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I’m obliged to file this blog before Robert Mueller’s office releases the name of the first winner in the Russian Election Meddling tribunal indictment lottery. Most of the betting is on Paul Manafort, the Swamp-creature-fixer-lobbyist-grifter who spent his summer vacation of 2016 managing Donald Trump’s election campaign.

Before that unfortunate summer internship, Manafort was just a shadier-than-average influence-peddler. It happened that many of his clients were bigshots in foreign lands — Mobuto Sese Seko (Congo), Jonas Savimbi (Angola), and Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), as well as interests in Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ukraine, and other world beauty spots. Also, most notably, Russia where the wicked Mr. Putin dwells and incessantly plots evil against our shining city of a republic.

Over the years, Manafort took large sums of money to the DC laundry room and then distributed bales of it around town to other lobbyist subcontractors, but he left quite a trail. And he overlooked the requirement to register as an agent for foreign interests. So, indicting him looks like a no-brainer. An entry-level US Attorney could, figuratively speaking, hitch him up to the rear bumper of a Chevy Yukon and drag him over five miles of broken Coke bottles.

If I am right, his indictment will provoke a five-column headline in The New York Times, Don Lemon will have a multiple orgasm on CNN tonight, and by Halloween the whole Manafort matter will be as forgotten as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the Las Vegas Country Music Massacre. That’s how we roll in Attention Deficit Nation. I suppose Mueller’s team next will want to charge fired National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn for failing to register as a foreign agent prior to a having conversation with the Russian ambassador — but mightn’t it be a little absurd to outlaw dialogue between incoming White House officials and foreign ambassadors who, after all, are here to have conversations with our people? That’ll be an interesting precedent. Why would other countries even bother to send an ambassador here if that’s our policy?

There’s an outside chance, of course — outside, say as far away as the planet Mars — that Mr. Mueller will just flop his whole hand on the table and indict President Trump. Wouldn’t that be a jolt? And it would instantly prompt a constitutional crisis, so my money says ain’t gonna happen.

It’s hard to see where it goes from there. The standard plot-line is to net these smaller fish and use them as bait to harpoon the Big White Whale. Give them immunity and let them sing their hearts out to avoid getting sent to ping-pong camp in the Poconos for a five-year stretch. Or else these two schnooks go bankrupt paying hotshot DC lawyers to get them off the hook. Does Mueller go after Donny Junior for having a conversation with a Russian lawyer? Or son-in-law Jared Kushner for flying to Russia and having meetings with Russians? Hey, does anyone remember that A) We’re not at war with Russia, and B) the soviet regime there folded up twenty-five years ago?

The casual observer can’t avoid dragging Hillary into this. It appears that, among other things, the Clinton Foundation received over a $100 million in “charitable donations” from various Russian companies and individuals over the years. Gosh, they’re a big-hearted people! Maybe it’s all the vodka they guzzle. No doubt, the newly-converted Russian capitalists were yearning to support “impact entrepreneurs” who are creating “new enterprises to generate both social impact and financial returns” by addressing market gaps in developing countries, or to “strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence” — as the Clinton Foundation described their activities.

More likely they wanted to grease their access to the sure-thing It’s-My-Turn Madam President. Except then she went and lost the election… all because of Russian meddling.


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317 Responses to “Thar She Blows!”

  1. K-Dog October 30, 2017 at 9:03 am #


    Hey, does anyone remember that A) We’re not at war with Russia, and B) the soviet regime there folded up twenty-five years ago?

    • robert magill October 30, 2017 at 9:16 am #

      That sounds familiar.

    • SteveO October 30, 2017 at 9:39 am #

      The average age of a US senator is 60, the average age of a congress critter is 57. The cold war period is “the good old days” to these people. Plus, the military/industrial complex was really riding the gravy train in the late cold war era.

      There’s a big chuck of these “law makers”, like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who can’t get through the day without missing the simple moral clarity of “us vs. them”.

      • DrTomSchmidt October 30, 2017 at 9:46 am #

        That about explains it. Like the drunk looking for his Car keys in the light instead of where he dropped them…

        • Epicur October 30, 2017 at 9:51 am #

          Or like a trucker who thinks he can haul more chickens if he stops every couple of miles and beats on the side of the trailer so the chickens get excited and flap their wings.

        • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 1:34 pm #

          You’ve studied Nasruddin!

      • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 9:55 am #

        It never seemed right to me to allow so many creatures that have so little future left in them to be allowed to set courses that the rest of us will be forced to take because of their decrepitude. And then there is their desperation to steal more and more value from the rest of us while they still are not dead yet as well. It is a travesty IMHO. I saw a snippet recently about medications being sent to many members of the Congress and Senate for Alzheimer’s. Wow, isn’t that special. Inspires something within but certainly not hope.

        • TiredOfTheTreadmill October 30, 2017 at 11:26 am #

          You make a good point. I believe the old timers running things is a carryover from earlier cultures in which the elders were viewed as knowledgeable stewards looking out for the future of their tribe. In our current “I got mine, screw you” culture, it has become painfully obvious that wisdom and age have no correlation. Would anyone seek wisdom from Trump in any matter except how screw someone over for a buck?

          Also, part of the reason for the ineptitude in congress is the publics’ willingness to vote in the incumbent time and again. After watching this for decades now, I have concluded the mob usually gets the government it deserves and us outsiders get dragged along. For true outsiders and the painfully obvious truths they bring to the table are not welcomed.

        • K-Dog October 30, 2017 at 12:32 pm #

          A) We’re not at war with Russia, and B) the soviet regime there folded up twenty-five years ago and C)Dimitry Orlov is still an ego best avoided.

          Excusing old farts in congress for being stuck in the cold war is no excuse. There are plenty of people just as old who manage with reality just fine. The ugly side of human nature exists in all age groups and people of any age can be stuck on themselves.

          My advice is to rebel against ignorance and stupidity no matter who puts it in your face. Even old entitled bitches!

          • outsider October 30, 2017 at 4:57 pm #

            @K-Dog,

            A) Don’t tell Morgan Freeman and Rob Reiner we’re not at war with Russia, B) They think the Soviet regime just changed faces. You can’t trust those Russkies, and C) What do you have against Orlov?

          • SteveO October 31, 2017 at 7:04 am #

            There at lot of old entitled bitches in Washington DC that need to go to the ashcan of history to be with their beloved cold war.

            Same with the Castro haters in south Florida.

    • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 10:43 am #

      Russia was at the heart of the USSR. The cold war never ended and will never end.

      • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 10:50 am #

        It will when the US government collapses and/or is formally dissolved. Although it’ll almost certainly go hot very briefly just before that.

        • Elrond Hubbard October 30, 2017 at 11:10 am #

          If the cold war didn’t end when the former Soviet régime collapsed, why would it end if/when the current U.S. one does? Power relationships are transitory, but interests are permanent. The two are likely to always remain distinct centers of power and thus rivals for various spoils.

          • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 11:43 am #

            If the US dissolves into civil war and breaks up I don’t see whatever remains exercising much power. US national interests really come down to one thing – money and the access to cheap energy it buys – and when the dollar loses it’s reserve currency status, that will be the end of all that. All the current US military power is deeply financed and now mostly made up of high tech, purposely obsolete show junk. A legitimate shooting war with a legitimate adversary will pop the illusion of American superiority once and for all.

          • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 11:45 am #

            Additionally, Russia still had deep, sustaining, and binding cultural ties to fall back on when the USSR collapsed. The US? Calls for a breakup are already widely heard throughout the country, and things haven’t even got interesting yet.

          • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 11:50 am #

            F22 has yet to see combat and it is 20 years old. I really believe America will be shocked at how pitiful their military really is.

          • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 12:10 pm #

            Finest show military the world’s ever seen! All for outrageous profits of course!

          • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 4:05 pm #

            The F-35 is a complete waste. It has long been known multi-function aircraft don’t work because they have different requirements. Camels were designed to travel great distances with very little water. Horses were made for speed and power. A Camelhorse does neither well. A 2 trillion dollar boondoggle that will get its ass kicked in combat.

          • outsider October 30, 2017 at 5:01 pm #

            @Scratch,

            If Mueller indicts Trump, things will get VERY interesting, VERY quickly.

  2. Graycenphil October 30, 2017 at 9:05 am #

    It seems Manafort has been a crook for a long time. I just wonder why he had to go for a high profile job. He probably could have continued practicing his trade unnoticed forever.

    I won’t shed a tear if Hillary does wind up getting dragged in too. But I’d rather if she just went away.

    • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 10:41 am #

      Oh that’s easy. Greed. The pie kept getting bigger and bigger. Using his Russian connections to help elect a president for a ton of loot.

      • TiredOfTheTreadmill October 30, 2017 at 12:22 pm #

        Greed, and the idea that Jim constantly notes “nothing matters and anything goes.” There’s hubris a’plenty out there these days. It’s like the rumor about Goldman Sach that the bigger the scam you can pull off and not get caught, the higher you will rise in the company. It’s all part of the money & power games. What can you pull off and still not get caught due to who you know and who/what you can pay.

        • Walter B October 31, 2017 at 8:07 am #

          Does it not boggle the mind to realize that these piles of money that the greedy will do any wrong to acquire not only have a true value of ZERO, but that the perceived value of the fiat currency could at any time assume its true and actual value of NOTHING? Once you realize and accept this as fact you will find yourself left wondering WTF is wrong with so many human beings that they allow themselves to be so easily and totally manipulated by absolutely nothing.

          • Graycenphil October 31, 2017 at 11:36 am #

            Good morning Walter. One may believe (incorrectly, I say) that our money may someday have no value. But currently it does have great value, whether you call it real or perceived. Manafort did a lot of nice things (depending on your definition of nice) with his stolen money.

          • Walter B October 31, 2017 at 1:15 pm #

            And those of you that are willing bark like a dog for your share of it will continue to be enslaved by its perceived luster. I think you completely missed the point and are probably unaware that the tens of millions of Deutschmarks that I hold from the Weimar Republic are completely worthless as are my confederate dollars as well. Nothing lasts forever and everything changes. Change in fact is constant though the rate may vary and as Darwin postulated, it is not the smartest nor the strongest that survive but those that are able to adapt to change. Of course for you everything only changes for the better so I suppose I am only tippy tapping here to exercise my fingers. But that’s not a bad thing I suppose….

          • Graycenphil October 31, 2017 at 6:55 pm #

            Everything does not change for the better, and I never said that. I have said that overall, the world has always been improving. I totally stand by that, and expect that to continue long into the future.

            It is not hard to find currencies that have failed over the years. But people in those countries certainly did not lose everything; most of those with assets continued to have assets. If everything you owned was in Deutschmarks or Confederate dollars under your mattress, you had a problem. That would not have been a very smart way to invest.

            I do not expect the dollar to fail anytime soon; I am extremely confidant about that. Still, in the incredibly unlikely event that did happen, your assets in this country will still have value.

      • Graycenphil October 30, 2017 at 5:30 pm #

        I agree it’s not just greed. If it was that simple, he could have kept on doing what he was doing and made plenty of money. I think he must have been looking for fame and power. Big mistake.

  3. Epicur October 30, 2017 at 9:31 am #

    Thank you for an excellent piece Mr. Kunstler. It shows the nature of the swamp that is our national political capital without favoring sides.

    “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Yeah, waaayyy short.

    It will be fun to watch and see if they can keep the sniping in the circular firing squad from breaking out into a full blown fusillade.

    I have a theory that, as we approach the crisis that will demand the formal (legal) declaration of our national emergency, the contest is being fought more earnestly. This is because whoever occupies the White House when the EMERGENCY is declared will garner almost absolute power.

    It is like a game of musical chairs at the end where the last two contestants want to be in front of the last chair when the music stops. But this game is deadly serious and the chair is more like a throne.

    The problem for us serfs is that both of the last contestants are assholes and we will not prosper under either – although it is certain that some will suffer more depending on which of our national “saviors” gets the throne.

    • GetAbike October 30, 2017 at 10:16 am #

      Nice to get a break from tired culture-war memes and James’ trans-phobic nonsense.

      • shotho October 30, 2017 at 10:34 am #

        As in transportation or Transylvania or transition?

      • My Point of View October 30, 2017 at 1:33 pm #

        Breaking news now that a Federal Judge blocked implementation of Trump’s Trans-ban in the military.

        Time for the orange menace to stage another campaign-rally-idiot-convention in a place like Altoona…

        (sound of Trump smacking forehead: Doh, it’s just gets worse and worse….)

      • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 1:37 pm #

        Nothing is more demoralizing than Gays, Lesbians, and Trannies openly cavorting. Now you want them to have rights over ordinary people. Drag Queen have already been given access to small children in schools and libraries. The Evil is overwhelming, yet you think it’s fine. That simply means you’re Evil too.

        • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 2:14 pm #

          The dipshits that are bothered by those who oppose “trannys in the military” are the poster boys for stupidity. Those of us with ties to and family in the service have more than a lot more details of the seriously expensive problem that this issue actually presents. Since the service medical insurances pay for the operations, we are experiencing more and more individuals that sign up just to get a free ride for the transformation. Once underway, the patient is put on anti-depressants for a long time before the surgery and then a long period afterwards. During this time the patients are not allowed to be near, handle or train with weapons or weapon systems whatsoever, which puts them pretty much out of use for almost a two years period. If I remember correctly the total bill for the transformation weighs in at around $2 million bucks. How can there be ANY logic or value in such nonsense? Do the whiners actually WANT to pay for such non-productivity? Why does this benefit our country or our society? I can see those who profit from the surgery being excited by the prospects, but besides them it is a total scam and waste of taxpayer dollars.

          • Elrond Hubbard October 30, 2017 at 4:29 pm #

            Are trans people really joining the military just to get coverage for sex reassignment surgery? There’s an obvious solution whose benefits should be clear to everyone: Medicare for all. Not only would the military save whatever expense it incurs for their care (probably a great deal less per year than even one F-35), but the only trans people entering the military would be ones with a real desire to serve their country (and hopefully, they would have the hard part over already). Everybody wins!

          • outsider October 30, 2017 at 5:10 pm #

            @Walter B,

            I thought that Trump put an end to those government paid for sex changes for the military. Or, did the Courts override him on that one too? Somewhere Putin is laughing his ass off.

          • muddmike October 30, 2017 at 5:16 pm #

            Yes, out of a $600 billion + budget $2 million is 0.0003%. That is less than the daily advertising spending of the military, and FAR LESS than the waste of uncontrolled cost overruns!

            That is probably about the cost of a single sortie to drop guided bombs on civilians in the Middle East!

            Do you have any documented proof on how many people are doing this?

          • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 5:29 pm #

            Gee whiz mudmike, yeah $2M is a small percentage of the budget but that is just for one person. I found this article that estimates 15,500 serving with brings the total up to $31B or more than half the budget.

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transgender-in-the-military-a-pentagon-in-transition-weighs-its-policy/2015/04/09/ee0ca39e-cf0d-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html?utm_term=.6b92c5281a54

            And I have little patience arguing finance with the people of this nation as 99% percent of them are illiterate in accounting, finance or mathematics and even fewer that can manage a budget at all. It all adds up and we pay for it all and we are currently leveraged far into the future. It had better collapse soon or we will be really screwed hard in the end.

          • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 5:31 pm #

            I was interrupted and said half, sorry it is actually 5% and a big nut at that.

          • muddmike October 31, 2017 at 10:10 am #

            If that estimate is correct, then I stand corrected. You should have lead with that.

          • Walter B October 31, 2017 at 1:25 pm #

            Good point Muddmike, and your reply is evidence of a sharp mind as well. Thank you for kicking the idea around in such fine fashion. Those of us who run multimillion dollar projects and government budgets (the line items are almost uncountable, realize that a few $100k here a few $100k there, multiplied by thousands of items and you’ve got numbers that boggle the average mind. I am of the opinion that Americans are no longer able to understand what dollar amounts even mean anymore with trillions, gazillions, and who knows what is above these amounts really means. Line items, dealt with one at a time category by category, page after endless page is a staggering task to control indeed and it take a serious OCD, anal retentive or detailed oriented mind with an intricate system to manage these beasts properly. I love it though because in the end, mathematics never lies and the multiplication of scale can work for you as well as against you.

        • elysianfield October 30, 2017 at 6:08 pm #

          Janos,
          You know, Kevin Spacey, Keyser Soze himself, today outed himself as gay…(sob). Who will be next?

          • ZrCrypDiK November 2, 2017 at 12:36 am #

            Bye-bye TV series?!… (white house farce?) House of shardz? Sose my @$$. *VERBAL*!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • ZrCrypDiK November 2, 2017 at 12:34 am #

        The Russian Oligarchs! U do not *WANT* to believe – U R sleeping…

  4. SteveO October 30, 2017 at 9:32 am #

    Let’s start a betting pool on how long between Manafort’s indictment and Trump’s pardon.

    Step right up and place your bets.

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 10:55 am #

      Probably won’t happen. Manafort’s been designated the fall guy. Unless he’s got serious goods on someone(s) big that can’t be swept under the rug, but I can’t imagine why he’d have been prosecuted if that was the case. He’d likely already have made a deal to save his neck. But who in the hell knows, really?

      • SteveO October 30, 2017 at 11:20 am #

        So you want the square that says “when hell freezes over”?

        • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 11:35 am #

          Yeah, I’ll go with that.

  5. Walter B October 30, 2017 at 9:50 am #

    Wow, Jim have you ever taken a step back to view your blog site here and see it for what it has become – a functioning replacement for the Main Stream Media and a place to come to actually get decent news? Thank you, I was made aware of a lot of details in this issue that I have not been aware of. I simply cannot partake in “news” on TV (don’t have cable anyway), papers or any of the so called “media” sites as they are insultingly propagandized and biased. Though I was made aware of a Wall Street Journal editorial board which called this week for a full Russia investigation — not into President Donald Trump, but into the Democratic party, the FBI, and special counsel Robert Mueller. I will certainly not be holding my breath for justice as I believe that that bitch has died in the dirt a long time ago, but hope springs eternal doesn’t it? Oh wait, hope was destroyed over the course of the last eight years, wasn’t it?

    In any case thank you for your unbiased facts, I will keep my eyes open and my nose to the wind, though I fear that Frau Clinton may still raise her ugly head for another attempt to get her turn. If she does not wind up dangling from a gibbet in some public square somewhere, someday soon, she may surely rise again. You cannot dismiss true evil, it never dies.

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    • ozone October 30, 2017 at 11:33 am #

      Walter,
      I must say that you and Epicur are hitting on the salient points of this particular dilemma and the rotting-fish zeitgeist of our situation in general. It’s really quite something to be a (live – for now) witness to the dissolution of ones’ own “essential” institutions! …Can’t say I’m hopeful for a decent outcome of it; like I have said, if some part of the collective “we” should emerge from the ashes, it will likely be the work of some generations to expunge the old ways of doing business and deleterious conventions.

      Desired or not, the play must be played and our parts in it have yet to be written.

  6. davidreese2 October 30, 2017 at 10:04 am #

    Okay, maybe Manafort is getting his due.

    But when talking about the Swamp, can anyone name even one honest Congressman who represents the 99 percent?

    • Cavepainter October 30, 2017 at 10:17 am #

      Trey Gowdy I’ll name; He seems to be the only one who hammers back at the stupid memes offered by those who appear before investigating committees arguing for all the governmental departments created in recent decades for redemption of all us “deplorables” by defaulting immigration laws, national sovereignty and national destiny to however many foreign nationals choose to ignore them.

    • lsjogren October 30, 2017 at 10:30 am #

      Dave Brat.

      • Doc Holliday October 30, 2017 at 11:31 am #

        I’ll second that.

    • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 11:07 am #

      Yes, Congressman John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the only one that comes to mind. And yes, unfortunately he was murdered a long time ago by the Swampmasters. .

    • outsider October 30, 2017 at 5:19 pm #

      @davidreese,

      I nominate Walter Jones (R-NC). He has turned so anti-war that he personally writes a condolence to every service person killed in combat as penance for voting for GWB’s Iraq fiasco.

  7. janet October 30, 2017 at 10:04 am #

    “but mightn’t it be a little absurd to outlaw dialogue between incoming White House officials and foreign ambassadors” –JHK

    You mistakenly use the plural “foreign ambassadors” … the Trump guys were not meeting with Pakistan or Argentina or Swedish ambassadors. They were only meeting with Russians.

    • James Howard Kunstler October 30, 2017 at 10:32 am #

      Buy what logic does that obviate the fact that ambassadors are here to talk to our officials, including those of a newly-elected administration? — JHK

      • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 11:25 am #

        Buy what logic does that obviate the fact …

        janet logic. It’s a weird, convoluted logic that apparently only neo-lib women and their toadies speak these days. It’s been studied at great length for some time now, but the world’s most prominent mathematicians have so far been unable to crack it.

      • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 12:15 pm #

        And as far as I am aware, no one has accused the current administration collecting $500K for a silly speech or profiting from the sale of uranium to the Russians or are things of a concrete nature of no value anymore?

      • Blue Horse October 30, 2017 at 2:21 pm #

        Just talking to ambassadors isn’t the problem and never was! Lying about it on official gov’t docs is illegal, as is lying about it in congressional testimony. Correcting the record once one has been caught is as fishy as it gets. Registering as a foreign agent after one has been caught (Flynn was in fact being paid by foreign powers to influence government policy) presents at a minimum a problem of conflict of interest as a National Security advisor. Given that it’s not likely that Sessions, Trump Jr., Kushner, etc., all just didn’t remember meeting with Russians, the logical assumption (seems to me) that there was nefarious if not illegal behavior going on. But that’s just me, and perhaps a few million others. How’s that logic for obviation?

        • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 3:05 pm #

          So lying about talking to Russians is a far worse offense then selling out to them and selling them uranium while in office? Wow, I must be insane because I understood as well as every other human being I ever have spoken to has realized that ALL politicians lie for a living. Wait a minute, does this mean we can finally arrest, try, and execute ALL of them? Now THAT’s the brand of Hope I have been waiting for, bring it on!

    • Petro October 30, 2017 at 6:04 pm #

      JHK has many interesting, and occasionally wise, observations. But his lazy lack of attention to the details and threads of the several Russia stories (as they relate to both Trump AND Hillary, but esp. Trump) is very odd. It seems he is guilty of his own disparaging phrase summing up our times, with a “Who cares? Nothing matters and anything goes.”

      Transgenders potentially using the wrong bathrooms merit attention, but potential money laundering and conspiracies between U.S. government officials and foreign governments and businesses don’t.

  8. Bro Jobe October 30, 2017 at 10:22 am #

    “Mobuto Sese Seko” is the best name for a tyrant, ever. Just say it with the gravitas it merits.

    JHK is wrong on one thing, his apparent insistence that no monkey-business went on with the Russians. What I find most interesting, but finally, not surprising, is that the Clintons were also taking Russian money. I hope a lot of our pols go to jail over this.

    While Russia is not an active enemy, Putin rightly sees us as a weakened geopolitical rival. He’s engaged in a payback campaign to further weaken and divide us, and it is working. I don’t blame him. We kicked Mother Russia enough when she was prostrate during the Yeltsin years.

    • James Howard Kunstler October 30, 2017 at 10:34 am #

      I believe we’d find more value in how we are weakening and dividing ourselves. –JHK

      • Mountain gal October 30, 2017 at 11:27 am #

        I’m not sure I’d want to find out just how well we’d fare now as a country if we were faced with a serious emergency, got attacked by another country or some such disaster. It seems as if we are indeed so divided that we can no longer even speak with each other. That and how many of our citizens get their “news” from sound-bites, are incapable of critical thinking and are totally strung out on opioids.

        • elysianfield October 30, 2017 at 6:13 pm #

          Mountain Gal,
          Worse than the divisiveness, the fact that three generations of Americans have never known REAL adversity.

      • outsider October 30, 2017 at 5:39 pm #

        @Mr. K,

        That’s why, as long as our President doesn’t start any new wars, I remain happy he was elected. This failing country has long been in need of an existential crisis, and Trump is it. As Will Rogers once said: “Last year we said, ‘things can’t go on like this,’ and they didn’t, they got worse.”

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 10:40 am #

      Putin feeding money to American politicians is functionally equivalent to a pusher feeding his/her addicts good drugs on the cheap.

    • ozone October 30, 2017 at 10:57 am #

      Bro Jobe,
      …And are kicking still. The surrounding of Russian borders with NATO forces, not to mention their commanders and their aggressively-worded pronouncements, is but one facet of this evil gem. For another example, Turkey has just been “advised” that their purchase of the Russian anti-aircraft system, rather than the more expensive (and much less effective) American one is “problematic” and may leave a bad taste in the mouths of NATO puppet-masters in the business of crisis continuation and “solving”.

      • ozone October 30, 2017 at 11:07 am #

        Also, as our host points out, the divide-and-conquer going on by our current crop of DC grifters in the pursuit of “voter blocs” to cement their fraudulent “jobs” forever and ever is what should be of immediate concern if we’re ever to mitigate some of the life-threatening situations that corporate interests have forced upon us little people.

        Y’know, I’m not even sure if said politicos are even aware of the divisions they’re creating anymore; if they are, then it doesn’t seem that they give too much of a shit about it. (Just a rumination.)

        • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 1:40 pm #

          So – since you are talking national policy – where are you on stopping illegal immigration and building the Wall?

          • malthuss October 30, 2017 at 3:06 pm #

            Ozone is lost in it.

            ‘Im lost in the ozone again’

        • ozone October 30, 2017 at 6:40 pm #

          To this stream-of-non-consciousness blather by Scut Farkus (“Yellow eyes! So help me God, he had yellow eyes!”) and his mean little toady, Grover Dill (“…his lips curled over his green teeth.”), I would opine that it happens to be Exhibit A for the flood of divisive and purposely distracting bullshit that infects this benighted land! …Could not have been more timely or tone-deaf; nearly unbelievable, but that’s the quality of “the help” these days.

          “I believe we’d find more value in how we are weakening and dividing ourselves.” –JHK

          Yep, a fine example of just how it’s done, and not even at a discrete remove. Jesus wept. (Here’s hoping they never learn about that comprehension thingie.)

          • Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 1:09 pm #

            In other words, you don’t like native Whites and would prefer any and everybody else. You love diversity and are therefore against the Wall.

            Thank you for answering, Peter.

    • Elrond Hubbard October 30, 2017 at 2:25 pm #

      Bro Jobe: “‘Mobuto Sese Seko’ is the best name for a tyrant, ever. Just say it with the gravitas it merits.”

      To do the man justice, you need to spell out his name in full, as per his Wikipedia article: “In 1972, Mobutu renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (“The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake.“) He did not lack self-esteem.

  9. lsjogren October 30, 2017 at 10:29 am #

    I wonder whether Manafort’s indictment means Congress won’t be able to grill him regarding the dirt he has on the Podestas and other Democrats?

    This could be a good move to provide cover for the Dems.

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 10:44 am #

      That’ll be the interesting thing here. Will the little bird decide to sing, and if so, to what tune, or will there be a payoff/cover up operation to buy/ensure his silence or simply discredit him altogether? If the latter, he was [probably indicted in the first place because he was a relatively safe target. We’ll see.

  10. Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 10:45 am #

    I see the indictment is official now.

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  11. seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 10:46 am #

    I think this whole thing just went into overdrive.

  12. windward October 30, 2017 at 10:50 am #

    It is not likely that JHK missed Frontline’s “Putin’s Revenge”, Part 1 last week and Part 2 coming November 1. It argues that Putin was scared by the Arab Spring and similar uprisings against his kind of rule. So when HR Clinton seemed to be going after him along those lines, he decided to go after her. There does seem to be something serious about this Russian business.

    One highlight of Part 1 was the reaction of HR Clinton when she heard that Muammar Gaddafi had met his end: “We came, we saw, he died. Ha Ha Ha.” Not that old Muammar didn’t deserve it, but I do not appreciate such public gloating in a US Secretary of State. Demon Sow is a good description of the woman.

    • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 10:58 am #

      There does seem to be something serious about this Russian business.

      An understatement of the century.

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 11:10 am #

      Demon Sow is a good description of the woman.

      LOL! Top marks!!!

    • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 11:52 am #

      She was out of line.

    • outsider October 30, 2017 at 5:51 pm #

      @windward,

      How Ugly American of you to say that “old Muammar” deserved to die. The man performed economic miracles in Libya and made his country the richest on the continent. With the oil revenues he provided free education, free medical, plenty of water from underground aquifers, and cheap housing, just to name a few. Plus, he stopped the Africans from migrating to Europe in the hundreds of thousands. His execution by Obama/Hillary was a tragedy of immense proportions.

      • windward October 30, 2017 at 11:56 pm #

        I did some research before I wrote that post. I can’t rely on my memory, and google makes it easy to find out what happened. For instance:

        “Tales abounded of torture, lengthy jail terms without a fair trial, executions and disappearances. Many of Libya’s most educated and qualified citizens chose exile, rather than pay lip service to the lunacy.”

        http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12688033

        Remember the Lockerbie bombing?

        You have probably heard of Godwin’s Law:

        “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.”

        Then there is Fleming’s Law:

        “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability that Godwin’s Law will be mentioned approaches 1.”

        Hitler did a lot of good for the German people. Stalin was good in many ways for the Soviet Union. They were two of the greatest torturers and mass murderers in history. Neither of them got what they deserved.

        Your objections are an example of how we got Trump. Ignorance, refusal to face facts, indifference to the suffering of others and in general an inability to understand the world.

        It is beginning to look like Trump will get what he deserves.

  13. FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 10:54 am #

    There’s an outside chance, of course — outside, say as far away as the planet Mars — that Mr. Mueller will just flop his whole hand on the table and indict President Trump.

    Most likely they were going to arrest Trump today, but Putin’s rehearsal on Friday of the volley launch of ICBMs convinced them to postpone this sweet moment until later.

    Putin test-fires ballistic missiles in strategic nuclear force command and control drills

    tass.com/defense/972835

  14. pequiste October 30, 2017 at 11:07 am #

    “….hitch him up to the rear bumper of a Chevy Yukon and drag him over five miles of broken Coke bottles.” JHK

    Great suggestion for many of those naughty operatives in Wash. D.C and other jurisdictions. Could we get a waiver on the Eighth Amendment clause on the “cruel and unusual punishments” thing?

    Five months to identify a miscreant who has been up to his neck in sewage for most of his adult life?

    Pulleeze.

    I am still waiting for the real trick-or-treat surprise of the first order.

    This year is going to be very tough on making the final decision on
    my Halloween costume. I’m leaning towards Harvey Weinstein but may pull out all the stops and go with a “Dear Leader ” Kim Jung UN nuclear option (although that haircut promises to be a real challenge.)

  15. Georges1202 October 30, 2017 at 11:11 am #

    I think we are getting closer and closer to Trump’s ‘Wag the Dog’ moment. God only knows who will be the beneficiary of this. Apparently there are ‘special forces’ in every country on God’s Golfball just waiting for the high-sign from Dear Leader.

    Of course in the United States of Amnesia we are reminded always to ‘move on’ – to what they never say.

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    • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 11:23 am #

      Did you think North Korea just happened now by coincidence?

      • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 3:07 pm #

        Exactly!

  16. Mountain gal October 30, 2017 at 11:18 am #

    I find this whole thing rather scary. There are a whole host of characters doing what they do with little regard for what it’s doing to this country and most of us ordinary people. It seems as if there are several forces in DC all looking to take each other down with little regard for how much this might harm us. I personally can’t even keep the players straight. It makes little sense to me other than the usual “follow the money”.

    It’s also so hard to even get real information as the MSM is so biased in one direction or the other. I no longer have any idea whom to believe; I know the NYT, WAPO and their ilk don’t speak the truth and are intent only on bringing down Trump and his allies. Just who can be trusted to report the news and not just from a biased one-sided position is a mystery to me. Maybe this website does it best…….

    • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 11:21 am #

      Nobody produces as much fake news as Trump.

    • ozone October 30, 2017 at 11:55 am #

      Mtn.Gal,
      Well, it’s been documented that a certain 3-letter agency has infiltrated every mainstream news-disseminating organ in the indispensable nation. JHK would not be welcome in that club, as artistes are noted for being much too flexible and critical in their thinking. It’s a requirement to be a hardcore Johnny Jingo for the job of minion and toadying soldier for the empire.

    • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 1:44 pm #

      That’s why studying the Classics is so important. It connects you with your own moral compass and higher intellect. If you jus study compost and bugs, how is that going to guide you in these matters – as important as those are to physical survival?

      • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 1:44 pm #

        As Thoreau said, Read not the Times, but the Eternities.

        • outsider October 30, 2017 at 6:01 pm #

          @Janos,

          I once had an English teacher in college who advised the class that we should not read newspapers while enrolled. They are mostly full of gossip and nonsense, and take too much time away from reading good literature.

          • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 6:33 pm #

            Of course: both time and mental energy are limited. And then there is the inertia factor – the time and effort needed to change from low to high or high to low, though usually the former is much more difficult. Thus Orwell was advised not to become a manual laborer because you get stuck there. (in Down and Out in Paris and London)

            On a high level: I read about a Mathematician who wouldn’t go the Symphony if he was in the middle of a period of creative work. It simply drew off too much of the eros or life force that he needed for his vocation.

    • Walter B October 30, 2017 at 11:12 pm #

      Yes Mountain gal, this place and others like it are the last bastion for what we used to call news. Where regular people from all over can come and post what it is they see from where they are. Our government learned from the Nazis when they conquered them that the general public is best utilized when they are fed a steady diet of bullshit and led in the direction that suits those who lead best. Our government no longer even considers us as pawns. We are far below that value to them. We are even lower than the dirt under their feet, though most of their feet never touch the soil anymore anyway. It has become obvious that they do not even need us for taxation purposes anymore since they can simply create whatever it is they need to procure whatever it is that they want out of thin air. We have become useless eaters all and once we have provided them all with enough technologies and robotic slaves to replace the majority of us, they will probably see to it that we are removed entirely from the equation. After all, neither they nor their spawn require any competition for the dwindling resources or the fat cat jobs that are now handed down from generation to generation.

  17. seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 11:44 am #

    Manafort was a conduit for Russian interests and Trump picked him. What a freaking idiot.

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 11:48 am #

      Grifters gotta grift!

  18. meargen October 30, 2017 at 11:55 am #

    I want to say I loved this week. The commentary is on the mark, but it has the JHK humor that made me laugh out loud here in the library (I don’t have Inet). Just a lot of fun to read and great sentences. I wish JKH would do a TV show…maybe a cross between Two Broke Girls and MASH. He can be the king of one liners.

    Yeah, the system is really scraping the barrel, and the post with the drunk looking for his keys anywhere but the dark fits, but here it’s on purpose. Our national drunk want to stay drunk, and having had an alcoholic in the family, I know all about that.

    I just came out of a writer’s conference. A lot of fun, also pitched to several agents, and am reminded that, as one agent’s byline put it, ‘despite Trump, we are buckling down harder on showing diversity and putting inclusion into literature, as well as giving a voice to the LGBT community and others long kept out of the mainstream.’
    But hey, I got two free lunches out of it..

    Also, I like the latest watercolor. I enjoyed the view of the house between two pines, and the paint gave the impression it was an overcast day. The colors were dull and natural, and I thought the view…peeking past trees into a world…was almost dramatic.

  19. SvrzoH October 30, 2017 at 12:21 pm #

    On the lighter note, last night on Cozy TV: while he was able to charm the voters, congress-critter-in-the-making could not fool the Columbo.
    Art imitates life in utter cheesiness of election and voting ritual that we are subjected to now and then in which we turn absolutely useless caricatures of a human beings into ‘law makers’.

  20. FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 1:09 pm #

    New York Rumors. Eyewitness account:

    I went yesterday at 8 am in the subway, next to the place where Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters were a year ago.

    Next to that place were two military hummers. What reminded me vividly on January 25, 1982 in Moscow, so the metro station there is small, but here were five policemen inside, and at the nearest interchange node under the government of Brooklyn there were fifty policemen. Maybe a hundred and fifty.

    At the same time in Manhattan, it was quiet and tranquil, and the streets were empty as in Detroit, including because the day before the media had been hysterical in connection with the impending storm, the flood and other cataclysms that turned into ordinary downpour.

    Because of this downpour, the Hyde Park in the Union Square moved underground, where I learned that Trump today is making public Lyndon Johnson’s membership in KKK and some neo-Nazi organizations from which threads go to the Deep State, now headed by Hillary Clinton.

    Events in Moscow on January 25, 1982:
    http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/furor-time/#comment-292229

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    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 3:06 pm #

      That Johnson was once or even remained at the time of his death a member of the KKK should surprise no one. As far as his involvement in the JFK assassination, the only real question is was he an active conspirator or simply “along for the ride,” although the line between the two would of course be very hazy and highly deniable. At the very least, he knew it was going down, gave his willing or unwilling consent, and was prepared to take the reins immediately afterward. Like all the Dulles acolyte “true believers” of that time, he no doubt viewed himself as doing “god’s work” according to whatever twisted logic they applied to their efforts.

      • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 4:30 pm #

        LBJ was as racist as they come.

        • benr November 2, 2017 at 7:35 pm #

          Was he really any more racist then say Obama or anyone who claims to be antifa or blm?
          With that said LBJ was a real pos.

  21. volodya October 30, 2017 at 1:14 pm #

    This is a joke. Both Podesta bros up to their necks in Russians and the Clintons raking in over a hundred mil for their – ahem – “foundation” from Russians and Bill taking a half mil for some lame speech from Russians so as to grease the way for that uranium deal. And what does Mueller come up with? Manafort may be a dirty dog but I look around and see a lot of Washington crawling with fleas.

    • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 1:46 pm #

      It’s time for a Right Wing coup. Still got your helmet? Use your hard hat if you don’t.

      • outsider October 30, 2017 at 6:11 pm #

        @Janos,

        If Trump is indicted, that coup may happen. Despite GOP control of the WH, both Houses of Congress, and a conservative majority in the Supreme Court, why does it seem like the Democrats are still calling the shots? Well, they couldn’t without Ryan, McConnell and McCain supporting them, which they are. We are not ruled by conservatives, but by “cucks” who call themselves conservative.

  22. FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 1:32 pm #

    Crimson Tide

    Remember that one? A rogue Russian politician takes control of a nuclear missile installation and threatens nuclear war.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112740/

    Now try putting away for a minute your dualistic mentality “good -guys – bad guys” and imagine the reverse situation – a rogue American politician committing coup d’etat and model the behavior of the Russian Nuclear submarine fleet in the conditions of absolute anti-Russian hysteria in US.

    Not too many choices, ha?

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 2:57 pm #

      As usual, no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe you should just spell things out instead of talking in code?

      • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 4:36 pm #

        Scratch your earphones

  23. Jigplate October 30, 2017 at 1:34 pm #

    The timing of these indictments stinks. I cant help but wonder why the info was leaked to CNN last week, I suspect to take the wind out of the sails of the Uranium one/dossier story which looked like it was starting to get legs. Without a Monday indictment, the Sunday shows would have nothing but Hillary to talk about.

    • Epicur October 30, 2017 at 1:54 pm #

      “Without a Monday indictment, the Sunday shows would have nothing but Hillary to talk about.”

      Very astute observation.

    • Bruce E October 30, 2017 at 2:16 pm #

      Without a Saturday/Sunday leak of a Monday indictment, there’s no call for charging the illegality of leaks and targeting Mueller and his team.

      No way it wasn’t a Trump-friendly leak of these indictments.

  24. malthuss October 30, 2017 at 1:39 pm #

    Peak Oil?
    Peak Civilization?

    • Epicur October 30, 2017 at 1:47 pm #

      Peak population (this century). I think the long term is good as long as we avoid an all-out nuclear war.

      There will be blood, and lots of it. I expect some of the “minor” players to launch at each other (Muslims vs Israel is likely, plus others). As long as the major players do not launch life will go on pretty much.

  25. Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 1:53 pm #

    What did Ahab say? All my means are sane, but my ends are utterly mad.

    And what does the White Whale symbolize? Money? Power? That Bitch Goddess, Success? Or the Elite’s desire to kill the White Race?

    Hawthorne couldn’t give Melville the kind of deep friendship that he needed. So his loneliness deepened into a kind of madness. Hawthorne had suffered like this as well in his younger days, but he just wasn’t wired to relate to other people, at least other men, in such a giving and intimate way.

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    • malthuss October 30, 2017 at 2:00 pm #

      you know too much.
      too much reading.

      • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 2:27 pm #

        What a strange attitude. Some few must counter or balance the ignorant masses – the ones who voted for Ike (a smiling shill of Baruch, made General in front of countless more qualified men) over Adlai Stevenson.

        I also like food, sex, cars, sports, nature, long walks on short piers, etc

        • malthuss October 30, 2017 at 2:56 pm #

          Thoughts [mind] must be slave, not master.

          • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 5:56 pm #

            But a Master rider can hold the reigns loosely and let his horse Run. How few really let their minds work, eh? Always terrified that it will take them down forbidden roads – and their fears are completely justified: it will.

        • outsider October 30, 2017 at 6:22 pm #

          @Janos,

          I used to like Ike until I discovered how many thousands of innocent Germans he deliberately let die of starvation and exposure in his post-WWII Eisenhower Death Camps.

          • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 6:35 pm #

            Yes, he was a Monster. Yet Americans are still sentimental about him because we “won” and a period of prosperity ensued.

    • elysianfield October 30, 2017 at 6:25 pm #

      “And what does the White Whale symbolize”

      Janos,
      Melville was once questioned on the symbolism…he said it was just a whale….

      Sometimes a whale is simply a cigar….

      • Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 6:40 pm #

        Obviously it’s more than just a whale. He’s the last one who would know. How many times have you been enraged and denied it? You extraverts are cut off from your inner being and often have no idea who you are or what you are doing. Like Lenny in “Of Mice and Men” you end up killing someone “by accident”. Try thinking of yourself as just a character in a novel. If you like, you can try to write a better character, Dostoyevsky as opposed to Stephen King let’s say. You really don’t know yourself any better than that. The Eye/I cannot see itself after all.

        Or he knew and just didn’t want to give it away too cheaply.

  26. TravisB October 30, 2017 at 2:02 pm #

    Short term memory does seem to be prominate. That is undeniable. However in a time when it is, literally, one catastrophe after another, how is one to reflect on these things. There is no respite.
    I am someone who is aware of history, geological, as well as human, and I’m not thinking about Dallas, or Florida, or Las Vegas, or Hillary, or Trump, or Brexit…Not unless someone or something brings them up. Not because I feel they have no importance, but because they are part of the thing that is happening that brings us to blogs, and such, as this. The windung down of the industrial cheap energy era. We all know this.

    So a short term memory when dealing with these cascading catastrophes is a virtue. A way to disconnect from the superficial and reconnect to that which is slower and older. That which is timeless. Cycles that are hundreds to thousands to millions to billions of years long. To the infinitude.
    We have all the information we need to know that it is time to pull our energetic tentacles away from the broader context of “The Long Emergency” and the subsequent wind down of mass industrial society.
    Refocused into our families and communities. Into our immediate felt experience of reality.
    This is the vantage point to build our lives (regardless of what’s in the news or on social media) in a way that develops integrity and real joy.

  27. Bruce E October 30, 2017 at 2:27 pm #

    My money is on Manafort taking a dive, either for a pardon from Trump or a deal with Mueller in exchange for leniency.

    Manafort gives to Mueller the narrative all of Trump’s worst-enemies are too-ready to hear, that it was all Manafort, that he kept Trump out of the loop and used Trump, Trump Jr, Kushner, et al as his own set of puppets to get what he wanted, which was something to exchange with his Russian debtors to forgive the massive debts he accumulated by taking loans from them he couldn’t otherwise pay off.

    Trump gets what he wants, which is to show that he personally had not done these things, although I wonder if he’ll be able to subdue his vanity and wear the role of easily-manipulated-puppet or his pride will get the better of him and he’ll spill the beans to make it look like he was in charge and in the know all along.

    Trump’s enemies get what they want — irrefutable evidence of collusion and an excuse for losing an un-lose-able election to the candidate that only an idiot would lose to, plus Trump is made to look the fool. Note that they don’t actually want Trump to get kicked out of office any time soon because they think they can parley Trump-the-fool into a congressional majority in a little over a year from now.

    Manafort gets what he wants, which is payment of his debt to his Russian loansharks with maybe 5 years in a minimum security prison resort stay and then a nice fat book deal when he comes out and tells his story.

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 2:40 pm #

      I like that analysis. Good work!

  28. Janos Skorenzy October 30, 2017 at 2:34 pm #

    https://dailystormer.ai/kevin-spacey-apologizes-for-maybe-molesting-14-year-old-boy-comes-out-of-the-closet/

    The flood gates begin to open. Another victory for the Squares of the World: White Heterosexual Men who defeated the Indians, built this Nation, gave us undreamed of prosperity, and took us to another world – only to have their Nation stolen by freaks and malfactors of all kinds. We’re takin’ it back – All of It.

    • Ol' Scratch October 30, 2017 at 2:47 pm #

      I’m guessing they’ll probably give it back when they’re done with it, but you probably won’t like what you get very much. The place has pretty much been cleaned out already, and the rest is being auctioned off to the highest bidders as we speak.

    • TravisB October 30, 2017 at 2:59 pm #

      Who is “we”?

      • TravisB October 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm #

        What are you taking back?

      • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 3:21 am #

        If you don’t know, I can’t tell you. But I can tell you this: you aint included. Just keep cashing those checks with all zeroes, and no ones out in front. No 1s or Is. Just nullity. You’re lost in the zero, the nothing, the yoni, the 0. You need to find your lingam, your 1, your I.

    • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 4:07 pm #

      Didn’t Adolf try that once?

  29. malthuss October 30, 2017 at 2:58 pm #

    I saw this—-

    The Las Vegas shooting , the “biggest mass-shooting in US history” has been absolutely bumped off the news. Not a mention of it in 3 days or more. These same bastards mentioned Charlottesville and Heather Heyer everyday for over a week, even here in UK !!’

    ‘The Weinstein story has saturated all UK media , it’s being treated as if there were a thousand headless corpses found in his basement: the point being: cover up.

    • BuckP October 30, 2017 at 3:38 pm #

      I live in Las Vegas where there exists a news blackout around the massacre also. The MGM employees have a gag order and many of the Route 91 attendees’ stories are not getting out, such as shooters being on the ground. Obviously the Mandaly Bay 32nd floor was unoccupied during the shooting because no witnesses have come forward. The only investigations are coming from alt media via Vimeo and you tube. Nothing from the MSM! The FBI and ATF control the investigation not the LVMPD, which is odd for it being s state crime. Everything here is back to normal with the hotels full and the casinos humming. Very sad! Our country has gotten too conditioned to these massacres and we don’t ask the hard questions.

      • seawolf77 October 30, 2017 at 4:06 pm #

        I read some girl who saw multiple shooters was found dead. She was 28 years old.

        • outsider October 30, 2017 at 6:28 pm #

          Sounds like the JFK case, seawolf.

        • malthuss October 30, 2017 at 6:37 pm #

          She was ill. Epileptic, if I recall.

          • BuckP October 30, 2017 at 6:55 pm #

            Her name was Kimberly Suchomel from Apple Valley, CA. She posted on Facebook that there were numerous shooters and that they didn’t feel safe anywhere. They even fled to the airport. So many loose ends with a cover- up, again!

  30. akmofo October 30, 2017 at 3:13 pm #

    Another scandal exposed by criminal gov mafia:

    Still Report #462

    So we may be getting closer to the bottom of that UPS charter that unloaded 30 bus loads of people at night at the Harrisburg, Penn Regional airport. This was broadcast as Minute Memo #201. Our fearless commenters provided some great information. It turns out that UPS has converted a few planes for passengers as charters. There are several articles on this if you do a search on it. Ed said that he heard an interview with a commercial pilot last year who: “…refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement that allowed him to break FAA regulations but lost his job in his refusal. He was to fly [refugees] in from some middle east country into JFK in the middle of the night bypassing security. A person named only “Please Stay Tuned” alerted me that this: “Could be the Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement Program. Seems to be a very quiet gov funded org.” Well, as it turns out, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revealed last week on Fox that the Obama administration has been bringing in refugees by plane for quite a while. [insert Christie] But will these refugees ever make TV news. No way! Middle of the night, landing at rotating small regional airports, they quickly jump on common charter buses. TV cameras will never be there. And just look at the numbers. Everyone is getting all excited about Obama saying he would bring in 10,000 refugees from Syria. In the first 5 years of the Obama presidency, the U.S. gave out green cards to over 680,000 immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in recent years, 100,000 new Muslim immigrants are brought into the United States each year, and it’s growing at a rate of about 10% per year. So this battle in the press about whether or not to reject the president’s plan to bring in 10,000 more is nothing but a distraction. The truth is that in the last 5 years, we have admitted more Muslims into the U.S. already than the entire Muslim population of Belgium – and that entire country is on lockdown from the Friday the 13th terrorist event in adjoining France. I’m Still reporting from Washington.

    https://youtu.be/KIf3tElDLfA

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    • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 4:30 pm #

      So?

      That’s Hillary’s shock troops, specially selected and trained in Lebanon and Syria for North American Theater of Military Operations.

      • akmofo October 30, 2017 at 4:59 pm #

        So? Syria is Putin country. Valid identification papers nonexistent. Many “Syrians” are actually Iranian shock troops. This is a Russian military operation. Hillary = Russian agent.

        • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 5:04 pm #

          Check your timeline – Bill Still report is dated Nov 28, 2015, Russia started anti-Jihadis operation in Syria in September 2015.

          Then it was still 100% Hillary’s country – still is, but only 5% or so.

          • akmofo October 30, 2017 at 5:23 pm #

            A secret smuggling operation for Jihadistanis with no valid identification papers. Smells to me of a typical Russian/Soros scheme to blow up a country. They’re doing it in Europe, why not the US?

          • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 5:30 pm #

            Listen, perhaps your line of logical conclusions is impeccable, but sorry, I don’t get it.

            How did you manage to bring Soros to the Russian borscht?

            That particular ingredient does not mix well with traditional Russian recipe.

          • akmofo October 30, 2017 at 5:33 pm #

            How? Simple. Look where he operates and where he doesn’t. Then draw your own conclusions. Everything he does is a geopolitical gift to the Russians. Coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidence.

          • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 5:39 pm #

            Everything he does is a geopolitical gift to the Russians.

            Ok, I don’t even know where to start. So, you win, for now.

            Perhaps it warrants a separate post about Soros’ looting/sabotaging operations in Russia, especially in the 1990s.

          • akmofo October 30, 2017 at 5:49 pm #

            He’s an equal opportunity gov mafia criminal. He was looting Jews for the Nazis already in his childhood. He probably works for all sides, surviving as long as does. Which brings me to my next point. Why is Soros still alive? Why did Putin not dispatch some KGB love his way?

          • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 6:00 pm #

            Why is Soros still alive? Why did Putin not dispatch some KGB love his way?

            That’s a comment well worth the memory of JimInFlorida.

            Perhaps you’ll be laughing your ass off, but Putin always try to operate within the law – predictability in moral decisions (not in tactic or strategy) is his trademark.

          • akmofo October 30, 2017 at 6:09 pm #

            Yes, that’s what I imagined. After all, how is it possible for someone on a gov mafia salary to amass $50 billion in personal wealth if not by legal means.

          • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 6:13 pm #

            $50 billion? That’s all?! I thought Russia is worth much more than that.

          • akmofo October 30, 2017 at 6:19 pm #

            Well, there also deputies to keep happy. After all, he cannot carry the whole country on his shoulders only:

            https://youtu.be/v48BDjDzQCs

    • Elrond Hubbard October 30, 2017 at 4:46 pm #

      akmofo: “There are several articles on this if you do a search on it.”

      Other than actual charter bus companies in and around Harrisburg PA, this is the first one I found:

      Undercover Parcel Service
      No, UPS isn’t smuggling refugees into the United States in the dead of night.

      https://www.snopes.com/undercover-parcel-service/

      “Claim: Refugees are being smuggled into the United States in UPS cargo planes.

      “Origins: In November 2015, as news about Syrian refugees entering the United States reached a fever pitch, a video uploaded to Facebook and Youtube began circulating purportedly showing buses filled with people that had been flown into Harrisburg International Airport on a United Parcel Service plane…

      “… The clip is nothing more than a dark, shaky phone video shot by someone driving behind some nondescript buses as they passed signs indicating they were near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, accompanied by some conspiracy theory narration lacking any shred of evidence to back it up.

      “Moreover, no one else reported witnessing the arrival or offloading of the buses comprising this alleged secret refugee convoy at any end destination.

      “In response to the video, a spokesperson from UPS flatly denied that passengers had been unloaded from any of their planes at the Harrisburg airport:

      “‘UPS is a cargo airline and has not been involved in passenger flights of any kind into or out of Harrisburg. Suggestions to the contrary are based on misinformation.'”

      I was first to reply! What do I win?

      • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 5:07 pm #

        What do I win?

        You win Grimm Brothers fairy tale award of the month, congratulations!!

      • malthuss October 30, 2017 at 6:34 pm #

        SNOPES—that shows how dumb you are.
        2 flunkies, a hooker and a cat.

    • malthuss October 30, 2017 at 6:33 pm #

      Thanks. I had heard or read of Fed ex or whoever sneaking ‘refugees’ in for the government.

      Thanks, again.

  31. janet October 30, 2017 at 5:00 pm #

    “including those of a newly-elected administration?” — JHK

    Mr. Kunstsler, are you willfully ignoring that the collusion with the Russians happened during the Trump campaign in early 2017, by more than a dozen key Trump campaign people (Papadopolus has pleaded guilty already), months before Trump was elected, months before a transition team existed?

    • janet October 30, 2017 at 8:03 pm #

      Correction

      in early 2016, before Trump was elected, during the campaign

      • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 8:09 pm #

        Same shit, but in correct chronological order.

        • FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 8:16 pm #

          Sorry, what I meant is

          Same shit, but in solid timely fashion.

  32. FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 7:49 pm #

    American Lady Justice?

    Manafort was taken for some financial violations and they will now offer him a deal, threatening that if he does convert to religion of Judas and bear false witness on Trump, they will jail him for about twenty years.

  33. FincaInTheMountains October 30, 2017 at 8:04 pm #

    Don Lemon will have a multiple orgasm on CNN tonight

    You bet!

    Flying Monkeys Orgasm hour – they all are orgasmic, not even funny to watch…

  34. BackRowHeckler October 30, 2017 at 8:43 pm #

    Paul Manafort was a neighbor. When the leaves fall, as they are now, I can see his house on the ridge about a quarter mile away.

    I never did talk to him but I’d see him around town.

    Well, it looks like that place will have a ‘For Sale’ sign on it pretty soon.

    brh

  35. BackRowHeckler October 30, 2017 at 10:14 pm #

    Jen in San Jose, if you’re looking in …

    Strange news from Santa Clara. Is that near you?

    At the Great America Six Flags theme park, a Halloween event, fright night mainly for young families with little kids.

    It seems the play act Halloween antics turned into the real thing out there in ‘Great America’, when about 40 ‘Youths’, and ‘Teens’ began assaulting park goers with tasers and baseball bats, robbing them of jewelry, cell phones and wallets. A ‘night of the living dead’ scene ensued apparently, with thousands of panicked revelers streaming out of the park, many bleeding from head wounds, some even climbing a high fence trying to get away.

    On the east coast, in NYC mainly, ‘Polar Bear Hunting’ and the Knockout Punch Game’ has made a comeback. The most disturbing case I already mentioned, a young blond girl in a bus station laid out — I mean laid out by a ferocious sucker punch to the head. She went down hard. It was a big black dude who nailed her, maybe 275 lbs. He nonchalantly walked away, but some of his friends took photos of her laying on the deck, out cold, and bleeding from the mouth. Nobody appeared to help her.

    None of this made the national news. The honchos running big media, they don’t go to places like Great America Six Flags. And their daughters are safely ensconced in private girls schools up he in Connecticut and Mass., not walking thru bus stations by themselves in NYC.

    That ‘Day of Rage’, when Whitey will be taken down, was supposed to begin Nov. 4, but maybe it started a little early.

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    • San Jose October 30, 2017 at 10:53 pm #

      I worked at Santa Clara’s “Great America” when I was a teenager. It was owned by Marriott at the time. No problems whatsoever back when I was young.

      When my kids were teenagers, I let them go to Great America in the daytime–but not at night. They’ve had gang problems at the park for a long time. The amusement park shares a parking lot with the new Levi’s stadium–home to the Forty Whiners. The only place you’d want to live in the City of Santa Clara would be near Santa Clara University–a jewel in the crown of Jesuit education.

      Jen in San Jose

      • BackRowHeckler October 30, 2017 at 11:30 pm #

        Is it not kind of curious these brutal attacks on defenseless whites, many of them elderly and woman, occur in cities that pride themselves as being ‘inclusive, tolerant, welcoming and diverse?’

        brh

        • pequiste October 31, 2017 at 8:40 am #

          You forgot the very best part of this compulsory program: cultural enrichment.

  36. FincaInTheMountains October 31, 2017 at 6:34 am #

    The Roman New Year was established by Julius Caesar on January 1 on the recommendation of Sosigenes of Alexandria, and it is connected not only and not so much with the day the new consuls assume office and the beginning of the Roman fiscal year, but with the emergence of a principally new state – the multinational Roman Empire, which in its very basis differed from the national and even to some extent Nazi state – the Roman Republic.

    Unfortunately today many people do not understand the role that this new type of state, created by Julius Caesar, continues to play for Christianity, although the Russian word “Tsar” and the German word “Kaiser” originate precisely from the Latin word Caesar, which arose not only in memory of Julius Caesar, but first of all in the memory of the new type of state that he created, without which the mission of Christ would be, to put it mildly, difficult, if possible at all.

    • Ol' Scratch October 31, 2017 at 7:54 am #

      So what exactly is the “mission of Christ,” to which you refer? To conquer the world, I presume?

      • ozone October 31, 2017 at 11:15 am #

        Ol’ Scratch,
        I *think* he’s of the opinion that it takes a dictatorship/uber-state/totalitarian bureaucracy to establish a religion (by sanction), and that this should be viewed as a ‘good’ thing.

        Why did he post this crapola?
        I don’t know and I certainly don’t care; it was only your response that led me to scan it as I usually scroll on by these irrelevant and far off-topic ravings. (Now we will have a little screed on why it’s absolutely germane and what a misunderstood genius he is. No worries, he’s furthering your work here on the earthly plane. 😉 )

        • Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 1:15 pm #

          Is that an emoji or a emoticom? You are clearly evolving, Pete. But into what? A 13 year old?

        • Ol' Scratch October 31, 2017 at 7:57 pm #

          Thanks ‘Zone. Finca does seem to prefer to be an enigma it seems.

      • Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 1:14 pm #

        You take America for granted and always have. You could have never had your comfortable life without the conquest of the Indians (think violent tattooed Mexican or Salvadoran Gangs to get some idea). And what did you do with the leisure that these great men bequeathed to you? Worked yourself up into a lather of hatred and resentment against them and those who revere for them today.

        Ingrate.

        • Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 2:07 pm #

          He always hated America – having imbibed Howard Zinn at his father’s knee and with his mother’s milk. So what did he do? Joined the Army of course. Now he probably works for the Government. The Army and Government are full of people like this now – the rotting columns of a decrepit structure. Thus they fulfill their hatred by becoming what they hate. Self Fufilled Prophecies incarnate.

          What happened to the Churches? Same thing: people who hate God, Christianity, and/or their particular Church went to Divinity School or Seminary and then became Ministers and Priests. Hate bring people and things together too, in a hideous mockery of Love.

          • Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 2:11 pm #

            Ozone refuses to say what he IS for, only what he is against. But a man can be known by the company he keeps, and he talks to Scratch more than any, so we can assume he that he believes in little or nothing, the Being Against taking the place of all normalcy.

            Certainly he has no problem with Scratch’s anti-Americanism and said nothing when he said Whites should be driven to extinction.

          • akmofo October 31, 2017 at 4:56 pm #

            Sorry, Yan, but some people do posses a conscience. I know you don’t, you being an übermensch, so it’s hard for you to relate to such moral sentimentality. Nevertheless, it does exist as a guiding compass for people. You talk of hatred because being an übermensch, that’s what you’re all about. Denigrating the other as inferior. But you’re wrong. There’s no hatred involved, only disappointment and disgust at you and your übermensch kind. The propaganda lies and genocide has been exposed for what it is. You can’t ran away from it, nor can you embrace it – though I know that you actually do embrace it. But not everyone is an übermensch god, the son and descendant of übermensch gods, some of us are still human and prefer to be mere humans. Humans with a tad of decency that comes with that title.

          • Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 5:24 pm #

            Of course: dispossessing Whites and taking our Lands for your own – with the help of your minority and traitor allies and Orc Soldiers – is the essence of morality for you. That’s what you tried to do in Old Egypt, but a Pharaoh arose “who knew not Joseph” and threw you down.

          • Ol' Scratch October 31, 2017 at 8:20 pm #

            Janos,

            There are no “our” lands, there are only lands. Humans don’t and can’t ever truly “own” anything, especially something so basic as land/earth. The earth existed before humans were here, and will continue to exist long after they’re gone. Forgive me for observing that your “philosophy” is so primitive that it’s truly beneath contempt (as in, not even up to being contemptible). You make a mockery and obscenity of the concept of “love,” although I have no doubt that your motives are somehow oddly “pure.”

            I too have long suspected you are a frustrated or actual priest, who is bringing his fear/hatred onto this board in frustration at mankind’s inability/unwillingness to live up to your frustrated Christian ideals. But here’s a hint: the Christian religion has long since been exposed as the state-sponsored sham it was as soon as the Romans usurped it way back in the day. Whatever truths some Jew named Jesus may or may not have espoused back in the day, they have all largely been watered down and/or altered altogether to the point of irrelevancy at this point in time. Continuing to cling to them – just like the American Constitution – is just so much foolishness about to be flushed down the toilet of history, whether any one of you likes it or not.

            While Ol’ Scratch appreciates your religious zeal, you’d do well to renounce it. It’s definitely not serving you well.

          • Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 11:48 pm #

            You use Ultimate Truth (indeed I preach as much to Libertarians and Conservatives) in order to destroy vital relative truth. The white lie of ownership allows for many to participate in power, insures privacy, and maximizes enjoyment – and most important of all: keeps Power from centralizing absolutely. That’s why you hate it so much. Devil, I named you truly

            Not only that, we don’t even own our own bodies (got a receipt?). Hell, we don’t even own ourselves. We are marginal, derivative, accidental in that we need not have been. Only He can truly say “I am”. And that burns you. Indeed, that’s why you’re in Hell.

          • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 3:24 am #

            The Mob is growing stronger. They turned on Pelosi the other day. They’ll turn on you too Crotch. I get the feeling you’re another Phillip Egalitaire in the making!

            https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3482-killing-statues-christophobic-mobocracy-in-america

  37. FincaInTheMountains October 31, 2017 at 11:59 am #

    Correction to my previous post

    Manafort was threatened not with twenty years in prison, as I naive thought, but with eighty, and it was not Trump who was declared the enemy number one of the liberal public, but the head of the White House administration, General Kelly, who dared to declare to the world on Monday that the United States was in a state of civil war caused by the inability of Hillary Clinton’s supporters to compromise and from myself I will add her personal general incompetence.

    It is good that they understood this in the White House; they may soon realize that it is still necessary to negotiate with them, but the negotiations should be done by the army elite units and militia in full accordance with the Second amendment to the US Constitution.

    People Are Officially Done With John Kelly After His ‘Absurd’ Civil War Comments

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-officially-done-john-kelly-091449841.html

    • elysianfield October 31, 2017 at 5:54 pm #

      “Manafort was threatened not with twenty years in prison, as I naive thought, but with eighty”

      What is to complain about 80? Could have been life….

      Reminds me of a Gulag joke…”Two Zecks were….”

      • FincaInTheMountains October 31, 2017 at 6:31 pm #

        Reminds me of a Gulag joke…”Two Zecks were….”

        Too many Gulag jokes starts like that. Which one you have in mind?

        Zecka Vasiliev and Zecka Pertrov:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In_oMY1NVZI

        • elysianfield November 1, 2017 at 11:09 am #

          Finc,
          …Two Zecks were discussing their prison sentences. One Zeck asked the other…”what did you get”? The second replied “15 years”. The first then asked “What did you do to deserve that sentence”? “Nothing” replied the second.

          “LIAR” roared the first…”For nothing, you get 25!”

  38. Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 1:29 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sailors-lost-sea-5-months-didnt-activate-emergency-080905434–abc-news-topstories.html

    It’s not necessarily that these Lesbo(?) goobers are consciously shilling for their own reality show. It’s that they “naturally” already live as if they were reality stars. There’s a lot of people like this now. There’s a layer of consciousness that shouldn’t be there. Sometimes there’s nothing underneath anymore. All layer, turtles all the way down.

    Who knows? They may even have children. Not even that saves people anymore from the “Veneer”. They simply incorporate them into their show. The whole family becomes like Rover from The Prisoner.

    • daveed October 31, 2017 at 8:27 pm #

      “It’s not necessarily that these Lesbo(?) goobers are consciously shilling for their own reality show. It’s that they “naturally” already live as if they were reality stars. There’s a lot of people like this now.”

      Good to see that you’re on the case, Inspector Clouseau. Luckily, while you indulge in your obsession with the ‘Lesbo Goober’ boat people (and with Mr. Dick), there are grownups elsewhere more concerned with the conduct of the ultimate ‘reality’ show host and current president.

      • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 1:19 am #

        Little things express prevailing principles. I thought the New Republic understood that “A dog starved by its master’s gate predicts the ruin of the state. And robin redbreast in cage, put all heaven in a rage.”

  39. Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 2:29 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/andy-dick-fired-film-sexual-145044262.html

    Perhaps with a name like that, he never had a chance…. In any case, another victory for the Old Americans. All this is going to be a disaster for the Tribe, as they are among the worst offenders. Not the only ones by any means. But Hollywood and the Media are their babies and they set the tone. They laughed the old WASP censors to scorn for decades, now the bill comes due. Get a real job, Dick.

  40. FincaInTheMountains October 31, 2017 at 3:13 pm #

    Race question in the Civil War in the US

    Of course there are a lot of questions, but it’s not for Russian Nazis to discuss these topics. Let them go at it, and they will start a civil war in Russia, and when they are taken down they will cross over to the West and return to their homeland as part of invading army that sets itself the task of enslaving and destroying the Russian people.

    As it have been in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries.

    As for the race issue in the United States, if a member of ODESSA uses black racism as a trump card, this does not mean that he is a fighter for the rights of Negroes in the United States.

    Moreover, if a person denies the superiority of the white race, this does not mean that he is fighting against racism – it may very well be that he regards the black race as superior, and that White and Indians are subhuman.

    The USA, with all their advantages and disadvantages, was built by WASPs – white Anglo-Saxon Anglicans, who for some reason were declared Protestants, despite the fact that the real Protestants do not recognize the apostolic succession and the apostolic succession of the Church of England and its clones in particular.

    And among these WASPs were not only racists and supporters of slavery, but also abolitionists who forced the US to abandon slavery.

    And among my black friends, I do not know anybody who is interested in the fact that the Indians fought in the Confederate army, whose monuments they demolish, because the federal army mercilessly destroyed Indians and the worst pages in the Indian genocide were written by the Northerners.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre

    And psychology: “I am interested only in the grievances of my race, and of everyone else I do not care” this is racism.

    And the real Nazis know this very well and use it with pleasure. In particular, in the flaming civil war, Hillary Clinton, knowing full well that the WASPs and Latin Catholics do not support her for religious reasons, and most of the black Protestants, too, is trying in every way to kindle a racial war, hoping to translate the conflict from the socio-religious into the racial plane and attract “Ni**rs” as cannon fodder to her side, as I’m sure she calls them.

    But she will not succeed, as most black Americans remember how she poisoned Obama’s Presidency, and those who forgot about it deserve what awaits them for participating in a riot against the legitimately elected US president who as opposite to Hillary Clinton is by no means racist.

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    • Ol' Scratch October 31, 2017 at 8:31 pm #

      The only question to be resolved by the American Civil War was who was going to own slaves: white, corporate capitalist, industrialists in the north; or white, plantation owner capitalist, agriculturalists in the south. The race card was played long after the fact to assuage rich white guilt and to reunite the country after allowing such an abomination to take place in the first place for mere profits. The people of the time understood all this full well (and resented it mightily!), but history has since been whitewashed (a more truthful term has never been uttered!).

      • benr November 2, 2017 at 4:45 pm #

        I call bullshit.
        Riddle me this Slavery existed all across South America and the Caribbean and yet ONLY these United States fought a costly (IN LIVES AND treasure) war to abolish chattel slavery!
        Chattel Slavery died a natural and well deserved death all over the western world and ONLY still exists in Africa and the Middle East with pockets in parts of Asia.

  41. FincaInTheMountains October 31, 2017 at 5:28 pm #

    New York. Eyewitness account:

    I’m sitting in the bar on the Church Avenue, where I was running away from the wreckage of the Twin Towers. I am hearing machine-gun fire.

    Policemen on the street swear profanities in Russian.

    Happy Halloween!

  42. Janos Skorenzy October 31, 2017 at 5:34 pm #

    More Muslim terror in the Big Apple. Guess we should have let them build a gigantic Mosque at Ground Zero, right traitors? If we just gave in, then they wouldn’t be mad at us any more, right degenerates? If only we hadn’t fought in the Crusades, right tards?

    • S M Tenneshaw November 1, 2017 at 9:09 pm #

      Pam Geller, is that you? I KNEW you’d eventually see it my way. Mazeltov, ole buddy roe.

  43. BackRowHeckler October 31, 2017 at 8:06 pm #

    Allahu Akbar!

    What else can one say?

    God is great, indeed.

    In a country with any balls they’d be rounded up — every goddam one of ’em — and deported.

    But we lost ours back somewhere around 1968.

    brh

    • Cavepainter October 31, 2017 at 9:11 pm #

      Oh k’mon guys, they’re just misunderstood. I mean, they’ve been settled in areas where their diets aren’t sufficiently reflected in the market, just the usual stuff preferred by infidels. Then too, we’ve not thrown over the Constitution in favor of Sharia. Then, on top of that, some racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic infidel citizens are urging that the Imams in this country who are advocating Sharia in place of the Constitution be hung for treason if citizens or, otherwise, be deported. Damn, they’re under such pressure.

  44. BackRowHeckler October 31, 2017 at 11:38 pm #

    These guys are jumping the gun; the final assault on western civilization wasn’t supposed to begin until Nov. 4.

    The resurrected ‘knockout punch’ on unsuspecting women and elderly (from which these victims will never recover: once punched you stay punched) , Halloween revelers beaten and looted in an amusement park in Santa Clara, bicyclists mowed down with a truck in lower Manhattan (Allahu Akbar!), century old historical monuments vandalized and desecrated … the Armies of the Night seem to have mobilized across the United States and they are on the move.

    Is there a guiding hand? an underlying philosophy other than hate whitey and hate America?

    We’ll see this weekend what these anti world thugs, these Enemies of the Human Race (Hostis Humani Generis) have in store for us.

    brh

    • pequiste November 1, 2017 at 12:13 am #

      Cocked and locked is the only readiness stance to have in times such as ours.

  45. Q. Shtik November 1, 2017 at 12:27 am #

    Before we condemn the ‘moose lambs’ again shouldn’t we at least find out if the alleged NY perp’s middle name is Muhammad?

    Speaking of the perp, he appeared to be carrying two weapons. Somewhere (on TV?) I heard mention that a pellet gun and a paintball gun were recovered and I haven’t heard any more about those weapons since. Add those to the shit list of open and/or concealed carry weapons.

    Speaking of handguns…I am still in the long process of getting a NJ permit to purchase a handgun. Thus far I have gotten 2 people to vouch essentially that I’m a reputable citizen and the local police dept has, I believe, gotten back OK results on their check of my mental health. I also had a full set of fingerprints taken by IdentoGo at a fee of $52.69. Some other research must be performed (arrest record and such) and in a week or so I should be good to go.

    Meantime I went gun shopping in a HUGE gun (and other sporting goods) store in Pennsylvania named Cabela’s. Any of you gun nuts out there heard of it? What an amazing place THAT was…there were enough weapons under one roof to conduct WW3…and what a cast of characters shopping there!, including women in no danger of being molested by Harvey Weinstein, who were examining and handling guns like Annie Oakley. The toddlers clutching at their mommy’s blue jeaned pant legs seemed to see nothing unusual in all this mock aiming and firing of weapons. I felt like such an uninformed wimp in their presence.

    Even when I DO eventually acquire a handgun it will be virtually useless if I, in fact, live by NJ’s rules for concealed carry. For example, the gun may not be carried loaded with ammo in your car and the gun and ammo must be locked in widely separated compartments within the car, like ammo in glove box and gun in locked container in the trunk. Now I ask you, what good is THAT going to do me if some one cuts me off in traffic and I am suffering a bout of road rage… how am I supposed to express how pissed off I am without a loaded weapon easily at hand?………….juuust kidding!

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    • FincaInTheMountains November 1, 2017 at 3:03 am #

      After Las Vegas it became clear that as long as the Witch is free one can get a bullet for nothing!

    • tucsonspur November 1, 2017 at 3:44 am #

      What a hassle! Out here I’m in and out in twenty minutes, if they’re not too busy, right at the gun store.

      Years ago I took a class for a concealed carry permit, easy enough, and even that is no longer required. Open carry is certainly ok. Keeps you alert, seeing those pistols on the hips of gruff looking characters. You see it from time to time. Not prevalent.

      A year or two ago, a guy about 25 was crossing at the light, in mid Tucson, had a gun on each hip, a shouldered rifle, a blade below the knee and a Bowie knife in his teeth. Just kidding about the Bowie. Sauntering along, like the “happy wanderer”.

      “Valderi, valdera, valderi, valdera, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…….”

      MidwayUSA, Cabela’s and the like, are well known to gun people.

      Widely separated?
      Those Jersey rules could be a death sentence. Don’t give anybody the finger and, above all, remain calm.

    • Epicur November 1, 2017 at 9:58 am #

      “For example, the gun may not be carried loaded with ammo in your car and the gun and ammo must be locked in widely separated compartments within the car, like ammo in glove box and gun in locked container in the trunk. ”

      IIRC a legal gun owner from any state in the union can do that anywhere in this country (unloaded and locked separately) on public roads. There are places like NY City where they have tried to outlaw it, but I think they have lost the court cases.

      I’m older now and do not travel as much, so I don’t keep up (that’s probably not wise), but I’m pretty sure that is the law. If has cost some people a lot of money to fight it in court and some places do every thing they can to harass gun owners, but the Constitution (what’s left of it) allows it.

    • Cavepainter November 1, 2017 at 10:06 am #

      Yet,….in Switzerland assault rifles with ammo are issued for keeping at home. But, then again, the culture wars, the victim class growth industry and the White guilt meme haven’t taken root there. Maybe our State Department should start demanding sanctions against Switzerland for lacking diversity.

  46. pequiste November 1, 2017 at 12:35 am #

    in response to the Halloween celebrating, Yzlamik overexuberance and “trick-or-treat-kuffar,” jihadi-driving & killing activity in Manhattan, Bill de Blasio is going to request, as mayor of a “sanctuary city,” another 100,000 Muzzie refugees from Shitholistan and environs come and become Noo Yawkas.

    The mayor of London, England, Sadiq Khan, called DeBlasio to congratulate him and to advise him how it shows the infidel that jihad can make living (and dying) in the big city all the more interesting.

    • tucsonspur November 1, 2017 at 4:06 am #

      “Shitholistan”. Mot juste.

      Being from there, I just love Noo Yawk. City of Superlatives. Tragic, what it has become and is becoming.

  47. Ol' Scratch November 1, 2017 at 6:47 am #

    Trick or Treat! More synthetic terror to bewitch the masses! Even a direct callback to 9-11! Quick Batman, under the Batbed everyone! They’ll never find us there!

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/dead-gunman-home-depot-truck-runs-bikers-article-1.3602094

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/us/new-york-attack/index.html

    Something big is definitely in the works. Stock market crash and bank run/holiday anyone? Maybe a little complimentary nuclear skirmish thrown in on the side just for shits and giggles? This sucker ain’t going down without a good show. Americans deserve at least that much!

    • daveed November 1, 2017 at 11:18 am #

      And dinner?

  48. akmofo November 1, 2017 at 9:33 am #

    God bless Australia, God bless New Zealand, God bless the British and General Allenby!

    https://youtu.be/b_MTLW_UWj4?t=17s

    One hundred years ago, 800 mainly Austrian soldiers of supreme courage took on 4,000 Turkish soldiers fortified at Be’er Sheva, and won! They won the British the Ottoman Empire, they won for themselves their Austrian national identity, and they won for Zion a chance at independence some 30 years later.

    God bless Australia, God bless New Zealand, God bless the British and General Allenby!

    • malthuss November 1, 2017 at 9:43 am #

      thats history. have you looked at London, lately?

      • akmofo November 1, 2017 at 10:54 am #

        London played a game of betrayal. Still,credit where credit is due.

    • daveed November 1, 2017 at 11:20 am #

      Austrian or Australian, Mate….which is it?

      • akmofo November 1, 2017 at 11:26 am #

        LOL! Good catch! Auto-correct strikes again.

      • akmofo November 1, 2017 at 1:13 pm #

        Was watching the reenactment of the Australian light cavalry charge, and one of the Israelis watching the ceremony, when he saw the slow movement of the company in the reenactment, commented that the horses must also be one hundred years old. The Australians laughed. The horses were probably local Israeli horses used in programs for autistic and disabled kids and not used to a fast gallop action. A similar program is used with wild dolphins in Eilat to emotionally rehabilitate handicapped persons.

    • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 1:36 pm #

      Yes, after the British did the heavy lifting against the Arabs, the Jews turned their terrorism against them, blowing up a large hotel full of diplomats, assassinating sentries, etc.

      • akmofo November 1, 2017 at 2:45 pm #

        It was Turks, not Arabs.

        Arabs did not have good relations with the Turks. Many Arabs were fighting the Turks and were glad to see the Turks defeated.

        The British then double crossed both the Arabs and Jews, and made them enemies where before they were not.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%E2%80%93Weizmann_Agreement

        The Hashemite King, Feisal Ibn-Hussein, was deposed as the ruler of Mecca and the kingdom of Hedjaz (today Saudia). Instead, King Hussein was placed over Iraq and Jordan. The Jews were made to give up part of Palestine (already negotiated to them) to what today is Jordan. Practically all immigration to Israel was then curtailed by the British, something that would cost many millions of Jews their lives, being trapped in the meat grinder that was Nazi Europe and Soviet Russia.

        • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 3:23 pm #

          At first many Arabs were Ok with Jews coming in, since they had the capital to improve the area. But when vast numbers began to pour in, they realized they were slated for replacement so they began to fight back. The British put down the Arab rebellion along with armed Jewish settlers. But the Jews didn’t like the UN Treaty since they didn’t want the Arabs to get anything. Thus they began to kill British soldiers, such was their gratitude.

          • akmofo November 1, 2017 at 3:47 pm #

            The British armed and trained the Arab armies that would attack Israel. There was no weapons embargo imposed on the Arabs as it was imposed on the Jews. The British also forbade any meaningful immigration of Jews to Palestine and left the Jews there culturally, economically, politically, geographically, and militarily exposed to a new enemy they were busy cultivating. In essence, for oil, the British set the Jews up for an Arab genocide. You want to make the British blameless for the hostility Jews later felt towards them, that’s your prerogative. It doesn’t reflect history.

          • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 11:50 pm #

            Jews are Internationalists who don’t want to obey International Law. As always, they want it both ways. They have Walls but don’t want America to have a Wall.

          • akmofo November 2, 2017 at 7:34 am #

            I’m a nationalist and I have no issues with the Mexico wall. You see only what you want to see. You find an outlier presented to you by the paid Vatican/CIA stooge David Duke and you make it the rule. You’re not interested in truth, just racist warfare and dishonest Vatican/CIA staged propaganda.

  49. malthuss November 1, 2017 at 9:42 am #

    Akmofo
    According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in recent years, 100,000 new Muslim immigrants are brought into the United States each year, and it’s growing at a rate of about 10% per year.

    So this battle in the press about whether or not to reject the president’s plan to bring in 10,000 more is nothing but a distraction.

    The truth is that in the last 5 years, we have admitted more Muslims into the U.S. already than the entire Muslim population of Belgium – and that entire country is on lock down from the Friday the 13th terrorist event in adjoining France.

    –and remember, Mussies ‘breed on the tax payers money.’
    Breed like rats.
    What do you think BHO [muslim, schooled at a madrassa] meant by ‘fundamentally change merika?’

    • akmofo November 1, 2017 at 10:48 am #

      I can’t speak to Barry Soetoro’s mind, but I know the mind of those who are his sponsors, the Vatican/CIA mafia, and they are collectivists and globalists in their ideology. This is bad news for the rest of us, because these two vectors directly lead to supreme central control for the purpose of political and economic theft resulting in supreme tyranny and disenfranchisement.

      The good news is that people are becoming aware of this, and are starting to see their unseen foe.

      • Ol' Scratch November 1, 2017 at 11:16 am #

        The good news is that people are becoming aware of this, and are starting to see their unseen foe.

        Only just barely.

  50. malthuss November 1, 2017 at 9:45 am #

    Something big is definitely in the works. [End of dollars power?]

    Stock market crash and bank run/holiday anyone?

    WHEN? HOW SOON?

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    • Ol' Scratch November 1, 2017 at 11:17 am #

      That’s the fun part! Don’t you just love a surprise?

  51. Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 1:37 pm #

    https://www.amren.com/news/2017/11/new-york-attack-trump-calls-ending-diversity-visa-lottery-program/

    Hail Trump! Hail our People!

  52. Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 1:54 pm #

    Addressing journalists Saturday in Harare, Mutsvangwa said let bygones be bygones as he is aware that former Rhodesians may not have forgiven the liberation fighters after they defeated former Prime Minister Ian Smith government in the war for emancipation.

    “We did not fight a racial war, but a liberation war for black majority rule,” Mutsvangwa said.

    “We are also reaching out to the white diaspora and the white business community, they used to run a economy and they are organised and they have the experience.”

    How is a “liberation war for black majority rule” not a racial war? Any White who returns is a fool in love with death. Let them sink and starve. They killed the Golden Goose.

  53. Q. Shtik November 1, 2017 at 2:20 pm #

    From the NYT:

    3 Dartmouth College Professors Are Targeted in Sexual Misconduct Inquiry

    Hanover, N.H. — Three Dartmouth College professors whose research included studies of sexual desire and attractiveness have been put on paid leave while a criminal investigation of alleged sexual misconduct is carried out, the authorities said Tuesday.

    In related breaking news:

    Researchers at CNN, after an exhaustive study, announced today their findings that an obscure blog commenter posting under the name Q. Shtik was found to be the only male in the state of New Jersey not to have committed an act of sexual abuse against women. When asked to comment on this unexpected laudatory announcement Mr. Shtik replied “There was no need to, they threw themselves at me.” 😉

    • stelmosfire November 1, 2017 at 3:20 pm #

      Q says, “There was no need to, they threw themselves at me.”

      Spoken like Will Sonnett, aka Walter Brennan “No brag, just fact!”

      • stelmosfire November 1, 2017 at 3:27 pm #

        Forgot my link
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1qkorFszY

      • S M Tenneshaw November 1, 2017 at 9:17 pm #

        When he delivered his sterling pick-up line, “Hey bitch, wanna phuque?” they just couldn’t resist.

    • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 6:37 pm #

      Folks, the Harvey Weinstein thing is peanuts. As others have pointed out, women who acquiesce to filth like Weinstein are called “whores”. I continue to be amazed by women who claim that Weinstein forced himself upon them orally, with the women as recipients. Um, I do not understand how that is possible. Call me naive, but it seems to me that KICKING would be a reliable way to stop that. In the other direction, I have never understood how a woman could be made to perform oral sex. The jaw is the strongest point in the human body, pound for pound. Bite it off. Bite if off and spit it out. Problem solved. Problem so very, very SOLVED. The truth is, almost all of these women have publicly admitted that they either acquiesced (gave up) to Weinstein, or that they kept silent, some for decades, specifically and consciously to advance and/or maintain their careers. This is called “payment in kind”, and PIK is just as much payment as cash on the nightstand, honey.

      You’re lucky you never met the divine Miss Ann. You’d be singing soprano and pissin’ thru a straw and shit.

      • akmofo November 1, 2017 at 10:11 pm #

        That’s sick. You and Schweinstein both need to be treated in a mental institution ‘til you both are rehabilitated.

        • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 11:30 pm #

          Israel is a center of White Slavery.

          • malthuss November 2, 2017 at 12:13 am #

            more information, please.

          • Janos Skorenzy November 2, 2017 at 6:58 pm #

            You don’t disappoint! Here is live meat, my fine feathered crow: the best minority crime site on the web. If you keep growing, you may become a battle raven feeding on the dying. And beyond that, who knows? Maybe even one of the Ravens who sits on Odin’s shoulders if an opening opens up.

            http://www.newnation.org/

            I hope you aren’t disappointed. What you asked for is very rare and confidential knowledge. You can find it for yourself if you look. I have no particular inside edge on it. Perhaps not best shown here in any case.

      • tucsonspur November 1, 2017 at 10:26 pm #

        Oh what is it, why couldn’t they deal with his worst or his Wurst, and just bite into it? Maybe something beyond penis envy and more like an inner penis worship? The inseminating rod of life, how sacred! How could I do it! The gory aftermath, the legal aspects. Self defense?

        She would top the following list:

        https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2015/01/23-women-who-severed-their-partners-penis-for-cheating/

        Dawn, played by Jess Weixler(?), in “Teeth”, used her penis fly trap (vagina dentata) to masticate, chew or otherwise chomp on her unfortunate victims.

      • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 11:41 pm #

        This is from Ann Barnhardt. It won’t let me post a link. But google barnhardt biz and you’ll find it.

      • Elrond Hubbard November 2, 2017 at 3:09 pm #

        Blaming the victim: a phrase that had to be coined because, incredibly, there are people out there who actually do so.

        We are a sorry excuse for a species sometimes.

  54. Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 3:25 pm #

    If Zimbabwe wants Whites, let’s give them Crotch, Hubbard, and Sneed (Ozone). Let them choke on such low quality white meat….!

  55. FincaInTheMountains November 1, 2017 at 3:47 pm #

    New York Police are Furious

    that the true friend, or rather faithful Flying Monkey of Hillary Clinton Mayor De Blasio decided yesterday still to hold a festive parade of evil spirits.

    And if Trump counts on the help of the New York Police in case the civil war in New York acquires a non-hybrid character and he addresses them with an order to arrest the Deep State high rollers who are guilty of the sabotage of the US government, then he has a big problem: they can start helping him without an order.

    I am sorry, but yesterday I was stressed out and I can not write about anything else.

    In addition, the news tape is empty and in general I have the impression that Hillary is losing control over the media. And American journalists in full accordance with the story of the Strugatsky “Inhabited Island”, not having received a regular dose of the ideological fix from above, are paralyzed and do not know what to lie about.

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  56. Elrond Hubbard November 1, 2017 at 7:12 pm #

    Bike path victims reflected a buzzing, diverse New York City

    http://thechronicleherald.ca/world/1516410-bike-path-victims-reflected-a-buzzing-diverse-new-york-city

    “One of the dead was a mother of young sons from Belgium. Five had travelled from Argentina to New York with a tight-knit group of classmates to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their graduation.

    “The other victims were Americans: One a new college graduate working as a software engineer, the other a doting son who had recently lost nearly 100 pounds and was getting a bike ride in between meetings at his World Trade Center job.

    “Those killed in the New York bike path attack reflect a city that is a melting pot, a magnet for international visitors, and a business and technology capital.

    “‘They saw New York as a special place to be,’ said Mayor Bill de Blasio, ‘and we now and forever will consider them New Yorkers.’

    “The victims were mowed down by a rental truck Tuesday afternoon near the World Trade Center. Police called it a terrorist attack, saying the driver was an Uzbek immigrant who ‘did it in the name of ISIS.’

    “The largest group of victims came from Rosario, Argentina, the country’s third-largest city and the hometown of international soccer star Lionel Messi and guerrilla leader Che Guevara. They had made the trip courtesy of one of their well-heeled friends, who was also among those who perished.”

    May the victims rest in peace, and may justice be done upon their killer.

    • FincaInTheMountains November 1, 2017 at 8:09 pm #

      I hate this tearful enumeration of the merits of the victims of the terrorist act. Somehow I think it serves to intimidate the citizens and enhance the impact of the terror, cause a fucking sense of hopelessness.

      • Elrond Hubbard November 2, 2017 at 10:09 am #

        Yes: obsequies are tiresome, I agree. But why should anyone expect an outcome they like from a terrorist attack? Some things are just required for decency’s sake, including recognizing the value of the lives that were snuffed out. Sometimes we just have to be strong enough to reject hopelessness.

    • FincaInTheMountains November 1, 2017 at 8:11 pm #

      And Mayor Bill de Blasio better shut the fuck up.

      • S M Tenneshaw November 1, 2017 at 9:20 pm #

        Or you’ll fly over and deck him. Right?

        • FincaInTheMountains November 2, 2017 at 1:43 am #

          Hmm… “to deck someone” meaning to punch someone very hard, knocking them to the ground in some cases – hence “deck”, to “deck” someone as in putting them on a deck.

          Navy or just your pirate roots are showing?

          https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/getty-pirate-flag-800×531.jpg

          Yes, I would like to deck him very much, but more in a poetic sense – trying to do it literally probably not a smart idea.

    • Janos Skorenzy November 1, 2017 at 11:39 pm #

      The killer? Like there’s only one of them? As if he didn’t represent an organization, and the organization an entire religion and civilization?

      Oh, you are as crooked as the day is long – even in your condolences!

  57. Buck Stud November 2, 2017 at 12:54 am #

    “Call me naive, but it seems to me that KICKING would be a reliable way to stop that.”–Janos

    You’re naive. One of the worst things a women can do is try and kick a man in the balls because if not a perfect shot, many men will go instinctively violent/berserk and doi very severe damage to the women who fails with an attempted gonad shot gonad shot. Yes, so many of those women’s self defense classes are dangerous and delusional for the participants because they foster a false sense of confidence in the far physically weaker gender.

    One day, Grasshopper, you might be able to snatch the pebble from my hand. In the meantime, bow down and learn.

    • Janos Skorenzy November 2, 2017 at 2:44 am #

      No Gashopper, you didn’t bother to read it right: a guy is going down on her so he is perfect position to get kicked in the face.

      Many men advise women to give in and not fight back. I admire women who do fight. I guess the human race divides on this question as it does on so many. And we against find ourselves on different tectonic plates.

      • San Jose November 2, 2017 at 12:09 pm #

        I’ve never taken a self-defense class. My counter-attack strategy is to yell “FIRE” and run away fast.

        That being said, in instances of being verbally harassed, I have been so shocked that I can’t even think of what to say.

        Jen in San Jose

        • malthuss November 2, 2017 at 2:01 pm #

          self-defense class.

          Having tried different styles at different schools, such things are usually useless for women.

          Fighting is best done when adrenaline is high.
          Classes in disarming someone may be helpful to women.

  58. Buck Stud November 2, 2017 at 1:01 am #

    “The resurrected ‘knockout punch’ on unsuspecting women and elderly (from which these victims will never recover: once punched you stay punched) “. –BRH

    Utterly despicable–where did this occur?

    In other arenas, however, white and black fans of rap music seem to be able to gather in uneventful peace and simply listen to some of the worst excuse for music ever listened to by human ears. Go figure.

  59. FincaInTheMountains November 2, 2017 at 2:27 am #

    Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak during a pornographic “communion” – she wants to be just like Deep Throat Hillary.

    https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/andrey_kuprikov/22710770/751795/751795_original.jpg

  60. tucsonspur November 2, 2017 at 4:31 am #

    Dia de los Muertos.

    How appropriate.

    The Dark Wind blowing.

    Coyote howling.

    People dying.

    The nation dying.

    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/shooting-colorado-walmart-multiple-parties-down-police-012904260–abc-news-topstories.html

    Play the dreadful dirge. “Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly, play the dead march as I’m no longer strong, for I’m an old nation and know I’ve gone wrong”.

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  61. pequiste November 2, 2017 at 11:46 am #

    If special counsel Mueller, with all of the intense investigating going on, discovers that he was somehow involved with the Uranium One scandal as the head of the F.B.I. at the time, and violated the law, does he get to indict himself?

    And…..

    How is it that the subhuman Manhattan bike trail murderer is still alive?

    Cop must be an awful shot.

    Now consider how much time and resources are going to be spent on this bestial scumbag: hospital surgeries, Halal meals, incarcerations with transport, press conferences, family being taken care of with WIC, SNAP, section 8 housing and other FSA benefits, special prayer rooms with attendant foot baths (the Yzlamik show always has lots and lots of prayerz – they are so pious y’know,) and many other kind treatments.

    Unlike what you are going to get Kuffar!

    He needed to be taken care of right freakin’ there; his body becoming property of the State and, with all due haste, imolated inside of a swine’s carcass. His immediate family gathered up for some Nacht und Nebel, never to be seen again.

    That is, I think, about the only process that might dissuade a jihadi from actually going through with a heinous murderous act.

    • Elrond Hubbard November 2, 2017 at 3:04 pm #

      Done blowing off steam? Hope so. Let’s also hope the U.S. never again sinks to that level of barbarity, as it did at Abu Ghraib and other locations in the aftermath of 9/11. I can hardly think of a course of action better designed to inflame hatred of the U.S., and provoke more and worse terrorist atrocities, than what you’re suggesting. You should be ashamed of yourself. Try behaving like a civilized human being, not a shaved chimp.

      • malthuss November 2, 2017 at 4:24 pm #

        Under a man of Muslim faith, a bomb was dropped every 20 minutes, on average.

        FOR 8 F—- YEARS.

      • Janos Skorenzy November 2, 2017 at 9:27 pm #

        Now we see Elrond’s real priorities. How colorless and formulaic his condolences for the victims were. But hurt a Muslim or any Non-White? That’s just against the very Laws of Nature! They are his children and base of power. Hurt them and you hurt him and his parasite class.

      • pequiste November 2, 2017 at 9:41 pm #

        Um, je m’excuse Elrond;

        I always conduct myself in a most civilized manner, even around savages (that is just how the British were able to colonize one-quarter of the world’s surface – Canada included. Just ask some First Nations people how that worked out for them.)

        Maybe you’ve forgotten already? It was a bestial Yzlamik scumbag jihadi that did the terrorist mass murdering in Manhattan on the bicycle path. Innocent people died for nothing.

        He deserves not one iota, speck, molecule or trace of consideration — instead he, and his family, deserve to be dealt with with EXTREME prejudice. Serves as a model for everyone to behold and learn from. See work of Albert Bandura for details.

        • Elrond Hubbard November 2, 2017 at 11:45 pm #

          pequiste, there is nothing civilized in calling for someone’s summary execution and the ‘Night and Fog’ disappearance of their family. Nothing whatsoever. These things are crimes against humanity, and nobody cares if you happen to be wearing white tie and tails when you advocate them.

          Habeas corpus and due process of law are the foundation of any decent civil order. What’s more, these principles receive their most critical test exactly when murdering assholes commit violent provocations like the one in New York this week. Until you acknowledge this and pledge to amend your ways, we have nothing to discuss. You can start your education by seeing the Alain Resnais documentary short film by that title. As you watch earth-movers plow bodies into mass graves at Hitler’s death camps, reflect on the fact that you, and people you love, are protected from a similar fate because those principles are still adhered to by better people than yourself.

      • cbeard November 3, 2017 at 6:19 am #

        Bring all of our troops home. Put them to work sealing our border. Make life in the USA such a living hell for illegals, especially the ones of the muslim faith, that they are ready to run screaming back to where they came from.

    • Janos Skorenzy November 2, 2017 at 9:32 pm #

      Yes, the Chinese hit them back twice as hard and go after families. The latter is especially effective. Indian Muslims have been fairly well behaved for a long time since their last massacre lead to a Hindu rampage that left a thousand of them dead.

      They only understand violence it seems. But look on the bright side: the punk was waving around toy guns hoping to become a martyr – and was denied that. No seventy virgins for this misshapen dwarf.

    • elysianfield November 3, 2017 at 11:16 am #

      “He needed to be taken care of right freakin’ there; his body becoming property of the State and, with all due haste, imolated inside of a swine’s carcass. His immediate family gathered up for some Nacht und Nebel, never to be seen again. ”

      Pequiste,
      Pretty much, with a bit of variation, what they are doing in Israel today. How’s that working out…?

  62. malthuss November 2, 2017 at 1:59 pm #

    Bike path victims reflected a diverse City.

    As did the accused killer. Die versity has a price

    • Elrond Hubbard November 2, 2017 at 2:40 pm #

      Police arrest man suspected of killing 3 at Colorado Walmart
      Police had yet to determine a motive for the shooting, which occurred late Wednesday inside the busy Walmart. Two men died inside the store, and a woman died later at a hospital, police said.

      https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/11/02/police-name-suspect-in-colorado-walmart-shooting-that-killed-3.html

      “THORNTON, COLO.—A man suspected of fatally shooting two men and a woman inside a suburban Denver Walmart was arrested 14 hours later following a brief car chase Thursday that ended at a congested intersection, police said.

      “Scott Ostrem, 47, was arrested after police pulled over his car about 8 kilometres from the Walmart store in the city of Thornton, police spokesperson Victor Avila said.

      “Television footage showed Ostrem, with close-cropped hair and wearing a red polo shirt, standing silently and staring down as he was handcuffed. Avila declined comment on whether Ostrem had a weapon when he was arrested.

      Here’s a pop quiz.

      1. The Walmart shooting victims reflected:
      (a) A diverse city of Thornton, CO.
      (b) A racially, culturally and religiously uniform city of Thornton, CO.
      (c) The actions of the accused gunman, who bears direct responsibility for his actions.
      (d) Whatever Alex Jones says. That guy really has his finger on the pulse — I think I’ll give him some money!

      2. Police have named Scott Ostrem as the gunman. The actions of this accused killer reflect:
      (a) Diversity.
      (b) Something other than diversity (fill in the blank): ____________
      (c) Whatever Alex Jones says. That guy really has his finger on the pulse — I think I’ll give him some money!

      3. Police have yet to report a motive for this seemingly random shooting of strangers. Suppose for the sake of argument that the perpetrator was acting as a white nationalist. Which of the following is true?
      (a) Diversity has a price, and the perpetrator is a warrior who made deserving people pay it.
      (b) Diversity has a price, and innocent people spilled their blood because of the perpetrator’s villainous actions.
      (c) Diversity is a valid choice for a free society, but some people will reject it with murderous violence.
      (d) Both (b) and (c).
      (e) Whatever Alex Jones says. That guy really has his finger on the pulse — I think I’ll give him some money!

      • capt spaulding November 2, 2017 at 2:57 pm #

        I hope this doesn’t affect their Back to School gun promotion.

        • malthuss November 2, 2017 at 4:20 pm #

          I like that you used the word ‘affect’ correctly.

          Who is Alex Jones?

      • benr November 2, 2017 at 6:14 pm #

        Here is a question for you…
        Have you ever listened to the guy or are you simply taking the ever wrong mainstream medias take on Alex Jones?
        I ask because I started listening to him around 2003 for kicks just because I liked to make fun of him and then over time I realized the guy is actually right about far more then he is wrong.
        He speaks about painful truths the mainstream media won’t even begin to explore.
        Of course he does go down tangents that are ridiculous and unprovable but anyone that actually thinks any “news outlet” fails to make mistakes is a fool.

        “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

        • Elrond Hubbard November 2, 2017 at 6:52 pm #

          Not really, no. Think what you like of that, I really don’t care. It’s not hard to tell the man is a huckster and a charlatan. One man’s “going down tangents” is another man’s “taking advantage of people’s credulity to sell them crap”. And he causes real harm: just ask the parents of the kids Adam Lanza murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary.

  63. 100th Avatar November 2, 2017 at 3:11 pm #

    Donna Brazile, like any deep-state veteran, attempts to salvage her reputation with a 13th hour mea culpa.
    Too late.
    HRC already read your questions.

    Where is the mainstream media with all this?

    Reporting on Trump’s Russian nexus as determined by a deep-state blue blood.

    Fools manipulated by fools.

  64. FincaInTheMountains November 2, 2017 at 3:48 pm #

    Russian People’s Cathedral – a Crisis of Articulation?

    Berdyaev as a result refused Orthodoxy and became a Catholic, and Ilyin tried to build an Orthodox religious philosophy on Hegel – the main ideologist of the Illuminati, one of the creators of the Order.

    No wonder he liked Hitler so much. No, I do not deny – Hegel is wonderful, you can say a brilliant philosopher, but all the same Hegel must be verified by Christ and not Christ by Hegel, Christ is the Truth, not a scientific point of view.

    By the way, I do not know about the “scientific point of view”, but the documented scientific method beyond all doubt was created not by Hegel, but by the Emperor Justinian, but Hegelian Christianity and Christian Hegelianism are struggling with each other not only in the pages of scientific journals but also fill Russian People’s Cathedral, occasionally overflowing over the edge.

    Moreover, attempts to somehow verify Hegel using Christ cause objections: Why put Orthodoxy onto philosophical, that is, a scientific language. And this has its own logic, but this is the logic of Tertullian, who said that simpleton believers do not need to know the Holy Scriptures, it is enough for them to know that Christ died for them, and only the ordained hierarchs should talk about heresy and Christian apologetics. And this despite the fact that all the heretics were righteous before they became heretics and received the gift of the Holy Spirit – participation in the Liturgy behind the altar certainly helps, but it does not guarantee of anything.

    But the most terrible thing is that Patriarch Kirill did not consider it necessary to mention Ukraine in his speech, and, speaking of the revolution, he forgot to specify which of them he meant. Meanwhile, the October Revolution is the antithesis of the February revolution, or, in Hegel’s words, these two “revolutions” are a dichotomy, and not an antinomy. And in this sense the October Revolution is rather a counterrevolution, but Kozhinov, with his theory of Stalin as anti-communist and anti-Semite, has nothing to do with this.

    And as far as can be judged by the works of Patriarch Kirill, he really is the shining light of the Orthodoxy, but going to such a podium, he becomes a church diplomat and simply can not tell all kinds of Diomedes out the door like St. Alexis II did.

    And yet, not only the people of the state, but also the hierarchs of the church, one by one, rush into the bubble of philosophy and, not having the proper background, say in scientific language such things that even icons need to be taken out first.

    The fact is that the “scientific language”, unlike the scientific method, arose in the 14th and 15th centuries in the disputes of the Catholic scholars, and by accepting the syllogisms of such geniuses as Hegel and Kant, Orthodox Christians, including Orthodox hierarchs, not even suspect that the attainments of Hegel and Kant are based on the denial of simpletons’ ability to see the Divine Light with their sinful eyes.

    • akmofo November 2, 2017 at 4:50 pm #

      Joseph Atwill -The Roots of Christianity pt.1 – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW1GIhWm7c0

      As Joseph Atwill correctly points out, you will never understand Biblical literature unless you understand the literary devices used at the time the literature was conceived.

      • Q. Shtik November 2, 2017 at 8:25 pm #

        you will never understand Biblical literature unless you understand the literary devices used at the time the literature was conceived. – akmofo

        ===========

        You see, Finc. akmofo understands Biblical literature and literary devices used at the time because akmofo is a Biblical literature scholar AND because he is over 5000 years old. Ditto for Joseph Atwill.

        • akmofo November 2, 2017 at 9:32 pm #

          Actually, these literary devices are well known in Jewish tradition and historical scholarship, and are very recognizable once understood. Joseph Atwill does a wonderful job laying these out. But what Joseph Atwill really brings to the table is historical context, which exposes this literature to better understanding of what it really is. That QShtik is ignorant of this, does not mean that others are, or that others should be. QShtik prefers to be willfully ignorant of many things, because that’s the feudalistic pederast mafia programming QShtik received and has internalized. “Nothing to see here”. Am I wrong, QShtik?

          • Q. Shtik November 2, 2017 at 11:49 pm #

            akmofo asks: Am I wrong, QShtik?

            ===========

            Well, if it means anything, in the interest of being somewhat informed, I committed to read The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testaments from cover to cover including all footnotes.

            I’m a little over halfway through (I’m at Chapter 41 of The Book of Sirach). It has done nothing to shake my atheism, in fact quite the opposite. What it HAS done is provide some understanding of the self-willed separation of Jews from all others.

          • akmofo November 3, 2017 at 12:13 am #

            Let’s all pretend you are moron, so I’ll ask again:
            Did you go to Catholic school or did you not?

          • akmofo November 3, 2017 at 8:50 am #

            moron or mormon, looks like the iOS gods have decided to override my one finger tapping

  65. malthuss November 2, 2017 at 4:23 pm #

    Elrond / Lorne,

    It’s not going to stop. African Americans, and other minorities as well, are part of America and have been from the beginning.

    Obama,

    Muslims built Merikkka.

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  66. FincaInTheMountains November 3, 2017 at 12:42 am #

    Russian vs American Globalization

    Russia has integrated different peoples, not erasing their identities and national cultures.

    This is Russian globalization

    In the USA, the concept of a melting pot is adopted, when emigrants are melted to the state of an animal or rather a clean sheet of paper without any culture, and then on this sheet superhuman perfecti write a new American culture – unification globalization.

    • akmofo November 3, 2017 at 1:03 am #

      So Russian imperialism is a good thing?

      • FincaInTheMountains November 3, 2017 at 6:54 am #

        Russia is the Third Rome, and there will not be the Fourth

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Rome

        Not a single Nation or even tribe have disappeared in Russian Empire – that includes USSR and Russian Federation, peoples who didn’t have their own written language received one courtesy of Russian Academy of Science.

        • akmofo November 3, 2017 at 8:35 am #

          True. And here I am extremely conflicted. I bare tremendous personal affinity and sympathy to the Russian people, but imperialism is theft and it is evil. Rome is serfdom made legal by Christianity. These are anti human constructs and I hope the Russian people will soon acquire the psychological insight and courage to see their way past these insidiously corrupting political pitfalls.

          • FincaInTheMountains November 3, 2017 at 9:00 am #

            Exactly where we differ a lot. Russia can not exist without its imperial essence.

            Good news: Participation in that Empire is on strictly volunteer basis, and I’m pretty sure Anglo Saxons will never volunteer.

            However, there are some talks about reunification of the Church of England with Russian Orthodox Church, but personally, I doubt that it is possible in this century.

          • akmofo November 3, 2017 at 10:06 am #

            It’s voluntary, until it’s not.

            But I agree. Russia faces serious challenges from the many empires surrounding it. These entities are mutually reinforcing. So how to break this circuit? Psychological insight and courage, and Russians thankfully do not lack these in the least.

  67. FincaInTheMountains November 3, 2017 at 12:59 am #

    The Washington Post argue that it was Russia that taught American politicians to lie, hide money from taxes, launder black profits and even “lead a wasteful lifestyle.”

    In the picture of the world that is imposed on Western society, Russia is given the role of such a “bad guy” who is driving astray the crystal-clear and honest American politicians, billionaires and lobbyists. The era of post-truth finally came about.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russia-taught-paul-manafort-all-his-dirty-tricks/2017/10/30/95887e82-bdb7-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.3bdc19384e7c

    It is impossible not to note the extreme impudence with which this incredibly absurd narrative is pushed forward. The author of the article in the Washington Post, Anna Applebaum does not hesitate to admit that no evidence of cooperation between Manafort and the Russian government was found, but at the same time emphasizes that he acted in Ukraine in the interests of Moscow.

    However, such a recognizable absurdist discourse, in which logic is completely lacking, is something like a family business, considering that Mrs. Applebaum’s husband is the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radoslav Sikorski, one of the most consistent European Russophobes.

  68. 100th Avatar November 3, 2017 at 5:38 am #

    Now that’s a Fresh Prince:
    Rapidly growing human populations risk having a “terrible impact” on the world, the Duke of Cambridge has warned.

    The Duke said that as a result, wildlife was being put under “enormous pressure” and called for the issue to be addressed with renewed vigour.

    His concerns echo those of his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, who in 2011 advocated “voluntary family limitation” as a means of solving overpopulation, which he described as the biggest challenge in conservation.

    His grandson, royal patron of the Tusk Trust, told the charity’s gala dinner in London that measures needed to be taken to save certain animal populations.

    “In my lifetime, we have seen global wildlife populations decline by over half,” he said.

    Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge chats with journalists
    Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge chats with journalists
    “We are going to have to work much harder, and think much deeper, if we are to ensure that human beings and the other species of animal with which we share this planet can continue to co-exist.

    “Africa’s rapidly growing human population is predicted to more than double by 2050 – a staggering increase of three and a half million people per month.

    • Q. Shtik November 3, 2017 at 9:51 am #

      Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge chats with journalists
      Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge chats with journalists

      =============

      You can say that again !

  69. FincaInTheMountains November 3, 2017 at 6:37 am #

    CLINTON MELTDOWN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYS5BROQxw0&t=19

    Pocahontas breaks bad on Hillary:

    Elizabeth Warren Says 2016 Democratic Nomination Rigged For Hillary Clinton

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-nomination-rigged_us_59fb90cde4b0b0c7fa3919d0?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    And we haven’t touched yet the sale of Soviet missile technology to N. Korea by Ukraine brokered by Clintons.

  70. Q. Shtik November 3, 2017 at 9:58 am #

    so I’ll ask again:
    Did you go to Catholic school or did you not? – akmofo

    =============

    Actually you never asked that question however the answer is as follows:

    1 – 12 Public schools (I was so smart I was able to skip K)
    College: St Joe’s in Philly
    MBA: Rutgers

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    • akmofo November 3, 2017 at 10:48 am #

      You could have just answered yes.

      Wikipedia: Saint Joseph’s University (also referred to as SJU or St. Joe’s) is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university located in the Philadelphia suburb of Merion Station in Lower Merion Township on the historic Philadelphia Main Line. The University was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1851 as Saint Joseph’s College. Saint Joseph’s is the seventh oldest Jesuit university in the United States and one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

      Some extracurricular material for your bible studies:
      https://www.youtube.com/user/ancienthebreworg/videos

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