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The Putin-Trump Meeting

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:13:33 +0000

The Putin-Trump Meeting

Paul Craig Roberts

What do we make of it?

A good result came of it. Trump moved away from his demand for a ceasefire and said that it was more important to work toward a permanent peace than a ceasefire which is seldom kept. This would seem to commit Trump to addressing the root cause of the conflict, which is Russia’s insecurity with NATO all over her borders.

Putin said that the meeting marked the transition from confrontation and threats to dialogue. This prospect alone made the meeting worthwhile.

These are good results. In a world of nuclear weapons the level of tension had become untenable.

For hopes to be realized two barriers must be recognized and overcome. One is the neoconservative doctrine of American hegemony. The other is the interest of the US military/security complex.

The doctrine of hegemony requires overcoming Russia in order to achieve Washington’s unilateralism. Is this doctrine too institutionalized to be repudiated?

The budget, influence over Congress, and power of the military/security complex requires a major enemy. Russia fills that role. Peace on equal terms with Russia takes away the enemy, and the budget and influence of the military/security complex declines. There are military bases or weapon manufacturers in almost every state, which means this interest is also institutionalized as President Eisenhower warned us it would be.

Therefore, the question before us is: how likely is it that Trump can get NATO and missile bases off of Russia’s border? It is not at all likely if attention cannot be directed to the basic problem.

How helpful will media be? It is the wrong focus to emphasize that Putin wanted the meeting in order to show that he was not isolated and could meet with the American president like Zelensky and Netanyahu do.

The meeting was fortuitous. Trump had trapped himself. His threatened secondary sanctions or tariffs against India and other BRICS members backfired. Faced with his own 10-day deadline, he had to find a way out. He found it in an immediate meeting with Putin. For Trump the meeting was a way of getting himself off of the spot.

The opportunity to wind down a confrontation that would likely end in nuclear war is based on luck. Can this lucky outcome be turned into a mutual security agreement? That depends on the strength of the neoconservatives’ doctrine of hegemony and the willingness of the military/security complex to accept declining sales and profits. Until it is realized that these two interests are the barriers to peace that must be overcome, there will be no peace process.

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Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:01:42 +0000

DiversityWatch (August 15, 2025)

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:38:44 +0000

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Texas falls down the list of best U.S. states to live in for 2025
High property taxes — to pay for schooling and healthcare for illegals — burned down one of the last affordable places to live.
Macron pledges action over anti-Semitic ‘hatred’ after memorial tree vandalised
You imported millions of people who hate Whites and Jews. Why are you surprised that Rotherhams and Jew-hatred are the result?
Deflation worries grow in Finland
When your money can purchase more, the burden of your debt becomes greater, and that stagnates the consumer economy as people turn from buying new disposable stuff to paying down debt.
President Trump: 275,000+ Illegal Aliens Have Been Kicked Off Social Security Benefits
Diversity is benefits-shopping.
SPD district chiefs in German state of Thuringia call for migrant welfare benefits to be paid as loans
A timid, tentative backlash against the benefits state begins. If you loan them the money, they will simply escape back to home when the bill comes due.
‘They kept shouting Allahu Akbar’ — Woman in critical condition after multiple stab wounds in Paris apartment, may have been disemboweled
We are going to look back on the postwar era as a time when insanity, protected by equality, took over and so demoralized the sane people that insanity became celebrated.
‘I was so horny. I just wanted to have sex!’ — Afghan migrant charged with raping Swedish teen postal worker at knifepoint
Different cultures, different castes, different genetics… different behaviors.
Remember when having women in power was supposed to change everything?
Nothing changes because we refuse to consider options outside of a narrow channel of what democracy likes.
Judge strikes down Trump administration guidance against DEI programs at schools
Another Irish judge, more dubious lawfare, since there is no civil right to Leftist propaganda.
What Rules Politics? The Money, of Course.
People vote for free stuff and nothing gets them off more than using someone else’s money to fund it.
Villagers call for curfew as ‘rowdy’ migrants turn local park into ‘no go zone’
Paying first-world taxes for third-world results, all for… well, what really?
African Union Urges Adoption of World Map Showing Continent’s True Size
The Equal Earth projection lets people see that Africa is actually the second-largest continent. It always seemed to me that current maps actually show this as well.
Bondi scraps limits on cooperation between D.C. police and immigration agents
How to reverse sanctuary cities: let the local police call ICE on suspected groups of migrants.
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants — a vestige of the Napoleonic Era — take over democracy from within via the bureaucracy that made democracy seem palatable in the first place.
‘The World Got The Message’: Noem Says 1.6 Million Illegals Have Self-Deported
We need mono-ethnic states. Encouraging all diversity to self-deport, especially the Italians, is a necessary next step.
Council row erupts as bereaved relatives forced to pay ‘fat tax’ to dig bigger graves
“Fatphobia” is the new “racism.”
New details emerge in viral Cincinnati brawl as suspects arraigned on new charges
From a narrative of White victimhood, to Black grievance, to the ugly truth of diversity simply sucking ass.
Is it right wing to have air conditioning? In France, it is
Right-wingers like thorough solutions like Half Earth instead of limiting our enjoyment of life for the mythical beast of climate change.
This is what fraud looks like
Benefits-shopper marries her brother to get more benefits, citizenship, and a path to Congress.
Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech
Sounds bad, doesn’t it? He dropped them because (1) few of them succeed and (2) they are irrelevant now that Big Tech is collapsing on its own.
Exceeding functional biosphere integrity limits: Study finds 60% of the world’s land area is in a precarious state
Human occupancy of most of Earth has led to ecosystem collapse in waiting.
Irish Govt Pushes “Disinfo” Plan Despite Public Backlash
Following the O’Bama method which started with repealing the Smith-Mundt Act. Democracy is not well, and it shifts toward totalitarianism (again). As Plato pointed out, systems invert once they get reduced to methods and people choose the easy answers methods, which are both convenient and do not challenge human individualistic mentation. Humans hate to alter their thinking based on external input.
What’s Behind New York City’s Job Growth Failures?
Sanctuary cities have lower job growth because much of the work occurs off the books and no one wants to expand in failing markets.

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What Rules Politics? The Money, of Course.

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:32:47 +0000

Few people understand how democracy works; lots of people understand the basic theory behind how it “should” work. This leads to an immense disconnect where voters and politicians are speaking entirely different languages and expectations deviate massively.

Research shows that oligarchic conditions prevail in a democracy, especially when elections are expensive enough to require sponsors:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.

In reality, this is always the condition of democracy: people with money hire others and therefore have great influence, and elections will always be expensive since a staff is required to manage them, so candidates will always be influenced by big donors.

This works in the early years when the donors are naturally talented people who have an interest in making society healthy so that their audience will grow. Once government subsidies come into play, however, companies find it is easier to sell to morons instead.

In turn that means that when we speak of democracy, we are looking into a system which consists of not just political activity, but economic and social activity as well. These are mutually dependent and form a system because they vary with each other:

A system is understood here as a functionally existing whole that consists of interconnected components. It is holistic in nature and presupposes the necessity of encompassing within its framework all the phenomena to which it applies. These are usually captured in the form of normatively defined subsystems (White, 1959). The individual elements of the system are functionally dependent on each other. The system should be closed, and its boundaries precisely defined. System refers to different levels of organization, such as cellular, individual, population, or species-wide.

Changes within each component trigger a reaction from the others, causing the system to enter a state of imbalance. It is assumed that changes are most often caused by external factors. The system’s response to this situation is to seek a return to a state of dynamic equilibrium called homeostasis or equilibrium. It thus takes the form of an adaptive model. The system, while under the influence of stimuli, becomes unstable, after which it returns to equilibrium and thus adapts to the new situation triggered by the incident of this stimulus.

The system, in other words, has to include the human dimension, which has almost nothing to do with actual politics.

In free market terms, democracy involves trading the action of voting for the warm feelings it conveys to the person voting. If it makes you feel better to think you are helping “the poor,” yank that lever, and then you get warm feelings for your vote, with actual costs deferred.

For this reason, people with money and power have great influence in elections, because they pay for advertising agencies and psychologists to craft appealing messages that have little to do with reality. The goal is warm feelings, not actual policy.

They also offer something pragmatic, which is that for people who depend on those industries, the health of those industries writes their paychecks. People vote for their immediate interests because they have no other choice. This destroys long-term thinking or ideals higher than individualism and consumerism.

In fact, the best thing to offer is something which has no hope of succeeding, because then it also cannot fail. For example, giving money to “the poor” always makes people feel good even though it achieves nothing lasting or realistic.

During our time in nature, whoever found a way to take fruit off of trees was able to survive. Voting is taking the fruit of good feelings, and getting elected enables people to have access to the taxpayer cash which means that they can hire their friends and those friends will then appoint their children to Boards of Directors.

It is how you build lasting wealth. You spend money belonging to someone else in order to get favor with others, and then use that favor to trade for insider stock tips or placements for your kids, so that everyone gets enough money to invest and build dynastic wealth.

Ideological groups offer a voluntarist proposition, which is that something is morally right or practically correct so it should be done, but it offers nothing in terms of lasting good feelings because there is no transfer of wealth to accompany those warm feelings.

However, ideology does not pay the bills, nor does realism, which unites short-term and long-term thinking in the long term because that influences the short term. The two cannot be separated; dualism of all forms seems an artifact of human fear, not thinking.

If you want to know why our politics increasingly resemble duels between billionaires, it might be because only billionaires can afford to have long-term and affirmative, futuristic, and forward-motion beliefs at this point.

Trump-Putin Pre-Summit Deal

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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DiversityWatch (August 14, 2025)

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:05:57 +0000

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ICE Removes Spanish-Language Training Requirement for New Recruits
Big point: we are not a bilingual society like Canada, which has tormented itself with Quebecois diversity for centuries, showing that the problem is diversity not “bad” or “good” races or ethnic groups (except the Irish, who are straight fail).
What does birth control pill have to do with Auschwitz?
A lot of our modern knowledge depends on roots in Nazi medicine, which was both inhumane and extremely humane in giving our species more options for the future. Note: the Nazis probably did not intend to do this, but by using Jews as test subjects, they admitted that these subjects were biologically at least human.
ICE to roll out bold, new cars emblazoned with agency’s name, logo — leaving agents furious and terrified: ‘A bullseye’
My guess is that they are going to hire new agents to drive these around minority areas, encouraging panic and self-deportation.
U.S. Drinking Rate at New Low as Alcohol Concerns Surge
People have figured out that alcohol is a sugar-blast like Coca-Cola and will make you sick if you drink it over time, plus prices are too high and quality too low. Once you stop swilling Bud Lite, you realize that American beer is terrible pisswater for people who like sweet beverages. I hate hipsters like a skinhead but their IPAs are excellent.
Who Is ‘We?’
Who are your people? For me it is WASPs, but I do not want harm to befall other groups, since I am rather fond of high-quality people who are found in all groups, not just Africans and Orientals but select Hispanics and even some Italians. For their safety and happiness, they need to be repatriated to their ethnic homelands.
Ashley Biden shared a photo of husband Howard Krein hand in hand with ‘his girlfriend’ hours before bombshell divorce filing
Her husband probably tired of having to roleplay as Joe or Hunter to get her into bed.
Trump Holds Universities Accountable for Discrimination
The big point here is that discriminating against the majority is as destructive as discriminating against minorities, which leads us to the point where we can admit that diversity is unworkable: some group will always rise above others. Also our universities are now going to be mostly Asian and White kids will go elsewhere.
Mysterious Denisovan interbreeding shaped the humans we are today
Modern humans interbred with Denisovans and made Asians, who then spread to other groups like Eastern, Mediterranean, and Southern Europeans.
State Department Accuses China of Genocide and Slavery — and Rape, Torture, Starvation of Dissidents
China has played on American race issues for seventy years, so turnabout is fair play.
What I’ve Learned While Interning at ‘Chronicles’
We can restore Western Civilization at any time. We just have to stop doing the stupid stuff — middle-class bureaucracy, prole rule, socialism, diversity, Christianity — that destroyed it.
Judge questions the legality of sending National Guard troops to L.A.
More lawfare that will go nowhere, since previous presidents used the National Guard in race riots and enforcing integration.
Nicholas Rossi, who faked death, fled U.S., convicted of rape
More Italian crime. Seriously, just open a pizza joint and sell weed out the back door like every other Italian.
Centuries of inbreeding may have helped rare pigeons pull back from brink of extinction
Genetic purging allowed these pigeons to entirely breed out certain deleterious mutations, making them more hardy over time.
Putin heaps praise on ‘sincere’ Trump, hints Russia and US could strike nuclear arms deal
O’Biden and O’Bama positioning nukes and anti-nuke missiles on the edges of Russia provoked this Slavic tantrum.
Prosecutor: “Why is violence accepted in Finland?”
Finland addresses the problem of two-tiered justice.
Youth violence prevention program shown to reduce arrests by up to 75%
They buried the lede as usual: high-risk use were sent to physicians who most likely prescribed behavior modification drugs. People who are semi-catatonic commit fewer crimes.
Is South Africa’s National Dialogue a recipe for progress?
Endless attempts to make diversity work still have nothing to show for themselves, so we get a hope-change fluff piece instead.
Was the Bill of Rights a Bad Idea? Some Founding Fathers Thought So.
By enumerating only some rights, you leave others open to attack, but the idea of natural rights itself — that in civilization you can still do whatever you would do in a state of nature, short of murder, assault, and theft — creates a society where government does not take on a managerial-administrative role.
Having a machete pulled on me confirmed my worst fears: Labour’s migrant crackdown doesn’t exist
More symbolic activity in lieu of doing something effective.
The Amazon has lost an area larger than Spain in 40 years, report shows
The more people we have, the less forest we can have, and the more pollution we will have.
FBI returns stolen conquistador document to Mexico
Sending original artifacts to the corrupt third world guarantees that they will end up in private collections and be replaced by fakes. Hope they got good scans of the original.
German states debate who invented Bratwurst sausages
Hopefully this triggers the separation of southern and northern Germany from each other.
World’s top hedge fund Bridgewater dumps all China stocks
They blame political instability, but more likely with the collapse of globalism China has become irrelevant and is being rapidly replaced by automation.
Is it difficult and complicated to discern the reality behind official propaganda and the mass media deception? No. It is easy for The Good.
Most people do not want to discern because they want lazy easy answers that make them “feel good.”
Rejected asylum seekers to be fitted with electronic tags in Greece
Greece has tired of being ground zero for the invasion, and now will be keeping track of migrants until it can deport them.
Germany: Indian migrant nurse accused of drugging and sexually assaulting patients could face just two years in prison
It is like Rotherham, but at your local health clinic.
Knife crime in Germany surges, with foreigners heavily overrepresented in latest figures
Seems when you invite in the world, the chaos of the world follows them.
China-Plus-One Was Just China All Along
As labor moves to India and Vietnam, Chinese companies still control the technology.
Germany: 1,300 Syrians return home since fall of Assad
Only a small number returned, despite most of them claiming refugee status because of Assad. Why leave the source of free stuff?
Soybeans seem to inherit the bad memories of their parents
Without changing DNA, trauma extends between generations. Wonder what the world wars did to White people.
Why does the US keep doling out secondary sanctions?
Secondary sanctions punish allies who work around primary sanctions, and will cause the BRICS to drop out of the world economy.
Things can only get worse
Many people cling to oppositional defiant disorder mentalities in order to avoid Noticing the collapse of the West.
Kansas City grocery closes despite millions from the city. ‘Beyond our control’
Government-run grocery store collapses from lack of products, shoplifting, rotting food, and general ineptitude despite absorbing millions of taxpayer money. The poor will always be with us.
Are Students Engaged in Performative Virtue Signaling?
Students adopt progressive views in order to get ahead in the education bureaucracy.
Break-ins breaking records
Diversity area finds surge in vehicle break-ins, categorized as “vandalism” not burglary of a vehicle. Criminals break into cars to see what they can find, since there is low likelihood of being caught and prosecuted.
China to Offer Subsidized Personal Loans to Get People to Spend More
The progressive Ponzi scheme is unraveling in China as the world tiptoes away from the real sponsors of the war in Ukraine, election interference, cartel fentanyl, etc.
Three SHOCK graphs expose who is REALLY crossing the Channel in small boats – and it’s NOT women and children
Young men come to the West to conquer. And where will they find wives?
Los Angeles councilman slapped with corruption charges for allegedly embezzling $800K with wife
More diversity corruption afflicts diversity hot zone.
The Insanely Incompetent DEI Hire Running One Of America’s Most Dangerous Cities
The diversity swing vote always chooses DEI hires who then run cities into the ground.
Bank of America finally axes rule that sparked ‘debanking’ of conservative religious groups
Bank finally removes rule that categorized any political views but diversity-positive progressivism as “hate speech.”
Repeated exposure to an image—even if fake—can increase its perceived credibility
How propaganda works. Just like the Crowd beats you down by summoning lots of voices of victimhood, repeating an image makes people think it is real, even if they know otherwise.
Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty to $500,000 in EBT Fraud, Perjury
Romanian showed up here for free benefits for himself and many others, which he also took.
We’re witnessing last-ditch talks to secure a global plastic pollution treaty
How do you make treaties with nations without functional law enforcement?
First Amendment Claim Over Firing of Firefighter for Supposedly Racially Offensive Anti-Abortion Post Can Go Forward
Firefighter experiences shitcannery of doom for sharing image of baby getting lynched with “I Can’t Breathe” under it.
How Investigators Tracked Down the D.C. Plane Crash Video Leaker
Diversity guy leaked police video.
Spending climbs among the rich, as everyone else’s debt rises, study says
When the rich spend, the rest of us reap indirect benefits, but this upsets the liberal.
People disregard advice when making tough decisions, international study finds
More support for “first principles” thinking being innate.
The paradox of pluralism: How college shapes students’ views of other religions
Higher-level students learn early on to make the right noises about accepting other religions, but then never further explore those religions because their opinions are social status signaling only.
The canary in the concrete jungle: How polluted towns make sparrows frail, anxious and old before their time
Pollution will age you and make you feel neurotic, probably because your body is screaming for relief.
A car accident in small-town Tennessee leads to US charges against a major Mexican drug operation
Cartels easily infiltrate the states and hide among the millions of Mexicans already here.
The DC Police Are Covering Up Crime
Not just the DC police; every diversity city is downgrading serious charges to vandalism and loitering.
I Challenged Duke’s DEI Dogma – and Paid With My Job <

All-White Community Gets Green Light

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:00:23 +0000

State official’s initial review finds “nothing illegal” about Return to the Land. Is this the beginning of something big? Jared Taylor offers his take. See also: James Edwards AmRen Conference Speech And: I Was There

AskRonPaul: National Debt, D.C. Crackdowns, Tariffs & Inflation

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:00:06 +0000

Israeli Spy Network: The Force Behind The Surveillance State

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:18:00 +0000

Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) The Mossad-Jeffrey Epstein 30-year blackmail network that entrapped large numbers of the superrich and powerful is still fresh in our minds and boiling in our hearts—at least in ...

Can Putin Pass the Test?

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:49:37 +0000

Can Putin Pass the Test?

Paul Craig Roberts

Yesterday President Trump in his public statements validated my conclusion that Trump does not know what the Russian position is and that he is going to the meeting to find out what the “parameters” are and that he sees the meeting as a “feel-out meeting” to see whether the conflict in Ukraine can be ended.

In other words, no solution is expected from the meeting for which no preparatory work has been done. So what are the high-blown expectations for the meeting based on? Why build up such expectations when there is no proposal on the table? Where is the “acceptable” offer that Yury Ushakov found in the non-proposal that convinced Putin to go to Alaska?

Is the answer that the purpose of the meeting is to put Putin on the spot by creating expectations of success that cannot be achieved? French President Macron said that Trump told him that he intends to “obtain a ceasefire in Ukraine during the meeting with Putin.” When Putin doesn’t agree to halt Russia’s successful offensive, is the plan to blame Putin for wrecking the chance for peace? Will this help weaken BRICS by Putin being blamed for secondary tariffs imposed on India, China, Brazil, South Africa? (From Bloomberg today: Raising the stakes. Donald Trump warned he would impose “very severe consequences” if Vladimir Putin didn’t agree to a ceasefire agreement, following a call with European leaders ahead of his meeting with the Russian president. But Tass reported that the two will hold a joint press conference after the talks. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Europe it’s “put up or shut up time” when it comes to sanctions on nations that buy Russian energy.)

That is what it looks like. The Ukrainian front is collapsing. A ceasefire would halt the Russian advance and give the Ukrainian force time to stabilize and reinforce its positions. This is important to the West, because once Russia completes the task of driving the Ukrainian forces out of all of the territory that has been reincorporated into the Russian Federation, there is no land in Ukrainian hands for Trump to swap with Putin.

As I have reported a number of times, a land-swap is not one of the conditions on Putin’s list. What Putin means by “the root cause of the conflict” is Russia’s sense of insecurity with NATO and US nuclear missiles on Russia’s border.

When the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Cuba as an offset to the nuclear missiles Washington had put in Turkey on the Soviet Union’s border, Washington was intensely upset. Today the US has missiles on Russia’s border and the opportunity to have missile bases on Russia’s borders ranging from Finland to the South Caucus, which is a large multiplication of the one Soviet missile base in Cuba.

So if one base in Cuba made the US uncomfortable, imagine how uncomfortable Russia is with the prospect of nuclear missiles along the border for thousands of kilometers.

American and European politicians and policymakers have not acknowledged that the root cause of the conflict is NATO on Russia’s border. The prospect of Ukraine joining NATO and being added to the territory hosting US missile bases was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Trump’s land swap and ceasefire do not address Russia’s security problem. The root cause of the conflict is Russia’s sense of insecurity. That can only be solved by getting NATO off of Russia’s borders.

This is the purpose of the mutual security agreement that Putin has been trying to negotiate for a number of years only to be given the cold shoulder as by the Biden regime during December 2021-February 2022.

Ask yourselves if you think Trump is in a sufficiently powerful position to override both the neoconservative doctrine of US hegemony and the interest of the American military/security complex.

As long as the Wolfowitz Doctrine holds, and it has not been repudiated by President Trump, the Secretary of State, or Congress, the US is committed to “preventing the rise of any country that can serve as a constraint on American unilateralism.” As this is the stated commitment, how can NATO be removed from Russia’s border?

President Eisenhower warned Americans in 1961 that the rise of the Cold War with the Soviet Union prevented the demobilization of the American war machine that normally followed the end of war. Instead, a powerful military/industrial complex has risen with roots in nearly every state, which gives it enormous power in Congress and among state governors.

That was 64 years ago. Since that time the power of the military/security complex has multiplied. Is this institutionalized power willing to take the hit to its budget and power from a mutual security agreement with its principal enemy?

The questions I am asking are the determining questions. Nothing else that is said matters. Yet, these essential questions are not a part of the discussion in Washington, in Europe, or in the Kremlin. It is as if none of the participants in a growing conflict that could be terminable for life on Earth have any idea of the consequences of their decisions.

Why suddenly did Trump who a couple of days before yesterday said he didn’t want to meet with Putin demand a meeting within the week when Trump doesn’t even know what the “parameters” are? How can a serious meeting be held when a principal participant doesn’t even know what the opponent’s position is?

Why did Putin agree to such a meeting with zero preparatory work that exposes him to tremendous pressure to capitulate? This represents the total failure of Putin’s advisors. It indicates to the West that Russia is a weak defender of its interest. Perhaps more pressure will be all it takes to bring Russia in line with US hegemony.

If Trump goes into the meeting with this attitude, Putin’s choice will be to capitulate or to bring down more demonization on him and Russia for blocking peace.

It does look like Kirill Demitriev and Steve Witcoff, both globalists, have succeeded in setting up Putin and Russia.

What is on test in Alaska is Putin’s mettle.

Where Did That Six Million Number Come From?

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:32:06 +0000

Probably WW1 propaganda:

I am told by an eminent chemist that six pounds of glycerine can be extracted from the corpse of a fairly well nourished Hun… These unfortunates, when alive, were driven ruthlessly to inevitable slaughter. They are sent as ruthlessly to the blast furnaces. One million dead men are resolved into six million pounds of glycerine.

This story, like the story of soap made from Jewish corpses, later merged in Soviet propaganda during WW2.

Andrew Hollinger, a spokesman at the USHMM department of media relations, provided a document written by the museum’s historian that concludes: “Available documentary evidence and eyewitness accounts have been unable to corroborate in a conclusive manner reports that the National Socialists and their collaborators used human fat from their victims in the manufacture of soap.” It goes on to say: “rumors that Germans made soap from human remains originated in French propaganda from the First World War.”

The scholars’ view is based in -part on analysis of the small blue-green cakes of soap that Holocaust survivors have presented over the years, claiming that they were made from human fat. Breitbart says the bars are stamped “R.I.F.,” for Reich Industry Fat, but in the camps some Jews believed that the I was a J and that the acronym stood for “Jewish Fat.” When analyzed, however, the bars turned up no evidence of human DNA.

By 1990, Yad Vashem, had unequivocally determined that the manufacture of soap was no more than a “mere rumor.”

During the first world war, many myths were circulated about the Germans, including them bayoneting babies and making books bound in human skin. Given the horror of gas warfare in the conflict, it was not surprising that this later appeared in the mythos of horror circulated after WW2.

Big Beautiful Bankruptcy Update Deficits Skyrocketing

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:19:30 +0000

DiversityWatch (August 13, 2025)

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:57:47 +0000

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Can the Nazis Teach Us Anything?
Our current world order is based on democracy and its cousin Communism defeating the Nationalist powers (Germany, Japan, Italy) in the last world war. But democracy has not lived up to its promises, so we find ourselves asking if we should expand our thinking beyond its (imaginary) borders?
‘Safe room’ set up to protect performers from Kate Forbes at Edinburgh Fringe
Woman asserts that biological sex is real and ideological, symbolic, and emotional “gender identity” is probably a mental illness, so all the neurotics from the wet wipe generation coddle themselves in a special safe space room. Maybe they should pad it to get these neurotics ready for their future asylum homes. Bad breeding has caused an outbreak of mental health problems in the West.
Government expands police use of facial recognition vans
Diversity means constant surveillance, propaganda, and censorship to keep the leaky ship afloat.
My brush with death in DC
A more realistic view of the continual crime outbreak in Washington DC.
Trying to ‘Notice’ What is Going On
He quotes Steve Sailer and mentions that people are seeing through the ideological veil, possibly creating a middle-class revolution against the educated political/bureaucratic in-group. To this we might add: finally, the intelligent are striking back against the unintelligent.
Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights
They need to defend natural rights and be wary of “human rights,” one of those infinite void containers like altruism, pacifism, empathy, equality, art, love, and acceptance which are open-ended therefore become all-consuming. Censorship in the UK has pushed the country to the brink of totalitarian takeover, and its leaders do not seem concerned by this. They are creating a Brave New 1984 from their diversity good intentions, egalitarian mechinations, and bureaucratic domination. The only way out is to more organic systems like mono-ethnicism, monarchism, and capitalism.
Barbie’s inspiration was a fictional German call girl
Feminists insist she was a prostitute, but more likely Lilli was a pin-up style character. Victimhood pathology swallows up everything.
Small US towns cancel fairs celebrating Latino culture: ‘climate of fear is real’
This offends the Boomer, but mono-ethnic societies can have actual culture, are more efficient, and offer freedom from the endless racial, religious, ethnic, and cultural conflicts of humanity.
Don’t let college infantilize you
Teachers use Control like the Communists did. They like having helpless students because this makes teachers necessary.
Americans Misunderstand Social Security but Appear Open to Reform
This article makes it clear that the only way to fix the federal budget is to remove the socialist entitlements like Social Security, Medicaid, welfare, and HUD.
I have warned Whitehall about illegal migrants since my experience in 1995. No one listened
Ordinary people have finally figured out how destructive diversity is and are speaking out about it.
Germany’s anti-migrant AfD is now the most popular party in the country
WW2 is over; people can admit in public again that diversity is genocide and we want it ended.
US postal worker stole cards and checks from mail to fund lavish lifestyle, tropical vacations she flaunted online
You are not going to be able to build functional institutions with the nü-American population.
Trump Is Making Major Concessions To Union Bosses. Is It Worth It?
Unions are parasites and they are all corrupt. Trump knows this, so he has stopped the pretense of auditing budgets to catch the few unwise enough to hide their graft behind shell corporations.
Inside one of the most understaffed immigration courts in the country
Sounds like another employment program for lawyers. Try this: remove everyone who is not genetically WASP.
US accuses Germany of ‘human rights issues’ in new report
It used to be that as long as you were pro-democracy, you could get away with anything, but Trump points out the double standard and starts cracking down on liberal democratic hugboxes.
Axe attack suspect in Sweden avoided deportation for over a decade despite failed asylum request
One-man crime wave cannot be deported because he is a Kurd and faces political prosecution back home.
Vox surges as party of the working class, enticing the poor away from Sánchez’s socialists
“We workers are fed up with promises that have only led to a loss of purchasing power.” Are people finally learning the nature of socialism?
American Eagle’s Sydney Sweeney ad divides young people: poll
Only ten percent thought eugenics were involved. The rest mostly like it, having accepted that jeans companies will always use scantily dressed voluptuous young women to sell overprocessed cotton.
Hard Reality for the Right Wing
Lots of words here to carefully tip-toe around the reality: diversity is White Genocide, and we need more Western Whites (WASPs) to breed.
Before Trump Federalized D.C. Police, White House Reporters Complained for Years About Crime in Capital
The Left are simply contrarians having tantrums. They are anti-Trump. They are against the kings. They hate strong leadership. They hate wealthy people. They hate Whites (and maybe Jews). They hate unequal nature. In short, whatever works, they oppose. This is a mental illness outbreak.
The immigration dam has burst
For the first time in decades, people can actually talk about whether immigration is a good thing, and the discussion is now switching to whether diversity is a good thing. Answer: both are genocide.
Trump’s ICE Detains Record Number of Illegal Migrants
Sixty thousand down, only thirty-eight million to go.
More than 100,000 Americans Apply to Join ICE, Help Deport Illegal Aliens
People are tired of the utter civilization-ending disaster that diversity is, and how little the diversity care that they are taking us all down with them.
D.C. Police Chief Stumped by Basic Question on Chain of Command
DEI hires are faking it until they make it.
Ancient DNA reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England
And it stands out dramatically. These were probably migrants from Spain like the Irish were.
Police to reveal suspects’ ethnicity and nationality after ‘cover-up’ accusations
Slowly the walls protecting diversity from Noticing are coming down. Mr President, tear down this wall!
Trio of MS-13 migrants who terrorized Nassau County busted in joint ICE operation — face 14 counts of attempted murder
They look like a Central American take on The Ramones.
Devastating economic figures prove Rachel Reeves is sucking the life out of Britain, says Patrick Christys
Tax-and-spend devastates another place. One in twenty UK residents is on welfare for life.
Black Community Leaders in Cincinnati Demand Arrest of Beatdown Victim Who Allegedly ‘Incited’ Mob Violence
Diversity not just does not work, it is unworkable. Part as friends through reparations-with-repatriation.
Study unpacks what ‘Made in USA’ claims really mean to consumers
Working around unions, companies assemble products in the USA from foreign components.
UK Government Suggests Deleting Files To Save Water
This type of logical incoherence happens when symbolism is more important than reality and bureaucrats are rewarded for serving up a salad of buzzwords.
Austin Target shooting suspect claimed he was Jesus, chose his victims — an employee, grandfather and 4-year-old granddaughter — at random
Miscegenation has consequences. Shooting suspect has German name but looks Hispanic.
U.S. Foreign-Born Population Plunges Since Trump Inauguration
The closer the USA gets to 100% WASP, the healthier it will become. Send the Italians back!
Illegal-migrant sibling ‘monsters’ accused of Mexican double murder are nabbed in Texas
More mentally-unbalanced diversity migrants found floating around the USA.
The State Department released a long-delayed human rights report that escalates criticism of U.S. allies in Europe for perceived restrictions on freedom of expression while cutting sections on LGBTQ rights and government corruption
The US goes back to its role as a promoter of natural rights — freedom of speech, association, religion, and thought — instead of a civil rights world police.
Getting beyond answers like ‘fine’ and ‘nothing’: Five simple ways to spark real talk with kids
Ask them if jet fuel can melt steel beams (it can, especially if the Mafia and unions swapped your A-grade steel with C-grade cheaper knockoffs).
Wait, What Happened to the D.C. Evidence Lab?
Diversity cities have a bad record of running DNA labs, like Houston which seems to destroy evidence in the process of faking results for the promotion of non-White careerists.
Trump’s Washington police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about urban crime
Is it “racist” to notice that some groups do more of some crimes than others?
The hidden mental health danger in today’s high-THC cannabis
Those of fragile mental health should not use the drug regularly.
No, You Can’t Learn to Be English
England for (ethnic) English (only). Englishness is genetic, not ideological or economic.
Liberalism’s Cure for the Man Crisis Makes Men Worse
Neutering strong men will not fix the “toxic masculinity” of a few.

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What Constitution Are We Even Talking About?

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:00:42 +0000

by David Zsutty The Left clutches their pearls about the Constitution whenever the Right attempts to do anything productive, especially on immigration. Using buzzwords like “due process,” which they do not themselves believe in (as shown by the Covid lockdowns and treatment of the J6ers), is a standard Saul Alinsky tactic which is becoming less […]

Forget Ten Thousand Steps, Just Walk Fast

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:32:30 +0000

Science gets clobbered by fads like the rest of humanity. Our history seems to be one of manias, fads, panics, lotteries, and gold rushes. Consequently when some research gets sponsored to give a nice easy answer, everyone falls over themselves doing that and they miss the larger picture.

In this case, it turns out that the ten thousand step fad was a bit wrong, and you need fewer steps to reduce your chance of mortality:

Based on our meta-analyses, compared with 2000 steps per day, 7000 steps per day was associated with a 47% lower risk of all-cause mortality (HR 0·53 [95% CI 0·46–0·60]; I2=36·3; 14 studies), a 25% lower risk of cardiovascular disease incidence (HR 0·75 [0·67–0·85]; I2=38·3%; six studies), a 47% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality (HR 0·53 [0·37–0·77]; I2=78·2%; three studies), a non-significant 6% lower risk of cancer incidence (HR 0·94 [0·87–1·01]; I2=73·7%; two studies), a 37% lower risk of cancer mortality (HR 0·63 [0·55–0·72]; I2=64·5%; three studies), a 14% lower risk of type 2 diabetes (HR 0·86 [0·74–0·99]; I2=48·5%; four studies), a 38% lower risk of dementia (HR 0·62 [0·53–0·73]; I2=0%; two studies), a 22% lower risk of depressive symptoms (HR 0·78 [0·73–0·83]; I2=36·2%; three studies), and a 28% lower risk of falls (HR 0·72 [0·65–0·81]; I2=47·5%; four studies).

But ten thousand is a nice round number and more importantly, it gives people an activity that they can talk about, so it took off like a meme despite being an overzealous interpretation of the old wisdom that those who sit around too much tend to kick off early.

In fact, the ten thousand number was invented to sell a product back in the 1960s:

So where did that magic 10,000 number come from? A pedometer company called Yamasa wanted to cash in on 1964 Tokyo Olympics fever. It launched a device called Manpo-kei — literally “10,000 steps meter.” The Japanese character for 10,000 resembles a walking person, while 10,000 itself is a memorable round number. It was a clever marketing choice that stuck. At that time, there was no robust evidence for whether a target of 10,000 steps made sense. Early research suggested that jumping from a typical 3,000 to 5,000 daily steps to 10,000 would burn roughly 300 to 400 extra calories a day. So the target wasn’t completely random — just accidentally reasonable.

Now another followup points out that maybe the number is less important than the speed at which people move, echoing earlier research:

Fast walking as little as 15 minutes a day was associated a nearly 20% reduction in total mortality (HR: 0.81, 95% CI: 0.75-0.87), while only a 4% reduction in mortality (HR: 0.96, 95% CI: 0.91-1.00) was found in association with more than three hours of daily slow walking.

Interestingly, faster walking speed correlates to both longevity and higher education:

First, we examined walking speed of about 11,700 English individuals, and identified differences in aging trajectories by sex and other characteristics (e.g. education, occupation, regional wealth). Interestingly, higher educated and non-manual workers outperformed their counterparts for both men and women. Moreover, we transformed the differences between subpopulations into single years of age to demonstrate the magnitude of those gaps, which appear particularly high at early older ages.

This paper expands research on aging and physical performance. In conclusion, higher education provides an advantage in walking of up to 15 years for men and 10 years for women.

This builds on decades of previous research showing that higher IQ correlates to longevity up through the middle seventies:

The results show a positive relationship between intelligence and survival (HR•: 0.79; 95% CI: 0.81–0.76). This association is significantly moderated by the years of follow-up, the effect size being smaller the more years elapse between the intelligence assessment and the recording of the outcome. Intelligence is a protective factor to reach middle-high age, but from then on survival depends less and less on intelligence and more on other factors.

For a long happy life, be intelligent and walk fast for at least seven thousand steps a day, which is probably a couple miles. If you want to die young, keep eating cheeseburgers, being stupid, drinking sodas, and sitting on that sofa. Maybe they can bury you on it and save coffin costs.