#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
Nick Rekieta & Kayla Rekieta have been arrested on felony gun and drug charges.
I’m sorry to hear that. Nick and I didn’t start off on a good note, but we quickly settled our differences and we’d even discussed getting his Lawstream on UATV eventually. Here is hoping that he’s able to get things sorted out without too much difficulty.
Restaurants closing in 2024:
This is what cultural and economic decline looks like. Apparently 60 years of relentless immigration are not, in fact, good for the economy or the traditional culture. I wonder, however, how much of these failures are related to economic contraction, reduced consumer spending, and excessive debt versus the lack of appeal held by these traditional restaurant franchises for the newcomers.
UPDATE: A reader writes to explain what he saw at Outback Steakhouse:
Your assessment of the restaurant closures is spot on. I worked at an Outback for 5 years in a nice Chicago Suburb. When I started, Outback was still in its prime but only a year in they began to shift their marketing campaign. Between couponing, offering deals like “all you can eat shrimp”, and bending over for any customer that had the slightest complaint by comping their meal, it slowly but consistently brought the level of the clientele down. This was especially frustrating for myself and the servers alike that were used to 20% tips being the norm (when good service was provided of course) – however with the cheaper and more diverse customers, the tips became less and less. I think what happened is that Outback as a corporation became short-sighted and wanted to attract new customers but in the end it only caused them to be hurt by having to shrink margins to just keep these new customers happy by giving away so many freebees. A few years after I left, to no surprise, the location that I worked at closed.
It’s really quite easy if you know what to do. From Sigma Game:
I’ll be honest. Given my talent for unorthodox thinking and my ability to write more or less coherently, I assumed from a fairly young age that I would leave some intellectual legacy behind. Nothing particularly major on the scale of an Aristotle, a Thomas Aquinas, or an Adam Smith, but something more on the level of a Hermann Hesse, a Samuel Huntington, or a John Bagot Glubb.
Umberto Eco, I felt, probably represented my potential ceiling, although my inability to execute Summa Elvetica as I’d envisioned it made it pretty clear that even the Eco strata was beyond me. C’est la vie. It’s better to aim high and fall short than content oneself with mediocrity.
And while my small contributions to gaming, literature, science, and theology are likely to survive in some anonymous capacity to be expanded upon by future intellectuals, it’s been a real surprise to discover that the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy, and the concept of the Sigma Male in particular, have gone viral to the point that they are being adopted and applied, however erroneously, to a wide variety of cultural applications. Well and good, even if Sigma is literally the least important of the various behavioral profiles to understand for practical purposes.
But it’s more than a little bizarre to see the way AI systems have ingested and processed the concept, to the point that it has now even incorporated my personal clothing preferences…
My intellectual ambition circa 2005 to 2015 was to one day write the Summa Economica, doing for economics what Thomas Aquinas did for theology. Now my ambitions are considerably more curtailed, as I’m just hoping to be able to publish Steve Keen’s magnum opus, finish Arts of Dark and Light, and wrap up the definitive work on the SSH before my ability to string words together goes the way of Mr. Martin and other washed-up writers.
As always, it is one law for the satanic clowns, another one for everyone else over whom they seek to rule:
The US is looking into how it could punish Georgia over a ‘foreign agents’ bill which was recently passed in the country’s parliament, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
Georgia’s Transparency of Foreign Influence Act would require non-profit organizations, media outlets, and individuals which derive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as entities “promoting the interests of a foreign power” and disclose their income and sponsors or face fines of up to $9,500.
The legislation ignited weeks of violent protests and clashes across the country, which is an applicant to both the EU and NATO. Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili vetoed the bill on Friday, but the gesture is considered to be largely symbolic, as the Georgian Dream party has a majority in parliament and is expected to overrule it.
“We are looking very hard at what we can do in response to that, and I anticipate we will take actions, the EU is looking at the impact on the accession process for Georgia, so I would anticipate that there will be things to come because of the impact this law may have,” Blinken told US lawmakers in Congress.
Blinken said the US is “very concerned” about the legislation, which he described as “right out of Moscow’s playbook,” and which “clearly counters” the Georgian public’s desire for “EU integration.”
Despite criticism that the legislation could be used to target the political opposition, the bill does not provide for criminal prosecutions, unlike the US’ Foreign Agents Registration Act, which has been in effect since the 1930s.
However, it’s not the hypocrisy that is noteworthy here, as that is a constant state wherever Clown World is concerned, hypocrisy being one of the core virtues of Clown World. What’s noteworthy is the extreme value the clowns place on their ability to provide external funds to their subversive agents acting within a polity. This is their primary vehicle for subversion, which they have utilized since invading India and “opening” Japan; one can even see it in all of the Minnesota politicians from the 1980s to the 2010s who were born, raised, and educated in New York City.
A city, a state, or a nation that prevents foreign agents from engaging in politics is one that can much more easily resist subversion and eventual submission to Clown World. Which, naturally, is why the Georgian law is being attacked by foreign agents in foreign countries like Antony Blinken, despite the fact that the USA has absolutely no right or business interfering with the parliamentary process in the sovereign and democratic state of Georgia.
I pointed out a few obvious observations about tattoos at Sigma Game. I know you’ll find this very hard to believe, but one reader shared a personal anecdote that proved those observations are completely unfounded.
READER: Huh, my partner has tattoos and also a very good job at an old company with renowned retirement benefits. As in, an extremely conventional employer. He’s doubled his income in the past three years and recently got his annual salary in shares as a bonus.
VD: Well, your unverifiable personal anecdote is obviously conclusive and clearly obviates every other bit of statistical and observational data on the subject. We now understand that tattoos are sexy, high-class, and will only help one’s career progress. You must be exceptionally nice and pretty to have locked down such an exceptional partner. You should probably tattoo FUKC on your forehead; I’m sure it will do wonders for your future prospects, which we will follow with interest.
What’s considerably more significant is the fact that the Chinese and Russians are publicly hailing the three recognitions of the sovereign Palestinian state:
In a historic move expected to quell the flames of war in the Middle East, Ireland, Norway and Spain announced the recognition of a Palestinian state on Wednesday. The move is hailed by Chinese experts as representing an overdue correction of “a previously skewed balance,” while bringing the Palestinian question, which had intentionally been obscured before, back to the center stage.
Experts believe the decision may trigger a global wave of recognition for the state of Palestine, not only in support of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people but it will also exert significant international pressure on Israel’s aggressive practices.
However, they noted that there is still a long way to go for the actual establishment of a Palestinian state, and the root of the problem preventing the realization of the two-State solution lies in the bias and indulgence of the US.
None of this is actually about the lands historically taken by force from the Palestinians, of course, anymore than the war in Ukraine is about who rules over Kiev. But it’s another front in the global war between Clown World and the sovereign nations.
Fandom Pulse reports that the long-anticipated collapse of a comics giant may be right around the corner.
Disney might have accidentally dropped some damning news for the mainstream comic industry in the form of a job listing. Comic shops have been struggling at all-time lows for sales heading into the second half of 2024, and now, it appears as if Marvel Comics may be on the chopping block.
Now a job posting has surfaced which appears like Marvel Comics might be folding into Marvel Studios. Marvel Studios went through a recent round of layoffs after the MCU’s underperformance, and Disney+ numbers are reaching new lows to pair with their comic book partners. It seems that Disney might be seeing redundancy in having a Hollywood apparatus for these properties and a comic publisher as well.
The job posting, listed on May 20th, is looking for a Publishing Operations Analyst. The duties of this position follow the weekly schedules of production of monthly books—much like Marvel Comics does with its regular publishing schedule.
The job is clearly listed as being a part of Marvel Studios, which marks a change from being involved with Marvel Comics. Fans and industry insiders are speculating that this might be the cancelation of Marvel Comics as an autonomous publishing line, which would fold the operation into Marvel Studios as a whole.
The fact that Disney just laid off 14 percent of its Pixar workforce yesterday tends to lend credibility to the speculation. And given that the only value to Disney is the Marvel IP, which despite the degeneration of the MCU movies remains valuable and potentially very profitable, shutting down the loss-generating comics and focusing on movies and merchandise would be a wise business move. But it will have a devastating effect on the remnants of the mainstream comics industry, which is already reeling from the collapse of the distribution channel.
And it will, of course, be great news for independent comics publishers, such as Arkhaven, and independent creators like Chuck Dixon, Razorfist, Eric July, and Ethan van Sciver.
Onward and upward, as they used to say…
UPDATE: Fandom Pulse is moving to Substack.
Due to censorship from FB/Google, Fandom Pulse will move completely to Substack starting June 1.
SHOT: “Any suggestion that other considerations were involved in the decision-making process is completely false, and the insinuation that Jewish donors secretly plotted to influence government operations is an all too familiar antisemitic trope that the Washington Post should be ashamed to ask about, let alone normalize in print… saying Jews ‘wielded their money & power in an effort to shape American views’ is offensive on so many levels.”
CHASER: Two Republican congressmen have introduced legislation that would provide the same employment and economic protections to Americans serving in the Israeli military as US citizens who get deployed to serve in the US military. Around 23,380 American citizens are currently serving in the Israeli army, according to a February report by The Washington Post.
To the contrary, any U.S. citizen who serves in the armed forces of any foreign nation, including Israel, should have his U.S. citizenship automatically revoked, be permanently expelled from the United States, and face criminal charges of treason if he enters U.S. territory in the future.
This is precisely why dual-citizenship needs to be made illegal again, as it was for most of U.S. history. No wonder the Clown World edition of the USA is a powder keg just waiting for a series of events to set it off. No nation that has been invaded and occupied to such a comprehensive extent has ever survived intact.
A twice-vaxxed Sinovac reader shares some thoughts on the last three years:
I got two shots of the Sinovac, the Chinese attenuated vaccine, because I needed to travel during the pandemic for work and to be with family. This was not a matter of choice though they’ll argue it was when the lawsuits start flying. Weirdly I’ve never once had Covid, and boy was I exposed. Airports, soccer matches, concerts, all sorts of licit and illicit gatherings. My logic was if I was going to get any vax, it would be best to get one that a) wasn’t experimental and b) was made by the same people who made the virus.
Talking to medics in Britain and around Europe, I’ve become aware that even though the Russian and Chinese vaccines were never formally made available to the people, who got no choice but MRNA despite literally hundreds of thousands of requests to the NHS alone, plenty of medics who have their own international supply chains did the same thing. They got the Sinovac when they didn’t just fill in the form and jack up the saline.
I would love to know if there is any research into the long-term effects, not solely out of selfish reasons, but primarily because this poses a really interesting analysis. We already are seeing that MRNA-vaxxed people are dying of suddenly at alarming rates, which simply isn’t happening in the unvaxxed cohort. But what about the data from China, Russia or other places that only got the attenuated non-MRNA vaccines?
If those people aren’t also dying of suddenly, then it seems to me that it’s the MRNA technology, what it contained, and how it functions in the body, that is the causative effect of Suddenly. But if it turned out that there’s a lot of Suddenly going on among the Russians and Chinese too, then something more interesting is occurring, more likely related to the interaction between the manufactured virus and any attempt to vaxx.
My money’s on the former incidentally. And that would be sufficient information to ban MRNA tech, in my opinion.
We know the Johnson & Johnson non-mRNA vaccine is causing elevated mortality risks, but the reader is correct in pointing out that there is no observable evidence that either the Sinovac or Sputnik vaccines are doing the same. Regardless of whether they are or not, it’s quite clear that mRNA technology should be immediately banned and any attempts to utilize it should be criminalized, given the way in which relatively young mRNA-vaxxed celebrities, media figures, and athletes are now collapsing and dying literally every single day now.
I will offer one correction, however. The Covid-19 bioweapon was released in China, apparently on Oct. 18, 2019 at the CISM Military World Games in Wuhan, but it was developed by Clown World scientists working in the USA.
In related news, those who resisted are having their resistance retroactively justified by the legal system. Never submit to unlawful threats from the authorities.
The co-owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, who fiercely defied tyrannical lockdowns in 2020, has won a monumental victory after a court dismissed all 80 charges against him. Ian Smith famously reopened his gym in the middle of lockdown, defying Democrat Governor Phil Murphy’s draconian COVID-19 lockdown orders. The confrontation escalated in July 2020 when police officers forcefully arrested Smith after he continually violated the State’s shutdown orders.
It seems like an appropriate moment to drop this flashback from the recent past.
I’m interested to know what percentage of the readers here were vaxxed, regardless of what their reasons might have been. It’s totally anonymous and the poll isn’t even connected to a registered account, so there is no need to fear being criticized for your decision, whatever it might have been. I’ll post the results here tomorrow.
UPDATE: Apparently nearly 9 in 10 readers here refused to take the vaxx. I expect the percentage is even higher among St. Karl Denninger’s readership. This tends to demonstrate the ability of a counter-narrative to provide contrarians with the ability to conclusively reject the Narrative.
