SHORTPOD (108): KEIR STARMER'S "DON'T STAB ME IN THE BACK" BUDGET

Keir Starmer (and Rachel Reeves)’s latest budget is a tax-n-splurge budget that bleeds another £26 billion from the already overburdened British taxpayer and showers it on privileged pensioners, the workshy, and dysfunctional people having too many kids. The short-term goal is purely political, namely to stop Left-wing Labour MPs rebelling. The long-term goal is non-existent.

THOUGHTS FROM AN ASIAN-BASED TWITTER ACCOUNT

 

Twitter following the dox

by Colin Liddell

Thank goodness that Elon Musk has finally decided to throw the switch and allow "X" users to see where various accounts pushing political narratives in the West are based.

Not surprisingly a great many of them are totally fake, pretending to be European or American, while being based in Tehran or Calcutta. 

This is a good business move by Musk, as it will increase the credibility of "X" and reinforce its position as the "honest" market-place of ideas.

There is a degree of irony here because all that these fake accounts are actually doing is just pushing ideas, like "muh Scottish nationalism" or "muh Neo-Naziism," "muh neo-masculinity," "muh MAGAtardism," etc.

These are all 'ideas' of course, but coming from Indians, Iranians, or other Third Worlders, in the guise of patriotic Americans or politically engaged Brits, there is something immediately fake about them. 

MAGA with the lights on.

This emphasises that ideas are never entirely abstract, but are rooted in identity, locale, and genuine motivations. This is even true for Left-wing ideas. Without that they become largely meaningless and merely a means of manipulation.

With regard to all these formerly hidden "brown" accounts, the motivation is entirely parasitic, hoping to feed off the polarisation of Western societies for traffic and revenue; but the real fault is ultimately with the architecture of social media and its algorithms that are set up to get people engaged by making them, angry, stupid, and afraid.

This is why my profile on "X" contains the following Rousseauian message:

"We were all born 'frens' but social media algorithms made us 'fite' each other."

The big question of course is whether Western social and political discourse will be able to survive the near "extinction event" of modern social media. Musk shining a light on all the "cockroaches in the kitchen" is a step towards the right kind of informational hygiene, but there is still a lot more to be done.

Busted!

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LITTLE AMERICA

by Colin Liddell

The latest so-called "peace plan" to come out of the orifice that is the Trump White House has been widely denounced as a farce or even Kremlin-sourced. More pointedly it has been called "amateurish," which is a fairly accurate description.

Essentially it is:

"Ukraine, sign a nebulous deal with a war criminal who is notorious for breaking deals, and give him most of what he wants, in return for some 'security guarantees' from us who provided you with worthless security guarantees in the past."

It is easy to see how this will "plan" will hit the buffers and go nowhere. 

Of course, it's not yet clear exactly how this war will end or who will come out on top. But that may ultimately be a secondary consideration, because what this war is now really about is America's position in the world and more especially its rapid shrinkage in power, credibility, and influence.

Earlier Presidents acted as if they intuited this danger. They seemed to know that America wasn't really a country that could fight wars despite its superpower branding, and so generally avoided them.

The exception was what happened after 9-11. But compare that to what happened after "12-7" (or the 7th of December 1941), when America was attacked at Pearl Harbour. Then America acted like a colossus, taking a dominant role in crushing Germany and Japan, and then changing the world order. This was rebuilt around American power, which was based on the idea that every other country would, more or less, get a fair shake from the system. 

Compare this, then, with what we got after 9-11: merely some inglorious invasions of sandy backwaters, at least one of which was mainly done to please the Israelis, followed by failed exercises in nation-building and pathetic hand-wringing about a few thousands US causalities.

America had to work extra hard to stop the rest of the World finding out just how weak it had become, but largely managed it because it could hide behind its vast array of allies.

Now, however, the war in the Ukraine is showing, with each new development, just how weak America is. It started the war with reasonable caution, because Russia is, after all, a nuclear power, but with a strong commitment to support the victim of Russian aggression. Money and weapons poured in and America almost matched its European allies in this.

In those first two years of the war, it earned its share of the glory in keeping the Russians pinned to relatively small gains in exchange for horrendous losses in both blood and money. If anything, as Russia stalled, America started looking stronger than it really was.

In a nutshell, the cautious support for Ukraine was a relatively low-risk and low-cost means of building up American power and, as we now see with the growing damage to Russia's flailing economy and much-abused military, a continuation of this would probably have seen Russia collapse sometime this year. 

But instead of what would have been a flattering geopolitical victory, we got Donald Trump and his frankly moronic "peace posturing" in which he repeatedly blamed the invaded country for starting the war, while also greatly overestimating Russian power.

Worse then this, there was the total disrespect shown to NATO allies, who were reluctant to give Trump the well-deserved slap in the face that he deserved due to his "madman" tariff terrorism. Instead, they used subtler methods to push back on his Kremling-friendly idiocy or simply decided to wait until Trump's 'shit-plomacy' fell apart under its own internal contradictions.

Being cautious when confronted with a madman is not cowardice or compliance. The Europeans have, individually or collectively, decided to humour the madman at least until his domestic political rivals can place restraints on him or cart him off to electoral Bedlam.

The Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) deal they got out of Trump in July ensures that US weapons continue to flow to Ukraine, while those same nations are working hard to bolster their own armaments industries, along with Ukraine itself, which is now a major armaments hub producing very successful weapons as testified by burning Russian oil refineries.

But the bottom line is this: in the first year of the war American help was vital. In the fourth and fifth years of the war, it is a lot less important.

This means that although Europe and NATO still would like America -- and its lame-duck President -- to be on board, they are quite happy to find alternatives and work-arounds that by-pass America. But, more importantly, they don't think of America the same way they thought of America before.

Now America is simply viewed as an amoral and unpredictable mess; think a bigger version of Saudi Arabia or Nayib Bukele's El Salvador. On a good day, they might view America as a kind of Western Hemisphere version of Modi's India; on a bad day, as a kind of effete Russia with a White House instead of a Kremlin. 

So, whatever happens in Ukraine -- a Kremlin collapse or even a Russian pyrrhic victory (the only one they are capable of) -- the real result of this war is that a formerly dominant global power, liked and admired by most of the World, will be seen as a shrunken husk occupied by a race of midget politicians, regardless of whether they are MAGA or not. 

Some Americans may be happy with this result and say a hearty good riddance to "entangling alliances," but there will be plenty of domestic consequences to this retreat from the world and the torching of American credibility and soft power.

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MTG HITS TRUMP BELOW THE WATERLINE

A large battleship can take a lot of small hits before it finally sinks, but there comes a moment when a bomb or a torpedo scores a decisive hit that ends up sending it to the bottom.

The decision of Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress (and Trump's GOP) and the way in which she resigned looks like just such a hit. If we see Trump as the battleship in this analogy, then MTG's resignation is like a torpedo hitting below the waterline and carving out a massive hole that will send him to the bottom. 

Say what you like about MTG, but the Congresswoman from rural Georgia and the kind of "unsophisticated" voter she brought to the MAGA "big tent" were vital to Trump's success. Losing her now and in this way -- emphasising how corrupt, self-serving, "globalist," and big-business-subservient Trump really is -- seems like a death blow.

Of course, news changes fast and narratives can be massaged and managed, especially in the modern day, but without the MTGs on board, MAGA will increasingly become an army without foot soldiers or a ship with no one to man the pumps. 

 

TRUMP IS THE WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO CRYPTO

by Julius Lombard

When Trump won re-election last year, the crypto bros were pumped and excited. Several months later that expectation has not only turned sour, it has gone totally toxic. Trump, through his usual stupidity and cupidity, is singlehandedly dragging crypto into the dirt by turning it into his personal casino.

Some of those crypto-bros are still clinging to their MAGA hats but rather than “liberating” cryptocurrency, as was once hoped, Trump has hijacked it, stuffed it full of grift, and left the rest of us to pick up the tab, like we have been doing with the recent turbulence in the market -- and all this is happening right when Crypto should be entering the sun-lit uplands of wider acceptance.

Remember, that back in 2021 the man called Bitcoin a "scam" that was "competing against the dollar." Fast-forward to the 2024 campaign and suddenly he was the Messiah of the blockchain, promising to ditch Gensler and make America the "crypto capital of the planet."

It sounded good. The useful idiots in the industry threw money at him like confetti. Hundreds of millions flowed into his campaign coffers from the very same crypto barons who once preached "code is law" and "not your keys, not your coins."

But what did they get for their trouble? World Liberty Financial – a DeFi "platform" that is less revolutionary technology and more Trump family enrichment scheme. The Donald is listed as “Chief Crypto Advocate” (whatever that means), his sons are “Web3 Ambassadors”, and a full 75 per cent of the revenue from their dodgy token sale goes straight into entities controlled by the Trump Organisation. That’s not deregulation, that’s the mother of all insider deals. Even Bernie Madoff would blush.

Then came the much-vaunted "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve." Sounds very grand, doesn’t it? Except the contracts to supply the million Bitcoins were handed out like party bags to donors, golf buddies and – surprise, surprise – companies linked to Eric Trump's property empire.

Welcome to Chicago-on-the-Potomac, crypto edition.

The result? Bitcoin briefly spiked to $109,000 on inauguration hype, then plunged to $75,000 when the market realised the reserve was just another Trump-branded pump-and-dump. Billions wiped off the market cap, retail investors rinsed, and the only people laughing are the ones with offices overlooking the Palm Beach surf.

Then it was "rinse and repeat" with tariff panic boosting "safe-haven" narratives and surging the price to $126,296, followed by the current slide to around $80,000 and who knows where.

Crypto bulls calmly reacting to market fluctuations

Meanwhile, genuine innovation is fleeing America. Singapore, Dubai and even Zug in Switzerland are hoovering up the talent because nobody wants to build the future in a country where the regulator’s loyalty is to one man’s wallet rather than the rule of law.

The tragedy is that Trump could have been crypto’s greatest champion. A proper bonfire of SEC red tape, clear rules of the road, and America really could have led the world. Instead we got a gold-plated grift that makes the Biden-Gensler years look like a model of probity.

So spare me the "but Kamala would have been worse" nonsense. This isn’t left-versus-right anymore. It's decent people versus a man who has turned the most revolutionary financial technology since double-entry book-keeping into just another line on the Trump Organisation profit-and-loss account. The crypto winter isn’t coming. Thanks to Donald Trump, it’s already here – and he’s charging you admission. For Crypto to live the Trump Presidency has to die. 

THE ERROR OF RUSSIA

Russia and its ugly shadow

by Cemil Kerimoglu

In October 1917, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, claimed to witness a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Among the messages delivered was a warning: if not prevented, Russia would “spread its errors throughout the world”, and for peace to reign, “Russia must be converted”. At the time, this statement was striking, even cryptic. But within weeks of the final apparition, the Bolshevik Revolution erupted in Russia, and a new age began – an age of ideological conquest, spiritual inversion, and geopolitical upheaval.

Traditionally, this prophecy has been understood solely with reference to the Bolshevik Revolution. The vision was interpreted to mean that if this revolution were not averted, Russia would disseminate communist ideology across the globe. And indeed, that is precisely what occurred. During the Soviet era, Russia became the chief exporter not only of communism but more importantly of anti-Western, Third-Worldist ideology throughout the world. As Oswald Spengler foresaw, the Soviet Union positioned itself at the forefront of cultivating ressentiment among the global South toward Western Civilization.

Yet the prophecy of Fátima has been understood far too narrowly. When the communist regime collapsed and Orthodox Christianity experienced a renewal in Russia, many concluded that Russia had been “converted” and would no longer “spread errors throughout the world”. Even today, many right-wing circles in the West assume that the fall of communism restored Russia to its rightful place in Western Civilization. According to this view, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet period were aberrations – and with communism gone, Russia is now harmless, a normal country once more.

This assumption is profoundly mistaken. In the context of Fátima especially, the prediction is still being interpreted far too narrowly. The error was not merely the Bolshevik Revolution or the rise of communism. The error is Russia itself. In other words, what must be confronted is not a particular episode in Russian history, but Russia as a grand-historical Error. The error is the very existence of Russia as a political-civilizational form. The error is its imperial, unitary nature.

Rejecting communism and nominally embracing Christianity did not make Russia better. It was not converted, nor did it cease to be the adversary of the West. The truth is that the Bolshevik Revolution was not an isolated anomaly in Russia’s history; it was its natural progression. What was anomalous – what was historically out of place – was actually the “Europeanized” Petrine Russia, the very condition Spengler described as a Pseudomorphosis. Yet popular Western consciousness still equates Russia with the Romanov era of the 18th and 19th centuries, as if that brief imitation of Europe represents Russia’s true nature.

This is a serious illusion. The “Europeanization” imposed by Peter I – and initiated even earlier by his father, Aleksey Mikhaylovich – was cosmetic. It was rejected by ordinary Russians and never penetrated the deeper cultural core of Muscovy. Russia has never been part of European Civilization. Even during its “Europeanized” phase in the 18th and 19th centuries, it remained fundamentally hostile to Europe and persistently sought to undermine it.

The Bolshevik Revolution was, in essence, a revolt against this artificial European façade. Through it, Russia shed its imposed mask and reasserted its pre-Romanov self. The horrors of communism – the Red Terror, the NKVD, Stalin’s purges, and the unfathomable brutality with which these crimes were committed – cannot be regarded as “errors” in the sense of deviations. They fit seamlessly into the long-standing patterns of Russian-Muscovite history: Ivan III’s brutal destruction of Novgorod in the 15th century, Ivan IV’s Oprichnina in the 16th century, and countless similar episodes. In each case, the same behavioral patterns reappeared – patterns later manifested in the Red Terror, Stalinism, and the Red Army’s rampage across Europe in 1944–45: a kind of wanton brutality and perverse sadism that lies beyond the comprehension of the European mind.

Geopolitically as well, the Bolsheviks simply continued the old Russian-Muscovite trajectory. In the wake of the revolution, numerous nations declared independence from the collapsing empire – among them Ukraine – or sought autonomy within it. The Bolsheviks re-conquered virtually all of these states, except Poland, Finland, and the Baltic countries, which they also attempted but initially failed to subjugate. In effect, they rebuilt the Russian Empire, albeit under a different name and a different ideological banner.

Thus, the Bolshevik Revolution, communism, and everything that followed were not really “errors” of Russia. They were the natural outgrowth of the far deeper and more comprehensive historical Error that is Russia itself. Today’s Russia under Vladimir Putin is simply the continuation of the Soviet Union – a continuation of the processes initiated by the Bolsheviks: imperial expansion, hostility toward the West, and ceaseless attempts to undermine it from within.

The fall of communism did not convert Russia. Like the Soviet Union before it, today’s Russia is driven by imperial ambition. It exists as a unitary-imperial state defined by its opposition to the West. It is animated by an almost apocalyptic hatred of Western Civilization. And, as before, it spreads confusion, demoralization, and division within Western societies, promoting asinine narratives and exploiting every fissure it can find. Even its Orthodox Christianity – the supposed evidence of its moral renewal – is at odds with much of the wider Eastern Orthodox Christian world. Russia is Christian in name only. Russian Orthodoxy functions essentially as a civilizational weapon: not something that shapes the Russian psyche, but something shaped by it, a tool of its anti-Western identity and self-perception.

Russia is therefore still spreading “errors throughout the world”, as predicted in Fátima – only these are not errors within Russia. Russia itself is the Error.

The true conversion of Russia would mean nothing less than the dismantling of Russia as an idea. It would mean the deconstruction of Russianness itself. Conversion would require abandoning the unitary-imperial identity that has dominated that vast Eurasian expanse and replacing it with the multitude of national and regional identities long suppressed by centuries of coercion and violence. The true conversion of Russia will come when the people of that territory cease to think of themselves as “Russians” and begin to see themselves as Ingrians, Novgorodians, Uralians, Siberians, Bashkirs, Tatars, Chechens, and many others. Only when Russia is disintegrated into dozens of independent states – each with its own unique regional/national identity – will “Russians”, whether voluntarily or by necessity, lose the ability to spread their historical Error to the world.

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NATIONAL EMERGENCY AS LOOMER'S FACE ENTERS "MELTDOWN" PHASE

America's emergency services have been put on "high alert" after fears that the face of top right-wing influencer and Trump ally Laura Loomer has now entered a severe meltdown stage.

The meltdown appears to have been triggered by toxic amounts of plastic surgery, some of which was carried out on a recent "goodwill" trip to Israel, where Loomer apparently spent most of her time having her face pumped full of chemicals and large pieces of kosher beef.

If the vast pulsating cluster of religiously culled meat, silicone, steroids, and gels "goes critical," it is feared that it could create a "plasma jet" that could burn through the Earth's outer crust and trigger a massive "super volcano" eruption that could drown half the continental area of the United States in a sea of lava, stopping just short of the Canadian border.

Some geologists, however, claim that there is nothing to worry about, as even a vast lake of molten rock that would instantly kill all life, would be a major improvement on what MAGA America has become under the Presidency of Donald Trump.

Laura Loomer before she ruined her pristine beauty with plastic surgery.

"SUPERBLACKS," THE PROJECT CLOSEST TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S HEART?

by Duns Scotus

Sadly, Jeffrey Epstein will be mainly remembered as a sexual deviant who happened to bring down the 47th President of the USA and was probably a MOSSAD asset. But there was a lot more to Epstein than that. In fact, one of the ways he was able to inveigle the great and the good (and the not so good) was because of his high intelligence and genuine interest in scientific and other "high-level concepts."

This is apparent in many of the emails that are now coming into the public realm, in none more so than this exchange with Joscha Bach, a prominent German-born cognitive scientist, about a proposal to create a "super race" of highly intelligent Blacks.

The text reads:

"Some thoughts I meant to send back for a long time: no worry, if i understand correctly you are suggsting there are layers 1 through N. lets cal them L 1-Ln. there are times T1-Tn/ and then conjecture that changing the time correlations (by genetic swtch or other method., you might be able to make blacks smarter by changing the time for motor layer development and changing the time for other layers..). like telemeres for the cell, are their equivalents for the layers. as you talked about culling the unused neurons in each layer, cach neuron in each layer would get dfferent (kill yourself if you are not being used instructions).

Exactly. I looked up the statistics, black kids in the US have slower cognitive development (and never catch up), which the study of course attributed to social factors without any evidence, and they had faster motor development! I suspect this means their brains are slower at learning high-level concepts, because the low-level structures are optimized for a shorter time. But they will keep the lead in motor development, because it is easier to learn, and they have more time and attention to practice once they get the structures in place.

It could also be that they have an additional set of learning directives in place that adapts them better to a more hunting/running style of life, whereas the Europeans had to adapt for identifying long-term seasonal patterns, delayed gratification for agriculture etc."

Let's break it down. 

The discussion here is that Blacks have a "superiority" in motor development (a lower function) but an "inferiority" in cognitive development and abstract thinking (higher functions). It is conjectured that this is because the brain is "layered" from lower to higher functions and that the time and period of each layer developing is the key determinant in how potent later becomes. 

Epstein and Bach propose a layered model of brain development, with the brain having hierarchical layers (L1 to Ln), where lower layers handle basic functions (e.g., motor skills) and higher layers that handle abstract reasoning or "high-level concepts." Each layer develops over specific time windows (T1 to Tn).

Shortening the time allocated to lower-layer (motor) development and extending it for higher layers might therefore enhance cognitive abilities. 

The method that would be used to do this is conjectured from an analogy to telomeres, which cap chromosomes and regulate cell lifespan/division. Epstein and Bach therefore propose an equivalent control mechanism for the development of brain layers—perhaps molecular or genetic switches that control how long each layer remains "plastic" (i.e. open to learning) before pruning unused neurons to maximize brain efficiency.

The end goal would thus make Blacks less "gifted" in motor skills but more gifted in cognitive power, finally eradicating —through radical biological intervention—the significant differences in intelligence that liberals have long attributed to societal factors. 

It is hard not to feel a twinge of regret that the world has lost such a "blue sky" thinker, while also celebrating the fact that Epstein probably got what was coming to him, assuming, of course, that it was him that was "suicided" in that prison cell and not some stand-in. 

SUPPORT FOR TRUMP'S "WAR WITH VENEZUELA" IN THE TOILET

 

by Colin Liddell

The drip-drip-drip release of the Epstein Files, combined with Trump's dipping approval ratings, and electoral set-backs for his party, increases the pressure on the President to find a big messy distraction, like a war.

Although there might be perfectly good realpolitik reasons for "offing" Maduro -- and risks -- the main utility of such a conflict for Trump now is that it might just temporarily get people to forget about his very close connection with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. So, with the "Epstein Files" trending again, the chances of war may seem to be increasing.

But just how popular (or unpopular) would such a war be?

Sadly for Trump (and Marco Rubio, who is pushing hard for the war) Americans are very unenthusiastic about anything that pulls them out of Costco or their favourite shopping mall for a few minutes. 

A YouGov poll conducted 5th-8th September put support for US invasion of Venezuela at only 16% with 62% opposed. Even among Republicans, only 31% support the idea and that's probably because they assume it will be a walkover. 

If the question is the use of "limited force to overthrow Maduro" support only climbs two points to 18% with 46% opposed and 36% don't know.

Yes, a few air sorties and special ops producing a major low-cost geopolitical victory for the United States can only produce less than 1-in-5 support! This is the problem with America being an "empire," it has the most unimperial people. Mentally and culturally most Americans are still fighting against the "evil tyranny" of King George III who dared to impose a piffling tea tax on them. 

The highest level of support the Neocon hawk party can get is 27%, but that is only for strikes on drug boats in international waters. This is also opposed by 42% of Americans, some of whom are probably peeved by having their drug imports interdicted by "patriots" the same way tea drinkers in New England must have been pissed at the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

So, based on these numbers, which will be percolating through every level of the Republican Party, I would say that the likelihood of a US attack on Venezuela remains low.

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WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: NICK FUENTES

Ruled by a tiny, dark particle of total gayness that lies at the very centre of his soul

by Colin Liddell

Fuentes needs no introduction in these circles and indeed even in the mainstream now, thanks to Tucker Carlson, the big papers 'profiling' him, and the Trump administration ripping off his trollish social media style.

Nick is immensely talented, extremely witty, and often makes excellent points, as well as ridiculously stupid ones, which he then passes off as "ironic" or "knowing" jokes, etc., all adding to his appeal. But this is irrelevant next to what really drives him, which, in my view, is a deeply repressed homosexuality. 

Let's follow this a little deeper. Here is Fuentes talking about his followers (young men or teenage boys) giving up marriage and essentially heterosexual sex to follow him into the deeper Groyper movement: 

The point made, sacrificing for the movement and the "greater good" has a degree of logic and plausibility, but essentially this is just a closeted gay man using all his wit, intelligence, and charisma to push other young and malleable men into an all-male, defeminized space that will increase the chances of "gay things" happening. 

The psychological driver of closeted homosexuality may also be behind his supposed avowal of "Christian Nationalism." This is sometimes seen as a clever ploy to remain nationalistic while avoiding the "toxic" positions of being an ethno-nat or wigger, but Catholicism and the "monkish" all-male lifestyle it promotes has long held an undeniable appeal for gay or sub-masculine men just like Fuentes. He clearly isn't the least bit interested in the actual teachings of Catholicism!

The bottom line here is that whatever Fuentes says, whether you find yourself nodding along in amused agreement or not, essentially all flows from the psychological engine of repressed homosexuality, or at least is tinted by it. 

Regarding Fuentes' career there are many theories about who he is "really" working for, and you can take your pick. But looking at his past, it should be remembered that he was one of the recipients of a highly suspicious bitcoin donation back in December 2020, paid to several members of the Dissident Right just prior to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th. This supposedly came from Laurent Bachelier, a Frenchman, who later, it was claimed, committed suicide.

The spread of the donation  paints an interesting picture of the dissident right at the time.

Fuentes received 13.5 bitcoin (around $370,000 at the time) and then attended and spoke at J6, but appears to have avoided breaking any laws (although opinions vary on this and why Fuentes was then not prosecuted).

In February 2021, Patrick Casey, his "Number 2" in the America First movement, who received a smaller donation (see above), broke with him, supposedly over his participation at J6.

Fuentes may also have been a major recipient of the wave of donations paid out by the Kremlin to dissident righters to bolster Kremlin narratives shortly before the 2022 invasion of the Ukraine. Suffice to say, all those accounts, including Fuentes', turned out to be intensely pro-Russian in the years ahead and continue to be so.

For example, in February 2022 at his America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), Fuentes asked the crowd: "Can we get a round of applause for Russia?" with the audience responding with chants of "Putin!" 

In March 2022, Fuentes praised Putin as a "Czar" and "Liberator" for launching the invasion of Ukraine, claiming it was intended to "liberate Ukraine from "the Great Satan" and from "evil empire" (i.e. United States), dismissing in the process concerns about Russian war crimes, which had then surfaced. He also tweeted: "I know it’s not exactly politically correct but I support tsar Putin’s right to denazify the illegitimate state of Ukraine!"

But there are other problems with Fuentes' past. In April, 2021, Fuentes was famously banned from flying. He claimed that this was "political oppression" by the Biden administration. However, this story appears to be untrue, as Fuentes himself reported on Twitter that he had been involved in a confrontation with airline staff in December 2020 over his reluctance to wear a mask during Covid.

This refusal to cooperate with health rules during a global health crisis forced the plane to return to the gate, after which Fuentes was kicked off and black-listed by private airline companies. He then continually lied about the reason for his so-called "flying ban" for months, and still lies about it today.

On the plus side, his relentless critique of Israel and Jewish influence in the USA, which once looked like "rabid anti-Semitism" is now much more "in line" with the zeitgeist following two years of genocidal war by Israel against Gaza and revelations about how the Zionist lobby freely and repeatedly interferes in the politics of the West.

But always remember that any views from Fuentes -- good, bad or indifferent -- ultimately stem from a nebulous and inchoate desire to "groom" young men towards the "dark side" of his own unacknowledged and confused sexuality.

In the past this has also led him to turn a blind eye to such behaviour in its more explicit forms, as we see with his repeated excuses for his "Stop the Steal" associate Ali Alexander. 

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STRANGE GOINGS-ON IN THE LABOUR PARTY

Novara Media is a "heavily left-coded" channel that seeks to undermine British establishment politics. Regardless of their possible nefarious motives and funding, they provide an interesting critique of the crisis in the Labour Party and the project to control it through Israeli-linked money and accusations of "anti-Semitism." Here they speak to Paul Holden, a South African journalist, who has just published a book on how the unpopular Keir Starmer was "astroturfed" into becoming leader. Also discussed is why Shabana Mahmood, the new Home Secretary, is being groomed to become his successor. 

THE FUTURE OF BRITAIN

by Colin Liddell

The main role of predictions is not to predict the future, which tends to be practically impossible, but instead to perceive the present and sketch out some looming possibilities. With that understood -- and not too much credibility on the line -- let us proceed. 

In the UK, the future looks pretty cut-and-dried. Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party has what looks like an insurmountable lead in the polls and looks certain to become Prime Minister in a few years time...but (or rather several buts).

Farage and Reform UK have their own organic base, essentially normal Brits pissed off with the many failings caused by liberal multiculturalism. But it is also clear that they are benefitting from international factors, especially the impact of Kremlin ops on the UK and the high water mark of Trumpism in the USA.

The thing is that both of these factors are highly volatile and unstable. The recent elections in the US, in which the Dems trounced the Republicans in New York and a couple of states, exposed the limitations of Trumpism. It's a good bet that Trump will now increasingly look like a badly-aging lame duck; and without Trump, Trumpism simply won't work.

There is no one who can take over the mantle -- Vance has zero charisma and lacks likeability, as do Trump's kids. We are likely to see something like a Cruz or a Rubio move up as a replacement. That might still be good enough to keep the Dems in check, but if it doesn't, the whole MAGA project is likely to splinter and collapse, to be replaced by a triumphant Democrat reaction that will probably jail a fair number of MAGA people (Trump himself, Bannon, Stephen Miller, etc).

At the very least, MAGA is going to be a lot weaker going forward. Likewise with Russia. The long-expected Russian collapse may never happen, but there is a growing chance that it could, and may even be only a few weeks away! Suffice to say that if and when it happens, no one will be the least bit surprised that it did.

With a diminished or discredited MAGA and a collapsing Kremlin, Farage's prospects will of course dim, but there is still enough raw resentment and cynicism aimed at the old parties for Reform to pull it off. Much will therefore depend on how the establishment attacks Farage and how dirty they are prepared to get.

Much will also depend on whether the Tories can mimic Reform talking points enough to (a) completely steal their thunder and unite Right-wing voters into a landslide victory, or (b) divide the right-wing vote enough to give Labour another chance. 

Key to this will be whether "they" can get rid of Kemi Badenoch as Tory leader, as having a Nigerian anchor baby as leader of a rightward-moving, tough-on-immigration Tory Party is simply a non-starter. But even if Badenoch can be ousted, it is clear that the Tories will still struggle to find the right leader who can unite their party around a platform attractive to the 30-35% of voters who are currently leaning to Reform. At the moment, Robert Jenrick looks like the most likely Badenoch successor, although he remains somewhat charisma-deficient.

Then, assuming Reform, or a Reform-channelling Tory Party, win, it is not at all clear what will happen. Presumably whichever one succeeds will scrap the European Court of Human Rights and start making Britain a lot less attractive to illegal migrants. That would be something. However, due to the UK's lower-than-replacement fertility rate, pressure will remain to continue mass immigration at least at the level needed to counter that.

But the other problem the UK has is the so-called Left-leaning Celtic fringe. If English voters put in a "hard Right" or "harder Right" party, then that will increase the pressure for Scotland and Wales to break away, which could get messy pretty fast. It may sound odd to say this, but the Labour Party is the de facto "Unionist Party" in the present day. And this is no minor point, as the UK simply wouldn't work without Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, reducing England to petty state.  

But we also live in fast-changing times, so there is also  a reasonable possibility that politics could be swept aside by technology.

Developments in crypto, AI, and robots are moving along at a tremendous pace, although most of this seems to be happening in the US and China. However, a Britain in which self-driving vehicles are ubiquitous won't need so many Third World Deliveroo men; and there is even the possibility that within a decade Third-world-sourced NHS nurses and home helps will be facing stiff competition from AI-driven robots.

As I keep hearing myself saying recently, "What a time to be alive!"

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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 his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.

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