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Re-reading The Franklin Cover-Up. This was written over 20 years before anyone had even heard of Epstein. But all the trails are there. Pedophilia, central government, CIA, drugs, blackmail, Satanism, money laundering by the deep state. These elements are so interwoven, and repeated, the only logical conclusion one can draw is that they were always designed to work together.

I'm reading Epictetus' Discourses.

He had a good insight on why internet debate usually ends in a brick wall.

Co-authored by McCain? Published by NeoCons International?

I'm reading Cicero's "On Duties" and found him objecting to early forms of communism and wealth redistribution:

https://genius.com/Marcus-tullius-cicero-on-duties-de-officiis-book-ii-annotated

Philippus, during his tribunate, when he proposed the agrarian law (which he readily suffered to be rejected, behaving in the matter with great moderation), while in defending the measure he said many things adapted to cajole the people, did mischief by the ill-meant statement that there were not in the city two thousand men that had any property. It was a criminal utterance, tending to an equal division of property, than which what more ruinous policy can there be? Indeed, states and municipalities were established chiefly to insure the undisturbed possession of private property; for though under the guidance of Nature men were brought together, still it was with the hope of guardianship for their property that they sought the defence of cities. ...

Those, therefore, who desire to be popular, and with that view either attempt agrarian measures,1 that the occupants of the public domains may be driven from their homes, or advocate the remission of debts,2 are undermining the foundations of the state, — in the first place, harmony, which cannot exist when money is taken from some and debts are cancelled for others; in the next place, equity, which is utterly destroyed, if hindrances are laid in the way of men’s keeping their own property. For, as I said above, this belongs to the very idea of a state and a city, that the protection of every man’s property should be certain and not a subject of solicitude. Moreover, by measures thus ruinous to the state men do not gain the favor that they anticipate. He from whom property is taken becomes their enemy. He to whom it is given conceals his desire to receive it, and especially in the case of debt cancelled, hides his joy, lest he may be suspected of having been insolvent. On the other hand, he who is wronged remembers it, and keeps his grievance in full sight.1 Nor if those to whom property is wrongfully given are more numerous than those from whom it has been unjustly taken, are they therefore possessed of more influence; for these matters are determined, not by number, but by weight. ...

https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/book-club-a-prophecy-of-the-3rd-millennium

The reason RW Young Men are so isolated and alone is any other generation they'd be able to form In-Person single sex, ethnic-exclusive ideological clubs and built intensive social trust that way.

In the 1850s or early 1900s they could form ideological militia regiments.

but today they face Fed threat.

This posed a great challenge:

How can radical right wing young men network without minorities and chicks ruining it?

How can they build trust that they aren't feds?

How can they avoid Rico Charges and government suspicion?

One man found the answer.

In what way in the modern world can networks of young men pour endless hours into Maoist Struggle Sessions, demonstrations of loyalty, ideological radicalization, wargaming of tactics and weapons, physically demanding group outings, and political purification... All without attracting the interests of Feds or Women? All without being observable by the NSA? All while actually interacting with their fellow human beings IN PERSON?

It was an impossible question... With the most extraordinary of answers.

Book Club.

it was on the tip of everybody's mouth... That legend just gave it a name.

Right now in hundreds, maybe thousands, of cells across America, young men are attaining the classical educations the longhouse, cathedral, synagogue, and bathhouse would deny them, whilst attaining a level of radicalization hitherto unknown in the history of religion and ideology.

All by following their trademark rules under threat of death.

The First Rule:
You do not talk about book club.

The Second Rule:
You do not text or message about book club

The Third Rule:
You do not bring your phone to book club.

The Fourth Rule:
You do not fail to do the reading.

The Fifth Rule:
If it's your first night at book club, you have to do a dramatic reading.

With these 5 simple rules, hell was unleashed.

Already Book Club cells are acting as mercenary hitmen for the cartels and have networked into special operations groups from Special Operations Forces, to the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, to the French Foreign Legion, to Wagner Group...

Already Ukrainian conscripts have met their end when behind them a voice whispered:

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"

But these are not the stories that are most keenly whispered through the Book Club rumor network.

The stories they love most are the stories of loyalty.

A young member of Book Club in Minnesota fell afoul of his fellows. Whilst reading Caesar's Gallic War's for the second time ("great books must not only be read, they must be reread" Book Club Maxim XIX), the young member misspoke mistaking the Helvetii and Belgae. This provoked the accusation that he had not done the reading, and panicking, aiming to prove he had done so he confused the Germanic Suebi with the Cimbri from Plutarch's life of Marius.

This not only seemingly confirmed his failure, but that he had failed to read the gallic wars even the first time...

For this grave offense they beat him within an inch of his life and ditched him on the streets of St Paul's Near George Floyd square. however he survived, and when roused by the doctors and questioned by police this delirious 17 year old stuck to his training and remained loyal. He insisted that he had been set upon by two black Tim Walz supporters in "I'm with Her" shirts. That as they attacked his "Privileged Cracker ass" they kept saying "This is IVF country”... and that when he came to he had a Coat Hanger around his neck... And just kept screaming and screaming in flashback to the abortion a teacher tried to persuade his mother to have.

The police got nothing. And that 17 year old was allowed to return next week this time making no mistakes when asked about the finer details of the circumvallation performed by Caesar at Alesia.

Others are not so lucky. One fed claimed to have done all the readings. Claimed to be a loyal member, but after rumors of him speaking with mysterious sunglasses wearing normies surfaced, something had to be done.

Taken on "book club tour" he was led to the desert where he believed they were digging up a dead drop weapons cache. Whilst digging he was asked for his opinion whether he thought it right or wrong that Napoleon had failed to break the siege at Borodino and free Massena and his men, instead opting for a strategic opening that may have won the campaign...

The suspect answered that he thought it wrong to leave Massena and his men starving in Borodino when they had so loyally held out against all odds.

Wrong answer.

Napoleon had left Massena starving in GENOA! In Italy. Borodino was a battle in Russia.

It was the second time he was mistaken that day. He thought he'd been digging a weapons cache. In reality he'd been digging a grave.

Through such whispered stories has it become a truism in Book Club:

Feds can't read.

Whether the high pace of reading book club demands is simply incompatible with full time federal work, or whether the raw hours of attention required is incompatible with leading a double life and trying to relax on downtime... Or if it simply is true that the Feds hire only 115 IQ midwits incapable of true deep reading and understanding of 130 IQ classical texts...

Either way, the iron rule remains the same:

Feds can't read.

And in the bloody logic of book club this implies the Aristotelian inference:

Those who don't read are Feds.

It takes an iron resolve and a mind like a titanium safe to make it in Book Club... but for that rare breed amongst even them who would rise to leadership, who would be entrusted with knowledge beyond the tightly air-gapped cell network of individual book clubs, for those who would join the overlapping network of Centurions... The standards are even higher.

In One rumoured election ceremony, after gaining support amongst his brother readers.... A candidate, without prior notice, was stripped naked and observed for physical imperfection and/or body fat percentage above 12% (it is said candidates cut aggressively in anticipation of selection), he then submitted to having makeup placed over his face like some Egyptian whore and was given only a bathrobe and a wooden Gladius, thus this Pseudo Gio Scotti was booted out of a car a few blocks from a Hells Angels clubhouse.

His mission?

To return the 200 miles to book club before sunrise with one of the hell's Angels full-patch vests without getting captured, hospitalized, or receiving any assistance not taken via threat, fraud, theft, or force.

He succeeded.

This is what these people consider a joke.

What the ultimate goal of book club is, what they aim to achieve... It is said one can only truly understand that once one has memorized the campaigns of Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, and Generalfeldmarschall von Moltke the Elder, and become fluent in Greek, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and 19th Century German.

Some argue their goal is Chaos itself, that once they have become the Classically Educated men they aspire to be, only unending war itself could truly be their home country, that peace could only disappoint such Gods of the battlefield. That should they conquer the world their fun could only continue by fighting yet more conquests against each other.

But who could dream up such madness? Who begat the first book club? Who taught the first apostles of the codex and raised the first centurions?

People are always asking me if I know Alexander Trajan Augustus Barbarossa Trump the 3rd...

I've started listening to audiobooks. At first I wasn't sure about the format but gave it a try since my eyes get a bit strained now reading. I still need to have complete silence and usually set or lay in the dark while listening and feel it's pretty comparable to reading The narrator makes or breaks it for me if it sucks I switch to reading.

RC2006 says

I've started listening to audiobooks. At first I wasn't sure about the format but gave it a try since my eyes get a bit strained now reading. I still need to have complete silence and usually set or lay in the dark while listening and feel it's pretty comparable to reading The narrator makes or breaks it for me if it sucks I switch to reading.

Data rate is agonizingly slow - even on 2x speed. People generally speak at 100-150wpm, JFK was an anomaly at 200 WPM. Decent readers can do 400 WPM, my wife is like 800.

rocketjoe79 says

RC2006 says

I've started listening to audiobooks. At first I wasn't sure about the format but gave it a try since my eyes get a bit strained now reading. I still need to have complete silence and usually set or lay in the dark while listening and feel it's pretty comparable to reading The narrator makes or breaks it for me if it sucks I switch to reading.

Data rate is agonizingly slow - even on 2x speed. People generally speak at 100-150wpm, JFK was an anomaly at 200 WPM. Decent readers can do 400 WPM, my wife is like 800.

That explains why books seem to take longer. If I'm reading something I really love I'm pretty sure I'm reading 3-5x faster than if I read it out loud.

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. — A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.” - Schopenhauer

Wow. I'll have to order a copy from overseas. They don't want you to see this book, despite it going through at least 5 (FIVE) English editions in half a century

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=The+Pink+Swastika+%3A+Homosexuality+in+the+Nazi+Party&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313

This is almost as bad as "Camp of the Saints"

BTW, I'm on to Livy's "Early History of Rome" now.

Pretty good once again, like Plutarch and Suetonius. Lots of politics, murder, good and bad people. Every politician should read all that ancient history.

Have you gotten into the whole Livia-Julia Agrippina (the Younger) conspiracy yet?

It's wild.

That might be in Tacitus or Cassius Dio though.

I have not hit that.

I read that the entire set of texts which have come down to us from the ancient world would fit in one bookcase not taller than a man. Maybe I'll finish them all eventually.

Patrick says

I read that the entire set of texts which have come down to us from the ancient world would fit in one bookcase not taller than a man.

Yep, that fire at Alexandria.

I finished Livy's "The Early History of Rome" and was amused by his description of the Gauls who sacked Rome:

- "wine, a pleasure new to them, drew them to cross the alps"
- too numerous in Gaul, so they needed to migrate to new land
- "the religious sentiment is very strong in them"
- tend to anger quickly ("the uncontrollable anger which is characteristic of their race")
- were defeated partly because they were "a people accustomed to a wet cold climate, the heat stifled them"
- individually brave, but not as well organized as the Romans ("a people whose very life is wild adventure")
- often got drunk and were easy to kill when sleeping it off ("soused at night they lie at night like animals")

You could say a lot of that about the Irish.

Just finished Caesar's "Gallic Wars". Mostly quite tedious, a litany of battles and tribes, but some fun points, such as when the Gauls make fun of the Romans as "pygmies" because they are so much shorter. The Gauls ultimately lost because they were not unified, and the Romans were.

Now I'm on to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by Shirer. Learned that Hitler's family were basically hillbillies from the countryside, lots of illegitimacy, not a lot of education. Hitler's father Alois was illegitimate himself, and so grew up with his mother's maiden name, Shicklgruber, until his own father Johann acknowledged him. Had Hitler's grandfather Johann not acknowledged Alois Shicklgruber as his son, Adolph would have grown up as Adolph Shicklgruber as well, and everyone would have had to say "Heil Shicklgruber!" without laughing...

Wow, exactly like the current propaganda about the mRNA death jabs, the 2020 election fraud, and Jan 6th.

Patrick says

Wow, exactly like the current propaganda about the mRNA death jabs, the 2020 election fraud, and Jan 6th.

yep, also modus operandi of Woke jihadists

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This book, Rise and fall of the Third Reich, was written in 1960, and has 4 million total dead, including the Jews.

I'm getting close to halfway into the book, so going to watch this 1977 German documentary now:

Hitler: A Career

https://www.imdb.com/es/title/tt0191182/

First half was very good, all the footage is original from back then. Will watch the second half tomorrow.

Agrees with the book's story of Hitler's rise pretty exactly.

From from a speech by Hitler in 1938 or 1939 which he points out that the English were oppressing the Irish (even using the Irish word for their prime minister) and that the English were occupying Palestine.

Patrick says

From from a speech by Hitler in 1938 or 1939 which he points out that the English were oppressing the Irish (even using the Irish word for their prime minister) and that the English were occupying Palestine.

Churchill drew up secret plans to exterminate the Irish with poison gas if Ireland gave up its neutrality to side with the Nazi's in WWII.

This is consistent with Churchill's initiation of saturation bombing of German civilians in WWII. He did this to divert the German bombers which were decimating RAF fields along the Southern coast of England. Hitler took the bait and started the Blitz, sparing the remaining RAF forces.

stereotomy says

Patrick says

From from a speech by Hitler in 1938 or 1939 which he points out that the English were oppressing the Irish (even using the Irish word for their prime minister) and that the English were occupying Palestine.

Churchill drew up secret plans to exterminate the Irish with poison gas if Ireland gave up its neutrality to side with the Nazi's in WWII.

This is consistent with Churchill's initiation of saturation bombing of German civilians in WWII. He did this to divert the German bombers which were decimating RAF fields in Sothern England. Hitler took the bait, and started the Blitz.

Certain baleful numerologies of the "H" variety attributed to Hitler served the purpose of demonizing him above and beyond, ostensibly to cover up the many atrocities committed by the Tavistock besotted Churchill and Eisenhower. Not the least of the atrocities was the purposeful starving to death by Churchill and Eisenhower of over a million prisoners of war after WWII. Before WWII, wars were fought largely on fronts that wobbled back and forth. Tavistock came up with the bright idea of bombing civilian workers, not factories, because the Royals and the western bankers investors in Hitler did not want their infrastructure and factory investments damaged.

Albert Speer pointed out in WWII that the war would have quickly ended if the Allies just bombed the ball bearing factories in Germany. Not only did they not bomb the ball bearing factories, they continued to sell the Germans ball bearings and Ford supplied the Germans with military vehicles.

WWII was a Tavistock depopulation agenda as one facet at least.

Also interesting is that Hitler consistently made peace proposals to Britain. Even captured internal documents show that he really did not want to fight them, seeing them as Germanic cousins.

But Britain had a mutual defense treaty with Poland, and Germany had invaded Poland, causing Britain to declare war on Germany. Then Hitler invaded Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, bringing additional complex alliances into play.

Hitler was willing to leave his conquests at that for a while at least, but Britain insisted on continuing the war.

Hitler claimed that Britain tried for centuries to prevent any power on the continent of Europe from becoming strong enough to rival them, and this seems to be true.

If Russia had remained allied with Germany, Germany likely would have kept those territories. But after Russia turned against Germany, everything changed. It was not Britain or even America that defeated the Germans. It was primarily Russia, and at an immense cost in Russian lives lost, something like 20 million.

Patrick says

But Britain had a mutual defense treaty with Poland, and Germany had invaded Poland, causing Britain to declare war on Germany.

Funny how that did not apply to Britain declaring war on the USSR when the USSR invaded Poland also in 1939.

Patrick says

You could say a lot of that about the Irish.

Also, a good sense of humor and fun in life.

HeadSet says

Funny how that did not apply to Britain declaring war on the USSR when the USSR invaded Poland also in 1939.

Thanks, that's very interesting! Never thought about it, but it's true.

I'm back on Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Some interesting bits:

Lots of Russians absolutely loathed communism, so when Germany first invaded Russia, those Russians thought they were being saved from communism, and there were mass surrenders to the Germans. But then as the Russian prisoners were simply killed by the Germans via deliberate starvation and the civilian population enslaved and worked to death, they figured out that the Nazis were actually worse than the communists, so Russian nationalists made common cause with the communists for the duration of the war. About three million Russian prisoners of war were deliberately starved to death in camps. The camp commanders forbid the surrounding populations from giving the prisoners food.

Hitler also forbade his commanders for ordering mandatory vaccination of Russians, because he wanted the Russians to die of diseases. Silly Hitler! He could have conveniently killed them with injections just like Bill Gates has been doing to the world with the mRNA.