MSM Attempting to Mainstream Witchcraft

USA Today explains "witchcraft", without explaining how "magicks" work. "It is like prayers."

It is glaring in not explaining how witchcraft magic system works. It is obviously trying to make witchcraft more acceptable.

Democrats Starts Acknowledging Biden Corruption

Hunter Biden exposes Joe Biden corruption, for reals, and also among some American politicians. We should demand better. In the Atlantic.

Democrats are stupid.

Ukraine "Counter-Offensive" 2023 Aug Likely Failing

America apparently thinks Ukraine "counter-offensive" will stall soon.

The news that America is allowing the re-export of "European" F-16 simulators and real F-16s, corroborate this leaked assessment. Any time America changes its mind on a new weapon system,letting it go to Ukraine, is an escalation. And America only escalates if the current course is not working.

Note to analysts, this heuristic, of escalations confirming the failures of status quo, is useful and near-universal. Absent a coup of some sort, leadership will almost always double-down. It is human psychology.

Ukrainian Draftdodgers, BBC Edition

Some Ukrainian men are avoiding the draft. And Ukraine military manpower situation is becoming short.

This and the anti-trans policy are simmering wedge issues. They are chipping away at Western support.

Great News for Transgenic Pig Organ Research

How a family's choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants. The donated brain-dead body is on life support while they monitored the implanted pig kidneys for immune damage. The kidneys have lasted one month by now, going into the critical second month, doing well. The body is on immune suppressants, as usual protocol for xenotransplant experiments. The transgenic pig only had one protein knocked out, as opposed to the other research groups knocking out multiple genes.

Wonder if it was the Alfa-Gal gene they knocked out. Either way, this is wonderful news for the transgenic pig research. More of this type of dead experiments are necessary. Current models are not sophisticated enough for xenotransplant experiments.

Female Childlessness Justification

Woman justifies her desire not to have children, so she'd have time to eat, drink, and work./

So typically female logic.

India Communist Fascism Update

The interethnic pogrom in Manipur focuses attention on the pro-Hindu bias of the BJP, and gives hope to the opposition coalition.

India's Second Partition continues apace. The mixture of ethnicity (Scheduled Tribes) and religion (Hindu vs Christianity) means the Manipur Pogrom will not stop until ethnic cleansing produces a defined border, physically separating the combatants with sustainable territories.

This pogrom contrasts with Iraq, where the tribes often had both Sunni and Shiite members. That served to check the intensity of the Iraqi civil war, staying away (somewhat) from the religious elements. And Al Sadr could credibly take on a Pan-Islamist nationalist mantle, unthinkable elsewhere in the Middle East. It looks like India has no such luck, with mono-religious tribes dominating. Despite the Bollywood happy face and the European Orientalist fascination, India is almost a tragic hell on Earth.

Retards: Stories of Love

A lovely story of people with developmental disabilities, and their lovely families.

As parents, we all hope that we could rise to the challenges, and but for the grace of God.

Church Attendance Decline Symptom of Failing Society

American church attendee population fell 12% over the past 25 years. Likely because Americans increasingly turn to their co-workers for community and identity, rather than their neighborhood churches. So the American future will likely be a bifurcation, with more community groups for some and more intensive church communities for others.

Echoes of de Tocqueville's "voluntary associations" in action. Indeed, in an earlier time of diversity, immigration, and #urbanization (post-Revolution America), there were a lot of voluntary associations, too, as de Tocqueville observed.

One thing the author(s) failed to note, is social trust and the assumptions for it. Communities can only exist, when there is enough intra-group trust to cement the bonds. For without trust, there can be no reciprocity. And we have only thin financial transactions leftover. That, in part, caused the churches to fall apart. (Obviously more importantly, kids keep moving away for colleges and jobs. No community can survive the departing next generations.)

For the new voluntary associations to take over from churches, #diversity has to go down, somehow. As I often noted, Diversity(tm) is always a centrifugal force, requiring a centripetal force to counterbalance.

And more glaringly, the authors failed to address the main problem, posterity geographic mobility. More importantly than the aging demographic, is the mobility demographic. An aging community can gracefully decline if the kids stick around. The authors recognized that mobility is a prime cause, but they gave up addressing the issue.