Attack the System- Derek Chauvin trial continues with witness testimony – 4/9 (FULL LIVE STREAM) 11th April 2021The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin continues on April 9 with key witness testimony. Chauvin, who was filmed with his knee on George Floyd’s neck in May, faces murder and manslaughter charges for the encounter that sparked months of historic protests around the world. This […]Keith Preston
- Medical examiner who conducted autopsy testifies about Floyd’s cause of death 11th April 2021Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker, who performed the autopsy on George Floyd, testified Friday that that Floyd’s cause of death was “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.Keith Preston
- Takeaways from Day 10 of the Derek Chauvin trial 11th April 2021By Bill Wright, New York Times One of the most anticipated witnesses of Derek Chavin’s trial, the Hennepin County medical examiner who performed the initial autopsy of George Floyd, testified on Friday that while police restraint was the main cause of Mr. Floyd’s death, drug use and heart […]Keith Preston
- Derek Chauvin trial continues with witness testimony – 4/9 (FULL LIVE STREAM) 11th April 2021
- Samizdata
- Kenyans challenge their allotted role 10th April 2021“Don’t give us $2bn loan, Kenyans tell IMF”, reports the Times. A $2.34 billion bailout for Kenya from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has provoked anger among its citizens rather than relief. Since the three-year package was disclosed, the IMF’s social media sites have been peppered with complaints under the hashtag #StopGivingKenyaLoans. A petition demanding […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- A fine speech by Joe Biden 10th April 2021Joe Biden, addressing the Senate of the United States: “In the summer of ’37 Roosevelt had just come off a landslide victory over Alf Landon. He had a congress made up of solid New Dealers. But the nine old men of the court were thwarting his agenda. In this environment, Roosevelt – and remember this […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day 8th April 2021A REALLY large number of people have now staked their political and/or personal and professional reputations & credibility on this being A Really Bad Thing, one that requires Obedience & Sacrifice & wear that fuckin’ mask in a non clinical setting, mate! No overarching conspiracy is required to understand the collective insanity & wilful stupidity […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Kenyans challenge their allotted role 10th April 2021
- Wisdom Dancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- On Ugly Ideas and IntoleranceIdeas are neither benign, nor malignant, out of the context of a specific mentality. They depend entirely on our subjective mental context to affect us. As we respond to ideas in one way or another, as we adopt one idea … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continuedThis post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of Reconciliation
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break rocks all day long to bring forth a better world in the decades yet to come. Activists for the long-threatened paradise will not leave us alone – these advance-men will harass and hassle us whenever we attempt to enjoy ourselves […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- EVIL IS MERELY AN EDGE OVER OTHER PEOPLE 2nd February 2021by John Grauerholz“Evil” has nothing to do with ethics whatsoever. Despite what do-gooders might want you to believe, evil has no connection with any moral system. “Right” and “wrong” are simply a matter of convenience: what is beneficial to you in this life is simply not advantageous to other people - and this lack of […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT A COMPLETE LOSER 20th January 2021by John Grauerholz If you, on a rainy, thundering night, ever dare to look in the mirror - then you, my dear reader, will see a complete failure gazing stupidly back at you. That slobbering, slack-jawed creature gawking from the glass is you. Even if your face were not completely hideous, your acquaintances would still […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...chipsmith
- In Memoriam! Adam Parfrey 19th May 2018A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...chipsmith
- Book Journal – "How to Judge People by What They Look Like" 19th May 2018The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...chipsmith
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- To the victors go the glory! 10th April 2021I have written an introductory post (it’s free), Entering Steppelandia: pop. 7.7 billion, to a series of posts (mostly paid) that I will write about the Eurasian steppe. So I’m thinking and reading a lot about this topic. This is relevant to “Brown Pundits” because we subcontinental people have been stamped by the steppe. First, […]Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 04/10/2021 – Brown Pundits 10th April 2021What’s going on?Razib Khan
- Abdel Abdellaoui: a behavior geneticist in the 21st century 9th April 2021Listen now (44 min) | The science of human psychological variation mixed with genetics is a controversial cocktailRazib Khan
- To the victors go the glory! 10th April 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Fabio Rojas says goodbye to OrgTheory 21st March 2021He actually said goodbye at the end of last year, but because I haven’t been reading regularly I just didn’t notice. He’s not done with blogging though, as he & Katherine Chen are moving to Markets, Power & Culture. Much like how Bleeding Heart Libertarians gave way to 200 Proof Liberals. Yet another reason to […]teageegeepea
- My dialogue with “Jeff” in the comments at AC10 over West African sprinting ability 19th February 2021Nested comments on Substack become unreadable after a certain number of levels, so I’m using this post to continue a conversation. Jeff: We know that athletic ability is heritable in individuals, but you’d look pretty dumb if you said it’s plausible that Jamaicans are naturally better sprinters, Kenyans better distance runners, and African-Americans better basketball […]teageegeepea
- Protected: A place for marxbro1917 to continue his comments on AC10’s review of “The Cult of Smart” 18th February 2021There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.teageegeepea
- Fabio Rojas says goodbye to OrgTheory 21st March 2021
- Evolutionist X
- Nettles 1st March 2021The sun is up and the nettles are out. I’ve always been fascinated by wild foods. Picking a wild berry or parsnip gives you a little taste of what our distant ancestors lives were like, the ways they looked at the world and the flavors they enjoyed. Nettles are famous because they’re one of the […]evolutiontheorist
- Bad Content vs. Good 7th February 2021So I was reading this interesting article on “The Journalistic Tattletale Industry,” by Glenn Greenwald, recommended by a friend, and came across this quote: The article itself is about how these people have become censorious hall monitors who go crying to the principal if they think you even breathed a bad word, and Oliver here […]evolutiontheorist
- Avoiding hyperstimuli 30th January 2021Hyperstimuli are like regular stimuli, but turned up to 11. Fruit contains naturally occurring fruit sugars, which your body craves because sugar is an important energy source and fruit is full of valuable nutrients. Fruit is a natural stimulus. Candy is made from a vegetable, sugarcane, that has had all of the annoying fibrous vegetable […]evolutiontheorist
- Nettles 1st March 2021
- Human Stupidity
- False beliefs about police killings:media brainwashing quantified 15th March 2021Population brainwashing – regarding number of unarmed Blacks killed by police in 2019- was measured and quantified. Thousands of willfully distorted newspaper articles, Hollywood movies with white villains, black saviors, get the desired long term PC brainwashing result. Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net The Terrible Cost of Willful Ignorance The survey asked “How many unarmed […]Programmer
- Why Trust The ‘Experts’? Politically correct gag orders intimidate scientists! 27th February 2021Scientific experts are intimidated by societal taboos, and enticed by financial and social benefits. Pure scientific honesty has been corrupted. Corrupted “science experts” voice unscientific opinions. Everything false can be derived from one false premise (f ⇒ f) … Experts do not practice truth-seeking, honest, unbiased science. Reprinted with permission from Sincerity.net Rather, experts must think inside the […]Programmer
- Gain followers with free speech; later control the captivated users. Social media’s brilliant deception as march through institutions 9th February 2021The orchestrated effort to funnel all internet users into a small number of well controlled large enterprises has been obvious once large enough section of the population was completely locked in on them, that’s when the control of the narrative truly kicked in. Old habits die hard, so after years of keeping the public on […]Programmer
- False beliefs about police killings:media brainwashing quantified 15th March 2021
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- Jeff Riggenbach reads “The Ego and His Own” by Max Stirner | 10 of 20 (5B) 11th April 2021The Ego and His Own Podcast Cassette tape 5, side B, episode 10 of 20. Jeff Riggenbach (1947-2021) reads The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (1806-1856). Translated by Steven T. Byington (1869-1957), edited and introduced by James J. Martin (1916-2004). Edition read is based on the 1963 Libertarian Book Club edition. We do […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- “Max Stirner´s Anarchist Gospel” a review from “Current Literature,” 1907. 7th April 2021Max Stirner´s Anarchist Gospel Sixty years ago, a book entitled “Der Einzige und sein Eigentum” (generally translated “The Individual and his Property”) was published in Berlin. It has been described as “the most revolutionary book ever written,” and its author. Max Stirner, was perhaps the leading intellectual precursor of modern philosophical anarchism. When he died, […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Jeff Riggenbach reads “The Ego and His Own” by Max Stirner | 09 of 20 (5A) 4th April 2021The Ego and His Own Podcast Cassette tape 5, side A, episode 9 of 20. Jeff Riggenbach (1947-2021) reads The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (1806-1856). Translated by Steven T. Byington (1869-1957), edited and introduced by James J. Martin (1916-2004). Edition read is based on the 1963 Libertarian Book Club edition. We do […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Jeff Riggenbach reads “The Ego and His Own” by Max Stirner | 10 of 20 (5B) 11th April 2021
Tag Archives: transformers
Halal & Hypocrisy XI: The Veil of Special Pleading
I seem to be writing quite a few of these H & H entries as of late; rest assured that more varied programming will resume in due course. I read of the ECHR’s decision to uphold France’s burqa ban with … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Halal & Hypocrisy, News, Religion, Slave Britannia, The UK
Tagged burqas, censorship, Cyclonus, Galvatron, herd instinct, hypocrisy, intrinsicism, irony, Islam, jizya, logical fallacies, niqabs, perspectivism, political correctness, transformers
6 Comments
MRDA’s Crowning Music of Animé #2: ‘Destron Sanka’ by Hironobu Kageyama (from Transformers: The Headmasters)
Evil never sounded so good! Enjoy: Oh, and the lyrics are awesome! ~MRDA~
Posted in Animé
Tagged 80s, aesthetics, anime, appreciation, art, ftw!, music, power, transformers
2 Comments
More 80s Pimpage
For those of you who like 80s cartoons, check cereal:geek out. A sweet little magazine with assorted articles of interest, lush illustrations – and no fucking adverts chewing into the hundred page count! What more could one desire (beyond UK … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 80s, aesthetics, appreciation, art, fun, history, music, transformers, tv
1 Comment
Prevailing thoughts after watching Transformers Live-Action again….
I really do not want Michael Bay directing the sequel. Vain hope, I know. At the very least they should employ me as a story consultant – I’d fix the fuck-up in the fleshling: Cybertronian ratio for starters! Also…. – … Continue reading
For those that care….
Added a few other points to my (spoiler-ific) Transformers overview …..
Transformers 2007 – The MRDA Verdict…..
After quite a bit of anticipation I finally saw the new Transformers flick over the weekend…. My thoughts on it? Well…….