Reorganizing The World

This is just an idea I had circulating in my head. 

We live in a time of transitions, transformations, and change. I hope reason and common sense prevails. The many geopolitical questions around the world can't all be solved by force alone.

Politicians, military planners, and policy makers have to be flexible and willing to change. 

Any German statesman worth his or her salt should be supporting a rapprochement with Russia. A Russian-German alliance would be terrific for Europe.

In North America a single government makes a lot of sense. It's not about adding or subtracting states and provinces for trivial political reasons but uniting to make a stronger continent.

New Major Power Blocs:

China-Korea-Pakistan-Australia-Central Asia (Arctic power)

France-Germany-Russia (Arctic power)

North America-United Kingdom-Greenland-Scandinavia (Arctic superpower)

Free Agents:

Japan

Iran

India

Brazil 

Turkey 

Portugal, Spain, Italy

Egypt

Buffer Zones:

Arabia

Kurdistan 

Iraq

Afghanistan 

Balkans

Ukraine 

Up For Grabs:

Africa

South America 

Syria-Palestine-Levant

South China Sea

William Maxwell Hetherington - Grief's Philosophy

There's been a lot of death recently of teachers and researchers I've admired. Jon Rappoport, Stephan A. Hoeller. 

There's a few more I'm missing.   

I've been watching their interviews and lectures on YouTube in the last few days. There's a lot of wisdom to be gained from them. 

Wikipedia:

William Maxwell Hetherington (4 June 1803 – 23 May 1865) was a Scottish minister, poet and church historian. He entered the University of Edinburgh but before completing his studies for the church, he published in 1829, 'Twelve Dramatic Sketches' founded on the Pastoral Poetry of Scotland. Hetherington became minister of Torphichen, Linlithgow, in 1836; in 1843 he adhered to the Free Church, and in 1844 was appointed to a charge in St. Andrews. He subsequently became minister of Free St. Paul's, Edinburgh, in 1848; and was appointed professor of apologetics and systematic theology in New College, Glasgow, in 1857. He died 23 May 1865.

Grief's Philosophy by William Maxwell Hetherington:

“This world is but a dream,

Peopled with forms ideal –

Dark gloom, or sunny gleam,

Fear’s night-cloud, Hope’s day-beam,

Are all alike unreal.

“We love, we hate in vain –

Joys, sorrows, all deceive us;

The gust of bliss or pain, –

Hope’s rainbow, Misery’s chain,

Flatter, torment, and leave us.”

“Life! ’tis an aimless path,

Harsh, pleasureless, and dreary;

A contest waged with death, –

A fitful, anxious breath, –

Troubled, oppressed, and weary!”

But who, dark one! art thou,

At the world and life thus railing?

Go, hide thy gloomy brow,

Where spray-mists shroud the bough,

And caverned winds are wailing!

“Yes, I may hide my head,

Where life-scenes ne’er shall wake me;

Loves, friends, are lost, are dead,

Joys, hopes, afar are fled,

Wishes, even fears, forsake me!”

Yet raise thy head on high,

Thou timid, weak immortal!

Thy home’s beyond the sky –

The woes that cloud thine eye,

Mere shadows in life’s portal!

Continued. . .

On Graham, Nukes, And The History We Tell Ourselves

 

The late Sen. Lindsey Graham inspecting a drone factory in Ukraine.

“I was against it on two counts,” Dwight Eisenhower, supreme allied commander, five-star general, and president of the United States, said of dropping nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities. “First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.”

This certainly cuts against the common argument these days: that dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives, certainly the lives of American soldiers, and maybe even Japanese lives on net." - An excerpt from, "“Japan Was Already Defeated”: The Case Against the Nuclear Bomb and for Basic Morality" by Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, July 26, 2023.

"Of the many controversial statements made by Senator Chuck Hagel over the years, none seemed to enrage Senator Lindsey Graham more than his remark that the Israel lobby intimidates U.S. Congressmen into advocating “stupid” policies. He challenged Hagel to name one such senator and to identify one such stupid policy.

The challenge created an unusual opportunity for Hagel, for there could be no better and conclusive evidence of the Israel Lobby’s power of intimidation of U.S. senators on the subject of Israel than these hearings themselves, and most particularly Senator Graham’s own behavior.

Unfortunately, Hagel could not take advantage of that opportunity. Had he done so, his nomination by President Obama to head the Department of Defense would undoubtedly have been dead in the water, for his former Democratic colleagues are no less guilty of yielding to that intimidation than Hagel’s former Republican colleagues.

But the truth of Hagel’s charge must be affirmed, particularly by those who are more concerned about Israel’s ability to survive as a Jewish and democratic state than about jeopardizing contributions to their own electoral campaigns. The truth that needs to be affirmed speaks not only to the existential dangers created by the current Israeli government’s illegal and often immoral behavior in the Occupied Territories but to the violation of the shared values that supposedly form the foundation of the unprecedentedly close ties between Israel and the United States." - An excerpt from, "Senator Hagel, Senator Graham, and the Israel Lobby" by Henry Siegman, Huffington Post, February 5, 2013.

Senator Lindsey Graham was a strange goy specimen. 

It's hard to pin him down. Was he just a surrogate? Did he have genuine political, philosophical, and moral convictions or was he just another sexually compromised individual that loved being in power? 

What did he actually accomplish in his long political tenure besides being a cheerleader for war? 

In every news clip I saw of him throughout the years he was advocating for this or that war. And in one clip he was defending the use of nuclear weapons, suggesting they should be used again in the future.

What a misguided soul.

There's no strategic or moral case for the possession and use of nuclear weapons. Some people like the late Graham are under the mistaken notion that these are effective instruments of war, citing the dropping of nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for why these weapons have their uses in critical, existential situations. 

But even top American military leaders have said on record that there were zero military justifications for those WWII bombings. The Japanese emperor would have surrendered anyway. That was more of a showpiece bombing. 

Nagasaki was the center of Japanese Catholicism, so it was most likely chosen as a target for that reason than any military or strategic one.

Graham was clueless about the true history of WWII. No real student of the conflict can look at what happened and defend the use of nukes. 

Understanding and investigating history should not be seen as a dry pastime. What we think we know, or don't know, can inform our current views for the worse. It's important to always be learning and reading about the past, lest we make fools of ourselves.

The Podcasts I'm Listening To This Summer: Dear Alice

Video Title: The Biggest Mistakes When Hiring a Designer | Dear Alice Podcast. Source: Alice Lane Home Collection. Date Published: July 2, 2026.

 

Video Title: Transform Your Home Office Like a Designer | Dear Alice Podcast. Source: Alice Lane Home Collection. Date Published: June 18, 2026.

Christopher Wokan's New Film

Reinterpreting ancient myth is a sacred responsibility. 

Over the years Hollywood has exercised its creative license with reckless abandon when it comes to the retelling of ancient Greek mythology and Western history. 

They're able to get away with their bastardization of ancient myth because there's no constituency that they have to worry about. 

If they treated Islam, the origins of Christianity, Judaism, Jesus, or Muhammad with the same disrespect there would be legions of fanatics at the doorsteps of Hollywood executives calling for their heads.

Ancient mythology is their safe playground and they have made a mess of it. 

The fact that political and social agendas have tainted this film, with the hiring of a trans actor, is concerning. But I'm sure ancient Greeks wouldn't be too bothered with that. So why should we?

What's more troubling is that Hollywood is creating boring trash and this movie looks like another entry into that pile.

Hollywood storytelling has taken a nosedive over the last decade. You would hope certain directors and filmmakers would not be included in that downwards trend. But apparently not. 

The last Nolan film I watched was Tenet and I couldn't make it all the way to the end. It was a horrible film. 

Hopefully this one can at least provide some entertainment. 

Video Title: Christopher Nolan Doesn't Understand Time Like Homer Did. Source: Dr. Johannes Achill Niederhauser. Date Published: July 7, 2026.

 

Video Title: The Woke TRAGEDY of the Odyssey... Source: Jay Dyer Archive. Date Published: July 8, 2026.