The Coming Wars

MarkAmerica ^ | 08/21/2011 | Mark America

[Bulwyf]

much worse? no way on God’s green earth has it been worse than this, I’m sorry, but that’s not even something I’d call a stretch, just a blatant disregard for current events.

[Charles Martel]

Matt - on the list of the cube’s sides, it appears that urban and rural are transposed. Or, maybe I’m missing something with regard to the “near” and “far” designations.

[Travis McGee]

I know, I know. I didn’t create those sylish graphics, I had just scanned a sketch on graph paper and somebody else did the layout. Then there was a revised version made, but both still float around. But it’s not as complicated as that fully drawn cube implies. It can be grasped intuitively in the mind once the main corners are understood.

[MountainDad]

Good essay. You’re doing a fine job. Thanks!

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Thanks for the link.

[Travis McGee]

Actually, the cube drawing is just the opening to this essay I wrote. It’w worth reading, I think.

http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2010/07/bracken-cw2-cube-mapping-meta-terrain.html

[38special]

Demography is destiny. Ultimately, we’re screwed.

[Raven6]

Amen MarkAmerica...

I've been looking at this situation for over 25 years now... More than half my life. It's been like being the kid sitting on the last seat in the back of the bus, watching as we approach a high cliff at full speed. I've been yelling at the top of my lungs trying to get the attention of those around me and that of the bus driver (our governments at all levels), but still no one acknowledges or applies the brakes. So I, like you, am waiting for the crash to happen... I won't stop trying to get the attention of the other passengers or the driver, but the stopping distance of that bus is probably longer than the distance to the edge of the cliff at this point.

This whole circumstance hit me heavily around Memorial Day this past spring... I had been out to the check on my dad's marker and flag. I looked around and saw all of the flags in that cemetary and how disappointed those men and women would be to see us now....

******

The Gift They Gave Us

They fought and struggled to deliver it.
Some fell along the way.
Some silently recall their journey.
Some lay in silent graves.

We live our lives concerned with time,
Or what we have or haven’t got.
We’ve left their gift to wither away,
Since their hardships we forgot.

But I see the fields of stones and flags,
And a tear comes to my eye.
I hear their voice, they call to me.
They ask the question “Why?”

My son holds my hand and asks me,
“Daddy why are you so sad?”
I swallow hard and say “I’m okay”,
While I straighten the flag for my dad.

I stand up and realize,
The gift, it must be passed on.
I know I must restore it, though,
Before I leave it to my son.

I hear my dad – his voice is loud.
He says “You know what must be done!
Step up and make me proud my boy,
Give FREEDOM to your son!”

In memory of William S. Sanders, Sr., EM1, USN, WWII

Raven6 © 2011
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[Noumenon]

Somehow, like every vanguard of statist "intellectuals" in history, the current crop also believes they will somehow be held harmless and immune...

They'll discover that nothing could be further from the truth. Think about who and what we're dealing with today: on the one hand there are those who seek to profit from trade with those who are clearly our enemies. They think that the rules of cause and effect, of consequences - unintended and otherwise - simply don't apply to them, and that their money and their influence can shield them from the outcomes of their choices. There are those who hate this country and everything it used to stand for. They hate, fear and despise the very concept of freedom and free will. The latter are the ones who silently cheered on 09/11 and later made smug pronouncements that we obviously deserved what we got. We must also remember that, at the very top and also behind the throne, so to speak, we are dealing with killers without conscience.

These people are not merely traitors to our own country – they are traitors to humanity itself. The cold hard truth is that given the current state of decay of the balance of powers that once held them in check, we're simply not going to be able to vote, talk, negotiate, beg, plead, apologize or debate our way out of what's coming our way this time around. Who's got the courage and intellectual honesty to think this though and call the road we're traveling and its ultimate destination by their proper names? As Victor Davis Hanson said in his 2004 National Review article, The 1930s, Again: A hard rain is going to fall:

The truth is that there is a great storm on the horizon, one that will pass — or bring upon us a hard rain the likes of which we have not seen in 60 years. Either we shall say "no more," deal with Iraq, and prepare for a long and hard war against murderers and terrorists — or we will have more and more of what happened on 9/11. History teaches us that certain nations, certain peoples, and certain religions at peculiar periods in their history take a momentary, but deadly leave of their senses...

That same theme, that of the descent into madness and mass murder by nations, peoples and political movements was echoed in the work of Norman Cohn, author of Warrant for Genocide, where he wrote:

"There exists a subterranean world, where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when that under-world emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people. And it occasionally happens that this subterranean world becomes a political power and changes the course of history."

So it was with what Jean-François Revel characterized in his Last Exit to Utopia as, “the two most criminal regimes ever inflicted on the human race - the pinnacles of evil and imbecility achieved in a space of less than thirty years." That is, the monstrous evils of communism and National Socialism. And now we see it again today, this time, it's starting with the brown shirt-style thuggery of Marxist union goons.

Some might ask, “How could this have happened?“ The more thoughtful among us might ask instead, “How could this have happened over and over again – repeatedly throughout our modern history? “ The answer is this: men act on their ideas, and those ideas come from somewhere. Most of our fundamental ideas - the notions and the beliefs we have concerning morality, knowledge, reality - are originated by our philosophers and academicians. Most of us simply and gradually absorb the ideas available from our culture. It is in this manner that most people get their life-shaping ideas: indirectly - from the philosophers whose ideas ‘trickle down’ to popular culture, our educational institutions, the media, the arts, music and literature.

Yes, as VDH has said, there is indeed a storm on the way - and it's a terrible one, if we read the signs with an unflinching understanding of history and human nature. That persistent knocking on our front doors is that of history telling us that everything, literally everything can change in a heartbeat. From the transformation of beautiful Sarajevo to a flame-shot hell of ruin and slaughter to the collapse of the old Soviet Empire, from the democide of the Khmer Rouge regime to the cultural genocide of the Taliban and the true believers of Islam, from the murderous midnight raids of BATF and FBI jack-booted killers to the impact of the airliners on the Pentagon and the WTC - genocide, murder, the destruction of your life and your family and your home and livelihood is just a matter of whim and caprice now under the lawless regime of the 0bamunists.

Now think about what it might take to turn this around - those considerations make a mockery of what you see on the lamestream media outlets, doesn't it? It makes a mockery of what you hear coming from the mouths of our so-called 'leaders', doesn't it?

What it should make you realize is that, in the end, it all comes down to you and your willingness to fight for what you hold dear. To confront evil and call it by its proper name and destroy it.P> Don't look to your politicians for help. They're not listening and they don't care.

Don't look to the churches - most of them have become nothing more than the abode of the clergy of oppression; demons dance on their empty altars as they preach 'social justice', cowardice and what amounts to human sacrifice.

Don't look to the schools and the institutes of higher learning - they've become founts of ignorance, lies and hatred of the truth; they teach sheepery and passivity to our children.

All that's left is... you.

[papertyger]

Already had CC. Just bought the EFAD trilogy for my kindle last week.

Now if the world would just calm down long enough to read’em....

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping. Few understand there is only one government now. It is going to be that much more difficult.

[Vor Lady]

Thanks for the ping. What a depressing way to start the week.

[GatorGirl]

I don't think it's too late...yet....but it is getting very close to "too late".

We need to do WHATEVER WE CAN to defeat Obama. No one can refuse to vote in the next election, no matter who gets the nomination. We.Need.Every.Vote.

From the "White House Insider" series, a direct quote:

That’s how big – that’s how important this election coming up is. Even the people who pay attention to this stuff…they don’t realize how big this is. How important to the country. We are truly at a fork in the road here. This administration is going to attempt whatever necessary to remain in power. Race. Intimidation. Media attacks. Division – divide and f****** conquer. You notice how divisive the Republican primary campaigns have already started to become? You think that’s all occurring on its own? Hell no. Tens of millions of dollars are already being spent getting conservatives, Republicans, Independents, whatever – get them to attack each other. Get them frustrated and lower their desire to vote for the eventual nominee. You know, Republicans used to be the party that would unite behind the nominee when they were chosen – it frustrated the hell out of us Democrats who were always bitching over this or that right up until the election. That’s not the case anymore, and your Republicans are much weaker because of it. I’ll say this, if Republicans don’t get their shit together and vote for whoever is the nominee – and I mean WHOEVER is the nominee, then it will be another four years of Barack Obama running this country into the f******* dirt and that’s what we deserve. If we are too stupid as a country to fix this mess…then so be it. It’s over. The America we know, the America we knew – it’s over. Done. And we will only have ourselves to blame.

Read more: http://socyberty.com/history/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three/#ixzz1Vl1YYWke

Some don't give any credence to this series but what this guys says only makes sense. We've already seen it, in spades, here. All this bickering and infighting and attacking every. single. candidate.

Obviously the primary process will go forward and we certainly don't have to converge around one person right now. But when our nominee is eventually determined WE MUST SUPPORT HIM/HER. No one will be worse than Zero. No one.

[Chode]

i heard that...

[Dead Corpse]

Too late. It has been "too late" for at least twenty years now...

And no, it won't get any easier the longer we wait.

[EdReform]

Ping

[Scythian]

“It is almost a law of history that the same wealth that generates a civilization announces its decay. For wealth produce ease as well as art; it softens a people to the ways of luxury and peace and invites invasion from stronger arms and hungrier mouths.”

- Will DuRant

[Mark17]

Where will you go(approximately) Steveo?

West of Guam, where my wife is from. The family owns rice fields.

[caver]

Great column! Thanks for pointing it out.

[kennyboy509]

Before my brother died, he used to say

“Nah, thats not gonna happen”

You sound like my brother.

This is not 1968,

This is 1938.

We will get through this, but not without violence.

Violence will come to us.

Be a Boy Scout, be prepared.