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Empires (Like the U.S.) Fall When Corruption Becomes Rampant

January 8, 2016

Empires (Like the U.S.) Fall When Corruption Becomes Rampant Widespread corruption destroys empires. By way of example, corruption was one of the main causes of the collapse of the Roman Empire: The Praetorian Guard—the emperor’s personal bodyguards—assassinated and installed new sovereigns at will, and once even auctioned the spot off to the highest bidder [and see this]. The […]

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Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama

December 23, 2015

Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama Every group (and especially an empire) needs its good or evil spokesperson, leader, or figurehead to focus upon: the embodiment of the particular group or nation.  The size of the group is irrelevant: there simply must be a leader […]

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Fall Of The American Empire: “They Intend To Collapse the Financial System”

December 19, 2015

Fall Of The American Empire: “They Intend To Collapse the Financial System” “…for two weeks the mob had been rioting uncontrolled in the streets…The economy of the greatest empire that the world had ever seen was coming apart like an unraveling sweater…the cost of maintaining…gigantic armed forces…was bleeding the nation white and in addition there […]

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Fourth Turning–Our Rendezvous With Destiny

November 30, 2015

FOURTH TURNING – OUR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY We are now in the seventh year of this Fourth Turning. A famous quote from the seventh year of the last Fourth Turning portended the desperate, bloody and ultimately heroic trials and tribulations which awaited generations of our ancestors. What will be our rendezvous with destiny? “There is a […]

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Why Even a Modest Disruption Will Shatter the Status Quo

November 25, 2015

Why Even a Modest Disruption Will Shatter the Status Quo Any modest reduction in debt, tax revenues, consumption or new borrowing will bring the entire Status Quo crashing down. Consider this clipping from the August 1932 San Francisco Chronicle newspaper: “Reduction of salaries of municipal employees and limitation of city positions to only one member […]

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Tertullian was a conspiracy theorist: propaganda and irrationalism in Roman times and in ours

October 27, 2015

Tertullian was a conspiracy theorist: propaganda and irrationalism in Roman times and in ours The Romans knew well the dark art that we call “propaganda” today. As an example, this image, from the Trajan column in Rome, shows Dacian women torturing naked Roman prisoners; it was part of the demonization of the enemy during the Dacian […]

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Fortress Europe: a wall to keep foreigners out?

September 14, 2015

Fortress Europe: a wall to keep foreigners out?   “….. the buffer zone has disappeared. The geographical transition from civilization to barbarism is now no longer gradual but it is abrupt. To use the appropriate Latin words, which bring out both the kinship and the contrast between the two types of contact, a limen, or threshold, which was a […]

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The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs

May 31, 2015

The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs   The coal mine of Bihar, India. Photo by Nitin Kirloskar   This post was inspired by a recent article about coal mining in India by David Rose in the Guardian about coal mining. In India, people are dying in the streets because of excessive heat […]

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