Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“When we see a completely insane public policy which has become a universal dogma — such as liberal internationalism in postwar US foreign policy — we are usually looking at the rotten, ossified ghost of a strategy which in its youth was sane and effective.” — Curtis Yarvin, The Gray Mirror
After Commander-in-Chief (ahem) “Joe Biden” demonstrated our ability to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon leisurely wandering the jet stream clear across North America, he loosed the Air Force on every other menacing aerial object hovering in our sovereign skies and… Ira Tonitrus… mission accomplished! It took the President another week to admit sheepishly that the three other targets were “most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions,” not alien invaders from another galaxy, as regime spoxes hinted and the news media played-up for days. Note to America’s hot air ballooning community for the upcoming spring launch season: be very afraid!
If Russia was impressed by the successful balloon op, it didn’t offer any comment. Russia was busy neutralizing America’s pet proxy palooka, sad-sack Ukraine, sent into the ring to soften-up Russia for a revolution aimed at overthrowing the wicked Vlad Putin — at least according to our real Secretary of State (and Ukraine war show-runner), Victoria Nuland, in remarks this week to the Carnegie Endowment, a DC think tank.
Speaking of tanks, Our NATO allies are getting cold feet about sending those Leopard-2 war wagons into the Ukraine cauldron. Something about it had a discouraging act-of-war odor, as, by the way, did blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, alleged by veteran reporter Seymour Hersh — though that caper was actually against NATO member and supposed US ally, Germany. WTF? Are the doings in Western Civ getting a little too complex for comfort?
Anyway, it turns out that the thirty-one Abrams tanks America promised to Ukraine have yet to be bolted together at the tank factory. It’s a special order, you see, because we don’t want to send the latest models built with super-high-tech armor that the Russians might capture and learn from… so Mr. Zelensky will just have to cool his jets waiting on delivery, say, around Christmas time… if he’s not singing Izprezhdi Vika somewhere in Broward County, Florida, by then.
The biggest problem Russia has in resolving this conflict on its border, is doing it in a way that does not drive “JB” and his posse of war-mongers so batshit crazy that they resort to a nukes-flying, world-ending, Thelma-and-Louise type denouement. In effect, America put a bomb on Russia’s front porch and now Russia has to carefully defuse the darn thing. The prank itself was just the last in a long line of foolish American military escapades that have ended in humiliation for us, most recently the Afghan fiasco. At best, this one in Ukraine — which we started in 2014 — is on-track to sink NATO, plunge Europe into cold and darkness, and put the USA out of business.
In the meantime, America is rapidly disintegrating on the home front. Is it attempted suicide or murder? It’s a little hard to tell. Things are blowing up from sea to shining sea — food processing facilities, giant chicken barns, regional electric grids, oil refineries. The latest, of course, is a chemical spill from the Norfolk-Southern train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, set ablaze by a conclave of government officials purportedly to keep the toxic liquids from seeping into the Ohio River watershed and beyond. Of course, in the dithering prior to lighting it up, enough vinyl chloride leached into streams feeding the big river to kill countless fish. And then torching the remaining chemical pools sent up a mushroom cloud of dioxin and other poisons that killed wildlife, pets, and chickens before the evil miasma wafted eastward on the wind to the densely-populated Atlantic coast.
One has to wonder whether an army of saboteurs is on the loose across the land. Considering the border with Mexico is wide open, why wouldn’t America’s adversaries send whole wrecking crews over here to mess with our infrastructure? There’s no question that people from all over the planet have been sneaking across the Rio Grande. Surely some of them are on a mission. America is filled with “soft” targets, things unguarded and indefensible — not least, tens of thousands of miles of railroad track. Of all the reasons to be unnerved by “Joe Biden’s” open border policy, this one is the least discussed, even in the alt-media. But it seems like a no-brainer for nefarious interests who might want to bamboozle and disable us.
The sad truth of this moment in history is that the USA has too much going sideways with our own business at home now to be dabbling in any foreign misadventures — and we couldn’t have picked a worse place than Ukraine to do it. The sheer logistics are implausible. The geography is lethally unfavorable. The place has been inarguably within Russia’s sphere of influence for centuries and Russia has every intention of pacifying the joint at all costs. Peace talks are apparently out of the question for our leaders. Something’s got to give, and that something is probably Western Civ’s financial system. It’s primed to blow anyway, and when it does, we’ll have other things to think about.
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My first thought on the Ohio train derailment was that this was Russian pushback.
On the balloons I wonder why expensive missiles were used instead of good old fashions bullets.
I totally agree with the author that bad things are going to happen from the invading hordes pouring over the southern border.
Went to Home Depot a few weeks ago and was swarmed by a bunch of beaners expecting me to hire one of them for work. Fortunately I had my Ruger 9mm translator to convey the message “No Trabajo!” without having to say a damned thing.
Shouldn’t you try to overcome your brainwashing?
He can’t — it was implanted there by NASA
YYYOU FIRST…
Good sarcasm, like good coffee, shouldn’t have to be explained…
It should just be enjoyable….
Good sarcasm, there, M… maybe that helps your downvoters…whew…
Sounds like enablers of illegal aliens, hiring them and such. Geez, imagine that! Not in America!
I saw this a bunch at a HD in North Tarrant County before leaving there. I know a guy that shot one at a HD over an argument. Didn’t kill him.
I can imagine Houston area really sucks with illegals. DFW was and is no different. I don’t know , maybe they have green cards for “contractors” without the papers.
Fuck Washington DC and it’s hordes of scum
Fuck the perennially compliant masses, without whom none of this would continue.
Lead us into the streets with your pitchfork, o courageous one !!!
Pitchfork? I’m talking about mass refusal, in place of mass compliance; not violence:
Ending Tyranny Without Violenc,e by Murray N. Rothbard
EXCERPT:
” . . . every tyranny must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance. In short, the bulk of the people themselves, for whatever reason, acquiesce in their own subjection. If this were not the case, no tyranny, indeed no governmental rule, could long endure. Hence, a government does not have to be popularly elected to enjoy general public support; for general public support is in the very nature of all governments that endure, including the most oppressive of tyrannies. The tyrant is but one person, and could scarcely command the obedience of another person, much less of an entire country, if most of the subjects did not grant their obedience by their own consent.”
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BTW, “DS”, bravery is essential. Fear will get you more of the same.
You’re right — I guess that I read more into your comment than was there, based on the “tone” you projected. My apologies.
I do agree with you — I wish we had some mass protests, boycotts, or multi-day general strikes. I’m tired of no real puish-back at all. I’d go to Colombus to a rally, even though it’d be a 3 hour drive, if one was announced…
I meant to merely withdraw consent (en masse) to be governed. No need to try (unsuccessfully, again) to “peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances” (1st Amendment); just mass refusal to comply.
This might help, too:
EXCERPT:
Four words: “Follow the rules exactly.”
That’s it? That’s it.
Any system? Any system.
There are reasons for this. These reasons are universal.
First, every institution assumes voluntary compliance in at least 95% of all cases. This may be a low-ball estimate. Most people comply, either out of fear or lack of concern or strong belief in the system and its goals.
Second, every institution has more rules than it can follow, let alone enforce. Some of these rules are self-contradictory. The more rules, the larger the number of contradictions. (There is probably a statistical pattern here – some variant of Parkinson’s law.)
Third, every institution is built on this assumption: partial compliance. Not everyone will comply with any given procedural rule. There are negative sanctions to enforce compliance on the few who resist. They serve as examples to force compliance. Conversely, very few people under the institution’s jurisdiction will attempt to force the institution to comply exactly with any procedural rule.
…peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I do appreciate Daniel McAdams over at Ron Paul Institute. And of course Ron Paul.
I tried the “libertarian” thought in politics, what the hell, I’ll check out a local Libertarian Party outfit. They all spoke highly of Ron Paul but when I checked platforms of some local and state candidates I soon realized I was sitting in a room of tolerance as in gay ol boys and girls. Probably 10% gay and way more than that in tolerance. Fucking disappointing. I wander the wilderness alone now. The two party dupe has the country by the balls.
The problem is that there’s no such thing as a libertarian party. Government and liberty are antithetical. Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe and several others explain this well. Government will never be in the service of the multitude. It only amplifies the worst.
“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments. ― Ludwig Von Mises
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.” ― Ludwig von Mises
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” ― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1747054-national-konomie-theorie-des-handelns-und-wirtschaftens
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
“It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, Omnipotent Government
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2696881-omnipotent-government-the-rise-of-the-total-state-and-total-war
A tree is known by its fruit.
I use to read articles from Mises Institute. And I caught political forum hell for reading Lew Rockwell. Basically hell for offering something besides status quo. Their loss, my gain for working the brain cells a bit.
From Mises: With the help of our extraordinary supporters, the Mises Institute is the world’s leading supporter of the ideas of liberty and the Austrian school of…
ideas of liberty but only ideas.
No need for foreigners to try and sabotage the country. The Bidet regime is doing it for them.
These guys are about 110 miles from me I just discovered. “Joe Biden” fired $400k missiles at 32″ balloons. They say they get them up as high as 47,000 feet and they travel around the world with a GPS locator and HAM transmitter. They get people to take them to places like Antarctica and launch them. From what I can gather, some stay aloft for a year or more. The one shot down in Alaska was under 1,000 feet. “Gee, should we shoot at it with a rifle for a few bucks or should we use a $400k missile from a $100 million jet?”
Yep,as always,looks grim,that said……,don’t forget to laugh!
Prepper duck reminds you to enjoy your weekend!
The UFO psyop distraction was so unbelievably stupid that anyone who thought for a moment aliens came to earth, should hang their head in shame.
Thoroughly Modern Milley now says there will be a negotiated end to Ukraine. Apparently all is in place for the ONE FUCKING TRILLION DOLLARS you and I are supposed to pay to rebuild this place while we don’t have a Dime for East Palestine PA.
Dementia Joe the grifting Chinese butt boy has a new plan/scam. Raise inheritance taxes to give everybody 18 and under a $1,000 savings account. Maybe a good idea as an entire generation will get a quick lesson in inflation. Wonder what they might be allowed to spend it on eventually? Abortions and donating to BLM or DNC?
As Cartman might say to Dementia Joe, “I hate you, so very, very much!”
ON THE OHIO SPILL (a comment on the internet, not me):
As a chemical / environmental engineer who specializes in process equipment and pollution control, many of my friends and associates have asked my take on this.
In crisis you need to make hard decisions quickly. Attempting a “controlled” depresurization of the tank contents was preferable to an uncontrolled explosion. Plus there were several cars on fire and we don’t know for sure what was in each. A chain reaction of tankers exploding… who knows what would have gone where.
As for Vinyl Chloride (VC) specifically it’s permissible exposure limit is only 1 ppmv. By burning it you end up with hydrochloric acid… sounds scarry but it’s less dangerous. It’s a strong acid but NOT a carcinogen.
Basically
C2H3Cl + O2 –> HCl + H2O + CO2
[I didn’t bother balancing the equation]
In fact incineration (followed by scrubbing) is how one would treat laege scale VC emissions at a chemical plant.
Adsorption also works, but is impractical for the quantity of material in this case; for every 1b of VC You need 70 to 100 lbs of absorbent. I doubt they’d be able to mobilize that much material that quickly.
Plus, dilution is the solution to pollution. As much as it sucks getting HCL in the air (I have not heard about them scrubbing at all… probably to problematic to deploy a scrubber to the site and set it up) it will dissipate.
Now the water and the soil are another matter… but here two there are ways to get it clean, even under the tracks, via in Situ Thermal Remediation.
That can come later. Right now they need to mitigate as best the can and clear out the wreckage.
I’m not saying the EPA or the feds are infallible on this.. from what I’ve read the entire crisis could have been managed better… but Incannrespect that I the moment they are choosing the “least bad” option based on limited information.
As an aside, yes VC is a known carcinogen and yes it has been outlawed or replaced in many industrial processes… (TCE used to be used as a degreaer / solvent… over time it decomposes to VC… thus TCE usage has been regulated pretty much out of existance. Dry cleaners used to use it by the drum full.)
However VC is the main feedstock used to make PVC and CPVC… the sort of stuff you have at your local hardware store for plumbing projects.
And the majority of bulk chemical is shipped by rail, rather than road because it is “safer”. Most major chemical plants have a rail spur that goes right to the plants point of loading and unloading.
A massive derailment introduces a host of complicating factors.
FWIW, I am noodling on a mitigation method that could be field deployed quickly should something like this happen in the future.
Thank you for sharing the information.
Balls to say openly what no one else will say. Watch your back sista.
You should contact Russ Schindler at Sample Serve. He holds several remediation patents. First met him in Knoxville 20+ year ago, where he was injecting O2 to remediate hydrocarbons at Texaco’s Terminal there.
That wasn’t my comment. I found it on another site and decided to post it here.
Overlooked that. Can you comment on that comment and ask that chemical expert if the ten year development/test rule is real?
Let me ask you then is it true when chemicals are developed corporations do not release them to government or public for ten years in order to allow thorough testing they are not harmful? Asking for my pest control acquaintance with the chemist wife. BTW, I do my own pest control and with a good cat never see evidence of mice or rats around the dwelling.
But this is “textbook theory” bullshit. It might be true if you have a perfectly balanced mix and controlled reaction. This was anything but that.
Huge amounts of material were aerosolized by the burn, without combining to make hydrochloric acid.
But… but the dioxins!
Where are the downvoters, and the ‘100s of sq miles are lethally contaminated for centuries’ hyperventilists?
love canal & the place in missouri?–
are they still as polluted as it was once believed or are they cleaning themselves up or being cleaned up?
times beach, mo.
Tred- Times Beach has been a state park for years from what I understand. That must have been the test for this end time fukery.
What about Seveso.
The stage is being set… from which direction will the “hero” come?
From Queens, NY?
florida
Honestly all, when Jesus returns. For now grin and bear it. Meanwhile, I don’t care if I ever go to Queens, ain’t happening.
Credentials over competence was bad when the viable credentials were related to the subject at hand (Milley). If the credentials for Sec. of Transpo. are be a queer with a husband and a boughten baby or two (how else do two steers make a calf?) we can’t expect a lot of transpo leadership from the faggot can we? What type of queer runs EPA?
The ILLEGAL ALIENS aren’t SNEAKING IN! They’re MARCHING in whilst Biden plays them a tune and hands them welfare and plane tickets!
Biden is a TRAITOR!
I’m curious how they are buying groceries and such, i.e. are the unscrupulous giving them work at reduced wages? Do they immediately receive green cards. Perhaps the capitalists are giving them work under the table and “saving money” on the labor except Ron Paul mentioned long ago the country has never really known capitalism with exception of the crony variety.
Maybe they have rich uncles from where they came. Maybe they simply walk into a SS office with no credentials, no identification other than perhaps from where they came and SS just writes them a check. They then go to the check cashing places ( also unscrupulous) where they are charged 30% to cash the check.
bucknp,
many of them rent from me –once biden got in,he allowed all the ones that trump insisted remain in mexico to come in along with opening the borders —
they are given id & flown somewhere –many of mine came from jax.,fl so i believe that that is a major destination —
i have never had it confirmed but i sense that they are also given a good chunk of $,along w/regular benes that fsa americans receive —
once here,it does not take long 4 them to receive id & work authorization -the id leads to them being eligible 4 a drivers license —
Can you be be held to account for refusing to rent to a non-citizen?
Not trying to call you out…I just want to know the legalities of it all.
in a nutshell,probably –i’ve never checked but it would probably be considered discrimination but in all honesty,i am a poor man’s landlord & at the socioeconomic level these people are at i would rather have illegals & barely legals as opposed to native borns who are a pos —
however,there did not used to be any help 4 illegals & now they are receiving benes,complete bs —
A friend got into residential rental investments. He eventually had purchased 16 duplexes and the way he explained was like a mortgage on a single residence but double the rent. Rolling in high cotton until one day…some woman sued him and won saying he refused to rent to her. That was it for the friend.
Incidentally , this took place in North Richland Hills, Tarrant County , Texas. And some 30 years!
They obey occupancy limits though, right?
Holy smokes! It’s really nothing new recalling things like Reagan years amnesty. Just a different “way”.
Burn it all to the ground, and rebuild your own reality from the ashes. The alternative is FAR worse.
Props to you nutty mutherfuggs puttin in real work on these globohoes.
The world is yours. Take it.
Something is awfully fishy about the number of unsolved forest fires in the last few years.
Whata ya gonna DEW???
Dr Judy Wood – Where Did The Towers Go ? book
Damn, never seen this photo. Damning.
The Marshall Fire in Colorado a year ago generated over 1,800 megawatts of “fire power”, whatever that is. Temperatures in “fire proof” safes were in the 2,700 F range. Recently released book, “Inferno” tells the story.
Shoot Donkey…they have been murdering people in their home and cars for many years and the evidence is there… here is one my old threads…have another couldn’t find it.
Directed Energy Weapons (DEW)
Remember Paradise CA? Here is Paradise lost…whata ya gonna DEW
Mark,
How the hell does one fight that shit?
“How the hell does one fight that shit?”
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On me
Donkey,
First of all it has to become known it is being done by a majority or at least a significant number of Americans. Everything I posted above is available on the net and much, much more. The first time I put a Direct Energy Weapon thread up on TBP, a site filled with knowledgeable skeptics and people who know the true history and its False Flag signposts (I think that was 2018), I was bombarded with ridicule…even with undisputable video, photo, and eyewitness testimony evidence. (That goes for other 666 lies we have all been inoculated and indoctrinated with our entire lives – there are many Truman’s posting here).
Second a mass revolution (or at least 1/3rd of the True Blue – forget the Tories and the fence sitters) has to rise up organically against DEW mass murders (including more whistle blowers) and all the other mass murders being committed with Chemtrails, needles, pesticides, GMO poisons, unexplained fires, mushroom clouds in the heartland etc. etc. etc.
Third PRAY. The above is all secular…the war is spiritual…DEW weapons being turned on people with the cover of forest fires are obviously a demonic terrorism tactic.
I could get into the Bibical timing I believe we are in…but don’t want to distract from my first point.
DEW weapons are real and are being used against people in their homes and cars (usually at night) all around the world.
We all are in a World War but it is not 3…it is the end of the begining.
(I tried to upvote you but it won’t take).
I know folks in Paradise , CA that barely got out. Paradise ain’t Paradise for certain but it’s where they lived one day, no abode the next. Man created haphazard.
I visited Paradise one time in September and it was so dry I started farting dust. No thanks.
First glance at the pic I thought it was Hickok45 releasing a balloon and fixing to do a youtube vid demonstrating effectiveness of a Chinese SKS on balloons.
It has been awhile since reading Atlas Shrugged , but many are now noticing how the wheels are falling off ( literally ). This comment was made on Zerohedge. It is true. There is a Taggart Street in East Palestine, Ohio.
” Atlas Shrugged is a blueprint or just a coincidence? You choose…
Q: What is the name of the railroad in the book, and what road did this train derail right next to?
A: Taggart Transcontinental and Taggart Street.
The train derailed right next to CeramFab, address: 900 E Taggart St, East Palestine, OH 44413 ”
Ain’t that somethin’ ?
Also from the memory file, a little known Steve McQueen movie called :
” The Enemy Of The People ” : About a tourist town that does not want to know about the pollution problem it has for fear of losing tourism $$$$$$.
Dr. Thomas Stockmann : The water’s poisoned. The people are poisoned. The children are poisoned! The water is poisoned!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075993/characters/nm0000537
Everybody who noticed that many years ago:
‘Welcome to the party, pal!’