Awareness of the past is an antidote to both egotism and shallow optimism. It restrains optimism because it teaches us to be cautious about man’s perfectibility and to put a sober estimate on schemes to renovate the species. What coursebook in vanity and ambition is to be compared with Plutarch’s Lives? What more soundly rebukes the theory of automatic progress than the measured tread of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall? The reader of history is chastened, and, as he closes his book, he may say, with Dante, in the Inferno: ‘I had not thought death had undone so many.’
Richard Weaver
During the last 70 of its 248 years America has been the wealthiest and strongest country in the world. But now, the country’s future is uncertain. America is an ideologically divided country where the rising ideology proposes to erase the country in favor of a social experiment. Meanwhile America is threatened by three hostile nuclear powers – Russia, China, and North Korea. To make matters worse, the American educational system is controlled by ideologists of the left who teach the country’s children to be ashamed of their ancestors. The Establishment appears to believe in open borders, UN mandates, unilateral disarmament, the elimination of the internal combustion engine, and more. It does not matter whether you call this socialism or progressivism. These policies, favored by the government elite, will destroy the country. One only has to look at California, with its massive homeless population and rampant crime, to see where America is headed. Furthermore, this process is overseen by a corrupt and senile president whose advisors publicly praise his mental prowess.
Behind all their talk of fairness and democracy, Biden’s party has Soviet impulses. Like the Soviets, they lie outrageously and without suffering consequences. Deep down they dream of silencing their critics. To this end they have used “lawfare” to bankrupt, jail, and intimidate major opposition voices. Look at what they have done to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and Donald Trump; not to mention a cast of hundreds who sit in jail without being charged with real crimes. Many social media accounts have been shut down or threatened for questioning vaccine mandates and whether votes are properly counted. Indeed, our elite has instituted a double standard. Thousands of communists can riot, tear down statues of our Founders, burn businesses and injure policemen; but if a few hundred rightwing rioters break into the Capitol, it is labeled an “insurrection” and a large-scale roundup begins. Of course, all civil disorders should be put down. But in America only civil mayhem from the right is criminal. The left can riot as much as they want.
The situation is serious because leftism has infected our ruling elite. It is not merely a question of street protests. Leftism is in the White House and Pentagon, the Justice Department and the intelligence services. In recent years the left has destroyed the careers of many who oppose socialist ideology from within America’s institutions. What we see today is a rising leftist intolerance, especially in our institutions of higher learning. And yet, there is no real learning in them. Our elite, in fact, is “already far below the intellectual level that formed the background even of Marx.”[i] Their “thinking” is made up of stock phrases and dishonest claims. They vulgarize all intellectual debate “and give to public discussion the distinctly ochlocratic coloring that today has reached the point of considering as fascist or authoritarian even a reference to the facts of political and intellectual history that must be known if one wants to discuss the problems that come up in political debate.”[ii]
Leftism could be described as an infectious disease of the intellect, transmitted by educationists and activists. What cure might there be for this contagion? Michael Franz wrote, “If ideological consciousness involves a misplaced faith in a misplaced, immanentized ground of being, is it possible that a reintroduction to genuine faith in a transcendent ground would provide the remedy…?”[iii]
If it were a simple matter of turning back the clock, why did the Old Religion succumb in the first place? What error did we commit in the remote past? On this question Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “In order to look for beginnings one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards; at last he also believes backwards.”[iv] Later, in this same text, Nietzsche whispered into “the ear of the Conservatives,” saying, “a reversion, a turning back in any sense and to any degree, is quite impossible.” He added, “even today there are parties whose goal is a dream of the crabwise retrogression of all things. But no one is free to be a crab. There is nothing for it; one has to go forward, which is to say step by step further into decadence….”[v]
Many who watched conservatism in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was popular, failed to see there was a deeper problem. Few stopped to ask themselves what the conservative “victories” of that era amounted to. Perhaps the conservatives of that time were undertakers whose mission was to make a corpse appear better than it did in life. Were they, as I have elsewhere argued, conservatives with nothing left to conserve? It now appears they did not defeat the New Religion. The mourners at a funeral know when they are viewing a corpse. Yet our conservative undertakers told us it was “morning in America.” The madman from Nietzsche’s parable said the corpse was God’s and that we were God’s murderers. The question should be asked: Was the “faith” of our conservatives genuine? Michael Franz attempted to answer the question of society’s redemption through a return to “genuine faith” with the following words: “exposure to the ‘healthy’ tension of balanced consciousness … is not likely to reorient the closed soul, for it was exposure to precisely this tension that first prompted pneumapthological closure.”[vi]
Are the souls of our leaders, from left to right, closed? On every side we see fakes and frauds, grifters and clowns, painting happy faces on unhappy situations, selling their panaceas to the masses. Is this an honorable thing to do? – papering over ugly truths with cheerful slogans?
If we look past our shallow affirmations, we find facile scientism and a belief in material progress on both sides of our political divide. Here the Darwinist dictum of “survival of the fittest” meets the welfare state’s “moral primacy of the unfit.” Evading the contradictions of atheistic humanism, some would escape into outer space. This is our destiny, they say – to explore the stars (or to meet the ultimate other). This impulse is best exemplified by Elon Musk, whose idea of reaching the “promised land” is to colonize Mars.
According to the Italian philosopher, Augusto Del Noce, “A scientistic thinker (and a society inspired by his thought) cannot help being totalitarian inasmuch as ‘he cannot possibly prove’ his claim that science rules out all other forms of knowledge, and thus certain dimensions of reality, which are declared to be either unknowable or non-existent….”[vii] More than Karl Marx, it is this scientistic spirit that holds out the false promise of “Heaven on Earth” to future generations. If only we make certain sacrifices today, if only we take the sex-change cure. Everything will turn out right in the end. “Just as a Communist thinks mankind will enter an age of super-human happiness, so does a believer in scientism,” wrote Del Noce.[viii] Supposedly, science can make our dreams come true. Science can make a woman into a man. Science can cure any disease. Science can make us immortal as we acquire robot bodies. Most people do not recognize this attitude as totalitarian. According to Del Noce, scientism is even more opposed to tradition than communism. Like the Marxist Revolution, it carries within itself “the reflected light of the apocalypse.”[ix]
Of course, the crisis of modernity is not solved by venturing into interplanetary space. However far technology takes us, we are up against the Apocalypse of Man referred to in Volume VIII of Eric Voegelin’s collected works. Writing more than a half century ago, Voegelin explained, “The Western crisis … extends by now over more than a century and a half and, for all we know, may be protracted for another century.”[x]
It is a crisis brought on by inner bankruptcy, untruthfulness and insincerity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought this crisis would lead to the destruction of Western civilization. Carl Jung thought it would lead to a nuclear holocaust. Joseph Schumpeter and George Orwell feared it would end in the final victory of totalitarian socialism. Voegelin wrote, “Every day adds to our experience … and in the light of these experiences we are compelled to reevaluate the past phases of the crisis.”[xi] He further explained,
Events that seem to be irrelevant accidents or momentary outbursts in their time appear in the light of contemporary experiences as prefigurations of later horrors; ideas that seemed to be side issues, exaggerations, idiosyncrasies, or absurdities now reveal their full meaning when they become concretized in political actions and institutions; men who seemed to have a somewhat limited importance grow into sinister giants who cast their shadows over the present and into the distant future. [xii]
This passage points to the dark consummation of our time – when side issues are allowed to wreck military readiness; when exaggerated claims regarding racism are allowed to undermine national unity and idiosyncratic notions of identity are imposed by law. Think how absurd it is that men are now permitted to dominate women’s sports by identifying as women. That this is considered controversial, even now, is damning; for there should be no controversy when it comes to distinguishing male from female.
In explaining the crisis of modernity, Voegelin pointed to a “criterion of integral insanity” from which all these evils flow. This criterion is found in the “acceptance of Positivism,” which is intimately bound up with the dry fictions of Marxism, scientism, and all their auxiliaries (left and right). Positivism holds that information derived from sensory experience, as interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all certain knowledge. In other words, Positivism is a denial of revelation. It denies the innermost recesses of the self, of the soul, of right and wrong. Voegelin noted, “It is impossible to understand the graveness of the Western crisis unless we realize that the civilization of values … is considered by broad sectors of Western society [as] a kind of mental deficiency.”[xiii]
According to Voegelin, the “critique of the eighteenth century had ruined the prestige of Catholicism and monarchy.[xiv] In the nineteenth century scribblers set about writing new scriptures and new political treatises. Here was the crib of a New Religion, its Antichrist in swaddling clothes. Among these scribblers was Saint-Simon, Fourier, Comte, d’Enfantin, Bazard, and a host of others. According to George Dumas, “They took themselves seriously for men of destiny, marked by a fatal sign on their foreheads.”[xv]
Here we find the first “intellectual” spawn of a new and frightful tyranny, prefiguring horrors to come. Out of this milieu came the West’s enemies, foreign and domestic: first, the “progressives” who descended out of Positivism and scientism; and second, Russia and China, the main military-political centers of “progressive” communist power.[xvi]
At this late hour, who is effectively opposing this new and frightful tyranny? Our institutions have been infiltrated and subverted, inconsistently opposing the slow but sure advance of the New Religion. Meanwhile, the right is more and more the playground of reactionaries and conspiracy theorists – a rabble made up of ineffectual fantasists. Our reactionaries drag the corpse of yesterday toward the EMT crash cart of parousiastic doxa (i.e., God will save us from our weak, irresponsible stewardship.) But why would He bother?
In the Russian Civil War the White Army lost against the Reds for a reason. The Whites were stupid. The first prime minister of the Russian Empire, Sergei Witte, described the old Russian reactionaries of the early twentieth century in terms which should alarm observers of the European and American right today:
This party is patriotic to the depths of its soul … but its patriotism is primitive, it is based not on reason but on passion. Most of its leaders are political upstarts, people with unclean ways of thinking and feeling; they have not a single viable political idea … [and are] incapable of anything positive. It embodies a wild, nihilistic patriotism which thrives on lies, slanders and deceit, it is a party of wild and cowardly despair but has no room for courageous, far-sighted, creative thinking. [xvii]
The communists know the history of the Russian Civil War. It is something their leaders have committed to memory. The communists have many weaknesses, but they can always defeat primitives. It is therefore ominous to see the growing conspiracist impulse of the American right. We see this impulse in the celebrity of Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, and a growing host of political entertainers. They take themselves seriously, like the Positivist of the nineteenth century. They have even incorporated flying saucers into their ideology. The Rothschilds, therefore, are not merely regarded as Jews. They are minions of Illuminati bloodlines or shapeshifting reptiles. These antisemitic metaphors have won millions of adherents.
What many have missed is that conspiracy theorists are conspirators in their own right; for they believe that small groups rule the world, that these rulers are omnicompetent, and there is no other way of understanding history. Falsifying their Christian confession, their real faith revolves around that same “will-to-power” that animates the resentful, soothes weakling, and thrills fantasist. As their mental process is focused on conspiracy theory, their imaginations are always in overdrive. Every fact is fitted into their conspiracy interpretation. Hysteria is their modus vivendi. A world under control is paradoxically their secret hope and their secret fear. Militantly unreflective and neurotic, the conspiracy theorist fears he will be turned into an insect, like Gregor Strasser in Kafka’s Metamorphosis. To escape an insect’s existence he imagines a gigantic conspiracy orchestrated by supervillains. Pretending to fight these supervillains inflates his ego, turning him into a giant.
Conspiracy theorists are cannibals in the sense that they eat their own. They have a tendency to fall out with each other. Frequently they accuse each other of belonging to the conspiracy they all pretend to be fighting. It was the antisemite, Revilo Oliver, who described the founder of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch, as “the Welcher,” claiming that Welch was himself a tool of Jewish-Bolshevism. In his memoirs Oliver wrote,
Welch … no longer has much to say about the ‘Communist Conspiracy,’ and, after flirting with the notion of reactivating Weishaupt’s diabolic Illuminati, seems to have settled on the conveniently nameless and raceless ‘Insiders’ as the architects of all evil, inspired by an unexplained malevolence. The principal purpose, aside from keeping the members in a revenue-producing excitement, is to make certain that their chaste minds are insulated against a wicked temptation not to love their enemies. [xviii]
It is not surprising that Oliver said “the Welcher … had become a Jewish auxiliary, primarily used to keep the goyim confused and docile and to frustrate patriotic movements….”[xix] The objection never occurred to Oliver that most goyim and most Jews are confused all the time. In fact, confusion rules history even as bungling prevails in politics and war. Yet the conspiracist sees none of this. To paraphrase Churchill, these conspiracy theorists are entirely predictable. Theirs is a mania, wrapped in paranoia, inside a broken record.
The venom of the conspiracy theorist is made with a mixture of hyperbole and resentment. An example from Oliver should suffice; for he said that the “American middle class has now been liquidated, except for a few remnants here and there….” He also observed that “the only really fundamental question is whether our race still has the will-to-live or is so biologically degenerate that it will choose extinction – to be absorbed in a pullulant and pestilential mass of mongrels, while the triumphant Jews keep their holy race pure and predatory.”[xx]
Here Dr. Oliver becomes Dr. Goebbels, that notorious clubfooted Nazi dwarf. We can see The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion bobbing up and down in the background, and hear faint rifle-fire from the Einsatzgruppen across the meadow. And now, even as leftwing activists denounce the Jews on major college campuses, we should not be surprised that antisemitism forms the connecting gristle of the far right and far left. This is their point of convergence. And convergence there will be. Even now so-called traditionalists have heard the siren song of that National Bolshevist hero, Alexander Dugin.
For many decades the Kremlin broadcast the siren song of communism. Now that the leftwing message has been handed off to China, Russia specializes in rightwing themes – like conspiracy theory, antisemitism, and nationalism. After this fashion the rightwing blade is set to coordinate with the leftwing blade. Together they form a scissors that can cut Western civilization into small pieces.
In Greek mythology the sirens were semi-humans with beautiful singing voices, daughters of the river god Achelous, companions of Persephone when she was abducted to Hades. Homer gives the number of sirens as two. We might add that one is on the Left and the other is on the Right. The song of the sirens “takes effect at midday, in a windless calm. The end of that song is death,” wrote Jane Ellen Harrison. The sailors drawn to the siren song die of starvation as the singing mesmerizes them.
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[i] Eric Voegelin, Autobiographical Reflections (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1996), p. 49.
[ii] Ibid.
[iii] Michael Franz, Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992), p. 117.
[iv] Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Hollingdale, Twilight of the Idols (Pengiun, 1992), p. 35.
[v] Ibid, p. 106.
[vi] Franz, p. 117.
[vii] Augusto Del Noce, The Crisis of Modernity: Volume 64 (Kindle), p. 90.
[viii] Ibid.
[ix] Ibid. Here Del Noce is quoting Nikolai Berdyaev.
[x] Eric Voegelin, The Crisis and the Apocalypse of Man University of Mississippi Press, 1999), p. 161.
[xi] Ibid.
[xii] Ibid.
[xiii] Ibid, p. 167.
[xiv] Ibid, p. 168.
[xv] Goerge Dumas, Psychologie de deux messies, 2.
[xvi] The mark of the Beast signifies an anti-Christian tyranny as follows: In Aramaic Nero Caesar is numerologically valued at 666 using Hebrew Gematria. Early manuscripts using Latin refer to the number of the Beast as 616, which is Nero Caesar rendered in Latin. The coincidence of the two numbers existing in ancient manuscripts is telling. Furthermore, this reference to Nero was meant to be metaphorical as the Apocalypse was written long after Nero’s death. In this context “Nero Caesar” signifies a tyranny that will persecute Christians. That tyranny is before us today in the form of modern communism.
[xvii] Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (London: Serif, 1996), p. 121.
[xviii] Revilo P. Oliver, https://www.revilo-oliver.com/news/2015/01/revilo-oliver-on-the-john-birch-society/
[xix] Ibid.
[xx] Ibid.
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Watch the recent moves, everybody, by Hungarian strongman (formally, Prime Minister) Viktor Orbán! He goes to Moscow and strategises with his comrade Vladimir Putin. Also, he and Andrej Babiš, the Czech oligarch-politician (and communist), have formed a new political group within the European Parliament, which seeks to draw the so-called rightwing parties into their orbit. The Austrian Freedom Party already signed up to the project right from the get-go; Matteo Salvini’s Lega is about to join; so will – I think – Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National. And now, Orbán meets Pres. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, following the NATO summit in D.C.! This is dangerous stuff! Orbán’s on a mission. And that mission is, as clear as the blue sky, to bring about “peace” (read: capitulation) for Ukraine and start a process of finally breaking up NATO! There is a reason why Putin frequently calls Hungary “Russia’s best friend in Europe”! He could as well say, “Russia’s strongest satellite in Europe” …
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/12/hungarys-viktor-orban-and-trump-meet-at-mar-a-lago-after-nato-summit/
It was none other than Mr. T. Carlson who visited Hungary and made it look like the best thing ever, regarding their (formerly communist) iron fence border – and Mr. Carlson praised Orban for it, although the southern border of Hungary now looks like the country was back inside the Soviet Bloc during those infamous years.
https://youtu.be/VXujFNBV63I
Which means Hungary is all set for the communist slavery again as there is no way to escape then the country if and when the communist are openly back in power.
It sounds all nice to have such a border wall, but what are the consequences of communist takeover when such a border exists and nobody can escape the country when the Bolsheviks are back (openly) in power ?
Surely there are other technologies which the military can use, and the Border Patrol, to apprehend the invaders, but that would presuppose an essential requirement not to have a long term KGB WH asset and the communist penetrated government to make this policies available, which is the case today – and the danger is not what it does now, BUT what such walls and iron fences will serve for then – to keep the dissenting anti-communist resistance inside the communist controlled territory and thus subject to communist persecution…which is the communist objective in the first place. Their long-term strategy in fact requires it.
Sadly, it isn’t just Tucker the Sucker Carlson, or mad “Info Warrior” Alex Jones, or “political strategist” Steve Bannon, for that matter, who have been naïvely praising Viktor Orbán for a long time, but also someone like Diana West, who in my opinion should know better, but then even she has never come to fully comprehend the faux communist “liberalisation” of 1989/91. Meanwhile she thinks JFK was murdered by the CIA, if I’m not mistaken.
And so, all these people see Orbán’s policies as expressions of a sound Hungarian patriotism rather than as what they actually are: They are part and parcel of a wider, through-and-through communist programme most aggressively directed against the West. Hungary et al. are only interested in shielding their own territories from mass immigration. When the migrants reach Western Europe, as they always do, it isn’t the East-European countries’ problem any more (who, lest we forget, have been responsible for securing the outside borders of the EU’s Schengen Space, which they joined in late 2007: a clear case of letting the fox guard the henhouse). Also, it’s basically Eastern intelligence which is organising this unprecedented migration, using it as a weapon against the West.
It’s the same as with all those other disruptive trends that have shaken the West over the last sixty years, but hardly the communist East! Was there ever a sixties’ revolution in the communist sphere? Of course not. All they came up with, in the sixties and seventies, were fake, controlled “dissidents” such as Andrei Sakharov, Václav Havel, Lech Wałęsa, or that unbearable German communist chansonnier Wolf Biermann, complete with Biermann’s stepdaughter Nina Hagen. Has there ever been a “Green” movement in the communist sphere that would have undermined those countries’ economic productivity (small as it may be)? Of course not. Have they ever had a drug epidemic as severe as in the West? Or a crime epidemic like in the West (which they themselves are choreographing)? Not really. Has there been a wild feminist, or gay, or transgender revolution like in the West? Nope. They have already undergone their revolution. No need for such disruptions any more as communism has established a “new normal” a long time ago, which post-1989 only entered an even more bizarre phase of hybrid anarcho-communism, shall we say.
Viktor Orbán is as little a nationalist as Vladimir Putin. They and their comrades in the other “post-communist” countries of Eastern Europe are unchanged Marxist-Leninists and are unchangedly pursuing their world revolutionary strategy against the West in general and Western Europe in particular. None of these countries should have ever been allowed into the European Union (well, the former EC should have never been turned into an EU, to begin with), nor should they have been allowed into NATO. Just look at the drama Orbán, alongside Erdoğan (who is halfway towards being swallowed by Moscow), has been staging to delay Finland and especially Sweden’s entry into NATO! And still they are all praising Orbán!
But the Hungarians, like their socialist brothers across Eastern Europe and certainly their Big Brother in Moscow, have been playing this extremely smart. In that crucial summer of 1989, they invited the meanwhile deceased Archduke Otto von Habsburg to participate in a “Paneuropean Picnic” to be held outside Sopron, close to the Austrian border. Otto, lifelong tireless busybody on his own and his Habsburg ancestors’ legacy’s behalf, saw an opportunity to promote his vision of a revived monarchical “Paneuropa” – and fell headlong into the trap. His participation in that event is not even a footnote today as far as the history of the “collapse of communism” is concerned. But the Hungarians needed his presence at the time so as to be able to present themselves to the world as having fully reconciled with even Hungary’s Habsburg past! The same was done in Czechia, where Austrian-Bohemian Prince Kar(e)l Schwarzenberg was drawn by Václav Havel into Czech politics and eventually became the Czech Republic’s Foreign Minister. Has his role in Czech politics really left a decisive mark? No, it hasn’t. The old communist spiderweb is perfectly in place as ever before …
These excellent points tell a story. It is the story of a strategic process in which the communists assess various political forces, infiltrate and hijack them, then repurpose them to redirect the flow of events towards a path that progressively limits and ultimately paralyzes the self-defense reflex of Western countries. It is not a perfected process, but a trial-and-error process — which is why the politicians under their control are compelled to zig one way, then zag back to the other. The transformation is meant to be gradual, so no one can see what is unfolding until it is too late. They have mapped everything out so well that narratives have been prepared in advance for each stage in the process; for example, the Trump/Russia narrative was prepared in advance when Obama and Hillary started to make a stink about Syria. Previously, Moscow was angered because Obama did not do exactly as they had instructed in Libya, leading to Khadafy’s fall. In Syria Obama was so frightened of offending Putin he actually flew to St. Petersburg for a G8 meeting, got a private audience with Putin, who guided him out of the confrontation. But the world did not know this. They only knew Obama had drawn a line in the sand and Assad agreed to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons. Nobody asked to see proof of this. After this lame fashion, the Democrats began posturing as Russia’s enemies when they had always played the role of friend. That was when the Russians began to insinuate Trump was their favorite. They were stunned, of course, when Trump won instead of Hillary. The Kremlin then had to wait four years to carry out their plans. Notice how they launched their invasion of Ukraine only when Biden was president — not when Trump was. It is in these subtleties we can discern the meaning of the “reversal of roles” that has characterized right and left since 2013. The narratives make no sense except to guide events in a definite direction.
What do you mean when you say that Obama did not do exactly as the communists had instructed? I recall a few months ago you said that Russia was likely behind the overthrow of Khadafy, because he was co-operating too much with the Americans. Leaders like Sarkozy and Berlusconi, the latter being a well-known friend of Putin, pushed for NATO involvement in Libya, while Obama was famously ‘leading from behind’. Khadafy warned that the overthrow of his regime would lead to an African/Middle Eastern invasion of Europe through the Mediterranean, which is exactly what happened (though to be fair, North Africa is not the only point of entry into Europe). I thought the ‘democratic’ agitators in Libya, whom the West decided to support, were tied to the larger Arab Spring protests, which were led by communists and Islamists backed by Russia. Is that a correct interpretation or is there more to the Libyan intervention by NATO? And did that intervention have anything to do with the Syrian Civil War which erupted at around the same time, and which Russia was heavily involved in?
Laura: The NATO air strikes against Khadafy’s troops had results the Russians pretended to be angered by. Perhaps Obama did exactly what they wanted and the upset was for show. Perhaps the Russians made Obama feel guilty on purpose. We must remember that Russia did not veto the UN Security Council Resolution authorizing intervention in Libya. The official story was that Obama had made certain guarantees to the Russians that Khadafy would not be overthrown. But he was. And as you pointed out, Khadafy was cooperating with the Americans, which makes the air strikes against his forces suspicious. It’s as if Obama and our European allies did Russia’s bidding and Russia made a public display of being upset. This illustrates how the Russians are playing a double game. When Obama met with Medvedev after the Libya strikes the Russians behaved as if they were very angry. Everything here goes to the narrative of Russian grievances against Obama and Hillary. I hope this makes sense. I am not entirely clear how they were manipulating Obama from behind the scenes. Was he pretending with them? Or was he confused by their switchups?
Good Lord, what do we American readers do regarding the upcoming election? If Trump chooses Vance as his VP, which we should know within a few days, the choice is terribly precarious. I must say that Gen. Kellogg’s report on Center for American Security, America First, Russia & Ukraine, is by no means entirely reassuring. It may indeed be that as the General argues, it is the best path forward we can hope for given the catastrophic actions of the Biden administration, and it may be that the language of “establishing a working relationship with a U.S. adversary” is tactical and veils an understanding that this adversary is an enemy, but that nothing is to be gained by Evil Empire talk. If, however, God forbid, Vance has to assume the presidency, all bets are off.
Any words of wisdom from readers (or Jeff) would be much appreciated.
As the communist bloc openly unites and bares its fangs in the open, we see that the old plans are still being carried out: (1) Break up NATO; (2) isolate the United States; (3) Economically strangle the United States; (4) Trigger a civil war in the U.S. out of the recriminations resulting from economic collapse; (5) disarm and invade the U.S.; (6) exterminate all Americans in the lower 48 as Russia absorbs Alaska and parts of Canada. That is my understanding of the enemy’s intentions. These many years I have been trying to alert Americans to this plan and its relationship to the perestroika deception. I have not found one politician or celebrity pundit that acknowledges the fact that China and Russia intend to destroy us, that the collapse of the Soviet Union was equivocal, or that the Russia-China alliance puts us in VERY grave danger. When I refer to Golitsyn’s accurate forecasts I stop getting calls from mainstream conservative podcasters. When I support Ukraine I stop getting calls from the non-mainstream podcasters. The problem is, everyone has fixed opinions that do not change because they do not do their own reading and research to see what is true for themselves. Anticommunism has been detached from the right and from conservatism, so that communism and the right can be comfortably merged. We are in the midst of this process and hardly anyone can see it let alone believe it is underway. I have tried to be clear in describing the political maneuvers of communism in conquering all shades of opinion. Apparently I have failed to adequately communicate properly or, perhaps, our people are fatally simplistic in their views — incapable of absorbing the strategic and political realities we face.
It does sound as if Russia is activating all its “rightwing” agents in Europe to “bring peace.” I cannot believe the left in Europe, which has been captured at the top, will offer any resistance. We see what Tusk is doing in Poland and the new Labour Government in London is sure to follow a similar track. Unless there is a sudden change in Germany’s mindset, the Germans are programmed to move away from the U.S. toward Russia. I think this was the plan if Hillary had been elected. She would have acted like a crazed American imperialist for the cameras, though we have reason to fear she is Moscow’s girl, and Germany would have embraced the Russian bear.
Absurdly, the Europeans are afraid rather than in favour of a Trump re-election, as they claim Trump would weaken NATO, which is nonsense, and they know it. After all, Pres. Trump was pushing hard to get the European NATO countries to pay more for their own and NATO’s collective defence capability. It seems they are afraid of Trump as they want to abolish NATO (thereby betraying the United States), replace it with a European-only defence architecture (which will never work without American assistance), and ultimately finalise their beloved convergence with Moscow. Common European Home from the Atlantic to Vladivostok: Accomplished!
These Europeans are eager to disrupt NATO on their own. They do not need Trump — except as an excuse.
From Goldwater Girl (that was 1964, when she was hardly 17) to, shortly after, Alinsky acolyte to finally the Kremlin’s Golden Girl: What a career! But I sometimes wonder whether, deep down, she may be ashamed of her treason. In any case, she drinks like a fish …
Self medicating for guilt, perhaps.
Ms. Cole
“I altered people’s lives, therefore I have serious obligations.”
Anon.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. The public smells the smoke, but is, on the one hand, offered many absurd explanations for the smoke (every imaginable explanation but the true one, fire) and on the other hand, urged not even to think about why there is smoke, because that would make the them “conspiracy theorists”.
Hey honey, I think you left the shapeshifting reptile on the grill too long. I smell smoke.
Mr Nyquist, it seems that the communists finally made an attempt on President Trump’s life.
https://news.sky.com/story/shots-fired-at-donald-trump-rally-as-former-president-rushed-off-stage-13177651
The communists are so dirty that they stop at nothing to eliminate any future threat. No wonder why Anatoliy Golitsyn wrote two books and disappeared completely from the view. I think Golitsyn is probably one of very few, genuine defectors who are deeply aware of communist infiltration as well as communist psychopathic guts to eliminate dissent elements.
We should not jump to any conclusions about the who the shooter was. The Secret Service has killed the shooter and, it seems, a bystander. But this is unclear.
This may be it – either the credibility stunt or just an excuse to truly get rid of him for good, as he may have become too much of a liability, if this is the right term for it.
These are truly evil times, nobody wants anybody to get hurt, but if this is for show or to create bigger credibility for him, or perhaps to demoralize the population even more, it sure worked this time.
There is something in store for him, in the future, some evil task which is not possible to detect right now, but something is not right, and that the highly suspicious death of Ivana, those are the things that make one think what is truly going on.
But surely they are trying to provoke a full blown civil war, by such provocations.
For what it’s worth, some of my fervently pro-Russia family members are saying the shooter was Ukrainian. I see nothing about the shooter’s nationality or motivation in any mainstream publication, so I can only assume this is the work of the Russian rumor-mill. They sure don’t waste any time.
So many people are ready with theories before the facts are even known.
BREAKING:
Yes, one can’t underestimate the tenacity of Communist psychopathy.
Andrea Widburg article, American Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/in_pa_an_apparent_assassination_attempt_against_president_trump.html
Yes i think Islam is diabolic. Allah and the God of the Bible are not the same. Allah is the “God of the black Stone”. Consider the satanic verses or in general the gnostic character of Islam. Roger Liebi, very important theologist, explains why the Islam is a satanic movement. Unfortunatley the video is in german, maybe you are able to find an automatic translation, it’s very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZvZjWUhnr8
I knew the communists would try to assassinate Trump. I knew this was in the cards, I just knew it.
Communists trying so hard to ignite a ‘civil war’.
-Bill Freeman
I thought they’d at least wait until after he was re-elected!
I wish I knew more details.
“Gunman who shot Trump identified as ‘Chinese’”
https://x.com/gordongchang/status/1812281093678374981?s=46
THAT IS WHAT THE NY POST REPORTED BUT THEN CHANGED IT TO A “UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MALE”.
And yet, the story was changed. So many rumors. So much confusion when events are unfolding.
JEFF. NBC NEWS IS REPORTING THREE AIR AMBULANCE HELICOPTERS HAVE LANDED ONE AFTER ANOTHER AT LOCAL HOSPITAL, AND TRAFFIC WAS SUDDENLY PUSHED OUT IN THE ONE BLOCK CIRCULAR RADIUS.
THE SHOOTER REPORTEDLY FIRED FROM ‘SEVERAL HUNDRED YARDS’ AWAY.
ON THE OTHER HAND IT IS THIS:
https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/sniper-shot-at-former-president-donald-trump-from-130-yards-away-on-roof-of-manufacturing-plant/
To compare the distance from one football 🏈 goal post to the other is 120 yards (100 yard playing field, two 10 yard end zones).
BBC interview with witness who tried to warn Secret Service beforehand
https://x.com/sharpfootball/status/1812265909727396107?s=46
BBC interview with witness who tried to warn Secret Service beforehand
https://x.com/sharpfootball/status/1812265909727396107?s=46
More unbelievable video of the Secret Service taking out the shooter
https://x.com/realstewpeters/status/1812296364270800997?s=46
Better angle still from 7News Australia
https://youtu.be/6tf-kOCXO7U?si=nA8cIL1dRnqNq7CD
I do not understand why they did not shoot him before he could get a shot off.