Untergang Down Under
Australia, which started out as a prison colony, is returning to form under the shadow of the Wuhan Red Death. Despite massive protests, the government has imposed brutal restrictions in the name of...
View ArticleWag That Dog!
The chattering classes are atip at the titillating prospect of a Russian operation into Ukraine. The appeal is obvious: above all, they can imagine a surge of patriotic cohesion, a nation united...
View ArticleNot To Worry!
You may have had some concerns about gathering tensions on the Russian frontier. (There’s much I could say about what it all means, and about our decades of folly regarding Russia, but I’ll leave that...
View ArticleReaping The Whirlwind
Lee Smith has posted an essay at Tablet summarizing the decades-long runup to this war in Ukraine. It’s an excellent synopsis — brief, clear, and insightful — and I highly recommend it to you all....
View ArticleDiplomad On Ukraine
It’s good to see that Lewis Anselm, AKA “Diplomad”, is blogging again. Anselm, having spent his professional career working for the State Department all over the world, is always especially good on...
View ArticleOur Stupendous Folly In Ukraine, And Our Sickness Here At Home
Curtis Yarvin. a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug, has posted a pungent item about Ukraine today at Substack. In it, he had this to say: A foreign policy conducted solely in the interest of Americans would not...
View ArticleHeads Up
The Russian Embassy in Ottawa just posted this on Twitter: Wheels within wheels…
View ArticleUkraine: Winners And Losers
From the abstract of an analysis of the Ukranian war recently published by ~finnem, an online acquaintance of mine: In this research letter we intend to make the case that the present effort to obscure...
View ArticleA Bodyguard Of Lies
Following on our recent posting of ~finnem’s assessment of the situation in Ukraine, here’s a podcast in which she and a colleague interview retired U.S. Army colonel Douglas MacGregor. We also have...
View ArticleAll Hat And No Cattle
Here’s Colonel Douglas MacGregor once again, giving a blistering interview to George Galloway regarding this idiotic war and the West’s ruinous decades of prideful stupidity.
View ArticleOn Ukraine, Being Lied To, And Lying To Ourselves
Some of the most interesting conversations in all of media for many years now have been the periodic discussions that John Batchelor has had on his radio program with thinkers such as law professor...
View ArticleFog
What the hell’s going on in Russia? From the breathless coverage, you’d think it was a straight-up Wagner mutiny against MoD, with Prigozhin playing the role of Caesar, and already well across the...
View ArticleUkraine: Update
Here’s the latest assessment on the situation in Ukraine, from ~finnem capital: Our latest analysis on the “counteroffensive”: Despite claims that the counteroffensive “has not begun,” in fact, after...
View ArticleOy Vey!
Now it’s Israel’s turn to fall apart. The country is engulfed in a constitutional crisis between its old-school Bolheveist left (cheered on, of course, by the usual organs of the Left, both there and...
View ArticleThe Widening Gyre
All eyes are on Israel today after Hamas launched a vicious assault from Gaza with widespread atrocities against civilians. This is one of those days where the tectonic plates suddenly slip, releasing...
View ArticleOkay, Okay…
I know I’ve said this before, but I really am going to get this blog going again now. (I may start with a post about what happened to me to make me lay off for as long as I did, or I may not; doing so...
View ArticleNow, Where Was I…?
A great deal has been going on in America and the world since I last updated this blog with any regularity, so there’s an awful lot of backlog for me to pick up and comment on. Let’s start with...
View ArticleWhoops, Our Bad
Philip K. Dick once said that “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” A great many people, including myself, have seen, and said, for a very long time now that there...
View ArticleMind The Gap
The cataract of aliens pouring over our southern border has risen, in December of last year, to a rate of about three-and-a-half million a year. (Can anyone, at this point, doubt for a moment that this...
View ArticleUkraine
One of the reasons that I laid off blogging for a while was that it had become just too dispiriting to try to speak the truth while living in a world of lies. Among the worst of these webs of falsehood...
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