Jeremiah Babe, 8/13/25
"It's Getting So Bad People Are Living In Our Backyard"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
"Foxes, Morons and Oxymorons"
"Foxes, Morons and Oxymorons"
by Joel Bowman
“Government is the great fiction through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
~ Frédéric Bastiat, from "The State" (1848)
Miami International Airport, Florida - "Clowns to the left of us... jokers to the right... and a center that cannot seem to hold. What a weird and whacky world we live in! Here’s the latest, from The Wall Street Journal: "The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics." President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into economy. Like our dear readers, we too suffer the popular presses with a wry smile. That is to say, we read the papers more for comedic value than for any special insights. Rarely are we disappointed.
Continues the Journal..."A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America’s. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China. Recent examples include President Trump’s demand that Intel’s chief executive resign; the 15% of certain chip sales to China that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices will share with Washington; the “golden share” Washington will get in U.S. Steel as a condition of Nippon Steel’s takeover; and the $1.5 trillion of promised investment from trading partners Trump plans to personally direct.
This isn’t socialism, in which the state owns the means of production. It is more like state capitalism, a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises.
TDS vs TDS: As mentioned before in these Notes, there’s TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) and then there’s TDS (Trump Devotion Syndrome). Roughly equal and opposing forces, they tear the world’s most powerful republic to the right and to the left, stretching the middle until it’s so threadbare it’s practically transparent.
One group – the “deranged” – thinks the man is a lunatic, a narcissist, the Führer of the Fourth Reich. Everywhere they look they see men in brown shirts, come to arrest their gardener... party poopers at the pride parade... and funny police here to cancel their mirthless comedians. It is these roomy craniums, premium Democrat real estate, in which Trump is said to live, “rent free.”
Meanwhile, the other cadre – the “devoted” – sees before it a different figure altogether. For these folk, Trump was spared a bullet by the very same hand that delivered the World Cup to the ‘86 Argentine soccer team: “la mano de dios.” (The “Hand of God.”) To them, The Donald is here on earth to practice the “art of the deal” on America’s enemies (and friends), to tax and tariff at will and whim, and to personally deliver America’s economy unto the land of milk and honey... forever and ever, amen.
As to which faction shall prevail, we do not pretend to know. We only observe, with unfashionable dispassion, that “State Capitalism” does not boast an enviable track record, whether the commands emanate from an alleged Democrat, a so-called Republican... or a proudly independent crackpot. Of course, that hasn’t stopped many a “chief commander” from trying...
Public Disservice: The 20th Century began with Teddy Roosevelt, who laid the “antitrust” groundwork to go after the so-called “robber barons” of the day... and William Howard Taft who used it to take down America’s richest man, JD Rockefeller (who only grew richer as a result)...
Then came Woodrow Wilson, perhaps the biggest intervener of all, who not only dragged a weary nation into “The War to End All Wars,” but also found time to establish the National War Labor Board, the Food Administration, and the Fuel Administration, as well as bringing the country’s railroads under federal control. A ceaseless, compulsive meddler, Wilson also instituted the Federal Income Tax (under The Revenue Act of 1913) and unleashed the Frankensteinian abomination, known as the Federal Reserve, the very same year.
Barely had the Founding Fathers time to roll in their graves when along came another World War... and another interventionist busybody in the portly personhood of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Emerging from the chaos of the Great Depression, like a cold sore after a spring break party, FDR offered America more of what got them into trouble in the first place; massive state intervention.
As well as heavy wartime economic controls, resource rationing, and industrial mobilization, FDR’s “New Deal” brought with it centrally planned disasters in the form of massive public works projects, banking regulations, agricultural subsidies, not to mention Social Security, now the single largest line item on the federal government’s balance sheet.
Next came President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who oversaw massive expansion of Social Security, vastly increased federal involvement in public schools (through the National Defense Education Act of 1958) and rolled out the Interstate Highway System (1956), the single largest public works program in US history to that point. (Because, without the government, we’re all on a road to nowhere... right?)
Fast-forward to Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the whole Vietnam fiasco... then came Nixon’s shock, followed by price and wage controls and the final abandonment of gold-backed money in favor of the fiat house of cards we see today...
President Ronald Reagan promised a “Prouder, Stronger, Better” nation for all... but “Morning in America” was over before brunch, as the national debt nearly tripled under Reagan’s watch, soaring from about $998 billion to $2.85 trillion by the time he and Nancy left the White House.
Foxes, Morons and Oxymorons: So far, the Third Millennium has seen America in a constant state of warfare abroad and welfare at home. Presidents Bush and Obama oversaw the disaster that was the Global Financial Crisis, rewarding the pinstriped perps not with jail time, but with a never-ending acronym salad of handouts and corporate welfare, including Bush’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which saw hundreds of billions of dollars syphoned from Main Street and pumped directly into Wall Street.
Then came the Covid Hysteria, almost certainly the result of a lab leak from a US government-funded research facility in Wuhan, China, which gave the feds the pretext – first under Donald I, then Joseph Biden – to take control of the economy in a way that would have made the aforementioned meddlers blush. And all the while the bombs fell overseas – on Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya... and most recently, on Iran.
Yes, dear reader, “State Capitalism” is nothing new; even if the concept itself is an oxymoron. Stay tuned for more Notes From the End of the World..."
Dan, I Allegedly, "U.S. National Debt Hits $37 Trillion"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 8/13/25
"U.S. National Debt Hits $37 Trillion"
"Breaking news: the U.S. national debt has hit an eye-popping $37 trillion five years earlier than expected! In this video, I break down how we got here, why it's happening so fast, and what it means for all of us. From the impacts of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to the skyrocketing military spending and unprecedented COVID-era programs, our financial future is at a crossroads. I’ll share why this debt spiral poses a threat to generations to come, what Elon Musk and others have said about it, and how gold and other hedges might be your best financial defense. This is a must-watch if you're concerned about the economy, your financial stability, and what’s next for the U.S. government."
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Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World"
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Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Is our Milky Way Galaxy this thin? Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the spiral galaxy's boxy, bulging central core cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace NGC 4565's thin galactic plane.
An assortment of other background galaxies is included in the pretty field of view. Thought similar in shape to our own Milky Way Galaxy, NGC 4565 lies about 40 million light-years distant and spans some 100,000 light-years. Easily spotted with small telescopes, sky enthusiasts consider NGC 4565 to be a prominent celestial masterpiece Messier missed."
"I Hope I End Up..."
“I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don’t want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, “Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case.” I will turn and say to them, “It is you who are the basket case! For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn’t even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!” And maybe, the passersby will drop a coin into my cup.”
- Henry Rollins
"Even This Was A Lie..."
“They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie – that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
- Lauren Oliver
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Of course some view life in a slightly different context...
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"Al Swearengen Rant 'Vile Task'"
"Swearengen has an early morning rant to his favored hooker Tricksy. Life for this saloon/brothel manager in 1870s Deadwood, Dakota Territory can just be "one vile f**king task, after another."
Free Download: Albert Camus, “The Plague”
“Everyone knows that plagues have a way of recurring throughout history, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in the ones that crash down on us out of the sky. There have always been plagues and wars, yet they always take us by surprise. When war breaks out people say it’s stupid and won’t last long. Stupidity has a knack of getting in the way, which we would see if not wrapped up in ourselves. In this our townsfolk were like everybody else – they did not believe in plagues.”
- Albert Camus, “The Plague”
Freely download “The Plague”, by Albert Camus, here:
"I Reveal Myself..."
“At this point I reveal myself in my true colors, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold a number of beliefs that have been repudiated by the liveliest intellects of our time. I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven’t changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history. History is ourselves.
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people’s feelings, by satisfying our own egos. And I think we should remember that we are all part of a great whole, which for convenience we call nature. All living things are our brothers and sisters.”
- Kenneth Clark, “Civilization”
"The Big Moment Has Arrived – Why The Meeting Between Trump And Putin Will Be One Of The Most Important Events In Modern History"
"The Big Moment Has Arrived – Why The Meeting Between Trump
And Putin Will Be One Of The Most Important Events In Modern History"
by Michael Snyder
"Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are about to make decisions that could radically alter the trajectory of human history. When they meet in Alaska on Friday, the stakes will be incredibly high. If they are able to agree to some sort of a deal, the world will rejoice. But if the meeting goes badly, there will be immense pressure on western leaders to militarily intervene in Ukraine in order to prevent Russia from taking as much territory as it wants. At the moment, Russian forces are moving forward quite rapidly. If negotiations can stop them, western leaders will be thrilled. But if talks fail, the conflict in Ukraine will dramatically escalate, and that will put us dangerously close to nuclear war.
On Wednesday, President Trump was asked about what will happen if the Russians do not agree to end the war. President Trump responded by warning that there will be “very severe consequences”…"US President Donald Trump promised “very severe consequences” on Russia if its President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to end his war in Ukraine during the two leaders’ meeting on Friday. “There will be consequences,” Trump just said during an event at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Asked if that meant new sanctions or tariffs, Trump demurred. “I don’t have to say,” he said, adding only: “There will be very severe consequences.”
This was not a wise thing to say just before such an important meeting. As I have stated over and over again, threatening the Russians will not work. If Trump insists on making threats, it will backfire severely. The Russians have already said that they are willing to end the war, but they want certain things in return. Of course what the Russians have proposed is not acceptable to the Ukrainians or to our European allies at all, and that is not likely to change any time soon.
A virtual conference that included Trump and leaders from all over Europe was held on Wednesday, and President Trump felt that it went very well…"The president joined a call earlier on Aug. 13 with Zelenskyy and European leaders, two days before Trump’s one-on-one summit with Putin in Alaska. Trump is trying to push Moscow into a peace deal that Kyiv and its allies fear will include the loss of significant territory seized by Russia in its three-year war on Ukraine. “I would rate it a 10,” Trump told reporters on August 13 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. “Very friendly.”
Zelenskyy was in Berlin for the virtual conference hosted by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that included the leaders of Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, the European Union and NATO. Vice President JD Vance was also expected to join the portion that included Trump.
Following the virtual conference, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made it exceedingly clear where our European allies stand…The German leader said Ukraine would need a seat at the table if peace was to be reached in Ukraine, and that he told Mr. Trump he would speak to him after his Alaska meeting with Putin. “We want to make sure that the right chronology happens: that there is a ceasefire and that there is an agreement that is discussed after that,” he said. “A legal recognition of Russian ownership of this territory cannot happen. There have to be robust security guarantees. The sovereignty of Ukraine has to be respected. Negotiations have to be part of a larger transatlantic strategy, and has to be part of necessary pressure on Russia.”
Merz added, “If there is no movement on the Russian side, we and the U.S. have to put more pressure on Russia. President Trump knows this position and largely agrees with it, and we had a good conversation with each other.”
Merz obviously does not want a peace agreement to happen, because there is no way that the Russians are going to agree to any of that. The Russians are not going to give one inch of the territory that they have taken in the five provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea back to Ukraine. In fact, the Russians want Ukraine to hand over all of the territory that the Ukrainians are still holding in those five provinces. If Ukraine is not willing to hand over all of that territory, Russia will simply take it. That is the Russian position, and they see no reason to compromise because they are clearly winning the war.
When asked about Trump’s suggestion that there could be some “swapping of territories”, the Russians made it very clear that this is a non-starter…Russia pointed to its constitution in response to a remark by U.S. President Donald Trump that there would likely be a “swapping of territories” in a deal to end Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Trump is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday to discuss a peace deal. Territorial control is a key issue. Russia has seized about a fifth of Ukrainian land in the east. Ukraine controls no Russian territory. Asked about Trump’s suggestion that Russia and Ukraine could swap land, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Alexei Fadeev said at a news briefing on Wednesday that there was “no need to even invent anything territorial.” “The structure of the Russian Federation is enshrined in the Constitution of our country,” Fadeev said, originally in Russian. “That says it all.”
The Russians also want Ukraine to be permanently banned from joining NATO. This is something that the Ukrainians and our European allies are adamantly against. So I have no idea why so many pundits think that a deal is possible, because the two sides are not even in the same universe when it comes to what an acceptable deal would look like.
Ahead of the meeting on Friday, the White House has been trying to play down expectations… “This is a listening exercise for the president,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Aug. 12. “This is for the president to go and to get a more firm and better understanding of how we can hopefully bring this war to an end.”
I give Trump credit for being willing to sit down with Putin. The window of opportunity for a peaceful solution is almost closed, and so let’s hope that this last-ditch effort is successful. Because if it isn’t successful and we get to the “very severe consequences” phase, that will have massive implications for all of humanity. 20 years ago, if someone told you that a day would come when the only thing standing between us and nuclear war would be Donald Trump, would you have believed it? But here we are. The meeting in Alaska on Friday really will be one of the most important events in modern history, and the fate of our society is hanging in the balance."
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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 8/13/25
"Pepe Escobar: A Pre-Alaska Analysis"
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"Dolby Vision 12K HDR 240fps: Experience the Unbelievable Nature"
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"Dolby Vision 12K HDR 240fps:
Experience the Unbelievable Nature"
"Experience the unbelievable beauty of high-quality HDR 12K 120fps Dolby Vision with the URSA Mini Pro 12K. This video showcases the stunning capabilities of this camera and Adobe HDR technology, delivering unparalleled visual excellence. Whether you're a filmmaker, content creator, or tech enthusiast, this video will leave you in awe of the power of 12K resolution."
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Astonishing!
"The Worst Of Them All"
"Science may have found a cure for most evils,
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings."
- Author Unknown
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"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination - indeed, everything and anything except me."
- Ralph Ellison, "Prologue to Invisible Man"
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Phil Collins, "Another Day In Paradise"
"Debt, Junk Food & Aliens - What's Happening to Us?"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 8/13/25
"Debt, Junk Food & Aliens -
What's Happening to Us?"
"Hey everyone! It’s Dan from I Allegedly, and today we’ve got a lot to talk about—Debt, Junk Food, and even Aliens! Did you know that past-due bills are at a near 10-year high? From rising car loans to student loan debt showing up on credit reports, we’re diving into the financial struggles so many people are facing. Plus, I’m sharing insights on how junk food is impacting health and even contributing to the rise in colon cancer. Oh, and let’s not forget the wild prediction about aliens possibly visiting Earth in just over 110 days - are you ready for that?
We’ll also discuss crazy car tech that could let hackers control vehicles, the collapse of iconic companies like Sears and Kodak, and some questionable airline practices. There’s so much happening, and I want to hear your thoughts! Are you feeling the pinch in your finances? Would you trust a robo-taxi or an electric car? Let me know in the comments."
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"When We Have Time..."
“How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.”
- Charles Caleb Colton, “Lacon”
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“The problem is, you believe you have time.”
- Buddha
Gerald Celente, "The Meek Have Not Inherited The Earth, The Geeks Have; Smart Phones? No, Slave Phones"
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Gerald Celente, 8/12/25
"The Meek Have Not Inherited The Earth,
The Geeks Have; Smart Phones? No, Slave Phones"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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"The End Of Free Will"
"The End Of Free Will"
by The ZMan
"The late polemicist Christopher Hitchens famous quipped, “Yes, I have free will; I have no choice but to have it.” He was addressing the paradoxical nature of free will in that even if it were an illusion, and we could somehow figure that out, we would be forced to carry on as if it were real. Everything about how we understand ourselves as human beings, and how we get on with one another, depends on the assumption that we have choices and we make those choices freely.
The reason for that is our societies and even our own minds are organized around prescriptive requirements, not descriptive ones. Sure, we know not to step off a roof as the facts tell us we will accelerate toward the sidewalk below, until we reach the sidewalk and suddenly decelerate. It is that rapid deceleration that kills us and that is a fact not subject to opinion. The reason we believe it is immoral to jump off a roof or kill yourself in any other way has nothing to do with physics.
Suicide is a choice. In Western societies at this point in time, making that choice, regardless of the circumstances, is immoral. In other times and other places, suicide was an honorable option. The Japanese used to treat ritual suicide as an honorable end for a man who faced a disgraceful end. The West used to have the idea of leaving a doomed man alone with a bottle of whiskey and revolver. The former was to gain the required courage to use the latter for the honorable act.
As an aside, this is why the liberal project was doomed from the start. It assumed that there was a universally correct way for humans to organize their societies. We could use reason and observations of nature to arrive at the correct way we ought and ought not act and how we should and should not organize our societies. We can reason our way to a set of universal moral principles. Then we can reason our way to building a society around those moral principles.
The liberal project, all of the ideologies that have spring from it, assumes that human beings are programmed to work best in a specific sort of society. We naturally function at our best within a specific set of rules. If we can figure out those rules and then figure out how to impose them, man will be liberated from the oppression of having to live against his nature within a hostile set of rules. This is the goal of libertarianism, anarchism, communism, progressivism and so on.
This brings us back to the issue of free will. Ideologies fail, because they assume that once the rules are imposed, people no longer have to make choices between the things they desire. Free will is no longer be necessary. Even if free will is an illusion, however, it is one necessary for us to be human beings, rather than moist robots. There is something about the nature of man that requires the belief in free will. Without this illusion, if that is what it is, we cease to be human and cease to exist.
It is probably why we lack the language to discuss the descriptive world in purely descriptive terms. You see that in this post by W. M. Briggs. He is taking on a post by former physicist and current YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder, who tries to argue that free will is a myth and you should stop believing in it. As Briggs notes, her language, even when discussing the laws of physics, is prescriptive. Even when we think descriptively, we end up using prescriptive language.
This crackpot notion that we would be better off if we chose to not believe in free will is not new to Sabine Hossenfelder. Like all such arguments, the first person to think about it was the first man with enough free time to waste some of it on contemplating pointless questions like do we have free will? Idle hands do the Devil’s work and the best proof of that is philosophy. Everywhere there have been idle hands we find the philosopher and Hell follows with him.
Of course, free will is a slippery concept. There is libertarian free will, which argues that for any choice we make, we could have chosen otherwise, even if all of the conditions that could impact our decision were identical. For example, you chose to arrive at work on time, but you could have arrived earlier or later, even assuming some negative or positive consequences to the choices. Like so much of libertarianism, this makes sense if you forget that humans live in societies with other humans.
The other form of free will involves morality. Often, oaths have a line where the person taking the oath testifies that he is taking the oath of his own free will. In criminal proceedings we differentiate between knowingly committing a crime and inadvertently or accidentally committing a crime. The driver who purposely runs down a pedestrian is treated differently from the person who does so while trying to avoid a group of school children because of our notion of free will.
Both conceptualizations of free will are most likely illusions, like much of what we think we understand about the natural world. What we think of as physical reality is probably a simplified illusion of reality. Our brains evolved to conceptualize the parts of reality we need to understand in order for our genes to advance to the next round. The concept of free will is just another item in the toolkit. Even our ability to question our conceptualization of reality is probably an illusion.
That is the problem with Sabine Hossenfelder’s argument. Whether or not free will, however defined, is a real thing does not matter, other than it being a useful topic around which to build a post. Whether you believe it or not does not matter, but once you decide to act as if it is not real, then you enter the world in which it is perfectly acceptable to remove the people who cannot fit your model of society. In the end, every ideologue must reject free will in order to pull the trigger.
That is the end of the free will debate. The age of ideology has taught us that in order to have societies that accommodate human nature, we must choose to organize ourselves as comes naturally to use. That means leaving others to organize themselves as comes naturally to them. Once you start down the path of rejecting free will, you end up on the road that leads to industrial slaughter and the menticide that now promises to extinguish the Western world.
We have free will and if we did not have it, we would have no choice but to invent it as it is the only way we can live as human beings. That means we have a choice as to how we organize ourselves. We must collectively choose our metaphysics and our morality and choose how we deal with those who undermine our choices. Those who choose otherwise, in effect, choose not to be us. Therefore, we have the choice to exclude them from us, even choosing to use force if necessary."
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"Eckhart Tolle: Free Will"
"6,000 Years On The Wheel"
"6,000 Years On The Wheel"
by Paul Rosenberg
"We can call this one an experiment...The life that has been gifted to us is old… more than 6,000 years old. It began before recorded time, on the plains of Mesopotamia. There it was that the race of men was regimented; it was there that they learned to be ruled. For this gift we happily accepted compliance, drudgery and selflessness. We learned to take our places in large and complex hierarchies, knowing that our slots protected us from the evils that lay without.
And so we taught our children to give authority the benefit of every doubt, to do as everyone else does, and that outside was naught but shame and destruction. Regimentation, we carefully taught them, was the path to paradise.
We learned to shut our minds when we thought the shameful and forbidden thought, that our way was wrong in some fundamental way. We recognized that thought as treason itself, and we turned away from it.
Our way, we knew, was the only way, and there could be no other.
Our way is a small group of men directing the rest to the things they must do, and punishing those who do it not. Their work is therefore righteous, and only the deranged and impious could conceive otherwise.
It is the way, and there can be no other.
Our small and sanctified group collects the sacrifices of the large group, and leads us into the best of all possible worlds. Even when we suffer, we know that nothing better is possible.
It is the way, and there can be no other.
Our way is spacious. It allows us to labor, and has gifted us with ORDER, the greatest of all gifts. More than that, it has given us entire classes of overseers for our benefit, which have remained constant over six millennia.
It is the way, and there can be no other.
And so we live in hierarchical structures, each level of which confers upon its occupants a certain level of status… status they will fight for all their days. We can never rise as high as a ruler, but we can rise higher than our neighbor. And so we run on the Order’s power wheels, always striving to outpace our neighbor.
It is the way, and there can be no other.
We are proud to obey people who are no better than ourselves: it means that we value the Order above ourselves, and that makes us good people. This is our work, always running for the benefit of the Order, yet forever staying within it.
A wheel within the Order is where we run, ever-faster, to the glory of the Order.
Should we imagine that we were built for creativity and expression, we close our thoughts and run all the harder; we will not commit treason against our way.
The wheel is where we belong, and there is no other.
We question nothing within and we doubt everything without. This makes us true and approved creatures of the Order… unblameable supporters of the Order.
The wheel is where we belong, and there is no other.
Eventually we grow old and tired; we slow down and soon enough die. But we are comforted, knowing that we spent our lives… spent our all… continuing the Order.
Because there can be no other.
We ran forty or fifty or even sixty years on the wheel, passing our competitors, and so no one can criticize us. We ran well, forever sacrificing our own will and remaining faithful to the Order.
The wheel was the place we belonged, and there could be no other."
Adventures With Danno, "What's New at Sam's Club?"
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Adventures With Danno, AM 8/13/25
"What's New at Sam's Club?"
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Prepper Alert, 8/12/25
"10 Surprising Grocery Items That
Will Disappear Before Start of September"
"Discover the top 10 surprising grocery items that are expected to disappear from shelves before September 2025. This video highlights essential food products, favorite snacks, and pantry staples facing shortages or discontinuation."
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1. Premium Vanilla Extract
2. Some types of rice (jasmine and basmati)
3. Cooking oils, Sunflower oil, Vegetable oil, Soybean, Canola, Olive oils
4. Specialty Coffee Beans
5. Tea - more severe crisis than coffee
6. Bread Flour- All purpose flour plentiful, but price increases.
7. Black Pepper
8. Laundry Detergent
9. Nuts and nut products
10. Aluminum Foil
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