A rhetorical trainwreck

A CNN media whore attempts to inoculate globalists in a remarkably inept manner:

CNN host Don Lemon addressed what he called the “ugly history” of the term ‘globalist’ “and how far-right extremists use it to suggest racial and anti-Semitic ideas” on the Thursday edition of CNN Tonight. Lemon argued because people like Steve Bannon and Alex Jones use the term that a dog whistle is automatically attached to it. He said it is popular with the ‘alt-right’ and anti-Semites.

“That word globalist keeps popping up, it sounds like a pretty mainstream term, a description of an economic and political ideology,” Lemon said. “But it’s more than that. It’s also become a dog whistle to right-wing conspiracy theorist.”

At this rate, it won’t be long until these idiots actually start trying to claim that the term “Satanist” is anti-Semitic. They don’t seem to grasp that words actually mean things, that words are more than just labels for people whom one irrationally dislikes for some mysterious and unknown, but definitely unjustified reason that cannot possibly be caused by the objectives, behavior, or actions of those being labeled.

Globalists favor global governance. They do so by definition and self-admission. IF it is anti-Semitic to accurately identify such individuals as globalists, THEN logic dictates it is necessarily accurate to assume that Jews are attempting to impose global government on the human race and anyone on the planet who opposes totalitarian one-world dictatorship is justified in their anti-Semitism.

Are you certain you want to go there, Don?

POP KULT WARLORD by Nick Cole


Castalia House is extremely proud to announce the publication of POP KULT WARLORD, the second book in the Soda Pop Soldier series, by one of the best-selling authors in science fiction, Nick Cole!


It’s way more than just a game!

PerfectQuestion is back! Running and gunning his way across an incredible civilization-building game set on Mars. But this time he’s working as a hired online ringer for a corrupt dictatorship and trying to keep from getting “disappeared” in a reckless world of intrigue, epic parties, luxurious meals, fast sports cars, and women who are as dangerous as they are beautiful.

Five million in gold says he can do it and put the next Sultan on the throne by leading a rag-tag clan of gaming jihadis to victory, but revolution and revolt are afoot. The long knives are out in Calistan for the hero of Soda Pop Soldier and anyone else who gets in a murderous prince’s way.

From the reviews of SODA POP SOLDIER, available in Kindle, KU, and paperback editions from Castalia House:

  • Great literature for gamers. Didn’t ever want to put this down. Absolutely riveting storyline, with a very interesting perspective on the possible interaction between marketing and gaming in the future. Action is fantastic as always.
  • Amazing ride! Completely addictive. Definitely well worth the time to read if you are a gamer or like me, gave up the addiction. It’s a reminder of how awesome games can be juxtaposed with the reality and how both influence the other. Also a reminder that how you play a game is an indicator of who you want to be or who you really are.
  • This is an excellent, though dark and depressing, sci-fi look at our future. Commercialism run rampant, the gap between haves and have-nots ever increasing (literally), and the common man left scrabbling for scraps. Too many are seeking escape through video games, but even the best professionals, such as our main character, are living month to month doing the bidding of their corporate masters.
  • Absolutely perfect sci-fi! It’s a great book, a great story because each note is perfect. You listen to a piece of music and not a note is dropped beginning to end, that’s this book. If you like the genre of litRPG, this book defines it. If you like mil-SF, this book has great action, and if you like a mystery or two to puzzle over while the coolest characters in the future battle it out in and out of the computer world, this is for you.
  • What Snow Crash should have been.
POP KULT WARLORD by Nick Cole is now available for Kindle and KU.

Fake News vs the God-Emperor

They both cannot be correct:

The blue wave is going to hit with a vengeance in Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to pollsters who say Democrats should easily capture the 23 seats they need to regain control of the House. But an upbeat President Trump predicted victory in the Senate — where pollsters say the GOP has a good chance to maintain or widen its majority — and even the House.

“There is a great electricity in the air like we haven’t seen, in my opinion, since the ’16 election,” Trump told reporters before leaving for a rally in Cleveland.

“So, something’s happening . . . I think we’re going to do very well in the House. I have never seen the energy that we have, the energy that this whole party has now, it’s really incredible.”

Whatever the outcome, Trump made it clear these midterm elections are about him.

“In a sense, I am on the ticket,” he said at the rally.

Earlier, in a telephone town hall, the president urged supporters to get out and vote because “the press is very much considering it a referendum on me and us as a movement.”

Every major poll said Trump is wrong about the Republicans maintaining control of the House.

The political website ­FiveThirtyEight calculated that Democrats had an 87.5 percent chance of winning it back.

Similarly, The Cook Political Report said Republicans had a tougher road to maintaining their majority. “We rate 75 races as competitive, including 70 GOP-held seats and just five held by Democrats. A ‘Red Exodus’ is contributing to the potential ‘Blue Wave.’ Of Republicans’ 41 open seats, 15 are rated as toss-ups or worse, and another five only lean Republican,” according to the website.

Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a website run by University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato, predicted that Democrats would easily pick up the necessary 23 seats. But it also cautioned that anything was possible with the country so deeply divided and memories of Trump’s upset win in 2016 still fresh in mind.

Most polls predicted similar results, with a CNN generic ballot survey showing Democrats ahead of Republicans by 55 percent to 42 percent, and the RealClearPolitics average of generic polls showing Democrats leading with 49.7 percent compared with 42.4 percent for Republicans.

If, as I anticipate, Republicans remain in control of the House, this election is going to destroy the rest of the mainstream media’s remaining credibility.

He knows he’s wrong

Nate Silver is desperately attempting to remain credible. It’s not working:

FiveThirtyEight’s election forecaster Nate Silver said Sunday that the House could end up in Democratic or Republican hands in Tuesday’s election, though polling predicts that Democrats will flip the chamber.

“So in the House we have Democrats with about a 4 in 5 chance of winning,” Silver told ABC’s “This Week.”

However, he noted that “polls aren’t always right.”

“The range of outcomes in the House is really wide,” he explained. “Our range, which covers 80 percent of outcomes goes from, on the low end, about 15 Democratic pickups, all the way to low to mid 50s, 52 or 53. Most of those are under 23, which is how many seats they would need to win to take the House,” he said.”

“But no one should be surprised if they only win 19 seats and no one should be surprised if they win 51 seats,” Silver added. “Those are both extremely possible, based on how accurate polls are in the real world.”

The low end is 15+ Democrat. Duly noted.

Haunted by memories of 2016, liberals around the country are riven with anxiety in the campaign’s homestretch. They’re suspicious of favorable polls and making election night contingency plans in case their worst fears come true. Some report literal nightmares about a Democratic wipeout.

“We’re kind of just in the bed-wetting phase now,” said Democratic pollster John Anzalone, a Hillary Clinton campaign alumnus who spent election night 2016 in Clinton’s Manhattan war room.

Two years later, even thinking about the prospect of a repeat of that night’s letdown is still too much for many Democrats to bear.

This should be amusing.

AH:Q is go, go, go

Bounding Into Comics exclusively reports on Arkhaven’s very successful circumnavigation of IndieGoGo’s retroactive cancellation of the successful Alt-Hero:Q campaign:

After IndieGoGo Shuts Down Alt-Hero: Q – Arkhaven Comics Raises Huge Money in Just Two Days!

IndieGoGo recently shut down Vox Day and Arkhaven Comic’s ongoing Alt-Hero: Q crowdfunder without any explanation. The campaign trended #1 on the crowdfunding site when it launched. However, Vox Day ran a stealth campaign where he tells us he raised over $130,000 in two days from over 1100 backers. In fact, he told us he raised over $100,000 in just the first 24 hours.

Day referenced this stealth campaign in a blog post, writing, “As I mentioned previously, we expect to get version 2.0 of the AH:Q campaign up in about two weeks. As always, we’re focused on doing it right rather than doing it fast, so rest assured that work has been proceeding on the first issue regardless of when we relaunch the campaign and how we do it. As The Legend has already declared, those involved will do it for nothing if necessary.”

This stealth campaign was only the first part in Vox’s strategy to successfully launch Alt-Hero: Q. Due to IndieGoGo shutting down the crowdfunding campaign, Vox and his team has begun working on their own independent crowdfunding. In fact, Vox tells us the stealth campaign “was a test run of our independent crowdfunding ability, which we plan on opening to the public later this month.”

For those of you who have been emailing me and wanting to back the AH:Q campaign, we will open it up again as soon as we have the full site operative, complete with the crowdfunding element. We plan to run the AH:Q campaign for 28 more days in order to allow everyone to support AH:Q and to participate in our campaign against the SJWs trying to shut us down.

Thanks to all of the AH:Q backers whose decisiveness and discipline made this possible. Your performance was astounding, even to the AH:Q team. What we are building will not be stopped; this is only the beginning of the Dark Legion’s long march through the comics industry. This is only the first of several announcements that will increasingly dismay and demoralize our self-appointed enemies.

Every time they knock us down, we will come back harder, and stronger, and faster. And we will show them no mercy whatsoever.

Where we go one, we go all.

The silent Red Wave

Rasmussen Reports is noticing a pattern concerning how Republican voters don’t tend to show their hand:

Just as in 2016, Democrats are more outspoken about how they’re going to vote in the upcoming elections than Republicans and unaffiliated voters are.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 60{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of Likely Democratic Voters say they are more likely to let others know how they intend to vote this year compared to previous congressional elections. This compares to 49{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of Republicans and 40{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of voters not affiliated with either major political party.

In August 2016, 52{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of Democrats were more likely to let others know how they intended to vote in the upcoming presidential election, compared to 46{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of Republicans and 34{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of unaffiliated voters. Some analysts before and after Donald Trump’s upset victory suggested that most pollsters missed his hidden support among voters fearful of criticism who were unwilling to say where they stood.

Similarly when asked now about family, friends and co-workers, 60{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of Democrats say they are also more likely to tell others how they intend to vote, but only 46{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of Republicans and 45{01f02ff5c3cf9d4a85478ebd476d665649f9a1508a833d70ddca2c7e9b315fd2} of unaffiliated voters agree.

Of course Democrats are talk more. They can’t distinguish the narrative from reality. They are magical thinkers who believe that casting a narrative spell creates the reality. In any event, it’s interesting to see how the pollsters are in quiet retreat from their previous narrative now that the actual voting is imminent.

NBC News reported that more people showed up to early voting, outpacing the 2014 midterms by leaps and bounds with a whopping 24,024,621 million ballots having already been counted. For comparison, 2014 only had 12,938,596 counted by this time, putting 2018 at nearly double.

The war they will lose

Fred Reed is alarmed by the recent preparations for war on the part of the USA, China, and Russia:

The United States seems to be contemplating war with Russia, Iran, China, or all three. Washington pushes NATO ever closer to Russia, leaves the nuclear-missile treaty and tries to destroy both countries and China economically. Why the push for war?

Simple. Asia is awakening. China grows economically at a scorching pace–and all power rests on economic power. China is a large country, America a medium-sized one. America’s roughly two hundred million whites do virtually all of the scientific work on which national power depends. China has a billion increasingly educated Han Chinese, a five-to-one advantage. China’s stated aim is to united Eurasia among other places in one vast commercial union. Washington’s pugnacity has pushed China, Iran, and Russia together. The chain of nations, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey all totter between looking east and looking west. If Washington doesn’t stop this growth, the American Empire will be marginalized within decades.

This doesn’t threaten the American public. It threatens the Empire and Israel.

The USA has to give up its empire and its Israel First foreign policy or it is going to be militarily defeated within the next 15 years. In fact, it is now possible that the breakup in the 2030s that I have predicted for nearly two decades will be triggered by that military defeat rather than by the economic collapse that I assumed.

In addition to the misuse and abuse of the US military for the last 17 years, China has systematically weakened the US military infrastructure under the aegis of US trade policy. The Red Army has clearly learned the lesson of WWII, which is that industrial infrastructure will defeat training, esprit de corps and tactics. The Pentagon has belatedly realized that this is a serious problem, but the dumbing down and demoralization of the US population due to immigration renders it largely unable to even begin addressing it.

In the declassified part of the research of the American Department of Defence it is mentioned that in the US there are difficulties with future deliveries of the power switches that nearly all American missiles are equipped with. As officials of the Pentagon report, the producer of these switches was closed down, but the highest military ranks learned about it only after it became clear that the power switches ended. And there is nowhere to take new ones from, because the producer disappeared into thin air a whole 2 years ago. One more striking example: the country’s only producer of solid rocket motors for “air-to-air” missiles, as the American officials write, “encountered technical production issues”, the reasons for which couldn’t be found even after government and military experts were involved. Attempts to restart production failed, and the Pentagon was obliged to employ a Norwegian company to ensure uninterrupted deliveries. Obviously, this indicates a certain technical degradation of the entire American system, because only the loss of some key competencies can explain a situation in which production cannot be restored and the problem cannot even be determined.

Whilst becoming acquainted with the complaints of the leadership of the American army it is difficult to rid oneself of the impression that it isn’t a document of the US Department of Defence dated September, 2018 that is in front of your eyes, but a description of the problems of the Russian army from the era of the dashing 90’s. Literally there is no direction in which there would be no serious or very serious problems, and often they even can’t be solved at the expense of the bottomless military budget.

In the section on nuclear weapon problems the Pentagon complains that in the US there isn’t the necessary number of engineers and technicians who would have the corresponding education, training, and US citizenship that are necessary for working with army nuclear objects. The mention of nationality is of importance, because American higher education institutions produce enough engineers, physicists, and representatives of other technical specialties and exact sciences, however a disproportionately large number of these graduates are foreigners, most often from the People’s Republic of China.

The neo-liberal world order has failed. The US reign as the only global superpower is already over. The world is changing, so be prepared for new developments in foreign affairs that were beyond imagining only ten years ago. The core problem, as far as I can see it, is that the financial elite has become addicted to the profits of low-cost war without end; for the price of a few hundred American lives every year, they make vast sums of money.

But after all these years, after all these wars, they can’t imagine the US actually losing a war and the whole system coming to a crashing end without a safe retreat for them and their endless war profits, so they will keep pushing and pushing until they trigger the inevitable reaction from either a regional or a continental power.

Gauging interest

So, a number of you have asked about subscriptions and so forth. We’re giving some serious thought to creating a Castalia/Arkhaven/Dark Legion Unlimited program that would provide complete access to all our combined digital editions for one year.

That means you would get all the new digital releases to come out that year, plus the ability to download whatever you wanted from the back catalog. The price would be $120/year, but we’d offer a discount to $99 for the first two weeks that we introduced it. All of the digital editions would still be available on Amazon and elsewhere, but none of it would be available on KU anymore.

If you’re an author, please don’t ask me how it would work on that end yet because we don’t know if there is even sufficient demand to justify any such program. Rest assured that we’ll take care of you fairly, and we definitely have not made any decision about doing this yet. Anyhow, if you are a regular Castalia or Arkhaven buyer, please share your thoughts, pro or con.

We realize this would probably cannibalize our digital edition backers for future crowdfunding campaigns, so there has to be enough interest to justify losing that. It’s always easier not to do anything, but we think this may be the right way to go in the future, if not necessarily now.

He is a proper black man!

How racist is it to question the racial identity of this proud Black man?

A theatre director chose an African name and scooped taxpayer funding for ethnic minority arts leaders despite admitting his parents and grandparents were all white. Anthony Ekundayo Lennon has worked on all-black productions and last year won a paid traineeship as a ‘theatre practitioner of colour’.

Born to Irish parents but naturally darker-skinned, Mr Lennon has called himself a ‘born-again African’ and said in 2012 that he had ‘gone through the struggles of a black man’. Starting his career as an actor he embraced his chosen black identity and took a middle name from an African name book as he felt his given name did not ‘fulfil’ him any more, The Sunday Times reported.

Since race is only skin deep, how can anyone doubt the veracity of a man who claims he is black, any more than one doubts the veracity of a man who claims he is a woman?

So offended. Someone call the SPLC already.

Another accuser recants

To precisely no one’s surprise, another accuser of Supreme Court Associate Justice Kavanaugh has admitted that her accusations were Fake News:

One of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s accusers admitted this week that she made up her lurid tale of a backseat car rape, saying it “was a tactic” to try to derail the judge’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee revealed the fraud in a letter to the FBI and Justice Department Friday, asking them to prosecute Judy Munro-Leighton for lying to and obstructing Congress. Mr. Grassley said Ms. Munro-Leighton is a left-wing activist who hijacked another “Jane Doe” anonymous report about a backseat rape and claimed it as her own story, calling it a “vicious assault.”

“I am Jane Doe from Oceanside CA — Kavanaugh raped me,” Ms. Munro-Leighton wrote in an Oct. 3 email claiming to have been a victim of the judge.

Republicans had better prosecute these false accusers and prosecute them hard, because this has become a standard tactic for Democrats attempting to derail Republican appointees. Ms Munro-Leighton really would have done much better to describe her false accusation of backseat car rape as a “thought experiment” rather than a political tactic.