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In the past few days, Los Angeles has been awash in protests, rekindling fond memories of Rodney King, and the long, hot summer of 2020. Well, to be fair, there is a whole lot worth protesting about America 2.0. I mean, what with the overreaching corruption, the taxation without representation, and the crumbling infrastructure.

But those protesting aren’t fed up with the tyranny. Or being taxed to line the pockets of special interests and favored “democracies” like Israel and Ukraine. They aren’t mad at an infrastructure that hasn’t been touched in sixty years. The native Californians aren’t protesting a shortage of water, with the Pacific Ocean right there, and desalination plants having been invented decades ago. They were cool with the way the local authorities mishandled the latest round of endless fires. No, they are protesting about illegal immigration. Well, that makes sense, doesn’t it? After all, we’ve left the southern border wide open for over forty years now. It’s about time! You don’t understand; they are protesting on behalf of our insane open borders policy. They are hopping mad because President Trumpenstein has made some half-hearted efforts to deport a few of them. They love illegals almost as much as they love transgenders.

It’s surrealistic to watch the burning cars and buildings, amid all the Mexican flags waving proudly in the smog, juxtaposed against the smiling multi-millionaire “journalists” assuring us that this is a “mostly peaceful” situation. I’ve seen several mostly peaceful men in masks throwing rocks at passing motorists. What else says “open borders” more clearly than that? Many of these vehicles were police cars. And shockingly enough, not one of the dirty, rotten racist cops stopped their car, turned on the sirens, jumped out waving their guns, and confronted the rock throwers. I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure if I stood on the side of any road in my county, and threw large rocks at a police car, that I’d be extremely lucky to survive to write something witty about it on Substack. And that’s with all my White Privilege and everything. The L.A.P.D. is remarkably patient now, happily enduring any rocks thrown their way.

And then there are the skids of cinder blocks, which were kindly left by some anonymous benefactor, for the protesters to use at their discretion. By an astounding coincidence, the same thing happened during the long, hot summer of 2020, when wheelbarrows full of riot-ready bricks were conveniently deposited in all the right hot spots. Antifa-BLM protesters have all the luck! It’s not like we have security cameras everywhere, that would capture who made the delivery. If the sane forces that still appreciate liberty- you know, the average stiffs getting screwed over royally- ever decided to launch a massive protest, I bet no one would deliver bricks to them. I bet the cops would be really confrontational if those protesters threw rocks at them. Or looted a single store. Looting is pretty much the exclusive province of POC protests. It’s a marginalized persons thing, you wouldn’t understand. Now a patriotic group wouldn’t burn anyone’s car. But if they did…well, police wouldn’t just calmly watch.

This is where we’re at, folks. The people who should have been out in the streets by the millions several years ago, remain scared and prepped behind locked doors. Now, some angry Whites in England tried it last year. It didn’t turn out very well. Some foppish King George III wannabe issued some proper British threats, even suggesting that perhaps he might arrest Elon Musk, over in that one time colony of their empire. And that’s the last that’s been heard of that. As far as I know, England’s immigrants- primarily Muslims who often have “sexual emergencies”- are free to resume their lives of crime, without any fear of being held accountable by the stiff upper lipped authorities. In America 2.0., it’s not Muslims, but Hispanics, who are here illegally and not prosecuted as regularly as U.S. citizens are for violent crimes. And they have been enabled to the extent that they freely wave Mexican flags as they rail against the country that has given them sanctuary. Fancy hotel rooms. Free healthcare.

Speaking of kings, these “spontaneous” uprisings by people who are violently defending the corrupt order will reportedly culminate this coming Saturday, in a “No Kings” series of new protests. They promise to be just as mostly peaceful as all the others. The “Woke” Left is depicting Trumpenstein as someone who sees himself as a king. I’m sure there will be lots of Mexican flags in the air. Mexico has no kings, either. Just a Jewish president. Trumpenstein, meanwhile, had long planned some kind of ridiculous military parade to coincide with his 79th birthday. It’s as if I was right about the Trumpenstein Project, and some director was instructing him, “Just do what people think Hitler would do!” What exactly are we celebrating in any prospective military rally? The fact that we haven’t won a war since WWII? The fact that we are bogged down all over the world in nonsensical occupations? That we’re seemingly on the verge of WWIII, thanks to our “greatest ally” Israel?

That’s the thing about our illegals. They don’t seem very happy here. In fact, they seem pissed off to be here. So then why would you come here? Presumably, you prefer the U.S. to your native land. So why then wave the flag of the country you fled? I don’t have to have a degree in African American Studies to recognize how irrational that is. I’d think that waving the flag of another nation during a protest would be considered an act of war. But not here. We saw lots of Mexican flags being waved during the 2020 riots commemorating the death of lifelong criminal and drug addict George Floyd. The dirty, rotten, racist cops didn’t snatch a single one of them. They were too busy standing down, like our entire defense forces did on September 11, 2001. Some of them even knelt with the protesters. They probably would have serviced them sexually if the Blacks yelled loudly enough. Sometimes, they do protect and serve.

We had a right to expect millions to march in the streets after the 9/11 lie, the creation of Homeland Security, and the passage of the Patriot Act. Nope. Nothing but fired up White people, outraged at former CIA asset Osama Bin Laden, loading up extra American flags to fly from their pickup trucks. For the first and only time in my life, appreciable numbers of patriotic Americans did protest, on January 6, 2021, at the Stop the Steal Rally. I don’t need to remind you how that turned out. All of those patriots, having been assured that the police were on their side- “Backing the Blue.” Met with rubber bullets and tear gas. Beaten relentlessly by the “Blue” they worship. Not a single comrade in uniform. That was a largely organic effort, albeit controlled and manipulated by the undercover agents present at all large demonstrations. I’m not sure if any 2020 Antifa/BLM violent rioter was prosecuted. The J6ers certainly were.

Where are the Catholics and fundamentalist Christians who used to march in pro-life rallies? Shouldn’t they be even madder about the transgender insanity? Why aren’t any pastors, reverends, or priests leading counter protests against all the “pride” and transgender rallies? Aren’t they essentially giving it a nod of approval? How about those Second Amendment advocates? I mean, if they didn’t protest when the world was shut down during the giant COVID Psyop, I don’t think they ever will. Why do they even want their guns, if they aren’t willing to defend themselves against a tyranny greater than the original Sons of Liberty could ever have imagined? Are they on guard against some diabolical skeet force? A sudden onslaught of aggressive deer? The Second Amendment wasn’t established to protect your right to hunt. Or to gather at gun shows. It was to protect you from tyrants. News flash- the tyrants are in charge.

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One of my favorite commentators is the attorney Robert Barnes, who I wrote about Barnes here and here. I have been a member of his Locals channel since its inception. I have also provided monetary support to his 1776 Law Center, which does great work providing legal counsel for “the little guy.” I even pray for his legal success.

Virtually all of the political labels I know of have been misused and abused.

Barnes, a self-described populist, has been criticizing libertarianism (including Austrian economics). My self-described label is reactionary-libertarian. I have learned a tremendous amount from the Mises Institute and have been a contributor to LRC for over twenty years. Thus, I feel compelled to respond to Robert’s critiques of libertarianism, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, anti-tariffs, the Big Beautiful Bill, and government deficits.

This post is a “bar stool rebuttal,” that is, how I might discuss these topics sitting at the bar with friends (see here). Thus, these are more generally stated positions, few links or references providing evidence to specific points. First I will give a short statement of Robert’s positions (in bold and I hope accurately as I listen to hours of his content every week), and then I will provide my rebuttal as I would make it to him while imbibing our favorite beverages and taking into account his own stated beliefs in smaller government.

Tariffs don’t raise prices, are totally benign, and are necessary to protect American workers.

First and foremost keep in mind that tariffs are taxes. They also give power to the government in picking winners and losers. Perhaps in this instance some of the winners will be some American workers some of the time. Perhaps also there will be cases where the foreign provider will not be able to pass along the cost of the tariff so the price of a particular product would not rise. But if the ultimate goal of the tariff policy is to drive the low cost foreign option out of the market wouldn’t that leave only a higher priced domestic option available to the consumer? This process will eventually hurt all workers as they are all consumers. The basic position of libertarians against tariffs follows their position against taxes and against increases in government power. These are positions consistent with what you have stated for yourself. I would like to add, there is much more that could and should be done for American workers in the opposite sense of removing government interference in the market.

The Big Beautiful Bill is critical for the success of the Trump administration and the country by avoiding tax increases and paying for border control. If it does increase the federal deficit, history shows that deficits don’t matter. Thus, Libertarians fighting for a “perfect” bill are utopian, such that Rand Paul and Thomas Massie are wasting their limited political leverage in voting against it.

After sweeping the elections shouldn’t we at least see an effort to stop the  Congressional logrolling that has been a source of so much mismanagement of the country. At a minimum, call it the Big Ugly Bill! Even though this is redundant because all big bills are ugly. Certainly I agree with you that tax increases should be avoided and I hope the border is now under control.

You have said deficits don’t matter (in agreement with Dick Cheney, which should make you squirm). Why do I think deficits matter? Certainly, you agree that deficits matter for individuals, private enterprises and even for other countries. I take your point that it seems that deficits have not mattered for the US since the explosion of the deficit during the last decades. As you have said, this is because we have the reserve currency that can be created at will with no apparent consequences. There is much that can be said that there will be clear economic consequences eventually. But I think there already have been grave consequences. Deficits allow the government to continue to grow, including the empire, without the clear signal to the people of raising taxes. You better than most have seen the reality that the working and middle classes have become poorer and poorer, while the technocratic managerial class, those in control of those deficits, have grown wealthier and more powerful.

The stance of Senator Paul and Congressman Massie is clearly following their model Ron Paul. He might have always lost but were his votes wasted? Millions of people were with you Robert, on Covid and other topics because they learned from Dr. Paul’s principled stands on so many issues. Perhaps it is not Paul and Massie wasting political capital, it is Trump. He should now be in a full battle against the neocon Rinos. That is where the fate of the country and the world resides. Only in his speech in Saudi Arabia did he exhibit his potential for fighting this crucial battle. Furthermore, you have said that Trump needs feedback. You criticize the administration yourself on several counts when you believe they are taking the wrong direction.

Austrian economics is a poor predictor.

This is a large topic that I can only touch on here. My first reading of Austrian economics was the magnum opus Human Action by Ludwig von Mises. One of the key messages that I perceived from this book is that economics is not a science like physics. Human activity is too complex to model with equations determined by studying quantitative statistical “history.” As an engineer reading economics for the first time in particular to learn about the disastrous record of economic modeling, this was a breath of fresh air. In the Austrian economic approach we always say “all else being equal” (often in latin “Ceteris paribus”) if you do this, then that will happen. But there are no controlled experiments and the real information, not government statistical data, is complex beyond the scope of any mind or computer. Timing is intentionally not part of the analysis. Thus, even if people who call themselves Austrian economists make predictions, it is not using Austrian economics that they do so.

Austrian economics teaches that creating money is not creating real wealth (e.g., houses, cars, food, everything real). Thus, when we do see real wealth accumulation among a select few (i.e., Washington Beltway, Wall Street, Silicon Valley) through these kinds of financial machinations (deficits and money creation) you can know real wealth is being taken from others. For me Austrian economics is a scholarly approach akin to the little boy pointing to the emperor’s new clothes. That is why all powerful entities in society try to discredit it. Austrian economics should be the theoretical economic artillery of populists like you.

We will need several more rounds of drinks to understand how and why Austrian economics has been so important for freedom loving people around the world to understand how and why they are under attack. There is also much to be said about Peter Schiff, Eurodollars, central banking, etc. that you bring up in your online presentations. I am ready and will buy the next round.

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Israel’s unjustified and unprovoked attack on Iran early Friday morning, marks the full-on start of a war that is likely to change the face of the region. I mince no words… this is war. But there is a silver lining of sorts — with Israel having to use its air squadrons to launch repeated attacks on Iran and to scramble fighters into the air to try to stop Iranian drones and missiles, the Palestinians in Gaza will get a respite from daily bombings.

So, what is happening? Israel’s initial strike included the use of trailer-truck drones — the same tactic that “Ukraine” used on June 1 against Russia’s strategic air assets. Israel appears to have had more success than the Ukrainians because the Zionist drones carried out some successful assassinations of senior Iranian military leaders and some prominent nuclear scientists. If you think that Israel came up with this idea on its own, you are deluding yourself.

We still do not have a clear picture of how much damage the Israeli bombs/air-launched missiles inflicted across Iran, but the attack was significant in its scale and scope. That said, it did not cripple Iran’s ability to strike back, which it did late on Friday and early Saturday Jerusalem time. Iran also did some significant damage to Israel, reportedly striking Israel’s military headquarters building in Tel Aviv and successfully hitting three Israeli military airfields.

In the world of the so-called international rules-based order, Israel is guilty of an unprovoked attack and Iran, in accordance with Chapter VII, Article 51 of the UN Charter, is retaliating appropriately. Yet, the West is condemning Iran and gaslighting the public regarding Israel’s claim that this was an act of self-defense. Bollocks!

I believe that Israel’s attack was part of a planned international intelligence and military operation, which included the participation and support of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. We got the first clue on May 31, when a UN watchdog issued two reports designed to create a narrative that Iran is a rogue nuclear state:

A report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and sent to member states on Saturday said Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60 percent purity had grown by roughly half to 408.6 kg.

That is enough uranium, if enriched to the 90 percent purity level, for nine nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA estimate.

The second report claims that Iran carried out secret nuclear activities with material not declared to the UN nuclear watchdog at three locations decades ago.

The findings in the “comprehensive” IAEA report “pave the way for a push by the United States, Britain, France and Germany for the board to declare Iran in violation of its non-proliferation obligations,” Reuters wrote.

Using the report’s findings, the four Western powers plan to pressure the IAEA to declare that Iran is in non-compliance with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at its next meeting in June, diplomats told the news agency.

This tactic was employed in 2002/2003 to gin up a justification to attack Iraq, who the US insisted had weapons of mass destruction. We now know it was a lie, but the propaganda was effective in producing support in the US and Europe to invade Iraq. We’re seeing a similar effort today, only this time Iran is being falsely accused of enriching uranium to build a bomb. The Iraq WMD lie, like the current calumny against Iran, only has one purpose… justify military action in order to achieve regime change.

As was the case with Ukraine’s failed attack on Russian strategic air assets on June 1, Israel’s first swipe at Iran was accompanied by AI-generated videos and images, along with breathless reports of massive, profound damage. While it is true that Israel hit a large number of targets in Iran, the attack failed to cripple Iran’s ability to fight back; which is exactly what it did today and will continue to do for the foreseeable future.

I think that Iran has an advantage over Israel when it comes to a sustained military campaign based on air and missile assets. Iran has more drones and more missiles than Israel. Israel, at least for now, is relying on hitting Iran with its squadrons of F-35s and F-16s. Here is the problem: Israel’s air capability will degrade over time as the jet aircraft suffer mechanical failures from extended use and normal maintenance.

As of the most recent data (2024–2025), the F-35 Lightning II requires about 10–14 hours of maintenance for each hour of flight time, depending on the variant and operating conditions. Despite improvements over the past few years, the F-35 still requires significantly more maintenance than legacy fighters like the F-16, which typically needs about 5–6 maintenance hours per flight hour. The total flight time from Israel to Iran’s border, and back, is a little more than three hours. Do the math… every F-35 used to attack Iran will be undergoing maintenance for at least 30 hours. I doubt that Israel will be able to sustain its current operations tempo for more than a week.

Iran, on the other hand, has a clear advantage with ballistic missiles and drones. One tactic that Iran may employ is to fire older missiles and drones in a first or second wave attack in order to deplete Israel’s air-defense system. Iran can then follow up with launches of hypersonic missiles. If Russia, China or North Korea decide to resupply Iran, then Israel’s ability to fend off future attacks will deteriorate.

Russia, according to BORZZIKMAN, has issued a stern warning to the Trump administration. Details of the warning are included in the following video:

The Zionists are in a bind militarily because their defense assets are already stretched to the breaking point. Israel lacks the strategic depth to sustain robust operations in Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon and Syria, while trying to continue launching air assaults on Iran.

This article was originally published on Sonar21.

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Like all opponents of Washington and Israel, Iran proved itself unready.  Muslims never seize the initiative.  They sit on their butts until they are decapitated.  Instead of taking Israel out, Iran suffered a serious attack and then feebly retaliated.  Wars are not won by retaliation.

The mystery is why was Iran unready?  Iran has had years of US hostility dating from the Carter years and decades of observing Washington carry out the Zionist neoconservatives program of eliminating 7 Muslin countries.  Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, with the target now on Iran and Saudi Arabia awaiting in the wings.

Why was Putin unready?  Despite the warning of the US using a color revolution in Georgia to invade South Ossetia, Putin was caught off guard by Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government and installation of a Washington puppet.  For eight years Putin watched the buildup of a large Ukrainian army and failed to build one of his own.  The Russians, Muslims, and Chinese seem incapable of understanding the Wolfowitz doctrine of  Washington’s hegemony, or are they simply unable to face reality?

The Fars News Agency says Iran is planning to attack US bases in the Middle East in response to the Israeli attack, preferring to call Israel’s declaration of war an “attack.”  Planning?  So again the pathetic Iranians announce in advance something they are planning to do so that Washington and Israel know in advance and are prepared to frustrate the attack.  If Iran had been ready, the US bases would already have been destroyed.

The American public never learns either. The American people have been fed a constant diet of war propaganda against Iran for many hears going back to the Carter years in the 1970s when Iranians overthrew the American puppet ruler, the Shah of Iran, and established their revolution, thus depriving the US and the British of control over Iran’s oil.  9/11, an inside job that Washington blamed on Muslims in order to launch wars against seven countries, served to legitimize Washington’s 21st century wars in the Middle East. 

Israel has taken advantage of Washington’s alignment of Americans with Israel’s interest and has been for years in the forefront of encouraging war between the US and Iran for Israel’s gain.

Unlike the attack on Russia’s strategic forces, President Trump cannot claim he was uninformed.  The Jerusalem Post reports that an Israeli government official told the Post that “There was full and complete coordination with the Americans.” See here.

In plain language Washington was involved and has jointly with Israel declared war on Iran.

In his effort to protect US bases in the region from Iranian attack, assuming Iran still has the means and has the will to go with the means, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, “Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.”

George Orwell was right in predicting how words would come to mean their opposite.  War is peace.  And now US Secretary of State Rubio has turned “full and complete coordination with the Americans” into America’s non-involvement.

As Washington was fully involved, why did Washington not tell Israel: “NO!  Trump is trying to get out of one war, not be dragged into another by Israel.”

Obviously, Washington or whoever Washington’s master is–in this case it seems to be Israel–wanted war.

This was obvious from the beginning of Trump’s “negotiations” with Iran. Trump’s definition as determined by his use of “negotiations” is another example of words being turned into their opposite.  By negotiation, Trump means “complying with Washington’s demands.”  

Trump says that Iran is responsible for the Israeli/Washington attack, because Iran was recalcitrant and despite Trump giving Iran “chance after chance” to agree with Trump’s demands, failed to sign  Trump’s “deal.” See here.

In this sentence Trump shows the essence of his view of negotiation: “Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire.”  Apparently, Trump means “the Persian Empire.” 

So, failing to comply with Washington or Israel means war and destruction, or surrender after sufficient punishment. 

Despite this obvious fact, Putin is negotiating over Ukraine.  How reckless will the next attack on Putin-the-Unready be?

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America is more polarized than ever. According to a recent poll 34% of Americans believe civil war is “likely” and 13% believe it is “very likely.” Luxury bunker sales are up with customers citing concerns of “civil unrest”. (DiMella, 2024) Could we be headed toward civil war? If so, how can we prepare for it?

When Societies Fracture

From studying and interviewing survivors of civil war, coups and unrest from different countries, all shared one thing in common. When societies fracture, they do so along political, geopolitical, religious, ethnic, tribal, racial or economic lines. People group up along these lines and those who are not in control (usually, but not always the minority), suffer terribly at the hands of those in control (usually, but not always the majority.) People group up and most of them avoid going outside. If you are in an area controlled by the opposing group, I strongly suggest getting to someplace that is controlled by your people before the checkpoints go up.

Those who fail to get to an area controlled by their people before checkpoints go up typically suffer. Their options for survival are often not good. If they want to survive, they often have to find someone who is not an enemy of those in power who is willing to hide them, or E&E to friendly lines, and the latter is extremely difficult to do in occupied cities. Those who do get out usually do so on foot, through rough terrain, with only what they can carry.

Ivory Coast

Some good friends of ours emigrated from Ivory Coast. Both of them came from well-to-do land owning, families that own farming and livestock concerns. Ivory Coast has experienced two civil wars, the first began in 2002 as the result of a military rebellion and ended in 2007. The second Ivorian Civil War began in 2010, ended in 2011 and was fought over election results. Thousand died in each war. 750K civilians were displaced by the fighting. (Wikipedia, 2024)

The husband told me that during the war, around 30 people took shelter in his home. That is a lot of mouths feed! Imagine cramming 30 people in your home.

The wife told me that she “got fat” because she was unable to go outside. Her home was also packed with people, but they had plenty of food because they own a mango large plantation that grows tons of fruits and vegetables all year round and her father ranches hundreds of head of cattle, as well as goats, sheep, chickens, and has other livestock.

The farmers had to be protected, or the people would starve, so they did what they could to help others. Unfortunately, very few American families own farms anymore, even hobby farms.

Civil War I vs Civil War II

Our last civil war killed 2.5 percent of the population of our nation or around 750,000 people. If the same percentage of people die in our next civil war, 7 million Americans will lose our lives. (Staff, 2016) That would be like losing the entire state of Arizona. However, it is possible that many more could die due to urbanization, globalization, the number of weapons in the hands of the people, the efficacy of modern weapons, and the next level zeal with which the hardcore radical left hates conservatives.

During my lifetime, we have gone from being able to sit down at the same table and share meal to liberals disowning family members they suspect might be conservative, openly calling for the death of conservative politicians, chanting “Death to America” (by Americans, in America!), and now the assassination attempt on former President Trump. (Sarah Rahal, 2024) It could be argued that the first shots have already been fired because the assassination attempt was clearly inspired by the incendiary rhetoric of extremists within the political left.

On some level, these events and this behavior are just incomprehensible to me because it’s so far outside the accepted norms of polite society. On another level, it’s not surprising at all to students of history, nature, and survival. We see it over and over. Cruelty, violence, and hatred resulting from incendiary rhetoric and propaganda. It must not be so hard to use these tools to get a certain type of people whipped up into a frenzy because it happens over and over.

How Does One Prepare for a Civil War?

We cannot know, of course, with any certainty, if or when Civil War II will happen. Mankind has a dismal track record when it comes to attempting to predict the future. Therefore, I’ll leave that to the realm of soothsayers, crystal balls, economics and other pseudoscience.

Sometimes Survival is About What You Don’t Do

So, how do we prepare if we can’t predict the future? The answer is to attain a state of general readiness and antifragility. Get ready for volatility and disruption by figuring our where you are fragile, work to become more resilient in those areas, and then don’t do anything stupid. It’s good to do the work and get prepared, but survival isn’t only about what you do. It’s also what you don’t do.

In a civil war, some of us will have to decide whether join up and fight for our side. Volunteering to go fight in a war may not increase your chances of survival, but sometimes the greater good trumps individual safety.

Another decision we may have to make is whether to shelter in place or bugout. One will improve your chances of survival and the other will diminish it.

Be Ready to Shelter in Place or Bug Out as the Situation Demands

The two main survival strategies are the same for a Civil War as they are for nearly everything else. Either you shelter in place or you bugout. Either one could be the only way to survive a particular threat, so the survivalist must be prepared to do both!

How do you know which to do? When society fractures, you will find yourself in the majority or the minority. Either way, you need to get to someplace your people are in control of. We can’t know precisely what we will be facing until it happens, but we know the general lines upon which societies break up and realign themselves, which I identified at the beginning of the article.

You may be able to see it coming or you may be living someplace where you are already a minority on virtually all counts. You are already in the political, economic, racial, ethic, and religious minority. Or you live someplace and it’s just obvious that the place will go to go sideways the moment the SHTF. If any of these are the case, I suggest relocating now. However difficult it is for you to move now; it will probably be easier than moving post-SHTF.

25 years ago, I lived in Arizona in the Phoenix-Metro area. There was no place for the populace of the Valley of the Sun to evacuate to because there was no place with the infrastructure to support millions of people that could be reached on one tank of gas. Emergency planners understood this, so they didn’t bother working on an evacuation plan. There simply wasn’t one and there may never be one.

Phoenix is low on water and has way more people than it can support. It’s basically an island surrounded by desert. Trying to get out would be like a scene from Mad Max. Staying could be worse. Either way, people would have to compete with each other for water and food in the Mecca of competitive shooting. It would be a bloodbath.

Understanding how easily things could all fall apart, I moved to a smaller community in dairy country in the Intermountain West that should be more stable and self-sufficient. Here, I am no longer in the political or religious minority. It should be more somewhat more stable in volatile times as the valley exports food, there is plenty of water (an anomaly in the West, water flows into Cache Valley from three sides), we are not downwind of any nuclear targets or reactors, and my family is part of the institution. In short, I relocated to a good homesteading location in the hope that it is less likely that I will have to bugout, but I have plans for that just in case.

Bugout

Many civilians are displaced during civil war. Entire towns empty ahead of or during fighting. So, be ready to move.

Being prepared to bugout requires more than a bugout bag.

One of the most important factors in a bugout is to bugout before everyone else does. To achieve that obviously takes a certain amount of preparation, planning, and practice. It also requires having predefined triggers. “If such and such happens, then we pack the truck, grab our gear, and leave.”

Another important factor is having someplace to go. “I’m grabbing my pack and my rifle and heading to the mountains.” Is not a bugout plan. You need a specific destination, and during a war, you may not know which direction you will be able to flee, so you should have multiple bugout destinations and routes in all directions, like the Apache had. They resisted the US Army for over 90 years, which makes their guerrilla campaign a good case study, in my opinion.

As a destination, a lifeboat property or retreat is ideal, but that’s not what most people do. That’s what the wealthy do, but of the cases I have studied, I have found that most people cannot afford that. Instead, they go and stay with family or friends. Those who are unable to do this, often become displaced persons, refugees. If possible, this should be avoided.

You might be more welcome when you arrive at your family member’s house if you show up towing a trailer full of food and medicine. It might also go more smoothly if the two of you had a mutual assistance agreement in place before the disruption.

Shelter in Place

I have read accounts of Ukrainians who left the relative safety of their homes to charge a cellphone, only to never return. The point of sheltering in place during a war is to not give anyone any reason to come into your home and hope that they do not. To do that you’ll need to stockpile supplies so you can stay inside.

Caching

My Viking ancestors prepared for battle by hiding their wealth, burying their hacksilver in the ground. Today people assume they did this as a practical consideration so their enemy wouldn’t capture their wealth if they battle didn’t go their way. They could go dig it up afterwards if they escaped or were ransomed.

After studying their religious beliefs and treasure hoards buried in Gotland, I think there is more to it than that. I think they also buried it to take it with them to the next life. The did the same thing on their farms. The father would bury a hoard, but the son wouldn’t dig it up, instead he buried his own, and this sometimes carried on for generations.

I agree that caching wealth and supplies in case of capture is a good idea.

This article was originally published on EarlKing56.family.blog.

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It’s no wonder Washington is all in. This is now the Circus Ringmaster War.

Let’s cut to the chase. The devastating attack on Iran by the psychopathological genocidal “chosen” ethno-supremacist set up in Tel Aviv – a de facto declaration of war – was coordinated in detail with the President of the United States, Circus Ringmaster Donald Trump.

This infantilism-afflicted Narcissus Drowned in the Pool of his Own Image gave away the game, himself, in a rambling post. Selected highlights:

“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal”. No “deal”; actually his unilateral demands. After all, he torpedoed the original deal, the JCPOA, because it was not his “deal”.

“I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told.” The decision to strike had already been made.

“Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but (…) they are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!” Gloating comes with the territory.

“The next already planned attacks being even more brutal.” Total alignment with the trademark Israeli “decapitation” strategy.

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire”. It was Persian (italics mine) Empire – but after all this is a man who doesn’t read, or study. Notice the Art of Diplomacy: Take my deal, or drop dead.

This – incandescent – decade was launched by an assassination, of Gen. Soleimani in Baghdad, as I emphasized in my 2021 book Raging Twenties. He was on a diplomatic mission. The green light personally came from then President of the United States, Donald Trump.

The mid-Raging Twenties is now hurled to the brink of a devastating war in West Asia, with global repercussions, by the serial assassination of the IRGC leadership, in Tehran, by the psycho-genocidal Zionist entity. After an elaborate kabuki of deception, the green light to Tel Aviv – go ahead and do it – also came from the President of the United States, Trump 2.0 (who claimed he was “aware’’ of the attacks).

A pre-emptive war against the BRICS

The psycho-pathological genocidal masterplan is to force Tehran to capitulate – without even putting up a fight. The preamble kabuki was masterfully executed. The indirect nuclear negotiations in Oman were taken seriously in Tehran, lulling the Iranian leadership, civilian and military, to sleep. They fell into the trap and were caught, literally, in their sleep.

Ayatollah Khamenei – who himself is in physical danger, as Israel is applying the same decapitation model it unleashed on Hezbollah – has a very tough decision to make: capitulation or total war. It will be total war – and with the U.S. as a direct participant.

The Iranian leadership – actually more the Pezeshkian presidency, crammed with proponents of an “accommodation” with the West – was induced into a false sense of security, forgetting that serial killers don’t do diplomacy.

So the price to pay now, for Iran, will be even more unbearable. Tehran will respond – assuming capabilities are still in place. In this case its oil industry runs the risk of being destroyed. It’s an open question whether two other top BRICS members alongside Iran – Russia and China -, for different reasons, will allow that to happen.

And were we about to enter this particular dangerous territory, Iran can play the ultimate card: shut down the Strait of Hormuz and collapse the global economy.

The attack on Iran, fully endorsed by the Empire of Chaos, is above all a pre-emptive attack on the BRICS energy core. It’s part and parcel of the imperial war against BRICS, especially Russia-China. Moscow and Beijing must be drawing the necessary conclusions in real time.

Iran, China and Russia are linked by interlocked strategic partnerships. Last month, I was in Iran tracking the progress of the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), which links Russia, Iran and India. This is only one among a series of key strategic infrastructure projects that will solidify even more Eurasian economic connectivity. A devastating war in West Asia, and a collapsing Iran, will represent a killer blow to increased Eurasia integration.

That’s exactly what suits the Empire’s designs.

So it’s no wonder Washington is all in. This is now the Circus Ringmaster War.

A devastating response; a nuclear weapon; or capitulation

Tehran’s message is, “We did not start the war, but Iran will determine how it ends.”

The burning question is whether they still retain a significant deterrent – and offensive – capacity.

The genocidals are hitting ballistic missile storage systems at will in Iran’s northwest and even civilian Mehrabad airport in Tehran. Air defenses are nowhere to be seen. It’s immensely painful to watch.

IDF spin – nothing verified so far – claims that some missile silos and mobile complexes were destroyed even before they were placed on combat alert. Yet the fact is that the overwhelming majority of Iran’s vast arsenal of ballistic missiles is stored in deep, deep underground silos and tunnels, capable of withstanding massive air strikes and overloaded air defenses.

For the moment, Tehran is eerily silent. That makes sense, because they need, in record time, to re-establish a unified chain of command which was smashed by the attacks; make sure that missile launchers can be deployed and not be neutralized by Israeli air supremacy; reorganize the True Promise 3 operation, which was ready to go, as some of us learned in Tehran last month, but now adapted to the new situation (losses included); and plan how to deliver painful blows to Israel’s economic infrastructure.

There is no evidence that the attacks destroyed Iran’s nuclear infrastructure – which is buried deep underground. As it stands, the leadership in Tehran is learning the hard way that diplomacy – committees, letters to the UN, statements to the IAEA, ministerial meetings – all that is eviscerated when it comes to the law of the jungle.

Iranians were naïve enough to let the IAEA visit their strategic sites, when proverbial spies collected all the info they needed to facilitate Israeli strikes. The DPRK would have never fall into such a trap.

The elimination of a top figure such as Ali Shamkhani, Khamenei’s key advisor, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator, with decades of influence across the IRGC and intelligence apparatus, is a serious blow.

Systematically erasing Iran’s military and diplomatic leadership in a matter of hours fits the rationale of smashing Khamenei’s close circle. That has started long ago with the Trump-ordered killing of Soleimani and certainly includes the mysterious death of former President Raisi and FM Abdollahian in that dodgy helicopter “accident”. It’s all about creating the conditions for regime change.

On a rare auspicious note, the IRGC let it be known, before the attacks, that they have been developing a secret technology to intensify the impact of its missiles on Israel.

We are all riders on the storm now. Once again, there’s no way out: either a devastating blow to the psycho genocidals, or Iran assembles a nuclear weapon in no time. The third option is capitulation, emasculation, and regime change.

Meanwhile, the whole planet is hostage to a lethal threat. Andrea Zhok is professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Milan, and apart from his brilliant analyses, he wrote the preface of the Italian edition of my book Raging Twenties, published last year.

Prof. Zhok has succinctly pointed out how no political construction in modern history has amassed a toxic combination of messianic ethnic supremacism; supreme disregard for human life (everyone else, not “chosen”, is “amalek” anyway); supreme disregard for international law; and unlimited access to lethal firepower.

So what is to be done with such a voracious, out of control death cult?

The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.

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“If any, question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied*.”

My children and your children, my grandchildren and your grandchildren, first and foremost and above all else belong to God, the Father of all, who by His will drew them out of eternal nothingness for a time and for eternity, and for a purpose. You and I have been blessed with them to nurture them ever more deeply into the image and likeness of the Father of all, who created them in His image and likeness. As Catholics and Christians we wholeheartedly believe , ” Christ Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God” (Col 1:15). As Catholics and Christians we have also been infinitely blessed with Jesus’ “New Commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.” Therefore  as Christians, who are parents and grandparents, we know, via Jesus, God Incarnate, what kind of God that God is, and we know via Jesus’ teaching by word and deed what God expects. This is why the Catechism of the Catholic Church (sec.1970, 2822)  says of His New Commandment  that it “contains the entire will of the Father as it should be done on earth and is done in heaven.”

The Christian has his or her guide for parenting or grandparenting  and it is not primarily Dr. Spock or Mr. Spock. It is Jesus, God Incarnate, as the ultimate guiding norm to which all other norms and values in raising a child are subordinate. That the Catholic and other mainline Churches  calculatingly hide, as well as they are able, the Jesus of the Gospels who teaches a Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies, even lethal enemies, and refuse to teach how individual Christians and Christian communities across two thousand years have work to live faithfully to this teaching of Jesus is a hellish blot on all the institutional Churches. Those Churches who chose to lie by intentional omission about the past nonviolent history  in the Church, thereby create in the minds of their membership a future for the Church that is a brutally violent mirror image of the violent institutional Church of the past for 1700 years. As the Institutional Church has traditionally been, so it will be in the future But, this is not the image of God that “Christ Jesus who is the visible image of the invisible God” left for His Church’s imitation and proclamation—and it is not the image and likeness of God bestowed without exception on each person by his or her Creator.

There is no way that my or your children or grandchildren are going to have the slightest serious idea of the true image of God that they are and that they are called to become, nor are they going to have the slightest serious idea of the Nonviolent Jesus in their minds or of His active presence in the Church for 2000 years via any mainline institutional Church’s catechesis. If the true image of God and the Gospel image of the Nonviolent Jesus is to be theirs to embrace and to live from and for and to, You and I as parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles have to present it to them. Otherwise tomorrow’s Trumps or Bidens, Netanyahues or Putins, will make our sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters their homicidal utensils in the hands and at the service of the economic and political elites and their disordered desires of achieving power, wealth and glory by inflicting pain and death on any and all others who get in their way.

So Christian Fathers (and Mothers) it appears that home-education is the only way that those whom you dearly cherish will ever have access to the Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospels and His Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies as the truth about the image and likeness of God and as the truth about God’s Son and all God’s sons and daughters.

One homeschool or parish starter program in Gospel Nonviolence that I know of is Our Golden Thread, www.ourgoldenthread.org . It has been in use for many years and comes with a plethora of suggestions and materials including the ability to contact someone who has taught it for many years for assistance. There is even a detailed video giving an idea of how to use the materials. Just watching the video can be enlightening.

My limited awareness, but not total unawareness, of materials and programs that are out there for teaching your children or grandchildren, or even the neighborhood kids, properly and accurately Gospel Nonviolence are not to be found in the religious education materials available in the Catholic or other mainline Churches. If nonviolence is dealt with at all in the religious education programs of the  of these Churches, it will be as a political civil disobedience tactic and not the way, say, St. Maximus the Confessor** dealt with it, beginning with the reality of God all the way to the smallest intentional human choice.

I would therefore suggest looking for further home education materials in Gospel Nonviolence from the religious education offerings of the Churches sometime referred to as “Peace Churches,” i.e. Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Bruderhoff etc.

But fathers and grandfathers, please do something to begin to nurture our Divine Father’s true image and likeness as revealed by, through and in His Divine Son Jesus in your children and grandchildren, and to stop the brutish, vile, ugly, evil images, value systems and disordered desires of self-glorifying murderous, avaricious, predatory men from capturing and enslaving your child or your grandchild’s mind.

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Late on June 13th, AntiWar.com headlined “Official: US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Ahead of Attack: An Israeli official said Tel Aviv received a ‘clear green light’ for the attack from Washington” and provided official sources confirming the truth of the conclusion that Scott Ritter had reached earlier in the day: “America is at war with Iran.”

According to Ritter, the U.S. now is actively engaged, and participating with Israel, in a regime-change war against Iran.

Here is a relevant interview of Scott Ritter from 2008, when the “regime-change” man, GW Bush was President, and which displays that Trump’s having campaigned as being the peace-alternative against Biden/Harris was mere lies by him, which had fooled millions to vote for Trump (as-if the U.S. Government isn’t a two-Party dictatorship by America’s political mega-donors):

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https://shepherdexpress.com/news/features/bush-administration-knows-full-well-nuclear/

https://archive.ph/C4SEg

“The Bush Administration Knows Full Well That There Is No Nuclear”

A Shepherd Q&A with weapons inspector Scott Ritter

BY LISA KAISER, SEP. 12, 2008, copyright 2008 by The Shepherd Express newspaper

Before the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter claimed that the vast majority of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction had been destroyed or accounted for. Yet the Bush administration invaded anywayand found no WMDs.

Five years later, it’s deja vu all over again, only this time the target is Iran.

Ritter is concerned that the Bush administration will bomb Iran because it claims that Iran seeks to build nuclear weapons and therefore poses a threat to the United States.But, just like before the invasion of Iraq, inspectors have found no evidence to back Bush’s claims. Ritter says that the Bush administration has offered no proof, either.

Last week Ritter spoke in Milwaukee (sponsored by Peace Action Wisconsin) and at Fighting Bob Fest about Target Iran. Before his talk, he answered some questions about the Bush administration’s goals in the Middle East and what it means for the next president.

Shepherd: You’ve written that the war with Iran “is on,” that it’s already under way. I think people would be surprised to hear that the United States has gone beyond the planning stages to actually being at war with Iran.

Ritter: I ask all Americans, “What would constitute an act of war against America? What actions would a nation have to do before we said that’s war?” Again, I would imagine, if a nation sent commandos into our cities to blow up bridges, I would say that’s an act of war. If they sent terrorists in to assassinate our political leaders, I would say that’s an act of war. If they sent in proxy military forces to blow up trucks and kill soldiers, that’s an act of war. If they violated our airspace to gather intelligence that would be used in a military strike, we would say that’s an act of war. We’re doing all of this against Iran.

Shepherd: Why is the United States taking such an aggressive stance toward Iran?

Ritter: In the post-Sept. 11 world, the Bush administration has defined American interest in the Middle East as being one which involves what we call “regional transformation,” to transform the region into a manner which is more in keeping with the goals and the objectives of the United States. That includes regime change of nations that we deem to be incompatible with the United States’ vision of what the region should be like. Iraq fell into that category. Syria falls into that category. And Iran falls into that category. Iran is a nation that we have labeled a rogue nation. We have said that our policy against Iran is regime change. This is what’s going on. This is the larger picture in which the statement “we are at war with Iran today” should be viewed in. This isn’t something out of the blue where Americans can say, “Why would we be doing that?” Something has been going on for some time.

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Shepherd: The Bush administration is saying that Iran has a nuclear program and it must be stopped before it can develop nuclear weapons.

How accurate is that?

Ritter: I think that what the Bush administration is saying is that Iran has a nuclear program that the Bush administration contends is geared toward nuclear weapons.

There is no doubt that Iran has a nuclear program. Iran doesn’t deny that. Iran is permitted to have a nuclear program under the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which Iran is a signatory power to. Iran has signed what’s called a Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], which allows more nuclear inspectors to operate inside Iran to monitor Iran’s nuclear program.

So it’s not that Iran is trying to do something in secret. Iran has declared its program and has subjected it to international compliance inspections. And, indeed, the last technical report of the IAEA inspectors says that Iran is in full compliance with its obligation to the Safeguards Agreement.

The Bush administration, however, contends that there’s no justification for the Iranian nuclear program other than to develop technology that is used in a nuclear weapons program. […] The thing here, though, is that the Bush administration has produced no evidence whatsoever to back up its rhetorical claims. So we have a problem here.

As a longtime intelligence professional, one of the things we do to judge intent of any party is to examine past patterns of behavior. When you take a look at the Bush administration and the clear example of Iraq, where the Bush administration lied, exaggerated or misrepresented claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction for the purpose of implementation of the policy of regime change against Saddam Hussein, I would say that today the same pattern is being repeated.

The Bush administration once again is lying, exaggerating or misrepresenting the data on Iran’s nuclear program, contending that it is a weapons program. Not because the Bush administration is concerned about Iran’s nuclear program. Believe me, the Bush administration knows full well that there is no nuclear weapons program in Iran. Just like they knew that there were no active WMD programs in Iraq. They’re simply using this as a cover for their broader policy objectives. In the case of Iraq, that was getting rid of Saddam Hussein. In the case of Iran, it’s getting rid of the theocracy.

Shepherd: Is Iran a threat to the United States?

Ritter: Iran doesn’t pose a threat to the United States in any way, shape or form. It has some ballistic missile programs. If I were an Israeli I might be concerned about Iran’s ballistic missile programs, just like Iran is concerned about Israel’s ballistic missile programs. There’s nothing illegal about Iran’s missile program. We can’t sit here and say that because Iran is developing a missile with the range to hit Israel at the same time that Israel has a complete arsenal with the range to hit Iran, that somehow it is Iran that is the global pariah.

I think the best thing to do about any nation’s arsenal in that region is to take measures to instill stability and confidence-building measures so that people don’t feel the need to build these expensive weapons pro grams. But the best thing the United States can do would be to seek to actually enter into discourse with Iran. Right now we’ve isolated Iran. We’ve refused to talk to Iran. This is absurd.

Shepherd: Many people argue that Bush won’t bomb Iran because he’s a lame duck. Do you agree?

Ritter: I go off-of past patterns of behavior. And we also have to talk about intent. It is the intent of the Bush administration to achieve regime change in Iran. They may not be able to achieve that in its totality in their remaining time in power. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t still have this objective.

I think the big concern right now isn’t that the Bush administration is going to launch this massive invasion of Iran. The big concern of the Bush administration is that come November the American people very well may pick a candidate who is going to deviate meaningfully from the track undertaken in the last eight years by the Bush administration. Again, this is where we have to take a look at past patterns of behavior. In 1993 the last executive order given by George Herbert Walker Bush was for the U.S. military to bomb Iraq. [So far as I can determine, that allegation was false. Other than in this instance, I have never found him to have fabricated an allegation.] The reason was that there was much concern in the outgoing Bush administration that the new Clinton administration would deviate meaningfully from the Bush administration’s Iraq policy of regime change. Bombing Iraq, a limited airstrike nevertheless, [would have] tied the hands of President Clinton so that the first action he had to deal with in regard to Iraq was war, was that we were bombing Iraq.

I’m very concerned that this same pattern may very well repeat itself if Barack Obama is elected president, that the last executive order of a lame duck president named George W. Bush might be for the military to launch a limited airstrike against Iran. Then Barack Obama now finds himself boxed in with limited maneuver room, having to view Iran as a threat and having to deal with the consequences. In 1993 there wasn’t much the Iraqis could do. If we bomb Iran, however, the Iranians can and probably will do some severe retaliation, which only expands the conflict, thereby guaranteeing that Barack Obama is not only trapped but will probably continue the policy objectives of the Bush administration. This is what concerns me.

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The always reliable Larry C. Johnson, at his excellent Sonar21 site, headlined on June 14th “The Silver Lining in the Dark War Cloud Over Iran”, and observed: “In the world of the so-called international rules-based order, Israel is guilty of an unprovoked attack, and Iran, in accordance with Chapter VII, Article 51 of the UN Charter, is retaliating appropriately. Yet, the West is condemning Iran and gaslighting the public regarding Israel’s claim that this was an act of self-defense. Bollocks!” He went on to say:

I think that Iran has an advantage over Israel when it comes to a sustained military campaign based on air and missile assets. Iran has more drones and more missiles than Israel. Israel, at least for now, is relying on hitting Iran with its squadrons of F-35s and F-16s. Here is the problem: Israel’s air capability will degrade over time as the jet aircraft suffer mechanical failures from extended use and normal maintenance.

As of the most recent data (2024–2025), the F-35 Lightning II requires about 10–14 hours of maintenance for each hour of flight time, depending on the variant and operating conditions. Despite improvements over the past few years, the F-35 still requires significantly more maintenance than legacy fighters like the F-16, which typically needs about 5–6 maintenance hours per flight hour.

Here is an excellent summary of the current situation as-of the present moment:

https://theduran.com/iran-warns-us-trump-deception-but-wants-diplomacy-tucker-calls-out-warmongers-graham-warns-india/

“Iran warns US. Trump deception but wants diplomacy. Tucker calls out warmongers. Graham warns India”

A more in-depth summary, as-of now, comes from Alexander Mercouris, who makes clear that Iran is far better-equipped for a lengthy war with Israel than Israel itself is; so that if Israel is to win, that would need to happen soon; and he also mentions that all of the (Sunni) Gulf Arab Governments — despite their having had major disagreements with (Shiite) Iran — are blaming Israel NOT Iran for this war, which means that if Trump will “go all the way with Israel” on this, it will be done at enormous cost to the United States. However, I do not at all believe Mercouris’s allegation (at 39:11 to 40:00, and then extending all the way to 50:00) arguing (against the view by Scott Ritter and others) that there was no “supposed deception operation that um the United States and Israel launched against uh Iran which explained why Iran was caught by surprise by this Israeli attack.” It was over ten minutes of unpersuasive speculation unworthy of him. He went so far as to say there that Trump is not such a “Machiavellian character” as to do a thing such as that. Even a genius can be idiotic about some things, and I think that Mercouris is idiotic about Trump, who actually is evil.

The main concern about this matter (the Israel-Iran war) is not merely which side will win this war, but whether it will escalate to WW3 between Russia and the U.S. The U.S. is already in the war alongside Israel, and publicly committed to the death of Iran’s Government, but Russia is not — yet — committed to the death of Israel’s Government. However, if BOTH countries turn out to be equally committed to opposite sides in this conflict, then that would mean WW3. This does appear to be a fight to the death now between Israel and Iran, but not yet clearly between America and Russia — which war then both would lose, because it would be WW3. This was, in any case — like George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq was — a war of choice by the U.S. Israel would not have done it without America’s commitment to it. Iran and Russia are responding to it. The evil Governments in today’s world are the ones that are allied with America’s Government, which has taken on the mantle that Hitler’s Government had had in WW2.

Obviously, in the U.S. and its colonies (‘allies’), only a small percentage of the public recognize this reality, which had started on 25 July 1945.

This article was originally published on Eric’s Substack.

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After a half-hour ride from the Serena Hotel, our driver stopped shy of the Nairobi airport.

“Everybody out!”, he insisted.

Perplexed at this odd order, we exchanged glances.

“Are we there?”, we wondered.

“No. You must walk thru security”, he said while pointing toward a roadside structure. “I’ll meet you on the other side.”

“Do we bring our bags?”

“No. Bring nothing.”

Confused, we walked off… realizing we’d left our passports and valuables with a total stranger on a Nairobi bus. I kept an eye on it as we entered the small building beside the road.

I’d retained my wallet and phone, which I placed on the conveyor as I walked thru the detector. As it did for everyone who preceded or followed me, the screener beeped incessantly… like a fire alarm in an active volcano. With nary a glance, the indifferent “guard” waved us thru.

Re-boarding the bus, we rode further… into a collection of cars resembling cattle crammed in a crowded chute.

Having ridden as far as we could, it was time to walk. We dragged our luggage around the lot, about half a mile toward the entrance to the airport.

At the door, we endured another checkpoint. Passports were examined. Shoes and belts had to come off. All possessions and bags went into a bin. Having entered the concourse, we checked our luggage, and proceeded toward the plane.

Around a corner, we scanned our boarding passes to clear a turnstile. After we did, we joined another line… which carried us thru security again!

Same drill: passports out, belts removed, shoes off, bags conveyed, pockets emptied, questions asked. Having passed thru, repacked our bags, and gotten re-dressed, we approached the last leg of this endless gauntlet.

At the gate, we were forced again to present passports and brandish boarding passes. Receiving clearance, we finally made our way on the plane. I half expected the stewardess to check ID before I could take my seat.

Twenty-three hours later… after a five-hour layover in Paris… we landed in Atlanta.

Sipping Sludge

We’ve spent several weeks assiduously avoiding the news. I was hoping that tendency would harden into a habit.

But… like a recovering alcoholic hopping off the wagon…. when we hit the tarmac I grabbed my phone, popped the cork, and started sipping the sludge we’ve managed to miss.

Like a mild hangover, we nursed remnants of the fading tiff between Trump and Musk. I couldn’t get too worked up about the fight. It seemed irrelevant, like something designed to throw us off the scent.

We were gone only two weeks, and almost missed the entire kerfuffle. By the time we read about it, even the antagonists didn’t seem to care.

This reminded me that we’re manipulated to consume “news” that’s a deliberate distraction. Whenever such silly stories dominate headlines, it’s wise to wonder what important topics aren’t being discussed.

Within a few days, we had some answers. The largest landed in the Middle East.

Enormous Albatross

So much for “no new wars”. Since Trump took office, conflicts have continued in the Ukraine, resumed in Yemen, persisted in Gaza, and (now) started in Iran.

Each atrocity is conducted with American weaponry, funding, assistance, and consent. None were approved by Congress, and all would immediately stop if U.S. support ceased.

Yesterday, financiers, munitions makers, and other warmongers got their wish… when the state of Israel attacked Iran. In the White House, Israel’s puppet says the United States will “defend itself and Israel, if Iran retaliates.”

Last night, Iran did… as any country would after being attacked. Tehran lobbed missiles into Tel Aviv, affirming the Mideast theater of the Third World War.

The first act opened more than a decade ago, across the Bosporus. How long till it bridges the Atlantic, and opens on Broadway? Or in Boston… or Boise… or Birmingham?

And for what? Some intractable skirmishes six thousand miles away?

The U.S. has no responsibility to defend Israel or the Ukraine, and would have no reason to “defend itself” if only its reckless government minded its own business.

America’s “greatest ally” is an enormous albatross. It does nothing to enhance our prosperity or security. To the contrary, it compromises both, by cultivating endless enemies we don’t need.

Its prime minister is a war criminal. Its government corrupts our congressmen, interferes in elections, foments ruinous wars it expects Americans to fund, spies on its benefactors, and exposes them to deadly attacks (including from itself).

Right to Exist

We often hear of Israel’s “right to exist”. But no government, including Israel’s, has a “right” to exist… and no foreign regime has a claim on American lives and loot to ensure it does.

Did the Syrian government not have a “right to exist?” How about Libya? Afghanistan? Iraq? The Carthaginians? The Confederacy?

What about Iran?

If not, why not?

But even if Israel had such a “right”, why is it Americans’ job to preserve it? How does the existence of a small Mid-eastern country benefit residents of Mid-western states?

If Israel went away, what difference would it make to the average Oregonian, Arkansan, or Michigander? Aside from fewer wars ending the lives of their sons and extinguishing the value of their dollars, would they even notice?

American money and military should only defend American borders and citizens. It’s astounding this even needs to be said.

Propagandists like Douglas Murray insist that American survival is contingent on Israeli existence. As Murray put it regarding Islamists: “One of the reasons they go for Israel is they realize that if you take this out, you cut the tree at the root.”

This is self-evidently preposterous. If anything, the dependency works the other way. Obviously. Contemporary Israel isn’t the Israel of the Bible. It sprouted from European Zionists planting themselves into Palestinian soil.

The United States existed for almost two centuries before modern Israel was proclaimed. Europe has survived even longer. Despite the deficiency, they did just fine.

Especially Imbecilic

War with Iran is manifestly moronic. Unlike Syria, Libya, Kuwait, or Iraq, Iran isn’t some artificial construct carved in European boardrooms. Persia is a large country with an ancient pedigree. And a proud one.

Stupid as American involvement would be at any time, it’s especially imbecilic now. The United States is a deeply divided union, overrun by unassimilable aliens, cultural conflict, and more than $100T in unfunded liabilities. Unlike in 1917 or 1941, there’s no support for a stupid war.

To the contrary.

Donald Trump inherited a mess (partly from himself). But, as in the Ukraine, he now owns this disaster. He came to office with as much political capital as any president in recent memory. And he’s squandering all of it.

He could’ve and should’ve requested Congress (where his worthless party has a slim majority) rescind all funding to Israel and the Ukraine. Let those countries commit suicide on their own dime.

But the president hasn’t done it because he doesn’t want to. He’s no different than his predecessors he pretends to loathe.

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Jesus condemned and mocked both the Sadducees and the Pharisees, for they were man-made cults of hypocrisy and abuse. Today’s Sadducees are the progressives, a la Mike Lewis and in general Bergoglioism. Today’s Pharisees are the traditionalists, a la, Kennedy Hall and Peter Kwasniewski, as well as the so-called conservatives, a la, Eric Sammons. These represent the superficially opposing but deeply similar counterfeits of authentic magisterial Catholicism whose trademark is ideological idiocy: lgbtq advocacy and hell is not eternal, on the one hand, and men are superior than women and the Novus ordo is evil, on the other. The evil spirit in both is one of disobedience, pride, and elitist supremacy.

Catholic traditionalism is now (perhaps it had a more redeeming purpose in the past) nothing but the sociological and online emergence of an elite inner circle cult, a self-justifying arbitrary fake aristocracy. Its purpose is nothing other than the completely unjustified assertion of and complacence in spiritual superiority. It’s the product of neurotic, scrupulous, narcissistic, insecure souls—fueled by pride—and it is nothing else than neo-Phariseeism. Jesus harshly condemned it when He was on Earth, and He does so today from Heaven. Listen up Kennedy Hall and Tim Gordon, Peter Kwasniewski, and other trad losers. I am not judging or condemning anyone personally here, except the cult leaders who know better and are self-serving asses.

There is just the magisterium, pre and post 1965, just the Church, just the dogmatic teachings, and just the approved liturgies. Preferences are permitted among what is optional, so preferring the TLM does not make one a trad cultist, and preferring the Novus Ordo does not make one a bergoglion heretic. But rejecting the magisterium after 1962, and refusing to be in communion with those who don’t, like, say, Theo Howard and the SSPX, and rejecting the magisterium before 1962 and refusing to be in communion with those who don’t, like say, Mike Lewis, does make one a heretic and schismatic and thus outside the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.

And it’s not just outright magisterial rejection that makes one a schismatic and a cultist. It’s also suspicion of the magisterium and its official judgments and decisions. One will only accept it if it meets with one’s approval. This is not religious submission of intellect and will. And then there is the magisterium that both trads and progressives invent in their sick minds and sub cultures. It’s a sin to go to the Novus ordo. It’s a sin not to have four or more children. It’s a sin to treat your wife as an equal instead as an inferior human being. It’s a sin for a mother to ever work for money and contribute to the household. It’s a sin to say the Divine Mercy chaplet. Ad nauseum and infernum. For the Bergoglions, it’s a sin to condemn sodomy.

While your typical mainstream Novus Ordo parish liturgy and culture evinces irreverence, emasculating music, and no sense of the supernatural, feeling less like a ritual sacrifice than a celebration of the community, with hardly any talk of sin (unless it be wokish ones) and the possibility of damnation, and with the “presider” acting like a gay clown and entertainer; your typical TLM-only parish is gloomy, guilt ridden, scrupulous, Calvinist, misogynistic, inner circle, cultish, 4 plus children or be ashamed, reactionary, fear-based, coercive, schismatic, uncharitable, snobby, joyless, judgy, dour, and sad. Priests are impersonal, neurotic, and arrogant, superior to you and needing to be treated that way, with confessions that are abusive, and homilies that are either shaming and guilt-inducing, or just scapegoating cheers for the in-crowd.

Of course, there are parishes, priests, and lay people, both NO and TLM, that evince none of these ideological toxins, but they are the exception. Catholic discourse and subcultures, both “left” and “right”, are becoming more and more ideological. A typical “Trad” now means a neurotic and prideful ideological Pharisee who thinks having 4 or more children (which he makes sure to tell everyone every other day) and treating his wife like a a child-slave makes him superior and gives him a ticket to heaven, and who despises the Novus Ordo and thereby commits the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. But the anti-trad discourse and subcultures are just as rotten, making a worldly and godless woke mockery of the Faith. Where are the normal Catholics?

Here’s a prime example of trad ideology: fertility Calvinism. Trophy wives is evil. But trophy # of children is much worse. Nothing wrong with having many children, if it is a decision made with full, non-manipulating consent of wife and husband, and based upon Prudence. It’s not ok if the ideology behind the decision is “God demands that we have as many children as we can and as fast as possible!!” That’s neurotic and fanatical Pharisee trad ideology. Or even worse if the motivation is to be part of the “cool club.” Or fertility Calvinism: “Look, we have 4+ children! (4 in the magic number). We are part of the elect!”

Do you think you are a better Catholic because you have more children? Do you look down on, say, a family of “only” 5 and think—“mid” Catholic? Do you cite the number in your bio as if it were a resume builder? Do you mention it at least once a day so people know you’re a real Catholic? Always the last line on the bio—“John Supercatholic is the father of 8.” Why do we need to know this? Why not just “John is a father and husband”? Father of three? Not so much. That’s shameful in these circles. Best not to mention it. Chesterton Academies, which are authentically classical and robustly Catholic and thus doing great work for God and neighbor, are, nevertheless, notorious for having staff bios that always culminate in the 4+ number of children brag. If it’s less than that, and they mention the number, it’s only because the couple is very young. It’s as if you can’t work there unless you have four or more children, or are a young couple aiming for the magic 4+.

Any excuse to announce their # of children on X: “Man, tough flu this season, All SIX of my children got it.” Not “All of my children got it”—never that. You’ll notice that Catholics in these circles or who aspire to be in them with “only” three children hardly ever announce their # because of shame, it’s just mid. It shows that you’re secular and don’t really love children for their own sake and use NFP and don’t trust in Providence or whatever.

“Good afternoon candidate. You’re here to interview for the editor position of Trad Magazine. I have some questions for you. I’ll ask the most important one first: How many children do you have?”

“Gee, only three. But I’m a good Catholic and I know my stuff and I’m published and….”

“Well you’re 40 years old and you should at least have four children by now—three is just not gonna cut it. We have competition you know. The editor of John Paul II the Heretic has 10 children and he’s only 30. Now that’s a Catholic. Next!”

Seldom discussed, however, is the utter depravity of many of these big Catholic families, with neglected and abused children, many of whom act out later in life and lose the faith, or become neurotic cultists, and tortured, mentally ill mothers. But the externals look holy! The children become aware that they are valued more as trophies or resume builders or as tokens of a neurotic Calvinist compulsion to insist that one is of the elect or better than “those Catholics.” Devastating. No one deserves hell more than those who use our Holy Religion to serve their will to power.

And you can’t challenge anyone on this. They just hate you for exposing it, or they think you’re just jealous because you’re not in the fertility elite. It is precisely the Phariseeism that enraged Our Lord. And it leads to hell. In short, anyone constantly tells you in person or in print the number of children he has (if four or more, of course) is an obnoxious and insecure and holier-than-thou Trad ideologue neo-Pharisee. “Look, I’m a real Catholic, a member of the fertility elite.” No, you’re a bizarre Catholic Calvinist replacing fertility with worldly prosperity. Good for you for having a large family, if that’s indeed what God wanted for you and your wife. But knowing many dysfunctional large Catholic families with abused wives and neglected, thoroughly neurotic children, perhaps some NFP was in God’s plan. “But no, NFP is Vatican II! And I wouldn’t get to be in the elite 4+ children club!”

Erudite (and not so erudite) ideologues use their redoubtable rhetorical skills and high IQs to manipulate the audience into thinking just as they do, not to help us realize the truth for ourselves. This is propaganda. Catholicism is turning into an ideology. It’s not an ideology, of course, but the Saving Truth, but these toxic personal and online subcultures cloak and counterfeit Catholic Reality. Where are the authentically Catholic communities?

I would just like to be Catholic. Where are my people? Where is my home?

This article was originally published on Children Beware of Idols.

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The last American military parade that I saw was the inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 – not counting my days in the US Army.  It was a hell of a show. What impressed me the most was the giant M65 203mm Atomic Cannon that was wheeled up Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue.

I was also deeply impressed by Gen. Eisenhower. There was no huff or puff with him, no wildly inflated claims, no bluster, no efforts to lay the groundwork for a military-run regime. None of what the Soviets used to call ‘Bonapartism.’  Just a real soldier who served America proud and became our finest president of modern times. I still like Ike.

But I also detest militarism and fake patriotic warmongering.  Every spring I walk the blood-soaked battlefields of World War I in France and am sick at heart by the botchery and stupidity of the first great modern war.  Having been a GI and covered 14 wars and conflicts as a news correspondent, I hate all form of militarism, flag-waving and patriotic oratory.

Except one!  France’s Bastille Day Parade on 14 July.  Much as I’m an ardent anti-militarist, few things thrill or move me as much as seeing France’s massed soldiers and fire-fighters marching down the lovely Champs Elysée, and the thunder of hooves of the armored cavalry of the Republican Guard. What a magnificent spectacle. It reminds me of what another great president, Thomas Jefferson, said: `every man has two homelands. His own, and France!.’  Who has a beating heart that cannot be moved by the mighty strains of La Marseillaise, France’s national anthem, which was originally called ‘the War Song of the Army of the Rhine.’

Bastille Day marked the beginning of democracy and human rights for the world.  The French Revolution also brought the Terror and Napoleonic Wars, but it was still an epochal moment in mankind’s history.  Without great amounts of financial and military aid from France, the United States might not have gained its independence. Today, it might still be ruled by the same bunch of nincompoops in London who have brought Great Britain so low.  Ironically, France’s gross overspending on supporting the American Revolution led directly to its own revolution of 1789 that overturned its monarchy.

This week will see a newly minted military extravaganza in Washington whose real purpose is to glorify a president who avoided military service in Vietnam due to a questionable foot problem.  As a veteran, this fake triumphal parade leaves me feeling unwell.  Militarized politics – just what recent past presidents have avoided.

I had been accepted to do a PhD at Britain’s Cambridge University that would have kept me out of military service.  But in an admittedly Quixotic act, I enlisted in the Regular Army to serve in the infantry in Vietnam.  Fate kept me in the US, teaching senior officers strategy and tactics. But I had at least done my duty as a citizen. In retrospect, Vietnam was a lousy, unjust imperial war, but I had served my country which had given a new life to both my parents.

I limped through Army basic and advanced infantry training with a broken bone in my left foot.  Unlike our current commander in chief.

I wish the government would spend the estimated $45 million ear-marked for this ego fest on wounded veterans.

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David Scot Knecht wrote:

Dear Lew,

Did the Constitution fail? That depends. Of course it did, if its stated purpose was the actual purpose. But what if the actual purpose was not do secure liberty for the hapless subjects of the state, but to reduce it? Of course if you are trying to get a Constitution ratified, you dare not say that out loud. So that notion never appeared in The Federalist Papers!

Pardon the cynicism, but the Constitution obviously had political utility to its generation of politicians. It rewarded many with the political briar patch they sought.

Thanks for the good you have sown. May many generations reap.

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