Weimar America

From AM Greatness.com (Dec. 4, 2023):

Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.

At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.

The subtext was that the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.

Hundreds of such incidents are now occurring on a daily basis—as the country is leaving its Weimar phase and heading at warp speed into normalizing Jew-hatred and worse. Instructors singled out Jewish students in classes at UC Davis and Stanford. Pro-Hamas students ripped down posters, swarmed public buildings, and disrupted traffic.

A pro-Israeli demonstrator in Los Angeles was hit on the head and killed by a pro-Palestinian university professor.

Jewish students were trapped in a Cooper Union university library surrounded by pro-Hamas demonstrators. At MIT, Jewish students were warned to keep away from particular areas of the campus deemed dangerous for them.

What would happen to a university president who warned black or Latino students to keep clear of areas where she could not guarantee their safety from other students?

A bankrupt media deserves much of the blame. They daily broadcast Hamas’s suspect casualty figures, as if that terrorist organization has ever been capable of speaking the truth.

The Western news regurgitated “500 dead at a Gaza hospital,” due to a supposedly deliberate Israel bombing. In fact, the hospital parking lot was hit by an errant Islamic Jihad missile intended to kill civilians in Israel.

No matter—few reporters apologized for spreading Hamas-fed misinformation, despite the previous Hamas lies that they never harmed civilians, that tunnels were not beneath hospital grounds, that they did not murder 1,200 Israelis; or their lies that Hamas gunmen do not rape, when they engaged in mass rape on October 7.

The media normalizes Hamas’s atrocities by treating it as if it were an ordinary government, not a murderous terrorist clique that decapitates civilians, takes children as hostages, and mutilates those it slaughters. That the terrorist organization has kidnapped at least ten American citizens and killed perhaps another 31 is lost on the “journalists,” many of them Americans who could care less about the fate of their fellow citizens.

The media fixates on the Israeli response to mass murder, but rarely the mass murder of 1,200 Israeli civilians that prompted the current war. During ceasefires do Israeli terrorists drive into Gaza cities, and shoot and kill innocent civilians—and then brag, as did Hamas recently, that such murdering will only increase? [read more]

Another interesting (and possibly unnerving) essay by VDH.

The Revivalist Manifesto Is a Blueprint for America

From Duggan Flanakin on Townhall.com (July 9, 2022):

Last October when I had lunch in Baton Rouge with Scott McKay, the first of his op-eds championing an American revivalism had just appeared in The American Spectator. There, he had proclaimed that Bush Republicanism was effectively dead, that “conservatism” had been quite unsuccessful at conserving anything, and that Trump was a John the Baptist figure who had set the table for the coming revival.

My appetite for Scott’s vision grew rapidly as he published a follow-up article a month later. Since there was little left of the Founders’ vision left to “conserve,” it was time, he said, to move from passive, defense-minded conservatism to an activist, offense-minded revivalism.

“We need,” he admonished us, “to push back against the incompetence and treason which have encroached upon our liberty and prosperity, and we need a reflowering of the cultural, economic, and political patrimony our forebears gave us.”

Reviving the American spirit, and the American nation, he suggested, should rest on four major tenets. First, too much government makes stealing easier than earning a living, as government power is both corrupt and self-protective. Second, government is representative not of the people but of the interests with access; thus, revivalism should shore up civil society to revitalize long-dormant self-functioning communities.

Third, as we cede more power to government, it corrodes nearly every institution in our culture. Revivalists, therefore, must foster creation of an effusive culture not subject to government control or intervention, one that replaces the greatly decayed educational, entertainment, and informational (media) institutions.

Finally, McKay said, revivalists must stop allowing abuses by corporatist oligarchs (whose power is akin to that of government) and bring forth a new anti-corporate capitalism that can bring prosperity across the board. Stop defending low tax rates for monopolistic corporatists who exercise their wealth and power in support of their government partners. [read more]

A great blueprint for saving the country.

UChicago scientists discover way to make quantum states last 10,000 times longer

From UCChicago.edu (Aug. 13, 2020):

If we can harness it, quantum technology promises fantastic new possibilities. But first, scientists need to coax quantum systems to stay yoked for longer than a few millionths of a second.

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems to stay operational—or “coherent”—10,000 times longer than before. Though the scientists tested their technique on a particular class of quantum systems called solid-state qubits, they think it should be applicable to many other kinds of quantum systems and could thus revolutionize quantum communication, computing and sensing.

The study was published Aug. 13 in Science.

“This breakthrough lays the groundwork for exciting new avenues of research in quantum science,” said study lead author David Awschalom, the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering, senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange. “The broad applicability of this discovery, coupled with a remarkably simple implementation, allows this robust coherence to impact many aspects of quantum engineering. It enables new research opportunities previously thought impractical.”

Down at the level of atoms, the world operates according to the rules of quantum mechanics—very different from what we see around us in our daily lives. These different rules could translate into technology like virtually unhackable networks or extremely powerful computers; the U.S. Department of Energy released a blueprint for the future quantum internet in an event at UChicago on July 23. But fundamental engineering challenges remain: Quantum states need an extremely quiet, stable space to operate, as they are easily disturbed by background noise coming from vibrations, temperature changes or stray electromagnetic fields.

Thus, scientists try to find ways to keep the system coherent as long as possible. One common approach is physically isolating the system from the noisy surroundings, but this can be unwieldy and complex. Another technique involves making all of the materials as pure as possible, which can be costly. The scientists at UChicago took a different tack.

“With this approach, we don’t try to eliminate noise in the surroundings; instead, we “trick” the system into thinking it doesn’t experience the noise,” said postdoctoral researcher Kevin Miao, the first author of the paper.

In tandem with the usual electromagnetic pulses used to control quantum systems, the team applied an additional continuous alternating magnetic field. By precisely tuning this field, the scientists could rapidly rotate the electron spins and allow the system to “tune out” the rest of the noise.

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“This approach creates a pathway to scalability,” said Awschalom. “It should make storing quantum information in electron spin practical. Extended storage times will enable more complex operations in quantum computers and allow quantum information transmitted from spin-based devices to travel longer distances in networks.” [read more]

Acceleration: The Next Dangerous Stage

From Glenn Beck.com (Jan. 26):

For a long time, we treated political violence like a weather event: rare, localized, tragic--then over. But law enforcement and researchers have been warning for years about a mindset that is different from normal extremism. It's not "I want my side to win."

It's "I want the system to break."

This mindset has a name: accelerationism.

This is exactly what is happening in Minnesota right now. It's moved beyond peaceful protest; it's even moved beyond "mostly" peaceful protest. Things have begun to accelerate.

"Accelerationism"--right or left--has a recognizable logic. It is a rising ideology that believes society is corrupt beyond repair. Institutions are illegitimate. Chaos is a tool. Violence is an accelerant. That's not a theory. That is an observable ideological pattern across multiple movements and decades. The key change in the last several years is this: it's more connected than it used to be. It is not necessarily more disciplined It is not necessarily bigger in raw numbers. But it is more connected--more quickly mobilized--more capable of spreading tactics, targets, and narratives. Accelerationism is going mainstream. That changes the risk profile.

The second fact: The line between "protest" and "insurgent behavior" is being tested,

Protest is protected. Even loud, offensive protests that make you furious.

But there's a line that every stable society must defend, or it ceases to be stable. That line is crossed when groups begin to coordinate to obstruct lawful operations as a strategy. not an accident. They track or identify government personnel for intimidation. They build parallel communications networks specially designed to evade accountability. They justify targeting state actors as morally necessary.

Those are not theoretical markers. They are historically recognizable markers. When those behaviors appear. the question is no longer. "Is this a demonstration?" The question becomes: "Is someone trying to build veto power over law enforcement through fear?" Because once a movement believes it can control outcomes by making enforcement too costly--too dangerous--too politically 1'adioactive-then law becomes optional. And when law becomes optional, the next step is not persuasion. It's escalation.

The third fact: Cities become laboratories when enforcement is inconsistent

This is the part that's hard to say out loud, because it sounds like an insult to the city. It isn't. It's sociology. When you have an environment with deep political polarization. high distrust of institutions, uneven prosecution, activist ecosystems with strong NGO infrastructure. and a constant media feedback loop, those conditions don't automatically produce violence. But they do produce something else. They produce repeated stress tests. It is not "one riot." It is not "one clash." It is a series of probes. How fast can we mobilize?

What are police allowed to do?

Will prosecutors follow through?

Will federal authority pull back if we make it ugly enough?

Can we create martyrs?

Can we flood the zone with a narrative before facts catch up?

That is what "laboratory" means: not that everyone is guilty. but that the environment is ideal for testing the boundaries of the state. If the state responds with either overreach which manufactures recruits) or paralysis (which manufactures militias), then you have a recipe for replication. [read more]

Scary.  What did Van Jones say? Top down--bottom up--inside out. Is that what's happening now in Wisconsin? 

Who Funds the Groups Harassing ICE Agents in Minnesota? The Left's Premier Foundations and Dark Money Networks Have Given Millions, Records Show.

From Free Beacon.com (Jan. 14):

When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution." It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for those hotels to operate.

Sunrise is bankrolled by a who's who of deep-pocketed left-wing organizations. Open Society Foundations has sent it $2 million since 2019, according to its grant database. Half of the money supported general "social welfare activities." The Ford Foundation contributed $150,000 in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025, while the MacArthur Foundation—the 12th-largest private charity in America—gave $250,000 in 2024, according to tax filings and grant disclosures. Sunrise says it generally rejects "checks that come with expectations of input on our strategy." It also says donations go to support its local chapters with "materials, housing, technology, food, travel, training expenses, and more."

Sunrise Twin Cities has collaborated with two other local groups to drive anti-ICE demonstrations: Unidos MN and Defend the 612.

Unidos, an "immigrant-led, BIPOC majority, multiracial, state-wide organization," leads a "rapid response" network through its affiliate group, Monarca. That network includes a 24/7 hotline that Twin Cities residents can call to report ICE activity. The group's trained "responders" are then dispatched to the area in an attempt to prevent ICE agents from making arrests. Like Sunrise, Unidos is backed by the Ford Foundation, which sent the group $400,000 in 2024. The left-wing dark money juggernaut Sixteen Thirty Fund sent Unidos $150,000 between 2021 and 2022, tax filings show. [read more]

Just the usual suspects funding the professional "protesters." Nothing organic. And when an agitator gets arrested following their advice (orders?) these funding groups probably won't help them.

According Bill O’Reilly on his First TV broadcast here are some more far-Left groups aiding chaos in Minneapolis: BreakThrough News, The People’s Forum, Party for Socialism of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, Black Lives Matters chapters.

More on the agitators:

• I Got Inside the Signal Chats Used by Far-Left Extremists in Minnesota—Here’s What I Saw
• Who's Funding the Insurrection?
  
• ‘Grassroots’ anti-ICE campaigns funded by left-wing billionaire donors: sources
  
• Anti-ICE Activism Represents The Suicide Of Western Civilization
  

How Christianity Created the Hospital

From Breakpoint.org (Aug. 17, 2022):

Far from being an otherworldly religion, Christianity teaches both the importance and goodness of life in this world. In fact, from Jesus’ healing ministry to the work of modern missionary doctors, a consistent feature of the work of the Church in the world has been to care for the sick and needy, and not just point them to the life to come.

The early Church understood Jesus’ ministry to be a paradigm for their own work. So, just as Jesus set believers free from their bondage to sin, early Christians purchased slaves specifically to free them. Whereas Jesus used miraculous power to heal people from physical effects of the Fall, Christians used more ordinary tools to care for the sick and disabled. These activities are not merely good deeds in themselves but serve to advance the Kingdom. Though the Gospel is a message and must be proclaimed, the early Church saw works of mercy and preaching the Gospel as two sides of the same coin.

The first major epidemic faced by the Church was the Antonine Plague (A.D. 166-189). In fear of their lives, the Romans threw the sick out of their homes to die in the streets. Galen, the most prominent physician of the age, knew he could neither heal its victims nor protect himself. So, he fled Rome to stay at his country estate.

Recognizing that all persons were made in the image of God and that Jesus came to make all things new, body and soul, many Christians ran the other direction. They fought the Fall by tending to the sick, at risk (and often at the cost) of their own lives.

Since even basic nursing care can make a significant difference during an epidemic, Christian action saved lives. Their courage and self-sacrifice contributed to the rapid growth of Christianity. For example, when Irenaeus arrived in Lyon from Asia Minor, there were very few Christians. By the time the plague ended, there were 200,000 believers in Lyon.

The Plague of Cyprian, which took place the following century, was named after the bishop of Carthage who documented the epidemic. Dionysius of Alexandria, also a bishop, described what happened this way:

At the first onset of the disease, they pushed the sufferers away and fled from their dearest, throwing them into the roads before they were dead and treating unburied corpses as dirt…

But, he continued…

Most of our brother Christians showed unbounded love and loyalty, never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another. Heedless of danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ.

From the earliest centuries, Christians embraced the medical theories and practices of the day. Contrary to stereotypes, the early Church did not attribute illness to demons, though they did recognize demonization as a real phenomenon. The real difference between Christians and physicians of the day was the willingness to risk death in order to treat the sick, convinced that if they died it would only mean a transition to a better life. The physicians, on the other hand, fled.

Christians also founded the first hospitals in history. By the late fourth century, there were hospitals in both the eastern and western halves of the empire. By the Central Middle Ages, hospitals and leprosaria (leprosy hospitals) could be found throughout most of the Christian world. When universities began granting medical degrees during the period, church-affiliated institutions continued to provide much of the care.

By the 18th century, the medical field had become increasingly professionalized and separate from the clergy. Though monasteries still provided care for the poor and nursing was almost entirely in the hands of sisters and nuns, professional physicians increasingly handled medical issues for those who could afford to pay. Clergy attended to the dying and contributed to discussions of medical ethics but had few other responsibilities for the sick.

However, medicine was an integral part of the modern mission movement of the 19th century. Because Christianity has always affirmed the importance of the body, hospitals soon followed wherever missionaries went. This is another way the Church has been essential throughout history. [source]

Globalism Is Satanic

From Caldron.com (Aug. 1, 2022):

A significant milestone occurred last Saturday in the ongoing cultural civil war in America.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene declared at a Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida that not only is she a nationalist, she is a Christian nationalist, and that other conservatives should embrace the label.

The shrieking from the atheist media and the establishment church was shrill and immediate, of course. Newsweek, Time, MSNBC, the New York Times and many others have run hit pieces. The fear was palpable.

They are right to be afraid. The political cult that is cultural Marxism has advanced without adversary for decades through Western societies because its footsoldiers are fanatics and the milquetoast church leaders who should have fought back were too cozy, too careerist and too foolish to take it seriously.

Now we’re murderers.

Champagne communists like Pirate Pete don’t care about gay people or Indigenous people or Muslims or women. They love only themselves. They hate the gospel just as much, and they pretend concern for the ‘marginalized’ and oppressed of the world as a cudgel to wield against God and His people.

They are getting worried because there is an organized resistance forming to the cult of fake love taking over our societies. The movement against identity communism isn’t coming from the church establishment, however; those elite Sadducees who make good money as professional Christians using clever sophistry to compromise the faith and finding willing ears among those who still want a nice church to go to on Sunday but don’t want it to say anything that might offend their gay cousin.

The beginning of the rebellion against this demonic identity cult is coming from us peons in the pews, and it is scaring the purple-haired Marxists no end because they know it has the potential to roll back their century-long march through Western institutions.

So why Christian nationalism, then?

Well, largely because it’s the logical dialectical reaction to Satanic globalism. Jesus commanded us to be wise as serpents (Matthew 10:16), and have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but instead expose them (Ephesians 5:11).  So let’s do that.

Western Marxists are driven by a religious vision for humanity. They have a heaven they long for, but it is not celestial. It’s an earthly paradise that can only be achieved once the original sin of humanity has been redeemed.

No, not the original sin outlined in Genesis. The original sin of colonizing whiteness, of toxic masculinity, of stifling heteronormativity. Just as in the rambling original writings of Marx the labouring proletariat is oppressed by the property-owning bourgeoisie, in Western Marxism the bourgeoisie has been replaced by straight white men and the enslaved proletariat has been replaced by marginalized neurodivergent other-abled gender-non-conforming birthing people with special needs.

We can laugh at how ridiculous it looks when laid out plainly, but these people aren’t messing around. They’ve got a heaven on earth to realize, and you and I are getting in the way with all our plain speech, fact-based thinking and adherence to Scripture.

Western Marxists believe themselves to be the white saviours of all humanity. It is a political project as much as an ideological crusade. The same people who #BelieveAllWomen and #StandWithUkraine also love the United Nations and believe that Western imperialism is justified if it means just one more little girl in Pakistan can sit at the front of the class like her brother.

We Christians have underestimated the danger of ideological utopianism to our peril. The utopian political project has run like a crimson stain through atheist thinking since Thomas More wrote Utopia. Satan plays a long game. Its origins can be traced back even further to Plato’s Republic. The genocidal periods of Islamic expansion could even be included in the body count of utopianism given the earthly focus of the Mohammedan project to expand the Ummah across the world when a caliph is recognized.

Satan has long used the siren song of an earthly utopia to delude men into becoming ideological zealots. It drove forward the French Revolution and the Paris Commune a century later which then inspired Marx and Engels. It powered the firing squads and rape brigades of Bolshevism, the Einsatzgruppen of the Eastern Front and the Red Guards of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

This beast has claimed hundreds of millions of lives and the church in the West has watched it be incubated in our lecture halls and classrooms since the 60s and done nothing. Now the beast has a new form and it’s strong. Very strong. [read more]