August 24, 2018 Book Club: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Book Club: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Luke Ford

War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; post-reform Russian: Война и мир, translit. Voyná i mir [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy’s finest literary achievements.[1][2][3]
The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805,[4] were serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869.[5]
Tolstoy said War and Peace is “not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle”. Large sections, especially the later chapters, are a philosophical discussion rather than narrative.[6] Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel. Instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel. The Encyclopædia Britannica states: “It can be argued that no single English novel attains the universality of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace”.

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Are South Africa’s White Farmers Facing Genocide?

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

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Google suggested these stories on South African white farmers:

* New York Times:

Trump Cites False Claims of Widespread Attacks on White Farmers in South Africa
Mr. Trump’s comment came after the Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a late-night program on South Africa, including land seizures and homicides, and described President Cyril Ramaphosa as “a racist.”
The tweet gives prominence to a false narrative pushed by some right-wing groups in South Africa that there have been numerous seizures of white-owned land and widespread killings of white farmers. Some of those groups have brought their claims to the United States on lobbying trips…
The number of killings of farmers, including farm workers, is at a 20-year low, 47 in the fiscal year 2017-18, according to research published in July by AgriSA, a farmers’ organization in South Africa. That is down from 66 during the fiscal year before. The figures were consistent with a steady decline of violence since a peak in 1998, when 153 were killed.
South Africa recorded 19,016 murder cases from April 2016 to March 2017, according to the South Africa Police Service. The national murder rate last year was 34.1 per 100,000 people, but the number of people living on farms is not fully known, which makes comparisons difficult.
Most official statistics do not break down homicides by race.
“There is no official crime category called ‘farm attack’ or ‘farm murder,’ ” according to Africa Check, a local fact-checking organization.

* VOX: Trump’s tweet echoing white nationalist propaganda about South African farmers, explained
There’s no evidence of a genocidal campaign against white farmers.

* The Guardian: White farmers: how a far-right idea was planted in Donald Trump’s mind:

The conspiracy theory of “white genocide” has been a staple of the racist far right for decades. It has taken many forms, but all of them imagine that there is a plot to either replace, remove or simply liquidate white populations.
South Africa and Zimbabwe in particular have exerted a fascination on the racist far right because in the mind of white nationalists, they show what happens to a white minority after they lose control of countries they once ruled.
The Charleston shooter Dylann Roof was obsessed, like many other white supremacists, with “Rhodesia”, as Zimbabwe was known under white minority rule. As the Christian Science Monitor reported in the wake of his massacre, the fates of the two countries are “held up as proof of the racial inferiority of blacks; and the diminished stature of whites is presented as an ongoing genocide that must be fought”.

* Theater Thursday: Straw Dogs (1971) Wikipedia

* Is Jeff Sessions pushing back against Trump?

* Intelligence and health

* Steve Sailer: Is Transgenderism the New Anorexia?

* The Forward: Black Jews Are Being Chased Out Of the Jewish Community By Racism. Here Are Their Stories.

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Where will Jews get their future leaders, future earners, future scientists and future Talmudic sages if this horrifying trend continues?

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

I don’t doubt many blacks find Jewish life exhausting. Many white converts do as well. Many white born Jews do as well, including FFBs (frum from birth aka Orthodox for life). The average Ashkenazi IQ is around 110, so unless you make or exceed that threshold, you’re going to have a hard time in Jewish life. Many Mizrahim, Sephardim and Ashkenazim with IQs over 100 (let alone those below that number) find Ashkenazi Jewish life exhausting. It’s a competitive way of life with a lot of demands.

From the Forward:

Black Jews Are Being Chased Out Of the Jewish Community By Racism. Here Are Their Stories.
Every person that I interviewed for this article spoke of being exhausted of existing in white Jewish spaces. They told me how that exhaustion greatly altered their participation in Jewish community and their own Jewish identities. They spoke of feeling drained, mentally scarred, and depressed when they leave synagogues.
People cannot thrive in communities that intrinsically sees them as outsiders. So they leave.
I, too, am struggling with anti-black racism in the Jewish community, struggling to stay part of a community that all too often I feel doesn’t want me. Many times, I’ve considered giving up. Conducting these interviews was in a way validating, showing me I wasn’t alone in my experiences or feelings.
Validating — and tragic.
One of the reasons I love black gospel music so much is that I can think of no holier sound that the voices of black folks rising in unison. And in having these interviews, I got the privilege of listening to a chorus of black voices telling me their stories about being Jewish in spaces that do not want or respect black people.

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(((Supply)))

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

From Stark Truth TV: When Podcaster Robert Stark’s dreams of greatness don’t seem to be coming true in Santa Barbara, he heads down to LA to meet the one (((moral leader))) who has all the answers: Luke Ford.

LINK: Robert Stark and Matthew Pegas discuss their new documentary (((Supply))). When Podcaster Robert Stark’s dreams of greatness don’t seem to be coming true in Santa Barbara, he heads down to LA to meet the one moral leader who has all the answers: Luke Ford. Produced by Stark Truth TV.

Topics:

The mocumentary theme and side story of Robert Stark’s quest for supply
The interviews with Luke Ford which focus primarily on psychological themes
Using creative output, politics, and online personas to achieve narcissistic supply
Narcissistic supply filling a void that is missing from healthy social bonds
Social status as a core human need
The feeling that you have unjustly been denied status and whether it is based in reality or a coping mechanism
Architecture in Beverly Hills and the contrast between aristocratic aesthetics and the faux liberal capitalist elites
How social status relates to politics
Maladaptive daydreaming and how it can be both destructive and a source for creative inspiration
An Afternoon With Robert Stark in Santa Barbara
Erotic energy as a force for creative pursuits and the importance of sex to both status and forming bonds
Luke’s play Eroticized Rage
The cinematographic and production process
Stark Truth TV as an offshoot of Apocalypse Culture exploring areas of “forbidden knowledge”

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Real Physical Ailments Vs My Girly Emo Crap

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

Historicity commented on my video below: “Yes, miserable. But due to physical ailments, not your girly emo crap.”

Guess what, mate? Physical ailments and girly emo crap emerge out of the same thing — the unity of our being. We are all physical, mental and emotional in one being (and I would also add spiritual, but that’s my faith statement, so I’ll leave it aside). There is nothing mental that occurs in our mind that does not also occur in our body and is not shaped by our emotions. There are no emotions that occur outside of your body and your mind. There is no living body that is not profoundly affected by its mental and emotional functioning.

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Robert Reich: ‘If Trump pardons Manafort and/or Cohen, we rise up.’

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Luke Ford

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Kevin Michael Grace responds: “Don’t expect white male construction workers to rise up with you. Or whites or males or construction workers.”

* Patrick Chovanec: “The abduction and murder of a young woman is a crime, hopefully to be solved, prosecuted, and punished. It is not a political hobby horse to be either ridden or downplayed for votes.”

* Kelly Marie Tran: I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment

* Kelly Marie Tran is leading the charge against toxic fan culture

* Steve Sailer: Various Asians: What America Needs Is More Asian Celebrities Who Look Like Me, Such As, Well, Me!

* Daily Mail: I hope to marry the man I turned down 20 YEARS ago! KATE MULVEY reveals why she decided to rekindle with an old flame (Desert Sun (Update))

* UPDATE: Daily Telegraph: I spent my savings on an ‘elite’ matchmaking agency – only to meet an array of mediocre men

* Daily Mail: Lena Dunham shocks fans by posting three very revealing images of her nude body

* Daily Mail: Robin Wright, 52, shows off her toned physique in a blush pink bikini as she hugs and kisses husband Clement Giraudet during Spanish honeymoon

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WP: Trump adviser Larry Kudlow hosted publisher of white nationalists at his home

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Luke Ford

MP3: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593/everyone-is-a-white-nationalist

From the Washington Post:

The publisher of a website that serves as a platform for white nationalism was a guest last weekend at the home of President Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow.
Peter Brimelow attended the gathering, a birthday bash for Kudlow, one day after a White House speechwriter was dismissed in the wake of revelations that he had spoken alongside Brimelow on a 2016 panel.
Brimelow, 70, was once a well-connected figure in mainstream conservative circles, writing for Dow Jones and National Review. But over the past two decades, he has become a zealous promoter of white-identity politics on Vdare.com, the anti-immigration website that he founded in 1999.
While Brimelow has long personally rejected the label of “white nationalist,” he acknowledged to the Harvard Crimson in 2016 that his website does “certainly publish a few writers I would regard as ‘white nationalist’ in that they stand up for whites just as Zionists, black nationalists do for Jews, blacks, etc.”
Kudlow said Tuesday that Brimelow was a guest at his birthday party at his Connecticut home and has been someone he has known “forever,” going back to their work in financial journalism. Kudlow expressed regret when he was described details of Brimelow’s promotion of white nationalists on Vdare.com.
“If I had known this, we would never have invited him,” Kudlow said. “I’m disappointed and saddened to hear about it.”
…Brimelow’s website is named in honor of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in what is now the United States. Dare has become a symbol for white nationalists who are alarmed by immigration.
The British-born Brimelow has written that Dare, who was white, remains a reminder of the “very specific cultural origins of America at a time when mass nontraditional immigration is threatening to swamp it.”
Vdare.com frequently publishes stories that are popular with the alt-right. The alt-right, short for alternative right, is a small, far-right movement that supports white identity or a whites-only state. Adherents of the alt-right have been known to espouse racist, anti-Semitic and sexist points of view.
Many alt-right followers are young white men who have found common cause online and who promote traditional gender roles. Coined by activist Richard Spencer in an effort to avoid being labeled racist or white supremacist, the phrase was intended as an umbrella term that would cover disparate points of view, but the focus on a whites-only state appears to be a core principle.

* WP: Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nationalists

* Daily Mail: Illegal immigrant, 24, charged with murdering Mollie Tibbetts after he admits chasing her down, ‘blacking out and attacking her’ then dumping her body in a corn field

* Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1

* Better Call Saul recap

* Occupation and ideology

* TV show The Shield

* The Ginkgo Model of Societal Crisis

* Steve Sailer and Dennis Dale on the #MeToo movement.

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Asia Argento Paid Off Sexual Assault Accuser

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Luke Ford

MP3: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593/news-asia-argento-paid-off-sexual-assault-accuser

* The occult world of Asia Argento.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Argento was one of the first and most vocal accusers of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Asia Argento, the Italian actress who was one of the first to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, secretly paid off a young male actor accusing her of sexual misconduct in the months after her revelations about the disgraced movie mogul.
According to a report in The New York Times, Argento paid former child actor Jimmy Bennett $380,000. Bennett claims that in 2013, a then 37-year-old Argento assaulted him in a California hotel only two months past his 17th birthday. The age of consent in California is 18.
The Times reports that it has seen the legal documents that lay out Bennett’s assault claims and the payments arranged between his lawyers and Argento’s.
Bennett’s lawyers sent a notice of intent to sue Argento in November, claiming that the sexual assault was so traumatic that it affected his mental health and stymied his acting career. The notice was sent to Richard Hofstetter, the late Anthony Bourdain’s longtime lawyer, who was representing Argento at the time.
The legal documents outlining the accusations against Argento were sent not long after she went public with her own sexual assault allegations against Weinstein. Argento accused Weinstein of raping her when she was 21 in an incident that took place in 1997 in a bombshell New Yorker report published on Oct. 10.
The avalanche of sexual assault allegations against Weinstein by dozens of women sparked the global #MeToo and Time’s Up movement that exposed sexual harassment by men in the entertainment industry and wider society. Since the Weinstein allegations became public, Argento, with the support of Bourdain who was her boyfriend until his suicide in June, has spoken out about sexual harassment both in Hollywood and her home country of Italy and also gave high profile talks on the subject at Harvard University and at the Cannes Film Festival…
The Times reports Bennett’s account of the incident, as laid out in the documents. He claims that he arrived at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey to meet Argento in her hotel room on May 10, 2013, with a family member. Argento asked to be alone with Bennett and the family member left. Bennett claims Argento gave him alcohol and also showed him notes she had made on hotel stationery. She then proceeded to kiss him and perform oral sex before having intercourse with him.

* Crazy Rich Asians represents true diversity.

* ICE Detained Wanted Murderer Driving His Pregnant Wife to a Hospital

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5 Ways Sobriety Changes Over Time

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Luke Ford

Beth L. writes:

Here are just a few ways I’ve noticed my recovery change as time has passed.

1. It becomes freeing rather than limiting. Five years ago, I viewed sobriety as something restrictive, something that was going to make my life smaller. I thought it would keep me from doing things like going out with friends, traveling, celebrating special occasions. I had no idea that over time, it would actually prove to be the opposite. Over the years, my sobriety has morphed into something that makes my life bigger. It allows me to take chances with confidence I’ve built, not confidence that comes from alcohol. It gives me the opportunity be fully present for every single moment, which is especially rewarding when it comes to traveling.

2. It fades from the foreground of your life. Maybe this isn’t the case for everyone, but for me it has been. Early on in sobriety, I thought about it all the time. I planned my days around treatment and 12-step meetings. I talked about recovery often, and about the milestones along the way. Now this isn’t really the case. It isn’t that these things aren’t still important to me, because they are. It’s just that they have become normal parts of life to an extent. Sometimes days can pass and I realize I haven’t even thought about the fact that I am sober. Today it’s just part of who I am at the core and that is something I have become comfortable with.