Taibbi: The Massive Government and Media Sponsored Censorship/Disinformation Complex

Matt Taibbi has seen the light and has been Black-pilled by his experience with the Twitter Files. He’s seen first hand the blatant Goverment and Corporate misinformation and gross propaganda machine called “The Media” and “The Government” while documenting the Twitter Files for Elon Musk. He’s announced that he assembling an organization to:

“…….Work to map out the new wing of the U.S. government’s propaganda apparatus that popped into view thanks to the Twitter Files. State-directed censorship is scary, but the more disturbing activity we’re seeing inside companies like Twitter involves what you might call “offensive” information operations, a type of aggressive official messaging that all governments practice but is supposed to be restricted by law in the United States.

For decades, our government at least loosely complied with legislation like the Smith-Mundt Act, which prohibits aiming at the domestic population any official propaganda “intended for foreign audiences.” However, gloves came off in recent years.

In a remarkably short time since the end of the Obama presidency, the U.S. government has funded an elaborate network of NGOs and think-tanks whose researchers call themselves independent “disinformation experts.” They describe their posture as defensive — merely “tracking” or “countering” foreign disinformation — but in truth they aggressively court both the domestic news media and platforms like Twitter, often becoming both the sources for news stories and/or the referring authorities for censorship requests.

The end result has been relentless censorship of, and mountains of (often deceptive) state-sponsored propaganda about, legitimate American political activity. In the Twitter Files we see correspondence from state agencies and state-sponsored research entities describing everything from support of the Free Palestine movement to opposition to vaccine passports as illicit foreign propaganda. Some of this messaging devolves into outright smear campaigns, with efforts to denounce the organic #WalkAway hashtag as a Russian “psychological operation” serving as a particularly lurid example. The Hamilton 68 story (about which more is coming) hints at this dynamic.

The irony is the entire field of “disinformation studies” itself has the features of an inorganic astroturfing operation. Disinformation “labs” cast themselves as independent, objective, politically neutral resources, but in a shocking number of cases, their funding comes at least in part from government agencies like the Department of Defense. Far from being neutral, they often have clear mandates to play up foreign and domestic threats while arguing for digital censorship, de-platforming, and other forms of information control.

Worse, messages from these institutions are parroted more or less automatically by our corporate press, which has decided that instead of a network of independent/adversarial newspapers and TV stations, what the country needs is one giant Voice of America, bleating endlessly about “threats to democracy.” I’ve come to believe a sizable percentage of reporters don’t know that their sources are funded by the government, or that they’re repeating government messaging not just occasionally but all the time. The ones who don’t know this truth need to hear it, and the ones who knew all along need to be exposed. This project is about both of those things, too.

Foreign state media is labeled on platforms like Twitter.

I want to put labels on our own propaganda, and need your help to do it.”

Update: Euro Banks and Eurodollars Will Destroy the World

This is an update of a 2020 post called European Banks and the Euro Will Destroy the World, which was actually a portion of my post Rising Risk of Financial & Economic Chaos, Part 2.

Today, news is out that Credit Suisse Bank in Zurich is experiencing a slow-motion (for now) “bank run” and news of these depositor outflows is sending the stock down 15% this morning.

 

It's not that long ago that Deutsche Bank was plumbing the zero line in stock prices, but it received a German government bailout some time ago to buy some time. At one time, the IMF labeled Deutsche Bank as the world's most dangerous systemically important bank.  I wonder what they said about Credit Suisse?

It seems as if Europe has been trying to destroy it’s banking and financial system for a long time. The bad part of the story starts with the GFC of 2007/2008. In that crisis, some 157 banks failed in the US and many mergers were arranged during that credit crisis. But nothing was allowed to fail in Europe. No bad debt was eliminated. That left Euro banks with significant bad debts on their books. This effect is shown in the charts of Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank and most of the other big banks in the EU.

Zero and negative interest rates was the next total fiasco that has unwound at this time. Erasing negative rates to +2 or +3% has left 100s of Billions of Euro-bonds with steep losses including at the Central Bank. Most of these bonds are at Euro banks. At one point, there was about $17 Trillion of debt in the EU that had negative yields and it created one of the biggest bubbles in the world. Now ALL of these bonds have collapsed in price and these losses are concentrated on the biggest banks in Europe.

It’s not just negative interest rates that hurt and crippled the profitability of banks but also profit-killing regulations by the EU. The craziest regulation of the EU banking system is the requirement of bank “bail-ins,” using depositor money, should there be a bank failure. Why would you want to scare away an important source of bank capital???   It's literally insane.  It's the total inverse of our FDIC deposit safety net! But the morons in Brussels did this.

My biggest fear for years was a dissolution of the EU causing the failure of a single country’s debt and triggering a EU-wide crisis. More recently, I’m more concerned about a failure of one of the counter-parties in the huge Eurodollar and Derivative markets. If one counter-party fails, then the fall-out (or the fear thereof) could trigger systemic disruptions in the world’s financial system.

The "Eurodollar" has developed in past decades as unregulated liquidity that exists on (and mostly off) the large bank balance sheets in Europe and other financial capitals. It's really a sort of a "trick" designed to allow banks to skirt regulator's capital requirements.

Chris MacIntosh explains more at Captialist Exploits and he goes on to say:

“What’s important to understand is that the Eurodollar system is THE biggest source of global funding…bar none. Nobody knows for sure how large it is as it’s basically a large unregulated financing system with thousands of participants globally. But we do know that the Eurodollar futures market on the CME is larger than S&P futures, larger than oil futures, larger in fact than the 10yr bond futures. It’s estimated over 90% of international trade is financed through the eurodollar market.”

And then there are the huge and widely used derivatives markets. Parentheses around "derivatives markets" means it's the aggregate of credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, currency forwards/swaps, repos/reverse repos and other derivatives used mainly to facilitate global and financial trade. Like"Eurodollars," are only backed by "balance sheet capacity" of the European (and other) banks.

But there are nearly no dollars backing these instruments. It's nearly pure leverage and very unstable in times of crisis -- as we found out in 2008. It's like "internet money" or even Crypto. Nothing is backing it.

The Rise and Troubling Fall of the Eurodollar Standard: Read the “Financial Cushions at the Bottom

 

It's pure leverage with no real "backing" except faith in the money center banking system of Europe, the EU and other financial capitals like Japan and Singapore. But I’m again questioning the “faith” in Euro Banks. So are investors.

It’s an accident waiting to happen.

One thing that I’ve learned is that it takes a LONG TIME for collapse to unfold: slowly at first, then suddenly.

A Pandemic You Rarely Hear About: 360 Millon Christians Persecuted Worldwide

From Raymond Ibraham and Open Doors

In 2022, 5,621 Christian around the world were “killed for faith related reasons.”  Another 4,542 Christians were illegally detained or arrested, and 2,110 churches were attacked, many destroyed.  Over all, the global persecution of Christians remains higher than ever, with 360 million believers suffering high levels of discrimination and violence.

These are among some of the findings of the World Watch List-2023, which was recently published by the international humanitarian organization, Open Doors. Each year the report ranks the top 50 nations where Christians are most persecuted for their faith by using data from approximately 4,000 field workers and external experts to quantify and analyze persecution worldwide.

From Open Doors -An Organization Dedicated to Fighting Christian Persecution

Crunching some numbers, the report finds that, on average, one in seven Christians (14%) are persecuted around the world. In Africa, that number grows to one in five (20%), while in Asia it is as much as two in five—meaning a whopping 40% of all Christians are persecuted there.

Christians suffer “extreme levels of persecution” in the top 11 of the 50 nations.  This ranges from being assaulted, raped, imprisoned or slaughtered on being identified as a Christian or attending (usually underground) churches.

Those nations and their respective rankings are: 1)      North Korea, 2) Somalia, 3) Yemen, 4) Eritrea, 5) Libya, 6) Nigeria, 7) Pakistan, 8) Iran, 9) Afghanistan, 10) Sudan, 11) India.

Coming in at #1, the absolute worst nation is North Korea, “with the highest levels of persecution ever seen,” says the report:

If discovered by the authorities, believers are either sent to labour camps as political prisoners where the conditions are atrocious, or killed on the spot—and their families will share their fate as well. Christians have absolutely no freedom….  A new ‘anti-reactionary thought law’ makes it amply clear that being a Christian or possessing a Bible is a serious crime and will be severely punished.

Most of the “extreme persecution” meted out to Christians in nine of the top 11 worst nations continues, however, to come either from Islamic oppression, or takes place in Muslim-majority nations. This means that approximately 80% of the absolute worst persecution around the globe takes place in the name of Islam.

This trend affects the entire list, not just the top 11: the persecution that Christians experience in 39 of the 50 nations also comes either from Islamic oppression or occurs in Muslim majority nations. The overwhelming majority of these nations are governed by some form of shari‘a (Islamic law). It can either be directly enforced by government or society or, more frequently, both, although societies—family members outraged in particular by relatives who have converted—tend to be more zealous in its application.

Moreover, though the persecution in North Korea is worse, there is, at least, a light at the end of the tunnel for Christians in that nation, as their ill treatment is entirely connected to the regime of Kim Jong-un.  Once he is gone, North Korea may well become like South Korea, where Christianity is flourishing.  On the other hand, the Muslim persecution of Christians is perennial, existential, and far transcends this or that regime or ruler.  It is part of the history, doctrines, and socio-political makeup of Islam—hence its tenacity and ubiquity.

In the worst of the Muslim nations, Christianity has been so stamped out over the years that there are no indigenous Christians to persecute, only converts—apostates, which, according to most interpretations of Islamic law, deserve death.

In Somalia (#2), for example, “Imams in mosques and madrassas state publicly that there is no room for Christianity, Christians or churches. The violent insurgent group al-Shabaab has repeatedly expressed its desire to eradicate Christians from the country. Christians from Muslim backgrounds are regarded as high-value targets and may be killed on the spot if discovered.”

Similarly, in Yemen (#3), “The population is overwhelmingly Muslim and it is illegal to convert from Islam to Christianity”:

Yemeni Christian converts are at great risk of being killed, not just ostracised or expelled, by their families, clans and tribes. Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State threaten so-called ‘apostates’ with death if they do not return to Islam. In other areas, including those controlled by Houthis, converts risk imprisonment. In detention centres, Christian detainees have reportedly suffered physical and mental torture.

In most Muslim nations on the list, one or all of three segments of society—Muslim authorities, Muslim mobs, or Muslim terrorists—persecute Christians to varying degrees.

In Libya (#5), jihadists are chiefly responsible.  The North African nation is

a lawless land where both native Christians and those passing through from other countries face extreme violence. With no central government to maintain law and order, militant Islamic extremist groups and organised crime groups both wield power. They target and kidnap Christians, and some believers have been killed.

On the other hand, in Iran (#8), which is “ruled by an increasingly strict Islamic regime,” the authorities are chiefly responsible:

Iranian house church leaders and members have received long prison sentences involving physical and mental abuse. Iranian Christians may be banned from education, lose their jobs and find it very difficult to get back into employment. For women, the situation is even more precarious because Iranian law grants women few rights. For trusting in Jesus, they are likely to be violently punished or divorced by their husbands and have their children taken away from them, if their faith is discovered.

In Afghanistan (#9), Islamic terrorists—who also happen to be the authorities—are chiefly responsible:

The Taliban’s takeover of power in August 2021 has forced most Christians either further underground or away from the country entirely. Many (if not all) house groups closed, with believers forced to leave behind everything they own. More than a year after the Taliban’s takeover, any promises they made about recognising freedoms have proved to be false. Following Jesus remains a death sentence, if discovered.

In Pakistan (#7), every rung of society is responsible for the persecution:

Christians in Pakistan are considered second-class citizens and face discrimination in every aspect of life. Jobs that are seen as low, dirty and degrading are reserved for Christians by the authorities, who continue to push them to the margins of society. They lack proper representation in politics … [and] there are almost constant attacks against individuals. Many do not feel safe to worship freely…. [R]oughly a quarter of all blasphemy accusations target Christians, who only make up 1.8% of the population. The number of blasphemy cases is increasing, as is the number of Christian (and other minority religion) girls being abducted, abused and forcibly converted to Islam.

Similarly, in Egypt (#35), which is “very high” in persecution, Christians “report that freedom of religion violations are mostly experienced in the community”:

Incidents vary from Christian women being harassed while walking in the street, to a mob of angry Muslims forcing a whole community of Christians to move out, leaving their houses and belongings to be confiscated…. President al-Sisi regularly speaks positively about Egypt’s Christian community. However, the lack of serious law enforcement and the unwillingness of local authorities to protect Christians leave them vulnerable to all kinds of attacks, especially in Upper Egypt. Communal hostility and mob violence, in particular, continue to cause difficulties.

Among some of the notable trends, the report asserts that Christians in the Middle East have experienced little if any improvement since the disempowerment of the Islamic State (ISIS):

The church [in the Middle East] has not been able to recover after the upsurge of Islamic State and the attempts of extremists to wipe out Christianity entirely. Discrimination and oppression coupled with crippling economic decline means the church is losing hope, particularly for young people. In the Levant region of the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel/Palestinian Territories and Jordan), the Christian community is shrinking due to deprivation, discrimination and persecution. Ever since the Islamic State group (IS) arrived on the scene, Christians in those areas of Iraq and Syria have been struggling to earn a living; young Christians in particular face high unemployment and continual hostility…

In Sub-Saharan Africa, “Violence against Christians … has reached new heights”:

Jihadists are destabilizing countries in West and Central Africa. Entire countries are at risk of collapse into extremist violence. 26 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa face high levels of persecution….  The jihadist movement, which seeks to expand Sharia across the continent, has forced Christians into constant motion, from their homes to displacement camps, or to other countries. The insecurity stemming from this experience of forced displacement makes Christians even more vulnerable to further violence. Christian women, in particular, can be easily targeted for sexual attack, while men are more likely to lose their lives.

In the worst of these Sub-Saharan nations, Nigeria (#6), where “an ingrained agenda of enforced Islamisation” exists, Christians are experiencing a genocide:

The violence is most pervasive in the north, where [Muslim] militant groups such as Boko Haram, ISWAP and Fulani militants inflict murder, physical injury, abduction and sexual violence on their victims. Christians are dispossessed of their land and their means of livelihood. Many live as internally displaced people or refugees. In the Sharia states of northern Nigeria, Christians face discrimination and exclusion as second-class citizens. Christians from a Muslim background also face rejection from their own families, pressure to give up Christianity, and often physical violence.

Although Islam continues to have the lions’ share of persecution, the rise of religious nationalism in non-Muslim nations—such as Myanmar (#14)—has also caused a number of nations normally unassociated with persecution to rise in the ranks.  Most notable among these is the second most populous nation in the world, India (#11):

In recent years there has been a big increase in Hindutva, an ideology that believes only Hindus are true Indians…. Increasing numbers of [Indian] states are implementing anti-conversion laws, supposedly to stop Hindus being forcibly converted to other religions, but in reality they are often used as an excuse to harass and intimidate Christians who are just doing things like distributing aid or having a private church meeting. These laws do not seem to protect Christians from being coerced back into Hinduism.  Christians increasingly experience social exclusion in their communities, discrimination in the workplace, and have false accusations and rumours spread about them.

As for the world’s most populous nation, China’s (#16) “use of digital surveillance technology is spreading, adding to persecution and intimidation. As digital tools became more sophisticated, so did the Chinese government. Beijing employed censorship, disinformation and unblinking surveillance to ratchet up control of religious groups.”

Rather ominously, the report further notes that

China’s model of oppression is spreading ….  The apparent success of China, especially in economic terms, is appealing to many leaders around the world. The promise of growth and prosperity, while being able to control all groups and individuals perceived as deviant, has triggered the interest of leaders from all over the world, no matter their ideological background.

Perhaps the most disturbing trend is that, since the inception of the WWL, the persecution of Christians has nearly doubled:

Since 1993, the World Watch List has revealed the scale and severity of the persecution of Christians. In the last 30 years, the number of countries where Christians suffer high and extreme levels of persecution has almost doubled to 76 countries. Today, more than 360m Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith. In Open Doors’ World Watch List top 50 alone, 312m Christians face very high or extreme levels.

Last year, 360 million Christians around the world also experienced “high levels of persecution and discrimination.” That number represented a 6% increase from 2021, when 340 million Christians experienced the same degree of persecution; and that number represented a 31 % increase from 2020,  when 260 million Christians experienced the same level of persecution; and that number represented a 6% increase from 2019, when 245 million experienced the same level of persecution; and that number represented a 14% increase from 2018, when 215 million was the number.

In short, the persecution of Christians, which was already horrific, has already increased by nearly 70% over the last six years, with no signs of abating.  For the first time since the inception of the WWL thirty years ago, Nicaragua (#50) has now made the list.

How long before this seemingly irreversible trend metastasizes into even those nations currently celebrated for their religious freedom?

Tired of Tyre: You're Surprised That Black Men Kill Other Black Men?

 

The Memphis police department had to dramatically lower their educational and work requirements so low that they would hire felons. The department dropped education requirements from 54 college credit hours to just 24. Two of the police involved in the Tyre incident were hired based on the lowered standards.

The biggest issue here is that people are surprised that black men kill other black men. It's insane because there's been an ongoing EPIDEMIC of black on black murder since, well, forever.  

Even though blacks are 13% of the population, they routinely consistute a MAJORITY of murders countrywide. Their murder rate is routinely ~55% of all murders and gun deaths and ~90% of their victims are other blacks. They routinely commit murders at 6 to 7 times the rate of white murders with the vast majority of their victims blacks.  This is nothing new at all.

And as for the constant drone of charges of police brutally decade after decade, the truth is that there is nothing more dangerous to black persons than other black persons.  In fact, Black Men Are 31 Times More Murderous to Other Blacks Than Police.  

The statistics show, year after year, that police actually kill more white people than blacks even when you adjust for the police interaction statistics. You see, even though blacks are 13% of the population, but they are interacting with police about 5 times the rate of whites, so police are interacting with blacks and whites basically the same number of times. But Whites are actually MORE likely to be killed during a police encounter than blacks because they are more likely to be armed.

Blacks are killed because they can't obey police commands and they nearly always resist arrest. They squirm, they run, they argue, they fight, they lie to the officers and wonder why they're shot.

How about this police tactic: arm police with tranquilizer guns. They can just tranquilize the guy (and yes, it's mostly guys).  Once tranquilized, they can cuff the suspect and seat them in the cruiser and avoid a lot of arguing, resisting, fighting and danger to themselves an the officers. Yes, tranquilize them like the wild animals that they often are. Remember, you'd only tranquilize the ones who already are unruly, ie., probably about 85% of them.

From an ex-police officer who contributes at Am Ren: 

From Blacks seem unable to comply with the most basic rules of society. At every turn, they refuse to hold themselves accountable for their actions. Even though incarceration rates among Blacks in America are at skyrocketing levels, Blacks collectively refuse to blame themselves for any of it. They’re all “innocent” and framed by “whitey.” It’s always someone else’s fault, never their own. Whether it’s “systemic racism,” the “legacy of slavery,” or “white privilege,” few Blacks will look in the mirror and concede that their woes and tribulations are the direct result of their attitudes and actions.

So long as our government and its complicit media persists in coddling Blacks and in feeding them lies that only serve to bolster today’s racial grievance industry, more of these incidents will continue to occur. One would think that Blacks themselves would tire of all the lies and excuses given for their many failures, but this would require deep introspection, self-awareness, and honesty which I believe comparably few Blacks in America possess.

Blacks in America remain a huge burden to our country. 

Frankly, the country would be much better off if we had no blacks at all: prisons would empty, schools would function again, standards for everything could improve, campuses would be mercifully quiet, Federal spending could drop(?), crime rates would fall precipitously, we could walk at night more safely in most cities, police would be more civil, we wouldn't have the Lefists promoting the bullshit woke bullcrap and racial lies. We wouldn't be forced to lower standards to accomodate black dullards. Then, mercifully, we wouldn't have any black persons in charge at any level or anywhere. Gone would be the black race hustlers, the rude DMV clerks, the dumbass black politicians or the loud-mouth fools besmerching what's left of Western (white) Civilization. The Democratic party's hold on power would dramatically weaken. Peace would descend over the country.

Sounds like a dream, huh? It’s because it IS just a dream.

The US Government: The Largest Human Trafficker In The World

The Largest Human Trafficker Is In Bed With The Mexican Cartels

Some 5 million illegals have surged across the Southern Border during just 2 years of the Biden Bolshevik Junta. The US has ONCE AGAIN hung out it’s “Open for Business” sign at the border. We are “enjoying” the 3rd term of Obama and his band of idiots, traitors and subversives in Washington. 

Nobody tells you that the Mexican drug and migrancy cartels and many other Mexican criminals make $billions of profit from extorting, robbing, raping and killing migrants. You’ll never hear about it, because it’s kept a huge secret. It’s a deadly human rights disaster and nightmare—a multiyear disaster of murder and suffering ENTIRELY MADE by US Democrats in their insane desire to make White people a minority in the US. THEY JUST DON’T GIVE A SHIT.

And you’ll never hear that the US Government has been in the child migrant business— facilitating unsupervised children’s migration to other illegal families already here in America.

ICE is delivering these children to known illegal families and thereby aiding the child smugglers associated with the Mexican drug cartels.  You see, illegal immigrants living in the United States are paying human traffickers connected to Mexican cartels to smuggle their children into the U.S.  

This GIANT, most recent and record migrant surge of 5 million persons makes Biden, Mayorkas and the US Government the biggest human trafficking organization in the world, essentially taking delivery of migrants including children from Mexican Drug cartels.

I don’t have proof, because nobody like Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi is covering it (yet), but you can reasonably postulate that there is a huge, well-funded “Migrant Industrial Complex” probably funded by NGOs and shadowy subversives like George Soros that enable the large “migrant caravans” that are fed and supported along their way through Central America and Mexico. Probably, players in the US Government are funneling money too.

You also rarely hear about the ongoing busing and flights arranged to distribute illegals throughout the country. This has been going on since Obama but it’s quite a well kept secret.

And for what?? It’s an obvious, concerted, disastrous and RACIST effort to make Whites in America a minority in the country that they largely built. Since 1965 with the passage of the Hart-Cueller Act or Immigration and National Replacement Act (see what I did there?), Democrats turned around our historical 90% European (white) immigration pattern on it’s head to import 90% browns and blacks, from mostly impoverished and uneducated cultures.

(Please see my posts Dem's Plan to to Assure Electoral Dominance: Make the US a 3rd World Shit-hole and Make America White Again for details.)

Once that is accomplished, and it almost is complete, then we won’t have even a scintilla of intelligence left and you’ll have EVEN MORE MORONS in political office (to be manipulated of course). Can’t you see that that’s exactly where this is going by looking at what we are seeing in Congress today: “The Squad,” the dumbass, corrupt and racist minority politicians, criminals, fakers, the many traitors in office, the war mongers, the influence-peddlers, pedophiles, etc? People like Rand Paul and Ron Paul will soon be long gone.

That’s just what the Democrats want— for more unlimited and unending power and personal wealth by expanding the bribing and vote-buying handouts while the country is being robbed and fleeced. It’s really no different to Hugo Chavez or even Fidel Castro. Can the end be any different than Argentina, Venezuela or Cuba?

Republicans are in on this too. Don’t kid yourself.

One has to be a conspiracy theorists these days to “fill in the blanks” of the widespread illegality and lies of omission by the biggest crime syndicate and Human Trafficker in the world: The US Government and the Deep State.

If you aren’t a conspiracy theorist, then you're not aware of what’s going on.

Wokeness is Racism and White Hatred

 “Woke” is a despicable and destructive imposition of a Black reverse racism and illogic upon the predominantly white and Western culture that has MORE THAN FIXED historical injustices. See my posts “…and White People Ended the Scourge of Slavery” and “USA: the Least Racist Nation on Earth.”

No, our country is hardly perfect and it never will be, but if we continue to accept the insanity of this Black illogic and irrationality (now adopted by ignorant Whites), we’re moving toward discord and backward as a culture and community.

Using racism to supposedly fix racism is an entirely illogical argument. But we live in a time that we are being forced to live and even adapt to blatantly inferior and illogical thinking when it comes to US Blacks. It’s being forced on us. It’s actually systemic racism against White persons.

Their racism charge comes from the denial of their genetic heritage. And we all have to deal with our genetic heritage. A genetic heritage includes fundamental aspects of our personalities, our behavior, our interests and our intelligence. No one is the same, but there are obvious trends. If you deny this, then there’s no reason to keep reading.

Personally, I inherited my German immigrant grandfather’s intellectual interest in Engineering. He came to the US and went to engineering school in Chicago.

My grandfather and I are the only engineers in the family. I went into Chemical Engineering and my grandfather was a Mechanical Engineer. I never knew until later. But, that I inherited these capabilities was just chance and good luck for me. My brother got none of this and is a low intelligence person with limited opportunities. Diligence and “not screwing up” is also a genetic inheritance/tendency as my upbringing was quite impoverished. We lived on a dirt road amongst the palmetto bushes in rural Florida. I prospered despite relative poverty and a very dysfunctional and irrational family.

Say I’m “privledged,” that’s ok. But I didnt’ screw up that genetic heritage of a strong work ethic and useful skills despite low odds of success. Instead, I had an interesting and reasonably prosperous life. Needless to say that I’m reasonably intelligent in many areas, especially science and math. I’m insightful, observant and logical.

Most blacks with ancestry from Africa didn’t inherit such traits. Fewer than 2 or 3% of black persons enter into the fields of engineering or math in the US or Europe, for example. It’s the same or similar for science and other technology and STEM fields. It’s not a devious plot against these people. It’s just that few of that population had a capability and interest in those areas. It wasn’t common in Africa. It’s just different and it’s no one’s fault.

So, to this day, US Blacks are still relatively incapable of performing well in traditional (white) academic areas. Most are not interested and therefore don’t even want it. I get it. More concerning, we continue to see a persistent and long-running tendency toward violence and high levels of criminality in this group. Yes, that’s their heritage too and it’s not that good. Africa was and is often a war-torn place — often ruled by war lords or tyrants. Corruption and criminality is endemic. It’s also very difficult to overcome. (Violence and war was common in Europe too).

Also US Blacks blame their well-deserved reputation for criminality, poor behavior and incapability in academics as RACISM!!! But it’s no one’s fault. History is history.

And as a group, US blacks also have little self-insight as to their often shocking inability to live peacefully in a liberal democracy. They often don't get it. They largely don't understand it. Many are only capable of UN-CULTURE, MOB RULE with little due process.

Go to Haiti, US ghettos or Africa and you'll see what I mean.  This is also what I mean by a genetic heritage. It’s extremely difficult to overcome.

Woke Bullshit and Lies

Woke is entirely a black thing (and word).  "Woke" basically means aligned with the black mob and their fictitious and illogical beliefs.  It's now been adopted by many low intelligence or low common-sense whites.  Diatribes such as Racism!!, Critical Race Theory, “Hands up, don't shoot,” BLM are all based on ignorance and lies often invented by Cultural Marxists and Leftists in academic settings.  It's really black "cultural Marxism." 

From John Greene at American Thinker:

Woke ideology is a perversion because it does not promote equal treatment under the law.  It demands preferential treatment for certain designated categories of people.  A mob that loots a department store are not criminals — if they're doing it in the name of Black Lives Matter.  Religious observance in the public square is perfectly acceptable — as long as the religion is not Christianity.  Public nudity is wrong — unless it's in support of the pride movement.  We must allow gay couples to adopt children without the normal rigorous checks — because they are brave examples for us all to aspire to.

The Left embarked on woke politics with the claim that they would correct the sins of the past — reparations for the wronged and leveling the playing field, if you will.  But the past is still the past, and sins of the past still happened.  The best we humans can do is strive to not repeat those sins in the future.  The past cannot be erased or "fixed." [Doug here: …or fixed by even more racism]

Unfortunately, our ill advised attempt to change the past has put us on a path of irrationality in which racism is corrected with racism and intolerance is countered with blind acceptance — even where acceptance is not warranted.

In reality, US Blacks must either adapt to the dominant western culture or leave or separate for the good of the nation.

A continuation of a new and reverse racism must be thoroughly rejected rather than slavishly indulged because racism of all kinds is unfair and disruptive. Those that promote it are subverting our society and many on the Left are promoting it for JUST THAT PURPOSE: SUBVERSION either intentionally or out of ignorance.

Kunstler: The Democrats War on "We the People"

From James Howard Kunstler at Clusterfuck Blog:

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy ” – Chris Hedges

  The question you might ask these days: how did we weaponize everything in American life against ourselves? Can you name an institution that is not at war with the people of this land? The exact mechanisms for all that bad faith stand in plain sight these days, and persons responsible can be easily identified. What’s missing are discernable motives. For now, it just looks like the greatest collective act of ass-covering in history.

     It’s pretty clear, for instance, that all the criminal misconduct in the FBI / DOJ — continuing to this moment — emanates from the years-long effort to cover up the seditious campaign to nullify Donald Trump starting well before Nov. 8, 2016. All the players in the agencies, and their news media accomplices, stand to lose at least their reputations, if the public cared about how dishonestly they acted. Many of those still working would lose their jobs and their livelihoods too, and quite a few would lose their freedom in prison. So, their motive to keep up the skullduggery is simple self-preservation.

     The Covid-19 pandemic looks like a pretty large-scale racketeering operation gone awry with plenty to hide. You have the reckless, symbiotic relations between the US public health bureaucracy and the pharmaceutical companies, and tons of money at stake, plus the colossal ego of hapless Dr. Anthony Fauci wishing to pose as an historic world-saver, another Louis Pasteur or Alexander Fleming. And then you have the amazingly foolish act of imposing an untested, dangerous “vaccine” on the world, and years of lying and covering-up the repercussions of injury and death from it. And then the opaque and nefarious roles of other actors in the story ranging from the CCP to the WEF to the Bill Gates and George Soros empires of money in what looks a genocide.

     It’s harder to unpack the enigma of the obviously unfit “Joe Biden” getting installed in the White House. My guess: the Obama claque behind him knew that “JB” was easily manipulable, and that his lame rivals, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Liz Warren, and especially the proud socialist Bernie Sanders, could not be counted on to do exactly what they were told. The Obama claque especially needed a president to appoint agency heads who would cover-up its creation of an Intel Community Frankenstein, and all that monster has inflicted on the American public.

     Of course, the main device the claque had for pulling “Joe Biden’s” strings was the flagrant record of his many years of bribery and treason. The major effort to cover-up all that was the DOJ and FBI’s suppression since 2019 of the Hunter Biden laptop, and the most stunning upshot was that the incendiary evidence of bribery and treason came out anyway, because so many copies of the laptop’s hard-drive got distributed. And absolutely nothing was ever done about it, nor about the actual persons — Christopher Wray, William Barr, and Merrick Garland — who worked to squash it, making themselves accomplices to ongoing bribery and treason.

      All this criminal misconduct is connected in a foul matrix of lawbreaking. The fact-patterns are well-established. Dozens of excellent books have catalogued the misdeed of RussiaGate and scores of websites daily dissect the shady intrigues around the “vaccine” crusade. The infamies of gross election interference have been systematically laid-out in the Twitter Files of the past two months. Many books, published essays, and videos substantiate the reality of massive ballot fraud in 2020 and 2022, including the felonious role of Mark Zuckerberg’s front org, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, and the election law manipulations or Lawfare goblin Marc Elias.

      There’s an understandable wish that upcoming hearings in Congress will lead to a reckoning for all of this. To banish consequence from public life, as we have done, is a pretty grave insult to nature, but who can tell whether accountability might restore our institutions at this point. We may be too far gone. The US is visibly collapsing now: our economy, our financial arrangements, our culture, our influence in world affairs, and our basic consensus about reality. We’re entering a phase of disorder and hardship that is likely to moot the further depredations of a government at war with its people. For one thing, it’s becoming impossible to pretend that this vicious leviathan has the money to carry on because the money is only pretending to be money.

      It’s no wonder that the collective ability for sense-making has failed. It will be quickly restored by each of us in the scramble to survive these disorders and hardships. The bewildering hypotheticals of recent years begin to dissolve like mist on the mountain and things come back into focus: your health, your daily bread, your shelter, your associations with other people close to you, your values, and most of all the power of your own choices. Nature, much insulted and maligned, will sort out the rest.

Turkey Places $500k Bounty On Enes Freedom

 Captured on my TV screen this morning:

Captured in my living room on Jan 27, 2023

Enes Kanter is US NBA Basketball player from Turkey who changed his name in 2021 to Enes Freedom after becoming a US citizen. The US NBA, now commercially allied with Chinese money, has blackballed Freedom from playing after 10 years in the league. Enes' "crime" is that he has criticized China and Erdogan. He's now completely blackballed and shut out of the league. (Are they Jewish?) 

And worse, suddenly his life might be in danger thanks to the Islamic autocrat in formerly democratic Turkey.  Unbeknownst to Enes, the government of Turkey recently had announced a bounty of $500k for information that leads to his capture. His "crime" is simply speaking-out against human rights and criticizing President Erdogan.  

Such an incentive makes life dangerous for Enes since some idiot has a huge financial incentive to find him or provide his address to the Muslim scumbag government in Turkey.

Enes Freedom is shown on a Turkish Interior Website as "member of a terrorist organization."  Isn't that rich?  Image is from an English Turkish news website called "Turkish Minute."

Enes Freedom is shown on a Turkish Terrorist List

And here's Enes Speaking about the NBA's close links to China and his beef with the NBA (Video from the NY Post)  I've embedded the short 1:47 minute video below.

Enes Freedom is a superstar in my book. I admire everything about him, including his courage. He is literally leading the way toward real freedom in America. This while corporations and our own government, allied with corporations, are blatantly hindering freedom of speech. And Freedom's punishment?  He lost his career at the hands of Americans! Freedom was fired by Americans.

America is becoming uninhabitable thanks to corporatist fascism. Boycott NBA.

Japan's Covid Deaths Are The Highest Ever

What Could It Be? WHAT COULD IT BE?? Hint: Ever Hear of ADE??

Catch this post at my new Substack Home:  Link to:  Japan Health Officials Can't Explain Why Covid Deaths Are The Highest Ever at Substack

Also, this morning I posted The Bank of Japan's Absurd Monetary Manipulations Are Distorting World Markets on Substack

When you go over there, why not subscribe for free. Free is good, right?

Doug

 

How Warren Commission Member Gerald Ford Altered the Official JFK Autopsy Diagram and Report to Conceal the Truth About Kennedy's Murder

From Stone Cold Truth from Roger Stone at Substack

The official inquiry into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, insisted that Kennedy was killed by three shots fired from the window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building by a single gunman.

This claim of only three shots fired, all of them from behind the President, has been contradicted over time. Parkland Hospital Emergency Room Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw said in his book, JFK - A Conspiracy of Silence, that Kennedy suffered an entry wound in his throat, as well as a blowout wound in the left rear of his head, both of them consistent with being shot at least twice from the front. By the time Kennedy's body reached the Bethesda Medical Center for the official autopsy, a tracheotomy had been performed on the dead President to obscure the frontal origin of the wound in his throat, and the blow-out wound described by multiple doctors at Parkland was no longer reflected in the final autopsy.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover conducted his investigation into the Kennedy assassination in less than a week and essentially handed Warren Commission Counsel Arlen Specter the conclusion that “lone nut” Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing Kennedy, and had fired the fatal three shots from the Texas School Book Depository Building.

Both the claim of the Warren Commission that there were only three bullets fired, and that all three bullets had been fired from behind the President would require a shocking change in both the official autopsy diagram submitted by Kennedy's doctor, as well as denial of the physical evidence collected by the Warren Commission. 

In fact, Warren Commission member Gerald Ford, then a Congressman, purposely altered the Kennedy autopsy records to conceal the fact that JFK had been shot from both the front and the back, which would of course expose the existence of multiple gunmen and thus a conspiracy.  Both the Associated Press and the New York Times accurately reported that Ford had made the material change when Warren Commission records documenting this history were declassified in 1997.

According to the memoirs of one of Hoover's Deputies, at the behest of the FBI Director, Ford changed the description and autopsy diagram depiction of the location of the wound in Kennedy’s upper back to the base of his neck to accommodate the government’s now largely discredited “single-bullet theory,” holding that JFK had been shot solely from the rear and that one of only three bullets fired hit both Kennedy and Governor John Connally. In essence the description of the wound in JFK's upper back was moved to his rear neck to conceal that JFK had been shot in the throat from the front.

FBI documents declassified in 2006 detail even more about the  crucial role Ford played in doctoring the autopsy to accommodate the cover-up. Assistant FBI Director Cartha “Deke” DeLoach regularly met secretly with Ford to inform the FBI on the status of the Warren Commission investigation. “Ford indicated he would keep me thoroughly advised as to the activities of the Commission,” DeLoach wrote in a memo. “He stated this would have to be done on a confidential basis, however, he thought it should be done.” 

The Associated Press reported in 1997 that DeLoach wrote a memo on December 17, 1963, about a meeting with Ford in which the Deputy FBI Director laid out a problem. “Two members of the Commission brought up the fact that they still were not convinced that the president had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository,” DeLoach wrote. “These members failed to understand the trajectory of the slugs that had killed the president. He [Ford] stated he felt this point would be discussed further but, of course, would represent no problem.” Indeed, we can now see what Ford meant by “no problem.” 

Here, more specifically, is the problem DeLoach described. The declassified initial draft of the Warren Commission report stated, “A bullet had entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder to the right of the spine.” This description matches that of JFK’s personal physician, Admiral George G. Burkley, who attended the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, and noted that the wound was “in the upper posterior about even with the third thoracic vertebra.” 

In fact, autopsy photographs of JFK’s back show the wound in his back, two to three inches below the base of the neck. A diagram by Burkley included in the Warren Commission’s own report confirms this location. The actual physical evidence demonstrates that the first draft of the Warren Commission report was indeed accurate.

Photographs of bullet holes in Kennedy’s shirt and suit jacket, almost six inches below the top of the collar, place the wound in the upper right back. As American history professor Michael L. Kurtz pointed out in his book The JFK Assassination Debates, “If a bullet fired from the sixth-floor window of the Depository building nearly sixty feet higher than the limousine entered the President’s back, with the president sitting in an upright position, it could hardly have exited from his throat at a point just above the Adam’s apple, then abruptly change course and drive downward into Governor Connally’s back.”

Ford did Hoover’s bidding. His handwritten edit on the classified document said, “A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of his spine.” This change was later revealed in declassified papers kept by the Warren Commission’s General Counsel and accepted in the final report. “A small change,” Ford told the Associated Press when it surfaced decades later in 1997.

Ford, a public supporter of the single-assassin theory, insisted that his edit had intended to clarify meaning, not change history. However, the effect of his alteration is clear. With this “small change,” he bolstered the commission’s false conclusion that a single bullet had passed through Kennedy and hit Governor Connally — thus solidifying what is now known as “the Magic Bullet theory.” Indeed, the Associated Press stated that Ford’s “small change” became “the crucial element” to determine that Lee Harvey Oswald had been the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

Armstrong: Russia Already Preparing for NATO Invasion

Remember, No One In The West Wants Peace. All Of The Western "Leaders" Have Drunk The Poisoned and Psychedelic Kool-Aid

From Martin Armstrong at Armstrong Economics:

“The West has decided to turn this into an all-out war to completely destroy Russia once and for all.

Moscow has been put on high alert and air defenses are being put up in every sector of the city. The hardliners are being heard and Putin has little choice at this point. It has become absolutely obvious that even Germany now is sending tanks into Ukraine and they will be used to invade Russia. It appears that NATO “advisors” will be most likely driving these tanks.

I had hoped things would not unravel as quickly as they have. I warned that January was a major target in time coming up in our arrays. We also then have major targets in April/May and Panic Cycles in June. Even gold is moving higher which has NOTHING to do with inflation or the Fed. Gold rises during times of uncertainty with governments and war. Our computer has pinpointed the timing pretty well.

Even the prime minister of Finland has drunk the cool aid of war [another silly woman in power]. Our world leaders are willing to throw everything society has accomplished into the rubbish all for this quest to destroy Russia, then China, and create this one-world dream of Soros and Schwab.

Understand that when war unfolds, they will impose capital controls in Europe ASAP. We even see Russian capital moving into Turkey buying real estate there in particular. Meanwhile, South Africa is aligning itself with Russia.”

My Own Internal Inertia and Struggle To Prepare For The Real Risk of Calamity 

 

Western “powers” are eager to send tanks into Ukraine. Once Biden foolishly sends Bradley tanks, Germany will send in it’s Leopard tanks. I’m afraid that this will confirm to Russia that a clash is coming.

The West can’t help themselves. We only have fools and dementia patients in charge. But this really describes America too. Easy times have made our population and leaders incredibly foolish and stupid. Weak Men Create Hard Times. The cycle must include a period of hard times to re-create sane and sound populations and leaders. It’s going to happen.

It seems very likely that Russia will be pushed into a corner and they will likely be forced to nuke the west to try to shake them out of their madness. Maybe one nuke in Kyiv will be enough to shock The West into some sort of sanity. But with Biden/Democrat idiots and European fools at the helm, there is literally no sanity and no intelligence. They are ALL braindead idiots and arrogant fools.

Russia will be forced to destroy the West BECAUSE THE WEST IS TRYING TO DESTROY THEM. And for what??  And sides have already aligned for World War as I've written. The entire Northern Hemisphere could easily erupt in war. This could escalate fast.

Remember, Russia has amazing doomsday hypersonic weapons and monster submarines armed to the teeth with these nukes. The West has NO ANSWER for the hypersonic weapons.

Personally, I need to shake myself out of my laziness and plan for a long trip out of this country starting within weeks. Fortunately, I can just pull down the blinds at my condo and lock it up. Then, all I need to do is purchase an air fare and book an AirBnB.

I have been saying that the US may be uninhabitable and univestible (without really believing it). The same for Europe and the UK. I feel like I should put money outside the US so I can at least use an ATM card in case the US loses power. I have accounts in Singapore (with almost no money there) but I could wire money there. Alternatively I may want to start my trip outside of the US in Panama, I could open a bank account there and wire some money there. It would also be possible to buy gold and deposit it there. At least that gold won’t be made radioactive! It makes me nervous just thinking about all this. Could I possibly trust those banks and depositories in Panama? Singapore may be the better bet.

I’m looking for access to ATM cash in times of WORLD WAR. As I mentioned, I'm not sure that power and the internet will be functioning in America.

War is coming and it could be the biggest disaster in our lifetimes and maybe history.  As I'm writing these words, I am fighting internally, as part of me doesn't believe my own words, but another part of me can see that the worst case scenario is unfolding and is urging me to act soon. Nobody wants to face what I can envision— including myself.

Hopefully I’m wrong, but what if?

Niggas, Please!!

The Black greivance hustlers are working in overdrive these days.  In my 65 years of life, I'm sick and tired of US black's endless excuses, falsehoods, failures and demands. You can throw all the money in the world at US Blacks and nothing changes or works in ANY WAY.  And we have!  

Almost 60 years ago, in 1964, Johnson's war on poverty began showering money at "poor people." It continues today. And it has ultimately become ~$30 TRILLION dollars spent---with blacks being the prime recipients (...although it's forbidden to say this). See my post "We've Already $7 Trillion on Black Reparations--It Failed"  

So, as after 58 years of real black reparations continue to flow, we hear of the latest request for EVEN MORE black reparations. The latest outrage is a ridiculous proposal from an all-black San Francisco reparations committee (all Democrat of course) to give $5 MILLION to anyone who "identifies" as black in San Francisco and to keep giving them $100,000 per annum for 250 years!!  Niggas, Please!!

Remember, San Francisco has zero history with slavery. And NO person who pays for these "reparations" or any black person (or someone who chooses to "identify" as black) receiving the money has ever been enslaved.

Dumbass Dullard Jackson-Lee

Then, another useless and chronic race-baiter from the Al Sharpton school of grift, Shiela Jackson-Lee, introduced an entirely anti-first Amendment proposal to ban and criminalize any speech that she deems as "white supremacist," which these days is anything and everything. Remember, just being White AUTOMATICALLY means that you're a white supremacist.  This is their ridiculous and stupid "logic!  So, she's suggesting that SHE be the arbiter of what free speech is allowed.   No thanks.

Nigga Please!

Why do we put up with primitives with malfunctioning or inadequate brains in these positions?  Instead, the Democrats have become the party of systemic anti-white racism! It really means that the Democrats are entirely against Western (White) Civilization. And it really shows. Democrats are literally tearing down our country.

Like most Blacks, Jackson-Lee fails to understand ANYTHING about our Constitutional Republic including free speech rights. Blacks fail to understand nearly anything about Western Civilization and their tendency is to revert to mob rule and mob justice, chaos-- JUST LIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY.  It's systemic Anti-White Racism and it's being promoted by Democrats and their black minority.

Blacks have a "problem" with Western civilization because they DO NOT have the cultural or genetic heritage of Western Civilization. It all passed them by. Western civilization is a long and remarkable advancement in human history in every area of life: arts, science, philosophies and high levels of culture: Christianity, Roman civilization, Greek civilization, classical music, rennaissance art and architecture, all the scientific advances, all the political philosophies that became enshrined in our Constitution: greek democracy, the Magna Carta and the beginnings of political rights, the 18th century Enlightenment, European political philosophies are hallmarks of Western Civ. I could go on and on. 

The only things Africans do 'know' are Marxism, Islam and mostly Islamic slavery. That's their heritage. Even today in the US, they want "their own culture" but they don't really have one. Their "culture" is failed education (if any), failed governments, failed families, failed communities, failed states, slavery, tyrannical and irrational leaders,murder, crime, poor economies, poverty, and suffering.  THEY are the problem in Western Civilization.

See my post: "Anglophones (White People) Invented Freedom, But US Blacks Don't Get It."

Right now in America, it is "blackness is un-culture. Black music in the US shows a lack of culture and even music!, In Africa, one can't drink the water (if there IS any water) and people shit on the streets in Senegal.  In Africa, in EVERY majority black US city or in any majority black country, nothing works well. 

There is no black "culture," it's just endless chaos: slums, disorder, gangs, thuggery, drug dealing, violence, stupidity, murder and shaming the responsible blacks as "uncle toms" or too "white." In America these people only ruin everything.

It's not "whiteness" that's the problem: it's "blackness." This will apparently never change because Black folks don't and can't see the truth. It's too difficult. They are 100% in denial. We don't have a race problem in America, we have a black problem. They need to adapt to the prevailing culture, but they can't comport themselves or don't want it. They can't see it. So, the Democrats want to degrade and denigrate our (white) culture to suit uncivilized, mostly ignorant blacks instead. It's truly insane. 

From my post "USA: The Least Racist Nation on Earth" 

As Fred Reed said: "In truth, America has made the greatest effort ever essayed by one race to uplift another. In 1954 an entirely white Supreme Court unanimously ended segregation. Later it found the use of IQ tests by employers illegal because blacks scored poorly, then found “affirmative action,” racial discrimination against whites, legal (hardly oppression of blacks, this). An overwhelmingly white Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the Voting Rights Act the next year. A white President sent troops to Little Rock to enforce desegregation. There has been an enormous flow of charity to blacks: Section Eight Housing, AFDC, Head Start, hiring quotas, set-asides, sharply lowered standards in police and fire departments. We now have free breakfasts for black children, then free lunches, in addition to outright welfare. In aggregate they resemble a distributed guaranteed basic income. Which is interesting.

Unfortunately none of these programs has had its desired effect. The crucial academic gap has not closed, crime remains horribly high, illegitimacy verges on universal. This is a great shame. But it hasn’t worked."

Sigh... But the people that need to understand this, can't. Enough with the reverse racism. I'm talking to you Democrats.