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History and Peace

by | Jun 2, 2024 | ,

“[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers seeking out the guilty should we face the past. We seek truth, not guilt; we want to know how things came about to understand them, not to issue condemnations. Whoever approaches history the way a prosecutor approaches the documents of a criminal case—to find material for indictments—had better stay away from it. It is not the task of history to gratify the need of the masses for heroes and scapegoats.

“That is the position a nation should take toward its history. It is not the task of history to project the hatred and disagreements of the present back into the past and to draw from battles fought long ago weapons for the disputes of one’s own time. History should teach us to recognize causes and to understand driving forces; and when we understand everything, we will forgive everything.”

–Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy, 1919

History and Conflict

by | Jun 1, 2024 | , , ,

“We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by kings and conquerors; we have to build a new and better world order [i.e., the liberal market economy rooted in private property].”

–Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government, 1944

Around Us the World dies in hate (poem thing) -Anti-War Blog

by | Jun 1, 2024 |

In the time that the smoke ate the sun,

Poison that blinded my eyes washed by tears,

Tears that fall from fear because we shall never have years,

Maybe days or if so lucky weeks.

 

The sirens yawn more than we can sleep,

The birds have left though the sky is filled with the flying things,

Fireballs glow brighter than any sun,

A sun lost beneath ash.

 

Around us the world dies in hate,

Painful rage that fills the oceans with blood,

I sail on them to you with love as my wind,

No hate for us, just us and love.

 

Climbing mountains of stone,

Jagged cliffs of destruction,

My shoes fall to pieces as concrete chews through to the bone of my feet,

Feet that will never stop carrying me to meet with you.

 

The explosions so loud that after we can’t hear our thoughts,

When our ears return, crying of the babies who survived,

Sirens that come after the blasts,

Those before are always too late.

 

It seems I was too late,

We never did have weeks, not even days.

The blood from my feet weep,

I take your hand, one last time.

 

I am too weak to move the building from you,

I hold your hand,

The day fades to night and in the black I hold on,

Your hand turns cold.

 

It hurts too much to even hate,

The hate will come,

Now, now its cold,

Just like your hand.

 

The love has gone along with you,

Now it’s cold,

Just like your hand,

But soon I can hate.

 

 

June 2024

Four Star Admiral Slams Body Parts in the Cash Register

by | May 31, 2024 |

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ADM Robert Burke arrested for corruption.

This is on the heels of the Fat Leonard scandal.

This is the tip of the iceberg in corruption.

And remember this four star admiral retired with an estimated annual pension of approx 200k.

200,000 dollars a year.

“Instead, the three met in 2021 to set up a situation in which Burke would use his influence as a Navy admiral to get the company a contract with the Navy, the release alleges.

“They allegedly further agreed that Burke would use his official position to influence other Navy officers to award another contract to Company A to train a large portion of the Navy with a value Kim allegedly estimated to be ‘triple digit millions,’” reads the release.

The DoJ alleges that in 2021, while serving as the Navy’s top officer in Europe, Burke ordered his staff to award a contract to Messenger’s and Kim’s company to train naval personnel in Italy and Spain. The contract was worth $355,000, according to the release.

As part of the agreement, Burke also would stay in the Navy for six months in order to convince other naval officers to award Next Jump contracts, according to the indictment. For example, Burke introduced Kim and Messenger to Fleet Forces U.S. Fleet Forces Commander Adm. Daryl Caudle via a March 14, 2022 email, reads the indictment. On March 28, 2022, Burke forwarded a proposal from Next Jump to Caudle to provide their services for a foreign military.”

https://news.usni.org/2024/05/31/former-vice-chief-of-naval-operations-robert-burke-arrested-by-feds-on-bribery-charges

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Wayback Snapshot: Japanese Invasion on American Soil

by | May 31, 2024 |

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Yes, American soil has been invaded and occupied in the twentieth century.
“In June 1942, the United States launched its first offensive in the Pacific, the Aleutian Campaign. From June 1942 to May 1943 Japan held the Island of Attu. The Battle of Attu took place May 11−30, 1943. With Canadian support, U.S. forces defeated Japanese forces in what was the second deadliest battle in the Pacific Theater. More than 3,000 Japanese and Americans died fighting on Attu. Attu: the Forgotten Battle, a new book by John Haile Cloe, explores that battle and its impact on the island. Aleutian Islands from The U.S. Army Center of Military History provides an overview of the Aleutian Islands Campaign.”
https://www.nps.gov/aleu/planyourvisit/upload/Attu-Forgotten-Battle-Optimized-508.pdf
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The US is the World Leader with No Pier

by | May 30, 2024 |

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Yet another existential chaos avalanche in American foreign policy.
The pier took two months and $350m to build, lasted 12 days, and delivered less than 60 trucks’ worth of food (most of which was stolen after it reached Gaza) before it broke and had to be towed away for repairs. Think through the process: ships provide a mass delivery mechanism for cargo and the draft of a ship prevents it from getting close to shore hence the need for pier structures for off-loading and the US spends a third of of billion dollars for a temporary structure to facilitate the off-loading. Weather conditions and sea states are not a mystery and for those keen enough to observe, the facilitators of this disaster had access to all the historical data to know what to do and whether to proceed ahead with the project.
And, remember, this is the same US foreign policy that provides military aid, even now, that necessitated the need for the temporary pier in the first place.
This debacle is a demonstration project of the American experience in the Middle East.
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