[RealClearWire] In mid-October 1983, a "sordid little Leninist dictatorship" on the Caribbean Island of Grenada crumbled, resulting in the British Commonwealth country’s takeover by a more-leftist military junta. The situation immediately raised concerns in Washington regarding the potential for a large-scale hostage crisis in addition to the threat of regional instability within the Cold War’s context.
From 1979 to 1983, the revolutionary Grenadian government, led by Maurice Bishop, established close ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Probably its most important project was the construction of an international airport with a 9,000-foot runway. The government stated the airport was for tourism, but, inexplicably, the hotels to support the anticipated increase in visitors were lacking. Tellingly, the Point Salines airport on Grenada’s southern coast was to be capable of handling Soviet military aircraft. President Ronald Reagan called Grenada "a Soviet-Cuban colony being readied as a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy."
On October 19, 1983, Bishop — considered not leftist enough by some of his fellow Marxists — was murdered. Within days, Reagan approved the chairman of the joint chiefs’ recommendation to develop plans for possible hostilities on the island, should the Grenadians and/or the Cubans — 450 of the latter were building the airport — oppose a U.S. evacuation of its citizens. Of greatest concern to the Reagan administration was the presence of several hundred medical students on the island. It feared "another Tehran" — referring to the hostage crisis in 1979-80 that contributed to President Jimmy Carter’s failed reelection bid.
On October 25, 1983, an eight thousand-member U.S.-led coalition force invaded Grenada. Its objective was to "conduct military operations to protect and evacuate US and designated foreign nationals from Grenada, neutralize Grenadian forces, stabilize the internal situation, and maintain the peace." To no one’s surprise, the operation was one-sided and short — most hostilities ended within 72 hours — but it was somewhat akin to an NFL team defeating a scrub club, 7-3. Regardless of media coverage that gave the impression of a flawless battlefield victory, "it was an ugly win, with many problems" surrounding the employment of special operations forces.
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So, a "special military operation" to prevent a close neighbor from becoming a base of operations for a geopolitical rival. Where have we heard that recently?
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[American Thinker] If our government does not respect the Constitution, we have no constitution. If the government refuses to stand behind the principles of free speech, the right to free assembly, the right to petition the government, the right to a speedy trial, etc., those rights don’t exist. Instead, we simply have rule down the barrel of a gun...a gun held only in government hands. I thought of that when I read about Doug Mackey, sent to federal prison for seven months because he insulted Hillary voters, and Ryan Kelley, given an extra-long prison sentence on a misdemeanor because he didn’t grovel sufficiently before his J6 hanging judge.
Briefly, in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Douglas Mackey sent out some silly memes telling Hillary voters to vote by text. Only a moron would believe that. There’s no evidence that his memes had any effect whatsoever, other than saying that he thought Hillary voters were morons. Moreover, what he did wasn’t original. Others have done it, too, including leftists.
Nevertheless, the moment Biden entered the White House, the DOJ came after Mackey. The other day, he was convicted and sent to prison for seven months for telling an obvious political joke. Matt Walsh covers the entire episode in great detail in his video, and I urge you to watch it. (It’s the very first segment.)
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So the HHS is saying they'll fire any employee who doesn't use the right pronouns at work. Not only are the Feds censoring speech, they're compelling it.
(Marxist Rule #1 - That which is not forbidden is compulsory)
[MISES Institute] Seemingly coming out of nowhere was the song "Rich Men North of Richmond," by singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony. Overnight, the laments of one man from Appalachia over the state of the American economy and government spread like wildfire.
In "Rich Men North of Richmond" Anthony decries the declining value of the US dollar, the lack of accountability for those on Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, and the use of taxpayer dollars to fund obesity through food stamps amidst high taxation. Whilst one could deconstruct the individual issues pointed at by Anthony, it can best be understood by the song title and the chorus:
Livin’ in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do
’Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end
’Cause of rich men north of Richmond
The song is a lament about the poor state of America at the hands of these "rich men north of Richmond." These men, of course, are none other than the politicians and bureaucrats of Washington, DC. Any libertarian worth their salt can both empathize and sympathize with the message. Government bureaucrats and politicians have racked up $32 trillion of debt (not including unfunded liabilities), have become involved in at least seven foreign wars since September 11, 2001, and devalued the dollar by more than 90 percent since 1913. It has hardly been easy to be in the working class since the advent of progressivism.
The explosion of Anthony’s song is a fitting time to discuss libertarian class theory, which provides insight into the very problems of these "rich men" and how they have led to the plundering of productive citizenry.
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Introducing democratic ideals or liberating some oppressed group 7000 miles from Washington D.C. is NOT the motive for these foreign adventures.
The Washington establishment is very obviously addicted to money and power. Foreign conflicts simply grease the wheels of their power making machinery.
The San Tribe of Afrika is said to possibly be 200,000 years old. They are a small people in both stature and number. The San have survived through peaceful isolation and conflict avoidance.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. [ColonelCassad] Western liberals have set out to ban the works of George Orwell because his work makes them feel "uncomfortable".
Western conservatives, on the other hand, quote him regularly.
The Telegraph wrote about this. According to the initiators of the ban, 1984 and Orwell's other classic books were harmful to society because the author himself was a "sadist, misogynist, homophobic and cruel person": Based on the autobiographical notes of Orwell's wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, liberals believe that the author crossed women out of his life path.
The biographer pointed out that Orwell was a brilliant writer, but a complex man whose personal life was at odds with the "decency" of his works.
Biographer Anna Funder believes that Eileen O'Shaughnessy, as Orwell's wife, made a significant contribution to the writer's work, including helping to write Animal Farm.
According to Funder, the darkness that reigns in "1984" reflects Orwell's state of mind.
Comment: There is no limit to the biographer’s flight of fancy, which the classic himself would probably be very surprised by.
"Integrity is a key Orwellian value. He wanted to be decent, wanted to be considered decent, by which he meant an honest person, the same inside and out," writes Funder.
What follows is a pirouette that "Orwell was extremely homophobic, he was very attracted to men, and I think he was not particularly interested in women sexually."
However, Telegraph readers do not pay too much attention to the fruits of the imagination of the biographer of the writer's wife.
Their opinion in the comments is quite categorical.
"The Ministry of Truth is trying to cancel George Orwell."
"This is worse than we could have imagined."
"Orwell was right. Now do you see how it works?"
Comment: There is no doubt that after reading an article slandering George Orwell, even more people will show a desire to read his works.
True, if by that time the writer is not completely banned, and his books are not confiscated and destroyed.
Jokes aside, but now Orwell is very relevant and topical, while his Ingsoc is very reminiscent of the modern Western world of distorting mirrors.
That's how I looked into the future. Previously, "1984" was called a dystopia, but it turned out to be a prediction about the future. Something like our “children’s book” by Nosov “Dunno on the Moon”.
Therefore, with all the specific features of his work, the study of Orwell is extremely important for understanding where the West was going and where it eventually came.
Jokes aside, but now Orwell is very relevant and topical, while his Ingsoc is very reminiscent of the modern Western world of distorting mirrors.
That's how I looked into the future. Previously, "1984" was called a dystopia, but it turned out to be a prediction about the future. Something like our “children’s book” by Nosov “Dunno on the Moon”.
Therefore, with all the specific features of his work, the study of Orwell is extremely important for understanding where the West was going and where it eventually came.
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It is generally not known that Orwell, AKA Frank R., escaping his POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista) unit, showed up in Barcelona in December 1936. His later works indicate that he had broken with the Marxists. He was seen in the company of the United States Consul active in Barcelona. And the United States may actually have paid his way to return to northern Europe. To my knowledge no one has ever investigated in the Archives of the United States this unusual series of events.
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Anyone who has a problem with Orwell is a totalitarian.
Always be anti-totalitarian.
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I like using the term "double plus ungood" but certain people have told me I shouldn't. Apparently it has become politically incorrect. I don't care. I like the way it sounds. I like the way it mocks the politically correct and makes them nervous so I plan to keep using it.
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What are they gonna do? Throw me in jail?
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Into Room 101
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"Oops!" Or, Making the News
Said Winston at 1307,
"Sans Trumpstein, this hell would be heaven!
Were there but a time
We could dwell on his crime
As one voice, every day! Say, eleven?"
[LiberalPatriot] The appalling terrorist attack by the appalling terrorist group Hamas, which slaughtered more than 1300 Israelis, 87 percent of whom were civilians, is the largest single day killing of Jews since the Holocaust. The response of America’s intersectional left has also been appalling. As Sohrab Ahmari accurately noted in a Compact magazine article titled "Woke Is Dying": No need to recapitulate the left's response
...What is wrong with these people?
In my opinion, the rot goes very deep. This is not a one-off. Over the last number of years, huge swathes of the American left have become infected with an ideology that judges actions or arguments not by their content but rather by the identity of those involved in said actions or arguments. Those identities in turn are defined by an intersectional web of oppressed and oppressors, of the powerful and powerless, of the dominant and marginalized. With this approach, one judges an action not by whether it’s effective or an argument by whether it’s true but rather by whether the people involved in the action or argument are in the oppressed/powerless/marginalized bucket or not. If they are, the actions or arguments should be supported; if not, they should be opposed. The old notions of right or wrong no longer apply.
...Take the vogue for "anti-racist" posturing. This dates back to the mid-teens and gathered overwhelming force in 2020 with the George Floyd police killing and subsequent nationwide protests. It became de rigueur in left and liberal Democratic circles to solemnly pronounce American society structurally racist and shot through with white supremacy from top to bottom. No argument along these lines was too outrageous if it came from or on behalf of "people of color", who must be deferred to given their place in the intersectional hierarchy. Look on this from their point of view: The theory says all races are equal in their abilities, yet - despite all the extra opportunities offered to African-Americans - few manage to succeed. Gotta give up the theory, or postulate a secret (but immensely powerful racism). Enter Ibram X. Kendi ...establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.
...It’s high time for Democrats to decisively reject this kind of thinking across the board. Embrace instead the universalistic principles the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in. They believe, unlike Kendi, that racial preferences in rewards and decision-making are not fair and fairness is a fundamental part of their world outlook. They actually believe, with Martin Luther King Jr., that people should "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." In a recent University of Southern California Dornsife survey, this classic statement of colorblind equality was posed to respondents: "Our goal as a society should be to treat all people the same without regard to the color of their skin." This MLK-style statement elicited sky-high (92 percent) agreement from the public, despite the assaults on this idea from Critical Race Theory (CRT), Kendi, and large sectors of the Democratic left. In a fascinating related finding, the researchers found that most people who claim to have heard about CRT believe CRT includes this colorblind perspective, rather than directly contradicting it. Perhaps they just can’t believe any theory that has anything to do with race would reject this fundamental principle.
Similarly a recent Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground survey found 91 percent agreement with the statement: "All people deserve an equal opportunity to succeed, no matter their race or ethnicity." This is what people deeply believe in: equal opportunity not, unlike the intersectional left, equal outcomes.
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The left is saying the exact same things that they've always directed towards whites. This is nothing new. It was never a problem before and it was applauded by many who are now outraged.
What's new? They have merely changed "whites" to "Jewish people". Now it's suddenly a huge problem.
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They’ve been including Jews among whites for over two decades.
It’s suddenly a problem because Hamas beheaded babies and created piles of dead, raped girls, some of whom happened to be Jewish.. and posted videos of themselves doing so all over the internet so that it couldn't be ignored. And then some billionaires loudly stopped donating to universities.
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The Urdu word would be munafiq, or opportunist. But then they all are, politicians.
Here's what I think of him. Somehow he tapped into republican insecurities and said or did whatever was necessary to get to the next level. He's also leveraged the ol' hindu nationalist creed to give himself a following in the east and with Indian expatriates. Hindus will root just for the tokenism, republicans probably for the elephant and some novelty value(?)
Most Indian hindus are like him, Grom. All their loyalties fluid, their convictions flaccid, their fake faces unable to hide the raw hunger in them to get to the next level. They'll spout circumlocutory nonsense and won't commit to any one thing. They like to shy away from conflict, or putting their money where their mouth is. Cowards and cucks, talking big and posturing. In the end, he'll prove just another compromise maker and dealer in DC.
Anyway, that's just my impression. I hate all politicians.
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^Just a bit naive are they? IMO, if elected (if), he'll be "proving his objectivity" by taking anti-India positions (just look at all the kikes in USG).
[MAIL] Dr. David Adesnik is a former Defense Department deputy director, director of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
...DC think tank and owner of the Long War Journal ...
and an expert on Iranian proxy forces
Years from now, historians may look back on October 7, 2023, as the dark day that triggered an unescapable descent to global war.
For from the moment Israel rose to its self-defense in answer to a savage Hamas terrorist attack, Washington DC must have recognized the awful potential of this conflict to engulf the entire region — and perhaps, most terrifyingly, the world.
Now, as a heavily armed, Iranian-trained terror army eyes a full-scale bombardment of the Jewish State from Lebanon, there is an undeniable nightmare scenario looming just beyond Israel's borders.
It's a terrible chain of events kicking off with tens of thousands of Hezbollah rockets raining down on Israel, provoking increasingly destructive rounds of counterattack and escalation, and pushing the small nation of 9 million to its breaking point.
Drawn by the prospect of realizing their dark apocalyptic vision of the complete and utter destruction of Israel, the Islamist mullahs of Tehran activate their terrorist proxies from Syria to Iraq and beyond.
U.S. forces across the Middle East are attacked.
Urged by Iran, Syria's blood-soaked dictator Bashar Al-Assad's deploys his illicit chemical weapons stockpile.
Oil trade is ground to a halt by the Iranian Revolution Guard chocking off the viral Strait of Hormuz.
And the Islamic Republic itself unleashes hundreds of long-range missiles on Tel Aviv, straining missile defense systems and compelling America to enter the fray before all is lost.
How this dreadful specter ends is anyone's guess. It's no wonder President Joe Biden has ominously warned, 'any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of this situation,' to back off.
'Don't,' said the president. 'Don't.'
The veiled threat was surely directed at Iran, as America deployed two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers - the USS Gerald Ford and USS Dwight D Eisenhower -to the eastern Mediterranean Sea along with the carriers' supporting strike groups.
Preprogrammed to self-cull. Amazing.
Wonder what the DNA predisposition to criminality looks like.
...to self-cull under certain conditions. Possibly an unintended side effect of sometimes-beneficial mutations, similar to how sickle cell anemia confers resistance to malaria when the gene is inherited from only one parent, but causes serious health problems when inherited from both.
[FoxNews] Genetics could determine the likelihood of suicide, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of Utah Health have identified 12 genetic variations that are linked to a higher risk of suicide attempts, according to a study published this month in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
Scientists across several hospitals conducted a worldwide analysis of almost one million people across 22 different populations, Anna Docherty, PhD, the study’s corresponding author and associate professor of psychiatry at Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah, told Fox News Digital.
Then they identified the genetic variations that were more common among the 43,871 people who attempted suicide.
This was the largest-ever genetic study of suicide, according to the university’s press release.
"Several new areas of DNA were discovered that link to a risk for suicide," Doherty said.
While the genetic risk for suicide is related to the genetic risk for depression, there are other risks involved, the researcher noted.
"Genetic risk in this study also links to mental health conditions like ADHD, alcohol use disorder and PTSD," she said.
"We were surprised by the links to health problems including smoking, chronic pain and cardiovascular disease," Doherty went on. "These links were strong even when we accounted for the risk of depression or PTSD."
That doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone with one of those health conditions is at a greater risk of suicide, noted Hillary Coon, PhD, study co-author and professor of psychiatry at Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah.
The takeaway is that the genetic variations, when combined with other stressors, could heighten the risk.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ColonelCassad] Western liberals have set out to ban the works of 
