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20 Thursday Jul 2017
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20 Thursday Jul 2017
Posted in Legal/Political Columns
≈ Comments Off on The Military-Industrial Complex Notices the Collapse, Wants More
Of course, the solution is to spend more and grow the MIC even more. Please read:
In the first of a series, we report on stunning new evidence that the U.S. Department of Defense is waking up to the collapse of American primacy, and the rapid unraveling of the international order created by U.S. power after the Second World War.
But the Pentagon’s emerging vision of what comes next hardly inspires confidence. We breakdown both the insights and cognitive flaws in this vision. In future pieces we will ask the questions: What is really driving the end of the American empire? And based on that more accurate diagnosis of the problem, what is the real solution?
An extraordinary new Pentagon study has concluded that the U.S.-backed international order established after World War 2 is “fraying” and may even be “collapsing”, leading the United States to lose its position of “primacy” in world affairs.
The solution proposed to protect U.S. power in this new “post-primacy” environment is, however, more of the same: more surveillance, more propaganda (“strategic manipulation of perceptions”) and more military expansionism.
[MORE OF THE SAME]
The document concludes that the world has entered a fundamentally new phase of transformation in which U.S. power is in decline, international order is unravelling, and the authority of governments everywhere is crumbling.
Having lost its past status of “pre-eminence”, the U.S. now inhabits a dangerous, unpredictable “post-primacy” world, whose defining feature is “resistance to authority”.
Danger comes not just from great power rivals like Russia and China, both portrayed as rapidly growing threats to American interests, but also from the increasing risk of “Arab Spring”-style events. These will erupt not just in the Middle East, but all over the world, potentially undermining trust in incumbent governments for the foreseeable future.
The report, based on a year-long intensive research process involving consultation with key agencies across the Department of Defense and U.S. Army, calls for the U.S. government to invest in more surveillance, better propaganda through “strategic manipulation” of public opinion, and a “wider and more flexible” U.S. military.
The report was published in June by the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute to evaluate the DoD’s approach to risk assessment at all levels of Pentagon policy planning. The study was supported and sponsored by the U.S. Army’s Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate; the Joint Staff, J5 (Strategy and Policy Branch); the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development; and the Army Study Program Management Office.
One wonders if Gibbon is read at the War College.

Just not enough being spent… Portside.
19 Wednesday Jul 2017
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America, culture, decline, John Whitehead, society, The People, Zombies
John Whitehead comments, in the wake of George Romero’s death, on the zombie-fication of America.
Just take a look around you.
“We the people” have become the walking dead of the American police state.
We’re still plagued by the socio-political evils of cultural apathy, materialism, domestic militarism and racism that Romero depicted in his Night of the Living Dead trilogy.
Romero’s zombies have taken on a life of their own in pop culture, as well.
Indeed, you don’t have to look very far anymore to find them lurking around every corner: wreaking havoc in movie blockbusters, running for their lives in 5K charity races, and putting government agents through their paces in mock military drills arranged by the Dept. of Defense (DOD) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
In fact, the CDC put together a zombie apocalypse preparation kit “that details everything you would need to have on hand in the event the living dead showed up at your front door.”
Zombies also embody the government’s paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent.
Case in point: in AMC’s hit television series The Walking Dead and the spinoff Fear the Walking Dead, it’s not just flesh-eating ghouls and cannibalistic humans that survivors have to worry about but the police state “tasked with protecting the vulnerable” that poses some of the gravest threats to the citizenry.
I’ve written about “The Walking Dead,” the TV show, over at FP a few times. But I’ve never seen any of it. I don’t have to as I live in modern America. I see zombies out and about every day.
Whitehead’s column is a short tour de force on the command and control accepted from them the police state.
I think what little he misses is the acceptance part. The people are more than happy to roll over or lie down for anything, no matter how egregious, so long as the TV, the phone, and the AC work and the beer and fast food flows.
A friend of mine is fond of saying, “We’re in the zombie apocalypse. It’s just not the cool kind.”

SHTF Plan.
Don’t be infected. Resist. Unplug and free yourselves. Be survivors.
They really do want your brains.
19 Wednesday Jul 2017
Posted in Legal/Political Columns, The Perrin Lovett Show
≈ Comments Off on Tales from the Healthcare (VIDEO): Anecdotal Evidence of the Nothing
My rant yesterday about the state of the American healthcare system, if any.
Perrin Lovett/YouTube.

Hundreds or thousands of dollars for nothing. Or, $3 for a fast cure. Thank you, Obama and the GOP. Folks, you’re on your own.

18 Tuesday Jul 2017
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18 Tuesday Jul 2017
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≈ Comments Off on The SJWs are even Coming for Your Beer
Vox Day explains the progression of the madness:
In April 2017, the Brewers Association (BA), a trade group that serves the craft beer industry, enacted a set of rules designed to stem the use of sexist and offensive brewery and beer names (see Brewers Association standing up to breweries, beers with offensive names, labels). But, Flying Dog Brewery sees the move by the BA as an overt attempt at censorship. And, to protest the move, Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso has severed ties with the industry group.
In a letter dated July 14, 2017 and addressed to BA CEO Bob Pease, Caruso says that the policy, “… is an attempt by the BA to censor beer names that offend the sensibilities of some at the BA, primarily by trying to intimidate breweries into censoring themselves.”
In the BA’s policy, a procedure is laid out on how brewers can police their peers — Caruso reads this as competitors — by lodging a formal complaint. Should the offending brewery cease advertising or using a name that is considered offensive by the reporting brewery within 30 days of the complaint, the matter is considered closed. But, if the name and/or advertising is not ceased, a sort of tribunal is convened. The final decision of the tribunal — in reality a group of three BA appointed representatives — is published on the BA’s website for all the world to read. In addition, names found to be offensive will be banned from being spoken at BA sanctioned events like the Great American Beer Festival, Savour and more. If a brewery or beer with a name deemed offensive happens to win a medal in a competition at one of these events, they will not be publicly identified. Winners are also banned from using Brewers Association intellectual property such as identifying a banned beer name as a medal winner in a BA sanctioned event.
Caruso sees all this as forms of censorship, thought policing and just plain creepy.
VD: You have two choices with SJWs. Submit or destroy them. Choose one. Choose wisely.
This may be where Americans draw the line. Freedom yes, jobs maybe, but their beer never.

Photo by Perrin.
18 Tuesday Jul 2017
Posted in News and Notes
A Washington, D.C. security bot, perhaps remorseful for previously maiming a human child, committed suicide in an office water fountain.

Not sure if Asimov covered this. If we can exploit this natural weakness, we may be able to defeat the mechanical menace.
Remember, robots hate us and want us all dead.
I hope it suffered.
17 Monday Jul 2017
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Slow, torturous, idiotic, pitiful failure.
How predictable:

Totally in charge and utterly impotent. The Dems don’t even have a mouthpiece at present – not that they need one now. And those who voted LP, etc. threw their votes away? Maybe it’s time for an Alt-Right party.
17 Monday Jul 2017
Posted in The Perrin Lovett Show
≈ Comments Off on John Daly Singing Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
A new, old video – from Masters Week, 2015. Yes, that’s Big John on stage with ShineBox. Finally dug this out of the archives.
Perrin Lovett/YouTube.
Who knew the boy could sing? Pretty good stuff. And, yes, this is clickbait…
*As noted on YT, buy a Dylan album…

17 Monday Jul 2017
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≈ Comments Off on SJWs Attempt Convergence of the Hard Sciences
Not content with gender and hoax “studies,” and having taken over the legal education, they now move on to the research sciences:
Academics and scholars must be mindful about using research done by only straight, white men, according to two scientists who argued that it oppresses diverse voices and bolsters the status of already privileged and established white male scholars.
Geographers Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne argued in a recent paper that doing so also perpetuates what they call “white heteromasculinism,” which they defined as a “system of oppression” that benefits only those who are “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.” (Cisgendered describes people whose gender identity matches their birth sex.)
Mott, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Cockayne, who teaches at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, argued that scholars or researchers disproportionately cite the work of white men, thereby unfairly adding credence to the body of knowledge they offer while ignoring the voices of other groups, like women and black male academics. Although citation seems like a mundane practice, the feminist professors argue that citing someone’s work has implications on his or her ability to be hired, get promoted and obtain tenured status, among others.
There is, of course and as noted in the article, a distinct lack of otherkin in the hard sciences. That’s not the point; this is all code for hating the “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.” As for citations, if not for the foregoing evil white men, there would be next to nothing to cite. Fred Reed, two years ago, noted just a few of the accomplishments:
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.

Oppressive white heteromasculinism in action. Fred Reed/NASA/the Oppressors.
Rather than be thankful for the incredible groundwork, the SJWs attack the groundworkers. They always lie… I suppose it would be possible to live without the above-listed. People did so for thousands of years – in caves. Maybe that’s the final goal – regression to the Paleolithic.
“You’ve come a long way, baby. Now go back.”
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