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Monday, October 19, 2026

The White Man at His Worst, by Jared Taylor - The Unz Review

 In 2001, this dope, Phillip Ruddock, was Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.

Yes, Australia has such a thing, and here he is with doubtful-looking grandchildren.

He thought Australia would be just the place for South Sudanese, so he let them in, and those of youth-offender age now were almost all born in Australia. Here’s what they’re up to. This is how many times more likely than others they are to be locked up (Custody), the green line, or under police supervision (Community) the red line.

At their peak in 2021, South Sudanese were 130 times more likely than other young people to be locked up. In the latest period, at the right, they were 95 times more likely and 49 times more likely to be under police supervision. Group differences this great are almost unheard of.

Their favorite crimes? Carjacking, home invasion, robbery, and assault. Their specialty? Hacking people to death with machetes.

There was so much of that, the state of Victoria banned machetes, and you can now be fined the equivalent of $33,000 and do two years for owning one.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Effective Altruism: Who Really Benefits From 'Doing Good'? - Doug Casey

 Here, let me say something that will shock people. Most charity is not virtuous; it’s stupid. It tends to destroy the recipient by giving him things which are undeserved, which he’s done nothing to merit. That discourages him from doing things to improve himself. After a while, he feels entitled to the charity that he’s getting. For instance, shipping food to a country with a famine may put off hunger for a season. But the free imported food collapses the prices for local farmers, puts them out of business, and makes the famine permanent, and the people reliant upon foreign aid.

The charity damages the giver as well. The capital he has is dissipated as water poured into the sands of a desert.

This is especially true in the case of EAers since they seem to specialize in helping those at a great distance. They believe all recipients are of the same value. So it’s better for you to give a thousand dollars to a starving Bangladeshi than to give that money to your own child. Why? Because the Bangladeshi needs it more, and he’s just as valuable as your child. An altruist believes that’s logical, and also believes that your child should make the sacrifice for a poor kid on the other side of the globe.

That thought may have a certain logic, but it’s also stupid. The greater the distance between the giver and the receiver, the more that can go wrong. That’s why charity should almost always be local, where you can monitor the effect it has on the recipients. In the 19th century, most organized charity took place through local beneficial organizations who could determine who was worthy of charity, and whether the recipients used it wisely or let it corrupt them. Today, government welfare has replaced local charity, creating a permanent class of recipients who are destroyed by it.

The real beneficiaries are the givers who get to play virtuous big shots at the expense of everyone else.


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/10/doug-casey/effective-altruism-who-really-benefits-from-doing-good/ 

Doug Casey: Much charity involves indiscriminate giving to those who have “need.” But somebody else’s need should not constitute a moral claim upon your life. I believe in helping others, but justice trumps charity. In other words, it’s not a question of somebody’s “need.” It’s a question of whether or not they deserve it. And the cost of meeting that need.

Modern state welfare systems can be viewed as effective altruism. They purport to give benefits to people that need them. That’s a stupid basis for helping people. Need is relative, and everybody believes they need more.

EA is really about social engineering. EA fans purport to find bad things—hunger, disease, ignorance, and the like—and take action to eliminate them. It’s no accident that they conclude the most effective way to do that is through government action, which is essentially about telling other people what they must do, and enforcing that order with coercion if necessary. There’s a lot of truth to the old saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”. EAers stupidly overlook that reality.

A more effective solution to poverty was offered by private beneficial societies. There were hundreds of them in the 19th century. They were local in nature because the givers wanted to know who they were giving to and whether that person was deserving. Socialists and progressives of the time thought they had a better and more “effective” solution in the form of government programs.

Thursday, October 1, 2026

There is No Perfect Time - by Rev. Matthew Littlefield

 So remember, the right moment is always now.”[1]

This is so true.

I have seen this sort of thing so many times.

Don’t wait for opportunities, make them. Take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. Never wait for the perfect moment, life is not a movie.

This is how so many young men today remain single well into their 30’s wondering why they still are. It is simple, in a lot of cases, you were so single-mindedly focused on some particular task, that you were likely doing very well, that you did not realize that the pretty woman who kept asking your help or your opinion needed neither of those things, but kept coming back anyway…she was seeking to get your attention, and you completely looked past it.

Or, you might have noticed it, but you were waiting for the right moment to ask her out, and never did, and finally someone else took their chance and you are left out in the cold.

Avoid Sectarian Battles - by bionic mosquito

 I like this passage in Mark because it speaks to sectarian battles. Jesus is saying that if you see someone doing a good work in His name (in this case, giving a cup of water), do not forbid him. He even speaks of assurance regarding that person receiving his reward!

We can each feel strongly about where we attend church – the denomination or tradition in which we worship. Yet, we all know that there are countless people in other denominations and traditions who give a cup of water in Jesus’s name. In such a case, leave the reward to Christ – none of us have a place in judging such a person just because they go to the “wrong” church. Nor should we carry some pride that we attend the “right” church.

Full text:
https://achristianhall.substack.com/p/avoid-sectarian-battles 

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Inside The Houthis’ Revolutionary Creed, by Jose Alberto Nino - The Unz Review

 Behind Ansar Allah’s surprising geopolitical gains stands an ancient religious tradition. Zaydism is one of the 3 surviving major branches of Shia Islam, alongside Twelverism and Ismailism. Twelverism—the dominant branch, comprising the majority of Shia Muslims worldwide and the state religion of Iran—holds that authority passed through a line of 12 divinely appointed Imams, the last of whom went into occultation in 874 CE and is expected to return as a messianic figure at the end of times. Ismailism, sometimes called Sevener Shia, split from the Twelver line over which son of the sixth Imam was the rightful successor; its most prominent surviving branch today follows the Aga Khan as the living Imam


https://www.unz.com/jnino/inside-the-houthis-revolutionary-creed/ 

Saturday, September 12, 2026

The Usual End - Vox Popoli - (And it couldn't come soon enough! - CL)

 Larry Johnson explains that Clown World has reached the exit stage with its failed 30-year Ukraine project.

The war in Ukraine was not a crisis that erupted in 2022. It was the payoff of a deliberate, decades-long Western project to turn Ukraine into an instrument for weakening Russia — carried out under the cover of “partnership” and “peacekeeping.” And having spent thirty years building that instrument, Washington and NATO will do with Ukraine exactly what they have done with every client before it: discard it the moment it stops paying…


https://voxday.net/2026/09/11/the-usual-end/ 

....If you want an honest barometer of where this war is heading, forget the briefings from British intelligence and the Institute for the Study of War. Watch for the day the London bookmakers start taking bets on when Zelensky falls.

It’s not the USA proper, of course. It’s the Clown World imperialists who have hijacked the US military for its globalist satanic purposes. Fortunately, the nations that remained sovereign and independent now have the upper hand, which is why the Ukraine project failed, why the Gulf project is failing, and why BRICS is supplanting the G7 as the most important economic organization in the world.

While Mr. Johnson is watching for Zelensky’s fall, I’m more interested in seeing a) when Taiwan officially reunifies with the mainland, b) when Japan frees itself from the US military occupation, and c) how the Korean reunification plays out. Unlike the German reunification, which played into Clown World’s hands, these three events likely demonstrate the opposite.

Friday, August 28, 2026

Exclusive: How Trump Tried To Bribe the Head of the IRGC - (Seeking Judas - CL)

 It’s no wonder that a crass neo-Crassus in War-a-Lago/Washington actually believed that a battle-tested military leader – and those around him – could sell the fate of a civilization-state for a mere bribe, and induced to defect, stand aside or facilitate regime change.

Applying the exact same Venezuela methodology means that the Trump administration actually believed they could translate it to a Shi’ite Iran context. That proves once again an astonishing degree of cultural stupidity.

The methodology may work for corrupt Latin American political/military elites: History tells us it happened so many times.

But to believe that offering protection, political survival, loads of money and/or a future share of the spoils to an IRGC that is far from being a loose political entourage around a vulnerable presidential palace fully demonstrates how the Empire of Grifters has no clue about the institutional cohesion of the Iranian security state.


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/exclusive-how-trump-tried-to-bribe-the-head-of-the-irgc/ 

Friday, June 26, 2026

It's Too Late Now - Vox Popoli - (CITIZEN VIGILANTE is here sooner than later - GUARANTEED! - CL)

 Law-abiding conservatives and immigration-loving liberals alike are wringing their hands over the popular chord that CITIZEN VIGILANTE has struck with the people of the West. The point is not whether it is a good movie, or a successful movie, or not, its significance can be seen in the viscerally fearful reactions to it.

I watched the film. This is disturbing. I understand the visceral reaction to the injustice portrayed in the film, but I worry that unhinged members of our society might try to copy the main character. There has to be a better way to deal with this very real threat than resorting to vigilantiism. Let’s use our voices and our votes to change the policies that are allowing the atrocity of mass illegal migration rather than resorting to violence.
WE can do better!

No, we can’t. That’s the problem. There isn’t a better way any more, there isn’t even a different way, because the very forces that have brought the West to this juncture have relentlessly prevented the people of the West from having any voice in their own invasion and subjugation. Popular approval for this program of legal, government-assisted invasion was never, ever, sought. Every attempt to stop it through political means was thwarted in an illegitimate manner by the system. Mass immigration, political refugees, and migration have ALWAYS been very politically unpopular. No one ever voted for open borders. No one in Minneapolis ever asked to be invaded by Somalis. Every time a European country voted against its own submission to the EU, people were paid off and it was forced to vote again until it voted “the right way”.

Just because something is done legally, or by government agents, does not mean that it is right. And just because something is deemed illegal, or government agents attempt to prevent it, does not mean it is wrong. To even bring up the question of “legality” in this regard is a category error......

https://voxday.net/2026/06/26/its-too-late-now/ 

As I have repeatedly predicted for over a decade, by the time this is all over, there will be statues to St. Breivik all over Europe; he may even end up being named a literal saint by the post-inquisition church. Look up the deeds of the men to whom statues have historically been erected if you doubt me. And never forget that 100 percent of the blame for the current and future bloodshed falls on the wicked hands of the people who created all of this hatred, division, and violence by knowingly introducing the elements required to produce it. Self-defense is a God-given right for both an individual and for a nation, no matter how foreign rulers or treasonous evil rulers try to prevent it.

Can you imagine Megyn Kelly saying this on Fox News ten years ago?

“Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That’s because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us… GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!”

Blood is not paperwork. Nationality is neither residence nor citizenship. Every nation, every people, have the immutable right to cast out the foreigners from their midst if that is their will. And every nation, every people, have a moral duty to do so when the foreigners are preying upon their women and their children.

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't - by Vox Day

 A lot of men, particularly when they first get married, fall into the trap of prioritizing their wife over everything else in their lives. That’s a real mistake that might reduce a little conflict early on, but often leads to her later feeling contempt for her husband.


Of course, most women have no idea how easy it is for men to make friends, entertain themselves, and devote themselves to their favorite activities. But that’s not going to prevent a wife who thinks she’s married to a loser to concluding that he can’t do those things rather than he is choosing not to do so for some misguided reason.

It’s a painful lesson for many men, but the reality is that no woman wants her husband to be too nice, too loving, or too concerned about her feelings. In fact, the more attention she’s paid, the less she feels the desire is real and the less motivated she feels to do anything to please her husband.

And this makes sense, because only a loser doesn’t have friends or options, and women are actively disattracted to losers.

Fortunately, the answer is simple. Go and do whatever it is you want to do a few times a week. Don’t ask for permission, don’t “check with the boss”, and don’t talk to her about it afterwards. She might be irritated, she might make a few comments, and she’ll definitely complain about it in some way, but then, mysteriously and inexplicably, start treating you better.

The good news is that if you find yourself in this catch-22, when you seem to be in trouble if you do and in trouble if you don’t, there is another word for this situation: perfect freedom. You can literally do whatever you want, whenever you want, and it will make no difference.

In any event, if you want to get along with women, you have to be a winner and you cannot be a loser. The wins don’t have to be big and the losses don’t have to be real for them to affect your relationships with them one way or another.

Thursday, June 11, 2026

What if it Wasn't Libel - Vox Popoli - (At some point we're going to have to face reality......beyond your wildest imaginings! - CL)

 What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light:

Epstein case revelations: U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert stunned Newsmax after reviewing the unredacted Epstein documents:

“It’s far darker than anyone could have imagined: emails about torture, constant references to ‘consumption,’ a place literally called the ‘Cannibal Restaurant,’ and code words like ‘jerky’ and ‘human meat’ being tossed around as if it were nothing.”

Yes. She directly asked whether we are dealing with cannibalism. With literal human consumption.

This is no longer some fringe theory. A sitting member of Congress is openly saying what no one else dares to say: these monsters not only abused and trafficked children — they may have eaten them as well.

I suspect we are soon going to learn why a certain “libel” not only wasn’t ever a libel, but explains why those to whom it historically applied are persona non grata in dozens of countries to this day. And I suspect it’s going to go deeper, darker, and wider than anyone, including me, really wants to imagine, in the same way that I correctly anticipated what would be found around the ziggurats of Central America.

It’s important to keep in mind there are both spiritual and material elements to this. But anyone who has ever condemned groups like the Inquisitions, the Romans, and the Conquistadors should be considered suspect, because groups like that have been the historical instruments of rooting out and eliminating the ancient evils preying upon Man.

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Hiding Hultgreen-Curie - Vox Popoli - (How to read news reports. - CL)

 From a keen-eyed reader: I’ve found a few articles that describe her as a trainee expected to earn her wings this month and other articles describing this as a training flight, but so far no articles that include both facts and none that confirm who was flying.

Yes, I noticed a very delicate avoidance of identifying the pilot responsible for the flying the helicopter in the news articles about the recent crash.

Britain’s only female Royal Navy commando was among three crew members killed in a helicopter crash in Devon – as they are pictured for the first time. Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher, 31, died alongside Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson, 42, and Petty Officer Owen Green, 24, when the Merlin Mk4 came down in a field just before 4am on Wednesday.....


https://voxday.net/2026/06/05/hiding-hultgreen-curie/ 

....Lieutenant Fisher, one of the helicopter’s two pilots who served with 846 Naval Air Squadron, appeared on the ITV shows Take Me Out hosted by Paddy McGuinness and Ninja Warrior UK. She has been described by the Royal Navy as ‘an inspiration’ to women in the armed forces, whose death was a ‘huge loss’.

It’s theoretically possible that the other pilot was flying the helicopter at the time, but we all know that the odds substantially favor the scenario in which she was flying it, she did something wrong, and her actions crashed the vehicle. The very delicacy of the reporting tends to confirm the very fact that the media is seeking to hide, and we all know they’re trying to hide it in the interests of their false god of equality.

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Stop Talking - by Vox Day - And above all, stop responding

 

This is just a short note, but I cannot possibly stress how important this is.

When you are asked to do something, and especially when you are TOLD to do something, do NOT ask any questions unless they are absolutely necessary.

Additionally, do not express your frustrations or annoyances by talking loudly about anything to others in response. You might think you’re being clever or that it’s just harmless, but trust me, it doesn’t escape notice that you are incapable of being asked or told to do anything without some form of protest.

Women, Gammas, and Deltas all do this, for different reasons, as far as I can tell. But the Why doesn’t matter, the rationales are irrelevant, and the perception is just as annoying......


https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/stop-talking 

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Periculum Cur 03 - Veriphysics - The danger of why

 The principle proposed here is structurally different from, and considerably more aggressive than, the classical positivist position. It is articulated thusly:

A premature or incorrect Why actively corrupts the What by providing an explanatory scaffold to justify the observable errors and thereby defend them against correction.

The Latin term periculum cur, which means “the danger of Why,” is chosen deliberately. The positivists treated the Why as irrelevant and useless. Veriphysics regards the Why as dangerous and potentially corrupting. The distinction is vital.

The principle has three components that distinguish it from every prior formulation.

The diagnostic: Most science is reverse-engineering. The engineering and the trial-and-error work first, and the Why is constructed afterward to rationalize what already works. The Why is therefore parasitic on the What, not generative of it. The classical positivists were defending science against metaphysics. Periculum cur diagnoses science itself as performing metaphysics under another name.

The contamination: If the What is wrong, the Why built on top of it is necessarily wrong, and worse than wrong: it now defends the false What against criticism by supplying an explanatory scaffold that justifies the error and prevents it from being corrected. Confidence in the Why reliably tends to lock in a wrong What. The Why becomes a protective shield for the error. Comte never noticed this. He treated the laws of phenomena as essentially settled and the Why as merely surplus. Periculum cur recognizes that the Why actively contaminates the process by which the What can be examined, and if necessary, corrected.

The rhetoric: “Why” is not just an epistemically inferior question. It is the standard tool by which a theoretical construct is used to erase or negate a material observation. “Yes, but the reason this happens is...” is the universal solvent for inconvenient facts that cannot be otherwise denied. When an observation contradicts the accepted theory, the Why usually provides the mechanism by which the observation is dismissed, reinterpreted, or ignored.

None of the classical figures reached this third point. Wittgenstein came closest, when he noted that the modern system “tries to make it look as if everything were explained.” He saw that “Why-by-law” was a substitute for the older terminus of God or Fate. But he did not see it as a defensive shield against the What. He treated it as if it were a misunderstanding rather than as rhetorical armor.


https://veriphysics.substack.com/p/periculum-cur-03