Pandemonium

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Pandemonium

 Covid-19, Dr A. Kneen digs deep

On the 11th of June 2009, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a pandemic in relation to Swine Flu (H1N1). In spring of 2009,WHO had altered the definition of what constitutes ‘a pandemic’. In April 2009 the definition had read:

An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.

However, by May 2009 the definition had become:

A disease epidemic occurs when there are more cases of that disease than normal. A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic of a disease. An influenza pandemic may occur when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity.[1]

Large pharmaceutical companies will profit massively from the declaration of a global pandemic through the sale of medical products – drugs, testing equipment, vaccines, etc. It was discovered that a number of WHO advisors had financial links to some of the relevant pharmaceutical companies.

…some experts advising WHO on the pandemic had declarable financial ties with drug companies that were producing antivirals and influenza vaccines […] e.g. WHO’s guidance on the use of antivirals in a pandemic was authored by an influenza expert who at the same time was receiving payments from Roche[2] [..]. Although most of the experts consulted by WHO made no secret of their industry ties …[3]

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The Donald’s Parallel Presidency

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The Donald’s Parallel Presidency

by Ilana Mercer

It was November 7. Fox News had just called the election for ‘sleepy’ Joe Biden. A fellow was waxing fat about his flawless campaign and how his lily-white daughters were all aflutter about Kamala. The delirious faces of network distaff were plastered all over the idiot’s lantern, as they plugged the idea that a glorious election outcome was underway.

The truth is that the fucked-up Biden campaign worked because it targeted a coalition of weepy white women—including those with the Y Chromosome—and the rest of tribal, Third-World America. Joe and Kamala won the un-American, anti-American vote, which is now a majority. The images of the vote-counters proliferating on the Internet mirrored the same constituency: minorities, white men with sunken chests and that angry, radical-professor, ANTIFA demeanor, joined by mountainous women with the signature tumbleweed hair. Pictures are not proof of misconduct, but Trump’s America seems scarce or nowhere apparent in the country’s vote-counting covens.

As expected in the Kamala Harris Administration, Kamala opened the victory celebrations. Parsed, here is the vice President elect’s victory speech: Blacks, Browns, Latinas, people of color, my mother, minorities, me, myself and I. (My white husband? Nope!) Racism everywhere. Systemic. Continue reading

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Combating Critical Race Theory

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Combating Critical Race Theory

by Ilana Mercer

Critical Race Theory is what Americans will be hearing day in and day out from a Biden- Harris Administration. You might as well familiarize yourselves with its fundamental, farcical pitfalls. Watch these two explanatory videos.

Racism Is A Thought ‘Crime.’ Thought Crimes Are The Prerogative Of A Free People:

https://youtu.be/CVyBLLmXVBk

Critical Race Theory Rapes And Loots Reality:  

https://youtu.be/FXL0NgDSW1Q

Ilana Mercer has been writing a weekly, paleolibertarian column since 1999. She’s the author of Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) & The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed” (June, 2016). She’s currently on Gab, YouTube, Twitter & LinkedIn, but has been banned by Facebook.

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ENDNOTES, November 2020

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ENDNOTES, November 2020

In this edition: Saint-Saëns and Henrique Oswald, Piano Concertos; Piano music by contemporary Iranian composers, Farhat and Tafreshipour, reviewed by STUART MILLSON

A stream of elegant, late-romantic melody this month, courtesy of the SOMM label – which brings listeners a beautifully-recorded programme of piano concertos by Saint-Saëns (his Fifth, “The Egyptian”) and his contemporary, Henrique José Maria Carlos Luis Oswald. The name of Oswald is – I confess – new to me; and he seems to be one of many highly-gifted late-19th-century romantics (such as Litolff and Pierne) overshadowed and obscured by the greater names of the canon. Oswald was born in Brazil in 1852, came to Europe at the age of 16 and studied successfully in Italy – later earning plaudits from Saint-Saëns, to whose style he comes very close. The traditional three-movement (op. 10) concerto is given a light-of-touch, charismatic performance by soloist, Clelia Iruzun, accompanied by the silky-toned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jac van Steen. Throughout its roughly half-an-hour-long course, the work creates a feeling of ever-deeper warmth – of soft-summer garden colours, Chopin-like longing, and yet with the tuneful boldness of Saint-Saëns urging things along – so that despite the dreamy romanticism, there is energy and structure – and real form. Continue reading

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Victory in the West, 1940: Accident or Design?

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Victory in the West, 1940:
Accident or Design?

BY MILITARY HISTORIAN DR FRANK ELLIS

And when we come to examine their actions and lives [Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others like them], they do not seem to have had from fortune anything other than opportunity. Fortune, as it were, provided the matter but they gave it its form; without opportunity their prowess would have been extinguished and without such prowess the opportunity would have come in vain.

         Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Der Gedanke war allerdings kühn, fast zu kühn. Aber ohne Wagemut und Kühnheit sind im Kriege selten große Erfolge zu erzielen.

         Ernst Schmidt, Schlachten des Weltkrieges, Argonnen (1927)

  1. Introduction
  2. Heinz Guderian and his Contribution to Blitzkrieg Doctrine
  3. Hitler’s Denkschrift (9th October 1939) for the Conduct of the War in the West
  4. Incipient Blitzkrieg (Poland, September 1939) and Blitzkrieg complete (France, May-June 1940)
  5. Reliance on Zufall cannot explain German Success in May-June 1940
  6. Conclusion. Blitzkrieg by Name and Blitzkrieg in Action: the German Offensive in the West (10th May 1940)
  1. Introduction

In Blitzkrieg-Legende: Der Westfeldzug 1940 (The Blitzkrieg Myth: The Campaign in the West 1940, 1995), the German historian Karl Heinz-Frieser  argues that the German victory over the Anglo-French forces in May-June 1940 was not planned as a Blitzkrieg since, according to him, there was no formulated Blitzkrieg doctrine. Further, he maintains that the use of the word Blitzkrieg was applied retrospectively by NS-propaganda and that the concept has been uncritically accepted by historians. Frieser believes that Blitzkrieg was a consequence of the German victory in the West in 1940 not its cause. In this article the author challenges the Frieser thesis, arguing that there was a Blitzkrieg doctrine and that its essential components had been formulated by May 1940. Continue reading

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Depluribus Unum

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Depluribus Unum

by Ilana Mercer

In 2016, Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters Deplorables. The year 2020 finds Jon Meacham likening us to lizards. Meacham, one of the left’s favorite historians, mused that white America has retreated into unthinking limbic mode. A patrician from Texas, an oil man, responded politely, on Martha MacCallum’s Fox News show: “If putting food on my family’s table and worrying about my employees makes me a lizard brain, then call me iguana.”

Iguanas-cum-deplorables are with Trump, and he with them. And he, President Donald J. Trump, is leaving everything he’s got on the battlefield. Unlike his rival Joe Biden, Trump is not merely showing up, standing prone, looking out nervously upon a few oddly encircled, masked supporters. Oh, no! Be it in Bullhead City or Goodyear, Arizona, or Circleville, Ohio, or Lansing, Michigan—Trump has been turning in the kind of performances that come from the heart, cocking a snook at the media establishment, while throwing himself into each and every rally with as much joy, exuberance and optimism as went into the rally before and the one to follow.

Here is a president who loves the thousands upon thousands of constituents who cling to him, to their guns and their God. He draws his strength from them, and engages in repartee with them. “America will … be the first … to land an astronaut on Mars … maybe we will make that a woman,” taunted POTUS, in Arizona. “Make it Nancy Pelosi,” came a retort from the crowd. Trump thought this was peaches: “Who said that? That’s pretty good. Stand up, please. Look at this guy. That’s pretty good,” came the president’s happy-warrior reply. Continue reading

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Gathering Storms

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Gathering Storms

 by Stuart Millson

In 2002, the late Albert Finney starred in a film for television, directed by Richard Loncraine, about the “wilderness years” of Winston Churchill. With Vanessa Redgrave co-starring as his devoted wife Clementine, The Gathering Storm depicted the efforts made by the then marginalised Churchill to warn Britain of the growing power of The Third Reich and the possibility of the invasion of our islands if its defences were not improved.

With great attention to period detail, the drama concentrated on domestic life at Chartwell, the large house in north-west Kent, near Westerham, which was Churchill’s home and political power-base for much of his life. Sir Winston adored the grounds and the old building, with its 14th-century foundations and profoundly rural setting in the wooded Kentish hills. Here, the ridge of the North Downs gives way to lower-lying land, and country roads eventually lead on to the castles of Chiddingstone and Tonbridge – and then to the leafy Weald of southern England, which thanks to ‘The Few’, the panzers never reached. Visiting Chartwell today, one has a sense of the house as a redoubt; a personal fortress in the immemorial English landscape, where one of our most remarkable political figures predicted the gathering storm presaging world war. Continue reading

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Food Men Chew

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Food Men Chew

COVID – Ilana fingers the Chinese people

China’s plague-delivery pedigree is solid. Courtesy of China, the West got the H2N2 virus in 1957 and the H3N2 virus in 1968. Granted, the Chinese viral supply chain was broken with H1N1 flu; it came from Mexico. But, with the bird flu, SARS and SARS-Cov-2, China has reestablished its disease-delivery credentials. But going by the COVID culpability theories advanced by conservatives, the steady stream of “China plagues,” in Trump’s words, has had nothing to do with the noble Chinese people. Blame the ignoble Chinese Community Party for all these lethal, little RNA strands unleashed on the world. Some have even taken to calling SARS-CoV-2 “the CCP virus.”

As this Disneyfied neoconservative narrative goes, the Chinese were just hanging, being the freedom-loving, civilized sorts that they are; going about the business of making the world a better place, when, lo and behold, their scheming, communistic government sprung the COVID on them—and the world. Without fail, American pundits and pols, conservatives, in particular, apply to China the same theories of culpability that have undergirded America’s invasions of the illiberal people of the Middle East. The bifurcation globalists love is that of the noble Chinese people against the ignoble Chinese government. It’s the Chinese government, not the people. Liberate the Chinese and they’ll show their Jeffersonian propensity for enlightened self-interest, not to mention a palate for a cuisine less cruel. Continue reading

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Architect of Final Victory

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Architect of Final Victory

HALDANE, THE FORGOTTEN STATESMAN WHO SHAPED MODERN BRITAIN, by John Campbell, Hurst Publishers, ISBN 978-1-78738-311-1, £30, reviewed by ANGELA ELLIS-JONES

He has never featured in popular lists of Great Britons, and no statue of him has been erected. But Richard Burdon Haldane (1856-1928) could be considered, second only to Churchill, as the Greatest Briton of the C20th. John Campbell’s biography, many years in the making, does full justice to this impressive polymath and public servant.

The book is subtitled The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain, and the prefatory quote reads: ‘si  monumentum requiris, circumscpice’. Haldane was the architect of the modern British state, and his work on educational institutions and scientific and medical research continues to benefit us. As someone who was twice unlucky in love, and needed only four hours sleep, he had more time than most to devote to his many interests, and accomplished the work of several lifetimes.

Haldane was born into an upper-middle class Scottish family. His maternal great-great uncles, Lords Eldon and Stowell, were both distinguished lawyers. Eldon was a predecessor of Haldane as Lord Chancellor. Other relatives were distinguished scientists. His brother, a physiologist, became a Companion of Honour – one of the few honours that Haldane himself was not awarded. Continue reading

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The West is Silenced

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The West is Silenced

by Ilana Mercer

How is it possible to critique Critical Race Theory yet fail to mention its salient characteristic—that it is exclusively anti-white? Easily, if one is a Beltway conservative. They complain a lot about this theory, yet are congenitally incapable of calling it what it is: anti-white agitprop.

One Federalist piece, “Critical Race Theory Is A Classic Communist Divide-And-Conquer Tactic,” brings it back to communism. Quite how this adds up is unclear, but the author decries a way of thinking that exploits the amorphous “tragedy of racial divisions in America.” In essence, some bad people with a communistic manual and mindset aren’t interested in healing us. Really? Did communism, an equal-opportunity oppressor, revolve around the exclusive demonizing of whites?

Western democracies are third-way political and economic systems. They are already heavily socialized. Once Western societies go from third way to third world, debate over communism will cease, for communism will have arrived. In other words, dissecting and decrying communism is an ideological luxury, the province of relatively wealthy, stable, developed democracies. Continue reading

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