Tag: media

The Clock Ticks in Kiev

It’s increasingly clear that the Kiev regime’s Western backers are about to pull the plug on Zelensky:

The corruption scandal currently enveloping Ukraine is being described in stark – and even dire – terms by Kiev’s most ardent Western media backers. Although hardly the first instance of corruption coming to light under Zelensky’s rule, many commentators see this week’s events as the gravest threat the Ukrainian leader has faced thus far. Here’s a sampling of what’s being said.

Owen Matthews penned a widely read piece for The Spectator titled ‘The scandal that could bring down Volodymyr Zelensky’ in which he described the investigation as possibly having “momentous consequences for Zelensky’s political future.”

“A full-scale war seems to be about to break between independent anti-corruption agencies and Zelensky’s inner circle, and the consequences are likely to be ugly,” Matthews warns, while describing in vivid terms the power struggle between Ukraine’s National Security Service (SBU), which is loyal to Zelensky and “wields considerable domestic power through its control of the judicial system and prisons” and the country’s Western-backed anti-corruption agencies.

None of this is news. The corruption of the Kiev regime was well known prior to the launch of the Special Military Operation in 2022. What has changed is that the mouthpieces of Clown World have been instructed to start covering it, or in some cases, finally been given permission to pay attention to the obvious.

And that indicates that regime change is coming, sooner rather than later. Whether the new puppet will be permitted to surrender to the inevitable is the only real question that matters.

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What was Sports Illustrated, Grandpa?

If anyone ever asks you why Sports Illustrated ceased to be, this big front page article with a picture in the middle should suffice to explain it.

The Premier League’s Best (and Worst) Dressed Managers
From chic to shabby, “Grandpa tops” to “adverts for Dunhill,” former British Vogue fashion director Venetia Scott ran her expert eye over the style choices made by the division’s managers.

Okay, first, SI is not GQ. No one gives a damn about clothing unless it’s the new NFL uniforms. No one even cares about baseball, hockey, or basketball uniforms. The only college football uniform news people care about are a) Army, b) Navy, and c) Oregon.

Second, women should not write SI articles. British women should definitely not write SI articles. And no British Vogue fashion director, past or present, should not permitted within three football fields of any SI article at any time.

Third, the Premier League? Look, I know more about English football, League and non-League, than pretty much every American SI reader ever. And since I do, I know how few Americans can name more than one Premier League manager, much less give a quantum of a fraction of an airborne rodent’s backside about how any of them happen to clothe themselves.

Unless Mikel Arteta is coming out stark naked at Highbury, unless Arne Slot is walking the touchline in full leather bondage gear, unless Thomas Tuchal is going to show up for a match against Mexico in a full sombrero-and-poncho ensemble while riding a donkey, nobody cares.

I used to love reading SI. Rick Reilly, Dr. Z, even Peter King crushed it on a weekly basis. Now, it’s just sad, weird, and irrelevant.

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Bari Weiss Fixed CBS News

Tired of all that liberal news media bias? Well, the good news is that real conservative Bari Weiss is the new head of CBS News and she’s changing everything!

Oh sweet Synagogue of Satan, instead of relentless liberal bias on six network and cable news channels, you’ve now got the tantalizing option of non-stop foreign sob stories! If you just can’t get enough Holocaustianity and interviews with brave survivors of a violent name-calling like Dave Portnoy, now there’s finally a new channel that is devoting 24 hours a day to your favorite topics!

I know the media is retarded, it always has been, but this is descending to a level that is below the expectations of the average six-year-old in a public school. There isn’t a language in the world that has the words to express the vast and infinite depths to which neither I nor anyone else cares.

I look forward to the inevitable stories in The New York Times and The Atlantic about how declining ratings at CBS News are just further proof of how everyone in the world hates people who never did nothing to nobody for no reason. Seriously, on what planet does anyone imagine that anyone actually wants to be subjected to incessant news stories about how someone called someone else something that hurt their feelings?

It’s a good thing all that Oracle money is propping it up, because it certainly isn’t going to pay for itself.

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Ben Shapiro is Cancer

  • Ben Shapiro runs to CNN to denounce his political opponents like Tucker Carlson as RACISTS and BIGOTS for not serving Israel. He is the epitome of cancel culture and identity politics. He is cancer to the west. – @adamemedia
  • It has been common knowledge for more than a decade that Ben Shapiro works tirelessly behind the scenes to sabotage and destroy the careers of anyone who so much as politely disagrees with him on policy. This is an incontrovertible fact. He is evil, spiteful, a liar and a coward. – Milo Yiannopoulos

Ben Shapiro has been a spineless little satanic sockpuppet since he was a teenager. He consciously chose to be a puppet when he decided to take the ticket rather than become a real boy back in 2003. He doesn’t have a single original thought of his own and the literal nonsense he spits out about history, religion, politics, and war is more fictional and hallucinatory than the Reddit-fueled lunacy produced by ChatGPT.

As most readers here know, I’ve had his number for more than twenty years, ever since he was avoiding US military service in order to provide the US justice system the much-needed potential services of yet another lawyer. And since most readers here haven’t been around that long, it seems appropros to provide the proof that Ben Shapiro has always been a despicable little nonentity who has never merited anything but total contempt from every single American or self-respecting nationalist.

Below is my column written in August 2005 in response to Ben Shapiro’s attempt to explain why he shouldn’t be called a “chickenhawk” in light of his simultaneous call for a military invasion of six sovereign states in the Middle East combined with his abject refusal to enlist in the US military.

THE CHICKENHAWK CLUCKS

Mr. Shapiro’s first argument against the appellation is that it is nothing more than a leftist attempt to silence debate. This is partially true, but the argument is deceptive because it is incomplete. It is not leftists but the military that has long despised civilians who clamor for war from the safety of their homes. In 1879, Gen. William Sherman said: “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”

His second and third arguments are that the insult is dishonest and “explicitly rejects the Constitution.” But there is nothing dishonest about calling into question the credibility of one who does not practice what he preaches. If a CNBC analyst urges viewers to buy a stock he is secretly shorting, he will rightly be dismissed as a hypocrite unworthy of further regard. The unconstitutional argument is spectacularly silly, since no one in Congress has proposed a federal law barring such hypocrites from office. One can only assume that Mr. Shapiro’s first Constitutional Law class lies ahead of him.

His fourth argument, which asserts that use of the term is somehow “un-American,” reveals a similar failure to understand the First Amendment and American history. Mr. Shapiro might wish the Constitution prevented people from calling him names, but it actually protects their right to do so and American political history is littered with an abundance of inventive insults. As for the reference to the Bush daughters, hiding behind the skirts of young women is no way to prove you’re not a coward.

His fifth and final argument – that use of the term “chickenhawk” is an attempt to avoid substantive debate – is easily disproved. I have repeatedly criticized numerous aspects of this global struggle, have openly opposed both the Iraqi and Afghani occupations, and am quite willing to debate Mr. Shapiro or anyone else on the issue in the forum of their preference. Yet I – like 62 percent of the soldiers and veterans who frequent Vox Popoli and Blackfive – am in accord with the notion that “chickenhawk” is an appropriate label for a warmongering young columnist who urges others to make sacrifices he has no intention of making himself.

Most of us realize that during wartime, sacrifices must be made … But taking such a stand requires common sense and the knowledge that we are in the midst of the great battle of our time.

– Benjamin Shapiro, WorldNetDaily, July 28, 2005

I would be remiss if I did not note that many of these military men and women favored a different 11-letter word that also begins with “chicken.”

The genuine flaw in the use of the “chickenhawk” label is that in most cases it is being applied years, even decades, after the fact, and inherently attempts to equate two different historical situations. However, due to Mr. Shapiro’s precocious position in the national media, this common flaw does not apply. While his peers are dodging sniper bullets and IEDs in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr. Shapiro is bravely urging them to invade five more countries in the establishment of global empire from the safety of his Harvard dorm room.

Did Iraq pose an immediate threat to our nation? Perhaps not. But toppling Saddam Hussein and democratizing Iraq prevent his future ascendance and end his material support for future threats globally. The same principle holds true for Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and others: Pre-emption is the chief weapon of a global empire. No one said empire was easy, but it is right and good, both for Americans and for the world.

– Benjamin Shapiro, WorldNetDaily, Aug. 11, 2005

The America Bar Association already boasts more than 896,000 lawyers, America has no desperate need for another one. The U.S. Army, on the other hand, is currently 8,000 men short of its 2005 recruiting goals. I am only one of many non-pacifist, non-leftist Americans who believe that Mr. Shapiro would do well to heed his own words of Aug. 26, 2004. “Now’s the time: Either put up, or shut the hell up.”

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Too Good to be True

The Moon Landing psyop is falling apart since the old technology utilized can’t stand up to analysis anymore and only the Boomers can “remember” it being staged live. We’re already entering the Revelation of the Method phase that reliably precedes the Old News Admission phase.

Jason Farago just published a New York Times interactive photo-video piece headlined “How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth.” Farago celebrates the alleged artistic genius of the Apollo moon photos, viewing them as the climax of the overlapping artistic and scientific histories of moon explorations and representations.

Moon landing skeptic and professional photographer Massimo Mazzucco says that’s bullshit. Farago’s extravagant praise of the Apollo astronauts’ brilliant use of deep depth of field just means they knew how to crank the f-stop up to f16 or f32 (which I figured out about five seconds after buying the cheapest available Pentax when I was a journalism student back in 1976). His orgasmic effusions about the beautifully-rendered lunar surface texture sound like something an LSD tripper might say while staring hypnotically at the ground in some godforsaken stretch of barren desert. And his ranting about how many of the moon landing photos are so perfectly composed and executed that they look totally fake really takes the cake:

“The photographs were in fact so good—and the 70mm stock so detailed—that doubts set in on the blue sphere below. With their rich chiaroscuro and starless skies, Bean and Conrad’s photos looked uncannily like a Hollywood stage set.”

Because they were taken on a Hollywood stage set. This is obvious to any professional photographer who bothers to actually analyze the images.

I have been a photographer for the first part of my life, let’s say between age 20 and 40.. And I was a professional, at the top level. I was working for magazines all over the world. I was using actually the same cameras and film and lighting that supposedly were used in the Apollo missions.

I’ll give you one quick anecdote so you understand the point of view of a professional. I learned my trade from a famous photographer, now deceased. He just passed away a few months ago. His name was Oliviero Toscani. He’s actually the guy who made the Benton campaign all over the world. He was very, very famous. I would put him in the top 10 in the world history of fashion photography. I was his assistant for about three years. Then we parted ways. I went on to have my own career.

Back in 2000, when I saw the lunar pictures for the first time—all of them, not just the few that were published before, but all of them that were put out by NASA on the internet—I looked at them and I could see all the defects that I would find myself when I tried to replicate sunlight in the studio. So I got very suspicious. I called Toscani and I said, “Oliviero, what did you think the first time you saw the Apollo moon pictures?” And his answer was, and I quote him:

“I always thought that had they given me the job, I would have done a much better job.”

I’m not saying that Man never landed on the Moon, that there aren’t secret Nazi military bases there, or even that it’s impossible for Man’s alien progenitors to have left clues about their original landing on Earth there. (That’s a James Hogan reference, if you’re wondering about that last one. Very good and genuine science fiction, that trilogy.) I am saying that the Apollo missions staged by NASA from 1961–1972 never landed anyone on the Moon, probably never got anywhere near the Moon, and were definitely faked.

The amount of evidence proving that the Apollo missions were fake is simply overwhelming now, and the more technology improves, the more obvious it is. Which, of course, is why we’re rapidly approaching the point that the US government is going to admit it and the media will promptly claim that everyone always knew this all along and cite the very sources that we skeptics have been pointing to for decades.

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The Death of Wikipedia

It’s already apparent on this, the second day of Grokipedia, that Wikipedia is effectively dead. It may not have stopped moving yet, but it’s clearly and inevitably toast. Compare and contrast, for example, the competitive listings on the concept of the Sigma Male, which as yet exists only as a subset of tangential pages on both sites.

The most fundamental difference is not actually Grokipedia’s incorporation of AI, but rather, its long-overdue rejection of the perverse Wikipedia demand for a reliable secondhand source, which not only guarantees inaccurate and outdated information, but is a contradiction in terms. Providing the media with a de facto veto on any and all information that can appear on Wikipedia necessarily rendered it incapable of serving as anything more than a mainstream media repository.

The idea of requiring “reliable sources” sounds superficially reasonable, but the observable facts are that the editors, the sources deemed acceptable, and most of all, the admins, are at the very least every bit as biased as any direct source. A direct source might very well put a spin on the information published on Wikipedia, but at least it would provide the information in the first place!

For example, this is the full description of my music career and discography on Wikipedia, even though my status as an award-winning, three-time Billboard charting musician is undisputed and dozens of my songs are publicly available on Spotify and Apple Music.

Beale was a member of the band Psykosonik between 1992 and 1994.

You simply wouldn’t know that I’ve written and recorded over 100 songs for six different bands. You wouldn’t know that my music was featured in a Nintendo game published by Activision. You wouldn’t know what my band beat out Prince for a Best Dance Record award. And you wouldn’t know that I founded the band a year before I was supposedly a member of it. Now, Grokipedia doesn’t do much better in that regard, but it does provide considerably more detail and context.

Psykosonik, an American techno and industrial music project, formed in 1991 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, drawing inspiration from cyberpunk themes and club scenes. The name derived from a lyric in the band’s early track “Sex Me Up,” altered to “Psykosonik” with a “k” for distinctiveness. Key contributors included Paul Skrowaczewski, who handled musical production and vocals, and Theodore Beale, who provided lyrics influenced by political nihilism and extropian ideas. The project evolved from earlier electronic experiments tied to local nightclubs like The Upper Level and The Underground, managed by impresario Gordie.[12]

Beale’s involvement stemmed from his prior experience in the cover band NoBoys, active in 1987–1988, which performed synth-pop sets including Depeche Mode and New Order tracks at Minneapolis venues. NoBoys played a notable one-hour gig at The Upper Level in summer 1988, drawing crowds before being cut short due to internal club tensions. By late 1991, Beale collaborated with Skrowaczewski on Psykosonik, writing lyrics for songs like “Silicon Jesus” and contributing conceptual vision. The lineup expanded in early 1992 with drummer Mike Reed and DJ Dan Lenzmeier, solidifying the project’s electronic sound. Beale served as lyricist until departing the music scene in 1994 to focus on technology ventures.[13][12][14]

Psykosonik’s early momentum built through club exposure rather than extensive live tours, characteristic of 1990s techno acts emphasizing studio production. The track “Sex Me Up” gained traction by late 1991 when played regularly by DJs at The Perimeter nightclub, prompting crowds to anticipate and chant along during peak hours. Subsequent demos, such as an early version of “Down to the Ground” recorded that winter, fueled local buzz but did not lead to documented full-band concerts. The project prioritized releases over stage performances, with Beale’s lyrics appearing on the 1993 self-titled debut album, though live sets remained minimal amid internal creative dynamics.[12]

There are a few errors, of course. But it’s notable that it actually got Paul Sebastian’s surname right.

  • The drummer was Mike Larson, not Mike Reed.
  • My lyrics also appear on the second album, Unlearn.

It’s remarkable that it has only one more error than the Wikipedia entry despite providing considerably more detail… but more about that anon.

It’s clear that Grokipedia offers a clear technological path forward for Infogalactic, as well as leaveing considerable room for some of the curation and user features that we’ve always planned to provide that will allow Infogalactic to complement Grokipedia in a way that it could never co-exist with Wikipedia. If you’re an AI programmer with potential interest in the next phase of the project, watch this space.

Regardless, it’s clear that Wikipedia’s monopoly has been broken by artificial intelligence and its convergence ensures its inability to perform its core function sufficiently well enough for it to compete and survive.

UPDATE: Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger has some additional thoughts, and even created a metric that found Grokipedia to be considerably less biased despite its reliance on supposedly unreliable direct sources.

According to ChatGPT 4o, which is a competent LLM that is widely perceived to lean to the left, primarily on account of its training data, the Wikipedia articles on these controversial topics, on average, had a bias somewhere between “emphasizes one side rather more heavily” and “severely biased.” By contrast, the Grokipedia articles on these topics are said to “exhibit minor imbalances” on average. On these topics, Wikipedia was never wholly neutral, while Grokipedia was entirely neutral (rating of 1) three out of ten times, and was only slightly biased (rating of 2) five other times. Meanwhile, Wikipedia’s bias was heavy, severe, or wholly one-sided (rating of 3, 4, or 5) six out of ten times.

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The Importance of GamerGate

The Billionaire Psycho reminds us of “the most important event you are not allowed to discuss”:

GamerGate is maybe the most important event of the past 20 years which never receives mainstream media coverage. Lomez will be publishing an in-depth history of GamerGate, to serve as an official record going forward, and that’s crucial as part of building a foundation for a new culture — fighting the narrative war over how history is remembered, how history is interpreted, what events are recognized as significant and influential moments in culture, and how Western identity is defined.

GamerGate was only possible because a generation of incompetent Leftists inherited an empire built on propaganda that came without a legible instruction manual. Leftists forgot how to run their imperial machine. Video games sedated young white men, funneling their energy into a simulation of achievement, an illusory power fantasy of digital significance. Leftists forgot that porn, video games, movies, junk food, and other passive consumption activities primarily existed to prevent young white men from doing anything useful with their lives. And this zone of sedation was viewed as another industry to conquer so that DEI activists could bully the video game industry into providing overproduced elites with fake jobs.

This event was important for several reasons.

GamerGate exposed American Sharia laws. It unveiled the shibboleths, religious taboos, and blasphemy codes which were considered more important than Constitutional protections on “free speech”. A gulf emerged between written laws, and selective enforcement.

GamerGate was maybe the first time in 50 years that Leftists suffered a real, measurable defeat.

It functioned as a generational awakening: a catalyst that activated a decentralized army of shytpoasters, bloggers, podcasters, streamers, journalists, and RW activists.

It mapped out in real-time the architecture and OODA loop of the Leftist hivemind, providing empirical data on how the swarm intelligence perceives, coordinates, reacts, propagates… and suffers damage.

It educated critics of the hegemonic monoculture that rules the Global American Empire.

But I think the most important aspect of GamerGate was that it disproved the narrative illusion that everyone more or less accepted as conventional wisdom, the bedrock of the uniparty worldview. Before GamerGate, it was taken as a self-evident fact that America was a capitalist country, and that all of the evil in the world was caused by Wall Street corporations chasing “shareholder value” and advancing “the profit-motive”. Capitalism and racism were the invisible demons which could be used as scapegoats for anything bad that ever happened at any point and at any place in American society.

Leftism could do anything it wanted, no matter how dumb, destructive, intrusive, or evil — and then blame capitalism and racism for the consequences.

This illusion was shattered by GamerGate.

First of all, as an Original GamerGater, I can testify that Lomez’s history, while welcome, is almost certainly going to be incomplete and missing some very important details. I’m 99 percent confident that he doesn’t even know who GamerGater #1 is, because there are only a small handful of people who do and Lomez isn’t speaking to them and he hasn’t spoken with me either.

This doesn’t mean his chronicle of the public history and his analysis of the public events and the observable consequences won’t be accurate, but he isn’t going to be able to understand the hows and whys of what happened because he isn’t talking to anyone who was actually there in the early days of what was then called the Quinnspiracy.

And the Billionaire Psycho is correct to point out that what is now obvious today, namely, the total disinterest of the international corpocracy in things like customers, revenue, and profit, were first exposed to the public by GamerGate. Now, the corporations even admit it openly, as the former CEO of Ford admitted that his company invested excessively in electric vehicles even though car buyers clearly indicated that they didn’t want them.

Former Ford CEO Mark Fields openly acknowledged that the industry charged ahead with massive EV investments, overlooking what consumers actually wanted. Fields, who led Ford from 2014 to 2017, pointed out the misstep during a discussion on the rapid buildup of EV production. “Over the last couple of years, the automakers really went full bore in putting in capacity for EVs,” he said. This aggressive push came without enough thought to buyer preferences, leaving companies like Ford and GM facing unexpected market realities.

Now the corporate games industry is dying, although the indy game development community hasn’t been this healthy or this profitable since id Software was putting out shareware and Fenris Wolf was developing technology showcases for Artist, Creative, and Intel. And while GamerGate didn’t fix the problem, it did accomplish the very important task of diagnosing it and making it known to a large section of the public.

For those of you who weren’t there, here is the timeline of the start of #GamerGate from my perspective.

  • 11 August 2014: Depression Quest released on Steam.
  • 16 August 2014: The Zoe post. Mundane Matt puts out a video discussing it.
  • 21 August 2014: My first post about Kotaku and the Quinnspiracy
  • 27 August 2014: Adam Baldwin coins the hashtag #GamerGate
  • 28 August 2014: 17 game journalists run very similar articles asserting the irrelevancy of gamers.
  • 17 September 2014: Milo breaks the news of a secret GameJournoPros mailing list.
  • 21 September 2014: Milo exposes the entire GameJournoPros list.
  • 15 July 2015: Mike Cernovich, Milo and I host #GGinParis. Le Monde covers it.

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The Left Discovers the Deep State

Dan Hodges is a son of a British Labour Member of Parliament and a former member of the British Labour Party. While he is a columnist for the Daily Mail, he’s one of their more reliably leftist writers. So, it’s interesting to observe that he has reached much the same conclusions that Q, Qanon, and pretty much everyone to the right of the conservative gatekeeper’s club have.

We must confront the outrageous truth. A shadowy cabal of men is running Britain – and the Prime Minister is not one of them.

You don’t say… Clown World has always preferred to operate by pulling the strings of its puppet politicians from behind the scenes.

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Definitely Fake, Usually Gay

When Clown World and its manufactured talking heads are dismissed as fake and gay, this is not merely metaphorical rhetoric. In far too many cases, it is the literal truth.

Conservative Host Leaves Longtime Wife to Marry Gay Lover

Robby Soave, a well-known political commentator and co-host of The Hill’s Rising, has become the latest subject of D.C. chatter after revealing his engagement—to a younger gay partner—shortly after parting ways with his wife of nearly a decade. The 36-year-old, who also appears regularly on Fox News and serves as a senior editor at Reason magazine, proposed earlier this month to Jie Jung Shih, a medical student at Georgetown University.

I’m sure you’re all absolutely shocked by this totally unexpected turn of events. And Soave is hardly the only one. More than a few credible allegations have been made about “conservative” opinion leaders whose names you would definitely recognize. They’re all constructed of pure astroturf.

Trust only the great books and the ideas that have stood the test of time. Trust only that which is Good, Beautiful, and True. Stop paying attention to people simply because they are capable of mouthing one or two phrases with which you happen to agree. Any actor is capable of doing the same. As a general rule, if someone appears on television or is permitted on YouTube, they are almost certainly fake, probably gay, and definitely irrelevant. And while there are, of course, exceptions to the rule, that doesn’t change the fact that the rule is far more reliable than your easily-manipulated emotions.

Witness the total ineptitude of GOP Inc.’s Charlie Kirk replacement in trying to address the most basic aspects of the problem of legal immigration. He even tried to appeal to Israel Zangwill’s concept of “the melting pot” coined 290 years after the arrival of the Mayflower, as America’s founding doctrine.

And consider how Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, could only draw 150 viewers to a recent stream after selling her very valuable blog to Paramount for $150 million. All success in Clown World, be it financial or just fame, is not only fake, but formulaic.

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Inverse Analysis

Most people look at predictions before the relevant events happen, or don’t happen. I prefer to look at events, then look back to see who predicted them, regardless of whatever other nonsense or lunacy they might be spouting.

6 October 2025

  • All the branches of the U.S. military are holding an emergency meeting over the government shutdown. We are hearing from our intelligence agency sources that the Gaza and Ukraine wars are to be ended immediately.

9 October 2026

  • Hamas declares the war in Gaza OVER: Leader of terror group confirms ceasefire as Trump promises historic deal will deliver ‘lasting peace’
  • Peace at last for Gaza: Israeli security cabinet approves Trump-brokered agreement to end two years of brutal war with all 20 living hostages released by Monday

Jury is still out on whether Ukraine will be wound down or not, of course, but it’s an interesting observation.

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