Los Angeles is bracing for yet another day of what appears to be coordinated rioting sparked by mass arrests of illegals by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The unrest has involved organized elements affiliated with far-left activist cells, including Marxist-aligned nonprofits. The situation over the last two days has quickly deteriorated into looting, arson—including…
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Climate Change was an Invention of the Rockefellers
In the climate change arena, the Rockefellers call the shots. The whole thing was their idea, they took a silly but interesting theory and amped it up with hundreds and hundreds of million of dollars. They founded institutions and linked the survival of those institutions to promoting climate change…
Japan: Social Inflexibility and Decline
I have stood in the late autumn chill of Niigata Prefecture, pondering the overgrown ruins of the rural house my wife’s grandmother inhabited as a child, before she immigrated to Hawaii as a teenage picture-bride.I studied the language, literature, geography and culture of Japan academically, have Japanese friends, and have…
Revolution Devours Its Children
Generally speaking, I avoid reacting to events as they occur. After all, the “value added” of this blog is not about the tumult on the surface, but deep currents beneath. The case in point is the spat between Musk and Trump, which developed literally in the last two days.
Oligarchy of the Unfit: Governance in the UK
The UK has a severe structural crisis in leadership: each of the two main parties have defects that do not usually occur in tandem, but, when combined, are highly destructive. Each is oligarchic, not democratic. But, in contrast to most oligarchic regimes, each lacks the benefit of stability usually…
Every City Should Be Dubai
This is why we don’t. And how to get there. (Without the slaves.) (Or Handmaid’s Tale. Or Anti-Semitism) Whenever I need to sort out part of my house I catch up with the Global Warming ‘file’, as they called stories at Time. Why? Because inevitably I become so exercised, so…
The Killing Joke
You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are. If fractional reserve money could elevate America to the apex of the world consumption pyramid, then fiat money would crush that pyramid into rubble and level every unilluminated Americans to the global consumption base. And the…
The Ever-Widening War
Scott Ritter says the attack on Russia’s strategic bombers was a British operation that the CIA knew about. According to the White House, Trump was not informed. As Russian war doctrine calls for a strategic response to such an attack, both British and US intelligence risked launching a nuclear attack…
Living in a World of Ongoing Shortages
The toilet paper shortages of 2020 may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean that everything is hunky-dory. Shortages continue to plague not only our land but the world as a whole. Entire industries are struggling to overcome the scarcity of parts and materials, while consumers are forced to…
Trump Administration Furthering Control Grid
It seems that on a daily basis we get more bad news coming out of the Trump administration indicating that this administration is as committed to implementing a control grid as the previous administration. It was on day two of the Trump administration when it announced Stargate and its ten…