowers wear themselves out. What does Crimea have to do with Germany? But Biden is High Church, and Zelensky is holding him to the strictest canons of orthodoxy. Scholz and Macron would have this settled in a day. But the Comments section of the NY Times sees nothing but the camel's nose of global tyranny here, and hence, heresy must be stamped out where it is found: the last stand for freedom and democracy. The loss of Crimea would cry to the heavens for vengeance. "Gallio cares for none of these things." But even to mention negotiations is to draw the suspicion of heresy.
But how long can this go on? The war now consumes all of Europe's oxygen. The tanks were made necessary because time is off the essence. Putin is not at the mercy of the ballot box. Democracies are. Without Biden, the war would become something very different. But even a Republican could no longer cut and run without supercharging China. A bogged down US does not mean Germany and France could not make hay here. They find obedience hard, and would shake off their American chains if they could. France can make silk purses out of sow's ears, and Macron has Scholz's ear. They drew the big guy in further by blackmail, and would not mind seeing him cut down to size in the quagmire. They are not about to serve the New Rome in the Balkans.
1-27-23
"An international dispute is escalating over whether Russia should be"
There now, finally, things are getting serious. A quarter of million young Russian men slaughtered, according to Norway, and now the moral heavyweights of the international order will enter the fray, to dispute the great moral questions of the day: whether Russia meets the church purity test to participate in the Olympics. The NY Times devoted the last two days covering one man murdered in Memphis, along with carefully sifting the events that shaped his world, its ups and downs. Each side is roughly slaughtering 200 young men a day, leaving thousands of thousands of widows and orphans. But those are the rules of war, and Jesus does not even address war as He does not try to prove the existence of God. What is there to dispute? Those Russians could have chosen to be executed at home, if they were afraid to be slaughtered on the Front. That's the Geneva Convention. What is there to dispute here? If chose not to be executed at home, don't whine about being cut to pieces by a German Leopard. You're fair game. As General LeMay said. "Don't use morality and war in the same sentence." But does Russia meet the purity test, and can moral nations participate in the Olympics without compromising their own purity, and without creating an "unsafe situation," where people may need a safe room as at Harvard and the NY Times when they confront ideas that are uncomfortable. China, the West says, is committing genocide against the Uighurs. Yes, but no one is going to take on China. Now we're talking strategic protocols, and those, as all moralists know, have nothing to do with morals. Israel's hard Right is causing violence with its hardline agenda. No dispute there either. India annexed Kashmir with permanent effect--again too big to fail. But now we have a real dispute raging with champions lining up on all sides. Finally, the Times moralists, Brooks, Friedman, Kristoff have something to dispute, for and agin. As for the tens of thousands of young dead? Jesus and the 6th Commandment do not touch on mass slaughter, and for a newspaper, mass human slaughter can never be more than a boring statistic. Would you read countless pages of name after name? Even that would take up too much space. Only the first death troubles the conscience, because it doesn't matter how many billions you kill after the first one. That's the stark message of Mount Sinai, and again, of the Sermon on the Mount. The terror of the 6th Commandment for the soldier is the absence of footnotes and commentary. Which is why it has never been disputed. It is too terrible to even mention.
The NY Times is ever on the alert for German or Swiss chemicals that the US uses to mix its execution poison. But now their pages are full of the lethal potential of weapons that kill by the thousands weekly. They're killing for the greater good, or the lesser evil. They never as much as mention the death that attends these instruments of murder, the orphans, widows, the permanently maimed. Because a tank is just a tank when you discuss its marvelous functions to do what it is intended to do? And what is that, you say. But that's for the moralist to discuss, and not for the pages where a Pulitzer winner shows his wizardry with logistics and statistics. The Nazis created special language to discuss with their families what they did as soldiers: euphemisms. They did not kill Jews. The Final Solution was, well, a political solution--end of the matter. "We must not get to fond of war," General Lee rebuked himself. Stonewall Jackson would relish a peach after each battle with young man at his feet crying for their mothers with their bowels hanging out. He would sooner kick them then offer them a cup of water. He would have you executed if you were caught leaving off killing to help your wounded comrade. Because war is what war is. For a General it means to kill as many as quickly as possible. Those dying young men were but cogs in the bowels of war, no more. He owed them not so much as a glance. The NY Times is relishing its peach. They are up to their necks in the slaughter by glorifying it. The greatest danger of the sword, Jesus said, is to the one with his hand on it, "for he will perish." Always. For God ordained the sword as a boomerang. It is always fatal. "Though it tarry, wait for it, for it will surely come to pass" (Hab. 2).
1-27-23
Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage? NY Times.
Ever since Hillary struck a nerve by fingering Deplorablism as a serious blight on the Commonweal, coastal elites have been throwing up the ramparts against what they see as a dark and looming menace.
But what is Deplorablism? It is no more than Birthright privilege left to rot in a rut: systematic rot, caused by inability to leave the Systematic rut which they were born and assumed the world would end in (everyone at one time or another harbors the conceit that they're the center of the Universe, and that they would never need a gravestone), while blaming it on the System, by which they do not mean the System to which they cling, which of course, has been hijacked by the System, with one pot calling another black pot a kettle. As always, there are wheels within wheels here. When Britain lost the colonies, they created the American Colony, which is the American Dream, which is Manifest Destiny, which is the New Zion, the New Jerusalem, God's last City on a Hill, and last, but not least, the tradition of the elders, notably Luther and Calvin, the Reformation event that summed up all the perfections of the Kingdom of God until the End of Time, its custodians ordained to stand sentinel athwart the forces of evil until the Second Coming. Like Barabbas, Deplorables are the New Chosen. America, the New Zion, the apple of God's eye. The Reformation was the last revelation. All its followers were called on to do is to safeguard it until the end. Hence, the guns, the Second Amendment, Bible Belt Army bases. When the Apocalypse comes, there was no question who would light the fuse to ignite the Kingdom into its everlasting form. All that has been hijacked by Leftwing globalism, the Marxist Socialist Welfare State, statism, etc. Biden is even fighting the Third Good War of American Freedom and Democracy without so much as a nod to the heroics of Generals Lee and Jackson. How could you fight for freedom and democracy without the Church. To what purpose then the wars of the past, the guns, and Israel. How could this be a good war? Evangelicals atone for their sins by their readiness to perish in the final conflagration in defense of Israel. And here, they're not needed? What profit then, in being a Jew, if now all of a sudden, Jews are on par with everyone else, when for over the centuries they bore the heat of the day by themselves? And now Biden is fighting a world war of freedom with pagans? The son of the the king's chaplain, the Rev Balaam Graham, insulted by not being called on to bless the slaughter? The Bible Belt is the military. Reformation America is the blueprint of freedom. Are they singing God Bless Ukraine over there now? But how can you fight a war for freedom without God? This is what Evangelicals do? And now they're not needed? Biden treats Evangelicals as if they were France, or Italy, or Spain, more bother than they're worth. And what's to become of Church America if New Europe springs from the chaos--what godless monster will that be? If you're a Deplorable awaiting deliverance on the mountaintop, these are bewildering questions. How could this new birth of freedom happen under the stewardship of godless coastal elites, when these Nimrods once again boast of heaven from the ground up? The statues of the noblest spirts have been toppled, and the feverish remake of the world is as if Luther and Calvin never lived. What profit then in having the Birthright as a Jew, when all of a sudden, the Law, the rites, the Temple, Jerusalem, the history of suffering, the memories--how is a Jew better off after all that than a despised publican. It was too much. Deplorables couldn't move on from Old Zion, and, save a handful, all perished in it.
The first real war, Spielberg must be drooling over those uniforms, and Biden says, "don't bother." He's already crippled a superpower with the interest on the interest of the war dividend, without losing a single American. He did it be disappearing. Bush's swagger was the equivalent of twenty army divisions--on the opposing side. In other words, he's winning by not showing up, and Putin is shadowboxing himself to death. Where is heroics here, the fame of Lees and Jackson, who did not shadowbox from the bushes. And the noble Traveler, which we were taught in grade school. Was there ever such steed? But rest assured the lesson seemed to say, the glory lives on, for the spirit of the American Dream lives in the memory of its heroes. And what greater heroes, we were led to believe, than men like General Lee. All gone now. Economics will not lift a Deplorable out of that rut. "I'm not worried about sleek with the fancy haircuts (the good timers)," Caesar said. "What scares me are the lean and longhaired" (the Patriots Brutus and Cato who could not be bribed). If Krugman delved in the religion (or myths) here, his hair would stand on end. The Left considers the US military, in its current form, as the greatest threat to its agenda. To change it, they need to make Evangelicals much less at home in it. This can be done by what Cardinal Muller calls "psychological terror"--gradually alienating Evangelicals by making their abode so odious and threatening to the conscience, that they will begin to dread it and leave on their own accord.
Deplorables are those who pine for the Old System run by the Pharisees, and remain stuck on it like Barabbas. Hillary would belong to the wealthy Sadducees who see in Greek hedonism all the heaven they crave. These were closer to the Herodians than the Conservative Pharisee with a corresponding globalist (Roman) and elitist outlook. The Pharisees were the custodians of Barabbas's System, hijacked by the Roman System through the RINO Sadducees. You can see here no shortage of causes to blame for "the state of the country." Because Deplorablism is the art of milking the grievance industry to compensate for idleness, even while blaming immigrants getting rich around them for "taking away their jobs." Kristoff's childhood friends in Oregon are destroying themselves with drugs and alcohol because jobs went elsewhere. Meanwhile, immigrants are pouring in due to the labor shortage. I meet many immigrants. I have never met one looking for a job. They're all too busy working.
1-27-23
"Memphis to Release ‘Appalling’ Video of Officers Beating a Black Man" NY Times.
Yesterday, Ukraine claims to have killed 940 young Russian men. The NY Times finds that appealing rather than "appalling". Normally, that would be a video worthy of Spielberg--but as they were killed legally "according to the rules of war", well--Im Osten Nichts Neues. "War," Sherman said, "is the altar of Hell." Nothing to report here. Who cares? Fewer polluters for a globalist. This is some morality here. Brooks, Friedman, Douthat, Kristoff, the great moral champions of the common man--well, they don't deal with statistics either. They'll have to lower that body count considerably to make it onto the pages of the NY Times, because you can't make news out of statistics. That's 940 in one day, many so blown to bits that their remains wouldn't fill a handbag. Do they use full size body bags for those, you wonder? Are they reusable to lower the carbon footprint? Statistics. The 6th Commandment does not address statistics. Jesus endorsed war, accoring to Luther and Calvin, by not even mentioning. For the great evangelist, Dwight Moody, clubbing young men's brains out by the hundreds of thousands was a matter of private preference: "In that sense, I'm a Quaker," he mused. He hung around the war camps, for he loved preaching to boys who knew they were going to die on the morrow, some of whom were likely former Sunday School pupils. What did this warmonger preach, you ask, which would make men the more ready to kill and be killed? He preached the System, of which both North and South were church members. "Both sides," Lincoln, who visited his cannon fodder prep school, said, "prayed to the same gods." Did you see the Leopard commercial with the beer mug on its snout? They can cover a field with human brains in a matter of seconds. What do tanks have to do with beer when everyone knows brains and blood is the currency they trade in? But if you saw them spinning in human brains of their own making according to the Geneva Convention which christianized war to make it humane--then the proof of the pudding would be in the pie. That would be some video on the pages of the NY Times. Why settle for a lesser tank if you can afford a German Leopard?
1-27-23
Will U.K. Rejection of Scottish Gender Bill Bolster Independence Movement," whispers the NY Times breathlessly?
What hinders is the discovery of a known and convicted serial manwoman rapist which the Scottish government locked up with female prisoners because he said he was a woman, which made his crime a female crime, and hence had to be locked up with the correct gender. For the law prohibits the creation of "separate but equal" prisons, just as Biden insists that rapists and pedophiles be allowed into bathrooms of their inclinations to avoid creating an apartheid state based on the false narrative of the fake news of the latest Rightwing conspiracy.. Biden will have either Unijo's (one for all) or Groomjo's, which allow manwoman rapists and pedophiles to frequent bathrooms of their choice. The feminists have been shrieking (falsely, it cannot be said too often) at the top of their voices up in Scotland ever since. They invented feminism to escape rapists and the "male gaze", and here they are face to face with a government imposed rapists. And feminists don't talk about the genders. They invented feminism is get away from the rapist Gander. They invented women's sports, which was created to break through the glass ceiling (by lowering the roof where they can reach it), only to find themselves competing with lumbering Neanderthals in dresses the size of whales. And here a serial rapists managed to get himself locked up with his victims. Biden is helping the cause by using government drugs and surgery to thwart Nature--which is why you need to be a biologist. To no avail. "A rapist is a rapist is a rapist," they keep shrieking (again, falsely, in case you're keeping track) up there in Scotland. You can hear a pin drop in the NY Times newsroom. Don't these feminists know that they're spouting Orban/Putinism, which claims to wage war against Groomorrah? But you recognize the familiar pattern here: fake news, faux hysteria, questioning the science, disinformation, blame the government, victim shaming, and all the phobias that come with it. By spouting the false narrative that rape is a male crime, they're resetting gender back to the 60's. Are these faux feminist also saying that women cannot become toxic males? So gender fluidity does not exist among feminist, because you don't need to be a biologist to know what a feminist is, it being such a long struggle against the Patriarchy. But everyone knows by now that Feminism is practicing its own apartheidism, in that it refuses to be added to the Abominable List. Because they claim to know what a male is using the Biblical Wall Method (see besides). The NY Times, and Biden, will have none of it. They know fake news when they see it. This is Orbanism under different dress, using victimhood (pretended fear of being locked up with a serial rapist) to gain legitimacy for their own petty grievances and privilege. What are they asking the government to do, create Feminist prisons so they can keep their feminist privilege? A man can be a woman, they might say, but a serial rapist cannot be a Feminist as those are always toxic males. The New Times knows a false narrative when it sees it, fake news and conspiracy theories. Hence the cold silence towards these shrieking feminists. Homophobes. We know that they mean. They're blaming the victim, in this case the rapists, by homophobically stereotyping rapists as males. I suspect they'll all be tried for hate crimes now, years added to their time. They're a disgrace to the cause. Yet here they are, fanning all of England into an uproar with their nonstop shrieking. As we say in the desert, The fact that the fox has a few chicken feathers sticking out of his snout doesn't mean he can't crow like a rooster (again, something may have been lost in the translation). Because Biden/Jackson will have you know that if you were a biologists you would know that a serial rapist could as easily be a woman as a man, because this serial rapist insists he's a real woman, and, because "gender fluidity" makes up the greater part of mankind, to categorize rapists as males is the essence of hate and phobia. This is what Biden wants to change now in the Supreme Court, in order to make Groomorrah the law of the land. And, in keeping with their policy not to give criminals (in this case homophobes) a platform, the NY Times refuses to mention the serial rapist the Scottish government locked up with the women. Because the Times will not give a platform to homophobes. And these women are obviously homophobes, for screaming that this is a male and not a female rapist. Rapists were locked up together, because, traditionally, it had been assumed that a rapist (traditionally assumed to be male) could be locked up with other other males, because his victims were female. Biden begs to differ. And his Judge (Justice Jackson) agrees that no one save a biologist can possible know who is a rapist and who is not a rapists, because only a biologist can possible tell the difference between a man and a woman, and all the gradations in between. And Judge Jackson confesses to not be a biologist. And none of these terrified women are biologists, because if they were, they would see that the rapist is a woman, and when people hear the word rapist, they automatically think "male," and since the rapist identifies as a woman, he cannot be a rapists, and Biden/Jackson see nothing but homophobia here. But the feminist are hitting the roof up there in Scotland, and not the glass ceiling either. So much for early release. Where is remorse here? Let them out and they will continue to commit hate crimes, by engaging in hate speech. Which is why the NY Times is silent. This man insists that he's a woman serial rapist, and the Times refuses to mis--gender--even to deliver these terrified feminists from the serial rapist. Remember that once upon a time primitive man saw the sun come up and remembered that it was always preceded by the rooster's crow, and concluded that the sun made the rooster crow. So here.
These Scottish feminists, according the NY Times, don't know their own silly business. If they did, they would know that unless they are biologists (although they then would know) they cannot tell know who is a woman and what is a man. Which means, that they likely had toxic (un-self-identified) males among them, which makes their shrieking at least unscientific (if not mute) as the rapist's victims had hithertofore been women, and the shrieking feminists could not possibly know if they were women (unless they were biologists, in the which case they would know). So Judge Jackson (see besides). I have not heard if they were able to finish all the Supreme Court restrooms (legion, I'm told), made necessary for the hearing lest the cases by prejudged before they have been decided. I'm likewise told that the Court sits on ancient bedrock of the most firm, so the sky's the limit should they need more space, the limits of which, I'm afraid, could slant the argument in favor of Biden's Unijo's.
1-26-23
"Ukraine War Accelerates Shift of Power in Europe to the East" NY Times parroting Schrapp's Corner since 5 months ago. In forcing Biden's hand to take responsibility for the tank deliveries, Scholz slammed the door on a quick US retreat: if Putin now escalates because of the tanks, the US will lose face if it cuts and runs. The wily Prussian got a lot for his money here: he held out as long as possible (they ganged up on us), he took the focus off Germany, he showed that he's the only European capable of standing up to the US, and he allowed Germany to throw off its Lion/Lamb-Spear/Plow hypocrisy and take up Realpolitick once again. The Lion turned out to be a Leopard after all, and Germany just cornered the market on tanks. If you're an oil-rich despot, get in line. You'll need Leopards from here on.
Several months ago, Germany was in Qatar begging for gas. This during the soccer games where Germany's team wanted to wear the EUbow (OneLust) armbands. "That was rude," the German gasmeister was told insolently. That was before the half-time commercial on the Leopards--they can jump over ditches with a beer mug on the barrel and not spill a drop, all while hitting a moving target four miles away. They're made right next to VW down in Bavaria. Tanks or gas tanks--Tubal-Cain does both.
Germany didn't even blink in eye in solving the energy crunch. They anointed an energy Czar with power to shut down any factory in Germany. Now with Pentagon II in the Balkans, all that space between it and Berlin is secure Lebensraum for German development. They got their China markets back tenfold. The more Putin bombs Ukraine's infrastructure, the busier Germany's factories, all paid for by the US energy/arms dividend. The Times article barely mentions rapidly weakening France. It does not mention noisome Britain at all. The Germans never got to the Info Age. They spent the lasts 77 years obsessing on the combustion engine, and are just now moving to electricity. But the Leopard proves they can still make things. Britain and France cannot. Italy and Spain--Old folks homes. It's Berlin and the invigorated Balkans now. Poland (much of which was the Reich) is punching above its weight. It was the EU's chief trouble maker before the war and the EU was about to crack down hard because of its violation of EUbow values. "Europe has shifted to the Right since the war," the Times groans. Those Leopards do not come with the EUbow armbands on their murderous snouts. The women are manning the soup lines in Ukraine. There are no feminists in foxholes. Zelensky is not asking for Biden's Restrooms, the Groomjo's. That's what the NY Times means. War is the extreme Right. There is not a single man-in-dress in Ukraine. Biden has not seen fit to send Four Star Admiral Richard Levine to inspect the troops at the front. Putin would use it as a recruiting tool.
Meanwhile, fast sinking Old European values are on full display in Scotland, where a serial rapist who got caught cast himself as a woman and was put in prison with the women. The women have been shrieking in fear ever since, but EUbow (England and Scotland are ten times more depraved than even the EU because their clergy are almost entirely Sodomites) values require that a person be placed according to his self-identity. You heard about the fox who filmed himself killing chickens in order to get locked up, and identified as a chicken in order to get himself locked up with the chickens. And you cannot build separate (but not equal) prisons, just as you cannot build separate but not equal bathrooms, or create separate but not equal marriages, since Biblical marriage would then become marriage supremacy. And now the man-in dress rapist's wife says he's a fraud --I was afraid to read what that might mean, or if that would now mean another category, or another type of restroom, or if Biden's Groomjo's are a one-size fits all. Some, or all of that, is now in the docket at the Supreme Court, which, I assume, has made the necessary accommodations in order not to prejudge the case(s) before they are decided. They likely added several stories to the building. There has not been a single sighting of the EUbow in Ukraine. The famous Leopards will not arrive with them on their snouts. Russia has not captured a single Ukrainian with the OneAbominableLust armband on him. But the brave German soccer team displayed them in Qatar. "That was rude," the cringing German gasmeister was told. Such insolence would have been unthinkable before the war. Poland, the great EUbow refusnik about to be chastised, has become the US/Zelansky spokesman. There is no mention of the trans women, and trans children east of Berlin. And the NY Times does not seem the least interested in what happened to them, even though, as the Times never ceases to inform its readers, they consist of a large percentage of the population. War, it seems, makes them vanish--like the feminists. But more scientific studies need to be done....Meanwhile, up in Scotland, where women prisoners are shrieking at the top of their lungs, the government is torturing them with a serial man-in-dress rapist, because the law says a manwoman must be treated according to his demands, and they can't put him in isolation when he has (so far) been a model prisoner, and the women are being phobic, not at what he has done, but because of who he is. They refuse to accept him as a women. There goes early release, because these women show no remorse over committing crime, as proven by their phobia. But this is criminal phobia towards people who can't help being what they are. They will soon self-identify as "Permanently Underage," and will be put in adolescent homes, because they were born permanently underage and cannot change. But England is in uproar because the chickens are shrieking "there's a fox in the henhouse here." These women are in prison because they committed crimes, and now here they are committing a hate-crime, because, according to EU Values, a woman is a woman even if he is a known and convicted serial rapist. Talk about "a woman's right to choose" not to be forced to share restrooms with a known serial rapist. This is the essence of Biden's Restrooms, or Groomjo's. Nay, he says, he will end apartheid.
But what conclusions can you draw here? 1) Either none of these Scottish women are biologists (for according to Justice Jackson--see besides--only a biologist can tell who is a woman and what is not a woman), or 2) they use the Biblical Wall Method of Gender Identity which I discovered to Judge Jackson earlier (again, see besides). There's an old saying in the desert, It's easier to strain a camel's back with a mote, than it is to swallow a gnat on a beam before it makes it through the eye of a needle. Something may have been lost in the translation.
Macron is under suspicion for his "let's make a dealism." A great irritant to the fierce Eastern Bloc, which cannot get enough of the Reich. Poland made reparation noises only to get Germany to take up the cause. France and Britain are too weak to take up anything. The rest of the Nords (though very rich) are in the same danger zone, and do not trust Old Europe not to abandon them when things get better. If they don't consolidate their position now, the Eastern Front will become perma-war. They will settle for nothing less than an ironclad guarantee that this is the last time the Bear crosses the line (the entire Eastern Bloc is now in the no-negotiation camp. Which means it's war until Putin goes. The US/Old Europe want to settle for less, but cannot without betraying the cause). They'll have to move the seat of power to the East. Where does this leave Turkey, perhaps the EU's greatest irritant? For the new arrangement has the US setting up bases in Greek waters. All this comes with NATO's Drang Nach Osten. If they can hold the line, the economic boom here will make up for the China market share many times over. Scholz's gamble paid off. He has the German's behind him--they hissed Habermas out of Berlin--and he put the US between Putin and Germany. Up to Monday, Biden/Blinken were confidant that the Reich will fall in line. Finally, by Tuesday they admitted that Scholz had out bluffed them: tank for tank, or no Leopards. This would have been a coup for Putin. See, he would crow, the coalition is cracking. Biden had no choice. He caved to Scholz. This is an earthquake. Poland/Zelensky boasted that they didn't need Germany. An idle boast, Biden knows. He needs the Reich to take control, lest the US become bogged down in a quagmire with Old Europe cutting deals on the side. Scholz now has his guarantee that the US can no longer cut and run, a humiliation from which it would never recover. They went from scratching their heads over Germany to pulling their hair out. Tanks, US doctrine was until Tuesday, are the red line which could trigger WW3. Scholz made them trip it. Now he's back to waiting. He did what he had to do, no more. Like Macron, he knows that you cannot border a land mass like Russia without dealing with it. Dirty politics. Church purity is the Left's fatal delusion here. Scholz, like young Macron, is neither religious nor woke. Scholz doesn't think beyond the bottom line of his factories, glad to have enough to do while being allowed to move on from the past. With that Germany will be content. This engine is lacking in Britain and France, which causes them to grasp at the past to mask their decay. The are America's deplorables, sinking while immigrants around them prosper. They cannot dig, to beg they're ashamed. Like the Mexicans, all the Eastern Bloc want is the opportunity to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. "Up" may not seem like much, but it represents hope, and hope never tires. Old Europe has nothing to hope for which it has not already had in abundant measure, so what's the point. Germany was not only destroyed, but was not even allowed to mourn its dead. They were made to live in a tomb for 77 years. They could never hope to be normal again. Now they're in demand everywhere, and the Eastern Bloc sees them as a catalyst for things to come.
1-25-23
"Scholz refuses to send fighter jets to Ukraine after tanks u-turn," screams the British Telegraph today.
If they lose WW3, they'll blame it on the Germans. If they read their history right, they would know that there has never been a world war that Germany has not lost. Look it up.
So now the problem is the lack of German jets. I was fishing in the Channel between Britain and France the other day, when my dogmatic slumbers were disturbed by what I assumed was the dorsal fin of a Great White whizzing past. "Did you see the size of that," I cried to the oligarch reeling in a swordfish nearby. "Control yourself, Shamble Schrapp," he said, "that's just the wingtip of the British half-jet (they call it Jetxit) on its way to NATO exercises. They can't afford a boat to get it over there." And they're part of NATO. Their king, Karl der Bloese, was ready to beard with Putin when he showed up at his mother's funeral in full uniform, with all his great captains around him, and all the brave knights, very many. They even had his sister stuffed in a uniform. That's dedication. Word has it that they'll all even stay in uniform during his coronation, with clanking swords and halberds at the ready. Although, to be fair, you will remember many accounts in your history lesson of sturdy rogues "seizing the crown." What better way to deter a crown-snatching thief? It makes sense.
But Zelensky will need those jets, or all is lost. And after the jets, the headline will read, "Scholz refuses to send nuclear bombs after jets u-turn." Britain is so broke, they'll soon be glad if Scholz sends them his leftover Sauerkraut, and bite the hand that feeds them.
1-24-24
Another feather in Biden's hat: he got Germany to cross the Rubicon. Even yesterday, he still refused to send Abrams tanks. That was Scholz's bottom line, time is of the essence, and Germany's dithering threatened to fragment the coalition. Everyone sees this as the end of Germany's pacifism, and its reentry into the world of real Politick. Sermon on the mount politics is dead--it only worked under the US umbrella. Poor Habermas, the last of the old World Council of Church types, was hissed at in Berlin over the weekend for his "you can't make peace with violence" line. But that was the NY Times line until Putin invaded. Reagan/Bush were outdated dinosaurs because of all the wars they started. Mutti led the world out of that darkness.
Scholz has his Germans behind him. There is no protest. They seem relieved to be done with the Program (sermon on the mount values) and get on with the Project (the Superstate Beast). With the tanks, Germany crossed Putin's line in the sand, and burned its bridges to the past. The fear now is that it will do militarily within NATO what it did economically within the EU, use its power in its own interest. That Baltic region used to be ruled by the Teutonic Knights, Germany is very much at home there, and Ukraine was once full of Germans.
The thinking is that Putin will not reach for his nukes. He cannot use them on the field for fear of contaminating Russia, and he doesn't have the Apocalyptical fever of the Taliban, ready to pass into the next world by burning the present. If that is true, he will lose the stalemate. The EU has no incentive to end the war at this point, and Ukraine is willing to bear the political burnt of it (the body count). Putin has to confront weeping mothers, Scholz does not. All it cost him is material, and the returns could astronomical. The sky's the limit from here.
The new escalation means that the EU has set up shop in Putin's backyard permanently. NATO has now drawn a line in eastern Ukraine, which means that Ukraine is now essentially a member of NATO, which provides the security needed to lure investors. Putin will have been humiliated, and robbed of his status as a superpower. Belarus, another member of Old Russia, will likewise joint the EU and NATO. As will Georgia. Then all the monsters from Chechnya eastward will start quaking. Turkey, a great blackmailer of the EU will lose its luster as mediator, as Russia looses power to stir up trouble in the great beyond. In short, Putin solved all the West's problems with a stroke. He united NATO against China, and expanded NATO by driving the EU into it. The Eastern Bloc is young and vigorous and could extend the life of Old Europe. The great weakness he counted on, the strife of Critical Race Theory, will fall by the wayside in the new collective, as the guilt of oppression is mainly Colonial Europe's. France, with it's large Muslim underclass, is never far from the next terror threat, which it cannot confront without setting the entire Middle East on fire. This is pure politics. Just as was 911. These are political stunts to blackmail those with a guilty conscience. The new collective would give everyone a new slate. Germany, especially, cannot go back. The more Lebensraum from the past the better.
1-24-23
"Pentagon Will Increase Artillery Production Sixfold for Ukraine" screams the NY Times headline.
That's 90,000 artiller shells a month. Then, just across the page the headline "A Smarter Way to Reduce Gun Deaths" by the great moralist Nicholas Kristoff.
Now if you wanted to "reduce gun deaths"--say young conscripted Russians--what would be "the smart" way to do it? Apparently, you would increase the weapons that blow them to pieces by "sixfold." Because, surely, a moral institution like the NY Times, a foe of the death penalty, hate and phobia, does not serve local gods like the Fascists, who only look after their own like the Pharisees. Kristoff got rich globetrotting, seeking out injustice and evil for the New York Times. So, of course, the welfare of young conscripted Russians, too poor to flee, marched to the Front to be slaughtered by US/German weapons would be of the greatest concern to him. A life in Russia is like a life in California. And he most certainly wants a "smart way" to reduce gun deaths in California. This being the case, he will no doubt call for a "sixfold" increase of guns in California. If it works in Ukraine, it should work in California.
Finland puts the Russian casualty count at a quarter of a million. The New York Times has devoted its Front Page to the deaths of 19 persons for a week now. Only the first death (or a few) matters. There is no room in the human conscience for statistics. You would lose less sleep over killing ten billion than you would over killing one. Because the nerve of the conscience is the presence of hate. And you could not possible hate 10 billion, which means you can dilute guilt by adding to it. Kristoff and the Times do not see human beings in that 90,000, each of which is designed to kill 100. Only statistics. Hence, they can gloat over a high Russian body count without being accused of hate. In fact, they have no feeling whatsoever towards those compelled Russians. All they see is a vacuum, and the greater the vacuum, the less they'll feel. So it's 90,000 shells (a sixfold increase to improve what is already wildly successful) and a "smarter way" to dial down from the 19--side by side headlines. No wonder he won a Pulitzer. And those 90,000 will kill without hate, for the Times is against all phobia. As long as you abide by the rules of war. Stonewall Jackson would relish a peach with dying men on the ground crying for their mothers, and mutter "how merciful God was in giving victory." "War," he said, "was his calling." When Lee's preacher told him he had named his cannon after the four Evangelists, Jackson roared with laughter. "I'm sure," he gasped, "when the time comes, they will preach the Gospel eloquently." Gallows humor. He and Lee presided over the slaughter of 600,000 of their countryman. But they never killed anyone, created not one widow or orphan, and until recently, with the assassin Bonhoeffer, were the closest Evangelicals have to saints.
You cannot have too many tens of thousands "gun deaths" of 18-year-old Russian conscripts marched to the front at the point of a gun to be cut pieces by those 90,000 (a month) artillery shells, according to the NY Times. They're against the death penalty for murderers only. They howl for mass slaughter of young Russian conscripts. Europe refuses to hand over chemicals which the US mixes to execute murderers. But here they are, (US and EU) the largest manufacturers of death machines in the world. The Times is not against the death penalty, but only against the death penalty that does not include mass slaughter of young men on a grand scale: toxic males. But Kristoff has some "smart" way to reduce gun deaths--it'll cost millions in tax money. But if it saves one life--but what's a life worth--end of argument. But those 90,000 artillery shells blowing up young men conscripted men by the tens of thousands--? What's that got to do with anything? And their mothers, their wives, their orphaned children? --again, war is war. The death penalty of tens of thousands of young men has nothing to do with morality--what is that to Kristoff, and the other great weeping moralist at the Times, Friedman, Brooks, Douthat? "90,000 shells of young men killers a month," the Times crows. And Kristoff has discovered "a smarter way" to reduce handguns. As we say in the desert, If you can't stick a beam through the eye of a needle, you can get the same result by sticking a mote in the eye of a camel. But that's what they pay Kristoff millions for. Humanity will surely rise up to thank him for discovering "a smarter way" to reduce handguns, while boasting of a 90,000 increase in young Russian men killers. Each of those shells can blow up a 100 at a time. And they're getting "smarter and smarter" at making them even more deadly-- news tip for Kristoff. You can't be too "smart" when it comes to killing young Russian men by the tens of thousands. The Balkan Mafias are already pouring those weapons into the black market in Old Europe.
1-24-23
The US now sending a few Abrams tanks, Scholz is left with no option but to send the Leopards, knowing that the slaughter will not affect the outcome of the war: they cannot drive Russia out of Ukraine without driving Putin out of Russia. But having gained momentum against China by adopting Ukraine, the US cannot risk losing without seeing its gains vanish. Foreign policy by iPhone is the mood of the flash mob: one Tweet can send it in the opposite direction.
Military spending has doubled across the globe since the invasion, as globalism gives way to borders once again. Might is always Right(wing). Hence, the war fever in the NY Times, and the sidelining of the Evangelical Right--the Left is stealing their thunder, and their arsenal. The military complex creates a hugh Mainstream, and the extremes on both Right and Left (the revolutionaries) find common ground against the Establishment. Gone are the Peace Dividend, the Welfare State, and the religion that underwrote them, Wokeness. All replaced by statism, the incarnation of militant Secularism.
You can see why the Religious Right is less than enthusiastic. With Orban, they do not see this as a crusade in defense of classical liberalism, the cultural heritage of the West. Rather, they see Biden's Bathrooms (currently at the Supreme Court) as the symbol of the degeneracy that masquerades as freedom and democracy: Groomorrah.
That tanks are an admission that the West is losing the war. But they cannot back down without giving the momentum back to China, and allow Putin to use his war chest to buy influence in Iran, the Middle East, and rising India.
A long war, which this is becoming, could pin the US down. Nothing would suit China more. India's energy would get cheaper and cheaper. But a China-Russia-India economic zone could bypass the West, and leave it in its quagmire--assuming that the EU does not crack at being reduced to US serfdom.
For Orban, and those who think like him, the war is about Pride Marches in Red Square. This is the context in which he talks about illiberalism, which he sees as necessary to protect the Western heritage from its freefall into degeneracy. What that does is to draw limits on the idea of democracy. That is, you cannot bankrupt society by caving to the demand that every food stand provide wheelchair access. You see here the admission that the Ideal is not attainable: a fatal confession in religion, which Woke is.
Putin adds to that the notion that the future is Russia's due to its religious and mystical bonds that keep it from succumbing to Western degeneracy (this is what gives old Russian literature its oomph). Its counterpart is what Conservatives call the American Dream, the Manifest Destiny that is now being shattered by Critical Race Theory/Cultural Marxism. Holy Russia, Putin tells his Russians, is all that stands in Groomorrah's way. That's the Fox/Orban/Evangelical view in a nutshell.
1-23-23
Scholz just stepped in to overrule the girl which Germany calls its Foreign Minister. She's from the Greens, who used to be stoner hippies and communists, and were never expected to govern. The girl wants those Panzers handed over, and jumped the gun. Scholz is not ready to sign off on mass slaughter. This girl likely never held a gun. They fired the women at the head of the army because she likely never did either. But here she is, anxious to fill body bags by the tens of thousands. The EU had outlawed war, and these positions are now just "jobs" to level the playing field of toxic males. She's hopping round in a war zone like a teeny bopper. Note how the tally in the NY Times is always on how many "men" have been killed. There are no feminists in trenches, and no need for Biden's restrooms, now being debated in the Supreme Court.
Ultimately, the fate of tens of thousands 18-year-olds is in the hands of one man. He decides if they live or die. Such is your lot as First Soldier. The most extreme "give peace a chance" Leftist takes up the sword as soon as she takes the oath of office. A soldier, according to Clausewitz, is just a politician by other means. There is no politician, nor anyone who holds public office, who does not have his hands on the sword. A demo-archy is a diluted monarchy. King Churls will be crowned in uniform as First Soldier.
And the people who made those tanks? If you're an oil rich despot, you don't want to be left holding the worthless American Abrams. They cost twice as much as the Leopard, and, the US Army says, are useless. You'll need Leopards. You can likely trade ten for one in the fever of the moment, for only the German Leopard, we are told, is a real tank. That's the commercial the last couple of days. Your Leopard stock likely doubled ten or twenty fold. If you build Leopards, expect a hefty bonus. But what, you say, is Scholz doing building Leopards, if he's afraid to use them. You think they'll pin the body count in the company break room when it comes in by the tens of thousands, proof that the product works? That's the sweat on Scholz's brow. Merkel is probably shaking in fear somewhere. Those tens of thousands could be in the hands of the preacher's daughter. When you hear soldiers say "the 6th Commandment" comes without footnotes, what do you thinks they're talking about? When Evangelicals, in their more careless moments say, "Christian soldiers like Lee and Jackson don't take their marching orders from the Sermon on the Mount," what are they saying? They're saying what the atheist Habermas is whispering in atheist Scholz's ear: the Sermon on the Mount does not need footnotes. Everyone understands it perfectly. That's the the swear on the atheist's brow. Habermas is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers. What's his bottome line? "Die christliche Liebe." What is that? A "Buchstablich" reading of the Sermon on the Mount. It's what's holding up those tanks. Both Scholz and Habermas are atheists.
1-24-23
The new wisdom from Germany, leaked from France where Scholz huddled with Macron over the weekend, is that Germany will cast a blind eye if Poland and the Easter Bloc hand their own Leopards to Ukraine. These are shark infested waters, with a resentful Britain, finding new life as US frontman, throwing hand grenades from the Eastern Bloc to put the final nail in the coffin of the EU, which is being cannibalized by NATO, where Britain holds the enviable position as US fixer. Boris has become indispensable, and the US must have provided him with a jet and credit card. He's everywhere dousing the flames with gasoline.
Germany and France know they're being used, and, if not careful, could see themselves sidelined in the new arrangement. The US/Britain/Eastern Bloc Axis are consuming all the oxygen, and if left unchecked, will reduce Old Europe to Little Europe. For this is as much a war on Old Europe as it is on Russia, to get Europe to toe the line with regard to US global strategy. Biden is playing them against each other, and Britain wants to burn the whole house down. The German-Franco summit was to that effect.
As it stands, Germany knows that sermon on the mount politics is dead--when German tanks put Russian 18-year-olds in their graves by the tens of thousands, "christliche Liebe" will ring hollow. War is back as German statecraft. That reality is now beginning to sink in. Hence, Scholz's sojourn to Paris to cut his losses. France, a rapidly weakening shell of its former self now in the grips of Critical Race Theory mania, needs a new lifeline. Unlike, Germany, Macron has long advocated for a Superstate, where France, with its historic diplomatic cunning, will figure large. At this point, its either the EU Superstate, or NATO, which will be no more than Pentagon II run from the Eastern Bloc. That is, if Putin doesn't reach for his Nukes.
The war is morphing into something like the bristling 38th Parallel in Korea. The tail will wag the dog from here, and if Old Europe doesn't assert control of the Eastern Bloc soon, it will end up taking orders from Washington from here when the dust settles. The two constants of the war have been Putin's endurance and Europe's cohesion. Putin's control is firm, and Europe has not cracked. And the US is doubling down. Which means that no end is in sight. This being the case, Germany and France have no choice but to become participants, or risk being consigned to the margins forever. If they could put their differences aside, they could whip the EU into a super state within a matter of weeks. This is what Putin (and the US) fears most, for he would have no choice but to do business with it--as a subordinate (Russia's economy is only two fifths of Germany's). The Beast would glut itself on Russian energy, and become a US nightmare. All these components have been bandied about for decades. Biden/Blinken's Grand Plan could bring them together.
1-22-23
War fever rages at The New York Times and Washington Post with calls for Scholz to unleash his murderous Leopards to exterminate tens of thousands of conscripted 18-year-olds marched to their deaths at the point of a gun--to save democracy from barbarism, no less. Year after year both the Times and Post rage against barbaric Texas for having doctors put murderers to death "without cruel and unusual suffering." When those Panzers open up on you, they wouldn't find enough of you to fill a purse. Remember when the Left cancelled MBS for bone sawing one of his opponents, and Biden tried to rebuke him, and MBS smirked, "you made some mistakes" (hundreds of thousands Iraqis and Afghans cut to pieces according to the rules of war)? Those Panzers will make widows and orphans by the tens of thousands. Friedman, Brooks, the Catholics Douthat, all AWOL. As the Civil War raged, the great Princeton theologians who saw themselves as the custodians of the faith sat idle (their students. American's future preachers, in uniform) waiting for the war to end, allowing them to go back to debating important issues like infant baptism. But calling for the killing of tens of thousands of Russian conscripts has nothing to do with hate or phobia. The Rainbow flag, the modern symbol of love and tolerance, seems to have disappeared from Europe. Even the word "hate" seems to have fallen out of fashion.
Republicans don't know what hit them. For 500 hundred years, wars in the West were Protestant wars in defense of freedom and democracy, and here they are, not only sidelined, but on the opposing side of (by any measure) the third "good war": colorful uniforms, real armies, booming nightclubs--glory akin to chasing Rommel, the desert fox, across the Africa. The Fox people see Russians (and Orban) as the good guys, holding the line against the globalist Groomocracy. The American Dream, a strong military, a revived Israel, the Bible Belt, America as a Christian nation--all that has been sidelined. In three years Biden steamrolled the Right, and now he's hijacked its strongest redoubt: the military. He's stolen all their thunder. He toppled their statues, and is in the process of renaming their bases. These are the gun people, ordained to keep the Church safe from atheist Communism. They owe their existence to their indispensable role in shaping things to come. Protestant America was the chief instrument in God's arsenal, and nothing big could take place without them. Biden sidelines them completely. The "in Jesus Name'' people are nowhere to be seen in the third good war. But the Bible Belt and the military are one and the same. Fox and the Bible Belt are with Putin. But the military is now in the hands of Groomorrah, and an epic tank battle is battle is on the horizon. Evangelicals wore themselves out fighting disgusting sand wars and here they are made to watch from the sidelines while Ukrainians go from glory to glory. The Left's latest trophy in the Culture War.
In the interests of German efficiency and for the sake of Climate those reusable body bags can now be reduced to gallon size--with "made in Germany" on them. For while Russians always beat Prussians, it takes Prussians to slaughter Russians on a grand scale. The great moralists Friedman, Brooks, Douthat, always on the lookout for the latest hate, are silent. The pulpits of the Confederacy rang with "the cause is just" on the eve of the Civil War. This is not war, but a righteous crusade, once again. So much for the death penalty--at least on a grand scale. You see here the machinery of murder: only the first matters, all else is statistics. After all, it is done according to the rules of war, with the experts ever ready to document potential war crimes. They're still over there sifting the ashes searching for possible war crimes. Is this barbaric? Not if done according to the rules of law. The Geneva Conventions allows for the bombing of cities as long as its done according to the rule of war. "Don't," said General LeMay who wiped out entire blocks of Tokyo, "use morality and war in the same sentence. Had we lost the war we would have hanged as war criminals." Such talk for Christian gentlemen like Generals Lee and Jackson (revered, with the assassin Bonhoeffer, as saints by Evangelicals) is blasphemous, as it condemns the doctrine of Luther and Calvin inherited from Augustine.
The mask is off. Note how quickly the anti-war movement folded as soon as they realized that those tanks are now "their tanks." Now the cause is just. The pacifist German Greens, rooted in communism, are now Germany's loudest warmongers. They switched overnight. As you can see from the Times's article, Scholz's party is still in the grips of the old sermon on the mount World Council of Churches doctrine that says "you cannot make peace through war." Where did they get that? From a "Buchstablich" reading of the Sermon on the Mount. You can only get "the christliche Liebe" by taking Jesus' word's literally. The Culture War in America, they say, stems from taking the Bible literally. Scholz can't make himself release his Panzers because Habermas keeps pointing to "the christliche Liebe" which underwrites the EU. the blueprint of global Left which is now shedding its woke mask in favor of statism. The EU was statism without the army. Scholz cannot hand over those murderous tanks without throwing overboard 77 years of End of History salvation, all based on a very rigid Buchstablich reading of Jesus' words. This is what this is. The Program was a delusion. It only works when it is not tried. There is no such thing as peace without war in Cain's world. Only might is right here. And might is no more than the monopoly of violence. War is back, right where they left it in 1945, and if they still have their old maps, they're right back to where where their fathers left off redrawing the borders. The tried "the sermon on the mount--christliche Liebe" in Cain's world. They cannot say "we don't know if it works, because it's never been tried." The EU tried it. Now what happens to the EU? Putin wrecked it by exposing its clay feet. It was tried. Scholz can keep those Panzers out of Ukraine. If he releases them, Germany will be up to its neck in human blood again.
1-21-23
"Germany is refusing to send tanks to Ukraine. Biden cannot let this stand" (Washington Post).
Why, you ask, hasn't Biden fired Scholz by now, and replaced him with a Ukrainian? This is rebellion. Revolution. Scholz is refusing to obey orders of his superiors. That will stop! Biden, we are told, can compel him. Scholz obviously has less power than the governors of Florida and Texas, for there Biden is made to "let stand" many things. But a German will do as a German is told, if he knows what's good for him. Biden is obviously Weltmeister if it has come to this. The Post wants this nipped in the bud immediately. Such language in the days of Reagan/Bush would have filled European Capitals with days of rage at the imperialists--fueled on the pages of the Post and the NY Times. But the Woking of yesteryear is now leavening into (those are our tanks now) statsim, which is what Woke becomes when it throws of the mask.
All eyes now on the Prussian Panzer Cats. The greatest tank battle of all time (Kursk) was fought in that region (6000 tanks and 2 million men), and now the war hawks are crying for a rematch of Prussians against Russians. That's all Germany sees when they are asked to hand over their famous Panzers to blast their way into Russia. It takes Prussians to kill Russians on a mass scale, and those Panzers will do it. The Schlacht Ukraine, in the Graeber, no less. When Hitler lost 400,000 in Stalingrad, the choir sang anthems to the Schlacht Stalingrad to the nation. You slaughter (fight) from the graves (trenches). "War," said Sherman, "is Hell." Watching the carnage from the hilltop, General Lee said to his officers, "we do well to remind ourselves how awful war is, lest we grow too fond of it." You can be fond of committing mass human slaughter, but not too fond of it. The Calvinist Stonewall Jackson called it "his calling." The Germans, of course, never aspired to be Christian gentlemen, and kept their pagan description of war as "human slaughter," and don't lose a moment of sleep at the thought of waiting to be killed in "the graves." That's some language.
But all Germany needs at this point in history is to have the frontpages full of German tanks cutting new Russian recruits to pieces. And it has come to just that. The war now hinges on Scholz's fearsome Panzerkatzen. The SS, once they chose you for their operations in Russian, would make you transgress the 6th Commandment the first day with a sergeant behind you. You can only kill once, all else is pure statistics. You will suffer no greater pangs of conscience for killing ten billion than you will for killing one. But if these are no more than advanced animals who cause their lesser to become extinct--that's how the NY Times looks at it. New York spends millions on rodent control. Why scruple here, if these are merely higher life forms? Merkel, the preacher's daughter, is likely having nightmares at this point. Her mentors were "the christliche Liebe" types like Habermas who had convinced Europe that the new sermon on the mount politics would make "human slaughter" impossible. The war is being fought because the New World Order had outlawed trespass. But every war since the foundation of the world was trespass. Which means that the New World Order has outlawed war. In which case, Biden is merely enforcing the sermon on mount New World Order, which outlaws war. They themselves are not waging war, but merely chastising those that do. Remember that policemen are called peace officers. They make peace, well, by making peace-by other means not doubt. But the barbaric notion of violence must be rejected out of hand by the new man. Biden is waging peace in Ukraine.
Merkel opened the gates to immigrants on the counsel of a preacher friend of her father's. That thinking exists to a lesser degree in Scholz. He's terrified of creating tens of thousands of widows and orphans with his "yes." "Im Osten Nichts Neues." Only German tanks doing what Germans do well. You need Prussians to kill Russians on a grand scale. That's the sweat on Scholz's brow. He didn't run for office as First Soldier. But he knows his Clausewitz: A soldier is no more that a politician by other means. And the way the way the media frames the Panzer debacle, he can only see himself as an Executioner. Every politician is a soldier, and every kills or takes the oath to kill, for the State is the sum total of the God-ordained sword, and every politician puts his hand on it the minute he takes the oath of office.
1-21-23
The war can't heat up too quickly tor resentful Brexit basket case Britain, which sees itself weakening as the EU regroups. With all their problems, they're muddling toward the next stage. The Project survives (like the Plague) by staying just alive enough to get to the next stage. Britain, by going it alone, now sees itself without options. The war threw them a lifeline as the US needs legitimacy and support in its strategic gamble to remake Old Man Europe by making the vigorous Eastern Bloc their masters. The German-Franco axis which now dominates the EU see their privileges evaporating. The marriage of convenience here fools no one: Germany needs France to hide its strength, while France gets to hide its weakness by clinging to Germany. Now, however, they are made to endure the increasingly insolent harangue from the Eastern Bloc for Europe to do its duty and push Putin back where he came from. But to keep him there, they know, will require a New Constantinople, and Old Rome will become little more than a tourist attraction. Neither, Scholz nor Macron, want Ukraine to succeed, because the cure would be worse than the disease. The EU has not become the United States of Europe, because the former empires would lose their shine once they become states within the EU State. You too could own land now gobbled up by billionaires if you could persuade 100 other people to pool their pennies into a local fund: but who gets to be Weltmeister among the 100. Macron is not about to become Scholz's Vice President. And they understand fully the implications of a hardened army flush with victory, compared to which the militaries of Old Europe are mere parade grounds. The US/Eastern Bloc still see Putin's demise as the only solution. That, Scholz knows, is a delusion. He will reach for his Nukes before he abandons Crimea. And the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine will become breeding grounds for a never ending conflict. Or, without a strongman, Russia could disintegrate and the world's largest arsenal of Nukes would be hawked on the black market. Now Old Europe has real problems. Not so much, distant US and UK. But the US's fear of sending its state of the ark Abrams tank now prowling around in Estonia highlights the danger facing Europe. The tanks are worthless, the US says. Imgine that. It was designed for Cold War combat in Europe, and now all of a sudden they're useless. Only the Prussian cats, the fearsome Leopard 2's, are real tanks. How's that for a commercial if you're an oil sheik?
What does that mean to Scholz? It means that the US and Ukraine know that they're losing the war if they don't up the ante. But the US is afraid of upping the ante, which prompted it to issue the head scratching statement that the world superpower's major weapon (the Abrams tank) is worthless. But Ukraine will be thrown back without bigger weapons. And if the tanks don't work, well then, the next stage is jets. That, to Scholz, is insanity. The US would have won the war in Afghanistan in two days had they decided to win at all costs: one leveled city would have done it. Or they could have threated Pakistan to get them to call off the Taliban. But this is where Biden/Blinken are now. Instead of cutting their losses, they're doubling down by (as they say on Wall Street) throwing good money after bad. But if it comes to jets, will that be enough to remove Putin? At which point do the NUKES come in play again? But what can Scholz and Macron do? The US has the moral high ground by siding with the victim, even as it is playing to its own interests: it solved the vexing China problem overnight and will do so as long as the US has the Bear by the tail. They war has become the global narrative and playbook, and whoever controls it controls the world (it dominated Davos where the billionaires hissed "give them the tanks" at Scholz). The US can checkmate the globe from Ukraine: food, energy, alliances, etc. But, says Scholz, you can't hold the Bear forever, and Russia needs a Bear to keep other evils from hatching, which will then pour into Europe. Like Putin, Scholz is playing for time. Giving just enough to keep from getting cancelled. On the other hand, the war has revealed what had previously only been whispered: Germany has once again become too big to ignore. The other countries are mere satellites around it. Deutschland Uber Alles. It has everything to lose in a united Eastern Bloc.
1-20-23
After high level meeting still "no" on the Leopards.
Germany called Biden's bluff by offering Leopards if Biden will send Abrams. The Abram, the US says, is too hard to maintain, only works with jet fuel close at hand (they must have been switched to "stones" in Afghanistan), and this that and the other. In other words, the world's greatest superpower's main weapon is useless. The Leopard, we are now led to believe, bats all other tanks aside like annoying flies. How about that for a Super Bowl commercial. I imagine Leopard stock is through the roof. If you're a Mideast despot, you need Leopards. Tank for tank. A tank for a ship full of gas.
What, you say, is a pacifist country like Germany doing selling instruments of mass murder. "Quiet (and red) will flow the Don" when they open up. They have the Iron Cross on them (the Wehrmacht), and we don't want Russia to get the wrong impression, says Germany: Germans massacring Russians again. Don't worry, says Ukraine, we've got paint. Hand them over, now.
I don't know if they put "Made in..." on body bags, but "Made in Germany" will fill them by the tens of thousands if Scholz gives the signal to kill. If he refuses, thousands of young Russian men marched to the Front at the point of a gun, get to live. Death penalty by mass. It's what the NY Times is baying for when they're not crying "barbaric" when Texas executes murderers. But they're on record for the mass execution (by Leopards) of Russian eighteen year old's. That's the sweat on his brow. His "yes" will send thousands of young men to their graves, make thousands of widows and orphans, and many more thousands maimed for life. He has become Death. He does not see himself as a butcher. That was Hitler. But his "yes" will sent thousands to their graves, in what Spurgeon called "murder on a large scale." He's more afraid of that than of Putin's Nukes. Merkel likely can't stop shivering at the thought--it could have been her; First Soldier is First Executioner. But every German politician has his hand on those Leopards, for every soldier, says Clausewitz, is no more than a politician by other means. You cannot hold political office without violating the 6th Commandment. When the last prophet of the World Council of Churches (Habermas, whose thinking formed Scholz's) talks about "Die christliche Liebe" which underwrites the EU charter, this is what he's talking about (he's referring to a simple reading of the Sermon on the Mount). Scholz knows he's taking Germany over a cliff the minute he hands over those Leopards. He's an atheist. But he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life looking at his hands. Germany has forgotten that Luther called on his followers to volunteer as hangmen. Belching Leopards, he would have told Scholz have nothing to do with "christliche Liebe." For war is an instrument of God in the hands of the pious politician for the good of His church. Evangelical look at all this as the fruit of his atheism. How could Germany have departed so far from the teachings of Luther?
1-20-23
Biden ist Weltmeister. America is once again the world's chief brand, with nations competing for military bases luxuriously funded by surplus form the arms/energy dividend that is now squeezing Europe's welfare state by siphoning its peace dividend. Al Qaeda would would not attack today because it would be cancelled by its propagandists: the NY Times and the EU which created "days of rage" in the Middle East with its non-ceasing chatter of capitalistic oppression and exploitation of the Third World. The Afghan withdrawal was botched, a political trifle compared to the nightmare of an unending war. China is weakening of its own accord, and ally India is booming on cheap Russian energy. Europeans huddle like frightened schoolboys under the US umbrella. The nations along China's revived Silk Road see the US-EU-Australian-India axis and conclude that all roads once again back to Washington--even from the Silk Road. They all have a certain dread of the hyper-power that rose overnight in their midst. Manufacturers are coming back. Which means more immigrants as deplorables refuse too go to work. Good paying jobs with pensions, they were told by their fathers, will be there for you, whenever, you decide to get to work. No hustle needed. We did that so you wouldn't have to. Immigrants are like butterflies squeezed through the border cocoon: they hit the ground running. Migrant Jews thrived in Goshen tending Pharaoh's herds, because his own deplorables demanded better. "We had to do that," they told themselves. They couldn't make themselves belief that their children were up to the same hardship, and so took little pains to instill their hard-earned knowledge into their offspring. Upward, upward, upward--the American Dream. They may have struggled day to day, but they always made it. Their children deserved better, and to do them a favor they neglected to teach them the skills that would keep them from advancing upward. I know several people whose fathers told them, "Here's the farm and it's used equipment. Just carry on from here." Nah. Invent an app and you become a millionaire. The Google guys.
Biden's chicken in every pot is looked on with dread by Democrats, most of whom don't want him to run. But how do you replace the most successful one-term President in history? Republicans will make hay with those newly found classified document, as a warmup to embroil him in the shady doings of his son and brother. If he exits in 2024, the party could move on. If he doesn't, his second term will be non-stop scandal.
1-19-23
Boris Johnson, Zelensky's biggest cheerleader, tells the West to ignore Putin's nuclear threats: he's bluffing. His opinion seems to be gaining ground. Biden is now open to giving Ukraine long range missiles to hit Russian bases in Crimea. Fear of nuclear escalation is what kept the US Air Force from destroying the Russian army during the invasion. Putin, Johnson says, would not survive the stigma of using Nukes: China and India would turn on him on humanitarian grounds if he even uses battlefield Nukes. And he is not Taliban enough to go down in caveman history books as having destroyed the world. He and his fellow oligarchs are known for their hedonistic feasting bouts in their mansions. He likes the world as it is. He's not looking for a better world purged by fire like the Taliban. In short, he doesn't have what it takes to be a suicide bomber. Manhattan, then, is safe.
This is the man who took Britain out of the EU, which is now turning his country into an impoverished basket case. Greece may just as well try to revive Athens, or Sparta. The assumption was that Brexit would provoke an exodus of all the other malcontents. The EU is as strong as it ever was, and the UK will soon beg to return. In the meantime, Boris is making hay with Ukraine. He has Biden's ear, and as such gets to write his own ticket. Biden is using him to get Germany fully committed to the war, a move that will essentially make the EU a pawn of NATO (and the US) of which Britain is a member. Zelensky is already Biden's governor with regards the EU. They have not been allowed a private opinion since they called in the US to contain Putin. Now they're at the mercy of the mercenaries. The only thing worse than an invading army, they used to say over there, is a mercenary one: kingmakers. Scholz's "no" to Leopards is the EU's last gasp of independence. Britain lost its through its poverty caused by the Brexit disaster. It's essentially become a US Army base once again.
The EU is now in the grips of NATO, and NATO is now at the service of US strategy. That's the sweat you see on Scholz's brow. It accounts for the reckless behavior of Boris Johnson, who hopes to be amply rewarded for committing Britain fully at the beginning. NATO will be little more than Pentagon II, or the New Rome, made necessary by imperial expansion. Brexit will become Smashxit. Boris will become indispensable in this arrangement. He's become a great irritant to Berlin. They know precisely what he's doing. He can wreck the EU from Ukraine by turning it into NATO. As America's most trusted ally, Britain would figure large in that scheme. As it is, it's a country in search of something to do, unwilling, on the one hand, to go back to work after living on imperial plunder, and on the other, as the lingua franca with its finger on the global pulse, very useful. "I cannot dig, to beg I'm ashamed," and the war dividend of arms and energy gives Biden a lot of money to throw around. America is back as Weltmeister. How do Republicans run against that. All the planets simply lined up somehow.
Scholz sees all this and would cut his losses today. He wants neither a Ukrainian victory, nor a Russian defeat. Either way, Germany loses. Germany is best served the things were--a wide no-man's land between Berlin and the Bear. He would give Putin the Russian parts of Ukraine, and shamble a compromise that allows him to go back to his parades in Red Square. The fact that he miscalculated does not mean that he can be driven out. Scholz does not think those parts can be prised from Putin's fingers without all out NATO war. He fears even more Pentagon II on the Eastern Bloc. Which is what he'll get if the war drags on, or if Russia is humiliated to the point of seeking historic justice. Boris, on the other hand, safe on his island, keeps pouring gas on the fire. If NATO prevails, he'll join the Eastern Bloc to dominate Old Europe. Europe will be NATO, or Pentagon II. If Russia then becomes a free for all and turns West--. Biden the aged ist Weltmeister. If Putin doesn't reach for his Nukes. Poor Scholz. "You want a manager," he told Germany, "with me you get a manager." He's fighting tooth and nail to keep his Leopards out of Ukraine. Not only because he is not convinced that Putin will not give NATO a nuclear ultimatum (Biden would lose his Germany and France the minute he does), but he doesn't want Ukraine to win. And Germany wants its gas back, the anchor of its fat welfare state. Why should he wreck Germany to keep China out of Taiwan? The large picture of End of History man: Biden's Babel. This is unbelievable. NATO was created to absorb the Prussian Reich, and now they're all hissing at Germany to cease Sitzkrieg and start WW3 by assuming, once again, that warlike spirit of their ancestors which made Hollywood rich and famous. The war now boils down to the murderous Leopards which will put "Germany" on the body count in the history books. The preachers daughter got out just in time.
1-18-23
Scholz will sign off of on the Leopards, he says, if the US sends the M1 Abrams. So far, Biden has been afraid to so that, but has been goading Scholz none stop to do so. Russia is advancing, and without Leopards Ukraine will lose ground rapidly if Putin pours in his masses. Those Leopards are blood machines, and the body count will have Germany written on it. The keep upping the ante, because they're losing the war. They should go back and read their Tolstoy: Russia always loses two complete armies before prevailing with the third. The losses around Kyiv early on were on the job training.
Biden knows that behind Scholz's dithering is the calculation that Putin can outwait the West. Which is why Biden needs to punch through now. But he's afraid to commit more fully while Germany keeps its distance. But Scholz knows that Putin will see the Leopards as a German declaration of war. And only the US and Germany matter here. As soon as the US draws back Ukraine will collapse. But the US is afraid to commit more fully. Heavy US and German tanks are pushing the limit. No one cares about the few clunkers Britain and France offered. A lesser power like Germany, Scholz is told, can get away with what a superpower cannot. Scholz called Biden's bluff by offering to match him tank for tank, most likely a cynical calculation knowing that Biden will be forced to refuse. But make no mistake, the Reich is making trouble again.
The only plan is still to win at all costs. And what does a win look like? We'll see when we get there. And there is the problem. No one can tell Scholz where "there" is. Is Germany to spend the next 50 years peace keeping in Ukraine to make sure the Bear stays put? If Putin goes, who gets his Nukes? Hamas, Iran, the Taliban? Barring Putin's demise (he has not weakened), Scholz would cut his losses now. Give Putin his annexed territories and Crimea and have Zelensky join the EU (but not NATO) with what's left. That's what Kissinger would do--"off the record," "back channels," etc. These are shark infested waters, and all the Great Whites are circling each other. Nations, Scholz knows, are never friends. He knows he's being used, but has to pretend that he's among friends.
1-18-23
They pressured Scholz at Davos on the Leopard tanks. The cancelling mob are all piling on now. He doesn't even have to send any of his own, but only give other nations permission to hand theirs to Ukraine. A distinction without a difference, Putin likely told him. Your "yes" will open the floodgates, which Scholz is told by the Old Guard means WW3. They're still talking throwing Putin out of all of Ukraine, including Crimea. Six month ago that would have meant WW3. But the Pentagon is all but running this war from command centers in Florida, the CIA is feeding all its info to Ukraine to pick off Russian generals, and still the Bear has not responded. Once the tanks arrive, the jets will be next. Nuke, the thinking is, are completely off the table, and that the war will remain a slugfest of blood and iron within Ukraine. This was unthinkable at the beginning and puts in question the whole purpose of nuclear weapons, for as long as they sit in silos they're all hat and no cattle. This being the case, Biden/Blinken are ready to take it to the next level: murderous tanks. And Scholz's Leopards eat British and French tanks for breakfast. They're all that stands between tyranny and democracy now. Jets may come later, but for now tanks are the next stage. And here is the Reich again, making trouble. "What's he talking about," Biden/Blinken hiss, "we told him to hand over those tanks month ago." Germany could lob nuclear bombs for all they care, as long as Germany takes charge of the war. They're asking Germany to solve all the problems created by WW1 and 2. Which means dusting off their Prussian handbooks. The last thing Scholz wants is for Prussia to beat Russia. He would have to put all the Serbs in cages. You need Russia to control Slavs if you don't want them as gangs in your cities. No, the US says, Europe needs a makeover, and this is the time to do it. They're made to read the US script handed to them by Zelensky. But what can Scholz do. Germany still owes the world. Imagine being in a position to decide if human blood will flow up "the bridle's mouth"--again. Chancellor Schroeder never saw his father because he was killed trying to kill Russians. He's a close friend of Putin. Germany has zero interest in this war. Obviously, they don't get the big picture of the New World Order. They have never been in the least intimidated by Russia, and Russia has always tried to imitate Germany--it controlled Berlin until recently. But to atone for the past, Germany was made to serve two masters: NATO and the EU. The Leopards will be the latest installment of the dowry. The SS would use regular army troops to man its liquidation squads. If you were picked, you would be initiated immediately by being forced to execute Jews. A sergeant would stand right behind you. Hesitate and you would be the first in the ditch. They knew that the greatest drawback in a soldier is his inborn fear of killing another human being. That hurdle had to be removed the first day, for the 6th Commandment does not care if you kill one or a billion. The guilt is the same. There is no such thing as mass murder--only statistics. You cannot punish statistics. The minute Scholz releases those Leopards, he will never look at his hands again without seeing red. He's an atheist, and yet he knows this. The preacher's daughter was afraid to cross that line. Scholz ran as a manager. But a leader is an accountant only as an army paymaster. "Sold" (as in soldier) is the German world for "wage." Blood money. Sermon on the mount politics repudiated killing as the major part of statecraft. Too late for Scholz. He will either have to resign in disgrace, or draw his sword. Frau Merkle got out just in time. This is the shift in German thinking. You cannot be woke with such thinking, for the mind is forced to see things abstractly and remotely when shedding human blood. The battlefield littered with the dead is the end of identity politics, as the mind contorts to account for the nightmare before it. Like the Sermon on the Mount, the most terrifying thing about the 6th Commandment is its clarity. "Thou shalt not kill" just hangs there without footnotes or commentary. Soldiers deal with it by blanking it out. They do not run to the theologians to escape the pangs of guilt. They find some relief, not in the explanations, but in the powerful drugs of the psychiatrists. Ordinarily, state killing is so remote that leaders tell themselves that they themselves have no part in it. But here now, Scholz is called upon to embrace with absolute clarity the first duty of the politician: First Soldier. Those Leopards are his execution squads to deal out the death penalty. Ironically, the New York Times is baying for the mangling death penalty of conscripted Russian boys, and howls "barbaric" at killing by doctors. Scholz's yes or no will determine the fate of a large number of Russian cannon fodder, marched to the front at the point of gun. Think the Bruderhof in Washington--they would sing different with blood on their hands, and yet they covet visits from fawning politicians--every politician is a soldier. They're all in style at the New York Times, which is careful not to ask certain questions. Sermon on the mount politics only works when it isn't being tried. Its appeal lies in its radical difference, which its preachers know is so unrealistic politically that they need never fear of being put on the spot. The billionaires at Davos have just put Scholz on the spot. Biden/Bliken are tearing their hair out. They need the Reich to commit fully. Nothing they do matters as long as Scholz refuses to get his hands bloody. This he will do when the first Leopard mows down the first Russian. From then on its all statistics. Scholz is more afraid of killing the first Russian than of the tens of thousands that will follow him to the grave. When he gives an account on the last day, the Judge will not refer to the accountants. One or one hundred billion, the sentence is the same. The reserve in Scholz is the same for one as it is for one hundred billion. The whole world watched him melt in sweat at Davos. And he's an atheist. The forced his dovish war minster out of office and gave him a Prussian hawk. And he's still holding back. Biden/Blinken want that Prussian hawk where he's needed. If Scholz suffers a nervous breakdown, they'll likely have him installed. Die Schlacht Ukraine calls for a real goose-stepper, someone worthy of a Spielberg movie--in a long-hooded Mercedes car.
1-17-23
The Mutti people wanted Scholz to appoint another woman as head of Germany's military. The last three have been women, to set the tone of the Peace Dividend, End of War, the sermon on the mount kingdom of god charter of the EU that served as a blueprint to turn the world into a global village of peace and plenty. Mutti's parson father was of the World Council of Churches type, who took the "millennium passages" of the Bible as that age of human perfectibility toward which mankind was moving. It's the old Progressivism of today. The military, keenly aware that things are about to get serious, called on Scholz to pick the best person (read "man") for the job, and Ukraine is not unhappy with the choice. All eyes are now on the coveted Leopard 2's, which can hit a moving target while leaping over ditches. The woman at the top was blamed for withholding them. Now it appears that German weaponry will once again turn that part of the world red. War is back as politics. The State is founded on the sword, and the spine of any nation is its ability to project violence. That spine was replaced in the EU by the sermon on the mount brotherhood of man. Think the Bruderhof installed in Washington. Now the most advanced and richest society in history is threatened by a gas station with Nukes. "Jesus was a good man," they say at the Bruderhof. "But until all men are like him," adds the NY Times, "we better keep our Nukes up to date." I remember the pandemonium on a street corner in Minneapolis when Gorbachev broke from his handlers to work the crowd. The world had not ended in a nuclear holocaust. Now the NY Times is baying for all out war to put democracy back on track. Biden called Putin's bluff, the thinking is, and by now it's plain that he doesn't have what it takes to be a suicide bomber. That being the case, the time has come for Germany to step up to the plate and up the ante with the game changing Leopards, for by handing over the tanks, Germany will have crossed the Rubicon. The Leopards amount to a declaration of war, and as EU Weltmeister, Germany will own the war. At which point, the US can pack its bags and go home. The wisdom here is that Germany, like Russia and Great Britain are too weak to resurrect "the Idea" of themselves (that is, the risk of a Fourth Reich are minimal). NATO and the EU were conceived to put a straitjacket on Germany to keep it from attempting that. But if it takes charge of the war, the temptation to put its stamp on the EU may prove irresistible. Then it could Drang Nach Osten to seize Putin's assets to build the Reich on a global scale. Either Sitzkrieg or Blitzkrieg. Biden/Blinken/Poland/Ukraine/Britain have been goading Scholz for almost a year now to get the crusade going. Because you can't solve the Russian/German problem without getting Germany involved. But NATO and the EU were designed to avoid just that: to keep Germany out of all wars. Because Germans don't do war by half.
Old Europe has long been an irritant to the US. On the one hand, too weak to care for itself, and on the other, loud and boisterous enough to derail US foreign policy: propping up one superpower with gas money (Russia) , and the other, with technology and market share (China). Germany only smirked when asked to carry its share of the global burden. Borders were disappearing and the World Order left the US looking like a dinosaur. Cowboys, they sniffed.
Scholz returned from Washington scared out of his wits. The cowboys, he was told, will not ride, and Putin will drive his tanks through the Brandenburg Gate. The US had bigger fish to fry with China, and Europe had become the biggest obstacle. It had outlived its usefulness as a bloated welfare state, and Putin in Berlin would hardly make things worse.
The initial shock of America's low key approach sent shock waves across the world. Both Japan and South Korea began to question the value of their security arrangements with the US and the guarantees of the US nuclear umbrella with regard to China. Then China exposed her clay feet when she fumbled Covid, and, by giving Ukraine everything it asked for, the US signaled that it could be counted on to go the distance. Immediately, anti-Americanism reduced to an all time low as everyone seeks a place under America's protective umbrella, and nations are competing to host new US bases. All this has so far cost the US about 5.6 percent of the annual US Defense Budget. That's not even the interest on the interest of the war and energy dividend gained in market share of the booming military complex and high energy prices. The Ukraine war is also real time research and development for new weapons: priceless. They see and hear everything that goes on in Ukraine and pass it on.
Putin began the war on the back of the nuclear threat. Most people, especially MAD (mutual assur3ed destruction) theory types took him seriously enough to conclude that Ukraine's resistance was futile: resources required to prevail would trigger a nuclear war and would not be forth coming. No one ever doubted that Ukraine could prevail with all of NATO's toys at its disposal. But Putin has not responded to the West's escalation. On the one hand, he cannot use Nukes in Ukraine for fear of contaminating Russia, and doesn't have the nerve to play nuclear chicken with the US. On the other hand, the US has been careful to turn up the pressure only gradually by getting Europeans to commit in lockstep with the US. This they have done without reserve. Another surprise is that Europe did not crack under hardship brought on by high energy. European masses are warm and fed. They have not taken to the street to demand new leadership. This is stunning. The influx of immigrants has not helped the Right. T\he EU is as strong as ever. The UK, which hoped to go it alone by reviving the Idea of its former glory is an impoverished basket case. The Brand has lost its luster. I expect they'll be back in the EU within five years. Others who toyed with the idea of going it alone now shudder at the thought. Europe is what the nations of Greece became after defeating the Persians: enough to make up one small state. Or the squabbling fiefdoms of Germany before Bismarck made one nation out of the lot in 1870. Germany needs the EU to atone for the past, while France needs it more and more to escape the reckoning with Critical Race Theory. In short, Old Man Europe has no place to go. If they're not careful, they could easily lose control of the Project if they allow the US to set up shop on the Eastern Front with an all too willing Eastern Bloc ready to serve US interests.
The hope that China would serve as a counterweight to US hegemony is now losing ground fast. Europe, the thinking was, could use its economic clout to serve as middle man and reap the best of both worlds. This was the spoiler that threw US foreign policy in disarray. Europe even had its own deals with Iran. All that is gone now. Verboten. It is understood that only full participation will do now. Note how quickly Japan and South Korea are back in the ranks. These is to be no third way. China can make all the toys, but everyone wants to be American: there are no non-American "influencers." The masses can't get enough of Babylon, and American culture is hyper-Babylon. America is Kultur Macher and China is a huge copying machine of Americana. They already have their hands full with Hong Kong. How do they expect to get Babylon out of the Taiwanese? They've already lost the Cultural War, for Babylon carries all before it--good and bad.
By getting Europe and Japan strongly behind it, the US has put a dent in China's momentum. Putin scared smaller nations out of their wits. They all ran back under the US umbrella lest they are left to face China alone. That solves a lot of problems. Panic as policy. Biden/Blinken have the world handed to them. Republicans can't fix what's not broken. The Left has stolen all their thunder.
Thus Putin managed to scare nations away from China toward the US. As China stumbles, its rival India rises, big enough to ignore US calls to jump on the cancelling bandwagon, and growing its economy on cheap Russian energy. As goes China so goes Pakistan, the second front of the China-Pakistan axis. The US is willing to give India a pass in that it puts pressure on both China and the hornets nest which is Afghanistan, which in turn is a spillover from the troubles that continue to destabilize Pakistan. 911 could not happen today. When the big powers go at it you don't quarterback from the sidelines. The world is so distracted that the loss of almost a million people in the latest Ethiopian civil war barely made the news. 911 was but the latest manifestation of the Middle Eastern Days of Rage fueled nonstop on the pages of the New York Times, as the Left tried to counter Reagan-Bush Capitalism with the EU's sermon on the mount politics. "The focus," they cried, "is not 911, but what provoked 911": Capitalist imperialism. Now the NY Times is on the warpath calling for Putin's head. The War on Terror is over because it no longer features in the New York Times. Without their Western propagandists, Gaza and the Taliban are left to themselves. For India, Israel, and the US, the war solves a host of problems. All the US need do is tinker at the edges and reap staggering war dividends in arms and energy. Germany just ordered a fleet of F35's, at $110 billion a bird. American is back because the world thinks China has crested, or is at least being checkmated by a rising India, an American ally.
"All eyes on Germany" to see if the new Defense Minister will commit Germany fully. Patriot missiles, once unthinkable, are already in Ukraine. No response from the Bear. Was he bluffing? Now the fearsome Leopard 2's.
So far General Winter has not come to Russia's aid. Ukrainians are not freezing and the European plebs have not taken to the streets. Sherman's engineers became to adapt at repairing wrecked railroads that the Confederates joked that he even carried a few spare tunnels with him. German electrical factories are humming at full speed and Ukraine has all the parts it needs to repair its grid. US scouts are everywhere buying up every piece of armor to pour into Ukraine. Germany is full of gun makers. The German economy is robust. Carmakers are gaining on Tesla as Musk has been cancelled for his politics.
Germany is the nerve of this war. On the one hand, it provoked the war by funding it, and on the other, it will have to reorient to make up for the huge hole left in its economic policy by zero Russian gas. They finally have enough to do. Those liquid gas terminals in the north would normally take 7 years to build. They were up and running in 5 months. Germans had become so timid that the Brandenburg airport was outdated by the time is was finished. It was left to shamble on and on, because no one cracked the whip. Biden/Blinken had enough. They needed a Prussian at the helm of the Wehrmacht. He knew when he accepted the position what he would be called to do: deliver the murderous Leopard 2's. Scholz is at the end of his rope. He kept repeating the line that no one else had delivered tanks. To rid him of that excuse, France and Britain both said they were sending a handful of their own. Ukraine will probably junk them as soon as they arrive, because they're toys compared to the Leopard 2's. They sent them to gang up on Germany, to get Germany to cross the point of no return. In the end, this is a war on Germany, to get Germany to wake from its dogmatic slumbers. As with China, the point here is the change of mood. The German Zeitgeist is changing. Greens (former pacifists) are Ukraine's strongest supporters. Bismarck would use the war as an excuse to put all the squabbling fiefdoms under one Kaiser. Everyone knows that the EU would be the world's superpower if it could unite under one head. In like manner, any 100 people could pool their pennies and become major land owners--easier said than done. But if the choice is between Prussians and Russians, reluctance may wane. France, Italy, Britain are sinking into something they dread, and may see a United States of Europe with Germany at the helm as a lesser evil. But this is exactly what NATO and the EU were designed to prevent: the Fourth Reich.
12-25-22
Here's why the rats are leaving the sinking Evangelical ship, the religious RHINOS trying to stay afloat by seeking middle ground somewhere. Note how Kristof throws Moore softball questions while subtly reminding him that at anytime the pot can call the kettle black. Moore is being groomed to become another midwife to the Evangelical base. And they all meet at the Bruderhof, the latest showpiece of the kingdom of god on earth where the sermon on the mount is being tried to suit the New York Times. As the initial pangs of The Reckoning are being felt against Colonialism worldwide, the Bruderhof is where you go to get your new bearings. As the Civil Rights Movement is the last treasury of moral political authority left, so the Anabaptists are seen as the only churches not implicated in the crimes of Colonialism. The Bruderhof seeks legitimacy by appropriating for itself the history of Anabaptist persecution, without mentioning its attempt to takeover original Hutterdom several decades ago.
Nicholas Kristof: "Merry Christmas! I’m full of admiration for Jesus’ teachings" (NY Times).
Millions of pagans throughout history saw something unmistakably genuine, although unrealistic, in the Sermon on the Mount. That version (the pagans' plain reading of the Sermon on the Mount), since Augustine, has been seen as sin-denying drivel, an attempt to attain human perfectibility by doing good, while denying that man needs substitutionary atonement because he cannot do good. Luther and Calvin thus saw Jesus' teaching of "taking up the cross" as a dangerous substitute for vicarious atonement (Jesus destroying His work on the Cross, by His words on the cross), and engaged in systematic suppression and makeover of the unrealistic and "unworkable" aspects of the Sermon on the Mount, leaving their followers in the grips of violence, wife-swapping adultery, and racism, all the result of the doctrines of devils that they had to invent to sanitize the bedroom of "the Christian Caesar," and provide the cannon fodder for the "Christian Just Wars" of Augustine. Until the Reformation, the pockets of genuine believers (the Remnant) alongside the Established Church considered themselves both followers of (the cross) and believers in Christ (the Cross), with an emphasis on good works. With Luther and Calvin came a heretical over-emphasis on vicarious and substitutionary atonement, to such an extent that any mention of "good works" was seen as a denial of salvation "by faith alone," which James calls heresy, in that such a "faith is dead," because it exists fully in devils. What Evangelicals call "saving faith" is the dead faith that causes "devils to tremble"--no more than assent that something is undeniably true, even while hating the fact that it is. Devils believe everything you do out of necessity. They do not need revelation because they have direct access to God (Job 1). What the devils lack is the New Life that causes a person not only to see the Truth but to embrace it fully with a "hunger and thirst after righteousness." This the devils cannot do, and Evangelicals, following Luther, say a person need not do to be a believer. In short, you can be saved by repeating slogans to gain an insurance policy while continuing in the unfruitful works of darkness "such as you were." When Evangelicals say that a person can have saving faith without repentance, they are describing no more than the state of devils: dead faith. They will end up in the same place. They remain the unregenerate "workers of iniquity." James says it explicitly when he asks if "such faith can save." No, he says, because then the devils would also be saved, because they possess it fully. For "faith without works is dead." Hence, Luther's blasphemy that the Book of James is "an epistle of straw." He considered it heretical, because it contradicted his scheme, which was little more than empty sl0ganeering. Shoot the messenger and the problem disappears. "Life among us is no better than among the Catholics," he crowed. "But we have the right doctrine." The devils, James says, have the right doctrine "and tremble," because, unlike Luther, they cannot deceive themselves that such dead faith can save. This describes the Evangelical church exactly, although, even there, a small remnant exists who are genuinely saved.
Christianity Today churches see Confederate statues coming down and know that it's only a matter of time before The Reckoning turns its wrath upon the architects and underwriters of these evildoers, the unholy trinity of violence and wife-swapping: Augustine, Luther, and Calvin, the authors of Christian War and Divorce-Remarriage which has turned the Evangelical church into a brothel, and left it with little more than the violence of the 2nd Amendment.
Kristof is talking to Russel Moore, who recently left the Southern Baptists to become head of Balaam Graham's magazine, Christianity Astray. Jesus, he tells Moore, said nothing about sodomy, "but he was explicit about being against divorce."
Moore: "Jesus did speak to the issue of marriage — both in terms of its definition and its permanence."
"So," Kristof could have asked, "by permanence you mean that marriage cannot be undone, and so you obviously have no divorced remarried in your church?"
"Ah, yes, well the Catholics... what I means is that 'ideally' marriage is 'permanent.' But humans, Nick, as you know, make mistakes, and we're all, Nick, sinners. Remember Nick, there, but for the grace of God, go I..... But that's the Good News, Nick, grace means that there is always a new beginning, no matter what....Luther and Calvin wrestled with that, and as I said, Protestants differ somewhat from Catholics here....."
"So permanent does not mean permanent in the strictest sense? But the words of Jesus seem so plain and simple."
"In that sense, Nick, yes, you could say that, but again, Nick, the Good News is that Jesus loves....."
"Does Jesus love married sodomites just as He loves remarried adulterers?"
"Just as I am without one plea, we sing, but Nick let me go back...."
"Then why are Evangelicals so hung up on sodomy?"
"But I think if you will look closer, Nick, you'll see that even the Fundamentalists are becoming more tolerant. Even Bob Jones University recently informed the Government that it 'respects the dignity of every person' lest Biden cut off their grants."
"So if two men married to each other come to your church with their children, could they become members?"
"Well, Nick, we would not chase them away, but we may, Nick, you know, maybe, you know, need to have... you know...a conversation, you know, that maybe, you know, it's not, you know, the best way to, you know.... but Nick let me say this, wait, wait, let me finish....I, Nick, we...and I would like to clarify for your readers, Nick....."
"Do you do that with the divorced-remarrieds?"
"Again there is some question about what Jesus really meant there, and scholars have wrestled with it since Luther and Calvin..., but again, let me go back, Nick, and clarify for your readers, that Jesus' teachings will make everyone uncomfortable, because as we sing when we revel in our cups, 'We don't know if Christianity works, because it's never been tried...' heh, but going back...there are other issues,,,. like Jesus loves everybody... that is the Good News, love, Nick, love...."
"So God loves pedophiles? Does Bob Jones University think Hitler and child abusers have dignity?"
"What they meant there... I think...is that there are more than one interpretation..."
"So when Jesus calls divorce-remarriage adultery, He means something else?"
"Yes, yes, case by case...there are many exceptions...what Jesus taught, when its all said and done, is that He's against easy divorce. Permanent in a grace way, you know--move on...grace...."
"So if you want to swap for a younger wife, you can do it, and just ask for repentance?"
"That's usually how it works, but then each new marriage is 'permanent,' in a spiritual sense that is. Remember, Nick, one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, so one day could mean 'permanent.' Remember, Nick, we are dealing here with God's speech, who is eternal, so we have to find ways to make it work for us. The greatest divines have found the simplest things in Scripture the hardest. And Jesus was speaking to Jews who would have known what He meant. Paul speaks for the Gentiles who are saved by grace."
"So the simple teachings of Jesus can't be understood by modern man?"
"Again Paul...the Jews...the interpretations, the translations...remember 'the begats?'"
"But they've always made sense to me. What is there to interpret?"
"And there's nothing wrong with that, Nick, but the fact that they can't be tried tells you all you need to know. Again, if something sounds too good to be true, it is."
"So He's also only against trigger happy killing of your fellow man, and I can kill someone, show up at the church down the road, and become a member?"
"We would probably make you go through a few steps of repentance......again, case by case....I, we..."
"And war?"
"But war is an instrument of the minister of God who bears not the sword in vain, and Luther even called on his followers to volunteer to become hangmen. A hangman is a calling like any other. It is the state that kills and not you. When you push the nuclear button, all the responsibility is the state's."
"And turning the other cheek?"
"Ah now, Nick, that has to do with love, and God is love. No, sir, Jesus would be against excessive gun violence, and all the mass shootings. Let me be clear. That is the Sermon on the Mount, tolerance....the Bruderhof, as you know...
"So Jesus would tolerate pedophile marriage?"
"Wait a minute, there is law against that...."
"But sodom marriage is now the law of the land, and so you think Jesus is for it just as He is for remarried adultery?"
"Ok, I see what you mean... let me see if I can answer that, but Nick it's not the only issue... Jesus is more than that, you know, you can't, you know, just quote the Bible literally without interpretations....like Bob Jones University said, Jesus respects the dignity of every person....But Nick, what I mean is, and I'd like to clarify for your readers...that often...you know...interpretations, you know, and the translations... cough, cough, let him that is without sin cast the first stone...gluttony, as we say, is a sin too...no church is perfect, no church has all the answers, and there are many ways, as you know, to God...but going back to, you know... and let me say this... when good Christians, you know, owned slaves, you know--that's just the way it was, so change is coming, and let me say this for your readers, we, well....I... what I mean is, you know, we're all sinners, you know, and not everyone went to Harvard, you know.... These things take time....remember the debate about Evolution, and today, you know....."
12-23-22
Republicans can't figure out what hit them. Jan 6 was the proverbial "when you strike at the king, make sure you succeed." Like Brutus and Cato, the sons of privilege assumed that patriots of all stripes would rally to the standards. Instead, they have become a proverb and byword worldwide of small minded zealots who hope to shape the world by burning it down, like the Taliban. Democrats succeeded in tar and feathering the Republican party with their Jan 6 hearings, and Republican RHINO's are back. China's Covid fumble and Putin's no-end-in-sight war leaves the US as Weltmeister, with the spoils of war to prove it. The West is re-industrializing (with the US choosing the plum industries for the homeland), Anti-Americanism has become non-existent, and Europe is content to rest once again to hitch its plow to America's vision of the world. The Roman Peace. You may chafe over it, but you get to travel to Galatia, Athens, Rome in relative safety. You can even make a credible appeal to Caesar himself. You would not want to live in Barabbas' world.
A chicken in every pot. How do you campaign against that? The China fumble revealed the clay feet which the giant sought to hide from the masses. And when Putin broke faith with the global covenant, it was "to your tents, O Israel," Its every man for himself again. Factories are coming back to the heartland, and the energy sector is booming, even while Republicans are bending over backwards to attract Green factories. Military spending is off the charts, and ammo factories are at full capacity trying to meet demand. Immigration has become a non-issue, not only because America needs workers, but because no one wants to hear about children separated from their parents. Towns down in Nebraska that I passed through many times in my trucking days are teeming with immigrants who all seem to drive very nice SUVS. "If it's not broken, don't fix it" is what the Republicans are up against. The Jan 6 fiasco gutted their house, and lacking a cause (and vision), they have little choice but to line up behind the RHINOS. And the RHINOS have made peace with the Culture War--they voted Mormon Marriage Plus into law two weeks ago. The Groomophiles are now mainstream as the latest cultural fad, with global appeal. The Culture War is lost, barring a few holdouts who will take potshots at it from the Supreme Court and MAGA states like Florida and Texas. In Israel, the first step of the new government is to limit the power of the Supreme Court to thwart the policies of elected officials. Biden has been repeatedly frustrated by the US Court. Judicial Activism. Not the will of the people at the ballot box, but the decrees from the bench. This is where all this is going. Watch what happens when the Lefts gets control of the Court again. The Third Temple Brigade is in charge in Israel. As the US now has larger fish to fry, Israel knows it must chart its own destiny. Its main enemy, Iran, has been weakened with Putin (and protests), and MBS is turning Saudi Arabia into the world's largest casino. He broke the power of the religious fanatics in Mecca just as the Temple zealots seized power in Israel. Tel Aviv is largely made up of rich white male Groomophiles (an extension of Manhattan). The one place where the Left lost the Culture War. Hence, the agony at the New York Times.
Worse, the established Left in Europe is now under attack from the woke American Left (rather, the foot soldiers of Massahattan). This is especially true in France where the Establishment consists entirely of white Leftwing elitists. American Critical Theory (imported from France) is now raging in French Universities attacking the second class citizenship of non-white immigrants, most of whom are Muslims. In Europe, more inhabitants attend mosques, then they do churches. Add now to all this the fact that in America, gander theory gained legitimacy by attaching itself to Civil Rights. That will not do in Muslim Europe. European values were supposed to be color/gender/religion blind. Critical Theory points to second class citizens as proof that the ruling class cooked the books, and it is the Leftwing entrenched elitists who now cry that Americanism is causing a civil war in French society.
But what brought Americanism over to Europe? America is the only Brand at the moment, and as Ulysses' son said to his mother when she asked that the minstrel stop singing such sad songs: "You have to understand that everybody wants to hear the latest songs." Americana, like Babylon, comes as a package. Critical Theory is the latest fad in American Universities, and a scholar must keep up with the times. This is The Reckoning, which cannot be stopped, Colonialism, oppression, slavery, exploitation, racism--not one stone will be left on another when it's all said and done. Perhaps Old Europe can gain some credits by siding with oppressed Ukraine, much like Germany diluted its guilt by immersing itself in the EU. Keep in mind that this is Left on Left war. The foot soldiers of the rich white American Left, taking the hammer to the Mother Colony: decrepit Leftwing Europe. This is Atlas tying himself in knots wrestling with himself. What's going on here? The rich white American Left was able to attach to the Civil Rights Movement to overthrow the old WASP theocracy. It is able to mask its depravity by taking up the cause of Civil Rights and thereby helping itself to the moral credit underwritten by the moral guilt of Protestant WASPS. Nothing like this exists in Europe. Anti-Semitism is most rabid on the Left. Which is why the Holocaust has not become a repository of moral credit with the European Left, as slavery has for the American Left. America has likely passed through the worst of the Reckoning in its hurry to rid the land of Confederate symbols with little opposition. Which means that Americans have crossed the threshold of denial. But Europe has nothing to confess, they say. Hence the Angst over Critical Theory.
What is Critical Marxist Theory then? A tool or method to unravel and expose any and all conspiracy theories. When you use the world Groomer, you signal that behind the lewd children's books and Drag Queen readings there lurks a sinister ploy to indoctrinate children so that they can be preyed upon within the confines and structures of everyday life. The New York Times calls this a false accusation. They protest too much. They admitted to it in secret at Disney World.
So what is a Conspiracy? Any secret scheme that masquerades as something other than what it pretends to be. Capitalism, Marx said, was such. It invented a raft of institutions--marriage, property, the nation state, religion--to keep themselves and their offspring rich and in control. Religion is the biggest fraud, invented as opium for the people. As you can see, all you need is a healthy dose of suspicion to see conspiracies everywhere. But you need an even greater dose of imagination to fit all the straws together and cast your own strawman as the latest thing in the grievance factory. It helps if you're a keen observer of the human condition. In other words, find out what people want and give them what they want. Ironically, studies have proved over and over that snake oil (placebos) sometimes actually work. A cult is no more than a conspiracy with belief attached. There is such a thing as brainwashing. Canned arguments are another form, the unwillingness to think outside of the box, or what was handed to you and which you have decided must be true and therefore it is. And you can go Marx one better and say that he invented Critical Theory to pull the wool over people's eyes to gain followers (like the priests before him) and justify his adulteries by dismissing marriage as a tool of the oppressor. Be that as it may, Europe is in for
12-22-22
Windchill -47, howling wind. Was 300 miles south in Nebraska Tuesday to pick up a scaffold. Only 0 down there, almost no snow. Picked up nail where I loaded, and had to change front tire in shopping mall park. Hydraulic jack was froze so had to warm it up on my dash. Needed to put extra air in spare, but pumps outside gas stations don't work in the cold. Finally, made it to a truck stop. Got home by midnight, fed the sheep, and called it a good day. Sheep are all snug in their shelter, out of the wind. Have enough seasoned wood in the house to last through the cold spell. This is Siberia here on the prairie. On days like this I like to see if I can strike a casual manner and carry on outside in order to gain an edge on the weather. I get close enough to the stove to get hot enough to want to out to cool off. Got the tractor plugged in, and if my fuel hasn't gelled I'll be able to grab a few bales for the sheep. If it does, I have other options, more tedious, but they'll get to fill their bellies. Of all the problems, I tell myself, that come with raising sheep, the last one should be having to keep them warm. They have full wool warm suits, and even in the coldest weather, they don't crowd together to keep warm. Some of the cats dig holes in the hay beneath their noses (forced air heat) while others prefer a wool bed.
Europe is still in for the long haul. What choice do they have? a) Their Welfare State was funded by the peace dividend paid for by US protection. They bit the hand that fed them (treachery in exchange for free gas, and "streets in Damascus" in China), and the US is now calling in favors: no more free-wheeling in China, and high priced US energy. Old Europe is now little more than a colony of the US with Governor Zelensky as overseer. They would become a hyper-power if they could agree to put aside their ancient conceits and forge a new union. Their suicidal wars left them weak and reduced, and like Athens and Sparta, ready for takeover. With Alexander dead, Rome, as the only power standing, simply inherited the world.
Now the US is in a position of finish off two superpowers at once. By turning Ukraine into a high priced ammo dump, the US is able to both bleed Putin, and close down Walmart's sweatshops that weakened the West by drowning it in the luxury of its almost free gadgets. By thus strangling Chinese commerce, the US can starve China of the dollars it uses to fund global expansion through its Belt and Road Initiative. In short, the Ukraine war turned the EU into an American colony, leaving America as the only credible Superpower. If this is true, you have just witnessed the greatest Imperial overreach in History. Or perhaps the Global Order thinks it can pull it off, it being but the climax of the End of History. Russia will likely have its hands full in the foreseeable future, and the loss of market share as the West re-industrializes, Covid mistakes, and internal dissent, will give China enough to do without opening up the can of worms that is Taiwan. Ultimately what will make China less of a threat to the world is to break-up the monopoly hyper-Conservatism which needs to keep expanding abroad to export its troubles at home. American Culture with its infinite bag of decadent "isims" is still the only "Brand" (the modern Babylon) around which all the world Zeitgeists revolve. Everyone wants "a babylonish garment." Taiwan. like Hong Kong, wants China to become like America. A Trojan horse if ever there was one. Despised Africans are making a special effort to welcome Chinese engineers in their churches, and the millions of Africans who work in China bring their lively faith with them (they are the fastest growing churches in London). Again the New Global Order is once again Babylon's imitation of the Great Commission. Christians are commanded to be border jumpers (a Christian is always legal as the law of Christ always overrides the law of Cain-Caesar).
This is the Meta (a bigger bite) view of current events. If true, then Ukraine will prevail in hybrid fashion. For as long as they're willing to supply the butcher bill, they'll get everything they need to keep the conflict going, which, backed by US commerce, will reduced Russia to penury. And if it turns out to be a thirty year war? If that's what it takes to tie Putin down, keeps the EU in check, and diminish China. The US is the world's largest exporter of energy and weapons. The F35 fighters on order by Germany cost $110 million each, Rome was not built in a day, and it's greatest achievements came after Caesar overthrew Constitutional Government. Everyone (aside from zealots like Barabbas) wanted to be Roman. You could sooner get along without an iPhone than without Roman citizenship. It was the Brand, and it worked. Without it, you could be arrested and killed on the whim of a dictator (Like John and Jesus). But the lowest Legionnaire had to honor your Roman credentials, which is what delivered Paul out of the hands of the Temple mob.
A long war would allow the US to outwait Putin, and promote Western Culture from within. With an iron grip on Europe, it could clean out the Balkan Mafias and gain strategic autonomy on the resources of the thawing Arctic. China would be left to wait for easier days. At any rate, America is back--if it wants to be. But like Rome, it may see no alternative but to impose order on Alexander's world lest it spread chaos all the way to the gates of Rome. Isolationist Republican will find themselves facing fierce headwinds here, if they they hope to decouple America from drowning in the global swamp. What no can deny is that America is now stronger than it's ever been--with no rivals. Biden is Weltmeister. Zelensky did not even bother to consult with Europe when called to Washington to receive his next mandate. He'll tell them what they need to hear when he gets back. Its leaders are little mote than cheerleaders at the World Cup. The peace dividend is the corn, soccer the circus. Republican are shell shocked. It's Biden's world to lose. Prevailing Republican dogma holds that America must consolidate to keep from becoming a globalist village which would be no more than an American chicken in every global pot, in keeping with woke dogma of global social justice. But the war exposed the delusion of End of History Man: that history could be left to shamble toward the New Being without the customary bloodletting that shaped past history. Now that the Left is left in charge of a major war, they have been forced to become hawks for there can be no such thing as a sovereign Leftist government, a kingdom of god on earth funded by the peace dividend of perpetual peace. The Left is completely out of political power in Israel, and the Rightwingers are threatening to cleanse the land of Tel Aviv. Wind 30 mph without ceasing. Had to wrap engine on tractor with padded blankets for the block heater to make a difference. One more day of this. Nice and snug in the barn--all have shelter. Caulked house windows and covered them with plastic to keep wind out--they look like balloons ready to burst from the pressure. But it makes a huge difference. Next year I hope to add a foot of insulation on the outside and put in good windows.
Much of the political landscape is the result of China's bout face on. The miscalculation shows weakness, hubris, confusion, and lack of confidence, fatal attributes where absolute control is the better part of statecraft. Its social contract provides a middle class lifestyle and security, in exchange for cultural and political conformity in submission to one will. Until recently, China swung for the bleachers in every direction with an infinite line of credit to fund its initiatives in Third World countries. But a line of credit is a draft on future growth, like the social welfare net. Much of that growth came from markets in the US and Europe, who are now pulling up the ramparts. Sensing weakness, Japan, South Korea, and Australia will be less afraid to become confrontational.
Add to that that Anti-Americanism has disappeared across the globe. Europe is only too willing to hide under the American umbrella. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Biden has proved the WW3 doomsayers wrong, and is seen as sticking up for the underdog. So far Ukraine has David vs Goliath status. Germany can't complain because Scholz refuses to step up to the plate. They have no plan. Nor do they have any input. Whereas the entire Eastern Bloc have a seat at Biden's table. It's hard to imagine an outcome that does not make Ukraine a member of NATO. Biden cannot now throw them under the bus, and resume horse trading with Putin. But unless there is a shift in Russia's thinking, the war will drag on. They've got the wolf by the ears, and probably have enough strength to hold him. So far the war has Putin tied down, Old Europe squarely behind Biden, and China diminished as a result. The Eastern Bloc sees subtle treachery in Old Europe's foot dragging, and will continue to hitch their star to America's interests in the region. "Never interrupt your enemies while they're making mistakes." From here it's not hard to see a bridge across the Bering Strait. The world is for Biden to lose. Under Biden it has become the Brand again. Everyone wants to be American again. "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all" (Ecc. 9:11).
12-14-22
Zelensky wants Putin tried and arrested by the New World Order Court. "If that's what Zelensky wants, well, then that's what Zelensky wants," said Biden's spokesman. Iraqis and Afghans have long called for war crime trials for the Bush/Obama wars. And China, the US says, is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. Japan wants reparations for the atomic bombs dropped on its cities, and Germany wants the war criminals who incinerated Dresden to answer for their evil deeds. Mexico wants redress for what President Grant in his memoirs calls a war crime, and Native Americans are seeking justice against the criminal aggressors who "illegally invaded" their country contrary to the rule of International Law. They want the descendants of Chinese laborers who scarred the land with criminal railroad tracks to answer for their crimes against humanity, while the descendants of General Custer are suing the Sioux Nation for using excessive force against their hero which they knew could seriously compromise the state of his health.
The UN and the the World Court have thousands of experts (all with five star expense accounts) collecting evidence of potential war crimes in Ukraine (it's the next Good War, brothels and all). The US asks that Japan's claims be dismissed because the nuclear bombs destroyed all the evidence. Not so, says Japan, because we now have carbon data sifting that can probe the depths to reveal potential crime. We'll see. As for Afghanistan, they can't get the experts to go within 500 miles of it, because it lacks a "decent nightlife." A more recent discovery presents an even graver problem. For documents reveal that the Hague, where Global Babel sits in august session, was built with the proceeds of slave labor, and that most of the judges are direct descendants of slave traders whose extreme wealth, passed on to their offspring, is at the root of the elite privilege which is the major cause of structural inequality and injustice now in the crosshairs of Cultural Marxist Theory. All in good time. Good pay if you can get it. And all very grave. These experts hover in Babel like flies on Beelzebub. And the nightclubs in Ukraine are in full roar. "Hell opened her mouth without measure" with a five year waitlist for your next order of Hellfire missiles. The price? You'll find out when you get them. Of course, if you wish to cancel there are hundreds on the waiting list.......So many wars, so little ammunition.
But Zelensky wants Putin arrested and brought to trail. "Now let the cowboys ride" as they say over there. The Americans like that sort of thing, you know. But it makes perfect sense. Once they get Putin arrested they can offer him early parole to make him come to terms and not start a nuclear war, provided he doesn't burn the world down to destroy the evidence against him in the first place. All in good time. As we say in the desert: if you're afraid to poke a needle in the eye of a camel, try by standing on the end of a beam balanced on the back of a mote. And once they get the war over with, the scholars can begin debating its roots and causes, which are as sundry and diverse as they are manifold and profound.
Aside from the main cause of the war--Putin bribing Germany with free gas to undermine NATO--, others have been proposed, of which the strangest consists of a combination of Einstein's last two unsolved theorems (see my proofs below), desert folk wisdom, and the Toyota pickup truck. Einstein theorized that stupidity is doomed to triumph over genius, because, he liked to say, "there are limits to genius" (again see the proofs below). Next, he conjectured that WW4 would be fought with sticks and stones. In other word, in the Stone Age. The Stone Age, uber-rich oil sheiks chide their people, did not end when sluggards ran out of stones. In short, sooner or later, we'll have to roll up our sleeves and get to work if we wish to eat. An idle boast. It costs them $7.50 to produce one barrel. At $80 a barrel on the market--why work?
A learned Taliban, who endured two weeks in a University to prove that nothing is more dangerous than a little knowledge, spliced the bits and pieces of his hard earned wisdom together in what he called a Theory of Everything, and cast it before his apocalyptic elders as a bullet proof plan of conquest. As everyone knows, for an apocalyptic, any war is always the Last War, which will see the world purged by a global inferno. Thus they were led to see Einstein's WW4 Postulate as prophetic, with themselves as the main actors. This is why the US lost the Afghan war. Because you can't just leapfrog over a world war to get to the next one. Thus you had WW3 up against WW4, with both sides shooting past each other, because both were in the wrong war. How else could the US deplete $4 trillion of high tech weapons and leave the Taliban stronger than ever? Both sides were shadow boxing with the wrong war, and when it was all over the Taliban was right back where it started, none the worse for its endless riches of stones, for as the sheiks and Einstein both say, the world will never run out of either stupidity or stones.
Enter the Toyota pickup truck in which, by a strange coincidence, Einstein meets Stone Age. For the most vivid impression of the Taliban in most people's mind is to see them in the back of Toyotas roaring out from their barren hills like a Wild West posse. What am I missing here, I used to say? Afghan doesn't a drop of oil, they're always going at full seed, and you never see a gas station or even a fuel container.
Did you hear about the British adventurers who set out to prove once and for all that it is possible to bring a Toyota to its knees? They took a brand new Toyota, I am told, shipped it to the most uninhabitable place in the world (which has to be Afghanistan, although I wasn't told that), ran it up cliffs, down rivers, and when they could do no more, in desperation, drained all the oil and left it running thinking it would self destruct. It just kept on purring like a kitten, like the day it came out of the factory. In a final act of despair, they called in the US Air Force to use up its remaining supply of bombs on it. They bombed and bombed (including one bunker buster with which they blew off the top of Tora Bora only to see Osama watching cartoons), and after two weeks they gave up and went home. In order not to leave it in the hands of the Taliban, a member of the CIA, who knew something of the ways of the East, suggested inserting a CD with Beethoven's 9th Symphony playing endlessly. If you know the ways of the desert, you already know what is about to happen next, for in their Friday Prayers, they take someone caught listening to music, turn his head sideways (one ear up, the other down) to show the faithful how on the Day of Judgment, a cauldron of hot lead will be poured into (through) their ear as punishment (they don't seem to realize that that's how they invented the Woofer). It was as you might think. The Taliban eyed it with utmost fear and suspicion and refused to enter it. After agonizing many days (a Toyota is like a prize camel over there), they felt that they had no other recourse but to wrap it with their remaining belts, pulled the cord, and after a fearful noise, waited and waited, when, after twenty minutes, "plop"--there it was, or what was left of it, still running merrily like the day it came out of the factory. At their wits end, they now laid hands on two sturdy camels of the firmest resolution, hitched them with break-away lanyards (so they wouldn't drown, because the Afghans are fanatical about their camels) and drove them into the sea in order to rid the land of the wicked burden.
Here the trail, as far as I can make out, goes cold until the first of the year, when the KGB approached Putin and informed him that they had detected the most strange and unusual noises coming from the bottom of the Ocean northward, as you fetch a compass, of Japan. Which could only mean that the CIA had invented some dread device against Russia. Already paranoid, Putin felt compelled to act at once, and the rest, as everyone knows, is history.
And the strange noises, you say? There's an easy explanation for that. If you remember that the Taliban spend their idle time watching cartoons, of which their favorite is the Stone Age Flintstones, you too may have often wondered what their crude cars ran on,. For long before they became oil rich despots, desert lore tells us, they were stone-rich sheiks. But "stone," as you remember from your classics, is the word "petra" and petroleum simply means liquid rock. What could be plainer? Fred and Barney ran their cars on stones, easily proved by the desert proverb that the age of petroleum did not begin because caveman ran out of petras. Petroleum is no more than more refined stone. It's that simple. And, as everyone knows, Afghanistan doesn't have a drop of oil, but is made up of one stone on another all the way up to Tora Bora (or what's left of it). The noise coming from the Ocean floor was no more than a worn and battered Toyota making its way home for a well deserved rest, because, as everyone knows, Japan is where old Toyotas go to die. And it was making strange noises, because, as everyone knows, there are no stones on the Ocean floor, and the poor thing had to make do with seawater. The latter is to be kept in the strictest confidence as the CIA does not want it to get into the hands of the Taliban, lest they carry their war to the open seas, and it would not do to have WW4 intrude again just as Biden/Blinken are doing their best to hatch WW3.
12-12-22
Either give us bigger missiles and modern tanks, or face another flood of refugees, says Ukraine. Germany offered to give its Patriots to Poland. Tell you what, said Poland, why not cut to the chase and just hand them over to Ukraine. Save us a trip. Now these are US made weapons, and no country can pass them on without US permission. But the US was silent. They're trying to get Germany to cross the red line. Biden/Blinken would not dare hand over Patriots to Ukraine directly. But they won't mind if Poland does, and they're goading Germany to do so. But Poland said to Germany, "You first." Because everyone knows that old Europe is just being woke. They have no choice but to sing along with Biden/Blinken since the cowboys took charge of Ukraine and are fast turning it into a US Campus with governor Zelensky as overseer. As the West now decouples from China, the US is skimming the cream off the top by making all the crown jewels set up shop in the US, while the EU gets the duds. The US can't believe its luck. With the EU on a tight leash, starving China is easy. After all, your Walmart dollars created it. No more "streets in Damascus." So far both the EU and Russia are sufficiently weakened to prevent them from meddling in the the US's main objective: containing China. But for how long? Britain is now on the eve of major strikes because of inflation caused by the war. The government is broke and cannot afford the demands of the strikers. No one is going hungry or cold in Russia. But the cold could kill millions in Europe. Then what? Give Putin what he wants (NATO out of his backyard) or settle the Eastern problem once and for all: destroy Russia? No one knows what the West is trying to accomplish. Everyone knows what Russia's objective is: retain its status as a credible superpower, which it does not have unless it can keep other powers from setting up shop next door. Kissinger, Scholz, Macron, and the Republicans all understand this. Biden/Blinken are still trying to save the New World Order where disputes are settled by the globalist brotherhood. Has anyone seen Tom Friedman lately? "Your smoking tundra," he lectured Putin, "is your enemy, Mother Nature." China is buying huge swaths of it, because Putin will turn it into a huge pantry as it thaws. Good farmland goes for about $20 an acre. If the world fries, Putin will be the last man standing. If he's leveling the cities of Ukraine, do you think he cares about sea levels? If the rest of world dies off, he still has Siberia. Britain is freezing because they shut down their coal mines to keep the seas from rising ten thousand miles away. Putin would ignite his tundra to make them rise even faster. A globalist he's not. He's trying to kill as many Ukrainians as he can by cold with the world watching. Why would he care if millions die by drowning 100 years from now? The "Special Operation" Parade in Red Square will be a monster: all glory. Republicans will drool. He's winning the propaganda war on a global scale. Europe is feeling real pain with little room for a mistake that could kill millions. Decoupled from cheap energy (Russia) and markets (China), what lies in store? It's too old and feeble to become a US sweatshop, and too disillusioned to try again with a United States of Europe. Empires sink because of fatigue. Been there, done that. If you grow up next to the pyramids you'll tell yourself, "Even if I could build a bigger one, what's the point?" They're trying to get Scholz and his Germans to "be somebody" again. What! A little sleep, a little folding of the hands, shambling along, Handel Nach Wandel, forgetfulness--and Putin is but an annoying fly, because they're bestriding the globe to keep it from doing itself harm by warming too fast--they've got the whole thing down to charts. Scholz knows Putin is playing arsonist to make it warm even faster. And he's the biggest country in the world.
12-10-22
"Americans do not have to accept the worst of gun culture becoming pervasive in our politics. The only hope the nation has for living in and around so many deadly weapons is a political system capable of resolving our many differences without the need to use them" (NY Times) .
"Can you hear me now" is the echo you hear in reading the increasing panic on the Left over Republican gun ownership. In essence: "We need to talk, urgently, you pick the time and place." Too late. Once he desecrated Moscow, Napoleon's goose was cooked--unless he can outrun the winter geese honking above. What would "a political system capable of resolving our many differences" look like. Like the Times front page where Groomer Culture is the norm? But gun culture exists because the NY Times sees no need to "resolve" tax funded Groomer Culture forced on innocent children in public schools. "Gun fetish" exists to counter Groomer Fetish. Public education has become little more than the indoctrination of perversion, blasphemy, and social engineering. Within this contest, where would the NY Times like to start to "resolve our many differences?" Take a cue from the contortions religious organizations go through to qualify for government funding (Liberty University gets almost a billion a year). Bob Jones University felt compelled to go on record assuring the government that it "respects the dignity of all persons." Does it respect the dignity of pedophiles, of cannibals, of rapists, of serial killers, of Himmler and Hitler? Pence seared his conscience by administering the oath of office to the abomination because Groomer Culture is considered to be "resolved." Anyone close to anything the Government does is now subjected to what Cardinal Muller calls "psychological terror." The Times is right to panic. The Right knows what it's doing. Those guns in the public square are meant to sow panic. Terror works, as the article demonstrates. Why would the the Right give up the only thing that works for them?
12-10-22
"it’s incredible how they (Poland) portray Germany as an enemy and Berlin as dangerous to Poland as Moscow, that Berlin wants Russia to win and is not really helping Ukraine at all” NY Times
There you have it--proof that they're reading this site over there (see below, since the war began). Our only real allies, they say, are the US and Britain. The US is turning the Eastern Bloc into a US Campus (like the Rev Smooth's church campuses all over Manhattan), and Britain is so poor (the EU is starving it since Brexit) that it grabs at anything the US throws at them while trying to weaken the EU by drawing it into a war with Russia. Both Berlin and France are aware of this and want the war over with, even if it means making the Eastern Bloc the "no man's land" that it was historically. Berlin had to hand over sovereignty by signing on to NATO and the EU, and howled in dismay when the US robbed the Bear of his whelps and forced Berlin to become their caretaker when NATO adopted "Drang Nach Osten as its policy. "Too big for Europe, too small for the World." Yet, no one doubts that Germany is the European Pope, and the Pope is not primus inter pares (first among equals). Germany remains Weltmeister in Europe. She allies with France to mask her superiority, and France plays along to hide its weakness. Hence the anger from Poland and Ukraine. They know Germany and France's allegiance is mere "woke" solidarity. Both are terrified by US-British intentions here: the creation of US-II on the Eastern Bloc with Old Man Europe reduced to serfdom. It's a lifeline for broke Britain, and the re-diverted EU Peace Dividend gives the US a lot of money to throw around. They're basically fighting WWIII with the interest on the interest. In reality, this is a necessary war on the EU to keep it from shambling into China's arms. Now, Germany will have its comforts ripped from it. No more getting rich on cheap energy. And no more pretending that it's peace dividend did not require using the Eastern Bloc as a buffer zone. That will stop. Either Berlin takes responsibility in bearding the Bear, cheek and jowl, or the US will create a New Rome in Kiev. Which is why Germany and France refuse to get "skin in the game." They know they're being used. They don't doubt that NATO could win, fully aware that if Putin reaches for his Nukes, they, and not the US and Britain, will be the first to feel the rod of his anger. With China now increasingly off limits, where does the EU go for energy intensive imports? And who get's to supply it with high cost energy? But what can the EU do? They only thing worse than an invading army, they used to say over there, is a mercenary one. "Cowboys," they used to sniff at Reagan-Bush. And now the cowboys are riding roughshod over Europe. Obama wanted to treat with them all under one ambassador. Biden/Blinken made Zelensky their Pope. The Old EU does not want Ukraine to win the war: 1) Russia would become a Mafia with Nukes, 2) Kiev would become the EU Capital, 3) and the Welfare State would turn into a munitions factory.
12-8-22
"Prominent tHEy Republicans Helped Smooth the Way for the Marriage Bill" (NY Times).
39 House Republicans voted for the Mormon marriage bill.
Ever since Russel Moore left the sinking ship of the Southern Baptist Convention (soon to be parceled out to make Civil War Reparations) to become the chief diviner at Balaam Graham's sixth-wing-of-the-Pentagon magazine, it has become the go-to oracle for all things Vaingelical for the NY Times, knocking its former favorite in-house hipster, the Rev Smoothgate Keller, from his perch. When assuming his post, Moore made the now mandatory pilgrimage to the Bruderhof to put distance between himself and the coming #MeChurch reckoning for the sins of the revived Confederacy, better known as the Bible Belt. Did you see Hipster Keller's sermon on "forgiveness" last week? I didn't click the link. It was up less than a day. "Preach unto us smooth things." He's got, what, seven hipster campuses across Manhattan? And now they've got the Balaam Graham people in the fold. Why did hipster Moore jump ship, they ask. To find Sermon on the Mount Christianity, he replies. Hence, the Bruderhof. Inhouse Hipster Keller is still anchored in the aforedamnations of toxic Calvinist generals, Lee and Jackson, and can no longer be quoted. "HE GETS YOU" is the slogan of the new Evangelical crusade to bring Christ to hipster cities. The cost? $100 million, all spent on advertising. All paid for by the billionaires who funded harem keeping Ravi Zacharias, Vice President Pence's favorite preacher. "He gets you" is now also the boiled down version of the Sermon on the Mount. And no one loves the Sermon on the Mount more than the NY Times. Globalism now marches to the tune of EU values, which are no more than the mystical notions of the sermon on the mount: "judge not lest you be judged." Because, as the Rev Balaam would say, Don't worry, He won't judge you, because "He Gets You." "Christianity," the Times sniffs, "Christians should try it." Hence, the pilgrimage to the Hipsterhof. That's where Christianity is now being tried. And no one wants Christianity to be tried more than the NY Times.
Christianity Today's Moore turns himself inside out groveling before the Times. They all grew rich and fat plying their wares in what used to be called the Bible Belt, before it started taking blows from Woke and #MeToo reckoning. Not one stone will be left on another when the dust settles, which is why you see rats abandoning the ship in droves. But where do these high-salaried Balaam's go to retain "the rewards of divinity?" The non-judgmental hipster church: "He gets you." The NY Times makes sure not to ask Hipsterhof about All-Marriage. They do not ask Moore what he thinks about all that. Everyone knows that SmoothRev Keller wakes up in a cold sweat knowing that it is only a matter of time before someone asks him publicly about "all that." Christianity Today does not "go there," and the NY Times makes sure "not to go there." The hipsters have made themselves useful idiots, and as Napoleon smirked, "Never interrupt your enemy (Russia) while he's making a mistake." But look at today's headline. This is pure Evangelical hipsterism. And nothing is more fashionable and hipster than genderism and all that goes with it.
Do you know why Christianity Today hired Moore? To create a non-judgmental, "non-phobic" image of the Church. They were ahead of the times. The handwriting has been on the wall for a long time now. Which is why the Culture War is doomed. You see it in the headline. Florida boasts of its non-wokism, but the Republicans just abandoned the Culture War by embracing "non-phobia." Because "non-phobia" is the new hipsterism. Moore knows that phobia exists only in the older generation, and that genderism has become the fashion of the elite. And fashion carries all before it, especially among the young. Hipster genderism is now the face of Babylon, and everyone wants to wear "a Babylonish garment." Pronounism is the new subversion, the new rebellion, the new counter-establishment that hipsters crave. "The new small talk" is no more than "cute" gutterspeak of the Kultuemachers. It's the new church of alienated rich young people, who seek to distinguish themselves from the global mass. What goes on in Babylon always has universal appeal. And "He Gets You." This is the wave Christianity Today is catering to. They know the war is lost. You know the war is on its last legs when it devolves into dirty war. In Herschel Walker, Evangelicals scraped the underside of the sewer: a brothel next to an abortion mill. When found out, he took the counsel of Luther and "told the big one": he lied. When caught, he appealed to the last refuge of the scoundrel: grace. He was what he was "under grace." His opponents found fault, he said, because they do not understand grace. He made the Mormons look good, and Mormons are now the leading force behind hipster marriage. Evangelicalism is now in the grips of fashionable genderism, compared to which Mormon marriage looks biblical and old fashioned. And in Mormon religion East meets West: a hipster catch-all. Look for it in the new He Gets You Bible. $100 million just for billboards. Or as we say in the desert: If you can't poke a beam through the eye of the needle, you can get the same result by sticking a mote in the eye of the camel. It's the hipster version of the Sermon on the Mount: "the new small talk." Don't worry, "He Gets It." But all this will be lost on you if you're not versed in the ways of the spiritual desert created by Luther and Calvin who could not forsake torturing and killing those who disagreed with them, nor divorcing their wives for every cause, and told their followers that the teachings of Jesus could not be tried, because they're so simple that they could not possible mean what they say. But the NY Times professes to understand what Jesus said. They think Herschel Walker lying about his abortions is not what Jesus meant or said. Which is why you can't take what Jesus said literally. Because there is now so much of that, where would you begin "to try" it. Christianity, that is. "Jesus Gets You," despite all that, is what the billboards say in Manhattan. Because it's too late to rewrite the Bible now, and there's no going back.
And the Bruderhof, you say, they don't stake out a position here? After all, it is here, the hipsters tell us, that Christianity is being tried. Apparently, it's not an issue. Love as they say is love, and the Hipsterhof seems content to leave it at that. For all they know God could lead you to marry your pet rock, as long as you love everybody. "Judge not, lest you be judged." To each his own. They are led to present that particular face of the Kingdom of God. Others are called to present God's opposite face. Calvin and Luther believed in torturing and killing their enemies, while Moody declared himself a Quaker when it comes to killing. as long as he got to preach to those who do. Because, as Abraham Lincoln said, "Both sides read the same Bible, and prayed to the same gods." Devout Christians on both sides. Who was he to judge? Moody could pray with both sides, as long as he got to promote brand Moody. Lincoln visited his Sunday School to examine the up and coming cannon fodder. He likely preached to some of them on the eve of their death later. But when it came to getting himself killed--"in that respect, I'm a Quaker," he said. In all other respects, he was not a Quaker. He was the sixth wing of the Pentagon of his day, worth twenty divisions of such who did not have the choice of choosing to be a Quaker. "In that respect," that is.
12-6-22
Sorting the tHEys.
But the furor over the shooting was fueled precisely by the gender identities of the revelers. And everyone knew what the profile of the shooter would be. He had to belong to the opposing gender and religion to fit the narrative of fraud-appropriated-civil-rights-victimhood. The race is now on to come up with a definition of Appropriated Faked Gender Identity Theft Persons, who will demand inclusion in the List, no doubt. If this ever gets to the Supreme Court, they'll get so confused they'll end up sending themselves up for forty years. Compared to this, Judge Jackson's "biology" remark already seems old-fashioned and dated as the mark of sanity. They'll be made to listen to "voices" next, and their interpretations. And there is not here "a dumb ass to rebuke the madness of the prophet." Feminism, the refuge of cast off groupies from which all this sprang, is already so outdated, it's become indistinguishable from the Patriarchy, with the Matriarchy equally loathed. Who knows what the next version will be? Polygamy is not even trying to get on the List anymore, because they left it in the dust long ago as too boring to bother. The Mormons are now trying to get their religion out of Nevada brothels again. "In their season, you will find them." They were made to part with the key doctrine of their religion at the point of a gun. It will soon come roaring back. Polygamy would solve the evangelical divorce problem.
The NY Times had been baying for blood for weeks, when it it was revealed that this was one of their own: a Theybor, who shot up the Theyborhood. Today, they covered the story by admitting that, indeed, he has claimed to be "them and they." But they will have none of it. A fraud and an imposter. They refuse to refer to him with any pronoun whatsoever. He exists only as "suspect," "shooter," etc. Conversely, had tHEy been a victim, they would pronoun tHEm with the pronoun of tHEir choice endlessly. Now he's been cast out of the synagogue for ruining the plot. For they needed tHEm to be white, toxic male, and best of all to identify as a Christian. Now that tHey have turned out to be only "white" (the rich while male disease as Africans call it), and a Theybor, they are willing to throw tHEm to the dogs, because hate and phobia had been banished from the Theyborhood. Which causes the NY Times to question whether tHEy were ever tHEyved. Obviously, they don't believe once tHEyved always tHeyved.
Despite these revelations, the district attorney is soldiering on with his "too good not to be true" case. Note the contortions here:
“We are not going to tolerate actions against community members based on their sexual identity,” Mr. Allen said. “Members of that community have been harassed, intimidated and abused for too long.”
Defense lawyers say that the defendant identifies as nonbinary, and uses the pronouns “they” and “them.” When asked by reporters whether the defendant’s gender identity figured in the bias-motivated crime charges, Mr. Allen said it was “part of the picture.”
In other words if "Satan casts out Satan," it is still hate from without the Theyborhood. That fact that the prince of demons attacked a lesser demon changes nothing. tHEy on tHEm crime is still victimhood, because rich white tHEys are now a genuine oppressed class with historic (read fraud-appropriated) civil rights credentials. In other words, the focus must remain on white/toxic-male/Christian in order to capitalize on the massacre and make it point to the root of all phobia. Even if it comes in the form of the well documented fact of the suicidal self-loathing of tHEys. They have merely internalized, the district attorney appears to say, the phobia directed at them, and acted in a destructive manner towards their own. The district attorney would have you know that the white toxic-male Christian is still to blame. They made tHEm do it. Like the NY Times, he can't let go of a once in a lifetime too-good-not-to-be-true massacre. They had a raft of new laws ready to go to catapult "the Matter" to the next stage. But now we learn that all tHEy did is shoot up tHEir own tHeyborhood. Now they'll take this to the Supreme Court to prove that tHEy never were tHEyved to begin with. Hate the sinner, love the sin.
They're still fishing for a "biblical" motive in the Colorado shooting. The Media went on the warpath immediately with a martyr's complex and are now trying to cover up that it was tHEy on tHEm violence. tHEy were driven over the edge, we are now led to believe, by Lot Syndrome (the Zoarians obviously suspected the smoke behind Lot as evidence of a hate crime). This will get interesting if they (Colorado) take tHEm (the suspect) to the Supreme Court, because none of the Justices (as far as I know) are biologists, the requisite tool (per Justice Jackson) for sifting tHEys. But "the Matter" would now require the attention of the expert grammarian as well, to show august judges how to twin one (the suspect) into many (likewise, the suspect), or many into one. Because shrinkery claims what the Bible clearly states (that demons of unequal wickedness can inhabit one person, Mt. 12:45), which means they all have their own personality, and will have to be considered "case by case" as divorce pimps would say. But make no mistake, this was a hate crime caused by all the negative talk out there that drives teens to suicide (suicide is now the 2nd leading cause of teen death). The Media want the shooter drawn and quartered for spoiling the narrative of "love." Which is why they steadfastly refuse to let tHEm self-identify, They keep misgendering tHEm by calling tHEm "he." You may recall a similar instance when the Norway shooter killed 80 liberals, and was initially diagnosed as suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenic Psychosis by government doctors. Liberals were enraged and called in other shrinks, because you can't hang such a sick man. The new government shrinks, knowing their mandate, diagnosed the shooter as having only a common Narcissistic Personality Disorder and fit to hang. But the shrinks (following the Bible) will insist that tHEy cannot all be sorted by the same rule, as some are less wicked, and not all of Legion may have participated in the crime. Now, not only will you need the expertise of the biologist and the expert grammarian, but the subtle arts of the probablist, to divine the matter using game theory, lest they end up punishing the less wicked with the most wicked. The Media is desperately trying to keep Theyism out of the equation by misgendering tHEm as "he." That is, toxic masculinity. This, if the Justices at the Supreme Court follow suit, could cause a Constitutional crisis. Because Theyism is now the law of the land, and tHEy have the right to be considered in their chosen identity. But the Media has now gone unwoke. They want this biological male tried as a toxic male, Judge Jackson aside. They obviously used Schrapps's Wall-Rule Theory of Identity: The Wall of Separation. It works every time, without shrinks, grammarians, biologists, or probablists That's how God lines them up. That's how God sorts them.
12-2-22
2020 Rank Supplier Arms Export (in million TIV)
1--United States 9,372
2 Russia 3,203
3 France 1,995
4 Germany 1,232
Russia's market is now up for grabs. As is Russia's share of gas exports. The US is the world's largest energy producer, and both energy and arms are now fetching a premium. The Bush wars since 9/11 cost 8 trillion. The war in Ukraine is not even the interest on the War Dividend. It's free Research and Development for new weapons in real conditions. It's keeping Europe's nose to the grindstone to keep them hitched to US interests. Biden/Blinken turned them into a colony with Zelensky in charge. Weak and clueless, they have no choice. The EU muddled toward the End of History with Handel nach Wandel policy, a shambling pot of odds and ends (woke values) that carried all before it. Orban took their money, but kept his own counsel. He was a staunch Putin ally until he seems to have found other religion recently. If the US succeed in erecting a Superstate in what was Ukraine, he wants his share. Hungary lost most of its territory in the Good Wars, and he's been stirring up trouble on his borders. Poland, flush with Pentagon cash, is demanding reparations from Germany. Republicans are quiet because their clients (arms and oil) are raking in billions, and they enjoy watching woke Europe squirm. The best way to avoid war with China, the thinking is, is to shut down its markets of parts and chips. Amazon, Walmart, Apple will have to shop locally for their cheap gadgets, because Iran can make drones from their parts. An air fryer with "Union made" on it will cost you $500 instead of $50, because Iran can make bombs with its parts, and Putin is winterizing Ukraine with Iranian drones. Iranian sanctions didn't work, because all that technology exists in Walmart gadgets on which there are no sanctions. Tubal-Cain's anvil can produce a sword as quickly as a plow. The most useful tool on the Ukrainian front is the China made iPhone. Europe's solar revolution ground to a halt because most of the solar panels and batteries are made in China. The European welfare state was funded by cheap labor (China), cheap gas (Siberia was its lifeline) and the Peace Dividend (US). Those factories will need to go where energy is cheap (US). China was also the engine that drove development in Third World countries like Africa, Indonesia, and Pakistan. Hardship there could cause mass immigration to the West, which, next to Winter, is Putin's weapon of choice to destabilize his enemies. Stanford University took over from Yale and Princeton as tech replaced the Humanities (Classics) as a career choice. Mutti and her charts. Science replaced the complexities and art of diplomacy. During the Cold War a degree in Russian history would get you far. Now iPhone Man is left to stare at death by App, as he tries to make sense of the world with bursts of Twitter posts.
12-1-22
The globalists seem resigned to their fate of staring Putin down now or face him in WWIII later. Also, that they're not going to claw back to 1945--they will either break through to End of History or go down trying. But they're not going back to the wheel of endless "wars and rumors of war." Emboldened by Putin's inability to leverage the nuclear threat, they're now willing to endure a long slugfest, as long as they do not have to supply the cannon fodder. A secure eastern flank will not only remove any external threat from Europe, but provide it with cheap energy for years to come. They could use battle hardened Ukraine as their enforcer to tame the Serb-Balkans. Orban the Hun is making strange noises because he senses some of this. He's likely hedging his bets. The EU is currently withholding funds for his backsliding, and he may well sense the EU's determination to get WWIII over with by getting a jump on it. That hardened Eastern Bloc will become a kingmaker, and the oligarch swamp created by the Slav-Balkans will require an unscrupulous talent such as his. Macron is in the US begging for some of the EU's freedoms back. They're not only made to buy US energy at ruinous prices, but lost the freedom to cut deals with China, the world's largest market. They will now get their hoes sharpened in the US. The US is getting its peace dividend back with interest. Plus they've got the EU locked in a room with Zelensky, who reads them the Biden/Blinken church bulletin. All European roads already lead to the Eastern Front, and if they manage to outlast Putin, that will become the center of European might: the Beast. That is, if they can muddle the war along by making it a munitions dump and not give Putin an excuse to reach for his Nukes. If the goal here is to shrink WWIII down to survivable portions, even a five year struggle would be worth it. At the moment, though, they are made to dance to their American masters. Colonies, with neither the means, nor the will to chart their own course. Meanwhile, as old man Europe sinks, the reinvigorated Eastern Bloc is punching above its weight. The US gets to process WWIII without the political fallout at home simply by funneling the EU's peace dividend back into Ukraine in the form of money and munitions. The US is funding the war by handing over the interest from the confiscated EU peace dividend. The NY Times has gone quiet about the EU's Welfare State. Putin destroyed it--and much else. Zelensky is now the face of NATO. If he prevails, Serbia will become NATO's headquarters, and he will rule from Serbia to Spain, and hopefully stay out of Alaska. But it remains to be seen what the tech bros can do with fake winter. "Never," Napoleon sneered, "interrupt your enemy (Russia) while he's making a mistake." An idle boast. Winter, he learned too late, is nothing to sneer at. "Let not him that girdeth on his harness, boast himself as he that puteth it off." As long as Putin does not reach for his Nukes, he will be driven to economic ruin, as the US puts the world's two largest economies at Zelensky's disposal to harness his cannon fodder. With Russia out of the way, China could be starved into submission, and destabilized inwardly. "Perpetual Peace."
11-30-22
"England and Wales are no longer Christian: shock. Christians a minority for the first time since the dark ages. We are among the most godless nations on Earth" (Guardian). More people attend mosques than churches. Immigrant churches are booming. God abhors a vacuum both in Nature and in the Church ("compel them to come in"). Replacement theory is a fact. Only God is doing the replacing (Gen. 15:16). The birth rate of Africa is 5.25 vs 1.5 for Europe. Keep in mind that these are the people deemed incapable of self-rule, and thus rightfully enslaved. Orban looks on and shudders. He seems embarrassed that he's more Asian than European, being a descendant of the Huns. Hitler lumped them in with the inferior Slavs, whom he hoped to eliminate. Then came the Turks, the Syrians, and behind them the Africans, and now even the Slavs look good (to Fox News). Ironically, 1.5 is also the target of the Climate gurus. On the one hand, the Left sees 1.5 degrees as the point of extinction, and on the other, the Right sees their 1.5 birthrate extinguished by the 5.25. The last global government was led by Nimrod the descendant of Ham, founder of Babylon.
11-30-22
The war is the result of the new statecraft based on the the reimagined moral code of modern man. To wit: that statecraft is not 99.9999 percent pure violence, that the instruments toward that end are not lying, deception, treachery, domination, threats, and consummate hypocrisy. Mutti, the preacher's daughter, beshrewed violence as a barbaric relic. End of History man sees himself as benign, good, sincere, transparent, and honest--in a woke sense, precisely as Machiavelli would have him cast himself. When you pick up Machiavelli, write "woke" on the cover and you will have him. You don't have to be righteous if you give others the impression that you are. That, says Machiavelli, is the essence of statecraft. It serves as a definition of wokeness. You must appear righteous while doing exactly the opposite. But you also have to fudge the terms. Republicans just helped pass Mormon marriage in the Senate. God would add both adultery (A) and polygamy (P) to the list. The entire list is now sanctioned by "marriage is honorable in all, and the List undefiled." Mormons and Republicans made this possible. No more war, no more hate(speech) says New Order Man. Putin the heretic transgressed the new covenant. Groombow, the Peace Dividend, Climate regimes are all on the line here.
The collapse of the USSR left the US as the only superpower. I remember the pandemonium on a street corner in Minneapolis when Gorbachev broke from his handlers to work the crowd. He came across as a benign human being, and everyone realized that something terrible had passed. The world would not end.
China was still a distant memory, rising, but basically a Third World country for the foreseeable future. With no rivals, the US helped itself to the spoils and adopted the greater part of the Bear's whelps; the Eastern Bloc. To build a bullet proof cage, they bearded the Bear by offering Ukraine NATO and EU membership. You are not a superpower if you allow another superpower to crowd your border. North Korea serves as a shock absorber to keep two bristling superpowers from having to stare at each other cheek and jowl. Everyone knew that NATO expansion would cause this reaction. But they all assumed that the Bear was fatally wounded and would just have to grin and Bear it. Russia would continue to break apart, and its assets parceled out, much like the Ottoman empire.
To date, Russia still ranks as one of the world's three superpowers. It cannot retreat and retain that status. But the US is clear that it intends to knock Russia out of that exclusive club. Russia cannot be diminished without losing its superpower status, and "superpower" today is what "empire" was back then. Russia would become something like Belarus--shuffling along next to a giant, like Mexico. This is how Putin is selling the war. The West is trying to destroy Russia, he says. The West is on record stating just that. Not that they want Russia to vanish, but Russia reduced so that it serves the West's interests. Because Russia as it exists today is incompatible with the New World Order. Biden/Blinken think ordinary Russians want to become like the EU. They thought Iraqis would embrace the US invader. Now they've got the Bear by the tail and cannot keep holding him, nor safely let him go. They think they can tinker with this by degrees until a solution presents itself. Another App perhaps. They can no longer get out. They're not muddling into WWIII. Putin has nothing left to fight WWIII, He is left with his Nukes. If he threatens the US with Nukes, the US will back down. Then what, more sanctions? Putin, like Trump, survives day by day, and solves one crisis by creating an even greater one. Trump simply ran out of crises. He would play chicken with Nukes knowing his enemies would back down. No one would play Russian roulette with a crazed and desperate man. But now they've painted themselves into a corner with one.
11-29-22
The race is now on to keep Ukraine warm enough to make it to Spring. The only objective remains what it was at the beginning: reduce Russia so that it no longer threatens NATO's eastern flank. The current level of aid is likely enough to keep Putin pinned down in the Donbas area, and while most of the aid is coming from the US, the stakes are high enough that they're getting a real war for pennies on the dollar. If the end results keep China from sparking a war with Taiwan, the aid will be pocket change. Add to that, Germany is now on a tight leash. Their reckless reliance on cheap gas emboldened Putin to invade. As if Germany needed more guilt. But the war is a stalemate once again. Ukraine says it needs jets, tanks and longer rockets to finish the job. The US would have to provide the jets and longer rockets, which raises the danger of escalation. But all eyes are on Germany to supply hundreds of its Leopard II tanks. Biden and Blinken have been hissing at Germany to step up to the plate and deliver the tanks. Everyone knows that the minute it does a red line will have been crossed and Germany will own the war. Because Putin will most certainly retaliate against Germany, and WWIII will have begun. The EU has no opinion in the war. They realized early on that the will was not there to become a Superstate: the United States of Europe, big enough to provide for its own security. They have become meek auxiliaries once again, falling in line with US doctrine to contain China. Meanwhile, the Ukraine-Poland axis has become the flagship of Washington's dealing with Europe. Obama thought them so weak and useless that he wanted to deal with them all under one ambassador. The peace dividend had made them fat, conceited, and unthankful, smug that their welfare state was the fruit of "giving peace chance." "Cowboys," they sniffed contemptuously, when Bush wanted help with his wars. From the safety of its island, Britain is Biden/Zelensky's biggest cheerleader. They're broke and getting broker, and will find themselves amply rewarded for their support if Ukraine prevails.
Biden/Blinken doctrine calls for a re-militarized Europe. As both Poland and Ukraine are now certified as trustworthy allies, and as the US controls NATO, those two seem destined to shape the course of Europe. Not only are they in lockstep with the US, but they have the largest and most battle-hardened army in Europe. Poland-Ukraine will become an outpost of US military might, and Brussels will become largely irrelevant. For that to happen, though, Russia would have to be reduced beyond recognition. Its nuclear arsenal and land mass make that unlikely. In short, NATO is flying by the seat of their pants hoping for a miracle. If Ukraine prevails, power in Europe will move eastward. So now what? Add all the Serbs and Russia to NATO and the EU? Because NATO is now no more than a wing of the Pentagon. And let them all vote?
But modern man is now taxed with fixing the planet, and on this scale, Putin is a mere ant. If you can fix Mother Nature, other global problems that call for a solution need not deter you. Why not keep going and invite India and China into NATO as well? Otherwise, we're right back to 1945.
11-29-22
"England and Wales now minority Christian countries," gloats the leftwing Guardian. England and Wales are today playing against each other in Qatar as the teams of two separate nations. The prince of Wales is now king of England. They're like the ninety year old Soviet soldiers you see arguing about their battles attached to tubes in nursing homes, unaware that their oxygen bottles are almost empty because their immigrant nurses decided not to refill them. And they howl about being replaced by loathsome aliens. Can you tell the difference between a merry Englander and a dour Scot or Welsh? Because there is a difference. And they'll go on fighting until they're all either extinct or replaced. Because Wales, as everyone knows, is not England. And what shall we say about the enslaved nation of Cornwall. And poor Scotland, under the yoke all those years, still in chains. Who, you say, is King Churls (Karl der Boelse) rooting for? The UK left the EU to control immigration. It's worse than before, because France is looking the other way while immigrants raft across. Which nation are they aiming at, England or Wales? Because you better not mis-nation them. A serious offense. Broke UK is spending $7 million a day to house new immigrants and about that helping Ukraine, although that's being refunded by the US. Since Brexit, the UK is so broke and desperate, that they're little more than a US colony. Along with all the rest of the EU, all of which is led by the nose from Ukraine, who if they play their cards right and hold on, could simply flex their battle scars and put the EU under tribute. By spring, ordinary Brits will spend a third of their income on energy. Putin has caused one of the greatest transfers of wealth in history. All going where? Putin and the despots in the Middle East. Look up NOEM if want to see an example. That's just across from Egypt. Half the architects and cranes of the West are over there. Glad for my Egyptian friends. Egypt has almost as many people as Russia and, like Africa, doubles every 30 years. MBS is in a hurry and he's bankrupting Europe to build his new city.
But the people of Wales and Scotland want out. They're had enough of the English Samaritans, and are tired of being mis-nationed. And of course, the half-drowned immigrants who arrive on their shores cannot be sorted until it is known to which nation they are applying for asylum. Because Wales, Scotland, and England are three different peoples, diverse, and all fiercely attached to their heritage. They are all multiplying at a birthrate of 1.5 per woman. The birthrate of Africa is 5.25 per woman. Which team in Qatar are these new arrivals rooting for, England or Wales? As the Guardian points out, they're already a minority, and headed for extinction. 1.5 is the European birthrate from London to Moscow. And now Boeing just informed Biden that they can supply Ukraine with cheaper ammo for their howitzers--that should help the birthrate. Belarus means white (bel=white) Russia. Why did they call it that, they'll ask 100 years from now? This is what makes Fox News hair stand on end. All they need is Murder-Suicide III to drive the last nail in the European coffin. Because, even without wars, European populations are set to shrink by half. Orban and Putin would like to militarize European borders to keep from being overwhelmed. To Fox News, the war in Ukraine makes about as much sense as the match between England and Wales. But how can you expect such diverse cultures to get along, especially, with ancient hatreds going back centuries. And which side are the new arrivals on, because a 1.5 vs 5.25 birthrate could prove decisive. Karl der Bloese casts himself as "the Defender of Faiths." His churches are completely empty. The new arrivals will "not remember Joseph." But two of his nations are in the World Cup because they want to go their own way. Talk about conceited privilege, arguing about the fire extinguisher while their house is on fire. They broke away from the EU to keep the immigrants are incompatible with white Europeans. They bled each other with almost non-stop war since the Reformation, and now those that are left can't stand each other. First cousins, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, and King George almost burned the world down. If ever there was a white utopia this was it.
11-26-22
"A healthy democracy requires both political parties to be fully committed to the rule of law and not to entertain or even tacitly encourage violence or violent speech. A large faction of one party in our country fails that test, and that has consequences for all of us" (NY Times).
Consequences? More like Armageddon. How bad is it? So dire that Liz Cheney is the only Republican they can get close enough to talk to. The Left won the Culture War and now they wail that the Right will not help them build a new global pervocracy, where their children are forced to attend class taught by men in dresses who simper about theybies. Putin invaded Ukraine to drive the Culture War back to Berlin, before it shows up in Red Square. Because "the rich white male disease" (as Africans call it) claims victimhood, the rainbow flag has now become the symbol of freedom of the New World Order. This ubiquitous exposure allows it to attach to any oppressed group anywhere, just as it hijacked the Civil Right Movement in the US. The German team in Qatar had no greater cause to promote than "the rich white male disease," because they knew they were preaching to the global choir. Putin knows he cannot beat Babylon on its own terms: they invented the terms, wrote the dictionary, and own the platform. But it's strength lies in its appeal. Joshua's army was stopped by "a Babylonish garment." So what does Putin do? He tries to even the odds with fire and sword. The NY Times doesn't seem to realize that the Right abandoned the debate in order to burn the house down. The logic seems plain enough: Either they get Groomers out of schools or the Right will have to vacate the schools, public office, etc. Look who Pence was forced to administer the oath of office to (on a Bible). But the Left will not stop there. Religious Secularism will be enforced. The Emperor Julian the Apostate smirked that he was robbing Christians to help practice their doctrine of poverty. Moreover, the West was a theocracy until Marx dismantled it with religion from below: the Culture War is the Class War in different dress. Augustine/Luther/Calvin dealt with persecution under the doctrine of self-defense, and Christian Caesar was God-ordained to protect the Church. The Puritans beheaded their king without blinking an eye. The doctrine has not changed. That's why they're collecting guns without measure. The NY Times wants to get back to the deliberating table: that door is closed as long as Groomer has a seat at the table.
11-26-22
Against Idolatry with the 2nd Amendment
"a revivalist preacher with a handgun" (NY Times). "For knowing the terror of the sword, we compel men."
"A Catholic preacher (the Pope) with a mercenary army (Swiss Guard)" (headline scoop for Papist Maureen Dowd).
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren (2 Cor. 11).
Today Paul would venture forth on an aircraft carrier, have the heathens rounded up with his helicopter gun ships, blast them with the "shrill tall voice" of a bullhorn mounted on his howitzers, and baptize them with water cannons. "For we live in perilous times," and "the time has come when Phone Man will not endure sound doctrine."
When the Roman Emperor became a member of the Church, he brought his armies in with him. Augustine provided the biblical justification for the Christian use of war as a Christian instrument, not only to subdue and convert pagans, but to root out heresy with torture and death (The Inquisition). To protect themselves from the Catholic Inquisition, Luther and Calvin met violence with violence: they bought protection by becoming the king's counsellors. This is the essence of theocracy. A theocracy has to deal with sin and heresy as crime (you can imagine how many sins they could still find once they sanitized their princes' bedrooms). Calvin's bonfires and Puritan hanging of women witches were extensions of Augustine's Just War doctrine, which simply states that violence, torture, and death should be used to advance the Gospel. The Puritans took time out from writing the Westminster Confession to behead their king, with the great preacher, John Owen, preaching the beheading sermon. The Second Amendment merely provides "legal" cover to once again take up the Crusade against the infidels. The "biblical" mandate of Augustine which passed into Evangelicalism through Luther and Calvin, makes it a Christian/Patriotic duty to do so. For the 2nd Amendment (as read by the Right) stands outside of the Constitution as a sentinel, waiting for a Brutus or Barabbas to assume temporary Dictatorship to restore the Republic. It has to be extra-judicial because no tyrant (or establishment) ever announces that they have overthrown the existing government in a tyrannical coup. When to pounce must be left to the judgment of the zealot.
The Puritans saw "the city on a hill" as a refuge from the Inquisition, without realizing that they had made themselves the Inquisitors. Critical Race Theory is but the latest heresy to be addressed with the 2nd Amendment. Imagine what Augustine, Luther, and Calvin would have said about the Abomination openly paraded in the highest offices of the land. Blood would reach "to the bridle mouth." If Just War Doctrine is biblical, then insurrection against idolatry and blasphemy is the duty of every Christian. Their cause is every bit as just and holy as when the Crusaders set out to rescue the Holy Sepulcher. War against idols. They filled Jerusalem with blood from one end to the other, and brought back enough splinters of the Cross to rebuild the ark twice over. Such was their zeal.
11-25-22
Nothing so symbolizes the mentality of Europeans as the armbands worn by German and Wales soccer teams in Qatar. Both lost. A major factor in Putin's decision to invade Ukraine is the prevailing notion in Russia that the West is collapsing under the weight of decadence. Those armbands are the face of EU values, which was the face of globalism, which is now in retreat as Putin trampled on the New World Covenant, and the West scrambles to get their hoes and the knowhow to sharpen them back before it's too late. As recently as ten years ago, the notion of a State defined by borders was seen as obsolete, as global corporations became the size of States and the laws of Mammon determined the rules of society. In Universities the Humanities were replaced by the tech bros, because a degree in History was of little value at Google. Artificial Intelligence would assume even the smallest of tasks. A basic income would be available to all, even those who chose not to work. Britain is now robbing its piggybanks as MBS paves his deserts in gold. The Welfare State got ahead of the Revolution, and now they lost both their hoes and the means to sharpen them. England had become a financial hub of paper shufflers for global corporations. Now as nations scramble to safeguard their vital interests, they do their own paper shuffling. Suspicion is back. Spies will once again lurk in Jericho. Politicians will once again need historians to divine the secrets of nations.
The European peace dividend is now pouring into the coffers of despots. The NY Times has said nothing about the Welfare State since the invasion. The Welfare State rested on two pillars: US security, and cheap Russian energy. European industry, already facing Chinese completion cannot survive current energy pricing. There is no alternative to fossil energy. As recently as ten years ago, financial pundits like Paul Krugman crowed that money itself had become limitless as global growth would fund itself. Inflation is a hard master. MBS wants real dollars for his oil. Next, the EU has once again had to call on the US for protection. This will come at a steep price. The Peace Dividend will now be converted into War Bonds to militarize NATO's eastern flank. But NATO is now dominated by the US. Which means that Europe will now take its marching orders from Washington in all things. There will be no side deals with China or Iran. In short, Europe is now a US state run from Poland/Ukraine. They had to call in the cowboys to hold off Putin, and mercenaries always rule. Who has Biden/Blinken's ear over there? The nations who are cheek and jowl with Putin. The Balkans will now become the center of gravity of European society, and that place is infested with oligarchs and mafia gangs who see European cities as easy pickings. Alexander the Great's takeover of an exhausted Greece may be a historical parallel here. Germany, after a false start, quickly backslid, and France is too weak to count. The US is punishing sick man Europe by pouring money and bases into Poland and the rest of the Balkans, who sense that Germany would throw them under the bus. Poland's army is already larger than Germany's, and they have no choice but to align with Ukraine to keep from becoming next in line. The US has been trying to convince Scholz that Russia wants all its former territories back. Scholz doesn't feel threatened in the least. But all the Balkans are willing to make a last stand, and the US is willing to match their courage with unlimited cash. If Poland/Ukraine prevail, they will become masters of the EU, and they will not hesitate to use it as Alexander did wealth of Greece: destroy the Bear with the Beast. If the cities horse traded between Benhadad and Ahab ever rise to power, they will take revenge on both their tormentors. The US, Poland and Ukraine know that Scholz would prefer to go back to dancing with the Bear. If you add the resolve, commitment, and historic grievance of Poland to Ukraine and all the in-between-countries, you could easily see an outcome where the Bear is checked, and then destroyed by the Beast.
Putin is right in his assessment of the EU as weak. But the Eastern Bloc does not yet wear the armbands and could seize control of Brussels. Britain, now casting about for new allies, could be counted on. And the US seems willing to bankroll the endeavor. This would put them in control of the Common Market, and allow them to starve China into submission. They could create the Beast. The Ukraine severed Germany's ties to Russia. Now they need to get Germany and the EU out of China. The larger war is actually against Germany. To keep it from enriching NATO's adversaries. It would be interesting to know what Scholz and his people really think, to see if they know that no matter what they do, their goose is cooked.
11-24-22
Missile Strikes Force Ukrainians to Adapt to Life in the Dark (NY Times)
Was it darkness that killed over 400,000 of Napoleon's Grande Armee, and reduced Germany's 6th Army of 330,000 (his best troops) to 6000? This is the doomed South all over again. They fought on 2 years after knowing the war was lost, hoping for a miracle: 1) Northern fatigue, 2) European aid, 3), Democratic control of the White House.
Yesterday, Boris Johnson (UK) let fly on Scholz: that he wants Ukraine to accept the reality of living next to a surly Bear, that he's willing to cut a deal to save his economy, that he doesn't think Ukraine stands a chance against Russia.
Scholz would end the war tomorrow, and he doesn't want Putin defeated. Nor does Macron. Why? That whole area would become a Mafia with nukes. To counter it, Europe would have to so militarize their eastern flank that it would make Korea's 38 Parallel look like a playground. He knows he's being played by the US in its strategic aims to contain China, a last hoorah to prove that the US has not lost its ability to shape world affairs. They even resurrected a line from WW1: "Make the world safe for democracy." If Putin can get away with it, China will grab Taiwan, and we're back to imperial land grabs, which is why the West fought the Good Wars to begin with. Putin made himself an outlaw when he transgressed the Covenant (the New World Order of Perpetual Peace). If the heretic is not punished, China will conclude that it too can sin without consequences. Scholz is an atheist, and he sees this as religion. "War," he will tell you, "has been tried in full measure by Germany." Twice, within thirty years, Germany ground itself to powder. But Germany was forced to join the Denomination, first NATO, and then the EU, to atone for almost burning the world down twice. "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?" From the Teutonic Knights to Catharine the Great, Germany always pointed Eastward: Drang nach Osten. The Baltics, Poland, and Ukraine were the equivalent of the Wild West in the German imagination of Lebensraum. Then came identity politics and Wokeness that said "one for all, and all for one." "The cities that my father took from your father, I'll restore," said ruthless Benhadad to wicked Ahab. That will stop. The New World Order says no more horse trading small nations. But everything between Berlin and Moscow used to be a cushion between two heavyweights, where Russia and Germany had space to circle each other warily like two prize fighters in a ring. Now Scholz is told that Germans will eat their Bratwurst cheek and jowl with the Bear. No more cushion. Both Scholz and Macron see the handwriting on the wall here. The whole Eastern Front will now become Checkpoint Charlie, and the small nations that inhabit it a Praetorian Guard, "When it's all over," Zelensky tells European leaders, "Ukraine will have one of the largest and fittest armies in the world." What's not to like? "He heard their (the Legions) treasonous cries," it is said of Augustus. "He dreaded their calmer moments of reflection." As the ancients used to say: "the only thing worse than an invading army, is a hired mercenary one." They soon realize that they have become kingmakers. This is how the Holy Roman Empire gravitated from Rome to Germany. To enjoy their looted riches, rich Romans found it convenient to farm out war to the giants of the North: Germany and the Balkans. At the head of such an army, Zelensky (or some other warlike oligarch) would find it easy to accomplished the long awaited goal of the EU: The United States of Europe. This would solve the Russian problem permanently, as Russia would collapse into the EU. By expanding into the Balkans, NATO is already there. This was the cause of the war to begin with, the equivalent of having Russian Nukes in Cuba. But NATO is like the squabbling princedoms of Germania before Bismarck made one nation out of the lot in 1870. German speaking Austria remained unfinished business, and it took the utter defeat of Germany to undo Anschluss.
Having a nuclear NATO leering over the wall is an insult that no superpower can tolerate without losing its place as a superpower. Putin would have to drop the swagger, and meekly take his place among the EU with the US as primus inter pares (first among equals). In fact, the EU would continue to be a vassal of the US as it is now. Because it cannot provide for its own security. The EU refuses to become the United States of Europe because oversized Germany would dominate it, and Macron would become a governor of a very weak state. Which leaves them at the mercy of Biden/Blinken, who are using Ukraine as the linchpin to keep Europe in line with US strategic interests in containing China. Scholz could care less about all this. He knows how soon grand plans rise and fall. He wants to go back to Handel nach Wandel with both Russia and China: dependent on Russia for energy, on China for chips. As for the Balkans--when Putin drives his tanks through the Brandenburg Gate, he'll worry about the Balkans. What business is that of his?
Instead, his industrial economy is tanking, and his cities will soon be filled with freezing Ukrainians. If Putin smote Ukraine with whips, General Winter will smite Europe with scorpions. The chaos could be such that a full scale NATO escalation may seem the lesser of evils. Then all bets are off.
The unwoke facts?
1) The US lost another war. This is Putin's win. China now knows that the US will not risk nuclear war to protect Taiwan, and that unlimited "aid" only turns a hopeless cause into a suicidal one. An ash heap where Taiwan used to be is the equivalent of removing NATO from the Balkans. No superpower can tolerate Nukes leering over its wall and retain its swagger. Swagger is the essence of political power. It's the difference between a flock of (unfixed) ram lambs and a flock of ewe lambs. My feeder ewe lambs wait patiently, meek and mild, when I give them their grain ration. The ram lambs (160 lb) mob me as soon as I enter the corral, body slamming each other for access (sideways, bang bang, get out of my way). I'm the first thing most of them saw when they were born, and they're still playful rogues. But they're so powerful and full of energy, they can't help but swagger. Bander is always right next to the bucket when I enter with their ration, otherwise, they dive at it, and it's like being hit by fridges. He has to menace all of them at once to keep them at bay. No small task because if he loses concentration for a split second, they all rush in and even he has to escape, because once they focus on the corn it's impossible for him to eye-dominate them. A NATO climbdown let's Putin keep his swagger. He cannot relinquish the newly annexed territories without losing face. From here, he can make sure that Ukraine remains a NATO-free wasteland.
2) Biden/Blinken are left without a face saving exit. They cannot abandon Ukraine without losing swagger. They can keep Putin from encroaching on NATO, but they'll have to turn the Balkans into a military camp. They can no longer get out. But in doing so have now committed Europe to something that far exceeds Europe's image of itself. The blowback could be fierce anti-Americanism. Most Europeans see this as a purely American venture, very profitable for energy and munition interests in the US, very painful and destabilizing for Europe.
3) A NATO pullback will come at the expense of Balkan countries. Kissinger would call this "off the record, back channels." Berliners will find it convenient to keep eating their Bratwurst in Berlin amidst their geographic privilege. It's back to being horse traded by Benhadad for the Balkans. First class real-estate--basically booby-trapped like Ukraine. Hutterites and the more recent arrivals left Ukraine purely for safety. And now NATO will provide it?
4) They underestimated Putin's ability to make trouble in the Slav Balkans. This is still basically a seething underworld volcano just waiting to explode. They should have let these sleeping dogs lie. Now they've got them be the ears. It'll be a miracle if they don't stir up both WW3 and WW4 in one full swoop. But after winding up the disgusting sand wars, they went shopping for another Good War. And those come in pairs.
11-23-22
That helps. For awhile there I feared it was another toxic male. But he does not self-identify as male. 100% of the shooters hitherto had been toxic males. Of course they may only have self-identified as such. But this is the first occasion of mass shooting as gang violence. For "they" the "suspect" are both one and many. "Them" is likely demons.
For days, The Times used the occasion to shrill on hate speech. You know who they were referring to (think of a chapter in Genesis where the people of Zoar may have wondered if they were not looking at a widower who claimed his wife had just been killed and may well have committed arson to hide the evidence). They even mis-gendered him. Because they gander-gendered them: toxic male, what else can you expect (sniff)? So much for Judge Jackson's biologist. Even "shooter" smacks of toxic maleness. Shootist, perhaps? They'll have to go back and redo all the paperwork or get sued for Civil Rights abuse. And they can't put them with the binaries without violating their rights. Those new prisons will have to be super strong because Legion snaps their chains like spiderwebs. And some of these go back and forth--we had one in our fleet 30 years ago that the dispatchers referred to as "the Thing," because it changed from day to day. All par for the course at the NY Times. But they had him as a toxic male and cast about for his church affiliation. They were getting ready to rewrite Genesis. Colorado was said to be in sackcloth and ashes in repentance. The Germans hijacked their game to display armbands. When "the Matter" trumps soccer in Germany, you know what matters. They lost--and the whole Middle East can't stop snickering. And now we are told it was only demons all along after all.
11-18-22
You can be President in jail. The thought is so outrageous, the plebs might see it as rod on the back of the elites. He needs global outrage to gain traction, and this might do. And it would cheat the hangman, because he could pardon himself as long as he remains unimpeached, and Republicans will not impeach him. The closer Garland gets, the more dangerous this becomes for the Democrats. Because Trump will play chicken and force a Constitutional crisis. Never play chicken with a man with a noose around his neck. Netanyahu cheated the hangman by going over to the Far Side. There is now no going back for Israel. The Settlers and Orthodox will demand more land and Temple Mount access. War with Hamas/Iran will help Trump in many ways. But it was either make a pact with the extremists or go to jail. A suicidal move. But he gets to live one more day. A condemned man asks for no more. Ordinary men would withdraw either out of embarrassment or for the larger good. Netanyahu is a cynical opportunist. He believes what gets him to the next day. No more. Would he use Nukes if he was in Putin's place. He would not have to. In sheer desperation he would bring the world to the point of mutual assured destruction, knowing that the rest of the world will back off. The Republican Congress will spend the next two years slinging mud, and taking their own prisoners. The US has been hijacked by the Globalists, they say, and if they have to hamstring the US government to defeat Globalism, so be it. It'll be non-stop scorched earth with the sole purpose of electing an arsonist to finish the job. They could get the moderates on board by pointing to Vice President DeSantis as a way back to sanity if Trump goes off the rails.
11-18-22
"Western and Ukrainian officials have said Moscow’s stockpile of missiles was dwindling. But the assaults this week raise questions about that" (NY Times).
This is "the funny business" Friedman talked about earlier, before Biden took him to the woodshed. The Afghan Army, the CIA said, would stand like a lion at bay against the Taliban. As soon as they saw the US pull out, they called the Taliban to arrange handover of their trillion dollar arsenal. For months now this armchair brigade sold the war as winnable. But now, with fake winter approaching, they look up to see the sky darkened with swarms of missiles. "The arrows of the Persians," the Spartans were warned, "will blot out the sun." "Good," said the Spartans, "then we get to fight in the shade." The cancelling mob must have thought they could cancel General Winter. North Korea and the Persians are humming along at full employment turning their hoes into swords, because Putin has more money than he knows what to do with. Russia is running three shifts. Meanwhile European factories sit idle to conserve energy. They bought peace in the street with the Peace Dividend. Now they're being asked to rearm. Which means they'll have to gut the Welfare State. They'll have to turn their Eastern Flank into a military camp. There has never been such a thing as a Leftwing military (or State). Putin's makeover of Europe (and globalism) is a turning point of history on a galactic scale. You don't see Rainbow flags in Ukraine. European leaders are too scared to pay attention to the games in Qatar. Putin wasted soldiers earlier hoping to avoid turning his prize into a desert. He's now turning it into a snowbank without killing his men. They had convinced themselves that his arsenal was depleted. The Persians can makes silk purses out of the sow's ears they buy at Walmart. China watches with glittering eye. India is humming along on cheap energy. The longer the war the better. MBS is paving his deserts with gold. Qatar spent $200 billion to host the World Cup. The British are huddling: broke and getting broker. Scholz is waiting for the Hiobbotschaften: woe piling upon woe. He better get his tents ready. Zelensky keeps telling Biden he's about to break through, and Biden tells Scholz to just wait a little longer and "you'll see." This will be the biggest evacuation in History. Another month of missiles and Ukraine will be completely dark. At that point, even if NATO invades, they'll still have to bring Ukrainians to safety. Europe will have its hands full, and Putin will be as menacing as ever. The Ukraine war was sold as a bid to keep China from making a move on Taiwan. To show that the days of annexation are over. Now the West is scrambling for a face-saving exit. Two failed wars in less than a year. And they will beard the Dragon in his own backyard? They better rescue Taiwan's chip-factories while they can. There's enough here to jumpstart both WWIII and WWIV with Armageddon thrown in as a bonus. After the wretched "sand wars" Biden/Blinken decided to go shopping for a real war. The world will yet thank them for all the wars they managed not to start.
14And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise. 15Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. 16And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together" (2 Sam. 2).
These were the elite of the elites. All glory. They all knew they were about to sacrifice to Hell. Had they refused, they would have been laughed out of the country.
11-17-22
Front Page NY Times: "Dutch Court Convicts 3 Men in Case of 2014 Flight Shot Down Over Ukraine." That took about a billion dollars. They're no doubt gearing up for all the trials following the war--because some of those 200,000 casualties were killed contrary to the rules of war. And of course, they expect the Marines to make the arrests--the Americans like that sort of thing. They need to hurry at the rate of slaughter over there--still, war is war. That's why you have war. You could kill 2 million a day as long as you abide by the rules. That's about what it would take to balance nature, according to their calculations. But the Dutch are there to see that it is done decently and in order. No as much as a small group on ending the war. They're too busy saving a few tadpoles 50 years down the road, and making sure that the killing is done according to the rules of war. Good work, if you can get it.
11-16-22
When Netanyahu was thrown out of office, many saw it as a sign that the tide had turned against Trumpism. He's back and beholden to the extreme Right. The Right has long wanted to cleanse the land of Tel Aviv which ranks with Berlin, San Francisco, and New York regarding "the Matter." But that's where the money is. How does Israel fund itself when they vacate to the other three? Bibi is back because voters do not trust Israeli Arabs. These increasingly see Hamas in Gaza as their only hope. The settlers will now accelerate land grabs, and clamor for more access to the Temple Mount. They rescued him from the hangman, and he's not about to go back to the scaffold. A major flareup is most certainly on the horizon. Oil prices would skyrocket, and fill Putin's coffers to keep the war going. In this milieu, a war with Gaza wouldn't even make the news, as Putin is already consuming most of the political oxygen. The longer Putin keeps the war going, the more time Israel gets to do what Putin is doing. A crisis in Israel would split the Democratic party as the Squad vents against Israel, and Jewish money would flow into Trump's war chest. Trump, Bibi, MBS, Putin--all condemned men. Like wolves, they hunt together to survive.
11-16-22
They all thought Trump would fold before the announcement. He's back! They assumed Jan 6, the missing files, the lawsuits+++++++++++++++. He's back for the same reason swampmaster Netanyahu is: attention deficit disorder. The plebs want their politics served up daily. They want someone who straps on a rocket, inches up to the nose (like in the cartoons), and flies by the seat of his pants. Nothing so terrifyfies mortals than the suspense of waiting for the ax to fall. Israel just crossed the Rubicon toward the Third Temple. They pulled the pin on a nuclear hand grenade with Bibi's return. All the monsters quaking in the mud will now rise. Trump is anti-globalist Weltmeister. From Nigeria to Estonia to London, he's seen as the only person capable of trampling across history on a Nimrodian scale. If Trump can revive the raw gallows humor of Act I, he will get what got him elected in the first place: constant worldwide exposure. Already, the New York Times took the bait. He created half the journalists alive today. He gave the masses daily Elite roast every day. But is there anything left to roast? DeSantis' problem is he cannot do the gallows humor, because he never had to cheat the hangman. Trump wears his noose like a necktie, like Netanyahu, always just one step from the gallows. This is his appeal among deplorables, a condemned man among condemned men, a modern Spartacus. The base may get fired up just by watching the baying mob at the NY Times. But he will have to fire-up the base. If he does, Twitter stock will go to the moon. No excuse now, Musk bought it give him a chance to vent non-stop.
They can't stop gloating at the NY Times. They finally have the strongman where they want him. If he wins, he'll take revenge on the hangmen. He is Putin without the Nukes. But he will have to go nuclear to survive. Desperation is the mother of invention. But people share his Twitter vents in Nigeria because he rules the swamp like none other. In the end the Cyclops could still rip the tops of mountains and hurl them at his tormentors, ineffectively, because they had gouged out his eye. The Twitterhood gossip will have to be raw to get the masses laughing at their tormentors again, which is what they fear most--all their vices are now fake news. When the frontpage of the NY Times becomes nonstop Trumppage, you'll know the mud is taking hold. If he loses, he definitely has an appointment with the hangman. Paradoxically, real time gallows humor could save him. You'll know, when you hear them laughing again in Nigeria.
Does he need to fill stadiums? He'll have to raise the temperature, because "Edom hath settled on his lees." Maybe not. Many things could come out of nowhere, and a swampmaster knows to lay low (he lurks, he waits, showing but eyeballs and snout): 1) Biden's extreme age, 2) worsening Ukraine, 3) the Jewish vote if the Israeli Right starts making Third Temple noises, 4) Biden's meddling in too many wars to save the EU welfare state. Trump would cut his losses on both Ukraine and Taiwan. Either of those could burn the world down. Did you see today the question in the NY Times: "how much can we allow the global temperature to rise?' All a matter of tweaking. Not a word about the 200,000 casualties of the war: two few too late to save the planet, but their absence will help.
11-16-22
The Church of Latter Day Polygamy now supports "the Matter." New state theme: "the husband love your wives state." Apostle Brigham Young had 55 wives and 56 children. NY Times (2016) estimates his descendants at 30,000. You can see therein The Times' lack of enthusiasm toward adding a "P" to the list. Especially, just before the "+". They want the world's population reduced from 8 billion to 1. Climate, they conclude, is best served by keeping true Mormonism confined to Nevada brothels, because when the 1000-wived Solomon turned Jerusalem into a brothel he ended up with but one son and two daughters. On the other hand, had Young's wives married men, their descendants would likely be in the millions. Thus polygamy may well be a form of extinction like the rest of The List. Especially, since the deprived males would take to war to gain wives, and thus engage in the best know path of extinction: war. Putin, Fox News will tell you, is creating an even greater vacuum, and guess who the replacements will be. In fighting the Globalists, he's creating a gigantic hole for the globe to rush in. The real war is the Culture War, which as long as it's "one man one vote," is being fought at the ballot box. Open borders and stuffed ballot boxes. Netanyahu was reinstated to restrict the ballot. He's losing the war of the cradles. But now what to do with the dispossessed (Palestinians). They are now forced to keep holding the wolf by the ears until Armageddon. The Right would put that Ukrainian artillery atop Trump's Wall to keep the Globalists from stuffing the ballot box. While the Egyptians built pyramid tombs, the Israelites were rocking cradles. They sought a solution in drowning babies. Eighty years later Moses drowned their entire army. Cradles rule.
11-14-22
London is now more than 50 percent non-white. The newcomers did no more than follow the loot(ing). Brexit was an attempt to keep Merkel's horde from using EU law to gain access to Britain. Most anyone in the Third World is desperate enough to try rafting across the Channel. Africa simply exporting its surplus: people. The hands that rock the cradles rule.
A reporter sat in on a Conference for young up-and-coming Brits. What struck him was their sense of hopelessness and nihilism: hopeless, because they know they'll never again be a majority in London, and nihilistic, because they see revolution as the only remedy. They are bereft of ideas. Their last hope? That Trump will get re-elected. Why Trump? Because he's the only anti-globalist big enough to make a difference. Bolsonaro hardly moved the needle. Orban is basically a smaller version of Putin. Their methods would turn Europe into a desert.
But Trump was but a "flare-up" that crashed spectacularly on Jan 6 As they say about striking at a king: you must succeed the first time. The whole thing was so bizarre and suicidal that the Right tried to blame it on Antifa. It had all the substance of QAnon. These people were to assured of their entitlements that they were certain that Church America would rally behind their prophetic zeal. They are, after all, the children of the kingdom, and this is their country. This is what you call systematic privilege. You can count on all the institutions to give you the benefit of the doubt. The people who murdered
Ahmaud Arbery assumed that the System had their back. Ten years ago, they would have gotten away with it.
Why was the last election so lackluster? Because Trump can no longer hold the nation's attention span. He was elected on gallows humor and you can't top that. You can only vent for so long. Sooner or later iPhone Man needs to know where all this is going. Brutus and Cato wanted to take Rome back to the time before Caesar. Their heads were full of powerful Senators who lived on their small farms and practiced the old agrarian virtues. But now Rome was filled with rabble who wanted little more than free food and entertainments. There was no going back.
Jan 6 was the final gasp of Trumpism, and of the Culture War on a national scale. They may succeed in resurrecting the Confederacy in a few states like Texas and Florida, but they cannot possible command the attention of the mainstream. You cannot win on the defensive. The Left is attacking on three fronts: Guilt, Conscience, and Culture--
Have to paint living room tonite yet. Will pick this up later.
11-12-22
Is this the end of Trump? Any sign of weakening is fatal to a swampmaster. And he delivered far below expectations. This is the problem of a reactionary platform: the equivalent of proving a negative. What are you trying to prove if there's nothing there? Outrage is very addictive, but like all addictions, it needs a bigger and bigger dose, because "the appetite is never filled." And there seemed to be no big issues or causes to fire the base. Besides the Supreme Court can now be depended on to stop Leftwing radicalism. But as long as the major institutions like education remain in Leftwing hands, the Culture War is lost. This is where you get to shape thinking, for which the Twitterhood cannot compensate. The Right is now synonymous with Evangelicalism, which is little more than a political rally fueled by slogans. The regrouping into megachurches follows the pattern of the earlier consolidation of Mainline denominations as their numbers dwindled. Note how these Mega's use generic names to advertise themselves, a tribute to the power of "critical race theory." All Colonialism is now toxic, because it marched to the tune of the Mainlines. The problem remains that #MeChurch has yet to hit. Google the SBC and see what lies quaking in the mud waiting to be hatched. There lies the heart of the darkness, awaiting a fearful reckoning. The assets are worth billions, and much will likely fall to reparations. As within the Republican Party, here too the finger-pointing will now begin. Trump did not deliver. But they had put all their eggs into one basket. This has less to do with newfound outrage toward Trump, than that his ability to cause outrage has peaked. In other words, the Right is now split between revolutionaries and moderates. Divided, they cannot prevail. Trump was able to vent, but not fill. You can only vent for so long. Wither now? The key problem lies in the structural theocracy that has now been toppled. Just look what's written on your coin, if you don't thing the US was a systematic theocracy. Now that Secularism has a seat at the table, Evanglelicals are left to cogovern. A coalition of Jerusalem and Athens. Rhino's have been here for some time, but lost out to Trump radicalism. Where do the radicals go now? These are the Evangelicals. If they don't compromise with the moderates, they will face the Secularist in the public schools. And yoiu know what's in those books. They needed substance with which to counter "the Matter" which will now come back with a vengeance. Megachurches are a weak link here, as they are largely corporations, and no corporation can survive bad publicity. The back to the Reformation movement of thirty years ago has now been rocked with #MeToo scandals. Politically, MAGA is dead for lack of a vision. It's doubtful that they have the numbers to seize control via the 2nd Amendment. They lost the Culture War. Bad as the Left is, they at lest have a "theory" which to attack. MAGA is pure negation. When it's all said and done, you must offer a replacement beside nostalgia for the past. Read Tacitius if you want to see what a political funeral feels like.
Awareness that the Reformation theocracy is crumbling accounts for the desperation that drove Evangelicalism to seek a remedy in Trump. The alternative now will be to turn states like Texas and Florida into lesser theocracies. Deacon Musk and the Rev Peter Thiel are on board here. Everything in Jesus Name will have to go. These people will become Serb Christians whose real bible is the 2nd Amendment. Empires never survive. What remained of Israel when Titus was done with it? It was not for want of fervor. The old wineskins simply burst. The reason you see Christianity Today types snuffling around the Bruderhof, is because they're trying to outrun the #MeChurch Movement, which means putting as much distance between themselves and the Reformation as possible. Augustine/Luther/Calvin placed the Church under Cain-Caesar for protection. The price was Colonialism, which is now being attacked with a vengeance. This will be the #MeChurch Movement. Here be monsters.
11-11-22
The head of the Pentagon wants Biden to begin negotiations. About what, carving up Ukraine? But then you have rewarded Putin, and it's but a matter of time before he grabs another bite. Zelensky keeps asking for more time. But he's only gaining token victories. He wants total victory: Russia out of Ukraine and Crimea. But to keep Russia out would require Ukraine to become part of NATO, just as throwing Putin out will require NATO intervention. What's keeping NATO? Nukes. If Russia loses Crimea, it will become a satellite of the EU and NATO. Putin and his enablers will hardly escape with their lives. Will they burn the world down as they go down? Would Trump burn the house down over his enemies' ears if they close in on him. Undoubtedly. No one asks what Scholz thinks, because everyone knows what he thinks: give Putin a slice now, wait for him to die, and make the bear fat with Handel nach Wandel. He needs to save his factories, and keep German cities from being overwhelmed with refugees. There is no plan other than "let's give Zelensky more time." Father Time is already at the gates on the back of Old Man Winter. Ask Scholz if Ukraine can drive Putin out of Crimea or the Donbas region. Never. Will Ukraine settle for anything less as long as they get unlimited resources to keep the war going? Never. How long will those unlimited resources be available? What happens when they cease? As long as Russia remains Russia, Russia wins. You cannot simply wish Putin dead. What does that mean. If means you cut your loses while you still have something to lose. The war does not have a popular mandate, and the masses are feeling real hardship. There simply is no Plan B for Putin. He cannot retreat and survive. And as long as NATO is afraid of his Nukes, they will remain hamstrung. A slugfest with no end in sight will only strengthen pro-Putin elements in Europe. Anti-Americanism could make a comeback. iPhone Man is no longer capable of grasping the strategic realignment on the horizon. If Globalism is about to contract, everything is up for grabs. Leaders like Orban will play all sides to enrich their own countries, and Europe would require a major reshuffling to state viable. For just as the Balkans are dependent on Europe for survival, so Europe remains a vassal of the US. The EU is what Germany was before Bismarck collected all their kings under one nation in 1870. That's like asking a Texan to go earn his bread in Boston. A strengthened Putin can use his resources to make trouble here. It's as if all the nightmares boxed up in 1945 are about to be loosed.
11-10-22
The election likely weakened the RIght in that it shows dithering on the fence line. DeSantis's rise diminished Trump. But DeSantis's appeal "savors of the lamp" as the ancients would say: that is, too contrived. He's not swamp master enough to sling with the heavies. He's not quotable enough. He comes across as a creation of billionaires. With Trump you don't have to wonder about the the Snake Oil, and you can't win with the fake. That, Bismarck would say, is the essence of Machiavelli. You can't fake the real.
11-10-22
Stop Oil is the latest gimmick of millionaires activists in Europe, where they go for that sort of thing. Now they're into shutting down Freeways. Well, if truckers do it here, why not over there? When they smear million dollar art with tomato past they always make sure it's covered in bulletproof glass. I doubt if they could get to it with a pickax. The Mona Lisa is likely worth 2 billion dollars, if not more. They would run you off the Globe. But no one takes them seriously, because they all live so well. You can always tell the fake from the real snake oil by how much it costs. They're trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear here. Gahazi found "wild gourds" ill suited to the "rewards of divinity" and shook down "this Syrian." When yoiu see Al Gore walk around barefoot, you'll know the time is nighish. He didn't make his fortune selling hot-coal proof shoes. There should be Climate communes all over by now. But the Revolution can't even rise to rebellion, the true mark of Crusader. They used to cause outrage instead of being outraged, leaping over the barricades of bourgeoise middle class morality. Instead, you see such rank conformity and choir-preaching that they outdo the Baptists in recycling converts. The reason they find themselves sandwiched by two pagan Coasts, is that they never got their religion out of the choir. The pagans don't even consider them entertaining "babblers." They have been summarily ignored. Imagine that. Church America was the Reformation come to perfection awaiting but orders to march into the Millennium. They are the flip side of the pampered Greta brats. They need to let their hair grow out and lead processions trough Main Street like the doom-saying hermits of old. Savonarola's they're not.
11-9-22
The NY Times on the warpath again–with the tom-toms beating at battle-speed in the Comments section. Russia must be driven out of Ukraine and Crimea, and the West must seize Russian assets to pay war reparations. Not a word about Nukes or Winter. They are hissing in Scholz’s ear to hand over the Leo[pard 2’s and the Marders, for once Germany gets skin in the game, everyone else can sit back and watch the action. For only Germany can start a World War.. Berlin must be filled with gloom. The agony will continue, and time is running out for German industry. What happens to the Street if unemployment now runs headlong into hyper-inflation? So far the EU has not stepped up to the plate to take charge from Brussels. The nations bordering Russia are allowed to call the shots, and the are one with the US in demanding that the Russian problem be resolved once and for all. That would be the end of Russia as an “idea”: Holy Moscow, Tolstoy, Slavs, Empire. It’s the mystical element that keeps everything together when all else fails, the notion of a common history and destiny. In other words, Russia only exists as a certain Mass. Reduce it and it becomes a curiosity like Prince Churls of the UK. Why would Putin settle for that when he has other options. He would likely be killed at home. Yes, but the people who would have to push the button are rational, they say, and would refuse to comply. Do these people exist among Kim Jung Un?
Victory for Ukraine would require dramatic NATO escalation. Ukraine is trying to get NATO entangled. Here are minefields. They’re trying to create a situation where it will no longer be morally justifiable for the US not to engage fully. Germany, especially, is very sensitive here–because of you know what. Do they want the destruction of Ukrainie added to German guilt? If Republicans do not pull the plug soon, they’ll have a full scale war on their hands. With its economy in tatters, Germany may be weak to resist.
The Times article is very telling. They're back to essentially calling for the assassination of Putin and his enablers. Why? Because, only the complete destruction of Russia will remove Putin from Ukraine. They're fooling themselves if they think Putin's mystical notion of Russia is not held by the mainstream. Or that the average Russian does not harbor claims on larger Russian influence on Ukraine. Removing Putin will thus require dramatic US escalation. Winter could bring many horrors from which Europeans will not be able to look away. Dealing with them could bring Europe to the brink of collapse. They may decide that full scale war is the lesser evil. This is what Ukraine is counting on.
11-8-22
While they’re jumping on the altars at the Egyptian Climatefest, Putin is waging war with Climate. Meanwhile, they’ve all got their eye on the US elections—they need Democrats to win.. If Republicans do, they’ll step on the gas with a vengeance. Meanwhile, Democrats must not consider that Climate is an issue at all. It’s not even mentioned by the candidates. In fact, Climate is as toxic as the Ukrainian War. Both are little more than props to underwrite Globalism, the last gasp of a One World System (at least for the foreseeable future). Now it will be back to “wars and rumors of war” as nations jostle for position. Instead of a peace dividend chicken in every pot, now they’ll be too busy trying to warm the pot.. Putin has scattered the nations. China and India do not have an energy crisis because they’re buying Russian energy at bargain prices. How does Germany compete with that? They’re spewing carbon at record rates reviving their industrial engines, while the EU is waging war on cow emissions. Did you see that fake meat stocks are tanking, and oat milk is a huge carbon fiend. Putin will turn Ukraine into a huge pork farm, and sell the Germans their Bratwurst dear. One more day, mutters Scholz. He’s running out of time to keep Germany from becoming a Third World country. The math people have tried every angle and have found no rational way to replace Russian energy to save what’s left of industrial Europe. Look at the chaos in the UK. The Welfare net was based on the piece dividend and usury: England collected most of the fees to underwrite Global credit. That universe is now contracting, and they lost use of their ability to “sharpen their hoes,” much less make them. In Adam Smith’s time, London was a sweatshop. Now those same shops sell “sweats.” Obesity. One’s stock melted when electricity went out, so they crowd funded to buy back the entire $1000 stock. A Chinese iphone costs more than that. The Chinese would be in there hammering out iPhones a mile a minute, and here they are doping on sweets. Some of the huge dairies around here are Brits, compared to whom I’m in the Dark Ages. They’ve got a formula for everything, and could pack their bags and set up shop anywhere in the world and make a go of it. But the UK has run out of money and they sold the goose that used to lay the golden eggs. Scholz needs to keep his industries. And with each passing day he’s reaching the point of no return. Once gone, they’ll bever come back
But End of History Man hedged all his bets on Ukraine. Universes that stop expanding, contract. Back to where? 1945? How do you run Climate summits with two thirds of the world missing, as China, India, and Brazil gorge themselves while their enemies make themselves weak. They’re playing Machiavelli here. Talk Climate for the masses, and stick in the carbon knife in secret. I’ll help you reach greater Climate sanctification, Putin told Germany. Why not use my cleaner gas (cheap) while you gather on the mountain tops. They no sooner reached the freezing summits, but he pulled the plug. This is the remote ultimate cause of the war. Putin weaponized Climate. Trust me, he told Merkel. The preacher’s daughter was taught that what Machiavelli revealed was statecraft heresy. Wesley slammed the book shut, convinced he had seen Antichrist. His prince was the First Man and Head of his church, and Frau Merkel was kind Mutti. Putin looked over this hedge of hypocrisy with glittering eye. China looks at the Climate orgy in Egypt with glittering eye. Russian gas, experts now say, is tame compared to German dependance on Chinese supply. And they somehow duplicated all the secrets on how to make them. So what, Frau Merkel would say, we all live in a global village now. “My horses as your horses, my people as your people,” Jehosapeht told Ahab. “I myself will go into battle as a common soldier, but you dress in all your royal finery,” Ahab said. He had intelligence that Benhadad had given orders for every soldier to only go after the Ahab, and if this would get Jehosaphet killed, well—he had his eye on the throne in Jerusalem. His daughter Athaliah usurped it briefly. Such, Machiavelli said, is the policy of your enemy. You must get him before he gets you. “Blood and iron,” Bismark said, is the soundest policy. Merkel tried to be the opposite of this odious Prussian, and walked into a Russian buzzsaw.
And now they’re stuck with the doctrine of “total assurance”. The Baltics clamor to be freed once and for all from this running sore. But this will only happen with the defeat and removal of Putin. This would be the end of Russia as a credible counterweight to Eurpope. So now you have NATO outposts on China’s borders. Or worse, mafia gangs with Nukes and unlimited resources. They would swoop into Europe like the Golden Horde. Augustus looked beyond the Rhine and said no thanks. He paid some Germans to keep the rest from crossing it. He was not about to settle all the world’s known unknowns. Ambiguity is often the better part of statecraft. It costs the Romans less to bribe the Germans than to fight them. “The cities which my father took from yours, I’ll give back,” Benhadad said to Ahab. A Syrian one day, an Israeli the next. These buffer zones exist everywhere. Sometimes they are deserts. Ukraine is a prize plum. The best land, a priceless coast. A deal would mean abandoning the Baltic Bloc and Poland. Or worse, a tail-wagging border that shifts the EU center of gravity into Putin’s backyard. This will be ten times worse than the Cold War. Solve one problem by creating a dozen ten times worse. They’ve got the bear by the tail here while living it up at a resort in Egypt, holding their breath over the US elections, and telling themselves that Winter is fake news. How do you make Benhadad’s cities safe? Do they have the right not to be threatened? Scholz is now called on to fight political heresy where he finds it. Clear up the old Russian/Pruissian problem. Will he have one dime left for Climate now? Most Germans would trade the Baltics for free gas: the horse traded cities of Benhadad where spooks ply their trade. Imagine going back to that. They think all this is a US venture. This is what you get if you pretend that Machiavelli is heresy. Religious orthodoxy. How does woke man look himself in the eye if he now cuts deals based on self interest? When Crassus took his Roman Legions over the Euphrates, he burned the bridges. Either victory or death, he told his soldiers. They took it as a dark omen. The whole army was lost.
11-7-22
UN very shrill on Climate in posh Egyptian resort. Not a word on the crisis before the Election. Nor the Ukrainian war. Very strange, because everyone knows how shrill it will be if Republicans win.
11-5-22
The north wind is off the rails today. Hard to walk against it. If you had a mile high windmill here, Putin would buy energy from you. Ancient man captured it in his sails. And Everyman Windmill, hardly more than a reinvention of the wheel and lever in the right combination like the air fryer my sister gave me 4 years ago. A miracle that could have been invented 100 years ago. I haven't used my oven/stove since. Sheep just turn their backs in their woolwarm suits, happily hunting rib fattening beans. Free food. What's not to like?
The time has come, say the Blinken people, for Ukraine to talk to Putin. They're getting ready to carve up Ukraine before winter fills it with frozen corpses. Aapman thought he could outrun Old Man Winter. Biden's ammo dump destined for Ukraine is already showing up in Europe. They just armed the Balkan Mafia, which crime lord Putin will now push further into Europe, as he takes over their Serbian turf. Florida villas should fetch a premium as Ukrainian gun runners scramble to safety. A tidy donation at Mara \Lago should smooth things over. Democrats have yet to learn how many Republican donors they created with all those billions. Blowback. Im Westen nichts Neues. Biden lost two major wars in less than a year. They created the Taliban to defeat the Russians only to meet them in the rubble of Manhattan. Who knows what monsters quake here waiting to be hatched. And now, with Putin back, who will stay in Ukraine? Will there be a great exodus ahead of negotiations. Will Scholz agree to be Chief of Police to safeguard the new treaty? Likely, Putin just wrecked the EU. They'll have to go back to 1945 and start rebuilding from there. This is fatigue with a vengeance--and Europe is old and feeble. Meanwhile the Third World doubles every 25 years, and God decreed that vacated places be "filled." "
"These extreme Republicans don’t have a plan. Their only idea is to get in, make trouble for President Biden, drag Hunter into the dock, start a bunch of stupid investigations, shut down the government, abandon Ukraine and hold the debt limit hostage" (NY Times). Everyone knows they have neither plan nor vision. Then, the question is, how can such people be elected? It can only be that the status quo is so odious that people will call in a Putin to burn the house down. Because they see the EU as the root of the Culture War, which they see as turning America into a toxic desert, they would like nothing better that for Putin to march on Berlin. They will stop every single Biden project, good or bad, and run him out of office if they can. Ukraine is a major Biden project. Poor Scholz. He was dragged into this. Now what does he do? Is there enough left of Europe to cobble together PrEUssia? All bets are off now as the world recalibrates. They wounded the Bear, but did not weaken him. They'll have little time now for the Green Round Table.
"Kyiv Planning for Total Evacuation if It Loses Electricity" NY Times. The Times does not tell us where they will vacate "to." What? The Steppes? In the middle of winter? Or the Ukrainians army can go into winter quarters in Berlin. Why vaccate now? Because, without electricy they'll all freeze to death. Putin lost most of his army trying to take Kyiv earlier. Now he gets it without loosing a single Russian. He knew he could have done this earlier. But he had to heat up the war slowly to get the NATO frog used to it. Now everyone is ready for the worst. Carnage on the level of the Good Wars. He hoped to gain his purpose with minimal damage. He himself did not think he could get away with mobilization earlier. But as Hell opened her mouth without measure, the Russian people need a return on their sacrifice. They'll burn their own country to the ground and advance behind Old Man Winter. The war is now in the grips of fatalism: the suffering of the Slav. Who evacuates in the middle of winter? NATO troops? But that is the line in the sand. How many frozen corpses can the EU stand before they call for escalation? One million, two, three....? No word from Scholz. He's in hiding counting the minutes to Republican victory. His Handel nach Wandel was on the mark. Except for one fatal flaw: his cannons are empty. That is, he lacks the cannon fodder for such an enterprise. I could show him proof everyday in my own surroundings. I watch young Latino crews come in to buy groceries late evenings, and I can tell that this is the first time they had to cook for themselves, because they seem unsure of what to buy. They're perfectly at home here because they know they've become too big to fail. President Grant writes that the theft of the Southwest from Mexico was a war crime. They got back without firing a shot. Everything below I-40 is the new Mexico. Trump would have to build his wall atop I 80 to achieve his aims. their secret? It's what will thwart Netanyahu: God blessed the fillers of vacuums. And now they're exterminating themselves and howl about being replaced. Trump fears Mexico's maternity wards more than Putin's missiles. This is the Angst at Fox News. They see a huge vacuum and know who will fill it. Republicans hold Ukraine accountable for all of Trump's ills. If they win, they'll go after Biden with everything in their arsenal. With Biden hamstrung, Scholz will have no choice but take charge. Negotiations will require a "moderate Ukrainian" government, acceptable to Putin. Serbia, Albania, etc,. will be ruled by Mafia gangs, who will plunder European cities like the Huns or Goths of old. But after shutting down the dirty sand wars, they went shopping for a recreational war to test the latest tech bro stuff, much of which has a very short shelf life, which means wars will have to be hurried up from now on. "All you need to know is how to use a joystick," the cannon fodder is told. Otherwise, Putin is hewing to NY Times doctrine of human reduction. If he would promise to turn Ukraine into a wildlife sanctuary, (Chernobyl is teeming with wildlife), all would be forgiven. "I wouldn't give on Russian for 100 Frenchmen," Kutuzov said. Why would Putin waste troops when he can turn Ukraine into rubble with drones and cause them to flee to Berlin? Because, he will be cancelled again?
11-5-22
Overcast–not much wind. Up late fixing old plaster in living room, so out here a little later today. The old plaster is cracked but good, and they tried fixing it with more of the same which peeled, flaked, etc. I’m using sheetrock plaster to give it a textured look and blend in what’s rough beneath. A little more time consuming, but it will look good. Got dining room painted and varnished and moved back in. Very fine, indeed. A shepherd’s hut, of which there is none better. In Europe, the latest fad is for billionaires to rent genuine shepherd huts at unbelievable prices. The president of Hublot (when he comes to the US all the billionaires show up to see his latest watches), when asked what he enjoys most in life said, “a Swiss cabin where he can bei dem Schafen und Ziegen schlafen”: a cozy bed with sheep and goats munching contentedly nearby. Especially, in a howling blizzard. You’ve never seen snugness until you've seen sheep happily chewing their cud in their wool-warm suits in a dimly lit barn on a cold winter night. Some of my cats sleep under their noses (forced heat) while others prefer a wool mattress. They earn their keep by doing their faces. They lean in and pull themselves across, all the while purring as hard as they can, and then finish them off by flicking their eyes and ears with their tails. Sheep swoon. My bossiest ewe, Anna Hosanna, always breaks ranks and chases them down for a second treatment. “If you wouldn’t be so bossy, Anna Hosanna,” I always say, “You would have more friends.” But she’s a good soul, supermom. On cold nights she rakes her lambs across their backs to get them up to nurse. There are no second chances for new born lambs in the cold. She keeps them full and fat. A brace of fine fat lambs on a cold winter night makes up for a lot of bossiness, I tell myself. That means I don’t have to stay in the barn all night. What’s that worth, I say. And I give her another half ration. Easily worth a good’s night’s sleep.
It’s begun—”the largest refugee crisis in decades,” warns the UN. The last refugee crisis brought 1 million Syrians to Europe. Ukrainians already number over 4 million. First, Putin depleted European savings by causing ruinous inflation with high energy. Now he will use his tool of choice, destabilizing newcomers. He knows Republicans are ready to make political hay here. If he can get Republicans in control, winter will do the rest. The Right in Europe sees opportunity. China will make a move on Taiwan while the world is preoccupied: it’s not if, it’s when it annexes Taiwan. Likely, the West’s Ukrainian debacle sealed Tawain’s fate.. Anschluss can be done. Putin just proved it. Nenenyahoo is back, and will make quick moves while the world is so distracted. He will overplay his hand, because you can’t beat Nature. Note the southern half of the US which has become new Mexico without firing a shot. Maternity wards always winds–the hands that rock the cradles rule. Russian-Ukrainian suicide is but hastening te day of replacement. They’re like the child who kills his parents and wails aboiut being an orphan. Which is why the Fox people are so aghast. They need those people (Ukraine or Russian–both the right types) to man the Wall. That’s the real war. Republicans will end the family squabble to preserve what’s left of the Old Regime. Meanwhile Africa is doubling its population every 25 years, while Europe’s is shrinking. The math is on the wall. The Wall will not solve it.
And now come the refugees. They better welcome them now, before they have to evacuate them in the dead of winter. Europe will not stand by and watch Ukrainians freeze to death on their iPhones. Most Europeans, like Scholz, see little sense in prolonging an inevitable outcome. Most see the war as a US strategic venture that is of little concern to Europe's impoverished masses. The backlash could be catastrophic. Many will be un-kinged by inflation caused by high energy. Because they thought they could outrun winter. But the energy shot up because history says that no army can outrun Russian winter. 8 months is an eternity for iPhone man. Not that it matters, because Global Warming is such an imminent threat, that Winter has become fake news. Friedman sees nothing but smoking Tundra when he looks at Siberia. Kalt, Eis Kalt, Thomas Friedman. Just (11:15 AM, 11/15/22) looked up and ¼ of a mile down the hill I see a big coyote crossing between me and the sheep grazing on higher ground another ¼ mile away. I gave chase and as soon as he saw me coming he headed for the fence. I cut him off before he got to the fence, but while I made the turn, he doubled back and headed for the other fence that makes up the corner (see corner straight ahead–takes awhile for phone pic to get to computer). We both got to the fence at the same time and he cleared it without breaking his stride. Bander was riding shotgun and howling to get out. But he was too fast, and if there’s another coyote lurking close by they would gang up on him. A neighbor, a trapper told me, lost two big labs that way. Bander is utterly fearless and would tackle a grizzly bear. That’s the half-Australian Shepard in him. He’ll meet a hard charging 350 pound ram head on and flip him on his back. My blackheaded ewes chased him when he was a puppy, and he never forgets a grudge. He’s got his friends among and refuses to drive them. When I would send him for my great ram Mount Moriah, as soon as he saw who it was, he would turn around as if to say, ‘there’s nothing here, just my friend.” My great ram Shiloh has it in for him because Bander spooked him when he got out of the trailer, and as a puppy, he would howl threats from under Mount Moriah while Shiloh tried to get at him. When he was young, he was mesmerized by cars. Once, as the sheep were going through the gate and one approached, I heard “pop,” because, while distracted, Sholah got him, and my wrath was greatly kindled. Because he was right at my feet, and had Shiloh not pulled his punch, you can imagine my knees. These Australian Shepherds will turn your life upside down if you don’t give them something to do, and will find ways to outmaneuver you even while you're watching. You can imagine what that looks like while they're teething. He had a taste for that little spot on a sneaker right above the heel. Without it, the shoe will not stay on. In desperation I found a 2 foot long rawhide bone at the hardware store, and can still see people looking at it horrified at the counter: they thought I must be harboring a grizzly bear. Shiloh, like the rest of the rams, consider Mount Moriah an elder statesman, who doesn’t fight, but rules with sheer gravitas. The noblest of rams. Besides, the only thing worse than finding a devoured lamb is to find a trapped coyote there the next morning. If you’ve never seen “cold-eyed wildness,” it’ll stop you in your tracks. That bridge could never be gapped, it’s so ruthlessly raw. I understand him. That’s how he survives, and I’d do the same if I were in his paws. He knows he can expect no mercy, and asks for none. He’s like those prisoners of war you read about who know they will hang. Nothing can save them. I would let him go if I could. Some of them, I can tell, have starving pups back in the den, which makes the mother take extreme chances. I would never kill the pups even if I found them in my backyard. But if you don’t send a message to the adults they come into my corral if they find the gate open, or if they can walk across the drifts. I’m not sorry to see him get away. If he’s an old timer, he’ll keep the others out. Dead, twenty worse will swoop in overnight. I make sure to account for all the flock at night, and make sure they’re within a high enclosure. Bang, bang, bang goes the gun range less than a mile away. That’s where they start howling at dusk, and start moving toward me. As you know, most gun-rangers practice on human silhouettes, and the coyotes know to keep their heads down to dodge stray bullets. But that’s where they lurk during the day. That was a good chase–the Bandmeister had a front row seat, and it doesn’t get better than that–he’s very fond of the chase. The coyote played the fences. He wouldn’t have had a chance in the open field. But if he could make it to the fence, he was safe. You have to admire so cunning an adversary.
Doesn’t Putin know that he’s left ruling a desert? At the rate things are moving in the wrong direction, he’s turning the EU into a desert. This is after all a battle to reshape the Continent to its forever parameters,, with Germany and Russia as the main players. NATO expansion was designed to solve the Russian problem by reducing Russia to manageable proportions, with the Eu as Weltmeister. Now they’re like two caged prized fighters circling each other, again. Reducing Russia would have been possible if shambolic Russia could have been stripped of its Nukes. Under that umbrella, Putin was able to claw his way back on the back of limitless energy. Global Man–grown drowsy on cheap gas and Walmart freebies–thought that Brother Putin had no choice but see the inevitable of the End of History Arrangement: the New World Order, where nations all submitted in woke meekness like chastened knights around the Green Round Table, where great captains like Thomas Friedman did yeoman service to save the Planet. Whereas Napoleon couldn’t get the stench of burning Moscow out of his nostrils, Putin, Friedman warned, would soon find himself surrounded by burning Tundra. And off they rode into that warm balmy knight. Like Solzenizy asked, “Can a man who is warm understand a man who is cold?” Cold, in Friedman’s columns, is basically fake news. How could there be cold when the icebergs are melting everywhere. And thus they forgot to account for winter. And now winter is upon them. “The biggest displacement of people since 1945,” the UN cries. Because, they can’t stop the war now. And Ukrainians are fighting to stave off the annexation of Taiwan. What happens if you reward Putin’s aggression by letting him keep his prizes? Make a deal now, and the Eastern Bloc goes back to living in the bunker, while Berliners get to eat their Bratwurst in peace. So now you’re back to Benhadad and Ahab and the horse-traded cities in between. But this is the kindling of the endless wars that turned Europe into a feudal nightmare of feuding knights before. Did you see all the brave knights at the Queen’s funeral? They were more red than the Scarlet woman of Revelation, all in grim procession with hands on their bucklers (they even managed to stuff Prince Churl’s sister into uniform–the uniform is still the world’s supreme fashion symbol–it’s why London is the playground of billionaires–they come to bask in the glory of these brace knights–”Sir, this,” “Lord that.” This is Cinderella stuff, compared to which your billion dollar yacht is but a crude toy. And when did you read the last spy thriller? Hollywood died for lack of a Good War to reinvigorate it–Strutting German Generals emerging from huge cars, dressed to the nines. Youcan’t make movies of Nerds. End of History Man is so bland, he’s fit for nothing save mutter over his charts and devise more Apps. All this is now in question with Putin's adventure. But he’s only doing in real time what Britain did when it regurgitated its martial past at the funeral. The world couldn’t get enough of it. This was once in a lifetime fairytale stuff. You would think Wokeman would have beshrewed such a raw display of the history of blood and imperial aggression and the industrial might that spewed carbon by the ton. But Climate Man was not represented at the funeral, any more than was End of History Man. If carbon is burning the world down, here is the culprit. The New York Times couldn’t look away. Now fast forward to Nerdman’s funeral. Bland, very bland. That’s likely what Italians saw when they invoked ancient Rome in the last election. They want their small creature comforts back, their own gossipy streets. Let the Tundra take care of itself. Or the Amazon forest.
This is why there is zero enthusiasm for the Ukrainian war. It’s all too remote. The masses are going back to “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” The result of crying wolf too many times. What does Ukraine have to do with Italy? That’s what the shivering masses are now saying. Everyone knows that the war is now no more than jockeying for position ahead of negotiations. The next Schlacht could kill tens of thousands or the cannon fodder who didn’t have the money to flee, unlike the tech bros who get rich designing the toys that fill the graves. So Italians are to endure hard winter just for a few more yards of territory? This is a hard sell. EU politicians know this. They cannot dislodge Putin, because you can neither freeze nor starve Russians out. And the minute this escalates one step further toward all out war, Scholz will bolt. Putin would like nothing more than to drive ten million Ukrainian refugees into German cities. As a judo master, he has an eye for the nerves and pressure points. While he’s raining Armageddon down on Ukraine’s heating and electricity with Irainian (Walmart) drones, he’s using Father Time to bring the Culture War into play. The November elections will be decisive. If he can but move Hezekaih’s dial in the opposite direction ever so slightly, it will prove that the globalist momentum has stalled, and that the pendulum will now rush post haste to the end. Scholz refuses to hand over the game-changing Leopard 2 and Marders, because he’s already positioning himself for the aftermath. After all, 8 months is a lifetime for iPhone man. The attention span is now so short. “How few,” as Tacitus would lament, “remember the Old Republic.” Woke man needed this canceled out within a month. Now no longer even knows how it all began. “Your speech,” the Spartans told long winded foreign ambassadors who pleaded for help, “was so long that we forgot the first half and thus couldn’t make sense of the second.” Stung, the next day the ambassadors showed up with an empty sack of flour with the words “bag needs flour.” The Spartans, they sensed, were still critical, “What’s wrong now,” they cried. You could have left out the word “bag,” the Spartans said. The bag should have read “needs flour.” They were a Spartan lot. Heading back to barn, and get some work done before Winter.
11-2-22
Wind is back–sheep just turn their backs in their wool-warm suits. Have to follow the sheep as they graze as this area is infested with coyotes who have no fear of humans whatsoever. Bander is always scanning the horizon as I type and alerts me with a wahBooff when he sees something out of the ordinary. He’s got a keen eye. If you were out here on the prairie today, you would dream of a windmill a mile high hooked up to your bank account, and you would sit at the lever and as you lean on it harder and harder, cry, “Now blow,” thinking of all times you were on a roof with sheet of plywood at your fingertips like a magic blanket trying to pull you off. And you would know what it’s like to be an oil sheik when they remind themselves that “the Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones.” I remember at the foot of Mt. Glacier telling my father that I wished we could cut down the trees in our back yard–I thought they caused the wind. The sheep don’t mind being in it as long as the hunt is on for rib-fattening beans. Free food. In ancient times, God ordained that “the corners” (leftovers) were the right of the poor. The whole prairie is by now almost nothing but corn and soybeans owned by mega farms, who would rather shoot their poorer neighbors than allow their stock to feed on what is going to waste anyway.
The war-wailing has begun at the NY Times. They lured the Ukrainians into a suicidal war in a last ditch effort to stave off the retreat of Globalism. This is not only a triumph for Putin, but a catastrophic defeat for NATO, and a blueprint for the soon-to-be-annexation of Taiwan. Once the Republicans pull the plug, the war will die of its own accord in a matter of months. For Republicans the war is but another expansion of the globalist Left which they see as imploding America by undoing its borders. Because the Culture War is now all out global war, and defeat on any front is a defeat on all fronts. The Right would like nothing more than to see the EU, the root of Globalism, hamstrung. Putin gets to keep the choice parts of Ukraine, and dominate the rest of it. Berlin is in no mood to become the protective umbrella of trembling Eastern Bloc countries, of whom Putin will now demand the respect due to a revived Imperial Russia. All the Balkan ghosts will now reemerge with a vengeance: notably Serbia. The West went shopping for a real war after the dirty sand wars, and ended up resurrecting all the demons laid to rest by the last two Good Wars. All eyes on the elections. And they’re too afraid to think about winter, as Putin is now winterizing Ukraine. Kyiv is already dark. These people will have to be evacuated into Europe, which can ill afford another crisis. They’ve got the bear by the tail here, and they can neither continue to hold him nor safely let him go. Biden is likely waiting for Republicans to make it easy for him to throw Ukraine under the bus. The West dare not intervene for fear of nuclear war, and Putin has survived long enough to deploy Russia’s ultimate meat grinder: Winter. Western intervention was based on the notion that Putin would succumb before he gets to deploy Winter. Winter was never in the equation. Now it is. Friedman has gone silent about the ferocity of “Mother Nature.” Kalt. Eis Kalt, Thomas Friedman. He’s so caught up in his vapory mists that he forgot that Old Man WInter, too, is part of Mother Nature.
Now all bets (as they say) are off as the entire globe is forced to recalibrate. Policy will once again resume where End of History Man (Fukuyoma—that warmonger used to be a regular in Ukraine hexing them to strike a blow for the New World Order of Perpetual Peace. They disappeared him now that “the blood is up to the horse’s bridle”). Otherwise, Putin is doing yeoman's service as reducer of the Planet’s greatest enemy, man, who the NY Times calculates, would have to be reduced to 1 billion (from 8) to ward off extinction. Except, the Fox people cry, they’ll only be replaced by the Third World. Globalism took for granted that nations would have no choice but to conform to the first law of supply and demand economics: good faith. The supply chain of economics is the line of communication (supply) in real war, where the advancing army remains connected to the supply corridor that feeds it. Which means, leaving more and more troops behind to guard the supply routes. Today, Tom Friedman wails that China broke good faith when it lured Western business into China and then stole all their secrets, and the practical know-how of how to bring them to fruition. What a surprise. Friedman seems unaware that he pays vast sums to steal other nation’s secrets (the CIA). Had he done his duty and read his Machiavelli, he would know that the first law of politics is “dirty dealing” (sausage making, Bismark called it–because you don’t want to know what’s in your Bratwurst). Wesley, thinking that Machiavelli had gotten a raw deal by Woksters who didn’t know how to put a book in its context, slammed it shut thinking he had seen the Antichrist. Because the king was the head of his church, and how could “the nursing fathers,” “ye godley Magistrates,” Theire Lordds Politticall be like this? Watch Kissinger’s expression when asked if Machiavelli is the true face of politics: back door channels, off the record, etc., etc. Did Germany really trust Putin not to weaponize gas? Did anyone stop to lament for putting Mom&Pop out of business when filling their cart with Walmart freebies? How do you say “no” to free gas? Remember how expensive tools were before Snap-On lookalikes could be bought for next to nothing. China made people mechanics overnight. Now, when they examine the wreckage of Iranian drones, they find that most of the parts are what’s in all those gadgets you schlepp home from Walmart by the bushel. You don’t think the world’s first blacksmith, Tubal-Cain, couldn't switch from plows to spears in the blink of an eye? Iphones are the brains of drones. You see what’s coming. Global suspicion will now demand that the most basic industry will have to be kept at home to keep it from becoming a weapon abroad. Cottage industries. Much of what you see in Walmart will now be made here. Amazon is able to put you out of business because globalism guarantees his line of communication. Amazon is sheer logistics. You too can find everything cheap in China. But you’ll have to pay all the robber barons (tolls, fees, lawyers, inspections) to get it here. By the time it gets here, you’ll have paid ten times what it costs you to make it. Which is what you’ll now pay at Walmart if nations throw up walls. Everything will have to be vetted with a microscope. Which means the price will increase by ten. Why? Because for the last 40 years, China has been America’s sweat shop: cheap labor versus union wages. Pork raised the traditional way would cost you $15 or $20 a pound instead of $2. Which is why my old hog house stands empty, why you never hear the crowing of the rooster in town, and why people have huge lawns instead of gardens, and why I’ve been paying only $1 for fresh baked bread at Walmart–a little folding of the hands, a little sleep, like Germany I thought the age of plenty was here to stay–and now it’s what–30 minutes of my day if I want fresh bread? Like Germany, I’m casting about for alternatives, and tell myself that I’ll have to learn baking.. Not to mention, that kneading is about like touching your toes–very healthy, but you opt to do it about once every 4 months. It has been “a chicken in every pot” since perpetual peace began 72 years ago. In essence, Chinese peasants were baking your bread for pennies an hour, while they pulled themselves up by their toenails–they were too poor to even have bootstraps. My fancy $1 coffee cup now sits next to my state of the art smart phone (China made) on the dash of my trusty 1989 Nissan (Japan). You haven’t bought anything made in Japan in the last 30 years, and you never will again. Because when China stops sharpening your hoe, you will not then pay union labor to have it sharpened in Japan. Look at the hysterics in Britain, once the industrial capital of the world. To this day, I look for “Sheffield steel” when I buy tools. England is now no more than a financial hub, paper shufflers, all in high demand if the world is your oyster. It no longer is. With Brexit, they threw up the rampants, assuming that the rest of the world will continue its globalist march. They’re accountable for 1% of the world’s carbon, and yet they went Bliztkrieg toward Climate Armageddon. They have no factories, and even their farmlands are hamstrung by zero-carbon. In the old days, if you wanted something that is useful that works, you had the Brits make it. All that is gone. They couldn’t sharpen a hoe. London has become the supreme brand of the global smart set, where billionaires come to spend their loot. Much of the glitter is no more than the plunder of Russian oligarchs. Why work? Now they’re going through one government after another.. But it’s not bad governments. It’s that there’s nothing to govern with. Putin, they say, will end up ruling a desert. If you run out of money, you’re ruling over a desert. And Putin’s high energy has drained Britain's treasury. You’re watching the desertification of former world empires. They bought the globalist chicken in every pot dream. The days of 19 cent (lb) chickens are over. The day of the $20-$30 chicken is at hand. Which is why you’ll soon hear “the crowing of the rooster” as in the New Testament, because iPhone man will no longer have the luxury of not having his early morning slumbers undisturbed. In the old days, farmers could pay the rent by selling 30 hogs annually. Today, they wouldn’t pay the interest on the barn. Compared to the MIddle Ages, everything in Walmart is basically free. With robots, they crowed, we wouldn’t even have to work. Nations will be able to hand out “basic incomes” for those who chose not to work. Globalsim was Utopia. Now it’s back to worik. They need to quickly keep one of everything in Walmart as a pattern. 30 years ago, you could still see file marks on China tools you bought. The Philistines were ahead of the times, because they deprived the Isrealites of even the files. They sold them their hoes dear, and then charged them for sharpening them. If pork goes up to $20 a pound, you’ll see the revival of the old hog house again. If that $2 pan is now made by Union labor, it’ll cost you $50. If I can hammer them together in a corner of the hog house and sell them to you for $20, you can still make a profit by selling them for $30 in your Mom&Pop on Mainstreet.
You do not want to be dependent on the Philistines for your earth grubbing hoes, no matter how cheap. They can starve you into submission. German dependence on China parts (they now say) is worse than it’s dependence on Russian gas. Capitalism is the selling of surplus labor. If you can make ten brooms a day, but need only one, you get to trade nine for a few pounds of pork. But you can’t eat brooms. So before you get rid of your own hogs to expand your broom factory, make sure the hogman isn’t going to demand 100 brooms for a pound of pork. Else, you’re forced to reduce your output to 4 brooms a day to make room for the hogs snuffling at your feet. They’re actually quite sociable, barring other things. Walmart threw a shot across my bow when it tampered with my bread supply. I’ve been using it as my Bread and Circuses for thirty years. Essentially free bread. I paid $1 when grocery stores were charging $4. Baking my own will now require 30 minutes of my day. I can’t believe how miserably weak my fingers are. “Women used to do this,” I tell myself, “and never complained.” Because I can’t go from paying $1 to $4 overnight. It’s just not done.
10-27-22
Rainy, blustry, gloomy. Sheep had a rib-fattening day yesterday, and decided to come back in after only a short walk on the stubble. A good day for a fire. Will paint and varnish all day. Nothing like sitting next to a wood fire drinking my fine coffee on a cold rainy day when even iron seems to be soaking wet.
Another art attack by Climate activists. These are rich socialites with nothing else to do. Funded by oil heiress Getty, no less. But not so much as a whimper about the slaughter of young men in Ukraine. Why? Because War may be the answer. According to the NY Times 7 billion of the 8 billion inhabitants of the planet need killing off to restore the balance of Nature, because humans are Nature's only enemy. Putin is just doing too little too late. And they can't resort to Nukes without killing themselves. A conventional World War would do wonders. But only the Germans can run a meatgrinder of that size. Their slogan is Just Stop Oil. It used to be Stop the War. It will soon be possible to put algorithms in place to cause mass murder by distributing responsibility to a webmob. Mobs work on the same principle as a firing squad, where one gun fires blanks to give everyone plausible deniability of guilt. A webmob is that multiplied by the tens of millions. As Climate Angst rises, only mass human death will ward of extinction. As such, there are no innocents here. Activists, of course, will be spared as guardians of the universe. If Putin could outrun the population bomb, he would prove useful. This has to be what's behind the total lack of empathy towards the slaughter in Ukraine in the New York Times. There is not even fear of nuclear anhelation. If all else fails, that too could serve a purpose, because, as everyone knows, the vast regions around Chernobyl teem with wildlife.
All eyes on Winter and US elections in Europe. Scholz is not budging, as increasingly the war is seen as a US project to consolidate NATO expansion. The Eastern Block wants to seriously degrade Putin's ability to menace them--which would result in the German-Franco nightmare of a failed Russian state. The US and the Eastern Block now accuse Germany of dithering to prevent Ukraine from becoming too successful. Germany wants neither a failed Russian state, nor a militarized Eastern Front, the burden of which will land squarely on her shoulders. The peace dividend will vanish, and the bristling border will now dominate the rest of Europe. This constitutes an earthquake in the German Zeitgeist. The Eastern Block knows all too well that Germany would like to go back to the status quo, where they served as the cushion between Russians and Prussians. "The cities which my father took, I'll give back," Benhadad told Ahab. Geographic horse-trading. Syrian patriots for ten years, then back to being Israeli patriots. Latvia, Poland, Ukraine--well, they happen to sit between Benhadad and Ahab--the football rivalry of the Old Testament. The famous boast of "let not him that taketh off his armor" landed on Benhadad while he was reveling in his cups with forty other kings in pregame entertainment. That middle ground was not a good place to be, and a sojourner like Abraham, with no "continuing city,"--or like the Ukrainians here--may have sought peace elsewhere.
The war is the last stand of the New World Order: globalism. That arrangement would solve all the problems of the Eastern Block, as borders would become meaningless. The New World Order is the EU kingdom of god on earth which, until Putin threw up a roadblock, carried all before it. It was Utopia, or as the Left call it fondly, the Welfare State. The Welfare State was funded by the peace dividend, which was only made possible under the protection of the US military. Hence, the Left's fervor for the war: the US is doing no more than what it has been doing since 1945--provide cover for the Program. The Program is the face of the Culture War, which is why Republicans will make sure that Putin does not fail. They, in turn, see the need for a strong Putin to take the hammer to the EU.
Scholz, the biggest obstacle to Ukrainian victory sees all this. He's an atheist and not a crusader, keenly aware that Ukraine is saturated with the blood of German crusaders. He's not about to become surety for the Eastern Block, because he doesn't Russia has designs on Germany. And German's have always had a condescending attitude towards backward Russia, which Russia always took in stride. Both sides found mutual benefit in using each other.
Which is why neither the US nor the Eastern Block trust Germany. The US wants a weak Germany that has no choice but to cling to NATO, a tool for American ventures. The Eastern Block needs a strong NATO to keep Russia in place. All Germany wants is free energy, and Russia's huge market, whereas the Left wants to use the war as a stepping stone toward ultimate globalism. All religious nonsense to Scholz. He doesn't even hymn the climate tunes. He looks no further than the end of his nose, which stops at the German border. Like Hezekiah, he doesn't think past "peace in his lifetime. " He's only on board to keep from being cancelled by the Woke mob. He wouldn't have lifted an eyebrow to keep Putin out of Ukraine, because Prussia and Russia have always been in Ukraine. And the cities horse-traded by Benhadad and Ahab? Because they now "self-identify" with the West. They demand their rights, and Herr Scholz has a moral obligation to see that global values are enforced everywhere. Let him eat his Sauerkraut in Estonia. You think Tom Friedman cares about Estonia? For Climate people, the war is s ruinous distraction. Not only is it resurrection carbon, but it's failure to defeat the anti-globalist heretic is to reverse the work of the knights around the green table. Scholz, like Putin, could care less about Mother Nature. The farseeing prophets of global warming are religious fanatics. Why would a non-religious atheist (Friedman is a religious atheist) care about what happens after he dies. "Eat, drink, and be merry" is the old motto of his kind. He may need to chop down his Black Forest to make it past Old Man Winter. For Putin has weaponize Mother Nature. The fatal flaw of the Globalist is the conviction of their own self-righteousness: they always hold the moral Woke high ground. They don't trust Germany? Politicians survive, Machiavelli says, by sticking knives into other politicians while preaching wokeness.
10-24-22
That's my new coffee cup on the dash. $1 at Walmart, and the best of the lot. The others were up to $30, chrome, stainless steel, all rubbered out, real monsters--germ factories. This one is a marvel of engineering, light, screw on top, easy to clean--a shepherd's cup.
Tom Friedman in panic mode. He calls on Biden to address the nation in a "all hands on deck" call to drill, drill, drill to escape the Putinmeister, because Putin is preparing for Die Schlacht Winter. Friedman see's no escape. And Woke religion must prepare for martyrdom, because religion cannot back down without losing credibility. Friedman had the whole world on board several months ago. Even China would not dare defy the new moral order of End of History man. MBS, who entertained Friedman with 12 different kinds of lamb dinners, just gave Biden the thumb in the eye, hoping to drive up prices ahead of the Midterms and put Republicans in control. "There," Friedman lectured Putin earlier, "your smoking Tundra, there is out common enemy. Because you can't beat Mother Nature. Now Putin is using Old Man Winter to beat Tom Friedman, and Friedman seem willing to throw Mother Nature under the bus to escape Old Man Winter. The better part of strategy would be to plan for the greatest evacuation in history, if the West wants to avoid collecting frozen bodies by the millions come Spring. One strand of the Nord Stream pipeline remains intact and pressurized, ready to supply Germany at the flip of a switch, Putin says. As the stakes rise, so does the risk of escalation. Putin, it is said, cannot retreat and expect to survive personally. The race was on to find a reasonable path that would allow him to do so without lethal humiliation. Now, the Democrats are casting about for a way to throw Zelensky under the bus without appearing to do so. Ukraine will be forced to suffer a serious amputation which will leave its status as a country negligible. What happens next? Germany could become isolated as a scapegoat. Their membership in NATO almost provoked WWIII, which is what would happen if Germany commitment deepens. They see this as advancing American interests from far away, while exposing them to real danger close by. This could rattle NATO.
Germany again. Biden/Blinken are trying to goad Scholz into supplying the lethal Leopard 2 and the Marder (Murder) fighting vehicle. No nation has dared supply Ukraine with these kill machines, and Scholz knows that the minute he does, he owns the war, and that Putin will make Germany the face of the war. But Scholz knows that war is a lost cause, and that Winter and the Republicans will end it. Then he will have to revive industry to keep Germany from slipping into a Third World economy. For if Germany implodes economically, it will take the EU with it, and Putin will exceeded his wildest expectations. In that sense he wants Biden to fail quickly, while there is still time to keep factories from closing forever. Likewise, nothing would suit the US more than a Germany that will have no choice but to cling to NATO. He would rather deal with an unruly bear than fend off a pack of wolves, which is what he would get if Putin goes down. The history of Germany is little more than horse trading a slice of land here, a huge block there. They used to own much of Poland. All in a days work for a German. Germans have zero attachment to the Fatherland. What counts is die Heimat, which is wherever das Volk dwells. No German in Ukraine ever considered going back to Germany.
This (war), Tolstoy used to say (much of what you read in War and Peace hatched while he leisurely watched the meat grinder below from the safety of the heights where he commanded artillery, not far from where the Schlacht Donbass is taking place today--the Germans do war honor. A battle is a "slaughter," trenches are "graves."), is how the rich murder the poor. Ironically, it suits the purpose of the warmongering Left, who list overpopulation as the greatest danger to the planet. The number frequently bandied about in the New York Times is 1 billion. A reduction from 8 billion to 1 billion is what it would take to restore the balance of Nature. In that sense, Putin is doing yeoman’s service on behalf of the Planet. You don’t see Bill Gates shedding any tears. By his reckoning, they should have never been allowed to be born in the first place. Too little too late. Still, the reduction has symbolic value. It would take killing off 90 percent of humans to save the planet. They lack but the means. Most of them would push the button in a heartbeat, provided they could exempt themselves.
And now the final delusion is about to come to an end. The first was that NATO would not stand by to watch Putin turn Ukraine into a desert. He is now turning Ukraine into a desert in the process of winterizing it for the coup de grace. And he’s only on his second army. It usually takes losing two or three for Russians to beat Prussians. Europe is already shivering. They thought they would have Putin canceled by winter. What will they do now, airlift freezing Ukrainians to safety? Europe is in no position to harbor another 5 million refugees. Mobilization was to be the straw that broke Putin’s back. He pulled it off. He’s got the average Russian committed to what is now a holy crusade to save Holy Moscow. They’ve lost too much to retreat empty handed now. If he keeps the annexed areas, he gains iconic status in the history books. Incidentally, this is the industrial and fertile heartland of Ukraine, on par with the invaluable coastal areas he also gets to keep. At this point, most of the dying is over with. All new recruits have to do is hold their ground. But the final delusion is that American support is absolute. It’s about as resolute as Victor Orban’s. Republicans blame Ukraine for most of Trump’s ills, and see it as little more than an outpost for the hated EU, which is the Vatican of the Culture War. Ukraine might just as well be George Soros. The Right has nothing to gain from its triumph and everything to lose, for they see it as but the latest front of decadent EU pervocracy: Ukrainian victory means Pride marches in Red Square. A Putin win will push Europe Rightward, and as the EU goes, so goes the Culture War, which is seen as destroying America. Republicans can’t wait to pull the plug, and when they do, the war will be over in weeks. It wouldn't come too soon for either Germany or France. Germany has never felt threatened by Russia, and Russians have never been anti-German. France knows that Putin has reached critical mass in Ukraine, and cannot be made to retreat. The only option left is for NATO to remove him. Russia and the surrounding areas (the larger part of the globe) would become a Mafia superstate (with Nukes). Europe cannot afford a years-long stalemate. Energy needs to come down quickly to save what’s left of Germany’s Mittelstand industries. If they close or migrate, they’ll never come back. That industry was already in head to head competition with China–most of the gadgets in your house are made in China, and now they upgraded to making the high-tech gadgets in your dentist’s office. Nothing in Walmart is made in Germany. And yet Germany exists as an exporter. But unlike the US or Russia it cannot fall back on “the land” as it is resource poor. In Russia Germany had a huge market for its goods and unlimited access to cheap energy. For the US it was the German problem all over again: Drang nach Osten while paying lip service to NATO expansion, which Germany had to sign off on as a condition for German reunification. Latvia, Poland and the Eastern block looked on nervously while Germany gave legitimacy and support to their ancient foe. They were determined to end the no man’s land between Russia and Germany once and for all, and draw a hard border defended by NATO. Thus Germany was forced to become Chief of Police, cheek and jowl with the bear, all for one and one for all. Germany was quite happy to go along with the EU–she had little choice, and as the strongest member, could hold her own. But NATO is a tool of the US, and Germany had little stomach for it. She saw it as an alien and sinister intrusion into the affairs of Europe. Unlike Britain, she chafed under the Atlantic hegemony in which she was forced to participate. Putin saw an opening, and the US watched in alarm as one and then two large pipelines found their way to Germany’s coasts, for now Germany was no longer dependent on the pipelines coming through Ukraine. Germany now had little incentive to come to Ukraine's aid, and Putin could collect gas revenue from Germany while freezing Ukraine. Moreover, with Germany’s economic engine now fueled by cheap Russian gas, the Germans would have every incentive to provide cover for Putin lest he turn off the tap. Ultimately, Germany changed course, but the damage had been done. Putin used Germany’s dithering to invade, and her desperate attempt to compensate for lost Russian gas drove energy prices to ruinous highs, which triggered inflation, which is now toppling the very governments that Biden needs to counter Putin. And Germany is still dithering, refusing to commit in any meaningful way, because Scholz thinks the war is a lost cause. Moreover, people around Scholz think the US is trying to weaken Germany sufficiently to make it cling to NATO, and not undermine the alliance by cutting deals with the enemy. “Hand over those Leopard II tanks,” Biden and Blinken hiss at Scholz, who has one eye on Winter and the other on the Republicans who he knows will take revenge on Ukraine for all the ills that befell Trump. He’s ready to carve-up Ukraine all over again. As with the Republicans, do-little is the better part of strategy. He needs his gas and his Russian markets back, knowing that his main competitor, China, will pick up where he left off. Besides, Germans have killed enough Russians to last ten lifetimes, and, consequently, most Germans are willing to give Russians an atoning pass. Winter cannot come too soon for Scholz. He is being held hostage by the US in order to make Germany a cog in its machine to keep it from getting too close to Russia. So here we are again, Germany too big for Europe, too small for the world, desperately trying to avoid having its wings clipped. They had a good plan: Handel nach Wandel put a Bratwurst in every German pot, and it was only going to get better. German factories will not survive a drawn out war. It is still stuck in the Industrial Age, having missed the Information Age entirely. China will pick up the slack. Germany will have to make hay where it can. For the German Right, that path has always been eastward. They still pine for the Kaiser.
Either Ukraine or the US are the mostly likely culprits of the Nord Stream sabotage. Which would mean that Germany was attacked by an ally to bring it in line with globalist dogma.
Bracing wind today. Time to head back to the barn and get to work on painting the kitchen, living room and hallway. 100 year old plaster was cracking to I dressed with with ordinary plaster. Hope to also have rest of floor sanded and varnished by end of week. Threw out every bit of carpet and vinyl--the kitchen had three layers. Got the chimney of woodstove back up--the tornado this summer tried to carry it off. Many buildings damaged or missing altogether on the prairie. It entered the freshly built lean-to on my barn and blew out the sides, while the roof flapped like a blanket. I prayed that the roof would remain and it did. Sides are easy to redo. "I'm glad I don't have insurance," I said as I watched the wind do its work. I lost very little. By Spring all the wood scattered around the yard will be out the chimney. There's no such a thing as wasting firewood around here, as people burn it in large piles to get rid of it. As soon as I get the floors varnished, I'll stack it against the walls in the living room (a gladsome sight in a howling blizzard), which adds insulation, leaves less room to heat, and dries out the remaining moisture, increasing its energy value. I have a wood splitter but like the exercise of swinging an ax. At first it's no more than pleasant than doing sit-ups, but dormant muscles soon revive. I see what inactivity does to my sheep. Sometimes, after a day of good feeding, some will come to the gate in the morning, especially on ill-wind days, shake their head, and rush back to their favorite nests in the barn. The next day they're stiff, and the next, if they have hardened mud in their hooves, limping, which throws them off their feed, and it only gets worse from there. By the fourth day, with Bander at my side, I but have to say "Bander" to let them know the jig is up. A brisk trot down to the slough on the hard gravel road, and they're good as new. The hard surface knocks out the debris in their hooves, and circulation carries off any infection. Sheep have a huge artery that reaches to the very tip of the hoof, and I've seen a heavy limper completely cured after a good hard run. Which is why I like to see them run around foraging on the stubble. They don't mind the wind as long as they find good things to eat on the ground. Canadian geese will begin arriving soon by the millions. Because the prairies are now mostly corn and soybeans, they no longer need to fly South, feeding on what's left on the ground. They're not as tasty as you read in the books, and probably like wild boar, not likely to replace domestic meat. Food, compared to ancient times, is basically free in the modern age. I've been using Walmart to source my artesian bread. A loaf was only $1 compared to $4 elsewhere. It is now $1.5 since the war. Baking my own would put a dent in my schedule, and would likely require 30 minutes a day. The exercise is perfect if you play an instrument where dexterity is a must. But like chopping wood, not something that you do unless you have to. Besides, everything depends on your ability to make the dough rise. Otherwise, you get cake. Very filling, but hardly bread. Biscuits should almost float. Like canning, it would require a serious adjustment. Many Americans have yards the size of an ancient farm. Big enough to feed half the neighborhood. Then there is the egg problem again. If you've never had "bug-scratched" eggs you've never tasted a real egg. The same is true of free range yard chickens--you end up chewing on the bones, they're so tasty. But how do you compete with "loss leader" prices. Chicken, even mass produced ones, are poor man's lobster. Even rich people never tire of it. We've had "free" chicken and eggs my whole lifetime. That's what supermarket prices amount to. I've used Walmart bread as my "corn and circus" for 20 years. Those $1 loaves should have cost me $4. Last time eggs were this high, I began planning to raise my own chickens. I even have a ready made, 100 year old chicken coop. Then like the Germans, as soon as the price dropped, I reverted back to Sitzkrieg, a little sleep, a little folding of the hands. And now, here I am again, caught napping. But scratching chickens would require another adjustments, and pretty soon everything takes up your whole day. Food was free up till now. Supermarket prices, compared to ancient times, are barely a token. We didn't have to worry about food. The first pair of blue jeans I bought 40 years ago cost more than what I'm paying at Walmart now. Free clothing. As soon as I get done varnishing, I'm going to throw out my cloth sofa and pay a few dollars for leather on Facebook. Sometimes they're free--with a few scratches. Why would a shepherd, with lambs chasing each other (and the cat) in the living room (they're hilarious and you can't keep them in their boxes) care about a scratch. Bill Gates hardly has better. Remember reading in your grammar that Abe Lincoln inherited a wooden spoon from his mother? Free furniture. Ancient man would think he's living in Utopia. In fact, with a little creativity, you can stay in bed and live on government handouts. Much of Britain did, and now that they're having to pay for energy with real (instead of printed) dollars, there's nothing left for the freebies. End of History man had convinced himself that supply had reached critical mass, and that all he had to do is keep expanding to keep the credit mills going. Now that universe seems to be contracting, and I'm once again making plans for chickens , eggs, and (what?) 30 minutes a day devoted to baking bread. Can you see iPhone man in homemade clothes, his children in hand-me-downs.? And who bothers with shoes? They come by the barrel. But egg prices remain high, and if I want real bread, I see no choice but to learn baking. I'll have to redouble my efforts, because so far what comes out is basically cake. To compensate I revived my dumpling regime. ---sheep are heading back to the barn.
10-19-22
It cost twice as much to shoot down an Iranian drone than the cost of the drone to Putin. That does not include the damages done by the drones, as Putin now turns Ukraine into a desert. At this point he’ll settle for eastern Ukraine and most of the Black Sea coastline, which is the resource heartland. He gets to claim victory and add to those colorful parades that made Moscow famous. And he takes his place in the history books as having salvaged Russia from the ruins of the Soviet Empire. He will have been rewarded. War, like crime, often pays large dividends. Violence makes Right, and War is politics by other means. The techbro Wokemeisters thought they would shake themselves as in the #Metoo wars and cancel the heretic. Putin weaponized the Climategeist. He lured Germany into a trap fashioned by their own moral conceits: they would take the moral high road and chart the course of climate redemption. “Let me help you in your noble crusade,” Putin said. Germany would shut down coal and nuclear plants, and lean on Putin while the blitzkrieged toward zero carbon. But necessity is the mother of invention, and Germany grew fat on cheap gas. They sat back on their lees, “a little sleep, a little folding of the hands–they found dithering the better part of policy. And cooking the books. They tricked the emissions computers and threw climate under the Volkswagen bus. And this after decades of Hockey-Schlaeger Angst. NATO became alarmed at what they saw as strategic backsliding. Prussians were getting to close to Russians. Yesterday, a chief German spy was exposed for Russian links. If they but counted the Germans in their Tolstoys, they would have sounder policy. For while Russians always beat Prussians, it has always been Prussians who made a move on Russia. Drang Nach Osten is as German as Sauerkraut, and will remain so until the last Germans consume his last Bratwurst. Scholz sees nothing but low hanging fruit in Russia: markets, resources, Lebensraum. But Biden is trying to goad him into starting WWIII to pay for WWI and II. He’s likely the one man preventing WWIII. This is all about Germany, the flagship of the EU. As Germany goes, so does the EU. And they’ve been backsliding and drifting eastward for two decades, too keen on feathering their own nest at the expense of all the rest. The pipelines were the last straw. The Ukraine conflict would force Germany’s hand to make it a dependable member of the Western alliance. But German dithers. They refuse to hand over the gameshinging Leopard II tanks, which would mark the point of no return. Why is German dithering? Because it knows it is being held hostage by the past. Prussians have never feared Russians, and have always considered Ukraine as their backyard. It hands over bits and pieces–enough for public consumption. Behind closed doors the Scholz people are preparing for negotiations and the ten year peace that will follow. They will have to engage Russia as the West engages other monsters who are too big to fail. At this point, the only path to Ukrainian victory is a failed Russia. Europe would flood with refugees, Balkan states would become Mafias, and warlords would go at each other–with Nukes. China, long coveting the unlimited resources of the North, will step in, and instead of an unruly bear, Europe will have a fire breathing dragon on its doorsteps. So now the race is on to find a way to throw Zelensky under the bus without admitting to another disaster and humiliating lost war. Republicans are watching the Left twist in the wind going into the November elections. No one even mentions Putin. But the economic carnage everywhere is a direct result of the war, not to speak of the destruction of the crown jewel of the Left, Climate policy. And the Left owns it. Winter and the November elections will be decisive. Scholz cannot be seen as a hawk when unrest hits European streets, and he refuses to be goaded to start WWIII. He needs to stave off Biden/Blinken until Winter and Republicans do their work. It remains to be seen what happens in the aftermath of this NATO putsch to put the kibosh on a wandering Germany. Germany is still an industrial power, having missed the information revolution entirely. Industrial factories never return, and Germany will have no need of Russian gas. If the war drags on, Germany will be permanently weakened. In that sense, it will have no choice but to cling to the old man that is the rest of Europe. In that sense, the war will have succeeded by preserving NATO.
10-18-22
“Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince” (WPost)
In the old days, you hired out your military skills to the highest bidder–that is, when they weren’t needed at home. Retired Brits, I read today, are training Chinese fighter pilots. When they weren’t fighting the Iranians, Russian officers were in high demand whipping the Shah’s troops in shape to fight their traditional enemy: the Ottoman Empire, Turkey. Turkey, as you know, is meddling in Armenia, and Iran is now allied with Putin. So is MBS, Iran’s closest enemy, who will likely try to simply buy a nuclear arsenal from Russia or North Korea. But how can a hermit kingdom like Iran now supply cutting edge kill-tech? They, like North Korea, were completely canceled, and here they are replenishing Putin’s arsenal. This is turning into a real hornet’s nest. Iranians are tech bros. What could come from a Russo-Persian axis? Both need each other against NATO sanctions. Perhaps this is what caused MBS to strike a deal with Putin against Biden last week. These are strange bedfellows. Iran wants to avenge the historic grievance of oppressed fellow Shiites who live above the Saudi oil fields from which they get nothing. And they would like to wrest Mecca and Medina from the playboy apostates. Meanwhile, both Turkey and Iran have the wolf by the ears in dealing with the restless Kurds, both inside and outside their borders, who demand their own state. Putin, as we know, imposed his will on the Syrian problem which is part of the Kurdish problem, which, in turn, was created when the British and French divided up the Ottoman Empire and split the Kurds into four parts. Putin is still Weltmeister in this snakepit, and could create a lot of trouble here in many directions. What if, in desperation, he starts peddling his nuclear arsenal, the largest in the world, among these squabblers. MBS knows that he’s in Iran’s crosshairs as soon as they finalize their nukes. He’s cozying up to Israel for that reason. The West’s biggest fear is of a nuclear arm’s race among these fanatics. When Iran gets the bomb all bets are off. Israel is ready to bomb Iran if Western diplomatic measures fail, because if Iran has it, so do Hezbollah and Hamas. Assad of Syria is still alive only because Putin came to the rescue. There are wheels within wheels here, and Putin is the linchpin of them all. Nuclear North Korea would not be opposed to joining this company. And as the conflict spirals out of control, all will jockey for position. Putin, as gangster in chief, could find them all useful. Then there is the ancient Serbian problem right in the midst of everything. Tied by religion and culture to Russia, they could set the Balkans ablaze with little provocation. They’ve got a wolfpack by the ears here, and NATO strategy is little more than waiting for the next Putin shoe to drop. He moves, they counter move. Meanwhile, Putin has his eye on the clock: 1) He’s hoping for a Siberian winter. He’s hitting Ukrainian infrastructure now to freeze people to death later. What does the West do when 100,000 Ukrainians freeze to death? Invade Russia? But they are confident that Putin’s nuclear arsenal is state of the art. Western cities will be targets. 2) He is confident that unrest in Western capitals will result in regime change. Massive unemployment, shrinking budgets, high inflation, cold and hunger are no longer remote. They are on Europe’s doorstep. 3) His friend MBS just did him a favor by driving up the price at the pump. Republicans would like nothing better than $10 gas going into November. Like China, they watch all this with glittering eye. They see actors walking on eggshells. If Republicans win, they’ll pull the plug, and the war will be over. And then? Scholz will go back to Handel nach Wandel, which is why the US got involved in the first place: they needed to clip Germany’s wings before it’s too late. For decades, the US watched nervously while Germans got very cozy with Russia. The prospect of a Russian-Prussian axis threw everything out of kilter. This is why they waged jihad against the pipelines, knowing that cheap gas drew Germany further and further into Russia’s orbit, thus imperiling NATO. Germany is still a stand-alone country that could become very threatening, allied to Russia. What would happen to the rest of Europe? But this is nothing but the old nightmare: The Fourth Reich. Scholz has none of these ambitions, and few in Germany do. But leave Germany to chart its own course eastward, and soon the situation will create its own oxygen. Russia has Lebensraum, resources–Germany, knowhow and stand-alone politics. Allied with Russia, Germany would be too big to fail, or cancel. By tradition it is much closer to Czarist Russia than to the EU, for Germany has never been a democracy until several months ago, when Scholz was told that “the cowboys would no longer ride” to Germany’s rescue. They have been under occupation since the Kaiser. Kaiser Scholz could simply take up where Kaiser Wilhelm left off. “Hand those Leopard II tanks over to Ukraine,” the US tells Scholz. That would be the beginning of Murder III. But they need the Wehrmacht to get it going, for only Germans can burn the world down. Once Germany gets skin in the game, Hell will open her mouth without measure. But Germany does not feel threatened by Putin. They are being forced to start WWIII to pay for WWI and II. Macron would like nothing more than for Germany to commit–in short commit suicide. For Putin will go after Germany. Hence: Putin is banking on Winter, Republicans, and Germany. Which turns Scholz into Putin’s biggest ally. For as long as Germany does not commit, NATO will be afraid to act. Once the Prussians commit with Blitzkrieg, WWIII will have begun, and with it The Fourth Reich. For the Germans do not do war by half. To avoid this, Scholz will continue to dither and wait for Winter and the November elections. Cut losses in Ukraine, give Putin a slice, and train the Bear to dance. Ukrainians could end up with all of Russia. Or help Germany invigorate it. They would have to get rid of the decrepit EU and hitch themselves to Germany’s plow. Ukraine has always been half German. All the Ukrainians around here are German. Half the people in Tolstoy's books are German.
10-7-22 (expanded)
"And we have Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bernie Sanders, the House progressive caucus and the whole G.O.P. all working — deliberately or because they are dupes — to ensure that Putin has more oil revenue than ever to kill Ukrainians and freeze the Europeans this winter until they abandon Kyiv" (Friedman, NY Times).
That's like reading Herodotus' tally of all the nations that made up Persia's army when it invaded Greece. He left off the biggest culprits--China, India, and Brazil, all slurping noisily at Putin's tap. But the whole business is so off the rails that Friedman can aim in any direction and hit something. European factories are relocating, the plebs are burning through their savings to stay warm, and governments are bankrupting themselves to prevent social chaos--and everyone is just holding their breath waiting for Putin's next shoe to drop. Had they read Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn, they would see nothing new here, just Russia losing an entire army (on the job training), going back to recruit another one, losing that, and finally, replacing German-named generals (why would you trust the bratwurst knaves) with Russian-named chaps to finally get the meat grinder right. "Remember," they tell the new cannon fodder, "Russians always beat Prussians." Here is a classic case of "Let not him that taketh off his armor, boast like him that putteth it on." They're hoping to subdue the rhino with grapeshot, hemming him in here, goading him there, a little here, a little there. But Putin rode into Ukraine on the back of his Nukes, and if he is to survive personally, he has to win. There are no Plan B's for Superpower dictators. The West is being drawn into the swamp, where fearful monsters await them: the worst of the Known Unknowns. Global Man is baiting History, daring it to do the Unthinkable, which End of History Man has cancelled. If heaven should fall, they boast, Atlas will but shrug and throw up the new Babel to support it. They could take a clue from Trump. Trump was willing to burn the house down to stay in office, knowing that what awaits him could plunge him into ruin. He went Nuclear on January 6. Nothing was off limits. He spent his whole life bluffing to stay one step ahead of the law, escaping one crisis by creating an even greater one. If you can't drain the swamp, you make yourself Weltmeister in it. His safety lies in the stadium, not in his lawyers. He's goading his opponents to overreach in order to fan the masses. The masses are History's cancellers. He's creating a powder keg with which he plays political chicken.
Nothing is off limits to a cornered bear. He has nothing to lose by going Nuclear. Putin knows that the West will not engage personally. Preppy Manhattan will not put on the Nuclear belt. And he's been using restraint, hoping to win without turning his conquest into a desert. But a desert still meets his objectives: he will have defeated NATO. Friedman thinks the notion of becoming a world pariah will restrain Putin. Smirking MBS just toured Europe like a conquering hero. Then turned around humiliated (or cancelled) Biden for Putin. He too has discovered that Climate, if weaponized, will have your enemies groveling at your feet. A Superpower with resources like Putin is too big to cancel, and creates its own oxygen. Look what smirking MBS just did to Biden. Europeans fell all over themselves when the butcher toured two weeks ago. They see virtue in his being the lesser monster. Politics is never more than the lesser evil. So now Putin is back to turning cities into rubble as he trains the new cannon fodder. Meanwhile, the West is adding more props, until they will become indistinguishable from their props. Longevity is the curse of embittered wars. In the end, Germans fought to the last man, because there was nothing to go back to. Biden is letting Zelensky set the terms. They adopted him to become the face of Globalism, and now the orphan is leading them down the path of no return. He himself cannot now negotiate and hope to stay in office. As Putin now burns cities, grounds for intervention will become more plausible. Does Putin now make good his threat of Armageddon? He but has to bring the world to the brink of such to win. Manhattan will sue for peace, because they have too much to lose to play nuclear chicken. They should take a cue from Trump. Trump survives by playing nuclear chicken. The difference being, Trump has to exaggerate his position. Putin doesn't have too. The conclusion of the CIA is that he has enough Nukes to kill everyone in the US and Europe.
Only the "unthinkable" makes it into the history books. Another of End of History Man's many delusions is that he has put the "unthinkable" behind him. But if there is one lesson to be learned from the $3 trillion sand wars it is this: you can't play chicken with a suicide bomber. Much of that $3 trillion was spent building shields against the terror of these vests. You can never win against sheer desperation. Did you hear Putin's "Martyr" speech when he invoked his Nukes again? He's threatening to pull his cord in Manhattan. No one doubts that he could. Again, "Let not him that refuseth to put on his nuclear belt boast as he that puteth it on."
Putin has Germany convinced that they're first on his list. Merkel came out of hiding to tell Germans, "take Putin seriously." Zelensky has been raging for months that Germany is soft on Putin by holding back the coveted Leopard II tanks, which can hit a moving target miles out while leaping over ditches. Scholz argues that he is only following Washington here. Rubbish, says Biden, we want Germany to hand those tanks to Ukraine. Germany would give those tanks to the US to hand to the Ukrainians. No you don't, Germans are told, "you first. You're going to get skin in the game." This is the cat and mouse here. You started Murders I and II, and Murder III will not do unless the Germans start it. The West would like nothing better than for Germany to end Sitzkrieg and Blitzkrieg east as the revived Wehrmacht. They need a Rommel or Steiner at the helm. A real Schlacht. Imagine calling a battle that. And what do Ukrainians think when Germans describe them in the trenches (Graeber)? Slaughter in the graves.
Putin knows that Germany is the key here. He but has to keep Germany in a state of paralysis to keep NATO dysfunctional. This is after all the old Russian/Prussian rivalry which poured rivers of blood unto Ukrainian soil. So here we are with "the German problem" once again, staring into the abyss of Murder III which Biden seems determined to start. What is the German view? That this is but just another border skirmish that does not affect Germany in the least. They do not see this as an existential threat to German democracy. It's little more than dirty politics as usual, which is best managed by Handel nach Wandel. Make the surly bear fat with trade and German luxury, and in time he will dance to German tunes: Drang nach Osten by other means. Russians were happy, Germans were happy--free gas. Germans have always had an eye for Russia, and the Russians never felt threatened. And now they're asking Germans to give it all up on a fool's errand in Ukraine? But they need to get Germany to cross the Rubicon to get NATO entangled. They have made Ukraine the face of globalist orthodoxy, and the church must punish heretics in order to survive. Cancelling Man needs all ships to sail in the same direction to placate Mother Nature--and Against Nature. Allow heresy here and who knows what other monsters lie quaking in the mud waiting to be hatched. Cancelling Man thought he had Bolsonaro wished away. He's threatening to turn the Amazon into a cornfield. The other lung of the word, Congo, will follow suit, and the plebs will make a land grab. This is what they're raining down on poor deacon Scholz's head. The Germans again. Washington is threatening to go cancel-nuclear on Germany if they don't step up now to pay the debt they owe to History. In essence, start Murder III to pay for Murders I and II. I remember crossing into Manhattan on I-95 late one evening when a huge Mercedes whizzed past with the bumper sticker: In Berlin Tanzen Die Berliner. Handel nach Wandel, Scholz keeps muttering. We had the bear dancing to our tune--and now this. If the West succeeds, Russia will become a failed nation, and they will find themselves confronting an uncoiled Dragon feeding on his remains. All the more so, if Putin strikes a mortal blow on his adversaries. Tired of the dirty sand wars, they went shopping for another Good War. They took the bear by the ears, and cannot now continue to hold him, nor safely let him go. "The war will be over in two months," gallant Confederates crowed before their swooning ladies. The Cossack Winter is already howling. And you cannot, as Friedman has pointed out a thousand times, cancel Mother Nature. But Globalism is facing an existential threat from this anti-globalist heretic, and, well...maybe we'll have a mild winter, or Putin will succumb to disease, or his generals will take the moral high road. Nuclear Chicken Man is not without options. "All we are saying, is, give war a chance." And, exactly, what does that mean, staring at a warhead? "The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind." How's that for a breath of globalist fresh air? Today's fresh air is likely to become tomorrow's ill nuclear wind.
9-27-22
The Evangelical Pilgrimage to The Bruderhof: Remember The Plough?
“Plough is the richest publication I get these days. ‘Love in Syria’ and ‘Hope in the Void’ were world class: insightful, stunning, deeply spiritual, provocative. The entire magazine is beautifully conceived and professionally executed.” Philip Yancey
“Plough Quarterly is a truly excellent journal – it’s incandescent with content and cutting-edge in graphic design. This magazine balances intellect and imagination perfectly.”
Russell Moore, Southern Baptist Convention
“The Plough is one of the most important pieces of literature I read.”
Tony Campolo,
These are all Evangelical stalwarts. Even David Brooks of the New York Times made the pilgrimage. If you look at the pictures you would think you’re looking at Lehraleit (dress). Yet there is not one word anywhere of Hutterites. Eberhard Arnold is listed as the founder.
Why this interest in the Bruderhof by Evangelicals? Because Protestantism is imploding at a fearful rate and descending into a violent rabble: out-of -control divorce, guns, psycho-babble self-help from the pulpit, an image that has become the exact opposite of Jesus. Before the Ukrainian war people gravitated to Russian Orthodoxy because it seemed to offer tradition and sobriety in its rituals. Evangelicalism has become a catch-all of everything by now, all the incarnations of all the latest winds. In the eighties I would frequently run into upcoming leaders of the SBC in places where they were finishing advanced degrees. They were on the verge of driving out the liberals and installing a vigorous Calvinism. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Now they are under investigation by the Department of Justice for the same disease that reduced the Cathoic Church to almost nothing.
Eastern Orthodoxy had much to offer. Orban has become the quintessential protector of “the family.” But its association with Putin is too much. With the earth filled with violence, people are looking for peace. No one is trying to rally the faithful to the standards of Luther and Calvin. They did not outlive the City on a Hill, which was to safeguard the Reformation until the Second Coming. Behind the toppled statues of the Confederacy they see the hoary heads of Luther and Calvin, for both slavery and the Confederacy were sustained by Calvinistic preaching. Lutheranism did not survive two German wars. Amidst the wreckage of the SBC, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy, The Plough seems to have found its stride. But Moore, Yancy, and Compolo wear their crosses very lightly (they come with fat salaries and pensions–armchair yokes), and if they preached the Cross to those who have already taken up the cross, they would soon find themselves confronted with Gadarene Syndrome:”He talks to us as if we were sinners.” For the cross can only be taken up at the Cross.
9-19-22
Here's how ordinary people see the Ukrianian war:
"In her speech last Thursday, Wagenknecht had called chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-leaning governing coalition “the stupidest government in Europe” because it imposed sanctions on Russia, which supplied over half of Germany’s gas needs before the start of the war in the spring.
“Yes, of course the war in Ukraine is a crime”, Wagenknecht said. “But how dumb is the idea that we can punish Putin by pushing millions of German families into poverty and destroy our economy while Gazprom makes record profits?” The speech was greeted with applause not only by the Linke leadership but also by delegates of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)."
Already people are muttering that ordinary Europeans are being sacrificed as pawns in a US/Russian conflict. The US is the world's largest energy and arms exporter (if you order Hellfire missiles today, you'll get them 3 years from now. Price? You'll know when you get the bill) and business is booming. Better yet. European industrial giants are relocating to where energy is cheap. Meanwhile Nord Stream 1 and 2 sit idle. If Scholz meant business he would dynamite them. By the way, the speech by Waganknecht is classic Tom Friedman when he's not sent off into his corner to compose his next column from the church bulletin handed to him. "Let not him that putteth off his armor boast like him that putteth it on," is what the German is saying here. Everyone knows that the West is but shadowboxing here. Ukraine fights on under the illusion that the West will be for forced to intervene sooner of later. Everyone knows that Germany's lethal Leopard tank would turn the tide. Germany would even give them to the US if the US would give them to Ukrainians. But we said, "the cowboys will ride--behind you, heh, Olaf." Hence, the big beads of sweat on Olaf's brow. Germany wanted none of this. If Putin invaded they were determined to continue Handel nach Wandel, rather than risk annihilations with MAD. The war is at the dreaded stalemate. Ukraine cannot prevail without German tanks (they can hit a moving target 4 miles away while jumping ditches at 60 miles an hour), and Russia cannot lose. They drew the wrong conclusions from the early rout around Kyiv. There the Bear sought space between him and NATO. The South-Eastern Front is where his whelps are. He is at home here. He's never won a war far removed from Russia (Japan and Austerlitz).
9-19-22
‘Crippling’ Energy Bills Force Europe’s Factories to Go Dark (NY Times).
Read "Putin makes Europe go dark." The article doesn't allow Comments. They would draw more attention than anything you see on the Front Page. Friedman's last non-article didn't last a day. He's back stewing in his corner. He's being disappeared. Surprisingly, the Germans have never seemed happier. Projects that would normally take 7 years will now be done by December. They finally have enough to do. A German fears nothing more than not having enough to do. They spent the last 77 years twiddling their thumbs--they were given the combustion engine to play with--safe. They had to bring in a Hofer from Austria to tunnel their trains beneath cities--he can blast under your dining room without disturbing your dinner. They even congratulate Musk for ramrodding his factory through without waiting for permission. He is the Mensch in Germany. A real Held. He doesn't care if people talk. You couldn't do that as a German, because "people will talk." Instead of asking them to rearm, Biden should have said: "Look, Herr Scholz, the War (WWI/II), it's over. The energy crisis, fix it, and all will be forgiven." They know they've been hoodwinked (willingly) by Putin (or Climate conceits), and have only themselves to blame. Now they declared Blitzkrieg on the crisis. Nothing is off the table. A real project, at last.
9-19-22
Theycare in Florida and Theybies in Moscow: Against the Mouse on the Back of a Sow
“That fellow hath the sow by the right ear” (King Henry VIII in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs when told that Preacher Crammer could tell him how to ditch his wife).
“We have no strategy….Can Trump win again? Absolutely….If that happens, we can at least console ourselves with that Taylor Swift lyric: ‘I had a marvelous time ruinin’ everything.’” (David Brooks, NY Times).
“Yeshiva University Halts All Student Clubs to Block L.G.B.T.Q. Group” (NY Times)
“Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone.
Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem” (NY Times)
“A state’s imposition of its own mandatory interpretation of Scripture (forcing M.I.C.E on a Jewish school) is a shocking development that calls out for review,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. (NY Times).
There it is now, right in David Brooks’ backyard. DeSantis declared war on the Groomer (he has them on tape plotting) Mouse in Florida to shore up his 2024 prospects. Democrats lost Virginia because the M.I.C.E are in the schools. And here they are gnawing at the vitals of a Jewish University in Manhattan. Theyists are demanding their own “safe place” and the Court ordered it so. Could Brooks account for these M.I.C.E in his failed anti-Trump stratedgy? Orban can. Putin, he claims, is waging war in Ukraine to keep the M.I.C.E out of Moscow. But who will keep the MICE out of Manhattan? And these are not even Evangelical extremists. These are very wealthy, Orthodox Jews, the furthest removed from Hilary’s deplorables.
It would be interesting to know what Brooks really thinks about the going-ons at Yeshiva. There’s hay to be made here. The Culture War raging in a Jewish stronghold in downtown Manhattan? A Supreme Court Justice accusing New York of “imposing its own interpretation of Scripture?” This is the stuff that used to be grist for Brook’s mill. Are these Manhattan phobes, Trumpists? Remember the days of rage when DeSantis defunded the Disney Mouse?
Justice’s Alito’s angry broadside is the shot across the bow of a brewing storm headed for the Supreme Court: he wants this back in his docket on the double. The veiled threat here is that if NY courts don’t settle this in favor of Yeshiva, the Supreme Court will. But everyone knows that this is the camel’s nose for something much greater, and even if Yeshiva prevails in New York, sooner or later this issue will get its day in the Supreme Court (hence the hurry to legislate male/male mirage into law (Rhino’s are holding back until after the election). If Yeshiva were to lose in the Supreme Court, the Left would demand that all students (even home schooled) be tested on the public curriculum–which will mean a thorough knowledge of banned books. Have you seen the titles of some of these books? Issues here:
Yeshiva receives Government funding and is state accredited. How then could it be exempted from state supervision? Because it receives government funds it is essentially an arm of the state, and as such is prohibited from imposing its religious views on other citizens, because Federal dollars cannot be used to allow one citizen to violate the rights of another. Yeshiva is violating the rights of M.I.C.E groups, and so must either comply or lose state funding. Here’s the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Yeshiva, New York argues, is an arm of the state. It has allowed itself to be deputized, as it were, and having taken the king’s shilling must now render back unto Caesar. Reject your funding and accredidation and the state will leave you alone. In other words, join the homeschool movement. Don’t worry about paying taxes. You’ll be too poor to pay taxes. This is why you hear Alito grind his teeth. The problem here is getting past the rhetorical power of “make no rule on religion.” You want to go your own way? Then practice Church/State separation. Fine. But you don’t get a dime. Meanwhile, you’re paying through the nose to fund non-stop blasphemy at State Universities–which is why you chose to start your own in the first place. 100’s of billions are at stake here.
On the other hand, Yeshiva is a religious institution and as such has a religious identity that is incompatible with certain practices. Government forced compliance is a violation of the First Amendment: the State meddling with “religion.” But Alito sees religion abandoning public schools en masse as parents seek to shield their children from state enforced indoctrination. He himself could be expelled from the Court for being overly religious. And now New York is essentially forcing Yeshiva to abandon its religion to accommodate the abomination. Using the FIrst Amendment to abolish religion. Not so fast, they will say: only if you take the king’s shilling. You want freedom of conscience? Don’t serve Mammon. See how clever this is? And it actually works. By taking State Mammon, you in essence become the secular State, and your religion will align with the interests of the State. Which means you have become a secularist. You become the State by accepting State Mammon. The State is secular. So don’t complain. I remember listening to the Bork hearings late at night while driving far above Ottawa to pick up a load of lumber. Catholic Senator Biden was splitting hairs over Aquinas’ notion of Natural Law–go back a little further and they would have been arguing about how many angels can dance on a needle. Just today, Christianity lamented the rapid decline of the church. At the rate Trump is taking the Church downhill, there will soon not be much left to separate. Can you imagine, in the age of Mouse fighting, a Supreme Court judge holding forth on “interpretations of Scripture.” Deplorabes, the NY Times wrote recently, have become so vague and shallow, that their religion does not rise above singing worship lines (from huge screens) over and over while swaying to wallshaking music: “be exalted Waymaker…,” goes one line. “Interpretations?” By the time you get to Trump you’re sitting on ten billion “interpretations,” each equally meaningless. “Scripture?” As they say about facts: there are none, only opinions about them. Alito has his work cut out for him.
This then is the argument: Do you become a part of the State if you are funded by the State? If so, the law is clear: you as a government institution cannot impose your religious views on others. All well and good. But just to be a citizen of a State is to receive the benefits of citizenship. The same taxes that allow the government to fund your religious schools also pave the roads you drive on. In that sense, your very existence is federally funded. As such you are a function of the State, and under the regulation of the State. You’re not exempt from speed laws regardless of your religion. Your Church benefits from state roads, state utilities, clean water, etc. As such it may be said to be government funded and an arm of the government. Which means you must allow an atheist to become a member. “Is this what you’re saying? This is how you translate the First Amendment,” Alito will ask? He’s been waiting for this for a long time. State benefits, State compliance. What could be plainer?
Alito would settle for a broad compromise here: live and let live. These people exist in Tehran under the noses of the Ayatollahs: in the social dungeon. No one hunts for them, and everyone knows they exist. They always have, but they have never demanded moral legitimacy, because the M.I.C.E can only gain legitimacy by gnawing the existing moral fiber to shreds. “Give them what they want,” Yeshiva University says, “and we cease to exist.” This, according to Brooks, is rank hysteria. But it’s what Alito thinks, and he can’t wait to get his hands on this again. This has nothing to do with government regulation for the greater whole, but State interference in (of all things) the interpretation of Scripture. (If you look at the First Amendment long enough, you’ll see the dog chasing his tail). Alito would settle for compromise. The Left cannot. It dreads nothing more than the censure in the eyes of a child expressing what is heard around the dinner table: “the king has no clothes on.” If they cannot gain legitimacy at the bedrock of society, the innocence of children, they are never more than a stroke away from being hurled back into the dungeon. Drag queens in libraries are there to persuade the child that he has been misinformed, that his basic instincts are misguided, and that they are not in fact men with women’s clothes on.
Like End of History Man with his Utopia, Groomocracy sees victory within reach. For the evil is now so pervasive and unrelenting, that it has become background noise acriss the entire globe. Ultimately, this is headed for a confrontation with the Bible itself. For, if people pull their children out of public schools, the State will regulate homeschooling with standardized testing, which will require knowledge of banned children’s books. These books will now sit next to the family Bible, and you can be sure that the State will find it necessary to address certain “interpretations” (as Justice Alito calls them) to guarantee the desired outcome. The State has many ways to assure compliance–ultimately, the forfeiture of the children. Fleeing will be the only option left. Alito is likely trying to bring the conflict to head now, before it ripens further. The icey silence toward his “interpretation of Scripture” remark shows the loathing and contempt toward his primitive notions. It’s a jarring concept long fallen out of use, but it may provoke a rush to the standards.
Thus the Left can see the Right advancing on two fronts: The Court and the court (Mar a Lago) of Trump. He left an oversized footprint on the American judiciary (the check on Garfield was by one of his judges) which may be seen as the greater part of his assault on the Left. If they prevail in the coming Church/State showdown, you’ll see the greatest transfer of wealth in American history, as funds move from the sanctuaries of the Left (the greatest public Welfare project in the world: State Universities) to the hitherfore excluded projects of the religious Right. A reverse of Henry VIII’s liquidating of Church assets to bankroll what would become the British Empire over which King Charles now rules as “defender of faiths.” Did you see all the brave captains at the funeral–all with hands on their swords. Judging from all his decorations, he must have vanquished many a valorous knight in his day. They even stuffed his sister into a uniform–a real Amazon no doubt. The churches look like military camps. Rightly so, for the top politician of the land is always the First Soldier. Both Putin and Orban claim legitimacy as defenders of the faith against the Mouse. Hence their appeal. And the moral outrage on the Left. The dirt on Trump was meant to transfer that outrage to his followers, or to at least split the ranks, hoping that the more biblical would peel off to preserve what remains of their testimony. They have not. Why?
Trump’s bedroom may be a pigsty, but it differs little from what you find in any Evangelical church. Divorce-remarriage has become a rite of passage, and preachers are little more than divorce pimps to (as the Rev. Kellers says) “shepherd” the process. The pot can hardly call the kettle black. Besides, says the shrink-reved James Dobson: Trump’s favorite priester, the Rev. Paula-in-between-divorces White led him to Christ. And they cannot go back to the Bible for just that reason. They would have to cleanse the pigsty. They still have “the sow by the right ear,” and can neither continue to hold her nor safely let her go. Thus they have no choice but to go after the Mouse on the back of a sow. Trump buys them some time.
Orbanism is an exit strategy against the Mouse. Orban is a great draw at American Family Values conferences. In Florida the Mouse was caught plotting against the children. Orban and Putin protect children. No one doubts(with the Brooks and the Left) that these are anything but unsavory characters. The difference being that compared to the stench of Groomocracy, they’re like a breath of fresh air. The wallowing sow can always be washed. The M.I.C.E on the other hand gnaw, like Jonah’s invisible worm, gnaw at the vitals. If things continue apace, they see themselves forced to ultimately flee the US to safeguard their children. Orbanism thus becomes the lesser evil. If push comes to shove, Putin will turn Ukraine into a desert. But it is he, he hopes, who will rule over the desert.
9-14-22
“the makings of an economic disaster: Consumer sentiment is worse than it has ever been in postwar German history” (Spiegel).
When Germans need to scare themselves out of their wits, they invoke Die Hiob Botschaften–the messengers of Job, the last always worse than the first. Sentiment is what Putin is counting on, as the decadent West cracks under hardship and replaces its leadership with ones more favorable to Russia. The safety net of Western societies has layers upon layers of support–but it is not limitless. Already, across Europe, energy internse factories are shutting down. Governments cannot not endlessly bail them out. Even a top-down economy like China cannot simply print money to stay afloat. Market forces inevitably rule.
Germany is largely an industrial economy, having missed the Info age entirely. In fact, Europe has not produced a single Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. As an occupied territory they were basically Serfs who did as they were told, and as their occupier (the US) took care of all the vital arrangements, they never really had to reach beyond themselves to chart new horizons. Germany was given the safe task of perfecting the combustion engine. Musk’s new car made many German smaller factories who supplied parts like filters and mufflers obsolete. Much of the tech stuff is now sourced in cheaper labor markets. But much of Germany is still employed by huge chemical and steel industries–all voracious consumers of energy. Meanwhile, competitors like China and India get to make the same products with hugely discounted energy. Putin is counting on high unemployment, which in turn will result in less tax revenue to fund the welfare state. He will meddle with elections by creating discounted voters. The Right across the EU would wash their hands of the Ukrainian war overnight. The Ukraine war will grind to a halt as soon as it loses its Western sponsors, which it could if Putin can create hardship in the Capitals of Europe. Friedman’s (NY Times) gloomy outlook on clean energy dodges the Ukraine question altogether. The new hope is that we get a mild winter to get Ukraine into next summer. But extreme cold, high unemployment, and dwindling coffers could easily produce panic, and are more likely to change the leadership of Europe than of Russia. Germany has enough gas to keep its citizens from freezing. It does not have enough to keep its factories open and its people employed. You cannot simply print money to feed people. But already European factories are closing. But this is why you have the welfare state: to provide a safety net when everything collapses. Scarcity, like prayer, is utterly foreign to End of History man. Mutti is, no doubt, spending her retirement still poring over her charts.
Germany did not turn to prayer or the Bible when it was destroyed in WWI. They did not do so when they were destroyed by WWII. There was nothing left to return to: the Bible was full of myths and contradictions, Jesus was a good man, he taught the Golden Rule. The Bible had become what are now called “european values.” But every German stands in awe when you say Bergpredigt, on which the EU was founded (or what it was reduced to). But what is it, you ask? “Die christliche Liebe,” they will say with one accord. That’s it? The Golden Rule? What about…. They will tell you to cease and desist at once: “Buchstablich,” they shriek. A literalist. The greatest divines who spent fifty-sixty years unraveling the hardest knots of divinity and haven’t even arrived at the existence of God will tell you that the Die Bergpredigt cannot be taken literally. It was either meant for another time (zwischen den Zeiten–that is a code of conduct from John the Baptist to the Resurrection by which you could be saved), or perhaps Jesus’ mistaken notion that God would come to earth within days and the Bergpredigt would be how people would be expected to live when the End had finally come (they all think they understand the Beatitudes and the Lord’s Prayer perfectly well, Buchstablich–that is, the Bergpredigt). But when Pagans read the Bible they come away thinking they understood what Jesus said and ask why Christians do not follow the teaching of Christ. But like the common people of old who thought they understood what Jesus taught, pagans are cursed by their ignorance: “this people is cursed who know not the Law,” the Pharisees said. This is what Luther did. He translated the Bible so people could read it in their own language, then turned around and told them not to bother because only “the authorities” coud understand it. And the people wonder why they “came across as not having authority, even as the scribes.” But, they admit, Die Bergpredigt is the Crown Jewel of Jesus’ teaching. On that they all agree. Calvin, sensing danger here, took another route. He made Jesus understandable by adding innumerable fatwas to make the Bible come out right. As a result he not only killed but tortured his enemiese and allowed them to “divore and remarry for every cause.” His followers hanged women they called witches. But isn’t that against the teachings of Jesus? Not if you understand right. Read Calvin and you will understand. This is why Germans did not seek the God of the Bible in their darkest hour. The trumpet had a horrible sound. They could not read, and dared not pray by faith. “For faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” “The word of God is in the Bible, but you cannot call the Bible the Word of God, because the errors and myths in it cannot be called the Word of God.” You cannot read Buchstablich, and what’s the point of reading otherwise. “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD (Am. 8:11).” Starving, but not hungry. You had the same Bible as Lazarus, the rich man was told.
9-13-22
MAGA vs. GAGA: THE CULTURAL WAR AS THE ORIGIN OF WWIII
“the war, while it is of course overwhelmingly a fight for Ukrainian freedom, has also, weirdly, become a front in America’s cultural and political wars” (Paul Krugman, NY Times). Well! Welcome to the site, Herr Professor.
This war is fought on the pages of the NY Times. For Ukrainians this means that time is short. The November elections could add to the dangers of the November geese (or gas), heralds of Cossack winter, the historic graveyard of entire armies. For Putin? He could afford to bankroll MAGA candidates to the tune of billions.
Meanwhile Tom Friedman continues to sulk in his corner. He knows this is no more than Russia losing several armies (on the job training) before they finally get it. No one is asking the big questions as they sleepwalk into nuclear Armageddon. "A little more sleep, a little more folding of the hands"--. "Putin will not incinerate US cities because he knows he will in turn be incinerated" is the chattering in Manhattan. You see how this works? Just throw the nuclear hand grenade back, heh, and see how he likes it. That's how you cancel nuclear war. End of problem. Fear is a meaningless category for End of History Man sitting on his mountaintop. If that noise under him turns out to be a volcano, he will soon jump like a pea on a hot shovel.
Look at this (Front Page NY Times): “The strategy behind Ukraine’s rapid counteroffensive was devised by U.S., Ukrainian and British officials.” MAGA would put an end to that and save Putin hundreds of billions. And no candidate is even talking about the war. It’s the hottest topic in the Comments sections of the NY Times, and yet utterly toxic in the political sphere. Democrats are afraid of being labeled warmongers, Republicans of supporting a dictator.
Add to that: “Clashes Erupt Between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Raising Fears of Another War.”
And the Serbs are not even yet on the warpath. They have dozens of axes to grind, and could drive the conflict right into the bowels of the EU by renewing the Kosovo conflict.
The Times spins the Armenian conflict as an unwanted irritant for Putin, an emboldened Azerbaijan (a Turkish ally) exploiting a weakening bear. It could be the opposite: Armenia (who lost the last war) siding with the Bear as he is forced to stand at bay, and sees no choice but to do the unthinkable--reach for his Nukes. Under that umbrella, Armenia could take historic revenge on Turkey for the Armenian genocide.
Scholz is still under the influence of Germany’s MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) prophets. Read: “We’ll all end up dead.” If you think dead is better than Red, ok. If not, you have no choice but Handel nach Wandel. Beware of provoking an angry bear. Germany will have to learn to dance with the Bear. Entangle him with German business and tech. That’s how you stay alive next to a bear. Habermas, the last of the prophets, is still alive, all that’s left of the World Council of Churches. They see the EU peace dividend dissipating fast as the EU is forced to rearm. Germans are already talking about having their own Nukes. Shut this thing down, Habermas tells Scholz, before it’s too late.
Putin needs a bigger war to justify bigger weapons. He’s still going after rhino with birdshot. He started the conflict on the back of his nuclear arsenal to begin with. The US did not stop him because of the threat of nuclear WWIII. His restrained behavior soon gave way to the notion that he’s not suicidal after all, that he was all nuclear hat and no cattle. This being the case, NATO threw caution to the wind and all but took over running the war. Now the talk in Moscow is: Why is the strongman fighting with both hands tied behind his back? Are you a superpower or not? But he’s only a superpower because he has Nukes. His Nukes are now seen as no more than an empty boast, and he’s in real danger at home. The Armenian dimension would draw in Turkey, who just so happens to be Greece’s ancient foe. Last year Armenia lost because Russia could offer only conventional aid. They lost because Turkey supplied superior weaponry to the enemy. Turkey does not have Nukes. The CIA calls Putin’s latest Nukes Satan I and Satan II. He doesn’t have to deploy them to make everyone back off. He only needs to engage in a game of chicken. “Don’t push him to desperation,” Macron warned months ago. “Erst Wägen dann Wagen,” Scholz mutters. Don’t play MAD with a madman, old Habermas whispers in his ear. What’s the point of having Nukes, if you don’t use them–or threaten to use them? That was the question behind the original restraint. Which soon gave way to the notion that Putin was rational after all, that he was all bluff, and that Sampson will allow himself to be bound rather than engage in mutual destruction. In the old days, the whole point of diplomacy was to get the bear to dance. They have forgotten that the bear has Nukes.
9-9-22
FROM GREENBOW TO GROOMBOW
Tom Friedman has been awol since he mumbled about the “funny business under the hood” in Ukraine in his last column. You can see why by reading the Comments on Ross Douthat’s column just published: He’s being called a Republican traitor just for hinting that European resolve may weaken in the face of a stalled counter-offensive and brutal winter. He’s giving comfort and aid to the enemy, a treasonous offense in wartime. Republicans will throw democracy under the bus as soon as they gain control. “Send the Ukrainians tanks and F16’s,” they cry, and let them make a swift end to Putin. For Putin, they all agree, must go. This inferno is raging in the NY Times now. But Douthat hardly says anything. If you blink you’ll miss it. But Putin has the Left on a knife’s edge. You can be sure that Friedman is furiously editing the ominous “funny business under the hood in Ukraine.” He could move the needle off the Richter scale and consume the oxygen in world Capitals for days. An intoxicating prospect for any journalist, even for a heavy like Friedman. Biden’s latest $2 billion would evaporate overnight. Because this war is being fought in the Comments section of the Times. There are wheels within wheels here. The carnage in Ukraine is but camouflage for a much broader Front. When you hear the deafening roar in the Times of the Left beating its plowshares into Hellfire missiles, and see Putin’s ally, Orban, preaching virtue at a Conservative Family Values Conference, you know you have (as Henry VIII said when preacher Kramer told him how to switch wives) “the sow by the right ear.” The best analogy here is the Confederacy fighting on years after knowing the war was lost to snatch a scrap or two from the jaws of defeat. Or Nazi German belief that the leadership was on the brink of unleashing a super weapon to turn the tide. They’re forgetting the cardinal rule of the atomic age, MAD: that confronting a nuclear super power will result in Mutually Assured Destruction. You cannot win a war against a nuclear power. This was the fear at the beginning. But now the hope is that Putin will not commit suicide. He doesn’t have to. All he has to do is play nuclear chicken to make Europe back down. If “Paris was worth a Mass,” Ukraine is not worth the world’s mass destruction. If Friedman said that he would be accused of treason.
There you have all the proof you need that the Ukrainian war is first and foremost the latest Front of the Cultural War. Orban, Putin’s ally, was just in the US addressing a Family Values conference. Why? Where globalists cry Democracy, Orban sees Groomacracy, which has become the face of Democracy. By “freedom” they actually mean license–Pride marches in Moscow. That’s how Putin sells the war to his Moscowites. Pride marches (or the specter of them) killed the Arab Spring. This is why Times readers call for Putin’s head. To allow such an inveterate foe at the head of a superpower is to invite constant blackmail of the New Agenda. Regime change is back or it’s back to the Dark Ages. Because the globalist social contract demands full participation. The Putin/Orban slight of Groombow not only encourages mockery, but rejects its near universal legitimacy.
But what will you put in its place? The last experiment (Iraq) is imploding again. Imagine Iraq with the world’s largest stockpile of Nukes. Degrade Putin and you either get a nuclear war or nuclear anarchy. Appease the Bear and you revert back to the thousand year Russian problem of the Teutonic knights. NATO expansion after the Cold War was meant to solve that problem once and for all, and free the EU’s kingdom of god to shamble on unimpeded until it becomes irreversible. Kissinger and others warned of bear baiting. The animal was so wounded that even Putin saw Russia within the larger framework of the EU. Mutti and her children (the cursing Greta brats) became the face of foreign policy. Muttie became Aunt Polly to Putin’s Tom Sawyer, convinced that the naughty boy would eventually grow out of his Huck Finn ways. The course of History was irreversible. Nothing left to do for a politician but to pore over stacks of Covid and Climate charts. The biggest political event was the World Cup Final, and the leisurely gathering of the Green Knights of the global round table among whom Friedman had the stature of a King Arthur. Techbros were the new “men of renown.” The End of History was also the end of politicians. Diplomatic handbooks ended up in the dustbin. Diplomatic double and triple speak were acknowledged for what they were: Machevillian knives in the back. But neither Scholz nor Macron are woke. “The cities which my father took from your father, I’ll give back,” Benhadad said to Ahab. And the people in the cities? Under the bus. Scholz and Macron would cut a deal with Putin that would make Ukraine very unhappy–”off the record, back channels,” Kissinger would shrug. You can't do this in the kingdom of god. Hence the hissing in the New York Times. Old Believers too tired to come down from the mountain top. Friedman’s “funny business under the hood” is likely the first rumbling of the volcano underneath. He knows this, but doesn’t have plan B either. Here’s what Scholz and Macron think:
Ukraine cannot win and Russia cannot lose, because even a stalemate is enough to make the EU dysfunctional.
If push comes to shove, Putin will play nuclear chicken and the EU will back down.
A new crisis could come out of nowhere and make things worse.
At stake here is the 77 year old Handel nach Wandel sermon on the mount kingdom of god (read european values): the End of History perpetual peace dividend. The Old is gone, and the New within our grasp. For 77 years they waited on the mountaintop only to find themselves sitting on a volcano. Where do Old Believers go from here? There is no place to go. The New Order was premised on the globalist social contract (universal brotherhood, based on “christich Liebe” which became european values, etc.) which shattered the minute Putin broke faith with what everyone assumed was an immutable covenant: irreversible globalism. Marx's dream of a classless society was little more than the promise of John the Baptist that the Messiah would level mankind. Germans swooned at the implications of Tom Friedmans’s radical twist on the same idea in his book The World is Flat: the tech-bros as the evangelists of globalism, because the Information Age was essentially a global brain rerendering all previous structures (like borders and nation states) obsolete. From here on we would all shamble along en masse into that globalist night where nothing is fixed and nothing is off the table. The old wineskins could be discarded, and good riddance. So long to wars, superstition, repression, ignorance, etc. The kingdom of god of the Word Council of Churches had come. Mutti’s father was a preacher of small cap sermon on the mount. When Nietzche said “God is dead,” this is what he meant. Before the Wars, these theologians saw science as the hope of mankind. Then they saw what war could do with science. But science (Higher Criticism) had also destroyed the Bible. But somehow small cap sermon on the mount remained: Die Bergpredict of Matthew 5 where Christianity is “tried”--Jesus survived as “a good man.” Both Luter and Calvin rejected the notion that the Sermon on the Mount applied to the New Testament Church, except in a hidden mystical sense for which no one has yet to find the key–hence, the gallows humor that “we don’t know if Christianity works because it’s never been tried.” By Christianity they mean the Sermon on the Mount: “ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” Mt.7). This both Luther and Calvin held could not pertain to the Church in History because it contradicts salvation by faith. Take the Sermon on the Mount literally, they said, and you back under Law, salvation by works. Taken literally, it ranks with the Book of James, “a strawy Epistle,” so extreme that “few would ever be saved.” Ironically, the Sermon on the Mount is the standard by which pagans judge the Church, because of its radical departure from the “broad way” (which they recognize equally well). The EU is where the sermon on the mount was being tried (they farmed out the swords to the cowboys) until Putin broke covenant. Now the anti-nuke German Greens talk about adding Nukes to the German arsenal. The loathed Bush cowboys didn’t ride so Germans had to become cowboys. MBS smirked when Biden mentioned the bonesaw: “You made some mistakes…heh…200,000 killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and you talk about one person? Let’s not kid ourselves, we’re in the same trade…heh. “See,” Putin tells the EU, “you’re just like me. In the end, we live by violence. Kill or be killed.” So much for “christliche Liebe.” This is the greatest casualty of Putin’s war, an earthquake in the modern psyche, an utter defilement of the EU’s founding charter.
"The Coming Winter Could Be One of the Worst in History"(German Spiegel).
Russia will collapse in three months, the Prime Minister of Poland tells Germans. Because, if Russia doesn’t fold soon, then what—-? You don’t end wars with frustration. Putin is playing the long game like swamp master Trump. Just when you think you’ve got him, he creates another outrage, which then draws you in further until time runs out. Trump but needs to fend off his adversaries until the suspense of his candidacy reaches critical mass, at which point stadium outrage will overwhelm all else. Democrats, like Ukraine, know they’re racing against the clock with victory always just beyond their reach. It’s the do-nothing and judo approach to statecraft. Swampmasters wear out their opponents by drawing them into the swamp. They lurk, they wait–patience and time, Kutuzov kept mumbling in his warm bed as Napoleon shivered in Moscow. But because democracy itself is at stake, the war must go on, winter of no winter. And if they dread winter in Berlin, how are they to keep warm in Ukraine?
The European economy is going down fast (NYTimes). If Europe collapses, Putin may find himself confronted with The Beast as it revives as a Superstate.
“Ukraine Holds the Future: The War Between Democracy and Nihilism” cries Foreign Affairs today. Either Ukraine prevails or the End is nigh. They’re going all in here. Zero sum. All or nothing. Fight to the finish. The stakes are too high to negotiate a miserable peace. Religion as diplomacy. But already Europe is tottering, and the Winter Cossacks are fast approaching. Germany’s gas utility (Uniper) is losing $100 million a day–right into Putin’s pockets. “The worst winter in history?” To be followed by another scorching summer……. Read: “Worst Winter In Western Europe.” And the Prime Minister of Poland claims Russia will collapse in three months. These prophecies are piling up, and European unrest is growing. Yet no one's going hungry or cold in Moscow. If Republicans win in November, they’ll likely pull the plug. Why aren’t Republicans (and Orban) panicking? Because Putin is seen as fighting the Culture War on two fronts: He’s wrecking Climate policy, and holding the line on Pride marches, the two pillars of globalist elitism. China, Orban, Republicans look on with glittering eye as the kill pit widens. They reap by doing nothing. And the war has been a financial boon for America. It is simultaneously a strategic masterpiece in that it keeps Europe firmly tethered to American foreign policy: there has not been a peep of dissent on Iran or China since the war started. Too weak to resist, they have no choice but to submit to their fate, even as they bear the entire brunt of the war. But now they are forced to hedge their bets on a victorious Ukraine–which must include Crimea as well. Thomas Friedman, are you still there? Or are you still poking around the “funny business under the hood?” Not even the most liberal Russian politician would give up Crimea. But Crimea remains on the table or no negotiations. Ukraine has already handed the West a bill of almost a trillion dollars to rebuild. Germany’s Uniper gas utility is losing “well over 100 million dollars a day.” That’s a day.
Tom Friedman: “The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine’s leadership than they are letting on. There is deep mistrust (oh?) between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky — considerably more than has been reported” (so they’re covering up–this is what Friedman is sitting on, and why the White House disappeared him–he could end the war–but read on as he vents his frustration).
“And there is funny business (indeed!!) going on in Kyiv. On July 17, Zelensky fired his country’s prosecutor general and the leader of its domestic intelligence agency — the most significant shake-up in his government since the Russian invasion in February. It would be the equivalent of Biden firing Merrick Garland and Bill Burns on the same day. But I have still not seen any reporting that convincingly explains what that was all about. It is as if we don’t want to look too closely under the hood in Kyiv for fear of what corruption or antics we might see, when we have invested so much there. (More on the dangers of that another day.)”
That was Friedman’s latest collumn. The world over people are scratching their head wondering if he’s about to drop the bomb on the Groombow war. That’s the funny business going on with Friedman now. He’s the one man (besides Biden) who can move the needle here. But he was summoned to the Oval Office earlier for the famous “chocolate milkshake,” and the even more infamous “tuna sandwich” (in Saudi Arabia, MBS serves him ten different kinds of lamb dishes) because they sensed he was about to come off the Reservation. Biden sent him off on a fool's errand to European Capitals where he was given access to low grade politicians (he used to have MBS on speed dial) and came back singing the party line like a canary: Ukraine is the last stage to End of History perpetual peace, etc, etc, so on and so forth, and there endeth this week’s Sabbath lesson. Mir Niks, Dir Niks. He wrote that with a gun to his head. But as a card carrying Traveler, what could he do? He took one for the Revolution and kept the “funny business” to himself. He cracked in his last column with the “funny business” line, and must have been summoned to the woodshed again–they disappeared him. Like China. He desperately wants to get back to his Greenbow Schtick (Mother Nature) which he knows is now in the clutches of Groombow, as Putin wages war on Groombow Globalists by weaponizing Mother Nature with Old Man Winter (Russia’s ultimate weapon) fast approaching. Former anti-nukes in Germany are now looking fondly at aging nuclear plants as if they were faithful draft horses straining against the traces, and coal is bigger than ever as nations scramble to secure energy to stave off social unrest (immigration, food and gas (energy riots in Indonesia today)–Putin would like nothing more than to have starving Africa flood into shivering Europe). Last week Germans were up in Canada with hat in hand–they once threatened to excommunicate Canada for not shutting down the Tar Sands. Like Napoleon in Moscow, Friedman can’t get the stench of smoke out of his nostrils, and already the November geese are honking–again. Putin is waging war with Mother Nature, and, by driving nations to seek refuge in dirty energy, is increasing Mother Nature’s ferocity, which in turn will require more dirty energy, etc. etc. In the end Cold Man conquers Warm Man, or Groombow’s Burning Man. That’s how Putin sells the war to his Moscowites. Putin’s only regret is that he will not live to see his new Pantry–the fertile wheatfields of the thawing Tundra, where, like a modern Pharaoh, he will sell you your bread dear. “Let it increase,” cried a previous Russian general, when told of burning wheatfields. In a scorched world, Cold Man will be the last man standing. One third of Pakistan is now under water? What is that to a ruler of Russians? A Russian ruler exists to keep other nations weaker than himself. He would like nothing more than to see half of China and the West under water, because Cold Man has infinite Lebensraum in his Siberian redoubts. “We’re not in this together,” he sneers at Friedman. “To each his own.” He’s not about to relinquish his Cold Privilege. And so endeth End of History Man. They were almost there. But they forgot to account for “wars and rumors of war” which they dismissed as a relic of Christianity. Mutti kept reminding the world that Europe was now in the Post-Christian Era (been there, done that–overrated, outdated, and overstated), and the Tech-Brotherhood would lead to perpetual peace and abundance (the kingdom of god on Earth, sermon on the mount love–read Groombow+ tolerance). Mutti and her children–”a child shall lead them.” Mutti and the Greta brats vanished overnight.
Today’s Front Page NYT: “Shock Waves Hit the Global Economy, Posing Grave Risk to Europe.”
Again, Front Page NYT: “the U.S. intended to send another $2 billion.”
The “shock” in Europe today is Putin’s Climate bomb. Climate is now war by other means. And only 6 months ago Friedman chided Putin for his careless attitude toward his burning Tundra. “Let it increase,” Putin cries. This is the nightmare now. But Friedman has been sent to his corner to contemplate the ”funny business” in isolation. “I believe and therefore I have spoken.” He believes and shouts at his wall. Poor man sits in his self-imposed straitjacket. He had to sacrifice Greenbow for Groombow. Ukraine is the front line of Groombow. Groombow, Putin reminds his orthodox Russians, meek and mild, will settle for nothing less than Pride marches in Holy Moscow. While they “burn in their lusts” (Romans 1), Friedman (like Napoleon in burning Moscow) sees nothing but Climate Armageddon. Old Man Winter has not yet come, and already Europe is feeling the shock of Putin’s Climate battering ram. “One woe is past (a scorching summer), no end in sight, and Biden is sending another $2 billion to keep the nightmare going. That’s what Friedman is thinking. But what can he do? Groomocracy is now the face of freedom. This is what Orban tells Evangelicals. Putin is waging war against Burning Man. And, in Friedman’s eyes, Burning Man is burning down the world, just so he can stage Pride marches in Red Square. Greenbow hijacked by Groombow, caught in the crosshairs of the Culture War.
“Shock waves” in Europe? But in Moscow it’s parades and picnics like in Tolstoy, free gas, abundant food, land cheap and plenty, and no immigrants–an Evangelical dream. It would take little for Evangelicals to migrate there en masse.
Who is getting canceled here? Another $2 billion? For what, more oligarchs? That’s what Friedman would like to unload on. It’s what Scholz and Macron are muttering, but can’t break woke ranks. Macron has to follow Scholz, and Scholz was given his marching orders from Washington. NATO above all. This is not even the European Union anymore. NATO is wagging the dog here. But NATO cannot finish the war without triggering Nuclear Armageddon. Which means Europe is entangled in an endless war, the shock waves of which are now just beginning. One for all and all for one. For what, Friedman cried earlier, so a spot of geography which no one heard off decides it wants to self-identify as a democracy? You’re going to wreck the rest of the world to settle a historic border skirmish? You’re going to settle the thousand year old Ukraine problem by turning Ukraine into a desert? This is what Scholz and Macron are muttering privately. They know they have the wolf by the ears. They threw caution to the wind when the USSR crumbled and helped themselves to the freebies, thinking they removed the Eastern menace forever. Even Russia, they boasted, would become part of the EU. Now they can’t unravel the nightmare. Their only hope still is that Putin will succumb to some loathsome disease. But the winter Cossacks are approaching fast. The sanctions hit Europe ten times harder than Russia. And Putin is willing to supply Europe with cheap gas with the flip of a switch as soon as they remove sanctions. They would have to begin negotiation to cut their losses–without Ukraine’s consent. But that’s a cardinal sin against self-identification. You are what you think you are–regardless of facts. It’s none of the West’s business how Ukraine seeks to self-identify–even as it foots the bill. And Ukraine self-identifies itself in possession of Crimea. When the last Russian is driven out of Crimea, negotiations can begin. No sooner. Ok–we just thought it might be—. We said no negotiations. Period. Full stop. Deal with it. This is religious purity applied to dirty politics. But wokeness is religion, and stems from sermon on the mount kingdom of god (keep everything in small caps) on Earth that underwrites the EU. It swept all before it for 77 years as it shambled from border to border. The hope was that it would bring Russia into the fold (Handel nach Wandel), and it may well have if Groombow had not become the face of it. Zelensky knows what lies in store if Republicans gain control in November. He too knows he’s fighting the Cultural War, and that Republicans are not going to shoot themselves in the foot by funding Groomacracy
Friedman could shake the Capitals of the world with a few paragraphs. He could essentially end the war. He has more power than Biden, because he could bring Biden’s plans to naught. Had he done so earlier, tens of thousands of young Russian and Ukrainians would be alive today. How would you like to have that blood on your hands?
6-10-22
"President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country must not be forced to stay in a “gray zone” and that it needed more weapons and E.U. membership" NY Times .
"Forced?" Who's forcing them to stay in Putin's kill-pit? The Woke Left. They're hiding the body count. Up to 200 Ukrainians (and as many Russians) are killed each day. Wait till Tom Friedman sees the next butcher bill which he helped create. He joined the woke mob thinking it would be over in days. Then, seeing a protracted struggle on the horizon and what that meant for all the Agendas, he called for negotiations. In alarm Biden called him down to the White House for a tuna sandwich and chocolate milkshake, sent him over to Europe to meet all Machers there, and now he's back on the warpath again asking Ukrainians to die to the last man. No one reads the NY Times more than Ukrainians. They know this is a woke war and that they will have to surrender the minute the NY Times decides to move on. Friedman gets $75,000 a speech. He gets that much because he has access to world leaders. But he has to toe the line to keep those $75,000 checks coming, even if it means 400 dead young men a day. Meanwhile Scholz and Macron are keeping back door channels open to Putin. They know the war is lost, that Ukraine will remain in shambles for the foreseeable future (it's like rebuilding Gaza for the next raid), and that Russia has now added the world's greatest pantry to its gas station. Putin knows the US Right will pull the plug on the war as soon as they get back in power. Scholz and Macron will not allow Ukraine to join the EU, and see nothing to be gained from prolonging the conflict, because Putin is not weakening and the boycotts are roiling Western politics. But because they're forced to be woke, they remain silent, even as their silence causes the slaughter of 400 young men a day. They would be hissed out of office. The smirk on Orban, Putin's ally, is growing by the day. He's not missing any meals either--those oligarchs spend their nights feasting in their mansions.
Meanwhile, as the other end of the Culture War, the Riot hearings are equally futile against strongman Trump. They were meant to shame Republicans into cancelling mode when they saw the evidence against him. That's like asking ordinary Russians if they're willing to give Crimea back. Why give up a winning hand? The only crime in war is losing. And politics is nothing but violence. Give up Crimea and have Groombow at the gates of Moscow next day? In Estonia, the Right wants to end the war. They like Putin and Orban because of Groombow. Bizarrely, the notion that Trump had the election stolen from him is a major point of contention among Estonians. The Riot hearings demonstrate a major fault line in the Culture War: the Right sees no need to engage. They have all the momentum they need in their ability to enforce the 2nd Amendment whenever they choose. Trump could (as he boasted) shoot a man on 4th Avenue and get away with it. Why? Because the people accusing him are seen as pawns of Groombow. What the Left doesn't realize is that for anyone reading the Bible, Groombow is the lowest endpoint of human depravity, and any pronouncement about morality from within its ranks are nothing more than more Grrombow: safely dismissed out of hand.
6-1-22
Douthat (NY Times) wants to remove discussion of guns from the Culture War. But the 2nd Amendment is now the face of the Cultural War and Evangelicalism is its ammo dump. It's all that's left to prevent a complete takeover by the Left who own media, education, and entertainment. What would Douthat offer Evangelicals in exchange? Orban no longer needs arguments. Evangelicals are no longer interested in dialogue. They hold the winning hand, and the more guns they accumulate, the greater they terrify the Left. They justify the carnage in their midst as a small price to pay toward the day when the blood of the enemies of God will rise to the horse's bridle. The 2nd Amendment is the gateway toward Armageddon. As with Putin, if they would but dust off the old religious handbooks, they would arrive at sounder policy. They still don't get what happened in Afghanistan.
5-31-22
The Lost Crusade
“A diplomat who says ‘yes’ means ‘maybe,’ a diplomat who says ‘maybe’ means ‘no,’ and a diplomat who says ‘no’ is no diplomat,” Talleyrand, Napoleon's diplomat. When he died, his Austrian counterpart, Metternich (on whom Kissinger wrote his Harvard thesis) said, "I wonder what he meant by that (his death)?"
Last week, the NY Times and Kissinger called for a ceasefire and negotiations. Today, Friedman, after having lunch with Biden last week and now visiting Europe, is back on the bandwagon: No concessions to Putin. He cannot be rewarded. Today also, the NY Times brought in one of the NeoCons who warns that "the United States is trying to maintain the fiction that arming one’s allies is not the same thing as participating in combat." It's like me playing chess with Bobby Fischer whispering in my ear. That must have been some lunch with Biden. Friedman is back in high war fever mode. "Forwarts." Let's see what he does with the next butcher bill. Putin is about to gain all the ports. That gives him the keys to the pantry. Next: the call for NATO to clear the blockade and open a grain corridor as food prices rise. And then....
And the Nukes? Well, as Biden wrote today, "Putin is likely bluffing." The old guard in Germany who have Scholz's ear are less certain. Friedman is now back to driving Putin from Ukraine. But he cannot retreat and expect to stay in power, or alive. With the new sanctions in place, Friedman argues, Putin's options become dimmer by the day. How long can he defy the world?
Everyone knows that without US backing Ukraine would have folded long ago. But Putin has only one option against the US: he has enough Nukes to kill every person in the US. Friedman today is back to "you cannot deal with a murderer." Which means, you have to defeat the murderer. This is what the old Germans call MAD (mutual assured destruction). He'll take everyone down with him. Kissinger predicts a real war unless the war is ended within two months. Kissinger calls for off the record, back channels, throw the little guy under the bus dealing. Putin gets rewarded, but the West gets to fight anther day. And poor Ukraine? And moral principles? Never, Kissinger would say, use politics and morals in the same sentence. You only talk of principle if you're the Taliban. 10,000 Taliban could do what 500,000 Ukrainians cannot: defeat a Superpower. There's nothing to negotiate with the Taliban: they would like nothing better than to burn the world down. Death or victory for these fanatics. In that sense Putin is the Taliban. He was to win. Ukraine does as well, but cannot without more aid from the West. The Right and NeoCons don't see the Left's moral clarity here. In fact, many see Putin as fighting the Culture War against decadent Europe and the Left. Upcoming elections do not favor the Left, and Putin knows this. He's the ultimate swampmaster, and he is ready to go what the West is not. No one knows what his real game is, but he's making the West react to him reflexively. The Bear is bear-baiting, and Kissinger thinks he could lure his enemies into something that could become MAD. At this point Kissinger would settle for appeasement. Imagine that. But that's how Kissinger ended the Vietnam war--he threw the South under the bus. In other words, cut your losses and pretend Putin didn't win. He's the Taliban with Nukes, and a zealot is not afraid of Armageddon. The US started all this when they baited the Bear after the breakup, and Ukraine is but the Bear robbed of her whelps. Putin has yet to resort to "dirty war." Which means he doesn't yet feel pressured. Beware of playing chicken with so cunning an adversary. He's got Nukes.
5-30-22
When Speer visited German troops on the Eastern front he could sense the handwriting on the wall from talking to the common soldiers: they were holding the line with expectation that the fables Superweapon would soon turn the tide. Barring that, they knew they knew what lay in store of them. "We'll drive them back," Ukrainian soldiers tell German journalists when we get the long range artillery. And if that doesn't work? The NY Times calls for negotiation: deal with the monster before it is too late. The Washington Post wants Ukraine to remain in the kill pit to save the New World Order. They cannot imagine living a world with so many loose end to account for. In other words, the Old World Order--wars and rumors of war.,
5-30-22
“The Uvalde School Shooting Sends Me to Matthew 18” (Christianity Today). Thus speaks the 2nd Amendment, which is now the kingmaker in the Culture War. “He (Augustus)heard their (soldiers) treasonous cries. He dreaded their calmer moments of reflection.” When one of Caesar's officers presented his demands to the Senate, one Senator cried, “And by what right does he do that?” The centurion clapped his scabbard: “By this,” he said. You can see Pagans who have read the Bible shake their heads here: Why would mass killings not send you to Matthew 5 where Jesus beats swords into plowshares? Or Exodus 20: “Thou shalt not kill?” From within the ammo dump that is the Evangelical Church, you can’t see the forest for the trees. Why is that? Because it is now possible to openly demonstrate what could only be hinted at previously: that the ability to project violence is entirely on the Right, and that it is now safe to align with menacing elements that previously would have gotten you canceled. Everyone knows that within this bristling porcupine there are many lone wolves who will act on their own if the Left gets too shrill. The Left has no counterweight to this.
Evangelicals are silent about the 6th Commandment because the 2nd Amendment is a mainstay in Evangelical thought: “The Left wants to take your guns so they can impose their secular agenda on Christians.” Their fears are not misplaced. On the other hand, nothing scares the Left more than the arsenal of guns they see in the hands of Evangelicals. From here on, all the Right has to do is defend the Second Amendment and increase its arsenal. It’s how Orban sent Soros packing. The noise of anvils within the Evangelicals church is the sound of plows beat into swords. The Evangelical answer to carangage is more guns–arm teachers. Soon they’ll call for handguns in backpacks. Violence is an insatiable drug. It can only survive on larger and larger doses. And the biggest driver of violence is now the Evangelical church. And you can’t preach on the 6th Commandment without appearing soft on the 2nd Amendment. That will get you thrust out of the synagogue.
This is what's behind the statement "We don't know if Christianity works because it's never been tried." Luther would say, "to speak of trying is to destroy the Gospel of salvation by faith alone." A Christian cannot speak of good works without destroying grace. Which is why James is a "strawy Gospel." Calvin demands good works to "make your calling and election sure," but is able to turn "the pious use of the sword" into a holy calling. With this history in the background, and with the 2nd Amendment in hand, what could you possible say about the 6th Commandment without renouncing both. Evangelicals have the Left pinned down here. They will now wear them down to irrelevance by ripening the lone wolves.
5-27-22
"The Southern Baptist Moral Meltdown" NY Times. "Southern Baptist Apocalypse" Christianity Today.
And this is only the #Metoo moment. The SBC was founded when Baptists slavers decided they had enough hectoring from the Northern brethren. Where do you begin here without razing the whole edifice to the ground? Why it barely makes the news in the Times any more--those dead bones are not coming back. Russell Moore who left the SBC to seek the rewards of divinity at Christianity Today, and Bethabel Moore, who left to hawk her wares everywhere, have found themselves holding the moral high ground with no one to talk to. You cannot have an audience outside of the political realm, and there are only two sides to chose from. These people are accustomed to living high, and the rewards of divinity will not follow you "without the camp, bearing His reproach." "Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits." The icy winds of unbelief decimated Christianity Today churches long ago. Once you leave the ammo dump (Evangelicalism), there's no place to go--except Rainbow. Brooks could have saved himself the trouble. European churches emptied when they found the had a duplicate in the EU. American Zion will now seek to regroup under MAGA--with Trump or not. Gun culture is now the prevailing dogma of the Culture War. If the Antichrist showed up with a machine gun, they would anoint him and declare the Apocalypse. The doctrine is that vague. The assets are worth a king's ransom: an empire built on slave labor and the widow's mite. And they worry about what the shivering masses on the other side of the Wall will do to America. They would deport them all to Hell if that would keep them out, for "no man careth for their soul." 99% of them are Conservative, and many are Bible reading Christians. The rest are "brown unto harvest," the likes of which the world has never seen. And the custodians of the Good News are consumed by #Metoo. And they have yet to deal with slavery.
5-27-27
"How Does It End? Fissures Emerge Over What Constitutes Victory in Ukraine) NY Times
They better hurry while there’s something left to end. Putin’s meat grinder is just getting started and he wants everyone to watch in real time. This is the stuff of his next parade in Red Square. He does war honor, as they would say in the old days. And the shelf-dated ammo dumps of the West are almost empty–they’re hanging on to the latest toys to play with themselves. This is the Left’s “Let’s give war a chance” butcher bill. Just give us bodies, or a hand on the video games, and we’ll give you all the latest toys, live-stream intelligence to target Russian generals, bigger guns–high tech against low tech, Iphone man against flip-phone man. And Russia was even supposed to pay reparations. At this rate, Putin will end up with all of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the world is getting impatient and high prices are the last thing you need on election day. Ukraine did not, and cannot prevail, Putin is not going away, and everyone (except Ukraine) wants to move on. “You’re fighting for family values (versus decadent European values),” Russian generals tell their soldiers. Orban is now ten times the menace he was before. Putin adds a world class pantry to his world class gas station (with Nukes). Berlin is now cheek and jowl with an angry bear. Europe can expect a new flood of refugees, etc, etc. Appman is left with a lot of broken crockery. Waiting for Friedman's next column. He had Putin all canceled out. End of History man told himself he could do away with “the history of blood” (war violence) as the chief instrument of statecraft. No more “back channels, off the record” dirty politics. Sermon on the mount nations don’t do that. And thus ended this sabbath day’s sunday school lesson. War, Putin knows, is Hell’s Black Sabbath. “We don’t know if Christianity works,” Protestant/Catholics crow when they revell in their cups, “because it's never been tried.” “Leave off sermon on the mount preachiness,” Kissinger keeps saying. “We do know that it doesn’t work, because the EU tried it.” “Statecraft is back,” screeched an article in Foreign Affairs. This was the first Woke war. The end is bound to be a rude awakening.
5-24-22
"Kissinger says Ukraine should concede territory to Russia to end war" (WPost)
But the West demands that old order land grabs cannot be tolerated if the world is to go back to End of History Perpetual Peace. Ukrainians believed what they were sold: 1) European values are on the right side of history and therefore irreversible, 2) that custodians of Democracy will not abandon those who show day by day (in real time) that they are willing to pay the price of freedom, 3) that the latest advanced toys will level the playing field, and 4) that their sacrifice has earned them the right to join the EU--all gone now. At this point only two solutions remain: 1) Up the ante--Kissinger thinks this will turn into world war, and 2) give Putin what he needs to save face and stay in power. Which will leave Ukraine with tens of thousands of dead, its cities destroyed, its industrial sector and ports gone, and the Bear in the house. Europe sowed dragon's teeth here and will reap for encouraging all this: they will now be forced to dance with the Bear, which will make them anxious enough to cling to the US and keep them from making mischief with China. Intended or not, this is a strategic masterstroke on Biden/Blinken's part. 45 billion is about two days interest on a war with China. Putin keeps Ukraine in its traditional axis with Russia and stops "European values." The Left suffered a massive "canceling" defeat, as well as loss of momentum on Climate. History is back after 77 years. That is the shock. Kissinger says deal with it, it's back, back channels, off the record, so on and so forth, dirty business.....
5-21-22
"The Memory of George Floyd Is Literally Fading Across America" NY Times
BLM under the bus. Poor Ukraine (what's left of it) will soon go back to "the" Ukraine. The richest soil on the planet--why Walmart bread is sold out by noon since the invasion. "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox (fatted calf) and hatred therewith" (Pro.15). Lot's mouth watered over the "well watered plain." Abraham, "until the saints rest from their labors," knew well-digging in the desert was the narrow lot of a pilgrim." Historians have long pointed out that whoever controls Ukraine will control the world. Harvard man in Der Spiegel tells the West, "Make a deal with Putin quickly before you burn the world down with MAD (mutually assured destruction)." "If Putin retreats," he says, "they'll kill him back in Moscow." Washington thinks the Nuke threat is a bluff. Scholz is not about to find out. They bet the house that a Western pile-on would cause an uprising back home. Sanctions have been no more painful in Moscow than in Berlin. And the Left is losing interest fast. The novelty is gone. Everyone paid their woke dues. As with BLM, this was a champagne liberal foxhole conversion. Seen one bombed city, seen them all. It's like looking at a thousand pictures from Mars. How much red sand can you look at without losing the initial burst of outrage. Twitter is the reinvention of the reincarnation wheel: a constant reminder of history's mind numbing boredom--"nothing new under the sun." Even real-time war no longer fascinates. I think they lost interest when the threat of Nukes dissipated. Barely a mention of Zelensky. But it was NY Times zealotry that made Ukrainians throw caution to the wind, thinking that their last stand for freedom and democracy had earned them the lasting gratitude and devotion of their admirers, and that they would be with them to the end. They were but the latest App for Iphone man. And that coveted black soil is now even richer. The black soil will remain. The Germans hesitate because there are so many Germans in it.
5-20-22
"The individual works for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and is in their 30s, according to the newspaper" (Washington Post).
"They" got in a fight (hopefully not with one hand tied behind "their" backs) in South Korea while traveling with Biden. "They," "the (ahem) individual," likely made use of the wrong bathroom(s) in a country where such things are frowned upon, and Biden obviously does not carry "their" infamous Uni-Loos with "them" when "they" travel. Not sure why the WP needed to tells us that "the individual" was in "their 30s," which, if there is more than one (legions, no doubt), their collective age would be at least 60 if two, and 90 if three, leaving them way beyond the age of retirement. If "the individual" remains jailed in Korea, there will, no doubt, be a seat (or seats) empty on the way home, and, depending on whether "the individual" identifies as one, or two, or legion, or whether they all sit on one side of the plane, or if the airline has the right to know that--all that could severely affect the safety of the flight, ballast, being, as it is, a very definable commodity and its essence highly regulated by the FAA. In which case a single pronoun is more dangerous than a surface-to-air-missile. It's a good thing the Taliban does not traffic in such wares. Although, the confusion of bad grammar not doubt hastened the exist of their foes. "Quinctilius Varus, give me back my (3) legions," Augustus wailed in despair years after. That's 20,000 individuals. If President Biden said that today, he could easily refer to just 3, regardless if, as the WP reminds us, "they are in their 30s." The question to Judge Jackson (or Brooks, below) is whether she is still capable of judging between one of more "individuals" without having to become a mathematician.
5-20-22
"You wind up in a world in which a Supreme Court nominee like Ketanji Brown Jackson has to dodge the seemingly basic question of what a woman is. I don’t blame her. I don’t know how to answer that question anymore, either" (Brooks, NY Times).
Someone refer Brooks to the article on the right. May we at least assume that both the person he threw under the bus and the person he took up with after (the Wheaton girl), are women? Jackson did not "dodge the question." She flatly states that she too doesn't know because she's "not a biologist." The Pharisees couldn't answer "the question" because they were too depraved to be honest. Their disease is called wokenness: "they feared the people." Jackson feared not gaining a plum job. Brooks fears losing a plum job. It's called wokeness, preaching to the choir, saying what one does not believe, hypocrisy. If you do that long enough you'll turn yourself inside out and you'll believe anything and everything and nothing. The Bible calls it "doublemindedness." On this powder keg all it takes is "the king has no clothes" to effect an explosion. Here, merely to state the obvious is to "speak with authority." Incidentally, a king with no clothes would at least leave Brooks (or Jackson) with no illusion as to "what a man is." Until such a time, someone direct him to the wall. A crude instrument, to be sure, but an ox goad or jawbone will suffice when you can't miss.
5-20-22
"It is tempting to see Ukraine’s stunning successes against Russia’s aggression as a sign that with sufficient American and European help, Ukraine is close to pushing Russia back to its positions before the invasion. But that is a dangerous assumption. A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal" (NYTimes). With their readers howling the Editors of the Times admit:
Defeat--the war cannot be won. Historically, Russia loses two armies before settling down to real butchery with the third: "Russians always beat Prussians." Besides, the US already has what it wanted--a rearming Germany to lead the EU into economic Blitzkrieg against China. Macron wants to keep the killpit going to turn the EU into the BEAST--both Scholz and Macron see a Ukraine victory as a liability. They don't want the orphan. As inflation rises, so do Republican prospects in upcoming elections. The war will feature heavily. Democrats need to end it quickly. Ukraine destroyed, its people dead, Putin rewarded.
Biden/Blinken are flying blind and could realistically fall into the abyss: Real War. Cut your losses and get out while you can is what the Times is saying here. The Lefthawk purists accuse the Times of treason. They want Ukrainians to fight to the last man. They'll have to. The Times is cutting its own losses here. They engaged in warmongering. They were at the front of the baying mob.
That ordinary Ukrainians have been lured into a killpit by the West and their stooge: Zelensky. They are now further lured into thinking that the US will remain on their side in perpetuity, and that the US will help them reach their stated goals. They will soon find themselves under the bus. The mob is looking for new excitement, and Biden needs this over with soon or the Republicans will end it when they win the next election. Utopia is fiction fueled by emotion. Ukraine will be the graveyard of the Left. They bet the house, and the house is about to fall.
5-17-22
China, The BEUST, Wokeness, and the Bend of History
Scholz was summoned to Washington to be told, “Look, the US is tied down with China, Putin wants to drive his tanks through the Brandenburg Gate, and the cowboys will not ride to the rescue." That reality is the catalyst behind the newfound focus of the EU. As Ukraine goes, so goes the EU, the thinking is. Obama was so fed up with EU foot dragging that he lumped them all together and basically served them up under one ambassador–more trouble than they were worth when it came to global politics, because the Europeans were always cutting their own deals with China, forever undercutting US strategic policy. Trump threatened to cut the prodigals off completely—”cowboys,” they sniffed. “We’re cutting off your allowance, Olaf,” Scholz was told, “you’re on your own.” They must have expected little, because when Scholz went back and announced Blitzkrieg, Washington erupted in glee. They immediately summoned Scholz’s second and gave him the red carpet treatment. Lighting a fuse under Scholz was a strategic earthquake. With the Germans in charge of Europe, the US could now afford to wager the house by giving Ukraine everything they want as long as they're willing to hurl themselves into the meatgrinder. The Germans respond to fear, and what goes on in Ukraine is obviously what Germans fear. Which is why the US is pulling out all the stops in helping Ukraine–not to save the EU, but to bring the EU to heel. The US will now control the EU through Ukraine–and the Balkans. With the EU squarely behind it, the US has checkmated China with room to spare. A brilliant move. All the more so, if the EU maneuvers this into a position where they can dictate terms to Russia--a previously unthinkable proposition. Which would make the EU more powerful than the US…..
No one thinks that Ukraine can win the war. Nor that Russia will relinquish the Donbas land bridge to Crimea. Or that Crimea will ever be part of Ukraine again. Poor Ukraine, like poor BLM, is already under the bus, as larger fish are already being fried. While Balkan states (those under the Bear's paw) howl for vengeance to teach the Bear a lesson, their older brethren are looking on with ruthless calculation. There's hay to be made here. The two heavies, Macron and Scholz are utterly wokeless. Macron, unscrupulous, his nation bogged down in internal ethnic strife, knows that, on its present trajectory, France will quickly succumb to the sum total of its insurmountable burdens. The flesh is weak, and the spirit is not even willing. A hyper-EU will breathe new life into these dead bones, and Macron is full of ambition. Like Scholz, he's on the Ukraine bandwagon only to the degree required by church Woke. Neither he nor Scholz think Ukraine will prevail. The US doesn't think Ukraine will prevail. Only Ukraine thinks Ukraine will prevail. The rest see nothing here but war on the cheap. A war with China would cost hundreds of trillions. $40 billion is about two days interest on that--and no body bags. For the US, Ukraine serves as a goad to control the EU in order to contain China. For the EU, Ukraine resolves all the petty rivalries that keep it from becoming a hyper-power. Their original kingdom of god charter dictated a globalist and universal framework to solve the problems of mankind. Instead, the globe flooded into the kingdom of god and Brexit happened because "there was no more room" at the banquet. Immigration not only cost them Britain, but created the wrecking ball that is Orbanism. But they couldn't change their doctrine without wrecking their charter. Secretly, they kept up appearances by paying billions to dictators to keep refugees away from Europe. Their Navies have become very aggressive at sea. The handwriting was on the wall long ago. The kingdom of god was dead. Again, as Protestants often smirk: “we don’t know if Christianity works because it’s never been tried.” By Christianity they mean what Pagans think of when they read the New Testament: the impossible teachings of the Sermon on the Mount which Luther and Calvin saw as a death sentence. The sermon on the mount was all that was left after they destroyed the Bible with Higher Criticism. With the carnage of war (which they attributed to Augustine/Calvin/Luther Just War Doctrine) behind them, they now embarked on a path not dissimilar to Marxism except for the violence: this the old apostolate still refer to as die christliche liebes Ethic (“swords into plowshares”). Now, as the EU confronts an existential crisis in Putinism, it is forced to give up its sermon on the mount charter. Violence will now be met with violence. So much for church EU. The EU was the Vatican of the Left. The sermon on the mount from below: focus on the least of these, the poor, the oppressed, the outcasts, the different, the genderer, or whatever you think you are–Big Government will see to it that you get what’s coming to you even if we have to mortgage the whole state to do it–with no war on the horizon, what else is the State for?. Now the State (violence) is back. Which means borders. Which means national integrity, which means Nationalism. Which means the end of identity politics.
Only Ukraine dreams of a quick victory. All Putin needs now is to consolidate his gains: he gets to keep the industrial land bridge to Crimea, a foot in Ukraine’s affairs, and EU values (though these will now disappear under the weight of EU militarism) from making further eastward expansion: Groombow flags are totally absent since the conflict. Putin gets less than he had hoped, but Holy Moscow remains intact, and he gets to plot for another day. He increased his patronage, though at considerable cost. But Russia lives from parade to parade, and those are only meaningful as the price Russia has always been willing to pay to be what it is. Russia doesn’t bat an eye over 50,000 dead. Meanwhile, the new reality gives the EU the excuse to katapult itself to the next stage. With the addition of Sweden and Finland, it will now be defined largely by its heavily fortified eastern flank (and the Nordic part of the EU). Militarism means Conservatism or Authoritarianism. There has never been a militaristic liberal free-wheeling society. Militarism will demand centralization and that will become the United States of Europe, which will rival the US. It could easily absorb Russia and grow even fatter by helping itself to its endless resources. Currently, they hope to contain Putin by letting him keep his small gains, buy themselves time to consolidate into a Superstate, and then squeeze him into submission by giving him no room to maneuver. If they can keep him from going nuclear, they’ve got him. Meanwhile, End of History man Francis is calling on Ukraine to “take one” for “the new birth of freedom.” Putin will be driven out, Russia will become a democracy, and globalism will march on to glory. Their sacrifice will cement the “perpetual peace.” When, in fact, their sponsors are jockeying for position on their (Ukrainian) graves, while trying out their latest toys (realtime video games). But the real loser here is the Left or Progressivism–and China. Ukraine will be its graveyard. Putin began the war to keep Rainbow flags from flying over Moscow. He likely made them disappear from EU Capitals as well. War is the Patriarchy in full dress. The only women you see are the ones fleeing the Front. The Ganders are nowhere to be seen. No need for Biden’s Bathrooms on the field of slaughter. Putin ended the Culture War with a stroke the minute he invaded, which is why he invaded (or so he said) in the first place.
So what happens to Ukraine? 1) Joining NATO is out of the question, 2) as is EU membership in the near future, which leaves it 3) with one foot in Europe while 4) firmly tethered to the Bear, as the settlement will leave Putin with both Crimea and the Donbas land bridge to it. There goes the earlier goal: to deny Putin anything that could be seen as a reward for aggression. There will be no war reparations from Russia. An enlarged NATO will likely be enough to curb agression into NATO. Yet Ukraine will remain a sore spot. The US got what what it wanted in a rearmed EU. Why would it keep bankrolling Ukraine–what’s left of it? Investment will be risky. It contains 25% of the world’s black soil, making it the best agricultural land in the world. The “well watered plain” made Lot’s mouth water. But Abraham did not wander in the desert because he loved digging wells–which Isaac had to redig after the Philitines plugged them. When it’s all said and done, I see no more here than “Remember, Russians always beat Prussians,” a no man’s land drenched with human blood. In the end, Russia gets something for its pains, the EU is reinvigorated, and the US gets a serious ally to counter China. In Africa, a leader asked, “Why are they fighting?” Better. How could they possibly think they could prevail?
5-4-22
The Tower of Global
“Shut up, shut up,” says Tom Friedman to Biden, Blinken, and Austin, “before you get us all killed.” Or essentially that. He thinks they’re running off at the mouth because they’re flying by the seat of their pants. They don’t have a strategy, and without one they’re almost doomed to run into a nuclear buzzsaw. Scholz is till dragging his feet, even though Zelensky daily reproaches him for not sending 88 of the new Leopard tanks–these things hit a bullseye running at full speed over rough terrain. Today Der Spiegel dug up the old files of the horse trading that went on with the Russians in the days leading up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Germans wanted Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to become buffer states like Finland. They wanted nothing to do with Ukraine. Their biggest fear? That Russia descends into chaos and the Nukes are put on the black market. If Putin goes down, says Friedman, all bets are off (and all this, he says, for an obscure patch that wants to become a nation). Here be monsters. Scholz is where he is because the Americans told him, “we’ll be right behind you.” But Scholz is within range of Putin, he can scarcely afford more refugees, and his economy will crash if Putin cuts the gas. Today, the New York Times wondered why Putin is holding his fire, when taking heavy losses. Well, that statement probably provides the answer: he wants the world to see that he’s not the monster he’s made out to be. Or perhaps he just wants to keep his enemies on their toes. Scholz is clearly not happy with American rhetoric, and all Putin needs to do to win is keep Germany from becoming militarily assertive. Two weeks ago I only filled my truck half full with diesel when it was $4.48 thinking it would go down. Today it is $5.29. The Bear has food and oil enough. I have become accustomed to Walmart fresh baked bread. These days, shelves are empty at 3 oclock. Running into the harried manager I demanded an explanation. and when he was too non-committal I called after him, “I’ve got sheep,” which he recognized for what it was, a threat (if you know military strategy) to cut own my lines of communication (my supply line–Walmart) and live on mutton (like Sherman enroute to Savannah). Without missing a beat he shouted back, “You’ll outlive us all.” The man knows his tactics, as you would expect of a manager. For weeks I couldn’t get my favorite creamer—hazelnut. The manager tells me that as soon as the oil I need for my truck comes in it’s gone in minutes–the big companies are waiting for it. Lamb milk replacer went from $43 to $60 in a week. No one can get penicillin. The price of meat may be high—but a friend is thinking about selling his flock rather than feeding them at a loss. What’s behind all this now? Putin. Biden rode into the Oval on Covid, because Trump didn’t have an answer, because the question only came later. Now they want this thing over with before people take to the streets.
At the bottom of all this is the hope that Putin is a one-of and that all will eventually revert to the agendas of globalism. But the underlying premise of the new world order was that nations will now sit down at the table and negotiate in good faith. But now a superpower trampled on all the rules, and threatens to weaponize everything at hand for the sake of self interest. Europe is trying to penalize Brazil for destroying “the lungs of the world,” the Amazon forest, because a tree in the Amazon protects life in Amsterdam. On the other hand, if Brazil turns the Amazon into farmland, it could become a superpower. Human nature is what Friedman is now left to contend with in his quest to tame Mother Nature. In Friedman’s world, human nature is part of Mother Nature, because evil can only be freighted in on religion. The End of History was meant to be a Wake on religion and on the End of the World. They all admit that they were convinced that the World had finally converted en masse, and that from here on out things would be different: no more total war. Now more than half the world is sitting at Putin’s table. “Energy independence,” everyone cries. And food, computer chip, etc., independence. That is, every nation for itself again, because trust is gone. History will now commence again in its old familiar form right where it left off in 1945. “Wars and rumors of war,” for History is the history of blood (as those who write it used to say). The notion of the End of Time has completely disappeared as a genuine subject, because History has been on an upward trajectory for almost a century. The health care system almost guaranteed you three score and ten. Ironically, the most atheist government in the world has the fastest growing Chrisitan population: China.
5-2-22
"The war isn’t over, but Ukraine is already prosecuting Russian crimes" (Washington Post headline).
On top of all the death and destruction they brought on Ukraine, they also committed crimes? But the rules of war are the rules of war, to be observed so that everything is done decently and in order. If Putin can't play by the rules, let him stay on his side of the border. I have yet to hear under which circumstances unleashing nuclear bombs would be considered a war crime, because using nuclear bombs does not violate the rules of war: 1) Truman did so, and 2) most nations have them. The President swears to use the Button when he takes the oath of office. The Bomb is but a larger sword in the hands of "the pious magistrate." When the Allies burned Dresden to the ground with its women and children in it, there was not a single instance of this, although, the Archbishop acknowledged recently that this necessary (though tragic) act "diminished humanity." The Rev doesn't tell us if "diminishing humanity" rises to the level of sin, for I have never heard it labeled as a crime. I expect Putin will confess that "the extras" committed here likely also (tragically) "diminished humanity." But does it rise above that? It will likely depend on how many Russians Putin gets to pack on the jury. After all, Stalin got a say on which Nazis to hang. The fog of war. Politics, they say, by other means. Napoleon won battles, his enemies sniffed, because he did not fight like a gentleman. We will have to wait for the evidence to see if Putin really violated the rules of war. For rules of war there are. Hell too, Sherman would say, keeps a Sabbath. But you did not live to see the two Good Wars, General Sherman.
Frustrated Putin is now telling his Russians that the reason the war is stalled in Donbas is that the US is fighting a Robo-war with its satellites and Intelligence, and that Ukrainians on the ground are little more than stage props and window dressing. This is what Scholz has been getting at. Benhadad, in the time of Elisha, no matter what he did, found himself checkmated at every turn, because Israel had an unfair advantage in using the services of a real prophet. To even the odds, old school Germans like Habermas (below) think, Putin will go nuclear.
5-2-22
The New York Times Calls for Prayer
“How to Pray to a God You Don’t Believe In,” blares the headline. The author, a law professor, is an observant Jew, and an atheist. He has going for him, unlike New York Times religious regulars (Douthat, Brooks, and the go-to Rev Tim Keller), that he speaks with conviction: “I disbelieve, therefore I speak.” They doubt and mumble. “I would that ye be hot or cold.” This troika would soon reduce him to lukewarmness and doubt. I was hoping for a Comments feature on the article to see what other monsters lie quaking in the mud even further down waiting to be hatched. We were deprived. This is the most sincere thing I’ve read on these pages in months–perhaps they feared a revival. It so trumps Keller’s soupy drivel that it almost sounds inspired. The unconviction seems so sincere and genuine that I little doubt that it would reduce MAGAbbas rioters to tears. For there, “they unbelieve, and therefore, they chant”: Give us MAGAbbas! "Let him ask in faith," James said. But this man has to pray in unbelief as an atheist. The foundations have clearly been destroyed, for "faith cometh only by hearing, and hearing only by the Word of God." The End of History made prayer redundant: peace and plenty from here on out. "Nuclear war," Scholz shudders, is a real possibility. (Somehow the Frankfurter Zeitung managed to put a popup window on my computer--they're on the Front in Donbas--the head of Russia's armed forces almost got killed). Scholz is himself an atheist. Yet here is an atheist who feels the need to pray. But to whom do you pray when the foundations of faith are not longer there? For a "famine will come of hearing the word of God." Even while preachers are talking with their Bibles open. The heavens will be as brass, and God "will not answer." No use gathering in churches, because you'll only hear what you hear on Twitter. Evangelicals chant in colosseums, because they no longer have the faith required to wait in the closet. There's nothing out there, this atheist says, and yet I have to pray. "I waited for the Lord my God, and patiently did bear; At length to me he did incline my voice and cry to hear (Ps.40)." Their innumerable "exceptions" to what God said have made a sieve out of their Bibles, through which "the enemy will now come in like a flood." "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." The NY Times can't seem to stop talking about "anxiety," which in time of fear and terror will seem like a luxury. "Resist the Devil," James said, "and he will flee from you." Jesus gave a plain example of how this is done: "It is written," he parries over and over. A plain quoting of the Scripture, uncluttered by the Dreck and rot of the clerics.
4-30-22
der christlichen Liebesethik
“Christian ethic of love”
“Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter” (Jurgen Habermas–a European atheist).
Der christlche Liebesethik is what underwrites the EU (kingdom of god, sermon on the mount--all small caps--if you read the New Testament in all small caps, you have the EU charter). It's all that was left of the Bible when World Council of Church preachers were done with it. God Was Dead so they cobbled the fragments into church EU. The EU took up where their now empty churches left off. The phrase is what they think best summarizes the Sermon on the Mount. They use it as a cudgel against Evangelical literalists, who, with Luther and Calvin, see in the Sermon on the Mount the potential to overturn the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, and, like James, opens the door to works salvation. Worse, the fact that Marxist liberals universally clothe themselves in it, along with its anti-militaristic tone, and terminal view of marriage, makes it alien to Protestant ears. Which is why they feel the need to multiply guns, and wives, in equal measure. Putin lashed out to protect his church from encroaching "European values." His gods should have toppled these Dagons. The great irony is that even in the hands of EU Rainbow advocates, the sermon on the mount sounds more credible, and stirs up more hope, than the violent antics Evangelicals do "in Jesus name." Both Pagans and Liberals do no more than corroborate the testimony of those who heard the Sermon on the Mount in person: "Never man spake like this man." Obviously, they assumed that they understood what they heard Him say.
Scholz was the last man standing in the rush to start World War III, because (he kept saying--I see he's still not giving Zelinsky the new Leopard 2--he wants 88 of them--the cost $6 mil each), “we cannot have nuclear war.” Where did he get this? When leaders like Scholz find themselves alone, who do they turn to? On the eve of making the decision to open the door to Syrian refugees, Merkel talked to an old (liberal) preacher friend of her father’s? Scholz sees himself as potentially starting WWIII and nuclear war. He will now turn and consult with thinkers whose writing most people would cast aside as intricate rubbish. I opened the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and said, “Jurgen Habermas, I thought you were dead.” If you studied the History of Ideas back in the Dark Ages, you would read Habermas. And here he was on the front page, at the end of days. This is the dinosaur of the dinosaurs, the last of the God is Dead kingdom of god (nonetheless) Marxist pacifists whose ideas underwrote the EU charter . His kind became extinct with the End of History. He’s the last of the World Council of Church types who, when the US took over after Germany almost burned the world down twice, were left with nothing to do. Germany didn’t need a political system because they became stepchildren of their conquerors. In a huff, they decamped to Frankfurt and in a fit of rebellion embraced what the US dreaded most: Marxism. Structuralism, Deconstruction, Feminism, Liberation Theology, Critical Race Theory and Globalism all come from what is known as the Frankfurt School. They used the tools Marx created to expose Capitalism (and its handmaiden, religion) to show how Western society is still rigged in the interests of the rich and entitled. They would show the world how the rich and powerful had engineered the law and religion to suit their own interests, then turn around and re-engineer the laws, customs, and institutions for the benefit of the many (by institutions they meant things like the notion of property, which the rich invented in order to seize for themselves what should be common to all. In short, property is theft. Then the rich invented the notion of marriage to pass on what they stole (property) to their offspring–this is intoxicating stuff). Twitter is this method of war in the hands of the mob instead of government shills. Marxists allowed the masses to see the Capitalists as craven, covetous hypocrites and so turned the masses against them. The conceit of the Marxists is that human conduct is determined entirely by material conditions. Consequently, they tell themselves, since the dispossessed will always vastly outnumber the rich, the dispossessed will always be on the side of those who stand to empower them. Most immigrants who come to America are poor, and yet, it is the non-material (spiritual) decadence of the Left that drives them to vote Conservative. That moral decadence should be of any consequence is maddening to a Marxist. The #MeToo debacle was entirely the moral (non-material) decadence of left wing Marxists. It had zero to do with “control of the means of (monetary) production.” Morality to Marx and Engels was another invention to control the masses, and could be dismissed out of hand. It came back at them with a pitchfork in #MeToo. But back to “how do you change history.”
So we tore down the old system, now what? Here now we come to Marx’s famous 11th Thesis of Feuerbach: “the point of teaching history is to change it.” Change it how? Politics. Who cares what you think or how many of you think it. It does you no good unless you can turn your ideas into public policy: money and enforcement. That is, State classrooms, where you get to indoctrinate susceptible youth with your version of the facts: government brainwashing, government funded activism in the classroom. Otherwise who cares what you think or say. You can rant all day in public on anything you want. But in the classroom you hand out degrees on this stuff, and your livelihood will depend on how well you have pleased your teachers whose grading will determine whether you get that plum job or not.
In the wake of the two most destructive wars in history, guess what was foremost on the minds of the Frankfurt School: global peace. This means they’ll have to dismantle the notion of the nation state, with its boundaries and the militaries needed to defend them. The State was but a bigger piece of property–the crime of theft. Borders mark property, and property is theft. To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability. This will require a lot of change. Marx had no illusions that this would require much bloodshed. Enter two Word Wars and the World Council of Churches, who, finding the Bible full of myths and fables, yet clung to the notion that Jesus was a good man (led by God, if there was one), and that His message of love was the future of mankind: “der christliche Liebesethik.” The EU is the sermon on the mount (small cap). I was equally surprised to see the name of another heavyweight of that era in the Zeitung: the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who advised Roosevelt that the best way to avoid war with Germany was not to rearm. Niebuhr was of the “Jesus was a good man” persuasion like most European theologians, and counseled Roosevelt accordingly. Billy Graham later counseled Nixon to bomb the cities of Cambodia. No leader, since the foundation of the world, has dared to go to war without checking with God. Billy Graham, as a literalist, counselled Caesar to use the sword for good Ro. 13). World Council of Church types were not literalists (the boiled Jesus teaching down to "love"), so Niebuhr would have Roosevelt apply the Sermon on the Mount (rather than Paul). Now, due to “Der Schock über den Angriffskrieg” (the shock of war), Germans are scrambling to find their old manuals which talk about such things. Still alive is Herr Habermas. He remembers the last war, and the Cold War. Up till now, standard German dogma was simply: “Die Überzeugung, dass Kriege gegen eine atomare Macht sowieso nicht gewonnen werden können und man daher all seine Hoffnungen nur auf Kompromisse und Annäherungsversuche setzen darf” (You cannot win against a nuclear power, your only hope is compromise). Your only option thus is “Jesus’ ethic of love.” Niebuhr, when he saw that the mountain would not come to him, pulled stakes and went to the mountain. Hitler had to be stopped with violence. Much of Germany is now clamoring for Scholz to throw of World Council of Church pacifism and stop Putin with brutal force. The ethic of love worked for the EU as long as the US was there to do the killing. The Program worked, because it had never been tried. Now, the leftist Spiegel is calling for Germany to develop nuclear weapons. The shock of all this is what now roils German newspapers. Luther taught them that if Abel doesn’t get to Cain before Cain gets to him, Abel is dead: kill or be killed. Jesus did not improve on Abel. But somehow the EU hoped that sheer mass would carry the day, and the ethic of love would carry all before it, that politics without violence was possible, and that the sermon on the mount would ultimately come to the gates of Moscow. That was the 77 year End of History. The Program of the fathers is now being tried and the children are howling for nuclear weapons. Jesus, they may still say, may have been a good man. But until all men have become like him–well, we’re not about to become “like sheep for the slaughter all day long.” It remains to be seen what the EU will now turn into. The kingdom of god was seen as a refuge after theologians began saying that God is Dead. Now what? Scholz is being forced to hand over tanks. He likely thinks Putin will use nuclear weapons when cornered.
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The first American volunteer has been killed in Ukraine. He was there without the consent of the American government which advises all Americans to leave immediately. Should he, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, be considered a martyr if he professed to be a Christian? For he took up arms, not to defend his homeland, but to war against evil and the enemies of democracy. Here in America, the ability to project violence is entirely on the side of professing Christians. Why not use that power here at home to advance the cause of good? Augustine, Luther and Calvin taught that the sword in the hands of Christians is a cause for good. The forces of evil in America surpass anything the Puritans faced when they took matters into their own hands and seized the government by executing their king. The Revolution was an insurrection of blood. In the wake of a Trump landslide, why not do what needs to be done, and have Trump pardon the actors? Legality would not be a factor since a Presidential pardon would grant immunity. Morally, the act would fall far short of the measures taken by Luther, Calvin and Cromwell. It would most certainly end the Culture War. Should pious Christians, like the hymn singing Huguenots, once again (in the words of the Reformers) make ample use of the sword?
If you presented the idea to average Evangelicals in those terms, what would be the reaction? Squeamishness? That is, the fact that you’re a vocal advocate of the death penalty doesn’t mean that you would inject the poison. Would you have any problem listening to a preacher who volunteers to do so under the supervision of the State? Would you feel troubled if we found a manuscript of the New Testament that clearly proves that Silas was in the pay of Rome as a hangman until his death–with Paul’s consent. Would that seem contradictory? Would it matter if the person next to you had conducted 500 hangings—of men and women convicted by a jury of their peers? If the person next to you was known to have killed 15 men legally under the law of “stand your ground,” would you consider him a genuine Christian? When the Fundamentalist preacher Frank Norris, who killed an unarmed man in his office, was asked how he had not committed murder like Cain, he replied, “It is only murder if you kill with hate.” His two churches, in Texas and Michigan, overflowed. So why not make ample use of the sword within the confines of a Presidential pardon? Look what just happened in Germany. The leftwing Spiegel is now calling for a hard military response to counter Putin. What does that mean? It means meeting Putin with lethal force. It means what it’s always meant: killing Russians until Putin changes course. The New Testament would not blink an eye at such language. Government is “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” The Anabaptists never blinked an eye over such language. Only a fool would deny that the New Testament plainly says that God ordained the Government to kill (Rom. 13). That has never been the issue, “for God ordained that offenses shall come, but woe unto the man by whom they come.” In other words, long before God ordained the sword, He ordained the damnation of those who will bear it. The issue has always been this: if you ask a pagan if, in a plain simple reading of the Bible, Jesus and his followers would take human life, they would give a resounding “No!” (This is the perception of what Jesus taught that gave rise to the “ethic of love” that underwrites the EU). Which is why, they say, the Bible is unrealistic and its teaching cannot be practiced. There has long been a mocking parallel of this among Christains. To wit: “We’ll never know if Christianity works, because it’s never been tried.” And here they can point to two examples: the consistent violation of the 6th and 7th Commandments, both of which underwrite the Sermon on the Mount, the doctrine of Christ’s kingdom that creates both universal admiration and disbelief in equal measure. Such a world may someday come, but not while evil exists on it. Christ taught that this is what the Church must and will be amidst the evil that is the world. This is what the Church was until Constantine took it under his protection and absorbed it into human Government to the present day. Now the Church had to sanitize Caesar's bedroom (lust–the 7th Commandment), and sanction his wars (the 6th Commandment). Those who objected (the Anabaptists) were slaughtered. The common saying here is, Anabaptists could not survive without the violence of the State to protect them. Abel survived until God chose him to bear witness of how God’s flock will march through history: “as sheep for the slaughter.” The Bible doesn’t record a single word of his. Yet, “he being dead, yet speaketh.” Only Christ, Hebrews says, “speaketh better things than Abel.”
The Crusaders rode off to rescue the Holy Land with the Pope’s blessing, all within the confines of Augustine’s Doctrine of Just War, which nullifies the 6th Commandment when the cause is just. In fact, Luther told his princes that they were commanded to kill peasants in order to save Germany from the chaos of Antichrist. Under this banner, war is merely a social function—as David said carelessly to Joab (you know things are bad when a ruthless man like Job is having second thoughts) when Uriah was struck down– “don’t worry about it, war is (heh) war.” It's what you sign up for when you take the king’s shekel—it’s not all playing cards, idleness, and fancy uniforms. The great Calvinist Stonewall Jackson would sit on his horse relishing a peach amidst men crying for their mothers with their last breath, and say piously, “God was merciful to us today.” Here he was not obligated to stoop down to give the dying conscript beneath his feet his last drink of water. He was fulfilling his calling. This was his workshop. The man beneath his feet was a cog in the larger framework of God’s eternal decrees, destined to die as he was now dying, just as God had ordained that Jackson relish his peach without as much as looking at him. Jackson and Lee considered blasphemy what their opposite, “hardened sinner” Sherman (his own words) said: “War is all Hell.” But the sword, according to Augustine, Luther, and Calvin, was put in the hands of “pious magistrates and soldiers” for good, to promote the Church against Antichrist. The calling of Luther’s “hangman” and of Calvin’s torturers was no less sacred than the calling to preach the Gospel. Lee, Jackson and (to this day) all their preachers would renounce you as a heretic if you wondered if Lee and Jackson had anything to confess. Cardinal Richelieu, Calvin’s contemporary, made thousands of people disappear as a member of the King’s cabinet. On his deathbed he was asked, “Father, would you not like to forgive your enemies before you die?” “I have no enemies,” he gasped, “but the enemies of the State.” And those are, of course, the enemies of God, and whoever does not have the same enemies as God, is himself the enemy of God. Augustine, Calvin, and Luther killed only the enemies of God. The State is ordained of God to kill (Ro. 13), which means politicians kill for God, and those who deny this “resist the ordinance of God,” which is heresy. As long as you kill with political sanction, they say, you have exemption from the 6th Commandment and God cannot judge you for taking life on the Day of Judgment. The State allows you to kill in many instances, in which case you are only acting as the arm of Caesar and need fear no judgment. Of course, if you think you can improve on Caesar, you can kill Caesar himself (which is what the Puritans did when they beheaded their king) for committing treason, that is, holding political views different from your own. In which case, if you succeed you “bear not the sword in vain.” If you fail, you will hang as a murderer, and the King’s chaplains will consign you to eternal damnation for being the enemy of God, for you resisted the ordinance of God when you tried to kill your king, which, had you succeeded, your chaplains would have consigned the king to eternal damnation, likely for apostasy or idolatry, or whatever takes hold. In any case, as with divorce and remarriage, the slightest exception here becomes a universal rule: all divorce/remarriage is ultimately justified (they have not separated a single marriage since Luther and Calvin), and all killing becomes, as David smirks at hardened Joab, routine. You know something is off when Joab has second thoughts. The 6th commandment (like the 7th) has ceased to exist among Evangelicals. Who knows what it really means or how it could be applied in our day. Grant and Sherman had no illusions of what they were engaged in. In contrast, watching the colorful spectacle of two armies about to clash, Lee, mesmerized by the sheer glory of the moment, muttered to those around him, “It is good that we remind ourselves how awful war is, lest we grow too fond of it.” Lee and Jackson gloried in war. Jackson’s hero was Napoleon. He never mentioned Jesus. He referred to God as “Providence.” Those two are the closest the Evangelicals have to saints, and by them lure their children to dance upon those same altars, and drink from the same cup. “War,” to paraphrase Sherman, “is the altar of Hell.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood, and the way of peace they have not known.”
The UN is fully engaged in investigating possible Russian war crimes, that is, instances where people were killed the wrong way. The war, the thinking is, is not a crime itself as long as all the killing is done correctly, which is why the UN will spend hundreds of millions to make sure all the killing and destruction was done in a civilized manner. But the US is not fighting a proxy war because Russia is killing Ukrainians contrary to the Geneva Convention. The West opposes Russia because it invaded a sovereign nation. If they considered the war a crime, why would they now sift the rubble to find more crime? Which means that Russia is only doing what every nation does. If they win, more glory to Russia. If they lose, the hangman. So what is the crime here, trespass? But trespass is not a war crime. Neither is killing, while trespassing, a war crime, provided you kill according to the Geneva Convention, which allows for the killing of civilians as collateral damage. The next nuclear bomb dropped on a city will kill millions, and Just War doctrine would not consider it sin if a Christian pushed the button, provided the cause was just. But the UN is allocating massive resources to get to the bottom of all this and hopefully get a few convictions. Notice, they are focusing on individual soldiers who commit actual atrocities contrary to the rules of war. The UN does not even pretend to gather evidence to convict the mastermind, Putin. You only go after Hitler when he can no longer get back at you, otherwise you focus on low level prison guards. 99% percent of the Nazis who ran the war were soon on US payrolls to counter the Communists. “Don’t,” said bomb-dropper General LeMay, “ever use war and morality in the same sentence.” Calvin would have roasted him in the fire for such blasphemy, because “the pious magistrate” uses war as an instrument to serve His Church against the Antichrist. A nuclear bomb is but a larger sword. Luther and Calvin would not have considered what Putin did a crime. Had they been Russian they would have scurried to square the war with Augustine. The Rev. John Owen, Cromwell’s chaplain, justified Cromwell’s atrocities against the Irish by pointing to the extermination of the Canaanites. And who knows what God intended by the 6th Commandment. The Sermon on the Mount only forbids easy divorce/remarriage, and a happy trigger finger. More it does not. In which case Jesus was probably even more lax than the Pharisees. So what did He improve? Are they saying the Pharisees were not "good men, and until all men are like them...?" The Sermon on the Mount as interpreted by Luther and Calvin would not have caused the Pharisees to raise an eyebrow. On the other hand, Pagans who read it literally think it's sheer fantasy and can be dismissed.
All this was a little too much for Dwight L. Moody. “In that sense,” he said, “I’m a Quaker.” Lincoln addressed his Sunday School, and Moody was nine times at the Front. He loved preaching to troops on the eve of battle. I never learned why he was himself queasy about clubbing his fellow Christian brother on the side of the temple to stun him in order to stab him (stun and stab, over and over). All in a soldier's work, as David told troubled Joab. Just don’t “grow too fond of it” , General Lee said. “Kill them all,” was Stonewall Jackson’s favorite cry. We need more “hangmen '' in the church,” Luther cried. “If I get my hands on him (his enemy Severetus), “he will not leave here alive,” Calvin said. What did he mean by that. He meant, I will kill him. Everyone did that back then, his followers say today. To each his own, said Moody. Judge not, lest you be judged. “ I cannot draw my sword against Virginia,” Lee told Lincoln. He would have preferred to not draw his sword against the US either. So he chose the lesser evil. You could not expect the best soldier in the country to sit on the sidelines and let his talents go to waste. Because war is war. Strategy and tactics. Lee was a lifelong soldier. This was the chance of a lifetime. Stonewall Jackson looked forward to the war’s end, not because of the carnage, but because he couldn’t keep the Sabbath because his opponents refused to. He soon learned that war is Hell’s Black Sabbath.
After the carnage of two world wars, Europe shuddered and said, “enough is enough.” Enter the EU, which is no more than the World Council of Churches become the kingdom of god on earth (that’s all they had left of their Bible). Heaven was a myth, so they declared victory and announced that they were already in it. The EU was Woke before there was Woke. For 72 years it “kicked against the pricks” of their Protector, honing their doctrine of human perfectibility (the US was Capitalist so they imbibed Marxist in resentment–CRT is an import from here). Now that Biden and Blinken turned the shiftless prodigals out, they’re quickly relearning statecraft, that is, War (the King is always First Soldier–we call him Commander in Chief).
4-29-22
The Tower of Fable: Globalist One Hand Clapping
Saving our Planet, Tom Friedman (NY Times), reminds his readers over and over again, requires a global response. If we don’t hang together now, so Ben Franklin, we are destined to hang separately later. Britain contributes 1% of the world’s carbon, yet implemented draconian climate measures far in excess of her carbon output as a form of reparations to Third World countries who still need to burn coal. Biden wanted to anchor US energy policy in the scientific predictions of global impact. In other words, we will sacrifice here to make sure harm doesn’t come to China over there. Putin watches all this with glittering eye. He knows what this is. He cut his eye-teeth in East Germany listening to old World Council of Church Travelers. He knows religion when he sees it. Draconian climate measures will work when all men become like “the Greta brats,” he muses. "Until then,,,," Let the fools hamstring themselves, he croaks. As for me and my house, I’m going to tear down my rigs and build bigger and dig deeper. What do we do, asks Friedman, when a rogue nation controls a third of the world’s food and energy and refuses to play the Good Samaritan? For it is now obvious that Climate can be weaponized with lethal effect. Putin can bring you to heel without even resorting to Nukes, simply by freezing and starving you. He’s threatening a real Cold War now, and Germany is not rushing to build more windmills (the results so far have been dismal–milder winds and less sun). While Friedman hamstrings himself trying to save Mother Earth, Putin is applying the lash to Mother Nature. Smoldering tundra will both drown his enemies, and provide the bread which he will sell dear to them like a modern Joseph. That tundra will become one giant wheat field. Putin is not going to waste time trying to change Mother Nature. The Biblical mandate is to “subdue it.” Which means hitching your plow to it. Whereas Friedman bemoans the loss of his golden beaches, Putin sees golden wheat fields. Friedman thought he had the world in his grasp at the End of History, where the global brotherhood would now be at leisure to bring the Planet (humans are but souls among many others here) to its final perfection, and even bring messianic expertise to the outer Universe. Now Friedman is left to contemplate primitive man in all his glory as men begin to once again fear for their next loaf of bread. Putin doesn’t need Nukes if he controls the price of your bread. And the more he drills (according to Friedman’s charts) the more he warms, and the more he warms, the more bread he gets to sell (or exchange for land like Joseph). Friedman assumed that the world would embrace EU kingdom of god goodness which would usher in an era of peace and plenty. China and Putin look on with glittering eye. Now Germany finds itself shivering under the cat’s paw. Putin has weaponized Climate Change, when he should be fighting Global Warming. Again, the massive UN report intoned several weeks ago, “we have two years to get it right.” Putin gains the most if “you don’t get it right,” because he sees bananas growing out of his Tundra. Now why would he help his enemies out of their predicament? “The peasants are burning everything in the wake of Napoleon’s advance, shall we give the order to stop,” Field Marshal Kutuzov was asked? “Stop?” he cried, “Let it increase.” Friedman may wonder if there are not more arsonists at his table who are secretly fanning the flames he seeks to douse. Jet setting EU kingdom of god goodness looks to "the least of these" at the ends of the earth (or professes to). The Bear just demonstrated that his only concern is getting as much for himself and his own as possible, so that he may sell those who remain their bread dear. This is the old End of History as it approaches the End of Time. Putin's war is but politics by other means, and as these birds of a feather flock together, Friedman beware that, whilst they all preach a chicken in every pot, he find himself alone in the kettle. Nations are never friends. Der Spiegel sounds like someone hi-jacked it. Biden, they sense, will be the last of the cowboys, which means they have only so much time to get their house in order. Up till now it was Covid and Climate nonstop. Not a mention of either since the invasion. The leftwing Spiegel is now calling on Germany to acquire nuclear weapons. Poor Scholz, he thinks they're making a very bad situation worse. NATO has never been more unified. They talk about diminishing Russia. How, he wants to know, do you diminish someone with Nukes?
4-29-22
The Prayer of Faith
“The effectual (energetic) fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth (works) much (James 5).”
You may find it useful to stop this verse at (availeth), and leave the “much” for later, as in “don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.” See, we say, prayer avails much–that is, when you pray. It’s always there in times of crisis. And so it takes on the form of an old wives tale as in “where there’s life, there’s hope,” which people use when there’s little left to say. Until you get to the “much,” the verse reads “the energetic prayer of a righteous man works.” Most people who tell themselves that “prayer works much” are not all that convinced that prayer really works at all, which is why most people don’t pray much–except when they need prayer to avail much. James writes with a very no-nonsense, practical bent. “You lack wisdom, ask of God,” he says (James 1). “You have not, because you ask not.” Just like that. As if you could just talk to God out of the blue without first going through all the serendipities, the decrees, the attributes, and all the other “traditions of the elders.” If you think you can pray on the spot “in time of need,” consider yourself blessed. Likewise, if you can sit and meditate on the Bible without running to the books of the elders to see what it really means. For the time will come when “God will send a famine, not of bread, but of hearing the word of God.” The rich man had Moses and the Prophets just like poor, rich in faith, Lazarus, but “the word could not profit him, not being mixed with faith.” This is striking, because “faith itself cometh by hearing, and hearing by the world of God.” This man’s Bible was destroyed. You resort to books and the systems of the clerics when the Bible has been destroyed. The Pharisees could “devour widows houses” with their interpretations of Moses and the Prophets. They gave a rich man who wanted exemption from the demands of the 4th Commandment (honor your parents) the legal right to throw their parents out of their mansion in a snowstorm, and when the parents sought redress in the Temple court, they would be informed that their son, having availed himself of the law of Korban (gifting one’s assets to God, but retaining the use thereof–heh, heh), was assetless. Everything he had belongs to God, and “will a man rob God? Is that what you’re asking us to do?” This was the rich man’s Bible. “The priests are corrupt, and my people love it so.” The systems of Calvin and Luther can teach you how to proceed like this (you’ll be asked to make a sizable donation–see how “the rich cast in much” alongside the two mites they left the poor widow when they evicted her, Lu. 21). This all had to be vetted by the theologians before it became practice. “It’s the Bible,” the theologians would tell the helpless widow. “It’s out of our hands. Nothing we can do. Two doors down there’s a bargain bin where you are perfectly welcome to help yourself.” This was the rich man’s Bible. Utterly worthless. Which is why he wanted God to conjure up a scare tactic to get the attention of his feasting brethren. No, God said, I didn’t mumble when I gave you Moses and the Prophets. Yes, yes, but the begats, the interpretations, the translations–who’s to know? You’re a rich educated man. How did poor Lazerus know? The poor Bible thumper was there all the time of his feasting, famine in the midst of plenty. When Lazerus read, “for Thou are with me,” faith rose up like an anchor of the soul to convince him that God was with Him.” “When the enemy came in like a flood,” Lazarus stood firm, because he had on the armor of God–a plan reading of Moses and the Prophets. When the enemy comes in like a flood you have no time tell yourself that prayer “works much.” You need to know that you can pray on the spot. Ambling around my father’s shop I would often aimlessly open the door that housed the standby generator, a powerful diesel that would keep chickens and hogs alive when power went out. As soon as you stepped into the room you would smell burnt or hot oil, and hear the faint murmur of electricity, because all the electricity flowing to the barns passed through that room. The engine was kept hot because it needed to go to full throttle within seconds as soon as power went out and pick up the load that kept chickens and hogs alife. The beast always seemed alive to me, and reminded me of a team of powerful Percherons when they leaped against the traces when asked to yank a huge boulder from the ground. They knew what was expected of them, and with nostrils flaring and ears twitching, they nervously primed themselves for the command, at which they had to leap forward in perfect unison. It was like watching an explosion, and sounded like a clap of thunder. It was all over in less than a second, and if the rock didn’t budge they would have to be calmed down before the second try. Some of those teams were like iron jawed stallions who in their mettle were fearful to behold, all fire, like the pawing war horse of Job. They would neigh, rear up, and paw the air fiercely while they waited for the command. That, I always told myself, is what this beast is, waiting to jump against the traces in an emergency. There would be no time to warm up. Without fans to keep air circulating, hogs and chickens would die very quickly. Sometimes at night, you would hear the fans go WHh0oom and you knew the power went out. You would hear a clang as the air-intake shutter opened (for the beast would need a lot of air), the engine would spring to life and go to full throttle immediately. Then the computer would hand over the load piecemeal in three phases, and you waited anxiously hoping it wouldn’t stall. At each phase the roar of the engine would change and grow deeper as it struggled to regain full RPM. As it roared on into the night you could sense that it was carrying an enormous load, until the sound would change again and it would immediately throttle down, run effortlessly until it cooled down, and then go back to waiting, all warmed up, ready to “help in time of need.”
Much religion on the NY Times frontpage since the war–people in church with bowed heads in front of caskets: funeral religion. “Both sides,” Lincoln said, “prayed to the same gods.” Men do not pray in fox holes–at least not to the Prince of Peace. Luther exhorted his followers to volunteer as “hangmen”–imagine praying with a man with a hairy hangman’s knot sticking out of his pocket. Calvin wanted the “pious magistrate” to make “ample use of the sword.” His followers soon left off reading the Bible and took refuge in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. There, they say, is where it’s all figured out—how to ditch your wife and commit legal murder. The Puritans took time out from writing the Westminster Catechism to behead their king: “lifting up unholy hands with wrath and doubting.” For when theybeheaded their minister of God, they beheaded a traitor, and having done so became the new ministers of God, which, had they failed, he would have hanged them as assassins “for he beareth not the sword in vain.” This is the Way of Cain–”give us Barabbas”--or MAGABBAS. Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered the case of a coach who insists on praying on the 40th yardline to “be seen of men to pray.” The Pharisees preferred the Colosseum to the closet. I haven’t seen a single rainbow flag amidst the rubble. This war is as much about Biden’s Bathrooms as it is about anything–which is why it will escalate, and why there is so little enthusiasm for it on the Right. Yet, if ever a war met Augustine’s Just War doctrine this is it. Morally, it is without precedent, and legally, any US citizen can pick up a gun and join the crusade. You couldn’t just go over there unannounced and kill Russians, even if, morally, you have every right to do so. For morality needs no ordination. Morality makes you the “minister of God” on the spot, for if the moment calls for a swift bearing of the sword, and as no ordainers are present, you may assume yourself ordained, provided you prove your credentials by displaying a monopoly of violence, which is what ordains a king, failing which, you will hang as a terrorist. Bonhoeffer became a martyr for trying to kill Hitler. Was this authorized? He was not a “minister of God to bear the sword.” From whence then did he get his authority to “bear the sword.” As U.S Grant says, “The Confederacy would have become a legitimate nation had they won''--so would the Mafia. In other words, anyone can become a “sword minister” simply by creating “a monopoly of violence,” which is the definition of the state. If you succeed you may be considered “a pious magistrate,”--a murderer if you lose. This is the only method of credentialism to become a “minister of God.” You will have Biblical credentials. If today a murder breaks out of prison, kills half the population, installs himself in the Oval Office, he will be the legitimate minister of God, as long as retains the monopoly of violence, for “might is right” is the only right there is–for the Mark on Cain is no more than the monopoly of violence which God ordained, for “it is necessary that offences come, but woe unto the man by whom they come,” for long before God ordained the Mark of Cain, he ordained the damnation of those who will bear it. Cain was the first minister of God, the Antichrist will be the last.” It is at once the monopoly of violence, and the lawlessness of those bear it. David himself was not immune to it, for by it he was able to commit murder and adultery without recompense. “To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” Killing Russians in that instance would be doing good, and obligatory. None of the Pope’s Swiss mercenaries are patriots–yet they are ordained to bear the sword. They’re not protecting the Pope in order to serve or die for their country. I have Ukrainian friends not too far from here who feel like “brands plucked from the fire.” Stalin shipped them off to Siberia for refusing to be “ministers of God” in WWII (the last Good War), Reagan gave them refugee status, and now their grandchildren rise up and call them blessed. You can see that the grandchildren think their grandfathers have genuine faith. If you're a farmer, Ukraine is where you want to be. The grass is already high enough for Spring grazing, and the variety would make a lamb’s cup run over. No one ever left Ukraine for greener pastures. The Hutterites (they lived where the cannons are now blazing the hottest) thought it was perfect. So did these Unkraninas, when they weren’t thinking about it from Siberia. “The cities my father took from your father,” minister of God Benhadad said to wicked minister of God Ahab, “I’ll give back to you.” A Syrian patriot one year, an Israelite the next. Should these Ukranians be over there killing and being killed? “The Anabaptists (and these Ukrainians),” they say around here, “can only exist where others are doing the killing for them.” The Ukrainians existed in Siberia when they were sent into exile. I have never heard any of them complain. God went with them to Siberia, and came back with them. And now God led them here. Apparently, God always has a place to go to, and, as the lamb discovers as it dozes off after its cup ran over a little too much (I have an orphan bottle lamb here who can’t bear the sight of a cup not left empty–when he’s full, he leaves off slurping to burp in order to make room for more, but he keeps the nipple in his teeth while doing so lest I take it from him, until he can no longer either burp or drink more–and yet he doesn’t let go of the bottle, for who knows when he will get the next), God is at home even in the valley of the shadow, “in the presence of His enemies (Ps., 23).” You often hear that sheep need a sheepdog to protect them (Sheepdogs serve no other purpose than to keep sheep close to the shepherd). In other words, if Abel doesn’t get to Cain before Cain gets to Abel, Abel will cease to exist. Cain will agree not to kill Abel if Abel meets certain conditions. How many martyrs (aside from the assassin Bonhoeffer) can you name out of the 100 million that perished in the two Good Wars, which these Ukrainainians refused to join? Putin’s May 9 parade, where ordinary Russians bask in the glow of victory over Hitler, is coming up. The grandsons of those soldiers are now being asked to add to the glory of their fathers with their exploits in Ukraine. Should these soldiers be tried like Nazi prison guards if the West captures them? Forensic teams are sifting the rubble to see if they can find convincing evidence of war crimes as we speak, for most people look at the carnage and destruction and find it a little suspicious that so much death and destruction could be done within the limits of the Geneva Convention. If Putin uses the Bomb, they’ll be left with nothing but dust to see if Putin violated Human Rights. That would take years and cost billions. We’ll have to wait to see if they find evidence of a crime, otherwise, they were “just being sword ministers of God being ministers of God.” For “he beareth not the sword in vain,” Luther’s pious hangmen did not “hang men in vain.” And as Calvin says, “The pious magistrate should make ample use of the sword.” How could you possibly find crime here? As everyone knows, the best way to hide evidence is to turn the scene of the crime into ashes. So how will you ever be able to prove that these soldiers committed war crimes when they took pains to leave nothing but rubble? In searching for evidence of specific war crimes, the West concedes that the invasion is perfectly legitimate as something all nations do “when kings go to war–President Grant on his deathbed calls the Mexican War a crime. You have the right to attack any country you wish as long as you keep the rules of the Geneva Convention which humanizes war–and, as Grant says, “don’t lose the war.” Truman did not violate Human Rights when he incinerated two Japanese cities. Had Germany won, Berlin would now be called Hitlerstadt. It would likely be illegal for an American to fight on Putin’s side. But if you think Putin’s cause is just, then you are in the category of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Who’s to say, Dwight L. Moody asked? He had no opinion on the matter as long as he got to preach to the troops. “For himself,” he said, “when it comes to war, I’m a Quaker.” To each his own. Should I slay, or not slay? Obviously, the Bible does not touch on the subject, except that “greater love hath no Ukrainians or Russian than to lay down his life for his friends.” For as Lincoln said, “Both sides prayed to the same gods.” Luther exhorted his followers to volunteer as hangmen, and Calvin tortured his victims before killing them, his followers now saying that everyone tortured their enemies before killing them back then, because there is nothing in the Bible that says you can’t torture your enemies before killing them, and you can’t judge “a man of his times” by the standards of today, because today we know that you shouldn’t torture your enemy before killing him.
When you see people praying on the frontpages of the NY Times always look for caskets before them. “Then (235 years after Creation) men began to call upon the name of the Lord (Gen. 4).” In the background, you can hear the polygamist Lamech bragging about killing people, and, immediately after, the long chapter (5) of tombstones leading up to the Flood. 235 years is a long time not to pray, even if you live in the age of Methuselah. Still, they were able to pray. In the last days, “men will run to and fro” because they will no longer be able to pray. Agitated people cannot pray. They take up the sword because they can no longer “lift up holy hands without wrath or doubting.” Barabbas shouts in the coliseum, because he can no longer pray in the closet. If you find yourself able to wait quietly before God, consider yourself blessed. Where “the foundations have been destroyed,” people cannot pray, for it is “the prayer of faith that works (Ja. 5),” because “without faith it is impossible to please Him,” and “faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the world of God.” That foundation has been destroyed by divorce/remarriage, because people can no longer trust the literal reading of the Bible. If you skip of divorce/remarriage in reading the Bible, the “engrafted word” will not take hold of you, for Satan will whisper–”why is it true here, when you leapfrogged over it back there.” Everywhere on the NY Times frontpage you see churches, icons, priests—you never see a Bible. We are spared the blasphemy of the J6 insurrectionists who prayed “in Jesus name” before the riot. Barabbas doesn’t pray. His prayers are political propaganda. He riots because his foundation has been destroyed by his wicked life. Here’s what you could do if you applied Protestant divorce practice to the 6th Commandment. You would leave your present church, slay your enemy, then join the church down the road where you would be coached in a ritual of repentance. After which you’re good as new. In the end their pundits can joke: “we don’t know if Christianity works, because it’s never been tried.” But the fatwas of Luther and Calvin have now come home to roost. Their breeches of he 6th Commandment ended in slavery, the Confederacy and Apartheid cast to the ground in the statues of Generals Lee and Jackson.
4-27-22
The Globalist March to World War III
So Germany is now sending tanks. Scholz was the last man standing, but with 40 nations around him at the last conference, he buckled. Russia responded by cutting gas to Poland and Bulgaria. Explosions occur within Russia, and will with greater frequency as Ukraine receives longer range weapons--in real war, you create terror in your enemies homeland. Finland and Sweden are to be admitted into NATO within months--Finland is cheek and jowl with the Bear. Another gaffe by the administration: “we’re going to diminish Russia.” They seem to be shopping for a real war where all the latest toys come into play, unlike the sand wars which were little more than blowing the tops of mountains to get to Osama. The Europeans hope it was a gaffe, because making sure Russia doesn’t get rewarded is not the same as making sure Russia loses, which is what they're pushing for now. But if, as Scholz thinks, Putin will resort to Nukes if cornered, why would he allow himself to "be diminished" when he can retaliate with catastrophic consequences? This is a religious war, to, as Zelensky would have it, save Europe and democracy. Which makes it a war without limits, objectives, or goals. It’s puritanism applied to politics. The world in black and white, good against evil. Biden called MBS in Saudi Arabia a murderer—and how can we deal with a murderer? Nothing to do for a woke person but to wait on the mountaintop until MBS dies. And now MBS refuses to accept Biden’s plea to turbo drill his sands to make up for the murderer Putin, because we’re not going to live in a world where we have to negotiate with a murderer--there is to be no dirty politics in the kingdom of god which the EU is. MBS and Putin are thus excommunicated because they engage in political heresy, and the faithful require that the excommunicated be shunned. They cannot imagine living in a world in which so much of it is the hands of such heretics. They're tilting at regime change here. The only strategy so far is to keep pouring in NATO’s stockpile of weapons until such a time as Putin is either removed by his generals, or succumbs to one of the thousand and one terminally illnesses that he is whispered to have: the shaking hand, the puffy face, erratic behavior–talking to his visitors across a mile long table--superstition and old wives tales as policy. Scholz knows they’re all falling down a rabbit trail of war. NATO is already in with everything but boots. NATO's satellites are streaming every movement by Russia to Ukraine in real time. They listen in on every Russian conversation. It's like Chess Master Fisher whispering moves into my ear, while refraining from touching the pieces. But they must have information that precludes the possibility of nuclear war. If so, they can finish Putin off with video games. If not--if Putin doesn't use Nukes to keep Russia from "diminished," what are they for? Previously, the thinking was, Putin would do just that. The saner of the Republicans are asking: exactly what is this all about and where is it going? But you can’t stop now. Ukraine was led to believe that it could enjoy all the amenities and the dreams of an intact nation within the EU. And having led them on, woke Europe cannot now abandon them (Bismarck and Kissinger would horse trade territory like Ahab and Benhadad). If they are now able to degrade Russia, why not go the extra step and finish the Bear off by admitting Ukraine into NATO? Because, Russia, without Ukraine, goes back to being a gas station with Nukes, and Putin started the war to rid himself of the stigma of being a bigger Kim Jung Un. The EU in Ukraine is the EU in Holy Moscow. There is the war in a nutshell. Business manager Scholz sees nothing here but Rainbow flags and corrupt oligarchs who will live it up in European Capitals. Russia could become a failed country with Nukes. Remove the Bear, and all the rodents will come out of the woodwork--the Stans will become Talistans--and somewhere in the mix will be all of Putin's Nukes. They could end up with a failed country here. The Dragon will follow. After losing three legions to the Germans, Rome cut a backroom deal with some of them to keep the rest east of the Rhine. "Quintilius Varus," Augustus cried for years after, "Give me back my Legions!" Rome knew that this part of the world was beyond its capacity, so it secretly paid a hefty sum, declared victory, and moved on (some find the origins of WWI here in that Roman civilization never made it past the Rhine). Ukraine is an unsolvable problem that works only as a no man’s land looking toward Russia. Add it to Europe and Russia will become part of China. But to leave Ukraine now is to leave them in a meat grinder. So NATO keeps building a bigger meat grinder. NATO wants them to hang on until Putin either dies, is removed, or so diminished that he goes back to Russia. That’s the only strategy so far. Before Putin allows himself to be humiliated like that, Scholz thinks, he will resort to nuclear war. That’s what everyone was afraid of at the beginning. The new confidence implies that the US no longer fears a nuclear response. But they didn’t think Putin would shoot himself in the foot by cutting off the gas, which he did today. They are now approaching the point where it will become impossible to back down. Destroy a Bear, reap a Dragon, is what Scholz likely sees. Or the Taliban will sack Berlin by way of Chechnya. There is no talk of a negotiated peace, because how can you negotiate with a war criminal? The Enlightenment gave rise to the notion of human perfectibility, which did not survive the carnage of two World Wars. Now it’s back in Progressive wokeism. All religions trade in perfectibility, which, if the material world is all there is, you are left to seek here. You cannot compromise with a heretic like Putin. This is a religious war. Or the Culture War gone global.
4-19-22
Germany has gone silent because it dare not say what it knows it should: that the West is now cheerleading Ukraine to commit suicide rather than allow Putin to put the brakes on "European values." This is unbelievable. Germany sees what anyone who has read Tolstoy or Solzhenitzyn can understand: Russia always loses an army or two to feel out the enemy, then regroups with lethal effect. The "video game" is now over because Russia is no longer exposed. The West is trying to compensate by sending bigger bombs which will only increase the casualty count. If push comes to shove, Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons which will end the conflict quickly. Understood by everyone by now is that the West will not intervene as long as Russia doesn't breach NATO. The West is now cheerleading mass suicide. Germany knows this but fears being thrust out of the synagogue. Ukraine is lost, and infinitely worse off than before. But to cave to a regressive like Putin is to admit that the 77 year period since the End of History (they had abolished War forever with European values) has been a fraud. Thus Ukraine must hold the line or all is lost. Germany sees nothing but widows and orphans and the aftermath of mental trauma that will shake Europe to the core. They let this happen, and encouraged it. If Benhadad and Ahab take turns trading blows in your neighborhood, shake the dust of your feet and run. That would be sound advice to Ukrainians.
This is a Leftwing war in its entirety. Scholz would tell you that the war is lost. So why keep dying" Because, as there is no Planet B, so there is never a Plan B in Religious Secularism. The EU kingdom of god and the US coasts are pure Religious Secularism. Religion cannot survive without the promise of a path to perfection. Secularism is forced to produce this within a closed Universe, because the material is all there is. Heaven is a cop out, a shiftless abdication of responsibility. "In heaven," says the sluggard, "all will be arranged." Run into something you're too lazy to understand?--kick it upstairs, and find a name for it--spirit, god, angels, the devil made me do it, etc. Superstition and the Dark Ages. All major religions see a destructive End as the means to the perfect world, and are usually willing to hasten the world to that end. They accept an imperfect world full of unknowing because the perfect world will only come upon the destruction of the present one: the opium of the masses. How does the Left compete? By offering real-world Utopias--usually a chicken in every pot--without working. The End of History (read War) was the forerunner of this messianic age. It was 77 years in the making. Now the Travelers are growing old and the kingdom looks about to be reversed. For how do you accommodate a heretic like Putin in a woke church. Just today, the UN warned of global food and energy shortages because of the Russian boycott. Hungry people take to the street. The Left wants Ukraine to fight to the last man on account of principle. Which means more refugees. Putin wants those hungry refugees on the streets of Europe. He has all the food and gas you need, but how do you deal with a war criminal? In the dirty affairs of politics, Bismark would say, you conduct business in ambiguity so that you always have the expedient of plausible deniability--"I never said that, you only thought I said that," I was misquoted," etc. Your followers will leave you if you do this in religion. The faithful need the assurance of absolutes. "Those," traditional religion says, "exist only in an otherworldly realm." Here we go again. The point is, the Left is condemned to find perfectibility in the here and now. It denies the existence of sin, because the cure for a spiritual disease is out of reach of material methods. Thus it dangles the notion of human perfectibility based on science. In like manner, if all problems are material they can and must be corrected scientifically. Keep devising stratagems until the problem is fixed. Keep piling on and piling on and piing on--until something takes hold. They grabbed Covid by the ears and now look like the seven sons of Sceva when the demon landed on them. They likely made it ten times worse. What would you expect them to do, pray? With Climate they aim at a mark 100 years from now--when in doubt take refuge in eschatology. But Covid gave them a sound thrashing. They've now run out of options with Putin, and if I'm not mistaken, he's taken them hostage. Religion cannot compromise. But, Tom Friedman says, we'll have to go hat in hand and deal with the monster. But this is woke sin. The Right takes care of sin on Sunday, and thus accounts for the imperfect world they live in during the rest of the week. This option does not exist in Secularism. So you carry on as if the imperfection does not exist. You atone for the hypocrisy (or vent it) with wokeness, which is basically outrage to demonstrate that you're ready to be outraged at whatever deserves outrage at any given moment. Enter Putin. They landed on him like flies on the head of Beelzebub, as if sheer mass would somehow yield a moral imperative, assuming either that the rest of the world were of like orthodoxy, or that they could be shamed to conformity. Putin swatted them aside like annoying flies, and China, India, and the Mideast could care less. You can see why they pine for the safe havens of Climate--100 years from now "all will be arranged." They made Covid worse and the bear angrier. But what could they do? Ukraine is seen as a field white unto harvest in the cause of European values. To have it revert back to the old ways would be a major setback for the Program. The End of History clearly shows that we're about to cross the threshold of something new, compared to which Putin represents the Dark Ages. No, the Ukrainians must fight to the last man. Secular martyrdom.
Scholz wants this over with and go back to "managing" the German/Russian problem. Most Germans secretly "understand" Putin: the Bear was humiliated and crowded by NATO and lashed out. Give him room and he'll at least come down to the real world, instead of entertaining notions of moral crusades. Ukraine will have to go back to being "the" Ukraine. This is unsavory business. All that suffering in vain? Many are angry at German foot dragging. They need to be careful. Germany accepted the EU to regain respectability. That, for Putin, is a term of wokeness (and national weakness). He has yet to lose a war, and much of the world is ready to take his phone call. Germany has always felt more at home in Russia than in the the rest of Europe. The cry has always been Drang Nach Osten. With Russian resources at its disposal, Germany would no longer need Club EU. That would solve a lot of problems and remove Germany's greatest fear: nuclear confrontation.
4-16-22
"And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria (I Ki.20)." Putin is not giving Crimea back.
"And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria (I Ki. 22)." In war, theft is not stealing. You win, you own.
"Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another" II Sam. 11). Cannon fodder. David's way of quoting Sherman: "War is the altar of Hell." It comes with the trade. Kill and be killed--once you put on the uniform you can mock the 6th commandment, which is what David is doing here. He was flippant about the 6th commandment because he had yet to admit to breaking the 7th. Both will soon crash in on him.
"And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. ...And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together (2 Sam. 2)." The bravest of the brave. All 24 would have wanted to run and live, but the code of honor required that they murder and be murdered. Likely their own parents would have renounced them as cowards. God would have told them to run (to Him), but what kind of a live would that be? Lee told Lincoln that he could not draw his sword against Virginia. But that the finest soldier in America should forgo the chance of a lifetime by sitting out the war was unthinkable. He put on the uniform in order to play, and now he was condemned to play. God would have told him to run.
Putin will end up with more than he could have imagined. The ruble recovered, he's polling at all time highs at home, China, India, and the Mideast (that's more than half the world) give him cover (Taiwan is next, and the Palestinians are about to get more crowded), the West is looking for a face saving exit strategy that will allow it to abandon Ukraine and resume diplomatic relations with a "killer." Putin is too big to cancel, and now he has even more gas and wheat. If the Mafia had 6000 nuclear warheads, it too would be a legitimate nation to which even the Vatican would be compelled to send its ambassador. All nations are founded and maintained by violence (the Pope has the oldest mercenary army in the world). Human government is the monopoly of violence.
We're back to business as usual: "Wars and rumors of war"--wars that will destroy hundreds of millions. Terrorism was but the frequent rupture of the suppressed violence of the major powers. Now that War (billions will now die) is back, it will simply fold Terror into its arsenal (Osama could not exist today--Rome did not allow castles). The abolition of major war is the reason why politicians and academics heralded the "End of History" in the first place. Because Superpower wars would end up in nuclear conflagration, and no one would commit to suicide--this was the self-deception. Putin is daring the West to play a game of chicken--"Europe will become an ash heap," he says. His nuclear arsenal is his suicide vest. Ukraine had come to believe (Hutterites and other Germans left Ukraine 150 years ago, why? Because the Tsar demanded that they become fully Russian) that both EU and NATO membership were within its grasp, allowing them to escape from under the bear's paw. That, Hutterites knew, was wishful thinking. The bear will not be robbed of its whelps. To stay would be to sacrifice their young men to Moloch, because this is the god of War. To stay is to killed--which is what is happening now with the EU cheering from the sidelines. The West is calling them to fight to the last man, which is what they will now have to do. There is not one word from the liberal West for Ukrainians to save their lives by suing for peace with Moscow. Ultimately, the survivors will submit. Ukraine, itself, will not allow men to leave. Ironically, all the Ukrainians I know were persecuted by the Soviets for refusing military service, and were given refugee status in the US on that account, the children thus saved by the faithful sacrifice of their fathers.
Ukraine assumed the West would come to the rescue. The West cannot come to the rescue without turning the world into an inferno. The bear will become insane with rage the minute NATO steps into Ukraine. Thus the world reset to (as the old historians called it) "the "history of blood." War as "politics by other means" is back as the sole instrument of statecraft. The leader of any nation is the nation's top soldier. His first duty is to kill (or threaten to kill), for "he beareth not the sword in vain." Prince Charles will be crowned wearing a military uniform--the symbol of killing. Lesser officials are but lesser soldiers whose first duty is to kill (or threaten to kill). The most radical Leftwing candidate for the Oval Office has to swear to uphold and use the doctrine of "First Strike" to annihilate entire civilizations with nuclear weapons. Their chief duty is as First Soldier (Clausewitz), and, according to Machiavelli, as the biggest liar and deceiver in the kingdom (no government can survive without a lie factory, or CIA). And the biggest hypocrite, because, while outwardly he must affect piety, he can only advance statecraft by essentially becoming anti-Christ. All this is denied by wokeness, which is what Putin has now weaponized. Merkel wanted nothing to do with killing, and Putin is Mutti's creation. For how could a woke person, a preacher's daughter, kill and lie? Putin, like Stonewall Jackson, "will kill at the drop of a hat," because killing is the fundamental rule of statecraft. Deny this and Putin will blackmail you and play you for a fool. Poor fools, he thinks, trying to run a nation like a Sunday School. When you aspire to high office you consent to become Killer in Chief. Scholz was outraged that Putin lied to him (Bismark would have been outraged that such a naive person should lead the German nation). In this day and age. But wokeness is the religion of the kingdom of god, having put aside the lying and deceit that filled previous ages with wars. Bismark turned Prussia into Germany by telling one lie after another (he was a pietistic Lutheran). Wesley, reading Machiavelli, slammed the book shut thinking he had seen the anti-Christ. His own king was the head of his church, and how could he not be a Christian, and the ruler of a Christian nation should be the most Christian of all. And a Christian nation, according to Calvin and Luther, had to have a Christian king. Calvin tortured his enemies before killing them, and Luther exhorted his followers to volunteer as "hangmen." (It was what everyone did back then, their followers say. It was not yet revealed that you shouldn't torture your enemies before killing them, or that some members might feel uneasy praying with the local hangman). The Catholic Inquisition was founded on Augustine's doctrine of Just War and the king's duty to compel people to become Christians by torturing the body to save the soul. All this was done according to strict interpretations of the Bible--or the Systems that they invented on the Bible--like Korban, which allowed the son to throw his parents out of his mansion and have the Temple judges show them from the books that, technically (heh), the son had no assets. Augustine, Luther and Calvin taught that the sword was a Christian gift to advance the Kingdom of God. The EU saw this doctrine as the root of all previous wars and violence (what they rejected is the Prince of Peace turned into Anti-Christ by Catholics and Protestants), and charted a course based on benign values that would make wars obsolete. Because sin and evil are religious categories, leave them in church, and don't impose them on society. The Putin's of the world would be managed or isolated as European values carried all before it. The cultural hegemony of European values would so saturate the world that human butchery on an industrial scale was unthinkable. Hence the End of History. Mankind had finally learned its lesson. The New World Order would prevail, and we can now turn our attention to human development--think a thousand genders. Man is part of the biological sphere, and no more. Sin and evil is part of "god of the gaps" ignorance and superstition. You don't understand something and wallah--let's call it sin, or god, or heaven, or worse, Hell. All rubbish.
Religion defeated the Soviets and the US in Afghanistan--because the West sees religion as Sunday go to meeting exercises. Putin uses religion as an instrument of statecraft. He ties into the Culture War now raging globally to gain support abroad, while at home he invokes Holy Moscow to rally the faithful to the standards. Moreover, subjectively, like Stonewall Jackson, he is willing to "let God sort out" the casualties, regardless of their number, because the religious exemption given by his religious authorities makes him immune to the pangs of a huge body count. After all, God destroyed the whole world to achieve His ends, and did not scruple to exterminate Canaanite women and children (this is how the Puritan preacher John Owen counselled Oliver Cromwell when he went after Irish Catholics with fire and sword). A high body count would turn agnostic Europe into an emotional basket case, because they do not rule with a monopoly of violence--they are ministers, not killers. Merkel ruled with charts, not the sword. At the moment, Europe is in siege mode, hunkering down until they divine some limit to Putin's madness. There is none. Stonewall Jackson would not have scrupled to kill the whole world to fulfill his religious mandate, even if it meant setting fire to his own house while in it. Likewise Hitler. The shock here is that such madness could resurface on the planet--especially as we were just getting ready to implement climate mandates. They cannot use the word "evil" because there is no such thing. So back to the experts. Two months now and no champion has stepped forward to challenge this modern Goliath. Herr Fauci boldly stared down a global pandemic, and the world swooned watching Merkel stare at her charts like a soothsayer diving her crystal ball. Now it's "What's he going to do next" as they wait for lightening to strike the monster. They can't wait to get back to messianic "non-evil," mothering our frail and feeble Mother Earth. There experts swarm like flies on Baalzebub. At the moment, all Germany wants is to get it over with and do what it takes to keep the bear in his place. Except now they have to deal with the hubris of the EU's Drang nach Osten. Now Germany has to defend the Balkans, which means, that instead of having a buffer zone between itself and the Bear, it is now forced to live with him cheek and jowl. And the US told Scholz, "From here on it's you first." The cowboys will ride--behind the Prussians. But the Germans have gone quiet again. They jumped on the band wagon to avoid the suspicion of unwoke heresy. Hesitate and you get cancelled. Now they ask, "What's the point?" Ukraine cannot win without NATO intervention, and Germany is not going to start WWIII to save Ukraine. Most Germans see engagement as the only solution to the Prussian/Russian problem--"Handel Nach Wandel." German industry runs on cheap Russian energy. Germans don't want to kill more Russians. Ukraine in NATO will only make things worse. Ukraine (what's left of it) cannot join the EU. And the maturity of EU statecraft is on the level of a soccer chatroom--the cursing of the Greta brats is taken as a blueprint for public policy. All this Putin sees with glittering eye. Let the wokesters before him pretend that the politics that pays their cushy salaries is not founded on violence, that, in the end, all politicians are not killers like himself--bearers of the sword. All leaders kill. The longer Putin can feed the delusion that European leaders are an exception to this rule, the safer he is. He sees war as an instrument for good from the hand of God. A high body count with a victory will enhance national pride--Google May 9 and see what you get. It's when Russia celebrates the god of war in a manner that would make Steven Spielberg drool. The French gave their sons willingly as long as Napoleon gave them victory. Putin will mortgage all of Russia to win this war. It's do or die. There is only on way out of a pit. Never tangle with a person who has no way to go but up.
When the EU cast aside religion, it did not become any less religious. And religion must aim at the moral high ground in order not to be discredited. Putin deals in the age-old art of double-speak. But wokeness cannot stoop to such defilement. Hence the days of outrage since the invasion. The outrage against Putin was meant to shame China, India, and the Middle East to cancel Putin. As with Trump--to no effect. "Putin Had No Clue How Many of Us Would Be Watching," cries Friedman in his column. The village scold. China, India, and the Mid East are more than half the world, big enough to create their own oxygen. And Friedman thinks they care? @Metoo gutted only the Left. One hand clapping. Conservatives merely smirked at the hypocrisy of Groomer (this is the true face of Critical Race Theory--a Trojan horse to advance Depravity under the guise of Civil Rights) Nation pretending to affect moral outrage. But "we're watching," cries Friedman. Village gossip only works in the village. Globalism is one Woke hand clapping, @Metoo as statecraft. China, Russia, India, the Mideast have kept their own villages--and their swords sharp. Nations are never friends. Jesus, the saying goes, was a good man. But until all men are like him it's kill or be killed. Abel's mistake was not getting to Cain before he got to him. Or God's--for naively trusting Cain not to kill his brother, assuming he would do the right thing and "be his brother's keeper." Then God overreacted by killing the entire world before they got to Noah, and turned the cities of the plain into an ash heap to save Abraham (overcompensating for the mistake of Abel, the thinking is). Both Hitler and Churchill lamented the fact that Jesus reverted back to the naive time of Abel, and left his followers to be "counted all day as sheep to the slaughter." Abel was a sheep, and God allowed him to be killed in the valley of the shadow in the presence of his enemies while he was in the house of the Lord. Wherever you see sheep look for a shepherd nearby, for without a shepherd there would not be a single sheep left on the face of the earth within six months. Today there are more sheep than anytime in history, and wolves are in Cain's protection program. Where there are sheep there are shepherds, and God is always at home, even in the valley of the shadow. Christians, as the prophet says, are meant to be slaughtered. No Christian was ever puzzled by the abrupt death of Abel. Im Westen Nichts Neues. Violence is the way of Cain. To bear witness (the Greek word for martyr), the way of Abel. Constantine removed the threat from Abel by becoming his protector. Since then, only the Anabaptists, who refused Cain's patronage, could be persecuted. The Protestant martyrs Zwingli and Bonhoeffer were slaughtered while attempting to slaughter their enemies. Luther told his followers to volunteer as hangmen, and Calvin tortured his enemies before killing them. Their doctrine, like the State, could survive only upon a foundation of violence, and they became the murderers of Anabaptists for committing the heresy of not killing their enemies before their enemies killed them. But now they also had to sanitize Herod's bedroom--the Herodian Temple was a gigantic deodorant stick to mask the filth of what went on under the nose of the good ole boy religion of the Pharisees. John the Baptist exposed it and was killed. Jesus will return when the Church refuses the patronage of Cain and his adulteries, and seeks refuge only in "that Great Shepherd of the sheep." In the meantime their blood will flow, even to the amazement of the saints under the altar, who constantly fill God's ear with "how long?" It comes in the form of an accusation. "How long will you not step into the fray and end this, when you could put a stop to it immediately." One of greatest mysteries of the Bible is God's refusal to protect his friend Abel, and then put his murderer, Cain, in God's protection program. There's nothing to interpret here. It reads the same in all translations. "This," Mark Twain says, "is what scares me." The Bible is plain sheep feed. It needs the contortions of the theologians to make it difficult. They take the "stone which the builders rejected" and hew it to fit "the kings's chapel," in order to "christianize their violence and adultery. But the common people read it and understand it perfectly. When they hear Luther tell them to become "hangmen," they know they hear the voice of Anti-Christ. When they see Calvin torture his enemies before killing them they recognize "the way of Cain." The Anabaptists renounced these monsters as murderers and were killed for doing so. Catholics and Protestants have no martyrs because they were the murderers. They are the way of Cain, because the legitimacy of the Church lies in its martyrs. 100 million dead from Murder I and Murder II, and the only martyr they can point to is an assassin, the preacher Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who tried to kill the "minister of God" (Cain was the first, the Anti-Christ will be the last), Adolf Hitler.
They beatbeat their swords into plowshares. First, because, since 1946, Europe has been under US occupation, and was at leisure to develop its kingdom of god on earth. Second, the unraveling of the USSR left them without a credible adversary. They enhanced their portfolio by adding the Balkans to NATO, and left enough of Russia to man the gas station. A gas station with Nukes, they smirked. One delusion let an even greater one. Left without the historical spur to engage in statecraft (the danger of war), they were left to dream in messianic proportions: saving and fine-tuning our feeble Mother Earth. As Macron says, "There is no Planet B." And the poor thing is dying of neglect: "Is it not a little one?" Whoever made it--well--and then religion came along and made it worse. And than a fatal misstep: the Anti-Creation Groomer Rainbow--war against the Created Order and the quickest path to extinction.
On Tuesday Marsha Blackburn, the senior United States senator from Tennessee, asked Judge Jackson a simple question: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” Jackson, a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and sometime supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review answered: “Can I provide a definition? No. I can’t. Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.”
A Supreme Court Judge who can't even tell a man from a women because "she's not a biologist." This is Satanic depravity. Beginning with the latter then:
Putin uses the revulsion against Groombow as a spear in the Culture War. Not only is the ruble back to its prewar high, but Putin's poll ratings are at a peak. The West saw the war as a nail in his coffin. This is the same Woke delusion which sought to shame Republicans both with @Metoo and the Capitol Riot. Both failed spectacularly. @Metoo gutted the ranks of the Left, and the Capitol Riot revealed a stunning fact: that a spontaneous Conservative mob could terrorize the Left without implicating Conservative politicians. The Left won the Culture War hands down, and Putin knew it was only a matter of time before it reached the gates of Moscow. But the Rioters were not there to argue. Neither Putin nor Orban are trying to defeat Rainbow with arguments. We have now had what--59 days of outrage? Orban, Putin's defender, just scored a crushing victory. He's priming the pump for a post-war future in which the EU will have to accept Ukraine as a Russian territory, with Orban as middleman. Orban is an anti-Rainbow fifth column within the EU, and while few Conservatives like what they see in Ukraine now, equally few want Ukraine to become the latest outpost for Groombow. Putin, now that he's sounded out the West's response, will lower the temperature and dismantle Ukraine one piece at a time. Everyone now knows that Ukraine is the new hard border between East and West (which the West will now be forced to militarize), and with Ukraine back in Putin's portfolio (the richest land in the world), he has become too big to cancel. Statecraft is back where it left off in 1945: violence. Global War is back. This time it will kill billions.
In Glasgow Putin saw the West's leadership cowing behind closed doors while cursing Greta brats outside clamored for action. He saw European courts allowing children to sue for a zero-carbon future. By impulse, Merkel shut down her nuclear plants. The pivot toward zero-carbon was an act of fanaticism. He saw European leaders make time to watch the World Cup in person--things are peaceful within the kingdom of god on earth. European values, the new gospel, was on the march. Europe has not published a single book worth reading since 1945, because nothing of note happened. The kingdom of god was just happening--nothing to do in a "post-Christian world" except tinker along the edges. Science would yield the answers. No one even bothered to ask what the questions were. Such a little world. And as Friedman reminds us almost ever day, "It needs to be saved." I'm paying $5.00 for diesel now. All because Putin has so much of it, and because Europe tried to replace it with windmills in order to save the planet. "Erst wegen, dann wagen"--first weigh, then wager the old Germans said. Here they simply jumped on the woke bandwagon. Wokeness is a religious impulse, and religion is not to be rationalized. You must announce (or denounce) before you are shamed. Even to hesitate creates the suspicion of heresy. They all piled on Putin the first day. He was on his last legs, they were told. If everyone piles on, down he goes. Ukraine as the modern Joan of Ark.
And now what? Everyone now knows that Europe is afraid to cross the border into Ukraine, and that Ukraine will fold eventually. Frankly, no one wants Ukraine to win a decisive victory, because everyone knows that it will end up on the EU's doorstep as the 500 year German-Russian problem that Solomon couldn't unravel. Hard-nosed Bismark (and Kissinger) would throw Ukraine under the bus to avoid entanglement. Religious wokeness cannot do that. But wokeness created the self-delusion that European values are impeachable, and the prospect of having the Groomer Agenda progress onward proved irresistible. They were impatient of Rainbow. I haven't seen one Rainbow flag amidst the ruins. Germany, to everyone's rage, is backsliding, and Putin does not fear the rest. Germany knows the minute it steps up to the plate, they will bear the burnt of Putin's anger. They also know that Putin has no ambition beyond Ukraine for the time being. Ukraine itself is a king's ransom, the breadbasket of the world. From here he can simply rule by outsized intimidation. If Ukraine is already lost, why risk nuclear war on principle? Ukraine is crying for help on principle. Germany is forced to turn a deaf ear even as it watches WWII carnage in real time in its backyard. The mental shock of mass cruelty and savagery they are forced to watch has yet to set in. Not a word from Mutti and her salvation charts. The Pope wants to get back to the real crisis of saving the planet. Friedman rejoices in billion dollar Climate summits to save the planet. Now he can point to not a single expert. Is Herr Fauci available with his mandates? And now they want to send in the forensic teams to see if Putin committed war crimes. Good luck. The reason you burn the house down is to not leave evidence. Soon the entire nation will soon be pile of rubble on top of bodies underneath--how do you find evidence here? Still, they think they can come up with enough details to convince a jury at the Hague. But Augustine's Just War Theory would certainly allow for a police action to keep Russia intact. Parts of Oregon want to joint Idaho, because they no longer feel Oregonian. Could they pick up arms to do so? Nations do not adhere to creeds. Ukraine will be turned into rubble, and many more thousands will die. It will be left with a few scraps from which Europe will keep its distance. Hutterites got out 150 years ago because of the murderous Russian bear. It's a Russian no man's land in Tolstoy. Prussia was content to leave it as a shock absorber to give a surly bear room to lash out without provoking a major war. This is why Germany sees this as utter folly. And now Ukraine will be infinitely worse off than before. Putin will now exterminate as many as stand in the way of his divine vision, because to admit error now would put him at the mercy of the sixth commandment, and eternal damnation. He is forced to follow his divine mandate to the end. Only a victory will be a mark of divine approval and cover the multitude of sins.
Mueller indicted half the Russian Army at the cost of tens of millions. Ukraine is a pile rubble and they hope to find a breach of the Geneva Convention which humanized war in 1864, too late for the Civil War, but just in time for Murder I and Murder II (we call those the Good Wars). One shudders to think what they would have turned into without the humanizing effect of the rules of war (the Geneva Convention). How do you determine if someone was murdered the wrong way if his murderers leave nothing but ashes. If Putin reduces Europe to an ash heap, how do you collect evidence of war crimes?
Abraham knew that danger lurked in that "well watered plain" and chose the desert where he had to dig wells, which were confiscated, which led him to move on and dig more wells, until God gave him rest. The Ukrainians I know came here in the 1980's when Reagan gave them religious refugee status for being persecuted by the Soviets for refusal to join the military. They were sent to Siberia during WWII. Now God has prospered them here. Abel was not killed for want of a place to flee to. "The earth is the Lord and the fullness thereof" and every Christian owns every inch of it as an heir with Christ. Isaac was conceived on the eve of Sodom's destruction--God didn't want Sodom this close to the crib of the son of Promise. The story reads as if God, on His way to inspect Sodom, decides to drop in on Abraham (while He was in the area), and then offhandedly mentions that Isaac would be born in nine months, and then--"well, we have to get moving--just thought we'd drop in" (the life of faith is lived very undramatically "for the kingdom of God cometh not by observation"). But this is one of the most dramatic instances in the Bible: the son of Promise (salvation) against the background of Hell(fire). God made room for the son of Promise in the land of Promise. He chose to not deliver Abel and John the Baptist, the first martyrs of both Testaments. Don't have more possessions than you are willing to walk away from, trusting God to lead you to your next place of rest. Only death will give the "saints rest from their labors." For "the servant of the Lord must not strive." Pilgrims are the opposite of soldiers, the Shepard always stays with his sheep, and God never runs out of room, because God is always at home. Martyrs are killed by appointment and not for want of a place to flee, for God is a great jailbreaker. God resorted to jailbreaking to get get Peter and Paul out of prison. He let the greatest man ever born, "filled with the Holy Spirit in the womb," suffer death in prison away from those who could have comforted him. Like Abel, he likely had only a few seconds to prepare for death. But "the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous," and the final act is but the final step in walking with God by faith. "For the just shall live by faith." "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." It will not cease to exist at the hour of death.
3-21-22
Overnight the world reset back to 1945. 75 years of Progress went up in smoke overnight. The EU boasted itself as the kingdom of god on earth, salvation by science, the antidote to all the carnage stirred up by religion. Jesus, if he ever lived, may have been a good man--so much for that, the world has moved on, and the EU was the gospel of the future. Overnight the Left all became hawks–howling for NATO to “close the sky over Ukraine.” Previously, if readers in the Comments section of the NY Times suspected you of being a moderate, you would be hissed out of the room. Now it's nonstop "send in the jets." Doves are now calling on Ukraine to fight to the last man, and Ukraine has become an ammo dump to turn it into a kill-pit. I remember vividly the euphoria that greeted a smiling Gorbachev as he walked the streets of Minneapolis next to smoking ZiLs. People understood that the nightmare of nuclear Armageddon was over. Only two weeks ago Tom Friedman of the NY Times chided Putin for not focusing on civilization’s real threat: Mother Nature. Now he’s howling about the real possibility of a nuclear strike and his readers in the Comments section (usually the most dovish of the doves) are calling for NATO to act before it’s too late: if Putin is blackmailing the West with Nukes now, he will keep blackmailing until he drives his tanks through the Brandenburg Gate. And we've got two years to fix Climate. They're taking a cue from the Eastern Bloc countries bordering Russia who clamor for NATO to fortify its Eastern flank and respond more aggressively. They are not quite convinced that if push comes to shove, they will not be sold down the river to stave off WWIII. Those were once the crown jewels of the USSR, and Putin wants them back. If he takes Ukraine, he will see the hand of God in all his doing and go for broke. Germany got the message and is rearming without so much as a whimper from within. America needs all her energy keeping China in check, Scholz was told–the Reagan-Bush cowboys will not ride to the rescue again. So here we are, Teutons against Russians, right where we left off 75 years ago. The Greta brats are nowhere to be seen. Mutti must still be poring over her Covid charts. Not a word from her. She created Putin. Meanwhile, the new flood of refugees (Putin's weapon of choice) will upend politics and tax the stability of the EU compact. They’re all back to square one. 1945 was the last bookend of The End of History. That was the premise of the New World Order. The world had finally learned that war was not the answer. Now they can’t even remember the question, or if there ever was one. I have not heard a single instance of the 60’s mantra “All we are saying is give peace a chance,” or “The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind.” All Friedman sees on the horizon is nuclear wind coming his way. Until two weeks ago the world revolved around Climate, Covid, China, Critical Theory-Culture War. The reason the Left is so adamant that Ukraine keep fighting to the last man is the hope that doing so will be so ruinous for Putin that he will not survive. Putin, the thinking is, will use Ukraine as a strategic foothold to carry his religious vision into the redoubts of the decadent EU. For Putin sees himself as the hammer of God to keep “EU values” (think Rainbow flags) from sweeping through Ukraine and destroying Russian Orthodoxy. He sees himself as a Culture War crusader (hence the timid response from Fox). In that sense, he is the Taliban with Nukes. The Taliban defeated two superpowers with sticks and stones because they ran on religion. The EU makes very plain that it is done with religion as an outdated relic. The West was defeated by religion because they find themselves incapable of taking it seriously. Like the Taliban, Putin is not afraid of Armageddon. The Taliban sought to provoke it. You do not want to play chicken with the Taliban. Putin is ready to play chicken–this is the religious dimension. The West is not. Putin is willing to pay a religious price. In essence, persist all the way to martyrdom. If he loses this war, he is as good as dead. Never tangle with a with man with nothing left to lose, or who courts martyrdom. They need to go back and dust off the old Crusader handbooks to see how these madmen think: atonement for past sins, adventure, plunder, fanaticism--all your Javelins (they cost $180,000 up front, and $80,000 to reload) will not help you here. Now what?
The conflict terminates on two delusions: 1) On the part of the Ukrainians that the West will not tolerate carnage on the level of WWII in its backyard. They were led to believe that the West would not allow itself to be blackmailed (by Nukes) from entering the fray. If Ukraine embraced “European values” did it not have the right to partake of all the benefits the EU offers? And Kyiv, the cradle of Russian Orthodoxy, and Holy Moscow, the third Rome? European values will forever take Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit. The notion of turning Ukraine into a neutral state is nonsense. How long, asks Putin, before Russians, seeing “European values” across the border in Ukraine, will clamor for European values in Holy Moscow. Russia will lose it’s historical identity, the Imperial grandeur that you see in Tolstoy. Historians have long argued that whosoever controls Ukraine controls the world. Give it to Europe and Russia is squeezed into irrelevance. Give it to Russia, and she will soon also control Poland, and from there turn the EU into a nervous wreck. Hence, the Left’s willingness to give Ukraine whatever it needs to fight to the death. 2) The delusion that given enough toys will allow Ukraine to prevail. Historically, in its wars against Germany, Russia lost two complete armies before it prevailed with the third. “Russians always beat Prussians.” Putin has already crossed the Rubicon. He must stay the course in order to survive. The West tells him it will not respond as long as he does not breach NATO. Ukraine in rubble still tips the scale in his favor. For Europeans, 2022 is now 1946–as if WWII never ended. And the EU is on a war footing for the foreseeable future.
Climate. Covid, Critical Theory–all on hold as long as Putin remains in power. All the plans and schemes since 1945 discredited overnight. This is the identity crisis on the Left. They had put War behind them. 75 years of Progress was seen as proof that 1945 was a turning point of history, when mankind forever renounced war as an instrument of policy. Ukraine is becoming a graveyard in Europe’s backyard. And they are forced to watch on their Iphones. The end of Putin remains the only solution. Which is why the Left does not want Ukraine to make a deal. Climate/Covid/Critical Theory–all on hold as long as Putin remains alive. And we have what–two years left to fix global warming? But even if Putin goes, his arsenal of Nukes may be even more dangerous in the mayhem that could follow. The West has no solutions other than wishing for Putin's demise. He will likely end up with Ukraine, and the West will have to humble itself and deal with another dictator. The EU will rearm rapidly and fortify its Eastern flank–precisely what caused the Bear to lash out in the first place. In the eighties you seldom heard a sermon that didn’t sound the warning of Gog and Magog (Russia we were told). I assumed the Ten Toes (the EU Common Market) and Magog went out with Gorbachev. NATO's Drang Nach Osten assumed that the bear was mortally wounded and they helped themselves to his assets. You can be certain that Berlin now wishes it had never heard of Latvia, Lithuania, etc. Of course those are the old haunts of the Teutonic Knights. So now we're back to the 13th century. And Washington is besides itself with glee. They get to pick up Russian energy market share, sell the EU the arms they'll need to defend themselves, force the EU to align with the US against China, and rid itself of the dead weight that was the old EU. All this is, of course, straight out of the old Neo-Con centrist handbook, which is why even the New York Times is lurching rightward. So much for the Greta brats.
How far will Putin go? Ukraine has been a festering sore for Russia for centuries--too European. Stalin's purge was meant to deal with just this problem--imagine towns called Hutterthal and Hutterdorf until 1945. Putin may now find it expedient to raze Ukraine to the ground and rebuild it from the ground up.
2-5-22
"NATO leaders received a deeply frightening message....the door to the ultimate nightmare scenario: a direct military conflict with Russia."
"In a few frantic days, the West threw out the playbook." NY Times
"Ultimate nightmare?" Up till now, Putin's thawing tundra, resulting in 1.5 degree rise 100 years from now, was the ultimate crisis. Tom Friedman urged Putin to leave off war, and focus on the wrath of Mother Nature. Fauci had his mandates and Frau Merkel spent her days poring over her Covid charts. Not a problem that cannot be stared down with facts and science--minus the misinformation of the rabble. In four days, the word "misinformation" disappeared from the Western vocabulary. The handbooks painstakingly curated by the experts since 1945--out the window overnight. And Friedman wants people to trust his charts on 100 years from now--when the common man knows that a nuclear missile takes 15 minutes to get here, and that only a few would be shot down. Western leaders are improvising hour by hour--and they had Mother Nature by the horns to control her. "What happened to Joe Biden," wails Charles Blow. He's too busy with those 15 minute Nukes, Charles. China, who asked Putin to delay starting WWIII till after the Olympics, looks on with glittering eye, like Noah's glib raven, seeing little to dislike in the carnage beneath him. In the old days, Frau Merkel would simply pick up the phone and give Putin a scolding (as in Crimea) and go back to her Climate charts. Americans swooned--this was a real leader for the modern age. Now no one asks "what would Mutti do?" The anger in Europe is that the preacher's daughter created the monster with her self-righteous sermonizing. There has not been a word from her since all this began--too busy poring over her charts, no doubt. Herr Fauci, too, seems to have fallen on hard times. They must have thrown him out when "they threw out the playbook."
German courts and the Hague are full of lawsuits by the Greta brats against Climate crimes. Remember how New York swooned when the Child arrived by sail? Word leaders allowed themselves to be roundly cursed at the UN because of their inaction--by these spoiled, entitled brats. At the Climate Fest in Glasgow, they went into overtime sessions because the brats outside demanded global action. I don't see Tom Friedman calling on China to step up to the plate against Putin. Why? Because Friedman knows they're all back in the snakepit. China would like nothing more than to see the West bleed itself to death in Ukraine. But Mother Nature, he insists, requires that China and Russia be at the Climate table to save the planet. The whole playbook thrown out overnight. And the EU, the chief beater of swords into plowshares, is pouring arms into Ukraine. So much for the kingdom of god on earth. They're all flying by the seat of their pants, minute by minute. And they can lower the temperature by 1.5 degrees 100 years from now? "Can anyone tell me," said (then) President Obama, "what US interests are in Ukraine?" But since Climate/Covid we know that scientific expertise will yield an answer. The West jumped into the fray knowing that a solution will soon follow. Obama would tell them that some problems are best dealt with by doing nothing, because some problems are beyond human ability. But you can't just do nothing, so they're pouring in the entire NATO stockpile of weapons. Before the crisis, Ukraine was led to believe that the West had its back. Now they're likely fighting a suicidal war to the finish, made a million times more lethal with NATO arms. What then? "What then, indeed," says China.
Carl Bildt (former Prime Minister of Sweden) says Europe is now just short of a hot (he would welcome just a Cold War) war, and will have to maintain a heavy military presence on its eastern flank as long as long as Putin remains in power. This new EU army will turn the EU into a Superstate.
2-4-22
"As fighting enters a new stage, Ukraine braces for ‘massive loss of human life’" (Washington Post).
"At an operations center in the arena, Polish border guards, American intelligence officials, paratroopers and State Department desk officers huddled over maps of Ukraine.
'They were smart to bring in all U.S. government agencies and international partners working on solutions for Ukraine,' said Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for General Milley" (NY Times).
In other words, NATO is already fighting this war from Poland. What happens if the world has to watch the slaughter of 100,000 Ukrainians? Because Putin is too far committed to retreat now. He cannot go back to Moscow without Ukraine in his portfolio and hope to remain in power. He was served notice that any incursion into NATO territory will mean war. He will now rely on his nuclear arsenal to gain leverage. And now the West will be forced to spend massively to upgrade its nuclear shield. I was in the crowd in Minneapolis when a smiling Gorbachev approached, flanked by the KGB. The crowd erupted into pandemonium, Russian refugees were shouting in their own language and people were crying. All their lives they had lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation, and seeing Gorbachev's beaming face, they realized that the Cold War was over. Seeing their enthusiasm, Gorbachev broke from his handlers and began working the crowd. Everyone wanted to touch him, and the KGB were constantly putting people to the ground. Death was never more than 30 or 15 minutes away--if you thought about it. Obviously, many people did. This is not something most people had ever hoped to wake up to again. And people had the luxury to develop Climate anxiety over 2 degrees 100 years from now. The thought just struck me that I have not heard the phrase "the end of the World" in forty years. I heard it frequently in the eighties. The crowd was so thick you could hardly breathe. Instantly, the crowd realized that their never ending nightmare was over. The KGB didn't hurt anyone, but I watched them put people to the ground in less than a second. I especially remember his ZIL limo's. Real smokers, but with Nukes in the background no one gave that a second thought back then. And how does a Climate anxietiest cope with Nukes?
2-4-22
“At the German Embassy in Washington, diplomats could hardly believe the number of people who wanted to meet with Habeck (German Economy Minister): the secretaries for commerce and energy as well as security and energy advisers. And then Habeck also rushed to Antony Blinken on Tuesday afternoon for an hour-long conversation. Habeck’s people hadn’t even asked to meet with the secretary of state – the request reportedly came from the U.S. side” (German Spiegel).
This was a love fest typically reserved for a head of state. His chief, Herr Scholz got little more than “what are you about” from Biden’s people several days before, because, the week leading up to the Russian buildup, Scholz was awol. He was too busy to take Biden’s call. Why did Biden call? Because Germany is the black hole of the EU–unable to put WWII behind it and dragging the rest of the Eu down with it. The EU was created to contain Germany after it almost burned the world down twice, and Germany agreed to be absorbed by member states. “Her head shorn and her nails paired” would be the price of the moral legitimacy that would allow Germany to rise from the ashes of the “1000 year guilt.” The EU proved inadequate to the task and found itself paralyzed by Germany’s inability to overcome her historical burden. This is why Scholz went into hiding. His trip to Washington was lackluster, and, lacking flamboyancy (to put it mildly), his performance did little to assuage the fear that Germany would remain a dead weight within NATO. “The War, it’s over,” Scholz was essentially told. “You’re killing NATO by trying to put your un-Prussian stamp on it. Now the EU needs Prussians at the helm to save Democracy.” This was a crisis unlike anything since 1938, and Biden didn’t even bother calling other EU heads. German newspapers parsed every word of Biden, trying to find hope that “the cowboys would ride again, and do what they’ve always done: read Russia the riot act. Years earlier Obama wanted to lump all 27 countries of the EU under one diplomat–together they would make up a real country. They kept pretending that they were 27 real kings. And they were, as long as the US stood between them and Russia. Now the Reagan/Bush cowboys didn’t ride and Putin was about to blast through the Brandenburg Gate like Attila the Hun. Whatever it was that Scholz told Biden’s people, they were unimpressed. They assumed that all would evaporate as soon as he got back to Sitzkrieg. But as soon as he got home, he called a special session of Parliament and announced that Germany would rearm–to the applause of Parliament and the notoriously anti-American Press. The White House was giddy, and knew instantly that the ground had shifted dramatically under the German Zeitgeist. To celebrate, they invited Habeck to Washington and rolled out the red carpet. Days before they had treated Scholz as if he were a sullen schoolboy who refused to grow up. Habeck, to his and Germany’s amazement, was treated as an equal. Because, the Americans recognized Scholz’ speech as a “Blucher in the woods” moment: the Prussians were back, and it would take Prussians to set Putin back on his hunches. Although the historic mantra of the Russian military is: “Remember, Russians always beat Prussians”--after losing two entire armies to the Prussians. Up till now, American European policy was to guarantee that Prussia would not again rise from the ashes and start WWIII. But now the cowboys can’t ride without starting a nuclear war. The answer, Biden knew, lay in Germany, because Putin (fluent in German) understood the German psyche and knew that it would remain passive. This was his greatest miscalculation. Washington is giddy because a rearmed Germany creates a buffer zone between Russia and America, much as Rome’s alliance with some German tribes kept the rest of warlike Germany from crossing the Rhine. It was much cheaper to pay Germans to fight Germans than to waste legion after legion in an unending war. Washington has zero confidence that the other 26 countries of the EU could rise to the moment. They have no doubt that the old Prussian still lurks untamed in the German underbrush. The Putin invasion is on the order of “he could burn the world down.” It is as if the world did a 180 turn overnight: Climate, Covid, Critical Theory–all gone overnight, along with the messianic notions of the experts who can control the planet with their endless statistics and models. The world has a real crisis to deal with and the experts are nowhere to be seen. “What happened to Biden,” wails Charles Blow of the New York Times after the Biden speech, which was minus all the promises he campaigned on? Biden is busy trying to keep Putin from turning the world into an ash heap as he is threatening to do. In desperation, Biden turned to Germany and asked them to become Prussians once again—to fight fire with fire, as it were. Which is why Habeck was treated like a conquering hero in Washington. Because at the moment (the thinking is) it will take Prussians to deal with Russians. And if a rearmed Prussia now whips the EU into the Superbeast of the Book of Revelation–which up to now America sought to prevent? But the world is back to living from day to day as it confronts a genuine Waterloo moment. Angst is back, and Washington needs Germany to be Blucher in the woods. They know that Prussian Germany is up to the task. What it will do after is anyone’s guess. The temptation to whip the EU into the Superbeast will become irresistible, and, most likely, inevitable. Until several days ago, this had been America’s biggest fear, and the reason behind its military presence in Germany. Because everyone knows that Germany is either Prussian or anti-Prussian, either Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg. And the world needs the Germans to be Prussians at the moment. Scholz/Habeck, judging by the giddiness in Washington, are delivering beyond expectations.
If you were not a Christian during the eighties, you may scratch your head over such terms as "the Common Market," "the Ten Toes" (derived from the iron feet of the image), etc. It resonated equally with "the return of the Jews"
at the time, and Bible Conferences were centered around both, because "the Time was nigh." If Germany stirs that interest will revive. The likely outcome here is that Putin will occupy Ukraine and the West will find it necessary to resume relations with Russia. But the attack at Ukraine was always aimed at destabilizing Europe in order to keep it from expanding culturally and politically eastward. A democratic Ukraine would be a spur to Putin's opponents within Russia. The problem is that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (NATO members) are now directly under the bear's paw, and Berlin knows that Putin will begin agitating there, and such an over-sized Russia would revive all the grievances of the historical conflict (the oldest on record) between the two. But Germany is now not just Prussia, and where Prussia now goes all EU goes. The eastern NATO's know that Putin wants them back in the folds, and they would most likely engage in a suicidal war to stop him. But Germany is committed to defend the Eastern block. Which means Germany will be at war the minute Putin attacks. The options laid out to Scholz in Washington were bleak: either you rearm to save the Eastern block or you yourself will become a vassal state of Russia. Habeck (the new Blucher) is from the Greens--these are the anti-nuke, anti-American, tree-huggers. He was summoned to Washington to thank him for putting the entire EU between the US and Russia. It's the equivalent of putting Pakistan and the Saudis up front and sitting out the Iraq/Afghan wars. By any stretch a masterstroke of diplomacy. And the Germans can't believe that Washington is talking to them as equals and treating them as adults rather than as ungrateful children with nothing to do in life but grumble about their entitlements. The biggest factor here is that the threat of nuclear confrontation is back, and with it the unease and anxiety that will now permeate life. And the EU, which was to be the kingdom of god on earth, is made to watch the grisly murder of women an children, the mass destruction of an entire civilization in its own back yard from which it cannot look away. The whole mode of life the last fifty years was predicated on the conviction that Europe would never see evil like this again. As women and children now flee Kyiv, their men remain behind in a kill pit, and Europe will now be forced to watch streaming footage of mass murder. The EU cannot react without starting WWIII. The world had arrived at the End of History, allowing mankind the leisure to create a world of plenty where injustice would become unnecessary. Putin stripped the world of its leisure (or banal idleness) overnight. Scholz returned to Germany alarmed out of his wits. There is not a whimper in all of Germany over his stark message and remedy, which will take Germany down a path that will transform the cultural, social, and political life beyond recognition. As Russian tanks approach Kyiv, no one doubts the outcome, and none can look away. Merkel with her stacks of Covid statistics is already a distant memory. Overnight, Germany threw out all the statistics and models and in desperation called for rearmament. In short, when all else fails, do what their ancestors did, unsheathe the sword. Out the door is the prevailing philosophy that man can be in control of his Universe, which, of course, had made prayer obsolete. Is Musk still going to Mars in his crusade to colonize Space in order to improve the human condition? According to the New York Times, China asked Putin to put off slaughtering Ukrainians until after the Olympics. And Tom Friedman wants to negotiate a global Climate deal with these two? Overnight, chaos. Everyone is holding their breath waiting for the next shoe to drop. "What happened to Biden," cries Charles Blow, after the speech. In four days the political landscape has become unrecognizable.
This could come upon the West:
"How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest" (Jeremiah in Lamentations 2).
European leaders regularly state that Europe has moved on from the Christian era. Putin sees himself as raised by God protect the Orthodox Church, and he sees Kyiv as the Holy of Holies, the desecration of which calls for vengeance. The destruction we see so far is child's play compared to Lamentations. If he succeeds in Ukraine, he may well hear voices in his head to restore Christian Europe. The Ukraine problem is but the 1000 year old conflict between the Prussian Order of Knights and the Czars. He may be tempted to hoist his flag on top of the Brandenburg Gate as a nod to history. He thinks in those terms. If he demands that NATO remove from all former Communist countries as a condition of perpetual peace, he will have reimposed the Iron Curtain. And by now Europe knows that it is on its own.
2/28/22
The blue line, beginning from top, represents the Hutterite colonies in eastern Ukraine (map here), just West of the Donbass region which considers itself part of Russia. Two towns (former colonies) close to the Black Sea were called by their Germans names Hutterthal (today Kyrpychne) and Hutterdorf (Kushchove) until 1945 when Stalin purged the last vestiges of anything German. The colonies were all in today's hot zone. The Donbass region just to the east has become a no-man's land run by local strongmen who look to Moscow for support. Just to the South is the Crimea, where Britain and France fought a catastrophic war to keep Russia from seizing Constantinople, the seat of Eastern Orthodoxy, in order to cast Russia as the supreme defender of Slav religion. The assets of the crumbling Ottoman would be up for grabs, and allowing Russia to help herself would pose a serious threat to Europe. The Hutterites were in the area while all the shooting was going on, leaving for America some 15 years later. Tolstoy (War and Peace) watched the clash of armies daily from the heights as an artillery officer (war, he said, is how the rich murder the poor), and most of the details in his book come from there. No one in this area ever thought they were anywhere but Russia. Here's a sobering account of what drives Putin, and the cost he is willing to incur to keep Ukraine Russian. Whenever Russians speak of Holy Moscow or Holy Russia they refer to the iconic act of 988 when Vladimir of Kyiv accepted Christianity and proceeded to baptize all Russians. Kyiv is the Temple Mount of Russia. In Israel, all eyes are on the Temple Mount, and Israel would cease to exist the day it relinquishes hope of gaining full possession of it. It's what drives the Settlers to risk life and limb to regain more territory. As Putin has no industry or functioning bureaucracy (like China), he can regain superpower status only by increasing landmass, the strength of his military, and the myths essential to military power. Holy Russia is not Holy without it's birthplace: Kyiv. And Russia is not Russia the day it is no longer Holy Russia. He is not just trying to put space between himself and NATO, he's cleansing the holy places from Western decadence. But this will require putting a tight leash on Ukraine, which will mean running it with oligarchs, which will keep Ukraine impoverished. Supporting it will require dipping into his oil coffers, which he now uses for corn and circuses back home to keep the masses under control. European leaders feel duped. They relied on dialogue and were met with an iron fist. They sense danger on two fronts: Energy and a weak military. Concentration on these will cause Europe to lurch sharply to the Right. Germany's newspapers went from Sitzkrieg to Blitzkriek overnight as if in a final act of despair with a blistering attack on hapless German leadership. The EU has been sinking for lack of vision. As the United States of Europe, it would dwarf the other Superpowers. Germany has been the holdout. It would be unlike anything the world has ever seen. The Ten Toes went out of fashion in the nineties, and with it Bible Conferences. But the tone in German newspapers is like night and day from just a week ago. Once the will is there, the EU will become the world's dominant Superpower within five years. That notion was unthinkable a week ago. Now it is inevitable. Biden called Sholz to Washington to tell him that Germany has a moral responsibility rearm, knowing full well that a remilitarized Germany will Prussianize the EU. Germany, only too well aware of its historical instincts, disarmed for just that reason. Now the world is calling upon it to assume the moral high ground to save democracy: atoning for its Prussian past by becoming Prussian once again.
2-25-22
Germany's Der Spiegel:
"And finally, Europe has to get used to the idea that military strength remains, even in the 21st century, a factor in politics. Many thought that the fate of nations in the future would solely be determined by economic data, technology and artificial intelligence. Now, Putin has demonstrated that political goals can also be performed with far more primitive means – with tanks, warplanes and artillery.
It would be naïve to believe that the conflict with the Putin regime will be limited to Ukraine. Putin has been waging a hybrid war against Europe for years – through his financing of authoritarian parties, for example, or by disseminating misinformation through media outlets like RT. He is likely to continue fighting that war."
"the future would solely be determined by economic data, technology and artificial intelligence."
Here, in a nutshell, is the bible of the EU's kingdom of god on earth. You can go back thirty years and you will not find this kind of language in German newspapers, because Europeans are not countries, but satellites of the US. Life consisted of cars, beer, and football (and criticizing the cowboy US). With Ukraine in its portfolio, Russia now has the material and strategic weight of a Superpower, and Europe woke up yesterday knowing that they are now subject to forces beyond their control. What's more, the strength of Putin's position is religion and the moral high ground of the Cultural Revolution. He listens to Fox News. For what is the greatest threat to civilization according to Fox News? Moral decay. How did Putin sell his war in Holy Moscow? War against the Rainbow flag. As the NY Times wrote yesterday, Putin has become the global leader of the Cultural War. He builds churches like the Taliban builds mosques. Ukraine will now get magnificent domes. Orban will be his mouthpiece in Brussels. Putin is waging Holy War against a decaying West, and, like the Taliban, he wins. What the Spiegel still doesn't get is that Europe has no religion to fall back on. It replaced religion with "European values" against which Putin is now mounting a holy crusade. This is the new front of the global Cultural War, which is some form or another has become WWIII.
2-24-22
"With war in Europe, crime rising on our streets, disarray at the border, social unraveling in many of our broken communities, perceived ideological unmooring in our schools, moral decay everywhere, Democrats need to tell us which cultural and moral values they stand for that will hold this country together." NY Times
And what would Brooks call "moral decay?" The war in Ukraine is as much about Biden's Bathrooms as it is about anything. Putin is waging Holy War as the Cultural War. This is how he sells it to the Russian people. It's what appeals to Fox News. It's what gave rise to Trump. What Brooks says about America can be said about the entire Western world. It's coming apart at the seams. Orban would tell Brooks to start with Biden's Bathrooms, which, for most people, is the point of no return. Most people realize that it will not stop with bathrooms. "A man married his horse in America," cried one of Putin's cronies. Most people woke up today with the sense that fear is back. It vacated with the Cold War. Putin could now use Ukraine to pull the Balkans into his orbit, which would make him the third superpower, in a world that seems barely large enough for one.
"Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation."
2-24-22
The globalist Messiah Complex–gone overnight. French President Macron famously boasted, “There is no Planet B.” Weather they grab by the horns and change. Covid is masked, vaxxed, boostered. mandated, isolated, and so forth. Fauci is on it. Critical Theory, the moral canary in the coalmine, likewise calls for a global solution. All gone overnight. Obviously there is not a plan B either. Europe, especially, sits in stunned silence longing for the noise of the Reagan-Bush Cowboys coming to the rescue to end the greatest European nightmare since WWII. The whole world, the New York Times says, thought this was all in the past, and that the world had moved on. The world has its plate full saving the planet--and now this. When they accounted for all the facts, they dismissed sin as an outdated superstition, at odds with the modern world. "Sin entered the world, and death by sin." And Europe can not even any longer pray, for as its leaders say, "we are a post-Christian society." How close will Putin get to Berlin before "men begin to call upon the name of the Lord. Reading European newspapers today, you can cut fear with a knife. No one takes Climate/Covid fear seriously, because no one yet invoked God to counter them. And they want God as far removed from the Cultural War as possible, because He is seen to be at the root of it. But as the people of Europe can see from reading their newspapers, their leaders have no plan B.
The EU abandoned statecraft when it opted out of all future wars. Their model of “European values”would advance on the basis of basic human rights for everyone, grounded in irrefutable facts of science (sin is nothing but superstition). Reason would replace superstition, and wealth used for war would now put a chicken in every pot. And finally, having solved the problem of war, the world could now focus on saving a very fragile planet. We have 12 years left, they say every ten years. And there is no such a thing as sin. Pray? To what? Ukrainian churches are full today. There are no Rainbow flags to be seen anywhere.
Overnight Putin likely doubled the world’s carbon footprint, as energy companies race to meet demand. Anything that burns is now the commodity of the day. The Stone Age is back. Putin could kill thousands of Eurpeans simply by turning off the gas. Europeans had gambled that he would not resort to energy as a weapon. He just warned the world that he has nuclear bombs. The EU model is based on the notion that it would have time to reach critical mass under the protective umbrella of the US, and so focused on statistical models to improve the human condition to the point where war would be both necessary and impossible (science will disprove the notion of sin). Europe constantly refers to itself as a post-Christian society. Whereas before, its leaders would shuttle around seeking coalitions to end war, the new leadership left all that to join the global campaign to save the planet. Carbon replaced the notion of sin.
General Lemay who dropped the Bomb said, “Don’t use war and morals in the same sentence.” But the EU sees itself first and foremost as a moral entity. Even now Germany refuses to even sell guns to Ukranians lest they end up killing Russians. On the other hand, Putin sells the war as a moral instrument to save Russian Orthodoxy from the decadent West. He wages Holy War against encroaching Biden Bathrooms. Poland and Orban stand with him here against the EU. Fox News sees much to like here.
The Western world found it inconceivable that a modern leader would risk killing 50,000 (Biden’s projection) and expect to get away with it. This is the shock today across the world. It’s like the world woke up to see 1938 splashed across the front page. They’re hunkering down hoping it will all go away, because if it doesn’t, Climate, Covid, and the Cultural War become irrelevant, because War is the worst carbon footprint imaginable, no one cares about masks in foxholes, and the entire Rainbow Program reverts back to its historic domain: the vice dungeon. Before all this, every rally in Ukraine would be attended by the Rainbow people reminding everyone that EU values must include everyone. Today, Ukrainian people huddle in churches–and there are no Rainbow flags to be seen anywhere–Sin, it seems, is back. Ukrainians knew the EU would be served up with Rainbow flags, and most shrugged…. Most Russians actually believe that Putin is on God’s side in waging war against Rainbow. And Ukrainians think like Russians. The Stone Age, Saudis like to say, did not end when people ran out of stones. Putin is essentially throwing rocks at the glass house that is the EU. Planet EU thought all this was gone forever. And as President Macron says, “There is no Planet B.” Ironically, Putin can actually change the atmosphere by shutting off the gas.
2-23-22
“If you don’t think universities are indoctrinating your kids, everybody needs to wake up,” Alabama state Rep. Ed Oliver (R), sponsor of one such bill, told “The Jeff Poor Show,” on talk radio in Mobile, in June. He said opposing critical race theory was “the way we stand up to woke-ism” (Washington Post).
Conservatives are now increasingly in position to withhold funding and use the courts to block the Left’s agenda–and promote their own. Let’s take a top tier University like Berkeley in California, or any top tier University. They are all run and staffed by Leftwing globalist elites. They breed vice like flies on the head of Beelzebub. Yet they also have the smarts to make Babylon glitter. Now none of us wants to go back to Stone Ages. God took the Isrealites from building cities to Bible study in the desert: for man doth not live by cities alone. Go broke down the tower of Babel to make room for Abraham who built altars. Much later when the Babylonians came to admire the accomplishments of Hezekiah, he was rebuked by Isaiah for as much as giving them an audience. God chose Abraham to keep Israel separate from Babylon. Babylon is itself a doctrine and way of life. You would have to completely destroy it to end indoctrination there.
“He offers cultural order. He embraces the Russian Orthodox Church and rails against the postmodern godlessness of the West. He scorns homosexuality and transgenderism. Putin has redefined global conservatism and made himself its global leader. Many conservatives around the world see Putin’s strong, manly authority, his defense of traditional values and his enthusiastic embrace of orthodox faith, and they see their aspirations in human form” (David Brooks, NY Times, on the coming barbarism).
What is Brooks saying here? That Conservatives are giving Putin moral and political cover to invade Ukraine in order to destabilize Leftwing Europe. The Left won the Cultural War by seizing the means of information (total control of Media and Education), but now finds that policy needs the iron fist of violence to become effective. The EU has all the arguments, but Putin is not debating.
“In the Canadian clash…the truckers have leveraged the imposing presence of their trucks” (NY Times).
Leftwing Canada had to resort to violence to deal with the truckers. Canada and the EU represent the new world order where human affairs are guided by enlightened science. And now, both are confronted with the jungle. The truckers forced Canada to violate its orthodoxy, a poison that will now seep into its vitals. Putin knows that the EU cannot respond meaningfully without creating a moral crisis within. Like Thomas Friedman says, “This is visceral, ugly stuff.” Putin is actually talking about turning Europe into an ash heap. How do you focus on Climate, Covid, and Critical Theory with that in the background?
2-23-22
"Climate Fears on Back Burner as Fuel Costs Soar and Russia Crisis Deepens" (NY Times)
What do people see when they click on the news?" Hand dug trenches. Like Einstein said, "Don't underestimate sticks and stones, because World War IV will be fought with them." Where is Fauci with his masks and Merkel with her reams of Covid data? Companies the world over are racing to ramp up dirty coal. Europe's leaders are nowhere to be seen, but German newspapers hang on to every word from Biden---"when will the American cowboys ride--they like that sort of thing, you know." Putin dismissed Covid, Climate, Critical Gander Theory with a stroke. Fox News and Republicans can barely conceal their gloating: Putin put the Left out of business without firing a shot, and now Merkel's stacks of statistics will command a premium as fuel. Putin has already covered his expenses by driving up the price of energy, and is now forcing political change by enabling dirty-energy hawks. According to Covid dogma, Putin's dismissive attitude toward mask/vax mandates should boomerang to decimate his ranks. People don't wear masks in foxholes, the most superspreader of the superspreaders. But Austria will begin fining its citizens $4000 for noncompliance. Not a peep from Victor Orban. He's all that stands between Putin and Berlin now, and you can imagine what he will do with that: he consolidated power by pushing back on "European values" (think Biden's bathrooms), and now, with rightwing Orthodox values on the move, political tension will heat up in the heart of Europe, just what Putin hoped for. For it is the European utopia that Ukraine pines for, peace, freedom, wealth. And once that comes to Ukraine, it will gnaw its way into Russia, making Russia little more than a EU province governed from Brussels. This was the thinking of US politicians when the Iron Curtain came down. They also assumed that Capitalism would transform China into a democracy. With a stroke Putin ended the debate on Covid, Climate, Critical Gander Theory. Keeping warm, they now realize, will be the better part of statecraft. Like Einstein would say, don't forget to build that woodpile in your zeal for wind and solar, because for all its faults, it keeps you warm when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. I note that the Europeans are not mobilizing to make up for Putin's gas by speedbuilding windmills. They're just hoping that Putin will be satisfied with Ukraine and allow them to go back to saving the planet. But he wants nothing less than Russian glory as a stand-alone superpower, equal to the US and China. No one thinks he will stop at Ukraine, and the West has no appetite to leave its preoccupation with Covid/Climate/Critical Theories and go back to digging trenches. Putin's statecraft is essentially Stone Age in that regard, but as Einstein said, "Don's discount sticks and stones, because...."
2-4-22
With The New York Times at the Colony
"in New York State at a conference at a Bruderhof community, which has roots in the Anabaptist tradition."
Ever since David Brooks converted his wife to Judaism and left her for a Wheaten girl he's been looking for a good church. But Trumpism has ruined the church, and all he sees is spiritual wreckage. He regularly quotes his good friend the Rev. Tim Keller just across the block who has "church campuses" (read sheepfleecing corporate religion) all over the most wicked city on earth. But what good does fervent revival in Manhattan do, when iniquity prevails in the heartland? But apparently all is well at the Rev. Keller's sprawling Manhattan empire, because Brooks sees nothing to criticize there. Im Westen Nichts Neues--the Rev seems content to let the sleeping dogs of wickedness lie. But if I read his good friend Brooks right, the Rev's church is on the straight and narrow--on Broadway no less.
And now we find Brooks at the Bruderhof (you can see it from the Interstate, but you'll wear out a clutch backtrekking from the next exit) with one of the heavies from Balaam Graham's magazine Christianity Today. As you know Russel Moore and Bethebel Moore bolted from the Southern Baptists over Trump--not because the SBC had become too political, but because it embraced the wrong politics. And of course, the Bruderhof, like the Rev Keller, and like Moore, and like David Brooks--all want to reinstate the Church to her original mission, and stop roiling politics. That is, limit your politics to voting--as Democrats. What may surprise most readers is to discover that Times readers all know who Jesus was and all agree that "never man spoke like this man." Compare that to the near atheism in flagship seminaries--and Christianity Today. Notably, Brooks does offer his friend, the Manhattan Rev Keller, of the church of "kill-them-all" Stonewall Jackson, to his readership. He knows what the Rev is. His readership are within shouting distance of the Rev everyday. Which is why Christianity Today and Brooks trek over to the Bruderhof. They're trying to distance themselves from the tooth and claw of Luther and Calvin, which, in the end, is what the Rev. Keller peddles, and has gotten enormously wealthy doing so. He's all the rage in South Korea and Thailand. "Their feet are swift to shed blood; the way of peace have they not known." Brook's peacemakers include Peter Wehner and Gerson (Bush's two war-whisperers) and all-roads-lead-t0-the-gods, Jimmy Carter. This, as you can see from the Comments section, is what Christianity should look like. It's what the Rev Keller's church looks like. Which is why Brooks sees the need to trek further upstate.
You can see Brooks is preaching to the choir by reading the Comments section, which bristles with what Brooks conveniently ignores: The Cultural War, abortion, depravity, and hyper-secularism. The two Moores left the SBC because of the Culture War, and Trump is no more than the avatar of the Culture War, just as Qanon is the avatar of Trump. What is Q? Q is relevance. Beneath all the nonsensical rubbish is the voice of conviction, plain speaking--the opposite of endless droning drivel coming from Media and pulpit. Q speaks to the heart, and dangles hope--which is why "the people heard Him gladly" (if you can muster conviction--even error--you have a crowd). Brooks converted his wife to Judaism, took up with a Wheaton girl and now seeks inspiration at the Bruderhof--which he then hopes to distill more broadly. No doubt in tandem with the Rev Keller's apostolic unction which (if one is to read between the lines) has Manhattan in revival. At least, we are led to believe, there is one good church one may point to, because as you can read, the Rev Keller provides him with a point by point formula for making things right. He went to the Bruderhof, no doubt, to make what is already good, even better, not content, as it were, to allow the good to become the enemy of the perfect, and thus keep us from reaching even higher ground. You can see from the Comments section that his readers view him as a modern prophet to heal the wounds inflicted by false religion. From this broken crockery, Brooks opines, will emerge an all embracing body worthy of Christianity, a non-critical tent of love large enough to embrace everyone. The readers of the NY Times are waiting with open arms for the prodigals to come home. All welcome. As the Rev Keller would say, "let lie, the sleeping dogs of sin," for "love covers all sin." This is what Brooks sees on the horizon. And from the Bruderhof. He was at the Colony. I imagine they straightened the road by now--you'll wear out a knee double-clutching.
2-2-22
"A deluge of Afghans could arrive at the European Union’s borders" NYT.
It all began when America paid Osama to keep Communism from threatening the Free World by expanding into Afghanistan. Osama in turn declared war on the Free World, and the democracies destroyed Afghanistan in response. But nothing has so destabilized modern democracy than mass migration. It cost the EU one of its most prized assets: Britain. It weakened EU politics by creating sympathy for Orban and Putin in Western countries: Putin and Orban are Building the Wall over there. They're taking it to the Libs over there. A Fifth Column of sympathy. In essence, Putin is fighting his war on Fox television. And now here come the refugees again. Refugees mean more tension in the Middle East, higher energy prices, and political discontent. Public anger could call for a pivot away from windmills to long term reinvestment in planet destroying coal and oil. But this and the Agenda are the two mainstays of the EU and of Progressive Travelers. They need a period of relative stability to attain a threshold of no return. Putin is determined to deny them the accolade, and drag them back into the dirty world of Realpolitik. Germany, especially, casts itself as above all that--they have put war and killing behind them. The EU is the opposite of all that went before: The New Being and kingdom of god on earth. Biden wants Germany to pick up the saber once again, which is why Herr Olaf refuses to take his phone call. In fact, Putin is goading Germany to revert to Old Prussia, when Ukraine will once again become a buffer zone. For as they used to say after they lost one or two Russian armies and went back to recruit the third. "Remember," the generals would tell beardless recruits, "Russians always beat Prussians." Meanwhile, China dangles blueprints and loans before the Taliban. "Keep doing as you please," they tell them, "just don't disturb the peace around our investments." They'll soon rule Afghanistan without firing a shot.
The New Rome
"As the United States, fatigued by decades of war and upheaval in the Middle East, seeks to limit its involvement there, China is deepening its ties with both friends and foes of Washington across the region" (NYT).
This is Rome picking up the broken crockery of Alexander's empire. Greeks thought they were a little to good to consort with crude barbarians (Aristotle taught Greeks to make war on them constantly to keep them from diluting their betters), and basically played the absentee landlord. Rome embraced anyone, and its legions built roads, bridges, and water systems wherever they went, intermarried, and received their pensions where they had served. Germans still refer to city sections as a "Viertel," a throwback to Roman camps divided into "quarters." The Legions brought Rome to the outposts of civilization, as jealous of the integrity of Roman law as it was of its coin: Caesar's coin had the weight of the Legions behind it, and, likewise, Roman law meant in Jerusalem what it meant in Rome: Paul was able to escape the mob rule of the Pharisees by invoking Roman law. On the other hand, freedom, for Greeks, was everything, always in search "of some new thing," as Paul says. They invented the ancient Iphone, but didn't know how to market it. Rome took all that information and painstakingly built infrastructure. Roman roads were the internet of the day. "They of Caesar's household greet you," Paul says, to everyone out there. Galatia, Rome, Athens--Paul could travel without escort, no permission needed. The Roman takeover of the world, Polybius, the Greek historians says, was done within a space of 70 years--unlike anything ever witnessed in history.
The leaders of foreign countries would line up to petition the Roman Senate to become Roman, so that they too could enjoy the Roman peace. When Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey arrive in Beijing, they are only too well aware that they will be required to have their "heads shaved and their nails pared" as a condition of the China Peace. The Belt and Road Initiative (the revived Silk Road) is unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Rome. China will loan you money and provide expertise, but you--and here they know that the dragon means business--will keep the peace. China does not need trillion dollar sand wars to impose peace. Hyper-Capitalism is China's Legion: billion dollar ports, railroads, mines, cities, an oasis in every patch of desert--but here, sign here--you will keep the peace (Like Rome, China does not preach values. Pay your taxes and believe what you want--just don't disturb the peace). There will be no suicide bombers within a 100 miles of China projects--peace, by any and all means, that will be up to you. 1000 year blood feuds? Ended, the minute you take the yuan. Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan, South America will bloom. Migration will likely reverse. China has proven over and over that it can throw up a thriving city in the middle of a desert overnight, and it will give you the blueprint and loan you the money to build your own utopia--no environment study needed--belch all the coal you want. What's the most widely used Western export to the Third World: the Russian AK47. China exports blueprints instead of bombs. Hyper-rich Babylon, John tells us, seduced the nations with her commercial prowess. Biden spent immense political capital trying to slow Iran's bomb. Iran needs the bomb to retake Mecca and Medina. But here we see sheikh and ayatollah side by side waxing meek in Beijing. Rome made you tear down your city walls and fortresses to gain entrance to Club Rome. Jerusalem was the most dangerous city in the world for Christians. Everywhere else preacher Paul went where he pleased without passport or escort--with Nero on the throne. The sheer size of China's ambition will put it in charge of half the world in three decades. Meanwhile, its closest rivals, Russia, India, the US are throwing up supremacist walls. This is their downfall. "With a great price I became a Roman citizen," the captain told Paul. Anyone could be a Roman anywhere. There has been nothing like it since. It was the speed of Rome's rise that baffled Polybius, and China shows no sign of fatigue.
1-31-22
"MOSCOW — The West is legalizing marriage between people and animals....These are the views found in President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle" (New York Times).
From the Cold War to the Cultural War. In the 80's, Evangelical pulpits rang with the need for a strong military to counter Soviet communist atheism, and now Russia casts itself as the last redoubt holding the line on traditional family values. In the end, the Ukraine crisis is about Biden's Bathrooms (what the NY Times above refers to). More than Climate or Covid, "the Agenda" (if you'll but think of a certain chapter in Genesis where fire departments come to mind you'll know what the Agenda is) is the strongest ideology since communism, hijacking the Civil Rights Movement to give itself legitimacy. But the Agenda is currently facing strong headwinds, and it may well take the Civil Rights Movement down with it. The recent backlash in Virginia against Critical Race Theory is to the point. The Republicans were able to cast it as an atheistic attack on core Christian teachings, a far reaching agenda to indoctrinate impressionable young minds in confusion and depravity. This, the New York Times says, is the secret behind Putin and Orban: Putin and Orban talk openly about God, the traditional family, law and order, the exact opposite of depraved coastal elites. Hence, the lure Eastward toward Eastern Orthodoxy among Evangelicals--the Drang Nach Osten of the Cultural War, which is now the most potent Cause in the world.
The Ukraine crisis is no more than "Putin on the move." Like Napoleon, he survives domestically as long as he proves himself relevant. Likely, he has no other agenda toward Ukraine other than to keep the EU awake nights, and thus expose it as a hapless fraud. Germany, for which the EU was created doesn't even take Biden's calls, and sent 5000 helmets (Ukraine requested 100,000) to ward of Putin. The EU is the answer to all the wrongs (religious saber-rattling) that went before. It is the kingdom of god on The PLANET, and, from here on out, human affairs will be arranged on a scientific basis: Covids, shots, vaccines, proofs--The New York Times swooned over the picture of Merkel poring over her stacks of Covid statistics--here was the leadership of the New World Order. Now Putin is massing on the border and Biden can't get Herr Olaf on the phone, because Germany is still cleaning up after Hitler, and Germany refuses to send weapons to conflict zones--it is one of the largest weapon exporters in the world, a mainstay of German Mittelstand companies. The Glock remains the weapon of choice among those who take human life, but Germany no longer does war, which is why no one picks up the phone when Biden calls. This is already a strategic coup. The point here is to split the Western Alliance, to expose the weak underbelly of the EU, and show them as enervated and enfeebled. And more: Putin wants to bloody German hands and thus expose the hypocrisy of the EU as a benign kingdom-of-god blueprint for the coming New World Order. The minute the EU stoops to the dirty business of war it will ignite a conflict within that will destroy it. Which is why Germany refuses to take Biden's call. Putin knows Germany cannot violate its messianic kingdom-of-god charter without calling into question its identity, and the hope of fellow Travelers (think Cohen, Friedman/Krugman/NYTimes) worldwide who see the EU as the last hope for humanity. I note that the Nordic Climate Child Greta is nowhere to be seen. She was a big hit in Germany until they noticed the gas pressure dropping on lines coming in from Russia. Germany took the moral high road on Climate--brrrr! Coal is belching back to an all time high. Biden is calling on Middle Eastern despots to come to Europe's aid--and not with solar panels. Just a week ago Tom Friedman of the NY Times called on Putin to leave off war and focus on Mother Nature's war on Russia's thawing tundra--tilting at Mother Nature with windmills. Putin's tanks, rest assured meet the highest emission standards--in Germany they halted Musk's car factory because of a few snakes. Climate Czar John Kerry warns that we have 12 years left to save the planet. The carbon footprint of a sizable war could shave that by half. And what do you see on the world's front pages? Ukrainians in helmets hunkering in crude trenches--the equivalent of Caveman to Iphone Man. And this after a handful of ragged warriors on a shoestring budget defeated the most powerful and advanced army the world has ever seen--unmasked, and, as far as I can tell, unvaxxed. Like Einstein said, "Don't underestimate sticks and stones, because it's what World War IV will be fought with." These fanatics leapfrogged a war--and won. While the rest of the world is drowning in Covid. Putin plays on this primitive level. No one is quite sure if he would not burn the house down if pushed to far, but Europe is not about to find out. What is obvious at this point is that Ukraine is on its own, and as such will revert back to its historic position as a non-country buffer zone under Russian control. Here now be monsters. Poland was never more than that until recently, and, by EU standards, has slammed the brakes on "EU values"--again think of the suspicion of Lot as arsonist in the Book of Genesis--I have to resort to this to keep from getting completely banned. No word from Brother Orban. The EU was about to crack down on him for cracking down on "The Program" (Genesis again)--Putin has given them larger fish to fry. Meanwhile the Fox people are making pilgrimages to Hungary--one of Brother Orban's preachers holds that even Hungarian atheists are "Christians" by birth. Dostoyevsky who believed that Christ lives in the Russian Orthodox Church alone, was "the most evil Christian I have ever met," said a friend of Tolstoy. But a Christian he was, evil as he was. If you think of Putin and Orban in terms of War and Peace, you have the Ukrainian crisis in a nutshell: it takes up where the Lost Cause left off--uniforms, gowns, gallants, swashbuckle--and a Cause. Putin and Orban have a Cause. They're calling the faithful to the ancient standards of Crusade. And the world is so bereft of causes that any cause will do--Woke is a cause. Without a Cause, life is sheer muddling. The EU is dying for lack of a mandate. Now picture a movie about the drab EU muddling along--Mutti with her reams of paper. "Is there not a Cause?" The EU was created to creep into the future, precisely to prevent violent Causes. But from here on it's Mutti poring over her papers and dictating shots, mandates, lockdowns, boosters, more shots, more variants, more hand-wringing--and leering Fauci--imposed daily without a mask--as the new face of endless Purgatory. Putin and Orban project freedom of initiate and action, Mutti and Fauci the slavery of endless statistics, hovering over a servile multitude incapable of doing anything, much less thinking, for themselves. Now no one thinks that Putin and Orban preside over democratic institutions. But institutions in the hands of faceless bureaucrats have as much to do with freedom as Capitalism with democracy in the hands of a hyper-power like China--until China it was inconceivable that Capitalism and democracy were not one and the same. Yet here we are: Putin and Orban as emblems of freedom.