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Lessons From The Unraveling Of The Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization

Posted on August 1, 2023 by dgr

“The fragmentation, simplification and localization of the post-Imperial era offers us lessons we ignore at our peril. It’s important to view these lessons not just as an academic abstraction but as a guide to your own decisions about what places are most conducive to your security and well-being. Not every locale will do equally well, and the culture of many places may not be a great match for your own values and goals. If you decide to move, sooner is better than later.”

Source: Lessons From The Unraveling Of The Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization | ZeroHedge

Category: Analysis, Blog, economics, History, Politics, Words | Tags: governance, prepare, romans

Quest For Mu: 200,000-Year Old Sunken Pacific Continent

Posted on July 25, 2023 by dgr

This article provides some much needed background on the question of a Pole Shift, whether magnetic or physical. We’re definitely not in Kansas anymore. Preparing for what might come is not a bad idea. Heat, food, defence.

Evidence Of The Pole Shift

About 1885, Churchward found his way to Siberia and the valley of the Lena River. He was now looking for evidence of ancient cataclysms, which, if it could be found, would lend credence to the idea that an ancient, advanced civilization such as Mu could disappear. Churchward wanted to see the piles of mammoth bones and tusks washed up in tidal waves on the Lackoff Islands (The Islands of Bones) just beyond the mouth of the Lena. He was convinced by these giant piles of ivory and bones that a ‘pole shift’ phenomenon had occurred in the past, where the earth’s crust slipped several degrees toward the equator causing massive tidal waves to wash over portions of the earth and ultimately cause the sinking of entire continents such as Mu.

Source: Quest For Mu: 200,000-Year Old Sunken Pacific Continent

Category: Background Research, History, nature, Words | Tags: climate change, forgotten history, pole shift

The Native American Roots of the US Constitution – JSTOR Daily

Posted on July 7, 2023 by dgr

Really cool to consider and trace back. No fact check required.

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms. US Constitution Day is September 17th. Some of the sources informing its model of democracy were the Native tribal confederations the writers had encountered.

Source: The Native American Roots of the US Constitution – JSTOR Daily

Category: History | Tags: constitution

Points West Online: Seven Days in Glasgow with Buffalo Bill, 1904, Part 1

Posted on June 22, 2023 by dgr

Sunday, July 31, 1904

Following their departure from Dumbarton, a few miles to the west, the first of Buffalo Bill’s special trains steamed into the Caledonian Railway’s Gushetfaulds goods station in Glasgow’s Gorbals district on the south bank of the River Clyde. It was three-thirty in the morning; the remaining trains arrived shortly thereafter and unloading commenced at five. By seven-thirty, the whole impedimenta were in place and breakfast had been served, leaving the company free to enjoy its customary day of rest.

Three weeks after the Glasgow run, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West “advertising brigade,” pictured here, coordinated details for the Wild West’s venue in Ayr, Scotland, “the county town for where we live” says author Cunningham. This image is from the Harrison H. Gunning scrapbook; Gunning was at one time one of the Wild West’s advertising agents. Note attached reads: “The Buffalo Bill advertising brigade. H.H. Gunning on right. A Sunday outing in the land of Burns a trip to his birth place showing his monument & the Bridge of Doon is close by also the cottage where he was born. Ayr Scotland Sunday August 27 1904.”’

Source: Points West Online: Seven Days in Glasgow with Buffalo Bill, 1904, Part 1

Category: Blog, Cities, History, People, Words | Tags: Dumbarton, Glasgow, westerns

The Growing Consumer Revolt Against Woke Ideology

Posted on April 26, 2023 by dgr

Do you see what is happening here? We are watching the rise of genuine consumer awareness and hence sovereignty. The public is finally fighting back.

Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

It’s likely true: No executives at Anheuser-Busch knew what the Bud Light marketing people were planning when they decided to deploy an absurdist and deeply offensive transgender TikTok influencer to sell their beer. But soon after it happened, public disgust became rather obvious. The crisis began, but for weeks, the company was in denial.

A six pack of Bud Light sits on a shelf for sale at a convenience store in New York City on July 26, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Finally, the CEO made a statement that only infuriated people more, simply because it wasn’t an apology or even an honest admission of anything that was happening. It had that sterilized and robotic quality we’ve come to associate with government statements that pretend that all is well when everyone knows it isn’t.

Two weeks ago, the line about Bud Light on the streets was that the consumer protest would run the news cycle and then disappear, that the protests were limited to the “far right” and “conservative activists” but that most consumers don’t care either way. Every story in the mainstream media said the same thing. They further suggested that if you don’t drink Bud Light, you are likely a dupe of dangerous fanatics.

But here we are three weeks later and finally, the company stepped up again to address the growing meltdown. They put both the vice president of marketing and her boss “on leave,” which one supposes is a way of firing them while minimizing the legal liabilities and the sense that the company was facing a real crisis.

“Given the circumstances, Alissa [Heinerscheid] has decided to take a leave of absence which we support,” an Anheuser-Busch spokeswoman wrote in an email to The Wall Street Journal. “Daniel [Blake] has also decided to take a leave of absence.”

I just love that “given the circumstances” line.

Source: The Growing Consumer Revolt Against Woke Ideology | ZeroHedge

Category: Business, economics, History, Politics | Tags: corporate, gender, woke

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