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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Elon’s Heel Turn

There’s a simple rule in conservative politics: don’t make an enemy of Donald Trump. Elon Musk is now learning this the hard way. The former first friend crashed out against Trump last week over the big, beautiful bill. His dispute escalated from there. Musk claimed Trump is in…

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Globalists Go Radio Silent as NATO Flirts With World War III

Where have all the globalists gone? Yes, unfortunately they’re still out there free when they should be rotting in a frozen gulag or fertilizing an unmarked field somewhere.  I get that.  However, if you’ve been tracking the elitist cabal as long as I have you might have noticed…

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