On a Friday that's seen some actual newsworthy events, the US Corporate Media has been engaging in collective arm-flapping over some allegedly inflammatory remarks the President made during a Senate Conference. With the Fire and Fury expose going the way of the Golden Shower Hoax, the denizens of the Deep State are prowling about like a pack of hyenas looking for some other non-issue to distract public attention from the Administration's achievements.
So going outside the US Media, we note the headlines in the Chinese outlet, The Global Times and read the following: "Trump Denies S------e Countries Remark." That really should be about all we need to hear unless credible sources say otherwise. The Global Times goes to tell us about their sources (emphasis ours):
"Trump made the remarks, people briefed on the meeting told the Washington Post."
And:
"The New York Times later reported the same story, citing sources with direct knowledge of the meeting."
Like Michael Wolff's interviewees, the women whom Trump allegedly groped, the unnamed sources privy to Trump's dealings with Russia; etc.: these are the products of somebody's imagination whispered in some yellow-journalist's ear and palmed off on the public as truth.
The only actual named source to any of this is Senator Richard Durbin, who's no stranger to making bigoted remarks himself and is a notorious liar. Nothing this man ever says should be accepted at face value.
In fact, Durbin's quotes sound suspiciously like they were copied from another Catholic-hating xenophobic bigot like Michael Savage, who references Third World countries in the same language regularly. It wouldn't be surprising in the least if Durbin were secretly a regular listener to the Savage Nation. Savage has the same dislike for immigrants from Catholic countries as Durbin has. He's accused Latin American and Caribbean countries of sending immigrants "to fill Church pews" and "give the Priests more alter-boys to molest." When Melania and Ivanka attended Mass at the Vatican, Savage called the Ceremony "mumbo-jumbo and incense." Durbin---like most 'tolerant' Liberals---feels about the same way. His constituency in Illinois is made up of old-school George Wallace-type Democrats: the types who, during the Civil War, supported the Confederacy because they were keeping Blacks from migrating North.
The bottom line here is: Trump is innocent until proven guilty of said remarks. And he probably never will be proven guilty because he never said them. And as for the Corporate Media: the world's biggest public latrines are their own newsrooms---where the excrement seems to flow and where they wallow on a daily basis.
Paul Carter, a 47 year-old resident of Milwaukee was sentenced to 21 years in jail today after confessing guilt to multiple counts of sex trafficking and forced labor. President Trump announced earlier this month a crackdown on this type of crime.
Sex trafficking as a crime is widely misunderstood. Radical Feminists have widely exaggerated the extent of the crime; on the other hand Manosphere Red Pills practically deny its existence. Both sides are wrong. While sex trafficking isn't as widespread as the media implies; it causes considerable collateral damage to both the victims, their families, and the community at large.
Some in the Manosphere hold that sex trafficking is mostly a victimless crime. To that, we can take Paul Carter at his own words, because here is what he confessed to doing, from an FBI Press Release:
"After recruiting young women to dance at exotic nightclubs with false promises of more money and a better life, Carter used a combination of physical violence, isolation, emotional manipulation, and threats to harm the victims' families to exert control over the victims and compel them to perform commercial sex acts."
It sounds like Carter 'knew Game'. That description sounds much like what most Red Pills recommend to curb the Sins of Eve and Female Hypergamy.
Among things Carter confessed to doing was branding women with hot irons; kicking a girl's teeth out; throwing another out of a two-story window; locking them in closets; sticking guns down their throats, etc. And he carried out these activities for 12 years.
Of course, some Red Pills will snort that the women didn't resist and probably enjoyed this type of submission. Suffice it to say, they would have a much different opinion were the genders reversed.
People aren't always in a position where escape is possible. During WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, for example, POWs were told that a successful escape would result in the summary execution of comrades left behind. In Fascist and Communist regimes, innocent family members are killed for one's non-compliance. And of course, torture can be quite persuasive. Carter was really no different in his approach.
When societies abandon the idea that men are the providers and protectors of women, creatures like Carter and the Red Pills are the inevitable result. Feminism has created a worse atmosphere of objectification than existed before. Trying to value women and men by the same standards inevitably turns women into sexual commodities, bought and sold like livestock.
Along with his many other vices, Red Pill Cultist Vox Day is also a notorious cyber-bully. On the Vox Populi site, he and his disciples are hooting an internal e-mail from Google that one of his sympathizers leaked to him. It is from one Colin McMillan who, judging by the context, appears to be some sort of cybersecurity technician. McMillan writes:
"The specific part I'm concerned with the leaks to Vox Day is: that it was done by a Googler. [i.e. a Google employee] Said Googler knows that Vox Day and his followers have a history of doxxing various 'SJWs' whom they dislike. Whoever leaked this knew full well what they were doing, and that it would put specific Googlers' lives in potential danger; and leaked confidential communications intentionally, knowing these things. And thinking that Vox Day is on their side, otherwise why would they have leaked to him in particular? Whoever did this should not only be fired, but arrested for reckless endangerment of human life."
It sounds as though McMillan has fairly good grasp of Vox and his disciples' characters. Vox even displayed this e-mail for the public ridicule of his Alpha-Minions who have been exhausting their puny imaginations thinking up fiendish ways to exploit this intelligence. Vox himself boasted of his infiltrators and how 'SJWs' like McMillan were just cowards and engaging in a witch hunt.
Vox accuses Google of censorship and being 'SJW converged'. Besides encouraging leaks within Google; encouraging doxxing and harassing its employees; Vox has also praised the infamous Google Manifesto; and encourages his disciples to use other search engines. Yet, it is interesting that both Vox Populi and Alpha Game Plan are hosted on Blogger---which is owned by Google.
Some censorship. And if one does a Google Search for 'Vox Day', he's not exactly buried several pages deep. Really the only Red Pill site Google ever 'censored' was The Daily Stormer---and even that was for legal liability reasons and not for blog content.
Despite Vox' mockery, McMillan and Google have good reasons for ferreting out leakers and considering their lives in danger. As he indicated in the leaked e-mail, McMillan is well aware that he's dealing with fanatics who are capable of nearly anything. It's simply common sense that whoever is feeding Vox these leaks puts his loyalty to his cult-leader above even his own job security. And these people are also correct in that Vox has had a long track-record of cyberbullying both real and perceived enemies---and encouraging his disciples to go even further.
Recall that this is a guy who admires mass-murderers like Mullah Omar and Anders Breivik; and thus McMillan is prudent enough to understand that all it will take is one kook wanting to be a hero in Vox' eyes to flip out and put Google employees in imminent danger.
Also, consider that it is not simply a matter of employees at Google but users of Google products who could be put at risk as well. There is no indication that that has happened; but it certainly could happen unless Google management puts its foot down; and puts it down hard on the leakers. We're not talking here about a transparency issue such as with whistleblowers like Julian Assange or Edward Snowden. The leakers inside Google are not exposing internal corruption or violations of law; they are targeting opponents of a cult within the organization so that they can be intimidated and harassed by the cultists.
As for Google and free speech; just consider that they put up with this kind of treachery out of Vox and others like him and still afford him a platform. It doesn't take much discernment here to see who the good guys and bad guys are in this little melodrama.
Excluding the dozen or so readers who actually still follow the Corporate Media, probably not many of us know much about CNN host Jake Tapper. Apparently he's some kind of poobah among the anti-Trump media crowd. At any rate, he was called upon to interview Trump aide Stephen Miller about the Fire and Fury book. We examined the credibility of that book a few days ago. But Jake Tapper and Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff are cut from the same cloth.
Predictably, the interview didn't go well for Tapper; and the repeated mention of the President's name triggered him into an attack of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Tapper went berserk as Miller reeled off a list of Trump's accomplishments and finally terminated the interview before breaking down completely on-camera. CNN Security had to remove Miller for his own safety; as Tapper was reportedly throwing objects around the room; screaming obscenities, beat his fists on the table. CNN staff managed to calm the irate host---how was not specified.
The Corporate Media rallied around Tapper while Conservative blogs are praising Miller for standing up for Trump. After watching the interview, I do think that Tapper got baited; but professional journalists of yesteryear knew how to deal with these things. He really couldn't answer Miller; both because he's an incompetent interviewer and because Miller was stating indisputable facts.
Like many other celebrity-journalists, Tapper has no background in media. He was a former Democrat congressional aide; worked for a few lobbying firms; and held a position for some gun-control group before coming to CNN. Despite that, CNN pays him $300,000 per year. And their ratings show it: they have lower viewership than Cartoon Network, according to some sources.
The fact is simply that the MSM is carrying fake news, and has been faking it for some time. This is the kind of thing they've got to stop if they ever hope to regain the public trust. Nobody is going to take people like Tapper seriously if they act more like pro-wrestling announcers instead of investigative reporters. In other words, they need to stop pandering to Trash Culture and start focusing on their jobs.
For the second straight year, the US Center for Disease Control has downgraded American Life Expectancy Rates. The last two years of the Obama Administration saw a drop of nearly one year aggregated from national death statistics.
The CDC listed drug-related deaths as a major cause of the decline. This category was the 3rd leading cause of premature death (behind heart disease and cancer); up from 4th in 2015 and 5th in 2012. The Obama Administration denied there was any serious problem with narcotic addiction; but to put this in perspective, the US hasn't seen a three-year decline in Life Expectancy since the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1920. That was the most fatal global epidemic since the Black Plague of 1347-1350.
The largest demographic measured by the CDC was in 25-34 age group, which rose 11% over 2015. Narcotic overdoses were the leading cause of death and had risen 50% since 2014 alone. About 140 Americans die of overdoses every day. This is a higher figure than US fatalities incurred during the entire Korean War. Two-thirds of these were prescription opioids; primarily Fentanyl, Oxycodone, and Tramadol. And, since the new Administration began its crackdown, we're seeing that many of the people were turned on involuntarily by corrupt physicians and pharmacists.
President Trump declared a National Health Emergency in 2017 to address the problem. The Administration has made some significant progress in breaking the supply-chains for these drugs as well as extending drug-treatment programs. In December, Trump repealed an Obama-Era regulation which prohibited emergency personnel from possessing and administering antitoxins. Previously, overdose cases had to be transported to a medical facility to receive treatment. The new rule allows for immediate treatment.
The biggest component that the US has faced when dealing with narcotics has always been from the demand side. The Reagan Administration began a fairly successful program of anti-drug education. But Democrat and RINO Administrations elevated it to a 'Drug War' which was largely a failure. Obama's Administration took a head-in-the-sand approach and mostly dropped the problem onto state and local officials. Local governments either followed Obama's example and denied the problem, or conversely, made a spirited attempt to stop it. Usually though the latter were overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the addiction rates.
Thus, the demand-side of the narcotics epidemic is really at the center of the issue. It's a double-edged problem because at a certain point a chronic addict loses control of his will power. This is why Trump's proposals have a good chance of success. They cover all three aspects: education, enforcement, and treatment. Trump's approach is much more humane than the Bush/Clinton policies in that users are helped instead of incarcerated; the latter reserved for the distributors and traffickers. It is also an improvement over the Reagan policies in that it takes proactive measures.
Hopefully, then, 2017 statistics will show a reversal in these trends. It was another social problem of the Deep State Era that went unchecked.
Today, the Trump Administration announced that US factory orders had risen to their highest levels since before the 2008 Recession and that job cuts had reached their lowest levels since just before the 1992 Recession. Another two quarters of these kinds of reports, and we will be officially out of the recessionary period which began under Bush Jr. and continued throughout the Obama years.
One would think that these announcements would be headlines; but the Corporate Media instead is focusing on a newly-published book, Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff. The tome is allegedly an expose of the Trump inner circle and it is all the rage in the effete drawing-rooms of the so-called Elite.
Michael Wolff is, of course, a part of the Corporate Media himself. He writes for such deep journalistic publications as USA Today and Hollywood Insider. He's also affiliated with GQ; the media outlet which recently named Colin Kaepernick as its 'Man of the Year' and sponsored the now-defunct Keith Olbermann's Resistance. He formerly also worked for Vanity Fair. His net worth is reportedly around $12 million, pending the profits off his new book.
With credentials like that, who can doubt the veracity of Wolff's reporting? Well, some of Wolff's own media cronies do. In 2004, Michelle Cottle wrote in The New Republic that Wolff's journalistic ethics were open to some question saying that he "fixates on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money. The scenes in his columns aren't so much recreated as created outright; springing from Wolff's own imagination rather than from an actual knowledge of events." By 2018, of course, none of this was an impediment to journalism, but a decade ago---though while dominated by Liberals---newsmen did actually care about their reputations.
In 2010, Wolff was also peer-criticized by The Columbia Journalism Review for alleged bias in favor of Robert Murdoch during the infamous British phone-hacking scandal. Two years earlier, Wolff had written a flattering biography of Murdoch. Shortly after this bio was published, Wolff got a lucrative job heading the online version of The Industry Standard. That publication was owned by the late Patrick McGovern, a good friend of the Murdochs.
Wolff later took over Adweek, but was fired for unspecified reasons a year later.
There have already been accusations that Fire and Fury is nothing but a collection of libelous lies, and a few principals featured therein have actually taken legal action. Just as a side note: public figures rarely do this unless the lies and libels are fairly egregious. It's very probable that Fire and Fury's title will be a good prediction of its fate as a writing. If a betting man, I would lay odds that six weeks from now nobody will remember this book.
But Wolff is likely to realize a significant profit in the meantime. Let's hope that he invests wisely, since the people whom he's criticizing are taking the economy upwards to new highs.
Today's announcement from the Trump Administration which rescinded the so-called 'Holder Memorandum' has caused near panic among West Coast Leftists. In 2013, former US Attorney-General Holder issued this dictum, which essentially ordered Federal authorities to refrain from taking legal action against marijuana use in states where it had been legalized.
Politicians like Washington Governor Jay Inslee---people to whom the pothead vote is important---went so far as to threaten Federal authorities with violence. "Any Federal Prosecutor who tries to enforce this won't be safe on the streets of Washington State." Inslee vowed. A sentiment not unlike his fellow-Democrat George Wallace once proposed about desegregation laws. Wallace had to be reminded, rather pointedly, that threatening federal officials is a serious offence; it wouldn't hurt Inslee to remember the same thing.
But Leftist hysteria aside, today's decision was part of a comprehensive policy initiated a few months ago. Previous Administrations had fallen into the illegal practice of creating laws out of whole cloth simply by attaching them to Memorandums which were intended to be nothing more than policy guidelines. The Department of Justice under President Trump has stopped this practice and is in the process of repealing Memorandums which are contrary to law.
The 2013 Memorandum was one of these. The Federal Government still classifies marijuana as a controlled substance. Congress never passed any law repealing that classification. Holder had no authority to permit states to opt out of the law. Therefore, the Memorandum itself was illegal; and therefore states which have legalized marijuana have done so in violation of Federal Law.
That is the extent of the legal problem here. Either Congress or the Courts will have to intervene and either repeal the existing law or declare it unconstitutional if marijuana is to be made legal. Or conversely, uphold the existing law. But that's what should have been the first place, because it really boils down to legal conflicts. For example, marijuana producers in a legal state cannot comply with IRS guidelines because they are officially engaged in a criminal enterprise. Likewise, states are profiting off revenues withheld from other states.
The other legal issue is that a State cannot nullify a Federal Law. This was decided in 1832 when South Carolina refused to uphold the federal cotton tax. Holder really messed this up badly because he essentially granted states the authority to nullify laws---and selectively, at that. The states which legalized marijuana are in the position of enforcing an ex post facto law on the marijuana industry, which is also unconstitutional. The Obama Administration once again put everybody involved in a legal Catch-22.
The way to approach this is to sort it out through the courts and through legislation. Above all, heavy-handed measures like the anarchistic Inslee suggests should be avoided. From the Trump Administration's side, going back to Clinton-Era 'Drug War' tactics would also be counterproductive. What we need is a cohesive national policy. It's simply wrong that people in one part of the country can get stoned in Hookah Lounges while people in another part face mandatory minimum prison sentences for far less egregious actions. It can't be both ways.
Granted, it's not to tell hop-heads to be patient and think clearly. But clear heads and reason are what's needed here the most.
