“This year the DOJ secured first-ever terrorism convictions against ANTIFA, the WH has pulled billions in fraud, and State is now isolating a far-left fixer behind pro-Palestine, anti-White and anti-ICE groups.
This is N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas. She just won a runoff election in Oklahoma and is now the Democratic candidate for US Senate. Get women out of politics; they are making a joke of our institutions!
Well, that’s good news.
Iran regime will fall through mix of operations, economic pressure, ex-Mossad chief Barnea says
Headline of a story over at Jerusalem Post.
New post: Sleeping With the Enemy, a review of Arthur Koestler’s neglected but important 1950 novel, The Age of Longing
HEADLINE-Qatar And Kuwait Restore 70% Of Pre-War Oil Exports Through Hormuz
“Qatar and Kuwait have managed to boost their crude oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz to 70% of pre-war levels as they followed the United Arab Emirates in shuttling oil through the chokepoint and using ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman, anonymous traders told Bloomberg on Thursday.
“Before the Middle East conflict, Qatar and Kuwait collectively exported about 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil via the Strait of Hormuz.
“They don’t have alternative routes as Saudi Arabia and the UAE do, and struggled to ship oil out of the Persian Gulf in the first couple of months of the conflict.
“But around June, Kuwait and Qatar began shuttling crude out of Hormuz and offered it for transfers outside the chokepoint in the Gulf of Oman.
“The increasing Kuwaiti and Qatari oil volumes add to the barrels that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been sneaking through the Strait of Hormuz and on routes bypassing it since the start of the war.
“The UAE has managed to boost its oil exports to pre-crisis levels as early as June, as it has kept pushing crude through the Strait of Hormuz and beyond. It has been shuttling crude through the chokepoint to load it on larger vessels outside the Strait, maximizing the use of its onshore pipeline to ship crude from the west to the east of the country, bypassing Hormuz, and shipping tankers through the Strait in dark mode.”
Love the rendition of “Jolene” by Dolly. And the reactions! Dolly will live on in her songs, her voice… She was so unique that when I hear her voice, I automatically connect i with a vision of her in my mind. Very few others like that. Perhaps Elvis?
New post: Sleeping With the Enemy, a review of Arthur Koestler’s neglected but important 1950 novel, The Age of Longing
That is a very good analysis and a perceptive one. The religious/cultural vacuum that dominates the Western educated classes demands to be filled by something, anything. It explains so much of how the 20th Century played out, and why the 21C is going the way it is.
As early as the 19C, philosophers such as Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, and others, and poets like Tennyson sensed that vacuum and tried to figure out what it meant and implied. Tennyson famously wrote the optimistic Locksley Hall in 1835. Idealists and utopians love to quote it even yet.
But in the later part of the 19C, Tennyson published a sequel: Locksley Hall: Sixty Years After, in which the protagonist of the first poem, now a very old man talks to his grandson near the end of his life. He repudiates the optimism of his youth, and notes that same vacuum.
“The Good, the True, the Pure, the Just–
Take the charm ‘For ever’ from them, and they crumble into dust.”
He recalls the enthusiasm he felt for technological progress in the first poem, and again dismisses it as trivial in perspective:
“Gone the cry of ‘Forward, Forward,’ lost within a growing gloom;
Lost, or only heard in silence from the silence of a tomb.
Half the marvels of my morning, triumphs over time and space,
Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest common- place!
‘Forward’ rang the voices then, and of the many mine was one.
Let us hush this cry of ‘Forward’ till ten thousand years have gone.”
It’s not that scientific and technological progress are bad, but the protagonist now knows that looking to them for fulfilment, for satisfaction of the spirit, is futile. The void inside remains. Man remains Fallen.
This is, I think, the real issue of our age. The troubles of the times are symptoms.
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“This year the DOJ secured first-ever terrorism convictions against ANTIFA, the WH has pulled billions in fraud, and State is now isolating a far-left fixer behind pro-Palestine, anti-White and anti-ICE groups.
“The Trump admin is destroying the left, functionally and financially.”—
https://instapundit.com/819252/
Destroying?
I’d like to think so. I’m just pleased he’s the first to do any real damage.
Quite an improvement from the DOJ’s indifference to Antifa in 2016-2020 (Jeff Sessions – the good ole boy, and William Barr – the Dissappointer).
N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas — ?!?!
Well, that’s good news.
Iran regime will fall through mix of operations, economic pressure, ex-Mossad chief Barnea says
Headline of a story over at Jerusalem Post.
New post: Sleeping With the Enemy, a review of Arthur Koestler’s neglected but important 1950 novel, The Age of Longing
https://davidfoster273133.substack.com/p/sleeping-with-the-enemy
MORE WELCOME ECONOMIC NEWS:
Via Bloomberg and OilPrice.com
HEADLINE-Qatar And Kuwait Restore 70% Of Pre-War Oil Exports Through Hormuz
“Qatar and Kuwait have managed to boost their crude oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz to 70% of pre-war levels as they followed the United Arab Emirates in shuttling oil through the chokepoint and using ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman, anonymous traders told Bloomberg on Thursday.
“Before the Middle East conflict, Qatar and Kuwait collectively exported about 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil via the Strait of Hormuz.
“They don’t have alternative routes as Saudi Arabia and the UAE do, and struggled to ship oil out of the Persian Gulf in the first couple of months of the conflict.
“But around June, Kuwait and Qatar began shuttling crude out of Hormuz and offered it for transfers outside the chokepoint in the Gulf of Oman.
“The increasing Kuwaiti and Qatari oil volumes add to the barrels that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been sneaking through the Strait of Hormuz and on routes bypassing it since the start of the war.
“The UAE has managed to boost its oil exports to pre-crisis levels as early as June, as it has kept pushing crude through the Strait of Hormuz and beyond. It has been shuttling crude through the chokepoint to load it on larger vessels outside the Strait, maximizing the use of its onshore pipeline to ship crude from the west to the east of the country, bypassing Hormuz, and shipping tankers through the Strait in dark mode.”
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Qatar-and-Kuwait-Restore-70-of-Pre-War-Oil-Exports-Through-Hormuz.html
Love the rendition of “Jolene” by Dolly. And the reactions! Dolly will live on in her songs, her voice… She was so unique that when I hear her voice, I automatically connect i with a vision of her in my mind. Very few others like that. Perhaps Elvis?
— David Foster
That is a very good analysis and a perceptive one. The religious/cultural vacuum that dominates the Western educated classes demands to be filled by something, anything. It explains so much of how the 20th Century played out, and why the 21C is going the way it is.
As early as the 19C, philosophers such as Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, and others, and poets like Tennyson sensed that vacuum and tried to figure out what it meant and implied. Tennyson famously wrote the optimistic Locksley Hall in 1835. Idealists and utopians love to quote it even yet.
But in the later part of the 19C, Tennyson published a sequel: Locksley Hall: Sixty Years After, in which the protagonist of the first poem, now a very old man talks to his grandson near the end of his life. He repudiates the optimism of his youth, and notes that same vacuum.
“The Good, the True, the Pure, the Just–
Take the charm ‘For ever’ from them, and they crumble into dust.”
He recalls the enthusiasm he felt for technological progress in the first poem, and again dismisses it as trivial in perspective:
“Gone the cry of ‘Forward, Forward,’ lost within a growing gloom;
Lost, or only heard in silence from the silence of a tomb.
Half the marvels of my morning, triumphs over time and space,
Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest common- place!
‘Forward’ rang the voices then, and of the many mine was one.
Let us hush this cry of ‘Forward’ till ten thousand years have gone.”
It’s not that scientific and technological progress are bad, but the protagonist now knows that looking to them for fulfilment, for satisfaction of the spirit, is futile. The void inside remains. Man remains Fallen.
This is, I think, the real issue of our age. The troubles of the times are symptoms.