I just spent an hour talking about why ARI sucks:

Most of life is an unending, ferocious, private battle between good and evil. It's a fight for life over death; pleasure over pain; happiness over misery.

Here it is:

https://objectivismefr.files.w...

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary (sculpture), tapestry and porcelain.”
[John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 1780]

Diamond Jim hasn't shown up at SOLO for years, but he has written a book "Creating Christ" with Casey Fahy.

Here is Jim's most recent interview (from yesterday):

Roberto Alagna sings O Holy Night. No prizes for guessing who inspired this then-young man to become a singer. The filming and directing are not optimal, but who cares in the face of such glorious singing?! Roberto's idol, whom he so closely resembles here, would be proud of him. And I hope this gets up the snotty noses of ghastly (is there any other kind?) Obleftivists. May 2019 see the crushing of filthy Obleftivism and the filthy Islamo-Marxism it promotes!

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

Far from being the transparent government Jacinda Ardern promised to lead, New Zealand has instead been betrayed after she and Winston Peters decided to vote in support of the UN Global Migration Compact. The two coalition leaders kept their decision-making hidden in secrecy, far from prying media eyes, stating only as late as two days ago that they had made “no decision yet” regarding the compact, then they quietly went ahead and voted for it (if they hadn’t already).

Episode 10 is up! What did Ayn Rand think of the backwards of the world? And what about her "higher type of man"?

Ari: Life is an absolute joy. It's truly great. I want to live forever.

Lea: I think almost everyone else wants that too.

Ari: Yeah, but I want it far more.

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

Imagine Winston Churchill abdicating leadership right at the moment when the miracle of the Dunkirk evacuation was achieved…

“Right... now England, I’ve gotten our soldiers back for you, here Halifax, you man up and organise them to fight the Nazis, I’m taking a well-earned break.”

Nobody knew more than Nigel Farage how poisonous the snake pit of the EU parliament was, yet he prematurely chose the portentous moment of the Brexit referendum victory to resign his leadership of UKIP – knowing full well that the future negotiations would be, to say the least, devilishly difficult. I found this almost unbelievable at the time when he did it. I find it utterly unconscionable now that the mess has been borne out.

Russian and China are the two great scum nations of the planet. They're forever seeking to conquer and enslave the whole world. They're forever threatening us all with nuclear war.

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

In 1776 the American Revolution fought and overthrew the governance imposed by the British monarchy, inspiring the French Revolution on the other side of the Atlantic to throw off its own monarchy just 13 years later.

Yet the French Revolution was an epic failure which brought about the unprecedented butchery of many, including France’s greatest Enlightenment thinkers and scientists, such as Antoine Lavoisier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The end result was a military dictatorship and a new monarchy: an autocracy under France’s greatest general, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. That led to a war which England and its allies won in the climactic battle of Waterloo in 1815.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

People who believe in god almost invariably don't believe in Man. They reject and damn humanity.

Government, or defensement, is a freely created and maintained unitary social organization which forcefully defends the individual rights –- or persons and property -– of its members, or those who vol

What's coming soon? War and Christ

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I took a lesson with a speech pupil tonight. To my surprise he informed me he'd just watched my interview from 1994 on MSTV with Jose Carreras, and said it made him realise the truth of my routine observations about the inability of anyone nowadays, on or off TV, to listen.

Everyone talks over everyone else, in the most disgusting fry-quacking, attention-seeking tones imaginable. Everyone thinks his is the only opinion that counts. It's a short step from that to everyone bashing everyone else over the head. The level of primordial contempt involved in both is not distant. I would urge people to note how in the Bruno/Linzio transmissions, there is ample listening and ample talking by both of us. True conversations, without compromising our ability and right to disagree.

Here's the interview. Note how at the end, Jose himself remarks how unusual it was:

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

President Trump has a highly amusing habit of triggering members of the press to the point of hysterical backlash. While running as a presidential candidate he coined the term “fake news”, which I think will be in modern parlance forever.

The point at which the mainstream media wets its diapers is always when the President touts that “fake news is the enemy of the people.”

This statement triggers the press so profoundly, from Left to Right, that they just cannot get the insult straight in their heads. Triggering has this confusing effect on human thought.

Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 9. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Edo De Waart, conductor; Madeleine Pierard, Soprano; Simon O'Neill, tenor; Anthony Robin Schneider, bass; Voices NZ Choir. Michael Fowler Centre, Friday November 23, 2018

This occasion was nothing short of astounding—and clearly nothing less was expected. Every seat was occupied. Overflow audience were seated behind the choir. Paramedics were on standby in case of a stampede of the claustrophobic. The Band were in the same stellar form they've been in all year.

Our world today -- including all the Western, socialist, and moslem nations -- hugely believes in the moral ideal of self-sacrifice.

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

17th November 2018

To: The Honorable Iain Lees Galloway & Kris Fafooi
Immigration New Zealand
370 Airdale Street,
Auckland 1010,
New Zealand

RE: Urgent asylum for Asia Bibi and her family from Pakistan

Dear Sirs,

I address you both in order to ask for New Zealand Immigration to offer asylum to Asia Bibi, her husband and her daughters from Pakistan.

Is New Zealand "woke"? The West is under attack on several fronts, the main being Islam and China, or the "islamo-marxist" alliance.