Irish Politicians Hate The Irish

As you might remember, there was a mass stabbing incident in Ireland committed by an Algerian immigrant. Victims included a women and several children. The response from Ireland's government has been to crack down on anyone taking notice that it was an immigrant that committed the crimes or, more generally, that immigration has led to housing shortages, increased crime, and other problems--in other words, engaging in wrongthink.

    Here are a few illustrations I saw at Western Rifle Shooters Association that succinctly illustrate the issue, followed by some articles:

And the articles:

• In the wake of the mass stabbing: "Irish Prime Minister demands people stop ‘connecting crime with immigration’"--Human Events.

    In a new clip from Irish broadcast Leaders' Questions, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar requested that the recent stabbing attack of women and children at a school committed at random allegedly by a crazed Algerian immigrant not be blamed on migration.

    "I really would ask people to try and avoid connecting crime with migration. It's not right," he stated.

* * *

    The Algerian suspect of the attack was known to police and was previously slated for deportation after being arrested in 2003.

    "However, after a judicial review in the High Court his deportation order was revoked. Sources said in 2008 the Department of Justice granted the man leave to stay in Ireland," The Times reported. "One said: 'He was due to be deported 20 years ago, but fought the order for five years. He eventually obtained an Irish passport."

    MMA legend Conor McGregor spoke out against the response to the attack by Irish officials, calling it "not good enough." He said in a post on X:

    Innocent children ruthlessly stabbed by a mentally deranged non-national in Dublin, Ireland today ... There is grave danger among us in Ireland that should never be here in the first place, and there has been zero action done to support the public in any way, shape or form with this frightening fact. NOT GOOD ENOUGH."

• Irish authorities are seeking laws allowing mass surveillance of the citizenry: "Authorities Demand Access To Private Social Media Conversations To Spy On Anti-Mass Migration Sentiment"--ZeroHedge. 

    After an Algerian migrant stabbed three children outside a primary school, fiery but mostly peaceful protests broke out in the Irish capital.

    Authorities reacted by being more outraged at the protesters than the actual would-be child murderer, who should have been deported 20 years ago and was previously released after being arrested for carrying a knife.

    Now Irish people who share spicy memes in WhatsApp chat groups are going to be under government surveillance should this new ‘hate speech’ legislation pass.

    “Gardai will be able to access and intercept private conversations on social media sites under new legislation, as the Justice Minister promised to crack down on crime following the riots in Dublin,” reports the Irish Times.

• Demonstrating the danger of only allowing the government to be armed: "Muslim Politician Calls for Irish Protestors to be 'Shot in Head'"--Catholic Arena.

    Ireland’s ruling Fianna Fail party have escalated their rhetoric against their own citizens, calling for protestors against stabbings by migrants to be ‘shot in the head’. 

    Last Thursday, an immigrant from Algeria (who was not deported when he was ordered to) stabbed children on the streets of Dublin. 

    Since then, the increasingly incompetent and egomaniacal Justice Minister Helen McEntee has used the tragedy to wage war on her enemies, namely anyone who opposed her widely panned anti free speech law proposals. 

    McEntee has barely uttered two words about her government’s failure to stop the attack. They allowed him back on the streets in the summer, even after he had been arrested with a knife. 

    Now, the ruling Fianna Fail party has spoken of their desire to slaughter Irish people on the streets who dare to criticise the attacks on children. 

    Muslim immigrant Councillor Azad Talukder has said ‘I’d like to see them shot in the head’. 

• "Irish Citizens Block Roads to Stop Migrants Being Dropped into Their Communities"--The National Pulse.

    Irish citizens have begun building barricades and checkpoints around their local towns and villages to prevent their communities from being overrun by newly arrived migrants forced on them by the government. Locals in the town of Dromahair held protests, manned roadblocks and checkpoints, and even checked cars coming in and out of the town after rumors abounded of refugees arriving in the area on Friday. The residents cited security and the overburdening of local public services as their principal concerns.

* * *

    Similar events occurred in the southern Irish village of Rosslare Harbour where the government plans to repurpose a hotel into accommodation housing hundreds of migrants. Village residents have been manning entrances into the town for close to two week following the revelations.

• "When the Irish Finally Fight Back"--Identity Dixie. Warning that the immigration issue might unite the fractured remnants of the IRA, and even drive new membership.

Bombs & Bants--Episode 113 (Streamed 11/29/2023)

VIDEO: "Episode 113" (48 min.)

The Great Replacement: "How Blatant Anti-White Racism Won Acceptance in Elite America"

This 2022 article from Real Clear Investigations looks at the anti-white (particularly anti-white male) speech promulgated by liberals in politics, mainstream academia, the media, and so on to denigrate whites and promote racism against whites (which they coyly call "anti-racism"). The article begins:

    In a 2021 lecture at Yale University titled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani described her “fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a favor.”

    Around the same time, a scholarly article in a peer-reviewed academic journal described “whiteness” as “a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility.” The author, Donald Moss, had also presented his paper as a continuing education course for licensed therapists who would presumably treat patients with this condition. The paper advises: “There is not yet a permanent cure.”

    This is a sampling of the new racism that is gaining purchase in American society even as its advocates relentlessly punish speech they deem harmful and threatening to people of color. It parallels the acceptance of anti-male rhetoric that casts masculinity as “predatory” and “toxic,” or just casually demeans males as oafish and clueless, which allows the Washington Post to give a megaphone to Northeastern University professor Suzanna Danuta Walters to ask: “Why can’t we hate men?” (Her conclusion: We can and we should.)

    The escalation of this inflammatory rhetoric is reaching the highest levels of American society, as when President Biden insinuated in a fiery campaign speech last week that Donald Trump supporters are “white supremacists” and when he maligned conservative mask skeptics last year for “Neanderthal thinking." 

    What strikes a casual observer is that such language would be instantly denounced if it targeted racial minorities or other protected groups. Just as remarkable is that this new rhetoric is not coming from dropouts and loners at society’s margins; it is being advanced by successful professionals who have scaled the heights of respectability and are given a platform on social media and in prestigious cultural outlets.

    And though each of those examples generated a public furor, such inflammatory rhetoric is defended or downplayed by cultural gatekeepers. The incidents have been piling up especially in the past few years, especially since the election of Donald Trump to the White House during the ascent of Black Lives Matter in the age of social media, and even include cases of people calling for the hate of privileged groups and insisting it’s not hate speech.

    In its ultimate sign of success, this messaging has taken hold in public schools, corporate workplaces, medical journals, scientific research and even diversity training in federal agencies. It’s not limited to any single race but endorsed by whites, blacks, Asians and others, and disseminated in diversity materials and workplace-recommended readings that characterize white people as flawed, predatory and dangerous to society. Its sudden spread has caused a sense of culture shock and given rise to acrimonious school board meetings and employee lawsuits over hostile work environments as legions of teachers, students and workers have been educated about white privilege, white fragility, white complicity, and the moral imperative to de-center “whiteness” so as not to “normalize white domination.”

    This new take on speech produces a moral paradox, particularly among academics and journalists: Those who are most militant about policing what they deem to be hate speech against minorities, women, gays and trans communities are often the most tolerant of demeaning depictions, incendiary rhetoric and violent imagery against whites and men.

After going over how changing norms and laws made many traditional terms about ethnicity, race, or gender unacceptable in the common culture, the author discusses how a new set of rules have arisen that use speech to control ... and to demean whites.

    The core proposition of this mindset can be traced to philosophers like Michel Foucault, who developed theories of language as a form of societal power and domination, and Herbert Marcuse, the Marxist scholar whose now-classic 1960s essay, “Repressive Tolerance,” argues that the oppressor class and the oppressed cannot be held to the same standard. Marcuse proposed that the classical liberal doctrine of free speech is a mechanism that benefits capitalists and others who wield power, that the struggle for “a real democracy” paradoxically necessitates “the fight against an ideology of tolerance.”

    The subversive intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s passed on the torch to Critical Race Theorists and radical feminists, and in the 1990s the critique of bourgeoisie liberalism was taken up by Stanley Fish, a post-modernist literary critic and critical legal scholar who ridiculed the idea of “free speech” and “reverse racism,” giving wider exposure to these esoteric scholarly arguments.

After going over truly odious leftists making truly odious comments about exterminating white people or white men, the article notes the double standard where leftists (particularly POC) can make the most horrible comments about whites, but even questioning some sacred cow of the left can result in being black balled. 

    “The development of two separate language codes, one for whites and one for blacks, was ominous,” the conservative writer Christopher Caldwell observed in his 2020 book, “The Age of Entitlement.”

    “The rules of American public decorum now resembled medieval strictures that permitted only noblemen to carry weapons or ride horses, or laws that forbade certain classes of citizens to address others by a certain name.”

About the only good thing to come out of sudden but wholly predictable surge in support from the Left for Hamas and its Satanic religion (see my post, "Is Allah = Satan?") and the criticism of Israel is the sudden realization among many even leftist Jews that they created a monster that is liable to destroy them. Thus, we are beginning to see articles like these:

• "How multiculturalism fuels hate" by Frank Furedi, Spiked!
• "The West cannot accept Gazan refugees" by Joel Kotkin, Telegraph.

Quote of the Day: National Security And Open Borders

From T.L. Davis:

National security is non-existent in a nation without a border. The admittance of anyone, without substantive qualifications to enter is, in effect, an unregulated border and therefore non-existent. To hear DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA and DOD complain then about the need to protect and defend national security is a farce. While it is important to enforce laws against all manner of possible threats to the homeland, it does not comport then, to allowing the invasion of nearly a million military-age men from hostile nations such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Russia and numerous hostile African nations. The illogical pretense of securing the nation by attacking, jailing and surveilling American citizens who hold jobs and pay taxes for the crime of being patriotic to the Constitutional principles that are being violated by open borders, systematic sexual abuse of school children and censoring speech in opposition to those violations cannot be allowed to go unnoticed.

When Police Come A-Knocking: Dealing With Police At Your Door

    So this is a series of four videos dealing with what to do if police come a-knocking at your door without a warrant or exigent circumstances that would allow them to force their way into the home.

    The first video is of an actual interaction between a couple officers and the homeowner, ostensibly there to question his young boy about a video his son may or may not have seen at school. The homeowner refused to open the door to the officers, refused to let his son go outside to talk to the officers, and eventually used unkind words after the officers questioned whether he was a lawyer and threatened to sic child services on him. Note that the father had monitored the police radio traffic after the interaction and learned that he was to be marked on some list or record as unfriendly toward police. In following up with the school, the father was told by the principle, a school counselor, and the school's resource officer that they had no idea what video the original officers were referencing or why they would want to speak to his son. 

    The next three videos are from a Virginia lawyer on what your rights are when officers knock at your door. The first of these (Video #2) is a more general video warning against answering the door, or if you do so, warning against stepping outside or answering any questions. It seems primarily focused on someone that the police might be investigating for drunk driving, but the advice would be applicable to other situations where police do not have a warrant. 

    Video #3 breaks down and discusses a Reddit discussion on whether you need to answer the door and goes into more detail on certain points than did Video #2, including when officers have an arrest or search warrant.

    Video #4 discusses the more specific situation of you opening the door to police and the officer putting his foot across the threshold to block you from closing the door. As the attorney in the video points out, any action on your part to physically force the officer to remove his foot or to close the door on their foot will probably land you in jail. He mentions a couple of Virginia cases on this subject, one of which found in favor of the defendant and one which did not.  He also discusses what happens when they have a warrant in this video. 

VIDEO #1: "Cop Flips Out After Being Told 'NO!'"

LackLuster (8 min.)

VIDEO #2: "POLICE knock on door. How do YOU respond?"

Andrew Flusche Attorney at Law (4 min.)

VIDEO #3: "LAWYER REACTS: Is It Legal to NOT Answer the Door?"

Andrew Flusche Attorney at Law (9 min.)

VIDEO #4: "LAWYER RESPONDS: Can Police Stick Their Foot in Your Door?"

Andrew Flusche Attorney at Law (5 min.)

French Mass Stabbing By Algerian Gang

I had posted the other day about a gang of "young people" that attacked a gathering in a small French town killing one and injuring 17 others. It was a gang of Algerian immigrants, and the stabbing set off a protest in Lyon.

Lecture: Diversity Is Not A Strength

This appears to be a presentation or lecture to an audience in the UK but covers the research on ethnic diversity and how it destroys trust and social capital, including Putnam's research on the issue in the United States. Although the lecturer was able to find research that showed the deleterious impact of diversity, he noted that he was not able to find any research showing that diversity positively impacted trust and social capital.

VIDEO: "Diversity is NOT a Strength. It WEAKENS Society, Research Clearly Shows"

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo (30 min.)

Panama Protests, Shortages

Did you know that Panama had just experienced a wave of protests? Looking for prepping related news and articles this past weekend, I came across this at the Daily Mail: "Massachusetts couple who moved to off-grid farm in Panama reveal they have no idea if they'll be able to return to their home because the country is 'in shambles' amid furious protests." The article, dated November 25, 2023, relates (underline added):

    Kaylee Dubeau and Jordan Saglio were due to return to their Central American homestead [near Boquete] on November 20 with their two-year-old daughter, Sadie, after completing a US road trip, but they revealed in their latest YouTube videos that they have been warned to stay away with the region 'in shambles.' 

    Protests have raged for weeks in Panama against Canadian-owned First Quantum's government-approved contract for a $10 billion copper mine, with some protests blocking access to the mine.

    In Kaylee and Jordan's video clips they reveal that friends back in Panama are now resorting to buying illegal gas for their car and the supermarkets are running low on supplies, with toilet paper being the first thing to go.

Friends of the couple warned that they had purchased gasoline on the black market, but had paid $120 for just 10 gallons. The couple also reported that this is the third time since they moved to Panama that the country has been overtaken by protests. At such times, gasoline is scarce and only available through the black market; there is no propane; food is scarce. Even in normal times, they are "always getting stuck with higher prices in Panama because they're considered foreigners."

    The protests concerned the Cobre Panama copper mine, operated by Minera Panama, the local subsidiary of Canada’s First Quantum Minerals. This is not a small operation. According to an AP article, "[t]he mine employs thousands and accounts for 3% of Panama’s gross domestic product." The protests appear to relate to a recent agreement between First Quantum and the Panamanian government that extended the mining concession for 20 years, and concerns over environmental issues. The AP article reports:

    The dispute over the mine led to some of Panama’s most widespread protests in recent years, including a blockade of the mine’s power plant. Protesters also blocked parts of the Pan American highway, including a stretch near the border with Costa Rica.

    Just before the ruling was announced, they opened the roadway so freight trucks could get through.

    Minera Panama said in a statement earlier this month that small boats had blocked its port in Colon province, preventing supplies from reaching the mine. Naval police reported that a ship carrying coal decided to turn back due to “hostility from a group of protesters who from their boats threw rocks and blunt homemade objects” before being dispersed.

    The protesters, a broad coalition of Panamanians, feared the mine’s impact on nature and especially on the water supply.

    After the protests began, the government nearly passed legislation that would have revoked the contract, but it backtracked in a debate in the National Assembly on Nov. 2.

    A court decision that declared the contract unconstitutional was the last opportunity for opponents to get it thrown out.

The Panamanian Supreme Court declared the contract unconstitutional today. However, an article from Crises24 yesterday suggested that the protestors might continue protests into December regardless of the outcome, disrupting transportation and shipment of essential goods like food, medicine and fuel.  

    An October 26, 2023, Americas Quarterly article gives more background on the protests, noting that they had actually started back in August, but started to intensify in November. A prior contract over the mine had been struck down by Panama's Supreme Court because it lacked a transparent public tender process, which were the same complaints brought against the newer contract. But behind this apparently are larger issues of corruption, a worsening economy, fears that the mine's use of water will impact the Panama Canal (already suffering from lower water levels due to a drought) and contaminate drinking water, and probably the innate hatred of socialists for foreign corporations. 

    From a prepping perspective, the biggest takeaways are: 

• Be wary of moving to a third world country (the article noted that the couple was regularly overcharged when making purchases, and even in the limited time they had lived in Panama this was the third major protest);
• Store food and other essentials, including fuel if possible (both gasoline and propane are specifically mentioned as in short supply or unobtainable in the article); and,
• Have alternative means of transportation both to get around road closures (the couple mentioned that there was only one major highway where they lived in Panama and so if it was closed, it stopped all transportation) and to conserve fuel.

Video: Abandoned Southern Mansion

I haven't posted one of these in a while, but here is a quick walk through an abandoned mansion in Selma. A couple points: note that approaching the house in the daytime, it is almost impossible to see anything inside through the windows. Once inside, although most of the rooms are well lit because of the many windows, the transition spaces (inside hallways, mostly) are quite dark.

VIDEO: "Beautiful Selma Plantation Mansion Exploration when it was Abandoned in Virginia"

Abandoned Virginia (9 min.)

Doctor Finds Out He Is Illegal Alien

 You've probably seen the headlines. Most are similar to this one from The Daily Caller: "American-Born Doctor Shocked To Learn His Citizenship Was Revoked." The doctor in question is 61 year old Siavash Sobhani, who was born in the United States but was the child of an Iranian diplomat. Although not caught before, in his latest renewal of a passport, someone at the State Department finally realized that Sobhani was not a United States citizen. He received a letter from the State Department which the article describes:

“As a member of your parent’s household at the time of your birth, you also enjoyed full diplomatic immunity from the jurisdiction of the United States,” the letter obtained by The Washington Post stated. “As such, you were born not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Therefore, you did not acquire U.S. citizenship at birth.”

Instead of being deported for being an illegal alien, the article relates: 

Sobhani was then directed to visit a website where he could apply for a lawful permanent residence, per the letter. Since his discovery, Sobhani has reportedly applied for permanent residence, already spending more than $40,000 in legal fees which may never be resolved, according to The Washington Post.

The article continues:

    ‘This was a shock to me,” Sobhani told the outlet, “I’m a doctor. I’ve been here all my life. I’ve paid my taxes. I’ve voted for presidents. I’ve served my community in Northern Virginia. During COVID, I was at work, putting myself at risk, putting my family at risk. So when you’re told after 61 years, ‘Oh there was a mistake, you’re no longer a U.S. citizen,’ it’s really, really shocking.”

    Sobhani has written letters to Democrat Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and Democrat Virginia Rep. Gerald Connolly seeking their help in the matter. He noted he cannot live safely in Iran due to previously speaking out against the government, as well as having family involved in U.S. politics. 

    The issue here is "birthright citizenship". You've probably heard the term because it is tied to the issue of "anchor babies" and "birth tourism" where foreigners, whether here illegally or, ostensibly, here legally but temporarily will have a child in the United States in order to get a foothold to stay here and bring in their relatives. It is one of the exploits being used to enable the mass migration crises. 

     Broadly speaking, "birthright citizenship" encompasses two doctrines: “jus soli” (right of soil) where a person acquires citizenship by being born in that country or its territorial possessions; and “jus sanguinis” (right of blood) where a person acquires the citizenship of his or her parents at birth.     However, in the United States, "birthright citizenship" and the arguments about it revolve around the application of the doctrine of "jus soli".  

    Only 33 countries have unrestricted jus soli birthright citizenship. In the vast majority of countries, citizenship at birth is determined by the parents' citizenship. Most countries that adopted "jus soli" are in the Americas, probably to encourage immigration in the 19th Century--and several European countries that had adopted "jus soli" have limited it or abandoned it altogether. 

    The United States first expressly adopted "birthright citizenship" as part of the 14th Amendment which states, in the relevant part: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." The purpose of this language was to override the holding in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that the descendants of slaves “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.”

    The primary issue when interpreting the language in the 14th Amendment is how broadly to read the limitation of "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. There are good arguments that "subject to the jurisdiction" does not include illegal aliens, but the issue has never been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. (See also "Birthright Citizenship: An Overview" from the Center for Immigration Study). However, in its 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court held that there were two categories of people "born in the United States" that were not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and, therefore, not citizens: members of Indian tribes and children born to parents in the diplomatic service of a foreign country. A third exception are children born to a member of a hostile occupying force. (Citizenship was later extended by Congress to members of Indian tribes). 

    Dr. Sobhani falls into the second exception for children of foreign diplomats. So when various articles report that he had his citizenship revoked, they are incorrect. He never was a citizen.  

Related Articles:

• "Virginia doctor, Siavash Sobhani, who was born in US loses his CITIZENSHIP after applying for new passport because his dad was Iranian diplomat and he wasn't entitled to claim it"--Daily Mail.
• "Iranian-American doctor born in the USA has citizenship stripped over rarely used law"--Mirror.

Planet Bud-Light

 A funny AI-generated spoof advertisement for Bud-Light:

VIDEO: "Planet Bud Light - ai tv ad"

mizumomo (1 min.)

A Round Up Of Firearms/Self-Defense Articles

 Some recent articles I've come across:

• "Weekend Knowledge Dump- November 24, 2023"--Active Response Training. Greg Ellifritz's Friday has links to articles and videos on topics as diverse as why a snub-nosed revolver excels for pocket carry, concealed carry while in a vehicle, Clint Smith's thoughts on carry guns and holsters for concealed carry, one officer's experience with trying to conceal carry while recuperating from an ankle injury, how to tell if your drink has been spiked, and more.
• And speaking of snub-nosed revolvers for pocket carry, check out Greg's own article: "The Best Coat Pocket Defensive Pistols." What he is talking about is a gun to carry in a coat or jacket pocket during cold whether when other carry methods may be slow to access because of being bundled up. His recommendation is a snub-nosed revolver that is either hammerless or uses a shrouded hammer so you can pull it from the pocket without it snagging or even, if necessary, shoot it from inside the pocket.
• "Handloads: A .45 ACP Semi-Wadcutter For Target Work"--American Rifleman. The author gives his recipe for loading 200-grain SWC from X-Treme bullets.
• "The Wyoming Sight Drifter"--The Revolver Guy. A review and recommendation of a product that combines a brass drift punch with a spring-loaded punch to give you something small enough to take to the range and gives you a bit more finesse than a hammer and punch.
• "Is .308 Better Than .30-06?"--The Mag Life. The author's conclusion seems to be "not really," but it really depends on the type of hunting you are doing. First, because of the larger case capacity, the .30-06 generally offers higher velocities for the same weight bullets, which may make a difference if you are taking longer shots (e.g., in the high country or other open terrain). Second, although the author suggests that .308 can handle up to 200 grain bullets, not all rifles will be able to accept such long bullets. 180-grain is a more realistic high end for .308. On the other hand, the .30-06 can handle bullets up to 220 grains, so it is a better option for when you need the extra penetration. But for most hunters, there is probably no advantage to one over the other.
• "Marlin Dark Series Lever Action Rifles Shipping!"--Guns America. These are a line of "tactical" or "modernized" lever action rifles able to take muzzle devices, include long Picatinny rails on the top for mounting optics or what have you, and have an aluminum front hand guard with M-LOK attachment points. Right now, the only model available is an 1894 version shooting .45-70, but a Model 336 shooting .30-30, and a Model 1894 in .44 Special/.44 Magnum are supposed to be released in 2024.
• "10 Facts About the M1 Garand: America's Favorite Battle Rifle"--The Mag Life. Not to be pedantic, but although the inventor's name, John Garand, is pronounced so it rhymes with "errand," when applied to the rifle, the name was pronounced so it rhymes with "grand" all throughout the military--by the soldiers, in training films, and so on--and up until fairly recently even among all civilians. Thus, when referring to the rifle, it is Garand like "grand". 
• "EDC Greatness: The J-Frame Revolver for Deep Cover Concealed Carry...Still"--The Truth About Guns. Key point:

    Meanwhile, small-frame revolvers excel in many ways, especially in a deep cover role. Revolver users seldom encounter malfunctions, even if you’re pressing the muzzle into the gut of an attacker (think the Trayvon Martin close quarters situation). And contact gunshot wounds usually inflict horrific damage.

    As for concealment, short-barrel snubbies with their small frame size are excellent. Slip one in a jacket or pants pocket and no one will be the wiser.

    These little wheel guns perform wonderfully when fired from a coat pocket, too. Especially those with bobbed hammers or the hammerless variety. Ditto for ladies discharging from a purse.

* * *

    Wheel guns don’t leave your brass lying all over the place. For those carrying in non-permissive environments, that can be extra helpful. Before Illinois had legal concealed carry, more than a few career armed robbers and rapists turned up dead on Cook County Forest Preserve properties over the years. Obviously their intended victims chose not to notify authorities.

    Additionally, these small revolvers also conceal well in the hand. Remember, a lot of deadly force encounters take place in low-light or no-light conditions. An attacker usually can’t see any better than you can. Again, let them experience the shock of their lifetime as they experience the bark and flash of your snubbie discharging at bad-breath distances.

    You can also hand one off to someone who has never shot before in an emergency and it can save their life. Even rank novices can figure out how to make a revolver work. As a close friend and retired FBI agent I know loves to say, revolvers are the ultimate point-and-click interface. ...

• "Cool New Colors for the Springfield Armory Hellion Bullpup"--Guns America. Now available in Desert FDE, OD Green, and Gray.
• "How To: Packs And Pistols"--GUNS Magazine. Some thoughts on carry methods when also using a daypack or backpack. The author finds that a fanny pack or belt pack for a handgun work well if you are using a daypack. For more serious hiking with a backpack, the author tried and discarded several methods before deciding that carrying in the middle of the chest was the practicable solution. His pick is the Hillpeople Gear Original Kit Bag or--if hunting, fishing or hiking in grizzly-infested territory where speed is of paramount importance over concealment--a chest holster.
• On a related note: "Wide-Open Carry"--GUNS Magazine. This author also recommends chest holster for "anyone backpacking, hiking, fishing in streams with bears present, riding a horse, cruising around the farm in a Polaris Ranger, or doing farm chores on a tractor," but, strangely, not for handgun hunters. He discusses a good handful or more of various chest holsters from different manufacturers. 
• "Training Tips for the AK-47"--Scattered Shots. A brief overview of tools for adjusting the front sights, the basic manual of arms, accuracy expectations, and some accessories to consider (although lacking in specific recommendations or reviews).
• No. "Empty Chamber Carry: Is It Worth It?"--The Mag Life. The author--Travis Pike--discusses various excuses given for carrying on an empty chamber (speaking of modern semi-autos and not your SAA revolver) and why the arguments are invalid. I would prefer to discuss why empty chamber carry was even a thing for semi-auto pistols. 

    It pretty much boils down to one reason: just like the old revolvers, the hammers of early semi-autos rested on the firing pin when decocked leaving open the potential of an accidental discharge if the weapon was dropped or the hammer struck a sharp blow. 

 

    Revolver technology improved with the benefit of rebound hammers (making sure that the firing pin did not rest against the primer) and various ways to block the hammer unless or until the trigger was pulled, and now the more common technology of employing some sort of transfer bar system. So, while it is highly recommended to carry a Single Action Army revolver with an empty chamber under the hammer, it would be laughable for someone to suggest that you should carry a modern revolver with an empty chamber under the hammer.

    Similarly, modern semi-auto pistol designs incorporate various features to make sure that they are drop safe, including firing pin blocks and, in many DA/SA models, a rebound hammer set up. Even older designs, such as the 1911, have been updated with firing pin block mechanisms starting with the Series 80 (and, besides, 1911 style pistols incorporate a grip safety and are generally carried cocked and locked so that the hammer isn't resting on the firing pin in any event). 

    Military procedure with older style semi-auto pistols eschewed carrying cocked and locked, but the hammer was to be down while the pistol was being carried in a holster. And that is why militaries would require such pistols be carried with an empty chamber. To the extent that any military today continues such practice, it is a hold over from using pistols designed in the early 20th Century, and doesn't reflect modern pistol designs or use. For instance, the Israeli military (which I am picking on because so many people will point to them as an excuse for carrying with an empty chamber--in fact, it is sometimes referred to as "Israeli carry") long used the Browning Hi-Power which lacked a firing pin block, but insisted (like other militaries) that it be carried with the hammer down. I don' know whether Israel's continued insistence on carrying with an empty chamber is because they still issue Hi-Powers (I don't know if they do or not) or some sort of administrative inertia. Perhaps they do it because they have always done so, having forgotten why they did so in the first place. 

     But whatever the reason, carrying on an empty chamber is obsolete and has no place in world of civilian carry and use of modern handguns.

Diversity Is A Strength: Evanston Township High School Turns To Segregation To Boost Performance

From News Nation Now: "Illinois high school offers classes separated by race."

    A high school in Evanston, Illinois, implemented a program back in 2019 that let students segregate by race in order to address learning gaps.

    The program has gained popularity and has even expanded.

    Advocates for the program say it can help make students feel more comfortable in the classroom, which increases their chances of doing better in school.

    This year at Evanston Township High School, nearly 200 Black and Latino students signed up for core classes, like math and writing, within the program. Those students will attend classes with students of the same race.

    The so-called affinity classes are taught by a teacher of color, intended to help Black and Latino students enroll in advanced curriculum.

    The school district’s superintendent, Marcus Cambell, told The Evanstonian — the high school’s student newspaper — that the goal was to provide “a different, more familiar setting to kids who feel really anxious about being in AP classes.”

    While federal anti-discrimination laws ban public schools from mandatory segregation, education lawyers said the voluntary options for students don’t apply.

    Plus, Evanston isn’t the first to try this. Schools in Minnesota, California and Washington state also offer elective classes that are race-specific.

    Civil rights attorney Robert Patillo argued the program in Evanston is healthy and enriching for students, making learning feel more comfortable.

But do they have an option for white students be in an all-white class with white teachers? Or all Asian students with an Asian teacher? Of course not. After complaints (and probably to avoid a lawsuit) the school revised their original restrictions to black or Latino students, respectively, to opening the classes to all students although "intended to support students who identify as Black" or "… Latinx." 

Mass Shootings Only Happen In America: Thailand Edition

The Daily Mail reports: "Five dead in wedding massacre as 'drunk' Paralympic athlete groom, 29, shoots his wife, 44, mother-in-law and guests then kills himself after arguing during the ceremony in Thailand."

World's Largest Airship Unveiled

 Per the Daily Mail, "World's largest airship is unveiled: Enormous aircraft backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin measures 400 FEET long - almost twice the size of a Boeing 747." 

    The Pathfinder 1 is the largest aircraft produced since the 800ft (245 metre) Hindenburg was went up in flames in 1937. 

    It is as large as three Boeing 737s and even dwarfs the Statolaunch plane used to carry rockets into orbit. 

    While the Hindenburg was filled with extremely flammable hydrogen, the Pathfinder 1 uses safe, non-reactive Helium stored in 13 airbags.

    With the price of helium fluctuating amid shortages, filling the Pathfinder 1 could cost between $250,000 (£197,877) and $1 million (£791,500).

    Each of the 13 rip-stop nylon bags is held in place by a skeleton of 10,000 carbon fibre-reinforced poles and 3,000 titanium hubs.

    LTA Research says that it uses advanced lidar technology to constantly monitor the levels of gas contained in the balloon. 

    The entire frame is then wrapped in a synthetic material called Tedlar, which LTA Research claims is resistant to UV light and fire. 

    With technology adapted from drones, the Pathfinder 1 will also be surprisingly easy to fly and will only need one pilot at any time using a 'fly by wire' joystick system. 

It is being touted as a way to reduce the carbon footprint of air travel. Unfortunately, helium production is a biproduct of natural gas drilling, and its electric motors and batteries undoubtedly also rely on strip mining in order to obtain the necessary rare earth elements.

    The craft is currently undergoing testing which limits it test flights to being close to the ground while tethered.

Ireland's Response To Immigrant's Mass Stabbing Attack? Investigating Conor McGregor For Hate Speach

"MMA Champion Conor McGregor Under Investigation for 'Online Hate Speech' Following Remarks After Children Were Stabbed by Algerian Immigrant in Dublin"--The Gateway Pundit. As Vox Day has noted, social justice warriors always double down. The Irish government would rather publicly punish Conor McGregor and, thereby, cow the general public, than do anything about migrant crime. 

Mass Stabbing In France: Attackers Told Guests "We're Here To Stab White People"

 A short video from Paul Joseph Watson:

VIDEO: "They Came Out Of Nowhere"

And here is the Daily Mail article he mentions: "Gang that launched savage knife attack at French village's winter ball killing boy, 16, and injuring 17 'told guests "We are here to stab white people" before rampage'." The killer didn't act alone. The article reports:

    Josette Place, a pensioner and member of the village's events committee, told AFP: 'This wasn't a fight, it was an attack'.

    Armed with knives and blocks of concrete, 'they came with the intention to kill', she said of the attackers.

    According to prosecutors, around 10 young people tried to enter Crepol village dance hall on Saturday night. One stabbed a guard who stood in their way.

    Guests at the dance rushed to help and a fight ensued outside the building during which Thomas was fatally stabbed.

Another article mentions that as many as 30 "young people" may have been involved in the attack on the village of 600 inhabitants and used the Arabic slur, "gwer", to refer to white people. But the problem isn't the stabbing of white people by Muslims, but that white people are noticing that the attackers were Muslim (and anyone noticing is, of course, part of the "far right"). The Telegraph really takes the cake in virtue signaling, though, with this headline: "‘Bloodbath’ at French village fete as youths from deprived suburb kill 16-year-old." Although perhaps the editor was just trying to quietly communicate who were the perpetrators, since the article doesn't say anything further. 

Ireland's Response to Immigrant Stabbing Woman, Children? Pass Hate Laws Against Protesting Immigrant Violence

Earlier this week some Irish had enough with immigrant violence after an Algerian stabbed a woman and several children. Mostly peaceful protests occurred across Dublin, including the burning of a hotel used to house illegal aliens (aka, invaders). The response of Ireland's Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar (who is Indian, not Irish) was as predictable as the sun rising in the east. Per Reuters:

    Ireland's prime minister pledged to modernise laws against hatred in the coming weeks after 34 people were arrested for rioting in Dublin on Thursday night.

    "We will pass new laws in the coming weeks to enable the Gardai (police) to make better use of the CCTV evidence they collected yesterday, and also we will modernise our laws against incitement to hatred and hatred in general," Varadkar told a news conference on Friday.

    "I think it's now very obvious to anyone who might have doubted us that our incitement to hatred legislation is just not up to date. It's not up to date for the social media age. And we need that legislation through within a matter of weeks."

  When I reviewed Peter Turchin's book, End Times, back in September, I noted his findings that:

... once you include the preferences of the top 10 percent and interest groups, "the effect of the commoners [on national policy] is statistically indistinguishable from zero." (p. 130). And "issues on which the common people and the economic elites disagree are always--always--resolved in favor of the elites." (Id.).  

Vox Day recently noted this as well, although with perhaps a better quote from Turchin's book:

    In END TIMES, Peter Turchin cites compelling and reasonably comprehensive data analysis that proves the democratic will of the people in the United States has absolutely no influence on the policies put into place by their elected leaders, by means of a large-scale comparison of their policy preferences with the resulting policies put into place by their government.

The political scientist Martin Gilens, aided by a small army of research assistants, gathered a large data set—nearly two thousand policy issues between 1981 and 2002. Each case matched a proposed policy change to a national opinion survey asking a favor/oppose question about the initiative. The raw survey data provided information that enabled Gilens to separate the preferences of the poor (in the lowest decile of the income distribution) and the typical (the median of the distribution) from the affluent (the top 10 percent).

Statistical analysis of this remarkable data set showed that the preferences of the poor had no effect on policy changes. This is not entirely unexpected. What is surprising is that there was no—zilch, nada—effect of the average voter. The main effect on the direction of change was due to the policy preferences of the affluent. There was also an additional effect of interest groups, the most influential ones being business-oriented lobbies. Once you include in the statistical model the preferences of the top 10 percent and the interest groups, the effect of the commoners is statistically indistinguishable from zero.

Peter Turchin, END TIMES: Elites, Counterelites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, 2023

While the research Turchin cited focused on the United States, there is no reason to suppose it would be different in any other so-called democracy. This is why protests against mass immigration, voting for politicians that ostensibly oppose mass immigration, and so on, never generate any changes to policies on mass immigration; and, in fact, as shown above, actually lead to governments cracking down on anyone that would oppose mass immigration. In Europe, we've even seen it made a crime to point out how criminal are the migrants. (So far, in the U.S., such views currently only get you labeled a bigot and banned from polite society). 

    In other words, nothing will done about mass immigration unless the elites will it otherwise, which they will never do willingly. As Turchin makes clear in his book, the only way to get the elites to change course is through fear: fear of mass unrest and civil war (as happened in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States) or actual mass unrest and civil war that kill off much of the elites (such as happened to France in the Hundred Years War). Blacks and other minorities have long recognized this--thus the long history or rioting and looting in which they engage--but it is less common among the (for now) majority population. Thus, the mostly peaceful protests in Dublin are actually an encouraging sign.

Massive Non-Compliance With Illinois "Assault-Weapon" Ban

 Earlier this year, Illinois passed a law that "prohibits the delivery, sale, import and purchase of more than 100 so-called assault weapons, in the form of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns. Also banned are the delivery, sale and purchase of high-capacity magazines of more than 10 rounds for long guns and 15 rounds for handguns." Those owning such weapons before the ban took effect are required to register those weapons with the state or face criminal consequences: a misdemeanor for a first offense and felonies for subsequent violations. The registration period began on October 1 and runs through the end of the year. But, as the Chicago Tribune reports, "With less than 6 weeks before deadline, 3,400 gun owners have registered guns covered by Illinois ban." To put this into context, the article explains:

While the degree of compliance is impossible to determine, the number of people who had registered through Nov. 21 represented just 0.001% of the 2.4 million people holding Illinois firearm owner’s identification cards, the state-mandated permits that authorize residents to own guns. FOID card owners might not own guns not covered by the ban, or have any guns at all.

And the state has made it impossible to register any of the weapons without a FOID card.

    Of course, the purpose of the law is not to reduce gun violence. It wasn't motivated by the huge number of black murders committed everyday in the state but by the rare occurrence of a mass shooting: the shooting on the Fourth of July in 2022 in Highland Park that left 7 dead. And, given the history of such registration laws in other states, Illinois law makers could not have reasonably expected any widespread compliance with the law. Which begs the question whether the purpose of the law was to allow them grounds to arrest members of a certain class of people when they deem it necessary to do so. That is, to have grounds to arrest and imprison someone who, otherwise, they would have no grounds to do so.

Disney Not Getting The "Wish" For Which It Was Hoping

Disney has released yet another bomb at the box office: it's latest film "Wish." The story is supposed to be the origin story of the wishing star that made its appearance in Pinocchio.

After "wishing upon a star" the Blue Fairy appeared to grant Geppetto’s wish for a son (source)

The movie was also supposed to be a return to Disney's classic themes, look and feel, in order to commemorate the company's 100 year anniversary, using 2-D animated backgrounds to give it a more classic look. 

    But the movie has bombed with audiences. Costing a purported $200 million to make, the film only grossed $8.3 million on its opening day and is only expected to bring in $32 to $33 million over the full 5 day period of the long Thanksgiving weekend (down from a revised $37 million projected just a couple days ago), both for less than the $55 to $60 million anticipated immediately before its release.

    Since I haven't seen the film, I will have to rely on Wikipedia for the basic story and plot:

King Magnifico and his wife Queen Amaya establish the kingdom of Rosas on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Having studied sorcery, Magnifico is able to grant the greatest desires of his subjects, who each give up the memory of their wishes to be sealed and protected by the king until he can grant them. Once in a month, as a ceremonial event, Magnifico chooses one wish to be granted.

The movie's heroine is Asha, a bi-racial (of course) "adorkable" girl who is interviewing to become Magnifico's apprentice in the hope of convincing him to grant her grandfather's wish. But when Magnifico refuses, Asha realizes he is taking people's wishes but never granting them and unsuccessfully tries to convince others around her of his deception. 

    ... Distraught, she makes her own wish on a star. To her surprise, the star descends from the sky in a form of an anthropomorphic ball of light, which Asha names Star. Star's magic gives the forest animals, including Asha's pet goat Valentino, the ability to talk, prompting Asha to enlist Star's help in retrieving her family's wishes. Star's presence is sensed by everyone in the kingdom, and Magnifico feels threatened by it. Despite Amaya's pleas, he turns to forbidden magic to maintain his position of power as his subjects begin to doubt his way of ruling.

    Asha retrieves Sabino's wish and he is overjoyed to be able to remember it, but Magnifico arrives to arrest them.... Corrupted by the dark magic, Magnifico intends to use Star's magic and Rosas' wishes to increase his own powers.... One of Asha's friends, Simon, is revealed to be the one who sold Asha out to Magnifico in hopes of his wish to become a knight will be granted. ...

Asha is able to rally other friends to her cause. But Magnifico uses his magic to darken the sky so the people can't wish upon their own stars. "Remembering that the forest animals told her all living beings come from stardust, Asha encourages the citizens to make a wish about changing Rosas' future. The strength of their collective desire overpowers Magnifico, trapping him in his staff, and the citizens reobtain their sealed wishes with a newfound appreciation of pursuing them." 

    At the end of the story, "Star gifts Asha with a magic wand so that she can continue inspiring people to keep dreaming before returning to the sky among the other stars."

Asha who becomes the new wish granting fairy.

    So there are several theories about why the film is bombing. There are, of course, the rather obvious issues of "anti-racism" in the film: Magnifico is white. Asha and her loyal friends are all apparently POC. Asha's friend that betrays her is white. And Asha is obviously meant as a race-swap of the original Blue Fairy in Pinocchio. 

    Then there are the politics. As one author has noted, Magnifico is quite obviously based on a twisted liberal view of Donald Trump. Another author points out the film's anti-Christian messages. John Nolte, at Breitbart, blames Disney's grooming tactics: "Disney is no longer wholesome entertainment for small children. Decent parents understand this and will not expose their kids to the cinematic equivalent of a guy with no pants circling an elementary school in his Free Candy Van."

    Others blame the lack of originality in the film, particularly using the same "adorkable" heroine who is socially awkward but still brilliant and basically a copy of the same character that has appeared in its more recent "princess" films like Encanto, Frozen, Moana, and Tangled. 

    I doubt, however, that any of the foregoing concerns the people that normally flock to see Disney princess films. It probably is just a horrible story and not worth the inflated costs of going to see a movie in a theater. Rotten Tomato's critic score is only 50% as of the time of this writing (which is better than the initial reviews) while, even using its algorithms to weed out people that disliked the film, the audience score is only 83%. Since the same people that would go see it in a theater probably also subscribe to Disney+, they can just wait it out and see it when it is released on the streaming service.

    One would hope that at some point Disney would lose so much money from being "woke" that they would have to change their ways. But according to their most recent SEC filings, that does not appear to be the case. Rather, they are warning investors:

Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance. Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.

Read the whole thing.

    It is interesting to wonder about Disney's decision to deliberately pursue a policy that even it admits reduces company revenues. Is it just because the company is wholly controlled by leftists? Is it because, like many companies, Disney is beholden to BlackRock (which manages $9.3 trillion) and its liberal Jewish, China friendly CEO, Larry Fink, who has decided to force Western companies to follow DEI policies or risk being cut off by BlackRock and the financial institutions over which he exerts his influence? 

News of the World

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Mine was quiet: it was just me, my wife and our kids who still live at home. 

    Anyway, although I come across a lot of interesting news articles, I cannot hope to write and post about them all. So I thought I would collect at least some of them from the past couple weeks:

• "ATF Claims Solvent Traps Were Always Unregistered Silencers"--Ammo Land. I do think that this, the whole thing with arm braces, 80% receivers, and more, is the prelude to mass arrests of certain types of gun owners, carried out quietly and dragged out over a period of time so as to not raise concerns, just as done with the J6 protesters. 
• Speaking of which: "WATCH: Air Marshals National Council Director STUNS Fox News Host When She Reveals Marshalls Are Quietly Following Every Person Who Flew to DC Around January 6, 2021"--The Gateway Pundit.
• And this: "'Hemisphere': Secret White House Surveillance Program Allows Cops To Spy On Trillions Of US Phone Records Without Warrants"--The Gateway Pundit. And by phone records, they mean all data associated with your phone: emails, location data, web sites you've visited, anything stored in the cloud, etc.
• Why are gun control nuts so violent? "Louisville bank shooter wanted to massacre 'upper-class white people' to highlight lax gun laws: journal"--Fox News.
• A reminder that we have a presidential election next year: "Mysterious new respiratory illness outbreak in China catches WHO's attention"--News.com.au.
• And there are voters that will fall for this: "Biden brags that egg prices are down 22% after tripling in price since he took office"--Washington Examiner.
• Green flag or incompetence? "Israel-Hamas war: IDF intel officer warned about October 7, ignored"--The Jerusalem Post. Not just ignored, but told by the senior commander for her sector: "I don't want to hear about this nonsense again. If you bother me with these things again, you will stand trial." She and others were reporting increased activity and men in the areas, training, that the farmers that usually worked in the area no longer came to the area and were replaced with others. 
• But I thought it was more dangerous to have a firearm in your home... "A rush for firearms in wartime Israel"--Yahoo.

    Applications for gun permits have soared across Israel since October 7, when Hamas gunmen stormed through the highly militarised border with the Gaza Strip, with many civilians having to defend themselves while waiting for the army to respond.

    The worst-ever attack against the country has shattered any sense of security Israelis had, and civilians have rushed to arm themselves against future threats as the most right-wing government in Israel's history loosens gun licensing norms.

    "Every time my children play in the park I think 'what will I do if someone comes to attack us?'" Riki Tal, 31, told AFP, picking up an unloaded pistol from the collection at the counter.

    "I want something light and comfortable in my hand," the school teacher said, placing her finger on the trigger, "for self-protection".

    The basement store forbade photography and declined interview requests but the scrum at the counter was testament to the surging interest in weapons among ordinary civilians.

    A mother-daughter pair counted crisp bank notes to pay for a Glock and a man wearing a Jewish kippah yanked up his shirt to feel a Smith & Wesson tucked into his jeans.

    A shelf behind the saleswoman at the counter was lined with souvenirs such as replica bullets and a grenade next to a bevy of figurines with pictures of Israel's dead enemies: Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi.

• If they can't groom our children... "'We're going to kill their f*cking children’: Trans-identified male arrested in Illinois after alleged vow to copy Nashville school shooter"--The Post Millennial. 

• "'Hooligans' torch vehicles and loot shops in Dublin after school stabbing left girl, five, and woman seriously hurt: Riots erupt amid unconfirmed rumours knifeman is foreign national - police say attack was 'not terror', mob chants 'get them out'"--Daily Mail Online. Newsweek reports: "The violence began when a man approached children outside a school and began stabbing them, leaving a 5-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s with serious injuries. ... Passers-by subdued the attacker, who was hospitalized with injuries. Police have not released details on the identity of the alleged attacker." Including his nationality. But witnesses apparently identified the attacker as being an Algerian. In any event, with BLM, Antifa, and Muslim groups as their examples, "hooligans" decided to have a mostly peaceful protest. Of course, this horrified authorities. From the Daily Mail article:

    A creche worker who stepped in to prevent a knifeman from attacking children is among those seriously injured following an incident in Dublin on Thursday that saw the city burn as 'far-right' rioters took to the streets in anger.

    The woman, thought to be in her 30s, was seriously injured after she ran to the aid of a five-year-old girl attacked by a man in his 50s. Sources told Irish national press that her actions may have saved two other children aged five and six from serious harm.

    Following the attack outside Gaelscoil Colaiste Mhuire in Parnell Square East, unsubstantiated reports began spreading on social media that the suspect was a foreign national. Anti-immigration protesters then flooded the Irish capital.

    In ugly, violent scenes, vehicles were torched and shops including a Foot Locker were looted; a hotel that was alleged to be hosting asylum seekers was also attacked and riot squads were sent in to quell the disturbance.

    As of 10pm, gardai say city centre streets are 'mainly calm' - but police chiefs and Irish leaders have condemned those who they say allegedly weaponised the attack for 'reprehensible' means.

    A man thought to be in his 50s who was injured in the attacks is being treated as a person of interest. No statement has been made on the suspect's nationality - but gardai say they are satisfied the incident is not terror related. 

Wow, that was an incredibly fast investigation. I can just imagine how it went. "Why did you attack the children?" Algerian suspect: "Because they were infidel who Allah has commanded must be converted by the sword or die. Allah Akbar! Islam is at war with the Great Satan and his people. Someday you will be gone and Islam shall rule over the whole world." Officer checks with Islamic expert on force who assures him that real Islam is not about violence. "Well, then," the officer concludes, "the guy must be crazy." 

    The Irish Independent reports that he is an Irish citizen who, while not born in the country, had lived there for a number of years. Detectives are said to be following a line of inquiry that he may have suffered a 'psychotic episode' prior to the attack.

    A source told the Irish Independent that the creche worker's actions may have stopped the other children from suffering more grievous injuries.

    They said: 'She defended those children with all her strength – all that she was doing was trying to protect those little kids and people in what was is a very built up area in the city centre saw what was happening when they passed the school.'

    Police chiefs say 'far-right' thugs are responsible for the civil unrest that followed; prolific social media accounts associated with the far-right have made as-yet-unsubstantiated claims that the attacker is an 'immigrant'. 

    Michael D. Higgins, the president of Ireland, has hit out at rioters, accusing them of weaponising the attacks in a 'reprehensible' manner.

Anyone who opposes mass immigration is always termed "far right" from those intent on replacing the population with one that they believe will be more malleable. 

• Speaking of which, after Geert Wilders' surprise win of the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, the AP and Wall Street Journal led with headlines calling him "far right" and other outlets comparing him to Donald Trump. The AP article, for instance, warned that:

    Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders said Thursday that he is ready to join the next Dutch coalition government after he surged to a huge election victory that marked a stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as a beacon of tolerance. 

 

    The result is sending shockwaves through Europe, where extremist nationalist ideology is putting pressure on democracies that now face the possibility of having to deal with the first far-right prime minister of the Netherlands. 

 

    Wilders’ election program included calls for a referendum on the Netherlands leaving the European Union, a total halt to accepting asylum-seekers and migrant pushbacks at Dutch borders.

    It also advocates the “de-Islamization” of the Netherlands. He says he wants no mosques or Islamic schools in the country, although he has been milder about Islam during this election campaign than in the past.

What, a Netherlands that looks first after the interests of the native Dutch! Outrageous! Next thing you know, the Dutch will be wanting the U.S. to give them tons of money and material support to bomb and shell a Muslim enclave after a terrorist attack from those same Muslims.

    The BBC notes that Wilders' "Freedom party (PVV) is set to win 37 seats, well ahead of his nearest rival, a left-wing alliance." 

    But to fulfil his pledge to be "prime minister for everyone", he will have to persuade other parties to join him in a coalition. His target is 76 seats in the 150-seat parliament.

    At a party meeting on Thursday, Mr Wilders, 60, was cheered and toasted by party members in a room crammed with TV cameras.

    He told the BBC that "of course" he was willing to negotiate and compromise with other parties to become prime minister.

    The PVV leader won after harnessing widespread frustration about migration, promising "borders closed" and putting on hold his promise to ban the Koran.

    Before the vote, the three other big parties ruled out taking part in a Wilders-led government because of his far-right policies. But that might change because of the scale of his victory.

    The left-wing alliance under ex-EU commissioner Frans Timmermans has come a distant second with 25 seats, according to a forecast based on 94% of the vote.

    He made clear he would have nothing to do with a Wilders-led government, promising to defend Dutch democracy and rule of law. "We won't let anyone in the Netherlands go. In the Netherlands everyone is equal," he told supporters.

    That leaves third-placed centre-right liberal VVD under new leader Dilan Yesilgöz, and a brand new party formed by whistleblower MP Pieter Omtzigt in fourth - both have congratulated him on the result.

    Although Ms Yesilgöz doubts Mr Wilders will be able to find the numbers he needs, she says it is up to her party colleagues to decide how to respond. Before the election she insisted she would not serve in a Wilders-led cabinet, but did not rule out working with him if she won.

    Mr Omtzigt said initially his New Social Contract party would not work with Mr Wilders, but now says they are "available to turn this trust [of voters] into action".

• "Israel’s $48 Billion War Bill Leaves Its Fate With Bond Markets"--Bloomberg via Yahoo. The headline isn't completely accurate, however, as the story indicates (underline added):

    The war, which the Finance Ministry estimates is costing the economy around $270 million every day, will come with a fiscal price tag estimated at 180 billion shekels ($48 billion) in 2023-2024, according to Leader Capital Markets, a financial advisory powerhouse in Israel.

    Israel will likely be on the hook for two-thirds of the total costs, Leader said, with the US paying for the rest.

• While on this topic, Candice Owens showed insufficient support for spending tax dollars on Israel instead of securing our own border: "David Horowitz group cuts ties with Candace Owens over Israel"--New York Post. The article notes that "Owens has been a vocal critic of Israel as well as the US government’s support for the country’s military operations in Gaza, which were launched in response to the Oct. 7 surprise assault by Hamas terrorists that killed at least 1,200 Israelis." 

    “No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever,” Owens wrote on her X account earlier this month. She didn’t mention Israel, though this was implied.

    “There is no justification for a genocide. I can’t believe this even needs to be said or is even considered the least bit controversial to state.”

I can't believe that Owens bought into all the garbage about how bad it is to settle a land and kill off its natives--that only ever applied to Europeans. 

• The problem with allowing in large numbers of unassimilated immigrants is that they bring their conflicts with them here: "Pro-Palestinian protestors halt Macy's Thanksgiving parade and GLUE themselves to Sixth Avenue in NYC before being arrested - as New England Native American float sparks outrage by displaying Palestinian flag"--Daily Mail. 
• Related: "Jewish professor is booted from California campus after pro-Palestine students released EDITED video of him condemning Hamas as murderers and calling it hate speech"--Daily Mail. He also trampled a display (accidentally, he says) of names of Palestinians killed in the war.
• Related: "NYPD investigating ex Obama adviser Stuart Seldowitz over Islamophobic rants against street cart vendor who he threatened to report to immigration and have his family tortured in Egypt"--Daily Mail. The violence inherent in the leftism.
• Related: "Nolte: Joe Biden Craters in NBC Poll Thanks to Jew-Hating Young Democrats"--Bloomberg. Every dark cloud has its silver lining.
• Welcome to the party: "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion—and the Elimination of Jews"--PJ Media.  

    All of our institutions—government, education, media, professions, and industry—are formally and fully committed to “social justice,” the explicit specifics of which are diversity, equity, and inclusion, with the quiet part being the elimination of Jews. 

The more vocal part has always been the elimination of straight, white men.

    The quiet part is not often said explicitly, except during the infamous “Israel Apartheid Week” celebrations at our universities. But after Hamas's sadistic atrocities against Israelis on 7 October, the widespread and enthusiastic celebrations on American campuses and in our streets shouted out the quiet part. 

    “From the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free [of Jews].” Hamas, the heroes of the day for “social justice” warriors, states explicitly in its founding charter that not only would it destroy the State of Israel, but that it would kill all Jews, not only in Israel but around the world! 

    How is it that all of our institutions have signed up for genocidal antisemitism? The “social justice” political analysis is founded on the Marxist conviction that society is divided into two classes: oppressors and victims. The corresponding “social justice” ethic is that victims must be raised up and celebrated and that oppressors must be suppressed and eliminated.

    We can thank feminists for initiating this Marxist reinterpretation of our society with their reduction of social life to the class conflict between the “patriarchy” and all females. Race activists followed with blacks vs. whites, and homosexuals followed with gays vs. straights. The plea was for “equality,” but the true goal was to flip the classes, with the currently oppressed becoming the privileged dominant classes.  

    How the “social justice” categories are defined is by now familiar to all of us: whites, males, heterosexuals, the able-bodied, the well-to-do, Christians, Jews, and Asians are oppressors, while BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color [except Asians], females, LGBTQ2S++, the otherwise abled, the poor [except poor whites, Christians, Asians, and Jews], and Muslims are oppressed.

    In the intersectional calculous, the more victim categories a person can claim, the more oppressed they are deemed to be. Famously, the most esteemed is the disabled black lesbian. On the other side, the more oppressor categories a person can be identified with, the more “privileged” he/she/it/they are deemed. “Privilege” is, in all cases, assessed as unearned. 

Yes, its unfair how Jews are now being treated like white Christians by the Marxists. 

• And I'm sure he and his fellow Commies would like to treat us the same: "Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden Smears Patriotic American Christians: 'No Different' from Hamas Terrorists"--Breitbart.
• Of course: "Migrants Get Free Turkeys for Thanksgiving Ahead of Low-Income New Yorkers"--Breitbart.
• Related: "Eric Adams Slashes Police Budget to Pay for Migrants" – HotAir
• Does this count as diversity and inclusion? "Triad Weed: How Chinese Marijuana Grows Took Over Rural Maine"--The Maine Wire.
• The Usual Suspects:
• "Shocking moment Florida man, 34, PUNCHES elderly shopper in his 80s in the face twice in random attack in Walmart"--Daily Mail.
• "Shocking moment 'flash rob' mob of up to 17 teens ransack Nike store in Los Angeles and steal $12k worth of goods - in latest mass shoplifting attack to rock the city"--Daily Mail.
• "Hospital director in Haiti says gang stormed in and took women and children hostage"--Politico. 

• I'm shocked at this anti-immigration rhetoric: "Canadian 'super pigs' threaten to invade and overwhelm US"--Washington Examiner. They're just looking for a better life for them and their children.
• Well, this is a relief: "BBC Says *ONLY* 46% Of Pakistani Newborns in UK City Are Inbred. Only."--The National Pulse. 
• Putin opens a new front in the war between Russia and NATO: "Middle Eastern Migrants Enter Finland from Russia."--The National Pulse.
• That will make them feel better: "Britons Told Their Taxes are up Because of 'Putin's war in Ukraine'"--Breitbart. 
• The peasants are revolting: "More voters back funding for U.S.-Mexico border than foreign conflicts"--NBC News.