This was bound to happen. On Sunday, a crackpot with a shady past walked into Comet Pizzeria with an M-16, shot a few holes in the floor and was caught by DC Police. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The suspect claimed to be demanding answers to the so-called Pizzagate Scandal.
Just as predictably, the Corporate Media is calling for the 1st Amendment to be nullified (usually in such cases, it's the 2nd Amendment they attack; but currently freedom of the press is a greater threat to Media vested interests). The Corporate Media employs the fake news meme anywhere from one to a dozen times per article covering the story. But the Corporate Media have proven themselves repeatedly to be unscrupulous blackguards who'll exploit any opportunity to enrich themselves or advance an agenda.
We had an article just a few days ago giving our thoughts on the Pizzagate story. While the people alleged to be participating in some of the crimes attributed to them are certainly capable of such despicable acts, we found nothing beyond circumstantial evidence that they actually engaged in them. No one seems to know how, where, when, or by whom this story originated: but given that James Alefantis and David Brock---both notorious Democrat Establishment operatives---were in the middle of this story, it's probably a more plausible theory to assume that they instigated it themselves.
The gunman is also a fairly typical specimen of the people involved in incidents of these sorts: a male Millenial with a history of substance abuse and a graduate of American public schools. But we shouldn't expect any investigations anytime soon about how and why our young men are being radicalized at such an alarming rate.
No, instead the Corporate Media---the greatest purveyors of fake news on the globe---will be demanding curtailment on free speech. The contemporary Corporate Media has no aversion to censoring its competitors. Obama was able to repeal the Anti-Propaganda Act of 1948, and engage in NSA spying without so much as a whisper of protest from the Corporate Media.
Censorship will not prevent incidents like these any more than Gun Control would have. It is a sad testimony to the moral weakness of our culture that the issue is even debatable. But Censorship is a viable solution to a population that prefers happy-pills, safe-spaces, and hate-free zones to the risks of free thought and robust living. A crackpot believed a false story, threatened people with a weapon, and now he's in jail. That would happen in a censored culture, too; the difference being that we wouldn't read about them; or be allowed to discuss them even if we did. In fact, some countries where the media is most heavily controlled have very high rates of violent crime and numerous radical groups operating within them.
We cannot rely on the Government---and even less on Wall Street---to spoon-feed us information as if were Kellogg's cereal and remain a free people. The Government can do a few proactive things: mostly repealing Clinton, Bush, and Obama-era laws that have resulted in so much media malpractice. They could also reinstate the Anti-Propaganda Act and start enforcing laws against libel, sedition, and slander for a change. But ultimately, it's up to the people to police themselves and what they hear and see. The Corporate Media merely wants a monopoly on fake news, not the suppression of such stories.
The fact that the Corporate Media is using Pizzagate as an excuse to attack their competitors instead of investigating the story, lends even more suspicion that they are complicit in spreading the allegations for their own insidious purposes. James Alefantis told the New York Times afterwards that:
"What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories comes with consequences. I hope that those involved in fanning those flames will take a moment to contemplate what happened here today and stop promoting these falsehoods right away."
They should; but actually, Mr. Alefantis, you should consider that your friends in places like the New York Times have spent the last three decades fanning flames of reckless conspiracy theories. Sleazy Corporate Media coverage of ritual abuse hysteria; alleged celebrity child-sex rings; lurid reports of child-murders; the over-hyped Catholic priest molestation scandals; etc., have produced a population psychologically primed to imagine that paedophiles are hiding behind every rock and tree; and that any business, like yours, that caters to children ought to be suspect.
Think about those consequences, Mr. Alefantis. And ask your Liberal friends about them too.
The US Agribusiness Cartel Corporation, Kellogg's was the subject of a boycott and some other controversies here in the Prozac Nation. The Corporation decided last week to end its advertising contract with Breitbart News, to which Breitbart responded with a boycott campaign.
Breitbart also ran a story this weekend, exposing the fact that Kellogg Foundation---the Corporation's charitable arm---gave $930,000 to Black Lives Matter. It's somewhat peculiar that Breitbart never bothered to expose this detail while Kellogg's was an advertiser, but we will speak of this later.
Besides the BLM anarchists, the Kellogg Foundation's website lists some other interesting current grant recipients:
The Poverty and Race Research Action Council: $600,000.
The Haas Institute, UC Berkeley: $1,125,000. This taxpayer-funded college institute currently features anti-Trump articles on its webpage. UCB Professor John Powell, Haas' Director, tweeted yesterday, "Powerful movements have always understood that strategy has to include plans to capture the instruments of government." Powell makes about $440,000 as a law professor at UCB. He once was an advisor to the Communist government of Mozambique.
The NAACP: $1,867,000.
La Raza: $2,400,000.
The National Urban League: $1,733,334.
Race Forward: $2,400,000. Front-group for the Center for Racial Justice Innovation. Headed by Rinku Sen, a 'community activist' who pressured the Corporate Media to stop mentioning immigrants' legal statuses in news reports. Michell Speight, the Director of Programs, is a pro-abortion activist.
PICO: $2,133,334. One of George Soros' front-organizations.
The ACLU: $1,000,000.
Plus several other smaller grants to similar 'worthy causes'. The Kellogg Company spent $1,380,000 in political lobbying in 2016. The Company CEO is an Australian national named John Bryant. Bryant publically joked after the Breitbart controversy that cereal mascot 'Tony the Tiger' was pansexual and consider gender reassignment surgery for him. Some may remember that Bryant also used Tony the Tiger in the Wear Your Stripes with PRIDE campaign. Kellogg's was a huge supporter of homosexual marriage.
While the pervert Bryant may be politically-correct here; Amnesty International has complained that Kellogg's leading supplier of palm oil uses forced and child labor; and has exposed workers to Paraquat (a very toxic herbicide). Kellogg's stated that since the labor is carried out by subcontractors, they are not responsible.
John Bryant makes $9,000,000 a year as Kellogg's CEO to oversee all of these dubious activities. A typical specimen of the degenerate American 'Elite'; Bryant sprays children with Paraquat on one hand and pushes homosexuality on them with the other.
What is really troubling about this controversy seems not so much that Kellogg's withdrew advertising from Breitbart; but that Breitbart accepted advertising from Kellogg's, knowing what they are and what they are doing. Breitbart only reported the Black Lives Matter donations: and even then, only after Kellogg's withdrew as advertiser. Everything that we added to the story in this post took about an hour to research and the main sources were Wikipedia, Kellogg's own websites, Forbes Magazine, and publically disclosed records and public statements made by some of the principals involved.
And Breitbart is now calling for a Kellogg's boycott and their editor-in-chief complains that the company is 'waging war' against Breitbart News. Well, Kellogg's seems to have been waging a 'culture war' for some time, and Breitbart was quite content to look the other way while Kellogg's was stuffing cash into Breitbart's pockets.
This is not to say that Bryant and Kellogg's were innocent either. They were perfectly happy to put their politically-correct activism on the back-burner and advertise with Breitbart when Trump's popularity was soaring during the election. Now that Trump has been elected, Breitbart won't have the same numbers as during the campaign; so now Kellogg's plays the offended Liberals.
This disgusting episode illustrates clearly everything that is wrong with the American Media. Everything hinges on the bottom line and the smart boys' ability to capitalize on news instead of pursuing truth.
Two editorials recently appeared in the British news outlet The Guardian, which are interesting because they show objectively several points about the Manosphere and its Red Pill/Game Cult which we have been raising here as well. The first of these is written anonymously and is the story of how researching the so-called Alt-Right affected the author's thinking.
The anonymous author is evidently a White Liberal, affected with the kind of false guilt common to that demographic. But if one can read past those biases, the author shows how easy it is to succumb to Red Pill thinking:
"About a week before the US Election, I heard one of these Youtubers using the phrase 'red pilled'---a term from the film 'The Matrix'---in reference to people being awakened to the truth about the world and SJWs. Suddenly I thought: 'This is exactly like a cult. What am I doing? I'm turning into one of those a-------s.'"
Exactly like a cult. 'Taking the Red Pill' is actually more than an awakening: it is a conversion process. It's noteworthy that the author began researching the Alt-Right in relationship to anti-Islamic movements. And note that he states: "The anti-SJW stuff also moved on to anti-feminism, Mens' Rights Activists, all that stuff. I followed them on Twitter..."
Isn't interesting how exposure to MRA writings always seems to lead down the path of extremism? The author notes, after his awakening that: "It's clear that this terrible ideology has now gone mainstream. It hit me like a ton of bricks. The online radicalization of young white men. It's here, it's serious, and I was lucky to be able to snap out of it when I did. And if it can get somebody like me to swallow it---a lifelong Liberal---I can't imagine the damage it's doing overall."
Not being Liberals ourselves, we can explain the practical dynamics of what the author merely felt. Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister was an expert in convincing otherwise decent people to do stupid and immoral things. Goebbels worked out the formula for effective propaganda: you mix just enough general truth with a lying message to give the lie plausibility; then you keep repeating the lie. Once the lie goes mainstream, people take it for granted and don't examine its underlying premise. That is exactly the formula that Red Pills and other cultists follow to gain and hold converts.
The second article, written by author Matt Lees, is a more in-depth study showing how the Red Pill Cultists used the phony 2014 Gamergate controversy to insinuate themselves into political movements. Lees makes a very prescient observation: "The greatest strength of Gamergate, though, was that it actually appeared to represent many Left-leaning ideals: stamping out corruption in the press, pushing for better ethical practices, battling for openness...The strangest aspect of Gamergate was that it consistently didn't make any sense: people chose to align with it, yet refused responsibility. It was consistently demanded that we debate the issues, but explanations and facts were treated with scorn. Attempts to find common ground saw the specifics of the demands being shifted; we want you to listen to us; we want you to change your ways; we want you to close your publication down. This movement that ostensibly wanted to protect free speech from cry-bully SWJs simultaneously did what it could to endanger sites it disagreed with."
Like the first author, Lees is addressing this from a politically Liberal perspective; hence he misses the underlying dynamic. The Red Pill Cultists were never about adopting ideals: their goals were, are, always have been to shut down and discredit those who oppose them. If we read their writings closely, the Red Pill Cult is all about reversing---not changing---corrupt social paradigms. They claim, for example, to be anti-feminist: they have nothing against gender supremacy so long as men are supreme. They claim to oppose reverse racial discrimination: but have nothing against things like Affirmative Action, so long as Whites are the only beneficiaries. So it was with Gamergate: the Red Pills never objected to the 'Narrative'---they simply wanted to change who controlled it.
Lees cites philosopher Umberto Eco to the effect that Fascism is built on 'frustration and machismo'---another way of saying, as the first author did, that young men are being radicalized. "The requirement of this formless Fascism would be---above all else---to remain in an endless state of conflict; a fight against a foe who must always be portrayed as impossibly strong and laughably weak. This was the methodology of Gamergate, and it now forms the basis of the contemporary Far-Right movement."
Not exactly. Lees misses the point that the basis of the movement predated Gamergate. The Red Pill Cult has its roots in the Game/PUA Movement now controlling the MRM. They were the ones who gave Gamergate its impetus. Game/PUA taught precisely that gender relations were in an endless state of conflict; and consistently portrays women as impossibly strong and laughably weak. The Gamergate proponents learned from the Red Pills---not vice-versa.
Lees concludes by saying: "We have no idea where this will lead, but our continued insistence on shrugging of the problems of the internet as unreal---something we can just log out of---is increasingly misled. 2016 has presented us with a world in which our reality is being willfully manipulated."
Very true. What these two authors are writing to Liberal audiences is just as important for Conservatives to understand. The Red Pills pose as Conservatives and Christians---while attacking both and openly expressing their goal of supplanting both. The tactic they employed in Gamergate is the same: they claim that the Republican Party and the Church has been feminized and they approach both institutions as Lees describes above. They are just as great a threat to freedom as the Far Left: and we must encourage Conservatives and Christians to oppose them at every turn.
It is a common, though often unrecognized facet of the male nature is its reaction to guilt and redemption. This is rarely discussed both because of our culture's general hostility towards masculinity, and because of false information circulated in the Manosphere and their counterparts, the Feminists. Men experience guilt typically by turning their anger inwards and seek redemption through action. With females this typically works the opposite way; and of course we are speaking here of moral men and women. The immoral never acknowledge guilt or the need for redemption in the first place. And even more typically, our culture has no sympathy whatsoever for fallen men.
This weekend's feature is a 1969 Western that highlights this psychological theme perfectly. Night of the Serpent stars Luke Askew and former beauty queen Magda Konopka.
Night of the Serpent is not by any means a standard Western, although there is plenty of action. A once-famous gunfighter known only as Luke (Askew) has hit bottom after a tragic accident in which he killed a young boy. Now a hopeless alcoholic, Luke has drifted to Mexico where he lives with a gang of bandits and is known only as 'The Gringo'. Luke is so far gone that the bandits assign him menial camp chores in exchange for tequila; and often bully and abuse him.
Meanwhile, a group of corrupt military officers plot to seize an inheritance by murdering a young heir. They approach Pancho, the leader of the bandits, to dispatch an expendable member of his band to commit the murder. The one chosen is going to be caught and executed. Pancho chooses Luke for the job. But when Luke confronts the boy, he comes face-to-face with the reality of what he has become; and come to grips with the circumstances that led to his moral and psychological breakdown. He decides to fight for the boy's rights instead: but can he be the great gunfighter he once was? That will be seen when watching.
Among fans of Westerns, Night of the Serpent has a strong segment who consider it one of the greatest Westerns of all time. It is a film that has an appeal to men who can relate to it on an intellectual level. By intellectual here we mean that class of men who can empathize with a character like Luke's. Real men have a deep respect for other men who can redeem and pull themselves out of terrible circumstances and come through when the chips are down. Unfortunately, this character-type has largely disappeared from pop-culture---mostly because the concept of redemption has also disappeared from it.
It is often---though mistakenly---believed by many that our Postmodern culture denies human evil and considers all actions equally moral. This is an illusion. Postmodernists reject morality, but embrace its opposite---immorality---as normative, and reject the idea of redemption. A character like Luke's, in their scheme of things, never has nor deserves forgiveness; no matter what he does.
Going against that philosophy is what makes Night of the Serpent a great film. This is a film and storyline that has a certain reality to it that real people can really follow. It's a display of the depths and heights a man can achieve when his actions are determined by moral choice.
Night of the Serpent is currently available only on DVD. It sometimes is listed under the title, Nest of Vipers.
One of ISIS' top leaders and most wanted war criminals was assassinated in Raqqa on Wednesday. Mullah Amineh Halabi was the Supreme religious leader of the terrorist gang, and de factor governor of Raqqa since ISIS head Abu Al-Baghdadi fled the city in late May. Al-Baghdadi's current whereabouts are unknown; but five masked men armed with silencers located and ambushed Halabi, sending the bloody Emir to Tartarus. The assassins escaped in a car; ISIS soldiers conducted a search which has so far proven fruitless.
Halabi was suspected by the United Nations as the instigator of ISIS' genocide against the Yehzidi population of Iraq and many other Crimes Against Humanity.
ISIS suffered another blow in Mosul as well. Yesterday, a warehouse containing the bulk of ISIS' rockets, IEDs, mines, and other WMDs mysteriously exploded, killing about 100 ISIS troops and setting the ISIS encampment on fire. The cause of the explosion is unknown; but the smoke was seen for miles and the terrorists were deprived of a major resource.
It should be noted that both incidents were reported by Fars News, which is heavily connected to the Iranian Security and Intelligence Services. Fars had no information on the assailants' identity nor the cause of the explosion, but they did seem to know quite a few other details about the incidents. Now we at this blog don't want to jump to conclusions---and certainly not give away any military secrets that might benefit the Jihadists. But we do offer here a tacit salute and a knowing wink to the Ayatollahs on two jobs well done.
In other war-related news, Syrian commandoes raided a major Al-Qaeda meth lab near Damascus, taking three local drug traffickers into custody and confiscating 60,000 Captagon pills bound for Western black markets. Russia announced today that their military would assist the United Nations in delivering UN humanitarian aid to liberated sectors of East Aleppo. Allied forces are also reportedly massing on all sides of Aleppo's Southern redoubt: Al-Qaeda's last position in the city. The final assault to liberate Aleppo is believed to be imminent.
A human interest story also came out of Damascus. Al-Furkhan Elementary School reopened after a November terrorist attack killed 8 children and wounded 20 others. The children drafted a letter of protest and delivered it by hand to the UN office in Syria. And here in America, college-age adults run to safe spaces over hurtful words and complain about microagressions. Go figure.
The city of Philadelphia was America's first capital and the site where the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. But today, the hometown of venerable old Ben Franklin was caught in an anti-Election scandal involving top-level city bureaucrats. It appears that Assistant City Solicitor Duncan Lloyd and an unidentified man in hoodie were caught on surveillance cameras, roaring drunk and spray-painting anti-Trump graffiti and obscenities on a grocery store wall.
Insurance investigators estimate the damage at above $3,000. But Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney has taken no disciplinary action against Duncan so far 'pending an investigation.' Which seems somewhat lenient, considering how Philadelphia authorities treat 10 year old girls. But here in the Prozac Nation, bringing scissors to school is worse than drunken city attorneys tagging private businesses with Anarchist graffiti.
Lloyd draws a $63,000 salary representing the City of Philadelphia in federal and state discrimination lawsuits. He is a graduate of Temple University Law School , famous for sponsoring events such as the one in the link. These are the same city bureaucrats who sue businesses and landlords to enforce politically-correct practices.
Craig Straw, Lloyd's boss who's also represented the City in some shady cases, said in a press release that "We do not condone this type of behavior from our employees...We will decide our course of action once we obtain more information from the investigation."
In other words, the incident will be swept under the rug until the media forgets about it.
The US Corporate Media idolizes the American Legal Establishment as dedicated professionals out to serve justice. The reality is that most American lawyers are on the level of Duncan Lloyd and Craig Straw. This media depiction is understandable, considering that the Legal Establishment and the Corporate Media are both heavy donors to Left-Wing political causes; and sensational trials sell well in the press. According to Law360, Pennsylvania had a record number of attorney disbarments in 2014 and the rate of suspensions rose 31% during the same period.
Ironically, Lloyd posted on a social network site recently that in his job "I hear the craziest stories---ones regularly driven by the mores of lust, anger, passion, and envy." Apparently either those mores are contagious, or Lloyd shares them with his client-base.
Ukraine's rump-government in Kiev is at it again. The Neo-Nazi Regime there, who seized power in a 2014 coup backed by Obama, Podesta, and Soros, has since lost the Crimean Peninsula to Russia and half the rest of the country secede and gain its independence. The Beltway has been propping up Kiev as best it can---including infrastructure and industrial invests that they've failed to make in our own country.
Ukraine's strongman, Petro Poroshenko, was one of the few world leaders who endorsed Hilary Clinton during the 2016 campaign for her hardline anti-Russian stance and her promises to keep Obama's welfare dollars flowing into Ukraine. The Ukrainian leadership at all levels is mentally unstable, to say the least. We're talking about a government which has endorsed ideas that Jesus was a Ukrainian and the Battle of Armageddon will be fought in Crimea.
To these ends, Poroshenko's government has formed a loose confederation of his few native sympathizers, European Skinheads, and Jihadist mercenaries into a national army, trained and equipped by the LGBTQ-friendly US Pentagon. This motley group has committed numerous crimes and is really united by its members' mutual hatred for Russia. Now Kiev has begun alleged 'missile tests' less than 20 miles from the Russian border, just outside of Crimea. Russia has responded by placing military units in Crimea and naval deployments in the Black Sea---including ABMs in case a Ukrainian missile 'accidentally' strays into Russian airspace. The missile launches are also taking place in a civilian airline corridor.
Ukraine has had a history of accidents with their missiles, including many that they have sold to the US. The most recent case exploded on the launchpad taking with it a $10 million communications satellite.
Thus, there have been no incidents, which seems to be annoying the Kiev Regime. Ukrainian General Vladimir Kryzhanovski stated to the press that, "We expected some kind of response from the Russians, but so far nothing is happening."
The Pentagon and NATO have blustered about 'Russian Aggression' again, but the US Navy met with two more international humiliations, which hardly would intimidate the world-class Russian Navy. The Navy's $4.4 billion destroyer Zumwalt broke down in the Panama Canal, disrupting shipping before being towed back to California. The Panamanian government launched a formal complaint.
This was bad enough, but then the Pajama-Boys in the Persian Gulf caused another embarrassment. While flying a Marine helicopter on patrol, the few, the proud were frightened away by an Iranian ship 1,000 yards in the distance. Our brave men and women in uniform claimed that they felt threatened when the Iranian crew was observed pointing a gun in their direction. The incident brought forth an outburst of outrage from the Rainbow Pride Pentagon---that Iran would dare enter into US Marines' safe spaces.
In contrast, Crimean Governor Sergei Aksyonov reassured citizens of the province that they had nothing to fear from the Ukrainians, as the Russian Government was on the job. "Ukrainian leaders are always playing dirty tricks," the governor said. "But this is not dangerous to the lives and safety of our citizens. Everything will be OK; the Russian armed forces fully ensure the security of Russian citizens, and that includes Crimea."
