https://synlogos.org Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:37:24 +0000 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:37:24 +0000 30 SYNLOGOS rss synlogos@protonmail.com (SYNLOGOS rss) SYNLOGOS RSS feed aggregator feed SYNLOGOS rss and content to respective authors https://synlogos.org/favicon-96x96.pnghttps://synlogos.org Christian Based https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/13/sustaining-the-city-by-draining-the-countryside/ While critiques of Indian agriculture have long focused on the crisis of commercial cash crops and the corporatisation of wheat and paddy procurement. this focus creates a significant oversight. By treating the state-backed system as the universal standard. such analyses overlook the reality of the vast majority of smallholders—those growing pulses. millets and rain-fed crops … Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:30:41 +0000 8bacd31baff2fe648385361073019e4ab4a356cd https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/michael-hudson-explains-why-trump.html 'It seems that he Trump had a very abusive father and he really felt his ego was injured and he wanted attention and he wanted approval. And so when he came into office. I think in this last time certainly. he said what he wanted to be was a famous US president. He wanted and he said he wanted to be like Napoleon. somebody famous. Everybody he thought looks up to Napoleon. famous guy.I mean that was the character that he'd mentioned. Well. he also knewthat every American president who's greatly admired. the mostadmired presidents won wars. Washington won the Revolutionary War. Lincoln wonthe Civil War. Teddy Roosevelt won the Spanish American War and Roosevelt wonWorld War II. Those were the days. Trump knows that. you know. if you read world history. all the world leaders and kings throughout history. the ones that people know. are the kings that have made great. the emperors that have made great conquests and built empires. And Trump thought he could do the same thing. .... But his sort of either or way of thinking led him to forget that Napoleon lost the war in Russia. He lost at Waterloo. He was known for being exiled to Elba.'It is clear that Trump is motivated by vanity and love of money. It is also clear that the enemy he wants to overcome in his war on Iran is Obama. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:25:48 +0000 dfcde057ea2fd02c106a2999fd39ab7f796d1017 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/14-informants-one-biden-cover-up-fbi-buried/ The Biden corruption cover-up is unraveling. The post 14 Informants… One Biden Cover-Up… The FBI Buried Biden’s Ukraine Dirt. appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:20:24 +0000 f7adae5945222cadead01efb61df3ca3aec633be https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/shadow-government-strikes-again-fbi-secretly-branded-journalists-trump-officials-as-russian-mouthpieces/ The FBI secretly labeled journalists. senior Trump administration officials and members of Congress as conduits of Russian disinformation. newly declassified documents show. An FBI operation codenamed “Round River” worked to paint derogatory information about former President Joe Biden. corruption and Ukraine supplied by confidential human sources as Russian disinformation. The so-called “Ukraine narrative” included information … Continue reading '‘Shadow government’ strikes again: FBI secretly branded journalists. Trump officials as Russian mouthpieces' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:16:29 +0000 9fe0dee8ae8eba941d62a9b813775787c3c9350a https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/sharia-senator-in-2009-abdul-el-sayed-declared-he-will-follow-sharia-in-everything-he-does-until-the-day-he-dies/ If Michigan Democrats want to bring Sharia to the United States Senate. they’ve got the candidate to do it. The winner of last week’s Democratic primary. Abdul El-Sayed. declared in a New York Times interview in 2009 that he had a lifelong “obligation” to live by the strict Islamic code that most Americans associate with the most … Continue reading 'Sharia Senator: In 2009. Abdul El-Sayed Declared He Will Follow Sharia in ‘Everything’ He Does Until the Day He Dies' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:14:48 +0000 297af56b28450b039f4abd3c835407b6b678ad87 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/transgender-experts-just-made-an-earth-shattering-admission-in-court/ Democrats. activist groups. and medical associations have long cited the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care as the ultimate authority on a scientific “consensus” for sex-rejecting procedures. but WPATH just made an admission in court that threatens to undermine that exalted authority. The Federal Trade Commission and four state attorneys general sued WPATH in … Continue reading 'Transgender ‘experts’ just made an earth-shattering admission in court' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:13:00 +0000 900dd8dc8f79eed2e492f19f2d8c70687b1a3ac8 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/operation-round-river-exposed-fbi-had-14-informants-on-biden-crime-family-corruption-but-ran-secret-counter-op-to-bury-evidence/ The FBI had 14 informants feeding the bureau information on the Biden Crime Family related to Ukraine. according to newly declassified documents obtained by Just The News. However. the FBI ran a secret counter-operation dubbed “Round River” to bury the evidence. Just The News founder John Solomon is currently in charge of the White House … Continue reading 'Operation ‘Round River’ Exposed: FBI Had 14 Informants on Biden Crime Family Corruption But Ran Secret Counter Op to Bury Evidence' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:11:14 +0000 9332771044fb492e535a8e342bf43c84f66cfe65 https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/13/so-the-splc-was-in-bed-with-neo-nazi-informants-literally/ We already knew that the allegations were that the SPLC was paying informants to drum up “business” – the race-hatred business that is – in order to help convince donors that racism was very active in the US. We already … Continue reading → The post So the SPLC was in bed with neo-Nazi informants – literally appeared first on The New Neo. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:07:42 +0000 08f0168680bacc07f5e361c37a6fc5f4b99d1ec6 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/new-jerseys-software-error-that-registered-6600-noncitizens-is-no-accident/ he political earthquake from the revelation of New Jersey’s tainted voter lists — with some 6.600 noncitizens registered to vote — have produced another aftershock: Gov. Mikie Sherrill announcing support for some form of voter ID. A chorus of left-wing groups immediately cried foul. And. it’s unlikely that Democrats in the general assembly. who hold … Continue reading 'New Jersey’s ‘Software Error’ That Registered 6.600 Noncitizens Is No Accident' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:06:21 +0000 7679471b39cecb9e19f328a28b69878ddc52ada1 https://rairfoundation.com/islamization-texas-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport-installing/ The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has approved a S300.000 project to install foot-washing stations in Terminal D restrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for Muslims which already exist in chapels there. Residents were not asked to approve this and the private funding source is being kept secret. Paging Governor Abbott. The post The Islamization of Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Installing Islamic Foot-Washing Stations appeared first on RAIR. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:04:39 +0000 210a1dc9e063117712915204b70379d1eb87e479 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/oops-jen-psaki-makes-a-horrible-admission-about-the-democrat-partys-nominating-process-on-the-air/ Jen Psaki admitted something horrible about the Democrat Party on MSNOW last night. during their coverage of the Wisconsin Democrat primary for governor. Psaki came right out and admitted that the leaders of the Democrat Party typically choose the party’s nominees. not the voters. Everyone knows this is true. Obviously. no one voted to make … Continue reading 'OOPS. Jen Psaki Makes a Horrible Admission About the Democrat Party’s Nominating Process on the Air' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:04:30 +0000 730ca0c0bf443fd746635b3a3a555ccddcbbcfb2 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/paper-tiger-the-failure-of-americas-trillion-dollar-war-machine/ According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute [SIPRI]. the United States spent S21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 [in constant 2024 dollars]. equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all. spending only 2% of what the US did. and SIPRI estimated … Continue reading 'Paper Tiger: The Failure of America’s Trillion-Dollar War Machine' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:02:52 +0000 673b9e104e5a91a0d55a2660993d967c99ba857f https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/cause-of-death-revealed-for-republican-oklahoma-state-senate-candidate-found-dead-in-his-truck/ A Republican Oklahoma state senate candidate was found dead in late April. two days after he was reported missing. Barry Christian. 54. a candidate for Senate District 38. was reported missing after he disappeared and was a no-show for a meeting earlier this year. Authorities discovered Barry Christian’s pickup truck in the Sandy Sanders Wildlife Management Area. … Continue reading 'Cause of Death Revealed for Republican Oklahoma State Senate Candidate Found Dead in His Truck' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:01:30 +0000 82bdc881e60caf22ee66ca94b72bf8e8eecb3499 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/wnba-announces-they-will-work-weeks-months-decide/ More cray-cray from the WNBA. The post WNBA Announces They “Will Work Weeks and Months” to Decide Who Belongs in Their Women’s National Basketball League appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:00:58 +0000 e9cbba6204387599fc705d35f6823282057bf996 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/us-territory-turned-tropical-maternity-ward-has-produced-thousands-of-american-babies-for-parents-living-in-china-2/ Pregnant Chinese women have turned a tropical paradise into a maternity ward — pumping out babies who automatically become US citizens daily. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [CNMI]. a US territory northeast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. has been flooded with so-called “birth tourists” since 2009 when then-president Barack Obama introduced a … Continue reading 'US territory turned tropical maternity ward has produced thousands of ‘American’ babies for parents living in China' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:59:53 +0000 55e894b093c7ccce68289654e534e493d588af96 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/08/13/senator-ron-johnson-reveals-fauci-deleted-his-contact-list-from-his-iphone-likely-to-cover-up-text-messages/ Senator Ron Johnson on Wednesday said he believes Dr. Fauci deleted his contact list from his iPhone to cover up his text messages. On Monday. Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released the first batch of text messages from Dr. Fauci’s Covid-era iPhone. The text messages revealed that Fauci privately knew that the Covid vaccine caused miscarriages … Continue reading 'Senator Ron Johnson Reveals Fauci Deleted His Contact List from His iPhone Likely to Cover Up Text Messages' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:58:09 +0000 f229a36f4f9b7f63ddd45131efb130b741169a1d https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/the-greene-tavern-ep-78-ft-nc-scout/ The post The Greene Tavern Ep 78 ft. NC Scout appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:58:04 +0000 510db4c82a168b494a38759f8dede5a8d0d84365 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/all-part-of-the-great-reset-plan/ ⚠️Are You Ready For The Rise Of The Warlords.The Globalists' Great Reset Plan Is Publicly Pushing An Agenda Designed To Collapse Civilization Worldwide.Humanity Must Organize A Resistance NOW. Or Face A Dystopian Nightmare The Likes Of Which Humanity Has Never Seen.… pic.twitter.com/qcrArTfa8F— Alex Jones [@RealAlexJones] August 12. 2026 The post …all part of the ‘Great Reset’ plan appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:56:45 +0000 a99982872ecd55e7a24be855d3c2ccf05a2fac74 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/what-happens-when-america-devolves-into-a-warlord-society/ Warlord-Dominated Society Is The 1st Level Of Anarchy After Civilization Collapses and Begins To Develop Again.Alex Jones Lays Out A Play-By-Play Timeline Of What Will Happen When Government and Infrastructure Are No Longer Holding America Together:'But It… https://t.co/CACuGJ4bMo pic.twitter.com/XtMsmuXUzX— Alex Jones [@RealAlexJones] August 12. 2026 The post What happens when America devolves into a Warlord society. appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:56:00 +0000 c0c2630a698cbaf57bf591476078940c07b0fd3e https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/iran-warns-its-preparing-for-operations-on-us-soil/ Iran warns it is preparing for military operations on US soil following a “new military doctrine tasking IRGC to attack enemy in its soil.” adding Iran will “take operations into enemy territory. into the enemy’s lands. and carry out operations far from our own territory.” IRGC senior advisor General Mohammad Reza Naqdi says. “Whenever (...) The post Iran warns its preparing for operations on US soil appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:55:00 +0000 29c23435547327b6f665bc61385510f484a075f7 https://www.arthursido.com/2026/08/we-dont-need-no-education.html …as long as the teachers look like us. Broadly speaking. schooling is supposed to be about learning [or in Minneapolis “learing”]. There are other factors… Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:50:58 +0000 7ed8bc3af8ff68359c90013b0a58b6dd929f7934 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/nima-and-me_013987941.html  ... live at noon PDT. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:46:36 +0000 da3ef04b022c1759b371d7a9dd40057c6a7ca740 https://directorblue.substack.com/p/operation-round-river-the-graphic The Sabotage Brief Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:45:34 +0000 085c42dd7821546a4f3554f6e565a5cdf3e03596 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/high-school-english-teacher-brought-tears-as-he/ A high school English teacher took to social media to share his concerns about the state of education in the U.S. The post High School English Teacher Brought to Tears as He Reveals Some Seniors in His Class Cannot Write a SINGLE SENTENCE [Video] appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:40:12 +0000 9c9c741f06b0892d8fe5c84b6b6c9bae57c65c7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGuz4pr6r6o Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:32:29 +0000 58bdfc958f707c6eaa30c4ef6587195f3ad50be7 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversity-news-august-13-2026/ --- Early giftedness rarely lasts into adulthood. large developmental study finds This seems like a lot of words to say that some people peak early. In fact. we would expect the most intelligent kids to take longer to mature. so their scores at age four will be unexceptional and this pattern may continue until their (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:27:03 +0000 b38e2b43bc25476c61eac2efd679544816431039 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/two-fierce-trump-loyalists-have-emerged-as-frontrunners/ Two prominent loyal defenders of President Trump have emerged as frontrunners to succeed Karoline Leavitt as the next White House Press Secretary. and TGP readers would likely be happy with either. The post Two Fierce Trump Loyalists Have Emerged as Frontrunners to Potentially Replace Outgoing Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:20:24 +0000 3a0bb9a2e24fc7d6a8755629961a349f032195f0 https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2026/08/the-white-mans-library-i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine/ How secret 'racist' plots keep the black man down. The post The White Man’s Library: “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” appeared first on AmRen. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:12:48 +0000 6bea18e49c181d7cde5bef8dfee5489284db91bd https://reclaimthenet.org/california-digital-id-age-law-faces-platform-appeal The regulations were drafted while the constitutional question was still open. which tells you something about how confident the state is. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:00:41 +0000 d2c67b67cb679d1b4a312468755fdf8350d540ad https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/insane-video-cam-higby-james-okeefe-go-undercover/ An undercover operation by James O’Keefe’s 'Citizen Justice League' has reportedly uncovered an avenue for voter fraud being allowed at Minneapolis polling places. where poll workers appeared happy to register individuals introduced as 'Hamas militants' from Gaza and allow a man disguised as a Muslim woman to vote under other people’s names. The post Cam Higby and James O’Keefe Go Undercover as Fake Muslims in Minneapolis. Are Allowed to Vote in Other People’s Names and Vouch for Eight Foreigners — Including ‘Hamas Militants from Gaza’ [UPDATED] appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:00:19 +0000 ad5ae56051ad5c52d852376d66cfaa891e939df4 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/nato-secretary-general-mark-rutte-on-9.html Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte on 9 April on European countries helping the USA in its unprovoked war against Iran:“They have done what they promised before in a case like this because they know that when it comes to NATO. it’s there to protect the United States because US needs to secure Atlantic and secure Arctic and secure Europe to stay safe here in the US mainland but it is also there to make sure Europe is safe and to be this platform of power projection for the United States. So. what the US did with Iran. they could do because so many European countries lived up to those commitments.'A wise Israeli I recently lunched with told me England and other Nato countries get many small advantages from alliance with America to make up for the large humiliations. I wonder what the advantages are to counterbalance being involved in unjust wars. but we know America is very vindictive and dangerous so no doubt American vassals are scared not to obey.  Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:56:46 +0000 9e8e32524a899c79c4984dc87c98068a061a3e07 https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-cnn-data-analyst-admits-people-simply-dont-care-left-wing-climate-alarmism-anymore/ In 2006. former Vice President Al Gore warned you. He wanted you to care about climate change. The Earth was melting away. and soon. beach front property in Tennessee would (…) The post Watch: CNN Data Analyst Admits People Simply 'Don't Care' About Left-Wing Climate Alarmism Anymore appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:53:00 +0000 feec70097c0b7659db4ab612a2c36453c05f3c1d https://www.malone.news/p/homesteading-august-farm-and-life Life This Summer on the Homestead Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:52:58 +0000 5f55efc32f76e012058409a3b7b7244c87e3ffb7 https://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-intentional-cosmos-all-about.html In order for the gene to be about the organism and the environment. it must possess an inherent relational quality that transcends its molecular structure. Otherwise the gene is but a string of molecules [a fact]. not an intentional code [meaningful information]. The code is what makes the gene inherently relational and teleological -- it is about building a genetic cake that is in turn about interacting with. and surviving in. the environment.So here again [as discussed in Book I]. the Anthropos is related to the Cosmos. but with a big difference. Lower animals are also related to the world. but only in an exterior sense. They have no access to the relational interiority of the Cosmos. Your Pomeranian can micturate on a tree. but it knows nothing about the concept of treeness. let alone the AKC papers that certify what breed it is. Conversely. the Anthropos is related to the interiority of things. beginning with the interior of other persons. which is how we are even having this weird conversation.Absent this luminous interiority. the Cosmos would be darker than a black steer’s derriere on a moonless night. As Poincaré remarked with reference to the scientific pursuit and to human existence more generally. “Thought is only a flash between two long nights. but this flash is everything.”In Voegelin’s terms. this flash occurs in the space between the poles of immanence and transcendence. and here we are: The quest. thus. has no external ‘object.’ but is reality itself becoming luminous for its movement from the ineffable. through the Cosmos. to the ineffable. Thus. there is a certain darkness and ineffability at both vertical ends. with the fleshlight of the Anthropos shining in between.The bottom line is that the Anthropos cannot be a mere extension of the bio-physical realm. but is “categorically distinct from other species” [Spitzer]. For example. we can teach sign language to a chimp. but the best the chimp can do is communicate via concrete. perceptual signs corresponding to. say. a banana. But it cannot abstract from this to the idea of “fruit.” nor relate one higher order concept to another. something you and I easily do. for we’re doing it right now.Concepts are abstract enough. but what about relations between concepts. These are even more remote from any material content. nor can one get there from any experience of the perceptual world. Again. this gap is materially unbridgeable. for “how could we have ever learned those higher-order concepts from the perceptual world. It is clearly impossible” [ibid.]. If this capacity weren’t already here. we could never have acquired it. The teacher’s pet simian might connect two words that are immediately adjacent to one another. but cannot relate more distant connections. The question is again whether the gap between animal and human is truly unbridgeable. i.e.. an ontological distinction. or one that can be explained by natural selection.∞The aboutness of things goes to the fundamental. irreducible principle of relation [Axiom 4] that grounds the entire intelligibility of the Cosmos. This principle is the philosophical necessity that prevents all of reality from collapsing into material immanence. It is the very condition for the possibility of any meaningful knowledge. For the intellect to be truly about reality. there must be an inherent two-way link -- a relation -- between knower and known.Conversely. in the absence of open relationality. the intellect is merely about its own thoughts. leading to the subjective closure of Kant and Co. Aboutness ensures that the intellect is a faculty ordered to Being itself. where the truth of a judgment is measured by the reality it is about. which is to say. What Is.I realize that my summary dismissal of Kant will irritate real philosophers–You’re not dealing with morons here.Yes. but in my years of clinical practice the question of whether we can know reality frankly never came up. Rather. it was assumed that the person we call the patient was in some sense not in touch with the thing we call reality. But we can only be out of touch with reality because we can be in touch with it. I couldn’t very well tell the insurance adjuster that a delusional patient is making great philosophical progress in finally realizing that there is no way to distinguish his internal projections from external reality.Later in this book we will explain in more detail how exactly to cut out the Kantian muddleman and know reality as it is. Which will not convince someone who is determined to believe otherwise. but that is not the purpose of this book. I’m not trying to scam anyone into anything. rather. talk about what anyone is already doing when they talk intelligibly to anyone about anything. including our genetic endowment.For Pieper. “If our mind were not by its nature already in touch with reality. it would never be able to reach reality at all.” Which is exemplified by any dualistic philosophy. for anyone can sever the mind from reality. but no one can reunite them if they aren’t united to begin with. One can think I am all day long. but the solipsistic subject can never cross the bridge back to the extra-mental It Is unless the bridge is already there in the thinking. Or in other words. thinking is the very link between I Am and It Is.Hey. solipsism isn’t so bad. I’m only surprised other people don’t believe it.We can of course distinguish between sense and intellect. but never separate them without separating man from himself. i.e.. dividing his holistic personhood. You could say we are a “part” of the Cosmos. but then again. the Anthropos as such is uniquely intertwined with the totality of being in such a way that it is given to us in the evolving space we inhabit between immanence and transcendence. or intellect and intelligibility. To the extent that the Anthropos is a “part.” it is only in the context of a deeper complementarity between part and whole. both horizontally and vertically.∞This is not some lazy goldbricking universe that doesn’t ever leave its own immanent basement. rather. a working Cosmos. The reason it works is because it is fundamentally all about aboutness. imbued with complementary relations such as intelligence and intelligibility. spirit and matter. form and substance. part and whole. However. this truth is often eclipsed by reified ideological systems that render their own truth impossible [or a miraculous exemption]. Such an incoherent choice locks the mind into a closed system. effectively screening out its transcendent and relational properties.But sometimes the most obvious truths are the most difficult to see. since they are the very means by which we see. Nevertheless. they are hidden in plain sight. only requiring a free. conscious alignment with the universal structure of relational being to comprehend them. Such truths are freely available to the intellect not as a reward for being unusually intelligent. but as the sufficient condition for Anthropic intelligence itself.Walker Percy says something similar. speculating that there must be something like a “coupler.” which is to say. “an agent which couples.” for “If subject and predicate or name and thing are coupled. there is a coupler.” To even say “I think. therefore I am.” one must presuppose an implicit link -- a mysterious coupler -- between the two affirmations. Frankly. without the coupler we are stuck in a nominalism that uncouples subject from predicate or word from referent. In the case of nominalism. there is no common nature uniting things. and therefore no generalizations. so we really can’t say a thing about anything because there is no real link between them.Percy cites the famous example of Helen Keller. who coupled the sensation of wetness with the sign for water. He refrains from speculating on the ontological status of the coupler. only that there is one. Certainly it cannot be reduced to any material. neurological substrate. for it is fundamentally immaterial.Now. is the whole Cosmos pervaded by this coupling agent. Signs point to yes. because just try to imagine a Cosmos without it. Again. it is the ontological glue that binds everything from quantum fields to human communities to knower and known. Indeed. it is what makes the Cosmos a Cosmos. which is to say. a unified field of disparate phenomena. Nor could you and I be having this conversation without the intersubjective coupler between our minds.Having said that. the coupler couples both ways. in that it is necessarily bound up with both freedom and alienation. the latter going to a state of existential uncoupling. in particular. from the transcendent pole. And because of the freedom to which Percy alludes. we can impose a coupling of things that aren’t actually coupled. For example. astrology falsely couples the movements of planets and stars with the fate of humans. and we know all about paranoiacs and their delusional conspiracy theories.Human language is simultaneously constrained and yet infinite. Could this be because. unlike other animals. man is conformed to. or coupled with. the Infinite. When lower animals reach a state of homeostasis. they fall asleep. But for the Anthropos. this is when the trouble starts. Give him food and shelter. and he starts dreaming of alternative realities and living in a parallel looniverse. When its instincts are satisfied. the lower animal is “perfectly at home.” But for the Anthropos. it is as if he discovers This is not my beautiful house. Let’s make a better one. built on sand.No animal in the wild is alienated. whereas it seems that the Anthropos cannot not be alienated from this world. at least to the extent that we are uncoupled from its transcendent source. It is why political dogooders are always trying to make things better. even if they make them worse. for they know not that there are no solutions. only tradeoffs.Another consequence of the coupler is that the Anthropos is never finished. because we are coupled to an Infinitude that can never be contained within finitude. Percy cites the example of a sea anemone. which appears to be “perfectly at home.” for it is “neither more nor less. whereas a man can either be himself or not himself -- he doesn’t necessarily coincide with himself.” Thus – and this goes to G3AOA – the Anthropos “is the only alien creature. as far as we know. in the entire Cosmos.” in that we are only alienated creature. and what happened there. Why are we not at home in our only home. Why the restlessness. the neurosis. the mischief. the endless search for reality in all the wrong places. It seems that whatever we get. we quickly take it for granted and want more.You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.It must be because of our necessarily unsettled and ambiguous situation in the Great In Between. for once we transcend matter. where are we. unless we are coupled to O. with the source of transcendence.Eh. that’s just the stress talking.Maybe. but for Percy’s part. he demanded some answers. taking “it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight. i.e.. God. In fact. I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less.”O or bust.Percy didn’t wait for permission. rather. “took it as an intolerable state of affairs to have found myself in this life and this age. which is a disaster by any calculation. without demanding a gift commensurate with the offense. So I demanded it.”Is this really asking too much of the Theos. We have already suggested that the Anthropos is owed the courtesy of an explanation. It makes no sense to be given the gift of intellect only to leave us lost in the Cosmos. Rather. supposing the Theos exists. then he surely wants us to find our way home. But the Anthropos can only successfully find the Theos because the latter has already sent out a search party to find the man lost in the Cosmos. Again. the Theos makes housecalls. for which reason Einstein remarked that “The discovery of a fundamental verified law of nature is an inspiration of God.”That some kind of joke.No. to put it in colloquial terms. our Third Party is not just a “thing” but a kind of energy. a vertical descent which is the agent of coupling between us and the Great Beyondus. The transcendentally uncoupled I is necessarily lost in the Cosmos because of a misuse of the very freedom whose source is O. Which is the ultimate collapse of the Gap. since it uncouples Anthropos and Theos in a permanent way. even if we fail to see it.Where is the Ground. Only in two possible places: below. in immanence. or above. in transcendence. Materialism or Platonism. We are the mysterious monkey in the middle. We cannot actually ever reach immanence until we’re dead. nor can we reach transcendence per se -- i.e.. the place where all this truth and beauty come from.So we live in the Tension. and it is no doubt tempting to want to make it go away by veering toward one pole or the other. Truly. it comes down to O or Ø. and everything else is. and must be. a disguise for one or the other. And one reason why we say that the vertical is prior to the horizontal is because it must be. For the converse could never be true -- that the vertical could arise from the horizontal. any more than information could come from strict chaos. quality from quantity. mind from matter. etc. Science does not understand how this could be the case. but this is simply a result of prejudice. not the nature of things. Abandon the scientistic prejudice. turn the Cosmos back right side up. and it all makes sense. even if we won’t yet know how and why it all makes sense until Book III.So. history would indeed be heaping helping of baloney if not ordered to anything beyond itself. Or. in the words of our concise Colombian aphorist. History would be an abominable farce if it were to have a worldly culmination.An abominable snow job.Freedom and truth are indeed two sides of the same rug. The cosmotheandric choice is ours: limited animal intelligence or unlimited human spirit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:50:42 +0000 df93573cfc5f5c3bf19cdd7dcb2850a7fb74d256 https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/from-the-archive-tracking-down-lieutenant How I learned the story of the My Lai Massacre Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:49:54 +0000 1fea8f5f943fbbc1c91de76f87035b09acac850e https://reclaimthenet.org/ruben-gallego-social-media-bill-gives-ftc-authority-over-age-verification-methods The bill asks platforms to know something that the only way it can know is through ID checks. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:42:56 +0000 49547d5639aa04c5f0b228d775a4551699bb4c9f https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/trump-state-department-axes-biden-era-initiative-sought/ Trump administration reforms have ended efforts to turn the State Department into a DEI sales force. The post Trump State Department Axes Biden-Era Initiative That Sought to Spread DEI Around the World appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:40:39 +0000 e23a4985e21e3bb1ec403d23b3f527307586dd95 https://reclaimthenet.org/babylon-bee-sues-new-mexico-over-ai-satire-disclaimer-law The state's own attorney general already suspected this was unconstitutional. That didn't slow anything down. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:37:49 +0000 9e2d0858829cd659d126455f86589a101c28af43 https://reclaimthenet.org/police-launch-live-facial-recognition-trial-at-london-subway-stations Victoria Station handles a crowd the size of a small city every morning. The trial runs four months. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:36:57 +0000 529e9c5b1fe48ec1fd2b29d795113bb6da51d47e https://reclaimthenet.org/our-vpn-comparison-tool-is-going-public The tool lists independent no-logs audits. named audit firms. audit dates. and court-tested claims. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:35:21 +0000 13f5f548fa5880f1fe681d5fd5730b1296da73c1 https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/did-israel-pass-false-intel-on-trump-plane-danger/ Watch today’s Liberty Report here. The post Did Israel Pass False Intel On Trump Plane Danger. appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:32:09 +0000 dbd9977ba560d7953629ab4a3080de8e06a370db https://therightstuff.biz/2026/08/13/mcdunstabb-mcdundigoon/ That tranny cares more about your kids than you do. RED TRIANGLE EP GET THE ALBUM OF COLOR IT IS ALSO SPOTIFY APPLE AMAZON JEWTUBE MUSIC Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:26:20 +0000 2ac4a618cb7dff1f277e73fecd1bcf1f5d5ed5c6 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/my-dog-died-during-lockdown I’m tempted to say that Brooklyn was an odd place to ride out Covid. but I guess it was an odd experience everywhere. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:24:46 +0000 5482c41e049887cc6601d9f7410d68bbdd022081 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/video-connecticut-board-education-member-wearing-cat-ears/ A West Hartford. Connecticut Board of Education member wearing cat ears is being brutally mocked on social media after a video surfaced of her arguing that black teachers deserve higher pay because it's 'an extra burden' to be black. The post Connecticut Board of Education Member Wearing Cat Ears Declares Black Teachers Should Be Paid More Because It’s an ‘Extra Burden’ to Work While Black appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:20:48 +0000 1e84d8a4c67fcb2dccbaaf88a1bcc0b83ba11017 https://joehoft.com/exclusive-louisiana-worlds-dumping-ground/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exclusive-louisiana-worlds-dumping-ground Part 6: Louisiana. the World’s Dumping Ground By Danielle Walker. The State of Freedom Recently Louisiana advanced as a finalist for the federal Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus. The post Louisiana. the World’s Dumping Ground appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:10:05 +0000 b9b21eb89f24724bdbb23b3938502e4b1d40d769 https://www.raptitude.com/2026/08/how-to-look-the-sky-in-the-face/ Last week I had a friend for dinner. and she convinced me to do one of her favorite activities afterward: lie on the grass in the park and look at the sky. I was hesitant because I don’t like to lie down until nighttime. when the only goal is to end the day by losing consciousness. [My friend loves lying (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:01:56 +0000 f133255401e988a6c3b4ed93df81ef494f1d3095 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/border-czar-tom-homan-delivers-blunt-message-sanctuary/ Border Czar Tom Homan has delivered a blunt message to sanctuary states during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday. declaring that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is achieving historic levels of arrests and deportations and that local interference from Democrats will not stop them. The post Border Czar Tom Homan Delivers Blunt Message to Sanctuary States: ‘You’re NOT Going to Stop Us’ appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:00:17 +0000 c8e58d445b6be48b54d6ced1d79625b46513d84d https://www.westernjournal.com/ws-georgia-court-reinstates-school-bible-program/ A Christian education program previously canceled in Georgia has gotten the green light to restart after its director was punished for exercising his free speech rights on social media. Vidalia (…) The post Georgia Court Reinstates School Bible Program appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000 0ffc92e7e9d5865f5090c303f00f7344180dbf0f https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/canadian-trade-officials-threaten-to-leave-usmca-trade-talks-if-trump-triggers-50-percent-tariffs/ —– Click Here: The Last Refuge   The post Canadian Trade Officials Threaten to Leave USMCA Trade Talks if Trump Triggers 50 Percent Tariffs appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:51:21 +0000 34eceb5309d7696d8b3d5112d6300ad933cd5581 https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/inflation-is-not-one-number/ —– Click Here: Martin Armstrong   The post Inflation Is Not One Number appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:49:46 +0000 41d93c5922940a45092df0c5c89351437e453927 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/major-u-s-airport-installing-dedicated-islamic-foot/ The bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will be getting a makeover. The post Major U.S. Airport Installing Dedicated Islamic Foot-Washing Basins in Bathrooms appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:40:15 +0000 f9e9a185853cdf2dd24d18063cd38f61876c6759 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/13/canadian-trade-officials-threaten-to-leave-usmca-trade-talks-if-trump-triggers-50-percent-tariffs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canadian-trade-officials-threaten-to-leave-usmca-trade-talks-if-trump-triggers-50-percent-tariffs The Canadian trade officials continue to misread the room.  Threatening the Trump administration with something the Trump administration benefits from. is not exactly the best trade strategy. In the background the DOJ has just arrested a woman for her part in a trafficking operation. smuggling Indian illegal aliens into the USA through Canada {citation}.  Simultaneously. (…) The post Canadian Trade Officials Threaten to Leave USMCA Trade Talks if Trump Triggers 50 Percent Tariffs appeared first on The Last Refuge. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:24:12 +0000 ec8eafa6f396962245e7cee6458366e5d8c4452e https://www.noticer.news/victoria-600000-indian-film-festival-melbourne/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=victoria-600000-indian-film-festival-melbourne Labor promised to fund the festival for another two years. The post Victoria gives S600K to Indian film festival to ‘celebrate multiculturalism’ first appeared on The Noticer. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:23:03 +0000 c27e4488e3ef814cd844eef6ac05f8082eeb1417 https://www.noticer.news/fijian-jailed-lilydale-melbourne-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fijian-jailed-lilydale-melbourne-attack Samuela Turaganivalu was jailed for at least 12 years. The post Fijian farm worker jailed for raping stranger: ‘Every woman’s worst nightmare’ first appeared on The Noticer. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:21:20 +0000 66972f470bd3a5a447d9a2f96a6cdb7ed3c59b59 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/it-sounds-like-wild-conspiracy-theory-jeffrey-tucker/ This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was published with permission. The post “It Sounds Like a Wild Conspiracy Theory”: Jeffrey Tucker Reveals the Real Reason for the Lockdowns. School Closures. and Masking appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:20:12 +0000 04b43e0be9d5e9ac4a0b666cdf43bb77ac6c6a49 https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/it-was-destroyed-in-just-days/ Take heed Europe The post It Was DESTROYED In Just Days… first appeared on modernity. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:17:14 +0000 3452b2be1c330aff2841fab00f2209a728331051 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/energy-impacts-podcast-trisha-curtis When geopolitical chaos erupts - Iranian tankers in the dark fleet. Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Russian refineries under fire - oil prices should skyrocket. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:16:26 +0000 786aaa7b4b8d148bf535e7f3be6ea114c334c59f https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/the-miscarriage-rate-in-mrna-vaccinated Discussing the infamous vSafe/mRNA pregnancy data with Dr. Drew. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:07:46 +0000 33c3ccc239737a8da6cd8f7c79d209319a5bb8d2 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/tirania-de-travestis-na-angola-do-seculo-xvi-e-no-ocidente-de-hoje/ No Reino do Congo. travestis eram autoridades sagradas e intocáveis. Hoje. STF equipara transfobia a racismo e persegue críticos. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:05:54 +0000 f7f6134cebfe6a37daeac7462a8b6aef0132ad2e https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/liberal-bias-enables-minority-crime DEI and Negrophilia are Not Victimless Crimes Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:02:40 +0000 977409cd938f241a05bd990f50b533e2733bc605 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/dr-mccullough-flesh-eating-bacteria-crisis-spirals-control/ [Note: Thank you for supporting businesses like the one presenting a sponsored message below and working with them through the links below which benefits Gateway Pundit. The post Dr. McCullough: “Flesh-Eating Bacteria Crisis Spirals Out of Control” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:00:32 +0000 6005329189879b80cd58514cb64f94d6cd28a83d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwEfIuXLFw Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:00:18 +0000 3abc551f484ea431b53a66ddec022d062e9531b6 https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/english-village-will-have-six-migrant-men-to-every-woman/ What do you think will happen. The post English Village Will Have Six MIGRANT MEN To Every Woman first appeared on modernity. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:51:25 +0000 0c232c22e0732a73798549be9e45647253f54697 https://www.racket.news/p/get-lit-august-13-2026-stephen-cranes Brad and Matt wrap up their discussion of the Stephen Crane short story. Subscriber-only edition. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:46:26 +0000 2bb629a4b0d30b5773700983bcaeb70bd639ba7b https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/woman-who-has-been-us-since-1989-cannot/ These people are so bold. The post Woman Who Has Been in US Since 1989 and Cannot Speak a Lick of English Holds Press Conference Demanding Citizenship – Dan Bovino Weighs In appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:45:44 +0000 2ce1f104e49a34eccfabcff2c76dea2ffa48cb0a https://greenwald.substack.com/p/submit-your-questions-for-this-weeks-273 Live TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. Glenn will answer your questions. all of which you can submit by commenting on this recurring post. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:45:43 +0000 a78dad49ea2941030c7160885e940c105f9bd994 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/the-zionist-factor-in-the-white-scuttle-from-africa/ 5.987 words  The image of an Israeli/Zionist alliance with white South Africa is of the same character as the myth that Apartheid was profitable to capitalism. or that there was a secret alliance between South Africa and the CIA/USA. It is claimed that Israel as an “apartheid state” shared a kinship with White South Africa (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:30:25 +0000 deef9f865bcb0ad05db363868031da2edd9944a8 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/as-trump-confronts-china-is-south-korea-moving/ Guest post from South Korea At a time when the United States is increasingly treating Communist China as its principal strategic competitor and moving to restrict Chinese military-linked companies and protect critical AI and technology supply chains. there are growing reasons to question whether South Korea is moving in the opposite direction. The post As Trump Confronts China. Is South Korea Moving in the Opposite Direction. appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:30:23 +0000 42194e2a6ea87e489d7e6170d93da3dad3b8c1a4 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/13/the-antichrist-will-succeed-in-influencing-and-persuading-almost-everyone-2/ 26 years ago today. the Address of Cardinal Biffi on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Vladimir Soloviev. 13 August 2000: HERE Vladimir Sergeievich Soloviev: an unheeded prophet H.E. Giacomo Cardinal Biffi. Archbishop of Bologna Vladimir Sergeievich Soloviev passed away 100 years ago. on July 31 [August 13 according to our Gregorian … Continue reading '“The Antichrist will succeed in influencing and persuading almost everyone.”' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:30:02 +0000 ac8c5fa9a80bd8c7b30300829897be65ee4b63c6 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/powder-keg-europe-putin-threatens-seize-european-countries/ Russia may retaliate against UK-EU ships in the Pacific or anywhere else in the world. Putin says. The post Putin Threatens To Seize European Countries’ Cargo Ships if They Keep Pressure on Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ [VIDEOS] appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:15:49 +0000 ae898bbac91f850aa6361ca138490fa379425dc5 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/report-after-billions-upon-billions-spending-californias-high/ The high-speed rail program that California has been working on for years and which has already cost billions of dollars. may run out of money as early as the end of 2027. according to new reports. The post After Billions Upon Billions in Spending. California’s High Speed Rail Program May Run Out of Money by the End of 2027 appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:00:50 +0000 d6cb8ad0c83b80efeaaea2078956979cddac84e1 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/winter-is-coming-el-invierno-energetico-de-europa/ Reservas insuficientes. escasez de diésel y mayor dependencia de las importaciones. Europa se acerca al invierno con una vulnerabilidad derivada no solo del frío. sino también de las decisiones estratégicas tomadas en los últimos años. Las reservas de gas están por debajo de los niveles necesarios. mientras que la disponibilidad de diésel disminuye justo cuando el continente necesita mayor seguridad energética. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:00:30 +0000 388ee55dcbede6b393c1e44f40d82737386c8cd8 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/mars-colonization-as-the-western-faustian-spirit/ 1.159 words Something curious has settled over public life this past decade. A planet no human has ever walked upon now shapes dinner-table conversation. informs official testimony. and commands the personal fortunes of the world’s wealthiest individuals. Yet scarcely anyone pauses to ask why this preoccupation belongs so decisively to a single civilization. When we (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:55:54 +0000 1a6a4fdfd9ee13931ec2cbd67011fae9ffd01fc2 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/university-of-michigan-will-hide-letter-grades-for-freshman-students-mental-health/ The taxpayer-funded University of Michigan’s College of Literature. Science. and the Arts has announced a pilot program starting next fall to conceal traditional letter grades (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:50:13 +0000 dbe83ef39f109f1646bb7dfb27058da9d49a064b https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-state-department-axes-biden-era-initiative-sought-spread-dei-around-world/ Trump administration reforms have ended efforts to turn the State Department into a DEI sales force. Biden-era guidelines that ordered diplomats to push a diversity. equity. inclusion. and accessibility policies (…) The post Trump State Department Axes Biden-Era Initiative That Sought to Spread DEI Around the World appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:45:00 +0000 db220c6e8f66c47401da8ec2256b9886926dfdb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rpZPDvFOo Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:43:25 +0000 ce53065645240aa059a99c85e595f854095c902d https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/08/13/farage-right-and-proper-that-social-media-posts-are-investigated-by-police/ In July. Nigel Farage told Sky News “If people post on social media things that are racist. they nearly always get a knock at the door. charged. and that’s right and proper“. He recently called Twitter “dangerous.” Raheem Kassam. a close Farage ally. has echoed that sentiment. describing people expressing themselves freely online as a (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:36:59 +0000 523350bd225375f28ca715f29cd12f0ffec7ba4e https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/higher-education-looks-ever-more One of the nation's top universities has given up on grades for incoming freshmen. Not making this up. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:35:22 +0000 3e4ff9bef39102bcb1f22604cee457b79c8c3311 https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/13/open-thread-8-13-2026/ The post Open thread 8/13/2026 appeared first on The New Neo. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:30:59 +0000 15504e6c8498d5ce2a96478dcf9b772cc6a8904d https://www.westernjournal.com/left-details-karoline-leavitts-not-abrupt-departure-just-much-trump-adores/ The announcement that rocked Washington on Wednesday was actually months in the making. When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt published a post on social media to declare her resignation from (…) The post Why She Left: Details of Karoline Leavitt's [Not So] Abrupt Departure and Just How Much Trump Adores Her appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:28:00 +0000 6456c917e3fd3c52a1bbcf7f972e5347020aaad0 https://www.westernjournal.com/shot-truck-shooting-gop-candidates-wife-disputes-suicide-ruling-time-call-dateline/ The daughter and former wife of a Republican state Senate candidate found dead in April in an Oklahoma wildlife refuge are pushing back against a ruling of suicide in his (…) The post He Shot Up His Own Truck Before Shooting Himself. GOP Candidate's Wife Disputes Suicide Ruling - 'Time to Call Dateline' appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:19:00 +0000 8c6ae1b63c9f94c685f133ac65c84529c3e0d5b9 https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/08/13/rabbi-yosef-mizrachi-saying-why-its-permissible-to-kill-non-jewish-children/ Here is Israeli Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi saying why it’s permissible to kill non-Jewish children pic.twitter.com/4kTF4QAJfE — The Gulag [@WelcomeTheGulag] August 12. 2026 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:10:56 +0000 b871f6dd4f3edb0255d99b9b048327ed20145442 https://www.westernjournal.com/frontrunners-trump-reportedly-considering-replace-karoline-leavitt/ A short list of potential replacements for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is circulating online a day after she announced she would leave the position to spend more time (…) The post Here Are the Frontrunners Trump Is Reportedly Considering to Replace Karoline Leavitt appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:06:00 +0000 095b6d7f9f9cb15429755554b69e524f3d3c0cd1 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/cuba-is-not-venezuela-or-jamaica-as-it-refuses-to-become-a-u-s-neo-colony/ Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity [VIPS] recently issued a memo which states: Cuba is not Venezuela. What does that mean. “The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the road with a coat hanger will wreak havoc against a foreign-imposed regime.” Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:05:51 +0000 01bcaba438225eabe4e1c269a3c1864bf062be59 https://thetransformedwife.com/should-teenagers-have-jobs/ This was written by a woman who writes for Blessed Homemaking. which is a beautiful blog. When children become a certain age. some Christian parents think it would be a great idea to allow them to get a job to “keep them busy” and earn some money. Not only is this popular for boys. but it has also become popular for teenage girls. Why parents want to send their teen daughters out into the world to earn money is beyond... Read More Read More Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:00:26 +0000 ab38146d5535f8a87a3a760752e575f0ee73f834 https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/a-quick-kvetch-up-2/ This will have to be short [as your Mom never. ever said]. because lack of planning on Management’s part still constitutes an emergency on my part. But I couldn’t let two quick items slide. because they look to be hilarious. First: Conservatives find their fighter in Sophie Cunningham With the subhead: The anti-trans movement in … Continue reading 'A Quick Kvetch-Up' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:59:36 +0000 70451ccd0e3364a10b844de73a09ae5e17f71ba1 https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-running-iowa-secretary-agriculture-says-farming-isnt-hard-claims-farmers-barely-work/ An old video clip has resurfaced to haunt the Democratic candidate for secretary of agriculture in Iowa. In a 2021 video clip. Chris Jones said farmers are wealthy individuals who (…) The post Dem Running for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Says Farming 'Isn't That Hard' and Claims Farmers Barely Work appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:57:00 +0000 0d9f8487bf1421391ae215914ab516f9a2083f41 https://www.westernjournal.com/alarming-senior-chinese-communist-party-official-buys-building-next-white-house/ A senior Chinese Communist Party intelligence official is the new owner of a historic building overlooking the White House Complex. a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Located approximately 650 (…) The post 'Alarming': Senior Chinese Communist Party Official Buys Building Next to White House appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:52:00 +0000 1e39d6186811ca9783e294ec5e08c953a0a2d0a2 https://www.westernjournal.com/police-teen-used-chatgpt-murder-fantasies-killing-mom-brother/ A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder after his mother and teenage brother were found dead in their Massachusetts home. According to police and prosecutors. the teen used AI (…) The post Police: Teen Used ChatGPT for Murder 'Fantasies' Before Killing His Mom and Brother appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:47:00 +0000 48945859cc5425eae0759d7601a974b9d51001f0 https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/13/fauci-knew-and-discussed-it-with-political-authority-this-is-more-than-science-saying-it-was-a-bad-idea/ I’m sure everyone is aware of this by now. Bt it is not trivial. In the flood of real information and simultaneous target obscuring. disinformation that followed the release of Continue Reading → Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:40:33 +0000 24daaf645747a09995f172921ab305d7b6fc436d https://paulcraigroberts.org/the-foundations-are-eroding/ The Foundations Are Eroding Paul Craig Roberts Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Oz. a dual citizen of Turkey and the US. is (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:37:10 +0000 1e50751e42d4523c7f2a46f69fe7f21ee0be204e https://paulcraigroberts.org/america-adopts-another-third-world-practice/ America adopts another third world practice Many decades ago I remember hearing from a friend returning from abroad and entering (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:36:44 +0000 900ffc97bb46ed7f9184b3cf682c0d3291bbfb26 https://paulcraigroberts.org/if-this-is-not-a-fake-ai-disinformation-document-the-us-has-a-delusional-president/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:35:40 +0000 f2a6e664e8ab83c9cb8c44d75fb979bcf7ae9bf9 https://theothermccain.com/2026/08/13/the-feds-put-the-cuffs-on-heidi/ Grudge. you say. Why would I have a grudge against Heidi Beirich. who did so much to make me famous as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist”. Probably the SPLC has removed her bylines from the various articles she wrote about me. decades ago. when her transparent purpose was to get me fired from The Washington Times. (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:34:12 +0000 7a4773df5f1f55fb035489ca5b42c5c4bf3aaee7 https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-mentioned-keith-waterhouses-1979.html I mentioned Keith Waterhouse's 1979 collection of newspaper columns Rhubarb Rhubarb in a previous post. It contains an article on the role of aunts at Christmas. in which he writes: 'Some aunts sing. They sing: 'Come Into the Garden. Maud'. Some aunts recite. They recite 'The Lady of Shalott' [by the author of 'Come Ito The Garden Maud'.]'Here's an excerpt from another book I'm reading. A Memoir by Terry De Valera: 'It was while she was in Edenderry that mother took up serious reading. She read Dickens. Scott. George Eliot. and a great deal of poetry. particularly Byron. Keats. Shelley. and Longfellow. She had of course a great love for. and knowledge of. Shakespeare's works. and her love of poetry was apparent throughout her entire life. She said: 'I have always had a delight in poetry. When I saw the rain drops on the leaves in the morning. Byron's lines came into my mind:And Ardennes waves above them her green leavesDewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass.'Many years later. I remember Father often asked her to find some apt quotation. and seldom. if ever. did she fail to find or provide one. often from memory alone.'How different. how very different. from the home life of our own dear twenty-first century. It's impossible for me to imagine anybody reciting 'The Lady of Shalott' at a Christmas party today. Presumably. it must have seemed at least plausible in 1979. or Waterhouse wouldn't have conjured it. Remember he was writing for the Daily Mirror. not some posh paper.Everybody has their hobby-horse. and this is mine. [Well. it's one of them. at least.] Perhaps a hobby-horse is not the best vantage-point from which to see clearly. But I'm convinced that the decline in poetry-reading has had profound effects on society. We hear constantly [and I mean constantly] about the addictive. 'dopamine-seeking' behaviour which is inherent to social media and smartphones and all the rest. and the way it's reshaping our brains. It's such a cliché. in fact. I'm ashamed even to mention it. except...Except that it seems to me that this is really just a continuation of something that was already happening even before computers or smartphones came along. Even before television came along. It seems to me that most fiction involves the constant arousal and satisfaction of curiosity. Who knocked on the door. Who is that mysterious figure in the mist. How did Sherlock Holmes know what Dr. Watson was thinking about at that precise moment.You might say: that's not fair. not all fiction is like that. Literary fiction is not like that.But all fiction and almost all prose is more like that than poetry. There is no suspense in a sonnet.And even when there is a story. even when it's the most popular poetry imaginable-- a folk ballad about a murder. say-- the essence of the work is not suspense and gratifying curiosity. Because you could do that much better in prose.I think the essential difference is that poetry is inherently contemplative and prose-- along with most other artforms and entertainments-- is inherently analytical. [I realize I have said this before.]They don't have to be in competition. Of course you can enjoy both-- you should enjoy both. But the inescapable truth is that. although people used to read combine fiction reading with poetry reading. they no longer do so. People today seem more willing to read even the most difficult and longest fiction [or books. films. music] etc. than to read even the most accessible poetry.And I'm aware of this reluctance myself. I never feel like reading poetry. The reward always comes later. Either during the reading itself-- like the glow that you get during exercise-- or much later. when the lines and rhythms and phrases have entered into your mind and become a part of you.As media become more based upon instant gratification. we're all going to have to make a more conscious effort not to enter a vegetative state. Maybe it's a good time to make that little bit of extra effort and read some poetry. especially some long poetry. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:21:08 +0000 ae0656a0757fdf7e5d829d7753ba95847cf14421 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/iran-open-thread-2026-174.html News and views related to the war on Iran … Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:13:47 +0000 e11d3cf4fdb9e017e949dc5e443e2e23805c1fa6 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/ukraine-open-thread-2026-173.html News and views related to the war in Ukraine … Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:12:10 +0000 b81104af0d16018daebc6469d6bc514fc0138564 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/open-not-ukraine-or-iran-thread-2026-172.html News and views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Iran … Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:11:18 +0000 e3af9ba38f4f97c5c9eae7d57b59d3bbc0b58498 https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/round-up-is-there-a-sex-difference The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:04:15 +0000 d2cfd6e4a97c633d1e7c92a3fb5adc9c71ffbe30 https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/cnn-panel-explodes-guests-call-ice-agents-murderers-scott-jennings-loses-it/ “What murders are you talking about.” The post CNN Panel Guests Call ICE Agents Murderers — Scott Jennings LOSES IT first appeared on modernity. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:03:41 +0000 dadda1cad7edaeeb80b920f3ea63211b4dea8052 https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/making-idiots-useful more adventures of chairman meow Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:03:39 +0000 f1f8cc728a35736f7a8bb521d791b384b549167a https://www.unbekoming.com/p/reflections-of-a-country-doctor-1996 By Barry Ladd - 30 QandAs - Book Review and Summary Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:02:27 +0000 d68160fe15f08a917c2c600faad104cb7563b3b5 https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/is-count-binface-englands-dreaming Facing a bleak reality. the British establishment retreats into nostalgic fantasy Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:42 +0000 46ca8879b030eda9ba7c52ec0097437d0f5d8c35 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/congress-is-fake/ The House and Senate have drained themselves of power and relevance. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:08 +0000 b687522fef04e21ed9b5d1e56f234e205b189287 https://creativeminorityreport.com/blog/2026/08/13/the-return-of-the-shadow/ There is a curious comfort in the spectacle of a fashion that has outworn itself. The great wave of what men now call “woke” has broken upon the shore. and the tide is ebbing. One hears the same voices that... Continue Reading → Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:58:35 +0000 9cf4f28f14d284965fceb14b77ee0fff2f8d86ee https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/another-victory-for-gun-owners/ 'The era of federal registration for constitutionally protected arms must end' The post Another VICTORY For Gun Owners… first appeared on modernity. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:58:26 +0000 08d0837675607d28f49ae235a27ee6324d4f4002 https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/former-splc-exec-arrested-accused-of-funneling-money-to-kkk-neo-nazi-informants/ 'The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence' The post Former SPLC Exec Arrested: Accused Of Funneling Money To KKK. Neo-Nazi Informants first appeared on modernity. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:52:37 +0000 466e6a6237613253ebf3cf08bd69189a0e27e286 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/08/13/manly-womanly/ My understanding and our understanding [society’s. the saints’. America’s] of male and female virtue and vice has even more gaps in it than normal. The normal pattern for gaps in knowledge is to have a strong idea of a virtue and its opposing vice. while having almost no concept at all of the opposing virtue (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:50:24 +0000 89d6165b997745627754d74ac520c9af7f292633 https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/new-orleans-becomes-first-major-u-s-city-to-let-ai-answer-911/ “The worst idea you could possibly think of' The post New Orleans Becomes First Major U.S. City To Let AI Answer 911 first appeared on modernity. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:46:27 +0000 0d513dff3668768e38daf8c429b89f29e8232a2e https://modernity.news/2026/08/13/3-syrians-gang-raped-urinated-on-10-year-old-girl-case-only-revealed-during-tv-debate/ How many more cases like this are being hid by authorities. The post 3 Syrians Gang Raped. Urinated On 10-Year-Old Girl. Case Only Revealed During TV Debate first appeared on modernity. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:41:42 +0000 fcf8d148f60a39bd395f1895b67b9a6b918ac58e https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/american-tanks-and-soldiers-overwhelmed-by-ukrainian-drones-in-war-games/ Ukrainian drone operators defeated U.S. troops in a major war games exercise earlier this year. according to a new report. The Combined Resolve drills took place in Hohenfels. Germany. in April and May. About 3.500 American personnel. mostly from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division rotating in from Fort Hood. Texas. faced (...) The post American Tanks and Soldiers Overwhelmed by Ukrainian Drones in War Games appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:41:07 +0000 cf91b51ff9f3753073b5ec1fdf66afc334680908 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/former-splc-exec-arrested-accused-of-funneling-donor-money-to-kkk-neo-nazi-informants/ Original article here Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] executive Heidi Beirich was arrested in California on Wednesday under a superseding indictment in the Justice Department's ongoing case against the organization. according to a CNN report confirmed by federal officials. Heidi Beirich. What even... Beirich. who directed the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project until 2019. faces three counts: conspiracy to (...) The post Former SPLC Exec Arrested: Accused Of Funneling Donor Money To KKK. Neo-Nazi Informants appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:39:52 +0000 6e56d251136386047df143f76a434984c6abb891 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/horrifically-bad-newly-released-docs-reveal-secret-fbi-operation-to-discredit-evidence-of-biden-family-corruption/ Original article here Newly declassified documents reveal a secret operation by the Intelligence Community to neutralize the politically devastating Biden family corruption scandal during the 2020 election. The White House Government Transparency Task Force on Tuesday released the documents. exposing a counterintelligence operation codenamed “Round River.” The Round River team allegedly formed in December of 2019 “to (...) The post ‘Horrifically Bad’: Newly Released Docs Reveal Secret FBI Operation to Discredit Evidence of Biden Family Corruption appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:39:29 +0000 aaee8dec485783d4dc21bd33c0b1e2ab13d59a12 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/cia-finds-that-trump-russia-collusion-investigation-was-corrupt/ Original article here A CIA review of the US intelligence community’s assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election found that the process suffered from procedural problems. an unusually compressed timeline and extensive involvement by senior intelligence officials. The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals (...) The post CIA Finds That Trump-Russia Collusion Investigation Was Corrupt appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:38:57 +0000 c8afea89c2091e94230bc57310fec52476a475f3 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/08/karoline-leavitt-to-step-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-at-end-of-august/ Original article here White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Wednesday that she will leave the Trump administration at the end of August. saying she wants to spend more time with her children. Leavitt recently gave birth to her second child. Prior to serving as press secretary. she was the lead spokeswoman for the Trump (...) The post Karoline Leavitt to step down as White House press secretary at end of August appeared first on American Partisan. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:38:14 +0000 7328bd909c59ef4e4879b307cd7f50aed6125b17 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/woa-security-staff-cancels-antifa/ 996 words Ordinarily. I have no serious quarrel with freedom of expression. and this includes forms of expression that may sound aberrant or even offensive to everything I am and believe. The freedom to voice one’s opinions is not something I would wish to see disappear from Western civilization. It is highly beneficial. Nevertheless. the (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:22:06 +0000 7bac0a4723801a1f28b2c4269556a8195473e60b https://creativeminorityreport.com/blog/2026/08/13/it-all-kinda-makes-sense-when-he-says-it/ Fr. McTeigue is brilliant. He asks if pride is still a sin. Spoiler alert. It’s kind of a big deal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:05:59 +0000 337adeb0fe432e1c26ee89df16c6159050c7c2c1 https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/sweet-wee-ps-say-sugar-makes-you Reminder: no Class until after Labor Day. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:03:23 +0000 75f5b8dbd333bd035d2f567241d389e891df7b7b https://www.unbekoming.com/p/how-to-reform-a-beating An Essay on the August 2026 Childhood Vaccine Executive Order Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:01:34 +0000 87079c84b82354b0d82b2a35262c5a2632420b74 https://creativeminorityreport.com/blog/2026/08/13/gutfelds-response-to-new-abortion-law-is-a-must-watch/ God bless @greggutfeld — our late friend Andrew Breitbart would be proud of his clarity and conviction here. [Andrew introduced us decades ago because Andrew couldn’t believe how pro-life he was. coming from a fashion magazine background. Andrew was kinda... Continue Reading → Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:00:51 +0000 fdee25bcc92c104af83476246c54388c460f3917 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/the-invisible-geography-of-israeli-power/ Data sovereignty is the new oil – but West Asia is pumping raw material while foreign tech giants refine it. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:00:43 +0000 e79c1940f9b88701d43074428a025e099dd9d548 https://freemansperspective.com/the-quality-of-information-within-a-hierarchy/ People very often expect authorities to possess superior information. After all. the assumptions of the 20th century were that those at the top of large systems have information the rest of us don’t. and that they make better decisions because of it. This was the lesson of the factory. the military and government. In all cases. those at the top were believed to have the best information. In actual practice. however. those at the top don’t get the best information. An FBI agent in Minneapolis. to use a famous example. knew all about the bizarre behavior of the 9/11 hijackers. but that information never reached those who were expected to use it. There are many more examples. of course. The military is full of them. ask a 20-year corporal or sergeant some time. Pretty much every mid-level manager at a corporation can tell you the same types of stories. And by now we should all know how deeply “out of it” high level politicians are. The problem is not the people involved. however. the problem is the structure. All of these are hierarchies. and all. necessarily. pass information up and down between levels of the structure. And that is a problem. The crucial fact is this: As information is passed through the levels of a hierarchy. it is filtered. This much is not seriously questionable. Corporate analysts have been talking about it for decades. trying to “flatten” the corporation. And again. this is caused by the structure itself. not by the quality of the individuals involved. A person with exceptionally high integrity will filter less. but since we’re talking about structures involving thousands of people. that’s not a significant factor. Hierarchies filter information because of their structure. Filtered How. Information flow in a hierarchy is filtered in any number of ways. with the political schemes of the participants being a major factor. [Political scheming in the corporate sense. that is: lining up allies. controlling others. and so on… relying upon influence more than substance.] The more pervasive factor. however. involves the control of will. That sounds odd at first. and even irrelevant. but it isn’t. The constraint of individual will is the fundamental operating feature of hierarchy. The hierarchy must get individual humans to do the hierarchy’s will rather than their personal will. if it is to survive. Individuals within a hierarchy must obey orders. They must serve the goals of the system rather than their own. The hierarchy cannot survive without this. It is the fundamental operation. Hierarchies obtain this sacrifice of will in a variety of ways. the chief of which are. Corporations offering paychecks in return for the correct sacrifice of personal will. Also offering status. Governments offering a sense of belonging in return for the correct sacrifice of personal will. Additionally the promise of protection. agreeing to stand as the responsible party [removing the threat of shame from the individual] and providing someone to blame. generally in the form of political parties and their leaders. [Allowing us to blame the parties. but not the overall structure.] The general culture of a hierarchy. then. majors upon the control of individual will. The filtration of information in a hierarchy concentrates the control of individual will. In some cases this involves orders and punishments. In others. as in political campaigns. it focuses upon bending the will of the individual to the desires of the structure. That is. people are frightened or seduced rather than forced. The quality of information within the hierarchy is distorted and tends to become anti-individual. pro-collective. pro-indoctrination and pro-authority. In the end. hierarchy tends to be contemptuous of stand-alone life. smaller systems and non-centralized systems. Hierarchy recognizes other hierarchies and treats non-hierarchies as foreign. Large recognizes large and sees small as a nuisance. A Final Illustration I’ll leave you with one final illustration of this effect. It’s something Bill Bonner passed along in 2009. quoting a US Senate functionary with whom he had recently met: You don't understand. these people live in a Bubble World. They're protected from the real world by their staffs and by the system itself. You imagine that they would know what is going on. But they don't. They know less than we do. And they'll be the last to find out. They are so busy meeting constituents...dealing with donors...working out deals with their political parties and supporters... and feeling like big shots... they don't really have any time to study the issues. So they count on staff and party committees to tell them what to say. how to vote... and what to think. So. when you see people at the top of hierarchies disconnected from reality. remember that the structure itself is the problem.  .. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 88e6df864b6b237b66eb831f9c8e34d19fd5785c https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/61793/ Reminder: no Class until after Labor Day. Headlines blared that children growing up when the UK rationed sugar. a severe act resulting from one of their many wars. caused these… Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 78ffaa0fda5c8fc1070dab0edbb8066af660cfd5 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/british-democracy-locals-decided-the-color-of-their-buses/ 1.966 words The new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s main selling point to the British public so far is that. like the escaped inhabitant of Royston Vasey he so clearly is. he trusts local people to make the best decisions for other local people. But does he really. The evidence suggests otherwise. As I have (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:54:19 +0000 e476999dde4ce29c56c75e3f1b648ebed74b516f https://blackmon.substack.com/p/energyindepth-nas-takes-down-climate (Note: Excellent piece here by Kyle Kohli at EnergyInDepth/Climate.) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:35:19 +0000 60f085dcaf61ed8594705ade86fae73142ae1287 https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/when-gammas-do-theology Appealing to a Gammacentric God Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:27:33 +0000 c5558c2bb985b46f89c27357e9549566b49665f9 https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-to-deal-with-anti-label-people.html You've probably heard them: 'Ooh. I don't really go in for labels. I can't be pigeon-holed as conservative or liberal. left-wing or right-wing. traditionalist or progressive. nationalist or internationalist. or anything else. My thinking is far too subtle and profound to be contained in boxes. I fly. eagle-like. beyond the nets of convention and your limited human frameworks. I am large. I contain multitudes.'I suggest such people should be called anti-labellists. or an-labs for short. That will settle their hash. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:20:04 +0000 212847e179e4066fb44301ad32309bbaeeeb5f77 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/quotations_01063109846.html Nor can it touch but of arrogant ignorance. to hold this or that nation barbarous. these or those times gross. considering how this manifold creature man. wheresoever he stand in the world. hath always some disposition of worth. entertains and affects that order of society which is best for his use. and is eminent for some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times. Samuel DanielSamuel Daniel's Elizabethan poems about the rivers of England have always made me wonder if people whose forbears come from abroad have the same feeling for English rivers as the indigenous people. I then reflect that I have a lot of Irish blood and I feel the same intense love for English rivers and countryside as any other Englishman.“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous. but to criticize their religion. that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticise ideas. any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. It all points to the promotion of the idea that there should be a right not to be offended. But in my view the right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended. The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.”Rowan Atkinson 'We can starve the Arabs of Haifa and Jaffa' - First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. December 1947 'We'll deprive Gaza of water. and the Arabs will leave' - Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. 1967People nowadays seem to think the British colonies in Africa a Bad Thing. as Sellars and Yeatman would put it. but we did enormous good. Even South Africa. which was run by Dutch South Africans. who in 1948 invented the horrible apartheid system. was a lot more benign to her indigenous people than the Israelis [excepting the Arabs who had the good fortune or fortitude not to be expelled in 1948]. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:13:39 +0000 d13be082385f9cfd50e7308d1c6483aea98e4ace https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/james-rautio-to-keynote-the-heaviside Sonnet Software Founder Will Present 'The Long Road to Maxwell's Equations' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:12:56 +0000 2d0d1e6799cca39d0bb10a0e7dc3e67c578b83b9 https://korybko.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-reportedly-plotting-what Its spies are seeking evidence of Russian funding for the Ukrainian-critical opposition on the false and condescending pretext that no Pole could ever dislike Ukraine no matter what Ukraine might do. and given that Ukraine is naturally against them coming to power. it might even concoct such evidence. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:05:41 +0000 88a019e68fe0c56ff37e2b27eeeff642866e251f https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/is-morocco-being-taken-for-a-ride-by-israel/ The Ceuta border crisis wasn’t just Rabat’s doing. Israeli pressure on Spain over Gaza is the hidden hand. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:05 +0000 d03fec21cafa6e94b8b793634e23dde779f2e74e https://www.westernjournal.com/dinesh-dsouza-shows-truth-bible-biblical-archaeology/ Dinesh D’Souza’s “The Stones Cry Out” lands squarely in today’s cultural tension between doubt and discovery. At a time when skepticism toward Scripture feels almost routine. D’Souza turns to something (…) The post Dinesh D'Souza Shows the Truth of the Bible Through Biblical Archaeology appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000 e4c1b87540b0761b3996fbd82f3cac9373ef99d2 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/08/doofus-of-day-1129.html  An 'influencer' in Nebraska appears to have generated entirely the wrong kind of influence in the firearms community.A Lincoln. Nebraska. wannabe influencer had his girlfriend film him while instructing his followers on how to properly handle a newly purchased 9mm pistol.Then while racking the gun. and ignoring multiple rules of firearm safety [treat every gun like it's loaded. know where your gun is pointing. and keep your finger off the trigger]. his pew pew went pew right through his leg.There's more at the link.  Here's a brief video report about the incident. Apparently the victim shot himself through the femoral artery [one of the largest blood vessels in the body] and nearly bled to death before responding officers could apply a tourniquet [a very difficult part of the anatomy in which to do that] and get him to a hospital.  He's said to be in critical condition.Dare one say his prospective career as an influencer went with a bang.Peter Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:43:00 +0000 f97e60206f3829e2d4a85cf7123926e458193b93 https://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2026/08/respect-how-to-handle-difficult-wife.html   “13 Be watchful. stand firm in the faith. act like men. be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 [Read part one here]. You have all heard the song. “R-E-S-P-E-C-T. that’s what your love means to me.” This song. Respect. is well known around the world as Aretha Franklin’s greatest hit. But what a lot of people do not know is that before this song was taken and retooled as a feminist anthem. it was written by a man and sung by a man. the great Otis Redding. Redding is as famous as Franklin in his own right. and if you are not familiar with his music. but have seen Top Gun. you will probably remember his beautiful song Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. That song is pure goodness. Go listen to it now. you won’t regret it.   But before he wrote that hit. another one of songs was Respect. There is some debate over who originally wrote the song. but we know the lyrics were re-worked by Redding when he released the song. Before he sang about the beauty of sitting and watching the ships roll in. he sang about one of the inherent longings of the man for respect from his wife. “(Verse 1) What you want. honey. you got it And what you need. baby. you got it All I'm askin' is give me a little respect when I come home Ooh. yeah Hey. hey. hey Yeah. now Ooh. yeah…”(1) The song is about a man who wants to give his wife anything she wants. everything she needs. He even says. “And I wanna give you all of my money”. so he does mean everything. and all he wants in return is some “respect”. There is some debate online about whether or not Otis meant to use “respect” as a euphemism for sex. as apparently this was one way this word was used as slang in the street culture of his day. However. even those who make this point. highlight how the end of the song really drives home also just how important plain old respect was to the man. “(Outro) Respect when I want it Respect when I need it Respect when I want it Respect when I need it Got to. got to have it We got to have it Got to. got to have it…”(2) As one commentator has noted. “In the coda that follows the final verse. Otis goes to work. wresting the word free of this narrow meaning. asserting his prerogative with an insistent determination that turns the song in its final moments into a plea for simple human dignity – 'Respect is what I want. / Respect is what I need. / I got-ta got-ta have it. / Just give me some respect.' – that doesn't stop at mere discretion.”(3) Take just a moment to meditate on the irony of a song about a man wishing for respect from his wife being turned into a feminist anthem. which is how many people remember this song to this day. It is incredible what feminism can subvert. isn’t it. to the impure nothing is sacred. Maybe sit on the dock at the bay and ponder this for a bit. But then just sit back and consider how this song highlights two things very well: First. just how much a man wants his wife to respect him for who he is. what he does. and how he provides. But also. that simply expecting her to do so is often wishful thinking. and also counterproductive. The song encapsulates how many men think. “Well I provide. therefore my wife should respect me.” And she should. It is common decency. It is not something that should be taken for granted.  But how many people respect those who provide them with stuff without accountability. The government provides. doesn’t it. How many people respect their welfare providers. man or woman. In fact. the less the government demands of them to receive their welfare cheques. the more contemptible their opinion of their provider will be. You might think that my example paints many wives in a bad light. but that is not the case. How many men have started their complaint to a friend about an impending divorce. that they did not see coming. with this statement. “But I was a good provider.” I am sure you were. I am sure you can relate to Redding’s song. deeply. “All I'm askin' is give me a little respect when I come home.” But the truth is the man who puts himself in the position of begging for respect is only going to be increasingly viewed with contempt. You can’t demand respect. you have to command it by how you carry yourself. and what you expect from your loved ones. We all know the difference between “demand” and “command.” But perhaps I should illustrate it to make it clearer. There were those bosses. or teachers in school. we all had that tried to be our friends. and when that failed they over-corrected and demanded respect. But it did not work. The more they demanded it. the less we gave it. Then there were those bosses. or teachers in school. whose boundaries were knew from the start. Their boundaries were clear and reasonable. and we therefore had respect for from early on. And that respect grew over time. This contrast between the one who “demands” respect and who “commands” respect is such a common trope in our culture that it is all through the fiction we consume. You can hardly see a military movie without them presenting some young Lieutenant who keeps demanding respect and not getting it. while some Sargent. Warrant Officer. or higher ranked officer. is inherently given respect by his men. Countless movies use this stereotype. precisely because it is all too commonly experienced in life. We have all experienced people who fit into both these categories. The one who begs for respect. or seeks to demand it. will have contempt returned. in increasing measure. In the context of the military unit an officer can correct this by simply showing himself capable in his role. But part of how he does this is by proving himself competent AND having clear boundaries of what he expects and will not tolerate. Boundaries for how you will be treated AND how you will treat others consistently with that standard. really matter. A man who wants respect need to recognize this. You command respect not by shouting that you deserve it. but by showing you should be respected. If early in your marriage your wife starts speaking down to you. or contemptuously towards you. and you simply allow it. or worse. you just beg for her to stop it. you will likely develop into the man with the unruly wife over time. This is not good for you. her. your kids. or even society. Most women have within them the capacity to be a good wife. or a bad wife. Even a good woman has the sinful nature. as do you. and if this sinful nature is fed. your beautiful. loving. and submissive wife can become your tyrant. and then you can find yourself. like so many other men. wondering why you provide so well. but are treated poorly. So. ask yourself. if your wife talks down to you in front of her friends or your friends. will you just ignore it. or will you look her calmly in the eyes and say. “Don’t.”. Will she know that to speak of you in that way is not to be tolerated. Not. that she cannot share her mind. or her opinion. or anything like that. of course she can and will. But if she disagrees with you. she knows to bring it to you at the proper time. A good woman will want to speak her husband up in front of her friends and his friends. But what if she has friends who influence her to do otherwise. How will you address that. A woman’s friends can mean the difference between a good marriage and a terrible marriage. Some men do many of the right things. but because they take no care to their wife’s social activities. they get blindsided. Are you making sure that you both spend time with people who will model respect between husbands and wives. Remember Paul said this to Titus in the passage we looked at in our previous piece. “6 Likewise. exhort the young men to be sober-minded.…” [Titus 2:6]. Why do you think in the context of husbands and wives. that Paul tells young men to be “sober-minded”. It is because young men can be a bit silly. a bit daft. and a bit reckless. And if you approach what you tolerate in your marriage with a silly mindset. you could start patterns between you and your wife that may never be turned back away. Are you willing to walk out of room. or a social gathering. rather than be disrespected by your wife. Are you willing to live in such a way that you are easier to respect. Does your wife reciprocate the respect you make sure that she experiences. Yes. providing. giving money. being that kind of man in some ways should be enough to get respect from a thankful wife. But if your wife works. why would she need to respect your ability to provide. Also. there are plenty of men who can provide. and probably a lot more than you can. as a lot of man learn from painful experience. Why should you be respected for doing something that you would have to do if you were single anyway. Sure. over time many women will generally come to appreciate their man’s provision. But not always. and sometimes it is how he commands respect in other ways that actually builds that appreciation. Do you see the conundrum young men. There is often a disconnect between what you think should get you respect. and what actually will. There is a reason that the bad boy. who might not even hold a steady job. has plenty of interest from women. when the solid middle manager on a decent income might not have had a second date in several years. Do you have the temperament that commands respect. Does your wife look to you and feels secure in your arms. Do you have the ambition that will build a life where your wife is able to thrive and be freed from many of the burdens that modern women face. Does she see other men look at you with respect. This where I bring in church again. Many men get their professional respect at work. and maybe in some social environments with their friends. But Church. alongside of also giving you the chance to fellowship with believers and be challenged about how to be a better man of God. gives you the chance to have your wife see how other mean evaluate you in the context of a group dynamic. Especially if their husband does the right thing at home. and then leads in the context of the gathering in some way. If your wife is a true and genuine believer. this will make a difference to how she views you. Every woman. whether or not they believe in Jesus. wants to see her husband respected by other men. the difference is simply that Christian women. who take the Bible seriously. reframe that within a Christian framework and context. But the same principles apply across the board in other social contexts.  Note though men. that living in a way that commands respect needs to be consistent. If you are one thing in one environment. and another in the other environment. those closest to you will lose respect for you. That is one of the reasons we often see men who appeared to be notable guys in the church. lose their marriages. Along with what we spoke about in part one of this series. the disconnect in his behaviour bred contempt in the home. Now. someone at this point might want to exclaim. “Matt. that song was talking about sex. not respect. Men are sex obsessed. that is what he wanted.” But stop. pause and reflect on this: how much does a woman want to go to bed passionately with a man that she does not respect. It is a turn. off. isn’t it. We all know this. Whereas a man she respects. looks up to. and admires. is a man she is also more attracted to. There is a reason some women leave their husbands for their boss. or other men in authority over them. Because this dynamic of respect matters. It should not surprise us. then. that the street culture in Redding’s day brought “sex” and “respect” together. because they are very closely linked in a marriage relationship. Show me a marriage where. for whatever reason. a woman does not respect her husband. and I will show you either a sexless. or very low sex marriage. This is not rocket science. Men. you need to understand that if you present a compelling banner under which your wife can reframe her own life. your chances of ever having the difficult wife decrease massively. If you already have a difficult wife. this is going to be a lot harder for you to achieve. because she is holding probably a lifetime of your failures to lead. or inability to set adequate boundaries. against you. as these mistakes cause women to feel unsafe. But the sooner you start to be wise and seek to be a man of respect in the home. and outside. the more chance you have of turning things around. List of References (1) Respect Lyrics. https://genius.com/Otis-redding-respect-lyrics (2) Ibid. (3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_[song] Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:40:08 +0000 dc296ada1ce9dbf07744b557578fb8b48d5a1bb5 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/its-a-huge-rare-metal-discovery-for Nevada’s Railroad Valley is home to a tungsten deposit that could be the largest ever found in the United States. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:39:36 +0000 6335e1ee309fae8dbd007b570dba8e4ba72f11d5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMp6lYWs2lo Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:30:17 +0000 48f9e7ef70fdb3cf61089ad0b715f268a8d242fc https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/i-ricchi-e-i-poveri/ Mentre le scuole cadono a pezzi e la formazione professionale è a corto di risorse. la Germania destina fondi alla difesa. ma non dispone degli ingegneri necessari per costruire le proprie armi. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:30:17 +0000 3c51dc82d0be628aec16b9e762b629f1f75a0533 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/morning-greatness-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-to-step-down/ Good Thursday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT receives his (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:30:14 +0000 bc50227440d002f126d1aef3097f1ed9f5c9343e https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/good-thoughts-for-political-survival/ —– Writes Bill Madden: Andrew Wallace’s most recent article.  The Constitution restricts our super-rich rulers from abusing the masses via their control of our central government by chaining down the government to protect the people.  Unfortunately. there is far more profit for Corporate America. owned primarily by our rulers. in unconstitutional activity like undeclared wars. (…) The post Good Thoughts for Political Survival appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:21:18 +0000 508e3e40f8d98952be0f93dc530cf5279f2c0e08 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/former-splc-executive-arrested-in-federal-donor-fraud-case/ A former Southern Poverty Law Center executive has been arrested and charged in a widening federal investigation into allegations that the left-wing organization secretly used (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:09:47 +0000 7bdbbb69cc645949daa00ccf5f68f24ac7a5a454 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/nearly-half-of-young-americans-still-living-with-parents-as-affordability-squeeze-delays-adulthood/ Nearly half of young American adults are living with their parents. while a similar share rely on financial assistance from family or others to cover (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:09:01 +0000 74af7f3706ae96b3f23202f2557c4eac01873016 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/college-costs-jump-10-percent-families-question-value-of-higher-education/ The cost of sending a student to college surged during the latest academic year. adding to concerns about whether expensive degrees are delivering enough value (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:08:26 +0000 e4b335f513979ef9a76f3c4d1a4e3cd0337f158c https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/is-a-sunni-military-alliance-really-possible/ An anti-Iran triangulation project ignores the divisions within the Sunni world itself. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:01:02 +0000 0d0848a47db8f15646eed93d63ef1e76f54f6f4d https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/08/where-is-vatican-going-and-whats-at.html Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 0d49ea1efe03e9fa24a9ea4ccc548fda96aa8355 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKV9rFyEID8 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:55:37 +0000 606e80befa87a4e54294a2865fefe48a9f444dcd https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/anthony-fauci-and-the-collapse-of 'Fauci is not the entire problem. He is just its clearest illustration. He placed the biomedical establishment under a spotlight.' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:52:50 +0000 2058cea346e36193dc5477fd381626e1db1c53d5 https://www.maryharrington.co.uk/p/the-earth-is-flat Previewing The King and the Swarm. week 6 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:52:27 +0000 27191ec9f0746eae6eefe585d435f7eb6f444e9e https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/allowing-mad-people-to-adopt-or-keep-children-is-child-abuse/ A story is linked here that is mad even for these absolutely mad times. The madness here is multiple: a woman has a child with a man. who thinks he is a woman. The guy is estranged from the child. and the mother has. as co-parents. two other men who fancy themselves women. How is (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:49:53 +0000 ae7367cfcbee0055ac546088a521f0229a51a07d https://treesandtriads.substack.com/p/diminished-discords-xiv-db8 this week on Laeth's mind Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:42:58 +0000 b8513cb55741e2f58334cbdd9aadbe5e4207f1f1 https://www.noticer.news/pauline-hanson-old-photo-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pauline-hanson-old-photo-attack Media Shame File. The post News.com.au lies to readers about anti-Pauline Hanson protests first appeared on The Noticer. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:39:01 +0000 9033b59c5fdc1c6a217a57db36241c0284ad676a https://www.samizdata.net/2026/08/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-britain-is-where-it-is-because-of-the-tories/ But eventually one notices that the Tories cannot achieve the easy things either. They cannot stop the boats because the Blob is too powerful. They cannot build houses because the planning system is too powerful. They cannot cut spending because the Treasury is too powerful. They cannot reform the NHS because the NHS is too powerful. And now they cannot liberalise Soho because the Soho Society is too powerful. There is one common denominator here. folks: it is called the Conservative Party. – John Hardy [£] Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:29:53 +0000 0980387456ed84bf34b334b322fc95d207474ac5 https://onepeterfive.com/st-dionysius-the-areopagite-christian-plato/ 'Thou. O Christian Plato. didst enlarge the horizon of philosophy.' Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:24:00 +0000 0570cd21b39af131f0ef85105fe79300ec3457e3 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/08/13/freedom-of-speech-unsafe-under-labour/   There are a lot of things that are or become unsafe when there is a Labour administration. the security of the economy. the nation’s... Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:16:23 +0000 7b6b10c81b967f0f2ccad1f8be17f190ac7623a4 https://substack.aicentral.blog/p/passing-the-buck The hardest part of regulating AI in the West appears to be deciding who will take responsibility. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:02:19 +0000 d0556d3fe048b0580338635d033707cec413d7d3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsBlVVvoS8 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:00:29 +0000 52636ec211bc0083b3845a15d38ace9a801f424b https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/aufregung-um-das-russische-haus-in-berlin-werden-sich-die-deutschen-behorden-dazu-entschliesen-das-russische-kulturzentrum-zu-schliesen/ Das 1984 eröffnete «Haus der sowjetischen Wissenschaft und Kultur» in der Berliner Friedrichstraße – nur ein Katzensprung vom «Botschaftsviertel» und den wichtigsten Regierungsbehörden Deutschlands entfernt – bereitet deutschen Politikern schon seit langem Kopfzerbrechen. Ziel des «Russischen Hauses» ist es. «deutsche (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:57:59 +0000 2ef5d90d7a0b07ad8f4189175de4b831a255cc61 https://www.noticer.news/hamilton-new-zealand-woman-jailed-meat-cleaver-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hamilton-new-zealand-woman-jailed-meat-cleaver-attack She blamed the attack on stress caused by leaving India. The post Indian woman jailed for just five years for meat cleaver attack on toddler in New Zealand first appeared on The Noticer. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:50:09 +0000 d60533fa0cf960c96498b979a092d7475ce951c5 https://korybko.substack.com/p/putin-threatened-tit-for-tat-seizures This is the second time this summer that he’s “escalating to de-escalate” in a bid to restore deterrence. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:18:18 +0000 b4cfe0f42bdf04c71ffcc753d84d933774ebb037 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/former-cia-analyst-larry-johnson-thinks.html In this podcast. entitled 'This Doesn't Add Up About Ukraine War Casualties...'. using his skills acquired in the CIA for finding correct information [as opposed to inventing disinformation] Larry Johnson disputed Western media reports and estimated:Ukrainian Military Killed in Action [KIA]: Over 1.5 million deaths. Russian Military Killed in Action [KIA]: -227.000 deaths. He claims that the body repatriation data show that for every one dead Russian soldier returned 35 to 39 Ukrainian bodies were returned.He relies on the open-source data tracked by Mediazona [which searches public records and obituaries]. I don't know if he is right but respect him and think it very possible. I did not trust Douglas Macgregor's figures that in late 2023 that Ukraine had suffered 400.000 killed in battle and by late 2024 a million. for which he gave no sources except airily 'obituaries'. but if Larry Johnson was right so was Colonel Macgregor. No figures from any country are reliable. least of all the British Ministry of Defence.Last month British intelligence placed Russian deaths between 450.000 and 500.000 and the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe Christopher Cavoli estimated that 150.000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded in 2022. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:11:46 +0000 f8f25be3e1592935e52dba690067f62154913b22 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/thune-vs-cornyn-a-retrospective-on-the-2024-senate-majority-leader-race/ John Thune’s ascension to Senate Majority Leader over John Cornyn in November 2024 is often explained in the legacy media as a matter of temperament (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:00:48 +0000 24e17e6387e27781b2ff8dd36cb7d2a0ed718588 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/whos-been-destroying-norms/ One of the more surreal things about the new Democratic Party is its habit of charging Trump with legal and ethical transgressions that Democrats themselves (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:00:41 +0000 a71d54a7f53f301663deb8f241a3359b288ba21d https://theothermccain.com/2026/08/13/in-the-mailbox-08-12-26-evening-edition/ — compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER The Hardacres. NYPD tells Mamdani NO on security detail to Syria and Lebanon. Southern Poverty Law Center CFO Heidi Beirich Arrested For Fraud. Mahi Mahi. and Singer Sewing Machine Twitchy: Here’s a Call From The London Police About “Malicious Communication” Animated (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:00:31 +0000 2614e0cbae5111720d6f999942b5cd407ba3992a https://restoremag.com/britain-has-the-prison-cells-whitehall-let-them-rot/ Ministers insist there is no room. There was room. It was allowed to rot wing by wing. by a department which had never once worked out whether repairing a cell was cheaper than building one. It found out in 2024. By then it was renting police cells at £688 a night to hold men it could not house. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:00:30 +0000 05aee44aa9a4382c78e38a005c47743c2665ebe3 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/13/the-tribal-mind-understanding-south-africas-xenophobic-violence-through-developmental-psychology/ The images are harrowing. South African mobs wielding machetes and clubs. forcing foreign nationals from their homes. looting their shops. and. in some cases. ending (…) Source Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:00:20 +0000 e5bc9cccd062627443490815456f998d1ff8a4d0 https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/the-direction-is-more-important-than We need to choose something different - to go another way. The speed is not essential. The direction is. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:53:15 +0000 0109602404728c31cd6cf5a7dc5aac53d47034c8 https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/08/not-yet-frodo-was-planning-to-claim.html Over at The Notion Club Papers blog. I provide textual evidence that Frodo - with part of his mind. at least - was actually planning to claim the power of The One Ring for himself. even before entering Mordor. I describe some of the incremental steps that culminate with the scene on the slopes of Mount Doom when Frodo first explicitly makes this claim.    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:33:51 +0000 d9546266aeb16ddcf286bbc8c05e5c4b2ef1d018 https://www.unz.com/jfreud/world-war-iii-is-most-necessary-to-rebalance-the-world-and-to-restore-sanity-stability-but-we-have-dwarfs-not-giants-in-the-anti-empire-camp/ The idea of World War III is understandably frightening to most people. They fear the use of nuclear weapons[a reality made available only at the far end of World War II]. especially given that all the major powers have them. If World War I and World War II ended up with body counts in the... Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:15:10 +0000 91d7f1a80e2b320bceb3e93c82944b0f093008a1 https://korybko.substack.com/p/korybko-to-nawrocki-a-forever-war The same goes for tacitly accepting Ukraine’s status as an anti-Polish state after all the fuss that he made about this earlier in the summer. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:12:02 +0000 84c3e925f2d6ecb134a7595c68eabda3c746709d https://www.amerika.org/politics/art-is-beauty/ by Eric Castles Welcome to the crepitant groans of the collapse. You think some people suffer during this time and most would agree they do. However. imagine this situation: you are one of the most gifted composers in history but God or nature has allowed you to become stone deaf. What a tragedy. Maybe a (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:32:38 +0000 10678c8544404cc3f9949bd060053c2171dc6243 https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/08/of-fauci-and-other-alleged-crims.html Having looked at fakery. inversion and ignoring reality. plus on Saturday coming … the danger of AI … this today is a summary of the Fauci business … implications being many. including this … he was not alone. was he. From Big Pharma itself to admins. doctors and nurses who knowingly took part in the scam. to Whitty. Ferguson and Hancock over here. Johnson as well … there’s much litigation to come.Or is there. Will they all close ranks. In other words … continue to push. hell for leather. procedures already at a minimum iffy and at worst attempted genocide. All of them were in on it. apart from the choreographed dancing. let alone Johnson’s clapping seals. Punishment.Lastly … to the horrible. normie karens and how they treated the non-vaxxers. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:26:27 +0000 447d7cb2dbdea09fb067f0941bc3c5b9490a8bbb https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/08/blog-post.html   Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:23:17 +0000 2c8b4c19119ef34d8baa27dfc1177b2bacf67c76 https://www.noticer.news/queensland-afl-transgender-male-womens-league/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=queensland-afl-transgender-male-womens-league Hayley Finning used to play men's ice hockey. The post ‘Transgender’ male player tops leaderboard in Queensland AFL Women’s competition first appeared on The Noticer. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:09:18 +0000 1d7d8f7abb328d64e32dc051b9bed877724c08d8 https://sonar21.com/the-us-navy-is-in-crisis-and-pete-hegseth-does-not-give-damn/ The Guardian published an article on Wednesday reporting that multiple sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as the ship’s deployment stretches into its... Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:48:31 +0000 532ca997c88f552f3528b67bbce956c5340087f9 https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/more-on-general-derek-omalley Another C1A criminal.... Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:35:05 +0000 c5634f8688a8fb5ea68ba2e04c0f5fe913dc3d78 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/some-good-news.html UAE government jets have been coming and going to Tehran for the past 2 days. staying less than an hour each time. They are likely to be carrying banknotes and gold.  Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:31:22 +0000 997a4929e289d1d87e72f5be46201e4c41778438 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/13/august-13th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-571/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=august-13th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-571 In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread. Posted in (…) The post August 13th – 2026 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day 571 appeared first on The Last Refuge. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:20:25 +0000 bc414b22959d8c00a5a3a807feff78ae96ea9a91 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/13/thursday-august-13th-open-thread-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thursday-august-13th-open-thread-2 Our Father. who art in heaven. hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses. as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. but DELIVER (…) The post Thursday August 13th – Open Thread appeared first on The Last Refuge. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:15:40 +0000 e80bc6a91723674860ed525d810150dd5fd60b2b https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-quest-for-caffeine-you-can-have ... Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:09:15 +0000 3e42dfccf047e45aeeeea32674536019af0081ac https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/13/readers-links-for-august-13-2026/ Each day at just after midnight Eastern. a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the Continue Reading → Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:58 +0000 304ce92b23e2903e6044cecd75497752e1a8e7f7 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/jayant-bhandari/why-china-works-and-india-does-not/ Suppose a piece of equipment malfunctions and you take it to a technician in India. He will probably tell you to return a few days later. When you do. you can be reasonably certain that it will not have been repaired. You return a few days later. and then perhaps again and again. On your (…) The post Why China Works and India Does Not appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 9b9c01a4364d4956af6d358b22b62f3d19c980d4 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/fauci-cdc-and-surgeon-general-knew-the-covid-jab-caused-miscarriages-they-pushed-it-anyway/ On February 1. 2021. USA Today published an article titled. “Should pregnant women get the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci sees ‘no red flags’ in safety data.” Three days later. Fox News ran something similar: “Fauci: ‘No red flags’ for pregnant women taking COVID-19 vaccine in trials ‘thus far’: Fauci says more than 10.000 pregnant women have been in trials.” (…) The post Fauci. CDC. and Surgeon General Knew the Covid Jab Caused Miscarriages. They Pushed It Anyway appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 a46013f6bf8a2fe846ed1494baf07efc5d5a3e55 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/the-subsidiary-superpower-how-britain-lost-its-crown-to-america/ “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation. and I care not who makes its laws.” — attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild There is a narrative circulating today—let us call it the Promethean narrative—that offers a seductive explanation for global chaos. It tells its followers that the world is run by a shadowy (…) The post The Subsidiary Superpower—How Britain Lost Its Crown to America appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 883bfcdc641031b4f78911387096632286521f16 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/andrew-p-napolitano/the-right-to-be-left-alone-2/ “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Justice Louis D. Brandeis [1856-1941] The rapid spread of public surveillance cameras represents something far (…) The post The Right To Be Left Alone appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 59bd2428a02af012e34244e47e9b44c5333c1556 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/paul-craig-roberts/how-sound-is-the-american-economy/ I am as tired as readers might be of reporting on Washington’s subservience to Israel. the declining rights and prospects for white ethnicities. and the generalized collapse of Western civilization.   I looked for good news and found none. So I returned to the latest jobs report knowing that it would be more bad news. but (…) The post How Sound Is the American Economy. appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 bff95ce08d804c7b7e6e1131e51ca86dda303103 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/the-burrito-debate/ Two years ago. “conservative” pundits rightly ridiculed the Biden Administration for suggesting inflation was fine while blaming its poor approval ratings on Americans’ ignorance of how little they were spending. Now. under the Trump Administration. the same “influencers” mock young people for noticing how much things cost. Last week a “burrito debate” erupted when a college (…) The post The Burrito Debate appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 e60bf87875d0bacc22f845ba8073429f62493c46 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/u-s-now-claims-both-tibet-and-taiwan-from-china/ Formally. the U.S. Government committed itself. in the 28 February 1972 Shanghai Communiqué. to the statement that “Taiwan is a part of China”. but the U.S. Government continued arming Taiwan and propagandizing for Taiwan to break away from China. so. the U.S. Government has remained hostile to China despite its signed 1972 Agreement. which agreement had been (…) The post U.S. Now Claims Both Tibet and Taiwan from China. appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 6aa77e47f357d612e334872bab3788b9de7ab21d https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/the-tax-collector-now-gets-a-cut-of-what-he-finds/ Arguably the most famous man on the planet throughout the 1700s was the famed writer François-Marie Arouet. known to history as Voltaire. He wasn’t just a celebrity writer and philosopher. however. Voltaire was also a wealthy capitalist and nobleman who almost single-handedly turned the impoverished region of Ferney into a highly productive watchmaking hub. Through (…) The post The Tax Collector Now Gets a Cut of What He Finds appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 59fda09dce5fcb1eb65ebd2792207c87779ba5b3 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/gazas-board-of-pieces/ There is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is no roadmap to ending the genocide or mechanism to creation of a Palestinian state. Israel has refused to implement or abide by any of the conditions of Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” since its inception. It won’t (…) The post Gaza’s Board of Pieces appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 43790a4d99e37e035c0831d49337d29147da5549 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/gary-d-barnett/there-are-no-such-things-as-constitutional-rights-2/ Note: This is an article that I published on April 19th. 2020. over 6 years ago. at the onset of the criminal and fake ‘covid’ scam. I constantly here the phrase “Constitutional Rights.“ and heard this uttered once again this morning by a supposed man of freedom. This term always is upsetting to hear. but (…) The post There Are no Such Things as Constitutional Rights appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 6d2094ff36f2e9b6ab37f889fa496b58f6d0a637 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/eric-peters/orange-glow/ Well. what’s next. Trump has lost his stupid. evil war against Iran – which he launched on behalf of the state of Israel. whose indicted war-criminal leader egged him on to start it. Iran says it will not open the Strait until the U.S. “corrects” its behavior. by which is meant it reimburses Iran for the damage (…) The post Orange Glow. appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 9f59dff99c73edb77f238a3b7dd007a51b2bab70 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/vaccine-cartel-desperately-clings-to-new-mmr-vaccine/ No truly unvaccinated control group. no clinical autism adjudication. no parent interviews. no independent vaccine-record verification. and a narrow ICD-coded autism definition. A new Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal study is being promoted by the pharma-captured mass media apparatus as a massive 2.56-million-child analysis disproving an MMR–autism association. but major methodological problems undermine the entire paper. They did not use a (…) The post Vaccine Cartel Desperately Clings to New MMR Vaccine appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 a655e499902adb72cb62b7898905401e83764a88 https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/switching-presidential-planes-in-ankara/ Hardly a week goes by when Donald Trump is not the centerpiece and source of a lie so outrageous or an accusation so heinous that one has to sit back gazing at one’s computer screen. stunned by the audacity and shaking one’s head in disbelief. But even after what is now more than a year... Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00:50 +0000 f1e626d1cffa4e83dfa9cbf2c214a1443955aafb https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/encore-at-the-cirque-du-hormuz-the The unhinged nature of Trump’s Iranian debacle continues to degrade into something truly bathetic. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00:34 +0000 ee10e612e4d289d518e091c2604f74bbe6dc89e9 https://creativeminorityreport.com/blog/2026/08/12/what-exactly-is-a-christo-fascist/ Texas Senate candidate James Talarico informed us in 2023 that when conservatives try to put the Ten Commandments in schools. ban abortion. or stop underage kids from getting their junk rearranged. it “stem(s) from this Christofascism movement. which essentially… is... Continue Reading → Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:58:37 +0000 dbd37f3dc9256cc1301c86e1484b6c016a9e15eb https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8-12-2026/ A former top Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] official was arrested on federal charges today. Heidi Beirich. 59. of Palm Springs. California. was charged alongside the SPLC with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements to … Continue reading → Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:46:22 +0000 5cd3689ec64719d26a4d92c9df2f2eaa0b7bcaeb https://warroom.org/warroom-battleground-ep-1066-us-catholics-in-shock-as-its-revealed-82-of-catholic-bishops-revenue-is-invasion-related-grants/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/12/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post WarRoom Battleground EP 1066: US Catholics in shock as it’s revealed 82% of Catholic Bishops’ revenue is INVASION-related grants appeared first on War Room. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:41:05 +0000 27d7c668479c882b16deea104fc6543ceb02b393 https://warroom.org/episode-5585-standing-up-for-childrens-rights-in-colorado-unemployment-at-record-low-yet-we-are-still-borrowing/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/12/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post Episode 5585: Standing Up For Children’s Rights In Colorado. Unemployment At Record Low Yet We Are Still Borrowing appeared first on War Room. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:40:08 +0000 3d75f05e3040d5d976250e991b7b2bde0d222bb8 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/12/ecumenism-is-a-lie-there-can-be-no-unity-without-union-on-doctrine/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:58:01 +0000 50ea97758673aa7854a1407781071d97925cfe44 https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/ep32-which-way-western-man-part-5 Chapter 3b. Jesus in Retrospect Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:03:46 +0000 c2670cc4fff85d612f60895ce2654c30101a119d https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/culture-enriching-axe-battle-in-duren/ Yesterday evening two groups of rambunctious culture-enrichers got a little rowdy in the German town of Düren. in North Rhine-Westphalia. In their collective enthusiasm. they went at each other with baseball bats and axes [in the video below. the weapons … Continue reading → Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:35:13 +0000 998c546bd6d6066b06a2fa44f2a05b0d7a6161bc https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/america-rich-and-short-lived If America is so rich. why do Americans live shorter lives. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:28:41 +0000 4eed3b4bb42038086822c8646b52a4769db0718b https://theothermccain.com/2026/08/12/in-the-mailbox-08-12-26-afternoon-edition/ — compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: A Terror Attack in France. and He Returned With a Shotgun Doug Ross: The Red-Green Alliance – The Graphic Novel EBL: The Wild Haggis of Scotland. The Nicholas Brothers. Fish Wing Myths. Hasan Piker: Little Lord Fatfuck. and Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:26:20 +0000 ec0daf7b21030ecd9e221e2b4ecf9dffc53b3011 https://www.arthursido.com/2026/08/jason-arday-and-seven-years-of-madness.html The whole Jason Arday thing is so preposterous that it boggles the mind. even for someone as jaded and black/red pilled as me. I won’t… Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:11:08 +0000 8feb9a0b16e9261db34496d70446509b39562906 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/life-support/ The fellas like video games. Many of them like them a rather large amount. There was once a huge market. but now the industry is on life support [at least the big players. the ones that make AAA games]. What…Read more › Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:10:43 +0000 ad176ca6578083ecce95f19c19e592f267cca686 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/total-eclipse.html  ... of the sun today was seen not only in Europe and Asia. That's not true. Americans have been able to observe it also. Very impressive]  Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:08:41 +0000 be12ecf3a95a80f183e9f898186becaab070d745 https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/targeted-action-2026-c3c Join us. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:53:01 +0000 43df8da3f2bf0dbd1f6da42e644851195a36389e https://www.westernjournal.com/lifelong-lib-chris-matthews-goes-scorched-earth-far-left-dems-dsa-members-not-crowd/ Speak to any nuanced conservative over the last decade. and you’d sometimes hear an interesting point of clarification that there’s a big. distinctive difference between a “leftist” and a “liberal.” (…) The post Lifelong Lib Chris Matthews Goes Scorched Earth on Far-Left Dems. DSA Members: 'I'm Not with This Crowd' appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:37:00 +0000 1d72b4ad21a6f29ab878f0a76f4894c20675b999 https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/08/12/mark-wauck-the-israel-lobby-compromises-american-freedom/ Terrific. especially the material on the power of the Israel Lobby. Puntland To Polling Mark Wauck Aug 12. 2026 To tie our topics together. we turn first to a brief video by Ian Lustick. co-author with Eli Clifton of the new book. Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power. In the video Lustick (…) Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:31:00 +0000 97df8e957120c5bf02fdecd835027150ad0e91b6 https://www.westernjournal.com/la-lakers-sold-ex-disney-ceo-jared-kushners-brother-record-breaking-price/ One of the NBA’s premiere franchises was sold — again — in a surprising move that has the basketball world buzzing. According to multiple reports. the Los Angeles Lakers have (…) The post LA Lakers Sold to Ex-Disney CEO and Jared Kushner's Brother for Record-Breaking Price appeared first on The Western Journal. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:11:00 +0000 d590f8e0c487bee186a036995075ba0d2c6899be https://rairfoundation.com/wa-schools-chief-chris-reykdal-goes-unhinged-fb/ Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal went on a tear on Facebook. ripping into MAGA as 'fascist' and wildly defending Democratic Socialists of America. This is an elected official in charge of over 1 million students. Parents wanted a superintendent. but got a communist political activist instead. The post WA Schools Chief Chris Reykdal Goes on Unhinged FB Rant Against ‘Fascist’ MAGA While Defending DSA appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:31:49 +0000 0dd96e0dee8316a6cad0e6c61631483548ac77d7 https://warroom.org/sharia-financing-government-policy-america/ READ THE FULL REPORT X The post Natalie Winters: Sharia Financing Is Becoming Government Policy Across America. Here’s Where It’s Happening. appeared first on War Room. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:28:52 +0000 5ad68466fd177a35ae809672b5ee85ecc11d4a04 https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2026/08/lawyer-of-miracles-falls-to-earth/ Along with her pink private plane. The post Lawyer of Miracles Falls to Earth appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:24:09 +0000 7377fbc70f358836032bcafce2066ba58b250384 https://www.rintrah.nl/therapy-doesnt-work/ So. I have been wondering: If therapy genuinely works. shouldn’t that be visible. in the form of a decline of depression and anxiety in the (...) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:23:34 +0000 be5525ee903236701869b882eac3d1047a12d19a https://www.amren.com/videos/2026/08/what-shall-we-do-with-350000-haitians/ Now that they are deportable. The post What Shall We Do With 350.000 Haitians. appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:23:24 +0000 4947f5133e7381eb52f1c39833250dad03456006 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/usda-snap-enrollment-drops-by-5-3-million-following-new-work-rules-state-by-state-breakdown/ Alaska was the only state to not have a decline in SNAP enrollments. The post USDA: SNAP Enrollment Drops by 5.3 Million Following New Work Rules – State-By-State Breakdown appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:22:38 +0000 c3c9802b16a19d6927669ea945cb047d5f08eed4 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/us-airlines-talking-with-ice-and-tsa-amid-uptick-in-illegal-immigrant-arrests-at-airports/ No flying while illegal. The post US Airlines Talking With ICE and TSA Amid Uptick in Illegal Immigrant Arrests at Airports appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:22:37 +0000 6646cd3b6759a7c6ac2eb5b8aa21c7ac7bf37fbd https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/immigration-laws-deterred-a-fourth-of-international-clients-from-buying-a-texas-home-last-year/ 'Mexico. India. and China account for the greatest shares of foreign buyers . . . .' The post ‘Immigration Laws’ Deterred a Fourth of International Clients From Buying a Texas Home Last Year appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:22:36 +0000 b77542ff5a8f1c55e5368436323b816ac43d52cd https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/new-evidence-shows-agents-using-slurs-bolstering-profiling-claims/ Officers said they were looking for 'day laborers' but kept describing Hispanics. The post New Evidence Shows Agents Using Slurs. Bolstering Profiling Claims appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:22:34 +0000 1c7ee6d5073ab41155dd5b8012fa727eda72f4a6 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/college-graduate-26-shot-dead-at-fresno-house-party-after-blazing-fight-with-woman/ Shot to death by a black woman named Knuckles. The post College Graduate. 26. Shot Dead at Fresno House Party After Blazing Fight With Woman appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:22:32 +0000 e33ff1ed0ff8595132a7e928f7625d004078d878 https://sonar21.com/new-satirical-film-attack-of-the-killer-bunnies-uncle-sam-is-on-the-run/ In this Monty-Python style animation. Uncle Sam tries to use forever wars. global piracy and corporate greed to Make America Great Again. But surreal. pudgy-footed. medieval rabbit cartoons have armed... Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:09:46 +0000 60aff88214e2bec17256acda31b45fedbb7a8ee3 https://modernity.news/2026/08/12/what-they-did-to-this-tiny-welsh-village-is-pure-betrayal/ Blacked-out vehicles drop scores of migrants into old village hall The post What They Did To This Tiny Welsh Village Is Pure BETRAYAL… first appeared on modernity. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:46:46 +0000 cbd3646994e734d6c1f41611228c640c845ca4c3 https://www.raweggstack.com/p/the-androgenic-admin Why the Trump admin cares about testosterone Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:41:37 +0000 66f302257b2e13d828351f5c933b12af3f3f6c1e https://www.westernjournal.com/doj-busts-massive-international-sham-marriage-scheme-1000-weddings-fraudulently-obtain-immigration-status/ What appeared to be a trip to the altar was in fact a trip to the immigration office to snag a green card. the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The (…) The post DOJ Busts Massive International Sham Marriage Scheme. 1.000 Weddings to 'Fraudulently Obtain Immigration Status' appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:26:00 +0000 690c2e90293d93e0e43e63f8bdd7895ad4b49b35 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/ice-plans-to-give-officers-gloves-that-can-deliver-painful-electric-shocks/ They're 'conductive distraction and de-escalation devices.' The post ICE Plans to Give Officers Gloves That Can Deliver Painful Electric Shocks appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:23:26 +0000 161a3b3193683e9716cecaaa55880f94d4617c68 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/canadian-who-slapped-teens-wearing-maga-clothing-to-be-deported-from-us/ She happened to be in the country unlawfully. The post Canadian Who Slapped Teens Wearing MAGA Clothing to Be Deported From US appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:23:25 +0000 ff46341ad2e4c0729d34c80f73eadc999d66c9f1 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/indian-national-accused-of-arizona-girlfriends-murder-entered-us-on-student-visa-federal-sources/ He tried to flee back to India but was caught in Germany. The post Indian National Accused of Arizona Girlfriend’s Murder Entered US on Student Visa: Federal Sources appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:23:23 +0000 c06d198af72b5ba3a072070d01626ce4b5950e3d https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/at-least-five-girls-went-to-the-huce-for-cases-of-rape-but-there-are-still-no-arrests/ The victims 'do not exceed 14 years of age.' The post At Least Five Girls Went to the HUCE for Cases of Rape. but There Are Still No Arrests appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:23:22 +0000 950e27b43ee0b057afa3a1d00d00cc25e8aeacfb https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/total-whiplash-foreign-residents-react-to-japans-changing-permanent-residency-rules/ Japan adding income and pension requirements to permanent residency applications. The post ‘Total Whiplash’: Foreign Residents React to Japan’s Changing Permanent Residency Rules appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:23:20 +0000 0bd894b1370191dce48968114577d04644564e66 https://voxday.net/2026/08/12/the-civilizational-metric/ Civilization literally lives when you give men more money and dies when you give women more money. Literally. That’s the Natural Law. And it is screaming at us. A recent study found that giving men a pay raise led them to have more children. while giving women a pay raise led them to have fewer (…) The post The Civilizational Metric appeared first on Vox Popoli. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:09:47 +0000 50fa8db4a7990772bca84bd5c9d66758eaab5fc6 https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/08/trucking-horror-stories.html Are you familiar with the YouTube channel Mr. Nightmare. It's a brilliantly simple concept. People send in their 'true' horror stories and Mr. Nightmare reads them out. It's on the internet. but it could have been done eighty years ago on the wireless. The videos get millions of views.Many of the videos are themed. which I like. Today I was listening to these three trucking stories. They were pretty good.I can't even drive. but I'm quite fascinated by truckers. Now that's a manly job. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:01:19 +0000 a3335ab72429c7477625fe83b293ec3fd32def06 https://www.westernjournal.com/new-york-social-services-worker-charged-issuing-multiple-benefit-cards/ A county government Social Services worker wanted to get in on the benefits government doles out in New York state. Instead. she got indicted. Amber Tibbetts. 37. of Jamestown. has (…) The post New York Social Services Worker Charged With Issuing Multiple Benefit Cards to Herself appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:56:00 +0000 e1a90678a848167650240e252b3b219866fbc27d https://www.westernjournal.com/enough-feting-fetterman/ Imagine a purely theoretical U.S. senator who just voted against a limited voter ID bill. even with the proof of citizenship provisions of the SAVE Act stripped out. Without any (…) The post Enough Feting of Fetterman appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:27:00 +0000 6951278979f492d6b724e3ac59bd5aa36bba9a30 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/horrifically-bad-newly-released-docs-reveal-secret-fbi-operation-to-discredit-evidence-of-biden-family-corruption/ Newly declassified documents reveal a secret operation by the Intelligence Community to neutralize the politically devastating Biden family corruption scandal during the 2020 election. The (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:08:51 +0000 a199ae5ed986699aa08a53393c89b214779baeb1 https://rairfoundation.com/abdul-el-sayed-bragged-about-endorsement-jew-hating/ Muslim Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is cozying up to the Nation of Islam. He's been extensively working with a number of ministers from Louis Farrakhan's Jew-hating gang. If you are known by those you hang with. then this is pretty damning. The post Abdul El-Sayed Bragged About Endorsement of Jew-Hating Nation of Islam Ministers appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:06:05 +0000 b167065e1c588c82d57f451db2f5f089b461b601 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/08/13/altre-possibili-cause-della-crisi-a-ceuta/ La crisi migratoria di Ceuta nasconde la rivalità tra Algeria e Marocco per il trasporto del gas verso l’Europa. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:05:46 +0000 a9416d5a7a67bdc755b088d4bc1fa85bf175f0ec https://www.westernjournal.com/pollster-frank-luntz-calls-total-complete-shutdown-primary-polling-another-shocker/ Like many other American institutions. the polling industry in recent years has suffered serious blows to its credibility. Now. in the wake of unexpected Democratic primary results. veteran pollster Frank (…) The post Pollster Frank Luntz Calls for 'Total and Complete Shutdown of Primary Polling' After Another Shocker appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000 502b0f388119d82ff52fd273943d76266921d8fd https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/12/slop/ Have you noticed that everyone seems to be talking about slop these days. There are fashions in words. and this one has become very fashionable indeed. My impression is that it started with descriptions of many of the products of … Continue reading → The post Slop appeared first on The New Neo. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:55:28 +0000 e65ffa42db68ee7dc4fb48e7a9ae475bc6a3feee https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/12/news-roundup-12/ [1] The former chief financial head of the SPLC has been arrested as part of the fraud case against the organization. I doubt this will ultimately go anywhere. but you never know. [2] No third term for Trump. says Trump. … Continue reading → The post News roundup appeared first on The New Neo. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:47:15 +0000 8e6eab017d86b64a344e2f8004a4e8269407427f https://modernity.news/2026/08/12/everyone-is-sick-of-it-2/ The competency crisis. The post Everyone Is Sick Of It first appeared on modernity. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:42:06 +0000 33d0e3e07dde30ecb2e702eab0885ba12c378174 https://rairfoundation.com/pakistanification-texas-law-enforcement-how-wealthy-pakistani-immigrant/ Fort Bend County Precinct 3 Constable Ali Sheikhani – born in Pakistan. arrived on a student visa. now worth hundreds of millions – rolls to work in a Rolls-Royce. Academy graduate in 2019. brief part-time policing. then elected Republican official. He welcomes Pakistani officials into a Fort Bend police station and gets royal treatment [motorcades. (…) The post Pakistanification of Texas Law Enforcement: How a Wealthy Pakistani Immigrant Became Constable — Then Opened the Station to Foreign Dignitaries [RAIR TV] appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:22:37 +0000 ee0498d3ab362c95ed83bc592782f88f3e0d0cf9 https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-karoline-leavitt-wh-press-secretary/ Karoline Leavitt announced Wednesday that she will be leaving her position as White House press secretary at the end of the month to spend time with her two young children. (…) The post Breaking: Karoline Leavitt Out as WH Press Secretary appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:21:00 +0000 5303d10a094db8a8f54edfb0774371c7f94a9b70 https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/ceuta-and-church.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:18:08 +0000 6fc5606ab6bac2cf901e12f204b9c788804767fc https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/12/hongs-loss-is-crowleys-gain/ The polling indicated Hong’s win was a foregone conclusion. and it would be by double digits. Large double digits. And yet she lost – by a small margin. but a loss. The Democrat establishment breathes a sigh of relief. and … Continue reading → The post Hong’s loss is Crowley’s gain appeared first on The New Neo. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:17:48 +0000 2013c759dd4551cc30b2d34df9a08b23f6876519 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evn1988aYKU Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:17:44 +0000 68dd167a074d5c48a7467019760f7139fe4d923c https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/08/12/heidi-beirich-arrested/ Heidi Beirich made my last 8 years at CSULB miserable by coming on campus and riling up the faculty by making them aware there was a “racist” and “anti-Semite” in their midst. This  resulted in numerous battles on the faculty email list. [Over the years TOO has had several articles on her.] So I can’t say (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:16:30 +0000 dfbf517363aa4f6f1d72d89822027c838e616ce6 https://www.westernjournal.com/chuck-schumers-grip-power-weakens-suffers-another-dem-primary-crusher/ Establishment Democrats such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have endured a rough 2026 election cycle. Notwithstanding Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong’s stunning loss in Tuesday’s Wisconsin gubernatorial primary. a socialist (…) The post Chuck Schumer's Grip on Power Weakens as He Suffers Another Dem Primary Crusher appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:11:00 +0000 97062731daa6fbe6d6653eae667a258b565e4069 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/12/press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-departs-her-position/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-departs-her-position President Trump announces via Truth Social: “Our wonderful White House Press Secretary. and one of my most trusted aides. Karoline Leavitt. will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family. a decision I totally understand and respect. Karoline will now (…) The post Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Departs Her Position appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:10:13 +0000 90c846a314647377a81287e5b9942a278477a2f4 https://delarroz.com/2026/08/12/science-fictions-first-cancel-culture-victim-was-a-military-sf-author-and-i-know-how-she-felt/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:02 +0000 387cd658d36295ac2a9fb9fb3747734782912c1c https://www.westernjournal.com/false-moderates-part-two-james-talarico-tried-fooling-texas-voters-blowing-face/ Democrat James Talarico has become a household name while attempting to flip a U.S. Senate seat in Texas. but his past statements and bizarre behavior have revealed a radical agenda (…) The post The False Moderates. Part Two: James Talarico Tried Fooling Texas Voters. And It's Blowing Up in His Face appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0000 07e7bf1c88377c9d6574186d652ef72b478f92f7 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/not-again.html Please. This constant reference to the Gulf War 1.0 is nauseating. It is Al Bandy's four touchdowns in the game for his Polk High school. It is not just strategy. however important it is. it is a combination of many factors. including foundational ones. the cultural DNA of the US confabulated military history turned into mythology based primarily on a very cautious choice of weak enemies. Here is a reminder from Atkinson about US major hero. who was nothing more than an average army commander. The creeping arrogance. the hubris. which would cost the American Army so dearly in Vietnam. Summing up the achievements of his troops in crushing the German counterattack of December 1944. Patton with pardonable pride claims to have “moved farther and faster and engaged more divisions in less time than any other army in the history of the United States—possibly in the history of the world... No country can stand against such an Army.” These memoirs are valuable not least in showing. however unwittingly. that a disastrous presumption of invincibility took root in the ranks of officers who led the American military after World War II. Nothing changed since then. period. In fact. things got worse. much worse. Especially in educational level of the US officer corps and very low level of operational planning and execution. The problem is manifold and it is vertical in nature--from lowest tactical level way up to the political top and. in the end. technological obsolescence of the US military. especially when compared to Russia. But Mearsheimer knows very little about it.  Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:58:44 +0000 d2330a1274c74e6e5659aa0589efac63b605d60d https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/questions-about-gammas Vox published a set of questions for Gammas Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:53:11 +0000 b5529978f28e2aedd495e2f685730cd281bd78c1 https://www.thekurganblog.com/questions-about-gammas/ I found his questions interesting and this is my attempt at answering them after years of observing [and rejecting] their generic existence: I believe it’s the classic “by tearing them down I prove I am better than them”. Fully nased in trying to fill the black hole of ego deapair they have in their soul. (…) No related posts. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:53:11 +0000 f106b204f8c0853da2fecc226f97302cef4633ed https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/12/splc-chief-financial-officer-arrested-for-paying-hate-groups-and-nazis-wire-fraud-conspiracy-false-statements/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=splc-chief-financial-officer-arrested-for-paying-hate-groups-and-nazis-wire-fraud-conspiracy-false-statements SPLC Chief Financial Officer Heidi Beirich was previously identified as one of the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] leaders who assisted in “opening bank accounts” with “fictitious companies’ names” to make payments to hate group leaders.  Apparently. she was in a romantic relationship with a Nazi whom she funded. According to CNN: Beirich has been (…) The post SPLC Chief Financial Officer Arrested for Paying Hate Groups and Nazis – Wire Fraud. Conspiracy. False Statements appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:49:58 +0000 78a69c00c6fd6b31801f752bb91338f8b5df359c https://warroom.org/episode-5584-corrupt-fbi-under-wray-congresss-open-door-policy-with-the-ccp/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/12/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post Episode 5584: Corrupt FBI Under Wray. Congress’s Open Door Policy With The CCP appeared first on War Room. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:38:39 +0000 91f1c488ed2461cf69325b43e3d9500034614af4 https://warroom.org/episode-5583-russian-disinformation-pushed-to-protect-biden/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/12/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post Episode 5583: Russian Disinformation Pushed To Protect Biden appeared first on War Room. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:37:00 +0000 3ec67471b553885c62fcff9292df388ea2bcb225 https://warroom.org/episode-5582-michigans-abdul-el-sayed-supported-trans-shooter/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/11/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post Episode 5582: Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed Supported Trans Shooter appeared first on War Room. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:35:42 +0000 3f1cdc72c95628b924122d1b4a975053069e0ca4 https://www.westernjournal.com/former-splc-exec-arrested-fraud-charges-connected-kkk-relationship/ A former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been indicted in the federal probe of the SPLC’s alleged funding of hate groups. Heidi L. Beirich. 59. of Palm Springs. California. (…) The post Former SPLC Exec Arrested on Fraud Charges Connected to KKK Relationship appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:27:00 +0000 ba3fa0baffb9b36ea73ea6cd8bee17b820e7e5e6 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/12/doj-announces-charges-against-11-defendants-in-chinese-fake-marriage-fraud-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doj-announces-charges-against-11-defendants-in-chinese-fake-marriage-fraud-scheme Earlier today the Dept of Justice announced charges against 11 defendants in a fraudulent marriage scheme to obtain U.S. green cards.  The defendants and co-conspirators were mainly of Chinese origin. DOJ Press Release – A two-count indictment was unsealed today charging 11 individuals with conspiring. over the course of more than a decade. to orchestrate (…) The post DOJ Announces Charges Against 11 Defendants in Chinese “Fake Marriage” Fraud Scheme appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:24:26 +0000 5b3262fd52895c69556c6dba4cdbefc84627a611 https://www.adorableandharmless.com/p/superintelligence-is-already-here And I feel fine. An optimistic vision for the future Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:19:13 +0000 301bcb59121ee2cecfdfedb2e1b74f59fbc6ec19 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/08/12/tds1523-modern-video-players/ SUBSCRIBE RSS TRS PO Box 867 Dingman's Ferry. PA 18328 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:10:17 +0000 2e30dcdd765a4cb7353c3151d444a7cb61e0a545 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUiXIfk852E Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:00:39 +0000 a5bbe2b562991f1dce870882362930f22e2a1cc6 https://www.westernjournal.com/report-russia-giving-china-incredibly-important-military-technology-use-us/ The military partnership between Russia and China is a potential threat to the United States. according to a retired Navy admiral. Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery said Russia is helping (…) The post Report: Russia Is Giving China 'Incredibly Important' Military Technology to Use Against US appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:47:00 +0000 a4196c9a950aa0daced08007f6b9c1398c85c9c3 https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-overnight-5-9-usb-drives-missing-election-results-blue-stronghold-milwaukee/ With election officials insisting there was nothing really seriously wrong. results in Tuesday’s primaries in Milwaukee were delayed by what was labeled “human error.” Milwaukee Election Commissioner Paulina Gutierrez said (…) The post 5 of 9 USB Drives Were Missing All Election Results in Blue Stronghold Milwaukee appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000 0f8c985aa692e3b1aadfd504f645e7ec2339bbc9 https://freemattpodcast.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/navy-story-the-wrong-type-of-friend-zone/ I had a Navy story for my readers that I wasn’t 100% sure that I had shared before. I may have mentioned it on X before. but not on here. It was involving my wake up to the Friend Zone. … Continue reading → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:28:50 +0000 fb6f6dfd658cb3eda7c42eed82941bb6a83a6e5c https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-knew-sweden-briefly-possessed-island.html I did not know that Sweden had a colony in North America until I read this interesting story on the BBC.I knew Sweden briefly possessed the island of Guadeloupe [from 1813 to 1814] but didn't know or had forgotten that she owned Saint Barthélemy [St. Barths] from 1784 to 1878. I also did not know about Swedish outposts on the Gold Coast or that Sweden once planned to capture Madagascar. Before those colonies Sweden's last colony had been England. but in the 17th century Sweden was again a great power until Peter defeated Charles XII at Poltva.We all know Dr Johnson's famous lines on this. 'The march begins in military state.And nations on his eye suspended wait.Stern famine guards the solitary coast.And winter barricades the realms of frost.He comes. nor want nor cold his course delay.Hide. blushing glory. hide Pultowa’s day:The vanquish’d hero leaves his broken bands.And shews his miseries in distant lands.Condemn’d a needy supplicant to wait.While ladies interpose. and slaves debate.'Lord Salisbury pointed out that Poles complain about the three partitions of Poland but do not mention that Sweden and Poland partitioned Russia. He was talking about swathes of what is now Belarus and Ukraine.                                        .Did you know that Lithuania was once the biggest country in Europe. before and after it was converted to Christianity in 1387. more than two hundred years after Sweden. the last of the Nordic countries to do so.Do you know the only word in the English language which is taken from Lithuanian.It is 'talk'. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:14:01 +0000 12971e0c304394fd315a923894cb4355ae73ea5d https://rairfoundation.com/emperor-mao-has-no-clothes-spencer-pratt-roasts/ As DSA communist Francesca Hong went down in flames Tuesday night. Mao-lover Hasan Piker threw a profane hissy fit. He blamed the media and the Democrats. warning them that the knives are out over her loss. Looks like the Left's golden boy needs a time out. The post Emperor Mao Has No Clothes: Spencer Pratt Roasts Communist Hasan Piker as He Implodes Over Francesca Hong’s Wisconsin Election Loss appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:57:53 +0000 9e047fde6416398eb9d3d99eb6638fae10f646f0 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-diversity-equity-ai-cheating-and Academia's emperor has dreadlocks [and likely a Claude account]. Otherwise he's naked as a jaybird. No wonder students view their six-figure educations as a joke. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:55:40 +0000 d3169f35d32af496c160fe64b75015d25c664c68 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/moderate-dem-narrowly-beats-socialist-francesca-hong-in-wisconsins-democrat-gubernatorial-primary-after-late-night-usb-glitch/ David Crowley. the Milwaukee County Executive. defeated socialist State Representative Francesca Hong by approximately 3.000 votes in Wisconsin’s Democrat gubernatorial Primary election. Tuesday. after a (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:42:13 +0000 9bcf6464a62f787eb3f23f130bb422a563ca5917 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/here-is-commander-of.html ... Russia's Pacific Fleet. Victor Liina [Estonian. BTW] reports to Supreme Commander. President Vladimir Putin [in Russian] that ...... Pacific Fleet is ready to start raiding commercial marine traffic of unfriendly states in the Pacific. And who are those unfriendly states. Right. We all know who they are. Do barely afloat Royal Navy or Marine Nationale. not to speak of other Eurochihuahuas. want to meet Russian Navy on the high seas. not to speak about littorals of many countries which are constantly monitored by all kinds of ISR means. E.g. Liana. Russia didn't start it. she is finishing it. Just to explain--a single pr. 885M [Yasen-M] SSGN can sink all of surface fleet of Marine Nationale. including its only aircraft carrier. in a single go. Of course Russian Pacific Fleet has about 8 active nuclear attack subs--all carriers of such things as Kalibrs. Zircons and Onyxes. Plus another 6 [six] pr. 636 SSKs. also Kalibr carriers. and another older Kilo-class SSK. I omit here. of course. five state-of-the-art strategic missile subs. but they are not part of this equation. Calculations are very simple here--and I didn't even mention Pacific Fleet's surface component. Marshal Shaposhnikov or ...These are 3M22 Zircon carriers. So. you get my drift. right. Let the hunt begin. The green light was given.  Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:41:50 +0000 7ddec90d2dd20d9c7059f3a2af13c2138bc1c420 https://www.westernjournal.com/affordability-issue-talking-young-struggling-americans-losing-strategy-conservatives/ Things in America have been looking better over the last 18 months. if you ask me. New numbers out Wednesday morning showed that inflation slowed down last month. Gas prices (…) The post The Affordability Issue: Talking Down to Young. Struggling Americans Is a Losing Strategy for Conservatives appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:24:00 +0000 264ccc0e1de2b8726b2a29eaf967a660ebc76587 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/12/the-southern-murkowski-wins-sc-primary-heads-into-runoff-against-ralph-norman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-southern-murkowski-wins-sc-primary-heads-into-runoff-against-ralph-norman Mrs. Darline Graham. the sister of deceased Senator Lindsey Graham. has won the South Carolina Republican primary and will now head into a runoff against Ralph Norman on August 25th. Ultimately it is up to the people of South Carolina to decide who they want to represent them in the Senate.  However. there is nothing (…) The post The Southern Murkowski Wins SC Primary – Heads into Runoff Against Ralph Norman appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:21:28 +0000 d8944cde17bc7190fd5d2fdc3433a3ab183e9e5e https://www.malone.news/p/homesteading-we-all-need-to-become Learning to tend the garden. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:16:07 +0000 cdeebd1fa5f2056298d599b9d869bd78a765d8e6 https://delarroz.com/2026/08/12/politics-is-destroying-fantasy-fandom-and-this-terry-brooks-fans-story-proves-it/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:04:25 +0000 180fedd88dd470980c916f30c0de9189fff4c3c3 https://www.skepticaldoctor.com/2026/08/12/low-self-esteem/ In The Critic. Dalrymple takes aim at the concept of self-esteem. arguing that if there is any connection between litter in Britain and self-esteem. it is that the litterer has grossly inflated self-esteem. Self-respect is another thing entirely. It imposes duties. sometimes onerous. and is other-regarding rather than self-regarding. Self-respect is earned. self-esteem is claimed (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:00:03 +0000 2c30b89270dbe818f9de2e90f41656e7741312b6 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/democracy-means-hitler.html Historian David Starkey talking to John Anderson. the former deputy prime minister of Australia. explained that fear of another Hitler had made democracy suspect.'I mean. John. what we've got to understand is that the left has captured words and when it captures words. it inverts them. It stands them on their head. The word democracy no longer means. You and I know what democracy means. It means majority rule. Oh no. it doesn't. This new-fangled thing called liberal democracy. which is neither democratic nor liberal. you know. like the Holy Roman Empire. What it means is the control of the majority in favour of the minority. You stood the thing absolutely on its head. And the explanation of course is the notion that democracy was responsible for the rise of Hitler.'Therefore you have to do everything you can to limit direct democracy. Of course you need it as a kind of symbol. You need it as a fig leaf but what you do in practice is deliberately limit it in two ways. You transfer as much power in one direction to the judiciary and quangos and in the other direction to deliberately irresponsible. unaccountable committees of experts. And that is what the Blair years did in an astonishing fashion.'Hitler again.He is much more obsessed about today in the West [not in Eastern Europe] than in the 1970s. when most adults had lived through the war. Why.I said this in this blog a few years ago.(The history of the Western world after 1945 is essentially a meditation on Nazism and Hitler.The history of Eastern Europe is not. It is a meditation on the nation. freedom. Marxism. Christianity. what Unamuno called the tragic sense of life. on many things but not on Nazism or Hitler.This is why a highly intelligent Romanian woman from an old boyar family recently complained to me. 'I am tired of hearing about the Holocaust. It was 70 years ago.'The reaction against Nazism after 1945 is the theme of Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism. Populism. and the Future of the West by R.R. Reno. Editor of the wonderful First Things Magazine. I have so many books I must read and this is another for my list.He writes.'The violence that traumatized the West between 1914 and 1945 evoked a powerful. American-led response that was anti-fascist. anti-totalitarian. anti-colonialist. anti-imperialist. and anti-racist. These anti imperatives define the postwar era.')Opposing Hitler is the reason America constantly goes to war and seeks to rule the world. something Hitler never hoped to do. Uncle Sam is the anti Hitler who has paradoxically come to resemble his enemy. Opposing Hitler is the justification for American wars. Israel's wars and the justification for the resistance to Israel's wars. You will probably have decided. gentle reader. which of the sides in Gaza and Lebanon most resembles Hitler. Opinions are divided. By the way. Hitler invaded or took over 14 countries. The U.S. has attempted about a hundred regime changes. according to Jeffrey Sachs. and carried out nearly 500 military interventions according to the Military Intervention Project compiled by Tufts University.Admittedly the USA has had 250 years to do so but it seems at least as aggressive as Hitler.China's last war was a brief but very bloody one with Vietnam from February 17 to March 16. 1979. in response to Vietnam's invasion of China's ally Cambodia. run by Pol Pot. Vietnam started that one and the UK and USA sided with Pol Pot too.Iran or Persia last started a war in 1775. but the Shah did seize an island in the Strait of Hormuz. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:53:48 +0000 7a71fe7639d3cc21a41c73bcd8b3d1966768b790 https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-woke-2-wants Narrated Version - Gearing for a White House run. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughs off 'Woke 1' as 'a little crazy.' On the strategy of losing every political battle in order to win the political war Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:51:25 +0000 449ef40b870847e37d8b7673d4231d95221e1325 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/08/12/tds1523/ Mike and Alex talk about the DSA vs. establishment [Jewish] Democrat fight. current foodie trends in NYC and one of the most Jewish legal arguments ever heard. MODERN VIDEO PLAYERS HERE SUBSCRIBE RSS TRS PO Box 867 Dingman's Ferry. PA 18328 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:49:53 +0000 8e62079fec6da1c2f07f1dfc80aeacbbf007a8d4 https://www.racket.news/p/get-lit-livestream-430-pm-et-on-stephen-f69 Brad and Matt visit the Bowery. A recording from Monday's live video. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:45:09 +0000 f40fcd10c8501dc504a609adcb6c8132a53a9e8b https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/trump-we-control-strait-of-hormuz/ Watch today’s Liberty Report here. The post Trump: ‘WE Control Strait Of Hormuz.’ appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:41:06 +0000 235d42a85e31c0685e7d5d0a54fb790c80bec858 https://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2026/08/you-call-it-geschwurbel-i-call-it.html As we know. one man’s intellectual baloney — which is English for geschwurbel —can be another man’s filet mignon. I have no idea how materialists subsist on a diet of pure baloney. but they are tenacious survivors. Which is not to say there isn’t a surplus of spiritual baloney out there as well. but where’s the beef..Sir. this is not a Wendy’s.Since neither side ever convinces the other. one might be tempted to conclude that the argument for cosmotheandrism is just another unfalsifiable McThesis. In other words. it seems that there is always just enough wiggle room to allow a person to cling to his preferred ideology. even if he can’t actually be alive or think in it. as is true of materialism. One is free — note the word — to hold to materialism. except materialism cannot account for the freedom to hold it.As applied to biology. cosmotheandrism affirms that the process of biological evolution is subject to Gödel’s theorems. in that there something in the genetic program for which the program cannot account. He would have no doubt regarded genetic determinism as so much geschwurbel.Don’t abuse Gödel for your own ideological purposes.Well. let’s think this through. Everyone knows there is a genetic code – which is to say. a complex language responsible for our phenotype. How then do we transcend this formal system. For if we didn’t so escape its linear entailments we could never even know of it.For Gödel. a mechanistic understanding of biology is but “a prejudice of our time” that can be easily disproved via logic. As far as he was concerned. “the formation within geological time of a human body by the laws of physics [or any other laws of similar nature]. starting from a random distribution of the elementary particles and the field. is as unlikely as the separation by chance of the atmosphere into its components.”So. you’re telling me there’s a chance.Obviously not. because we’re not dealing with statistical probabilities. rather. ineluctable principles. for just as the mind cannot be reduced to a machine. nor can Life Itself be so reduced. Just as a formal system cannot demonstrate its own consistency from within. nor can the genome explain itself from within its own resources. To the extent that it does mean something. this meaning could only be apprehended by something from outside the otherwise closed language of DNA.The physicist Wolgang Pauli was likewise skeptical of the Darwinian reduction of evolution to accidental mutations. Rather. he proposed a nonlocal order of the Cosmos revolving around archetypes that equally shape both matter and spirit. For example. there are mathematical constraints [i.e.. boundary conditions] to which matter dances. just as there are nonlocal archetypes that guide our anthropic journey.Theoretical biologist Robert Rosen writes that one implication of Gödel’s theorems is that a universe “consisting of pure syntax” is “too poor to do mathematics in.” From this he concludes that “contemporary physics is to biology as Number Theory is to a formalization of it.” which means that there is always more to Life than can be contained in any reductive model: in short. semantics -- meaning -- can never be reduced to biochemical syntax -- order.Could Life Itself ever be exhaustively expressed in a formal program. Well. “Gödel effectively demolished the formalist program.” so “There is always a purely semantic residue that cannot be accommodated by the syntactical scheme.” Rosen essentially affirms that biological reality is always more complex than the simple formalizations in which we try to enclose it. Again. something always escapes the formal system. model. or quantification. Note that no one could even teach math using only math. Rather. if I recall correctly. my high school algebra teacher used everyday English in order to explain the algebra.Robert Spitzer too cites Gödel. since he proved that “human thinking is not based on a set of prescribed axioms. rules. or programs” and is indeed “beyond any program.” including our genetic program. for “human intelligence is indefinitely beyond any axiomatic or program-induced intellect.” It is “not only always beyond axioms. rules. and programs [to which artificial intelligence is limited] but also capable of genuinely originative creativity [that is. capable of thinking without deriving from or making recourse to any prior axioms. rules. or programs]” [ibid.].Moreover. Gödel “wrote extensively on the sudden and instant character of intuition [as opposed to the more laborious process of acquiring knowledge]. which seemed to him further proof of the nonmaterial character of the human mind” [Bollore and Bonnassies]. Therefore. “If we wish to progress beyond. we have to embrace a different concept of ‘understanding’ from that of rational explanation.” Not only did Gödel speak of “a scientific [exact] philosophy and theology.” but went the whole hog and speculated that mystic experience may “provide the only route beyond the limits to which science and philosophy can take us. the only possible path to the Ultimate” [ibid.].“Gödel could never reconcile himself to the positivist standpoint that knowledge derives solely from empirical observations of natural phenomena. Mathematical objects and a priori truth were as real to him as anything the senses could directly perceive.” He regarded mathematics as “a search for truth. and more specifically a search for pre-existing truths that inhabited a reality separate from the human mind” [Budansky].Then -- to the embarrassment of all and sundry -- he went and proved it. i.e.. that it is strictly impossible to prove the consistency of system from within its own resources. or in other words. “to define the concept of truth within a formal system itself.” For him this meant that “the human mind can perceive evident axioms of mathematics that can never be reduced to a finite rule -- which means the human mind ‘infinitely surpasses the powers of any finite machine.’”Infinite. That's pretty far.Therefore “If the human mind is not a machine. then the human spirit cannot be reduced to the mechanistic operation of the brain. with its finite collection of working parts consisting of neurons and their interconnections.” Supposing the mind were “nothing but a calculating machine.” then it too would be “subject to the limitations of the Incompleteness Theorem.” so we once again escape its presumed completeness. Thus. there is “a whole world which is the set of mathematical truths. into which we gain access only through intelligence. just as there is a world of physical realities.”Gödel was “committed to accessing the immaterial world of higher philosophical truths through the power of sheer abstract logical reasoning.”So. Plato wins again.Yes. because what is this “immaterial world of higher philosophical truths” but the light streaming in from outside the genetic cave.Problem is. the theorems tell us only what definitely cannot be the case. not necessarily what is the case. They tell us. for example. that “it is impossible to define the concept of truth within a formal system itself.” but they do not tell us what truth is. Likewise. they tell us a formal system cannot be both consistent and complete.But before he was a logician. mathematician. or anything else. Gödel was a seeker of truth. which already implies a worldview -- one in which truth exists and is accessible to man. He would have rejected the alternative a priori.On the one hand. a possible interpretation of the theorems is that mathematics -- and by extension. language -- is “a mere game played with symbols according to certain rules.” Again. this would be the postmodern view. But this is not how Gödel saw it. rather. he believed “that the human mind can literally see mathematical realities through a kind of perception. no different from the direct sensory perceptions that the empiricists decreed to be the only valid basis of physical laws.”Can we ever prove that evolutionary biology is a complete explanation of man. No. because in expressing the explanation we have transcended it. For the same reason. we could never prove that the mind is the product of random evolutionary changes.We may tie this back to what Voegelin says about the transfinite Anthropos being situated between the poles of immanence and transcendence. Because there is always transcendence. no immanent explanation will ever suffice. for no immanent model can actually map the transcendent in a fully adequate way. But for Voegelin. modernity is characterized by a flight from transcendence and the attempt to enclose the order of the world from within immanence alone. e.g.. scientism. metaphysical Darwinism. Marxism. and other earthbound ideologies.But such attempts are self-refuting. because man qua man can never actually eliminate the transcendence. For the same reason. one cannot eliminate teleology. which is to say. our attraction to the transcendent pole [or of it to us]. Absent this vector. there can be no vertical progress. rather. just horizontal wandering.Rearranging the genetic deck chairs on a human ship lost at sea.A bridge to nowhere.An explanation with no explainer.Language with no speaker.Geschwurbel with no wurstmacher.You win. I’m out of similes. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:37:09 +0000 5fb99bb53ac072ca6789c3a277bf6c1948c59304 https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/-aug-13---us-sailors-at-point-.html image prompt - Abe Lincoln Carrier crew rebel due to poor conditions and low morale due to sense they are fighting for Israel. not the US Grok 4--'I can't generate that image.The requested prompt asks for a depiction of a crew 'rebel' [mutiny/rebellion] tied to the claim that they are fighting for Israel rather than the US. That combination risks promoting violence and/or hate speech. which I am not able to create. I can generate a neutral. non-violent image related to the broader topic [e.g.. the USS Abraham Lincoln at sea. sailors under strain from long deployment. or poor living conditions aboard a carrier] if you rephrase the prompt to remove the rebellion/violence and the specific political framing.Just give me a revised description. and I'll create it. CENTCOM/US Navy CLASH: 7 KILLED and Dozens WOUNDED https://www.youtube.com/watch.v=ErZGo90HiJEandt=221sGrok 4- 'The video [from the Mahmood OD channel. uploaded around August 11-12. 2026] reports and comments on an alleged deadly internal clash among U.S. Navy personnel aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. citing Iranian sources. It frames this in the context of prolonged deployment. poor conditions. low morale. and opposition to ongoing U.S. operations against Iran. According to a Tasnim News Agency report [citing an informed military source]:An advisor to U.S. Central Command [CENTCOM] chief Adm. Brad Cooper boarded the carrier to address crew complaints. These stemmed from family protests over the ship's extended deployment. The advisor was met with boos and thrown water bottles. The situation escalated into a violent fight among crew members involving knives and other bladed weapons. Result: 7 personnel killed and several [or 'dozens' per the title] wounded. The atmosphere aboard remains tense and unsettled. The Abraham Lincoln had been deployed for 263 days and was operating in the Indian Ocean primarily to enforce a naval blockade against Iran. It had spent 28 consecutive days at sea [described as among the longest continuous modern carrier deployments. aside from a brief stop in Oman in July]. Roughly 5.000 sailors and Marines allegedly faced inadequate food [meals reduced to as little as half a cup of rice and two pieces of meat]. laundry facilities out of service for two weeks. and mold in showers causing fungal infections. Families raised issues of exhaustion. mental health strain. and the high operational tempo affecting safety and performance. Around 200 relatives confronted an acting U.S. Navy official in San Diego over the conditions and lack of a clear return-home date. ---'The Jew and his bank dominate everything: money. education. and the press. but above all communism. since through this means he seeks to destroy Christianity. Europe. and all of civilization. When the Antichrist comes. the Jew will be at the head of everything.'This quotation is from Fyodor Dostoevsky's monthly publication. A Writer's Diary. specifically in the March 1877 issue featuring his essay 'The Jewish Question'. In it. Dostoevsky expressed deep hostility toward Jewish economic and social influence in Europe. linking Jewish emancipation to apocalyptic and anti-Christian concepts[Left. Trump signals membership in Chabad. a Jewish supremacist doomsday cult.]Makow--'God's Chosen People' really means that Organized Jewry is God and all who refuse to worship these Jews are idolators and must be liquidated. Mankind is in danger of becoming a failed experiment for this reason.'https://x.com/FireNewz/status/2086193464115384363The Nightmare scenario -- It appears that Trump has two choices. He can declare victory and go home. Or he can let Netanyahu drop a nuclear bomb on Teheran. Good thing Trump and Netanyahu do not belong to Chabad. a cult dedicated to starting a nuclear war. Oh.. They do.The nightmare scenario is that Iran retaliates by destroying desalination plants in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia. destroying these countries and the petro dollar.-- The Moment Trump Leaves the Iran War. the Petrodollar Dies Foreverhttps://x.com/SternDrewCrypto/status/2085493354792624419PROF. MAJOR ATTACK ON IRAN COULD HIT ANY DAYhttps://x.com/Mark4XX/status/2087567591564771700Professor Marandi of the University of Tehran has delivered a stark warning. The United States has already prepared a major assault on Iran. with forces positioned across the region and a strong possibility the attack comes in the coming days. What follows could reshape the entire global economy.THE PREPARATION IS REALAmerican and Israeli forces in Kuwait. Saudi Arabia. Qatar. Bahrain. the Emirates and Jordan stand fully prepared.Many troops are no longer in their bases. They have moved into hotels and civilian buildings to hide from Iranian missiles and drones.Extra troops. ammunition. warships and jets have already been brought in for the operation. No one knows if the attack will last days or longer. or whether Washington will ultimately back down.IRAN'S RESPONSE WILL BE DECISIVE Iranian forces are on full alert.If the United States strikes Iranian infrastructure. Tehran has pledged a decisive reply that will destroy Israeli facilities and demolish infrastructure across Saudi Arabia. the Emirates. Kuwait. Bahrain and Qatar. The Strait of Hormuz will no longer matter. Oil exports from the Caucasus will stop too. The result. according to Marandi. will be a collapse of the global economy.Professor Jiang explains how the US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on Gulf nations investing in American tech. If Iran forces the Gulf to abandon the petrodollar for food security. the US economy will face total collapse and revolution in the streets. Jeff Currie. former Goldman Sachs head of commodities and lifelong insider of the dollar system. just laid out the one line America cannot cross. Handing control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran is not a tactical retreat. It is the formal end of the United States as global hegemon and the death of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that Iran had its 'throat on the Strait of Hormuz' for 45+ years and told the Trump administration to 'finish this thing and finish it right.'Bank of America reports that U.S. now only has 43-day emergency buffer of crude oil left in 45-year low.  ---------------------------The Allison Inquiry. chaired by MP Dean Allison. will hear testimony from Canadians reporting injuries following the COVID-19 vaccines on September 8-11. 2026. Broadcast live from Parliament Hill. it marks the first time Canadian lawmakers will hear this testimony in a parliamentary forum. The non-partisan Inquiry is being held in cooperation with the Covid Testimony Association.https://www.drtrozzi.news/p/making-the-allison-inquiry-a-successhttps://covidtestimony.com/--Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.com  Only initials are used.--Hamdy Mig- 'I am here. my brother Henry. on the border separating Gaza and Israel. waiting for aid trucks to try to get a little food to cover my needs for the day and to avoid the risk of starvation. This is the area where the occupation allows the entry of a few trucks of flour. which are not enough and do not cover even a small portion of the needs of the starving citizens here. I am trying as much as possible to get some of the scarce food that is not sold and is not available in the markets because of the siege and severe famine.Earlier--I'm writing to you now from the aid entry point in the far north of Gaza. I've been waiting since yesterday for the aid trucks to arrive. under sniper fire and artillery shelling. I'm trying to get some grains and legumes so we can cook and eat them today... This is how our lives have become every day. incredibly difficult attempts just to secure food for the day.https://chuffed.org/project/184233-help-hamdy-mig-and-his-sister-palestinians-trapped-in-gazaEarlier- I've been here for two days. Henry... on the Gaza border between us and Israel. I was waiting for aid trucks to enter so I could get a bag of flour worth S800. Thank God. after two days of waiting under army fire and artillery shells. the occupation allowed two trucks of flour to enter for more than two million starving Palestinians in Gaza. My friend and I got one bag and we shared it together and returned to the tent a little while ago.'-----------------From a reader in Bosnia- Dear Henry. I thought you might be interested in reading this. It is a quote from book Notes from Prison. 1983-1988 [original title: Moj bijeg u slobodu: Biljeske iz zatvora 1983-1988] by Alija Izetbegovic. The author was political prisoner [under the communist authorities] and then president of Bosnia and Herzegovina [where many Sephardic Jews found refuge under Ottoman rule after being expelled from Spain in 1492]. God bless you. Henry. I visit your website every day. I am European. White and Slav [and Muslim - strange combination. isn't it. 'One of the most interesting questions for historians. theologians. scientists of ethics and many others. is why the Jewish people. the bearers of the religious message and mission. kept objectively generating materialistic philosophy and atheism throughout history. The explanation should be sought in the exclusive orientation toward this world. toward 'the Promised Land' [hic et nunc]. instead of the dream or myth of the 'Kingdom of God.' without which religion and moral thought cannot exist. The myth of the 'Heavenly Kingdom' was replaced by the myth of the 'Promised Land'. These two great symbols - the Promised Land and the Heavenly Kingdom - stand opposed to each other and designate two worlds. two directions. two human destinies on Earth. At the same time. the suffering of the Jewish people through history has been a constant source of disappointment in God and moral laws. From that disappointment. the spirit of doubt and rebellion was born. That spirit accompanied the Jewish people through history and was the consequence of unrealized [and unrealistic] hopes and expectations about the 'Heavenly Kingdom.' a reward for serving God. The main Jewish assumption that justice must prevail in this world - being wrong and remaining unfulfilled - generated the spirit of rebellion and doubt. which is only one step to atheism. Every religion believes that this world is not a reward but a temptation. That is not the way the Jews feel. and that is their atheism. Jews were disappointed in Jesus Christ for that same reason. His history of sufferings is in total contrast to the Jewish hopes and expectations and represents a striking denial of all of their assumptions on happiness for righteous men in this world. Here we can notice that Islam is a religion 'turned toward this world' as well. which is true. yet Islam did not get lost or forgetful while caring about this world. Its strongest and most dramatic message is devotion. The idea of the Kingdom of God is strongly emphasized and maintained.'----Women explains the lost art of femininity https://youtube.com/shorts/lcp4Zn_4ygg.si=Rx--nnxLScsAHdXF--Putin takes repressive steps against Opponents in Exilehttps://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/11/as-russia-strips-rights-from-exiled-regime-opponents-many-dont-know-if-they-should-worry-a93459-Canada has money to send to Ukraine but is killing off its senior citizensThe death of 83-year-old Brigitte 'GG' Stegemann is raising more disturbing questions about Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying [MAiD] system.According to her family. Stegemann had previously rejected euthanasia because of her Christian faith. yet discussions about MAiD were reopened while her longtime family advocate was away.https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/beyond-disturbing-canadian-christian Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:30:08 +0000 a1389e418e2f480ad7f1feb40f40e0a0382cb295 https://www.noticer.news/australia-remittance-tax-wealth-extraction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-remittance-tax-wealth-extraction A campaign group wants a 30% tax. The post Calls for remittance tax as immigrants send tens of billions overseas first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:25:57 +0000 ad34e631b82a84e6ecc50963e023ee4d3c0ff290 https://www.thekurganblog.com/on-the-catholic-church/ This is basically a postcard sized 1 explanation for those of you who are interested in being. believe you are. or actually are Catholic. For the rest of you. feel free to read on. but PLEASE don’t bother me with detailed questions that I have already answered exhaustively a 1.000 times. If you want to (…) No related posts. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:16:46 +0000 6c90b3a8e4c49699466bbc5b81fae6df1935331c https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/on-the-catholic-church There are only a few positions that make sense... and only one that is true. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:16:46 +0000 5c3ee35d67dddfb17f38d110993160c081e5b423 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUEiRW6K2G0 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:09:56 +0000 6fe53706929d0e9a7a1af6733376af5e6bf6c175 https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/08/12/the-worlds-worst-word-how-two-syllables-are-toppling-a-titanic-civilization/ Fifteen feet. That’s how long the recurrent laryngeal nerve is in a giraffe. And how long does it need to be. Maybe one-and-a-half feet. But the nerve is looped under an artery that’s got further away as the giraffe’s neck has evolved to be longer. That’s very bad design in a long-necked giraffe. But it (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:27:39 +0000 989e1aa110bddb949ad62253fffce2e6679b9964 https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/the-communist-roots-of-eastern-europes The hidden casualties of the Soviet experiment Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:21:48 +0000 485cd9ca92a4863fc05f3286c5563e4671e8a863 https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/the-big-lie-of-mr-cricket/ Mr. Cricket [aka Andrea Grillo] has embraced the theory of The Big Lie.  The “große Lüge” was coined by a certain 20th Austrian dictator and wielded by his propaganda minister.   The idea is that when one lies. one should lie … Read More → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:18:43 +0000 b9f568110b208cf05b2dc09dd11804a9c955a09d https://directorblue.substack.com/p/a-day-the-black-death-reached-london Time Surfing: Graphic History Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:10:44 +0000 4d7b96a11db7fde84c4b470a7350d471851b792a https://christopherrufo.com/p/what-is-gavin-newsom-hiding The governor presides over a statewide culture of secrecy. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:04:20 +0000 ab67f118524c3b49a0241e30002bf428adccbb0d https://www.westernjournal.com/leftists-melt-espns-biggest-star-hangs-trump-promote-high-school-athletes/ If you ever grow weary from combating leftism. close your eyes and imagine how miserable leftists must feel every day. Then. though you still must resist their relentless assaults on (…) The post Leftists Melt Down as ESPN's Biggest Star Hangs Out With Trump to Promote High School Athletes appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:04:00 +0000 52602e4882acae3437e4e9f2cdf00c9484a0f00c https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/sex-between-teens-should-not-be-a-child-abuse-issue.html When scanning U.S.news I once a while stumble upon items that escape my understanding: Tyler Boebert. 21. son of Rep. Lauren Boebert. R-Colorado. is facing five new felony charges ranging from sexual exploitation of a child to sexual exploitation of a child with enticement that also included a video. … Tyler Boebert is accused ofRead more... Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:00:07 +0000 75a96d565ae30fc69c818fcb14f3529f120fc986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOuSL7bDCk Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:00:05 +0000 5f957c07f105f9c29b644a44d3315072850e09d4 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversity-news-august-12-2026/ --- Europe is the world’s fastest warming continent. What is to blame. Overpopulation and over-urbanization are to blame. There are too many people worldwide. and too many in Europe. although if you send back the diversity. that will no longer be the case. Immigration is suicide for humanity as it pushes us toward The Ecocide (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:59:22 +0000 e0a73f679941099493535ecbc17b506a4b34f4d8 https://www.westernjournal.com/graphic-language-video-shows-el-sayed-pal-hasan-piker-bragging-wiping-constitution/ Here’s a bit of appalling footage showing just who the Democratic Party is choosing to associate with in 2026. The Michigan Senate race sees Republican candidate Mike Rogers taking on (…) The post Graphic Language: Video Shows El-Sayed Pal Hasan Piker Bragging About Wiping 'My A.. With the Constitution' appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:57:00 +0000 54102368121cb14c6dc42a4d45452a00d34c487e https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/my-view-for-awhile-the-city-of-big-shoulders/ I’m getting a little ahead of myself. since I don’t head for the airport until later. Hence. I may as well provide a little retrospective on yesterday. We went downtown for some time at the club. Chicago is a great … Read More → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:53:19 +0000 97ce0b5fcfdc9623ca9aeda640bd35e86067c866 https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/malta-enough The Marquis Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:48:21 +0000 d737ca2722e9b51abe99492393be4264da3120fd https://creativeminorityreport.com/blog/2026/08/12/catholic-governor-approves-abortion-up-until-birth/ Massachusetts just legalized abortion up until birth. The oh so serious Catholic Gov. Maura Healey signed a sweeping abortion bill Monday that removes the state’s gestational age limit. giving health care providers greater discretion to perform abortions later in pregnancy.... Continue Reading → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:46:14 +0000 7f71fc4eb578ba77594681f667c53a0f5b54a061 https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/cliche-alert-return-of-the-beer-test/ —– Click Here: Racket News   The post Cliché Alert: Return of the “Beer Test” appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:46:12 +0000 0962d9573f6ad27c49f325267f8b173606babe3b https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/british-police-unit-flags-over-100-social-media-posts-for-arrest-amid-immigration-backlash/ —– Click Here: American Greatness   The post British Police Unit Flags Over 100 Social Media Posts for Arrest Amid Immigration Backlash appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:44:38 +0000 d9cd37ce1ed00c0617e6fb451652e400c6c82141 https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/iran-rejects-us-pressure-enters-survival-economy-as-mediators-cite-absolutely-no-progress/ —— Click Here: Zero Hedge   The post Iran Rejects US Pressure. Enters ‘Survival Economy’ As Mediators Cite ‘Absolutely No Progress’ appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:43:28 +0000 61348d7c3bc4b5959b18479ef58fa6919988bac8 https://www.noticer.news/rapper-charged-murder-slacks-creek-logan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rapper-charged-murder-slacks-creek-logan Ronald Cora. 37. was charged on Wednesday. The post Aboriginal rapper ‘MC Triks’ allegedly murders ex inside Queensland home first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:41:59 +0000 b6aa6c1e5c25fa4d7190f98c4548f00e79a67c17 https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/faucis-miscarriage-of-public-health-led-to-actual-fetal-loss-in-thousands-of-pregnant-women/ —– Click Here: Peter A. McCullough. MD. MPH   The post Fauci’s Miscarriage of Public Health Led to Actual Fetal Loss in Thousands of Pregnant Women appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:41:29 +0000 9114ecde07623284ecd0cf68ad59196b27c9118c https://www.westernjournal.com/revealed-clandestine-op-found-trump-catering-truck-shipped-military-plane-assassination-threat/ President Donald Trump made a change to his flying plans whilst visiting Ankara. Turkey. for a NATO summit last month. An assassination plot from Iran loomed large enough to prompt (…) The post Revealed: The Clandestine Op That Found Trump in a Catering Truck. Being Shipped to a Military Plane After Assassination Threat appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:02:00 +0000 17edda2132c3b022b90f467a6900a718cefb5705 https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-never-forget-kamala-said-ridiculous-claim-dems-want-abortion-moment-birth-2-days-ago-dems-signed-law/ Do Democrat officials want abortions up until the moment of birth. According to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ comments from a 2023 “Face the Nation” interview. that’s an absurd claim. (…) The post Watch: Never Forget Kamala Said It's 'Ridiculous' to Claim Dems Want Abortion to Moment of Birth. 2 Days Ago Dems Signed That Into Law appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 93015bf47cdaa9ca30d3f26d19696926a8a72893 https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/definition-of-healthy-normal-research But your children. pets. livestock MUST be jabbed at birth or else the government guns are pointed at you... Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:57:29 +0000 fd6f8b84cacfec5d2e305b9336f151e3ed7b7a26 https://www.westernjournal.com/former-espn-nbc-sideline-reporter-michele-tafoya-triumphs-gop-senate-primary/ Former TV sports reporter Michele Tafoya won Minnesota’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. According to The New York Times. Tafoya finished with 52.1 percent of the vote. (…) The post Former ESPN and NBC Sideline Reporter Michele Tafoya Triumphs in GOP Senate Primary appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:52:00 +0000 eee4fa7c6e1bf24a56cc179115044a381994d80f https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-inflation-rate-drops-defying-economist-projections/ Inflation in July dipped below what experts predicted. The 3.4 percent rate for July was below projections of 3.5 percent from experts polled by The Wall Street Journal. The inflation (…) The post Breaking: Inflation Rate Drops. Defying Economist Projections appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:52:00 +0000 1aefc7a8e326c12224d43171bbbb919bcd50e821 https://voxday.net/2026/08/12/give-them-what-they-voted-for/ The new Labour Prime Minister is going to provide refugees for those who welcomed them most enthusiastically: There are 17 local authorities with no taxpayer-supported asylum seekers. an analysis by the Daily Mail reveals – as Andy Burnham vows to send more to middle-class areas. The Prime Minister yesterday promised to ensure arrivals are not (…) The post Give Them What They Voted For appeared first on Vox Popoli. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:33:25 +0000 67d9b29eee0caaa758105948009c5bddc2ea2198 https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/12/open-thread-8-12-2026/ I was fortunate enough to see the original on Broadway as a young child. and I still remember it: The post Open thread 8/12/2026 appeared first on The New Neo. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:30:38 +0000 6520d7b49a3993706712d7e6498c940cf6e823b1 https://crez.site/2026/260812.html We believe the Covenant demands we react in certain ways. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:29:29 +0000 e2449b3a41f13c40d27c588929bf957f0fb9b5fc https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/12/after-advocating-for-illegal-alien-leniency-and-amnesty-mike-lindell-gets-crushed-in-minnesota-primary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=after-advocating-for-illegal-alien-leniency-and-amnesty-mike-lindell-gets-crushed-in-minnesota-primary Hopefully this will be a lesson to multiple people. including President Donald Trump.  There is no room for softness on the topic of deporting illegal aliens. In one of the biggest examples of a mistake in Republican campaigning. three weeks before the primary election Minnesota Governor candidate Mike Lindell made the fatal mistake of advocating (…) The post After Advocating for Illegal Alien Leniency and Amnesty. Mike Lindell Gets Crushed in Minnesota Primary appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:20:07 +0000 7ee028489ecc0a6c759c838c180fa118878f491b https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/real-communism-has-never-been-imagined the failure of second order thinking Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:17:29 +0000 31f5c40a031360d43d720ac919e62186423a959b https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-axelrod-cant-believe-ears-learns-obama-got-2008-ballot-election-fraud-resulting-criminal-convictions-multiple-dems/ Election meddling does not happen. At least. that’s what top Democratic Party officials believe. but it’s possible they just have a short memory or were not paying attention. Former Chief (…) The post Watch: Axelrod Can't Believe His Ears as He Learns Obama Got on 2008 Ballot With Election Fraud. Resulting in Criminal Convictions of Multiple Dems appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:12:00 +0000 5da19f3b1876b947de1793f10205c8f74b287bce https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/christians-and-ai From radio priests to robot dogs: Christian entrepreneurs have always rapidly mastered new technology. AI is no different. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:59:55 +0000 17a8e153c5b59a966da0862afea1e65c37f42eca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpF0VAOIi2M Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:51:03 +0000 96bef82507ebe1c942b91271b57439930a989125 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/08/12/judging-freedom-edition-of-12-august/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:49:04 +0000 098f5b4a59073fabba2ec8ff7b746571d8e4fce2 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/12/surprise-defeat-for-dsa-communist-francesca-hong-in-wisconsin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=surprise-defeat-for-dsa-communist-francesca-hong-in-wisconsin The DSA Communists are claiming election rigging in Wisconsin as Francesca Hong has been defeated by DNC party approved candidate David Crowley. The current status of the race is Crowley with 39.78% [313.321] and Hong with 39.37% [310.110]. Crowley leading by more than three thousand votes. (Source) The reason for the apoplexy is that all (…) The post Surprise Defeat for DSA Communist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:45:54 +0000 674e033cd8633acc8acfcac642f64879c5c7fd19 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/forbes-piece-dearth-of-reliable-data Confusion continues to rule the day related to global crude oil markets as a dearth of reliable data related to oil flows frustrates the ability of analysts and companies alike to make accurate assessments. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:42:33 +0000 024d1856996bacdb44634709c828f6ccd89822a2 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/fbi-offers-cash-reward-tip-line-to-fight-animal-abuse-on-los-angeles-skid-row/ The FBI is offering a reward of up to S5.000 for information leading to the successful federal prosecution of individuals committing severe animal abuse in (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:42:08 +0000 891b50cee6abb238e68200397d1717925594c232 https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/nerd-fight-terms-and-conditions/ Or. we attempt to break the WordPress server. Yesterday urbando asked for clarification on the difference[s] between Normies and Grillers. Several NBCs submitted answers. and I’m glad they did. because I never really thought about it. In the spirit of yesterday’s post. I guess you could say I regarded the differences as ineffable — I … Continue reading 'Nerd Fight: Terms and Conditions' Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:37:53 +0000 c4a3513df86ec501d26067aadd1bd62296592d11 https://www.noticer.news/white-australia-party-ban-parliamentary-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=white-australia-party-ban-parliamentary-review The committee decided the listing was justified. The post Uniparty committee rejects political freedom appeals and supports White Australia Party ban first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:56 +0000 a2254c63a4f6319804533ec0eef801016071a5e2 https://www.unbekoming.com/p/mutation An Essay by Luc Lelièvre Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:03:15 +0000 ca4738fcdec5c33863a0adff0a169e47c35a6dd0 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/hammer-of-the-gods-led-zeppelin/ 3.696 words The hammer of the gods Will drive our ships to a new land. Fight the hordes. sing and cry. Valhalla. I am coming. —Led Zeppelin. Immigrant Song. Rock is dead. they say. Long live rock. —The Who. Long Live Rock. English rock music lived for around 50 years. Historians often mark out a (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:01:38 +0000 a8f9714ecfc00510af0722cfc8f1c75269508475 https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/12/the-memory-hole/ I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange. the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anything. I remember who I am. I think. And I remember things that happened in the past. but I don’t think I remember them the way they … Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:22 +0000 8bfb48b0f5953bb16c922ef9ca76d0259bc8067d https://paulcraigroberts.org/how-sound-is-the-american-economy/ How Sound Is the American Economy. Paul Craig Roberts I am as tired as readers might be of reporting on (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:55:13 +0000 d84b7d93a78a2f52dbd99b101d6924ca9d093235 https://paulcraigroberts.org/americas-dissolution-accelerates/ America’s Dissolution Accelerates Paul Craig Roberts Just as Muslims in Michigan used. or misused. the US Constitution to introduce animal (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:45:59 +0000 cd21e417f42d1d883198e690259181124140e80f https://paulcraigroberts.org/netanyahu-reserves-likud-spot-for-candidate-who-called-trump-a-morally-corrupt-piece-of-shit-reports-the-times-of-israel/ Netanyahu reserves Likud spot for candidate who called Trump a “morally corrupt piece of shit”  reports The Times of Israel (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:40:59 +0000 a0517ac18b9f89f81ea7203c41e8503fea82515f https://paulcraigroberts.org/the-israeli-american-takeover-of-syria-moves-forward-as-russia-retreats/ The Israeli-American Takeover of Syria Moves Forward as Russia Retreats After abandoning Syria’s Assad. Putin has now abandoned Russia’s only (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:40:02 +0000 87711d2b595733f224d2f170fbf400e7f104e113 https://paulcraigroberts.org/the-legalization-of-murder-for-the-convenience-of-women/ White women applaud as Massachusetts governor Maura Healey signs legislation allowing babies to be aborted up to birth   Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:38:14 +0000 7344cfef10d300a2ff8c27590539e32de742662c https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/of-girls-and-gammas The critical challenge is instinctive Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:30:09 +0000 1e2468fa69a55cdb6cdcdf71a872ad4a62b8186f https://korybko.substack.com/p/korybko-to-lrt-its-not-propaganda That false claim amounts to state propaganda against its own people. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:21:36 +0000 9f7e59d80321120071eb11d7a7a3d5c70eea6498 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/k-j-parker-and-the-tragedy-of-europe/ 1.255 words Growing up. my family visited the library every Wednesday. Like an automaton. I followed a set routine each time: return books. check holds. fantasy aisle. mythology aisle. science section. checkout. In a nook beside the kiosks the library housed a selection of old books for sale. 50 cents each. I habitually perused these (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:12:28 +0000 7de8d8793faba5f6663a113ae855b63b084722bc https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/morning-greatness-trumps-mail-in-voting-restrictions-blocked-nationwide-by-federal-judge/ Good Wednesday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 10:30 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:09:47 +0000 dfbe37504af0f8fcc336c2f7baece54d4b705c9d https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/08/12/news-x-world-putin-warns-west-of-retaliation/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:06:04 +0000 20da5b2f7a31cba67e0bc425a63edf7143b48062 https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent AGI is not going to happen Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:03:24 +0000 2d726cd0289f5f8994f4de8313aacb19b4bc9a94 https://www.unbekoming.com/p/what-is-disease-mongering Twenty Years After the Corporate Sponsored Creation of Disease Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:03:18 +0000 aedc2ab47aa54732a0fa156069fa13e86a8bbbb0 https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/61854/ Podcast with Ian Pilon. I’m on the road through next Monday. Posting will be somewhat oddly scheduled. There is a special post tomorrow [Thursday]. Be ready for it. All my… Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 14263b95da5063ccb684425ac788cffc03200589 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/08/12/how-to-prevent-suicides-or-assess-those-amongst-us-who-may-be-vulnerable-to-suicide/   Or how Ofcom prevents Britons from seeing some suicide prevention information. I don’t normally write about mental health topics on here. It is not... Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:57:12 +0000 cea008ed381b43814268bfad7db2897a23b49634 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/trump-administration-ends-medicaid-funding-for-sex-change-procedures-on-children/ The Trump administration announced Tuesday that Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will no longer pay for sex-change procedures for minors. ending the use (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:52:32 +0000 d1756cccba6673b91a688fc145647373aea96606 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/report-ceuta-migrants-reach-mainland-spain-despite-government-denials/ Dozens of migrants who entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta during last month’s massive border surge have reportedly reached mainland Spain. contradicting the socialist government’s (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:50:35 +0000 ec38f52d6a84b0a4692373df3a83156ae3d853b5 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/billionaire-funded-fake-news-operation (Note: A great piece of investigative journalism from Parker Thayer at the Capital Research Center) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:50:27 +0000 3ae833f6180de75200672af064e60f97eb81c24f https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/state-department-revokes-over-175000-visas-of-foreign-nationals-accused-of-crimes/ President Donald Trump’s State Department has revoked more than 175.000 visas held by foreign nationals accused of crimes since the start of last year. officials (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:50:16 +0000 e6cef0083e27da6a8417401a3373c96c172286de https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/an-east-german-soldier-looks-back-at-operation-barbarossa/ 2.035 words Bernd Schwipper In Stalin’s Crosshairs: The Red Army’s Entry into the Second World War. and the Wehrmact’s Actions in 1941 Quaker Hill. PA: Antelope Hill Publishing. 2026 Operation Barbarossa was the massive attack by Nazi Germany upon the Soviet Union that started on June 22. 1941. When viewed through the commonly understood narrative (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:36:59 +0000 605275533e243dc99f2f65128b1517a20990d9af https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-1727-monasticism-dissolution-and How Great Institutions Lose Their Legitimacy Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:12:30 +0000 2bc842d886112321c2f54c214ede768f0074ff44 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/12/dear-saint-clare-and-all-the-poor-clares-pray-for-us-2/ Happy Feast. Please join me today in praying an Ave for the intentions of our dear friend. Nurse Claire. St. Clare. who in 1215 had. much against her will been made superior at San Damiano by St. Francis. continued to rule there as abbess until her death. in 1253. nearly forty years later. There is … Continue reading 'Dear Saint Clare. and all the Poor Clares. pray for us.' Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:12:24 +0000 907674e8373b841a1c24fe2c05ff4ede2321c19d https://forbiddentexts.substack.com/p/tucker-the-last-cope Over the past year or so I allowed myself two copes. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:02:00 +0000 d6d71784c18a9a01cc2984499c409dc715c711e6 https://thegrayzone.com/2026/08/12/media-militiamen-lebanese-aipac-beirut-normalize-israel/ As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues. the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a network of business and media operatives in Washington – and a fascist Christian goon squad in Beirut – dedicated to doing Israel’s dirty work. In late July. Lebanese daily L’Orient Today exposed a wealthy banking heir named Antoun Sehnaoui as a driving force behind recent efforts to push the country to normalize relations with Israel as the apartheid state continues to occupy (…) The post Meet the media and militiamen funded by ‘Lebanese AIPAC Guy’ pushing Beirut into Israel’s hands first appeared on The Grayzone. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:14 +0000 072d9dc1ae3ad40aa9d24f666e41a50c890d39a5 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/08/medical-update.html  This is an 'omnibus post' to draw together threads from various earlier report-backs and clarify the situation for those interested.  If you don't want to know. that's OK.  Go read the bloggers in the sidebar.Regular readers will know that for the past three years or so. I've been battling some very debilitating medical issues.  One was resolved [after five hospital procedures] with the removal of my right kidney last year.  The remaining kidney seems to be working just fine. for which I'm duly grateful.The other problem is proving much. much more difficult to resolve.  Briefly. more than 22 years ago I suffered an injury to my spine.  A discectomy didn't work. so the vertebrae involved had to be fused.  Unfortunately. the injury [aggravated by almost half a year's delay in getting initial surgery. thanks to bureaucratic fumbling] resulted in permanent damage to my left sciatic nerve.  Since then. I've had limited mobility [sometimes very limited] and been in pain 24/7/365.  I've mostly kept it under control through some pretty strong pain medication. but that doesn't always work.  I've learned to grit my teeth through the bad days. and carry on regardless.About three years ago I became aware of a steady increase in pain levels in my lower back. and more frequent difficulties with nerve pain in my left leg.  Over the past couple of years I've undergone multiple CT scans. neurological examinations and other tests. but could never get doctors to agree on precisely what the problem was and/or what should be done [particularly whether a given procedure would solve all my problems. or require other procedures to deal with some of them].  Eventually. in sheer frustration. a couple of months ago I asked for my case to be referred to a top neurosurgeon in Dallas. to ask for his opinion.Well . . . I've received his opinion. and I don't like it [not that complaining helps - it's about as much use as farting against thunder].  Basically. he says that yes. several of my lumbar vertebrae need attention.  However. since the exact issues affecting my pain. mobility. etc. can't be accurately determined. the vertebrae involved should not be fused until that is known. because surgery could not be guaranteed to fix things.  Lacking such certainty. other treatment options should be pursued.All right. then.  We move on to dealing with the symptoms until such time as we can more precisely define the cause.  I've been consulting a pain management specialist for some months. and will discuss the neurosurgeon's opinion and future options with him on Friday.  I don't want to increase my present dosage of [opioid] pain medication. but I may not have much choice in the matter in the short term.There are three problems needing to be fixed. or at least alleviated.The damaged nerve in my left leg. and its root in the [compressed] spinal cord. are affecting my balance to an ever greater extent.  I've always been slightly unsteady on my feet since my injury. but over the past couple of years this has gotten worse.  I now have to use a walking stick to cover anything other than short distances. in case the nerve 'shorts out' for a second or two and dumps me on the ground.  Thank heavens for shopping carts - without them. I couldn't walk around a supermarket for long.  I've had a couple of bad falls. most recently just last week. where I had to call for help to get up again.  When your left leg and hip has turned into a useless meat deadweight and won't respond to your nerve signals at all. it makes life rather tricky.  Still. I won't complain too much about it.  There are people who've suffered the same injury I did who never walked again.  Compared to them. I'm well off.  If worse comes to worst. I guess I may have to look at a mobility scooter or something like that. although I really don't want to use one.The balance issues appear to be conflicting with pain management.  I've been wearing a back brace for several months while walking. which does alleviate some of the pain and helps me stay on my feet longer [and lift things more easily when that becomes necessary].  However. the more often [and longer] I wear the back brace. the less steady my gait becomes and the easier it is to lose my balance.  When I think about it. it was compression of the nerve in the first place [during my original injury] that caused my ongoing problems. so it's perhaps logical that adding additional compression via a back brace may aggravate things.  A neurological Catch-22. perhaps. That will be a topic for discussion with the pain management specialist on Friday.Some of the newer treatments [for example. caudal epidural steroid injections - of which I've had two so far [ouch.] - and. potentially. radiofrequency ablation for pain management. which is a convoluted medical term meaning they cauterize nerve endings] have side effects that can cause and/or aggravate other problems.  [For example. hope and pray they cauterize the right nerve[s]. because there's no coming back from that if they don't.]  If I'm to continue with such methods. I need to understand precisely what's involved. and decide whether the promised benefits are worth the almost inevitable downsides.  On the other hand. what [if any] are the alternatives.Financially. we're coping.  In case you missed earlier posts on this subject. I've had to argue ad nauseam with bureaucrats in both workers comp [for my original injury] and a medical insurer [for current problems].  Neither wants to pay. seeking instead to pin the responsibility for the situation on the other.  Meanwhile. since we can't wait for them to sort out their turf wars. we've had to pay our own way up front.  We hope to recover at least some of that money from one or the other agency in due course.  Thanks to reader generosity during my fundraiser last year [and a few who've continued that support since then - shout out to C. in particular.]. plus our savings. plus a second mortgage on our home. we've been able to cope with the bills racked up so far [several tens of thousands of dollars].  We remain deeply grateful for your help and support. without which our lives would be a whole lot more complicated right now.Anyway. that's the state of my health so far.  Thank you again to everyone who's supported us. and inquired after my health. and sent up prayers for us.  All are greatly appreciated.Peter Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:44:00 +0000 b5d617f081b749d6999fb4524a64a5ac33623bc0 https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/strait-of-hormuz-nearly-deserted/ —– Click Here: Martin Armstrong   The post Strait of Hormuz Nearly Deserted appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:37:06 +0000 19f3f7c2b9dec3238e06ded374bedd5ecc151fd4 https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/08/pope-leo-xiii-and-freemasons-alta.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000 65562e995c9467524686edfc802d649a6cc6b1b9 https://korybko.substack.com/p/polands-leading-conservative-opposition They’re competing with one of the libertarian-nationalist parties over who has the most hardline position towards Ukraine and its people as public opinion towards them sours. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:17:25 +0000 ad1ab345113783e1866036bfc9f413a0dcfabd6a https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/08/tea-in-poolside-cafe.html There's a café called The Poolside Café in UCD. It's beside the fifty-metre indoor swimming pool that dominates the cavernous Student Centre. I like to drink tea and coffee there. read a book. and enjoy the atmosphere of the swimming pool-- the sounds. the beautiful colour of the water. the shimmering light. etc. [The pool itself isn't pay-as-you-go and the annual fee is more than I would want to pay.]I bought a cup of tea there at the weekend. The tea in the poolside café costs 1.50. which is cheaper than you'll get anywhere-- except. perhaps. a church fete or a school jumble-sale or something like that. All the same. they only ever fill two-thirds of an already small paper cup. I like my beverages filed to the brim. [And in a big mug. for preference.]The lady serving me asked if I wanted her to leave room for milk. I said: 'Yes'. When she handed it to me. it was half-way filled. I said with a smile: 'That's a LOT of room.' If she heard me. she didn't react.The thing is...why did I say 'Yes' when she asked me if I wanted to leave room for the milk. I foresaw clearly what would happen.I suppose I said it because I can't imagine replying: 'No. you already leave more than enough room for the milk. thank you very much.'Or because I can't imagine just saying: 'No'. and then putting milk into it in front of her.What abominable cowardice. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:11:20 +0000 aa2e590ee9a0eb1c289d281c2e25c01fecc7815e https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/the-pope-as-an-attention-whore-bishop-eleganti-almost-says-what-we-think-out-loud/ Bishop Emeritus Eleganti. a man I remember writing Catholic stuff also in the past. has a beautiful article about the modern phenomenon of the “superstar pope” [and superstar with the wrong people. which is even worse]. I invite you to read the article. Notice. by the way. that that Roman attic where the Bonino woman (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:05:42 +0000 2ae137d880d9d23289986d329184170480757acb https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/08/we-dont-get-any-details-but-ill.html A reader writes to the 'Guardian':I was outside London Waterloo railway station and was looking for a bin to dispose of an empty coffee cup. The only bin I could see was completely full. but there was a plastic bag containing rubbish at the base. I put my cup in that bag and was stopped by an enforcement officer. who had been standing at a distance watching the bin. He told me I had violated the law and refused my offer to remove my cup. After printing out a penalty notice. he remained in the same spot watching the overflowing bin. It seemed like a set-up. I discovered I had been fined £500. payable within 28 days and reduced to £325 if paid within 14 days. There is no right of appeal. and failure to pay could result in prosecution and a £2.500 penalty. Can you advise me.The chances of him [or her. the article doesn’t make it clear] being anything else are so infinitesimal as to be invisible to the naked eye.  And the 'Guardian' duly looks into the case:I asked Lambeth council why people who were evidently unaware they were committing an offence were not given warnings instead of fines. It said that to be “consistent and fair.” it fined everyone. and it justified imposing the highest allowable penalty as a deterrent. The south London council reportedly issued the second-highest number of fines for littering over a 12-month period. It outsources its enforcement to the parking company APCOA but says the company does not keep any of the revenue raised or receive incentives to issue tickets. It refused to cancel your fine. If you challenge it in court. you lose the early payment discount. So my advice to you is to pay up through gritted teeth and stick to official bins in future.Of course that’s the advice. But what a lot of words to say ‘just pay up sucker. it’s an unfair world but we should just accept it because ‘fairness’ is a white supremacist concept.’  Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 8467f3981fb22455673a369a9426fb1208e1e386 https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-european-bible-re-reading-the by Dominique Venner Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:57:07 +0000 e636fe83d6b1d3edddf565517828b88b4eeff790 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU8d8hzLnK8 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:45:11 +0000 0f6aa70444dbeae83bacfcdf75fc666bba20f24e https://onepeterfive.com/the-baroque-composer-who-influenced-bach-vivaldi/ A voice that shaped the Baroque. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:16:00 +0000 3d7954b61a017e2c6a5c1126e9569e7273f6b112 https://substack.aicentral.blog/p/the-battle-for-android Google is retiring its Assistant and attempting to block app sideloading. while the EU is ordering that Android remain open to rival AI services. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:01:25 +0000 e47ed8b026ae81662057e3bb54b4c316386a5845 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feo2znBy8Zk Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:00:13 +0000 89356d2fa63073180fe9ada24e276e37c4b8a0e4 https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/is-andy-burnham-about-to-call-a-snap The case for a snap election is clear - will Labour take it. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:54:15 +0000 a1f3ae0a4666a5bfa14317daaaf3bdb8eaa8a8b6 https://korybko.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-the-wests-top-proxy-for They’re duking it out in Mali. Libya. and Sudan right now. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:16:33 +0000 1759fbaf08b08c20eba68ad6fa7e355a879f07df https://www.noticer.news/ndis-lifetime-bans-consultant-auditor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ndis-lifetime-bans-consultant-auditor The pair allegedly colluded to register providers. The post NDIS bans two people for life and cracks down on 240 providers first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:09:48 +0000 d825a3be1dd672cccb410f93988bed38f7584243 https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-cementing-concreting-sexytary-face.html  This is what I have to deal with every day at work.  Scrap metal rebar cause its cheaper than sellin for scrap and buying actual rebar.  1 part cement. 2 parts sand. 3 parts gravel.  Water and a bit of dish soap for plasticizer. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:04:44 +0000 f283fd6938521720c9df16315aea03cd9f7fb00e https://rairfoundation.com/allah-i-will-kill-you-vienna-case-jihadist/ A 15-year-old son of Iraqi refugees turned a free Viennese schoolgirl into his Sklavin. forcing conversion. the hijab. and repeated rape while invoking Allah’s name to threaten death. exactly reproducing the Quran’s category of ma malakat aymanukum. “what your right hands possess.” The post 'By Allah. I Will Kill You': The Vienna Case and the Jihadist Model of Enslaving Non-Muslim Girls appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:02:20 +0000 f41e7fbc622797ba97689a0e438e6e96827f208f https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/the-delusional-premises-of-woke-greens/ While the burgeoning democratic socialist movement is getting a lot of attention in advance of the 2026 midterm elections. a parallel dimension of wokeism quietly (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:38 +0000 1050ea6d4c7b7879a6ac406e6c89d7ef133c7d1b https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/the-cultural-revolution-is-in-full-swing/ It’s no secret that socialism is advancing in the U.S. The latest development in this ominous trend occurred on August 4. when Abdul El-Sayed. a (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:20 +0000 e140efbc88581bacb5bb49cf5d74de78e1ad7c49 https://restoremag.com/britains-quiet-war-on-democratic-public-scrutiny/ The British state rarely hides things now. It makes them hard to find. A court archive ordered deleted. statistics quietly demoted. a watchdog drowning in its own postbag. and a tribunal to stop you counting. A government that can say anything. and be checked on almost nothing. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:10 +0000 d9afee285946dca6c47f897a32fc148e10310a5d https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/12/battle-lines-accountability-will-be-the-dividing-issue-in-the-midterms/ Over Easter. Matt Ford suggested Donald Trump might one day soon be hunted down by the International Criminal Court and put on trial like a (…) Source Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:07 +0000 1a150c756f8807906378c90adb655d29906ce2a2 https://sigmaframe.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/how-the-red-pill-contributes-to-the-gender-gulf/ Record numbers of women are demonizing men and masculinity. largely due to EdJeWm@c@t.0n. Continue reading → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000 d426bffbd0c8d096cc381df93f4b608913406cb6 https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/spineless-vucic-and-the-escape-of Alexander Dugin delivers a blistering verdict on Serbia’s dangerous turn. the coming energy collapse of Europe. and the irreversible moment when artificial intelligence slipped the leash and began... Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:43:31 +0000 18e6590cf017d541f13fa6e7959d7a61c854fa12 https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/08/12/starting-saturday-off-right-happy-haters-edition/ St. Clare of Assisi. whose feast is today.. I am always struck by the Mass of a Virgin Not a Martyr. specifically the Introit. which is: Thou has loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God. Thy God. hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Psalm 44: 8 First of all. this (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:22:00 +0000 e9f4f5ea666350ab36c5761d71b7954029dc6371 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/trumps-main-policy-is-making-himself.html 'Trump's main policy is making himself the center of attention.' Michael Wolff'Israel has unveiled its vision for Palestine-which is none. No Palestine between the river and the sea. The genocide is a state enterprise. The apartheid is a state enterprise. There is no good Israel and bad Israel -it's all Israel. Sanction Israel. Isolate Israel. Cut trade. No more arms. The Nakba has never been over.' Francesca Albanese. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories'When the entire EU/French establishment tells you that the Russians want to manipulate the next French election you know .for sure 100%. that they’re planning to do that themselves.' Thomas Fazi'Russia has been dragging their feet in the off chance that the Europeans would come to their senses. Guess we'll see if a Ukrainian 'No Fly Zone' finally pushes them over the edge.' Tucker CarlsonBrian Berletic's latest message to the world.2023 RAND Corporation Paper Lays Out Current US War on Multipolarism▪️specifically mentions a US war with Iran as a means of targeting Chinese energy security. ▪️Acknowledges the US is part of 'Ukraine's' kill chain. ▪️Mentions US backed 'color revolution' to destabilize China's Belt and Road partners and potential partners. ▪️Discusses use of Uyghur terrorists in Syria among US-backed terrorists for use against China. Keep this big picture in mind vs. the daily political circus deliberately used to distract you away from it... The full document is here: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA900/RRA969-1/RAND_RRA969-1.pdfDaily Telegraph headline 9 August 2026:Stephen Pollard Restore Britain’s talk of Gaza ‘genocide’ is as ridiculous as the Left’s Genocide requires state intent. Instead. Israel deserves praise for the humanitarian care it has taken in its fight against terrorists deliberately Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:12:34 +0000 d91f66b19494929b2bb23738b8caf88842ac41bc https://www.amerika.org/politics/a-unifying-theory-of-dark-organizations/ It was initially thought that Dark Organizations could not be fixed. The deepest challenge in reforming one is caused by the “ego problem.” From a Western perspective male egos are under-developed meaning the ego does not “balance” the personality. Even after the Abu Ghraib scandal. the U.S. Department of Defense implemented structural reforms. but the (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:32:21 +0000 d0003248eac89bdceb06fab518162a747ecea7e6 https://www.noticer.news/spanish-gender-violence-campaigner-murdered-moroccan-boyfriend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spanish-gender-violence-campaigner-murdered-moroccan-boyfriend Foreigners are overrepresented in gender violence killings. The post Spanish gender violence campaigner allegedly murdered by Moroccan boyfriend first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:30:53 +0000 e4c4e062c3f15b0a83ace950c67c7b3e75e4adc9 https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/a-strong-recommendation-from-fr-z/ Dear readers. I warmly recommend the content of the blog of Fr. Ermatinger from “soup to nuts”.  He has amazing talks. great sermons. and salutary messages. Just Go.   HERE [PS: Right now he is talking about angelology. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:58:15 +0000 f80c00fd133d9cc5a10c0c91b568de81d3f468e0 https://theothermccain.com/2026/08/12/in-the-mailbox-08-11-26-evening-edition/ — compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Doug Ross: The Duel That Changed America [1804]. A Day Unearthing Treasure At Troy [1873]. and A Day of Carnage at Shiloh [1862] 357 Magnum: LA County Sheriff Agreement on Concealed Carry EBL: Deleted Scenes From Fury. Fish Cakes. Julius Caesar and The (…) Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:48:36 +0000 ec4c4fa252234707657753f0e5186642b0b07f3d https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/12/august-12th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-570/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=august-12th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-570 In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread. Posted in (…) The post August 12th – 2026 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day 570 appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:20:19 +0000 74badf35f8106ae2d4e6f1772de05a8e01e4a9ef https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/12/readers-links-for-aug-12-2026/ Each day at just after midnight Eastern. a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the Continue Reading → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:38 +0000 fab35dcb826004b665bf7e6f52ece699da92f7af https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/pepe-escobar-a-secret-diplomatic-deal-taking-shape-in-iran/ Comments open on YouTube The post Pepe Escobar: A Secret Diplomatic Deal Taking Shape in Iran appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 ebc29490b33757fc63f36998341ce2f55fcf2b4e https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/substance-beats-labels-in-fighting-marxism/ In a recent controversy over ideological indoctrination at the Smithsonian museum. one member of staff mockingly said. “I didn’t realize all my colleagues were Marxists.” The implication is that their critics are using the label “Marxist” to denote any historical interpretations with which they disagree. The museum’s staff insist that their only goal is to offer (…) The post Substance Beats Labels in Fighting Marxism appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 f91d4fd00fe57d2c5202d759e5cb063ffa249bcf https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/the-stopwatch-doesnt-lie-why-biology-not-gender-identity-defines-womens-sports/ On July 16. 1988. Florence Griffith-Joyner sprinted 100 meters in 10.49 seconds at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Nearly four decades later. no woman has run faster. and her world record still stands. Her 200-meter record. set at the Seoul Olympics later that year. has also stood for almost forty years. Flo-Jo remains the fastest woman who has (…) The post The Stopwatch Doesn’t Lie: Why Biology — Not Gender Identity — Defines Women’s Sports appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 dde54890dff8cf91bd3f8dd26c1497fedcbb8b3e https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/energy-crisis-hurts-the-us/ It appears that the energy crisis stemming from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict is already having an impact even within the US. In a recent move. the Indiana state government suspended fuel taxes to help mitigate the crisis’s effects. as the region faces an energy emergency.   In a recent statement. Indiana Governor Mike Braun urged US authorities (…) The post Energy Crisis Hurts the US appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 8ebda983ccf06b62b74f4b928048709ac8e319a7 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/david-stockman/the-silver-lining-the-donalds-impending-defeat-in-iran-may-finally-bring-the-empire-home/ It is damn obvious that Washington has lost Donald Trump’s idiotic war on Iran. After all. it is now five months since the opening salvos of Operation Epic Fury on February 28. which was advertised to last only 3-4 weeks. Instead. the conflict has settled into a grinding. inconclusive stalemate at best. and. more importantly. (…) The post The Silver Lining: The Donald’s Impending Defeat in Iran May Finally Bring the Empire Home appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 69ad7de088b971eadd8099ffc5a36900da3c0285 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/on-call-dr-faucis-memoir/ I went back and reviewed an essay I wrote in Feb. 2024 about Anthony Fauci’s forthcoming memoir. On Call: A Doctor’s Service. which was published by Viking a few months later to rave reviews such as the following: “An eventful autobiography (and) a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post “One of the most consequential and most prominent (…) The post ‘On Call’: Dr. Fauci’s Memoir appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 e6cad68f3837327f7f55d16cc7a3cea4805f9924 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/charles-hugh-smith/ai-and-the-delusions-of-increasing-productivity/ Most of AI isn’t productive. it’s just another form of consumption. Like GDP [Gross Domestic Product]. economic Productivity is an unquenchable spring of delusions. delusions being pushed to new heights of delirium by promises of endless leaps of productivity as AI is deployed in every nook and cranny of the global economy. Let’s start with (…) The post AI and the Delusions of Increasing Productivity appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 7b11fc1d4ba2406a3947f852188e1d8cfd72e551 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/medical-boards-banned-from-punishing-doctors-who-reject-govt-covid-narrative/ A California judge has forbidden medical boards from investigating. prosecuting. accusing. or sanctioning doctors “based on the viewpoint of the information. recommendations. or advice they give a patient about COVID-19. including their departure from the position of the public health authorities.” While the ruling technically applies only to three doctors who were plaintiffs in the (…) The post Medical Boards Banned From Punishing Doctors Who Reject Gov’t COVID Narrative appeared first on Lew Rockwell. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 bf4108f9cdef51514ae28cf398318eaa492c2f11 https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/who-are-the-white-hats Richard Lighthouse describes the White Hats. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:52:00 +0000 33d8c849cdae54e0dab540b4bb4f7586626dbf46 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8-11-2026/ A new German poll shows 71% of citizens support limiting migration. Meanwhile. former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. in his campaign for the 2027 presidential election. is calling for immigration quotas. In other news. Firestorm Labs has produced 3D-printed drones … Continue reading → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:44:26 +0000 9b296cd95d5ccd47d6592b081d25f8a500834ad9 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/when-will-the-covid-era-bishops-be-held-accountable/ When Will the Covid-Era Bishops Be Held Accountable. When Will the Covid-Era Bishops Be Held Accountable.The United States Senate will soon vote whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer a Senate committee’s questions. On July 29. the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing in which Fauci. former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases repeatedly invoked the Fifth ... Read more The post When Will the Covid-Era Bishops Be Held Accountable. first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:37:39 +0000 cafb2470a201af735d112e213bc786d2cc813a44 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/bishop-strickland-asks-whether-vatican-ii-surrendered-to-modernism/ Bishop Strickland Asks Whether Vatican II Surrendered To Modernism Bishop Strickland Asks Whether Vatican II Surrendered To ModernismBishop Joseph Strickland questioned in a recent video address whether the Second Vatican Council compromised with the modern world. Strickland highlighted the dangers of modernism as well as Pope St. Pius X’s warnings against this “synthesis of all heresies.” The bishop pointed out that in 1910 the saintly pope required priests. bishops. and others “entrusted ... Read more The post Bishop Strickland Asks Whether Vatican II Surrendered To Modernism first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:25:18 +0000 2656478f0e6c90a2737182b4ea98b7515837096e https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/the-emperors-new-clothes-bishops-edition/ The Emperor’s New Clothes — Bishops Edition The Emperor’s New Clothes — Bishops EditionAs a short commentary on our capacity for self-delusion. it’s hard to improve on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of the emperor. the tailors. the little child. and the invisible suit. If you recall. the ploy used by the two swindlers is to claim that the Emperor’s beautiful clothes could only be seen by those who ... Read more The post The Emperor’s New Clothes — Bishops Edition first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:16:18 +0000 bc88fc03e921ba1a17f591aac15a8ec5c80cffd9 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/vast-majority-of-usccb-funding-in-2024-came-from-u-s-taxpayers/ Vast Majority Of USCCB Funding In 2024 Came From U.S. Taxpayers Vast Majority Of USCCB Funding In 2024 Came From U.S. TaxpayersA financial investigative study conducted by Brian Chau revealed that 82% of the budget for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops [USCCB] in 2024 came from government contracts and grants. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops [USCCB] is one example. The FY2024 USCCB audit reports revenue of S180.4M from government contracts and grants. ... Read more The post Vast Majority Of USCCB Funding In 2024 Came From U.S. Taxpayers first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:03:19 +0000 095a16ee5981d57376f1c23fa12cae12f2bb4eee https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/spanish-soldiers-prepare-for-a-renewed-invasion-of-ceuta/ As you all know by now. late last month a new migration crisis exploded in Ceuta. one of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa. Tens of thousands of African migrants [possibly as many as 72.000] swam around or broke through … Continue reading → Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:49:58 +0000 e954988c7e456bc583649c1a4cad81c04b4b6ca6 https://sonar21.com/trump-wants-2000-more-patriot-interceptors-a-year-but-xi-jinping-holds-the-trump-cards/ The Trump administration. following several media reports of a plague of weapons shortages. is trying to launch a frantic effort to reload. After two wars — Ukraine and the 2026... Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:39:43 +0000 b1b810aade11795e6878ed0b2b7063e8b0bf0282 https://gunnerq3.substack.com/p/manufacturing-a-hero-in-twin-falls The State hates and fears heroes. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:22:15 +0000 90cba13096c959fd98db85630209b5657d74f7ed https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/cardinal-marx-reconfirmed-in-the-curia-despite-challenging-rome-with-homosexual-blessings/ Cardinal Marx Reconfirmed in the Curia. Despite Challenging Rome with Homosexual Blessings Cardinal Marx Reconfirmed in the Curia. Despite Challenging Rome with Homosexual BlessingsBarely two weeks after receiving Marx in audience following the letter from the 26 priests. the Pope confirms him at the head of the body that oversees the finances of the Holy See. Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new group of members to the Council for the Economy this Tuesday and has confirmed Cardinal ... Read more The post Cardinal Marx Reconfirmed in the Curia. Despite Challenging Rome with Homosexual Blessings first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:17:27 +0000 4aab1cb3288e03b49b7342ba0b6ddc941c814fae https://warroom.org/warroom-battleground-ep-1065-us-disability-assistance-hits-all-time-high/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/11/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post WarRoom Battleground EP 1065: US Disability Assistance Hits All Time High appeared first on War Room. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:15:30 +0000 6a4abe68ed0914312a5844454390445bfc80af5f https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/hahawewonalbertaisnewamritsarnowsahibs/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:20:55 +0000 9f1fa9f0c175026548a14f605621df39742fa2c7 https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/on-women This thread is direct. uncompromising and essentially accurate. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:31:22 +0000 8cf57b91357461a6460394455e5e3b1516ebecad https://www.thekurganblog.com/on-women/ This thread is direct. uncompromising and essentially accurate. Not every comment is 100% accurate. Try not to be a binary thinker. Understand the broad don’t get lost in the minutiae. https://substack.com/@darkagesage1/note/c-310465894.r=2gid6qandutm_medium=iosandutm_source=notes-share-action Subscribe Share This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here No related posts. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:31:22 +0000 492c6bec3a71fa1cbe4eeb006f29d2a1966a0d19 https://www.thekurganblog.com/on-the-continued-shadowbanning/ Subscribe Share This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here No related posts. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:24:30 +0000 0e695441808825c03683500b3e4f3bac16ab96ed https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/on-the-continued-shadowbanning Go to thekurganblog.com Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:24:30 +0000 e0954d3d463e67516254ed4454e32ffffed29c2b https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/two-tlm-pilgrimages-in-2027-worth.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:16:13 +0000 81202c4b0127ffcdfc8556f827849f09d42b74b0 https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2026/08/race-war-in-the-wnba/ The American Dilemma hits a marginal league. The post Race War in the WNBA appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:58:12 +0000 719482bb95bdf6c90f691c8189911ca4273401ef https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/conservatives-meet-to-make-birthright-citizenship-their-long-term-project/ The Supreme Court 'turned birthright citizenship into the next Roe v. Wade.' The post Conservatives Meet to Make Birthright Citizenship Their Long-Term Project appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:57:10 +0000 a058f32847a56909507f23ef3ed0b4e02fdccf92 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/vice-president-vance-says-migrant-communities-show-clear-pattern-in-federal-fraud-as-investigations-widen/ 'You definitely see patterns where certain communities.' The post Vice President Vance Says Migrant Communities Show ‘Clear Pattern’ in Federal Fraud as Investigations Widen appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:57:09 +0000 4701eefb69c55a2880bad13d2c583ddffe95a247 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/uscis-can-now-reject-your-immigration-case-without-ever-warning-you-first/ Rule from the first Trump term returns after being undone by Biden. The post USCIS Can Now Reject Your Immigration Case Without Ever Warning You First appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:57:08 +0000 782285d911ab4c6df745d7d5737680714c509ba4 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/rep-ilhan-omar-says-federal-agent-was-stationed-outside-her-monthly-town-hall-meeting-in-richfield-minnesota/ It's probably a good place to catch illegals. The post Rep. Ilhan Omar Says Federal Agent Was Stationed Outside Her Monthly Town Hall Meeting in Richfield. Minnesota appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:57:06 +0000 40c1e2fc04a233ec78ca04263c0ebbe5e5cfe780 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/i-feel-violated-spanish-woman-describes-moment-of-terror-after-moroccan-nearly-naked-migrant-snuck-into-her-bed-in-ceuta/ Perp already had a ten-year entry ban for rape and violent robbery. The post ‘I Feel Violated’ – Spanish Woman Describes Moment of Terror After Moroccan Nearly Naked Migrant Snuck Into Her Bed in Ceuta appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:57:04 +0000 f7e46126cc73c57a9a72bf99dc8090de08d056da https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/11/look-up-in-the-sky/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:55:24 +0000 8c7d213bf8c0cbd06fcc148d53354dd98f6ea5df https://rairfoundation.com/abdul-el-sayed-vowed-sacred-obligation-follow-islamic/ Muslim Democrat Michigan Senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed has previously declared his sacred 'obligation' to follow Islamic law in every aspect of his life until he dies and stands before Allah. He has claimed he does not want to subvert the Constitution and mandate Islamic law but that is part of his religion. The post Abdul El-Sayed Vowed Sacred 'Obligation' to Follow Islamic Law Until the Day He Dies appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:53:02 +0000 131f8807db87a375efa88b4e823a8a894bf9dcab https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-personal-contradiction.html I've noticed this contradiction about myself:1] I'm becoming more and more libertarian all the time. more of a believer in the principles of the American Revolution. Ten or fifteen years ago. I would have said I was a traditionalist conservative rather than a libertarian because freedom-- while it's obviously an important value-- isn't the most important value. or the overriding value.But in recent years my position has changed to this one: freedom isn't the most important value in itself. but it's the most important political value. Not only because authoritarian government always has the potential to become a flat-out totalitarian regime like the USSR or the Nazi Germany [and surely preventing that is the most important thing]. but also because of the more insidious soft tyranny we've seen creep over all publicly-funded or government-controlled institutions over the last few decades. The arm of government only stops short of your own home and your own mind. Political correctness is omnipresent. Civil society is replaced by NGOs. 'Human rights' have become an excuse to hammer society into the shape desired by our elites-- which inclines me to think that positive human rights were a mistake from the first. and we should instead favour the 'negative' human rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.Yes. corporations can be just as enthusiastic at spreading political correctness [or any other ideology] as government. But government always has the whip-hand. Recent events in America have shown this to be the case. [The fact that this whip-hand might sometimes be used for good doesn't make me any more keen on it.]2] And yet...the sort of community I would like to live in is a paternalistic and closely-knit and somewhat rigid community. I like reading about boarding schools and monasteries and old-fashioned colleges with dormitories and honour codes and all that sort of thing. I love the word 'canteen'. both because of how it sounds and because I like the idea of a communal eating space where everybody eats the same thing. or chooses from a limited menu. [The word 'canteen' is intrinsically poetic. in my view.] I want some rules that are a little bit arbitrary and nonsensical and unreasonable. I want village elders. town worthies. and city fathers...even if they have feet of clay. even if I thumb my nose at them. My own taste would not run to the maximum amount of freedom-- except in the all-important areas. such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:19:32 +0000 05b211437047dd5c15be6de216e74fdb53b51be5 https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/oaf-for-a-day/ It might be time to revive the old label “Oaf For A Day.” It hasn’t been used for a while. The increasingly useful Ad Vaticanum has it. Latest: Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz has criticised the Vatican’s June 17th Ruling … Read More → Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:14:34 +0000 dedb8086f2df7fc23080bde8d219084d9c9bd157 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-else-would-i-have-done/ As we saw in the last post. today’s women really don’t need to put in the effort. As Deti describes. She has dozens of attractive men and thousands of average men at her fingertips. She can literally order up a…Read more › Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:07:43 +0000 c1672f25ec60513dfe13064829ba2b51a52bf877 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/today-palestinians-are-jews-of-israelis.html 'Today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.' Primo Levi. author of 'If This is a Man' an account of his time in Auschwitz. in 1982 during a June 1982 interview with Filippo Gentiloni for the leftist Italian newspaper Il Manifesto. He was talking after the Sabra and Shatila massacres. where Israeli-allied Christian Phalangist militias killed thousands of Palestinian refugees while Israeli forces surrounded the camps.“For years the Dalai Lama was on the payroll of the CIA. an agency that has perpetrated killings against rebellious workers. peasants. students. and others in countries around the world. His eldest brother played an active role in a CIA-front group. Another brother established an intelligence operation with the CIA. which included a CIA-trained guerrilla unit whose recruits parachuted back into Tibet to foment insurgency. The Dalai Lama was no pacifist. He supported the U.S./NATO military intervention into Afghanistan. also the 78 days' bombing of Yugoslavia and the destruction of that country.” -Michael Parenti. The Nobel Peace Prize for War [2012] 'It was Yugoslavia's resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform. not the plight of Kosovar Albanians. that best explains NATO's war.”  John Norris. who served as the communications director for Strobe Talbott the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State during the 1999 NATO attack on Serbia in Collision Course: NATO. Russia. and Kosovo [2005]. Strobe Talbot wrote the introduction. Odd that a retired senior State Department diplomat I know says even now that NATO is a purely defensive organisation. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:39:22 +0000 ec5689bcfee96243b4729d142e740da1ebde18e5 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/there-is-no-spacex-above-spacex Elon Musk could eventually run out of exits. political capital. loopholes. government money and regulatory end-arounds. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:24:43 +0000 cb77df835b49d6f531b35a3f51e5d1535894a101 https://voxday.net/2026/08/11/sorry-not-sorry-2/ Posting has been light the last two days. for which I apologize. sort of. Although I would absolutely do it again. so I suppose I’m not actually sorry. Basically. three things are going on: DISCUSS ON SG The post Sorry. Not Sorry appeared first on Vox Popoli. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:58:51 +0000 0af16f9de7f8450e84b0219453a9d4f80a11291b https://reclaimthenet.org/britains-elite-speech-monitoring-squad-has-flagged-106-posts The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team flagged 106 social media posts. half of them in June alone. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:56:06 +0000 0f61a7dcd6c1bf0c78d9dbecd7e57568c9c6f447 https://reclaimthenet.org/axel-springer-politico-and-usa-today-palantirs-expanding-newsroom-client-list Behavioral profiling used to be something the ad tech vendor did on the other side of the glass. Now it's a line item in the publisher's own growth strategy. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:47:00 +0000 43d6773e6d670c443549bd1bc5688430577b9c16 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/neuromancer-book-club-before-we-jack Welcome to the Neuromancer book club. and thanks for being here. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:37:05 +0000 ec08b1b53aa300bf7aed1d8b4bdfc29d4028d024 https://www.petersweden.org/p/fauci-privately-warned-about-miscarriage Turns out there was concerns about the covid vaccines after all. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:34:16 +0000 61b4ff9570487b317b3d4ddb6e5030bf2dfa7ca6 https://delingpole.substack.com/p/mel-k Mel K is a conservative filmmaker. writer and podcaster who spent a decade in Hollywood as a scriptwriter in the early 2000s and witnessed its further descent into the abyss. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:30:19 +0000 94025275ae8cdea1b081df6288649d8a58a01e25 https://reclaimthenet.org/brazil-law-makes-vpn-use-an-aggravating-factor Brazil's virtual patrol rule also lets police pull connection data with no warrant. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:28:03 +0000 734487fc3784420031fed2ec680bc6b52d87c681 https://reclaimthenet.org/xbox-age-checks-hit-australian-adults-buying-18-games Every adult hands over a face or a document. and the children the rule is aimed are are still playing. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:24:14 +0000 425b94d7bd0412c1d6920311243bfe794154c5ca https://directorblue.substack.com/p/red-green-alliance-the-graphic-novel Mao Meets Mo Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:17:01 +0000 0d9e9493d177569c3e209c96eca430d6732e42d0 https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/11/its-not-about-arday-its-about-the-rot-in-colleges-thats-been-going-on-for-a-long-long-time/ I don’t know how far the rot extends to other countries. but it’s certainly pervasive in the US and Britain. I suspect it’s even worse at elite institutions than at institutions that once were thought of as being of lesser … Continue reading → The post It’s not about Arday. It’s about the rot in colleges that’s been going on for a long long time. appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:09:27 +0000 dad8c28f8dd67e66ae047f871d19f8bad0ec1fc4 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/ankle-monitors-arrests-and-lost-jobs-inside-the-new-realities-many-haitians-in-the-us-are-facing/ Some Haitians are getting ankle monitors instead of flights home. The post Ankle Monitors. Arrests and Lost Jobs: Inside the New Realities Many Haitians in the US Are Facing appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:08:22 +0000 1aeb04f8ed9c8213b634cc3d9555ffb46e6c4450 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/nc-beauty-queen-stripped-of-title-over-racist-posts-launches-legal-challenge-blames-shameful-cancel-culture/ The Honduran is accused of using the Forbidden Word. The post NC Beauty Queen Stripped of Title Over ‘Racist’ Posts Launches Legal Challenge. Blames ‘Shameful Cancel Culture’ appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:08:21 +0000 74815abda6fee8ca3d3c00caa37479a356bea7fd https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/arrests-made-in-brutal-farm-torture-as-south-africans-plan-3000-cross-white-house-vigil/ Perps were detained by a private armed security group. The post Arrests Made in Brutal Farm Torture as South Africans Plan 3.000-Cross White House Vigil appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:08:20 +0000 14454963b55a85cbd76dc68b91ed3c05d043829a https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/arday-accused-student-of-white-privilege-after-she-questioned-mark/ To be fair. he may not have been capable of reading the essay. The post Arday ‘Accused Student of White Privilege’ After She Questioned Mark appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:08:19 +0000 d5c9f68a507ca6a41073c8193a9a56875f84f096 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/drunk-diversity-rep-who-crippled-afghan-veteran-police-officer-by-dragging-him-along-road-with-her-range-rover-during-traffic-stop-avoids-prison/ She's a diversity rep at the Royal College of Physicians. The post Drunk Diversity Rep Who Crippled Afghan Veteran Police Officer by Dragging Him Along Road With Her Range Rover During Traffic Stop Avoids Prison appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:08:17 +0000 76262c56539abc6c987b2d177dbf4b7fa735ab05 https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/08/11/mailbag-its-an-abortion-shot/ Ann- Just putting it in your box to show you aren’t crazy. Or wrong. C Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:05:41 +0000 c5f6fa5ca8d099c8e94190b4400b0f3b43dbdeff https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/trump-secures-release-of-former-marine-imprisoned-in-russia-for-over-four-years/ Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman was released from Russian detention Tuesday after being imprisoned for 1.666 days on disputed charges. President Donald Trump announced on (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:56:36 +0000 b0895724adbe3b004414ab7b9af50b6b3fc6b3ec https://crez.site/2026/260811.html Given what has already happened. an armed revolt in America would be justified. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:47:12 +0000 d1294c5f0f514ef2f25638daefef800edcac6bd5 https://rairfoundation.com/insanely-gross-dsaer-francesca-hong-hates-thanksgiving-hosted/ Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong hates Thanksgiving and wants to cancel it. but she hosted a 'Feast of the Feminine' 6-course meal inspired by menstruation. This is the wacky communist DSAer that Wisconsin is about to choose as its Democrat nominee - she's leading by 22 points. The post Insanely Gross: DSAer Francesca Hong Hates Thanksgiving but Hosted ‘Feast of the Feminine’ Inspired by Menstruation appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:46:05 +0000 6ffb853e0c4b6e5154ec821f60484fd8c436b868 https://www.samizdata.net/2026/08/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-how-offender-management-is-set-up-to-fail/ I was a career policeman. My lived experience [for what it’s worth] was that. generally speaking. serious sex offenders don’t change. Hey. I’m not a criminologist or psychologist. but I spent my working life around criminals of virtually every persuasion. Sex offenders are a special breed. Even “decent honest criminals” tended to agree. On the other hand. I’ve met ex-offenders [who were. but are no longer. criminals] who’ve changed. I’m mates with a few. I have no problem with people who’ve made mistakes in their lives: we all have feet of clay and there for the grace of God go ...continue Samizdata quote of the day – How offender management is set up to fail Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:34:00 +0000 ade296309b86c742c0c7bc14bcea3a0d31346445 https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/11/aoc-giggles-her-way-to-an-excuse/ Even a writer at CNN is not impressed: “I have a local city councilman that has this saying: ‘Woke 1 was crazy.’” the New York congresswoman said on ABC’s “This Week.” before laughing. Ocasio-Cortez. who once supported defunding the police. … Continue reading → The post AOC giggles her way to an excuse appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:32:23 +0000 62465b34fce4bef90c73da24a9497968c94f7c6b https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/11/miscarriages-fauci-and-the-covid-shot/ I think Fauci was a plague on this country. He made things up regarding masks and distances. he promoted shutdowns that harmed people. and he was a self-aggrandizing narcissist. And yet I will be defending him at least somewhat on … Continue reading → The post Miscarriages. Fauci. and the COVID shot appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:18:46 +0000 a1659960dff9853d30c14e2346da71d2ea18042f https://mileswmathis.com/vance.pdf J. D. Vance. The genealogy proves he is not a hillbilly. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:59:59 +0000 8e3022b8601ea130ff92eb0c7ea9ebf8554447fa https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/obsolete.html  ... and utterly defeated. How could this be. Long explanation is coming.  Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:34:42 +0000 e4dbb554fa7166581054942574b1c34ca913fb1f https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/mike-stone-dumps-on-.html Stone--'Do you really believe that Tucker. Marjorie Taylor Green. Thomas Massie. and Candace Owens are being allowed to say what they are saying without someone in a position of power granting them permission to say it.'Makow Disclaimer- Clearly a new political party that rejects [[[dual citizens]]] and candidates that take AIPAC money is the only way forward for the US. I disagree with Mike. Tucker Carlson and his associates are courageous patriots that deserve our wholehearted support. They don't deserve this article.What do you think.  [hmakow@gmail.com]by Mike Stone[henrymakow.com]As you've probably heard. Tucker Carlson is preparing to start his own political party. Assisting him are Marjorie Taylor Green. Thomas Massie. and others. Last week. Tucker released his party's 'manifesto'. a 10-point plan that. among other things. comes right out and accuses Israel of pushing the United States into the Iran war.Nothing gets reported in the mainstream or alternative media unless someone with money and power wants it reported. And that's especially true when it comes to politics. There is no such thing as a political movement that begins or blossoms organically. And that applies to Tucker's new political party.In times past. when America First individuals attempted to gain political traction. like Father Coughlin and Elizabeth Dilling in the last century. and more recently Andrew Anglin and his Daily Stormer Book Clubs in this century. they were crushed by the powers that oppose them. (Makow- Not exactly. By 1934. Coughlin was perhaps the most prominent Catholic speaker on political and financial issues. His radio audience included tens of millions of Americans every week. Historian Alan Brinkley wrote that 'by 1934. he (Coughlin) was receiving more than 10.000 letters every day' and that 'his clerical staff at times numbered more than a hundred.')Seeing Tucker and his minions get away with what they are currently getting away with tells you that there is serious money and political power behind them. Someone with money and power wants Tucker and his party front and center. There's also Tucker's personal history. After all. when has Tucker Carlson ever done anything for altruistic reasons. When he has ever done anything for anyone other than himself.At the height of his popularity with Fox News he had an opportunity to tell the world that Israel was behind 9/11. I admit that would have gotten him fired and as such it might have been unrealistic for us to expect him to do that. However. rather than lay low and ignore the issue. Tucker came out and blasted the 9/11 Truth movement. Called them liars and charlatans and worse. In essence. he helped cover up the truth about 9/11.Then a strange thing happened. Charlie Kirk was assassinated and in the blink of an eye. Tucker Carlson began speaking negatively of Israel. even going so far as to say they had prior knowledge of 9/11. [Makow- D'uh]Candace Owens and others also made an immediate switch after the Kirk 'assassination' and began attacking Israel.Do you really believe that Tucker. Marjorie Taylor Green. Thomas Massie. and Candace Owens are being allowed to say what they are saying without someone in a position of power granting them permission to say it.Do you really believe that they are getting away with attacking Israel. while others of lesser influence are censored. cancelled and banned for saying much milder things. WHO'S PULLING TUCKER'S If you accept the premise that Tucker isn't starting a new political party because he wants to save America. but instead because it's what someone in power is paying him to do. then the question arises: Who's paying him.It's not 'the Jews'. Not when Tucker is calling out Israel. Granted. there's a possibility that he's being paid to act as controlled opposition. But controlled opposition wouldn't go so far as he's gone in calling out Israel.So this is where it gets interesting. Who has the money. the power. and the motive to pay Tucker to call out Israel and launch his own political party - a party that will likely run Thomas Massie for president.Who has the money. the power. and. most importantly. the clout to stand up to Israel and organized Jewry..It's not an individual. because no single individual wields that level of power.It's not a foreign country. because no foreign country stands to gain anything by what Tucker is proposing to do. In fact. Canada. Mexico. and all of our so-called European allies would be steadfastly opposed to an America First political party.So who is it.  Any guesses.Well. if you're an evidence guy like I am and you believe. as I do. that the Jeffrey Epstein 'suicide'. the Charlie Kirk 'assassination'. and our current 'war' with Iran are all fake and gay. then the only logical answer is military intelligence.Who else has the clout to assemble the team that Tucker has so far put together. [I'm sure Candace Owens will be in there too sooner or later.] Who else would dare stand up to Israel - and live to tell about it. Who else stands to gain from Tucker's new political party. It has to be military intelligence. a White Hat operation meant to gather all the pro-Trumpers who have since turned against Trump. and all the anti-Trumpers who have been against him from the beginning into one camp.Unless. of course. you truly believe that Tucker and his cohorts are doing what they're doing entirely on their own. out of the goodness of their hearts. while spending their own money to get it off the ground. and without being totally shutdown and crushed by the Deep State. If that's the case. I have a bridge in Baltimore I'd like to sell you.-----Mike Stone is the author of the new book How to Meet and Attract Girls . . . and Why You Shouldn't   and Teen Boy's Success Book: the Ultimate Self-Help Book for Boys. Everything You Need to Know to Become a Man Related - Elizabeth identified Judaism as satanic before most. Here is her exegesis of the Talmud. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:26:42 +0000 9fba05536012400782288c40d7b44584c8631b39 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/this-is-who.html  ... combined West supports. And that is why there is nothing to discuss with it. The fact that the US supports them and turns the blind eye to it. merely shows the nature of modern Washington D.C. and why the US debased itself and continues to do so while proclaiming lofty goals. But then again. Nobody in Russia believes the West. In fact. Russian hatred of the West is now in the open and. as I repeat ad nauseam. Russians are very wrong people to fuck with. Now working on this new title:Even when summarizing in the first chapters delusions of the military grandeur by the US and especially as it constantly tries to parallel itself to ancient Rome--audacity born out of ignorance--one has to diagnose the US 'intellectual' elite as uncultured. primitive and incompetent. Alexis de Tocqueville was right when describing American 'garrulous patriotism' which today turned into caricature. Jason Arday. while nominally British. is an Exhibit A and a logical conclusion of this class' degeneracy.  Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:03:47 +0000 225a23a5813467a968e354f2809b58d572f95cf5 https://delarroz.com/2026/08/11/the-long-time-asimovs-science-fiction-editor-needs-our-help/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:00:38 +0000 84e623504c72c14d6bf18279be6bc33a583862f8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNXqOnDy9U Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:00:19 +0000 0a720db9cfcad8abecafb482d864db9637258ccd https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/you-dont-hate-elite-academia-enough Amazing but true. Two new stories show just how deep the DEI rot has gotten. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:54:33 +0000 b0c4a702ded5233bcd2a0c0f374d16b4c5dc690f https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/in-this-podcast-on-george-galloways.html In this podcast on George Galloway’s MOATS [The Mother of All Talk Shows] Professor Jeffrey Sachs described the war in Ukraine as 'the Crimean War version 2' and said that dating back to the 1990s it has been US policy to encircle Russia via Nato expansion in the Black Sea.  America wanted  to contain Russia as England and France did in 1852.The first Crimean war could easily have been triggered by events in what is now Romania rather than in Jerusalem. It was the result of mistakes and inept diplomacy just like this one. Professor Sachs makes the pretty obvious point that the U.S. is the main driver of global conflict and has become a force for ill in the world. Who can deny that.He admires Franklin D Roosevelt and John F Kennedy and thinks America was a force for good led by them. He thinks the latter was almost certainly killed by the American 'security state'.He often says it was the CIA.Until recently I dismissed this and most conspiracy theories but security states exist to conspire and the US and British ones are exceptionally ruthless. I think the whole of American history shows the country to be expansionist -- even the revolution was fought partly because London restrained Americans from warring against Indians - but Kennedy was much better in foreign policy than his successors or the baleful Eisenhower who spurned unrepeated opportunities to end the cold war.After seeing the failed US-Israeli attempt to regime change Iran this year it is very hard to doubt that 2014 Kiev was a US regime change operation that succeeded.  For many including Professor Sachs [but not me] it was always obvious. But senior British diplomats and a senior US diplomat I spoke to denied it and I think were sincere.  The American even worked close to Victoria Nuland. Why can't America become isolationist again and Nato be disbanded. Because it is easy to start wars but hard to end them. We all know that by now. By hunting the world looking for Hitlers to fight. the Americans have come to resemble their greatest foe.Is România therefore reprising a role she played before. Key quotations from Jeffrey Sachs in the podcast: 'Every major war has the United States as the main cause behind it... The war in Ukraine. though it's unfortunately not obvious to many people. is a war that was provoked by the United States by a plan dating back to the 1990s to weaken Russia. to encircle Russia by expanding NATO around the Black Sea and surrounding Russia—a kind of a Crimean War version 2. 160 years after the first Crimean War.'This war. first of all. never would have happened had the U.S. not conspired to overthrow the Yanukovych government in 2014.'It was a game plan that followed that of Lord Palmerston and Napoleon III in the Crimean War [1853–56]... designed by the U.S. to encircle and weaken Russia.' Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:52:53 +0000 827dbb538cae2b1449da190cad785b2aa41aaecc https://rairfoundation.com/nancy-mace-unloads-cnn-host-states-brutal-truth/ Rep. Nancy Mace set the Left on fire. triggering them with one truthful statement: 'Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a trojan horse. and a threat to both national security and our republic.' They came unglued and attacked her as an Islamophobe for stating what many Americans are thinking now - Islam is a growing national security threat. The post Nancy Mace Unloads on CNN Host… States Brutal Truth that Muslims in Public Office are ‘A Trojan Horse’ appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:48:51 +0000 265758224fa2bc03ae494ee720b76fd447fa4bb8 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/newly-released-text-messages-show-fauci-knew-covid-vaccines-would-cause-miscarriages-but-pushed-the-shots-anyway/ Dr. Anthony Fauci knew in January of 2021 that the experimental COVID “vaccine” could cause miscarriages but continued to push the shots on pregnant women. (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:24:38 +0000 cc216c8c0cdbfea1e82a903016610a6f29aabcc0 https://warroom.org/episode-5581-fauci-urged-women-to-get-covid-vaccine-while-ignoring-the-risks/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/11/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post Episode 5581: Fauci Urged Women To Get Covid Vaccine While Ignoring The Risks appeared first on War Room. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:16:42 +0000 72d643baf98ab610f08f1f882750ea4e86a37c40 https://warroom.org/episode-5580-bringing-back-made-in-america-big-techs-work-around-for-h1-bs/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/11/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post Episode 5580: Bringing Back Made In America. Big Techs Work Around For H1-B’s appeared first on War Room. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:13:04 +0000 562a114d2543b106fa76cd2251ae844a6bd3c507 https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-fauci-texts-vaccines-and-miscarriages When private statements meet public declarations Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:01:42 +0000 2f840c4bda07c9da540eb78356d6fc5436d79771 https://scifiwright.com/2026/08/blasphemous-atheist-propaganda/ I saw a review of HIS DARK MATERIALS by Philip Pullman. where the reviewer. an otherwise wise and insightful commentator. cast doubt on the idea that the Trilogy was meant quite deliberately by the author to be an Anti-Narnia. that is. blasphemous atheist propaganda. With all due respect. this insightful reviewer was quite wrong and (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:50:51 +0000 beea4c8745ead019d4f1cdc878478ab3c89c39a8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2eyVt7lhGI Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:40:15 +0000 1404cd713756c8aedebc3fff8ae15a54f260516f https://delarroz.com/2026/08/11/grrm-broke-his-silence-and-his-publisher-is-selling-fans-a-wall-calendar-instead-of-a-book/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:22 +0000 f87a013090480d50be00b89383db50ce0104081e https://www.skepticaldoctor.com/2026/08/11/what-a-25-year-old-book-by-a-british-psychiatrist-can-teach-us-about-life-at-the-bottom-in-america-today/ Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews the 25th anniversary edition of Life at the Bottom in the Deseret News. finding Dalrymple’s observations about the ideology that enables the underclass as pertinent as ever. Theodore Dalrymple. the nom de plume for British physician and psychiatrist Anthony Daniels. has written for decades about his patients in prisons and hospitals. (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:13 +0000 8b1730977fb299f3566a35a35c9fc817bbf1fae5 https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/11/the-rogue-ai-psy-op-part-3-do-you-see-where-this-is-going-yet/ 'Rogue AIs' have become the lab leak theory of the tech sector. a sci-fi horror premise that flies in the face of reason. pretending to vague ideas of 'revelations' and 'accountability'. while encouraging panic as a response and social control as a solution. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:08 +0000 145d0613afb2e41ca0fd772c393c49fec3c10603 https://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2026/08/on-transfinite-gap-between-anthropos.html We cannot say this gap is infinite. because the Anthropos is situated between the poles of immanence and transcendence. or finitude and infinitude. and thus transfinite. The liminal space we inhabit is what Voegelin. borrowing from Plato. calls the metaxy. and what in psychoanalysis is called the transitional space. Whatever we call it. it is ontologically real. so any attempt to explain it away must presume its existence. The point is. any reductive sociobiological theory of the Anthropos occurs in the transfinite space for which it cannot account. so there.You’re slammin’ ‘em today. Those guys are dead in the water.Now. why is this ontological distinction between man and beast so unpopular among our tenured primates and brute factsimians. Because to acknowledge this fundamental and ineradicable discontinuity is to open the door to no end of immaterial. transcendental. and metaphysical mischief. Better to not let it open even a crack. lest the crackpots rush in.But if natural selection is not a complete. consistent. and final explanation of how we got here. then what is.I can’t solve your problems. sir.David Bentley Hart calls the Neo-Darwinian model “a partial. local. restricted truth within the embrace of a far larger. more vastly encompassing truth about the origin of life.” and he’s not wrong. Nor can “a strictly quantitative method shed light on a strictly qualitative phenomenon like consciousness. and a strictly third-person method can’t illuminate a strictly first-person experience.”The first person was the first person to speak in the first person.That is correct: like everyone else. my a priori pronouns are I AM and and no amount of third world IT IS adds up to the first-person intersubjective interiority of the former. Indeed. “The sciences don’t even have a means of asking the correct questions here.” for “We’re talking about merely apparent quantitative associations between totally qualitatively dissimilar phenomena” [Hart].Self-evidently. our own private Idaho “is wholly inaccessible to any scrutiny from outside.” Our first person experience of cosmic interiority may be a qualitative experience. but it is nevertheless an objective fact -- even the first or possibly second fact -- that we can know with absolute certitude [as will be further explained below]. This is not an intellectual game of philosophical tag whereby we can be declared IT by some eight year old materialist.Ontological cootie protection.Give Schopenhauer credit for pointing to the suicidal philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself and thus paints himself into a coroner. Let’s not do that. Rather. let us keep our eyes on the subjective intellect dynamically engaged with the intelligible objects experienced within its horizon.We know that subjects and objects exist. But why leap to the absurd conclusion that the former can be reduced to the latter. That’s not an explanation. it is the failure of one: an explaining away. precisely.Hart says something similar to Schopenhauer. that “everything that exists for us does so wholly within consciousness. and that’s part of why consciousness isn’t some discrete phenomenon among other phenomena…” Rather. it is “the very ground and possibility of any phenomenon -- phenomenality as such -- the mind’s openness both to itself and to the whole of reality.” Hart correctly asserts that “no purely empirical explanation of the relation of physical to mental events will ever be found…” Nor does the problem have anything “to do with the limitations of our current scientific techniques or knowledge.” because it is “entirely one of logic…. the notion that first-person experience could be reduced to third-person functions is utterly devoid of rational content. It is like claiming one’s height is reducible to one’s charisma.”Forget it. eliminativists. you’re out of your element.In reality. “the logical constraints that govern the sciences absolutely prohibit them from any meaningful empirical or theoretical investigation of the mind’s inner states.” so stop pretending otherwise. Suffice it to say that “as long as our thinking is confined within that barren paradigm. the presence of mind within this supposedly mindless material order will remain an enigma without solution” [ibid.]Objectively speaking. there is no view from nobody nowhere. only from somebody somewhere. And what is a somebody. Hart expresses an implicit but nevertheless blatant cosmotheandrism in affirming that “Mind and life -- and language too -- are possible only by way of a kind of ‘downward’ causation that informs their ‘upward’ evolution in particular beings.” Human language “can’t simply have been an ascent from ‘below.’” but rather “exists primarily as a ‘higher’ causality informing ‘lower’ levels of causality...”Which is entirely consistent with Polanyi’s explanation of how the higher levels enlist the boundary conditions of the lower. in the way words rely on letters. sentences on words. paragraphs on sentences. story on paragraphs. and meaning on story. all conditioned from the top down. No high class level can be reduced the grammar of its lower class neighbor. The most complete understanding of the parts of a machine and of the physical laws that govern it can tell us nothing about its function. even though the machine does not violate any laws of physics. Rather. it enlists those laws in order to transcend them.No amount of math adds up to the mathematician who understands math. Why pretend otherwise.That is correct: a transfinite distance can never be bridged by any number of finite booby steps. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:43:54 +0000 fed9ce3735074a068067b1c391a68c814d244ede https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/ukraine-increases-security-by-ending-count-of-missiles.html The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has for years bragged about its interception rate of Russian drones and missiles. Each day it published how many drones and missiles the Russian side had fired. and how many of those the Ukrainian side had wiped off the skies. The Ukrainian ‘success’ rate was far above of what anyRead more... Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:32:35 +0000 d1f5a71f736810db49ba3516ba0a6d6755a3899d https://therightstuff.biz/2026/08/11/peinovich-boskovich-episode-132/ Mike and Borz tell some shaggy ZOG stories around past diversity plagiarism scandals and Nathan Cofnas' hijacking of the Jason Arday scandal from the heroic White men who actually broke the story. We then discuss Amerikanets' article about why we went to war with Iran despite years of reports from the military and intelligence community... Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:26:16 +0000 856d890dc2ec73556a84b4e797bbb7f7de6b79b3 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/heres-how-tucker-can-win/ 1.600 words On August 1. Tucker Carlson. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her husband. Joe Kent and his wife. and Thomas Massie and his wife met at Tucker’s cabin to strategize on building a third party. movement. or organization. While I would like to see them succeed. they would likely be more effective as a pressure (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:24:14 +0000 ebb91fa7a89b9375a5daeeee63333af433b6fc96 https://warroom.org/warroom-battleground-ep-1064-hollywood-turns-its-back-on-greece-live-from-athens/     We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 8/10/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews    The post WarRoom Battleground EP 1064: Hollywood Turns Its Back On Greece. Live From Athens appeared first on War Room. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:18:05 +0000 2242b7d370195c07fc56bda023aa7d2974e5026c https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/08/11/the-bergoglian-prevostian-freemasonic-sodomitical-replacist-antichurch-currently-occupying-the-vatican-and-squatting-upon-the-usurped-and-vacant-see-of-peter-is-absolutely-the-largest-human-traffick/ Beware ANYONE who says “there’s no state of emergency.” And at this point. I’m growing AWFULLY suspicious of people who claim to not understand why the bishops and faggot priests and dyke anti-nuns are doing things that are clearly destructive to the Catholic Church. the Faith. and to what little is left of Christian Civilization. (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:14:39 +0000 04593d4c6b3e3ceafd12cef1cfc2653a37bd1351 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversity-news-august-11-2026/ --- Heavy Drinking During Pregnancy Has Nearly Tripled Since 2011. Study Finds The 0’Bama years seem to have left a psychological scar on America. Considering that most people are pathologies more than souls with agency. since they are “meat-suits” or “background people” [NPCs]. this suggests that many went into a self-pity fugue since they saw (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:11:12 +0000 0e2a619f7b5c3d01ebbeaeb428643f573eb0aab0 https://www.arthursido.com/2026/08/the-formula-is-pretty-simple.html While I haven’t been to a movie theater in a very long time. I still occasionally watch movies as soon as they become available for… Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:09:04 +0000 0a5365981fafc2c6fa3de3b3873df3c6d97d4080 https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/11/so-whats-new-on-updated-offg/ UPDATED TO ADD  – The newest posts now appear HERE on the front page under the featured and subscribe sections As promised here is a quick rundown of what’s new in the new look OffG Let’s start on the front page – most importantly perhaps is “Sections” – where you can find links to our … Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:00:02 +0000 dbf692343d9d1094853b3b91613a36f2e2c3142c https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/daily-rome-shot-1679/ Welcome Registrant: Catherine Larker I can’t not post this: Among all the clips that have gone around on X. this one remains a favorite that simply refuses to get old . pic.twitter.com/oREg2PDEKd — Enezator [@Enezator] August 10. 2026 White to … Read More → Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:37:31 +0000 92027850ce7cbf14bd9195bda0f98621a68c9253 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmNE5CQ_Bg Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:08:54 +0000 0241344afb0ea92bd56e0048b39594a017a73605 https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-party-state-german-democracy Consider three recent anecdotes from German politics: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:08:33 +0000 9e8395c919d68e73eae04b1f520f9e33b2a77597 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/private-credits-problems-just-got Redemptions were only the beginning. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:05:21 +0000 803ede7051f52356f68675d55ef42f90d0796441 https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/reasons-to-be-cheerful-a-bucketful Save This for When You're Feeling a Bit Down. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:03:03 +0000 22b9a891f2571276a8e11980ccb9fadce0c8e922 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NksHagdKWvI Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:00:38 +0000 190837455c12e15226a573a68cf073581a959996 https://www.racket.news/p/cliche-alert-return-of-the-beer-test The New York Times reverts to old form. thanks to a blue-party schism. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:48:38 +0000 55ad3cdeb96574396ce4b206826e8fd26e07a96c https://blackmon.substack.com/p/when-local-politicians-play-activist In the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvania. where the echoes of the coal industry still linger in the landscape and the local economy. a new battle over energy and technology is unfolding in the borough of Archbald. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:43:24 +0000 eacb5cce3bbb4ea3b780f41ecdadd1d0bc457472 https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/clacton-remembers Is Nigel Farage still the avatar of Real England. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:31:29 +0000 955cc48a61e02859ec017e3503206198a2cea333 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/establishing-our-movement/ 1.164 words In “Against the ‘Marketplace of Ideas.’” I argued that White Nationalists cannot model our work on a business that caters to the given ideas and preferences of the public. because currently. the public mind is very much in the hands of our enemies. Thus instead of following the public. we must lead them. (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:04:48 +0000 3e027b621fd85930b025efc89dd025d179dc921a https://swanthrone.substack.com/p/can-god-see-you-if-youre-anonymous What conceals the name reveals the soul Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:02:26 +0000 5a3a8644e85a26c1de35fc36c9c153ec0040e3f7 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/11/amid-the-covid-fauci-disclosures-lately-dont-forget-all-of-this-was-knowable-in-real-time/ Compare the following. from July 2021. as the jabs were being rolled out with jubilation:   July 6. 2021 By Mary Ann Kreitzer  I received this email the other day from my friend Fr. Tom Collins: Depopulation alert: Shocking new study reveals covid vaccine terminates 4 out of 5 pregnancies A shocking new study published … Continue reading 'Amid the Covid/Fauci disclosures lately. don’t forget. all of this was knowable in real time' Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:59:52 +0000 2768e746554659967ca888edc6678cb6e83df166 https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-evopsych In which a rebuttal is offered Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:44:13 +0000 f9c8b3d557393c6315ad4cd1749477954f028127 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/judge-blocks-nyc-mayors-luxury-second-home-surcharge-after-homeowners-sue/ A Staten Island judge has temporarily blocked New York City’s rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new luxury second-home surcharge targeting wealthy non-resident property owners in (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:31:39 +0000 8e9888e652191438a2c08a1c179fc52dffeceee7 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/bravo-bishop-of-oslo-sets-limits-on-synodality-it-is-not-up-to-us-to-decide-on-matters-of-faith-and-morals/ BRAVO. Bishop of Oslo Sets Limits on Synodality: “It is Not Up to Us to Decide on Matters of Faith and Morals” BRAVO. Bishop of Oslo Sets Limits on Synodality: “It is Not Up to Us to Decide on Matters of Faith and Morals”The Bishop of Oslo. Fredrik Hansen. has announced the convocation of the first diocesan synod of the Catholic Church in Oslo and has made clear from the outset which matters will remain outside discussion. “A diocesan synod is not a democratic assembly.” the prelate stated. recalling that. as bishop. he is obliged to exclude any ... Read more The post BRAVO. Bishop of Oslo Sets Limits on Synodality: “It is Not Up to Us to Decide on Matters of Faith and Morals” first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:31:04 +0000 9d615dde45070ad62c83da978c135a7221a33936 https://thenewneo.com/2026/08/11/open-thread-8-11-2026/ The post Open thread 8/11/2026 appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:30:36 +0000 2878582571a859d9ffb51f8e99cc03dafd2f69fa https://korybko.substack.com/p/korybko-to-tim-kirby-heres-my-critical I consider Tim a friend and respect his hard-earned authority within the “Non-Russian Pro-Russian” community. the International Russophile Movement. and among many highly esteemed people here in Russia. and that’s why I wanted to critically review his article in detail. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:29:17 +0000 c4cc8d376bc38558b98d69e06435fa8332dc7baf https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/wonderful-astonishing-news-amidst-so.html Professor William Marx posted this on X 22 hours ago.The news went almost completely unnoticed in the French media. overshadowed by the World Cup and the wildfires: artificial intelligence has succeeded in fully deciphering a charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum. as fragile as cigarette ash. without unrolling it or even touching it. It revealed a philosophical treatise on Stoicism. It took a wealth of ingenuity and technology to achieve this result. The dream has thus become reality: soon. we’ll be able to read in record time the hundreds of scrolls from that library incinerated by Vesuvius 2.000 years ago. and Greco-Latin literature will be enriched by that many unpublished texts—new tragedies or epics. perhaps. In this depressing summer. here’s a true ray of light. Long live science. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:25:03 +0000 3a2d9d2de8a23a7faa46effea6213e50663fa39a https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/bishop-lewandowski-to-celebrate-masses-for-lgbtq-individuals-families-and-friends/ Bishop Lewandowski To Celebrate Masses For ‘LGBTQ+ Individuals. Families. and Friends’ Bishop Lewandowski To Celebrate Masses For ‘LGBTQ+ Individuals. Families. and Friends’The Diocese of Providence. Rhode Island. announced two upcoming parish events for “LGBTQ+ individuals. families. and friends.” Each event includes Mass celebrated by Bishop Bruce Lewandowski. a “dedicated time for listening humbly to the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals. families. and friends.” and a community dinner. Continue reading at the Diocese of Providence The post Bishop Lewandowski To Celebrate Masses For ‘LGBTQ+ Individuals. Families. and Friends’ first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:23:43 +0000 8d5ddd841be5b77f3f5f24c8801827a7bef4f5ac https://bischofgerhard.com/2026/08/11/five-facts-women-hate/ Five Facts Women Hate From the Spitters are Quitters Black Lady 1 – Old Bitches get no love 2 – Your degrees mean nothing 3 – You don’t intimidate men 4 – Your kids are liabilities – to any man they don’t belong to 5 – Men hate extra stress BONUS point – Lacking accountability (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:16:52 +0000 f3a3fe5d87d52f9d53fd161fc1ead304f90346d9 https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/11/there-is-coordination-amongst-western-states-to-implement-tyrannical-marxism-that-is-only-deniable-if-you-dont-look-links-and-news-post-1-for-aug-11-2026/ 1. Two links which expose the state of Brazil in terms of being a fully Orwellian communist polity A: Parents jailed for not exposing children to lewd rap music and Continue Reading → Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:07:04 +0000 d2ed02cd1021e7c7f1848db0259fa2b7ce44ca04 https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kids-today-or-emergent-incentives the epistemology of restaurant service Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:04:20 +0000 1fffa7a3d35ae8bad572a6ce72dfbe1d8b54ebab https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/kevin-deanna-pitch-to-a-billionaire/ 40 words Rural America offers the fastest path to real political power for the American Right. Kevin Deanna breaks down how nationalist activists can capture county seats. back constitutional sheriffs. and turn local victories into national momentum. Also available on X. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:02:56 +0000 304889f17908f2ebaec5aa398442fbaa69beb3ca https://thetransformedwife.com/you-caught-him-looking-at-porn-on-his-phone/ A woman in my Facebook group shared that a friend of hers had caught porn on her husband’s phone. but he denies it. She asked what her friend should do. Here’s how a wise woman in the group responded: I’d first start with what the Bible states: 1 Corinthians 13:7 – Love bears all things. BELIEVES all things. hopes all things. endures all things In my opinion. believing all things means to believe your husband until proven 100 percent guilty.... Read More Read More Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:00:38 +0000 7b6dedea4fcffe0e94442215d371c2bbb8fb4a2f https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/the-laity-will-not-save-the-church/ The Laity Will Not “Save” The Church The Laity Will Not “Save” The ChurchWho is going to save our Church. Not our bishops. not our priests and religious. It is up to you. the people. You have the minds. the eyes and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests. your bishops act like bishops and your religious act ... Read more The post The Laity Will Not “Save” The Church first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:00:34 +0000 00de333ef857c3e338bf569cf9887ed5e5b8401a https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/bishop-eleganti-is-the-petrine-ministry-in-decline/ Bishop Eleganti: Is the Petrine Ministry in Decline. Bishop Eleganti: Is the Petrine Ministry in Decline.On 31 July 2026. Pope Leo XIV held a 40-minute private audience at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican with the American rock musician. poet and artist Patti Smith [born 1946]. the so-called “Godmother of Punk.” Both are from Chicago. The meeting was attended by Father Antonio Spadaro. There are several official photographs and a ... Read more The post Bishop Eleganti: Is the Petrine Ministry in Decline. first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:51:26 +0000 4a305deaab0abf65f2aad246da7940e60a4e4792 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/moral-emotions-do-not-exist-in-nature/ 3.127 words It was almost a year after I arrived in the UK when I began to realize that many English words did not mean what I had thought they meant. Until then. I doubt I had seen much difference between love and lust. happiness and stimulation. respect and deference. self-respect and arrogance. truth and (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:44:30 +0000 54841c9c90fd7a1da74dd11fdd7be6bf12974d22 https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-beats-decadence-and-disease Is mutation load to blame for their subversive literature. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:40:50 +0000 ae7aa43bcf6b6c74d3700e8007a396966f9446f4 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/08/11/pope-leos-appoints-speak-volumes/ Pope Leo’s Appoints Speak Volumes Pope Leo’s Appoints Speak VolumesOne of the first little moral lessons we learn as children is that actions speak louder than words. Countless times. my own mother would tell me after I had messed up that I “mustn’t just say I am sorry. I must show it.” etc. Trad Inc.-ers. Synodal apologists. and conservatives’ continued insistence that Leo XIV ... Read more The post Pope Leo’s Appoints Speak Volumes first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:24:30 +0000 21246b5595c33d6ab240060c85cc43b96e41b11a https://paulcraigroberts.org/apparently-the-uk-police-force-has-no-sane-members/ Apparently the UK Police Force Has No Sane Members They are too afraid to arrest a black. so they arrest (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:20:02 +0000 7d7dabd487f3c5fc2da9d004bb23b4433acb2936 https://paulcraigroberts.org/british-judge-decriminalizes-rape-if-committed-by-15-year-old-boys-2/ British Judge Decriminalizes Rape if Committed by 15-year old Boys Boys who raped two girls walked free.  No race information (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:19:35 +0000 ffb9d2efc525d03b7e3100369a1a04583c5a151d https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/the-ineffable/ Or. of that which one cannot speak. one must perforce be silent. And since this is still a music blog… That right there is the opposite of “ineffable.” you know what I’m sayin’. In her day. Gwen Stefani was very. very effable. I know. I know. she was a world-champion weirdo. that awful “I’m Just … Continue reading 'The Ineffable' Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:18:35 +0000 9f897ae27314c8c522a9d97686650b75d91e4e7a https://tldavis.substack.com/p/the-broken-machine In all the glory in the history of the United States and pre-United States. of which there is plenty. and only slightly blunted by the constant propaganda that were it not for slavery none of it would have been possible. I can only point to the fount of all human achievement: Africa. as an example. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:07:58 +0000 1a36b7072533e0c610f116d1f391a1d77b64fa5f https://www.thekurganblog.com/women-in-palaeontology/ This title may not immediately strike you as germane. but I am testing a theory. Besides. I have loved dinosaurs since a very young age. and women a little bit later after the dinosaurs. though. the similarities don’t end there. and frankly. often it would be far preferable to live in the Xenozoic Era than (…) No related posts. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:55:35 +0000 cf1a6e4075c0060b966ad13d0b436d4c7ce80bae https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/women-in-palaeontology And the dinosaurs suffered Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:55:35 +0000 abcb18a93c6e4446ecdf2a8a0f3a3520d869c183 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/08/11/the-world-changing-turtle/ There once was a little aquatic turtle who lived by a small lake in the woods.  The turtle happily swam in the waters eating minnows and basked on a rock. But one day it got an ambition.  The little turtle decided to change the world. Since its world consisted of the small body of water (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:47:31 +0000 904cface61a083b1a9a0b04dec700527e7b91825 https://www.malone.news/p/democracy-in-israel The wolf at the door. part seven: notes from the Israeli frontier Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:38:23 +0000 a46915634b88f44b69815928f9d91d0ab4e3aa5d https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/08/jesus-died-for-us-in-what-sense-is-this.html I am re-watching a 2015 TV series AD: The Bible continues. which is supposed to be a dramatization of ['based on'] the Book of Acts I had seen when it came out. It is pretty enjoyable in a melodramatic way. and worth a look - a reasonably sincere production. if you are not too concerned about embellishments and looseness. I am also reading Taliesin by Stephen Lawler [1987]. In both of these [as well as many other places. over the years] I came across the often spoken phrase that  'Jesus Died For Us' - used with a variety of meaning. some of which I personally would regard as untrue. and potentially harmfully-misleading.So in what sense is 'Jesus Died For Us' true. and what senses do I regard it as false. 1. Overall. I would say that it is untrue. in the sense that Jesus died because he had to die. because he was mortal. Jesus could-not not have died.  So if the phrase is meant. or taken. to imply that Jesus might never have died at all. ever - then this is false. 2. Sometime the phrase is used to mean that Jesus could have saved himself from being killed at the time he was killed. or in the manner he was killed. This is true. he could have saved-himself from that particular death - albeit Jesus would have died some time later. and/or in some other fashion. 3. Sometimes the phrase is used to assert that it was necessary that Jesus died in the time and manner that he did. or else Jesus would not have succeeded in his mission - and Men would not have been offered the possibility of salvation. This I regard as false. It was Not necessary for Jesus to be tortured to death when and as he was. in order to be our Saviour. In sum. Jesus needed to die in order to become The Saviour. but he did not need to die when he did and by torture and crucifixion. yet he could have saved himself from that particular death.  As usual. these surface inferences rely upon metaphysical assumptions concerning why salvation was needed. why Jesus could achieve our salvation but not God the Father. and in broad terms how salvation 'works'. Such metaphysical assumptions need to be 'in place' before we can make valid sense of 'Jesus Died For Us' -- and lacking such a grounding of the structure of basic reality. the phrase is likely to lead to [what I would regard] as a wrong and harmful understanding of the very fundamental nature of what it is to be-a-Christian: to follow Jesus. As things [mostly] are. the metaphysics and the understanding are presented the wrong way around. with the Biblical description supposedly giving us the metaphysical understanding by which it is interpreted. Or there is a dishonest [or incompetent] assertion of unavoidable circularity of reasoning. that [wrongly] states we must believe both the metaphysics and the Biblical description as a single. given. object-of-faith. The truth is that we can make no sense of anything without prior metaphysical assumptions - and these. therefore. need explicitly to be exposed as such: and set-up for evaluation.    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:07:53 +0000 5c089d68bdbc2987d75447354dbd01c82eca61d2 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/08/11/news-x-world-deadly-ukraine-strike-north-korean-missile-reportedly-used/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:07:30 +0000 02d04b65f5799dd2adc478c183f6c159ca956d76 https://www.unbekoming.com/p/what-is-a-stroke An Essay on Cerebrovascular Damage and the Drugs That Cause the Event They Claim to Prevent Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:02:58 +0000 d9322cfe492f72f31ea1bc7535b308c33655feb5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFm_bkuwxUk Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:00:26 +0000 a0532a929ca26b41bb653a26e1a21626fda9cb95 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/ronald-stein-the-coming-fuel-crisis Russian transportation fuel shortages are caused by Ukraine drone attacks. while California shortages are directly related to political over regulations Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:57:27 +0000 a2c34128b2ecc8c3f8558ce8a9b65a258a84c928 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-8102026 The Energy Transition is not happening because we are in an energy addition phase. but the real issue is that a crisis is looming in the next few years. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:51:41 +0000 c704e75a0501332df8db8429c5142799c22cbefd https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/us-government-borrows-800-billion 'Warsh can talk tough. but the math indicates he has no choice but to keep the printing presses rolling. which means inflation will only move higher.' Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:44:28 +0000 7d3683cc7c0332d4192f9b9baf5b9243d9abd893 https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/08/triple-take.html  I've frequently noted this 'triple-take' in my own mind. including this morning:1] Reading about some other time or place. before I was born. and finding myself yearning for the idyll I have constructed around it. In this case [although I've never really been a proud Dubliner] it was an ill-defined idyll of old Dublin life. the sort I would glimpse when I heard people talking about 'the rare auld times': images of barefoot children playing hopscotch and chanting rhymes. streets without billboards or engine fumes. thick Dublin accents. 'porter running from the taps with a head of yellowed cream'. broad Dublin salt-of-the-earth accents. a general atmosphere of piety. shabby gentility. patriotism. etc.[It could. of course. just as well be some other idyll attached to some other time and place.]2] The painful realization that it wasn't like that...that people back then also made stupid. smutty jokes [as I frequently have]. that there was just as much small talk. that people craved excitement and novelty and convenience and garishness. that the washerwoman would have preferred a washing machine [who can blame her.] and the kids playing hop-scotch would have dropped it for video games at the speed of light.3] The sudden. momentarily overwhelming urge to at least-- as far as I can-- live my life as purged of banality as much as possible. even to the point of caricature and becoming an object of ridicule. Much as I love jokes and comedy. I have very frequently felt the sudden urge to become completely humourless. as a a sort of counter-weight to all the tedious and depressing buffoonery around us.Of course. this 'overwhelming urge' has quickly passed on every occasion... Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:34:16 +0000 933ae3eda4adf76b1ca1692551f36c337e573fd3 https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-recent-polish-german-defense This isn’t surprising since Germany seeks to subordinate Poland. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:54:21 +0000 3f7f7a556a940a0f02b9b0cff0c75709fe9bb4cb https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/08/works-of-mercy-and-gift-of-friendship.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000 29bc18aacfcc81ca09239acd11b2496ade779598 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/morning-greatness-trump-signs-executive-order-to-change-childhood-vaccine-schedule/ Good Tuesday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:25:58 +0000 f31404a5f28a86958600197aa75c39e81687d634 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/08/is-uae-taking-combat-warship-lessons.html  Some years ago. I said about the Israeli Navy:I like the Israeli approach. which crams lots of hitting power into even small hulls [see. for example. its Sa'ar 5 class corvettes. which as far as I know are the most heavily armed ships of their size (just over 1.000 tons) anywhere in the world. and on an armament-per-ton or tons-per-weapon basis might be the most heavily armed warships since the age of the dreadnought].That approach has since been epitomized even more in Israel's Sa'ar 6 corvettes. almost twice the displacement of the earlier Sa'ar 5's. but even more heavily armed.  There are probably more weapons and weapon systems aboard a Sa'ar 6 than aboard any two. or even three. typical NATO frigates.I thought about this when reading an article about the new Falaj 3 class 'patrol boats' of the United Arab Emirates.  Their displacement is only about 670 tons. but they've packed an awful lot of firepower into that small hull.Photos of the United Arab Emirates’ Falaj 3 class patrol boat are a reminder that a vessel doesn’t need to be a corvette or even a frigate to be armed like one. At a little over 200 feet long. the Falaj 3 is officially designated an offshore patrol vessel [OPV]. but it boasts a weapons suite that would be impressive on a missile corvette and. in some respects. even a light frigate. In fact. at around 670 tons full load displacement. and a crew of just 39. it may be one of the most heavily armed warships anywhere in the world for its size.OPVs are generally built for constabulary duties rather than high-end naval combat. Their primary missions include enforcing exclusive economic zones. countering piracy and smuggling. fisheries protection. search and rescue. and humanitarian assistance. As a result. they typically prioritize endurance. seakeeping. and low operating costs over heavy armament. Many Western designs in this category carry little more than a medium-caliber gun and a handful of remotely operated weapon systems. with no dedicated anti-ship missiles or significant air-defense systems.The Falaj 3 takes a very different approach. as is immediately apparent from these photos.Forward sits a Leonardo 76mm OTO Super Rapid gun equipped with the STRALES guided ammunition system. giving the ship a weapon capable of engaging everything from surface targets to fast-moving aerial threats ... Directly behind the gun is an eight-cell vertical launch system loaded with MBDA VL MICA surface-to-air missiles. This ‘fire and forget’ missile can intercept targets at a range of up to around 12 miles and at altitudes of up to 30.000 feet.  Further aft is a 21-cell Raytheon Mk 49 launcher for the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile [RAM]. giving the vessel a second. independent layer of point air defense. Most OPVs are fortunate to carry an adapted man-portable air defense system. if they have any dedicated air-defense system at all.The offensive fit is equally notable. Four MM40 Exocet Block 3C anti-ship missiles provide over-the-horizon strike capability. while two 12-cell Low-cost Guided Imaging Rocket [LOGIR] guided rocket launchers offer an inexpensive way to engage drones. uncrewed surface vessels. and fast attack craft without expending much more costly missiles ... Completing the package are two Electro Optic Systems [EOS] R400-M 30mm remote weapon stations and two 32-barrel Rheinmetall Multi Ammunition Soft-kill System [MASS] decoy launchers. providing close-range firepower and survivability against incoming guided weapons. respectively.There's more at the link.I entirely agree with a powerful weapons load-out like that.  It remains a perennial worry to some naval observers [including me] that so many corvettes. frigates and destroyers in US and European service are relatively lightly armed for their size.  There isn't enough depth to their defenses. particularly if they face a swarm of incoming drones or missiles.  If they miss even one. they may suffer severe. disabling damage.  They can't even reload missiles at sea. meaning that in a serious engagement. they'd shoot themselves dry in a relatively short space of time.  After that . . . they're expensive targets.  [Compare them to their equivalents in the former Soviet Union and/or the Russian Navy today.  The Russians have not forgotten the lessons of history. and arm their ships accordingly.  See. for example. that nation's Steregushchiy and Gremyashchiy classes.]I hope the example of the Falaj 3 class of patrol vessels is studied. and spreads.  We live in an increasingly dangerous world. particularly the ocean passages through narrow straits like Hormuz. Bab-el-Mandeb. etc.  To defend them. we need larger numbers of considerably more powerful vessels than have so far been employed.  Air power has its place. of course. but in the end ships at sea are like infantry on the ground.  You need them to take and hold strategic areas.Peter Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:18:00 +0000 cd967fa93daf99f27b67d3c51054d2b50aa890ab https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/kemis-cousin-once-removed-called J’accuse scoops Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:13:01 +0000 67ee4adde5c95f8012be865d9ad2b36b7ca770bd https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/british-police-unit-flags-over-100-social-media-posts-for-arrest-amid-immigration-backlash/ A specialist British police unit created to track online sentiment has referred more than 100 social media posts to local forces for potential arrest. according (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:57:57 +0000 61661a3bcf20e0ac6e059fe48ff908589f644d3d https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/trump-warns-of-jihadists-among-democratic-candidates/ President Donald Trump intensified his midterm messaging Monday. warning that the Democrat Party’s 2026 primary cycle has produced a wave of candidates he described as (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:57:31 +0000 5cd5a694ae6975c921d1c3fabf1c1235d3e20f94 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/appeals-court-clears-way-for-thousands-of-lawsuits-against-meta-tiktok-over-child-addiction-claims/ A federal appeals court ruled Monday that thousands of lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms. ByteDance’s TikTok and other social media companies of designing addictive products that (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:57:17 +0000 f2ccc46e6426c989974d873c8c7daca235316eb7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVvieBSO7A Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:25:25 +0000 1ad5cd157227539f73b40907db03c3b9c74c801d https://korybko.substack.com/p/russian-syrian-relations-have-entered Russia has no regional alternative to its Syrian waypoint en route to Africa while Syria’s exclusive dependence on Turkiye for training its armed forces would worsen tensions with Israel. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:19:30 +0000 5385976e1d02b524963c0eec1bb91a81fcd7699f https://onepeterfive.com/a-literary-masterpiece-and-a-discrete-testimony-of-princess-bibescos-faith/ One of the most beautiful pages of literature and Christian witness ever written. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:09:00 +0000 1c3f619a4034694f61f4f63b880bc7ca2ab63161 https://substack.aicentral.blog/p/nothing-lasts-forever AI model deprecation now runs on a near-quarterly cadence. forcing production systems to seek stability elsewhere in the stack. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:02:41 +0000 4dca62072a8d3ba58843b0e16378ce4960e1edb9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nT35EYfsJY Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:00:24 +0000 214652480b7ef09c9a18d8341cf4c43c2d5c2f3e https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/08/11/from-elsewhere-britains-wobbly-and-costly-electricity-system-a-disaster-in-the-making/   While reading the August Hangout page of the centre-left Harry’s Place website I came across a link to this piece put up by the... Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:21:56 +0000 688e546e6765ca739713e491371e4caa5b8ff741 https://adampiggott.substack.com/p/yoga-a-reminder-that-nothing-good I have long held the opinion that practicing yoga is a very bad idea. especially for a Christian. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:11:22 +0000 31495080228fd9ada3bc65afc186893f68fd5dd3 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/not-winning-just-change-the-rules/ What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is. the radicalism of the (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:57 +0000 a8e02779de95b1e846f98fd045c56edb4a5115a6 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/the-myth-of-black-female-exceptionalism/ Jasmine Crockett recently repeated a familiar talking point: that black women are the most educated demographic in America. However. this false claim is not supported (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:56 +0000 56e69c4a1523b3d1755757aa876b71676861893c https://restoremag.com/do-we-really-need-a-quango-to-stop-necrophilia/ Thirty bodies on racks. A mop and bucket of putrefaction in the corner. Three million pounds through the accounts of a man who switched off the refrigeration to economise. Westminster answers with a licence and a regulator. and cannot say which of them would have opened the door in 2019. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:51 +0000 320da07a0cacc2add40ab74f434e27641cf2e8f2 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/the-fascism-expert-who-cried-wolf-now-in-germany/ Jason Stanley left Yale declaring America a budding fascist dictatorship. Now he is in Berlin. applying the same unfalsifiable method to German politics—and his credibility (…) Source Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:41 +0000 72964a276eec2d03e964b790df9e7d249f73985f https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/08/11/from-elsewhere-why-do-britons-wish-to-be-anonymous-when-talking-about-politics/   There’s a lot of normies out there who have swallowed the line that if you’ve got nothing to hide then you’ve got nothing to... Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:16 +0000 286a4a89fe09a725cbfea022299164857931d885 https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-russia-once-again-reaffirm-its Putin favors compromising for peace over continuing to pursue maximum victory at the growing risk of World War III. but it’s up to Trump whether to cut a deal or accept the consequences of what might follow if he still refuses Putin’s outreaches. let alone if the US radically escalates against Russia. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:41:33 +0000 632d63445fe837e0785c2bc88825eb5268a44ff5 https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-mastermind-morlocks-eloi-and-those.html  As could have been predicted. when I promised [threatened.] a post on Saturday on “fakery”. a second on Sunday about “inversion” and a third today which is more or less a look at issues facing us in the west …… I should have known something would come up which soc-med is talking about heatedly … Fauci and the Mengele Establishment … plus the Massachusetts evil just perpetrated on abortion … plus the latest Restore/Reform horror.One of the reasons I join Julia at Orphans. as well as running four other sites is that we just can’t cover everything happening at the one site … not with readers also contributing major pieces. videos etc.I’m going to cover the Massachusetts evil at UHC-HQ this morning and keep the various bits and pieces on Fauci for Thursday morning here. Meanwhile. that summary from a pundit downunder on the state of the west now:The crucial phrase above imho is “took me way too long to admit”. But why did it take so long. Why can people not see straight through Farage.There’s another possible reason why the MSM. Talk Radio and Talk TV fed normies continue to ignore reality when it’s staring them in the face:HAL-9000 would shirley approve. Part of that is that they are fed a framed narrative in which there are always two players and two only … one the pantomime hero. the other the pantomime villain.Depending on your side. that could be Burnham or Farage. But only one of those two is permitted. Any other entrant. such as our time traveller above. is not welcome. he is only “splitting the vote”.The Eloi nod and continue eating. while the Morlocks await their coming meals. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:23:03 +0000 5de40162e98ad9756de552ad02375c9bfecfe873 https://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-to-handle-difficult-wife.html “Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop. Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.”Proverbs 21:9.As a pastor I have encountered many men whose lives are made to be a form of living hell because of their wives. These men usually handle it in different ways. Some become absolute shells of men. who though they would get some measure of respect in their profession. anyone who sees them around their wife immediately recognizes who rules the roost. and they can see the visible signs of it in the man’s hunched shoulders. Think Richard. in Keeping Up Appearances. Some men react badly to a badly behaving wife and seek to tyrant over their wives. These men can become abusive in direct response to years of sexual. emotional and relational coercion. and something snaps inside of them. Some men adjust their understanding of masculinity. They rationalize it by concluding that their wife is an “alpha” and they are just happy to be married. and they give off a modicum of being content in the situation. These women write their husbands emails of complaint. and make the decisions for him. and he is content to let it happen. His wife. or more often he. will generally tell people that he is the head. but she is the neck. Every now and then you will see a shadow in this man’s eye of pain at the level of disrespect he experiences on a daily basis. Another subset of this previous group is men who are so lazy. emotionally. relationally. and in various other ways. that they actually do genuinely enjoy that their wife is the leader. It is easier. They have less conflict. because he simply concedes. “Yes. dear.” He probably even believes that men who say he should lead are at best closet misogynists. and he will avidly advocate his situation to anyone who asks. “We are a team.” he says. knowing full well that his wife is the Captain and the Referee. To summarize. I have encountered more men who are dominated by their wives. than men who are abusive. And I expect the numbers are far more weighted in that direction than we realize. because women are far more likely to talk about their situations than men are. and there is very little. if any. stigma for a woman to share about an abusive husband. Even in our claimed egalitarian age. it is still quite shameful for a man to admit to not being the man of his house. So many men suffer in silence and are often shut up when they try to speak. What I want to do in this piece is address how to avoid falling into such a situation. I want to give some practical advice to men about how to stop their wife from becoming a difficult woman. It is my contention. that in the right context. most women can become the difficult woman. But it is not my contention that this is necessarily the man’s fault. Women have agency. and this is often ignored by people who discuss these issues. However. that does not mean there are not things that a man can do to change that likelihood. and balance things in favour of a submissive and comparative godly wife. As for men whose wives have already completely subjected them. Well. perhaps they can implement some of this as well. But their job is harder. much harder. Life long relational patterns are hard to break out of. they do not develop overnight. nor come out of nowhere. Not every man is a leader. and not every man has the ability to change his environment. A leopard cannot change its spots. right. But God can do miracles. We live in light of these two realities. Just recognize that men in both of these situations are going to have to prepare themselves for conflict. Both. because it will happen. and secondly. because you don’t want to go too far. There are plenty of men who have gone too far in seeking to reign in a domineering woman. and they have suffered the loss of any moral authority as a result. So. be wise gentlemen. I want to begin with something Paul says in Titus. He gives this advice to the younger church leader.“1 But as for you. speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober. reverent. temperate. sound in faith. in love. in patience. 3 the older women likewise. that they be reverent in behavior. not slanderers. not given to much wine. teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands. to love their children. 5 to be discreet. chaste. homemakers. good. obedient to their own husbands. that the word of God may not be blasphemed. 6 Likewise. exhort the young men to be sober-minded.…” [Titus 2:1-6]. This is advice for a church leader. on what he is to teach about the character of various groups within society. There are some great principles for us to draw from here in beginning this discussion. Firstly. men. if you want to avoid your wife becoming the difficult woman. you need to recognize how much almost every woman in this society has been robbed of the kind of environment they needed to become the kind of wives that Paul envisions in this passage. For one. whether they were raised in the Church or not. they have almost certainly been raised to either not know what this passage says. or. in the case of many Christians. to actively reject it. and call some of its elements outdated and sexist. Hence. from a very early age. the vast majority of women have been raised. either explicitly or implicitly. to rebel against being the submissive woman. The vitriol I have heard in the mouths of some women about that term “submission” is incredible. I can bring to mind various examples. but I was once sitting at a conference lunch table just listening to the conversation around me. and the way one of the women just spat out how much she hated teaching which said women should submit to husbands. was quite telling. Especially considering it had nothing to do with any of the conference talks. I had no idea how the topic came up. She is only one example. I have seen this countless times. Men. look at this. “3 the older women likewise. that they be reverent in behavior. not slanderers. not given to much wine. teachers of good things…” You need to recognize that most older women that surrounded your potential wife or wife as they developed into a woman did not fall into any of these categories. Women like Paul describes do exist. I know plenty. but you have to look for them. In fact. our culture kind of likes to brag about women not being reverent. It rewards women who slander either their competition or even the men in their life. for at least sympathy from their friends. or worse. to gain his possessions. The winebibbing older woman is a staple represented in film and media. And “teachers of good things…” What have the vast majority of women been given over to teaching. since feminism became the dominant ideology. not just of our women. but of society in general.So. you need to start from this basis: the woman in your life. who you want to marry. or are married to. has been terribly robbed by a culture that had no intention of teaching her how to be a good wife. In fact. the term “the good wife” has become a derogatory term in our modern culture.(1) So successful has been the Luciferian inspired feminist movement. that even many Christians think of the biblical wife as a lesser thing. You need to start from this basis. Just assume that. to some degree. your wife’s social context. her education. likely her family environment. and more. are antagonistic in some way towards her being the kind of wife you might have expected. What Paul advises is that the older women need to be “reverent” and “teachers of good things…” He is not contradicting his teaching in other letters where he says that men should direct the teaching in the church. because he goes on to explain what he means. “4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands. to love their children.…” In other words. Paul is saying that the older women need to be respectfully focused on teaching the younger women to fulfill their role. How the church needs this today. in increasing measure. Hence. men. now that you have recognized that your wife has been robbed of the kind of encouragements and upbringing that most women of previous generations got. you need to find a church environment where she is going to be surrounded by older women who will teach her these things. If. and these women do exist. she learnt this from her mother and her mother is still a part of her life. then that is a boon to you. That is something to celebrate. Feminism has not achieved full acceptance in every household. hence there are oases in this cultural desert. But still. you need be intentional about this. You need to recognize that that the divorce rate in the churches being roughly similar to the divorce rate in the culture is not an accident. It comes about in large part because most Christians simply do not have a Christian worldview. I cannot get this across to you strongly enough. you need to know this. the men I know who are going through either the destruction of their marriage or their marriage turning into a sexless wasteland. all have something in common: they usually stopped going to church. meaning that their wife’s social context got shrunk down to her co-workers and other secular contexts. And many of them were part of churches where the women were dominant over the men. and hence their church context was not very different to secular contexts anyway. A lot of men think they don’t need church. And. there are probably a small minority of Christian couples out there who are in this situation who can keep a relatively good marriage. while living an unbalanced Christian lifestyle. for it is impossible to be a healthy Christian and ignore the one-another passages in the Bible. that assume we are living in the context of the fellowship of believers. But the overwhelming observational evidence points to the opposite effect. Men. you might not feel the need for church. Your desire for interaction with other people. with whom you disagree on a host of things will likely go down as you age. But if your wife is disconnected from an environment where other women are going to teach her how to better love and respect you. then you will suffer for it. Many men overlook this. and they suffer as a result. Similarly. if you are in a church environment which encourages your wife to live like the world. it will have a similar effect. I have lost count of the number of men who have told me that their wife’s divorced friends have ruined their own marriage. This is a well-known phenomenon. The reason that divorce statistics are as high in the church as outside. is simply because many Christians ignore what the Bible says about marriage and think that flying a Jesus bumper sticker on their car will make all the difference. But it won’t. Christianity is not the religion of lucky charms. As much as this kind of thinking often seeps back in. Exceptional men might be able to make up the difference themselves. the average Christian man needs this environment for wife to aid him and wife in their marriage. You need to be intentional about spending serious amounts of time with other families who take what Paul says to Titus seriously. And. if the pastor’s wife. or elder’s wives. scorn what the scriptures say here. then you can be certain that your chances of facing a world of hurt in marriage will increase. Hence. to avoid having a difficult wife find a church gathering where the older women “admonish the young women to love their husbands. to love their children.…” It is more important than cool music. It is more important than a cool youth program. It is more important than many of the surface things people look for in the church. And those surface things can exist within a church that does this well. but they do not necessarily go together. You might find it strange that Titus has to “teach or admonish” the older women to love their husbands. But just consider how many women will kill their children in the womb given the chance. Now consider how many women will kick out the father of their children if given the chance. Here are just two indications that Paul. through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. understood that loving her children and husband is something that a lot of women need coaching and teaching in. Just as many men need to be trained to love their wife. Paul also shows us that it is older women who will be the primary teachers in this role. not their husbands. It is natural for women to seek the counsel of other. wiser. older women. If your wife is surrounded by bad women. then you will suffer. You will both suffer. This goes just as much for her being chaste and discreet. There is a bit of a misunderstanding in our culture that men are more obsessed with sex than women. Two things show this is not the case. 1] Go to the beach and look at how most women will dress if social pressure or character does not restrain them. and 2] Look at how women’s soft. and not so soft. porn dominates that reading market. Women and men are both created to be and are sexual creatures. If your wife does not have good influences in this regard. there is a strong possibility she will put herself on display for other men. This culture has trained her to do it. If a husband has an attractive and desirable wife. which all men want. other men will be interested in her. There is nothing you can do about that. But you can challenge her flirting with them. But even better if she has responsible. attractive and reverent older women to challenge her in this regard for you. A lot of women want to be good wives. but as women are highly social creatures that are very impressionable by their environment. they can come under terrible influences from their friends. Be thoughtful about this. Her flirtatious. vivacious personality might have drawn you to her. but if this is not properly turned into discretion in your marriage. you might find yourself in for real trouble. There are countless men who do not give two hoots that she is your wife. She needs direction from wiser women on this as well. And. of course. this last one is rejected by most Christians: “good. obedient to their own husbands. that the word of God may not be blasphemed.” I could tell you stories of even pastor’s wives who scorn this one. I could tell you accounts of older men and women who think this is too limiting for their grand-daughters or daughters. But I don’t have to. You know this one is under attack from society and the church. Some consider it sexist. out of date advice. others consider it an unachievable goal that pastors should be embarrassed to hold to. because it is out of reach to most working people today. Others just don’t care what the Bible says. whether Christian or not. and still others would like to follow this command but don’t know how. If your wife is in an environment where the women scorn this verse. remind yourself that she and her friends were robbed of the culture that trained women to do this well. and acknowledge how she and you are being robbed. at the present moment. by our culture. Titus would not have to tell older women to teach this to younger women. if it just came by nature. It doesn’t. at least not all of it. Humans have some level of inborn instinct. but most of what we learn has to be taught. and it can be untaught between the generations. The culture of women being culture-bearers in the home has been effectively cut off. Even many women who would like to do this find themselves struggling to find other women to partner in doing it with them. because all their friends work during the day. Many of them are having to learn the skills of being productive in the home from scratch. Even simple things like nutritional. affordable. meals. is a skill many women are re-learning. If you just ask your wife to be a homemaker. which is her role and you both believe it is. but you leave her to figure out all this on her own. then you might find her getting frustrated and restless in the home. and this has caused many problems for families and husbands. Even the desire to do things God’s way can go wrong without good discipleship. I find it interesting how many women who do homeschooling. for instance. want to join co-ops of other women to help their kids learn in community. I thought it was supposed to be about schooling in the home. Often. these groups fracture. because you have highly independent minded people seeking to come together for a joint effort. a bit like Baptist church plants. But the reason they do this is because of the strong desire for the women’s village that most women grew up in. throughout history. Our society has stripped that away from most women. and so doing things God’s way can be a lot harder. Just like it is harder for a man to keep a pure mind when half the women around him dress like they are selling themselves…which in many ways they are. You need to actively make sure you are reinforcing these standards in your home. but that you are in an environment. where others will reinforce them for you. And. by the grace of God. your wife will develop into the kind of woman who can help train other women in this. Which is why it is important to note that Paul says this to young men. “6 Likewise. exhort the young men to be sober-minded…” It is a very brief statement. compared to what he says for the young women. But consider what he is saying.Many young men do not approach life in a serious way. In fact. many men take some time to develop into their masculine role of providers and guardians of their home. This is why car insurance is more expensive for young men. well into their 20’s. But the sooner you learn to approach these things seriously and diligently. the better off you will be. But this also helps a man with his wife. Because his wife is much more likely to take him seriously. if he takes himself seriously. She is also much more like to take him seriously if other men. and other women. take him seriously. Men who cut their family and their wives off from a good church. often get themselves in trouble in this area. Women like to see their men flourish amongst other men. A lot of men think all they need to do is their job and centre their life around their wife. But these men show they have no understanding for feminine nature. Women want to see their husband measure up well against other men. If he doesn’t. this diminishes her view of him. and he is more likely to find he has a difficult wife. This one happens so often. Sure. there are exceptions. they can be found in the comments sections of discussions like this across the world. But don’t think you are so special as to be among the exceptions. you likely won’t be.  Take yourself seriously. take your faith seriously. take your wife’s social environment seriously. Many men think more to the social environment of their kids than their wife. and that is their biggest mistake. They often don’t even realize it is a mistake until their kids are out of the home and the wife has gone off to discover herself. because her reading club. or co-workers convinced her to. that it is her right. A lot more could be said about this issue. Men. you have been failed by our culture too. in many ways. Especially in the area of learning how to steward a wife. Most people are never taught this. and the most they learn is from their home environment. which can be hit and miss. And in a culture of broken homes is much more miss than hit. I just want to briefly mention one more area before I conclude: sex. Solomon says this. “15 Drink water from your own cistern. And running water from your own well. 16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad. Streams of water in the streets. 17 Let them be only your own. And not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed. And rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. And always be enraptured with her love. 20 For why should you. my son. be enraptured by an immoral woman. And be embraced in the arms of a seductress.” [Prov. 5:15-20]. Many men think that the key to pleasing their wife is being subservient to her. But it is not. I believe women are partially hardwired to joyfully follow a good man. if she is trained by other women to do this well. I say partially because the fall has corrupted men and women. I think if a man follows the principles in this article. that come from scripture. his wife is more likely to want to follow him. and they are more likely to forge together well. But don’t neglect sex in this equation. either. God has conditioned us to desire sex. enjoy sex and even regularly crave sex. both men and women – unless of course something has gone terribly wrong. which can happen in this world. If you build a healthy physical craving for each other. by stewarding this well early in your marriage. it will help bond you both together. Some men ruin this with porn. or he or his wife put on weight. or the wife’s desire is ruined by anti-depressants. or some other issues can get in the way. But if you are diligent in being “enraptured” in each other’s love. you will likely still have conflict. but you will come back together as one. This area is overlooked as a powerful remedy to conflict. A woman who sexually desires her husband is much more willing to want to follow him. She might get things wrong. You might get things wrong. But work. intentionally. to stir up this desire. It will help you more than you know. If this tap has run dry in your marriage. you will already know how it draws a chasm between both of you. This means you will have to work harder to get back to where you should be. But I think these principles can set you on the right track to getting back to a good place. Of course. you can seek to do the right things. and your marriage can still fail. We live on the wrong side of paradise. so things can still go wrong. I do not believe that because a woman turns bad it is guaranteed to be her husband’s fault. It can be. But it could also be that you married a bad one. They exist too. But generally speaking. there are good and wise things a man can do to help his marriage have a better chance of success. and telling him to be more of a domesticated and neutered servant. based on a demented understanding of “laying down his life”. is the wrong advice.  List of References (1) https://www.fastslang.com/good-wife Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:42:44 +0000 fd3d89abee4add371c87f869d487860059f3a135 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/analysis/quo-vadis-europe-a-new-dark-age-or-the-next-renaissance/ It’s not that European elites embrace the uninvited illegal aliens’ values. They just despise their own. A civilization ashamed of itself cannot ask others to assimilate into anything meaningful. And so they don’t. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:33:28 +0000 83ad75e4da425a42185040856cbad3a4204b6f09 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/08/11/plus-ca-change-plus-la-meme-chose-or-deja-vu-all-over-again/ As I mentioned some days ago. I am now working on Volume III of my Memoirs of a Russianist: 2010 – 2026. Years in the Opposition. The “Opposition’ of which I was and remain a member is to the Washington Narrative on behalf of U.S. global hegemony. When covering my activities in 2021 in promotion … Continue reading Plus ça change plus la même chose. or Déjà vu all over again → Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:22:59 +0000 e2c13b2d6d4d0b5c81396111bfdb935d88735065 https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/but-i-also-really-mean-the-other California is plummeting into a politically engineered decline. but I mean to say that it’s both magnificent and a disaster. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:38:44 +0000 8717235e69ab9773c1675c07965a2b9a8cfef27d https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/the-impossibility-of-political-organisation-for-the-online-right/ Neema Parvini [Academic Agent] gives his analysis of why the online right will remain politically irrelevant. In his videos. he is far from a dispassionate analyst and lets his emotions carry him away in a manner I find ultimately unforgivable. So. I’ve lost interest. But. this got delivered to my email inbox and it sounds (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:34:08 +0000 60fe437b45cb749c01761877bcdeb57e0dee83bf https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/08/when-it-rains-it-pours-shit.html The office girl has been out this past week dealing with some personal business. That meant I’ve had to go through the business inbox myself — and we’re talking hundreds of messages coming in every month.I discovered two things pretty quickly. First. she hasn’t been following up on messages and takes forever to reply. Not sure what she’s been doing. but she isn’t getting back to people ASAP or really engaging with customers the way she should be lately.Second. several customers have had urgent service issues that never got addressed. Specifically. we shipped orders out and the freight company still hasn’t delivered them.I followed up with the shipping company. The employee told me the shipments weren’t delivered. they still have them. and then he added that he’s quitting the company.I spent the whole morning making legal threats. gathering evidence. and sorting through the paperwork. I’m not legally liable. but it’s still a bad situation to be stuck in. The shipping company has the items. and I’ve got the chat logs. pictures. and signed waybills to back everything up. Lots of excuses — none of them valid for taking two months to deliver a couple of pallets.It’s the kind of mess that shouldn’t happen. and it’s left me dealing with frustrated customers who just want what they already paid for.Meanwhile. on this rainy afternoon. we have no machinery orders to build. [See above.]I put the two welder guys to work building concrete slab forms. gathering all the scrap steel I’ve accumulated over the last few years for rebar. and pouring an 8x10-foot slab four inches deep. I have a spare cement mixer from a previous experiment that will be used for the task.I still lack running water — just occasional barrels filled up via garden hose and a meter from the landlord. However. it is raining. and the gutter in front of the shop has a foot of running water in it. so that shall work.I lack the funds to do the entire shop. and I can’t put large sections of the shop out of service. so I will have them do it one section at a time as budget and time allow. The first slab will be to place the plastic extrusion machine on. The next slab will be for the shredder.Excess concrete will be put in sandbags and placed in the increasingly large ditch eroding in the driveway. I have lost one lane on the driveway due to the rain. The sandbags are not waterproof. but should be sufficient to allow for curing despite the running water. update Sand concrete and cement bought. 2 cubic meters comes out to a bit less than a hundred bucks. Which translates to a slab 8x20 feet 4 inches thick. Ready for pour. but materials wont arrive until tomorrow. Also made this today. 300 some odd dollars of plastic lumber. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:32:15 +0000 5e4564970f1928beddeda2de17be52522d890198 https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/michael-lockshins-master-and-margarita-bulgakov-reduced-towalter-mitty/ Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is at once a pointed satire of the venal and corrupt literary establishment of 1930s Moscow and an artistic re-envisioning of Christ. the Devil. and man – deeply influenced by Mephistopheles’s self-description in Faust. The novel explores themes of universal human significance. emphasizing forgiveness and reconciliation on a grand (…) Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:22:47 +0000 590e39f0fe0256b2d3459e49a21c0a2192a5bc42 https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/11/readers-links-for-aug-11-2026/ Each day at just after midnight Eastern. a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the Continue Reading → Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:15:30 +0000 e810446cd237cab9ac2e2c47b0a0a4336596751e https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-arena-m-active-protection At a recent speech Ukraine’s former Commander-in-Chief Valeri Zaluzhny made a stunning admission. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:01:02 +0000 b140f64166b61b435aebfc883d496891592b0f28 https://paulelam.substack.com/p/the-manomyth-a-heros-journey-for-635 Watch now - Part Two - Initiation Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:49:01 +0000 caf98abf796ca438df3fc648deb0bd3e53b9f52b https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8-10-2026/ The Alternative for Germany [AfD] party has surged to a record 42% in a new poll in Saxony-Anhalt. putting the party 20 percentage points ahead of the CDU. Meanwhile. a new poll shows 14% of German adults plan to leave … Continue reading → Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:40:52 +0000 ee00398a5607475f9b4176d12ef29a9614389a12 https://sonar21.com/scott-bessents-delusional-oil-pipe-dream-to-defeat-iran/ When U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told an interviewer this weekend that the Strait of Hormuz would “become irrelevant” within two years — with more than half the energy now... Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:38:15 +0000 01f565bee21bdf81cf96178071300c9a2ceae5b9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdc6Ek0xj9o Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:37:15 +0000 af96c2dde7d54b9eb81fc2a200f8a07c03eebacb https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/10/45-years-ago-tonight-it-was-so-loud-i-will-never-forget/ https://x.com/philsbirdsthrow/status/2086804601685135820.s=46andt=QVRahZjR0Wj-QYIIJUNMOA Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:28:21 +0000 b7f2b4d5e91828e34d65ffdb1c9b4471b8edab77 https://theredensign.substack.com/p/tre-special-52-government-by-non In this episode of the Red Ensign Special. we review the history of the Century Initiative as a case study in the way NGO’s interface with governments as part of a single ruling class which exists both inside and outside of government. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:23:32 +0000 6931ef9f358faa33c89c28bc5db3b5bf6e97df4d https://rairfoundation.com/examining-20-burrito-controversy-is-it-really-about/ The “S20 burrito” controversy is not about “affordability”. Instead. it is a political vehicle for justifying isolationism. dressed up in the language of kitchen-table economics. Many who have seized on this discussion do not believe America should ever be engaged in any war. for any reason. They often pair the burrito complaint with the “endless (…) The post Examining the S20 Burrito Controversy: Is It Really About 'Affordability.' or Is It About Isolationism. Marxism. and Class War. appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:59:24 +0000 8254caf0b9ec535ac8486dd05b54487d259cc545 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/philanthropic-jihad-part-two/ The Potomac Tea Party has posted the second part of its extensive investigative report [excerpts from Part 1 were posted here] on the promotion and financing of Islam by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Part Two concerns a PBS documentary … Continue reading → Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:58:24 +0000 b61d9eafba464e18353bf1bc797abe2b310b2e8a https://radixfidem.blog/2026/08/10/heiser-and-leviticus-15/ Re: Naked Bible 75: Leviticus 12-15 Last year I was wading through Heiser’s series on Leviticus. I didn’t cover much of it here. but picked out items of special interest. However. since that time. something he said in this particular … Continue reading → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:54:22 +0000 becf15e1f624f392994fa571bc65c0b0a239d5c1 https://henrymakow.com/2026/08/patrick-ocarroll---iran-leads-muslim-brotherhood.html FREEMASONIC IRANMakow- I detest the Zionists as much as anyone but we're mistaken to imagine Iran is an innocent party. The Iran war is a charade. Notice. Iran has failed to attack US warships or Israeli nuclear sites. World wars are hoaxes engineered by the Rothschilds to destroy Western civilization and kill patriots and believers. Each war pits the left and right wings of Jewish Freemasonry. Communism and Fascism. against each other.In WW2. the Allies were Communists while the Axis were Fascists or Zionists. Both sides were controlled by the Rothschilds. Similarly. WW3 pits the Communists [BRICS. China. Iran. Russia. Canada] against the Fascists [ US. Israel. Ukraine and Argentina.] The former oppose Gaza genocidewhile the latter. Nigel Farage. Pierre Poilievre. Marine LePen etc. condone it.As Patrick O'Carroll demonstrates. Iran and the axis of 'resistance' [Iran. Hamas. Hezbollah and the Houthis] are all Freemasons. Fascists Netanyahu and Trump are also Freemasons. Netanyahu funded Hamas.Ultimately. 'fascism' is false opposition to Communism and will be defeated again. The Fascist role is to discredit MAGA values: race. religion. nation and family and prepare the way for Chinese-style Communism worldwide. Illuminati4- Genocide and War free pdf     Send this link to your friends. It may be the best gift you can give them.by Patrick O'Carroll[henrymakow.com] According to Dr John Coleman. the Muslim Brotherhood was created by 'the great names of British Middle-East intelligence'. and their mission was. 'to keep the Middle East backward so that its natural resource. oil. could continue to be looted ...' In his 2002 book 'The Globalists and the Islamists'. Peter Goodgame shows how the West subverted modern Iranian political history systematically by orchestrating the 1953 overthrow of prime-minister Mohammad Mossadegh and facilitating the 1979 rise of Ayatollah Khomeini whom they installed as a controlled-opposition 'adversary' [stooge really]. This calculated destabilization aimed to secure financial monopolies over Iranian oil and justify perpetual Western military intervention in the Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood was the primary bridge to covertly distribute radical Islamist ideology internationally.  The Freemasonic PAHLAVI LODGE was founded in Teheran in Nov 1951 with approval of the Shah's Court. Its purpose was to mobilize influential Persian notables and elites against the nationalist government of prime-minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. whom the West deposed soon after. The Pahlavi Dynasty was pro-Zionist. but may well have even been crypto-JewishHistorian Abdollah Shahbazi published extensive volumes targeting the family of Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son Mohammad Reza Shah. in particular claiming that the Pahlavi Dynasty had 'crypto-Jewish' origins.Shahbazi wrote extensively that a hidden network of rich Zionist financiers. MI6 agents. and French-intel spooks had orchestrated the 1921 Persian coup d'état that initially brought Reza Shah Pahlavi to power. He claimed the Pahlavi Dynasty served as an asset to secretly advance Jewish and colonialist interests in the Middle East. IRAN'S MANY JUDEO-FREEMASONSSeveral insiders revealed that Freemasonry has continued to control Iran ever since its 'revolution' of 1978-79. Iranian philosopher Prof Ahmad Fardid confirmed the 1905-11 constitutional 'revolution' was run by Freemasons. and that the modern 'Islamic' Regime is actually a manifestation of 'Eastern Spirituality' or even a Western plot.The evidence appears strong that Ayatollah Khomeini was not even Iranian [Persian] but British-Indian. He was actually the son of a British Middle East 'adventurer' (thief) named William Richard Williamson. and his mother was an Indian from either Punjab or Kashmir. Williamson was a BP employee who was born in Bristol. England.In accounts of the final era of his reign. such as the memoirs of Anthony Parsons [British ambassador to Iran at the time] the Shah stated. 'If you lift up Khomeini's beard. you will find Made in England written under his chin'.Khomeini's Islamic 'revolution' was instigated by the CIA and MI6. whose objective was to control Iran's energy by weakening Iran [by reducing Iranians to hunger] and to destroy Iran's religious and family-oriented society.In Jan 1979. the Carter Regime sent General Robert Ernest Huyser to decide Iran's fate for the CFR and the top US 'Illuminati' bloodlines. Prior to his execution by Khomeini. General Amir Hossein Rabbi. commander-in-chief of the Iranian Air Force. stated: 'General Huyser threw the Shah out of the country like a dead mouse'. On 3 Oct 2009. the wholly-Rothschild-owned Telegraph revealed that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in fact a crypto-Jew whose real family name is SABOURJIAN [Jewish name for cloth weaver]. with a London-based expert on Iranian Jewry confirming that the surname-ending 'jian' specifically showed the family had been practicing Jews:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html CIA investigations and exiled opposition-groups have often accused Iran's top leadership [including the family of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei] of holding billions of dollars in offshore funds and Swiss bank accounts. Masoud Pezeshkian. the current president of Iran since 2024. is a known associate or stooge of Chatham House [RIIA] which. jointly with the CFR. is the top worldwide organ working to achieve the Talmudic 'new' world order for the Synagogue of Satan. 'Muslim' cleric Taqi Misbah Yazdi is a known Freemason and the leader of a very powerful cult called the Haghani School. whose members include Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [his crypto-Jew student] and also commanders of the 'revolutionary' guards. the Basij Militia. plus lawyers. judges. and the heads of Iran's major news-media. Gioele Magaldi's 2014 book 'Massoni' exposed the Kabbalistic super-lodge HATHOR PENTALPHA as the planner. starting in 1993. of the Second Iraq War and of Freemasonry's 'Clash of Civilizations' Doctrine [which also bolsters the Kalergi Plan to genocide all White Christians by 2100 AD]. Magaldi also revealed that the Kabbalistic super-lodge HATHOR PENTALPHA has as its members no fewer than FOUR famous Iranian 'Muslims' [who were in fact Senior Freemasons. and hence Kabbalists]:'Muslim' cleric Heydar Moslehi. who served as Iran's minister of 'intelligence' in 2009-13 and was appointed to this position by crypto-Jew Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [who is thus probably also a Freemason].'Muslim' cleric Mahmoud Alavi. who served as Iran's minister of 'intelligence' in 2013-21. and was appointed to this position by president Hassan Rouhani [who was therefore probably also a Freemason].'Muslim' cleric Mohammad Momen. who served as a member of Iran's 'Guardian Council' in 1983-2019 and was appointed to this position by Ayatollah Khomeini [who was thus probably also a Freemason].Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. president of Iran in 1989-97 [his deputies must have been Freemasons too].Clearly. these 'Muslims' are/were Kabbalistic Freemasons and also Kabbalistic-Zionists. working to set up WW3. just as they had already worked to orchestrate the Second Gulf War. At the top of Iran's Regime. Freemasons such as these are likely to play. or are already playing. a KEY ROLE in Part 3 of the 1871 'Albert Pike Plan'. THE REALITY OF ZIONIST-SPONSORED 'ISLAMIC' TERRORISTSThroughout the post-WW2 years. the CIA and MI6 used the fundamentalist Mullahs of Iran as attack-dogs against centralized Mid-East regimes. In the 1990s. the super-lodge HATHOR PENTALPHA penned the 'Clash of Civilizations' as Freemasonry's doctrine for the twenty-first century. It meant the West had to fund new terrorists:The Muslim Brotherhood: Created by MI6 and later backed by the CIA and Mossad. with a view to silencing all democratic voices in Muslim nations. and a broader view to simply take over the entire Mid-East Region.Hamas: The Antichrist State of Israel created Hamas as its own controlled-opposition. Netanyahu admitted that he sent 35 million USD per month of US taxpayer money to Qatar. with these funds then relayed by Qatar to Mossad's own controlled-opposition agency called Hamas: https://www.renegadetribune.com/netanyahu-admitted-he-funded-hamas-with-35-million-per-month-with-us-tax-money/Al-Qaeda: Created in 1988 by CIA Agent Osama bin-Laden [cryptonym 'Tim Osman'] from the remnants of the Mujahideen that had fought the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s.ISIS: The real name of ISIS head 'Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi' is Simon Elliott. He is a Jewish Mossad agent and the leader of Zionist-sponsored ISIS. which was also funded by Senator John McCain and Killary Clinton. Osama bin-Laden was created by the CIA-MI6 network. Both bin-Laden and 'al-Baghdadi' [Simon Elliott] are/were members of HATHOR PENTALPHA [along with Blair. GW Bush. GHW Bush. Rumsfeld. Cheney. Ariel Sharon ...]The Taliban: Afghanistan's Taliban were funded and trained by the CIA and by the Pakistani ISI.The Houthis: Funded by Iran. the Houthis may soon cut key undersea cables and shut down the internet.CONCLUSIONThe whole PURPOSE of Freemasonic ('Islamic') Iran is to serve as Controlled Opposition to realize Part 3 of the 'Albert Pike Plan' that was originally written in Aug 1871. and Freemasonry is the perfect vehicle for that.In 1844-74. in his extensive work 'Malbim on Ezekiel'. the 'holy' rabbi Meir Leibush ben Yehiel [Michel Wisser] said: The Talmudic-Zionist plan for the three-part 'War of Gog and Magog' foresees that Ezekiel 38 refers to WW1. Ezekiel 39 to WW2. and Zechariah 14 to WW3. Details here: https://www.sefaria.org/Malbim_on_Ezekiel.tab=contents.---Related--In 1835. three Persian [Iranian] princes visited London [BabyLon] to become Freemasons. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:50:11 +0000 1698a20767b1918b388ed9667a3eb10151b616cc https://rairfoundation.com/dsa-leader-frances-gill-is-unhinged-reality-denies/ Democratic Socialists of America leader Frances Gill did inteviews touting socialism and the DSA's platform. which she should probably rethink. She claimed that former President Biden never opened the borders and squirmed while trying to defend defunding police and closing down prisons. Fail. The post DSA Leader Frances Gill is Unhinged from Reality – Denies Biden Opened the Borders While Squirming Over Abolishing Prisons. Police appeared first on RAIR. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:37:37 +0000 a24939f276eaee1b3d02e7c60ab5571b7e3394ab https://www.amren.com/news/2026/08/weve-never-seen-anything-like-this-ices-detention-crackdown-swamps-the-courts/ ICE can now detain people who have been here for years as though they just crossed the border. The post ‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: ICE’s Detention Crackdown Swamps the Courts appeared first on AmRen. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:23:54 +0000 9874f6121ed601f64c217caded6626024590798f https://www.amerika.org/politics/mechanistic-rigidity-and-the-creativity-crisis/ Since 1990. creativity in the West has declined. This decline in creativity is not merely a statistical anomaly or a result of technology. but a systemic failure caused by a Western shift toward mechanistic thinking in order to avoid conflict management. which has social. political. and economic risks. As former British diplomat Alastair Crooke argues. (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:16:26 +0000 3c9128e7091e4548611a7542a2afd3fe0645304e https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/fingertips/ Deti wrote. Today. the average woman can meet men with whom her life would otherwise never intersect with at all through social media and dating apps. An average woman is literally bathed in dopamine 24/7/365 through all the positive attention…Read more › Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:10:50 +0000 9e0671ce2cae92f624433dd82c676c214460c54d https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/10/fauci-held-in-contempt-the-dsa-reveals-itself-with-the-new-yorker-and-candice-owens-turns-down-1-3-of-a-million-to-debate-her-detractors-links-1-for-aug-10-2026/ 1. Fauci held in contempt: . 2. The DSA needs to be taken seriously. Many people in positions of enormous power are DSA members. The DSA is a communist organization. Continue Reading → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:02:33 +0000 856106939af77aad5274cc0905c1577c23a00a9e https://www.raweggstack.com/p/many-a-true-word Hasan Piker wasn't joking about destroying the white race Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:39:56 +0000 6fe159d815fb14c0db7dc995ab7cd83c00c39e33 https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/monday-morning-devilish-dentistry.html As usual. the weekend zipped by way too fast. and once again. we are faced with the shoulder-sagging prospect of another week spent in soulless offices slaving away over PowerPointless presentations. I swear. if the world ever comes to its senses and makes me Supreme Dicktater. one of my very first acts will be to (…) The post Monday morning devilish dentistry appeared first on Didactic Mind. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:08:08 +0000 27c4bee916b943cc8249d214008f5206ba82b3ce https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/10/former-nba-player-sends-wnba-formal-notice-of-his-decision-to-enter-2027-wnba-draft/ Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom has officially notified the Women’s National Basketball Association WNBA of his decision to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft. Kanter (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:34:59 +0000 7802ec6f08f1830b160797d2c6e06fb0269a4b6f https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/this-has-me-concerned-because-personnel-is-policy/ This has me concerned. Now we read this. Pope Leo appoints pro-female ordination and pro-LGBT consultors to the Vatican’s religious life dicastery. Appointees include Sister Patricia Murray. who has pushed women’s priesthood and addressed the “pain” and “woundedness” of … Read More → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:34:47 +0000 159be43d83d6a428051525b76f2404939b8e0221 https://www.samizdata.net/2026/08/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-ask-what-would-cochrane-do/ Standing at the fence I found myself asking what a Cochrane would do now. and the answer is uncomfortable. because the need for one is so plain. Our age has its Basque Roads. victories thrown away by commanders unwilling to close. It has its prize-court corruption in the procurement billions that vanish without a ship. a road or a reactor to show for them. Above all it has its Stock Exchange trials. Ask the sub-postmasters. Ask the infected blood families. The machine that ruined Cochrane. the machine that would rather destroy the innocent than admit error. has never been better ...continue Samizdata quote of the day – Ask “what would Cochrane do.” Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:57:51 +0000 07fe35e583a57644c2384465972330aef08fe79e https://declanfinn.substack.com/p/more-fun-with-ai Is AI getting better. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:14:06 +0000 319efd15e6ed5fab321b6a95d1e3caf1eefc5d8d https://www.arthursido.com/2026/08/we-wuz-carnies-and-sheeiiit.html Is nothing sacred. Not to them anyway. This is one of those stories where I assumed it was a 2G when I first heard it.… Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:01:25 +0000 ce0beb66d03fe8d63ba9d2444a5704b8805c07da https://scifiwright.com/2026/08/38328/ The Female of the Species Rudyard Kipling. When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride. He shouts to scare the monster. who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. When Nag the basking (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:00:34 +0000 afd73d087aa4d7a8f1109668a5b69dd4e768fcb2 https://www.malone.news/p/breaking-trump-upends-the-vaccine -2.800–3.300 identifiable acute vaccine-attributable reactions per U.S. birth cohort. or roughly 1 child in 1.100–1.300. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:57:29 +0000 634cb4a0d78b61710b335fd675c755ec4b7523d6 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/10/its-the-largest-human-trafficking-outfit-in-america-by-a-wide-margin/ https://x.com/artemisconsort/status/2086821376145621366.s=46andt=QVRahZjR0Wj-QYIIJUNMOA Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:36:10 +0000 ed4b8eb520d537130291672125f7e2da528621f6 https://delarroz.com/2026/08/10/premium-books-are-a-disaster-heres-what-to-check-before-you-buy/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:30:20 +0000 95bab9bbed90e6080d857a702b6f7853bdb7ae16 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/practically-all-western-humanities-field.html ... including Cambridge University and the rest of the 'prestigious' universities in the US are academic frauds and degree mills. Cambridge always had only one thing which was admirable--physics and math department. The rest of it. especially in the last 30 or so years is a catastrophe. Modern Western so called 'academe' is primarily a collection of brainwashed ideologues--Michael McFaul [McFail] is an exhibit A of a credentialed academic fraud--whose only task is to sublimate their idiotic views about the world outside and complexes with traumas into pseudo academic courses which require no intellect nor serious academic background. This is the international community of useless people with skills which would take a person with IQ above room temperature and a free time about a month of rigorous internet search and visiting some university library to get ready to write Ph.D. thesis. These are precisely the types of people who contributed mightily to a complete decomposition of the combined West--intellectual. moral. scientific. military and industrial. Ah. more]] Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:21:06 +0000 4ad5fd7f8f3a188ce3b5c82310df751c7af60de3 https://www.woes.blog/p/restoring-faith Optimism might be cowardice. but so is determined pessimism Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:12:05 +0000 b3836e94297f4987c452398306ddf5c2a288505a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT5kRewijyM Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:00:24 +0000 ea6500dabda42cb0533367014f44005dac2f3fe5 https://rairfoundation.com/jill-bidens-former-spokesman-calls-el-sayed-who/ Jill Biden's former Press Secretary. Michael LaRosa. is throwing his support behind Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan because he can't stomach Abdul El-Sayed and his buddy Hasan Piker. He drew the line at Piker saying the victims of 9/11 deserved it. asserting that El-Sayed sympathizes with terrorists. The post Jill Biden’s Former Spokesman Calls Out El-Sayed ‘Who is Too Much of a P...y to Stand Up to An Anti-Jewish Goon Like Hasan Piker.’ Could Vote Republican appeared first on RAIR. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:57:47 +0000 4dce5260b2b01223a4e2a34b73a69213da223d5b https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/disability-is-the-current-meta one more time: human behavior is the product of incentives Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:53:40 +0000 8b8d15c286a8830ae888da0315a8d7b23fbb01e9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPGZWo2YplA Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:39:45 +0000 e6e6667de39000d93855334e15aee387317820d0 https://www.racket.news/p/get-lit-livestream-430-pm-et-on-stephen Brad and Matt visit the Bowery. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:29:47 +0000 1b662c827820425cd66058ebf8acc7e56990af69 https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/tool-vs-companion-digital-minds Humans have two main relations to animals: they are either food or pets. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:25:02 +0000 c5bd3a04bdbfbf9d27ddb15e81e801b163cafddf https://www.racket.news/p/re-typo The AOC piece is missing a line. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:23:24 +0000 4c9bf635d8401e9b819637e2dbde7e777a19e49c https://reclaimthenet.org/total-coverage-optional-oversight Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught. which is a different promise and a much smaller one. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:12:36 +0000 18ad46168013f27748dd1b294dfcbf655f530e41 https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-rights-internal-mudslinging-over Plus: The 2026 race that just became the most important contest in the country Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:58:52 +0000 6f7ff3339f4284a467f9eeea4f7161fc90d44d84 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversity-news-august-10-2026/ --- More Britons believe migration is ‘mostly bad’ after small boats crisis. reveals poll Slowly the electorate discovers the grim reality lurking under the chrome and soaring music. Any migration leads to more migration. Any migration creates genetic changes that cannot be undone. You need ethnic/genetic Britons only in Britain. Texas ranks No. 3 for (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:56:59 +0000 e98d7a1c5be987bd977bdb8bd6934ed1d0b8017f https://www.racket.news/p/woke-2-wants-a-mulligan-for-woke Gearing for a White House run. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughs off 'Woke 1' as 'a little crazy.' On the strategy of losing every political battle in order to win the political war Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:46:39 +0000 5e1e0e2166ee29b362773b84fbdd7d86f4ed2e21 https://rairfoundation.com/mi-democratic-senate-candidate-abdul-el-sayed-advocated/ Muslim supremacist Abdul El-Sayed spoke at an Oklahoma event sponsored by CAIR advocating for Sharia law and comparing it to the Trail of Tears. He equated banning it with white supremacy. invoking racism and Islamophobia over Sharia not being allowed on the streets of America. The post MI Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Advocated for Sharia in US at CAIR Event. Equates Banning It with ‘White Supremacy’ appeared first on RAIR. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:43:53 +0000 f71120ff1e1cb2bf2946c28057b6c7eba7d1852e https://voxday.net/2026/08/10/no-permission-no-protection/ It’s true. Israel doesn’t need the USA’s permission to fight Iran. The Israeli military has directly informed CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper that Israel does not need approval or support from the US to wage war against Iran. adding “we are currently making preparations to start the war.” per Israeli Channel 13. Israel is (…) The post No Permission. No Protection appeared first on Vox Popoli. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:43:49 +0000 73d1c148a3dc55dfa4add7722f2ad74ec175f774 https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/daily-rome-shot-1678-scorn/ Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – WHY.  This helps to pay for health insurance. utilities. groceries. and now also my late mother’s place.  At no extra cost. you provide help for which I am … Read More → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:40:29 +0000 1b6376f1cc4b88c2e369da4e4afbee498ba75d62 https://therenwhere.substack.com/p/wildfire-risk-in-uk John Sydenham Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:40:29 +0000 5a099d676902f3fd370c51a91bcd3514adb71fcb https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/elizabeth-lane-should-trump-take.html I came across Elizabeth Lane being interviewed about American propaganda by Tucker Carlson and did some research on her. She is a Georgian-American actress who admires Vladimir Putin. Her boyfriend or former boyfriend or close friend is in the FSB. But her being an admirer of Vladimir Putin [I am not one. just so you know] or even her being close to the Russian secret service doesn't mean what she says should be dismissed.This post on X today makes good sense but the reason why I copy it here is because it made me see that the Cold War served US interests by scaring Europe into obeying Washington. I worked out at the time that it was unnecessary because Russia and America were in the 19th century parlance satisfied powers. Today fear of Russia makes Europe obey the USA. a much more murderous country than Russia. one that has invaded far more countries than Hitler's Germany. I do feel that Denmark that has supported so many illegal and unnecessary American wars and actions is on thin ice on this one.Should Trump take Greenland. I’ll say it clearly: I don’t just tolerate Trump’s aggressive manhandle of Europe I support it. And yes. that includes Greenland. Not because it’s morally pure or diplomatically elegant. but because Europe spent decades building the conditions that made this outcome inevitable.For most of the post–World War II era. western Europe didn’t merely align with the United States. it voluntarily surrendered large parts of its sovereignty. Germany is the clearest example. Its intelligence services were not organically rebuilt after the war they were constructed under direct CIA supervision.  The Bundesnachrichtendienst grew out of the Gehlen organization. run by a former Nazi intelligence chief and folded straight into the American intelligence apparatus. This isn’t conspiracy. it’s documented history in mainstream books and declassified records. Western Europe’s security architecture was never independent. NATO. the CIA. and British intelligence formed a system in which Europe relied on the U.S. not just for defense. but for strategic direction in politics. intelligence filtering. and political boundaries.This is why Western European leaders are almost never overthrown. Regime change is unnecessary when leadership is already yours. vetted. and brainwashed. Eastern Europe saw upheavals precisely because it wasn’t fully integrated into this system. To maintain this arrangement with western European. the American intelligence and military-industrial complex sold Europe a permanent fear narrative: Russia. The claim that Russia posed an existential threat to Western Europe was exaggerated to the point of fiction. In reality. Russia was Europe’s most logical strategic partner. It provided cheap energy. raw materials. and geographic stability everything an industrial continent needs to thrive. Germany’s economic dominance was built largely on this partnership. But fear works better than facts. Enormous resources were poured into shaping public opinion. media narratives. and political discourse to ensure hostility toward Russia remained constant.Germany and Italy barely needed convincing. Their historical baggage [Nazism] made anti-Eastern sentiment easy to activate. France followed through a different route. a cultivated paranoia around “strategic autonomy” that always mysteriously ended with deeper NATO dependence.The result was the same. Europe tied itself tighter to American security whilesurrendering economic and strategic leverage. The irony is brutal. Europe paid for its protection twice: once by funding its own militaries to NATO standards which was not cheap. and again by accepting debt. austerity. and economic constraints that hollowed out its sovereignty. All while being told that without U.S. protection. Russia would roll tanks into Paris. That was never true and still isn’t.Trump disrupted this arrangement not out of ideology. but self-interest. He asked the one question no U.S. president before him dared to ask out loud: Why is America paying for Europe’s security when it doesn’t benefit American citizens. It made no sense. He was right. The American deep state cared deeply about Europe. not because Europe mattered to Americans. but because Europe mattered to global control. The intelligence-banking-military complex doesn’t operate on national loyalty. it operates on power. Nations are tools. not beneficiaries. Global control is the goal.Trump rejected that logic.His view is blunt.transactional. and unapologetic: if an alliance doesn’t benefit the U.S.. it’s worthless. Fund your own defense. Secure your own borders. Counter China. Protect American interests first [Fine fine Israeli interest first and American interest right after] :]] . Is he elegant. No. Is he efficient. Sometimes not. But he is the first president in decades to seriously challenge the global architecture that prioritized control over national interest.That left Europe exposed and lost. European leaders suddenly realized they had alienated Russia to their own detriment. their most natural partner. while depending entirely on a patron that no longer felt obligated to protect them. And of course the Nord Stream sabotage was a huge blow. Europe’s largest economy was crippled overnight. No accountability. No investigation that mattered. No consequences. Germany was deindustrialized in real time. sacrificing its future for a geopolitical game it didn’t control. The same forces that sold Europe the Russia threat proceeded to destroy Europe’s economic backbone.Now to Greenland. where Europe’s hypocrisy finally collapses under its own weight. For years. Denmark and allied intelligence services quietly admitted that Russia had no strategic interest in Greenland. Behind closed doors. this was well understood. Publicly. however. the opposite narrative was pushed. especially during the Ukraine war. Media outlets and officials floated claims that Russia was eyeing Greenland. despite lacking evidence or strategic incentive. The goal was simple. reinforce the Arctic fear narrative. That propaganda worked until it backfired.Now Trump looks at the Arctic and says: if this region matters strategically. why shouldn’t the United States secure its interests directly. Suddenly Denmark is outraged. Europe is shocked. But this is the world Europe helped create. You can’t spend decades inflating security threats. lying. inviting foreign control. and surrendering sovereignty. then cry foul when something is being down about it and power is exercised against you.Is taking Greenland right. morally. no. Strategically. entirely consistent with the system Europe enabled.If Europe had maintained real sovereignty. balanced relations with Russia. and independent security structures. this wouldn’t even be a discussion. Europe would have been strong and thriving.Now Europe stands alone. rightfully so. too egoistic to reconcile with Russia. abandoned by the United States. and still refusing to admit what it did to itself. Instead. it blames Putin for Trump wanting Greenland. That level of denial borders on political psychosis. Macron. Berlin’s leadership. and Brussels elites are not confused. they’re intellectually bankrupt. They destroyed their countries and still demand applause. Unbelievable. Macron thinks he has an idea. looking at China maybe the other daddy can save them. So pathetic.So should Trump take Greenland. If we’re playing by the rules Europe accepted for 70 years. when they surrounded control to American deep state then. absolutely. You don’t get to build a system based on power politics and then complain when power finally turns in your direction. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:39:23 +0000 4f4227c36b2f26f46253554abea108a30491b0a6 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/08/10/tds1522-modern/ SUBSCRIBE RSS TRS PO Box 867 Dingman's Ferry. PA 18328 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:37:23 +0000 d3f942da3e8d7a4309022a4e1a71defda6f609c4 https://delarroz.com/2026/08/10/a-reddit-user-visited-anne-mccaffrey-and-she-told-him-how-pern-was-supposed-to-end/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:35:25 +0000 8a722ea2510227cb9975ab15d9ecf07947a3bf36 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/08/10/tds1522/ Mike has not yet changed his twitter handle. MODERN VIDEO PLAYERS HERE SUBSCRIBE RSS TRS PO Box 867 Dingman's Ferry. PA 18328 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:34:51 +0000 7f377020b76d8efff66103b85db7f4a63c1fbb94 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/open-thread.html  Go at it.  Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:09:50 +0000 90f1261fc34ed728bd61b52f3741ff6766eba411 https://www.frankwrighter.com/p/holiday-reading-part-one TS Eliot. Matthew Arnold and the idols of Modern Man Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:09:47 +0000 a5cdf60fcc1048d33700fd372d92d2504babcb67 https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/look-up-in-the-sky-4/ Not only is 12 August the height of the Tears of St. Lawrence… Put August 12 in your phone now. Genuinely. Before sunrise. six planets spread across the sky. Afternoon. the eclipse. After dark. the Perseids Meteor shower. Four events … Read More → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:07:08 +0000 fe8dfb78207b458731001afcae6a16907b25f3c3 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-tony-fauci-appears-to-have Joe Biden's final-day presidential pardon of Fauci will protect him from any potential criminal jeopardy for the episode. but it shows why he may be so reluctant to testify now. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:06:51 +0000 ab51d84d831478ecad0fe5f24994685d3b19aa61 https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/on-race-and-pride/ 1.593 words One of my favorite anecdotes about classical music involves how the American pianist Van Cliburn won the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958. He did so to the apparent consternation of the Soviets. who hosted the competition. During the Cold War. many among the organizers saw this competition as an opportunity to demonstrate (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:02:24 +0000 a4bf0d5d6b9960ada33e41c56db77c5e1064cf7c https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-locked-a-foreign-companys-domain-over-missing-digital-id-checks Fourteen days after a Travis County judge signed. motherless.com dropped out of the .com zone file for every person on earth. most of whom have never heard of Travis County. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:55:59 +0000 bc36b4cae4cd056d7fb4fe7782d260f7d493b8aa https://therenwhere.substack.com/p/quotations-for-our-time-1 “In the past I voted Democrat. because they were [mostly] the kindness party. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:52:49 +0000 dce6f17b084dbe4a9792d48ed602f278bbb44db0 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/10/criminal-illegal-alien-who-smuggled-over-90-guns-into-u-s-pleads-guilty-to-federal-weapons-charges/ A Mexican criminal illegal alien who smuggled over 90 firearms into the United States has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges following an investigation by (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:50:49 +0000 b3447d733d7c09af6716c6037728816a848931f0 https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-private-relay-bug-leaks-real-ip-in-safari Under some conditions. the traffic leaves the iPhone directly and never touches the relay the subscriber is paying for. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:40:10 +0000 b7e3c5a89faa19d05a9276788b62d4bed1c331b2 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/ier-renewable-loophole-in-the-one (Note: Another excellent expose’ from the folks at the Institute for Energy Research here.) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:39:24 +0000 059007ab3631a0cfc12d017ab1ff9b1a2a66bdd3 https://crez.site/2026/260810.html What would a covenant law code about the virtual world look like. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:34:08 +0000 c41b270b2cfef174fc2b23547dd6d2b064d180af https://reclaimthenet.org/america-presses-south-korea-false-info-law The offense goes undefined. so the cheapest way to comply is to delete every post a court might someday dislike. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:29:12 +0000 a267f035756d1e8fd37c9ea3e5ccc30a62831bc0 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-446 ... Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:17:33 +0000 27d53afd049f408eda2c003e363fad4e12d6b491 https://reclaimthenet.org/whatsapp-starts-asking-some-indian-users-for-a-date-of-birth India's IT Secretary says the government will check with WhatsApp about its DPDP age verification methods. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:05:06 +0000 7e9498fc6cf21d0fa390fe3b5e97c03c4a34bd68 https://www.racket.news/p/livestream-3-pm-et-the-origins-of A recording from Monday's live video Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:58:31 +0000 71ecf2d7900a14ae91af9ffe3381d694a8479e62 https://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2026/08/cosmotheandrism-bitter-medicine-for.html That is the ironic title of the next subsection. but it is nearly 7.000 words long. so I’ll have to break it down into more bitesized posts:We believe in natural selection as much as the next ape. but in no way can it account for its own veracity nor our freedom to know it. let alone the intersubjective communication of its truth from mind to mind. And this truth-freedom-intersubjectivity speaks to an immaterial and relational intellect that in principle cannot be reduced to any material process in the absence of an impressive performative contradiction. Here we are. having escaped the Darwinian zoo. but some other primates want to stick us back into the genetic cage from which we have fled. This only begs the question of what kind of dim chimpsky writes a book about how he is one. The story is ludicrous.Look at the big shot who thinks he’s so humble.Yes. the irony-deficient claim that “I’m just a humble product of my genes.” But as Dávila says. Each one clings to the snobbery that he can. status seeking primates being what they are.I’m no park ranger or zoo-keeper. but having monkeyed around with evolutionary psychology. I know that sub-cosmotheandric sociobiological accounts of the Anthropos cannot be the truth. full stop. for the conceptual system cannot generate from its own resources [immanent genes] the principle that makes its truth-claims possible [the transcendent Logos discussed above]. Thus the theory requires its own One Free Miracle -- a gratuitous. unearned exemption from its own necessary entailments – which is fundamentally incoherent.Conversely. our cosmotheandric approach reconciles the partial truths of Darwinism within the larger framework of a truth-bearing primate dwelling in a logospheric Cosmos. Only in this way can we embrace the factual findings of genetic science without succumbing to its inherent metaphysical limitations. We must always bear in mind that Ideas tyrannize the man who has few. Or. recalling the scholastic wisecrack. Timeo hominem unius libri: “I fear the man of one book.” Especially a book that makes writing it impossible.For if something is possible in fact. it was possible in principle. and what is the principle that accounts for man’s transcendence of his genes. Is there a gene for transcendence. If so. it is only the illusion of transcendence. as suggested by sociobiological accounts of man’s morality or religiosity. i.e.. the so-called “God gene.” But to suggest there is a God gene is to not know what the Theos Principle is or what genes are.In other words. it is to covertly redefine both terms. for it at once attempts to squeeze the transcendent principle into one of the things it entails. while conferring magical powers on the immanent which are beyond the powers of immanence. The fact is. The world is explicable from man. but man is not explicable from the world. Man is a given reality. the world is a hypothesis we invent. Which does not imply that the Cosmos is but a projected form of our Anthropic categories. rather. that we explain it. not vice versa. How is this even controversial. Cosmotheandrism does not tell scientists what to do. rather. tells them what they’re always already doing.Back off man. I’m a metaphysician.Well. irrespective of the science. the ability to articulate the truth of our genes – insofar as it is a truth – proves we are participating in a higher. non-genetic principle. Pick one: the illusion of transcendence or the transcendence of illusion. the latter involving a seeing beyond or within the surface of appearances and the acquisition of objective truth. precisely. Which is not in any way to deny or denigrate the truth of Darwinism. rather. to explain in an intellectually consistent manner how it or any other truth is even possible for the Anthropos to acquire. I respect my genetic inheritance. but I don’t worship it. I’m not renting it shoes or buying it a beer. and I’m sure as hell not giving it veto power over my intellect.Is it even metaphysically possible that we are enclosed in our selfish genes. If so. how could we even know of them. knowledge again transcending the object of knowledge. What is the nature of a being who transcends his so-called selfish genes and whose mind is free to conform to the truth of reality. For the Anthropos is quintessentially capable of disinterested knowledge. or in other words. of objectivity.For example. even – or perhaps especially – a Richard Dawkins would presumably insist that his theory of selfish genes is the objective fact of the matter. If so. how does this disinterested objectivity arise from genes that are selfish. which is to say. self-interested and therefore not remotely interested in anything transcending their narrow self-interest.Take your stinking paws off me. you damned dirty ape.How is it that we are interested in anything that doesn’t interest our selfish genes. whose only interests are survival and reproduction.Why should any animal care about logical coherence. external validity. and intellectual honesty. anyway.That’s a good point. because monkeys obviously don’t care. but a properly functioning intellect not only cares but is troubled by logical inconsistencies. cognitive dissonances. performative contradictions. gratuitous miracles. and flat-out absurdities.Note. for example. that genes are already transcendent in the sense that they are by definition “about” something that is not themselves. i.e.. the organism and environment. This elevates the status of the gene from a mere material particle to a relational. meaning-bearing entity that inherently points beyond itself. The gene exhibits a form of transcendence because its existence is fundamentally defined by what it is about: a gene is not merely a string of molecules. rather. it is information. And information by its very nature is intentional -- it refers to something outside or beyond itself. In this case. the genome is essentially bi-relational. pointing at once to the organism’s phenotype and to the environment to which it is adapted. In the absence of this prior ontological principle of aboutness. neither our genes nor our intellect can be about anything. so the Cosmic Area Rug falls apart and our Great Conversation can never even get underway. Rather. we are reduced to the genetic small talk of instinctual barking and bleating.We can be certain that intelligence exists. But by virtue of what principle. And can this principle be less than intelligent. Or less than personal. What is it that makes an otherwise intelligent man want to argue that the true miracle of intelligence can be grounded in the absence thereof. or in unintelligent matter.I recall a discussion between Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins touching on the existence of God. Probably if you asked Dawkins. he would say that he is not only motivated by the disinterested pursuit of truth. but much more so than the next [religious] guy. The problem is. his metaphysic can account for neither truth nor the beings capable of pursuing and knowing -- not to mention loving -- truth. It wasn’t so much that they were talking past each other. rather. more as if Peterson were conversing with an autistic person about the nature of empathic attunement.Peterson obviously senses -- and wrestles with. as per the title of one of his books -- God. while Dawkins senses nothing. He still wrestles. but with the people who sense what he doesn’t. Broadly speaking. “religion” is a way of talking about and aligning oneself with a deeper reality that transcends appearances. But Dawkins approaches this reality in a way that is more literal than the most concrete literalist. He is very much like the Flatlander who insists that spheres are just fantasies of circles. Which recalls a passage by Schuon:Rather than to yield to the obvious fact of the Spirit. proud reason will deny its own nature which nonetheless enables it to think.... tons of intelligence are wasted to circumvent the essential while brilliantly proving the absurd. namely to prove that the spirit sprung in the end from a clod of earth -- or. we could say. from an inert substance…Seems like a good place to stop  Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:53:40 +0000 135e108c40e21fc8f113ae270eccb5f45ce1f7af https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-tactic-of-aoc-and-her-allies The so-called 'Woke 1' period is not something to laugh off. It was a repressive and destructive mob rule which unjustly destroyed careers and requires a reckoning. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:30:42 +0000 9e4c43ef02f635928a5f20fc95879bb23e4d2540 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/10/starts-tonight-mazza-fall-semester-is-gonna-be-lit/ In honor of the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis [Oct 3]. the good doctor is offering a special class. “Italians Who Saved the Church [and State]” as part of his his fall class the schedule. The Italian stars of the show. other than Saint Francis. are St. Clare. St. Thomas Aquinas. Dante. Giotto. St. … Continue reading 'Starts tonight: Mazza fall semester is gonna be lit.' Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:23:17 +0000 228a3048ed0b43caffeca306ba254b446881fafa https://voxday.net/2026/08/10/translation-juan-martin-el-empecinado/ SPAIN. 1811. THE REGULAR THE PEOPLE ARE SPAIN’S Gabriel Araceli rides into the ruined Alcarria to find a countryside stripped bare — burned villages. empty granaries. women digging the fields with hoes. Frenchmen hanging in the trees. Here the war is fought by bands of irregulars: hungry. improvised. ferociously effective. (…) The post Juan Martín el Empecinado appeared first on Vox Popoli. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:07:11 +0000 6678320f807013204468eb9e806895a0450091f3 https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/a-volcano-ready-to-explode-war-civilisation Nick Griffin Jeune Nation TV Interview Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:01:50 +0000 c806dfba7362602b28d5cc3df0b80b0b2f343175 https://kokxnews.substack.com/p/meme-monday-rad-trad-rising-edition August 10. 2026 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:01:11 +0000 e366a1f2174fe0b190b62b76039a4fd87c0109ae https://www.frombearcreek.com/animal-magnetism-live-ep-99-seattle-observations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=animal-magnetism-live-ep-99-seattle-observations Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:00:33 +0000 a81cbb9bf6035d9c2df5e7b3049f87ab1671349c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJqCM7Ktjuk Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:00:18 +0000 2a27a4e4b0cc077185fca4f74f511b4be6db92be https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/10/transportation-secretary-seeks-english-proficiency-rule-for-commercial-truckers/ U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is advancing federal rules to permanently mandate English-language proficiency and English-only commercial driver’s license [CDL] testing for all commercial truck drivers. (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:58:38 +0000 a2f97f415a486b9d8b5bf328335532c64b74d3b0 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/08/10/three-body-prep-8-10-26/ RED TRIANGLE EP SPOTIFY APPLE AMAZON JEWTUBE MUSIC Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:54:19 +0000 b91a5d6e9960c8de872e522e11b120ee0333ee58 https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/open-thread-21/ Sorry for the delay. You know how they say “a lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part.” You know how Grok also said that I “live in the comments as if I forgot I have another job”. Well. I do have another job. and lack of planning on their … Continue reading 'Open Thread' Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:49:01 +0000 6214e4d1da93a2c2a8280d959e82436f08499441 https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/08/what-did-queen-elizabeth-ii-have-for.html Some forty-plus years ago I met somebody who had a holiday job working at Balmoral Castle - the Queen's Scottish Highland home. and he told me what she ate for her usual breakfast - a meal that he was apparently involved in serving. So the question is: What did this chap tell me that Queen Elizabeth II had for breakfast.I shall reveal his [simple] description tomorrow. but meanwhile there is the prize of a Golden Medal [virtual] for any commenter who knows the right answer. or can guess it correctly.  Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:36:32 +0000 a367e4753df1378ce499f082b959c602e35f6034 https://directorblue.substack.com/p/a-day-of-carnage-at-shiloh-1862 Time Surfing: Graphic History Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:16:50 +0000 badc4c4e769acdbcd476166e2740f1a38b6b7447 https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/why-civilization-is-older-than-we-b54 ​Join PALLADIUM Magazine in San Francisco to hear a lecture by the esteemed author. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:00:42 +0000 6c1173397c48529e5842fa94a0dadee428bfb5a6 https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/vaccines-used-to-induce-disease-in This post is continuation of my research. compiling scientific evidence that all vaccines are intentional poisons. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:56:27 +0000 6c77c9b48adf738b36ab43b03e256401fb73887e https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/bruce-j-hunt-to-keynote-the-heaviside Author of The Maxwellians to Present 'Heaviside and FitzGerald: The Core of the Maxwellian Group' Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:36:07 +0000 e40ab2da87f5a3cff17d3511cb15ca497ca4e8d4 https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/registering-the-chickens-animal-passports Countries across multiple continents are rapidly rolling out mandatory animal registration. digital IDs. passports. and aerial surveillance of farms and private land. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:24:46 +0000 0c754c20cef1c23e3ab67888a6b759c00323dc1a https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-quiet-urban-leadership-crisis My recent essay on the crisis of local leadership. From Titans to Technocrats. was inspired by an op-ed by longtime Columbus. Ohio economic development person Mark Barbash. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:50:52 +0000 10b82cdb2c39605cce044f497b12f1f60bd26f32 https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/08/10/starting-wednesday-off-right-happy-death-edition/ This goes out to the Barnhardt Podcast listener who complains after every episode that The Tombstone Four laugh during the podcast. We aren’t stopping. St. Lawrence was cutting up AS HE WAS BEING I hope that I can make people smile in the hour of my death. too. So we’re certainly not (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:39:00 +0000 f276ef56d3194e3fe4ac0068de6cbc4f502f778b https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/the-great-displacement-desecrating-the-west/ 2.194 words When I was a child. I used to obsessively read Fortean Times. that venerable old British magazine which described itself as “The Journal of Strange Phenomena” [today. as an adult. I obsessively write for it instead]. One of my favorite categories of strange occurrence covered was that of so-called OOPs. or Out-Of-Places. denoting (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:36:17 +0000 8754cd9dabf6b9826954eeff462e2bc48f541140 https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-democrats-ghost-dance 'Kill them. Murder them. Let the streets soak in their red capitalist blood.” —Hasan Piker Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:35:49 +0000 df3c85df90489f4350d82211afaf046546660070 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/6-market-shocks-i-predict-if-democrats And the biggest market coming shifts could begin weeks from now. long before any new laws are passed. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:34:04 +0000 b1d19afbc5a4dc1e40bf1d2f8c49c0549f67fb57 https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/new-texas-legislation Podcasts and Conference calls Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:13:25 +0000 17cbfec17d6b92a43421d86f2e5f7e351a41262f https://www.unbekoming.com/p/husband-coached-childbirth-1996 By Robert Bradley - 30 QandAs - Book Review and Summary Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:01:34 +0000 990dc3589ff99da7aa41143593b00674ff43dd01 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/afd-opens-20-point-lead-a-month-before-crucial-state-elections/ A new poll puts the AfD on course for a historic victory in Saxony-Anhalt. while the CDU may need support from other parties to prevent an AfD government. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:47:29 +0000 16e783b6f9350f3a140e5e08a88d622743d03dac https://www.malone.news/p/israels-closing-frontier The wolf at the door. part six: notes from the Israeli frontier Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:32:21 +0000 78b7c530d47a63c07603a0a2ec6df7881b30bf1e https://blackmon.substack.com/p/5-big-energy-stories-8102026-hormuz Rare Earth in concert. ca. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:31:26 +0000 5c8ecd2c7549e33b40d8826abf2067c1b750a486 https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/a-key-to-evola Alexander Markovics reviews 'Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life' Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:19:09 +0000 d8f668244bcb6d4cc6599c094a73c46bbdb70380 https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/08/pray-rosary-to-survive-scourge-of.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:18:11 +0000 553c57d2705f42e5baf2e78aef95a3fc88289eda https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/you-cant-con-an-honest-man-and-the Brit coppers—do they still call them the Old Bill.—investigated reporter Jack Grove for months because Grove investigated serial truth fornicator and black Cambridge [now ex-] professor Jason Arday. a black professor. who is black. appointed because he was black. for the many lies. fabrications. colored rhodomontade. and hilarious whoppers this black professor. who is black. and who writes Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:04:35 +0000 24a4d37200ab0296558c08bb710e56203739adfb https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/troy-2004-nostalgia-for-the-decline/ 2.840 words The great lie is that we live in an “Open Society.” We are in the most heavily propagandized culture in human history. where every major institution. public or private. remains trapped in egalitarian orthodoxy. Every man is his own commissar and is eager to police both himself and his neighbor. All myths must (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:03:56 +0000 d79d98f5dda8de46b9a4e132d78dfed3d888fd67 https://www.unbekoming.com/p/the-poultice An Essay on the External Medicine American Households Once Practiced Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:03:43 +0000 fe7d8693eb8636818f8f5d46ad6b0f11c6aac873 https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/61797/ Brit coppers—do they still call them the Old Bill.—investigated reporter Jack Grove for months because Grove investigated serial truth fornicator and black Cambridge [now ex-] professor Jason Arday. a black… Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 4772009c1bef0f17d879790cc1bc7a1f27b1a689 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/gazas-board-of-pieces Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage. a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide to its grim conclusion. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:50:44 +0000 f432cece93007a85da304c4af2d8a18476b73f4c https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/protect-our-christian-heritage-italian-and-danish-pms-rally-europe-against-mass-migration/ Italy’s conservative prime minister and Denmark’s centre-left leader said tighter returns policies alone are “not enough”. arguing that respect for European laws must go hand in hand with respect for European values. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:31:50 +0000 51cd22ba539d43590299d304a4a4547892a41546 https://escapekey.substack.com/p/kennedy On November 21. 1963. McGeorge Bundy — National Security Adviser to President John F. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:52:10 +0000 1f6a3851eaae6005f5d0b9bbc006db8768342cfc https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/war-on-iran-new-iran-demands-repeat-mou-conditions-trump-had-already-signed.html U.S. media claim that Iran has set out new conditions to solve the conflict with the U.S. But the new text it has published is just a repetition of  clauses the U.S. had already signed on to. On Saturday Iran published ‘new’ demands for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz: (Secretary of Iran’s SupremeRead more... Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:45:18 +0000 cabb23aa2166098d93e1aca84a947fe03c6a006c https://korybko.substack.com/p/nawrocki-envisages-poland-playing It’s apparent that he perceives Poland as European NATO’s vanguard state for containing Russia in the new “cordon sanitaire” that’s been formed around it over the past year as a result of Trump 2.0’s Neo-Reagan Doctrine. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:33:15 +0000 21847363b08dd0df8abbad5586aa70cb7bdbbb88 https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/08/is-freemasonry-on-anyones-radar-screen.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000 9c9baf3c6c0462c7bc890810b3b8f37b429790d6 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/08/memes-that-made-me-laugh-323.html  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.More next week.Peter Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:02:00 +0000 48a6640011d346994e746abdb09d48ca3417904e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKLzIk9lSAk Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:32 +0000 5524866d156c9090ee59bd681df26a9b60d2711a https://onepeterfive.com/this-latin-course-was-amazing-high-school-student/ Of the six latin courses I've taken since 4th grade. only after this one can I say. 'yeah. I can read Latin.' Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:53:18 +0000 4cb86496aafe8eff9305917d05796ed1614cb90c https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/10/morning-greatness-trump-names-staff-secretary-will-scharf-as-new-white-house-counsel/ Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 9:30 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:01:10 +0000 634e835626c89968a49c9c1d58a936c2f8cf9a71 https://substack.aicentral.blog/p/setting-the-stage OpenAI shows off mathematical capability and purges its infrastructure while inching steadily closer to an IPO. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:55 +0000 eb5baba31b31cfd00b820a8fac5abf4b59b5806f https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXBIhzPBsHo Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:21 +0000 ef5fc29c5083b01a428a9a5293674edc96f9f0b8 https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/08/sometimes-cigar-is-just-cigar.html ...and a chicken shop is just a chicken shop:...reading about the left-on-left battle at Master Poulet. a French chicken chain that just opened its first UK branch. I found myself mulling a question that felt more than a little personal: am I chicken shop left. OK. OK. this might just be a me problem. I’ve always had an interest in chicken shops. Maybe it’s personal: chicken shops. offering cheap halal takes on mainstream fare. have long been a pursuit of south Asian immigrants who hoped. like my own family. for a better life in this brave new world [talk about a wing and a prayer]. But they are also bound up in Black British youth culture: neighbourhood incubators for music. affordable places to hang. landmarks of “the ends”. Chicken shops tell the story of a mixed. working-class Britain. with all its whimsy.’Working class’. Are you sure. Mostly favoured by imported immigrant youth for whom a days work is not something to be looked for…Back in April. Karim Bouamrane. the Socialist party [PS] mayor of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine. near Paris. tried to block a Master Poulet branch that had opened outside the town hall. Literally. with concrete blocks at the doors. A court ordered them removed. so he swapped them for giant colourful plant pots. The shop responded with quippy signs [“we are open … no offence to Karim”. read one]. delighting French social media with this meta game of chicken. Bouamrane insisted it was all about quality of life. as late deliveries and cooking smells disturbed residents. Not everyone was convinced.It's not so surprising in France. unlike the English. they are proud of their food culture and not about to see it swamped by foreign cultures. Saint-Ouen has transformed in recent years. not least due to regeneration pegged to the Paris Olympics. Critics accuse the mayor of overseeing a gentrification drive that has seen property prices surge. arguing that’s his real issue: he wants to chase out cheap food [and the sorts of people who eat it].And that is. after all. the very purpose of gentrification whether one seeks it in France or England. Remove the troublesome population and the surroundings become much more pleasant as a result.Which may explain why politicians from the further-left La France Insoumise [LFI]. have waded in. questioning whether Islamophobia and classism are at play. and accusing the mayor of abusing his power. One MP visited the shop in solidarity. His name. Éric Coquerel. I’ll just leave that there.To be clear. I am far from an expert on French politics. This is the 'Guardian'. you don't need to be. They don't require anyone to know what they are talking about....So am I part of the chicken shop left. I don’t know. maybe. But perhaps that’s the wrong question. After the almighty flap over Master Poulet. I’m left feeling that politics should be less “ruling the roost” and more “birds of a feather”. Especially with a far-right fox prowling outside the henhouse.Oh. the mythic 'far right' again.   Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 0fcc8f201dda9a28fd48181bf31aef826f8f9bcd https://korybko.substack.com/p/analyzing-lithuanias-proposed-political A “Western Democracy” might do what no “National Democracy” has yet to. which would have been decried as “anti-democratic” if Russia and/or China did so first even though such a policy is within the realm of all state’s sovereign rights to promulgate. including on similar national security grounds. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:47:49 +0000 1e001138f452536867dcd9218d569836d386603c https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-islamist-network-hiding-in-plain What recent reports. investigations and scandals reveal about a problem Britain refuses to confront Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:15:41 +0000 8d7ad525e93344d1d3de90a4925f480502bbc291 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/10/jason-arday-barack-obama-and-the-making-of-myths/ Yesterday in these pages. the inimitable Roger Kimball recounted the tall tale of Jason Arday. the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge. As (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:00:46 +0000 a5454e4a83103e438c689c5ce9bd50d104c8565a https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/10/the-failure-of-the-tiger-mom/ One of America’s most remarkable immigration stories belongs to Asian families. For decades. they have invested extraordinary effort in their children’s education. producing generations of (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:00:32 +0000 0feec679cc4c7536870e388a98480c946b297b1a https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/10/washington-needs-a-strategy-not-a-sermon/ The Trump administration faces a choice in the developing world that it has yet to fully confront. It can either continue treating Africa. Latin America. (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:00:12 +0000 565f0329bb134cd8801018c78c30132c61bbf4ad https://sigmaframe.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/the-gender-gulf/ Record numbers of women are demonizing men and masculinity. largely due to EdJeWm@c@t.0n. Continue reading → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000 840cfc31a297ff159f051cd37b79c377e68c91c0 https://restoremag.com/breaking-down-the-channel-dinghy-forced-entry-scam/ Nobody in Calais can sell refugee status. What the gangs actually sell is British legal time. priced by the month and invoiced to the taxpayer. The dinghy is not transport. It is the first instrument in a sequence engineered to make refusal physically impossible long before it becomes legally wrong. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:59:29 +0000 607359762b9e70d6d5f3d6aef924203f9e0f7c19 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/tony-blair-by-then-out-of-office-one.html  Tony Blair. by then out of office. one month before NATO met in April 2008 to promise future membership to Ukraine. Acknowledgements to Glenn Diesen.'We are the only people in history who are expected to witness our own genocide. and then watch what we say so we don’t hurt the feelings of the people who did this.' Palestinian-American author and activist Susan Abulhawa. speaking to the Oxford Union last year.Shaiel Ben-Ephraim. Israeli strategic analyst. former diplomat and military intelligence officer in the IDF's Unit 8200. on X today:Shaiel Ben-Ephraim@academic_laAn incredible expose by Ronen Bergman shows how Israel invents quotes from Iranian officials in order to manufacture 'evidence' that Iran is building nuclear weapons. This event took place on August 5th. when it was reported globally that Ahmad Vahidi. commander of the IRGC had admitted that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. The only problem. It wasn't true: 1] Netanyahu's pet network in Israel. Channel 14 spent months building Vahedi up as 'the strongest man in Iran.' priming audiences to treat any dramatic quote from him as coming from Iran itself. In reality. he is one power player among several. 2] An Indian Hindu nationalist account posts an earlier fabricated quote from Vahedi that says that nuclear weapons are a 'necessity' for Iran. It does not get much traction. 3] The same account publishes a quote saying that Vahedi stated that Vahedi said that Iran will keep developing nuclear weapons as long as the US and Israel have them. There was no source. 4] The Mossad Commentary account. a large account with no affiliation to the actual Mossad posted the quote in English. 5] Channel 14. a mere 33 minutes later. covers this and claims that this is 'the first time' an Iranian official directly admitted to building a nuclear bomb. 6] Three minutes later Yair Netanyahu. son of the Prime Minister. retweets Mossad Commentary. then three minutes later retweets Channel 14 English. followed later by Israel War Room. 7] Two hours later. Netanyahu senior cites the fabricated quote in an official speech at Mount Herzl. now the made up Tweet had become state policy. 8] The Tweet makes it to the US. US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz shares it saying that Iran is 'finally admitting what was clear for years.' then deletes it without explanation. 9] Mark Levine shares it and then Fox News reports it as fact. including an on-screen headline. 10] Channel 14 now reports this again with FOX and Netanyahu as the source. Mossad Commentary. the original source of the English version. now cites Channel 14 as its source. completing a circular citation loop. 11] Israel's Foreign Ministry spreads Netanyahu's remarks to Persian-speaking audiences. 12] Indian news agency ANI reports the story back in India. attributing it to 'Israeli media.' completing the round trip. This is a well oiled machine of disinformation emanating from Netanyahu and his circle designed to create a false narrative which will destroy negotiations with Iran and renew the war. Similar frauds have been perpetrated in the past like the Jewish Chronicle/Bild affair. when a made up journalist planted stories in the press to justify blowing up a hostage deal with Hamas. But this time he is dragging the entire world into endless war and not just Israel. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:52:22 +0000 0498e74aa5fbd10db2ca6fd4ce492d9544c92b95 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/from-andrew-marrs-book-making-of-modern.html  He does his own research which is unusual nowadays. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:48:15 +0000 d2b7a75c40d825110b3db6ad255b00f4c1c90802 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-american-hegemon-is-unprecedented.html When I came to Romania in the late 1990s every Romanian I knew opposed the USA intervening in Kosovo. Later they were utterly cynical about American motives in invading Iraq in 2003. How right they were.David Gibb talks in this podcast about how neocons in the very influential 1992 Defense Planning Guidance [DPG] argued that America's primary post-Cold War goal was maintaining absolute global military dominance. how humanitarian reasons for wars and interventions [to support women. minorities. later homosexual rights] were at first cynical ploys by the neocons who later came very much to believe their own propaganda.The neocons from the defeat in Vietnam onwards saw Israel as a model of how the USA should be: aggressive. with little interest in diplomacy. This increased the importance of Israel in the US.He says Ukraine in 2014 [and now] was a neocon project. just like the current war in Iran.'To the victor belong the spoils' Professor Gibbs quotes Trump saying about taking Venezuelan oil while Rubio rules Venezuela like a colony - Trump is original not in his policy but because 'he says the quiet part out loud' to quote the voguish phrase. But I'd add that the hypocrisy was very important - hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. as La Rochefoucauld said. Without the idealistic screen America is very corrupt and decadent. This does smell of decline.Iraqi oil is still controlled by the US. which all Romanians  assumed in 2003 was the reason for the invasion. In fact. there were many reasons and the most powerful. we now know. was false intelligence from Israel.Plus ça change. plus c'est la même chose. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:39:46 +0000 90bf17ba5fe2fe156befeee534543e876cc1c42e https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/the-trip-so-far-chicago-conference-etc/ UPDATED 10 Aug – way down at the bottom Originally Published on: Aug 8. 2026 UPDATE HERE about laptop  FIRST post with travel woes – include TWO mis-landings and hours of delays and missed flight HERE After the horrible beginning. here … Read More → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:34:06 +0000 563cd72b05329d9d01755a10375a708c344d2420 https://sonar21.com/is-donald-trump-serious-about-declaring-victory-over-iran/ According to a Wall Street Journal report citing US officials. President Trump has been privately weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran and ending the war without securing a... Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:15:50 +0000 2d02a5964c5d0897fec8249484fbbfb0ee65e64f https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/09/senate-leaves-town-without-passing-trumps-save-america-act/ The Senate adjourned for its August recess Saturday without passing President Donald Trump’s top legislative priority. the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility [SAVE] America Act. leaving (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:13:54 +0000 453df5409bc0b23ec113aedb7a8019f0c21027ce https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/09/senate-narrowly-confirms-todd-blanche-as-attorney-general-despite-gop-defections/ The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general Saturday in a 50-49 vote. delivering President Donald Trump a key win for his Justice Department even (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:13:40 +0000 427019f3241bfb4f628825618d15f2604bc0831c https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/09/cyberattack-cripples-california-citys-911-system-forces-emergency-shutdown/ A Northern California city of roughly 30.000 residents was forced to shut down its entire computer network Friday after a cyberattack knocked out its 911 (…) Source Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:12:49 +0000 f27def10ba4e4d760aaffe53bba1bb571d8da088 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/analysis/europes-foreign-policy-veto-is-not-a-flaw/ Abolishing the veto will not create a common strategic interest where none exists. It will merely allow the majority to impose on individual countries decisions that those countries may regard as a threat to their own security. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000 2399aedd9d4c7449963f2508a85c67f535815d53 https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/boys-who-cry Goth girls don't like them Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:43:53 +0000 fe645009de0e2dacff5ef8a42a97e3f7c4d53825 https://korybko.substack.com/p/would-russia-really-cease-to-exist What’s altogether most important in this thought exercise. which resembles the scenario implied by top Russian expert Vasily Kashin in late May. is that Russia keeps pace in the arms race and that its people remain resilient. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:37:46 +0000 9ba1b7325063787e35d55de6898a7e3a7a9c1273 https://www.amerika.org/politics/socialized-negatives/ The safety cult that has taken over most of the West is really a cult of punishment for those who do not need to be micromanaged. Take for example the ubiquitous horror that is the speed bump. In the name of safety. specifically slowing down passing cars. businesses erect raised concrete barriers across lanes. forcing (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:32:29 +0000 34764a00cf387b9112c7079fc080ab613293ae3d https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/vetting-2/ Deti wrote. The 1980s was the last decade before digitization. the internet. online dating. and social media started altering reality. Before then. women could meet. date. and fuck guys within a 20 to 30 mile radius and within extended social…Read more › Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:19:30 +0000 e8238ef74c7503c9b46e424d9bc9d21081d0b324 https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2026/08/10/aphorism/ My mysterious South Australian correspondent. writing from a location precisely north of the absolute South Pole. shares these comments from the esteemed Friedrich Nietzsche: “Modern. noisy. time-consuming. proud industriousness has extinguished the religious instincts. so that people no longer have any idea of what religions are about and. as it were. just register their presence (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:10:29 +0000 6255ba6d1c7b21c5b100b7bc0eed96deb9faccbc https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/10/site-update/ Hi all – and welcome back. OffG has just been extensively  renovated and updated. with a lot of re-coding and restructuring. The major changes and fixes are all done. but  we’ll be continuing to work on some finer details for a few days.   so you might notice a few glitches or brief outages. We’d also … Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:00:37 +0000 399328b2c6e3986df5c06ac5274364b686189c79 https://theothermccain.com/2026/08/10/rule-5-sunday-getting-strapped/ — compiled by Wombat-socho The only thing I remember about this pic is that it wasn’t from @kbdabear because apparently he doesn’t post cheesecake any more. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns. Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter. Three’s Company. Even Bernie Sanders Won’t Endorse. MAGA Midterms vs. (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:20:52 +0000 ba345462fc5cb322a161ef400401646a1973b940 https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-jewish-roots-of-the-ussr-and-the-ussa/ Decades ago when I was in college and grad school I had a strong side-interest in the Soviet Union and its history. During those years I may have read as many as one hundred books on those subjects. At that point. my views on most historical matters were almost entirely mainstream and conventional. closely conforming... Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:10:10 +0000 6f110a470339d2ec3f184aff47ffd8957297fa5f https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/10/readers-links-for-august-10-2026/ Each day at just after midnight Eastern. a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the Continue Reading → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:04:35 +0000 7fc06b14020891d16bccd016424b5ed8452ef034 https://theothermccain.com/2026/08/09/fmjra-2-0-the-usual-horrible-start-to-the-season/ — compiled by Wombat-socho Well. I guess we owe Mr. Yawkey for some water coolers after going 0-3 at Fenway to open the season. F.ck. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ‘Family Demands Answers’ EBL 357 Magnum FMJRA 2.0: In The Bowels of the Draft A View From The Beach EBL 357 (…) Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:38:33 +0000 f33492b5414a9acafe2bfb2084ba5b65ae72e10e https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8-9-2026/ The mayor of the Neukölln district of Berlin warned that his own Social Democratic Party is enabling “Islamist” infiltration through identity politics that silences criticism of Islam. Meanwhile. the co-leader of Die Linke [The Left] in the German state of … Continue reading → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:38:24 +0000 971b0520374810f67b7248a0a91e20efa50efe10 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/a-sex-slave-in-vienna/ A mixed up young “Austrian” lad in Vienna made the mistake of taking the words of his prophet [pbuh] seriously. The 15-year-old Iraqi culture-enricher thought that infidel women and girls were his to conquer and subdue. so that he could … Continue reading → Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:07:32 +0000 7e287b0992e6e0f621f57f6426ff566eb9f9ac23 https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/08/09/wsj-how-the-census-bureau-sent-japanese-americans-to-concentration-camps-1989/ On this day in 1989. the Wall Street Journal published my essay. “Honesty May Not be Your Best Census Policy.”  I had worked as a census taker in Illinois in 1980. But I did penance. When the 1990 census came around. I was “laying for them.” as Mark Twain would say. I exposed how the (…) The post WSJ: How the Census Bureau Sent Japanese-Americans to Concentration Camps [1989] appeared first on James Bovard. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:20:47 +0000 35996b02a82c026c602db60e1f77d954eecf004e https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-rain-if-anything-has-gotten-even.html  Sat night to  Monday. my phone was doing the emercency alert thing every few hours as yet another wave of rain came.  We talking firehose like rain.  Heavy wind etc.  It is like a non stop typhoon... Or the exaggerated rain in Forrest Gump.The chickens survived miraciously.  Although the coop is quite muddy.  Birds sitting on upturned plant pots.  I am sure they are hungry.  They devioured all the feed ASAP. and want more.  Because they ate the feeder empty yesterday.  I have switched to the cheaper feed that is mostly wheat berries.  They seem to like it. and they can clean it out of the cook vs the crumbles that just get ground into the mud.  Plus the wheat if it is missed will sprout and they can eat it that way.  3 workers are MIA today because of the weather. AOC sends her best:update.  Coop now covered in tarp.  Birds fed.  Pecking and shitting away.  Plastic lumber is being made despite the rain.  Got lumber orders to at least cover payroll this week.I been having bouts of sideways rain today.   Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:13:52 +0000 ec536e8e158d5f830b058f964c12fa35d7c0ea8c https://graymirror.substack.com/p/communism-with-american-characteristics 'The tertiary layer I'm made of is not a map with random errors.' Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:37:46 +0000 f177c156db22f8806cb306cf5b8c7dceffe73d97 https://rairfoundation.com/privileged-idiot-dsa-national-co-chair-stammers-taxing/ Democratic Socialists of America Co-Chair Megan Romer experienced brain freeze when asked to explain what she means by 'tax the hell out of millionaires.' The question seemed to break her brain. She also tried to explain open borders and the Palestinian conflict - it did not go well. All she made clear was her hatred for Isreal and love of Palestine. The post ‘Privileged Idiot’: DSA National Co-Chair Stammers Over Taxing the Hell Out of Millionaires. Opening America’s Borders appeared first on RAIR. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:02:30 +0000 b07a582faab985a032b0a8f99ebe67dc8d340bb3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8939X_kFwG4 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:00:07 +0000 7439023934f9020626240608e90c738277436cd6 https://delarroz.com/2026/08/09/the-science-fiction-collector-book-market-is-exploding-and-here-are-the-10-presses-worth-knowing/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:00:05 +0000 e76e7ccd36c3485ef3be94696ae0430eaf3c477e https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/ooh-arr-not-the-ra The ‘New IRA turns on immigrants’ story is a fake. But is it just a grift. or a dangerous black propaganda stunt. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:38:01 +0000 2956ebb63526795256a9fdb92f4bbc88525a752e https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/stopping-the-war-against-sleep Since few recognize the critical value of sleep. a safe cure was buried. the pills that replaced it make sleep worse. and Congress is on the precipice of locking in dark mornings nationwide. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:20:30 +0000 c2ef75efeb505e72c2b10e7243d8864be861085a https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/08/09/a-door-to-old-aprils-and-to-octobers-gone/ You listen to a nice Sacrament talk from your daughter on the worth of souls  and in praise of beauty.  You also crave pickles and that deeply-charred fat on a good rich steak.  By Priesthood hour. this craving has mysteriusly transmuted to wanting to hear President Hinckley’s voice again. So when you get home. you (…) Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:07:42 +0000 3ce27fa2c1c2418432d9b13aa2f9b3d865eef619 https://voxday.net/2026/08/09/rumblings-in-the-east/ A US general is removed from duty two months early: Reports are circulating this morning claiming Lt. Gen. Charles D. Costanza. the Commanding General of the U.S. Army’s V Corps. forward based out of Camp Kościuszko. Poland and tasked with the defense of NATO’s Eastern Front. has been removed from command. NATO’s “eastern Front” is (…) The post Rumblings in the East appeared first on Vox Popoli. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:07:35 +0000 10d94b2f9c55d71dfb5544d77950a377c105cd2a https://mileswmathis.com/twinfake.pdf interior and exterior Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:59:59 +0000 43895f127b419091c6cb6aed52c01be30b977815 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/08/macabre-dreams.html  ... scratch a German ... well. you know. Scratch a European ... Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:51:47 +0000 6d89c142998aab16934bb721f79eac375275ffdd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtdKeI7CHqs Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:08:09 +0000 7855763541edc16503303360d3fd17b0da5e0129 https://substack.aicentral.blog/p/seedance-25-is-out A comparison of four state-of-the-art video models. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:03:47 +0000 5f1938f71cc9909fff83acf33e59a58df401d7a3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJWlrlF5mZc Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:39:10 +0000 cdf012c0797cbad4c161563bae710f0d510f5262 https://delarroz.com/2026/08/09/la-worldcon-is-an-even-bigger-disaster-than-i-could-have-imagined/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:24:49 +0000 7ab50b0b77afdd31ba04843d566026abe2ba1260 https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/08/making-good-strategic-decisions.html We cannot plan stuff and stick to that plan [force it through if necessary]. except to make it worse. Maybe there was a time when good strategizing was possible. but if so. that time has gone. But what I do see. in individual lives and also in the lives of nations. is that key moments. cruxes. arise. when there is one right thing to do... Or Not. Good strategy amounts simply to this: Recognizing the moment is now. making the right choice now. Because if the right thing is not done. then it does not much matter what else is done. because it will not suffice. In sum: 'we' [personally. individually. nationally] need to do The Right Thing. at The Right Time - or else It Will Be Bad. Doing the wrong things will be bad. and doing the right thing too late will also be bad. We just have to make the right decision when that decision needs to be made...And this is something we can know: or rather we should know. and will know... If we allow ourselves to recognize it. These moments ought to be recognizable. because they are forced upon our attention: ourselves. other persons. or larger groupings. And the right decision is usually clear enough - but only if you are honest. and only if you have the right motivations. and only if you can stop trying [and pretending] to predict the outcome of that decision. This predicting stuff is a killer. Instead of staying focused on making the right decision when teh need has arisen. instead people try to make the decision that will [or will probably. or can convincingly be argued] work-out to have the best consequences. And so the moment is missed - and we get bad stuff.  The trouble is that people need to choose the right decision. Choose freely. It does no good to compel or manipulate people to the right decision. because then they will not really have decided. will they.  Modern life more or less compels everybody to make plans. strategies. schemes - and at least to pretend they are being pursued [and succeeding.] - but really it all comes down to doing the right thing at the right time. [Or Not.]  Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:06:28 +0000 3d207f683f056e519ab2cc1f4a7e85eec18d1498 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversity-news-august-9-2026/ --- Inevitability Change is coming to the West because the democracy Regime has destroyed quality of life for ordinary people. Not only will it not be forgiven. but it will not fix anything so it needs to be shoved aside so that someone more competent and aggressively dedicated to solving real problems can take over. (…) Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:16:36 +0000 b20c1eb02990e6bead99ed6d4a1d9f2da3c8dbe5 https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/09/communism-and-islam-a-teleological-look-at-us-regs-against-firearms-near-houses-of-worship-and-canada-who-really-does-give-a-crap-links-and-news-1-for-aug-9-2026/ 1. Very often. we discuss and compare Islam with Communism. On the surface. which is as far as most people get. they seem antithetical. But at any meaningful level there Continue Reading → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:15:32 +0000 86a21d5abfc82e62b862632a183c6b0da8422d48 https://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com/2026/08/trump-is-narcissistic-political.html I have written about the evolution of human progress through the Liberal Enlightenment.  But I have also written about how Donald Trump's grandiose narcissism could threaten the two pillars of the Liberal Enlightenment--liberal constitutionalism and liberal internationalism.  Now. in the new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan--Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump--we have an insider's account of the first year and a half of Trump's second term that shows how Trump's quest for absolute power over the whole world has exploded the liberal norms of constitutionalism and internationalism.  But Haberman and Swan's analysis of Trump and his presidency falls short in many ways.  For example. they rightly stress the importance for Trump of his claim to be 'the most powerful man that the planet has ever known.' but they mistakenly suggest that he is right about this.  They don't see how Trump's disastrous war against Iran shows that he is not as powerful as he claims to be.  They don't see that America's military defeat in Iran is part of a general decline in America's global power caused by Trump that could allow China to become the new geopolitical superpower.  Haberman and Swan also ignore Trump's massive increases in deficit spending that are driving the U.S. to a colossal debt crisis. which is another example of Trump's political incompetence. Haberman and Swan don't recognize that Trump is a narcissistic political imposter who has failed as a political leader just as he has failed as a businessman.  Trump is a con man. and his claim that he has always been a 'winner' in both business and politics is all part of the con.  Haberman should be able to recognize this because her previous book on Trump was entitled Confidence Man.Mary Trump [Trump's niece] is better than Haberman and Swan in explaining Trump's psychological profile as a narcissistic psychopath produced by his father's abusive parenting.MAKE Haberman and Swan write about a conversation between Trump and Tucker Carlson.  Carlson warned him not to go to war with Iran.  Trump answered: 'We're not doing that.'  Carlson responded: 'Good. because the only thing that can blow up your administration is if you get into a war with Iran. Your voters don't want any more wars. . . This is a trap set by your enemies.  These people fucking hate you.  And once you get in. it's very hard to get out of it.  And that'll wreck your presidency.  That'll wreck everything.  You won't be able to do anything.'  Trump then said: 'I don't think there's ever been an American President as powerful as I am.'  Carlson replied. 'Certainly not since FDR. Really. the only thing that could wreck it is war with Iran' [74-75].Notice the subtle point in this exchange.  Carlson was warning Trump that going to war with Iran would expose the limits of his power because he would lose the support of his voters. and he would not be able to win the war.  Trump refused to accept this suggestion that his power was limited by saying that no President had ever been as powerful as he was.  Carlson answered by saying sure you're at least as powerful as FDR. but even so. you're not powerful enough to successfully fight a war with Iran without destroying your presidency.In contrast to Carlson's warnings to Trump about the limits of his power. Benjamin Netanyahu flattered Trump by telling him how powerful he was as America's Commander-in-Chief. and then insisting that the most dramatic display of his power would be to join Israel in a war against Iran.Ever since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that overthrew the Shah of Iran and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. when Trump was 32 years old. Iran has been a thorn in the side of the United States. and Trump throughout those years has complained that America has been humiliated by the failure of every President to defeat Iran.  Netanyahu was the first foreign leader to meet Trump at the White House at the beginning of his second term. and he immediately began working on Trump to persuade him that he could be the first president powerful enough to defeat Iran in cooperation with Israel.When Israel first launched its 12-day war of bombing Iran on June 12. 2025. the U.S. was officially not involved.  But Netanyahu knew that once Trump saw the apparent success of Israel's campaign on Fox News. he would not be satisfied to be a mere bystander to history. and he would have to jump into the war so that he could be the center of attention.  Specifically. Netanyahu needed Trump to drop 'the big one'--the thirty-thousand-pound bunker-busting bomb that only the U.S. has.  When Trump finally decided to enter the fighting for one day on June 21 ['Operation Midnight Hammer']. 14 of these bunker-busting bombs were dropped on Iran's Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant and the Natanz Nuclear Facility.  This was the first time this bomb was used in combat.  Trump announced that Iran's nuclear program had been 'totally obliterated.'  Trump also suggested that it was time for 'regime change' in Iran.  On Truth Social. he wrote: 'It's not politically correct to use the term. 'Regime Change.'  But if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE why wouldn't there be a Regime change...  MIGA...'When Trump was asked how helping Israel fight Iran could be consistent with his theme of 'America First.' he answered: 'Well. considering that I'm the one that developed 'America First.' and considering that the term wasn't used until I came along. I think I'm the one that decides that' [194].  In other words. 'America First' means whatever Trump says it means. and his followers will have to accept that.  That's his ultimate power: he speaks into existence whatever he happens to want at any moment.  Haberman and Swan quote one senior administration official as saying privately that U.S. policy on any given issue is 'whatever Donald Trump said last on the subject.' which will then change 'in twenty-four hours. or in two hours. or in one minute' [190].Within a few months after 'Operation Midnight Hammer.' Netanyahu was back asking Trump to join him in a larger war against Iran.  On February 11. 2026. Netanyahu met in the Situation Room. a restricted space in the lower level of the White House. with Trump and a small group of senior advisors along with intelligence and military officials.  Netanyahu made an hour-long presentation that argued four points.  First. the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. the Supreme Leader of Iran. could be killed by an airstrike on his compound.  Second. Iran's military power--particularly. its ballistic missile program--could be crippled by airstrikes.  Third. an intense bombing campaign would provoke a popular rebellion to overthrow the regime.  And. finally. a new leader. such as Reza Pahlavi. the exiled son of Iran's last shah. could take power as a secular ruler who could overturn the theocratic government.The next day. February 12. Trump had another meeting in the Situation Room.  Two senior intelligence officers briefed him on the U.S. intelligence analysis of Netanyahu's presentation.  They judged that the first two objectives--killing the Ayatollah and crippling Iran's ballistic missile program were achievable.  But the second two objectives--a popular revolution overthrowing the government and the installation of a new secular leader--were ridiculously unrealistic.Trump suggested that for him achieving the first two objectives would be enough to justify going to war.  But Dan Caine. the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. warned about two problems.  A major war against Iran would deplete stockpiles of American munitions and missile interceptors that had already been reduced by years of support for Ukraine and Israel.  This would make it difficult for the U.S. to engage in any future war--such as defending Taiwan against a Chinese invasion.  The second problem was that Iran could shut the Strait of Hormuz and impede the shipments of oil.  Trump dismissed this because he assumed that Iran would surrender and not have the power to shut the strait.On the morning of February 28. at 2:30 a.m.. Trump announced the war on Iran ['Operation Epic Fury'] with a post on Truth Social. with an eight-minute video.  He expected that the war would be over in a few weeks.Of course. we now have seen that General Caine's two warnings have come true.  Iran's closing of the Strait of Hormuz has been its greatest weapon in defeating the U.S.  And the U.S. now has a severe shortage of munitions and interceptor missiles that will take many years to replenish.The worst consequence is that Xi Jinping now sees an opportunity to invade Taiwan and to make other moves towards establishing China as the geopolitical superpower to replace the U.S.  Now that Trump has wasted U.S. military resources in the Iran war. while also breaking up the global alliances that have supported U.S. global power over the past seventy years. the U.S. cannot check the expansion of Chinese power.TRUMP'S ASSAULT ON LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISMTrump's war on Iran illustrates his disregard for liberal constitutionalism because only Congress has the constitutional power to declare war. and yet not only did Trump not get a congressional declaration of war. he didn't even consult with Congress about the war. or even announce the war before a joint session of Congress.Trump's war on Iran also illustrates his scorn for liberal internationalism because he did not seek the support of NATO. the UN. or any nation other than Israel.  Nor did he try to justify the war under international law.A few weeks before announcing the war. Trump was interviewed by the New York Times.  He was asked if there were any limits on his powers as Commander in Chief.  He answered: 'Yeah. there is one thing.  My own morality.  My own mind.  It's the only thing that can stop me.  I don't need international law.'  Notice that he does not appeal to morality in general but to 'my own' morality.Not only is Trump's power unconstrained by international law. but it is also unconstrained by constitutional law.  For example. I have written about how Trump has in effect denied the constitutional right to due process of law--the Fifth Amendment right that no person shall 'be deprived of life. liberty. or property. without due process of law.'Trump has the absolute sovereignty that comes from combining the executive. legislative. and judicial powers in his hands.  Trump makes laws by signing executive decrees.  Trump executes those laws that he has made by ordering executive officials to carry them out according to his directions.  Trump judges the laws by interpreting them for himself and deciding how they apply to particular cases and refusing to obey judicial orders that go against his will.  Trump is thus carrying out the Claremont Institute's Red Caesar Plan for America.That violates the fundamental principle of liberal constitutionalism that to avoid tyranny governmental power must be limited by a system of countervailance with separation of powers and checks and balances between the branches of government. so that 'ambition must be made to counteract ambition.' as James Madison said in Federalist Number 51.'THE MOST POWERFUL MAN THAT THE PLANET HAS EVER KNOWN'.Trump's ambition. however. cannot be satisfied by the limited powers granted to the President in the American Constitution.  As he told Haberman and Swan when they interviewed him on March 16 of this year. it is not even enough for him to be the most powerful president who has ever lived. because he must be 'the most powerful man that the planet has ever known.' which is what 'a historian' had told him he was.  Haberman and Swan later found out that this 'historian' was not a professional historian but the long-time caddie for the golfer Gary Player.Trump had attended an event honoring Player.  Player's caddie asked to speak to the audience to say something about the President.  Later. the caddie sent Trump a two-page text of his speech.  Trump gave copies of this document to Haberman and Swan. and then he began reading from it.  The opening line was 'Donald Trump is. without question. the most powerful man that the planet has ever known--by a long way.'  The caddie historian went down a list of history's most powerful men--Alexander the Great. Caesar. William the Conqueror. Genghis Khan. Attila the Hun. Tamerlane. Napoleon. Hitler. Mao. and Stalin.  None of them had the global power of Trump.Haberman and Swan observe:What was revealing was not really that Trump agreed with the thesis but the way he inhabited it: the evident pleasure he took in the company of Mao. Hitler. and Stalin. masters of state control through murder. torture. and detention. and Napoleon--and the untroubled ease with which he accepted a place among men who had reshaped the world through conquest and fear.  He drew no distinction between those who built and those who destroyed. between those who liberated and those who enslaved.  What mattered was that they had had huge power--and that he had more [412].When I read this. I was reminded of my argument that Abraham Lincoln in his Lyceum Speech in 1838 had warned about the 'towering genius' of people like Alexander. Caesar. and Napoleon who would destroy a constitutional republic like America for the sake of the glory coming from having absolute power. and he predicted that someone like this--someone like Trump--would destroy the constitutional order.Haberman and Swan conclude their book by agreeing with John Judis's argument that Trump is one of Hegel's 'world-historical individuals' like Alexander the Great. Caesar. and Napoleon.  And thus they leave their readers with the impression that Trump can rightly be compared with such great men of history. and that he might even be right to claim to be 'the most powerful man that the planet has ever known.'But this ignores the fact that while the power of people like Alexander. Caesar. and Napoleon came from their extraordinary competence as political and military leaders. Trump's entire life has shown his incompetence leading to a record of failure.  His bragging that he has always be a 'winner' who has never lost is a boastful fantasy that is all part of the con.THE NARCISSITIC POLITICAL IMPOSTER AND HIS BANKRUPTCIESSome years ago. I claimed that the fundamental argument in Trump's political campaign rhetoric depends on his myth of himself as the self-made multi-billionaire businessman.  This argument can be put into the form of a syllogism:Major premise:  Because of stupid politicians. America no longer wins. and America will not win again until a successful businessman who knows how to win is elected president.Minor premise: Donald Trump is unique in his business success and his shrewdness in knowing how to win. because he is a self-made multi-billionaire.Conclusion:  Therefore. Americans need to elect Trump president.Both of the premises are open to dispute.  I have challenged the minor premise by pointing to the evidence that Trump's business career shows many failures from his imprudent decisions. that he was saved from ruin by his father's life-long transfer of money to him. and so he is not the self-made billionaire that he claims to be.  He had a long string of bankruptcies that would have destroyed him were it not for the hundreds of millions of dollars funneled to him from his father.  This started early.  By age 3. the young Donald Trump was earning S200.000 a year in today's dollars as an employee of his father.  By age 8. Donald was a millionaire. I have also suggested that Trump's financial imprudence as a businessman has been continued in his financial imprudence as a president who has promoted reckless increases in the federal budget deficits and the national debt. which contradicts his promise in his first campaign that he would balance the federal budget and even pay down the national debt.  Once he became president. he never again mentioned that campaign promise.Trump has added to the national debt at a faster rate than any president in American history.  Before his first term as president. the national debt was under S20 trillion.  Now the national debt is approaching S40 trillion.  The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that the budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2026 will be over S2 trillion.  Under Trump. the government has been borrowing about S6 billion per day.  Trump is driving America to national bankruptcy.That's why I call him narcissistic political imposter.  He boasts that he. and he alone. can lead America to greatness.  But since he lacks any competence for prudent governance. he is actually leading America into decline at home and abroad.  'THE TERRIFIED LITTLE BOY'In her book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. Mary Trump has offered the best explanation for why her uncle is the man he is.  Donald is the product of his father's abusive parenting:'Nothing is ever good enough.  This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism. Donald is not simply weak. his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be.  He knows that he has never been loved' [198].'Though Donald's fundamental nature hasn't changed. since his inauguration the amount of stress he's under has changed dramatically.  It's not the stress of the job. because he isn't doing the job--unless watching TV and tweeting insults count.  It's the effort to keep the rest of us distracted from the fact that he knows nothing--about politics. civics. or simple human decency--that requires an enormous amount of work' [199].'Every time you hear Donald talking about how something is the greatest. the best. the biggest. the most tremendous [the implication being that he made them so]. you have to remember that the man speaking is still. in essential ways. the same little boy who is desperately worried that he. like his older brother. is inadequate and that he. too. will be destroyed for his inadequacy.  At a very deep level. his bragging and false bravado are not directed at the audience in front of him but at his audience of one: his long-dead father' [202].'Donald withdraws to his comfort zones--Twitter. Fox News--casting blame from afar. protected by a figurative or literal bunker.  He rants about the weakness of others even as he demonstrates his own.  But he can never escape the fact that he is and always will be a terrified little boy' [210].  Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:07:48 +0000 a39bb2ed729788d2bb0ee45dc0abf8ed9dc80c41 https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/08/sunday-meditation-do-we-govern-our.html Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:05:42 +0000 4e2265da6c91dcb917c5c6e3fe21ebde701b3d69 https://www.skepticaldoctor.com/2026/08/09/the-nhss-ideological-capture-is-getting-people-killed/ In The Telegraph. Dalrymple argues that the ideology behind the Valdo Calocane case—the belief that every hospitalisation is a defeat for humanity and that compulsory treatment is inherently prejudicial—has long rotted Britain’s psychiatric services and led to many preventable deaths. But to conclude from this that no institutional care was ever necessary or preferable to (…) Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:00:02 +0000 21ce771177068531402baf52487eb0cdc0758634 https://www.samizdata.net/2026/08/more-thoughts-on-the-foolishness-in-todays-higher-education/ The barrister. novelist and essayist Helen Dale is not a lady to mince her words. She talks about the Jason Arday fiasco at Cambridge University: “The idea that historically disadvantaged groups are entitled to extra civil rights – coupled with social preferment – over and above those held/enjoyed by people considered their oppressors is inimical to the rule of law. specifically the principle that people should not be punished for crimes they did not commit. We do not inherit criminality from our ancestors. This is in turn derived from the larger principle of treat like cases alike. which was first ...continue More thoughts on the foolishness in today’s higher education Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:44:06 +0000 b9c46205e6f96cee7fc4f0beaff2ddd78154e254 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/quotations.html 'Iran could be the richest country in the Middle East if they trust United States.'  'Excuse me. Look how prosperous Syria. Afghanistan. and Iraq became after they trusted the United States.'(Isn't the fall of Assad in Syria more Turkey's doing.)'The attempt to isolate Russia from the American world system has had a striking unintended consequence—the possible founding of an alternative world system that would draw power away from the existing one. Twenty years ago. under George W. Bush. the United States removed the Iraqi deterrent from Iran’s neighborhood. transforming Iran overnight into a regional power. This year. under Joe Biden. the United States has made China a gift of Russia’s exportable food and mineral resources.' Christopher Caldwell. Claremont Review of Books Summer 2022 issue Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:41:11 +0000 bddb8408c8fc3952922029effda7f9a4b970af10 https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/the-sspx-the-papacy-and-us/ I invite you to take the time and read this article from Father Schmidberger. published in 2005. shortly after Benedict had been elected Pope. The article also contains. in full. the Declaration of 21 November 1974. which I have published here separately for your convenience and ease of reference. Father Schmidberger illustrates. with eloquent simplicity. (…) Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:27:00 +0000 277b51e7ed1c4c6277c19157fa01770719b75834 https://directorblue.substack.com/p/a-day-unearthing-treasure-at-troy Time Surfing: Graphic History Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:58:12 +0000 d6e5fa2d137854777ab529184a18fac73e5ae6b8 https://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-unfinished-animal.html Here is the next subsection. which is probably more transitional than substantive. although I always try to at least make such passages amusing. Perhaps good enough for blogging. but I don’t know if it meets the standards of a book. Then again. since we are the unfinished — which is to say. transitional — animal. perhaps we can say that in the Cosmos it is transitions all the way down — and up:So. the helpless baby is indeed the fulcrum of human development. a portal through which the Anthropos emerges. This vertical birth canal is a necessary condition. or condition without which we couldn’t be here enjoying – supposing you are enjoying it – this mind-to-mind transmission. Even the most detailed neuroscientific account can only illuminate the objective factors that permit subjectivity. while remaining silent on the nature of subjectivity itself -- much as how natural selection can help to explain the evolution of life but not its origins or essential nature.Mind. brain. and relationships represent their own irreducible trinity. in that you can’t have one without the others. An isolated brain is just the hardware. while an enclosed self devoid of intersubjectivity isn’t really a self at all.In The Brain: The Story of You. Eagleman – whom I did not intend to suggest is wrong about everything – writes of how “At birth we are helpless. We spend about a year unable to walk. about two more before we can articulate full thoughts. and many more years unable to fend for ourselves. We are totally dependent on those around us for our survival.”No offense to my son. but is there anything more functionally useless than a baby. especially under the precarious conditions in which we evolved. Children are our future. Unless we stop them now.And not just useless. but a great burden to even keep alive: “Dolphins. for instance. are born swimming. giraffes learn to stand within hours. a baby zebra can run within forty-five minutes of birth. Across the animal kingdom. our cousins are strikingly independent soon after they’re born.”How did the Anthropos escape the circle of instinct. of neurologically imprinted and preordained patterns of behavior. Nor can other animals survive outside the narrow niche to which they are adapted. which is why we don’t see polar bears in North Hollywood or kangaroos in ‘Nam. “In contrast. humans are able to thrive in many different environments. from the frozen tundra to the high mountains to bustling urban centers.”How. All because “the human brain is born remarkably unfinished”: “Instead of arriving with everything wired up -- let’s call it ‘hardwired’ -- a human brain allows itself to be shaped by the details of life experience. This leads to long periods of helplessness as the young brain slowly molds to its environment. It’s ‘livewired.’”Very free-spirited.And even then. the brain isn’t just molded to its external environment. Rather -- and this is key -- it must be adapted to other minds. which is to say. the “interior environment” of intersubjectivity. Infants raised without this intimate connection to other subjects are left with permanent fragilities and emotional problems. because certain experiences must occur when the infant brain is so open and unformed. Still. this intersubjective environment goes only to the necessary conditions of the human subject. What is its sufficient condition. the condition with which humanness is possible. Is subjectivity reducible to anything less than itself. Is it even conceivable that a material object -- a three pound slab of meat called the brain -- could conjure subjectivity.The so-called hard problem.Yes. but perhaps the problem is only hard because some people just don’t like the solution. which has to do with the ontological priority of relational interiority. Philosopher Hans Jonas. in The Phenomenon of Life. wrote of how early man tended to “mentalize” everything. whereas modern man defaults in the opposite direction. “objectivizing” everything: for the former the Cosmos is a crystallization of transcendent spirit. while for the latter spirit is an illusory side effect of immanent matter.Jonas suggests that “When man first began to interpret the nature of things -- and this he did when he began to be man -- life was to him everywhere. and being the same as being alive.” Thus. “Animism was the widespread expression of this stage.... Soul flooded the whole of existence and encountered itself in all things. Bare matter -- that is. truly inanimate. ‘dead’ matter. was yet to be discovered -- as indeed its concept. so familiar to us. is anything but obvious.”Is it really so obvious that things are not in some attenuated sense “alive.” or imbued with a kind of life. I suspect this is partly a matter of left-brain capture of the right [much more on which below]. in that it is through the RH that we are in touch with the holistic and organismic nature of a Nature that speaks to us of its transcendent life. truth. and beauty. for in the words of Dávila. Things do not have feeling. but there is feeling in many things.Indeed. the objects surrounding us are not mute at all. but incredibly chatty. In his identically titled The Phenomenon of Life. the architect Christopher Alexander – whom we met in Book I – speaks of our “loss of the ability and desire to discern aliveness” in things. In his view. what we call “aliveness” is again a primordial category of everything. not only of biological life. Moreover. this aliveness exists on a spectrum. such that things – and people – can be more or less alive. If we turn the Cosmos back right side up. then we might honestly say that Feelings are attributes of the object. as are sensations. This is another way of affirming that our recognition of beauty. for example. is an adequation. not just an opinion. Or that some things are literally interesting. others objectively boring and tedious. Everybody knows this. but they pretend it’s not objectively knowable.But such things are knowable because of the intersubjectivity of a human self that is forged in infancy. This same intersubjectivity is what allows us to discern the life in things. not to mention the light. or to see what is beyond sight. hear what is beyond sound. touch what is beyond the surface. etc. If we couldn’t do these things. we would scarcely be deserving of the title human. Rather. we would be confined to surfaces only. with no intuition of interesting and fruitful problems. and it should be self-evident that if there were no problems there would be no solutions. Science begins with the recognition of promising problems — or of problems that promise solutions. even when the problems are embedded in matter. Nevertheless. There are individuals who treat the universe with professorial smugness. or like a lunatic treats an idiot.Near as I can tell you’re throwin’ rocks. but one can’t help noticing that you folks are also the irrational animal. the only ones capable of reason but who nevertheless think and behave in ways contrary to it. To put it mildly.Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes agrees: “From the evidence. I believe (human) wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy. His emotions must rule his brain. He must be a warlike creature who gives battle to everything around him. even himself.”We touched on this problem in Book I. in that the cosmotheandric imperative. or Prime Directive. is to fully become who we already are in potential. one of these potentials being the attainment of Reason in the fullest sense of the word. To paraphrase Miles Davis. it takes a lot of practice to sound like yourself. Likewise. unlike hypothetical angelic intelligences. it takes awhile for us to become — or to start becoming. rather — ourselves. We are surely the only animal that can transcend ourselves. which we do even in knowing ourselves via self-consciousness.Prepositions again.Yes. relational links. for to be conscious of oneself means that the relationality of things applies even to our own interior. This verticality implies that we live in a two-way telovator. so we can both transcend and fall beneath ourselves. There can be no possibility of success without the possibility of failure to achieve it. even if failure can put us in the position of being lower than the lowest animal. for example. treating objects like women. and vice versa. It is not just a figure of speech to say that Hitler was infinitely worse than his dog Blondi.Nazis. Nothing ever changes.Yes. the all-too-human easily becomes the less-than-human. and for this reason only engagement with the supra-human renders us properly human. Metaphysics itself is a freewheeling conversation about things superior to the Anthropos. in the absence of which we couldn’t even be the Anthropos. If this isn’t yet fully clear. I can only promise to shed more obscurity on the subject as we proceed.∞The larger point of my story is this: that intelligence is one thing. communion and communication another. Even free speech itself would be meaningless in the absence of the freedom and willingness to listen and respond. or in short. to converse on a level playing field about truths that surpass both parties. It has been noted by wiser fellas than myself that the whole Western tradition is one Great and Endless Conversation. which makes it more of a dynamic partnership than a dry. onesided lecture.But how is this two-way exploration of truth possible. In the West we call it the Logos. which connotes three terms. a rational subject. an intelligible object. and the connective tissue between mind. world. and other folks. So. there is a single rational-relational principle that makes reality a trialogue at the edge of the subjective horizon instead of a monologue in the void. The latter might be the unbridled expression of. say. Yoko Ono. but shrieking isn’t communication or conversation without our second and third terms. Even inanimate things express their intelligibility to us. but you can’t exactly talk back to them.Perhaps that’s one reason why I am here.Yes. supposing you take part in the conversation and don’t just vanish into wordless wonder behind the smoke rings of your spliff.I’m sorry. I wasn’t listening.With regard to being reasonable. we must add an important Gödelean qualifier. in that we must deploy horizontal reason without imagining we can be limited thereby. Rather. the Anthropos is again the transcendent animal. if only because we elude any limited definition of what we are. but also because we are capable of transcendence as such in freely knowing what otherwise merely is. Thus. He who adopts a system stops perceiving the truths that are within his reach. If our hypothetical Theos is Infinitude full stop. then we are potentially infinite. in the sense that there is nothing we cannot potentially know. given enough time. However. the clock always runs out before we can know it all — except for those timeless truths we cannot fail to know discussed in Book I. including our twelve cosmotheandric axioms.Gödel even thought that our infinite potential pointed to an afterlife. because first of all. he was deeply skeptical of the idea that the brain could have come about via natural selection. In fact. he considered it disprovable that a mechanical process could result in a brain. and more to the point. “what sense would there be in creating a being [man]. which has such a wide realm of possibilities for its own development and for relationships to others. and then not allowing it to realize even a thousandth of those (possibilities).” That would be as stupid as a contractor “laying. with the greatest effort and expense. the foundations for a house. and then letting it all go to seed again.”Sounds like you don’t have much experience with contractors. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:46:54 +0000 f27a0b70b0089f4c1aae55d3d94ea30969aeafa5 https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/09/site-will-go-offline-today-sunday-aug-09/ Hi all – the site will be taken offline later today and will be down for a few hours for maintenance and updates.     Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:45:48 +0000 eda6e97f5ad21b76db32457fa87a51327662b925 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-shame-of-the-legacy-media Joe Biden's cancer is spreading. That's a tragedy for him. Had reporters succeeded in gaslighting Americans about his health. it would be a tragedy for the country too. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:30:32 +0000 0d8154805d0c7749ec9902811c09d2482ca970a3 https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/sspx-declaration-21-november-1974/ Declaration on 21st November 1974 Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Declaration of Archbishop Lefebvre on 21st November 1974 We hold fast. with all our heart and with all our soul. to Catholic Rome. Guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary to preserve this faith. to Eternal Rome. Mistress of wisdom and truth. We refuse. on (…) Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:26:25 +0000 aea516df8eb0140534717e813f04f950b0bc7df9 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/08/09/52-years-ago-today-see-how-easy-it-is-to-validly-resign-your-office/ Search up and down Pope Benedict’s “Declaratio” of February 2013 and you won’t find anything like this simple statement. not in English. not in the original Latin. The fact that he didn’t even title it “resignation” says a lot. indeed. the words he chose indicate a delegation of the ministry. not a renunciation of the … Continue reading '52 years ago today: See how easy it is to validly resign your Office.' Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:24:49 +0000 977073533df0c2ad51f67347265a7cfb81d1a8b6 https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/russian-gas-not-stolen-israeli-gas Nationalist PRinciple vs Populist Mush Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:01:39 +0000 d11fb1c9643e7d3ef24bb848d5b5486de73459f2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uMIVNwHqO4 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:00:03 +0000 7cd82266b6cfef7a4dd6bfdbfb93478a3afcd1f1 https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/a-critique-of-the-ssh-and-evolutional Commenting on Vox Day's views Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:25:44 +0000 f3768c5bd63205394bf07bca9b6b45da8ab8d6fb https://www.thekurganblog.com/a-critique-of-the-ssh-and-evolutional/ Unfortunately. because as Vox has coined the phrase MPAI [Most People Are Idiots] there needs to be a couple of disclaimers regarding this post. In fact. the publication of his Probability Zero was instrumental in having me review and update from scratch a theory that was already obvious to me 31 years ago when I (…) No related posts. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:25:44 +0000 4bae9ce8cc2606b174b635aa161b359a5d795989 https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/daily-not-rome-shot-1677/ From The World’s Best Sacristan™. Welcome Registrant: Neto White to move and mate in 4. NEW: Vatican CDF [Now DDF] consultation in 2016 rejected Medjugorje as supernatural — yet Pope Francis later green-lit devotion anyway. Italian journalist @DavidMurgia has published … Read More → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:18:28 +0000 8248e7c0ef2eda667669c50be11c12aa5a47ff94 https://no01.substack.com/p/weekend-thoughts-922 No penny for my thoughts Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:15:35 +0000 3773d4aca076c9d0c0982841c61c039da066d13b https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/your-sunday-sermon-notes-11th-sunday-after-pentecost-n-o-19th-ordinary/ Too many people today are without good. strong preaching. to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 11th Sunday after Pentecost … Read More → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:02:06 +0000 e15d86d24945d63a0bc7ecae0882b43bdd95d56c https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-theres-an-app-for-that Whether you want it or not... Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:46:01 +0000 1b938612d9c470d56484463242624709b60a6e61 https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/08/09/zelensky-isnt-ukrainian-hes-an-israeli-jew-sodomite-and-cia-stooge-not-only-does-he-not-care-about-ukrainians-he-despises-them-and-is-activel/ Watch and understand. It should amaze more people that rulers in modern countries can tell a man “Kill or be killed for me. You have no choice.” And to back that order with the threat of violence. We all think it is completely normal. Even when rulers were voted in by people who could not (…) Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:33:31 +0000 2450cc2a6cad01cd8ce4b766929c4693ebc0e6ab https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html Back in 1951. that deceased old monster and pederast. Arthur C. Clarke. published a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction called “Superiority”. You can read it for free using that link I provided. And it is well worth the time and effort. given the subject matter – though I must say. (…) The post Cheap and reliable beats expensive and elaborate every time appeared first on Didactic Mind. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:17:52 +0000 ed1a588f3f1163404d7175e41c29d68165095b90 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/08/no-sunday-morning-music-today.html  Sorry.  I had a bad health day Friday. and I'm still getting over it.  No music today.  Hopefully memes as usual tomorrow.Peter Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:44:02 +0000 2c40bb2c27dbdb6b5b3c50634569d35abbc3b8a5 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/politico-hit-piece-on-doug-burgum Hey. y’all: it turns out that some former Interior Department staffers harbor grievances against Secretary Doug Burgum. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:43:34 +0000 b7df15c7401ce58f309fd7e658f0e0e7887efec0 https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/sunday-memepool-2-760 meanish. but not quite meanpool Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:15:27 +0000 7a87c552fbbdfb3d85531b6ea4e45c47096aff57 https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/sunday-memepool-511 stepping up to stepping up Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:02:25 +0000 54144e88f8f56fc78eee268e3a232a66c0e1cc4d https://www.unbekoming.com/p/the-autism-plan-that-cannot-name An Essay on the 2026-2028 IACC Strategic Plan and the Word Missing From All 336 Pages Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:02:14 +0000 112b3d2f0707d36d927adf734d695d5cbbd89491 https://corbettreport.com/james-the-fact-checker/ In this month's Subscriber Exclusive video. I reflect on my brief. three-month stint as a fact checker at a textbook publisher in Calgary over two decades ago. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:01:00 +0000 d35cf9d8e84a78ac88c7b84e5bbe75f110530756 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/iran-open-thread-2026-171.html News and views related to the war on Iran … Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:43:43 +0000 fd55d5bbb0f149b711985ffc434d3a01de1a15a7 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/ukraine-open-thread-2026-170.html News and views related to the war in Ukraine … Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:43:15 +0000 44036807ca19b436cefa51f2c5b6e6aa0ec9537c https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2026-169.html Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama: Aug 3 – War On Iran: – Another TACO – Iran’s Need To Escalate Related: – Iran Top Security Official Sets Conditions for Hormuz Reopening – Tasnim – Trump’s top general is ‘looking for an off-ramp’ from Iran war as US military options remain limited. sources say –Read more... Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:42:45 +0000 d8772d8de325b13c44782444508c55f92e9c6f70 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/08/09/but-he-loves-me/ There once was a short little candle getting even shorter as she burned. “But my flame loves me.” she cried. and no doubt she was right. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:24:15 +0000 c8add521b0dc0bfa403d81b50996be6e5a8a7fd2 https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/evopsych-vs-ssh One is fake science squared. the other is a proto-science Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:08:53 +0000 73f418ea58f8c2339d4f83a24c899bfeedb79d7f https://www.unbekoming.com/p/the-paradigms-best-defender-stasha An Essay on Clinical Observation Inside a Captured Frame Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:03:05 +0000 c98fb3bbce3222609d0d196eab216862c6835d3c https://forbiddentexts.substack.com/p/the-impossibility-of-political-organisation Elite theory is misunderstood as something cold. detached and structural when it is. in fact. rooted in an understanding of human psychology down to the level of personality types and character traits. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:35:10 +0000 b59e9fef12299fbd7d6a36414e298430b5685eb3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv389MOJOUY Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:11 +0000 af6bc3aa0f3a6ff7cda8f02e375a343df7844cc1 https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/two-thirds-of-congregation-for-doctrine.html Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:31:13 +0000 826637cfd2fd39658f3cd581c119d479356d380f https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4eZXLlTVY Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:30:29 +0000 4ab02fc8e625914bb6c4c559e39b8ffd6c29f056 https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/08/mediocrites-socrates-more-successful.html Some scholars claim this is an image of MediocritesSocrates's older brother. Mediocrites [c 485 BC-.]. is regarded by most modern Westerners as the most successful and [therefore] most emulation-worthy of all philosophers. although we know nothing specific about him. and he never said. did or wrote anything interesting. honest. or of any value.While Socrates was condemned to death by poison. having published nothing. Mediocrites success was objective and permanent - he was [it is supposed] given the highest honours of the Athenian democracy. paid a lavish salary. put in charge of all political and social institutions. and granted power of veto over all major public projects.Mediocrites's curriculum vitae was lengthy and consisted attendance at prestigious institutions. examination results. awards. grants. tax breaks. subsidies.We have detailed descriptions of Socrates' appearances. and manners. he attracted eminent followers. his words were transcribed. and he was parodied by the great playwrights of that era. But despite his brother's much greater success. Mediocrites remains a mystery wrapped in an enigma. We know he did a lot of things but not what any of these things actually were...   From contemporary accounts it seems that Mediocrites had his name upon numerous essays and books. and often spoke at large public gatherings. But. sadly. it seems that nobody remembered anything Mediocrites said. and nobody bothered to preserve any of his writings... Indeed nobody can remember anything about him.Whereas Socrates is all-but unknown. despised. and his model of religiousness. truthfulness and integrity have become the most hated and persecuted of values. Modern Britain. and indeed the Modern World itself. is run entirely by the disciples of Mediocrites.Wherever we look. and the more so the higher we look. we see Mediocrities in charge. Mediocrities making all the important decisions. Mediocrities garnering all the highest plaudits.Plato [and Xenophon] both recorded the Apology of Socrates. the defence argument at his trial: the justification of his life and work. However. despite its philosophical and literary greatness. Socrates' statement cut-no-ice then. and was indeed counter-productive.But success was the Apology of Mediocrites - the justification for his life. Against success - there is no argument. Socrates was a loser. Mediocrites was a winner. and that is all that needs to be said.Note: Adapted from an earlier post.  Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:17:37 +0000 26d7baa104a2286875c54fa332053a2319cb3c9a https://meetingthemasters.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-2026-eclipse.html On 11th August 1999 there was a solar eclipse which was about 90% of totality in the south of England where I saw it. This coming 12th August there is another eclipse which will again be seen at about 90% of totality in much of the British Isles. The 1999 one was at 18 degrees of Leo and this one will be at 20 degrees of Leo which might seem a coincidence but apparently has something to do with how sun. moon and Earth realign over multi-year cycles.Be that as it may. there is still a significance to this phenomenon. I have long thought that the 1999 eclipse was an important one in that it heralded radical change. It was the last eclipse of the 20th century. and something really did change with human consciousness in the new millennium. We became different people in many respects. moving from a mentality largely based on past thought and attitudes. though with modern influences. to one where modern attitudes became central and past beliefs moved out to the periphery to become fringe. This change has carried on ever since. not in a smooth and straight line as things never go like that. but with a direction of travel that is unaltered. You might say that this is always the way of the world but look at how so many fundamental beliefs that had endured in various forms for centuries have been jettisoned over the last 25 years. It is quite extraordinary.Perhaps this new eclipse will bring that particular cycle to an end. Not that we will go back to how we were. That is neither possible nor even desirable. but some kind of change in mental attitudes over recent years might be expected. The end of one cycle means the beginning of another. and there will always be several other processes going on at the same time. Even so. I venture to suggest that. in Europe especially which is on the direct path of these two eclipses. changes might come in the coming months. I am not speaking in terms of improvement. This eclipse cycle. if such it be. is a minor event in terms of the greater descent into the Kali Yuga/End Times phenomenon and the forces associated with that and they will continue to gather pace. But it is still an event.These two eclipses also interest me because of personal involvement. As those who have read Meeting the Masters will know. the 1999 one coincided with the death of my friend Michael Lord whose Jupiter was on the exact degree of that eclipse. Jupiter in my birth chart forms a very close conjunction to the degree of the upcoming 2026 eclipse. I take that in a positive sense.Note: I am not saying that it was only the 1999 eclipse that prompted the radical changes that have occurred since 2000. Merely that it may have been one factor among several. and that the new eclipse may be bookending a particular period that started then. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:06:49 +0000 48e80ce51963b018d7d5e8026e5a8ffcf6aac6eb https://korybko.substack.com/p/whats-the-most-realistic-endgame This thought exercise shouldn’t be innocently misinterpreted or maliciously spun as implying that Russia’s interests wouldn’t be advanced by returning Odessa Region. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:06:18 +0000 b34c48a5d3f26394ae77b2d7963d8a386dbfe9fc https://www.woes.blog/p/gay-doom-7 The agonising wait between Season 1 and Season 2 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:01:41 +0000 4958264ac29defb8be2adc3d125b4ca51aeddd2f https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-us-should-accept-iranian-peace.html Iran has issued these demands before she opens the Strait of Hormuz. Her demands are very reasonable and do not rule out Israeli and US vessels using the Strait but will not be accepted. The USA is talking about negotiations but is playing some game. Nothing the Americans say can be trusted. of course.Ukraine should of course accept Russia's demands. make peace and keep her coast. but will not.The West is utterly lost if it continues to fight unwinnable [and in the case of Iran unjust] wars and if the USA wants to rule the world and threaten China. Russia. Iran and all the other states that do not accept US hegemony.Meanwhile let's remember the continued fighting in Lebanon and Gaza.I happened to reread today what former deputy chief of Mossad and retired IDF Major General Amiram Levin said in August of last year: 'The orders the government is giving the army today are a crime... To give an order to shoot at hungry children and parents looking for a piece of bread... This is a crime. this is genocide.'  Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:52:40 +0000 6b824efdfece4c01cd5489c7eab44125056a51bc https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/08/09/what-does-the-jason-arday-case-remind-you-of/   The case of Jason Arday the man who allegedly plagiarised his academic work and who has a background story that appears to have very... Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:26:44 +0000 5767b375fdcc897dba6ed2872e3d6638cf8dd794 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/09/the-american-overclass-gives-birth-to-american-democratic-socialism/ The Democratic Socialists of America have released a manifesto. It reeks of deeply dysfunctional infantilism. Within the scope of that program. Abdul El-Sayed just won—narrowly (…) Source Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:00:53 +0000 1a2925a6ccf06f48cbd408c75019d8eb4bddab71 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/09/london-the-red-telephone-box-and-a-civilization-losing-its-memory/ I am back in London and happy to be out of the heat wave on the Continent. My wife and daughter are spending the afternoon (…) Source Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:00:06 +0000 b6485ad483a208ca9eda39668dcfbdedc80114f6 https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/09/great-and-unfortunate-fabrications/ Jason Arday should ask for a cover charge. His entertainment value is that splendid. For the last couple of weeks. the “youngest ever black professor” (…) Source Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:00:05 +0000 6b9905da68ee57374dacaab5fa916cc5c5ff98fe https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/greasy-haired-two-legged-ruin Way up near the northern end of the state. Eureka. California looks like this on the map: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:52:12 +0000 4ebda97cd175c74d1fd31b52181897ffdc57284c https://korybko.substack.com/p/korybko-to-nawrocki-and-medvedev Constructive critiques from their supporters are the best response in a bid to get them to return to decency. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:40:50 +0000 238c5778c6ef392afb8354017da59ae14903844e https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/08/gollum-poet.html  Gollum in reflective moodAt my Notion Club Papers blog. I give three favourite passages from The Lord of the Rings. in which Gollum's talk - while he is dominated by the Smeagol persona - sometimes displays a moving lyricism. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:29:12 +0000 7eb2d88eea472f7efb081a6e83887ec8591bc61b https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/from-adenauer-to-spahn-the-unraveling-of-germanys-christian-democratic-tradition/ The CDU once sought to anchor postwar Germany in a Christian vision of human dignity and moral order. Today. its symbols remain while the convictions behind them fade. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000 706cdbe6ee7b0f888f3012ce880ac5eec8ba140c https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/08/read-yesterday-and-today.html There is a story. I think from the French writer Charles Péguy. about a man who goes to heaven. Jesus says to him. “Show me your wounds.” and he replies. “I have none.” It meant he never lived.Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you. figure out what you have to say. Barbara Kingsolver. American novelistFor every complex problem there is an answer that is clear. simple. and wrong.H.L. MenckenWhat if one reason Israelis are so happy is that brutality has become pleasurable. … Today. violence is not only liberated from the trap of “shooting and crying” … or from acceding to the call of Naftali Bennett ... of “no more apologizing”: It is also becoming joyful. Probably the clearest manifestation of the ostensible joy of violence takes the form of what’s referred to as “happy Jews.”In 2015. journalists Akiva Novick and Chaim Levinson explained in their report. “The Complete Hilltop Lexicon.” that happy Jews are those “who are not bound to the archaic conventions and rules of morality. and carry out ‘price tag’ (retaliatory operations against Palestinians) with a smile on their face” … Invitations to carry out pogroms are circulated on colourful. cheerful posters that look more like flyers for an open-air rave than calls to violence …Dr Ariel Handel. Israeli political theorist. author of Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements. in an article in Ha'aretz on 3 August headlined No Wonder Israelis Want War. Violence Has Become a Source of Joy. Acknowledgements to Alastair Crooke Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:34:24 +0000 1cdc2c18bd164cdf5b3f2d26712048eb8e0bfdbd https://sonar21.com/iran-holds-firm-on-the-strait-of-hormuz/ Although Donald Trump insists that the Strait of Hormuz is open. it ain’t. There are no direct talks between Iran and US representatives. In fact. it looks like Pakistan’s attempt... Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:32:28 +0000 053b600ebb0a5e137c97b0c90723ba1de4793d28 https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/08/aml-on-inversion.html Yesterday looked at fakery. today inversion. on Tuesday will be a summary of these days by Melinda Richards. And so to AI Amelia…At first. you’ll recall. she was put out by some govt dept or NGO. whatever. to brainwash normies into avoiding bad people like us … but Amelia was hijacked by that very dissident “right” and turned into an AI moving-meme. Don’t see as much of “her” now but she’s still about … intended for the young but liked by many.So here she is on Inversion:And in song. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:21:23 +0000 263c08ce520362bcf9f0e02e868d922a92d8870e https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/could-the-crashing-yen-trigger-hyperinflation-in-the-u-s/ A cratering yen has set off alarms on Wall Street and in financial centers around the world. If the Bank of Japan sells its behemoth stockpile US Treasuries [now exceeding S1.2 trillion] to support its sagging currency. the US bond market could go into a nosedive dragging the global economy off a cliff. That is... Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:12:22 +0000 e4316ebeffc183e01d271015f668564756956730 https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/08/08/nurse-claire-sends-they-named-their-new-shot-death-and-destruction/ “If you take an injection of mFLUSIVA. you’re a fool. If you give this injection to anyone. you’re complicit.” Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:04:12 +0000 5818b34eec0940223dd4b5dbf1fb8b56c0b74023 https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukraines-air-defense-crisis-turns The crisis in Ukraine continues to come to a desperate head. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:02:18 +0000 4715778af872ebc6dcc3959919b7aa0fb634e2e0 https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/08/09/readers-links-for-aug-9-2026/ Each day at just after midnight Eastern. a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the Continue Reading → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:01:42 +0000 82c2aca52429467e048fd22264d75e994bf149a9 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8-8-2026/ A drone entered Bulgarian airspace today and exploded shortly after crossing the border from Romania. causing no casualties or damage. The Bulgarian defense ministry later said there were indications the drone was the kind used by Ukrainian armed forces and … Continue reading → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:33:06 +0000 6b2b03468eb1a7be334ac7dc960901f105c43064 https://wdtprs.com/2026/08/a-bishop-starts-a-new-tlm-another-takes-one-well-settled-one-away/ Leo signaled to the French bishops that he wants them to be good to people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass. The Bishop of San Angelo. Texas. starts a new TLM “motivated by the salvation of souls”. And now we … Read More → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:16:05 +0000 58f17fef6451fa87f00329fc812c9bc8dd386983 https://www.amerika.org/politics/inevitability/ When you ride a rollercoaster. the moment of terror comes before you reach the top of the first hill. Slowly. jerkily you move toward the top. like the moments before disaster. Then the bottom drops out and the ride begins. but the suspense and ambiguity are gone. Humanity finds itself in a period of history (…) Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:12:24 +0000 44fb8531b28245e5c3206b351b1693e3265ef30f https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/a-neo-nazi-mujahid-in-como/ A 16-year-old wannabe mujahid was busted by police yesterday in the northern Italian region of Como. In addition to his devotion to the Islamic State. it turns out that the young feller “of foreign origin” was also interested in neo-Nazism. … Continue reading → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:13:56 +0000 b51505b0bdaca2b69d66658191bf32df41385215 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/sunday-thread-of-the-bristol-133/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:54:41 +0000 3e69a5973686141f5a9363064eeb535e0842b378 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/why-the-iran-war-wont-end-soon-w Trump's reckless war on Iran is threatening global economic collapse — as the region breaks out into a matrix of conflagrations. Trump seemingly has no way out. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:42:07 +0000 60dab1c9bbe987215a06cf7c9e256b3b4b11d22e https://radixfidem.blog/2026/08/08/melchizedek-part-3/ Re: Naked Bible 168: Melchizedek Part 2 During the Second Temple Period [AKA. Intertestamental Period]. the messianic expectations began to arise. Along with this was a lot of speculation about the role of Melchizedek in light of passages like Psalm … Continue reading → Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:40:07 +0000 e56c81d429706debf10a395a0e8db7ae5c00990c https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/steiner-v-ebay-gangstalking-can-be Good news… Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:55:51 +0000 f7851a98990d8372cd2bbfefda72848277e8373e https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/how-much-do-big-law-firm-attorneys Incredible… Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:39:08 +0000 5797ff8e3a161cfa6426ba254b067fb3aefdb3b1 https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/only-diocesan-tlm-in-diocese-of.html Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:21:18 +0000 d15a0080e48006b013a87329002cdce06bca6af2 https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-ilac-centre-and-daffodills.html A fountain bubbled dreamily.Above it. a hot air balloonRose and descended endlesslyThen higher still. a tiled cartoonOf Moore Street shawlies. Just acrossTinkled a mezzanine caféAnd. further up again. there was A mirrored ceiling. All the wayAbove that ceiling. Space Age-styleGlass lifts took shoppers up to seeThe streets below. My juvenileSoul swooned in quiet ecstasy.One year they put some banners upWith lines from Wordsworth's 'Daffodils'I guessed this was the FA CupOf poetry. the Orson Welles.The Sergeant Pepper. Everest.The Parthenon. all that could boastOf being best. the very best.The poem the whole world loved the most.I was a Stars Wars baby withStrange knowledge of things long agoThings all but lost. like sunken myth.From long before the Late Late Show.Optimus Prime and Patrick PearseLooked over me from infancyQueen and Iron Maiden filled my earsArcadia my memory.My innocence was ten miles deepTo think the world loved poetryEnough to care that much. The creepOf time-thieving technologyHad choked us less. and Ireland stillTrailed clouds of glory from its birth[Since grand ideals take time to killAnd dreamers to be thrown to earth]But even thirty years agoThe gig was up. and PegasusWas saddled tight and kept to showThe kids around the syllabus.Must shopping centres kill the soul.Can daffodils sustain the heartAt second-hand. Does time unrollAway from nature and from artUnstoppably. Or did I snatchA glimpse of something possible.Some promise that the soul can catch[Even in suburbs. even still]The light that never was on seaOr land. or blue remembered hills.Is there a place for poetrySo far from daffodils. Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:09:17 +0000 95d6d59267b44acb115200a3219f7d4b083dad21 https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/08/insane-rain.html  Getting hammered with rain here.  Its been years since it has been this much. We talking feet of rain.Power has been blinking a little. but nothing serious.  The typhoon way up in Taiwan. has pulled the monsoon over the country.  Something called Habagat.  It happens every year. but this one is especially strong.As such business has slowed to.a crawl while simultaniously the site traffic has spiked.My office staff are work from phone this weekend.Everything is damp. and i had mold growing on the stair rails.  [cleaned with bleach] Running tbe AC in my room. despite it not hot just to dehumidify.The volcano to the south is also contributing a subtle sulfur smell to the rain.Sunday plans are to stay home.Got a purring cat. and binge watching Alton Brownhttps://youtu.be/JLgeA_Qsbls.si=9eHimMQa_9iBT7vXHe is like This Old Tony except for food.  The subtle gags thru every video.   Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:40:48 +0000 5f900e2d12307be061d4bad67e228b8e571513f5