‘The War on Whiteness’?

Posted on | January 6, 2018 | 1 Comment

While it’s a bad idea to encourage ethnic paranoia, a commenter at Steve Sailer’s site offers this interesting analysis:

The general position of liberal ideology is that as whites decrease as a proportion of the American populace — and presumably decrease in political heft — they will leave “whiteness” behind and essentially all become good postmodern cosmopolitans, embracing their new lack of power — all at a time where socioeconomic standards are declining for the majority of Americans who haven’t bridged the gap to the upper-middle class. In the particular example of 21st Century America, they seem to expect that they will scramble obeying the exhortations of the people who enthusiastically champion their decline while offering non-subtly veiled sympathy trolling at best, or more often mocking them as historical relics. All while our elite increasingly seem to embrace some new form of neo-feudalism replacing the nation-state and traditional yeoman freedom in America.

This may be an accurate description of elite liberal belief, insofar as liberals believe in anything more complicated than “Vote Democrat!”

In other words, it seems to me, the typical liberal is not so much an ideologue as he is a partisan Democrat. Looking at exit-poll data, he can see that a majority of white voters are Republican and therefore, in terms of policy, he supports anything that will reduce the white population.

Occam’s Razor dictates that we ought not seek an obscure or complex explanation when an obvious and simple one is at hand. At some point during the past half-century, Democrats became the anti-white party, not necessarily because of their beliefs, but because of their interests.

You may dispute this interpretation, but what is the alternative theory? Liberals will tell you that Republicans are “racist,” and that the only way to combat racism is — wait for it — “Vote Democrat!” You don’t have to be a hard-boiled cynic like me to suspect that this is just propaganda, no matter how sincerely the Democrat rank-and-file believe it. Members of the Communist Party might have been sincere in accepting every shift in the party line from Lenin to Stalin to Khrushchev to Gorbachev, but that didn’t mean that these shifts were justified by anything other than the whims of the Soviet dictatorship. For most of the 1930s, the CPUSA advocated a “Popular Front” alliance against fascism. This ended abruptly with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939 and, for the next 21 months, Communists denounced as “warmongers” anyone (including President Roosevelt) who favored aid to Hitler’s enemies. The party line shifted again in June 1941, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, at which point Communists began denouncing as “fascists” anyone who opposed aid to Hitler’s enemies. Are the Democrats of today less cynical than Communists of old, in terms of their slavish devotion to the party line? It is entirely possible that liberal rhetoric against “racism” is mere partisanship, like CPUSA members saying whatever their Soviet masters told them to say, and the best way to defeat such people is to tell the truth about them: Democrats are liars, and never to be trusted.

Don’t succumb to ethnic paranoia. Don’t allow fear to control you. Don’t heed the voices of despair and hatred. Keep calm and focus on facts.

Category: Racism

Of Course: Islamic Terrorist’s Wife Knew About His Orlando Massacre Plans

Posted on | January 6, 2018 | Comments Off on Of Course: Islamic Terrorist’s Wife Knew About His Orlando Massacre Plans

Noor Salman (left) and her terrorist husband Omar Mateen (right).

This isn’t actually news — the blogger True Pundit broke the story in 2016 — but the detailed confirmation is nevertheless welcome:

The wife of Omar Mateen, who committed a massacre in the Pulse nightclub in 2016, reportedly told the FBI that she knew about his plot beforehand — and did nothing to stop it.
Noor Salman — whose husband gunned down 49 people in the club — told investigators that she “knew that her husband was going to attack the Pulse nightclub” when he left the house on the night of June 11 [2016], according to documents obtained by USA Today.
“My fears had come true and he did what he said he was going to do,” Salman said, according to the newspaper. “I was in denial and I could not believe that the father of my child was going to hurt other people.”
The wife also said she was warned repeatedly about the specific location and timing of the attack.
“How upset are people going to be when it gets attacked?” Mateen asked his wife at one point while they were driving by the club, according to her statement.
Salman also witnessed her husband browsing the Pulse website and declaring “this is my target.”
On the night before one of the most devastating mass shootings in US history, Salman said her husband loaded up on firearms and ammunition.
“This was the time that he was going to do something bad,” she said.
Before leaving the house Mateen told his wife, “This is the one day.”
Mateen opened fire at around 2 a.m. on June 12 in the Orlando night spot, killing 48 and wounding 58 others.

Mateen was inspired by ISIS. The Orlando Massacre was an act of Islamic terrorism. Omar Mateen — the child of Afghan immigrants — hated Americans and wanted to kill them all, and his wife — the child of Palestinian immigrants — did nothing to hinder his terrorist plot. Gosh, I wonder what possible policy changes we could make that might help prevent future terrorist attacks by Muslims who want to kill us all?

Category: Immigration, Islam, Terrorism

This Might Be News: Another Plot Twist in the Mystery of ‘The Maltese Professor’?

Posted on | January 6, 2018 | Comments Off on This Might Be News: Another Plot Twist in the Mystery of ‘The Maltese Professor’?

Given the proliferation of “fake news,” it’s hard to know what to believe, but this story certainly seems interesting:

It was a chance romantic encounter by George Papadopoulos that set in train the events that led to the Australian government tipping off Washington about what it knew of Russian hacking efforts to swing the US presidential election.
Fairfax Media can reveal a woman in London with whom Papadopoulos became involved happened to know Alexander Downer and told the Australian High Commissioner about Papadopoulos, a newly signed staffer for Donald Trump. Downer, being a canny diplomat, followed it up and arranged a meeting with the young American, who was mostly living in London at the time.
What followed was the now infamous May 2016 conversation over many glasses of wine at the swanky Kensington Wine Rooms, during which the 28-year-old Papadopoulos spilled to Downer that he knew of a Russian dirt file on the rival Clinton campaign consisting of thousands of hacked emails.

Let’s ask questions: Did this actually happen Papadopoulos described it? That is to say, were “thousands of hacked emails” from the Clinton campaign (a) obtained by hackers who were (b) working in the service of the Russian government and (c) making these emails available to the Trump campaign in the form of a “dirt file” of which (d) Papadopoulos had obtained “inside” knowledge through his connections to the Trump campaign? We know that DNC emails were released by WikiLeaks in July 2016, but I have yet to see proof that this was a Russian government operation, nor am I aware that this alleged “Russian dirt file,” of which Papadopoulos reportedly boasted to Downer, actually existed as described. What the hell are we to make of this?

Papadopoulos has since pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. In his January interview, he didn’t deny knowing Joseph Mifsud, a mysterious Maltese professor with links to the Russian government, nor having met with Russian officials to whom Mifsud introduced him. Nor did he deny that Mifsud had told him the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”.

It’s like a 1940s film noir — The Maltese Professor — with these weird characters involved in a Byzantine plot full of double-crosses and intrigue, including a romantic liaison between Papadopoulos and a woman who “happened to know” this Australian diplomat who ratted him out. The officially reported facts of the Papadopoulos-Mifsud connection don’t really answer the fundamental questions:

The court filings say that on April 25, 2016, after “multiple conversations” with a Russian national connected to Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Papadopoulos told Miller that “the Russian government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr. Trump to meet him when he is ready,” referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The advantage of being in London is that these governments tend to speak a bit more openly in ‘neutral’ cities,” he said.
On April 26, Papadopoulos met with Joseph Mifsud — identified in the court filings as an “overseas professor” — for breakfast at a London hotel. There, Mifsud told Papadopoulos that he had learned from high-level Kremlin officials during his recent trip to Moscow that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” the filings say.
Papadopoulos emailed [Trump aide Stephen] Miller the next day.
“Have some interesting messages coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is right,” he wrote, the court filings say.

(Papadopoulos wanted to arrange a Trump-Putin meeting, for some unknown reason thinking this would be good P.R. for the campaign.)

Papadopoulos also emailed Paul Manafort on April 27 asking “to discuss Russia’s interest in hosting Mr. Trump.” . . .
“Have been receiving a lot of calls over the last month about Putin wanting to host him and the team when the time is right,” Papadopoulos told Manafort. . . .
[T]he young adviser continued to pitch a Trump-Putin meeting to high-level campaign officials, including Sam Clovis, the national cochairman . . . and Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager.
On April 30, Papadopoulos thanked Mifsud for his “critical help” in facilitating a meeting that would be “history making if it happens,” the filings say.
About four days later, Papadopoulos’ contact at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told him that the ministry was “open for cooperation.” Papadopoulos forwarded that email to Manafort, asking, “Is this something we want to move forward with?”
On May 5, Papadopoulos called Clovis. After their phone call, he forwarded Clovis the ministry contact’s email with a new subject line: “Russia updates.”
Papadopoulos’ efforts to arrange the Trump-Putin meeting continued through June.
“Russia has been eager to meet Mr. Trump for quite sometime and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos wrote to Manafort on May 21.
Manafort forwarded that email to his longtime business associate Rick Gates and said, “Let’s discuss.”
“We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips,” Manafort wrote. “It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal.”

What is revealed by the Papadopoulos case is not “collusion,” because what Papadopoulos was trying to do was to set up a Putin-Trump meeting that never happened. It is evident that this “newly signed staffer” was acting on his own initiative, an enthusiastic amateur trying to impress his bosses with his London-based connections. For nearly a month, it seems, the top campaign officials were reluctant to tell Papadopoulos to stop his activity until Manafort firmly declared that Trump “is not doing these trips.” This would seem to indicate that Papadopoulos’s efforts were never authorized by the candidate or his top staff, and there is nothing — absolutely nothing — we have seen so far to indicate that the alleged “Russian dirt files” actually existed, or that the Trump campaign ever obtained them if they did exist. The Maltese Professor had claimed to Papadopoulos that “high-level Kremlin officials” told him they had these emails, but where is the smoking-gun evidence that this unverified claim led to “collusion”?

Here’s a question: Was this discussion of “dirt files” actually a reference to the DNC emails later released by WikiLeaks? Or to put it another way: What did The Maltese Professor actually know?

If indeed what Mifsud was telling Papadopoulos was that Russia had obtained those DNC emails, this is smoke, but the question is, was the Trump campaign in any way responsible for the fire? We don’t even know — however much it may seem a common-sense deduction — that the DNC emails were what Mifsud was talking about, but as a matter of fact, it was WikiLeaks that released those emails, and we have no evidence that the Trump campaign had anything to do with that.

You picture Bogart as detective Sam Spade in The Maltese Professor, a cigarette dangling from his lip, trying to make sense of it all. As obvious as it may seem that (a) Putin didn’t want Hillary Clinton to win the election, and (b) this Mifsud-Papadopoulos connection was part of an official Russian effort to influence the election, what actually happened as a result? You may surmise there was intent to “collude” on the part of some Trump aides — i.e., they were willing to accept Russian assistance — but beyond that, what do we have?

“Nothing,” says the detective, opening his desk drawer to pull out a pint of whiskey and pouring himself a stiff drink. “A whole lot of nothing.”

Mueller and his team will keep investigating, of course, but unless and until they actually find something, it’s still just a bunch of nothing.

Category: Donald Trump

In The Mailbox: 01.05.18

Posted on | January 5, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.05.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #126
EBL: Was Bannon The Littlefinger Of The Trump Administration?
Twitchy: Fake Fire And Fury Excerpt Takes Twitter By Hilarious Storm
Louder With Crowder: Bernie Sanders Releases Video Of “Patriotic Millionaires” Who Want Higher Taxes
According To Hoyt: Breaking The Gears
Monster Hunter Nation: January Update
Vox Popoli: Three Authors Weigh In On Worldcon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks And Links
American Power: Laura Ingraham – Trump/Bannon Feud Has Set Off “Pavlovian Feeding Frenzy” In Media, also, Dan Simmons, Ilium
American Thinker: Note To NeverTrumps – Trump’s Character Is Admirable
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five 2018 Inventions Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 5
BLACKFIVE: Jayne Anne Krentz, Promise Not To Tell
Bring The HEAT: Cats In Zero G
CDR Salamander: In Addition To A Vote, The Enemy Has Eyes And Ears
Da Tech Guy: Fire & Fury Is Out Today – Debunked, Bothered & Bewildered, also, The Greatest Lost Metal Band Of All Time
Don Surber: The Pro Wrestling Presidency
Dustbury: Even Jenny Is Cold These Days
The Geller Report: Facebook Removes “Warriors Of Christ” Page With No Right Of Appeal, also, Western Feminists Ignore Iran While Boycotting Israel
Hogewash: Asteroids! also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Ladies, You’ve Been Wearing Your Underwear Wrong All Along
Joe For America: Peter Thiel Planning To Launch Conservative News Outlet With Mercers
JustOneMinute: Free The States! also, Fake News?!?
Legal Insurrection: DOJ Opens New Investigation Into Clinton Foundation Over Pay-To-Play Allegations, also, California’s New “Raw Water” Fad Could Be Lethal
Michelle Malkin: Pyongyang On The Prairie Part III – All In OCPD’s Crime Lab Family
Power Line: The White House Press Corps Humiliates Itself, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Florida GOP Gets Nuked As Trump Factions Divide Annual Meeting
Shot In The Dark: Carrying Ellison’s Water
STUMP: More On High-Tax States Trying To Be Clever In Helping Rich People Avoid Taxes
The Political Hat: The Most Racist?
This Ain’t Hell: Harold Martin And His “Breathtaking” Heist Of Top Secret Data, also, Mark B. Chartrand a/k/a Mark Bryant
Weasel Zippers: New Trump Book Has Disclaimer Stating Parts Are Untrue, also, Britain’s NHS Orders Cancellation Of 50,000 Surgeries As “Third World Conditions” Devastate Hospitals
Mark Steyn: Let A Thousand Checks Bloom

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Category: Linkagery

Guy McPherson’s Climate-Change Doomsday Cult: ‘Near Term Extinction’

Posted on | January 4, 2018 | 3 Comments

In August 2007, University of Arizona Professor Guy McPherson gave the keynote address for the university’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program: “The End of Civilization and the Extinction of Humanity.” The basis of Professor McPherson’s doomsday vision then was “peak oil”:

Because this country mainlines cheap oil, it is easy to envision the complete collapse of the U.S. economy within a decade. The Great Depression will seem like the good old days when unemployment approaches 100% and inflation is running at 1000% per year. Obviously, this is a very good thing . . . for the world’s cultures and species, other than our own. After all, in the name of economic growth we have ripped minerals from the Earth, often bringing down mountains in the process; we have harvested nearly all the old-growth timber on the continent, replacing thousand-year-old giants with neatly ordered plantations of tiny trees; we have hunted species to the point of extinction; we have driven livestock across every almost acre of the continent, baring hillsides and engendering massive erosion; we have plowed large landscapes, transforming fertile soil into sterile, lifeless dirt; we have burned ecosystems and, perhaps more importantly, we have extinguished naturally occurring fires; we have spewed pollution and dumped garbage, thereby dirtying our air, fouling our water, and contributing greatly to the warming of the planet; we have paved thousands of acres to facilitate our movement and, in the process, have disrupted the movements of thousands of species.

At the time he gave that speech, the average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $2.77. Currently, it’s $2.52 a gallon. So “the complete collapse of the U.S. economy . . . when unemployment approaches 100% and inflation is running at 1000% per year”?

It didn’t happen. The professor was wrong. “Peak oil” was a myth.

Undeterred by his failed prophecy, however, Professor McPherson continued preaching the imminent apocalypse, and in 2009 retired from the university to become a full-time secular evangelist of a doomsday scenario: “Near term human extinction” via “abrupt climate change.” He has spent years promoting this vision on his “Nature Bats Last” blog, in media appearances, and in public speeches. Read more

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Global Warming