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A friend accused me of belonging to מיום שחרב בית המקדש ניטלה נבואה מן הנביאים וניתנה לשוטים ולתינוקות for saying something about current events.

But it’s about seeing what is in front of our noses right now, not in the future.

As we wrote once before:

All justified, true predictions rely on seeing glimmers of upcoming trends in the present. This is true for technical analysis and strategic analysis, in seismology and meteorology (hopefully), in Austrian economics, and also in various forms of fortune telling (on the majority Jewish view these can be authentic).

As the homily goes on the present-tense language in the mishna (Avos 2:9): הרואה את הנולד, what was already born.

Fools, by contrast, cannot understand (or mentally evade understanding) even the past (cf. Zhou Enlai’s “too early to say”), perhaps even the long-past past.

Enjoy the music.

Excerpt from Tom Woods (complete with book recommendations):

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(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had a bit to say about the nature of the Soviet regime, I might add, but something tells me this person would consider Solzhenitsyn, rather than his captors, to be the evil one.)

They just wanted to improve conditions for the working class, you see. Sure, they went about it the wrong way, but their motives were pure.

Do you detect a slight — slight, I say — naivete there?

The Bolshevik Revolution gave rise almost instantly to a one-party state with suppression of dissent, summary executions, concentration camps (with some 70,000 inmates by the time of Lenin’s death in early 1924), a concerted state campaign against religion, terror against the countryside — and on and on.

Not to mention a secret police sixteen times as large as anything the tsar had ever built.

And that’s not to mention the far worse atrocities that came later.

Hey, Ukrainians, we’re carrying out collectivization in a way that’s bound to starve millions of you to death, but honey, don’t you dare forget that our hearts are in the right place. Smooch!

Read Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest, and see what was done to those people.

Read the context here…

Not to mention all the other communist “experiments” in other places, including Pol Pot.

You know the joke:

“Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’

The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.'”

The anti-Zionist says the Medinah is a “Merida Nora’ah” against Malchus Shamayim, and if only it didn’t exist, Amen. And it keeps on going year after year after year, Heaven save us.

And besides, he adds a beat later, it’s all a Purim shpiel, anyway. Medinah my foot!

The so-called “state” depends for its very survival upon American governmental foreign aid. And the Arab violence and Iranian threat make a mockery of its claim to provide a safe haven to Jews worldwide.

“What kind of Medinah is that, anyway?!” he hotly demands.

Hehe…

Excerpts from an article by Joshua Seidel, 2016:

Yes, very relevant. Jews who push for diversity in the US but not Israel should be challenged. https://t.co/oQ5KxH3dBl

— Ricky Vaughn (@Ricky_Vaughn99) May 4, 2016

Is “Ricky” wrong? Does this dynamic indeed exist in our community? Are Jewish people not overrepresented in this great western push for “diversity”? Most Jews would call Ricky anti-Semitic for saying this, while I’d simply call it the truth.

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American Jewish organizations have made us look foolish, kvetching about Pepe the Frog and nasty tweets, yet when a Jewish High School student faces institutional discrimination, only the Israeli Press notices. The situation is much worse when we take a larger look at things. Jews are fleeing Europe, under constant attack by members of the Muslim community. Jews in higher education face threats, ostracism, and discrimination. Identity groups like Black Lives Matter have made Israel the ONLY overseas focus point, and this is replicated in Hispanic, Asian, and Muslim student groups. Considering the institutional fawning over identity groups representing “people of color”, this will not end well for Jews. Jewish groups remain largely ineffective in dealing with left wing intuitional and demographic threats. The Alt-Right is more observant:

So Soros (a Jew) bribes politicians to flood Europe with Muslims. Alt Right warns this is a bad idea. Muslims stab Jews. Alt Right is blamed

— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) August 19, 2016

Read the rest of it here…

We wrote against “open borders” a few times on this site.

Q: What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years?

A: Make communism look good.

(From Wikipedia’s page on “Russian political jokes“.)

Another funny one:

A regional Communist Party meeting is held to celebrate the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The Chairman gives a speech: “Dear comrades! Let’s look at the amazing achievements of our Party after the revolution. For example, Maria here, who was she before the revolution? An illiterate peasant; she had but one dress and no shoes. And now? She is an exemplary milkmaid known throughout the entire region. Or look at Ivan Andreev, he was the poorest man in this village; he had no horse, no cow, and not even an ax. And now? He is a tractor driver with two pairs of shoes! Or Trofim Semenovich Alekseev–he was a nasty hooligan, a drunk, and a dirty gadabout. Nobody would trust him with as much as a snowdrift in wintertime, as he would steal anything he could get his hands on. And now he’s Secretary of the Regional Party Committee!”