Death of the West, or Why I Hate Dogs

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Actually, I don't hate dogs. I was raised on a farm where dogs had a function, feared their master and slept in a kennel, not on, or in, the owner's bed.

What I hate is the way that dogs have come, for so many people, to provide the emotional gratification that used to be provided by children now absent from the lives of a majority of urban dwellers.

As a consequence, many people idiotically endow dogs with human rights, and assume that they have human intelligence. Meet an unleashed dog who's owner is saying something like "Now Charlie, we're on our best behavior today, aren't we," and you know your in trouble. Charlie is quite likely about to leap at you and wipe his slobbering jaw on your newly cleaned pants, and when you smack him across the nose with the back of your hand in an instinctive act of self-defense, Charlie's besotted owner will go ballistic.

The fact is, children, although infinitely more trouble, are also infinitely more intelligent than dogs and do actually come to understand the English language and can learn to be thoughtful and civilized creatures, something entirely beyond the capacity of a dog.

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NY Times: Germany on the Brink

To the Brain-dead Mainstream, Right or Left, Opposing White Genocide Is Racism

By Paul Ramsey

ReturnofKings.com, January 5, 2016: People on the Alt Right are primarily concerned with identity. This means:

Hungary belongs to the Hungarians
Germany belongs to the Germans
France belongs to the French

Syrians that flood into Germany may become citizens but they will never be Germans. For a nation is based on a common blood, language and culture. Years ago this was known as self-determination and common sense. Now it is known as “WHITE SUPREMACY” by the left and establishment Republicans.

However, curiously, the one exception is Israel. Both the Democrats and the Republicans affirm the Israel has the right to remain a Jewish ethno-state. As such, no Democrat or Republican politician is demanding that Israel accept Syrian refugees. But these same politicians insist that white countries have a moral obligation to accept endless refugees.

It has been something of a pastime for the globalists to excitedly predict when a country will no longer have a white majority. Germany will no longer have a white majority by 2020! The USA will no longer be White by 2030! The destruction of the white majority is always seen as inevitable and a good thing. And to oppose it means you are a “White Supremacist” or a “Nazi.”

But some people no longer want to be dispossessed from their homelands. And, yet, they also don’t want to exploit or harm other races. They just want self-determination for their people as the Jews have self-determination in Israel. These are the ideologically refugees that have migrated to the Alt Right.


Meantime, in Frau Burqal's Germany (from the Unz Review):

In 2012 this German video on what the news would be like in 2018 was satire…



But reality appears to be overtaking satire:

Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said the they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination.

“Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.”*

This is a one up even on the Muslims who at least stop at first cousins. ...

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And in the US of Abolition (of white people)

Fred Reed asks:

Who is this President? How did we get him? Does he have anything in common with me? Is there anything even American about him? He is an African of Islamo-Indonesian culture, deeply hostile to America and white people and ruling with a dictatorial style more like that of Shaka Zulu than Thomas Jefferson.

Yet I confess to a grudging admiration. He, belonging to one of the virile peoples—blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems–has keenly diagnosed the weakness of American society:

There is no one who will say ”No.”

The Supreme Court? Nine corpses in a wax museum. Congress? If they all poisoned themselves nobody would notice. Though it would still be worth doing.

A President with brass balls—and god knows Hussein Obama has them—can do anything with an executive order. Anything. And we obey. “Yass, Bwana. What you say, Bwana.” Gun control? No problem. The Constitution? Say what? Wars anywhere and everywhere? Congress can read about them in the papers. It is astonishing.

More correctly, the European population–pale, white, feeble things wriggling like fly grubs in the corruption of a putrefying body politic—obey. Blacks and Moslems do not allow themselves to be pushed around. They are, whatever else they are, virile. They look to be history’s winners. Though not civilization’s.

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And the Irish Savant asks:

Why did they do it? (And by "they" he means the Treason Party cucks, from Bliar to Camoron, and from Clintong to  Hillary).

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The Nature of Physical Reality, Part II: Space

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Multiple instances of planar space

Space is the absence of anything. It may be one-dimensional, as for example, the space between words in a sentence; two-dimensional, as with a bullet hole in a signboard; or three-dimensional, like a hole in a Swiss cheese. But so far as we know, space cannot be more than three-dimensional, which puts the skids under string theory that demands five, six ... ten, eleven, or is it 25 dimensions of space. Time, moreover, although sometimes referred to as the fourth dimension, is not a spatial dimension but an index of the successive stages in the evolution of events in three-dimensional space.

End of infinite space ahead

Space, in other words, is everywhere that nothing else is. Thus, before the Big Bang, an observer with a flashlight would have seen that space was not only cold and dark but that, like the lone and level sands of Shelley's poem, it stretched far away, and indeed, if our observer's flashlight had been powerful enough, he would have seen that it stretched, boundless and bare, to the furthest corners of infinity (except that, with nothing to illuminate, the flashlight would have revealed nothing at all, not even the boundaries of infinity unless these were helpfully sign-posted).

Google, Bing and the Abolition of Whitey

Search Google for 'happy American couple' and see what you get: About 15 white couples out of more than 400, the rest being either colored or of mixed race. I mean, is that representative of America, or what?

Or try searching 'white woman and a man".

But, hey, let's hear it from Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Is this what you're thinkin': we're gotta eliminate whitey from public view?

Source: Irish Savant: Google's War on Whites.

And Bing's doing the same thing. Likewise, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex.

Well, there you are: Pretty well all Americans must be African or mated to an African, except that makes no sense, since almost 80% of Americans are white.

The Rot at the Head of the University

In The Intellectual Costs of Diversity, Robert Weissberg explains the devastating harm to academic excellence done by the promotion of diversity  in the American University — a cost that guarantees America`s demise as the world's leading intellectual, scientific and technological power.

In discussing this transformation of academia, the author considers the motivation of the Interim Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Champaigne-Urbana, Barbara Wilson, who has announced diversity, i.e., rigged hiring to insure blacks and women are favored over better qualified white or Asian males, to be central to the university’s mission. His conclusion is this:

... abandoning intellectual excellence is best explained by physical intimidation and what is most remarkable is the inconsequentiality of this threat. What interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson and others face is at most some fleeting verbal abuse …

This, sadly, is complete rubbish, for if it were not, it would be a simple matter to find university leaders with the balls to insist that the university is about scholarship, not the replacement of Christian morality with that of Political Correctness.

Donald Trump Attacked By All the Cucks For Opposing Immigration of Muslims Who May Seek to Overthrow the US Government

According to Britain's state propaganda agency, the BBC, Democuck presidential candidate and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Mr. Trump for his call, following the Paris and San Bernadino terrorist attacks, for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the US. Such "rhetoric," she claimed, was turning Mr. Trump into the "best recruiter" for the Islamic State militant group.

That's a bit like a British appeaser of Hitler saying that Winston Churchill's rhetoric about the danger posed by the Nazis made Churchill the "best recruiter" for Nazism: a claim, obviously, that did not make Churchill wrong.

The Islamic State is affiliated with people such as Al Quaeda in Somalia who, according to the BBC report cited above, are urging African-Americans to convert to Islam and take part in holy war.

The British political class, which is committed to cuckdom across the board, like Hillary, have dismissed Trump's "rhetoric" with contempt.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party's openly Marxist leader, said Trump's call for a temporary US ban on Muslim immigration  was "an attack on democratic values and affront to common humanity". Like who's democratic values, one wonders. The values of Americans who mostly don't wish to see recruiters for holy war entering their country, or the "democratic" values of ISIS and its affiliates?

Nigel Farage, pro-mass immigration leader of the UK so-called Independence Party, said Mr Trump's comments were a "kneejerk reaction" and a "political mistake too far," while Prime Minister Camoron, who bombed Libya into a state of terrorist anarchy, and the leader who raised Britain's immigration rate to an unprecedented and genocidal level, said Trump's call for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States was "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong". Yeah, sure: who better than Cammy to judge?

All of which suggests what probably most sensible Americans believe, that Trump has the right idea and that the collaborators for global governance and the destruction of the democratic nation state, in cluding the US, are getting the wind up.

Here are the folks Donald Trump wants out of America. The video, in English, explains the anger Trump's stand has aroused among the Cuck class. ISIS, the video reveals, seeks exactly that the Anglo-US-EU Establishment Treason Party desires: an end to democracy, an end to the nation state, and a mongrelized humanity under a global system of undisputed top-down control.



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Who Is the Arch Racist – Trump or Clinton?

By John V. Walsh

Antiwar.com, December 28, 2015: Who is the arch racist, Hillary or Trump? To answer that, let us ask another question, a simple one. Which is worse: to denigrate some members of a group or religion or race – or to kill them by the millions? And maim more millions and displace even more millions? Which is more “racist”? With that in mind, who is the arch racist, Hillary or The Donald?Do the liberals who criticize Trump, but not Hillary, as racist forget the slogan of the anti-Vietnam War movement, “Stop the Racist Bombing.”

James Corbett on Noam Chomsky: Academic Gatekeeper

Corbett is incorrect in suggesting that when the Federal Reserve prints money for the government it pockets the interest paid by the government on the money thus created.

In fact, what happens is this. When the Treasury needs to raise cash other than through taxation, it issues interest bearing bonds to the Federal Reserve, which then deposits the face value in cash in the Government's account. This is so-called "ink money": money conjured out of thin air, not money owned by the Fed.

The bonds thus acquired by the Fed are either then sold on to the public, in which case the cash proceeds are used to wipe the "ink money" off the Fed's books, while interest is paid by the treasury to the holders of its paper; or the bonds are retained by the Fed. In the latter case, interest is paid to the privately owned Federal Reserve, but at the end of each year the Fed refunds to the Treasury the income thus received less its own operating expenses. Thus there is no inappropriate payment to the Federal Reserve for its role in the money printing process.

What is culpable, on the part of the US Government, not the Federal Reserve, is the resort to inflationary finance on a gigantic scale to fund budget deficits, the burden to be paid by the public — especially the little people with cash saving yielding virtually zero interest — by way of the inflation tax. This, however, Chomsky sees as quite a natural normal thing, which on the present scale, it certainly is not. Rather it is a desperate measure to counteract the unending depression induced by the drive for globalization, which entails off-shoring of a large proportion of American manufacturing and services jobs to cheap labor jurisdictions with minimal environmental protection, workplace health and safety standards and low taxes. But Chomsky is oblivious to all this, apparently. A more intelligent observer of the American political scene, Paul Craig Roberts, explains the ongoing process of American self-destruction that has been concealed by the resort to inflationary finance, and hyper-indebtedness.

As for the Kennedy assassination and 9/11, Corbett correctly draws attention to Chomsky's contempt for those who draw attention to significant evidence and make reasonable arguments that call in question the official accounts of these events: accounts that so well serves the interests of the elite.

Why, one wonders, such passion about issues Chomsky is unprepared to discuss? Very odd.

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Huge Fire Engulfs 63-Story Dubai Hotel — But It Doesn't Collapse Like the WTC Towers

Unlike the Twin Towers, Dubai's Address Hotel, though engulfed in flames, has not collapsed into its own footprint. They must build better in Dubai than in New York.

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Winston Churchill's Warning to the West on the Tyrannical Ambition of the Islamists

For some time I have been intending to look up and quote Winston Churchill's prescient comments on the danger posed to European civilization by Islam. However, I have been spared the trouble by Michael Patrick Leahy who, writing for Breitbart, has assembled some if not all of Churchill`s published comments on the subject. Leahy`s article is well worth reading in its entirety, but here, for anyone interested simply in Churchill`s warning to the West, are the key passages:

Writing in The River War, his account of the British retaking of Sudan, published in 1899, Churchill noted the threat to Western Civilization radical Islam poses:

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

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Islam, Churchill wrote, “is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog.”

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedanism law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property–either as a child, a wife, or a concubine — must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Writing earlier in the River War, the conduct of the Mahdi who led this modern caliphate was beneath contempt, in Churchill’s view:

After the fall of Khartoum and the retreat of the British armies the Mahdi became the absolute master of the Soudan. Whatever pleasures he desired he could command, and, following the example of the founder of the Mohammedan faith, he indulged in what would seem to Western minds gross excesses. He established an extensive harem for his own peculiar use, and immured therein the fairest captives of the war.

In his first book, a description of British battles in Afghanistan, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, an Episode of Frontier War, published a year earlier in 1898, Churchill explained how local tribesmen were mesmerized by the call of Islam:

The Mullah will raise his voice and remind them of other days when the sons of the prophet drove the infidel from the plains of India, and ruled at Delhi, as wide an Empire as the Kafir holds to-day: when the true religion strode proudly through the earth and scorned to lie hidden and neglected among the hills: when mighty princes ruled in Bagdad, and all men knew that there was one God, and Mahomet was His prophet. And the young men hearing these things will grip their Martinis, and pray to Allah, that one day He will bring some Sahib (prince) – best prize of all – across their line of sight at seven hundred yards so that, at least, they may strike a blow for insulted and threatened Islam.

Churchill compared Islam unfavorably to Christianity:

Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men’s passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination. But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness.

In the same book, Churchill also offered this on Islam:

That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword—the tenets and principles of which are instinct with incentives to slaughter and which in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men—stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism. The love of plunder, always a characteristic of hill tribes, is fostered by the spectacle of opulence and luxury which, to their eyes, the cities and plains of the south display. A code of honour not less punctilious that that of old Spain is supported by vendettas as implacable as those of Corsica.

Leahy's ends his article with the warning that:

If Western Civilization is to survive, it will only be as a consequence of leadership that demonstrates overwhelming power to defeat the unceasing efforts of the Islamists who seek to enslave us all in the modern caliphate first envisioned by Muhammad Ahmad in Sudan more than a century ago.

And, Leahy continues:

It was the cold steel of Churchill’s charge at Omdurman 117 years ago that brought that first attempt to create a modern caliphate to an end.

Here, in his otherwise excellent article, Leahy makes the minor error of assuming that as a participant in the last cavalry charge in the history of the British Army, Churchill used a sword. In fact, the officers of the 21st Lancers with whom Churchill served, though armed with swords, also carried pistols. Churchill had a Mauser, which he used, rather than his sword, during the charge at the Battle of Omdurman.

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A Message to the World From the Christian State in Europe and North America (CSEA)

From the Christian State in Europe and North America (CSEA, pronounced Cee-Sea):

Merry Christmas:

Nana Mouskouri: Stille Nacht



Enrico Caruso: Minuit Chrétien - O Holy Night 1916:



Antal Zalai, Violin: Handel's Largo from Xerxes:

During the Christmas Truce that began at the front line in France on Christmas Eve, 1914 German soldiers sang “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht,” while the British sang “Silent Night, Holy Night.”

A German violinist performed Handel’s haunting Largo for the French. and Victor Granier, of the Paris Opera, sang the carol “O Holy Night” in French for the Germans.

Cucks and Interlopers for the Cultural and Racial Genocide of Europe

‘Star Wars’ Posters Are All About the One-Eye Sign:
Mark of the Elite Agenda, According to Vigilant Citizen

As the Iris Savant reports, the latest iteration of Star Wars, whatever that may be, features in the lead role, a heroic, intelligent, and honorable black guy; women — would-be leaders all — who are fearless and capable warriors, and who are solitary and totally independent of any man. People of mixed race and/or untraditional sexual proclivity predominate among the good guys, while the villains are straight, white, Germanic-looking, and brandishing Christian-like symbols.

There is, in fact, nothing new about this kind of gender-bending racial stereotyping designed to undermine the self-confidence and ultimate survival of the European people. The cucks at the British Broadcorping Castration have, as James Delingpole reports in the Telegraph, done to the ancient radio soap, The Archers — the story of rural life in central England, what J.J. Abrams has now been done to Star Wars.

In merry olde Ambridge, so England Calling's Robert Henderson relates, all the white lads are now thieves, queers or dope dealers, and all the white girls are dying to get knocked up by the Pakistani captain of the village cricket team.

Unbelievably fucking white Star Wars Director, J.J. Abrams

Oh, and the squire's daughter, naturally, has married an African.

I guess folks accept it because, well, hey, it's true to life. They see it happening around them: the racial and cultural destruction of their nation.

Clever, innit, how you get an entire, once great, nation to acquiesce in its own genocide.

And, blimey, this is interesting: just searched Google for "Star Wars" +"anti-white" and got seventy-three million hits! Even "Star Wars" +"white genocide" produces 53,000 hits, but Google'll probably soon fix that (Yeah, both numbers down by 10% within 24 hours). Soon they'll probably show anyone looking for "Star Wars" +"white genocide" is a racist. And, yes, here we are over at saLoon.com:

Racists threaten to boycott “Star Wars VII” because it promotes “white genocide,” apparently

It's racist to oppose the genocide of your own people, apparently. LOL: The standard liberal-leftie argument: reductio ad odium sermonis (reduction to hate speech). 

The extraordinary hypocrisy of the politically correct cucks is nicely confirmed by a story from the University of Ottawa where a free class on Yoga was cancelled because it represented an exercise in cultural appropriation, whereas depicting citizens of Third World extraction as pioneers of space exploration is just fine, apparently, with the likes of the so fucking unbelievably white and sour-faced J.J. Abrams.

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Why Are We So Smart? Or Perhaps We're Not

Mankind bestrides Planet Earth. Why? How come we, alone, of all creation have eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

The answer, many say, is our large brain. Such, for example, is the implication of a recent Quanta magazine article: How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains.

But are human brains really the largest?

The Hell With Scotch Nationalists: Their Goal Is NWO Assimilation, Their Motive is Treason

Advocates of Scotch independence are either idiots or scoundrels.

They demand Scotch independence with membership of the EU and NATO, which is total silly bugger bollocks.

The EU and NATO are among the chief driving forces for global integration and the universal human rights agenda, which trumps the right of national self determination.

The universal human rights agenda grants equal rights to everyone over your local affairs, which is to say, it grants every Syrian refugee or Islamic extremist the right to migrate to the poverty-stricken Scottish Island of Bute without regard for the wishes of the local population. And it grants every Indian, Esquimo, Pakistani and Australian aboriginal the right to migrate to Glasgow or Edinburgh, without regard for the wishes of the local population. Moreover, it grants anyone from anywhere the right to migrate to Glasgow or Edinburgh and agitate for Islamification, cannibalism, genital mutilation, head chopping, head-flattening, neck-stretching, poylygamy, partial birth abortion, infanticide, and the placing of bags over womens' heads in the name of multiculturalism and inclusiveness.

Scotch separatism is a genocidal globalist scam to destroy the Scottish nation as a racial and a cultural entity. It is driven by Soros agents and all the other NWO scum with the object of destroying the UK, a powerful geopolitical entity capable of preserving its own independence, while driving total assimilation of Scotland to the undemocratic European Union of which it would be among the most insignificant, ignored, and ridiculous members.

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New Children's Book: Winners Aren't Losers, By Donald J. Trump

The US–Saudi Oil Price Manipulation: Winners and Losers

On September 11, 2014, US Secretary of State, John Kerry, met in Riad with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and persuaded him that Saudi Arabia, the swing producer of the OPEC oil cartel, should do the opposite of what a cartel leader is supposed to do, that being to constrain supply and hold the price high. Instead, Abdullah agreed to Kerry's proposal, and Saudi Arabia raised production, thus driving the price of oil from $100 plus per barrel to, currently, $35.

Why did Kerry want this? Why did King Abdullah agree?

Acne, Anxiety and Sour Milk: Back to the Future

Below is the abstract of an open access article in the journal Gut Pathology. The paper draws attention to a seventy-year-old hypothesis relating gut flora, mental states and skin disorders. The widespread availability of commercially prepared kefir allows anyone with a skin condition or an anxiety disorder to test this hypothesis. Kefir is milk soured to the consistency of drinkable yoghurt by a dozen or more strains of lacto-fermenting organisms, chiefly species of the genus Lactobacillus. The fermentation converts milk sugar, lactose, to lactic acid. In addition, the live bacterial culture continues, in the acidic environment of the stomache, to convert any other sugars that may be present to lactic acid (plus perhaps a little alcohol) thereby increasing the acidification of the stomache contents. This in turn affects the environment in the further reaches of the gut, thereby controlling the species composition of the gut microflora, the metabolism of which, affects what passes the gut wall into the blood stream and lymphatic system.

Thus, for example, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, usually to be found in commercially prepared Kefir, produces substantial quantities of the mammalian neuroinhibitor, gamma amino butyric acid, or GABA, with reportedly significant psychoactive effects. That chemicals produced by gut microorganisms have a sedative effect is not entirely surprising since emotion is a matter nor only of the head but of the heart, which term should be understood to include the gut where, as acknowledged in common speech, emotion is registered.

Anecdotal reports suggest that Kefir can be effective in the treatment of dermatitis, food allergies and some chronic gut-related disabilities including colitis and Krohn's disease. The cost of experiment by those so afflicted is slight, and the downside seemingly small, since the transformation of the gut flora achieved through the use of probiotics such as kefir seems to depend on continued consumption and is thus easily terminated if no benefit is experienced.

Gut Pathog. 2011; 3: 1
Acne vulgaris, probiotics and the gut-brain-skin axis - back to the future?

Whitney P Bowe and Alan C Logan

Over 70 years have passed since dermatologists John H. Stokes and Donald M. Pillsbury first proposed a gastrointestinal mechanism for the overlap between depression, anxiety and skin conditions such as acne. Stokes and Pillsbury hypothesized that emotional states might alter the normal intestinal microflora, increase intestinal permeability and contribute to systemic inflammation. Among the remedies advocated by Stokes and Pillsbury were Lactobacillus acidophilus cultures. Many aspects of this gut-brain-skin unifying theory have recently been validated. The ability of the gut microbiota and oral probiotics to influence systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, glycemic control, tissue lipid content and even mood itself, may have important implications in acne. The intestinal microflora may also provide a twist to the developing diet and acne research. Here we provide a historical perspective to the contemporary investigations and clinical implications of the gut-brain-skin connection in acne.

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Barack Obama: The Manchurian Candidate

Via WRH, via JamesPerloff.com

The Manchurian Candidate (1962): Movie Review

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