Back when I was much younger I stumbled across an old, dusty book called, “Dying We Live”, edited by Helmut Gollwitzer and published originally in 1956, which published the final letters of imprisoned leftists in Nazi Germany who were about to be executed by the state. I wasn’t very political at the time, but I was interested in the question: what would a person say in their last words to their close family members?

There was one series of letters from a 22 year old seaman in particular that have stuck with me in the years since, especially his final letter to his girlfriend, and I thought it was worth republishing here. The seaman, Kim, and I have very different political beliefs, but one can still be impressed by unusual eloquence and writing talent, especially from someone so young. Life is gray and everyone has good and bad in them1, and it is the mark of a mature personality that can see and applaud such talent even if one disagrees in other areas.

Here are Kim’s final letters which he had sent to his mother and girlfriend; some short commentary will be provided at the end.

The press bureau of the chief of the SS and the police force in Denmark on Sunday, April 8, 1945, issued the following announcement:

Condemned to death: Seaman Kim Malthe-Brunn, born July 8, 1923 in Saskatchewan, Canada, resident in Copenhagen, because, as a member of an illegal organization, he possessed himself of a revenue service boat and took it to Sweden. In addition he procured arms for his organization and took part in transporting arms. The death sentence was carried out by a firing squad.

Two days after his Arrest

December 21, 1944

Dear Mother: Conditions here are excellent, and my new life is far better than expected. These are undeniably completely new surroundings and impressions, but undoubtedly contributive to my development…I set in my cell with five others, and discussion runs high about everything under the sun….You must all be perfectly calm now. It probably won’t be too long before I’m home with you again.

A very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Be of good cheer and don’t let the thought of me cloud your joy. I assure you that the hardest thing for me is the thought of you.

Your Kim

(Censored)

January 13, 1945

The Gestapo is made up of very primitive men who have gained considerable skill in outwitting and intimidating feeble spirits; if you observe them a little more closely during one of their interrogations, you will see them displaying a look of violent dissatisfaction, as if they were obliged to muster all their self-control and as if it were an act of mercy on their part not to shoot you down on the spot for not telling them more. But if you look into their eyes, you see that they are enormously satisfied with anything they have succeeded in squeezing out of their victim. The victim himself realizes only much later that he has allowed himself to be led by the nose.

Now listen, in case you should find yourself some day in the hands of traitors or of the Gestapo, look them – and yourself – straight in the eye. The only change that has actually taken place consists of the fact that they are now physically your masters. Otherwise they are still the same dregs of humanity they were before you were captured. Look at them, realize how far beneath you they are, and it will dawn upon you that the utmost that these creatures can achieve is to give you a few bruises and some aching muscles….

You come into a room or a corridor and you have to turn your face to the wall. Don’t stand there trembling at the thought that perhaps now you must due. If you are afraid of death, then you are not old enough to take part in the fight for freedom, certainly not mature enough. If this obsession has power to frighten you, then you are the ideal subject for an interrogation. Suddenly and without cause they slap you. If you are soft enough, then just the humiliation of such a slap is such a shock that the Gestapo wins the upper hand and puts such terror into you that they can have their own way with you.

Confront them calmly, showing neither hatred nor contempt, because both of these goad their overly sensitive vanity far too much. Regard them as human beings and use their vanity against them. [This letter was smuggled out]

Western Prison [No Date]

Nothing is happening to me. I sit here within four walls, behind a locked door, and nothing happens. I keep saying that I live for the day, and I do, but in the same way as the winter seed does. It lies very quiet under its blanket of warm earth; it lies and waits, perhaps it dreams. For the grain, the rich harvest, will not be reaped until after the warm summer.

It is a strange feeling of security that has descended upon me, while I set inside these four infinitely strong walls. For here nothing can happen, everyone knows that, at least nothing surprising, and this induces a certain numbness and lethargy – a state, I imagine, much like that of the winter seed as it lies resting in preparation for coming struggles and deeds.

January 22, 1945

During the last few days I’ve been thinking a good bit about the present-day Pharisees and how much the Bible has been misused, and how well I understand this. Suppose that I am reading in the Bible – I am speaking now of the New Testament – and suddenly, behind a couple of lines, I see Jesus clearly and sharply; then he disappears again behind the flooding wordage of the evangelists. Slowly their ponderous words pile up on top of me. Slaves that we all are, we are numbed by this flattening weight, and we trot along, submitting to it, with the result that it becomes part of us.

Today I was standing on my bunk and looking out of the window, and suddenly it seemed as if all the thoughts that I had recently expressed were returning to me, just like the landscape before me. When I saw it last it was gray and monotonous; there was nothing special that would catch the eye. But today the whole scene lies so radiant in its snow-white covering, with a blue sky sparkling in the cold above it. Suddenly, just as in raising one’s eyes, I saw my old thought in a completely new light. I understood it thus (remember that every season has its garb): the teaching of Jesus should not be something that we follow just because we have been taught to do so and permit ourselves to be influenced on this. We should live not by the letter of his precepts, but rather in conformity with them, complying with a deeply felt inspiration that should come not as an influence from without, but from the heart, from the innermost depths of the soul, as in the case with every inspiration. At this moment there comes to me, as one of the profoundest truths I have learned from Jesus, the perception that one should live solely according to the dictates of one’s soul.

On March 2, after being tortured, Kim was carried back unconscious to his cell. The next day he wrote:

Since then I have been thinking about the strange thing that actually has happened to me. Immediately afterward I experienced an indescribable feeling of relief, an exultant intoxication of victory, a joy so irrational that I was as though paralyzed. It was as if the soul had liberated itself completely from the body, as if soul and body were gambolling like two detached beings, the one in a completely unfettered supernatural ecstasy, the other, severely earthbound, writing in a passionless convulsion. Suddenly I realized how incredibly strong I am. When the soul returned once more to the body, it was as if the jubilation of the whole world had been gathered together here. But the matter ended as it does in the case of so many other opiates: when the intoxication was over, a reaction set in. I became aware that my hands were trembling, that there was a tension within me. It was as if a cell in the depths of my heart had short-circuited and were now very swiftly being discharged. I was like an addict consumed by his addiction. Yet I was calm and spiritually far stronger than ever before.

However, though I am unafraid, though I do not yield ground, my heart beats faster every time someone stops before my door. This must be something purely physical, even though it is indisputably a sense perception that evokes it.

Immediately afterward it dawned upon me that I have now a new understanding of the figure of Jesus. The time of waiting, that is the ordeal. I will warrant that the suffering endured in having a few nails driven through one’s hands, in being crucified, is something purely mechanical that lifts the soul into an ecstasy comparable with nothing else. But the waiting in the garden – that hour drips red with blood.

One other strange thing. I felt absolutely no hatred. Something happened to my body; it was only the body of a boy, and it reacted as such. But my soul was occupied with something completely different. Of course it noticed the little creatures who were there with my body, but it was so filled with itself that it could not closely concern itself with them.

March 27, 1945

Since then I have often thought of Jesus. I can well understand the measureless love he felt for all men, and especially for those who took part in driving nails into his hands. From the moment when he left Gethsemane, he stood high above all passion….

Jesus felt how his whole life was burning itself out of its own fiery force in a last concentration of everything that was strongest in him. Fear is something that comes from within. And if someone tries to instill fear in too great a degree into a man, he may easily succeed in driving out all fear, in projecting his victim into a state in which he stands out of reach of everything and untouchable to anything.

A Letter of Farewell to his Sweetheart, Western Prison, German Section, Cell 411, April 4, 1945

My own little sweetheart: Today I was put on trial and condemned to death. What terrible news for a little girl only twenty years old! I obtained permission to write this farewell letter. And what shall I write now? How shall this, my swan song, sound? The time is short, and there are so many thoughts. What is the final and most precious gift that I can make to you? What do I possess that I can give you in farewell, in order that you may live on, grow, and become an adult, in sorrow and yet with a happy smile?

We sailed upon the wild sea, we met each other in the trustful way of playing children, and we loved each other. We still love each other and we shall continue to do so. But one day a storm tore us asunder; I struck a reef and went down, but you were washed up on another shore, and you will live on in a new world. You are not to forget me, I do not ask that: why should you forget something that is so beautiful? But you must not cling to it. You must live on as gay as ever and doubly happy, for life has given you on your path the most beautiful of all beautiful things. Tear yourself free; let this joy of joys be all for you, let it radiate as the strongest and clearest force in the world, but let it be only one of your golden remembrances; don’t let it blind you and so prevent you from seeing all the glorious things that still lie before you. Don’t give yourself up to melancholy. You must become mature and rich, do you hear, my own dear sweetheart?

You will live on and meet with other marvelous adventures. But promise me one thing – you owe this to me because of everything for which I have lived – promise me that the thought of me will never stand between you and life. Remember that I am in you a reason for being; and if I leave you, that means merely that this reason lives on by itself. It should be a healthy and natural thing, it should not take up too much room, and after a while, when a larger and more important things take its place, it should fade into the background and become nothing more than a small element in a soil full of potential for development and happiness.

You feel a stab at the heart; that is what people call sorrow. But you see, Hanne, we all have to die, and if I have to go a bit sooner or a bit later, neither you nor I can say whether that is good or bad.

I think of Socrates. Read about him – you will find Plato telling about what I am now experiencing. I love you boundlessly, but not more now than I have always loved you. The stab I feel in my heart is nothing. That is simply the way things are, and you must understand this. Something lives and burns within me – love, inspiration, call it what you will, but it is something for which I have not yet found a name. Now I am to die, and I do not know whether I have kindled a little flame in another heart, a flame that will outlive me; nonetheless I am calm, for I have seen and I know that nature is so rich that no one takes note when a few isolated little spouts are crushed underfoot and die. Why then should I despair, when I see all the wealth that lives on?

Lift up your head, you my heart’s most precious core, lift up your head and look about you. The sea is still blue – the sea that I have loved so much, the sea that has enveloped both of us. Live on now for the two of us. I am gone and far away, and what remains is not a memory that should turn you into a woman like N.N., but a memory that should make you into a woman who is alive and warmhearted, mature and happy. You must not bury yourself in sorrow, for you would become arrested, sunk in a worship of me and yourself, and you would lose what I have loved most in your, your womanliness. Remember, and I swear to you that it is true, that every sorrow turns into happiness – but very few people will in retrospect admit this to themselves. They wrap themselves in their sorrow, and habit leads them to believe that it continues to be sorrow, and they go on wrapping themselves up in it. The truth is that after sorrow comes a maturation, and after maturation comes fruit.

One of these days, Hanne, you will meet a man who will become your husband. Will the thought of me disturb you then? Will you perhaps then have a faint feeling that you are being disloyal to me or to what is pure and holy to you? Lift up your head, Hanne, lift up your head once again and look into my laughing blue eyes, and you will understand that the only way in which you can be disloyal to me would be in not completely following your natural instinct. You will see this man and you will let your heart go out to him – not to numb the pain, but because you love him with all your heart. You will become very, very happy because you will have found a soil in which feelings still unknown to you will come to rich growth.

You must greet Nitte for me. I have had it much in mind to write to her, but don’t know whether I’ll still have time. I seem to feel that I can do more for you, and you are after all the essence of all living life for me. I should like to breathe into you all the life that is in me, so that thereby it could perpetuate itself and as little as possible of it be lost. That is willy-nilly what my nature demands.

Yours, but not forever,

Kim

Farewell Letter to his Mother, Western Prison, German Section, Cell 411, April 4, 1945

Dear Mother: Today, together with Jorgen, Nils, and Ludwig, I was arraigned before a military tribunal. We were condemned to death. I know that you are a courageous woman, and that you will bear this, but, hear me, it is not enough to bear it, you must also understand it. I am an insignificant thing, and my person will soon be forgotten, but the thought, the life, the inspiration that filled me will live on. You will meet them everywhere – in the trees at springtime, in people who cross your path, in a loving little smile. You will encounter that something which perhaps had value in me, you will cherish it, and you will not forget me. And so I shall have a chance to grow, to become large and mature. I shall be living with all of you whose hearts I once filled. And you will all live on, knowing that I have preceded you, and not, as perhaps you thought at first, dropped out behind you. You know what my dearest wish has always been, and what I hoped to become. Follow me, my dear mother, on my path, and do not stop before the end, but linger with some of the matters belonging to the last space of time allotted to me, and you will find something that may be of value both to my sweetheart and to you, my mother.

I travelled a road that I have never regretted. I have never evaded the dictate of my heart, and now things seem to fall into place. I am not old, I should not be dying, yet it seems so natural to me, so simple. It is only the abrupt manner of it that frightens us at first. The time is short, I cannot properly explain it, but my soul is perfectly at rest….

When I come right down to it, how strange it is to be sitting here and writing this testament. Every word must stand, it can never be amended, erased, or changed. I have so many thoughts. Jorgen is sitting here before me writing his two-year-old daughter a letter for her confirmation. A document for life. He and I have lived together, and now we die together, two comrades….

I see the course that things are taking in our country, and I know that grandfather will prove to have been right, but remember – and all of you must remember this – that your dream must not be to return to the time before the war, but that all of you, young and old, should create conditions that are not arbitrary but that will bring to realization a genuinely human ideal, something that every person will see and feel to be an ideal for all of us. That is the great gift for which our country thirsts – something for which every humble peasant boy can yearn, and which he can joyously feel himself to have a part in and be working for.

Finally, there is the girl whom I call mine. Make her realize that the stars still shine and that I have been only a milestone on her road. Help her on: she can still become very happy.

In haste – your eldest child and only son,

Kim

A couple of points to note:

• These letters were written toward the very end of World War 2 when the Germans were losing badly; they were being carpet-bombed an extreme amount and breakdowns were occurring everywhere. For Nazi guards to take the letters of this man while bombs were falling overhead and Allied troops were approaching from all sides and mail it and make sure it got to the addressee speaks to the incredible efficiency of the German system.
• This seaman was executed on April 4, 1945, while the war ended on April 8 or 9 — quite bad luck for Kim to have made it almost right to the end.
• Why is it that people with hyphenated last names are always very liberal? I have not come across a single exception to this generalization.
• I wonder what effects seeing the modern world with the extreme degeneracy and horrors that have occurred to the natural world, the complete implosion of western civilization would have had on this man, who was a religious Christian [and correctly fighting, from that standpoint, for Christian values; he had not transvalued them] if he were here to see it.
• The letters were written by a simple seaman; reading it one is struck by an acute feeling how massively average IQs have fallen in the western world in just a couple of generations — based on this letter it feels like 30 points or more.
• Lastly and strangely, while conducting research for this post it looks like this simple seaman has his own wikipedia page, which is unnerving. Does this speak to the relative rarity of Nazi executions that they received such individualized, special attention by our globohomo overlords? Also see here. The Soviets executed countless people in the gulags, millions over the years; this one peasant who grew up as a farmhand is executed and gets a state funeral and a movie about him, as well as a wikipedia page? It’s quite odd.

1 As Solzhenitsyn stated in The Gulag Archipelago, “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn’t change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.”

I’ve been writing about some heavier stuff in the past couple of posts – meditations on the problem of evil, the tether scam, the controlled nature of the Russia/Ukraine war, the preplanned decline in the quality of life for almost everyone, and the untrustworthiness of Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson.

So I thought I would lighten it up a little bit (well, as much as can be lightened up with my posting style, which is matter-of-fact, dry and serious) with a life update on some of the famous pickup artists (PUAs) from the early 2000s, and a couple more thrown in from more recently.

Why are the PUAs interesting? Because they emerged as one of the first cracks by Millennials against the United States sole-superpower international “rules based” order total-informational-narrative-dominance after the fall of the Soviet Union (get a sense of Fukuyama’s End of History for the feeling that America would always be on top thereafter). Other major routes to “taking the red pill” such as Alex Jones with InfoWars started around the same time, and Mencius Moldbug with his political takes arrived a bit later in 2007. There was also the Patriot movement around this time, but it was mostly an older generation…

The history and motivation

The pickup community emerged sometime during the early 2000s because of cognitive dissonance that young men were experiencing because of their difficulty in finding mates. It had its roots in earlier eras – in 1970, with the publication of How to Pick Up Girls! by Eric Weber and in the 1990s with Ross Jeffries with his “neuro-linguistic programming” – but this is when it became widespread and mainstream. As discussed previously, cognitive dissonance occurs whenever narratives pushed by the establishment do not fulfill needs of low-status groups, and lower-status young men were increasingly being deprived of mates due to unleashed female hypergamy1 which was itself caused by multiple factors (decline in religion and associated decreased stigma of hook-up culture, increased atomization, increased takeover of women in the workplace, government welfare obviating the need for women to secure beta male providers, a deliberate and nasty strategy employed by the central bank owners, etc). These low status men, suffering cognitive dissonance and psychological pain, had to devise alternative approaches because the establishment messaging and incentives were the cause of their pain in the first place.

These young men looked around and tried to reverse-engineer the ease of success of that high-status men (who they eventually called “Chad”) had with women. Was it Chad’s confidence? His looks? His height? His humor? The fact that he could be unavailable and a bit of a dick? It definitely wasn’t his money; Chad was often poor, even destitute, yet basically had to swat away women who swarmed him for attention. Think of some bartender living in a filthy tenement apartment, rats and trash everywhere, regularly hooking up with 9s and 10s, who felt honored to experience his attention, while “nice” low status men with stable jobs and looking to get married were completely ignored. In response, some low-status men got together on internet forums and in small groups in the real world (to go sarging and critique each other) and tried to devise techniques to attract women; which pick-up lines worked, what attitude to use, how dressing differently affected results, which locations were best, even which countries were better than others. They treated it with all the rigor of autistically trying to beat a video game; i.e. they viewed women mostly as inanimate objects where if the right combination of emotional hind-brain buttons were pressed they would “win” the interaction and be rewarded with sex (a point Neil Strauss would later make as a critique).

Later on the community split. The ones that had success moved on to other chapters of their lives, and some of the better PUA tactics and terms were absorbed into mainstream dating culture2, while the low-status males who couldn’t or wouldn’t adapt became mostly incels and shut-off in their own online communities. The most memorable incel was Elliot Roger, the “Supreme Gentleman”, who went crazy after failing in his lotto-ticket get-rich-scheme due to his inability to attract a woman and went on a killing spree.

The PUA leaders

A number of the PUA community’s most prominent leaders included Roosh Valizadeh, Roissy/Heartiste, Neil Strauss, Mystery, and Rollo Tomassi3. Also of note is Tucker Max (via PUA’s cousin “fratire” which celebrated fraternity hookup-culture, but without the loser autism of the PUAs).

There is a maxim that once someone becomes red-pilled in one area of life and sees establishment lies in that area, it makes it easier to then transition to becoming red-pilled in many other areas of life (this is different than the Gel-Mann amnesia affect which refers to becoming red-pilled in one’s compartmentalized work specialty).

The meme is: first comes the blue pill (just believe what the establishment tells you), then the red pill (belief that the establishment teaches the masses lies for their own gain), then the black pill (despair and a sense of hopelessness at the world’s situation), then the white pill (finding solace in God). How has this trope manifested in these prominent PUA figures in the years since, if it has?

Roosh Valizadeh

Roosh was known as a pickup artist who traveled the world to have casual sex with women. He released a series of books: Bang: The Pickup Bible That Helps You Get More Lays (2007), and then with sex-themed travel guides on the countries he had visited such as Bang Iceland, Don’t Bang Denmark, Bang Estonia, Don’t Bang Latvia, and Bang Lithuania. These books provided him a steady stream of passive income from his followers. He had a well-read blog and a well-read forum, and his concurrent controversial takes on women and politics via the “manosphere” resulted in feminist boycotts of his in-person meetups with the protests in Canada receiving widespread media coverage.

Eventually, a combination of Roosh experiencing hedonic adaptation (much like drug users, a person with an addition, including a sex addiction, needs more extreme experiences in order to receive the same level of dopamine hits to feel pleasure), combined with aging resulting in declining testosterone levels, led to Roosh’s general disillusionment with the pickup artist and casual sex lifestyle.

Roosh experienced a triggering event, though, when his younger sister died of cancer. That shook him to his core and he ultimately became devoutly religious as a result, first in the Armenian Apostolic Church in 2019 and then in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) in 2021.

I believe the conversion was fully heart-felt and legitimate given he unpublished all of his PUA books, which were his primary source of income, and closed his PUA website. He then released a book about his journey to God called American Pilgrim.

Roosh continues to maintain his blog which is generally very well written, his Gab account, and his Forum, which is very censored and controlled to specifically promote ROCOR views. He maintains his unusually intense interest in women, but he tries to filter it through his religious perspective. I believe he continues to live at home and is unmarried presently.

Roosh, then, went from the red pill to the black pill and then to the white (God) pill.

Roissy/Heartiste

Roissy in DC, also known as Heartiste, had a very popular blog for many years starting in 2007 which deconstructed female behavior in the context of the pickup artist scene. It remains online currently but experienced a lengthy shutdown by WordPress in 2019 for unspecified violations of their terms of service, and Heartiste gave up posting on it as a result. He continues to regularly post as King of All Nads on Gab, almost exclusively about politics these days from a far-right perspective.

It seems Heartiste has somewhat taken the black pill, perhaps straddling the line between red and black.

Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss popularized the pickup artist community to the world when he published the 2005 book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. Strauss was a prominent author who rolled in high society as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also wrote regularly for The New York Times, so his book was prominently displayed and talked about by the public.

Strauss was short, bald, and nothing special physically, and he was unsuccessful with women so he turned to this lifestyle in order to improve it. He eventually got married, had a child, then got divorced, while in 2015 wrote a book walking back much of the PUA lifestyle. He continues to be a very successful writer, and in 2021 wrote a book about the wonders of Ethereum and is working on a book about NFTs.

It appears Strauss stayed in the red pill zone, which was necessary for him to continue a respectable writing career, or semi-reverted to the blue pill.

Mystery

Mystery came to fame in Neil Strauss’s book, where he had at least one major mental breakdown. He later had a short-lived television show called “The Pickup Artist”. His approach was to peacock, i.e. to dress outlandishly with weird hats, shoelifts, makeup, and garish clothing, to do magic tricks, to be constantly in the “dancing monkey” frame to keep attention-scattered nightlife-tier women entertained.

It looks like he continues to host pickup seminars in 2023, so it looks like he remains redpilled.

Tucker Max

Tucker Max came to fame as a result of his quite popular fratire series of books documenting his numerous hook-up escapades, especially I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, which he later turned into a self-produced movie which was not successful. He had a number of controversies, and also had a forum which he shut down at some point. Tucker was a gifted writer and then parlayed his gift for writing into a successful business helping people write and publish books called Scribe Media, and he ghostwrote Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.

Tucker moved to a rural area of Texas, got married, and has four kids, and he documents his attempt to become a rancher on his Twitter account, which is a very interesting read. He encourages his followers to become self-sufficient in food production and champions a rural lifestyle, which is a positive message, although the financial resources to do so are outside the reach of many (although there are steps that anyone can take in this regard, no matter how limited). Tucker’s own lifestyle requires a level of capital that most people who are not already rich cannot afford, where he lives on a self-owned large cattle ranch with a nice house and the ability to raise many kids.

His religious views are not clear, and he seems disillusioned with the current American form of government, but his public-facing persona focuses on his work and his lifestyle.

I wanted to mention two others involved in this scene, even though they are much more recent additions: Looks Maximus and Gonzalo Lira.

Looks Maximus

Looks Maximus came out of nowhere a year or two ago, posting videos on Youtube where he eschewed dating altogether and instead advocated for a lifestyle of steroids and prostitution, and tied his viewpoints into an endless number of stories regarding ancient Greece and Rome, which he was very well versed in. He was a Canadian living in Poland where his family was from, and he spoke Polish fluently. He viewed dating any women to be “simping”, where the woman was the man’s “massa” (i.e. she controlled him and told him what to do because this “gynocentric society” gave them that power), and he looked down greatly on “jestermaxxing”, where one had to act as a jester to women to get sex. He was an advocate for androcentrism.

His Youtube channel was eventually banned as he was rapidly growing his following, and he shifted to Odysee and Bitchute, hosting multi-hour Symposiums where he interacted with his followers. However, Looks was mentally unstable — he live-blogged himself harassing women on the streets of Poland, and he filmed himself sniffing used women’s panties (multiple times; these videos were re-uploaded by “Gimpina”, one of Looks’s stalkers and chief-haters)— and the steroids apparently gave him cancer. He got a girlfriend, had a mental breakdown, disclaimed everything he had said before and then disappeared from the internet (for now), after having deleted almost all of his videos, which were, to be fair, quite entertaining.

After digging a lot of Bitchute and Odysee, I was able to find some of his older videos:

Here’s one asking who would you be cast as in a movie or television show? (an attack on people with weak bodies)

Here’s one where he attacks Nietzsche for being a simp for women.

Here’s a short one on Achilles and Leonidas.

Here’s one where he recommends remaining unmarried and childless.

Here’s a long one attacking the manosphere and Richard “Belle” Cooper.

Here are a bunch of others, the older ones are better than the newer ones.

If you watch these (which are interesting and entertaining), keep in mind he later had a total nervous breakdown and disclaimed all of this.

So he went from redpilled to either blue-pilled or insane-pilled.

Gonzalo Lira

I don’t know too much about Gonzalo other than he went by the moniker “Coach Red Pill”, giving advice to men on dating (despite looking quite slovenly himself), before shifting entirely to focus on the Russia/Ukraine war, where he bizarrely was extremely pro-Russia, pushing a 5D chess narrative, despite living in Ukraine-controlled Kharkov. He was arrested in 2022 by the Ukrainian authorities for his views and re-arrested recently in 2023. Gonzalo, if they let you out and you see this, please clean your toilet (it was shown in the arrest video) — it looks completely disgusting.

He appears to be standard red-pilled.

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So that’s the gamut of prominent PUAs and what happened to them. There isn’t a particular lesson to be drawn from any of this; these guy’s journeys are just interesting in light of their significant exposure to perspectives that put them at odds with establishment messaging, at least with respect to women, and they should be commended for having unique personalities that aren’t standardized and rubber-stamped like most “I support the Current Thing” NPCs are today via educational and media propaganda. Uniqueness and going against the herd should be respected and appreciated; there isn’t enough of it, and when one comes across someone being unapologetically themselves (and not in an aggressive, brainwashed “lean in” way) it’s a breath of fresh air.

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1 As mentioned elsewhere, hypergamy is as toxic for women as it is for men.  Women end up having sex with very high-status men far beyond their ability to lock that man down for marriage and children, because men are fine “hooking up” down/far down from their status level,  leading women to become angry and bitter when they are unable to successfully pair bond.  The more men that a woman has sex with, the harder it is for her to pair bond and the weaker her pair bond will be.  This also applies to men but to a much lesser extent.  This results in a phenomenon where women “settle” in their 30s before their eggs expire, but they are generally very unhappy with their sub-par mate.  These Red Pill comics demonstrate the phenomenon described here, but please note that they are sexual and very crude in nature.  Also see here.

2 Andrew Tate’s lifestyle grifting for insecure men looking for a father figure, which incorporates dating tips, can be seen as a successor to this stuff.

3 Rollo I am less familiar with, although he seems quite unimpressive in 2023, encouraging men not to procreate and to focus on pure hedonism; his definition of “high value male” by “avoiding family creation” will likely leave one alone, sad, and giving off creepy-pervert vibes in older age, which is not a proper long-term definition of high value. His Twitter profile photo is of an old man pretending to be a young man while giving off Satanic imagery.

I think the idea of cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, is a beautiful thing. The concept of a decentralized, ledgerized blockchain currency, with limited and capped circulation (for Bitcoin; others like Ethereum are not), really is a novel and revolutionary idea that elegantly solves multiple problems plaguing fiat currencies: high inflation and declining purchasing power caused by infinite monetary printing, the risk of asset seizure by government, the ease of counterfeiting, cumbersome and time-delayed transmissibility, and the risk of the USD eventually losing reserve currency status.

It also solves a number of problems that plague gold and silver, which have been the historical alternative to fiat1: safety issues in storage and transportation (risk of theft and loss due to fire or otherwise), their inefficiency as a medium of currency, difficulty with divisibility, and the ever-present dangers of counterfeiting.

Despite these benefits, the argument presented herein is that the entire cryptocurrency space has been corrupted, including Bitcoin. While it is arguably controlled via governmental regulation over fiat on-and-offramps like Coinbase and by shutting down crypto-focused Signature Bank, the establishment has devised a brilliant workaround to the decentralized nature of the space and taken full control over it by creating what is essentially an unregulated central bank:

Tether.

Tether (USDT) is a cryptocurrency stablecoin putatively backed 1:1 with real U.S. dollars; it claims that each tether it prints is tied dollar-for-dollar to real currencies in its bank account or otherwise.

Tether was launched by the company Tether Limited Inc. in 2014. Tether Limited is owned by Hong Kong-based company iFinex Inc., which also owns the Bitfinex exchange. It was created as a workaround to laws governing the use of dollars in international transactions and is both unregulated and has never passed an audit.2

Tether has a current market cap of $83 billion, and has consistently had more daily trading volume than the rest of the top 10 cryptocurrencies combined. Tether, a 13 man company based in the Virgin Isles, claims to have the #5 cash balance in world:

1. Apple $202B (audited)
2. Google $169B (audited)
3. Microsoft $132B (audited)
4. Amazon $86B (audited)
5. Tether $83B (not audited)
6. General Electric $67B (audited)

In May 2021, Tether published a still-unaudited report showing that 2.9% of Tether was backed by fiat USD, with over 49.6% backed by commercial paper, and the remaining amount backed by other assets. The commercial paper market is a small market, though, and commercial paper traders had not heard of Tether’s commercial paper holdings despite Tether purportedly holding tens of billions of dollars of it. Tether itself refused to disclose whose commercial paper it was holding. Later Tether claimed to have reduced their commercial paper holdings. Previously, Tether Limited as of 2017 stated that owners of tethers have no contractual right, other legal claims, or guarantee that tethers can be redeemed or exchanged for dollars.

So what is the argument?

The contention herein is that most Tethers are unbacked, i.e. they have been printed out of thin air and then used to pump up or contract the cryptocurrency market cap at will; that the owners of Tether have done this for many years; and that the reason they have not been shut down or arrested by the authorities in the years since (despite a small, very lame 2019 New York Attorney General case; and despite multiple Tether affiliates going bankrupt and being criminally charged like the head of Crypto Capital Corp., the CFO of Celsius and Sam Bankman-Fried) is because they were either created or are fully sponsored by the CIA and NSA (and possibly the FBI). They possess what Rolo Slavsky calls a “krisha”, which is institutional protection. There is no other explanation that makes sense why Tether is still operational today.

These federal organizations likely use cryptocurrency for personal enrichment and for money laundering for their black operations. The core reason, however, and why they likely have had broad establishment support for this operation, must be because of this: to publicly stress-test blockchain technologies before central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are unleashed by governments, which will result in the greatest centralization and loss of individual freedom in human history.

For a deep-dive into Tether, see this 2019 deep dive by Patrick McKenzie, a software entrepreneur who worked for Stripe, who argues “Tether is the internal accounting system for the largest fraud since Madoff.” He followed up and doubled down in a November 2022 update. These articles are well researched and well argued, and very convincing. Revolver News also has an excellent analysis of Tether, calling it “FTX on Steroids”, as does Seeking Alpha. For daily updates on Tether, Bitfinexed on Twitter is a good resource.

See also this 2020 academic study by John M. Griffin and Amin Shams, who concluded:

By mapping the blockchains of Bitcoin and Tether, we are able to establish that one large player on Bitfinex uses Tether to purchase large amounts of Bitcoin when prices are falling and following the printing of Tether. Such price supporting activities are successful as Bitcoin prices rise following the periods of intervention. Indeed, even 1% of the times with extreme exchange of Tether for Bitcoin have substantial aggregate price effects. The buying of Bitcoin with Tether also occurs more aggressively right below salient round-number price thresholds where the price support might be most effective. Negative EOM price pressure on Bitcoin in months with large Tether issuance points to a month-end need for dollar reserves for Tether, consistent with partial reserve backing. Our results are most consistent with the supply-driven hypothesis.

Overall, our findings provide support for the view that price manipulation can have substantial distortive effects in cryptocurrencies. Prices in this market reflect much more than standard supply/demand and fundamental news. These distortive effects, when unwound, could have a considerable negative impact on cryptocurrency prices. More broadly, these findings also suggest that innovative technologies designed to bypass traditional banking systems have not eliminated the need for external surveillance, monitoring, and a regulatory framework as many in the cryptocurrency space had believed. Our findings support the historical view that dubious activities are associated with bubbles and can contribute to further price distortions.

These findings, to be fair, have been challenged by others, who have unknown financial incentives for their work.

Many sophisticated parties in the cryptocurrency space likely know and knew what Tether is and what it represents, but they have stayed quiet about it because they don’t want to ruin the primary driver of the industry’s price appreciation. And the masses don’t care; per Gustave Le Bon, “The masses have never thirsted after truth.  Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” The masses want and desire new, shiny, exciting narratives to fulfill the emptiness in their lives, and how dare the naysayers say otherwise! “Isn’t the feeling amazing when you have an adrenaline pump from investing in shitcoins with your online friends and watching prices double, triple, 10x in rapid succession! Wow, amazing! Let’s laugh at the ‘nocoiners’! What’s the next novelty – NFTs? So cool!”

The Sam Bankman-Fried FTX blowup, which excited the internet and talking heads for months, is minuscule compared to the size and scope of the Tether fraud.

If this contention is accurate, what the establishment’s control over the cryptocurrency space via Tether means is that they can pump or crash the entire crypto space at will. Although the total cryptocurrency market cap is currently over $1.1 trillion, the trading platforms are so illiquid that small amounts of purchases or sales can move the market and cause dramatic, oversized changes in market cap. They can pump prices 100x from here it crash it to near 0; but the decision is entirely theirs, artificially and not subject to market forces.

Globohomo now has the information they need for their CBDCs, which will be rolled out very soon. The CIA, NSA (and maybe the FBI) likely want to continue funding their black ops with crypto and continue their personal enrichment, but really, it’s impossible to know what their plans are for the space from the outside. So far it looks like they’ve been content with slowly deflating their massive fraud-bubble to minimize media scrutiny (BTC is currently at $27,000 when the peak was $65,000); one can imagine the story the Tether creators could tell if the whole thing collapsed and they risked imprisonment, and perhaps globohomo doesn’t want to just kill them off (or the Tether owners are smart enough to use dead-man switches).

Investment in cryptocurrency, then, is basically a risky bet surrounding globohomo’s plans without the insider knowledge necessary to turn the bet into a sure thing. It’s a sad thing, because the decentralized, transparent idea behind Bitcoin itself really is beautiful. But like everything else beautiful in this fallen world, incredible things one way or another seem to always get dragged down into the mud.

Gold and silver

That’s not to say that gold and silver are a panacea either. The establishment has suppressed their prices for decades via COMEX (and also via investment vehicles such as SLV) so the public does not view it as a real alternative to fiat; banks acting on their behalf have been regularly fined for price manipulation/suppression (examples here and here; interesting surrounding information on a dismissed antitrust lawsuit here).

But the silver and gold COMEX vaults have been quietly drained over the past couple of years, down over 32% and 41%, respectively, since January 2021:

It will be interesting to see how prices change as the COMEX vaults continue to drain. Ditch the Deep State on Reddit is an excellent resource to follow for daily updates.

There’s also an interesting argument that, compared to ancient times, silver is dramatically undervalued, comparing an interesting metric: the price of prostitution in silver from that period to the cost of it today.

On the other hand, the establishment could always make gold and silver ownership illegal like they did in the 1930s with Executive Order 6102, or try to crash the (silver) market like they did in 1980 with the Hunt Brothers, but attempts to crash the market would likely be met by other nations (both central banks and citizens) dramatically increasing their bullion holdings.

Ultimately, there’s no panacea with this stuff. Alternatives to fiat carry their own opportunities and risks, and one should do their own due diligence and do a gut check to arrive at a level of investment comfort that comports to their own worldview. But the story on cryptocurrency and Tether hasn’t been properly understood, and hopefully this post is helpful when making your investment decisions.

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1 “Gold Is Money, Everything Else Is Credit” is attributed to JP Morgan while testifying in front of Congress back in 1912 shortly before his death. Also see what resulted from de-coupling fiat from gold since 1971.

2 In its enforcement action, per Fortune Magazine, the CFTC said Tether failed to disclose that it held unsecured receivables and non-fiat assets as part of its reserves, and falsely told investors it would undergo routine, professional audits to demonstrate that it maintained “100% reserves at all times.” In fact, Tether reserves weren’t audited, the agency said.

I frequently make reference to the Demiurge, so I thought I would elaborate on what I mean by this.

At the core the question being explored is: how can the problem of evil be explained?1

The problem of evil is easy for most people to ignore when times are good; no one likes a pessimistic naysayer during easy times of plenty, according to Carl Schmitt.2 But times are bad and going to get much worse, so wrestling with this question is important. Religion and material prosperity have a strong inverse correlation; think about and do a gut check on what you believe now so you are better prepared before the harshness of a rapidly declining material reality surprises you and drives you to depression or despair.

There are a couple of basic approaches to address the problem of evil:

1. Evil is the absence of and distance from God, a necessary choice given to humans with free will (the standard Jewish, Christian and Muslim approach);
2. There is no God and we are here merely as a result of the Big Bang and evolution, and evil just kind of occurs just as good does (the atheist approach);
3. There is no evil, there is just nature’s laws which a distant, aloof non-interventionist God created and it is up to us as human’s to either abide by nature’s laws and live in harmony with them which will provide peace of soul, or stray from them which causes chaos and destruction (the pantheist approach); or
4. The unrelenting evil in the world is tied to a matter/spiritual duality, where an evil being is in charge of material reality and the good God is in charge of spiritual reality (the Gnostic, Bogomil, Marcionite, and Cathar approach).

There’s also a polytheist approach practiced by the Romans and Greeks, for example, where humans were just unlucky to fall prey to the whims of various Gods. But this hasn’t been in vogue in a couple thousand years (sorry, Julian the Apostate). Same with Zoroastrianism, which posited an ongoing war between Good and Evil with the battle represented on the earthly plane.

Let’s go through the four enumerated approaches briefly. I’m not a theologian and I don’t pretend this to be a conclusive overview — it’s just my understanding, and I’m open to growing and learning if you have something to add to it.

1. Some of the problems with the standard religious approach include (1) the evil that happens to children or invalids who do not have the opportunity to decide whether to get closer to the light or not. If people aren’t provided the opportunity to choose good or evil, how can this approach be correct? (One possible solution for this is to allow for reincarnation, but these religions generally frown upon it. Or they’re stuck in purgatory until the End of Times, which seems unsatisfactory). (2) Another problem with this approach is the nature of free will conflicts with the notion of God as omnipotent and omniscient – he would already know what people will choose, so how can that free will be anything but illusory? And how can Heaven and Hell exist without free choice? Nor does (3) it properly address the role of animal suffering in this formulation.
2. The problem with the atheist approach is: where did all the matter in the universe come from? If you took all the matter in the universe and stuck it in a giant ball, something outside of that ball (and the corresponding space/time) would have had to have created it. We would call such a creator God. To claim the Big Bang started creation is to beg the question of well, what created the Big Bang? The human mind balks at envisioning a forever static universe, or a universe with infinite Big Bangs; the mind demands cause and effect resting with a first cause. It’s also something engrained in humanity — there are no atheists in foxholes, most people intrinsically feel they have some sort of soul, and God exists among all the peoples of the world.
3. The problem with the pantheist perspective is it has a poor track record. Hitler was a pantheist and lost everything (if focusing on abiding by nature’s laws was bound for victory, shouldn’t he have won?), the philosopher Baruch Spinoza was a pantheist and he died young, likely from inhaling microscopic particles of glass as part of his job. Nietzsche was an admirer of Spinoza and of Heraclitus, and he realized that his world-affirmation came close to pantheism, and he went insane and spent the last 10 years of his life bedridden.It doesn’t disprove it, but pantheism is a lonely, cold universe with an absent God, and it doesn’t seem to work out so well for its believers, and it provides no comfort for the losers in a Darwinian struggle for survival.
4. Regarding the matter/spiritual duality approach, material reality does seem to be infused with evil. After all, the only way one can survive is by eating other living things — even plants want to grow, to expand, to become bigger and healthier and live longer (and they have natural defenses to help them do so). This is the core, base reality, it’s extremely Darwinian as much as we (or at least those with Christian ethics) hate to think about it. The universal commandment: Consume other things in order to live. And if we look at the scope of human history, it’s full of endless suffering, ever-increasing centralization and gradual loss of individual autonomy and privacy; the bad prosper while the good suffer. It is hard to believe that a loving, caring God would allow such a situation; a matter/spiritual duality, a split where the Demiurge is the malevolent creator and maintainer of material reality, and the God of goodness is in charge of spiritual reality does a better job of explaining this scenario than the standard approach.There are two types of matter/spiritual duality believers: in moderate dualism the Demiurge is ultimately subordinate to the spiritual God; in radical dualism God and the Demiurge just have their own realms and they are equal in power to each other.Under this matter/spiritual dualist approach, a soul reincarnates until it transcends the material desires that bind it to this realm; there is no Heaven vs. Hell (Hell is here on earth). Once it transcends these material desires, the soul ascends to rejoin the spiritual God and reincarnation is no longer necessary. It’s very Buddhist-like in this sense.

The matter/spiritual duality approach in history

The concept of the Demiurge has reappeared repeatedly throughout history, only to be ruthlessly suppressed by centralized authorities, because to deny the importance of material reality is inherently decentralizing: why strive for power, material possessions and control if material reality is hopelessly fallen and evil and if the goal of life is to return to the non-material spiritual God of goodness?3 This is why centralized authorities MUST crush this belief, because it threatens to undermine their power. Throughout history the Gnostics, the Bogomils and the Marcionites, followed by the Cathars have believed in the concept, and it offers a better explanation for the problem of evil compared to the traditional approach, which is why it always re-emerges in another form after being brutally suppressed.

The decentralized Cathars were brutally crushed by the centralized Catholic during the Albigensian Crusade, where 200,000-1,000,000 were murdered, many of them burnt to death, and then they were wiped out during the subsequent Inquisition. But does this not just prove the Cathar point about material reality being controlled by the Demiurge?

Each of these groups, to the extent they can be categorized (the Gnostics, for example, were not unified and had lots of different sects with different beliefs), believed that the God of the Old Testament represented material reality and the God of the New Testament represented spiritual reality. The Cathars did not even believe Jesus was a physical being; they thought he only had existed on the spiritual plane, and they denied the validity of the OT and much of the NT as well.

It is highly unlikely that we will receive a definitive answer to the problem of evil in this life. The most we can do is use our reason as best we can and then arrive at what we think is the most likely explanation for the world around us. For me, the older I get the more I see the matter/spiritual duality as properly reflecting what I see in the world, with evil infused in material reality and terrible incentive structures guiding human behavior (a ruthless Darwinian process to out-manipulate others or become prey; a tragedy of the commons with huge destruction of nature and extinction of species which is only speeding up; and if one closely studies our elites, its hard to conclude they’re not animated by some sort of active, creative and manifesting demonic influence, etc). A pure spiritual God who does not and will not interfere in the Demiurge’s control of this world unfortunately lines up with observable facts. Perhaps my views will evolve further in a different direction, but the regular drumbeat of terrible news, declining quality of life, and the horrors of reality itself have reinforced this to me so far.

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1 While “good” and “evil” are generally defined in slave-morality Christian terms, per Nietzsche, versus a “good” vs “bad” master morality perspective of the Romans, I believe there are some aspects of life that transcend such distinctions. For example, consider something like this: I think anyone would be hard-pressed not to consider such a vision to be a nightmare of horror regardless of perspective. The photographer apparently killed himself over it.

2 “Without wanting to decide the question of the nature of man one may say in general that as long as man is well off or willing to put up with things, he prefers the illusion of an undisturbed calm and does not endure pessimists. The political adversaries of a clear political theory will, therefore, easily refute political phenomena and truths in the name of some autonomous discipline as amoral, uneconomical, unscientific and above all else declare this- a devilry worthy of being combated.” ― Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political 

3 It’s the same reason why Buddhism is inherently decentralized; it’s focus on human suffering in the material world and the desire to reject and transcend it has much in common with this approach. Catharism has been compared to a western form of Buddhism.

I meant for this post to be pretty short, but its length quickly spiraled out of control – necessary, unfortunately, to cover all the angles presented herein. This Substack is supposed to be shorter form content; maybe for the next post!

Read on for an argument that the Russia/Ukraine war is fake (although the death and destruction is real) and controlled on both sides from forces above the putative national leaders supposedly fighting it.

The current state of affairs and lay of the land

Let’s start with the head of paramilitary org Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recently issued pointed, angry comments that Wagner, which is spearheading the assault on Bakhmut, will have to withdraw from the city imminently. According to Prigozhin, the Russian Ministry of Defense is deliberately undermining the war effort by supplying only 10% of the shells Wagner needs to take the city, which is also dramatically under-manned (per military doctrine, offensive forces need a 3:1 manpower advantage to assault reinforced defensive positions, and the attackers have 1:1 or less); that nearby Russian military units are also being deliberately sabotaged and undersupplied, and unverified reports that the long-rumored, long-delayed Ukrainian offensive is now beginning.

There’s been a year worth of chatter whether Russia will win the war and whether Russia is utilizing 4-D chess (as argued by Scott Ritter, MacGregor, Gonzalo Lira, The Saker, Andrei Martyanov (links provided with just a few of their many failed predictions), along with Russians with Attitude, Geroman, Zoka_200, War Monitor — whose combined track record is abysmal) or whether Ukraine will win with Western/NATO support (as argued by the Western media, the despicable neo-con outfit Institute for the Study of War, Michael Koffman, Rob Lee, U.S. Congress, the Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff).

Rolo Slavsky has been the only English language blogger arguing that Russian elite are deliberately sabotaging their war effort, although he believes it is due to the elite’s greed, incompetence and desire to stay in power, not as part of a broader scheme; and then there’s infamous doomer Igor Girkin/Strelkov on the Russian-language side – the first, loudest and most persistent critic of Russia’s war efforts.

The fog of war is really thick and propaganda abounds during war; from the outside it is extraordinarily difficult to separate fact from fiction.

Russia isn’t fighting the war very hard despite lots of death and destruction

There are some curious data points. Let’s go through some of them:

• Russia has been and continues to provide up to 40% of the fuel used by the Ukrainian army via Bulgaria.
• Large quantities of Russian oil and gas is still flowing through Ukraine to Europe.
• Russia has refused to destroy the Dniper bridges or key transportation hubs that Ukraine uses to supply its forces, despite them being among the highest value targets in a war, and the war is well over a year old now.
• Russia has refused to mobilize its economy for a war footing.
• Strelkov has offered an in-depth, razor-sharp list of dozens of questions for the government regarding either Russia’s inept or undermined performance during this war and in its lead-up. There have been no answers.
• Russia has not retaliated for the Ukrainian/Western assassinations against Alexander Dugin’s daughter or a number of other prominent non-governmental Russian patriots, and has deliberately avoided attacking the Ukrainian leadership.
• Russia has ignored enforcing many of its publicly proclaimed “red lines” that were subsequently breached including the Ukrainian attacks on the Crimea Bridge, attacks within Russia proper, America’s blowing-up of Nordstream 2, or even the drone attack on the Kremlin.

Outside of the war itself1, there are plenty of curious data points questioning the independence of the Russian leadership vis-a-vis globohomo itself:

• Putin has a World Economic Forum puppet as the head of the Russian Central Bank, renominating her after she sent $300-400 billion dollars abroad to get seized by the West.
• Russia continued investing multiple billions in the U.S. every month after the war started, without respite.
• According to blogger Stanley Sheppard, Russia’s central bank is privately owned by foreign parties who determine whether to expand or shrink its economy:“Exactly the right definition…”Washington consensus“. The term was coined not that long ago, back in 1989, and essentially means how finances of the third world countries should be managed. Initially it applied to South America, but as Soviet Union was dissolved, Russia was given the status like that of Brasil or Argentina. The consensus consists of the three core principles – manage population using Darwinian principles, tightly control money supply primarily by the means of high interest rates, do everything possible to prevent internal investments in the manufacturing sector or anything else working to develop own economy and to create a favorable internal investment climate. The extent to which this consensus is applied to countries varies – Russia gets one of the harshest treatments. Now the bigger question is, how and why Russian fiscal authorities during the all out proxy war are still compliant with imposed rules? This drives many people to conclusion that perhaps this is not a real war between Russia and the West, but a make believe conflict at the expense of Ukraine designed to achieve totally different goals vs. those pronounced by Putin last February.”
• Putin was and remains onboard with implementing globohomo COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. See here for detailed coverage.
• Putin is hard at work advancing central bank digital currencies.
• Putin’s initial rise within Russia was due to his support of the West and his willingness to let them pillage Russia. He severely undermined the pro-Russian populists in the Donbass and elsewhere in East Ukraine after the Maiden Revolution, offering little to no support, betraying pro-Russian patriots (see Strelkov’s comments) and the Russian Federal Security Services (FSS) likely assassinated a large number of Donbass leaders. What Putin and the Russian oligarchs fear the most, just like western leaders, is their own populists, far more than external enemies; they don’t want anyone to end their personal fiefdoms and grifts.
• In a 2017 interview, Klaus Schwab said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been recognized as a Young Global Leader, and also mentioned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “I have to say, when I mention now names, like Mrs. (Angela) Merkel and even Vladimir Putin, and so on, they all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister (Justin) Trudeau … We penetrate the cabinet. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders.” Klaus has mentioned Putin a second time as shown in the documentary Das Forum, which goes into behind the scenes footage of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. In the clip Klaus states “Mrs. Merkel, Tony Blair, even Putin, they were all Young Global Leaders before.”
• Putin fires prominent critics of Chabad.

I could continue listing more such data points, but that should be sufficient.

The fulfillment of globohomo objectives

We’ve demonstrated that Russia has undermined its own war efforts and that the Russian elite, especially Putin, are onboard with the World Economic Forum agenda, with a western-oriented central bank which loots the country.

One of the counter-arguments to this is as follows: the war is just to stall, the real war being fought is the economic war; de-dollarization led by Russia is undergoing, and the Russian economy has held up well to sanctions and the Ruble has also held up. But the signs are not encouraging: Russia’s much-hyped “de-dollarized trade” with India is a complete failure, and the strength of the Ruble is also going in the wrong direction in the past year.

Fair enough. Let’s now consider a couple of data points from the United States:

• The U.S. withdrew from its 20 year Afghanistan war only 6 months before the start of the Russia/Ukraine war. Is this not curious? One could imagine how much harder it would have been for the U.S. to supply Ukraine so unconditionally if it was still committed to fighting the Afghanistan war. Secretary of State Blinken admitted that aiding Kiev would have been “more complicated” without exit from Kabul.
• The U.S. always needs a Forever War in order to justify its military industrial complex’s enormous, black-hole graft and theft, and there was a question of what would fulfill that role after their 20-year “successful” (for their purposes) Afghanistan adventure. See this short clip of Julian Assange where he explains what the true purpose of Afghanistan was. The pivot to Ukraine smoothly continued the advancement of their objective perfectly. The Pentagon has never passed an audit and in 2013 it was estimated that $8.5 trillion dollars of Pentagon funds had been “lost”; see here for further insight into military industrial complex spending. The Senate approved the initial $40 billion Ukraine aid bill with no checks or balances on the aid (Rand Paul tried to insert a special inspector general to oversee the funds but failed), and there have also been many follow-up spends totaling additional tens of billions of dollars with additional funds from allies.  According to a CBS documentary only 30% of U.S. supplied arms/munitions reached its final destination. Roughly 10% of U.S. manufacturing output pre-war went into weapons production, or about $220 billion/year, so the money to be made is enormous.  Compare this with Russia’s total military budget, which in 2021 was only about $63 billion/year.

For the U.S. military industrial complex to so seamlessly shift from one Forever War to the next to continue their massive grift is indeed curious. What other globohomo objectives does the war fulfill? Here’s a partial list:

• It was designed to shift the media’s focus away from a flailing COVID narrative without allowing any of the perpetrators to pay for false fear-mongering, such as Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and the plethora of doctors, nurses, scientists, government and media organizations that pushed it not just nationally but worldwide.  By switching to the next Meta Narrative, the general population won’t have time to think about what had happened.
• It providing a “Russia’s at fault” excuse for politicians to shift blame for soaring inflation, which was fundamentally caused by the $11+ trillion dollars printed during COVID in the U.S. and had nothing to do with Russia:
• The war furthers the Great Reset agenda pushed by the World Economic Forum. Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe and one of the top exporters of grain worldwide, and the disruption caused by the war is causing food prices to soar.  This may in turn lead to starving refugee swarms from Africa into Europe, seen as a plus by the WEF to help crush populist discontent in western countries.  
• The amount of graft and kickbacks to American politicians is a significant portion of the aid supplied, with corrupt Ukraine politicians taking a cut and funneling much of the rest of the funds back into America, which is par for the course in Ukraine except in terms of the size of the graft.  Additionally Blackrock gets to buy up ultra-depressed Ukrainian assets for pennies on the dollar in coordination with Zelensky.
• The U.S. (and U.K.) achieves its objective of preventing Nordstream 2 from going online, which would have solidified longterm ties between Russia and Germany to the U.S.’s strategic detriment2, and even Nordstream 1 has been scuttled.  The U.S. blew up Nordstream 2 as conclusively proven by Seymour Hersh, which is a traditional casus belli for war by Germany; however, Germany has been unable to respond due to Germany remaining militarily occupied by the U.S. since the end of World War 2 (119 U.S. bases in Germany as of 2020).
• Globohomo gets to purge Ukraine of Russian influence by banning the Russian Orthodox Church and by banning all opposition parties.

So the war checks a lot of boxes and fulfills a lot of globohomo objectives. And it does these while Russia fights, in a grinding, plodding, expensive war (both in men, materials and funds) its own genetic and religious brethren in a country named “Borderland” in Russian. An argument can also easily be made that globohomo really wants to genocide white Christian slavs.

From all these standpoints, the war is a resounding success for our grifting elite.

So what should we expect moving forward?

I think it depends on whether globohomo decides to honor whatever backroom agreement it has with Russia’s leadership (an agreement that seems to involve furthering the central bank owner objectives in return for a guarantee that Russia’s elite can remain in power to continue their financial grifts indefinitely), or alternatively decides to abrogate the agreement and move in for the kill. The weaker Russia looks the more tempted out of greed and bloodlust (see Victoria Nuland’s record) they will consider a backstab and betrayal. Imagine how much richer the globohomo elite will get if they are able to conquer Russia, carve it up into small districts and brutally exploit its natural resources! How amazing it would be for them!

History shows they’re itching to do this; a history the corrupt Russian elite are studiously ignoring. This map shows the aggressive expansion of NATO eastward since the end of the Soviet Union3, with Finland the most recent addition:

If globohomo doesn’t abrogate its backroom agreement and go in for the kill, expect the war to last a long time – because they won’t want to give up a war fulfilling so many objectives, and the military industrial complex always needs its Forever War (although, to be fair, a January 2023 RAND study recommended a wind-down to pivot against war with China, but it looks like it’s being ignored; Tucker Carlson’s firing can also be viewed in this context as he was also arguing for a pivot to China, and the Pentagon was ecstatic to see him gone).

Interesting times are ahead.

Zooming out to the furthest perspective, this world is controlled by the Demiurge.

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1 One more point on war, but this time on the Syrian war. During the battle of Khasham in Syria in 2018 where “one hundred Syrian pro-government fighters were killed in the U.S. attack, prompting Syria to accuse the United States of carrying out a ‘brutal massacre’ of its troops”, per Rolo Slavsky’s post linking to an American special force account of the battle, the Americans during the battle called up their Russian counterparts and told them to turn off their anti-air missile defense system: “The Wagner mercenaries had a surface-to-air system that made it impossible for American aircraft to press the attack. Only after officials in Washington talked to their Russian counterparts did the surface-to-air system get shut down, allowing American aircraft to return and attack.” Per Slavsky’s post, Prigozhin publicly confirmed that a large number of Russian Wagner mercenaries were killed in the American attack. How does this make any sense without believing both sides are and have been controlled by the same forces?

Another example of otherwise inexplicable U.S./Russia collusion, this time decades prior, occurred when the Soviet Union assassinated the head of the John Birch society by blowing up the commercial flight he was on. James Perloff in his book “The Shadows of Power” explains:

“The Ultimate Coincidence

On September 1, 1983, the Korean Air Lines Flight 007, en route from Alaska to Seoul, was obliterated by air-to-air missiles from a Soviet interceptor. All 269 passengers and crew, including 61 Americans, were lost, Soviet fighters had trailed the plane for over two hours. Nearly all observers agreed that it could not have been shot down without top clearance from Moscow. The question was: Why did the Soviets do it? Why did they risk the inevitable backlash of world opinion to eliminate a harmless civilian airliner? There had to be something or someone on board important enough to make the consequences worth it. There was — someone all but ignored by the mass media: Dr. Lawrence Patton McDonald, member of Congress.

McDonald was the most dedicated anti-Communist on Capitol Hill. The Review Of The News noted: “From the time he took his oath of office in 1975 until the moment of his death, Congressman McDonald had systematically carried out a campaign against the Soviet Communists of a sort which no other U.S. elected official had ever done on his own.” Author Jeffrey St. John, in his book about he KAL 007 tragedy, Day of the Cobra, observed: “Congressman Lawrence McDonald had spent his entire career warning against the use of terrorism as an instrument of Soviet policy* particularly the use of the threat of nuclear war by the Kremlin as a weapon to paralyze the United States and its Western allies’ will to resist.” 3 McDonald was Washington’s most outspoken critic of trade and technology transfer to the USSR, He was the president and founder of the Western Goals Foundation, which produced books and videotapes on Soviet-generated terror and espionage. He had recently written a series of articles about Yuri Andropov and the KGB, Voting appraisals gave him the most conservative rating in Congress during his five terms in office. And most significantly, Lawrence McDonald was chairman of The John Birch Society — the world’s largest and most sophisticated anti-Communist organization. He was condemned in Pravda, Izuestia, and on Radio Moscow. Dr. Lawrence McDonald was, arguably, the Kremlin’s number one enemy.

The odds against such a man ‘just happening” to be on the flight the Soviets destroyed were astronomical. Yet the news media neglected the obvious potential significance. After the incident, a host of “experts” were called in who assured the public that there was no specific reason for the attack — instead, they explained , it was due to the generalized phenomenon of Soviet “paranoia concerning their airspace.” The following statement by Secretary of State George Shultz was typical:

“The answer to the broader question of motivation seems to lie in the character of the Soviet Union. There is a massive concern for security, a massive paranoia, and I think this act was an expression of that excessive concern over security.”

It should be noted that as chairman of The John Birch Society ( JBS), McDonald was not only an archenemy of the Soviet Union, but of the American Establishment — of which the JBS is the most vocal critic. For years, the Society has been intellectually at crossed swords with the CFR. Congressman McDonald even wrote the foreword to Gary Allen’s The Rockefeller File, in which he spoke out against “the drive of the Rockefellers and their allies to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent…”

When Lawrence McDonald established the Western Goals Foundation, its stated purpose was “to rebuild and strengthen the political, economic, and social structure of the United States and Western Civilization so as to make any merger with totalitarians impossible,” Such a merger now looms closer than ever before. When the CFR delegation paid a visit to Gorbachev and his minions in February 1987, one could only reflect on how timely McDonald’s removal was for the globalist vision.

Lawrence McDonald is dead, but his cause survives — and so does the organization he left behind.”

This account was semi-confirmed by Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, who expressed the opinion in 1983 that he wouldn’t be surprised if the Soviet Union had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in order to murder McDonald.

2 “The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.” George Friedman, STRATFOR CEO at The Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs

3 The expansion of NATO was a deliberate breach of verbal assurances provided by America to Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved that NATO would not expand eastward.  Russia also had ample precedent to intervene in Ukraine per the United States’s prior intervention in the Serbia/Kosovo war in contravention of international law.  But as Carl Schmitt argues, “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception” — and the decider of the exception when it comes to world politics is the United States, not Russia.

A 2013 4chan comment presciently describing the deliberate, controlled descent into neoliberal feudalism:

Under this system, the general population will get poorer and poorer, with more and more crime, homelessness and filth, until only the ultra-rich will be able to avoid being cast out into what is colloquially known as the “thunderdome” by living in armed, gated compounds, much like rich South Africans and Brazilians do today.  In the 90s a middle class Al Bundy type could afford a house, wife, kids on a shoe salesman budget:

Sure it was a television show, but it was representative and unremarkable for the time.

Today to have that lifestyle would cost $250,000 or more in most areas, which is 92% household income. Those requirements will only go higher over time, with more and more cast out ruthlessly into the thunderdome.

That top 8% will over time turn into top 0.8% and then into top 0.08%. What is left of the middle and upper-middle class today are servile, shirking slaves, putting their head in the sand as they desperately try to hold onto their quality of life without rocking the boat, studiously ignoring dissident politics and staying safely within the Overton Window. But almost all of these people are doomed and will be cast into the thunderdome sooner or later.

Once in the thunderdome, you will live in dirty, disgusting areas, surrounded by weird looking people with odd sounds, bad smells and an extremely heightened level of danger. You’ll hear the Islamic call to prayer blaring from speakers from a nearby mosque, which will be next to a new (but already becoming dilapidated) $100 million housing project. The demographics will be straight out of the cantina scene from Star Wars. Drugs and trash and hypodermic needles will litter the street, with a homeless tent on every corner. Your kids will learn nothing in school except to hate western civilization, their parents and how to turn into transsexuals. Police will do nothing about real crime, but are on alert to arrest you on any pretext at all.

Living in the thunderdome is and will be akin to Hell on Earth, and our globohomo overlords want it for everyone except themselves.

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