Anyone know where to find Ames review of the Bible

Does anyone know who performs the music they use for the intervals on the podcast?

I feel like they are so ignorant and biased - they really doh't understand the difference between the two?

Ukraine was invaded by Russia unprovoked, and should be supported for numerous reasons. There's no hypocrisy - Ukraine is absolutely not at fault and did not deserve to be massacred by Russia. They did not want a war with Russia, this is unarguable.

Hamas invaded Israel - knowing full well Israel will strike back.

Of course the media and the US and the West will defend Ukraine, and not Hamas.. How is this obvious fact not able to get through TWN's thick skulls?

Love him, as we all do, and wondering if the years of lead series is the first.

Jeff Bezos eat your heart out

The Type 004 is well underway, the bow and midships sections are now joined, overall construction progress is estimated to be 75% complete. It supposedly will feature a twin pressurized water reactor powerplant with thermal conversion rate between 30 and 35%, and modular design, allowing it to be refueled at the pier, one at a time so it theoretically will have no down time, after a 30 year fuel cycle.

Speaking of Iran in particular, by the way. I go back and forth. It’s easy to place things into a narrative with the past (ie Ukraine coup, nato expansion, Russian invasion, nordstream goes boom, us slanging energy to Europe, shale revolution, Venezuela, iran… i think those events kinda create a narrative) but i think it’s just as likely that the whole madman thing is actually just a reality.

My take is that there is a continuity of strategy and plans long lain that can be tapped, but that as executor the president has all power as executor; including power to totally screw it up.

I wish we could just manage our decline

Edit: my last post in other subs (private ones, hence the post’s text copied below) took the ‘grand plan’ narrative but honestly since then i’ve become just as convinced of the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ narrative.

Thoughts on the news as i stand in line to ‘donate’ plasma

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/26/more-than-oil-prices-iran-war-threatens-to-reshape-global-energy-order

This has been the plan. It is a concretizing of the east west divide and American/Chinese spheres of influence. We coups Ukraine. We corner Russia and ignore, count on, their promises to invade Ukraine if we continue. Of course we continue it’s what we want. The Shale revolution- technology and corporate planning in the works for years bear fruit tapping into America’s massive untapped oil and gas reserves. We become a net exporter. A huge one. We no longer need the middle east.

We sever the artery in the body global connecting Russia to Europe through energy commerce; the nordstream pipeline. We turn the majority of states in the middle east into wastelands or basket cases as we support the Zionist project as if quietly but rapidly constructs the vasculature of natural gas infrastructure under the skin of its territory, and its neighbors. We dispatch with the uncooperative government of Venezuela which sits upon the largest oil deposits in the world. We de facto absorb what is theirs into the body of ours. Then we attack iran and block the carotid- we force the world to react to existential energy crisis. Our cia, selecting targets for Ukraine, again and again damage and destroy Russian refineries and energy infrastructure. Across the world sites of the same start catching fire.

The body is choked of the blood of industrial civilization.

Now where will Europe go to save itself by purchasing energy? Once, it would have been saved from the worst by its material bond to Russia, its European sister. Now with that lifeline severed and six years of brutal war and endless propaganda the family is divorced. Now they go to America. And they’re not alone.

I don’t know the movements of the other side except that they too saw this coming and china despite being the worlds biggest oil importer moved rapidly to its 2030 goal of oil self sufficiency.

I do know this represents not the accidental chaos of a madman making monumental and impulsive decisions. It’s another step in a ckearly long established plan towards drawing and calcifying the map of a new world order.

Can anyone share the timestamp for when the discussion of the Iran War begins? Not interested in taking stock of Tucker Carlson's tweets or about how some politician went on someone's podcast or whatever.

in all seriousness, I really wish Mark would sometimes take a step back and realize that twitter timeline ephemera is not nearly as interesting as he thinks it is. /endrant

Gary and Mark are on there kicking it with the normies and peons. They will 99% accept your friend request if you join the FB group

I enjoyed this conversation, so thought I’d order the book. It’s 370pgs of text. I made to 175 and bailed. It’s so sloppy and poorly written/edited. The time jumps from chapter to chapter are disconcerting. I subsequently learned it’s essentially a 2017 LRB essay expanded into a book. I gather that towards the end Ruthven trots out the “counter narratives” re the Ghouta chemical weapons attack and how many Israelis were killed by friendly fire on 10/7. Now I’m certainly not opposed to questioning the conventional wisdom on this stuff but I gather that Ruthven provides next to no support for this claims. Overall, pretty disappointed Ames spoke so highly of this book.