tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65016222024-03-18T16:40:59.503+00:00¡No Pasarán!<strong>Behind the Façades in France:</strong> What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.comBlogger13476125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-81596972011650819832024-03-15T09:09:00.019+00:002024-03-18T16:36:36.059+00:00A Concrete Sidewalk and the Head of Kaylee Gain: Shades of Zimmerman and Rittenhouse<p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13195953/missouri-teen-kaylee-gain-fighting-stay-alive-gofundme-soars-200-000-dollars-brain-damage.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/14/10/82454135-13195953-image-m-13_1710410997358.jpg" /></a> <br />
If the young teenage girl had been armed as <a href="https://instapundit.com/636895/" target="_blank">Maurnice DeClue</a> slammed her head into the concrete sidewalk with all her might, would she have been justified in firing her weapon into the belly of her tormentor?</p><p>
I'm asking because her injuries are so awful that after <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13195953/missouri-teen-kaylee-gain-fighting-stay-alive-gofundme-soars-200-000-dollars-brain-damage.html" target="_blank">Kaylee Gain</a> was left twitching and convulsing with seizures on the sidewalk, she is still in hospital, risking permanent brain damage and even death. Could shooting "<a href="https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/70772.html" target="_blank">Little Miss Thugette</a>" have prevented a dismal future for Kaylee's entire family?<br /></p><p>
You know why I am asking, dont'cha? This is exactly what Trayvon Martin was doing to George Zimmerman in February 2012 when the "white Latino" having his head smashed into the concrete pulled out his gun and fired it into the body of his tormentor. <br /></p><p>
What is it with leftists and/or blacks and/or a combination thereof — you know, the people who always go on and on and on lecturing us about tolerance and debate & discussion contrasted with hate and haters and bigots — that they are so consumed by… hatred for their (alleged) opponents (although in most cases they barely knew them personally, if at all) that the psychopaths go berserk in their willingness to engage in vicious violence that results in great bodily harm or death? </p><p>(Similar question: what is it that our teachers (sic) have been teaching in schools and universities that their pupils and students behave this way?)<br /></p><p>
While leftists are always blabbering about fighting and defeating hate, nobody is hated as much in America or around the world (with the possible exception of the Israelis and the Jews) as America's Republicans, America's conservatives, and America's whites. </p><p>(One benefit we can thank the left for is how well this makes a case for the Second Amendment…)<br /></p><p>Think also of two Wisconsin events of August 2020 and November 2021 (one of them without racial overtones), Kenosha's Kyle Rittenhouse case and Waukesha's Christmas Parade massacre (we know far less about that event — the deadliest of all — because a white person was not the presumably responsible, or the presumably guilty, party and the latter turns out to be a member of a minority and therefore enjoys <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/murder-in-progress.php" target="_blank">Hamas status</a>).</p><p>Let's hear what <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2021/10/06/theyre-not-defending-their-best---p--n2597070" target="_blank">Ann Coulter</a> has to say:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>there's only one ethnic group that sacralizes its criminals … The main
problem facing the black community isn't that a sizable number
celebrate its criminals, though that's bad. It's that there's such a
sizable number of criminals to celebrate. </blockquote>
Related: • Comparing 3 Deadly Events — <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/12/comparing-3-deadly-events-in-waukesha.html" target="_blank">In Waukesha, Brooks killed twice as many people as Rittenhouse and the Charlottesville driver did combined</a> <br />
• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-leftist-worldview-in-nutshell-world.html" target="_blank">The Leftist Worldview in a Nutshell: A world of Deserving Dreamers Vs. Despicable Deplorables</a><br />• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-era-of-drama-queens-every-crisis-is.html">The Era of the Drama Queens: Every Crisis Is a Triumph</a><br />
<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/25/common-thread-in-waukesha-tragedy-kenosha-shootings-government-failure/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/kyle-rittenhouse-13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1488" /></a> <br />
I was watching <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/" target="_blank">Dennis Prager</a>'s <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-215-public-reactions-rittenhouse-and-the-christmas-parade-massacre" target="_blank">Fireside Chat</a> in December 2021, which was also comparing the two Wisconsin events, and in response to the Left's charge that a 17-year-old should not carry a gun, Dennis made the case that in the United States, 17-year-olds are allowed… to… join <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/who-should-win-the-nobel-peace-prize" target="_blank">the military</a>. Now the army, navy, and air force are a source of stability in the U.S. (although <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/" target="_blank">the Left</a> is hard at work trying to change that) so, at this point, it is appropriate to recall the famous quote by G K Chesterton,<br /><p><span></span></p>
<blockquote>The true soldier fights <i>not</i> because he hates what is in front of him, but the because he loves what is behind him.'</blockquote> In that perspective, it is altogether proper to return to the Badger State and ask the following question:<br /><p></p><p>Did Kyle Rittenhouse go to Kenosha with an AR-15 because he is a white supremacist (or a Christian nationalist) who hates all Wisconsin rioters, and/or all leftists, and/or all blacks? </p><p>Or did Kyle Rittenhouse go to Kenosha to protect the neighbors and the neighborhood where his loved ones (whatever the color of their skin) live (and work)?<br /></p><p>The answer, of course, is that initially, Kyle Rittenhouse did not fight, he did not threaten the rioters, he did not flaunt his rifle.</p><p>We will expand on this issue, because what one of the prosecutors said in one of his final remarks regarding Rittenhouse, is essential to the case, and comparable to George Zimmerman and to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13195953/missouri-teen-kaylee-gain-fighting-stay-alive-gofundme-soars-200-000-dollars-brain-damage.html?ito=social-facebook" target="_blank">Kaylee Gain</a>…</p><p>Here are some of the arguments of the Kenosha prosecutors, revisited…<br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">• <b><i>Crossing State Lines</i></b></span></p><p>The image suggested is of unsavory far-right types driving hundred, if not thousands of miles — a redneck driving through the forests of Georgia (chewin' and spittin' tabaccah), a militiaman crossing the burning deserts of the West — to go to a place where they knew no one and had no place being.</p><p>In fact, the state line was, so I've heard, one mile away or so, while the place he went to was 20 minutes away, and all this in the very same urban area.<br /></p><p>Which is far from uncommon.<br /></p><p>Back in the 1990s, I met an Indian and his wife at a Paris event.</p><p>When he heard that I was planning a road trip from the West Coast East across the Rockies, he asked me to come visit him on his reservation in the state of Washington</p><p>When I flew into Seattle, I imagined dancing natives, falling shacks, rusting studebakers, howlin' winds, tumblin' tumbleweeds, perhaps even a wigwam and a drunken native lying in the dust.<br /></p><p>In fact, the reservation was inside Seattle or inside a suburb of Seattle. On one side of the street, you were outside the reservation; on the other side, which looked exactly the same, you were inside the reservation.<br /></p><p>Beyond that, it is somewhat surreal that those who want the nation's Southern border to be basically open could make such a fuss about state borders.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">• <i><b>Portraying Rittenhouse as a Sniper </b></i></span><br /></p><p>When a prosecutor displayed the "Automatic Rifle" (sic) -15, he held the weapon up for what seemed minutes pointed at an audience, unarmed and seated in a way that they hardly able to budge — like a sniper on a battlefield, hard to spot and perhaps invisible to his enemies. <br /></p><p>Rightfully or otherwise, a sharpshooter calmly picks people off from a hiding place with no danger to himself — such as DC's Beltway Sniper did in 2002.</p><p>Let the rejoinder go to <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2021/11/17/get-rittenhouse---p--n2599265" target="_blank">Ann Coulter</a>, who explains that, besides not being on a battlefield,<br /></p><blockquote><p>Rittenhouse was not at a grade school, but in the middle of a riot that did $50 million in damage to the town of Kenosha <br /></p><p> … Name one "active shooter" in history who strolled about with a gun for
hours, not shooting anyone -- until he was chased, cornered and
assaulted. Rittenhouse had a gun not because he was violent, but because
the "protesters" were, as the evidence abundantly demonstrated.</p><p> … The same people who wanted to give Guantanamo war criminals civilian
trials think an American who refused to acquiesce in his own murder
didn't deserve legal representation.</p><p>Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial so that no one will dare stand in the way of the left's shock troops ever again.</p></blockquote><p>
And that seems to be sadly (albeit understandably) Kyle's reaction as well, as recorded by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/kyle-rittenhouse-media-lawsuit-accountability" target="_blank">Fox News</a>'<span>
<span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/d/sam-dorman">Sam Dorman</a> and </span><span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/m/andrew-murray">Andrew Murray</a></span></span>: <br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>"[With] what I was dragged through and what I had to go through — to
facing life in prison — I wouldn't say it was worth it," he said,
adding, "hindsight being 20/20."</p><p>Rittenhouse has previously said going to Kenosha was "not the best idea."</p><p>But he noted, "Of course, defend yourself."</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">• <b><i>Saying that Rittenhouse should have let himself be pummeled</i></b></span></p><p><b>And so here we come full circle back to the case of <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13195953/missouri-teen-kaylee-gain-fighting-stay-alive-gofundme-soars-200-000-dollars-brain-damage.html?ito=social-facebook" target="_blank">Kaylee Gain</a> and to the left's admonishment of George Zimmerman</b>: one of a Thomas Binger aide's final arguments was that Kyle Rittenhouse should not have made such a big deal about it, that he should just have accepted getting into a fistfight and even been willing to let his tormentors beat him up.<br /></p><p>This is an insane argument. (Or, to quote our British readers, "not cricket".) Do you know sports? In a boxing match, in an MMA fight — not to mention simply a football match, a badminton match, or, for our British friends, a cricket match — where there is little to no animosity between players, fighters, or teams (there may even be a healthy dose of mutual respect, such as that in MMA fights where the loser, his face often bloodied and his nose sometimes broken, walks up to the winner and shakes his hand or even gives him a bear hug) — there are definite rules known to all (not to mention weight classes [so that a heavyweight doesn't engage with, say, a bantamweight] and [at least until the Woke movement reared its head] discrimination by sex) and, just to be sure, there is a nominally neutral referee present throughout the bout, ready to intervene.</p><p>How could Rittenhouse know — indeed, how on Earth could prosecutor Thomas Binger and his assistants know — that if Rittenhouse hadn't taken out his rifle or simply refused to fight back, he would only have received only bruises or scratches? Not a single soul would have slammed his head into the sidewalk or used the skateboard or his own rifle butt to crush his skull?<br /></p><p>In this fairy tale, the prosecutors describe the leftist psychopaths exactly as how the right-leaning Rittenhouse did in fact behave.</p><p><b>Look at Maurnice DeClue. Look at Trayvon Martin. This is the type of person — multiplied <i>by 30 or more</i> — that Rittenhouse was faced with.</b></p><p>Only when the arsonists (several of them armed) became
menacing, only when a mob started chasing him down, and only when the
rioters tried to kill him (with a skateboard, which is perfectly capable
of literally bashing a person's brains out, just like a concrete
sidewalk is, or with a gun) — in response to his extinguishing the fire
in a dumpster they were pushing towards a gas station (more of a hateful
act or more of a loving act? I ask you) — did Rittenhouse shoot back. </p><p>But
not before trying a peaceful solution, i.e., running away from the
confrontation, crying "Friendly" to assure them of his non-violent
intentions, and attempting to seek cover from the (present but
non-operating) police force.</p><p>Speaking of which: In a way, there is
a kernel of truth in the charge that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have
been there and shouldn't have been carrying a gun? <i>Police officers</i>
should have been there! Well, sure, we can all agree on that. All of us. And
police officers ought to have been doing their jobs — with their guns.
But they were not! (Thanks to Democrat politicians, leftist ideologues,
and other <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-era-of-drama-queens-every-crisis-is.html">Drama Queens</a>.) Which is why civilians, young as well as old, took over their task…<br />
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/kyle-rittenhouse-media-lawsuit-accountability" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2021/12/1862/1048/GettyImages-1236665464.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" /></a> </p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-38523403940511661412024-03-12T02:42:00.008+00:002024-03-12T03:59:53.399+00:00Following Trump's Super Tuesday's Wins, Republicans in France Are Invited on French TV and Radio<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="fr">Super Tuesday: "Joe Biden est sénile et faible", affirme Paul Reen (président des "Republicans in France") <a href="https://t.co/LKch4fCtUZ">pic.twitter.com/LKch4fCtUZ</a></p>— BFMTV (@BFMTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1765073807486898503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2024</a></blockquote><p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
Following Trump's Super Tuesday bonanza, a number of Republicans in France (<a href="https://republicansinfrance.com" target="_blank">RIF</a>) members were invited to join French TV and radio stations…<br /><br />
It started on Super Tuesday itself, and while the world waited for the results that evening, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+Reen" target="_blank">Paul Reen</a> faced a handful of leftists on <a href="https://www.bfmtv.com/international/amerique-nord/etats-unis/super-tuesday-joe-biden-est-senile-et-faible-affirme-paul-reen-president-des-republicans-in-france_VN-202403050807.html" target="_blank">BFMTV</a> as he announced on <a href="https://x.com/BFMTV/status/1765073807486898503?s=20" target="_blank">its talk show</a> that "Joe Biden is senile and weak".
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<a href="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/presidentielle-americaine-2024-biden-et-trump-sont-deux-sortants-qui-arrivent-avec-leurs-bilans-selon-le-porte-parole-de-republicans-in-france_6407896.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/pictures/qgvQ2MaoZsuH8rdNO0V83CdJ-dE/0x0:1033x581/432x243/filters:format(avif):quality(50)/2024/03/06/super-tuesday-debat-65e8927f16922205289245.jpg" /></a>
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<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=Philippe+Karsenty" target="_blank">Philippe Karsenty</a> was interviewed the next day by Émilie Tran Nguyen on France Info TV and faced three pro-Democrat leftists, one American and two French. The website's <a href="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/presidentielle-americaine-2024-biden-et-trump-sont-deux-sortants-qui-arrivent-avec-leurs-bilans-selon-le-porte-parole-de-republicans-in-france_6407896.html
" target="_blank">shorter version</a> cut off the final minutes of the talk show segment. Check out the <a href="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-jt/franceinfo/12-13-info/jt-12-13-info-mercredi-6-mars-2024_6407674.html
" target="_blank">longer version</a> instead — 15:44/16:04-34:34 — to see the whole thing, not least Philippe's final acerbic remark.
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<br /> Over at <a href="https://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/super-tuesday-le-point-de-vue-du-trumpiste-paul-reen/" target="_blank">Le Figaro TV</a>, Paul Reen, président des «Republicans in France», était l’invité d’Anne-Emmanuelle Isaac dans «Points de Vue». Here he was allowed to speak much more freely, and without interruption, than in usual MSM shows. <a href="https://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/super-tuesday-careme-compostelle-toute-lactualite-dans-points-de-vue/" target="_blank">Long version</a>: 0:00-22:30. </p><p>
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<a href="https://www.cnews.fr/emission/2024-03-06/180-minutes-info-emission-du-06032024-1464177" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="160" src="https://static.cnews.fr/sites/default/files/styles/image_300_width/public/Reporters/n_daynac_64ec6bbcaedda.png?itok=unYlIgmR" /></a>
Meanwhile, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=Anntoinette" target="_blank">Anntoinette Danskin-Lorrain</a> responded to <a href="https://www.cnews.fr/emission/2024-03-06/180-minutes-info-emission-du-06032024-1464177" target="_blank">Nelly Daynac</a> at CNews, appearing at the 1:55:10 minute mark of the final (and most important) issue of the day (1:49:45-2:03:15).
<p>The following morning, Philippe Karsenty found a friendlier audience at La Ligne Droite de <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/2024/03/07/ligne-droite-du-7-mars-2024/" target="_blank">Radio Courtoisie</a> présentée par Maud Koffler avec Didier Maïsto, journaliste indépendant. Check out nearly 45 minutes of discussion at 1:32:32-2:16:21 (that starts with the Trump campaign's version of "Over There" that I had never heard before).<br /></p><p><b></b>
</p><p></p><blockquote>Avec Philippe Karsenty, analyste des médias, fondateur de l’observatoire Media-Ratings, homme politique, conseiller municipal de Neuilly-sur-Seine </blockquote>
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<br />Something is rotten in the state of Denmark — especially when the kingdom turns out to be a patriarchy. Well, you knew it, it had to arrive: In France's Théâtre de l'Odéon, we get a feminist director from Brazil, one who has a revolutionary idea: "But of course! Hamlet is a woman!"<br /><br />
And so, Christiane Jatahy calls on <a data-fig-domain="LEFIGARO" data-fig-type="Article" data-gtm-custom-action="crossclick" data-gtm-custom-categorie="navigation" data-gtm-custom-label="Contextuel" data-gtm-event="customEventSPE" data-mrf-link="http://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/clotilde-hesme-l-affranchie-20220217" href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/clotilde-hesme-l-affranchie-20220217">Clotilde Hesme</a> to play the prince. <a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/theatre-de-l-odeon-et-hamlet-crea-la-femme-20240307" target="_blank">Le Figaro</a>'s <span class="fig-content-metas__authors"><a class="fig-content-metas__author" href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/auteur/anthony-palou" rel="author">Anthony Palou</a></span> describes the rest of the semi-Freudian play set in modern times. <br /></p><p>The prince of Denmark (an androgynous figure in a black jumpsuit) excepted, all the other characters are played by actors and actresses (Loïc Corbery, Isabel
Abreu, Servane Ducorps, Matthieu Sampeur, Tonan Quito, David Houri, Tom Adjibi), as written by Will. Their dialogues and are interspersed by songs and music of Prince, Sinéad O’Connor, Nina Simone, Gilbert Bécaud, etc, not to mention <i>Star Wars</i> allusions (<b><i>I</i></b> am your father!)…<br /></p><p>The characters are seen eating pizza, watching television (the nightly news show reports on Fortinbras, prince of Norway), dancing while beating eggs (Hamlet/omelet), or wailing over fratricide (Claudius) while sitting on… the crapper. <br /></p><p></p><blockquote>Sans Clotilde Hesme, cet (te) <i>Hamlet</i> retomberait comme un soufflé</blockquote> <p></p><p>All in all, the <a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/theatre-de-l-odeon-et-hamlet-crea-la-femme-20240307" target="_blank">Figaro</a>'s <span class="fig-content-metas__authors"><a class="fig-content-metas__author" href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/auteur/anthony-palou" rel="author">Anthony Palou</a></span> is not impressed by the play, which goes on for too long in too many places, but he does admit that <a data-fig-domain="LEFIGARO" data-fig-type="Article" data-gtm-custom-action="crossclick" data-gtm-custom-categorie="navigation" data-gtm-custom-label="Contextuel" data-gtm-event="customEventSPE" data-mrf-link="http://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/clotilde-hesme-l-affranchie-20220217" href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/clotilde-hesme-l-affranchie-20220217">Clotilde Hesme</a> is <i>magistrale</i>, not to mention hypnotic.<br /></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-78728028214853282502024-03-09T21:21:00.002+00:002024-03-09T21:39:20.138+00:00"The Cultural War" by Evelyne Joslain Is One of the Outstanding Books of the 21st Century<p><a href="https://les4verites.com/produit/la-guerre-culturelle/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="800" src="https://les4verites.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/couv-guerre-culturelle-p1-v2.jpg" /></a>
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It's not every day that you open a French book that shows the conclict between right and left to such an extent and to such a depth that its translation into English is a must. But <a href="https://les4verites.com/produit/la-guerre-culturelle/" target="_blank">La Guerre Culturelle</a> (<i>The Cultural War</i>) is "the product of more than twenty-five years of reflection and personal archives collected daily", and we can rest assured that it will remain the masterpiece of <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a>'s œuvre.
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Having written outstanding books for the French public on <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Trump-Pour-meilleur-pour-pire-ebook/dp/B01M1OO5CY/" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Obama-Deconstruction-Democratie-en-Amerique/dp/2953366326/" target="_blank">Barack Obama</a>, the <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Tea-party-LAm%C3%A9rique-reconqu%C3%AAte-libert%C3%A9s/dp/2864772663/" target="_blank">Tea Party</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/LAm%C3%A9rique-Think-Tanks-dexpertise-service-ebook/dp/B00813PHCO/" target="_blank">America's Think Tanks</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/stores/Evelyne-Joslain/author/B004MO25OE" target="_blank">Evelyne Joslain</a> proves to be an unbeatable woman on the subject of everything concerning the United States, and, as we are going to see before we've even finished the book's first chapter, on a whole spectrum of subjects, from the ancient Greeks to Belgian serial killers.
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<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Trump-Pour-meilleur-pour-pire-ebook/dp/B01M1OO5CY/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="250" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zYXJHhhUL._AC_UL640_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg" /></a>
One is thunderstruck by the knowledge of a woman who, page after page (if not paragraph after paragraph), seems to produce revelation after revelation, whether explaining the influence of Epicurus on Thomas Jefferson, the historical difference between Whigs and Tories (which even the majority of English-speakers barely know), or the contrast between the humanism at the heart of the Renaissance and current environmentalism.
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I remember that Gorbachev, during a speech some forty years ago, decided to praise the revolutions of History; however, the leader of the USSR only mentioned the French and Russian revolutions, but not the American one, which raised an (entirely justified) outcry in the U.S. (even among left-wing newspapers — after all, "Gorby" was their darling, which contributed to the fact that the Russian "supertsar", but not his American partner, Ronald Reagan, was alone in being a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize).
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We can count on <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> to get to the heart of the problem and find the explanation:
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The French Revolution was bloody and genocidal, and turned its back on the Renaissance, making a clean sweep of the past. It is the example to be avoided and yet the one that has been most imitated while the American Revolution, which has everything to inspire, remains without imitation and becomes the object of neo-Marxist hatred. The former, France's bloodthirsty revolution, is therefore a truly 180º revolution, while the second, the American Revolution, is a 360º revolution, in other words it returns to the traditional English norms resulting from the Magna Carta of 1215. It restores the rights of the English in America, violated by George III.
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<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Tea-party-LAm%C3%A9rique-reconqu%C3%AAte-libert%C3%A9s/dp/2864772663/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="250" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DBZJZQKzL._AC_UL640_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg" /></a>
Following Britain's "politico-religious standoff" (with "brutal savagery") and the Glorious Revolution (also, it turns out, ignored by Gorbachev; in fact, here too we are faced with a "semi-revolution … without a drop of bloodshed") in the half-century between the 1640s and the 1690s, the English monarchy realized that it was prudent to refrain from trampling on the rights of Englishmen. However, George III did not understand that the Bill of Rights of 1689 should also be applied to English subjects in the colonies of America (and elsewhere) and treated his subjects there with the absolutism of his ancestors.
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Returning to the motto of the French Republic, however, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> is concise and blunt:
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Liberty and Equality are mutually exclusive [while] Fraternity … cannot be decreed
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<a href="https://les4verites.com/produit/la-guerre-culturelle/" target="_blank">La Guerre Culturelle</a> attempts to go back to the sources of the cultural left and analyze all its aspects, and there is so much to digest that the present article will only consider the book's first chapter (<i>The Ancient Roots of the Culture War</i>).
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Indeed, it turns out that the modern conflict between right and left "has existed since the dawn of time" — "their roots in times immemorial and in ancient myths" — and from the first chapter, we are introduced to the likes of Ovid, Socrates, and Cicero.
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Never, perhaps, has it been so well illustrated to what extent the writings of Socrates and Aristotle correctly describe the conflict of our day. Never, perhaps, has it been so well illustrated to what extent <a href="https://youtu.be/ERHGkRvILZE?si=CwGEjAOMwDz-UjsI" target="_blank">Diogenes</a> (plus his "cynicism") and Heraclitus (plus his "Hedonism") of Ephesus are the ancestors of today's leftists.
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They touted unhealthy and cynical pleasures of the same type [as today] … the pleasure of soiling the sacred … the pleasure of soiling beauty … and the pleasure of soiling childhood
</p><p> … this self-destructive pattern is repeated today from Europe to the Pacific, where the decadent elements which constitute the internal enemy work in concert with the external enemies
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<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/LAm%C3%A9rique-Think-Tanks-dexpertise-service-ebook/dp/B00813PHCO/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="250" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41z8ItuqJRL.jpg" /></a>
The <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/patrons-emissions/auteur185/" target="_blank">radio host</a> of the <i>Libre journal du Nouveau Monde</i> program on <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/" target="_blank">Radio Courtoisie</a> (where — full disclosure — I have been a guest a number of times) for many years, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> continues with a refusal to participate in the usual praise of figures as disparate as Napoleon and Voltaire, regarding both the "hateful atheism" of the latter along with that of his emulators and that of Karl Marx.
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Like <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+Johnson" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a>, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> sees the decline of religion as a disaster:
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Christianity remains the religion most frequently mocked, ridiculed, and covered with blasphemy because it reaffirms some disturbing principles such as the free will of each person, responsibility, duties, and because it places man at the center of nature. .
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At the same time, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> manages — even though she was hardly asked to do so — to explain in a single sentence the difference between Western and Eastern Christendom and, by extension, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/03/russian-exile-khodorkovsky-you-have-to.html" target="_blank">the war in Ukraine</a>:
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Western Christianity distinguishes between what is God's, like nature, and what is Caesar's, unlike Eastern Christianity, in which the Orthodox Church does not distinguish the regal from the spiritual.
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Now we can better understand <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/03/kirill-patriarch-of-russian-orthodox.html" target="_blank">the praise for Putin's presidency expressed by the Patriarch</a> of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> has little more respect and patience for the generic "Philosopher" who is reminiscent of the people described in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Johnson/author/B000AQ3F7Y" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a>'s book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Intellectuals-Marx-Tolstoy-Sartre-Chomsky-ebook/dp/B000SEKCX8/" target="_blank">Intellectuals</a> (From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky). This generic philosopher, this intellectual, who is “illuminated by contact with Ideas (i.e., with the absolute truth), is therefore ideally suited to impose on the human magma swarming below the rules which ought to govern them.”
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Intellectual imposture cannot be right-wing. This has always been the work of the left-leaning mind. In the distant past as today.
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A columnist at <a href="https://les4verites.com/" target="_blank">Les 4 Vérités</a> for a number of years, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> moves effortlessly from Charlemagne to Descartes via Marc Dutroux, a notorious child murderer (deliberately?) forgotten by everyone these days. (I was surprised to learn, also about thirty years ago, that one of the parents of one of the murdered girls had tried to enter politics, only to have his embryonic career scuttled by the Belgian élites before it even began. Another question mark from my youth to which the remarkable <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Évelyne Joslain</a> provides the answer)
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<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Obama-Deconstruction-Democratie-en-Amerique/dp/2953366326/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="250" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51G-4QvJ4EL.jpg" /></a>
This first chapter covers 2000 to 3000 years of human history and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Obama-Deconstruction-Democratie-en-Amerique/dp/2953366326/" target="_blank">one of the rare books in French which tells the truth about Barack Obama</a> transports us to the 20th and 21st centuries.
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We come to Saul Alinsky and his book, which is the key manual for VIPs such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. <i>Rules for Radicals</i> is
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[their] bible and Alinsky is [their] mentor; the master of the inversion of everything, values, concepts, vocabulary, excellent at blinding unsuspecting right-wing people.
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Again, we can only hope that Americans will hurry to have this work translated...
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More details about the book next week…</p><p> <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/guerre-culturelle-Evelyne-Joslain/dp/2381320253" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/08/apparel/rcxgs/tile._CB483369919_.gif" /></a></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-76167946537381824472024-03-09T10:39:00.022+00:002024-03-12T11:25:22.600+00:00Jixie Juny Meets Conservative Stars at CPAC, Is Only Cat to Attend Trump's Speech Finale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2yO7WQou4_0oIXeoh7pjHIPKfhwe1nq3FxwvXPxtwjSD47KiPsIKsT4ZwAcWMCqHtnLVzvvS9tjPNDGQsZ4HGOeVkicPMOSxQzPAPnH1GLPnOhO79rCnkKvwa0yHN3XFxGPWXk4OlJ99F0kxFoYgCskGD9k0r80qFDNIwen3Br38TWP3OcsaW/s4032/IMG_4010.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2yO7WQou4_0oIXeoh7pjHIPKfhwe1nq3FxwvXPxtwjSD47KiPsIKsT4ZwAcWMCqHtnLVzvvS9tjPNDGQsZ4HGOeVkicPMOSxQzPAPnH1GLPnOhO79rCnkKvwa0yHN3XFxGPWXk4OlJ99F0kxFoYgCskGD9k0r80qFDNIwen3Br38TWP3OcsaW/w480-h640/IMG_4010.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MyPillow's Mike Lindell<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As I wrote in <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/02/jixie-and-catman-at-cpac-2024.html" target="_blank">my main CPAC post</a>, I got <a href="https://twitter.com/samanthajoroth/status/1761535763936608476?s=42&t=Hk8K_5LaT7OFypBXaSBd9g" target="_blank">tagged</a> the Catman at @CPAC 2024 and for what I admit is a very
good reason: since my 19-year-old cat needs daily medication, the only
way that I could provide for Jixie Juny was to bring her over the
Atlantic Ocean (the cat handled the 6 to 8 hour flights quite
well). </p><p>
It was funny: for the first three days of #CPAC, security would not let me go by the security line with the cat to attend speeches in the Potomac Ballroom. On the fourth day, when the VIP of all VIPs, Donald Trump, was to hold the finale, the Secret Service did let Jixie Juny <a href="https://twitter.com/juliaajohnson_/status/1761395137630879802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1761395137630879802%7Ctwgr%5E007e04a6c8846fe2e322061bfd3beaef097e917f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fjuliaajohnson_%2Fstatus%2F1761395137630879802" target="_blank">through security</a> (although admittedly after 15 minutes of bargaining with one of their number)… </p><p>
</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I met the cat Thursday! Name is Jixie <a href="https://t.co/5t2OlfeVM6">https://t.co/5t2OlfeVM6</a></p>— Julia Johnson (@juliaajohnson_) <a href="https://twitter.com/juliaajohnson_/status/1761395137630879802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
Incidentally, the 45th president was poised only to speak for thirty minutes, but when he finally arrived, 40 minutes late, he spoke for one and a half hours… (Thanks for <a href="https://instapundit.com/636331/" target="_blank">the Instalink</a>, fellow cat-lover…)<p>
I have been searching the internet for more photos/videos. If
any reader finds any others, I wouldn't mind getting the hyperlinks… </p><p>
Related: CPAC — <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/03/cpac-phoenix-airport-shocker-vast.html" target="_blank">Phoenix Airport Shocker — Vast Number of Illegal Immigrants Being Outfitted for Plane Trip</a> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrQxuTlfYfIfr-TL35RdpX88VuZb-8E3oNFDMhyofJhv9JOiLQgN2wbHvorHwfjMqkUYB2TP0m9ruiQNKDu2BmRSvCERho6mChWXaQxG66FW-ONKVL8FIB_bDIu8m47aBmXJHbB3F-17Eto1dXbTspSadClWlWlcsyL0WP5XST8m42EFyCmxn/s4032/IMG_4005.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrQxuTlfYfIfr-TL35RdpX88VuZb-8E3oNFDMhyofJhv9JOiLQgN2wbHvorHwfjMqkUYB2TP0m9ruiQNKDu2BmRSvCERho6mChWXaQxG66FW-ONKVL8FIB_bDIu8m47aBmXJHbB3F-17Eto1dXbTspSadClWlWlcsyL0WP5XST8m42EFyCmxn/w300-h400/IMG_4005.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With a cowboy (Dennis Mayo)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">In other unrelated news, there’s a man with a cat on a leash here at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPAC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CPAC</a>. He tells me the cat has an Instagram. <a href="https://t.co/zOLTjusDLu">pic.twitter.com/zOLTjusDLu</a></p>— Samantha-Jo Roth (@SamanthaJoRoth) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/1761535763936608476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1h1saHdh1r862wyAOtt0zupuHnjBAuTIKmr0OM-HNDDF1eIQK7tWICX9UJVMvh9XFXxIuL469gg_kAfEEh_DaRAuf649EdxY3dClacSw1NWaOOWHvFipEXMt8q6My9F1tLsq_RzD_fL-KRANPQIssiKEEs2IOthWTsvnGbqK6FZyoNjp1k3Rz/s4032/IMG_3833%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1h1saHdh1r862wyAOtt0zupuHnjBAuTIKmr0OM-HNDDF1eIQK7tWICX9UJVMvh9XFXxIuL469gg_kAfEEh_DaRAuf649EdxY3dClacSw1NWaOOWHvFipEXMt8q6My9F1tLsq_RzD_fL-KRANPQIssiKEEs2IOthWTsvnGbqK6FZyoNjp1k3Rz/w300-h400/IMG_3833%20(1).jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nayib Bukele, as he was about to shake my hand<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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Related: • <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/02/jixie-and-catman-at-cpac-2024.html" target="_blank">Jixie and the Catman at CPAC 2024</a></p><p>• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/03/jixie-juny-meets-conservatives-stars-at.html" target="_blank">Jixie Juny Is Only Cat or Household Pet to Attend Trump's Speech Finale</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-states-cities-overrun-migrants-funneled-millions-federal-covid-19-aid-support-illegals" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/02/384/216/Inslee-Murphy-Bowser_Migrants-COVID-funds.jpg?tl=1&ve=1" /></a>
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As it happens, <span><span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/c/thomas-catenacci">Thomas Catenacci</a> reported on </span></span> <span class="article-source"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/" target="_blank">Fox News</a></span> that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-states-cities-overrun-migrants-funneled-millions-federal-covid-19-aid-support-illegals" target="_blank">Money meant to help struggling Americans went to illegal immigrants instead</a> in Dem-led states and cities, meaning that the "Biden admin 'directly subsidized "undocumented" immigration under the guise of COVID-19 pandemic relief'." </p><p></p><blockquote><p>Democrat-run states and cities across the country that have been <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-rule-change-makes-thousands-migrants-eligible-cash-payments" target="_blank">inundated with illegal immigrants</a>
in recent months previously earmarked tens of millions of dollars in
COVID-19 financial assistance programs to support "undocumented
residents."</p><p class="speakable">According to a Fox News Digital
review of state and local programs, Democrat governors and mayors
earmarked at least $517 million for the programs, which generally
consisted of providing cash payments to individual illegal immigrants.
The funding reviewed by Fox News Digital was drawn from the American
Rescue Plan (ARP), the $1.9 trillion federal COVID-19 stimulus package
President Biden signed into law in March 2021.</p><p>"This means the
Biden Administration directly subsidized ‘undocumented’ immigration
under the guise of COVID-19 pandemic relief," a recent report <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/washington-state-diverted-340m-in-federal-covid-funds-to-immigrants-including-via-1000-checks" target="_blank">from the Economic Policy Innovation Center</a> stated, pointing to how federal ARP funds were diverted to illegal immigrants in Washington state. </p><p> … <span></span>Economic
Policy Innovation Center President and CEO Paul Winfree told Fox News
Digital this month that the Biden administration has been "actively
encouraging illegal immigration by using COVID money" from the recovery
fund.</p><p> … A notice issued as part of the [Illinois] program states that "no
questions will be asked in regards to citizenship or immigration status"
of applicants.</p><p>Meanwhile, both Chicago and Illinois broadly have
experienced a massive surge in migrants, straining taxpayer-funded
government services designed for citizens.</p></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p> </p>It is simply incredible the number of Americans willing to go forward with what can only be called a symbol of their deep hatred for their country, America, and for their fellow countrymen.Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-30128429120923742492024-03-01T04:22:00.003+00:002024-03-12T09:42:00.135+00:00Blaze Investigator Asked to Self-Surrender to the FBI over his January 6 Reporting<p><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigative-writer-steve-baker-says-fbi-wants-him-to-self-surrender-friday-in-dallas-over-his-jan-6-reporting" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=51583934&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C19%2C0%2C0" /></a>
<br />In the wake of his Blaze Media reporting on <a href="https://youtu.be/vmgk8y_PaHA?si=NoFBjiV_ji9_Uw-w" target="_blank">The Truth About January 6th</a>, such as <a href="https://youtu.be/VNnb5lqv9UM?si=JxYkrm04Q4znru7G" target="_blank">Proof of Perjury</a>, <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/u/stevebaker" target="_blank">Steve Baker</a> has now been <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigative-writer-steve-baker-says-fbi-wants-him-to-self-surrender-friday-in-dallas-over-his-jan-6-reporting" target="_blank">notified</a> that he is due to be <a href="https://twitter.com/TPC4USA/status/1762652438727627133" target="_blank">arrested</a> over his January 6 reporting or, to be more specific, that the FBI wants him to self-surrender to the agency in the morning in Dallas. </p><p>Hopefully, friends and allies (VIPs?) will be present to film and record the scenes…<br /><br />
<a href="https://instapundit.com/634376/" target="_blank">Instapundit</a>'s Ed Driscoll has more… (And many thanks to <a href="https://instapundit.com/636335/" target="_blank">Sarah Hoyt</a>…)
<br /><br />Just for the record, here are three incontrovertible truths about January 6 written over the past three years:</p><p>• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-january-6-protest-summarized-in-one.html" target="_blank">The January 6 Protest Summarized in One Single Sentence</a> <br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Please stand to attention for a one-single-sentence summary of the
January 6 protest, or the
January 6 riot, or the
January 6 mêlée, or the
January 6 controversy, or the
January 6 committee — or
whatever you choose to call it: <br /></p><p></p><blockquote>The critical date is not January 6; <br />the critical date is November 3.</blockquote>It is not January 6 (2021) — repeated (quite deliberately) <i>ad nauseam</i>
by the Democrats and the mainstream media alike (it is no accident that
that date is the name of the committee that could just as well have
been called, say, the Congress Breach Committee) — that is the significant date; no, the historical date is November 3 (2020). </blockquote><p>• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-central-absurd-inconsistency-of-ray.html" target="_blank">
The Central Absurd Inconsistency of the Ray Epps Conundrum Described in Two Sentences </a>
</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Well, Leftists, which is it? </p><p>EITHER the <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-january-6-protest-summarized-in-one.html" target="_blank">January 6</a>
protests were so wicked that the fiendish scoundrels who participated —
all of them (not least the ringleaders) — should be persecuted to the
full
extent of the law. </p><p>
OR ELSE, insofar as we accept that one of the protesters — and a ringleader, at that — is no more than a
"poor schmuck" who should be left alone (as the man most visible in urging the masses to march
on the capitol was <a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2757140662556/rep-jamie-raskin-unloads-on-gop-congressman-for-obsessing-over-poor-schmuck-ray-epps" target="_blank">described by one irate Democrat member</a>
of the Jan. 6 Committee), then all (or at least the majority) of the
other protesters should be left off the hook, exactly like Ray Epps, no
more and no less. </p></blockquote><p></p><p>
</p><p>• <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/lets_stop_using_the_words_trump_tried_to_overturn_the_2020_election_its_unprofessional_journalism.html" target="_blank">American Thinker</a>: Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"; It's Unprofessional Journalism </p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>It is easier for the world to accept <br />a simple lie than a complex truth</i><br />— Alexis de Tocqueville </p><p></p><blockquote>After almost three years — and as Democrats in <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-colorado-supreme-court/2023/12/20/id/1146629/" target="_blank">Colorado</a> and <a href="https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2023/12/28/another-state-removes-trump-from-ballot-n4925080" target="_blank">Maine</a> ban Donald Trump from the Centennial State's ballot — it is beyond time for the media to stop "reporting" that "Trump tried to
overturn a presidential election" and to quit referring matter-of-factly: to "the election that
Trump lost"; to "Trump's defeat" and his "baseless" "false claims"; and to "Trump is challenging the
results" of "Biden's victory (in, say, Georgia)" and to "swing the election in his favor". <br /><p> … This is not a neutral, objective, and non-partisan
view of of the facts of the 2020 election. Far from it. No. It is the
(self-serving) DNC version. It is akin to asking "When did you stop
beating your wife?" </p>Phrases like “baseless fraud claims”, “sham election investigations”, and “false claims of election fraud” come straight from <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-trump-indictment-criminalizes-political-dissent/" target="_blank">the Democratic Party</a>. At a minimum, readers and viewers are used to circumspect "<i>allegedly</i>s," to prudent "<i>reportedly</i>s," and to cautious "<i>accused of</i>s". What happened to them?</blockquote><p></p><div style="clear: both;"></div>
<span class="post-author vcard"></span>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-75847329069558912942024-02-25T15:35:00.016+00:002024-03-12T11:26:45.187+00:00Jixie and the Catman at CPAC 2024<p><a href="https://fr.news.yahoo.com/chez-partisans-trump-malaise-ukraine-013144743.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/_R8UuqWr9WXFjmnJ1LpTqg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/fr/afp.fr/ce1cc635622037fa2c9bcdd425ce70b7" /></a>
<br />I got <a href="https://x.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/1761535763936608476?s=20" target="_blank">tagged</a> the Catman at CPAC 2024 and for what I admit is a very good reason: since my 19-year-old cat needs daily medication, the only way that I could provide for Jixie Juny was to bring her over the Atlantic Ocean (the cat handled the 8 hour 10 minute flight quite well). </p><p>Having her as an "emotional support animal" (or as I have to admit that I cheekily called her — only to designated #CPAC members — an "emotional support pussy") lead to a bevy of <a href="https://www.alamy.com/jixie-juny-a-19-year-old-cat-and-her-owner-erik-svane-are-seen-at-the-conservative-political-action-conference-cpac-at-the-gaylord-national-resort-and-convention-center-in-national-harbor-md-feb-24-2024-francis-chungpolitico-via-ap-images-image597579271.html" target="_blank">photo shoots</a> (<a href="www.zuma.press/zpdtl.html?IMG=20240222_znp_g216_016.jpg&CNT=1" target="_blank">Zuma</a>'s <a href="http://www.zuma.press/zpdtl.html?IMG=20240222_znp_g216_016.jpg&CNT=1#" style="text-decoration: underline;">Dominic Gwinn</a> plus <a href="https://www.nurphoto.com/en/gallery/517089" target="_blank">NurPhoto</a>) and interviews at the Gaylord Convention Center, including with Sky News and <span class="byline"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/alex-miller/">Alex Miller</a></span> of the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/22/donald-trump-supporters-arent-worried-about-ex-pre/?fbclid=IwAR2oc9S4eOGQwCDPchceRhAjbL9jBSBceGRtvx8wWiBFZShhYrS6WLQkuJo" target="_blank">Washington Times</a>. </p><p></p><blockquote><p>Erik Svane flew nearly 9 hours from Paris with his cat to attend
CPAC. Mr. Svane, who is in his mid-50s, has worked on a conservative
political blog in France for two decades. He believed that the Supreme
Court would intervene on Mr. Trump’s behalf, and not allow “kangaroo
courts” to decide who runs for office and who doesn’t. </p>
<a name="pagebreak"></a>
<p>“I see that as show trials and can’t believe
this is happening in America,” Mr. Svane said. “I’m hoping it’ll wake
more people up to what a rotten system we have right now.”</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p>
<a href="http://www.zuma.press/srp.html?HEADLINE=CPAC+2024:+Crowd" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="440" src="http://www.zuma.press/images/OMICRON2/IMAGES568/20240222_znp_g216_016.pre?photog=Dominic+Gwinn/ZUMA+Press+Wire" /></a> </p>
Internationally, a couple of<span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0"> French reporters were surprised to hear a CPAC attendee speak <i>le français</i>. Paul Nolp </span>and Mandel Ngan of <a href="https://www.laprovence.com/article/france-monde/37678403539965/chez-les-partisans-de-trump-le-malaise-ukraine" target="_blank">La Provence</a> and <a href="https://fr.news.yahoo.com/chez-partisans-trump-malaise-ukraine-013144743.html" target="_blank">AFP</a> (reproduced by <a href="https://www.la-croix.com/chez-les-partisans-de-trump-le-malaise-ukraine-20240225" target="_blank">La Croix</a>, <a href="https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/actualite/monde/chez-les-partisans-de-trump-le-malaise-ukraine/ar-BB1iPVAQ" target="_blank">MSN</a>, <a href="https://information.tv5monde.com/international/chez-les-partisans-de-trump-le-malaise-ukraine-2711519" target="_blank">TV5</a>, and <a href="https://www.boursorama.com/actualite-economique/actualites/chez-les-partisans-de-trump-le-malaise-ukraine-808b438998f8687e7afb690e1c7ba1ff" target="_blank">Boursorama</a>, merci à Aléric Flair). <br /><p>
<span class="uppercase bold"></span></p><div class="body-text"><p></p></div><blockquote><div class="body-text"><p>
Erik
Svane, un Américain qui vit à Paris venu spécialement depuis la
capitale pour voir Donald Trump, tranche : "Il faut continuer à aider
l’Ukraine mais le problème c’est que Joe Biden et les démocrates
n’expliquent jamais rien. Ils disent simplement +il faut envoyer de
l’argent+. Alors que si on explique pourquoi, ce serait plus simple."</p></div><div class="body-text"><p>Sur
son épaule trône son chat, baptisé "Jixie Juny", qui fait l’attraction
dans les couloirs de la convention. "Un vrai trumpiste", rigole le
Parisien d’adoption. "Mais lui, il n’aura pas le droit de voter" le 5
novembre pour élire le prochain président.</p></div></blockquote><div class="body-text"><p></p></div><p>
Update: I have been searching the internet for more photos/videos. If
any reader finds any others, I wouldn't mind getting the hyperlinks… (Thanks for <a href="https://instapundit.com/636331/" target="_blank">the Instalink</a>, fellow cat-lover…)</p><p>
Related: • <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/03/jixie-juny-meets-conservatives-stars-at.html" target="_blank">Jixie Juny Is Only Cat or Household Pet to Attend Trump's Speech Finale</a> </p><p>• CPAC: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/03/cpac-phoenix-airport-shocker-vast.html" target="_blank">Phoenix Airport Shocker — Vast Number of Illegal Immigrants Being Outfitted for Plane Trip</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.nurphoto.com/en/gallery/517089" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://www.nurphoto.com/en/photo/11021565/picture/pictland" /></a> </p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-48364231794406473832024-02-19T15:29:00.008+00:002024-02-21T17:51:45.163+00:00How Trump's Lawyer Should Have Reacted to Fani Willis's Eruption, "I’m not going to emasculate a black man!"<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5-explosive-moments-fani-willis-heated-testimony-in-trump-fulton-county-case-if-this-happens-again" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/02/1862/1046/GettyImages-2006233302-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" /></a>
<br />At one point, right after trying to pull heart strings by stating that Nathan Wade "had a form of cancer" (so "that makes your allegations somewhat ridiculous"), <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5-explosive-moments-fani-willis-heated-testimony-in-trump-fulton-county-case-if-this-happens-again" target="_blank">Fani Willis</a> erupted, "I’m not going to emasculate a black man!" </p><p>At another point in the trial, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5-explosive-moments-fani-willis-heated-testimony-in-trump-fulton-county-case-if-this-happens-again" target="_blank">Fani Willis</a> went ballistic again: "These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020!" When Judge Scott McAfee stated that "Your interests are opposed to" those of Trump lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, the Fulton County District Attorney retorted that "Ms. Merchant's interests are contrary to democracy, your Honor, not to mine," Willis responded.</p><p>In the second case, one of the Trump lawyers should have interjected, </p><p></p><blockquote>"How about Stacy Abrams? Are you going to defend democracy by indicting her for challenging the results of the governor's race?"</blockquote>More importantly, regarding the first case, the dialogue went as follows:<p></p><p></p><blockquote>• Steve Sadow (ironical): "I do appreciate the characterization"<br />• <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5-explosive-moments-fani-willis-heated-testimony-in-trump-fulton-county-case-if-this-happens-again" target="_blank">Fani Willis</a>: "I’m not going to emasculate a black man, but I, I'm just telling you that—<br />• Steve Sadow: "I'm sorry, what?!"<br />• <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5-explosive-moments-fani-willis-heated-testimony-in-trump-fulton-county-case-if-this-happens-again" target="_blank">Fani Willis</a>: "I’m not going to <i>emasculate</i> [pause for effect] a black man! Did you understand that?!” </blockquote><p></p><p>The only thing that Donald Trump's other lawyer should have responded at that point is this: </p><p></p><blockquote>"Are we to understand that you are willing (perhaps even eager) to emasculate a <i>white</i> man?" </blockquote><p></p><p>Or, rather, a Republican (irrespective of sex and skin color). In fact, it would have been even better had Donald Trump in person been in the Georgia courthouse and interrupted the proceedings with his deadpan <i>sotto voce</i> deliverance, "It's only white men that she likes to emasculate…" </p><p>Oh, if Trump had responded that way, we would have seen the Fulton County District Attorney go totally berserk! (Wouldn't have been worth the rebuke — even an ouster? — that Trump would have gotten for his interruption?)<br /></p>
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<a href="https://www.cartoonsforus.com/this-race-is-rigged/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://www.cartoonsforus.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gv021924dAPC-scaled.jpg" /></a>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-69246375186451031422024-02-08T15:30:00.010+00:002024-02-08T20:31:52.679+00:00The Genocide Charge Against Israel: What Is the Difference Between War and Genocide in the First Place?<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opinion/israel-hamas-war-genocide.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/18/multimedia/16stephens-jzfm/16stephens-jzfm-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" /></a>
<blockquote>In recent decades, as many as three million people <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/20/world/korean-famine-toll-more-than-2-million.html" title="">perished</a> in a famine in North Korea that was mainly government-induced </blockquote><p></p><p>writes <span class="byline-prefix"></span><span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/bret-stephens">Bret Stephens</a></span> in a New York Times column entitled <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opinion/israel-hamas-war-genocide.html" target="_blank">The Genocide Charge Against Israel Is a Moral Obscenity</a>:
</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were gassed, bombed, starved or tortured to death by the Assad regime, and <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/12th-anniversary-popular-uprising-total-230224-civilians-documented-dead-including-15275-who-died-due-torture-154871-arrested-andor-forcibly-disappeared-and-roughly-14-million-syrians-displaced" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">an estimated 14 million</a> were forced to flee their homes. China has <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-muslims-repression-genocide-human-rights#:~:text=More%20than%20a%20million%20Muslims,the%20government's%20crackdown%20on%20Uyghurs.&text=About%20eleven%20million%20Uyghurs%E2%80%94a,the%20northwestern%20region%20of%20Xinjiang." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">put more than a million</a>
Uyghurs through gulag-like re-education camps in a thinly veiled
attempt to suppress and erase their religious and cultural identity.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><b>But
North Korea, Syria and China have never been charged with genocide at
the International Court of Justice. Israel has.</b> How curious. And how
obscene.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It’s obscene because it
politicizes our understanding of genocide, fatally eroding the moral
power of the term. The war between Israel and Hamas is terrible — as is
every war. But <b>if this is genocide, what word do we have for the killing
fields in Cambodia, Stalin’s <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Holodomor</a> in Ukraine, the Holocaust itself?</b></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Words that come to mean much more than originally intended eventually come to mean almost nothing at all — a victory for future <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191828836.001.0001/acref-9780191828836-e-152" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">génocidaires</a> who’d like the world to think there’s no moral or legal difference between one kind of killing and another.</p><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside><div><div class="css-8atqhb"></div></div><p><b>It’s obscene because it perverts the definition of genocide</b>, which <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">is precise</a>: “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” </p><p> … If Israel were trying to commit genocide,
it wouldn’t be putting its soldiers at risk or allowing humanitarian
relief to arrive from Egypt or withdrawing many of its forces from Gaza.
It would simply be killing Palestinians everywhere, in vastly greater
numbers, as Germans killed Jews or Hutus killed Tutsis.</p><div></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It’s obscene because it puts the wrong party in the dock. Hamas is a genocidal organization by conviction and design. Its <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/hamas-covenant-israel-attack-war-genocide/675602/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">founding charter calls for Israel to be “obliterated</a>”
and for Muslims to kill Jews as they “hide behind stones and trees.” On
Oct. 7, Hamas murdered, mutilated, tortured, incinerated, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html" title="">raped</a>
or kidnapped everyone it could. Had it not been stopped it would not
have stopped. One of its leaders has since vowed to do it “<a class="css-yywogo" href="https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1719662664090075199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1719662664090075199%7Ctwgr%5E96a8db2b35382851e20b047863937390c2b77fa8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fhamas-official-says-group-aims-to-repeat-oct-7-onslaught-many-times-to-destroy-israel%2F" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">a second, a third, a fourth</a>” time.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It’s
Hamas, not Israel, that started the war, keeps it going, and would
resume it the moment it has the arsenal and the opportunity.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It’s
obscene because it validates Hamas’s illegal and barbaric strategy of
hiding between, behind and beneath Palestinian civilians. From the
beginning of the war, Hamas has had a double aim: to kill as many Jews
as possible, and to incur Palestinian fatalities to gain international
sympathy and diplomatic leverage.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"> … It’s obscene because it’s historically
hypocritical. The United States, Britain and other allied nations killed
a staggering number of German and Japanese civilians on the path to
defeating the regimes that had started World War II — often known as the
Good War. Events such as the bombings of Dresden or Tokyo, to say
nothing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were tragic and far more
indiscriminate than anything Israel stands accused of doing. But no
serious person holds Franklin Roosevelt to be on a moral par with Adolf
Hitler. What the Allies did were acts of war in the service of a lasting
peace, not genocide in the service of a fanatical aim.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><b>The difference? In war, the killing ends when one side stops fighting. In a genocide, that’s when the killing begins</b>.</p></blockquote><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"> </p><p>
<b>Related</b> — To Peacenik Protesters Everywhere (Pro-Palestinian or Other): <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/10/to-peacenik-protesters-everywhere-pro.html" target="_blank">The People that Hamas Slaughtered Mercilessly at Israel's Rave — They Are YOU!</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/opinion/october-7-jews-hamas.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/12/21/multimedia/19stephens-pqtb/19stephens-pqtb-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" /></a> <span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/bret-stephens"><br />Bret Stephens</a></span> has also penned <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/opinion/unrwa-un-palestine-agency.html" target="_blank">Abolish the U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency</a> <br />and, on a more personal note, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/opinion/october-7-jews-hamas.html" target="_blank">Why I Can’t Stop Writing About Oct. 7</a>.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/opinion/unrwa-un-palestine-agency.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/01/multimedia/30stephens2-zhvm/30stephens2-zhvm-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" /></a> </p>
Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-53703134015123011182024-02-05T09:29:00.007+00:002024-02-07T12:37:57.128+00:00Democrats Get Their Political Playbook From Lenin, Communism's First Dictator and Mass Murderer<p><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/31/hart-vladimir-lenin-soviet-union-communism/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-487643335-scaled-e1706715553553.jpg" /></a>
<br />As <a class="block text-black" href="https://dailycaller.com/author/rhart" title="View More Articles By Ron Hart">Ron Hart</a> points out (spasibo to Tovarich <a href="https://instapundit.com/629734/" target="_blank">Glenn Reynolds</a>), <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/31/hart-vladimir-lenin-soviet-union-communism/" target="_blank">Democrats Got Their Political Playbook From Lenin</a>: <br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you have bad policies and cannot
sustain your authority based on quantifiable results, you do what
Democrats have done these last few years: you weaponize the government against your enemies. <br /></span></p> <span style="font-weight: 400;">It
is not a novel construct. In 1918 the oppressive Soviet leader Vladimir
Lenin (the 100th anniversary of whose death was on Jan. 21) laid out his
plan to keep the communists in power with his infamous “Hanging Order.”
This was an order he sent to his Bolshevik leaders in his government
(his Deep State) …</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><p class="meta">
<span class="byline author vcard">
The comparison between Lenin's four or five “Hanging Order” points and the modus operandi of America's </span><span class="byline author vcard">Democrat Party </span><span class="byline author vcard"> is a must-read. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Number 1. “Hang in full view of the
people,” resembles the multiple, frivolous impeachment attempts against
Trump by Democrats. You would have to surrender your reason to Woke-DNC
dogma not to conclude that the Deep Blue “Deep Staters” are not
targeting Trump. A 76-year-old man, never arrested, rings up 90 felonies
these past 12 months as he runs against a sitting president. Really?
Maybe he’s just a late bloomer?</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> … Number 2.
“Publish their names.” Clearly the “doxing and swatting” of GOP leaders,
from Lois Lerner to the IRS agent who turned over the tax returns of
Donald Trump and Elon Musk to The New York Times</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> fit this category. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Number
3. “Seize their grain.” It is what NY Attorney General Letitia James is
doing to Trump by using some novel legal theory which has neither
victim nor crime to take Trump’s properties away from him. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Number 4. “Designate Hostages — in a
fashion people see and tremble.” If this is not the essence of the vast
prosecutorial overreaction to Jan. 6, t</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hen
just arrest me. A few hundred men who looked like the cast of Duck
Dynasty on a confusing day walked through our Capitol (“The People’s
House”) and monkeyed with Nancy Pelosi’s podium. Now many of them sit in
solitary confinement, perhaps for up to 20 years. For trespassing. </span></p></blockquote><p></p><p class="meta"><a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/21/remembering-lenin-the-first-great-communist-mass-murderer/" target="_blank"></a><span class="byline author vcard"><a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/21/remembering-lenin-the-first-great-communist-mass-murderer/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="200" src="https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lenin-768x582.jpg" /></a>
</span></p><p class="meta"><span class="byline author vcard"><a class="author url fn" href="https://reason.com/people/ilya-somin/" rel="author" title="Posts by Ilya Somin">Ilya Somin</a></span> goes on to pen <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/21/remembering-lenin-the-first-great-communist-mass-murderer/" target="_blank">Remembering Lenin—the First Great Communist Mass Murderer</a>
(spasibo to Comrade <a href="https://instapundit.com/628132/" target="_blank">Ed Driscoll</a>) in the form of a quiz:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Let's take a little history quiz. Which of the following
features of the Soviet state were first introduced under Lenin, and
which by Stalin:</p> <p>1. The Gulag system of slave labor camps</p> <p>2. The Cheka (secret police agency eventually known as the KGB)</p> <p>3. Collectivization of agriculture leading to mass famines</p> <p>4. Mass executions with little or no due process</p> <div class="primis-video-ad freestar-incontent-ad"><div id="FreeStarVideoAdContainer"><div id="freestar-video-parent"><div id="freestar-video-child"></div></div></div></div><p>5. A one-party state, with bans on all opposition parties (including socialist ones)</p> <p>6. Suppression of freedom of speech and religion</p> <p>7. Confiscation of private businesses, including even small businesses</p> <p>8. Invading other nations in order to spread communism there</p> <p>9. State control of the media for purposes of promoting regime propaganda, and preventing distribution of opposition speech</p><p>If you answered Lenin, you were correct in every case! And virtually
every one of these measures was also supported by Trotsky, Bukharin, and
other Bolshevik leaders whom some Western leftists like to trumpet as
potentially superior alternatives to Stalin. Had Trotsky rather than
Stalin come to power after Lenin's death, he <a href="https://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_09-2009_08_15.shtml#1250038247">would have happily continued all of the above, and in some cases doubled down on it</a>.</p></blockquote><p>
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12987775/Why-does-gullible-Left-lionise-Lenin-benign-intellectual-acceptable-face-Communism-ruthlessly-murdered-opponents-thousands-starved-two-million-Russians-death-wrote-playbook-Stalin.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/21/04/80266195-12987775-Vladimir_Lenin_on_a_Soviet_propaganda_poster_right_and_left_with-a-11_1705811248412.jpg" /></a>
<br />Tovarich <a href="https://instapundit.com/627901/" target="_blank">Ed Driscoll</a> goes on to link to his post on Tom Wolfe's <a href="https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/02/15/the-samizdat-remains-the-same-n253477" target="_blank">Intelligent Co-Ed’s Guide to America</a> from 1976:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>The publication of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813332893?ie=UTF8&tag=eddriscollcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0813332893">The Gulag Archipelago</a> </i>in
1973, however, was a wholly unexpected blow. No one was ready for the
obscene horror and grotesque scale of what Solzhenitsyn called “Our
Sewage Disposal System”—in which <i>tens of millions </i>were shipped
in boxcars to concentration camps all over the country, in which tens
of millions died, in which entire races and national groups were
liquidated, insofar as they had existed in the Soviet Union. Moreover,
said Solzhenitsyn, the system had not begun with Stalin but with Lenin,
who had immediately exterminated non-Bolshevik opponents of the old
regime and especially the student factions. It was impossible any longer
to distinguish the Communist liquidation apparatus from the Nazi.</p>
<p>Yet Solzhenitsyn went still further. He said that not only Stalinism,
not only Leninism, not only Communism — but socialism itself led to the
concentration camps; and not only socialism, but Marxism; and not only
Marxism but any ideology that sought to reorganize morality on an <i>a priori </i>basis.
Sadder still, it was impossible to say that Soviet socialism was not
“real socialism.” On the contrary — it was socialism done by experts!</p><p> … Solzhenitsyn’s tour of the United States in 1975 was like an enormous funeral procession that no one wanted to see. … And the literary world in general ignored him completely. <br /></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p>
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12987775/Why-does-gullible-Left-lionise-Lenin-benign-intellectual-acceptable-face-Communism-ruthlessly-murdered-opponents-thousands-starved-two-million-Russians-death-wrote-playbook-Stalin.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/21/04/80266305-12987775-image-a-13_1705811248414.jpg" /></a>
<br />From there, Comrade <a href="https://instapundit.com/627901/" target="_blank">Instapunditski</a> links to the Daily Mail's <a class="author" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Tony+Rennell">Tony Rennell</a> asking
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12987775/Why-does-gullible-Left-lionise-Lenin-benign-intellectual-acceptable-face-Communism-ruthlessly-murdered-opponents-thousands-starved-two-million-Russians-death-wrote-playbook-Stalin.html" target="_blank">“Why
does the gullible Left still lionize Lenin as a benign intellectual and
the acceptable face of Communism when he ruthlessly murdered his
opponents in their thousands, starved two million Russians to death and
wrote the playbook for Stalin?”</a> </p><p></p><blockquote>There are those who will point to [Lenin’s] successor, <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="class" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12856747/Smoke-mirrors-world-leaders-Vladimir-Putin-Joseph-Stalin-Saddam-Hussein-body-doubles-bid-avoid-danger-confuse-enemy-portray-image-good-health.html" rel="noopener" target="_self">Stalin</a></span>,
as the real devil in Russia’s 20th Century history, and there is no
doubt that the repression, the violence, show trials, gulags and
butchery of that monster’s 30 years as the dictator of the Soviet Union
far exceeded Lenin’s – nastier, more brutal, insanely contemptuous of
human life, totally beyond rational understanding. In his paranoia, he
murdered friend and foe alike. And yet the truth – however much it may
offend those who regard Lenin’s as the acceptable face of Communism – is
that Stalin was Lenin’s protege and took his lead from him.</blockquote>
<a href="https://thespectator.com/topic/why-isnt-lenin-condemned-hitler/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://thespectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/LENIN.jpg" /></a>
<br />Finally, Tovarich <a href="https://instapundit.com/627901/" target="_blank">Ed Driscoll</a> takes it a step further by linking to <a href="https://thespectator.com/author/james-bartholomew/" target="_self">James Bartholomew</a>'s <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/a_cover_from_germanys_der_spiegel_exposes_the_european_leftists_dishonesty.html" target="_blank">Why Isn’t Lenin As Condemned As Hitler?</a>
<p></p><blockquote><p>It is a curious phenomenon that Lenin is acceptable and even approved of
whereas Hitler is beyond the pale. It is not exactly a secret that
Lenin started off seventy years of communist rule in Russia which
included two major famines, the Red Terror, the Great Terror and
continuing poverty. The death toll of Soviet communism was in the order
of twenty million. So how do people manage to think favorably of him?</p><p> … the Bolsheviks lost [the 1917 elections to the constituent assembly]. But Lenin did not care. Rather like Hitler,
whose party incidentally got a higher percentage of the vote in Germany
than the Bolsheviks did in Russia, he closed the constituent assembly
and deployed armed soldiers to prevent anyone reopening it. The lie
Lenin fans choose to believe is that if only Lenin had lived, communist
rule would have succeeded. Lenin’s replacement by Stalin ruined it all.
</p><p>But Lenin did all the things that Stalin did. Lenin began government
control of agriculture, setting a fixed price that the government would
pay for corn and other grains. The price was absurdly low because of the
high rate of inflation. A shortage of food ensued. Lenin then
requisitioned grain from peasants at gunpoint. These disastrous policies
contributed heavily to death by starvation of at least three million
people in 1920-21. Lenin implicitly recognized the part his policies had
played by reversing them in 1921.</p><p> … Lenin created the Cheka, the Soviet secret police. His on-the-record
instructions to kill include this written order following a revolt in
Penza province: “Hang (absolutely hang, in full view of the people) no
fewer than 100 known <i>kulaks</i> [peasants owning a little land], filthy rich men, bloodsuckers.” Lenin did not engage in class war. He engaged in class murder.</p><p></p><p>Lenin set up the concentration camps which eventually became the
Gulag. He issued a decree in 1918 stating that it was “imperative to
safeguard the Soviet Republic from class enemies by isolating them in
concentration camps.” Every provincial city was ordered to create one
and by the end of 1920 there were 107 of them. Lenin authorized the use
of poison gas in 1921 to kill peasants in the Tambov uprising.
Vyacheslav Molotov, a senior Soviet politician under both Lenin and
Stalin, remarked that both leaders were “hard men… harsh and stern. But
without a doubt Lenin was harsher.”</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">
<p>Lenin did not engage in class war. He engaged in class murder</p>
</blockquote>
Again and again the records show Lenin urging his colleagues to be
more ruthless and to kill. Against all this, the defense is sometimes:
“Well it was a time of civil war, so extreme measures were necessary.”
But why was there a civil war? Only because Lenin had mounted a coup
that was contrary to the expressed views of the Russian people.
Supporters of Lenin argue that he did some wonderful things. He issued a
decree that women should have equal rights in 1917. But it was the
provisional government that had already given women the vote, and it is
not as if the Soviet Union was unique in conferring increasing rights to
women during the 20th century. It was happening throughout Europe.</blockquote><p>
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12987775/Why-does-gullible-Left-lionise-Lenin-benign-intellectual-acceptable-face-Communism-ruthlessly-murdered-opponents-thousands-starved-two-million-Russians-death-wrote-playbook-Stalin.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/21/04/80266327-12987775-Joseph_Stalin_addresses_voters_of_the_Stalin_election_district_i-a-14_1705811248414.jpg" /></a>
<br />Related: <span data-offset-key="c4nu4-2-0"><span data-text="true">• </span></span><a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-army-during-ww-ii-extolled-by.html" target="_blank">Some Mind-Boggling Revelations About Stalin, World War II, and a Century of Russian History</a><span data-offset-key="c4nu4-2-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><br />• For the first two years of World War II, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were allies; <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/05/for-first-two-years-of-world-war-ii.html" target="_blank">Hitler and Stalin secretly planned and jointly began the war that inflicted such horror and destruction</a>.</p><p>If more is needed about <span><span>Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov,</span></span> look at this blog's excerpts from <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+johnson" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a>'s <a href="https://amzn.to/3ke3EZQ"><i>Modern Times (A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s)</i></a> dealing with the dictator of Germany: </p><p>• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/hitler-remained-to-end-socialist-he-was.html" target="_blank">"Hitler remained to the end a socialist"; the Führer "was totally irreligious and" wanted to hang the Pope in St Peter's Square</a>, </p><p>The post, which has been updated, also has a number of revelations about the dictator of Russia, mainly from chapters 1 and 2 of the <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+johnson" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a> book… Here are three of those excerpts:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p> … [When] Lenin had his first stroke … <b>his work was
already complete. He had systematically constructed, in all its
essentials, the most carefully engineered apparatus of state tyranny the
world had ever seen</b>. In the old world, personal autocracies,
except perhaps for brief periods, had been limited, or at least
qualified, by other forces in society: a church, an aristocracy, an
urban bourgeoisie, ancient charters and courts and assemblies. And
there was, too, the notion of an external, restraining force, in the
idea of a Deity, or Natural Law, or some absolute system of morality. <b>Lenin's new despotic utopia had no such counterweights or inhibitions</b>.
Church, aristocracy, bourgeoisie had all been swept away. Everything
that was left was owned or controlled by the state. All rights
whatsoever were vested in the state. And, within that state, enormous
and ever-growing as it was, every single filament of power could be
traced back to the hands of a minute group of men — ultimately to one man <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>… Lenin hated
the essence of democracy, and he regarded its forms merely as a means to
legitimize violence and oppression … an unrestricted license for terror<br /></p><p> … Lenin's legacy was a solidly built police state surrounded by economic ruins</p></blockquote><p>Victor Davis Hanson …<span> says</span> that <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/finally_destruction_for_destructions_sake.html" target="_blank"><span>nihilism is the root of modern leftism</span></a>, writes <a data-author="J. Robert Smith" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/j_robert_smith/">J. Robert Smith</a> (spasibo to Comrade <a href="https://instapundit.com/623293/" target="_blank">Ed Driscoll</a>).</p><p><span></span></p><blockquote><p><span>Nihilism is a school of thought –
often expressed in political and social terms – holding that traditional
values are worthless and empty due to the meaninglessness of existence.
The sole stance of nihilism is defiance; the sole goal is the
destruction of all that stands.</span><br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span> … Marxism, throughout its history, has
been a refuge for the resentful, for those who nurse grudges, for those
who project their hurts, failures, and unfairness done them -- real or
imagined -- on the societies in which they live and on others: rich men
and the bourgeoisie earlier and now Whites, who are accused of inherent
racism. And to a slightly lesser degree, Asians resented for their
successes, academically and professionally. Jews are back in vogue as </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/antisemitism-has-moved-from-the-right-to-the-left-in-the-us-and-falls-back-on-long-standing-stereotypes-215760">hate targets</a><span>, too. Leftists need villains to justify ruin.</span> <br /></p><p></p><p>[Like Hitler,] Lenin loathed Christianity. He loathed traditional Russian society.
His animus ventured well beyond a reaction to perceived systemic
unfairness toward Russia’s peasantry. Unlike Scrooge, but like a good
Marxist, Lenin chose not to exploit existing society but to destroy it
-- or he began the process; Stalin eagerly continued the project.
Destruction was a prerequisite to a new, bright communist society, went
the rationale.</p><p><span>In practice,
Russian society became a countrywide gulag. Tens of millions died. The
human spirit was trampled. Bleakness was unremitting. Lenin, an
unwitting existentialist, and his spawn imposed a horrid meaning on
their meaningless world: totalitarianism and the cruel iron boot that
came with it. In fact, they chose evil.</span></p></blockquote><p><span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12987775/Why-does-gullible-Left-lionise-Lenin-benign-intellectual-acceptable-face-Communism-ruthlessly-murdered-opponents-thousands-starved-two-million-Russians-death-wrote-playbook-Stalin.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="700" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/21/01/80266863-12987775-image-a-14_1705799953483.jpg" /></a></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-40162134825485567522024-01-29T23:54:00.007+00:002024-01-30T11:43:11.109+00:00When the transnational left regurgitates that Trump threatens “democracy,” they are not speaking of true democracy, but of “their own democracy”, i.e., their dictatorship<p>
<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/a_cover_from_germanys_der_spiegel_exposes_the_european_leftists_dishonesty.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-01/251716_5_.jpg" /></a>
<br /></p><blockquote>Germany’s Der Spiegel is a shameful example of European leftism</blockquote><p></p><p>writes <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Evelyne Joslain</a> at the
<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/a_cover_from_germanys_der_spiegel_exposes_the_european_leftists_dishonesty.html" target="_blank">American Thinker</a> (thanks for <a href="https://instapundit.com/629497/" target="_blank">the Instalink</a>, Sarah).<br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>As early as February 2017, after Trump had just been inaugurated, the
magazine’s editorial team published an infamous cover showing the
Republican brandishing the severed head of the Statue of Liberty,
dripping with blood, to make it clear that Trump was going to guillotine
the US democracy, no less.
</p><p><a href="https://www.frontpages.com/der-spiegel/">On January 20, 2024</a>,
the rag was at it again! Trump has not yet been re-elected, but the
narrative of the transnational left is that the head of the MAGA
movement is going to be a dictator. On the cover, there’s a photograph
of a martial, presidential Trump, who is respectfully saluting the
troops (a magnificent Trump, actually). On the lower left, though, is
this enormous wart for a title: “<b>DIKTATOR</b> TRUMP! Ein Szenario” (“Dictator Trump! A Scenario”).</p> … When the transnational left, running the whole gamut from the extremely
wealthy elites with undue powers down to pathetic journalists in search
of fame, regurgitates to us ad nauseam that Trump threatens “democracy,”
as do all those who dare to have a skeptical opinion of the imposed
narrative, we must understand that they are not speaking of true
democracy, where the most diverse opinions can be expressed, but of
“their own democracy.” That is to say, they fear the very opposite;
namely, preserving their own interests through dictatorship. It’s just
that they lack the courage to name the goals for what they are while
having the nerve to accuse their opponents of their sins.</blockquote>
Related — Also at <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/01/american-thinker-lets-stop-using-words.html" target="_blank">The American Thinker</a>: <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/lets_stop_using_the_words_trump_tried_to_overturn_the_2020_election_its_unprofessional_journalism.html" target="_blank">Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"</a>; It's Unprofessional JournalismErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-25990271788428030622024-01-14T21:19:00.010+00:002024-01-15T18:47:01.903+00:00Denmark: "Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II Has Abdicated, Long Live His Majesty King Frederik X"<p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12961881/Emotional-Crown-Prince-Frederik-wipes-away-tears-appears-balcony-Christiansborg-Palace-Prime-Minister-proclaims-King.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/14/14/79994673-12961881-image-m-48_1705243315137.jpg" /></a>
<br />The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12961881/Emotional-Crown-Prince-Frederik-wipes-away-tears-appears-balcony-Christiansborg-Palace-Prime-Minister-proclaims-King.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a> presents over 70 photgraphs and videos of the crowning in Denmark, as Queen Margrethe II abdicates in Copenhagen's Christianborg Castle, and a visibly emotional Crown Prince Frederik Becomes King Frederik X.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12961881/Emotional-Crown-Prince-Frederik-wipes-away-tears-appears-balcony-Christiansborg-Palace-Prime-Minister-proclaims-King.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/14/14/79994791-12961881-image-a-42_1705242989159.jpg" /></a>
<br />Ten years ago, together with comic artist Thierry Capezzone at the Cobolt publishing house, I authored <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-daisy-graphic-novel-is-noticed-by.html" target="_blank">a graphic novel biography</a> of Margrethe's early years as a princess.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12961881/Emotional-Crown-Prince-Frederik-wipes-away-tears-appears-balcony-Christiansborg-Palace-Prime-Minister-proclaims-King.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/14/14/79994681-12961881-image-a-41_1705242943627.jpg" /></a>
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12961881/Emotional-Crown-Prince-Frederik-wipes-away-tears-appears-balcony-Christiansborg-Palace-Prime-Minister-proclaims-King.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/14/13/79993901-12961749-image-a-33_1705240563293.jpg" /></a>
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12961881/Emotional-Crown-Prince-Frederik-wipes-away-tears-appears-balcony-Christiansborg-Palace-Prime-Minister-proclaims-King.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/14/07/79927979-12960737-image-a-1_1705218684596.jpg" /></a>
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</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12961881/Emotional-Crown-Prince-Frederik-wipes-away-tears-appears-balcony-Christiansborg-Palace-Prime-Minister-proclaims-King.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="800" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/14/16/79997321-12961881-image-a-76_1705250125609.jpg" /></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFZDZ4vbuj0d8sa18E5GTaxxicb7scoPXA8e6qGiMQUz_lBymBC366tMgSWdV8N53Svju6AM8ktzV0vV2HOIoKrN-RYgCrJYsRV9aSSWlvFXmp3rQYSURWlnqCTfi9l0To5trGJyUHygF6iCbj4FZKm-lEcumcEKq9y79Qri9f8yIYgmCDgb2c/s1598/2024-01-03_Villabyerne_-_Uge_01%20copy.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="1598" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFZDZ4vbuj0d8sa18E5GTaxxicb7scoPXA8e6qGiMQUz_lBymBC366tMgSWdV8N53Svju6AM8ktzV0vV2HOIoKrN-RYgCrJYsRV9aSSWlvFXmp3rQYSURWlnqCTfi9l0To5trGJyUHygF6iCbj4FZKm-lEcumcEKq9y79Qri9f8yIYgmCDgb2c/w640-h504/2024-01-03_Villabyerne_-_Uge_01%20copy.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<a href="https://sjaellandskemedierugeaviser.e-pages.pub/titles/villabyerne/327/publications/2083881072/pages/10/articles/1960152/10/2" target="_blank">Frederik kunne være blevet en Christian</a>" <br />af Erik Svane <br /><a href="https://sjaellandskemedierugeaviser.e-pages.pub/titles/villabyerne/327/publications/2083881072/pages/10" target="_blank">Villabyerne</a> vol 119 # 1, <br />3. januar 2024 s 10 <br />
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<a href="https://www.visitdenmark.fr/quoi-faire/les-lieux-les-plus-importants-royale" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://www.visitdenmark.fr/sites/visitdenmark.com/files/styles/map_list/public/2020-07/Fredensborg%20Palace%20-%20Garden%20-%20North%20-%20Zealand.jpg" /></a> En outre, <a href="https://www.visitdenmark.fr/" target="_blank">Visit Denmark</a> présente les <a href="https://www.visitdenmark.fr/quoi-faire/les-lieux-les-plus-importants-royale" target="_blank">lieux les plus importants et emblématiques de la famille royale danoise</a></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-43342985792029661472024-01-06T15:45:00.012+00:002024-01-15T20:30:55.647+00:00Insurrection and Treason: What Did The Words of the 14th Amendment Mean in the 1860s? + FREE JANUARY 6 DOCUMENTARY Today Only<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://madhulikaliddle.com/2016/11/18/gone-with-the-wind-1939/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/pic11.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are these dozens of Capitol policemen lying dead or wounded <br />in the aftermath of the January 6th "insurrection", <br />or is it a scene from a Victor Fleming film?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The way the January 6 protests at the Capitol have been described by the usual <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-era-of-drama-queens-every-crisis-is.html">Drama Queens</a>, you would think that you are in Georgia when Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler are galloping through the flames devouring Atlanta and that, in the aftermath, dozens of Capitol policemen are lying dead or wounded like in the harrowing outdoors hospital scene of <i>Gone with the Wind</i>. </p><p>As the Supreme Court agrees to decide on the issue of Donald Trump's eligibility on a state's ballot,
a central question arises: What did insurrection and treason mean to
the authors of the 14th Amendment as well as to the rest of the population, i.e., in the 1860s? <br /></p><p><i><b>Before you read read any further, here is an aside: know that until the end of the day you can watch Epoch's documentary on January 6th, <a href="https://www.jan6realstory.com/part1/?twclid=2-44wh9rh0g8vyrlplkdv50p3o3&utm_medium=DigitalMkt&utm_source=Twitter&utm_term=Jan6P2&utm_content=2023-12-27_Jan6P2_J6" target="_blank">The Real Story of Jan. 6</a>, for free <a href="https://www.jan6realstory.com/part1/?twclid=2-44wh9rh0g8vyrlplkdv50p3o3&utm_medium=DigitalMkt&utm_source=Twitter&utm_term=Jan6P2&utm_content=2023-12-27_Jan6P2_J6" target="_blank">at the Epoch Times</a></b></i> (merci à <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+reen" target="_blank">Paul Reen</a>). </p><p><b>Related</b>: • <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-january-6-protest-summarized-in-one.html" target="_blank">The January 6 Protest Summarized in One Single Sentence</a><br />• <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/lets_stop_using_the_words_trump_tried_to_overturn_the_2020_election_its_unprofessional_journalism.html" target="_blank">Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"</a>; It's Unprofessional Journalism
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<br />Insurrection and treason meant raising armies, equipping them with uniforms, firearms, and artillery, and going to war and to the battlefield — resulting in a number of American deaths in four short years in the middle of the 19th century greater than that of all America's wars of the 20th Century (including World Wars I and II) <i>combined</i>. (Thanks for <a href="https://instapundit.com/625392/" target="_blank">the Instalink</a>, Ed.)<br />
</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAM3AAEJdBNexnBjaNoKiRFj9tk51M3l9PatfkBRqzRSEHOhDrXN8PFLS21uA7_Quypp55PF_xxmp8_zEfYXmkts4I1MUw1Ia5PdG4l0qvMjBrgxhXu1aSYPZk5LFole5Dvc3JDN89obPNSox1CvVM0KmnaDTefSJAeQHdz7KlQdnTwCSNACb/s1694/Gone%20with%20the%20Wind.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="1694" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAM3AAEJdBNexnBjaNoKiRFj9tk51M3l9PatfkBRqzRSEHOhDrXN8PFLS21uA7_Quypp55PF_xxmp8_zEfYXmkts4I1MUw1Ia5PdG4l0qvMjBrgxhXu1aSYPZk5LFole5Dvc3JDN89obPNSox1CvVM0KmnaDTefSJAeQHdz7KlQdnTwCSNACb/w640-h475/Gone%20with%20the%20Wind.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are these a mob of violent MAGA nuts, deranged Tea Partiers, and other <br />treacherous "insurrectionists" on January 6, or are they extras in a Hollywood movie?</td></tr></tbody></table>
During the administration of <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/james-buchanan-a-legacy-of-failure" target="_blank">James Buchanan</a> (the 15th president preceding <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/05/what-caused-secession-and-ergo-civil.html" target="_blank">Abraham Lincoln</a>), his secretary of war stealthily gathered large stores of government arms and sent them to federal arsenals in the South, effectively anticipating the outbreak of civil war.<p>After the conflict of 1861-1865, Ulysses S Grant wrote in his memoirs that John B Floyd, the Secretary of War, </p><p></p><blockquote>scattered the army so that much of it could
be captured when hostilities should commence, and distributed the
cannon and small arms from Northern arsenals throughout the South so as
to be on hand when treason wanted them.</blockquote><p></p><p>The name of John Floyd's predecessor as Secretary of War was Jefferson Davis, and when first seven, then 11, states attempted to secede over the winter of 1860-1861 (<b>related</b>: <i>During the Winter of 1860-1861, Did the South's Democrats Obtain Their Aim — the Secession of 7 Slave States — <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/07/during-winter-of-1860-1861-did-souths.html" target="_blank">Thanks to Elections Filled with Stealth, Lies, Voter Fraud, Intimidation, Violence, and Murder</a>?</i>), he would duly become president of the newly-formed Confederate States of America</p><p>So there you have it: To the people in the 1860s, to the writers of the 14th Amendment, <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/06/january-6-2021-was-not-an-insurrection/" target="_blank">insurrection</a> and treason meant months and years of preparations, hoarding weapons, both light and heavy, raising armies, and engaging in warfare against the central government and the mother nation. <br /></p><p>Who in their right mind — besides the usual gang of <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-era-of-drama-queens-every-crisis-is.html">Drama Queens</a>, that is — could in any way reasonably compare Jan. 6 to the Civil War or, for that matter, to 9-11 or to Pearl Harbor?</p><p>Indeed, only one words fits that comparison.</p><p>That word is: Preposterous.<br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mD_u9ByaTCk?si=wJHvNTqVcfTgPRht&start=12" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br />CAPTION: Clark (Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn) Gable to Vivian Leigh, <br />sounding like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Biden: "With them <br />[the USA-hating CSA rebel soldiers] goes the last semblance of law and order"</p><p>
<b>Related (Civil War era)</b>: • What Caused Secession and Ergo the Civil War? Was It
Slavery and/or States' Rights? Or Wasn't It Rather Something
Else — <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/05/what-caused-secession-and-ergo-civil.html" target="_blank">the Election of a Ghastly Republican to the White House</a>? <br />
• During the Winter of 1860-1861, Did the South's Democrats Obtain Their Aim — the Secession of 7 Slave States — <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/07/during-winter-of-1860-1861-did-souths.html" target="_blank">Thanks to Elections Filled with Stealth, Lies, Voter Fraud, Intimidation, Violence, and Murder</a>? (Wait 'til You Hear About… Georgia's Dark Secret)
<br />• Wondering Why Slavery Persisted for Almost 75 Years After the Founding of the USA? According to Lincoln, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2019/08/1619-wondering-why-slavery-persisted.html" target="_blank">the Democrat Party's "Principled" Opposition to "Hate Speech"</a>
<br />• Why Does Nobody Ever Fret About <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-does-nobody-ever-fret-about.html" target="_blank">Scandinavia's — Dreadful — 19th-C Slavery Conditions?</a> <br />
• The Confederate Flag: <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-confederate-flag-another-brick-in.html" target="_blank">Another Brick in the Leftwing Activists' (Self-Serving) Demonization of America and Rewriting of History </a><br />
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/opinion/colorado-ruling-trump.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/12/30/multimedia/23douthat-pmqk/23douthat-pmqk-superJumbo-v2.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" /></a>
<br />To end this post, let us quote, approvingly, from (believe it or not) the New York Times. After spending half his column considering a counterfactual in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/opinion/colorado-ruling-trump.html" target="_blank">The Antidemocratic Quest to Save Democracy From Trump</a>, <span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/ross-douthat">Ross Douthat</a> gets to the main point:<br /></span></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Had [Hillary] Clinton explicitly tried to induce Congress to overturn the result
of the 2016 race and had a left-wing protest on her behalf turned into a
certification-disrupting riot, almost none of the people currently
insisting that we need to take the challenge to Trump’s ballot access
very seriously would be saying the same about a challenge to her
eligibility. Instead, they would be accusing that challenge of being
incipiently authoritarian, a right-wing attack on our sacred democracy.</p><p>And they would have a point. Removing an opposition candidate from the ballot, indeed, a candidate <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">currently</a>
leading in some polling averages (pending the economic boom of 2024
that we can all hope is coming), through the exercise of judicial power
is a remarkably antidemocratic act. It is more antidemocratic than
impeachment, because the impeachers and convicters, representatives and
senators, are themselves democratically elected and subject to swift
democratic punishment. It is more antidemocratic than putting an
opposition politician on trial, because the voters who regard that trial
as illegitimate are still allowed to vote for an indicted or convicted
politician, as <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2023/april/eugene-debs-tom-doherty.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">almost a million</a> Americans did for Eugene V. Debs while he languished in prison in 1920.</p><p>Sometimes the rules of a republic require doing antidemocratic things.
But if the rule you claim to be invoking treats Jan. 6 as the same kind
of event as the secession of the Confederacy, consider the possibility
that you have taken the tropes of anti-Trump punditry too literally.</p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The term “insurrection,” New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/colorado-court-trump-disqualified-ballot-insurrection-case-against.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=intel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">wrote</a>
on Wednesday, is “a defensible shorthand for Jan. 6.” But it’s not “the
most precise” term, because while “Trump attempted to secure an
unelected second term in office,” he “was not trying to seize and hold
the Capitol nor declare a breakaway republic.”</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div><div class="css-8atqhb"></div></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">This
concession prompted howls of online derision from his left-wing
critics, but Chait is obviously, crashingly correct. There are <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/trump-indictment-disqualify.html" title="">arguments</a>
about precedent and implementation that tell against the case for
Trump’s ineligibility and prudential arguments about the wisdom of
suppressing populist fervor by judicial fiat. But the most important
point is that there are many things a politician can do to subvert a
democratic outcome, all of them impeachable and some of them potentially
illegal, that are simply not equivalent to military rebellion, even if a
bunch of protesters and rioters get involved.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">To
insist otherwise, in the supposed service of the Constitution, is to
demonstrate yet again that too many would-be saviors of our Republic
would cut a great road through reason and good sense if they could only
be assured of finally getting rid of Donald Trump.</p></blockquote><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><b>Related (January 6)</b>: • <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-january-6-protest-summarized-in-one.html" target="_blank">The January 6 Protest Summarized in One Single Sentence</a><br />• Let's <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/lets_stop_using_the_words_trump_tried_to_overturn_the_2020_election_its_unprofessional_journalism.html" target="_blank">Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"</a>; It's Unprofessional Journalism
<br />• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-central-absurd-inconsistency-of-ray.html" target="_blank">The Central Absurd Inconsistency of the Ray Epps Conundrum Described in Two Sentences</a>
<br />• Kabuki Theater: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/01/kabuki-theater-top-12-strange-stand-out.html" target="_blank">the "top 12 strange, stand-out moments" of the January 6th Committee's interview with Ray Epps</a><br />• Déjà Vu All Over Again in the Banana Republic of Biden: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/deja-vu-all-over-again-in-banana.html" target="_blank">No, the Democrats did not run better campaigns in 2022; they cheated, as usual</a>
<br />• Isn’t it strange that in Florida, with all those strict rules against cheating, the GOP red tsunami happened as predicted? <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/deja-vu-all-over-again-in-banana.html" target="_blank">The Democrats have again fixed, rigged, and stolen an election</a>
<br />• Let’s dispense with the myth that liberals are really against voter fraud; <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2014/04/lets-dispense-with-myth-that-liberals.html" target="_blank">Voter fraud is actually an essential part of their election strategy</a>
<br />• If the Democrats learned anything from their 2016 debacle <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/05/if-democrats-learned-anything-from.html" target="_blank">it’s that they didn’t cheat nearly enough</a>
<br />• What the January 6th protest actually reveals is <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-january-6th-protest-actually.html" target="_blank">the criminal determination of the Democrats to establish a one-party state at whatever the cost</a>
<br />• Democrats don't support voter fraud; <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/06/democrats-dont-support-voter-fraud-they.html" target="_blank">they just worry about disenfranchising the deceased</a>
<br />• Voter ID: Apparently <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/12/voter-id-apparently-not-allowing.html" target="_blank">not allowing minorities to cheat is a form of racial oppression</a>
<br />
• Of the 47 countries in Europe today — the nations and the continent that the Democrats are always telling us to emulate — <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/09/of-47-countries-in-europe-today-46-of.html" target="_blank">46 of them currently require government-issued photo IDs to vote</a><br />
• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/03/joe-biden-why-are-you-calling-denmark.html" target="_blank">Joe Biden, Why Are You Calling Denmark a White Supremacist Country?</a> And You, Barack Obama: Why Are You Calling Africa a Racist Continent?
<br />• 2020: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/01/2020-almost-totalitarian-effort-by.html" target="_blank">an
almost totalitarian effort by the national political and social media
to suppress and ridicule any doubt of the accuracy of the election
result</a>
<br />The DOJ and the FBI "have no conscience or soul": <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-doj-and-fbi-have-no-conscience-or.html" target="_blank">“There is a fervor to attack the J6 protesters, ruin their lives, and bankrupt them”</a>
<br />• "I believed a farrago of lies" Writes VIP Whose Leftist Half of the American Electorate was <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/03/i-believed-farrago-of-lies-writes-vip.html" target="_blank">"Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda" Regarding the Jan. 6 (Non-)Riots</a>
<br />• Our élites constantly lecture everyone about "disinformation," about "big lies", etc; <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/10/our-elites-constantly-lecture-everyone.html" target="_blank">They're the biggest liars of all, with zero accountability</a>
<br />• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/05/isnt-america-being-governed-by.html" target="_blank">Isn't America Being Governed by a Mafia Family Dynasty</a>, setting things up so that there will always be Democrats in power?<br />• Inside of a month, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/01/inside-of-month-democrats-have.html" target="_blank">Democrats have redefined riots and election challenges from the highest form of patriotism to an attack on democracy</a> — And by “democracy”, they mean the Democrat Party<br />• Voter Fraud: A Note to <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/12/voter-fraud-note-to-leftists-who-claim.html" target="_blank">Leftists Who Claim that "Not a shred of hard evidence has been produced"</a> <br />• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/01/dennis-prager-on-current-state-of-nation.html" target="_blank">Dennis Prager</a>: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/02/prager-numerous-anomalies-regarding.html" target="_blank">The Numerous (and Sweeping) Anomalies Regarding the 2020 Election</a> That Cannot Be Ignored <br />• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-to-prevent-america-from-becoming.html" target="_blank">How to Prevent America from Becoming a Totalitarian State</a> <br />
<a href="https://reverseshot.org/features/1425/gone-with-the-wind" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://reverseshot.org/uploads/entries/images/gonewiththewind-590x308.jpg" /></a> </p><p></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-3935542396191403862024-01-03T00:03:00.168+00:002024-01-03T00:03:00.142+00:00The stars up in heaven They are lookin' kindly down Upon the grave of Joe Noussair<p>Joe Noussair would have turned 56 years old today, but alas, he left us all too early…</p><p>In the 20 years I knew him, we shared many a conversation, a drink, and an adventure, notably with road trips in his Mini to Civil War battlefields in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.<br /></p><p>This <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/04/good-bye-friend-no-pasarans-very-own.html" target="_blank">blog's obituary</a> of Joe Noussair (Beirut, Jan. 3, 1968—DC, April 7, 2023) originally appeared one day after his passing in April, but in the meantime, more photos from the past two decades have been unearthed… <br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMNeQ7bHrzLm4_GLdrWMVmCE15raVOlIC9-5XZyxiA76KaM94FT_pNHZdiKDhEmrrAjlfVZADtNt0CDK4-r1mak531RxlEElD-rSLMxsl5pQ_wEmwYlk9kYz6KJeEu4GHBTdvLCv5Ln3cBUkRTbHMIUhPQ_vRb9DjFLTLsz69na1D5h3yB-R-/s2560/P1050067.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1712" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMNeQ7bHrzLm4_GLdrWMVmCE15raVOlIC9-5XZyxiA76KaM94FT_pNHZdiKDhEmrrAjlfVZADtNt0CDK4-r1mak531RxlEElD-rSLMxsl5pQ_wEmwYlk9kYz6KJeEu4GHBTdvLCv5Ln3cBUkRTbHMIUhPQ_vRb9DjFLTLsz69na1D5h3yB-R-/w428-h640/P1050067.jpeg" width="428" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe Noussair<br />Omni Shoreham Hotel <br />Washington D.C. Feb 9 2008</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eopq6fqKDHrbS9yx8OKobbppYL3NRr9pRLMclrA0vOHOhXd1VZdEyWLy_dZNDq9AGjTmeAWIavPqB2dWWnuO01q7ruGXW-1X2xnZIsVX2JZyN36ZseTK19InV3vbdRGzGpM_-Avz15LYPJlRqoYpMFFU_WZo-DRnloMjBSFE0wA-fSs-mdgb/s2048/P1180785.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eopq6fqKDHrbS9yx8OKobbppYL3NRr9pRLMclrA0vOHOhXd1VZdEyWLy_dZNDq9AGjTmeAWIavPqB2dWWnuO01q7ruGXW-1X2xnZIsVX2JZyN36ZseTK19InV3vbdRGzGpM_-Avz15LYPJlRqoYpMFFU_WZo-DRnloMjBSFE0wA-fSs-mdgb/w400-h266/P1180785.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harpers Ferry, site of John Brown's raid:<br />The stars up in heaven <br />They are lookin' kindly down (3x)<br />Upon the grave of ol' John Brown<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGDzXclddZ5GlD9BqYXg5ZcUNgMdYEsHX7Qq8VI0C5CppgnydULa9Uvjl8e-FfMVaIZ2pDd92pmQVoSJ_E9FIqEx6gI6QOR2qyWVPFjE9toZUmP1ONh6ugn4Pcp1WLoOlnEw5iHFH5-jaILcNyb3W5gXTERsPwLOhGRmASZQym_hNmj8vS8Da/s3840/P1180768.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGDzXclddZ5GlD9BqYXg5ZcUNgMdYEsHX7Qq8VI0C5CppgnydULa9Uvjl8e-FfMVaIZ2pDd92pmQVoSJ_E9FIqEx6gI6QOR2qyWVPFjE9toZUmP1ONh6ugn4Pcp1WLoOlnEw5iHFH5-jaILcNyb3W5gXTERsPwLOhGRmASZQym_hNmj8vS8Da/w400-h225/P1180768.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, December 9 2006 </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKbdGdxXspSmYdq9OOlS71FwA2z8OghbSKKEFpzUn-yCtNqnyc02EP5x2Lg1PCkIDAOqV0j5PI6buG-umUHVgAcGGJzcbCZ0PsKTRN2_GdAQ_DA8JkBTYpswztcKwKvhHxAf5MoUWeRQo5Kqbs0NNsylMf7sWHP2uxGLznz4ToSOpVzov33N-/s3840/P1180721.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKbdGdxXspSmYdq9OOlS71FwA2z8OghbSKKEFpzUn-yCtNqnyc02EP5x2Lg1PCkIDAOqV0j5PI6buG-umUHVgAcGGJzcbCZ0PsKTRN2_GdAQ_DA8JkBTYpswztcKwKvhHxAf5MoUWeRQo5Kqbs0NNsylMf7sWHP2uxGLznz4ToSOpVzov33N-/w400-h225/P1180721.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harpers Ferry, <span><span>where the Potomac <br />and Shenandoah rivers meet</span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj53CAsbhHP57cCh_tRpMIyCDf8vXRQy70we61MswSJeoYzIuwpoorClmFDYAeQaS4hDHhoZExnaDwp8CNO86DzOVAhRG8Iu9hebEaxyg4o88O0f7PtpNcmglyyxDRi7ne9SkxpLlwwl218_TCVXkn0DdxuTHRrD20XjO4_l0r7Q-TuLAHJJ-3A/s2048/P1180092.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj53CAsbhHP57cCh_tRpMIyCDf8vXRQy70we61MswSJeoYzIuwpoorClmFDYAeQaS4hDHhoZExnaDwp8CNO86DzOVAhRG8Iu9hebEaxyg4o88O0f7PtpNcmglyyxDRi7ne9SkxpLlwwl218_TCVXkn0DdxuTHRrD20XjO4_l0r7Q-TuLAHJJ-3A/w400-h266/P1180092.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You needed to understand German to <br />figure out Joe Noussair's vanity plate<br />BSP8R = Bis Später <br />December 6 2006</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmaY8hMFEctE0nfT-ErDqtWBkDsr3d8XJkfoeyqGfId06inbP6aOPGNhGZUIQGO0c-gUZ9pHvMXWATej6CAwrVDY3CakoIMseqHDyPffH4WuEHqQ2Ds_M3JdmmIYK9Wy8PqrL0uPqm3OZweMHpX0v3uw6saq3Ym7Y27q2oFB4IZ_9pHTNo1ndR/s2560/P1050145.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1712" data-original-width="2560" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmaY8hMFEctE0nfT-ErDqtWBkDsr3d8XJkfoeyqGfId06inbP6aOPGNhGZUIQGO0c-gUZ9pHvMXWATej6CAwrVDY3CakoIMseqHDyPffH4WuEHqQ2Ds_M3JdmmIYK9Wy8PqrL0uPqm3OZweMHpX0v3uw6saq3Ym7Y27q2oFB4IZ_9pHTNo1ndR/w400-h268/P1050145.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How likely is that?! Finding two red minis (one of them Joe's) <br />parked side by side in a car garage Feb 11 2008</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nhgsus7leUmHyhaaJ0VvVdbJyitGRiR1c42FFDtxnku6s6qtW-2CQ6ZTfUGWyrEUFJsslMkLKXRe5XQATyWTepYCX2dIIKvdu0s-qZct46q4zlNw1uVOtPY8e5zzAoUs2ZRFseEaGyG9DYeMy2lafCFvu8lcRl05Lwowk7nPqa65qQe6tTwc/s3776/P1010756.jpeg%20.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2520" data-original-width="3776" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nhgsus7leUmHyhaaJ0VvVdbJyitGRiR1c42FFDtxnku6s6qtW-2CQ6ZTfUGWyrEUFJsslMkLKXRe5XQATyWTepYCX2dIIKvdu0s-qZct46q4zlNw1uVOtPY8e5zzAoUs2ZRFseEaGyG9DYeMy2lafCFvu8lcRl05Lwowk7nPqa65qQe6tTwc/w400-h268/P1010756.jpeg%20.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BIRDS OF A FEATHER: With <a href="https://datechguyblog.blog/" target="_blank">Da Tech Guy</a>'s Peter Ingemi in the background at <br /><a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=cpac" target="_blank">CPAC</a> Feb 20 2010, Joe jokes around with Smitty, the <a href="https://theothermccain.com/about-smitty/" target="_blank">sidekick</a> of <a href="https://theothermccain.com/" target="_blank">the Other McCain</a> <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqoFnmjwlAUJlAMOrdIZk7-lG5G9yzCZC7fviK_73muuPa6fthBp49GllP7X6ej5_jNnWvfZJjaJk6QOxaJnA6cG_GwXn-0stDrWyplfGTMRhLv0Me0sKovWxqgSUzBPmmY3vn227X8rtT8bBdeXNmPx2BD7f69jqNBgHqwET2rkJ0gk4JG-Hb/s640/DSC02008.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqoFnmjwlAUJlAMOrdIZk7-lG5G9yzCZC7fviK_73muuPa6fthBp49GllP7X6ej5_jNnWvfZJjaJk6QOxaJnA6cG_GwXn-0stDrWyplfGTMRhLv0Me0sKovWxqgSUzBPmmY3vn227X8rtT8bBdeXNmPx2BD7f69jqNBgHqwET2rkJ0gk4JG-Hb/w480-h640/DSC02008.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During the presidential campaign of 2004, ca. eight months <br />after this blog had started, I was contacted by some reader in DC <br />asking if
he could come spend a weekend with me in my Paris apartment;<br />I hesitated, wondering if this guy was some kind of nutcase<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWBKd_tMwBUwWVx1JZ417uVcF_9R_kaFGMxvPq-3uPY3aJxY4yYV0GeOSNZZCTi5vDsjd1QQY-PIdcppXD9NZj_StEOCNj59BZ3yN1M0BBTGZni0eRCzWEfAKQB_1Kj8z4PZwaZkvklVS2cE34Zj3hLkDC_8xpE7fSCIh6rfhjAuDl8QbxiYR/s640/DSC02007.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWBKd_tMwBUwWVx1JZ417uVcF_9R_kaFGMxvPq-3uPY3aJxY4yYV0GeOSNZZCTi5vDsjd1QQY-PIdcppXD9NZj_StEOCNj59BZ3yN1M0BBTGZni0eRCzWEfAKQB_1Kj8z4PZwaZkvklVS2cE34Zj3hLkDC_8xpE7fSCIh6rfhjAuDl8QbxiYR/w480-h640/DSC02007.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe Noussair flew over the Atlantic in the Fall of 2004 to join <br />in crashing a US expats' John Kerry event next to the Eiffel Tower<br />— in my Paris apartment, we made (bilingual) signs based on <br />the Protest Warrior movement's tongue-in-cheek signs —<br />and after 2 or 3 days he flew back to DC again</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8OLVHtPdqzsOpXBqYR9MTcF1lp2ARxQo6VAfLb5e9RyG2iJ0lwltuzeEU5V2TIITCqPyZj1Dj9OM0hnpZVZNGeHAOub0HayDk-V0afDYEbRDvplxsxuya8RPQkf4ZnLUlmu2YwFev_-1xw2SBOhBP9ewyJL0pg879RQTFKBZOHlh8D91kRJu6/s640/DSC02004.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8OLVHtPdqzsOpXBqYR9MTcF1lp2ARxQo6VAfLb5e9RyG2iJ0lwltuzeEU5V2TIITCqPyZj1Dj9OM0hnpZVZNGeHAOub0HayDk-V0afDYEbRDvplxsxuya8RPQkf4ZnLUlmu2YwFev_-1xw2SBOhBP9ewyJL0pg879RQTFKBZOHlh8D91kRJu6/w480-h640/DSC02004.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sporting a Protest Warrior T-shirt, Joe crosses le Pont d'Iéna to join in <br />crashing a John Kerry event organized by US expats next to the Eiffel Tower<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p></p>
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(by then, the blog had barely existed for some eight months) wrote or
called (I forget which) from Washington in the Fall of 2004 and asked if
he could come spend a weekend with me in my Paris apartment. Who on
earth is this nut?! was my immediate thought. </p><p>But I had blogged that I was preparing a Protest Warrior-type <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2004/10/operation-rooster-crow-infiltrating.html" target="_blank">infiltration of a rally for John Kerry</a>
under the Eiffel Tower during the 2004 election while asking for
volunteers, and Joe said that he would take a flight across the Atlantic
(yes—really!) for the sole reason of wanting to join in <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2004/10/operation-rooster-crow-infiltrating.html" target="_blank">the fun</a>. He brought with him a lot of ammo, in the form of a number of <a href="http://www.protestwarrior.com/">Protest Warrior</a>
T-shirts and, as the good handyman he was (more about Joe's job below),
he bought the material for our signs and put them together…<br /></p>In
general, this reader commented — at length — on so many posts, and with
such knowledge and passion, that U*2 and I eventually said that we
might as well invite Joe N to join the blog. </blockquote><p>
<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2004/10/operation-rooster-crow-infiltrating.html" target="_blank">Operation Rooster Crow</a>: Infiltrating the Pro-Kerry Rally Under the Eiffel Tower </p><p>Bis später, Joe; bis später… <br /></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-21349698639727426082024-01-02T23:12:00.003+00:002024-01-05T09:16:14.762+00:00AMERICAN THINKER: Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"; It's Unprofessional Journalism<p> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/politics/trump-indictments-2024-campaign.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/08/08/us/politics/08pol-trump/08pol-trump-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" /></a>
<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>It is easier for the world to accept <br />a simple lie than a complex truth</i><br />— Alexis de Tocqueville </p><p>After almost three years — and as Democrats in <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-colorado-supreme-court/2023/12/20/id/1146629/" target="_blank">Colorado</a> and <a href="https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2023/12/28/another-state-removes-trump-from-ballot-n4925080" target="_blank">Maine</a> ban Donald Trump from the Centennial State's ballot — it is beyond time for the media to stop "reporting" that "Trump tried to
overturn a presidential election" and to quit referring matter-of-factly: to "the election that
Trump lost"; to "Trump's defeat" and his "baseless" "false claims"; and to "Trump is challenging the
results" of "Biden's victory (in, say, Georgia)" and to "swing the election in his favor". </p><p>It
is equally time for news organizations to stop "reporting" that the
four (who's counting?) indictments are nothing more than valid or
understandable (if ill-timed) reactions to punish Trump for his
("criminal") attempts to "disenfranchise voters" and thus "subvert
democracy."<br /></p><p>This is not a neutral, objective, and non-partisan
view of of the facts of the 2020 election. Far from it. No. It is the
(self-serving) DNC version. It is akin to asking "When did you stop
beating your wife?" </p><p>Phrases like “baseless fraud claims”, “sham election investigations”, and “false claims of election fraud” come straight from <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-trump-indictment-criminalizes-political-dissent/" target="_blank">the Democratic Party</a>. At a minimum, readers and viewers are used to circumspect "<i>allegedly</i>s," to prudent "<i>reportedly</i>s," and to cautious "<i>accused of</i>s". What happened to them?<br /></p><p>
At this point, a crucial question arises: What is <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/trump_can_prove_it.html" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>'s <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/stealing_elections_is_a_form_of_reparations.html" target="_blank">version</a> of the 2020 election?</p><p>Remember that his whole message — as was that of the protestors on <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-january-6-protest-summarized-in-one.html" target="_blank">January 6</a>,
2021 (not a single one of them, to my recollection, brandishing weapons
other than cel phone cameras for selfies) — is exactly, or almost
exactly, the same — i.e., that it was the <i>Democrats</i> who tried to overturn (and, indeed,
who <i>succeeded</i> in overturning) the 2020 election and thus democracy (hence his, and the protesters', far from unreasonable anger). </p><p>We could even use similar
wordings: "the election that Biden lost", "Joe's defeat" and "false
claims", and "the Democrats tried to change/challenge (and succeeded in changing/challenging)
the results". Indeed, the 45th President called it "stealing the
election" and thus… if anyone disenfranchised voters and undermined democracy, it was the party of <a href="https://spectator.org/baracks-lieutenant-the-racism-revenge-and-ruin-of-claudine-gay/" target="_blank">Barack Obama</a>, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.</p><p>
<b>Given that the
charges are basically the same, shouldn't <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/05/epsteins-latest-victim-the-publics-right-to-know/" target="_blank">a media</a> that was <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/russian-collusion-and-the-death-of-journalism" target="_blank">neutral</a>, <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/can-you-trust-the-press" target="_blank">objective</a>, and <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/american-media-soviet-tactics" target="_blank">independent</a> — instead of acting like the purveyors of (to use Trump's expression) fake news — give equal space to both charges?</b></p><p>
…/…</p><p></p><blockquote>Read the whole article over at <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/lets_stop_using_the_words_trump_tried_to_overturn_the_2020_election_its_unprofessional_journalism.html" target="_blank">American Thinker</a> (thanks for the <a href="https://instapundit.com/624837/" target="_blank">Instapundit link</a>)… </blockquote><p></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-17142889382315170792023-12-20T13:01:00.004+00:002023-12-20T13:05:37.434+00:00Soviet machinations benefited from the same mixture of philo-communism among New Deal liberals and outright Soviet espionage that shaped Oppenheimer’s milieu<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/oppenheimer-stalin.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/08/04/opinion/04douthat-newsletter-image/04douthat-newsletter-image-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" /></a> <br /></p><blockquote> … a movie like Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” doubles as an encouragement to read more deeply into the history it portrays</blockquote><p></p><p>writes <span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/ross-douthat">Ross Douthat</a></span> in a New York Times piece,
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/oppenheimer-stalin.html" target="_blank">‘Oppenheimer’ and the Shadow of Stalin</a>, that echoes three of my own posts: <br />• <span data-offset-key="c4nu4-2-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/07/leftist-hollywood-redux-authors-of-book.html" target="_blank">The 2 Authors of the Book Behind the Movie Were Both Editors and Writers at "The Nation"</a>; <br />• </span></span><a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-army-during-ww-ii-extolled-by.html" target="_blank">Some Mind-Boggling Revelations About Stalin, World War II, and a Century of Russian History</a><span data-offset-key="c4nu4-2-0"><span data-text="true"> (which likewise references</span></span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-War-New-History-World/dp/1541672798" target="_blank">Stalin's War</a> by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sean-McMeekin/e/B001JS2ER4/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1" target="_blank">Sean McMeekin</a>); and <br />• For the first two years of World War II, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were allies; <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/05/for-first-two-years-of-world-war-ii.html" target="_blank">Hitler and Stalin secretly planned and jointly began the war that inflicted such horror and destruction</a>.<br /></p><blockquote>My [<span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/ross-douthat">Ross Douthat</a>'s] </span>newsroom colleague Amanda Taub offered <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/world/oppenheimer-reading-list.html" title="">a reading list</a> recently, starting with the movie’s source material, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s “American Prometheus”<br /><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"> … … But I
have a different suggested reading, focusing on one of the figures whose
offstage malevolence shapes the events of “Oppenheimer”: not Adolf
Hitler, the threat so often cited to justify the pursuit of awful
weapons, but Joseph Stalin, the man who had spies inside the Manhattan
Project and who, unlike Hitler, soon had an A-bomb of his own.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The book is “Stalin’s War: A New History
of World War II,” by Sean McMeekin of Bard College. The subtitle is
slightly misleading: It’s less a history of the conflict than a
narrowly, even polemically focused portrait of the Soviet dictator’s
decisions and depredations in the war, in the service of <b>an argument
that we should see Stalin, as much or even more than Hitler, as the
central figure in the global conflagration, an instigator and
manipulator and ultimate victor</b>.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The
reason to read McMeekin after watching “Oppenheimer” is that his book
provides a corrective to the movie’s final act, in which <b>the spirit of a
simplifying anti-anti-communism prevails over the political complexity </b>
that Nolan carries off for most of the film. (Mild historical spoilers
to follow.)</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Having developed the bomb,
the movie’s Oppenheimer tries to prevent a nuclear arms race and
tangles with Cold Warriors who make hay out of his ties to communists
and fellow travelers. Then, out of a combination of political and
personal resentments, one of those Cold Warriors, Robert Downey Jr.’s
Lewis Strauss, manages to get Oppenheimer’s security clearance revoked
in a kangaroo-court proceeding.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">I have
conservative friends, loyal to Nolan’s image as a Tory filmmaker, who
think that the movie isn’t simply on Oppenheimer’s side in this
controversy, that it lets both Oppenheimer’s own actions and Strauss’s
arguments make the case that he really was vainglorious, politically
naïve, hopelessly blithe about the communist infiltration of his project
and more.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">I agree with them that the
movie gives the historically informed viewer plenty of material that
points to this more nuanced conclusion. But <b>as a straightforward text,
“Oppenheimer” sheds a lot of that complexity as it builds to its ending,
becoming more and more a story of simple martyrdom — in which a flawed
genius is unjustly persecuted by “know-nothing, anti-intellectual,
xenophobic demagogues,”</b> as Bird, the Oppenheimer co-biographer, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/opinion/kai-bird-oppenheimer-christopher-nolan.html" title="">wrote</a> for Times Opinion earlier this summer.</p>So the point of reading McMeekin’s book
is to give early Cold War anti-communism its due. <b>What were all those
hawks on about, with their fears about Soviet espionage and the
influence of communist sympathizers, their desire to have the bomb as a
potential weapon against our then-ally Stalin</b>, their dismissive attitude
toward Oppenheimer’s vision of nuclear power as something shared and
tamed by international cooperation?<div></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Just
this, “Stalin’s War” suggests: They saw Stalin clearly. <b>The Soviet
leader had always been as predatory as Hitler, invading the same number
of countries as Nazi Germany in 1939 and 1940</b>, encouraging fascist
aggression against the Western democracies while building his own brutal
empire under the cover of neutrality. (That encouragement extended to
Japanese as well as German aggression: McMeekin argues that Stalin’s
diplomacy with Tokyo in 1941 helped pushed Japan toward its war in the
Pacific.)</p>Nor was Stalin any kind of naïve, unsuspecting victim of Hitler’s <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Barbarossa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Barbarossa onslaught</a>,
as some historical clichés would have it. <b>McMeekin makes an extended
case that Stalin was preparing to attack Nazi Germany when Hitler
attacked him, that the two dictators were basically in a race to see who
could mobilize to betray the other first</b> — and that the initial Soviet
debacle in 1941 happened in part because Stalin was
also pushing his military toward an offensive alignment, and they were
caught in a “mid-mobilization limbo.”<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Once
the German invasion made him an ally first of Britain and then of the
United States, the book argues, Stalin consistently had his way with a
naïve Franklin Roosevelt and a frustrated but weakened Winston Churchill
in their negotiations over military strategy and postwar dispositions.
And <b>these Soviet machinations benefited from the same mixture of
philo-communism among New Deal liberals and outright Soviet espionage
that shaped Oppenheimer’s milieu</b>. The result was a postwar arrangement
that gave communism a vast new empire in Eastern Europe and soon enough
East Asia, all undergirded by a deep, rapacious cynicism that made the
Cold War inevitable.</p><p>As I said,
McMeekin’s account is polemical, written as a corrective to other
histories and open to counterarguments in turn. I don’t think he quite
succeeds in displacing Hitler’s pride of place as the evil protagonist
of 1939-45, and many of the choices that Western nations made in
temporarily allying with Stalin seem retrospectively inevitable. It’s
not surprising that the British and the French in 1939 would fear the dictator with troops on the French border more than
the dictator poised to swallow the Baltic States, or that America would
prefer a resilient Soviet Union to an all-conquering Nazi Germany in
1941.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">McMeekin has a fascinating argument that
the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939 opened the possibility of a war
of the liberal West against both totalitarianisms, with Britain and an
as-yet-unconquered France bombing the Baku oil fields in the Soviet
Union and thereby undermining both the Soviet and Nazi war machines. I’m
not persuaded, however, that this counterfactual would have ended well
for the democracies.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">But the necessity
of an alignment with Stalin against Hitler, like the necessity of
hiring a bunch of scientists with communist connections in the same
period — if that’s what it took to forge atomic weapons in a short span
of time — has to coexist with a recognition that the world looked quite
different as the German and then Japanese defeats became inevitable. <b>By
war’s end, our pivot toward an intense suspicion of everything that
Stalin touched was both imperative and arguably</b> (and I do think McMeekin
makes a strong argument) <b>insufficient</b>, coming later than it should have
for both American interests and for Stalin’s conquered peoples.</p>The
necessity of that pivot doesn’t prove that Oppenheimer the man was
treated justly. But <b>what happened to him happened for reasons distinct
from simple yahoo-ism and xenophobia</b>. And any viewer of “Oppenheimer”
the movie would be wise to hold <b>the malignancy of Stalin</b>, the scale of his success at both conquest and
manipulation, in mind while watching its complex hero’s complex fate
unfold.</blockquote><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/oppenheimer-stalin.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/08/04/opinion/04douthat-newsletter-image/04douthat-newsletter-image-mediumThreeByTwo440.jpg" /></a></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-4499961245481286062023-12-16T20:30:00.009+00:002023-12-26T22:37:06.509+00:00"Lovely weather for killing Germans": Today Marks the Beginning, 79 Years Ago, of the Greatest Battle in History Involving U.S. Troops<p><a href="https://www.antonybeevor.com/book/ardennes-1944-hitlers-last-gamble/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="400" src="https://www.antonybeevor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ardennes-1944-500x760.jpg" /></a>
Today marks the beginning of the largest battle that American soldiers ever fought in,
as well as, writes <a href="https://www.antonybeevor.com/" target="_blank">Antony Beevor</a>, the greatest battle of World War II in western Europe. </p><p>When I was a kid in Brussels, my elderly teacher was from the town of Bastogne, and had lived as a little girl through the encirclement of the town during the freezing Christmas with the troops of General "Nuts!" McAuliffe to whom the inhabitants handed out their sheets to serve as winter camouflage. Madame Cop loved my mother and often invited my parents to her home for dinner and our family did likewise. If you showed any sort of anti-Americanism in the presence of this li'l ol' Babuschka-type grand-mother, you would soon regret it.<br /></p><p>Here is the summary of <a href="https://www.antonybeevor.com/biography/" target="_blank">Antony Beevor</a>'s <a href="https://www.antonybeevor.com/book/ardennes-1944-hitlers-last-gamble/" target="_blank">Ardennes 1944</a> (Hitler's Last Gamble):<br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the
snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could
split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the
Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were
doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe
that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army
approaching from the east. Many were exultant at the prospect of
striking back.</p><p>The Ardennes offensive, with more than a million
men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in western Europe.
American troops, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer
armies. Belgian civilians fled, justifiably afraid of German revenge.
Panic spread even to Paris. While many American soldiers fled or
surrendered, others held on heroically, creating breakwaters which
slowed the German advance.</p><p>The harsh winter conditions and the
savagery of the battle became comparable to the eastern front. And after
massacres by the Waffen-SS, even American generals approved when their
men shot down surrendering Germans. The Ardennes was the battle which
finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>
And here are some excerpts from <a href="https://www.antonybeevor.com/biography/" target="_blank">Antony Beevor</a>'s Bastogne chapter in his general volume of <a href="https://www.antonybeevor.com/book/the-second-world-war/" target="_blank">The Second World War</a>, which doubles with information from Greece, where fighting was taking place at the same time.<br /></p><p></p>
<blockquote><p> … once [the German artillery bombardment] ended, [the Americans] saw an eerie light. This false dawn was in fact 'artificial moonlight', with German searchlights behind the front lines bouncing their beams off the cloud. The German infantry in snow camouflage advancing through freezing mist and and the tall trees of the Ardennes forest looked like ghosts<br /></p><p>… Patton [remarked that] "We should open up and let them get all the way to Paris. Then we'll saw 'em off at the base."</p><p> … The Ardennes offensive certainly proved to be [Eisenhower's] finest hour as supreme commander </p><p> … For Patton, it was an exquisite moment … "lovely weather for killing Germans"</p><p> … The 30th Division had [again] been attacked by its own aircraft, and GIs even started to refer to the Ninth [Tactical Air Command] as 'the American Luftwaffe'. This rather underlined the German army joke that "if it's British [planes], we duck; if it's American everybody ducks; and if its the Luftwaffe nobody ducks"</p><p> … Greece was another example of the Second World War merging into a latent third world war</p></blockquote><p></p><p>And if you're wondering why even add the Greek part of the chapter to this post, it's because the book contains these nuggets about the (commie-lovin'?) mainstream media of the 1940s: <br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p> … The American press began to condemn British policy in strong terms. With an often naive belief that resistance fighters against the Germans must be freedom-loving, it <b>turned a blind eye to Tito's murderous repression in Yugoslavia and also to Stalin's violence against the Polish Home Army</b>. American journalists began to attack Churchill as an imperialist who ignored the Atlantic Charter on self-determination</p><p> … The Greek Civil War, with all its cruelties on both sides, would continue in one form or another until 1949. But Churchill's obstinate intervention at least saved the country from the fate of its northern neighbors which suffered more than four decades of Communist tyranny <br /></p><p> … Behind the Allied lines, Belgium too underwent severe unrest</p><p> … German troops looted without compunction, but Allied troops were little better</p><p> … While the suffering of Belgian civilians was great, the majority of the Dutch fared far worse. Even those behind Allied lines were starving</p><p> … After Greece, Holland was the most comprehensively looted country in western Europe</p><p> … The Americans were scornful of the British reluctance to take casualties, while the British, like the Germans, criticized the Americans for refusing to undertake any attack without a huge expenditure of shells first. But British infantry were also unwilling to advance without heavy gunfire in support. In fact all the Allies, both in the west and in the east, had developed a "psychological dependence upon artillery and air power" the longer the war went on </p></blockquote><p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.antonybeevor.com/book/ardennes-1944-hitlers-last-gamble/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="400" src="https://www.antonybeevor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ardennes-1944-alt-500x760.jpg" /></a></p><p>
<b>Update</b>: Thanks for the <a href="https://instapundit.com/622477/" target="_blank">Instapundit post</a>, Ed Driscoll, with comments from 366 readers so far:</p><p>My title is allegedely wrong, notes Instareader <span class="post-byline"><span><span class="author publisher-anchor-color"><a data-action="profile" data-tab="" data-username="disqus_8YBH53NW7D" href="https://disqus.com/by/disqus_8YBH53NW7D/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buck Ofama</a></span></span></span>, who notes that "The
final US offensive in the Meuse-Argonne in September 1918 involved 1.2
million American soldiers, and is listed by some historians as the
largest U.S. battle ever", something with which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse%E2%80%93Argonne_offensive" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> agrees. However, the battle with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_with_most_United_States_military_fatalities" target="_blank">most United States military fatalities</a> of all time was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elsenborn_Ridge" target="_blank">Battle of Elsenborn Ridge</a> (the northernmost German attacks during the Battle of the Bulge). <br />
</p><header class="comment__header"><p>To those who retort that Stalingrad and "Kursk broke the back of the Wehrmacht", <span class="post-byline"><span><span class="author publisher-anchor-color"><a data-action="profile" data-tab="" data-username="godempressluneiii" href="https://disqus.com/by/godempressluneiii/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">God Empress Lune III</a></span></span></span> points out that "The Russians wouldn't have won Kursk without Oldsmobile and Bell" while I have posted <a href="http://disq.us/p/2wygyg7" target="_blank">this lengthier response</a> (excerpt):</p><p></p><blockquote><p> …/… in The Second World War, Antony Beevor points out that …/… <br /></p><p>“Soviet Lend-Lease …/… in scale and scope would play a major part
in the eventual Soviet victory (a fact which most Russian historians
are still loath to acknowledge). Apart from high-quality steel,
anti-aircraft guns, aircraft, and huge consignments of food which saved
the Soviet Union from famine in the winter of 1942-3, the greatest
contribution was to the mobility of the Red Army. Its dramatic advances
later in the war were possible thanks only to American Jeeps and trucks.</p><p>
“… [The] greatest problem [of Zhukov's armies] was not German
resistance but the difficulties of their supply service, desperately
trying to keep up with them on bad winter roads and without any rail
line functioning. Had it not been for the American trucks provided
under Lend-lease, the Red Army would never have made it to Berlin before
the Americans.”</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><div class="post-message" data-role="message" dir="auto"><div></div></div></header><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-3439003699061154302023-11-27T16:46:00.008+00:002024-01-21T13:29:00.439+00:00Note to Google Blogger: My Controversial Post on Blogger Was Not Reset to "Draft" Status; It Was Entirely Removed <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSD_pdRaabRDEZvVkmH8u8dsoweeFqWlNWOInqAH_3mLXdzernX6MBiOBMYNpaYBNgHVNnfhZljWpg0Q3b6AS2Ur4ecqRSTLvMmp5lH2ECWLSENlxRuiEDJmlMtQMuhsvfkSvszYbSyjM0aqcmYRL5LK2SyVZqv4Ge-3nR1LpRT5SVmKJkTAL/s520/Screenshot%202023-12-18%20at%208.13.46%20PM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="520" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSD_pdRaabRDEZvVkmH8u8dsoweeFqWlNWOInqAH_3mLXdzernX6MBiOBMYNpaYBNgHVNnfhZljWpg0Q3b6AS2Ur4ecqRSTLvMmp5lH2ECWLSENlxRuiEDJmlMtQMuhsvfkSvszYbSyjM0aqcmYRL5LK2SyVZqv4Ge-3nR1LpRT5SVmKJkTAL/w200-h194/Screenshot%202023-12-18%20at%208.13.46%20PM.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Issue # 4 below: <span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">Regarding the <br />Preview/Save Drop-Down Menu</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
Message to Google Blogger concerning Blogspot's bugs and vexations:<p>Kindly look into the following: which seems to concern your "fact-checkers" not following your guidelines — your <i>most basic</i> guidelines — and that at your clients' expense.</p><p>I wish to address this in addition to last year's ban of a couple of No Pasarán posts and two other issues (for a total of four points on Blogspot bugs and vexations altogether). <br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1) An Allegedly Controversial Post Was Not <span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">Reset to "Draft" Status</span>, But Unceremoniously Disposed of, Vanishing Completely</span><br /></p><p>It is now almost 20 years since I, and at times my fellow bloggers, have
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If you believe you have the rights to post this content, <b>you can file a counter-claim with us</b>. For more on our DMCA policy, please click <a href="https://support.google.com/legal/answer/1120734">here</a>. Thank you for your prompt attention.<br /><br /></div></div></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><div class="HKDDze g0RVJ">This post was unpublished because it violates Blogger
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Community Guidelines</a>. To republish, please update the content to adhere to guidelines.</div></span></blockquote><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><div class="HKDDze g0RVJ"></div></span><p></p><p>With 13,600 posts over, to repeat, almost 20 years, we have been banned I think no more than five times (certainly less than 10 times) — in addition to guest writers asking that their guest posts be taken down out of fear of their being cancelled by society at large. But that is none of our responsibility; that is the doings, direct or indirect, of a society failing in free speech and vigorous debate (sometimes known as: the First Amendment) which this blog (hardly wrongly) wishes to describe (and, frankly, to denounce).<br /></p><p>As we are responsible writers and journalists, and feel we behave responsibly, we have not felt any guilt, and <b>we have counter-claimed, or are going to counter-claim (see point nr 2 below), all of the bans</b>, <b>previous and present</b>.<br /></p><p>But <b>the problem with the November 2023 post is that it was <i>not</i> "<span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">unpublished". And the post was <i>not</i></span> <span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">"reset to Draft status". It was entirely removed and has </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">totally </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">vanished.</span></b></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">Unless we are mistaken, moreover, <b>we never received an email </b></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><b>in our gmail inbox</b></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> informing us of a ban or even of a problem, <b>as is Google's custom</b>. <br /></span></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">Not only was, and is, filing a counter-claim impossible, as was/is </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">updating the content</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> to your "standards", there was a real risk of our not being able to find any part of the original text, thus losing it partially or completely. </span> (Thanks for <a href="https://instapundit.com/619174/" target="_blank">the Instalink</a>, Ed Driscoll.)</p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">The only reason that I was lucky enough to find the post (now duly edited) </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">was that I happened to have a window open with my blog un-freshened since before the take-down. (</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">Good thing I had not refreshed it!) I could therefore "choose" the entire content of the post from the open public blog, press Copy, and paste said content into a freshly-opened and brand-new Blogger post (set not to HTML view, naturally; but to Compose view).</span></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">I now have the post up again, minus what I suppose was the offending segment (I suppose it had to do with references to the woman's contact information)</span></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">But of course, the new post's hyperlink is entirely different</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">, wher</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">eas any hyperlinks linking to the old/first post </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">(even if I had made a totally new title with totally different words)</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> from elsewhere on the internet are now dead. Dead and broken.</span></p><p>The first post, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-i-young-westernized.html" target="_blank">Western Integration I: Sexy Westernized Middle Eastern Girl in France Mocks the Murder of an Israeli Baby in an Oven (VIDEO)</a>
(
https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-i-young-westernized.html
), now brings us to an error statement: "Sorry, the page you were looking
for in this blog does not exist."</p>The second post, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-i-sexy-westernized.html" target="_blank">Western Integration I: Sexy Westernized Middle Eastern Girl in France Mocks the Gruesome Oven Murder of an Israeli Baby (VIDEO)</a> ( https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-i-sexy-westernized.html ), is up as of this writing.<p><b>We hope and expect, Google Blogger, you to look into this matter and deal with whoever made this mistake (?), using this as an opportunity to press the message to <i>all</i> your </b>(cough)<b> "fact-checkers" that </b><b>they </b><b>follow the guidelines, so that it doesn't happen again, whether to me or to anyone else using your services</b>.</p><p>(If there are any of your fact-checkers who operate more from ideology than from pure fact-finding, maybe it is time for them to move to a different department…)</p><p>Speaking of which… </p><p><br /></p><p>
<span style="font-size: large;">2) It Is Time to Un-Ban <i>No Pasarán</i>'s Posts on the Nazis' Hostile Attitude Towards the Christian Religion<br /></span></p><p>These two posts raising questions about Christianity in recent and ancient History were banned last year in spite of the fact that nobody complained about them for respectively 10 and 7 <i>years</i> (!).<br /></p><p>• <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2012/12/adolf-hitler-in-religious-surroundings.html" target="_blank">Adolf Hitler in Religious Surroundings: Is There Really Evidence That the Führer Was a Christian?</a> (December 2012)
</p>• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2015/12/by-laying-crusades-at-feet-of.html" target="_blank">By laying the crusades at the feet of Christianity, Obama was unwittingly laying ISIL's atrocities at Islam's feet</a> (December 2015)<p></p><p>Will your fact-checkers please wake up to the fact that (no matter what <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-army-during-ww-ii-extolled-by.html" target="_blank">Stalin</a> claimed) there is no controversy — none whatsoever — regarding the fact that Adolf Hitler was <i>not</i> representative of the bourgeoisie and that the founder of the Nazi party was opposed, as much as Vladimir Lenin and Che Guevara, to <i>all</i> religions (Christian as well as well as Jewish), and that he never ceased identifying as a socialist. <br /></p><p>Therefore, it is high time for you to restore the two remaining banned posts on the subject of Christianity, both of which, again: are at least seven years old (!), meaning that for 10
years and seven years respectively, these allegedly hateful (?!) and
guideline-violating (?!) posts bothered not a single soul; and both of which: are based on reports in, among others, the New York Times, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/10/kirchenkampf-hitler-was-determined-to.html" target="_blank">The International Herald Tribune</a>, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2013/01/worshipping-little-else-but-aryan-race.html" target="_blank">Life Magazine</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228630/How-Hitlers-Nazi-propaganda-machine-tried-Christ-Christmas.html" target="_blank">The Daily Mail</a>, along with <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/07/out-with-jesus-during-his-12-years-in.html" target="_blank">Denmark's foremost historical publication</a>. Google and Blogger: do you want to ban those periodicals as well?</p><p>For 10 years, or 7, nobody has had reason to complain about those posts for the
simple reason that — like everything else we (try to) do at <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">No Pasaràn</a> since the blog was founded, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/02/no-pasaran-at-18-we-will-commentate-on.html" target="_blank">19 years ago</a>
— it is (or certainly tries to be) entirely fact-filled, it is entirely
dispassionate, and there ought to be nothing controversial about its
conclusions. </p><p>Sources include: </p><p>A) Kirchenkampf: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/10/kirchenkampf-hitler-was-determined-to.html" target="_blank">Hitler Was Determined to Diminish the Number of Catholic Schools</a> (The <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2016/10/kirchenkampf-hitler-was-determined-to.html" target="_blank">International Herald Tribune</a>) </p><p>B) <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228630/How-Hitlers-Nazi-propaganda-machine-tried-Christ-Christmas.html" target="_blank">How Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas</a> (The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228630/How-Hitlers-Nazi-propaganda-machine-tried-Christ-Christmas.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a>) </p><p>C) "Out With Jesus": <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/07/out-with-jesus-during-his-12-years-in.html" target="_blank">During His 12 Years in Power, Hitler Tried to Ban the Tradition of Christmas</a> (Denmark's <a href="http://historienet.dk/krig/2-verdenskrig/historiker-hitler-blev-afvist-af-politisk-parti" target="_blank">Historie</a> monthly)</p><p>D) Just for the record, Hitler <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/04/wnd-author-cbn-expose-hitlers-hatred-of-christians/">detested Christianity</a> (<a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2015/12/by-laying-crusades-at-feet-of.html" target="_blank">Jonah Goldberg</a>) </p><p>E) Worshipping Little Else But the Aryan Race, <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2013/01/worshipping-little-else-but-aryan-race.html" target="_blank">Hitler Abhorred the Christian Faith</a> and Wanted to Replace Christmas with the Pagans' Yuletide (<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2013/01/worshipping-little-else-but-aryan-race.html" target="_blank">Life Magazine</a>)<br /><br />F) <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/hitler-remained-to-end-socialist-he-was.html" target="_blank">"Hitler remained to the end a socialist"; he "was totally irreligious and" wanted to hang the Pope in St Peter's Square</a> (Paul Johnson, <a href="https://amzn.to/3ke3EZQ"><i>Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s</i></a>)</p><p>As for Barack Obama, the 44th occupant of the Oval Office may be a living saint — we do not dispute that (at all) — but it should still be permissible to raise questions about the Crusades (insofar, naturally, as there is supporting evidence) without alleged "Islamophobia" entering the picture.<br /></p><p>Again (and as I wrote to you on September 18, 2022), here are No Pasarán's two posts that need to be un-banned and republished: <br /></p><p>• <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2012/12/adolf-hitler-in-religious-surroundings.html" target="_blank">Adolf Hitler in Religious Surroundings: Is There Really Evidence That the Führer Was a Christian?</a> (December 2012)
</p><p>• <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2015/12/by-laying-crusades-at-feet-of.html" target="_blank">By laying the crusades at the feet of Christianity, Obama was unwittingly laying ISIL's atrocities at Islam's feet</a> (December 2015)</p><p><b>Update (December 4): both posts have been restored — thank you, Blogger </b><br /></p><p> </p><p>
<span style="font-size: large;">3) Major (Double) Bug: Loss of a Post's Entire Contents by One Innocuous Move </span><br /></p><p>It is exasperating that one can suffer the loss of a post's entire contents
that one has worked on for days, or even weeks or more, simply by innocently using the
Ctrl+Z command. </p><p>3.1) Two or three times, now, this has happened where I re-open a saved post
to add some finishing touches, I make some tiny mistake, and without thinking,
I press Ctrl Z once or twice to undo just a simple typo, and before you can say the word "blogspot",
the entire contents have vanished completely, with the text field becoming entirely blank. </p><p>3.2) Even if, in my horror, I refrain from Saving — the obvious solution — but simply
close the tab (or press the <i>Go Back</i> button) to go to the main <i>All Posts</i> page, the contents are <i>not</i> recovered when I reopen the post!
The content is still blank and empty, although the title is still there, the only part to survive. The last time this happened was in 2020 or 2021, but that does not necessarily mean that the bug has been fixed (deliberately or otherwise), because I have been extra careful (or extra paranoid!) since then.
Is there nothing to do, and can Google/Blogger
please fix this (double) bug as quickly as possible?!</p><p> </p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region" style="font-size: large;">4) Regarding the Preview/Save Drop-Down Menu<br />
</span></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGynLazuIsVqPzXLKWyulqjkmeg7gMWe4vIe5nUP5lerTMPCOq41wYBaKthjMccG37wUwJZcGc5rdzueWpTKfDg7xan-5zUmIPGAMpfb4gv3tqBCvVOFenqLXLwqjq7pBh3WILelnBRAyDnpmdD-BArMdAXC0mwVYcqE5IwkOWxYSJJFJ9x3B/s520/Screenshot%202023-12-18%20at%208.13.46%20PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="520" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGynLazuIsVqPzXLKWyulqjkmeg7gMWe4vIe5nUP5lerTMPCOq41wYBaKthjMccG37wUwJZcGc5rdzueWpTKfDg7xan-5zUmIPGAMpfb4gv3tqBCvVOFenqLXLwqjq7pBh3WILelnBRAyDnpmdD-BArMdAXC0mwVYcqE5IwkOWxYSJJFJ9x3B/s320/Screenshot%202023-12-18%20at%208.13.46%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">
While we have you, we have a final matter to bring up, although one of lesser concern (albeit still of some importance).<br /></span><p></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">It concerns the drop-down menu in the top right corner which gives you, prior to <i>Publish</i>ing, the option to either <i>Save</i> or to <i>Preview post</i>.<br /></span></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">However, the two are not equal: the option w</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">hich sta</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">nds out is the <i>Preview</i> button, in that it is the option which needs no drop-down manipulations but can be accessed (clicked) directly. <i>Preview</i>, in other words, is currently the default button.<br /></span></p><p><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">In view of the fact that I rarely use </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><i>Preview</i></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> whereas I am constantly pressing the </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><i>Save</i></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> button (see item 3 above) — and that I assume that the vast majority of blogger users certainly use the </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><i>Save</i></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> button more often than the </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><i>Preview</i></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> one — I wish that you would <i>invert the two commands</i>, making </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><i>Save</i></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> th</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">e easiest</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> to access, i.e., </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">making </span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"><i>Save</i></span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> the default</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region"> butt</span><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c334" role="region">on.<br /></span></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-10042540067632439172023-11-25T19:32:00.017+00:002024-02-06T09:37:27.887+00:00"Hitler remained to the end a socialist"; the Führer "was totally irreligious and" wanted to hang the Pope in St Peter's Square <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Times-Revised-Twenties-Perennial/dp/0060935502/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" height="400" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61V0+g1LwBL._SL1500_.jpg" /></a>
There is much to learn from <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+johnson" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a>'s history of the 20th century, not least the appalling truth about the "Republican" camp during the Spanish Civil War; some unpalatable facts about FDR and his "vanity … compounded by an astonishing naivety"; and, most importantly, the many ways in which the autocrats of the left (<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/02/democrats-got-their-political-playbook.html" target="_blank">Lenin</a>, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-army-during-ww-ii-extolled-by.html" target="_blank">Stalin</a>, Mao, etc…) and of the right (Hitler, Mussolini, Pétain, etc…) inspired, complemented, and even <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/05/for-first-two-years-of-world-war-ii.html" target="_blank">conspired with</a>, one another.<br /><p>Much of what we have learned turns out to be myths. What explains the rise of rightist fascism, and how does it differ from leftist communism? According to <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/01/good-bye-friend-paul-johnson-1928-2023.html" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a>, there isn't much difference at all, and the reason for its rise in Europe was the genuine shock, by the general population as well as by the Left itself, over the disastrous results of Lenin's communist revolution in Russia, as much on an economic level as on a humanistic level. To counter the ruin and the atrocities of <i>international</i> socialism, the Left in Europe invented and turned to <i>national</i> socialism.</p><p>Also fascinating is the thread that runs through the book, by which the expansion of the State in general and the appearance of "gangster statesmen" in particular took place in the wake of the disappearance of religion and moral absolutes in public life. </p><p></p><blockquote>"By early 1933, … the two largest and strongest nations of
Europe were firmly in the grip of totalitarian regimes which preached
and practiced, and indeed embodied, moral relativism, with all its
horrifying potentialities."</blockquote><p>Perhaps the most interesting regarding <a href="https://amzn.to/3ke3EZQ"><i>Modern Times (A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s)</i></a> is that efforts by the Left to link <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/09/note-to-google-blogger-immediately-un.html" target="_blank">Hitler</a> and the Fascists with the Right's (and/or with the bourgeoisie's) religion and capitalism are the complete opposite of the truth. Not only were the Nazis and <i>il Duce</i> die-hard (even Karl Marx-quoting) socialists (in Hitler's case, a <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/02/democrats-got-their-political-playbook.html" target="_blank">Leninist</a>, according to <a href="https://spectator.org/paul-johnson-committed-to-truth-for-its-own-sake/" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a>, and, in Mussolini's, virtually a Marxist), but the Germans engaged in "attacks on Christianity" and <i>der Führer</i> — who was simply "a race-socialist as opposed to a class-socialist" — had plans for the Pope to "be hanged in full pontificals in St Peter's Square."</p><p>
Another piece of evidence that <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/10/to-peacenik-protesters-everywhere-pro.html" target="_blank">Hitler</a> was in no way beholden to any part of <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=hitler+christmas" target="_blank">the Judeo-Christian religion</a> (danke zu <a href="https://instapundit.com/610474/" target="_blank">Stephen Green</a>): <a href="https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2023/10/10/today-in-history-christians-save-western-civilization-from-islam-to-hitlers-regret-n1733711" target="_blank">Christians Save Western Civilization From Islam — to Hitler's Regret</a>: </p><p></p><blockquote><p> … on Oct. 10, 732, one of world history’s most decisive battles saved
Europe from becoming Islamic. Interestingly, none other than Adolf
Hitler regretted this development</p><p> … the führer — who further accused Christianity of promoting “meekness and
flabbiness” — believed what many in the West continue to believe,
particularly those whose worldview is colored by Hollywood: that,
historically, Christianity only bred weak and feeble men, especially
when compared to more “robust” peoples, in this case, Muslims.</p></blockquote><p> Back to <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+johnson" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a> and praise about his books:<br /></p><p></p><p></p><blockquote>Beginning with Modern Times (1985), Paul Johnson's books are acknowledged masterpieces of historical analysis. He is a regular columnist for Forbes and The Spectator, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. </blockquote><p></p><p>That was Amazon's description of the late author and below, find excerpts from the first half of <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2004/12/truth-is-any-accusation-against.html" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a>'s history book of 780 pages:</p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3ke3EZQ"><i>Modern Times (A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s)</i></a> Chapter One A Relativistic World <br /></p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p><b>Marxism</b>, now for the first time easing itself into the seat of power, <b>was another form of gnosticism claiming to peer through the empirically-perceived veneer of things to the hidden truth beneath</b> </p><p> … Feelings of guilt were thus not a sign of vice, but of virtue</p><p> … But personal guilt-feelings were an illusion to be dispelled. None of us was individually guilty; we were all guilty<br /><br /> … <b>The destructive capacity of the individual, however vicious, is small; of the state, however well-intentioned, almost limitless. Expand the state and that destructive capacity necessarily expands too, <i>part passu</i></b>. … The effect of the Great War was to enormously to increase the size, and therefore the destructive capacity and propensity to oppress, of the state. Before 1914, all state sectors were small, though most were growing, some of them fast</p><p>Among the advanced races, <b>the decline and ultimately the collapse of the religious impulse would leave a huge vacuum … In place of religious belief, there would be secular ideology</b> … The end of the old order, with an unguided world adrift in a relativistic universe, was <b>a summons to such gangster-statesmen</b> to emerge </p></blockquote><p></p><p>
Chapter Two The First Despotic Utopias<br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Religion was important to him [Lenin], in that he hated it. Unlike Marx, who despised it and treated it as marginal, Lenin saw it as a powerful and ubiquitous enemy. … 'There can be nothing more abominable', he wrote, 'than religion.' <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … His writings abound in military metaphors [cf. LBJ's "war against poverty"]<br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … Italy was also a semi-industrialized country, where Marxists were looking for ways to speed up the revolution… These ideas were taken up by [another] Italian Marxist, Benito Mussolini … <b>Again, there is the endless repetition of activist verbs, the militaristic imagery</b>. In the years before 1914, from his impotent exile in Switzerland, Lenin watched the progress of Mussolini with approval and some envy <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … Certainly there was nothing legal about the way in which Lenin came to power. But it was not a revolutionary uprising either. It was an old-style coup, or as the Germans were soon to call it, a <i>putsch</i><br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … In fact the real tragedy of the the Leninist Revolution, or rather one of its many tragedies, is that it revived a savage national method of government which was actually dying out quite fast. <b>In the eighty years up to 1917, the number of people executed in the Russian empire averaged only seventeen a year</b>, and the great bulk of those occurred in the earlier part of the period. Wartime Russia in the last years of the Tsars was in some ways more liberal than Britain and France under their wartime regulations. The republic abolished the death penalty completely, although Kerensky restored it at the front in September 1917. Most of Lenin's own comrades were opposed to it <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the decision to use terror and oppressive police power was taken very early on by Lenin, endorsed by his chief military agent Trotsky… As early as 1901 Lenin warned: 'In principle we have never renounced terror and cannot renounce it' <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … Lenin had thus displaced one ruling class by another, the party <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>One of the most depressing features of the Lenin regime, as Rosa Luxembourg had feared, was the almost conscious reproduction of the very worst features of Tsardom. The Tsars, too, had periodically experimented with 'responsible government', a cabinet system like Sovnarkom … In each case, the combination of autocracy plus bureaucracy wrecked the system, as the Tsar dealt privately with individual ministers instead of allowing the cabinet to function. The whiff of Divine Right was too strong in the Tsar's nostrils, just as now the whiff of history, and its handmaiden the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, was too strong in Lenin's. When it came to the point, he did not want responsible government', any more than he wanted any kind of legal, constitutional or democratic restraints on his decisions <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>This meant crushing all opposition within the party, the third stage in the building of Lenin's autocracy <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … [When] Lenin had his first stroke … <b>his work was already complete. He had systematically constructed, in all its essentials, the most carefully engineered apparatus of state tyranny the world had ever seen</b>. In the old world, personal autocracies, except perhaps for brief periods, had been limited, or at least qualified, by other forces in society: a church, an aristocracy, an urban bourgeoisie, ancient charters and courts and assemblies. And there was, too, the notion of an external, restraining force, in the idea of a Deity, or Natural Law, or some absolute system of morality. <b>Lenin's new despotic utopia had no such counterweights or inhibitions</b>. Church, aristocracy, bourgeoisie had all been swept away. Everything that was left was owned or controlled by the state. All rights whatsoever were vested in the state. And, within that state, enormous and ever-growing as it was, every single filament of power could be traced back to the hands of a minute group of men — ultimately to one man <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … Lenin hated the essence of democracy, and he regarded its forms merely as a means to legitimize violence and oppression … an unrestricted license for terror<br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … Lenin's legacy was a solidly built police state surrounded by economic ruins</p><p> … [In the West] There was genuine fear of a Red Terror, for the catholic newspapers were full of Lenin's atrocities and the Russian famine. Mussolini was not personally identified with the violence [in Italy]. On the contrary: he seemed to many to be the one to stop it</p><p> … Once installed, [Mussolini] did not make any of Lenin's obvious mistakes. He did not create a secret police, or abolish parliament. The press remained free, opposition leaders at liberty. There were some murders, but fewer than before the <i>coup</i> </p><p> … <b>One senses that Mussolini was a reluctant fascist because, underneath, he remained a Marxist, albeit a heretical one</b>; and to him 'revolution' was meaningless without large-scale expropriation, something the bulk of his followers and colleagues did not want</p><p> … a new kind of mountebank dictatorships, less bloodthirsty than Leninism and much less dangerous to property. But to Marxists it was much more serious. <b>By the mid-1920s, there were fascist movements all over Europe. One thing they all had in common was anti-Communism of the most active kind </b><br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … Mussolini's Italy was now an empirical fact, just like Lenin's Russia, inviting the world to study it, with a view to imitation, perhaps, or avoidance</p><p> … <b>No utopia was emerging in Italy, but the contrast with hungry, terrorized Russia was striking</b>, To those north of the Alps, who rejected alike the Bolshevism of the East and the liberalism of the West, <b>the Italian renaissance seemed to offer a third way</b></p></blockquote><p><b></b>
Chapter Three Waiting for Hitler</p><p></p><blockquote><p> … <b>Christianity was content with a solitary hate-figure to explain evil: Satan. But modern secular faiths needed human devils, and whole categories of them</b>. The enemy, to be plausible, had to be an entire class or race</p><p> … <b>The new anti-Semitism, in short, was part of the sinister drift away from the apportionment of individual responsibility towards the notion of collective guilt</b> — the revival, in modern guise, of one of the most primitive and barbarous, even bestial, of instincts<br /></p><p> … German anti-Semitism, in fact, was to a large extent a 'back to the countryside' movement … Unlike <b>Marxism, which was essentially a quasi-religious movement</b>, German anti-Semitism was a cultural and artistic phenomenon, a form of romanticism</p><p> … Paul de Lagarde preached <b>a Germanistic religion stripped of Christianity</b> because it had been Judaized by St Paul, 'the Rabbi'</p><p> … <b>Hitler was totally irreligious and had no interest in honour or ethics</b>. He believed in biological determinism, just as Lenin believed in historical determinism. He thought race, not class, was the true revolutionary principle of the twentieth century, just as nationalism had been in the nineteenth. He had <b>a similar background to Lenin</b></p><p> … Hitler, like Lenin, was the product of an age increasingly obsessed by politics … in that barren and cheerless world, he, like Lenin, was a master…</p><p> … Like Lenin and still more like Stalin, he [Hitler] was an outstanding practitioner of <b>the century's most radical vice: social engineering — the notion that human beings can be shovelled around like concrete</b></p><p> … in important respects he remained a Leninist to the end</p></blockquote><p></p><p>
Chapter Four Legitimacy in Decadence<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>William Temple … was the first of the Anglo-Saxon clergy to opt for <b>progressive politics as a substitute for evangelism of dogma, and was thus part of that huge movement which, as Nietzsche had foreseen, was transforming religious energy into secular Utopianism</b></blockquote><b></b><p></p><p></p>
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<br />Chapter Eight The Devils<blockquote><p></p><p> … [Stalin's] colossal exercise in social engineering, the destruction of the independent Russian peasantry … [it was] time to exact a dreadful revenge on the rural multitudes who had humbled Soviet power</p><p> … the way in which <b>the pursuit of Utopia leads the tiny handful of men in power abruptly to assault a society many centuries in the making, to treat men like ants and to stamp on their nest</b></p><p> … Collectivisation was a calamity such as no peasantry had known since the Thirty Years' War in Germany<br /><br /> … The cost in Russian lives was staggering [and led to the] re-feudalization of the Soviet peasantry, who then formed three-quarters of the population</p><p> … It was Stalin who pointed the way to Hitler</p><p> … <b>Under the influence of Stalin, the German CP made no real distinction between the Social Democrats ('Social Fascists') and Hitler. Their leader, Ernst Thälmann, told the Reichstag on 11 February 1930 that fascism was already in power in Germany, when the head of the government was a Social Democrat</b></p><p> … Blinded by <b>their absurd political analysis</b>, the Communists actually wanted a Hitler government, believing it would be a farcical affair, the prelude to their own seizure of power </p><p> … The events immediately preceding Hitler's accession to power are curiously reminiscent of Lenin's rise albeit the first used the law and the second demolished it — in that they both show how irresistible is clarity of aim combined with a huge, ruthless will to power</p><p> … It had taken Hitler less than five months to destroy German democracy completely, about the same time as Lenin. Not a soul stirred</p><p> … Hitler had thought that Lenin's greatest economic mistake had been to order party members to take over the running of industry, and kill or expel its capitalist manager</p><p> … <b>There is no evidence that Hitler was, even to the smallest degree, influenced by big business philosophy</b>. He bowed to business advice only when convinced it would forward his military and external aims. <b>He regarded himself as a socialist, and the essence of his socialism was that every individual or group in the state should unhesitatingly work for national policy</b>. It did not matter who owned the actual factory so long as those managing it did what they were told.</p><p> … <b>German socialism</b>, he told Herman Rauschning, <b>was not about nationalization: </b></p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><b>'Our socialism reaches much deeper. It does not change the external order of things, it orders solely the relationship of man to the state … Then what does property and income count for? Why should we need to socialize the banks and the factories? We are socializing the people.' </b></blockquote> … <b>Far from big business corrupting his socialism, it was the other way around</b><p></p><p> … some Catholic peasants … refused to give the Nazi salute and greetings, and bitterly resented <b>attacks on Christianity</b></p><p> … Hitler also appealed to the moralistic nature of many Germans, that is, those who had <b>a keen desire for 'moral' behaviour without possessing a code of moral absolutes rooted in the Christian faith</b></p><p> … <b>The notion of obeying 'iron laws' or 'a higher law', rather than the traditional, absolute morality taught in the churches, was a Hegelian one</b>. Marx and Lenin translated it into a class concept; Hitler into a race one. Just as the Soviet cadres were <b>taught to justify the most revolting crimes</b> in the name of a moralistic class warfare, so the SS acted in the name of race — which Hitler insisted was a far more powerful and central human motivation than class. Service to the race, as opposed to the Marxist proletariat, was the basis of Nazi puritanism</p><p> … <b>By early 1933, therefore, the two largest and strongest nations of Europe were firmly in the grip of totalitarian regimes which preached and practiced, and indeed embodied, moral relativism, with all its horrifying potentialities</b></p><p> … Like Lenin he [Hitler] was <b>a gnostic</b></p><p> … From the end of 1936 to the second half of 1938, <b>Stalin</b> struck at every group in the regime … He <b>had been in secret negotiations with Hitler since 1935</b>. The following year he persuaded the Nazi government to concoct forged evidence of secret contacts between the Soviet army commander, Marshal Tukhachevsky, and Hitler's generals; it was done by the Gestapo and transmitted by one of its agents</p><p> … the furtive contacts which the security services of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia maintained throughout this period. On the whole, <b>European Communists were safer in their own fascist homelands than in the 'Socialist mother-country'</b>. Roy Medvedev, the independent Soviet Marxist historian, noted: "It is <b>a terrible paradox</b> that most European Communist leaders and activists who lived in the USSR perished, while most of those who were in prison in their native lands in 1937-8 survived.' </p><p> … In social engineering, mass murder on an industrial scale is always the ultimate weapon: <b>Hitler's 'final solution' for the Jews had its origins not only in his own fevered mind but in [Stalin's] collectivization of the Soviet peasantry</b><br /></p><p> … The attempt by Western intellectuals to defend Stalinism involved them in a process of self-corruption which transferred to them, and so to their countries, which their writings helped to shape, some of the moral decay inherent in totalitarianism itself, especially its denial of individual responsibility for good or ill</p><p></p></blockquote><p>
Chapter Nine The High Noon of Aggression</p><p></p><blockquote><p> … Germany, Russia and Italy had gangster dictatorships <br /></p><p> … Behind [PM] Negrin's complaisant ignorance, <b>the Communists — that is, Stalin's secret police — took over Republican Spain</b>. The result was one of the major political tragedies of the century</p><p> … The purge coincided with Stalin's massacre of his own party in Russia, and it bore all the marks of his methods [what with] the former Barcelona convent of St Ursula [becoming] known as '<b>the Dachau of Republican Spain</b>'<br /><br />Andrès Nin, the POUM leader [was] the model for Orwell's hero Goldstein in <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> … During the rest of 1937 and well into 1938, many <b>thousands of POUM members, and indeed other Leftists of all descriptions, were executed or tortured to death in Communist prisons</b>. They included a large number of foreigners … Among those … who managed to escape were Orwell and Willy Brandt, the future German Chancellor<br /><br /> … It was one of Spain's many misfortunes at this time that her … Civil War coincided with the climax of Stalin's great terror </p><p> … Stalin was having his leading agents killed all over the world in 1937-8. And, as in Russia, virtually all the creatures who helped him to take over the Left in Spain, and then to terrorize it, were murdered in turn </p><p>… <b>Throughout the Spanish war, Stalinism was assisted not only by superb public relations but by naivety, gullibility and, it must also be said, the mendacity and corruption of Western intellectuals</b><br /><br /> … The intellectuals of the Left did not want to know the objective truth; they were unwilling for their illusions to be shattered. Many of them treated 'the Party' with abject subservience</p></blockquote><p>
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<br />Chapter Ten The End of Old Europe</p><p></p><blockquote> … The lesson he had learned from the First World War and from Ludendorff's analysis of it was that it was essential for Germany to effect a break-out from its Central European base, which could always be encircled. In Hitler's view, Ludendorff had just begun to attain this, at Brest-Litovsk, when the 'stab in the back' by the home front wrecked everything. Hence his real plans began where Brest-Litovsk ended: the clock was to put back to spring 1918, but with Germany solid, united, fresh and, above all, 'cleansed'<br /><br /> … <b>Being a race-socialist as opposed to a class-socialist</b>, Hitler believed the dynamic of history was race. The dynamic was interrupted when race-poisoning took place</blockquote>
Chapter Eleven The Watershed Year <p></p><p></p><blockquote><p> … Hitler and Stalin played chess with humanity<br /><br /> … <b>when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash catastrophic events</b> does not devolve on the impersonal benevolence of the masses but <b>falls into the hands of men who are isolated by the very totality of their evil natures</b></p><p> … Hitler was not in the business of liberation. Like Stalin, he was in the business of slavery<br />in essential respects they were <b>fellow ideologues, pursuing Utopias based on a fundamental division of mankind into élites and helots</b> [in which the] <i>Einsatzgruppen</i> [would form] the most audacious exercise in social engineering ever conceived<br /><br /> … The Alps would be the boundary between 'the German Empire of the North', with a new 'Germania' as its capital, and 'the Roman empire of the South'. <b>The Pope would be hanged in full pontificals in St Peter's Square</b><br /><br /> …<b>He [Hitler] would forbid smoking, make vegeterianism compulsory</b>, 'revive the Cambrian art of knitting', appoint a 'Special Commissioner for the Care of Dogs' and an 'Assistant Secretary for Defence Against Gnats and Insects'</p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … With the prospect of death on all sides of him, the ordinary Russian soldier had no real alternatives but to fight to the last<br /><br />Stalin's ruthlessness, combined with Hitler's folly, ensured Soviet survival. Yet, as generalissimos, the two men were strangely alike, in their total indifference to casualties, however calamitous, in their refusal to visit the fronts (in both cases for security reasons) and in their personal direction of their campaigns</p><p> … On a moral plane Stalin was no better than Hitler; worse in some ways</p><p> … Always pro-Soviet, [FDR's] bellicosity increased sharply once Russia entered the war<br /></p><p> … In his twilight, <b>Mussolini reverted to his Lenin-type totalitarian socialism, always the bedrock of his political philosophy</b>, and preached the destruction of 'plutocracy' and the supremacy of syndicalism. By the end of march 1945 he had carried through, albeit largely on paper, a socialist revolution which had nationalized all firms employing more than one hundred workers<br /><br /> … It was essentially Hitler's decision to fight the war to its inevitable finish. For a time at least Stalin was always prepared to revert to the Nazi-Soviet Pact. He offered to negotiate with Hitler in December 1942 and again in summer 1943</p><p> … <b>Hitler remained to the end a socialist</b>, though an eccentric one. Like Stalin he lived in hideous discomfort</p><p> … It cannot be too strongly emphasized that Hitler's aims could not be achieved except through war and under cover of war. <b>Like Lenin and Stalin, Hitler believed in ultimate social engineering</b><br /><br /> … [For Hitler] the massacre of entire categories of mankind was nothing more than a distasteful duty. Lenin seems to have cultivated exactly the same attitude</p><p> … Because Stalin believed, as Lenin had done, that a Soviet Germany would emerge from the war, he underplayed German war-guilt in his public statements and encouraged Western supporters to do the same. His private feelings were quite different</p><p> … The links between the Nazi and Soviet security forces had always been strong, and were cordially resumed after the war. Himmler had always admired Soviet police methods (he believed Stalin had distinguished Mongol blood from Genghis Khan's horde) and his head of the Gestapo, SS General Mueller, probably went to work for the NKVD. Many of the Prussian police officials, who had served Goering, went on to high office in the police of the East German People's Republic, which Stalin in due course set up</p><p> … The Japanese POW record, in fact, was much worse than the Nazis': of 235,000 Anglo-American POWs held by Germany and Italy only 4 percent died, whereas of the 132,000 in Japanese custody 27 percent died … In fact Japanese atrocities against Indian and Filippino soldiers and against Chinese, Malay and other non-white civilians were infinitely more savage and numerous than any inflicted on the Anglo-Americans<br /><br /> … the confusion of moral issues by the end of the war was fundamentally compounded by the presence, in the ranks of the righteous, of the Soviet totalitarian power. <b>There was scarcely a crime the Nazis or the knights of Bushido had committed, or even imagined, which the Soviet regime hand not also perpetrated, usually on an even larger scale. It ran precisely the type of system which had produced the war and its horrors. More specifically, the Nazi-Soviet Pact of September 1939 and the Japanese-Soviet Pact of April 1941 had made the Axis aggressions possible</b>.</p><p> … Nevertheless, Soviet Russia not only judged the guilty of the war it had helped to create but emerged as its sole beneficiary</p><p></p></blockquote><p></p><p>
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Chapter Thirteen Peace by Terror</p><p></p><blockquote><p> …Roosevelt also wanted to bypass Churchill, whom he thought an incorrigible old imperialist, incapable of understanding ideological idealism<br /><br /> … This vanity, so reminiscent of Chamberlain's belief that he could 'handle' Hitler, was compounded by an astonishing naivety. He did not believe Stalin wanted territory … The menace which Roosevelt's blindness constituted to the post-war stability of Europe</p><p> … The Cold War may be said to date from the immediate aftermath of the Yalta Conference, to be precise from March 1945</p><p> … Eastern Europe and most of the Balkans were lost to totalitarianism. It was unclear for some time whether Western Europe could be saved too<br /><br /> … it was Stalin's greed which led him to overplay his hand and so reverse the process of American withdrawal. And it was greed not only for land and power but for blood.</p><p> … Like Stalin, [Tito] was an experienced gangster familiar with the rules of survival<br /><br /> … Of course the reason Truman wanted UN backing [for Korea] was that he took America into the war without getting Congressional approval first</p><p> … If the Cold War began over Poland it reached maturity over Korea and embraced the whole world. In effect, Stalin had polarized the earth<br /><br /> … Stalin hated 'Westerners' in the same way Hitler hated Jews, using the same term: 'cosmopolitanism'. This explains the extraordinary thoroughness and venom with which, in 1945-6, he destroyed or isolated in camps all those who had been in contact with non-Soviet ideas: not only prisoners of war but serving officers, technicians, journalists and party members whose wartime duties had taken them abroad</p><p> … [Stalin] was running what the Chinese Communists were later to term <b>a Cultural Revolution</b>, an attempt to change fundamental human attitudes over the whole range of knowledge by the use of naked police power</p></blockquote><p></p><p>
Chapter Fourteen The Bandung Generation<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>Until the early 1950s, the Americans had controlled the UN. Their first mistake was to involve it in Korea, especially through the forum of the General Assembly, a pseudo-representative body which spoke only for governments, a growing proportion of which were undemocratic. Korea broke Trygve Lie, the Norwegian Secretary-General, who was loyal to the principles of the old Western alliance. He resigned when the Russians boycotted him and got the Left to stir up his own Secretariat against him. <b>At this point the Western powers should have dropped the UN and concentrated instead on expanding NATO into a world-wide security of free nations</b>.</blockquote><p>Chapter Fifteen Caliban's Kingdoms</p><p></p><blockquote>The former colonies [after WWII] became the superlative prey for <b>the great human scourge of the twentieth century: the professional politician</b> </blockquote>No Pasarán has linked to and quoted <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+johnson" target="_blank">Paul Johnson</a> numerous times, notably from his <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZIZR73"><i>History of the American People</i></a>. <p></p><p></p><p>
• NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY (<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/thanksgiving-myth-or-problematic.html" target="_blank">2022</a> & <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-nobody-tells-you-about-indians-and.html" target="_blank">2021</a>): Is Thanksgiving a "Myth" or a "Problematic Holiday"? <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/thanksgiving-myth-or-problematic.html" target="_blank">What Nobody Tells You About Indians and Other Native Americans</a></p><p>
• AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY (2021): <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-1619-project-summarized-in-one.html" target="_blank">The 1619 Project Summarized in One Single Sentence</a></p><p>
• WHITE HISTORY (2021): Thanksgiving: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2022/11/thanksgiving-can-elites-contempt-for.html" target="_blank">Can
the Élites' Contempt for American History and for the Voters' Desires
in the 21st Century Be Traced All the Way Back to the Jamestown and
Plymouth Colonies?</a></p><p>
• JIMMY CARTER (2008): 32 years ago <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2008/10/32-years-ago-democrat-politician-with.html" target="_blank">a
Democrat politician with very little experience "transcended" politics
as usual and was lifted on waves of good will to the White House</a></p><p>
• NIXON & WATERGATE (2018 & 2017): The Troubling Parallels Between Today and the Watergate Era: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-troubling-parallels-between-today.html" target="_blank">The media was determined to "reverse the verdict of the election by non-constitutional means"; Trump 2016? No, Nixon 1972</a> • Nixon and Watergate: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/05/nixon-and-watergate-what-do-msm-and.html" target="_blank">What Do the MSM and History Books Fail to Tell Us About the 1970s Scandal?</a></p><p>
• JFK'S 1960 CAMPAIGN (2020, 2012, 2008): Evidence of Fraud in 2020 Election? <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/11/evidence-of-fraud-in-2020-election.html" target="_blank">A Surprising Number of Parallels with JFK's 1960 Campaign</a> • Evidence of Fraud in 2008 Election? <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2012/04/evidence-of-fraud-in-2008-election.html" target="_blank">A Surprising Number of Parallels with JFK's 1960 Campaign</a> • Stealing the Election: <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2008/11/stealing-election-1960-and-2008.html" target="_blank">The 1960 and the 2008 Contests Compared</a></p>
• EUROPEAN HISTORY (2005, 2020): The Europe of totalitarianism, in which <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2005/06/europe-of-totalitarianism-in-which.html" target="_blank">communism, fascism and Nazism competed to impose regulations on every aspect of human existence</a> • Why Does Nobody Ever Fret About <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-does-nobody-ever-fret-about.html" target="_blank">Scandinavia's — Ghastly — 19th-C Slavery Conditions</a>?<p>
• ANTI-AMERICANISM (2004, 2006 (twice)): The truth is, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2004/12/truth-is-any-accusation-against.html" target="_blank">any accusation against America that comes to hand is used without scruple</a> by the Old World intelligentsia • <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2006/04/no-american-citizen-should-stoop-to.html" target="_blank">No American citizen should stoop to apologize for being American</a>; doing so is nothing short of despicable • <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2006/04/can-anyone-in-fact-it-is-just-as-bad.html" target="_blank">"Go sell peanuts in the Métro"</a></p><p>
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228630/How-Hitlers-Nazi-propaganda-machine-tried-Christ-Christmas.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/17/article-0-07409EAA000005DC-682_634x430.jpg" /></a> <br /><b>HITLER AND CHRISTIANITY </b><br /></p><p>• 卐mas Caroling: <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2012/12/mas-caroling-extremes-hitler-wanted-to.html" target="_blank">The Extremes Hitler Wanted to Go To in Order to Replace Christianity with the "Religion" of National Socialism</a>.</p><p>• <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2012/12/adolf-hitler-in-religious-surroundings.html" target="_blank">Adolf Hitler in Religious Surroundings: Is There Really Evidence That the Führer Was a Christian?</a>
</p><p>• Worshipping Little Else But the Aryan Race, <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2013/01/worshipping-little-else-but-aryan-race.html" target="_blank">Hitler Abhorred the Christian Faith</a> and Wanted to Replace Christmas with the Pagans' Yule</p><p>• "Out With Jesus" —
<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/07/out-with-jesus-during-his-12-years-in.html" target="_blank">During His 12 Years in Power, Hitler Tried to Ban the Tradition of Christmas</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-God-Bible-Ray-Comfort/dp/1936488248/" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41THKucY8kL._AA160_.jpg" /></a> <b>Related</b>: • <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2015/12/by-laying-crusades-at-feet-of.html" target="_blank">Jonah Goldberg</a>: Just for the record, Hitler <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/04/wnd-author-cbn-expose-hitlers-hatred-of-christians/">detested Christianity</a> <br />
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• Ray Comfort, whose <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/Hitler-God-and-the-Bible-HardcoverAutographed-PLUS-FREE-180-DVD"> “Hitler, God and the Bible”</a> points out
Hitler devised a master strategy to crush all Christian churches, explains that
<a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/04/wnd-author-cbn-expose-hitlers-hatred-of-christians/" target="_blank">it would be either ignorant or disingenuous to call Hitler a Christian</a>:<br />
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In a special <a href="http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/churchhistory/godandhitler/?cpid=CC1304191#">Christian Broadcasting Network program</a>,
Comfort cites the head of Hitler Youth, Boldur von Schirach, who said,
“Destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of
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… The CBN program explains how Hitler put on a religious, even Christian, façade, until he became powerful.<br />
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… But later one of his inner circle acknowledged: “I’m absolutely clear
in my own mind, and I think I can speak for the Fuhrer as well, that
both the Catholic and Protestant churches will vanish from the life of
our people.”</blockquote><p><b></b></p><p>•
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228630/How-Hitlers-Nazi-propaganda-machine-tried-Christ-Christmas.html" target="_blank">How Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas</a> (danke zu <a href="https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/242042/" target="_blank">Ed Driscoll</a>) <br />
</p><blockquote class="tr_bq">
… the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration.<br />
<br />
… 'Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis - after all, the baby
Jesus was a Jewish child,' Judith Breuer told the German newspaper
Spiegel. 'The most important celebration in the year didn't fit with
their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less
Christian.'<br />
<br />
The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals.<br />
<br />
The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape
of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas,
who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the
Norse god Odin.<br />
<br />
The symbol that posed a particular problem for the Nazis was the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees.<br />
<br />
… The is a legacy of the Nazi Christmas. The wartime version of the
traditional Christmas carol 'Unto us a time has come' is still sung.
'The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song
about walking through the snow,' Breuer said.<br />
<br />
Surprisingly, German churches put up little opposition to the
Nazification of Christmas. 'You would have expected them to protest
loudly and insist that it was a Christian festival,' said Breuer. 'But
instead they largely kept quiet, out of fear.'
</blockquote>
<a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2017/07/out-with-jesus-during-his-12-years-in.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="450" src="https://images.interactives.dk/nazi-julen-A0VQiwpYbREmlgnyG7rAOw.jpg?auto=compress&ch=Width%2CDPR&dpr=2&ixjsv=2.2.4&q=50&rect=16%2C0%2C867%2C600&w=960" /></a> <br /><p></p><p></p>
Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-28201069192589759052023-11-20T22:11:00.066+00:002023-11-21T12:14:26.950+00:00ROF's Worldwide Freedom Initiative Event Draws VIPs From the Entire Western World to Paris <a href="https://www.epochtimes.fr/worldwide-freedom-initiative-les-droites-americaines-et-europeennes-reunies-a-paris-2472405.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://www.epochtimes.fr/assets/uploads/2023/11/WFI-795x447.jpg" /></a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WFI2023-TV" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" src="https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/38z7J84B6B-rv8QFEEvEvb_hPIGEJuuONrG8Nc2qD3cTUtUh4Hw360VSBf0dKqvw8mpED9HU=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" /></a>
Text by <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Evelyne Joslain</a>. <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/patrons-emissions/auteur185/" target="_blank">Patron d'émission</a> du Libre journal du Nouveau Monde à <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/" target="_blank">Radio Courtoisie</a>, Evelyne Joslain est <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Evelyne-Joslain/e/B004MLZU3K" target="_blank">l'auteur</a> d'<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Evelyne+Joslain&search-alias=books-fr&field-author=Evelyne+Joslain&sort=relevancerank" target="_blank">une poignée de livres</a> sur les États-Unis. Son prochain sortira d'ici quelques mois.<br /><p>Photos by Republicans in France members Marie-Thérèse Foreau (MTF) and video by <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+Reen" target="_blank">Paul Reen</a> (PR). Several speeches can also be seen on the website of <a href="https://www.republicansoverseasfrance.com/" target="_blank">Republicans Overseas France</a> and on the YouTube page of ROF's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WFI2023-TV" target="_blank">WFI 2023 TV</a>. </p><p>Par ailleurs, sous la signature de <span class="author author_name"><a href="https://www.epochtimes.fr/author/etienne">Etienne Fauchaire</a></span>, l'édition française de The Epoch Times présente deux articles sur l'<a href="https://www.epochtimes.fr/worldwide-freedom-initiative-les-droites-americaines-et-europeennes-reunies-a-paris-2472405.html" target="_blank">Initiative Mondiale pour la Liberté</a> et sur son <a href="https://www.epochtimes.fr/donald-trump-linvite-surprise-de-la-worldwide-freedom-initiative-organisee-a-paris-2469902.html" target="_blank">invité surprise</a>.
</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>Une fois n'est pas coutume…</i> In France, where usually nothing of interest ever happens for us people of the right, a fascinating conservative conference was held on November 10, under the aegis of <a href="https://www.republicansoverseasfrance.com/" target="_blank">Republicans Overseas France</a> or ROF, a conservative American group, and the Danube Institute, a think tank
created in Budapest by John O'Sullivan, an Anglo-American who began his political and literary career as a speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher. </p><p>The event was initially planned at the town hall of the 6th Arrondissement in Paris but,
only two days prior to the conference, the city councilors cavalierly dis-invited some 200 people
without explanation and without apology, for the convoluted reason, it would seem, that the panelists and guests
registered included “controversial personalities”. Randy Yaloz, head of ROF, managed to pull off the feat of quickly rerouting all those dangerous right-wing extremists to the 56th floor of la Tour Montparnasse, thus ensure the smooth running of the conference. A nice swap, as it happens, what with magnificent panoramas of the French capital that the town hall could not have offered. </p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjod3Q9viMwO5RJzmt__EhEfw3cqKjvxIU3q9PVPcoahjsWt1CC9bFCWqj-cPx5ZB-5snl7-td4k586dwv_E8LraSIy2tKvNwdlf0OmRQptvI9XdYC9KlMuAmTJ5_0LPqC44tOZi1NoRJPQwGb5OVYN5y2SojuuIAXnGYnbvQ1iXpTP1EUaWbM/s1500/PHOTO-2023-11-12-07-53-33.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjod3Q9viMwO5RJzmt__EhEfw3cqKjvxIU3q9PVPcoahjsWt1CC9bFCWqj-cPx5ZB-5snl7-td4k586dwv_E8LraSIy2tKvNwdlf0OmRQptvI9XdYC9KlMuAmTJ5_0LPqC44tOZi1NoRJPQwGb5OVYN5y2SojuuIAXnGYnbvQ1iXpTP1EUaWbM/w640-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-12-07-53-33.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edy Iverson and Paul Reen on the 56th floor of la Tour Montparnasse (MTF)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><blockquote><p>The general theme was libety and more precisely our individual freedoms, all of which are under serious attack on a daily basis by that domestic enemy which is known as Wokism, the undisguised goal of which is the destruction of our traditions and our civilization and which turns out to be never anything other than pure neo-Marxism. Evil being at work in all our Western democracies, the meeting was international with speakers hailing from the United States and
from all over Europe. </p></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwWhyVr9bIGYhIFmj5PfDyTVvP8CBvnWjut1-QHdT_pajDJUoHCx2QG7RfRdWUYLvrQgMAsG4GyUrrM-4j45QMtjNU08YXei-2cW_hGyaJlH4tKYPYwI4wWT_WxzgwU9zwzDog18RovJPXU_YWpjY9ipBZfFGBfxIX1yW4z4m4ndwmizxvDNX/s1500/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-01-38.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwWhyVr9bIGYhIFmj5PfDyTVvP8CBvnWjut1-QHdT_pajDJUoHCx2QG7RfRdWUYLvrQgMAsG4GyUrrM-4j45QMtjNU08YXei-2cW_hGyaJlH4tKYPYwI4wWT_WxzgwU9zwzDog18RovJPXU_YWpjY9ipBZfFGBfxIX1yW4z4m4ndwmizxvDNX/w640-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-01-38.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Organized by Republicans Overseas France and the Danube Institute, the Worldwide <br />Freedom Initiative drew VIPs to Paris from the USA and every part of Europe (MTF)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote>Emphasis was placed on the forms taken by censorship and the suppression of the right of free speech which are rife first and foremost in the media, duly aligned with the narratives of left-leaning
governments. André Bercoff reminded us that we must constantly censor ourselves to avoid
that our remarks be "judicialized" and that if there is no gulag, the modern world's dissidents are
nevertheless dismissed as "conspiracy theorists" at the slightest misinterpretation of a single word. All because
“we must not weaken the social consensus”, as they said during the Covid terror, explained
Florian Philippot wryly (in fact a political consensus against the citizenry) and that on all subjects.
Thus, debate is prohibited on one subject after another, from climate and immigration to race and sexual orientation, with
the EU dominating the roost. On this side of the Atlantic, “daring to talk about FREXIT would be an obscenity”. Les Pariotes' Philippot, who
had discretely put his anti-Americanism in his pocket (as had Eric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan), also noted that the national media engage in the systematic denigration of
Donald Trump while the Bidens' mafia clan is treated to the respect and the hand kissing of a Sicilian Godfather. </blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpaVb4MG6RITJb68bRXw9CfTZhjrKukZLGrLKTX5c54w5vDXIaZpVUD7Om62nzhrNR9VW9Pp-UQakEOGrDW_jju_rO2zJkLDlYi9xCk4kMdbz-CukKKk4xHpaym2on1yjaaw3idE9VSWGKz8qPh42puzLftGoP0IYNNg7o1CBydQeJYTApMhK9/s1500/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-02-34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpaVb4MG6RITJb68bRXw9CfTZhjrKukZLGrLKTX5c54w5vDXIaZpVUD7Om62nzhrNR9VW9Pp-UQakEOGrDW_jju_rO2zJkLDlYi9xCk4kMdbz-CukKKk4xHpaym2on1yjaaw3idE9VSWGKz8qPh42puzLftGoP0IYNNg7o1CBydQeJYTApMhK9/w640-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-02-34.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><blockquote>But FREXIT <i>is</i> possible, assured Charles Gave without convincing anyone! This indirectly,
when the United States, weighed down by its external deficit and inevitable dedollarization
will have to abandon Europe, thus forcing us to reactivate our military and our
nuclear forces, which will lead to an explosion of the detested super state... <p></p><p>Another theme was precisely that of international organizations, the EU, the UN, supranational courts, and NGOs, all of them so corrupt and harmful. Rob Roos of Holland's MEP demonstrated
how the erosion of true democracy is the end result of "the social engineering of
non-elected technocracies and bureaucracies, extremely busy within these organizations to create from the
top down absurd regulations which take precedence over the rights of nations in their desire to impose the same legislation and common standards on all of us." The frenzied environmentalism of
Eurocrats now demand the sacrifice of Dutch livestock and the depoldarization or
removal of the dikes protecting the flat country (much of which is under sea level), all of which is to restore the rights of Mother
Nature or Gaia, if you prefer...</p><p>Rob Roos's Dutch compatriot Sieta van Keimpema added that the green EU puts our
food security at risk. She emphasized that Ursula von den Leyen was the zealous agent of the
Davos Forum and the Green New Deal which demands the elimination of insecticides and agricultural de-fertilization! The madness must stop because rebuilding after the ecological damage will be extremely
difficult if not impossible. Jeremy Stubbs, deputy editor at <a href="https://www.causeur.fr/" target="_blank">Causeur</a> magazine and head of
British conservatives in Paris, a fine connoisseur of the sexual ideologies dear to the
left, specified that the decline of the West went hand in hand with the economic decline generated
by climate myths whose real goal is the final destruction of capitalism by
condemnation of all "extractionism", the act of "extracting
our carbon-based energies from the sacred body of Mother Nature" — obviously a capital environmental sin, even a double sin because it turns out also to be "an eco-feminist crime" committed by the patriarchy! </p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_WIIC5he04jq_bb3410C93BqX-BKs97zPfY0JRpkOKFWViT_6BPlPSYCK-2DN4MFvd-SfLjc5yeIhOaXhv2bs6x1GiA3Q7fLJSH-QusZDDRcNamuKlsOGrEkGHHjYOq6WScyIVrdqzRM4oGDuxjpDc5x7qyxUH6YFGXicGJYNr2JErTo0NpS/s1500/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-31-47.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_WIIC5he04jq_bb3410C93BqX-BKs97zPfY0JRpkOKFWViT_6BPlPSYCK-2DN4MFvd-SfLjc5yeIhOaXhv2bs6x1GiA3Q7fLJSH-QusZDDRcNamuKlsOGrEkGHHjYOq6WScyIVrdqzRM4oGDuxjpDc5x7qyxUH6YFGXicGJYNr2JErTo0NpS/w640-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-31-47.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike Johnson was supposed to appear via Zoom, but because the new Speaker of the House had <br />laryngitis, his speech was read by Republicans Overseas Vice-President Jim Gosart (MTF)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote>Romania's Dorin Jacob and Hungary's Balaz Orban informed us about the
Visegrad group: former Soviet republics are more resistant to wokism "quite simply"
because they duly recognize it as communism reincarnate and they have already been through that once, thank you very much! No question "of
destroying our traditions, our identities and our sovereignty" this time around through the insanity of
“cancel culture”. And we know everything Soros is capable of when it comes to subversive immigration, himself a stateless Hungarian Jew and the "worst import ever to hail from the America." Israel's Mark Zell insisted on the incestuous alliance (typically Islamo-leftist) between environmentalists and Hamas terrorists, to which he could have added the
"transgender" movement since Judith Butler, high priestess of the "gender" movement, publicly supported
the "Queers for Palestine" group … Zell pointed out that the conflict unleashed on October 7 is
well in the woke (Marxist) line, with "oppressors" and "oppressed" (and too bad if the two can be easily happily reversed) and he affirmed that this attack targets the Free World and not Israel alone. </blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>Another theme extensively covered was the ravages of Wokism in education. Reconquête's Éric Zemmour deplored that
General de Gaulle completely missed the cultural fight and let the communists
take over national education. However, the craziest and most dangerous woke theories are constructed in the academic world, resulting in "studies of gender, race, and
other “devastated minorities”," with diplomas and a pseudo-scientific status
allowing elected officials an excuse to develop laws! “Would you dare challenge science?
Infernal, implacable machine whose goal is absolute power over populations.”
Laurence Trochu, founder and president of a brand new “conservative party”, recalled
that "the deconstruction of our traditions and values (and therefore our inevitable decline) has been
institutionalized from Mitterrand onwards: suppressing classical culture so that everyone is
equal" (the famous woke equity) and the vague educational theories of Adorno (from the Frankfurt School) introduced a the time. All this, aggravated by the intensive use of digital technology in the past
ten years, resulted in the abolition of critical thinking and in impoverished language, therefore impoverished thought, therefore
impoverishment of the very aptitude <i>for</i> reflection. America's Quisha King, president of Moms for Liberty, present via a Zoom screen, explained how parental rights have been violated since
the Biden Administration has insisted on the mandatory teaching of Critical Race Theory which
“teaches children to judge others by the color of their skin” alongside another
compulsory subject in school, transgender theory. </p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLigDryFIVK_o9EE7Fmr1bO-jhAJG48K1ynoHZdXytQinGRqA-NSHzyDrSXl8n-gxAvpmGH8oAGPvOKmEOSs3CBf7yrKnLVqwmlaBuzvij_KlD_-8pTKf62aFH_7X4bYVlhuuvAVKwmBuNn3E7U2vwAlK-1TiUSJnCI4GGoQ3gZiZw0GR7IJt/s1500/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-04-42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLigDryFIVK_o9EE7Fmr1bO-jhAJG48K1ynoHZdXytQinGRqA-NSHzyDrSXl8n-gxAvpmGH8oAGPvOKmEOSs3CBf7yrKnLVqwmlaBuzvij_KlD_-8pTKf62aFH_7X4bYVlhuuvAVKwmBuNn3E7U2vwAlK-1TiUSJnCI4GGoQ3gZiZw0GR7IJt/w640-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-04-42.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote>Videoconferencing, generally speaking a boring process, also allowed us to have the
surprise of the day, Donald Trump live at 4 p.m. sharp, who congratulated us all on our
presence and on our determination to fight against the malignant forces of Wokism. </blockquote><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxC2WbwJILvBtMTORYc3U16bvp4pNRIH6yzImG6oHI0CQ8ev3NurJa8sm2WhCR3EHQWAJHmvc7AJpg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Among the attendees was Corey Lewandowski, who helped organize a special guest call-in (PR)<br /><p></p><p></p><blockquote>The 45th president was followed by Nigel Farage
who recounted how he had been punished for having organized BREXIT, finding himself from one day
to the next "debanked", banned from his bank accounts like a common criminal, but whose counterattack has proven its effectiveness since a court has just condemned the bank to an apology and a fine. The UK Independence Party honcho recommends that everyone "attend the general meetings of their
bank and question the choices aligned with interests opposed to those of the depositaries".
This echoed the statement of Canada's Tamara Lich who described how
Canadian truckers were mercilessly deprived of access to their bank accounts,
on the completely illegal order of Justin Trudeau, for daring to organize a massive demonstration in 2022 against his cabinet's vaccination dictates, since woke governments
monopolize power by launching collective fears (Covid, climate…) which allow them
to exercise undue rights". This confirmed the warnings of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan earlier in the
morning on the aims of the EU and the French government for 2028: a digital euro and
the imposition of a Chinese-style control system. Control our money first, said the Debout la France leader, and thereafter all our decisions with "the establishment of a spider's web without our knowledge". </blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcl7PQUOEdZaHfIGaMJDpSe9ojio538nxxe3p7ps77phxEJ02uyaTQj0qmxDe1D2r7LNVHz50FcOr2pMi181Z1bUh281bkKKn1dCopyb8NfJYFfun7jGMxUGmJgj0Rrq8aML-E3kMvrtnkViQrTjvwl4-9fXbKDIzgDvO5gFLDMmzza3VLqq5a/s2048/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-01-22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcl7PQUOEdZaHfIGaMJDpSe9ojio538nxxe3p7ps77phxEJ02uyaTQj0qmxDe1D2r7LNVHz50FcOr2pMi181Z1bUh281bkKKn1dCopyb8NfJYFfun7jGMxUGmJgj0Rrq8aML-E3kMvrtnkViQrTjvwl4-9fXbKDIzgDvO5gFLDMmzza3VLqq5a/w640-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-01-22.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Surprise guest at the Paris event (MTF)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><blockquote>On the question of manipulated elections, another strong point of Wokism, David Bossie and Corey
Lewandowski assured the audience that the pivotal states could not repeat the electoral theft
of 2020 because "precautions have been taken with lawyers ready to intervene in each
polling station". Fine, but recalling that the left has all the billionaires of its side, it is hard no to but wonder if the Republicans will not be ready in 2024 for the 2020 election instead of for the 2024 election, and if the Democrats have not come up with an even more diabolical plan than its successful 2020 conspiracy. </blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7xi_gHJmNrDzcxHFQOigpQMJIfWh3ouJTrTKKkZKKXMaLQBOFEJNXGgnsh8gsPuYUiexdfkwObQWqbEP4P-hL5kSVGhYQbfxBqKA2ja3uTw1YeDDtextN0BDlnV2009rsYvy7BAfG5e2YkBmVp7pFKk-ugGX4lQsJVrCJ8EAtNEc01q2alP4/s1024/PHOTO-2023-11-10-21-11-15.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7xi_gHJmNrDzcxHFQOigpQMJIfWh3ouJTrTKKkZKKXMaLQBOFEJNXGgnsh8gsPuYUiexdfkwObQWqbEP4P-hL5kSVGhYQbfxBqKA2ja3uTw1YeDDtextN0BDlnV2009rsYvy7BAfG5e2YkBmVp7pFKk-ugGX4lQsJVrCJ8EAtNEc01q2alP4/w480-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-10-21-11-15.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (PR)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><blockquote>The day ended with a speech from Kristi Noem. This young woman,
Governor of South Dakota, spoke of her personal, impressive experience, then
confirmed that food insecurity is a national and even an international security risk.
The threat to America does not come from the EU but from the great friend and partner of the elites'
transnational corporations, Comrade Xi at the head of the CCP, which buys millions of acres of arable land without
encountering obstacles, which shows that the question of leadership is essential. For
example, Noem was the first in her state to ban "the Chinese application TikTok which
is to the mind what [Chinese] fentanyl is to the body." Then she reminded everyone that
America owes a lot to France, its thinkers, philosophers, and artists, and that the Statue
of Liberty bears the inscription "Lady Liberty enlightening the world".
"Also, we must re-educate the people who have been brainwashed and who let themselves
be carried away by their emotions." Then she concluded with strong words: "Freedom is this
which characterizes true democracy, also when you defend freedom and true
values against the wokist crowd, know that you will have lived a life full of meaning".
</blockquote><p></p><blockquote>These are the terrorists and the conspiracy theorists that a woke French town hall attempted to muzzle.</blockquote> <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetjej3lr0BEOIBBqGQTkkZuKe6uNE_kwtC2rTvgUEGChTKrDTiXYIfp3Bhy-DBYSKIDEwaqn2JMUDK4gB8WixvuInDCugnCLY9gB6CQXlbcXu6M3zSjrLZCTqRbU9LlUOKZU3g7is0yC-yHyaXIVRBnkM1LI-WbxnbN8mON9reODFvjADTYBb/s1500/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-03-00.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetjej3lr0BEOIBBqGQTkkZuKe6uNE_kwtC2rTvgUEGChTKrDTiXYIfp3Bhy-DBYSKIDEwaqn2JMUDK4gB8WixvuInDCugnCLY9gB6CQXlbcXu6M3zSjrLZCTqRbU9LlUOKZU3g7is0yC-yHyaXIVRBnkM1LI-WbxnbN8mON9reODFvjADTYBb/w640-h640/PHOTO-2023-11-12-08-03-00.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ROF's Randy Yaloz and the Mount Rushmore State's Kristi Noem (MTF)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><br /></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-53508053658481809772023-11-17T20:30:00.003+00:002023-11-17T20:46:34.023+00:00Question Asked — at Radio Courtoisie: "In His Remaining 14 Months, Is Biden Capable of Bringing About World War III? Alas Yes!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn3Vh1WAspWZnClzVH06y_-oELcUUvwiRrwFB12iLfbalFria3-qPnjScvMrHuV3VkPIJtucYoW2cW7HTGcSS1pACS7HgubhZWnIexM-b-91tgdFLkyJQn-F8hfqdVnhoAUg81skDEv0kdDnP5lc1qqpoYo5cjHfn0WRQJwUXs3K3lQ1w7fU8R/s1610/radiocourtoisie%202023-11-15.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1610" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn3Vh1WAspWZnClzVH06y_-oELcUUvwiRrwFB12iLfbalFria3-qPnjScvMrHuV3VkPIJtucYoW2cW7HTGcSS1pACS7HgubhZWnIexM-b-91tgdFLkyJQn-F8hfqdVnhoAUg81skDEv0kdDnP5lc1qqpoYo5cjHfn0WRQJwUXs3K3lQ1w7fU8R/w640-h370/radiocourtoisie%202023-11-15.png" width="640" /></a></div>
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<div class="col s12 m12 l1 qt-pushpin-container">Le 15 novembre 2023, <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=joslain" target="_blank">Evelyne Joslain</a>, assistée d’Eric, reçoit :
<ul><li>Marc Amblard, avocat</li><li>Daniel Clément, médecin</li><li>Erik Svane, auteur de bandes dessinées et membre du groupe des Républicains à Paris</li></ul>
<p>Thème : “<a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/2023/11/15/libre-journal-du-nouveau-monde-du-15-novembre-2023-le-point-sur-lamerique-a-une-annee-de-lelection-presidentielle-dans-les-quatorze-mois-qui-lui-restent-biden-est-il-capable-de-provoquer-un/" target="_blank">Le point sur l’Amérique à une année de l’élection
présidentielle</a> : dans les quatorze mois qui lui restent, Biden est-il
capable de provoquer une IIIe guerre mondiale ? Hélas oui !”</p>
<div class="tagcloud qt-spacer-m"><span class="qt-title">Étiquettes : </span><a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/etiquette/biden/" rel="tag">Biden</a> <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/etiquette/iiie-guerre-mondiale/" rel="tag">IIIe guerre mondiale</a> <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/etiquette/nouveau-monder/" rel="tag">Nouveau mondeR</a> <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/etiquette/s1/" rel="tag">s1</a> <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/etiquette/usa/" rel="tag">USA</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/patrons-emissions/auteur185/" target="_blank">Patron d'émission</a> du Libre journal du Nouveau Monde à <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/" target="_blank">Radio Courtoisie</a>, Evelyne Joslain est <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Evelyne-Joslain/e/B004MLZU3K" target="_blank">l'auteur</a> d'<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Evelyne+Joslain&search-alias=books-fr&field-author=Evelyne+Joslain&sort=relevancerank" target="_blank">une poignée de livres</a> sur les États-Unis.<p>Cliquez sur <a href="https://www.radiocourtoisie.fr/2023/11/15/libre-journal-du-nouveau-monde-du-15-novembre-2023-le-point-sur-lamerique-a-une-annee-de-lelection-presidentielle-dans-les-quatorze-mois-qui-lui-restent-biden-est-il-capable-de-provoquer-un/" target="_blank">le lien</a> pour entendre l'émission d'une heure et demie… </p><p>Three blogs of note are mentioned in the final moments as places that French citizens can hail to for correct information: <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/now-we-have-proof-tgp-exclusive-massive-2020/" target="_blank">Gateway Pundit</a>, <a href="https://instapundit.com/" target="_blank">Instapundit</a>, and <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">No Pasarán</a> (1:24.22 & 1:25:20)…<br /></p><p></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-48784386405097370342023-11-07T08:46:00.004+00:002023-11-10T21:25:16.635+00:00Western Integration I: Sexy Westernized Middle Eastern Girl in France Mocks the Gruesome Oven Murder of an Israeli Baby (VIDEO)<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-i-young-westernized.html"></a>
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[<b>UPDATEs</b>: 1) <b>This post has been edited</b> to overcome a DMCA complaint and ban to protect the Middle Eastern girl's privacy 2) Wearing nothing but sexy undies, a black négligée, and a
cowboy hat, a Muslim Hamas supporter displaying no love for
Jews/Israelis bares her body and struts for the camera in a TikTok-type
video (go to bottom of this post); does Warda Anwar not realize that in
Gaza, as in many Muslim countries, this could get her whipped or worse,
splashed with acid or even killed? How, then, would she like her grisly
fate to be mocked, whether by someone of her own or of another faith?]<br /></p><p>So
you have heard it for years, for decades. Islam is as good a religion
as any other (you racists!), and they make just as good American,
French, and Scandinavian citizens as anyone else (and probably better
ones too, you racists!).</p><p>Besides, we are told, according to the Koran, the religion of peace is so avant-garde that verse 5:32 says that <span><i>Whoever kills one person (unless it be for murder or spreading corruption) it shall as if he killed whole of humanity</i>.</span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">• See also <i>Western Integration Part II</i>: Echo Chant <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-ii-echo-chant.html" target="_blank">Overheard on the Paris Metro — "We Are Nazis, We Are Proud!"</a></span></span></span><span> </span><br /><br />Well,
take a look at this girl of Middle Eastern origins (she looks more like
a girl than a woman and could arguably pass for French): She appears
to be about 20 [but is closer to 30 if the video's off-voice turns out
to be her son], she is quite attractive, she wears Western clothing (no
veil), she wears make-up, she bares her body in sexy TikTok-type videos,
and offhand, she looks like someone well integrated into French society
whom you would expect to meet (and approach and flirt with) at a club
on a Friday night. Offhand. That is, until you hear her talk with glee
and snort about the recent mass murder of Israelis, in particular the
gruesome murder of their babies. (Merci pour le hyperlien, <a href="https://instapundit.com/615361/" target="_blank">Madame Hoyt</a>.)</p><p></p>
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After reading and seeing reports of the <a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/further-reports-come-to-light-in-case-of-the-baby-who-perished-in-an-oven-during-the-attack-by-hamas-a-tragedy-that-has-horrified-millions" target="_blank">baby who was found burned to death</a> (merci à <a href="https://instapundit.com/615198/" target="_blank">Sarah Hoyt</a>)
— “While the baby was still alive they put him into the oven and they
cooked the baby alive” — this video (sporting a satirical "Israel I love
you") is the reaction from a girl whose name (or pseudonym) seems to be
Haneia Nakei but whose real name, according to <a href="https://www.ladepeche.fr/2023/11/03/guerre-israel-hamas-quel-assaisonnement-pour-ce-gigot-de-bebe-une-video-scandalise-la-toile-darmanin-saisit-la-justice-11559381.php" target="_blank">the Israeli embassy in Paris</a>, is Warda Anwar:<p></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Je
tombe sur l'histoire du bébé qui a été mis dans le four… Je me pose la
question de [savoir] s'ils ont mis du sel, du poivre, s'ils ont mis du
thym, ils l'ont fait revenir à quoi, et… ça a été quoi
l'accompagnement? Vous vous posez pas la question, vous? Ch'ais pas…</p><p>Voice-off:
Un accompagnement avec ce gigot de bébé n’était autre qu’une assiette
de frites avec une sauce ketchup et mayonnaise. Et on l'a mariné avec
du sel, du thym, et avec une sauce barbecue et du bourika.<br /><br />Pas mal! Moi je trouve que c'est un menu plutôt pas mal..<br /></p></blockquote><p></p><p>Translation: <br /></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I
came across the story of the baby who was put in the oven... I've been
wondering, if they added salt, pepper, if they added thyme, how long did
they brown it [the baby</span></span><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">], and what were the side dishes like?</span></span> Aren't you curious as well</span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">?</span></span> I dunno<span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">…</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb">
</span></span><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Voice-off (reportedly </span></span></span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">the woman'</span></span></span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">s son): A side dish with this leg of baby [as in "this leg of lamb", causing </span></span></span>Haneia Nakei/Warda Anwar<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> to laugh] is nothing if not a plate of fries with ketchup and </span></span></span>mayonnaise<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">And it was marinated with salt, thyme, and with barbecue sauce and bourika.</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Not bad!</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I think it sounds like a rather good menu…</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p>
<a href="https://www.7sur7.be/monde/une-femme-compare-un-bebe-brule-dans-un-four-par-le-hamas-en-israel-a-une-recette-de-cuisine-darmanin-saisit-la-justice~a84f4707/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/ftAHmcHnfgjnoJW6ekL0pUZEOww/diocontent/237236377/_fitwidth/694/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.8&desiredformat=webp" /></a>
<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><br />I
am frankly less offended by the atrocious joke than I am gobsmacked at
how these (jubilant) Muslim or Islamic women — Westernized women, well
to mark — have no compunction laughing at what can only be called </span></span></span><a href="https://instapundit.com/615198/" target="_blank">an atrocity</a><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">, and turning it into a cooking recipe.<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Not
only does their mother instinct not kick in, not in any way, when a
tiny defenseless baby is horrifically brutalized, these brainless twats
can't even attempt to identify with the extreme fury that this will
awaken in their (alleged) enemy or adversary, not to mention how it
promises to rain death and destruction on the people they claim to love.</span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">In fact, one of the basic rejoinders for both leftists and Muslims, Western as well as Arab, is <i>Ils l'ont bien mérité</i>:
"They" fully deserved it, the chickens come home to roost, the United
States had it coming for 9/11, and of course the Jews deserve(d) the
latest attack on Israel.<br /><br />It is nothing less than appalling that
the Arabs, the Muslims, and, in the west, the leftists, cannot even
begin to conceive, even on a theoretical basis, of the exact same "law"
being applied to them, to Gazans, and to Hamas, not to mention</span></span></span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">, on a somewhat less serious (certainly on a less deadly) basis, </span></span></span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> to leftists such as those at Harvard being declared <i>persona non grata</i> at law firms. </span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">• See also <i>Western Integration part II</i>: Echo Chant <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-ii-echo-chant.html" target="_blank">Overheard on the Paris Metro — "We Are Nazis, We Are Proud!"</a></span></span></span></blockquote><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-ii-echo-chant.html" target="_blank"></a></span></span></span>France's interior minister is promising <a href="https://www.7sur7.be/monde/une-femme-compare-un-bebe-brule-dans-un-four-par-le-hamas-en-israel-a-une-recette-de-cuisine-darmanin-saisit-la-justice~a84f4707/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" target="_blank">a lawsuit</a> against Haneia Nakei/Warda Anwar, but <a href="https://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-552610-tout-juste-sortie-de-garde-a-vue-warda-anwar-qui-avait-ironise-sur-le-bebe-juif-dans-un-four-nargue-a-nouveau-les-autorites-dans-une-video-ils-m-ont-mis-en-garde-a-vue-rires-les-sionistes-m-ont-signalee-regardez.html" target="_blank">she only continues scoffing at "the Sionists who have marked me"</a>. Over at <a href="https://instapundit.com/615190/" target="_blank">Hot Air</a>, <a href="https://hotair.com/author/david-strom">David Strom</a> cuts to the chase as he reports on the <a href="https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/11/03/nordic-countries-now-cooperating-to-deport-illegals-n589767#google_vignette" target="_blank">Nordic Countries Now Cooperating to Deport Illegals</a>.
<p></p><p></p><blockquote><p>For many “civilized” people the instinct is to deescalate, to appease
an adversary, based on the belief that civilized people do their best
to avoid fights.</p>
<p>It’s a tactic that is smart when dealing with other civilized people.
Generally speaking, fighting is a losing proposition, and if you can
resolve a dispute by talking and compromise the chances that the costs
of compromise will be lower than the costs of fighting are high.</p>
<p>But this instinct is wrong, even stupid when dealing with uncivilized
people. Their goals and attitudes are fundamentally different and they
see appeasement as an opportunity to get even more of what they want
because they see you as weak.</p>
<p>That is the fundamental problem Europe faces when dealing with the
influx of immigrants, who have no interest in integrating into European
societies. They simply want to take them over as they bleed them dry
through welfare payments.
</p><p>Europeans seem to be waking up to that reality. For years they have
been more than generous to the migrants flooding their borders and
upending their societies. The hope has been that by providing them with
government benefits, housing, and a welcoming environment they would
adapt to their new societies and become civilized.</p>
<p>Nope. <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> … The response of the Arab migrants to the brutal Hamas attacks in
Israel may have been a wake-up call to the very European leaders who
have been attacking Right-leaning politicians and governments in Eastern
Europe as fascists for rejecting the massive influx of migrants.
Countries that have virtue-signaled their way into dangerous territory
are reconsidering the wisdom of embracing savages.</p>
<p>It’s about time.</p><p> … All cost, no benefits. Sweden isn’t civilizing savages; savages are brutalizing Sweden.</p><p> … It is a fact that these new migrants, in large numbers, are barbarians, and barbarians should not be welcomed.</p><p> … Eastern European countries have been warning about this danger for
some time, as have conservative politicians. For their efforts, they
have been the object of a slander campaign, accused of xenophobia and
being labeled “dangerous” and White supremacist.</p>
<p>The issue isn’t racial purity, though. Most people are well beyond such idiocy, although such people still exist.</p>
It isn’t the color of their skin, but the blackness of their hearts and the red rage they exude. </blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">
<b>Related</b>: To Peacenik Protesters Everywhere (Pro-Palestinian or Other): <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/10/to-peacenik-protesters-everywhere-pro.html" target="_blank">The People that Hamas Slaughtered Mercilessly at Israel's Rave — They Are YOU!</a></span></span></span></p><p>
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read or re-read my in-depth post, as it has been updated and (vastly)
expanded — the seven points are now eight — since it appeared two weeks
ago.<br /></span></span></span><p></p><p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">1) Detailing the "Crimes" of WWII's Freedom Fighters </span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2) The Left's Double Standards </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3) The Savagery that Hamas Unleashed at the Rave Was Against the Type of Peaceniks Who Are Now Defending Their Actions </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">4) Gaza's "Innocent Civilians" <span>Hand Out Sweets and </span>Celebrate in Other Ways</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">5) By Contrast, What Were the Jewish Reactions to the Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre in 1994?</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">6) "Stolen Lands": Parallels Between Palestine's Gazans and America's Indians</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">7) Americans and Israelis Are Constantly Compared to Nazis — Guess Who Really Fits the SS Bill </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">8) Why are we importing millions of people who despise and resent the West?</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p>
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<p><a href="https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/11/03/nordic-countries-now-cooperating-to-deport-illegals-n589767" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/o/2018/247/9ee0af1d-6a0f-407c-b610-6d1b5aaaa364-860x475.jpg" /></a></p></div><p> </p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-39911813397199350792023-11-06T19:36:00.014+00:002023-11-07T09:40:35.628+00:00"What does the H in LGBTQH stand for?" "Hamas" (VIDEO) — Israeli Comedy Show Lampoons American College Students Mercilessly<a href="https://www.berlingske.dk/skaerm/debatten-har-raset-i-usa-nu-goer-satireprogram-tykt-grin-med-amerikanske" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://berlingske.bmcdn.dk/media/cache/resolve/teaser_image_vertical/image/173/1733198/24565917-israelsk-satire.jpg" /></a><br />
Eretz Nehederet is called Israeli TV's equivalent of Saturday Night Live by <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-06/ty-article/israeli-tv-show-lampoons-pro-palestinian-protests-in-u-s-universities/0000018b-a3eb-d831-a3ef-afeb09f20000" target="_blank">Ha'aretz</a>, but if this sketch (also linked by <a href="https://www.berlingske.dk/redaktionen/joachim-talbro-paulsen" target="_blank">Joachim Talbro Paulsen</a> in Denmark's <a href="https://www.berlingske.dk/skaerm/debatten-har-raset-i-usa-nu-goer-satireprogram-tykt-grin-med-amerikanske" target="_blank">Berlingske</a> Tidende) serves as a model, it is way funnier. Also more incisive than the MSM's late-night talk show hosts, from Jimmy Kimmel to Stephen Colbert.<br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rbfccVBo9tE?si=l-dGMNUwzK-VlzNr" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <br />
Here are five excerpts from <a href="https://youtu.be/rbfccVBo9tE?si=K6MrM4SQ29pF6pcr" target="_blank">Welcome to Columbia Untisemity</a> :<br /><p></p><blockquote><p>Kelcy: At Columbia Untisemity … "everyone is welcome: L, G, B, T, Q, H" <br />Wordle: "H?" <br />Kelcy: "Hamas!" </p><p>Kelcy & Wordle (in unison): "From the river to the sea!<br />Palestine will be free!"<br />Kelcy: "Do you know why it's true?"<br />Wordle: "mh?" <br />Kelcy: "Because it rhymes!"<br />Wordle: "oh" </p><p>Wordle: "And no, I'm not anti-semitic; I'm racist fluid" <br /></p><p>Kelcy: "And now for a little break from all this activism; we want to say hello to our BFF"<br />Wordle: "Bestie Freedom Fighter"<br />Kelcy: "Abu Fatwa in Gaza"<br />SPLIT SCREEN<br />Kelcy: "Salaam Aleikum "<br />Abu Fatwa: "Aleikum sallam, and inch Allah, Allah will kill you all, infidels"<br />Wordle: "Thank you so much for joining us"<br /><br />Kelcy & Wordle (in unison): "From the river to the sea!<br />Palestine will be Jews-free!"<br />Kelcy: "Yeah, that sounds better!"<br />Wordle: "It <i>is</i> better!"</p></blockquote><p></p><p>
Over at <a href="https://instapundit.com/615685/" target="_blank">Instapundit</a>, we learn that <a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/middle-east-arabs-know-hamas-is-wrong-and-israel-is-right-even-if-americas-stupid-college-students-dont/" target="_blank">Middle East Arabs know Hamas is wrong and Israel is right, even if America’s stupid college students don’t</a>: </p><p></p><blockquote>The great irony here is that while these protesters see nothing wrong
with mass murder by Hamas, the leaders of other Arab countries have a
decidedly different opinion. … History has shown that the strong presence of Palestinian refugees
leads to political instability and violence, both within the country and
with Israel, and neither Egypt nor Jordan want this. All these countries recognize the corruption engendered by Hamas in Gaza, and do not want it to spread to them.</blockquote><p></p><p>The insanity in the West is illustrated by a sign found by <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+reen" target="_blank">Paul Reen</a> on the internet:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGY8BSzJ3yY29iWHBUg-q3nhr7UadvtQ6CdrRYV2BqlyywsmVTI91r_romjSOAezC6HakGFNIkDNdUj35vOjt0tSG-1OSTP1aVPXl9Dl8LQfhUjRzQYUehMxbf8OlF_HN8Z2jtas9CIn-XTOoynisFChtiaI0KSv9BrfzKt-Kbh2ZQldsvixMz/s2796/IMG_1160.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2796" data-original-width="1290" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGY8BSzJ3yY29iWHBUg-q3nhr7UadvtQ6CdrRYV2BqlyywsmVTI91r_romjSOAezC6HakGFNIkDNdUj35vOjt0tSG-1OSTP1aVPXl9Dl8LQfhUjRzQYUehMxbf8OlF_HN8Z2jtas9CIn-XTOoynisFChtiaI0KSv9BrfzKt-Kbh2ZQldsvixMz/w296-h640/IMG_1160.jpeg" width="296" /></a></div>Speaking of the West's mainstream media outlets, Israeli TV's Eretz Nehederet (<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/israeli-comedy-show-viral-racist-fluid-skit-antisemitic-liberal-students" target="_blank">A Wonderful Country</a>) doesn't let their members off the hook. Like this skit featuring <a href="https://youtu.be/gHTNuBKtzHc?si=mfbTF9YRhdA4bRjI" target="_blank">the latest "news" from the BBC</a>'s correspondent, Harry Whiteguilt.<br />
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gHTNuBKtzHc?si=t1jP2X9A33iSh6cB" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501622.post-40329676748415138242023-11-04T16:46:00.004+00:002023-11-10T21:23:46.771+00:00Western Integration II: Echo Chant Overheard on the Paris Metro — "We Are Nazis, We Are Proud!"
<p><a href="https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/n-les-juifs-une-enquete-ouverte-apres-des-chants-antisemites-filmes-dans-le-metro-a-paris_60281980.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://static.actu.fr/uploads/2023/06/mam-metro-960x640.jpg" /></a><br />
There have been many causes for outrage in France in the weeks since the Hamas attack from Gaza, notably <a href="https://www.7sur7.be/monde/on-est-des-nazis-et-on-est-fiers-des-chants-antisemites-entonnes-dans-le-metro-parisien~a9b74524/" target="_blank">over 1,050 antisemitic acts</a>. <br /></p><p>In addition to the <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-i-young-westernized.html" target="_blank">Young Westernized Middle Eastern Girl in France Who Joked About Murdering an Israeli Baby in an Oven</a>, we have "<a href="https://www.7sur7.be/monde/on-est-des-nazis-et-on-est-fiers-des-chants-antisemites-entonnes-dans-le-metro-parisien~a9b74524/" target="_blank">an ordinary day</a>" (<a href="https://x.com/KasprzykRemi/status/1719657004652782028?s=20" target="_blank">video here</a>) on line number 3 of <a href="https://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/on-est-des-nazis-et-on-est-fiers-un-chant-antisemite-enregistre-dans-le-metro-parisien/" target="_blank">the Paris métro</a>.</p><p>It's a chant by a leader, each line of which is echoed by the members of her (of his?) group. The words are so politically incorrect, and so shocking (not to mention so stupid), that the jaw-dropped girl recording them can't decide between outrage and laughter. (Merci pour le hyperlien, <a href="https://instapundit.com/615308/" target="_blank">Monsieur Driscoll</a>.)<br /></p><p>
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">« Nique les juifs et Nique ta mère, </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">Vive la Palestine Ouais Ouais, </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">Nique les juifs et les grands-mères, </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">On est des nazis On est fiers »</span></p></blockquote><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">Translation: <br /></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Fuck the Jews and Fuck your ma,</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb">
</span></span><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Long live Palestine Yeah Yeah,</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Fuck the Jews and the gran[dmother]s,</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb">
</span></span><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">We are Nazis We are proud</span></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></p></blockquote><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span> </p><p></p><p>
If you want to read more about the response of the Arab migrants to the brutal Hamas attacks in
Israel, head over to <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/11/western-integration-i-young-westernized.html" target="_blank">Western Integration I</a> (Young Westernized Middle Eastern Girl in France Mocks the Murder of an Israeli Baby in an Oven), which has an excellent article by Hot Air's David Strom.<br /></p><p>And — speaking of Nazis — if you want to read more about <i class="css-i6hrxa-Italic e1ofiv6m0" data-type="emphasis">Einsatzgruppen</i> and World War II, click on the link <b>"</b><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">To Peacenik Protesters Everywhere (Pro-Palestinian or Other): <a href="https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2023/10/to-peacenik-protesters-everywhere-pro.html" target="_blank">The People that Hamas Slaughtered Mercilessly at Israel's Rave — They Are YOU!</a>" <br /></span></span></span></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Please
read or re-read my in-depth post, as it has been updated and (vastly)
expanded — the seven points are now eight — since it appeared two weeks
ago.<br /></span></span></span></p><p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">1) Detailing the "Crimes" of WWII's Freedom Fighters </span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2) The Left's Double Standards </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3) The Savagery that Hamas Unleashed at the Rave Was Against the Type of Peaceniks Who Are Now Defending Their Actions </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">4) Gaza's "Innocent Civilians" <span>Hand Out Sweets and </span>Celebrate in Other Ways</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">5) By Contrast, What Were the Jewish Reactions to the Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre in 1994?</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">6) "Stolen Lands": Parallels Between Palestine's Gazans and America's Indians</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">7) Americans and Israelis Are Constantly Compared to Nazis — Guess Who Really Fits the SS Bill </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">8) Why are we importing millions of people who despise and resent the West?</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p>Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223594990214352727noreply@blogger.com4