[PJ] The antisemitism on college campuses has spread like wildfire. While it can’t be justified, the real question is: Where did this hatred come from? In my humble opinion, it’s a 2023 version of a mass psychogenic illness. The truth is that none of these haters are Middle East history experts. So why would they gather in mass and display such venom toward a group of people they know little to nothing about?
Mass psychogenic disorder, mass sociogenic illness, and mass epidemic hysteria are different ways to describe the same thing and are certainly not new. In fact, there have been some fascinating cases throughout history, and most if not all have had tragic consequences in one manner or another.
One case has become known as the Dancing plague of 1518. Scientists and historians still aren't sure what led people in Strasbourg to dance themselves to death. However, in July 1518, residents of the city of Strasbourg, which was then part of the Holy Roman Empire, were struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable urge to dance. At the time, Strasbourg was a densely populated and highly stressed city, with frequent outbreaks of disease, famine, and social unrest. Some historians have suggested that the dancing may have been a form of mass psychogenic illness, triggered by anxiety, religious fervor, or other psychological factors.
The hysteria kicked off when a woman known as Frau Troffea stepped into the street and began to silently twist, twirl, and shake. She kept up her solo dance-a-thon for nearly a week. Before long, some three dozen other people had joined in. By August, the dancing epidemic had claimed as many as 400 victims. With no other explanation for the phenomenon, local physicians blamed it on "hot blood" and suggested the afflicted simply gyrate the fever away.
A stage was constructed, and professional dancers were brought in.The town even hired a band to provide backup music, but it wasn’t long before the marathon started to take its toll. Many dancers collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Some even died from strokes and heart attacks. The strange episode didn’t end until September, when the dancers were whisked away to a mountaintop shrine to pray for absolution.
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Well. Nihilists are a natural constituency of the left. The left is anti-human and anything that advances human fortunes, like our good Jewish friends do, must be wiped out.
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[Federalist] Many people today believe the world is overpopulated and that we are running out of natural resources. This belief is based on the false premise that humans are a burden on the planet and that resources are fixed and finite. The truth is that humans are capable of creating more resources and solving more problems than they consume or create. The more people there are, the more opportunities there are for education, collaboration, and innovation that can benefit everyone.
"You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy," the World Economic Forum (WEF) stated, along with seven other dystopian predictions in a now-infamous video forecasting what the world will look like by 2030.
Primarily concerning itself with rent-seeking materialism, the WEF has embedded itself in popular culture by stoking the public’s anxieties and the elite’s vanities. Its discourse focuses on topics like climate change, demographic fluctuation, technological innovation, and global resource scarcity. It diagnoses many problems but offers few solutions of substance beyond forfeiting hope and sovereignty to it and its leaders.
Everything is getting worse because of humanity, and the only way for things to get better is for humanity to — once again — trust the experts, so the WEF’s narrative goes.
Later this month, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) forum will convene to offer an alternative to this vision. Essential to ARC’s premise is that the median quality of life across the globe has dramatically improved over the past few centuries, in no small part due to human ingenuity.
A paper being presented at the forum by Dr. Marian Tupy argues that contrary to the Malthusian claims of contemporary leftists and climate alarmists, population growth and resource scarcity do not share a causal relationship.
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Hard to run the "for the children" scam without kids. Also hard to keep the gender affirming care child mutilation / abuse cartel profitable without children victims.
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[ColonelCassad] 1. An agreement with the United States, a secret oil deal and a public death - all in the last 9 months of the king’s life. On June 8, 1974, the official agreement was signed in Washington by the head of the US State Department, Henry Kissinger, and the Deputy Prime Minister of the KSA, Prince Fadh bin Abdul Aziz (the king’s brother). Six-page part of the military-economic agreement between the USA and KSA.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] Disgraceful. This is the word that came to mind on October 29, when a herd of people stormed the Makhachkala airport and city hotels in search of Jews. It would seem that these pictures could be seen in Afghanistan, not burdened by secularism, in Palestine and in other regions of the Middle East, but not in Russia. Not in Dagestan, which is distinguished by its hospitality (thanks to which it has become a promising destination for domestic Russian tourism) and multiculturalism. But no, in the vast majority of Muslim countries, anti-Jewish sentiments resulted in rallies and marches, and only in Russian Dagestan was Jewish blood almost shed. And this is a real disgrace not only for the Dagestan peoples, but for all of Russia.
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[REGNUM] It has now become clear that the outrages at the Makhachkala airport and in some other places were provoked by the telegram channel “Morning Dagestan”, which, as it turned out, was run by the famous fighter against the regime Ilya Ponomarev (recognized as a foreign agent, included in the list of terrorists and extremists), who is now outside of Russia. That is, all the turmoil with the search for imaginary Israelis under the slogans of sympathy for the Palestinians was organized by a man who had absolutely nothing to do with Palestine, Dagestan, or Islam, and who pursued the only goal - to annoy Russia by provoking unrest.
[ZERO] When looking at wealth per person on a country-by-country basis, is it more important to look at median wealth or average wealth?
Many experts believe that median wealth provides the most accurate picture of wealth since it identifies the middle point of a dataset, with half of the data points above this number, and half falling below it. In this way, it is less impacted by extreme values, and gives a good representation of the "middle of the pack".
With that said, average wealth gives you a true average, even though it may get distorted by outliers, like the fortunes held by billionaires.
Either way, using data from the 2023 UBS Global Wealth Report, Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld created the following graphic comparing both average and median wealth across select countries.
[Gateway] In a recent no-holds-barred conversation with political commentator Joy Thayer, ex-Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), General Michael Flynn, unveiled a shocking narrative surrounding the moral integrity of certain members within the U.S. legislature.
He alleged that the hold of globalist agendas over these officials stems from compromising situations they find themselves in during official overseas trips.
He expressed his disdain for what he described as a "totally, completely broken" House of Representatives, which he alleges is under the thumbs of corporate lobbyists and globalists. According to Flynn, these external entities have managed to ensnare some legislators through compromising situations during Congressional Delegation (CODEL) trips overseas.
The former DIA chief’s narrative took an even darker turn as he alleged that some of these trips saw members of both the Senate and the House being compromised through sleeping with children.
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....compromising situations they find themselves in during official overseas trips.
"Find themselves".... or are strategically placed.
I have read where the numbers compromised may be over 90%. Little wonder Flynn was targeted.
While the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C. Flynn and his deputy fought courageously to expand DIA's Human Intelligence (HUMIT) Capability. Among others, Flynn saw Turkey's Erdoğan as a future Islamic threat. Flynn was about an 18 hour per day guy.
Flynn's Predictive Analysis (P&A) and request for HUMINT expansion were consistently rebuffed by Brennan and the Klingons. Eventually Obama sacked both Flynn and his Deputy.
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Remember the Secret Service rumor about Bidet during his time at the Naval Observatory, VP Residence bathing nude in front of female agents until that detail went all male during in-residence assignments.
That just adds to the credibility, along with the overt sniffing, groping displays and the daughter's memoir of showerng with Daddy post pubescence.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — The award for best costume at this year's Senate Halloween Social was all but a foregone conclusion, as all of Senator John Fetterman's colleagues almost unanimously recognized him on his outstanding Frankenstein costume.
"It's a totally perfect depiction," said Senator Chuck Schumer. "I literally thought Dr. Frankenstein's monster himself had walked into the Senate chamber. If I didn't already know John, I would have never thought he was actually a senator. He looks absolutely nothing like one."
Fetterman seemed unfazed by the adulation for his costume. "It's almost as if he didn't know what we were talking about when we told him his costume was great," said Lindsey Graham. "He just stared at us with this blank, glazed-over stare. Now that I think of it, that's the only facial expression I've ever seen him have. Uncanny resemblance."
Other senators commended Fatterman's commitment to the character. "It's more of a modernized version of Frankenstein since he's wearing a wrinkly suit jacket paired with basketball shorts, but he really nailed the whole ’mindless, lumbering monster' theme," said Senator Ted Cruz. "He had us all mesmerized as he grunted, staggered, and stomped around the room. He really had us believing he was a reanimated, lobotomized corpse."
At publishing time, following a vote from all Senate members, Fetterman's Frankenstein costume had officially won the award of the night, beating out other contenders such as Elizabeth Warren's American Indian princess, Mitt Romney being dressed up as a conservative, and Mitch McConnell's convincing portrayal of a statue.
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[RIA] Friday's vote on a UN General Assembly resolution calling for an immediate truce in Israel and Palestine revealed what everyone had long suspected. No one cares about Washington's opinion on the topics of the day. The United States found itself almost completely isolated at the UN. The essence of the resolution presented by the Arab countries is absolutely simple. This is a request to all parties to the conflict to cease fire, conclude a truce, release civilian hostages and for some time not kill innocent women, old people and children. This is a clear, humane idea, and the vast majority of countries in the world have approved it.
The resolution was opposed by 14 (in words: fourteen) countries. The list is headed by the USA and Israel, who would doubt it? Next are the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - Austria, Hungary , Czech Republic and Croatia . Finally come our dear Paraguay, Guatemala , Fiji , Tonga, Marshall Islands , Micronesia and Nauru. Have you forgotten anyone? Oh, sorry, there's also Papua New Guinea.
These, in fact, are the allies on which Washington can really rely in its foreign policy. Let's not be ironic about their influence and military power. Let us only note that all the leading powers of our time, representing the absolute majority of the inhabitants of the Earth, spoke at the UN to ensure that blood stops flowing on the lands of Palestine and Israel.
In fact, the true history of the UN votes is a very interesting topic. In 2008, German scientists published a study on how Americans literally bought the votes of one hundred and forty-three UN member countries over the course of thirty years. For this purpose, injections into state budgets, personal grants, and blackmail with sanctions were used.
For the last year and a half, US representatives have been incredibly active on the sidelines of the UN, seeking the “correct” vote on anti-Russian resolutions. However, each time they did it worse. In the Palestinian-Israeli case, everything completely broke down.
France , Belgium , Spain, Portugal , Ireland supported the Arab ceasefire resolution. Britain and Germany abstained from voting. Canada , Australia, Japan - Washington simply does not have closer and more reliable allies - also abstained. And even Ukraine, to which the States pays for literally everything - weapons, salaries, pensions, villas for Zelensky, and diamonds for his wife - did not vote the way the American owners wanted.
Of course, all of Latin America , from the tiny Dominican Republic to Argentina and Brazil , came out in friendly ranks against the United States .
Why was such a riot on the ship possible? First, modern conflicts are incredibly graphic. They are filmed on thousands of cameras and broadcast in real time. Viewers anywhere in the world can watch what is happening live and in all details.
What is happening in Israel and Palestine today is so terrible that the world audience has strongly demanded that this outrage stop. In essence, this is precisely what the whole essence of thousands of rallies today boils down to, whether they gather at the Istanbul airport or at the Parisian Place de la République. Humanity is shouting to politicians: do everything to stop the bloodshed.
To vote against the resolution of the Arab countries today is to turn a lot of people in your own country against yourself and to write yourself down in history as a warmonger. Who needs this?
In addition, the vote at the General Assembly revealed that everyone was extremely tired of the foreign policy of the Washington regime. You can’t rush around all the hot spots in the world for decades with a can of gasoline at the ready. Nobody wants this anymore.
The elites of any country in the world see today that tomorrow the Americans with a canister can come running to them. People will die, cities will burn, and there will be complete poverty. This disgrace must be stopped at distant approaches. Naturally, the world majority wanted to put Washington in its place.
Inside the United States, this blow is perceived very painfully, but it is still far from understanding what is happening there. It's just a groan of hurt pride. And do you know who is to blame again? That's right: Putin.
“The war in Gaza gives Russia’s Putin what he wants,” lamented The New York Times . Russia , they say, becomes a “beneficiary of the conflict.” China is also gaining points - oh, what a disgrace. And then Putin went to China - well, that’s it, now the leaders of Russia and China will “ rebuild the world order.”
Listen, I want to ask: do you have a conscience? What world order? Right now, while I am writing these lines, hundreds of children, women, and old people are dying in the Gaza Strip. A video of an exhausted medical worker falling to the ground and crying his eyes out has gone viral on social media. It’s not hard to imagine what he’s seen. If the IDF decides to launch a full-scale ground operation, Hamas will inevitably provide a response. And then non-combatants will begin to die in Israel. And so on increasingly.
The US was once an influential player in the region. Now they should put all their influence into stopping this horror. But no, Washington is only concerned about not allowing Russia and China into the settlement. God forbid Mr. Blinken loses face.
Meanwhile, Russia, China, and other global players are making every effort simply to stop killing innocent people in Gaza and Israel. And Washington is doing its best to put a spoke in the wheels - they want blood to flow endlessly in the Middle East . This is more convenient for Mr. Blinken and Mr. Biden.
Was it Putin personally who isolated the United States at the UN? No, their insane foreign policy in the style of “whether the light will fail or I won’t drink tea” led to this. But the light does not want to fall through, it resists with all its might.
The American classic Stephen King has a novel “Desperation” about a mad cop. Good writers see the future. The States have long pretended to be the world's policeman, but today it is obvious to everyone that this policeman has gone off the rails. Isolating it before it’s too late is an urgent task for the world community.
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We are at our best when saying "Louie, go over and talk to em? You know, just talk. Don't break anything. Unless you have to..." while lighting a cigar.
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Seemed to have worked better when it wasn't in the hands of a lot of Ivy League neo-commies. Practical people who knew how to influence people and make friends as well as experience in breaking things.
[PJM] Accidental = "We missed some" Over 100 Christians were burned alive after a fire broke out during a Christian wedding ceremony in Iraq on Oct. 3, 2023; another 150 attendees were seriously injured. Nearly 60 of those killed in the inferno were directly related to the bride and groom.
To quote from one report:
Tragedy struck the Assyrian Christian town of Hamdaniya in Nineveh province … during a joyous wedding when scenes of celebration and laughter soon derailed into a hellish nightmare when the banquet hall caught on fire. At least a hundred died and over 150 were also injured.
The town of Hamdaniya, it is worth recalling:
...is one of Iraq’s only Christian-majority districts, located in the Nineveh Plains near Mosul, a historic Assyrian region. Like many Christian towns in the Nineveh Plains, it was taken over by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists during their brazen sweep of northern Iraq, where they declared a so-called “caliphate” and inflicted grave atrocities on minority groups, including Christians.
In a press conference held on the same day of the tragedy, the Iraqi government announced that its investigation had “conclusively concluded” that the fire was “accidental” and “not intentional at all.”
Minutes later, the Syriac Church slammed the announcement: “We reject it [the results], we don’t accept it,” said the Archbishop of Mosul Benedictus Younan Hanno, adding that “political conspiracies” might be afoot.
The archbishop especially rejected the idea that the fire was caused by fireworks: “there are tens of videos,” he said, “showing that they were not the reason.”
The archbishop is voicing the opinion of most Iraqi Christians. After also categorically rejecting the fireworks claim, the groom of the wedding, Rivan, 27, strongly implied arson:
We demand the rights of those whose blood was spilt. Why did their blood have to be spilled? We demand their rights and we demand the perpetrator of this action, him and all who are behind him. We demand an international investigation, not a local or federal investigation.
It is worth noting that this scenario — a fire claims Christian lives only for Muslim authorities to say it was “accidental”—has played out many times in the Middle East. Take Egypt, for example, where the region’s largest Christian minority resides.
Most recently, on Mar. 29, 2023, a massive fire broke out and completely consumed an ancient church in Assyut. Even before a proper inspection could be carried out, the fire was immediately blamed on a “leaky gas bottle.”
The most tragic of all examples, however, occurred on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, when the Church of Abu Seifein in Cairo caught fire during morning mass. At least 41 Christians — 18 of whom were children — were killed in the flames. As usual, minutes after it broke out, officials immediately attributed the fire to faulty wires, etc. Arson was, without any real investigation, ruled out.
Indeed, in just that same month of August 2022 alone, a total of 10 other Coptic churches “caught fire” in Egypt.
There appears to be no shortage of examples. On Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, a fire broke out in and “devoured” a church in the Giza Governorate. It was blamed on a small candle left on a votary stand. However, images from surveillance cameras clearly show that “the candle ignited suddenly and in an unusual way.”
It should also be noted that sometimes after officials conclude that a church fire was due to some accident, it comes out that arson was indeed the true cause — not that the authorities will admit it. On Aug. 16, 2022, the Church of Saint Mary the Egyptian in Alexandria caught fire. Although it too was instantly attributed to “natural causes,” at least one eyewitness saw someone on the balcony of a residential building adjacent to the church hurl some combustible substance onto the church, starting the fire.
Considering the severe persecution of Christians in nations such as Egypt and Iraq and the willful targeting of their churches — hundreds of Coptic and Assyrian churches have been torched in recent years — it is, of course, difficult to automatically rule out terrorism or arson in all of these “accidental” fires.
In reality, however, even if all of these fires are truly accidental, products of fireworks and faulty wires, the Muslim governments of Egypt and Iraq are still largely to blame. Since the Arab-Islamic conquest of the formerly Christian-majority Middle East, severe restrictions, based on sharia stipulations, have made it next to impossible for Christians not only to build but to repair churches.
As a result, and as even the New York Times once reported:
The Copts have long complained about being the victims of discrimination on the basis of their religion. One aspect of that discrimination are government restrictions on the construction, renovation and repair of churches in the largely Muslim country. These restrictions have left many of the buildings in disrepair and made them fire hazards.
In short, there seems to be little that is “accidental” in the burning of Christian churches and people — most recently over 100 — in the Middle East.
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Illegal immigrants traveling across our Southern boarder are not necessarily the problem. They are simply a convenient tool which allows the door to be held open.
The war today in Israel is not primarily Israel vs. Hamas or Hezbollah, or Syria, or Iran or all of Islam. It is a civil war of Jews – the globalist Synagogue of Satan "Jews" of the United States vs the ultra-nationalist authentically Judean Jews who came to power in Israel last November for the very first time since the British repatriated the Jewish people in their ancestral, God-covenanted homeland in 1917. This new Jewish government represents primarily the Sephardic minority, descendants of Jewish "golden age" on the Iberian Peninsula whose ethnic claims to the Holy Land have never been contested – as opposed to the majority Askenazi Jews of largely Khazarian (non-Hebrew) ethnicity by way of Germany (where the literal Seat of Satan was reconstructed by the last Caesar of the Second Reich in the late 1800s and so very many modern evils originated).
To be clear, Khazarian heritage does not in itself disqualify any individual from membership in authentic Judaism, because the Mosaic Law had always allowed for non-Hebrew conversions (Deuteronomy 23:1-8). But it is from this cohort of Jews that the evil branch of Torah-defying fake Jews has grown into a world-strangling vine heavily laden with the Grapes of Sodom: the George Soros and Paul Singer and Chuck Schumer types.
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I believe you have the 'autoplay' turned on in that video, Skid.
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No relation to the Seleucid King Antiochus IV of the Hanukkah story — Antiochus must have been the John Smith of that era. Wikipedia:
Commagene
Ancient armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period
Commagene was an ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Iranian Orontid dynasty that had ruled over Armenia. The kingdom was located in and around the ancient city of Samosata, which served as its capital. The Iron Age name of Samosata, Kummuh, probably gives its name to Commagene. Commagene has been characterized as a "buffer state" between Armenia, Parthia, Syria, and Rome; culturally, it was correspondingly mixed. The kings of the Kingdom of Commagene claimed descent from Orontes with Darius I of Persia as their ancestor, by his marriage to Rhodogune, daughter of Artaxerxes II who had a family descent from king Darius I. The territory of Commagene corresponded roughly to the modern Turkish provinces of Adıyaman and northern Antep.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Federalist] Many people today believe the world is overpopulated and that we are running out of natural resources. This belief is based on the false premise that humans are a burden on the planet and that resources are fixed and finite. The truth is that humans are capable of creating more resources and solving more problems than they consume or create. The more people there are, the more opportunities there are for education, collaboration, and innovation that can benefit everyone.
[ZERO] When looking at wealth per person on a country-by-country basis, is it more important to look at median wealth or average wealth?
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[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — The award for best costume at this year's Senate Halloween Social was all but a foregone conclusion, as all of Senator John Fetterman's colleagues almost unanimously recognized him on his outstanding Frankenstein costume.
Over 100 Christians were burned alive after a fire broke out during a Christian wedding ceremony in Iraq on Oct. 3, 2023; another 150 attendees were seriously injured. Nearly 60 of those killed in the inferno were directly related to the bride and groom.
