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Regime-speak

You're about to be lied to when they say-

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You know what the media's saying by not saying it when they say-

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Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Tactics of the Left

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy.

Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

Rule 5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag.

Rule 8: Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period.

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.

Rule 10: Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

Rule 11: If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.

Rule 12: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

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Artist of the day

Sunset in Yosemite California is an undated 28.5 x 22 inch oil sketch by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).

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Partisans

In a full on, wheels off, catastrophic societal collapse, only history can credibly predict what's to come. It tells of other and similar times when civilization had been upended, of wars and revolutions and the other madnesses of nations. Some are too remote in time or place to be of use, the Wars of the Roses or Pol Pot's Cambodia, say. Our best candidate is Occupied Europe in the 1940s, when what otherwise would be recorded as a time of civil wars, chaos and freelance armies was masked by the world war. What interest us here is not the battles of national armies nor even the malevolent police states imposed on conquered peoples but rather the undergrounds and their militia, what they seemed to be and what they were.

Recall Germany and Russia attacked Poland in 1939 and split it into two zones of occupation. In both zones POWs were executed, citizens rounded up for forced labor or outright extermination, and years-long terror campaigns begun. The European Allies responded to the invasion by declaring war on Germany but, note, not on Russia. In 1940 Germany attacked and defeated France. Again there were two zones, occupied France in the north and unoccupied but collaborative Vichy France in the south. In 1941 Germany attacked Russia, the largest invasion in history, which proved to be as unsuccessful an occupation as it was an unsuccessful military venture.

World War II in the east was a contest between two single-party states, the national socialists of Germany and the international socialists of Russia. Both were ruled by personality-cult dictators, both were police states using citizen-surveillance and unlimited terror to stay in power. Vassal states supplied both with food, labor, raw materials and manufactured goods; Russia's largely by terror and political domination, Germany's by annexation and finally by war and occupation. As with socialist states everywhere, economic reality required they be supported from the outside, the method being plunder and enslavement—the true endpoint of socialist economics as admitted openly by national socialist Germany.

In reaction to the occupation in Europe and the east, armed resistance was hastily organized. Some were escapees from terror campaigns merely looking to survive, some were acting out of revenge or to rescue their families and countrymen from pogroms or labor camps, others were army units which had evaded capture and thought of themselves as armed forces of governments in exile, still others were motivated by patriotism or political ideology or, as the outcome of the war became plain, to closely identify themselves with the winning side. No single word describes them all but "partisan" is a useful catch-all. Although mergers and alliances were common, many of these outfits betrayed each other at one time or another and some even fought each other in protracted campaigns that were in fact civil wars, quite apart from the concurrent world war.

Partisan groups varied widely in size and capability. The smallest were aggregates of a few hundred living in the woods and swamps, untrained, lightly armed and largely avoiding contact with either their civilian neighbors or the occupying forces. Their military operations consisted of small time raids for food, supplies and weapons. Only occasionally did they conduct rescue or revenge attacks. When discovered they were often destroyed by the civilian police unaided. At the other end of the scale were quasi-legitimate parallel governments which controlled huge areas and conducted notable military operations inflicting, and suffering, hundreds of thousands of casualties by war's end. The largest of them were supplied with funds and materiel by the Allies. In between were the mobile partisan groups of thousands or a few tens of thousands, well organized and adequately armed, who conducted relentless guerilla operations.

At the beginning partisan activities consisted largely of assassinations and rescue operations. Partisan groups commonly doubled in size every few months and, as their capabilities improved, they began sabotage on a large scale. Railroads were their favored target, often the locomotives and trains themselves but more commonly the tracks and bridges. Occupation forces resorted to running protected trains within sight of each other, cutting back vegetation from the tracks and posting army units at regular intervals. In some parts of Europe they're still called "the railroad wars". Truck convoys, fuel depots, military stores, communications and the electrical grid were also regularly sabotaged. Perhaps just as risky was their intelligence gathering for the Allies and the captive munitions workers who intentionally built defective product.

Soviet partisans pose in occupied Belarus, 1943.

Purely combat operations began with attacks on isolated outposts and police barracks, ambushing army patrols and similar skirmishes intended only incidentally to capture weapons and supplies. By war's end they were regularly attacking troop columns, garrison forces and even liberating towns and villages unassisted. These are the partisans of legend and Hollywood.

The partisans didn't have it all their own way, however. The forces arrayed against them were well funded, well equipped, imaginative and intelligently led. Although Hollywood and novelists would have it otherwise, they were also effective. Aside from the obvious and theatrical, meaning public executions and mass retaliation, sizeable partisan forces were often surrounded and destroyed altogether. The areas they operated in were typically not large, county-size or smaller, and their destruction was a routine exercise for a military force numbering in the millions. In the east, army detachments were specifically assigned anti-partisan duty and became expert at it. Had the war not been won by the Allies it is by no means certain the partisans would have survived.

Especially effective were the anti-partisan units comprised of local collaborators recruited, trained, armed and directed by the occupation. The Milice in France is a familiar example, created by the Vichy government in 1943 using locals who knew the people and their ways, augmented by other of their countrymen and support by military specialists. Once again, as elsewhere, partisans fought each other rather than their putative common enemy. Aside from the casualties they inflicted on the Resistance and the rural Maquis, which were considerable, ferreting out Milice infiltrators and informers all but paralyzed them for a quite some time. Also effective in parts of the occupied east where the population was not inclined to resist the occupation, were the protected cities which denied support to the partisans and became a source of intelligence about their movements and intentions. This tactic was seen again in Viet Nam.

Partisan guerilla war is particularly ferocious, bound up as it is with revenge and ideology and political ambition. Where escapee-survivalists practiced simple self defense, and where some partisans saw themselves as part of a future government, most fell somewhere in between. They saw themselves as protectors of the populace, forcefully limiting the excesses of the occupiers and as sappers-in-place for regular forces on their way to the rescue. After the war partisans were treated badly in the east and, aside from monuments and movies, indifferently in the west. Civilians were rightfully wary of ambitious armed irregulars.

Partisans have made their appearance throughout history, from the sicarii and zealots of Biblical times to our own time. They're armed insurgencies, 'no prisoners' guerilla fighters committed to a cause. It's enough to know they commonly mistreat each other and the populace as badly as do the occupiers. The survivalist becomes something other than a survivalist when he becomes a partisan no matter how many wilderness encampments are involved. The lesson is simple: stay away from crowds, especially zealously fratricidal crowds.

Fear

Cousin Ezekiel has posted his new tale, Fear, at Stories from outten the hills

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You are here

This is the latest NASA-created view of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way is about 110,000 light years in diameter and 1,000 light years thick. The sun lies 27,200 light years from the center within a partial arm called the Orion Spur and rotates around the galactic center once every 250 million years—be sure to mark the date on your calendar. The Milky Way is somewhat smaller than the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest spiral galaxy, but about equal in mass.

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A pummeling hailstorm of news items and international developments have made the first half of 2012 almost impossible to track and analyze.  The frequency at which negative information has surfaced is almost dizzying.  However, a pattern and a recognizable motion are beginning to take shape, and, I believe, a loose timeline is beginning to form, says Brandon Smith in this article, Economic Alert: If You’re Not Worried Yet…You Should Be, at Alt-Market.

Soap doesn't work. Toilets don't flush. Clothes washers don't clean. Light bulbs don't illuminate. Refrigerators break too soon. Paint discolors. Lawnmowers have to be hacked. It's all caused by idiotic government regulations that are wrecking our lives one consumer product at a time, all in ways we hardly notice, says Jeffrey Tucker in this article, How Government Wrecked the Gas Can, at Laissez Faire Books. (Hat tip: sayuncle.com)

The Obama administration, including his czars and along with his closest Progressive supporters, are planning a manufactured insurgency against America. He is using the media to his advantage to garner both sympathy and support for his unfinished goals. He is desperately seeking a way to remain in office, even if it means the surreal prospect of an indefinite postponement of elections - if it can be pulled off. So far, he's got the support of the majority of the DHS “brass” behind him, says Doug Hagmann in this article, The planned re-election of Obama, revolutionary style, at the Canada Free Press.

From the 1992 LA riots, we know that at least some criminals kept up attacks despite being fired upon with pistols. Being able to observe their victims and overwhelm them with numbers apparently made up for the risk of getting shot. We also know that rifle fire from extended ranges, especially with the shooter being invisible, cause instant retreat, says Oleg Volk in this article, Riots vs. Pogroms, at Oleg Volk Blog.(Hat tip: survivalblog)

China's brand-new out of the box ghost towns have been much commented upon, evidence of central planning gone conspicuously wrong, or perhaps "too big to hide" evidence of something else. Now a ghost town is being built in New Mexico and the cover story seems not quite plausible. See this story, $1 billion 'ghost town' to be built in New Mexico by Mark Hughes at the Telegraph.(Hat tip: urbansurvival.com)

Voting fraud has become normal, even on the house floor of one state legislature. Watch this incredible video from Texas CBS affiliate KEYE via The Daily Sheeple at YouTube. 3m 57s. (Hat tip: reader TC)

Protect and Defend - The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers, says Carlos Miller in this article, Shocking Video Of Kelly Thomas Beating Death Released. Watch With Caution, at Pixiq.

Also see Steven Greenhut's article, How the Kelly Thomas Killing Sparked a Citizen Revolt, at Reason Magazine

Because the great majority of non-Muslims are not yet emotionally prepared to recognize that a state of war exists in which we are all combatants, the relatively small percentages of Muslims in America and elsewhere are steadily imposing themselves, their "religion," and their seventh-century barbarism on the rest of us. Deny it all you please. It's happening... The larger this tumor is permitted to grow, the harder and more painful it will be to excise, says Francis Porretto in this article, Racism...Or Islamic Supremacy?, at Liberty's Torch.

I have to hand it to the Central Planners.  They are good.  Really, really good.  Of course, they are battling a crippled opponent considering so much of America consists of lobotomized sheeple, but nevertheless to be able to steal so much from many people with such blatant and simplistic methods and not be widely discovered is an act of devious brilliance, says Mike Krieger in this article, Six Months Left… Can They Do It?, at A Lightning War for Liberty.

The founder of Russian communism Vladamir Lenin died after being poisoned by his political successor Joseph Stalin, according to a sensational new theory.  Russian historian Lev Lurie, believes that while Lenin was already in poor health having suffered several strokes, Stalin may have finished him off after a bitter feud, says this article, Was Lenin poisoned by Stalin? at The Mail Online.

The Chinese Army was famously cut to pieces by Vietnam in 1979 and drifted further into lethargy and corruption afterward. Once again the Chinese are saying they're upgrading their armed forces, and this time there will be real reform, says James Dunnigan in this article, China's Dirty Big Secret, at Strategy Page.

Invisibility cloaks are almost a reality with fractal-camouflage clothing, says David Hambling in this article and photo gallery at Wired UK.

The Newark attack - (Crime reporter James) Queally told me that the police report did list the race of the perpetrators and that he censored this information in his two articles on purpose. He also stated that it was the newspapers' policy to censor race in crime stories. Then the conversation took a comedic turn. I asked Queally what race was listed in the police report and he refused to tell me, says Kyle Rogers in this article, Newark Star-Ledger admits to censoring race in savage mob attacks, at The Examiner.

At first, the Chronicle stood its ground, suggesting that my postwas an "invitation to debate." But that stance lasted for little more than a weekend. In a note that reads like a confession at a re-education camp, the Chronicle's editor, Liz McMillen announced her decision on Monday to fire me, says Naomi Riley in this article, The Academic Mob Rules, at the Wall Street Journal.

A Kittyhawk P-40 has sat in the Egyptian desert for almost 70 years, witnessed only by the slowly shifting sands of time, says Hayden Smith in this article, with photos, at Metro UK.

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Magazine ad, 1940 GMC truck

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In the future that globalists and feminists have imagined, only a few people will do anything worth doing. For most of us there will only be more apologizing, more submission, more asking for permission, more examinations, more certifications, background checks, video safety presentations, counseling and sensitivity training.Cochran and Harpending, The Ten Thousand Year Explosion, via Roger Devlin at alternativeright.com

The US dollar has lost 51 percent of its purchasing power since 1985 and 36 percent since 2002.  Is it any wonder why we are seeing creeping inflation in the cost of daily goods ?  The falling dollar also is reflected in the higher prices for energy.  As usual there is always a cost to actions taken and debt does matter.mybudget360.com

If Germany did leave the euro, the consequences for the rest of Europe would be catastrophic. The euro would rapidly drop to all-time lows. The global financial system would be thrown in chaos. The recession in Europe would likely deepen into a devastating economic depression. But Germany would fare much better than most of the rest of Europe, and in the end Germany would be left holding most of the cards.theeconomiccollapseblog.com

Poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and criminality all have a common cause: being a stupid, violent thug... The reason we can't fix that is because it probably has a significant genetic component. I eagerly await, but do not expect, any evidence to the contrary. unamused at unamusementpark.com

Soros has built this empire, not against "conservative" ambitions, but with their full cooperation. It is difficult to find a cause Soros' Open Society Institute supports that is not also funded, directed, and backed by the US State Department-funded, Neo-Conservative lined National Endowment for Democracy.Tony Cartalucci at landdestroyer.blogspot.com

The first rule of preparing for TEOTWAWKI is you do not talk about preparing for TEOTWAWKI. Tell nobody. Do, however, make up some lame excuses in advance for when some friend questions you about your actions and purchases. Say that you are getting ready to visit your rich and crazy uncle whom is a gun nut living in Alaskan bear country, or your friend in Detroit wants you to house sit. Just do not tell anyone what your plans or preparations are, or even that you have plans or preparations.hedgeless_horseman at zerohedge.com

About the cancelled Street Fairs in Cleveland - So now no one gets a fair. Instead, law-abiding citizens can hunch behind locked doors and listen to their TV sets tell them how shamefully racist they are... In the end, no one is to be trusted with more liberty than it is safe to grant the savage offspring of liberals' catastrophically generous War on Poverty. This is the main reason the Second Amendment is no longer honored in most major cities.Dave Blount at moonbattery.com

It's war on black people, it's war on women, it's war on immigrants. … We have got to turn this around and start targeting in Missouri those legislators that want to roll back our right to vote! Al Sharpton of MSNBC via breitbart.com

I expect we will get to a "recognition point"  - a dreaded crescendo event where suddenly a loss of confidence sweeps through the economy and what has become a "shopkeeper" (services) economy will collapse toward a miserable ground state.George Ure at peoplenomics.com

Black and white only Leica - The M-Monochrom will first be available at the new Leica store in Washington DC starting in July. It will cost just a shade under $8,000, which is about $1,000 more than the standard M9.Stan Horaczek at popphoto.com

Eric Holder's Justice Dept has taken financial fraud prosecutions to a 20 year low. Not surprising since JP Morgan and other Wall Street banks were the heart of the client list of Eric Holder's pre-Justice Dept law firm... the Obama Government has made it clear that they are not going to do anything to implement supervision and law enforcement on the group of banks and individuals who have contributed and raised the most amount of money for Obama's 2008 and current election campaigns.Harvey Organ at harveyorgan.blogspot.com

GAO says - The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world's proven reserves combined.Terence Jeffrey at cnsnews.com

Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle - One reader reported his experience with the gun, which involved exploding parts and serious reconstructive surgery... It has no gas bleed safety, a feature deemed by the Queen and the Kaiser to be important enough to be included in their armies primary weapon. In short, the Czar deemed his Slave Soldiers to be so unworthy of consideration that their rifle was as dangerous to its user as the enemy.James Dakin at jamesmdakin.blogspot.com

UK and BoE - An allegedly fiscally responsible regime leading one of the most powerful countries in the world lends money to itself in order to get some money, but must print fresh new money in order to afford to buy the money that it just lent itself in order to use the money it just lent itself to pay some important bills, you know, the thing that it needed the money for in the first place.Reggie Middleton at boombustblog.com

DHS contract for millions of .40 caliber rounds - When you do the math (on the ammo) it works out to something like 50-150 rounds per employee per year.  Not sure how many rounds go into training, but I know if I were authoring training of security forces it would be a goodly number of rounds (500+) per employee in basic training and then 200+ rounds for annual qualification.George Ure at urbansurvival.com

Tax cost, complexity and traps - Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook Inc., renounced his U.S. citizenship... A record 1,780 gave up their U.S. passports last year compared with 235 in 2008, according to government records. [Who's coming here and who's going tells us all we need to know] Kucera, Vallikappen and Harper at bloomberg.com

Isn't it remarkable how all the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin news coverage has suddenly and silently faded away? My guess is that the liberal media finally realized that their latest cause celebre doesn't look like a winner, once the actual facts of the matter are taken into account, and they've therefore moved on to other things.Roland D., comment at amnation.com/vfr

The Pentagon was inundated with so many studies in 2010 that it commissioned a study to determine how much it cost to produce all those studies. Now the Government Accountability Office has reviewed the Pentagon's study and concluded in a report this week that it's a flop.Alyssa Newcomb at abcnews.go.com

Ethnic studies are excuses to create sinecures for would-be academics incapable of real scholarship but eager for a base for political action. This particular branch of ethnic studies is the most politicized and therefore the worst, although the disease runs through most humanities and social "science" departments.Jonathan Katz, comment at online.wsj.com

'All men are created equal' says the American Declaration of Independence. 'All men shall be kept equal' say the Socialists.Winston Churchill via fff.org

It is clear that the TSA has become nothing more than a bloated, broken bureaucracy which uses its extensive power to violate traveling American' civil liberties while doing little to ensure their safety. Americans can no longer tolerate the flagrant violations of their civil rights which are occurring at airports nationwide in the name of ‘security '. More importantly, the corruption and continued lack of security among TSA's own personnel puts our country at extreme risk of another terrorist attack.Rep Paul Broun via dailycaller.com

I must stress that time is very, very short now. The open and bold declarations of intent from Washington, D.C. indicate that there are very few limits that will be placed on their powers and little the American people can do other than protest and set up meetings, soon to be under direct control of the whims of local diversity administrators which will eliminate opposition ideals as needed using whatever methods they deem necessary.John Galt at johngaltfla.com/wordpress

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61st Street in New York City, 1938

Somebody get this photographer one of those little spirit levels, we're getting a little woozy here.

Ebling's Brewery was started by Russian immigrant Samuel Rubel in the 1930s while his ice business was failing. Notice the horse-drawn cart at the extreme left.

Test Pilot is a movie starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, still shown from time to time on movie channels. The building is likely empty, notice the broken second-story windows. The kids would be about ninety years old now.

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.Ayn Rand

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Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants and debt is the money of slaves.Traditional

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.Ayn Rand

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.George Orwell, 1984

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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws ... pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers. Ayn Rand

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At its genesis, the ideal of a socialist society takes hold among the people. Promises are made and the manifesto of entitlement, social fairness, obligation, and social equality infects the populace. The socialist ideal eventually goes viral, and the majority learns to game the system. Everyone is trying to live at the expense of everyone else. In the terminal phase, the failure of the system is disguised under a mountain of lies, hollow promises, and debts. When the stream of other people's money runs out, the system collapses. Kevin Brekke

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When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you … you may know that your society is doomed. Ayn Rand

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Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics ... It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.Vaclav Havel

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