The Excavator

You Can't Vote Out A Theocracy

2026-11-04T21:18:22.169-05:00

Or an oligarchy.

I really don't have much to say on the farce that is the modern election cycle.

Blue team won.

Congrats.

But the global depopulation plan still rolls on. Nothing has changed. Nothing.

Still, it's nice to see that walking shitstain in the White House get humiliated. He belongs in a mental institution, not the White House.

In a different time he would've been killed in a duel.

He says he could be the next Prime Minister of Israel. That won't be much of a change for him.

He didn't serve America, that's obvious to all by now.

But the danger to American politics isn't only from Zionists and their slaves like Trump.

Just as Zionists have reappropriated Western history and culture, throwing around terms like "Judeo-Christian," Islamists will seek to do the same to American history and culture. So watch out.

I wouldn't be surprised if they claim in the future that George Washington was a Muslim and that Thomas Jefferson idolized Muhammad. That's how these bastards roll.

Judaism, Zionism, Christianity, Freemasonry, and Islam must all be rejected, not at the ballot box, because that's not where they're engaging in combat, but at the level of ideas.

America has it bad because its politics is infested with all of these ancient religious cults, not unlike Iran. Jews, Muslims, Freemasons, evangelical Christians, Zionists, they all want to dominate U.S. political life and use its treasure for their own ideological program. And since America is an empire that means trouble for the rest of us.

We can't just look on and hope Washington becomes a sane and responsible world actor like China. It has to be pushed to act rationally. It has to be sanctioned. That's where Russia and China come in. They have to start acting more aggressively to keep this insane theocratic empire in line just as America has done with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

But I don't think these countries are up to the challenge of history. Putin, by releasing all that diesel to save Trump, showed that he's not a world historical figure or a liberator, he's just another dictator. And the Chinese are too timid and too soft to do a damn thing. They got mad at a soccer player for calling their leader a dictator. It's not a serious country politically speaking.

"If this capital (Washington DC) crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to Israel."

"Israel and America are connected, now and forever."
- Nancy Pelosi

Until these people and this rhetoric/policy are purged from the Dem. party, there has been… pic.twitter.com/Au8TRXOWdx
— Propaganda & co (@propandco) November 4, 2026

And Canada Funded This Evil

2026-11-03T09:25:12.620-05:00

Found torture sites with 8th graders, dead bodies of missing men, mobilization dungeons, then opened fire on protesters. These optics are not survivable. https://t.co/U0T9Hrpfm8
— Fox Fire (@RutRemy) November 3, 2026

Tucker Warns of Nuclear Fallout In The Middle East, Says The Man Who Shits His Pants Has His Finger On The Trigger

2026-11-02T10:43:45.804-05:00

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its…
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 2, 2026

If This Policy Goes Through Canada Is Finished

2026-11-01T20:20:04.084-05:00

For how many years have we warned that they're coming for the pensions?

For how many years has Alex Jones said the globalists are coming for the pensions?

That's the red line.

This policy idea better die.

Our parents did not work all their lives just to have their savings and pensions snatched at their time of retirement.

🚨🚨The Liberals are doing something very dangerous with Canada's finances.

They are taking the NATIONAL DEBT and subtracting the PENSION SAVINGS of Canadians to make our debt look smaller.

That's almost a trillion dollars in pension assets!

And they're using that smaller… pic.twitter.com/Ulmokf58yr
— SandraCobena (@SandraCobena_) October 31, 2026

A Warning To Islamists: Don't Try This Shit Here

2026-11-01T17:30:10.216-05:00

Don't go to the pub then. We didn't design them for religious minorities who don't drink alcohol. If you want to live your life to a set of rules, go for it. Just leave the rest of us alone, you fun sponge. https://t.co/vyoVP9ss4d
— Jack (@FFS_WhatNow) November 1, 2026

NATO's War Against Russia Started In London

2026-11-01T16:48:56.629-05:00

And that's where it will end. Not Berlin. Not Kyiv. Not Washington. Not Paris. Not Budapest. Not Warsaw.

London must be humbled.

The Most Russophobic Country in Europe - Jeffrey Sachs pic.twitter.com/tGK0FWjEON
— Fidias Panayiotou (@Fidias0) November 1, 2026

Israel's Babies For Nukes Deal

2026-11-01T15:38:30.991-05:00

This state will have to be dismembered and shattered to ashes or the world will never know peace in our time. And I don’t think retarded Muslims are capable of doing that. Only an awakened America can.

🚨 This Israeli Rabbi just admitted something insane:
“For Israel to have nuclear weapons, we had to sell stolen black babies to families in the US, where they did medical experiments on them. Now Israel has enough nuclear power to wipe out the entire world in a minute.”
This is… pic.twitter.com/GbNz0lH7pc
— Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 (@masuzafi) November 1, 2026

Cannibals And Cattle: The Final Phase of Western Democracy

2026-10-31T17:11:22.386-04:00

The face of the American empire under the influence and control of Zionist Jews, the Rothschild dynasty, and the Freemasons.

The Epstein files revealed the degree to which the U.S. political system, entertainment and academic sectors, and overall governing apparatus, has been penetrated and compromised by Israeli spies and Rothschild agents.

These private and foreign entities don't believe in democracy or even basic modern political concepts like the consensus of the governed.

Elections are held merely for appearances, and to keep the herd engaged with the spectacle of democracy while they're being skinned alive.

When we had kings they at least were somewhat responsive to the needs of the flock. The good ones who believed in heaven knew they had to answer to God so they tempered their tyrannical excesses as well as those of the nobility.

A King of France in the 14th century was more democratic and closer to the people's instincts than the American President or French President is in 2026.

Satiated lions were replaced by hungry wolves.

That’s not to romanticize the Middle Ages. Many abuses were committed. The diets of peasants were deliberately restricted to keep them dumb and short. And this was true in basically all feudal societies, Western and Eastern. Creative minds were malnourished and their growth was stunted. Royal families knew how to prolong their dynasties and it wasn't always by violence. They were more subtle than that. They had to be.

Still, modern Western democracies under the guidance and influence of private lobbies, state monopolies, global corporations, religious sects, secret societies, and special interests have proven to be less responsive to the needs of the public than the old Christian monarchies.

The current overlords of Western civilization do not believe they have to answer to anything or anyone. They view themselves as gods. And that spiritual and psychological freedom has produced horrific evils like systematic worldwide pedophilia, global child trafficking, organ trafficking, usury on a grand scale, cannibalism, child sacrifice, drug trades, mass poisoning of the public, satanic rituals, etc.

List any evil you can think of and the global class of nihilistic cannibals ruling all of us is guilty of it. They view the common people as worse than cattle and feel no guilt for the crimes they've committed.

Trump openly mocks his supporters in public. Imagine what he says about them in private. Recently he's let his mask down and it's an ugly, violent face.

The idea of holding this class politically accountable for their crimes through elections is absurd. It is all theater. That's true in Canada, Europe, the U.S., anywhere where elections are held.

If you're on the menu you don't get a vote. And we're all literally on the menu.

And that includes the lower class of elites and agents who serve this system whether knowingly or not.

That also includes the American empire. It is currently being liquidated. It is being made bankrupt. It is being made a fool of. Once the Rothschilds, billionaires, and Zionists are done looting the place they will pull the plug, literally.

But first they need to use American blood and treasure to conquer Palestine and all of the Middle East.

Israel's biggest conquest hasn't been Palestine. Far from it. It's been America and Europe.

A strange kind of psychological occupation exists in Washington, where the interests and priorities of Israel overlay American interests and security. It's like Washington underwent a quiet Zionist revolution without any violence or abrupt change of regime.

In other, less politically developed countries, a couple of thousand heads would have had to roll to mark the transfer of power. In Washington, only one: the President's.

The coup plotters aimed for the head. And the threat was made clear to all aspiring politicians and ambitions political actors: make one wrong move and you're next.

Since Kennedy's death every American politician of consequence has fallen in line. And most of them have done so willingly. For the past sixty years Presidents have been groomed from a very early age so they no longer need to be killed once they're put in power. They're part of the team from day one.

The image of Trump as a renegade leader is laughable.

Obama was groomed to be President since he was still going by Barry in school. Trump was slotted for his current role for a long time. Biden was a corpse by the end but they still pushed him through. Reagan was a statue. That's essentially the post-Kennedy presidency in a nutshell. A collection of statues, puppets, pedos, and corpses.

Presidents used to be heroes, the baddest MFers around. The founding fathers of America were not politicians. Washington was a general. Franklin a scientist, businessman, publisher, inventor. They became political leaders unwillingly. Washington hated political office so much that he said goodbye after one term.

Trump, Obama, and the current corrupt politicians can't get enough of the limelight. You have literal walking corpses in the Senate and Congress. The place is a funeral home. And that's true for most Parliaments and bodies of democratic houses around the world. I just checked the Brazilian leader's age. 81.

The guy should be in a retirement home.

That speaks to the fact that political leaders in their forties and fifties in democracies around the world have not built enough political capital to engage with the public on an emotional level. None of them have any answers. None of them possess natural charisma.

In Canada they installed an uncharismatic bank manager from London to be the new face of the country because the Liberal party couldn't find a popular candidate to replace Trudeau. They didn't even try. They've given up. In England they're changing Prime Ministers every four months. So at least they're making the effort.

And this trend isn't going away. There is a crisis of leadership across the board. The gulf between the cannibalistic elites and the people can't be bridged as it was in the past. Elections have lost their magic.

True political leadership is needed to solve our problems and people instinctively know this.

Washington currently lacks true political leadership. Trump is the final nail in the coffin of the Republican-Democrat shell game that they've been running for ages.

Fall Reading List VII

2026-10-31T01:19:51.897-04:00

"Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe" by Martyn Bond (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021).

Description:

In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. His political congresses in Vienna, Berlin, and Basel attracted thousands from the intelligentsia and the cultural elite, including Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Sigmund Freud, who wanted a United States of Europe brought together by consent. The Count's commitment to this cooperative ideal infuriated Adolf Hitler, who referred to him as a "cosmopolitan bastard" in Mein Kampf.
Communists and nationalists, xenophobes and populists alike hated the Count and his political mission. When the Nazis annexed Austria, the Count and his wife, the famous actress Ida Roland, narrowly escaped the Gestapo. He fled to the United States, where he helped shape American policy for postwar Europe. Coudenhove-Kalergi's profile was such that he served as the basis for the fictional resistance hero Victor Laszlo in the film Casablanca.

"History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, vol. 2" by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Third edition, revised (New York: D. Appleton, 1921).

An excerpt:

The condition of the Western Empire was somewhat different. Not quite a century after the conversion of Constantine, the Imperial city was captured by Alalric, and a long series of barbarian invasions at last dissolved the whole framework of Roman society, while the barbarians themselves, having adopted the Christian faith and submitted absolutely to the Christian priests, the Church, which remained the guardian of all the treasures of antiquity, was left with a virgin soil to realise her ideal of human excellence. Nor did she fall short of what might have been expected. She exercised for many centuries an almost absolute empire over the thoughts and actions of mankind, and created a civilisation which was permeated in every part with ecclesiastical influence. And the dark ages, as the period of Catholic ascendancy is justly called, do undoubtedly display many features of great and genuine excellence. In active benevolence, in the spirit of reverence, in loyalty, in co-operative habits, they far transcend the noblest ages of Pagan antiquity, while in that humanity which shrinks from the infliction of suffering, they were superior to Roman, and in their respect for chastity, to Greek civilisation. On the other hand, they rank immeasurably below the best Pagan civilisations in civic and patriotic virtues, in the love of liberty, in the number and splendour of the great characters they produced, in the dignity and beauty of the type of character they formed. They had their full share of tumult, anarchy, injustice, and war and they should probably be placed, in all intellectual virtues, lower than, any other period in the history of mankind. A boundless intolerance of all divergence of opinion was united with an equally boundless toleration of all falsehood and deliberate fraud that could favour received opinions. Credulity being taught as a virtue, and all conclusions dictated by authority, a deadly torpor sank upon the human mind, which for many centuries almost suspended its action, and was only effectually broken by the scrutinising, innovating, and free-thinking habits that accompanied the rise of the industrial republics in Italy. Few men who are not either priests or monks would not have preferred to live in the best days of the Athenian or of the Roman republics, in the age of Augustus or in the age of the Antonines, rather than in any period that elapsed between the triumph of Christianity and the fourteenth century.
It is, indeed, difficult to conceive any clearer proof than was furnished by the history of the twelve hundred years after the conversion of Constantine, that while theology has undoubtedly introduced into the world certain elements and principles of good, scarcely if at all known to antiquity, while its value as a tincture or modifying influence in society can hardly be overrated, it is by no means for the advantage of mankind that, in the form which the Greek and Catholic Churches present, it should become a controlling arbiter of civilisation. It is often said that the Roman world before Constantine was in a period of rapid decay; that the traditions and vitality of half-suppressed Paganism account for many of the aberrations of later times; that the influence of the Church was often rather nominal and superficial than supreme; and that, in judging the ignorance of the dark ages, we must make large allowance for the dislocations of society by the barbarians. In all this there is much truth; but when we remember that in the Byzantine Empire the renovating power of theology was tried in a new capital free from Pagan traditions, and for more than one thousand years unsubdued by barbarians, and that in the West the Church, for at least seven hundred years after the shocks of the invasions had subsided, exercised a control more absolute than any other moral or intellectual agency has ever attained, it will appear, I think, that the experiment was very sufficiently tried. It is easy to make a catalogue of the glaring vices of antiquity, and to contrast them with the pure morality of Christian writings; but, if we desire to form a just estimate of the realised improvement, we must compare the classical and ecclesiastical civilisations as wholes, and must observe in each case not only the vices that were repressed, but also the degree and variety of positive excellence attained. In the first two centuries of the Christian Church the moral elevation was extremely high, and was continually appealed to as a proof of the divinity of the creed. In the century before the conversion of Constantine, a marked depression was already manifest. The two ceaturies after Constantine are uniformly represented by the Fathers as a period of general and scandalous vice. The ecclesiastical civilisation that followed, though not without its distinctive merits, assuredly supplies no justification of the common boast about the regeneration of society by the Church. That the civilisation of the last three centuries has risen in most respects to a higher level than any that had preceded it, I at least firmly beliave, but theological ethics, though very important, form but one of the many and complex elements of its excellence. Mechanical inventions, the habits of industrial life, the discoveries of physical science, the improvements of government, the expansion of literature, the traditions of Pagan antiquity, have all a distinguished place, while, the more fully its history is investigated, the more clearly two capital truths are disclosed. The first is that the influence of theology having for centuries numbed and paralysed the whole intellect of Christian Europe, the revival, which forms the starting-point of our modern civilisation, was mainly due to the fact that two spheres of intellect still remained uncontrolled by the sceptre of Catholicism. The Pagan literature of antiquity, and the Mahommedan schools of science, were the chief agencies in resuscitating the dormant energies of Christendom. The second fact, which I have elsewhere endeavoured to establish in detail, is that during more than three centuries the decadence of theological influence has been one of the most invariable signs and measures of our progress. In medicine, physical science, commercial interests, politics, and even ethics, the reformer has been confronted with theological affirmations which barred his way, which were all defended as of vital importance, and were all in turn compelled to yield before the secularising influence of civilisation.
We have here, then, a problem of deep interest and importance, which I propose to investigate in the present chapter. We have to enquire why it was that a religion which was not more remarkable for the beauty of its moral teaching than for the power with which it acted upon mankind, and which during the last few centuries has been the source of countless blessings to the world, should have proved itself for so long a period, and under such a variety of conditions, altogether unable to regenerate Europe. The question is not one of languid or imperfect action, but of conflicting agencies. In the vast and complex organism of Catholicity there were some parts which acted with admirable force in improving and elevating mankind. There were others which had a directly opposite effect.

"Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" by John McCannon (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022).

Description (via Google Books):

Russian painter, explorer, and mystic Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) ranks as one of the twentieth century’s great enigmas. Despite mystery and scandal, he left a deep, if understudied, cultural imprint on Russia, Europe, India, and America. As a painter and set designer Roerich was a key figure in Russian art. He became a major player in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and with Igor Stravinsky he cocreated The Rite of Spring, a landmark work in the emergence of artistic modernity. His art, his adventures, and his peace activism earned the friendship and admiration of such diverse luminaries as Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, H. G. Wells, Jawaharlal Nehru, Raisa Gorbacheva, and H. P. Lovecraft.

But the artist also had a darker side. Stravinsky once said of Roerich that “he ought to have been a mystic or a spy.” He was certainly the former and close enough to the latter to blur any distinction. His travels to Asia, supposedly motivated by artistic interests and archaeological research, were in fact covert attempts to create a pan-Buddhist state encompassing Siberia, Mongolia, and Tibet. His activities in America touched Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s cabinet with scandal and, behind the scenes, affected the course of three US presidential elections.

In his lifetime, Roerich baffled foreign affairs ministries and intelligence services in half a dozen countries. He persuaded thousands that he was a humanitarian and divinely inspired thinker—but convinced just as many that he was a fraud or a madman. His story reads like an epic work of fiction and is all the more remarkable for being true. John McCannon’s engaging and scrupulously researched narrative moves beyond traditional perceptions of Roerich as a saint or a villain to show that he was, in many ways, both in equal measure.

"The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle" by Charles de Gaulle (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998).

An excerpt (Pg. 726 - 729, via Archive.org):

During the entire day of November 13, under ceaselessly falling snow, Mr. Churchill saw the renascent French Army, its major units in position, its services functioning, its general staffs-at their work, its generals confident; all were prepared for the offensive which was, in fact, to be launched the next day. Churchill appeared deeply impressed, and declared that he felt more justified than ever in placing his confidence in France.

Churchill's confidence, however, was insufficient for him to adopt, in our regard, that policy of frank solidarity which might have re-established Europe and maintained Western prestige in the Middle East, in Asia and in Africa. The visit he paid us was perhaps the last possible occasion to bring him to a change of heart. I took every opportunity to do so during the conversations we had together.

I repeated to Churchill: "You see that France is making a recovery. But whatever my faith in her, I know that she will not re- gain her former power all at once. You English, of course, will emerge from this war covered with glory. Yet to what a degree- unfair though it may be--your relative situation risks being diminished, given your losses and expenditures, by the centrifugal forces at work within the Commonwealth, and, particularly, the rise of America and Russia, not to mention China! Confronting a new world, then, our two old nations find themselves simultane- ously weakened. If they remain divided as well, how much in- fluence will either of them wield? On the other hand, should England and France act in accord on tomorrow's peace settlements, they will weigh heavily enough in the world's scales so that nothing will be done which they themselves have not consented to or determined. It is this mutual resolve which should be the basis of the alliance you offer us. Otherwise what is the good of signing a document which would be, at best, ambiguous?

"The equilibrium of Europe," I added, "the guarantee of peace along the Rhine, the independence of the Vistula. Danube and Balkan states, the creation of some form of association with the peoples all over the world to whom we have opened the doors of Western civilization, an organization of nations which will be something more than an arena for disputes between America and Russia, and lastly the primacy accorded in world politics to a certain conception of man despite the progressive mechanization of society-these, surely, are our great interests in tomorrow's world. Let us come to an agreement in order to uphold these in- terests together. If you are willing to do so, I am ready. Our two nations will follow us. America and Russia, hobbled by their rivalry, will not be able to raise any objection. Moreover, we shall have the support of many states and of world-wide public opinion, which instinctively shies away from giants. Thus England and France will together create peace, as twice in thirty years they have together confronted war."

Winston Churchill answered: "Certainly I do not foresee a Franco-British schism. You are the witness and the proof of what I have done to prevent such a thing when it was most likely. Even today, I offer you an alliance in principle. But in politics as in strategy, it is better to persuade the stronger than to pit yourself against him. That is what I am trying to do. The Americans have immense resources. They do not always use them to the best ad- vantage. I am trying to enlighten them, without forgetting, of course, to benefit my country. I have formed a close personal tie with Roosevelt. With him, I proceed by suggestion in order to in- fluence matters in the right direction. At present, Russia is a great beast which has been starved for a long time. It is not possible to keep her from eating, especially since she now lies in the middle of the herd of her victims. The question is whether she can be kept from devouring all of them. I am trying to restrain Stalin, who, if he has an enormous appetite, also has a great deal of good sense. And after the meal comes the digestion period. When it is time to digest, the surfeited Russians will have their difficult moments. Then, perhaps, Saint Nicholas can bring back to life the poor children the ogre has put in the salting tub. Meanwhile, I attend every meeting, yield nothing for nothing, and manage to secure a few dividends.

"As for France," Churchill repeated, "thanks to you, she is re-appearing in the eyes of the world. Don't be impatient! Already, the doors are ajar. Soon they will be open to you. It will be only natural for you to sit at the table of the Administration Council. Nothing, then, will keep us from working together, Until then, leave matters in my hands!"

The Prime Minister took his departure on November 14 to in- spect the British sector of the front. Eden had already returned to London. From the statements both had made, it was apparent that England favored France's political reappearance, that she would continue to do so for reasons of equilibrium, tradition and secu- rity, that she desired a formal alliance with us, but would not con- sent to link her strategy with ours, believing herself in a position to function independently between Moscow and Washington, to limit their demands, but also to take advantage of them. The peace we French hoped to build in accord with what we re- garded as logic and justice, the British found it expedient to ap- proach with formulas of empiricism and compromise. Furthermore, they were pursuing certain precise goals which, in areas where the positions of states and the balance of power were not yet deter- mined, offered British ambitions numerous possibilities of manipulation and aggrandizement.

This was especially the case in regard to the Mediterranean. Athens, Belgrade, Beirut, Damascus and Tripoli, under London's various labels, would tomorrow supplement a British preponder- ance previously dependent on Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Cairo, Amman and Baghdad, Thus the concessions which Great Britain had not been able to avoid making to Russian voracity and Ameri- can capitalist ideology found their counterpart. No ordeal changes the nature of man; no crisis that of states.

In short, we found occupying the comfortable chairs in the club of the great powers as many hallowed egotisms as there were charter members. On my visit to Washington, Roosevelt ad dis- closed the American ambitions, draped in idealism but actually quite practical. The London leaders had just demonstrated that they aimed at achieving specifically British goals. And now, the masters of the Kremlin were to show us that they served the interests of Soviet Russia alone.

Indeed M. Bogomolov, immediately after Mr. Churchill's and Mr. Eden's visit to France, took every occasion to urge me to visit Moscow. Since France was once again free and able to take an active part in the conflict, and since her government was once again established in Paris, it was my intention to make direct contact with Stalin and his ministers. I therefore accepted their invitation, as well as the schedule drawn up by M. Molotov and our ambassador, Roger Garreau. It was agreed that I, accompanied by Georges Bidault, would spend a week in the Soviet capital, In this way we and the Russians could learn how each of us con- ccived the future peace settlement. Perhaps it would be possible to renew the old Franco-Russian solidarity which, though repeatedly betrayed and repudiated, remained no less a part of the natural order of things, as much in relation to the German menace as to the endeavors of Anglo-American hegemony. I even envisaged a pact by virtue of which France and Russia would commit them- selves to act in common if Germany should ever become a threat again. This dangerous hypothesis would probably not be realized, at least not in the foreseeable future, But the signing of a Franco- Russian treaty could help us to participate at once in the elabora- tion of the European settlements.

To Carney And The Liberals

2026-10-30T19:10:39.992-04:00

Open a map.

Fall Reading List VI

2026-10-29T20:06:30.588-04:00

"Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures" by James Hutchison Stirling.

Wikipedia:

James Hutchison Stirling (22 June 1820 – 19 March 1909) was a Scottish idealist philosopher and physician. His work The Secret of Hegel (1st edition, 1865, in 2 vols.; revised edition, 1898, in 1 vol.) gave great impetus to the study of Hegelian philosophy both in Britain and in the United States, and it was also accepted as an authoritative work on Hegel's philosophy in Germany and Italy. The book helped to create the philosophical movement known as British idealism.
. . .After receiving a large inheritance from his father's estate in 1851, Stirling left his medical practice. He then set out to learn French and German, for the purpose of being able to better understand continental philosophical trends. In pursuit of this goal, he moved his family briefly to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France (located in the current Pas-de-Calais department of the Hauts-de-France region), then to Paris for 18 months, then to St. Servan (located two miles from the ferry port of St. Malo in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of the Brittany region of France) for four and a half years, and then finally to Heidelberg, Germany. In November 1857, Stirling and his family took up residence in London (at 3 Wilton Terrace, Kensington), where they lived for about three years. After this, in 1860 Stirling returned to Edinburgh—his address there was 4 Laverockbank Road, Trinity, Edinburgh—which then became his permanent residence until the end of his life, and where he wrote on the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) and many other subjects. The primary result of his comprehensive Hegel studies was his influential work The Secret of Hegel (2 vols., 1865).
One of Stirling's other major philosophical works—Philosophy and Theology (1890) (consisting of his 20 Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1889–1890)—focuses not on Hegelian philosophical topics, but on Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories.

"Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England" by Patricia Fara (Princeton University Press, 2014).

Description (Google Books):

In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympathies; in this maritime nation, magnetic instruments such as navigational compasses heralded imperial expansion, commercial gain, and scientific progress. By analyzing such multiple associations, Fara reconstructs cultural interactions in the days just prior to the creation of disciplinary science. Not only does this illustrated book provide a kaleidoscopic view of a changing society, but it also portrays the emergence of public science.
Linking this rise in interest to the utility and mysteriousness of magnetism, Fara organizes her discussion into themes, including commercialization, imperialism, instruments and invention, the role of language, attitudes toward the past, and the relationship between religion and natural philosophy. Fara shows that natural philosophers, proclaiming themselves as the only true experts on magnetism, actively participated in massive transformations of English life. In their bids for public recognition as elite specialists, they engaged in controversies that resonated with religious, economic, moral, gender, and political implications. These struggles for social and scientific authority in the eighteenth century provide the background for better understanding the cultural topography of modern society.

"Poems of Ossian and Related Works: James Macpherson" Edited by Howard Gaskill (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

An excerpt from the Preface (via Google Books):

The public may depend on the following fragments as genuine remains of ancient Scottish poetry. The date of their composition cannot be exactly ascertained. Tradition, in the country where they were written, refers them to an æra of the most remote antiquity: and this tradition is supported by the spirit and strain of the poems themselves; which abound with those ideas, and paint those manners, that belong to the most early state of society. The diction too, in the original, is very obsolete; and differs widely from the style of such poems as have been written in the same language two or three centuries ago. They were certainly composed before the establishment of clanship in the northern part of Scotland, which is itself very ancient; for had clans been then formed and known, they must have made a consider-able figure in the work of a Highland Bard; whereas there is not the least mention of them in these poems. It is remarkable that there are found in them no allusions to the Christian religion or worship; indeed, few traces of religion of any kind. One circumstance seems to prove them to be coeval with the very infancy of Christianity in Scotland. In a fragment of the same poems, which the translator has seen, a Culdee or Monk is represented as desirous to take down in writing from the mouth of Oscian, who is the principal personage in several of the following fragments, his warlike atchievements and those of his family. But Oscian treats the Monk and his religion with disdain, telling him, that the deeds of such great men were subjects too high to be recorded by him, or by any of his religion: A full proof that Christianity was not as yet established in the country.

Though the poems now published appear as detached pieces in this col-lection, there is ground to believe that most of them were originally epi-sodes of a greater work which related to the wars of Fingal. Concerning this hero innumerable traditions remain, to this day, in the Highlands of Scot-land. The story of Oscian, his son, is so generally known, that to describe one in whom the race of a great family ends, it has passed into a proverb; "Oscian the last of the heroes."

There can be no doubt that these poems are to be ascribed to the Bards; a race of men well known to have continued throughout many ages in Ireland and the north of Scotland. Every chief or great man had in his family a Bard or poet, whose office it was to record in verse, the illustrious actions of that family. By the succession of these Bards, such poems were handed down from race to race; some in manuscript, but more by oral tradition. And tradition, in a country so free of intermixture with foreigners, and among a people so strongly attached to the memory of their ancestors, has preserved many of them in a great measure incorrupted to this day.

Wikipedia:

James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic.
. . .Macpherson's reputation as an "laborious and able writer" led to his enrolment as a political pamphleteer, satirist and newspaper columnist in support of the Grafton ministry and the succeeding administration of Lord North, in exchange for the promise of a pension-for-life. This was paid clandestinely, because he (together with his brother James) used as may as forty aliases in their writings, to suggest that the views they expressed were popular and widespread. Under his own name he defended government policy in the north American colonies (The Rights of Great Britain Asserted Against the Claims of America of 1776) and he denounced the East India Company at a time when government policy was seeking to limit the organisation's power (The History and Management of the East India Company of 1799).

"Leo The Great" by Charles Gore (1897).

Wikipedia:

Charles Gore (22 January 1853 – 17 January 1932) was a Church of England bishop, first of Worcester, then Birmingham, and finally of Oxford. He was one of the most influential Anglican theologians of the 19th century, helping reconcile the church to some aspects of biblical criticism and scientific discovery, while remaining Catholic in his interpretation of the faith and sacraments. Also known for his social action, Gore became an Anglican bishop and founded the monastic Community of the Resurrection as well as co-founded the Christian Social Union. He was the chaplain to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII.
. . .Gore was a bundle of contradictions, an Anglo-Catholic in the Church of England whose questioning of the Old Testament produced in the 1890s a crisis for many believers. In the judgment of his biographer, Gore was a loner who thought he had a vocation to community life. He chose to be buried at Mirfield, in the church of the Community of the Resurrection, though he had never managed to be more than a visitor there.
Gore died on 17 January 1932 in Kensington, London. He left instructions for his body to be cremated, a practice seen by some at the time as unacceptable for a Christian. Nearly three decades earlier, in a letter read at the 1903 opening ceremony of the Birmingham Crematorium, Gore had written:
What I should desire when I myself die is that my body should be reduced rapidly to ashes, so that it may do no harm to the living, and then in accordance with Christian feeling be laid in the earth.
Gore's wishes provoked the Anglo-Catholic leader and politician Lord Halifax to exclaim, belatedly, "I could shake the life out of him with my own hands." The ashes were taken to Mirfield in Yorkshire for burial. His cope and mitre remain at the Grosvenor Chapel.

An excerpt from, "Leo The Great" (Pg. 7 - 10, via Archive.org)

Leo was born into perhaps the most important period of transition in the world's history, that stormy period which links the ancient and the modern world: the civilization of Rome and the civilization of Christendom. The great empire of Rome, which for four centuries had been almost conterminous with the known world, which seemed irresistible by the mere force of its name, and which in a condition of profound peace had been obliterating national distinctions, and uniting races the most opposite and the most remote in the bonds of commerce and a common government, was now being threatened, over-whelmed and dismembered in all directions by the barbarian hosts.
One by one the Imperial government was sur-rendering the provinces of the Empire, either to be occupied by the invading hordes, or to maintain for a time, like Britain and Armorica, a precarious independence; meanwhile the unity of the govern-ment had been finally surrendered by the separation of the Eastern and Western Empires at the death of Theodosius the Great, and the Imperial residence in the West, which had been removed for purposes of convenience at the beginning of the fourth century from Rome to Milan, was transferred by Honorius, from motives of cowardice, to Ravenna, a city which art had done its best to fortify, and which nature had rendered almost inaccessible by surrounding it with impassable morasses. Here, out of the reach of danger, and remote from any natural centre of administration, was exercised in the future what shadow of authority still remained in the hands of the Emperor of the West.
For if the Empire was becoming contemptible, that contempt centred in the emperor. That supreme position, perhaps the most magnificent that it ever fell to the lot of man to fill, and which had in fact during the four centuries of the Roman Empire, from Julius to Theodosius, been filled by no inconsiderable proportion of the greatest of the world's rulers, that position, which in pagan days had raised its occupant at once to the level of the gods, and still assigned to him a superstitious and unbounded veneration, was for nearly thirty years (A.D. 395-423) filled by Honorius, a man of whom it is related 3 (and the story must at any rate represent the estimate which his subjects formed of his character) that he was alarmed to hear of the loss of Rome, till he learned that it was not a favourite chicken of that name that was lost, but only the eternal city.
While the emperor was thus sunk in contemptible indolence the nobility of Rome seem as a class to have been not much more worthy of respect. The historian, Ammianus Marcellinus, who died about the time of Leo's birth, gives us an excellent picture of their character and manners. They were extremely wealthy, extremely luxurious, extremely indolent, and extremely frivolous. They delighted in little but vanity and display. At the same time to degrading vices they added a gross superstition, often to be found among those who were sceptics or even atheists.
Meanwhile the plebeian population of Rome was a congeries of all the nations of the earth, drawn to Rome by the various attractions of the metropolis, the circus, and, above all, the enormous largess of provisions of various kinds which it was the pleasure of the emperors to lavish upon the populace of the capital.
Enough will have been said to show that neither in the emperor, nor nobility, nor plebeians of the capital were to be found the elements of social cohesion, solidity, or resistance, nor would it seem that much could be looked for from the diminished and still constantly dwindling population of the provinces.
Salvian, a priest of Marseilles and a contemporary of Leo, gives us a terrible picture of the morality of the Roman Empire of his day. His work, " On the Government of God," is a vindication of the ways of God to man, in abandoning the Roman Empire to the barbarians : the Christian world to the pagans and the Arians. It is the punishment of sins. " Among the chaste barbarians we alone are unchaste : " the moral purity of Vandal and Goth contrasts in all directions, in Germany, in Africa, in Spain, with the universal dissoluteness of the Romans.
To complete the picture we must add that almost the whole strength of the army of that date, such as it was, was to be found in the barbarians who had recruited its ranks.
At the time of the invasion of Alaric, though the troops were recalled from the provinces, even as far as Britain, to the defence of Italy, it was found impossible to raise an army composed of Roman legions without the assistance of Alani : and a few years later not only the assistance of Alani, Huns and Goths, but the recall of provincial legions and compulsory levies of new troops were necessary to enable Stilicho to raise a small army to oppose Rhodogast, but he was actually compelled to offer bribes to any slaves who would enlist.
Amidst all these elements of weakness and decay, into this last epoch of the Roman Empire Leo was born.

Fall Reading List V

2026-10-28T01:07:23.892-04:00

"The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam" by Glen W. Bowersock (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Description (IAS):

Oxford University Press has published The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (2013), by Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century A.D., southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war against its longtime foe Byzantium. Bowersock carefully reconstructs this fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history, drawing on descriptions of an inscribed marble throne at the Ethiopian port of Adulis as well as a wealth of other historical and archaeological evidence.

"The Ottoman Age of Exploration" by Giancarlo Casale (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Description:

In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia.
The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance, a struggle that raged from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca, and from the interior of Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman state during the sixteenth century. It does so through a dramatic recounting of the lives of sultans and viziers, spies, corsairs, soldiers-of-fortune, and women from the imperial harem. Challenging traditional narratives of Western dominance, it argues that the Ottomans were not only active participants in the Age of Exploration, but ultimately bested the Portuguese in the game of global politics by using sea power, dynastic prestige, and commercial savoir faire to create their own imperial dominion throughout the Indian Ocean.

"Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past" by John M. Willis (Hurst Publishers, 2012).

Description:

Unmaking North and South revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen’s north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, and religious reform in the Indian Ocean arena. The study is centered on the formation of the British Aden Protectorate and the Zaydi-Shiite Imamate of the Hamid al-Din family in the period between 1857 and 1934. Focusing on the British creation of a series of ‘native states’ on the model of princely India in the Yemeni south and Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din’s formation of a hybrid state based on Ottoman state forms and Sunni reformist ideology in the north, the book demonstrates the extent to which Yemen’s modern history was rooted both in the structures of the British Raj and the intellectual debates of the greater Sunni Muslim world. The book uses a variety of case studies dealing with imperial state ritual, arms smuggling, cartography and colonial ethnography, debates over the nature of the Islamic polity, and an undeclared war between the British and the Yemeni Imamate in order to re-center the history of Yemen in a trans-regional context. Moving deftly between narratives of the colonial, local, modern, and Islamic, Willis questions the historical inevitability of the post-colonial Yemeni nation and suggests other modes of narrating Yemen’s contested past.

"Beyond the Arab Cold War: The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68" by Asher Orkaby (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Abstract (Harvard University):

Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68, to the forefront of modern Middle East History. During the 1960s, in the wake of a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr and the formation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Yemen was transformed into an arena of global conflict. Believing al-Badr to be dead, Egypt, the Soviet Union, and most countries recognized the YAR. But when al-Badr unexpectedly turned up alive, Saudi Arabia and Britain offered support to the deposed Imam, drawing Yemen into an internationally-sponsored civil war. Throughout six years of major conflict, Yemen sat at the crossroads of regional and international conflict as dozens of countries, international organizations, and individuals intervened in the local South Arabian civil war.
Yemen was a showcase for a new era of UN and Red Cross peacekeeping, clandestine activity, Egyptian counterinsurgency, and one of the first largescale uses of poison gas since WWI. Events in Yemen were not dominated by a single power, nor were they sole products of US-Soviet or Saudi-Egyptian Arab Cold War rivalry. Britain, Canada, Israel, the UN, the US, and the USSR joined Egypt and Saudi Arabia in assuming varying roles in fighting, mediating, and supplying the belligerent forces. Despite Cold War tensions, Americans and Soviets appeared on the same side of the Yemeni conflict and acted mutually to confine Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to the borders of South Arabia. The end of the Yemen Civil War marked the end of both Nasser's Arab Nationalist colonial expansion and the British Empire in the Middle East, two of the most dominant regional forces.
This internationalized conflict was a pivotal event in Middle East history, overseeing the formation of a modern Yemeni state, the fall of Egyptian and British regional influence, another Arab-Israeli war, Saudi dominance of the Arabian Peninsula, and shifting power alliances in the Middle East that continue to lie at the core of modern-day conflicts in South Arabia.

"Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity" by Laurent Bonnefoy (Hurst Publishers, 2018).

Description:

Contemporary Yemen has an image problem. It has long fascinated travellers and artists, and to many embodies both Arab and Muslim authenticity; it stands at important geostrategic and commercial crossroads. Yet, strangely, global perceptions of Yemen are of an entity that is somehow both marginal and passive, yet also dangerous and problematic.
The Saudi offensive launched in 2015 has made Yemen a victim of regional power struggles, while the global ‘war on terror’ has labelled it a threat to international security. This perception has had disastrous effects without generating real interest in the country or its people. On the contrary, Yemen’s complex political dynamics have been largely ignored by international observers—resulting in problematic, if not counterproductive, international policies.
Yemen and the World offers a corrective to these misconceptions and omissions, putting aside the nature of the world’s interest in Yemen to focus on Yemen’s role on the global stage. Laurent Bonnefoy uses six areas of modern international exchange—globalisation, diplomacy, trade, migration, culture and militant Islamism—to restore Yemen to its place at the heart of contemporary affairs. To understand Yemen, he argues, is to understand the Middle East as a whole.

French Historian: Russia Is Not Invading Ukraine, It Is Liberating Europe

2026-10-27T12:06:38.044-04:00

The English, the Germans, and the Jews need to get over their historic hatred of Russia. Their thirst for revenge has destabilized Europe and spread Ukrainian-backed terrorism around the world. This isn't the 19th century when imperial adventurism could be contained. You start a fire in Ukraine and it quickly spreads to Brazil and Bangladesh.

Russia can't be vilified as easily as it was in the past.

Russia is not the enemy of Europe or world Jewry. Russians in the 21st century shouldn't be punished for what the Tsar did to Jews in the 19th century or what the Communist regime did to the Germans and Eastern Europeans in the 20th.

Russia is not perfect. I don't fully trust Putin. I think he's part of the conspiracy to depopulate Ukraine and resettle it with Jews. But Russia didn't start this war. And it's not overthrowing regimes half way across the world. It is clearing and protecting its front lawn. What it has done in Ukraine has been tame and completely justified.

In fact, a stronger, a more moral, and wiser Russia should have already been in Kyiv. Zelensky should not be breathing. The only explanation for why its not in Kyiv is because it wants to ensure that Ukraine won't be able to raise armies against it in the future. What Putin is pursuing is extermination via war, not just a simple military victory.

The longer he stalls in taking Ukraine the worse off Russia will be. The West has so far succeeded in turning this conflict into another Iran-Iraq war, where both sides bleed each other to death.

I don't know if Putin can't take Kyiv out of military incompetence, or he's made promises to his Jewish allies to give them Ukrainian land. But Russia needs to figure it out for the sake of global stability. This open wound has to be closed soon. If Putin can't do it then a new Russian leader will have to.

II.

Wikipedia:

Emmanuel Todd (born 16 May 1951) is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris. His research focuses on family structures across the world, and explores how they relate to beliefs, ideologies, political systems, and historical developments. He has also authored several political essays, which have received wide coverage in France.
. . .Among other books, Emmanuel Todd wrote The Invention of Europe (1990) and Le destin des immigrés (1994) (The fate of immigrants), in which he defended the "French model" of immigrants integration.
. . .Todd opposed the Maastricht Treaty in the 1992 referendum. In 1995, he authored a memo for the Fondation Saint-Simon, that gained widespread attention; the media subsequently credited him with coining the phrase "fracture sociale" (social crack or social gap), which was notably used by Jacques Chirac during the 1995 presidential campaign to distinguish himself from his rival Édouard Balladur. However, Todd denied originating the term and attributed the expression to Marcel Gauchet.
In The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social Systems, Todd explores how diverse family structures influence beliefs, ideologies, political systems, and historical development. As anthropologist David Kertzer summarises: "Building on both Le Play and Freud, Todd argues, that ideological systems are products of family concepts with family organization being the true infrastructure, not itself determined by any other social, economic, or cultural forces". Susan Greenhalgh characterises the book as "deliberatively provocative and at once annoying and impressive" and states that "although the author's argument needs substantial conceptual and empirical shaping up, the book contains many rewarding insights and deserves to be given serious consideration by anthropologists and political scientists alike." In Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus, reviewed by James C. Bennett, he offers a compelling reinterpretation of modern history—mapping how family systems ripple through religion, politics, economy, and cultural attitudes. Bennett sees it as a vital contribution for rethinking globalization with deeper cultural sensitivity and warns against ignoring these underlying dynamics. And Alan Barnard considers it as a "thoroughly interesting and unusual text"

. . .In La défaite de l'Occident (The defeat of the West), Todd claims that Putin's Russia has triumphed over a deindustralised and nihilist West, weakened by the decline of Protestantism. The French press gave the book mixed reviews, with critics accusing Todd of being “blinded by ideology,” “ignorant of the subject,” or relying on Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories. However, the book was reviewed by anthropologist John A. Agnew who writes, in 2024 that "so far this book has met with a largely positive reaction by the pundits on the nationalist right in the United States and Europe, even though in the past, Todd as never openly affiliated himself with such quarters". The book received praise from journalist Christopher Caldwell in The New York Times, and was well received by official Russian media.

"Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris." (Wikipedia) On Ukraine/Russia war, European Union EU, NATO, he states: pic.twitter.com/W3d8XR3GrC
— Prof. Med.dr. Marcello Ferrada de Noli #HR4All (@ProfessorsBlogg) October 24, 2026

Fall Reading List IV

2026-10-26T12:11:29.774-04:00

"Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt" by Frederick Soddy (1926).

Wikipedia:

Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt is a 1926 book by the Nobel Prize–winning chemist Frederick Soddy on monetary policy and society and the role of energy in economic systems. Soddy criticized the focus on monetary flows in economics, arguing that real wealth was derived from the use of energy to transform materials into physical goods and services. Soddy’s economic writings were largely ignored in his time, but would later be applied to the development of ecological economics in the late 20th century.

Wikipedia:

Frederick Soddy FRS[2] (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". Soddy was a polymath who mastered chemistry, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, finance, and economics.

"Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development" by Herman Daly (1996).

"The World Set Free" by H. G. Wells (1914).

Description (MIT Press):

In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war “to end all wars” that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.
Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I's mass slaughter and long before World War II's mushroom cloud finale, H. G. Wells imagined a war that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in a utopia of enlightened world government. Set in the 1950s, Wells's neglected novel The World Set Free describes a conflict so horrific that it actually is the war that ends war.
Wells—the first to imagine a “uranium-based bomb”—offers a prescient description of atomic warfare that renders cities unlivable for years: “Whole blocks of buildings were alight and burning fiercely, the trembling, ragged flames looking pale and ghastly and attenuated in comparison with the full-bodied crimson glare beyond.” Drawing on discoveries by physicists and chemists of the time, Wells foresees both a world powered by clean, plentiful atomic energy—and the destructive force of the neutron chain reaction.

"Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620–1720" by Carl Wennerlind (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Description (Harvard University Press):

Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620–1720, laid the foundation for England’s political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal–military state that instilled fear in its foes and facilitated the first industrial revolution. Yet a number of casualties followed in the wake of this new system of credit. Not only was it precarious and prone to accidents, but it depended on trust, public opinion, and ultimately violence.

Fall Reading List III

2026-10-25T10:12:42.389-04:00

"The Theology of Electricity: On the Encounter and Explanation of Theology and Science" by Ernst Benz (1989).

An excerpt:

Athanasius Kircher's work on magnetism is of particular interest to historians of religion. It shows that, despite his formal adherence to a dogmatically correct concept of God, as he came under the influence of the idea of linking the image of the magnet and its associated phenomena with God, the personal elements in Athanasius Kircher's work and in his conception of God became less and less prominent. In their stead, the impersonal elements in his idea of God began to gain prominence, [as he came to see] God as an all-pervading power and radiance that gives life to, forms, and sustains everything. "God, the Magnet" [is referred to less often, and there are more and more allusions to] the magnetic force of nature. This depersonalization in the concept of God does not urge a theoretical, but rather a practical, equation of the divine spirit as vis magnetica dei with the all-animating power of nature. Already in Athanasius Kircher we frequently find a shift in perspective---a shift of which he himself was probably not aware---from the idea of the divine magnet to that of a magnetic, all-pervasive power, which essentially creates and guides not only order and life but also the preservation and continuation of the universe. There can be no doubt that it was especially this shift in emphasis that contributed to the development that became manifest in the pansophical theology of nature and that forms the transition to Mesmer's evangelium naturae [gospel of nature] and to the philosophy of nature in Romanticism. (Pg. 10).

"Hans Christian Ørsted: Reading Nature's Mind" by Dan Ch. Christensen (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Abstract:

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), the discoverer of electromagnetism, came to be of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time. The centre of an international network of scholars, he was instrumental in establishing the world picture of modern physics. Ørsted was the physicist who brought Kant’s metaphysics to fruition. His discovery of electromagnetism in 1820, a phenomenon that could not possibly exist according to his adversaries, changed the course of research in physics; it inspired M. Faraday’s experiments and discovery of the adverse effect, magneto‐electric induction; the two physical phenomena were later described in mathematical equations by J.C. Maxwell. Together these discoveries constitute the prerequisites for the overwhelming development of modern technology. But Ørsted was also one of the cultural leaders and organizers of the Danish Golden Age (together with Grundtvig, Kierkegaard, and Hans Christian Andersen, his protégé) making significant contributions to aesthetics, philosophy, pedagogy, politics, and religion. Ørsted epitomizes the synthesis of two cultures, remarkably bridging the gap between science, the humanities, and the arts. The concordance between his philosophy of ‘the true, the good, and the beautiful’ and his personal conduct of life makes him a model scholar.

"Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative" by Cyril O'Regan (SUNY Press, 2001).

Description:

Argues that the discourse of Jacob Boehme represents the return of Gnostic thought in modernity after a thousand year hiatus.
Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic Apocalypse focuses on the way Boehme's thought repeats and surpasses post-reformation Lutheran thinking, deploys and subverts the commitments of medieval mysticism, realizes the speculative thrust of Renaissance alchemy, is open to esoteric discourses such as the Kabbalah, and articulates a dynamic metaphysics. This book critically assesses the striking claim made in the nineteenth century that Boehme's visionary discourse represents within the confines of specifically Protestant thought nothing less than the return of ancient Gnosis. Although the grounds adduced on behalf of the "Gnostic return" claim in the nineteenth century are dismissed as questionable, O'Regan shows that the fundamental intuition is correct. Boehme's visionary discourse does represent a return of Gnosticism in the modern period, and in this lies its fundamental claim to our contemporary philosophical, theological, and literary attention.

"Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos" by Steven M. Wasserstrom (Princeton University Press, 1999).

Description:

By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look out of place. It was in this atmosphere that the careers of Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin—the twentieth century’s legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam—converged and ultimately revolutionized how people thought about religion. Between 1949 and 1978, all three lectured to Carl Jung’s famous Eranos circle in Ascona, Switzerland, where each in his own way came to identify the symbolism of mystical experience as a central element of his monotheistic tradition. In this, the first book ever to compare the paths taken by these thinkers, Steven Wasserstrom explores how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing law, ritual, and social history and by extolling the role of myth and mysticism. The most controversial aspect of their theory of religion, Wasserstrom argues, is that it minimized the binding character of moral law associated with monotheism.
The author focuses on the lectures delivered by Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin to the Eranos participants, but also shows how these scholars generated broader interest in their ideas through radio talks, poetry, novels, short stories, autobiographies, and interviews. He analyzes their conception of religion from a broadly integrated, comparative perspective, sets their distinctive thinking into historical and intellectual context, and interprets the striking success of their approaches.

Crazy Story

2026-10-23T13:24:07.353-04:00

This Steve Harvey story is wild.

The amount of leeches and parasites that suck the blood out of athletes, musicians, artists, actors, etc., doesn't get talked about enough. The lack of financial literacy is a real problem. And let's not forget about the biggest parasite in this story: the government.

The "Federal" Reserve Bank and the IRS are the biggest crime syndicates on this planet. The Federal Income Tax has to be abolished.

Steve Harvey reveals he woke up owing the IRS $22,000,000 because his accountants spent SEVEN YEARS pocketing his tax checks and never filing a single return.

The government told him he had to pay $650,000 a month, every month, for 4 years. Miss ONE payment, and you go to JAIL.… pic.twitter.com/ymMLKjstSf
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) October 22, 2026

Video Title: IRS WHISTLEBLOWER Joe Banister Exposes the Federal Income Tax FRAUD with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Source: Freedom Law School. Date Published: September 30, 2026. Description:

What happens when an armed IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent and CPA audits his own agency? He discovers the greatest financial deception in American history.
In this explosive interview recorded at Freedom Law School, Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sits down with former IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent Joe Banister.

Trump, The Holocaust, And The Ayatollahs: On Exaggerated Numbers, And The Politicization of Mass Death By Ideological Terrorists

2026-10-23T05:00:39.541-04:00

Two left. .

"Iran has killed at least 75,000 protesters over the last eight months, US President Donald Trump claimed during a rally in Kansas on Monday.
"They did a lot of killing. And by the way, in the last eight months, they've killed 75,000 minimum protesters,” he said." - The Jerusalem Post, "Trump accuses Iran of killing 75,000, says asking NATO for help during war was test" October 20, 2026.
"For many years the Martyrs Foundation collected the names of the victims of the anti-Shah revolution classifying them by age, sex, education, profession and address. The files were kept secret until 1996/7 when a decision was made to make public the figures on the anniversary of the revolution. At about this time, Emad al-Dib Baghi, was hired as a researcher and editor of the bonyad's magazine "Yad Yaran" (Remembering our Comrades) to make sense of the data. By the time his work had finished he was told that the names were not to be made public. The reason given was that to pursue the matter would run contrary to the statements made by the late Ayatollah Khomeini and his successors who claimed that "60,000 men, women and children were martyred by the Shah's regime."
Emad al-Din Baghi who left the Martyrs Foundation to write two books on the subject claims that the authorities felt that releasing the true statistics would simply confuse the public. So, officials continued to stick to the exaggerated numbers. During a debate in the Majlis at the height of the US hostage crisis, an Islamic deputy claimed that giving in to America would be an insult to the memory of "70,000 martyrs and 100,000 wounded who fought to destroy the rotten monarchy." In fact, by continuing the myth that so many people had been killed, the regime was able to buy a certain legitimacy for its "noble revolution" and excesses.
"Sooner or later the truth was bound to come out," Baghi argued. In his opinion history should be based on objective findings and not baseless rumours which was the root of the anti-Shah hysteria and street demonstrations in 1978 and 1979. The true numbers are fascinating because contrary to the official view they are quite low and highly disproportionate to the hundreds of thousands murdered in the last 24 years in the Islamic republic.
The statistical breakdown of victims covering the period from 1963 to 1979 adds up to a figure of 3,164. Of this figure 2,781 were killed in nation wide disturbances in 1978/79 following clashes between demonstrators and the Shah's army and security forces. Baghi has no reason to doubt these figures and believes that it is probably the most comprehensive number available with the possible exception of a few names that were not traced." - "A Question of Numbers" by Cyrus Kadivar, Rouzegar-Now, August 08, 2003.

President Trump has one thing in common with Iranian Ayatollahs. He loves to exaggerate the number of Iranian deaths for political effect. The gay pedo in chief can't help himself. He is always adding digits.

For a President to make such bold claims is surprising. But, then again, America, like Iran and Israel, is not led by rational-minded leaders. It has been captured by a cult of end-times terrorists.

Political revolutionaries and ideological terrorists love to exaggerate the deaths of their comrades and overstate their own victimhood. And this is not just a Jewish phenomenon or a Zionist specialty. Exaggerating mass deaths for political reasons did not begin and end with the Holocaust. Zionists did not invent this hideous practice.

When political power is contested between different factions in any society the number of the deceased on one side is often exaggerated to make the other side appear as a total monster. It's an old trick.

When the initial anti-government protests in Syria began in 2012 so many fake reports were circulating in the mainstream Western press about Assad's troops killing thousands of citizens for engaging in public protests.

The CIA and MI6 were working overtime to get the public to believe that the protesters were angels. They never disclosed the fact that they were armed to kill members of the army and police.

The Western intelligence agencies pulled off the same trick in Ukraine in 2014 to remove the democratically elected government and put in their own guy.

Both countries are now living through the consequences of those lies and those devilish schemes.

Ukraine has been destroyed and repopulated. The gangster regime in Kyiv is busy spreading terrorism and advanced NATO weaponry to conflict zones around the world. It's not a country. And it never was one. I don't know what it is. It's like a Jewish paradise over there where the Christians are rushed to certain death and the Jews stay behind to pocket all the money. It's tragic for all except a chosen few.

Syria is a similar case. In its modern incarnation it's been an artificial polity, held together with an iron fist. But at least the Assads had a certain level of political sophistication. Under Al-Qaeda's stewardship Syria has been transformed into a terrorist feeder state that trains terrorists to export them to various conflicts around the region. Like Ukraine it has ceased to be a nation. It is a political cancer that's been set loose to infect its surrounding environment.

In the near future a united coalition of Muslim states will have to address this Western-created cancer in the region or it will bring them all down.

Israel says it will keep it in line but it has trouble with Hamas in Gaza so I doubt it will be able to confront a Syria that has set its mind on the conquest of its neighbours. I don't know why Iraq and Lebanon have been so complacent in the face of this threat but they're in for a rude awakening.

The terrorist regime in Iran has been more professional in exporting its revolutionary ideas throughout its short history. Syria won't be. It will be more heavy-handed. We're already seeing the repercussions of Syrian terrorism in Yemen, where 10,000 Syrian-trained troops are being shipped off like orcs following the call of Sauron. And that number will only grow in the future.

A King Does Not Shake Hands With A Beggar

2026-10-22T13:24:49.414-04:00

World leaders need to stop entertaining this clown. Reject him. Isolate him. He does not belong in public office. The Ukrainians are sick of this petulant demon.

> Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf refuses Zelenskyy's handshake.
> Zelenskyy spits toward the king's feet.
> The King stares in disbelief. pic.twitter.com/p6H2jnh69z
— DMac (@DanielMacl1n) October 22, 2026

Fall Reading List II

2026-10-22T12:15:50.300-04:00

Related: Fall Reading List.

"The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil" by Heinrich Zimmer (1948).

"The Crisis of the Modern World" by René Guénon (1927).

"On the study methods of our time" by Giambattista Vico (Published by Cornell University in 1990).

"The Opening of the Way: A Practical Guide to the Wisdom Teachings of Ancient Egypt" by Isha Schwaller de Lubicz (1979).

"Ancient Mystery Cults" by Walter Burkert (1987).

The End of The Holocaust And The Return of History

2026-10-22T09:44:37.353-04:00

Hitler ate bullets in the trenches during WWI while WWII-era Allied "leaders" Churchill, Stalin, and Eisenhower were twiddling their thumbs, robbing trains, and training troops thousands of miles away.

Adolf Hitler could very well have been another Rothschild puppet and British agent like most modern political leaders. That's definitely an interesting and plausible theory.

Adolf was carrying water for the Zionists all throughout the 1930s with promises of settling Jews in Palestine. And he famously had a soft spot for the British people, choosing not to bomb London when Germany was fully in the right to do so at the height of the war.

So I don't know what to make of the guy.

But it's an undeniable fact that he might have been the last Western political leader to fight on the front lines in a war.

And as a victim of gas warfare in the trenches he would've been the last wartime leader during WWII to use gas as a weapon against anyone. He knew how inhumane it was.

Churchill, on the other hand, was a big fan of chemical weapons. But he was a good goy slave so that fact has been brushed aside.

American military leaders also famously used chemical weapons in Korea. They never experienced modern warfare like Hitler did so to them chemical weapons was an abstract thing. Many of them only sat behind desks. They never saw combat.

I don't know if Eisenhower ever saw any military action. He was training troops during WWI when Hitler was busy eating bullets for breakfast. The military record of the two men can't be compared. One was a warrior and laughed at death, the other a mere trainer of troops and a military planner.

In Washington they raise up subservient faggots like Eisenhower to high command but never give promotions to the true warriors who do the actual fighting and killing. They drug them, dispose of them quietly, or derail their careers. That's what happened to Patton. That's what happened to many others.

I say this because the militaries were the first institutions that were corrupted in the West.

The army is the backbone of any state and country. Once it goes so goes the country.

It's important to remember that the lies about the Germans massacring the Jews during WWII came from British, Soviet, American and Allied military commanders. They took the lead in spreading the infamous lies about the Nazi concentration camps.

Leading members of the victorious militaries lied about the Germans, both to advance their own careers in the post-war, new Jewish world order and also to make themselves appear as the saviours of a downtrodden people. They were told to lie about German war crimes to make their bullshit victory and their own acts of destruction look good.

But Hitler didn't gas anyone. The Nazis were bad men, and mostly retarded and stupid, so this is not to exonerate their record in power. But let's just try to be clear about what really happened. Maybe a handful of Jews were deliberately killed by these criminal rogues, probably for reasons of petty theft during wartime. There was no systematic slaughter of Jews by the German military or the Nazi wartime leaders.

The Holocaust is a modern myth. A complete invention and fabrication.

And that myth continues to hang over Germany, the West, and over all of humanity. It needs to be put to bed because it has been used to justify an actual genocide in Palestine.

The reason why there is a dangerous attack on free speech in America and Europe over this issue is because it is the bedrock of Zionism. If the Holocaust is exposed as a total lie then the state of Israel will have to engage with the rest of the world on practical terms, not emotional ones.

Myths are powerful drivers of politics in democratic societies. We saw that with 9/11. Ritual murder produces religious reactions. Reason goes out the window.

The basic conceit of modern democracies is that their acts of violence are rational. But there was nothing rational about the War on Terror. There's nothing rational about the ongoing onslaught against Gaza.

What's rational about the war in Ukraine? Absolutely nothing.

Or the war in Afghanistan? What's rational about replacing the Taliban with the Taliban?

Hitler might have been the last rational Western political leader. He went to war for rational reasons, mainly to stop the Soviet threat which was very real at the time.

The threat from Russia today to Western Europe doesn't exist. It's a made up threat.

But Russia is not innocent, either. It helped generate the myth of the Holocaust to blacken Germany's name and it will have to atone for this historic crime. The Russian state must apologize to the German people and to the peoples of Europe for the crimes committed by the Soviet Union. Those scoundrels didn't liberate anyone, certainly not any Jews from Nazi death camps. Russian leaders need to drop the act. They weren't the good side in WWII.

More Meat For The Yemeni Cookout

2026-10-21T22:14:20.409-04:00

We knew this would happen. We knew Syria would eventually export its chief commodity, Al Qaeda terrorists, across the region to neighboring countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and Yemen.

That's why what Russia and Iran did in Syria was such a grievous error on their part. Russia was a bad ally and a bad partner. Iran didn't see the board. They were blind and stupid. Russia was too fixated on Ukraine.

Their failure will now have to be cleaned up by the people of Yemen. They're doing the heavylifting to end terrorism in the region.

But, no matter, their victory is imminent. They have proven to be more than capable warriors.

Yemenis will eat good this winter. Their days of starvation are over. They will pick the mercenaries apart and leave nothing to the dogs. Those fat Saudis also have a lot of meat on their bones. When night falls on Saudi Arabia they will be like lambs to the slaughter. And nobody will come to save them. Not Egypt. Not Turkey. Not Britain. Not America. Not China. Not Pakistan. Not God. No one.

Saudi Arabia plans to deploy up to 10,000 militants from Syria to Yemen to fight the Houthis — reports

Proposed deal would offer $2,000 a month per fighter, with Syrian commanders visiting Saudi border regions to assess logistics

Fighters include multiple nationalities pic.twitter.com/OfAvGQM2Ba
— RT (@RT_com) October 21, 2026

The deployment of Syrian terrorists to Yemen. 🇸🇾🇸🇦🇾🇪

In recent weeks, reports have emerged about the deployment of Syrian troops to Yemen in support of Saudi Arabia to fight against forces in Sanaa.

Previously, the presence of Syrian mercenaries in Yemen has been very limited,… pic.twitter.com/F0UcsODaus
— @Suriyak (@Suriyakmaps) October 21, 2026

Forbidden Studios With Another Banger

2026-10-21T15:06:17.962-04:00

FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: THE NATURAL ORDER

Deep within the jungle, a peculiar species has developed an extraordinary social hierarchy.

Its members display unwavering loyalty to their alpha, regardless of his failures.

But as with all things in nature, appearances can be… pic.twitter.com/l6oO8pq4Ar
— Forbidden HQ 🐇 (@WearForbidden) October 21, 2026

If You Can't Run It, Burn It: U.S. Policy In The Persian Gulf And The Muslim World

2026-10-21T12:22:42.607-04:00

The Strait of the Apes.

An excerpt from, "US moving away from Middle East security guarantor role, Barrack says" by Rosaleen Carroll, Al-Monitor, October 20, 2026:

US Ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria and Iraq Tom Barrack said Tuesday that Washington is moving away from its role as a regional security guarantor, arguing that Middle East governments must take greater responsibility for their own security and that US ground interventions have repeatedly failed.
What happened: Speaking in an interview with Al Jazeera at the eighth Global Security Forum in Doha, Qatar, Barrack said the US role in the region was changing but stressed that the shift did not mean Washington was abandoning the Middle East.
Asked about the “grand bargain” linking Gulf oil supplies with US security guarantees, Barrack said the arrangement was evolving rather than coming to an end. The “bargain” has centered on US security support for Gulf oil-producing states in exchange for stable energy supplies.
“I think it hasn’t ended. It’s transitioning,” he said. “Owning doesn’t work. Controlling hasn’t worked. Every place we’ve tried to control — Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq — Iraq, what a disaster. So the bargain is not to own but to tend. Not to leave. We’re not leaving,” Barrack said.
Barrack pointed to past US interventions in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan as evidence of the limits of efforts to reshape other countries through military force. “Every time we try and intervene and change the person or the regime, it seems to have been a mistake,” he said.

BREAKING: The U.S. is now preparing to completely abandon Gulf countries, as Trump envoy Tom Barrack directly warns Gulf allies that Washington can no longer guarantee their security indefinitely, telling regional officials in Doha that they must take responsibility for their own…
— The Hormuz Report (@HormuzReport) October 20, 2026

Yemen Will Not Be Overwhelmed by History With Isa Blumi

2026-10-20T22:55:18.005-04:00

"Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World" by Isa Blumi.

America and the West have taken the side of a tribe against a nation in Yemen, albeit one that has effectively been seized by a Shiite cult against the popular will. I don't care how rich the Saudis are or how many dumb mercenaries they can hire from Africa, Pakistan, Ukraine, and South America, they're going to lose that war time after time. It's a numbers game. Yemen can field more men, and they're braver too.

II.

Wikipedia:

Isa Blumi (born 1969, in Teplice, Czechoslovakia) is a historian. He is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden.
Blumi has written more than two dozen articles. They cover topics and focus on Ottoman rule in Albania and Yemen, migration patterns of Muslims in the Balkans to Western and Central Europe, south-eastern European history and current affairs, post First World War social history in Kosovo and Albania, the Kosovo crisis, and analysing issues relating to state centralisation and identity. His research interests include Balkan history, Political Islam, the Middle East/Persian Gulf/Red Sea regions and Muslim migration. Blumi has favoured a multi-sited comparative and interdisciplinary approach toward his research that encompasses social history, post-colonial theory and analysis of state institutions as they evolved over time. His research has also entailed a transregional approach examining sociopolitical, cultural and economic exchanges, links and fragmentation in relation to collapsing political systems and the Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Empire and their transnational impacts on the Balkans and Balkan diasporas around the globe. His other areas of research interest have included modern forms of Islam as practiced in the Balkans, Middle East, Eastern Africa and South-East Asia after the Second World War and nineteenth century Asian Muslim Emirates dealing with expanding European commercial interests within the South China Sea.

Video Title: Yemen Will Not Be Overwhelmed by History With Isa Blumi. Source: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live! Date Published: October 1, 2026. Description:

As many have been closely following the unfolding events in Yemen in recent weeks, we were able to catch up with Isa Blumi, author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World.
We discussed aspects of Yemeni history which are important to understanding the development of anti-imperialist and anti-systemic forces in the region.
Isa Blumi is Professor at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of multiple books, including Ottoman Refugees, 1878–1939, Foundations of Modernity, Reinstating the Ottomans, and Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World

The Cancer That's Eating The West From The Inside

2026-10-20T20:09:04.659-04:00

All governments employ false flag agent provocateurs during protests and social movements. That's a given. Even the Canadian government used this trick during one of the G7 or G20 protests in the late 2000s.

That's what every secret intelligence agency on the planet has been trained to do for the last hundred and a half years.

The best way to delegitimize and neuter a potential citizen revolt is to lead it yourself, and steer it in a violent direction.

During the 2009 popular uprising in Iran the state police went around and burned shops to pin the destruction on the protesters. We're witnessing the same phenomenon in France currently. French secret agents have been caught on camera provoking violence.

All the mayhem in France is being blamed on migrants and Muslims, not the Jewish wars, and not the rising cost of living. That's the Masonic-Zionist agenda. They start fires everywhere, and then turn around and act all innocent.

We have to remember that these guys are masters of group psychology and have several interest groups and mobs under their influence.

In America they have the dumb evangelical Christians licking their boots. And in the Middle East and Europe they have the dumb Muslim mobs at their disposal. We saw how they directed hundreds of thousands of Moroccan migrants towards Spanish territory at the drop of a hat in the summer. The same tactic is being deployed in France.

Zionism is the real threat to your freedoms that they want you to think Islam is
— Tiberius (@tiberiusfiles) October 20, 2026