An intriguing drop

Q points to historical revionism:

Buy a history book published 20 years ago.
Buy a history book published 10 years ago.
Buy a history book published this year.
Compare.
Focus on WWI/WWII
Something ALARMING will be discovered.
Q

Since I tend to read history books published prior to WWII, my library is not a good source for working out this one. Anyone have any ideas?


AH:Q halfway there

In just 16 hours and 30 minutes, the Alt★Hero: Q campaign has reached 50 percent of its $50k goal with 335 backers. This is a very good start, although it doesn’t appear that the campaign will threaten Ethan van Sciver’s Cyberfrog record of $93k on Day One. But if the QAnon crowd elects to get behind the graphic novel, perhaps Cyberfrog‘s other records of 8426 backers and $530k total campaign funding will prove to be within reach.

The number of backers is particularly encouraging, as it indicates that the campaign will likely have more than 1k more backers than the original campaign by the time it ends.

If you supported the campaign, thank you very much. We won’t let you down. If you’re considering doing so, I’d encourage you to go ahead and take the leap of faith. The art team has confirmed that they are on-board for the entire graphic novel and The Legend Chuck Dixon is probably wrapping up Issue #3 already at this minute. Seriously, he’s one-man production machine and speaking as a professional comic book writer, I can honestly say that I hate him and his smug “hey, so here’s ANOTHER completed script!”

(That tapping sound you hear is the pencils of Cliff Cosmic and Richard Bonk as they wait patiently for more AH #5 and AH #7 script.)

And speaking of hate, the comics-SJWs have learned to maintain a strategic radio silence, but the QAnon-skeptics have not. From Twitter, a few reactions to the AH:Q trailer.

Conspirador Norteño@conspirator0
This isn’t the stupidest thing I’ve seen all day, but it’s close. Actually: correction. It is the stupidest thing I’ve seen all day, and that includes spilling fruit punch energy drink all over the interior of my car. #QAnon #FollowTheWhiteRabbit #Resist

Bungler@UshiromiyaBungl
wtf is this shit, who on earth thought anything in this trailer was a good idea

Bugaboo@gymbomom2
Full retard: Q Comics.  ???

UPDATE: AH:Q Day One total: 481 backers, $37,312, and 75 percent of goal. That’s actually better than the original Alt-Hero campaign, which came in at exactly $37,000 on the first day! Thanks very much to everyone who backed. We’ve still got 29 days left, so spread the word!


Big tech’s Come to Cersei moment

The God-Emperor is going to show them the difference between influence and power:

President Donald Trump doubled down on threats against Facebook, Twitter and Google Tuesday afternoon, saying the social platforms are “treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful.”

“Google has really taken advantage of a lot of people and I think that’s a very serious thing and it’s a very serious charge,” Trump told reporters after a meeting with the president of FIFA. “They better be careful because they can’t do that to people.”

A Twitter spokesperson, when asked to respond to Trump’s comments, pointed to previous statements and congressional testimony denying any form of conservative bias on the platform. A spokesperson for Facebook did not immediately return request for comment.

Trump earlier Tuesday accused Google of altering search results to prioritize negative coverage and left-leaning outlets and warned that the issue “will be addressed.”

Trump said in a tweet that the tech giant’s search engine had “rigged” news story results to show mostly “bad” stories about him and other conservatives.

All he really has to do is strip them of their protections against liability for content. Since they are clearly not content-neutral operations, they have no right to limitations on their liability.


Aristotle and the Holocaust

Ron Unz boldly casts considerable doubt on the central article of the globalist catechism:

Another obvious matter casts further doubt upon the historical quality of those five immensely thick volumes of standard Holocaust narrative, which together occupy nearly a linear foot on my bookshelves. For prosecutors of any crime, establishing a plausible motive is certainly an important goal, and in the case of the Jewish Holocaust, these authors would seem to have an easy task at hand. Hitler and his German colleagues had always claimed that the Jews overwhelmingly dominated Bolshevik Communism, and much of their struggle against the former was in order to prevent further bloody deeds of the latter. So surely devoting an early chapter or so to describing this central Nazi doctrine would provide an airtight explanation of what drove the Nazis to their fiendish slaughters, rendering fully explicable the horrifying events that would occupy the remainder of their text.

Yet oddly enough, an examination of their indexes for “Bolsheviks,” “Communism,” and all variants reveals almost no discussion of this important issue. Goldhagen’s 1996 book provides just a couple of short sentences spread across his 600 pages, and the other works seem to contain virtually nothing at all. Since all of these Holocaust books almost totally avoid Hitler’s self-declared motive for his anti-Jewish actions, they are forced to desperately search for alternative explanations, seeking clues buried deep within the German past or turning to psychanalytical speculations or perhaps deciding that what they describe as the greatest massacre in all human history was undertaken out of sheer Nazi wickedness.

The obvious reason for this glaring omission is that the authors are constructing a morality-play in which the Jews must be portrayed as absolutely blameless victims, and even hinting at their role in the numerous Communist atrocities that long preceded the rise of the Third Reich might cause readers to consider both sides of the issue. When purported historians go to absurd lengths to hide such glaring facts, they unmask themselves as propagandists, and we must be very cautious about trusting their reliability and candor in all other matters, whether great or small.

Indeed, the issue of Communism raises a far larger matter, one having rather touchy implications. Sometimes two simple compounds are separately inert, but when combined together may possess tremendous explosive force. From my introductory history classes and readings in high school, certain things had always seemed glaringly obvious to me even if the conclusions remained unmentionable, and I once assumed they were just as apparent to most others as well. But over the years I have begun to wonder whether perhaps this might not be correct.

Back in those late Cold War days, the death toll of innocent civilians from the Bolshevik Revolution and the first two decades of the Soviet Regime was generally reckoned at running well into the tens of millions when we include the casualties of the Russian Civil War, the government-induced famines, the Gulag, and the executions. I’ve heard that these numbers have been substantially revised downwards to perhaps as little as twenty million or so, but no matter. Although determined Soviet apologists may dispute such very large figures, they have always been part of the standard narrative history taught within the West.

Meanwhile, all historians know perfectly well that the Bolshevik leaders were overwhelmingly Jewish, with three of the five revolutionaries Lenin named as his plausible successors coming from that background. Although only around 4{e1b6c4ee08d0f44a6a5b11eb06b9139d63cfe72acbaefd7257f78696d447c626} of Russia’s population was Jewish, a few years ago Vladimir Putin stated that Jews constituted perhaps 80-85{e1b6c4ee08d0f44a6a5b11eb06b9139d63cfe72acbaefd7257f78696d447c626} of the early Soviet government, an estimate fully consistent with the contemporaneous claims of Winston Churchill, Times of London correspondent Robert Wilton, and the officers of American Military Intelligence. Recent books by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Yuri Slezkine, and others have all painted a very similar picture. And prior to World War II, Jews remained enormously over-represented in the Communist leadership, especially dominating the Gulag administration and the top ranks of the dreaded NKVD.

Both of these simple facts have been widely accepted in America throughout my entire lifetime. But combine them together with the relatively tiny size of worldwide Jewry, around 16 million prior to World War II, and the inescapable conclusion is that in per capita terms Jews were the greatest mass-murderers of the twentieth century, holding that unfortunate distinction by an enormous margin and with no other nationality coming even remotely close. And yet, by the astonishing alchemy of Hollywood, the greatest killers of the last one hundred years have somehow been transmuted into being seen as the greatest victims, a transformation so seemingly implausible that future generations will surely be left gasping in awe.

Today’s American Neocons are just as heavily Jewish as were the Bolsheviks of a hundred years ago, and they have greatly benefited from the political immunity provided by this totally bizarre inversion of historical reality. Partly as a consequence of their media-fabricated victimhood status, they have managed to seize control over much of our political system, especially our foreign policy, and have spent the last few years doing their utmost to foment an absolutely insane war with nuclear-armed Russia. If they do manage to achieve that unfortunate goal, they will surely outdo the very impressive human body-count racked up by their ethnic ancestors, perhaps even by an order-of-magnitude or more.

More importantly, the American Neocons ARE the Bolsheviks, specifically, the Trotsky faction. But everyone here already knew that.

However, Ron Unz’s iconoclastic piece got me thinking about the logic of the historical situation as we know it and some of the anomalies that have proven so difficult to resolve in a satisfying manner, massive anomalies that have led to criminal accusations of Holocaust denial on the one hand and charges of shameless historical mythmaking on the other. But what if both parties are basically correct concerning their primary points of emphasis? What happens if, in the spirit of theoretical skepticism, we simply apply straightforward logic to the facts as we observe them to be.

  • Major Premise: A very large quantity of Jews were killed in the 1936 to 1945 time frame.
  • Minor Premise: The meticulously bureaucratic Germans, for whom historians possess a tremendous quantity of historical documents related to the WWII era, do not appear to have kept any records of any of the many aspects of the logistical and operative decisions and actions required for the major premise, nor did they have the motive or the opportunity to thoroughly eliminate those records. 
  • Conclusion: Someone other than the Germans killed most of those Jews.
Now, who could that someone else be? It would have to be someone who was alive in the relevant time period and possessed the following attributes:
  • Access to Eastern Europe and Russia.
  • A willingness to commit mass murder.
  • Control over large-scale military and logistical forces.
  • Significant influence over Western government figures and the media.
  • A master of propaganda.
  • Lethal hostility to Jewish Bolshevists.
  • An expert at playing “let’s you and him fight”.
Can you think of anyone who might fit that bill? And recall that it was not until just eight years ago when it was finally confirmed the massacre of 22,000 Poles in 1940 that took place in the Katyn Forest was approved by the Soviet Politburo and was committed by Soviet forces, rather than by the Nazis as had been previously believed.

From Infogalactic:

Following the Soviet invasion of Poland, Stalin began a policy of relocating Jews to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and other parts of Siberia. Throughout the war, similar movements were executed in regions considered vulnerable to Nazi invasion with the various target ethnic groups of the Nazi genocide.

Doesn’t that sound a little… conveniently coincidental? Was Stalin relocating these target ethnic groups out of the goodness of his otherwise black heart? And how did he know those ethnic groups were at risk during the 22 months between September 1939 and June 1941, given that the Nazi invasion of 1941 is supposed to have taken him by complete surprise?

Now, I’m not saying that this hypothetical Soviet Holocaust was actually the historical case. I’m not a historian, I wasn’t there, and I have absolutely no idea what actually happened. I’m simply pointing out that logic suggests one possible explanation for the fact that detailed documents capable of definitively settling the historical account of the Holocaust once and for all to everyone’s satisfaction have not yet been found is because historians and scholars have been looking in the wrong place all along. This conclusion would also explain why so many Stalin-era documents are still sealed and kept strictly off-limits from researchers despite the fall of the Soviet Union. What other historical secret would merit such keeping even after so many years besides alien contact or the uncorrupted body of Jesus Christ of Nazareth?

And finally, a Soviet Holocaust might also explain the insane neocon obsession with going to war with Russia. Are they really that bitter about the Tsars, who vanished into history more than 100 years ago? Or is it possible they are seeking revenge for a more recent historical offense?


Smells like tech collusion

How is this sort of overt coordination and interference in the U.S. Federal elections even remotely legal?

Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday to share their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections.

Last week, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at Twitter’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.

“As I’ve mentioned to several of you over the last few weeks, we have been looking to schedule a follow-on discussion to our industry conversation about information operations, election protection, and the work we are all doing to tackle these challenges,” Gleicher wrote.

The meeting, the Facebook official wrote, will have a three-part agenda: each company will present the work they’ve been doing to counter information operations; there will be a discussion period for problems each company faces; and a talk about whether such a meeting should become a regular occurrence.

My father was investigated by the Federal Election Commission for YEARS after he published a single state election guide that was entirely impartial and was praised widely by both the DFL and IR candidates for its detail, quality, and objectivity. The ABC affiliate TV news repeatedly tried ambushes at both his home and office, until eventually, the FEC simply dropped the whole thing without a word of explanation or apology.

And today the social media giants are permitted to publicly coordinating their tactics to influence the Federal elections?


Alt★Hero: Q campaign now underway

The Alt★Hero: Q campaign has begun. Please visit the campaign page for more information about the graphic novel and the various backing options.

UPDATE: After 12 hours, we have reached 250 backers and 39 percent of the green light goal. Thanks to everyone who is supporting this and making it possible. Spread the word!


It’s a small, small world

Another of those close connections that the media never seems to see fit to discuss. Where are all the glowing Washington Post and Atlantic features about this DC Power Couple:

Lisa H. Barsoomian, an Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law, is a protégé of James Comey and Robert Mueller.

Barsoomian, with her boss R. Craig Lawrence, represented Bill Clinton in 1998.

Lawrence also represented:

Robert Mueller three times;

James Comey five times;

Barack Obama 45 times;

Kathleen Sebelius 56 times;

Bill Clinton 40 times; and

Hillary Clinton 17 times.

Between 1998 and 2017, Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times.

You may be saying to yourself, OK, who cares? Who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman?

It deals with Trump and his recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, the border wall, DACA, everything coming out of California, the Uni-party unrelenting opposition to President Trump, the Clapper leaks, the Comey leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix …. and last but not least Mueller’s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and-the Russians.

Why does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention?

BECAUSE….

She is Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s WIFE!

Now, either the God-Emperor and his military advisers are every bit as dumb as his very worst critics believe, or he knows exactly what he is doing by leaving Swampy McRosenstein in place and has a good reason for doing so.

It’s also interesting to see Neon Revolt’s latest post, which cites evidence that the McCain Institute became the substitute channel for the Clinton Foundation after the flow of donor money was cut off to the latter. Curiouser and curiouser….


Coming VERY soon

We anticipate launching the Alt★Hero: Q campaign this week, most likely tomorrow. We’re just putting the final touches on it now, although like last time, we will probably add stretch goals and additional perks as the backers request them. As per previous backer request, there will be an option to receive all of the six single-issue paperbacks in a single shipment when the sixth issue is complete and they will all be Gold Logo limited editions.

Which means that depending upon the number of backers, supporting the campaign may turn out to be the only way to obtain a Gold Logo edition of Alt★Hero: Q. In the meantime, please enjoy the campaign trailer. We are hoping to more than double our previous backer total and reach at least 5,000 backers. Because we are using new artists, and because The Legend Chuck Dixon is already almost done with the first 12 Avalon scripts, AH:Q will not slow down the production schedule of either the AH or CDA series. In fact, we expect to release AH#4: The War in Paris to backers next week, followed very soon after by CDA#2: Breaking the Code.

UPDATE: “Very soon” is now. The Alt★Hero: Q campaign is now live!

The gold standard for truth

Is now flipping a coin. If recent studies in reproducibility are to be believed, modern science is now less than 50 percent reproducible.

The same could be said about big projects in which psychologists work together to replicate past studies. Six such projects, including the SSRP, have now been completed. Between them, they’ve successfully replicated just 87 out of 190 studies, for an overall rate of 46 percent. “This is not acceptable,” says Simine Vazire from UC Davis.

The 62-percent success rate from the SSRP, though higher, is still galling to Vazire, since the project specifically looked at the two most prestigious journals in the world. “We should not treat publication in Science or Nature to be a mark of a particularly robust finding or a particularly skilled researcher,” she says. These journals “are not especially good at picking out really robust findings or excellent research practices. And the prediction market adds to my frustration because it shows that there are clues to the strength of the evidence in the papers themselves.”

It’s really rather appalling to contemplate that the foolish likes of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris were dumb enough to seriously believe that what has – at best – a reliability rate of less than two-thirds should be our primary metric of reality.


The laments of the elders

Fred Reed has finally accepted the bitter reality that the USA is no longer a nation:

I am not sure why people write columns. Partly from boredom, I suppose, or lack of anything better to do. Partly from exasperation. Yet partly from the hope that if enough people collectively become aware of problems, they might, just maybe, do something about them. I can’t believe this any longer. Today’s crimes, lunacies, and decays are too many, profitable, and intractable. We are racing out of control toward some as yet dimly limned catastrophe. Hang on and take the ride.

To begin with, America is no longer a country. It is a set of special interests occupying the same place: Corporations, races, ethnicities, faiths, ideologies, foreign agents pretending to be Americans, all at each other’s throats. No cure is possible.

Racial relations are a disaster. Blacks, fourteen percent of the country, are congenitally furious at whites. They neither assimilate nor want to. Whether they should doesn’t matter since it will not happen.

They give their children strange names to differentiate them from whites, maintain a separate language sometimes called Ebonics–blacks in other countries learn to speak normally–and concentrate in huge all-black Sowetos: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Newark, Trenton, Camden, Atlanta, Milwaukee, East St. Louis, New Orleans. And many others. Horrific crime and horrific schools produce each year a large cohort who, barely literate, will for fifty years be unable to fit into the economy or into white (or Hispanic) society. This will not change. If it were going to, it would have.

Hispanics, seventeen percent of the population, have a much higher likelihood of assimilating, and are doing so, but it will not happen overnight and will never be complete. They face intense hostility from much of the white population. Add Somalis, North Africans, Jews, Asians, and various Muslims and you have more than a third of the country. Their interests are their own interests. This cannot be changed.

Americans no longer have a shared identity, a common culture to hold them together. In 1950 America was overwhelmingly white, European, and Christian. How deeply one believed was not the point. Christianity was a matrix binding all, as Catholicism is in Latin America. Today Christianity is like marijuana–tolerated, barely legal, but better not to get caught. Whites are reviled by those of lesser capacity and, weirdly, by themselves. What do we now have in common? Almost nothing. This will not change before some strange looming denouement befalls us.

There is nothing strange about it what lies ahead for the planet. Diversity+Proximity=War. The Riders are already saddling up their Red and White horses; it will not be long before they begin to ride again. As Jerry Pournelle predicted so prophetically, there will be war.

The equalitarians of every stripe were, and are, wrong. The globalists of every faction were, and are, wrong. Throughout the 20th century, culminating in the 1965 Naturalization Act, the Great Society, and the Vietnam War, the people of the United States collectively chose to believe falsehoods instead of the truth. And even the most powerful nation on Earth cannot survive an existential war on reality for long.

I shut down my WND column when I realized that I had completely failed to even make the smallest change in direction, that events were going to take their course and the great historical patterns were going to play out regardless of what I did, wrote, or said. It will be interesting to see if Fred does the same.