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I live in hurricane country and will never forget Hurricane Harvey from 2017, which missed my area but reached Texas and — in very un-hurricane-like fashion — just stopped, and stayed in place long enough to flood Houston and surrounding areas. Severe rainstorms that get stuck in place and cause floods are becoming a pattern.

When I look at the political right and left in the U.S., I get the strong impression the rank-and-file progressive and radical left are much more consistently activist, tactical, and strategic than rank-and-file conservatives, libertarians, moderates, or classical liberals. The left in general seems more prone to organize and maneuver…[Read more]

Because monopolies are “essential”…

I’m afraid we could see more of this in various parts of the world. The WEF crowd is hellbent on ramming draconian climate change laws down our throats, and they don’t care how much human suffering they cause along the way. It’s not hard to predict they’ll use the same playbook as with the injections: (1) Cause mayhem and traumatize people…[Read more]

More well-meaning, naïve useful idiots cheering the arrival of their own enslavement. I don’t know… maybe people of this student-author’s generation will, as Aldous Huxley predicted, enjoy their slavery.

Businesses and masses of individuals…

At least there are protests! Sometimes the only effective form of protest is mass noncompliance.

It’s pretty shocking to see from afar too (though it’s not as if I didn’t expect it). Best of luck navigating it all.

Yep. Also like the U.S., as things started to come apart, Rome debased its currency (by putting less silver in its coins than the amount they were declared to be worth by law). Over the course of history, the more things change, the more they stay the same, with endless variations on the same themes.

Big Bro the Algo knows what’s best for us! YT censorship suddenly seems small potatoes now that the authorities can openly call for “fact-checking” SMS messages. The hubris of the age knows no bounds… I propose a new moniker: “the Tower of Babel crowd.”

From a few short clips I’ve stumbled across recently, I get the impression the Faustis and President Macaroons of this world are looking unusually bedraggled, stressed, and worried. I don’t underestimate their ability to lash out like cornered animals… But thanks for pointing out the weaknesses in the oligarchs’ campaign — it helps keep…[Read more]

Unfortunately, you’re probably right. Even if none do, the authorities can always fall back on crisis actors and provocateurs.

Or that all-out coercion and compulsion will set in.

How are they able to brainwash this many people? Well, as somebody in the 1950s said: “It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality…. Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they s…[Read more]

A cultural anchor is no impediment to monetary malfeasance.

The Japanese are proof you can be at the cutting edge of modernity in terms of science and technology yet remain firmly anchored in your history, culture, and traditions.

But the French police are exempt… Fancy that!

We’re definitely hurtling headlong into Pravda-land. The only difference, I think, is that the vast majority of the Soviet population knew it was a lie. I’m not sure today’s general population is lucid enough to catch on. But then again, they haven’t gone full Stalin in every Western country yet; some countries have, however, come…[Read more]

Maybe it will take the non-Western world to save the West from itself.

Good luck getting anyone in politics to answer such direct, relevant questions… much less getting a contemporary “journalist” to ask them. (You’d have made a good lawyer!)

I take your point on the importance of being able to formulate the right questions. On the other hand, in case such questions never get asked, I submit it’s at least as…[Read more]