"The result has been clear: any time meritocracy and diversity come into direct conflict, diversity must take priority."

Morgoth guides us through a terrifying preview of slow-motion collapse.

https://youtu.be/gcFN5qfsZH8

"The liquidity of the U.S. dollar is simply unparalleled and... there is no other currency that could seriously challenge the dollar's hegemony and position as the world reserve currency... at least 90% of world trade happens in U.S. dollars."

– Dissident Nomad

https://dissidentnomad.substack.com/p/empire-of-dollars-3

"The Merchants do not have the heart or requisite level of ruthlessness simply to stamp on the Priests, and now here we are."

Academic Agent argues that our current Priests (the Woke intelligentsia) can't be controlled by Merchants.

https://forbiddentexts.substack.com/p/high-noon-the-warriors-and-the-merchants

"You go from being a girl to being a woman and suddenly you mean something different to the world."

– Our 17yo daughter

I'm all for good leaders.

But don't tell me to celebrate "leaders" that are negligent or outright shearing us like sheep.

A favorite passage from Tolkien in "Tree and Leaf":

"Fantasy does not blur the sharp outlines of the real world; for it depends on them. As far as our Western European world is concerned, this "sense of separation" has in fact been attacked and weakened in modern times not by fantasy but by scientific theory. Not by stories of centaurs or werewolves or enchanted bears, but by the hypotheses (or dogmatic guesses) of scientific writers who classed Man not only as "an animal" -- that correct classification is ancient -- but as "only an animal.""

"You can't edit strength and beauty out of life. One way or another it will find a path back in."

– BAP #8

"I'm wary of promoting that path in public because it's been abused by enemies of freedom and by people who have no concept of what the contemplative life really is... A parody simulation of the contemplative life is easier to promote and goes along quite well with being submissive to the regime we are under."

– BAP #9

Parking links here to another great video by C Kyle (The Alt Hyp on Twitter) since this video was removed from YouTube.

MY ESCAPE FROM THE ALT-RIGHT PIPELINE

https://odysee.com/@C_Kyle:f/serious-video:f

https://www.bitchute.com/video/qUY1irSrXltt/

"[Mises] points out that who counted as "German" to nationalists was determined by linguistic and cultural affinities, not by race."

David Gordon presents Mises and Weber as a counterpoint to racial views of the nation.

https://mises.org/wire/mises-and-nationalism

Sinéad O'Connor was one of the most troubled - and obviously troubled - public people of our age. Her various twists and turns through the years made for gossip in the media, and some bemusement for ordinary people like us who had no idea what she was going through. It seems that, in her case, a bad childhood proved a lifelong torment, something she could never overcome.

Her loss is especially sad, not just because of her great talent, but because of the sincerity with which she used it. Almost any live performance that you will find by her shows an obviously complicated woman trying her best to communicate with the world, not for the sake of attention or praise, but because of the importance of what she was trying to convey.

She was dedicated to her craft, certainly, but also to something deeper than that. The word "artist" should be reserved for people like this.

RIP Sinéad O'Connor, 1966-2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDE5jnHyzUg

"Even if you could disentangle the state-created banking cartel from the state privileges that make its existence possible, and so even if we truly were dealing with a private company, where does it say we're not allowed to criticize private companies?"

Tom Woods on Farage and Coutts.

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/farage

"The competency crisis is now affecting psyops."

https://t.me/stone_toss/400

Nigel Farage fights back against political debanking and Germany's deindustrialization continues + more stories on Econ Minis!

With Black Horse

Starting in 45 minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/live/tXiBkGZsvFo?feature=share

Particularly love the thumbnail today from our wonderful graphic designer!

"These people believe that Vietnam was lost, Desert Storm was won, Iraq and Afghanistan lost, all due to perception, and so in Ukraine it follows that the Russians will be defeated if we can simply control the narrative."

Darryl Cooper on foxes at war.

https://open.substack.com/pub/martyrmade/p/the-war-in-ukraine-isis-not-taking

"Our elites make us suffer because they can, they recognise that no one is capable of upending them."

Evelyn Grant: The Suffering is The Point

https://antipolitics.substack.com/p/the-suffering-is-the-point

"Marcus Tullius Cicero once said:

'If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.'"

Morgoth on his vegetable garden.

https://morgoth.substack.com/p/ruminations-by-a-vegetable-patch

St. Francis Contemplating a Skull

ARTIST
Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish, 1598-1664

DATE
c.1635

MATERIAL
Oil on canvas

LOCATION
St. Louis Art Museum (on display)

"'Government' is just powerful people in rooms you will never see making decisions you will never hear about, there is no *process*."

Lew Rockwell, founder of the Mises Institute, is always at pains to make clear that LvMI is not a think tank.

What's so bad about think tanks?

Let Scrump be your guide...

https://antipolitics.substack.com/p/think-tank-immersion