If you didn’t understand that America is a nation governed by a wicked foreign elite, you sure do now.
Anyone But Americans
Author: VD
Terry Pratchett Knew
He didn’t know right away or he wouldn’t have co-written a book with him. But there’s no question that Terry Pratchett figured out who and what Neil Gaiman was by the time he wrote the Introduction to Good Omens, the book they wrote together. And I don’t think it’s an accident that despite the success of the first book, Pratchett never wrote another one with Gaiman in the 25 years that separated the 1990 publication of that book with Pratchett’s death in 2015.
Remember, Pratchett was a wordsmith, and a much better one than average. And since Gaiman’s reputation has always been one of being “a very nice, approachable guy”, Pratchett is clearly implying that he knows Gaiman is not, but is instead “an incredible actor”. Which events have subsquently confirmed to have been the case. Because that’s the only option that could “come as a surprise to many”.
Ski-U-Mah
24 Minnesota
17 USC (#11)
So that was fun. Minnesota hasn’t beaten USC since 1955. I was a Gophers fan when I was a kid, Tony Dungy was the quarterback, and upsetting a #1 Michigan team 16-0 in 1977 was the most exciting thing about growing up in Minnesota prior to The Miracle on Ice in 1980. I even went to a few games at the old Memorial Stadium, including the 1976 season opener that was a win over Indiana.
But too many seasons of losing 45-0 to Big Ten rivals and 73-0 to Nebraska, in company with the incredibly stupid move to the horrible Metrodome, caused me to lose all interest in college football, except for keeping an eye on future NFL players. They didn’t even make it to a single bowl game, no matter how lowly, between 1987 and 1998.
However, the new stadium is really cool – the Vikings played there in Brett Favre’s last year – and the expansion of the Big 10 means that the Gophers are now getting the chance to play teams like USC and UCLA that they seldom played without getting to the Rose Bowl, which hadn’t happened since 1962. In fact, this was only the sixth time the two maroon-and-gold teams had ever played in my lifetime… and the first time was the year I was born.
Because my mother is a football fan who grew up in Pasadena and attended USC, I spent many a late Saturday afternoon watching USC play, although I tended to prefer UCLA. PAC-8 football always seemed a little exotic compared to Big 10 football, although SWC football, with its tearaway jerseys, was the most exciting. I was a bit of a Texas fan, mostly because my parents’ friends, who were huge Arkansas boosters, were so annoying, with their “Pig-sueey” nonsense. The Michigan upset notwithstanding, 1977 was a tough year.
Most people think the development of NIL-related professionalism is a terrible thing for college football, and I certainly have my doubts about the evolution of the Big 10 and the SEC into superconferences. The disappearance of the PAC-12 is certainly to be regretted and I wonder if USC will one day regret its move to the Big 10 for the same reason Arkansas misses the now-defunct SWC. But it is at least possible that the money-related dispersal of talent across dozens of universities may end up having a very positive effect on the general level of competitiveness across the NCAA. After all, it’s a lot easier for teams like Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State to stockpile talent when all it costs them is a scholarship.
Because this certainly wasn’t happening before the NIL era. In fact, it’s been 118 years since Vanderbilt scored this many points on Alabama.
40 Vanderbilt
35 Alabama (#1)
The Next British Scandal
Something is going on with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the media is presently dancing around.
So we have a name, as do the Mail and the Telegraph, we have a birth certificate and people have been
looking into it. People been contacted. Journalists have contacted the family, so it’s in play and a lot of people do know it, but we have not been able to substantiate it to to the degree that you need to to
publish.
I’m no insider where British politics are concerned, but I heard rumors that the Prime Minister wasn’t even living with his wife, but was living with his other family until not long before the most recent electoral election began. But regardless of the how and why, it’s pretty clear that Starmer is a creature of Clown World.
Illiteracy is Good for the Economy
Thanks to immigration, there are nearly one million illiterates in Sweden now:
The most recent survey by Statistics Sweden shows there are currently around 780,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 who are illiterate in Sweden, but this number is soaring.
“Each month, eight to ten illiterate students arrive,” said Rita Sommarkrans, SFI teacher in Västerås, to SVT. She added that if someone can’t read or write, it’s hard for them to find a place, pay their bills, or even book a doctor’s appointment.
“If this trend continues, we risk having an entire generation of young people who are effectively functionally illiterate,” wrote Minister of Education Johan Pehrson and Minister of School Affairs Lotta Edholm in an introductory article.
Adding an additional year of compulsory schooling isn’t going to help. Barring a Gaza-style ethnic cleansing of Stockholm and its other cities, Swedish society has been permanently dumbed-down in much the same way the USA and other countries mass-invaded by less-intelligent hordes of immigrants have seen a decline in their average IQ of 8-10 points. This is not an effect that can be fixed; one can no more raise a normal European society from its historical norm to Mensa levels than one can raise a society with an average 85-IQ to the level of a normal European society.
The shape of a society, more than anything else, is determined by the average intelligence of the population. So, the dumbing down of Sweden means that its infrastructure, both physical and intellectual, cannot be maintained.
China doesn’t need to invade any other countries in order to rule the world. It will do so by simple virtue of remaining the same mostly-homogeneous Han society that it has been for the last 6,000 years. Clown World’s collapse became inevitable after China refused to accept the foreign elite that planned to leave the USA in 2015; now all China has to do to ensure its global dominance is play a long game watching the West descend into relative retardery and barbarism.
The free movement of peoples is one of the most destructive philosophies ever conceived. In time, it may prove to be as terrible as communism, or perhaps even feminism.
Can We Talk?
It’s not looking too good for Dag’s employment prospects, not when HR comes calling in today’s HYPERGAMOUSE.
And a reminder that the HYPERGAMOUSE campaign is still going strong, with the number of backers rapidly approaching 400. Don’t miss out on the chance to pick up a first edition paperback or hardcover!
They Hate You
They REALLY hate you. For decades, I’ve been telling everyone that the USA hates America and heritage Americans. $35.7 billion for the Kiev and Tel Aviv regimes this year alone, and less than nothing for Americans in need. And only now are some people starting to believe me.
From SG: Remember that this is malice, not stupidity. It is evil, not incompetence. They hate Heritage America on a fundamental level.
BRICS or Sanctions
Aspiring members cannot choose both, thereby preventing countries like France, which has previously expressed an interest in joining the growing trade bloc, from obtaining membership:
BRICS applicants can’t join in sanctions against any of the economic bloc’s member states, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday, outlining one of the conditions for joining the club.
The group that started as an informal association of Brazil, Russia, India and China has since expanded to nine member states and is expected to discuss further enlargement at its summit in Kazan, Russia later this month.
”One needs to pursue a sovereign policy, have a significant role in international and regional affairs, build good-neighborly and friendly relations with the BRICS countries, and not join in illegitimate sanctions against members of the association,” Ryabkov said at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday, when asked about conditions for aspiring members.
This underlines the absolute and utter stupidity of formerly neutral countries like Sweden and Switzerland giving in to US and EU pressure, abandoning their historical neutralities, and taking sides against Russia. Because now, it’s clear that they’re going to end up losing access to most of the world’s population and half the world’s GDP.
Current BRICS member countries account for about 46% of the world’s population and over 36% of global GDP. At least 34 countries have expressed interest in joining the organization.
It’s a real loss for Switzerland, which has already lost a substantial amount of its historical gold trade to Dubai. True neutrality would have put Switzerland in an ideal position to serve as an economic bridge between the US bloc and the China-Russia bloc, but by choosing to side with the former, they have sacrificed the opportunity to do for global trade what they once did for global diplomacy.
IDF Attacks Russia?
I assumed this report of an Israeli attack on a Russian air base in Syria had to be some sort of war-porn fiction.
ISRAEL is reportedly hitting “terrorist targets in western Syria and along the Syria coastline.”
So far they’ve hit in Latakia and Tartus, home ports of the Russian Mediterranean Flotilla.
Also the Russian Hmeimim Air Base.
The Russian ammo stockpile there is exploding.
Russian air defenses are reportedly firing at Israeli aircraft.
The strikes occurred an hour after the arrival of an Iranian plane belonging to “Qashim Fars” airline.
The source of the bombing is not yet confirmed, but it reportedly involved 30 missiles fired from naval battleships between 3:55 and 4:41 AM.
However, the mainstream reports do at least confirm that the IDF attacked a weapons depot “near” the Russian air base.
Israeli conducted strikes near the Syrian coast this morning, with explosions reported in the vicinity of the Russian-operated Khmeimim Air Base, near the city of Latakia. At this stage, it’s not clear if the Russian airfield was actually hit, deliberately or otherwise — which would be a first. Either way, however, the attacks represent a notable escalation in terms of Israel’s willingness to prosecute targets that are very close to this key Russian military facility in Syria and a major point of pride for Moscow.
Initial accounts from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a U.K.-based information office, describe attacks in the coastal Latakia province, with targets including an ammunition warehouse said to be near Jablah city, not far from Khmeimim Air Base. Weapons supplied by Iran and destined for Hezbollah, its Lebanese ally and proxy, often are delivered first to Syria, for onward transit to Lebanon. The suggestion here is that Iranian munitions headed for the militant group were targeted soon after they arrived in Syria.
So, it’s unclear. And while Russia Today doesn’t have anything about the attack – or near-attack – this announcement today may be related.
The Russian ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, has urged Russian citizens to leave the Jewish state in view of the increasing tensions in the region.
They may have invented the word, but I find it very, very difficult to imagine that the Israelis would be so full of chutzpah that they would choose to go hot with the Russians. Even the US neocons have had more sense than to push for that. I mean, I don’t see how the IDF can even hope to handle the Iranians with or without the US military.
I sincerely hope this is an exaggeration, if not a complete fabrication.
UPDATE: It was an exaggeration. But it was pretty close, being only 1.5 kilometers away from the base.
Reports of the Russian Hmeimim Military Base being hit by an Israeli airstrike are false. We have geolocated the video and photo. The photo was taken from the second or third floor of ‘al-Salom Gym’, 35.3721083, 35.9250677, Jableh, Syria. The most likely areas of target are shown on the map as “1” and “2” – although the Russian base (shown on the map) is approximately 1,500 meters away from either target site.
Will, Not Could
Emmanuel Macron is half-right. But it’s not a situation where the European Union “could die”, it’s one where the collapse of the European Union is absolutely inevitable.
Emmanuel Macron has admitted that the EU ‘could die’ as he issued a dire warning about the bloc’s economy. The French President told the Berlin Global Dialogue event that the EU was over-regulating and under-investing. He also pointed out that both China and the USA outstripped the 27 member-bloc in economic output and investment.
In words reported by the Daily Telegraph, Macron said: ‘The EU could die, we are on a verge of a very important moment. Our former model is over – we are over-regulating and under-investing. In the two to three years to come, if we follow our classical agenda we will be out of the market’.
One of the central tenets of the EU is the “free movement of people”. Which is a necessary component of free trade; the benefits of free trade necessarily derive from labor and capital flowing to the places where production is most advantageous. This already produces serious problems, but with financialization, globalism, and debt completely interfering with these flows, the costs of free movement are even worse than they should be while the benefits are never realized.
Either the nations collapse into civil war and barbarism or the EU does. And it’s clear that more than one-third of the native populations have already figured this out. The worse things get, the more people will understand that the status quo is simply not an option.
And, of course, they’re doing what all bureaucrats do when faced with failure: prescribing more of the poison that is already killing them.
Former Italian Prime Minister and former European Central Bank chief, Mario Draghi, said that the bloc cannot compete alone with the likes of China and the United States and needs a far more integrated single market to create pan-European businesses of the require global scale.