On Pundits, podcasters and youtubers

These are some pundits/podcasters that I find to be very reliable: 

Victor Davis Hanson (Geopolitics), Daniel Greenfield (All forms of Radicalism), Andy Ngo (writes well on ANTIFA), Raymond Ibrahim/David Wood/Apostate Prophet (All are great on Islam), Alan Dershowitz (Legal Issues), Andrew Klavan (Culture Wars), Ryan Macbeth (military technology and the cyber wars), Simcha Jacobovici (Simchas's Session - Biblical Archaeology + the Middle East), Warren Smith (Critical Thinking), Gad Saad (Mind viruses and radicalisms), Jonathan Turley (Law), Ben Shapiro (Conservatism in general), Dennis Prager (Culture Wars), Sabine Hossenfelder (Science), Bari Weiss (US politics), Veritasium (Science), Jordan Peterson (Psychology,,unfortunately his health like Prager's is a problem lately), Indy Neidell (20th century history), Andrew Gold (Heretics...good interviewer), Preston Stewart (military), Serpentza (China) and  Chris Wyatt (South Africa).

I also like the vlogging work of Charlie Veitch, Tousi TV, Nick Shirley. A young up and coming pundit who has great potential for the future is Moderate Case... bigger on Instagram.

The following pundits/sites are absolutely terrible: Cenk Uygur/Ana Kasperian (Young Turks), Jimmy Dore, Scott Ritter, Dave Smith George Galloway, Owen Jones, Max Blumenthal/Grayzone, Sam Seder, Secular Talk, Breaking Point,  The Intercept, Jen Perelman, Kim Iverson, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Mark Dice, Nick Fuentes, Valhalla, Marc Lamont Hill and Peter Beinart.

These individuals are hit and miss...too many misses for my liking but not as bad as the previous list....Piers Morgan, Benny Johnson, Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper,  Theo Von, Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald (terrible on Israel..great on free speech), Richard Dawkins (Great on science not so good on politics), Peter Hitchens (largely gets the issues but is way too pessimistic), Firstpost/ WION (Indian media).

43 Signs of Western Decline (not in any order)

1.       Population growth rate numbers below 2.1 in almost every OECD country. 

2.       Somali Fraud scandal in Minnesota estimated in the billions of dollars.

3.       No Go zones  in various European cities with large muslim populations.

4.       Increase in mass stabbing kills and rapes in European cities.

5.       Illegal immigrant influx into sanctuary cities in the US.

6.       Human trafficking epidemic.

7.       Grooming gang scandals in the UK.

8.       Substantial decrease in University undergraduate average IQ.

9.       Dangerously high inflation levels in many Western European countries.

10.      Increase in Random subway attacks in American cities.

11.   Growth of Democratic Socialist politics in the United States.

12.   Post-Truth narratives being pushed by both sides of the political agenda. Disdain for historical truth.

13.   Rise of Identitarian politics in many Western countries.

14.   Multiple gender movement insanity.

15.   DEI policies triumphing over common sense meritocracy.

16.   Falling academic standards in the West and the subsequent increase in grade inflation.

17.   The cancerous spread of Islamism in the West.

18.   The empowerment of a political elite that seems indifferent to the needs of the population and has pushed through a radical agenda of increased immigration.

19.   Increase in overt anti-Semitism in the West.

20.   Decrease in the quality of art and music.

21.   Growing rise of AI as a dominant force in the creativity industry.

22.   External Bot farms corrupting political narratives.

23.   Growing corruption of government institutions by ideological actors.

24.   Failed green policies handicapping nations. Looking at you Germany.2

26.   Growth of crypto currency scamming initiatives

27.   Cultures of entitlement permeating western society.

28.   State restrictions on freedom of speech in the UK and other European countries

29.   The fall and breakdown of the family unit.

30.   The prevalence of deleterious crony capitalism.

31.   Criminal use of legal loopholes in various Western countries.

32.   Weak and indecisive leadership.

33.   Cultural Relativism winning over shared standards.

34.   Poor city management in almost every large American urban area.

35.   Chinese economic and intellectual penetration of American industry and the subsequent theft of technology

36.   Two tiered policing and multiple standards based on ethnicity.

37.   White guilt and self loathing epidemics.

38.   Corruption of the churches by external agents

39.   The ideological corruption of international law

40.   Clash of cultures as a result of obvious population replacement

41.   Fall of local manufacturing as a function of global initiatives.

42.   Low levels of wage increase and the affordability crisis.

43.   The Fentanyl crisis

Reflections - XXXVII - Necessary Distractions

There was no single type of feudalism that served as the model for European society but almost all systems gave the lord tremendous power with respect to sentencing for criminal offences, the initiation of capital punishment and rigid control of agricultural policy.

 It seems as though humanity has an innate desire to create art and that is certainly a wonderful characteristic of our species. While the judgement of art is no doubt subjective the compulsion is universal and in the long run western civilization has been the better for it.

Every football (soccer) fan, regardless of the quality of the team, always seem to hover just one defeat away from an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Add genocide to a list of descriptors that include racist, diversity and discrimination that have been so overly used by hyperbole that they have lost all meaning.

The modus operandi for all grafters is when in doubt virtue signal.

What is true of Edward Snowdon is that he was a necessary whistleblower who in fleeing to Russia ultimately betrayed his country. Two apparently oppositional points can exist concurrently.

Thoughts on History

While the Persian made many contributions to Western Civilization their greatest legacy arguably lies with the religion of Zoroastrianism – one of the earliest attempts at monotheism and the dualism of good and evil as forces in nature. The Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have all placed considerable emphasis on these notions within their respective theological philosophies

The Milesian thinker and mathematician Thales is considered to be one of the fathers of the Western Philosophical tradition. Why is that? While many of his contemporaries were running around blaming natural events on the ongoing strife of the gods Thales believed that such phenomena could be BEST understood by rationally unravelling the structure of matter that he believed was centred around water as the originating principle. In doing so Thales helped take explanation beyond the scope of the supernatural and so galvanized the earliest school of philosophy named after the Ionian City in which he resided (Miletus).

If ever you wish to reflect on the Brilliance of Western Civilization look no further than the great cathedrals that define Gothic Architecture. Majestic, tall and inspiring these incredible buildings revolutionized our collective heritage with a unique fusion of science, design, artistic flair and constructive brilliance. Gothic Architecture continued the tradition of representing a celestial paradise on Earth.

Relections XXXVI - Sunday Simmerings

 We worship many false gods today. The worst of these is the notion that we ourselves are deserving of respect.

Once the physics fails the rest of the science comes crashing down.

At the end of the day every political system produces a ruling elite.

Canada itself is somewhat of a forced alliance. A marriage of convenience between English and French segments who from the get go never trusted each other. The fact that it has stayed together this long is a miracle of deception perpetrated by an elite who have used an elaborate system of transfer payments, necessary bullying and smokescreens of Canadian Identity to add filler to the fractures

. A sound mind is free to choose but one must realize that there will be consequences to your decisions. This is the definition of adulthood.

Reflections XXXV - December Digressions

 How much anti-Semitism is driven by jealousy? Methinks at its core...all of it.

There is always a surplus of bad ideas.

The biggest impediment for the Kurds and their quest for international homeland recognition is that they are not in direct conflict with the Jews but rather other Muslim nations.

As  sports evolve they lose their diversity and become captive to a uniform style – baseliners dominate tennis, grapplers control MMA and the high press is universal in football.

Putin has bitten off more than he intended to chew with the Ukraine however he will fight to the last Russian soldier to convince the public that this is not the case. He will welcome any pyrrhic victory.

Watching some conservatives cheer on Putin’s Russia must make the Gipper roll over in his grave.

If a war doesn’t kill a country the post war malaise augmented by socialism will.

The problem with so many intellectuals is that they cannot distinguish the ought from the is. Nor do I think they care to.

Reflections XXXIV - Digesting reality

It doesn’t matter if your heart is in the right place if it is disconnected from your head.

The problem with punditry is that there is often no consequences,  to their failed predictions. Having nothing to lose should be the first warning sign in heeding their analysis.

Put your money where your mouth is was a phrase that was customized for Muhammad Ali.

Ali is the not the greatest for the number of fights he won but he ranks #1 for the quality of opponents he defeated.

It intrigues me to think how great Spain may have become if they had not made the ill fated decision to expel the Jews in 1492 as they approached the zenith of their power.

Keir Starmer took a growing trend of national decline in the UK and gave it the accelerated boost downward to expedite the rot.

If you have faith in humanity remind yourself that over 80 million people voted for Joe Biden despite obvious signs of the onset of dementia.