From time to time, I imagine that one of the posts I've made will so enrage the mundane or so inspire the freedom enthusiasts, that the comments will light up. Apparently not yet. lol
Earlier this month, I found an interesting story in ZeroHedge. I read ZeroHedge because it is a news aggregator that does not post lies and snivelling drivel from commies. Your mileage may vary. Here is that link:
I believe comments in Substack automagically make links click-able, but it is worth your time to copy and paste that one if you cannot get to it otherwise.
Citigroup is run by a group of exceptionally evil people. It is one of the banking cartel "systemically important" or "too big to be allowed to ever fail no matter how evil, stupid, or disgusting they are" banks, and they are, among other sins, war profiteers. I happen to have some particular insights into Citigroup because my eldest brother had a c-suite position with them for a number of years.
My brother retired, I think, or separated from the company, as of the last day of the year 2016 if I recall correctly. A couple months later, he and I met briefly in White Plains, New York. I thought we were having something of a rapprochement, but it wasn't so. He would illustrate his lack of familial duty later that same year. But my purpose here is to share the aforementioned insights.
My family had a gathering in Summer 2009 because my dad had reached the auspicious age of 85. My eldest brother stood on the back porch for about an hour having a teleconference with Vikram Pandit and others. I believe at the time, my brother was the chief compliance officer for Citigroup, and he certainly held that title in 2014 during another family activity. In any event, I waited courteously until his phone call was over and approached him that Summer day in 2009 and asked about the robo-signing scandal. Tens of thousands of homeowners had their mortgages re-assigned without their permission.
My brother's response was shocking, to me. He said that Countrywide and other lenders had done much more of that sort of thing. That was it. That was his answer. Not, "we did wrong" but "we weren't the worst offenders." I will always remember this answer, because the man I knew who had a copy of Gandhi's biography, who wore a peace symbol to his high school graduation, who had inspired some of my views in my teenage years, was gone. In his place stood this other person who wasn't concerned with doing the right thing, but in having his company get away with wrongdoing. I have no other words fit for publication.
Another family relationship damaged through Progressivism. I'm afraid these sort of events are common place at the point where people in their personal lives must reckon with how total the enemy's malice truly is. One of my sisters, a woman who helped raise me, tried to kill my daughter in the summer of 2018. Dark stuff. It's when you open your heart to evil that you are truly lost.
Progressivism in all its descendant forms of socialism is The Great Ruination of our civil society. A society which has provided near-maximum prosperity for the most amount of people. A society based upon principles of free association and the enforced protection of liberties - and The Progressives were put here to destroy every shred of it.
Why? One practical reason is that everything they do including their own devious schemes is a failure and always will be. You can't build a utopia without murdering a few hundred million people, amirite? You see, it is not that they are failures which is so dangerous. It is not that what they do doesn't work, and it doesn't. It's not even that their true plans are purely evil, which they are. None of that matters.
The problem with our particular enemy is they never stop. Not ever. This demonic virus was unleashed upon the world at the end of the 19th Century and not once has it stopped or been stopped. Or even slowed down. Over 100-million people have either died or been murdered because of Progressives, or through trying to stop them.
Jim thinks there might finally be another way. Something real at last - instead of just words on paper or our video screens.
Yes, there are other ways, a set of paths that I describe in "Your County" and in "Search and Rescue."
One of the leaders of the communist system was Lenin. He once said, or is reputed to have said, that "you cannot make an omelette without breaking some eggs." A friend of mine, Amos Vaden, once responded, "But I cannot make any chickens if you insist on breaking all the eggs."
As is often the case, the scale of the destruction is much worse than most people have been told. Just in the 20th Century, over 262 million were killed by their own governments and 55 million died in combat. I give some of the details and various resources for evidence here: https://spaceprivenews.substack.com/p/democide
The demons were active in the 18th Century, but their boy Jean-Jacques Rousseau was not thoroughly committed. It was the successor they chose for him, Karl Marx, who really did the job of describing their evil system and writing persuasively about the usefulness to intellectuals of the demolition of civilisation and the abandonment of all principles. Since 1848, his followers have been incredibly evil. But now, at last, we have opportunities to work together.
In responding to Rousseau and others, Edmund Burke once wrote "When bad men combine, the good must associate, or they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." We are associating, and much good will arise as a result. God bless you and your families, friends.
From time to time, I imagine that one of the posts I've made will so enrage the mundane or so inspire the freedom enthusiasts, that the comments will light up. Apparently not yet. lol
Earlier this month, I found an interesting story in ZeroHedge. I read ZeroHedge because it is a news aggregator that does not post lies and snivelling drivel from commies. Your mileage may vary. Here is that link:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-05-28/will-ukraine-sink-citigroup
I believe comments in Substack automagically make links click-able, but it is worth your time to copy and paste that one if you cannot get to it otherwise.
Citigroup is run by a group of exceptionally evil people. It is one of the banking cartel "systemically important" or "too big to be allowed to ever fail no matter how evil, stupid, or disgusting they are" banks, and they are, among other sins, war profiteers. I happen to have some particular insights into Citigroup because my eldest brother had a c-suite position with them for a number of years.
My brother retired, I think, or separated from the company, as of the last day of the year 2016 if I recall correctly. A couple months later, he and I met briefly in White Plains, New York. I thought we were having something of a rapprochement, but it wasn't so. He would illustrate his lack of familial duty later that same year. But my purpose here is to share the aforementioned insights.
My family had a gathering in Summer 2009 because my dad had reached the auspicious age of 85. My eldest brother stood on the back porch for about an hour having a teleconference with Vikram Pandit and others. I believe at the time, my brother was the chief compliance officer for Citigroup, and he certainly held that title in 2014 during another family activity. In any event, I waited courteously until his phone call was over and approached him that Summer day in 2009 and asked about the robo-signing scandal. Tens of thousands of homeowners had their mortgages re-assigned without their permission.
My brother's response was shocking, to me. He said that Countrywide and other lenders had done much more of that sort of thing. That was it. That was his answer. Not, "we did wrong" but "we weren't the worst offenders." I will always remember this answer, because the man I knew who had a copy of Gandhi's biography, who wore a peace symbol to his high school graduation, who had inspired some of my views in my teenage years, was gone. In his place stood this other person who wasn't concerned with doing the right thing, but in having his company get away with wrongdoing. I have no other words fit for publication.
Another family relationship damaged through Progressivism. I'm afraid these sort of events are common place at the point where people in their personal lives must reckon with how total the enemy's malice truly is. One of my sisters, a woman who helped raise me, tried to kill my daughter in the summer of 2018. Dark stuff. It's when you open your heart to evil that you are truly lost.
Progressivism in all its descendant forms of socialism is The Great Ruination of our civil society. A society which has provided near-maximum prosperity for the most amount of people. A society based upon principles of free association and the enforced protection of liberties - and The Progressives were put here to destroy every shred of it.
Why? One practical reason is that everything they do including their own devious schemes is a failure and always will be. You can't build a utopia without murdering a few hundred million people, amirite? You see, it is not that they are failures which is so dangerous. It is not that what they do doesn't work, and it doesn't. It's not even that their true plans are purely evil, which they are. None of that matters.
The problem with our particular enemy is they never stop. Not ever. This demonic virus was unleashed upon the world at the end of the 19th Century and not once has it stopped or been stopped. Or even slowed down. Over 100-million people have either died or been murdered because of Progressives, or through trying to stop them.
Jim thinks there might finally be another way. Something real at last - instead of just words on paper or our video screens.
Yes, there are other ways, a set of paths that I describe in "Your County" and in "Search and Rescue."
One of the leaders of the communist system was Lenin. He once said, or is reputed to have said, that "you cannot make an omelette without breaking some eggs." A friend of mine, Amos Vaden, once responded, "But I cannot make any chickens if you insist on breaking all the eggs."
As is often the case, the scale of the destruction is much worse than most people have been told. Just in the 20th Century, over 262 million were killed by their own governments and 55 million died in combat. I give some of the details and various resources for evidence here: https://spaceprivenews.substack.com/p/democide
The demons were active in the 18th Century, but their boy Jean-Jacques Rousseau was not thoroughly committed. It was the successor they chose for him, Karl Marx, who really did the job of describing their evil system and writing persuasively about the usefulness to intellectuals of the demolition of civilisation and the abandonment of all principles. Since 1848, his followers have been incredibly evil. But now, at last, we have opportunities to work together.
In responding to Rousseau and others, Edmund Burke once wrote "When bad men combine, the good must associate, or they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." We are associating, and much good will arise as a result. God bless you and your families, friends.