AMERICA IS LOSING ITS DOLLAR POWER

One of the paradoxes of power is: "If you use it, you lose it." America's attempts to use its dollar power as a weapon of geopolitical dominance (rather than its military) -- as with the recent sanctions against Russia -- is speeding up the de-dollarisation of states that are increasingly reluctant to be held to "woke" American standards on human rights, individualism, and democracy. Caspian Report explains how far the process has gone.  

ONLY ONE OUT 31 MEMBERS OF PARTIOT FRONT FOUND TO HAVE CHILD PORN ON HIS PHONE

Boyce, bottom row 5th from left

In a massive boost for weird Nazi/Patriot organisation Patriotic Front, it has been revealed that only one out of 31 members of the organisation arrested last year at a "gay pride" event had child porn on his phone. 

As reported by Fox13: 

A Utah man arrested last year in Idaho with members of a white nationalist group has admitted to possessing child pornography.

Jared M. Boyce, 28, of Springville, pleaded guilty in a Utah court last month to nine felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and a misdemeanor count of dealing in material harmful to a minor. He faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced Tuesday in Provo.

Boyce was among 31 men associated with the group Patriot Front arrested last year near a gay pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and the child pornography case appears to be an outgrowth of what happened there.

Really, when you think about it, it's quite impressive that only one out of 31 PF members had this kind of material on their phones. I would have expected around half to have something similar, and if it had been 31 members of Nick Fuentes' America First or the Proud Boys then the number would probably be nearer 90%.

This suggests that PF is having a generally salutary influence on its young members' moral standards, whether you agree or not with their moronic Neo-Nazi-style American patriotism. 

But what exactly did Boyce have on his phone to warrant a possible 31 years in jail?

Court records say the FBI searched Boyce’s phone a month after the Idaho arrests and found images depicting children in sex acts. Boyce, the court document says, admitted to an investigator he possessed the images in Utah County and to sending a sexually-explicit photo of his genitals to a 16-year-old girl.

In the State of Utah, the age of consent is 18 years old, which means everyone under that age is a child. It has not been revealed how old the "children" in the videos were. 

ROLF HARRIS AND ROTHERHAM: OFFSETTING INTERRACIAL CHILD RAPE WITH BORDERLINE CELEB DEGENERACY

by Colin Liddell

In the wake of the (largely) Muslim & Pakistani Grooming Gang scandal in the UK, a number of Western celebrities with a vaguely creepy demeanour became targets for prosecution for various kinds of illegal sexual activity. One of these died recently at the grand old age of 93 -- Rolf Harris, someone I vaguely remember from TV when I was a kid. 

Harris was one of the targets of what was called Operation Yewtree. According to Wikipedia this was:

"a British police investigation into sexual abuse allegations...against the English media personality Jimmy Savile and others. The investigation, led by the Metropolitan Police Service, started in October 2012." 

But a spate of prosecutions of well-known celebrities doesn't just happen out of the blue. The question has to be asked: "What else was going on at the time?

It's hard to ignore how much Operation Yewtree dovetails with the breaking of the Rotherham Scandal that made the (largely) Pakistani grooming gangs a major issue in the UK. This scandal really broke on the 24th of September 2012 with a piece in the Times finally opening the can of worms after all sorts of backdoor moves to keep the scandal in the dark.

But within days of British people hearing that Pakistan gangs had been grooming and raping a large number of their kids, and that the police and politicians had been covering it up, we were suddenly presented with some high-profile White paedos.

Funny that!

This started with an ITV documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, by a former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas. This was broadcast on 3rd October 2012, almost a year after Savile's death, but less than two weeks after the Rotherham Scandal broke. It's almost like they were keeping it on tap.

My impression at the time was that the British state was intent on "offsetting" the inevitably "racist" fallout of the Rotherham scandal with a few high-profile celebrity paedo cases. This is a view I still lean towards today. 

In the wake of the revelations about Savile, they also went after Rolf Harris, and a number of other old rockstars/celebrities, people like glam rocker Gary Glitter and Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis, etc. Plenty more were probably "evaluated" but rejected for investigation for various reasons.

It may be nothing more than a hunch on my part, but I am also pretty sure the the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) take into consideration how someone looks and how critically evaluated they are. Having facial hair, curly hair, a certain "dark" mien, or just looking creepy seem to have been criteria employed in the selection of the prosecution targets. Also, people whose careers were now regarded as a bit tacky, naff, and unfashionable were more likely to be included in the dragnet.

Rolf Harris was a perfect fit for these criteria. In fact, evidence of actual paedoing may have been almost a secondary consideration. An examination of the case will at least partially support this hypothesis.

But the main question that has to be set above all others is this: Without the Rotherham Scandal would the "private lives" of any of these old celebs have been dredged up and examined? 

If not for Rotherham and death, he would probably have been at the Coronation

I haven't looked into the details of Savile and Glitter, but I assume, from various ways of inferring, that there was considerable evidence of paedoing. But I did look into the case of Rolf Harris, and, by contrast with Savile and Glitter, he seems to occupy more of a grey area. This means that he is a prime indicator of the real backstory to Operation Yewtree which was much more a political and "social cohesion" operation than a criminal one.

So, let's walk through the evidence that is easily accessible on the internet. Harris was 93 when he died, which means he was born in 1930. Age is important here because what we are dealing with is not the evilness of the acts but the evilness of the timing of the acts.

Also, let us briefly consider society's own ambivalence about the age of consent: In 1275, the first age of consent was set in England at age 12. In 1875, it was raised to the age of 13, and in 1885 it was again raised to 16, where it remains today. So, there is some history here.

Also in the 1960s and 70s, all the "cultural and legislative traffic" was in the direction of "sexual liberation". Although the age of consent was never lowered below 16, there was at least an ethos that it "should be" or "would be" among many, especially those on the Left. Remember, this was the era of the Paedophile Information Exchange, which was affiliated to the National Council for Civil Liberties, a mainstream organisation.

This was also the era of hysterical teenage fandoms, with young girls on either side of the "age of consent line" constantly "throwing themselves" at pop stars and famous people. 

In the hands of more ruthless investigators, Operation Yewtree could probably have dug up hundreds of cases much worse than that of Rolf Harris. In fact, with my knowledge of rock stars, I could probably give them plenty of good pointers.

Too cool to have his collar felt for banging a 14-year-old

But what about the charges against Rolf Harris?

You can read about the prosecution in his Wikipedia entry, but let me summarise. First of all, Harris was arrested in 2012, then released without charge. I wonder how that feels.

"Sorry Rolf, we thought you were a paedo. No hard feelings, mate. Can I have an autograph for the wife?"

This would have been the equivalent of putting a mark on him for any would-be accusers out there, either genuine cases or nutcases and gold diggers. Needless to say, when they next arrested him in 2013, they had a bit more "corroboration." Harris was then charged with nine counts of "indecent assault" and four counts of "making indecent images of children."

Sounds pretty bad. Just throw the book at him. Why bother with the disgusting details? But the devil, as frequently observed, is in the details.

The four counts of making indecent images of children didn't amount to much and were soon blown off.

"His legal team told Justice Nigel Sweeney in previously unreportable legal argument that the models in the photographs were over 18 according to their identity documents provided by website bosses in the Ukraine."

But then the CPS later dug up another 3 charges, so that Harris had to face 12 charges in court, involving 4 girls/women:

9 charges relating to:

a 14-year-old in the 1980s

a 15-16 year-old in the 1980s

3 additional charges relating to:

the same 14 year-old when she was 19

a 7-or-8-year-old in the 1960s

a 14-year-old in 1975

Starting with the youngest (Wiki):

"...he sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl who asked for his autograph at a community centre in Hampshire in 1968 or 1969."

An event at a community centre. I'm guessing there were plenty of people around, with Harris being the centre of attention, so, at best, this sounds a bit ropey. Also notice the time gap - decades - and the extreme youth at the time of his accuser.

Next the 14 year-old:

"Harris was also accused of groping the bottom of a 14-year-old girl at a celebrity It's a Knockout event in Cambridge in 1975."

Again a highly public setting with actual TV cameras on him. Can we have a VAR on whether it was "handball" or not? Or maybe the Metropolitan Police can just jet off to Italy and arrest half the population.

You might say I'm being "dismissive" of these two alleged "victims," but the details of the child porn allegations suggest that the CPS will literally throw in anything when it has decided on a target. "Quantity has a quality of its own," as their role model Joseph Stalin famously said.

Right, we have minimised the froth and noise a bit, so let's get to the more substantial part of the allegations. This is from a Guardian report on the charges: 

"[Harris] is accused of three counts of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 1986 and six of indecently assaulting a girl aged between 15 and 16 from 1980 to 1981."

From what I can understand, "assault" here means "grooming" if they are under 16 and "seducing" if they are over 16. Got to draw the line somewhere!

But even if we assume Harris waited the two years before getting his old 'digeridoo' out, as he claims, it's still pretty creepy for a 58 year-old man getting off with a 16 year-old girl. In the case of the other girl he would be 51 if he waited for her to be 16. Creepy as fuck, and they might well have felt sexually abused and violated, but if they were a day over 15 years and 364 days, then Rolf would technically and legally be in the clear.

So, what this case really boils down to is whether Rolf banged a couple of chicks a little early (while he was going through a mid-life crisis) and whom to believe on this, them or him. The jury clearly chose to believe the "young" ladies, and maybe they were right. I don't know. I wasn't there. But it's also clear that the CPS were throwing anything they could at Rolf, and some of that mud, rightly or wrongly, stuck.

I'm also pretty sure the "high quality" British press played its role by cooking up Operation Yewtree hysteria before and during the trial. There was no way the jury could be insulated from that. Also, for all sorts of influential political reasons, the push to offset the "racist" fallout of Rotherham could not be allowed to fail. 

In fact, the subsequent actions of the CPS look even more suspicious. Not content with convicting Harris on some of the original charges, it is clear they wanted to put a seal on this particular case. Luckily for Harris, things didn't work out quite so well for them.

In 2016, the CPS announced that Harris would face seven further indecent assault charges (Wiki):

"The offences allegedly occurred between 1971 and 2004 and involved seven complainants who were aged between 12 and 27 at the time."

However, none of those charges stuck. Harris was acquitted of three charges, while the judge "discharged the jury from deliberating on the further four counts." A retrial on the remaining charges went nowhere.

This takes us back to the eight-year-old girl he supposedly assaulted at a community centre in Hampshire in 1968 or 1969. In 2017 his conviction for this was overturned on the grounds that it was "unsafe," i.e. a load of old bollocks. 

My slightly distanced view of the case is that Harris was largely innocent or, at worst, marginally guilty of being a creepy old dude. But the party who looks really guilty here is the CPS and the British establishment, who were desperate to offset the "racist" fallout of the Rotherham Scandal by culling some of its most sexually privileged members.

Reprehensible as this is in itself, it should not surprise our readership here. The actions that the British establishment took to offset the fallout from interracial child rape are totally in keeping with the behaviour to be expected of the Anti-Racist State. 

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DID MUSK SABOTAGE DESANTIS CAMPAIGN LAUNCH TO PROTECT SHANGHAI GIGA FACTORY?

Ron DeSaster: the man they fear

Perhaps the worst mistake presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis made was trusting his campaign launch to Elon Musk's Twitter platform. Instead of instantly reaching millions, while looking edgy and tech-savvy, DeSantis looked incompetent and boomertech as the launch was bedevilled by so-called "technical problems." 

As reported by the Guardian:

The eccentric billionaire had invited Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, to the somewhat niche Twitter Spaces – a dedicated audio streaming feature on the social media platform – to announce his run for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. [...]

Once people had got beyond the “What is Twitter Spaces?” stage, they were greeted with blank windows, broken snatches of conversation and other technical glitches.

The site creaked and buckled under the demand of more than half a million users.

Moderator David Sacks, a Republican donor and friend of Musk, tried to find a silver lining: “We’ve got so many people here we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign.”

The debacle was a fresh blow to the credibility of Musk, whose Tesla brand has lost its shine of late and who, having laid off dozens of Twitter staff, seemed to be on the end of divine retribution from the tech gods.

Believe that simplistic explanation and I have a couple of bridges in Brooklyn to sell you!

No this was something much more sinister. 

The Trump campaign immediately took advantage of DeSantis's technical embarrassment, with a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, saying:

“Glitchy. Tech issues. Uncomfortable silences. A complete failure to launch. And that’s just the candidate!”

After nearly half an hour of malfunctions, DeSantis finally got going, at least long enough for him to declare:

“I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback.”

But by then many people had tuned out and missed the points DeSantis made in support of his campaign.

Laughably the Leftist media, like the Guardian is running with the naïve narrative that incident proves that Musk should not be in charge of a social media platform: 

The sorry experience did little to suggest that Musk knows how to run a social media platform...

It is completely far-fetched to suppose that something as simple as a Twitter Spaces stream, run by the head of Twitter, could encounter such "boomer tech" issues so easily. Much more compelling is the explanation that Elon Musk did this on purpose. But why would Musk do such a thing?

Simple! As is well known, Musk is a deeply compromised figure, who has pandered to warmonger Vladimir Putin and has considerable business interests in China, such as the Tesla "giga factory" in Shanghai. 

This exposure makes Musk extremely susceptible to leverage from the Chinese government, who are just as keen as the Russians to interfere in the American electoral process.

While DeSantis is seen in both Moscow and Beijing as a conventional US politician, namely as someone who would follow the "uni-party" line on America's global empire and responsibilities, his rival Trump is still viewed as someone who would disengage America from the wider world, and thus allow the easy ascent of China and Russia.

YEAH SO DESANTIS TRIED ANNOUNCING HIS CAMPAIGN ON TWITTER SPACES BUT IT WAS A TOTAL DISASTER WITH DAVID SACKS RAMBLING ABOUT DOGECOIN AND IT CRASHED LIKE 5 TIMES—NOW TRUMP JUST DROPPED A PARODY OF IT WITH AN AI VERSION OF ADOLF HITLER AND DICK CHENEY pic.twitter.com/iwrIzmKYgx

— James (@GravitysRa1nbow) May 25, 2023

Trump is using every conspiracy theory going in this "response vid" to the DeSantis campaign launch on Twitter Spaces, LOL pic.twitter.com/I0G1XCZr8u

— Colin Liddell (@cbliddell) May 25, 2023

EDUCATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

by Colin Liddell

All societies need, from time to time, a well-intentioned radical critique. So, quite clearly, one of the biggest blows the West  suffered in recent years was the hijacking, sabotaging, and degradation of its dissident intellectual movements. On the one hand, these were partly co-opted by "foreign actors" (mainly Russia, Israel, and China), while in reaction, they were suppressed by blanket censorship, lies, and smears by the Western establishment. 

Nowhere was this clearer than in the tragic fate of the Dissident Right. The lies that were spread about some of us in the old Alternative Right by groups such as the ADL and SPLC, and by a lazy media, have percolated through the system and have now become encrusted in the informational superstructure of the West. 

But does the advent of A.I. perpetuate this process, or does it offer possibilities of straightening out the truth through logic and cross-referenced data?

In the above video, I attempt to "teach" A.I. by exposing the lies and illogicalities of the mainstream narrative on me. Is A.I. logical enough to see through the lies that have been fed to it or not?

Links to items mentioned in the video:

BBC article cited at the 02:33 mark
Anti-Hitler article cited by AI as proof of Liddell being "pro-Hitler" at the 08:51 mark
Audio version of "Hitler as an Expression of German bad Form" cited at the 13:54 mark
Tweet erroneously referenced by AI at the 19:35 mark
Article containing the quote "Jewish propaganda machine" misconstrued by A.I. at the 23:50 mark
Greg Johnson's article "The Slow Cleanse" (now retitled) falsely attributed to Colin Liddell by A.I. at the 27:55 mark.

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"SURPRISE" SUSPECT IN NAZI FLAG U-HAUL ATTACK ON WHITEHOUSE

Bobs and vagene have given way to Nazi LARPing

The suspected attacker who drove a U-Haul truck into the railings of the Whitehouse while carrying a Nazi flag, has been revealed to be a teenager of Indian background – 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula (above). He has been arrested on charges that included threatening to kill or harm the president and Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Kandula is reported to have driven his truck into the railings twice and then to have made threats at the scene. Following his prompt arrest a large WWII-style Nazi banner was recovered from the  "attack vehicle" and appeared prominently in subsequent news coverage, while Kandula's identity was not immediately revealed. 

It is not yet known if this was the same Nazi banner that mysteriously appeared at the Unite the Right march by the Alt-Right at Charlottesville in 2017.

For normies and mainstream media, the fact that an Indian would use a "White supremacist" banner in an attack on the Whitehouse clearly does not compute. But for anyone who has studied the America racist subculture, the most salient fact is how un-White and crap most of the racists are. 

Dissident Right 2023

MEME: STRANGE APPARITION APPEARS ABOVE THE RUINS OF BAKHMUT

 

THE ECONOMICS OF THE DISSIDENT RIGHT

Follow the money (or at least the chance of money). Stephen J James explains the economics of the Dissident Right, a movement driven by minor e-celebs trying to get on the soft and sticky side of fat bitcoin geeks. Many try, few are chosen.

HALF OF INTERNET TRAFFIC CAME FROM BOTS IN 2022

Nearly half of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022. This is according to Imperva, a leading cyber security company.

As reported by Security Magazine:

A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. The same report showed that human traffic, at 52.6%, decreased to its lowest level in eight years.

This week, Imperva released its 10th annual Bad Bot Report, a global analysis of automated bot traffic across the internet. The annual report provides security and business leaders with information about the evolution of bot technology and automated traffic. This year’s report also documents milestones in the evolution of bad bot technology.

In most cases, bot traffic is usually malicious and is becoming increasingly sophisticated:

For the fourth consecutive year, the volume of bad bot traffic — malicious automated software applications capable of high-speed abuse, misuse and attacks — grew to 30.2%, a 2.5% increase over 2021.[...]

In 2022, the proportion of bad bots classified as “advanced” accounted for 51.2% of all bad bot traffic. In comparison, the level of bad bot sophistication in 2021 was 25.9%.

Bots were also increasingly used in account takeover (ATO) attacks. These increased 155% in 2022, while 15% of all login attempts in the past 12 months were classified as account takeover related. 

The business sectors most affected by bad bot attacks on their websites were gaming with 58.7% of attacks, travel (24.7%), retail (21%) and financial services (12.7%).

The bot traffic of 13 countries was  also analysed in the report. Of these, Germany had the most bot traffic, with 68.6%. Ireland had 45.1%, Singapore 43.1%, and the U.S. 32.1%.

Mobile Safari was the most common browser used by bad bots in 2022, with one-in-five using it.

HAVE 200,000 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS REALLY BEEN KILLED?

Jake Broe looks into the Ukrainian estimate that 200,000 soldiers fighting for the Kremlin have been killed. He also examines the "hierarchy" of the Russian forces, which includes at least 13 categories, from highly valued elite forces at the top to prison conscripts, foreign volunteers, and former Ukrainian citizens from the Donbas, press-ganged into the Russian army, whose deaths are not even counted in official statistics.

WELSHMAN GETS TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS FOR IMPERSONATING A VIKING

Sven Longwanks (center)

A Welshman, who looks nothing like a Viking, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half for impersonating one online. The Welshman, James Allchurch, 51, for many years pretended to be a big, manly blonde Viking, called "Sven Longshanks," when in fact he was a hairy, simian-faced little Welsher with muttonchops, glasses, and a "girly" ponytail.

Allchurch also claimed to be Aryan, calling his podcast "Radio Aryan," after the fierce Hyperborean warrior race that conquered India three thousand years ago, even though Welsh people, like himself, are believed to be either (a) one of the lost tribes of Israel or (b) of African origin. 

As reported by the BBC: 

A jury at Swansea Crown Court found [Allchurch] guilty of 10 counts and not guilty of five.

Sentencing him, Judge Rees said the offending amounted to a "stain on our humanity".

Allchurch uploaded offensive podcasts to his website, Radio Aryan, since rebranded Radio Albion, between 2019 and 2021.

Even though Allchurch is Welsh, he frequently spoke of other races in a disparaging manner: 

During the trial earlier this year, the jury were played fifteen episodes of the podcast which included talk about hanging black and Jewish people, as well as playing a song advocating racial segregation. 

The judge also appeared to be offended by Allchurch's Welsh accent:

"The content of these podcasts were vile. Listening to them as the jury had to was a disturbing experience," he said.

Allchurch's main defence was that he had experienced a bump on his head in 2009.

THE ECONOMICS OF SUPPORTING THE WAR IN THE UKRAINE

Audio version available on YouTube, BitChute, and Odysee 

Tasty!

by Daniel Barge

President Zelenskyy has just paid another visit to Britain's bountiful shores, and, once again, he has returned home with an armful of military goodies in the form of promises and agreements. Russia has been feebly flailing at this with its online propaganda, claiming that helping the Ukrainians defend themselves will impoverish the British taxpayer. But will it?

I don't think so. In fact, I'm pretty sure it will have the opposite effect. Here's why.

Let's say Britain agrees to provide 100 units of a certain weapons system that is manufactured in the UK, and each weapons unit has a market value of, say, £1 million. To the average person that looks like £100 million of taxpayers money down the drain, money that could be spent on schools, hospitals, pensions, tax cuts, etc., going East to be "wasted" in big explosions of dead Russians. 

But those weapons systems have to be built (or replaced) and so by donating them to the Ukraine, the UK government is creating demand for them or a superior upgrade. Of course that demand is now UK government demand from a UK-government-funded industry, and the money has to be raised either by new taxation, spending cuts, or money printing.

Guess which one the government prefers.

While most money printing, like the one caused by the UK's covid furlough support scheme, creates generalised consumer inflation, money printing that allows the UK government to buy weapons and then send them overseas, does not. Instead, it creates well-paying jobs, rising stocks, and dividend payments, as well as an end product that can't saturate the market as it keeps blowing up conscripted Russian prisoners.

Of course, you might fear that the money that now enters the general economy from the well-paying jobs, dividends, and cashing in on rising stocks will unleash an oversupply of cash into the UK economy and add to inflation that way. But this kind of stimulus works quite differently from just printing money and, say, handing it out to the welfare class to spend at their local Aldi.

The new money has been pegged to an actual growth in economic activity (namely the production of 100 weapon systems for £100 million), so it now has intrinsic value, not an artificial value. 

Here is a simple analogy of how fiat currency economics works:

It is just like making pizza. You have two main ingredients -- base and topping. The more you can roll out the pizza base, the more pizza topping you can lay on top. In this analogy pizza topping is money creation, while the pizza base is the underlying level of economic activity.

In the furlough, the "pizza base" was actually constricted, while the "pizza topping" was ladled on top, creating a rather soggy, tomatoey concoction (=inflation).

With Britain's gradually accelerating military assistance to the Ukraine, however, the pizza base is being rolled out by hard economic activity that cannot create an unprofitable oversupply. This allows the creation of the cash that pays for it.

The net result for the British taxpayer is therefore probably zero with the added bonus of increased tax revenue from people working in well-paid jobs in the military industrial sector.

But make this point and Russian propaganda will simply switch its line from "supporting Ukraine is bad because it will impoverish UK taxpayers" to "supporting Ukraine is bad because it will enrich people."

Hilarious!

WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: TOM SEWELL

Like National Action but with a higher T-count

by Colin Liddell

Read other entries like this in Who's Who in the Dissident Right, an ever-expanding biographical guide to the fringe characters of the Right Wing

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Eloquent but not very bright Australian Neo-Nazi born in 1993. Sewell is part of a Romper Stomper-style Aussie subculture that includes the likes of Blair Cottrell, and others, as well as various groups and subgroups, like the Lads Society, with which Cottrell and Sewell are both associated.

The members of these groups tend to focus on bodybuilding and "bro-chadding." They also readily suck up the crudest and most "glowy" Alt-Right/ Neo-Nazi memes and propaganda points, and then behave in ways that ostensibly discredit White identitarianism. Essentially they are like Britain's banned National Action group, but with a lot more gym time. The notion that they are "Feds" cannot be dismissed.

The Lads Society also provided Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux with their security when they visited Australia in 2018.

Sewell has been involved in several violent incidents. In May 2021 he was arrested on charges of leading a gang of about 20 Neo-Nazis in an attack on two hikers who had started filming the group due to their "suspicious" behaviour in a Victoria State park. Following a trial Sewell was sentenced in 2022 to an 18-month community corrections order with 150 hours of community service.

His counterproductive "activism" with its negative personal consequences has merely reinforced his downward spiral of paranoia, victimhood, and further radicalisation, as can be seen on podcasts and videos he has appeared on since his 2021 arrest. He believes that all the West's ills are due to the Jews and has ingested a frame of reference that is designed to weave any inconsistency of data into his Semitic Panotheory. According to this Hitler was a good guy who did nothing wrong and was the victim of aggression by "Jewish-controlled politicians" (e.g. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, etc.).

Australians have a number of characteristics that make them highly susceptible to the "Hitler Trap": namely, a more macho and working class culture, a strong "convict" tradition of being against the British establishment, and the "Mel Gibson Effect" (Irish Catholicism or post-Catholicism that slants towards anti-Semitism and even Naziism). Antifa is also much weaker in Australia.

Most likely to say: "The state has a monopoly on violence" (before trying to infringe that monopoly)

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NEIL OLIVER GETS GBNEWS INTO TROUBLE AFTER TWEETING QTARD MASTERPIECE

Peak Qtard meme courtesy of the boys in the Kremlin basement

Neil Oliver used to be the "windswept history guy" on the BBC's critically acclaimed Coast documentaries, but, one mid-life crisis and Covid lockdown later, he turned into a gibbering Qanon conspiracy nut.

Oddly enough, this made him perfect for his present job as a talking head on GBNews, a site set up just as Russia Today was getting kicked off the airwaves in the UK with "funny money" channelled through an "investment fund" based in Dubai. 

Yes, going by its divisive and polarising content, there is a good argument to be made that GBNews is just the reincarnation of Kremlin-ops channel Russia Today, especially if you look into the sordid history of Christopher Chandler the guy who runs GB News's dubious funding. 

But, as RT found out, stirring the shit for a living has a shelf life. Eventually the blowback arrives and this now appears to be happening with Oliver and GB News, with calls for Oliver to be sacked after he posted a particularly moronic piece of Qtardery on Twitter.

As reported by a Scottish newspaper:

NEIL Oliver has come under fire after sharing an “antisemitic” image which depicted Jeffrey Epstein alongside Bill Gates as a Nazi scientist.

The TV host has seen calls for his show on GB News – which frequently features Oliver giving lengthy monologues on topics such as governmental control and the Covid-19 pandemic – to be cancelled after the incident.

The image shows Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft who is also a regular target of conspiracy theorists, holding vaccine vials while wearing symbols including a swastika and an Illuminati pyramid.

Gates also has “heil Hydra” written on his shoulder, with the symbol of the fictional, Nazi-linked organisation (which comes from the Marvel superhero universe) beneath it.

Elsewhere in the image, former US chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci and World Economic Forum chair Klaus Schwab appear alongside satanic imagery and the numbers 666 woven into slogans such as the UK Government’s “Build Back Better”.

The account which shared the original image, under the name Liz Churchill, wrote: “Future Generations will know the Villains we had to face to protect them.”

As you can see (above), the meme he tweeted is an outstanding piece of delusional, paranoid Qtardery, which feeds into all sorts of narratives designed divide and disrupt Britain's already fractured society. 

Also, notice the relative powerlessness of open Western states to shut down Kremlin psy-ops like this. It took years to get Russia Today off the air. The only reason that Oliver is now in the firing line is because they tenuously claim that he is being "anti-Semitic." 

Accusations of anti-Semitism, as we saw with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, is a sure sign that the British Deep State has finally decided to hit back against this probable Russian-backed operation.

Neil Oliver, the Andy Nowicki of GBNews

KREMLIN AMBASSADOR'S TURD SHINING TRIP TO OXFORD

Kelin Time

by Alex Kokcharov

On Thursday 11 May, there was a talk by Russia’s ambassador Andrey Kelin in Oxford, UK. It was not organised by, or took place at, the University of Oxford. It was organised by the Oxford Russian Club, which is a society not affiliated with the University. 

I decided that if the event was taking place, I was to attend to be able to ask the ambassador challenging questions, thus undermining his narratives. As a former president of the Oxford University Russian Society in 2000 I could attend the event for free, and was given three questions. 

Again - I did not pay. Otherwise I would not have attended.

Kelin started with prepared introductory remarks, which consisted of usual Kremlin’s lies:

- Russia and Ukraine are basically one country/culture
- The West has been meddling in Ukraine since 2014, trying to rip it away from Moscow
- Euromaidan of 2014 was a Western instigated coup
- The “Kyiv regime” was discriminating against the Russian speakers in the east
- The “Kyiv regime” began the war against its own people in Donbas
- Russia had no other choice but to interfere in February 2022
- The West is prolonging the suffering of Ukrainians by supplying Ukraine with weapons
- Ukraine is a “failed state” with non-functioning economy: “industry is gone, agriculture is gone, population has halved”.
- Ukraine is corrupt and Western taxpayers’ money is stolen by corrupt politicians.

And similar lies.

What’s remarkable, is that both during his remarks and Q&A Kelin constantly slipped from the official Kremlin line. He called the war in Ukraine a war multiple times. He said “we are rebuilding damaged cities in Ukraine” while talking about Mariupol, etc.

My first question: Kelin said in January 2022 that Russia had no plans to invade Ukraine. Was he lying or kept in the dark?

Kelin responded that the decision was made in February 2022 by a very small group of people in Russia’s leadership, and neither he nor other ambassadors were notified beforehand. So he "wasn't lying", he was only providing the official position.

My second question: You said that Russia invaded Ukraine to allegedly protect the Russian speakers, but the biggest devastation was in areas with Russian-speaking Ukrainian population – Mariupol, Sievierodonetsk, Bakhmut.  Is there a contradiction?

Kelin responded that the Russian army was only targeting military infrastructure, and was never destroying civilian infrastructure. He said “we are now actively rebuilding cities and towns in Ukraine, just look at Mariupol”.

My third question: The Ukrainian economy has indeed suffered, but this was due to the fact that Russia has been heavily bombing Ukraine for the past 14 months, and is occupying nearly 20% of the country. Isn’t Russia responsible for all these problems in Ukrainian economy?

Kelin responded that any damage was collateral, and said – look at what the US did in Iraq. Then he corrected himself and acknowledged that Russia was targeting energy infrastructure, albeit unsuccessfully.

According to Kelin, all strikes on industry were aimed at destroying Ukraine’s weapons manufacturing, and Russia wanted to be friends with the Ukrainian people.

The majority of questions were challenging Kelin’s initial remarks, offering a very different perspective of Russia as an aggressor engaged in an illegal war. This included those who had recently travelled to Ukraine: they cited their eyewitness accounts of Russia's crimes.

Much of Kelin’s responses were pure whataboutism and criticisms of the US and UK actions in Iraq, Libya, or Serbia. He also pleaded with the audience to stop reading Western media and listening to Western governments, and to listen to what Russia has to say.

There were questions/comments from two people who were sympathetic to Kelin’s narratives. One came from an older guy (around 60) with a thick Russian accent who before that was complaining about how difficult it was to travel between Russia and UK with no direct flights.

There was also a young guy, in his 20s, who said he was half Russian / half German. He said he fully supported Putin and his “special military operation” against “the Nazis in Ukraine”. He asked Kelin why did Russia was so “modest” in its bombing of Ukraine? He also asked why did Russia not bomb Kyiv to the ground, thus eliminating the entire Ukrainian government? He added that his family back in Russia was fully supportive of the war and that his uncle volunteered to fight for the Russian forces and was killed near Bakhmut.

In response to these remarks/questions Kelin sounded even "nice" of sorts (under the circumstances), claiming that Russia was not at war with the Ukrainian people but rather with the “Kyiv regime”.

When Kelin and the embassy staff were leaving, he shook the hand of an Oxford professor who hosted the event in her home. This professor was sat next to the aisle just in front of me. While walking by me, Kelin offered his hand for a handshake to me and smirked. I did not move and said in Russian: “I speak Russian perfectly and I don’t buy your disinformation”. To which he responded “I know, I know. I know who you are”. And he tapped me on a shoulder. To me this (both verbal and non-verbal) interaction meant his admittance to me personally that he had been lying through the entire event, and he had been simply “just doing his job”.

After Kelin and the embassy people had left, there was a pause, as people attending the event were not sure on when to leave, as there was a small protest rally taking place on a street outside, organised by those supporting Ukraine.

I left the house first and spoke to the protesters in Ukrainian and English, explaining who I was, why I was there, and what was the mood in the room. To me it was important that the audience was not taking Kelin’s points at face value and challenged him. This diffused the atmosphere – and the protesters agreed to pose for a photo.

They were a diverse group, including Ukrainians, Russians, Britons and others who support Ukraine, who held their peaceful protest against Russian officials getting a platform in the West. Within several minutes everyone from the event was gone, and there were no altercations/issues of any kind. Also, many thanks to Thames Valley Police for posting police officers to the area for additional security.

From a Twitter thread (with minor edits)

THE CRAZY WAY THE WAR MIGHT END

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko 

by Colin Liddell

The main problem in the World is status hunger. History proves that you can treat people like shit, but as long as they have a feeling of having a little status, they will generally be satisfied. However, status is not always as easy to dispense as the more basic necessities.

The problem gets worse with nations, especially nations involved in wars, as winning and losing wars always marks a drastic shift in status. In fact, this is probably the main reason that wars are fought; not really because of lebensraum, natural resources, defending democracy, reclaiming ancient territory, or all the reasons usually given.

This takes us to the present conflict in the Ukraine. You can go on about the Donbas, the Crimea, "muh internationally recognised borders," "denazification," "defending democracy," stopping Putler, etc. But what we're really seeing here are two entities locked in a tussle over status. The thing that keeps the war going ultimately is the fear of losing this.

Due to the way the war has worked out, it is now difficult for either side to lose. We have been here before. Look at the Allies versus the Central Powers in World War One. The optimum solution there would have been for each side to realise the horrendous cost of the war after the first year, and then to have just come to a sensible peace deal. But what kept them hammering away for another three years, at great cost to all involved, was their reluctance to lose status. In the end they all lost status and much more.

Likewise in the case of Russia and Ukraine. Putin's "Schlieffen Plan" (his 3-day Special Military Operation) clearly failed, as did his plans B and C, but admitting this and returning to pre-bellum borders would have been a loss of status for both him and his Ukrainian counterparts. For the Ukraine to allow this, combined with the running sore of Russia's existing occupation of part of its territories, would be identical to a man letting someone walk away after they had slapped him twice in the face.

For these reasons the war has had to continue, and could go on for another two or three years at least.

So, for the war to end, either both countries need to embellish their status in some way, or one has to decisively defeat the other. As we have already observed, a decisive victory will probably be bloody and take time. So, is there a way for both countries to come out of this with a gain in status?

Yes there is, if both countries can gain territory.

Obviously, this means it can't be the contested territory, namely the Crimea, the Donbass, and the connecting Kherson Corridor. This land has to return to Ukraine, so that the Ukrainian state has a gain in status rather than a loss. But, as widely recognized, this would be a massive blow to Putin's prestige and the status of Russia, especially giving up the Crimea. "Much better to throw another 100,000 or 200,000 lives into the meat grinder than to let that happen."

But what if Russia could gain territory elsewhere? Then Putin wouldn't look like such a loser, and could even present himself as a winner. This brings us to Belarus, an unloved piece of swamp and forest to the North of Ukraine.

There has already been plenty of speculation about Belarus, one day in the not so distant future, amalgamating, merging, and unifying with the Putinist state. This may or may not happen. I suspect many Belarussians would be horrified by the prospect, and much more inclined to look to the West. But even if one views such a union as an historical trend or inevitability, it hasn't happened yet and on paper Belarus is still very much a separate country.

So, if Belarus could, in some way, be thrown onto the scales of a peace settlement and used to "compensate" Russia for the "loss" of the territories formerly stolen from the Ukraine, then, that would give Russia (and of course Putin and his gang) a status-salving exit from a war they have got so badly wrong. Few people in the West would care one way or the other about Belarus, which they already see as "in Putin's pocket" anyway.

Possibly the Kremlin might already know all this. The calculations could already have been made. They might be thinking along these lines: 

"We're too weak to defeat the mighty Ukrainians, especially the Ukrainians backed up by their friends in the West. In fact we're too weak to even grind them down at a rate of two-and-a-half dead Russians for every dead Ukrainian. Also, if we keep doing this, the people at home -- even our own dumb, stupid, passive, bovine population -- might rebel." 

Based on this, the Kremlin might already see Belarus as its exit strategy, along these lines:

"Yes it sucks, I know, to give up the Crimea and the Donbas. But if we don't we could end up on meat hooks, and, of course, Belarus is a much bigger territory then the Crimea. Adding that to our kleptocracy will definitely make us look good. We'll still be chads. It won't be too hard to dress this up as a victory, even with most of the Russian army and the Wagner group planted in the Ukrainian soil."

Might not this be the reason why Belarus's president Lukashenko has just been admitted to a hospital after a recent visit to his "old friend" at the Kremlin?

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).