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Not So Fast! Pols and Pundits Try to Divert Our Attention

In the almost-two-weeks since the “revelation” that President Biden has dementia, the politicians and mainstream media have avoided the inconvenient fact that they covered up that they knew this fact all along.  They’re trying to divert us with novel ideas such as an open convention or a “mini” or “blitz” Democratic Primary” between now and the convention.

The media and political establishment seem to think Americans will just nod and watch.  But I say, Not so fast. We have questions.

1. Why hav...

The Big Picture Behind Viktor the Mediator’s Peace Shuttle

The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya.

Viktor Orban is on a roll.

And that has set out a riotous roller coaster.

Everyone has been gripped by the extraordinary spectacle of pre-historic specimens wallowing in the Western geopolitical swamp reaching the depths of Hysteriastan at the sight of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s peace shuttle moving from Ukraine and Russia to China.

And to do that on the eve of the ...

Vera Sharav’s Speech: We Can’t Forget

Vera Sharav’s Speech: We Can’t Forget (6/28/24) + Profiles in Courage: Vera Sharav by Margaret Anna Alice

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Profiles in Courage: Vera Sharav

When most people hear the name “Vera Sharav,” the first thing they think of is “Holocaust survivor.” But surviving the Third Reich was just the beginning of this feisty librarian’s hero’s journey.

Like many heroes, Vera’s greatness blossomed from tragedy. Born Vera Roll in Romania in 1937, she was nearly four when Romania allied with Germa...

Ike To Biden: Get out of NATO

I was surprised to see this in the New York Times on July 7, just before the NATO summit Biden hosted in D.C. It’s by Editorial Board member Farah Stockman:

What would Ike say now?

Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, NATO’s first Supreme Allied Commander Europe, felt strongly that his mission was to get Europeans “back on their military feet” — not for American troops to become the permanent bodyguard for Brussels and Berlin.

“If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purp...

Preparing for Coming Shortages

International Man: Inflation has recently hit its highest levels since the 1970s as governments worldwide are debasing their fiat currencies at breakneck speed. The cost of living is soaring, and it’s likely to worsen.

In this environment, it is typical for opportunists in government to implement price controls as a misguided solution.

Do you think we’ll see them soon?

Doug Casey: Government never controls itself. It only attempts to control its subjects. I expect the rest of this decade will re...

Why Trump Too Is Totally Unacceptable

Donald Trump delivered a speech to the Libertarian Party Convention on May 25th (see it here; read its transcript here), and said that if he becomes President again, America will “quit spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fight other people’s wars”; and on May 28th, the Washington Post, headlined “Trump makes sweeping promises to donors on audacious fundraising tour”, and reported that at one fundraising event for billionaires and centi-millionaires (not for mere voters), “he suggested th...

Communist Zionists Splintering Europe Into Chaos

When a society envisions children as ‘dollar signs’ instead of human beings – we have Fallen.   When Life is of no consequence – then we have fallen… When we accept that our entire government is not our government but continue to pay them – we have fallen.

We are the zombies walking tentatively through the thorns of Hell hoping that someone will save us.

Have you noticed that the focus as to ‘how many Jews’ it took to take down entire countries is a derision.   Gloating.  It took a mere 300,000 ...

‘No Country for Old Men’

It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

Last year, when I heard the news that Cormac McCarthy had died in Santa Fe at the age of 89, I reread No Country for Old Men. He owed the title of the book to Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium”—perhaps the best ever written about growing old.

The novel takes place in Texas in the year 1980, and it’s about an aging Sheriff of a county in far West Texas near the M...

Senile, Drooling, but Mostly Fabulous

Well, here we are.  It’s a full blown panic.

It is now obvious that President Biden lacks the mental faculties to carry on the office of the presidency.  And the nervous mice are starting to tiptoe out on the ice and do the ‘noticing in public’ they have avoided the last three and a half years.

The Democrats are now dividing themselves between the culpable and those with culpable deniability.  Who knew?  Who could have known?

It’s time to call a lid on the whole damn thing, Jack.

Now Republicans...

Oh, Looks Like Bombing Hospitals Is Bad Again

Western empire managers do not actually believe that there is anything “abhorrent” or “horrific” about attacking a hospital  —  at least not one which provides services to Palestinians or other populations who are not favored by the western empire.

A missile struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday during the heaviest Russian bombardment on Ukraine in months, which stretched across five regions and reportedly killed some forty people.

Kyiv and its western allies are saying the children’s h...