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-Great Cultural Revolution
Social Media and Cultural Implosion
[Rumble] BLUF: Digging into OnlyFans stats. The speaker claims 10% of women aged 18-24 are producing content for OnlyFans (1.2 million producers), versus 82 million paid American male subscribers — half of the 162 million American men.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Half of American men subscribe to Onlyfans? I call BS.
Posted by: Bubba Angeremp5235 || 01/03/2025 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  ...more like -

"Hey, Dad, can I use the credit card to play an online game? Sure son."
BTW, do they have a age limit on buying those prepaid credit cards?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2025 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  More like Bob is using 20 aliases because he has a problem.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2025 12:15 Comments || Top||

#4  "Big Liquor sez 'Candy is dandy!'
And rich, handsome men are all randy
For gals who eat junk
And have more in the trunk!"
[and Big Candy gives news hound a hambone]
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 01/03/2025 22:19 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Close combat in Trudovo
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram Channel of voin_dv

[ColonelCassad] The video was filmed last fall by an enemy helmet camera during the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attempt to recapture Trudovoye from the assault troops of the 39th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Vostok Group of Forces.

The video is strictly 18+



In the video, a Ukrainian soldier controls the entrance to the yard, then retreats before a Ukrainian FPV drone strikes the suspected position of the Russian soldier.

After the strike, the Ukrainian soldier returns, enters the yard, and a super-close range shooting battle ensues, which turns into hand-to-hand combat.

The following footage is very violent, and is best avoided by the sensitive and faint-hearted.

The dialogue between the two opponents after the deadly fight is over deserves special attention.

Yes, their words show more respect for each other as opponents than the herd of bloodthirsty scum on both sides, calling from the couch to wage war to the last Russian/Ukrainian and to launch nuclear strikes on Moscow/Kiev.

These warriors, like those in the video, have the right to say such things, but not the bloodthirsty clowns sitting in the deep rear, who have never risked their lives in an attempt to take someone else's, and who watch the war as a kind of fan on the couch.

At the moment our hero is in Russia for treatment!

More from X:



Even more from X. The photo is presumed to be the Russian involved in the fight. He is a Yakut indian:

Posted by: badanov || 01/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Deportation After Two Crimes? Germany's New Plan To Combat Repeat Migrant Offenders Slammed As ‘Weak’
[ZeroHedge] Prominent figures in Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) — expected to become the country’s largest party after next month’s elections — have confirmed a policy proposal to deport asylum seekers once they have been convicted of two crimes. However, the rival Alternative for Germany (AfD) has already slammed the proposal as a weak proposal that will do little to stem the crime crisis involving foreigners.
Unfortunately true. Let’s see if the CDU will voluntarily move toward zero tolerance and quick response before they election in February.
The move is designed to signal a tougher stance on migration policy, with CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann telling WELT TV the country needed to act decisively against criminal offenders with residence permits, advocating changes to Germany’s Residence Act to ensure that committing a crime results in automatic expulsion after a second offense.

“We need to end the cycle of repeat offenders,” Linnemann declared, referencing recent attacks, including the Christmas market massacre last month in Magdeburg, which reignited calls for stricter measures.

Crimes such as theft, assault, drug offenses, and fare evasion on public transport would all count as intentional acts warranting deportation, he added.

Linnemann clarified that these measures would apply to individuals with valid residence permits, not those already obligated to leave the country.

The CDU’s proposed migration overhaul extends beyond criminal deportation. Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz echoed Linnemann’s stance, advocating deportation to unstable countries like Syria and Afghanistan. While acknowledging Syria’s instability, Merz argued that exceptions should not shield criminals, including members of the Assad regime or its militias, from being turned back at Germany’s borders.

“We cannot allow Germany to become a safe haven for those who committed atrocities elsewhere,” Merz said, emphasizing the importance of screening migrants at the border. He also criticized the current strain on Germany’s infrastructure, citing overwhelmed municipalities and calling for a separation between labor migration and asylum migration.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), however, criticized the CDU’s proposals as political posturing. AfD Chancellor candidate Alice Weidel accused Merz of failing to act despite a potential majority in the Bundestag, highlighting the Union’s refusal to collaborate with the AfD despite its gaining popularity and growing electoral success at the state level and expected gains in February’s federal election.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2025 06:03 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Fifth Column
With the West excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?
[IsraelNationalNews] Europe and America gave many terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. The terrorists below have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

With Westerners excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?

July 14, 2016, Nice. During the fireworks festival, an Islamic terrorist kills 87 people, adults and children, under a truck that claimed to be carrying ice cream to the celebration of the French Revolution.

Four days later, the famous philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, disciple and friend of Jacques Derrida, publishes an article in Libération entitled "A truck launched". Despite having gone almost unnoticed, the article has lost none of its interest:

"A truck launched to run over children - among others - gives an unbearable image of nihilism. Nihilism itself names an end: that of our history and our civilization (...) It is not enough to declare war on it. We must attack ourselves, climb aboard and dismantle the mad trucks of our supposed progress, our fantasies of domination and our commercial obesity".

Clear? Terrorists and Westerners are the same, for our little masters of thought.

The terrorist who killed 15 people with a pickup truck in New Orleans on New Year’s Day (what better way to start the year than with another Islamic massacre?) was named Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

The Wall Street Journal has a pretty good portrait: a native Texan, an Army veteran (he also served in Afghanistan), a state university graduate, and a father of three, he had worked his way up the corporate ladder. Jabbar was an attentive neighbor who regularly asked a retiree if she needed anything and had given her a vacuum cleaner, washer, and dryer when he moved in. A model citizen. The New York Times reveals that he had converted to Islam.

This time, no taqiya, like there was in the case of the attacker who drove the car into the Christmas market in Magdeburg (by the way, the security of the German market was contracted to a company called "Mecca Security" !! some stories are so absurd that they can’t be invented).

But according to the official media, a "vehicle" killed 15 people in New Orleans.

Worse than the media is the legion of Western idiots who say that Islamic terrorism is a consequence of capitalism, colonialism, Israel, white and Jewish supremacy, in short, it is our fault, the West.

The Islamic terrorist who killed the British MP David Amess in the church is the son of a former advisor to the prime minister of Somalia.

Poverty and deprivation are not, as the fatuous John Kerry said, "the main cause of terrorism." Islam is.

Syed Rizwan Farook, a thirty-year-old Muslim of Pakistani origin, and his Saudi wife Tashfeen Malik, unloaded their semi-automatic rifles on the employees of a center for the disabled in California, killing 14 people during a Christmas party, the favorite season for massacres. Farook was an American citizen and worked as an inspector at the county health department. He earned seventy thousand dollars a year.

A graduate in engineering, his father a public works employee, his sister an elementary school teacher, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez killed four marines in a recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Michael Adebowale, the terrorist who slaughtered British soldier Lee Regby in the heart of London, had a bright future ahead of him. At school, his teachers had chosen him as a "model student".

Take Aafia Siddiqui, one of Al Qaeda’s Amazons, she is a neurologist who graduated from MIT and was sentenced to 86 years in prison.

And don't forget the psychiatrist who, shouting "Allahu Akbar", massacred his comrades at Fort Hood. Thirteen dead. Dr. Nidal Hassan.

The son of a wealthy banker who studied at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, University College London (in terms of academic results, it is the fourth university in the world) and lived in the chic heart of the English capital - that was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the attacker of the Christmas flight Amsterdam-Detroit. He lived on the fifth floor of a building on Mansfield Street. Neoclassical columns, an Art Nouveau door with a large basket of wrought iron roses, a few blocks from Oxford Street, where an apartment costs around two million euro.

And there is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the terrorists who killed Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal journalist beheaded because he was Jewish. Sheikh is the son of a wealthy carpet merchant and had graduated from the London School of Economics.

Aqsa Mahmood, one of the most high-profile women in ISIS, lived in Pollokshields, one of the rich neighborhoods of Glasgow. Her father is the first Pakistani cricketer in Scotland. All their children went to private school.

Omar Khan Sharif, who blew himself up in a Tel Aviv cafe, attended one of the UK’s most elite schools, Foremarke Hall in Repton, founded in 1557 and whose alumni included writers such as Roald Dahl, Christopher Isherwood and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Ramsey.

Yet, from the intellectual left to Pope Francis, it is repeated that these Islamic fanatics are being recruited from among the world’s oppressed, from those who, in the words of Karl Marx, have "only their chains to lose." No, my friends, they are religious fanatics intent on overthrowing the Western society that spawned them.

Faisal Shahzad, the terrorist behind the failed Times Square attack, had a $273,000 house and a father who is a high-ranking officer in the Pakistani army. And what about Abdelkarim Mejjati, the mastermind behind the Madrid massacres, who grew up in the exclusive Gauthier neighborhood of Casablanca to a very rich father and a mother who ran a chain of beauty salons?

Europe and America gave these terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. These terrorists have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

The Paris terrorists rejected liberté, egalité and fraternité; the British jihadists rejected the sweet British multicultural lullabies; the Islamist who killed Theo van Gogh repudiated Dutch relativism and Palestinian Arab terrorists want to cleanse the earth of the Jewish presence.

But for those who think that the West deserves it in part and are now in the top echelons of politics, the media, and universities, it is much easier and more seductive to embrace the common belief that we are the guilty ones. Self-hatred, oikophobia, will end up killing us.

With Westerners like that, who needs Islamic terrorism?













Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:



Home Front: Politix
Minneapolis is in a rush
[Powerline] The city of Minneapolis is in a rush to finalize a consent decree with the Biden Department of Justice. According to the Star Tribune, the terms of the consent decree mandate "sweeping police reforms."

Why the rush? Because city authorities fear they may not be able to turn authority over the department to the incoming Trump administration. They want to sell out the police department while they can. It may be too late after January 20.

The consent decree would subject the Minneapolis Police Department to continuing federal oversight. The Star Tribune does not quote a single source or authority explaining why such a consent decree is preferable to the status quo, which includes the department’s agreement to a settlement with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.

Most cities do not seek to give up authority over their own police departments. As the Star Tribune story observes: "Minneapolis [would] become the first city in the nation with its police department governed by both state and federal mandates." It is another opportunity for Minneapolis to achieve a dubious distinction.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/03/2025 09:04 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:


Journalists who hid Biden's mental decline should be held accountable: NY Post editorial board
[FoxNews] 'No one who perpetuated, concealed or ignored this grotesque scandal should ever live it down,' New York Post editors said

Journalists who helped the White House cover up President Biden's mental decline should be held responsible for misleading the public, The New York Post demanded in a scathing new editorial.

"Dem-friendly journalists saw the same evidence as the rest of us that Biden was compromised, and instead of being skeptical, asking questions and putting the White House’s feet to the fire — doing their jobs — they joined the crusade to gaslight America," the Post's editorial board wrote Wednesday.

As Biden prepares to leave office, the media is facing renewed scrutiny over how it covered one of the biggest stories of the year — concerns that Biden was unfit for office.

Throughout the 2024 presidential race, many media pundits and commentators ran to Biden’s defense when there was speculation about his mental acuity, including after Special Counsel Robert Hur's report about him being well-meaning but forgetful, viral videos of him looking confused and a Wall Street Journal report about his faltering behind-the-scenes demeanor.

Despite polls showing the majority of Americans felt Biden was too old to serve a second term, many journalists treated questions about Biden's health like a right-wing conspiracy.

"The entire idea that Biden was anything but healthy — virile, even — was treated as a right-wing, tin-foil-hat talking point," the Post wrote.

These concerns came to a tipping point after Biden's faltering June debate performance, after which he was pressured to drop out of the race.

"And at every turn, spineless, in-the-tank journos obediently did Team Biden’s propagandistic dirty work — right up until the debate, when Biden’s senility became too unmistakable to continue denying," the Post's editorial continued.

"Now they’re acting bashful, but it’s far too late to salvage their shredded credibility," the Post wrote, referring to a recent Semafor report where several liberal journalists admitted that their defense of Biden was their worst take of 2024.

"I come out of 2024 with a lot of contempt for the president and for the people around him — who have essentially been engaged in elder abuse — and also with a fair amount of embarrassment that I didn’t see through their deception earlier," journalist Josh Barro told Semafor.

"Like many others, I was completely, utterly, totally, embarrassingly wrong, about Biden’s lack of mental competence," former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan also confessed to the outlet.

The revelations come at a time when trust in the media is at a historic low, according to Gallup polling.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Would the NY Post happen to mean all those former White House & Federal Agency Press Staff turned MSM Journalists, over the last 30 years, to steer the Liberal Socialist Democrat (LSD) agenda and propaganda?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/03/2025 5:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Word leaked out about his diagnosis in the 2018 time frame. Everybody knew. The media was onboard, staff was onboard, and all the politicians knew. They are all coming up with their BS rationalizations for cover. The guy was possibly coherent for four hour stretches every couple of days. He was being juiced up with a witch’s brew to get him through mandatory public appearances. Foriegn leaders were ushering him around like he was a flaked out grandpa. His senility was comedic fodder on Middle Eastern late night television. The media that was enabling this charade ought to be ignored and lampooned.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2025 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Of couse "they all knew."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2025 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the only remedy is to cancel newspaper subscriptions and turn off the damn TV.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/03/2025 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Of course, if anybody comes up with a better solution I'm all for it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/03/2025 13:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
A series of terrorist attacks in the USA
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] 1. During the terrorist attack in New Orleans, 15 people were killed, more than 60 were injured, the terrorist himself was killed and, as it turned out, he was associated with ISIS. The attack was recognized as a terrorist attack.

Four people were arrested in connection with the terrorist attack. The terrorist attack was supposed to be larger-scale and accompanied by bomb explosions. The terrorist attack in New Orleans was carried out by a US Army veteran, who allegedly (according to Biden and the FBI) ​​was inspired by ISIS.
Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, retired as an IT/HR (25B/42A) Staff Sergeant after serving in the Army and Army reserves (2007-2020 or 2006-2019). He was either Moslem from childhood on or a recent convert — his brother and the current husband of his second ex-wife disagree — but he’d definitely gone off the deep end by 2022, when wife #2 divorced him. During the videos he made while driving the rented EV truck to New Orleans he talked about ISIS and massacring his family .
2. As a result of the terrorist attack at Trump Tower in Las Vegas, one person was killed and 8 were injured.

A Tesla car parked near Trump Tower was blown up. The deceased was also associated with US security agencies.
MSgt Matthew Leavelsberger, 37, a Green Beret currently on leave from the 10th Special Forces Group. His wife did not know he’d left Germany. See more here.
Elon Musk said that these were not fireworks, but a bomb.

A little earlier, it emerged that the terrorist attack at Trump Tower in Las Vegas and the terrorist attack in New Orleans are connected.
That was the concern yesterday. But now the FBI believes they are not connected. It turns out the MSgt is connected to Ukraine.
As part of the assumptions, I would not be surprised if these terrorist attacks in turn are connected with the assassination attempts on Trump, where a character connected to the American military also surfaced. Well, ISIS may act as an ordinary legend to divert suspicion from the real inspirers.
Sometimes, when one is far away, one better sees the big picture. Other times it’s just that one misses some key points and misinterprets others. And it is always a risk that one’s perfectly good information when writing will be superceded by subsequent events after publication. But it’s lovely that the good colonel is paying attention, as we do to his side of the world.


Closer to home — from NOLA.com Day 2:
  • Authorities now say Jabbar was the sole attacker and was inspired by ISIS.

  • Jabbar was seen on surveillance video placing two blue coolers containing improvised explosive devices on Bourbon Street hours before the incident, authorities said.

  • The Sugar Bowl game between Notre Dame and Georgia that was rescheduled following the Bourbon Street attack kicked off at 3 p.m., just hours after officials reopened the famed street in the French Quarter.

  • Shamsud-Din Jabbar appeared to post three religious recordings to a SoundCloud account less than a year ago, one of which likened music to "Satan's voice."

  • FBI officials say they don't believe there is a connection between the Bourbon Street attack and a Cybertruck explosion outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas the same day.

  • Though both Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger served on Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina, their assignments did not overlap.

  • Law enforcement agents have recovered three phones and two laptops belonging to Shamsud-Din Jabbar from an Airbnb on Mandeville Street, which was set on fire after Jabbar left to carry out the attack.

  • Via Hot Air, Jabbar struggled to adjust to civilian life after moving from Regular Army to the Army Reserve, which got worse after he separated from his second wife, and:





    Posted by: badanov || 01/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

    #1  Scathing, from Townhall: Nola Terrorist Home: Is It Normal for the FBI to Leave This Much Evidence Behind?

    It looks like the house was left unguarded and unlocked after a violent entry by the FBI raid team. The article reflects on the NY Post’s report of what they found there, with tweeted video of their reporter’s walkthrough.

    The press was at his Houston home hours before the FBI, who arrived, kicked out the media, and cordoned off the area. They did take items for their investigation, but many were commenting that it’s a bit shocking they’re allowing the press to enter this crime scene so soon. Also, they left a lot of materials behind. The publication already had a good preliminary story about Jabbar, including his financial hardships, which resulted from two divorces.

    Jabbar’s north Houston home was filled with chemical residue and chemical bottles, while an inventory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making.

    His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”

    Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby.

    FBI officials on Thursday said Jabbar posted five disturbing videos on Facebook on his drive from Houston to New Orleans just hours before he unleashed carnage on Bourbon Street, leaving 14 innocent pedestrians dead.

    In the first disturbing video — posted at 1:29 a.m. — the US Army veteran said he had initially planned on murdering his family and friends, but changed his mind over concerns the resulting media coverage wouldn’t focus on the “war between the believers and disbelievers,” FBI counterterrorism official Chris Raia said.

    In other videos, he said he had joined ISIS “before this summer” and showed off his last will and testament.

    The IT whiz was on a legitimate career path until apparently falling on hard times both personally and financially.

    He contended with two failed marriages and faced mounting debt before he murdered 14 innocent pedestrians and injured dozens more with an explosive-laden Ford F-150 truck bearing the black flag of the jihadist group.

    …from 2019 to 2021 he worked at EY — also a Big 4 firm — as a cloud consulting manager before landing a gig at yet another top consultancy, Deloitte, where he earned a salary of $125,000.

    His first wife — from whom he separated in 2012 — got custody of the couple’s children, while he was ordered to pay child support.

    He remarried in 2017, but three years later his second marriage hit the skids, his ex was granted a restraining order which prohibited Jabbar from sending her obscene or threatening messages, threatening “bodily injury” to her or the couple’s child, the outlet reported.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2025 11:11 Comments || Top||

    #2  The tweet:


    Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2025 11:12 Comments || Top||

    #3  And I think this is one of Grom the Reflective’s:

    At New Orleans Terrorist's Local Mosque, Imam Says Hitler Killed Jews 'Because of the Economy Thing, They Were in Control of the Economy'
    [WashingtonFreeBeacon] Jews 'have many problems, but that's one of the main problems—they like to take control of the economy,' Eiad Soudan said during 2023 event
    Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2025 11:54 Comments || Top||

    #4  Looks staged. Usually they use CNN for that type of work. Must have wanted a larger audience or a date.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2025 12:13 Comments || Top||

    #5  The FBI is not necessarily competent, and certainly is not trustworthy.
    Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 01/03/2025 12:13 Comments || Top||

    #6  #3 was mine
    Posted by: Frank G || 01/03/2025 12:23 Comments || Top||

    #7  My apologies, Frank G. It’s a good link, which adds to the discussion here.

    Note that I ran a Related search on the mosque name — it’s a popular name in Pakistan, in case that’s meaningful in this situation.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2025 12:30 Comments || Top||

    #8  Ilhan Omar's Series of Unfortunate Events
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/03/2025 16:34 Comments || Top||


    Science & Technology
    2024: Year Of The Drone
    Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2025 06:06 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  The USA has had a drone for president since 2021, with amazing destructiveness.
    Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 01/03/2025 14:14 Comments || Top||



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      Trains halted, FBI involved: Explosive device found on train car in Treasure Valley, Idaho
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