.

.
Library of Professor Richard A. Macksey in Baltimore

POSTS BY SUBJECT

Labels

Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Irish Savant : The future of France?

The future of France?

The Irish Savant
http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-future-of-france.html

Saturday, 29 February 2020

An ex-colleague of mine retired about twenty years ago to Marseilles. He loved the climate, the cuisine - and the diversity. He loved the rich tapestry of multiple cultures and ethnicities. A city of communities... like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. Maybe. But if so that was then and this is now. And the past is a foreign country. The city is now estimated to be the most diverse (i.e. the lowest proportion of White people) in France. The diversity has been celebrated in countless articles and TV documentaries, in speeches by politicians, sermons by clerics.

"Despite" this diversity the city has by now become a dystopian hell-hole. Crime is almost out of control, whole swathes of the city are no-go areas for Whites, including the police, while housing is segregated rigidly along ethnic and religious lines. The media coverage has been fascinating. All reports follow the same format. Heads shaking in sadness, they ask how this multiculturalism success story could have gone so wrong. They soon find explanations. The 'vulnerable' (I just love that!) suburbs suffer from lack of integration, domestic violence, poor educational achievement and high unemployment. Why? Well the fault does not lie with the suburbs' inmates. It lies with the state and with, well, others.

The analyses would be comical were they not so dangerous. Non-sequitors and self-contradictions abound. To provide but two example: Police exacerbate the problems because they're a) an intrusive presence or b), nowhere to be seen. Then, exactly as happens in America, Whites moving into vulnerable areas represents gentrification. If they move out it's White flight, and that exacerbates segregation. The presenters plaintively ask 'What does it mean to be French?' Well, not being African or Arab for a start. Because the French don't see them as French and neither do the Africans and Arabs.

As I said in this post about another apparently successful multicultural society consumed by inter-ethnic conflagration. "But the tragedy should be seen primarily as a case study in failed multiculturalism, which as a concept and as a practice is inherently flawed, riven with fractures and fault lines, just waiting for a spark to ignite an inferno. It's nonsense to suggest that multiculturalism can work in perpetuity simply because it worked for a period. Multiculturalism works. Until it stops working. At which point you tremble for what's to come.

People lamenting the demise of multicultural success stories such as Yugoslavia therefore completely miss the point. The remarkable things was not that the country collapsed in an orgy of inter-religious and inter-ethnic slaughter rather that Tito managed to hold together such an inherently combustible concoction for so long. And I remember seeing a Belgian priest tearfully tell an interviewer that Rwanda had been his Order's 'most successful mission'. Until, that is, the unfortunate incident regarding the Tutsi genocide."

I lost contact with my former colleague a long time ago. I hope he's ok but I have my doubts. He was the kind of guy who saw the good in everyone, never the bad. The problem is that there are a lot of very bad people in Marseilles and a naive White man to them is like a gazelle to a lion. The big question is whether Marseilles represents the future of France as San Francisco represents the future of America. 

My opinion? It does.

The Irish Savant : Dinosaurs and the Jewish Question

Dinosaurs and the Jewish Question

The Irish Savant

http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2020/03/dinosaurs-and-jewish-question.html

Saturday, 14 March 2020

Ok, that's a facetious headline. My point being that Jews make everything about themselves. A more solipsistic people does not exist and probably never has. Though a strength in many way this self-absorption also carries downsides in that it makes you tone-deaf to the interests and sensibilities of those around you. This is why they continually shoot themselves in the foot by deeming anti-Semitic any animosity towards common hate figures such as Soros, banksters and 'Hollywood'. It goes a long way towards explaining why Jews never ever ever consider the possibility that at least a tiny part of the historical animosity they attract could be down to them.

Psychologists will tell you that solipsism and paranoia are two sides of the same coin. Now here's paranoia on steroids, to the point of derangement. From Aviya Kushner (any relation to YKW?) in the Jewish Forward: "President Trump’s speech on what he called a “foreign virus” left the overwhelming impression that foreigners are the virus. The President’s disturbing phrasing echoed centuries of dangerous anti-Semitic rhetoric blaming Jews for widespread disease. Let’s unpack that.

Foreign. Virus.

The idea that outsiders or foreigners are both dangerous — and dangerous to health — is straight out of the Nazi playbook. “A key part of Nazi ideology was to define the enemy and those who posed a threat to the so-called ‘Aryan race’” the Holocaust Museum states on its website. “Nazi propaganda was essential in promoting the myth of the “national community” and identifying who should be excluded. Jews were considered the main enemy.”  The long intertwining of “outsiders” and “national health” is why the word “foreign” sent shivers down my spine."

Trump referring to a foreign virus sent shivers down her spine!!!
People have been locked up in lunatic asylums for evincing lesser levels of psychosis. How does she think, at a time when we're close to hearing 'bring out your dead' ringing in the streets of Italy, her conclusion would go down with the  rest of us? "History suggests that the term “foreign virus” and its hateful implications may be as dangerous — and perhaps more dangerous — than the coronavirus itself."

And this from the Daily Stormer: "This is Englewood, New Jersey Mayor Michael Wildes telling Fox News this week that the real threat of the Coronavirus is people getting stressed out and taking that stress out on the Jews in the form of anti-Semitism. It is just so fantastic that Jews are able to take a plague that is affecting the entire world and somehow make it entirely about them, and somehow specifically the threat that people will be mean to them, and then claim that it is actually the entire world’s problem that people might be mean to them, and thus the duty of the entire world to prevent people from being mean to them.

And then when you realize that they then have the nerve to go on TV and say this. It is truly staggering. When you get over the abrasive shock of Jewish behavior and rhetoric, you are left with a kind of awe."

Indeed you are. Actually I have some sympathy with Jews on this. It can't be easy being tormented by these archetypes of their collective unconscious and having them reinforced every day by your own people. I'm serious when I say that. Sympathy aside, the main conclusion I draw is that a people with such an unhinged suspicion of their host populations shouldn't be left near the levers of power. Let alone actually control them as they now do.

The Irish Savant : Let them eat cake.


Let them eat cake.

The Irish Savant

http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2020/03/let-them-eat-cake.html

Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Let us now pause a moment and bow our heads in contemplation of celebrity suffering. Specifically those choosing to self-quarantine due to Covid-19. The poor dears, cooped up in their multi-million dollar mansions with everything money can buy. Yet they still take time out to assure us they're ok. Look at this guy (no, I don't know who he is either) earnestly spending ten minutes assuring the world at large that he's ok and not to worry about him. I'm sure that comes as a relief to all those who've just lost their jobs and wondering where the next meal is coming from. I can personally attest to having spent sleepless nights worrying about his condition. Thank God he's ok.

A whole pack of celebrities (almost all unknown to me I confess) have gone further, taking time out from counting their money to give us a rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Watch and listen. Actually don't. I'm serious, because you run the risk of a burst blood vessel or projectile vomiting. This is so awful it deserves some kind of prize. For what exactly I'm not sure. It beggars belief that the "singers" somehow believe that this makes them look better or that the only rational reaction isn't stomach-churning revulsion. But no, they live gilded lives, in their bubble, narcissism unbounded, unaware, like latter-day Marie Antoinettes, of the rising rage of the common people. (Just read the comments on the multiple sites that published the video if you doubt me.)

And for those of us racked with worry about Serena Williams and the virus (not that virus, naughty!) we are assured that her self-isolation is working. Which if nothing else suggests that this is a discerning virus. Yet all is not well because apparently she's 'under a ton of stress'. Personally I'd say she is a ton of stress but that's by the way. Is she stressed by the thought that millions could die? Well....no. 'It started out with me feeling like: ‘Oh it can’t really affect me.’ How sweet, thoughtful and selfless. 'And then suddenly Indian Wells was cancelled and I was like: ‘Oh, OK, that’s weird but I have a little time off and I’m going to enjoy that time off.’ “And then one cancelation led to another and then led to another and led to all this anxiety that I’m feeling.' As we choked back our tears she continued.“so spending the next 6 weeks in solitude. Being a wife. Being a mom. Cooking. Cleaning. Spring cleaning. Face mask. Makeup tutorials. I’ll let you know how it goes.'

She concludes with a reassurance that has lead to a world-wide outpouring of relief: 'We'll get through this'. Thank God, and what an achievement. Living in a palace, surrounded by everything she could want, lackeys attending to everything. Yet she'll still get through it. What a man. I mean woman. Speaking of which, judging by the picture here she could do with that face mask.

The Irish Savant : No modus vivendi possible

No modus vivendi possible

The Irish Savant
http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2020/03/no-modus-vivendi.html

Thursday, 26 March 2020

There was a time - many years ago - when I believed that Whites and Jews could coexist peacefully and in a symbiotic way. That we were kind of in the same side against the Third World hordes menacing us. To put it mildly I no longer believe that. Despite some brave and honourable Jews out there it's clear to me now that as a people they're biologically programmed to undermine their White host nations and nothing we can do will ever change that. As soon as they get a foothold in any organisation they will, like termites, burrow away until it's reduced to a hollowed-out simulacrum of the original, usually serving an agenda diametrically opposed to that of its founders.

The examples are unlimited. I noticed just recently that the last non-Jewish President of Harvard took office in 1953. And we know what Harvard has become, with the people for whom it was founded representing a small and declining proportion of the faculty and student body resulting, inter alia, in plummeting academic standards. A similar transformation of another institution - National Geographic - was brought home to me recently as I waited in a medical surgery. They had stacks of the magazine dating back to 2009. Back then it was prestigious to the point of being an acceptable academic reference. It's articles were informative, well-written and politically neutral. Its photography was the stuff of legend.

Then in 2014 Susan Goldberg took over as Editor. And destroyed the journal by  transforming it into a platform for anti-White, anti-Christian propaganda. Goldberg makes a great deal of her anti-racism and devoted one whole edition to the topic. Professing herself horrified at NG's past racism she apologised on behalf of her predecessors.

That such racism was based on scientific fact was irrelevant as when she sorrowfully admitted that it was 'very hard to read' an earlier edition that ranked Australian aborigines as "the lowest in intelligence of all human beings.”  Sort of Hate Fact I suppose.

By now NG has now become unrecognisable, obsessively focused on race. Or more to the point debunking the concept. An article by Jewish geneticist David Reich claimed that 'there are no indigenous people—anyone who hearkens back to racial purity is confronted with the meaninglessness of the concept'. This is not only untrue - it's a downright lie because no geneticist believes such nonsense.

No surprise that Goldberg's anti-racism doesn't apply to her own tribe. She strongly identifies as Jewish. Her husband is a Jewish real estate lawyer - what a benefit to society - and she spent time in a kibbutz in her teenage years. Articles on Israel are invariably favourable and strangely, the multiculturalism that seems to be so good for the goyim doesn't - according to NG - work in Israel for some unspecified reason. No surprise either that NG circulation has nosedived being now little more than half of what it was ten years ago.


But Goldberg and her ilk don't care.  Like every parasite she'll flee to richer pickings when her host dies. Or succumbs to the parasites to put it more accurately.

She takes great pride in being the first Jewish editor of NG. If Harvard is anything to go by she'll be the first of a long line. Providing NG survives their depredations.

Note that Mike Bloomberg used his position as a major donor to NG to get her the job. That's how they operate. That's how they get control of The Narrative, by way of their magic money.

Vigilant Reports : COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Human Experiment




Vigilant Reports

COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Human Experiment

No matter what’s the origin of COVID-19, the response to this virus lead to a series of drastic and unprecedented changes on a global level. The dystopian future is now. Here’s how this pandemic created the largest human experiment in history.

Published on

While these measures are said to be temporary in order to strop the propagation of the virus, an important fact remains: They’ve actually become a reality. And this means that they can easily become a reality at any point and time in the future.


Although it is comforting to think that our governments have our health and best interests at heart, it is rather naive to believe that the most powerful people in the world do not see this pandemic as an amazing opportunity. One of the elite’s favorite sayings is “never let a good crisis go to waste”. And this crisis is definitely not going to waste. This pandemic has enabled the “testing” of various authoritarian measures that are exactly in line with the world elite’s long-term plans. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a better plan to simultaneously terrify, isolate, subdue, impoverish and demoralize a society as a whole – creating the perfect context to reshape to fit specific interests.

In short, the dystopian future is now. For years, this site has been warning about plans for a world government that is based on intense mass media indoctrination and high-tech police state surveillance. We are living all of this now – to a degree that many of us did not even fathom a few weeks ago.

If this global lockdown lasts a few weeks, the world might recover and regain some sort of normality (until the next crisis). However, if this goes on months (as some experts predict), the impact on society will take on biblical proportions.

Here’s a look at the many facets of this lockdown and their possible long-term impact on humanity as a whole.

Mass Media Takeover

Mass media preparing the masses for a long crisis.

The first “symptom” of COVID-19 was the complete takeover of mass media on a global level. Nearly every media source – no matter its target audience or niche interest – switched to 24/7 COVID coverage. All other news topics became irrelevant and got evacuated from the public discourse. Nearly all forms of entertainment – most notably professional sports – were put on hold, forcing people to solely focus on the pandemic.

In newspapers, scoreboards displaying sports results were replaced with a morbid “deaths and confirmed cases” scoreboard that is custom-made to generate fear. Every day, billions of humans anxiously follow these “scores”, knowing that their freedom and livelihood depend solely on these government-issued numbers. If the numbers do not go down, the confinement goes on.

As COVID-19 took over mass media, popular culture as a whole instantly turned into a barren wasteland. There are no new cultural products and no artists releasing material that could ease minds, provide some entertainment or, perhaps, provide some much-needed insight. Most artists are reduced to social media “influencers” who repeat the Orwellian orders heard everywhere else around the world: “Stay home and wash your hands”.

In short, nearly all forms of social and cultural distractions were replaced with wall-to-wall COVID coverage. As people consume a steady stream of frightful news, levels of anxiety keep going up, creating an ideal context for the introduction of police-state measures. And these measures were welcomed with thundering applause.

High Tech Police State

The threat of a deadly pandemic is the perfect context to introduce aggressive police state tactics. People are scared and they want to see decisive measures taken by their government. However, once this is all said and done, will society recover 100% of its freedoms? Or will it gradually go back to about 50%, celebrating each percent as a victory?

The first casualty of the pandemic was air travel. Simply put, it just stopped. All flights were canceled and people abroad were told to go back home as soon as possible. Once everyone got home, everyone was told to remain home. Then, in a matter of days, governments went from banning “large gatherings” to banning gatherings of “2+ people”.

These unprecedented restrictions on human contact generated a climate of fear and paranoia as people began to alert authorities of illegal gathering. While these “snitches” would argue that “the faster the epidemic is eradicated, the faster we all return to normalcy”, precedents are being set.

The pandemic has also justified the use of high tech surveillance at a level never seen before. Here are some examples from around the world:

    In China, government-installed CCTV cameras point at the apartment door of those under a 14-day quarantine to ensure they don’t leave. Drones tell people to wear their masks. Digital barcodes on mobile apps highlight the health status of individuals.

    In Singapore, the government rolled out an app called TraceTogether. It uses Bluetooth signals between cellphones to see if potential carriers of the coronavirus have been in close contact with other people.

    Over in Hong Kong, some residents were made to wear a wristband which linked to a smartphone app and could alert authorities if a person left their place of quarantine.

    In South Korea, the government used records such as credit card transactions, smartphone location data and CCTV video as well as conversations with people, to create a system where confirmed cases were tracked. The result was a map that could tell people whether they had gone near a coronavirus carrier.

    On Thursday, the South Korean government launched an enhanced tool that it says can help track patients even more closely in near real time, in order to see where the disease was moving.

    Meanwhile, Israel’s security agency Shin Bet is using citizens’ cell phone location data to track where they’ve been so they can enforce quarantine controls and monitor the movements of those infected. Controversially, the data has been collected over the past few years and intended to for counterterrorism purposes, the New York Times reported. The newspaper said this data trove and the collection of it had not been previously reported.

    Some parts of India were stamping the hands of people arriving at airports telling them how long they had to be quarantined, Reuters reported. Reservation data from airlines and trains were being monitored to make sure those people didn’t travel, the report added. In the south Indian state of Kerala, authorities have been using a mixture of telephone call records, surveillance camera footage and phone location data to track down people who may have been in contact with coronavirus patients.

    In the U.S., the government is talking to Facebook, Google and other tech companies about the possibility of using location and movement data from Americans’ smartphones to combat coronavirus.
    – CNBC, Use of surveillance to fight coronavirus raises concerns about government power after pandemic ends

Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project believes that most of these measures are here to stay. He stated:

    “We have absolutely no reason to believe that the government agencies that are eager to expand their power in response to COVID-19 will be willing to see those authorities lapse once the virus is eradicated.”

The after-pandemic will lead to another major source of concern: The economy. 

Major Economy Shift

COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Human Experiment

Initial unemployment insurance claims in the United States. From 2010 to 2020, a steady decline … until a sudden and historical peak.

COVID-19 incited several governments to enact a controversial measure: The closing of all non-essential businesses. This led to millions of workers to instantly losing their jobs. It also led to some unhealthy wheeling-and-dealings with governments to determine which businesses are deemed essential or not.

While most major corporations will weather the storm and hire back employees, a great number of small and medium businesses will not survive the shutdown.

The situation also creates clear winners: Major chains such as Walmart, Costco, Walgreens, McDonald’s and Amazon. In fact, due to a staggering jump in sales, Amazon recently announced the hiring over 100,000 employees to help cope with the demand. However, not unlike most jobs available at these major chains, the offered pay nears minimum wage.

If the lockdown persists, we can expect a major shift in the global economy: Small and medium businesses will struggle and die while gigantic entities will thrive as they turn into monolithic “distribution centers” for essential goods. To prevent a complete crash of the global economy, governments announced trillions of dollars in financial aid to those impacted by the shutdown. However, this money does not come out of thin air: It will result in massive debts and, most likely, higher taxes. In poorer countries, financial aid is rare or non-existent – a recipe for impending chaos.

In the end, all economic crises always end up favoring the elite. The net result of the financial crash of 2008 (and its bailouts) led to the funneling of tens of trillions of dollars from the pockets of the middle class towards the world elite. This COVID crisis will most likely end with similar results.

In Conclusion

While the above assessment might seem grim, it is an objective analysis of a planet in lockdown. In a matter of weeks, the entire planet went from normalcy to fear, panic, paranoia, confinement, unemployment, police-state surveillance and extreme social distancing. Millions of citizens who thrived on freedom and free enterprise are now on “house-arrest” and must rely on the government for subsistence.

Although the absolute necessity of these measures is up for debate, there is no possible debate about their necessity once the virus is gone. And we need to make sure that the dystopian nightmare we are living now does not become permanent. Because, right now, some power-hungry people are salivating and they will only want more of this.

In these critical times, we must keep track of the many ways society is being altered and we must make sure that, once the virus is gone, liberty is fully restored. Because, as Thomas Jefferson said: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”!!

==================================