ARISTOTLE VS PLATO: EASTERN VERSUS WESTERN THOUGHT

Western culture did not grow out of nothing. It grew out of post Schismatic Roman Catholicism, its rejection by the Protestants, followed by the Enlightenment. Which in turn was founded on the synthesis of Old Testament Judaism, Greek philosophy and Roman law. 

Jan. 27, 2021 Orthodox iconographer Jonathan Pageau talks to Fr. John Strickland about the history of the West in view of the East.

UPDATE: Our own quest is rooted in the question what went wrong in Western culture that it could bring about the insanity and destruction of Postmodernism (pomo)? Pageau and Strickland both feel there is something momentous in Charlemagne, who basically highjacked the early Roman Catholic Church to enable him to establish the Holy Roman Empire with himself at the head as Emperor. In fact there was nothing holy or even Roman about this Germanic Frankish Empire.

FREEDOM FOR CUBA: THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE

For over 60 decades the Cuban people have been suffering under Castro Communism. The regime is using the collapse of the tourist industry due to the corona outbreak as cover for the protests. The truth is, the people have had enough of their island prison. According to one doctrine, Cuba is the head of the snake. If Cuba falls, all Latin America's commie regimes fall. 

July 12, 2021 Thousands of Cubans take to the streets demanding freedom.

The Biden administration has to decide very fast: are they supporting the people, or the regime. The media have taken over the talking point of El Presidente, rioting is blamed on corona. The protesters have taking Castro's slogan, "Patria o Muerte" and turned it on its head; they want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Venezuela is actually running the show in Cuba. Key is the Cuban military. What side will they take? 

WELLNESS: FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND AND THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY

Mental and physical health are closely intertwined, as the ancients already knew. As a matter of fact, the powers that be are doing all they can to let us forget that a healthy individual makes a healthy family, which in turn guarantees a healthy society. Specifically 'white men' are bearing the brunt of the Cultural Marxist attack on our mental health. Father's Day, 2021 seems like a good place to start reversing this terrible process that has at least been 50 years in the making! 

June 19, 2021 War Room Pandemic: Masculinity in America: A Fathers Day Special (Part 1), part 1. 

The onslought of Cultural Marxism on our mental health is touching individual man, the family, society, as well as the culture in general. By design. And it has been wildly successful. Since the sixties of the last century women have been encouraged to break up their marriages and rely on the state for supporting single motherhood. Since then, men have been under attack from all fronts in the Culture War. The 'Patriarchy' and the pogrom against 'white men' in particular are just the latest interpretations of the Left's War on the Western paradigm. 

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, 2021: FLAG OFFICERS FOR AMERICA

This year sadly we have to observe US Memorial Day weekend amidst an onslaught of attacks of various forms of Cultural Marxism on the military from Leftist politicians, the Biden administration and various politicized brass in their own ranks. Notable cases recently in the news were the appointment of political Komisar, Bishop Garrison and the firing of Lt.Col. Matthew Lohmeyer. The fight back has already begun: 79 Flag Officers 4 America.

May 29, 2021 War Room Pandemic: The American Generals Speak Part II (w/ Gaffney, MG Arbuckle, BG Bolduc, BG Perry)​.

IMPEACHMENT 2.0: HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ACQUITTED

If the first impeachment of President Trump was a far fetched political construct, the second is nothing less than political vindictiveness. Impeachment is not a legal process, it is a political process by definition. Apart of quelching the Democrats thirst for blood, the rationalization seems to be averting Trump from ever again running for office. Related: DC Under Siege, The Perpetual Coup (includes election fraud). 

Raheem Kassam Podcast: Trump’s Defense Team Destroys Democrats With Their Own Words.

UPDATE: After the Impeachment managers wanted Jaimi Herrera Beutler and some 100 rioters as witnesses, the lawyers for the President called their bluff.

FOREIGN ELECTION MEDDLING: THE ITALIAN JOB CORROBORATED

Ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential Election we heard of so called "Russian interference in American elections" and the allegation out of Hillary Clinton's campaign that Trump was colluding with the Russians. The result was the Special Counsel led by Mueller that in the end led to exoneration, because the whole thing was a construct. But that does not mean there is no foreign interference. Ukraine and the Democrats were in collusion. And now, in 2020/2021 we have The Italian Job, what seems to be an outgrowth of Operation Crossfire Hurricane.

Dec. 19, 2020 Brad Johnson: Rome, Satellites, Servers: an Update.

UPDATE: Some will remember that DNI Ratcliffe was expected to deliver the assessment of the combined Intelligence community on foreign meddling in the election in December, and that it was delayed as senior intelligence officials clashed over the role played by China. Mere moments after Congress voted to certify the election results, that very same DNI report was delivered to Congress. Too late to establish the framework for election challenges.

GEN TECH VACCINES AGAINST COVID-19: HOW DO THEY WORK?

Conspiracy theories are becoming wilder and wilder. It's time to revert to the facts of science. Various biotech companies in primarily the US, UK and Germany are using new bio techniques in order to get a safe vaccine against COVID-19 to market as soon as possible. 

Three researchers break down COVID-19 vaccines under development - h/t Wired.

In this video researchers from Baylor, Inovio and Pfizer are explaining the techniques and their prospective paths how to get their Covid-19 vaccines to work as soon as possible. Inoculation and vaccination has helped humanity to rid itself of terrible plagues that have cripled and decimated populations for ages. Vaccines are not a threat, they are a blessing. Knowledge is a prerequisite for understanding. So let's see how traditional vaccines work and what they differ from cellular therapies.

THE MORAL PRICE OF THE CORONA PANDEMIC

From the battle ground of the ongoing corona crisis the question emerges what price Governments are willing to pay to save the lives of their citizens? They won't answer the dreaded query of course, but we can infer it from their actions. Because there is no cure or vaccination, politicians must choose between letting nature take its course, or fight it with the limited means at their disposal, at a very high price to the tax payer and the economy?

The Rush Limbaugh Show March 31, 2020.

Rush Limbaugh yesterday cracked the moral code of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. He handed us the key with his observation that what separates this outbreak from any of the usual seasonal flus, is the fact we have no known cure or vaccination against COVID-19. In other words, we have no other means of combatting it than with A. so called "herd immunization" -- in fact laisser faire, taking the high price of the dizzying mortality rate for granted -- or B. fight it with the limited means that we have, such as (selectively) closing the borders, quarantine, testing testing testing, voluntary "shelter in place" type rules and "social distancing".

UKRAINE: THE FINAL PIECE

Remember the Arab Spring and similar "spontaneous, indiginous uprisings in the Obama/Clinton era? Remember the Orange Revolution and the Maidan uprising in Ukraine? Remember the Russian Collusion Investigations probing Russia's relations with the Trump Campaign in 2016? Glenn Beck is connecting the dots and explains what it all had to do with the impeachment of President Trump under the guise of 'withholding aid to Ukraine'. Read also "The Ukranian Trial".



Glenn Beck Presents: Ukraine: The Final Piece.

UPDATE: The media and the Left drove the narrative from the start on the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. They wanted us to see only one thing. It’s time to look at more. Glenn Beck connects the dots between the phone call that led to the impeachment of President Trump and why an investigation into Hunter Biden is so important.

The Counter Enlightenment: Introduction (1)

The present is a series of key postings on the roots of contemporary European political philosophy. These ideas shaped many states on the continent, determined the nature of the Government, and defined the role of the people as state subjects. The result is a distinct European culture that is shaping the world today as it is taking over the USA. 

Cuba, Calle Bernaza. H/t @KarelBecerra.

UPDATE:

The idea of the creation of a personalized universe, or rather a personal version of the universe originates with Protagoras (490-420 BC), who said "man is the measure of all things", he meant individual man, rather than mankind. The sophists of the rough, second generation, notably Trasymachus, a character in Plato's Republic, put that notion of subjectivism pragmatically to good use. In classical Greece the sophists used language, not in the service of truth or the transfer of information, but as a strategy for political point-scoring. Does this begin to ring a bell? The sophists held that justice is in the interest of the stronger, that might makes right.