Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin likely killed in plane crash

MOSCOW (AP) — A private jet crashed in Russia on Wednesday, killing all 10 people aboard, emergency officials said. Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, but it wasn’t immediately clear if he was on board.

Prigozhin’s fate has been the subject of intense speculation ever since he mounted a short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in late June. The Kremlin said the founder of the Wagner private military company, which fought alongside Russia’s regular army in Ukraine, would be exiled to Belarus.

But the mercenary chief has since reportedly popped up in Russia, leading to further questions about his future.

A plane carrying three pilots and seven passengers that was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg went down more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital, according to officials cited by Russia’s state news agency Tass. It was not clear if Prigozhin was among those on board, though Russia’s civilian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, said he was on the manifest.

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‘Hatred of Anglos Is a Core Feature of Multicultural Ideology in Anglosphere Societies’ — Kevin MacDonald

Anglophobia: The Unrecognized Hatred, by Harry Richardson and Frank Salter, is an excellent exposition of the hatred and dispossession of native White populations that is sweeping Western societies. Focusing particularly on Australia as a prime example, it is a valuable contribution to the effort to both inform European-descended peoples of the danger and injustice of the present situation and to motivate them to action on behalf of their legitimate interests.

Focusing on Anglos may be off-putting to some because it may seem to exclude European-descended groups not descended from the British Isles. However, the authors apply the term widely, to “people descended from the indigenous population of the British Isles in Australia and overseas as well as those who have assimilated into those populations. It can include people of European descent and western civilization as a whole” (5). Anglophobia, then, is hatred or mistrust directed at those populations. As they document in detail, Anglophobia is rife throughout the Western world, and often emanates from prominent figures in the elite media and academic world. Clearly Anglos and their interests are being systematically compromised.

As noted, this is a highly readable book, but it is also intellectually rigorous. Chapter 5, “Psychological and Biological Dimensions of Racism” notes that ethnocentrism is a biological universal that evolved for group living—likely in small groups of close kin. However, ethnocentrism spans a spectrum of variation, and “Anglos are among the world’s most individualist and least collectivist (in other words, non ‘racist’) cultures.” (16) Indeed, Western individualism is unique among the cultures of the world. But that doesn’t imply that Westerners have no tendency toward ethnocentrism at all, only that it is less central to Anglo cultures and more difficult to arouse. And when allegiance to the group is aroused, it is less likely to be directed at a group of co-ethnics, as we see with the phenomenon of civic nationalism—perhaps a fatal flaw in today’s multicultural West.

Underlying the theoretical basis of the book is Salter’s theory of ethnic genetic interests—that genetic diversity creates conflicts of interest between people and hence between people organized into ethnic groups, with the result that multiethnic, multicultural societies are prone to conflict: “As ethno-religious diversity increases, cohesion falls and conflict rises. Most people choose to live among their own people and to marry and make friends among them [as noted in their discussion of J. Philippe Rushton’s Genetic Similarity Theory]. Ethnic identity is adaptive because it allows people to defend their ethnic cultural and genetic interests” (22).

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UPDATE: This is an excellent review, very clearly stated. Everyone should read and understand it fully. One major topic that MacDonald in his work and the authors under review have consistently left out of their analyses of the decline and fall of the West is the widespread, decades-long violence that has weakened the West the way picadors weaken bulls in bullfights, preparing them with many small stabbing wound in their neck muscles till they can no longer hold their heads high. It is probable that intellectuals like MacDonald do not understand this sort of violence because intellectuals are often that way, far removed from the rawest and most brutal outcomes of their otherwise well-reasoned analyses. The violence I am talking about is clandestine, secret, hidden from view. It is focused against individuals, typically promising white boys and young men. It is done with poison, psychosurgery and other kinds of sensory or cognitive damage that render victims incapable of living normal lives. Victims, who are targeted for their strength and leadership abilities, become instead physical and emotional invalids. They still ‘lead’ those around them to some extent, but now they lead them into despair, incompetence, sadness, defeatism, even suicide. This side of the West’s downfall must be recognized and understood if there is ever going to be an effective response. We are facing a much worse situation than an intellectual puzzle. The violence described above and in other comments I have made is accompanied by also promoting weak white males. This is why our institutions are filled with incompetents and the infiltrators who are leading them and us. ABN

2024 VP Debate — vote for your favorite!

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President Trump trolls the contenders. As of this posting Ramaswamy is way ahead. I am still hoping for RFK Jr to be the actual VP, setting him up for eight years as president following that. Trump & RFK Jr—two great Americans with very different backgrounds and skills will do more to unite and focus this country than any other possible political combo. ABN

American sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Against the background hum of the convention center, Dar Leaf settled into a club chair to explain the sacred mission of America’s sheriffs, his bright blue eyes and warm smile belying the intensity of the cause.

“The sheriff is supposed to be protecting the public from evil,” the chief law enforcement officer for Barry County, Michigan, said during a break in the National Sheriffs’ Association 2023 conference in June. “When your government is evil or out of line, that’s what the sheriff is there for, protecting them from that.”

Leaf is on the advisory board of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, founded in 2011 by former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. The group, known as CSPOA, teaches that elected sheriffs must “protect their citizens from the overreach of an out-of-control federal government” by refusing to enforce any law they deem unconstitutional or “unjust.”

…The sheriffs group has railed against gun control laws, COVID-19 mask mandates and public health restrictions, as well as alleged election fraud. It has also quietly spread its ideology across the country, seeking to become more mainstream in part by securing state approval for taxpayer-funded law enforcement training, the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism found.

Over the last five years, the group has hosted trainings, rallies, speeches and meetings in at least 30 states for law enforcement officers, political figures, private organizations and members of the public, according to the Howard Center’s seven-month probe, conducted in collaboration with the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Neocons and Other Malignancies in the American Body Politic — Philip Giraldi

It is interesting to observe how, over the past twenty-five years, the United States has become not only a participant in wars in various places on the planet but has also evolved into being the prime initiator of most of the armed conflict. Going back to the Balkans in the nineteen-nineties and moving forward in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Somalia there is almost always an American leading role where there is bombing and killing. And where there is no actual war, there are threats and sanctions intended to make other nations come to heel, be they in Latin America like Venezuela, or Iran in the Middle East, or North Korea in Asia. And then there is the completely senseless act of turning major competitors like Russia and China, as we are now seeing, into enemies, with a proxy war raging in Ukraine, threats over Taiwan, and the world moving one step closer to a nuclear disaster.

It seems to me that the transition from an America bumbling its way into war and the current situation where wars are pursued as a matter of course coincides with a certain political development in the United States, which is the rise of neoconservatives as the foreign and national security policy makers in both major parties. This has developed together with the evolution of the view that the United States can do no wrong by definition, indeed, that it has a unique and God-given right to establish and police the globe through something that it invented, exploits and has dubbed the “rules based international order.”

Who would have thought that a bunch of Jewish student-activists, mostly leftists, originally conspiring in a corner of the cafeteria in the City College of New York would create a cult type following that now aspires to rule the world? The neocons became politically most active in the 1960s and eventually some of them attached themselves to the Republican Party under Ronald Reagan, declaring their evolution had come about because they were “liberals mugged by reality.” The neoconservative label was first used to describe their political philosophy in 1973. Since that time, they have diversified and succeeded in selling their view to a bipartisan audience that the US should embrace an aggressive interventionist foreign policy and must be the world hegemon. To be sure their desire for overwhelming military power has been strongly shaped by their tribal cohesion which has fed a compulsion to have Washington serve as the eternal protector of Israel, but the hegemonistic approach has inevitably led to expanding conflict all over the world and a willingness to challenge, confront and defeat other existing great powers. Hence the support for a needless and pointless war in Ukraine to “weaken Russia” and a growing conflict with China over Taiwan to do the same in Asia. To make sure that the Republicans do not waver on that mission, leading neocon Bill Kristol has recently raised $2 million to do some heavy lobbying to make sure that they stay on track to confront the Kremlin in Europe.

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Gonzalo Lira REARRESTED trying to flee to Hungary

Gonzalo Lira Update!

Proof of his detention on June 29th, trial, release on bail, his re-detention after a failed border crossing and his upcoming hearing!

Based on what we will read below, and many more details within the documents themselves we now know the following:

– Gonzalo Lira was detained on 01/05/2023

– He was released on bail on 29/06/2023 – He attempted to cross the border to hungary on 01/08/2023 and was detained

– He failed to appear to his court hearing on 02/08/2023 – He appeared in front of court on 04/08/2023, when it was decided to re-detain him

– A hearing in his initial case is scheduled today 22/08/2023 at 1430 hrs Kharkov time

– A hearing is scheduled on 11/09/2023, in an appeal attempt against his re-detention.

Based on the transcripts I found using @OpenDataUa bot on Telegram, from the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv, under which he is been/being prosecuted (among others), case # 638/1372/23.

From the transcript of a hearing that took place on 02/08/2023, that Gonzalo was to appear for but failed to due his border crossing attempt on 01/08/2023, (https://opendatabot.ua/court/112573183-69afea3dc25a508403e28fadeb04e31d…), we could read the following:

“PERSON_5 , INFORMATION_1 , a citizen of Chile and the United States, a native of Los Angeles, California, United States of America, married, not previously convicted, officially unemployed, who actually lives at: ADDRESS_1”

“By the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv of June 26, 2023, criminal proceedings on the charge of PERSON_5 were assigned to trial.””

According to the letter of the State Institution “Kharkiv Detention Center” dated July 7, 2023, PERSON_5 was released on July 6, 2023 on payment of bail in the amount of UAH 402600.00.”

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