Thandava – XVI

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT There follows a print version of The Video Parlor: simultaneous unique feeds contouring an art of life. I think colonialism and its several kinds, what works and what does not and why, is ready…

Freedom -> Theology -> Religion -> Culture -> Politics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go.…

Damno Ecclesiis: Child And Adult Human Traffickers They Are

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Today the inimitable Sundance made a point with clarity of language I did not have when, four years ago, I condemned ecclesial aide and comfort to criminal entry upon The United States of…

Spengler Sees It

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT USA-Russia alliance, that is.  He calls it rapprochement.  Many of the comments are negative.  Some are accusatory.  Mine is grateful: So many points hit the mark, I’ll stick to inviting view of the yet…

Fixing Syria — Take Four

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This is my fourth take on fixing Syria.  The previous three are Fixing Syria — Take One (06 April 2017), Fixing Syria — Take Two (22 October 2017), and Fixing Syria — Take Three (15 February 2018).…

Wealth And Energy Beget Repose

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT We have noted that the wealth of a nation is her land (geography), families (morality) and constitution (system of law).  A nation’s wealth is the root, branch and fruit of her sovereignty.  Yet,…

Wealth, Sovereignty, And Strategic Concern

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The wealth of a nation is her land (geography), her families (morality) and her constitution (system of law), in that order.  Her land is a nation’s general, latent wealth.  Her families and constitution…

A Coup d’œil Of Russia And …

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Richard Fernandez (Wretchard) has been a solid strategic read for years.  Since the advent of the Trump Administration, much less so.  In fact, not at all. He treats now, as always, of important…

The Indo-Pacific: Purely Social, Meaning, Purely Political

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Regarding the Indo-Pacific Region, I want to jot down some thoughts regarding the weak points of China’s defense perimeter, namely that perimeter’s hinges.  These should be taken as preliminary considerations rather than final…

Fixing Syria — Take Three

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This is my third take on fixing Syria.  The previous two are Fixing Syria — Take One (06 April 2017) and Fixing Syria — Take Two (22 October 2017). This time I want…

USA Grand National Strategic Objective — Take Three

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Robert E. Lee’s mother wrote at length once to her sister, concluding with the observation that her letter was long because she did not have time to be brief. I feel…

No More Secrets, No More Boundaries

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT No More Secrets, No More Boundaries Means No More Freedom Martin Luther said he is the freest of men because he is the most bound of men.  He meant, bound to…

Christmas In Tibet

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT America faces west.  Asia is America’s west.  The vector of American expansion — expansion is life, contraction is death — points west.  It always has.  It came west from Europe and…

The Cold Ferocity Of The Anglo-Celt

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT It has been better than many years since the world at large took note of the cold ferocity of the Anglo-Celt and his Germanic cousin.  Governments around the world have remained…

Theological Ground Of National Sovereignty

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A PDF version of this post is available here. National sovereignty is a sweet fruit tree who grows in the rich, blood-soaked soil of freedom by imbibing the power of rivers…

Rolling Up The Devil’s Network — The Deep State Is The CIA

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Saints have prayed and pleaded, God has heard and heeded.  The habiliment of manhood is the habit of penitence. Kurt Schlichter felt the earth moving in the USA on 21 November…