The Swedish Model Versus the American Model

Apparently even Americans seem to prefer the Swedish income distribution over the US income maldistribution.

I grabbed this pic off of a forum, so it was hard to figure out what they were getting at. Apparently only 10% of Americans prefer the US model. Americans were apparently asked which model they preferred without labeling the models. The outrageous maldistribution of the US model was apparently only favored by 10% of Moronicans.

Fully 90% of Moronicans stated that they preferred either the Swedish model or the equal model. Of course, once you slap labels on the models, no doubt the survey changes, because equality is Communism and Swedish Communist-socialist. Votes for the US would automatically go up because Moronicans support everything about the US, even the most awful and disgusting parts of it, because, you know:

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! We’re number 1! We’re number 1! We’re number 1! We’re number 1!

And all of that crap.

It’s amazing to look at that US model and how outrageously unfair it is. Incredible that Moronicans seem to actually prefer it that way. Think if our GDP was the same yet it was split up more fairly. Think how much less the rich would have and how much more the rest of us would have. What’s not to like?

This also shows the lie about “capitalism.” According to Moronican fools, the only way you can possibly have this thing called “capitalism” is if the pie ends up divided up like you see in the US model. In other words, if it’s not ridiculously unfair, it’s not capitalism. Wow, sounds like a good reason to junk capitalism right there.

But the Swedish economy is 93% in private hands. If you walk down the streets of Stockholm, you will see small businesses everywhere, stacked to the rafters with every product you could possibly imagine at reasonable prices. And business is bustling right along. Sounds downright capitalist to me.

The thing is, there is generally no pure socialism and no pure capitalism. Pure socialism may have existed at one point, but it’s gone from everywhere now, even Cuba and North Korea. And pure capitalism doesn’t exist anywhere either. Every state on Earth is some combination of capitalism and socialism, some sort of a mixed economy. The vast majority of Moronicans are too stupid to figure this out, and they think that “socialism” and “capitalism” are some sort of polar opposites that cannot co-exist, and that if you have one, you don’t have the other.

I would add that the US mass media, including the “liberal media,” is all owned by very rich people, in the top .1% of the US population. They all know full well what that US pie is shaped like, and they like it just fine that way. Either that or they want to make things even worse and give even more to their fat asses.

Part of the project of the US mass media and increasingly both political parties is to maintain that US pie in its grotesque division, and not to make it the tiniest bit fair. A tremendous amount of media effort goes into brainwashing Americans into thinking that that US pie tastes just as good as an apple one, baked by Mom herself, fresh out of the oven. Not that they would ever let you see that pie chart yourself. That would be showing their hand, no?

Roosh on the End Game of Feminism

From here.

The end game of feminism is to make it impossible for a female to do any wrong, absolving her from all responsibility for her actions, no matter how reprehensible. The fact that a human being has a vagina will soon mean that she can not make a bad decision about anything. Punishing or criticizing a woman for her life choices will be abolished.

Name one thing right now that a feminist would criticize their gender for doing. I’ll save you the mental effort: there’s nothing. There is absolutely nothing that a girl can do that would get hate from feminists.

I have criticized Roosh before, but nevertheless, a lot of what he says is simply true. I also think he is a fine writer. He certainly deserves to be read whether you agree with him or not.

The piece goes on to list a whole range of female mistakes and failures and how feminists would explain it all away as not the women’s fault. He then lists a whole range of similar instances where the man is always at fault no matter what he does.

Anything other than equity feminism is nightmare fro men and should not by supported by any thinking male.

Gender feminism is frankly an out and out disaster and it was from Day One. Feminism has always been awful. From Day One, it’s been more about hating men than getting equal rights for women.

Simone Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is a catastrophe, full of man-hatred from start to finish. I dated a woman who loved that book, and she bristled with man-hatred. Feminists always make excuses for women who hate men. They excuse Beauvoir, saying that Sartre didn’t treat her very well. So? So she had a right to declare war on all of us?

Go over to American Renaissance and see all the Whites there who have had terrible experiences with Blacks. Therefore, they have a right to be racists? No way. A lot women have treated me pretty badly (and a lot have treated me well), therefore, I should turn into a misogynist due to those who treated me badly? I am not going to fall for that one.

Feminists, even the non-man-haters, will always make excuses for man-hating feminist women. They will even defend idiotic women who turn lesbian because they hate men so much (in fact, this is the cause of a great deal of lesbianism). Men are evil, so what do you expect? Of course women turn lesbian because they hate us so much. Of course women turn into man-haters, what do you expect?

Well, do any of these feminists sympathize with misogynists?

How about sympathizing with serial killers? Well, he had an evil mother who mistreated him horribly. Of course he turned into a murdering rapist who slaughtered beautiful women? What do you expect? How else was he supposed to act considering his upbringing. Actually, he showed a lot of self-control. Look what women did to him in his life. We women should feel lucky he only killed 10 lying whores and not fifty of us!

Well of course men beat up women. Look at how women act. We women drive these poor men to these extreme acts. Why, any normal man who had to put up with that would turn into a woman-pummeler. We should congratulate them for just beating them up and not murdering them.

Furthermore, the feminist attitude about sex is utterly and insanely toxic. It is dangerous to the life and liberty of all males. Feminists have such an insanely expansive view of rape that it makes rapists out of the vast majority of males.

We can look at the Feminist Hell of Sweden to see where this bullshit logically ends.

Sure Sweden has one of the highest rape rates on Earth. Why, because Swedish guys are rape-crazy? Nope, because Swedish feminists have instituted the most insanely expansive definition of rape in history, resulting in a lot of normal sex and non-rape being classified as rape.

Feminists not only want to put us in jail for rape, but they want to jail most of us for sexual assault. Ever grabbed a women’s body? Ever grabbed a woman’s tits or ass, or put your hand up her dress? I’ve been grabbing females that way my whole life. There haven’t been a lot of complaints, and I haven’t been arrested yet. Ask a feminist and she will grumble that I should have been arrested by now.

Truth is, feminists are worse than an annoyance. They’re a menace to us men. They’re dangerous. They are our enemies, and they are out to get us put in jail or prison for nothing. They are out to get us fired from our jobs for fake sexual harassment bullshit, thereby depriving us of a means to earn a living.

Feminists are our deadly enemies, and there can be no peace accords with them.

Sweden’s Gender War (Könskriget)

An excellent video titled Könskriget in Swedish or Sweden’s Gender War in English. It’s very long (2 hours), as long as a full-length movie, but it is well worth the watch. The movie is about the women’s shelters that are funded by the Swedish government and how they got taken over by radical feminists.

Young girls were abused by males in their household and were taken in to the shelters. They were brainwashed and told that they had abused by part of a vast Swedish pedophile ring of Satanist rapists and abusers who rape, molest and murder Swedish girls and women. Some of the girls were so upset by the brainwashing that they ran away from the shelters. One girl took off for Norway.

To this date, no evidence at all for this network has emerged. Nevertheless, Sweden’s feminist mafia continues to believe in this nonsense.

The shelters are part of a network of houses that takes it’s name from the heroine of a feminist tract written in Swedish. This heroine goes on a rampage and slaughters many men out of revenge similar to what is advocated in another canonical feminist classic, Valerie Solanas’ SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto.

Solanas, a paranoid schizophrenic, tried to murder Andy Warhol and was sentenced to prison. Warhol suffered ill effects from this attempted homicide for the rest of his life. Solanas is still a huge hero in feminist circles and her tract is still widely read and praised among gender feminists.

Much disturbing and chilling footage is in this video. A woman tells how she went to a rally of gender feminists in Sweden where they started chanting, “Hang the men! Kill the men!” She was so upset that the she left the whole movement and never went to another rally.

These rallies are similar to the idiotic radical feminist “Take Back the Night” rallies staged in the US. I attended one of these rallies, which featured an extremely propagandistic anti-pornography video followed by a stupid march. I was one of the few men there. I got a lot of hostile stares from some of the Stepford Drones.

Many of these Swedish feminists cut their hair short in feminist style. More than a few are apparently lesbians. The short hair style is typical among US feminists also and is apparently designed either to say, “I’m a lesbian” or “I hate men.” It seems to be a deliberate effort to deny the woman’s femininity, make her look unattractive and make her look like a man. Radical feminists are odd in that they hate us men, yet they try to look and act like us!

There is footage of brainwashed young women, now apparently or possibly lesbians, with short, dykey feminist hair styles.

One of the main themes of the movie is that Swedish batterers do not need treatment for their woman-beating, since that would say it is pathological and instead it is simply men being normal everyday men.

The Swedish feminist argument against treatment approaches incoherence, but they seem to be saying that as long as patriarchy exists and men hold all the power in society, there is no point treating male batterers. Apparently as long as women labor under patriarchy, men will always batter.

So men get jail or prison instead of treatment. The Swedish feminazis have opposed all efforts at treatment for male batterers and there is still little or no treatment to this day. Norway next door has instead offered a treatment program which has worked very well. Many studies have shown that treatment works for offenders, but feminist lobbying has prevented the proper analysis of these studies in Swedish academia and politics, both of which are overrun with feminazi idiots.

Radical feminism is the official program of Swedish government which has been run by the Left wing Social Democrats for a long time. Radical feminism was adopted as an official part of the platform about 25 years ago, and it’s only gotten worse since. Swedish feminism has been called “state-sponsored feminism,” and Sweden is thought to be the most advanced feminist state on Earth. Nevertheless, Swedish feminists are angrier than ever.

There was a large split in the Social Democrats recently with many female SD members leaving to form an even more insane feminist political party.

Although early polls showed many Swedish lemmings would vote for the party, the party soon many some proposals that were so radical that they sunk the party.

One of them was for a “man tax” in which all males would be taxed to make up for thousands of years of patriarchy. They also advocated abolishing marriage and getting rid of male and female specific names for babies as inherently oppressive. All of these proposals went over like a lead balloon, and the party sunk in the polls from over 20% to a final tally of ~3%.

However, they did push through the most radical anti-rape laws on Earth. These are the nutty laws under which Julian Assange is being accused by the Swedish state of “raping” two Swedish women. Assange’s behavior was ungentlemanly, but those women would never get a US district attorney to even file their cases in the US, and no US jury would convict him anyway.

This video was shot by a young Kurdish-Swedish woman who has since reportedly received thousands of threats, including death threats, from Swedish feminazis. It is even said that she had to go into hiding due to the threats.

I always thought that the “Nazi” in the word “feminazi” was an overwrought misnomer, but the more I study radical feminists, the more totalitarian they look. Interestingly, other Identity Politics such as gay rights radicals also seem like “Nazis” or totalitarians. PC in general seems to be a fascist-like or totalitarian movement in the constant use of threats and censorship.

What this implies that is Identity Politics is like a substitute for nationalism, which is simply egotism writ large. People identify with their gender, orientation or race in the same way that residents identify with their nation or state. Identity Politics is also egotism-based. You attack my gender, race or orientation, you attack me.

The wild responses of the Identity Politics crowd resemble the fascist-like behavior of the ultranationalists, which at the end of the day, is all down to tribalism anyway. In this sense, Identity Politics has set up new tribes for us based on gender, orientation, race etc. Now one can be a member of the Woman Nation, the Gay Nation, the Black Nation, etc.

Gender feminists, gay militants, etc. are simply the ultranationalist vanguards of the Female and Gay Nations respectively. The same problems and critiques of nationalism and ultranationalism that the Left has long brought up and fleshed out would seem to apply here. An ultranationalist of the Gay Nation or the Female Nation is not so dissimilar to a German, Japanese, Indian, Turkish, Arab, Chinese or other ultranationalist.

The bottom line is that these bitches are simply our enemies. If you’re a man, they’re your enemy. If you’re a man who sides with gender feminism, you’re not only a pussy and a man who won’t fight for himself, but you’re also a traitor to your brothers in lining up with our enemies.

It’s no surprise that male feminists are often the most pussified or unmasculine men out there. Many are gay. Others have renounced masculinity as some sort of oppressive ideology. Truth is that no self respecting man should ever identify with these bitches. Do you think that men are evil and women are the font of all goodness in mankind? If you don’t agree, don’t line up with these shrill shrews.

High Rates of Racism Among Young Swedish Females

Here.

The article is in Finnish, but if you can read Finnish, it says that recent surveys show very high numbers of Swedish girls and young women (25% of females aged 13-25) are racist against Arabs, especially Arab males.

Well, sometimes it pays to generalize. A very high percentage of rapes of Swedish young females are committed by Arab males. Comparatively speaking, Swedish males commit relatively few rapes against these same females. So consequently, young Swedish females have negative views of young Arab males, whom they see as a bunch of rapists.

Sweden is an officially antiracist country, and the Left, which has been in power for a long time now, has had an official policy of importing as many non-Europeans as possible into Sweden. The result has been a catastrophe as Arabs and other Middle Easterners formed ghettos that erupt regularly and have become more or less no-go zones for public safety personnel.

“White Genocide” Video in Swedish

This is all in Swedish, but it’s very well done, and you can pretty much understand it all just from the graphics and whatever Swedish you can figure out just by watching it.

According to the video, by 2025, native Swedish Whites will be a minority in their own country. I actually find that figure rather disturbing for some reason. Now, suppose the Swedes had voted on it and decided that they wanted it to be that way. But there’s never been any referendum. There are seven major Swedish political parties from Left to Right, and they are all in favor of mass non-White immigration to Sweden. Shouldn’t the Swedes have the right to have a referendum on the matter?

I’m not saying there should be no non-Whites in Sweden. Certainly a few here and there would seem normal. But it just seems like there are way too many, and that’s not what I think of when I think of Sweden. I think of tall Nordic blonds, not Somalis or Arabs burning down their neighborhoods and setting off bombs.

If the non-Europeans still share a more or less Caucasoid phenotype – many in Sweden are Arabs, Kurds and Iranians – I would not mind so much. They would just breed in with the Nordic Euros and over time we have just have a new type of Caucasoid in Sweden.

It’s true that most European countries presently more or less have Euro phenotypes that have evolved over time. When we think of an Irishman, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Greek, a German, a Swede or a Pole, you conjure up a different phenotype and personality for each one. In the future, I guess that all headed out in favor some sort of Panmixia. No one much knows what an average Frenchman, Spaniard, Pole or Swede will look like in 100 years.

Now here in the US, this process is much further gone, and Whites have hardly been here very long anyway, so there was no real phenotype along with personality and culture to wipe out. Besides we are hardly indigenous to the place anyway. In terms of being a White country, the US is frankly history. All we are doing, if anything, is buying time.

But in Europe, things are much less advanced. If European indigenous Whites voluntarily choose mass non-White immigration to the countries with attendant mass change in phenotype, culture and national personality, then hey, all the power to them. But has it even been put up for a vote? Shouldn’t Euros have a right to decide what their country should look like demographically in the future. If not, why not?

Bob Whitaker is the brainstorm behind all of this. For all intents and purposes, he is the pretty, educated and genteel face of White nationalism. A native of South Carolina, he has worked in Republican Party politics for decades. In the 1970′s, he spent most of his time converting the Wallace voters into Reagan Democrats. That’s quite a racist project if you know your history. In the 1980′s, he worked for the Reagan Administration. He’s still deep in Republican Party politics, but honestly, he’s a fringe type.

His website is here. It’s pretty nutty stuff, all about “White genocide.”

Does Multilingualism Equal Separatism?

Repost from the old site.

Sorry for the long post, readers, but I have been working on this piece off and on for months now. It’s not something I just banged out. For one thing, this is the only list that I know of on the Net that lists all of the countries of the world and shows how many languages are spoken there in an easy to access format. Not even Wikipedia has that (yet).

Whether or not states have the right to secede is an interesting question. The libertarian Volokh Conspiracy takes that on in this nice set of posts. We will not deal with that here; instead, we will take on the idea that linguistic diversity automatically leads to secession.

There is a notion floating around among fetishists of the state that there can be no linguistic diversity within the nation, as it will lead to inevitable separatism. In this post, I shall disprove that with empirical data. First, we will list the states in the world, along with how many languages are spoken in that state.

States with a significant separatist movement are noted with an asterisk. As you can see if you look down the list, there does not seem to be much of a link between multilingualism and separatism. There does seem to be a trend in that direction in Europe, though.

Afterward, I will discuss the nature of the separatist conflicts in many of these states to try to see if there is any language connection. In most cases, there is little or nothing there.

I fully expect the myth of multilingualism = separatism to persist after the publication of this post, unfortunately.

St Helena                        1
British Indian Ocean Territories 1
Pitcairn Island                  1
Estonia                          1
Maldives                         1
North Korea                      1
South Korea                      1
Cayman Islands                   1
Bermuda                          1
Belarus                          1
Martinique                       2
St Lucia                         2
St Vincent & the Grenadines      2
Barbados                         2
Virgin Islands                   2
British Virgin Islands           2
Gibraltar                        2
Antigua and Barbuda              2
Saint Kitts and Nevis            2
Montserrat                       2
Anguilla                         2
Marshall Islands                 2
Cuba                             2
Turks and Caicos                 2
Guam                             2
Tokelau                          2
Samoa                            2
American Samoa                   2
Niue                             2
Jamaica                          2
Cape Verde Islands               2
Icelandic                        2
Maltese                          2
Maltese                          2
Vatican State                    2
Haiti                            2
Kiribati                         2
Tuvalu                           2
Bahamas                          2
Puerto Rico                      2
Kyrgyzstan                       3
Rwanda                           3
Nauru                            3
Turkmenistan                     3
Luxembourg                       3
Monaco                           3
Burundi                          3
Seychelles                       3
Grenada                          3
Bahrain                          3
Tonga                            3
Qatar                            3
Kuwait                           3
Dominica                         3
Liechtenstein                    3
Andorra                          3
Reunion                          3
Dominican Republic               3
Netherlands Antilles             4
Northern Mariana Islands         4
Palestinian West Bank & Gaza     4
Palau                            4
Mayotte                          4
Cyprus*                          4
Bosnia and Herzegovina*          4
Slovenia and Herzegovina*        4
Swaziland                        4
Sao Tome and Principe            4
Guadalupe                        4
Saudi Arabia                     5
Cook Islands                     5
Latvia                           5
Lesotho                          5
Djibouti                         5
Ireland                          5
Moldova                          5
Armenia                          6
Mauritius                        6
Lebanon                          6
Mauritania                       6
Croatia                          6
Kazakhstan                       7
Kazakhstan                       7
Albania                          7
Portugal                         7
Uzbekistan                       7
Sri Lanka*                       7
United Arab Emirates             7
Comoros                          7
Belize                           8
Tunisia                          8
Denmark                          8
Yemen                            8
Morocco*                         9
Austria                          9
Jordan                           9
Macedonia                        9
Tajikistan                       9
French Polynesia                 9
Gambia                           9
Belgium                          9
Libya                            9
Fiji                             10
Slovakia                         10
Ukraine                          10
Egypt                            11
Bulgaria                         11
Norway                           11
Poland                           11
Serbia and Montenegro            11
Eritrea                          12
Georgia*                         12
Finland*                         12
Switzerland*                     12
Hungary*                         12
United Kingdom*                  12
Mongolia                         13
Spain                            13
Somalia*                         13
Oman                             13
Madagascar                       13
Malawi                           14
Equatorial Guinea                14
Mali                             14
Azerbaijan                       14
Japan                            15
Syria*                           15
Romania*                         15
Sweden*                          15
Netherlands*                     15
Greece                           16
Brunei                           17
Algeria                          18
Micronesia                       18
East Timor                       19
Zimbabwe                         19
Niger                            21
Singapore                        21
Cambodia                         21
Iraq*                            21
Guinea-Bissau                    21
Taiwan                           22
Bhutan                           24
Sierra Leone                     24
South Africa                     24
Germany                          28
Namibia                          28
Botswana                         28
France                           29
Liberia                          30
Israel                           33
Italy                            33
Guinea                           34
Turkey*                          34
Senegal                          36
Bangladesh                       39
New Caledonia                    39
Togo                             39
Angola*                          41
Gabon                            41
Zambia                           41
Mozambique                       43
Uganda                           43
Afghanistan                      47
Guatemala                        54
Benin                            54
Kenya                            61
Congo                            62
Burkina Faso                     68
Central African Republic         69
Solomon Islands                  70
Thailand*                        74
Iran*                            77
Cote D'Ivoire                    78
Ghana                            79
Laos                             82
Ethiopia*                        84
Canada*                          85
Russia*                          101
Vietnam                          102
Myanmar*                         108
Vanuatu                          109
Nepal                            126
Tanzania                         128
Chad                             132
Sudan*                           134
Malaysia                         140
United States*                   162
Philippines*                     171
Pakistan*                        171
Democratic Republic of Congo     214
Australia                        227
China*                           235
Cameroon*                        279
Mexico                           291
India*                           415
Nigeria                          510
Indonesia*                       737
Papua New Guinea*                820

*Starred states have a separatist problem, but most are not about language. Most date back to the very formation of an often-illegitimate state.

Canada definitely has a conflict that is rooted in language, but it is also rooted in differential histories as English and French colonies. The Quebec nightmare is always brought up by state fetishists, ethnic nationalists and other racists and nationalists who hate minorities as the inevitable result of any situation whereby a state has more than one language within its borders.

This post is designed to give the lie to this view.

Cyprus’ problem has to do with two nations, Greeks and Turks, who hate each other. The history for this lies in centuries of conflict between Christianity and Islam, culminating in the genocide of 350,000 Greeks in Turkey from 1916-1923.

Morocco’s conflict has nothing to do with language. Spanish Sahara was a Spanish colony in Africa. After the Spanish left in the early 1950′s, Morocco invaded the country and colonized it, claiming in some irredentist way that the land had always been a part of Morocco. The residents beg to differ and say that they are a separate state.

An idiotic conflict ensued in which Morocco the colonizer has been elevated to one of the most sanctioned nations of all by the UN. Yes, Israel is not the only one; there are other international scofflaws out there. In this conflict, as might be expected, US imperialism has supported Moroccan colonialism.

This Moroccan colonialism has now become settler-colonialism, as colonialism often does. You average Moroccan goes livid if you mention their colony. He hates Israel, but Morocco is nothing but an Arab Muslim Israel. If men had a dollar for every drop of hypocrisy, we would be a world of millionaires.

There are numerous separatist conflicts in Somalia. As Somalians have refused to perform their adult responsibilities and form a state, numerous parts of this exercise in anarchism in praxis (Why are the anarchists not cheering this on?) are walking away from the burning house. Who could blame them?

These splits seem to have little to do with language. One, Somaliland, was a former British colony and has a different culture than the rest of Somalia. Somaliland is now de facto independent, as Somalia, being a glorious exercise in anarchism, of course lacks an army to enforce its borders, or to do anything.

Jubaland has also split, but this has nothing to do with language. Instead, this may be rooted in a 36-year period in which it was a British colony. Soon after this period, they had their own postage stamps as an Italian colony.

There is at least one serious separatist conflict in Ethiopia in the Ogaden region, which is mostly populated by ethnic Somalis. Apparently this region used to be part of Somaliland, and Ethiopia probably has little claim to the region. This conflict has little do with language and more to do with conflicts rooted in colonialism and the illegitimate borders of states.

There is also a conflict in the Oromo region of Ethiopia that is not going very far lately. These people have been fighting colonialism since Ethiopia was a colony and since then have been fighting against independent Ethiopia, something they never went along with. Language has a role here, but the colonization of a people by various imperial states plays a larger one.

There was a war in Southern Sudan that has now ended with the possibility that the area may secede.

There is a genocidal conflict in Darfur that the world is ignoring because it involves Arabs killing Blacks as they have always done in this part of the world, and the world only gets upset when Jews kill Muslims, not when Muslims kill Muslims.

This conflict has to do with the Sudanese Arabs treating the Darfurians with utter contempt – they regard them as slaves, as they have always been to these racist Arabs.

The conflict in Southern Sudan involved a region in rebellion in which many languages were spoken. The South Sudanese are also niggers to the racist Arabs, plus they are Christian and animist infidels to be converted by the sword by Sudanese Arab Muslims. Every time a non-Muslim area has tried to split off from or acted uppity with a Muslim state they were part of, the Muslims have responded with a jihad against and genocide of the infidels.

This conflict has nothing to do with language; instead it is a war of Arab Muslim religious fanatics against Christian and animist infidels.

There is a separatist movement in the South Cameroons in the nation of Cameroon in Africa. This conflict is rooted in colonialism. During the colonial era, South Cameroons was a de facto separate state. Many different languages are spoken here, as is the case in Cameroon itself. They may have a separate culture too, but this is just another case of separatism rooted in colonialism. The movement seems to be unarmed.

There is a separatist conflict in Angola in a region called Cabinda, which was always a separate Portuguese colony from Angola.

As this area holds 60% of Angola’s oil, it’s doubtful that Angola will let it go, although almost all of Angola’s oil wealth is being stolen anyway by US transnationals and a tiny elite while 90% of the country starves, has no medicine and lives unemployed amid shacks along former roads now barely passable.

The Cabindans do claim to have a separate culture, but language does not seem to be playing much role here – instead, oil and colonialism are.

Syria does have a Kurdish separatist movement, as does Iran, Iraq, and Turkey – every state that has a significant number of Kurds. This conflict goes back to the post-World War 1 breakup of the Ottoman Empire. The Kurds, with thousands of years of history as a people, nominally independent for much of that time, were denied a state and sold out.

The new fake state called Turkey carved up part of Kurdistan, another part was donated to the British colony in Iraq and another to the French colony in Syria, as the Allies carved up the remains of the Empire like hungry guests at a feast.

This conflict is more about colonialism and extreme discrimination than language, though the Kurds do speak their own tongue. There is also a Kurdish separatist conflict in Iran, but I don’t know much about the history of the Iranian Kurds.

There is also an Assyrian separatist movement in Iraq and possibly in Syria. The movement is unarmed. The Assyrians have been horribly persecuted by Arab nationalist racists in the region, in part because they are Christians. They have been targeted by Islamo-Nazis in Iraq during this Iraq War with a ferocity that can only be described as genocidal.

The Kurds have long persecuted the Assyrians in Iraqi Kurdistan. There have been regular homicides of Assyrians in the north, up around the Mosul region. This is just related to the general way that Muslims treat Christian minorities in many Muslim states – they persecute them and even kill them. There is also a lot of land theft going on.

While the Kurdish struggle is worthwhile, it is becoming infected with the usual nationalist evil that afflicts all ethnic nationalism. This results in everyone who is not a Kurdish Sunni Muslim being subjected to varying degrees of persecution, disenfranchisement and discrimination. It’s a nasty part of the world.

In Syria, the Assyrians live up near the Turkish and Iraqi borders. Arab nationalist racists have been stealing their land for decades now and relocating the Assyrians to model villages, where they languish in poverty. Assad’s regime is not so secular and progressive as one might suspect.

There is a separatist conflict in Bougainville in New Guinea. I am sure that many different tongues are spoken on that island, as there are 800 different tongues spoken in Papua New Guinea. The conflict is rooted in the fact that Bougainville is rich in copper, but almost all of this wealth is stolen by Papua New Guinea and US multinationals, so the Bougainville people see little of it. Language has little or nothing to do with it.

There are separatist movements in the Ahwaz and Balochistan regions of Iran, along with the aforementioned Kurdish movement. It is true that different languages are spoken in these regions, but that has little to do with the conflict.

Arabic is spoken in Khuzestan, the land of the Iranian Arabs. This land has been part of Persia for around 2,000 years as the former land of Elam. The Arabs complain that they are treated poorly by the Persians, and that they get little revenue to their region even though they are sitting on a vast puddle of oil and natural gas.

Iran should not be expected to part with this land, as it is the source of much of their oil and gas wealth. Many or most Iranians speak Arabic anyway, so there is not much of a language issue. Further, Arab culture is promoted by the Islamist regime even at the expense of Iranian culture, much to the chagrin of Iranian nationalists.

The Ahwaz have been and are being exploited by viciously racist Arab nationalists in Iraq, and also by US imperialism, and most particularly lately, British imperialism, as the British never seem to have given up the colonial habit. This conflict is not about language at all. Most Ahwaz don’t even want to separate anyway; they just want to be treated like humans by the Iranians.

Many of Iran’s 8% Sunni population lives in Balochistan. The region has maybe 2% of Iran’s population and is utterly neglected by Iran. Sunnis are treated with extreme racist contempt by the Shia Supremacists who run Iran. This conflict has to do with the fight between the Shia and Sunni wings of Islam and little or nothing to do with language.

There is a separatist movement in Iran to split off Iranian Azerbaijan and merge it with Azerbaijan proper. This movement probably has little to do with language and more to do with just irredentism. The movement is not going to go very far because most Iranian Azeris do not support it.

Iranian Azeris actually form a ruling class in Iran and occupy most of the positions of power in the government. They also control a lot of the business sector and seem to have a higher income than other Iranians. This movement has been co-opted by pan-Turkish fascists for opportunistic reasons, but it’s not really going anywhere. The CIA is now cynically trying to stir it up with little success. The movement is peaceful.

There is a Baloch insurgency in Pakistan, but language has little to do with it. These fiercely independent people sit on top of a very rich land which is ruthlessly exploited by Punjabis from the north. They get little or no return from this natural gas wealth. Further, this region never really consented to being included in the Pakistani state that was carved willy-nilly out of India in 1947.

It is true that there are regions in the Caucasus that are rebelling against Russia. Given the brutal and bloody history of Russian imperial colonization of this region and the near-continuous rebellious state of the Muslims resident there, one wants to say they are rebelling against Imperial Russia.

Chechnya is the worst case, but Ingushetia is not much better, and things are bad in Dagestan too. There is also fighting in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. These non-Chechen regions are getting increasingly radicalized as consequence of the Chechen War. There has also been a deliberate strategy on the part of the Chechens to expand the conflict over to the other parts of the Caucasus.

Past rebellions were often pan-Caucasian also. Although very different languages are spoken in these areas, different languages are still spoken all across Russia. Language has little to do with these conflicts, as they have more to do with Russian imperialism and colonization of these lands and the near 200-year violent resistance of these fierce Muslim mountain tribes to being colonized by Slavic infidels.

There is not much separatism in the rest of Russia.

Tuva reserves the right to split away, but this is rooted in their prior history as an independent state within the USSR (Tell me how that works?) for two decades until 1944, when Stalin reconquered it as a result of the conflict with the Nazis. The Tuvans accepted peacefully.

Yes, the Tuvans speak a different tongue, but so do all of the Siberian nations, and most of those are still with Russia. Language has little to do with the Tuvan matter.

There is also separatism in the Bashkir Republic and Adygea in Russia. These have not really gone anywhere. Only 21% of the residents of
Adygea speak Circassian, and they see themselves as overrun by Russian-speaking immigrants. This conflict may have something to do with language. The Adygean conflict is also peripherally related the pan-Caucasian struggle above.

In the Bashkir Republic, the problem is more one of a different religion – Islam, as most Bashkirs are Muslim. It is not known to what degree language has played in the struggle, but it may be a factor. The Bashkirs also see themselves as overrun by Russian-speaking immigrants. It is dubious that the Bashkirs will be able to split off, as the result will be a separate nation surrounded on all sides by Russia.

The Adygean, Tuvan and Bashkir struggles are all peaceful.

The conflict in Georgia is complex. A province called Abkhazia has split off and formed their own de facto state, which has been supported with extreme cynicism by up and coming imperialist Russia, the same clown state that just threatened to go to war to defend the territorial integrity of their genocidal Serbian buddies. South Ossetia has also split off and wants to join Russia.

Both of these reasonable acts prompted horrible and insane wars as Georgia sought to preserve its territorial integrity, though it has scarcely been a state since 1990, and neither territory ever consented to being part of Georgia.

The Ossetians and Abkhazians do speak separate languages, and I am not certain why they want to break away, but I do not think that language has much to do with it. All parties to these conflicts are majority Orthodox Christians.

Myanmar is a hotbed of nations in rebellion against the state. Burma was carved out of British East India in 1947. Part of Burma had actually been part of British India itself, while the rest was a separate colony called Burma. No sooner was the ink dry on the declaration of independence than most of these nations in rebellion announced that they were not part of the deal.

Bloody rebellions have gone on ever since, and language has little or nothing to do with any of them. They are situated instead on the illegitimacy of not only the borders of the Burmese state, but of the state itself.

Thailand does have a separatist movement, but it is Islamic. They had a separate state down there until the early 1800′s when they were apparently conquered by Thais. I believe they do speak a different language down there, but it is not much different from Thai, and I don’t think language has anything to do with this conflict.

There is a conflict in the Philippines that is much like the one in Thailand. Muslims in Mindanao have never accepted Christian rule from Manila and are in open arms against the state. Yes, they speak different languages down in Mindanao, but they also speak Tagalog, the language of the land.

This just a war of Muslims seceding because they refuse to be ruled by infidels. Besides, this region has a long history of independence, de facto and otherwise, from the state. The Moro insurgency has little to nothing to do with language.

There are separatist conflicts in Indonesia. The one in Aceh seems to have petered out. Aceh never agreed to join the fake state of Indonesia that was carved out of the Dutch East Indies when the Dutch left in 1949.

West Papua is a colony of Indonesia. It was invaded by Indonesia with the full support of US imperialism in 1965. The Indonesians then commenced to murder 100,000 Papuans over the next 40 years. There are many languages spoken in West Papua, but that has nothing to do with the conflict. West Papuans are a racially distinct people divided into vast numbers of tribes, each with a separate culture.

They have no connection racially or culturally with the rest of Indonesia and do not wish to be part of the state. They were not a part of the state when it was declared in 1949 and were only incorporated after an Indonesian invasion of their land in 1965. Subsequently, Indonesia has planted lots of settler-colonists in West Papua.

There is also a conflict in the South Moluccas , but it has more to do with religion than anything else, since there is a large number of Christians in this area. The South Moluccans were always reluctant to become a part of the new fake Indonesian state that emerged after independence anyway, and I believe there was some fighting for a while there. The South Moluccan struggle has generally been peaceful ever since.

Indonesia is the Israel of Southeast Asia, a settler-colonial state. The only difference is that the Indonesians are vastly more murderous and cruel than the Israelis.

There are conflicts in Tibet and East Turkestan in China. In the case of Tibet, this is a colony of China that China has no jurisdiction over. The East Turkestan fight is another case of Muslims rebelling against infidel rule. Yes, different languages are spoken here, but this is the case all over China.

Language is involved in the East Turkestan conflict in that Chinese have seriously repressed the Uighur language, but I don’t think it plays much role in Tibet.

There is also a separatist movement in Inner Mongolia in China. I do not think that language has much to do with this, and I believe that China’s claim to Inner Mongolia may be somewhat dubious. This movement is unarmed and not very organized.

There are conflicts all over India, but they don’t have much to do with language.

The Kashmir conflict is not about language but instead is rooted in the nature of the partition of India after the British left in 1947. 90% of Kashmiris wanted to go to Pakistan, but the ruler of Kashmir was a Hindu, and he demanded to stay in India.

The UN quickly ruled that Kashmir had to be granted a vote in its future, but this vote was never allowed by India. As such, India is another world-leading rogue and scofflaw state on a par with Israel and Indonesia. Now the Kashmir mess has been complicated by the larger conflict between India and Pakistan, and until that is all sorted out, there will be no resolution to this mess.

Obviously India has no right whatsoever to rule this area, and the Kashmir cause ought to be taken up by all progressives the same way that the Palestinian one is.

There are many conflicts in the northeast, where most of the people are Asians who are racially, often religiously and certainly culturally distinct from the rest of Indians.

None of these regions agreed to join India when India, the biggest fake state that has ever existed, was carved out of 5,000 separate princely states in 1947. Each of these states had the right to decide its own future to be a part of India or not. As it turned out, India just annexed the vast majority of them and quickly invaded the few that said no.

“Bharat India”, as Indian nationalist fools call it, as a state, is one of the silliest concepts around. India has no jurisdiction over any of those parts of India in separatist rebellion, if you ask me. Language has little to do with these conflicts.

Over 800 languages are spoken in India anyway, each state has its own language, and most regions are not in rebellion over this. Multilingualism with English and Hindi to cement it together has worked just fine in most of India.

Sri Lanka’s conflict does involve language, but more importantly it involves centuries of extreme discrimination by ruling Buddhist Sinhalese against minority Hindu Tamils. Don’t treat your minorities like crap, and maybe they will not take up arms against you.

The rebellion in the Basque country of Spain and France is about language, as is Catalonian nationalism.

IRA Irish nationalism and the Scottish and Welsh independence movements have nothing to do with language, as most of these languages are not in good shape anyway.

The Corsicans are in rebellion against France, and language may play a role. There is an independence movement in Brittany in France also, and language seems to play a role here, or at least the desire to revive the language, which seems to be dying.

There is a possibility that Belgium may split into Flanders and Wallonia, and language does play a huge role in this conflict. One group speaks French and the other Dutch.

There is a movement in Scania, a part of Sweden, to split away from Sweden. Language seems to have nothing to do with it.

There is a Hungarian separatist movement, or actually, a national reunification or pan-Hungarian movement, in Romania. It isn’t going anywhere, and it unlikely to succeed. Hungarians in Romania have not been treated well and are a large segment of the population. This fact probably drives the separatism more than language.

There are many other small conflicts in Europe that I chose not to go into due to limitations on time and the fact that I am getting tired of writing this post! Perhaps I can deal with them at a later time. Language definitely plays a role in almost all of these conflicts. None of them are violent though.

To say that there are separatists in French Polynesia is not correct. This is an anti-colonial movement that deserves the support of anti-colonial activists the world over. The entire world, evidenced by the UN itself, has rejected colonialism. Only France, the UK and the US retain colonies. That right there is notable, as all three are clearly imperialist countries. In this modern age, the value of retaining colonies is dubious.

These days, colonizers pour more money into colonies than they get out of them. France probably keeps Polynesia due to colonial pride and also as a place to test nuclear weapons and maintain military bases. As the era of French imperialism on a grand scale has clearly passed, France needs to renounce its fantasies of being a glorious imperial power along with its anachronistic colonies.

Yes, there is a Mapuche separatist movement in Chile, but it is not going anywhere soon, or ever.

It has little to do with language. The Mapudungan language is not even in very good shape, and the leaders of this movement are a bunch of morons. Microsoft recently unveiled a Mapudungan language version of Microsoft Windows. You would think that the Mapuche would be ecstatic. Not so! They were furious. Why? Oh, I forget. Some Identity Politics madness.

This movement has everything to do with the history of Chile. Like Argentina and Uruguay, Chile was one of the Spanish colonies that was settled en masse late. For centuries, a small colonial bastion battled the brave Mapuche warriors, but were held at bay by this skilled and militaristic tribe.

Finally, in the late 1800′s, a fanatical and genocidal war was waged on the Mapuche in one of those wonderful “national reunification” missions so popular in the 1800′s (recall Italy’s wars of national reunification around this same time). By the 1870′s, the Mapuche were defeated and suffered a devastating loss of life.

Yet all those centuries of only a few Spanish colonists and lots of Indians had made their mark, and at least 70% of Chileans are mestizos, though they are mostly White (about 80% White on average). The Mapuche subsequently made a comeback and today number about 9% of the population.

Because they held out so long and so many of them survived, they are one of the most militant Amerindian groups in the Americas. They are an interesting people, light-skinned and attractive, though a left-wing Chilean I knew used to chortle about how hideously ugly they were.

Hawaiian separatism is another movement that has a lot to do with colonialism and imperialism and little to do with language. The Hawaiian language, despite some notable recent successes, is not in very good shape. The Hawaiian independence movement offers nothing to non-Hawaiians (I guess only native Hawaiians get to be citizens!) and is doomed to fail.

Hawaiians are about 22% of the population, and they are the only ones that support the independence movement. No one else supports it. It’s not going anywhere. The movers and shakers on the island (Non-Hawaiians for the most part!) all think it’s ridiculous.

There are separatists in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, but I doubt that language has much to do with it. Like the myriad other separatist struggles in the NE of India, these people are ethnically Asians and as such are not the same ethnicity as the Caucasians who make up the vast majority of the population of this wreck of a state.

This is another conflict that is rooted in a newly independent fake state. The Chittagong Hill Tracts were incorporated into Bangladesh after its independence from Pakistan in 1971. As a fake new state, the peoples of Bangladesh had a right to be consulted on whether or not they wished to be a part of it. The CHT peoples immediately said that they wanted no part of this new state.

At partition, the population was 98.5% Asian. They were Buddhists, Hindus and animists. Since then, the fascist Bangladesh state has sent Bengali Muslim settler-colonists to the region. The conflict is shot through with racism and religious bigotry, as Muslim Bengalis have rampaged through the region, killing people randomly and destroying stuff as they see fit. Language does not seem to have much to do with this conflict.

I don’t know much about the separatist struggle of the Moi in Vietnam, but I think it is more a movement for autonomy than anything else. The Moi are Montagnards and have probably suffered discrimination at the hands of the state along with the rest of the Montagnards.

Zanzibar separatism in Tanzania seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with language, but has a lot more to do with geography. Zanzibar is a nice island off the coast of Tanzania which probably wants nothing to do with the mess of a Tanzanian state.

The conflict also has a lot to do with race. Most residents of Zanzibar are either Arabs or descendants of unions between Arabs and Africans. In particular, they deny that they are Black Africans. I bet that is the root of the conflict right there.

There were some Talysh separatists in Azerbaijan a while back, but the movement seems to be over. I am not sure what was driving them, but language doesn’t seem to have been a big part of it. Just another case of new members of a fake new state refusing to go along for the ride.

There were some Gagauz separatists in Moldova a while back, but the movement appears to have died down. Language does seem to have played a role here, as the Gagauz speak a Turkic tongue totally unrelated to the Romance-speaking Moldovans.

Realistically, it’s just another case of a fake new state emerging and some members of the new state saying they don’t want to be a part of it, and the leaders of the fake new state suddenly invoking inviolability of borders in a state with no history!

In summary, as we saw above, once we get into Europe, language does play a greater role in separatist conflict, but most of these European conflicts are not violent. In the rest of the world, language plays little to no role in the vast majority of separatist conflicts.

The paranoid and frankly fascist notion voiced by rightwing nationalists the world over that any linguistic diversity in the world within states must be crushed as it will inevitably lead to separatism at best or armed separatism at worst is not supported by the facts.

Snömannen – The Bigfoots of Scandinavia

Snömannen are the Bigfoots of Scandinavia. They are found in the polar regions of Sweden, Finland and Norway. They are found in Lapland and the arctic regions. The description is similar to the one for Bigfoots. Sightings are few but they are as recent as 1985.

It looks like they are probably real, but there are only a few sightings of them. Yeti types are definitely known in recent years from Karelia and the Kola Peninsula, both of which are to the east of Finland. In this part of Russia, the yetis tend to inhabit mostly the far northern region where there are fewest people. It’s not surprising that there might be a few in the far north of Scandinavia also. Looks like a range extension of the Russian far north yeti type hominid.

I want to make clear that I don’t think any of these creatures are apes on monkeys running around in the woods. They are relict hominids, similar to the Flores Man which was recently discovered in Flores Island, Indonesia. Flores Man probably lived on Flores for 800,000 years, going extinct only ion the late 1800′s. They were actually discovered in 1960, but the skeletons were reported as “pygmy” Homo sapiens and were dismissed. The finding was actually published in a major anthropological journal.

There was a huge fight about Flores Man when he was found, the main argument being that finds were just Homo sapiens with various genetic disorders of this or that type. If and when more relict hominids are uncovered, we will see similar arguments that they are simply humans (Homo sapiens) with strange genetic disorders.

Do Capitalists Support Pubic Health and Education?

Repost from the old site.

In a response to my post, The Paradox of Capitalist Regulation, brilliant British commenter huy suggests that capitalists nowadays are enlightened enough to see that public health and education are needed for the workforce. I argue otherwise below.

Huy:

I would say that history has taught capitalism that free education and law and order run by the state is essential for capitalism to work, as without those things capitalism fails.It looks like capitalism is learning across the globe that free and equal health provided by the state is also essential for capitalism to run (from a free market economic point of view).

Socialism wants national health and education for the benefit of the people, while capitalism wants national health and education for the benefit of the market and growth of the economy, An economy with higher-skilled, more versatile workers who are in good health is a more productive one.

I consider myself vey leftwing and technocratic, and I’m deeply in favour of the free market, but only if the state provides good free education and health for all, minimum wage, poverty benefits, unemployment benefits and the chance for adults to get apprenticeships and qualifications for free when ever they need to or want to (within reason) so as to allow the lower-skilled workers to keep up with the fast pace of the free market and all the job cuts and creations that come with it.

The free market is humanity’s best hope for destroying poverty, but only if it is galvanized by the state properly, whereby social mobility and equal opportunity and social justice and lack of social deprivation is followed through. This makes both moral and economic sense.

I respond:

If you look at the 3rd World, the capitalist classes there do not want public education and they certainly do not want state health care. Even here in the US, the capitalist class has waged all-out war on public education and national health care through the Republican Party, although the Democratic Party also now seems to oppose national health care.

In parts of the world where national health care has been put in, the capitalists and their rightwing parties quickly wage ideological warfare to get rid of it.

Europe is an unusual case, probably due to circumstances discussed in my earlier post, For Justice, A River of Blood.

Europe was a very rightwing place in the 1930′s. WW2 completely destroyed most of the European Right, defeated all rightwing governments, killed, wounded or imprisoned many of the rightwingers themselves, destroyed or made illegal their organizations and dissolved much of their wealth and power, and more importantly, humiliated them and completely discredited rightwing ideology.

As a consequence, the Right was in disarray for decades after WW2 in Europe, and they have not yet regained their power. After the war, there was a Cold War threat from the USSR and from Left groups all over the rest of Europe.

In order to co-opt the Soviet model and the West European Left, the ruling classes in Europe cut deals with workers, consumers and society in which a Social Contract was erected in the form of a socialism called variously the social market or social democracy. Due to the decimation and discrediting of the European Right, even European elites and media bought into social democratic ideology.

Hence we see in France large Leftwing papers like Liberation, huge Euro-Communist parties getting 10-30% of the vote and even ruling states in Italy. A Gramscian cultural hegemony was constructed by the Left in post-war Europe, such that the media and culture itself promoted social democracy as the normal way for a society to operate.

Elites in Scandinavia formed collegial relations with Communist and Leftist states and Leftist guerrillas on the basis that they were all socialists. For instance, Scandinavian governments had friendly relations with Sandinista Nicaragua, Cuba and Vietnam, along with the FMLN and FARC guerrillas in El Salvador and Colombia.

Scandinavian governments gave generous aid to the Third World, often in pro-people forms with no capitalist or reactionary strings attached. This had the effect of taking the wind out of the sails of West European Communists. In a relatively just social democratic society, most saw little need for revolution.

In Europe, even the capitalists have gone along with national health care, although in the UK they have been whittling away at it since Thatcher. European executives love their free national health care and paid six week vacations.

However, in much of the rest of the world, capitalists have rolled back national health and education. In China, national health care is apparently gone as a right. In Russia, too, it scarcely exists anymore, while education has been decimated along with educated persons and professions.

In some East European states like Bulgaria, health care has been devastated. The first thing the hero of both US parties, Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro, did when the Sandinistas were voted out was to get rid of free public education and free national health care.

In Canada right now, the rightwing party and the business class have declared war on the national health care system (an ongoing project for a good 15 years or so now), but it is popular, so they have to tread lightly.

If the business classes in the US supported public education and national health care, we would not have a decades-long war against both of them waged by the party of business, the Republican Party, and supported by the business class in its entirety. It is true that some more enlightened US capitalists (especially big businesses) do support public education and even national health care, but they are an exception.

In this sense, the US small business class is even more reactionary than US big businesses. The US small business class supported Ross Perot and Ron Paul and are often far to the Right of the corporate guys.

This rightwing populism can and does lead to fascism. Small business and the petit bourgeois were the army behind fascism in Nazi Germany and have led many far-right movements in the US too.

The petit bourgeois resents the plutocratic elites for screwing them, but on the other hand also resents the working classes for being unionized and making good money via union wages. They feel oppressed by both groups.

Also, many petit bourgeois did not go to college, so they resent those white collar workers (seen as intellectuals and professionals) who got degrees and the resulting higher-paying jobs.

The petit bourgeois work in offices, banks and stores as clerks, tellers, low-ranking managers, etc. This class sector is often equated with something like the lower middle class. They often have no class consciousness at all, which is why they are often fodder for the Far Right.

What you are advocating above, huy, is not the free market at all, since the free market advocates getting rid of most to all government spending and regulation. Instead, you are advocating for socialism in one of its many forms. This form being the social market or social democracy.

I am a strong supporter of social democracy along the lines of the European model. The social market is a regulated capitalism with many government programs as a safety net and considerable government involvement in and even ownership of parts of the economy. In Sweden, 93% of the economy is private, but almost everyone, including managers and office workers, is unionized.

Government involvement in the economy takes the form of industry guidance as a corporatist element. Ownership of aspects of the economy takes the form of ownership of large industries like aircraft and ship building, national airlines, vehicle manufacturing, national rail, etc. It’s worked quite well.

Keep in mind that capitalists are loath to invest in industries like ship building in which it may take 100 years to make your first profit. These industries need to be state-run for a long time.

Further, passenger rail is almost never profitable for the private sector, so they just don’t run passenger trains. Since it operates at a loss as its nature, it must be run by the state.

This is what is so sick about the endless demands on Amtrak to make a profit – it is almost impossible for Amtrak to make a profit, because large passenger rail networks almost never do. In order to profit, they would have to charge so much money that they would hardly get any passengers.

In the same way, city buses never run at a profit either, hence we never see the private sector running passenger buses inside cities. Do you see any private rail lines running passenger rail in any areas of the US? Of course not.

Why? Because it’s not profitable. Passenger rail must be run by the state for it to exist at all. Demands for Amtrak to run a profit are perverse, dishonest and wrong. How many Americans think Amtrak needs to run a profit? Of those with an opinion, possibly most. This is what rightwing propaganda will do to you.

Julian Assange, Date Rapist

Here.

The guy is an absolute, complete, total fool. With all the intelligence agencies in the world after him, he date rapes two women in two days.

Let’s get this straight. Date rape happens all the time.

A female friend of mine, age 19, was recently date raped. She passed out drunk, and he was having sex with her while she was unconscious. Her vagina was dry too – because she was unconscious, so there was pain and minor bleeding.

She really doesn’t have a case, as the last thing she remembers was she was on her knees giving him head in a bedroom. Apparently afterwards she passed out, but she was technically a virgin, and she would not have consented to intercourse. She passed out at some point. She was on the bed, passed out and dry, and the guy had sex with her, necrophiliac-like. She woke up and pushed him off her. She lost her virginity in a case of date rape, and she had not wanted to lose her virginity that way. For months afterward, she was angry, and she could not figure why. I think it’s clear why she was so angry. I felt very sorry for this woman.

This stuff happens all the time in the US. It’s one form of rape that is quite common even among Whites, who have a lower rape rate than Blacks or Hispanics. I think Blacks and Hispanics do tons of date rape too, but it’s probably regarded as almost normal in those cultures. My point is that Whites don’t shy away from this stuff, mostly because a lot of White guys think “it’s not rape.”

Assange ended up at the home of Woman A, at her place after dinner. She had invited him to stay there. A makeout session got aggressive and Assange started tearing off her clothes. He ripped a necklace off her neck, possibly breaking it in the process. She tried to halt the whole mess, as things were just going too far, but then decided to give in. They ended up in the bedroom. He insisted on not using a condom, and she said no condom, no sex buddy.

He then produced a condom, which happened to be torn. It looks like he may have torn it himself. She still said no sex. At that point he pinned her down to the bed, holding her down as he had sex with her. Date rape all the way.

After that, she had had enough, but she still let him stay there, though he had to sleep in the living room. She said after, “Not only was it the worst sex I’ve ever had, but it was violent.” He repeatedly tried to have sex with her every day he stayed there after that, and she turned him down every time. One time, bottomless, he pressed himself against her, and she pushed him away. Finally, she told him to leave.

Two days later, he was over at Woman B’s place. He had sex with her with a condom, and then they both went to sleep. She insisted no condom, no sex. She woke up in the morning to discover him having sex with her without a condom. She said, “You better not have HIV!” He said he didn’t and finished his business. She insisted that he get STD testing, but he refused. She got a morning after pill because she was afraid of pregnancy and got STD testing.

She happened to run into Woman A and recounted her story to Woman A. She discovered that Woman A had been date raped too. They both went to the police to talk to them about what happened. Later, both women decided that they did not wish to press charges.

That should have ended it right there, but after that, it was nothing but political BS. The Swedes issued all APB for the guy via Interpol, he was arrested and charges are still being figured out. The charges are complete nonsense, as the women refuse to cooperate with police. Therefore, they need to be dropped.

The women were not working for intelligence agencies and there was no honey trap.

Julian Assange is a date rapist and a first class prick. Not only that, but he’s a reckless moron. With every other intelligence agency on Earth after him, he acts this recklessly.

Idiot.

Islamist Bombers Attack Sweden

1 dead, 2 wounded in blasts attacking Christmas shoppers in Stockholm. The dead man was apparently a bomber on foot. He was carrying a bag of pipe bombs and they seem to have exploded, either accidentally or on purpose is not known. The press was calling it a suicide bombing, but police are not sure.

Video of the blast here.

A while earlier, a car bomb had gone off in a shopping center. There was no one in the car.

Before the blasts, the Swedish press had received threats from Islamists threatening attacks against Sweden for their presence in Afghanistan and the recent cartoons of Mohammad by a Swedish cartoonist. The 2 wounded people suffered minor injuries.

The blasts seem to have been carried out by an Al Qaeda type group, because AQ groups are the ones who threaten to bomb Europe over Mohammad cartoons and troops in Afghanistan.