Bracketing

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000   RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I suggest the concept of bracketing trouble-makers/hegemons (China, Iran, NORK, Salafis) with the geo-strategic weight of fresh arrays of significant allies.  The allies are those under threat who can be made to…

Thandava – XXII

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000   RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klP5dwGh88U Selwyn Duke: Killing Nationalism: Merkel Says Nations Should Give Up Sovereignty VDH: Our Exhausted American Mediocracy The 2016 election and refutation of the ruling class did not signal that those without such…

Thandava – XIX

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I find that where theologians tend to be refined but not clever, attorney’s tend to be clever but not refined.  Perhaps somewhere in there there is room for alliance, as in days of…

Strategics First, Then Tactics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT USA General and Flag Officers engage in dereliction of duty, again. They treat strategic problems as tactical problems in order to avoid responsibility commensurate with their rank and mission. Avoiding responsibility for strategic…

Five Eyes, Reconfigured

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In the movie Patton, George C. Scott, playing General George S. Patton — addresses a gathering of ladies at an English village.  He announces, among other things, that England and The United States…

Eyes West

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT … that energy extraction strategy alone would have put Papadopoulos in opposition to the interests of Obama, Clinton, Turkey, Qatar and ultimately Iran and Russia. Clinton/Obama/Alexander Downer all were involved in the rival…

Forever Wars

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT VDH on the Syria pullout Rogerjb comments: God, are these Forever Wars in fact going to last forever?  Syria is a country of no significance to American interests.  But neocons are happy to…

Radical

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT These actions and statements demonstrate that she’s too radical to remain as EEOC commissioner. A linguistic quibble which is no doubt hopelessly ineffective yet merits repetition: radical means rooted, as in, rooted in…

Americans

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This speaks for itself: Baruch Pletner: The Hi-Tech Traditionalist: Judge Sullivan Was Right There is something unseemly, obscene, and yes, treasonous in a three-star general, a senior intelligence officer in the US military, engaging…

COCOMs And The Global Allied Force

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICITSOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Paul Tillich Shrine, New Harmony, Indiana, Thanks To Jane Blaffer Owen This post comprises the stub of an idea and a few more and less related pithy sayings. The idea arises from my observing…

The Liturgy Is The Kerygma

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Self: Ever seen this?: The Liturgy Is The Kerygma. Interlocutor: Not in those words, but the work of the people is to proclaim the Good News.  I like [that] because it spreads the…

Who Is Right And Who Is Wrong? — Take Two

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Democrats cannot gain power without lying, cheating, and stealing. Republicans cannot maintain power without prosecuting Democrats. Who is right and who is wrong? Democrats make war. Republicans prosecute war. Who is right and…

Atheist Clergy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A writer named Joe Schaeffer contributes as National Correspondent at Liberty Nation.  Matters religious often catch his eye and command his fingers, as in Progressive Christianity Embraces Atheist Minister. He writes: What Vosper calls…

Political Philosophy: The Orders Of Human Society

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Aspire to a very high elevation of character. Cadet Thomas Jonathan Jackson Every nation is divided into four orders: The Brutish The Selfish The Un-Selfish The Self-Sacrificing The supreme law of a nation —…

Thoughts For COCOMs: Force Vector Study One

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In view of trade and monetary policy underway from the Trump Administration, and in view of my stated intention to develop a series of posts commending attention to COCOMs as a if not…

A Dharma Gap

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT It’s just so transparently hypocritical to have one standard for a person you are investigating and an entirely different standard for yourself when you are the one who’s enforcing the law. Dharma is…