Everyday Eichmann’s
FEE Stories- Hannah Arendt’s Chilling Thesis on Evil
Hannah Arendt’s eyewitness assessment of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann as “terribly and terrifyingly normal” took the world by surprise.
How often have you noticed people behaving in anti-social ways because of a hope to blend in, a desire to avoid isolation as a recalcitrant, nonconforming individual? Did you ever see someone doing harm because “everybody else was doing it”? The fact that we all have observed such things, and that any one of the culprits might easily, under the right circumstances, have become an Adolf Eichmann, is a chilling realization.
As Arendt explained, “Going along with the rest and wanting to say ‘we’ were quite enough to make the greatest of all crimes possible.”
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Voices Out of the Darkness: The history of Sumerian cuneiform writing.
Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Murdered
Shinzo Abe was shot at a political campaign event and died soon after:
Mr Abe was shot at twice while he was giving a speech in the southern city of Nara on Friday morning.
Security officials at the scene tackled the gunman, and the 41-year-old suspect is now in police custody.
A search of the alleged gunman’s home uncovered what police believe are explosives, local media reported.
Speaking before Mr Abe’s death was announced, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the attack, saying: “It is barbaric and malicious and it cannot be tolerated.”
“This attack is an act of brutality that happened during the elections – the very foundation of our democracy – and is absolutely unforgivable,” Mr Kishida said.
h/t Joe & B A Deplorable Rupertslander
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Well Deserved
James Topp arrives at the war memorial to a thunderous applause. pic.twitter.com/eLrCbRgsYM
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) June 30, 2022
Roe v Wade
The freak-out begins.
National Post- U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade after nearly 50 years
Tim Pool- BREAKING: ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED, Clarence Thomas Opens Door To END Gay Marriage Next
Update (Robert) : Live coverage all day from Portland Andy
So Cute!
Great Moments in Trash Talk
The wussification of professional sports continues.
New York Times- White Sox Call Josh Donaldson’s ‘Jackie’ Comments Racist
Donaldson, the Yankees’ third baseman, said his remarks to Tim Anderson referenced a magazine article in which Anderson said he was “today’s Jackie Robinson.”
White Sox Manager Tony La Russa didn’t mince words when he was asked what happened between Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson and Chicago shortstop Tim Anderson on Saturday.
“He made a racist comment,” La Russa said of Donaldson. “That’s all I’m going to say.”
What we need is “insensitivity” training for thin skinned mid-wits.
When Is History Going To Repeat Itself?
Erfurt latrine disaster- In July 1184, Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Enslaved Icelander Describes Horror of Ottoman Slave Market
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Elihu Thomson, engineer and inventor born on March 29, 1853 talks about some childhood memories while living in Philadelphia in the 1860s.
How NATO Lost Its Way
In the 1980s, I sometimes thought I was the only university-educated person I knew who thought deterrence was a good idea and NATO a good thing. Nowadays, it is all the other way round. I am one of the few educated people I know who thinks that the West bears some blame for the appalling conflict raging in Ukraine, though I can name a string of diplomats and academics, from George Kennan and Henry Kissinger to Yegor Gaidar and Noam Chomsky, who have long warned that NATO expansion was a terrible mistake, certain to strengthen the worst elements in Moscow. I have pursued a lone heresy of wondering why NATO even survived the end of its enemies, the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. Do we still maintain alliances against Austria-Hungary or the Ottomans? I can find no trace of them. Perhaps, overlooked in some elegant Paris street and living off ancient funds, elderly, learned men still occupy these joyous sinecures, hoping that they will not be found out.
But the political inheritors of the anti-cruise campaigners are today all hot for NATO, which I am sure they would have despised in the old days when it preserved the freedom of Western Europe through masterly inaction. These enthusiasts, for instance, desire to impose no-fly zones on Ukraine, a policy guaranteed to spread bloody war even further over the continent of Europe. The successors of the left-wing academics who once apologized for the USSR are now severe enemies of non-Communist Russia. The herbivores of 1982 are the warmongers of 2022.
How did this happen?
Our Leaders are like Toddlers
Neil Oliver gives an excellent review of current and future events.
From WWII till Today, Ukraine/Russia
Detailed historical account of everything that’s happened. Has a bit of a Dan Carlin Hardcore History vibe to it. Grab a beverage.
Martyr Made- Thoughts on Ukraine (Remastered)
This one is free but I’m not sure if you need an email address to put into the free subscription box or not.
Update from Kate: This is first rate, make the time.
Live from the UN Security Council
“Our policy in Eastern Europe is undermining our ability to deal with the most dangerous threat that we face today.”
An interview with John Mearsheimer – For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind?
The Woke War
Some things never change: The Woke propaganda war.
Failed Irredentists
Victor Hanson explains how Putin is just one in a long line of irredentists.
Putin, The Cold War, And Ukraine
One man’s review of events leading up to the war in Ukraine.