Torah Notes

I believe Professor Kevin MacDonald is tentatively scheduled to join us for Luke Ford’s Torah Talk tomorrow, Sunday 9:00 AM Pacific Time.

Watch on Luke’s channel to join the chat and ask questions. Luke is coming off a triumphant performance on the Andy Warski livestream (see below).
Good livestreams are about the most fun entertainment I can imagine right now. Television has done every idea to death and is full poz. Sports are, well…

But a good contentious livestream has an appeal similar to sports, in that it’s unscripted and involves real risk for the participants. In sports someone can literally die. No one literally died on the Warski podcast, but Luke killed, and listening to his counterpart cite “collectivism” and “meritocracy” I wanted to kill myself.
Livestreaming is to recorded and written commentary as sports is to fiction and scripted entertainment.

Hilariously, for all the savage red-pilling Luke was offering, hackles and interest were raised in earnest only when he suggested giving up porn and masturbation. Alas, we have a long way to go.

Kevin MacDonald on Twitter.

Some possible questions for the professor.

Is a white collectivist society preferable to a multiracial individualist society?

Is a multiracial individualist society possible?

Is revulsion an evolutionary adaptation?

Is revulsion at homosexuality or miscegenation an evolutionary adaptation?

Is Andrew Anglin good or bad for white people?

Have you listened to the Daily Shoah?

Is white evolutionary strategy deliberately dysgenic? Can it be said that whites are simply pursuing individual evolutionary strategies, it’s now “every man for himself”, wherein the goal is at leas to get their genes into the emerging mass, whatever it is?

Is a white woman having a black child pursuing an evolutionary strategy based on better chances for gene propagation from dominant, growing population (real or perceived) versus submissive, declining population?

How many copies of CofC are out there?

Have you considered the ratio between how widely read the book is and how little mentioned in the media? Do you think you hold the record for this?

Other than Jews, who’s pursuing the best group evolutionary strategy?

Implicit White Football League

McMahon’s previous attempt at launching his professional football league promised (to my mind) an unappealing pro-wrestling aesthetic. Off-field drama would be part of the show. Players would be encouraged to date cheerleaders. Presumably cameras would be following them around. McMahon invoked recent fines for excessive celebrations in deriding the NFL as the “no fun league”. The new league promised a more libertine environment.

As far as I know they spared us the pro wrestling model, but the league failed anyway. It’s notable the different product McMahon offers for this different time, a “family friendly” league returned to its mostly white fans.

And just like that, Vince McMahon became a Nazi.

Luke Ford on Andy Warski Live

Luke Ford is on fire:

Andy Warski is a popular YouTube broadcaster of the “skeptic” community where he developed a huge audience skewering low-hanging SJW fruit while avoiding racism. He’s become embroiled in the race debate after he broadcast the debate between Richard Spencer and Sargon of Akkad.
That broadcast was the number one stream on YouTube at the time.

Testing, testing…

Via American Renaissance, the BBC reports:

Schools in England and the United States will not be taking the new international Pisa test designed to assess respect for other cultures, challenge extremism and help identify fake news.

The new “global competences” test will be carried out alongside maths, reading and science, as part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s influential Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests.

But some Western countries including England, the United States, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Ireland have decided not to take the global competence test, although they will take the other core academic subject tests.

The OECD’s goal is to prepare whites everywhere for greater diversity. Not, notably, to prepare the diverse for whites, unless somehow the tests are genuinely objective and not based on critical race theory. I’m supremely confident that’s not the case.

Taking the elite at their word leads to questioning their sanity:

 The concept of global competence was intended to test how well young people were prepared to work alongside people from different cultures and with different beliefs.

They genuinely think this is the future. That it’s possible, desirable and inevitable.
Perhaps inspired by television’s image of diversity, they imagine you’re going to go to work and sit across from a nice woman in a hijab (how the left loves the hijab, so mild, so modest, so reassuring!) and she’ll accompany you to lunch with your transgender friend. And thus throughout the whole of the West.

When they invoke “different beliefs” you have to wonder: do they understand what “beliefs” are? The western elites–the OECD invokes “post truth” in its gobbledygook explaining the tests–have adopted a postmodern relativist approach to truth, and don’t understand any more what “belief” means. They don’t experience it and don’t see it in others. I’m reminded of George W Bush so often invoking religion and then blundering into Iraq and experiencing firsthand the significance of genuine religious belief, as opposed to his own retail version of Christianity. He still doesn’t get it, be sure.

The prospect that we’ll be at each other’s throats does occur to the elites, as the global “competence” tests show. But we must work through that; we are working through that in enduring terrorist attacks, rape, grooming gangs.
 It’s hard not to grow hard. It’s hard not to simply conclude: evil.

Times Do Change

Steve Sailer blog post from last March:

Back in 2010 it occurred to me that I ought to write about a book explaining why it isn’t the end of the world that some people are smarter than other people. That would be my great contribution if I could explain why, just as it’s not a global crisis that all the medalists in the next Olympic men’s 100m dash will be black, the fact that some races tend to be smarter than others doesn’t mean we should dig up Hitler’s DNA and elect him President. 

But, you’ll notice, I haven’t written that book yet.

Sailer used to reassure his readers that public recognition of the racial IQ gap would not greatly affect society; a post-woke world would look no different. I used to buy it. I don’t any more. What’s happened in the period of time since he started saying that is the possibility of racial reconciliation has gone from being a reasonable expectation to a mocked notion. The Narrative now holds reconciliation itself to be oppression, and will accept no compromise short of the elimination of “whiteness”.

Whether it was ever possible will be an interesting question for history. Perhaps they’ll say we didn’t attempt “real racial reconciliation”. I think they’d be right; you could never bring diverse ethnic groups to attempt it in earnest in the first place–except of course the modern western white man.

The Obama years and its partly achieved “fundamental transformation” of America–which largely involved making her more diverse–revealed it is a global crisis that we’re all so different, and it’s a global crisis because of globalism and migration. It’s a crisis for any racially diverse population. Diversity is its own problem.

Of course, it is not seen as a crisis for the political left. They don’t want to solve the problem of “inequality” and then go tend their cabbages. They want inequality now, inequality tomorrow, inequality forever.
Cheerio.

Luke Ford’s Alt Right Torah Talk Live

Today’s reading is Parashas Beshallach (Exodus 13:17 to 17:16). From Luke’s blog:

 According to Wikipedia: “In this parashah, Pharaoh changes his mind and sends his army after the Jewish people, trapping them at the Sea of Reeds. God commands Moses to split the sea, allowing them to pass, then closes the sea back upon the Egyptian army. It also contains the miracles of manna and clean water.”
Exodus 13: 17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

War is rarely the Jews first choice.

13:18: “The Children of Israel were armed when they went up from Egypt…”

So they weren’t pacifists. They didn’t just rely on God to take care of them.

* Ex. 14:5: “When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” “

This reminds me of when you have a girl you’re sick of but you don’t want another guy to have her.

My notes.

What was the nature of the Israelites captivity in Egypt? They become a powerful nation within Egypt (one might even say they came to “oppress” indigenous Egyptians), then they became resented and then they became enslaved. But the nature of their bondage may not have been akin to black slaves in the south, but merely that they were denied the right to emigrate and take their livestock and property with them. Not only did they hold property but they appear to have been prosperous. They were a captive as a tribe and class of professionals, not stone-hauling field negroes like in The Ten Commandments.

Luke’s late notes:

Dennis Dale: “The public humiliation of Aziz Ansari marks the “me too” sexual inquisition’s escalation into prosecuting romantic and sexual disappointment.”
* Judaism in the ancient world by Julius Evola.

What Happens in Sweden

At the same time Sweden committed to destroying its domestic tranquility by importing third world blacks and Muslims, it became a surveillance powerhouse:

In a 2008 law, the FRA [Sweden’s secretive NSA-like security organization] had been given expansive powers by the Swedish government to vacuum up all communications traveling over fiber optic networks into and out of Sweden—including e-mails, text messages, and telephone calls. This was of great interest to the NSA, not least because a large percentage of Russian communications traveled through Sweden. In 2011, the Swedes began sharing their surveillance data with the NSA, which included—as NSA officials described it at the time of the meeting—a “unique collection [of communications data] on high-priority Russian targets such as leadership, internal politics, and energy.”

Good thing we oppose foreign interference in a nation’s affairs, or we might be up to all manner of mischief with this intelligence!

How likely is it Swedes are cooperating with the Deep State coup against Trump? The NSA and the FRA are tight:

Noting the Swedish spy agency’s unusual technical abilities and reputation for secrecy, NSA officials also viewed it as an ideal collaborator on its hacking and cyberwarfare project, called Quantum. One of the Quantum programs was an ambitious operation called WINTERLIGHT, which aimed at secretly hacking into high-value foreign computers and computer networks to obtain not only communications data but also any information stored on the hard drives or servers in question. Possible targets might be the administrators of foreign computer networks, government ministries, oil, defense, and other major corporations, as well as suspected terrorist groups or other designated individuals. Similar Quantum operations have targeted OPEC headquarters in Vienna, as well as Belgacom, a Belgian telecom company whose clients include the European Commission and the European Parliament.

Note “other designated individuals” leaves plenty of room for domestic political opposition. WINTERLIGHT hijacks computers, intercepts online data and enables spies to replace web pages and the like with fake ones on target computers.

According to NSA documents, WINTERLIGHT was using a complex attack strategy to secretly implant a malware program on the targeted computer or network. The NSA’s malware would then divert any signals between those computers and the Internet through “rogue” high-speed surveillance servers, called “FoxAcid” servers, allowing the NSA to access in stealth almost any of the user’s personal data—and even to tamper with data traveling from one user to another. The implications for both spying and offensive cyber operations were far-reaching. Wired has described how the attack on the Belgian telecom was able to

[map] out the digital footprints of chosen workers, identifying the IP [internet protocol] addresses of work and personal computers as well as Skype, Gmail and social networking accounts such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Then they set up rogue pages, hosted on FoxAcid servers, to impersonate, for example, an employee’s legitimate LinkedIn profile page.

The Swedes are ambitious and aggressive in their spying. The New York Review of Books article above goes on to note “[s]ignificantly, while WINTERLIGHT was a joint effort between the NSA, the Swedish FRA, and the British GCHQ, the hacking attacks on computers and computer networks seem to have been initiated by the Swedes.”

British law and qualms and Sweden’s 2008 law freeing up surveillance have allowed Sweden to elbow ahead of the UK and enjoy “bilateral” spying arrangements with the US. The nation’s self-styling as the world’s “moral superpower” may be debatable, but it’s definitely punching above its weight to rank among the surveillance superpowers. How much of this is toadying up to the US and how much of it is driven by its own self-inflicted Muslim terrorist risk? A bit of both I imagine.

The Swedes’ work with WINTERLIGHT prompted the NSA to share with it XKeyscore, which it presumably has been doing for the last five years, according to this from 2013:

Firstly, the NSA has granted the Swedish intelligence agency Försvarets Radioanstalt (the National Defense Radio Establishment known as the FRA) access to its XKeyscore program. XKeyscore is the front end that gives NSA agents and contractors the ability to search its huge databases. Using it, Edward Snowden told the Guardian in June, “I, sitting at my desk,” he said, could “wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.” 

One particular document found by SVT, headed, “SwedUSA 2013 Strategic Planning Conference” shows that the FRA is seeking an update on a Quantum project known as Winter Light, and that the FRA has access to XKeyscore. 

“If the Swedish FRA now has access to the system, as the Snowden documents Indicate, this suggests that the FRA is all part of the unlimited mass surveillance of millions of people worldwide – including Swedes,” reports SVT. Gallagher also suggests, “The English public should be made aware that the FRA has access to the system,” alluding to the GCHQ Tempora program that taps the fiber cables between the UK and the US.

Trump’s election of course changes the relationship. It would be naive to think there’s no cooperation between Swedish and American deep-staters opposed to Trump. At the same time, Trump’s political and personal instincts and actions so far indicate he has no problem with aggressive spying, as this week’s surveillance bill which pertains directly to such as data derived from Sweden’s global hall monitors shows. Neither does his opposition, of course, and the bill is a rare bipartisan win.

It’s long been noted Muslim immigration necessitates government surveillance powers and that is a feature not a bug for our hostile elite. It doesn’t need to be by design: greater surveillance powers will be turned on indigenous domestic dissent, if that isn’t happening already. The surveillance state awaits its Reichstag Fire.

Sweden wants to lead the way. Things will get truly interesting if a genuinely Muslim government comes to power, a la Houellebecq, which I don’t think impossible in a place like Sweden someday, thus inheriting the spying apparatus and data.

There’s an old saying: “Faster than thin shit through a tall Swede.” Thus did things go terribly wrong for the West, historically speaking. Just like that.

Sweden

Have Sweden’s cops lost control?

Sweden will do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end a wave of gang violence that has seen a string of deadly shootings, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in Wednesday.
Sweden’s murder rate is relatively low in international terms, but gang violence has surged in recent years and Swedes are worried that the police are unable to cope.
In 2016, the latest year for which official statistics are available, 106 people were murdered in Sweden, a country of 10 million.

But Swedish TV reported there were over 300 shootings, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.

Four people were shot dead in the first week of this year. One man died after picking up a hand grenade outside a subway station in a suburb of Stockholm.

Law and order is likely to be a major issue in a parliamentary election scheduled for September with the populist, opposition Sweden Democrats linking public concern about the rising crime rate to a large increase in the numbers of immigrants.

“It would not be my first option to bring in the military, but I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to make sure that serious, organized crime is stamped out,” Lofven told news agency TT.

One depressing possibility is that Sweden, having lost control of more and more urban territory as its black population grows, will turn law enforcement in Muslim areas over to autonomous Muslim police forces.

The prime minister is likely not serious about sending in the army, not just because the liberal Swedish government would find it distasteful but because Swedish politics likely already has an American-derived black advocacy impulse: it would be racist.

Sex and Betrayal

The public humiliation of Aziz Ansari marks the “me too” sexual inquisition’s escalation into prosecuting romantic and sexual disappointment.

Women are compelled to sexual excess at the same time they are absolved of any responsibility for their safety. Birth control enabled widespread sexual license, which has in turn engendered crises for both masculinity and femininity, leaving women largely degenerate and miserable. Maybe it was inevitable feminism would seek to sever female agency from womens’ romantic and sexual frustration.

Ansari has defenders and hasn’t lost any work, and his significance might be that the inquisition stops short at least of anonymous revenge porn leveled on a prized diversity-celebrity. I’m actually rooting for intersectionality. For Ansari, the problem of where he goes to get his reputation back remains, and what’s been done to him is a travesty. Imagine how bad it would be for him if his reputation wasn’t already implicitly needle-dicked Indian weirdo.

Feminism tries, despite itself, to perform the traditional female role of protecting women by regulating sex. That feminism depends on sexual liberation, as feminists insist, is an obvious problem. Clearly sexual liberation harms women, vulnerable women the most. Feminism can’t drop its commitment to liberation for various reasons, the most shameful of which is commerce, which is increasingly based on individual license and consumption.

So feminism makes lemonade, after a fashion. All that misery is fed back into the narrate-o-matic and comes out as toxic masculinity, which must be corrected, by ever more feminism.

We’re liberated from biological responsibility but not from our biological psychology. We’re a historical novelty with all this sex and so little reproduction, people indulging the physical and ritual aspects of thwarted reproduction to the point of boredom.

Sexual liberation has liberated women, no one more so, but liberation doesn’t equal happiness. Women were promised something, something absurd and unrealistic, by the sexual revolution, just like men: they would have their cake and eat it too. They would be set loose from sexual morality and no harm would come to them. Keeping in mind a woman’s idea of “harm” is broader than a man’s. Feminism adopts this to politicize emotional harm. Feminism recognizes but won’t admit that women are more vulnerable emotionally. It just keeps reinterpreting that vulnerability as oppression.

What to do with a movement that thrives on the fruit of its failure?

Morning in Moscow

Russia Insider comes at the Jewish Question like an icebreaker:

Obviously, this is a ridiculous way to run a publication whose object is to get to the truth, so I am writing this to explain why, from now on, the pages of Russia Insider will be open to articles which fairly and honestly address the influence of Jewish elites, including pointing out when it is malevolent, which it often is, and try to understand it and explain it, with malice towards none.

What government or faction funds Russia Insider? According to the publication:

Russia Insider is a grassroots phenomenon, and sometimes resembles a political movement as much as it does a publication. We exist solely because of small donations from readers. We get no funding from major donors, not to mention governments, foundations, or other organized groups. It is all private individuals. Our single largest donation over the past year was $5000, and the median gift is $30. We raised about $80,000 last year. This gives us the freedom to pretty much say what we want, something that can be said of very few publications, even in the alternative media space, most of whom are beholden to large donors.

Buzzfeed reported on the site’s launch in 2014:

Russia Insider, which went live at the beginning of September but only started attracting notice this past week with a video featuring a Russian grandma cajoling Obama to leave Russia alone, is an “effort by a group of expats here in Moscow,” said Charles Bausman, an expatriate who has been living in Russia since the early 1990s. Before founding Russia Insider, Bausman worked in private equity at a firm called AVG Capital Partners, which invests in large agribusiness projects. 

“We felt that there was a demand among the reading public for a view of news about Russia that wasn’t so critical of Russia,” Bausman said. “Since that coincides with what we believe, we started this website.” 

Bausman, whose last experience in journalism was as a junior producer in NBC’s Moscow bureau after college, says that the website has no relation to and is not funded by the Russian government. 

“I know that that they might be very interested in doing that but we’re not interested in that,” Bausman said. The site, he said, is “a very amateur operation supported by a bunch of people doing this in their free time.” Bausman is seeking to crowdfund the operation or attract investors.

Russia Insider may or may not be financed by the Russian government after all, but ultimately that doesn’t matter. I find it more interesting that Russia Insider, in raising the Jewish question, is either what it says it is, a global grassroots speaking truth to Jewish power, or the Russian government forced to conceal its defense against Jewish power, demonstrating its remarkable extent.

Any argument can be taken on its merits, author-less, and understood separately from its exponent’s intention or bias. While the source is always relevant, whether someone works for Putin or the US government impinges not at all on the objective merits of an argument, or reporting for that matter.

We are blessed and cursed to live in interesting times.