Thursday, October 31, 2024

Men are Reading... of Rome

(Yes, TRUE MEN ARE NOT ONLY READING HISTORY - but are undoubtedly the core of civilization which will REBUILD WESTERN CIVILIZATION after DaSoyBoys have completed its destruction in its current period. - CL)

https://substack.com/@barsoom/note/c-72077045 

What actually happens is that the left takes over production, distribution, and promotion channels, and then ensures that only their books are published, stocked, marketed, and given awards. There is no creativity whatsoever involved in this strategy. It is simply low animal cunning and venal social power games.

As with every other instance of the left murdering an institution and wearing it as a skinsuit, the result is the precipitous collapse of the ability of that institution to fulfill its social function, followed in short order by the collapse of its prestige as the general public starts tuning the corrupted institution out.

https://voxday.net/2024/10/30/men-are-reading-of-rome/

He’s correct. I’m absolutely astonished how many men subscribe to the Castalia Library substack and read the serialized excerpts from THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY every single day. We usually average over 1,000 post views, which is around 50 percent of our total subscriber base, and this is not dumbed-down modern drivel either, but serious history published by the leading academics at Cambridge University in the early 20th Century.

Here Is THE Closing Argument - by Karl Denninger

How old are you?

I'm assuming the people reading this are adults.

How certain, when you're old, are you that you will need exactly nothing from anyone.  No money, no personal care, nobody to wipe your ass when you can't?  Nobody (or damn few) people paying taxes to cover things that you might need but no longer can go out and earn on your own.

How sure?

Because that's the bet in this election.

You see, one view is that wide-open borders, "nobody is illegal", everyone who comes gets $2,000+/mo without working a single day for any of it, skills are immaterial, desire is immaterial (other than to consume the $2,000) and more.  This position, in larger and larger amounts, starting with "your strawberries will go up 25 cents a pint if you don't let them in" then "you won't be able to get your roof done" and now "any Haitian can come" has driven a collapse in women willing to give birth and raise another generation.

You think not?

How many 18 year old young women see their grandma getting $1,500 a month from Social Security, $300 is deducted from that for Medicare (in its various parts including "D") so they get $1,200 a month to spend in total -- and its taxable -- while every illegal immigrant that comes in gets $2,000 a month tax free and then contemplate their future if they decide to have a kid with their boyfriend (hopefully future husband)?..................

Read full text: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252270 

How about the "need" for a two-income home to be able to afford to live?  What happens if you have a kid and then one of you loses your job?  Can you really have it all?  No, but you can live on the edge of disaster all the time and guess who advanced THAT shit in American Society?  Obama, Biden and HARRIS.  Think not?  How does your grocery bill, rent and car insurance over the last three and a half years compare with the raises you've received?

The entire budget deficit and thus the inflation in the economy is all, right now, in CMS.  That's Medicare and Medicaid.  Obamacare was an attempt to bail out the medical system on your back and you bought it.  So a drug-addled individual shooting up heroin could have "free" medical care you got screwed with a 500% cost increase for shittier coverage and don't tell me you didn't because I used to buy it both for my employees and then when I sold the company I had to buy it personally for myself and my daughter when she was a child.  Let me put HARD NUMBERS to this for you: There was not a single college-age adult working for my firm that had a rated cost (yes, every single person was individually rated) over $100/month, most were well below that, and it was pretty darn good health insurance.  That wasn't the employee's cost, it was THE TOTAL COST and I know what it was for every individual employee because I wrote the checks.   Go find and ask one of the people who worked for me what the payroll deduction was for individual health insurance -- it was $15/pay period. Why?  Because ERISA mandates I cannot take more than half nor can I discriminate and deduct different amounts per-person or I lose above the line tax deductibility so there is your proof right on the check stub; most of those young people's all-in cost was under $75/mo.  In exchange for being "compassionate", which you were sold, the price you pay quadrupled, the coverage went to shit with most plans now requiring a several thousand dollar a year deductible and at the same time we added 20 million illegal immigrants that are also have THEIR medical costs in your bill because they pay ZERO.  What's worse is that what you got was more grift and scam -- not better health.  Look at the size of Americans over the last 25 years and tell me it got better!  It has gotten much worse!

The same thing happened after Obama federalized all student loans.  College costs skyrocketed in the 15 years since continuing the pattern of the previous two decades and now Harris' plan is not to punish the colleges who sold your kid a worthless degree for $200,000, an act of abject fraud, but to try to shove the cost up your ass as a taxpayer.  This, if she was to succeed (the USSC has blocked it but Harris and Biden have ignored the decision) would simply make college even more expensive since they would still have zero accountability for screwing your kid.

Why do you think all those colleges and professors endorse Harris when she is all-in on them being able to continue to rape your wallet AND THAT OF YOUR CHILDREN?

How about the unbridled fear being run about throwing out all the illegal aliens and dispatching all the government waste, which is likely at least a third and maybe half or more of all government spending and jobs?

Well, do you like higher prices or lower prices?  Do you want to be able to afford a house and are you a citizen?  Do you like higher or lower grocery bills, car prices and everything else?

Supply and demand is not a suggestion and every government dollar spent is in fact a tax whether its directly leveled on you or it is indirectly leveled through inflation when the government spends more than it taxes.  If you get rid of a large part of demand prices go down and not a little.  If you remove taxes by deleting government spending for which there is no benefit other than a government employee getting paid to do nothing of value then once again prices will go down -- and again, not a little.

Will doing that (presuming a candidate was to actually do it) result in a short-term dislocation in the economy?  Of course it will.  But the wild-eyed improvement and opportunity that will be created by doing so will also flood business back to the US where it formerly made sense to offshore and those lower costs across the board will very-rapidly result in a huge economic boom.  If you think not look at 1920/21 when all sorts of insane inefficient crap happened in the years right after the war and rather than bail anyone out or force taxpayers to eat it Coolidge and The Fed said "nuts!"  There was a huge economic dislocation but within 18 months all the lost jobs were regained and the largest economic growth EVER RECORDED in American history occurred.......

....The future has no kids except those born to people who can't think and don't care (thus will not be taxpayers on net), no tax base, no money and if the government keeps emitting credit in their vote-buying handout schemes to millions of illegal immigrants and their cronies in industry, particularly the health industry, inflation will destroy you and ruin the value of your assets, interest rates will skyrocket and there will be no health care available at all or anyone to wipe your ass since there will be no children and thus nobody to do it.

And let me be clear: There is no solution to the problem of falling child-bearing rates other than to change the incentives for higher-intelligence, more-discerning men and women.  That means we had better stop demonizing those in that category AND we had better, right now and permanently, restore merit-only consideration for all things, stop putting American citizens BEHIND others and stop forcing Americans to pay other people's bills -- including those who make poor personal decisions, and not on a political lark either -- as a durable, demonstrably and legally enforceable change in how we conduct not just business but government right here in the US.  That means dismantling ALL "DIE" policies nationally under pain of prosecution and imprisonment as the unlawful discrimination that it is right here, right now with ZERO exceptions whether in government or private industry......

.....You cannot force people to build families, you can only incentivize them to do so.  You threaten to and do screw kids down the road because of their race or sex -- specifically because they're white, male or worse both -- and thinking adults will refuse to have children.

They are doing exactly that.

In test after test for the last 3-1/2 years Harris and Biden have gone even further and put non-citizens ahead of Americans.  They have done it repeatedly, maliciously and without a care in the world.  Tens of billions have been spent housing "migrants" who broke the law to enter the United States at $300+ a night while zero has been spent housing American citizens displaced by natural disasters.  Billions have gone to Ukraine and Israel while the people in NC who got trashed by a storm are left with literally nothing and in fact have been stonewalled in their attempts to merely survive and rebuild their lives.  Rather than send in the ACOE and Seabees to get roads and makeshift bridges back in place on an immediate basis so recovery supplies can reach these people coal miners from West Virginia showed up with their own equipment and fuel and did what the government said would take six months to a year in three days, several other groups of "hillbillies" with their own equipment took the wreckage and fashioned multiple makeshift but serviceable bridges so relief supplies can flow into the impacted areas and thousands of ordinary Americans in fact did and still are buying and delivering said supplies on their own despite the government actively discouraging and in a few cases attempting to prohibit same.  This is a continued pattern of deliberate "fuck you" toward Americans by Harris' administration and her personally while at the same time we are feeding supplies and money to a war their party was involved in starting all the way back to Maidan when Obama was in office along with millions of illegal aliens they have unlawfully allowed to enter and remain in the United States.

I don't know that Trump -- and perhaps Vance after him -- will fix any of this.  I remind you that he did promise to neuter the medical monster in the 2016 campaign, I didn't believe him, I said so before the election in my column and literally on election night all three platform planks in which he made said promises disappeared.  I watched it happen in a bar in Pensacola at an election night watch party with my laptop on the table.

To be crystal-clear: I do not like Trump, I wrote dozens of articles during the 2016 campaign and over his four years as President critical of him and his administration and I'm unconvinced on Vance.  Trump bears full responsibility (and he has refused to address or take responsibility for any of it) for the catastrophe of the first year of Covid and his bullshit literally killed people -- and a lot of them too, specifically with the bonus structure he put into CMS, ventilators and Remdesivir.  He also failed to prosecute any of the states that shoved sick older people with Covid into nursing homes and thus slaughtered the other old and frail residents in said places.  That absolutely was a federal offense on several levels including, because most of those people were on either Medicare or Medicaid, federal fraud in the context of those programs.  He had every ability to throw thousands of people in prison for that crap and didn't so much as lift a finger, never mind "Warp Speed" which we now know was a disastrously bad policy that Biden and Harris turned around and demanded you be needle-raped with after, during the 2020 campaign, stating they believed it was dogshit.

But what I do know is that Harris has vowed to make every bit of public health, energy stability, immigration, and the economy worse never mind deliberately fucking over Americans while providing "help" to illegals along with other nations and over the last 3-1/2 years along with Biden SHE'S DONE IT so its not empty rhetoric or a campaign slogan -- its a realized and clearly stated goal she has been executing on, WITH MALICE, for nearly four years already.  And Harris has presided over record deficits -- and climbing, along with record inefficiency; Harris and Biden did not send in the Seabees and ACOE after Helene to put up temporary bridges and roads into the trashed areas, claimed it would take until next spring or later to make progress and a bunch of hillbillies reconnected Bat Cave and Chimney Rock using their own equipment and fuel in three days.  You paid for ALL of FEMA, the Seabees and ACOE in the form of HIGHER PRICES for everything while a handful of unpaid hillbillies with their own gear got done in three days what the government didn't even try to begin and thus demonstrated conclusively that in this regard government wasted the money and didn't do the job.

If America votes to fuck itself by electing Harris do not complain for the next four years because all you will get from me is a middle finger in response since you will be receiving exactly what you voted for and the record is clear and on the table for anyone with a room-temperature IQ who cares to look.


Chicago Blues: Discovering Race in the Windy City, by Hugh Kennedy - The Unz Review

(Facing REALITY and actually accepting REALITY - as a matter of personal and factual honesty with oneself - is a rare commodity when observed against wishful thinking - which dominates our society and civilization. - CL)


Read full text:
https://www.unz.com/article/chicago-blues-discovering-race-in-the-windy-city/ 

Why were the credentials of black applicants so poor that their admission to a competitive law school required abandoning — not just tweaking — standards? The author did not answer this question. I preferred to think that the circumstances of black applicants’ lives were largely responsible for their inability to earn strong GPAs or Law School Admission Test scores; but I uneasily noted that proponents of the environmental explanation for low black achievement relied more on wishful thinking than evidence.

The next article I found was the mother lode: Arthur Jensen’s magisterial essay in the Harvard Educational Review from the winter of 1969. Jensen demonstrated, with a clarity that later writings on the subject have not surpassed, that educational attainment is strongly predicted by IQ, and that IQ is largely heritable and resistant to modification. He also showed that black and white student populations differed in average IQ by a standard deviation, resulting in drastic differences in the presence of black and white students at the high-end “tail” of the IQ distribution.

I understood intuitively that Jensen’s explanation accounted for more than differing educational attainment. A population with only a tiny percentage of average- and higher-IQ people, such as a black neighborhood from which all sensible and responsible residents had fled, could look only like South Shore (or worse). No amount of outside money and benevolence could change that by much or for long.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The One Overlooked Reason Christians Should Vote in 2024 - American Thinker

(CULTURE determines politics - www.crushlimbraw.com - when churchianity lost CULTURE, we lost politics and thus the country. It's really not that complicated. - CL) 


Read full text:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/the_one_overlooked_reason_christians_should_vote_in_2024.html 

 Plato, who lived in a democracy some 300 years before Christ, said, “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” It is as true today as it was then.

But extrapolate that out to the church. “One of the penalties for Christians refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by atheists.”

bionic mosquito: When Genocide is in Fashion

 Read full text: http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2024/10/when-genocide-is-in-fashion.html 


Fifty or one hundred years from now, Christians won’t be able to hide from the support their parents and grandparent gave to genocide.  This genocide is too well documented.  I used to think it was just evangelical Protestants brainwashed by Scofield that were genocide supporters; Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox can’t be this stupid.  Then I read something that said, yes, Roman Catholics can also be so stupid.

Gold Climbing From Record High To Record High: Why Buy Now? - LewRockwell

 Read full text: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/claudio-grass/gold-climbing-from-record-high-to-record-high-why-buy-now/

 

This is why a “record high” gold price is not a meaningful signal in the same way that a record high in a stock price is. It does not suggest that gold is “toppish” like a stock would be. Gold doesn’t have a “top”. Its price fluctuations do not ebb and flow according its “performance”. Its value is constant and unchanging and its price only moves when everything else around it moves. Students of monetary history clearly understand this: gold is the standard by which everything else is measured.

American Pravda: Is Sugar the Deadliest White Powder Drug?, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review

 (Lesson: Whatever is DaOfficialRecommendation - DO THE OPPOSITE! - CL)


Read full text:
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-is-sugar-the-deadliest-white-powder-drug/ 

Given our massive, unprecedented rise in obesity, diabetes, and related health problems I think we are faced with the very real possibility that roughly a half-century of America’s officially-endorsed nutritional policies may have not merely been incorrect but entirely upside-down and backwards, leading to severe health problems for perhaps a hundred million Americans, with many millions of these individuals probably suffering premature death as a consequence. This is hardly a comforting notion to accept and surely raises serious questions about the basic competence and objectivity of our academic scientists and researchers in such public health matters.

In reading the Taubes books, I had a strong sense that exactly those same thoughts had often crossed his mind as he carefully explained how a gigantic, decades-long public health policy that may have impacted a billion people worldwide had been originally formulated based upon little if any solid scientific evidence. Taubes’ undergraduate degree at Harvard had been in applied physics, his brother currently holds an endowed chair in mathematics at that same elite university, and his first two books had dealt with physics issues, including the successful research of a Nobel Laureate. So I suspect that the lack of competence he had discovered in the fields of public health and nutrition must have utterly appalled him.

Auschwitz: Six Facts, and Seven Questions, by Walt King - The Unz Review

 Read full text: https://www.unz.com/article/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions/ 


As we approach the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, to which celebration, bizarrely, the creators of the concentration camp, but not the liberators, have been invited – are we celebrating then the liberation, or the creation? – it seems an appropriate time to dig deeper into its history and find out what it truly was all about.

What follows are six indisputable facts, followed by my opinion.

Argue with the latter, if you like.

Any difficulty with length, here is the link

https://open.substack.com/pub/waltking/p/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions

It’s Still the Economy, Stupid Globalists! - American Thinker

 Read full text: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/it_s_still_the_economy_stupid_globalists.html 


What did American workers get in exchange for so many lost jobs sent overseas?  Nothing good.  Once-important domestic companies have become multinational behemoths devoid of any sense of national allegiance.  Moreover, as these companies have exponentially increased their wealth and global reach, they have also exponentially increased their influence over the foreign and domestic policy decisions of the U.S. government.  (BlackRock, for example, set up shop in the Biden White House, and the corporate press mostly hid this inconvenient truth from the public.)  

No Foreign Wars - Vox Popoli

(We have every right to hold Trump’s feet to the fire if he is elected and fails in this promise! His choice is very simple - America FIRST or LAST - we've been last for decades! - CL)

Vox Day adds this:

https://voxday.net/2024/10/28/no-foreign-wars/ 

Of course, if he returns to the White House, he’ll need to do something about repatriating the tens of millions of invaders now running amok in the USA. And it would be good if he would clarify that he won’t let Americans fight for any countries their parents have heard of also.

Most importantly, it’s time to put some teeth behind the phrase “America First” and end all foreign aid. There is absolutely no excuse for giving a single dollar to any foreign country while Americans are in need. That’s not “loving your neighbor” but “ignoring your family in order to score virtue points by helping complete strangers.”

The FDA's War Against DMSO and America

 Read full text: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-fdas-war-against-dmso-and-america?publication_id=748806&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email

 

The Forgotten History That Led to the FDA Again and Again Keeping the Things We Most Desperately Need Away From Us

Why We Thought We Had to go to College - Vox Popoli

 Like me, Uncle John went to a Special Boy College. And like me, he was deeply disenchanted by the experience before he finished his junior year there.

The noontide of the boomer had to be experienced to be appreciated. There is no incompatibility between [seeing where it was headed in my late teens] and [not claiming to be boy Nostradamus]. The obviousness is … well … obvious when that’s what mainstream popular socio-cultural discourse for the age 24-42 set looked like.

The big picture is that post-war TV-driven mass consumer culture was centralizing and homogenizing. Switching out reality for screen = same House of Lies for everyone. Things that hadn’t even been on the radar were suddenly presented as aspirational. Meanwhile, mass living standards were soaring. Materialist class consciousness introduced the desire for ”high class” trappings in ordinary life. And the cultural conception of “higher education” changed radically.

Boomers understand reality mainly through TV and Pedowood, with some selective social media. It’s why they’re most ensorcelled by the House of Lies and their men are the most Gamma of cohorts. Obviously oversimplifying a little, but the Boomer conception of college we absorbed by osmosis could be summed up in two movies.

Animal House was a 1978 film set in 1962. The oldest boomers were turning 17, so it wasn’t exactly a nostalgia piece. More retconning early memories to glorify atavism and cultural degeneration. The insightful part was nailing the hollow, morally bankrupt worthlessness of post-War “institutions”. But the problem presenting [hypocritical worthless trash] vs. [atavistic worthless trash as the only options. Making the atavistic one “cool” is boomer-era media 101. The Big Chill is the unofficial bookend. Reassurance that that oh-so-seminal youthful waste of time really would always be meaningful. The film came on my radar first term of college when one large and uncool knot of freshman were consciously trying to pre-create their own “Big Chill moments”. Note how no boomers you know remain tight with their college friends. Neither did that group.

Not dropping out of college halfway through my sophomore year to market and sell my 16-channel CD quality stereo PC sound board, which was not only conceived, but designed and fully-functional in 1987, is one of my greatest regrets in life. To this day, it astonishes me that my father, who had been force-feeding me business books since junior high, didn’t absolutely leap at the opportunity to encourage me to take that step and drop out. So, instead of becoming a multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur before the age of 21, I picked up an Economics degree, got to know the Tokyo nightlife like the back of my hand, and dated a few literal Cinderellas.

Read full text: https://voxday.net/2024/10/27/why-we-thought-we-had-to-go-to-college/ 

An Intriguing Metric - Vox Popoli

 Some might see this as a black pill. I see it more as an intriguing and potentially informative metric for the near-future.

THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT: In 2018 it was already decided to remove President Trump from the White House. Trump will never be allowed to win the 2024 Election. The Biden Administration is under the control of the Shadow Government. Facebook owned by U.S. Government. Covid-19 planned.

The Shadow Government is the Committee of 300 and Bill Gates is one of the current members of the Committee of 300 which controls all the affairs of the world except for Russia and China. The Committee of 300 also controls the Pedophile systems around the world and all the major human trafficking networks which involve 8 million innocent children a year who are raped, tortured and murdered.

There will never be fair elections in the United States and around the world until the Committee of 300 is removed from our society. They will not let President Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. become President of the United States in 2024.

I don’t disagree with the central assumption that the Committee of 300 is somehow involved in the leadership of Clown World, that it was involved in the election fraud of 2020, or that it will not willingly permit President Trump to become President of the USA again in 2024.

But, as we have seen in Ukraine and the Middle East over the last two years, the Committee of 300 does not appear to be as in control of events as it was in the past. And so, if Donald Trump is elected President in a few weeks and is subsequently sworn into office, this will be a very good sign that the power of the Committee, and of Clown World, has been broken.

DISCUSS ON SG

https://voxday.net/2024/10/27/an-intriguing-metric/