Forwarded from bullion, bitcoin & โฟitcoin w/ GMONEY (GMONEY โฟ)
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๐บ๐ฒ Blinken confirmed the imminent resignation of US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
She reports that she made the decision herself.
"It is Victoria's leadership in Ukraine that diplomats and foreign policy scholars will study for years to come. Her efforts were indispensable in resisting Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in forging a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and in helping Ukraine reach the day when it can get back on its feet - democratically, economically and militarily," Blinken wrote.
Deputy Secretary for Management John Bass will temporarily take Nuland's place.
She reports that she made the decision herself.
"It is Victoria's leadership in Ukraine that diplomats and foreign policy scholars will study for years to come. Her efforts were indispensable in resisting Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in forging a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and in helping Ukraine reach the day when it can get back on its feet - democratically, economically and militarily," Blinken wrote.
Deputy Secretary for Management John Bass will temporarily take Nuland's place.
Reminder that it was this shirt that ultimately provoked Hollywood to mobilize against Ye, after he wore it to Paris Fashion Week on October 4, 2022.
Hollywood hates white people, and we have to be honest about what that really means.
It is a cesspool of degenerate racists, rapists, and pedophiles, and a cancer on modern civilization. It promotes mental illness, self-loathing, and cultural tribalism that is highly divisive and destructive of healthy minds.
Does Hollywood really deserve to be preserved?
Hollywood hates white people, and we have to be honest about what that really means.
It is a cesspool of degenerate racists, rapists, and pedophiles, and a cancer on modern civilization. It promotes mental illness, self-loathing, and cultural tribalism that is highly divisive and destructive of healthy minds.
Does Hollywood really deserve to be preserved?
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โAfter 1967, the previous moment of profound political abandonment, the American Jewish community began to entertain thoughts of its own radical reinvention. A coterie of disillusioned intellectuals, clustered around a handful of small-circulation journals and think tanks, turned sharply rightward, creating the neoconservative movement. Among activists, the energy that had once been directed toward Freedom Rides was plowed into the cause of Soviet Jewry, which became a defining political obsession of many synagogues in the 1970s and โ80s. Meanwhile, Jewish hippies turned inward, creating new spiritual movements centered on prayer and ritual.
Although not all of these movements proved equally fruitful, this history, in a way, is cause for optimism, an example of how conflict might provide the path to religious renewal and a fresh sense of solidarity. Itโs also a reminder that the Golden Age was not an uninterrupted rise.
The case for pessimism, however, is more convincing. The forces arrayed against Jews, on the right and the left, are far more powerful than they were 50 years ago. The surge of anti-Semitism is a symptom of the decay of democratic habits, a leading indicator of rising authoritarianism. When anti-Semitism takes hold, conspiracy theory hardens into conventional wisdom, embedding violence in thought and then in deadly action. A society that holds its Jews at armโs length is likely to be more intent on hunting down scapegoats than addressing underlying defects. Although it is hardly an iron law of history, such societies are prone to decline. England entered a long dark age after expelling its Jews in 1290. Czarist Russia limped toward revolution after the pogroms of the 1880s. If America persists on its current course, it would be the end of the Golden Age not just for the Jews, but for the country that nurtured them.โ
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/
Archived (no paywall): https://archive.ph/RIkju
โAfter 1967, the previous moment of profound political abandonment, the American Jewish community began to entertain thoughts of its own radical reinvention. A coterie of disillusioned intellectuals, clustered around a handful of small-circulation journals and think tanks, turned sharply rightward, creating the neoconservative movement. Among activists, the energy that had once been directed toward Freedom Rides was plowed into the cause of Soviet Jewry, which became a defining political obsession of many synagogues in the 1970s and โ80s. Meanwhile, Jewish hippies turned inward, creating new spiritual movements centered on prayer and ritual.
Although not all of these movements proved equally fruitful, this history, in a way, is cause for optimism, an example of how conflict might provide the path to religious renewal and a fresh sense of solidarity. Itโs also a reminder that the Golden Age was not an uninterrupted rise.
The case for pessimism, however, is more convincing. The forces arrayed against Jews, on the right and the left, are far more powerful than they were 50 years ago. The surge of anti-Semitism is a symptom of the decay of democratic habits, a leading indicator of rising authoritarianism. When anti-Semitism takes hold, conspiracy theory hardens into conventional wisdom, embedding violence in thought and then in deadly action. A society that holds its Jews at armโs length is likely to be more intent on hunting down scapegoats than addressing underlying defects. Although it is hardly an iron law of history, such societies are prone to decline. England entered a long dark age after expelling its Jews in 1290. Czarist Russia limped toward revolution after the pogroms of the 1880s. If America persists on its current course, it would be the end of the Golden Age not just for the Jews, but for the country that nurtured them.โ
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/
Archived (no paywall): https://archive.ph/RIkju
The Atlantic
The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending
Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americansโand demolish the liberal order they helped establish.
I love Kari Lake as a potential governor, but I donโt think sheโd be a great POTUS. She maintains the Old Guard mindset that we can just buy off our enemies and pay cash tribute to our allies to keep their loyalty.
No more foreign aid. It all has to stop. The State Department should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch.
No more foreign aid. It all has to stop. The State Department should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch.