Also Asian carp and kudzu (japan?) both courtesy of the USA.

China also provided the Citrus Greening Disease that nearly whipped out all Florida citrus and still hasn’t recovered. This years crop is the smallest in the last 20 years. Compliments of China.

I believe, not certain however, that a species of termite also hitched a ride and wound up in New Orleans area and is spreading, the species might be from South East Indochina however.

this is the silver lining to elections now being pointless; allowing a mind like this to vote is harmless.

The Jews have the “righteous gentile” award. I’m wondering what award we should bestow to Jews like Unz that hew rigorously to the truth? Logos Judeo? Race traitor (meant in the finest possible sense)? Help me out here guys.

Could you elaborate?

I love the “chew toy” reference. That’s gotta be one of the most accurate descriptors of how Normie’s consume faux news that I’ve ever heard. It’s takes “look squirrel” to a whole new level.

I lived and worked in Argentina for ten years. Don’t even think about it. Women are gorgeous, though high maintenance.

The fundamental problem with running away is that it doesn’t do anything to stop your enemies; at best it delays them. Retreating to a more favorable battle position isnt a bad idea, but if you think you can win without fighting, you’re going to be in for a ride awakening.

Newsome has banned single homes, only 4-quad units are to be built in the same sized lots. The Haitians won’t mind a little crowding, heck, they won’t even see it as crowding.

We have guns a galore and soldiers galore, if we steadfastly refuse to learn to organize , decide on a common purpose and use them for that purpose if needed than we deserve what we get. As R,A,H, said Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.

Stuff like this happens all the time because the average citizen is unaware, and often unable to comprehend, the magnitude of the double-dealing. At some point in the distant past, it might have been possible to have enough clever, aware individuals who could have stopped this nonsense in its tracks via the system’s own mechanisms. But there is no societal bandwidth or aptitude apparently to fix such a robustly corrupt system.

John Williams gets to the truth (ish) by stripping out all the changes made since the Carter regime @ Shadowstats. It’s paywalled but there’re some good freebies.

The problem isn’t SSI or SS But insisting that a national pensions scheme continue to be funded by a pay-go method adopted only as a compromise nearly a hundred years ago.Figure out how much it will cost, tax that much, spend that much.Now sure the political capital is lacking and the damage done to our incomes via trade matters but our issues aren’t money but culture, immigration and economically the refusal of anyone to pay the actual and proper cost to sustain a civilization.if you want clean air, clean land, clean water and a decent standard of living for workers or hell children at all this comes at a cost that everyone needs to pay. Right now the working classes can’t because they can’t even make ends meet , fix that and everyone chips in.Honestly this economic cuckoldry displayed by so many on the Right is frustrating ,money isn’t even if the prime problem. Its an bottom tier one. People who insist on derailing cultural conversation because its hard (and I am not talking about you The Greek) with jibber jabber and economic minutia ought to be treated as if they are in the other side because functionally they are.We have many ways to make ourselves materially comfortable but only a narrow path to a good society.

The desire to humiliate the target audience explains both Trump and Biden to some degree. Psychological warfare and a delight in its desserts.

Veep throat. Amazing!

So far, Western exposure to Evergrande seems limited. Credit Suisse is openly crowing their risk procedures worked and they got out months ago. So, enjoy this tiny bit of good news on this crisp autumn afternoon.

You know, sometimes I get the sense our country isn’t terribly well run.

Most of the junkies on the street near me are white people. And there’s alot of them. Don’t really know what is going on to our people, especially since in my own circles nobody goes much beyond an occasional joint or glass of wine.I find it doubly surprising since the demand for unskilled labour is quite high. I saw a posting in a rural area for a flatbed semi truck driver, starting at 80,000 + benefits, no experience necessary. Yeah I know it’s not the most exciting job but there’s really no reason for a white person to be living on the streets when there is still money to be made.I don’t get the allure of drugs, and I don’t get why people would rather be hobos than work. Work is a struggle sometimes, but so is life. Life is a struggle and the Bible teaches us to be prepared to struggle every day.

NY Post article cites “a car accident” as cause of death.https://nypost.com/2021/09/22/rip-angelo-codevilla-conservative-thinker-who-took-on-ruling-class/

Codevilla was an enemy of the US Intelligence Services. But not anymore. So was Michael Hastings. But not anymore. He who has eyes to see and ears to hear, let him see and hear.

That reminds me of VD’s post from a few days ago about Carthage and the NWO, which reminded me of how the Nazis couched the Reich in Roman imagery, which provoked a lot of confused feelings, which might or might not have been the point. Idk.

It’s the same playbook they run everywhere else they’re in complete control, and yet the promised socialist utopia fails to materialize. Every college in the land paints the college town surrounding it as a hotbed of racism, ignoring that they have controlled everything there since the late 1960s — meaning, they’re either full of crap in re: the effectiveness of their “anti-racism education,” or they themselves are flaming racists. Places like Detroit blame Republicans and Whitey, which in their minds are of course the same thing, despite the fact that there ARE no White people in Detroit, and a Republican hasn’t been elected so much as dog catcher there in more than half a century.So, yeah, “you people are racists for reading, or not reading, the stories we choose to publish” makes perfect sense.

Your point is very valid. And it’s not a new phenomenon. I’ve seen, years ago the same comment: that it’s the little blonde (White) girl taht gets the major media attention. But your comment today, that now they are blaming the readership for being racists, is “new to me!” You’re totally right, of course. Talk about hubris: the MSM control the narrative, at least, decide what stories to publish. And in stereotypical Liberal fashion, they are now the helpless victims, forced to kowtow to the needs of the market (e.g. their “racist” customers). Jeez. 😒Longer-term, your observation that human interest stories almost always swamp the more important political, economic, military, etc. events is spot-on. “Keep your eye on the shiny object!”

So Racist we watch what they put out! We are SHAMELESS

Women-folk eat that junk up. Especially your standard issue Karen from the Suburbs. Because they are probably the only people still watching television. I love her dearly, but My Lovely Mrs. cannot escape the feminine imperative (An Attack On One Woman Is An Attack On Us All) and will comment on this story.Me? Typical male response: “Gee, sounds bad, guy looks guilty, why is this national news?”Meanwhile the diversity in the big city in my new home state are emulating Chicago and shooting each other in increasing rates. THAT’S more important news to me.However it is fun to hear Karens get shamed for caring about other white women from diverse women. Who let their men go feral and shoot up everybody, including their women.

They are just repeating exactly same thing they did in England over a middle class woman called Sarah Everard, not long ago. Total psy-op.An MP suggested a curfew for men and it was agreed that we were all very, very racist.

The ageing White liberal ruling class is pretty much powerless to stop mass immigration at this point even if they wanted to. I think it’s more accurate to say they could have stopped it back when it mattered, and before the demographics changed.Schumer and Pelosi, both representative examples of that demographic, are older than 70 while the much younger, and more racially aware, “Squad” members are clearly the future of the democratic party at this point. The current ruling class knows that, which is why both of those politicians have repeatedly backed down in conflicts with Squad members.Nancy Pelosi had to struggle to win one more speakership from her party, which I believe was based on the promise that she wouldn’t be around much longer. If she pushes the issue, she might be replaced with a POC, just as several prominent White democrats have been (that’s how AOC got her seat). Same with Schumer and all the rest. They can’t stop immigration because that would be construed as “racist” and they’d be removed from their positions in response. The ruling class is in full “keep your head down and go along to get along” mode. The next step is fleeing the country.

“If…there were bunch of White South Africans”Biff Boom BAM

The parallel societies being set up by illegals for illegals are exactly the type of model we should be studying and pulling ideas from to develop our own parallels.

“The US elites will probably pivot away from Mexican labour towards “legal” “skilled labour” from India and China.”Skilled immigration from India may ultimately prove disastrous for the United States in particular. As the world’s policeman, the desires of its ethnic populations drive global policy. Cuba, for example, is heavily embargoed because republicans need Cuban votes to win Florida. Israel runs Washington because both parties need funding from Jewish ethnic interests. The Armenian and Iranian communities in the United States have likewise tried, and occasionally succeeded, in directing some elements of American foreign policy, albeit with less success than the mighty Israel lobby. Adding in a powerful, and wealthy, Indian demographic may very well lead to conflict with China down the road, and perhaps more Middle Eastern wars as well.You can see this bubbling up in the culture already if you care to look. Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims, a minority demographic the Indian elite finds threatening in their home country, inspired powerful Indian interests in the United States to support him during the 2016 campaign. One Indian American later bragged afterwards that this was responsible for flipping Wisconsin and almost turning Minnesota red. It’s notable that India was the one large country that consistently maintained significant levels of support for Donald Trump. When he traveled there, the man was greeted as a rockstar.Search YouTube for English language Indian news services and you’ll find several that attacked Joe Biden for withdrawing from Afghanistan, a nation now allied with India’s Pakistani rival; they also solicited foreign support for ethnic groups opposing the Taliban. These outlets have also propagandized against various Muslim nations. One gets the feeling they are trying to get the US to attack them on India’s behalf. I expect changing American demographics to make the nation’s ruling class more belligerent towards India’s rivals over time – China, Muslims, various Asian countries – with potentially disastrous results.This phenomenon has been common throughout American history. Consider the World Wars. The demographic most supportive of both were White Southerners of British descent. Southern directors like DW Griffith made propaganda films imploring the public to support the British while Austrian director von Stroheim often had immigrant audiences cheer his suave depiction of Austrian military officials. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southerner of British extraction, likewise (tacitly at first) supported entry into the First World War on behalf of the UK and against the Germans just as his WASP coethic Franklin Roosevelt would a couple of decades later. Those least supportive of entry into both World Wars were Americans of German and Irish descent, the latter of which had a rocky relationship with the British for generations. The famed navigator Charles Lindbergh and the diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy are examples.Was American entry into those wars really about “making the world safe democracy” (the British still had an empire, Russia was an autocracy) or were they simply ethnic conflicts brought about by America’s demographic composition? It could be imagined they were motivated by more base desires: protecting their British coethics overseas, with whom most Americans at the time shared a common language and culture. During the Revolutionary War, the gentrified British South was also the least supportive of breaking with the king.It’s not inconceivable that had the US taken in triple the number of Irish and German immigrants, the country might not have sided with the British, or even allied against them, during the World Wars. What does that trend portend for a future United States inundated by immigrant groups with an axe to grind against their rivals overseas? Do we go to war with China on behalf of India once we have a powerful Indian lobby, media operation, and president? Do we invade Iran or Pakistan? … do we eventually turn against Europe once the demographics change? Hasn’t that already happened?Consider what recently occurred with hostility against Russia, which one might credibly argue was an ethnic conflict against Caucasians in general (the democrat POC’s rival race/ethnicity) and “Christians” in particular after they kicked out all of those “non-native” billionaires. The latter group funded American politicians to retaliate against their enemies overseas. Notably, George Soros – angry at losing money over China’s new social policies – is now advocating conflict with that country. That kind of thing is common, and I think it may grow worse as American policy is hijacked by a wealthy few attempting to manipulate it for their benefit personally and their tribe’s benefit overseas. Things are going to get much more belligerent as the Empire spirals down, I suspect.

Btw, a great – but really long – paper on the phenomenon of how bad news can actually be good for the market because it causes government intervention is by a guy calling himself Jessie Livermore (a pseudonym using the name of the great investor from the early 20th century) called Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation, and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes.

Citizen: I neither follow nor truly understand all the financial markets and details in any sense, but I trust you and believe you know what you’re talking about. All I can add is that what happens in the market appears to bear no relation to the price of tangible assets. We all know the cost of housing and land is through the roof, and food costs are rising rapidly. Used cars/trucks are either unavailable or cost as much as new. No need to comment re firearms and ammo. Generators are backordered by 6-12 months. SunDanzer fridges/freezers have been out of stock since I first started looking at them. I’m not a goldbug but it seems counterfactual to me for gold’s price to drop when there is so much economic uncertainty.And while I’ve noticed no shortages in the grocery store, there’s a prominent article at the Daily Mail today saying Costco is reinstating limits on toilet paper and cleaning products. I’ve never shopped at Costco, and haven’t yet noticed any hoarding. But if this report is true it may well also be predictive – all the local Han and pajeet will be out in force loading up their carts. Really tired of riding this roller coaster.

I think you are making the common mistake most people make and that is that the rules are fixed. While I admit they will defend that status quo for as long as humanly possible, when they decide to no longer defend the status quo, the rules will change.“That’s fine as long as interest rates remain low. But interest rates can’t stay low if inflation starts to rise”Why not? Rising interest rates are a policy decision. As long as the fed wants low interest rates, we’re gonna have low interest rates. The government lies about inflation anyway. Inflation could become so bad that lying about it becomes impossible, but inflation is another way of getting rid of debt. As you mention, the important people (corporations) are loaded up with debt. High inflation is good for them. They are just not going to jack interest rates and bankrupt everyone (as I understand it, this debt is not in 30 year bonds, that most of it is in short term paper) who matters to save us money on energy bills and food. You can starve and freeze as far as they are concerned. You don’t matter.The US is still in reasonably good condition. Because whatever problems we have in terms of the Dollar, pale in comparison to other currencies which could replace ours, even theoretically. Basically the Euro or the Renminbi. No other market is big enough. US accounting can be trusted and the EU is not a country. The EU could collapse in 5 years. Whatever happens in the US, the US will still exist in 5 years.

There is a solution to that which is ongoing:1) “Interest rates will rise since the Fed cannot buy all government debt”Solution: The Fed buys all government debt2) “But then the market rate between corporate and government debt will show the lie!”Solution: The Fed buys all corporate debt3) “But then the price between the asset will become disjointed, it’s not like the Fed can buy everything”Solution: The Fed has Blackrock buy everythingAnd so on…It seems clever at the moment, but of course it does nothing in regards to inflation. They’ve merely collected a bunch of assets that would be destroyed in private hands and put them on the government’s ledger instead (Solution: force you to buy those assets).

Just addressing your comment on rent in the CPI. The biggest thing holding rent number down in the CPI is that the numbers are cooked. They don’t actually take rental averages from new leases or what’s actually paid. They use what they call “Owners Equivalent Rent” (OER). Essentially, they just survey condo/homeowners and ask them, “hey how much would you rent your place for if it were theoretically on the market?” Obviously, people that own property aren’t as up to date on current rental prices so they underestimate the number, which lowers the CPI.

Throat cutting and lynching usually does that.

The bookPoorly Made in Chinais but one example of how much, “fun,” it was for Westerners to deal with Chinese manufacturers. If you’re pressed for time, you need only read the chapter titled, “Price Go Up!” to get a sense of the scene.

For those who haven’t read them, the Motie reference is to a friendly (at first) alien life form featured in the excellent Niven/Pournelle science fiction novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye

Apex Predator: Well said, Sir.

I am seeing much of the same. There is a growing undercurrent of normies taking up positions along the continuum of dissident.One thing the political correct leftiod conversion in every aspect of public life has done is to chase discontent and the social discourse around it underground. Covid has forced much of it to the surface, but there is a swelling underground river of anger that is plowing through the bedrock of convention looking for ways to spring up – and out.Many guys I know are toeing the lines, pulling the wagon at work by day and plotting their escape by night. They are careful (some might say cowardly) to not disrupt what they see as their rightful harvest of the debt-stacked economic ponzi by overtly disrupting their role in the status quo – or progressive manicured social strata.They were all long globohomo some months back but now are highly anxious in the timing of that final harvest. Whether or not they extract their handful of rice before they get the club is a question that goes to timeline.And that handful of rice, I reckon, is a big part of what differentiates the cunning merchant from the coward, unfortunately. Commerce over community is salted soil that will take some time and/or some extreme sorts of motivation to overcome. But these guys I know – entrepreneurs, financiers, traders, and dotgov/mil operators are mentally over the falls. The goliath will soon be without their labor and talents. Whether or not a community becomes the beneficiary is another matter.

Meh.Having a tantrum and “living on an island” doesn’t do much good for anybody. Alot of these guys are seeing this, feeling demoralized, and just quitting society. But they don’t have the corresponding mindset shift towards being redpilled, racist, or dissident. Moving back into the woods or a small town makes you a sitting duck until new subdivisions or section 8 are built.Moving away can be ok, if you are actually working to build up a dissident community. But I’ve seen alot of older white guys throwing their hands up and saying “well,that’s just life” and moving away to a town where they can ignore the demographical crisis until they die.There’s also the fact that the usa is by far the most dissident country. Where are you going to move to? The Philippines? The entire anglosphere is far more leftist and authoritarian. If you move to the third world, a) it’s the third world b) you’re contributing to help a foreign people and c) your grandkids will almost certainly be foreign (aka mixed).

Since prepping is near entirely a White thing, I say stock up and strike first. Better we shut it down for a time before the dips lose control and shut it down forever. White Strike!

Looks like Australia is experiencing this a bit. We’ll see how far it goes.

Its kind of happening now. Do to a lack of well anyone who can do complex engineering tasks, here in So Cal large numbers of jobs simply aren’t able to be completed.I know a huge company (name redacted) that do to bad practices , under paying people and anti White bias ended up so short on workers that they are running 3 years or more behind on major projects. If the government and other agencies weren’t such clowns, this company would already be in lawsuit city but clown world devours its own.On that topic, it may be quite soon that nothing will be delivered without cash up front.A large invoice factoring company in Texas just went Chapter 11 and they had been taking invoices but not paying the person giving them said invoiceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcAmGvwzpQY“Trucking companies in danger, invoice factoring Co files bankruptcy stops paying freight brokers. Instapay flexible (A Invoice Factoring Company) has filed for bankruptcy and has stopped paying its customers and are not answering their phones. This can cause a huge supply chain disruption when shippers are not paid and suppliers are not payed either.”My words hereHow this works is, some company like Walmart doesn’t pay for 90 days or more instead investing the money for more profit. You need money now so you essentially sell you AR to a factoring company who takes 5-10% of the top and gives you the money now. Kind of like those J.G. Wentworth parasite commercials we all see.Problem is if they stop paying and Walmart doesn’t pay either producers demand cash up front or maybe a very short pay cycle or go out of business.This means nothing gets to the stores. The end result of that is well not good.

Just make sure there’s has in the car.

I do love how they’re being as opaque as possible with this Evergrande thing, I man it really must bebad. Their issue is that they have no where to export their inflation to; the rest of the world was able to export their bail-out money printing to slave labor in China, but if China tries the same stunt (which they almost certainly will) they will inflate their currency into nothingness.So, would China start an imperial war out of the blue? No, ridiculous. However, would Xi start an imperial war to save his regime? Well I was going to put those odds at 50/50, but given the history of such actions it’s probably closer to 75/25 in favor.

While the Chinese military shouldn’t be overlooked, we need to be careful not to fall into the trap of looking for the next Cold War crusade to go on. China is terrible for all of the reason that Z Man discussed in the Power Hour. But what is China going to do militarily that makes a difference to any of us? It’s the old thing about how China (or Russia) isn’t dumping 3rd World foreigners into our neighborhoods or teaching our children to hate White people.

If the rumors are to be believed, China is way ahead of us on hypersonics, probably thanks to some help from Russia. The US can’t even successfully test fire a single hypersonic prototype and has canceled a couple other hypersonic programs, allegedly due to lack of funding. This is just one narrow area where the Chinese have pulled ahead of the US. This is also why the Deep State’s furious hysteria about Russia during Trump’s term that drove them towards China’s orbit was absolutely moronic, and it’s probably one of the most short-sighted geostrategic moves of all-time.

Off topic. Professor Severian, you OK? The chestnuts have gone silent.

“It’s a free country” I can’t even remember the last time I heard that expression used. Like the images of Liberty Bells and Ben Franklin on July 4th, it’s shimmied up the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible.

Borrowing a sentiment from good old Enoch Powell, “…it is as if we are watching a nation busily heaping up its own funeral pyre…”

If it’s any consolation, a hundred, or even twenty years in to the future the newcomers are going to grasp the unpalatable truth that if the legacy white people can’t have the nation they built, that once existed hereabouts, then neither will anybody else.