REVEALED: THE MYSTERY SCOTTISH YOUTUBER BEHIND A GLOBAL “ALT-RIGHT” MEDIA EMPIRE

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Luke Ford

Ethan Ralph writes:

I’m not usually one to cry about someone getting doxed, as you guys know. But at least have a decent reason. And don’t lie about said reason, either. If you’re doxing someone because you hate their politics, then just say so. There’s no need to misrepresent them, just come out and admit that you hate the person and you think they’re cancer…so you doxed them. But the Daily Mirror and their sister paper the Daily Record (Scotland) just doxed YouTube personality Millennial Woes in the most pretentious and fake way of all-time.

Yes, I included his name, because well, the cat is already out of the proverbial bag on this one. Keep in mind, not only did Mr. Robertson get doxed, the tabloid hacks even went around his neighborhood and interviewed his neighbors, asking them if they knew that they lived next to such a “vile racist.”

Robertson/Millennial Woes had this to say in response over on YouTube…

“The articles appearing about me in the press are outrageous, misleading, malicious, and possibly libelous. I do not hate women, Jews, Muslims, gays, or anyone else, and I have consistently condemned violence. I have never promoted hate and never would.”

He goes on to state that he has been run out of his home country over this attack by the press and is now dependent on fans for shelter. If this isn’t fucked up, I don’t know what is. It also goes to show you that no matter how ruthless you think the American press is, the British press is 100 times worse. I wish Woes the best in his time of troubles. I also wish the tabs would just be honest for once and admit that they went after this guy because of his (nonviolent, mind you) ideology. I would have way more respect for them if they just admitted that they wanted to ruin Mr. Robertson’s life simply because they could.

Blog: From a bedroom in his father’s home in Linlithgow, Colin Robertson, 34, uses the channel to spew out hatred in regular video monologues and interviews. As this blog first revealed, Robertson recently finished a US tour that saw him give a keynote speech at the now notorious “Hail Trump” white nationalist conference in Washington DC.

The conference story was then picked up by the Daily Record with an appeal for information on the “mystery Scots racist”. Both A Thousand Flowers and the Record were flooded with hundreds of false leads, as panicking alt-right figures commanded their followers to deluge the media with fake details in a bid to keep Woes’ identity secret.

Robertson has previously advised his followers to “never reveal your city, or your year of birth, or the real names of anyone you know. Not even first names.”

But he has perhaps not been as careful as he would like to think. Following an extensive investigation, this blog was able to track down his details and this afternoon paid the Youtuber’s house a visit. Despite several attempts, no response was received at the door, although it’s understood that Robertson leads a largely nocturnal existence.

Little is known about his background, although he graduated from a prestigious London art college in the mid-2000s. Having launched his Youtube channel in December 2013, he now earns a living from his videos, with regular appeals to his followers for donations. Robertson has close ties to other figures across white nationalism, including Richard Spencer, organised of the “Hail Trump” conference and inventor of the term “alt-right”, who has achieved media notorierty in recent months.

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Why Israel isn’t shocked by anti-Semites in White House

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Luke Ford

Yaron London writes in a YNET Op-ed: A world view which supports white supremacy matches our government’s interests. If Trump’s people are more disgusted by Arabs than they are by Jews, we have struck quite a good deal.

Israel does not appear shocked by the appointment of racist anti-Semites to senior positions in US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. There is no wonder there. First of all, it is not in our power to change it. Our complete dependence on the United States forces us to hold our tongue and restrain ourselves.

Second, a world view which supports white supremacy matches our government’s interests. If Trump’s people are more disgusted by Arabs than they are by Jews (the liberals, the Wall Street people, journalists from the East Coast, lovers of black people, Hillary Clinton’s friends), we have struck quite a good deal. Trump and his friends see Israel as a forefront against the barbarians, and they are not exactly very observant.

To do the Netanyahu government justice, let me qualify my statement by saying that all forms of Zionism hold the perception that a certain extent of anti-Semitism benefits the Zionist enterprise. To put it more sharply, anti-Semitism is the generator and ally of Zionism. Masses of Jews leave their place of residence only when their economic situation and physical safety are undermined. Masses of Jews are shoved to this country rather than being attracted to it. The yearning for the land of Zion and Jerusalem is not strong enough to drive millions of Jews to the country they love and make them hold on to its clods.

As the Jews in Israel long for immigrants with a certain affiliation to their people, and as Zionism—like any other ideology—needs constant justification, we have a secret hope in our hearts that a moderate anti-Semitic wave, along with a deterioration in the economic situation in their countries of residence, will make Diaspora Jews realize that they belong with us.

Is proof even necessary? No one will protest the assertion that the rise in anti-Semitism in France gave us some satisfaction, in the sense of “we warned you, didn’t we?” Late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon did not hesitate to make such a declaration, angering the French government and many Jews who see themselves as unconditional French citizens. Thousands of Jews from France who see Israel as a lifeboat, as an insurance policy, purchased apartments here and raised real estate prices in the coastal cities. That’s good. It proves Zionism was right.

Furthermore, no one can deny that the economic crisis in the Soviet empire, coupled with the nesting anti-Semitism there, were the cause of the immigration to Israel of about 1 million Jews and their non-Jewish relatives, most of whom have no affiliation to Jewish culture. Neither can anyone contradict the embarrassing fact that Israel worked to lock the gates to the US, the opening of which may have directed many of these Jews and their relatives there, and perhaps even most of them.

It was not the Jewish immigrants’ welfare that we saw before our eyes, but the state’s reinforcement. While the act of blocking and directing the Jews to Israel is ethically dubious, it was justified by the Zionist ideology which asserts that a normalization of the Jewish situation—in other words, concentrating the Jewish people in its own territory—is the only thing that will save us from another Holocaust and, according to some people, will even speed up the Messiah’s arrival.

The Jews’ comfortable situation in America raises doubts as to whether it was worthwhile to gamble on the establishment of a Jewish state. The normalization did not provide us, the Israelis, with a normal existence and did not lessen the anti-Semitism which is now drawing some of its arguments from the way we are managing the conflict with the Palestinians. There are Israelis whose parents or grandparents immigrated to Israel out a belief that this is where the agonizing historical journey will end, and now their offspring are learning that the promise has not been fulfilled.

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Labour calls for inquiry into Israeli diplomat’s ‘take down MPs’ plot

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Luke Ford

The Guardian: The Labour party has called on the government to immediately launch an inquiry into “improper interference in our democratic politics” after the disclosure that an Israeli embassy official had plotted to “take down” UK MPs regarded as hostile.

The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, said: “The exposure of an Israeli embassy official discussing how to bring down or discredit a government minister and other MPs because of their views on the Middle East is extremely disturbing.”

The Israeli ambassador, Mark Regev, has apologised to one of the MPs on the “hit list”, foreign office minister Sir Alan Duncan, describing the remarks as unacceptable. As a result, the Foreign Office said it regarded the matter as closed.

But Thornberry said: “It is simply not good enough for the Foreign Office to say the matter is closed. This is a national security issue.” As well as calling for an inquiry, she said the embassy official should be withdrawn.

The official, Shai Masot, who describes himself as a senior political officer, was caught on camera in an undercover sting by a reporter from the al-Jazeera investigative unit.

The embassy said Masot would shortly be ending his term of employment with the embassy. Masot had been speaking to Maria Strizzolo, a civil servant who was formerly an aide to another Conservative minister. Sources at the Department for Education said on Sunday they understood Strizzolo had resigned from her civil service post.

The revelations also provoked anger among many Conservative politicians. One former minister in David Cameron’s government said the embassy’s efforts to exert improper influence on British public life went far further than any plot to “take down” unhelpful members of parliament.

Writing anonymously in the Mail on Sunday, the former minister said: “British foreign policy is in hock to Israeli influence at the heart of our politics, and those in authority have ignored what is going on.

“For years the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) have worked with – even for – the Israeli embassy to promote Israeli policy and thwart UK government policy and the actions of ministers who try to defend Palestinian rights.

“Lots of countries try to force their views on others, but what is scandalous in the UK is that instead of resisting it, successive governments have submitted to it, take donors’ money, and allowed Israeli influence-peddling to shape policy and even determine the fate of ministers.”

The former minister said there needed to be a full inquiry into the Israeli embassy’s links with CFI and LFI, and that while political parties should welcome funding from the UK’s Jewish community, they should not accept any engagement linked to Israel until it ceases new developments on Palestinian land.

“This opaque funding and underhand conduct is a national disgrace and humiliation and must be stamped out,” the former minister wrote.

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The Truth About Cars

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* The truth about cars? Ok, but you won’t like it. They cost about $25 per day to own, and most people use their car for about an hour per day. Vast resources are expended to conceal these facts from us.

It costs about $9,000 per year in after-tax income for a reliable four seat vehicle. Sure, argue with me, but car execs (and the leaders of related industries like insurance, road construction, oil) know it’s true. They (and their dads and granddads and great-grandads) have been playing this game for 100 years, my friend.

* What purpose does a high performance vehicle serve in a driving environment packed to the gills with traffic congestion, poor and getting poorer driving habits and an over-reaching State that seeks to control, punish and extract sustenance – with the utmost technology-enabled efficiency – from those who possess the temerity to drive Their vehicles on Its roadways?

* One of my favorite things to point out to people is the drabness of our age. In 1970, a walk through a parking lot offered a rainbow of colors and all sorts of shapes and sizes. In the early seventies, the most popular color for Corvettes was orange. I think that was ’73 or ’72. My father’s Valiant was powder blue and my mother’s Plymouth was green.

Today, the top three colors are black, gray and silver. Walk through a parking lot and it looks like film noir made in the GDR. The general ugliness of our cars is due to the unrelenting claim that form follows function in all things at all times. The neo-Puritan scolds in charge of our lives lie awake a night worried that somewhere, someone is enjoying themselves.

One of the ironies of the age of plenty is we have a lot less fun.

* Here in my part of coastal SoCal, the most popular vehicles are (in no particular order)
Big pickups, usually tricked-out enough that you can be certain that they aren’t used for work;
Small pickups of indeterminate age, used almost exclusively by Hispanic men in the 30-to-50 age range, clearly doing either gardening/lawn care or construction work;
Large SUVs driven by soccer moms;
Hybrids (Toyota Prius in particular) driven by either incipient cat ladies, or white collar men and women who want the carpool lane stickers (supposedly carpool lane stickers can increase the resale value of a car by up to $5k in LA);
Everything else out in the long tail of the distribution – sedans of all ages; Mercedes and Cadillacs in regions where the average age is pushing 60+; quite a few Audis among the 30+ reasonably affluent professionals; BMWs for the dickhead drivers; etc. I see few new Camrys or Accords, but I don’t see many Rogues except among college-age women. And Tesla is pretty popular among a certain demographic.

* About six months ago I shopped for a car for the first time in over 30 years. (I’m moving from NYC, where you don’t need a car, to CA, where you definitely do.) Research junkie that I am, I did a lot of test driving and I read a lot of reviews and comments online. The car journalists are definitely well-informed and they write well, but Steve’s right — car journos live in their own universe, where cars and car-ness are infinitely more important than they are to the rest of us. I finally wound up relying on the car forums on Reddit; the buyer reviews on Edmunds were much more helpful to me than the pro reviews were. Everyday people’s reports are often great.

* Toyota directs their work directly at the mass market, which is why critics don’t like it. They’re the Norman Rockwell of cars–technically proficient with values (dependability and ease of use in the case of Toyota) the elite doesn’t appreciate but the commoners do.

As I recall from your blog, you liked Rockwell for that reason. I think it makes sense you would like the Toyota too.

* One of the interesting things about the Camry – if you talk with a Toyota mechanic – is that the 1985-90 vintage is considered one of the best car models EVER for reliability & longevity. It was common for them to exceed 300,000 miles on the original transmission if cared for reasonably. Some argue that it was such a good car that it was hurting Toyota’s sales, and it was intentionally degraded in the 90s so it would’t last so darn long.

* Before Toyota brought out the Lexus luxury marque at the end of the 1980s they put everything they had into their Camrys. After that, they tried not to make Camrys too good to give you a reason to upgrade to a Lexus.

* I remember back in the ’70′s reading a book with the title, if I remember right, “The Screwing of the Average Man” or something similar. The chapter on cars explained that if you took all the time the “average man” spends driving, maintaining his car, working to pay insurance, taxes and registration, gas, oil, repairs, and the monthly payment and divided by miles traveled the average speed was about 5 miles per hour. I suspect today’s figure would be similar.

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Racist vlogger who became global YouTube sensation unmasked as jobless ex-student who lives with dad

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Luke Ford

Mirror: A vile racist whose ­hate-filled videos have made him a global YouTube sensation has been unmasked as a jobless ex-student who lives with his dad.

The extremist has amassed 20,000 followers on his “video blogger” channel – where he spouts pathetic white ­supremacist views and promotes hatred of black people, Jews and women.

The sick ‘unknown’ discovered notoriety via his ­Millennial Woes blog – and has gone to great lengths to hide his identity.

But today The Daily Record named him as Colin Robertson, 34, from Linlithgow in Scotland.

He ­broadcasts his vile rants from a bedroom of his dad’s ­semi-detached house situated in a quiet street in the town.

And he even delivered a speech at a US rally where far-right ­extremists shouted “Hail Trump” and made Nazi salutes.

Neighbours in the Scottish town in West Lothian last night spoke of their shock over the racist living next to them and branded his outbursts as “despicable”.

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