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		By: Rick67		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/15/what-a-weekend-mere-anarchy/#comment-2834264</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our excellent host @neo wrote: &quot;I don’t agree that this is true in the United States.&quot;

I don&#039;t disagree. However I am concerned parts of the nation are moving in that direction. The protests and harrassment we&#039;ve seen primarily in the northeast especially in New York City. The cold-blooded murder of two Jewish individuals in our nation&#039;s capital. This morning saw video of two Orthodox Jewish individuals singled out and physically attacked on a train in New York City. 

And no one said or did anything to intervene.

For the last four years I have worked in our city&#039;s public library system. There are several families who come every day and are obviously Muslim (head coverings) and more specifically Arab or at least Arabic-speaking. Some of them wear clothes and jewelry wihch clearly announce their support for the Palestinian cause. &quot;Liberate Palestine&quot; and &lt;i&gt;Falistin&lt;/i&gt; in Arabic (which I can read) and the outline of modern Israel with the Gazan flag and an old-fashioned key. To me that is the moral equivalent of wearing swastikas or White Power messages. I know they don&#039;t see it that way. I find it deeply offensive and openly antagonistic. Of course I say nothing and smile when helping them. &quot;What can I do for you?&quot;

On rarer occasion I see Jewish patrons (the men wearing kippot and you can see their tzitzit) come in. I have not yet seen them here at the same time as our pro-Palestinian friends. Would they feel safe doing so? I honestly don&#039;t know what would happen.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our excellent host @neo wrote: &#8220;I don’t agree that this is true in the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t disagree. However I am concerned parts of the nation are moving in that direction. The protests and harrassment we&#8217;ve seen primarily in the northeast especially in New York City. The cold-blooded murder of two Jewish individuals in our nation&#8217;s capital. This morning saw video of two Orthodox Jewish individuals singled out and physically attacked on a train in New York City. </p>
<p>And no one said or did anything to intervene.</p>
<p>For the last four years I have worked in our city&#8217;s public library system. There are several families who come every day and are obviously Muslim (head coverings) and more specifically Arab or at least Arabic-speaking. Some of them wear clothes and jewelry wihch clearly announce their support for the Palestinian cause. &#8220;Liberate Palestine&#8221; and <i>Falistin</i> in Arabic (which I can read) and the outline of modern Israel with the Gazan flag and an old-fashioned key. To me that is the moral equivalent of wearing swastikas or White Power messages. I know they don&#8217;t see it that way. I find it deeply offensive and openly antagonistic. Of course I say nothing and smile when helping them. &#8220;What can I do for you?&#8221;</p>
<p>On rarer occasion I see Jewish patrons (the men wearing kippot and you can see their tzitzit) come in. I have not yet seen them here at the same time as our pro-Palestinian friends. Would they feel safe doing so? I honestly don&#8217;t know what would happen.</p>
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		By: Selfy		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

Could it be the Red-Green Alliance*, with Globalists as fellow travelers?

* DuckDuckGo says &quot;Mixing red and green colors typically produces brown...it can also yield various shades of brown, such as khaki or burgundy.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”</p>
<p>Could it be the Red-Green Alliance*, with Globalists as fellow travelers?</p>
<p>* DuckDuckGo says &#8220;Mixing red and green colors typically produces brown&#8230;it can also yield various shades of brown, such as khaki or burgundy.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Sennacherib		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/15/what-a-weekend-mere-anarchy/#comment-2834247</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It looks like we are headed to shooting. Shooting conflicts tend to take a life of their own. Results are generally surprising. The winners and losers will be charged beyond recognition, but they won&#039;t know it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It looks like we are headed to shooting. Shooting conflicts tend to take a life of their own. Results are generally surprising. The winners and losers will be charged beyond recognition, but they won&#8217;t know it.</p>
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		By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/15/what-a-weekend-mere-anarchy/#comment-2834238</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the problems with misidentifying islam as a &quot;religion&quot; is that it allows our enemies on the left to lump it in with every other &quot;religion,&quot; most especially Christianity and condemn all &quot;religions&quot; as being nothing more than cabals of murderous thugs.  Like lumping together all breeds of dogs and condemning them all because some bull terriers are vicious and dangerous.  Islam is no more a religion in the ordinary sense than is communism, which shares with it a murderous and totalitarian core as well as complete intolerance for any competing philosophy.  (Please spare us the &quot;not all moslems&quot; argument; it is the exception that proves the rule.)  Moslems, as the self-proclaimed descendants of Ishmael quite emphatically inherit the angelic pronouncement to his mother Hagar in Genesis 6:12, &quot;He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone&#039;s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers&quot;.  The koran is antithetical to The Bible and its followers are unsuited for life among non-moslems.  Australia is merely the lastest country to have found this out.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the problems with misidentifying islam as a &#8220;religion&#8221; is that it allows our enemies on the left to lump it in with every other &#8220;religion,&#8221; most especially Christianity and condemn all &#8220;religions&#8221; as being nothing more than cabals of murderous thugs.  Like lumping together all breeds of dogs and condemning them all because some bull terriers are vicious and dangerous.  Islam is no more a religion in the ordinary sense than is communism, which shares with it a murderous and totalitarian core as well as complete intolerance for any competing philosophy.  (Please spare us the &#8220;not all moslems&#8221; argument; it is the exception that proves the rule.)  Moslems, as the self-proclaimed descendants of Ishmael quite emphatically inherit the angelic pronouncement to his mother Hagar in Genesis 6:12, &#8220;He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone&#8217;s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers&#8221;.  The koran is antithetical to The Bible and its followers are unsuited for life among non-moslems.  Australia is merely the lastest country to have found this out.</p>
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		By: Barry Meislin		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Meislin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The next battle royale?

“FBI&#039;s Clinton Foundation/Uranium One inquiry died after slow-walking and statute of limitations”—
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/clinton-foundation-and-uranium-one-inquiry-died-after-statute]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The next battle royale?</p>
<p>“FBI&#8217;s Clinton Foundation/Uranium One inquiry died after slow-walking and statute of limitations”—<br />
<a href="https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/clinton-foundation-and-uranium-one-inquiry-died-after-statute" rel="nofollow ugc">https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/clinton-foundation-and-uranium-one-inquiry-died-after-statute</a></p>
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		By: Kate		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/15/what-a-weekend-mere-anarchy/#comment-2834214</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems to be sadly true that some people will believe anything they see online, preposterous or not.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems to be sadly true that some people will believe anything they see online, preposterous or not.</p>
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		By: neo		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/15/what-a-weekend-mere-anarchy/#comment-2834206</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[neo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kate:

The reasons are actually very simple: because they are vicious liars who hate Jews.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kate:</p>
<p>The reasons are actually very simple: because they are vicious liars who hate Jews.</p>
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		By: IrishOtter49		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a counterpoise to Yeats’ gloomy vision, I offer the following stirring passage from Richmond Lattimore’s translation of the &lt;i&gt;Iliad&lt;/i&gt;, Book 15, lines  15.733-741.  The scene: The counterattacking Trojans have pushed the Danaans (Greeks) back to the water’s edge and forced them aboard their ships. All seems to be lost for the Danaans, all hope seems gone. Nor are their greatest heroes on hand to turn back the Trojan onslaught: Odysseus, wounded, has taken himself out of the fight; Achilleus is sulking in his tent; Diomedes, Menelaus, and Agamemnon are for one reason or another absent. Of all the best Achaean warriors only the stolid Aias remains in the fight. As the Trojans, wielding flaming brands, charge forward to set fire to the ships, he climbs up on the prow of one of the ships and, armed with a long pike, singlehandedly fights the Trojans off. And as he fights he calls out to the Danaans, exhorting them to cast aside their demoralization and despair and join him in the defense of the ships and, not least, in redeeming their honor. This is what he says:

“Friends and fighting men of the Danaans, henchmen of Ares,
be men now, dear friends, remember your furious valour.
Do we think there are others who stand behind us to help us?
Have we some stronger wall that can rescue men from perdition?
We have no city built strong with towers lying near us, within which
we could defend ourselves and hold off this host that matches us.
We hold position in this plain of the close-armoured Trojans,
bent back against the sea, and far from the land of our fathers.
Salvation&#039;s light is in our hands&#039; work, not the mercy of battle.&quot;

Of Aias, Richmond Lattimore, in his introduction to his translation of the Iliad, observes: “Diomedes in his aristeia fights under the protection of Athene, and Achilleus is constantly attended and favoured by divinities; but Aias carries on, from beginning to end, without benefit of supernatural aid. . . . A huge man, he is compared to a wall, and carries a great shield of seven-fold ox-hide. He is not the man to sweep the enemy back in a single burst, as Diomedes, Agamemnon, Achilleus, or Hektor can do. . . . He fights as a big man, with no aura of the supernatural about him; best on defence and when the going is worst. With the other great Achaians out of action, he keeps the Achaian retreat from becoming a rout, defends the wall, and then the ships. At the last moment before Patroklos and the Myrmidons come to the rescue, we find him leading the defence of the ships, baffled by Hektor, beaten, sweating, and arm-weary, without hope, but still fighting. Lacking the glamour of others, never the greatest leader, Aias remains throughout the best soldier of them all.”

As Idomenus observed in Book 13: “Nor would huge Telamonian Aias give way to any man who was mortal and ate bread, the yield of Demeter. He would not [even] give way to Achilleus, who breaks men in battle, in close combat.” 

So, in this dark time, I say to you all: “be men now, dear friends, remember your furious valour. . . . &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Salvation&#039;s light is in our hands&#039; work, not the mercy of battle.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a counterpoise to Yeats’ gloomy vision, I offer the following stirring passage from Richmond Lattimore’s translation of the <i>Iliad</i>, Book 15, lines  15.733-741.  The scene: The counterattacking Trojans have pushed the Danaans (Greeks) back to the water’s edge and forced them aboard their ships. All seems to be lost for the Danaans, all hope seems gone. Nor are their greatest heroes on hand to turn back the Trojan onslaught: Odysseus, wounded, has taken himself out of the fight; Achilleus is sulking in his tent; Diomedes, Menelaus, and Agamemnon are for one reason or another absent. Of all the best Achaean warriors only the stolid Aias remains in the fight. As the Trojans, wielding flaming brands, charge forward to set fire to the ships, he climbs up on the prow of one of the ships and, armed with a long pike, singlehandedly fights the Trojans off. And as he fights he calls out to the Danaans, exhorting them to cast aside their demoralization and despair and join him in the defense of the ships and, not least, in redeeming their honor. This is what he says:</p>
<p>“Friends and fighting men of the Danaans, henchmen of Ares,<br />
be men now, dear friends, remember your furious valour.<br />
Do we think there are others who stand behind us to help us?<br />
Have we some stronger wall that can rescue men from perdition?<br />
We have no city built strong with towers lying near us, within which<br />
we could defend ourselves and hold off this host that matches us.<br />
We hold position in this plain of the close-armoured Trojans,<br />
bent back against the sea, and far from the land of our fathers.<br />
Salvation&#8217;s light is in our hands&#8217; work, not the mercy of battle.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of Aias, Richmond Lattimore, in his introduction to his translation of the Iliad, observes: “Diomedes in his aristeia fights under the protection of Athene, and Achilleus is constantly attended and favoured by divinities; but Aias carries on, from beginning to end, without benefit of supernatural aid. . . . A huge man, he is compared to a wall, and carries a great shield of seven-fold ox-hide. He is not the man to sweep the enemy back in a single burst, as Diomedes, Agamemnon, Achilleus, or Hektor can do. . . . He fights as a big man, with no aura of the supernatural about him; best on defence and when the going is worst. With the other great Achaians out of action, he keeps the Achaian retreat from becoming a rout, defends the wall, and then the ships. At the last moment before Patroklos and the Myrmidons come to the rescue, we find him leading the defence of the ships, baffled by Hektor, beaten, sweating, and arm-weary, without hope, but still fighting. Lacking the glamour of others, never the greatest leader, Aias remains throughout the best soldier of them all.”</p>
<p>As Idomenus observed in Book 13: “Nor would huge Telamonian Aias give way to any man who was mortal and ate bread, the yield of Demeter. He would not [even] give way to Achilleus, who breaks men in battle, in close combat.” </p>
<p>So, in this dark time, I say to you all: “be men now, dear friends, remember your furious valour. . . . <i><b>Salvation&#8217;s light is in our hands&#8217; work, not the mercy of battle.</b></i>”</p>
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		By: Kate		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/15/what-a-weekend-mere-anarchy/#comment-2834198</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ghouls are on the internet claiming the Bondi Beach attack was a Mossad false flag operation -- for reasons which are unclear to me or any other sensible person.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/15/antisemites-claiming-bondi-beach-attack-was-false-flag-n3809890]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ghouls are on the internet claiming the Bondi Beach attack was a Mossad false flag operation &#8212; for reasons which are unclear to me or any other sensible person.</p>
<p><a href="https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/15/antisemites-claiming-bondi-beach-attack-was-false-flag-n3809890" rel="nofollow ugc">https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/15/antisemites-claiming-bondi-beach-attack-was-false-flag-n3809890</a></p>
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		By: TommyJay		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TommyJay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mere&lt;/b&gt; anarchy is loosed upon the world,
  - - -
The &lt;b&gt;ceremony&lt;/b&gt; of innocence is drowned;&lt;/i&gt;

There is the contrast.  My guess is that innocence and social structure and comity are special and arrived at, and maintained, with effort.  Anarchy is easy, normal, and common when no one puts in the effort.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><b>Mere</b> anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br />
  &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br />
The <b>ceremony</b> of innocence is drowned;</i></p>
<p>There is the contrast.  My guess is that innocence and social structure and comity are special and arrived at, and maintained, with effort.  Anarchy is easy, normal, and common when no one puts in the effort.</p>
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