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-Great Cultural Revolution
Tucker Carlson Spits Fire In Anti-Abortion Speech (video)
[X] Abortion has gone from being tolerated to celebrated. What kind of sick people would tell you that killing your baby is a pathway to joy?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2023 00:21 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think what Tucker is saying is true, but I don’t think he can continue to interview and promote the people that he is associating with and these opinions. It is a provocation. They will likely come at him.
Before, I never could stand Tucker although I liked him better than Hannity. Now I pray for Tucker daily. Hannity is on his own.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/26/2023 16:56 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Prayer definitely justified. He could end up being a VP nominee.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2023 17:06 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Viva Frei:
Don't post long links - it busts the page width
Absolutely heads must roll over this incident. Mass firings. Imagine a Trump administration that offered a standing O to a real-live Nazi. That's the sort of reaction we should be getting here, and it's not happening. It's the first step on a long road to redemption.

There is a huge roadblock trying to study national socialism, and that is that Hitler and the Nazis were the absolute worst humanity could offer, with no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. Disagreeing with this got you banned for being a Nazi.

Now, people - leftists!! - are saying it openly. Nobody is censoring them, and their accounts are not being suspended.

The left yesterday:
"Punch nazis!"

Also the left today:
"Some nazis are good sometimes, it's complicated."

Pretty soon, people are going to start asking lots and lots of awkward questions about national socialism, and they will not be censored or banned like before.
Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841 || 09/26/2023 04:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Viva did good work during The Great Ottawa Honk Out. I used to like his car videos.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/26/2023 16:52 Comments || Top||


What's really interesting is watching the rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler in real time. Before, him & the Nazis were the worst thing ever, everyone agreed. Now, they're not that bad and never were. Baby steps, but first steps always are.





It used to be that Hitler was the worst human to ever live, ever, and there was no doubt or discussion about it. Now...well, as we're seeing in Canada, he's getting pushed down to #2 in favor of Putin.

It's a long process to being rehabilitated, but this is the first step. Heck, Nixon was rehabilitated, and it only took 20 years or so. Liberals like George W. Bush now even though they used to call him Hitler.

It won't happen tomorrow, it will take a long time. Decades. But the ball has been started rolling.
Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841 || 09/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who is pushing for H and the gang to not be basement monsters? Who is saying these things? I'm interested in knowing who to watch out for.
Posted by: Joluque Whomomble9237 || 09/26/2023 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Canadian Parliament and online.

The word is that Big H is OUT at #1 and he's been knocked down a notch. This is a big, big move. It's a sea change. For him to be removed out of the top spot of humanity's worst evil is the first step on the road to rehabilitation. Putin is just that bad, and it's OK if this happens. After all, we must defeat the greater evil.

Watching people come to conclusions like this and say them publicly is astonishing. Used to be, you were a Holocaust denier if you questioned Hitler's #1 status as the worst that humanity ever produced. It was grounds to be banned to say, "Well, he was bad but he wasn't #1" even if you changed him with Stalin. That's changing. And what's that that the Chinese say? A journey of a thousand li begins with a single step?
Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841 || 09/26/2023 3:46 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841 || 09/26/2023 3:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Pay no attention to that little man with the big mustache behind the iron curtain!

"Hey, Herb, du disturbing Herr Ha-Ha
Who doubles as Putin's chihuahua,
Which tsar of your land
Was der F-----'s left hand
Und Johannes der Täufer?"
"Blah blah blah..."
Posted by: Huputer de Medici7670 || 09/26/2023 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  What's the big deal about it. Mao was the greatest killer in the 20th Century followed by Stalin. Academia obviously succeeded in burying their dirty laundry and making 'commies be good' acceptable. Their old canard that the Nazis were 'right' wing is getting embarrassing when its absolutely clear by the record they were socialist. Orwell wins again.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Neither, Mao, Stalin nor can be the "worst" because that's a blot on communism (yeah, I know). If not for Hitler, they'd point at someone else as "worst" and it wouldn't be a communist.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/26/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#7  The Canadians have embarrassed themselves with the Hunka incident.

Back in the day, this would have been fodder for a week of jokes on Carson about Trudeau.

"... and today, Pierre Trudeau had Parliament honor Jack the Ripper for highlighting the value of women's lives."
Posted by: lord garth || 09/26/2023 8:46 Comments || Top||

#8  The US congress passes an enormous number of meaningless "Recognition of" measures in the course of shoving the country down the toilet. To prove how absurd it all is, some congressman cues up an "In recognition of" Albert DeSalvo, and congress handily passed it. Then they were informed that he was the Boston Strangler.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/26/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#9  A number of years ago, at a new Dept of Interior building, they had a contest to name the dining facility. Suggestions were asked for, one chosen, and on the grand day the lunchroom was named for 'Alferd J Packer, an important figure in 19th century Colorado'.
Alferd J Packer was the only person in US history executed for cannibalism. (true story)
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/26/2023 9:06 Comments || Top||

#10  After his story was called into question, Packer escaped jail and hid from justice for nine years. He was eventually tried, convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death. Packer won a retrial, and was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison on five counts of voluntary manslaughter.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/26/2023 9:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Take, for example, Judge M.B. Gerry's famous quote that was supposedly uttered while handing down the sentence in Packer's first trial:
... Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of 'em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t' be hanged by th' neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin' in reducin' th' Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2023 9:31 Comments || Top||

#12  What I want to know is who replaces H as everyone's go to bad guy?
Posted by: Angstrom || 09/26/2023 10:41 Comments || Top||

#13  ^^ Stalin? Mao?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/26/2023 10:51 Comments || Top||

#14  #12 Putin
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/26/2023 10:55 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ Trump
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/26/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#16  Epstein, with a serving of Clinton.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/26/2023 11:23 Comments || Top||

#17  "Jimmy Carter. History's greatest monster" - Homer Simpson
Posted by: Frank G || 09/26/2023 11:27 Comments || Top||

#18  Yeah, Mao makes them all look like naught little boys.

Well, Stalin got the bomb and never used it. Putin has had the bomb for some time now and never used it. Hell, even Mao got the bomb and never used it.

But if Hitler had gotten the bomb, London and maybe even New York would have been glassed over.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/26/2023 12:22 Comments || Top||

#19  What I want to know is who replaces H as everyone's go to bad guy?

I suspect Franco or Pinochet. Franco was a reactionary to the socialist and wanted to reinstall the old order. Even Hitler finally figured that one out. Both 'departed' their countries in far better shape than when they got them. And for the bonus - went full Mongol on the commies.
Franco used the rabid fascists in his counter revolution but got them out of country and his hair by encouraging them to volunteer for the Spanish Blue division on the Eastern Front.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2023 12:31 Comments || Top||

#20  If Hitler had gotten the bonb, it would have been game over without using it. He never would have let anyone else get it, unlike the US.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/26/2023 12:36 Comments || Top||

#21  And here I thought Elynskyy giving a speech at the UN with Elynskyy in the audience couldn't be topped.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/26/2023 16:14 Comments || Top||

#22  Hitler was truly evil, as were his followers. Stalin was just as evil — ditto his followers — but he had longer to do his evil work and a bigger starting population... not to mention that he was building on the evil done by Lenin, et al. Mao was possibly even more evil, and had an even greater population to impose his evil on, plus the accumulated learnings from the two totalitarians who went before him.

Certain people prefer to think of Hitler as The Worst Evah! because they think of socialists and communists as uniquely well-intentioned, as if that doesn’t make it worse, and as if the national socialists were somehow not the socialists they and everyone else then believed themselves to be. Also, of course, Hitler was a racist, as if that particular prejudice against one definition of traits as innate and in need of eradication is worse than a definition of the traits of various economic classes as innate and in need of eradication.

There was never an everyone who agreed that Hitler was the worst thing ever. That was a lie propagated by the Communists to make themselves look less bad, just like the claim that the Nazis are right wing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/26/2023 20:49 Comments || Top||

#23  No, you know who they will replace Hitler with, they've already started. Lincoln. The Democrats have never forgiven him for freeing their slaves. Just like baby murder, pedophilia, cannibalism, and now Nazi's, they will come back to talk about the wonders of their new slave class imported from points south.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/26/2023 22:53 Comments || Top||

#24  Commies got that deep bench, but after Hynkel -- granting the politically scientific spectral scheme -- the right's got nobody. Chiang, maybe? Not even CCP buys that. Gotta be Rome. All roads and all that. White marble, law, temples, patriarchy, genocide galore... and then the big switcheroo, just like the Pubs. Latin masses? QED.
Posted by: Elmique Pheresh4813 || 09/26/2023 23:06 Comments || Top||

#25  The downfall of racist old Roma?
Said Ibram, "A case of low chroma:
Few people of color!
Too white! They got duller,
But somehow still got a diploma."
Posted by: Elmique Pheresh4813 || 09/26/2023 23:12 Comments || Top||

#26  A View of the Nazis as seen
From Dean Street or Clerkenwell Green:
A towering Churchill,
Then Thatcher, and perched
On her shoulder, Bill Shakespeare...



Berlin.
Posted by: Elmique Pheresh4813 || 09/26/2023 23:42 Comments || Top||


Africa North
France must accept the new reality
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

[ColonelCassad] The President of Burkina Faso, against the backdrop of Macron’s capitulation in Niger (Macron, having failed to organize an intervention against Niger, yesterday agreed to withdraw troops and recall the ambassador from Niger, as demanded by the new authorities) called on France to accept the new reality and build relations with African countries on an equal basis, refusing from colonial habits.

France is already being told in plain text that its neocolonial empire in Africa has come to an end. This is actually a new stage in the decolonization of Africa, which began back in the 50s and 60s through the efforts of the USSR, paused in the 90s until the 20s, and continued, including through the efforts of Russia, in the 20s.

At the same time, the United States and China clearly show that they are not at all against the destruction of the French neocolonial empire, although all the main players have different goals in Africa. But situational interest creates a bizarre situation where everyone benefits from Macron’s next failure.

It is worth noting that Macron’s current activity in Armenia is an attempt to take revenge on Russia for humiliation in Africa, where, thanks, among other things, to Russia, France lost control over the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Gabon.

Macron wants to get even by tearing Armenia out of Russia’s sphere of influence, so he supports Pashinyan in every possible way. The Armenians here are simply expendable for Macron. Macron will not fight for them against Aliyev and Erdogan. The price of these attempts by Macron for Armenia will be a little predictable.

PS. On other African matters.

1. The Il-76 that crashed in Mali belonged to the Mali military. Probably was hit by a MANPADS.

2. France is now actively funding separatists from Azawad
...the Tuareg insurrection...
to provoke the division of Mali. We can expect an intensification of hostilities in the north of the country.

3. In the CAR, the country's president confirmed that his country will continue active political and military-technical cooperation with the Russian Federation.

4. In the remaining countries under French control, there is now a wave of suspicion against the military, who could potentially carry out new military coups following the example of their neighbors. French intelligence has intensified its work on personalities. Afraid of the next dominoes falling.

5. The United States is actively putting pressure on the Guinean authorities to officially abandon plans to build a Chinese naval base on the Atlantic coast. China did not abandon these plans.
Posted by: badanov || 09/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Which new reality is it? You're not important, no one likes you, or people think you're boring?
(Just trying to keep things straight here.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/26/2023 9:11 Comments || Top||


Arabia
An Israeli-Saudi pact could upend the Middle East: The Economist
The Devil is always in the details. We’ll see if MBS is willing to make an offer acceptable to Bibi, who cut his teeth on contracts.
.[Shafaq News] The Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman does little to hide his relish at the prospect of a strategic pact between America, Israel, and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
In a rare television interview on September 20th, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and the country’s de facto ruler acknowledged with a smile that an agreement is on the cards.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/26/2023 01:31 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  US attacks Israel for 'premature' announcement on visa waivers

Oops, a missed Biden sound bite!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/26/2023 5:51 Comments || Top||



Cyber
New AI poll reveals elites are way out of step with the rest of us
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/26/2023 05:33 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Foreign governments gave Harvard $218 million in less than two years
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/26/2023 10:36 Comments || Top||


Europe
Report: Migrants Committed Almost 70% of Violent Crimes in France Last Year
[PJMedia] This week in “diversity is our greatest strength” news, a recent report from the statistics bureau serving the French Ministry of Interior has concluded that nigh on 70% of violent crimes in the Paris metropolis were committed by non-French perpetrators last year.

France’s “greatest strength” appears to be subway rape.

Via Remix News:

Last year, 69 percent of violent robberies and other violent crimes, including sexual assaults, on public transport in the greater Paris region of Île-de-France were perpetrated by foreign nationals, according to the annual figures of the SSMSI, the statistics bureau of the French Ministry of Interior.

However, looking closer at the data, it is revealed that Africans alone are responsible for 52 percent of such crimes while only representing 3.2 percent of the population of France.

Even for all of France, the data clearly shows that African nationals account for 42 percent of the above-mentioned types of crimes, way above their statistical weight within the French population.

Regarding crimes specific to public transport, the situation has actually not changed substantially over the years. The last time Remix News reported on such data in 2020, 69 percent of sexual assaults were committed by foreigners at that time as well.

Doing some quick math using the data provided — African migrants committing 52% of violent crimes while accounting for a mere 3.2% of the population — we discover that they are statistically overrepresented in the violent crime category by a factor of 16.

I have met French expats scattered throughout the world who swear to God they’ll never move back to France — in particular, Paris — on the sole account of the out-of-control crime, not just of a violent nature but also property crime.

My capstone paper for my master’s program in international relations concerned, in part, the tsunami of Third World immigration to France and its potential causal impact on the rise of the so-called “far-right” in the country. A huge swathe of the paper analyzed polling data of the French public over the past twenty years. It consistently and unequivocally reflects the French people’s democratic — actually democratic, by conventional definition, not of the newly styled Democracy™ variety — rejection of the inundation of their country with migrants, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa.

Yet the invasion continues unabated.

The question is: with the brutal lockdowns, the austerity, the migrant invasions, etc. of the past several years, how much more can the French people take before violent revolution becomes inevitable and it becomes a fully failed state?

Related from June: Germany: Gang Rapes Hit Record High, Up to Half Committed by Migrants
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/26/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


International-UN-NGOs
Yad Vashem Reaction to the Canadian Parliament's Standing Ovation Honoring of Yaroslav Hunka

Last week the Canadian Parliament honored former World War II Ukrainian soldier Yaroslav Hunka, in the form of a standing ovation. This deplorable moment was a result of ignorance and lack of information about the facts of the Holocaust and an absence of sensitivity to the many Holocaust survivors who sought refuge in Canada post Holocaust, not to mention the many members of the Canadian armed forces who lost their lives fighting the Nazis. While Yaroslav Hunka fought during WWII, he did so as a member of the Waffen SS as part of the German war effort. Regardless of the political goals invoked by the Ukrainian ultra-nationalists to justify their approach, these people actively collaborated with the Nazis.

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, advocates the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy to war criminals associated with the massacre of civilians, Jews and non-Jews.

Yad Vashem continues to be committed to promoting accurate Holocaust remembrance, education, research and documentation. We call upon the Canadian government to partner with Yad Vashem's global educational efforts in bringing Holocaust remembrance and education to all relevant audiences worldwide, including in Canada. We invite the Speaker of the Canadian Parliament and other Canadian leaders to visit Yad Vashem in order to learn more about the Holocaust.

Posted by: badanov || 09/26/2023 19:52 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under:



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