It’s Good Friday. This is a well known verse. It sums up the point of the day, and it sums up the whole point of Christianity.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Happy Easter.
It has been a rude shock as editor of an alternative news outlet to constantly discover over the last two years just how little I yet know about the world, and that takes a lot of work to remedy. So when Stefan Molyneux interviewed Ingrid Carlqvist from Norse News regarding the terrorist attack by an illegal immigrant from Uzbekistan using a truck which killed four people in Stockholm, I figured this was a good chance to expand my knowledge. Two episodes have been produced so far. This is episode 1, from early February:
I am used to hearing people from the Anglosphere talking about the dire situation in Sweden, so it is refreshing to hear Swedes discussing it themselves, openly and proudly displaying symbols of their glorious past, and doing something positive to help their country. They discuss issues such as no-go zones (yes they exist); the rape epidemic (yes it exists, and the strict laws unique to Sweden only account for a tiny fraction of the precipitous rise); the stifling politically correctly environment which sees anyone who challenges the Cultural Marxist narrative hounded by the press; and the idea of Sweden’s “Titanic Nationalism” – the idea that Swedes think that their country is unsinkable, but with the obvious analogy of the fast-approaching iceberg.
I am also used to hearing Europeans mince their words, so it was a hoot to hear a Swede refer to the “turd world”, and in general display a dark sense of humour to the farce that is Swedish politics. These people have local knowledge; Ingrid used to live in Malmo, and another presenter frequented a mall which is now a no-go zone.
What should give us hope is that the Swedes are finding a way to rebel. When a children’s author said in an interview that she no longer felt safe in Sweden due to mass migration, the MSM did its usual hatchet job on her, but her book sales went through the roof. Similarly, a Swedish musician received increased online sales when he spoke out. And the anti-immigrant Democrat party is the biggest in Sweden, although like Wilders’ Freedom Party in the Netherlands, is a political pariah, and likely to face an overwhelming coalition against it.
Returning to the need for humility regarding one’s knowledge of the world when working in the media, the footage of a Swedish journalist attempting to interview a Trump supporter in America, shown near the end of the broadcast, is a hilarious lesson to anyone working in the field of journalism to never assume that your subject is dumber than you.
You can view Ingrid Carlqvist’s interview with Stefan Molyneux here, and Norse News Episode 2: Trump Reveals the Real Sweden, here.
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Another day, another public relations disaster for local apologists for terror who are banned overseas but not here, Hizb ut-Tahrir. These delightful ladies explore how the koran’s teachings mean a husband is “permitted” not “obliged” to hit his wife.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VSbxPs3cPR4
Naturally, their ABC rolled out spokespeople for islam on the 7pm bulletin to explain that Hizb ut-Tahrir do not represent mainstream islam.
Naturally, they neglected to mention that their favourite pet muslim of the minute, Yassmin Islam Is The Most Feminist Religion Abdel-Magied, happily sought advice from the group which does not represent mainstream islam.
Naturally, they also conveniently forgot to mention that the argument the Hizb ut-Tahrir representatives make, that there are steps a husband can take before hitting his wife only as a last resort, are eerily similar to the argument made recently on the Bolt Report by The XYZ’s favourite muslim buffoon, Keysar Trad, who also doesn’t represent mainstream islam.
That list of muslim spokespeople who don’t represent islam is getting rather long.
We’ll leave Quote of the Day to Federal Minister for Women, Michaelia Cash, who is “deeply concerned” that the main speaker in the video is a primary school teacher, “given the important leadership role she holds with young impressionable children”:
“Attempts to teach the next generation of young Australian Muslims that violence from a husband to a wife is acceptable is completely out of touch with community standards and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”
It’s your XYZ.
One of the victims of the Stockholm terror attacks was a Belgian psychiatrist dedicated to assisting failed asylum seekers who are expected to leave. At least she died doing what she loved.
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The XYZ has always been a forum for differing opinions, and the US airstrike on Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime is no exception.
You can read some excellent arguments made against Trump’s actions by Moses Apostaticus here for The XYZ, and here for The Daily Caller. He argues strongly that the intelligence which led to the strike was compromised, and that the long-term effects of the action, and the potential for regime change in Syria and a major war with Russia, could be the decline and fall of the West.
I have analysed the historical situation which led to the current crisis here and argue that Trump is making a point; ie, the word of the President of the United States of America means something again, and you mess with the United States at your peril. I have also whacked together a highly entertaining tabloid here, where I float the suggestion that Trump is playing 4D chess.
Many of these contrary arguments are reflected in the following debate between Stefan Molyneux and Bill Mitchell:
Both have been key backers of Donald Trump, and they both backed him early. Molyneux was particularly effective in influencing public opinion due to the stupendous size of his audience. Mitchell carries clout because he called the election result correctly from the very beginning; he understood the power of Trump’s persuasive technics and the depth of his strategic thinking.
Molyneux shares Moses’ skepticism regarding the validity of the intelligence regarding the use of chemical weapons, while I agree with Mitchell that Trump is making a strong impression early, and that this is paying off already with cooperation from China in confronting North Korea.
(You can read analysis of the looming confrontation with North Korea from Greg Sheridan here, who points out the irony in Trump’s strategy: “Avoid a nuclear holocaust and we won’t press so hard on beef exports?”)
Both Molyneux and Mitchell make arguments which I agree and disagree with. For example, although I agree with Mitchell that it is important to send strong signals with decisive military action, and that regime change is not Trump’s endgame – his endgame is safe zones and an end to the refugee crisis – I agree with Molyneux, not Mitchell, that the USA should not be the world’s policeman. However, I disagree with Molyneux’s reason for this – that this would make the world a safer place; I believe a less interventionist USA would make the world more unstable, but the world needs a little bit of instability to make it appreciate again the occasional bad that comes with the good that is American global leadership.
What is most striking then, is that two extremely intelligent people who agree on 95% of the information they discuss, and whose political principles coincide very strongly, can arrange the information in different ways to reach starkly differing conclusions. This for me is encouraging, given that the old right and new right are currently divided: those who disagree with Trump’s action and no longer support Trump; those who disagree with Trump but still support him; and those who agree with his actions and support him. I believe that all three positions are based on principle, something which distinguishes us from the regressive left. The debate between Molyneux and Mitchell gets quite heated, but always remains respectful, and sticks to the facts; again an advantage we have over the left.
The one thing we can take from the left is the determination to always come together to face the common enemy. Regardless of whether or not you support Trump and/or his actions, those of us opposed to the regressive left generally still want the government to leave us alone but protect our borders, want an end to the political correctness and identity politics which is dividing us, and well, no more white genocide.
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Thank God, someone finally did it.
One Nation has declared that they will block government cuts until such a time as those cuts include the budgetary evisceration of the leftist sheltered workshop that is the ABC, or its total abolition.
After two decades of sneers and smears, topped by the Four Corners propaganda hit job, and Insiders leaking details of a security-sensitive trip by One Nation Senators to visit troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pauline Hanson and her crew have finally had enough.
Bravo to them and more power to their arm.
Aside from immigration, there is no more important issue for Australia’s future than shrinking or at least halting the growth of the three main battle tanks the left use to win the culture wars. Those three ivory towers built of taxpayer tears: Academia, the ABC, and their retarded cousin SBS.
This three-headed hydra are the main drivers of almost every cultural swing to the left in Australian society over the course of the last few decades. Academia is easily the worst, but the second biggest head of the beast is the ABC. As much as the left might like to pretend otherwise, there’s not a single person in Australia who doesn’t know which way the ideological groupthink of “Aunty” leans.
While our cultural class is notable for its insular nature, not even they can completely deny that there is not a newspaper in the supposedly evil right-wing Murdoch stable with as little ideological diversity as the billion dollar behemoth that the ABC has become.
As I have pointed out in previous articles, this is an organization that employs open leftist activists such as Tony Jones, Jon Faine, Emma Alberici, Paul Barry, Sarah Ferguson, Mark Colvin, Jonathan Green, Fran Kelly, Sabra Lane, Robyn Williams, Wendy Harmer, Phillip Adams, Sophie McNeil, Raf Epstien, Annabel Crabb, Barrie Cassidy and Scott Stephens.
They even employ Richard Glover, the Sydney ABC radio Drive presenter who gloated in the Washington Post about how instrumental the ABC and other Australian leftist journalists are in keeping evil right-wing bogans cowed and quiet.
If you talk to a leftist for long enough [usually over alcohol] you can get them to admit that the ABC is biased. Their fall back position is that it MUST be biased to balance the fictional “evil right-wing Murdoch conspiracy”.
When you point out that the Murdoch press [which they’ve seldom ever read] isn’t particularly right-wing compared to the general population, and in some papers like the Courier Mail the editorial line is considerably to the left of their audience, they start trying to change the subject.
Our publicly-funded broadcasters and their complete capture by the left allows those pushing leftist ideas a massive advantage in the Culture Wars; according to some estimates the ABC and SBS employ more journalists than the rest of the Australian news media put together.
This means they get to decide what stories are important and what themes will be pushed. As commercial media has had to deal with the rise of the internet and the steep decline in advertising revenue, the ABC and SBS’s power and influence over what we talk about and how we talk about it has only grown.
Back in the nineties John Howard made a few small and mostly ineffectual moves to try and curtail the monster’s growing strength, but ultimately he only made it mad. However useless his tinkering at board level and around the edges turned out to be, at least little Johnny and most of the Liberal Party of his day recognized the obvious truth that the ABC was not their friend, and that in the Culture Wars it served as a leftist WMD.
The contrast with the modern Liberal and National parties could not be starker. As soon as One Nation declared their intentions to try and trim the budget of one of the biggest guns in the Australian left’s arsenal, Mathias Cormann of the Liberals and Barnaby Joyce of the Nationals jumped to the defense of the publicly funded propaganda arm of their putative opponents.
Amazingly enough in a shocking turn of events the ALP agreed, with communications spokeswoman Michelle Rowland declaring that “the ABC is a national treasure that deserves to be properly funded” and further indicated that under the next Labor government funding would be expanded even further.
Just as the ABC was once upon a time a reputable organisation that attempted to abide by its charter obligations, the Liberal and National parties were once the voices of right-of-centre Australia. Those days have gone.
When a human body is unable to recognize the virus that is killing it that body soon dies. The same is happening to the parties of the establishment right. So keen to be the token “nice” right-winger at the fashionable dinner party, they have transformed into a macabre copy of what they once opposed.
Regardless of the few, lonely, virtuous souls that still inhabit the hollow shells of what were once great institutions, the Liberal and National parties as well as the ABC now need to be carried into the back of the veterinarian’s office for that last needle that will put them out of their misery.
At this point voting for the LNP is almost as bad as voting for the ALP or the Greens. While it might make you feel better, voting first preference for the Libs or Nationals is really just voting for the left, only slightly slower.
The war goes on, and there are many battles to fight, but if the new wave of the Right can replace the old there might still be hope for a better Australia, a better future for our people and the land our ancestors bestowed to us.
One of the most vital blows that can be struck is to stop funding the weapons the enemy uses against us. The ABC is one of the most important of these.
It’s time to push for what has been a dream on the Right for so long:
Shut it down.
Fire them all.
Salt the earth.
ABC delenda est.
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Tonight’s reading comes from Nick Land, whose writing on Neoreaction and the Dark Enlightenment is very dense reading, and it will most likely take you to a very dark place, but it is very, well, enlightening:
“Behavioral reality knows only one iron law: Whatever is subsidized is promoted. With a necessity no weaker than that of entropy itself, insofar as social democracy seeks to soften bad consequences – for major corporations no less than for struggling individuals or hapless cultures — things get worse. There is no way around, or beyond this formula, only wishful thinking, and complicity with degeneration. Of course, this defining reactionary insight is doomed to inconsequence, since it amounts to the supremely unpalatable conclusion that every attempt at ‘progressive’ improvement is fated to reverse itself, ‘perversely’, into horrible failure. No democracy could accept this, which means that every democracy will fail.”
Let us know what you think.
XYZ Quote of the Day.
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Quan Yeomans, lead singer of Regurgitator learned the hard way recently that once you achieve actual tangible equality in any society, you go straight from being the victim, to being the oppressor. As political correctness lurches further to the left in stupid Western Nations, many Asians and Indians especially are learning that all that high grades, hard work, and assimilation gets you is honorary oppresser status along with ‘all of the white people’.
Much to do was made of the ‘all male line up’ of an upcoming gig in the Bush Capital. It wasn’t so much deliberately an all male line-up. We can only assume that the promoter was looking for an ‘all good’ line-up as opposed to ‘a diverse but s— to middling’ line-up. I’m reasonably sure that if he had Adele on speed dial and she owed him a favour she’d get the nod over a 3 piece of pimply dudes doing Nirvana covers.
So Quan plays along with the capitulation of ‘all of the white people’ and virtue signals loudly so as to somehow make Regurgitator relevant and the toast of the propagandist Lord Haw Haws and Hanoi Hannahs of Triple J for a few weeks to fatten the royalties.
But I have to ask this. We keep hearing that race and gender is fluid. It’s one of the Ten Commandments of the thought police. A man can become a woman, and a woman can become a man just because they decided. Or something. Here’s a thought. Why doesn’t everyone identify as whatever the quota requires for the night? Quan Yeomans can identify as a black woman who’s into black dudes. The offending promoter can identify as a black man who rails against cultural appropriation while taking the job of a real black man. Just a thought. It worked for Rachel Dolezal and Shaun King. They made the rules, so problem solved.
Meanwhile, Canberra music fans may be forced to check their privilege, and endure a sub-standard line-up who’d never be invited onto the stage if talent were the criteria rather than gender or their level of surgical experimentation and mental illness. A sad end for such an historic venue.
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Well, Channel 9 showed that they won the Gold Logie for Bigotry last year when they allowed the vile comments of Sonya Kruger about Islam to be broadcast, and then incredibly not fire her. She said she was ‘worried’ about Islamic terrorism. Wow. It makes me feel nauseous just to repeat that. What a racist, awful troglodyte she is!
I didn’t think Channel 9 could sink any lower. But they just have.
They are, incredibly, in 2017, using a song by a priveliged rich dead white man to denigrate at-risk transgender Australians, most of whom are still unprotected by Safe Schools. Now as you know, I’m not afraid to reprint anything (except cartoons of Mohammed) so I am going to do just that. Here are the disgraceful lyrics in question:
::Trigger warning::
“We’re all someone’s daughter, we’re all someone’s son”
::Trigger warning over::
Yep. What you just read is actually being sung boldly and with gusto on TV in 2017. During prime time!
If you’re like me, you probably cried long and hard when you first heard those four awful ‘celebretards’ singing that lyric from John Farnham’s antique hit song You’re The Voice.
I mean, what is a young, innocent, vulnerable gender-confused Australian supposed to think when they hear these lyrics? That maybe their biological gender is their actual gender? That maybe when the cis-centric doctors gendered them at birth that they were right? That maybe their confusion about their gender is nothing more than an illusion, a chimera? That maybe there really are only two genders?
Like, I feel like I’m living in the 19th century or something!
I can’t believe I have to say this in 2017, but you are wrong Channel 9! Gender is whatever the individual wants it to be! The individual xirself and only xe gets to decide that! A person can even be agender now! Is an agender person ‘someone’s daughter or son’? Well?
I mean, this is beyond the pale, not to mention dangerous. I expect the suicides to start any day now. I am outraged and disgusted!
But that’s not even all there is to this. The singers of this vile hymn to transgender hatred were all — get this — oppressed minorities! Yes, you read that right. All four singers were oppressed minorities: two POCs, a woman, and a gay man! Yes, Boy George, the so-called Hero of Homosexuality, is actually a transphobic bigot! And delighted to be one, if the video which accompanies that song is any indication!
How Channel 9 had the gall to get four minorities to proclaim trans-hatred on prime time is staggering, particularly after the comments of that outrageous hag Sonya Kruger.
We have to stop them. Twitter is the answer! Let’s Tweet day and night until Channel 9 is forced to grovellingly apologise in disgrace! Let’s Tweet during lunchtime and late at night! Let’s Tweet while driving — yeah, you heard me, coppers! Not sure what to tweet? Here’s a few you can use for free:
Now there’s one Seal I’d like to club. #endtransphobia
Do you really want to hurt me? Because you just did, Boy George! #endtransphobia
Hey cancer! Come out of remission to #endtransphobia now!
No No No, Kelly Rowland! Transphobia is not ok and neither are you. #endtransphobia
Actually transgenders are ‘never gonna survive’ due to suicide, Seal. #endtransphobia
What about an age of reason instead of an age of transphobic bigotry, Channel 9? #endtransphobia
I’d like to look down the barrel of a gun to you, Channel 9. #endtransphobia
I’ve got you started, so now let’s get this thing rolling! With your help, and also the help of corporations with lots of money, the ABC, the Greens, Labor and the universities, we can have this outrage taken off the air, and stop Channel 9 before they add another hate crime to their growing list.
Usually a post on SMH covering needless slaughter in the Middle East would draw hundreds of waspish social justice warriors from gentrified suburbs, and hundreds more heavily conditioned plebs looking to curry favour with those who would never usually speak to them in any real world social interaction, in a mutually masturbatory feeding frenzy of virtue signalling.
Even the act of someone from this part of the world callously ploughing through scores of people (some children) in a lorry would predictably elicit a wave of concern not for the mangled pedestrians, but for the family and friends of the perpetrator should they suffer the indignity of a few questions from the constabulary or a little more scrutiny from the TSA.
But as this post at SMH shows, some Middle Eastern lives apparently matter more than others:
7 hours with few likes, and only one comment. A rather paltry effort for a piece about a minority group being killed because of their religion don’t you think? My aunt got more likes and comments when she posted a photo of her latest crop of tomatoes from the garden. So why did such a big story see such a minuscule response?
People decline to comment on social media news posts for two reasons. Firstly is of course a lack of interest. The second reason is the fear that one’s opinion could be perceived as socially toxic, and with it the fear of ostracism, losing ones job, or being branded a bigot. To suggest that there is no interest in this story or sympathy for the victims is a stretch. And most people, even if it isn’t altruistic, will express sympathy for people who have lost their lives. By all rights there should be scores of comments on a mainstream media post that’s been up for 7 hours.
The really chilling thing is that this leaves us with only the second explanation. Forget the social justice warriors for a moment. This post is still more evidence that the average person now feels that it is socially unacceptable to express sympathy for an innocent Christian who has been murdered if the perpetrator/s happen to be Islamic. To do so now socially falls within the parameters of hate speech. Let that sink in for a moment.
The very people who regard those who are wary of the ramifications of 18C as somehow being paranoid or bigoted are themselves too afraid to express sympathy for children of a minority group blown to pieces, merely due to their religious affiliation. To 18C proponents, causing offence with mere words is a cardinal sin, yet censoring ones own criticism of barbarous extremists is somehow just and above board. Victim blaming at its most primal.
The madness of self-censoring our sympathy for dead children so as not to offend the sensibilities of the Jihadists who murdered them should be self-evident. If you don’t feel safe and comfortable expressing sympathy without fear of reprisal as so many usually vocal commenters clearly do on the subject of Christan persecution in the face of Extremism, that’s all the evidence you’ll ever need as to why 18C and its ramifications for freedom are in need of review.