Looking for good horror/ apocalypse and or sci-fi audiobook recommendations available on audible.
Forwarded from Smoke Pit V
Plaster, History of Sharpshooting.pdf
93.9 MB
Excellent read on feats of marksmanship going back to the first men to be called sharpshooters. Now out of print, I was increasingly fortunate to have been given a hard copy of this by a close friend. I highly encourage giving this a read.
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Forwarded from Full 🎄Haus
Camp of the Saints back in print and affordable. For years it was only available second-hand for upwards of $100 a copy. Worth the read: I can still visualize the stinking, horrifying flotilla. https://a.co/d/9Agcqow
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Forwarded from Memento Mori : Remember Death
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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Forwarded from Contemporary Grantist
Then the poor, deprived of their land, were no longer eager for military service and had few children, so that soon all Italy was bereft of freemen and filled with gangs of foreign slaves, through whom the rich cultivated their estates, having driven away the free citizens.
Plutarch, The Life of Tiberius Gracchus
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Forwarded from Smoke Pit V
The Fieldcraft Book.pdf
19.6 MB
"Fieldcraft is often limited to camouflage only. The Fieldcraft Book widens the aperture of ‘fieldcraft’ to encompass tips, tricks, and techniques that allow Infantry Marines to better live in the field and efficiently complete tasks"
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Forwarded from Smoke Pit V
The Ultimate Sniper Advanced Training Manual.pdf
51 MB
"The procedures, drills, and techniques outlined in this book are intended for official military and law enforcement use only. It is not the intent of the author, publisher, or distributors of this book to encourage readers to perform any of the techniques or drills in this book without proper professional training and supervision. Attempting to do so can result in severe injury or death to the reader or bystanders. This book is for academic study only."
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“In the world war we used propaganda to make the boys accept connoscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn’t join the army.
So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill,kill,kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side…it is His will that the Germans be killed” Smedley Butler “War is a Racket” 1934
So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill,kill,kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side…it is His will that the Germans be killed” Smedley Butler “War is a Racket” 1934
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“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the "war to end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here.
No one “ -Smedley Butler “War is a Racket” 1934
No one “ -Smedley Butler “War is a Racket” 1934
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“There wouldn't be very much sense in having the 76-year-old president of a munitions factory or the flat-footed head of an international banking firm or the cross-eyed manager of a uniform manufacturing plant—all of whom see visions of tremendous profits in the event of war-voting on whether the nation should go to war or not. They never would be called upon to shoulder arms--to sleep in a trench and to be shot. Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.
There is ample precedent for restricting voting.;
Only those who must suffer should have the right to vote.” -Smedley Butler “War is a Racket” 1934
There is ample precedent for restricting voting.;
Only those who must suffer should have the right to vote.” -Smedley Butler “War is a Racket” 1934
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Came across a very good article written by far left jews and their infighting with AJC jews. I will post the link as well as some excerpts and commentary but my takeaway is that Jewish elites have done much work to stifle poorer and dumber jews who would be more obvious and less effective.
The “more progressive jews” accuse them of diplomatic backroom deals rather than direct pressure. They accuse them of retreating into Whiteness, they do not understand that these are the most effective tactics and that without them jews would have drowned in their hubris and been crushed under the boot of Americans a long time ago. If they behaved the way radical jews are behaving today and saying what radical jews are saying today the jewish problem would have been solved in America generations ago and jewish social movements would have been strangled in their crib.
“Alongside the Jewish Federations, the ADL and AJC were established by a wealthy German Jewish capitalist class intent on suppressing the political power of poor, often radicalized Eastern European immigrants. Over the next century, those leaders and their successors courted wealthy donors who reflected their own political leanings, and closed ranks around an insular directorate. In accordance with the conservatism of their leaderships, the institutions allied themselves only selectively with civil rights organizing, even as they labored to undermine more radical movements—such as Black Power and Third World anti-colonialism—and embraced an increasingly right-wing Zionist politics in Israel/Palestine. “
The most powerful jewish groups are hierarchical not democratic and they went as far to withdraw from the Jewish Congress to protect their hierarchy.
“In the eyes of German Jews who had arrived decades earlier—many of whom had started out upper class or had risen there—this new ethnic, politically-dissenting Jewishness threatened the genteel white identity they enjoyed. In response, wealthy German Jewish philanthropists founded the AJC, the ADL,and the American Jewish Congress, together called the “Jewish defense organizations.” The Jewish Federations, the umbrella structure for raising and distributing funds in Jewish communities, came together at roughly the same time. These high-society founders were civic-minded men who created libraries and museums, and funded charities that undoubtedly saved immigrants’ lives. But they also set out to ensure that Jewish politics stayed the domain of “backstairs diplomacy” (a term the groups used to describe their preference for quiet intercession rather than public pressure)”
They worked really hard to make backstairs diplomacy the main tactic because in America the sort of brazen communist agitation jews did in Europe would have been smashed.
“When Nazis rounded up Jewish communists, the ADL denied them rather than defend them. In 1938, it issued a 30-page pamphlet declaring, “Communism never was Jewish! Communism can never be Jewish!” The ADL’s mission of anti-defamation was, from the outset, also a mission to reshape US Jewry as distinctly white and capitalist in orientation.”
Since the article is written for Jewish progressives and isn’t meant to be ready by anticommunists they don’t mind debunking the claim that communism isn’t jewish and condemns the ADL for not defending jewish communism and instead lying about communism being jewish.
“Finally, in the mid-1950s, the Jewish defense organizations and many other Jewish groups officially purged their ranks of leftists. (By then, the left, despite being a substantial force in US politics, had been made vulnerable by postwar changes: Eastern European Jews had begun to suburbanize and espouse a middle-class American nationalism, leftist organizations were riven by ideological division, and anti-communist fervor had surged.) In the purges, members of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order were fired from their jobs in Jewish organizations.
The “more progressive jews” accuse them of diplomatic backroom deals rather than direct pressure. They accuse them of retreating into Whiteness, they do not understand that these are the most effective tactics and that without them jews would have drowned in their hubris and been crushed under the boot of Americans a long time ago. If they behaved the way radical jews are behaving today and saying what radical jews are saying today the jewish problem would have been solved in America generations ago and jewish social movements would have been strangled in their crib.
“Alongside the Jewish Federations, the ADL and AJC were established by a wealthy German Jewish capitalist class intent on suppressing the political power of poor, often radicalized Eastern European immigrants. Over the next century, those leaders and their successors courted wealthy donors who reflected their own political leanings, and closed ranks around an insular directorate. In accordance with the conservatism of their leaderships, the institutions allied themselves only selectively with civil rights organizing, even as they labored to undermine more radical movements—such as Black Power and Third World anti-colonialism—and embraced an increasingly right-wing Zionist politics in Israel/Palestine. “
The most powerful jewish groups are hierarchical not democratic and they went as far to withdraw from the Jewish Congress to protect their hierarchy.
“In the eyes of German Jews who had arrived decades earlier—many of whom had started out upper class or had risen there—this new ethnic, politically-dissenting Jewishness threatened the genteel white identity they enjoyed. In response, wealthy German Jewish philanthropists founded the AJC, the ADL,and the American Jewish Congress, together called the “Jewish defense organizations.” The Jewish Federations, the umbrella structure for raising and distributing funds in Jewish communities, came together at roughly the same time. These high-society founders were civic-minded men who created libraries and museums, and funded charities that undoubtedly saved immigrants’ lives. But they also set out to ensure that Jewish politics stayed the domain of “backstairs diplomacy” (a term the groups used to describe their preference for quiet intercession rather than public pressure)”
They worked really hard to make backstairs diplomacy the main tactic because in America the sort of brazen communist agitation jews did in Europe would have been smashed.
“When Nazis rounded up Jewish communists, the ADL denied them rather than defend them. In 1938, it issued a 30-page pamphlet declaring, “Communism never was Jewish! Communism can never be Jewish!” The ADL’s mission of anti-defamation was, from the outset, also a mission to reshape US Jewry as distinctly white and capitalist in orientation.”
Since the article is written for Jewish progressives and isn’t meant to be ready by anticommunists they don’t mind debunking the claim that communism isn’t jewish and condemns the ADL for not defending jewish communism and instead lying about communism being jewish.
“Finally, in the mid-1950s, the Jewish defense organizations and many other Jewish groups officially purged their ranks of leftists. (By then, the left, despite being a substantial force in US politics, had been made vulnerable by postwar changes: Eastern European Jews had begun to suburbanize and espouse a middle-class American nationalism, leftist organizations were riven by ideological division, and anti-communist fervor had surged.) In the purges, members of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order were fired from their jobs in Jewish organizations.
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At Jewish social welfare agencies—an important site of Jewish employment and culture—workers lost their 82,000-member,social justice oriented union when the CIO expelled communists from its ranks. The National Jewish Welfare Board instructed local community organizations not to invite Communist speakers. The purges were broadly successful at separating Jewishness from leftism: By 1960, when young Jews flocked to Students for a Democratic Society and other New Left movements, most didn’t identify as Jewish leftists at all.”
The purges didn’t get rid of leftism, it merely caused jews not to self identify. In their writings we see that they still knew that they were jews and still cared about jewish identity but learned what the wealthier smarter jews already knew, that they needed to blend in to be effective.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-democratic-origins-of-the-jewish-establishment
The purges didn’t get rid of leftism, it merely caused jews not to self identify. In their writings we see that they still knew that they were jews and still cared about jewish identity but learned what the wealthier smarter jews already knew, that they needed to blend in to be effective.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-democratic-origins-of-the-jewish-establishment
Jewish Currents
The Anti-Democratic Origins of the ADL and AJC
The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.
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A still small voice spake unto me,
‘Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to be?’
Then to the still small voice I said;
‘Let me not cast in endless shade
What is so wonderfully made.’
To search thro’ all I felt or saw,
The springs of life, the depths of awe,
And reach the law within the law:
‘At least, not rotting like a weed,
But, having sown some generous seed,
Fruitful of further thought and deed,
‘To pass, when Life her light withdraws,
Not void of righteous self-applause,
Nor in a merely selfish cause–
‘In some good cause, not in mine own,
To perish, wept for, honour’d, known,
And like a warrior overthrown;
‘Whose eyes are dim with glorious tears,
When, soil’d with noble dust, he hears
His country’s war-song thrill his ears:
Excerpt from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Two Voices” 1842
‘Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to be?’
Then to the still small voice I said;
‘Let me not cast in endless shade
What is so wonderfully made.’
To search thro’ all I felt or saw,
The springs of life, the depths of awe,
And reach the law within the law:
‘At least, not rotting like a weed,
But, having sown some generous seed,
Fruitful of further thought and deed,
‘To pass, when Life her light withdraws,
Not void of righteous self-applause,
Nor in a merely selfish cause–
‘In some good cause, not in mine own,
To perish, wept for, honour’d, known,
And like a warrior overthrown;
‘Whose eyes are dim with glorious tears,
When, soil’d with noble dust, he hears
His country’s war-song thrill his ears:
Excerpt from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Two Voices” 1842
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