Some Stuff I Think You Might Like #7
A regular round-up of all the best articles, videos, and podcasts that probably didn’t make your newsfeed.
My first glimpse of America - or at least, my first glimpse of America as a newly minted green card holder - came amid the dying embers of summer 2020, that three-month orgy of state-bankrolled thuggery which Seattle Mayor, Jenny Durkan unironically described as “The Summer of Love.” Quite literally, as my plane dipped below the clouds, a smattering of fires could still be seen smoldering in the streets beneath, my elderly Korean co-passenger ignoring the cabin crew’s instructions as she leaned across our shared armrest to snap a commemorative photo.
Of course, we all knew the riots were going to come again this year. In the Dems defense, how else are they going to distract from their systematic demolition of the country? Admittedly, I think most of us expected this annual temper tantrum to be ignited by the deification of another felonious crackhead but remarkably, the left’s latest cause du jour not only matches the moral bankruptcy of George Floyd mania, it far, far surpasses it:
Needless to say, the MSM will be cheerleading this grotesque spectacle throughout. This is a summer, as sure as the election was rigged, which promises to see Don Lemon, Joy Reid, Brian Stelter, Anderson Cooper, and Rachel Maddow first excusing and then eulogizing the brazen criminality of Molotov-wielding abortion-enthusiasts, and while we should have no hesitation calling these professional shit-stirrers for what they are, neither should we allow ourselves to be sucked into their narrative.
After all, these assholes are no longer just apologists for BLM. They are reviled as enablers of everything from elementary school groomers to mass immigration, from ten dollar per gallon gas and now to reckless disregard for human life, all of which is still but a small fraction of the reasons why people are instead tuning in to independent content creators such as these:
1. The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
Michael Oswald’s contention is a remarkable one. What the writer, director, and producer of this documentary contends is that, at the twilight of the British Empire, bankers, lawyers and accountants from the City of London set up a spider’s web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and funnelled it to London. But not London as a whole. Rather, this money was funnelled into the City of London, a medieval, square mile-sized entity dominated by medieval guilds and corporate interests. Michael Oswald’s powerful and accessible film show the extent to which the British government operates its financial policy more or less in collusion with the City of London – contributing to inequality at home and abroad.
2. Five False Assumption of Liberalism - Carl Benjamin
On the face of it, it would seem that merely pointing out five false assumptions with liberalism to be a remarkably charitable interpretation. Certainly, whenever you consider the unhinged ramblings which pass for mainstream leftism these days, it is clear there is far more than just five false assumptions within liberalism. The liberalism the article discusses, however, is instead the liberalism of the likes of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, individuals
Indeed, what Carl Benjamin is doing, himself an alt-media stalwart, is addressing howthe philosophical shortcomings of the original liberal thinkers presented an opportunity for groups like LGBT, Black Lives Matter etc, to co-opt the ideology For its own ends.
Worse still is the way this conceives of the human being and their life. What is the reason that we are here? Who is in possession of our lives? Equality of opportunity, and its corollary in equality of outcome, appear to have conscripted us into a universal and abstract system that demands we give up things we justly earned, or the family we rightfully inherited, and our agency as free human beings, only to satisfy an abstract principle upon which we may not agree. I do not believe we are put on the Earth merely to serve the perspective of a universal ideal; if my life is inconvenient because I worked hard and so created an inequality to which a liberal theorist objects, then so be it. This is not justification enough to deprive me of that which is rightfully mine, nor that which is rightly for anyone else.
3. The Psychology of Totalitarianism (Part One) - Harrison Koehli
A short time ago, I mentioned an interview with Dr. Mattius Desmet, probably the foremost authority on the phenomenon of Mass Formation Psychosis. As anyone who is familiar with his work will know, he is integral to understanding the insanity we’ve seen played out over the last few years.
And I will get round to reading his book. However, until I have the time, this review gives a great rundown into all the various high notes.
Desmet contrasts traditional dictatorships, which rely on “the creation of a climate of fear amongst the population,” to totalitarianism, which, having its roots in mass formation, produces “totalitarized” behaviors such as “an exaggerated willingness of individuals to sacrifice their own personal interests out of solidarity with the collective (i.e., the masses), a profound intolerance of dissident voices, and pronounced susceptibility to pseudo-scientific indoctrination and propaganda”
4. When "Experts" Get Toxic: Tessa Lena Talks to Johnny Vedmore
When I was writing my latest article, I relied heavily on the work of Johnny Vedmore. He is a Welsh investigative journeys who digs into the backgrounds of the prominent western politicians, uncovering the most remarkable and suspicious of connections. One of the things most beneficial to my article was his interview with Tessa Lena (Tessa Fights Robots) in which
This is not that interview. Instead, this is their subsequent one, in which Tessa and Johnny go deeper into
Audio is a little questionable.
5. Europe’s Death Rattle (Part One) - John Waters
As one of the the very, very few journalists in Ireland to have questioned the wisdom of lockdowns, vaccines, the European Union, climate change, Ukraine, and as he focuses on her, immigration, John Waters has been in the receiving end of a lot of abuse from the establishment. These have been of the variety you’d expect: racist,
, to just straight up callous. In this first part of a lengthy series, John dispels all of these, describing in terms compassionate to all involved, the tragedy of mass immigration: the culmination of a longtime plan, a global calamity of food scarcity, due to Covid measures and 'sanctions', will soon cause record numbers of mainly African migrants to enter Europe seeking food.
The government of my own country, Ireland, has for two decades been stealthily importing significant numbers of migrants (increasingly from Africa) to comply with UN and EU directives that nobody was given an opportunity to discuss and which the media and churches appear to have been enlisted and incentivised to support by, firstly, a policy of evasions and public silencing, and latterly providing covering fire that targets anyone who dares question what’s happening as ‘racist.’ At roughly one-fifth, the (officially admitted) proportion of non-natives living in Ireland now is, after twenty years of a largely stealthily organised influx, more or less equivalent to the proportion of immigrants who have settled in the UK in sixty years of the same approach.
6. The Geopolitics of Green Energy - The Evolved Psyche
And that’s not even the end of the problem. Even in those countries where the government is enlisted in the agenda of the globalist faction of the managerial class, notably the larger ones, which have their own sources of dinosaur juice, those reserves are under the ground in the parts of those countries which are among the ones most openly antagonistic to the managerial liberal agenda: think Texas in the U.S. or Alberta in Canada. There is indeed sufficient pattern here to speculate about whether there’s something about living above large dinosaur juice reserves that inclines a people to being more nationalist and sovereigntist: i.e., problematic for the expanded global EU vision of managerial liberalism.
7. Darwin, Morality and Evolutionary Thinking - L.P Koch
As a millennial, one of the most striking things about my “education” (if one can even call public school followed by college
, is that it
What this article does is give a good description of a process
It is a process which is occurring repeatedly as more of us wake up to the reality that while religion and watered-down spiritualism can indeed be a means of control, a state of enforced moral relativism is every bit as oppressive.
The main error the proponents of a Darwinist, “scientific” explanation of morality seem to commit, is that they trace morality exclusively to the supposed struggle for survival and its history. However, I would argue it’s rather that our morality must obviously be compatible with the survival of the species. But this doesn’t mean it is driven or created by it.
If we didn’t love our children, for example, or promoted suicide as a virtue, we simply wouldn’t be here. Whatever our purpose is, whatever is going on, it couldn’t be fulfilled without our species surviving in one form or another. In other words, survival and reproduction are merely necessary conditions for everything else. But this doesn’t mean at all that this “everything else” doesn’t exist, and indeed might not be of much greater importance.
8. Some Shameless Self-Promotion
When I first came up with the idea of this series, I originally conceived it as part of a six part series, each instalment dedicated to one individual who has helped shape the WEF founder.
The more I read, however, the more I think it could be extending it.
It is incredible to see some of the people who have helped shape Schwab, but in this episode, I focus on his father, a decorated Nazi collaborator and man who would give Klaus his start inside the business of tyranny.
Under the management of Eugen Schwab, and with the benefits of being headquartered in an officially neutral nation, Escher-Wyss enjoyed the enormous profits which came with assisting the Nazi war effort, supplying the Wermacht with everything from flamethrowers to parts for fighter planes. In a less immediate sense, the company was also integral to Hitler’s quest to build an atomic bomb (manufacturing, as it did, elements necessary to production), and yet, despite Escher-Wyss’s evident importance – despite even its status as a “National Socialist Model Company” – Ravensburg was left entirely untouched by Allied bombing campaigns. The reasons for this are still much debated.
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