Tag: nuclear weapons

Harmonie London

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Delivery for Airstrip One!

America and Great Britain were trading together long before Sir Winston Churchill minted the phrase “special relationship” to describe the transatlantic accord. (It wasn’t Reagan or Thatcher who came up with that one, as is commonly supposed; they just pulled the term out of mothballs). Some American imports were and still are loved in Britain: pre-woke Hollywood, jazz, the great American novel, actually preparing food rather than just killing it and eating it with mushy vegetables. The list is extensive. (more…)

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Alexander Adams
Masters of Art: Dalí
Munich: Prestel, 2023

Take me. I am the drug; take me, I am the hallucinogenic. — Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (more…)

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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Israel’s Suicide Solution,” on Israel’s open threat to the world to take all the rest of us down with them if it ever seems likely that they’re not going to get what they want. (more…)

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What if the world were to end in a thermonuclear firestorm ignited by the only nuclear power on Earth that’s too dishonest to admit it has nuclear weapons? (more…)

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The recent film Oppenheimer brought a renewed interest in the history of atomic espionage. The names certainly echo throughout history: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, David Greenglass, Morton Sobell, William Perl, Harry Gold, and more. Then there are other notables, more obscure but whose activities were considerably more damaging than the above-named. One was known in the Venona decrypts — a batch of intercepted Soviet cable traffic in the 1940s — by the codenames FOGEL and PERS. It still remains a mystery who “Perseus” really was, but this might have been Oppie himself, among other possibilities. (more…)

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Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite living directors. The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk are all big, eye-catching Hollywood spectacles, but with a difference. They are highly imaginative, deal with serious themes, have compelling dramatic conflicts, and are often quite moving. Nolan is not particularly politically correct, either. Granted, his last film, Tenet — with its ludicrous Affirmative Action Hero — was a major disappointment. But with Oppenheimer, he returns to form.

Oppenheimer has a highly literate script with important ideas and powerful dramatic situations, striking visuals without digital hokum, and superb performances from a vast cast. (more…)

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Michael Malice
The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
Independently Published, 2022

What a joy to open this book and find that whatever the author’s White Pill is supposed to be, it somehow involves Ayn Rand (AR). It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand (1971, by Jerome Tuccille) was the name of an actual book that came out when I was in my teens and going through my own brief Objectivist period. The book is a funny saga about the author’s time as a militant libertarian. (more…)

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the public was very aware of the risks.

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See also: A European View on the War in Ukraine, The Correct White Nationalist View of the Ukraine War, The Truth About the Euromaidan

Part of the ongoing narrative about the ongoing Ukraine War is the idea that it is analogous to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Believing this analogy means one thinks this conflict can be resolved by hard thinking, a bit of compromise, and several diplomatic cables. (more…)

Harvey Weinstein’s guilt or innocence in his rape trial may be decided by the appearance of his savagely deformed genitalia.

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Election Rigging? Kanye West Wins “Anti-Semite of the Year” Award, but the Year Isn’t Even Over Yet

Hardworking anti-Semites worldwide are crying foul that black rapper Kanye West won the coveted “Anti-Semite of the Year” award from watchdog group StopAntisemitism on December 11. Without explanation, the award was issued 20 days before the year actually ended, prematurely thwarting all other anti-Semites’ valiant attempts to best Mr. West at the ancient art of Jew-hatred. (more…)

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Elon Musk insinuates that investing in SpaceX is good because colonizing Mars can be a hedge against something destroying life on Earth. This seems like far-sighted wisdom, but Musk often frames things as a forgone conclusion to induce people to invest in his businesses. (more…)

Barry Goldwater

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Lionel Lokos
Hysteria 1964: The Fear Campaign Against Barry Goldwater
New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1967

The 1964 election was a critical contest. That year was a transitional one between the two social revolutions of the 1960s. (more…)

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“The [scariest] shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” — Albert Allen Bartlett

To procreate, people need to be sociable enough to meet someone and decisive enough to choose them. Similarly, to make money they need to pick a career and shut out all other options. Such people excel in getting into power and then idiotically doing nothing as the world collapses around them. (more…)

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Greg Johnson did a new solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)