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  Hurricane Hell The American Eschaton Came Early to Appalachia Hurricane Helene has devastated the Appalachian region. My wife and I live nearby, in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina. Though only a few hours away, we were thankfully untouched by the storm. My wife’s family lives in northwestern South Carolina. They had to evacuate their homes temporarily, but their homes are undamaged; given the utter devastation that struck just west of them, they are among the fortunate. The aftermath for the less fortunate is visible from space. But the view from space minimizes the damage. Far more has been lost than mere power lines. Entire towns have been washed away as if they never existed. Now, I do not generally cover “breaking news” here on the  Tree of Woe . Even the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene would not, in ordinary times, have brought me to blog about it. But, as I have said before, we no longer live in ordinary times - we live in extraordinary times, made al...

  Engineering Stupidity What if the nub of our calamity is that the powerful believe themselves to be divinely chosen to rule over people they have decided are weak and stupid, and so conspire to render them even more so? JOHN WATERS Between Good, Evil & Idiocy What if, in all the public crimes of the past 51 months,  we were missing the most heinous of them all? It seems implausible. What if this crime was, in a sense, the only crime among the lot that might be said to have incorporated all the others? What if it was, as the final objective of the demented orchestrators of the, yes,  conspiracy , the ultimate purpose of an operation that had been in train for many years before its machinations were observed above ground? What if this was the crime that explained everything, solved all the mysteries and, in its exposure, rendered pointless all the hours and days we had spent in seeking to explain things that seemed to have no cause or meaning other than the purest, ar...

  RUSSOphobia: Best Victoria Nuland Memes (The War Pig Will "Retire!") Darth Vader Nuland, the fifth horsewoman of the apocalypse war, evil transforms you, her work is nearly done (Ukraine's destruction) & more war whore/pig Victoria Nuland memes as she plans to retire! Good news for anyone opposed to World War III:  Russian hatting war whore and Ukraine’s real ruler  Victoria  Nudelman  Nuland  is leaving the Biden Regime: Gonzalo Lira  had done some videos about Victoria Nuland that also mentioned her father and grandfather - a victim of the Odessa pograms in the early 1900s who suffered from syphilis and helped to drive his son, Victoria’s father, nearly insane. Here is his short video discussion about her and her in-laws - the  Kagan  war mongering  Institute for the Study of War  family: Here is the much longer version: Her father was also interviewed a few times where he talked about the family history plus he wrote a book...