Category Archives: Ukrainian History

THE ROT THICKENS

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It seems a bit humorous to me that the elite accuse those they seek to “cancel” of “denial”, when the very act of cancelling is denying. It is like slamming a door or clashing shut the Venetian blinds. It is saying, “Your view must be denied, for it is harmful.” So who is the denier?

My father was a surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital back in the days when it was actually run by doctors, and one thing that impressed me as a boy was how eager the doctors were in those days for second and third and fourth opinions. They were very aware that every patient was different, and some who should have gotten sicker got well, while some who should have improved got worse. Therefore they were always comparing notes. There was no shame in saying that a cure that had always worked wasn’t working. It was part of being a doctor. So they turned to each other and inquired, “Has this ever happened to you?” And sometimes they’d get odd answers, such as, “Yes, and I did not know what to do, but my grandmother suggested I make the patient eat some blue cheese, and I thought what the hell and tried it, and I’ll be damned if they didn’t show a remarkable improvement.”

One of the most ugly aspects of the China virus was the cancelling of second and third and fourth opinions. There were many eager doctors wanting to help, but they were denied. The rot had set in.

I have no great desire to document the rot. It has been done by many brave journalists more skilled than I am, and the only result seems to be that they get cancelled. Or, perhaps I should not say that is the only result. Another result is that journalist abruptly wears a medal of honor, for if you haven’t been canceled by the rot, you are rotten.

The latest to be canceled was the Noble prize winner for physics in 2022, Dr. John Clauser. He ventured a second opinion, concerning Global Warming, and swiftly learned a Noble Prize gives you no authority to speak. The swamp-rot giveth, and the swamp-rot taketh away.

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Dr. John Clauser now wears a medal of honor, for being cancelled by the rot. However the rot seems blithely heedless of how grotesquely hypocritical they appear, when they honor a man on Monday only to dishonor him Tuesday.

Have they no shame? White powder is discovered at the White House, but after the initial alarm about anthrax poison, it is discovered it is “only” cocaine, and the incident is “broomed”, and in a sense cancelled. And the rot thinks people don’t notice?

In a sense a Nobel Prize Laureate gets the same treatment as a bag of cocaine. Both get cancelled. When I am a Nobel Prize Laureate, that will piss me off.

However, as my great poetry currently is more prone to getting me canceled than to earning me the Nobel Prize which I think I deserve, I just want to run away from the rot. It has a reek that repels me. I want to look at clean clouds, or, because the weather is hot, to look at arctic sea-ice.

Sadly, it is hard to get any views of sea-ice any more. In a strange sense such beautiful views have also been canceled. Even the Barrow, Alaska webcam went off-line on June 19 and hasn’t been fixed. I assume the rot doesn’t want us to use our own eyes, and instead just wants us to see what they allow.

Unfortunately for them rot is not pretty. I want sea-ice, which is pretty. So I’ll look back through archives to past views, and some of the most beautiful views were created by and through the Barneo site. And one thing I noticed while looking back, right off the bat, was that this beauty, (and profit) was created by Russia and Ukraine working together. Take a gander of what they did, before the rot set in. The base is Russian but the jets are Ukrainian.

Not that Russians and Ukrainians didn’t have their differences, but they managed to face some big problems, such as occurred when a Ukrainian jet landed too hard in 2015.

Jet’s Landing Gear Fails At Pole. (Updated)

The above post includes some neat pictures I dredged up of a DC-3 landing on sea-ice north of Alaska in 1975. Another crashed on Fletcher’s Ice Island in 1952 (I think) and drifted about the Arctic until the early 1980’s.

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This crashed airplane eventually sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic when the ice-island exited the arctic via Fram Strait and crumbled, likely down by Denmark Strait. Not a peep do I recall ever hearing about this American pollution of the sea bottom. However the Ukrainian jet sitting crashed at the Russian base caused an uproar among environmentalists in 2015-2016, and led to a good post (in my humble opinion).

ARCTIC SEA ICE –BARNEO 2016–THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING JET–

The sad thing about the above post is that, despite all the politics involved, there is more humor than tragedy. Yes, Greenpeace activists do get taught a lesson by boarding Russian ships and winding up in Russian jails, but it was only for a few months and nobody died.

It took the rot, to take a situation which was under control, and make it become a war where thousands upon thousands have died. Have the rotten no shame? Apparently not. If you dare say, “Give peace a chance”, they promptly cancel you.

And the rot thinks ordinary people don’t notice?

People do. So the rot thickens.

IN DEFENSE OF SMALL FARMERS

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Socialists have never liked the freedom of small farmers, as the idea of liberty resulting in good things jars their concept of “collective” good. Stalin took this to an absurd length in his efforts to utterly wipe out the “Kulak”, who were seen as “class enemies” of the poorer serfs. Lenin described the Kulak as “bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten themselves during famines”.

In actual fact the last Czars created the Kulak in an effort to lessen the tendency of the serfs to rebel and join radical and militant movements, such as communism. Rather than veritable slaves who owned no land, the serfs were given the opportunity to borrow money and purchase land from wealthy landowners. In a sense it was a mortgage, which the better farmers paid back, becoming small landowners. Generally speaking, a Kulak was a small farmer who owned more than 8 acres.

As is often the case, the lazy did not become prosperous. It was the farmers with ingenuity and industry who became Kulaks. They produced a disproportionate amount of Russia’s food, and for the most part were conservative in their outlooks. Therefore they became the “petite bourgeois” communists despise.

Stalin killed roughly a million, either through murder or through starvation. He sent hundreds of thousands to gulags in Siberia, and more than a hundred thousand left for gulags but never arrived. Stalin felt that by removing such “weeds” the remaining population would be pure, and productive. In actual fact the production of grain plummeted, and there was a terrible famine, especially in the Ukraine, which is one reason there is animosity between Ukrainians and Russians to this day.

During the final days of the Soviet Union small farmers were once again allowed to farm small lots, and immediately out-produced the collectives. 5% of the farmers produced 50% of the food. This should teach a lesson, namely: People with ingenuity and industry have more value than lazy people.

Of course, it is deemed wrong to say any person has more value than another. And it is likely true that God cares for the lazy as much (if not more) than he cares for the industrious. After all, the lazy need help. They need motivation. Whether that help takes the form of a caress or a kick-in-the-butt likely depends on the person and the administrator. However, when it comes down to food on the table, having food has more value than lacking food; hence some people have more value than others, in that particular way.

In my time I’ve lived with many hardscrabble farmers who have first hand experience with the difference between feast and famine, and I found they had a sort of common sense which college students lacked. The college students borrowed money and ate in cafeterias, while the Navajo wove rugs and used the money they made to buy things their land could not produce, such as cooking oil. Their land could produce little that is needed to subsist on a vegan diet, but their land could support sheep. Therefore they ate a lot of mutton. In like manner the old New England farmers only had a little land they could grow vegetables on, but much stony land that could be used for cows, sheep, goats and pigs, and they tended to have diets which included meat and dairy products. Yet college students often looked down their noses at such practicality, and, if radical, tended to castigate non-vegan people, like Lenin cursed the Kulak.

I have tried to educate these idealistic, vegan college students, but usually have failed, and often have been dragged into arguing about politics which has little to do with eating. Therefore I was glad to come across this explanation of the practical side of farming, which I think every vegan should watch.