Written in 1925, On Resistance to Evil by Force is one of the most important tracts composed by the white émigré philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin. Responding to the pacifist pretensions of Count Leo Tolstoy, Ilyin mounts a tenacious defense of the Orthodox tradition of physical opposition to evil. As he explains, in the face of evil that can be contained by no other means, a forceful response is not only permissible but becomes a knightly duty. Moreover, heroic courage consists not only in recognizing this duty but also in bearing its heavy moral burden without fear. Western liberals often accuse Ilyin of being Putin's favorite philosopher.

https://a.co/d/ayo9YwU

The finding of Moses, 1904, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 136.7 × 213.4 cm, private collection

Alma-Tadema takes this well-known Biblical story and expands upon the narrative in his large composition. Secreted away with the maid, the infant Moses would not have been carried so proudly along the Nile by a retinue of maidens, slaves, and priests. Indeed the overall mood is one of celebration, equal parts ritual religious procession and showy parade. Held aloft on her royal chair, dressed in regal finery, the Pharaoh's daughter holds a prominent place in the composition, her soft smile suggesting bemusement that the basket holds a baby. The inclusion of so many accompanying figures allowed the artist to feature many of his favorite (if not always ethnographically accurate) models from past masterworks: the maidens, from the olive skinned exotic beauties with glossy, dark braids to more familiar fair skinned strawberry blonds and the priests, their shaved heads and white linen drapery a symbol of their purification.

RFK Jr. Calls for ‘Reckoning’ for ‘Immoral, Homicidal, Criminal Behavior’ During COVID-19 Pandemic

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/rfk-jr-calls-reckoning-homicidal-criminal-behavior-during/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rfk-jr-calls-reckoning-homicidal-criminal-behavior-during

"The aggressively advertised game features a cast of queer activist "punk rock" characters that set out on a road trip across an America controlled by "conservative oppressors" that are really uncool. Set in North America in 2030, The American Republic is under the iron fist of "Justice" and The Puritans, a fascist police force presided over by President Samuel Ward. California has gained independence and is now Pacifica, a corporatocracy ruled by the wealthy few. Texas has seceded, rebranding itself as the libertarian Columbia."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/death-woke-queer-activist-video-game-funded-eu-cant-find-players

"Sweden Embraces Repatriation"

2024 marked the first year in over 50 years that Sweden has had net emigration. Asylum applications have collapsed to just 5,600 a year and legal immigrants are leaving the country in record numbers.

A 158-page report published by the Swedish state recommends that immigrants and asylum seekers, including those who have become naturalized citizens of the kingdom, be offered $15,000 to return to their ethnic homelands and countries of origin.

The Swedish government is looking to pass a law to require public servants, including doctors, dentists, and teachers, to report any encounter with an illegal alien.

The government is preparing changes to numerous other laws to introduce life sentences for criminals, swifter deportations, and further reduce the level of immigration.

The Swedish state, after decades of embracing the Great Replacement, appears to be the first Western state to be seriously exploring, researching, and putting forward proposals to facilitate large-scale remigration and repatriation of non-Europeans from the country.

White Papers investigates the reports, proposed laws, demographic situation, and history of immigration to Sweden and puts forward a series of recommendations to strengthen Sweden's repatriation proposals.
Read the full piece here on our Substack:

Our tax dollars at work.

"The panel then went on to say that the Brazilian norm of trusting local family and friends over distant or discredited institutions created “a big problem” for fact-checkers in policing disinformation. Telegram and WhatsApp, therefore, presented a “danger to democracy” by allowing citizens to speak freely with one another, circumventing official guidance and trafficking in narratives disfavored by designated institutions:

"Fergus Bell, the moderator of the censorship coordination discussion, then polled the room of prominent fact-checkers and vetted mainstream media journalists, and noted their common acknowledgment that direct messaging apps and local familial trust norms posed problems for all of them:"

https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/us-tax-dollars-funding-text-message-censorship-in-brazil/#:~:text=The%20panel%20then,all%20of%20them%3A

What did Ancient Rome look like?

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Last week everyone had a good laugh at a newly appointed nuclear security official, who wrote an absurd essay calling for "Queering nuclear weapons". Ridiculous as that essay was, it obscures something much darker.

Digging into her research history, the official in question has written extensively about the supposed threat to US nuclear security posed by 'domestic violent extremists' ... a term she uses so broadly that it encompasses everything from Atomwaffen to QAnon to the Oath Keepers.

To combat this threat, she conceptualizes a weaponization of DEI, installing a zampolit that will continuously evaluate employees for the presence of unapproved opinions, while also (because of course) relaxing security and competence tests for diverse individuals.

It's one thing for the media, academia, major corporations, government bureaucracies, the police, the military, and so on to DIE. That's aggravating and occasionally dangerous. If the same cancer spreads into the marrow of the nuclear industry, the consequences could be extraordinarily dire.

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/malevolent-anal-distraction

"For Russians, however, the story is more complicated. Mannerheim is remembered in different ways – as a man who started out as a brilliant military and intelligence officer then turned into a cruel commander during the Finnish Civil War, in which he did not particularly care about the actions of his people, and during WWII he became Hitler’s ally and was directly responsible for one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes and war crimes in world history. Major politicians – especially in such a turbulent era as the first half of the 20th century – are rarely unambiguous figures, especially when their names are inscribed in the histories of different peoples, and Carl Gustaf Mannerheim was living proof of this."
https://www.rt.com/russia/602938-mannerheim-between-russia-finland/#:~:text=For%20Russians%2C%20however,proof%20of%20this.

"Ask any mathematically untrained person whether he should switch and he will say, and say rightly, “It makes no difference.” That is the right answer. You won’t know one envelope from another. There is no paradox. Why does one seem to arise? Because of the rush to get to the “expected value”. If people stuck with probability, and not swapped in some decision rule, which is not probability, for probability, there never would have been any difficulty. Which I shall now prove to you, if you are mathematically trained and need proof."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-148109888#:~:text=Ask%20any%20mathematically,and%20need%20proof.

Radar sends out electromagnetic waves, and sonar transmits outward acoustic waves, however from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2, to detect aircraft a passive detection device was deployed to hear the the noise of airplane engines. This German passive acoustic aircraft detector was photographed in 1939.

The UN is 'terrified' of Trump, an official admits in undercover video.

"I’m not sure the United Nations is going to survive a second term from Donald Trump."

https://nypost.com/2024/08/29/opinion/un-terrified-of-trump-official-admits-in-undercover-video/

This gentleman is about to make you an offer you can't refuse.

The best companion for a kayak.

"Perhaps we should do a Mosaic Ark tour of the features of Telegram: the channels and chats; the stickers and media files; the ease with which we can share items from one channel or chat (group) into our working chat; the archives and access to the news of the world before it shows up on any other social media platform, never mind the mainstream news. To be fair, it is not a platform that is instantly legible. It takes a bit of time to figure out its utility. But when every other platform kicked Milo out back in 2019, Durov welcomed him on Telegram. And when the world erupted into war in February 2022, the channels of Telegram were the first to carry the news."

https://dragoncommonroom.com/so/0fP6lnpKx