The Corporate Media once again got humiliated after spreading rumors and innuendoes about the recent threats against American Jewish communities. According to the official narrative, this is all the handiwork of 'conservatives'. We see this kind of thing whenever there is some such incident; and it rarely ever happens to be the case.
The Media Elites could get away with this kind of chicanery before we had access to alternative and foreign sources. Thus, when the FBI recently arrested Juan Thompson, a Liberal Black media employee, last month for some of the anti-Semitic threats the Media Cartels could do little but snap back that Thompson was only responsible for a few of the crimes.
Matters got worse for the Media---though better for American Jews---when Israeli authorities announced this morning that they had apprehended the suspect responsible for most of the threats---an Israeli Jew with an alleged history of mental problems. The Media was doubly shamed when it was revealed that the Trump Administration had collaborated with the Israeli Government to catch the perpetrator.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a statement to the humiliated press: "Today's arrest in Israel is the culmination of a large-scale investigation spanning several continents for hate-crimes against Jewish communities in our country. The Department of Justice is committed to protecting the civil rights of all Americans, and we will not tolerate the targeting of any community in this country on the basis of their religious beliefs."
Contrary to what the Corporate Media said, it appears that President Trump was serious when he promised last month to put a stop to these threats and attacks.
Israeli officials have not released the suspect's name due to an ongoing investigation; but have told the Israeli media that he is a 19 year-old Israeli-American Jew who was allegedly bitter about being disqualified for service in the Israeli Defense Force. Thompson was a similar case: his threats were linked to cyberstalking a woman he'd once dated.
In a way, it's too bad that the Manosphere is racist and anti-Semitic; both these guys sound like they would make ideal 'Red Pills'.
In addition to the American threats, the Israeli suspect is believed responsible for threatening Jewish centers in Europe and Australia and a false bomb-threat against a Delta Airlines flight in 2015.
This is one more troublemaker taken off the streets and American Jews can thank President Trump, AG Sessions, and Prime Minister Netanyahu on a job well done. Don't expect any plaudits from the Corporate Media, though. According to them, the major story today are allegations that Donald and Melania sleep in separate beds.
Red Pill cult guru and general social gadfly Vox Day is in some hot water with Amazon Books. His front company, Castalia House Publishing, released a new book which has since been blocked by several Amazon reviewers for numerous violations of company policy. Science Fiction writers and readers across the country reacted with glee, until the humiliated Vox agreed sheepishly to Amazon's conditions.
The background to this story is that Vox has a long-standing feud with renowned author John Scalzi, whose success Vox clearly envies. Like a mean-spirited adolescent, Vox finally crowned all of his attacks on Scalzi by publishing a pseudo-parody of Scalzi's latest work, The Collapsing Empire. But this time Vox went too far---even copying the cover of Scalzi's work, repackaging the title as The Corroding Empire and the author as 'Johan Kalsi'. Many believed this was done intentionally as way of spamming Scalzi, who recently signed a multi-million dollar deal with Tor Books---a legitimate publishing company based in the US (unlike Castalia House which is based in Finland).
After he was caught red-handed in this shameful ploy, Vox tried to claim that his book was intended to be satire; although he earlier wrote at the Vox Populi blog:
"After all what would be more amusing than for 'The Corroding Empire' to outsell and outrank 'The Collapsing Empire'? This isn't a lame parody; it is, quite to the contrary, a 'Foundation'-style novel that effectively demonstrates how hapless Tor's latest imitative mediocrity is by comparison."
So much for being a satire. And Vox---who's spent the last three days complaining that he was the target of some nefarious conspiracy within the Amazon corporate infrastructure, is now howling that the Castalia copy is getting panned by reviewers (whom Vox suspects are all stooges of Scalzi's).
It should be noted that, among the Science Fiction community, Vox' reputation as a writer seems to be somewhere near the absolute bottom and his character is regarded even lower. His nominated works for the prestigious Hugo Award have scored lower than 'None of the Above' for the past three straight years---in spite of numerous allegations that Vox and his Red Pill disciples were manipulating the ballots. In 2013, he was unanimously expelled from the Science Fiction Writers Association for using their official Twitter feed to make personal attacks against other SFWA members. This was shortly after he lost the election as head of the SFWA to noted author Stephen Gould by a 90-point margin. Vox has held a grudge against Twitter, Gould, and the SFWA ever since.
The lesson from this latest fiasco instigated by the Red Pills is that they are hardly the 'masculine archetypes' that they represent themselves to be. Are there problems in the publishing industry? Certainly. But as men---and as Conservatives---we need to hold ourselves to more mature standards of behavior. Ask yourselves whether or not Vox and others like him are what you'd want your sons to be. The kind of narcissistic and spiteful behavior that the Red Pills engage in shows again that they aren't part of anything that represents real Conservatism.
The Corporate Media is still sulking over Secretary of State Tillerson's 'snub'---i.e. telling fake news operatives that they'd have to pay for their own trips from now on. In a fit of petty spite, they've been spewing a lot of negativity about the Trump Administration's first major diplomatic visit. Fortunately, in the Information Age, we have access to foreign media sources which not only report real news, but give us a perspective apart from the Corporate Media's biases.
For example, when we read in the Chinese media---which equivocally reflects the attitudes of the Chinese government---positive commentary on Tillerson's trip, we can be sure that our own media's spin is just that: spin.
The bulk of the Tillerson trip was spent in Beijing where the Secretary of State met with high-ranking officials, including President Xi Jinping. Xi was reportedly officially invited to visit President Trump in Mar-a-Lago next month. We think it may safely be assumed that Xi is anticipating this visit much more than the dreary séances he held with Obama.
One of the more remarkable moments of Tillerson's visit was his use of the phrase "Sino-US relations must be built on non-confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation" which is phrase that Xi himself often employs in political speeches. Trump's detractors have snuffed about this claiming that Trump is caving in to China, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The reason that China has been so successful in expanding its global hegemony and influence recently is not simply because of American weakness. Xi Jinping is following a new model, which that phrase expresses aptly. It's really a policy of bilateralism. For example, China offers a certain country an equal exchange of resources that both countries need. This has been especially effective in developing countries where China builds infrastructure and creates jobs in exchange for economic and military benefits.
Trump's foreign policy has yet to take concrete shape, yet the president seems inclined to follow the Chinese model and applying it to American interests. The model followed by the previous administrations have been abject failures as the collapse of our policies in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe abundantly testify.
For either America or China to take a hardline at this point---either economically or militarily in the Pacific---would be a suicidal course of Mutually-Assured Destruction. Even worse, such a power vacuum would likely be filled by a resurgent Fascist Japan: and that truly would be a disaster. The US and China need to resume their historic friendship and work together our mutual benefit and as the dominant powers in the Pacific.
Chinese political pundits overall are expressing a cautious optimism towards Tillerson's remarks. Cautious optimism is also a proper approach for own leaders to take; though we can't expect that from our DNC-dominated punditocracy; which would prefer WW3 to a Trump diplomatic success. The upcoming Trump-Xi Summit will be extremely important for the course both countries will follow; but for now things are looking quite positive.
The Red Pill Cult blogger Dalrock and several of his disciples in the Manosphere have been waging a recent battle against romance; which they claim is corrupting. In their usual roundabout methods of reasoning, they claim that romantic love is unbiblical and that, because romantic love features in Ancient Roman and Mediaeval literature, that the Church has been corrupted for centuries.
It's a common tactic of certain cults to claim that the existing religion is corrupt and the cultists are leaders in 'purifying' it. The worst contemporary example of this are the Wahhabi and Salafist Cults in Islam---which have spawned ISIS, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other such groups. A word to the wise, though: with all the recent talk on Red Pill blogs about 'coming civil war' and 'white genocide' we shouldn't rest on our laurels and assume that fake Christians aren't capable of doing what fake Moslems do.
So, in attacking Christianity, Dalrock and these others have co-opted the Radical Feminist doctrine that Christian romantic love and monogamous marriage are meant to oppress a certain gender; although the respective camps claim that their own gender is being repressed. Romantic love is, in reality, a high expression of gender polarity often concealing a spiritual truth. But with their purely carnal instincts, both the Feminists and Red Pills believe this attraction is only sexual---an idea derived from Marxism and other 19th Century Communistic 'free love' movements.
Thus, Dalrock has been publishing a series of absurd articles claiming that the Church's supposed repression of unrestrained male sexuality led men to 'pedestalize' women---and thus feminize the Church from an early date. Awkwardly enough for the Red Pills, though they might separate monogamous love from Christian doctrine, can't separate it from Western Civilization. Civilization itself is predicated on monogamy; and Civilization existed before Christ's Advent.
The Red Pills, of course, realize this philosophical dilemma, so they often circumvent the difficulty by claiming that marriage and monogamy are pagan importations into the Church and fall back into the heresy of Judaizing; claiming that Jewish marriage customs of the Old Covenant apply to Christians today. The Red Pill blogger Artisanal Toad, whom we spoke of recently, has been writing a series on 'Christian' marriage premised heavily on Old Covenant rules. Mr. Toad is a follower of Dalrock, Vox Day, Rollo Tomassi and other Red Pill spiritual leaders. His essential argument is that male sexuality in its most degraded and barbarous forms are sanctioned by Christian Doctrine. Dalrock actually agrees with this; as he states in about the story of Jacob and Rachel:
"As Cane Caldo {another Red Pill cultist} pointed out, Jacob's love for Rachel was not the sentimental, purifying true love of modern love tales. Jacob loved Rachel because she was beautiful. He wasn't captivated by her 'inner beauty' He didn't love her 'for who she was'. He wanted her to be his and to have sex with her...Moreover, as Cane also points out, we're never told that Rachel had any romantic or sexual feelings towards Jacob; that he never 'wins her heart'".
There is nothing holy or Christian about this: Dalrock and Cane Caldo are repeating what the Materialist writers of Communism and Feminism would say. They too deny spirituality in love. And if anyone doubts this, note well what a commenter said on one of Mr. Toad's recent articles, which Toad---who refers to Augustine and Jerome as 'sexual perverts' endorses:
"It seems to me that a lot of Tradcon Churchians are sex-hating Betas who can't stand the idea of a sexually free and happy man who is not a boring low sex-drive monogamist. A lot of their hostility seems to come from their Puritan hatreds of non-Puritan men: they hate the idea that a man having oral and anal sex with his wife (or wives) has not sinned; they hate the idea that a man can have six wives and that God wholeheartedly approves; they hate the idea that women can have Lesbian relationships and are sinless for doing so; and they hate the idea that men can have all the extramarital sex they want and God sees no sin."
Which is nothing but Anarchist-Communist 'free love' propaganda painted over with a pseudo-Christian varnish. But to the Red Pills, believers in traditional marriages and families---where men and women have emotional and spiritual bonds---are 'tradcons'; 'cuckservatives'; 'White-Knight Beta Chumps'; and 'churchians'. And yet these all claim that they aren't Leftists.
Church and Civic leaders need to be more aware and speak out against these abhorrent philosophies which are infiltrating both our religious and social institutions to a great extent. The allure behind these hideous beliefs are based in a culture-wide alienation of men. The Red Pill leaders themselves probably never would have been successful in even a patriarchal society; but in anti-male social milieu their frustrations and bitterness have a measure of plausibility to vulnerable men who've suffered genuine injustices. Our religious and civil leaders need to step forward and recognize the problem; mentoring vulnerable men onto the right path.
The Corporate Media, which takes in huge advertising and stock-market revenue from Big Pharma and the Insurance Cartels, has been bashing President Trump's proposals to reform the system. According to the political and media elites, Obamacare is a perfectly-functioning system.
However, since last November, the US Department of Health and Human Services has been rounding up an unprecedented number of criminal rings operating with the medical system. The latest example comes from the Leftist-controlled bastion of Seattle. Federal authorities last week opened a formal investigation into the Swedish Hospital Neuroscience Institute. Since Obamacare was established, Swedish Neuroscience has raked in the highest number of Medicare reimbursements---far in excess of other area hospitals. Though Swedish denies any illegal activities, CEO Tony Armada and top surgeon John Delashaw have quickly resigned.
Swedish Neuroscience is hardly an isolated example. Here's a sampling of some of the deep cuts to the poor and needy which have happened since Tom Price was confirmed as Trump's HHS Secretary in February:
Feb. 28: Dallas---16 charged in $60 million Medicare Fraud Case
March 1: New York---2 doctors and operatives of City Medical Associates arrested in $50 million fraud scheme
March 2: Detroit---physician pleads guilty in $5.4 million fraud scheme
March 3: Baltimore---$1.2 million fraud settlement from corrupt hospital equipment supplier
March 3: Miami---Two plead guilty in $20 million home-healthcare fraud scheme
March 6: Newark---Physician arrested for accepting bribes from Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services for test referrals
March 13: Boston---Charles River Laboratories agrees to pay $1.8 million in fines for falsely billing HHS for services never performed
March 14: Miami---Florida operator of a home healthcare service provider arrested for a $15 million fraud scheme
March 16: Spokane---Cardiologist settles for $300,000 fines for filing false Medicare reports.
Price is evidently on quite a roll; the physicians and administrators at Swedish would probably be well-advised to make a quick trip for an international boundary line. Maybe some of the stories we've been hearing from the Corporate Media about medical professionals leaving the country have another aspect that we're not being told about.
In other words, since February, the Trump Administration has saved Obamacare almost a quarter-billion dollars without cutting a single program. This is simply from mopping up on criminals operating within the system.
But another good question is: why haven't we heard a peep from the Corporate Media about any of these successes? Especially when we consider that HHS publically maintains a website with a running tally which is updated daily.
This is the kind of healthcare system the so-called Cultural Elites would like to maintain: one which is ostensibly for the poor but actually for the benefit of corrupt medical mandarins. It will be interesting to see how the Trump Administration intends to overhaul the system; but so far, Trump is off to a good start.
A couple of recent stories prominently covered by several blogs have demonstrated that the Corporate Media has reached levels of irresponsibility that need to be addressed officially. This is beyond the scope of their usual fake news and propaganda; but are in actual violation of Federal broadcasting guidelines.
One example making the rounds of the Internet today concerns CNN pundit Fareed Zakaria who---in a spasm of Trump Derangement Syndrome---lost control of himself during an interview with Don Lemon. Zakaria reeled a string of half-dozen profanities in less than one minute.
While this may be typical behavior for Liberals in public venues, the Federal Communications Commission states on its own website that "Profane content includes 'grossly offensive' language that is considered a public nuisance...Indecent or profane content are prohibited on broadcast television and radio between 6 AM and 10 PM where there is a reasonable risk that children may be watching. Because obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, it is prohibited on cable, satellite, and broadcast television and radio."
According to new FCC guidelines, violations of such rules are punishable by monetary fines per profane utterance, rather than a lump sum. Maybe getting CNN to fork over some fines will teach their employees some civilized behavior.
The other flagrant example last week came from MSNBC where Rachel Maddow brought out President Trump's 2005 tax return. Trump's tax burden is an issue with which the Left is completely obsessed---for no apparent reason. The President released a message later that the tax return was obtained by MSNBC illegally.
"Violation of the terms of a broadcast license due to technical fault or illegal content may result in fines or revocation of the license." the FCC explains, "The FCC has the authority to issue civil monetary penalties, revoke a license, or deny a renewal application. In addition, violators of the law---if convicted in a Federal Court---are subject to criminal fines and imprisonment for not more than two years."
Some might object that this is censorship, but it is simple enforcement of the law to ensure civilized and legal behavior from the press. Yes, some will say, but what about whistleblowers like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden? The answer is in the intention. Assange and Snowden broke the law to expose illegal activities by political officials. Zakaria and Maddow acted from a desire to shock and offend---and neither exposed anything of politically or socially redeeming value. It is a matter of whether or not the action was in the public interest.
It is in the public interest to encourage investigative reporting and transparency; it is not in the public interest to condone profanity-laden diatribes and illegally obtained personal data being broadcast. CNN and MSNBC need to be punished; or this kind of behavior will continue to happen. Zakaria should cough up a substantial part of his $4 million net worth in fines; MSNBC is facing a more serious fate should it happen that Trump's tax returns were in fact illegally obtained.
At any rate, it's time for the FCC to step up to the plate and smack down some arrogant elites who believe themselves above the law.
When the Anglosphere was actually a more masculine culture, it was often considerable remarkable by foreigners of how Anglo-American men could maintain a seeming levity even in the face of the most desperate circumstances. It was something of a testimony to that era that men had that kind of courage. In a week where we've seen American men sink to the level of Jon Decker's and Jason Pollock's complete public meltdowns, the 'devil-may-care' attitudes of our tougher ancestors should be highlighted.
This masculine attitude gave rise in mid-20th Century popular culture to a genre called Dark Comedy. Almost all of this genre came from American and British studios. Typically, the story concerned a serious subject, but was interspersed with typically human and understandable comedic or romantic sidelines. A common theme was a hard-boiled detective who used his wits and found time to romance heroines or deal with personal problems along the way. Their foils were usually types who took everything too seriously: bumbling by-the-book police and/or ruthless criminals constantly frustrated by the hero's clever ruses.
This weekend's recommendation is a specimen of that genre from 1941 titled No Hands on the Clock. It stars Chester Morris---best known for the Boston Blackie series---as private detective Humphrey Campbell and the beautiful Jean Parker as Louise, his newlywed bride.
So the storyline begins in Nevada, where Campbell has been sent by his boss Oscar Flack to find a runaway girl named Louise. Campbell not only finds her, but marries her too and they elope together for a romantic honeymoon in Reno. The wily Flack tracks the Campbells down and tries to get him to postpone the vacation until he locates a wealthy rancher's missing son. Flack promises Mrs. Campbell that "it will only take a couple of hours" and throws a new mink coat into the bargain.
Instead of a few hours, Campbell finds a murder scene for which he's framed; and worse still, his picture is in the newspaper and he finds to his chagrin that he also resembles a gang member upon whom the mob has a contract and for whom the FBI is searching. To complicate matters further, his jealous bride has a habit of finding him just when he's questioning another woman. Campbell has to race against the clock to stay one step ahead of the real killer, the vengeful mob, the FBI, and smooth things over with his wife at the same time.
One thing that characterizes most of Chester Morris' films: nobody dies of boredom watching them.
The so-called Snowflake Generation that agonizes over 'micro-aggressions' and 'hurtful words' of course can't even relate any longer to the kind of confidence that laughs at desperate situations or the faith that things will work out in the end. This film genre was born from a generation that lived through WW1 and the Great Depression, and whose immediate relatives had survived the US Civil War and the economic turmoil of the Industrial Revolution. WW2, Korea, and the Cold War were on the horizon. It took the best characters that America could produce to rise above and overcome such circumstances---and enjoy the happy things of life in the process. Character portrayals like these are testimony to the resilience, confidence, and faith that characterized a once-great people.
And it makes refreshing viewing on a St. Patrick's Day weekend that would otherwise be spent with anti-Trump riots; homosexual intrusions into children's parades; and the annual orgy of Catholic-bashing that today accompanies what was once a day to honor an Irish saint. An hour-and-a-half of adventure, fun, and romance is a lot more productive use of one's time.
Maybe we need an outlook like Humphrey and Louise Campbell possessed. It would certainly make life a lot easier.
No Hands on the Clock did fairly well at the box office, though ironically it was released less than a week before the Pearl Harbor attack. It is available currently for free viewing on Youtube and also on DVD.
