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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/234351/foresight-patton-robert-orlando

Never mind the main narrative on this thing, I continue to learn new things.  Did you know that, before he died, Patton–like MacArthur in the Korean War–was begging for a chance to nip the next war before it could start?  Czechoslavakia need not have endured a half century or so of captivity.  Berlin need never have been partitioned.  China need not have gone Communist, which itself would have PREVENTED the Korean, Vietnamese, and countless other regional wars the world over.

Live Aid would not have been necessary, because the Ethiopean famine would not have happened.  Cuba would not have gone Communist, and its people not enslaved.

Sometimes war IS the answer.  We need to look carefully, but this fact is, in my mind indisputable.  We will have an end to war when we have an end to evil.  We can look to it, work to make it happen, but it is far from here, and in many ways we are trending the wrong direction.

This recalls to mind Churchill’s call to support the Whites in the Russian civil war, which was also ignored.

What, now, are we missing?  What policy or policies should we be pursuing that we are not, which will quickly or eventually lead to vast problems which could have been prevented?  Where is evil being allowed to run loose and propagate?

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/the-strange-case-of-a-nazi-who-became-a-mossad-hitman-1.5423137

I have a variety of “bar friends”, people I know and have known for years, and gotten 2/3rd’s drunk with on many occasions, such that I know the details of most of their lives, about their parents, where they went to school, the major dramas in their lives, etc.  I’m a good listener, because the details of people’s lives actually interest me.  I’m curious about everything, and people are a part of everything.

Be all that as it may, one group is uniformly very Liberal–I will use that word because I like them–and I just keep my mouth shut when they discuss politics. 

But I was thinking just now what I would say if I were asked to justify myself, and I think the simplest formulation is this:

1. Leftists in general assume the very worst of “capitalists”, that they are greedy, mean, power hungry and corrupt.

2. Logically, this means they accept the presence of evil in the world.

3. The power of money is relative, whereas political power can be made absolute.  Money influences, police power dictates directly.

4. There is no logical reason to conclude that government workers cannot be greedy.  If humans can be evil, and government workers are human, then government workers can be evil.  Indeed, the history of corrupt rulers using their power to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else is the story of history, at least UNTIL the rise of “Capitalism” (free markets, enforceable contract law, and the protection of private property). 

5. Given this, the power of the State should be of more immediate concern than limiting the power of money.

6. Increasing the power of the State to limit the power of money is precisely the wrong direction, since the money is not disappearing–the influence is still there, merely at a higher price–and the police power is increasing.

7. Given that “Capitalism” so called is the only historically effective antidote to people enriching themselves through the abuse of government, through direct violence, and through generalized conquest, Capitalism, so called, should be lauded, and not opposed.

8. Only Republicans, currently, even talk about this, and the Democrats have more or less openly embraced not just cradle to grave protection, but the concomitant, which is cradle to grave CONTROL of all of us.

9. Given the possibility of evil, direct control of our lives should be feared and rejected.

10.  Ergo, no sane person who values their freedom should consider voting for any Democrat for moment, even if they also don’t like the Republican, which can and probably in many cases should be the case.

Something like this.  But nobody really even attempts to speak this clearly any more, although I must say I do really like the work Dennis Prager has done and continues to do.

My watching continues.  Lots of non sequiturs, and conjectures they gradually morph into established facts, but quite a few very interesting things which can be verified.

Here is another.  Herman Oberth was:

an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert Goddard.

Here is his comment on UFO’s:

During the 1950s and 1960s, Oberth offered his opinions regarding unidentified flying objects (UFOs). He was a supporter of the extraterrestrial hypothesis for the origin of the UFOs that were seen at the Earth. For example, in an article in The American Weekly magazine of 24 October 1954, Oberth stated, “It is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries…” ^[17] He also wrote an article in the second edition of Flying Saucer Review titled “They Come From Outer Space”. He discussed the history of reports of “strange luminous objects” in the sky, mentioning that the earliest historical case is of “Shining Shields” reported by Pliny the Elder. He wrote, “Having weighed all the pros and cons, I find the explanation of flying discs from outer space the most likely one. I call this the “Uraniden” hypothesis, because from our viewpoint the hypothetical beings appear to come from the sky (Greek – ‘Uranos’).”

One interesting added note, for those who remember the 1990’s:

In 1958, Oberth was back in Feucht, Germany, where he published his ideas on a lunar exploration vehicle, a “lunar catapult”, and on “muffled” helicopters and airplanes.  

He also, near the end of his life, wrote a book called “Waehlerfiebel fuer ein Weltparlament”, which I cannot translate.  It is Voter/Chooser something for a World Parliament.  I can’t find Fiebel, which is not a word I know.  I pulled that off the German Amazon website.  Perhaps they intended “Fieber”, which is fever, or perhaps enthusiasm by metaphor.

In English it is “Primer for those who would govern: In a world parliament”, again from Amazon. I can’t find any information on it, but I think I can assume it was a Globalist manifesto of sorts, written by an ex-Nazi.

Then there is this: https://malcolmnicholson.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/nazis-atlantis-and-ancient-aliens/

What is fascinating about this is that the only claim you need to accept is that the Nazis believed this stuff, and that is likely easy enough to document.  Indeed, it is the point and purpose of the primary book referenced.  That the Nazis were deeply involved in occult beliefs is, I think, well documented.  Rudolph Hess flew to Britain because of signs he took from astrology.  Such is my understanding.

This world is a fascinating place.  I don’t know how it works, but I do know that I can increase my knowledge of new possibilities every day.

This is an odd story, with which I had been unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forrestal

I saw it watching my creepy, hippy-dippy UFO thing on Gaia (It’s called Deep Space).

He goes from being the first Secretary of Defense in US history, to being confined, alone–and on the account of the folks in the video not allowed any visitation from friends and family–on the 16th floor of a psychiatric hospital.

Then his body is found on the 3rd floor roof, having fallen some 13 stories.  The full record of the investigation is made secret, and there were allegations both that there was glass in his bed, and that he was found with a rope around his neck.

Very strange.  The claim made on the video, of course, is that he was wanting to go public with what we knew about UFO’s, and was first given the Soviet treatment, then, failing to promise to keep his mouth shut after repeated visits from a group called the Majestic 12, he was murdered.  They claim that the CIA and NSA were founded in the immediate aftermath of Roswell, which at least one credible source–Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D from MIT in Rocket Science and 6th man to walk on the moon–has claimed was categorically a UFO crash, which he had firsthand from people who were there.

It’s not good to spend too much time dwelling on things like this, but I think it is both reasonable and healthy to suspect that, whatever is really happening, most of us live in a continual dream manufactured by others–spiritually, or simply as a result of crafted integration propaganda, or both–and that large, important things are going on which are entirely invisible to us.

Look around you.  Wonder.

I found this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen

Both of my degrees are from schools which, spelled phonetically, say “you see”.

With respect to a background I will not say more about, I would like to comment that intellectual in-breeding is both the impetus behind, and the principle result of, safe spaces. The longer term result is plainly Selection for hypohemic, hairless rodents which spend all their time gnawing and hiding, and seeking out the relative warmth of shared opinions and fellow Yes’s.

Couple thoughts:

1.  Sometimes you are the only one.  Do not be afraid to be the only one.  Speak your truth even if the world thinks you are mad, because if you let the world see through your eyes, then you truly ARE mad.  There is a sharp contrast drawn in this movie, and conformity–made inevitable through the principled rejection of Individualism which is the foundational principle of Collectivism–is the opposite of life, of human flourishing, of love, of laughter, and of the spirit.

2. I am reminded of what I in my own mind, and perhaps here, have at times called the Wolverine Code.  It is a set of principles which will allow you to survive, even if everything you know, including your identity, is taken from you.

They will be familiar, if you have followed me for any lengthy of time:

1. Reject self pity
2. Persevere
3. Be curious and always learning.

Everything good, in my view, can be built through these principles over time.  They are principles which tend, always (such is my hope and intent, at any rate), to the good over time, and tend away from dogmatism, lies, and death.  We all make mistakes.  The only mistakes which are permanent are those which you conflate with reality, and genuine curiosity prevents that from happening, again over time.

3. Something like this is at the root of all religions.  Christianity posits this world as a temporary place, with heaven, hell (and Purgatory, if you are Catholic) being the true realities.  Ponder this for a moment.  Consider it as real.

4. This movie really made me appreciate the value of sunshine, beautiful fall days like we are having today, and overall made me grateful for one more day alive, one more day to learn, to enjoy the countless gifts which have been given me, and one more day to begin to remember who I am, and what I am here for.

Edit: 5. This is also a good symbolic representation of Heideggers “Verworfenheit”. He was not wrong about this, but what we were born not knowing, we were born with the capacity to build. Building is life. Perhaps we are all merely sophisticated beavers. So be it. Build anyway.

You can only give from a surfeit.

I think I can state this as an absolute principle.  I think most of the trouble in the world comes from people trying to give what they don’t have; and, of course, from people taking what they don’t have, which is as old as humanity, and probably endemic even among animals not restrained by herd or pack instincts.

Thieves are obvious enough.  It is the apparently enlightened givers of nothing, or of others somethings, which concerns me here.

And I would say, in order to make myself slightly more clear, that the giving which matters most is of calm, order, peace, inspiration, and purpose.  There are rickshaw drivers in the Orient (yes, the Orient) who are vastly happier than billionaires in mansions overlooking the sea.

And I would add, too, on a slightly different note, that one obvious take-away from the history of religion, which is or was my particular field, is that massive paradigmatic cultural changes are possible, and can happen suddenly, as seen from the perspective of history.