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Patrick says

In my early retirement, I've decided to read at least an hour a night in real paper books. So far, I've read:

- my dad's old college English book (always felt I needed to improve my grammar)
- Candide by Voltaire
- Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
- The Politics by Aristotle

Now I'm reading The Prince by Machiavelli, and really enjoying it. One tip: before invading, look for minorities who will help you because they resent their current elite. They may in fact invite you in to help them overthrow their own country. This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.

https://mondopolitico.com/library/thelaw/thelaw2.htm

On my reading list! so relevant today!
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing Paperback – February 25, 2015
by Joost A.M. Meerloo

can add Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Patrick says

Booger says

Is Mein Kampf on your list yet?

https://www.cnet.com/news/hitlers-mein-kampf-a-brief-kindle-best-seller/

Yes, and I intend to read it in the original German, otherwise what the hell is my German degree for? I need to find a paper copy in German though.

I picked Mein Kampf up from the library when I was in high school. What a boring book! I think it was one of those books, like Obama's "Dreams of my father", that was not meant to be read but to be bought and put on the shelf to signal your virtue and financially support der Führer.

Google Leaks book - by the whistleblower one is the one I'm planning to read next. Want to know all the evil shit evil empire does inside.

Onvacation says

I picked Mein Kampf up from the library when I was in high school. What a boring book! I think it was one of those books, like Obama's "Dreams of my father", that was not meant to be read but to be bought and put on the shelf to signal your virtue and financially support der Führer.

I heard that the most commonly sold English translation is horribly botched (and there is even a conspiracy theory going around that it was intentionally promoted over a better translation).

Onvacation says

I picked Mein Kampf up from the library when I was in high school. What a boring book!

Yeah, Hitler should have ranted YouTube style in the book. It wouldn't have hurt if he had mentioned skullfucking his enemies a few times as well.

How about reading something a little more enjoyable...LINCOLN by Gore Vidal...The Journeyer by Gary Jennings (about Marco polo)....Shogun by James Clavell....or Jack London's collection. Maybe try Michael Lewis,,,,,,,Liars Poker about the people who came up with the idea of monetizing mortgages back in the 80s.

I did read Liar's Poker way back when.

komputodo says

Shogun by James Clavell

Strongly second this recommendation.

Jack London short stories,,,,To Build A Fire and A Piece Of Steak,,,seems to me that the movie Cinderella Man was loosely based on the latter.

The Man Who Lives with Wolves
by Shaun Ellis,

For well researched novels, read Michener's books.
Alaska
Tales of the South Pacific
The Source
Chesapeake
Hawaii
and many others.

richwicks says

Rules for Radicals is a particularly hated book that I was told was filled with horrifically immoral, dastardly devious advice. The simple truth is, there's a lot of people that don't want you to read it.

I've been saying this to deaf ears for a long time. The book was mostly forgotten till Obama mentioned it and a couple of authors even rewrote it for modern conservative readers around the time Occupy Wall Street was kicking off. I've seen a lot of people criticize the book, usually to the depth of using the title and author as pejoratives, but never have I seen a critique that addresses even a single sentence of the book's actual content. One of the key concepts has become ever more relevant as the middle class is squeezed out. People are polarized into binary categories of haves and have-nots. A lot of working people consider themselves "Haves" and assume the "Have-nots" are their mortal enemies. However, Alinsky points out that many hardworking folks are in a category of "Have a little, want more" thus have much more in common with the have-nots, yet are conditioned to treat them as mortal enemies while fellating the actual "Haves" who are systematically dismantling their way of life with the "Have-a-littles'" active and eager participation.

Automan Empire says

I've been saying this to deaf ears for a long time. The book was mostly forgotten till Obama mentioned it and a couple of authors even rewrote it for modern conservative readers around the time Occupy Wall Street was kicking off. I've seen a lot of people criticize the book, usually to the depth of using the title and author as pejoratives, but never have I seen a critique that addresses even a single sentence of the book's actual content.

It's wonderful, it's how the Left took over with those tactics. That's why Community Organizer instead of the more traditional/widespread "Agitator" or "Political Activist" was used as a job title.

Making your enemy live up to his own standards is a good one.

That's why I think everybody should be chalking slogans and watch the local DA, including alleged "Republican" ones pursue charges with ferocity, while the ACLU that defended BLM/Antifa Vandalism, Arson, and Rioting under the "Speech and Protest" rubric refuses to acknowledge somebody is being overcharged with multiple crimes for chalking "Biden Illegit" on a Wall or Sidwalk.

Automan Empire says

I've been saying this to deaf ears for a long time

Well said.

I just finished Jack London's WHITE FANG. A great short story about a wolf/dog through its eyes. They made 2 movies based on it. One with Ethan Hawke.

komputodo says

I just finished Jack London's WHITE FANG. A great short story about a wolf/dog through its eyes. They made 2 movies based on it. One with Ethan Hawke.

His books were pretty good, also great reads for the kiddos to redpill them. London would look in disgust about the leftoid retard snowflake mess the US, and specifically CA (Glen Ellen) where he built his lodge, has become. Based.

Yes, I loved White Fang when I was in middle school. Great book.

Onvacation says

For well researched novels, read Michener's books.
Alaska
Tales of the South Pacific
The Source
Chesapeake
Hawaii
and many others.

Great author...Great books.

Lets not forget about John Steinbeck.....All his stories about CA especially The Grapes Of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and Cannery Row.

Ran across a brilliant passage in The Wealth of Nations, where he talks about merchants (whom he calls "dealers") and regulations:

The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is
always in some respects different from and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen
the market and to narrow the competition is always in the interests of the dealers. To widen
the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public; but to narrow
the competition must always be against it, and can serve only to enable the dealers, by
raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an
absurd tax upon the rest of the their fellow citizens. The proposal of any new law or
regulation of commerce which comes from this order ought always be listened to with
great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully
examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It
comes form an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the pubic,
who have generally an interest Ito deceive and even to oppress the public, and who
accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

And of course I think of the current corrupt Big Phama/government complex "widening the market" for the jab by making it mandatory, and in the process deceiving and oppressing the public, when a simple dose of Ivermectin is likely to be more effective and far cheaper.

Perfectly sums up the current situation

Hi Patrick,
In case you want to read something in German, Eugen Richter, a German politician wrote 1890 a dystopian novel. "Zukunftsbilder des Sozialismus"
a warning against state control and any kind of Socialsm. Maybe Germans should have read it instead of Mein K(r)ampf (Krampf is also a slang word for nonsense). Richter completely nailed any kind of socialistic nightmare which would happen in the 20th century, people thought he was crazy
Here is the English translation of Richters book:
https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/Pictures%20of%20the%20Socialistic%20Future_Vol_2_2.pdf

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.