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Partial answer to Harding question
I’ve been asking over and over how we got OUT of perpetual war and Deepstate tyranny in 1920. From 1920 to 1940, Deepstate was NOT creating “terrorist” groups, and both the media and the government were firmly non-interventionist. Harding started the trend and FDR solidified it. How was Deepstate suppressed? Deepstate has three legs: (1)…
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Deeper itch
After randomly mentioning Tablet Magazine and Kirn yesterday, I ended up watching this long and splendid interview again. Kirn and Liel Leibovitz are talking to young elites who are just now realizing they’ve been swindled by their own leaders. The solution is to fuck the Establishment and find your own way. Kirn’s praise for the…
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Kirn and McIntyre, even closer
A while back I compared Walter Kirn with Oscar Odd McIntyre. = = = = = START REPRINT: It struck me that Kirn’s short takes on Twitter are a close modern equivalent of McIntyre’s short takes in print. I tried to find more of McIntyre’s real columns, without luck. Though part of his work was…
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We need a Nuremberg.
I was stupidly hoping that TSA would actually keep their promise this time. Back in August they extended the ballgags until March 18, 2022. In January they reconfirmed March 18. As the deadline approached, I prayed and hoped that they wouldn’t push it out again. Hope is poison in Hell. NAZI TORTURERS never keep a…
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Is this a new trend?
In my WPA series I mentioned that the Post Office formerly provided banking services, which were heavily used by poor people because the PO was more convenient and less snobbish than actual banks. Via Vice mag, Congress has just passed a law that will IMPROVE the post office, allowing it to offer a range of…
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Interesting idea but needs improvement
In politics, Big Tent usually means rigid orthodoxy. Tablet magazine is starting up a subscription service for people who want to ask detailed questions about religion. They’re calling it The Tent, but so far it’s a mighty narrow tent. Their answerers include 4 rabbis, 3 Muslim chaplains, 2 Episcopal priestesses, 2 Hindus, 1 Orthodox priest,…
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Unfamiliar versions
A few ‘new’ episodes of Passing Parade have recently entered the OTR distribution. They’re not in the free material at Archive.org yet. (Everything ends up at Archive sooner or later.) One episode from 1949 deals with espionage and code breakers. The main theme is highly unconventional, especially after 1946: There has always been a Deepstate.…
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What kind of game?
What kind of game is Jeffrey Tucker playing? He had a handle on the BIG STORY about Carter Mecher, and then let it fade out. Every time he aims for the truth he halts before striking the nail and says “We’ll leave that for next time.” Here he is again, calling out the intellectuals and…
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Never paranoid enough
More leaks about Francis Collins, who turns out to be a psychopathic demon in the same class as Fauci. The lesson here isn’t really about Collins. He’s identical to all demons in positions of power. The lesson is for followers who try to find “opposition” or “lesser evils” among the demons. There is no opposition.…
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WPA 1/5, background
Time for another review/renew series. Five parts from top to bottom. Part 1, Background (this item). Part 2, Oklahoma. Part 3, Teacherages. Part 4, Post offices. Part 5, Summary. = = = = = The New Deal set up dozens of overlapping agencies at first, then gradually simplified the arrangement. In other words, FDR didn’t…
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WPA 2/5, Oklahoma
The WPA was engaged in a huge variety of tasks, all focused on the SKILLS of workers. People need to be useful, and men need to make things. Training develops the soul and brain most effectively and permanently when you’re MAKING THINGS that are visible and useful and a source of pride to your parents…
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WPA 3/5, teacherages
I’ve modeled a fairly typical teacherage and a fairly typical country school. I’ve placed them together in one scene, but they weren’t really in the same location. Many WPA schools have been preserved and documented. The bigger ones are still schools, others have been repurposed. Only a few of the teacherages are documented, and none…
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WPA 4/5, post offices
My subscription to Academia.edu brings in interesting articles from obscure sources. This article lays out the concept of devotional conservation. When I model these Lost Places and Patient Things, I’m trying to counteract the modern chaos generators by giving new life to artifacts and viewpoints from saner times. In an era of millisecond-scale Github updates…
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WPA 5/5, summary
WPA’s main goal was to make people useful. WPA gave poor people a meaningful way to use their existing skills for money. Men without existing skills learned a marketable skill while building schools and parks and dams. WPA also taught new skills to adults who already had jobs. The Dust Bowl was caused by poor…
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Wolf explodes a myth
And speaking of modules sharing a common ground… Wolf’s latest excellent graphs tell a story that breaks down the conventional media myth about 2008. I hadn’t seen these graphs before. I knew that the myth about a US housing bubble was wrong, but I assumed it was a US phenomenon, not international. Wolf shows stock…
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