The United States is in desperate need of educational reform and has been for decades. A prime example of this need is Hampshire College, located in Amherst, Massachusetts. Hampshire College has decided to ban the American flag. In the words of the college's president, Jonathan Lash, the ban will "focus our efforts on addressing racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and behaviors."
Following Donald Trump's election on November 8th, school officials ordered the flag flown at half-staff to "acknowledge the grief and pain experienced by so many and to enable the full complexity of voices and experiences to be heard," whatever the latter phrase may mean. On Veterans' Day, angry campus Anarchists tore down the flag and publically burned it; calling it "a symbol of racism and hatred." Lash then decided to ban the flag for the reasons stated above.
Hampshire College is widely regarded as one of the worst universities in the US because of its extremely high ($62,000) tuition rates and the low quality of education for the price. In 2014, Lash's Administration stopped using SAT and ACT scores as a criterion for acceptance. In 2013, they prohibited a local Afrobeat band from performing at a dance because the band was 'too white'.
College President Jonathan Lash rakes in a cool $180,000 salary to promote this kind of stupidity. In spite of the high tuition and the $40 million fleeced from taxpayers to keep Hampshire in operation, Lash's mismanagement has led to a $2.5 million shortfall this year. Hampshire College has not produced one graduate of any note since its founding in 1965.
In a sane society that valued education---with a less corrupt Academic Establishment--- schools like Hampshire would have been closed long ago. It is not simply a matter of the Leftist faculty or the high expense. It's that colleges like these serve no national purpose. They cost citizens money and return nothing to the citizenry in exchange.
A look at Hampshire's Course Catalogue reveals that there are five schools there: Cognitive Science; Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies; Interdisciplinary Arts; Natural Science; and Critical Social Inquiry. The courses offered in all five of these schools are about half Cultural Marxist propaganda and about half the same academic courses that a decent Community College would offer---at a fraction of the cost.
Maybe there should be a national policy with universities like the military's base-closure system. We close military bases when the cost of maintaining them exceeds any purpose for national defense. Why not do the same with universities? Why should taxpayers subsidize places like this? No, Hampshire College and schools like it are pork-barrel projects. There is no major research going on there; no medical or major scientific facilities---absolutely nothing that justifies maintaining it.
These parasitic academic institutions are part of the swamp that the American people elected Donald Trump to drain. Jonathan Lash's last literary work, Season of Spoils: The Reagan Administration's Attack on the Environment no doubt dealt with swamp-draining; and doubtless with such expertise Lash easily could find a $15/hour job in such a field if Hampshire College should be closed.
As regular readers here know, we have no especial admiration for Manosphere blogger Mike Cernovich. But today, Cernovich published an article which, in fairness, we have to applaud. On his blog, Danger and Play, Cernovich raises some interesting questions about Nazi Richard Spencer.
Given Cernovich's writing style, the article reads more like an opinion piece than an in-depth analysis, but he makes his point nonetheless. Richard Spencer, shady head of The National Policy Institute and various assorted Neo-Nazi front-organizations, gave an exclusive press conference today for the Corporate Media outlet, The Atlantic. The Atlantic is owned by Wall Street multimillionaire David G. Bradley---a self-described Neocon who supported both Obama and Hilary Clinton and who is a well-known Beltway insider.
Now Spencer invited over 100 Corporate Media to the conference according to Cernovich. Spencer and his henchmen were recorded on video giving Nazi salutes to Trump; which The Atlantic is already spinning for political capital. Cernovich asks the very pertinent question: How much of this is controlled opposition?
Good question. It's been a long-standing question how many of these Neo-Nazi and Manosphere get their funding and media when so few have seem to no visible means of support. If we learned anything from this last election cycle, it is that the Left is utterly ruthless and unscrupulous in employing controlled opposition. Cernovich is probably one of the more media-savvy of the Red Pills, and his instincts are certainly attuned to a paradoxes here that don't add up.
And Richard Spencer's character is not one that is above suspicion, by any means. Spencer became an outspoken enemy of Conservatism after being fired from The American Conservative for his radical views in 2007. In 2014. he was arrested and deported from Hungary as a subversive and an undesirable alien. It should also be noted that Corporate Media mogul William Regnery founded the National Policy Institute---hence the apparent ties to Big Media.
The 150+ commenters to Cernovich's article denounce Cernovich as a Jew, a sellout, and a 'Cuckservative' which in itself is telling.
So is Mike Cernovich an opportunist who sees the way the political winds are blowing; or have the 'scales fallen from his eyes' and he's seen the Red Pill/White Nationalist tribe for what they really are? Time will tell, but we hope it's the latter. There'll be a spot for Danger and Play on our blogroll if Cernovich has truly seen the light.
San Francisco used to be a great city. Today however after several decades of Leftist misrule, it has degenerated into an urban cesspool of poverty, crime, drug abuse, and sexual perversion. San Francisco's crime rate is 142% higher than the national average; and the cost of living 89% higher than the national average. Homelessness is rampant in San Francisco: the cost of housing is a whopping 255% higher than the rest of California.
The city also has a severe drug problem---and with these demographics in mind, it is predictable that San Francisco's schools are among the nation's worst. Test scores are fully 16 points below the national average. Now would assume that in a city where incidents like these regularly occur, that the local population might start questioning whether or not Liberal Elitism actually leads to a higher quality of life. But, although Donald Trump received less than 10% of the vote in San Francisco County and has yet to take office, public schools in The Paris of the West have unilaterally decided that Trump is the greatest menace that San Francisco faces. To that end, they have devised an anti-Trump curriculum for 2017 students.
We can of course presume that the Anarchists and other foes of democracy controlling the San Francisco Unified School District won't let their distaste for Trump stop them from lining up at the Federal Trough to support their $788 million annual budget, however.
The anti-Trump (read anti-election) curriculum was devised by one Fakhra Shah, a Social Studies teacher who penned the memo at 2 A.M. on Election Night by her own admission---roughly a half-hour after Trump was declared winner.
"We're calling him out," Shah boasted to the press, "If he's our president, I have a right to hold him accountable and take a stand that is anti-hate and anti-racist. The plan encourages teachers to let students express their concerns and to offer them hope and to tell students that they can keep fighting. We can uplift ourselves and fight oppression here at school, even if we cannot control the rest of the country."
This is exactly the type of Liberal arrogance that likely contributed to the Democratic Party's national defeat on November 8th. "Let us please not sidestep the fact that a racist and sexist man has become the president of our country by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base." Shah further states.
And while the SFUSD opposes the Ten Commandments in school as offensive, Shah's lesson plan states that is desirable for teachers to allow students to pour out vile invective on Trump. "I know that they might curse and swear, but you would too if you suffered under the constructs of White Supremacy or experienced sexism or any isms or lack of privilege. You would especially do so if you had not yet developed all the tools necessary to fight this oppression."
And further, the lesson plan directly teaches students not to accept the election results as legitimate:
"Do not tell them that we lost and that we have to accept this. We do not have to accept anything except that we must and will fight for justice against an unjust system and against an unjust people."
In the context of a democratic and free election, what Shah is teaching is Anarchism. Teaching children in a publically-funded school to lash out in blind rage and not recognize the legitimate government is subversion, not education. Fakhra Shah is obviously mentally ill and doesn't belong anywhere near a school. Nonetheless, her message resonated with the other professional malcontents in the SFUSD. Shah's plan has been accepted for other schools to use; although the SFUSD Establishment stresses that the course is 'optional'. SFUSD spokeswoman Gentle Blythe sniffed to the press that:
"Educators are entrusted to create lessons that reflect California standards, support students' social and emotional well-being, and foster inclusive and safe school communities."
And here we can see a specimen of Blythe's idea of an inclusive and safe community.
American public education is clearly in deep trouble. Decades of public neglect need urgently to be addressed by the Trump Administration. It is little wonder that we are falling behind other countries when our schools are in this kind of condition.
The 2016 Elections apparently didn't provide enough drama for the drama-queens in the Prozac Nation. Vice-President Elect Pence hoped to take in a Broadway musical only find himself the target of an impromptu celebrity roast. A so-called 'actor', one Brandon Dixon, couldn't resist spouting off a political diatribe aimed at Pence at the end of the show. The arrogance implicit this kind of behavior hardly needs commentary; but it's fairly typical of the Left's crassness.
Another so-called comedian, Conan O'Brien, is also being criticized for performing a skit depicting Trump supporters being executed with lethal gas. (Yes, the same Hollywood Liberals who are criticizing Attorney-General nominee Jeff Sessions' support for capital punishment). O'Brien draws a $12 million annual salary from TBS and has a net worth of about $75 million and naturally he depicted Trump supporters as lower-working class trailer-trash. Not a typical Clinton Machine Elitist, of course. O'Brien donated $33,400 to the DNC this last election cycle.
Meanwhile, the self-described Alternative Media, which ostensibly represents the Far Right, also lashed out against both against Conservatism and Christianity. Red Pill Game Cult blogger Vox Day took issue with both American traditions---whom he describes as 'cuckservatives' and 'churchians'. Vox is credited, along with charlatan and Internet troll Mike Cernovich and disgraced former Osage Indian Chief, John Red Eagle, of coining the 'cuckservative' term in a book titled: Cuckservative: How Conservatives Betrayed America.
Vox attacked author Ben Shapiro today; for essentially exposing the anti-American and anti-Christian character of the Far Right. Specifically, Shapiro's statement that:
"They want to destroy the Republican Party from within and take it over. They want Constitutionalist Right destroyed. They actually hate the Constitutionalist Right more than they hate the Left. They don't actually hate the Left. They think that the Left is wrong about racism but they don't object to Big Government...rather, they believe that you should have special privileges if you're of European descent. They want what they call 'Christendom' protected from foreign bodies."
Vox takes exception to this statement and makes the astounding statement that Shapiro is confused about whom the Far Right actually hates. Vox instead argues that he hopes that Constitutionalists will be converted (i.e. by 'taking the Red Pill') and insists that his sect does, in fact, actually hate the Left and wishes its destruction.
As for defending Christian values, Vox opines that instead of Ben Shapiro, the media should interview religious authorities, whom he seriously suggests are Richard Spencer, Greg Johnson, and Andrew Anglin---all of whom happen to be Nazis! Shapiro is correct: and as we have stated here many times, the so-called Alternative Media and the Corporate Media are simply two sides of the same coin: united in their desire to overthrow the Constitution and the Church.
In reality, Vox and his Red-Pill clique follow the political and spiritual 'traditions' of 1960s radicals Lincoln Rockwell and L. Ron Hubbard moreso than any traditional American or Christian values. Their Cultural Fascism is only a variant of Leftist Cultural Marxism; just as 1920s European Fascism was only a variant of Leninist Bolshevism.
Dixon, O'Brien, and Vox Day are prime examples of why the US is in desperate need of a professional media again. The gutter-level extremism that these people are irresponsibly interjecting into public discourse is a national disgrace.
It seems strange that, as 2016 is drawing to a close, we find a political landscape where Communists, Anarchists, and Nazis are all back in vogue; and seeking out new ways to overthrow Democracy. The same groups were running wild in 1941 and then---as now---many Americans were content not to see the threat such extremists posed. There are times when we need a reminder of what America is; and what it is not.
Five days before Pearl Harbor was attacked---December 2nd, 1941---our recommended weekend feature, All Through the Night was released and was scoring box-office successes which soared after America entered WW2. The film was produced by Warner Brothers and featured a rich cast of current and future Hollywood stars. Humphrey Bogart and Kaaren Verne played the lead roles.
All Through the Night is one of those types of films that portray America before it had to be made great again. The story is set in a community in Brooklyn---heavily populated with first and second generation Americans. Bogart plays 'Gloves' Donahue; a man-about-town and professional gambler who's devoted to his mother, who still lives in the 'Old Neighborhood.' Donahue specially orders his favorite cheesecake for breakfast at the local diner every morning from a German baker who's his mother's neighbor. The delivery is missed one day; Donahue and his men investigate and find the baker has been murdered.
The police try to blame Donahue for the murder, but he escapes to look for the real killer. His only lead is a German girl named Leda (played by Kaaren Verne) who sings at a local nightclub run by the sinister Pepe (played by Peter Lorre). Donahue falls in love with Leda and discovers that she and the deceased baker were being blackmailed by the Gestapo to assist in their crimes. And so the fun starts with Donahue and his gang taking on the Nazi spies and saboteurs who are planning a major attack on a Naval Base.
The evident message of this film is just as relevant today as it was on the eve of WW2. It is a warning against complacency in a free society and a reminder that Americanism is an ideology independent of one's race or gender. The Americans are portrayed in this film as light-hearted and fun-loving contrasted with the ruthless determination of the Nazis. It is of interest to note that all four actors who played Donahue's gang later went on to star in television comedies (William Demerest, Jackie Gleason, Frank McHugh, and Phil Silvers). The Nazis were portrayed by German-American actors later mostly noted for playing in WW2 dramas (Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Martin Kosleck, and Hans Schumm). In one of the memorable scenes from All Through the Night, Donahue enlists a reluctant rival gang for a battle with the Nazis, saying:
"Listen all of you, I got a firsthand report on what it's like on the other side, from that Lena babe. I'm telling you, we've all got to watch our steps. That gang is strictly no good from way down deep. They're no bunch of petty racketeers trying to muscle in on some small turf---they want to move in wholesale, take over the whole country...and they aren't going to stay out of your way. They'll tell you what time you get out of bed in the morning and when to go to sleep at night. They'll tell you what to eat, what kind of clothes you can wear, and what to drink. They'll even tell you what morning newspaper you can read."
Which sums things up nicely. However flawed our system may be, there are those no good from way down deep who crave power more than they love liberty. There are fanatics of many political and religious stripes who prefer death in the cause of enslaving others than life under freedom. All Through the Night actually has some very modern elements depicting this point; including terrorist cells and an attempted suicide bombing.
Complacency is a huge part of the reason we have seen so much extremism in our modern culture. Fanatics thrive in societies where there is no popular resistance and the Elites are generally corrupt. The secondary message of All Through the Night; that the ideal is what unites us, is a strong preventative against the fanatic, who is all to eager to substitute race, gender, religion, or political ideology for the ideal.
All Through the Night is currently available for free viewing on Youtube and also on DVD. As an interesting side note, Peter Lorre, who played a Gestapo operative, and Kaaren Verne, who played the immigrant heroine, met and later married through their shared work on this film.
Red Pill Cult guru and White Supremacist Matt Forney has finally gotten his wish and has been banned from Twitter today. After months of provoking Twitter management (including previous suspensions), Twitter finally dropped the ban on this obnoxious troll. Forney is apparently such a nuisance on Twitter that, after Tuesday's ban on multiple extremists, Twitter users were actually online begging for Forney to be banned next. And so he was.
Forney responded to the ban in typical Manosphere fashion: playing the victim card. In a short video reply, Forney made obscene gestures at the camera and questioned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's sexual proclivities. These self-appointed Manly Alpha Leaders are not known for their masculine stoicism under duress: especially not when put in a position of submission by the likes of Jack Dorsey.
Also just as predictably, Forney claims that he is the target of political persecution; and claims that his suspension was "a revenge move for helping get Donald Trump elected." What's most probable, though, given the reaction of normal Twitter users that Forney's ban had more to do with spamming, doxxing, or violations of Twitter policy. It's not as though Forney has no history of such things. He hoped to once to dox the alleged victim of Brock Turner and during the campaign organized 'flash mobs' at Trump rallies.
Forney is actually so repugnant that many men's issues bloggers can't stand him. And that is really what's behind these recent Twitter bans. If we are to have any kind of freedom in a free society, then it us up to mainstream and 'real Americans' (so to speak) to police ourselves and criticize those who abuse---and would gladly take away---our rights. In venues like Twitter, this is accomplished by corporate policy. No one says that people who use Twitter have an obligation to be spammed and harassed by attention-seeking trolls like Forney.
Jack Dorsey is doing the right thing; and the only criticism he's getting from Twitter users is that he didn't act sooner. The fringe-groups belong on the fringe; and it's up to public vigilance to keep them away from the mainstream.
As Allied Forces continue their offensive against the Terrorists in the Middle East, some horrible news has come out of Syria. We have known now for some time that ISIS and Al-Qaeda have been trafficking narcotics, weapons, and Black Market commodities through organized crime syndicates operating with a wink and a nod by the regimes in Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some of their confederates. We also learned from Wiki Leaks during the Election Cycle that the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party Leadership was well aware of these governments' complicity in these crimes; yet took bribes from them and continued to support them. And, as we've seen from the woefully underreported Fat Leonard Scandal that the Pentagon may be actively aiding and abetting these activities.
Throughout this sordid five-year crime spree, we have often raised a question about the fate of thousands of missing women and children, kidnapped by the Terrorists. Our theory here all along has been that they were likely trafficked for sexual purposes to degenerate Western countries, but we've never found anything but slight circumstantial evidence of this. Unfortunately, our theory has apparently been wrong.
We say 'unfortunately' because it has been confirmed that these inhuman Wahhabi devils concocted an even worse fate for their victims. Dr. Hussein Noufel, of Syria's State Coroners Office stated to the press that "We have accurate information that over 25,000 surgical operations have been conducted among refugees in the neighboring countries (i.e., Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq) and in the terrorist-controlled areas of Syria since 2011; to remove the body organs of 15,000 Syrian citizens and sell them on the international Black Market."
As if this weren't hideous enough, the organ-trafficking trade is believed to be under the control of Wahhabi religious leaders. The leading Ayatollahs of the Shiites issued a fatwah against these heretics in early 2016.
Dr. Noufel stated that the organ-harvesting is done at captured hospitals in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa today, though others in now-liberated areas were previously used. An earlier Iraqi report stated that twelve doctors in Mosul were executed by ISIS for refusing to comply with ISIS' crimes. That is very similar to reports from Deir Ezzur, Syria of executed doctors: Deir Ezzur held a major medical complex which was liberated by Allied forces last December.
Suspicions that the Terrorists have been engaging in organ-trafficking began surfacing throughout the last several months after the Iraqi Army began its impressive series of battles against ISIS. Mass-graves were uncovered and Iraqi forensic specialists discovered many women and children with evidence of recent surgery and missing organs. Iraq's UN Ambassador brought these findings to the attention of the UN last year---but was ignored by the US government and Corporate Media.
Iranian Intelligence sources spoke to Fars News---an Iranian news outlet strongly linked to Iran's military and security services---stating that Iran has long suspected Mosul to be the epicenter of organ-trafficking, although they were unaware until now of the size and scope of the trafficking. Iran believes that organs were harvested in Mosul via Raqqa and sold on the Black Market in Turkey---at about $15,000 per corpse.
SANA also quoted an Iraqi medical specialist, Dr. Sirwan al-Mosuli, who had escaped from Mosul as stating that the ISIS operations in Mosul and Raqqa employ foreign surgeons and that a German national heads the surgical team inside of Mosul.
Well, well. If that's true, do we wonder now why Obama, Stoltenberg, and Erdogan seem so desperate to participate in the Aleppo, Raqqa, and Mosul military campaigns? To destroy evidence, maybe? And we know from Wiki Leaks that the Podesta Group and the Gephardt Group are involved in facilitating Turkish foreign trade.
Like the Fat Leonard Scandal, the Syrian Civil War is looking more and more like the tip of an iceberg that's going to sink the Clinton Machine permanently. When the Trump Administration starts unraveling the cords in the Middle East, Obama, Clinton, Kerry, Carter, Clapper, Brennan, Gephardt, Podesta, and General Votel are going to be in some serious trouble.
And it's about time.
