An Italian adventure

Seeing the country undergoing rapid, forced transformation

I expected this to be a short, fun post about my Italian adventure, but it rapidly scaled into the verbal and visual monstrosity before you, a combined travelogue and political rant. You have about a decade left to enjoy seeing Italians in their native habitat before they become an endangered species. As this is a combined two-parter, there may not be a post next week.

I recently took a trip to Italy for pleasure. It was my first international trip in a long time. This post is going to be a write-up of some of the things I saw and experienced there.

The route involved flying to Milan, a day-trip to Como, a train to Florence for two nights, a train to Rome for three nights, followed by a train to Naples en route to Sorrento with a day-trip at Pompeii, explore the Amalfi coast and fly out of Naples.

The goal was to see as much of Italy as I could within eleven days. Whatever I saw would of course be surface level and superficial, tourist-level and not how locals live, but the hope would be if or when I come back in the future I would have a better idea of the regions that spoke to me, if any, and that I wanted to explore more in-depth.

First, why Italy? A couple reasons: one, it has a reputation as a lovely place to travel. It’s known as the home of olive oil, wine, Tuscany, romance, sunsets, history, excellent food, architecture, art, etc. Second, it ties into numerous aspects of this Substack: the transvaluation of Roman values to Christian values, the subsequent wiping out of Hellenism, the ongoing egalitarian ratchet effect, and the continued implementation of the Kalergi plan¹ in accordance with globohomo’s demented dictates where huge numbers of non-integrating Muslims and Africans will be imported into Europe so that the population becomes too divided to ever oppose central bank usury. The Europe of today will likely be much darker and much more Islamic within another generation or two; enjoy this version while you still can. Third, I’m interested in obvious aspects of the U.S.’s control within Italy itself — it remains a conquered nation where the U.S. has 44 military bases within the country (compared to 119 in Germany!), and thus very much subject to American soft power (film and television, music, multi-national corporations, etc.).

Second, when to go? The best times of year to go to Italy are in the spring or fall; the summer is uncomfortably hot and humid (this write-up has been in the publishing queue for awhile).

Third, a preamble. I’m not going to cover very much Italian history within; the focus will be more on offering photos, some cultural commentary that stood out to me, along with the usual structure of the modern world and goals of our overlord rants triggered by what I saw. The art of photography is a very different skillset than the art of writing or marketing; instead of pondering and deliberating over framing and word choice, decisions that can be considered for a long time, with photography one has to be QUICK about snapping a shot or the moment is lost. So the skills needed involves swiftly realizing something is worthy of further discussion and then capturing it. Because it took me time to realize this (shoot first, discuss later), I missed out on a few opportunities for good shots early on. I don’t take many international trips, after all. This lesson will be learned for the future.

Let’s begin.

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Flight into Heathrow

There was a stopover on the way to Milan in Heathrow. London has been called Londonistan for a long time now - it’s officially 15% of the London population as of 2021, but that is of course a lie and the percentage is much larger, especially among the youth. England’s second largest city Birmingham is no better off. Walking through Heathrow felt like I was in Islamabad — roughly 90% of the population was either visibly Islamic, non-white, tattoo’d, obese and ugly, or a combination thereof. Airport exhibitions were plastered throughout the airport displaying only Muslims, blacks, and LGBTQ individuals, preferably disabled or obese in accordance with intersectionalism, with no straight white men anywhere to be seen. This is pushed consciously and cynically on behalf of the central bank owners so the population is too divided on race, gender, sexual orientation grounds to focus on their theft.

The modern representation of Great Britain; a prominent wall displayed with similar photos for new arrivals. The race/gender/sexual orientation focus is the red cape; the central bank owners are the matador. Don’t get fooled by the cape.

The only other posters I saw were for Net Zero propaganda, which is globohomo’s way of lowering first world standard of living to be in accordance with the third world by slashing their energy supply even as China and the rest of the third world dramatically increase their energy consumption. Net Zero is a mere intermediary step before the approach to Total Zero, i.e. wiping out the “useless masses” as WEF-thought-leader Jewish homosexual atheist Yuval Harari casually calls them.²

The below is globohomo’s gameplan for the upcoming restrictions on basic living as explained by UKFires, which has a lot of establishment credibility, even attracting a full debate in the House of Lords in February 2020:

Net Zero disobedience is already being criminalized, per David Turver. Turver also states this will lead to famine conditions down the road:

The Net Zero zealots have forced the closure of [Britain’s] last remaining fertiliser plant and they also want to close the available routes to import ammonia. Not only that, but no shipping and no aviation will also impede our ability to import food.

The “experts” on the Climate Change Committee want to “release” 11% of our agricultural land by 2035 and up to a quarter by 2050.  By “release” they mean turn over to tree-planting or energy crops. One has to ask, without fertiliser or imported food and much less agricultural land, how are we going to feed ourselves?

It is plain to see that we are heading towards economic disaster, social catastrophe and potentially famine.

The British standard of living is already low and decreasing quickly; the median household disposable income in 2022 was $40,000, compared to $70,000 in the United States, even though the cost of living in Britain is substantially higher.

Keith Woods

had a nice post on it’s decline here.

Anyway, seeing the state of Heathrow was both a shock and depressing but it wasn’t surprising — seeing theory, logic and history become manifest in the real world is always a different experience. It is also a terribly laid out airport; it took almost an hour to get from one terminal to the next with multiple busses and trams having to be taken. The general tenor of the place was akin to the Star Wars cantina.

Is this Heathrow or Islamabad?

I had the chance to explore the surrounding area to Heathrow and the psychic energy was intensely bad — there was and is an active invasion by a hostile non-integrating foreign power taking place where the population nearby was 95%+ Islamic.

To be fair, out of every Western group the British more than anyone else deserve what they get.³ Their rulers were so tied up with being the dominant European power that they were willing to sacrifice literally everything to retain it — their reserve currency status, their superpower status, their empire, colonies, the future of their children and the future of their civilization to retain it, even importing a hostile non-integrating foreign class as necessary to stem any future rise in white populism — selling their souls to the Rothschilds and other central bank owners in the process, as discussed here. I see occasional videos of World War 2 veterans crying that the country of today is not the country they fought for (see this 100 year old crying about America) or John Cleese who poked fun at British society until such society was dead and he laments where it went, and of course consider Enoch Powell’s 1968 rivers of blood speech warning about the catastrophic consequences of illegal immigration, but the crux of the matter is this: most British despite the horrors of World War 1 were willing to fight Germany for control over the European continent because globohomo fed them a bunch of anti-German propaganda and they ate it up, just as the Americans did after the Pearl Harbor false flag.⁴ The lead-up to World War 1 was conducted in the same manner, as was the earlier transition from feudalism to industrialization furthered by the 1604-1914 Inclosure Acts which herded the British masses into the major cities for exploitation like cattle. A population so willing to let the Rothschilds and their allies buy up the mass media, bribe the politicians and institute the steps leading to war is a population that deserves the civilizational suicide that was being hoisted upon them.

This isn’t to say that I don’t have a lot of empathy and support for Western civilization. I do; it’s perhaps the greatest civilization in the history of the planet in what it’s accomplished, the ideas it’s wrestled with, the freedoms and respect for individual rights its generated. This is why calling attention to its unidentified failures is so important — because basically no one else is doing it that I see, at least not in this way; I’m just a pipsqueak blogger, but these ideas need to somehow enter the zeitgeist somehow.

The point is this: it’s easy to blame politicians and the Rothschilds but the buck ultimately stops at home. Are you currently falling for the Current Thing scam of the Israel/Hamas war or the Ukraine/Russia war just because the media tells you to? Do you have your eye off the totally open southern U.S. border because the media isn’t covering it? Are you aware of the structure of the modern world? If you’re falling for this stuff, what kind of moral authority do you have to think you wouldn’t have fallen for the same kinds of propaganda leading up to World War 1 and World War 2?

Anyway I was eager to leave British soil and I don’t plan to go back if I can help it. The country is doomed and its future belongs to primitive Islam.

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Milan

Milan was substantially better than Heathrow; it was hard not to be. Still, it seemed like about 30% of the population at least in the tourist areas and the areas around the train station were non-native Italians, heading toward the future of Heathrow just on a slower pace. Keep in mind that the EU wants to import 75 million more illegal migrants in furtherance of the Kalergi plan and that it prosecuted populist leader Matteo Salvini for preventing illegals from entering the country in 2019. The current Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, ran as a populist but immediately did a 180 and opened the borders on behalf of globohomo even further; a truly degenerate and evil woman (dissidents had warned about her WEF ties and compromised background but the media fooled a majority with its false portrayal of her as a populist, as usual).

Some things I noted:

• The ground was filthy with lots of gum on it. Italy should have Singapore-type laws regarding gum, it makes everything look grimy and disgusting.

• Food portions are smaller and many of the waiters are African and Islamic migrants.

• This becomes less of a factor the further one gets away from the rail station areas. Downtown looked almost like one would expect from Milan, which is considered one of the four fashion capital of the world.

• Milan is not known for being a very good city for tourists to visit, but there are interesting things to see regardless. Some of the architecture was really cool such as the Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest):

There were some interesting art pieces at the Pinacoteca di Brera including Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus:

Closer:

This one by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo was so large it apparently had to be rolled up to get through the door:

This is the feeling any man gets when trying to initiate sex with a long-term partner:

And in the next one this girl is apparently thinking about her love, but it looks like she’s on her iPhone:

The juxtaposition between traditional art and modern degenerate art in the next photo is kind of striking:

The trains and train stations are awesome throughout Italy; having high quality public transportation is wonderful compared to the mess within the U.S. The trains themselves are large, clean, quiet and comfortable.

The food prices in Milan grocery stores were about 1/3 the cost of what they are in cosmopolitan areas in the U.S. The following prices are in Euros, but the current exchange rate is close to 1:1 at about $1.075 per Euro. These were taken at a local Aldi.

Some additional thoughts:

• Prices in restaurants track to tourism; more tourism, higher prices. This applied to McDonalds as well of course (I will admit to grabbing some fries because I was curious what their prices and menu would be) — 3.5 Euro for a soda (lol) but 1.5 Euro for fries. A BigMac meal in Rome would be 11+ Euro, similar to the States.

• There is no expectation of tipping in Italy which is refreshing; in the U.S. tipping is always expected at 20% and less than that is considered rude. They even expect tips when ordering from fast food and Starbucks, and they are trained how to make it as awkward as possible for you as they can (they stare at you and don’t say anything or maybe call you by your name).

• There are many automated warnings in train stations about pickpockets. It’s apparently a big thing, especially in popular areas. One huckster will engage you or distract you verbally while another picks your pocket; or one will bump into you and try that way. I came across a couple of very aggressive, imposing 6’8” Africans who tried very aggressive sales tactics to solicit change; their English was generally not bad.

• The begging situation in Italy is interesting, which I first saw in Milan. In the U.S., at least in major metro areas, there is basically one type of begger: they hold up signs even though most are healthy weight and they’re generally pretty aggressive about coming up to you and shoving the sign in your face. In Italy, though, there appear to be at least three types of beggers: there’s the U.S. kind (which I saw only in Rome), there’s the religious nun kind (raising funds for her Church or nunnery; I gave some change to what looked like a 100 year-old nun, almost totally blind and toothless, outside of the Colisseum), and there’s a prostrating type — a desperate guy who basically lies on his stomach praying, not looking up, appearing sad and desperate, with a cup next to him. I experienced this type in Milan and did a kind of double take; I ended up giving him a couple Euro because the scene kind of moved me, he was subsuming his ego, not bothering the public or even acknowledging them, and just praying that God would provide.

• Rooms are tiny, renovated decently in ancient buildings. Unusually tiny elevators.

• Note: With the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Credit Card one can get five free nights at Marriotts worldwide after spending $5,000 within three months of membership. This is a great deal.

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Day-trip to Como

In Como the non-natives were about 15% of the population, at least of the tourists; this was surprising as Como is known as a wealthy area and the land of George Clooney. Interestingly Florence and also Rome seemed to be much more oriented toward what I considered to be a traditional tourist element — generally whiter, middle-aged or elderly, middle class or above.

Based on history the trends will be for major cities to become non-white and non-Christian throughout the West and for the rural areas to hang on longer. This phenomenon was experienced in Roman history: the term “pagan” was a Christian slur meaning “rural”; they were the Hellenic rural types who held onto their beliefs much longer than the urban or suburban types. As the West is gradually subsumed to Africans and Muslims I would expect small, rural towns to hold out longer, although globohomo is doing everything they can to target these areas for mass immigration.

View of Lake Como:

Inside of Como Cathedral, which was empty on a weekday except for tourists:

It was raining so I wasn’t able to take any good photos on the boat to the town of Bellagio, a pretty little town which served as inspiration for the Las Vegas Bellagio resort:

A little stream flowing into the lake from Bellagio. Lake Como is massive:

Some additional thoughts:

• There was a significant amount of American culture: music playing in the cities visited, lots of signs and restaurants in English including on the train, and many or most Italians speak English at least to an extent. This was helpful as I am retarded with languages.

• Salesmen don’t pressure you in stores which I appreciated. In America you are swarmed by offers of assistance whenever you enter somewhere.

• The stupid American zoomer perm has caught on strongly among Italian youth (and of Canadian youth; ahem,

  Christopher Brunet
  );

• The numbers of tattoos was fairly high but nowhere close to as high as in the U.S.

• I did not see much obesity except among foreigners.

• The average Italian appears to be a product of much breeding between different groups. They almost look and sound Jewish to me. Their general attitude seems to be lovers by disposition and not fighters; Leon Degrelle thought they were not very good at warfare in his On the Eastern Front, that they were whimsical and lyrical and just wanted to goof off and have fun.

• Few kids were seen other than among the Muslims. The high cost of living makes it harder to have them, combined with the nihilism permeating society encouraging anti-natalism and hedonism, along with extreme societal incentives to suppress native population growth (high taxes, censorship, high immigration etc.). If you want to get a sense of what a society looks like that actually encouraged native population growth, look to the example of Gaddafi in Libya.

• Not many smokers seen which was surprising. I guess the anti-smoking propaganda which was so pervasive in the U.S. has finally impacted Europeans.

• There was another Church at Bellagio I explored; it was also empty. I wonder to what extent this has to do with the skinsuiting and subversion of the Catholic Church⁵ and/or the nihilism brought about by the Death of God. Islam seems to be doing much better overall demographically…

• Many stores close for a couple hours after lunchtime, including restaurants, from 2-5pm or so. This is a great European tradition but it seems to be fading.

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Florence

I didn’t get to see as much of Florence as I would have liked because I came down with a two-day case of a mild flu (also known as “COVID” or as I like to call it, fraudvirus). But before I came down with it I did get a chance to take a five-hour electric bike tour of the surrounding countryside. The much more popular tour was the scooter tour, which maybe I should have done but the e-bike tour was fun enough.

The Florence Cathedral, also known as the Duomo, dominates the city. You can see the size of it based on the below photo. It looks even bigger in person, comically large:

Here’s the view from the city from the Piazzale Michelangelo:

You can see the Ponte Vecchio on the far left and the Duomo in the center.

Curiously there was some sort of old car exhibition at the Piazzale Michelangelo:

The e-bike tour stopped off for wine and olive oil tasting and a pasta lunch. I got some information on the economics of local living in Italy from the tour guide. He was middle-aged, from southern Italy, paid $800/month in rent to live in the city, he says the owners of properties (who generally don’t live in town) mostly do AirBnB where they can get about $1,600/month in rent from vacationers and not have to deal with local tenants who struggle to pay rent. As such, the locals are getting pushed further and further out. He said he works all the time and he likes to work outdoors, maybe he makes $100/day not including tips, with tips it’s still not an easy life. I didn’t have the opportunity to ask him about immigration trends. I did ask him about the mafia adulterating olive oil (which I’ve read about elsewhere) but he denied it; I’m not sure if that answer was honest. He said regular biking eventually gave him a bad back, but by switching to e-bikes his back no longer gave him issues (one can’t bring a car into Florence itself so he was used to biking).

Some general comments:

• Throughout the trip I tested the theory that Italian/European food ingredients were of such higher quality that they would prevent me from gaining weight if I ate what I wanted (carb heavy), combined with a lot of walking. Nope, I gained weight and felt badly - there goes that theory. Or maybe it used to be true but stopped being true as EU food quality is also going downhill? Regardless, I had to limit carb intake.

• There’s no American-style coffee, only “Americano” which is espresso with hot water on the side. Part of the pleasure of coffee is sipping it so I wasn’t really getting my normal coffee fix here. I saw only one Starbucks in Italy which was in the Rome train station, but otherwise the coffee shops are local - a good thing.

• Water is served either flat or sparkling, but with no ice and you have to pay 1.5-2.5 euro for it in restaurants.

• About 5% of people were wearing face diapers still, mostly older women.

• I wanted to buy a blue leather jacket but the one for sale near the Ponte Vecchio was like 900+ euro (probably negotiable), there were a bunch of such stores in Florence but couldn’t find it elsewhere and didn’t have time to figure it out before we left. Bummer. Yeah, there are lots of blue leather jackets for sale online but they look of much cheaper quality and probably different materials used.

• Italians can instantaneously tell who is a tourist and who isn’t. This post explains some of the ways how they are able to do so.

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Rome

I was supposed to be in Rome for four days but spent two of them in bed with fraudvirus. As such the Vatican tour was cancelled and I didn’t get to see museums or Churches the way I wanted to, nor did I get to visit the ruins of the Praetorian Guard’s facilities at the Castra Praetoria or see the Appian Way. Instead, I had time to see the Colosseum, Forum and surrounding areas (even though it rained part of the time), the Arch of Titus (discussed previously here), the incredible Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, the Aventine keyhole and the Spanish steps.

Some select photos:

View from the Palatine Hill. I was excited to see this area because it featured heavily in one of the greatest television shows of all time, Rome.

Seagulls are a fairly new species to Rome, originally arriving in 1971. Even though I’ve seen plenty of seagulls in my life for some reason the ones here sounded like meowing cats. I should have recorded them. The one here had absolutely zero fear of humans and I probably could have pet it, I got that close.

The Arch of Titus.

Note the Romans bringing in the Jewish Menorah as war booty after conquering Jerusalem.

This was one of my favorite photos; the Colosseum of Rome conquered by Christianity.

The farther off section shows the underground complex beneath the Colosseum.

Gas prices of let’s say 1.90 euro per liter. That’s about $7.75 after converting liter to gallon and converting euro to dollar if my math is correct, about double what it is in the States - but I thought it would be higher especially with the obnoxious foreverwar in Ukraine now.

The Italians love their graffiti, you can see it all along the building walls outside of the tourist districts. This is perhaps native to the Italian character; Pompeii had lots of ancient graffiti as well.

Gelato was everywhere; a national pasttime.

The Trevi fountain.

You can get an idea for the size of the monstrousness of the crowds. It was extreme at the Trevi fountain but bad everywhere.

Some additional comments:

• Many places don’t accept cash like when paying to access the park/Colosseum. I didn’t like this as it portends a continued transition to digital currency, which will only be used for control and other diabolical schemes despite its convenience.

• The tourist population in Rome was what I expected compared to Milan, Como or to a lesser extent Florence. It was white, middle aged or elderly, and middle class or wealthier. It was much busier everywhere than it was a decade ago, though. But see this post by

  Pox Populi
  who comments on the extremely rapid and in-your-face demographic transformation of Rome.

• There was a marijuana shop that I saw at one point, which was surprising. Is Europe copying the American legalization trend? (or perhaps it is a separate trend?)

• There were lots of teenagers bused in on school tours from all over the country.

• There were lots of priests wandering Rome in their garb, as one would expect.

• I saw further evidence of American culture: J Lo poster, McDonalds everywhere, lots of billboards and signs in English, English-produced movie advertisements. There was a Five Guys at the metro station.

• It’s an interesting question to what extent Italy lives in the past compared to the present. It’s chief economic drivers seem to be tourism, olive oil exportation, leather goods, fashion and cars, and some other strange things. But when one is surrounded by such beautiful, ancient architecture, and your country relies so much on foreign tourists, plus you remain militarily occupied heavily by the United States — it seems quite easy to live in the past. It’s a very different mentality than the American mentality, anyway, I would suspect…

• On a similar note, it’s strange to be around so much beautiful architecture from hundreds or thousands of years ago compared to the horrendously ugly modern architecture, none of which is designed to last hundreds of years the way Italy’s ancient architecture was.

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Naples/Sorrento/Capri

I took the train to Naples; the area around the train station was the worst place seen in Italy, dirty, homeless, graffiti everywhere, a pervasive sense of danger, surly people and lots of migrants. To get a sense of it see this brief video here. The drivers were among the worst in Italy, significantly more aggressive than New York City drivers. One cab driver came close to running over about a dozen people; it was kind of impressive that a pedestrian wasn’t dead after the ride. He ripped me off on fare as well. I rented a car and Google Maps directed the car through the back country to get to Sorrento. This was a bad call as the roads were very windy and narrow; to get by each other cars would have to push their side car mirrors in.

Sorrento and Amalfi was the first breathing room I felt within Italy. Everything else was too busy, too packed, with tiny rooms even if renovated decently in ancient buildings and tiny elevators. In Sorrento one could actually breathe and have a measure of space.

You can see the Amalfi coast in the background. The walls are sheer and well over a hundred feet high. You need to climb winding stairs or pay 1.5~ euro to take an elevator up or down.

The hills of Capri facing the harbor. I found the hills to be a lot more fun and interesting than the tourist trap immediately around the docks, but the whole area was overly expensive and extremely crowded.

The back of Capri facing away from the harbor. The cliffs are multiple hundreds of feet high.

It was a zoo.

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Pompeii

The ruins of Pompeii, which were accidentally rediscovered in the 1700s after Mt. Vesuvius covered the town in volcanic ash in 79 AD, was pretty interesting to behold. The ruins were much larger than I had expected, although I was hoping to see some of the famous graffiti like “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!” Alas, I didn’t see it.

That takes us to the end of this Italian trip. Overall I enjoyed the overview of Italy. My favorite part was the Amalfi coast because the crowds were a bit less and there was a lot more room to breathe. I was bummed coming down with fraudvirus which upset the rhythm of the trip somewhat and I lost two days of sightseeing, and I was disappointed both that the crowds were so large and that the Kalergi plan is in the process of being forced onto Italy. If you have interest in going, go see it before it becomes a dystopian hellhole within the next decade - in this Twitter clip 7,000 African migrants just landed in Lampedusa, Italy in 36 hours.

Thanks for reading.

Postscript: The flight home from Heathrow was cancelled due to maintenance issues (some sort of leak that the maintenance team couldn’t figure out). This kind of thing is going to get much worse moving forward.

1. The founder of the modern EU Richard Kalergi’s publicly stated strategy, where in his book “Practical Idealism” he stated that he “wanted to completely destroy the face of Europe” and that “Europeans are to become Asiatic-Negroid mongrels.” For more details on this see here.

2. Yuval Noah Harari, the spiritual architect of the World Economic Forum and a mentor to Klaus Schwab, claimed that humans are now “hackable animals” and that “the idea of a soul, free will — these are over!”  He also said “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population” and he repeated his previous predictions of a “useless class” of “unemployable” humans.  In the 21st century, Harari argues, people “are no longer part of the story of the future.”  They simply have no role. Humanity 1.0 is being phased out, and only those humans willing to make the transition to Humanity 2.0 and join the all-new species of transhumans will be welcomed in the emerging technocratic society.  “Part of what might be going [on] is people realize — and they’re correct in thinking that, ‘The future doesn’t need me. … Maybe if they are nice, they will throw some crumbs my way, like universal basic income.’ “Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” he continued, “because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence and bioengineering.” Harari added that “these technologies increasingly will make redundant…whatever people are still doing which is useful,” and will thus “make it possible to replace the people.”  (Harari is a homosexual Israeli atheist.)

3. According to Ernst Junger in his Approaches, aphorism 82, the energy that Dostoyevsky picked up on upon his visit to London in 1862 was that the city was “Baal”:

Dostoeyevsky apparently saw something reassuring in the looser constitution of Paris and something frightening in the order of London. This attests to his penetrating but humane look. He saw Baal enthroned behind the spectacle on the Thames, and it frightened and fascinated him as it had inspired the portrayals of many others before and after him….

The enduring reputation of this God Bel is of a hard and merciless master. The name Babylon, its principal seat, became synonymous with the metropolis as such, especially in its night side. Beyond this, Dostoyevsky also saw something specific: the stamp of puritanism in which enormous deployments of energy were coupled with an unwavering conscience. Hence, it is no coincidence that it was precisely in those puritanical zones that machine technology and its related forms of exploitation brought forth the precedents and model cases for critical reflections on these same phenomena….

In his Paris days, Dostoyevsky was undoubtedly also in Montmartre, but it was not there that Baal appeared to him to reign. He saw an orderly fabric in the Parisian ambience, in London an obscene disorder. We might have suspected the opposite impression, yet it is precisely here that his artistic incorruptibility is demonstrated - the artist whose gaze penetrates through the social veneer, through the varnish on a masterpiece, to its ground.”

4. From here, Henry Stimson, War Secretary and a patriarch of the CFR, wrote in his diary after meeting with FDR: “We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move - overt move.”  After a subsequent meeting, he recorded: “The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot…” The Council’s War and Peace Studies Project sent a memorandum to FDR recommending a trade embargo against Japan which he eventually enacted.  In Addition, Japan’s assets in America were frozen and the Panama Canal closed to its shipping.  FDR knew about the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor (American military intelligence had cracked the radio code Tokyo used to communicate with its embassies, which suggested an assault would come on Pearl Harbor around December 7; in addition separate warnings were transmitted to high government officials) but no alert was passed on to the commanders in Hawaii.  FDR removed the fleet’s Admiral after he protested that it was quite vulnerable to attack, and FDR stripped the island of most of its air defenses shortly before the raid.  FDR appointed a commission to investigate what happened, headed by FDR’s friend Supreme Court justice Owen Roberts and other CFR members, absolving FDR of blame.  When this whitewash was exposed, FDR suppressed the results, saying public revelation would endanger national security in wartime.

5. Also note how the Italians switched sides in the lead-up to World War 1 which the Pope considered an act of “free-Masonic infamy”, and how Italy at one point considered going to war against Germany prior to World War 2.