RSSSteve carries a double shot Derringer in the sleeve of his ruffled shirt.
OT, but OK, I'm game. You tell us who blew it up. No one else seems to really know but you must have access to information that we don't. But you have to present real evidence and not just handwaving or "who benefited". Cui bono is not the same thing as proof.Replies: @tyrone, @Corpse Tooth, @MGB, @AndrewR, @Anon, @Abe, @Bardon Kaldian, @Hypnotoad666
Who blew up Nordstream 2?
No, you’re not game. You’re not game at all.
Bostrom is slightly nuts: google Bostrom and "simulation argument."
Steve, are you familiar with the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom? Apparently some of his past comments on a forum were unearthed where he called blacks “stupid” and “ni%%ers”.
“slightly nuts”
A lot of intelligent, highly technical people believe in simulation theory. It’s a dreary concept that can induce a nihilistic mental state which can be quite exhausting.
Well... perhaps we should put "intelligent" in quotes!There are two quite obvious logical errors in the simulation argument:A) It begs the question. The argument is based on the idea that the true laws of the universe are basically those we ourselves know from modern science: from those laws the simulation argument is derived. But if we are in a simulation, then the laws we have derived only hold in the simulation, not in the "real" universe. We actually know nothing about that "real" universe.B) It involve a disastrous and quite silly category error. There are numerous simulations nowadays of airplanes, but you cannot actually use a simulation to fly from Singapore to London: a simulation is a (partial) copy of the real thing. It is not the real thing. The idea that a simulation of consciousness in a computer is actually conscious is just as silly as claiming that a simulation of you doing exercises will cause you to lose weight.These are not serious people.C) My colleague Sabine Hossenfelder in her recent book Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions points out another problem: the real world is very, very complex. There is no reason to believe that a computer -- any computer -- can store and process all the information required to model in fine detail, say, the biosphere of the earth.Unless, perhaps, that computer is as big or bigger than the earth.In which case, why build a computer as large as the object to be simulated? Why not just build the real thing?Well... maybe in the "real" world, the laws of physics are so different that computers are much, much more powerful. But that takes us back to Objection A. It's cheating.These counter-arguments are quite obvious and pretty conclusive.So, why do supposedly "intelligent" people accept the simulation argument?I would simply ask how many of them have actually shown their supposed intelligence by any successful achievements in dealing with the (real) material world.Perhaps most of them are better dealing with words than with the real material universe.By the way, there is a joke among physicists that quantum mechanics is simply a bug in the operating system.But that is a joke.Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
A lot of intelligent, highly technical people believe in [Bostrom's] simulation theory. It’s a dreary concept that can induce a nihilistic mental state which can be quite exhausting.
“It’s all country clubs, cocktails, and courtesans.”
It used to be like that. But the younger white guys have reduced testosterone levels and couldn’t keep up.
“Woo hoo!”
Takes too much energy to woo hoo.
Did you build Lincoln Log forts when you were a kid?
“Weimar Germany was chock-full of energy.”
Oh boy, was it ever.
“I say bumph.”
The examples given are of societies in advanced decay and/or in self-immolation mode. What they have in common is the atmosphere of a roiling sea. And from the tumult beautiful things are created and destroyed. This energy cannot be directed; it has to burn itself out. From its ashes can rise new origins or a murderous spirit that hasn’t quite died.
Police chiefs and county Sheriffs in California’s centers of urban squalor tend to be highly politicized. If you live in Bay Area and adjacent counties your odds of obtaining a CCW are next to nil unless you have a well-networked lawyer. The rural(ish) counties north, south, and east of LA and SD, now that the indigenous whites have mostly fled, are controlled by Democratic Party aligned Latinos. Best bet for law-abiding whitey in the Golden State is to move to far north counties — excluding the Hippie dominated coastal enclaves Mendocino and Humboldt — like Shasta, Siskiyou, and Modoc. It’s State of Jefferson territory, and if the local constabularies have steel in their spine when facing pressure to subvert the law by Bonta’s office or the goons of the terribly-faced Garland, you’re likely to get a CCW, if you don’t have a criminal record. But there’s no need to carry concealed weapons in those parts: the dudes up there usually carry AR-15s or 12 gauge pumps in their auto transports.
If you live in a place like LA where the pressures of the current anarcho-tyranny regime are tremendous (Steve, stay in your closet), consider a drop gun.
The brandishing of automatic weapons by some European police agencies in public settings is a legacy of the NATO Gladio networks which operated throughout post war Europe, creating a strategy of tension through the use of synthetic terrorist groups to keep tensions and military budgets high during the Cold War.
European police were often cross-trained in anti-terror strategy and tactics. In the 1960s through the 1990s it wasn’t unusual to see cops with machine guns and stun grenades patrolling airports and train stations. The major metropolitan police forces in the U.S. adopted these modes after the still strange 9/11 event.
Jasun Horsley’s “The Vice of Kings” is both a biography of his uppercrust Fabian family and an exploration of the pedophilia networks of the 1960s and 1970s that serviced the English aristocracy –perhaps the most wretched group of elites to curse the Earth. Demon-in-daylight Jimmy Saville features prominently in the narrative. Horsley, a capable writer, goes about his task as philosophical investigator, a smart choice given the lurid nature of his story.
“Men need more praise.”
Masculinity, as an ideal, a set of attributes, needs to be encouraged and praised. Men need to earn praise.
And more "bewitching" for people further and further removed from basic realities.
Language as a bewitching force – Wittgenstein’s idea perfectly well illustrated.
Your boner for “verbalists” is quite obvious and amusing. Did a verbalist steal one of your lady friends?
Hey -- I deserve equal credit! I'm the one who has been pushing the meme "parasitic verbalist overclass."
Your boner for “verbalists” is quite obvious and amusing. Did a verbalist steal one of your lady friends?
“B) The Davos crowd are incompetent mediocrities.”
This response is short-sighted and lazy. The easy dismissal crowd are the same who believe the left/right divide in Western politics has meaning. The Davos-WEF luminaries are intertwined with the Five-Eyes security state apparatus and the BlackRock/Vanguard financial string-pullers. So far, in their zeal to protect Mother Earth from grubby humans, they’ve managed to convince the Five Eyes governments and Germany to put limits on carbon-based fuels and natural gas which is steadily eroding the standard of living for all but the Davos-WEF luminaries. What we are dealing with is organized crime on a massive scale that operates under the protective cover of the Five-Eyes apparatus.
Everybody’s got their thing: with Steve it’s race and creepy dogs; for Chris Rufo it’s CRT and ESG. Hey Chris, who do you think enforces ESG standards on corporations? The BlackRocks and Vanguards of the financial world. The same banksters who work hand-in-glove with the climate extremists of the WEF. Hey Steve, why do you have a dog that was the pick of the litter from Klaus Schwab’s bitch?
As for Elon Musk, “truthteller”: He’ll do business with any entity that’ll help him get to Mars where he can groove on all those fascinating ancient advanced human artifacts that are scattered throughout the tragically killed Red Planet. Hey Elon: Your rockets are laughable. Why can’t you tap into the 9th generation foo fighters that the shadow military operates? Probably shouldn’t have smoked weed in public.
“I have a shirt-tail who owns and operates an atelier.”
Verbalist.
“but to humiliate”
This is the standard operating procedure for the current crop of malignant elites. They perform their degradation and death rituals in public for all to see; they know there is no oppositional force to their physical and psychic violence. Being subject to their vile whims without recourse feeds their glee. It’s their cherry on top.
How do you get a job as an intellectual? Do you have to join the league of ordinary gentlemen? If I join will I still be able to have coitus with black women?
Because it's an insignificant story that is only of local interest? Why do you need a "feed' - can't you look for it yourself?
Now can someone tell me why my news feed doesn’t have the prison break in Idaho?
“PS they caught the guys.”
“PS they caught the goys.” — a snippet from the transcription of the infamous leaked classified Zoom call between DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas and his ‘Triad’.
“William Paley was running a commercial company.”
Ever hear of moonlighting? If you were offered a position as an empire builder of an empire that would eventually be absorbed by globohomo wouldn’t you cut your hours at the photography studio?
I have lived in Portland; I have a couple of friends who live in Portland. Portland still has a lot going for it — namely its position within wonderful geography that features forested and beautiful coastlines, healthy rivers and streams, the Cascades to the east, and the fertile and verdant Willamette Valley to the south.
When I lived in Portland, there were times when you had to step over young junkies whilst navigating the central city. Rose City has been a magnet for aimless, drifting, suicide-inclined white youth from across the country since the Grunge 1990s. But now it’s worse: the current young whites are more psychologically damaged and violent than the mostly passive junkies. Their heads are filled with poison courtesy of the culture, education establishment, and sometimes their parents. And this subset of white youth are more inclined to spread destabilization, and inflict physical damage on others rather than themselves. They are extreme narcissists.
Portland’s got a people problem. Once residents figure out they need to clean house within city leadership, and make the streets unsafe for the terroristic antifa scum, then Portland can begin climbing out of its period of darkness.
Much of the psychosis you’re seeing is attributable to methamphetamine use solely, or as an adjunct to opiates. Fentanyl gets a lot of press because of its deadliness, but of the two, Meth is much more damaging to the human mind.Replies: @epebble
But now it’s worse: the current young whites are more psychologically damaged and violent than the mostly passive junkies.
Pending that, could they let the rest of us have our state back?
...Portland’s got a people problem. Once residents figure out they need to clean house within city leadership, and make the streets unsafe for the terroristic antifa scum, then Portland can begin climbing out of its period of darkness.
Yes, yes, yes. There are almost no blacks in Oregon. Most are in Portland, 5.8% of its population. They came in WWII to work in the shipyards and otherwise to supplement the absent labor force. Oregon historically was Yankee in the more populated Willamette Valley (includes Portland) and Dixie to the south and east. Both Yankees and Dixies were not welcoming to blacks. The first black exclusion law was passed in 1844. In the 1930s, all Portland neighborhoods would have been white.
The neighborhoods graded D, in the 1930s were at that time filled with working class European Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_OregonColin Wright:
During World War II the incentive of shipyard jobs caused a boom in the African American population. Portland's African American population grew from 2,565 in 1940 to 25,000 in 1944.
Correct! Although there was a week-long riot there in 1967. I was in high school and had a job in the inaptly named Albina neighborhood and was ordered to stay away for two weeks. Oregonian:
That’s the kicker: I’ve been in Portland’s dread black ghetto: it’s actually perhaps the least intimidating black neighborhood I’ve ever walked around in.It’s maybe twelve blocks — and about like the rest of Portland: unpretentious wood-frame houses on tree-lined streets.There is no — but no — reason the temperature there should differ significantly from the rest of the city. I’m quite certain that in fact it doesn’t.
Ridiculous. Most normies there, right, center, or left (I know a few noncrazy lefties there), knows it results from crybaby mayor Wheeler's policies, especially purposely failing to enforce the law. Wheeler is from a business family who were Republicans back to the 19th century. His character was ruined by Ivy League education.Homelessness in Portland. Primary: mass foreign immigration, legal and illegal with national effects; large internal migration of fleeing and retiring Californians from higher-income labor markets (see Bandon, OR -- an earlier blue-collar population now outpriced and transitioning to renting and servant roles, development blocks of all-Californian upper-middle-class retirees); informal and formal toleration of drug abuse; subsidization and decriminalization of homeless. Also: Fed inflation of asset prices; rivers of foreign investments; hedge funds buying up housing; maybe Oregon land use planning. Given open borders and capital flows, homelessness will only increase year by year into the future, resulting in large dystopian zones.Replies: @Corpse Tooth
It’s hard to know why Portland’s homicide count has continued to increase while it has dropped in other cities — and if or when the pace of the killings will slow, said city officials, police and criminal justice experts.
“hedge funds buying up housing”
BlackRock. Investing in the future. Where you will own nothing and be happy.
BlackRock's devotion to ESG has caused it to lose several bi$$ions in managed assets as states such as Texas and West Virginia have pulled retirement funds, so maybe they will get the message.
BlackRock. Investing in the future. Where you will own nothing and be happy.
You’ve got a lot of dummies in your clothes.
“using gay things like logic and evidence”
I’ve long suspected these things were gay. Thanks for the confirmation.
“Hey, can anyone explain what Controlled Opposition is?”
Assuming this is rhetorical so I’ll put out my own question: Does anyone know how much Controlled Opposition pays? I’m looking for jobs because it seems no one else in my family works for a living.
“?”
Mr. Abeleda has since moved back to Sacramento. The weather’s better, it’s cheaper, has more trees, has fewer blacks, and hosts a wide variety of Mexican food joints. Judging by the pix Mr. Abeleda is gay, and believes living in a tech-death glass box is quite the fancy. He won’t miss the two sterling qualities that NYC has to offer: a panoply of architectural treasures and huge numbers of young, gorgeous women. Sacramento is no slouch when it comes to heritage buildings, but the stock of desirable females is, well, it’s just fortunate that Mr. Abeleda is gay.
In the top pix Mr. Aldrin appears to be asking his Romanian bride to pull his finger. He’s quite a guy, Buzz is. All of those test pilots and Apollo astronauts have/had balls of steel, and American men like them are non-existent now. That said, I’m pretty sure the lead is missing from Buzz’s pencil. So why at his age hook with a game lady if sex is out of the question? Again, astronauts are the top bananas but maybe not exactly big pix guys. I bet his offspring are pleased by his decision [sarc].
This tweet has it exactly right: If American political leadership continues in anarcho-tyranny mode we will see cartel hits on mayors and police chiefs not just in states in the Southwest and West Coast, but wherever cartel business is transacted. And long grows those tendrils. This is why the capture of federal law enforcement and the military by what can only be called an enemy force is so disastrous. Because we’re going to need these now untrustworthy agencies to prevent third world levels of corruption and chaos.
We need FBI/ATF/Marshalls to mount large scale operations against cartel agents within the United States. We need CIA/U.S. Military to declare war on cartel finances, leadership, infrastructure and take it out. If the Mexicans and other Latin American host countries illicit a response in protest make the kinetic action so devastating that you won’t have to tell them to go fuck themselves.
But before the hammer drops extensive intelligence needs to be collected on American political and national security leaders like Alejandro Mayorkas and their revenue streams. I would include under that microscope all military leadership flag-rank and up. Allow the team of specially-vetted operatives to work in a limited space — six to twelve months maximum — and scoop up what you can. As the first waves of arrests begin launch the kinetic action.
“very unsettling”
It’s the new fourth branch of government — Intelligence/Espionage. Its duties are subverting laws and elections, compromising elected and bureaucratic officials, and making sure the federal government works on behalf of the globalist corporate/financial infrastructure, i.e. the Shadow of Babylon.
This is why we’re mostly fooked.
Well, at the very least it demonstrates the "vaccines" are pathetically ineffective, apart from the issue of safety.And as I and Wild Man and others have been saying, the disruption to the immune system caused by these novel gene-transfection technologies may in fact be causing the immune systems of those injected to be LESS capable of handling new variants, or even other pathogens in general.Replies: @Dieter Kief, @Corpse Tooth
Similarly, the completion of a large Covid vaccination campaign has often prompted a national government to end some of its other public health restrictions such as lockdowns or a strict national quarantine. The vaccines are ineffective at preventing infection or transmission and only so-so in reducing the severity of the illness, so the result would normally be a large wave of new infections and some rise in the death rate. But this does not necessarily mean that the vaxxing itself was responsible for that negative outcome.
“the disruption to the immune system caused by these novel gene-transfection technologies”
The erosion of the immune system by the mRNA gene-therapy technology will eventually end the lives of millions over the next few years. If you’re on the booster train, stop. Find ways through nutrition and exercise to stimulate immune response. Get tested for myocarditis.
“in a serious country, Japan …”
It used to be. Now that Bushido has been ditched for globohomo vassal state status, it is not.
“Personally, I’m against traffic fatalities. I don’t like them.”
After wading through the graphs (boredom-boner!) and text Steve set forth I’ve failed to detect the car crash cause that tingles my gaydar — pocket scorpions. Those hand computers seemingly everyone is addicted to. Look in the rear-view mirror the next time you’re on your way to the house of your mistress: see how many electron-junkies you can spot with their dead golem-like faces pointed downward towards their inactive crotches (the first thing the pocket scorpions steal is crotch activity; second is your soul). See the Big-Tech golems drive with one hand on the wheel whilst the other flails about with the Apple’s catastrophic gift.
Steve needs to factor in the pocket scorpions into his auto-carnage thesis.
“Christian Gentleman”
That’s the problem. Christian gentlemen want to be recognized for their virtues, real or imagined. They have been domesticated and no longer recognize evil.
“But shoving Satanism in our faces is among the top priorities of our rulers.”
Satan is a Christian concept. Most if not all of the imagery in this thread is pagan or Kabbalistic in origin. Lots of demonolatry can be found in the Zohar. So what does that tell you about your rulers?
Whenever art (or entertainment) is described as "urgent" you know it's a piece of crap.
All the language used to describe art is exceedingly painful to read and similar
“Crap.”
The end result when art and activism are merged. Politics and ideology are transitory shit shows. Art is transcendent.
“Conservatives were late to the culture production aspect of the culture war …”
If conservatives want to be successful in culture production they need to construct a compelling narrative, and whatever meaning they wish to imbue should come from the natural behavior of its characters. Don’t force feed pre-determined messaging for that will only warp the story and hollow out the characters. Let it flow. If your story and characters have vitality they will eventually come to life outside of you, and from that point on you’re basically taking dictation. The best work is derived from this process. This is why most creative types suffer from some kind of divine madness.
“matriarchal managerialism”
I’ll be borrowing this term. I’ll be borrowing it so much that the people in my life will want to shoot me. Particularly the womens, whom I love and respect.
“Because Russia invaded Ukraine?”
The Ukrainians are fighting hard to protect the revenue streams flowing to Israeli organized crime, MIC gold card members, opportunistic politicians following the Biden-Pelosi model of enriching their grifter offspring, and the re-establishment of the NATO bioweapons labs throughout the ancient Slavic bloodlands. They are a very altruistic people.
Excellent writing throughout; and the piece was tighter than most JF posts. The first paragraph is a great intro to what follows.
The Ramones blew chunks; had a group skill set that was below KISS. The Romanes were a novelty act beloved by atonal hipster punks who are now mask/booster/trans/Ukraine fanatics. The Romanes were so lame I could’ve played lead.
The Talking Heads were inventive and fun whilst Blondie was an above average disco act (that Giorgio Moroder soundscape makes the Cuban/Columbian/Miami coke wars of the 70s and 80s seem kinda romantic).
But it was Television and the guitars of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd that had tremendous influence with the post punk/new wavers of the synth-saturated 80s who picked up their guitars again and began channeling 60s psychedelia and the best of the punk sensibilities of the late 70s and early 80s. Matthew Sweet, a tremendously talented singer/songwriter/instrumentalist that arrived on the LA scene in the early 90s after a brief stop in REMsville Athens, Georgia, hosted Richard Lloyd’s guitar on his best albums.
Listening to Marquee Moon now I hear Mike Campbell tones. The three guitarists — Campbell, Verlaine, Lloyd — landed at the same time in the late 1970s. I’m rambling now so I’ll stop.
RIP Tom Verlaine
“Richard Lloyd”
Played on Matthew Sweet’s early to mid 90s albums. Created stellar melodic and pop rock with Matthew. Looks like I’ll be listening to 90s music for the next 48 hours. No tragedy: the 90s was the last great decade for rock before the rap/hip hop psyop destroyed pop music.
“blues influence”
You’re point is above average: the post punkers pretty much wiped away the influence of the 60s and 70s mainly British acts who prayed at the altar of black blues. Of the biggie Brits, only Pete Townshend seemed to not want to wallow in that ghetto. Blues is monotonous. It’s abuse of the sacred six strings.
It's interesting that by far the greatest white blues musician was a (paranoid - perhaps drug induced) North London Jew. But you can't call what Peter Green(baum) does abuse. The spaces between are as meaningful as the notes.
"Blues is monotonous. It’s abuse of the sacred six strings."
“Ron Unz in the year 2032 …”
It may take nine years but Unz will come around to acknowledging the mRNA “vaccines” were/are a combination bioweapon/ global experiment on reconfiguring the human. Because he’s intellectually honest.
– mRNA was licensed to Mode RNA by DARPA in 2013
– mRNA is gene therapy according to Mode RNA 2020 SEC filings
There are positive and negative attributes to gene therapy drugs. But like CRISPR technology, mRNA
can be used to manipulate genotype. Getting into SF territory: Why wouldn’t the demi-gods of Davos kill off old model humans and replace us with replicants without reproductive organs, and mentally augmented to be slaves? We are a troublesome, noisy lot.
Yep.
What world do these clowns live in?
"Objectivity Has Got To Go": News Leaders Call For End Of Objective Journalism
Objectivity is difficult for old model humans. The wide distribution of gene therapy drugs within the decaying NATO imperium will insure the rise of the new model human sans reproductive organs. They will be totally objective and servile whilst we old models are extinguished by Science.
“Defense”
The unit I served in was all white and stayed white. It was Whitey McWhitey for nearly three years. Not a hint of affirmative action. A merit based system was in place for efficiency and cohesion which helped keep down injuries during training and deployment. This was in the 1990s.
Redford, O’Neal, Nicholson. That’s a lotta Irish. They would’ve had to recast Kay. The lovely, willowy, and tall Diane Keaton paired up with one of those three gents in a sea of Sicilians? A visual anomaly that would’ve marred the film. Besides, as you point out, Pacino is a stunning actor. In the scenes Diane and Pacino share, Coppola does not hide the fact that Diane stands a few inches taller than Pacino. Which says a lot about Pacino’s and Coppola’s confidence in the character and story.
Pacino fans may not have caught his turn as an ambitious NYPD patrolman looking for a pathway to the gold shield through an undercover assignment wherein he prowls the rough trade homersexual bars and nightclubs looking for a knife wielding killer in William Friedkin’s Cruising. Throughout the second act Friedkin rubs your eyeballs in sweaty and unsanitary homo-orgies because he’s a provocateur. It’s completely unsettling and sets the viewer up for the enigmatic third act that leads one to believe there is more than one killer, a contagion chain, and Paino’s character is caught up in it. I can’t recommend this thriller to the average iSteve commenter. But it is one of the creepiest films in American cinema. And it’s one of Pacino’s most compelling roles.
“He got lost after Apocalypse Now …”
Coppola’s Eighties output is interesting but inconsistent. But he did make the dreamy and romantic The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Both of which were based on novels by S.E. Hinton and visually splendid. If Coppola didn’t turn out a film after Apocalypse Now he could’ve rested on his laurels from his string of 1970s films, all of which were celluloid masterpieces.
I assume every male I encounter — if they’re literate and cultured — is as enthusiastic about Apocalypse Now as I am. So I recommend a book titled Dispatches by Michael Herr. Herr had a hand in polishing John Milius’s script which was based on the Conrad story. Herr’s Dispatches relates his time as a gonzo journalist in the thick of it in Vietnam. At times the passages in the book are mesmerizing, and you see where Coppola picked up his hallucinatory themes in the film.
It’s really mind-boggling reading about casting decisions that almost were made or not made. The most famous I guess would be Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan being slotted at one point for Casablanca.
There must be an alternate universe where all the wrong choices were made. Jack Lord and Martin Landau were considered for Kirk and Spock, which would possibly have left Gregory Peck as 5-0’s McGarrett. God knows who then would have played Rollin Hand on Mission Impossible, plus Landau and Barbara Bain might never have met, wed and run off to Space 1999!
Warner Bros did actually try a blatant re-do of Casablanca just after WWII, set in Europe and starring the bland Dennis Morgan and Vivica Lindfors. And yes, he even ran a club and had a piano-playing sidekick.
Screenwriter William Goldman famously said about Hollywood, "Nobody knows anything".
It’s really mind-boggling reading about casting decisions that almost were made or not made.
The most famous I guess would be Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan being slotted at one point for Casablanca.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPTc9eyRYv8
Casablanca! The Musical would be a different take of cinamatic history!
They are cannibalizing established IP without generating new IP. In the supposedly post Covid/gene therapy drug/BLM environment a lot of industry people still can’t find a way forward. Quotas for “representation” for trannies and homogenizing homosexual relationships are the latest road blocks to quality and interesting work. The Sabbateans have been in Hollywood since its inception. But they played it smart by checking their appetites and churning out content that sells tickets. The new generation of these loathsome creatures have no work or business ethic; they simply wallow in the filth and degradation that their god demands. Tinsel Town is dying a slow, painful death. Somebody should write a book about it.
The most insultable ethnic group is Scandinavians.”
There are differences betwixt the groups, but the suicidal altruism element remains strong within them all. Lucky for them they abandoned Christianity in favor of atheism and agnosticism otherwise the region would be a 24/7/365 foot wash for black and brown feet.
The Nordic lands are ripe for a head-chopping, seed-spreading, charismatic warlord to take them out of their generational inertia. Someone should step up and become that warlord.
Yay!
Top 5th. Asians
Oh, no!On the other hand, Asians are rated higher on this than homosexuals and Jews? Right... I see the corporate overlords have been napping on the coders!And Russians above Canadians, LOL!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Dmon, @Jack D, @AnotherDad, @Corpse Tooth
Penultimate: Republicans
Last: Wealthy People
… Asians are rated higher on this than homosexuals and Jews?
There is a problem amongst the populace regarding differentiating between the three groups you mention.
Binaries are for suckers. Monotheism soothes the nerves of the complexity-adverse. Paganism can lead the earnest into embarrassing experiences. The tenants of Buddhism seem spiritually logical but the robes and chanting are a no-go. Smart guys like me and Tom Jefferson always end up deist.
“in order to discriminate against Joos from our communities”
The Marranos, Conversos, and Jesuits say you guys weren’t successful in keeping the Babylonians out. Christianity has positive aspects but it is essentially a Jewish creation.
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People will stick with Christ worship even though it’s quite suspect because they are immersed in cultural Christianity which is largely a positive presence in their lives. Theologically, Christianity is crypto-Yahwism.
Also, according to Steve, size matters. We’ve got big brains. There should be a parade float rolling down Colorado Boulevard dedicated to the differential betwixt white and black brains: the white brain will command the platform whilst the hilariously-sized black brain will be confined to a corner.
“Rap music is much worse though.”
Black mothers are the primary cause of small-brained black man dysfunction.
“That being said, pygmies have very low intelligence.”
I’ve never loitered in a place where pygmies are brought up with such frequency. Could it be the influence of our beloved host? Did you hear a lot pygmy talk in the lunchroom at the National Geographic building? Where is that building?
“Doesn’t this suggest … that it’s what’s inside the skull and not the size of the skull itself, either relatively or absolutely, that determines intelligence?”
Of course. Take actors for example: they tend to be large-headed and small-bodied. And in most actors there’s not a lot going on inside those heads. Here’s a corollary to the white brain/black brain theorem: It’s well known that Irishmen have the brain size of a black man and the penis size of an Irishman. It’s called the luck of the Irish.
Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker
The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.
Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.
I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.
I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
they aren’t just trying to quietly kill it
From what I can gather this is going on, but in hushed tones. Unless it’s Black Panther black-centric content loses money. The fanatical energy seems to have shifted back to homosexuality — fitting, considering the numbers of gay goys and gay Jews in the business — and the elite-imposed transgender contagion. The thing is, most non-blacks don’t want to work with blacks because blacks are a massive pain in the ass. The cost-benefit doesn’t pan out.
After desecrating a few of my childhood superheroes in the pages of Marvel Comics, JJ Abrams (natch) brought the bulbous lipped Tee Hee into the lucrative position of writing scripts that no one wants. If Tee Hee truly had a conscience he’d stop urinating on beloved characters created by talented whites, a lot of which are Jews, and develop his own characters and stories. But Tee Hee doesn’t have a sense of shame or the ability to create: he’s an apparatchik, a racialist demagogue with moobs.
clean out the shed
I can’t. Emmett’s got it locked from the inside.
In response I would add the FBI has been generating most of the white supremacist activity since the Clintonite 90s. Manufacturing threats is good for business. It’s old hat but seems to work every time.
Sci-fi writer Jerry Pournelle
Pournelle’s Janissaries — the paperback edition with the likeness of Clint Eastwood from Kelly’s Heroes on the cover — was one of the first actual novels I’d read whilst a child. That and loathsome King’s The Shining spurred me on to even more fictions. So I’m appreciative of Pournelle’s contribution to the story-telling arts. Perhaps he felt it futile to challenge the visual medium in imagery and thus moved on to other “functions.” Based on conversations with the small number of scribes I know, creating “mental pictures” is imperative for total immersion into the worlds they create. Fully realized realities in which your characters live, kill, strive, survive. Plus, it’s fun to conjure these places from the bubbling cauldron that is the imagination.
It’s like Mountains of Madness, a story about recognizing the self in the other.
It is? I read MoM back in the 1990s. My brain was overly stimulated by HP’s incredible tapestry of deep history and alien races and the conflicts betwixt them. There was no room left in my brain for the psychological element.
high-powered C4 explosives
C4? That’s ancient technology. I’m not an explosives expert or enthusiast. But the personnel suspected to be involved — Polish, British, American, naval special units — would be equipped with advanced ordnance, especially for this job. Although explosives leave behind a signature, and C4 is in use everywhere. It could be the perps didn’t want it to be too obvious, even though just about everyone knows the Poles, Brits, and Yanks are agents of globohomo.
although he seemed too confident for the role
Redford, a movie star rather than actor, just exudes that American mid-century confidence. I didn’t read the novel but wasn’t Gatsby a bootlegger who bought his way into the society set? Successful criminals are usually confident characters.
I never bought Bruce Dern as an upper-class American snob
Dern comes from a politically-connected and wealthy family in the Midwest somewhere but it’s difficult picturing him as a snob. Dern’s a good actor and I’ve enjoyed many of his performances. He’s a guy who can go from mainstream to weirdo pretty quickly — it’s his teeth and eyes.
True, but Gatsby was a criminal with the heart of a romantic. He wasn't exactly a Jimmy Cagney character. Redford wasn't bad in the movie. Perhaps he was distracted. The Watergate hearings were going on when the movie was filmed, and according to Mia Farrow, Redford was obsessed with them.
Successful criminals are usually confident characters.
we are overwhelmingly descended simply from the Indo-Europeans: they likely killed off the indigenous males and took their women
That was a good life. Short, but intense and memorable. In this one I degenerate into a Brendan Gleeson look-a-like and change the diapers on a reanimated civil rights icon with a mean whistle.
Prehistory is not pretty
Neither is deep history. Mars got all fooked up.
Leach, S., Lewis, M. E., Chenery, C., Müldner, G. H. and Eckardt, H. (2009). Migration and diversity in Roman Britain: a multidisciplinary approach to immigrants in Roman York, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 140 (3): 546-561. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21104Denying that there were black legionnaires in Roman Britain is like denying that there were Senegalese soldiers in Europe during the two world wars. Empires like to recruit foreign soldiers for various reasons: they're inexpensive, they don't feel any kinship with the people they're supposed to fight, and they haven't been spoiled by civilization. By the third century, most Roman soldiers were in fact barbarians.Replies: @Dmon, @Wokechoke, @Jack D, @Corpse Tooth, @AnotherDad
Previous anthropological investigations at Trentholme Drive, in Roman York identified an unusual amount of cranial variation amongst the inhabitants, with some individuals suggested as having originated from the Middle East or North Africa. The current study investigates the validity of this assessment using modern anthropological methods to assess cranial variation in two groups: The Railway and Trentholme Drive. ... The results of the craniometric analysis indicated that the majority of the York population had European origins, but that 11% of the Trentholme Drive and 12% of The Railway study samples were likely of African decent.
Empires like to recruit foreign soldiers for various reasons … they don’t feel any kinship with the people they’re supposed to fight
Case in point: Ukrainian mercenaries trained by American and British contractors to conduct black operations in the UK and USA.
It is only a dictatorship, autocrat, that can save us from Jewish control.
While I have drifted away from the notion that democracy should be saved from the encroaching totalitarian night, the idea that only an iron fist can crush the Babylonian virus is misguided. Because more than likely the iron fist will be owned and managed by the Babylonians.
Strong article, Mr. Romanoff. I gather it was not in the purview of the article to cover Mao’s cultural revolution (1966-1976), but it would be interesting to get your thoughts on Jewish/Babylonian/Venetian influence during that period. I have read that the Rothschild/Rockefeller consortium was deeply involved.
If by "Judaizing heresy," you mean Golden Calf/mammon worship and attendant corruption, decadence, and moral, social and intellectual disintegration, then no institution is immune. The Synagogue of Satan can, will and has infiltrated, corrupted and desecrated them all.
This is where Judaizing heresy leads if it is not stopped cold, and then blasted into smithereens. Anglo-Saxon Puritanism was a Judaizing heresy. WASP culture was formed by Anglo-Saxon Puritanism. Well before the end of the 17th century, the English elites in th4r aftermath of the Puritan regnal made full alliance with Jewish bankers, and ever since WASP Empire has been Anglo-Zionism.
It is not possible for Christians to rid their faith of the Babylonian virus. No matter how many theological contortions they make the worship of Christ is essentially a rabbinical invention.
“You guys — who seem to have a disproportionate amount of concern about IQ, early school rankings, ect. — you go ahead and have fun.”
It is such a dry, and arid pursuit. Not a lot of juice. They need to scuba. They should hire a boat somewhere in the Caribbean and scuba.
Calm the fuck down. He’s asking for advice, not money. And my advice to Steve is thus: Your 2001 Honda Odyssey minivan is haunted. Give it to Jerry’s Kids. I’m thinking about selling my Honda Accord. It’s got 4-doors, 120642 on the odometer, and runs like a honey. The blue book hovers around six grand but I’ll let you have it for 4,500. I like having a reliable second ride but my foreign kid decided to go to law school in the second most expensive city in Scandinavia. I’ll drive it down to LA and meet you at your post office. Look for a tan 2004 Honda Accord with a naked guy in the driver’s seat.
Hey! This is actually good info. from a guy not known for his useful info.
Buzz is coming off all stalkery. When Steve sees me waiting for him outside his post office in a 2004 Honda Accord, in the driver’s seat and completely nude, he knows I’m not there due to intense and confused emotions. I’m there to sell him a 2004 Honda Accord.
Yeah, I was worried about that. It's not my intention.
Buzz is coming off all stalkery.
TZ had some good episodes, some sucky ones. Still, it was one of the better shows on TV. Also, they did amazing things with low budget, showing how ingenuity often tops production values.
Never liked the Twilight Zone or anything else Rod Serling did.
Most of the content in Serling’s draft had to be chucked for budget reasons — Ape City was depicted as a high-tech future megalopolis. Veteran re-writer Michael Wilson was brought in and reduced Ape civilization down to a mid 1800s level. An alteration which gave the film a Western feel. Serling’s script was also obsessively talky (natch); Wilson scrubbed most of that to give room for the action sequences (fortunately). Wilson, working closely with director Franklin J. Schaffner, saved the film from Serling’s pre-woke predations.
“What’s the obsession for watching sports anyway?”
Growing up I lamented that this was a form of male bonding. I had and have no interest in being reduced into a consumer of televised corporate sports and still don’t. I played football (offensive tackle, guard, center) four years high school and one year college. I didn’t parlay that experience into becoming a passive observer, prey to the intense commercial messaging one is subjected to during corporate sports spectacles. That arena of plebian diversion leaves me bored and irritated.
“Talmudvision”
Restricting TV viewing is a start. But the kids these days are addicted to devices that spew the entire stream of Babylonian nightmares. The kids are doomed because the adults in their lives are similarly addicted to the devices and nightmare stream.
Without a doubt transgenderism is a social contagion. What medium picture Steve is missing is the origin of the social contagion. If you take an hour or so to research the Pritzker Family and their obsession with blurring gender boundaries and creating new variants of human you’ll come to realize this is a top down movement. And that there are other powerful entities bankrolling this imposition. And a lot of is guided by a strange sect of Judaism that was established in the 18th century. The Age of Revolutions. That’s the big picture.
This is all accurate. China, Russia, and other foreign states are simply acting in their own best interests through espionage and subversion of the American Empire. But it seems your focus and that of millions of others within the imperium should be focused on Western elites. They are the ones lighting the fuse. And from the ashes they will recreate their Golden Age when Saturn was the only sun in the sky. If we exist at all in their reimagining of reality it is as genetic material housed in special drawers created by Scientism.
Steve ought to look into the bald headed black ladies phenomenon. Notice the middle to upper middle aged black ladies circulating about — many of them are intentionally going bald. Perhaps it’s a movement amongst the black ladies to reject the greasy bucket of slop that god dumped on their heads — a collective nubian goddess fist raised against the celestial tyrant. Perhaps it has something to do with the one standard deviation difference Steve mentions. What is a deviation difference and how can I climb aboard that train? Have I already climbed aboard that train?
“Its [sic] time…”
It’s time…
I assume that you are referring to greenie logic here, not your own. The green wokeists are far too stupid to pull this off. They still think supergluing yourself to a railroad track is a clever form of protest.
All the other factors are certainly in play but for the fundamentalists of the environmentalist religion there is nothing more important. Putin’s real crimes are his environmental crimes. What a great opportunity this was to slow the use of fossil fuel.
“I think that there is still a tendency amongst many governments, and policymakers at large, to consider climate change as one risk amongst others,” he said.
Is this a picture of Greta whilst still in her aquatic gill-breathing larval stage before she transitioned to the terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage? As with all girl amphibians it’s tough to tell age by face.
“Its [sic] time … ”
It’s time …
Priss, as I stare at the image you posted — the bit of sabotage conducted by our gangster government at the behest of globohomo — I cannot help but wonder about the colour of the scuba suits worn by the Navy frogmen who planted the explosives. Was it the orange Voit suits worn by the divers of the submarine Seaview from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Or did they don the black Voit suits of the Spectre frogmen in Thunderball? Either way, the mid 1960s was a good time to have stock in the Voit scuba suit company.
“Upon further review …. who gives a f-ck?”
Manute Bol, that’s who gave a f-ck. He was able to assemble his pygmy army (a boyhood dream), thanks to those NBA paychecks. Unfortunately the coup in the Congo failed and the surviving pygmies turned on General Manute and eventually ate him. Apparently, the pygmies found him quite delicious.
Question, President Kennedy: Would it be wise to gather the survivors of Manute Bol’s pygmy army and enlist them in my War Against Pants? I mean, can they fight? The Congo was a disaster, and the WAP will be a global struggle (excepting the robed lands). But they come cheap and they’re willing to subsist on the frozen bits of Manute until I can muster up the money to take them to Denny’s.
“All that said, we have the world’s best undersea capabilities.”
And bases. But not in the Baltic; water’s too shallow. Pondering Hersh’s article, and the ramifications of our gangster government destroying critical infrastructure that delivered fuel to one of our NATO allies to spite the enemy of the Straussians, makes me think of colour. The colour of the scuba suits the American frogmen wore whilst doing their dirty deed. Were they wearing the orange Voit suits worn by the frogmen stationed on board the submarine Seaview from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Or did our frogmen don the black Voit suits seen on the Spectre frogmen in Thunderball? Either way, the mid 1960s was a great time to own stock in Voit. I might be needing frogmen for my War Against Pants. The pygmies are afraid of water.
“There was one book where every story was about evil people triumphing over hapless people.”
That is human reality. I won’t delve deeply into the Gnostic view wherein Yahweh, the Spider God, the god of this world, will only release the soul from its bondage upon completion of a foul, wicked deed. But the Gnostic operating system seems to be running the world: those that successfully wield the power of evil prosper materially, and are seldom targeted by the machinations of corporate governance. Based upon my meager knowledge of world philosophy and religion it is only Buddhism that seems to have a way out of the soul maze that the Abrahamics have bequeathed humanity. Whilst I’m not one for the chanting (although I understand its ability to center), I do favor this Eastern approach due to its sensible Karmic process and pants optional lifestyle.
With the cultural revolutions there’s always a year zero. That’s because the numbnutted revolutionists can’t compete with previous ideas and narratives. They rely on their constituency’s ability to wallow in base emotions, illusions, delusions, and ignorance. The revolutionists themselves engage in siloed thinking; especially as it pertains to the power behind the revolution. And in the last three hundred years that power emanated from the Venetian finacialists and their tributary affiliates.
It’s really worth reading The Telegraph’s extensive listing of all the edits by Puffin and Netflix across multiple children's classics by Dahl. Adulterating a defenseless, deceased artist’s work is a crime against civilization and memory. The same impetus will be used to destroy works far beyond children’s literature. But eventually the freaks (one of the words excised) doing this will find out that if humans aren’t allowed to have nice things like real art, humanity will make gruesome art and brutal sport out of dispatching freaks.Replies: @HammerJack, @kihowi, @Corpse Tooth
EXPLORE THE HUNDREDS OF CHANGES MADE TO DAHL’S STORIEShttps://archive.is/MYuXG#table
“But eventually the freaks … doing this will find out that if humans aren’t allowed to have nice things like real art, humanity will make gruesome art and brutal sport out of dispatching freaks.”
As the year zero functionaries continue to grind to dust the culture at the behest of the malignant oligarch faction, imagination and the power of the pen can serve as a countervailing force. At this point in the timeline the totalitarians appear to have control over the federal justice system and the security state. So kulturkampf is realistically our only option. Other than going pantless.
I’ve heard this before; sounds like a Fukuyama unaware of future runaway Fukushimas. But “The Future Is Unwritten” and all outcomes are on the table.
At this point in the timeline the totalitarians appear to have control
Read some history, CT:
So kulturkampf is realistically our only option.
https://www.amazon.com/Mein-Kampf-Mine-Kraft-Eternal-Cycle/dp/0670025127/
From Mein Kampf to Mine Kraft:
The Eternal Cycle of Words, Writing, and Wragnarök
by May Dyoulouk
“CDC: [iSteve commenters] Are suffering from Epidemics of Sobriety and Virginity”
Thought so. Viewing the female form through the lens of HBD and animal husbandry can liquidate all testical juices pronto. Not to mention its effect on the all important boner.
Yeah, I don’t see Steve as a COIVD authoritarian. He admonished those in the commentariat who were mRNA skeptics like an older brother would: “Get the vaccine, bonehead. I don’t want you to die.”
Between then and now however, enough viable evidence from sources within science and medicine have laid to rest the fantasy of the vaccine’s efficacy; and has illuminated its overwhelmingly negative physiological effects. Those foolish enough to be riding on the booster train, well, vaya con dios.
“I’d like to understand more about the assassination attempt on Reagan.”
The unsuccessful assassin of President Reagan was named John Hinckley Jr. Hinckley’s father, John Hinckley Sr. had been a friend and oil business partner of George H.W. Bush since H.W. and family settled in Midland, Texas in the late 1940s. The dusty central Texas town had been a magnet for parasitic Eastern Seaboard gentry looking to exploit the oil boom.
Whilst the Hinckley and Bush families bonded Hinckley Sr. became deeply involved with World Vision, an NGO involved in humanitarian work. World Vision became the prototype for the archipelago of NGOs stringed across the globe serving as cover and base of operations for the CIA.
Espionage is a preoccupation of the Bush family. Prescott Bush, H.W.’s father, was a Wall Street banker and senator representing Connecticut. Prescott was one of the conspirators of the 1934 plot devised by Wall Street oligarchs to coup FDR.
After the war, Prescott encouraged H.W. to become one of Allen Dulles’s minions in the oil and financal sectors. After his stint in the U.S. Liaison Office in China, H.W. became DCI at CIA. During his short term at Langley, CIA became deeply involved with the Operation Condor assassination squads and the establishment of narco-military dictatorships throughout Latin America. He would continue to do business with these regimes in the 1980s as vice president and into the 1990s whilst president.
During the presidential election year of 1980, Neil Bush, son of H.W., was a friend and business partner of Scott Hinckley, brother to John Hinckley Jr. Both were based in Denver and attached to Vanderbilt Oil, a company owned by John Hinckley Sr. And during this period of time John Hinckley Jr. was in psychiatric care and under the influence of various psychoactives prescribed by his shrink. This mind management did not prohibit Hinckley Jr.’s arrest during the Fall of 1980 at the Nashville airport carrying three handguns on the very same day President Jimmy Carter was in town.
In the 1980 Republican contest, the Reagan’s loathing of George H.W. Bush was not a secret. However, the political operators behind Reagan knew H.W. was the candidate supported by Langley. Saying no to the CIA is not a wise idea whilst competing for the White House. It is thought that in the end it didn’t matter: CIA was going to control the executive through assassination, and if that didn’t work, and it didn’t, VP Bush was going to operate his office like a shadow CIA, in partnership with DCI William Casey.
And that’s how things turned out. Now, will you join me in my War Against Pants?
“Agree on the anti-conspiracy points.”
Of course you do.
I hear tell you got the scoop on the Barbara “Babs” Bush is the daughter of Aleister Crowley story. Spill the beans. And if you don’t have those beans you owe me the Buddy Ebsen nudes taken poolside at the McDowall mansion during season three of Barnaby Jones.
“You mean a 300 pound fatass with a degree from a diploma mill?”
Why be so hurtful?
“Antivax is pathetic.”
As pathetic as immune systems flatlined by the gene therapy drug mRNA?
“Zulu”
A story that can be easily reworked into a SF epic wherein a Weyland-Yutani like spacefaring corporation establishes a Rorke’s Drift like base on a hostile planet accessed through the Iapetus wormhole. The corporate astronuts land and face the same numbers that bedeviled the redcoats during the 1879 event on Earth. Only this time the hostile aliens menacing the colonists will be replaced by space blacks. Now we know where James “Thanos” Cameron got his idea for Aliens.
“It was quite brave of Zelensky to stay in Kiev in 2022 and it was moderately brave of Biden to visit Kiev in 2023.”
It could be that Zelensky has limited space in which to move. I’m unfamiliar with Russian capacity to mark and track a target utilizing satellite and drone surveillance. If Zelensky was an American target he’d be completely boxed-in, living underground, unable to use any kind of above ground transport lest it become an inferno. A helicopter carrying elements of Zelensky’s inner circle transformed into a fireball last month in Kiev. Scuttlebutt has it the CIA killed them because they were planning a coup against America’s hero and looking to initiate a peace process with Putin. If this true then it can be said that the CIA killed Ukrainian patriots.
“The Bridge On The River Kwai?!”
Yes, Achmed, the Marcusians are coming for books and visual media composed by whitey. Tales of Whitey are facing erasure because our lore and heroes and gods are so darned interesting. I’ve become quite the obsessive about it: my storage units in the San Fernando Valley and Woodland are filling up with hard copies of whitey’s adventures.
“Christianity!”
A pacification program to corral the pagans in Northern Europe. Once gelded, the Nords became numbers within a control system that had been in development since the Babylonian Magi penetrated Greece and Rome.
“Germany and Hitler”
That’s a complicated story. Look into the Nordic occult groups active in German-speaking Europe from the 1880s to the 1920s that eventually birthed Nazism and its mangod Hitler. These groups were heavily influenced by Sabbatean rabbis.
The new Indian managerial class seems to be a lot bolder than their Jewish predecessors. Ramaswamy is a Yale man, a financialist in league with creeper Peter Thiel, and founded a pharamaceutical company that focuses on “applying technology to drug development,” a rather anodyne description that guarantees glazed eyeballs. Ramaswamy is omnipresent in conservative media soothing the worried white rubes with his anti-ESG sermons. Larry Fink pleasures himself whenever Ramaswamy’s gleaming white teeth sparkle from his screens. This guy is a Manchurian Candidate if Manchuria was divided into three locations: the City of London, Davos, and the ritual chambers beneath the Lincoln Memorial.