Vote count in 2020 and 2024 US presidential elections

Great question. The answer is the absence of ballot stuffing in 2024. Republican and clean voting activists did yeoman work cleaning the electoral register and vetting incoming postal ballots.

Wackford Squeers wrote a concise summary.

Some lib asked “18 million ballots were rejected and purged HOW?“

Via the good people at StopBogusBallots.com and Common Sense Elections.  Thank you, Austin, Texas-based ballot security expert Jay Valentine! 

What Common Sense Elections discovered in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin: 

—Across these states, 660,290 mail-in ballots are tied to registered voters who permanently moved to other states. These absentees number 68,983 in Georgia (far exceeding Joe Biden’s 2020 margin of victory: 11,779 votes); 262,488 in Pennsylvania (which Biden won by 80,555); and 42,043 in Wisconsin (Biden’s by 20,682).

—Voters who moved to other in-state counties total 457,310. These include 65,857 relocated voters in Michigan (which Trump won in 2016 by 10,704 votes) and 169,083 in Pennsylvania (which Trump secured in 2016 with 44,292 votes).

—Voters who moved and left no forwarding residence total 146,160.

—Those linked to invalid addresses total 663,514. Pennsylvania is home to 346,505 such “voters.”

—Voters recorded as residing at commercial sites: 4,914. These reflect, among others, “voters” at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport and a vacant lot at 9145 Mann St., Las Vegas.

—A staggering 916,100 voters are enrolled with missing or incorrect apartment numbers. This boosts the odds that postal workers will leave unclaimed ballots in lobbies or mailrooms, where harvesters can retrieve and abuse them.

—All told, these screwy ballots total 2,848,288—in just these six states and involving only these six anomalies shown here. Deeper and wider scrutiny has yielded graver worries.

The good news is that Common Sense Elections’ technology identifies these suspicious destinations. It then asks county clerks not to send them mail-in ballots.

CSE also monitors ballots that are filled in and returned. It flags those that arrive from fishy addresses and advises election officials not to count them.

Mail-in and expatriate ballots have become the most popular election fraud method. The way to stop it is to only allow in-person voting with paper ballots which can be recounted. If someone cannot be bothered to show up with official ID to vote, that person does not deserve to have a vote. If this means a certain number of seniors cannot vote, so be it. It’s an open question that whether people who are so elderly that they cannot move or follow the news are qualified voters.² Having a pulse should not be the only requirement to cast a vote.³

Would it have been better for the United States to have had Donald Trump as president for two consecutive terms or with an interrupted second term is a question for which we’ll never have an answer. In principle, for the deep changes Trump and his supporters (including Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr) would like to implement, today is a more propitious time than in the middle of the mock pandemic.

That the USA has figured out how to defuse mail-in ballot fraud is good news for the rest of the world. Let’s hope the trend continues. If our goal is democracy, there’s literally no point in holding dishonest elections.

I wanted to be that change and not just report it. Sometimes I’ve succeeded, sometimes I have not. Elizabeth Nickson, another renegade former journalist and Canadian (her career include stints as an editor at Time and Life magazine) describes acerbically the delusions of the contemporary press corps. For some reason, modern journalists consider themselves to be the peers of their subjects:

Average journalism-school graduates watched their fellow undergrads go on to wealth in finance, innovation in technology, or power in politics. Meanwhile, the high Masters of Journalism are struggling to avoid replacement by college interns and to out-write AI software. After years in expensive schools cozying up to the right people, they believe that an equal professional respect is due. The trouble is, they’ve done little to earn it.

The media follows a socialism of status, demanding cultural equity with the newsmakers they cover. The members of the media don’t realize that the elites consider them with as little regard as does their dwindling audience. Striving for acceptance into the right social circles makes them all the more desperate to parrot the conventional wisdom of the ruling class. See, I’m on your team, the reporter thinks, as the Vice Undersecretary for the Department of Agriculture (Tropical Fruit Division) glances across the room to find someone worthy of his notice….

Perhaps journalists could improve…by not catastrophizing every issue that has plagued humanity since ancient Sumer. But one crisis left unnoticed has doomed journalism to dwindling audiences, rising irrelevance, and public contempt. Newsrooms from Washington to San Francisco, New York to London, suffer from a humility crisis. What makes this odd is that journalists have so much to be humble about.

This is part of her essay contributed to Michael Walsh’s new book Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You (2024).

I’m far from certain I could bear to read 448 pages about the contemporary press but for those who care about fourth estate, it looks like obligatory reading.

On a serious note, what’s gone wrong with journalism is the tendency for publications to no longer pay their reporters properly and no profits from the press. Journalists need a side gig. Side gigs depend on being considered “easy to work with” and “cooperative. Almost all newspapers and magazines are money losers now, and their future existence depends not on their readers, but on their advertisers and their corporate sponsors.

Courage has left the building, and modern mainstream journalists have become PR hacks instead of investigative/critical journalists.

Substack and independent websites provide the vast majority of serious reporting these days. The decline started with the rise of the internet. Journalists slowly became toothless from as far back as the year 2000.

^* I wrote regularly for The Economist, The Moscow Times, Dance International; produced news spots for ABC Television and short documentaries for Radio-Canada.

Faced with these horrors, many wonder if humans are intrinsically evil? One commenter observed that the corn fuel burned in organic fuel could have fed a lot of starving Sudanese.

In the comments to A Time Of Famine, And A Time Of War… TR3BPilot notes:

I would posit that humans some humans are intrinsically good but most humans are:

1. just downright stupid
2. easily manipulated
3. conforming
4. non-thinking sheeple.

Every atrocity in history may have been led by one or a few socio/psycho-paths but it was masses of non-thinking sheeple who did the dirty deeds. The“re are always millions who will say “just doing my job” and “just following orders”.

One can blame the zionist-globalist cabals but billions of sheeple are responsible for committing evil acts in their name. One can blame the Jekyll Island oligarchs for the Fed but its hundred thousand some employees bear the responsibility for ruining the USD.

One can blame big pharma for their poisons but millions of imbecilic sheeple in their collective stupidity acquired Mass Formation Psychosis in unison.

It never occurs to sheeple that maybe they should think for themselves and quit following the herd.

We should not let ourselves off the hook. If we have leaders like this and we claim to be democracies, those leaders are our responsibility.

the Internet has given all of humanity full read/write access to one another’s minds for the first time, and this is a massive shift in individual and collective psychology that we are just starting to grapple with. For example, we are now exposed to the crushing emotional load of suffering anywhere in the world, with no gatekeeping intermediary to insulate us, and not just occasionally but all the time. Figuring out the effects of this civilizational shift – certainly on par with the Gutenberg revolution, if not way beyond — will take a long time.

Andreessen has casually revealed perhaps the most profound change to humankind of our age. Sure bad things happened before but never so visibly.

While the Israelis carefully murder a million Palestinians, they traumatise the rest of the world who stand by and watch. Those who look away are effectively volunteering to abandon their humanity. Those of who look on have our humanity ripped away from us one bomb and one blocked food truck at a time.

It’s no wonder the Israelis tried and still try to cut off all communication from Gaza, images, video, even poetry.

Other national disasters and economic crisis create pain, but an entire literate civilisation dedicating itself to imposing a complete holocaust on another is new. The Israelis bark back that you Americans did the same thing to the natives in North America. They are not wrong. Some very bad men got a hold of power and murdered everyone. The population of the United States bear responsibility. No one stopped them. As a comparison, in Imperial Russia, occasionally similar men would seek power and start similar programs. The Tsar regularly stopped these monsters in their tracks when these actions reached his desk. Unfortunately the Bolsheviks were less benevolent, wiping out their enemies in the style of US total war (the English, the Indians, their own South, the Filipinos).¹

I’m far from sure it was civilisational. Within the United States, there were many, many opposed to the extinction of the Indians. Yet the same kind of dehumanisation of the victim took place to cover for these crimes. At the time, some historians argued that it was precisely the lack of history which created the perfect storm which were the United States genocides.

In the case of Palestine, the Israelis claim five thousand years of continuous civilisation going back all the way to Adam and Eve (never mind that Chinese civilisation has existed for ten thousand years, well before Adam and Eve were born according to the Old Testament). It’s not a lack of expertise in ethical questions, it’s not a matter of a lack of wisdom, it’s not civilisational youth in the Israeli case. What shocks is that collective Jewry should know better but continues to make very bad choices.

It’s a very bad look for humankind. If we still cannot settle our disagreements civily and live peacefully with others, this suggests that auto-annihilation is inevitable. What’s particularly shocking is that the population genetically closest to the original Hebrews in the modern world are the same Palestinians that the latter day Israelis annihilate. The Israelis are killing these people in the name of the ancestors of their own victims.

1. Are there better people? I prefer to what I’ve experienced and seen first hand. The Slovaks historically have preferred to keep to themselves. I haven’t heard about Slovak people seeking to wipe out another nation. Instead, the Slovaks offered succour to the Hungarians during the Pecheneg-Turk invasion of Europe in 895. Result: the fall of Greater Moravia. After that event, the Slovaks found themselves tenants in their own lands, answering to Hungarian overlords. Due to their ability to co-exist with other peoples, as a people the Slovaks were not put to the sword and were able to reclaim their language and their lands later. The Slovak experience offers some hope that humans can learn to co-exist with a minimum of bloodshed and a fair amount of tolerance.

This evening I ran across an essay from professional investor and thinker Jayant Bhandari. Canadians should enjoy Canada while they can. The times they are a’changin and faster than even I thought:

When I moved to Canada in 2003, its population was 32 million. Today, it is 40 million, an increase of 25%.

Had immigration not occurred, the Canadian population would have fallen, given its fertility rate of 1.47, which itself would have been lower had immigration not occurred…For those who don’t have a sense of numbers, more than one out of every four people in Canada arrived after my arrival twenty years back. As it stands today, 26% of Canadians are first-generation immigrants. 18% are second-generation. 32% of children under fifteen in 2021 were second-generation immigrants.

My interest is not to get into statistical nuances but to show that nearly 50% of Canadians are first or second-generation immigrants. And immigration continues to ramp up, most of whom come from the Third World.

Before the early 1970s, most immigrants came from Europe. Today, only 10% of the total immigrants come from Europe….

India is by far the most significant source of immigration, accounting for 27% of total immigrants. A distant second is China, with 7%. Third is Afghanistan, with 5.4%. Fourth is Nigeria, with 5%….

Western political correctness has metastasized into a puerile understanding of cultures. Even those who can see prefer to make money and maintain their lifestyles, their country houses, the size of their kitchen cabinets, and the schools their kids attend rather than speak up.

Canadians have put Canada on a path to inevitable destruction.

There is no history in human affairs when a society willingly gave itself away to foreigners. There is no history of a society maintaining any values once foreigners overtook it. Indeed, there is no history in human affairs where muti-culturalism and ethnic diversity have not led to massive civil conflicts, but Canadians love romanticizing these anti-values.

What are the consequences of these policies?

Canada now has massive ghettoes. Visit and soak in the Indian ghettos of Surrey, Brampton, or Richmond to get a sense of proportion and perspective. I mention the Indian ghettos, for I know them better, but you should also visit the Afghani, Syrian, Somalian, etc. ghettoes. If you do, you will realize that Canada is like a train constantly changing its passengers. For most Canadians, the passengers aren’t what they started with.

Recently, Eritrean immigrants fought a pitched battle in Calgary. Khalistan’s posters can now be seen in many places. These don’t leave a lasting impression on native Canadians, but they must.

How does Canada choose its immigrants?

India provides 27% of Canada’s new immigrants….

Every Indian city today has at least one high-rise building devoted to housing agencies that help people immigrate to Canada, most offering help creating fake documents or getting admission to colleges structured not for education but for assisting people to stay in Canada long enough to become citizens.

Crazy, isn’t it, that Canada has given itself away to those who faked documents? So much for the much-touted skilled-class immigrants!

This essay is written from the perspective of an Indian Canadian. Bhandari knows what he is talking about. Here’s another perspective.

I was born in Canada and live in it now, product of immigrant Slavic parents. I can tell you that the biggest enemy of Canada are the Old Stock Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Irish population. This population was always the most brainwashed into worshipping the system and any dogma the system put(s) out. The second thing they did was to (exploit) rely, at first on continental European Immigrants to build up their infrustucture and know-how, and then later on affuent Chinese immigrants that they could sell their houses to at huge premiums as well as services, with the goal being to be as least productive as possible. Still other immigrants at first Europeans, and then later replaced by Indians and Filipinos, were building the homes and working in the service sector, serving these Anglos.

What has been the downfall of the Old Stock Anglo-Canadians is the way they treat their offspring and family. Their families do not stick together and they look at their children as a burden, as opposed to an investment. As a result the chidren of the Old Stock Anglo Canadians have been and are at disadavantage, kicked out of the home at 18 years, while Italians, later Vietnamese, Indians, Chinese supported by their families receive the higher education and top class jobs. The period I describe here is from the late 60’s to the 2000s.”

That sounds like the Canada I know and where I grew up. So few heirs of the WASP elite truly wanted to build a greater Canada. Canadian WASP culture celebrates inebriation, hedonism, selfishness and at best shallow materialism. As a child of that culture, I’ve not been exempt from its failings. It’s a long way from the world of my great aunts and uncles who toiled decades to improve education in British Columbia, or grandparents who helped build one of the greatest retail empires in the world or Polish count Peter Mielzynski who arrived after the second world war and built a successful import business in the seventies. That generation was dedicated to building Canada and making space for Canadian life and as an inevitable consequence Canadian culture⁴.

How did we plunge so quickly, so far? The siren call of Jane Fonda and the drop-out generation. It’s hard to have ideals when your society’s idea of positive contribution is to head two thousand miles across an ocean into a jungle to commit war crimes. Of course Canada did not directly participate in Viet Nam but we don’t really exist on our own, we are a shadow of our larger neighbour to the south. And before that, to the centre of Empire, in London. If malaise infects those societies, it is reflected in Canada. Our country had lost its mission, having children and raising them properly was no longer fashionable. Turn on, tune in, drop out became the mantra of a generation.

For Canada, the seminal moment was the election of Brian Mulroney in 1984. When Mulroney pushed through NAFTA with Reagan, Canada’s status as a colony of the United States effectively moved from geography to law. Those of us who felt strongly patriotic had been set adrift by our own government. On the economic side, NAFTA gave up control of our water and our resources (if we sold any resources, US companies had equal rights to any Canadian enterprises) and our culture. Canadian broadcast rules were to be phased out, US magazines were to be given near peer rights on the newsstands as our Canadian magazines. Canadian cultural protectionism mattered as our cultural market was 10% the size of the neighbour with a shared language. Without protection, Canadian culture would just be subsumed within the US culturesphere within decades. Which is exactly what happened. Canadianism is now more or less simple regionalism, not much more distinct than the Pacific Northwest or the US Southeast.

Immigration did nothing to hinder this process. Our Canadian immigrants as Bhandari points out live in their own culturesphere, mostly ignoring Canadian culture. Where they pursue or follow North American culture, it’s probably US popular culture. Divided between their home countries and the United States, they are the perfect globalist citizen, loyal to noone except brands and economic success. At the same time, these immigrants to Canada suffer from cultural disorientation and discomfort. Canadian culture is neither present enough or strong enough to give them renewed orientation in this world. We drift past one another, unable to interact in more than a functional way with one another. We are too different, we share nothing.

There’s a certain irony in our national anthem, as a commenter on Bhandari’s essay pointed out:

I have nothing but utter contempt for the stupid, white Canadian liberals who let demonic globalist elites deliberately destroy their country. “Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee”. Bullshit. Change this f** song. It hasn’t been true for decades.

What’s worse is that in moving back to Europe, the birthplace of European culture I’d hoped to leave behind the self-destructive progressiveness of the New World. We couldn’t be that stupid in the Old World to allow the destruction of our cultures and cities, many of which we’ve built up over a thousand years. Over three thousand for those who trace their origins back to the Ancient Greeks. Could we?

It turns out that we could. Europe stood by and watched the United States destroy the Middle East (Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2012. Yemen 2014) in wars of choice and aggression and then allowed Germany’s Chancellor to announce open season on Europe, opening our gates to many millions of economic migrants whom the US had created and sent our way to destroy our standard of life. What continues to astonish me is how citizens stand by to observe the destruction of everything for which their parents, their grandparents, great-grandparents and their grandparents before them had worked so hard.

We stood by in Canada and for now it looks like we’ll stand by in Europe. Without adequate leadership and an altruistically patriotic ruling class, any society is doomed. Where adequate leadership appears in any single country, the EU immediately takes measures to suppress local outbreaks of good sense and prudent administration.

What is to be done? Novel and visionary Leo Tolstoi argued that individuals matter not in history and are only the jetsam on surface of the tide. I’d disagree. Only a strong individual can lead us out of the fog of moral and ethical confusion which has sent our societies into a slow whirlpool of self-destruction. Some argue that such an individual would not be allowed to raise his⁵ head⁶.

The dangers of doing the right thing will not prevent the brave from acting on the courage of their convictions. Napoleon Bonaparte could have died in battle many days before leading France to rule Europe. Most of us in Continental Europe still live by his legal code. Many crowned heads of England fell in battle, even while leading their armies to success.

Life is dangerous but it always ends in death. To accept servility to linger a decade or two more on our earth is to accept ignominy. Conformity is no guarantee of prosperity and long life. Our governments have damned enough of its most loyal henchmen to an early death. Life will be a struggle whichever side you take, make sure you fight for right.

Steadily reducing merit in admissions criteria in favour of quotas removes an essential element of what built America and a core competitive advantage. Based on reports of the current climate of corruption, graft and backhands, the train may have already left the station. Reverse discriminataion in college admissions is just another nail in the coffin of American competitiveness.

Today I read an essay in The Atlantic arguing in favour of affirmative action. Affirmative action mandates racial quotas in schools and professions. It’s effectively apartheid turned on its head and the opposite of meritocracy. If the US Supreme Court rules that race-based discrimination is illegal, colleges will find a way to skirt the rules. Black applicants will be further encouraged to write trauma essays:

if schools are forbidden from formally asking for students’ racial identities, the college essay could become even more important as a way for students to signal their race.

Aya M. Waller-Bey is effectively arguing that whatever the laws of the land are that colleges can and should ignore them. It astonishes me that we are still having a conversation about the lack of opportunity for black applicants to university. Here are the numbers:

8%, the percentage of black students at Ivy League and other highly selective colleges and universities. “The numbers really are startlingly consistent,” Tough writes. “About 15 percent of American high school graduates are black,…but Princeton’s student body is 8 percent black. Cornell’s is 8 percent black.”

Other Ivy League schools and “Ivy-Plus” elite universities are pretty close. Back in 1984, Harvard’s freshman class was—wait for it—8% black.

According to the Harvard Crimson, Harvard’s entering classes hovered at around 10%-11% black or African-American for years, but the university reports that more than 14% of the Classes of 2023 and 2024 identified as black or African-American. African-Americans comprised only 6.7% of Cornell’s Class of 2023, while another 5.6% described themselves as bi- or multiracial.

If blacks make up 15% of high school graduates but are achieving 10% average admissions to Ivy League universities, this already suggests a significant admission bias in their favour. It’s unlikely that black high school graduates make up 15% of university admissions or graduates across the United States. If blacks skip university by choice and inclination, why should they be guaranteed disproportionate representation at elite colleges?⁷

When the conversation is narrowed to the Ivy League colleges, these are supposed to be the best of the best, admitted strictly on merit and achievement. Why should high achieving Asian, Jewish or – heavens forbid – WASP children be locked out of the Ivy League to meet racial quotas?⁸

When the NFL and NBA change their roster requirements to insist on 65% white, 10% Asian, 15% Hispanic and 15% black players, we can revisit this question.

Reverse discrimination is not the only bugbear in college admissions. Signe Wilkinson’s cartoon which illustrates this article cleverly shows that there are other dangers than reverse discrimination. The admission on a preferential basis of unqualified and well-connected children of alumni and/or student athletes wreaks havoc on meritocracy. The playing field must be even. No groups should either be discriminated against or for.

The greater the danger to the United States is that instead of working as a meritocracy, it will become an idiocracy where success is leverage via racial and/or sexual identity or based on connections. A country run on such principles would rapidly lost its competitiveness as the ability of its physicians, surgeons, scientists and pilots would quickly become uneven. Quality of life would detiorate in short order.

Image credit: Signe Wilkinson

In the comments to “That Cretin Never Advised Me On Anything Whatsoever”: Musk Responds To Epstein Subpoena | ZeroHedge, Z Free has an answer for us:

Musk is a Deep State player…

• There’s the half a billion dollars DOD awarded SpaceX in a series of contracts over the past few years to send satellites up into orbit of classified nature on unregistered, unreported missions that presumably have something to do with the DOD’s declared intention to make space into a war-fighting domain.
• $3 billion in NASA contracts SpaceX was awarded in 2021 to develop the human lander for the Artemis Mission. You know, that’s the moon trip that keeps getting delayed and rescheduled over and over.
• $750 million award to Solar City in 2016 by the state of New York to build a solar cell production facility.
• $1.3 billion that Tesla got from the State of Nevada in 2014 to build the Gigafactory, etc., etc.
• Before Musk got to launch SpaceX, he was part of a trip to Russia…to purchase old Soviet ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). That trip ultimately resulted in the starting of SpaceX. Musk traveled with Mike Griffin, who just happened to be the Chief Operating Officer of In-Q-Tel, that’s the CIA’s investment capital arm

Griffin went on to become the administrator of NASA, who then chose SpaceX as the one company out of the 20 applying for the $400 million contract to start development of the new ISS resupply rocket in 2005,. Then awarded SpaceX $3.5 Billion in 2008 with a contract that Musk himself credits with saving the company.

You don’t receive $9 billion from .gov without being a loyalist and playing ball.

Based on how wacky Elon Musk has been on social media and on podcasts for the last couple of years, it appears he’s gone off the reservation. As a made man, and one who knows where many of the bodies are buried, and worth more alive than dead (very important), Musk feels he’s invulnerable.

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This subpoena is warning shot off the bow. Will Musk heed it? Who knows. Are we entertained? Yes.

Here’s Tony Blair talking about lighting fires all around Russia in its neighbours in 2008.

There’s so much other evidence, including the infamous 2019 Rand Report Overexteneding and Unbalancing Russia, where US analysts recommend sanctions, sabotage and civil war. But all that takes time to digest and requires substantial additional reading to fully understand. My friend is busy.

What I promised my friend instead was a video from Stanislav Filin who runs the YouTube chanel, S Filinom (сФилином literally translated as “With Filin”). The video was released in early March 2021 to explain the Russian side of the start of the Ukraine conflict. Stanislav is a straightforward ordinary young guy with a talent to connect with people, not a long-winded intellectual like Professor John Mearsheimer. Plus if you want to know the Russian perspective, ask a Russian.

I went to Stanislav’s channel expecting to find the video in less than five minutes and just drop a link to it in Signal to my friend. With ten minutes of hard searching, I couldn’t find it. Not by searching for “American”, not by searching for “Ukraine”, not by searching for “Donbass” in both English and Russian. I found something about Stanislav’s Buchta video being taken down, which made me suspicious that this video was lost. It turned out to be the case. Here’s where it should be on YouTube.

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The video in question was called something like “How to explain to Americans why Russians moved to protect the Donbass on February 24”.

Next step – I had to find Stanislav’s other channels, which happily enough, are also called sFilinom. There’s Telegram (fairly complete though inconsistent), there’s Dzen, there’s VK.com. On Dzen, one can even find his entire Bucha video in good quality and in English but there’s only 8 videos there, out of the . VK.com only starts on 1 January 2022 so of course no video.

But still no sign of the mystery video.¹⁰

In a search on VK in Russian for sFilinom and Bucha, I managed to find a compendium of Filin’s political English language videos. It starts with the mystery video and included the Bucha video, the Arnold Schwarzeneger video.

Here’s the full table of contents with original titles:

• What you don’t know about the war in Ukraine (video banned)
• A response to Arnold Schwarzenegger (video still on YouTube)
• Must See!! Advisor to Zelensky said WHAT??!! (video banned)
• What Ukraine is HIDING from YOU (video banned)
• What you must know about BUCHA (video banned)

Don’t bother clicking those YouTube links. Only the “Response to Arnold Schwarzenegger” is still online.

Now that I knew that the video did exist and I wasn’t imagining it and knew the exact title, I’ve managed to find another copy on Bitchute. It turns out there are thirteen copies.¹¹

And another copy of just What you don’t know about the war in Ukraine on VK.com. Don’t expect to be able to easily find this material via US search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, Kagi or Bing, even with an exact search like +sfilinom What you don’t know about the war in Ukraine. DuckDuckGo at least includes some VK.com results which will get you close, and in turn uncovered a well-stocked sfilinom TikTok channel.¹²

Anyone who wants to better understand the Russian perspective on the Ukraine conflict and why Russians consider the US the aggressor owes it to him or herself to watch What you don’t know about the war in Ukraine. The video is only five minutes long. To listen to the other side is the basics we are taught at high school debating. Or which all mediators or even competent businessperson learn. Anyone who doesn’t have five minutes to listen to the Russian perspective about what looks like it will develop into World War III and nuclear armageddon loses the right to have an opinion on Russia, Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine conflict.

Lead image of Odessa Trade Union Massacre by Aleksandr Polischyuk

Go ahead, learn what the other side thinks, in their own words, in plain English. It will only take five minutes.¹³

What if massive support swings behind the AfD or any party for that matter than does not bleat the Russiadidit line.

Irrelevant. The gilets jaunes were ultimately defeated by relentless police and judicial brutality; the concessions granted by Macron were limited and have been swamped since by the consequences of the pandemic and the sanctions against Russia.

Governments have been learning from the gilets jaunes events how to deal with massive popular movements, and have since geared up for that (also in terms of legal tools). I notice that the German police is already on the offensive against the AfD, raiding its headquarters.

Will there be terrorist attacks?

Irrelevant. Historically, no terrorist movement, be it the best organized and supported by foreign countries, ever represented a truly existential issue for governments. The Rote Armee Fraktion in Germany, Action Directe in France, Brigate Rosse in Italy, Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Belgium, ETA in Spain — they were all crushed.

Nowadays, the security and surveillance apparatus is way more developed and capable than in the 1970s-1980s. For governments, terrorism will be an annoyance, not a peril. Just like Al Qaeda.

How much support will there be for the EU seeing the economic disaster they they have lead the continent into?

Irrelevant. Remember what happened in Greece, where there was a massive popular push against the EU? It was choked by the tentacular EU institutional framework that controls such vital economic elements as banking, money and budgets.

If things go as planned, the EU will have even more power to thwart any opposition to its policies — e.g. with the end of unanimity rule for EU decisions, or the introduction of a “digital central bank currency”.

Basically, you are presuming that “voice” will be the major reaction to the disaggregation of European economies. I do not see any chance of this having a transformatory impact — short of an actual pan-European revolution.

I have the feeling that “exit” is actually what will happen — for instance: emigration to Canada and Australia, or to oil&gas producing countries; massive increase in moonlighting and black market; abandonment of legal recourses and official State structures in favour of mafia networks (already happening in Italy); rampant adoption of extra-European currencies in preference to an unremittingly devaluing Euro. Perhaps Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic States and Wolgadeutsche in Germany will return to Russia. In short, people will give up on Europe as we know it.

The defanging of the Gilets Jaunes, a genuinely popular movement in a state with a revolutionary tradition is a worry.

I think vao underestimates the damage that popular revolutionary movements can do. Radicals will find a way to go underground. Nineteenth century Tsarist Russia was one of the world’s great powers but still they could not stop their own revolutionaries who toiled from the first attempt on the life of Tsar Alexander the II in 1866 to 1917 to destroy the central government until they succeeded.

The argument is that the surveillance state will stop revolution before it can occur. In my opinion, revolutionaries will adapt and become more dangerous. Power politics depends on being able to introduce more massive force quickly whenever there is a break in the dam. This will work but will depend on a network of concentration camps to isolate and then terminate those who will not go along with supranational or plutocratic policies.

Solzhenitsyn’s maxim that there are always more of us than there are of the security organs still applies. We are moving into dangerous times when the Gulag Archipelago has become a how-to manual for fighting against governmental overreach in the West.

So the cops will wait outside while your kids get shot, the FBI will drill into your safe, and the schools will pimp your children out to transgender dudes….outside of Zyklon B showers I think we are pretty well F-ed….

Americans believe their guns keep them safe from the government. It doesn’t look too safe to me. ShowNoMercy’s wry observations paint a dark picture.

There’s three things the Americans need to do to reclaim their country:

1. Ban mail-in voting. Mail-in voting is where the fraud sneaks in and allows as large a swing as there are mail-in votes.
2. Go back to manual ballot counts with bi-partisan handlers (i.e. one Republican, one Democrat counter on every pile checking each other’s work). No machine intervention, poll tallying should also be done on open spreadsheets and not in a black box program. Every country with honest elections does it long hand. As an IT guy, I can tell you that creating a fake
3. Put an end to corporate election contributions and cap election contributions at $1000 per person.

Yes, the rich will still funnel up to forty or fifty contributions via proxies but that’s better than unlimited corporate donations. Making it illegal to either give or receive proxy political contributions with mandatory jail time would improve matters. Even without a law against it, setting up proxies contributions will significantly slow down those who would corrupt an election.

Suddenly elections would no longer be bought by the rich but fought over by citizens. Popular candidates like Obama or Trump could easily be elected. But party creatures like Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney would have to go elsewhere. Elections fought this way would have spared the world the Bush/Cheney years as VP Al Gore would have out-raised them easily. Without the machines and silly vote counting nonsense, Gore would have won too.

There were four seminal moments after the Second World War where the face of US democracy was changed for the worse:

1. Truman’s creation of the CIA in 1947.
2. The assassination of the Kennedy brothers in 1968, John and Robert, by the CIA, with co-operation and cover from the mafia.
3. The Bush/Cheney years (2001-2009), where subterfuge and torture were made permanently legal.
4. The 2010 Citizens United decision alluded to above, where corporations acquired the political rights of citizens, and are allowed to make unlimited donations. This set corporate lobbying free of its last chains. US elite no longer even have to pretend to listen to the people.

These events don’t cover relatively minor events like Reagan’s Iran-Contras scandal or the blast mining of the financial system with the repeal of Glass-Steagall by Bill Clinton. Nor does it cover the steady surveillance state introduced to IT by Microsoft at the prompting of the CIA, starting in . The persecution of Wikileaks and Julian Assange are really only a footnote here, where the means to hit back are taken away from the media. I.e. if the media reports what the government does not want to hear, true or not, the media will be made to disappear.

The illegal acts of war which Wikileaks made public were the direct consequence of Cheney-style, neocon, Project for the New American Century imperialism.

At this point, the entire system, both financial and political has been corrupted. All over the US and now the world, compliant politicians are either bribed or blackmailed to implement US state policy. Uncompliant politicians are either slandered and run out of politics or if popular enough defenestrated (quite literally in many cases).

Anyone who has ever run an organisation quickly perceives the long term inefficiency of corruption. The logical consequence of the financial and political corruption in the West is the same deterioration which one observes in the Roman Empire, the French ancienne regime or the late Russian Empire. In the case of the Russian empire, there were already anarchists and revolutionaries dissatisfied with Russia’s stratified society operating from the 1860’s.¹⁴

From the outside, it looks like the USA has reached this tipping point of inequality, social unrest, alienation and violence. Matters are so bad now that while hundreds of patriotic citizens have been jailed indefinitely for a tourist excursion gone wrong in Washington DC, Washington running back Brian Robinson (taken in the third round from Alabama’s Crimson Tide) was carjacked at a popular and busy diner in daylight at 6pm on 28 August.

Police officers languish in jail for following the brutal protocols they have been taught across the United States. The issue is not with the conduct of the specific officers but the training provided and the discipline enforced by commanders. Riots tear apart whole cities and whole neighbours only to be applauded on national TV (CNN’s fiery but peaceful protests).

While millions starve on foodstamps, billionaires build yachts, expropriate whole coves of Hawaii and buy elections. A country with a $30 trillion national deficit and a $1 trillion trade deficit continues to spend trillions on its military and overseas military adventures.

Clearly a change in leadership is required. For a change in leadership to have a chance, a change in governance is required. Under the current system, the most popular politician in the USA was unable to get through the first rounds of primaries in the last US presidential elections, Tulsi Gabbard. Even the people who don’t like her, like her better than anyone else on offer. The primaries were rigged to put a dementia-stricken octagenarian with a history of open corruption into the highest office of the land instead.

Whistleblowers are locked away in UK prisons (Julian Assange) or in exile (Edward Snowden). Both live under constant threat of kidnap or assassination. Curiously, an openly patriotic whistleblower is safer in Russia than in the United States.

The current state of US affairs would be impossible to imagine for someone teleported from 1990 or even 2000 to 2022.