SURPRISING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN FUENTES AND HIS DERANGED "ATTACKER"

Y fight?

Fans of small, "gay," Mexican live-streamer and Jew obsessive Nick Fuentes were recently shocked to hear that their hero had been tracked down to his Illinois residence and "attacked" by a crazed stalker Jewish cat lady. 

Bravely defending himself by deploying pepper spray and calling on emergency services and his holy Christian God, Fuentes narrowly managed to fend off a fate worse than death -- actual physical contact with a female -- by kicking his hefty assailant down some steps. 

Now Neokrat can reveal the face of the savage, post-menopausal beast that attacked Little Nicky.  She is none other than Marla Rose, a giant (compared to Nicky), seething, demented, 57-year-old Jewish feminist vegan activist.

Doorbell thug and pepper spray recipient Rose 

However, there appear to be some surprising similarities between Fuentes and his deranged foe.

Both Fuentes and Rose were enthusiastic supporters of failed Democrat candidate Kamala Harris in the recent Presidential election, and both like wearing cat ears. Also, I'm 99% sure they both enjoy playing with dildos.

It is sad indictment of the heavily polarised nature of modern American society that two people with so much in common should be fighting a grim battle in a dusty stairwell.

ANTI-VAX IS JUST SIMPING FOR WOMEN HAVING KIDS TOO LATE

by Colin Liddell

In politically complex, racially diverse, over-opinionated, highly porous societies like those in Western nations, contentious points, like the pros and cons of vaxxing, often get lost in the weeds and the memes.

This is why it is important to look at the same issues is “cleaner” (in data terms) but just as advanced societies, like Japan. Looking at the vax issue through the lens of Japan especially is revealing.

When the Covid virus hit the planet backn in 2019/2020, it was noticeable that Japan was somewhat at a disadvantage. By 8th of April 2021, it had only vaxed just over 1% of its population. By the same date, the UK has vaccinated 56% of its population, the USA 52%, France 19%, and China 11%. Even India had vaccinated nearly 7% of its vast and impoverished population.

Furthermore, Japan, despite being one of the most technologically developed nations on Earth, had to rely exclusively on foreign supplies, getting most of its vax from US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The obvious question was:

"Why isn't Japan's high-tech medical sector just churning out its own vaccine supplies?"

The reasons are several, but mainly this was due to a lack of political will. What little political will exists in Japan tends to come from the big corporations that finance the politicians, and Japan's medical sector has long been somewhat ambivalent about vaccines.

One problem is too much protection of inefficient Japanese companies in order to maintain employment levels. Japan's med sector is old-fashioned and inefficient, with too many small companies insulated from that nasty thing called "competition" while also being supported by various government subsidies.

This cosy arrangement also means that these companies are often too small and unwilling to take big bets on Research and Development. Elsewhere in the world, rampant competition has created massive companies that can take big bets on R&D. This has led to four massive pharmaceutical giants dominating 70% of the global market for vaccines.

But the much more interesting reason for Japan’s inherent anti-vaxness concerns the fact that by the 1990s, Japanese mothers were having babies later and later.

In the past the Japanese government used to take the lead in pushing vaccines, but something happened in the 1990s that changed all this — a whole series of lawsuits against the supposed “evil effects” of MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccines.

In 2003, the government and a research centre affiliated with Osaka University were forced to pay a total of 155 million yen to the families of two children who died or suffered side effects after receiving the MMR vaccine.

As reported at the time:

"The court ruled that the death of the son of a couple in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, and the serious brain damage suffered by 13-year-old Hana Ueno, from Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, were caused by the MMR vaccine. It ruled, however, that the child of a couple in Hyogo Prefecture died after contracting influenza."

Thousands more sued the government, mainly for cases of autism, although such cases continued to rise even after Japanese-made vaccines were withdrawn. In fact, autism has never been higher in Japan. So, how high is it?

The number of children with autism in Japan is estimated to be around one in 55, or 604.72 per 100,000 children. This is nearly double the rate of many other countries, including China and the United Kingdom, and nearly as high as The United States (one in 44). My guess is that Japan is actually higher than the US, but due to cultural norms and family shame much of this is hidden or covered up.

So, if dialling back on vaxes didn’t stop Japan’s autism epidemic dead in its tracks, what was the real cause?

My guess is that, just as in the West, the increasing age at which mothers were having children played a considerable role. According to data cited by Psychology Today Autism diagnoses in Japan have shown a clear increase from 2000 to the present, paralleling global trends. This also parallels the increasing age of mothers, with researchers increasingly noted this as a factor influencing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence. As maternal (and paternal) age increases, so does the risk of developmental conditions like autism.

2002 studies estimated Japan's autism prevalence at around 1 in 500 children. By 2012, the prevalence increased to 1 in 88 children, and recent reports put it at 1 in 55. Not all this can be put down to “improved diagnostic practices.” Autism is real and is increasing, as is late motherhood.

Anti-vax sentiment, both in Japan and the West, is generated by the same factor, namely a willingness to find an external scapegoat to blame in order to exonerate the individuals concerned, who in many cases have delayed having children too long. The main difference is that in Japan this correlation is a lot clearer.

Being anti-vax is thus revealed to be merely simping for women who have kids too late. Now, why would anybody want to do that?

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COLIN LIDDELL ON THE LUKE FORD SHOW (ELECTION NIGHT, 2023)

Colin Liddell on the Luke Ford Show on the history-shaking night of the 5th/6th of November, when the weakness of Western Deep States was revealed. 

Topics and Time Stamps

00:00 Trump’s victory represents the weakness of the US Deep State

02:29 Japan’s recent election doesn’t overturn the board

03:57 Why Trump’s victory is probably good for Japan

05:58 What would Japan do if China attacked Taiwan?

06:45 The Conservative’s Party’s new “anchor baby” leader

09:11 Badenoch’s leadership creates a major structural flaw in the Conservative Party

10:43 Why Kier Starmer isn’t that much more left-wing than the Conservatives

11:42 Starmer’s victory represents the weakness of the British Deep State

12:17 Israel running rings around its opponents

LOW-ENERGY, RAMBLING, BOOMER ADHD EDGES OUT INCOHERENT, WINE AUNT GIBBERISH

Easy peeler?

America has decided! With exit polls and partial counts now in the bag, it looks like the US has chosen the low-energy, rambling, boomer ADHD, represented by Donald Trump, over the incoherent, wine aunt, cat lady gibberish of Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Despite fighting one of the dullest and most tired campaigns in US history, briefly enlivened by a couple of unsuccessful assassination attempts by incels, an increasingly orange Trump will now be reinstalled in the White House, unless the increasingly senile sitting President Joe Biden decides to have a major "senior moment" and refuse to leave, causing a constitutional crisis.

Trump mainly relied on long, rambling speeches, memes about a "euthanized" squirrel, and anecdotes about Arnold Palmer's cock to woo voters. Meanwhile Harris concentrated on garnering half-hearted celebrity endorsements from pop stars and laughing like a maniac.

Unfortunately for Harris, this radical electoral strategy failed to mobilise the army of silent "wimmin" voters that experts predicted, possibly because it was a long drive to the polling booth and the price of gas is much higher in 2024 ($3.37 a gallon) than it was 4 years ago when Trump was president ($2.19).

Animal impersonator?

MOST ANGRY BOOMERS POSTING COMMENTS UNDER ARTICLES ARE KREMLIN OPERATIVES

"If you want a picture of the future..."

Ever wonder what sort of people are motivated to spend hours on the internet every day, posting angry comments under articles on sites like Gateway Pundit, the New York Post, Breitbart, Fox News, or the Daily Mail.

Well, it certainly isn't normal "concerned citizens," according to research by media watchdog NewsGuard who analysed the comment sections of several right-wing news sites and shared the findings with Wired:

“NewsGuard identified 194 users that all target the same articles, push the same pro-Russian talking points and disinformation narratives, while masquerading as disgruntled Western citizens,” the report states. The researchers found these fake accounts posting comments in four pro-Trump US publications: the Gateway Pundit, the New York Post, Breitbart, and Fox News. They were also posting similar comments in the Daily Mail, a UK tabloid, and French website Le Figaro. [...]

The actors behind this campaign appear to be exploiting a particularly vulnerable part of the media landscape,” McKenzie Sadeghi, the AI and foreign influence editor at NewsGuard, tells WIRED. “Comment sections designed to foster reader engagement lack robust security measures, allowing bad actors to post freely, change identities, and create the illusion of genuine grassroots campaigns rather than orchestrated propaganda.”

The researchers believe that the disinfo narratives pushed by these accounts are linked to Storm-1516, a Russian disinformation campaign with a history of posting fake videos to push Kremlin talking points. Recently Storm-1516 was behind pushing a deepfake video of someone making false allegations of sexual assault against vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, something that was confirmed by US intelligence. 

“Replying in threads is a tactic that can have an impact with very little investment,” Darren Linvill, codirector at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, tells WIRED. “By inserting disinformation into an unrelated conversation it might be seen, even if the account being used has no followers and was just created yesterday. It also doesn't matter if the account you are using is caught and shut down because you haven't lost an investment, you can just create another account five minutes later.”

There is another pay-off for the Kremlin, as the fake comments allow Russian state-backed media outlets to misrepresent how Western audiences feel about particular issues to their own much-lied-to people.

"The fake comments, Newsguard found, are also then used in reports from Russian state-backed media outlets to bolster claims about how Western audiences are responding to a particular incident.

NewsGuard’s researchers identified 104 articles in Russian state media that cited comments from Western news outlets as evidence to back up their claims between January and August of this year.

This tactic allows bad actors to reduce the risk of detection and embed propaganda in a subtle, seemingly organic way, blending it into the casual commentary of supposed everyday Western readers,” Sadeghi said. “The repetition of the same claim across multiple formats and contexts can create a sense of familiarity that may lend the narratives an appearance of credibility."

Either that or they could just lose £30 million a year in dark money running a news channel on British terrestrial TV.

THE THIRD WORLD AGAINST UKRAINE

Kim getting the inspiration for North Korea's intervention in the Ukraine War.

by Cemil Kerimoglu

This is not solely Russia’s war against Ukraine anymore. Russia alone has already lost the war. It has been depleted of its resources and manpower. Its economy is indeed in shambles, with rising inflation, creeping food shortages, and heading towards a big crash.

But this didn’t make Ukraine’s or Europe’s situation better. Ukraine's western partners assumed that faced with hopeless situation on the battlefield and deteriorating conditions at home Russia would finally give up. However, those who knew Russia very well, like yours faithfully, were aware from the very beginning that Russia will not let it go. That Russia will not rest until it has destroyed the Ukrainian nation and rooted out the unique Ukrainian identity.

Those familiar with the dark depths of the Russian nature knew that faced with domestic shortages Russians would start scouring for resources elsewhere, and that they will especially tap into the vast human resources of the Third World to support their genocidal invasion of Ukraine. That process already started when Russian military began to be supplanted with Iranian Shahed drones in the autumn of 2022. Faced with shortages in ammunition and missiles Russians did not simply give up as naive westerners had hoped. Instead they resorted to help from other forces of Evil. Later, it was revealed that Russia mobilizes a significant amount of mercenaries from Africa, India, Nepal and migrants from Central Asian republics. Soon after, Russia signed an agreement of military cooperation with North Korea through which the latter provided Russia with millions of rounds of ammunition, much more than Ukraine's western partners could amass for Ukraine in their combined effort(!), and also with long-range missiles.

What is noteworthy is that throughout this whole process the forces of Evil represented by Iran and North Korea did not have any qualms about their ammunition hitting Ukrainian territory and killing Ukrainians. They did not put any restrictions on Russia and were not bothered by the possibility of being considered at war with Ukraine — a sovereign European nation. All the while the West, first and foremost the timid and neurotic Biden Administration in the US, has been forcing Ukraine to fight with one hand tied behind its back, first withholding and then putting restrictions on the usage of western-supplied long-range missiles, because God forbid the war might be carried into Russian soil and Russia will assume that it is at war with NATO. Reminder: Russian propaganda has been blatantly claiming from the start that it is at war with NATO, instead of all the pathetic efforts of appeasement by the latter.

And now, Russia has embarked on the next logical step that was obvious to the author and anyone else who knows Russians well. More than 10,000 North Korean troops will join in the invasion of Ukraine with more batches expected to follow later. True to its nature and inner calling, Russia has mobilized all the anti-western, in fact explicitly anti-white, forces in the world in order to carry out the genocide of a beautiful European nation. After it had shed its artificial European veneer — the pseudomorphosis that sat uneasily on the Russian people — with the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia has consistently acted as the vanguard of Third Worldist anti-western, anti-white ressentiment. Putin’s Russia follows along the same path that became all the clearer with the invasion of Ukraine. In fact, this is not something new in Russian/Muscovite history. In the 15th century, Muscovy — the predecessor of the present-day Russian state, destroyed and nipped in the bud a blossoming East Slavic polity, a nascent European nation — the Novgorod Republic, by mobilizing the vast resources of Eurasia for its genocidal aims. Back then a pivotal factor in Muscovy's victory over Novgorod, for instance, was the use of Tatar cavalry.

The only morally acceptable option for the West currently is to intervene with boots on the ground to help Ukraine. We cannot allow Russia to once again kill a nascent blossoming European nation and crush an emerging European identity like it did with the Novgorod Republic back in the 15th century. This will throw Eastern Europe into a new age of darkness and gloom. At the very least, and this is really the bare minimum of what the western nations are morally obliged to do, is to send an equal amount of soldiers to the one provided by North Korea and potentially Russia’s other partners in crime in the future. After all, what prevents Russia from receiving even more soldiers from North Korea — 20,000, 30,000, 50,000? Or from Iran, Cuba and Venezuela? Or even from China? All in order to support its barbaric meatwave attacks against Ukraine.

By what moral or logical standards is it acceptable that Russia gets the freedom to tap into the endless resources in the Third World to support its invasion, whereas Ukraine is still constrained in its war effort and left to fight alone? At this stage the West is morally obliged to lift all restrictions on Ukraine, and enter the war itself with boots on the ground. Anything short of this will amount to betrayal and a new moral low that will gnaw at us forever. Even if the West somehow miraculously avoids large-scale conflict and manages to buy the peace by betraying Ukraine and allowing it to be devoured by the Third World hordes led by Russia, that life of peace and comfort will not be worth living with such a weight on our conscience.

This situation in fact echoes the Greek war of Independence (1821-1829) from the Ottoman Empire. Back then, when the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II found himself unable to suppress the Greek uprising, he urgently appealed to the viceroy of Egypt — Kavalali Mehmet Ali Pasha for help in dealing with the Greek freedom fighters. Mehmet Ali Pasha agreed to help with his huge and highly competent Egyptian fleet. Although Egypt, under the rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha, was nominally a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, effectively it was an independent state. Therefore, the Egyptian involvement to help Turks crush the Greek rebellion was viewed by European powers as a step too far and as the direct involvement of a second, independent party against the Greeks — a move deemed intolerable. Recognizing the moral and political stakes, European nations intervened decisively. In 1827, they confronted and annihilated the combined Ottoman-Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino (1827), obliterating Mehmet Ali Pasha's navy. This was seen as the only morally justifiable response to help the Greeks in their noble fight.

In the 19th century, leading European nations had been cautious about decisively countering the Ottoman Empire, fearing its collapse might disrupt the balance of power in Europe and destabilize the region, just as they hesitate today with Russia. Their reluctance to support the Greeks fully at the outset led to extended suffering and needless losses. Had the European powers intervened early on, the Greek struggle might have succeeded swiftly and with far less bloodshed. Yet, despite their wariness, when they observed that the Turks were mobilizing foreign resources — rather than fighting solely with their own — they recognized that passivity and conflict avoidance was no longer an option. Supporting the Greeks then became a moral imperative, a call to action they could not ignore.

Today, we find ourselves in a parallel moment. North Korea’s direct involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine signifies a shift that demands the West’s immediate and tangible intervention. Just as European nations stood by the Greeks when a second power was enlisted to quash their fight for independence, the West must recognize its moral duty to Ukraine. Only by matching Russia’s foreign-backed forces with a robust presence of its own can the West redeem itself morally and prevent a repeat of history — the destruction of a nascent European nation as was done to the Republic of Novgorod by Muscovy in the 15th century. The moral duty before us is unequivocal, as it was in the 19th century. Failure to act now will weigh on our collective conscience for generations.

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"WEAPONISED" POLL SHOWS TRUMP TANKING IN IOWA - FAKE NEWS?

Garbage poll?

A poll published in the Des Moines Register apparently shows that the Trump campaign is in trouble in the "Deep Red" state of Iowa. What makes it worse is that the poll is from a widely respected pollster and her firm, Ann Selzer: 

"Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa — a startling reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory.  

A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice President Harris leading former President Trump 47% to 44% among likely voters just days before a high-stakes election that appears deadlocked in key battleground states.  

The results follow a September Iowa Poll that showed Trump with a 4-point lead over Harris and a June Iowa Poll showing him with an 18-point lead over Democratic President Joe Biden, who was the presumed Democratic nominee at the time."

Former polls by the same group, Selzer and Co., have been extremely reliable:

But, drilling down into the numbers, it looks like there might be an element of subterfuge at work.

"Among those who say they voted for Trump in 2020, 89% say they will do so again this year, and 4% will vote for Harris.  Among those who say they voted for Biden, 93% say they will now vote for Harris, and 4% will vote for Trump. Among those who did not vote, Harris leads 47% to 44%."

So, if we apply those percentages of intention to vote again to the 2020 numbers, where Trump got 897,672 votes (53%) to Biden's 759,061 votes (45%), Trump loses 98,744 votes and Harris loses 53,135 votes. That still gives Trump a majority of 798,920 to 705,926 for Harris.

In fact, the only way that Trump could lose based on these numbers is if all the 98,744 votes he loses switch to Harris and none of Biden's lost vote comes to Trump. Extremely unlikely.

So, where does the headline figure of 47% for Harris vs 44% for Trump come from? Obviously from those who didn't vote last time, many of whom are unlikely to vote this time:

Among those who did not vote, Harris leads 47% to 44%.

It seems that this poll, although from a previously reliable pollster, may in fact have been "weaponised" by the Harris campaign, with the pollster possibly agreeing to misrepresent the data in an attempt to influence the election. 

Ann Selzer, cooking the polls?

Elsewhere in the article it says:

"The poll shows that women — particularly those who are older or who are politically independent — are driving the late shift toward Harris." 

Is this line actually about Selzer herself? She is certainly an "older woman" who is not just "politically independent" but may now be "financially independent" thanks to this poll psy-op, which is calculated to give the Harris campaign an artificial boost in the dying days of the campaign.

Iowa, remember, is located strategically close to several of the big "Rust Belt" swing states.

Thanks to a variety of new and unorthodox factors, elections are becoming harder to read than before. This is especially true in the case of contests involving Donald Trump. It is certain that many polls will turn out to have significant amounts of error once the results are declared. This will of course lead to accusations of "election fraud" by whichever side loses.

+++Update+++Update+++Update+++

The actual election revealed this poll to be complete and utter garbage. Trump got 919,137 of the popular vote (55.9%) against Harris's 702,517 (42.7%).

IMPLOSION OF THE TORY PARTY CONTINUES AS "NIGERIAN WOMAN" IS ELECTED LEADER

British voters' new "official" alternative to Sir Kier Starmer

by Daniel Barge

The UK Conservative Party has continued its sharp downward trajectory by electing Kemi Badenoch leader of the party to replace Punjabi billionaire Rishi Sunak.

Badenoch, whose maiden name is "Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke," which may as well be "unga bunga wunga" to most Tory members, is a moderately talented Nigerian lady, who was born in London, apparently just to get the UK citizenship, as she was quickly sent back to Nigeria, where it is a lot cheaper to raise kids. 

While Badenoch may be just as individually worthy as, or even more worthy than, any of the other underpowered candidates (Jenrick, Cleverly, Tugendhat) whom she contested the leadership election with, make no mistake about it, this is an unqualified disaster for the Conservative Party.

This is because the right-wing vote in the UK is now deeply split between the Conservatives and the Reform Party. In the latest opinion polls, the Conservative vote is between 24 and 29%, while Reform's support is between 17 and 20%. This deep split is why Labour won such a massive majority with such a low vote (33%) at the last election in July. 

With Badenoch as leader, right-wing voters, who are generally older, whiter, and more "racist" than left-wing voters, will find it hard to reunite behind the Conservative Party. The appeal of Nigel Farage's Reform Party, which has "dark money" funding that may well be linked to Russia, can only grow stronger. 

There are two possible outcomes from Badenoch's election, both of which are disastrous for the Conservative Party:

Either the right-wing vote will remain split with the Tories remaining the "dominant" right-wing party. In that case a future election will replicate the previous election, with the Tories picking up the same low number of MPs and Reform keeping a handful of seats.

Or else Reform will become the dominant right-wing party with the Tories reduced to a handful of seats, while Reform become the opposition to a re-elected Labour government.

If Badenoch's rival in the final member's vote Robert Jenrick had won, his harder line on immigration and the fact that he is actually British would have undermined the appeal of Reform and led to a united right-wing opposition. It is extremely difficult for someone like Badenoch to believe in, or convincingly argue for, immigration restriction, because she is herself a product of mass immigration. Likewise, she is structurally unable to argue against wokeism and DEI when she is the product of wokeism and DEI herself, being parachuted into a safe Tory seat in 2017 by the Tory Party's "wokewashing" leadership. In fact, this is why she survived the Tory electoral wipeout in July as PoC candidates were generally put in safer seats to avoid voter blowback at having "diversity" forced upon them.

So, why did Badenoch win the leadership contest, picking up 56% of the 95,000 party member votes?

The reason is not yet clear, and clues must be sought in the following days, but it seems that several key Tory influencers swung behind her, whether for genuine or mercenary reasons. As this is exactly the result that the Kremlin would have wanted, we should not be surprised if there was some Kremlin "dark money" at work to elect a "dark" candidate. 

SHORTPOD (99): LIBERALISM, LIKE WEAKNESS, IS BEING SQUEEZED OUT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

Colin Liddell comments on the increasing tendency towards authoritarianism around the World, and how the weakness of the West can only be alleviated by adopting some of the characteristics of its competitors.

ROCKET MAN'S PATTERN OF BEHAVIOUR SUGGESTS HE CUCKED TO A KREMLIN DEATH THREAT

One of these is Putin's little bitch.

Recent revelations by US intelligence sources suggest that tech billionaire Elon Musk radically changed his tune on Russia's brutal invasion of the Ukraine after receiving credible death threats from the Kremlin. 

Despite frequent denials from Musk, it appears that the owner of the pro-Russian social media platform Twitter is in regular contact with the Kremlin. and tries to be as accommodating as possible to Putin's agenda of blood-soaked state mafia imperialism. 

As reported by the Wall Street Journal: 

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022.

The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions.

At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request.

While there is some room for legitimate disagreements on the war in the Ukraine, Musk's behaviour is odd and highly suspicious, especially in light of the fact that he was originally strongly pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian, like most fair-minded people, when the Ukraine was brutally attacked in early 2022:

After the Russian invasion in February 2022, Musk at first made strong public statements of support for Kyiv. He posted “Hold Strong Ukraine,” flanked by Ukrainian flags on what was then still known as Twitter. Shortly after, he jokingly challenged Putin to one-on-one combat over “Україна,” the Ukrainian language name for the country.

He followed up by donating several hundred Starlink terminals to Ukraine. By July some 15,000 terminals were providing free internet access to broad swaths of the country destroyed by the Russian attacks.

Then in late 2022, after receiving public criticism from the Russian government over Ukrainian use of his Starlink terminals, Musk completely and quite surprisingly changed his tune.

The only possible explanation for this is that he had received entirely credible death threats in private from representatives of the Russian state. 

Later that year, Musk’s view of the conflict appeared to change. In September, Ukrainian military operatives weren’t able to use Starlink terminals to guide sea drones to attack a Russian naval base in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Moscow had occupied since 2014. Ukraine tried to persuade Musk to activate the Starlink service in the area, but that didn’t happen, the Journal has reported.

His space company extended restrictions on the use of Starlink in offensive operations by Ukraine. [...] His moves coincided with public and private pressure from the Kremlin. [...] Later in 2022, Musk was having regular conversations with "high-level Russians," according to a person familiar with the interactions. At the time, there was pressure from the Kremlin on Musk’s businesses and "implicit threats against him," the person said.  At the same time, Musk increasingly took to Twitter, for which he was completing the purchase, to say SpaceX was losing money by funding the operation of the terminals. In October 2022, he asked his tens of millions of followers on X to vote on a pathway to peace that mirrored some aspects of the Kremlin’s offer to Ukraine at the time.

Such a radical change in "opinion" only makes sense if Musk is viewed as someone in imminent danger of being assassinated by Putin's network of killers.

In fairness it is hard to judge him too harshly for this, as taking out someone as public and high-profile as Musk would be well within the means of the Russian Deep State, and there would be little that the relatively weak US intelligence services could do to protect him.

Musk tweet before major pant-shitting incident

Musk tweet after major pant-shitting incident

CHINA TRIES TO FIND OUT IF THE NEXT US PRESIDENT WILL OPPOSE "RE-INTEGRATION" OF TAIWAN

Trump "boomertech" moment as China downloads all his Epstein-related sex tapes

China has been accused of hacking the phones of Donald Trump and JD Vance, who, according to betting markets and polls, look set to be the next President and Vice President of the USA.

As reported by the BBC: 

US authorities say cybercriminals linked to China may have attempted to tap into the phones or networks used by former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, a number of sources familiar with the matter confirmed to the BBC's US news partner, CBS News.

This reveals that Chinese intelligence clearly expect Trump to beat the unlikable and talentless Harris in the November Presidential election and are especially keen to find out whether the new administration will oppose China's plans, military or otherwise, to "re-integrate" the island of Taiwan back into China. 

America has created a situation of "strategic ambiguity" over Taiwan that constantly threatens to create a war. Back in 1979, the U.S. government recognized the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC or China) as the sole legal Government of all China, including Taiwan, but has constantly signalled that it would militarily support Taiwan if the Chinese government sought to assert its acknowledged sovereignty over the island state. 

Due to Trump's "America First" policy of increasing international isolationism, the Chinese believe that Trump may be the first US President who will not do anything to assist Taiwan if attacked. This latest hacking attack shows that they are keen to find out if this is the case. 

By prioritising consumer interests for short-term political reasons, past American governments have followed a "Chimerica" policy. This forced most of the world's production of semi-conductors to move to Taiwan due to its proximity to China's massive manufacturing sector. Back in 1979 when America commenced its "Chimerica" policy, most of the world's semi-conductors were produced in the relatively safe location of Japan. China's acquisition of Taiwan would thus mark its ascent over America as the most important and economically powerful state in the World.

IDIOTS WHO POOH-POOH IDEA OF KREMLIN INTERFERENCE SHOWN TO BE TOTAL MORONS YET AGAIN AFTER FAKE WALZ "PEDO" STORY

Octoputin is real and Walz is probably not a pedo.

It looks like the Russians have literally been at it again, that is interfering in the politics of another state like there is no tomorrow. Just hours after it was revealed that they tried to derail a referendum in Moldova, it has now come out that pedo smears against Democratic VP pick Tim Walz were entirely cooked and spread by the Kremlin and its international network of shills and useful idiots, who look more moronic than ever.

Here's Wired: 

"A Russian-aligned propaganda network notorious for creating deepfake whistleblower videos appears to be behind a coordinated effort to promote wild and baseless claims that Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sexually assaulted one of his former students, according to several specialists tracking the disinformation campaign.

Experts believe that the campaign is tied to a network called Storm-1516, which has been linked to, among other things, a previous effort that falsely claimed vice president Kamala Harris perpetrated a hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011. Storm-1516 has a long history of posting fake whistleblower videos, and often deepfake videos, to push Kremlin talking points to the West."

The smear campaign has been promoted by the usual gang of shills, scumbags, and cretins: 

"Numerous figures in MAGA world boosted the Tim Walz assault claims, including Jack Posobiec, the Pizzagate promoter who is now a member of Trump’s campaign team, and Candace Owens, the popular right-wing podcaster. The claims went viral on X last week, when an anonymous account called Black Insurrectionist posted screenshots of emails from a purported victim."

The campaign traces back to John Dougan, a former Florida cop who now lives in Moscow and runs a network of pro-Kremlin websites.

But the real story here is not that the Kremlin is dumping toxic garbage into the information bloodstream of the West, but that there are still plenty of low-IQ morons, dimwits, and simpletons who unironically respond to revelations of Russian interference in the West with low-grade crap like this and think they are being witty and truthful:

THE AMERICAN ELECTION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Iconic image of America's weakness

by Colin Liddell

America is often called the "most powerful nation in the world." Sorry, but that's simply bullshit. It's only more powerful in the same way that a cow is more powerful than a man. Make a cow angry and it can trample you to death. Handle it correctly, and you can milk it for years and then turn it into hamburger meat. That's America.

The USA, the one country that emerged strongest from WWII, was the only country that couldn't invite itself to that conflagration. If Japan and then Germany hadn't declared war on the US, then it would probably have had to sit on its hands while the Axis powers continued to carve out their empires.

Another point of American weakness is its so-called "Deep State." Compared to countries that have actual Deep States, like Russia and China, the American Deep State is a shallow puddle. It can't even take out "problematic figures" like Trump or Musk. Meanwhile its rivals, China and Russia can "disappear" millions or arrange plane crashes, poisonings, and defenestrations for anyone, no matter how important. (Also, honourable mention to Israel, which combines an element of democracy with some of the same Deep State ruthlessness we see elsewhere.)

This Western weakness has always been there, while anyone who has tried to counter it, has been vilified and driven into the outer darkness. Remember Senator Joe McCarthy, anyone?

He tried to warn us

This is where we come to the US election. While some see this as an opportunity to refresh the "democratic mandate" and the real basis of America's supposedly "meritocratic" power, that is not how it is seen overseas, where it is viewed more as a kind of holiday from "lame-duck" American influence.

That is certainly how Bibi Netanyahu has been viewing it by going into Gaza, the West Bank, and the Lebanon both feet first.

Also, and increasingly, it is an opportunity for election interference. 

Just a few facts:

• Trump has the backing of Russia. 
• Musk is also on board.
• RFK was a spoiler candidate for the Dems but pulled out and swung behind Trump when he started to appeal to some of the same "crazy" that was fuelling Trump. 
• Jill Stein is now the official Kremlin spoiler candidate for the Dems.
  

Also, the whole thing is working, at least according to the betting markets and the polls in the all-important swing states. 

I might still be wrong, but it looks like Trump is probably going to romp home this time. But even if he somehow fails, the US will be led by an extremely weak leader in Kamala Harris. It's a classic case of "heads I win, tails you lose."

Ameri-bros are quite understandably focused on the trivia of "muh economy" and "muh culture wars," in both of which Trump seems to have a clear advantage (from a normal human being point of view).

But for me, this election is all about the geopolitics and how the political weakness of democratic states -- with their shallow deep states, and their inability to bump off opponents, deal with their own fifth columns, fight dirty wars, or even lie consistently -- stacks up against the anti-democratic states that can do all these unholy things as much as they want. 

Fake news: there is no symmetry between the Deep 

States of democratic and anti-democratic states

A Kamala Harris Presidency would be a vote for the faltering American geopolitical status quo, while a Trump Presidency, far from "Making America Great Again" would see a superpower retreat into isolationism, or at least strengthen those tendencies. 

This is not to criticise or praise such a move, only to mention that there is a certain logic to America's global ebbing. Even at its strongest, it was always the most unimperial of empires that broke down in tears and engaged in naval gazing every time it lost a few thousand men.  

Astroturfed hippy scum fifth columnists freely tolerated

Of course, Trump could refute expectations and even drive a temporary resurgence of American Deep State and "imperial" power, but the likelihood is we'll see less aid for Ukraine, Israel allowed to take a free hand in the Middle East, and even a hollowing out of America's position in the Western Pacific, with the Western admission that Taiwan is part of China becoming less an article of "strategic ambiguity" and more a statement of fact.

In short, we'll see less of a "rules based international system" and more of a geopolitical free-for-all, where states that are ready to spill the blood of their own people and their enemies are optimised for success.

Nations and blocs that are not already like this, will face increasingly pressures to become like this. Meanwhile nations that are not privileged by geography, history, or access to natural resources will need to push all the harder to overcome such setbacks. 

This may prompt the European Union to stand much more on its own feet politically and militarily, and to even grow some geopolitical balls, asserting Europe's traditional hegemony over Africa. It will also increase the pressure on the United Kingdom to rejoin Europe, as the alternative -- being an unneeded US aircraft carrier -- is hardly conducive to self-respect. 

While there is an obvious solution for a Europe faced by the ebbing of a US-backed global system, the case is less clear cut for a nation like Japan, still a densely populated massive economic powerhouse crammed into a relatively small space. Without the taken-for-granted "umbrella" of American nuclear power, Japan will be forced not only to go nuclear itself, but to change its culture into that of a country that can credibly use nuclear weapons. It will have to turn its "samurai spirit" from an outdated tourist attraction into a military reality.

As China and North Korea are reactionary products of aggression by an earlier Japanese state, the future Japanese state will become a reactionary product of the threat posed by the neighbours it helped create. 

Recruitment poster: Is Japan about to weaponise its incels?

In addition to the geopolitical card-shuffling and horse-trading that will follow the death of American-backed globalism, there will also be severe economic consequences. Trade, manufacturing, and raw materials will be looked upon through a lens of geopolitical leverage, rather than in purely profit and consumer-benefit models. The global network of importing from the cheapest producer will increasingly be replaced by a more regional based one.

All this would be on the cards even without Trump.

In the same way that the British Empire dissolved away because it lacked a true ideology to maintain it, so American globalism will fade and die in a similar way.

The British Empire died when the democratic preference for cheap imports trumped the Imperial Preference system that aimed to use tariffs to knit the empire (loosely) together.

The US Empire is dying because the democratic preference for tax cuts and "muh freedoms" trumps the blood and treasure costs of maintaining an effective global system. Only undemocratic states are capable of developing ideologies that can trump the democratic will, and they will be the ones that will pick up the pieces. 

It's in the bag!

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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. As there is absolutely zero reward for honest content like this, support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia). or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.