A Gatekeeper's Manifesto - Vox Popoli - (Godless communist Left-Liberal = Churchian-zionist Right-Conservative)

 James Lindsay is one of the Fake Right Gatekeepers’ lesser lights, with whom most of you are blessedly unfamiliar. But he’s gone all in on the nonsensical concept of the “Woke Right” which is the way Conservative Inc. describes those on the Right who believe that winning is more important than losing gracefully by refusing to make use of the weapons utilized by the enemy.

You see, that’s why the people conquered by the British Empire were the real winners of the Colonial Era, because their noble decision to eschew the use of the Gatling Gun ensured that while they were defeated, occupied, and oppressed for more than a century, they maintained the moral high ground throughout.

In any event, he has written what purports to be a manifesto, and William Briggs, to his very great credit, has spared the rest of us the painful task of slogging through it ourselves.....

Full text:

https://voxday.net/2025/12/09/a-gatekeepers-manifesto/ 

It’s becoming ever more clear where the lines are now drawn. Not between Left and Right, or Conservative and Liberal, but between Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment. There is no fundamental difference between the godless communist Left-Liberal and the Churchian zionist Right-Conservative, as they accept fundamentally the same precepts and principles and differ only in how those precepts and principles are best applied.

And while they will obviously attempt to portray us as Pre-Enlightenment skeptics, that portrayal is outdated and and fundamentally false. The Pre-Enlightenment skeptics were correct, for the most part, but they held their beliefs on the basis of logic and reason. They did not have the benefit that we do of seeing how these untested theories actually played out over time. We Post-Enlightenment rejecters hold our beliefs on the basis of logic, reason, and undeniable, irrefutable evidence.

The principles of the Enlightenment were appealing back in the day. They promised a better world, which, for a time, they even appeared to deliver.

But now we know better. We now know where “representative democracy” leads: to something that is neither representative nor democracy. We now know where “freedom of speech” leads: to deplatformings, demonetizations, and prison. We now know where “free trade” leads: to the destruction of the industrial base, widespread unemployment, and lower wages. We now know where “the free movement of peoples” leads: mass migration, high crime, and the devastation of the social fabric.

Their very victory has doomed them. The societies in which their principles persist are dying, and the rest of the world no longer even pretends to believe in them.

History is not on their side. To the contrary: history condemns them!

Hit Piece or PR? - Vox Popoli - (Understanding Vox Day takes some serious reading comprehension. - CL)

  The latest Swiss media hit piece on me is out, and while it’s definitely slanted in exactly the way you’d expect, it’s considerably more balanced than the previous one. Which is nice, for a change.

The Wall Street Journal once called Vox Day “the most despised man in science fiction”. Academics describe him as a “white supremacist”. He rejects this label and sees himself as a Christian nationalist....

https://voxday.net/2025/12/09/hit-piece-or-pr/ 

.....Day denies that the description of “clown world” draws on the anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. “It has nothing to do with the protocols. It has to do with the bit in the Bible where Satan offers Jesus all the kingdoms of the world.” Since Jesus did not deny Satan this power, Satan rules the world, he says.

It’s always interesting to see how the various journalists slant their pieces. For example, I don’t call Ben Shapiro cancer because he is pro-Israel, but because he openly calls for the US military invasion of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Pakistan in order to establish an empire in the Middle East, a policy which is obviously not in the American national interest or the interests of the people of those nations. And, of course, no link is provided because doing so would reveal that the journalist has misrepresented an explicit observation with his own implicit assumption. But it is fantastic that he describes Shapiro as a “publicist”; he certainly got that one right even if I prefer the term “manufactured shill”.

He also left out the reason that I’m much more comfortable with black culture than most people in Switzerland: I’m a former NCAA D1 sprinter and may well be the only individual in the entire country who has ever been to a black fraternity party. I didn’t learn the Electric Slide at Delta Upsilon…

And speaking of implicit assumptions, it is downright damning that the journalist would assume openly opposing the literal rule of Satan is reasonably characterized as “anti-semitism”. He actually describes the idea that there are “wicked servants of the true inhuman evils” as “anti-semitic”. That’s a real “wait, did he really just write that” moment that says even more about his beliefs than it does about mine. Now, my position is obviously nonsensical from the atheist perspective, but the particular way he attempted to make sense of it is extremely telling.

It’s also telling that my position on the war in Ukraine is entirely absent in this piece despite our discussion of it. Suddenly the Swiss media doesn’t want to talk about that, of course. I can only assume that in the next one, they won’t want to talk about how I was opposing the rule of satanic globalists before it was considered the right and proper thing to do.

The use of SimilarWeb to estimate the traffic was also interesting, since I gave him the actual numbers for the various sites. The SimilarWeb estimate isn’t even close to accurate; Sigma Game alone gets nearly that many views.

But whatever. I think it’s fascinating to read this little hit piece in the light of the recently published National Security Strategy, because it’s a confirmation of the way in which the globalists are reeling in disarray and struggling to accept the undeniable reality that the pendulum is no longer swinging in their favor and that the world has collectively rejected their vision for the future.

I did take the trouble to email the journalist one correction. It’s simply not true that the Puppies only “attempted to hijack the Hugo Award”. We absolutely nuked that thing, so much so that 11 votes is now enough to garner a Hugo nomination. That’s not merely a crater, that’s a deep and massive one.

The one thing that was a little odd is that for all the talk about writing and publishing and science fiction, the article doesn’t mention a single one of my 17 books. This is especially strange in light of the fact that I had just published a new literary anthology prior to the interview that has been very well received.

Anyhow, I tend to doubt the idea that my most lasting and memorable contribution to the knowledge of Man will be the construction of the socio-sexual hierarchy. I tend to think these three demolitions of centuries-old Enlightenment “truths” will take precedence in the long run:

• The labor mobility criticism of free trade
• The mathematical impossibility of the theory of evolution by natural selection
• The proof that religion is not the cause of war

Of course, in the event I happen have to correctly identified the precise year of the dissolution of the USA nearly 30 years prior, or even to come within three years on either side, that will almost certainly prove to be the primary item of interest, no matter what else I manage to accomplish in the 40 or so years that remain to me.

Against Civilizational Erasure - Vox Popoli

 Last night, I went over the entire National Security Strategy document (PDF) on the Darkstream. It’s much, much better than we had any right to expect, given the incoherent rantings being periodically emitted by the Short Fat Trump, so much so that it tends to raise real questions about who is actually in charge of the things that matter. Both the previously-quoted section on the end of the migration era and the need for military reindustrialization read as if the author is familiar with this site, and the section on Europe is clearly focused on bringing about the end of the globalist elite’s occupation of the European nations and eliminating the EU’s current path toward “civilizational erasure”.

Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP—down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today—partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness.

But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.

Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation…

American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.

Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory.

This section has panicked the EU elite, and it absolutely should, because it makes it clear that both of the great nationalist powers, Russia and China, are now actively preferred to the globalist “anti-democratic elite” that is currently pushing for a military war with the former and an economic war with the latter, neither of which the EU could win even with the US assistance that is clearly going to be denied going forward.

Full text:

https://voxday.net/2025/12/09/against-civilizational-erasure/ 

MASS COLLECTIVE SOCIETAL SUICIDE – The Burning Platform

 “Historians will look back at the wreckage of a once-great American civilization and not with wonder that tens of millions of people who were entirely dependent upon government welfare payments were nonetheless allowed to vote.

Even to include millions of illiterate 3rd world illiterate aliens who snuck in, then were put on welfare, and were given driver’s licenses and social security numbers, so they could vote in elections to give themselves more welfare. Eventually, the historians will agree that America committed mass collective suicide, because obviously such insane policies could never be contemplated by a rational people.” – Matt Bracken

Full text:

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/12/08/mass-collective-societal-suicide/#more-383988 

Venezuelan conflict – Jim's blog

 Venezuela implemented a bunch of utterly catastrophic and self destructive economic policies. Among these was the rational sounding policy of capturing Venezuela’s vast oil wealth which was going abroad, and applying it to the purposes of Venezuelan government.

This resulted in the US issuing a bunch of economic sanctions, similar to those applied to Russia, but vastly less extreme. The damage done by those sanctions was probably insignificant compared to the damage Venezuela did to itself......

https://blog.reaction.la/war/venezuelan-conflict/ 

....This is a substantial and significant step towards World War III

The obvious solution is to the US to concede to the Russian 2022 ultimatum.

“Measures to Ensure the Security of the Russian Federation and Member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization” – addressed to NATO.
A separate bilateral proposal to the United States on “Security Guarantees.”

America’s rejection of this ultimatum led to disastrous Ukraine war, and is now threatening to lead to a similarly disastrous Venezuelan war.

The substance of the ultimatum is “How about us nuclear powers agree to stop this stuff” Seems like a good idea. At the time in was only the US doing this stuff, so the proposed treaty seemed one sided, a US capitulation, but Russia is now demonstrating that two can play at this game, a game likely lead to nuclear war.

I predict that Trump will bluster, but then blink. US forces will not enter Venezuela. But blinking looks weak, is weak, and when Kiev collapses, going to look even weaker. Better to cut something like the 2022 deal.

Wildly escalating welfare rolls and wildly escalating deficits has made the west economically weak. The war on males, masculinity, marriage, and family has made the west militarily weak. It is time to cut our clothes to match our cloth.

We need to remedy the problem of a huge number of voters imported live on crime, welfare, government jobs and quasi governmental jobs, and we need to restore order in the collapsing megalopoli. We need to restore masculinity and marriage 1.0. But even if we do these things, the west will remain weak for decades, and must assume an international posture that matches its much diminished capabilities while focusing on internally rebuilding its strength.

The Count to Zero - Vox Popoli - (On vaccinations)

 An honest review of childhood vaccinations will reduce the US vaccination schedule to zero. But the count to zero has to begin somewhere, and less is observably better than more, so this presidential order is a positive step forward:

In January 2025, the United States recommended vaccinating all children for 18 diseases, including COVID-19, making our country a high outlier in the number of vaccinations recommended for all children. Peer, developed countries recommend fewer childhood vaccinations — Denmark recommends vaccinations for just 10 diseases with serious morbidity or mortality risks; Japan recommends vaccinations for 14 diseases; and Germany recommends vaccinations for 15 diseases. Other current United States childhood vaccine recommendations also depart from policies in the majority of developed countries. Study is warranted to ensure that Americans are receiving the best, scientifically-supported medical advice in the world.

I hereby direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review best practices from peer, developed countries for core childhood vaccination recommendations — vaccines recommended for all children — and the scientific evidence that informs those best practices, and, if they determine that those best practices are superior to current domestic recommendations, update the United States core childhood vaccine schedule to align with such scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries while preserving access to vaccines currently available to Americans.

https://voxday.net/2025/12/07/the-count-to-zero/ 

The corrupt scientists who are the shock troops of the pharmaceutical industry will fight this tooth and nail, of course. But they will lose, sooner or later, because every single person my age has personally witnessed the increasing amount of harm that the ever-growing number of vaccines given to children have unnecessarily wreaked upon the generations that followed us.

Vaccines are flat-out evil. They are definitely the root cause of “crib death”, SIDS, and autism. I strongly suspect they are also the cause of all the food allergies, gluten problems, and intestinal disorders that have been on the increase over the last few decades. They’re not even remotely necessary and they kill far more children than they save. All of the stories about how they “combat disease” are completely false and have been conclusively proven to be false. They are far more harmful than the diseases they are supposed to prevent.

The optimal way to protect Western societies from infectious disease is to a) invest in sewage and waste disposal systems, b) protect the clean water supply, c) end mass immigration and d) restrict travel from countries that don’t do (a) and (b). That will actually work, because that’s what worked in the early 20th century.

Divorcing the Empire - by Kwiatkowski - (Are you a servant of DaSynagogue of Satan? DSOS? - CL)

 (After you read the article by Karen Kwiatkowski - meet your master of DaUhmerikanEmpire - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=Synagogue+of+satan&m=1 - CL)

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/12/karen-kwiatkowski/divorcing-the-empire/ 

The American contract, a combination of Constitution and myth, is unraveling like the marriage of an unimaginative yet loyal wife who wakes up to find the money gone, eviction imminent, and he loves another.  Further, in a battle for the kids, or any remaining resources, our lying spendthrift plays cards with the judge and drinks with the sheriff, while we are friendless.

This is late stage American empire.  Some citizens still refuse to acknowledge the empire, much less our dead broke, meddling, force-driven and corruption-wracked empire led by fools and grifters.  But a growing number do.......

......The US empire has killed 20 million, and destroyed the livelihoods of many more in the past 70 years. It has created modern fairy tales that allow it to shoot survivors on the high seas, and it views the world through the eyes of the mad, the thieving, and the paranoid.  This empire overwhelmingly funds, fuels, and supports obscene mass murder in Gaza and obscenities in the West Bank, and allocated billions to a destructive and deadly war in Ukraine, both for no reason that it can articulate, other than hatred.  The United States has fully earned the label of terrorist state, and relishes it.

Washington, under any president, will unhesitatingly launch violence at home and abroad.  Today, the coarse bold language of threat emanates from every Washington podium.  The threats are aggressively aimed, trigger-ready, at those who seek to question it. DC treats Venezuelans who resist the empire the same as it does Americans who simply ask questions about it......

.....The Trump administration plans a war or controlled coup for oil and leverage of Caracas – having learned nothing about the impacts and results of their previous dozen attempts to do the same thing around the world.  Their “this time it will be different” claim indicates that these the elite corporate banker imperialists do not live in our world, but they do intend to milk and ultimately sacrifice it.  They will claim in their memoirs it was all an innocent mistake or “they were misinformed.”

We cannot vote to get a “better” president, and the facts bear this out. This reality should not encourage us to vote harder but instead make Americans quietly angry, confidently disobedient, and newly clear-eyed as to the future of this country. Instead of hoping against hope that every election is the most important one, and “our” sorry candidate better than the sorry opposition, let us join the over 100 million Americans who do not vote, and therefore do not consent......

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/12/karen-kwiatkowski/divorcing-the-empire/ 

....It shouldn’t be difficult for anyone at this point to decide where they stand, but it does have consequences.  Massie and MTG are ridiculed by the state, and targeted for elimination, as the most exceptional public servants like RFK, Jr and Gabbard are sidelined and internally plotted against.  Rising awareness of assassinations and plots to kill enemies of this state or another is undeniable.  It is clear cause for a dissolution, the right reason to seek and claim liberty, and yet like the divorcing spouse, a cause for some caution.

Is doing basic math a form of violence?  Is refusing to follow the unconstitutional and unwarranted commands of our utterly contemptuous and spineless ruling class violent?   Is pointing out the bankrupt nature of imperial war an act of violence?  Is living our lives in such a way that the state is ancillary or even optional an act of violence? Is pointing our finger at the ridiculousness of the empire an act of violence?

In the coming divorce court, the prosecution and many witnesses will be state fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and criminals.  Justice will be nothing less than the end of our contract with DC, and our collective refusal to fund their crimes or tolerate them ever again.  Americans must repudiate the empire before it literally beats them to death and burns down the house.

IDF Soldiers Working With ICE Agents in the U.S. - LewRockwell

 Whitney Webb is right. America is One Nation Under Blackmail. From the White House to Congress to state governors and legislators to the mainstream media to mega churches and televangelists, they are on the take. And the godfather with the money—our money (and the enforcers to make sure they take the bribes)—is Israel.

From Bill Clinton to Donald Trump and every U.S. president in between (with slight hesitation from Bush Sr.), each of these men has been but a mere pawn and puppet of the Israel lobby. For all intents and purposes, the U.S. president is not Donald Trump (or Joe Biden or Barack Obama or G.W. Bush or Bill Clinton); he is Benjamin Netanyahu—or whoever else might be Israel’s Prime Minister......

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/12/chuck-baldwin/idf-soldiers-working-with-ice-agents-in-the-u-s/ 

.....Again, Whitney Webb is right: We ARE one nation under blackmail.

But it is actually worse than that. Not only are our politicians under Israeli blackmail but more and more frequently, our military and police are under Israeli training and direction.

It is no hyperbole to suggest that virtually every U.S. military operation (including the ones in Venezuela and Ukraine—and obviously the ones all over the Middle East) is conducted in cooperation with and under the guidance of the Israeli government.

Come on, folks! If the Israelis are embedded in our federal police agencies inside the U.S., you know they are embedded inside our U.S. military establishments.

The United States of America has not been an independent nation since the Zionist State of Israel came into existence. And it will not be an independent nation as long as the Zionist State of Israel stays in existence—or perhaps until the Boomers die out and the Millennials and Generation Z permanently cut the umbilical cord between us and the genocidal Zionist state.

All I know is: It cannot happen soon enough.

Model Collapse: The Entire Bubble Economy Is a Hallucination - (Prepare to meet REALITY! - CL)

 The conclusion that soaring asset prices mean the economy is strong is a hallucination that goes unrecognized because the entire financial system is hallucinating.

Consider the data that the financial sector bases conclusions / decisions on (i.e. the data that the financial sector “trains” on) in a Bubble Economy like the present. The Bubble Economy’s core goal is to inflate the valuation of assets not by increasing utility-value or productivity but by artificially expanding credit and leverage.

This benefits those who already own assets, as their collateral (i.e. “wealth”) expands without any effort, and this swelling collateral enables them to borrow money to buy more assets.

This also benefits those with high incomes and modest debt, as these boost their credit rating, enabling them to borrow at lower rates than the bottom 90% of the workforce–credit they can use to outbid the bottom 90% to snap up assets which are soaring in value.

This Bubble Economy dynamic is a self-reinforcing series of iterations: the central bank expands credit and leverage, goosing asset prices higher, which boosts the collateral foundation for further credit expansion. This flood-tide of credit flows to those whose assets are generating more collateral, enabling them to buy more assets and outbid the less creditworthy while also increasing their consumer spending.

Since the top 10% own most of the assets bubbling higher, this “wealth effect” is concentrated in the top 10%, who account for roughly 50% of all consumer spending......

Full text:

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec25/bubble-hallucination12-25.html?fullweb=1 

.....The conclusion here is striking: the entirety of the modern world of Progress--urbanized, detached from the "raw" real world in service of convenience and abundance, a world where we "train" our mental models on "cooked," curated, processed artifices--is all a vast, inter-connected, self-reinforcing hallucination bound for a collision with an inconveniently "raw" real world.

The Bubble Economy will be the first point of contact. Prepare accordingly.

The 50-Year Crime Report - (How to destroy a nation - 101 - CL)

They declared war. They launched the first attack. Now, here is the loot. These are the numbers that prove you were robbed.

A heist has a scoreboard. After the robbery, you don’t argue about theories. You count what’s missing.

For fifty years, we’ve been told a story: that your struggle is a personal failure. That the economy is just “evolving.” That the system is broken.

The system is not broken. It was picked clean.

The following numbers are the evidence. This is the financial autopsy of the American Dream.

CRIME #1: THE GREAT WAGE THEFT

• The Promise (1947-1973): Historically, there existed a fundamental agreement between labor and capital, often referred to as the social contract, which dictated that for every 1% increase in the economic value generated by a worker (their productivity), their compensation would also rise by a corresponding 1%. This reciprocal relationship was widely perceived as equitable, ensuring that the benefits of increased efficiency and output were shared fairly between those who contributed their labor and those who provided the means of production. This arrangement fostered a sense of shared prosperity, where workers could reasonably expect their efforts to translate directly into an improved standard of living.
• The Heist (1973-Today): This pivotal agreement, which once promised a fair exchange between labor and reward, was systematically dismantled. The consequences have been stark and undeniable. Since 1973, the productivity of the American worker has soared, demonstrating an increase of over 65%. This remarkable surge in output, a testament to dedication and innovation, has not been met with a commensurate rise in compensation. In sharp contrast, the inflation-adjusted pay for these same workers has stagnated, growing by less than 10% over the same period. This widening chasm between productivity and pay reveals a fundamental shift in the economic landscape, where the gains of increased efficiency are no longer equitably shared, leading to a significant erosion of the American worker’s economic standing.
• The Takedown: They convinced you to work harder, smarter, faster. You did. You delivered 65% more value. And they paid you almost nothing for it. All that extra wealth you created—the trillions of dollars—was stolen directly from your paycheck.

This wasn’t a natural progression of the economy; it was a deliberate strategy, a silent war declared on the American worker. For decades, a systematic dismantling of labor protections, a weakening of unions, and a fervent push for “efficiency” paved the way for this grand heist. Companies reaped record profits, executives received astronomical bonuses, and shareholders saw their portfolios swell, all while the average worker’s wages stagnated or barely kept pace with inflation.

The promise was always the same: if you just pushed a little harder, if you adopted the latest productivity tools, if you embraced the “gig economy,” you would share in the prosperity. But that promise was a mirage. The “trickle-down” never reached the bottom. Instead, the wealth flowed upwards, concentrating in the hands of a select few, leaving the vast majority struggling to keep up with rising living costs, dwindling benefits, and an ever-increasing sense of precarity. The American Dream, once built on the bedrock of fair labor and a path to upward mobility, began to erode, replaced by a new reality where hard work no longer guaranteed a fair share of the bounty. This was the first offensive, and the American worker, unknowingly, bore the brunt of the assault.

CRIME #2: THE CEO PAY EXPLOSION....

Full text:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/12/no_author/the-50-year-crime-report/ 

....This was not an accident. It was a transfer. The money that should have been in your pocket was moved. The security that should have been yours was dismantled.

The Powell Memo declared the war. The Volcker Shock was the first battle. And these numbers—your stagnant paycheck, their exploding bonuses, your vanished pension—are the territory they conquered.