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Helvetian Alpinist ➕'s avatar

Thomas is the collective unconscious of Generation X. He is not a man, but a collective. He is not an individual, but a whole generation.

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Astral's avatar

Absolutely

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Eugene's avatar

They wish!

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Kyle andersen's avatar

I dunno what it is, but the synthesizer music gets me at the end.. Always listen til the end.

What Stormy said about walking into a room where a husband and wife had just had a fight. That energy. Imagine that on a scale with 70 million people. That was very poignant.

About Trump getting shot. A buddy of mine was kinda going thru the political narratives that permeated at the time. I told him that we live in a different country now. I still believe that. Yea, uncharted territory.

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Thomas Wayne Riley's avatar

Sorry to leave a long comment. I love that y’all mention the Germans in the civil war. I just a did a whole series on the civil war in the Southwest and I talked about these Germans. From my episode: “I’ve talked about 1848 before and how the mostly liberal revolutions that sprang up in Europe were put down. This led to a lot of Italians and Germans fleeing the continent and heading to both England and the Northern United States. But also the south. This movement of political dissidents would have a lasting impact on America. I have spoken of Al Sieber being a brother of a German revolutionary. Well in the north, after the 48ers arrived, many brought their left leaning politics and abolitionism with them. They would actually end up helping to sway the 1860 election in the north. And once the war started, they demanded unmitigated punishment on the southerners. In historian Carl Wittke’s Refugees of Revolution, the German forty eighter in America, Thea author claimed that these new German Americans wanted quote, the rebels severely punished, their property confiscated, and a new order created based on unconditional surrender and the enfranchisement of the negro. End quote. The Jacobins and their red message had spread. And now took hold in the United States. The Confederates likened these German revolutionaries to the King’s German mercenaries during the Revolutionary War. In 1861, the southern writer James D B De Bow called these recent immigrants who were in Texas that had voted against secession quote, crazy, socialistic Germans, end quote. And these 10,000 strong germans would hamper the war effort in that state for the Confederacy.”

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Captain Kipps's avatar

I remember reading how Hitler’s astrologer correctly predicted that Allied forces would land in Normandy not Pas-de-Calais. The vast majority of the German generals fell for Operation Bodyguard despite it being a ruse. I might need to take a closer examination of that one.

It’s funny, John Kenneth Galbraith had a awesome quote stating:

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

Maybe there’s some financial firm using astrology to successfully predict macroeconomic trends.

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Salwa's avatar

Lots of them do allegedly. Even medium-sized businesses utilize Kabbalah & Gematria to manifest or predict certain situations

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Captain Kipps's avatar

Stormy stated on the Junker Bunker podcast that a lot of big wig corporations send people to a place called the Monroe Institute. It had ties to the Stargate Program which researched remote viewing. I’ve also read a few books by Joseph McMoneagle who was one of the first government remote viewers. In one of his books, he goes off against those who use remote viewing for corporate espionage and others forms of white collar crime. Which I guess might be a real problem.

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Seff's avatar

Start the day with The Inquisition? Hell yeah.

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Going home's avatar

This podcast is its own art form. Like something magical this has a lasting and impression, nourishment for The Soul. I feel privileged to have found The Inquisituon guys and always learn much about what might be termed life in the scariest movie ever. Thank you Astral for hosting. Your music choices are so good

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PragmaticPrimate's avatar

Brilliant work guys— felt the same fatigue with the current reaction-driven cycles and couldn’t be happier with where this episode went.

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PragmaticPrimate's avatar

Also if you could drop the outtro song title that’d be dope

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Jon's avatar

Digital versicolor- glass candy

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Astral's avatar

Oh shit thanks, sorry I didn’t respond

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Jon's avatar

It’s on the Bronson OST

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Joe's avatar

First.

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Unknown Guy's avatar

Amazing talk about egregores and being possessed by the spirit of the people

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Astral's avatar

We have so much more to come. I just recorded one with Skilos, check my feed

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Bandit's avatar

Love the American history and the discussion on American settlers and Blood Meridian, as well as the contrast to Europeans really put a new perspective on the esoteric American right (too me anyway). I say this as a Western Canadian that is culturally and ethnically a lot closer to Americans than we are Eastern Canadians in almost every way. Our histories in Western Canada are intertwined to that of the mid western Americans.

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Astral's avatar

Great feedback. I wish I knew more about western Canada. Good scene in the movie Dead Man where a northwestern Indian runs into some British sailors who kidnap him and bring him to England as a traveling curiosity. It made me realize that the British settling of western canada and their part of the story is a huge blank spot for me. I’m sure it’s fascinating and involves both sailing and exploration

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Bandit's avatar

I could write a novel on it, but a few things I'd like to mention (especially with the current questions of Canada's sovereignty) is over 500'000 Americans immigrated to what was then the NorthWest Territories (Saskatchewan and Alberta) under the homestead Act from the civil war period until about 1910 (consider that there was around 5mil people in all of Western Canada in 1980). The majority of Albertans today are descended from the pioneering Americans who came from the same Anglo stock that first settled the West. The city of Calgary, Alberta was built by Americans as a entrepreneurial free-market economy to counter the Laurentian city of Edmonton to the North (controlled by the crown). The first ranches were established by Americans as well and this is the reason the oil companies all operate out of Calgary.

We are a culturally distinct region from Eastern Canadians and this is very easily reflected in our politics.

Also the entire reason the province of British Columbia even exists is due to the British Government having an "oh shit moment" at Russian and American expansion in the pacific, this is why all of BC is on unceded territory (no indian treaties were ever signed).

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Captain Kipps's avatar

What’s the story with Justin Trudeau and his family?

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RealThomas777's avatar

JEWD’OH is a fuckking faggot/loser who should be the Maitre’D of a shit restaurant - and looks like he spends his days molesting teenaged girls.

That is his ‘‘STORY’’.

CRINGEADA is like ZOG’S mentally retarded younger brother. Cargo Cult Scheisskultur.

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Captain Kipps's avatar

You think Castro is the true Baby Daddy of Justin?

The man himself always seemed to come across as somewhat silly. But as with Obama, globalist forces seemed to have backed him up to the hilt. That neoliberal globalism had big plans for his administration but some things didn’t play out as they hoped.

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Bandit's avatar

Not quite sure what your asking, his mother was a whore, his father literally bankrupted my people and siphoned all our wealth to bail out Quebecois and Ontario companies during the 80s financial crisis (using the NEB). They are of a clique we refer to as "The Laurentian Elite." Trudeau's wife divorced him and his son is a soundcloud rapper.

It's Trudeauver bros.

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Captain Kipps's avatar

Canada is a interesting case study to contrast Tom Luongo’s theory on rival elite factions. The two most significant being the “imperial remnant” and “Davos.” Is Canada more under the sway of the City of London crowd or the WEF? Would you say the Trudeaus leaned far more toward Davos?

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Bandit's avatar

I like Tom Luongo a lot the BloodSatellite episode with Stormy and Tom basically brought me here, I can't say for certain.. would love to hear Tom's take on it. But I will say that Canada as a nation lost a geopolitical struggle in the 60s with the placement of American nuclear missiles here and the death of Canadian identity with it (see the book Lament for a Nation by George Grant). On top of that Canada was used historically by the Empire and it's "imperial remnant" for anti-American geopolitical crusades.. tldr today I think it has shifted to a full WEF state.

GGNG Episode #210 answers this in the first 20min actually.

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Rethuglican's avatar

I hope they touch on Astral's inability to learn a lesson on defending mediocre Lauren Southern clones

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Astral's avatar

I don’t even know who these people are man I just like simping for people everyone hates. If you take it seriously, find another podcast.

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Rethuglican's avatar

I love your podcast. I'm just taking the piss lol

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William Leonard's avatar

Are you guys familiar with the H.P. Lovecraft "Anti-gods"?

There's also a very interesting connection between Lovecraft, Ford, Lindbergh, and Houdini to look into.

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Paul's avatar

Spirit of the age- My parents took me out of parochial school and put me in the public education system where I learned about Romulus and Remus. Then I learned that for some kids it was the other way around.

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Paul's avatar

Spirit of the Age- "Well, I carved out the wilderness with a bowie knife in one hand while dragging a canoe behind me."- W.C. Feilds

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Wanderer's avatar

People forget that the Californios were very American-Revolutionary-like and rebelled against Mexico in 1831, 1833, 1836(twice, the second of which put Juan Bautista Alvarado as the president of a temporarily independent California before he negotiated to rejoin Mexico as the governor of Alta California), 1837, and 1845(where Juan Bautista Alvarado led the rebellion against the new governor's forces led by Sutter, who's forces defected and took him hostage), before the explorer and mountain man Freemont led the American forces in California against Mexico during the Mexican American war in 1846.

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, commander of the Presidio of Sonoma, who favored union with the United States, and who was a friend of Freemont, fed and drank with the members of Bear flag revolt when they entered Sonoma without a fight.

Then, when Freemont became the first California Senator, the very first thing he did was write a bill for the carte blanche recognition of the existing properties owned by the Californios in California, and in kind many Californios, including Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, not only were chosen to attend, but proved to be important members in, the California constitutional convention and both patriotic US and California citizens.

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relikt's avatar

That is all well and good. But what is the point being made? If it is that they are honorable and historical so we should accept them as part of the future America we are attempting then I reject it out of hand. The future of this land must be white. We have spent too long being for everyone else and sympathy for historical nobility is nowhere near enough for an exception. If they are white Mexicans I have no quarrel. But it is suicidal and evil to justify our solution over historical nobility.

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Wanderer's avatar

The Californios were about 35k people in 1900 and were descended from Swiss(like Sutter) Irish, Spanish, French, and Anglos among others. They are already a part of the American project not only as America chose to incorporate them, but because they are already largely intermarried into the West Coast Anglo founding stock.

The fact that you failed to recognize that they always saw themselves as separate from Mexicans especially Aztec mestizo culture is wild, as I assume you see my post as some form of apologia for accepting infinite Mexican immigrants.

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relikt's avatar

dilution not solution*

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relikt's avatar

My family on every line has been here since early 1600's, I say this as someone who treads the same paths as my forebearers, literally, every day.

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relikt's avatar

Also it must be understood, that if you see this view as harsh then you haven't looked forward into inevitability and seen what is coming and the kind of temperament that the men who put into practice our theorizing will carry.

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Paul's avatar

Huh, "population and resource anxiety that emerged".. noted

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Captain Kipps's avatar

It’s been a notion for centuries. Remember, the Boomers constituted a 5x global population increase. I don’t care much for Star Trek, but this segment best captured the “Malthusian anxieties” at the time of the 1960s-1970s. That rapid population increases combined with extended lifespans could be globally disasterous.

https://youtu.be/KdsbuJfMpr0?si=

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