In the Irish midlands, tradition says that if you put something blue outside on the eve of St. Brigid’s Day, when you bring it inside in the morning it will have curative powers.

“… It must be galling to try to make $1 at most, and end up losing $10, or worse.”

This happens all the time on Wall Street. The kinds of strategies that can lead to that result are referred to as “trying to pick up pennies in front of a steam roller” (or numerous variants like “dimes in front of a bulldozer” ).

In honor of Black History Month I shall be 20 minutes late to work tomorrow.

This may have been influenced by Lloyd George’s comment, “When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit”.

Policed?

I was thinking of the old cartoon of Teddy Roosevelt as world policeman (see Fig. 1 below). I remembered it showing him policing Latin America, but it actually shows him bestriding the world.

I agree with you that much of this was done for the benefit of American business concerns. But by Roosevelt’s day, the American government was certainly oligarchic, so those concerns were in fact national concerns. Even if this were not the case, the protection of commerce is not an illegitimate interest for a national government.

The “police actions” were not exclusively about business, though. The expansion of the US to the Pacific placed the USA firmly on course to become the anchor power in the western hemisphere. Once it survived the Civil War, and secured its borders against feeble, corrupt, squabbling Mexico, its power could only grow. By Roosevelt’s time, the USA was established as the regional anchor power, and anchor powers must show their satellites who’s boss.

Finally, it is important not to forget the very genuine missionary spirit that has animated Anglo foreign affairs since at least the beginning of the 19th century. It is certainly disputable whether these things have been effective or helpful, but unbelievable as it may seem to us, many of the foreign adventures of both the US and UK really were undertaken from a genuinely altruistic, indeed Christian, motivation.

Unfortunately, all of that Christian motivation soon rotted away and became purely liberal. Although most of this process occurred in the 1960s, the most destructive episode may well have been Wilson’s actions in Europe following the Great War, and against the Habsburgs in Austria (with the shameful support of George V), which I believe led directly to Hitler and WWII.

In our day, the liberal motivation is showing very worrisome signs of having rotted further into a demonic post-modern nihilism. The nadir of this has so far been, in my opinion, the “Arab Spring”, though I am confident the Biden administration are now busily exploring even greater depths of depravity.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/political-cartoon-by-louis-dalrymple-depicting-theodore-roosevelt-as-picture-id96744018?s=2048�2048

& sabotage 2020 voting so Trump would lose.

Disappointingly, I looked but could not find this in the document.

Maybe the emergence of new strains have got them thinking more carefully about ADE, the danger that their former Vice President and Chief Scientist for allergy and respiratory disease, Michael Yeadon, resigned over.

Michael Yeadon last worked for Pfizer in 2011. I have no respect for him whatsoever, because he published his screed on December 1th, way too late to bring up his laundry list of issues which he claimed should immediately halt all research into COVID-19 vaccines, and precisely because he led off with the antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) concern.

As if it hadn’t already been addressed for SARS type coronavirus vaccines using the spike protein, and wouldn’t have already been found out the hard way in the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Phase III trials, seeing as how both had already submitted their applications to the FDA for Emergency Use Authorizations by then. Not to mention his second concern about syncytin-1, which did not explain why a vaccine would be uniquely dangerous compared to a normal infection. He’s just laying down a marker in case something disastrous ended up happening with the vaccines.

There is not a single republican who is principled enough to be trusted. Let us throw them all out and elect those with proper credentials properly vetted out to the new congress.

The problem is that there is not a single politician who is principled enough to be trusted. Liberal democracy is a political system that corrupts everybody who gets involved in it. It’s an inherently corrupt system. If you throw the present lot out and elect a new lot they will turn out to be exactly the same.

It’s like thinking that the Mob could be reformed by replacing the current leadership with a new lot of gangsters.

I was watching the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona IMSA race today and they kept hyping a special NBC interview with Bubba Wallace and his take on the 2020 season and his thoughts on his new team owner, Michael Jordan. I made it a point to turn the channel immediately after the IMSA race finish.

Maybe the gutless Republican party needs to be gutted down. Let us hope from the ashes of the present GOP will rise a more solid Republican party dedicated to the principles on which this country was built with “liberty and justice� for all. It will take some time and we will have to face the indignity of being rulled by the numbskulls. There is not a single republican who is principled enough to be trusted. Let us throw them all out and elect those with proper credentials properly vetted out to the new congress. It will take time but we can rebuild our majority in the congress which will be
longer lasting than the present one.

Now you know why Michael Jackson’s sperm-donor-conceived children are so messed up.

Wait, I always just assumed you were Jewish. Are you not Jewish?

Insightful comment, either way.

Our expert on this stuff:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/top-10-militaries-2015/#comment-1205954

To be fair, Glantz has made valuable contributions to the field. But, and this is my impression, he, as a leading analyst of Soviet military forces during the Cold War, had a tendency, incentive perhaps, to overestimate Soviet capabilities (just as American military experts on China today often exaggerate Chinese military capabilities). Furthermore, Glantz, as a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science, enjoys access, let’s say, less-Russophilic researchers are often denied, and, as the saying goes, access requires quid-pro-quo or at least “friendliness.� (In DC, it’s pretty well-known that foreign governments, for example, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis to name but a few spread money around American researchers and analysts via think thanks and foundations to advance friendly policy advocacy).

He is not exactly an unbiased, neutral observer.

One can say the same of any anti-Soviet researcher that they ‘undersestimate’ Soviet capabilities due to Cold War bias or their own political bias.

That means nothing.

You failed to post evidence contradicting Karlin’s statement that about 30% of the Luftwaffe was fighting in the West.

BTW this is what the Americans supplied to the Soviets:

58% of the USSR’s high octane aviation fuel
33% of their motor vehicles
53% of USSR domestic production of expended ordnance (artillery shells, mines, assorted explosives)
30% of fighters and bombers
93% of railway equipment (locomotives, freight cars, wide gauge rails, etc.)
50–80% of rolled steel, cable, lead, and aluminium
43% of garage facilities (building materials & blueprints)
12% of tanks and SPGs
50% of TNT (1942–1944) and 33% of ammunition powder (in 1944)[52]
16% of all explosives (from 1941 to 1945, the USSR produced 505,000 tons of explosives and received 105,000 tons of Lend-Lease imports

So despite this massive assistance, Soviets still bungled the war and let almost 30 million of their people die.

LOL Glantz debunks it in the books I posted. He says that lend lease did not make a siginficant contribution to the war effort and that the USSR would have still won regardless

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Nice try there wehraboo

Here is a breakdown on the amount of Luftwaffe in different theatres. Karlin’s assertion is wrong.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dda4o7/ww2_what_was_the_proportion_of_luftwaffe/

Death toll for Tsar’s peacetime famine:

375,000-500,000

Death toll from Soviet peacetime famines:

9 million

It was 2 million in the 1930’s. And next, all the dead (as was stated in screenshots previously could be attributed to Tsarist policies and laid at the feet of the Tsar.

So “commie” famine deaths are still less than Tsarist famine deaths.

Even your favorite Wikipedia says so

“Before the famine began, Russia had suffered six and a half years of World War I and the Civil Wars of 1918–20, many of the conflicts fought inside Russia”

The famine came at the end of six and a half years of unrest and violence (first World War I, then the two Russian revolutions of 1917, then the Russian Civil War)

And the “allies” would not send food aid

“Aid from outside Soviet Russia was initially rejected.”

It was only Bolshevik action in seizing Church property and profits that allowed them to put an end to the famine

“The Bolsheviks started a campaign of seizing church property in 1922. In that year over 4.5 million golden roubles of property were seized. Out of these, one million gold roubles were spent for famine relief”

Translation – only decisive action by the “commies” (when no help was forthcoming) put an end to the famines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%9322

Guess my ‘sovok website’ is right again

But nice try pretending like you aren’t a Banderite ukranian nationalist LOL

A fifth reason I just thought about is with the Israel piece that you mentioned above. As everyone knows, the Neocons in America have strong connections to Israel, with a high likelihood that they coordinate policies with the Israel Government. If the Neocons wanted to handicap China and cement the highly pro-Israel US country as number 1, why would the Israel government allow the dissemination of a report on their newspaper that would undermine the United States’ credibility?
Unlike America, where Trump had no control over his own government, the Israel government seems very much in control. If I was using my controlled forces in another country to sabotage someone else, I would not want to disseminate anything implicating my ideological forces. The fact that the Israeli government hasn’t taken that report down indicated they think that it is a complete joke of a notion.

Also, like my point 4 says, the US was clearly seen as the superior country before COVID, especially when you consider the fact that China has 6x the workforce yet a smaller nominal GDP, which is the metric that most countries use when evaluating and comparing with each other including the PRC government’s favored metric. There was clearly no upside to sabotaging China, especially when the Chinese are very favorable to Israel, who the Neocons strongly support. Indeed, as many news organizations point out, Israel is the most popular foreign country on Weibo: https://qz.com/1290584/israels-very-popular-on-weibo-thanks-to-chinas-online-islamophobia/

Another elaboration of my point 1:
As I mentioned there was roughly a 100 day period from when the Virus would have entered China in your theory, during the Wuhan games, to when the Chinese government instituted the first lockdown. In America, the first virus cases began circulating in January itself, and 100 days later in late March, early April, we were already at 2000 deaths a day or so, and that was with *some* if marginal policy responses, especially in your state of California. China’s *total* deaths was around 4,600 people.

So, if China had a similar time span of doing absolutely nothing, from the Wuhan games to the first lockdown, why didn’t China, with a larger population density, had a much lower final caseload and total deaths than America did in a *two* day period at the 100 day mark?

The only explanation for such a discrepancy is either your theory is wrong, that the virus didn’t appear during Wuhan games, or that the Chinese have some sort of immunity to COVID that the other races of the world lack, which then would make them vastly more suspect than the United States.

Frankly, my guess is that the coronavirus is endemic to East Asia, and as such, them and other related people will naturally do a better job resisting the disease compared to other groups. There was certainly no bioweapon, and it was a naturally reoccurring endemic. But then again, that is my personal view and it can certainly can be wrong.

Great stuff from you in this thread, Dave Bowman. I’ve added you to my list, alongside Marckus, of commentators around whom I don’t want to write anything stupid.

I’m not anything close to an expert on movies, and I can think of no more than 4 movies I have actually watched in a theater the last 30 years, but your response to troof about Stalingrad reminded me of the German movie (I think of the same name). That is one of the four movies I saw in a theater (it was in Washington DC in 1995). I left that theater feeling so disturbed and depressed, it took a few days to get over.

By the way, I think it’s better than an even bet that troof is either a bot or paid to fuck with people at Unz Review.

If you say the White élite won’t renew its habits, and the bulk of Whites will thus remain asleep, I agree. But it’s not an inherent fault in the mass of Whites, it’s in the élite.

The reason Whites don’t wake up is that in reality life is still pretty damned good for most of them. They have their smartphones and their porn, they have their celebrity gossip and their cheap consumer goods, they have their comic-book movies and their professional sports to watch. They don’t see any real reason to rebel. They’re not starving. Most are not homeless. The ones who are homeless are so crazy and/or drug-addled that they will never rebel against anything.

The big weakness of the populist right is that they exaggerate how bad things are for most Whites. Most Whites are not conservative Christians so they aren’t worried by the rising tide of degeneracy. Most Whites do not have strong opinions (they just go along with whatever the media and social media and their schoolteachers tell them) so they couldn’t care less about losing freedom of speech.

The populist right/dissident right was based on the idea that things were so bad for White people that a revolutionary situation existed which they could exploit. But that revolutionary situation does not exist. Things are nowhere near bad enough to persuade the average White person to risk everything the have to become an active dissident.

The populist right/dissident right also made the mistake of making claims that were clearly wildly exaggerated and/or absurd. Such as the “white genocide” nonsense. That led most normal White people to dismiss them as cranks and loons.

The populist right/dissident right was right from the start too dominated by people who were too crazy and too extreme to have any real mass appeal. They were also pushing agendas which horrified most normal Whites – things like race war and mass deportations. There are elements within the populist right/dissident right who would like to return to the social, sexual and cultural mores of the 1950s and that’s an idea that has zero appeal to most normal Whites.

Plenty of normal Whites think that the Cultural Revolution has gone way too far but that doesn’t mean they want to turn the clock back to the 1950s.

Most normal White people are also repulsed by the Hitler fanboys, the knuckle-dragging racists, the drooling antisemites, the crazed conspiracy theorists and the ultra-conservative Christians who infest the far right. Most normal White people are not going to buy into lunatic conspiracy theories about Satanists or elite plans for global genocide.

The populist right/dissident right is now bewildered that most normal White people are just not interested in the political/social counter-revolution they have to sell. Most normal White people have drawn the conclusion that the populist right/dissident right is much crazier and much more dangerous than the Establishment.

Just a doggone minute! it’s all about Hollywood and this personage is pure fiction. Women picketing a pure fiction is as absurd as hysterical fans throwing their diamond wedding rings onto the stage of performing artists like Glen Campbell. We’ve seen this wild reaction(s) before, The Beatles for instance ( no not the bugs in your garden) with droves of young girls screaming at the top of their lungs for the Fab Four musicians. Again, this is Hollywood, as fake as classy wood veneer, as authentic in terms of reality as the made-for-TV series, Have Guns will travel, “Gun Smoke” whilst off screen, their actor, “town marshals” were screwing Cuban girls in Havana clubs owned by the NYC and Florida Mobsters. My God America, where is your brain? !

Let’s move ourselves back into reality, and review the case of one, Allen Dulles (the two brothers) tough guys- of the first order, their “magnum gun” was subterfuge, dis-information, coercion, corruption of elected officialdom, outright assassination of any governmental leadership (domestic or foreign) that did not adhere to the then, Rockefeller(s)/Brzezinski/ Kissinger world takeover of government authority by transnational corporate entities, conspiracy PLAN. Dulles a proverbial scumbag CIA Field Operative responsible for orchestrating the Kennedy murders-and beyond. Not colorful, without personality, no flashy badge, bearing no gun, control freak. A “white savage” no more sophisticated than a 500 B.C. hunter looking for shiny eyes in the forest- or anything else that moved along with defiance against authority. Allen’s life long wife hated him and before his death he became a mumbling idiot, lying in his own bedridden excrement , meanwhile his other half partied with friends at home, downstairs.

THINK! will you all ever….

Perhaps the Scots recall the more recent Highland Clearances, a small genocide by English standards, but one that still rankles.

Why don’t they celebrate White History Month?

Because every month is White History Month. Mwahahahaha!

Bingo! Thank you ALL. You likely know that the inventor of the “RT-PCR” testing apparatus explicitly stated that it was intended ONLY for experimental/laboratorial purposes and NOT for diagnostic use. The inventor’s suspicious death (pneumonia in August?) was followed by the patent rights being sold at some $300 M and has produced profits in the Billions.
Some years ago, I spent several days at the Patent Trademark Office (PTO) in Crystal City which is magically located between the Pentagon and the Naval Annex. My first day at the PTO took place on a Friday afternoon which, for some, is the eve of the sabbath and I counted an alarmingly high number of yarmulkes. And some among you (Roatan Bill) might appreciate that I once owned a 220-Volt Black & Decker side-grinder. Best to all.

Have ye nay heard of ‘hybrid vigour’, sonny?

i love google’s passive aggressiveness – you can’t even delete it. a-holes.

Wee Nicola Sturgeon will do her duty and sabotage the independence movement from within. The Scots stand no chance.

It is the reason for the changes that is radical; erasing white cultural heroes and by extension white culture. That’s radical.

Don’t be so niggardly. Live a little.

The top three State Department diplo-thugs are Zionist Jews, so there will be blood. A mere goy may not observe that phenomenon and comment on it, without being damned as an ‘antisemite’, but Jewish publications on-line are crowing with delight. Perhaps they are all ‘self-hating while self-congratulating Jews’.

“America was founded on vigilante justice, not “policeâ€�”

You act like nothing existed before America,………..”America was founded”

I don’t believe anything I read either in Russian or Western MSM. They both lie. RT or CNN, both are propaganda tools. We live in a post-Truth world.

Famously the first of February is also St. Brigid’s day

Cool!

St. Brigid’s cross:

Why should you never buy a black smartphone?

It doesn’t work .

LOL……..I was in a rush and somebody was knocking on my door as I was typing…

As Jay Gould, a mega-plutocrat said back in the first Gilded Age, ‘I can ire half the working class to kill the other half’. In any case ecological collapse will soon render all these fripperies moot.

If they want a replacement…

Video Link

This “That Would be Telling” person is a sockpuppet. He popped up on Sailer’s blog when the vaccine story got hot and he/she is conducting a full court press of pro-panic, pro-vax hysteria.

If I post more than a couple comments in a short period of time I get a “You’re commenting too much. Take a break” message. But this sockpuppet has logged 27 comments today in this thread alone. Uh, maybe thou art protesting too much???

It couldn’t be more obvious that this hack is peddling some pro-panic agenda. He should be placed on ignore and shame on Sailer and Thompson for lending him credence.

by my broader definition, progress was already well underway by the Founding. I am skeptical that a modern state could be built on the constitution, strictly construed. If China had our Constitution, would their spectacular rise have been possible, or does state protectionism and investment in infrastructure play a role?

I think that constitutions are more a symptom of liberty than a cause. There are a lot ofAfrican countries with very progressive constitutions but which are appalling to live in.

Black Hysteria Month.

I find that a brief re-acquaintance with Walter Karp’s ‘Indispensable Enemies’, concerning the numerous incidents in US history where the oligarchs co-operated, across ‘party’ lines, to destroy populists who threatened elite rule, explains the Trump Derangement Syndrome pretty well. Clinton lost because they believed their own propaganda and didn’t properly prepare to steal the election, as she stole the primary from a co-operative Boynie. NO such mistake this time.

Hey– If you don’t like it, then go build your own calendar (like that Jaktober guy did)

The rival churches in the pre-Council of Nicaea era spilled a lot of ink arguing about feast days. Disappointing that Ron still hasn’t switched the site to ISO Week Date

A couple of years ago, the French Railway police were still issuing 5 shot SP101 .38 revolvers by Ruger. There were a few that ended up on the US market as contract overrun. They had 3 inch barrels and a lanyard loop on the base of the grip.

It’s funny watching liberal Western media crying about Navalny’s arrest while gloating about American dissidents being arrested for four-year old memes or putting their feet up on a desk.

That, too. The West has become self-parody. While Obama’s Nobel peace prize was a farce, nomination of BLM bandits is a sick joke. I think Putin wants to look better than the Empire, not in the eyes of the vassals (those are blind, anyway), but in the eyes of 4/5th of the world made of non-vassals, or countries where a tiny compradore elite wants to serve the Empire, whereas 95% of the population hates imperial guts, like Latin America.

Also, considering how pathetically puny those “protests� are, Putin can afford to treat them with kids gloves. That creates a strong contrast with brutality of “liberal� imperial elites, who are anything but liberal. Internally, these protests appear ridiculous. Most people see “protesters� as escaped mental institution inmates, feeling a mix of contempt, disgust, and pity. For the world they look like an illustration of humane nature of alleged “authoritarian� state, in contrast to ruthless brutality of self-appointed “democracies�.

Famously the first of February is also St. Brigid’s day whose feast day was likely set as such since it is the day before Candlemas and February in general used to be the time of Pagan cum Christian tradition in Europe of burning the fields before replanting to kill weeds/fungi and ‘purify’ the land as well as other traditions of purification on the theme of welcoming the coming of spring and rebirth. Now the land must be purified of ‘whiteness’.

Also somewhat on topic, in the ever ongoing PR battle to convince (Non-black, convincing blacks is impossible) Americans that Kamala Harris is African-American, Twitter had a brief spasm where her coat and it’s ‘connection to Oakland’ made it to the top of Twitter trending. Entirely organically I’m sure. Who can’t stop talking about Kamala Harris’ coat, it’s just so interesting.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1355313816909664256

I spoke to Sydney Hawes, the designer that made the custom coats Kamala Harris' great-nieces wore to the inauguration, which were a loving tribute to their Auntie. https://t.co/dXorf5GhhZ

— joshua (@joshua_bote) January 29, 2021

Can you say front running, boys and girls?

“Snooze� sounds like “Noose�: it would clearly be a hate crime!

Here’s the test replacing the SAT, for all you poors to bone up on.
Fill in all circles completely.

23. It’s 30° F. What wax (glide, not klister) do you use?
â—‹ Blue
â—‹ Purple
â—‹ Kick
â—‹ No Mo-Stache Lip Wax

24. You’re sailing back into the sound at sunset. Where is the wind coming from?
â—‹ East
â—‹ South
â—‹ North
â—‹ the air

25. You’re the Captain of the Oppidans. What kind of oarlock do you have?
â—‹ Swivel
â—‹ Fixed pin
â—‹ Thole
â—‹ I don’t have earlocks, I’m reform

26. Your family office is considering a privacy jurisdiction for domiciliation of your trust fund. Which jurisdiction is least constrained by FIU Best Practices?
â—‹ Cook Islands
â—‹ Panama
â—‹ Switzerland
â—‹ Office Max

Why has this article been banned from Facebook?

What in the article is hysterical?

The author is skeptical, for the reasons he provides.

Your neighbor’s experience is anecdotal, and refutes nothing.

As you say, sheesh.

Sick from Freedom, an important book provides part of the answer.

“ At least one quarter of the four million former slaves got sick or died between 1862 and 1870, Professor Downs writes, including at least 60,000 (the actual number is probably two or three times higher, he argues) who perished in a smallpox epidemic that began in Washington and spread through the South as former slaves traveled in search of work — an epidemic that Professor Downs says he is the first to reconstruct as a national event.�

American history, and especially Civil War history, is an virtual black box of buried stories revealing the wrong truths. The Soviets didn’t invent the disappearing of historical events. Post war Northern hagiographers and revisionists were way ahead of them.

Regardless, most blacks of the civil war era were in the South and approximately 1,000,000 of them perished before Reconstruction was through.

http://usslave.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-us-civil-war-death-by-freedom.html

My original statement was “his estimate would be double or more than what I provided.�

Reading is hard for you. The wiki article on the Soviet famine of 1932-1933 provides numbers that are generally not even twice lower than Conquest’s. According to that article, Conquest claimed 8 million victims while “R.W. Davies and S.G. Wheatcroft, gives an estimate of 5.5 to 6.5 million deaths�

That’s according to Wiki which is full of cold war propaganda.

The real number as I said is closer to 2 million. And the Russian duma just says things to give themselves ‘more legitimacy’ over the soviet regieme.

For exmaple, China said that Mao’s era was 70% good and more people died at that time than in the USSR. So that means the USSR was 80% good.

https://www.ips-journal.eu/in-focus/the-politics-of-memory/70-per-cent-good-30-per-cent-bad-2216/

According to a Sovok website.

All of his information is cited. Check for yourself if you don’t believe ‘sovok websites’ LOL

God damn you’re one of the densest people i’ve ever met. Sounds like you have an emotional fantasy of “evil commies” that your Banderite ancestors taught you, eh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union

Nothing in 1914.

Last major peacetime famine under the Tsars was in 1891-1892. 375,000-500,00 dead.

Cold war propaganda. Plus when the war was happening there was no ability to take a census. So of course there wasn’t any knowledge of famines. I have have given you data from the world bank on that time period, where the ‘sovok website’ draws its info.

Guess you’re wrong again eh.

In Russia, total wartime civilian losses in 1914-1917 due to hunger and disease (typhoid epidemic) ranged from 730,000 to 1.5 million. Not “millions.�

This is not including those that were under constant starvation as the tsar requisitioned all the grain and cattle.

You display your ignorance about basic historical facts when you bring up civilian deaths from famine and disease in World War I as an example of Russian government incompetence.

The Imperial government did not fight on its territory so no shit they had fewer deaths than the other great powers. But the fact that the had more than 1 million deaths on their territory and they weren’t even fighting in Russia proper indicates that the Tsar was incompetent lol

They died at rates lower than in 1921-1922 and lower than did French, Germans, Italians, and Turks (see above).

False you gave data from 1917, deaths from tsarist mismanagement which led to revolution and civil war led to higher rates of death than anywhere in europe.

As you can see, most of the area where the 1921-1922 famine occurred had already been controlled by Bolsheviks for more than a year by the time the million or so people starved. It was precisely in areas controlled by the Bolsheviks for a long period of time where the people starved. Regions that the Bolsheviks did not control for a long time did not experience famine. Consolidation of Red rule led to mass starvation. Areas where Bolsheviks didn’t rule for along time such as Ukraine did not starve in 1921-1922. These areas would starve later in the 1930s, after Bolsheviks consolidated their rule.

False. As I’ve shown you in my previous posts, these places where hardest hit by Tsarist grain requisitions (remember I even quoted saying that ‘the productive agricultural sectors where hardest hit’) because they had the most grain to requisition. Tsarist requisition policies led to utter destruction of agriculture in those areas and it takes more than one year to rebuild agriculture as I have shown you in previous charts.

I posted numbers, from your own pro-Soviet source, that showed that Soviets consumed 1/6 of the cars, 1/2 the TVs, 1/6 the radios, 1/2 vacuums, etc. of Americans. So average Soviet was about as poor if not poorer than poor Americans.

Do you not know what an “average” means? Just because an “average” american had that does not mean that a “poor” american had it LOL.

It turns out that not only can you not read you also have trouble with basic math. It must be a zapadenic thing

Moreover, not only did Soviets have fewer goods but the ones they did have were of poorer quality

That’s your opinion

Americans had twice as many televisions

So what? Americans also had more crime and worse education.

and they had color televisions sooner

so what?

America also had 4000x the amount of cars Tsarist Russia had…what’s your point exactly?

PhysicistDave here makes number of good points but some here fixate on particular groups for all of mankind’s evils.

Jew hating is something of a minor religion and was once part of a major one. Things are slow to change.

It can make life easier to have identifiable groups to pin blame on. But reality is not so easy.

I too was a personal friend of Murray Rothbard, a great thinker and very nice person to be around. A real genius. So I may well know Mr. Dave or have heard of him. People who knew Rothbard well are a dwindling number.

I once asked Rothbard why Jews had faced such hostility, aside from Catholic/Christian blame for fellow Jew Jesus Christ’s death, a theological matter. His answer was essentially that they were clannish and self isolating, which tended to make others suspicious. They moved around a lot (of necessity, from Khazaria mainly) and as newcomers with separate religion and customs, made them unpopular. Also being more or less forced into certain occupations by limitations on professions and even ownership, they developed intellectually and valued knowledge as a cultural trait. My non Jewish father used to tell us, “they can’t take what’s inside your head”. A very Jewish thing to say.

As often adjuncts to state rulers (kings, emperors, etc.) and advisors/bankers, Jews were often seen as ruling class allies. When the ruling classes weren’t persecuting them.

It was a brief conversation and very thoughtful. Though he acted at times in the classic NYC Woody Allen fashion (liked cities, good food, didn’t like wilderness, etc.) Rothbard wasn’t religiously Jewish. An atheist married to a Catholic woman. Fellow NYC Jew and atheist Ayn Rand kicked him out of her inner circle because he wouldn’t leave his wife!

What I and many others here find, despite some others, is that good and bad come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Taking stereotypes too seriously becomes just another set of blinders. Generalizations can only go so far.

The real persecuted minority in America now are those of above average intelligence. They are mocked, punished with special burdens, and mostly seen as some kind of “evil” going under different names. Those who are above average aren’t necessarily “better” but overall far more beneficial to mankind. Those who are smarter have to hide it. And pretend that everyone else is equally bright. It is now part of the Woke dogma.

At the behe$t of THEIR direct $hotcallers, aka The Agency; The Feebie$ are there to CREATE criminal$. Their control over state and local police agencies through their Fu$ion center$ expands the nexus of control down to the grassroots level through warToys for the cops and Scadzillions of $hekels to go along with the program.

I’m so old & old fashioned that I would buy a paperback edition of American Pravda in an instant. Hope there might still be some chance of this. Congrats, Ron.

Life has disabused me of my old “the worse things get, the better� idea (i.e., people would wake up and react against the status quo). What actually happens is that the worse situation becomes the norm.

The worse situation becomes the norm so then people react against it not by returning to the old values but by adopting ever more radical beliefs and practices.

Civilians are government employees not in the military. All cops are civilians.

Now that you mention the second movie, Magnum Force, I remembered that it had a young Robert Urich as a bad cop in it. In later years he starred in “Spencer for Hire.� That show wasn’t bad. Good music. Nice Mustang fastback. Really colourful settings and filming. It always seemed to show the autumn leaves and wet roads and reflections. Boston I think.

I don’t know. Machismo tends to be machismo. The hallmark trait is an aggressive desire to impose oneself on others, through either psychological or flat out physical intimidation. I am not saying that all macho guys are murderers, but there is a linear trend towards increased aggressiveness and decreased empathy the higher up you go the scale of masculinity, with the top 2% most masculine men being responsible for most violent crime.

One of the things that I think make Cuban women so incredibly attractive is their idiosyncratic looks. They have a Caucasian skin tone and facial features, but their hair and eyes tend to be very dark. I find that combination of pale skin with black hair lovely. But if you are going for Cuban women, you really need to bring your good ol’ boy, frat-boy, football jock act, because they really have no hots for “los nerds”. Anglo and Asian women tend to have more patience with shy, awkward, obsessive young men. But those gorgeous Cuban “chicas” like their men macho, outgoing and self-confident.

I agree wholeheartedly with your comment.

As far as QAnon, I too had never heard it discussed among the many conservatives I know personally. I had seen references to it on VoxDay, back when I still looked at his site, and assumed it was a sort of strategic prank, calling Democrats pedophiles in return for them calling us white supremacists. Then, last fall, I noticed that the progressives I know were getting all fired up about the QAnon menace, and it seemed to me something like the fabled “Boogaloo Bois–something that leftists were very concerned about, but right-wingers had never heard of. (After the rioting last summer, my progressive friend in Minneapolis was considering getting a gun out of fear that the Boogaloo Bois might invade his suburban neighborhood.)

Scott Adams wonders if once the QAnon phenomenon got some traction, some department of the intelligence community took notice and began steering it in the way most useful to its agenda. He assumes as a matter of course that that’s the sort of thing intelligence agencies routinely do and he’s probably correct.

I’m surprised it didn’t say “First Day of The Lunar New Year of St. George”…

This is an interesting article that presents plausible historical facts. Not knowing much about these events, I’ll leave it at that for now, interesting and stimulating, pending further confirmation.

However, there are two points that left me unconvinced.

1. Just because the final phase of lethal infections from the “Spanish” flu involved bacteriae gives absolutely no indication as to the initial infection. Cov-sars-2, for example, breaks down the lung’s immunity to allow pharyngeal bacteriae and viruses into the lungs, causing pneumonia. (See http://thesaker.is/how-to-treat-coronavirus-infection-covid-19/.) At any rate, meningococcus does not cause pneumonia, so it remains to determine whether it facilitates opportunistic lung infection.

2. The idea that the Chinese nationalist Chiang Kai-Shek would have provided Chinese slaves to the West defies belief and sounds more like Maoist propaganda than anything else.

China was just fine in 1930.

No it was not!
Obviously, you don’t know anything about the history of China in that era. Doubtless you have no familiarity with the May 30th Movement or the April 12 Incident, just to mention two episodes from that time frame.
You claim to be an educated reader, so I would have assumed that you would have read two of the excellent novels set in those times, André Malraux’s La condition humaine (of course, being well educated, you can read French!), and Richard McKenna’s The Sand Pebbles.
China suffered through one hell upon another through most of the 19th and 20th centuries and the era of c.1930 was one of the worst. It should not be forgotten or — worse — misrepresented as “just fine.”

How can I get this article onto Facebook, please, who have apparently banned it?

see even MG didnt believe it was 6

I don’t think the Hispanics have an overly long incubation period before they quit voting handouts for blacks. They voted to refuse them Affirmative Action in CA and I’ve had Mexicans make it very clear to me that they don’t care much for either blacks or Jews.

The White/Hispanic coalition Jeb dreamed about may come into being with or without him. And, if Whites could stop importing Europeans in large numbers during the 1920s I fail to see why Mexicans couldn’t shut off the Mexican spigot.

Things may work out in unexpected ways.

In the Census of 1790, blacks constituted 19.3% of the total U.S. population, so without immigration, blacks would constitute at least that percentage of the population. The fact that the percentage of the American population that was white rose by a relatively small amount (from roughly 80% in 1790 to 90% in 1930) despite the immigration of tens of millions of white people into the country during the same period indicates that blacks had a substantially higher natural growth rate.

If the U.S. had received no immigration at all after 1790, the country’s white population would be much more homogeneous than it is now, and there would be very few people who were anything other than white or black, but the country as a whole might not be much whiter than it is today.

whether in our calculations we are willing to roll the dice on a vaccine or not

No – a very substantial, and possibly growing, percentage of “we” are not. But the politicians, for purely political reasons, most certainly are.

The three attributes are not mutually exclusive and there’s a shortcut: He’s a Jew.

You’re one of the “anyone who disagrees with me must be a Jew” brigade.

Sometimes people disagree with you not because they’re Jews, but simply because you’re wrong and foolish.

“btw, I wouldn’t worry about the Chinese demographic crash – there are still an awful lot of them, and making babies is an enjoyable process, even if raising them’s more challenging.” That’s assuming the magical 2.1 TFR, which the country is no where near. Add in the millions of men who don’t have a spouse and , yeah, there is a crash, but I don’t worry about it. Watching countries screw themselves is amusing.

Historians realize that no generation can impose its will on the following years – as the German novelist Martin Mosebach, who knows even more about Western and Christian civilization than I do, recently pointed out, the entire culture of a people, 100 years after the end of a given year, is always something profoundly different after the end of any given year in the future – and by 100 years in the future, all the victories of evildoers are sad memories —- Faulkner wrote about this on his best days …. and it is a repeated theme in the best lyrics of the writers of what we Americans call the Delta blues ///////the victories of evildoers and the victories of the virtuous do not last in this world, although of course any moral victory is an eternal benefit to the person who does the right thing for other men and women ….
as individuals, all we can do in the meantime is say what is true, and stand with those who support truth, justice and the American way.
For the record, Cruz is a great guy but he has emotional issues, he could not stand up for a month against what Trump stood up to for 4 years. Right now my money is on Hawley or Rand Paul. Those guys know how to stand up to the super-creepy left of today.
and … you heard it here first …. there is a huge chance that in 24 months people are gonna be talking about a Trump as VP.

“Should PS #106 be named after Lincoln or Obama?�

GOPs clash with DEMs only on matters of style.

Both parties signal, through the spending of more tax dollars (as though it were a bidding war), their strong support for public education.

U.S. Justice Department probes SpaceX after hiring discrimination complaint

“Specifically, the charge alleges that on or about March 10, 2020, during the Charging Party’s interview for the position of Technology Strategy Associate, SpaceX made inquiries about his citizenship status and ultimately failed to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident�, DOJ attorney Lisa Sandoval wrote in the complaint filed on Thursday.

Ugh. My brain just screams “Go away!”.

To quote myself: “Minoritarianism is the health of the state.”

Our Founders would be rolling over in their graves at this minoritarian garbage. The state endless bullying people about over private decisions is precisely what they wanted to prevent.

We must either destroy minoritarianism or minoritarians or separate. There is no compromise here for a free people.

https://einsteinmed.org/features/2361/einstein-lab-answers-nycs-call-to-provide-key-ingredient-for-covid-19-test-kits/ Dr Goldstein is a friend of Fauci

See Dr. Anthony Fauci, Keynote Address, Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY CFAR Symposium, 3 of 6

Video Link He also mentions the term stamping out a secret buzz term??? Maybe a hat tip to …. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. George Orwell.

“I know everyone on this site prefers to play the role of the UN”…..go wash your mouth out with soap RIGHT NOW YOUNG MAN!…… oh ,great comment , I totally agree.

Has there ever been a vaccine approved which didn’t contain some form of the virus?

Has there ever been a vaccine approved with trials lasting less then one year?

Has there ever been a vaccine approved using mRNA technology?

“Let’s start with the numbers. How many have died of the disease? We don’t know do we.”

You keep telling yourself that. It doesn’t make it true. The excess death numbers indicate that the number who have died is about the number reported — i.e. we know that about as well as such things can be measured to a first pass — to the extent that the “motorcycle-accident COVID deaths” the truthers keep obsessing about cancel out to some extent those nursing home deaths that never got a COVID test to begin with. Maybe that means we’re off by 20% or 30%, but even so, that’s a lot of excess deaths. Yes, most of them are elderly, so that the 10 years of life this thing takes away, on average, maybe aren’t “productive” according to you, but their loss is highly disruptive in the sense that many of those post-retirement deaths are lives that still matter to someone. Sometimes grandma takes care of the kids (or at least takes care of grandpa), to the extent that her well-being is actually pretty important, even on the purely economic level you seem to want to reduce us to. It’s great if you can afford to put all your kids into daycare staffed by bright young things, and shunt off your elderly to AZ or FL where they can be readily ignored, but much of our population cannot do that, and they don’t regard those old people as expendable as you do.

In any case, given the numbers of excess dead we’ve seen, we can say with some confidence that the “just a flu, bro” deniers who have now recast themselves as mere lockdown skeptics (so as not to be tarred by their earlier catastrophically bad set of projections) were pretty dumb, in hindsight. So why should I listen to their rebranded forecasts — the kind you seem bent on spouting?

Instead of White Genocide” or “the Great Replacement”, perhaps we should call it “the Great Dilution”.

https://davidicke.com/2020/11/20/former-fema-operative-celeste-solum-talks-with-david-icke-the-covid-tests-are-magnetically-tagging-you-and-the-vaccine-is-designed-for-mass-depopulation-and-the-synthetic.-transformation-of-the-huma/ Every one should download this… also answers the question… Why are there Jellyfish genetic components in some of the vaccines??? Answer it is for phosphorescence of certain genetic and cell markers so that they can be tracked and researched in Human populations

The “Spaghetti Westerns” were not even filmed in the United States, they were filmed in Spain.
The guy playing the “Mexican” [Eli Wallach] was really a New York Jew. Yet those films really captured the essence of the American West like no other. Sometimes it helps to be on the outside looking in. It’s kind of like a bunch of skinny White boys from England playing American Black Blues music [the British Invasion] then re-selling it back to an American audience.

Trump was doomed from day one. Reince Preibus and Kelley Ann Conway were fully committed to Trump’s total destruction. As if it wasn’t obvious. Why did Trump keep Conway whose husband worked on the Lincoln Project committed to Trump’s destruction? Conway has always been an establishment Republican mouth piece, and so was Priebus, in fact, everyone in Yrump’s team was, except for Jared and Ivanka who were mouth pieces for Netenyahu. Now, the Lincoln Project has bern totally dicredited for pedophila. I wish that I could say that it is surprising, but unfortunately, it is not surprising at all.

Andrea Iravani

128/comment 63, the Gaussian copula is just a fancy interpolation model, like all option pricing. It’ll put any real mathematician to sleep. And while interpolation is more consistent that you can be in your head, it likes pathological, terminally corrupted markets just fine. So the higher-order cognitive functions that let you sell too soon are ultimately more important. And most of the quants of 2008 lacked that.

You know best what you are talking about, much better than I or anyone else. That would be called “living in a bubble” – whether by inclination or being pushed into it, it does not matter.

Many British people have a cultural inferiority complex with mainland Europe, believe it or not. Many British people would regard Russians and Slavs generally as more cultured, more civilised and better educated than themselves.

So this works both ways really, the idea that most British people look down on Slavs as culturally inferior third worlders is far from the truth. I would not describe Britain is a culturally self-confident country these days. The prevailing mentality amongst the middle and upper class British is that there is no one more uncivilised and uncouth than the working class British, desparagingly referred to as “chavs”. Think “gopnik” but said with even more venom and hatred.