The More Things Change

Last night I was going through my 1971 High School Year Book and came across these between the pages. Not much has changed.

I can understand the allure of beautiful Asian women. I can understand people paying for sex. But I cannot understand how supposedly intelligent men could be so stupid as to get involved in this. Did they not understand the potential jeopardy to which they were exposing themselves? Did they not grasp that the information they gave out was available for blackmail, at the very least?

I strongly suspect similar information is in the hands of various characters and agencies who use it to insure certain votes are made in Congress, certain memes are broadcast on air or in print and certain lies are spread through academia and business. Too much of what is being inflicted on our country makes little sense otherwise. Bribes and threats, the traditional way of doing business in America.

The Best Little Whore House on the East Coast

Lee is the most common surname in the world. At least it was twenty-or-thirty years ago. Depending on which modern-day Western system one uses it is spelled Lee or Li. 
As I have said before, the Chinese are the most overt racists I have encountered. 

The Rising Tide of Antisemitism



Over the last month the media has been full of reports of massive antisemitism across the country and in Europe. Is this, as CNN reports just the average opinion of the average American? Or is it something new to the US and Europe. Given the history of the last century is the media correct in reporting that antisemitism has resurged in the western democracies?



The history of the 20th century is filled with the most horrific offences against the Jewish people, and it certainly makes news when there are marches in our cities with antisemitic slogans and chants, “Palestine from the river to the sea” And expressions of joy at the murdered 1400 Israelis by Hamas on 7 October 2023.



Are we as a people unchanged by the events of the 20th century? Is the average American just another hater in a long line of Jew hatred? There is no denying it exists on campus across the country. However, let us examine the campus culture of today.



American universities and colleges as little as thirty years ago were, with few exceptions, homogenous there were few, if any students who were not American and many were first generation university educated. Some elite universities had, for the time, large numbers of these students, mostly schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, and Stanford. The students recognized the privilege of attending these universities and generally obeyed our laws and customs.



For eight years after 9/11 the numbers of non-American students were limited and many who expressed dislike for the United States were asked to leave, student visas cancelled. With the election of Obama this policy changed and thousands of student visas were issued to people who did not have the interests of the US in mind. This policy slowed somewhat during the Trump years but was not changed. Almost anyone could attend an American university on a student visa.



Over the last three years our open borders policy coupled with unlimited student visas have changed the demographics of our major universities. The students demonstrating on our streets are not the children of steelworkers, carpenters, and plumbers. But radical elitists from countries that do not wish the US well. So, the rise in antisemitism is not coming from Americans but is almost exclusively coming from students with visas and illegal immigration. That is not to say there are not useful idiots among our student bodies, they are influenced by our enemies within the student body and a professorate that hates America.



What do we do? The answer is simple. We must regain control of our borders, examine the student visa process, and expel students and professors who break our laws and customs. The likelihood of this happening under the current Biden administration is zero. The government must be changed, perhaps any one of the republican candidates will accomplish this task, but the best bet is Donald Trump.

Sometimes it is wise to look to the past for guidance as to the present. This video confirms what we have been talking about at R&T, i.e. members of Congress are compromised by money, sex or both. This results in some of the insane policies which have been passed by Congress. 

What Cawthorne is describing is as old as civilization. If something works, no need to change it. 


Honeypot

As regards D.C., which has the highest percentage of homosexuals in the U.S.A., your observation is particularly pertinent. 

Ah, the good old days. First of all, I have not been in a bar for many years, and secondly, I have never been in a D.C. bar. But if I happened to visit one and these three young ladies approached me, my reaction  these days would be, "You must have the wrong person."   

Even the library of Congress is not safe

I was in the library reading an English translation of the Spirit of the Law that had been owned by John Adams. Both Adams and Jefferson books are in collection. Jefferson’s books are almost pristine, not unread but bear the imprint of an owner who treasured the written word. Adams books, on the other hand, are in terrible shape. He was a prolific glosser and argues with the authors page by page. It is these gloss remarks that make his books, despite their condition a joy to read.


I was reading and chuckling over a comment made by Adams when someone asked me what was so funny. A young lady, mid-twenties, and not a pound over 100 was talking to me. She had a slight accent; my guess was German and to my puzzlement she sat down.


She introduced herself as, Magda Berger, and said that she was an employee of BASF a big German chemical company had been in DC only a few weeks and was seeing the sights. Did I know the best places to see? What red blooded American male would pass up this kind of offer? However, training and experience kept me from jumping up and heading out the door with her then and there. I suggested the next day Sunday; I would meet her at the Lincoln Memorial.


I practically ran to my car and drove directly to Langley. Our training stressed the need to report contact with foreign nationals, ours or theirs, and either sex. I filled out the contact report, talked with a case officer who gave me the go-ahead and using Charlie as my babysitter the next day met Magda.


Under any other circumstances the routine would have been to report the contact to FBI; as law restricted CIA from running operations on American soil, However, James Angleton was the boss of counterintelligence and the subtleties of law were often overlooked sometimes ignored completely when the Soviet target was involved.


I did not believe her cover story, neither did the case officer at Langley and later neither did the ADDOCI(Angleton). The meet went ok; we strolled in the Lincoln and later took a drive down the Dolly Madison to a little restaurant in Tyson Corners. Charlie was there with several other babysitters. The only time I thought I caught a hint of tradecraft was when we drove by Langley; she was either really good or completely innocent. My guess is really good; I think she made Charlie and decided her cover was blown. I gave her a work number, agency switchboard routing, never called, later checks turned up Magda Berger did work for BASF, she was 67 at the time. James Angleton was obsessed with, the at that time uncorroborated, idea of a mole or moles in CIA. This contact was either an attempt to subvert and turn me or perhaps even an offer of service, more likely it was a test of our security and response.

A wonderful observation from Joseph Schumpeter, which is more applicable today than when he wrote this in 1942.

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