Fixing Syria — Take Five

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). FWIW, my best inference at this time: CIA-State desired to arm and…

To Exit Afghanistan And Drugs

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies, Fascists, who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Most timely, Sir Winston Churchill, twenty three years of age, on…

CIA / FPE / IC / Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Has anyone seen or heard from Abu Baker Al-Baghdadi — aka Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim…

China And Iran: A Strategic Hunch

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors. This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment and intelligence community. The following is a hunch.  I have no direct or circumstantial evidence to support…

It Was ChiComs All Along

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA I have no direct and no clear circumstantial evidence for this assertion of fact.  I have anecdotal evidence which requires pattern recognition and intuition, which NCIS’s writers call Gibbs’ gut. The assertion of fact I make in these circumstances is: It has been ChiComs all along. That includes today’s wheeze invoking Ukraine.…

Spengler On China Strategics

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Spengler: We Need Our Mojo Back Vis-à-Vis China Spengler (David P. Goldman, Banker) is cogent as always.  He vacillates between hand-wringing and triumphalism, through the years.  This essay runs in the former type.   Lots of China experience.  Competent theologian.  Strategic interests and wisdoms.  Appreciates Augustine, as I Maimonides. Eight things stand out…

11 September 2001, A Reminder

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Never Forget How U.S. Intelligence Failed You. If George W. Bush had been a better, braver, man, he would have recognized that new reality instead of creating the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security.  But both the Democrats and the establishment Republicans are heavily invested in making ordinary Americans feel powerless…

Presidential Executive Order, 10 September 2019

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Executive Order on Modernizing Sanctions to Combat Terrorism Good, the EO I mean.  State and Treasury ordered to work to the same end as DOD and just as assiduously.  Exceedingly late but happily received news.  That rationality can do wonders.  Diplomacy, Finance, and War-Fighting are the three assets of statecraft. (I know,…

Leader Development Discussion Two

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Looking For Trouble The Theologian And The Soldier: Two Fighters For One Freedom Is freedom something you have to take, something you have to make, something you have to earn, something you have to ask for, something someone has to give you, something you have already, something you are already?  Which is…

The Manichaean Madness

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA The Judeo-Bolshevik, The Queer, and The Fabulist illustrate The Manichaean Madness.  Each in their own way conjures The Devil, summoning hosts of demonic force, and leaving in their wake chaos. It is under notice (and here) that the permanent bipartisan fusion party (aka D-R UniParty) is breaking apart if not into pieces under…

Stephen Kotkin

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA This guy gets it. Communists are driven by, drive with, and drive to the Devil’s ideals. First Fascism, then Communism.  Fascism is the means, Communism the goal.  Crony capitalism is the necessary first step, global governance is the wonderful last step, into glorious everything. Not power, not money, not even sex motivates…

Thandava – XXVI

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Everything will be wonderful after I have everybody’s money. Socialism is envy with a mouth and marketing. Joshua Philipp: On Marxism in America, the Communist China Threat, Unconventional Warfare and Hong Kong Dated 03 August 2019, Superb Hour-Long Video Interview Cults obey a definable pattern: a nub of truth and a monster…

Linked National Sovereignties Replace Containment

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA The benefits accruing to systems upon a decentralization of their structures of command and control are oft-remarked and well-evidenced.  The diminishments visited upon systems by a centralization of their structures of command and control are, as well, oft-remarked and well-evidenced. Modern man, shot-through as he is with dazzlement before opportunities inhering in…

Thandava – XXV

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA John Hinderaker: These days, it seems that pretty much all of our cultural indicators are pointing downward. I commented: Perhaps.  Seems is a caveat, as you know.  More than that, The Almighty’s arithmetic is not the same as ours and He is unaccustomed to miscalculating. What was the line, a step or…

The Triple Thread – Hegel, Heisenberg, Gödel

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT On 06 November 2014 I posted under title The Triple Thread Of Life. This post comprises improvisation upon a theme created as a thesis by a student of my acquaintance. Hegel said that…