by Jimme Moglia for the Saker Blog
Back from a trip to Europe, I sketch down a few notes and observations. They are personal, and the patient reader may object to some of my conclusions. But this is, of course, inherent to the general elusiveness of truth.
Given the anecdotal nature of my observations, I describe the anecdotal causes that inspired the trip. Which relate to the night of the last Christmas Eve, a time of year when I easily drift into a somber Dickensian mood, followed by a session of sweet, silent thought, when I summon up remembrance of things past. And when, from across the valleys of years, carved by the inaudible and noiseless foot of time, long lost memories unexpectedly return.
For memory is the library of time, but its index is somewhat jumbled. The library contains everything: episodes, people, events, actions, reactions, recordings of sounds, taste, tastings and images – but they cannot be recalled at will. However, in certain conditions they spontaneously return, from across the valley of time, unexpected and still fresh after so many years.
When in Europe it’s already Christmas Day, in Oregon it’s still the night of Christmas Eve. And under the influence of unsolicited sudden memories of my high-school years, I wrote them down as short mnemonic sketches, and sent them to a high-school friend with whom I had remained in touch.
I like to think that my message prompted my friend to contact other surviving high-school companions. In turn, this led to their first reunion, last January and then to a second, which I just attended.
I should add that, while in America high-school reunions are an industry, it’s not so in Europe, or at least not in Genova, Italy, where my high-school was, still is, and is called a Classical Lyceum.
And where the ‘classical’ reflects my having studied Latin for eight years and Greek for five, only to discover that prospective employers were remarkably indifferent and uninterested in dead languages. Necessity being the mother of many decisions, I opted for an engineering degree, as a more reliable path to employment and consequent, concurrent sustenance.
But I digress. I also considered the trip as an occasion for randomly testing the accuracy of news gathered at home from various sources, other than the unreliable mainstream media.. There is no order in my observations – they follow a list of short notes, as I moved from place to place, or meditated from time to time.
Noticeable at first, in Italy, was the general lack of Italian children accompanying their parents in the streets of towns and cities, including weekends. But even in historic, small provincial towns, the presence of migrant children was noticeable, along with Muslim women, their head in a ‘hijab’, their body in an ‘abaya,’ and their children in tow.
In Genova, a huge African woman in her colorful bo-boo, a small child strapped to her back and an enormous vertical pile-of-something on her head, slowly ambled across the central square, the heart of the city. By now the locals must find the sight unremarkable, for I appeared to be the only one paying attention, and covertly attempting to get a snapshot.
Nizza Monferrato is a historic town, where my cousin works and lives with his family. Monferrato is an area within the region of Piedmont and officially part of Unesco’s World Heritage sites. In 961 AD the Monferrato was made a ‘margravate’ of the Sacred Roman Empire by Emperor Otto I. During 1000 years it was governed by a succession of Marquesses, Dukes and Kings, who intermarried with royal or ruling families in Italy, Europe and even the Byzantine empire.
There are several versions on the etymology of ‘Monferrato.’ Perhaps the most unlikely but colorful has Aleram, the first Marquess of Monferrat, needing a hammer to shoe a horse. Not finding one he used a brick (mon in the local Piedmontese dialect), as a substitute for an iron hammer. The horse was shod (‘ferratus’ in Latin), hence the name Monfrà yielding Monferrat and then Monferrato.
It’s a land of castles, old churches, abbeys, medieval villages, truffles, superb cuisine, grapes and famous wines.
In the town of Alba, the very smart Ferrero family focused their interest on a relatively old Piedmontese snack, made of hazelnuts and chocolate, and originally manufactured even by small one-man shops selling milk and milk products. The Ferreros converted the snack into a worldwide popular brand, known as ‘Nutella,’ thus joining the register of large multinational companies and operators.
My cousin runs a successful accounting firm, founded by his grandmother 60 years ago. He manages the payroll of local firms and farms, as the Italian labor laws are a labyrinth of requirements, where only seasoned and trained experts can find and follow the thread of compliance.
He said that the industrial base of the area is gradually disappearing, due to competition from countries with cheap labor. But fertile agricultural soil, the earth nurturing the famous local vines and grapes, cannot as yet be removed to lands where labor is cheap. Consequently cheap labor has moved to the land of the Monferrato. Migrants from Tunisia, Morocco and Eastern Europe have replaced Italian farm workers.
Average Italians cannot survive on ever lower wages, but migrants can, due to tax-payer funded subsidies. A situation that does not prevent the mainstream media from saying that “migrants perform work that the Italians refuse to do.”
My cousin’s 5-year old son attends a local pre-school, where Italian children are already a minority. The same applies to the other schools in town – a challenge for teachers who must cope with children and students speaking a host of non-European languages.
But the social engineers routinely inject migrants, unemployed or unemployable, into small towns. Of course, the transported new inhabitants are fed, housed and even stipended at public expense. I found quite a few Africans leisurely cycling on country or mountain roads, in excellent shape and seemingly in excellent health.
Also noticeable, and responding to the ‘need for integration,’ a good number of mixed couples – all with an African male and an Italian wife or companion. Clear evidence that the threatening admonition by the French crypto-Jewish Sarkozy to ‘miscegenate or else’ had some effect – as did the famous declaration by the spectral Barbara Specter that “Jews will be resented because they are at the heart of European integration” – which is but new-speak for miscegenation.
This massive racial displacement and substitution continues, while the corporate media angrily howls, whenever an objection is raised at the landing of yet another boat of illegal African migrants. Women on board are pregnant – says the media. Hence those who object to the landings show callousness and racism.
While in Italy, I read a headline, on a major daily, about a directive from the Chief Prosecutor of Milan, instructing the police NOT to arrest pregnant migrant women caught stealing. Why? “Because they would be immediately released, anyway.”
As readers know and I hinted above, this is the unfolding of a massive project of social engineering, planned and set in motion by we know who, though he who says so is branded as a “conspiracy theorist.”
In Italy, welcoming or unwelcoming the illegal migrants’ invasion has turned into a substitute for political labeling. The welcoming are non-communist communists and non-socialist socialists. The unwelcoming are Nazis, racists and, of course, antisemitic.
A “non-communist communist” is neither a paradox nor an oxymoron. After the 1960s revolution, and inspired by the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism, the communists in parliament decided that it was time to ‘open’ to the plutocratic elite, in exchange for a piece of the pie and a place at the trough.
Consequently, labor laws set in place after WW2, and providing a viable protection for workers at large, were dumped, and in came the ‘new economy.’
The neo-liberal fairy tale began to spread its contagion worldwide in the early 1970s, featuring the diabolical Kissinger and his equally diabolical “Chicago Boys” (Milton Friedman et al.)
To start, it proved successful for removing Salvador Allende from Chile. Then the tale became interwoven with the development of the personal computer and the dawn of the “information age.” The extraordinary enrichment of some protagonists of the computer industry, who, from a modest garage where they assembled their new devices, had reached the summit of wealth, fostered some new urban legends. Legends that were useful to spread the whopping falsehood that limitless private profit, tied to the logics of the market, implies the triumph of meritocracy.
Examples are worth a thousand speeches, the more so if the official narrative collides with the apparent contradiction between merit and the accumulation of capital. Nevertheless, two generations were led to believe that people of condition so modest as to begin their ascent from a cramped home garage, have, through their sole merit, climbed the social pyramid, reaching the top rung of the ladder, within sight of God.
This, again, is a whopping lie. The protagonists of those remarkable exploits could devote themselves to computers because they had their backs covered by their families, sometimes multi-millionaire or at worst very wealthy.
Without in any way questioning their merit or resizing their achievements, Bill Gates is the son of a wealthy lawyer, in turn the son of wealthy banker. His mother, Mary Maxwell, was an executive on the board of directors of First Interstate Bank. After founding a number of companies along with the more skilled Paul Allen, Gates purchased from Tim Paterson – for 50 k$ – the rights to use the DOS operating system and resold it to IBM. In turn, DOS had been copied from Gary Kindall, who developed the first high-level programming language for micro-computers, called PLM.
Steve Jobs was the son of a wealthy family. This enabled him to drop out from college after a semester and to tinker with his computer-skilled friend Steve Wozniak, whose father was head engineer at Lockheed, giving Jobs and Wozniak further financial support and connections.
In my humble case, the company I founded from literally nothing, developed the first color Macintosh, about one year before Apple came out with the Mac II. I claim no merit, it was the idea of a brilliant engineer. The system was slow – many new chips and processors were still to come – but it worked. When we showed it at Comdex in Las Vegas, we generated significant interest and a few sales. But when we contacted Apple, we didn’t even receive a reply. We were the proverbial ‘nothing’.
Again, the point is not to diminish the merit of well-established legendary characters, but to show that the obviously positive precondition of having important contacts and not worrying about money, or about financial and elemental survival, significantly alters the landscape of prospects.
Still, the narrative is (was) seductive and usable by the social engineers as the founding myth of the “thought-unique,” designed to promote and launch policies leading to massive inequality, and to block the development of what is (was) generally called social progress.
In writing a book titled “The Anxieties of Affluence”, sociologist Rachel Sherman interviewed 50 among the wealthiest families in New York. They all justified their incredible privileges and attributed their massive wealth to “meritocracy” and “hard work” – something, hard work that is – which they don’t even know what it is.
For merit has a meaning only in a strongly egalitarian society. In a strongly unequal society, meritocracy is a euphemism for the power of the strongest.
Back in Italy, the social engineers – including the non-communist communists mentioned above – launched the myth of entrepreneurship – based on the Italian rendering of the slogan, “From rags to reaches.” In turn, jobs that earlier had some protection became independent one-man enterprises. Thus, for example, a pizza delivery boy becomes the owner and director of the “Food Handling and Delivery Services” company, etc.
Outside the city of Asti, I had lunch in a restaurant called “Add a bit more salt” (Aggiungi un po’ di sale). The owner accommodated 3 other customers at my table, and I took the occasion to ask them if they could offer a dispassionate view of current life in Italy. One was a wines representative, the other an engineer testing the octane levels of refinery fuel, the third an agent of a long-term car-rental agency. The first two quickly drifted into the irrelevant. The third said that he was really concerned that his son will have to leave Italy to find (living wage) employment – a remark I heard repeated by others during the trip.
Which means that young people either leave the country or, if they remain, they tend not to have children because they cannot afford maintaining a family.
In the meantime, the social engineers and their minions have popularized the buzzword or the notion that migrants are ‘resources.’
In Italy, the high-school final exams, opening the path to university, are handled by a panel of instructors selected from a totally different district. This to avoid the positive or negative bias that some teachers acquire towards the students during the years.
The head of one such high-school panel, a day before the examinations, happened to post an ironic tweet online showing a criminal migrant with the caption, “Here is another ‘resource.’” He was promptly fired from his post.
The anecdote illustrates at what minute level social engineering and its related censorship operate. In essence, criticism of migrants and/or of LGBT’s excesses equates, in consequences, to criticism of the Zionists.
How can a relatively small nation, compared to, say, the US, handle an influx of illegal, poor and prolific migrants, who require free food, lodging, education, health care and stipend? After all, nations, like individuals, rely on a balance of income and outcome to administer the material requirements of life. If, say, a family of four, is suddenly required to support an ever increasing number of individuals needing everything, how will they cope?
It is a question that makes sense to most, but apparently not the social engineers behind the European-civilization-displacement project. Or rather, it does, but asking it is a sign of racism, given the mental conditioning the public has been subjected-to for at least 4 generations. In the meantime, the most expedient way to pay for the non-productive human load is to increase indirect taxes, which affect the least advantaged, and to further reduce social services and general citizens’ rights.
On the other hand, during a Sunday there was held in Turin a massive LGBT parade, with disgusting transvestites and drag-queens parading in the main historical square of the city – with ample coverage given by the mainstream media and television. Zionists are at the forefront of the promotion of LBGT rights, same sex marriages and sodomy at large – by their own admission.
The Catholic Church, which formerly operated as defense against the penetration of Zionism into the fabric of society, has been wholly Judaized. Interestingly, a faint voice was recently heard from Benedict XVI, the pope who resigned – officially for old age, unofficially because he could not stem the tsunami of sodomy flooding the Catholic Church, as readers well know.
In an article on a Catholic Magazine on the subject of mass-migration, Benedict XVI wrote that migrants ‘should have the right to live in the country where they were born.’ The message was addressed to those who have ears and still wish to use them.
For the non-communist communists, who control the mainstream media, the cause of African and Muslim migration is Europe’s history of “colonialism.” This is the transatlantic counterpart of “slavery” as the cause of alleged “discrimination” against African Americans. Colonialism is also the reason why – in Europe – Africans and Muslims should be ‘integrated,’ or actually replace Europeans to atone for Europe’s sins.
In the US, however, apart from frequent cases of reverse-discrimination, historical “slavery” is also allegedly responsible for 78% of African American births occurring out of wedlock. Which, in turn, creates a self-reinforcing situation of fatherless families, with mothers and offspring on welfare, unable to leave the cycle, leading to the consequences we all are aware of.
At the same time, Louis Farrakhan, a leader who has attempted with some success to inspire pride of ethnicity as a means to inspire a collective sense of self-worth and a constructive desire for betterment, is ostracized, banned, pilloried and condemned as a black Nazi. The ‘Nazi’ element refers, among other things, to his organization having published an instructive 3-volume study detailing, from ample and un-doctored archive documentation, the role of the chosen people in the American slave trade and industry.
During my trip, I could not miss visiting at least one Cistercian Abbey – in the instance, the beautiful Abbey of Staffarda, located at the foot of the hills below the majestic mountains that form the South-Western Alps.
There is a connection between the Cistercian and Benedictine Abbeys, and the absurd notion that racism is the true obstacle to integration.
Cistercians and Benedictines were great constructors and farmers. Where they operated, they built magnificent Romanesque and Gothic architectural jewels. Equally, they transformed the surrounding lands, making them fertile and sources of life and sustenance for the community of men.
For over 1500 years “Ora et labora” (Pray and Work) have been words expressing the spirit that kindled the development of the European civilization. Monasteries have inspired a strong and profound faith. The monks learned how to best employ the scientific knowledge they acquired, so as to convert bogs into arable lands and rocks into homes. They did it through a careful observation of nature and her environment, to which they added the study and practice of ancient medical knowledge, philosophy and astronomy.
Staffarda, like other abbeys, represents the ‘summa’ of an artistic, cultural, theological, philosophical and human patrimony that equally reflected itself in other spheres of life.
In the Middle Ages, Cistercians and Benedictines had to develop and test their skills in dealing with the necessities concerning the management of the territory, land surveying, topography, the study of waters, the handling of goods and money, the building of functional structures and irrigation canals. And all aimed at linking the human with the divine and theological experience.
Some historians actually connect the traditional acknowledged work-discipline and skills of the Germans in manufacturing, design and innovation, to the large numbers of abbeys throughout the land, which helped inspire what we can broadly call the spirit of patient labor. In Germany, but also in other European countries, wherever abbeys grew and flourished.
Therefore Europeans, as an ethnic group, carry within themselves the spirit and the distillate of the work of centuries. For not everything that exists we can touch. The notion that all races are ‘equal’ is questionable. And the coarse and crass imposition of ‘integration’ and ‘miscegenation,’ as the penalty to pay for the ‘colonialism’ of earlier Europeans, is an aberrant, malignant and malicious notion, floated by the social engineers bent upon the destruction of the goy.
Not far from the Abbey of Staffarda, a mountain river creates an opening, a small lake where the water acquires the color of the rocks it runs over. A few white geese leisurely lingered under the sun. The dazzling whiteness of the birds, heightened by the sunshine, composed a picture, which, like that of Wordsworth’s daffodils, the inward memory can re-create, but no painter could represent.
During the trip, I was not totally cut off from the news from across the Atlantic, including the vulgar representation of Venezuela by the Trump Cartel, let alone the related lies, even larger than Trump himself. The Cartel’s pronouncements show that their passions are under little restraint from law, less from respect for decency, and none from public opinion. By their unwarranted arrogance and braggadocio, Trump’s compadres are happily unaware that it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass – convinced as they are that their wealth, pride or shameless ignorance provides the desired feeling of awe in the vulgar. They endeavor, by their fury, to fright away contempt from before them, when they know it must follow them behind.
I also happened to watch an interview, on Venezuelan television, with General Jacinto Perez Arcai, retired head of the Venezuelan Armed Forces. He said, among other things, that Hugo Chavez was assassinated, because the nature of his deadly disease is still unknown to this day. According to Arcai, who inspires credibility by his demeanor and nobility of address, the killer was one of Chavez’ bodyguards, called Leamsy Salazar.
Salazar was born in 1974 to a large family living in a slum district of Caracas. A. He was a slightly below-average student at the Naval Academy. But in 1999 Salazar became a presidential honor guard. Tito Rincón Bravo, Venezuela’s minister of defense and father of Leamsy’s first wife, was instrumental in the appointment – see the earlier section in these notes about the power of connections.
Not long after Chavez’ death, Salazar married again and flew with his new wife to the Dominican Republic, – and from there to Spain. From Spain, a special plane, belonging to the Drug Enforcement Agency, as a cover for the CIA, flew Salazar to the US. Ever since, the Salazars live in the US under federal protection.
General Arcai gave an interesting definition of Hugo Chavez. “He is the sword of Cervantes, but with auctoritas” (Es la espada de Cervantes, con auctoritas). Where the Latin term ‘auctoritas,’ better carries the meaning of legitimate, distinctive and instinctive leadership, as opposed to the generic ‘authority’ we are familiar with.
Given that, allegedly but with some evidence, the Mossad has just sent a contingent to Colombia to assist in the efforts across the border to assassinate Maduro, I cannot help suspecting that Israel’s hatred of Venezuela stems from Chavez’ pronouncement about Israel. When, alone among all world leaders, Chavez had the courage to say, on world television, that “Israel es un pays de mierda.” Considering that the Old Testament is an orgy of blood, resentment and revenge, and that the Talmud is worse, it’s easy to understand Israel’s hatred for Chavez and his legacy.
During the last leg of my visit, I travelled from Piedmont to Ventimiglia, the western-most outpost of the Italian Riviera, bordering France. To do so, I crossed an enclave around the little town of Tende, lost to the French after WW2, thanks to Mussolini. That Tende is now a totally French town is also proven by the presence of a fantastic French pastry shop, featuring the unique, delicious, irresistible and inimitable ‘millefeuilles,’ as well as a French cheese shop, bound to excite the most dormant appetite. A tempting gathering of dainty bits, that make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
To sit down and enjoy my millefeuille I walked to the little train station of Tende. The railway connecting Nice and Ventimiglia with Piedmont, built in the early 1900, is a miracle of acrobatic architecture, and well worth the rail trip. It bores through tunnels built on the brink of precipices and the open sections stand on the edge of abysses.
The 2-van train, of which one was also the diesel electric locomotive, was lingering at the station. A passenger had alighted to smoke a cigarette. He approached me and said in French,
“I have been a soldier for over 20 years and now the government maintains me.”
Good for you – I replied.
I deserved it –he continued
I am sure you did – I said.
That ended our short exchange, for the stationmaster, his green palette in hand, invited the retired soldier to get back on the train.
I know that in Italy, on the other side of the Tende Pass, few, or probably none would ever make a similar proud statement or observation, let alone to a stranger. On the other hand… Italy never had a Napoleon. Which only shows, once more, the lingering presence of the past, the weight of time on men and nations, and the long tail of history.
Once again a beautifully written and thought provoking essay from Jimmy. I have recently seen the tragedy which is Italy with my own eyes. Not just Italy, but across Europe. One aspect not commented on by Jimmy is how dangerous the situation has become. My wife and I were nearly attacked on a train to Pisa because we wouldn’t give up our seats to Africans who had boarded the train. The train conductor who had been checking tickets disappeared as did other white passengers who were previously in the carriage. But we stood our ground. At Pisa the riot police lined the platform with shields and dogs, but did nothing as nearly 100 Africans with their bundles ran down the platform. We were in Florence in a hotel on the very street where an African migrant murdered a white girl.
I still find it very hard to understand why it has been allowed to happen. It is irreversible, of course.
“We (Jews) intend to turn Europe into a mixed race of Asians and Negroes ruled over by the Jews.”
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founding father of the EU.
Would love to have a source for that statement.
BTW: you might find this worth a glance:
THE IDEA BEHIND COUDENHOVE-KALERGI’S PAN-EUROPEAN UNION
PATRICIA WIEDEMER*
At a time when Europeans were bemoaning their fate about the outcome of the
First World War a young man decided to do something about this pessimism.
Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi was only 27 years old when he took it upon
himself to introduce his Pan-European idea and change the world. He devised a
plan to give Europe back its optimism, to guarantee peace and increase
prosperity. This paper intends to examine Coudenhove-Kalergi’s motives behind
the Pan-European idea. Its aim is to propose the thesis that Coudenhove is the
ideological father of a modern, unified Europe.
http://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/0191-6599(93)90229-J
Wiedemer, P. (1993). The idea behind Coudenhove-Kalergi’s pan-European union. History of European Ideas, 16(4-6), 827–833. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(93)90229-j
url to share this paper: sci-hub.tw/10.1016/0191-6599(93)90229-J
It happened because the West destroyed Africa, first with colonialism and Imperialism and hyper-exploitation, then with the Cold War murders of leaders like Lumumba and the installation of corrupt goon stooges like Mobutu, Musuveni, Kagame, Zenawi, Buthulezi etc, and finally with the economic warfare of neoliberal ‘Structural Adjustment’ ie forced impoverishment and the looting of the countries by Western economic interests. The latest phase has been the spread of jihadist thuggery throughout West Africa, economic warfare against Zimbabwe, straight aggression, devastation and genocide in Libya, and the installation of a new generation of vicious puppets like al-Sisi. Then to top it all has come climate destabilisation rendering much of the Sahel uninhabitable. It wasn’t ‘allowed’ to happen-it was made to happen.
Golda Meir, 4th prime minister of Israel:
“Miscegenation is worse than Holocaust”
She is not referring to Goyim.
One Orthodox Judaic described the USA as the ‘United States of Amalek’, because of the ‘..loss of precious Jewish souls’ through out-marriage. Amalek, of course, is an entity that the Judaic God has declared must be totally exterminated. There’s gratitude for you.
@ Mulga
I think you are in the wrong age.
In any case any idea what Amalek these guys are serving?
https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/06/soul-scalping.html
The Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Judaics and their secular fascist allies see Amalek everywhere. And Haman, too.
Honestly – it’s a shame now to be European. Big Shame. I hope to have born earlier and die to not see this diaster. What a shame!
@Travis
I still hope to see the lineup of traitors on their way to the gallows. Very, very dark times will descend upon Europe at large, but it cannot be circumvented – the very, very first large revolution by the people for the people in Europe for the last two thousand years (there have been many minor ones, usually called peasant riots). Our only hope – that we will get some advice from China who went through it succesfully !!!
How goes the saying – there is no alternative ! But first the US – the military arm of the Beast – must crumble some more, otherwise it would be futile from the start – a.civil war in Europe would be a heaven sent for the devils (and of course they are planning for it, but we are to delay them just for a few years).
Sorry to break this to the readership and the author Jimmie Moglia, but what transpires in contemporary Italy is a 100% colonial repercussion; no ifs, no buts. For crying out loud, did you really believe Italy would be spared ’the great unwashed’ as its gung-ho government contributed to Libya’s destruction? Ghadaffi understood what is simply incomprehensible to most of today’s Euro-trash — their Zionazi overlords prove him absolutely right.
To add further insult to injury, there is very little which unites Western Europe’s NATO/EU vassals with classic European culture. The ’natives’ were quite happy to eat s••t culture made in the US. It was in communist Eastern Europe that the classical heritage prospered. Doesn’t look very convincing when people addicted to cultural coprophagia suddenly start to shed tears over the destruction of Europe’s classical heritage. They should have addressed the issue decades ago.
Obstruct, delay, and ignore, are very powerful drugs.
Nice to see other finns here! Mestari on meille suosiollinen.
Google translation,MOD:The Master is a favor for us.
Europe and its lazy fat ass folks deserve to be wiped out. I honestly don’t pity them at all. Sheep is sheep.
Don’t insult sheep. I never saw sheep watching Eurovision ”Song” Contest. That’s for Euro-trash.
@Frankie
There is an almost religious drive on the part of the higher educated european elite to glorify the US joined by a certain strata of youth (I haven’t figured out whether there is a specific pattern), both at the very bottom (the fat asses) and as it seems the middle tier. Definitely more women than boys.
I imagine it is that imbued image of the (Democrats only !!) US being the beacon of progressive development and being part of it, to be the pinnacle of existence in the universe. All of them hate Trump – of course !!
Almost all beauty has left Europe – it’s really perplexing – all nice beautiful girls and women are gone, evaporated, deported, suicided, hidden, killed – who knows, starting somewhere in 2008 ???
Rhino like fat asses now everywhere you look – it’s really, really depressing !
They’ve been munching on ‘Freedom Fries’, I fear.
And Trump is ordering them to buy ‘freedom gas’.
Well I watched Glastonbury festival over the weekend….amazing vivacity amongst the generations participating. Joyful…uplifting .
@ Jimmie
you couldn’t be more right about the ‘power of connections’
This is a paragraph I will not soon forget:
“Again, the point is not to diminish the merit of well-established legendary characters, but to show that the obviously positive precondition of having important contacts and not worrying about money, or about financial and elemental survival, significantly alters the landscape of prospects.”
It reminds me actually of a speech Bill Gates made to some students about being a drop out and how he found success.
Yeah, I thought too myself try that going from a nobody whose father was an uneducated displaced person who suffered orphanhood in Croatia and then working as a miner in the pits of Northern Canada.
So much bulldung from the mouths of the wealthy who i might add were born with a golden spoon in their mouth? Then get this to be brought in Freemasonry their led to believe that they were born better than others and so deserve their privilege? That galls me the most really people thinking they were born better than others? Welcome to the oligarchy.
Sadly, the wealth corrupts and the power corrupts the most, imagine when somebody has both, wealth and power. Coming from east, I knew real left communists who abide to the rules of real left when they were in power, certainly they were the generation who witnessed the misery of ww2 on their skin. Those people being in power at that time could be reached by the last peasant from a remote village in the mountains if they had a problem. After they were out because of age, the new ones did what they did until the whole left plunged in this actual position of being only by name.
Every civilization has a peak and a decline. Some civilizations disappear, others stay alive (or even resurrect) in different form, etc.
Obviously, once the fundamentals of a civilization’s culture and religion are eroded, and they have become very corrupt, it is easy for internal or external “social engineers” to run riot.
Religion is in heart of culture. When religion, faith has been abandoned that culture will downgrade to just civilization and latter disappeared. There won’t be recovery, only to be replaced by other culture (which has religion).
Western culture is doomed. They will get what they deserve.
I agree w/you about the culture, but with in the culture is the land, and if a land of plenty can find a way to overwhelm the culture and rise above it, they can then replace that culture and possibly find success.
A gods dream perhaps, but are not gods allowed to dream(and plot) also?
it is just business nothing personal,for the 0.001 % who shape our reality., race,religion&culture means nothing, the cash register is all that matters.So why are the globalist bend on bringing in new blood and stocks into merica and europe? for the simple reason they do not want another japanisation of their colonies they control.The birth rate has fallen off here and cheap labour is a must for the bottom line.Today it is so called european who were never one race though they believed they were,for crying out loud who was fighting in in ww 1 and 11,not the arabs.,tomorrow it will be the arabs who will be displaced if they don’t bring in the bacon.
Japan is not only the second most financial power house it was the apple in the globalist eyes,who you think was buying all these worthless bonds of the globalist?israel?in japan more than 20 percent are more than 65+ of age,robots can do only so much ,for all the wealth of the state of japan the ordinary japanese are financially living in fear.,cause the burden of covering the globalist’s bonds.
like some other comments here, what were the european and american hoping ?that the politicians will give them security?,how does bombing mid east give security?the american and european tax payers underwrote all them munitions to the last cent.What goes around comes around don’t ever fall for ,”them vs u”s kool aide.Central bankers and politicians of all colour and shades don’t give a shit to the ordinary jake and jills ,as can be seen.
Ahhh, the benefits of Liberalism. In Russia the birth rate might dropping but the borders are still fanatically policed and patrolled. Birth rates can always be increased once certain socio-economic concerns are addressed, seasonal labour can be bussed in and returned, increases made in robotic automation, but once a country is over run by outsiders its essence is gone, that country is then perfect for rule only by the One World Government.
“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
Jimmy..great writing thank you…..ever read those lovely evocative travel books by Patrick Leigh Fermor walking across Europe in 1933 from UK to the Black sea ? Often wondered of someone would recreate the journey comparing then and now- suggestion!
Where we have lost touch with the land….we are ourselves lost.
Fermor’s A Time of Gifts—marvelous book.
And the idea of recreating his walk and comparing is also IMHO brilliant.
Thanks, Jimmie, for the evocative and thought-provoking essay.
I appreciate your comments about monasteries.
I spent a lot of time in my twenties in the so-called Pfaffenwinkel of Bavaria, with many, many Benedictine monateries, abbeys, pilgrimage churches.
Here is just one, Ettal:
https://www.kloster-ettal.de/
Andechs, also Benediktiner, is a fabulous spot, and they have a wonderful beer garden, the best beer, the best cheese, you can take a beautiful hike to get there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andechs_Abbey
I loved these for their beautiful buildings, and they also imbued the landscape with a special aura.
And the beer gardens, too.
Katherine
Jimmie, yet another excellent work.
One small addition. Certain, group of people, I will not go there, are perpetuating the dead languages theory, thus trying to kill any notion of continuance.
Those languages are not dead, they are still used, but because of I said above majority of people does not understand the connect.
One example, maybe couple. Homer uses the word, and I am going to try to write it with Latin alphabet, so
the word is “thyra => θύρα door” there are many modern uses of that word today
primarily as “parathyro => παράθυρο => window”
https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/θύρα and https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/παράθυρο
One more is “navs = νάυς = warship” hence the navy.
https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/ναυς does not explain the meaning correctly because marchant ship is called plοio or karavi
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/καράβι
Plethora of English words, which were implanted more than 4000years ago (words like “boy”).
Here Antonakos explains why those languages have been removed from schools (to keep people stupid).
The use of Homeric words in modern Greek language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTgTuAB1S-g
50:53
So once again Latin and ancient Greek are not dead, we just do not know it.
Thanks again for great article
Thank you. A whole new genre and type of history could be written based on the birth, the development and the evolution of words. The ‘deadness’ of a language is mostly in the mind of its killers.
Once more, Mr. Moglia gives me a feeling of “sweet sorrow” because he recalls me with some sadness that English language was once a language made of words pleasant to read and rigorously arranged, the language I studied in school in the 1950s-1960s (I am not of native English language). The Saker also writes in good and pleasant English.
And as to the substance of Mr. Moglia’s articles, I fully agree with it.
Epina 39
I’m an Italian reader and I live in Piedmont, not far from the places described in this interesting essay. I can confirm that the situation is worrying, although not (yet) so dramatic. It is true that a lot of immigrants are wandering and causing many troubles, that the life quality of the population is decreasing and that, if you try to complain, censorship from the mainstream media and the “gauche-caviar elites” operates by labeling you as ignorant, nazi, razi and so-on. Finally, it is true that in many supermarkets the dog and pet sector is bigger than that for babies.
In any case, people are becoming aware of the mainstream media lies. If a foreign guy could catch these glimpses in a short trip, it is easier for people living here. And the recent European elections certified this. I can only hope that this awareness increases up to force a change of our politicians, but I have to admit that many things will be decided more by US elections. In my opinion, the biggest problem Italy is that its foreign policy is decided by Washington, and economic policy by Bruxelles. As long as this is true, things will continue to go bad, and we can only hope they do not worse more than now in the next decades.
I know that many young people are leaving, probably towards a better situation in other countries, but I do not want and I prefer to struggle here. For now, I am proud to live in a wonderful country for landscapes, history, faith, and I appreciate that the author recognized this beauty.
End of day, what America (and Russia for other reasons) want to do, is destroy the Euro. The USD cannot have any competition so they can stop the world without their fiat currency as the store of value and keep printing more to cover debt. They want to slave the world to one currency and the only real competition today is the EUR. They were successfull in stopping the E500 from being printed, next will be the currency itself. (Thanks to Swiss sanity the CH500 is back in business).
I think that the so called common European heritage has ended with the end of world war two, Europe had been split in two and a new era for Europe has begun : the cold war era. The fall of the former eastern Block has worsened the situation, though at the beginning it looked other way around, people thought that a new revival of Europe will emerge. That was a dream which never materialized, those who won the cold war had something else in their mind, the prey was too big to be left out from their hands and they did realize the risks of letting the European nations build a continent on their free will, moreover with a new Russia having its part in the new architecture.
@ Moglia,
Do you remember that hailstorm in Naples, Italy a year or so ago? I certainly do and knowing what the bible teaches about climate destabilization it is odd how a pattern emerges and for me it leads me on a quest to ask many questions and scour the internet looking for clues as to why if truly a work of God why? What pollution of sin is perhaps causing this climate destabilization? Lo and behold what turns up but news that Naples is the center for Mafia. Some news reporter after having written a book about the place is under constant protection from the carabinieri? And now look at this Moglia? A freak hailstorm descends upon Guadalajara, Mexico and on a Sunday morning no less? It has me asking too many questions and searching for answers about what is happening there that would provoke God? There is a pattern to what is occurring and with this now in Mexico it just gets more and more interesting? You see when ones eyes are opened to the truth thank Gerry Fox and to the teachings of the bible it makes for a very interesting day.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/freak-hail-storm-strikes-mexican-city-of-guadalajara/ar-AADGh6M?ocid=spartandhp
I find this pompous writing style to somehow make people think such distortions are total reality. Here is the reason why Italy is inundated with parasitic refugees. It’s the Jews!
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/07/02/us-government-tops-all-for-creating-refugees/
But let’s take him at his word. That the Jews are behind all the problems of the world. The Jewish fascist and terrorist Menachim Begin compared the Goyim to insects and that the Jews should rule them, because they are so stupid and inferior.
Is that the reason why the world is so messed up? Has the rest of the world, the 99% non Jews just as he says?
Both those who were born Jews as well as people like Gilad Atzmon, Ilan Pappe and other dissidents as well as the rest of humanity are just victims of the ‘Superor Race’?
What this does is prevent any agency or responsibility for those who are both victims and opponents of Zionist and Rothschild banker crimes. “The Jews made us kill all the Indians, and enslave the Blacks, colonize the world, kill millions in the wars they fomented, and we innocents had nothing to do with it”.
Is that what he’s trying to say? If it is, then Begin is right, humanity deserves its miserable fate. If he is wrong, then all the crimes of Western civilization over the past 500 hundred years have a few more perpetrators than the elite degenerates who shepherd the Jewish community narrative as the sole source of the problem.
This is is lazy irresponsible thinking. Vladimir Putin likewise recently compared this type of ‘blame the Jews for everything’ quite similar to ‘Blame the Russians for everything’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IFaO0ueb0 “Putin compares Russian hacking allegations to anti-semitism”
There is a middle-ground between ‘blaming the Jews for everything’, and declaring the Jews innocent of ANY wrong-doing. It’s called REALITY, and it pertains, in the negative, mostly to the Jewish elites who, despite the ludicrous denials, do hold more power in their control than any similar Mafia, in history.