Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Applying the Techniques of the Cartoonist to the Literary Exposition of Political Theory

Here's a blog post by Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert cartoon strip.

Quite apart from the point the author is making, I find this interesting for its method of exposition. It is cartoon-style analysis, using simplification and exaggeration to give a novel perspective to commonplace facts.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Rats, Raccoons and Indians Versus Law and Order

As the Republican Party Convention opens, presumptive GOP Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has declared himself the candidate for "law and order." It's a compelling idea, but its attainability is not so easy as many people think.

Law and order is a social construct: a regime of laws and law enforcement that ensures a safe, secure, and predictable world, in which people can live in freedom from fear.

But a society under the rule of law is in perpetual conflict with the tendency of things toward greater entropy, and can be maintained only by continual struggle with disruptive forces.

Just how arbitrary and tenuous any regime of law and order really is, is readily evident to anyone who looks about them.

Friday, July 15, 2016

When They Call the Victims of Terrorism "Far-Right," What's Going On?

Yesterday, someone, apparently an Islamic terrorist, deliberately drove a truck through a crowd in Nice, France, killing at least eighty people and severely injuring hundreds more.

How does the French state react to opponents of the Islamization of France? By calling them "the Far Right," or the "extreme right."

Thus, it is reported:
Patrick Calvar, the head of the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) – France's equivalent of MI5 – said growing tensions between "the extreme right and the Muslim world" were close to breaking point, and that a confrontation between the two appeared inevitable.
Even when a majority of people, as in Austria for example, vote for a Presidential candidate opposed to mass Islamic immigration, they are called "the Far Right".

To be "Far Right" is to be an extremist or even a Nazi, which is to say someone verging on being a terrorist, which is to say a hater, and therefore a person to be targeted with officially sanctioned hatred.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Right-Sizing and Quality Adjusting Human Populations to Economic Requirements

In a previous post, I asserted that automation will make most people economically redundant and that the elite will not for long tolerate the existence of an unproductive population:
They will destroy them, just as the European elites prior to World War II fantasized about killing off the useless eaters, an idea that Hitler and Stalin, and later Mao, applied on an industrial scale.
Some remarks along the same lines that I made over at Unz.com drew the following comment:
It is remarkable that we can see what’s coming, but we can’t do anything about it. It is like a disease we can’t cure, or a machine too complicated to fix.
Which prompted the following thoughts:

George Dubya Bush's Chief Economist, Morgan O. Reynolds: 9/11 Was An Inside Job



Morgan O. Reynolds was a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former director of the Criminal Justice Centre at the National Centre for Policy Analysis headquarters in Dallas, TX. He also holds three U.W-Madison degrees.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

What Will Happen to People When Robots Take Their Jobs?

Fred Reed has an excellent article at Unz.com, which sets out with unflinching realism how nearly everyone will be made permanently redundant by the processes of automation, computerization, and robotization.

By implication, the article makes clear why the New York Times employs Paul Krugman: to ensure that no one understands how rapidly we are approaching economic Armageddon.

But Fred makes the mistake, which no good journalist should, of answering the question he raises; namely, how’s it all gonna end?

Assad Must Go

Image source.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

When Will the Bubbles Burst?

Many young people hoping to buy a home of their own, and older folks with money they hope to save for retirement, have to decide their course of action in a world of debt-driven asset price inflation enabled by central bank interest rate policies that have driven bond and bank deposit yields to near zero or beyond.

House price indices from China to Peru. Source
If that world remains unchanged, the best investment strategy is to assume as much debt as possible and buy real estate or stocks. From China to Peru (see graph), this is what many people are doing.

But that strategy raises the key question: what will cause the asset price bubble to “pop”? And when?

Monday, July 11, 2016

An Unidentified FBI Analyst on the Incredible Corruption Surrounding the Clinton Foundation

Here is a 4chan discussion with  an "FBI analyst" in a photo-image … the comments by the ‘FBI analyst’ are highlighted in peach-orange colored boxes. Click the image to expand it.

The link is from a comment by Brabantian on today's Unz.com article on The Clinton Foundation by Michael Hudson.

Here's an easier to read transcript of the alleged "FBI Analyst"'s comments.

But is this alleged FBI analyst for real? Almost certainly not, unless he's an agent tasked with a disinformation role.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Freedom versus Bureaucracy: EU Political Morons Think They Can Impose Their Rules on the UK After Brexit: UK Political Morons Agree

I made an investment the other day in the Mainstream Media, and I use the term "investment" advisedly. I bought a day-old copy of the Sunday Telegraph, which the clerk rang up at "ten dollars and 24 cents." Wow, I'd been thinking about two bucks fifty, which tells you how rarely I  buy a newspaper.

But the investment, as it turned out was worth it. First, I got to find out something about Caroline Aherne, a British entertainer of Irish extraction who died last week at the age of 52, and who, to quote the Telegraph, "bestrode Nineties television like a colossus."

Turns out she invented a comedy series for TV-watching morons all about a family of TV-watching morons, the patriarch of which family spoke endlessly of "my arse." Given that Aherne is said to have had an IQ of 176, a level matched by no more than about one person in five million, the level of her accomplishments in the cultural sphere suggests that something has gone seriously wrong with British civilization. Which is not to deny that Caroline Aherne was genuinely funny (the joke in that clip is in the very last line), but her work, compared with that of say Shakespeare, seems disappointingly limited in range.

But what I learned from the Telegraph that was truly amazing was in the Business section, where the lead story was headed: Britain hit by Brexit negotiator crisis. "The Government," the story begins, "may have to look as far afield as India and America to find the legion of negotiators it needs for post-Brexit trade talks ..." Then under the heading "Bank of England hires legion of advisers to prepare for looming economic challenges" the Telegraph reports that the B of E "has hired more than 300 new staff as it beefed up teams including its economic forecasting unit and its bank monitoring squads in the lead up to the Brexit vote," thus raising the bank's staff to almost four thousand.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Liberal-Lefties Direct Furious Hate Speech at "Fat", "Racist", "poorly educated", "old", "White", "Working Class" Brexit Supporters

Liberal-lefties love to dub their opponents "haters." The truth is, though, that no one hates like a liberal-leftie in defeat. And the UK's yes-for-Brexit vote has set of a firestorm of liberal-leftie hate speech against

Brexit supporters.

Naturally, the leaders of the Brexit campaign were branded liars.

Nigel Farage, resigned as UK Independence Party leader, saying he wanted his life back following death threats and threats of rape made against his daughter. Naturally, no charges against those making these threats have been laid by the authorities.

So angry and hate-filled are the anti-Brexiteers that immediately after losing the referendum they held a Fuck Brexit rally.

The reason people voted for Brexit, said rally organizer Billie Porter, was that "people were asked to make a decision they weren’t equipped to make". Presumably only those for the abolition of Britain's sovereign, democratic nation state were qualified to decide, while the rest were, well, fat, white, racist, poorly educated, etc., etc.,

No votes for old white people. We stole the country fair and
square and you're not having it back. Anti-Brexiteers against
democracy. Source
So angry and hate-filled, in fact, are the anti-Brexiteers that they want to deny the vote to old people, who are apparently, by definition stupid racists, especially if fat and white, and who, in any case, are going to die soon, thank God, and so should not be allowed to influence in any way the future of the country. 

I suppose handing over the future of the country to the younger generation wouldn't be so bad if the younger generation were not such pathetically brainwashed, politically correct, poorly educated, ill-mannered, foul-mouthed, bullying, ignoramuses.

As it is, the only hope, really, would be to raise the voting age to about 41, or maybe 51.

There would be nothing undemocratic about that. Although the right to vote would be delayed until the age of maturity, on attaining the vote, a citizen could assert their democratic right in the knowledge that their judgement would not be nullified by the vote of someone with the intellectual authority of a fudge sundae.

Related: 

John Derbyshire: More Brechoes: Boris Not Good Enough; Exploding Progressive Heads!

This just in from Zero Hedge:

Four Countries Fed Up With EU
Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic issued a joint statement “The genuine concerns of our citizens need to be better reflected. National parliaments have to be heard.“
Poland’s deputy prime minister Mateusz Morawieck said “The British voice was the voice of reason.”

Protest AGAINST democracy? Thousands take to the streets AGAIN in anti-Brexit rally

Friday, July 1, 2016

Revenge of the Little People?

Curiously, folks in Europe seem to be fed-up with PC shysters and vote fixers of the Globalist, liberal left, telling them they must hand over their country, their government and their right to lead life according to their own traditions and religious faith to hoards of insensitive alien settlers who express contempt for the European people and their way of life, and indeed who declare their intention to conquer Europe and eliminate its people altogether "not by the sword, but by the womb."

Nuit debout protest, Paris, April 2016. Source
After many years of repression and submission, the people are showing some inclination to push-back, feeble though that effort may as yet seem. Brexit was one manifestation of this, and has succeeded in freeing Britain from domination by the Euro Commies and Kalergists under whom Britain has been inundated by million of immigrants now accounting for the majority of the population in London, Leicester, Luton, Slough and soon, in England's second city, Birmingham.

Now, outrageously, in a blatant expression of racism, xenophobia and religious bigotry, the Swiss have splendidly asserted the need for immigrants to assimilate to the Swiss way of life, rather than demanding the Swiss assimilate to the strange ways of alien life.

As for the Austrians, they seem to be giving the Kalergist vote fixers a hard time having just overturned the result of the corrupt Presidential election. However, it must be noted that despite a court ruling that the result of the election was marked by "serious vote fraud", no one has yet gone to gaol.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Cynthia McKinney for Trump's VP

Brexit, writes Israel Shamir at Unz.com:

gave hope to the Americans. If the Brits could defeat powerful coalition of party establishment, media, mercenary intellectuals, bankers, so can the Americans. Now we have learned that Trump can win. Instead of having a new world war, people can have peace. Instead of giving all their money to banks and the Pentagon, the bounty can be shared by the people who produce the wealth of the nation.

The main argument contra Trump that still rules in the social networks is a PC argument. He is a white man and therefore a racist, he is against Muslims, he never goes to gay discos, he does not belong to the approved minorities.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Brexit and Europe's Very Stupid Leaders

"We are led," said Donald Trump, speaking of Americans, "by very stupid people."

As recent events prove, the Europeans likewise.

Addressing the European Parliament following the yes vote for Brexit, a triumphant Nigel Farage, told his fellow Euro parliamentarians:
When I came here 17 years ago and I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave the European Union, you all laughed at me – well I have to say, you’re not laughing now, are you?
And this:
Most of you have never done a proper job ...
No Churchillian magnanimity in victory there.

Is that very stupid, or what?

As for Angela Merkel, she pushes on with the Coudenhove-kalergi plan to make Europe a unitary mixed-race state* with a total contempt for the expressed wishes of the British public and, if the truth were told, all Europeans.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Now Hungary Calls Referendum on Who Rules Hungary, Hungarians or the EU — Elites Rise Up Against Ignorant Masses — Calls Now For German EU Exit — Cameron Blames Merkel — German Paper Calls Merkel EU Gravedigger — EU To Require Adoption of Euro — Merkel Demands Halt to Brexit Contagion — Putin Parallels EU and Collapsing Soviets — Farage Splatters Trudeau — France and Germany Plot Merger — German Car Makers Worry

In the wake of the UK's Brexit vote and the decision to leave the European Union (EU), the Hungarian President, Janos Ader, has ordered a nationwide referendum on October 2.

The Hungarian people will be asked whether they want to accept any future European Union quota system for resettling migrants.
Zero Hedge: Elites' Called To Arms: It's Time To Rise Up Against The Ignorant MassesIt appears the powers that be just are not going to take it anymore. Having mistakenly allowed the people of Britain to exercise their free will ...

Express: MERKEL'S WORST NIGHTMARE: Germany calls for Referendum as 'people want to be free of EU:
Far right figures in Alternative for Germany have promised to call their own vote if they clutch power in country's general election in autumn next year.

A party spokesman branded Brussels a "bureaucracy monster", before adding: "Next year the AfD will enter the German parliament and Dexit will be top on our agenda".

They called the vote a Dexit as it stands for a Deutschland exit from the EU.


David Cameron Blames Brexit On Merkel And EU "Immigration Failure" But why, if the EU was following a failed immigration policy with genocidal consequences for the British nation, did Cameron not support Brexit? Bit late to blame Merkel now.

Die Welt Calls For Merkel's Resignation, Slams "EU's Gravedigger" "Britain Votes Merkel Out Of Office, Too" is the astonishing headline from Germany's 3rd largest newspaper Die Welt. Pinning the blame for The Brits' vote, the op-ed lambasts The EU's political failure, "The British do not leave the EU as narrow-minded snobs that had not meant it to happen that way, but as proud democrats that no longer wanted to put up with the snags and political failures of the EU;" and puts the blame squarely on the sagging shoulders of Angela Merkel (and her solo attempts at refugee policy)... "voters in Britain basically also voted Angela Merkel out of office. Before she becomes the EU's gravedigger for good, she should follow David Cameron's example." ...

The Express: June 28, 2016, Juncker plans to force EU nations to adopt the single currency and complete a monetary union.

According to the Daily Mail:
Angela Merkel has said the EU needs to stop other countries following Britain out of the door ...

The German Chancellor told her conservative party board in a conference call that it was necessary to prevent other European Union members going down the same path as Britain. [Heil Angela]

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Brexit: Heads the Elite Wins, Tails the People Lose

As Uncle Nasty, over at the Irish Savant, notes the Brexit vote was not a victory. Rather, "Victory is when Harman, Cameron and their ilk are staring down at the cheering crowds — from a scaffold."

Britain was lied into the Common Market by Ted Heath, who said that the then Common Market was, well, a common market, when in fact it was an anti-democratic, US-controlled, bureaucratic, Fascist state.

But the British elite never objected to the EU taking the blame for unpopular measures such as allowing mass population replacement immigration, which they themselves supported and profited by.

Brexit: The First Shot In a Global Civil War of the People Against Treasonous Elites

Virtually every vote for Brexit was a vote to end mass immigration to Britain. And already the treasonous elite that controlled both sides of the referendum campaign are making it clear that any idea of an end to the influx is a complete non starter.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

As Britain Brexits, Its Time to Reverse the Immigrant Tide

Britain is out of the EU.

Undoubtedly the key issue in the minds of most of those voting for Brexit is the immigrant flood.

Having taken back control of their own destiny, it is time for the Brits to take back majority ethnic London.

London voted more than 75% for Remain, confirming the divergence of interest between the indigenous people of the crowded British Isles and the mass of immigrants that make up a majority of the population not only of London, but of Leicester, Luton, Slough many other urban centers throughout the UK, and soon, England's second city, Birmingham.

But how can the immigrant tide be reversed?

An offer of ten thousand pounds to every immigrant who returns home would surely motivate many. And it would have particular appeal to those in gaol, for whom it would mean immediate release, and those with multiple wives and many children, for whom the payoff would be substantial indeed. In addition, the obligation to pay earned state pension benefits would, of course, be honored.

Illegal immigrants though not entitled to the full package, should also be helped on their way with a generous package of travel and resettlement aid.

And the offer to legal immigrants could be sweetened by the inclusion of some kind of honorary UK citizenship which would provide certain privileges, e.g., post-secondary education, but not permanent residence, in the UK.

The cost of paying immigrants to go home would be considerable but manageable. In fact the offer might be upped to twenty or twenty five thousand pounds.

By way of illustration, the cost, at ten thousand per head, assuming that half the eight million ethnic residents of Britain accepted the offer, would amount to forty billion pounds, or 5% of the UK government's annual revenue..

The benefit of such a repatriation program to the British people, as measured in increased wages, lowered housing costs, and reduced tax expenditure on infrastructure necessitated by the post-2000 immigrant flood would far exceed the cost.

In addition would be the benefit of remaining master of one's own home, free to take pride in ones glorious culture unmodified and unconstrained by the demands of polygamists, voodooists, genital mutilators, and those who reject the British legal tradition, and the British tradition of free speech, unconstrained by political correctness.

Related:

64% Oil, 30% Gas Leave the EU Together With Britain
Brexit Battle Not Over Yet: Globalists Using ‘Scare Tactics’ on Markets, Will ‘Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Turn Back the Clock’ on Brexit
Yeah, the Out Vote was just the last gasp of those  poorly educated, old white working class English people we're getting rid of, and the sooner the better

Who will be NEXIT? The Swexits, Czexits and Frexits that could follow Britain out of the EU... and the aftershocks hitting continent

Brexit: Merkel Dismayed!
Time for das Commie Madchen to quit

Dumb US Ambassador to Russia Calls Brexit Vote Putin Victory

Party calls UK Labor leader to resign

Brexit: Soros defeated by act of God
Well done, God

Daily Mail: Brexit means Trump will be next US Pres
It's the Genocide By Mass Immigration That Folks Didn't Like

Scotch Treason Party Leader Sturgeon Calls for UK Break-up
She wants to rejoin the EU: She'll have to hurry before it disintegrates altogether

Donald Trump, in Scotland, Calls ‘Brexit’ Result ‘a Great Thing’

These countries could be next now that Britain has left the E.U.

'Explosive shock' as Britain votes to leave EU, Cameron quits