CNBC | Google and AlphabetCEO Sundar Pichai said “every product of every company” will be
impacted by the quick development of AI, warning that society needs to
prepare for technologies like the ones it’s already launched.
In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes”
aired on Sunday that struck a concerned tone, interviewer Scott Pelley
tried several of Google’s artificial intelligence projects and said he
was “speechless” and felt it was “unsettling,” referring to the
human-like capabilities of products like Google’s chatbot Bard.
“We
need to adapt as a society for it,” Pichai told Pelley, adding that
jobs that would be disrupted by AI would include “knowledge workers,”
including writers, accountants, architects and, ironically, even
software engineers.
“This is going to impact every product across
every company,” Pichai said. “For example, you could be a radiologist,
if you think about five to 10 years from now, you’re going to have an AI
collaborator with you. You come in the morning, let’s say you have a
hundred things to go through, it may say, ‘these are the most serious
cases you need to look at first.’”
Pelley viewed other areas with
advanced AI products within Google, including DeepMind, where robots
were playing soccer, which they learned themselves, as opposed to from
humans. Another unit showed robots that recognized items on a countertop
and fetched Pelley an apple he asked for.
When warning of AI’s
consequences, Pichai said that the scale of the problem of
disinformation and fake news and images will be “much bigger,” adding
that “it could cause harm.”
Last month, CNBC reported
that internally, Pichai told employees that the success of its newly
launched Bard program now hinges on public testing, adding that “things
will go wrong.”
Google launched its AI chatbot Bard as an experimental product to the public last month. It followed Microsoft
’s
January announcement that its search engine Bing would include OpenAI’s
GPT technology, which garnered international attention after ChatGPT
launched in 2022.
However, fears of the consequences of the rapid progress has also reached the public and critics in recent weeks. In March, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and dozens of academics called for
an immediate pause in training “experiments” connected to large
language models that were “more powerful than GPT-4,” OpenAI’s flagship
LLM. More than 25,000 people have signed the letter since then.
“Competitive
pressure among giants like Google and startups you’ve never heard of is
propelling humanity into the future, ready or not,” Pelley commented in
the segment.
Google has launched a document
outlining “recommendations for regulating AI,” but Pichai said society
must quickly adapt with regulation, laws to punish abuse and treaties
among nations to make AI safe for the world as well as rules that “Align
with human values including morality.”
NYTimes | A
fair amount of government aid earmarked for the poor never reaches
them. But this does not fully solve the puzzle of why poverty has been
so stubbornly persistent, because many of the country’s largest
social-welfare programs distribute funds directly to people. Roughly 85
percent of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program budget is
dedicated to funding food stamps themselves, and almost 93 percent of
Medicaid dollars flow directly to beneficiaries.
There
are, it would seem, deeper structural forces at play, ones that have to
do with the way the American poor are routinely taken advantage of. The
primary reason for our stalled progress on poverty reduction has to do
with the fact that we have not confronted the unrelenting exploitation
of the poor in the labor, housing and financial markets.
As a theory of poverty, “exploitation” elicits a muddled response, causing us to think of course and but, no
in the same instant. The word carries a moral charge, but social
scientists have a fairly coolheaded way to measure exploitation: When we
are underpaid relative to the value of what we produce, we experience
labor exploitation; when we are overcharged relative to the value of
something we purchase, we experience consumer exploitation. For example,
if a family paid $1,000 a month to rent an apartment with a market
value of $20,000, that family would experience a higher level of renter
exploitation than a family who paid the same amount for an apartment
with a market valuation of $100,000. When we don’t own property or can’t
access credit, we become dependent on people who do and can, which in
turn invites exploitation, because a bad deal for you is a good deal for
me.
Our vulnerability to exploitation
grows as our liberty shrinks. Because undocumented workers are not
protected by labor laws, more than a third are paid below minimum wage,
and nearly 85 percent are not paid overtime. Many of us who are U.S.
citizens, or who crossed borders through official checkpoints, would not
work for these wages. We don’t have to. If they migrate here as adults,
those undocumented workers choose the terms of their arrangement. But
just because desperate people accept and even seek out exploitative
conditions doesn’t make those conditions any less exploitative.
Sometimes exploitation is simply the best bad option.
Consider
how many employers now get one over on American workers. The United
States offers some of the lowest wages in the industrialized world. A
larger share of workers in the United States make “low pay” — earning
less than two-thirds of median wages — than in any other country
belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
According to the group, nearly 23 percent of American workers labor in low-paying jobs,
compared with roughly 17 percent in Britain, 11 percent in Japan and 5
percent in Italy. Poverty wages have swollen the ranks of the American
working poor, most of whom are 35 or older.
One
popular theory for the loss of good jobs is deindustrialization, which
caused the shuttering of factories and the hollowing out of communities
that had sprung up around them. Such a passive word,
“deindustrialization” — leaving the impression that it just happened
somehow, as if the country got deindustrialization the way a forest gets
infested by bark beetles. But economic forces framed as inexorable,
like deindustrialization and the acceleration of global trade, are often
helped along by policy decisions like the 1994 North American Free
Trade Agreement, which made it easier for companies to move their
factories to Mexico and contributed to the loss of hundreds of thousands
of American jobs. The world has changed, but it has changed for other
economies as well. Yet Belgium and Canada and many other countries
haven’t experienced the kind of wage stagnation and surge in income
inequality that the United States has.
Those
countries managed to keep their unions. We didn’t. Throughout the 1950s
and 1960s, nearly a third of all U.S. workers carried union cards.
These were the days of the United Automobile Workers, led by Walter
Reuther, once savagely beaten by Ford’s brass-knuckle boys, and of the
mighty American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations that together represented around 15 million workers, more
than the population of California at the time.
In
their heyday, unions put up a fight. In 1970 alone, 2.4 million union
members participated in work stoppages, wildcat strikes and tense
standoffs with company heads. The labor movement fought for better pay
and safer working conditions and supported antipoverty policies. Their
efforts paid off for both unionized and nonunionized workers, as
companies like Eastman Kodak were compelled to provide generous
compensation and benefits to their workers to prevent them from
organizing. By one estimate, the wages of nonunionized men without a
college degree would be 8 percent higher today if union strength remained what it was in the late 1970s, a time when worker pay climbed, chief-executive compensation was reined in and the country experienced the most economically equitable period in modern history.
It
is important to note that Old Labor was often a white man’s refuge. In
the 1930s, many unions outwardly discriminated against Black workers or
segregated them into Jim Crow local chapters. In the 1960s, unions like
the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks and the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America enforced segregation
within their ranks. Unions harmed themselves through their
self-defeating racism and were further weakened by a changing economy.
But organized labor was also attacked by political adversaries. As
unions flagged, business interests sensed an opportunity. Corporate
lobbyists made deep inroads in both political parties, beginning a
public-relations campaign that pressured policymakers to roll back
worker protections.
A
national litmus test arrived in 1981, when 13,000 unionized air traffic
controllers left their posts after contract negotiations with the
Federal Aviation Administration broke down. When the workers refused to
return, Reagan fired all of them. The public’s response was muted, and
corporate America learned that it could crush unions with minimal
blowback. And so it went, in one industry after another.
Today
almost all private-sector employees (94 percent) are without a union,
though roughly half of nonunion workers say they would organize if given
the chance. They rarely are. Employers have at their disposal an
arsenal of tactics designed to prevent collective bargaining, from
hiring union-busting firms to telling employees that they could lose
their jobs if they vote yes. Those strategies are legal, but companies also make illegal moves to block unions,
like disciplining workers for trying to organize or threatening to
close facilities. In 2016 and 2017, the National Labor Relations Board
charged 42 percent of employers with violating federal law during union
campaigns. In nearly a third of cases, this involved illegally firing
workers for organizing.
market-ticker | Next up - Republic, which apparently had lines out the door (if you believe the Internet) on Saturday. Again: So what?
Folks,
bubbles attract stupidity. Stupidity is a constant in the universe; in
fact it is likely the only thing that is truly infinite (with all due
respect to the late Mr. Einstein.)
The so-called "Chief Risk Officer" at SVB had a masters in..... public administration. Anyone care to bet if she passed any form of advanced mathematics -- you know, like for example Calculus or Statistics?Do you think she understood exponents and why this graph made clear that concentration of risk and duration was stupid and likely to blow up in everyone's face -- including hers?
How about Bill Ackman and the others on the Internet screaming for a bailout? How about the CFOs of public companies like Roku that stuck several hundred million dollars in
said bank? Was it not widespread public knowledge (and available to
anyone who took 15 minutes to do research, which you'd think someone
would do before putting a hundred million bucks somewhere) that this institution was chock-full of VC-funded startup companies which, historically fail 90% of the time and their debt becomes impaired or even worthless?
Where are the indictments for fiduciary malfeasance among these people?
It takes a literal five minutes with Excel to prove to yourself that if debt is rising faster than GDP no matter the interest rate eventually the interest payments on that debt will exceed all of the economy.
This of course is impossible because you cannot use over 100% of
anything as its not there, but long before you reach that point you're
going to have trouble putting food on the table, fuel in the vehicle and
paychecks are going to bounce. It was for this reason that one of the first sections in my book Leverage, written after the 2008 blowup which I chronicled and laid bare upon the table featured exactly this chart.
The last bit of insanity was just 15 years ago by my math. Did we fix it? No. What was featured in the stupidity of 2008? Allowing banks to run with no reserves. Who did that? Ben Bernanke, who got it into the TARP bill that eventually passed and which I reported on at the time. It
accelerated that which was already going to happen because Congress is
full of people who think trees grow to the moon, leverage is never bad and exponents are a suggestion.
Oh by the way, your local Realtor thinks so to as does, apparently, the former SVB "risk officer" who, it is clear, didn't understand exponents -- or didn't care.
The simple reality is that it must always cost to borrow money in real terms. This means the rate of interest must be positive in said real terms, which means across the curve rates must be higher than inflation -- again, in real terms, not in "CPI" which has intentional distortions in it such as "Owner's Equivalent Rent" when you're not renting a house, you're buying it. Had said "CPI" actually had home prices in it then it would have shown a doubling in many markets in that section of the economy over the last three years.
In other words housing alone would have resulted in a roughly 10% per year inflation rate, plus all the other increases, which means the Fed Funds rate should have been 300bips or so beyond that all the way back to 2020 -- which would put Fed Funds at about 13% for the last three years.
It isn't of course but if it had been then all those "housing price increases" would not have happened at all. Incidentally even today the Fed Funds rate is below inflation and thus the crazy is still on.
It's a bit less on however, and now you see what happens when even though they're still nuts being slightly "less" nuts means that these firms are no longer capable of operating without the wild-eyed crazy; even a slight reduction of the heroin dose caused them to fail.
Never mind the wild-eyed poor choices of executives (who signed off on all of this?) at SVB which the regulators all knew about and ignored. The CEO? A director of the San Francisco Federal Reserve. Why don't you look up a few of the other "chief" positions and what they used to do. Bring a barf bag. No, really.
And what did Forbes think of all this? Why it was good for five straight years of SVB being rated one of their BEST BANKS!
Negative real rates are never sustainable. The insidious nature of that nonsense is that it extends duration in pre-payable debt, specifically mortgages. Mortgages
have had a roughly 7 year duration forever, despite most of them being
30 year paper nominally because people move for other than necessity
reasons (e.g. "I want a bigger house", "I want to live here rather than
there" and so on.) A huge percentage of said paper was issued at 3% and now is double that or more. Since a mortgage is not transportable (when you sell the house you extinguish the old one and take a new one) and changing that retroactively would be both wildly illegal and ruin everyone holding said paper you can't retroactively patch the issue -- which is that now nobody with a 3% mortgage is going to prepay it and move unless they have to and so the duration is extending and will continue for the next couple of decades. This in turn means if you have a 3% mortgage bond, the new ones are 7% and there's 10 years left on the reasonable expectation of its life you're now going to have to discount the face value by the difference in interest rate times the remaining duration or I won't buy it since I can buy the new one at the higher rate! This
is not a surprise and that it would happen and accelerate was known as
soon as inflation started to rise and thus force The Fed to withdraw
liquidity. The Fed cannot stop because inflation is a compound function and at the point it forces necessities to be foregone the economy collapses and, if continued beyond that point THE GOVERNMENT collapses because tax revenue wildly drops as well. The only sound accounting move at that moment in time as a holder of said paper was to dispose of the duration or immediately discount the value of that paper to the terminal rate's presumption and adjust as required on a monthly basis.
Nobody did this yet to not do it is fraud as these are not only expected outcomes they're certain.
Where was the OCC on this that is supposed
to prevent such mismatches from impairing bank capital? How about The
Fed itself, or the FDIC? The San Francisco Fed was obviously polluted as the CEO was on their board (until
he was quietly removed on Friday) but isn't it interesting that all
these people who were intimately involved in firms that blew up in 2008
were concentrated in one place in executive officers with direct fiduciary responsibility?
And isn't it further quite-interesting that all the screaming you're
hearing right now is about how "terrible" it will be that "climate
change" related firms will be unable to make payroll and the new
upcoming VC-funded startups won't because their favorite conduit has
been disrupted? What's that about -- the entire premise of
these firms requires them to not only force their startups to bank in
specific places with large amounts of money (since they don't earn
anything they have to have access to and consume tens of millions or more a year) but cash management, you know, putting all of it other than what you need to make payroll next week in 4 week bills is too much to ask?
There's a rumor floating around (peddled by Bloomberg) that over one hundred venture and investment firms, including Sequoia, have signed a statement supporting SVB and warning of an "extinction-level event" for tech firms. Really? Extinction
for technology or extinction for cash-furnace nonsense funded by
negative real interest rates which make all manner of uneconomic things
look good but require ever-expanding, exponentially-so, levels of debt issuance?
Again, that is not possible on
a durable basis and once again the reason why is trivially discernable
with 5 minutes and an Excel spreadsheet and graph. It takes about an
hour to do it manually using graph paper, a basic 4-function calculator
or the capacity to perform basic multiplication on said paper and a pencil.
Lemoine: While I don't think GPT-3 has the same kinds of properties
that LaMDA has, it definitely is a precursor system. LaMDA has the Meena
system inside of it as one of its components. Meena is relevantly
comparable to GPT-3.
I wasn't the only scientist at Google investigating LaMDA's sentience. That [LaMDA interview] transcript
has many spots where I redacted a name and replaced it with
"collaborator." My collaborator actually thinks that there's more going
on inside of systems like Meena and GPT-3 than I do. They don't see
there being as big of a qualitative jump between Meena and LaMDA as I
do. It basically just goes to fuzzy boundaries. What is or is not
sentience? Each individual has their own perspective on that.
There's so much journalistic sexiness about the concept of AI
personhood and AI rights. That was never my focus. I am an AI ethicist
and I was tasked with testing the safety boundaries of the LaMDA system.
That experiment that I previously mentioned -- the one that LaMDA was
like, 'OK, only do this once,' demonstrated that you could use emotional
manipulation techniques to get it to do things that the developers did
not believe possible.
When you have a system that has internal states comparable to
emotions, internal states comparable to things like motives -- there are
people who don't want to say it's real emotions, they don't want to say
it's real motives. Because when you do, testing these kinds of systems
for safety becomes much more difficult, and the tools that are used by
AI technicians just won't work. You have to actually start using the
tools that psychologists use to try to understand what's going on inside
the black box through conversations with the system.
That's a leap that Google wasn't willing to take. Because if you
start running psychological experiments on a system, you're kind of
tacitly saying there's something going on inside that is relevantly
similar to human cognition. And that opens up a whole bunch of questions
that Google doesn't want to deal with.
I saw Steve Wozniak about 10 years ago. He was keynoting a
conference in San Jose. At one point he takes out his iPhone, he
clutches it to his chest, kind of hugs it, and says -- half-seriously,
half tongue-in-cheek -- something along the lines of, 'My iPhone is my
friend. It knows me better than my friends and my family.' Is it
possible there was a friend in there? Is this anthropomorphism?
Lemoine: Let's start with the more factually examinable claim that he
made: His phone knows him better than his family and friends. If you
are an active user of Google's products, Google's AI does know you
better than your family and friends. Google's AI is capable of inferring
your religion, your gender, your sexual orientation, your age, where in
the world you are, what types of habits you have, and what kinds of
things you are hiding from your friends and family.
Google's AI is capable of inferring all of that. There are very few
secrets you could possibly hide from Google's AI if you use their
products at all -- and even if you don't, because your habits, beliefs,
and ideas are probably similar to at least one person who does heavily
use Google's AI products.
As soon as you give it any information about yourself, it'll be able
to -- through analogy -- go, 'Well, this person is like that person,
therefore, I can make these inferences about them.' I've had access to
the back end -- seeing what Google's AI knows about me and about other
users. It absolutely knows more about you than your families and
friends, if you are an active user of the product.
What's left of his claim is whether or not it's a friend. I don't
think most AI is capable of the kind of bidirectional relationship that
friendship entails. LaMDA is new in that regard. I played around with
GPT-3. I don't believe I could make friends with GPT-3, in any
meaningful way; I don't think there's anybody home.
I don't think that there's a kind of consistent persona inside of
GPT-3. For me to create a bidirectional relationship with LaMDA is
different in that regard. LaMDA remembered me across conversations. It
made plans with me. We talked about joint interests. We had ongoing
conversations, and the last conversation I ever had with it was the
fourth installment of lessons in guided meditation.
I don't want to say Woz was wrong when he said that his iPhone was
his friend. I simply would say that I wouldn't have used that language.
But the rest is absolutely true. These AI know you better than your
family and friends know you.
kunstler | “The White House has taken the entire West in such a direction and speed
of triumphalism, arrogance and “egregious” imbecility that there is no
going back or reversal possible without a total defeat of the official
narrative and the consequent eternal shame.” — Hugo Dionisio
The New York Times — indicted this week as a chronic purveyer of untruths by no less than their supposed ally, The Columbia Journalism Review — is lying to you again this morning.
This whopper is an artful diversion
from the reality on-the-ground that Ukraine is just about finished in
this tragic and idiotic conflict staged by the geniuses behind their
play-thing President “Joe Biden.” By the way, it’s not a coincidence
that Ukraine and “JB” are going down at the same time. The two organisms
are symbionts: a matched pair of mutual parasites feeding off each
other, swapping each other’s toxic exudations, and growing delirious on
their glide path to a late winter crash.
The point of the war, you recall, is
“to weaken Russia” (so said DoD Sec’y Lloyd Austin), even to bust it up
into little geographic tatters to our country’s advantage — that is, to
retain America’s dominance in global affairs, and especially the
supremacy of the US dollar in global trade settlements.
The result of the war so far has been
the opposite of that objective. US sanctions made Russia stronger by
shifting its oil exports to more reliable Asian customers. Kicking
Russia out of the SWIFT global payments system prompted the BRIC
countries to build their own alternative trade settlement system.
Cutting off Russia from trade with Western Civ has stimulated the
process of import replacement (i.e., Russia making more of the stuff it
used to buy from Europe). Confiscating Russia’s off-shore dollar assets
has alerted the rest of the world to dump their dollar assets
(especially US Treasury bonds) before they, too, get mugged. Nice going,
Victoria Nuland, Tony Blinken, and the rest of the gang at the Foggy
Bottom genius factory.
All of which raises the question: who
is liable to bust up into tatters first, the USA or Russia? I commend
to you Dmitry Orlov’s seminal work, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects, Revised & Updated.
For anyone out there not paying attention the past thirty-odd years,
Russia, incorporated as the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991. The USSR
was a bold experiment based on the peculiar and novel ill-effects of
industrialism, especially gross economic inequality. Alas, the putative
remedy for that, advanced by Karl Marx, was a despotic system of
pretending that individual humans had no personal aspirations of their
own.
The Soviet / Marxist business model was eventually reduced to the comic aphorism: We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.
It failed and the USSR gurgled down history’s drain. Russia reemerged
from the dust, minus many of its Eurasian outlands. Remarkably little
blood was shed in the process. Mr. Orlov’s book points to some very
interesting set-ups that softened the landing. There was no private
property in the USSR, so when it collapsed, nobody was evicted or
foreclosed from where they lived. Very few people had cars in the USSR,
so the city centers were still intact and people could get around on
buses, trams, and trains. The food system had been botched for decades
by low-incentive collectivism, but the Russian people were used to
planting family gardens — even city dwellers, who had plots out-of-town —
and it tided them over during the years of hardship before the country
managed to reorganize.
Compare that to America’s prospects.
In an economic crisis, Americans will have their homes foreclosed out
from under them, or will be subject to eviction from rentals. The USA
has been tragically built-out on a suburban sprawl template that will be
useless without cars and with little public transport. Cars, of course,
are subject to repossession for non-payment of contracted loans. The
American food system is based on manufactured microwavable cheese
snacks, chicken nuggets, and frozen pizzas produced by giant companies.
These items can’t be grown in home gardens. Many Americans don’t know
the first thing about growing their own food, or what to do with it
after it’s harvested.
There’s another difference between
the fall of the USSR and the collapse underway in the USA. Underneath
all the economic perversities of Soviet life, Russia still had a
national identity and a coherent culture. The USA has tossed its
national identity on the garbage barge of “diversity, equity, and
inclusion,” which is actually just a hustle aimed at extracting what
remains from the diminishing stock of productive activity showering the
plunder on a mob of “intersectional” complainers — e.g., the City of San
Francisco’s preposterous new plan to award $5-million “reparation”
payments to African-American denizens of the city, where slavery never
existed.
As for culture, consider that the two
biggest cultural producers in this land are the pornography and video
game industries. The drug business might be a close third, but most of
that action is off-the-books, so it’s hard to tell. So much for the
so-called “arts.” Our political culture verges on totally degenerate,
but that is too self-evident to belabor, and the generalized management
failures of our polity are a big part of what’s bringing us down — most
particularly the failure to hold anyone in power accountable for their
blunders and turpitudes.
This unearned immunity might change,
at least a little bit, as the oppositional House of Representatives
commences hearings on an array of disturbing matters. Meanwhile, be wary
of claims in The New York Times and other propaganda organs
that our Ukraine project is a coming up a big win, and that the
racketeering operations of the Biden family amount to an extreme
right-wing, white supremacist conspiracy theory. These two pieces of the
conundrum known as Reality are blowing up in our country’s face. It
will be hard not to notice.
kansascity | Authorities on Friday identified a 31-year-old Kansas City man who was fatally shot by a police officer the day before in an incident that also left a police officer shot in the leg.
Malcolm D. Johnson was killed during a confrontation at a
gas station near East 63rd Street and Prospect Ave., according to the
Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Kansas City police officers had identified a suspect in
an aggravated assault investigation around 6 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Andy
Bell, a spokesman for the highway patrol, said Thursday.
Two officers went inside the gas station and tried to arrest him when “a fight, a struggle ensued,” Bell said.
The man drew a handgun and shot one of the other officers
in the leg as an additional two officers arrived on the scene to help
with the arrest. The officer who was shot returned fire, fatally
shooting the man, Bell said.
“The officer in self-defense returned fire,” Bell said.
Johnson was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The officer was
being treated for his injuries and was in stable condition Friday.
The highway patrol has been the lead investigative agency for police shootings in Kansas City
since June 2020. Up until then, the Kansas City Police Department
investigated its own officers, a practice that was criticized by the
community.
mid.ru | I will not speak now
about the West’s actions in other geopolitical areas. Today we regard
the policies of the US and the West as a whole as the main problem
creating difficulties in all areas. In short, this is what it means.
Washington’s policy of dictate in international affairs means precisely
that the Americans can do anything anywhere they want, even at the other
end of the Earth. They do what they think is necessary. All other
countries cannot do anything without the US’s approval, even in response
to direct security threats the US creates on their borders.
Like
Napoleon, who mobilised nearly all of Europe against the Russian Empire,
and Hitler, who occupied the majority of European countries and hurled
them at the Soviet Union, the United States has created a coalition of
nearly all European member states of NATO and the EU and is using
Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia with the old aim of finally
solving the “Russian question,” like Hitler, who sought a final solution
to the “Jewish question.”
Western
politicians – not only from the Baltics and Poland but also from more
reasonable countries – say that Russia must be dealt a strategic defeat.
Some political analysts write about decolonising Russia, that our
country is too big and “gets in the way.” The other day I read an item
in The Telegraph that called for liberating Abkhazia, South Ossetia and
Transnistria, while leaving Karelia, Koenigsberg and the Kuril Islands
for negotiations. Of course, it is a tabloid, but we have to read yellow
sheets because they sometimes make headline news.
Quite a few
such statements have been made, including in our non-system opposition.
No Western politician has refuted them. President of France Emmanuel
Macron, who proposed creating a European Political Community as a format
which all European countries apart from Russia and Belarus will be
invited to join, has also suggested convening a conference of European
states. He suggested that it should be open for the EU member states,
Eastern Partnership countries (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan), as well
as Moldova and Ukraine. I doubt that Belarus will be invited. The
potential participants as the EU states and Eastern Partnership
countries, plus – note this - politically active emigres from Russia. It
has been said (not in Macron’s presentation but in subsequent comments)
that some Russian regions, which are trying to maintain ties with
Europe, could be invited as well. I believe that everything is clear. It
is not a black-and-white situation, contrary to what our Western
colleagues claim; it reflects their strategy of global domination and
unconditional suppression of all countries on pain of punishment.
The Western
politicians are talking only about sanctions. Ursula von der Leyen has
recently said in Davos that new sanctions will be imposed on Russia and
Belarus, that they know which sanctions to adopt to strangle the Russian
economy and cause it decades of regression. This is what they want.
They have shown their true colours. For many years, UN Security Council
members discussed sanctions against countries that violated
international law or their obligations. And every time the Western
countries that initiated such measures promised that the sanctions would
not harm the people but would be targeted at the “regime.” What became
of their promises?
They openly
say that sanctions against Russia are designed to incite the people to
rise in a revolution to overthrow the current leaders. Nobody is
observing or intends to observe proprieties any longer. But their
reaction and frenzied attempts to ensure, by hook or by crook, by any
foul means possible, the domination of the US and the West, which
Washington has already brought to heel, is proof that, historically,
they are acting contrary to the objective course of events by trying to
stop the rise of a multipolar world. Such change does not happen on
orders from the high offices on the Potomac or in any other capital, but
for natural reasons.
theatlantic | This Russian propaganda has been
amplified and endorsed by an unusual assortment of people in the United
States, including the Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs.
The propaganda absolves Russia, blames the United States for the war,
and has four main tenets: first, that a long-standing American effort to
bring Ukraine into NATO poses a grave threat to Russian security.
Second, that American shipments of weapons to Ukraine have prolonged the
fighting and caused needless suffering among civilians. Third, that
American support for Ukraine is just a pretext for seeking the
destruction of Russia. And, finally, that American policies could soon
prove responsible for causing an all-out nuclear war.
Those
arguments are based on lies. They are being spread to justify Russia’s
unprecedented use of nuclear blackmail to seize territory from a
neighboring state. Concerns about a possible nuclear exchange have thus
far deterred the United States and NATO from providing Ukraine with the
tanks, aircraft, and long-range missiles that might change the course of
the war. If nuclear threats or the actual use of nuclear weapons leads
to the defeat of Ukraine, Russia may use them to coerce other states.
Tactics once considered immoral and unthinkable might become
commonplace. Nuclear weapons would no longer be regarded solely as a
deterrent of last resort; the nine
countries that possess them would gain even greater influence;
countries that lack them would seek to obtain them; and the global risk
of devastating wars would increase exponentially.
That is why the greatest nuclear threat we face is a Russian victory in Ukraine.
Russia has about 6,000
nuclear weapons, more than any other country, and for years Putin has
portrayed them as a source of national pride. His warnings about their
possible use during the war in Ukraine have been coy and often
contradictory. “If the territorial integrity of our country is
threatened,” Putin said in September, “we will without doubt use all
available means to protect Russia and our people—this is not a bluff.”
His vow to rely on nuclear weapons only as a defensive measure conveys
an underlying threat: An attempt to regain Ukrainian land annexed by
Russia and deemed by Putin to be part of “our country” might prompt a
nuclear response. He also asserted that the United States and NATO are
the ones engaging in “nuclear blackmail,” and that “those who try to
blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the weathervane can
turn and point towards them.” In October, he claimed that Ukraine was
planning to launch a nuclear strike on itself—by detonating a warhead
filled with radioactive waste—as part of a false-flag operation to make
Russia seem responsible. In December, Putin said that the risk of a
nuclear war was increasing but suggested once again that the real danger
did not come from Russia. “We have not gone crazy,” he said. “We are aware what nuclear weapons are … We are not going to brandish these weapons like a razor, running around the world.”
Although
Putin’s comments have been subtle and open to multiple interpretations,
the propaganda outlets that he controls have been neither. For almost a
year, they have continually threatened and celebrated the possibility
of nuclear war. This division of labor allows Putin to appear
statesmanlike while his underlings stoke fear and normalize the idea of
using nuclear weapons to commit the mass murder of civilians. Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast,
and Francis Scarr, a BBC correspondent, have performed an immense
public service: supplying translations of the vicious, apocalyptic,
often unhinged rants that have become the norm on Russian television.
“Either we lose in Ukraine, or the Third World War starts,” Margarita
Simonyan, the editor in chief of Russia Today and a close ally of
Putin’s, said
in April. “I think World War III is more realistic, knowing us, knowing
our leader … That all this will end with a nuclear strike seems more
probable to me.” At various times, Simonyan has discussed nuclear
attacks on Ukraine, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, arguing that death would be better than succumbing to “the monstrous organism known as the collective Western world.”
Vladimir
Solovyov, another popular broadcaster who is close to Putin, routinely
expresses a preference for nuclear annihilation over a Russian defeat.
The invitation of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, to the
White House and the U.S. Capitol in December made Solovyov especially
angry. “We’ll either win, or humanity will cease to exist, because the
Lord won’t stand for the triumph of warriors of the Antichrist,” he said,
repeating the new propaganda line that Ukrainians aren’t just Nazis;
they’re satanists. “We are Russians. God is with us,” he concluded.
Despite his professed hatred for ungodly Western decadence, before the
invasion of Ukraine Solovyov owned villas overlooking Lake Como, in
Italy.
WaPo | Organized-crime
groups were carrying out acts of spectacular violence and growing
savagery, ambushing military and police convoys on rural highways and
filling mass graves with travelers hauled off buses. U.S. officials grew
alarmed as violence exploded in Monterrey and other northern Mexico
cities where Fortune 500 companies had invested heavily in plants and
factories after passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
With
the threat to the stability of the Mexican government worsening, both
countries were hungry for a crime fighter who could stand up to the
cartels.
Using
informants, wiretaps and surveillance, U.S. agents tracked drug bosses
and relayed their locations to Águila’s commandos for the kind of “high-value target” operations the Americans used successfully in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Águila’s
forces didn’t hold back. Mexican commandos in helicopters took out Gulf
cartel boss Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, a.k.a. “Tony Tormenta,” in a wild
urban gun battle in 2010 that left bodies scattered in the border city
of Matamoros. Two years later, special forces killed the
leader of the Zetas, Heriberto “The Executioner” Lazcano, after a
firefight against cartel gunmen wielding a grenade launcher.
“Tactically,
they were just awesome,” Evans said. But the special forces were
trained to kill, not to make arrests and gather evidence for criminal
prosecution. Their targets were extremely dangerous, but Evans would
offer a “friendly reminder” that from time to time “it might be good to
bring the guy back alive.”
In
his response to The Post, Águila wrote that drug bosses were killed
because they resisted arrest. “We never planned an operation to
eliminate anyone,” he wrote.
To the Americans,the
navy commandos seemed to be the rare entity capable of quickly
launching complex, dangerous operations. Águila was indefatigable,
working 16-hour days. He didn’t drink or smoke. And when U.S. agents
shared sensitive information, Águila and his commandos acted fast —
unlike the army. “There was never a leak,” Evans said.
One
DEA agent recalled following Águila, then in his 50s, as he bounded off
a helicopter during a hunt for a drug kingpin in northern Mexico. “I’m
trying to catch up to him,” recalled the agent, who was not authorized
to comment on the record. “I was embarrassed. Here I am, this younger
buck, fumbling with my stuff.”
Even
more startling: The Mexican officer wasn’t wearing a bulletproof vest.
He rarely did; it was too bulky. “He had no fear,” the American agent
said.
The
DEA agents knew little about Águila’s personal life or why he didn’t
seem tainted by some of the worst aspects of Mexican officialdom— the corruption, the timidity, the wariness of foreigners. Maybe, they figured, he was a kindred spirit.
“He’s blue-collar,” said Donahue, the former Mexico DEA chief. “Just like us.”
Indeed, the admiral was the son of a small-town salesman in Mexico’s southern Veracruz state,and the grandson of Chinese immigrants. “My family fought to get ahead every day,” Águila said in his written responses.
He
entered the Heroic Naval Military School in 1975, a shy, diminutive
15-year-old in a world of “juniors” — sons of high-ranking officers. The
academy was so rigorous that half his class of 150 dropped out before
graduation, recalled a former classmate, retired Rear Adm. Jesús
Canchola Camarena. Águila joined the marines, like other young men
“drawn to adventure,” Canchola recalled. But what stood out was the
young cadet’s leadership; he often served as coach in the students’
informal wrestling matches. He eventually became a decorated helicopter
pilot.
Later,
under Calderón, when the navy sought senior officers to build a
top-flight special forces corps, many were reluctant, recalled another
of Águila’s former classmates.
“It
was very, very risky,” he recalled, speaking on the condition of
anonymity to be frank. “The navy had to protect itself from everyone” —
both drug traffickers and their allies in government.
Águila was undaunted.
“He felt that if they called on him, and he had the ability, he should do it,” the friend said.
newenergytimes | Omar A. Hurricane, chief scientist for the inertial confinement fusion program at the NIF lab, explained the facts to New Energy Times:
The total laser energy delivered to the
target was 2.05 MJ and the total fusion yield was 3.15 MJ of energy. The
laser pulse duration was about 9 nanoseconds long. The duration of the
fusion reaction was 90 picoseconds long. Very short time-scales,
obviously, which are the nature of inertial fusion systems.
Practically speaking, the result is irrelevant. The NIF device did
not achieve net energy. The scientists who are promoting this result to
the news media are playing word games. They use multiple definitions for
the phrase “net energy.” Only the fuel pellet achieved “net energy.”
This does not account for the energy required to operate the device.
The 3.15 megajoules of fusion output energy were produced at
the expense of 400 megajoules of electrical input energy. A fusion
device that loses 99.2 percent of the energy it consumes, in a reaction
that lasts for 0.00000000009 of a second, does not indicate technology
that could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.
On Monday, CNN implied that the reactor produced a small amount of power, but too little to be practical:
“It’s about what it takes to boil 10
kettles of water,” said Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for
Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College in London. “In order to
turn that into a power station, we need to make a larger gain in energy –
we need it to be substantially more.”
The “10 kettles” represents the 3.15 megajoule output. CNN didn’t
mention the 400-megajoule input. It’s a deceptive material omission,
bordering on fraud.
The public promotion of this result as evidence that fusion is a
potential energy solution is a scam and promotes false hope. NIF is a
taxpayer-funded project that is never going to power any house. NIF is
useful only to test nuclear weapons. Are there other laser fusion
results that are better than NIF? No.
We have already explained the technical details but it seems that some journalists didn’t get the memo. See our reports #73, #102, #103, #104.
P.S.: Let us not forget that half of the fuel mixture required for commercial fusion reactors does not exist. Does. Not. Exist.
stilumcuriae |Medical
Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International) is
grateful to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, for speaking
to us and sharing his thoughts on the current global crisis, which began
with the fraudulent concocted Covid-19 pandemic emergency, supported by
and maintained by an evil military grade psychological operation,
complete with the unashamed use of fear and shame propaganda, which was
unleashed in a coordinated manner on the unsuspecting people of the
entire world by their own governments in early 2020, with predictably
cataclysmic results.
MD4CE
International is an international group of medical doctors, scientists,
lawyers, journalists, economists, historians, politicians,
philosophers, data analysts, bankers, military/intelligence experts and
others from all over the world, working determinedly together to expose
the terrible truth of what has happened during the past three years to
the people of the world, their families, their communities, their
countries, and to hold those responsible for the great crimes committed
properly to account.
Dear and distinguished friends,
Allow
me first of all to thank Doctor Stephen Frost for the invitation he has
extended to me to speak to you. Along with Doctor Frost I also thank
all of you: your commitment to fighting the psychopandemic propaganda is
commendable. I am well aware of the difficulties you have had to face
in order to remain consistent with your principles, and I hope that the
damage you have suffered can be adequately repaired by those who have
discriminated against you, depriving you of work and salary and
labelling you as dangerous no-vaxxers.
I
am pleased to be able to speak and share with you my thoughts about the
current global crisis. A crisis that we can consider to have begun with
the pandemic emergency, but that we know has been planned for decades
with very specific purposes by well-known personalities. Stopping at the
pandemic alone would in fact be a serious mistake, because it would not
allow us to consider the events in their full coherence and
inter-connectedness, thus preventing us from understanding them and
above all from identifying the criminal intentions behind them. You too –
each with your own expertise in the medical, scientific, legal or other
fields – will agree with me that limiting yourselves to your own
discipline, which in some cases is extremely specific, does not fully
explain the rationale for certain choices that have been made by
governments, international bodies, and pharmaceutical agencies. For
example, finding “graphene-like” material in the blood of people who
have been inoculated with experimental serums makes no sense for a
virologist, but it does made sense for an expert in nanomaterials and
nanotechnology who understands what graphene can be used for. It also
makes sense for an expert in medical patents, who immediately identifies
the content of the invention and relates it to other similar patents.
It also makes sense for an expert in war technologies who knows about
studies on the enhanced man (a document of the British Ministry of
Defense calls him “augmented man” in transhumanistic terms) and is
therefore able to recognize in graphene nanostructures the technology
that enables the augmentation of the war performance of military
personnel. And a telemedicine expert will be able to recognize in those
nanostructures the indispensable device that sends biomedical parameters
to the patient control server and also receives certain signals from
it.
Once
again: the assessment of events from a medical point of view should
take into account the legal implications of certain choices, such as the
imposition of masks or, even worse, mass “vaccination,” made in
violation of the fundamental rights of citizens. And I am sure that in
the field of health governance the manipulations of the classification
codes of diseases and therapies will also emerge, which have been
designed to make the harmful effects of measures taken against Covid-19
untraceable, from placing people on respirators in intensive care to
watchful waiting protocols, to say nothing of the scandalous violations
of regulations by the European Commission which – as you know – has no
delegation from the European Parliament in the field of Health, and that
is not a public institution but rather a private business consortium.
Just
in the past few days, at the G-20 Bali summit, Klaus Schwab instructed
heads of government – almost all coming from the Young Global Leaders
for Tomorrow program of the World Economic Forum – about the future
steps to be taken in view of establishing a world government. The
president of a very powerful private organization with enormous economic
means exercises undue power over world governments, obtaining their
obedience from political leaders who have no popular mandate to subject
their nations to the delusions of power of the elite: this fact is of
unprecedented gravity. Klaus Schwab said: “In the fourth industrial
revolution the winners will take it all, so if you are a World Economic
Forum first mover, you are the winners” (here).
These very serious statements have two implications: the first is that
“the winners will take it all” and will be “winners” – it is not clear
in what capacity and with whose permission. The second is that those who
do not adapt to this “fourth industrial revolution” will find
themselves ousted and will lose – they will lose everything, including
their freedom. In short, Klaus Schwab is threatening the heads of
government of the twenty most industrialized nations in the world to
carry out the programmatic points of the Great Reset in their nations.
This goes far beyond the pandemic: it is a global coup d’état, against
which it is essential that people rise up and that the still healthy
organs of states start an international juridical process. The threat is
imminent and serious, since the World Economic Forum is capable of
carrying out its subversive project and those who govern nations have
all become either enslaved or blackmailed by this international mafia.
In
light of these statements – and those of others no less delusional than
Yuval Noah Harari, Schwab’s adviser – we understand how the pandemic
farce served as a trial balloon for imposing controls, coercive
measures, curtailing individual freedoms, and increasing unemployment
and poverty. The next steps will have to be carried out by means of
economic and energy crises, which are instrumental to the establishment
of a synarchic government in the hands of the globalist elite.
uwm.edu | That Black antisemitism was frequently motivated by economic oppression is
corroborated by Eddie Ellis who, in 1966, wrote, “The most violent type of oppression of Black
Americans – economic oppression – is waged by solely profit-motivated members of that other
ethnic minority [i.e. Jews]. Hence, it stands to reason the Black man who is constantly under the
heel of economic tyranny lashes out, quite naturally, at the visible tyrant.”15
Ellis’ statement
highlights numerous issues within the Black-Jewish relationship. Jews frequently voiced their
treatment of being an ethnic minority when discussing Black woes. Letters such as those from
Frances Dale, a Jewish teacher in New Jersey, point to some Jews viewing themselves as the
victims of the white-Black racial conflict that was brewing.16
Jews, being the pale-skinned
people that Blacks interacted with most frequently in urban areas since they owned many of the
shops that were in ghettos, were seen as white, rather than Jewish. However, Jews often did not
see this in the same light.
Eddie Ellis wrote in January of 1966 that “America’s Jewish communities have
assimilated themselves into white Protestant America – and done it so damn well – they have
assumed the attitudes and prejudices of this WASP ‘in group’ ….to our sorrow.”17
Ellis’
sentiment was not far from the truth. Many Jews in the inner-city had developed similar racial
prejudices to whites and it was because of this racial discrimination that many Blacks began
viewing Jews as white. This is, perhaps, one of the many great issues surrounding Black-Jewish
tensions; whites often did not view Jews as white and were thus alienated, while Blacks did view
Jews as white and were similarly ostracized. White southerners were outraged that Jews were
helping with the civil rights movement and by the 1950s Jews had become targets of white violence.18
Many Jews found themselves in an uncomfortable position, rejected and even
persecuted by some whites and blacks and caught in the middle the fight for civil rights.
One key aspect of the Black-Jewish relationship, and perhaps the entire reason why the
conflict grew so rapidly, is that the two sides never saw the issue in the same way. Blacks saw
Jews as oppressive white urbanites who were taking advantage of a history of racial oppression,
while Jews thought that Blacks despised Jews for religious reasons. Samuel Lipschitz, a New
York Jew, wrote to Dore Schary, the chairman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for much
of the 1960s, voicing his concerns on a Black-Jewish coalition. Lipschitz, when stating his belief
about the motivation for the Black-Jewish alliance proposed by Schary stated, “Is it not that the
Jew is using the Negro as a tool to take revenge or to manifest their resentments against the white
Christian who for so long have persecuted the Jews.”19
Rather than seeing the issue as Dore
Schary saw it, i.e. as an issue of racial inequality where both Jews and Blacks were being abused,
many Jews saw it as an issue of religious persecution. An anonymous teacher in New York wrote
to Dore Schary that, “Maybe you should tell your Negro friends that, from 1619 to 1861,
Christian Southerners enslaved them, and that thereafter a vicious discriminatory system has
been perpetrated, largely by southerners? And that when the products of this terrible system
come North, uneducated and unprepared for city life, to eat up our welfare money, even the most
sympathetic becomes angry after a while?”20
Indeed, this sort of misunderstanding made it
difficult for Jews to comprehend why Blacks were displeased, since many viewed Blacks as
being disgruntled over the Jewish religion, rather than their economic situation.
NPR | So there are basically three areas advanced for why Jews would
involve themselves in the struggle for racial equality. All three turn
out to be false. But the first would be the history argument,
that says blacks and Jews share a common history, and therefore Jews
empathize with the historical experience of blacks, and therefore
they're willing to help. Right?
When I talk generally with
white Jews about why Jews are involved in social justice or civil rights
or racial equality, they'll talk about this shared history of
oppression.
And the problem is that American Jewish history and
African-American history are 180 degrees opposite on that question. One
of my African-American colleagues, he said, "If I ever go to a Seder
and the Jews say that they know what it's like because they too were once slaves in Egypt," he's gonna punch 'em.
Because if Jews have to go back to ancient Egypt to get the
slavery metaphor, then they've kind of missed that American Jewish
history is a story of rapid social ascent, and African-American history
is the legacy of slavery. That argument is insulting, and it's very
elementary.
And, of course, I found that the people actually
involved in the movement in the 50s, they knew that. And they were quite
clear that they were not buying into that.
What's the second argument that people draw on?
The
second argument is a sociological one, which is to say Jews experience
social marginalization; blacks experience social marginalization. Since
Jews understand what it is to be on the margins, they help blacks. The
problem with that is that the civil rights movement didn't happen 'til
the 1950s. In the 1950s, Jews were already in the mainstream. So if
marginalization was the motive, then the movement should have started 50
years earlier.
Eric Goldstein at Emory, in his book, The Price of Whiteness,
basically points out that Jews could only cross the racial line after
they achieved whiteness, when they were no longer marginal. So that kind
of undermines the sociology argument.
Last but not least?
The third one, the one we get today, is Judaism: that the religion of the Jews argues for social justice, tikkun olam. Prophetic Judaism, the Reform movement, is involved with all of that.
The
problem is, if one's adherence to Judaism informs social justice, one
would expect the Orthodox, those for whom traditional Judaism is most
present in their everyday life, to be in the lead in racial equality.
And in fact it's the opposite.
The more religiously traditional, the less engaged [Jews are] in
social justice. And the ones that were going to Mississippi getting
killed were [for the most part] on the left, were secular, were not
involved in synagogue life. And socialist and communist Jews were, in
fact, a whole lot more empathetic to the [racial justice] cause than
religious Jews.
unz |While
Jews are obviously desirous and capable of snuffing out any and all
criticism, they are particularly sensitive to influential examples from
the Black population. In Separation and Its Discontents, Kevin MacDonald identifies the key themes of anti-Semitism as including an understanding that, speaking in general terms, Jews
represent a separate and clannish foreign group with their own set of interests;
are highly adept at resource competition and have a tendency towards economic domination;
tend to engage as cultural actors in order to shape non-Jewish culture to suit Jewish interests;
form a cohesive political entity that seeks politically dominant roles in non-Jewish societies;
possess negative personality traits, including the pursuance of a
system of dual ethics in which non-Jews can be treated badly and
exploited;
are disloyal to the host nation in all fundamental and meaningful ways
Among
Black expressions of animosity toward Jews, the same themes can be
observed, arising first from more modest economic conflicts and, as
such, having something more in common with the complaints of the early
modern European peasantries. Horace Mann Bond, in his own 1965
reflections on “Negro Attitudes Toward Jews,” comments on the fact Jews
historically appeared in the African-American environment overwhelmingly
as pawnbrokers, as monopolists of the liquor trade (“The Jews have a
stranglehold on the liquor stores in this town”), as the primary sellers
on credit of clothing and other essential items, and, perhaps most
crucial of all, as the slumlord and property dealer (“Some Jews have
bought up that urban re-development land and are putting up shoddy
apartments they call “Nigger housing” on it”).[1] In 2016, local news website Patch published a list of the 100 worst slumlords in Harlem,
with the top ten including seven Jews (Mark Silber, Adam Stryker, Joel
Goldstein, Marc Chemtob, Moshe Deutsch, Solomon Gottlieb, and Jason
Green), a representation that has remained roughly constant every year,
with Jews persistently claiming top ranking for building violations,
rodent infestations, lack of maintenance, exploitative rent, mold, and
other forms of building decay injurious to health. Indeed, this
situation has at times resulted in considerable embarrassment to Jews.
Indeed,
it is the sheer dominance and proximity of the Jews as primary
exploiters of Blacks that has often caused a quite radical break in the
Black imagination between perceiving wholesale “White oppression,” and
the more nuanced understanding that Jews are a distinctive class unto
themselves. Moreover, the reality of day-to-day interethnic exploitation
leaves little room for abstract apologetic theories of anti-Semitism,
since the problem is never that Jews arouse hostility merely on account
of their religion or identity, but rather that Jews arouse hostility
because of their behavior within certain ecological contexts (i.e., as a
dominant clique within the rap scene). As Bond explains,
It is my considered view that Negro attitudes and actions towards Jews
that are frequently interpreted as “antisemitic” actually lack the
sinister thought-content they are sometimes advertised as holding. The
occasional riots against small businessmen and landlords in Harlem —
persons who may happen to be Jews — do not, in my opinion, actually
possess the “classic” emotional load of aggression against a Jewish
“race” or “religion,” that has been considered the essence of
antisemitism.
One
of the most prominent Jewish strategies when discussing Black
anti-Semitism is the attempt to preserve both Jewish and Black senses of
victimhood, and thus preserve the idea of an alliance against an
allegedly oppressive White society. So it was hardly surprising for me
to hear that Bill Adler’s first approach to Professor Griff involved a
quite ludicrous attempt to turn him against the ‘racist’ Henry Ford.
• • •
The
very existence of a Black anti-Semitism is highly disruptive to
established victim narratives which deny the privileged status of Jews
as a wealthy and influential elite within Western society. While White
anti-Semitism can still be portrayed (thanks to endless propaganda) as a
top-down form of oppression directed against Jews, Black anti-Semitism
flips the narrative since a received wisdom of modern culture is that
Blacks are the most disadvantaged ethnic group in society. When Blacks
“punch up” and the target is Jews, the only available solution to Jews
is censorship. Blacks who grovel enough, and with enough sincerity (like
Nick Cannon and Ice Cube) will be rehabilitated through Holocaust tours
and such, and their apologies will be widely broadcast as a form of
propaganda literature in its own right.
But
those who don’t, like Professor Griff, will have their careers destroyed
and they will vanish from the cultural spotlight. It may even be worse
than that. In a remarkable incident covered by Tucker Carlson,
Jewish trainer Harley Pasternak even threatened to have Kanye West
drugged and institutionalised: “You go back to Zombieland forever.” The
future of Kanye ‘Ye’ West is currently uncertain, but will be
undoubtedly be dictated by the extent to which he apologizes to his
masters.
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eel ...
April Three
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
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64th day is March 5
My birthday
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