Was it more accurate or less accurate to include SS?
 

Anyway I think it is pretty clear that the Clinton administration GOP majority 104th through 106th Houses o' Representin' and the GOP majority Senate of the time were the most fiscally responsible recent administration Congresses.
 

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At the last Libertarian presidential nomination convention, the two main candidates were a culturally conservative Ron Paul type and a culturally libertine gay neo-hippie type. The Libertarians, with their usual lack of good political judgement, picked the latter as their presidential candidate.

Corvinus told me he was voting for the neo-hippie guy for president in the general election. I have always imagined Corvy as an old long-haired hippie who types up his comments for here while listening to his Grateful Dead albums. Corvy appears to think of me as some sort of virulent racist while no one who knows me in real life thinks that and the common complaint here is I am not racist enough.

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Did you have an excuse for other Republicans that agreed with the FBI’s findings?
 

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Thanks for the encouragement, Mr. Tooth. I hope I reached a few people during the PanicFest, though California would be the last place I'd expect to reach someone. (Are you talking way northern Cal, like Weed, Yreka, etc?) I don't have the numbers I looked at yesterday on me right now, but I do know that site visits, etc. were higher in '20 than in any other year but '25.

I hope they are NOT importing nurses en masse from anywhere overseas, but yeah, good on you. From a long-ago post on healthcare in China - a generally pleasant experience except for the kid with the Hives:

https://www.peakstupidity.com/images/post_442A.jpg

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Ohhh, so now you people DO want links! Honestly the one woman doc looked much more like the one on the right. The other is like the nurse in The Office.

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In fact, when I was young, someone (I can't remember who) derisively called the Republicans the "Tax Collectors for the Welfare State." It may have been during the Reagan Administration, when the R's threw in the towel for good on fiscal responsibility and debt, figuring why should they shoulder the entire burden themselves. Of course, the practical result is that no one in the USG gives a shit about controlling runaway spending anymore. Buy and hold gold.

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @OilcanFloyd

1. pre-1965 law had to go, as was the case with white Australia policy. No such openly racialist policy can exist in a democratic Western country with a mixed population. The US is atypical because it has ditched Anglo-Saxonism, while other democratic countries may have preferences- for instance, India for Hindus- but these are not racial. For Israel, it is not racial because they imported a bunch of coloreds who are supposedly "Jewish"- it is ethno-nationalist. The English speaking world made a mess by abandoning ethno-nationalism, not by ditching racism.

2. Jewish activists are, as I said, detrimental re immigration. And, I repeat: they are marginal.

Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Almost Missouri

Just, here is a confusion of two things: 1) Jewish pro- migration activism is marginal in its influence in comparison with other powers working in that direction.
 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-germany-jewish-funds-help-keep-mediterranean-migrant-rescue-missions-afloat/

https://hias.org/hias-eu/

https://www.milwaukeejewish.org/syrian-refugee-crisis/

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-jewish-case-for-open-borders

https://paideia-eu.org/

Nobody believes you. In fact, the ridiculousness of your assertion just inclines me to believe that you are simply lying rather than being naive.

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It’s pretty much never happened that the value of gold relative to the dollar went so far up, stayed up, and gave every sign of continuing to go up.
 

As deep anonymous wrote:

If I could, I would make the right trades/position myself appropriately and never have to work again. But that’s a pipe dream.
 

I love how smart the commenters (and the bloggers) are here who suddenly realize something after they've missed the train.

Frankly, most of the real investment writers are just as bad. They only really "suggest" or "predict" trends when it becomes obvious that those "trends" are already happening. Witness now how many established entities are trumpeting gold's value and future.

Hah!

Gold is real money, and if you really were smart, you would have been buying it for a long time now...

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Achmed E. Newman

NYT just vindicated AG Bondi and the Supreme Court, likely by mistake.
 

SCOTUS Justice Brown Jackson’s comparison between African Americans voting and the disabled does not fly.
 

William Kirk discuses the pending Supreme Court petition in Zherka v. Bondi, a challenge to 18 USC 922(g)(1) which is the Federal prohibition on felons possessing firearms.
 

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For an outsider, the old paradigm looked like “D spend like drunk madmen – R get to be hated fiscal grinches”, great, now there is extra money available, repeat ad infinitum. With Trump there is the interim paradigm “D spend like drunken madmen – R spend like drunken madmen”. But the next paradigm should ideally be without any madmen at all.

An outsider to what? How Fox news depicts Republicans and not an analysis of how they actually spend?

https://www.data-z.org/library/imglib/National-debt-growth-by-president-2.png

Democrats spend like drunk madmen and Republicans spend like intoxicated lunatics.

https://www.data-z.org/library/imglib/National-debt-growth-by-president-2.png

Republicans like Reagan provide feel good quotes that make conservative men swoon with emotion. They play them just the same way that men charm women with vain compliments.

Replies: @Almost Missouri

Here is a 2022 article in his American Meritocracy series.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-meritocracy-revisited/

This image addresses your point. Be sure to look at the x axis numbers. Basically, accounting for ability cuts the Jewish over-representation at Harvard from 12x to 4x.

https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/eliteenrollment-large.jpg

Replies: @Almost Missouri

It has already been stated that Jewish activists are not to be trusted. Due to their historical experience & culture, Jewish activism about immigration is detrimental.

Just, here is a confusion of two things: 1) Jewish pro- migration activism is marginal in its influence in comparison with other powers working in that direction. No Jewish rubbish did anything comparable to Merkel's mistake or Starmer's policy. While not laudable, this type of activism did not "cause" the crisis in the affluent West, nor is of any significance in the real world. 2) Zionism is not to be conflated with any type of "immigration enthusiasm" one can see in Jewish activist circles, but also among Christian churches & various multiculturalist nutjobs. It's just a world-view about Israel as a nation-state.

Simply, obsessive antijudaism is conflating various strands that have nothing to do with each other; also, it mistakenly thinks it has found some causal connection where there is none.

Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Mr. Anon, @Almost Missouri

Barbie is not a worthy subject for Great Art, it should be noted. It's plain commercial art, so does it reach the level of Andy Warhol's shoe drawings? I know, I know, Billy and Great Earwig and Ryan and the rest did a great job. Still.

https://footwearnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/andy-warhol-shoe-illustration.jpg

https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/03/sothebys.png

"If art is the tip of the iceberg, I'm the part sinking below."

Out of the two songs provided, I thought Taylor's was the more interesting. But urp, what's this? "We used to sit on the swings / with imaginary wings", why did I just throw up?

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @The Germ Theory of Disease

"Adopt the coal, pay the toll" or what?

Replies: @Almost Missouri

"Experience dating back at least to the Danegeld suggests not."

And, I mean, those guys were Danes. Not blacks.

Replies: @Almost Missouri

Mr. Hail, that post of Mr. Sailer's, and your comment here, are ~ 4 days old, but I was dealing with an on-screen tablet keyboard for a while, so...

Anyway, the 2 commenters there for whom I will try to arrange a decent formatting of their arguments are guys we know well. ScarletNumber and Anti-Gnostic. I could have guessed whose side I'd have been on well before even reading there. I won't do the indentation, but these are in chronological order:

ScarletNumber

> If you think of DEI as second-order crime prevention then it might make more sense.

From a pragmatic standpoint you are absolutely correct, but for the autists on this substack it violates a fundamental sense of fairness. Ultimately we brought their ancestors here against their will and now those descendants are American citizens by birth so we can't ship them to Liberia against their will...
 

"We" did no such thing. So yes it strikes people as manifestly unfair that people who never owned slaves should have to make transfer payments to people who were never enslaved and who hold one of the most valuable assets on the planet, citizenship in a majority white country. If they really ornament that stupid and psychopathic, then no amount of transfer payments will help. You always get more about your subsidize.

Culture is the feedback loop for genetics. We can harness that.
 

If you're a white American citizen, then your ancestors chose to come to a country where Africans were brought against their will.
 

And?
 

And you're a dipshit, apparently.
 

Nope. Your logic makes no sense. Nobody has any control over what their ancestors did. Again, if blacks are so stupid and psychopathic that they cannot capitalize on iwnersip of one of the most valuable assets on the planet, then no amount of transfer payments is going to help them. You always get more of what you subsidize.
 

Well, that's the status quo, so if you are unhappy, write your congressman.
 

President Trump has my full support in getting rid of as many of the the stand-there-have-tits-and-be-black jobs as he is able and I will vote for any state politician who follows suit.
 

The point of this article was that we don't know just how massive the AA, later D.I.E. effort has been because nobody measures it. (I believe he leans toward it being pretty large.) Well, you don't have stats, so, what? We don't know? Sure we know. We have a damn good idea of how much these anti-White programs have benefitted Blacks! and whomever else at our expense. Many of us have good proof of the bias, but, no, you're not gonna get stats on all those resumes trashed by HR due to "White". You're not gonna get stats from Big-Biz managers who promoted the black woman, because "White", and because "lawsuit".

It's been 60 years. How many generations of White people do you want to screw over? That's my question for Steve Sailer and ScarletNumber.

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Nobody in government talks about the debt crisis because it is insoluble and neither party really cares about the issue.

The Republicans pretend to care about the debt when they are out of power. When they are in power, they spend almost as much as the Democrats do. Look at Trump's first term; he was cool with tossing money out of helicopters - spraying it over the populace with water cannons........because COVID.

The debt can not be paid down. It won't be paid down.

King Henry VII of England might have actually paid off his government's debts, but he was a rare example. And he was only able to do so because he was a miser who squeezed the commoners with taxes and confiscated the wealth of nobles he had put to death for treason.

Adam Smith observed that almost no government had ever paid down it's debt. Instead, they simply default on it or inflate it away.

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talking about debt crisis has become taboo topic.
 

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mark G., @Old Prude, @Almost Missouri

talking about debt crisis has become taboo topic.
 

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mark G., @Old Prude, @Almost Missouri

he hugely overstates things with: “If anything, we are further away now than in 2018 to knowing “basically what’s going on” with genetic influences on intelligence.”
 

that is largely due to Turkheimer et al. being successful in derailing research and the surrounding conversation.
 

I also think the terms of the bet were hopelessly vague. As Murray seemed to note obliquely in the latter part.
 

Emil has a nice summary of studies here. I wonder how Turkheimer would respond to these references.
 

My guess is Murray’s delay is less due to difficulty finding evidence than deciding what will or won’t have him expelled (further) from polite society.
 

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One thing I could name that would constitute fraud would be the actions of a number of PACs in spending millions of dollars to unseat Thomas Massie. One of these PACs, 'MAGA KY' was stood up for this express purpose. They claim to want to defeat him because he has voted against Trump's 'America First' agenda, but the real reasons - the only reasons - are that he opposes foreign aid (including to Israel) and that he has openly talked about AIPAC's massive influence in Congress. Their stated reasons for opposing him are a smokescreen - in fact they are just an outright lie.

This however, and the massive amounts of money spent by AIPAC and allied groups for the purpose of influencing the American government, don't seem to bother 'John Johnson' in the least.

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And not in Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina etc. In central & east European countries it is mostly about emotional & financial extortion from Germany, not about Jews. They simply are “guilty” of either of “stealing” German lands or ethnically cleansing Germans, so they cover this by misusing the Jewish-American influence for their own purposes.
 

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Fraud is obtaining something by false pretenses. Since no one has shown that a troll farm’s Facebook posts changed the vote, nothing was obtained, so it’s not fraud.
 

Would you be able to argue that in a court case?
 

As it happens, this very thing was the subject of a $32 million legal investigation by fifteen lawyers. They found no election fraud.
 

An unsourced claim.
 

What are you saying exactly? The Russian billionaire who ran the troll farm was lying?
 

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Your low-info article quotes, as you put it, “Putin’s Jewish chef turned billionaire military contractor” bragging about something called a “troll farm” (quotation marks also in the article, indicating b.s.) with absolutely no explanation or examples of what a “troll farm” is, what it did, and why it supposedly matters.

Let's look at the list of excuses provided so far by posters here:

1. It's White people helping White people
2. You can't prove that Putin paid Prigozhin directly
3. It isn't fraud if you only attempt it
4. It wasn't a big deal and didn't change anything
5. America interferes in elections and that makes it ok
6. All countries do it

Did you really look at all those excuses and assume this operation is merely a rumor? That I made it all up and some of our resident Putin defenders don't know that and decided to provide excuses?

Or the alternative being you again didn't try using Google to spend maybe 10 minutes reading about Prigozhin's troll farm?

Amazingly I provided you with an article with a direct quote from Prigozhin admitting to the troll farm and yet you still disregarded it. Why bother with an open forum? Why? You aren't able to simply click on a link and read the damn article. I even outlined an excerpt where he admitting to doing it. And yet your response was to stick your head right up your ass because you can't handle reality.

Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Almost Missouri

As it happens, this very thing was the subject of a $32 million legal investigation by fifteen lawyers. They found no election fraud.

An unsourced claim.

What are you saying exactly? The Russian billionaire who ran the troll farm was lying?

Well, I can’t stop you, no matter how foolish your guesses are.

Took me all of one minute to find a comment where you called it fake:

Given his psychology, anything Trump declassifies at the last minute (which may be too late anyway—what’s he gonna do if the deep state fails to comply?) is going to be related to some personal beef of his. So maybe we’ll get to hear more about about how the Obama admin spied on him or how Russiagate was fake

Maybe try being a man and admitting you got something wrong.

Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Admitting that is not the end of the world.

Replies: @James B. Shearer, @epebble, @Almost Missouri

Hopefully it's just because you're too young, not an ignoramus, but you know squat about Reagan and the Cold War. Reagan thought of America as a beacon of freedom to the world. Though not close to what was built by the Founders, the America of the 1980s was still much freer than most can imagine anymore. It was a beacon, and that beacon helped guide Russia and Eastern Europe out of Communism, with a whole lot of help and luck.

That doesn't mean President Reagan favored going into the East Bloc with military force. NATO was formed for containment. Years before his time, America and NATO did not get involved in either the Hungarian attempted revolution 69 years back nor the Czechoslovakian "Prague Spring" 12 years later. Of course, one could retort, it's have started WWIII. (Now, see, the Russians can't do... well, yeah, nuclear weapons... so maybe we should back the hell off.) The hot conflicts during the whole period were proxy wars in countries that were there to for in neither camp or too close for comfort for one side or the other. The Russian invasion of Afghanistan and wars in Angola and other places in Africa could be considered the former, while Cuba, Salvador, Nicaragua, etc. are cases of the latter.

After the CW ended, the NeoCons, formerly mostly leftists, got drunk with SoleSuper-Power. Anyone someone thought was a bad guy was fair game. There have been and still are poorly run countries and tyrannical rulers all over the world. We didn't make it our special purpose to "regime change" them during the CW time, and we shouldn't be doing it now. NOT! OUR! BUSINESS!

Learn some history, JJ.

We will see what actions of Putin you defend next.
 

Replies: @J.Ross

Not having Atlantic access and not having read the PDFs, I’m gonna say this is yet another isolated demand for rigor.
 

Most controversially, Herrnstein and Murray entertain the possibility that socioeconomic and educational differences among racial groups could be explained by differences in their IQ scores, and that these differences are at least partially attributable to genetic differences among the groups.

The bet’s premise was simple enough. Murray quoted himself on the podcast, arguing that “we will understand IQ genetically. I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks, but we’ll know basically what’s going on.” And he proposed that, in seven years, he’d sit through a lecture I gave on the topic: “Who Was More Right?”

It is now 2025, and I am here to declare that I was more right. (This article can sub in for the lecture Murray proposed.) We do not understand the genetic or brain mechanisms that cause some people to be more intelligent than others. The more we have learned about the specifics of DNA associated with intelligence, the further away that goal has receded. Even given a softer goal of predicting, rather than explaining, intelligence differences, we still can’t do it very well. If anything, we are further away now than in 2018 to knowing “basically what’s going on” with genetic influences on intelligence. (When I reached out to Murray for his view on this, he insisted that he is still right. “Of course I think I won the bet, and I will lay out my reasons for thinking that,” he wrote in an email. He told me he plans to do so in a few months, when he has more time.)
 

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I call bullshit. It sounds like someone from the dnc wrote it.

Replies: @Almost Missouri

There was literally a BBC article years ago about how archaeologists studying the middle ages found Jewish bones in an English well and they produced this tortured, incoherent, Soviet piece of cant about how somehow they were able to scientifically detect some sort of special extra agony over and beyond that agony attaining with a normal session of getting thrown in a well.

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Not having Atlantic access
 

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Generally it is not worth making requests which have a near zero chance of being fulfilled.
 

Replies: @Almost Missouri

You’re misusing this term.

Fraud is obtaining something by false pretenses. Since no one has shown that a troll farm’s Facebook posts changed the vote, nothing was obtained, so it’s not fraud.

Totally ridiculous.

Are you really suggesting that it is only fraud if it works? Would you be able to argue that in a court case? It isn't a fraud if you fail to defraud someone out of money?

As for the Russians we don't know how much it affected the election. All we know is that they focused on tight districts in swing states. Which shows they were focusing their resources for maximum outcome. It was a serious attempt at trying to flip swing states.

It may be dishonest, but that’s not illegal and there is a vast amount of dishonesty about, which you apparently haven’t noticed, except in this one microscopic case.

LOL one microscopic case. Yea well most people wouldn't describe the Russians trying to flip the US presidential election as a microscopic case.

If whoever paid the troll farm was told the payment would change the vote, then perhaps the payor has a fraud claim against the troll farm, but the US electorate does not.

Prigozhin was paid by Putin for all of his illicit activities. It isn't a mystery.

Putin's Jewish chef did all kinds of dirty work. The Jewish chef that Putin's White Nationalist fans at Unz don't like discussing. Kind of ruins the Dwarf Hitler fantasy for them.

You clearly sound desperate to rationalize Putin's election fraud.

Let me guess, you're one of the Trump supporters that screamed DEEP STATE and just assumed that a mass murdering dictator drew the line at election fraud. You got it wrong which is why you are so determined to downplay what happened.

Well I got it right and also the laptop. Just because I voted for Trump doesn't mean I was going to delude myself on a dictator who poisons the opposition. The safe assumption was that he did engage in fruad and DEEP STATE was not making it up. I made the safe and logical assumption while you did not. That is because you have poor judgment from trying to idealize a mass murderer.

If you keep trying to do damage control for the dwarf I might just have to look in your history to see how much you got it wrong.

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Jack D, @Almost Missouri

You’re misusing this term.

Fraud is obtaining something by false pretenses. Since no one has shown that a troll farm’s Facebook posts changed the vote, nothing was obtained, so it’s not fraud.

Totally ridiculous.

Are you really suggesting that it is only fraud if it works? Would you be able to argue that in a court case? It isn't a fraud if you fail to defraud someone out of money?

As for the Russians we don't know how much it affected the election. All we know is that they focused on tight districts in swing states. Which shows they were focusing their resources for maximum outcome. It was a serious attempt at trying to flip swing states.

It may be dishonest, but that’s not illegal and there is a vast amount of dishonesty about, which you apparently haven’t noticed, except in this one microscopic case.

LOL one microscopic case. Yea well most people wouldn't describe the Russians trying to flip the US presidential election as a microscopic case.

If whoever paid the troll farm was told the payment would change the vote, then perhaps the payor has a fraud claim against the troll farm, but the US electorate does not.

Prigozhin was paid by Putin for all of his illicit activities. It isn't a mystery.

Putin's Jewish chef did all kinds of dirty work. The Jewish chef that Putin's White Nationalist fans at Unz don't like discussing. Kind of ruins the Dwarf Hitler fantasy for them.

You clearly sound desperate to rationalize Putin's election fraud.

Let me guess, you're one of the Trump supporters that screamed DEEP STATE and just assumed that a mass murdering dictator drew the line at election fraud. You got it wrong which is why you are so determined to downplay what happened.

Well I got it right and also the laptop. Just because I voted for Trump doesn't mean I was going to delude myself on a dictator who poisons the opposition. The safe assumption was that he did engage in fruad and DEEP STATE was not making it up. I made the safe and logical assumption while you did not. That is because you have poor judgment from trying to idealize a mass murderer.

If you keep trying to do damage control for the dwarf I might just have to look in your history to see how much you got it wrong.

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I posted this before, but it remains completely correct & topical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3-h44VRrQ

And ..

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?linkCode=kpd&ref_=k4w_oembed_cS4JXjOQ8AfkWK&asin=B0060LSN7U&tag=kpembed-20&amazonDeviceType=A2CLFWBIMVSE9N&from=Bookcard&preview=newtab

Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness

by Rashid Khalidi


Fabricated History

Maybe, Rashid Khalidi can explain the following: “Palestine” is an English name invented by 19th century European Christians based on the Latin name “palaestina” the Romans renamed Israel in the 2nd century, referring to the Philistines who were ancient enemies of the Jews, originating from Greece. The Roman Latin name “palaestina” derives from the Hebrew name “Peleshet” appearing in the Jewish Bible, also referring to the “land of the Philistines,” meaning invaders to Israel.

Exodus 15:14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Peleshet

Why would so-called Palestinians, all of whom are Arabs and most of whom are Muslims, identify by a European Christian English term for a Latin term that was imposed on Israel by Roman pagans based on a Hebrew term in the Jewish Bible for Greek invaders [Philistines] to Israel?
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People’s who are people’s don’t need to search for crumbs, they know it.
Jews, Tibetans, Japanese, and Ironically Arab-oppressed Kurds, etc, have real and long history, (and Ethnicity, Language, etc) not as Palestinians, an anti-history. (reaction to Israel) ie. “Palestinians” [are an] Arab people no one heard of before 1967 before Israeli governments certified this piece of propaganda… As has been noted many times before, prior to 1948, that is before Jews had begun to call themselves Israelis, the ONLY persons known as “Palestinians” were Jews, with the Arabs much preferring to identify themselves as part of the great Arab nation.
– David Basch

“…Palestine does not belong to the “Palestinians” and never did. They did not even call themselves Palestinians until the middle 1960s. Before that, the word “Palestinian” meant “Jewish,” while the local Arabs called themselves simply “Arabs.”
The creation of the PLO by Gamal Abdul Nasser in 1964 was a brilliant ploy to distort the parameters of the dispute, largely for propaganda purposes.
It was inconvenient to have a conflict between 20-odd Arab states with an area 530 times greater than Israel, a population more than 30 times greater than Israel’s and enormously richer natural resources.

Far better to invent a “Palestinian” nation that would be the eternal “underdog,” – a nation consisting partly of Immigrants from Syria and other Arab countries who came to benefit from the rapidly growing economy Zionist Jews created…”


“There is no such country [as Palestine]! ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented!
– Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader, to the Peel Commission, 1937

“..There is No language known as Palestinian. There is NO distinct Palestinian culture.
There has Never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians.
Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another Recent Invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9% of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1% of the landmass.
But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough….””
– Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist

So before the creation of the State of Israel, who were the Palestinians?

Until 1950, the name of the Jerusalem Post was THE PALESTINE POST;
the journal of the Zionist Organization of America was NEW PALESTINE;
Bank Leumi was the ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK;
the Israel Electric Company was the PALESTINE ELECTRIC COMPANY;
there was the PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND and the PALESTINE PHILHARMONIC.
All these were Jewish organizations.
– In America, Zionist youngsters sang “PALESTINE, MY PALESTINE”, “PALESTINE SCOUT SONG” and “PALESTINE SPRING SONG” In general, the terms Palestine and Palestinian referred to the region of Palestine as it was. Thus “Palestinian Jew” and “Palestinian Arab” are straightforward expressions. “Palestine Post” and “Palestine Philharmonic” refer to these bodies as they existed in a place then known as Palestine. The adoption of a Palestinian identity by the Arabs of Palestine is a Recent phenomenon.
Until the establishment of the State of Israel, and for another decade or so, the term Palestinian applied almost Exclusively to the JEWS.
– Peacefaq

Karsh:
“…As the eminent Arab-American historian Philip Hitti described the common Arab view to an Anglo-American commission of inquiry in 1946, “There is No such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely Not.”
This fact was keenly recognized by the British authorities on the eve of their departure. As one official observed in mid-December 1947, “it does not appear that Arab Palestine will be an entity, but rather that the Arab countries will each claim a portion in return for their assistance [in the war against Israel], unless [Transjordan’s] King Abdallah takes rapid and firm action as soon as the British withdrawal is completed.” A couple of months later, the British high commissioner for Palestine, General Sir Alan Cunningham, informed the colonial secretary, Arthur Creech Jones, that “the most likely arrangement seems to be Eastern Galilee to Syria, Samaria and Hebron to Abdallah, and the south to Egypt.”
– The British proved to be prescient. Neither Egypt nor Jordan ever allowed Palestinian self-determination in Gaza and the West Bank — which were, respectively, the parts of Palestine conquered by them during the 1948-49 war. Indeed, even UN Security Council Resolution 242, which after the Six-Day war of 1967 established the principle of “land for peace” as the cornerstone of future Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, did not envisage the creation of a Palestinian state. To the contrary: since the Palestinians were still not viewed as a distinct nation, it was assumed that any territories evacuated by Israel, would be returned to their pre-1967 Arab occupiers — Gaza to Egypt, and the West Bank to Jordan. The resolution did not even mention the Palestinians by name, affirming instead the necessity “for achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem” — a clause that applied not just to the Palestinians but to the hundreds of thousands of Jews expelled from the Arab states following the 1948 war.
At this time — we are speaking of the late 1960’s — Palestinian nationhood was Rejected by the entire international community, including the Western democracies, the Soviet Union (the foremost supporter of radical Arabism), and the Arab world itself. “Moderate” Arab rulers like the Hashemites in Jordan viewed an independent Palestinian state as a mortal threat to their own kingdom, while the Saudis saw it as a potential source of extremism and instability. …”

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there is a vast amount of dishonesty about, which you apparently haven’t noticed, except in this one microscopic case.
 

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the fraud
 

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It is not practicable to stop the Russians from interfering in our elections in any way.

You don't have the expertise to make such a broad declaration.

The FBI in fact criticized FB for not taking steps to reduce the fraud. Meaning it could have been reduced.

That was when alt-right was screaming about how it is all a deep state conspiracy. But not you, right?

The Russians endorsing a candidate is interference in our election. You are okay with that so you choose to deny that that is interference.

That is not interference. That is stating who you would like to win.

Try to rationalize their actions all you want but Americans do not want Russian troll farms pretending to be small town Americans in swing states. That is election fraud.

You wouldn't be comparing it to an endorsement if Obama had done with an African state.

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Not sure if "keeping the flame of democracy" really counts as peace, especially since Venezuela got into the mess that is being protested by democracy too, but there you go. Oslo threaded the needle nicely without awarding Trump and yet not aggravating him too badly either, and that is all that matters. I wonder if the peace talks in Palestine will fall apart now, though.

PS. Speculations over here whether the winner was leaked because of late betting, but I don't really care.

PPS. Obama was the nadir, btw. But one of several such.

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In that unlikely scenario we convert cash to gold or some international digital currency at market rate like everyone else. So what?
 

Replies: @John Johnson, @Almost Missouri, @James B. Shearer

Why would I care if the dollar is used less as a reserve currency?

 

I do live in America and you didn't answer the question.

Let's say some country decides to use gold instead of dollars as an exchange currency. So what? Most countries have currencies that aren't used in reserves. That includes wealthy countries.

Your real answer is along the lines of because an alt-right doomer blogger said it would hurt the dollar.

No one here has given an actual answer. Because Crooke says so is not an explanation.

Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Almost Missouri, @Pericles, @res

Of interest:

FLAGS, RAGS, and F**S
February 2025
by Dennis Dale

A bill to redesign the Washington state flag, which features a portrait of the state’s namesake George Washington, failed to make it to the floor of the state legislature [in February 2025].

House Bill 1938, sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, would create a committee to come up with the redesign by 2028.

“[We’re] not asking to remove George Washington from the history of Washington state,” Peterson said. “This is more about the aesthetics of the flag and what the flag could represent to bring people across the state together.”
 

[....]

[T]he faddish post-national point of view can’t have too much preservation, acting as it does as an affront and challenge to new, trendy and trite ideas such as “choosing” one’s identity, or humanity living in alienation from the natural world as represented by geography, heredity, nation, sex.

In 2006 Seattle’s King County changed its logo from a crown to a stern and accusatory image of Martin Luther King, who had no particular connection to the region. The county was originally named after William Rufus de Vane King, vice president to Franklin Pierce and a slaveowner, hence the re-designation. William King had no connection to the region either, if you don’t count rumors of his homosexuality.

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/king-county-washington-post-2006-logo-mlk.png
As Seattle blogger Carter Van Carter said at the time, Big Brother is watching you.
 

Replies: @Almost Missouri

Well, given what NYT readers are like, you can't blame anyone for not wanting to mix in that company:

Paul Hundred, GED @paul_hundred
9h

It just gets gayer after that first sentence

schizogander @schizogander
11h

The New York Times' comment section is an interesting place.

10h ago
ny

I was gay for twenty years, and I loved that time with men.

At forty, I met a woman, and we married. We've had two kids and have been happy and monogamous for twenty-six years now.

I still like men. I love being a man. I love the goodness of masculinity — not the posturing kind of Hegseth or Tate, but the quiet strength of men like Obama.

At my age, my interest in sex with men has waned, but my appreciation for the beauty and diversity of masculinity — especially as embodied by gay men — has only deepened.

Here's the truth: I didn't "turn straight." I went straight because I reaffirmed being gay — because I found peace with myself — and purely by circumstance, I met and fell in love with a person who was my equal and it so happened to be a woman. There was no conversion therapy, no coercion, no therapist. Just me, rowing, rowing, rowing my boat, gently down the stream, for life is but a dream.

Conversion therapy doesn't work. It never will. It only drives young people into despair and too often to suicide.

I look forward to the day when, asked "Are you straight or gay?", we can all answer, "l don't understand the difference."

As for those who call themselves Christians while inflicting the cruelty of conversion therapy — I wish they could see that every act of such violence turns inward. They are wounding themselves most of all.

 

 

Oct 8, 2025 · 4:59 AM UTC
 

David Pinsen @dpinsen
8h
Replying to @paul_hundred

Just when I thought we’d heard the last from America’s former Second Gentleman.
 

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Lesbian sperm selections is how I've kept a roof over my head since my agent fled the San Fernando Valley.

Replies: @Almost Missouri

Wishful thinking indeed, by the New York Times. I meant to thank you, too, Generic Am, for reading the NYT so we don't have to! Unfortunately, Steve Sailer is not here on this site to do this nasty work for us.

That's what the donations were for (I gave him real money, 4 x), not to write great articles and posts. That's for fun. The pay is for doing that awful reading of the NYT, Atlantic, Washington Post for us.

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Steve Sailer and the MLK Holiday controversy of the 1980s

Hey, with the 40th anniversary of the "federal MLK Holiday" upcoming, in a few short months (January 2026), let me raise this question. Something I don't recall seeing before:

What was Sailer's view of the King Holiday when it was being debate? What about later?

(That the inaugural mandatory-"observation" of the King Holiday was close to the launch of the Bourne Supremacy book in early 1986 reminded me of the topic, but of course the alignment is a chronological coincidence.)

As far as I know, records have been lost or misplaced about what Sailer thought of the MLK Holiday campaign as it was ongoing. He was in his early-to-mid 20s during the controversy. He turned 25 a few weeks after it was finally passed in late 1983 and signed into law by President Reagan. (Congress had delivered Raegan a veto-proof-majority fait accompli, after several years of acrimony, guilt-tripping and moralizing.)

More than a few agitators had begun pushing for the MLK Holiday by the late 1970s. By Sailer's senior-year at Rice University, 1979-1980, it was already nearly a success. Of course, you never know at that kind of stage how much was people grandstanding and virtue-signaling, "before things got out of hand." In November 1979, a special vote in the House was narrowly defeated. Even if that vote had passed, it was probably doomed in the Senate. Or the compromise-plan to allow a "federal" holiday but peg it to a Sunday would've succeeded, which the pro-King Holiday side was never ready to accept.

The drumbeating continued in the 1980s while Sailer was at UCLA in search of an MBA. At some point the thing took on a (familiar) air of inevitability (cf. Black Moral Superiority Doctrine). The same kind of spirit that crowned Barack "Out-of-Nowhere" Obama abut 25 years later.

Sailer was in Chicago in late 1983, when matters came to a head. Jesse Helms and others filibustered, in protest that this holiday as a serious affront to national dignity.

Former Sailer-commenter "Jesse Helms Thinkalike" might have been against the King Holiday, if he were old enough to have had an opinion. But what of the young, early-1980s Sailer? Against the King Holiday? Neutral? For the King Holiday? If "For," when did he become so?

What did Sailer, as a senior at Rice University in late 1979, think of the first major salvo for the King Holiday? What about by late 1983? By the late 1980s and the first few "King Federal Holidays"? What about by ca. 2000? What about in 2025?

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Almost Missouri, @Hail

I was surprised when they passed over the big name actress Scarlett Johansson for the lead role in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie. The director was actually looking for someone sexually unattractive and that disqualified her.

She would have helped with the box office. I had watched some of her quirky small films early in her career like Ghost World, Lost in Translation, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I had less interest in her action films later. They made her a lot of money. Her being in the action film Girl with the Dragon Tattoo might have been another blockbuster for her if they had handled it right.

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Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/opinion/trump-miller-kirk-aftermath.html

https://archive.is/Jfw2U
 

H. Clark
Long Island, NY Oct. 7

President Stephen Miller and his figurehead Donald Trump are determined to rid the United States of one-third of its population. This, they determine, is about what is necessary to eliminate all recipients of entitlements and programs that aid the indigent, elderly, sick and injured, disenfranchised and downtrodden. Once this ‘drain’ on America is erased from the demographic at large, President Miller et al can focus their attention on relying on the former middle class to perform the functions formerly left to the working class. The cream of the middle class will rise up to become upper-middle class, while the lower tier will become waiters, maids, municipal workers and maintenance workers. This is no accident: President Miller is a big fan of eugenics, and he will do what is necessary to cull the ‘undesirables’ from the country and create a leaner, Whiter population. Whether civil war ensues is anyone’s guess, but it appears that it is already here, albeit in a more insidious form than anticipated.

America has undergone a brutal overhaul since January, thanks to Project 2025 under president Miller. This is how democracy dies, and how an authoritarian regime takes hold. The coup d’état worked, the masses will suffer, the elite will bask in power and wealth, and the end is nigh.
 

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I do resent MJ Rosenberg calling her “rightwing” though. She’s a New York lesbian whose views on every non-Israeli subject are conventional leftwing. So Rosenberg is wrong, and attributing Weiss’s actions, whatever they turn out to be (she’s kinda dumb, so likely nothing good), to the right will “hurt the brand”, but then that’s probably his intention.
 

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 will be announced about 80 hours from this writing.

Taking all Sailer-commentariat bets. Timestamp your predictions now.
-- Prize 1: Guess the winning person/group (specific name).
-- Prize 2: Guess WHY the winner wins, even if not guessing/knowing the right person/group.

Winners may get the personal congratulations of Steve Sailer (note: not guaranteed; note 2: contest and prize were possibly just made up by me; note 3: please do NOT give your bets to anyone answering to the name Corvinus.")

_____________

The Polymarket betting-site has the following people and groups at "implied over-1% chance to win" (based on $10 million pool of bets placed):

-- Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms (current odds: 27%). Famine, civil wars, unrest of all kinds make for a good bet. Some odds-makers give the Sudan people even higher odds than 27%.

-- Yulia Navalnaya (11%), the widow of Alexei Navalny, the anti-Putin dissident who died mysteriously in February 2024, shortly after the cut-off for Nobel Peace Prize nominations for 2024.

-- Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) (8%).

-- UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) (8%), seemingly to me an obvious top-contender given the scale of the killings in Gaza.

-- International Court of Justice (8%).

-- "Mediterranean Sea Rescue organizations" (5%).

-- Greta Thunberg (2%), recently released from a vermin-infested cell in an Israeli holding-facility they've been known to use to beat up on Palestinians.

-- Donald Trump (2%), what the rationale would be I don't know, but for some reason we have regularly heard about the supposed possibility, often from Trump himself.

-- Chow Hang‑tung (2%), a Hong Kong independence activist-leader repeatedly harassed, jailed, and humiliated by PRC-China after the crushing of Hong Kong in 2019-20. She kept at it even up to 2024, one of the way, and was crushed. This person's last known whereabouts seem to be "sitting uncomfortably in a PRC-controlled dungeon somewhere," one of the more prominent of several thousand Hong Kong political prisoners since 2020. (Seeking comment from The Last Real Calvinist.)

-- Volodymyr Zelensky (1%), still hanging on, but unclear why he'd deserve a Peace Prize for that.

-- Julian Assange (1%), triumphantly released from prison in mid-2024 after 12+ years in serious trouble over Wikileaks, the details of which are now fading from collective memory but, needless to say, the US government wanted to crush him. Some of the Wikileaks releases in 2016 greatly embarrassed Hillary Clinton, potentially helping Trump eke out his 2016 general-election victory.

-- Alexei Gorinov (1%), an anti-Putin Russian dissident.

-- María Corina Machado (1%), anti-Maduro political dissident in Venezuela, now in hiding.

-- Pope Leo XIV (1%).

-- Zuriel Oduwole (1%), b.2002, elite-African UK-citizen active in Los Angeles, and "education advocate," and University of Southern California PhD student. One of those nominating her in 2024, wildly implausibly, for the Nobel Peace Prize, was said to be "A U.S. Senator," but which one is not named. This choice seems especially unlikely given how far off we are, now, from Peak Wokeness (Sailer's "Plaques for Blacks" currently somewhat out of style).

-- Ursula von der Leyen (<1%), President of the European Commission and therefore leading figure within the EU, Dec 2019 thru (expected) Dec 2029. Nominated for keeping Europe together against threats from east (Putin) and west (Trump); and to some extent from within (Merkel-type Refugee Mania, today reduced from the peak of the mania although obviously still a festering problem).

-- Other: 20%.

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I did read the Donna Tartt novel at the time it was getting attention and liked it. Taste in novels is somewhat subjective. I can remember at the time everyone was reading that Girl With the Dragon Tattoo novel and raving about it, my mother tried it and didn't like it.

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She was discovered inside her apartment by her 15-year-old adopted son, according to German outlet Bild, with life-threatening injuries and several stabbing wounds on her stomach and back. Police have reportedly arrested the boy, who told officers that his mother was attacked outside their home by 'several men on the street', the outlet said. It added that he was taken away from the scene in handcuffs for questioning, wearing an evidence-preserving overall.

The teenager reportedly called emergency services alongside his 17-year-old adopted sister at 12.40pm, who was present in the apartment when authorities arrived, the newspaper said. She was also questioned in the hours following the attack, according to Der Spiegel, which reported that she had been involved in a previous case of domestic violence in the Stalzer household in the summer of this year. The politician's daughter had used a knife against the 57-year-old, the report said.
 

Replies: @Almost Missouri

Can you understand her? Her Hungarian seems pretty crisp.

Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

In Czechia, nationalism traditionally meant being anti-Teutonic, so nationalism seems anti-Nazi, as in Denmark and Poland.
 

Replies: @Hail

My wife and I have had fun watching the vlog of a Chinese woman who lives in Budapest and speaks fluent Hungarian with a Chinese accent:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZjXDf_KiQ


It's not something you hear every day.

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If only 40% of a city remains, that means that 60% of “hits” on the city are wasted bouncing rubble, even assuming that “the whole city” is the target and that all of your bombs actually hit the target. Many bombers missed cities entirely, and usually bombing raids had a more specific target.

No you can't make that assumption.

Most of the city could be intact after a section burned.

It does make it more legal, which is the entire point of the Geneva Convention. The law is ethics codified. The US and Germany pledged, by treaty, not to kill the POWs from other treaty signatories. Germany kept its pledge. The US did not.

Which still doesn't change my point which is that Germany killed POWs as part of policy.

It would be impossible for the US to kill even a 100th as many.
 

Replies: @Almost Missouri

A lot of the spectacular investment into AI has just been indulgence and waste.
 

Replies: @J.Ross, @epebble, @Almost Missouri

I dated a petite blonde with blue eyes who had learned Spanish in the Amazon jungle while Ayahuasca-questing. Whenever she spoke Spanish to a Spaniard or middle+ class Latin American, they fell about laughing. The casta-conscious Spanish-speakers found it very hard to square her upper-caste appearance with her lower-caste language.

I guess the effect would be like if a refined-looking Japanese or Scandinavian girl showed up and started talking Redneck or Ebonics to us.

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