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Mister Studleyman retweeted
Recessions are supposed to hurt. That pain is the cure, not the disease.
When credit expands beyond real savings, the central bank manufactures a boom that cannot last. Businesses build factories for demand that borrowed money fabricated. Workers take jobs that only exist because interest rates sat artificially low. When the correction arrives, those malinvestments need to liquidate. Wages fall in some sectors, capital shifts, weaker firms close. Painful, yes. Fatal, no.
The depression arrives when government refuses to let the correction finish its work.
Herbert Hoover did this with textbook precision between 1929 and 1932. He signed Smoot-Hawley, raised the top income tax rate from 25% to 63%, pushed wages above market-clearing levels through industry agreements, and expanded federal spending by 50%. Every intervention delayed liquidation. Franklin Roosevelt then deepened and extended those same policies for a decade, keeping unemployment above 14% through 1940 when the private economy, left alone, would have recovered years earlier.
Governments prop up insolvent banks, subsidize failing industries, and inflate prices to prevent the nominal wage adjustments that would restore employment. Each intervention signals investors to wait. Capital sits idle because the rules keep changing. The recovery never gets traction because the government keeps moving the floor.
Mister Studleyman retweeted
The left's desire to get the USA involved in yet another European war will be recorded in future history books as a desperate act by American Democrats to distract from their despotism, corruption and crimes at home. The real enemy we face is the Democrat party, not Russia.
Mister Studleyman retweeted
The heart attack was first described in a medical journal in 1912, and the man who described it had trouble finding a second case.
Doctors had been opening chests for 300 years. They had dissected kings, paupers, drunks and the obese, and the blocked coronary artery was a rarity you wrote up.
A young Boston cardiologist started practising in 1911. He later said he did not see his first heart attack patient until 1921, and then they came in a flood.
By 1950 it was the biggest killer in the United States. By 1960, in Britain.
Victorian England ate butter, dripping, suet, bacon and cream, and smoked like a chimney, and the coronary ward did not exist.
The Masai lived on milk, meat and blood, and the doctors who went looking in the 1960s could not find heart disease among them.
So what arrived between the dissecting rooms of 1900 and the coronary care units of 1960?
Crisco launched in 1911. Cottonseed oil hardened into a block that looked like lard.
Margarine followed it into every kitchen.
By 1960 a quarter of American fat came out of a seed press that had not existed in 1900.
The seed oil goes into your blood on the LDL particle. It is the part of the particle that oxidises. The oxidised particle is what the artery wall takes in.
The cholesterol was in the butter for a thousand years and the artery stayed open.
Then the fat changed, and a disease nobody had heard of became the way most people die.
The guideline blames the butter. The butter has an alibi going back to the Bronze Age.
Mister Studleyman retweeted
Be really careful how you vote.
Because do you want to live in a country that's being invaded and burned by mass immigration, or one with flying cars?
Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
Mister Studleyman retweeted
The alternative being demanded is slavery by need: the idea that because you need something to survive, someone else must be compelled to provide it.
The profit motive is precisely what incentivizes people to produce what others need and want, ensuring that demand is met with supply.
Capitalism rewards satisfying those needs. Socialism treats them as an entitlement to someone else's labor.
Abolishing the profit motive doesn't abolish scarcity. It undermines the incentive to overcome it.
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Yuri Bezmenov – The Long March in Four Stages.
In 1984, a former Soviet KGB propagandist sat in front of a camera in Los Angeles and explained how to destroy a country without firing a shot: by sowing demoralization and unrest, using its own local socialists, useful idiots and the like. Most people laughed. Today the clip goes viral every other week.
1. Born in 1939 near Moscow, the son of a Soviet army officer. He studied Indian languages and joined the Novosti press agency – in his account, a front for the KGB. Posted to India, his job was deception and subversion: handle foreign journalists and intellectuals, show them what they were supposed to see, and shape what they wrote home.
2. In 1970 he defected – disguised as a hippie, slipping out of India with a group of Western travelers. He settled in Canada under a new name and worked in radio. In 1984 he gave the interview that made him famous.
3. His core claim: espionage is the small part. The big part is subversion – and it works through demoralization: changing a society’s perception of reality so that, despite an abundance of information, nobody can reach sensible conclusions in defense of themselves, their family or their country. And it isn’t carried out by spies. It is carried out by the country’s own people – local socialists, useful idiots and the like: professors, teachers, journalists, entertainers, activists, most of whom have no idea whose work they are doing.
4. Stage one: demoralization. It takes fifteen to twenty years – the time needed to educate one generation. The targets are the schools, the universities, the media, the churches, the culture: Gramsci’s institutions. The result is a person who can no longer process facts. Show him the evidence, and he refuses to believe it.
5. Stage two: destabilization – a few years of sowing unrest in the economy, the defense, the institutions and the streets. Stage three: crisis – a few weeks of breakdown, after which a new power arrives promising salvation.
6. Stage four: normalization. Central Europe knows that word. After Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring in 1968, Moscow called the occupation "normalization." Poland lived its own version after martial law. The abnormal, declared normal. And the useful idiots who helped the revolution? Bezmenov said they would be the first to be discarded once it won. The revolution devours its own.
7. Not every number he gave can be verified – he was a dramatic witness. But the mechanism holds. And there is one thing he missed. The Soviet Union died in 1991. The demoralization didn’t. It no longer needs the KGB. It runs on its own fuel now – grants, careers, NGOs, prizes. Münzenberg’s machine outlived him; so did Moscow’s.
In 2020 his interview opened a Call of Duty trailer. A new generation met him through a video game – and recognized its own world.
The interview is linked below. If you haven’t watched it, you have to.
Poles lived stage four. The West has been living stage one for half a century.
Demoralization takes a generation. So does the cure. It starts at the kitchen table: tell the truth, teach the children, have courage and refuse to call the abnormal normal.
Willi Münzenberg – The Man Who Wrote the NGO Playbook.
You have never heard of him. That was the point.
Gramsci explained why culture had to be conquered. Münzenberg showed how – and built the machine that still runs today.
1. Born in 1889 in Thuringia, the son of a poor innkeeper. During the First World War he met Lenin in Zurich. He became one of the founders of the German Communist Party and sat in the Reichstag. But his real talent was something else: he understood that most people will never join a revolution – and can still be made to work for one.
2. In 1921, famine struck Soviet Russia, and Lenin asked him to raise help from abroad. Münzenberg created Workers International Relief – and discovered that a humanitarian cause attracts people who would never join a communist party. The aid was real. So was the propaganda. The first modern NGO used as a front.
3. Then he built an empire. Newspapers, an illustrated magazine read by hundreds of thousands, publishing houses, book clubs, film studios. Germans called him the Red Millionaire. It was the media group of the Comintern – and almost nobody reading it knew.
4. His masterpiece was what he privately called the Innocents’ Clubs: committees for peace, against war, against fascism, against imperialism. Causes every decent person supports. Famous writers and scientists on the letterhead, congresses in grand halls – and a few communists in the back office deciding everything. The cause was the bait. The network was the catch.
5. When the Reichstag burned in 1933, he struck back with a book of accusations and a mock "counter-trial" in London, staged with eminent lawyers – and won world opinion before any real court had ruled. Trial by narrative. The template of every media tribunal since.
6. He didn’t need intellectuals to join the party. Only to lend their names. The fellow traveler – the professor, the actor, the novelist who signs the petition and never asks who drafted it – was his invention as much as anyone’s. Arthur Koestler worked for him in Paris and later described the whole system from the inside.
7. In the end he broke with Stalin, over the purges and then the Hitler–Stalin pact. In 1939 he published an open attack titled "The traitor, Stalin, is you." A year later, in France, he was found hanging from a tree in a forest. Suicide or murder – it was never solved. The machine outlived its builder.
Now look around. The "coalition" of NGOs. The open letter signed by a hundred celebrities on the same morning. The "civil society" platform funded by governments. The tribunal of public opinion that convicts before any court. The cause sounds always noble. The network is always the same.
Münzenberg would recognize all of it. He wrote the playbook.
Next time a hundred famous names sign the same letter on the same day, ask the one question nobody asks: who drafted it?
ATTN Texas: Hinojosa is a Democrat running for governor who wants to tax the shit out of everything and implement a state income tax, because government can never have enough stolen money.
