Author: Simon

All politics, like war, is based on deception. A case in point. Elections do not change interests.

“Oppose Fascism Of The Right & The Left”

I’m intolerant of intolerance and I will not tolerate any one who is intolerant. I’d ban myself for intolerance but that would be intolerance. Which I will not tolerate.

Music makes it easier.

(About 35 minutes)     “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” Socrates

H/T Chief IO at Tired of Joyless, Crabby, Bitch-Slapping, Cranky, PissWater Leftists? Then Dance!

I had been thinking about writing a bit on this for a day or two. Breitbart beat me to it. American Left Adopts Taliban Tactics in Destruction of Historical Icons. As the American left targets historical icons for removal and/or destruction, one is reminded of the way the Taliban destroyed centuries-old Buddhist statues and the…

(About 13 minutes) St, Stephen refers to Stephen Gaskin who was a friend of mine about 50 years ago. I helped him set up his gig in Carbondale, Illinois back in the day (28 May 1973). I was chief engineer at WTAO-FM at the time. I should add that “the Dead” deny it is about…

(About 1 minute) From the comments section at Illinois Legislators Urge Cops to Designate Neo-Nazis as Terrorists. They Should Be More Concerned With White Supremacists in Police Ranks.

You can listen to the whole album at Quicksilver Messenger Service

(About 13 ans 1/2 minutes) Censorship in the Social Media Age covers similar territory. Near the beginning it has this quote. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber…

Evidently our Islamic friends have finally gotten around to reading The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence. It is an account of how Lawrence raised an army of Arabs to attack Turkish communications. “Communications” being Turkish railways. And the reason for my “optimism” ? “Inspire,” the Al Qaeda propaganda magazine, will dedicate its next…

North Korea Is A Major Opium Producer (Making It A Prime Target For The CIA)     Pentagon Unveils Plan For “Pre-Emptive Strike” On North Korea     Underground labs in China are devising potent new opiates faster than authorities can respond     President Trump To Declare Opioid Crisis A “National Emergency” As Deaths…

Joseph A. Tainter says the reasons civilizations fail is an excess of complexity. Tainter has written or edited many articles and monographs. His arguably best-known work, The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), examines the collapse of Maya and Chacoan civilizations,[2] and of the Western Roman Empire, in terms of network theory, energy economics and complexity…