Definition per Merriam Webster:
1: the act of looting or plundering especially in war

2: something taken as booty

h/t WRSA

No surprise there …

Whoever is pulling the strings of the Short Fat Trump is going to have to accept the fact that the two choices are between a) abandoning Israel to its self-chosen fate, whatever that might be, or b) suffering an abject defeat in the Middle East now that Israel is attempting to drag the US military back into another round of war with Iran.

It’s obvious that Israel wanted to reignite the war, for exactly the same reason they started it. Their odds of avoiding complete defeat are better if the US and its bases are taking the majority of the damage. The interesting question is: why did they restart it via attacking Lebanon? I think there are two reasons.

1. If they are going to take any new territory, it’s going to be in southern Lebanon.
2. Striking Iran directly means strikes on all the US military bases in the Gulf States again, and there is a real risk of either the Gulf States kicking out the USA or the USA voluntarily withdrawing its forces and leaving Israel to fight Iran alone.

Given the desperate way in which Trump is shouting “Peace is at hand” in direct contradiction to the evidence, I don’t think it’s a guarantee that the US military fully engages in this round. But if it does, I expect things to go even worse for both the US and Israeli militaries, although Israel does appear to be doing better against Hezbollah since the ceasefire started.

Continue reading Vox Popoli …

I believe that the Israeli decision to attack Beirut had one objective… force the Iranian hand in launching an attack on Israel in hopes of bringing the US back into the war and sabotaging any chance for Trump to sign a Pakistani peace deal with Iran. So far, the Israelis have failed. Donald Trump is staying on the sidelines for now, which has sparked mass hysteria among the neo-cons and Zionist fanatics.

Continue reading Sonar21 …

There will never be peace if Israel is involved. So much for Trump’s assertions that he is in control earlier today.

A Brief Overview of Folkishness Before 1945

The word “folkish” has seen an uptick in popularity in the English-speaking world in recent years. Although folkishness remains a minority position, the number of people who associate themselves with it is growing. Yet there is not much material in English that could provide an accessible overview of the original German folkish movement and its ideas in a manner which does not simply treat it as a subject for critique. It is hoped that this essay will go some way towards correcting that. Although I will touch on historical matters, this is not a history. It is an attempt to reconstruct the basic features of the folkish worldview and introduce some of the key thinkers and organisations. The essay will proceed from an outline of fundamental folkish concepts to their application to various fields, such as history, culture, politics, and religion. None of the accounts are exhaustive, but they should be sufficient to give the reader a working understanding of what the folkish worldview was before 1945 and what its implications were for life.

The Völkische Bewegung (folkish movement) originated in late 19^th century Germany, but it did not emerge sui generis. Its founders drew upon several earlier ideological currents. Three in particular stand out: German Romanticism, German nationalism, and biological and racial theories developed from the late 18^th century onwards. German Romanticism was a source of many central ideas, including holism, organicism, a scepticism of Enlightenment rationalism, a respect for myth and tradition, and the conviction of the spiritual emptiness of modern civilisation. 

The distinctive core of the folkish worldview during this period was a preoccupation with the idea of a folk (Volk). A folk may be defined provisionally as a group sharing common ancestry, language, culture, and collective consciousness. Examples include the German folk, the French folk, and the English folk.

Importantly, there was no single religious approach in the folkish movement, although almost all of the leading figures were religious in some way. 

Continue reading …

From the essay: Chamberlain explained every great achievement of Western civilisation with reference to the quality of the racial stock at any given place and time. Rome ultimately fell because of “racial bastardisation”, Rome being a “cloaca gentium” or “drain of the peoples”. He speaks of a time when

“…the people of ancient Rome had disappeared from the face of the earth and Rome was merely the administrative centre of a nationless mixture; whoever speaks of Rome talks of the chaos of races.”

Now consider the USA in 2026 … See the similarity?

7th June – Day 99 – Iran Retaliates

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Around 8 pm (GMT) some ‘settlers’ were looking at the sky and seeing Iranian missiles being launched at them. The first wave of attacks was reported over Haifa. Some say that Khorramshahr missiles are being used and are hitting the whole of Northern occupied Palestine; Jerusalem and Haifa.

The Commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters demanded:

The Zionist army must stop its attacks on southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs; and if it expands its attacks on that region, or responds to the Iranian action, it will face more crushing and regrettable strikes, and destructive attacks will be launched against the entity and its protectors.

Continue reading …

As of this post, there have been a total of five waves of ballistic missile strikes on Israel. Spicey times in the Middle East.

We will see two major events unfold tonight. The Iranian attack on Israel for breaking the Lebanese ceasefire and the economic impact from Friday’s routs on markets, crypto and precious metals. If the theory holds up that the routs were due to Japan’s yen collapse, we will know early and the Western markets will be impacted on Monday.