March 31, 2015

Reality check.

Those tolerant Muslims of Granada in 1066 killed as many Jews in one day as the Spanish Inquisition did in its 3 centuries of existence.[1]
Spanish Inquisition: 1478-1834.
Notes
[1] "Bad Ideas Breed Bad Foreign Policy." By Bruce Thornton, Frontpage Mag, 3/4/15.

March 26, 2015

Black mob violence.

They didn’t count on the Old White Dude with a bat.
"The Old Man and the Sea of Black Mob Violence." By Colin Flaherty, American Thinker, 3/26/15.

H/t: Crusader Rabbit: "Wake up, Whitey. You're at war."

Have we got a surprise for you.

Progressives (liberals, leftists, socialists, communists) all disdain the West's achievement of institutionalizing respect for basic rights, limited government and the rule of law. That achievement is now under determined attack by Progressives (i.e., Western elites) but they have no concept of the ghastly consequences of abandoning that achievement:
A former senior propagandist, Jang Jin-Sun, defected to South Korea and told the documentary’s producers, “In North Korea they promote the leader to be the sun. If you go too close you burn, if you go too far you freeze to death.”[1]
Demanded his rights and
voted "NO" on the execution deal.
Progressives always assume they will end up at that perfect orbit around the leader or oligarchs of the massively statist regimes they struggle so hard to create in their own countries. They think they will be warm and comfy once their freedom-loving, traditionalist enemies have been vanquished.

Blacks similarly think that a leftist victory will mean their emancipation from the hated white man but never stop to consider what radical leftist white men will do to them when they no longer have any need for their votes.

Notes
[1] "The Dangers Of Exposing North Korea’s Secrets. A documentary's chilling tale -- in front of the camera, and behind it." By Bethany Mandel, The Federalist, 1/17/15.

H/t: what-when-how for image.

One nation. Two cultures.

"Woman Convicted of Firing Gun into McDonalds Drive-Thru Over Missing Bacon." Sputnik News, 3/26/15.

March 25, 2015

What our journalists tell us on immigration.

This quote pertains to how Swedish journalists treat the subject of immigration:
We are supposed to be manipulated to think that it is completely natural that thousands of citizens from another EU-country [Gypsies] occupy streets in every Swedish city and build shantytowns in parks – and that it is our obligation to care for them.

This sort of journalism has a pronounced political agenda: to displace the foreigner [immigration] law and let the [reporters'] personal feelings control the immigration policy. The whole picture, that is, what it is that exactly happens to a country and a people who in an unprecedented fashion are invaded by people from foreign countries and cultures, is deemed irrelevant. Well, at least if that country is Sweden. What the Swedish people think is something you’ll never read about.[1]

Ms. Caesar, the author of the article below, doesn't focus on journalism, however. Rather, she focuses on Swedish feminism whose diseased state cannot be denied.

Do read what she says on that. I merely want to focus on her insightful paragraphs on the madness of the Swedish obsession with destroying Sweden through immigration.

What Caesar writes is applicable to all Western countries, although I grant that it's not clear which phenomenon -- feminism or mass immigration -- is more evil and destructive. Mass third-world immigration is presented to our people, as she notes, as something that's completely natural. It's just beyond ordinary to surrender to foreigners and hand over our country to them so they can (my words) lead us around by the nose using our own laws against us, turn our cities into no-go areas, import their barbaric practices, rape our women, attack and kill us, send billions in remittances back to their true homelands, and demand that we subsidize their parasitic lives and hostility to our culture and laws.

Notes
[1] "Congratulations Pussy Porters!" By Julia Caesar, Snaphanen, 3/7/15, translated and republished at "Congratulations Pussy Porters!" By swedishsurveyor, Swedish Surveyor, 3/23/15 (emphasis added). The mystifying term in the title is explained by swedishsurveyor in the preface to this article.

H/t: College Candy for first image.

March 20, 2015

Talking trash.

No one wants to be a member of a party of traitors or of a government of traitors. Clinton and Obama didn’t accidentally stumble into their policies. They were guided by a deep rotten belief that the United States was always wrong and that the enemy, no matter how evil, had a legitimate grievance.

They can’t admit to this treasonous idea, even though they repeat it constantly in various forms, so their only defense is to claim that their treason is patriotism and that anyone who disagrees is a traitor.

"Obama's Treason is the New Patriotism." By Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish, 3/16/15.

A statement of the obvious.

As I have stated previously, anyone with half a brain should be able to see that we are living in the greatest debt bubble in human history. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that the “too big to fail” banks are being extraordinarily reckless (derivatives, etc.). Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that our formerly great manufacturing cities are being transformed into crime-infested hellholes. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that the middle class is dying. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that the exact same patterns that led up to the great financial crisis of 2008 are happening again. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that we simply cannot consume far more wealth than we produce as a nation indefinitely. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that the incredibly foolish decisions that our politicians have been making for decades have placed us on a road to utter disaster.
"There Is Hope In Understanding That A Great Economic Collapse Is Coming." By Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse, 12/14/14.

Colin Powell – backstabber.

Powell’s accusation [that there is a “dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party on race”] is ridiculous on its face. Part of the Republican Party’s problem today is that the party’s leadership, if that’s the right word, is even quicker to grovel on matters of race than Democrats are, almost always at the expense of the Americans who might actually consider voting for them. The quickest way to reduce a typical Republican pol to a quivering jelly is to whisper “racist” in his ear.

Powell’s ongoing ingratitude illustrates another aspect of the pointlessness of Republican “outreach” to most minorities. Not only does the pandering alienate possible supporters, but the pandered-to, even when as lavishly preferred and honored as Powell has been, are almost never grateful. In Powell’s case, the pandered-to diversity paladin is not only ungrateful, he’s a back-stabber to boot.

"Calling Out Colin Powell." By Henry McCulloch, The Thinking Housewife, 3/19/15.

The cowardly soul of American leaders.

Diana West, one the most perceptive thinkers of our time, published a piece[1] yesterday that merits attention.

She argues that beneath the layers of (1) poisonous Obama initiatives such as third-world replacement of the American majority (and black minority), appeasement of Iran, and pursuit of transnational elite rule and (2) terrifying Supreme Court decisions, there are even more ominous "root crises":

  • congressional abdication of its responsibility to remove a president who is contemptuous of constitutional checks and balances;
  • the failure of American political leaders to address the insult that Obama's forged birth certificate is;
  • Obama's reaching for yet more power through the United Nations, the purpose of which is suspect having been fostered and presided over by traitorous State Department official, Alger Hiss.
The failure to address these subterranean issues shows, as West says, "the cowardly soul – the most serious root crisis there is" in American leaders.

No better example of that cowardice is the fact that the Congress did not immediately impeach and convict Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she publicly advised the Egyptian government not to follow the U.S. Constitution as a model for drafting a constitution. A Supreme Court justice with no reverence for the constitution of her own country was left in place. She emphasizes "basic human rights" over liberty – without which all other "rights" are but temporary indulgences on the part of the ruling class. This woman has no business offering her opinion on the spirit and letter of our Constitution.

So there you have in place today two of the highest officials in the United States, for whom the Constitution is meaningless, still in office, still respected officials, and still able to do damage untouched by a spineless Congress. The perfect example of our most serious root crisis -- a Constitution that is no big deal.

Notes
[1] "Crises and 'Root Crises.'." By Diana West, 3/19/15.

March 19, 2015

The un-religion.

Until we stop allowing people to define “religion” as only those beliefs related to a god or gods, people are going to continue to fail to question the rationality of their beliefs. They will continue to fall for the semantic argument and false dichotomy that as long as some belief isn’t related to a god or gods then it isn’t “religious” and therefore must be “scientific” and rational.

Unfortunately it seems that almost nobody is learning that they can have unscientific and irrational beliefs that are unrelated to gods or supernatural explanations.[1]

Some may remember that 7-Up at one point was marketed as "the un-cola." Well, then, think of the belief in the perfectibility of man, the amenability of society to the manipulations of Wise Latinas and Moisturized Men, the absolute identity of all races and cultures, the ability of minute amounts of human-generated CO2 to melt carbon steel, and the distilled evil of free markets as a central tenet of the un-religion.

According to the un-religion, only in the lofty precincts of Georgetown society, the MSM, and academe do rationality, decency, fidelity to facts, compassion, and learning reign unhindered by superstition, hypocrisy, greed, lust, envy, ancient class oppression, fanaticism, rank ignorance, the unseemly lust for political power, and hick laws.

The un-religion is not to be confused with Methodism, Calvinism, Judaism, Christian Science, Trinitarianism, Rastifarianism, the worship of Baal, Mormonism, Islam, Catholicism, Scientology, witch doctorism, or voodoo. That is some serious idiocy.

No, wait. Can we get back to you on Islam, witch doctorism, and voodoo? Our debt to Islamic scholars is enormous and you just have to appreciate people who keep it simple, real, and authentic. Apart from that, that is some serious idiocy.

Notes
[1] Comment by Nimrod on "The Alternative Reality of Sweden." By Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna 3/18/15.

March 18, 2015

Illegal immigration and its discontents.

The recent focus on American citizens who refuse the vaccines for their children, however, have overlooked the more significant threat, which is individuals coming to our country unvaccinated. . . .

* * * *

. . . Unvaccinated populations can include citizens of our country who can’t, or choose not to, be vaccinated. Those “anti-vaccine” individuals actually make up a very small part of this. The problem is the non-citizens who are not vaccinated who visit or come and stay here illegally. The number of these individuals is so very much greater than citizens who choose not to vaccinate, yet I see this mostly ignored in discussions about forcing all citizens in this country to be vaccinated.

* * * *

While presently there is a raging anger at those citizens who choose not to vaccinate, there is nothing said about foreign visitors who come to this country, and the conversation is even shunned because of the current political correctness that is choking society.[1]

Apparently measles is more of a serious disease than I had thought. Now what about resistant TB? Is that something that can be laid at the doorstep of uncontrolled, unlimited immigration from the third world?

Disease AND crime and job theft and welfare parasitism and subversion of white culture are all aspects of the problem of illegal immigration. But it will be a cold day in hell before you'll hear about it from the left. Nope. It's rosy-cheeked infants and lovable dreamers and strivers we hear about. An omission is as much a lie as an outright misrepresentation.

Westerners can never complain about illegal immigration. We can only focus on disembodied, abstract problems that have no causation other than spontaneous appearance. A proliferation of ultra-violent MS-13 gangs in the U.S. has no connection whatsoever to illegals from El Salvador. They're just there in our backyards. Like dandelions. What can we do?

Notes
[1] "A Pediatrician’s Guide To The Vaccination Debate. What foreign visitors bring in carries greater risks to everyone than the few citizens who misguidedly refuse vaccinations for themselves or their kids." By Ron Smith, The Federalist, 2/11/15.

Feminism.

In practice—and practice is what the refusers pick up on—contemporary feminism neither is nor was about simple equality. In practice, it is anti-domestic, anti-men, and frankly anti-woman.
And . . .
If something isn’t working well for women, then reflexively and uncritically, they blame the patriarchy.

Everything is sexism, when it isn’t.

And . . .
Having it all doesn’t count unless we are doing it without men.
"Irony, Thy Name Is Feminism. Feminists say one thing, but do another, and pop feminism doesn't have the intellectual grounding to notice." By Leslie Loftus, The Federalist, 7/28/14.

The greatest threat to European man and their primary mode of attack.

Listen up all those attacking Peter Hitchens and attempting to portray Putin and Russia as one the major threats to Europeans and the security and territory of its majority historical populations that we face today

. . . [It] is not Putin or Russia that [have] been busy the last 50 years waging a relentless mean, wicked, evil cynical and pathological campaign of racial double standards, and cultural and demographic vandalism and terrorism [against] all of its own majority populations in North America, Australia and Europe.

The morally diseased ruling elite in the West, in finance, [government], media, the civil sector and academia appear fully committed to transforming the West into an Africanised, Muslimised, Mexified, [Asianised,] third world[,] crime ridden, [impoverished,] multi-tribalised slum, together with the ever more draconian speech crime laws and [an] oppressive authoritarian police state required to demonise, intimidate, hoodwink, persecute, prosecute, and cattle prod any uppity Whites who attempt to stray beyond the Orwellian [fence] lines of their ideological Stalinist gulag by protesting our own demographic ethnic cleansing[.]

The Western elite represent the greatest threat to the future and biological survival of European man in recorded history. They are the only thing which has ever put a question mark over the biological survival of European man

This modern day[,] sociopathic[,] criminal syndicate of geeks, crooks, [lackeys], career spivs, [demagogues], fanatical hacks, sophists and cringing conformists are intent on interpreting their crimes as proof of their moral supremacy.

And they've duped you. All they have to do is say the words, "racist[,]" "fascist[,]" "Hitler" and like Pavolivian reflex dogs that are trained to salivate at the sound of a bell ringing, you mindlessly obey and attack your own flesh and blood[.]

You are so naive and gullible, that you haven't [figured] out that the reason they have spent all of their time accusing their opponents of being "fascists" is [because] they know that's all it takes to dupe you into thinking[:]

"Oh, in that case this means they must be the exact opposite[.]" [He probably means, "Oh, in that case they surely must be fascists." BB]

Grow up, man up, stop being such a useful idiot and apologetic whimp for your culture, nation, [civilization] and race. Grow a spine and stop being manipulated by snake oil peddlers and petrified of being [called] a "racist[.]"

For them you are just livestock[,] tax cattle and cannon fodder.

Comment by Dan O'Connor on "It’s Nato that’s empire-building, not Putin." By Peter Hitchens, The Spectator, 3/7/15.

March 17, 2015

Government is never your friend.

It was FDR who first employed wiretapping. The practice continued under the subsequent Truman Administration, as well as coverups like the manipulation of grand juries. The first example occurred during the Amerasia Spy Case. In 1947, there was obstruction of justice of the grand jury hearing the case of around 40 Soviet agents that were on the federal payroll. The grand jury manipulation by the Truman Administration resulted in all the agents being freed.

The culmination of all this came under the administration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), following through to Lyndon Baynes Johnson’s (LBJ) presidency. This is little known and unpopular history that many liberal historians would prefer to either gloss over, or ignore altogether.

* * * *

As Stan Evans points out, and evidenced by the Reuther memorandum, U.S. administrations have a long history of weaponizing government agencies for use in squelching their political competition.[1]

Ultra-left progressives and moon calf liberals clapped their hands at the IRS attack on Tea Party organizations. Ha ha.

They forget that there is always A Great Turning down the road where what they applaud today is turned against them. There is a lesson for them in the the "House on the Embankment." It was a commodious high rise apartment building in Moscow during Stalin's time and it was a "reward" for the loyal communist party elite. However, some 700 of its residents were arrested and sent to the Gulag or shot. Its porters were NKVD officers and "most of the apartments were bugged." See here. As NPR reporter Anne Garrels said, it was "a gilded cage where residents lived in fear." Housemaids were also NKVD lieutenants.

Not all of the residents of that house had blood on their hands but some did. And all were supporters of the Soviet monstrosity. None who were carried off in the night and imprisoned or shot enjoyed any immunity from the madness because of their loyalty. It's a lesson for the progressives and fools to bear in mind as we race to establish a socialist America with a president who rules by decree. Obama's unconstitutional amnesty and refusal to control the borders are not a victory but a warning. For those who remember a little history. Communism wasn't just, efficient, rational, or human but for today's American professors, journalists, students, and politicians it's still a destination. As Professor Robert McChesney, the moronic "communications" professor and visionary at the University of Illinois, has proposed:
There is no real answer (to the U.S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.
All the totalitarian powers of the last century, and this one, adore socialism but this guy sees no warning in that. Does he talk about pursuing his favored goals in the confines of controls that keep the necessary government power in check? No, it's steady as she goes. This time . . . this time it will be different. The wrong people will be suppressed by the right people. This time.

Notes
[1] "The Silencers." By Brent Parrish, The Right Planet, 3/16/15.

H/t: New Zeal Blog.

March 16, 2015

Our own worst enemy.

To be frank, the West does not even need foreign enemies to help it collapse. Just think of Rousseau’s definition of a perfect society as one in which a man remains as free as he was before he entered it. Under these terms, how can the West have worse enemies than its own citizens? . . .

. . . The West is compassionate to the point of stupidity, for sure, but out of some momentary identification with some haphazard others and not out of any charity whatsoever. Absolute individualism is the real plague of the West.

Pogo, the cartoon possum, was right. Remember "We have met the enemy and he is us"? Liberals have loved that witticism because to them it was a shorthand way of ridiculing any rightist who thought not surrendering to communism or the liberal/progressive agenda (but I repeat myself) was an excellent foreign and domestic policy.

As the LibProgs like to think: The enemy = Us! Them! Rubes, simpletons, and knuckledragging racists who inexplicably object to being colonized by Asians, Mexicans and Muslims.

No tendency or unavoidable consequence of liberalism or progressivism is acknowledged. The slaughter and hideous oppression of the 20th-century -- and 1,400 years of Islamic imperialism and slavery -- go unacknowledged as the leftist embrace of benevolent absolutism tightens and tightens.

No. It's the (neo-)Nazis, the far right (Nazis), the radical right (Nazis), and the "nationalists" (Nazis) who are the danger.

In reality, citizens who cannot bear any restriction on their freedom of action and willingly prey on the productive few will will not recognize any restriction imposed by even benign institutions founded on time-tested laws, custom, and religion. They see nothing to be defended in the kill joy state, offer no service, and demand unearned forced exactions from their betters.

If you wonder why leftist Americans do not object to the 30-50M invasion of America, this is your answer.

Notes
[1] "Suicide of the West (Revisited)." By Prof. Claude Polin, Chronicles, 1/1/14 (subscription only).

Not a union, not a democracy, and not a republic.

So the fateful war [War Between the States] was fought, and union was proclaimed to have been restored. A scurrilous claim: It is symbolic that the South could be reinstated as a member of the Union only after a team of Northern generals had razed it. . . .

Although the Constitution of 1787 was not subjected to a complete overhaul, it was dealt a blow that was actually lethal, though not immediately: It took some time for the passengers on the Titanic to realize their ship was sinking. What can be the everlasting value, the enduring legitimacy of an agreement that is not free anymore but enforced by sheer violence upon some of its partners, who had rejected it upon the unassailable grounds that its original terms had been ignored? . . .

The use of violence to impose the Constitution having set a precedent, a spirit of reverence for the use of force and a propensity to condone the power it conferred progressively contaminated a country henceforth dominated by the heirs of Sherman et al. . . . [T]he new spirit blossomed and spread throughout its new empire, claiming as its manifest destiny a right to conquer land, master nature, acquire riches, and, in a word, become as mighty as possible.[1]

So . . . it's not a union at all. And hasn't been since 1861. As the author indicates, the Northern version of the Constitution was jammed down the throats of the South. After the war, South Carolina got a Constitution written by northerners imposed on it.

Now it's the globalists, anti-white views of the Treason Class that are jammed down everyone's throat. Including the throats of Russians, Serbs, Syrians, and Libyans.

Notes
[1] "1865: The True American Revolution." By Prof. Claude Polin, Chronicles, 3/2/15.

Humanity's ultimate dead end.

Pol Pot's "perfect democracy."
The Left claims to love the world, hence, it can love no nation or society. That is why the Manifesto famously begins with 'Workers of the World,' not workers of Germany or France or Italy or Russia. But the Left---Red and nihilistic to the core---loves only itself and power. Masquerading as a vanguard of expert knowledge and progressive enlightenment, it fights for complete rule over what it disdains as inferior populations. The truth is more prosaic. Leftism is humanity's ultimate dead end. Taken to its logical conclusion, it leads straight to the prison house and the graveyard, as History has proven time and again.
Comment by Bandido on "Reagan, Like Rudy, Tied Democrats to Communists. Liberals explode as Giuliani touches a nerve." By Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator, 2/24/15.

Staying on [the Obama] message.

[The purpose of the Justice Dept. report on Ferguson, Missouri,] was not to examine the facts of this particular case, but to preserve the wider narrative of a nation so corrupted by institutional racism that it uses the police as a weapon to harass and intimidate blacks.
"The DOJ’s ‘Trovato Report’ on Ferguson." By Robert Tracinski, The Federalist, 3/16/15.

March 10, 2015

I hem likink zis vooman.

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief, told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month that Mrs. Clinton “tweets about women’s rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights.”[1]
Ms. Fiorina did more on one day as CEO of HP than Hillary "What Difference Does it Make?" Clinton did in her professional career. Ok, that's a slight exaggeration. Make that a week as CEO of HP.

Notes
[1] "Glaciers at the NYT: The Democrats’ War on Women and Blacks." By Roger L Simon, PJ Media, 3/8/15.

Islam and Obama's hatred of the West in a nutshell.

Islam feeds right into that culture. Radical Islam is an ideology for the aggrieved, better said, for the losers of the world. It is no coincidence that it is the fastest growing cult among prisoners in the West. Islam is about mindless grievance and revenge for slights real and imagined, regardless of when and where they might have occurred. This is why progressives have such difficulty criticizing Islam and taking a tough stance against its barbarities. Islam is seen as part of the "Third World" reaction to the "offenses" of the "white" West, be those the Crusades, the great European empires, or the West's technological and economic dominance. Islam is the friend of progressivism in its hatred for Western culture.

* * * *

Obama has incorporated into his thinking and acting the Muslim and the progressive strands of grievance culture and their joint hatred for the West. He leads the movement to destroy America.

"Obama, a Muslim Hater of America?." By W. Lewis Amselem, The DiploMad 2.0, 2/25/15.

Federal oppression and intimidation of True the Vote.

[Cleta Mitchell, counsel for True the Vote,] wants to find out if [Democrat Representative Elijah] Cummings is responsible in part or completely for the harassment of Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote. After Cummings launched his “investigation”, Engelbrecht had her business audited twice, her personal taxes once, two visits from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a surprise visit from OSHA, seven visits from the FBI.[1]
Cummings misrepresented that he was investigating True the Vote when he sent it various letters. Cummings claimed to be conducting an investigation on behalf of the House Oversight Committee, which only has oversight over federal government agencies, not private organizations. Cummings was also working with Lois Lerner "which is why he attempted to scuttle the investigation into the IRS, immediately as soon as it was announced."[2]

The above proves that Obama and the Democrats are using federal power illegally to shut down critics and opponents of the radical leftist agenda. This is a direct assault on our freedoms and no administration that does this is anything but an enemy of our system of government. This puts us on a par with any banana republic like Sweden or Britain.

An ethics complaint was filed against Cummings over a year ago. No need to rush these things, however. Multiple targeted, out-of-the-blue tax audits, seven FBI visits and two from the BATF are no big deal in the scheme of things though I do wonder what ballot integrity has to do with alcohol, tobacco, or firearms.

Could Lois have had anything to do with helping along those audits, I wonder? Hauling those audit officials before a Republican-controlled investigative committee might turn up some interesting stuff but that's too much to hope for from the Republicans who demonstrably have no stomach for competition badminton, let alone a political hair pulling contest.

Notes
[1] "Conflict of Interest..Elijah Cummings is Knee Deep in IRS Scandal." By Steven Ahle, Red Statements, 3/6/15 (emphasis added).
[2] Id.

Federal oppression and intimidation of True the Vote.

[Cleta Mitchell, counsel for True the Vote,] wants to find out if [Democrat Representative Elijah] Cummings is responsible in part or completely for the harassment of Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote. After Cummings launched his “investigation”, Engelbrecht had her business audited twice, her personal taxes once, two visits from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a surprise visit from OSHA, seven visits from the FBI.[1]
Cummings misrepresented that he was investigating True the Vote when he sent it various letters. Cummings claimed to be conducting an investigation on behalf of the House Oversight Committee, which only has oversight over federal government agencies, not private organizations. Cummings was also working with Lois Lerner "which is why he attempted to scuttle the investigation into the IRS, immediately as soon as it was announced."

The above proves that Obama and the Democrats are using federal power illegally to shut down critics and opponents of the radical leftist agenda. This is a direct assault on our freedoms and no administration that does this is anything but an enemy of our system of government. This puts us on a par with any banana republic like Sweden or Britain.

An ethics complaint was filed against Cummings over a year ago. No need to rush these things, however. Multiple targeted, out-of-the-blue tax audits, seven FBI visits and two from the BATF are no big deal in the scheme of things though I do wonder what ballot integrity has to do with alcohol, tobacco, or firearms.

Could Lois have had anything to do with helping along those audits, I wonder? Hauling those audit officials before a Republican-controlled investigative committee might turn up some interesting stuff but that's too much to hope for from the Republicans who demonstrably have no stomach for competition badminton, let alone a political hair pulling contest.

Notes
[1] "Conflict of Interest..Elijah Cummings is Knee Deep in IRS Scandal." By Steven Ahle, Red Statements, 3/6/15 (emphasis added).

In praise of guilt by association.

[Sen. Joseph] McCarthy, like most politicians, wasn't principally about an abstract proposition; but if there is one that he stood for--a McCarthy*ism*--it is that the more leftist your declarations and associations, past and present, the more likely you are to be (note, these are three different likelihoods) (a) a security risk, (b) a spy, (c) an agent of hostile influence. And that proposition turns out to be actually true.
Comment by a6z on "Proud Owner of a Cold War Mentality." By W. Lewis Amselem, The DiploMad 2.0, 1/7/14.

All you need to know about Pinochet.

Commenter Harry Bear:
The question is not between Pinochet or Switzerland. Far from it, it was either Allende's version of Castroism (while you [Javier Antonio] lived there, do you remember Castro's month long visit to Chile in December 1971?) or the Junta. And the Junta evolved into a democracy, leaving Chile the most prosperous country in South America.
Pinochet left the presidency voluntarily 34 years ago and Chile is now a prosperous democracy. Castro and his allies are holding on to the bitter end and have no intention of having Cuba be anything but a communist dictatorship where there is little economic inequality but widespread poverty (outside of the wealthy, privileged, communist nomenklatura). Shared poverty, that is. Equally shared poverty. Quite unnecessary poverty.

Harry Bear again:

Note that Salvador Allende first ran for President in 1964 and lost with 39% of the vote. Six years later he 'won' with 37% of the vote. The NYT piece goes on to quote de la Parra to the effect that 'sloganeering extremists' of the early 70's 'proclaimed "Death and vengeance: Utopia is within reach!"'. That that was when minority viewpoints began to be disrespected, instead were to be crushed. I.e., the Allendeans wanted to destroy Chilean democracy. That's the context of the Pinochet coup.
Utopia, it seems, is preceded by death and vengeance.

Then this from EstanislasDeloserrata (a great example, along with Mr. Bear, of how to argue dispassionately with leftists determined to distort the facts) who provides additional clarity on Pinochet and his allies:

Harry, never try to argue sensibly with a MIRista.

For them the [leftist] UP and Allende were perfect in every way, and the Marxist gangs that ranged the countryside were completely angelic. Those who had their homes, farms, diaries, and other businesses taken over by the MIRista hoodlums, of course they were richly compensated and happy with the deal. The bankruptcy of the country was all an invention. The Cuban weapons being smuggled to the MIRistas before the golpe [blow] (and afterward as well), those were just toys. The majority vote of the Chilean legislature to remove Allende, of course that never happened either.

Notes
All quotes from "Was Augusto Pinochet a Villain or Hero for Chile? Legacy of 1973-1990 Military Ruler Torn between Market Reforms, Human-Rights Abuses." A debate between Luis Eduardo Barrueto and Carlos Sabino. PanAm Post, 2/24/15.

March 9, 2015

Repulsive, anti-white TV show courtesy of George Lopez.


White people = saps.

On race, immigration, politics, defense.

Saps.

The debt we owe to progressives.

Never forget that the "First Progressive Era" gave us the three worst ideas in our history: Prohibition, the Income Tax, and the direct popular election of Senators. We are still paying the price for our great grandfathers' folly.[1]
And that was before the word "progressive" came to mean what it does today: communist, subversive, socialist, someone fundamentally hostile to America and white European civilization and willing to do anything and everything to undermine constitutional government.

Someone, moreover, who is

  • blind to the communist slaughter of the last century,
  • blind to the danger of abandoning the rule of law in favor of some nice man promising to banish unhappiness and personal responsibility,
  • blind to the differences between cultures and races, and
  • blind to the realities of human nature and economic basics.
The legacy progressives (legprogs) are still out there. Working hard to "improve things" in the belief that they (1) are smarter than the schlubs and (2) have a lock on decency because "they care." Of course, they're blind to the danger of today's "progressives." They figure if someone says nice things, only nice things are on that person's agenda. Legprogs are indistinguishable from "liberals" and they are blind to same stuff mentioned above.[2]

All of these fools and destroyers think stuff like this is "edgy," "real," and "valid." As the saying goes, you can't make stuff like this up. Progressives would keel over in a dead faint at the sight of a landfill buzzing with flies but transport it to the Guggenheim Museum and it would be, like, art, man.

Name whatever area of human life that you want and the progressive take on it will be lunatic or designed to lay the foundation for authoritarian government that will settle accounts with White Europeans and the productive people of America.

Notes
[1] Comment by potkas7 on "The Constitution has Failed." By Leon H. Wolf, RedState, 3/3/15.
[2] Liberals are not as innocuous as they want you to believe. Fred Siegel's book, The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class (2014), shows how liberals came to hate America after World War I. How is it that historical and political ignorance, naivete, and all-around malevolence got mainlined into the arteries of the left? Can't they be comfortable in their own skin?

Cold war mentality.

To have a CWM, means, therefore, to root and work for the victory of Western ideals of liberty and freedom. It means to oppose totalitarian ideologies and regimes. It means finding, for example, the Soviet Gulag, and the horrid North Korean and Cuban regimes repellent in the extreme and worthy of being opposed and, if possible, destroyed. It means celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire, and opposing efforts to undermine our system of liberty and checks-and-balances at home. It means being appalled by the resurgence of the "dead" Al Qaeda; being furious over this Obama misadministration's giving away our hard-fought victories in Iraq and Afghanistan; its sabotaging of our long-standing network of international alliances; its sell-out of our friends; its misuse and destruction of our intelligence agencies; and its deliberate sabotage of economic liberty at home.
"Proud Owner of a Cold War Mentality." By W. Lewis Amselem, The DiploMad 2.0, 1/7/14.

World gone mad – Episode 46,554.

The liberal stereotype of the supposedly conservative 1950s entails, among other things, a time of rigidity too brittle to adapt to necessary changes and of an institutional arrogance that expected mindless conformity from a population no longer willing to conform. This actually describes our own time quite well, but not along conservative lines. You will not get dismissed from your job for being or ever having been a member of the Communist Party, but busybodies at tech companies will get you canned for voting against gay marriage.
"Conservatism Is Obsolete." By By Matthew Cochran, The Federalist, 3/9/15 (link omitted).

March 4, 2015

The forgotten victims of communist terror in Argentina.


Argentine attorney Victoria Villarruel addresses the Oslo Freedom Forum 2011 on "Terrorism and Impunity in Argentina."

Please consider supporting this brave woman here: CELTYV.

"Settlement" of Islam in the American homeland as jihad.

The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Proecess" with all [that] the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.
An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America." By Mohamed Akram. 5/19/91. Republished by The Investigative Project on Terrorism..

Obama's attack on American citizenship.

It is hardly an exaggeration to state that the administration is taking gradual steps to eliminating the very concept of American citizenship. In fact, a recent White House conference call made it explicit that these new immigrants are not supposed to assimilate into American society, but instead establish their own ethnic communities within the United States.
"The Betrayal Papers — Part III of V." Qatar Awareness Campaign, 3/4/15.

Bipartisan infection.

But viewed together through the lens of the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to dominate America and bring her down from within, dismissing them as coincidence would be to ignore a carefully constructed plan. Whether attacks on cops, downright crazy immigration policies, the persecution of American citizens by the IRS, or the takeover of school curricula, there is a rhythm to all of these scandals that jives seamlessly with the song of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Evidence above suggests a bipartisan infection, a betrayal of the American people by the crony establishment in both parties.

"The Betrayal Papers — Part III of V." Qatar Awareness Campaign, 3/4/15.

Obama's half-brother.

In addition to suppressing political enemies, the IRS has actually enabled the Muslim Brotherhood through Obama’s half-brother, Malik. In 2011, the IRS granted a 501(c)(3) statuses to two groups connected to Barack Obama’s half-brother, Malik Obama: the Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF), and Mama Sarah Obama Foundation (MSOF).

This would not be of particular concern, but for the fact that Malik Obama has documented associations with the Muslim Brotherhood, wanted terrorists, and terrorist organizations.

"The Betrayal Papers — Part III of V." Qatar Awareness Campaign, 3/4/15.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and terror-financing Qatar.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with its close ties to Qatar, is by far the largest lobbying spender in Washington ($136.3 million in 2012). Business is a bipartisan pursuit, which means that money from Qatar — which is arguably today’s most prolific financial sponsor of Islamic terror — carries great weight in both Republican and Democrat circles.

Indeed, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is on the record last year as saying, “I’m going to embrace being a Chamber of Commerce Republican.” He was part of a bipartisan Senate delegation to Qatar this January which also included Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Bob Corker (R-TN), John Barrasso (R-WY), Angus King (I-ME) and Tim Kaine (D-VA).

"The Betrayal Papers — Part III of V." Qatar Awareness Campaign, 3/4/15 (emphasis and links removed).

March 3, 2015

The Great Stan Evans, RIP.

See his very witty speech before the Media Research Center dinner here.

The way leftists argue.

Do YOU want to be a right-wing theocratic zealot who wants to force women into concubinage, stone gays, lynch minorities, burn books, destroy the planet for corporate profit, conduct duels in the streets (Chicago doesn't count, btw) and praise Hitler (Stalin and the West's boogeyman?)? Of course not. Do you HATE the poor, women, minorities and gay folks? No? Then you MUST reject all forms of traditionalism, nationalism, the Sacred, nature (including human nature) and any vestige of belief in Truth.

This is how it works, from kindergarten to Harvard to the workplace to Capitol Hill to entertainment, be it the NFL, popular music or Hollywood.

Chestertonian commenting on "America's Enemies in Hollywood Then and Now." By James Simpson, American Thinker, 3/1/15.

March 2, 2015

So it's not about "stimulus"?

This is why the Fed is so obsessed with creating inflation: because it renders these gargantuan debt loads more serviceable. In simplest terms, the Fed must “inflate or die.” It will willingly sacrifice the economy, and Americans’ quality of life in order to stop the bond bubble from popping.

This is also why the Fed happily talks about stocks all the time; it’s a great distraction from the real story: the fact that the bond bubble is the single largest bubble in history and that when it bursts entire countries will go bust.

This is why the Fed NEEDS interest rates to be as low as possible… any slight jump in rates means that the US will rapidly spiral towards bankruptcy. Indeed, every 1% increase in interest rates means between $150-$175 billion more in interest payments on US debt per year.[1]

Hundreds of billions of dollars later the economic "recovery" is still anemic, saving is for suckers, stock market gains are anything but an indicator of health, further Fed inflation is apparently inescapable, youth unemployment is sky high, and low-skill third-worlders are being imported to compete with Americans for the diminished number of jobs that there are. This is the genius of the Obama administration for all to see.

Clearly, the Fed is in panic mode. A slight rise in the interest means more borrowing or taxation. How close are we to the saturation point on that? No one in power will admit that there's a systemic crisis developing. Tea Partiers seems to be at the root of all our problems.

Derivative markets exploding probably would harm some deserving speculators. I don't understand the ramifications of that at all. Maybe that would be a loss in some kind of "artificial" economy as Bemused Observer argues in the comments to the source article.

Savers are real enough and they've been driven into speculative stocks just to try to avoid the inroads of inflation. Pension funds are exposed because of ZIRP and consequent low return on investments in bonds. Kids go nowhere because government policy is about importing and coddling foreigners not creating or maintaining the fundamentals of a healthy economy. The unemployed are being hammered by competition from those foreigners and the rest of us suffer because of the presence of millions of unwanted foreigners who bring with them the pathologies of their home countries that impoverished them and otherwise degraded their lives. These don't strike me as interests that can be harmonized with smiles all round.

As I wrote recently, our country isn't being lifted up or protected. It's being sabotaged and mocked by a hostile government. Our own. And every other Western country is in the same boat.

Notes
[1] "The $100 Trillion Reason the Fed is Terrified of Deflation." By Phoenix Capital Research, Zero Hedge, 3/01/15.

The failure of Democrat/black leadership.


H/t: Eagle Rising.

Once you factor out the possibility of decency and patriotism from Democrat policies, you arrive at the issue of control. The left impoverishes blacks to keep them subservient to the Democrat machine.

"Structural racism" and "Black lives matter" are just garbage invented to control blacks.

The question on everybody's lips.

Rudy Giuliani caused a stir by articulating the most basic fact about Barack Obama, namely, that he does not love this country. He didn't rely on any word ending in "ism" to make his point. No spreadsheets or regression analysis. He just gave voice to the thought that any observant American has had since before the 2008 election. Rob Miller similarly cuts through the media protective fog:
In short, if, say, President Barack Obama didn't care all that much for the America he was elected to lead, if he thought that there was no such thing as 'American exceptionalism', if he thought America needed to be somehow punished for what all his closest associates for decades have told him are America's sins....

What exactly would he be doing differently?[1]

There's a childish simplicity to the words propounded by Giuliani and Miller but the legacy media use every ounce of their education, intelligence, and vast financial resources to paint Obama as a sincere and caring patriot, constitutional scholar, the greatest of the great. Obama hostile to America, to whites? Preposterous!! Four-alarm racism alert! Defcon "Hater" all sectors. [Klaxon. Klaxon.]

In January of last year, his mommy right hand woman, Valerie Jarrett, stated that Americans are "'hungry' for Obama to take unilateral action, bypassing Congress whenever he can to get things done."[2] Her qualification that this will be done within the limits of Obama's executive authority can be seen for the sophistry that it is.

Thus, in a nation that has treasured the thought that we enjoy hitherto unknown freedoms under the protection of even our currently eviscerated Constitution, this closest of Obama advisers mouths patent banana republic nonsense.[3] But this is nonsense that strikes at the heart of the American political scheme, at least as it was initially conceived. Unlimited and arbitrary executive discretion? In what way does this show that Obama and his joined-at-the-hip mouthpiece have any regard for even the basic legal structure of the nation?

This would be comical if this freakish, communism-besotted, Islam-besotted, race-besotted crew didn't today control the executive power of the U.S.A. Surely even Gwyneth Paltrow and Woody Allen are now rethinking their previous longing for a kindly American dictator who can make the trains run on time.

Notes
[1] "Is President Obama A Christian? Does He Love America?" By Rob Miller, JoshuaPundit, 2/24/15 (contains impressive list of Obama outrages accomplishments).
[2] "Valerie Jarrett: Americans 'hungry' for Obama to act like an imperial president." By Joe Newby, examiner.com, 1/28/14. The word "hungry" is a direct quote of Jarrett. The rest of the quoted language is that of Mr. Newby.
[3] Letter of apology and explanation by courier to Swedish ambassador soonest. Swedish banana republic status still at least five years out.

March 1, 2015

Ok. This is some dark stuff.

As much as I hate to discard the theory that our elites may be sons of bitches but they're nonetheless our sons of bitches, it's pretty much demanded by any somewhat sober interpretation of the behavior of contemporary Western governments.

Which this isn't. Did someone say "mojito time"? Why, yes, I believe they did.

Just whose side are these people on? No longer are they entitled to a presumption that they are acting with the interests of their own people in mind. Moreover, they're clearly impervious to voter outrage.

Charles Hugh Smith has definitely come up with a startling theory that tries to explain this amazing phenomenon of elites hostile to their own people.

His theory is that Western governments (and their financial controllers) initially exploited colonial peoples with the aid of military conquest. Then, when they were forced to give up their colonial empires after WWII, they attempted to subjugate their former colonies financially. However, even the "economic pillaging of former colonies has limits" and the same techniques of exploitation have to be turned on one's own people to keep the profits flowing. In this final stage of rapacious exploitation of every person on the face of the planet, the real rulers taketo fleecing the fringes of the home territory.

Such as with, Greece. On the periphery of the European empire.

If this strikes you as being a bit "out there" well, I'm with you but, when it's as clear as a bell that Western elites are both traitorous and certifiable ("'We' can never have too may Arabs/Chinese/Somalis/Mexicans in America/France/Germany/Sweden"), it's an intriguing theory. Economics as exploitation by a financial elite.

Life is good in the U.S. and Europe for the most part but it's easy to see how colonial peoples thought that the people who controlled their countries did not have their interests uppermost in their minds. The idea that nations represent one people, that the ruling class defends it, and that domestic disputes get worked out by the historic peoples of each nation is passe in modern advanced thinking. State of the art thinking now is that a nation should import discord, parasitism, disease, and foreign competition for jobs and if money can be made by financial manipulation of one's own people then what's not to love about that?

"Greece and the Endgame of the Neocolonial Model of Exploitation." By Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds, 2/19/15.

Revised 3/2/15.

British (and Western) reality.

That the British have invaded practically every country in the entire world over just the last 200-300 years, and have not been invaded themselves since about William of Normandy, never seems to register. [jj]
What is really most often missed is that they have been invaded, British elites having taken pity on the wretched of the earth and invited them to accomplish demographically what they never could militarily. The spectacle of flamboyant racial self-abnegation accompanying the process obscures the fact that British living space has been invaded and that as long as that invasion carries on the ineluctable result is the erasure of British people from the earth. At this point this seems the most likely result, for as long as the issue remains unaddressed – even lowly Sweden, posterchild of loonie leftism, has demonstrated more resistance (albeit inchoate) to dispossession – the British can do naught but keep speeding manically towards the exit ramp of history. [ss][1]
As for who played a major role in bringing this about in Britain see here.

How is it that voters with free access to just about the sum total of all human knowledge – what knowledge, that is, that has survived after Muslims burned libraries, smashed observatories, and made obscurantism into a religious obligation – found it within themselves to pull the lever for such scum as Blair (see link) is beyond me.

Rapid takeover.
Can I say "scum"?

I rarely miss an opportunity to point out the massive, unopposed inflow of foreigners to Western nations is without historical precedent. In all previous centuries, a massive inflow of foreigners always, always, always involved a catastrophic failure of the armies or warriors of the nation or tribe. And the results were just that. Catastrophic.

Given that human nature has not changed in a million years, the leftist idea that a gradual takeover of the nation will be beneficial for the historic peoples thereof is simply delusional. But it is the reigning, operative, controlling, and mandatory view of virtually all Western governments.

Notes
[1] Reply of silviosilver to comment of jimbojones at "They Really Did Start It." By Peter Frost, 2/21/15.

Christian fanaticism, inter alia.

The season of fasting is upon us. No more high living. It’s time to cinch up our belts … to put on a gaunt face and a smug look. Alone among friends and associates, we will keep Lent.

So neglected is Lent that even Google has forgotten about it. When we did a search it proposed “lentil soup.” Lent is meant to rehearse the 40 days and nights that Jesus spent fasting in the desert before going public.

We remember the lean days with prayer, meditation and self-denial. No alcohol will cross our lips from Ash Wednesday till Easter Sunday. (Except on Sundays. And saints’ days. And national holidays. And days that begin with the letter “T” or that have a date that is a prime number.)[1]

That bit of choice humor is enjoyable in its own right. However, it begins a very interesting article on moral rot underlying the debasement of our currency. Can every contract entered into contain an unstated provision that the parties can diminish their obligations thereunder by 2% each year? The words of any party "promising" full performance would be unreliable by definition. All parties would adjust their behavior accordingly but the essential point would be that anyone purporting to give his or her word would be dissembling. Just a teeny amount, it's true. But dissembling nonetheless.

So ours is a dissembling currency and if we use it we dissemble ourselves, even though it can be fairly pointed out that we have little power to do otherwise, any more than we have the power to require that our borders be sealed and protected.

Electoral politics is a mug's game even though the people as a whole theorectally could rise up and demand change. But, alas, in the absence of congressional proposals to institute human sacrifice for the losers of any year's Superbowl contest, that is just axing too much of human beings that they give up short-term advantages that are expedient.

Still and all it's healthy to have the essential dishonesty involved kept in the forefront of our minds. As we should the stark truth that modern electoral politics are a mechanism whereby money can be extracted from one's fellow citizens by a vote of the majority of the legislature when to do so as an individual with a gun would be a criminal act. For the sake of "fairness," of course.

Notes
[1] "The End of Honest Money." By Bill Bonner, Acting Man, 2/27/15.

Foolish hobgoblin.

"Consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If the diplomats who have mishandled our relations with Russia were merely stupid, they would have occasionally made a mistake in our favor."
~ James Forrestal, first U.S. Secretary of Defense.

At Gulag Bound.