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The Politics Behind 'Russia-gate'
Category: Expert's opinion, TopStories
Robert Parry
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America's Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com).
Exclusive: The hysteria over "Russia-gate" continues to grow – as President Trump's enemies circle – but at its core there may be no there there while it risks pushing the world toward nuclear annihilation, writes Robert Parry.
There may be a turn-about-is-fair-play element to Democrats parsing the words of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Trump administration officials to hang them on possible "perjury" charges. After all, the Republicans made "lock her up" a popular chant citing Hillary Clinton's arguably illegal use of a private email server as Secretary of State and her allegedly false claim under oath that her lawyers had hand-checked each of her 30,000 or so emails that were deleted as personal.
President Donald Trump being sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017. (Screen shot from Whitehouse.gov)
But there is a grave danger in playing partisan "gotcha" over U.S. relations with the world's other major nuclear superpower. If, for instance, President Trump finds himself having to demonstrate how tough he can be on Russia — to save his political skin — he could easily make a miscalculation that could push the two countries into a war that could truly be the war to end all wars – along with ending human civilization. But Democrats, liberals and the mainstream news media seem to hate Trump so much they will take that risk.
Official Washington's Russia hysteria has reached such proportions that New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman has even compared the alleged Russian hacking of Democratic emails to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, two incidents that led the United States into violent warfare. On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show, Friedman demanded that the hacking allegations be taken with the utmost seriousness: "That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event. … This goes to the very core of our democracy."
But what really goes to "the very core of our democracy" is the failure to deal with this issue – or pretty much any recent issue – with the sobriety and the seriousness that should accompany a question of war or peace. Just as Friedman and other "star" journalists failed to ask the necessary questions about Iraq's WMD or to show professional skepticism in the face of U.S. propaganda campaigns around the conflicts in Libya, Syria or Ukraine, they have not demanded any actual evidence from the Obama administration for its lurid claims about Russian "hacking."
Before this madness goes any further, doesn't anyone think that the U.S. intelligence community should lay its cards on the table regarding exactly what the evidence is that Russian intelligence purloined Democratic emails and then slipped them to WikiLeaks for publication? President Obama's intelligence officials apparently went to great lengths to spread these allegations around – even passing the secrets around overseas – but they never told the American people what the evidence is. The two official reports dealing with the issue were laughably short on anything approaching evidence. They amounted to "trust us."
Further, WikiLeaks representatives have indicated that the two batches of emails – one from the Democratic National Committee and the other from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta – did not come from the Russians but rather from two different American insiders. That could be wrong – it is possible that Russian intelligence laundered the material through some American cutouts or used some other method to conceal Moscow's hand – but Obama's intelligence officials apparently don't know how WikiLeaks obtained the emails. So, the entire "scandal" may rest upon a foundation of sand.
No 'Fake News'
It's also important to note that nothing that WikiLeaks published was false. There was no "fake news." Indeed, a key reason why the emails were newsworthy at all was that they exposed misconduct and deception on the part of the Democrats and the Clinton campaign. The main point that the DNC emails revealed was that the leadership had violated its duty to approach the primary campaign even-handedly when instead they tilted the playing field against Sen. Bernie Sanders. Later, the Podesta emails revealed the contents of Clinton's speeches to Wall Street bankers, which she was trying to hide from the voters, and the emails exposed some of the pay-to-play tactics of the Clinton Foundation.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking with supporters at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, March 21, 2016. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)
In other words, even if the Russians did reveal this information to the American people, how does knowing relevant facts regarding a presidential campaign translate into an attack on "the core of our democracy"? Usually, journalists believe that getting the truth out, even if it embarrasses some politician or some political party, is healthy for a democracy. As an American journalist, I prefer getting information from people who have America's best interests at heart, but I'm not naïve enough to think that people who "leak" don't often do so for self-interested reasons. What's most important is that the information is genuine and newsworthy.
Frankly, I found the WikiLeaks material far more appropriate for an American political debate than the scurrilous rumors that the Clinton campaign was circulating about Trump supposedly getting urinated on by Russian prostitutes in a five-star Moscow hotel, claims for which no evidence has been presented.
Also, remember that no one thought that the DNC/Podesta emails were significant in deciding the 2016 election. Clinton herself blamed FBI Director James Comey for briefly reopening the FBI investigation into her private email server near the end of the campaign as the reason her poll numbers cratered. It's relevant, too, that Clinton ran a horrific campaign, which included breathtaking gaffes like referring to many Trump supporters as "deplorables," relying way too heavily on negative ads, failing to articulate a compelling vision for the future, and ignoring signs that her leads in Rust Belt states were disappearing. In other words, the current effort to portray the disclosure of Democratic emails as somehow decisive in the campaign is revisionist history.
Yet, here we are with The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and almost the entire mainstream media (along with leading liberals and Democrats) panting every time they discover that someone from Trump's circle met with a Russian. We are supposed to forget that the Russian government for many years was collaborating closely with the U.S. government – and particularly with U.S. national security agencies – on vital issues. Russia assisted in supplying the U.S. military in Afghanistan; President Putin played a crucial role in getting Iran to curtail its nuclear program; and he also arranged for the Syrian government to surrender its stockpiles of chemical weapons. The last two accomplishments were among President Obama's most important foreign policy successes.
But those last two areas of cooperation – Iran and Syria – contributed to making Putin a target for Washington's powerful neoconservatives who were lusting for direct U.S. military strikes against those two countries. The neocons, along with the Israeli and Saudi governments, wanted "regime change" in Tehran and Damascus, not diplomatic agreements that left the governments in place.
Neocons inside the U.S. government – including Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, Sen. John McCain and National Endowment for Democracy president Carl Gershman – then took aim at "regime change" in Ukraine, realizing its sensitivity to Russia. Gershman, whose NED is funded by the U.S. government, called Ukraine "the biggest prize" and a key step toward ousting Putin inside Russia; McCain cheered on Ukraine's ultranationalists who were firebombing police in Kiev's Maidan square; and Nuland was conspiring with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt on how to "glue" or "midwife" a change in government.
This neocon strategy worked by overthrowing Ukraine's elected President Viktor Yanukovych and causing Putin to intervene on behalf of threatened ethnic Russians in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. That, in turn, was transformed by the Western media into a "Russian invasion."
Partisan Interests
Instead of standing up to this neocon troublemaking, Obama fell in line. Later, the Democrats saw political advantage in becoming the super-hawks standing up to Russia, essentially maneuvering to the right of the Republicans, especially when Donald Trump unexpectedly won the nomination, in part, by calling for better relations with Russia.
Russia's Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. (Photo from Russian Embassy)
As the 2016 presidential campaign sank into infamy as one of the ugliest in U.S. history, Clinton hammered Trump over Russia, calling him a Putin "puppet." But the Russia-bashing didn't seem to help Clinton very much. Although it was calculated to pull in some "moderate" Republicans, it also alienated many peace-oriented Democrats.
Still, despite the shaky foundation and the haphazard construction, Official Washington is now adding more and more floors to this Russia "scandal." Obama holdovers slapped together a shoddy pretext for going after Trump's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn – citing the never-prosecuted Logan Act of 1799 and then trapping Flynn because he didn't have total recall of a phone conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak on Dec. 29 while Flynn was vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
Similarly, the mainstream media and Democrats are framing in a "perjury" case against Attorney General Sessions because of a sloppily worded response during his confirmation hearing about contacts with Russians. He had met twice with Kislyak (as many others in Washington have done). The heavy-breathing suspicion is that perhaps Sessions and Kislyak were plotting how the Kremlin could help the Trump campaign, but there is zero evidence to support that conspiracy theory.
What's actually happening here should be obvious. The Obama administration, the Democrats and the mainstream media were horrified at Trump's election. They understandably were offended by Trump's personal behavior and his obvious unfitness for the presidency. Many Clinton supporters, especially women, were bitterly disappointed at the failure of the first female major-party presidential nominee who lost to a lout who boasted about how he could exploit his fame and power by grabbing the genitals of vulnerable women whom he assumed couldn't do anything to stop him.
There was also alarm about Trump's policies on the environment, immigration, education and the courts. Among the neocons and their liberal-interventionist sidekicks, there was concern, too, that Trump would not continue their "regime change" strategies in the Middle East and their hostility toward Russia.
So, these anti-Trump forces grabbed at the most potent weapon available, the suspicions that Trump had somehow colluded with Russia. It didn't matter that the evidence was weak to non-existent. It would be enough to spread the allegations around under the cloak of U.S. intelligence "assessments."
Nobody important would demand to review the evidence and, surely, with the availability of National Security Agency intercepts, people's memories could be tested against the transcripts of conversations and be found wanting. Verbal missteps could become perjury traps. There could be a witch hunt against anyone who talked to a Russian. Any pushing back from the Trump people could be construed as a "cover-up."
Having worked in Washington for nearly four decades, I have seen political investigations before, both in steering away from real crimes of state (such as Nicaraguan Contra cocaine trafficking and Republican collaboration with foreign governments to undercut Democrats in 1968 and 1980) and in fabricating scandals that weren't there (such as the fictional offenses of Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Chinagate, etc. under Bill Clinton who was finally cornered for the heinous crime of lying about sex). So far at least, "Russia-gate" fits much more with the latter group than the former.
What I also have learned over these years is that in Official Washington, power – much more than truth – determines which scandals are taken seriously and which ones are not. "Russia-gate" is revealing that the established power centers of Washington arrayed against Trump – the major news media, the neoconservatives and the Democratic Party – have more power than the disorganized Trump administration.
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National Review Calls For Red Flag Laws, Mass Arrests of Shitposters, COINTELPRO Sabotage of White Nationalist Groups
August 5, 2019 Hunter Wallace 2020 Election, Alt-Punditry, Conservatism, Cuckservatives, Gun Control, Guns, Humor, Mass Shootings, White Nationalism 69
It is date night.
I'm taking my wife out to eat and to see The Lion King. Before I head out the door, I want to show you what the True Conservatives at National Review are proposing to do to White Nationalists. As you know, "conservative liberals" are dedicated to the preserving the eternal principles of classical liberalism, which makes them a very different breed of animal from "progressive liberals."
I will have a lot more to say about this later tonight when I get home. It will probably be sufficient though just to show you the value of the principles of "conservative liberalism" to our community.
David French calls for a declaration of war on White Nationalism:
"It's time to face some dreadful, terrible facts. The United States is now facing a deadly challenge from a connected, radical, online-organizing community of vicious white-nationalist terrorists. They are every bit as evil as jihadists, and they radicalize in much the same way. And just like the ISIS terrorists our nation and our allies have confronted in the great cities of the West, they use the most modern of tools to advance the oldest of hatreds.
America has faced waves of white-supremacist terror in the past, and there are always at least some, few extremists lurking in the dark corners of American life. We've come to expect the occasional act of white-supremacist violence, and we've sometimes explained it away as the last spasm of a dying bigotry.
Beginning in 2015, however, it became apparent to those who had eyes to see that our nation was starting to experience a new youth movement of hate. The Charleston church massacre was followed by a strange — and for those who experienced it — terrifying wave of bizarre online racist harassment. The word "alt-right" entered the American lexicon. …"
Here is David French again endorsing Blompf's call this morning for Red Flag Laws where social media companies and liberal judges can take your guns away without due process:
"A so-called "red flag" law fills the gaps in criminal law and the laws governing mental-health adjudications by granting standing to a defined, limited universe of people to seek temporaryseizure orders — called gun-violence-restraining orders — for a gun if they can present admissible evidence that the gun's owner is exhibiting threatening behavior. …
"There is no question that poorly drafted laws are subject to abuse. Grant too many people standing to seek an order, lower the burdens of proof, or allow for easy access to ex parte orders, and you expose law-abiding citizens to the threat of vindictive proceedings. But these are fixable issues that should not be an impediment to effective reform. The Federal Commission on School Safety, which has recommended passing red-flag laws, wisely argues that "states should adopt clear and narrow definitions identifying appropriate persons with standing to file a petition" and that "states can deter misuse or abuse of the [red flag] process through appropriate criminal penalties for false (bad faith) or harassing petitions."2
No one should suggest that red-flag laws represent a cure for mass shootings. Of course they don't. The challenge is too complex and the trend too well entrenched to be defeated by any single public policy. If properly drafted, such laws do, however, provide the public with a vital tool that can cover the gaps left between a healthy criminal-prosecution regime and a woefully inadequate mental-health-adjudication process.
A partial public-policy cure — especially one that is targeted to the exact real-world challenges presented by mass shooters — is better than no cure at all. Trump is right to call for red-flag laws. State legislators should heed his call."
Here is Rich Lowry on how the FBI should infiltrate and disrupt White Nationalist groups and communities like they did to the Klan with the COINTELPRO program back in the 1960s:
"Of course, the contemporary FBI obviously isn't going to take over the alt-right, nor should we want it to. The abuses of the COINTELPRO programs — the FBI also targeted civil-rights groups and the New Left, among others — became notorious when they were exposed in the 1970s.
There are also practical obstacles to the FBI duplicating its anti-Klan work, the most important of which is that the Klan was an organization, whereas today's white supremacists are isolated, free-floating haters whose only connection to anyone else often is anonymous Internet postings.
Yet the FBI needs to be intensely focused on this threat. The bureau should take an intelligence-based approach. It should monitor sewer Internet boards such as 8chan, the preferred white-supremacist forum for propagandizing for mass murder. Posters who cross over from First Amendment–protected speech to incitement should be prosecuted. The FBI should interview anyone expressing sympathy with terrorism — just as it does with suspected Islamic extremists — and surveil such persons as appropriate and permitted under the law.3
El Paso was an outrage, and surely not the last. We need to react accordingly."
Andrew McCarthy on how all "white supremacists" should be considered police suspects and investigated by law enforcement. This is all very "constitutional" like arbitrarily seizing firearms from people:
"What is required, however, is the will to do a full-court press. White supremacists tend to strike as loners, not as operatives of an organization; but there are social-media communities and other meeting places to which they gravitate. We have to set aside the reluctance to monitor the resulting communications and associations for intelligence purposes.
If a person is a white supremacist, that implies a hostility to our societal order and sympathy for racist brutality. To cite the obvious example, the online message board 8chan, on which the El Paso white-supremacist terrorist posted his manifesto, often lionizes Dylann Roof, the infamous white supremacist who carried out the Charleston church massacre. No, being a white supremacist and associating with white supremacists are not, by themselves, grounds for prosecution; but they are constitutionally sufficient grounds for police suspicion. They warrant investigation. It has always been permissible to use beliefs, associations, and speech for evidentiary purposes in criminal investigations. This is not criminalizing constitutionally protected ideas; it is investigating to prevent the violent crimes to which aggressively hateful ideas are known to lead.
The First Amendment protects a person's right to believe in white supremacism, to be a white supremacist, to associate with other white supremacists, and to discuss their repulsive beliefs. Yet, the Constitution does not require police — or the rest of us — to blind ourselves to the nexus between ideology and violence."
Jim Geraghty on how mass arrests and detentions of Alt-Right and White Nationalist shit posters could be done:
"Over the weekend, Twitter commentator Kilgore Trout offered an extreme option: Authorities can determine who posts on boards that celebrate mass shootings or troll about them, and they should charge them as accessories to the crime. (Profanity warning at the link; the term for posting memes and other messages celebrating, promoting, and encouraging mass shooters is a four-letter word.) Cleaning up his language a bit, his recommendation is. . .
"You're not going to fix the problem one white nationalist ****poster at a time. their networks need to be destroyed by putting them in constant fear that their next ****post body count meme is going to be the one that sends the feds to their door. Yes, this is a government action deliberately designed to suppress speech, and no, slyly conspiring to commit acts of terror in broad daylight on 8chan is not protected speech after the acts of terror are no longer hypotheticals. This is what we'd advocate for if ISIS set up shop in America and created a bunch of one-man splinter cells ready to activate at any moment. No one would bat an eye at arresting the accomplices – it's just less recognizable as white nationalist ****posting. if you want to share ****posts about shooting the [offensive term for Latinos] and gassing the Jews, go right ahead, no one's stopping you. But if one of your ****post buddies you go back and forth with on 8chan then goes out and does it, yeah, you should be good and[in deep trouble]." …
Maybe this just reflects an exhaustion with "trolling" culture. If you spend a significant amount of time online — particularly on Twitter — you've probably put up with more abuse than your ever imagined, often racist or anti-Semitic and more than vaguely threatening. The vast majority of us think of ourselves as a First Amendment supporters, but perhaps you can only be sent "Trump's gonna put you in the ovens" memes so many times before you start thinking, "to hell with this, if this guy sending me this message is such a big fan of fascism, let's have the government throw his butt in jail for what he posts and see if he likes it so much then."
Here's what you need to know:
1.) First, this is all highly "constitutional."
2.) Second, this is also extremely "principled."
3.) Third, "conservative liberalism" is very different from "progressive liberalism" and should be taken seriously.
4.) Fourth, this is fully consistent with the eternal principles of classical liberalism. This is not a volte face call for authoritarianism and state repression.
5.) Fifth, it is simply isn't true that conservatives have conserved nothing, and the proof of their success is gun control. Conservatives are holding the line on gun control by supporting Minority Report-style pre-crime surveillance, suppression of dissidents and confiscation of firearms.
6.) Finally, you need to get out and support Blompf in the 2016 election because the Democrats R The Real Racists and the black unemployment rate has never been lower and the U.S. embassy has been moved to Jerusalem. We want them to come in legally in the HIGHEST NUMBERS EVER.
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There is a storm coming…
Hunter Wallace
So your holiday statement about internet hysterics and prospering Whites in the real US world hasn't aged very well…
Snowhitey
Could all be distractions. Perhaps someone needs to focus on other news items especially those carried in foreign newspapers.
Maybe the whole system is going to collapse. Who would be their greatest threat?
spahnranch1969
As I have said before, if there is going to be some kind of armed conflict with the government and its mercenaries that conflict will be fought by whites, while the jews and their brown-skinned pets will remain relatively unharmed.
Fr. John+
"You're not going to fix the problem one white nationalist ****poster at a time. their networks need to be destroyed by putting them in constant fear that their next ****post body count meme is going to be the one that sends the feds to their door. "
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
? Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
F*CKING GOD-DAMN BOLSHEVIKS!!!! ALL OF THESE ASSH*LES WHOSE PICTURES ARE HERE, ARE LATTER-DAY Bolsheviks! And David French is NOTHING BUT an antichrist, who thinks he is beloved of God, and yet is, and has nothing but the condemnation of a damned "jew' per Rev. 3:8,9. ANATHEMA ANATHEMA ANATHEMA!!!
And Trump is NAUGHT BUT a lousy orange copycat, latter-day, Julian the Apostate!!! If these quotes from 2000 years ago, don't bespeak 'our values' today, you have learned nothing…
The mindset of the Apostate has not changed, in 2000 years. Some quotes by this blasphemer.
"Next to consider the views that are [sic] correctly held by the Jews, and also those that our fathers handed down to us from the beginning."
"Now that the human race possesses its knowledge of God by nature and not from teaching is proved to us first of all by the universal yearning for the divine that is in all men whether private persons or communities, whether considered as individuals or as races."- Julian in his book, "Against the Galileans."
The Apostates of the world all crave adulation from the godless Jews, [Trump Heights] and freedom from the constraints of true biblical law [ decriminalizing sodomy]- so much so, they proclaim the 'universal equality of the races.' Utter rubbish. And damned by God.
Civil War II has begun, ladies and gents. Deo Vindice!
Afterthought
You wanted fascism? Here it is.
Captain John Charity Spring MA
It was Bowers in Pittsburgh. That was the Rubicon. They put their ducks in a row after that. Nb4 Denise, even if it didn't happen, it happened. Its happening now.
Renny M.
Captain, you are making a faulty argument. The whole "don't shoot/speak/assemble or they'll take away our rights" doesn't hold any water. ERPO legislation started in 1999, and the crack downs on our gun rights started long before that. You're just a coward who is too afraid to use the rights you have.
Sure thing, Boomer.
Fascism involves the struggle for national rebirth. That doesn't serve the interests of the (((donor class))) so Potatus Blompf isn't interested.
Plus, Muricans are too weak to be fascists.
Read a fucking book, idiot.
Afterthought- Don't insult fascism. This is BOLSHEVISM, led by the same race that invented it, in the first place.
"Some call it Communism; I call it Judaism." (–"Red Rabbi" Stephen Wise, when asked in 1935 by a reporter to comment on Communism).
– https://jewryexposedblog1.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/knowing-the-jews-from-their-own-writingsquotes/
Feral Blonde
I couldn't hate more.
MakePieGreatAgain
Awesome name.
How can you be a white supremacist and a white separatist at the same time? Who are you going to be supreme to if you live in a country with only your own kind?
The White Supremacist meme never made any no sense. It proves how silly these people are. One can only be a racial supremacist in a multi-racial country of the kind David French's owners prefer.
And didn't French purchase a black child from Africa, and then parade her around as a status symbol at conservative meetings? SICK! That should be pointed out more.
When they warn the public about the dangers of "white supremacy" they are actually threatening whites, using the power of jew supremacy. Crazy but true!
"White supremacist" means any White person who doesn't want his race abolished.
"No room for White supremacists" means no room for White people.
Apparently David French doesn't know that a "dog-child" can be had at his local animal shelter for next to nothing. Just sayin'…
Oskar Dirlewanger
"US Mainstream Conservatism and Modern US Progressivism are 2 sides of the same Jewish coin" – Adolf Hitler.
In any worst case scenario or crisis –
Try to act at least a little off kilter if you get taken into an ER psych section. Some hospitals set up temporary 'psychiatric' sections to keep people for 72 hours until a screener (who usually works for the corporation that will profit from commitments…or the state…in California, NY and NJ it's not truly divisible even on a street level since Pharma runs them – especially NJ) can commit you.
The do-'good'ers in the psych field are particularly needy for validation. This is because they're looking to justify their racket, which attracts the kind of personnel (especially doctors but also screeners and many psych nurses) that have personality disorders in the higher ups and/or basic power issues in the lower ranking ones.
They want you to need them. If you don't, they feel threatened and will lie or inflict various types of abuses, often oblique, to feel good about themselves and protect their egos.
So even in a 72 hour hold I'd suggest conveying at least a little neediness or vulnerability to someone. Never get defiant or too as that will only make them more aggressive. At this point, insurance is still their biggest motivation, after generalized power issues, so that and your outside support (which if they're authentic should be prepared to fight and threaten to sue) will be the deciding factors on whether they officially commit you.
If that happens, then DEFINITELY act sort of needy and grateful for attention, etc. Don't overplay it, but don't act normal either, as that tends to antagonize the powertrippers among the staff and especially in psychiatrists who need their little captives to be 'sick.'
Consider if you get marooned acting a little nutty, like the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He hid his sanity from the black orderlies, the castrating nurse and the psychopaths aka psychiatrists to avoid becoming a target for their sadism.
These are some tips for emergencies. Mostly have networks of people prepared if possible to lobby aggressively and threateningly (the threat of a lawsuit terrifies these people as long as there's still a jury system) to get you out.
Last, be very careful of articulating much about any power dynamics in general much less ones that involve race or even gender. Whitey types – anglos or northwestern europeans and fair ones especially – who have little resources particularly need to prepare themselves. Poor hospitals, where these types of psych floors exist, can consider even Medicaid a profit as psych floors have so little overhead.
Avoiding unconstitutional gun confiscation is a whole other matter but might be more obvious for most people depending on their circumstances.
Oh and for the forward-thinking activists, try getting personnel planted in some local floors or hospitals. That might be a long term goal for the pro-white movement and freedom fighters to think about as the walls close in on us. I think orderlies only require high school diplomas in most places. Even low level people can exert incredible power in these places, not just to help people escape (which would probably be hard) but to subvert the horrors that are coming at dissidents.
We should also be trying to place people in low level government offices and agencies, courts, etc. That's how the blacks and hispanics and jews wield so much power in states like NY and NJ. We cannot afford as a movement to retreat. We must go stealth inside the system as well as organizing outside it.
Peace and love to my people.
I like that side by side image near the top of the page where French is being interviewed by a CNN personality. They look like a pair of hairless old testicles.
Epaminondas
Negro sympathizers never change. They are more concerned about "the other" than they are about their own. These are sick puppies.
Jijcf
This is exactly what intelligent white nationalists were predicting in the 2000s. The most desire threat to white nationalist organizing comes from conservatives due to their "law and order"; patriot act, authoritarian mentality. Antifa can talk all they want about throwing milkshakes at Nazis but in the end their ideology calls for abolishing the police, prisons, FBI and military which are the repressive arm that ZOG needs to carry out white genocide effectively. Conservatives who defend police brutality, military interventions, capital punishment, torture, indefinite detention and other policies of state repression are making way for state terror against white nationalists whereas leftists who oppose those things are hindering it, even if that's the last thing they'd ever admit.
Just about any animal that's backed into a corner will fight for its life. Zog is actively pushing another Holomodor of White advocates in the USA and presumably anywhere they sense resistance to their tyranny.
Lower the periscope. It might be time to go to stealth mode.
This might make some public order sense, if it weren't for the fact people with all kinds of opinions commit various crimes everyday. The Texas shooter made some points that a 'white nationalist' might, but such points are not exclusive to them. His opinions on automation and the social/economic results sound as though they could have been made by Yang or Kuntsler, Going to go after them with oppression? Why hasn't NR called for the suppression of Bernie Sanders, since his supporter tried to commit a mass assassination of Republican members of the House? Or Elizabeth Warren because the Dayton mass murderer supported her? What all this shows is that NR thinks their real and most effective enemies are to the right and never to the left. And in an unintended way, they are right. This also shows why official conservatism never conserves anything; they exist to provide cover for and to surrender to the left.
@William
The El Paso shooter is a Jew. His dad is a Jewish psychologist, with videos on YouTube.
Most Jews are congenitally insane. That's why some of them larp as Nazis, or in this case, White Nationalists. They have some perverse need to be their enemies, for some reason.
The El Paso shooter will be quietly forgotten once his Jewishness comes to the fore. Most of these shooters are forgotten once they serve their political and psychological purposes, anyway.
Brian Pace
The National Review is acting like a bunch of Communist Jewish Supremacists that hate all White People. By talking smack about Nationalists…..that's like saying White Genocide! That's what Conservatives are actually promoting by rejecting White Nationalists. Oh but Conservatives would never talk bad about Jews and Israel. The Conservatives and Republicans don't care that Israel is run like Nazi Germany. The reality is Conservatives and Republicans are nothing but the enemy of White Nationalists and our White Survival in the World. Deo Vindice !
Jewish Supremacist- an Oxy'moron' if ever there was one…. not that they are 'supreme'- you understand.
COUNTERINTEPRO never went away. Zog would never handicap their entrapment and surveillance apparatus. Edward Snowden revealed as much about domestic spying as did Wikileaks exposé in regard to the CIA's "Vault 7/Black Vault."
(((Big Brother))) has been watching for the last 50 years. Now they have that new NSA 1.7 billion dollar (on the outskirts of Bluffdale Utah) data center for eavesdropping on Americans.
Heartland Separatist
How does one cross over from First Amendment protected speech to incitement? Who decides that what that line is? The Feds? Whatever particular internet site you are on, or the SPLC?
I have hostility towards our social order but that does not mean I have sympathy for racist brutality! The two do not necessarily go together!
Why waste time compiling lists of possible future white terrorists. Just call the SPLC and save time and money. They already have the list. I suspect they are waiting for your call with bated breath ready to spring into action!
My suggestion is for all off line organizations to require lie detector tests by a trained and known polygraph operator for all future members. The future of our race is too valuable to be left to illiterate rednecks or 8chan posters.
Maintain sanity! When I hear people on our side talk about a flat Earth or faked moon landings or how mass shootings don't really exist and are false flag operations I want to walk away in disgust. That is mental insanity! Learn to combine racial consciousness with political sanity! Far too many of our people are racially conscious but not politically sane. Those are the ones that will flake out, become shooters, or turn traitor later on and become federal agents.
@Heartland Separatist
how mass shootings don't really exist and are false flag operations.
They don't understand that false flag operations are real. The flag, or the allegiance and identity of the attacker(s) is false, not the attack.
Another name for it is black propaganda.
Lee H.Oswald acted alone. The real conspiracy revolves around covering up who put him up to it.
Sometimes these shooters actually are government operators. But in 99% of the cases, they've been manipulated into acting.
Years ago, I read the CIA manual for Assassination in Latin America. It talks extensively about throwaway assassins. Which are disaffected, or more often than not, unstable persons that can be manipulated into carrying out an assassination. Their death and/or capture carries no consequences for those doing the manipulating.
Exactly! The false flag is the false perpetrator not that the entire event is completely false. It's not a black/white operation. Sometimes they manipulate/leverage/expand actual events, sometime they "allow" events, sometimes they trigger/steer events. You have to appreciate the vast amount of information and control that is at their disposal.
Hunter you show how important it is to be a FAMILY MAN.
God bless you and your dear wife and child.
I found OD through Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer some years ago.
Today the DS has disappeared. SCUM like NR and the Republican party and the MAGA president, btw that is a HEBREW word, seriously.
We have NO FRIENDS in government. We have no rights.
This is the End, and it may turn out differently than the EVIL think it will.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2016/02/Jews-and-Jewish-organizations-lead-the-gun-control-campaign/
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/10/Jews-and-gun-control-a-reprise/
http://www.nrahq.org/
http://gunowners.org/
It couldn't be more obvious: The Federal Government has been targeting the White man since Lincoln. Everything they do is an attack on White Protestants and our liberty. Anyone enforcing unconstitutional gun grabs based on Ex Parte hearings should be killed until they learn their lesson.
These principled conservatives don't get 1/50th upset about ongoing Antifa violence , Muslim violence, Hispanic violence, Black violence. They couldn't care less about violence against White people.
Conservatives conserve nothing.
Conservatives are anti-White controlled opposition.
Jim Geraghty looks (((crypto))) … the nose.
The Stormer is still up on their Tor site:
https://dstormer6em3i4km.onion.link/
Welp, I do believe we've reached the "cold dead hands" moment.
brabantian
What you just gave there as the Stormer link, is one of the 'web to Tor' routers pioneered by the 'suicided' Jewish MIT hacker Aaron Swartz
Tho 'Tor' is not the 'answer' to web censorship touted by Anglin, for several reasons, essentially 'The Dark Web is Run by the Deep State'
Tor was developed by US CIA-tied spooks of the US Naval Research & DARPA Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Tor 'team' is very Jewish even including a rabbi, take a look at this photo, Tor team rabbi with Jewish Torah scroll –
https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/tor.jpg
The Tor team specifically discussed amending the Tor programme to block the Stormer … Anglin pointed out, this was an admission that the Tor people could block the paedos who use Tor if they wished, so they shut up for the moment
Governments can block Tor (Iran, China), or make it illegal to use Tor, along with identifying Tor users … Tor programming can be altered as the Tor team admits … Things will go very very dark
In Europe actually this has always been better understood … Europeans are very quiet, about the tens of millions of guns they own (yes, Americans, that's true see gunpolicy org for stats) … Europeans usually don't go blowhard on the web, and generally avoid coalescing in anti-gov groups with any newbies … when they act radically, they do it with childhood buddies, staying off the comm channels
White Palestinian
All I have to say to Blormpf, the GOP, Ben Shapiro, Yarom Hazony, and the National Review……
I fully support Iran developing Nuclear Weapons and distributing them to Hezbollah and Assad.
It's not only White People who yearn to breathe FREE…….
The Entire World yearns to breathe free from ZOG.
Dave Marshal
So when the left-libs dynamite Stone Mountain in Georgia about three years from now I suppose there wont be any of us there to protest- doing such will be unlawful.. Our views, by then, will be criminalized.
Sertorius
National Cuck Review writes that neocon rep Adam Kinzinger wants to raise the age to own firearms to 21. It's pathetic how easy it is to put the GOP into a rout.
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-rep-calls-raising-gun-210825541.html
I remember going to high school with a .22 cal. rifle in the trunk of my car.
@Sertorius
In Texas, you haf to be 18 to buy or have a rifle. For pistols, it's 21. Under 18, requires adult supervision.
The age of majority is 18..They'll haf to change it to 21. Which might be in line with their plans to extend public schooling to 20. They've already gone to year round schooling in many school districts.
Preempting adulthood is part of ZOG's scheme.
In my opinion, if you're old enough to operate a motor vehicle, hold a job, make a baby, you're not really a child any more.
This was the majority opinion before the mid 20th Century.
J C
Trust your local sheriff's? They are your last defense against the federal government. Henry County Alabama's is for the people.
The only thing worse than politicians are pundits. They are to politics what fantasy footballers are to football. Whichever jackass brays the loudest has the most influence.
Personally, I have far more interest in reality than the internet nonsense simulacra. Take all the dire prognostications with a grain of salt. Think about all those wretched bastards that Facebook hires to monitor and moderate posts and the sheer psychic fatigue they endure. You think the FBI or NSA is unaware of the real crime statistics that exist? Even while being castigated most whites natural instinct is to apologize and conciliate with their opponents.
Psychically there is pure, unmitigated, garbage vying for your precious attention and awareness. The media has turned us into a land of lotus eaters, believing fabrications are reality and reality is a fabrication. Literally, nerd physicists have convinced the bugman clique that reality is just a computer simulation. I'm inclined to believe that the movie industry and television news/internet news outlets all make use of the same common mechanisms to influence minds.
The most dangerous people to this system are those that don't want to participate in it. They love the fanatics and martyrs for either side, but it is the ambivalent that truly draw their ire. It is incredibly advantageous to have "WigNats" in constant anticipation of Antifa and Antifa believing that they are the sovereign defenders of the downtrodden masses. Due to this neither side feels the pull of the marionette strings.
Every dude here knows they neither aspire to nor advocate for terrorism. In the highly unlikely event that these shootings aren't false flags, they were actions carried out by lone-nut gunmen – who just so happened to be white. Most gun violence in America is perpetrated by blacks and Hispanics using unregistered firearms.
The other massive, and totally unacknowledged statistic in deaths from firearms is police related killings. Remember that guy who wasn't very bright, and wasn't very good at sports, and didn't end up doing drugs because he was never invited to parties and has a huge chip on his shoulder? He didn't become a mass shooter, he became a cop so that he could legally justify shooting someone.
I will never give them the satisfaction of being either their tragic Oxycontin junkie overdose or White Nationalist bogeyman. I'm a man, with a soul, and a mind. I don't consent to either accepting slavery or the commission of tyranny.
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Long Memory
What happen malcontents? Running scared? Thought I saw people laughing at death innocent women, children, fathers, grandfather's, law abiding peaceful people. You have woke a sleeping bear. You had your fun. Doing so, you woke up a sleeping bear. Those Latinos are the blacks. They are coming for you. They will not forget.
@ Long Memory,
I'm your huckleberry. Say when.
Cowtown Rebel
I'll tell you what is happening, malodor. Your Mama remembers when you were excreted. She won't forget because you wrecked her rectum when she crapped you out. The sleeping bear is the great White masses, who are just beginning to stir from their long hibernation. The fun has only just begun. The Blacks and The Browns and The Yellows and The Tans all hate each other, and they do not live together harmoniously without our insistence. The Black flight from the ghettos that have become barrios is taking place in cities across the country. Asians and Middle Easterners typically despise Negroes, and many are not too fond of Hispanics. Among the "Hispanics" you have multiple divisions between Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, El Salvadorians, etc… Even the Nortenos and Surenos of California vie for supremacy.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating, White People are the Elmer's Glue that holds this sick and ugly collage together. You take away the White referee, and a clash of cultures will erupt that will make the conflicts in the Middle East look like a snowball fight. It most assuredly will end up being you who is running scared. Don't forget, you heard it here first, Lounge Mammary (a saggy, little titty in a seedy topless bar).
Well, I have seen meso-american jungle indians playing basketball on urban playgrounds. Whenever I venture outside of my swpl town…nice to know the basketball americans will be replaced first.
Oh my gawd, a bunch of low-IQ bean goblins who can barely slouch across an undefended border are "coming for us!" Just like a bunch of no-account niggers, except even lazier, if possible!
.. no, I can't even mock this properly. I'm laughing too hard.
"Better watch out! You've made a cockroach under the trash bag in your kitchen angry! Wooo-ooo-ooo!"
Oh god no not the lion king Hunter, out of all the trash out there to watch you had to choose a disney film at the theaters At least the 1994 animated version had it merits despite being subversive crap, this live action one has a bunch of annoying heebs and shitlibs in it doing the voice acting like Seth Rogen, John oliver, and that annoying singer beyonce worst female singer and artist ever!
And whats also messed up is they got Donald glover the this is amerikkka prick doing simbas voice I went out to the theaters last week too and my mom wanted to see this drivel but I just wouldn't nudge on seeing it and we saw godzilla king of monsters at the cheapies instead, it still not as good as the japanese originals but it was the best american made godzilla one so far unlike that crap one in 1998 with matthew brodrick
I can scarcely stand to watch any of the new, computer generated, action films (or much of any of the other millennial movies, for that matter). I am fortunate that I have a fairly extensive library of movies, documentaries and television programs on VHS and DVD to satisfy most of my viewing needs. I acquire the majority of my material second hand, for bottom dollar prices, unless it is something that is pretty rare, then I may spend a little more.
I was re-watching "Hooper," the other day, after not playing it for several years, and I was marveling at the stunts that were being performed. Also, unlike the Fast and Furious films (none of which I have sat through) the old Burt Reynolds movies like "Cannon Ball Run," and its equally good sequel, had characters that were relatable and scenes that were believable.
Maybe, I'm just too out of touch, but actors, comedians and musicians today, with a few exceptions, just seem like a bunch of far less talented and much more egotistical versions of their predecessors.
Cannonball Run….ah yes, the Ingmar Bergman classic. Not quite as good as Persona or Wild Strawberries, though.
Never a big Burt Reynolds fan cowtown but Hooper was a pretty good film, cannonball run was not that good tho
Spahn Ingmar bergman is quite a genius, jew directors wish they could be so talented an innovative
Yeah, I know that Burt Reynolds did not provide high brow entertainment. That's not what I'm looking for when I watch a film with him in it. But, it is, for me, a good release of anxiety and frustration. It is also a portal through which I can travel back to a much simpler time.
Forgive me for sharing, Spahn. But, I figure if Hunter can get away with going to see the Lion King, I'm not going to be made to feel stupid for watching the late, great Burt Reynolds. I've never watched an Ingmar Bergman film, although I have seen him mocked by Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin. Perhaps, one day I'll get around to seeing one of his motion pictures. However, I do have some short films by Georges Melies. I'm not sure how well they compare with Ingmar.
Spawn- Hysterical! "ah yes, the Ingmar Bergman classic. Not quite as good as Persona or Wild Strawberries, though."
I prefer 'Smiles of a Summer Night," myself, as does the wife.
Trump Anti White JEW WRITTEN AND CONTROLLED BS is NOT going over with ANY-ONE. Not with ANY-ONE.
Hebes never ever ever know when to back off.
Rod the Jew Rosenstein Jew just stated that the shootings need to be called "White terrorism". Not "White Supremacism terrorism" but "WHITE terrorism". They are going full bore. And all kinds of people are SEEING.
Well on a positive note, the Dow lost 767 points today and (((big tech))) lost 162 billion in value.
China is also going to make Blompf their bitch and 'deep six' his beloved GDP.
Karma.
BTW, seventy people shot in chicongo this weekend, more negro removal.
Johnny Paytoilet
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."
Looking at the profile of Patrick Crusius.
Dad is fabulously wealthy psychologist specializing in PTSD related therapy. Lots of links to military and police and medical gunshot wound charity stuff. 100% likely to be a progressive enthusiastically anti racist household.
How the fuck do you profile for a shooter emerging from a household like that? It's reaction formation on Crusius's part if the racist rhetoric in that document is at all sincere. He'd have had 21 years of teaching from his parents about being kind, anti racist, charitable, open minded. He'd have been under observation by a psychologist dad trained to spot signs of clinical depression, distress and psychosis.
My hunch is that Patrick's racism is a ruse. The motive is to piss off his parents, particularly his dad. He also gets to hurt shoppers at a down market venue. He fits the sadistic Columbine Profile of a Klebold/Harris more than he does the Bowers/Breivik model.
I'm not at all convinced that he's sincerely racist given his family background.
The dad was a specialist in gunshot survivor PTSD for fucks sake. Imagine what kind of conversations the boy had with the dad growing up about shooter survivor profiles and gruesome cases.
Monkeys patrol their territories and tear apart monkeys from other groups that enter their territories. This behavior can be observed all through the animal kingdom. Nothing is more unnatural than forcing the different races of man to live together. What is incredible is these random explosions of white rage aren't happening every day.


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Robert Jachym (born October 28, 1974) is a retired Polish-American football (soccer) forward who played professionally in Major League Soccer and USISL.  He was the 2003 USL D3 Pro League MVP.

Player

The Early Days
Born in Poland, Jachym moved to the United States with his family when he was five.  He graduated from Francis T Maloney High School after being named a 1991 First Team High School All American soccer player.  He then attended University of Hartford where he was a 1996 Second Team All American soccer player.  Jachym played five seasons with the Hawks, losing his junior season to injury.  As a result, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in 1996 and a master's degree in finance in 1997.  In 2004, Hartford inducted Jachym into its Athletic Hall of Fame.

Professional
In February 1997, the Columbus Crew selected Jachym in the first round (third overall) of the 1997 MLS College Draft and Jachym signed with them.  He then signed with the New England Revolution for the remainder of the 1997 season and into 1998.  He then signed with the Worcester Wildfire.  He finished the season with the Wildfire, then signed with the Western Mass Pioneers on December 15, 1998.  In 1999, the Pioneers won the USL D-3 Pro League championship as Jachym scored the game-winning goal.  Jachym finished the season with 28 goals in all competitions for the Pioneers in 1999.  After having arthroscopic knee surgery during the pre-season, Jachym played limited time in 2000.  He retired at the end of the season to devote himself to coaching.  In July 2001, he returned to the Pioneers.  In 2003, Jachym led the USL Pro Select League in scoring and was named both as League MVP and First Team All League.  He retired at the end of the 2004 season.

Coach
In addition to playing professionally, Jachym spent several years as an assistant with the Wethersfield High School boys' soccer team.  In 2000, he became Wethersfield's head coach and took the team to four state championships over nine seasons.

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1974 births
Living people
American soccer coaches
American soccer players
Columbus Crew players
Connecticut Wolves players
Hartford Hawks men's soccer players
Major League Soccer players
Milwaukee Rampage players
New England Revolution players
Seacoast United Phantoms players
Western Mass Pioneers players
Worcester Wildfire players
A-League (1995–2004) players
USL Second Division players
Columbus Crew draft picks
Soccer players from Connecticut
Association football forwards

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We found out that Mark's residency card for French Polynesia had arrived at the post office of Atuona, Hiva Oa, and that it was nearing its 15 day "holding period" already. We also discovered an opportunity to buy duty-free diesel. Unfortunately, it was blowing quite a bit and we knew – for sure – that the 7 mile channel between Tahuata and Hiva Oa would be a battlefield of waves, wind and current. All against us, of course. One day, we saw the white caps from our anchorage. The following day, I rose at six in the morning and glimpsed at the horizon. No white caps! Was this the moment? I woke Mark up and at 6:30am, Irie's anchor was onboard and we were heading towards Atuona. Again.
Bashing, bouncing, jumping and sliding. Expected, but not enjoyed were a salt water shower, a serious boat shake down and seawater for breakfast. An accompanying pod of dolphins was barely visible in the watery turbulence off our bows. Everything was soaked and encrusted with salt when we arrived in the least attractive bay of the Marquesas. We settled quickly near the main dock on one anchor ("knowing" the last big cargo ship was there two days prior), antsy to get the busy day started. Then, we found out the supply ship Taporo had been delayed because of bad weather and was on its way here. Darn… Too lazy to re-anchor, we let out all of our chain to hopefully fall behind the two yellow markers ashore and put a second anchor out, parking just outside of the "no anchor" zone and in line with the other sailboats.
At 9am, we hitched a ride to the town, where Mark immediately had the broken filling of a tooth fixed, without appointment and for free. Then, he had his painful elbow looked at and x-rayed by a doctor in the hospital. We learned that both pieces of mail we were expecting had- indeed – arrived. We picked them up at the post office, where there was no line for a change, and the employee asked "Kilty?" While we rushed from here to there, our smiles grew big. We could barely believe our luck and the helpfulness of the people. We felt like celebrities. Usually, every little thing we try to accomplish takes a whole day, or more likely, totally fails! A visit to the pharmacy and the grocery store followed and then, we hitched a ride back to the harbor… with our friendly doctor ... in an ambulance! At noon, we were home. The whole series of events had happened within 3 hours; a personal record!
"You guys are so lucky you weren't on your boat this morning," we heard when we swung by our friends in the anchorage. "Irie almost sank!" Hmm, not the words you like to hear. Apparently, the Taporo had dropped its anchor close by and skimmed Irie on its turn into the dock. From our friends' perspective, the massive ship missed us by a hair. Later that night, after another tasty and social evening with our friends of SV Kril and SV Amandla, we could experience the skillful maneuvering ourselves, when we almost touched the steel monster when it pulled away from the dock, passing within 30 feet of our bow. We were lying behind the "safety zone" markers. Just. With a thundering sound, the Taporo picked up its anchor, without tripping ours.
The following day, on Friday, I walked back into town with a couple of friends for a – hopefully – last run of errands. Veggies, eggs, groceries, potting dirt, money, and I even managed to swap two packs of cookies which we realized were months out of date. The glitch? I had to pay 100 CFP (about $1) extra for each new pack, because those dates were not expired. Time to go back to peaceful and pretty Tahuata, where efficiency and money are not important! It was a quick and effective two-day stop in Atuona, but we hope we don't have to repeat it any time soon.


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London Broncos returned to Trailfinders Sports Club, on Saturday 28th April, for the first time in a month to leave Dewsbury Rams wondering what had hit them as the home side ran in 11 tries in a very one-sided affair and seeing them win their second on the bounce in the BetFred Championship.
Head Coach, Danny Ward, rang the changes from the side that crashed out of the Challenge Cup at Leigh the previous week with Matty Davies, making his debut and Jacob Ogden coming in . Daniel Harrison and Ben Evans also returned from injury with Evans making his first appearance of the 2018 season.
The game took a while to get started with both sides completing their sets with no real advantage. Mistakes came from both sides with the skill level not as high as you would think it should have been until 14 minutes in. Dewsbury Rams were given a penalty right in front for London holding down in the tackle, Glover stepped up for the visitors and the kick went wide and it seemed to spur the Broncos into life.
Twenty minutes on the clock and following a goal line dropout Eddie Battye powered his way forward passing out to Captain Jay Pitts who flew over for the first of the afternoon. Sammut who was almost flawless with the boot all afternoon kicked the extras and the home side were six points to nil in front. Dewsbury thought they had scored themselves 10 minutes later but a fantastic tackle from the returning Harrison held them up over the line and we remained at six nil.
The Broncos second came from some great work from Rhys Williams weaving his way through the opposition defenders and putting through a kick on the last that Jarrod Sammut pounced on to score his first try of the day and after converting his own try the home side led twelve nil.
Alex Walker caught a high ball on 36 minutes and broke the defence only to be stopped in his tracks by a high tackle. From the ensuing penalty Sammut passed the ball inside to Matt Davis who fought through and over the line and with Sammut again adding the extra two the home side were now 18 points to nil in front.
Sammut's next try was fortunate yet tinged with a touch of Lionel Messi as the ball was thrown around until it hit his foot and he showed good control to kick on and chase the ball down to touch down just to the side of the posts. Once again he kicked the conversion and the home side ran into the dressing rooms at halftime leading by 24 points to nil.
The second half started in the same way as the first with both teams giving up possession until four minutes in when Jacob Ogden handed off an opponent in a fantastic run which should have resulted in a try but he was unfortunately forced out in to touch. The young Jamaican International did not look out of place all day down the right hand side putting in a great performance.
with 48 minutes on the clock London were given a penalty for a high tackle on Meadows in the middle of the Dewsbury half and on the end of the resulting play was Ben Evans crashing over to mark his return to the first team. The ever reliable Sammut kicked the two and it was thirty points t0 nil with only 8 minutes of the second half gone. 50 minutes on the clock and Will Lovell joined the action for the first time replacing Harrison and within two minutes he had broken the line and weaved his way all the way to the try line following another penalty against the visitors. The right boot of Sammut, it seemed, couldn't miss and he again converted.
The Broncos, at this point were starting to find gaps that had not been there before and on 55 minutes Rhys Williams powered over to score the first of his two on the afternoon. The first was converted but the second Sammut unbelievably hit the post to spoil his perfect kicking record on the day.
with 66 minutes on the clock Dewsbury Rams finally got themselves on the scoresheet when two Broncos players fumbled the ball and Ansell capitalised on the mistake scoring what would be the visitors only try of the day. Glover converted and it was 46 points to 6.
Further tries from Elliot Kear, a second from Matt Davis and a hatrick try for Sammut took the hosts just short of 60 points but the boot of Sammut took the total to 64 and the game was in the bag.
This will have got rid of the memories of the Challenge Cup with the side producing some great rugby league in a totally professional performance.
Next up are the London Broncos recent nemesis in the shape of Leigh Centurions. The third game between the two in the past 4 weeks with Leigh two ahead in the series. This is one the Broncos will want to win.
Tickets and hospitality are available on the club website.


For many people, nasal decongestants are synonymous with recovery from the common cold, flu or other respiratory infections. Nasal sprays in particular are sought after for the quick relief they offer, allowing one to proceede with normal activities as if congestion had never been an issue. However, the decongestants we so often rely on are not harmless medication considering they are full of side effects and can easily encourage addiction.
The addiction they cause is fueled by our need for easy solutions to congestion and our reliance on the efficacy of such products because, truth be told, decongestants are efficient. But if we had to get through nasal congestion without their help, could we? We probably couldn´t and wouldn´t want to do so, particularly if we have been using them for some time. In addition to feeding our need for fast results, decongestants produce physical changes in our body that encourage their continual use, ultimately leading to addiction.
Having a stuffy nose is one of the most distressing feelings ever because it prevents us from enjoying life by limiting an essential function: normal breathing. So we use nasal decongestants. Their long list of side effects does not seem to worry us very much because we never think they can occur to us and if we were to experience sife effects as a result of decongestants use, we would surely notice and discontinue use. Flawless reason, right? Well, not so flawless.
First of all, many people do not know the side effects of nasal decongestant use so they might not know when it´s time to stop using them. Secondly, many people use them more than they should because, sometimes, congestion is more stubborn than we´d wish. Thirdly, our body builds tolerance to the active ingredients in many pharmaceuticals which means that they become less efficient over time and, as a result, we are tempted to use more of them for longer periods of time than we are supposed to.
Lastly, decongestants give us rebound congestion, meaning that as soon as we stop using them, our nose might get stuffy again so, naturally, we would have to resume use. Notice the vicious circle we are drawn into? And then life happens and we no longer have time to address the issue properly and just go with the flow. And this is how decongestant addiction occurs. Breaking this vicious cycle is not easy, but addiction is even harder to break, particulalry when the time comes that our body no longer feels well on decongestants and serious side effects ensue.
1) Treatment beyond three days with any of these decongestants can lead to a condition called rebound congestion which causes our nose to get stuffy again. In other words, we use nasal decongestants to relieve congestion, but we are very likely to get congestion as a side effect. At this point, congested or not, we have to discontinue them for fear of never being able to get rid of congestion.
2) All of these compounds are vasoconstrictors, meaning they promote blood vessel shrinking. This leads to reduced blood flow and swelling. Nasal congestion itself is caused by allergens or pathogens (bacteria, viruses or fungi in the nose) which produce damage, urging an inflammatory response from the immune system that also causes an increase in mucus secretion and a thickening of the mucosa. By constricting blood vessels in the nose, decongestants reduce inflamamtion and provide relief.
However, most of the time, decongestants drip from our nose down our throat, we swallow them and they reach our stomach and, from there, the bloodstream. Decongestant tablets end up in the same place too. Their action is thus not limited to our nose alone and vasoconstriction can occur throughout our circulatory system (the more product we use, the more compounds in our system), hence the risk for serious side effects such as hypertension, stroke or palpitations, arrythmia etc.
Consider someone who has been using decongestants for years. Won´t the effects of such compounds be magnified? Even more, doesn´t their rebound effect encourage continual use? And doesn´t this promote addiction?
Giving up nasal decongestants after using them for very long can be difficult. A few years back I suffered from a nasty flu virus that kept me in bed for about 3 weeks. Naturally, I was so congested I couldn´t even imagine not using a nasal decongestant spray. But its rebound effect and the lenghtiness of the flu had me using the decongestant for more than two months. And it came to the point that I couldn´t eat well, sleep or go about my day without using a decongestant.
I suffered from side effects such as light sensitivity, fear and anxiety (I was constantly worried about what would happen if I ran out of nasal spray). I had developed a sore throat and hoarseness and had headaches all the time. Realizing how unhealthy this behaviour was and what it was doing to me, I one day just said ´no more´.
The congestion wasn´t as bad as giving up the decongestant. But I persevered and told myself I still had a mouth to breathe through, I could still eat, but slower, I could still sleep, just not as much as I would have liked to, and my congestion would still go away, despite not using my spray. I just had to wait. And it all paid off because I have never used or felt the need to use nasal decongestants from that point on.
1) Drank plenty of water. I always had a bottle of water with me, day and night and kept taking sips of it. Two days into this I could blow my nose easily and enjoy relief from congestion.
2) Drank herbal teas. I drank 15-20 minutes Rooibos tea before lunch and mint and chamomile tea before bed. This kept me hydrated and the warm infusions helped relieve some of the congestion. Result improved over the course of a couple of weeks.
3) Took lemon, honey and propolis cough drops. Because I was breathing by mouth for so long, I took natural cough drops with lemon, honey and propolis to help reduce hoarseness and the sore throat sensation I was experiencing.
4) Ate ginger and turmeric. I started adding small amounts of either ginger and turmeric to every dish I ate. The spices have powerful anti-inflammatory properties which I feel contributed to my recovery.
5) Took a multivitamin supplement. During my recovery, I started taking Supradyn Energy, a multivitamin with particularly high amounts of all the essential nutrients as well as Coenzime Q10. I have continued to take this multivitamin complex and have noticed a great improvement in my overal health in the following months. Indeed, taking vitamins for nose health was a good approach.
6) Made some dietary changes. My congestion was terrible during the first few days off decongestants so I used a blender to make it soft and ready to swallow. This helped me immensely and took a lot of pressure off eating with a stuffy nose.
7) Waited and persevered. Perseverence is the key to everything. It may be hard to endure nasal congestion and, at times, incredibly frustrating to not be able to simply take a deep breath or enjoy a nice meal. But the reward of knowing you can do all of that and never have to rely on decongestants again is incredibly empowering and something to take great pride in because it shows character strength and perseverence.


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require 'prime'
module PrimalInstinct
  module Generator
    class RubyPrime
      attr_reader :length

      def initialize(length)
        @length = length
      end

      def call
        Prime.first(length)
      end
    end
  end
end

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Oh, fer the love of Mike.
The point of this sort of legislation is to overcome a lemons problem. Employers don't know the quality of employees until they try them out. A bad hire — one that doesn't fit — can wreck a small business. That makes employers averse to hiring — better to muddle through. If they know they can reverse a bad decision fairly costlessly, they are more likely to give someone a go.
That will mean more hires. It will also mean more firings.
So, who is going to tell those 5,000 people (or whatever the number is) that they can't have jobs because someone else has been 'unreliable or had a bad attitude'.
And just by the way, I can't believe that this work from 3 years ago is the only econometric analysis of the law. Hasn't someone else done something better?
I can't see where one of the numbers in the Stuff article has come from. It says 69,000 workers were employed with a 90 day trial, then says 27% of EMPLOYERS have fired someone. By calculating 27% of the 69,000 WORKERS they boldly assert that 18,000 workers have been fired. Nowhere in the article is it stated how many EMPLOYERS took on workers on a 90 day trial; what if it had been 10,000 then the number fired would be only 2,700! This vital fact is missing from the article, but then the old newspaper cliche holds, "never let facts get in the way of a good story".


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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed a memorandum on June 23 that announced the launch of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). A scheme by securocrats in the works for several years, the order specifies that the new office will be a "subordinate unified command" under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM).
According to the memorandum, CYBERCOM "will reach initial operating capability (IOC) not later than October 2009 and full operating capability (FOC) not later than October 2010."
Gates has recommended that this new Pentagon domain be led by Lt. General Keith Alexander, the current Director of the ultra-spooky National Security Agency (NSA). Under the proposal, Alexander would receive a fourth star and the new agency would be based at Ft. Meade, Maryland, NSA's headquarters.
Gates' memorandum specifies that CYBERCOM "must be capable of synchronizing warfighting effects across the global security environment as well as providing support to civil authorities and international partners."
Ostensibly launched to protect military networks against malicious cyberattacks, the command's offensive nature is underlined by its role as STRATCOM's operational cyber wing. In addition to a defensive brief to "harden" the "dot-mil" domain, the Pentagon plan calls for an offensive capacity, one that will deploy cyber weapons against imperialism's adversaries.
One of ten Unified Combatant Commands, STRATCOM is the successor organization to Strategic Air Command (SAC). Charged with space operations (military satellites), information warfare, missile defense, global command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), as well as global strike and strategic deterrence (America's first-strike nuclear arsenal), it should be apparent that designating CYBERCOM a STRATCOM branch all but guarantees an aggressive posture.
As Antifascist Calling reported in May, the Pentagon's geek squad, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently building a National Cyber Range (NCR), a test bed for developing, testing and fielding cyber weapons.
In conjunction with "private-sector partners," the agency averred in a January 2009 press release that NCR promises to deliver "'leap ahead' concepts and capabilities."
The Armed Forces Press Service reported June 24, that Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told journalists that CYBERCOM is "not some sort of new and necessarily different authorities that have been granted." Obfuscating the offensive role envisaged for the command, Morrell told reporters: "This is about trying to figure out how we, within this department, within the United States military, can better coordinate the day-to-day defense, protection and operation of the department's computer networks."
Others within the defense bureaucracy are far more enthusiastic, and forthright, when it comes to recommending that cyber armaments be fielded as offensive weapons of war. Indeed, Armed Forces Journal featured a lengthy analysis advocating precisely that.
We have heard these Orwellian arguments before; one can take it for granted that when militarists pontificate on the need for a "deterrent," the bombers are preparing for take off.
As with other Pentagon schemes, the technological quick fix may prove as deadly as the alleged threat, particularly where botnets are concerned.
A botnet is a collection of widely dispersed computers controlled from one or more central nodes. Often built by cyber criminals to implant malicious programs or code, steal passwords and other encrypted data from targeted systems, botnets are the bane of the Internet.
In these endeavors, sophisticated hackers are aided and abetted by the miserable security code or lax practices of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) more concerned with facilitating commerce--and the bottom line--than in providing adequate protection against criminals.
Indeed in March, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) urged the Federal Trade Commission "to shut down Google's so-called cloud computing services, including Gmail and Google Docs, if the web giant can't ensure the safety of user data stored by these online apps," The Register reported.
EPIC's petition in part, was sparked "by a Google snafu that saw the company inadvertently share certain Google Docs files with users unauthorized to view them. Google estimates that the breach hit about 0.05 per cent of the documents stored by the service," according to The Register.
Infected computers are referred to as "zombies" that can be controlled remotely from any point on the planet by "master" machines. Unwary users are often "spoofed" by hackers through counterfeit e-mails replete with embedded hyperlinks into "cooperating" with the installation of malicious code.
While criminals employ botnets to generate spam or commit fraudulent transactions, draining a savings account or running-up credit card debt through multiple purchases for example, botnets also have the capacity to launch devastating distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against inadequately defended computers or indeed, entire networks.
As many commentators have warned, the best defense is to write better security programs and exercise a modicum of common sense when using the Internet. The Pentagon however, has something else in mind.
Col. Williamson proposes to transform the Air Force's high-speed intrusion-detection systems into an offensive botnet by enabling "the thousands of computers the Air Force would normally discard every year for technology refresh, removing the power-hungry and heat-inducing hard drives, replacing them with low-power flash drives, then installing them in any available space every Air Force base can find." In other words, creating thousands of zombie machines.
"After that," Col. Williamson avers, "the Air Force could add botnet code to all its desktop computers attached to the Nonsecret Internet Protocol Network (NIPRNet). Once the system reaches a level of maturity, it can add other .mil computers, then .gov machines."
Underscoring the risks posed by out-of-control military hackers to hold America's, or any other nations' communications infrastructure hostage to a militarized state, Williamson suggests that in order to "generate the right amount of power for offense, all the available computers must be under the control of a single commander, even if he provides the capability for multiple theaters. While it cannot be segmented like an orange for individual theater commanders, it can certainly be placed under their tactical control."
In other words, should an "individual theatre commander" desire to suddenly darken a city or wreck havoc on a nation's electrical infrastructure at the behest of his political masters then by all means, go right ahead! A proposal such as this, should it ever be implemented, would in essence, be a first-strike weapon.
Other plans for "defending" Pentagon computer networks are even more extreme.
"I think you don't take any response options off the table from an attack on the United States of America. Why would we constrain ourselves on how we respond?"
Should the breaches evolve into more serious computer attacks against the United States, Chilton said he could not rule out the possibility of a military salvo against a nation like China, even though Beijing has nuclear arms. He rejected the idea that such a conflict would necessarily risk going nuclear.
"I don't think that's true," Chilton said.
At the same time, the general insisted that all strike options, including nuclear, would remain available to the commander in chief in defending the nation from cyber strikes.
While Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told The New York Times that CYBERCOM's launch "is not about the militarization of cyber," how else can it be characterized?
Indeed, Whitman went on to say that CYBERCOM "is focused only on military networks to better consolidate and streamline Department of Defense capabilities into a single command."
How then, should one interpret moves by the Pentagon to "consolidate and streamline" DoD "capabilities" under the purview of STRATCOM? Obviously, an entity defined as a "Unified Combatant Command" as clearly stated by General Chilton's avowal to "leave all options on the table," would combine cyber "defense" with STRATCOM's global strike mission.
Echoing Air Force strategy, SecDef Gates memo clearly states, since "cyberspace and its associated technologies ... are vital to our nation's security," the United States will "secure freedom of action in cyberspace" by standing-up a unified command "that possesses the required technical capability and remains focused on the integration of cyberspace operations."
Simply put, the Pentagon intends to build an infrastructure fully-capable of committing high-tech war crimes.
Meanwhile in the heimat, CYBERCOM will effectively be under the day-to-day control of the National Security Agency. This is hardly good news when it comes to civil liberties.
Leaving aside considerations of bureaucratic trench warfare with the Department of Homeland Security, charged with defending the state's .gov and .com domains, the unprecedented power of CYBERCOM to conduct offensive military and surveillance operations within the United States itself is underlined by the preeminent role NSA will assume.
Authorized by the criminal Bush regime to carry out massive electronic surveillance of Americans' private communications in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, various driftnet spying operations continue under Obama's purported "change" administration. As Antifascist Calling has averred many times, the only "change" that's come to the White House has been the color of the drapes hanging in the Oval Office.
The New York Times revealed June 17, that the "National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged." According to the Times, "The agency's monitoring of domestic e-mail messages, in particular, has posed longstanding legal and logistical difficulties, the officials said."
I take issue with the Times' characterization that such a breach of constitutional norms merely represent "logistical difficulties." As with a Times report in April which alleged that NSA's driftnet spying under Obama was simply a problem of "overcollection," far from being mere technical issues, first and foremost, these violations represent political decisions made at the highest levels of the national security state itself.
Last year, congressional Democrats, including Senator now President, Obama, handed the NSA virtually unchecked power to spy on the private communications of Americans. In addition to granting retroactive immunity to telecom grifters who profited from their conspiracy to illegally spy on citizens for the state, the despicable FISA Amendments Act (FIA) gave NSA the legal cover to intercept Americans' communications "so long as it was done only as the incidental byproduct of investigating individuals 'reasonably believed' to be overseas," as the Times delicately put it.
CYBERCOM's brief, and its deployment inside NSA with full access to the agency's powerful computing assets, and with a mission to conduct global Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) at the behest of their STRATCOM masters, mean that despite bromides about "privacy concerns," the Pentagon will most assuredly be interested in developing an attack matrix that can just as easily be turned inward. After all as General Chilton asserts, "it's up to the president to decide."
"One thing that is pretty clear," Wired reports, "NSA will be leading this emerging command." Indeed, NSA "may also come to dominate the wider government cyber defense effort, as well." As The Wall Street Journal revealed, the Defense Department's 2010 budget "envisions training and graduating more than 200 cyber-security officers annually." In contradistinction to DoD, "the Department of Homeland Security has 100 employees dedicated to civilian cyber security, with plans to reach 260 next year," the Journal reports.
In other words, right from the get-go NSA will be assuming operational control of CYBERCOM. This is driven home by the fact that the Pentagon is already receiving the vast majority of appropriations for state cybersecurity initiatives and have thousands of cyberwarriors across all branches of the military, including outsourced private contractors who labor for DoD, ready, willing and able to staff the new command.
As Antifascist Calling revealed in April, with billions of dollars already spent on a score of top secret cyber initiatives, including those hidden within Pentagon Special Access or black programs, the issue of oversight is already a moot point.
Defense analyst William M. Arkin in his essential book, Code Names, described some three dozen cyberwar programs and/or exercises, currently being pursued by the Pentagon. Since the book's 2005 publication, many others undoubtedly have come on-line.
While NSA Director Alexander has explicitly stated that he does "not want [NSA] to run cybersecurity for the United States government," CYBERCOM's stand-up, and Alexander's near certain appointment as commander, all but guarantees that the agency will be a ubiquitous and silent gatekeeper answerable to no one.
Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in Covert Action Quarterly and Global Research, his articles can be read on Dissident Voice, The Intelligence Daily, Pacific Free Press and the whistleblowing website Wikileaks. He is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press.