“This essay is not merely a history of monasticism. It offers a valuable reflection on how knowledge survives: not only through exceptional individuals, but also through disciplined communities, stable institutions, libraries, shared practices, and transmission across generations.

“I particularly appreciated the idea that monasticism made knowledge institutional rather than merely personal, distributed rather than centralised, and enduring rather than transient.”

Thanks, Mario, for the kind words.

In 529, when Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–547) founded the Abbey of Monte Cassino on the site of an abandoned Temple of Apollo on a mountain top southeast of Rome, Christian monasticism already had a long tradition.

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-1724-monasticism-origins

Jonatan Pallesen's new study in Norway confirms the net negative effect of non-Western migration which is duplicated in studies across the Western world.

For example, the Dutch CPO showed that an immigrant that arrives at 25 will have a net negative lifetime cost of €43,000.

A Swedish govt. study found immigrants will double the cost of pensions after taking into consideration the taxes paid by these immigrants.

And in the US, 51% of legal immigrants and 61% of illegal immigrants use some form of major welfare program. (CIS report)

Aside from implementing an immigration moratorium, paid, voluntary, remigration strategies are humane, practical, and fiscally responsible.

🔗 American Repatriation Policy Platform
🔗 British Remigration Policy Platform

Excellence and the SSH

How Tom Peters's business philosophy relates to the hierarchy

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/excellence-and-the-ssh

USS Liberty Survivor Reveals What Really Happened the Day Israel Attacked & the Lies Covering It Up

USS Liberty deniers will say israel’s 1967 attack on the U.S. spy ship was a total accident. Marine Staff Sergeant Bryce Lockwood was on the Liberty and says there’s no doubt israel meant to kill every American on board.  07/10  TCN

0:00 The Story of the USS Liberty
11:14 What Really Happened During the Attack?
21:28 Did israeli Boats Help Survivors After Receiving Their Mayday Call?
26:13 Did the Johnson Administration Allow the Attack?
29:14 How Many Americans Were Killed in the Attack?
32:51 When Did Lockwood Realize the Attack Came From the israelis?
35:06 What Was the Motive?
37:00 Was Lockwood Told Not to Talk About the Attack?
47:25 The People Dismissing the Attack as a Mistake
52:25 Why Did the US Ignore This?
55:59 What Should Congress Do?
58:33 Is Lockwood Still Preaching?

Never Give Up Cash

The problems of paper money pale in comparison with those of a cashless economy. Credit cards could not be used at convenience stores and other merchants across Japan for hours on Thursday following a system outage that also affected some transportation companies’ credit card-linked electronic money apps. Major credit card issuer Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos Co. […]

https://voxday.net/2026/07/16/never-give-up-cash/

All bridges that connected Band Khamir to Bandar Abbas were struck by US army.

@KurdishfrontReports

🇺🇸 An American F-35A fighter jet in the Persian Gulf transmitted a distress signal, code 7700.

💢 Greece blocks new EU sanctions on Russia — FT

Athens says LNG ban would ‘RUIN’ Greek shipping firm Dynagas

The entire sanctions package has now been held up for a week

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