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Reading the great book "Rubicon" by Holland.

He properly starts it with Marius vs. Sulla, most accounts start with the Cataline Conspiracy or the Triumverate. Sulla was the first revolutionary - in the sense he came to power by force rather than first a Senate nomination - Dictator.

Anyway, here's what the Romans believed was at threat during the last century of the Republic:

* Women were naturally sensual and given to pleasure first - hence their omission from all leadership.
* High Cuisine was decadent, too much luxury foods were coming to Rome.
* Dandyism was decadent. Plain dress was right and proper; too much oriental fashion was coming to Rome.
* There were too many passive, feminine males.
* There were too many "Publicans" - or Corporate Bosses and Bankers, squeezing and corrupting the system.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Reading the great book "Rubicon" by Holland.

LOL! Just substitute 'MKULTRA' for the lead poisoning form the utensils of the Roman elite, and you can see where things headed.

I ran across an interesting statement by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations to the effect that the risk-adjusted returns of stock and the general interest rate must necessarily be approximately equal. If, say, there were more money to be made in stock than in lending, people would borrow to invest in stock, driving up the price of stock (and thus lowering its return in the future) and creating demand for loans, which would drive up interest rates. And this would continue until the two kinds of returns equalized.

But at the present, there is clearly much more money to be made in stock than in lending. So you would think that people would borrow to invest in the stock market.

Hmmm, maybe they are doing exactly that, but interest rates are held artificially low by the Fed's lending at extremely low rates. So the Fed is in effect subsidizing the stock market.

Patrick says

So the Fed is in effect subsidizing the stock market.

Yes, low rates subsidize both stocks and housing. Haven't you noticed that the biggest fans of the Fed keeping rates low are stock brokers and realtors?

Patrick says

Hmmm, maybe they are doing exactly that, but interest rates are held artificially low by the Fed's lending at extremely low rates. So the Fed is in effect subsidizing the stock market.

Yep. I had a friend who got a 0% interest Credit Card and did just that.

The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.

Adam Smith
Chapter VII, Part Second, p. 619. - The Wealth of Nations (1776) - Book IV

And yet that is exactly what we have now. Corporate rule.

Reading Hollands' "Shadow of the Sword".

Some takeaways:

* The buffer zone east and south of Roman Occupied Judea and Syria were full of Arabs
* The Arabs - The Saracens from Arabic "Shirkat" - were not strange to the nearby inhabitants, regarded maybe as cowboys to the cityfolk in Saint Louis driving in the cattle annually.
* Ghassanid Arabs were a coalition of Arab "Foederati", paid by the Romans to patrol the frontier and save them money and manpower, just like many German tribes were.
* Lots of syncretic stuff happened between the border Arab Foederati and Rome, and especially Heretics like Monophysites and Nabateans
* There's absolutely no evidence that Mohammed was from Mecca, Mecca is not mentioned ONCE in the list of Arab Cities, despite multiple resources from Roman Governors surviving at this time, which contained lists of Oasis, Meeting Places, and Arab Tribes. Mecca first mention a century after Mohammed.
* Yet further away locations, like Himyar, are mentioned extensively in Roman records (South Yemen today) for both trade and political purposes: Roman vessels often stopped there on the way to India, there were official agreements between the Romans and Himyar Monarchs (some of whom were Jews!)
* Very little date material in the Quran.
* Heavy use of Syriac/Arab loan words FROM Latin and Greek used by Romans. For example: Qayash = Qaysar = Caesar. Mohammed may have been from a tribe aligned with the Caesars - ie Rome.

And much more.

Thanks, interesting to fill in some details.

This book also has a lot of details omitted by mainstream Muslim history:

https://archive.org/details/WhyIAmNotAMuslimIbnWarraq

I finished The Wealth of Nations and am now reading Walden by Thoreau. Great quote about housing:

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,—and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,—it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. An average house in this neighborhood costs perhaps eight hundred dollars, and to lay up this sum will take from ten to fifteen years of the laborer’s life, even if he is not encumbered with a family;— estimating the pecuniary value of every man’s labor at one dollar a day, for if some receive more, others receive less; —so that he must have spent more than half his life commonly before his wigwam will be earned. If we suppose him to pay a rent instead, this is but a doubtful choice of evils. Would the savage have been wise to exchange his wigwam for a palace on these terms?

Oh Patrick, Georgism still beats in my heart.

"No government may restrict the use of RVs or homes over 250 sq ft. on any property over 1 acre, except it be inside of an incorporated city of over 50,000 persons."

There's no health or safety reason why it shouldn't be.

We all know it's because of Developers, Realwhores, and Ladder Kickers, many of whom lived in an RV/Volkswagon Camper saving money to build a real house on their property.

Like all the boomfucks who quit and became consultants at the same place, and later executives, at 2-3x their old pay, advising companies never to hire consultants that "aren't on a special list of people we know and list entrance is a mystery".

Here's one (actually two) for you @Patrick


original link


It's a presentation of who actually runs the world. Two books are given. Both are by Carroll Quigley:

The Anglo American Establishment
Tragedy and Hope

Both are readily available in PDF format on the Internet, but I believe they are also for sale on Amazon.

Essentially, all of our institutions have been infiltrated by successive groups where one group controls a larger group, where the larger group is unaware they are controlled by a much smaller group. At the top of this pyramid is essentially a very small group of multinational elites who basically control their banking systems. These people work in concert, there is no competition between them although there is an illusion there is competition.

This group was setup by Cecil Rhodes, but was subverted and taken over by the Rockefeller. Cecil Rhodes may have been the richest man ever to have lived on this planet.

Basically, if this is true, our rules are our central banks - or at least the people that own them. People like Janet Yellen and Alan Greenspan - they are just servants.

Been reading this eerily sounds like today. Group from Chicago that formed a group with bug out location in Idaho.

RC2006 says

Been reading this eerily sounds like today. Group from Chicago that formed a group with bug out location in Idaho.

Let me know how it is.

I finally finished The Origin of Species by Darwin. Florid and obscure Victorian language, but quite a good book overall imho. Learned lots of tidbits about evolution that I did not know, like how flowers can be the same on widely separated mountain tops (glaciation, then retreat) and that the skull is just a greatly modified vertebra.

AmericanKulak says

RC2006 says

Been reading this eerily sounds like today. Group from Chicago that formed a group with bug out location in Idaho.

Let me know how it is.

It's ok got some ideas out of it. A lot of these kind of books have ideas that I find useful but the writing at times is a little less refined. This one I was intrigued with because it takes place in Idaho.

Finally finished Tesla's autobiography. One of the last inventions he details is an engine design which sounded almost like perpetual motion. At the least it seemed to guarantee an efficiency I don't think we have today. Again, patented around the turn of the 20th century. Fucking genius.

Stolen history site outlines the lost history of Tartaria and its amazing buildings. They postulate that many of these elaborate structures were designed for free energy collection by their shapes, much as postulated by the free energy inventions of Tesla.

I've started reading United States of Fear by Mark McDonald, MD.



It's a short book and I'm halfway through already. Very good so far.

The author explicitly links feminism and the resulting weak men with anxiety among white liberal urban women, and their frankly insane over-reaction to the virus Fauci created in Wuhan.

Women are not safe with weak men as husbands and they know this at a deep level.

Other trends which contributed to the Covidian Cult:

Safety and self-esteem were elevated over accomplishment, mastery, and truth. This become law.

Liberals prefer the promise of safety to liberty.
Conservatives prefer liberty to the promise of safety.

Women were far more affected by fear of the virus than men, especially unmarried women (women without any man at all to protect them, not even a weak man).

Public officials wildly over-reacted to the small threat of the virus in order to avoid blame. There was no political benefit to being reasonable. This greatly increased women's fear.

Feminism claimed to be about freedom and opportunity, but turned out to be mostly misandry.

American men no longer play their traditional role of grounding and containing women's anxiety in a crisis. Instead, male weakness amplifies women's anxiety.

More insights:

Liberal women paradoxically demand that men be more feminized, and then strongly resent the feminized men they have helped to create.

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

The more formal education a man has, the less likely he is to rate himself as "very masculine".

Republican men are twice as likely to rate themselves as "very masculine" than Democratic men.

3/4 of Republican men view masculinity as a good thing, but only 1/2 of Democratic men do.

"As feminism exults in its triumph over men, both sexes lose."

"The surrender of real courage by men inevitably produces fearful women, and fearful women channel their fear into controlling others."

Patrick says

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

Why would testosterone drop? Pot use? One's politics will not affect juice level.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

Why would testosterone drop? Pot use? One's politics will not affect juice level.

It does. The habits, soy food, being sedentary, not hunting women,not going to the gym but hiding in the basement, netfucks and chill. not asserting yourself, all have negative effects on T. It's been declining for decades now but leftoids are speeding it up.

I have read that psychology definitely affects testosterone levels. There is a positive feedback loop where winning men produce more testosterone. And conversely.

I've started reading The Federalist Papers as my next book.

The beginning says that the goal of our Constitution is freedom from tyranny, so it's very relevant to right now in America.

Patrick says

I've started reading The Federalist Papers as my next book.

The beginning says that the goal of our Constitution is freedom from tyranny, so it's very relevant to right now in America.

Lol, just ran across this on https://patriots.win/?source=patrick.net :

Huh, just learned from The Federalist Papers that bankruptcy law in the US is largely a federal affair because the framers of the Constitution foresaw that some people would try to move property from one state to another and then declare bankruptcy in the first.

Patrick says

I finally finished The Origin of Species by Darwin.

I love that book. I've read it several times.

Read Brave New World again. As a kid I kind of saw it as a sort of paradise, as an adult, I can see it for the dystopia it is. No progress, people are just meat robots servicing the machine. A completely purposeless life.

I have an audiobook of The Gulag Archipelago and am in the process of fixing it to remove the useless tidbits of "now flip the cassette over to side B" and so on. It's a dark comedy, or would be, if it wasn't based on reality. I'll send you a link once I edit it. It's 104 audio tapes. I think I'll break it up into 3 parts.

The Constitution has this section:

Article 1, Section 10
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

How are they able to not use "gold and silver Coin" in payment of their debts?

Another bit of the Constitution that seems violated:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

So how is it that states like California can simply refuse to enforce federal immigration law?

Or how can California legalize marijuana when it is illegal under federal law?

Patrick says

Another bit of the Constitution that seems violated:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

So how is it that states like California can simply refuse to enforce federal immigration law?

Or how can California legalize marijuana when it is illegal under federal law?

The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper - George W. Bush told you 20 years ago.

The United States doesn't enforce the Constitution any more than the USSR enforced THEIR constitution. If American citizens don't care, fuck 'em.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Government_employees.webp/800px-Government_employees.webp.png?source=patrick.net

In Federalist paper number 45, Madison claims that the number of federal employees will always be far below the number of state government employees. He was wrong.

mell says

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Testosterone and grip strength have been dropping among men.

Why would testosterone drop? Pot use? One's politics will not affect juice level.

It does. The habits, soy food, being sedentary, not hunting women,not going to the gym but hiding in the basement, netfucks and chill. not asserting yourself, all have negative effects on T. It's been declining for decades now but leftoids are speeding it up.

Chronic masturbation?

Another good insight from The Federalist Papers, from number 50: it is necessary and good to have multiple political parties opposed to each other "because an extinction of parties necessarily implies either a universal alarm for the public safety, or an absolute extinction of liberty."

This does seem to be true. In the case of, say, attack by space aliens, I think people would work together and forget about which party they belong to until the danger has passed. On the other hand, in countries not under attack, a lack of multiple parties is a reliable indicator of despotism, as in North Korea.

Another interesting thing in The Federalist Papers is that the writers of the Constitution clearly intended the Electoral College to be independent. That is, the people are to vote for the electors in their state (one elector for each member of the House and Senate for that state). Then the electors themselves are to choose the president.

Now why doesn't it work that way now? It seems that you vote for an elector who has already declared himself or herself in favor of a particular candidate. The original idea was that the people simply pick electors of good character and let them decide on a president after that.

Patrick says

Another interesting thing in The Federalist Papers

If you enjoy that, you may enjoy this :

http://resources.utulsa.edu/law/classes/rice/Constitutional/AntiFederalist/antifed.htm?source=patrick.net

Yes, it would be nice to hear the arguments against the Constitution as well.

Lol, too much!

@Patrick

Not a paper book, but a good audio presentation of 1984.

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

I've read this book many times but I like to experience it many ways. This version is not abridged, so it's like 10 hours long.

I turned it into an MP3 if you prefer:

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~patrick/1984%20-%20audiobook.mp3

You can just download that onto a device. I'll keep it around there for a few weeks, but eventually I'll organize it. I do like to collect.

Been reading through the Old Testament lately. I skip over the super Jewie stuff(large parts of Deuteronomy), but overall really enjoying it as I've always liked history. And next time a Jew tries that holier than thou shit, remind him of Numbers when they refused to go to the promised land. Temper tantrum of epic proportions. They whined so much God struck them with three different plague's/calamities.

Contrary to popular belief, the Bible isn't full of saints, its chock full of sinners. God doesn't ask for perfection, just that we try.

My next book after The Federalist Papers is "The Guide for the Perplexed" by Moses Maimonides, a Jewish scholar writing in Arabic in about 1100 AD. It attempts to reconcile the Old Testament with Greek philosophy, partly by analyzing words and taking them as metaphors rather than literally.

I ran across a funny passage in which he says:

In the same manner does the root "nasa" (to lift up) denote both elevation in space and elevation in dignity.