Warning: mass immigration will split your country in two, and the two sides will eventually go to war

Warning: mass immigration will split your country in two, and the two sides will eventually go to war. By John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist.

The riots in France last week stand as a warning to the United States and all western countries: mass immigration will split your country in two, and the two sides will eventually go to war. …

Ancient France:

A few days earlier … Pope Leo XIV drew massive crowds at every stop on his four-day papal visit. Some 800,000 people lined the Avenue des Champs-Élysées for an open-air Mass in Paris, catching the media and civil authorities by surprise. France is supposed to be a secular country, after all. …

There is ancient France, the true France, which despite the French Revolution and state-enforced secularism is still deeply Catholic, “the eldest daughter of the Church.” That is the France that showed up for Pope Leo.

Immigrant France:

The other France is the one we saw rioting in the streets last week. News reports said the unrest began in Créteil, a suburb of Paris, over the poor condition of the public schools. Disaffected high schoolers, fed up with overcrowded classes and dilapidated buildings, took to the streets spontaneously, so we’re told. From there, the rioting supposedly spread organically across the entire country in a matter of days.

There are a few problems with this narrative, beginning with the images and footage of the riots posted all over social media. What we see are not protests of classroom conditions, but the wanton destruction of schools, violent attacks on firefighters and police and even teachers, and all the indications of central organization and planning.

Among the “protesters,” we don’t see a broad cross-section of French society but overwhelmingly nonwhite males, immigrants and the children of immigrants.

The barricades are being raised largely by Muslim youth of North African and Middle Eastern descent.

Outside many schools, students weren’t chanting about funding cuts or classroom conditions, they were chanting “we are antifascists” and other such slogans.

In Marseille, rioters flew the flag of Algeria and Hamas, not the tricolor. It was the same at a number of high schools that saw rioting.

It’s pretty obvious what’s going on, and who is behind the unrest. This is the Red-Green alliance of the socialist/Antifa left and Muslim immigrants, operationalized to bring the country to its knees through widespread rioting ahead of national elections next year. …

Not one country any more, but two. Who will prevail?

The pope’s popularity on the one hand, and the riots that erupted across France a few days after his departure, on the other, illustrate the extent to which France today is not a single country or nation. It is not one people. …

Summary:

In short, what is happening in France is that communists and Muslim migrants are joining forces, testing their strength on the eve of national elections.

It might be illegal to say so in France, but these are ethnic riots, a show of force by unassimilated Muslim migrants and their hard-left revolutionary allies, who believe that together they are strong enough to overpower the native majority.

 

hat-tip Stephen Neil

 

The same old tough talk without a solution

The same old tough talk without a solution. By Basil the Great.

Tough talk from [Nigel Farage’s] Reform UK – “Mass immigration and Islam is destroying western countries”

Ok, so are you going to deport these people?

“Well not if they’re born here, they’re just as English as you and me.”

Really???

Speaking of same old nonsense, the BBC published a photo of only white students for unrest in France:

The BBC lies by omission again. They will say anything to increase immigration for more lefty, big government voters. In this case they are pretending the unrest in France is by white students protesting against school conditions. Nuh.

The reality:

It’s not just about schools, not any more. Mass immigration has split France in two, and the two sides will eventually go to war.

Palestinians Finally Granted Own Country

Palestinians Finally Granted Own Country. By The Babylon Bee.

PARIS — At long last, the Palestinian people finally have a land to truly call their own.

After decades of war, strife, and refusing other offers for sovereign territory, a new nation for Palestinians was at last established within the country formerly known as “France.”

“What a remarkable moment for the Palestinian people, seeing their flag raised over the Arc de Triomphe, knowing this land belongs to them,” said Middle East policy expert Gerard Rousseau. “They may have traded the Jordan River for the Seine, but the Palestinians finally have a homeland. It has been so gracious how quickly the old occupants of this land have made way for the new.” …

At publishing time, the Palestinians had clarified that having their own land would not change their goal of wiping Israel off the face of the Earth.

Seriously:

There is no magic soil. A nation is simply it’s people.

There is no magic soil. A nation is simply it’s people. By Investor Nick and Geiger Counter.

Friend tells me that two Somali gangs just opened fire on each other at Speedway gas station in Eden Prairie across the street from Kowalski’s grocery store. It appears there is an ongoing Somali gang war going on in Minnesota. Which explains the shootings across multiple cities.

I don’t remember Somali clan wars in American suburbs when I was growing up…

There is no magic soil. A nation is simply it’s people.

Commenters:

We have literally imported Somali Clan Warfare. …

Somali gangs in America strictly adhere to the clans their family were a part of back in Somalia, with all of the historic fueds.

Each gang correlates to a different clan and a Somali teen can’t join a clan that doesn’t correlate to his family’s clan. …

Thanks, Obama. These people were moved to American soil purposefully. They actually siphon off the paychecks of the people who get up and work hard every day and do things the right way. …

It would be so great to just go back to normal American stuff, day to day. … Mostly riding bikes, go to the movies, stuff like that.

The bureaucratic blob can take all your money whenever it wants

The bureaucratic blob can take all your money whenever it wants. By Alex Krainer.

A few months ago, American political commentator Nick Fuentes posted a video message about the U.S. government seizing his funds. Here’s what happened: one day he discovered that he had zero dollars in his checking account. He called his bank and learned that, “your account is under review and we can give you no other information.” Some two weeks later the bank gave him three telephone numbers to call, all belonging to U.S. attorneys working for the the U.S. Department of Justice. …

Fuentes learned that he was under investigation and the government simply seized $483,592.78 from his bank account. His statement is worth pondering:

“I called my lawyer and asked him, can I get my money back, is there anything I can do, do they have to release it? … And the response is, basically, they can take your money, they don’t need a reason, and they can keep it as long as they want and they don’t have to give it back. …

“All of that concentrated power that’s been built up in Washington DC is being rotated and turned inwardly and the kind of shock-and-awe that we saw in 2003 or 2001, Patriot Act, panopticon surveillance state, that’s now being wielded by politicians, bureaucrats, connected wealthy elite people and they can now wield that and utilize that against people with people of American citizenship. …

“People that have done nothing wrong, are not criminals, are not a threat to society, but people that are merely an inconvenience or a problem to powerful people. And so at that point, that’s the total end of a free society.” …

This is a radical departure from Anglo (or white) culture:

Part of “our values” and norms is that our property rights should be are sacrosanct. …

The government can’t just steal your property because they decided that you’re a bad person, that your political views are wrong, that you are a racist, an antisemite, a homophobe, a transphobe, an antivaxxer or a climate denier….

Of course, Fuentes isn’t the only victim of such government overreach. The number of cases probably count in thousands across Western jurisdictions. Another political activist in the U.S., Donald Trump’s friend Roger Stone also had his accounts frozen and balances seized. So did his attorney Rudy Giuliani.

In Europe, over 2,000 persons have been sanctioned since 2022.

What can you do?

It is important to recognize one obvious element to all these cases: the sanctioned persons had their bank accounts frozen. …

To defend our rights, it would seem that we have two choices: (1) to comply, conform and obey, or (2) to remove as much money as possible from the banks.

Being an obedient, compliant citizen may seem safe in the short term. However, this is exactly the gift that the blob demands of us, which enables it to devour the disobedient and the non-compliant one by one. Obedience only wins us the privilege of being devoured later. …

The next step should be to transact as much business as possible with small and medium sized, family-owned businesses, preferably in grey and black markets which are emerging or will emerge as a reaction to the blob’s abuse of our social contract.

Gold and bitcoin. Anyway, the inevitable overspending by governments always eventually makes their money worthless.

hat-tip Phil

Europe is in trouble because it is overdoing the collectivism again

Europe is in trouble because it is overdoing the collectivism again. By Alex Berenson.

Update on Europe, The World’s Progressive Dream (TM), the place all those Gen Z ladies say they’ll move when they stop being too sad to get out of bed.

The Spanish government — loved by annoying lefties everywhere — just collapsed.

The French are doing what they do best, rioting.

In Germany, anti-immigration conservatives keep gaining ground.

Of the four countries that dominate continental Europe, only Italy has a stable government — a conservative government run by Georgia Meloni, which has now lasted longer than any other in Italy’s post-World War 2 history and which just banned burqas for students.

This trend is not accident or coincidence.

The heavy hands of the bureaucrats killed (legal) entrepreneurship:

French local and national government spending makes up 57 percent of the country’s domestic product. … Italy and Germany are at 50 percent. (The United States is at 38 percent.) [Australia 37.5%]

That stifling bureaucracy makes starting companies in Europe hard and growing them next to impossible.

The trend is most clearly seen in technology, where Europe is not even an also-ran. After being marginally competitive in early computing and software, it failed to adapt to the rise of Internet and social media companies. American policymakers and companies don’t even pretend to worry about its role in artificial intelligence.

Along with keeping new jobs from being created, Europe has gone out of its way to destroy the ones it already has. For over a decade, European environmentalists have pressed ruinous decarbonization efforts, leading to super-high energy costs and a loss of middle-class factory jobs to China.

France’s government is more controlling than the Soviet Union! By Michael Arouet.

Only one in three French people works in the real economy, two-thirds live, one way or another, off other people’s taxes.

They won’t vote for politicians who say France’s absurd pensions and overblown state spending are unsustainable, they vote for those who promise to lower the already low retirement age even further. …

France is cooked. There will be no serious reforms. … France is heading into a debt crisis that will hit the entire eurozone. … The situation is so bad that no nice options remain.

Europe is being killed in manufacturing too. By Michael Arouet.

Germans are not only more expensive than the Chinese, but also less productive and more often on sick leave.

Germans must become less complacent, and start working hard again, or the trend will accelerate and wipe out the German industrial base. Unfortunately, German left politicians and unions are mentally stuck in a world that no longer exists. They seriously demanded a four-day workweek without a pay cut for automotive workers. They will achieve a zero-day workweek instead.

 

Collectivists cannot stand competition, don’t acknowledge the unfairness of not rewarding people who work harder or better (“from each according to his ability, too each according to his need”), and always end up here:

At which point competition from less collectivist societies overwhelms them economically or militarily, and the overly socialist regime collapses.

Good European Dad

Good European Dad. By Matthias Schmidt.

Just discovered my 19 year old daughter has an OnlyFans account

I was devastated

She clearly must not be registered as a sole proprietor with the the German Trade Office

I sat her down and asked how much she’d made

She said €4,200

I nearly collapsed

That’s at least €1,890 in unreported VAT obligations

She started crying but I did the only thing a good father could do

We spent the entire weekend filling out forms together

She’s now fully compliant with a business registration and tax ID

Makes €340/month after taxes and social contributions

I’ve never been more proud of her

Only 19 and already an online entrepreneur

She has a bright future ahead of her.

And they say that satire is not allowed in Germany.

The new covid???

The new covid??? By Jack Toledo in The Daily Mail.

The White House is monitoring a plague outbreak in Russia after a lab technician died and hundreds of people she came into contact with were placed in quarantine. …

The official explanation:

Darya Shipilova, 28, was reportedly working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia when she was exposed to pneumonic plague.

Shipilova told medical staff she had accidentally broken a test tube holding live bacteria, according to news outlet Lyudi Baikala.

She then became unwell while on a field expedition with colleagues … Shipilova was admitted to hospital on September 29 and placed on a ventilator but died two days later. …

Doubtful:

Mikhail Favorov, a senior Russian epidemiologist, dismissed the broken test tube explanation, according to the Moscow Times.

Favorov said: ‘It’s laughable. Someone working at the Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk wears a protective anti-plague suit.

‘If you break a test tube, the likelihood of infection is actually very low.’ …

Pneumonic plague is airborne, and fatal without antibiotics:

Pneumonic plague causes a severe lung infection, with symptoms including fever, shortness of breath and coughing up blood, which typically begin to show between three and seven days after contact.

Fatalities from pneumonic plague drop to around 17 percent if treated with antibiotics within the first 24 hours of infection.

However, the disease is almost always fatal if left untreated. ….

Pneumonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is transferred as a result of breathing in airborne droplets from another person. …

Reports claim that drugs used to treat the disease are running out in the region, leaving terrified residents piling into pharmacies and medical facilities demanding supplies.

And why were they messing around with dangerous bacteria in the first place? Because it’s in Russia, at least I’m confident Fauci and co. weren’t funding it.

Costello wiped the debt, then Labor blew it

Costello wiped the debt, then Labor blew it. By Judith Sloan in The Australian.

When the current Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, brags about Australia’s relatively low government debt by international standards, Costello must surely be choking on his Weet-Bix. Look at the figures — it was all Costello; Labor has made it worse.

When Costello became our top money man, Australian government net debt stood at $96bn or 18 per cent of GDP. When the Howard government was voted out in 2007, net debt was minus $40bn or minus 3.4 per cent of GDP. It was a tour de force that was never supported by the Labor opposition. …

Let’s not forget that vocal advocacy for some of the government’s biggest current programs was around in Costello’s day — think here the NDIS, the Gonski school-funding model and the like. His firm response was “no”, followed by the obvious point that funding for disability, education and many other matters rests with the states. …

Annual government spending is now well over $800bn, having been less than $500bn before Covid. Government spending on the so-called “care economy” has risen by more than 50 per cent since the Albanese government was first elected. …

Chalmers: It hasn’t been done properly before:

As a firm believer in big government, Chalmers thought he had all the answers when he claimed he could reinvent capitalism. What he didn’t count on was the persistence of inflation and the role that excessive government spending plays in that outcome.

Debt, debt, debt — welcome to the next decade of politics:

The cost of government debt is about to escalate. He talks about boosting productivity but can only cite trivial measures while avoiding the main game – energy and industrial relations. We are stuck with sub-par economic growth and no way of escaping.

Alexander Downer in The Australian:

There is another cost that rarely appears in the announcement: what cannot be built because government has commandeered the people and materials. Engineers, electricians, concrete suppliers and construction machinery are not available in unlimited quantities. Public projects compete with private investment and, where their requirements overlap, with housing construction.

When governments accelerate enormous building programs in a constrained market, they drive up wages and material prices, delay other projects and make new homes more expensive. Announcing a housing target does not conjure another electrician into existence. …

Governments should stop promising to build everything simultaneously and then claiming some war thousands of kilometres away is the cause of prices rising! …

What is needed is a return to economic rationalism: rigorous assessment, realistic sequencing, transparent borrowing and the courage to defer projects that cannot justify their demands on the economy. The test of leadership is not whether a premier or prime minister can announce another project. It is whether they can explain why another worthy proposal must wait its turn for funding. …

Lionel Robbins famously placed scarcity and competing uses at the centre of economics [in 1932]. Politics does not suspend that reality. Winning an election does not increase the supply of skilled labour or repeal the cost of capital.

Some resources will always be scarce. After security, the main job of any state or economic system is to allocate those scarce resources.

Even in Elon Musk’s upcoming era of super abundance of material goods due to AI robots (won’t happen — there isn’t enough metal, for instance), the time of notable people will still have to be rationed, and houses with nice views will always be scarce. There’s always something.

US-UK special relationship is … over

US-UK special relationship is … over. By Brave AI.

All 12 B-1B Lancer bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK returned to their home stations in the United States on October 4, 2026. This rapid withdrawal was prompted by a suspected Iranian-linked terror plot targeting the base, following the arrest of several suspects, including a British-Iranian dual national, for preparing terrorist acts.

The move was described as “highly unusual” for an allied air base in a peacetime country, with some aircraft departing before aerial refueling support was fully scrambled.

While the withdrawal strained the traditional “special relationship” between the US and UK — prompting commentary on the shifting dynamics of the alliance — the Pentagon emphasized that US bomber forces remain ready to deliver global strike capabilities directly from US soil.

Commenter:

During the Cold War I worked for the US Army & NATO. I visited & worked on British military facilities back then. When the Labour Gov released the terrorists threatening our bomber it caused our B-1s to retreat to the US. The relationship between the UK and US within NATO is now dead. Labour has sided with the radical Islamist in Iran and against the US and traditional Western civilization.

Glenn Reynolds:

As Britain — and most of the rest of Europe — look to become Islamist/Communist nations, the US will be reconfiguring, as it should. I assume we’re planning a way to take control of or eliminate their nuclear arsenals, too, if it comes to that.

The US can no longer base airplanes in the UK, because the UK is too Muslim to host them safely. Similarly, over the next few years the US will gradually withdraw its air forces from Europe. Iranian missiles have made US bases in the Middle East way too dangerous for hosting aircraft, except under huge defensive cover (e.g. in a carrier group).

Islamic violence has achieved what decades of leftist protestors could not — getting the USAF out of the UK. The left must be learning a lesson. Or perhaps it already has — for example, Charlie Kirk, Luigi Mangione, and the assassination attempts on Donald Trump.

The girl in the Cornell 7 fracas

The girl in the Cornell 7 fracas. By Keith Woods.

The young woman was a bit too woke and feminist, misjudged the opinion of her peers (is she on the spectrum?), then backtracked to recover her reputation.

She misread female social dynamics and expected there would be no “slut shaming” from the sisterhood if she did something sexually adventurous like an orgy.

The fact that she thought the men involved were gay/bi was added lib status, which as a pride “ally” she must have assumed would especially protect her from social shame. When she first noticed people were speaking negatively of the act, she text a friend words to the effect that this was part of the sexual liberation movement and “is going to become more common”

The timeline then seems clear: she was disinvited from a Halloween party because of the reputation she earned as a slut, which she then realised was a view not confined to bigoted men. When she read a comment of someone saying she was raped, she must have immediately clocked this as a possible out to absolve her of accountability and regain her social status. In her own account, she had never conceived of it in this way until she read it from someone else.

At that point, members of the sisterhood encouraged her suggestions that she was not actually responsible for anything.

“Slut shaming” still exists among sexually liberated women, but it is at odds with their professed beliefs about sexuality. Women are expected to pick up on this nuance and push for as much female power as possible while also enforcing shaming to discourage any individual lowering female sexual market value through extreme promiscuity.

But, the sisterhood has also built an out, and now any woman can just withdraw consent retrospectively, undo the wrong, and receive an even greater status as a victim.

Too bad about all the male victims of her change of mind. Female privilege?

Actress Criticizes Islam, Loses Her Career

Actress Criticizes Islam, Loses Her Career. By Robert Spencer at PJ Media.

The actress Selma Blair appeared in Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, and other movies, but on a fateful day in February 2024, she discovered what it was like to be a dissident in a totalitarian state. The totalitarian state in which she lived is known as Hollywood …

Blair became a nonperson because in February 2024, angry over the Israel-Hamas war and the support for Hamas among leftists and Muslim migrants, she wrote this on Instagram: “Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.” …

“The brands I worked with were gone within a day,” Blair recounted. “A few partnerships I’d spent years building were shelved. My agency was gone. My lawyer was gone. My publicist was gone. My book agent was gone. My book publicist was gone. My social media manager was gone. My son’s godmother was gone – my best friend. While some friends in the business quietly stood by me, most of them were gone. And of course, my manager, my supposed friend of 30 years, and a Jew, was gone too. I still don’t know what any of them were thinking. No one returned my calls.” …

She has apologized profusely since then, but her career has not revived.

And so in Hollywood, Selma Blair, having expressed views that dissented from leftist orthodoxy, no longer existed.

George Orwell would understand. In 1984, people who fell out of favor with the state became “nonpersons.”

Ostracism, both personal and professional, is one of the most potent weapons of the left. We saw it operating all the time when we lived in Canberra, particularly among feminists. Islam, of course, is more brutal — the punishment for apostasy is death.