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

James Lindsay is just a left-wing egalitarian.

Scrump and Evelyn demonstrate with his own words.

https://youtu.be/uD6KnMc1Ofc

Be thankful in all things.
But how can I be thankful to learn of my own sin?

Could a golfer be thankful to learn of an error in his stroke which, if he fixes it, will result in a drive that is more powerful and more accurate?

Pray for me, brothers, that I would submit to His discipline and be a better channel for His power.

“set a bunch of Americans in a wilderness, and they don’t descend into Lord of the Flies chaos. Instead, they organize, establish justice, and start building civilization.”

My article on the NOT Wild West for the Old Glory Club.

https://oldgloryclub.substack.com/p/not-so-wild-west

"In the widening gyre, beauty is reviled and peace is not easy to find. We have lost someone who created beauty. Let us hope that she has found peace."

Sometimes it is ok to not have a hot take and just grieve.

Thanks to Millennial Woes.

https://open.substack.com/pub/millennialwoes/p/in-the-absence-of-order?r=b7pl2&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

"The Regime is the sole ultimate cause of the war, the result of a combination of its hubris, lies, and ignorance, and the Regime has repeatedly chosen to prolong the war, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives"

– Charles Haywood

https://theworthyhouse.com/2023/07/31/the-fortress-the-siege-of-przemysl-and-the-making-of-europes-bloodlands-alexander-watson/

On top of many other reasons, I oppose the US Empire because I hate the Antichrist.

Starting on the hour!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nc5QV0fx5A

"You can have an empire or you can have a nation, but you can't have both. Because when you have an empire the whole world has a stake in the decisions made by your government... A legitimate stake!"

– MartyrMade with Auron MacIntyre

https://www.youtube.com/live/BzH_zesNWh8

"Israel has long been affiliated with global human trafficking, especially in children and prostitution. Last year, the US criticised its ally for not doing enough to combat human trafficking..."

Eye opening from Ryan Dawson.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ryandawson/p/israel-sex-slavery-colombia-to-ukraine

Pulled in the driveway at the end of my work day and found we were getting a visit from part of the local wild turkey flock.

'The Price of Coal' - 2 films broadcast by the BBC in 1977. They were written by Barry Hines of 'Kes' fame, were produced by the lefty team of Tony Garnett and Ken Loach, and depict the goings on around a fictionalised Yorkshire coal mine of the times. Although made by commies and promoting a traditionally leftist view that the working classes were exploited by the bosses for profit, they now depict an almost Utopian, shire-like England, entirely homogenous, masculine and ordered. In those days, the left fully accepted the socially conservative traditions of the indigenous working class, for, at the time, they still represented the most likely and available vector for their deeply desired revolution. The films are products of their times - prior to the ruinous 1984 miner's strike, they reference Arthur Scargill at times and what was to come. Those inside the radical left KNEW that a confrontation was being planned. The miners were victims of capital on one side and cynical Marxists on the other. But these films are genuinely insightful, moving and entertaining. The first is played for laughs; the second far more politically tendentious, but still brilliantly done. You can watch the first for free on YouTube - the second is out there on various platforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDpBuFqWeSs