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Evil, evil, evil, everywhere you look. It's all around us, everywhere. I can't walk down the street without tripping over Satanists and homosexual predators. Where did they all come from? I thought we had enough on our plate with the leftie Liberal commie snowflakes baying at the door, but now somebody's opened the gates of Hell, and not a godamned exorcist in sight.

Which of these words do you like to say the most? They are both very popular words, as can be seen by the number of threads with at least one in its title. But if you could only choose one, which would it be? Which one could you simply not live without. Is it more satisfying to call someone who thinks your views are insane a leftist or a liberal? Which one causes the most offence?

But I want them both, Mommy.

If someone wants to come and live in your country, shouldn't you be flattered, and thank them for the compliment , rather than treat them with hostility?

Good time to have a trial , in the spring before the midterm election Special Counsel John Durham plans to call former FBI General Counsel James Baker to testify in the case against former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, who was recently indicted for making false statements to the FBI.
During a virtual status hearing Tuesday, government prosecutors on Durham's team signaled their intention to call Baker to testify as part of the Sussmann case. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of making a false statement to a federal agent.

Durham's indictment alleges that Sussmann told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016 that he was not doing work "for any client" when he requested and held a meeting in which he presented data and evidence of a purported secret communications channel between then-candidate Donald Trump and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin.
The indictment against Sussmann says he lied to Baker when he presented data linking the Trump Organization to a secret server that communicated with Alfa Bank. The indictment indicates Durham may be expanding his investigation to bring separate charges again Sussmann or additional defendants.
Michael Sussmann attends the Washington Post’s sixth annual cybersecurity summit on Oct. 6, 2016.

Michael Sussmann attends the Washington Post’s sixth annual cybersecurity summit on Oct. 6, 2016.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Tuesday asked both the government and Sussmann's defense to continue moving forward in their discovery process, which could take months, due to the thousands of pages of classified material involved.
During the hearing, government prosecutors said, at this point, that they had provided Sussmann's attorneys with 6,000 documents – amounting to up to some 80,000 pages.
Cooper said he understood that the process would be cumbersome but urged both the prosecution and the defense to come up with a target date for a trial later this year or early next.
DECLASSIFIED TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE DOCS TO DATE: WHAT TO KNOW
Both the prosecution and the defense signaled they are aiming for a trial to begin in the spring of 2022.
The next court date in the matter is set for a status hearing on Dec. 8 at 2 p.m.
Baker, who serves as deputy counsel at Twitter, left the FBI in May 2018 after serving as a top lawyer at the FBI. Baker was also a confidante of former FBI Director James Comey.
Baker told House investigators in 2019 that he was personally involved in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application to surveil then-Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FISA warrant relied largely on the unverified anti-Trump dossier, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and funded by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign through law firm Perkins Coie.
James Baker, who served as FBI general counsel, left the bureau in 2018.
James Baker, who served as FBI general counsel, left the bureau in 2018.
Sussmann's indictment is the second prosecution to come out of the Durham's probe.
In 2020, Durham charged former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith with making a false statement – the first criminal case arising from his probe. Clinesmith was referred for potential prosecution by the Justice Department's inspector general's office, which conducted its own review of the Russia investigation.
Former FBI lawyer avoids jail time after guilty plea in Durham probe Video
Specifically, the inspector general accused Clinesmith, though not by name, of altering an email about Page to say that he was "not a source" for another government agency. Page has said he was a source for the CIA. The DOJ relied on that assertion as it submitted a third and final renewal application in 2017 to eavesdrop on Page under FISA.

And I hate America.

Only kidding. I don't hate America, and I'm not a snowflake. Marxist? Colour me sitting on the fence.

I am sick of seeing all the wanton destruction being wrought upon our treasured statues. It is about time we showed the perpetrators of these acts of vandalism how it feels to have your heritage assaulted. As much as I deplore destructive behaviour, I am sorely tempted to advocate the same treatment against statues of black people. That would hopefully be a sobering lesson to the out-of-control mobs wandering the streets in search of things to demolish.

Of course, we would first have to erect these statues before we could start pulling them down.

October 23, 2021|

12:38 pm
Rod Dreher

To mark the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, I’m publishing in this space an essay from Stephen Sholl, an American academic living in Budapest, and a friend I made this summer:

Today will mark the 65-year anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. For many Americans, this anniversary will go unnoticed, yet the lessons that this episode holds are important ones for Americans to understand.

The Hungarian Revolution was the most serious challenge to Soviet Rule in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. In late October 1956, demonstrations, often beginning at universities, erupted throughout Hungary. Within a week, these demonstrations had evolved into an outright popular revolt, with the revolutionaries demanding major reforms and calling for the Soviet Army to leave Hungary.
Initially it appeared to be successful, with previous Prime Minister and reformer Imre Nagy being reinstated and the Russians withdrawing from Budapest. Once Nagy, however, declared his intention to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact, the Soviets quickly returned and crushed the Revolution in Budapest and in Hungary’s other major cities after intense street fighting. By November 10, the Soviets had decisively squashed the Revolution. More than 2,000 Hungarians died in the fighting, and hundreds of thousands fled to the West in the aftermath.

The lesson for Americans, lies not with the defeat of the Hungarian freedom fighters — though their bravery and courage in the face of insurmountable odds is a trait worth emulating — but rather the path that led Hungary to 1956.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Hungary, while war-ravaged, was not decisively on the path to dictatorship. The Soviets appeared to follow through on their promise to establish democracies in their occupied areas, and introduced parliamentary democracy into Hungary. While the Soviet Army intimidated opposing parties and falsified ballots, other parties were allowed to compete, and their votes were recognized. In Hungary’s first election in 1946, the Communists were defeated by an overwhelming number of votes, only earning around 17 percent.

The Independent Smallholders Party, which represented the center-right, secured an outright majority, and was even allowed to form a government. The Communist Party asked only to be allowed into the governing coalition, and was granted the Ministry of the Interior. Unfortunately for the young Hungarian Republic, the ruling party accepted the coalition. Granting the Communists control over the Interior ministry meant they controlled the country’s police.

Using the martial power of police authority, Communists began a systematic takeover of Hungarian institutions — this, despite the fact that a formally “non-Communist” government was in power. The police intimidated political opponents and local leaders into joining the Communist Party; those who refused were labeled ‘fascists’ and forced out of the public sphere. In institutions such as courtrooms, schools, universities, churches, and unions, those expelled would be replaced by loyal Communists, slowly turning these bodies into extensions of the Communist Party. This institutional dominance, by a people and ideology that were not held by the vast majority of Hungarians, eroded any notion of real democracy in Hungary (at the time, the CIA estimated only 10 percent of Hungarians were Communist).

more at the link

There are Americans, and Free Citizens not in the USA, who are dumbfounded by the apparent illogic of some.

These types appear to be well described by KGB Defector, Lev Bezmanov, who explained that the indoctrination of such people is so complete that no amount of proof of facts would sway them from the Party Line. You could prove that Black was Black and White was White, it did not matter. Their minds, in the words of Bezmanov, were "contaminated," and thus impervious to the truth.


Where did this come from?

Recall that the Soviets, before they were Soviets, were Russians, the home of Russian psychologist, Ivan Pavlov. During the 1890s, Pavlov led the field in psychological conditioning. It was Pavlov who came up with Stimulus-Response. Punishment / Reward, conditioning training.


This was later used to great effect by the Soviets, first against their own people, and later exported worldwide by the Soviet Communist International (COMINTERN), example: PSYCHO-POLITICS

Psychopolitics, at its very core, is the Soviet art of brainwashing. Since 1933, the United States has been subject to a far-reaching and comprehensive campaign of psychopolitical warfare aimed at subverting and destroying our Constitutional Republic, and according to the Lucille Miller case of 1950, to “recruit every agency of the nation marked for slaughter into a foaming hatred of religious healing.”
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In a Capitalistic state, you are aided on all sides by the corruption of the philosophy of man and the times. You will discover that everything will aid you in your campaign to seize, control and use all ‘mental healing’ to spread our doctrine and rid us of our enemies within their own borders.

Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. Do not stint in your labor in this direction. And when you have succeeded you will discover that you can now effect your own legislation at will and you can, by careful organization of healing societies, by constant campaign about the terrors of society, by pretense as to your effectiveness make you Capitalist himself, by his own appropriations, finance a large portion of the quiet Communist conquest of the nation.

By psychopolitics, create chaos. Leave a nation leaderless. Kill our enemies. And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace [absence of opposition] Man has ever known... Thank You.”


The Manual on Psychopolitics can be found HERE:


Look, particularly, at the section called: CHAPTER V: An Examination of Loyalties


In a demonic fashion, it explains how any society can be brought low by a constant process of defamation, destroying all that which is good and noble and beautiful, and to destroy the bonds of loyalty at the atomic level: between man and woman, husband and wife, parent and child, church and penitent, employer and employee, citizen and state.

The perversion of psychology and drugs was honed to a high and evil science. In the USSR, notably at the infamous SERBSKY INSTITUTE, where dissidents would be falsely labeled as insane and then subjected to endless mental and physical torture.


In the USA, the CIA echoed the Soviet effort in secret operations under various names, such as MK-ULTRA.

You might recall how that long-time Ultra Liberal Bill Maher was a bane against all things American, Conservative and Trump.

and then he comes up with this:

Bill Maher: The Media Needs To Stop With The Panic Porn & Fear Mongering


But, in some Liberals, or Progressives, or Leftists, whatever they might be called, there is still a sense of standards which apply across the board. When this happens, and they challenge their own, say for hypocrisy, they have strayed from the reservation, they have committed secular apostasy and are marked for punishment, or virtual un-personing, like Trotsky's fall from Communist grace and ensuing ice-picking in Mexico.


Now, another Liberal journalist, in the old style of "For the Little Guy" activism, realizes now that something is very wrong, and starts to turn his spotlight against Big Pharma:

When the Covid-19 crisis struck, the scolding utopia was no longer abstraction. The dream was reality! Pure communism had arrived! Failure to take elite advice was no longer just a deplorable faux pas. Not heeding experts was now murder. It could not be tolerated. Media coverage quickly became a single, floridly-written tirade against “expertise-deniers.”* For instance, the Atlantic headline on Kemp’s decision to end some shutdowns was, “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice.”

Indeed, he is writing on the subject which has largely dominated our lives over the past two years.

The Cult of the Vaccine
"The jab" is just the latest story to be reported as mantra


And, in keeping Party Discipline, Taibbi has been marked as a Reactionary, just another Trostkyite, who has violated the Party Line.

What the Hell Happened to Matt Taibbi?, Carl Peterson
I used to think if we had more journalists like Matt Taibbi we could make some headway against the prevailing currents of the corporate media. What an accomplishment that would have been! A 21st century outburst of the irreverent spirit of pragmatic, democratic American straight-talking.

I remember how clearly Taibbi explained the causes and mechanisms of the 2008 economic meltdown triggered by a greed-crazed and opportunistically criminal American financial “elite,” (who, as it turned out, escaped from their self-made catastrophe with scarcely a rebuke, but plenty of reward, while regular Americans, the ones who keep this country alive [and maintain the elite on their golden perches despite repeated depredations by and systemic failures of the ruling plutocracy]--trudged on, predictably battered again.)
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But Matt Taibbi’s recent article, The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis Is Here *, published on RSN on about May 2, 2020, like a lot of his recent work, does not uphold the standard of excellence he set and maintained years ago. It seems that Taibbi is no longer attempting to speak truth to power, but is up to something else. What that is? Hard to say exactly.


* https://taibbi.substack.com/p/temporary-coronavirus-censorship
("As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet")

I would urge the Readership to read both of Taibbi's articles and see how they *do* speak truth to power, and how the Presstitute Luegenpresse has largely abandoned their job as the Watchdog of the public trust. Instead, they are covering for the unholy cabal of Big Media, Big Pharma, Big Social Media, the CCP, and others.

Should the UK adopt a no haunting policy, and impose a complete ban on ghosts.

I say yes, outlaw them, and reclaim the night!