How to Solve the Housing Crisis

When the population can be reduced by nearly 10 percent simply by sending the illegals home, you don’t have a housing crisis, you have a foreign invasion crisis:

As many as one in 12 people in London is an illegal immigrant, a shock report has claimed. The previously confidential study commissioned by Thames Water found that the ‘irregular’ population of the capital could be more than half a million.

Researchers at Edge Analytics used academic estimates of illegal migrants nationally as well as National Insurance registrations for non-EU foreign nationals over a nine-year period to estimate the numbers in each London borough. The study produced a range of figures from 390,355 at the lowest to 585,533 at the highest with a median figure of 487,944.

It suggested most illegal migrants arrived in the UK on work, study or visitor visas then overstayed. Many illegal migrants arrive in the UK on work, study or visitor visas and then overstay the limit.

What we have witnessed in our lifetimes is the complete failure of so-called representative democracy. The American Founding Fathers were right to be suspicious of what they called “mob rule” but as it turns out, the limited form of democracy that purports to be “representative” is even worse.

All systems fail in time, but the system of constitutional democracy has observably failed already. Its one theoretical justification was that it better represented the will of the people, which it very clearly doesn’t. And no amount of complaining about “authoritarianism” or any other perceived pejoratives is going to change that.

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The Decisive Front of WWIII

Nick Giambruno explains why he believes neither Ukraine nor Taiwan, but Iran, will be the decisive front in the world war that began in 2022.

I believe proxy warfare will likely determine who wins World War 3 and gets to shape the new world order. Proxy wars are a method by which major powers fight their battles indirectly, using smaller nations or groups as stand-ins rather than confronting each other directly. Major powers support, equip, and finance smaller groups or nations in a proxy war to fight against a common adversary. This support can include military training, weapons, funding, and other resources. The critical point is that the major powers do not engage directly in combat.

There are numerous ongoing proxy wars in World War 3.

However, the ones I believe will prove decisive will be in Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Middle East. The other proxy wars are peripheral in comparison. Unlike in Europe (Russia) or East Asia (China), there is no sophisticated nuclear power to deter NATO & Friends from more aggressive military action in the Middle East. Iran is, therefore, the weak link in the BRICS+ alliance to push for a multipolar world order. That’s why I expect NATO & Friends will make their last stand to scuttle the emergence of a multipolar world order and preserve the US-led world order in the Middle East…

Turkey and, by extension, NATO & Friends were popping champagne over Assad’s ouster. But the celebration may end soon as they realize they have bit off more than they can chew.

Turkey, the US, and Israel will be responsible for the chaos that comes out of Syria, which is likely to balkanize with unpredictable results.

In any case, I have little doubt that NATO & Friends will try to use growing Turkish influence as a way to reshape the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East in their favor as the arbitrary lines (imposed by the Sykes-Picot Agreement of a century ago) that define most modern Middle East nation states collapse.

In other words, NATO & Friends want an incipient Neo-Ottoman Empire to be the dominant power in the Middle East. BRICS+ wants Iran to be the dominant regional power. Nobody knows who will prevail in the Middle East and, by extension, WW3. The situation is fluid, volatile, and uncertain.

There is an excellent chance that NATO & Friends will lose in Ukraine and Taiwan. I think that means they will not be able to stop the emergence of a multipolar world order unless they subdue the Middle East. And they can’t do that unless they overthrow the government in Iran.

The fall of Assad is indeed a setback for BRICS+, but not a decisive defeat. If NATO & Friends want a decisive victory in the Middle East, they will need to take out the government in Iran. That’s why I think Iran will be the decisive battlefield of WW3.

It’s not an unreasonable analysis, but I’m not as confident that the Turks, with their desire for a neo-Ottoman empire, as as firmly allied with NATO & Friends as the anti-Syrian alliance made it appear. Turkey has, after all, applied to join BRICS+ and not necessarily as a trojan horse. I suspect that they will align with whichever side appears to be winning, and if both Ukraine and Taiwan are resolved before the Middle East – which one would assume will be the case – then there is a very good chance that Erdogan, or his successor, will take the opportunity to join the winning side and help put the final nail in the rules-based neoliberal world order.

I also think Japan and Korea will prove to be significant players, as I expect the Japanese to ultimately side with the Chinese in an attempt to escape their ongoing occupation by the US military. But the truth is that no one knows, no matter how persuasively they support their predictions.

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Consequences of the 21st Century Volkerwanderung

Third-worlders have invaded every Western country en masse, with the inevitable consequences for the natives and the economy. Meanwhile the primary concern of the mainstream parties is banning AfD instead of repatriating all the migrants. Angela Merkel and her successors have the blood of innocent German children on their hands.

A boy, aged two, and a man, 41, have been stabbed to death in a horror attack in Germany after a suspected asylum seeker armed with a knife ambushed a nursery group.

The child and adult were slain in Schontal Park, located in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, Germany, at around 11:45am.

Local police said: ‘A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested close to the crime scene’. He was apparently specifically targeting the children. 

No wonder the young Germans are increasingly demanding Ausländer raus! Any politician who stands in the way is going to get run over no matter how they try to suppress the will of the people.

History teaches conclusive lessons in this regard. Yesterday’s serialization of The Cambridge Medieval History addressed the Volkerwanderung, or Movement of the Peoples, and its terrible consequences for the collapsing Western Roman Empire and its citizens.

Among the Romans population had decayed for century after century, and the land had gone steadily out of cultivation, until nature herself seemed to have created the vacuum into which, in time, she inevitably attracted the Germans. The rush begins with the passage of the Danube by the Goths in 376, and is continued in the passage of the Rhine by the Vandals, Alans, and Sueves in 406. A hundred years after the passage of the Danube the final result of the movement begins to appear in the West. The praefecture of Gaul now sees in each of its three former dioceses Teutonic kingdoms established — Saxons and Jutes in the Britains; Visigoths (under their great king Euric) in the Seven Provinces of Gaul proper; Sueves (along with Visigoths) in the Spains. In the praefecture of Italy two of the three dioceses are under powerful barbarian rulers: Odovacar has just made himself king of Italy, and Gaiseric has long been king of Africa; while the diocese of Illyricum is still in the melting pot.

If we regard the movement of events from 410 to 476 internally, and from a Roman point of view, we shall find in the domestic politics of the period much that is the natural correlative of the Volkerwanderung without. Already, in the very beginning of this period, and indeed long before, the barbarian has settled in every part of the Empire, and among every class of society.

These “empire-destroying saviours of the Western Empire” were in reality the prime ministers of their generation, prime ministers resting not on a parliament (though they might, like Stilicho, affect to rely on the Senate), but on their control of a barbarian soldiery. Their power depended, partly on their influence with this wild force, which the Empire at once needed and dreaded, partly on the fact that the nominal representatives of imperial rule were weaklings or boys, whose court was under the influence of women and eunuchs.

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Arkhaven, The Legend, and Levon Cade

Fandom Pulse has an exclusive on Arkhaven Comics and Chuck Dixon getting the crew back together to turn Levon’s Trade, aka A Working Man starring Jason Statham, into a graphic novel.

Chuck Dixon wowed the world in early January when the trailer or A Working Man dropped, a new film based on his Levon Cade novels. Now, he’s partnering with Arkhaven Comics to adapt the first novel, Levon’s Trade into a graphic novel.

While Chuck Dixon is well known for his comic book work as a legendary creator of Bane in the Batman lore, and as one of if not the most prolific writers of all time, until Jasom Statham was announced as Levon Cade for the new film, A Working Man, many didn’t know that Dixon was also an accomplished novelist with several works, including a twelve-book series with Levon Cade.

The first book, Levon’s Trade boasts a 4.4 star average rating on Amazon with more than 700 reviews, a very popular installment for the author. A new review by Douglas Marolla calls the series “great” and highlights the character work Dixon put into not only Cade, but several of the supporting characters.

A Working Man has so much buzz already that comedians are incorporating the film into their routines, with poignant commentary on Jason Statham’s past roles combined with this one.

Arkhaven will announce a crowdfunding campaign for this and another much-anticipated Chuck Dixon project, but not until after the standard Hypergamouse books ship out to the backers.

A working man’s life is often hard.

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It’s not just DIE

It’s not just Diversity Inclusion Equality. The Second Incarnation of President Trump is going after affirmative action as well. He’s releasing so many executive orders that even the official White House site can’t keep up.

  • Trump targets OFCCP in new anti-DEI executive order. Eliminates 1965 order that laid out agency’s work. President Donald Trump revoked the executive order underpinning the Labor Department office responsible for ensuring government contractors comply with anti-discrimination law and maintain affirmative action programs. In a late Tuesday executive order, Trump said the OFCCP must immediately stop promoting diversity and affirmative action, and cease “allowing or encouraging” contractors and subcontractors to engage in “workforce balancing” based on race, sex, color, religion, national origin…
  • President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Tuesday night challenging diversity, equity, and inclusion programming at colleges and universities in the U.S. in the latest blow to Harvard’s administration. Trump’s order, which comes one day after his inauguration, requires all executive agencies and federally funded educational institutions — including Harvard — to terminate any race or gender-based diversity programs that could be in violation of federal civil rights laws. “Institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’” Trump wrote in the order.
  • “Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content,” the order states. Any State Department employee who violates the new policy will “face disciplinary action, including termination of employment or contract, or reassignment to their home agency.” The only other flags that will be permitted to fly are the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) emblem and the Wrongful Detainees Flag.

No more satanic rainbow flags or Negro supremacy flags. And the America First order is clear and unambiguous.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. From this day forward, the foreign policy of the United States shall champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first.

Sec. 2. Policy. As soon as practicable, the Secretary of State shall issue guidance bringing the Department of State’s policies, programs, personnel, and operations in line with an America First foreign policy, which puts America and its interests first.

No nonsense about any foreign country, any foreign tribe, or even the United States per se. The American nation comes first, and its core interests. AIPAC and civic nationalists hardest hit.

The more one looks at the details, the more there is to like.

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It Was a Nazi Salute

Elon Musk’s intentional and very public Nazi salute is no different than Richard Spencer’s “Hail Victory, Hail Trump” performance after the 2016 inauguration. It was an attempt to damage Trump through the negative visual rhetoric of a fake supporter. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, Elon Musk is an actor who plays the role of “the world’s richest man” as well as “elite PC gamer” and “corporate CEO”. All three roles are fake and the midwits who scripted his role never took into account that their conceptual model for the part, Tony Stark, spends most of his time in the lab, not playing corporate front man. He’s not on our side, or President Trump’s side, anymore than Richard Spencer, Ben Shapiro, Neil Gaiman, or Jordan Peterson are.

They’re not controlled opposition, they are fake opposition. And his assignment to attempt to undermine President Trump’s second term is the reason Musk isn’t hanging out in Hollywood trying to seduce yet another actress or singer.

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Auditor 202

The extent to which the Church of Scientology supported Auditor 202’s career and perceived success is gradually coming to light, despite his very public and apparently untruthful denials.

Neil Gaiman has consistently stated that he is not a Scientologist, despite his family’s deep ties to the Church of Scientology. In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, Neil addressed rumors about his involvement with the church, suggesting that he had not been a practicing member since becoming an adult.

However, some documentary evidence has surfaced which appears to directly contradict this claim, especially since he appears to have still been completing Scientology courses between the ages of 26 and 28, and to have been a donating member in good standing at the age of 49.

  • Neil Gaiman’s name appears in graduate lists in The Auditor Worldwide (published by AOSH UK copyright 1986) as Auditor #202. Neil is listed as completing three courses: the Hubbard Senior Sec Checker Course #222 (1988), the 21 Dept Org Board Course #227 (1988) and the Hubbard Basic Art Course.
  • Cornerstone Newsletter, November 2009: List of Members in GOOD STANDING: MARY AND NEIL GAIMAN ($35,000.00)

It would also appear The Simpsons saw through Neil Gaiman all along. While some might think that Gaiman being in on the joke would tend to exonerate him, that’s not the way imposters play the game. It’s just what the psychological operators call Revelation of the Method, or blown cover as cover.

“The Book Job” is the sixth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 20, 2011. In the episode, Lisa is shocked to discover that all popular young-adult novels are conceived by book publishing executives through use of market research and ghostwriters to make money. Homer decides to get rich by making a fantasy novel about trolls, with help from Bart, Principal Skinner, Patty, Moe, Professor Frink, and author Neil Gaiman. Lisa does not think writing should be about money, and decides to write her own novel.

However, when Lisa opens a copy of the book, she discovers that Gaiman is listed as the author, not her. It turns out that by slipping a third flash drive with his name onto Lisa’s possession with his secret co-conspirator Moe’s help, Gaiman has heisted his way to the best-seller list “once again” despite being illiterate. During the credits, Gaiman and Moe celebrate with a toast at Shelbyville Beach, but Gaiman double-crosses Moe and poisons his drink.

Whether Gaiman is, or is no longer, a Scientologist remains an open question. The more interesting question, of course, is what percentage of those 50 million books Gaiman has reportedly sold were purchased by members of the Church of Scientology. Because Gen Xers will recall another erstwhile Scientologist who wrote science fiction novels that appeared even more often on the bestseller charts, and for much longer periods of time, an author by the name of L. Ron Hubbard.

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Enjoy the Hope

The first time around, Donald Trump was the best President of the United States since Andrew Jackson. But the degree of difficulty he faced was too great, and he was obviously not ready for the level of resistance he faced from his own appointees and employees. He has already shown signs that he is much better prepared for his second stint in office, as the list of the executive orders he signed immediately following his inauguration tends to show.

It’s better than a good start, it’s an excellent start. But excising the Deep State and foreign interests from Washington DC is a marathon, not a sprint, and they’re going to fight him every step of the way. He’s yet to end the Federal Reserve, foreign aid, and the IRS, or begin any mass repatriations of LEGAL immigrants. The only new order that seems particularly dubious is the removal of sanctions from the settlers in Israel; this does tend to underline the existing suspicions that there will be a false equivalence between American interests and Israeli interests, but at this point, there is no reason not to give the once and current President the benefit of the doubt.

For the meantime, enjoy the hope!

– Reinstating the name Mount McKinley

– Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

– Designating Cartels as foreign terrorist organizations

– Ending diversity, inclusion, and equity hiring in the federal government

– Temporary withdrawal of all areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing

– Revocation of any active or current security clearances held by the former intelligence officials involved with “inappropriate political coordination with the 2020 Biden presidential campaign” and John R. Bolton

– Granting pardons for January 6 rioters

– Reevaluating United States foreign aid

– Declaring a national energy emergency

– Restoring accountability for career senior executives

– Promoting beautiful federal civic architecture

– Restoring the death penalty in the US

– Routing more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of California

– Securing the United State’s borders

– United States citizenship does not automatically extend to those born in the United States

– Realignment of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program

– Unleashing America’s affordable and reliable energy and natural resources

– Clarifying the military’s role in protecting the US borders

– ‘America First’ trade policy that benefits American workers, manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, entrepreneurs, and businesses

– Resolving the backlog of security clearances for Executive Office of the President

– Restoring accountability to policy-influence positions within the federal workforce

– Withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization

– Delaying TikTok ban for 75 days

– Putting America First in international environmental agreements

– Deliver emergency price relief to the American people

– Hiring freeze for federal civilian employees (does not apply to military personnel of the armed forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety)

– Regulatory freeze pending review

– Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship

– Recissions of dozens of executive orders and actions from Biden administration

– Ending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government

– Only two sexes, male and female, to be recognized by the federal government

– Department of Government Efficiency to implement the president’s DOGE Agenda

– Putting American and its interests first in foreign policy

– Protecting US citizens from terrorist attacks and threats

– Tapping into the vast natural resources, energy, and seafood in Alaska

– Ensuring the federal government carries out United State’s immigration laws

– Pulling the US from the Paris Agreement

– Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States

– Pulling the US out of the global corporate tax deal secured by Biden

– Organization of the National Security Council and subcommittees

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Beginning with a Bang

The Dark Herald has taken his talents to the Arkhaven substack, and he’s gotten off to a blistering start with a comparison of Neil Gaiman’s derivative work to the woman from whose work he derived it:

One is the real deal and the other is a cheap knockoff of the original. 

There is a Swiss Rolex and there is a Bangkok Rolex. There is Classic Coke and there is Sam’s Cola.  There is the Mona Lisa in the Louvre and the one on Cousin Jimbo’s velvet blanket.

There is Tannith Lee and there is Neil Gaiman. 

This has become vastly apparent to me this weekend while reading Night’s Master. It’s a funny thing about writers, we all have that one writer that made us want to write for a living.  While learning the craft we discover our strengths and limitations.  Some of us will eventually discover that we have surpassed our masters.  In bitter truth, most of us will discover that we can’t due to the limitations of our innate talents but those who face this unpleasant realization do not resent the writer who inspired us. 

Mostly. 

Gamma males, on the other hand, live in a world blanketed by their resentments and can never bring themselves to give credit where it’s due. It’s too painful a truth to acknowledge.  How can I be the secret king when there is all too obviously a real king? John Scalzi has never given credit to Joe Haldeman for his influence on his early work, although it’s clearly there. Neil Gaiman’s disdain for Tanith Lee went all the way back to when he was doing literary reviews. By Lee’s account, (which I will take over Gaiman’s in a heartbeat), he was pleasant, fawning and even obsequious during his interview of her for the Guardian.  When he published his interview, Lee discovered that Gaiman had described her as “formerly attractive.”

On top of which, reportedly and according to Lee’s belief, he directly plagiarized entire paragraphs from her. I haven’t seen the direct evidence of the truth of the plagiarism yet, but I suspect that between the Dark Herald and me, we should be able to find it if, in fact, it exists. While I’m very familiar with the various tales of the Flat Earth, including the Secret Books of Paradys, which I own and have read repeatedly, and also own her Secret Books of Venus series, I’d never read a single Neil Gaiman work until after we launched Arkhaven and I was encouraged to read Sandman.

Which, you may recall from the streams I was doing at the time, struck me immediately as mediocre and derivative, as well as more than a little off-putting.

Anyhow, it’s no surprise that the Dark Herald is off to an excellent start at the Arkhaven substack. He’ll be blogging there henceforth, so if you’re accustomed to reading him at the store site, I’d encourage you to sign up for a free subscription there.

In other Arkhaven news, we received the test print of JDA’s Overmind omnibus from the new printer this weekend. The quality of the color printing is excellent, indeed, one could quite credibly say superlative. We’re placing an order for the initial print run of 75 leatherbound copies, so there will be a few extras available for sale when they’re ready. The Hypergamouse printing will soon follow. And two additional bonuses; the leatherbound comics will be sewn, and somewhat to my surprise, color edge printed.

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Ben Johnson to Bears

That was what I did not want to see. The NFC North may have underperformed in the playoffs this year, but it arguably now has four of the best young head coaches in the league: KOC, LaFleur, Campbell, and now Johnson. Three of the four are very smart, and Campbell has proven the effectiveness of his aggressive leader of men approach.

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