Lately I have felt a strange pain in my gut. A tight, sick feeling that is nothing to do with my physical health.
It is the feeling that my home is lost forever.
h/t SDMatt
Author: Blazingcatfur
From Charlie Hebdo: #MullahsGetOut contest – All participants have won their place in hell
Masih Alinejad: hiding from Iran’s assassins in FBI safe houses
The apartment is almost empty now. Just half a box of Cheerios, a bin bag of rubbish and a few pot plants remain. Masih Alinejad sits in this impersonal room with her laptop balanced on an upturned saucepan, puts on her jacket and goes live on CNN. After finishing her segment, rebutting reports the Iranian government has dismantled its infamous religious police – “Disinformation to break the resolve of demonstrators” – she turns to her husband, Kambiz Foroohar. They must leave in an hour, he says.
America, Behold Your God
Understanding George Soros’ self-image is a key to grasping much of what’s going on these days.
George Soros contributed $128,485,971 to Democrat candidates in the 2022 midterm elections, which no doubt played a considerable role in the outcome. And it isn’t as if we weren’t warned. As far back as 2004, then-Senator Hillary Clinton (D-What The Hell Happened to MY Turn) declared: “We need people like George Soros, who is fearless and willing to step up when it counts.” Soros himself then came to the podium and said: “It is the first time that I feel that I need to stand up and do something, really, uh, imp–, uh, and become really engaged, um, in the electoral process in, in this country.” Oh, he’s engaged in the electoral process, all right. That’s our problem.
Migrant violence mars New Year’s Eve in Germany but politicians respond with only silence
Over the last decade, Germans have greeted New Year’s Eve with more and more trepidation. On what is meant to be a day of celebration, in Germany it shines a light on something much uglier: the country’s failed migration and integration policies.
This year, violence against police and firefighters, especially in Berlin and other cities, broke out. Unfortunately, the German government is attempting to deflect from the uncomfortable truth that non-integrated migrants and asylum seekers tend to be at the centre of these incidents. This was exemplified by the reporting of one of the largest public broadcasters and the German Police Union who claimed that it is “difficult to talk about perpetrators because these are group dynamic processes as a consequence of the pandemic” — carefully avoiding any mention of the demographic groups involved.
The ideology of lockdown lingers on
We’re still being pressured to suspend our freedom for ‘the greater good’.
Wait, we’re still being asked to save the NHS? To limit our lives so that we don’t get injured or sick and put pressure on this sacred institution? Nearly two years after the first lockdown, when we were put under house arrest to protect the NHS from being overloaded with Covid patients, we’re once again being told to restrict our daily activities so that we don’t do something dumb that might require the attention of a doctor. The logic of lockdown survives. The idea that our freedom must sometimes be suspended for the good of institutions staggers on. Post-lockdown? You wish.
Transgender man dipped prosthetic penis into pub drinker’s pint, court hears
A transgender man dipped his prosthetic penis into a pub drinker’s pint, a court has heard.
Jesse Hawthorne, 30, was asked to leave the pub after fellow drinkers took offence over the prank, but he subsequently smashed a bottle by throwing it at a one-armed bandit machine.
Hawthorne was later arrested for criminal damage over the incident at the Cwtch bar in Caerphilly, south Wales.
Shakespeare was right about lawyers …
Ottawa child predator got law license despite guilty plea to child-sex assault
J.D. Coon, the disgraced Ottawa child-protection lawyer who went on to molest a six-year-old client, was granted a licence to practice even though the law society knew about his child-sex crimes history.
Jordan Peterson: My critics have weaponized the College of Psychologists’ disciplinary process for political reasons
The practice of psychology in Ontario, and in many other North American and western jurisdictions, is subject to regulation by “professional colleges” — essentially governmental organizations with a mandate to protect the public from misconduct on the part of physicians, lawyers, social workers, dentists, pharmacists, teachers, architects and many others, including (and most relevant to me) clinical psychologists.
WTF?
Woke white person goes on bizarre racist rant against white people- calls them immoral narcissists pic.twitter.com/aUr73umpDO
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 4, 2023
Liberal-Left Openly Allied With Satan: how Lucien Greaves and his Satanic Temple are fighting the religious right
Friend of Satan: how Lucien Greaves and his Satanic Temple are fighting the religious right
They have protested against a homophobic church and opposed prayer in classrooms. Now this minority religion is defending the right to abortion
A statue of Baphomet – a pagan idol used in popular culture as a representation of the devil, with the head, horns and feet of a goat, the torso of a man and the wings of an angel – is the centrepiece of the Satanic Temple’s headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts.
More than 8ft (2.4 metres) tall, jet black and altogether unnerving, Baphomet serves as a reminder of what brought the Satanic Temple to fame. In 2013, the group, which is acknowledged as a religion by the US government, responded to the installation of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol building – seemingly a flagrant abuse of the US constitution’s separation of church and state – by demanding that its own Baphomet statue also be positioned in the grounds. According to the first amendment, which protects freedom of religion, public spaces should be open to all religions or none, it argued.
The Quiet Right
A new counterculture with the potential to disrupt left-wing institutional capture
The idea of a conservative counterculture might seem like an oxymoron. The term itself has been colored by the 1960s, when left-wing intellectuals, revolutionaries, and artists captured the spirit of revolt against a supposedly homogenous, oppressive, conformist America. That old counterculture has become the dominant culture, having been absorbed into the bureaucracies of universities, schools, government, and now major corporations. The left-wing culture no longer carries a critique; it is the status quo.
Arrests made in Washington power grid attack
One of the bigger mysteries to show up during the holiday season was the series of attacks on electrical substations in Washington state on Christmas day. Thousands of people were left without power just as their festivities were beginning, and the cost of repairs to the facilities is estimated to be in excess of three million dollars. We immediately began speculating on the motive for such attacks. Was this a group of domestic terrorists? Were anarchists trying to shut down society during a holiday period? Might foreign adversaries be involved?
Poll: Less Than Half of Germans Believe They Are “Completely” or “Very” Free
A new opinion survey, conducted at a time when the ruling left-liberal traffic coalition continues to pursue policies with very little, if any, regard at all for German interests, has revealed that less than half of Germans feel that their life is not “completely” or “very” free.
The ‘Freedom Index Germany 2022’ survey, carried out by Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion (IfD) and the Media Tenor research institute—and published by RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) affiliated outlets—revealed that just 45% of the country’s population feel their life is “completely” or “very” free, up from a mere 36% at the end of 2021 amid draconian COVID-19 lockdowns.
Turkey’s ‘Crimes against Humanity’ and Illegal Occupation of Cyprus
On August 15, 1974, Pavlos Solomi, 42, and his son, Solomis Pavlou Solomi, 17, were arrested by Turks at their home in the Cypriot village of Komi Kepir during the second phase of Turkey’s military invasion of Cyprus.
Panagiota Pavlou Solomi spent the remainder of her life trying to find her missing husband and son. Finally, 43 years after their abduction, in 2017, their remains were found in Galatia Lake by the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP), which exhumed what was left of them. A funeral was held for the murdered father and son in March 2018, but not in their beloved village of Komi Kepir. That village is still illegally occupied by Turkey. The family buried the corpses in the free region of the Republic of Cyprus, where they currently reside.
WEF Watch: carbon accounting
Given the risk posed by the closed-door lobbying group more commonly known as the World Economic Forum, this year The Spectator Australia will be keeping a close eye on their latest projects and what they could mean for Australia if our politicians and large corporate CEOs decide to adopt their ideas.