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Scorpions - “Wind of Change” Kuschelrock 6 Song released in 1990. Compilation released in 1992. Pop-Rock / Hard Rock / Hair Metal

From an oral history of the Scorpions' early 90s hit, "Wind of Change," published in 2015 in Rolling Stone:

[Lead guitarist, Rudolf] Schenker: In the Scorpions we have this kind of saying: Love, peace, and rock & roll. The love stands for "Still Loving You." The rock & roll stands for "Rock You Like a Hurricane." And the peace? That's for "Wind of Change."

When it comes to Hannover, Germany's Scorpions, Americans basically know the band for those three songs mentioned above, plus, of course, "No One Like You." But the Scorpions are way more than just a handful of classic rock radio hits. They've actually been around in some form or fashion since nineteen sixty-fucking-five. I mean, think about that. The Scorpions actually predate Revolver, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground. That's really not how anyone actually thinks of them in the timeline of rock history.

But that's because they took a long while to catch on, especially in the States. While 70s-era Scorpions represents the most technically perfect time in the band's tenure, largely because of lead guitarist Uli John Roth's wizardry, it didn't end up translating to American sales. It would take Roth's departure, which ultimately caused a change in the band's overall sound, to do that.

The Scorpions would find a way to adapt throughout the decade of excess by freely indulging themselves in crassly commercial hair metal, unleashing the instant guitar-squealing classic, "Rock You Like a Hurricane," in 1984. But if you know the tried and true hair metal formula, you know that for every few hard rockin' singles that a band pumps out, there's a power ballad to go along with them. And the Scorpions didn't just become known for their brash brand of metal; they could create quite the power ballad, too.

But while most power ballads tended to be about tender romance or sad heartbreak, the Scorpions decided to turn to more important things, like politics. And they were well-equipped for it. Unlike their American contemporaries who never faced a real day of political hardship in their lives, the Scorpions directly experienced the horrifying effects of Germany’s split into East and West. Not only that, but they were also raised by the generation that either subscribed to Nazism or, at the very least, failed to do anything to halt its rise.

So when the Scorpions were afforded the opportunity to be one of the first rock bands to play behind the Iron Curtain in Leningrad in 1988, they jumped at it, with two ideas in mind. One was to acknowledge the absolute terror that their ancestors had wrought upon the Russian people during World War II, showing that they were part of a new, peace-loving generation of Germans who found the actions of their ancestors to be awful and abhorrent (By this logic, US bands should be playing in just about every single country every single day. That goes for English bands, too). The other was to bring an implied message of hope and freedom to people who had been largely cut off from western art and culture. Not that Russians didn't know the Scorpions. Popular western music had been smuggled into the Soviet Union for years, but actually having the people who made that music performing right in front of their very eyes was, symbolically, a very big deal.

The Scorpions' Leningrad shows were so successful that they were invited back to play at the Moscow Music Peace Festival alongside Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, Skid Row, and Russian bands Gorky Park and Brigada-S in 1989. It was during this trip that lead singer Klaus Meine was inspired to write both the lyrics and music for "Wind of Change." Because of their adoption of glasnost, the Soviet Union was opening itself up, which generated a feeling of positivity that the Cold War was finally coming to an end.

It just so happened that a few months after the song was written, the Berlin Wall fell, which marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. "Wind of Change" would then appear on the Scorpions' eleventh studio album, Crazy World, in November of 1990, and be released as a single a couple months later. The music video would feature images of the Berlin Wall falling and Germans rejoicing and reuniting after having been forcibly separated from each other for decades.

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But contrary to popular belief, and probably thanks to the music video, "Wind of Change" was not about the Berlin Wall or Germany. It was strictly about Russia. The lines,

I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change

make reference to the Moskva River, which runs through Moscow, and Gorky Park, a park in Moscow named after author Maxim Gorky. A Russian stringed instrument called the balalaika is also mentioned before the song's guitar solo.

But Klaus Meine was right about the fact that change was indeed coming. He just didn't know how much and how soon. Nevertheless, the world events that conveniently took place not long after "Wind of Change"'s completion would help propel the song to the top of the charts in multiple countries and amass something like 14 million copies sold worldwide. It was the #1 song in the world as it's now cited as the soundtrack to the fall of large-scale global authoritarian communism. And it was also the Scorpions' last real triumph.

But the "official" story about this global hit might not actually be true. A limited series podcast was released just this year called Wind of Change which alleges that the CIA may have actually written the song. A journalist received the hot tip from a trusted ex-CIA confidant and attempted to track down the story. And it's not really all that farfetched. The CIA has been surreptitiously involving itself in the production of pop culture for years with the latest credible allegations coming out of Venezuela. But when confronted with this question of who actually wrote "Wind of Change," Klaus Meine categorically denied the CIA's involvement between fits of laughter. But then again, he could just be gaslighting us all at the direction of the CIA.

Truthfully, in hindsight, this song sounds wistfully corny. And there were probably people who found it corny then, too. I mean, the whole idea of a hair metal band acting as liberators feels absurd, doesn't it? And that "sound that emanates from my electric guitar represents freedom and democracy" schtick feels almost transparently propagandistic. Plus, you can totally picture a bunch of suits in a room trying to figure out how to make a catchy song and someone going, “what if we put in a whistle?,” right? (The Rolling Stone oral history says there was a push and pull between band and label about whether or not to include it)

But what power ballad, political or not, doesn't sound corny today? We can still like this song from an ironic distance, can't we? Despite what we may think of it right now, we have to appreciate the cultural impact it had. Like it or not, it's one of the most important songs ever made. In 2005, the German TV network, ZDF, revealed that its viewers considered "Wind of Change" the song of the 20th century. And maybe its whole "We Are the World" charity single vibe is another reason to think that the CIA wrote it, but still, media, no matter how lame you might think it is, affects people's actions. If it didn't, the CIA wouldn't be in the pop culture business. And a song that aides in world-changing events, regardless of who wrote it and how it sounds nearly three decades after its release, deserves to be written about, don't you think?

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phroyd · 5 years ago

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The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency. These policies include reportedly setting arrest quotas for undocumented immigrants, an executive order effectively banning immigration from five Muslim-majority countries and a policy of family separation at refugee resettlement facilities that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said is causing “intense trauma” in children.

In this, the first of what will be a series about those emails, Hatewatch exposes the racist source material that has influenced Miller’s visions of policy. That source material, as laid out in his emails to Breitbart, includes white nationalist websites, a “white genocide”-themed novel in which Indian men rape white women, xenophobic conspiracy theories andeugenics-era immigration laws that Adolf Hitler lauded in “Mein Kampf.”

Hatewatch reviewed more than 900 previously private emails Miller sent to Breitbart editors from March 4, 2015, to June 27, 2016. Miller does not converse along a wide range of topics in the emails. His focus is strikingly narrow – more than 80 percent of the emails Hatewatch reviewed relate to or appear on threads relating to the subjects of race or immigration. Hatewatch made multiple attempts to reach the White House for a comment from Miller about the content of his emails but did not receive any reply.

Miller’s perspective on race and immigration across the emails is repetitious. When discussing crime, which he does scores of times, Miller focuses on offenses committed by nonwhites. On immigration, he touches solely on the perspective of severely limiting or ending nonwhite immigration to the United States. Hatewatch was unable to find any examples of Miller writing sympathetically or even in neutral tones about any person who is nonwhite or foreign-born.

Miller has gained a reputation for attempting to keep his communications secret: The Washington Post reported in August that Miller “rarely puts anything in writing, eschewing email in favor of phone calls.” The Daily Beast noted in July that Miller has recently “cut off regular contact with most of his allies” outside the Trump administration to limit leaks.

Miller used his government email address as an aide to then-Sen. Jeff Sessions in the emails Hatewatch reviewed. He sent the majority of the emails Hatewatch examined before he joined Trump’s campaign in January 2016 and while he was still working for Sessions. Miller also used a personal Hotmail.com address in the emails and did so both before and after he started working for Trump. Hatewatch confirmed the authenticity of Miller’s Hotmail.com address through an email sent from his government address in which he lists it as his future point of contact:

“I am excited to announce that I am beginning a new job as Senior Policy Advisor to presidential candidate Donald J. Trump,” Miller wrote from his government email on Jan. 26, 2016, to an undisclosed group of recipients. “Should you need to reach me, my personal email address is [redacted].”

Katie McHugh, who was an editor for Breitbart from April 2014 to June 2017, leaked the emails to Hatewatch in June to review, analyze and disseminate to the public. McHugh was 23 when she started at Breitbart and also became active in the anti-immigrant movement, frequently rubbing shoulders with white nationalists. McHugh was fired from Breitbart in 2017 after posting anti-Muslim tweets. She has since renounced the far right.

McHugh told Hatewatch that Breitbart editors introduced her to Miller in 2015 with an understanding he would influence the direction of her reporting. For that reason, and because Miller would have regarded her as a fellow traveler of the anti-immigrant movement, McHugh sometimes starts conversations with Miller in the emails, seeking his opinion on news stories. Other times, Miller directly suggests story ideas to McHugh, or tells her how to shape Breitbart’s coverage. Periodically, Miller asks McHugh if he can speak to her by phone, taking conversations offline.

“What Stephen Miller sent to me in those emails has become policy at the Trump administration,” McHugh told Hatewatch.

Miller shares link from white nationalist site

Miller sent a story from the white nationalist website VDARE to McHugh on Oct. 23, 2015, the emails show. White nationalist Peter Brimelow founded VDARE in 1999. The website traffics in the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth, which suggests that nonwhite people are systematically and deliberately wiping white people off the planet.

McHugh started the email conversation by asking if Hurricane Patricia could drive refugees into the United States. The hurricane battered parts of Central America, Mexico and Texas, and the media heavily covered the storm. Miller replied to her by underscoring the possibility that Mexican survivors of the storm could be given temporary protected status (TPS), a George H.W. Bush-era policy that would enable them to live and work in the United States for a limited stay:

McHugh, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:10 p.m. ET: “This being the worst hurricane ever recorded, what are the chances it wreaks destruction on Mexico and drives a mass migration to the U.S. border?”

Miller, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:12 p.m. ET: “100 percent. And they will all get TPS. And all the ones here will get TPS too. That needs to be the weekend's BIG story. TPS is everything.”

McHugh, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:22 p.m. ET: “Wow. Ok. Is there precedent for this?”

Miller, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:31 p.m. ET: [VDARE link]

The VDARE story by Steve Sailer, an anti-immigration activist who traffics in discredited race science, focused on instances in which the United States offered refugees temporary protected status. The article was posted the same day Miller shared it with McHugh.

In September, the Trump administration denied temporary protected status to residents of the Bahamas fleeing the destruction of Hurricane Dorian despite widespread destruction.

“I don’t want to allow people that weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers,” Trump said of Bahamians on Sept. 9.

The ethnic makeup of the Bahamas is more than 90% black, according to statistics from the CIA. The administration has also attempted to cut TPS for residents of other countries, including Honduras and Nepal. Sailer mentioned both Honduras and Nepal in the context of TPS in his VDARE story.

Emails show that White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller recommended racist French novel "The Camp of the Saints" to conservative website Breitbart News in 2015.

Miller recommends ‘Camp of the Saints’ to Breitbart

Miller recommended in a Sept. 6, 2015, email that Breitbart write about “The Camp of the Saints,” a racist French novel by Jean Raspail. Notably, “The Camp of the Saints” is popular among white nationalists and neo-Nazis because of the degree to which it fictionalizes the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth into a violent and sexualized story about refugees.

The novel’s apocalyptic plot centers on a flotilla of Indian people who invade France, led by a nonwhite Indian-born antagonist referred to as the “turd eater” – a character who literally eats human feces. In one section, a white woman is raped to death by brown-skinned refugees. In another, a nationalist character shoots and kills a pro-refugee leftist over his support of race mixing. The white nationalist Social Contract Press plucked the 1973 book from relative obscurity and distributed it in the United States.

At the start of the email chain in which Miller touts the novel, he sends McHugh and Breitbart editor Julia Hahn a National Journal article on Iowans debating immigration at 8:03 p.m. ET on Sept. 1, 2015. McHugh replies:

McHugh, Sept. 1, 2015, 8:49 p.m. ET: “‘Next America.’ We’re being invaded and talked into tolerating it.”

Miller, Sept. 1, 2015, 9:01 p.m. ET: “It’s treated as organic. No mention of voluntary policy which can be shut off.”

Miller returns to the subject of nonwhite immigration on Sept. 6, 2015. He sends McHugh a link to a tweet from conservative pundit David Frum that reads, “Half of all violent crime in Germany committed by ‘foreign youths.’” (Hatewatch reached out to Frum for more context about his tweet but did not receive any response.) McHugh responds to Miller’s email about Frum’s tweet with a follow-up remark about Europe, and Miller sends a link to a Vox.com article suggesting that SAT scores have dropped in part because of the inclusion of more “poor and nonwhite students” than in previous years. Miller then suggests Breitbart take a look at “The Camp of the Saints.”

McHugh, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:34 p.m. ET: “[Breitbart editor] Neil [Munro], Julia [Hahn] and I are going to do a series of stories on [nonwhite SAT scores] to break it down. Neil says it’s easier for people to digest that way and change their minds.”

Miller, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:41 p.m. ET: “On the education angle? Makes sense. Also, you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints.”

Hahn wrote a Breitbart story on Sept. 24, 2015, headlined “‘Camp of the Saints’ Seen Mirrored in Pope’s Message.” The article ran 18 days after Miller’s email on the same theme. Hahn is now an aide to Trump.

While “The Camp of the Saints” was relatively obscure then, websites such asVDARE and the white nationalist American Renaissance helped make it a fixture in the white nationalist community. VDARE created an entire searchable tag called “Camp of the Saints.” At the time Miller flagged the book to Breitbart, VDARE had run more than 50 posts under “The Camp of the Saints” tagline, including some referring to Pope Francis’ rhetoric about accepting refugees. Sailer, who authored the VDARE post Miller had shared earlier, ran a story on the pope’s statements about accepting refugees on the same day Miller raised the issue with Breitbart.

Elizabeth Moore, a spokesperson for Breitbart, responded to Hatewatch’s request for comment about Miller's relationship with editors at the website with the following statement:

The SPLC claims to have three- to four-year-old emails, many previously reported on, involving an individual whom we fired years ago for a multitude of reasons, and you now have an even better idea why we fired her. Having said that, it is not exactly a newsflash that political staffers pitch stories to journalists – sometimes those pitches are successful, sometimes not.

It is no surprise to us that the SPLC opposes news coverage of illegal-immigrant crime and believes such coverage is disproportionate, especially when compared to the rest of the media, which often refuse to cover such crimes.

No one in our senior management has read the book, “Camp of the Saints,” but we take The New York Times at their word that it is a “cautionary tale,” and the National Review at theirs that “the central issue of the novel is not race but culture and political principles.”

The Trump administration has said it will cap the number of refugees allowed into the United States at 18,000 in the coming fiscal year, drastically reshaping America’s role as a haven for people fleeing devastation and war. The White House has also said it plans to allow state and local governments to block refugee resettlement in their areas.

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doro-writes · 6 years ago

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Beta-Leser gesucht!

First of all, this post is going to be in German, so sorry to all my English followers.

Okay, wie die Überschrift es ja schon sagt, ich suche nach Beta-Lesern. Es haben sich Umstände ergeben, deshalb ist meine Suche auch dringend und es muss jetzt schnell gehen.

Aber was muss den überhaupt beta-gelesen werden? Die Antwort ist simpel: Mein letztjähriges NaNo-Projekt Fragments of a Stranger.

Was ist Fragments of a Stranger?

Fragments of a Stranger ist ein Urban Fantasy Abenteuer und spielt im Jahr 1956. Momentan ist die 2. Überarbeitung abgeschlossen und sitzt bei etwa 50k Wörtern.

Was hat Fragments of a Stranger zu bieten?

Geheimdienste und Kalten Krieg

Einen amerikanischen Russen, der im Dschungel nach seinem Vater sucht

Eine afro-amerikanische Hexe, die ihn begleitet

Dramatische Gespräche im Dschungel

Einen Hauch von Indiana Jones

Eine versunkene Stadt

Und eine sehr, sehr heterosexuelle Lovestory, die meiner Meinung nach sogar gar nicht so scheiße geworden ist

Gelesen wird über ein Google Docs Dokument, dass ich den Interessenten freischalten werde. Eure Aufgabe wird es sein, alles zu kommentieren, was euch auffällt. Ihr sollt holprige Satzstellungen, unklare Erklärungen, Plotholes, oder einfach nur die aktuellen Gedanken zum Text kommentieren, beziehungsweise aufzeigen. Auch Rechtschreib- und Grammatikfehler sollen gerne angemerkt werden.

Interesse? Schreibt mir eine private Nachricht oder kommentiert/rebloggt diesen Post.

Falls ihr euch vorab ein Bild von meinem Schreibstil und der Story machen wollt, füge ich unter dem Cut Kapitel 1 hinzu.

Ich tag jetzt einfach mal ein paar Leute, die vielleicht Interesse haben könnten, beziehungsweise deren Follower vielleicht Interesse haben könnten. Tut mir leid, falls ich damit nerve.

@writin-maaagic @writerinhighheels @importance-of-being-crazy @madmooninc

Kapitel 1 + Moodboard

Chicago, Februar 1956

Reglos stand ich am Fenster und starrte nach draußen. Ein seltsamer Nebel hing in der Nachbarschaft und ich hatte das Gefühl, dass er mich beobachtete. Es war, als hätte er Augen, die mir auf Schritt und Tritt folgten. Das ging schon seit Tagen so.

Den anderen – den Nachbarn und Passanten auf der Straße – schien er nicht aufzufallen. Ihre Sicht ließ es nicht zu, vielleicht wollten sie es aber auch nicht sehen.

Ich wandte mich vom Fenster ab. Es half alles nichts, ich musste mein kleines Apartment verlassen, um Lebensmittel zu kaufen. Ich konnte mich nicht für immer hier drin verkriechen.

Im Gehen zog ich mir meinen Mantel an und fischte meinen silbernen Dolch aus der Kommodenschublade. Mir erschien ein Angriff nicht unrealistisch – hier in der Gegend kam das häufiger vor. Außerdem hatte ich Feinde. Ich durfte niemals unvorbereitet sein.

Ich trat vor die Tür meiner Wohnung, zog diese zu und murmelte ein paar Schutzzauber, um sie vor Eindringlingen zu schützen. Hier draußen legte sich ein ungutes Gefühl über mich: Ich fühlte mich von allen Seiten angestarrt und verfolgt. Der Nebel fühlte sich dunkel an. Nicht bösartig, aber dunkel.

In meiner Manteltasche verstärkte ich den Griff um meinen Dolch und umklammerte mit der andern Hand den Onyx, der an einer Kette um meinen Hals hing. Mit einem gemurmelten Spruch aktivierte ich den Stein, sodass sich eine schützende Aura um mich herum ausbreitete. Sie schwächte die Wirkung des Nebels, konnte ihn aber nicht vollkommen vertreiben.

Irgendwas stimmte hier nicht! Es wäre nicht das erste Mal gewesen, dass mich jemand beobachtete. Eigentlich stand ich in letzter Zeit sogar ständig unter Beobachtung – es waren immer entweder die Nachbarn oder die CIA-Agenten, die mir schon seit Wochen überallhin folgten.

Aber irgendwas an diesem Nebel war anders. Etwas Unheimliches lag darin. Etwas Vertrautes, aber ich konnte es nicht genau definieren. Die Antwort lag mir auf der Zunge, doch ich konnte nicht danach greifen. Es glitt mir zwischen den Fingern davon, was auf die Dauer ziemlich frustrierend war.

Entschlossen gab ich mir einen Ruck und begann die Treppen hinabzusteigen. Ich konnte nicht ewig zur Salzsäule erstarrt vor meiner Haustür stehen bleiben – irgendwann würde sich noch jemand wundern, was ich da tat. Meine Nachbarn hielten mich sowieso schon für verrückt.

Während ich die Stufen hinunterstieg, atmete ich die kalte Luft Chicagos tief ein. Es war Anfang Februar und die Temperaturen lagen unter Null, was eigentlich nicht ungewöhnlich war. Auf den Straßen lag dicker Puderzucker, weiße Atemwolken stiegen von den Gehwegen hinauf, Autos stießen ihre grauen Abgase in die Luft.

Alles war friedlich. Vielleicht zu friedlich.

Unten angekommen winkte ich kurz in die Richtung des schwarzen Autos, das am Straßenrand parkte und hinter dessen verdunkelten Scheiben zwei Agenten ausharren mussten. Sie taten mir fast leid, denn in ihrem Auto musste es eiskalt sein. Wenn ich genauer darüber nachdachte, taten sie mir dann aber doch nicht leid. Ich hatte sie nicht darum gebeten mich zu beschatten.

Ich hörte den Motor aufheulen, als sie sich aufmachten, um mir zu folgen. Sie folgten mir schon seit Wochen und es sah nicht danach aus, als würden sie demnächst damit aufhören. Meine Anfrage nach dem Grund blieb vom Dienstsitz der CIA in Langley unbeantwortet, also begann ich es nach wenigen Tagen zu akzeptieren.

Auf dem Weg ins Lebensmittelgeschäft begegnete ich einigen Nachbarn, die mich freundlich aber distanziert grüßten, und ein paar Kindern, die am Rande des Gehwegs Schneemänner bauten. In Chicagos Ghetto war alles beim Alten.

„Miss Jackson!“ Ich blieb stehen, als ich eine vertraute Kinderstimme hörte, die meinen Namen rief.

Linda, in einen dicken, roten Mantel eingepackt, kam auf mich zugerannt und blieb schlitternd vor mir stehen. Ihre schwarzen Locken standen ihr wild vom Kopf ab und ihre Aura sprudelte vor Freude und Enthusiasmus.

„Hallo, Linda.“ Ich lächelte und strich ihr durch die Haare. „Du hast ganz kalte Ohren. Wo hast du denn deine Mütze gelassen? Es ist kalt.“

„Ich weiß“, verkündete sie und nahm meine Hand, während wir weiter gingen. „Ich hab sie David gegeben, der wollte mit seinen Freunden zur Dearborn Station. Wo waren Sie denn die letzten Tage? Ich hab Sie gar nicht gesehen.“

„Ja, mir ging es nicht so gut“, log ich und zog sie ein Stück zur Seite, um eine füllige Frau mit drei Einkaufstüten auf dem Arm vorbeizulassen. „Ich war ein bisschen krank.“ Lindas Gesichtsausdruck und Aura änderte sich zu kindlicher Sorge und Unbehagen und es tat mir ein wenig im Herzen weh, sie so anzulügen. Naja, ich konnte ihr wohl kaum die Wahrheit erzählen... Angst vor Nebel – wenn ich es so ausdrückte, klang es noch bescheuerter.

Wir verließen die Hauptstraße und bogen in die kleine Seitengasse, in der sich das Lebensmittelgeschäft befand. Sie erzählte mir, was ich in den letzten Tagen verpasst hatte, von einer Schießerei am Park Boulevard, von ihrem Bruder David und ihren Eltern und es tat gut, mich von ihrer Stimme berieseln zu lassen. Sie lenkte mich von meiner schwindenden geistigen Gesundheit ab.

Im Laden war wenig los. Es war kurz vor Mittag und die meisten Hausfrauen waren wohl schon wieder zuhause und kochten Mittagessen. Ich erledigte meinen Einkauf, schenkte Linda einen Keks und verließ dann mit einer Tüte in einem Arm und einem glücklichen Mädchen an der anderen Hand das Geschäft.

Mit lief ein kalter Schauer über den Rücken, als ich mir des Nebels wieder schmerzlich bewusst wurde und sah mich nervös um, konnte aber niemanden entdecken. Ich würde später, nachdem ich die Schutzvorrichtungen in meiner Wohnung erneuert hatte, den Coven in der 33th Straße besuchen, vielleicht hatten die ja irgendwas mit diesem Nebel zu tun.

Auf dem Rückweg erzählte Linda mir stolz von dem Bilderbuch, das David ihr überlassen hatte und von ihrer Mutter, die ihr damit das Lesen beibrachte. Ihr Gerede lenkte mich ab, aber ein ungutes Gefühl blieb.

Es war, als starre mir jemand direkt in den Hinterkopf, doch jedes Mal, wenn ich mich umdrehte, war niemand da. Vielleicht wurde ich paranoid. Vielleicht mutierte ich zu unserer Regierung, die Kommunisten hinter jedem Eck witterte.

Vor dem Apartmentgebäude, in dem Linda und ihre Familie wohnten, hielten wir an und ich verabschiedete mich von der Kleinen, dann ging ich den Rest des Weges allein zurück zu meiner Wohnung. Inzwischen hatte jemand die Treppen von Schneematsch befreit, sodass man nicht bei jedem Schritt fast ausrutschte.

Vor der Haustür wollte ich gerade nach meinem Schlüssel suchen, da sah ich es: Jemand hatte die Schutzzauber verschoben. Jemand war in meiner Wohnung!

Vorsichtig stellte ich die Einkaufstüte neben der Tür auf den Boden und zog den Dolch aus der Jackentasche. Ich versuchte durch das Küchenfenster neben der Tür zu spähen, doch die Vorhänge waren zugezogen. Dann würde ich mich eben auf meine anderen Sinne verlassen müssen.

Ich legte die Hand auf den Türgriff und versuchte in die Vergangenheit zu hören, doch ein dichtes Nebelfeld blockierte meine Wahrnehmung.

Nebel. Schon wieder. Er verfolgte mich wortwörtlich.

Leise öffnete ich die Tür und huschte hindurch. Es war dunkel, jemand hatte sämtliche Vorhänge zugezogen.

Da, neben dem Sofa! Eine dunkle, männliche Silhouette machte sich an den Kerzen zu schaffen und hatte noch nicht bemerkt, dass ich auch im Raum war.

Ich schlich näher, packte dabei den Dolch fester und stach zu. Der Mann wich mir schneller aus, als ich es realisieren konnte, und schlug mir dabei den Dolch aus der Hand. Ich schlug ihm ins Gesicht, wir gingen zu Boden. Mit einem dumpfen Knall landete ich auf dem Rücken, der Mann hielt meine Arme fest und ich konnte in der Dunkelheit sein Grinsen sehen.

„Easy, Süße.“ Er lachte rau.

Wütend trat ich ihm in die Seite. „Verdammt, Sirius! Kannst du dich nicht vorher ankündigen?“

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aion-rsa · 3 years ago

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Marvel’s Loki Unearths the Polybius Mystery for a New Generation

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This article contains Loki episode 5 spoilers.

Marvel’s Loki episode 5 has a really unique Easter egg showcasing a video game that barely even existed, yet whose reputation has grown thanks to the power of urban legend. Visible in the secret hideout of the Variant Lokis, nestled between some old pinball machines and stacks of ephemera, is an arcade cabinet bearing the name: Polybius.

It’s not exactly out of place on a show that relishes in jumping around the timestream and into and out of troublesome branch realities. The show has hidden little jokes all around the TVA offices indicating that representatives of the time-and-space-spanning organization like to drink and snack on long defunct brands. Why shouldn’t they? If you could get a bottle of Josta and all it’s going to take is a jaunt back to 1997, why not, right?

But Polybius takes things a little further. Loki could have just as easily gone for a Crystal Castles or Mad Crasher or Zaxxon cabinet if all they wanted was some fun and anachronistic set dressing. But the presence of Polybius is something a little more mischievous, a little more deceptive, and thus a little more perfect for this show.

Polybius wasn’t a popular game. It was only tested in one area. But the teens who played it went nuts. At least that’s what the urban legend would have you believe.

Before Qanon, Slenderman, and deep-fake news confusions evoked international viral fears, concerned citizens worried about the brain-flaying properties of video games. Today, the American Psychiatric Association is studying “Internet Gaming Disorder” to determine whether it can be classified for potential diagnosis in an age of easy technological access. In the 1980s, kids had to go to video arcades to pump quarters into machines which mined their minds. According to urban legend, Polybius, an arcade game, was specifically designed to encroach on the players’ psyche. The legend says it was tested on civilian youth at the Malibu Grand Prix arcade in Oregon between 1979 and 1981.

Players reputedly complained about nausea, headaches, blackouts, amnesia, night terrors, seizures, and even brain aneurysms. Some had auditory hallucinations, while others saw faces out of the corners of their eyes. The most extreme hazard of playing Polybius was to swear off video games forever.

The earliest written account of the game is an archived Usenet post from 1994, according to PCGames. The Polybius legend grew after a Feb. 6, 2000, listing in the digital arcade gaming database CoinOp.org. According to the post, the “game had a very limited release, one or two backwater arcades in a suburb of Portland. The history of this game is cloudy, there were all kinds of strange stories about how kids who played it got amnesia afterwards, couldn’t remember their name or where they lived, etc.”

Admittedly, this happened in the ‘80s, when an actor played a president while the vice president was a former CIA director. Some conspiracy theorists posit Polybius was a brainwashing device designed by the agency, a concern raised in the original post.

“The bizarre rumors about this game are that it was supposedly developed by some kind of weird military tech offshoot group, used some kind of proprietary behavior modification algorithms developed for the CIA or something, kids who played it woke up at night screaming, having horrible nightmares,” the CoinOp listing reads.

The CIA’s MK Ultra program had been put to rest, at least officially, after a 1975 congressional investigation, but the technology could have gone rogue. MK Ultra began after World War II, and concerned psychological warfare studies.

MK is said to stand for Mind Control, although conspiracy theorists suggest it can stand for Mein Kampf. Much of the secret project’s research was done under the supervision of Nazi scientists who had been brought into the country under Operation Paperclip. The listing says Polybius was manufactured by a company called Sinneslöschen, which means delete, or more vaguely, sensory deprivation. But the plot of the listing twists further. There are indications someone was monitoring the players.

“According to an operator who ran an arcade with one of these games, guys in black coats would come to collect ‘records’ from the machines,” the posting reads. “They’re not interested in quarters or anything, they just collected information about how the game was played.”

The suggestion that Polybius tested mental and physical agility, and was being used as a recruitment tool for the military is almost canon now. The idea that video games have been used to militarize youth has been the subject of books, comics, movies, and episodes of The Simpsons. There are probably video games about it.

The name comes from the ancient Greek historian and cryptographer Polybius, who emphasized the importance of quoting eye witnesses for noteworthy events. Since the legend began, many people have claimed to have played the game, and some have said they own a ROM version of it. None of these have been corroborated and no physical evidence exists. Steven Roach came forward in 2006 to claim he was one of the game’s programmers, according to PCGames. He explained it was pulled from the arcades after someone suffered an epileptic seizure during play.

Roach’s claim has been widely written off as an internet prank, but a theory claiming Polybius was an early code for the game Tempest persists. Early testing of that game also noted epileptic seizures in players. A similar theory suggests that the “real” Polybius is actually a somewhat obscure 1983 arcade game called Cube Quest. Not only does Cube Quest feature some of Polybius‘ (and Tempest‘s) most notable gameplay and visual design elements, but its advanced technology reportedly caused Cube Quest machines to break down more frequently than other arcade cabinets of that era. That would certainly help explain why people vaguely remember a trippy arcade game that was constantly being serviced by strange figures who always seemed to be around it.

According to the CoinOp post, Polybius “was weird looking, kind of abstract, fast action with some puzzle elements.” But rather than being addictive, “the kids who played it stopped playing games entirely.” Which leads to the possibility it was some kind of game stopping aversion therapy.

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The mythology has grown to include kidnappings and suicides, but aside from a 2017 game that shares its name and a few of its most famous ideas, Polybius is still only a legend. A legend that has mischievously been brought to light once again thanks to Marvel’s Loki.

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Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails November 12, 2019

In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage, according to leaked emails reviewed by Hatewatch.

In this, the first of what will be a series about those emails, Hatewatch exposes the racist source material that has influenced Miller’s visions of policy. That source material, as laid out in his emails to Breitbart, includes white nationalist websites, a “white genocide”-themed novel in which Indian men rape white women, xenophobic conspiracy theories and eugenics-era immigration laws that Adolf Hitler lauded in “Mein Kampf.”

“What Stephen Miller sent to me in those emails has become policy at the Trump administration,” McHugh told Hatewatch.

Miller shares link from white nationalist site Miller sent a story from the white nationalist website VDARE to McHugh on Oct. 23, 2015, the emails show. White nationalist Peter Brimelow founded VDARE in 1999. The website traffics in the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth, which suggests that nonwhite people are systematically and deliberately wiping white people off the planet.

McHugh, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:10 p.m. ET: “This being the worst hurricane ever recorded, what are the chances it wreaks destruction on Mexico and drives a mass migration to the U.S. border?”

Miller, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:12 p.m. ET: “100 percent. And they will all get TPS. And all the ones here will get TPS too. That needs to be the weekend's BIG story. TPS is everything.”

McHugh, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:22 p.m. ET: “Wow. Ok. Is there precedent for this?”

Miller, Oct. 23, 2015, 6:31 p.m. ET: [VDARE link]

In September, the Trump administration denied temporary protected status to residents of the Bahamas fleeing the destruction of Hurricane Dorian despite widespread destruction.

Miller recommends ‘Camp of the Saints’ to Breitbart Miller recommended in a Sept. 6, 2015, email that Breitbart write about “The Camp of the Saints,” a racist French novel by Jean Raspail. Notably, “The Camp of the Saints” is popular among white nationalists and neo-Nazis because of the degree to which it fictionalizes the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth into a violent and sexualized story about refugees.

McHugh, Sept. 1, 2015, 8:49 p.m. ET: “‘Next America.’ We’re being invaded and talked into tolerating it.”

Miller, Sept. 1, 2015, 9:01 p.m. ET: “It’s treated as organic. No mention of voluntary policy which can be shut off.”

While “The Camp of the Saints” was relatively obscure then, websites such as VDARE and the white nationalist American Renaissance helped make it a fixture in the white nationalist community. VDARE created an entire searchable tag called “Camp of the Saints.” At the time Miller flagged the book to Breitbart, VDARE had run more than 50 posts under “The Camp of the Saints” tagline, including some referring to Pope Francis’ rhetoric about accepting refugees. Sailer, who authored the VDARE post Miller had shared earlier, ran a story on the pope’s statements about accepting refugees on the same day Miller raised the issue with Breitbart.

Elizabeth Moore, a spokesperson for Breitbart, responded to Hatewatch’s request for comment about Miller's relationship with editors at the website with the following statement:

McHugh says Miller told her to aggregate from American Renaissance Miller suggested McHugh draw information from an American Renaissance article in early July 2015, she told Hatewatch. McHugh’s recollection is backed up by emails appearing to refer to that article, which focused on a favorite topic of Miller’s in the emails – interracial crime.

McHugh told Hatewatch that Miller called her on a workday afternoon to discuss a story on “AmRen,” shorthand for American Renaissance among the site’s readers.

“It was after lunchtime. I was sitting at my desk with my MacBook, and as Miller was speaking, I was looking away … to better concentrate on what he was saying,” McHugh recalled to Hatewatch. “Miller asked me if I had seen the recent ‘AmRen’ article about crime statistics and race. I responded in the affirmative because I had read it. Many of us [on the far right] had read it. I remember being struck by the way he called it ‘AmRen,’ the nickname.”

The article was published on American Renaissance on July 1, 2015, and called “New DOJ Statistics on Race and Violent Crime.” McHugh identified the story as the one flagged by Miller when Hatewatch presented it to her. The American Renaissance article by white nationalist Jared Taylor celebrates the Department of Justice reporting Hispanics in a separate category on crime statistics “rather than lumping them in with whites.”

Hatewatch identified the email chain that led to the phone conversation McHugh relayed. The conversation started July 7, 2015, when Miller contacted McHugh, then-Breitbart head Steve Bannon and editor Matthew Boyle in an email with the subject line, “A data point worth adding to any coverage of the crime issue.”

In the opening email, Miller discusses “Shapiro’s piece,” which likely refers to a July 7, 2015, Breitbart story by pundit Ben Shapiro called “Is Trump Right?” McHugh replies, sharing a National Review article by Heather MacDonald, a conservative essayist and researcher:

McHugh, July 7, 2015, 3:19 p.m. ET: Wow. We’ll likely never see any stats on interracial crime come from the DOJ ever again, but they have added “Hispanic” as a category rather than classifying them all as “white.” [National Review link]

Miller then removes Bannon and Boyle from the thread to converse privately with McHugh. He asks if they can get on the phone to speak and sends her two links to FBI crime statistics.

Miller, July 7, 2015, 3:35 p.m. ET: “Let me know when you can talk re: immigrant crime. Have some thoughts.”

McHugh, July 7, 2015, 4:45 p.m. ET: “I can chat now if you’re free.”

Miller, July 7, 2015, 5:03 p.m. ET: “What's your best #? [FBI crime link 1] [FBI crime link 2]

The fact that Miller addresses McHugh privately immediately after she shares MacDonald’s National Review story is noteworthy: Taylor’s American Renaissance post, which is focused on crime statistics, analyzes the MacDonald story and links to it in its opening line.

Miller appears to refer to the phone conversation again nearly two months later in an email with the subject line “touching base”:

Miller, Sept. 1, 2015, 2:38 p.m. ET: “Hey Katie, Hope all is well. Was curious to see if you were still planning a story with the DOJ crime victims' data.”

McHugh, Sept. 1, 2015, 2:56 p.m. ET: “Hi Stephen, yes, I’d like to. Can we touch base tomorrow morning/early afternoon after I write a couple of assignments?”

Miller, Sept. 1, 2015, 3:10 p.m. ET: “Absolutely”

Miller’s name also has appeared on American Renaissance as an author. On July 19, 2005, the white nationalist website republished a piece he wrote for the right-wing online publication FrontPage Magazine called “Santa Monica High’s Multicultural Fistfights,” regarding his high school alma mater. American Renaissance commonly republishes stories from other publications that fit into its racist agenda. Hatewatch reached out to American Renaissance for a comment twice about how Miller’s post came to appear on its website but did not receive any reply.

In the article, Miller blames the left for a variety of problems in the nation’s schools, including “excusing black and Hispanic misbehavior by holding those students to a lower standard.”

Confederate flag removals upset Miller after church murders White nationalist Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. Roof’s attack triggered a national conversation about racial hatred in the United States. In response, Amazon.com and other retailers made efforts to pull the Confederate flag from their websites and stores.

Miller sought to create a counternarrative to this news through Breitbart, the emails show. He emailed McHugh with the subject line “defies modern comprehension” on June 23, 2015, following the news about the retailers, and highlighted a statistic about the deaths of Confederate soldiers with a link to history.com:

Miller, June 23, 2015, 3:10 p.m. ET: “‘22.6 percent of Southern men who were between the ages of 20 and 24 in 1860 lost their lives because of the war.’” [history.com link]

McHugh told Hatewatch that she and Miller spoke on the phone about the subject of Amazon yanking Confederate flag merchandise after the email. Miller appears to refer to that call in his next email and suggests that McHugh write about how Amazon was selling “commie flags.”

Miller, June 23, 2015, 3:31 p.m. ET: “That's a really, really, really good point.

Have you thought about going to Amazon and finding the commie flags and then doing a story on that? I think you've hit on something potentially profound.”

McHugh, June 23, 2015, 3:32 p.m. ET: “Yes, definitely. There’s all kinds of hammer and sickle merchandise, Che shirts, Stalin shirts… the list goes on and on.”

Miller, June 23, 2015, 3:36 p.m. ET: “I think that would be a very big story. Reveals just the stunning corporate hypocrisy that defines our modern culture.”

McHugh, June 23, 2015, 3:42 p.m. ET: “Yes, and extra lulz: [Former Obama White House press secretary] Jay Carney, who’s a senior advisor or something for Amazon, displayed Commie propaganda IN HIS HOUSE.” [Daily Caller link]

Miller, June 23, 2015, 4:33 p.m. ET: “This would be the perfect time to resurrect that fact. Brilliant.”

McHugh, June 23, 2015, 5:07 p.m. ET: “I’m going to go full Info Wars here: It’s not a coincidence that in the midst of pushing the US-ending trade deal, we’re seeing a historic artifact of real America be demonized and destroyed.”

Miller, June 23, 2015, 5:11 p.m. ET: “I betcha they also sell lots of che gueverra garb too.”

McHugh, June 23, 2015, 5:13 p.m. ET: “Oh they do. It took a long time to write a very short piece because I feel gripped with anger and despair. But if there was ever a time to stay cheerful, this is it!!”

Miller, June 23, 2015, 5:14 p.m. ET: “shoot me link when you have.”

McHugh and Miller continued to trade emails about the subject later that night. McHugh mentioned that “Confederate monuments [are being] vandalized in the US.” She sent Miller a link to the story she wrote based on their conversation, “Amazon takes down Confederate flag, continues to sell communist merchandise,” noting it was “leading Breitbart.”

Miller replied:

Miller, June 23, 2015, 10:34 p.m. ET: “what do the [Confederate monument] vandals say to the people fighting and dying overseas in uniform right now who are carrying on a seventh or eighth generation of military service in their families, stretching back to our founding?”

The emails show that Miller returned to the subject in subsequent days, tying the debate to immigrants and leftists. He sent an email June 24, 2015, with the subject line “story idea”:

Miller, June 24, 2015, 2:07 p.m. ET: “1. Should people of Spanish descent, especially those living in immigrant communities, be banned from displaying the Spanish flag given Spanish conduct in Latin America? 2. Should [Univision anchor] Jorge Ramos apologize for Spanish conduct in Latin America, and redress it by ensuring more people of indigenous backgrounds have hosting duties on his network? 3. Should the cross be removed from immigrant communities, in light of the history of Spanish conquest?”

Miller brought up the issue again one day later:

Miller, June 25, 2015, 10:38 a.m. ET: “When will the left be made to apologize for the blood on their hands supporting every commie regime since stalin?”

Preserving Confederate monuments has resonated with the far right, and Trump has repeatedly played to those views.

Following the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, for example, when white nationalists and neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protect a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, Trump appeared to defend them, saying that there were “very fine people, on both sides.” A man who marched with white nationalists at Unite the Right murdered antiracist demonstrator Heather Heyer in a car-ramming attack that Aug. 12. Five days later, Trump tweeted:

“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.”

Miller focuses on racial identity of killer with ‘alt-right’ beliefs In his emails to Breitbart, Miller also discussed the coverage surrounding another killer who espoused racist beliefs. Chris Harper-Mercer, a student at Umpqua Community College, killed nine people at the Roseburg, Oregon, school Oct. 1, 2015.

The following day, newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times reported that Harper-Mercer espoused a combination of white supremacist and antireligious beliefs, which typically intersect with ideologies espoused by the “alt-right” movement online.

Before Harper-Mercer’s motivations became apparent, Miller’s response was to single out his race:

Miller, Oct. 2, 2015, 12:06 a.m. ET: “[Harper-Mercer] is described as ‘mixed race’ and born in England. Any chance of piecing that profile together more, or will it all be covered up?”

McHugh replied by sending Miller a story she wrote on Harper-Mercer that attempted to show he was connected to a person on MySpace who had praised Islamic terrorism. Miller replied with enthusiasm to it:

Miller, Oct. 2, 2015, 11:28 a.m. ET: “Your eds need to make that the LEDE.”

Miller says he reached out to anti-Muslim extremist Pamela Geller Pamela Geller is a writer and pundit known for her extreme anti-Muslim views. Geller once said, “Muslim immigration is tied directly to Islamic terror.”

Miller claimed to be discussing story ideas with Geller in an email using the subject line “Sweden took my idea” on July 23, 2015. Miller shared a link to a Canadian blog called Blazingcatfur.ca about Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigrant party, planning a gay pride parade through a Muslim-dominated neighborhood. Leaders of the Sweden Democrats have struggled to shake their party’s reputation as fascist. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has called the Sweden Democrats “a neo-fascist single-issue party” with “Nazi and racist roots,” according to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Miller sent the email to McHugh, Hahn and Bannon, then still head of Breitbart:

Miller, July 23, 2015, 11:37 a.m. ET: “[Link] I suggested Pamela Gellar do this to illustrate the absurdity of the Left's theory that you can't do anything which violates the tenets of fundamentalist Islam. What is more important to the Left: their ‘gay rights’ agenda, or appeasing Islamist immigrants?”

Bannon, July 23, 2015, 11:39 a.m. ET: “Wow!!!”

Miller, July 23, 2015, 11:50 a.m. ET: “This would have caused the american liberal media to collapse”

Hatewatch reached out to Geller twice for comment about any contact she might have had with Miller but did not receive any reply.

Miller forwards Infowars link to aid McHugh’s reporting Miller forwarded a link from conspiracy website Infowars on July 21, 2015. Infowars is an antigovernment website that promoted a false story suggesting the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was staged, among much other misinformation.

The Infowars story was syndicated from CNSNews.com, a right-wing website, and Miller sent it with the subject line, “for your islam story.” The story highlighted comments by the Rev. Franklin Graham advocating an end to Muslim immigration to the United States.

Miller also forwarded multiple links to McHugh on Muslims from Refugee Resettlement Watch, an anti-immigrant, far-right website lauded by VDARE’s Brimelow.

Miller backs immigration policies Hitler once praised Miller refers to President Calvin Coolidge multiple times in emails to Breitbart. Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924. The legislation was based on eugenics and severely limited immigration from certain parts of the world into the United States. White nationalists lionize Coolidge, in part for his remarks condemning race mixing.

“There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons,” Coolidge wrote in a 1921 magazine article, as quoted on American Renaissance. “Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. … Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.”

In “Mein Kampf,” Hitler portrayed the U.S. law as a potential model for the Nazis in Germany. James Q. Whitman, the Ford Foundation professor of comparative and foreign law at Yale Law School, noted this detail in his book “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.”

“Absolutely, Hitler talks about the law in ‘Mein Kampf,’” Whitman told Hatewatch. “He suggests that the U.S. was the only country making the type of progress the Nazis were trying to establish.”

Miller brings up Coolidge on Aug. 4, 2015, in the context of halting all immigration to America. Garrett Murch, who also was an aide to Sessions, starts the conversation by emailing McHugh, Miller and three other Breitbart employees, including Hahn, to note something he heard on a right-wing talk radio show:

Murch, Aug. 4, 2015, 6:22 p.m. ET: “[Show host] Mark Levin just said there should be no immigration for several years. Not just cut the number down from the current 1 million green cards per year. For assimilation purposes.”

Miller, Aug. 4, 2015, 6:23 p.m. ET: “Like Coolidge did. Kellyanne Conway poll says that is exactly what most Americans want after 40 years of non-stop record arrivals.”

Another example of Miller mentioning Coolidge happens Sept. 13, 2015, when he criticizes Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham for appearing too sympathetic to refugees. Miller sends an email to McHugh and Hahn with the subject, “Tucker asks McCain, Graham how refugees are good for Americans,” with a transcript of a discussion between the two senators and Tucker Carlson of Fox News.

Miller, Sept. 13, 2015, 7:53 p.m. ET: “this is a good chance to expose that ridiculous statue of liberty myth. Poem has nothing to do with it: [Link] Indeed, two decades after poem was added, Coolidge shut down immigration. No one said he was violating the Statue of Liberty's purpose. BTW: have you noticed how [Ben] Carson and [Carly] Fiorina are preening [Marco] Rubio-like daily in front of the media to show them how they are good and decent Republicans unlike Mr. Trump? Finally, speaking of refugees, did you see the expanded list I emailed of foreign-born terrorists on Friday afternoon?”

McHugh said the email exchange led to her Breitbart post called “Lindsey Graham: Pretty Poem Says USA Must Adopt Unknown Muslim Men from Jihad-Syria." McHugh’s Sept. 14, 2015, story treats Arab men as a danger to Americans in the suburbs: “Graham’s position is almost a threat: Boots on the ground in Syria, or your sleepy suburb gets a ‘diverse’ surprise.”

Miller cites Coolidge again in the context of Ellis Island on April 28, 2015, when he sends McHugh a New York Times article that the immigration museum there would be adding new galleries:

Miller, April 28, 2015, 11:38 p.m. ET: Something tells me there is not a Calvin Coolidge exhibit.

Miller also brings up Coolidge in the context of Immigrant Heritage Month on June 2, 2015. He sends a link from an MSNBC report about the start of the month:

Miller, June 2, 2015, 7:05 p.m. ET: This would seem a good opportunity to remind people about the heritage established by Calvin Coolidge, which covers four decades of the 20th century.

Miller’s comment about “four decades” refers to the time between the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, or Hart-Celler Act, which abolished racial quota laws for immigration. Miller’s vision on immigration equates “heritage” with a time in which American laws were dictated by discredited race science.

Miller posits conspiracy theories about immigration Miller helped shape one of McHugh’s stories for Breitbart titled “Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy: 50 Years of Ruinous Immigration Law,” the emails show. The story focused on the legacy of the Hart-Celler Act from the perspective that the removal of racial quota laws harmed the country. Miller flagged the story idea to McHugh:

Miller, March 30, 2015, 1:49 p.m. ET: “They opened the Ted Kennedy center today in Boston. Another opportunity to revisit the ’65 immigration law.”

After McHugh’s story was published, Miller emailed her, “The eds should make your piece the overnight lead.” He went on to suggest that the reason no other publication covered the anniversary of the law the same way Breitbart did was because elites wanted to keep the country in the dark about immigration. White nationalists typically argue that whites are being replaced in the United States because outside forces seek to do them harm.

Miller, March 30, 2015, 10:24 p.m. ET: “Just let this sink in: Kennedy was honored today, fifty years after pushing through this law, and you're the only writer in the country who published a piece even mentioning the law and what it did.”

McHugh, March 30, 2015, 10:31 p.m. ET: “That is … very disturbing.”

Miller, March 30, 2015, 10:35 p.m. ET: “Elites can't allow the people to see that their condition is not the product of events beyond their control, but the product of policy they foisted onto them.”

McHugh, March 30, 2015, 10:42 p.m. ET: “Right. Immigration is something that we can only vote to have more of — immigration ‘reform’ is a moral imperative — but it’s impossible, evil, racist to reverse immigration, and you don’t think that the government can deport 11 million anyway, do you?”

Miller, March 30, 2015, 10:44 p.m. ET: “They want people to feel helpless, retreat into their enclaves, and detach. Our job is to show people they can still control their destiny. Knowledge is the first step. Btw - Bannon was praising your work on this to me again.”

In his emails, Miller uses slang and rhetoric about immigration that would be familiar to people who read white nationalists discussing the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. He refers to demographic changes brought about by immigration as “new America” multiple times in the emails. It’s a phrase VDARE sometimes uses. Here are some examples of Miller using similar language in emails to Breitbart over nearly a week in July 2015:

“The ruined city of L.A.,” referring to his hometown on July 9, 2015. “New Charlotte,” pointing to an article about employers in Charlotte, North Carolina, hiring more bilingual staff on July 14, 2015. “New English,” about then-current GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaking Spanish on the campaign trail on July 14, 2015. “More lies about new america,” linking to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece from July 2015 that lays out the degree to which immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes. Miller also discussed diversity in apparently mocking tones as America’s “national religion” on Nov. 23, 2015. He cited a story about a possible lawsuit from the family of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a reconstructed digital clock to his Irving, Texas, high school in 2015.

Miller, Nov. 23, 2015, 5:07 p.m. ET: “[Link] Like the mystics of old, the one sure way to get rich in modern America is to offer yourself up as virtue signal to those seeking to prove themselves members in good standing of the national religion – diversity.”

Exploring Miller’s reported ties to white nationalist figures Hatewatch re-examined Miller’s reported relationships with prominent figures from the white nationalist movement in light of information uncovered during its investigation into his emails to Breitbart.

Before entering into politics, Miller was in contact with Brimelow, the VDARE founder, and Richard Spencer, who went on to become arguably the most notorious white nationalist in America. Spencer helped build the alt-right movement and was a central figure of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. Miller knew and interacted with these men while studying at Duke University as an undergraduate, according to a first-hand account and email evidence. The interactions with Brimelow occurred about eight years after he founded the white nationalist VDARE.

Miller and Spencer, while serving together as members of Duke’s Conservative Union, a politics-focused club for students, arranged for Brimelow to debate journalist and University of Oregon professor Peter Laufer in March 2007 on Mexican immigration to the United States.

Laufer told Hatewatch he ate dinner at a local restaurant with Brimelow, Miller and Spencer when he visited Duke. He described the atmosphere between him and the men as collegial despite their ideological differences. Laufer also called the interactions “gross,” given the others’ outspoken anti-immigrant beliefs.

The meetup was also confirmed through an email Spencer sent to Laufer that the journalist Michael Brown first obtained in 2017 for the nonprofit blog Electronic Intifada. Brown forwarded that email to Hatewatch in August. It lays out logistical details of the event and mentions Miller by name – just as Brown reported in 2017.

Hatewatch reached out twice to Brimelow to ask about Laufer’s account of the events but did not receive a reply. Hatewatch also contacted Spencer, who replied by email that he does not correspond with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Spencer has acknowledged his relationship with Miller before in Mother Jones:

“It’s funny no one’s picked up on the Stephen Miller connection,” he told the magazine in October 2016. “I knew him very well when I was at Duke. But I am kind of glad no one’s talked about this because I don’t want to harm Trump.”

HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias, who writes about far-right events, told Hatewatch that Spencer made a similar remark to him in October 2017 when he was covering a speech by the white nationalist leader at the University of Florida. “I don’t want to get [Miller] in trouble,” Mathias says Spencer told him when he asked about his relationship with the White House aide.

Miller denied having any ties with Spencer to Mother Jones:

“I have absolutely no relationship with Mr. Spencer. I completely repudiate his views, and his claims are 100 percent false,” Miller said then.

Laufer’s account of the events mirror more closely to what Spencer has said:

“There is absolutely no question they were working together,” Laufer told Hatewatch. “We all perhaps have relationships in our college days that we’d like to forget. But to suggest [Spencer and Miller] weren’t working in concert to create this event is false. They were intimately involved in the planning of the dinner and the event. This was a partnership, and for Miller to suggest otherwise would be false.”

Hatewatch asked Laufer if he had any other impressions of the future White House adviser after having met him as a college student:

“It was evident to me Miller was not interested in a multicultural society,” he said.

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It would be a little obvious To fence off all the slums Hand out machine guns to the poor in the projects And watch ’em kill each other off A more subtle genocide is when The only hope for the young Is to join the Army and slowly die Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue The last roads left to the American Dream

Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue Only on road leads to this neighborhood Little kids wanna sell drugs when they grow up

The folks might get just a little upset If they knew where that dope comes from From Columbia to the Contras To our Air Force bases, where we trade it for guns The moral equivalent of a serial killer And his CIA friends Call the shots from the White House But now that we own the media too Those stories just aren’t run

On the Washington D.C. Beltway, ’round and ’round I go In a black van with no windows, and a chimney puffing smoke Some gang that ran smack in Viet Nam Ain’t got no reason to fear Just get a Vice President so dumb The crook at the top never gets impeached

That sure was easy wasn’t it? That sure was easy wasn’t it? More crack-more panic-moe cops-more jails

You see emergency-total war You see emergency-total war You see a black face-you see a crackhead You see a black face-you see a crackhead You see a black face-you see Willie Horton with a knife You see Willie Horton with a knife

You see one Willie Horton you’ve seen them all They’re everywhere, I know You asked for it, you’ve got it Drug suspects have no rights at all Property seized and sold before trial Labor camps-on American soil?!? Neo-Nazi bootboys That the cops never seem to arrest Prowl neighborhoods with baseball bats Why now? Why do they get so much press…?

Mein Kampf-the mini series Ollie North-“patriotic” hero The leader for tomorrow is yours today Finally gotcha psyched for a police state

On the Washington D.C. Beltway Around and around I go In a black van with no windows And a chimney puffing smoke My van’s a mobile oven now That burns the bodies you never see Just like in Chile or Guatemala People just seem to disappear

Just like Rome We fell asleep when we got spoiled Ignore human rights in the rest of the world Ya might just lose your own

As the noose of narco-militarism Tightens ’round your necks

We worry about burning flags And pee in jars at work To keep our jobs

But if someone came for you one night And dragged you away do you really think your neighbors Would even care….

Ollie for president, he’ll get things done!!! Ollie for president, he’ll get things done!!! Ollie for president, he’ll get things done!!!

#Jello Biafra #punk #Dead Kennedys

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verschwoerer · 6 years ago

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Markus Gelau

50€ - mein weihnachtsgeschenk an denjenigen, der mir ein deutsches mainstream-medium schickt, das uns diese aktuellen bilder aus syrien zeigt

und gratis on top: die erkenntnis, dass WIR all das nicht sehen sollen. wir könnten ja sympathien entwickeln für diese menschen. und (sofern noch nicht getan) beginnen, zu hinterfragen...

all diese menschen: wären tot, vertrieben, versklavt, würden unter barbarischen, langbärtigen, mittelalterlichen söldnern leben - gesponsert von der nato und v.a. von der deutschen regierung. wenn der gewaltsame syrische regime change, dessen opfer seit über 7 jahren zu leiden haben, und der maßgeblich in BERLIN geplant wurde, nicht: scheiterte.

das hier ist syrien. der EINZIGE säkulare staat des nahen ostens. und wenn wir schon dabei sind, warum nicht an dieser stelle mal wieder einige fakten, die ebenfalls NIE in deutschen medien thematisiert werden - mit der bitte, JEDEN dieser fakten selbst nachzuprüfen:

1. in syrien gab es keine "revolution" und: es gibt keine "rebellen" in syrien.

2. syrien ist das einzige säkulare land des nahen ostens. religion und staat sind strikt getrennt. zuletzt verbot syrien 2010 u.a. den "niqab" (gesichtsschleier) an allen universitäten des landes. schon 1998 betrug der anteil an frauen unter den studierenden an syrischen universitäten 40%. schon vor fast 20 jahren, im jahr 2000, waren über ein drittel aller frauen syriens berufstätig (quelle: world bank) - einmalig in der arabischen welt. in der türkei ist aktuell nicht mal ein viertel aller frauen berufstätig (quelle: apa).

3. frauen können in syrien schon immer arbeiten, auto fahren, reisen, wählen, studieren und selbstbestimmt leben. frauen leisten freiwilligen militärdienst, sind stark in der wirtschaft und politik. frauen bekommen - anders als in deutschland - in syrien den gleichen lohn wie männer. die präsidentin des demokratisch gewählten syrischen parlaments war bis vor kurzem eine frau (hadiya abbas). die vizepräsidentin syriens (also der mächtigste mensch der republik nach präsident assad) - ist eine frau (naja al attar). ein bekannter und erfolgreicher brigade-general der syrischen armee ist: eine frau (nibal madhat badr). der wichtigste berater des syrischen präsidenten bashar al assad ist: eine frau (buthaina shaavan). und: im syrischen parlament saßen frauen jahre vor der ersten frau im deutschen bundestag.

4. jahrzehnte lebten in syrien unterschiedlichste ethnien und religionen friedlich und durch einen starken staat geeint zusammen. noch im juli 2009 lud niemand geringeres als die universität heidelberg zu einem kolloquium ein, bei dem syrien als vorbildliches, einzigartiges musterbeispiel eines friedlichen zusammenlebens verschiedener konfessionen dargestellt wurde. veranstaltet von prof. dr. werner arnold, inhaber des heidelberger lehrstuhls für semitistik und der fritz-thyssen-stiftung.

5. in syrien findet kein "bürgerkrieg" statt.

6. der präsident syriens, baschar al-assad, wurde demokratisch gewählt. alle natoländer (inkl. deutschland) verboten syrischen flüchtlingen, an der letzten demokratischen wahl 2014 in den jeweiligen syrischen botschaften ihrer fluchtländer teilzunehmen. richtig gelesen: die deutsche regierung VERBOT syrischen flüchtlingen, von ihrem demorkatischen recht gebrauch zu machen und an der letzten syrischen wahl teilzunehmen.

7. die sogenannten "rebellen"-milizen bestehen mehrheitlich aus ausländern. laut einer studie des firil center for studies (fcfs, berlin) kämpfen islamisten und terroristen aus 93 ländern gegen die legitime syrische regierung und die syrische armee. selbst das "us state department" kommuniziert offen, dass in syrien kämpfer aus "über 100 ländern" aktiv sind. (quelle: wikipedia).

8. so etwas wie eine "fsa" (freie syrische armee) gibt es nicht.

9. in der syrischen armee sind sunniten in der großen mehrheit. sie kämpfen zusammen mit zehntausenden freiwilligen und wehrpflichtigen schiiten, alawiten, drusen, kurden oder orthodoxen christen und atheisten - unabhängig von ihrem glauben für ihr land. für ihre familien. es gibt keinen religionskrieg in syrien.

10. die usa, frankreich und die türkei sind (ebenso alle anderen westlichen mächte) völkerrechtswidrige invasoren syriens. aktuell stehen sogar australische soldaten völkerrechtswidrig in syrien.

11. zeitweise bombardierten 11 länder syrien (darunter belgien oder australien). dabei sind die EINZIGEN staaten, die völkerrechtlich um hilfe von der syrischen regierung gebeten wurden, russland und der iran.

12. die überwältigende mehrheit der syrer steht fest hinter ihrer regierung um assad. das war bereits zu beginn des krieges laut westlichen studien so - und ist 2017 laut us-geheimdienststudien noch viel mehr der fall. daneben kämpfen aktuell (2018) ca. 200.000 menschen freiwillig für assad in der saa (syrisch-arabische armee) und den ndf (national defence force) - um ihr land, ihre familien und ihre regierung zu verteidigen. ein präsident, hinter dem nicht die mehrheit dieses volkes stünde, hätte sich in diesem konflikt nicht mal einen monat halten können. darüberhinaus ist assad kein diktator - sondern ein demokratisch gewählter präsident.

13. die "proteste" 2011 waren nicht friedlich. es wurden nach gängigem muster (maidan kiew) sicherheitskräfte erschossen, um zu eskalieren. die geschichte um angebliche "assad-feindliche graffitis", die in daraa unruhen ausgelöst und damit zum "bürgerkrieg" geführt haben sollen - waren schon immer: eine lüge. auch dies wurde kürzlich einmal mehr durch den fake-skandal um spiegel-schreibsöldner claas relotius bestätigt (der diese story u.a. maßgeblich im deutschen sprachraum verbreitete). zu beginn der "krise" wurden nachweislich "demonstranten" mit von der cia über den irak nach syrien geschmuggelten waffen ausgerüstet. auch das ist mittlerweile im mainstream (u.a. bei lüders) angekommen.

14. die golanhöhen sind syrisch und seit 40 jahren völkerrechtswidrig von israel besetzt. auch diesder fakt wird in regelmäßigen un-resolutionen bestätigt.

15. die "weißhelme" sind nachweislich ein propagandatool der islamisten um al nusra, vom westen offen finanziert, von einem ehemaligen englischen geheimdienstler erfunden. der zivilschutz und die ersthelfer aller länder sind organisiert in der "INTERNATIONAL CIVIL DEFENCE ORGANISATION (ICDO)" einer ihrer gründer (!) war übrigens ein syrer. der ECHTE syrische zivilschutz (inkl. der syrische rote halbmond) ist so professionell und international respektiert, dass er in der vergangenheit viele partner anderer länder ausbildete.

16. würden der westen, israel, die türkei und die golfstaaten die finanzierung der terrorbanden in syrien morgen einstellen, wäre der krieg übermorgen zu ende.

17. die syrische regierung hat nachweislich vor jahren alle ihre verbliebenen chemiewaffen unter internationaler kontrolle abgegeben. die oberaufsicht darüber hatten die usa selbst, die waffen wurden mehrheitlich von DEUTSCHLAND vernichtet. die syrische armee hat im syrienkrieg noch nie chemiewaffen eingesetzt. james mattis - der ehemalige verteidigungsminister der usa höchstselbst - gab öffentlich zu, keinerlei beweise zu besitzen, dass die syrische armee JEMALS giftgas eingesetzt hätte.

18. deutschland unterstützt seit beginn des krieges offen und verdeckt nachweislich terroristen in syrien. der syrische regime change wurde geopolitisch elementar von deutschland geplant und getragen (perthes-feltman-plan). schon 2012 versorgte offiziell ein deutsches spionageschiff vor der syrischen küste terroristen mit aufklärungsdaten über die syrische armee. die deutsche bundesregierung überwies den "white helmets", also al kaida, 2017 ganz offiziell 7 millionen euro steuergeld. eine anfrage der linken an die bundesregierung offenbarte darüberhinaus, dass deutschland den islamistischen terroristen in idlib ganz offen über 55 millionen euro steuergeld überwies.

19. die eu unter der führung deutschlands verhängte seit 2011 die "härtesten sanktionen seit dem 2. weltkrieg" (laut uno) gegen das souveräne land syrien. diese sanktionen wurden auf persönliche entscheidung angela merkels erst kürzlich wieder verlängert.

20. das blut von jedem kind, das in syrien nicht mit medikamenten versorgt werden kann (sanktioniert!) oder nicht ausreichend wasser bekommt (ersatzteile für pumpen: sanktioniert!) klebt nicht an den händen des legitimen syrischen präsidenten assad, der sein land rettet. sondern an den händen der DEUTSCHEN Bundesregierung.

"sie haben versucht, unsere stimmen zu ersticken, unser erbe auszulöschen, uns unserer identität zu berauben und uns das existenzrecht abzusprechen. unsere seelen jedoch können nicht eingesperrt werden. wir sind die frauen von syrien. wir tragen unsere köpfe erhoben und unsere heimat in unserem herzen."

asma al assad (dreifache mutter, studierte informatikerin, first lady von syrien)

und am ende nochmal der hinweis: diese bilder werden euch weder tagesschau, die zeit, süddeutsche und die faz, noch der spiegel oder die welt zeigen. fragt euch, warum.

merry xmas from syria. you go syria. and thanks russia & iran.

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Kata-Strophe

Sie tragen voll Pathos weiße Gewänder um die Hüften geknotet haben alle bunte Bänder, während ein Kerl mit Stil seinen schwarzen Gürtel anpreist und sie dabei in einer fremden Sprache durch leere Turnhallen peitscht …

Und die Schüler schreien zurück mit martialischen Stimmen: So lässt man sich beim Hallen-Halma zum Helden trimmen. Am Mittwoch Abend tauscht man heroisch Bierkrug und Stammtisch-Fluppe gegen eine leere Turnhalle und macht gepflegt einen auf Gladiatoren-Truppe ...

In einem solchen marsianischen Männergesangsverein kreischt man keuchend auf japanisch die Zahlen von eins bis neun und lässt sich bei bizarren Rollenspielen sinnlose Bewegungen einbläu’n. Du willst, dass wehrlose Weibspersonen Dich willig zum Wachhund erwählen? Dann musst Du in Turnhallen tanzend koreanische Nummern aufzählen und für den Kampf mit Fremdwörtern entschlossen dein Mundwerk stählen …

Tänzeln! Springen! Unter’m Turnhallenhimmel vorwärts-rückwärts gehen! Dabei ausländisch brüllend die durchtrainierten Däumchen drehen, während Darmwinde verstohlen unter’m weißen Anzug wehen – spätestens bei „kabanesisch-zehn“ ist es gesünder wegzusehen, wenn Pflichtwackler sich durch pathetische Partituren quälen und Heldentenöre wütend ihre Choräle bellen …

Eine melodramatische Obsession, inszeniert in tausend-und-einer Fiktion, durch Kiefermahlen mit asiatischen Zahlen verklärt ins Lichte der “Tradition” – als skeptisches Semikolon ist für mich solch sinnlose Fron „Gurupsychose mal 1 durch geistige Masturbation in einem monoton kreischenden Polynom“ ...

Reines weißes Linnen tr��gt der Krieger als Rampensau, ein Kilo mehr Waschmittel zu schleppen für seine Frau um all die Deppen zu neppen, auf deren Kosten ein Meister frisst – Wer täglich nur ein geweihtes Reiskorn mit fünf Tautropfen isst, dem sich nach und nach das Geheimnis erschließt, warum der Meister lebenslang ungeschlagen ist: Ganz einfach weil er sich immer verpisst …

Man schlägt sich nie, aber Wir mußten es gestern tun – denn im Training, Sohn, durften Wir damals niemals jemals ruhn! Wir sind ja fit und in deinem Alter, da brachten Wir noch Leistung, deswegen verbeug dich oder Wir zerreißen eine nasse Zeitung!

Blutig war’n die Kämpfe anno dazumal – die Story klingt nach Pentothal [3] Verstaubte Fotos hinter Glas – da ist man sich sicher, da kann wer was „Duck dich“ – die Laudatio hagelt Urkunden und Medaillen, Schiebereien – Mauscheleien – Wettkampf-Kanaillen ...

Aber siebzig Mal sieben Mal sollst du dich verbeugen Dann wird dir der Meister die Reife bezeugen Reisschlappen et Massageschlampen locken Jetzt heißt es am Teetisch um Geheimtechniken zocken ...

Umhüllt von esoterischen Sprechblasen gilt: Immer sportlich unfair bleiben, denn ein Tilt sagt mehr als tausend Worte auf diesem Aborte: „Äh, was bitte kostet der Großmeistertitel unten links in der Auslage?“ Aber keine Sorge, des Meisters Tschi-Bauch [4] bringt keiner in Rage ...

Gleich den sechsunddreißig jammernden Shaolin ist es Deine heilige Pflicht als Krieger ins Teilzeit-Kloster zu zieh´n Und oh! Beachte die Askäse der Krampfkünste: Küss’ den Boden vor des Alten Mannes Büste – wenn der edle Greis was von den Preisen wüsste, er post mortem seinen Namen ändern müsste ...

Zum Aussprechen des Stilnamens braucht man sieben Wochen und hast du blaue Flecken vom Blocken mit den Knochen, meditier über den Schi-Hahn [5], der wird’s dir besorgen, deinen Black Belt hast du praktisch schon übermorgen!

„Ihre Bunkai [6] erhalten Sie gegen Bares am Zentralpostamt von Neu-Dheli gegen Vorlage Ihres Zehn-Jahres-Nachweises von Meister Dödli [7] !“ Ob Kiai [8] oder Kikeriki, Semikontakt [9] oder Semmelkontrakt, die Geheimtechnik vom Tritt in den Sack gibt’s hinterm Geheimschutz-Vorhang gegen eine kleine Spende Und Adlerklauengriffe gegen den Meridian der Lende [10] ...

“Aber DIESE Techniken sind tödlich Und spontane Demonstrationen deswegen leider unmöglich ...” “So gebt uns Turniere!” – Turniiiieeeere! – Das Fotoblitzen ist Menschenfischung und empfiehlt der Fachwelt unsere Bankverbindung ...

Gebrüllter Fremdsprachenuntericht in Turnhallen für Haar und Holzbrett spaltende Gefühlsquallen, die gerne Rosenkränze arithmetisch rauf- und runterlallen und dabei von Ruhm und Ehre schwallen, während sie wie Omas in Zeitlupe durch die Gegend fallen – all dies wird „Kampfsport-Unterricht“ genannt und vom Eingeweihten als Burschi-Do erkannt ... Der zehntausendste Leergang, gewohnt international, Bringt neues Formengewimmle, auf der Straße fatal Aber und-Querstrich-oder Kapital für die Theoretiker vom freien Fall ...

Des Freiers Fall: Unfreier Umfaller Wer sitzt am längeren Hebel beim unfreien Unfall? Wenn ihr mich fragt, ich war sowieso prall und übertriebene Höflichkeit noch nie mein Fall …

Fleisch prallt an die Wände, die Siffkuh [11] ringt um Hände – Das übliche „Lass ma’s für hoid liewa dawei bäwändä“ sowie die beeindruckende Narbe und des Gürtels satt tiefschwarze Farbe Suggeriert hochnotpeinlich die geradezu antike Frage: Stilbruch ... ist-gleich ... Omniphage??? –

Das Ergebnis der Übung nennt man „Knilchbubi-Stochastik“ – Summa Summarum: Personenkult gleich mentale Spastik. Die Spezies „Teutonicus Turnhalle“ in vollem Ornat bringt immer eine Prise Komik in mein Trittwoch-Abend-Habitat ...

Ich schaute in die Abendzeitung – im Morgengrauen kam der Schlag Wie brav angekündigt im Körpersprachen-Inserat. Ach nee sowas, Schaa-ooh-liiin schon schön, schon … ein Schrei: ZACK-KLACK-WUNKS, leider viel zu schnell vorbei. Da liegt nun Meister Greisenfaust von Tschi Fang Mai – das Patch auf dem Anzug verkündet immer noch: „Sensei“ [12] ...

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Anmerkungen

Überschrift: Kata (jap.): festgelegte Bewegungsform, die “in der Luft” und ohne Gegner ausgeführt wird.

2 Bushi-Do (jap.): „Weg des Kampfes” oder “Der Weg einen Kampf zu beenden“

3 Wahrheitsdroge, die im Dritten Reich und bei der CIA in Verhören eingesetzt wurde

4 Chi (chin.) oder Ki (jap.): Die „Innere Kraft“ eines Individuums

5 Shihan (jap.): höchster Grad einer Schule, Stilgründer

6 Erklärung der praktischen Anwendung einer Kata

7 Anspielung auf Bruce Lee

8 Kiai (jap.): Kampfschrei

9 Punktekampf mit Berührung, aber ohne Impact 10 Ein Meridian mit solchem Namen existiert nicht

11 Sifu (chin.): „Väterlicher Lehrer“

12 Sensei (jap.): Meister, Lehrer

#burschi-do #burschido

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Was bist Du wert?! – Chinas Sozialkreditsystem und unser Weg dorthin...

Neuer Beitrag veröffentlicht bei https://melby.de/was-bist-du-wert-chinas-sozialkreditsystem-und-unser-weg-dorthin/

Was bist Du wert?! – Chinas Sozialkreditsystem und unser Weg dorthin...

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„Was bist Du wert?“ Schon nur die Frage mutet komisch an. Doch was passiert nun aber, wenn sich eine Mixtur aus Staat und IT-Grosskonzernen aufmacht, um mit Hilfe neuer technischer Versklavungssysteme zum Zwecke der verbesserten Kontrolle und Ausbeutung der Menschen, diese Frage zu beantworten. So geschieht es zur Zeit in China. Sozialkreditsystem heisst das. Dein Wert als Mensch wird gemessen am Punktestand!

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Musik: Bensound Memories

-China’s social credit score bans some from travel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuqbx8tyW1Y -2017‐07‐24 ‐ gläserner Bürger ‐ Sozialkreditsystem als landesweite soziale Bonitätsprüfung in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jsfgEqA94 -China Plans To Roll Out Social Credit System By 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AztK31oa6zg -China’s social credit system keeps a critical eye on everyday behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onm6Sb3Pb2Y -FAZ, die totale Kontrolle: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/chinas-sozialkreditsystem-die-totale-kontrolle-15575861.html -Testphasen Karte: https://www.merics.org/en/china-monitor/content/5071 -Deutschlandfunk, Sozialkreditsystem: http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/chinas-sozialkredit-system-auf-dem-weg-in-die-it-diktatur.979.de.html?dram:article_id=395126 -Merics-Karte: https://technode.com/2017/08/23/chinas-social-credit-system-ai-driven-panopticon-or-fragmented-foundation-for-a-sincerity-culture/ -NDR, China, Überwachung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KstZEltaGG4 -Washington-Post, Überwachungstaat China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uReVvICTrCM -Gehirnüberwachung, Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5673497/China-mining-data-directly-workers-brains-spot-emotional-depressed-employees.html, -BaZ, China, Überwachungsstaat: https://bazonline.ch/ausland/asien-und-ozeanien/china-arbeitet-am-totalen-ueberwachungsstaat/story/12867782 -Instagram Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eioXkgCQSEk -In-Q-Tel: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel und http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-funded-by-cia-2016-9 -SRF Kultur, Wie sozial ist das Netz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVWDMxrrqSA Quelle

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ANN COULTER, HAPPY KWANZAA!

by Ann Coulter 27 Dec 2017

Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga — aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves.

In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the ’60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. (It’s the same function MSNBC and CNN serve today.)

By that criterion, Karenga’s United Slaves was perfect.

Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the ’60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. Although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers, they did not seek armed revolution.

Those were the precepts of Karenga’s United Slaves. The United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented “African” names. (I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanza-reform, and we are not that observant.)

It’s as if David Duke invented a holiday called “Anglika,” which he based on the philosophy of “Mein Kampf” — and clueless public school teachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday.

In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the ’70s, Karenga was quick to criticize Nigerian newspapers that claimed that certain American black radicals were CIA operatives. Karenga publicly denounced the idea, saying, “Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents.”

In a 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the “framed” murder of two whites included: “the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department” and so on. Karenga should know about FBI infiltration. (He further noted that the evidence against O.J. did not “eliminate unreasonable doubt” — an interesting standard of proof.)

Now we know the truth: The FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In the annals of the American ’60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police. Whether Karenga was a willing FBI dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear.

In one barbarous outburst, Karenga’s United Slaves shot two Black Panthers to death on the UCLA campus: Al “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as the chair of the Africana Studies Department at California State University at Long Beach.

(Speaking of which, Rep. Paul Ryan certainly is right about what a fantastic job his mentor Jack Kemp did reaching out to all those “socially conservative” minorities. Look at how California has swung decisively to the right since Kemp started all that outreach stuff. Good luck winning California now, Democrats!)

Back to the esteemed Cal State professor: Karenga’s invented holiday is a nutty blend of schmaltzy ’60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. The seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another invention of the Worst Generation.

In 1974, Patty Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snakehead stood for one of the SLA’s revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani. These are the exact same seven “principles” of Kwanzaa. (And here’s something interesting: Kawaida, Kwanzaa and Kuumba are also the only three Kardashian sisters not to have their own shows on the E! network.)

Kwanzaa praises collectivism in every possible area of life — economics, work, personality. It takes a village to raise a police snitch. When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from “classical Marxism,” he essentially said that, under Kawaida, we also hate whites.

While taking the “best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism” (is that the mass murder, the imprisonment of homosexuals or the forced labor?), Karenga said Kawaida practitioners believe one’s racial identity “determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding.”

There’s an inclusive philosophy for you!

Kwanzaa was the result of a ’60s psychosis grafted onto the black community by the founder of a murderous black nationalist cult with the FBI’s seal of approval.

Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI’s COINTELPRO.

Sing to “Jingle Bells”:

Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell

Whitey has to pay;

Burning, shooting, oh what fun

On this made-up holiday!

Only white liberals take Kwanzaa seriously. American Blacks celebrate Christmas.

Merry Christmas, fellow Christians!

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