And we are supposed to care?

Perhaps the old (((French))) woman should have cried Holocaust while her fellow !Frenchmen! were stabbing her to death. Surely the magic words would have saved her from the inchoate evils of anti-Semitism!

An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France’s most notorious wartime roundup of Jews has been murdered in Paris, and the authorities are calling it a hate crime.

The body of the woman, Mireille Knoll, was found on Friday in her apartment in the city’s working-class 11th arrondissement. She had been stabbed to death, and her body was partly burned after her attackers apparently tried to set fire to the apartment.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday that Ms. Knoll had been killed because of the “membership, real or supposed, of the victim of a particular religion” — a roundabout way of saying she was killed because she was Jewish….

Francis Kalifat, the head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France, said, “This makes one feel something absolutely terrible. She escaped the anti-Semitism of the Nazis, but in the end her destiny followed her because she was killed because of anti-Semitism.”

No, she was killed because her fellow Jews have been aggressively pushing open immigration into the West for nearly 100 years. There is certainly an amount of irony involved, but it isn’t the irony that the media wishes to perpetrate.

“Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies [sic] that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
– Barbara Lerner Spectre

Apparently Ms Spectre and Mr. Soros didn’t think through what “the throes of that transformation” would necessarily involve. Or perhaps they simply didn’t care about their lesser co-nationals. Because the “rise of anti-Semitism” across Europe and in the USA is nothing more than a massive Jewish own goal of historic proportions with nightmarish potential. And none of the Western nations being adulterated and devastated by the policies advocated by these (((diasporans))) are going to shed any tears for them this time.

For example, I tend to doubt this woman, who fled Sweden as a result of the very immigration championed by Ms Spectre and Mr. Soros, is going to be particularly amenable to the usual sob stories. Watch the whole interview. She makes it very clear that the situation in Sweden is considerably worse than the media is reporting and I do not imagine that she appreciates those who have taken a leading role in making it happen.

This is why a strong and stable Israel is absolutely vital if the omni-destructive anti-Semitic cycle is ever to be shut down for good. Israel is skin in the game, as NN Taleb would put it. That is something that rootless (((nomads))) like (((Simon Schama))) and (((Jonathan Weisman))) observably lack.

There is nothing wrong, as Weisman counsels, with Jews standing shoulder to shoulder with those most damaged and threatened by tribalist populism, as Jews like Abraham Joshua Heschel did in the heyday of the civil rights movement. Ultimately, though, what is needed is an aggressive defense of those things that not so long ago could be taken for granted in America, and under which Jewish life has prospered to a degree unique in the world: the integrity of the democratic process, the protections of the Constitution and the preservation of the ideal of a “nation of immigrants,” a phrase just deleted from the Immigration Service’s mission statement.

Yes, there is something absolutely wrong with it, (((Mr. Schama))). There is something more than wrong with it, as it is literal treachery if we are to take your pretenses to citizenship at face value. And speaking as an American Indian, I can testify with authority that the USA was never a “nation of immigrants”. That is self-serving 20th-century (((immigrant))) propaganda. So, shed no tears for the deceivers who sow the seeds of their own destruction.

As Buzz Mohawk wrote at Steve Sailer’s site: We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of Citizens descended from pioneers who wrote the Constitution to secure the blessings of Liberty for themselves and for their Posterity, for us.

To paraphrase one commenter here, you may recall that the Jews did not become Egyptians despite having lived in Egypt for 300 years. They did not become Canaanites after invading Canaan, and they did not become Palestinians after immigrating to Palestine. So, why would you ever imagine that a mere generation or three of residence in the United States would make them real Americans?


David Hogg, Crisis Actor, forgets his lines

That sound you heard was the sound of the media’s narrative balloon popping. It turns out that David “Camera” Hogg, who totally is not a crisis actor and absolutely does not play a student who survived a mass shooting at his school in Florida:

First take: On the day of the shooting, I got my camera and got on my bike and rode as fast as I could three miles from my house to the school to get as much video and to get as many interviews as I could because I knew that this could not be another mass shooting.

Second take: When Hogg heard a “pop” while sitting in an AP environmental science class around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, he told his teacher it sounded strangely like a gunshot. But there had been a fire drill that very morning and talk of a “Code Red” exercise to prepare for an active shooter. This must just be a surprise drill, he reasoned. And then the fire alarm sounded. Dutifully acting on it, Hogg and other students tried to exit the building. A janitor—Hogg doesn’t know his name but calls him an angel—knew where the shots were coming from and sent the students back. Then a culinary arts teacher, Ashley Kurth, pulled Hogg and others inside, locked the door, and made them hide in a closet. Checking Twitter and Instagram, Hogg—who’s an editor at the school’s TV station—found the news that the shooting was real and ongoing.

When Camera Hogg says that he isn’t a crisis actor, it’s entirely possible that he’s telling the truth. Because he is so haplessly bad at it that it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s been fired from the job.

Face it, the whole thing is fake. Again. The Parkland drama was just another obvious false flag meant to drum up public support for gun control, complete with fake survivors who weren’t even on the scene at the time. That’s why Big Social and the mainstream media reacted so strongly to the correct observations that these kids are fakes and crisis actors, because they are desperate to retain their ability to create a false narrative.

UPDATE: The full transcript has Hogg claiming to have been at the school, going home, then going back again in order to film and perform for the cameras. Of course, we have not actually been presented with any evidence of his actually having been there earlier. And more importantly, if Hogg went home and got his camera AFTER the shooting, then how did he have it in the closet DURING the shooting.

As I always point out after these staged TV dramas, the one thing we absolutely know did not happen is whatever the media’s current Official Story is. If you’re dubious about this, if you actually take their reports at face value, allow me to direct your attention to the recent news that the father of the Pulse shooter was an FBI informant for 11 years. Are you noticing the pattern yet?


I wonder why?

Rumors are flying that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will resign soon:

Nevada’s 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan may soon resign as Speaker of the U.S. House.

Amodei said he was repeating a rumor that’s around Capitol Hill.

“The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60 days and that Steve Scalise will be the new Speaker,” Amodei said.

That is certainly interesting, in light of other rumors we have been hearing.


DARK LEGION: Chicago Typewriter

Dark Legion Comics is very pleased to announce the release of a new graphic novel, a stand-alone story entitled CHICAGO TYPEWRITER: The Red Ribbon by Brandon Fiadino.

In 1920s Chicago, the criminal underworld is more than vice, racketeering, and bootlegging.

During a brutal territory dispute with the Chicago Outfit, Emilio Enzo and his associates discovered just how deeply involved the criminal underworld is in the occult and supernatural. Using hidden pathways to our world, forces of pure evil have worked in secret to maintain their dark stronghold on Chicago. Now those forces are back to take their revenge on the one man willing to challenge their reign by stealing the soul of his girlfriend Kat.

While visiting an old shop full of oddities, Emilio comes across an antique ribbon for a typewriter with an unusual history. And after bringing the strange red ribbon home and spooling it into his machine, he is startled when it begins to communicate with him at night….

1920s Prohibition-era Chicago collides with the hidden world in this debut graphic novel from Brandon Fiadino.

The graphic novel has an interesting history behind it. It is not based on the Korean television series of the same name, to the contrary, the name and core concept of the television series is believed to have been taken without permission from the author’s site when it was a work in progress. I also understand that the illustrator has since gone on to work on the new Wolverine for Marvel, so you’ll definitely want to check out the artwork you can see if you Look Inside.

CHICAGO TYPEWRITER is available for Kindle and KU. A print edition in 10×7 format will be published by Dark Legion Comics in April.

An early review from the forums:

  • Well worth it: Fiadino’s story is exotic and imaginative; Djibril Morissette-Phan’s line work is mature, assured and very attractive; the colors are lovely and very effective. There’s a wonderful two-page splash that evokes Prohibition era Chicago from a unique angle. The storytelling is way above the standard current Marvel or DC offering … and just very, very odd. I won’t spoil the plot here, but it’s as clever and quirky as you’ll find. Glad they have found a home for it with Dark Legion, and I’m very much looking forward to the print edition.

Voxiversity 004

This is a bonus Voxiversity video, which we decided to release after CGTN graciously granted me permission to release the video of my appearance on Dialogue with Yang Rui earlier this month, in which I was asked about the prospects for trade war between the US, China, and other US trading partners.

Episode Four: Tariffs & Trade with China

To watch any of the three previous videos, links are listed at Voxiversity. Also, if we can sort out the schedule, I will be back on Dialogue again later this week. As for Voxiversity itself, we appear to be off to a reasonable start, as not counting Facebook, the first three videos have racked up just over 40,000 total views.

That is well short of what Stefan Molyneux’s or Jordan Peterson’s average videos do, but then, we haven’t been at this very long. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to reach the 100k views/video mark. So, please continue to spread the word and share the links.



Monday Morning Gun Control

Peter King of SI’s MMQB refuses to stick to sports.

10. I think these are my other thoughts of the week:

a. Highlight of Saturday, for me, was this incredible performance and message from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Drama Club and student choir, singing a song they wrote called “Shine.”

b. “We’re done with all your little games. We’re tired of hearing we’re too young to ever make a change.”

c. Play that song. Turn it up.

d. What kids. What young adults. They are just awesome.

e. And you, Gregg Popovich. You’re a great example of a smart man with a lot on the line saying the heck with it; I’m going to say what needs to be said for the good of the future of our country. On Sunday, he said, “I’m sure most everybody’s got to be unbelievably proud and excited about those students and what they’ve done, because our politicians have certainly sat on their thumbs and just hidden. It’s almost like a dereliction of duty.” Almost? No. It is. Bravo, Popovich. Bravo.

f. Story of the Week: What Hope Hicks Knows, by Olivia Nuzzi of New York magazine. Great inside story of the White House communications director’s life in the White House.

g. “Hope! Hopey! Hopester!” What a memorable scene.

h. Political Story of the Week: an op-ed column in the Washington Post, by the summarily fired FBI veteran Andrew McCabe. A detailed first-person from one of the casualties of the implosion of our political system.

i. Gesture of the Week: Patriots owner Robert Kraft providing his team plane to fly students and families from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to Washington on Thursday, and then back home, after Saturday’s massive rally against gun violence. 

j. No matter your politics, that’s a wonderful thing Kraft did. Because no matter what your politics, it is downright insane that semi-automatic killing machines, such as the kind that killed 17 people at the Florida high school, can be owned by average American citizens.

The irony of the owner of a New England team called “the Patriots” funding the transportation of dozens of anti-2nd Amendment activists to Washington DC in order to protest the Constitutional rights of Americans should not be lost on you, and makes clear the obvious difference between Americans and Fake Americans like (((Kraft))). I emailed Mr. King in response to his foray into gun control activism, and would encourage you to send him a similar message.

In response to your public support for violating American rights, I remind you of the words of Samuel Adams.

“We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

Go to Mexico. Go to Canada. Go and live somewhere else, because you are not an American. There are literally dozens of other countries without the 2nd Amendment. Go live in one of them if you fear Americans exercising their unalienable rights, because you are not one of us.

“You are not one of us” and “you have to go back” are two of the most effective rhetorical killshots you can utilize against an SJW, because they weigh on the SJW’s constant subconscious fear of being rejected. It’s not a coincidence that these are considered to be some of Sam Adams’s most memorable words.

Don’t be surprised if King responds, angrily and offended, to at least one email expressing that sentiment in his Tuesday mailbag column.


Facebook scraping call data from Android phones

Facebook’s privacy violations are considerably worse than most people imagined:

This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the data Facebook had collected from him in an archive he had pulled down from the social networking site. While scanning the information Facebook had stored about his contacts, Dylan McKay discovered something distressing: Facebook also had about two years’ worth of phone call metadata from his Android phone, including names, phone numbers, and the length of each call made or received.

This experience has been shared by a number of other Facebook users who spoke with Ars, as well as independently by us—my own Facebook data archive, I found, contained call-log data for a certain Android device I used in 2015 and 2016, along with SMS and MMS message metadata.

In response to an email inquiry by Ars about this data gathering, a Facebook spokesperson replied, “The most important part of apps and services that help you make connections is to make it easy to find the people you want to connect with. So, the first time you sign in on your phone to a messaging or social app, it’s a widely used practice to begin by uploading your phone contacts.”

The spokesperson pointed out that contact uploading is optional and installation of the application explicitly requests permission to access contacts. And users can delete contact data from their profiles using a tool accessible via Web browser.

Facebook uses phone-contact data as part of its friend recommendation algorithm. And in recent versions of the Messenger application for Android and Facebook Lite devices, a more explicit request is made to users for access to call logs and SMS logs on Android and Facebook Lite devices. But even if users didn’t give that permission to Messenger, they may have given it inadvertently for years through Facebook’s mobile apps—because of the way Android has handled permissions for accessing call logs in the past.

If you granted permission to read contacts during Facebook’s installation on Android a few versions ago—specifically before Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)—that permission also granted Facebook access to call and message logs by default. The permission structure was changed in the Android API in version 16. But Android applications could bypass this change if they were written to earlier versions of the API, so Facebook API could continue to gain access to call and SMS data by specifying an earlier Android SDK version. Google deprecated version 4.0 of the Android API in October 2017—the point at which the latest call metadata in Facebook users’ data was found. Apple iOS has never allowed silent access to call data.

I’m not at all surprised by this sort of thing. I expect even worse violations will be uncovered. It’s why I removed What’s App from my phone the day that I heard Facebook acquired them. Facebook simply doesn’t understand or accept normal human concerns as legitimate, because it is run by an autistic alien robot whose “hello, fellow humans” act is about as convincing as the average 36-year old Pakistani immigrant claiming to be a Syrian child refugee.


From the chans

I cannot verify any of this. I am merely passing it along from one of my sources.

The President signed the bill because the military needed to be funded. They’re going to have some big jobs this year: war with Iran, rounding up most of the Obama administration to stand trial in front of military tribunals, and keeping domestic order when the roundup happens. The midterms are going to be utterly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. That means the roundup will happen before then and the DNC will be struggling with things other than running for office.

My understanding is that the war with Iran will not be direct, but will be more of a massive support operation for the Gulf Cooperation Council. Which means that it is essentially the Israeli-Sunni alliance against the Shi’ites.

I don’t like hearing that, not one little bit, but another Gulf war would be immensely preferable to the war with Russia that the neocons have recently been pushing. Of course, given the Russo-Iranian alliance, it could easily expand into that.

Anyhow, as always, we will see what we will see.


The man who destroyed the world

It’s somehow fitting that the Destroyer should take the form of a nice Midwestern son of immigrants from Scandinavia. Gail Heriot hasn’t quite figured out that Norman Borlaug is perhaps the quintessential example of the road to Hell being paved with good intentions.

HAPPY 104TH BIRTHDAY, NORMAN BORLAUG: If you don’t know who Norman Borlaug was, it’s high time you learned. His claim to fame: Saving over a billion people from starvation. Yes, that’s a “b” for “billion,” but even if it were an “m” for “million,” it would be a staggering achievement. When others are teaching their children and grandchildren to act like a ruthless killer (“Be like Che”), teach yours to “Be like Norman.”   Make his memory eternal.

Oh, I think his legacy will be remembered, all right. Not even Mao and Pol Pot managed to lay the foundation for a bloodbath of the sort that will one day be known as having taken place on a Borlaugian scale. Let’s just say I very much doubt the world will ever see 3 billion sub-Saharan Africans, let alone 4 billion.