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Category: Circle of Crust

  • Geopolitical Situation Awareness Links

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  • CSAGOV site back online

    The CSAgov.org website, I note, is back. https://www.csagov.org/

    It looks like the group that was aligned with the ‘Southern Party’ [1] and thus opponents of the group Hunter Wallace aligns with (‘The League of the South’).

    [1]: Yankee-spun history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Party

    We had a thread on csagov, at the old Phora, and also of course much more discussion in the archives for Whigdev/Whitespace.

    Down the rabbit hole: Confederate States of America *Main* CSAgov.org – Offical Govnerment Website

  • Saturnalia Substack Marketing Campaign for STI

    Welcome to the Autodidact Newsletter – by Macrobius (paid subscription required but see STI-Registration page here for same content free!)

    Clicable links mentioned in above poast:

    [1]: https://macrobius.substack.com/

    [2]: https://macrobius.substack.com/account

    [3]: https://macrobius.substack.com/s/the-autodidact

  • Democracy Vouchers

    Democracy Vouchers | Phora Nova

    First I’ve heard of this plan (which originated across the water in Seattle, ca. 2017)

    I get the pitch:  ‘democracy vouchers are just like school vouchers, so “conservatives” should like that and fall for it’ — and it will help fund socialism’ … but in its current Liberal mode, not any real sort of Socialism.

    In a sane world, the YOG courts would strike this sort of thing down as unconstitutional civil rights violations under the Occupation’s fave, ‘the equal protections clause for Civil Rights’ — the reason is that property owners, who presumably pay taxes to create public funding for political campaigns at the local level (just like they do for mandatory school indoctrination programmes and institutions), are a class of people and not being equally taxed here.  Their money payments are transfered directly to mob politics and will create two feedback loops: 1/ those in power can try to manipulate (‘harvest’) the vouchers, similar to who joint-stock corporations and their boards and managers manipulate ‘proxy voting’ among stockholders.  2/ it creates a possible revolutionary dynamic for the anti-thesis ‘outties’ to do street theatre and stage a revolution.

    That’s without even thinking about the proposal for more than 5 minutes.

    I think in any event that like ‘public education’, any such scheme would have unintended consequences, and in the medium term become just one more entrenched programme with institutional clients handing out goodies to people who had no part in creating the wealth being distributed.  Direct dictatorship by the Proletariat would be preferable — at least factory workers make things.

  • The Real Problem with Spain and Portugal’s Grid

    Reprint of https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/the-real-problem-with-spain-and-portugals-electrical-grid.2002/ (Monday, 4/28/2025) at the Phora, a private forum, to make thread from the ‘Electricools’ subforum public:

    … in Electricool terms: There is ‘Grid Inertia’ and ‘Grid Frequency’ and sudden drops in power capacity (‘rare atmospheric conditions’) can cause a grid frequency instability

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  • Happy Patriots’ Day and Great and Holy Saturday

    The American Conservative Revolution | Page 3 | Phora Nova

    Dear Mac,

    The only way, in retrospect, that i can be alright with the American Revolution is that it was a seperation from Guelph rebels who had themselves turned against the Roman Imperium.

    Anyway, happy Patriot’s day.

    Remember that the entire hemisphere celebrates, with Russia, the outcome of 1812. The French Revolution had its good and bad points — as a peasant revolt by a Roman substrate population against their Frankish overlords, it makes a certain amount of sense. But then we have Napoleon… who uprooted Roman Civil Law (leaving only Scotland and Lousiana as relics of it), and of course invaded the Ukraine ;)

    I think what the Founding Fathers proved both by their Wisdom and their Folly is that Heretics cannot form a stable government in the long run, because they do not have a clear sense of what the ‘Salus Populi’ even is, because of a failed understanding of Anthropology and Ecology, etc.

    Only Holy Orthodoxy can save this Hemisphere and Country, is my current understanding. A bit sharpened now by events of 2020-2025.

    When Pascha is over, I will sharpen my points about Palamism implicit in my mention of Sherrard on this thread, but on which I have yet to expand: https://thephora.net/phoranova/inde…lism-in-orthodox-christianity-and-islam.1941/

  • Whigdev (whitespace) BBS recovery project

    Whigdev/Whitespace is down for the count | Phora Nova

    I’m reconfiguring websites and in fact I’m reactivating my ‘web host reseller’ service from 10 years ago, that I used when sometimes hosting and web managing SI and TBB.

    Current plans and timelines:

    1/ whigdev will be completely rebuilt to prove safe to do so, using new infrastructure (ASAP)
    2/ whitespace DB will be transfered and tested
    3/ whigdev existing infrastructure, including whitespace will be destroyed and and DNS repointed to new home (by say Memorial Day)
    4/ archive recovery from PHP breakage can commence, order of sites TBD (mine and those I’ve managed in the past, and requests I’ve received for archive recovery)

    I’ve made enough progress rebuilding old LAMP stacks with MySQL/Maria DB (not usually the problem unless you are cutting edge) and PHP (very definitely a problem if your webhost changes versions on you and trashes your sites), for the above to be feasble. I hope to publish my scripts for building the sites and Docker Compose files etc.