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Open Thread #7, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Mar 16th 2023 8:17am EDTA new Open Thread, jump started with some eccentric disputes over theoretical physics and pure mathematics.
The Power of Racination vs the Weakness of Deracination, or the Tale of Two White Groups: The Racinating Jews and Deracinating European-Americans, by Jung Freud
The Unz Review - Mar 15th 2023 11:58pm EDTNotably since the end of World War II(though the process began earlier), white people in America could be lumped into mainly two groups. European-Americans(or ‘whites’) and Jews. Jews have long been considered as whites in the US even though most ‘full-blooded’ Jews(Ashkenazim) tend to be 50% Semitic. Indeed, many (white)Hispanics are more white than the…
Neocons Drain Meatball Ron’s Special Sauce After Anti-Ukraine Comments, by Andrew Anglin
The Unz Review - Mar 15th 2023 6:07pm EDTAs I explained in some detail yesterday, when people very unpopular with Republican voters attack Ron DeSantis, they are actually promoting him. When people see people who they consider enemies attacking someone, they assume that person must be an ally – because an enemy of an enemy is a friend. This is most obvious with…
Russia Shot Down a US Drone on Their Border Because They Hate Democracy (Anal Child Fisting/Who We Are), by Andrew Anglin
The Unz Review - Mar 15th 2023 7:36am EDTRussia is a hostile actor pushing for war. Why else would they be defending their border from US military incursions? Everyone knows that the US is purely good, it is metaphysically good, and everything that it does is always good. If the US military is on your border, it is only there to do good…
The Cover-Up Begins, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Mar 14th 2023 8:53am EDTThe disinformation service, Bloomberg, takes the lead. Bloomberg points its finger at Donald Trump and “Trump era deregulation.” In Bloomberg’s rewriting of history, Trump is responsible because he signed a bill passed by Democrats and Republicans that allowed mid-sized banks to “skirt some of the strictest post-financial crisis regulations.” So, where was the federal reserve?…
It Seems Putin Is Unwilling, or Lacks the Force, to Quickly End the Conflict Before the West Can Arm and Train the Ukrainians with More Powerful Weapons, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Mar 14th 2023 8:43am EDTRussian forces continue to be limited to skirmishes inside small towns while the West prepares a new Ukrainian army. Is the cause of this Kremlin blunder mindlessness or, as some patriotic Russian nationalists say, hollowed-out Russian military infrastructure resulting from cost-saving measures. Again, where is the Russian Army? Is there one? If there is not,…
Interfering in Elections?, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Mar 14th 2023 12:00am EDTA week ago an interesting story surfaced briefly in the news about how the developing Republican presidential candidate bids by Nikki Haley and others had been attacked over the past eleven months by possibly as many as hundreds of thousands of false automated personas, referred to in the trade as “bots,” on Twitter and other…
The Conspiratorial Style in American Politics, by Jung Freud
The Unz Review - Mar 13th 2023 10:42pm EDTHistorian Richard Hofstadter wrote a landmark essay(followed by a book) on the ‘Paranoid Style of American Politics’. Being a good Jewish Liberal, his target was the American Right even though the ‘paranoid style’ was as pervasive on the American Left as on the Right. It really came down to which side held the prestige and…
The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami, by Ellen Brown
The Unz Review - Mar 13th 2023 6:09pm EDTOn Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its bankruptcy was the second largest in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” (SIFI) as defined in…
Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up, by Michael Hudson
The Unz Review - Mar 13th 2023 10:46am EDTThe collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse of supporting shelving is the rising temperature of interest rates, which spiked last Thursday and Friday to close at 4.60 percent for the U.S. Treasury’s two-year bonds. Bank…