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"content": "PRESENCE CHAMBER of the <br />LORDS OF DÆMONLAND. <br /><br />The beams of the sun <br />smote like javelins <br />morning breathed <br />and shimmered <br />in the lofty chamber — <br />blue and dusky shades<br />of departed night <br />to the corners and recesses, <br />and to the rafters of the vaulted roof. <br /><br />No ruler of earth, <br />not Croesus, <br />the great King, <br />not Minos in Crete, <br />not the Pharaohs, <br />not Queen Semiramis, <br />nor all the Kings of Babylon <br />and Nineveh <br />have a throne room <br />to compare in glory <br />with that high <br />presence chamber <br />of the Lords of Demonland. <br /><br />The walls and pillars <br />were snow-white marble, <br />small gems: <br />rubies, corals, garnets, <br />and pink topaz. <br />Seven pillars<br />bore up the vault <br />of the roof; <br />the beams were gold, <br />curiously carved, the roof <br />was mother-of-pearl. <br /><br /><br />seven spacious windows <br />At the end of the hall <br />upon a dais <br />stood three thrones, <br />two hippogriffs <br />wrought in gold, <br />wings spread; <br /><br /><br />Each throne<br />on the legs of the hippogriffs —<br />A single jewel <br />of monstrous size: <br />a black opal, <br />sparkling with steel-blue fire, <br />a fire-opal, <br />as it were a burning coal, <br />an alexandrite, <br />purple like wine by night, <br />a deep sea-green by day. <br /><br />Ten pillars stood in semicircle <br />behind the high seats. <br />Above the dais — <br />a canopy of gold. <br />Benches inlaid <br />with coral and ivory. <br /><br />The floor — tessellated, <br />marble and green <br />tourmaline. <br />Every square <br />of tourmaline <br />carven with the image<br />of a fish: the dolphin, <br />the conger-eel, <br />the cat-fish, <br />the salmon, <br />the squid, <br />and other wonders of the deep. <br /><br />Hangings of tapestry <br />behind the high seats <br />embossed with flowers, <br />snake's-head, <br />snapdragon, <br />dragon-mouth, <br />and the kind; <br />below the windows <br />sculptures of birds, <br />beasts,<br />creeping things.<br /><br />The capital of the four-and-twenty pillars <br />hewn from a single precious stone, <br />carved into the living form of a monster. <br />A harpy with screaming mouth, <br />wondrously cut in jade — <br />it was a marvel to hear no scream: <br />here in wine-yellow topaz <br />a flying fire-drake: <br />there a cockatrice of a single ruby: <br />there a star sapphire <br />the colour of moonlight, <br />cut as a cyclops, <br />the rays of the star trembled <br />from his single eye: <br />salamanders, <br />mermaids, <br />chimaeras, <br />wild men o' the woods, <br />leviathans, <br />all hewn from faultless gems, <br />thrice the size of a hero's body, <br />velvet-dark sapphires, <br />crystolite, <br />beryl, <br />amethyst, <br />and yellow zircon — like transparent gold.<br /><br />There were seven escarbuncles, <br />great as pumpkins, <br />hung in order <br />down the length <br />of the chamber, <br />and nine fair moonstones <br />in order <br />on silver pedestals <br />between the pillars on the dais. <br /><br />These jewels, <br />drinking in the sunshine by day, <br />gave it forth <br />during the hours of darkness <br />in a radiance of light — <br />a soft effulgence as of moonbeams. <br /><br />And another marvel, <br />the under side of the canopy <br />over the high seats <br />encrusted with lapis lazuli — <br />and like the dome of heaven, <br />burned the twelve signs — the zodiac, <br />every star a diamond <br />that shone with its own light.",
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"content": "PRESENCE CHAMBER of the \nLORDS OF DÆMONLAND. \n\nThe beams of the sun \nsmote like javelins \nmorning breathed \nand shimmered \nin the lofty chamber — \nblue and dusky shades\nof departed night \nto the corners and recesses, \nand to the rafters of the vaulted roof. \n\nNo ruler of earth, \nnot Croesus, \nthe great King, \nnot Minos in Crete, \nnot the Pharaohs, \nnot Queen Semiramis, \nnor all the Kings of Babylon \nand Nineveh \nhave a throne room \nto compare in glory \nwith that high \npresence chamber \nof the Lords of Demonland. \n\nThe walls and pillars \nwere snow-white marble, \nsmall gems: \nrubies, corals, garnets, \nand pink topaz. \nSeven pillars\nbore up the vault \nof the roof; \nthe beams were gold, \ncuriously carved, the roof \nwas mother-of-pearl. \n\n\nseven spacious windows \nAt the end of the hall \nupon a dais \nstood three thrones, \ntwo hippogriffs \nwrought in gold, \nwings spread; \n\n\nEach throne\non the legs of the hippogriffs —\nA single jewel \nof monstrous size: \na black opal, \nsparkling with steel-blue fire, \na fire-opal, \nas it were a burning coal, \nan alexandrite, \npurple like wine by night, \na deep sea-green by day. \n\nTen pillars stood in semicircle \nbehind the high seats. \nAbove the dais — \na canopy of gold. \nBenches inlaid \nwith coral and ivory. \n\nThe floor — tessellated, \nmarble and green \ntourmaline. \nEvery square \nof tourmaline \ncarven with the image\nof a fish: the dolphin, \nthe conger-eel, \nthe cat-fish, \nthe salmon, \nthe squid, \nand other wonders of the deep. \n\nHangings of tapestry \nbehind the high seats \nembossed with flowers, \nsnake's-head, \nsnapdragon, \ndragon-mouth, \nand the kind; \nbelow the windows \nsculptures of birds, \nbeasts,\ncreeping things.\n\nThe capital of the four-and-twenty pillars \nhewn from a single precious stone, \ncarved into the living form of a monster. \nA harpy with screaming mouth, \nwondrously cut in jade — \nit was a marvel to hear no scream: \nhere in wine-yellow topaz \na flying fire-drake: \nthere a cockatrice of a single ruby: \nthere a star sapphire \nthe colour of moonlight, \ncut as a cyclops, \nthe rays of the star trembled \nfrom his single eye: \nsalamanders, \nmermaids, \nchimaeras, \nwild men o' the woods, \nleviathans, \nall hewn from faultless gems, \nthrice the size of a hero's body, \nvelvet-dark sapphires, \ncrystolite, \nberyl, \namethyst, \nand yellow zircon — like transparent gold.\n\nThere were seven escarbuncles, \ngreat as pumpkins, \nhung in order \ndown the length \nof the chamber, \nand nine fair moonstones \nin order \non silver pedestals \nbetween the pillars on the dais. \n\nThese jewels, \ndrinking in the sunshine by day, \ngave it forth \nduring the hours of darkness \nin a radiance of light — \na soft effulgence as of moonbeams. \n\nAnd another marvel, \nthe under side of the canopy \nover the high seats \nencrusted with lapis lazuli — \nand like the dome of heaven, \nburned the twelve signs — the zodiac, \nevery star a diamond \nthat shone with its own light.",
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"content": "COUP D’ÉTAT TEXSTYLE.<br /><br />Technocracy’s coup d’état, <br />in full swing, <br />to flip the world <br />to a Scientific Dictatorship <br /><br />This classic case —<br />a technology company <br />committing digital terrorism <br />against human<br />ity.<br /><br />Every human will be tracked, <br />monitored <br />and managed <br />cradle-to-cradle. <br /><br />The documentation <br />is clear. <br />The only quest<br />ion is —<br />citizens will resist<br /> or not?<br /><br /><br />Without fanfare <br />and a peep <br />from <br />the corporate media, <br />NWO / WHO<br />issued a document <br />to set off alarm bells <br />for lovers <br />of freedom and liberty <br />everywhere.<br /><br />dystopian fashion, “show your papers” <br />like how did <br />humanity <br />get by for <br />thousands of years <br />without <br />a scannable QR code <br />tracked and traced, <br />presence at a public location <br />questioned and challenged, <br />someone’s property? <br /><br />A dog on a leash <br />has more freedom <br />“register now” <br />“simple and secure!”<br /><br /><br />The power of technology <br />for utmost evil, <br />to cancel you <br />from society.<br /><br />The technocrats get<br />their foot in the door <br /> – your personal healthcare – <br />convince business <br />to discriminate against <br />you based on <br />your so-called <br />“vaccine status,” <br />which has <br />nothing at all <br />to do with whether or <br />not you are <br />healthy <br />or a danger to others.",
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"content": "COUP D’ÉTAT TEXSTYLE.\n\nTechnocracy’s coup d’état, \nin full swing, \nto flip the world \nto a Scientific Dictatorship \n\nThis classic case —\na technology company \ncommitting digital terrorism \nagainst human\nity.\n\nEvery human will be tracked, \nmonitored \nand managed \ncradle-to-cradle. \n\nThe documentation \nis clear. \nThe only quest\nion is —\ncitizens will resist\n or not?\n\n\nWithout fanfare \nand a peep \nfrom \nthe corporate media, \nNWO / WHO\nissued a document \nto set off alarm bells \nfor lovers \nof freedom and liberty \neverywhere.\n\ndystopian fashion, “show your papers” \nlike how did \nhumanity \nget by for \nthousands of years \nwithout \na scannable QR code \ntracked and traced, \npresence at a public location \nquestioned and challenged, \nsomeone’s property? \n\nA dog on a leash \nhas more freedom \n“register now” \n“simple and secure!”\n\n\nThe power of technology \nfor utmost evil, \nto cancel you \nfrom society.\n\nThe technocrats get\ntheir foot in the door \n – your personal healthcare – \nconvince business \nto discriminate against \nyou based on \nyour so-called \n“vaccine status,” \nwhich has \nnothing at all \nto do with whether or \nnot you are \nhealthy \nor a danger to others.",
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"content": "<br />THE DEAD MAN WALKED.<br /><br />The dead man walked<br />in his dead town. <br />It was still, <br />quiet and deserted <br />he too was quiet in it. <br /><br />He had now, for long,<br />no need to worry. <br />Nagging voice <br />and gnawing hunger — gone. <br /><br />It was heaven enough; <br />he sought nothing else. <br /><br />Dead or alive, <br />neither dead nor alive, <br />he was free from the sick fear the Republic had imposed <br />The stigma of his oppression burned and ached no more. <br /><br />His tired feet had lightness<br />his form energy. <br />He did not know <br />or care <br />if he were in the body <br />or out. <br /><br />For the first time <br />he needed nothing, <br />and nothing distressed him. <br /><br />He walked, sat, stretched<br />He did not sleep, <br />he did not need sleep. <br /><br />Sometimes he wondered <br />that he was never hungry <br />or thirsty. <br /><br />It was an odd place he was in<br />he did not grow tired of it <br />or of walking through it. <br /><br />The faint light persisted. <br />Time had no measurement <br />except the slow growth <br />of his interior quiet<br /><br />Monotony could not exist <br />duration was slow —<br />encouragement of rest. <br /><br />He found himself <br />looking up into the sky <br />for the moon. <br /><br />The moon was connected <br />with the world <br />with his room <br />and his wife<br />his enemies and tyrants. <br /><br />He felt, safe from it; <br />he expected its appearance, knowing that he was free. <br /><br />If the big pale ball had floated up, <br />a balloon in which everything<br />harmful was borne away, busy <br />but not with him, <br />he would have been pleased. <br /><br />He knew that balloon <br />was forever cut off —<br />Moon. <br />Balloon — <br />among these shells of houses. ",
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"content": "\nTHE DEAD MAN WALKED.\n\nThe dead man walked\nin his dead town. \nIt was still, \nquiet and deserted \nhe too was quiet in it. \n\nHe had now, for long,\nno need to worry. \nNagging voice \nand gnawing hunger — gone. \n\nIt was heaven enough; \nhe sought nothing else. \n\nDead or alive, \nneither dead nor alive, \nhe was free from the sick fear the Republic had imposed \nThe stigma of his oppression burned and ached no more. \n\nHis tired feet had lightness\nhis form energy. \nHe did not know \nor care \nif he were in the body \nor out. \n\nFor the first time \nhe needed nothing, \nand nothing distressed him. \n\nHe walked, sat, stretched\nHe did not sleep, \nhe did not need sleep. \n\nSometimes he wondered \nthat he was never hungry \nor thirsty. \n\nIt was an odd place he was in\nhe did not grow tired of it \nor of walking through it. \n\nThe faint light persisted. \nTime had no measurement \nexcept the slow growth \nof his interior quiet\n\nMonotony could not exist \nduration was slow —\nencouragement of rest. \n\nHe found himself \nlooking up into the sky \nfor the moon. \n\nThe moon was connected \nwith the world \nwith his room \nand his wife\nhis enemies and tyrants. \n\nHe felt, safe from it; \nhe expected its appearance, knowing that he was free. \n\nIf the big pale ball had floated up, \na balloon in which everything\nharmful was borne away, busy \nbut not with him, \nhe would have been pleased. \n\nHe knew that balloon \nwas forever cut off —\nMoon. \nBalloon — \namong these shells of houses. ",
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"content": "ESCAPE THE MATRIX.<br />IT IS NOT DESERTION<br />TO SAVE YOUR OWN<br />LIFE & THINKING TO BE<br />ABLE TO FIGHT ON.<br /><br />''Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories. . . Escape is evidently as a rule very practical, and may even be heroic. . . They confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the “quisling” to the resistance of the patriot. . . Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?''<br />— J.R.R. Tolkien. On Fairy-Stories.",
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"content": "ESCAPE THE MATRIX.\nIT IS NOT DESERTION\nTO SAVE YOUR OWN\nLIFE & THINKING TO BE\nABLE TO FIGHT ON.\n\n''Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories. . . Escape is evidently as a rule very practical, and may even be heroic. . . They confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the “quisling” to the resistance of the patriot. . . Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?''\n— J.R.R. Tolkien. On Fairy-Stories.",
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"content": "POINT OF NO RETURN.<br /><br />Conservatives must realize that in terms of creed and culture, we are past the point of no return. <br /><br />Now is the time for a strategy for the coming collapse; after losing so much ground we must gain an advantage, whatever the cost. <br /><br />Culture warriors must inspire and prepare the path for young patriots to recreate the republic when the surveillance state falls apart. <br /><br />The nation’s center of gravity is in families. We are living in the hollow shell of a nation that is diminishing.<br /><br />The Right has a spineless defensive position. They expect comforting, conservative words are enough — so nothing will be recovered by them. <br /><br />Conservators of nothing.<br /><br />We are conservative not just to be conservative. It is to preserve the things we know and love. If they are to be replaced it is to be by something demonstrably better, not recycled Fascism and Communism, deadly, and nothing but error when they started, and at least a hundred years out of date.<br /><br />Conservatives know that in terms of creed and culture we are past the point of no return. <br /><br />We need a strategy, and an offensive one. The task is to prioritize, unify, and jumpstart the people with a clear vision of the reality which confronts us. That means first of all telling the truth, and telling it often. <br /><br />The Philosopher.",
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"content": "POINT OF NO RETURN.\n\nConservatives must realize that in terms of creed and culture, we are past the point of no return. \n\nNow is the time for a strategy for the coming collapse; after losing so much ground we must gain an advantage, whatever the cost. \n\nCulture warriors must inspire and prepare the path for young patriots to recreate the republic when the surveillance state falls apart. \n\nThe nation’s center of gravity is in families. We are living in the hollow shell of a nation that is diminishing.\n\nThe Right has a spineless defensive position. They expect comforting, conservative words are enough — so nothing will be recovered by them. \n\nConservators of nothing.\n\nWe are conservative not just to be conservative. It is to preserve the things we know and love. If they are to be replaced it is to be by something demonstrably better, not recycled Fascism and Communism, deadly, and nothing but error when they started, and at least a hundred years out of date.\n\nConservatives know that in terms of creed and culture we are past the point of no return. \n\nWe need a strategy, and an offensive one. The task is to prioritize, unify, and jumpstart the people with a clear vision of the reality which confronts us. That means first of all telling the truth, and telling it often. \n\nThe Philosopher.",
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"content": "<br /><br />THE COUNTRY STORE.<br /><br />When I was young we mostly lived in town, but one of my grandmothers lived on a farm. That is where I met horses, cows, and how things really worked. When I grew up I knew what I wanted to be — a farmer. Nothing else promised so much satisfaction. I wanted to write books, it is true, but write books and be a farmer — like Kentuckian Wendell Berry, who I didn't meet until much later.<br /><br />One mile from grandma's farm at a corner named for my great-great-great grandfather, was a country store. We loved to go to that little store. My uncle bought a farm further in the country, and the country stores there were even better, penny candy, groceries, kerosene lanterns, bib overalls, and gum boots, etc. Truly a general store run by a single family. It was the community center, and the place to go for anything you needed.<br /><br />And that is what we need. The county where I live, and of which I am the major county historian, once had about 75 postoffices. Now there are four. The point is that every postoffice was an adjunct to a country store. There were, of course, many more stores; all were community centers. They were the network before the net was invented. We need these stores today, and there is no reason that online sales could not supplement their customer base; such stores would serve both as a decentralized source of supplies, and as a source of local information, ''in person'' and on the internet.<br /><br />ECONOMICS IN REVERSE.<br /><br />Charles F. Kettering the inventor once pointed out that war is economics in reverse. In normal times you give your customer what he wants, when he wants, and where he wants it. In war you give your ''customer'' what he doesn't want, when and where he least expects it. Thousands of country stores would be similar to bombs in our current situation. <br /><br />Our enemy wants to kill us and we fund it by buying everything from a few major chains. Our food is poisoned, our drinks full of ''smart'' particles, our transportation spreads chemtrails, our medicine is dangrous, our churches full of woke doctrine. We have to deliver a blow to the enemy, and deliver ourselves from his foul clutches.<br /><br />What better way than a renaissance of old country stores, even if they are new? It matters not if they are old or new, what matters is that they are ours. Instead of a plethora of equal brands, why not stick to staple goods of high quality, and when possible of local origin? Sell local handcrafts, sell locally raised chickens, rabbits, pork, and beef. In season there could be local vegetables, baked goods, and honey-with-the-comb, right from the hive, not a mixture from six or seven different countries!<br /><br />I suggest that a blow in this war would be to subsidize such ventures. Rockefeller lowered his prices until all his competetors in the oil business were gone. What if someone had subsidized them until he went broke? His was an act of war; wouldn't supplying the little guys until the war was over be cheaper than buying military equipment to prosecute the inevitable revolution resulting? <br /><br />Even the suppliers to such stores should be under patriot control. There is an abandoned store near me that was build in the 1870s as part of a co-operative enterprise. The co-op financed the store with goods on credit, and took in exchange local products, wheat, corn, hides, eggs, etc. This store lasted up until the 1960s or so, until everyone got a car and decided that everything in town was better. These little stores were handy to buy gas on the way home, or a dozen eggs forgotten from the supermarked; but of course they went out of business one by one, and the local social network with it.<br /><br />Nothing has ever replaced the local network. Now America is dying for lack of a blood supply. Family, friends, and fellowship is in short supply. It is a function of our crazed economics in which necessities of life are controlled by a few who have only profits at heart — if they can be said to have hearts.<br /><br />IF THIS IS WAR WE HAVE TO HAVE SOURCES OF SUPPLY THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE WHIMS AND CONTROL OF THE ENEMY. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO TO ABOUT IT? <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />",
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"content": "\n\nTHE COUNTRY STORE.\n\nWhen I was young we mostly lived in town, but one of my grandmothers lived on a farm. That is where I met horses, cows, and how things really worked. When I grew up I knew what I wanted to be — a farmer. Nothing else promised so much satisfaction. I wanted to write books, it is true, but write books and be a farmer — like Kentuckian Wendell Berry, who I didn't meet until much later.\n\nOne mile from grandma's farm at a corner named for my great-great-great grandfather, was a country store. We loved to go to that little store. My uncle bought a farm further in the country, and the country stores there were even better, penny candy, groceries, kerosene lanterns, bib overalls, and gum boots, etc. Truly a general store run by a single family. It was the community center, and the place to go for anything you needed.\n\nAnd that is what we need. The county where I live, and of which I am the major county historian, once had about 75 postoffices. Now there are four. The point is that every postoffice was an adjunct to a country store. There were, of course, many more stores; all were community centers. They were the network before the net was invented. We need these stores today, and there is no reason that online sales could not supplement their customer base; such stores would serve both as a decentralized source of supplies, and as a source of local information, ''in person'' and on the internet.\n\nECONOMICS IN REVERSE.\n\nCharles F. Kettering the inventor once pointed out that war is economics in reverse. In normal times you give your customer what he wants, when he wants, and where he wants it. In war you give your ''customer'' what he doesn't want, when and where he least expects it. Thousands of country stores would be similar to bombs in our current situation. \n\nOur enemy wants to kill us and we fund it by buying everything from a few major chains. Our food is poisoned, our drinks full of ''smart'' particles, our transportation spreads chemtrails, our medicine is dangrous, our churches full of woke doctrine. We have to deliver a blow to the enemy, and deliver ourselves from his foul clutches.\n\nWhat better way than a renaissance of old country stores, even if they are new? It matters not if they are old or new, what matters is that they are ours. Instead of a plethora of equal brands, why not stick to staple goods of high quality, and when possible of local origin? Sell local handcrafts, sell locally raised chickens, rabbits, pork, and beef. In season there could be local vegetables, baked goods, and honey-with-the-comb, right from the hive, not a mixture from six or seven different countries!\n\nI suggest that a blow in this war would be to subsidize such ventures. Rockefeller lowered his prices until all his competetors in the oil business were gone. What if someone had subsidized them until he went broke? His was an act of war; wouldn't supplying the little guys until the war was over be cheaper than buying military equipment to prosecute the inevitable revolution resulting? \n\nEven the suppliers to such stores should be under patriot control. There is an abandoned store near me that was build in the 1870s as part of a co-operative enterprise. The co-op financed the store with goods on credit, and took in exchange local products, wheat, corn, hides, eggs, etc. This store lasted up until the 1960s or so, until everyone got a car and decided that everything in town was better. These little stores were handy to buy gas on the way home, or a dozen eggs forgotten from the supermarked; but of course they went out of business one by one, and the local social network with it.\n\nNothing has ever replaced the local network. Now America is dying for lack of a blood supply. Family, friends, and fellowship is in short supply. It is a function of our crazed economics in which necessities of life are controlled by a few who have only profits at heart — if they can be said to have hearts.\n\nIF THIS IS WAR WE HAVE TO HAVE SOURCES OF SUPPLY THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE WHIMS AND CONTROL OF THE ENEMY. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO TO ABOUT IT? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"content": "Q-COURSE.<br />Special Forces Qualification Course.<br /><br />‘‘Over the years, Special Forces training has changed dramatically. For the most part, each year, each new commander — and indeed, each training class — brings change; what was good enough for making a Special Forces warrior yesterday is not good enough for the one we have to train for tomorrow. It is a dynamic, evolving process. Today Special Forces training is a formal and highly regimented regimen called the Special Forces Qualification Course, or, simply, the Q-Course.’’<br /><br />D. Couch. Chosen Soldier. The Making of a Special Forces Warrior. Three Rivers Press. 2007. 38.",
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"content": "CAN WE GET ALONG JUST LONG ENOUGH TO RID OURSELVES OF TRYANNY ?<br /><br />The cultural distance between Great Britain’s power élite and the American colonial élites widened each generation.<br /><br />The American revolution was more than a tax revolt — like the War between the States, it was about the preservation of regional ways of living, diverse cultures, and civil liberties against a powerful distant governing élite interested in their own well-being, and cared nothing for the people over which they held power.<br /><br />The American Revolution brought together élites of different cultures in a common cause against the threat to each region’s liberty. The odd thing about the revolution is the way many mutually hostile groups of élites in America decided to join forces for one seemingly crazy purpose — a revolution against Great Britain, then at the height of its power.<br /><br />What these locals had in common was a desire to fight a more distant élite that controlled power, with new and innovative methods to increase and maintain local control. The élites of New England, New York, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Pennsylvania, all wanted to reclaim and protect their long-established liberties, immunities, and rights of self-rule. ",
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"content": "Clausewitz vs. Sun Tzu<br /><br />''It was in the invisible space of the information domain that the minds of the American people were shaped into a defeatist attitude.''<br /><br />Compare the works of two of the greatest military strategists in history, Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. To many Western military thinkers, Clausewitz’s On War is the pinnacle of military thought, while Sun Tzu is rarely taught in Western academies. <br /><br />The differences in the works of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu sum up the current cultural differences between the United States and its enemies perfectly. Clausewitz thought that force is the sine qua non of successful war-making, whereas what he dubbed the “fog of war,” the lack of reliable information in conflict, is the great enemy of armies. <br /><br />Sun Tzu, on the other hand, held the opposite. According to him, “Deception is the acme of skill.” If Clausewitz loathed the fog of war, Sun Tzu relished it. Therein, he believed, conflicts are won or lost. And, since the presence of nuclear arms and America’s overwhelming conventional military superiority ensure that all who oppose the United States would lose in a war, our rivals must seek alternative ways to defeat the nation.<br /><br />In sum, in today’s full-spectrum battlefield, the obsession of Clausewitz with martial force is inferior to the far nimbler professions of Sun Tzu. And, when it comes to brute force versus intelligence, the latter is usually the winner.<br /><br />Strategic atrophy among America’s fragile élites: “strategic atrophy” has consumed Washington, D.C.<br /><br />Western Civilization has waged wars throughout its history. It has a long track record of success and innovation. Yet, since the end of the Cold War, the Western way of war has failed to evolve. Instead, it has atrophied and allowed lesser foes to gain considerable advantages over it. I think that the lack of innovation and foresight is a result of the continued deterioration that we see throughout Western society, not only in the realm of warfare.<br /><br />“Victory belongs to the cunning, not to the strong.” For example, the North Vietnamese defeated the United States in the Vietnam War not through superior weapons or better soldiering. Rather, they defeated the United States through the assiduous management of perception in the U.S. domestic media. Hanoi’s spies understood that the draft in the United States was highly unpopular; that many of America’s military age youth, along with what was then a growing coterie of American elites, were increasingly opposed to the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. So, North Vietnam (along with their Communist allies in the Soviet Union and China) formulated a total information war campaign aimed at further discrediting the U.S. government’s war effort at home. The anti-war movement often marched arm-in-arm (whether knowingly or not) with Communist front groups, many of them actively seeking to hand a defeat to the United States in Vietnam, in order to prop up Hanoi’s regime.<br /><br />Now, had it been a conventional military-to-military fight; had the press not become yet another strategic domain where the two sides could do battle, it is unlikely that Vietnam would have been unified under Hanoi’s government. At the very least, the Americans would have divided Vietnam along similar lines that they ultimately did to the Korean Peninsula: between a Communist north and a pro-American south. Alas, the information war—even more important than the physical battlefield—was won by the Communists. <br /><br />It was in the invisible space of the information domain that the minds of the American people were shaped into a defeatist attitude. Thus, no matter how many battlefield victories the United States enjoyed, support for the war among Americans was always in doubt, and therefore the political leaders had to formulate short-term strategies that proved ineffective at defeating the insurgent threat of North Vietnam. (Even the much-ballyhooed Tet Offensive was a major defeat for North Vietnam’s forces, but was not portrayed as such in America’s anti-war media). <br /><br />Henry Kissinger once remarked that “The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.” The information war that Hanoi waged was their most important asset in defeating the militarily superior Americans during the Vietnam War.",
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"content": "THEY ONLY WANT TO RELIEVE OPPRESSION.<br /><br />1457 A. D. SULTAN MEHMET OF TURKEY. Captured the Christian town of Novo Brdo, a place noted for gold and silver mines. He killed most of the important people, but saved 320 boys and 74 girls. Here is what the Turkish annalist wrote:<br /><br />\"Mehmet spent many nights in debauchery with lovely-eyed, fairylike slave girls, and his days drinking with pages who looked like angels. But he was only seemingly engaged in debauchery and wantonness, in reality he was working, guided by the love of justice, to relieve the oppression of his subjects in the land.\"<br /><br />John Freely. The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II — Conquerer of Constantinople and Master of an Empire. Overlook Press. 2009. 60.<br /><br />WHAT A COVER FOR THE LOVE OF JUSTICE !",
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