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How To Destroy A Civilization
There are lots of ways to kill off a civilization. Wars, politics, economic collapse. But what are the actual mechanics? It might be a useful thing to know whether or not we are killing ourselves off.
Ancient Rome is a good place to start. They had an advanced civilization. They had running water, sewers, flush toilets, concrete, roads, bridges, dams, an international highway system, mechanical reapers, water-powered mills, public baths, soap, banking, commerce, free trade, a legal code, a court system, science, literature, and a republican system of government. And a strong army to enforce stability and peace (Pax Romana). It wasn’t perfect, but they were on their way to modernity.
One of my favorite quotes is from Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE):
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
If that isn’t a mark of a civilized society I don’t know what is.
But Rome collapsed. I often wonder what would have happened if it hadn’t. Could we have avoided a thousand years of the Dark Ages. Could we have been flying airplanes and driving cars in the year 1000?
What the hell happened to Rome?
Dictators. After 500 years, the famous Roman Republic ended with the dictator Julius Caesar taking power. Four hundred years later his progeny and usurpers ran the Empire into the ground and Rome fell to invading barbarians.
The standard explanation for Rome’s decline and fall is that they devolved into dictatorships (true, but not the cause of their fall). Or they became decadent and corrupt (true, but not the cause of their fall). They fell to barbarian invasions (true, but not the cause of their fall).
Rome fell because the dictators ruined the Roman economy and the institutions that had made it prosperous. Rome was falling apart before the barbarian invasions.
How did the Caesars do that? They were profligate spenders. As emperors with absolute power usually do, they thought big: infrastructure (roads, temples, palaces), a huge bureaucracy, and, as the key to maintaining their power they had a very large, loyal, and well paid army. As a consequence, massive government spending far outstripped revenue. They had what today we call a deficit problem.
They did two disastrous things to solve their deficit.
First, they kept raising taxes which became punitive. Not caring much about the consequences to the merchants, small farmers, and peasants, they came up with new ways to squeeze money out of their citizens. Onerous taxes led to tax evasion. The government’s response was to double down and implement laws that restricted economic freedoms in order to raise even more taxes. Heavy taxes forced property owners, small and large, off the land. Large feudal estates run by political cronies arose in their place. Laws were enacted that forced peasants into virtual serfdom. Business owners and their children were prevented from changing jobs or towns. And, taxes had to be paid either in gold or in kind or they would lose everything. Gold became scarce. Gold money was only lawfully available to the government, army, and bureaucrats.
Second, they debased the currency which led to inflation. It was the equivalent of printing money to pay for things. The resulting bouts of high inflation destroyed much of commerce and agriculture. Like most dictators they thought they could stop rising prices by implementing price controls, but that just led to gold and goods disappearing from the economy. Black markets grew despite threats of capital punishment. Unemployment and homelessness rose. Their large welfare system kept running short of money. Commercial, legal, and moral institutions were falling apart. Corruption was endemic. The resulting booms and busts and depressions were destroying the economy.
By the time the Goth and Visigoth invaders came along, Rome was so weakened that they could not hold back the waves of invasions. At the end, Roman citizens saw the government as the enemy and the invading barbarians as their saviors. Rome fell in 410 CE. What emerged was what we now know as the Middle Ages — it lasted for a thousand years. You know what that was like. They didn’t call it the Dark Ages for nothing.
Much of Rome’s economic history is quite familiar in modern times. Even after thousands of years of evidence of repeated failure, bad ideas simply don’t die. Proponents of bad ideas are either ignorant of history or just ignorant. Or they are politicians (as Mark Twin said, “But I repeat myself.”).
One bad idea with ancient precedents is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). MMT is the New Thing among Progressives in America. Politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Bernie are quite excited about MMT. They think they have discovered the Holy Grail of economics.
Progressives believe that government can and should cause economic growth and prosperity. They believe government can do this by various controls, regulations, spending programs, and monetary manipulation. They believe proper government spending will stimulate demand, generate consumer spending, kick-start production, and, voila! we have full employment and prosperity. Along the way we can solve various social problems.
The idea of MMT takes this one step further. They believe that the government can spend/buy whatever it wants and print pieces of greenish paper to pay for it. Government doesn’t need to tax us or borrow money to do this — it can print whatever money it needs to pay for it. Deficits don’t matter because by printing money to pay for stuff they instantly solve the deficit problem. MMTers claim, with no shortage of arrogance, that they, Oz-like, can fine-tune the mechanics of how the economy is to be run and generate prosperity, prevent inflation, end inequality, and save the planet.
In other words, everything will be perfect; “just trust us” to run things. It sounds too good to be true.
AOC and Bernie Sanders and their supporters heartily embrace MMT. They want to break free of old-fashioned concepts such as fiscal integrity, balanced budgets, and monetary stability because they want no limits on their utopian schemes.
MMT is a crackpot idea. It is the monetary equivalent of the Perpetual Motion Machine — it ignores the laws of economics. It’s like asking third graders to invent money. (“I’m gonna print me a bunch of money and buy me a Ferrari an’ a jet an’ all the coolest video games an’ …”). Proponents confuse pieces of greenish paper with wealth and, as history has repeatedly proven, you can’t print your way to wealth and prosperity.
There is nothing “modern” about Modern Monetary Theory. It has been tried many times over the centuries and it has never worked. In every case where governments have printed money to pay for things, the result has been cycles of boom and bust, inflation (and hyperinflation), economic stagnation, and social disorder. MMTers simply don’t understand what money is or the mechanics of the business cycle or the concept ofmalinvestment and the destruction of capital.
Why is it not possible that we could go the way of Rome? Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal resulted in 25 years of economic stagnation. Only post-FDR deregulation, more economic freedoms, capital investment, and fiscal and monetary sanity led to economic growth.
AOC’s Green New Deal plus MMT would be worse than the old New Deal in that it places no limit on government’s ability to spend which means government can command economic resources and control the direction of the economy. History has shown that governments aren’t very good at that. Absolute power in the hands of the few is a bad idea.
How much destruction could MMT and utopian Progressive schemes like AOC’s utopian Green New Deal inflict on our civilization? It is hard to tell, but I hope we don’t have to look back some day and say the end started now.
76 Comments on "How To Destroy A Civilization"
ANAL REAPER on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 6:46 am
THE FUCKING NIGGERS MUST DIE. FUCK ALL LIBERALS!!!
Dredd on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 7:38 am
“How To Destroy A Civilization”[?]
A once-most-often-quoted historian explains (The Common Good – 12).
Ghung on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 7:52 am
Utterly ignores resource depletion, constraints hyper-complexity and increasing costs of maintaining the basics of civilization..
Curses of empire.
Sissyfuss on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 8:40 am
Mises misses. Quoting Lincoln, ” As the times are new, we must think anew and act anew.” We have crony capitalism that exacerbates wealth inequity and denies the End of Growth. And Rome expired like all entities that grow old, entropy never sleeps. The old systems are entering collapse mode and will be replaced by something, perhaps Mad Max, perhaps a few thousand hardy souls planting palm trees on the Antarctic continent. Defending the status quo ala Trumpski appeals to both the landed gentry and the red state despicables. The bottleneck is slowly encircling our once comfortable confines and panic shall reign in the near future. And the 4 horsemen of the Anthropocene will destroy and plunder at such an exponential ferocity that the Goths and Visigoths can only observe with envy and admiration.
Purple People Eater on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 9:52 am
Another example of how extreme partisanship diminishes clear thinking. The article isn’t wrong with respect to GND and MMT but the latter has been going on for decades now with Red and Blue team’s enthusiastic support. Both are only thinking out to the next election and ignore reality of diminished resources and increasing chaos from climate and geopolitical conflict.
Robert Inget on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 10:22 am
President Donald Trump said Wednesday “I hope we don’t” have a war with Iran, but it “would not last very long.”
Bitcoin Mining
Authorities in Iran have seized roughly 1,000 Bitcoin mining machines from two former factories, according to state TV reports.
The action was taken following a spike in electricity consumption.
Demand for power rose by 7% in June and cryptocurrency mining was thought to be the main cause, an energy ministry spokesman told local state-run media.
One researcher said Bitcoin was gaining more and more attention in Iran as a potential means of storing wealth.
“Two of these bitcoin farms have been identified, with a consumption of one megawatt,” Arash Navab, an electricity official, told state television.
Bitcoin mining ban considered by China’s economic planner
Iran’s banks banned from dealing in crypto-currencies
Mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin involves connecting computers – usually specialised “mining machines” – to the currency network via the internet.
By providing computing power for validating transactions on that network, mining machine owners are rewarded with newly generated coins, making it a potentially lucrative exercise – especially when done on a large scale.
Some may recall, one of my ‘get rich quick’ ideas
was to slowly build out a solar ‘farm’ and rent out
space to bitcoin miner machines.
With daydream revenue, ‘farmers’ could buy more PV’s and storage creating 24/7 operations.
My guess, lack of winter sunlight might be made
whole by not needing air conditioning to cool all those servers.
In more Southern locations almost year-round cooling might be required.
joe on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 10:23 am
Rome lost its gold BECAUSE of trade. Then they thought they could implement border control to limit trade. None of it worked because they couldn’t develop their own silk industry or their own spice production. They didn’t have science and so they had to source goods in the locations they originated from. Celts, Germanics, Slavs etc chose protectionism and their reputations are known in history but at least because of that, you might know what I mean when I say modern German, modern Slav, modern Anglo-Saxon. If I say modern Roman, you will only think of a person from a city in Italy
Gaia on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 10:38 am
We live in a very complex world and nothing is perfect. As an old saying goes, “The grass grows greener on the other side”
Chrome Mags on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 10:40 am
Shades of old Rome but our current situation is:
1) Declining EROEI from oil (FF), i.e. declining surplus energy to do everything else society needs.
2) World economy reaching limits on growth due to #1.
3) Ballooning debt of all types.
4) Inflation.
5) Resource depletion, (not just FF).
6) Ecological decimation
It’s a conundrum from which there is no escape. Pipe dreams of space solar and fusion are simply ideas to suggest BAU could continue ad infinitum. When shtf, what to do about billions of people needing food, shelter, transportation, clothing, healthcare, education, electricity, heating, AC…It’s gonna be rough!
Alice Friedemann on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 11:53 am
Totally misses the destruction by barbarian invasion, climate change, disease, resource depletion (deforestation) and soil erosion (partly from deforestation).
Book review of “Empires and Barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe”
http://energyskeptic.com/2017/book-review-of-empires-and-barbarians-the-fall-of-rome-and-the-birth-of-europe/
Ward-Perkins “The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization”
http://energyskeptic.com/2017/ward-perkins-the-fall-of-rome-and-the-end-of-civilization/
The fall of the roman empire from plagues and climate change
http://energyskeptic.com/2018/the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-from-plagues-and-climate-change/
Book: John Perlin’s “A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization”
http://energyskeptic.com/2018/perlin-a-forest-journey-the-story-of-wood-and-civilization/
Book review of Dirt: the erosion of civilization
http://energyskeptic.com/2019/book-review-of-dirt-the-erosion-of-civilization/
claes on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 12:36 pm
Chrome: Your 6 #’s are exactly what is happening to china right now, and the only way China can avoid collapse is to expand on all fronts. At the same time the western world is facing the same problems, and of course they most collide fighting for the same resources.
Trumps major task rigth now, is to keep the remaining resources on western hands instead of chinese.
Even the immigration problem can be seen as a figth to keep the american citizens in charge of their own resources towards dirtpoor overpopulated countries that has no idea of how to administere their own natural wealth, and because of that they send their population surplus upp north to greener US-pastures.
The real strange thing though, is that first the “colonies” threw out the whities and now they all come creeping back into countries ruled by white people.
That is the Democrats real problem: They hate white people, but they need them to organize a society and make it prosperous and well functioning.
Cloggie on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 12:54 pm
Overview commercial scale CAES projects:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/air-compression-example-projects/
1. Huntorf, Germany 1978
2. McIntosh, Alabama 1990
3. Northern Ireland 2022 (EU-funded, Brexit, uh-oh)
Cloggie on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 12:57 pm
That is the Democrats real problem: They hate white people, but they need them to organize a society and make it prosperous and well functioning.
In the future racial-communist society in North-America (if that happens according to the wishes of mobster and his tribe), whitey is to play the role of the obedient work-horse Boxer, from Orwell’s “Animal Farm”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)
claes on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 1:42 pm
It would be interesting to see how slave descendents would respond to the people who actually rounded them upp and sold them to white traders in the first place.
That was their own black bros and sisters in west africa hundreds of years ago.
Slave trade is old african tradition and it’s still going on in the south Sahara regions (the Sahel).
Blame the whites for much, but it was the africans them self that supplied the whites with enslaved humans in ball and chains.
Slave descendents should sue west africans for reparations, but I guess that won’t happen.
Anonymouse on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 2:26 pm
The Mises Institute. Literally, formed by a guy who thought the CaTo instutute was ‘too liberal and wishy washy’.
Now to think, according to the wingnuts @ TMI, the Roman Empire would still be around IF they had only imposed a far-reaching austerity program, lowered taxes on the rich, and boosted military spending.
Oh wait……
No, what they meant to say, was the Roman dictators were all closet Tax and Spend liberals. Thats why Rome fell.
No? How about this.
Rome fell because they Roman dictators kept subsidizing pie-in-the sky schemes with billions of Roman dollars on things like wind and water power, instead of proven and reliable sources of energy, like slavery.
Still no?
The Roman Empire collapsed when the nefarious dictator Augustus Sanders and his she-devil sidekick Lady Octavia Cortez bankrupted the empire with their ruinous wind power and public health care scams. It was chaos and anarchy for 1000 years because of their crackpot economic policies.
Octavia Cortez is said to have played a fiddle while Rome burned. (The fire dept had been disbanded to help pay for her ruinous public health care schemes). Trufact
Whatever alternate-reality wingnut version of history floats your anarcho-libertarian-capitalist boat, Lew Rockwell (LOL) and The Mises Institute (alt-history) dept, has got you covered.
claes on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 3:08 pm
Anon, I think you need to see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=g6VDRb1WHxo
many empires died, here is the reason why, told by a redneck- or whatever
Cloggie on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 3:15 pm
The real reason for the downfall of Rome:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm
Corruption from within, aka Christianity:
The Christian and the anarchist: both are décadents; both are incapable of any act that is not disintegrating, poisonous, degenerating, blood-sucking; both have an instinct of mortal hatred of everything that stands up, and is great, and has durability, and promises life a future…. Christianity was the vampire of the imperium Romanum,—overnight it destroyed the vast achievement of the Romans: the conquest of the soil for a great culture that could await its time. Can it be that this fact is not yet understood? The imperium Romanum that we know, and that the history of the Roman provinces teaches us to know better and better,—this most admirable of all works of art in the grand manner was merely the beginning, and the structure to follow was not to prove its worth for thousands of years. To this day, noth ing on a like scale sub specie aeterni has been brought into being, or even dreamed of!—This organization was strong enough to withstand bad emperors: the accident of personality has nothing to do with such things—the first principle of all genuinely great architecture. But it was not strong enough to stand up against the corruptest of all forms of corruption—against Christians…. These stealthy worms, which under the cover of night, mist and duplicity, crept upon every individual, sucking him dry of all earnest interest in real things, of all instinct for reality—this cowardly, effeminate and sugar-coated gang gradually alienated all “souls,” step by step, from that colossal edifice, turning against it all the meritorious, manly and noble natures that had found in the cause of Rome their own cause, their own serious purpose, their own pride. The sneakishness of hypocrisy, the secrecy of the conventicle, concepts as black as hell, such as the sacrifice of the innocent, the unio mystica in the drinking of blood, above all, the slowly rekindled fire of revenge, of Chandala revenge—all that sort of thing became master of Rome: the same kind of religion which, in a pre-existent form, Epicurus had combatted. One has but to read Lucretius to know what Epicurus made war upon—not paganism, but “Christianity,” which is to say, the corruption of souls by means of the concepts of guilt, punishment and immortality.—He combatted the subterranean cults, the whole of latent Christianity—to deny immortality was already a form of genuine salvation.—Epicurus had triumphed, and every respectable intellect in Rome was Epicurean—when Paul appeared … Paul, the Chandala hatred of Rome, of “the world,” in the flesh and inspired by genius—the Jew, the eternal Jew par excellence…
Christianity: leftism-Marxism for antiquity.
claes on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 3:28 pm
please do watch this video to the end. I just saw it again and it’s really good.
If you want the more theoretical background for his points of view, go to :
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
claes on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 3:39 pm
clogg, we are all in this together. Do watch the video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=g6VDRb1WHxo
– and do read the 28 pages long theoretical background:
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
Cloggie on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 5:02 pm
Dutch government has presented today its “climate accord” with far-going measures to achieve the renewable energy transition by 2050:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/dutch-climate-accord-presented/
claes on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 5:05 pm
Reparation,and who is to pay. “The Economist” in a fresh article doesn’t say a word about black africans huge role in the slave trade. Political correctness is so powerfull that we are not even allowed to mention black peoples menace to their own.
/www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/29/the-idea-of-reparations-for-slavery-is-morally-appealing-but-flawed
Slave trade is old african tradition and it’s still going on in the south Sahara regions (the Sahel).
Blame the whites for much, but it was the africans them self that supplied the whites with enslaved humans in ball and chains.
Cloggie on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 5:07 pm
Projections offshore wind capacity in 2030:
Asia 100 GW (3.5B)
EU 78 GW (0.5B)
USA 10 GW (0.3B)
https://gwec.net/global-offshore-wind-report-sector-has-potential-to-grow-to-200gw-of-capacity-by-2030/
claes on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 5:09 pm
the link didn’t work, here is a better one
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/29/the-idea-of-reparations-for-slavery-is-morally-appealing-but-flawed
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 7:50 pm
The future all CHUDs fear yet secretly desire.
https://i.imgur.com/9OkGXe1.png
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 28th Jun 2019 8:08 pm
Far–right German extremists accused of plotting Berlin attack charged with terrorism
https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/far-right-german-extremists-accused-of-plotting-berlin-attack-charged-with-terrorism-1.879422
Theedrich on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 2:32 am
An assassination began WW I exactly 100 years ago. A Serbian fanatic killed Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 1919 June 28, triggering a catastrophe from which the world has never recovered. It is a sobering warning of just how delicate international peace really is.
The revanchism of France, the imperial hubris of a declining Great Britain, the stupidity of the Russian czar Nikolai II Aleksandrovich, and the greed of Austro-Hungary led to the cataclysm. Germany was almost inadvertently sucked into the maelstrom by recklessly backing Austria. At the end, the rapacity of the victorious powers forced Germany to accept all of the guilt for starting the war, so that the winners could enrich themselves at Germany’s expense and exculpate themselves. The whole thing was a massive Anglo-American-French fraud and crime of hideous proportions. It also led to the U.S. eventually declaring itself the pure and virtuous savior of all mankind, while that same America has devastated the globe and the omnicidal ideology of Communism was allowed to ignite and to exterminate up to 175 million people, in the name of a promissory “worker’s paradise.”
Today the neo-Communists in the Democratic Party are seeking to complete the work that Lenin, Stalin & Co. began. They want to import virtually the entire Third World under cover of “compassion” and eviscerate the American culture and economy by extinguishing the White race forever. They are helped by murderous transnational criminal cartels which are pushing millions of non-Whites, narcotics and slaves into Yankeeland. To achieve their goals, the hate-driven Dems have turned the Constitution into a suicide pact.
Meanwhile, the TV-hypnotized White masses (the ones who still have jobs, that is) are entranced by the prospect of freebies for all citizens and illegal invaders alike, while they succumb to the agitprop of the Jewbox and vote for their own demise.
Theedrich on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 3:12 am
Excellent quote, Cloggie! How true! The only glimmer of hope we are now given is the historically rapid disintegration of the Roman Catholic Church. Since its own suicidal Sacrosanctum Concilium, otherwise known as “Vatican II” (1962-65), it has withered with remarkable speed, with the collapse of its priesthood and countless other agencies worldwide, and especially in Europe. The exposure of widespread sacerdotal pederasty and the discovery of criminal financial dealings involving the Vatican bank, along with many other factors, have helped in the disintegration. The insanity about Jesus rewarding his goody-goodies after their deaths has largely evaporated in western Europe, although it continues in the U.S, especially among Evangelicals.
Unfortunately, Christianity is being replaced by the hypnosis box, itself controlled by the Yahweh-chosen Master Race. The average American male has turned into a flaccid piece of protoplasm directed by talking heads, incapable of seeing or even caring about where he is headed.
One can only hope that the coming economic decline will awaken the sludge from its coma.
Theedrich on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 3:51 am
Correction: The Sarajevo assassination occurred 105 years ago, on 1914 June 28.
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 3:54 am
The revanchism of France, the imperial hubris of a declining Great Britain, the stupidity of the Russian czar Nikolai II Aleksandrovich, and the greed of Austro-Hungary led to the cataclysm. Germany was almost inadvertently sucked into the maelstrom by recklessly backing Austria.
The Kaiser musing to himself in 1914 after he understood the game the British were playing:
‘Frivolity and weakness are going to plunge the world into the most frightful war of which the ultimate object is the overthrow of Germany. For I no longer have any doubt that England, Russia and France have agreed among themselves – knowing that our treaty obligations compel us to support Austria – to use the Austro-Serb conflict as a pretext for waging a war of annihilation against us… In this way the stupidity and clumsiness of our ally [Austria] is turned into a noose. So the celebrated encirclement of Germany has finally become an accepted fact… The net has suddenly been closed over our heads, and the purely anti-German policy which England has been scornfully pursuing all over the world has won the most spectacular victory which we have proved ourselves powerless to prevent while they, having got us despite our struggles all alone into the net through our loyalty to Austria, proceed to throttle our political and economic existence. A magnificent achievement, which even those for whom it means disaster are bound to admire.’
Entirely correct.
The present day official lie about WW1 was that “Europe stumbled into war”. Nothing could be further from the truth:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/britain-masterminded-ww1/
The true owners of the British Empire (no, not Jews), that dominated the 19th century (thanks to coal and steam, just like the US dominated the 20th century thanks to superior oil) observed that a unified Germany would eventually take over the role of Britain on international markets with their magical “made in Germany”. They understandably hated it (until today).
The tragedy for Europe is that Germany from the early days of unification until the desperate flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland wanted nothing more than an alliance with Britain, but they were snubbed by the British. A British-German alliance would dominate the world until today, Europe would still be on top and we would have kept assorted nuisances like the USA and USSR out and Europe would be in-your-face-white and we would have spared ourselves the embarrassment of being colonized by a former colony, that had fell into the hands of (((those))) who hate white people.
It is this pathological British hatred for all things German and continental European that has surfaced again in this Brexit drama and all the signs are that there is going to be a third exchange of hostilities, after WW1 and WW2. Half a century of membership of the European club were not enough for the British to become European. Globalist Anglos after all.
Only this time the cards of the Anglos are infinitely worse as compared to WW1 and certainly WW2:
– France is now tied to Germany and Europe is united.
– Russia is flirting with European populism and wants to be member of the “European House” (out of closet fear for China, despite SCO, a club they were pushed into through western anti-Russian behavior)
– China is embroiled with the Americans over who is #1 and has mega-invested itself in a anti-Anglo all-Eurasian strategy
– America (in its present shape) is entering in its terminal phase, where Dems are trying to destroy white America with mass immigration and as such get the upper-hand over white America, that is with the back against the wall.
– In the Middle-East nobody likes its Anglo colonizers, except for a few thousand Saudi princes.
All the ingredients are there to finally terminate two Anglo-Zionist globalist centuries, end liberalism, end corporate supremacy, end the dollar, end suicidal multicult, end the US deep state and its media and bring back the core of European civilization back to Europe, where it belongs.
The American empire was built on the Americans intentionally sicking the British into war with the Germans in 1939.
https://www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p135_Weber.html
Fortunately we don’t have to sick the Americans in a war with China, they are perfectly capable of doing that all by themselves.
In Europe all the signs are that we are going to have a hard-Brexit under the dedicated leadership of New York-born loose cannon Boris Johnson, that Jewish-Muslim-Christian mystery meat, who wants to be Churchill-2.0. (first time a tragedy, second time a farce)
There can be no doubt about how British politics under a Farage-Johnson ticket will look like:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/barnier-verhofstadt-farage-wants-to-destroy-the-eu/
Let’s pick up the gauntlet. Let’s have hostile relations between the EU and UK. Have a few back-room talks between the EU, Russia and the Chinese, like Churchill had with the Jewish-Soviet ambassador Maisky in the thirties to plot for the downfall of Germany and the rest of continental Europe…
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/churchill-stalin-alliance-as-of-1934/
No need for stupid formal official alliances like before 1914. Just a nod in a shady backroom… “we are not going to defend Australia, you will get away with it provided you sink a few Anglo vessels in the SCS”…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-fighters-buzzed-regina-asterix-east-china-sea-1.5193149
Sacrifice the entire East and West coast of the US, it’s gone anyway. And future PBM-Eurasian overlords of America will not allow US white nationalists to take it back, after the former used the occasion of CW2 to split-up the country once and for all. From Eurasian perspective, third world immigration into Anglosphere should be greeted as a sure means to blow up said Anglo countries, what’s not to like. We should use empire dave and his owner mobster and the rest of the “racism” and “natzi” howlers as our useful idiots, serving Eurasian interests and use them cynically to let them blow their own countries up for us.
WW3 is coming and there is nothing anybody can do about it. It’s the only way to replace an old order with a new one. Perhaps the planet won’t be entirely blown up and will be terminated by CW2.
A few details from the script:
– As soon as we have EU-UK hostility in place, the ground is rife for a revisionist campaign in continental Europe, promoting less Anglo-friendly views regarding WW1 and WW2.
– It is doubtful if Macron can “pivot towards Russia”. It is more likely that in 2022, as predicted by French court Jew Attali, a Marion Marechal-le Pen presidency will make that turn, 2 years before Putin officially will leave Russian politics (he probably will remain Godfather of Russia behind the scenes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSCPVidwSpk
makati1 on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 3:55 am
Actually Theedrich, it was 105 years ago.
I invite anyone interested to view this BBC produced history of WW1.
(On The Idle Hill of Summer | The Great War” (1 of 26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es4zhqqM5lU&list=PL4w-2j6Q0Qj7DtmB-YsnpK_WUlPs3MNCu
The shots are at the 37 minute point of part 1.
The series was taken off but then reinstalled by another site.
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 4:59 am
Italy finally does what is necessary:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/sea-watch-3-auf-lampedusa-migranten-verlassen-fluechtlingsschiff-a-1274978.html
The German-owned ship SeaWatch-3, sailing under Dutch flag, has been confiscated by the Italians in Lampedusa and the German female captain has been arrested. She could end up in the slammer for 10 years, good for her. Throw away the key.
The forty or so young male welfare tourists, dubbed as “refugees” by the disgusting western media and lefties, are to be distributed over 5 European countries. This is the last batch and will set a beneficial precedent. Europe has the Mediterranean, where the US merely has the Rio Grande and that is why Europe is going to “lose” the race to the bottom and win geopolitically, because the entity with the most whites wins in the end.
Davy on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 5:01 am
“The real reason for the downfall of Rome: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm Corruption from within, aka Christianity:”
“Excellent quote, Cloggie! How true! The only glimmer of hope we are now given is the historically rapid disintegration of the Roman Catholic Church. “
Much of the worst of what has come out of the world is because of the Monotheistic traditions. The worst is the combination of Catholicism and latter Protestantism with the European quest for power and domination. It was the combination of scientific revolution and the corruption of the Christian tradition that brought forth the explosion of thought and will to power that conquered the whole earth. Look where we are now because of this. A destroyed planet is what is around us. This is directly related to cloggo’s master race of white knights. It was the bastardization of Christianity with science and human delusions of godliness by the Romans and later the Europeans that made Christianity so destructive. So Thee and cloggo get their point only partially right by missing the real evil. The early Chinese traditions before they were corrupted by western thought and exploitation were far superior in regards to respect for the environment and neighbors.
BTW, one of the strongest communities I know of is the parochial school system of the Roman Catholic Church. The hierarchy of the church is disgusting with its corruption by money and sexual dysfunction. Yet, it is the power found in community of a humble Catholic Church and school in a less affluent place that is where true human strength is found. This is of course is too soft for Thee and the cloggo to touch on. These kind of communities will shine when SHTF and the world becomes irrational and dysfunctional.
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 5:18 am
British attitudes towards Europe:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7194131/British-holidaymakers-getting-speeding-tickets-French-police-claim-harder-fines.html#comments
Brexit nationalist – “If I received a fine in the post from a f o r e i gn country, especially France, I would rip it up and throw it in the bin”
946/190
EU no more – “I would be setting my speed limiter on the cruise control to ensure I didn’t go 1 mph over the speed limit because I know they are out to punish the British for voting for Brexit, instead on punishing the Brits, perhaps they should try to find the Notre Dame arsonists that are still on the loose?”
799/111
(Sure, France has speed limits in place just to punish the British)
A Brexiteer – “France is beautiful – it’s only ruined by the people who live there.”
559/119
Public image – “I agree with Boris about the French”
474/77
(Boris Yeltsin, er Johnson called the French “turds”)
Glass – “The French have only one objective to take the British motorist to the cleaners. I hope we return the compliment.”
416/66
(Not those who obey the laws of the country. But continental Europe is mostly a place to throw bombs on, right mr Glass?)
To be fair, sometimes reason sets in, as long as the word “French” is left out of the consideration:
Seanr – “its simple to avoid. don’t speed.”
228/22
Davy on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 5:31 am
“Optimal quantum computation linked to gravity”
https://tinyurl.com/y5p4pg59 phys org
“Information and gravity may seem like completely different things, but one thing they have in common is that they can both be described in the framework of geometry. Building on this connection, a new paper suggests that the rules for optimal quantum computation are set by gravity.”
“In the field of computational complexity, one of the main ideas is minimizing the cost (in terms of computational resources) to solve a problem. In 2006, Michael Nielsen demonstrated that, when viewed in the context of differential geometry, computational costs can be estimated by distances. This means that minimizing computational costs is equivalent to finding minimal “geodesics,” which are the shortest possible distances between two points on a curved surface.”
“The main purpose of the new paper is to bring these different ideas together by proposing a universal description of complexity that depends only on a single quantity (central charge). This leads to the discovery of connections between complexity and concepts in (quantum) gravity which, in turn, leads to interesting implications such as the possibility that gravity governs the rules for optimal quantum computation.”
“Finding the minimal length on the complexity geometry, in our setup, is equivalent to solving the equations of gravity. This is what we meant by gravity setting rules for optimal computations in 2-D conformal field theories.” This perspective suggests that gravity could be useful in estimating computational complexity and identifying the most efficient computational methods for solving problems.”
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 5:31 am
The French New Right under the leadership of Alain de Bernoist has formulated the best answer to the current hegemony of the Marxist (almost entirely Jewish-run) Frankfurt Schule, that is ruling the West today:
https://ia601904.us.archive.org/18/items/OnBeingAPagan/OnBeingAPagan.pdf
For those who share Nietzsche’s belief that the conversion of Europe to Christianity and the more or less complete integration of the European mind into the Christian mentality, was one of the most catastrophic events in world history-a catastrophe in the proper sense of the word-just what can the word “paganism” mean today?
The way out of the current predicament is reorientation towards classical, life-affirmative values, not nihilistic Christianity or Islam, that has rejected life on earth and yearns for a better after life.
For Americans for whom Nietzsche is “too German” and Benoist “too French”, read “Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance” to get a modern feeling for how that kind of life could look like. The Swedish-American author Robert Pirsig cannibalized Nietzsche to the hilt, without mentioning his source.
Davy on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 6:44 am
“Fugitive Who Kept Attack-Squirrel Hopped-Up On Meth Found And Arrested”
https://tinyurl.com/y32m5b3b zero hedge
“Police have finally tracked down and arrested a fugitive who kept an “attack squirrel” caged and hopped up on methamphetamine at his house for protection, according to the NY Post.
The man, identified as 35 year old Mickey Paulk, was arrested on Thursday after authorities caught him leaving a hotel in a stolen ambulance. Paulk eventually rammed into an investigator’s vehicle after a short chase and was arrested.”
“He was booked on drug and gun charges, as well as charges of attempting to elude, criminal mischief, receiving stolen property and felon in possession of a pistol.”
“Police had been looking for Paulk since June 18 after police raided his apartment and rescued the “attack squirrel”. During the bust, they also seized drugs, paraphernalia and body armor. It had been reported to police previously that Paulk was keeping an “attack squirrel” and feeding it drugs to keep it aggressive.”
“The squirrel was released to a nearby wooded area.”
“According to USA Today, the squirrel’s name was “DeezNuts”.
JuanP on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 7:17 am
oops, that is a zero hedge article please do not read at a risk of mental retardation
https://tinyurl.com/y32m5b3b
I AM THE MOB on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 10:56 am
I hope clogg is getting paid well..Imagine wasting every day of your life spamming a doomer blog that nobody reads..With fake news and emotionally driven tabloid political crap..
And look how much effort he puts in to his post that nobody even reads..What a fucking loser with no life.
Every post clogg makes is written like a true incel..
HAHA
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Jun 2019 11:10 am
I hope clogg is getting paid well..Imagine wasting every day of your life spamming a doomer blog that nobody reads
Poor mobster, has long been driven in the defensive. So the only dialectical defense he has is proclaiming that nobody reads my posts… except of course mobster himself, with foam on the lips.
Our mobster. Wants to finish off white America. From what angle does such a motivation come?
Just found the following article, written by a “self-hating jew”, Gilad Atzmon:
https://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2019/6/24/on-cohsenmess
“On Chosen-mess”
To be chosen is to see oneself as an exceptional creation. It entails blindness to otherness. It is a form of impunity. To be chosen often involves a near or total lack of empathy. Such lack is often defined in terms of acute narcissism and psychopathy.
That’s our mobster alright. No greater joy for his tribe than setting up a country for disaster, be it Soviet Russia and get tens of millions killed in Gulags, or the next victim Germany, gloat about the millions that are going to be killed…
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/bullitt-reveals-in-april-1939-that-war-has-been-decided-upon/
…and afterwards, when the opponent is vanquished and all cities destroyed, set up a kangeroo court and accuse the defenseless of the most heinous crimes…
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/an-embarrassing-discovery/
And now the loyal water carriers of the kikes, the Anglos themselves, are next. The third world intentionally has been brought into the country, the next proletariate the Tribe can use against the hapless Anglos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-Cqkq6zWc
There is a good reason why they were thrown out of 109 places throughout history.
#110
Cloggie on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 4:33 am
In the run-up to Brexit:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7196481/DAN-HODGES-photo-exposed-rift-Team-Boris-Team-Carrie.html
“DAN HODGES: How THAT photo of BoJo and his girlfriend exposed a rift between Team Boris and Team Carrie which could explode inside No 10”
Strange article. What is the proof anyway that Carrie Symonds is still on board with either the Johnson-campaign or even Johnson himself?!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7196665/Sir-Winston-Churchill-GAY-claims-historian-TV-comedy-star-Charlie-Higson.html
“Sir Winston Churchill may have been GAY claims historian and TV comedy star Charlie Higson”
Not sure if he was (WC had kids), and I wouldn’t be surprised, but he certainly was a high-end exhibitionist. The only ones who were not confronted with WCs naked Willy, hanging out of his open dressing gown (if he bothered to wear one at all) where the 2 royals, the rest did, including Roosevelt.
Interesting is that if you scroll down a little in the article, you find a headline:
“Appeasement isn’t a dirty word, says WW2 historian”
It is not possible to link to that headline, it probably was hidden a little intentionally. The entire Capital Lie of the Western Empire and modern world is that notoriously noble Americans, French, British, Polish, Canadians, Australians, Greeks, Dutch, Yugoslavs, Norwegians, Belgians, Danish oh and I almost forgot the most important ones, the Soviets, worked together to stop the Germans (11% global GDP in 1940) from conquering ze wurld. Wasn’t it actually odd that high-end nationalists like the Germans really wanted to conquer the entire world? Normally you would expect them to take back all the precious Jerries that were stolen from them in Versailles and next call it a day with “expansion”. But the last item on the German to-do list, the 97% German town of Danzig, proved to be the trap the Americans used to set Europe on fire and sneakily blame the Germans until today of “starting WW2”.
Now even the DailyMail, in a hidden corner of their newspaper, are ventilating some skepticism against modern day demonization of Chamberlain (as especially practiced by Americans, who had all the interest in “getting Hitler stopped”… so they and their Soviet palls could rake in entire Europe, including the British Empire, by design, as of 1933:)
https://www.nationalists.org/library/hitler/daily-express/judea-declares-war-on-germany.html
The main fault with Chamberlain in the eyes of the Americans was and is that Chamberlain saw through the intentions of the Americans. Can’t have that.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/chamberlain-and-the-forrestal-diaries/
For that reason Chamberlain refused EVER to meet Roosevelt, despite several American invitations, where in contrast Roosevelt and Churchill were on the phone on a daily basis (illegally, behind the back of Chamberlain, plotting for war).
Unrelated, Donnie really doesn’t really want war, but his coterie does:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7196761/Historian-MICHAEL-BURLEIGH-exposes-secret-Mid-East-war-blueprint.html
“Historian MICHAEL BURLEIGH exposes the secret war blueprint Donald Trump’s Iran-hating adviser hopes will set the Middle East ablaze”
Bolton may be a loose cannon but his freelance battle plans are no whim. A power vacuum in the Pentagon has allowed him to co-opt senior advisers from the US Defence Department in devising them. The war blueprint is very serious indeed. And in the current febrile climate, it would not take much to see it enacted – with all the terrible consequences that would ensue.
Read WW3, because in contrast to 2003-Iraq, this time around Russia and China won’t stand idly by.
Theedrich on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 4:42 am
So let’s hope Britannia splits from Europe. That is the only way the hammerlock of Anglos+Americans+Zionissimos on the White world can be broken. Yankeeland’s $22 trillion unpayable debt will help when the piper comes to be paid. America must be severed from the rest of the world, and the end of the dollar as reserve currency will help in that regard.
As regards Davy’s hope that the rank and file of White Catholics will keep Catholicism going under, one wonders where he is getting his numbers from. The Catholic priesthood is a mere shadow of what it was in ~1960, and in the U.S. the bishops are selling everything they can (e.g., cemeteries, empty monasteries, other properties) in order to pay off court fines for the concealed pederasty of past decades. The nunneries have also declined as the nuns have become feminist foghorns. The Catholic Church is being kept financially alive mainly by government grants for “faith-based” anti-White operations such as implanting illegal-immigrant coloreds in every town that can be found. (In this, they are joined by various Jewish and “sola scriptura” Protestant groups also sucking off of the government teat.) Nor need anything be said about western Europe, where Catholicism has virtually disappeared.
The change of the religious foundations of the West portends enormous change for the future. We have entered a phase of widespread agnosticism and anomie, which is a main reason for all of the “virtue signaling” by the elites. The latter are, in subconscious desperation, premissing such actions on the dogmas of a dying religion. The spread of narco-opiates is another sign of the growing ideological vacuum. Marx’s dictum that “religion is the opium of the people” has been replaced by the fact that opiates have become the religion of apostacized people. The ancient shamanic and meditative religion of pre-Christian northern Europe is spurned as not in accord with “American values.” (In passing, in might be mentioned that a free translation of the divine name “Wodan” – Wotan, Odin, etc. would be “Leader of shamanism,” although I won’t go into the etymology of Wod- “possessed” and “-an/-in” “leader, chief” here.)
The fact is, America was founded on the premiss that Christianity’s moral strictures and standards were universally and eternally valid (“…self-evident, that all men are created equal,” etc., etc.), an utterly and demonstrably false dogma, no matter how popular or fervently believed in. This premiss is dying with the Christianity that underpinned it, as is clear not least from the constant racist attacks on Whites about how evil they are because they are White. And never mind the rise of vocal atheist groups and of the “nones” (those who espouse no organized religion).
Not even Trump’s pandering to various religious groups is going to stop this rise in faithlessness. It is a cultural, secular change beyond the reach of the politicians and the oligarchs.
Finally the very word “God” was in pre-Christian times a neuter, not a masculine, word, and derives from Indogermanic *ghu-tó-m “that which is invoked, called upon” (“angerufenes Wesen” – Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Vol. I, Francke Verlag, Bern und München p. 413). It referred to a mystical trance state resulting from invocation by rhythmic chants by shamans. The achievement of that state is today found in some of the Oriental religions. In any case, it currently appears that the West is going to be overtaken by that religion of peace, Mohammedanism.
Davy on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 6:03 am
“As regards Davy’s hope that the rank and file of White Catholics will keep Catholicism going under, one wonders where he is getting his numbers from.”
Where did I say that Thee? I didn’t. What I was expressing is the small perish with its school and community is a very potent source of community that will have strength is a collapse process. I see little future for the opulence and financial corruption of the church hierarchy. I am not into the bible thumping of skydaddy worship. I find deeper spirituality that is honest to the human condition with acknowledgement of what science is telling us. I hardly ever go to church but when I do I respect the community and a 2000 year old tradition. I see it for what it is. I live localism. My nearest church is too far away to fit into that. If it was within walking distance I would participate primarily for the community not the skydaddy worship.
“The Catholic priesthood is a mere shadow of what it was in ~1960, and in the U.S. the bishops are selling everything they can (e.g., cemeteries, empty monasteries, other properties) in order to pay off court fines for the concealed pederasty of past decades.”
Yea but a little on the excessive side Thee. BTW, what do you know about the church anyway? Have you been part of a Catholic community in any way?
“The nunneries have also declined as the nuns have become feminist foghorns. The Catholic Church is being kept financially alive mainly by government grants for “faith-based” anti-White operations such as implanting illegal-immigrant coloreds in every town that can be found.”
Come on Thee I lose respect for your very good insight when you get into extremes. Yea some of this is occurring but not everywhere. You can make a mountain out of a mole hill. I would say Catholic efforts in the third world are likely keeping less people on the move because of the good work they are doing with local communities
“(In this, they are joined by various Jewish and “sola scriptura” Protestant groups also sucking off of the government teat.) Nor need anything be said about western Europe, where Catholicism has virtually disappeared.”
Thee, when is the last time you been to Europe and actually attended a church. There is still plenty of connection to the church and through tradition. The old find hope there and the young get married in the church. The beautiful churches are a place to go and feel the benefits of the spirit just like visiting a mountain top. Thee, get out of your shell and see life differently. It would go a long way to getting you to lighten up. You are playing too much chess.
Davy on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 9:06 am
Humper pumper #9 RED ALERT.
JuanP on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 9:12 am
Humper pumper #9 RED ALERT.
Cloggie on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 10:14 am
Carrie Symonds, the likely ex of UK wannabee-PM Boris Johnson should join the Green Party, or even better use her stardom to start a Green-Right party herself:
https://twitter.com/carriesymonds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_(UK)
Davy ID Theft & Socks on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 10:14 am
JuanP on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 9:12 am
The Truth Shall Set You Free on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 10:17 am
DavyTurd, your thoughts reflect AND project perfectly like a mirror; the subconscious perceptions that are held about the Self. What you fail to comprehend is your frequent bullying and incessant assaults are a perfect reflection of your state of mind and how you feel about yourself on the inside. Your resentment and anger toward others reveal anger and contempt of yourself, rooted in jealously, fear, and a sense of failure with who you are, questioning your ability to aptly compete with others.
Turd, use this knowledge to become more self-aware and introspective. By doing so, you can diffuse inner conflict and confusion and become a pacifist of the mind rather than a bellicose, xenophobic, and hateful Trumptard of the mind.
Clean-up your act, now.
Cloggie on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 10:38 am
Beware of your ex! Nobody is better placed to write an unauthorized biography about you (via a ghostwriter), with a lot of truth in it:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7196765/Thirty-years-night-scared-Boris-Johnson-says-confidante-wife.html
“‘I am still scared of Boris’: Friend of Johnson’s first wife reveals he ‘threatened her over serious allegations about the couple’s private life'”
A close friend of Boris Johnson’s first wife has revealed how he threatened her over serious allegations about the couple’s private life.
Louisa Gosling, now a consultant on data privacy, was a 21-year-old Cambridge graduate in 1989 when she says Johnson’s first wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen sought refuge in her flat late one night… She ended up staying at Gosling’s flat for a number of weeks… She said: ‘Thirty years later – and now I am 51 – I am still scared of Boris Johnson.’… Johnson later reconciled with Mostyn-Owen before they separated in February 1990 and divorced in 1993, just 12 days before he married Marina Wheeler who he had a child with five weeks later…
Gosling said: ‘I just have to speak out to support what others have said about him – that he is a very unfit, unstable, unpredictable, potentially angry, fly-off-the-handle kind of guy.’
Major clash coming up:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7197271/Farage-plots-200-BILLION-plan-rebuild-regions-outside-London.html
“Farage’s plan to rebuild Britain: Brexit Party leader plots £200 BILLION scheme to rejuvenate regions outside London by scrapping the foreign aid budget and HS2 while refusing to pay Brussels’ ‘divorce bill'”
child like behavior from JuanP on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 12:34 pm
Davy ID Theft & Socks on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 10:14 am
JuanP on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 9:12 am
More Davy Sock Puppetry on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 12:38 pm
child like behavior from JuanP on Sun, 30th Jun 2019 12:34 pm