…Understanding how Japan got here is simple: It had one of the world’s fastest-growing economies for much of the 20th century, and then it hit a slump that never abated.
The period after World War II was a full-on economic miracle. With massive investments in industrialization and legendary manufacturing acumen, Japan became the second-largest economy in the world, behind only the US — in some years during the 1960s, GDP grew by more than 10%.
Then came another kind of pop — the one that ends a bubble. But this was no typical bubble — it produced outlandish numbers like these:
Land values in Tokyo increased 10% in 1986, 57% in 1987, and 22% in 1988, more than doubling in three years. At one point, real estate economists estimated that the few acres of land under the city’s Imperial Palace were worth more than all of the real estate in Canada.
The real estate bubble coincided with a stock market boom, as firms were being valued with their massively appreciated real estate holdings in mind (uh-oh). The Nikkei Index rose every single year in the 1980s, culminating in speculator-fueled gains of 40% in 1988 and 29% in 1989.
Capital gains in Japan from land and stocks in 1987 comprised more than 40% of the gross national product.
To rein in speculation, the Bank of Japan raised inter-bank lending rates in 1989, which burst the bubble. Japan’s stock market crashed — equities fell 60% between 1989 and 1992 — and real estate values tumbled along with them. After averaging around 4% in the 1980s, Japan’s annual GDP growth rate from 1992 to 2007 was barely above 1.1%, according to OECD data.
Trump phoned into Hannity's show last night to declare "we have to stop the anti-Semitism that's just pervading our country right now." He says the US needs to get the "courage" to support Israel even more unreservedly. "I think Biden is not on the side of Israel," Trump posits pic.twitter.com/nlh7GBJkzv
Ep. 99 Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia. His ideas are considered so dangerous, the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter and Amazon won’t sell his books. We talked to him in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/4LrO0Ufg9P
This interview is interesting and I appreciate Dugin’s perspective, but it also strikes me as simply intellectual decoration on the surface of a clandestine war which has been raging inside the West over the course of several generations. Everything is being destroyed not for transhumanism, which is real and yet also an excuse, but for totalitarian control of, first, the West and eventually Russia and the rest of the world. Control of the West has been seized through millions of acts of individual violence designed to shape society by disabling (usually not killing) promising young people, particularly young males. The West did not provoke the Ukraine War for transhumanism but as a step toward weakening Russia to eventually destroy and control whatever is left of it. ABN
A friend sent me this video: Evidence of MASSIVE microwave pulses via Nexrad Satellite imagery
Microwaves and 5G are both forms of non-ionizing radiation.
The material below is AI generated and unedited by me:
There is limited information available on the direct connection between 5G and vertigo. However, some individuals have reported experiencing vertigo-like symptoms, such as dizziness and nausea, in relation to exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from 5G and other wireless technologies.
The thermal effects of millimeter waves (MMWs) on nerve cells are likely to be a crucial aspect of understanding their potential impact on the human balance system. As MMWs interact with biological systems, they can cause heating, which can alter cellular function, especially in excitable cells like neurons.
Studies have shown that MMW exposure can alter cellular function, especially in neurons and muscles. The high aqueous absorbance of MMWs suggests that thermal mechanisms are likely to play a significant role in these effects. For instance, one study found that MMW exposure altered the activity of individual neurons in the leech ganglion, which could potentially impact the balance system.
In the context of the human balance system, the vestibular apparatus is responsible for detecting head motion and position relative to gravity. The vestibular system is primarily involved in the fine control of visual gaze, posture, orthostasis, spatial orientation, and navigation. Any alterations in the function of the vestibular system due to MMW exposure could potentially impact the human balance system.
While there is limited research specifically examining the effects of MMWs on the human balance system, the thermal effects of MMWs on nerve cells suggest that they could potentially impact the vestibular system. Further research is needed to fully understand the potential effects of MMWs on the human balance system and vestibular apparatus.
It is essential to note that there is no conclusive evidence to support a direct link between 5G and vertigo. More research is needed to understand the potential effects of 5G on human health, including any potential connections to vertigo and other health issues.
I have largely ignored 5G, mmWaves and microwave concerns, but have noticed a personal decline in vestibular and thyroid health over the last few years corresponding to a vigorous 5G rollout in my area.
For the past three weeks or so, I have been experiencing various degrees of vertigo, fairly severe at times. This vertigo roughly corresponds to the time-frame of the video my friend sent. It has started me thinking more deeply on this topic. Whoever poisoned the world with covid and covid vaxxes and starts wars with no apparent good reason, surely would not hesitate to subdue the West with microwave bursts.
I am not fully convinced non-iodizing radiations are being used as weapons of clandestine war, but I am 100% certain weapons of clandestine war have been and are being used throughout the West against the West. This has been ongoing since at least the end of WW2. Not all clandestine weapons are targeted energy weapons. Some are poisons, psychosurgery, sensory damage, career disruption, educational misdirection, etc.
A small clandestine army of a mere 100K–200K operatives could destroy the West in just a few generations. We are seeing the effects of that very clearly throughout the West today. Due to a wide range of personal experiences and information obtained, I am very comfortable insisting that millions of Westerners have been disabled by clandestine attacks since WW2.
This fact explains: 1) the demise of the West is not just an intellectual puzzle about our pathological altruism; and 2) our demise rests on millions of small acts of war done secretly against individuals, typically to disable boys and young men. ABN
Studies have found a pronounced decline in male effective population sizes worldwide around 3000–5000 years ago. This bottleneck was not observed for female effective population sizes, which continued to increase over time. Until now, this remarkable genetic pattern was interpreted as the result of an ancient structuring of human populations into patrilineal groups (gathering closely related males) violently competing with each other. In this scenario, violence is responsible for the repeated extinctions of patrilineal groups, leading to a significant reduction in male effective population size. Here, we propose an alternative hypothesis by modelling a segmentary patrilineal system based on anthropological literature. We show that variance in reproductive success between patrilineal groups, combined with lineal fission (i.e., the splitting of a group into two new groups of patrilineally related individuals), can lead to a substantial reduction in the male effective population size without resorting to the violence hypothesis. Thus, a peaceful explanation involving ancient changes in social structures, linked to global changes in subsistence systems, may be sufficient to explain the reported decline in Y-chromosome diversity.
In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Dutch political commentator and lawyer Eva Vlaardingerbroek warns Europeans that they must take a stand against rapid demographic change or become a minority in their native countries.
You’ve spoken a lot about White rights and the White replacement. But of course this kind of opens you up to these accusations of racism. So, how do conservatives deal with this Catch-22 of not wanting to be replaced in their native countries, but also not wanting to be attacked with this term?
You can’t. That’s the thing, you can’t. So you have to pick a side. Of course, you’re going to be attacked if you say, “Hey, this continent, Europe, has been predominantly White for the entirety of its history, and now suddenly within one generation, a few bureaucrats have decided against the will of the people that we should suddenly be a minority. Why do we agree with that, or why do we allow that to happen?” If you say that, you are going to be attacked.
But the only other option then you have is saying nothing and have it happen, so the choice is yours, and I’ve made my choice. I think there are many ways in which you can defend yourself, of course, against this ridiculous attack, so I’m sure that they’re going say about me that I’m a terrible racist again. No, that’s not true. I don’t think that any race is superior to another. I just think that mine is also not inferior to that of others.
Central Asian scholars also developed an Islamic system of higher education modeled on the Central Asian system of the Buddhist vihâra, or monastic college. The vihâra was supported by a tax-exempt pious foundation that paid the expenses of the students and also of the teacher or teachers, who lived in the vihâra with the students. The primary method of teaching was oral lecture and debate, and the main subject of study was the Dharma, or Buddhist law and theology. These fundamental elements were taken over wholesale by the Arabs, who adopted even the distinctively Central Asian form of the vihâra architectural plan—a square structure with a large courtyard, each side of which contained chambers for the students and teachers plus four îwâns, large half-open halls in the form of gateways. The vihâra seems to have been Islamicized as the madrasa in Central Asia in the eighth and ninth centuries, though it is only noted in historical sources somewhat later.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (p. 154). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
Medieval Western European culture grew intellectually as a direct result of contact with Muslim Spain and Palestine. The translation into Latin of Arabic books introduced new, exciting, and often controversial ideas. The work of al-Khwârizmî54 (Algorithmus) translated as the Book of Algorithmus introduced Arabic numerals, including the zero and “algorithmic” calculation along with them, while the Algebra introduced advanced algebraic mathematics. They were revolutionary to the scientifically oriented minds of Western Europe. The translation of previously unknown philosophical and logical works of Aristotle, along with the works of the great Islamic Aristotelian philosophers, also caused fundamental restructuring of Western European thought. The ideas accompanied at least one important institution. The first European college,55 the Collège des Dix-huit or ‘College of the Eighteen Scholars’, was established in Paris in 1180 by Jocius of London (Jocius de Londiniis) after his return from the Holy Land.56 It was the oldest of the colleges that formed the original University of Paris. The college retained most of the essential characteristics of its direct ancestors, the madrasa and vihâra, including the pious foundation that supported the student residents and a professor,57 and perhaps the architectural form as well.58 The transmission of Islamic knowledge, techniques, and institutions to the West thus fueled the intellectual revolution of the High Middle Ages.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (pp. 179-180). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
Antisemitism used to mean “someone who doesn’t like Jews,” but nowadays it means “someone that Jews don’t like for some reason or another.” The deliberate trick here is to make you think there is something wrong not with the Jewish baby killers, liars, or scum who are doing bad things but with the person noticing and reacting to the bad things these miscreants are doing.
So, what are the bad things that most people notice about Jews? Before naming and defining the most important ones, let’s first find out what Jews themselves say about antisemitism. Is it a rational and logical reaction to Jewish behaviour? Or is it, as most Jews claim, an irrational hatred of a totally harmless people who have been the innocent victims of human jealousy, vindictiveness, and persecution since the beginning of time?
Theodore Herzl, the Jewish father of Zionism, believed that hostility towards Jews was a natural consequence of their behaviour:
This perfectly understandable reaction follows from the defects of the Jews… The Jews are a people distinct and separate from others, whose interests are different, and often in conflict with those of the peoples among whom they live.[1]
A fact shared by Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel:
Whenever in a country the number of Jews reaches a certain level of saturation, that country reacts against them… Now, this reaction is not antisemitism in the ordinary or vulgar sense of the word, but a universal social and economic consequence of Jewish immigration; it is impossible to ignore it.[2]
“It seemed to me,” writes Bernard Lazare, the Jewish author of the book Antisemitism, its History and Causes,
that an opinion as universal as antisemitism, having flourished in all places and at all times, before the Christian era and after, in Alexandria, Rome, Antioch, Arabia, and Persia, in medieval and modern Europe, in a word, in all parts of the world where there have been and where there are Jews, it seemed to me that such an opinion could not be the result of a whim and a perpetual caprice, and that there must be deep and serious reasons for its blossoming and its permanence.[3]
We both have different experience and backgrounds but I think overall we’re seeing much the same thing from different angles. I would say I am black-pilled and also we can have some influence on modern kings and queens. What you can see in today’s cabal is it’s a very tight knit group with ancient origins and a strong history of cohesion. At the same time they are very powerful and with modern surveillance technology and control technology, they are an extremely formidable ruling class.
We don’t even know who is in control of it all, which is an indication of very strong power at the top. Zero leaks, no squealers, no backstabbers (in public). My sense of what happened to Harvey Weinstein is he pissed somebody in that top power group off really bad and they publicly have humiliated and tortured him and made him an example for everyone to see. Either Jeffrey Epstein is dead murdered in jail or he was sprung from jail and is living with a new face somewhere in the world happily ever after. Either way it shows the incredible power of the group that controlled him and that he served. Of course you also know that not one of his clients has even been named, let alone dealt with publicly.
Non-compliance or mass disbelief worked against monkeypox and against people continuing to take the COVID vax, so I am not saying we can’t do any non-compliance. Our ‘difference’ on this appears to me to be just a matter of context and word interpretation. I doubt there will be very much if anything we can do about any kind of currency takeover, digital or otherwise. Look what happened to Bitcoin: first they sort of seemed to oppose it then they jumped on it, now they control it, now it’s an asset storage medium. In that video they suggest that we ‘take back Bitcoin’ and use it the way it was supposed to be used. That kind of resistance is totally impotent. I doubt they would affect even $5,000 worth of Bitcoin with a movement like that.
The main black pill is modern technology coupled with a very strong group that is able to remain largely secret at the top. It’s true that in the past kings and queens did listen to the population and were sometimes forced to bow to their wishes, but by and large for all time almost all people have been serfs or slaves or servants or wage slaves, peasants, peons. and there’s less chance today of the masses doing anything, or maybe I should say there’s no greater chance that we’ll get anywhere different today.
That said, the future may bring some very beautiful and weird stuff that will make everything different. Digital babies will be a major part of that. A more intelligent population and ruling class will very possibly fix many of the maddening problems we see today. A more intelligent population will not tolerate so many stupid lies and also will not need them. Disapproval from a more intelligent population will have even more effect on the elite than ever before. Also, ethics and morality are persuasive on their own. Virtue is it’s own reward, so a smarter elite may on their own ascend to a more ethical lifestyle and use of power. we may eventually end up with the most perfect political system of all — a wise and benevolent dictatorship. ABN
Democrats did everything they could to make Black people become a cancer to this country. Why?
Because we didn’t need them, they envied our growth and independence. We are now witnessing a bitter slave master retaliating by showing his old slaves what his new desperate… pic.twitter.com/s6s0Icq6GN
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) April 24, 2024
Although the Indo-Europeans settled in new lands, in some cases (such as Greece) evidently by conquest, they did not always dominate the local people in the beginning. Instead, they often served the local peoples as mercenary warriors, or came under their domination in general. In either case, the Indo-European migrants—who were mostly men—married local women and, by mixing with them, developed their distinctive creole dialect features. The most influential of the new dialects was Proto-Indo-Iranian, the speakers of which appear to have been influenced linguistically by a non-Indo-European people from whom the Indo-Iranians borrowed their distinctive religious beliefs and practices.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (p. 32). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
The traditional theory that Indo-European developed into its attested daughter languages over many millennia in the Proto-Indo-European homeland is essentially impossible typologically. It has recently been contested, and a more likely “big-bang” type of split proposed instead, such as the one historically attested later for the spread of Turkic and Mongolie26 The old theory is essentially disproved also by the fact that, if the Indo-European daughter languages had already been fully developed before the migrations, there would be evidence of early Greek, for example, in Iran, or Russia; evidence of Germanic in India or Italy; evidence of Tokharian in Greece or Iran, and so on. But there is no such evidence. Leaving aside much later, historically attested migrations, Anatolian is known only from Anatolia, Greek only from Greece, Tokharian only from East Turkistan, Germanic only from northwestern Europe, Armenian only from Armenia, and so on. The only possible exception is Old Indic, which is attested first in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, and later in India. Although it is assumed that the Iranian expansion into Persia is responsible for splitting the Old Indic–speaking people into the two attested branches, even in this case there is no evidence for Indic ever having been spoken in Europe, say, or northern Eurasia. Proto-Indo-European was spoken in the Central Eurasian homeland, while the attested daughter languages were spoken in their attested homelands outside it, where they developed as creoles almost instantaneously after their introduction there. The scenario presented here thus accords with typology, the recorded history of language development and spread, and with the actual attested situation of the Indo-European daughter languages.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (p. 35). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
This essay is written in response to Ricardo Duchesne. In it Beckwith corrects many errors and in so doing illuminates many aspects of ancient Indo-Europeans and how modern people think about them. It is a very informative piece. ABN
Ricardo Duchesne’s reply to Martin Hewson’s review of his book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization (2011), focuses on a number of important points concerning the impact of peoples speaking Indo-European languages in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. However, several of Duchesne’s key assertions need to be modified to accord with the data.
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