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June 9, 2014

Scoop (1937), by Evelyn Waugh

Back when this was published, you could call niggers niggers, and make fun of pretty much whomever you wanted. Nearly every reference to what are obviously African blacks is slighting. They're savages, wogs, boys, and everything in between. Scoop is pretty well known among intellectual conservatives, as Evelyn Waugh is a big name in their crowd. Scoop doesn't so much satirize as life the cover on journalism, foreign reporting in particular, and pretty much everything else. Everyone is incompetent and driven by motives other than the ostensible ones. Good solid 6.5/10.

The Blooding (1983), by Joseph Wambaugh.

Non-fiction recounting by the author of The Onion Field and The Choirboys (L.A. cop fiction) of the first use of genetic fingerprinting. Using the new technology developed outside the detectosphere, was discovered one Colin Pitchfork, a 'sociopath' who raped and murdered two teenaged girls and was hard sought for long hard bootless fruitless twelvemonths by reams of coppers, a search that involved a wrong fingering of a dull one, who was the first to be informally acquitted by these newfound DNA tests.

Reproducing Rape (1993), by Gregory M. Matoesian.

Study in the verbal encoding of patriarchal modes of domination simultaneously at multiple levels but with particular close focus on language as formally and interactively employed or occurring in rape trials. What leftists see is what they will try to do themselves. So, this ostensible examination of legal-institutional/social-cultural patriarchy in practice offers a better framework for understanding how leftists will try to structure discourse to achieve and reproduce anti-white/anti-'male' outcomes. For one as interested in language as I am, this was a particularly interesting book. I doubt most readers could stand a page of it, and I'm not exaggerating. Matoesian, who must be a professor or a trial lawyer himself, or both at some point, has mastered the minutiae of political leftism and academia. It's incredibly intricate. More intricate than anything I've come across. He's not so much wrong in what he's saying as that he only gives you have the story, in that every single verbal privilege the prosecutor employs against the rape victim is counter-employed against the defendant. Yet he doesn't cover that aspect at all. Yes, he is right: the one doing the interviewing can force the one being queried into one-word responses. I've eperienced this first hand; it's incredibly annoying. But that's why both parties have chances to lay out their case. In the end, it comes down to what most people in society consider a reasonable person would have done or how he would have acted in a given situtation, and nothing short of totalitarian dictatorship by feminists, which isn't as unlikely as it sounds, could change that. If what Matoesian describes is indeed patriarchy, yet he never even brings up what would be a neutral or female-centered system, how it would look. I can't imagine. Perhaps a woman's feelings would be the standard. It would be illegal to ask if she were drunk, to consider how she was dressed, to consider how many sex partner she had in the past. This last I believe has already been achieved: sex history is off limits for questioning. It is fair to observe what Matoesian does up front: that most rapes are committed by men known to the victim. Only about 20% of the time is it a true stranger rape; the rest of the time it's either a friend, boyfriend, husband (if you accept marital rape is a thing), coworker or someone within at least the acquaintance circles of the victim. Calling this date rape I think is a bad idea, it's not a good or useful term. So again, not a particularly useful book, but an interesting one. To be honest, Matoesian would have to answer my charge above: that the defendant is subject to precisely the same controls in the cross-examination as the victim. I leave these 250 dense pages with not even a vague idea of what Matoesian would consider a non-patriarchal system, or what specific changes he would make to the courtroom pattern.

Theater in a Crowded Fire (2010), by Lee Gilmore.

A look at Burning Man through a number of different but left-tinted lenses. White thirtysomethings from norcal seek a pseudo- or semi-religious culture to be part of; very much reminds me of Hillary Clinton on her generation's seeking more "penetrating and ecstatic modes of being" in her commencement address, although that was some years before Burning Man got started. Basically, a bunch of California types, from Silicon Valley to hippies, gather on dusty distant mesa to have a near-religious experience, produce imitation art, and debate the usual boring questions about authenticity that the type's ever concerned with. Ok book if you want to know more about Burning Man, otherwise no reason to read it.

Mapping Ultra-Right Extremism, Xenophobia and Racism within the Greek State Apparatus (2012), report from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Golden Dawn leaders were arrested after this 100-page report sponsored by a German-jew-communist-named association came out. Notice the "mapping." Given technology, leftists can now witch-hunt at the ultimate level of granularity: right down to the individual witch. Can identify his name and location, for easiest capture and burning. The five analysts inspect the church, police, judiciary and military for guilt of loyalty to Greece rather than the anti-white New World Order proper elites are supposed to be a-borning. There's also an overview of Greek history. You can read the report in full online free here:

http://rosalux-europa.info/userfiles...ing_A4_WEB.pdf

[Excerpts with my comments in Excerpts sticky thread in books section here.]

Just After Sunset (2008), by Steven King.

Collection of short stories. Most of them not very good. Cuts:

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There was another meaty smack and another cry from the woman. There was a beat of silence, and then the man's voice came again, and you knew he was uneducated as well as drunk; it was the way he said hoor when he meant whore. You knew all sorts of things about him actually: that he'd sat at the back of the room in his high school English classes, that he drank milk straight out of the carton when he got home from school, that he'd dropped out in his sophomore or junior year, that he did the sort of job for which he needed to wear gloves and carry an X-Acto knife in his back pocket. You weren't supposed to make such generalizations -- it was like saying that all African-Americans had natural rhythm, that all Italians cried at the opera -- but here in the dark at eleven o'clock, surrounded by posters of missing children, for some reason always printed on pink paper, as if that were the color of the missing, you knew it was true." (p. 100-101) "Rest Stop"
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"I want her to come back," he said. "I want another kiss." (p.295) "Ayana"

Zamachowski gave me the mysterious smile doctors reserve for clueless plumbers, housewives, and English teachers. (p.299) "Ayana"
King edited the Best American Short Stories series. Forgot how to make them (short stories), trying to relearn, he says. "Willa" about life after death. "Stationary Bike" - only good one; "N"; "The Cat from Hell"; "The Gingerbread Girl," running up beach. "Harvey's Dream"; "Mute," about husband of lottery winner; "A Very Tight Place" - escape from pit toilet escape. "But writing stories is what I do, and this story came to me about a month after the fall of the Twin Towers. I might still not have written it if I had not recalled a conversation I had with a Jewish editor over twenty-five years before. He was unhappy with me about a story called "Apt Pupil." It was wrong for me to write about the concentration camps, he said, because I was not a Jew. I replied that made writing the story all the more important -- because writing is an act of willed understanding."

One of King's tiresome themes is the thinness of reality, and the bad things underneath struggling to get through. Also not interesting is pages and pages of the psychology of woman bound to a chair by rapist.

"Blaze" by Richard Bachman (King pen name - 2007 'trunk' novel written in '70s). Too many of these stories contain boring psychological stuff with no real depth to it, as opposed to real-world observations of particular types, or the facts of particular situations. This is where good stuff begins:

Quote:
"Blaisdell's a crook, he's an idiot, and he's lazy." That crooks were lazy was an article of faith in Albert Sterling's private church of beliefs. (p. 216)
Interesting descriptions of the various scams practiced by Blaze and George, especially the wallet scam and setting up picked-up queers.

[more coming accidentally chopped my notes and thought they were lost forever but got them back now editing]

Rules of Deception (2008), by Christopher Reich.

Author appears to be a Swiss-American living in L.A. Ordinary spy thriller. Best-selling author. Neocon-friendly plot. Typical bourgeois-philistine fodder. Cuts:

Quote:
Theodor Albrecht Lammers was born in Rotterdam in 1961. After earning a doctorate in mechanical engineering at Utrecht University, he drifted in and out of jobs at several undistinguished firms in Amsterdam and The Hague. He came to the notice of the authorities in 1987 while working in Brussels as an associate of Gerald Bull, the American armaments designer. At the time, Bull was busy creating a "supergun" for Saddam Hussein. Code-named Babylon, the gun was actually a giant artillery piece capable of lobbing a shell hundreds of miles with deadly accuracy. His work for the Middle Eastern potentate was a matter of public record. All the same, Bull and his associates (Theo Lammers included) were considered "persons of interest" by the Belgian police.

"Von Daniken knew the rest of the story himself. Gerald Bull was murdered in 1990, shot five times in the back of the head by an assassin waiting in the foyer of his Brussels apartment. At first, speculation had it that it was the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, which had killed him. The speculation was incorrect. At the time, the Israelis had kept up a distant but cordial relationship with the scientist. As prospective clients, they were eager to know exactly what he was up to. It was for this very reason that the Iraqis had killed him. Once the Babylon gun was built, Saddam Hussein did not want Bull sharing its secrets with anyone, especially the Israelis." (pp.34-5)
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"Von Daniken respected the consitution as much as the next man. Never in his career had he strayed from either its letter or its intent. But a policeman's job had changed radically in the last ten years. As a counterterrorist, he needed to stop a crime before it happened Gone was the luxury of collecting evidence after the act and presenting it to a magistrate. Often, the only evidence was his experience and intuition." (p.84)
Guts of story is Iran getting nuclear weapons, threatening Israel. Reich repeats lie about wiping Israel off map. No mention of Israeli nukes. Only political twist is an American general evangelical named Major General John Austen who wants to equip Iran so the biblical end-times scenario Gog vs Magog can play out. "He, John Austen, who had not set foot inside a church since his confirmation at the age of thirteen, a user of alcohol, a womanizer who trampled on the sacred vows of marriage, a gambler who took the Lord's name in vane, a heathen in all senses of the word, had been chosen to usher in the Second Coming of his almighty Lord, Jesus Christ." (p.361) Austen is face of religious right, which has a cadre through all four services.

The God Delusion (2006), by Richard Dawkins.

The English biologist and atheist contrasts moral philosophers with religious. Cuts:

Quote:
"...we have a pusillanimous reluctance to use religious names for warring factions. In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are euphemized to 'Nationalists' and 'Loyalists' respectively. The very word 'religions' is bowdlerized to 'communities', as in 'inter-community warfare'. Iraq, as a consequence of the Anglo-American invasion of 2003, degenerated into sectarian civil war between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Clearly a religious conflict - yet in the Independent of 20 May 2006 the front-page headline and fcirst leading article both described it as 'ethnic cleansing'. 'Ethnic' in this context is yet another euphemism. What we are seeing in Iraq is religious cleansing. The original usage of 'ethnic cleansing' in the former Yugoslavia is also arguably a euphemism for religious cleansing, involving Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosnians. (p.21)
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Jefferson: 'Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintellible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.' (p.34)
Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'to pray': 'to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.' Promotes the idea of descent by degree, backside of the cliff/mountain, gentle slope, intermediate eyes, wings.
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"St. Augustine said it quite openly: 'There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn' (p. 132-3)
Dawkins asserts man does exhibit design flaws, citing the laryngeal nerve; also, walking upright causes certain problems that a designer would have foreseen and avoided.

"Luther was well aware that reason was religion's arch-enemy, and he frequently warned of its dangers: 'Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.' Again, 'Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.' And again: 'Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.'

That's the religious mentality. It's the same as John Dewey on intellectual education. The christians and the post-christian pseudo-secular socialist both harbor a hatred of learning, and see in it a danger to faith and to conformity, respectively.

- hate mail from god fans:

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"I'll get comfort in knowing that the the punishment GOD will bring to you will be 1000 times worse than anything I can inflict. The best part is that you WILL suffer for eternity for these sings that you're completely ignorant about. The Wrath of GOD will show no mercy. For your sake, I hope the truth is revealed to you before the knife connects with your flesh. Merry CHRISTMAS!!! PS You people really don't have a clue as to what is in store for you . . . I thank GOD I'm not you. (p.212)
The bible is the favorite book of people who don't read books.

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Jesus: 'If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.' (p.250)
- Love thy neighbor meant love thy fellow jew. Big deal out of Hartung's paper. jesus as jew and jewish racist. (p.253). Jew-kid morality in poll. They agreed a people should be destroyed, but not property that jews could use! (p.255-6)

- Religion as child abuse, mental worse than sexual but never mentioned. Not catholic children, children of catholics.

- Brights vs gay (p.338). "I signed up to the Brights, partly because I was genuinely curious whether such a word could be memetically engineered into the language. I don't know, and would like to, whether the transmutation of 'gay' was deliberately engineered or whether it just happened. (Dumbest statement in book, almost shockingly stupid).

Searching for Whitopia (2009), by Rich Benjamin

Author is a sort of high-end black, a reg'lar Hootie (of Blowfish fame). Cuts:

Quote:
"The five towns posting the largest white growth rates between 2000 and 2004 -- St. George, Utah; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Bend, Oregon; Prescott, Arizona; and Greeley, Colorado -- were already overwhelmingly white." (p. 7)
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"Most whites are not drawn to a place explicitly because it teems with other white people. Rather, the place's very whiteness teems with other perceived qualities. Americans associate a homogenous white neighborhood with higher property values, friendliness, orderliness, hospitality, cleanliness, safety, and comfort. These seemingly race-neutral qualities are subconsciously inseparable from race and class in many whites' minds. Race is often used as a proxy for those neighborhood traits. And, if a neighborhood is known to have htose traits, many whites presume -- without giving it a thought -- that the neighborhood will be majority white." (p.8) -- dubious assertion 'subconscious' and 'without giving it a thought'
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"Since the early 1990s, at least five hundred white LAPD officers and their families have fled Southern California for North Idaho, forming an expat community complete with bowling tournaments, potluck suppers, and monthly camping trips." (p.9)
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"Think of Whitopia in three ways -- as small towns, boomtowns, and dream towns. Some Whitopias are fiber-optic Mayberries, small towns and counties that take pride in their ordinariness. Other Whitopias are boomtowns, entrepreneurial hotbeds that lure a steady stream of businesses, knowledge workers, and families. In the low-tax, incentive-rich boomtowns, the costs of living and doing business are cheaper than in the big-shot cities (even during the present recession). Finally, there are the dream towns. Whitopias whose shimmery lakes, lush forests and parks, top-notch ski resorts, demanding golf courses, and deluxe real estate trigger flights of ecstasy, luring the upscale whites who just love their natural and man-made amenities." (p.13)
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"Today, L.A., with its litter-strewn, billboard-cluttereed boulevards, its business-unfriendly reputation, its lack of green space, and its congestion -- even on residential streets now jammed with development -- is driving out many who can vote with their feet. And the data show that LA excels at drawing in the poor," the LA Weekly, a left-leaning alternative publicaiton, noted in 2009.

When Mrs. Sears would visit her two sisters and their families in Southern California in the early 1980s, she began to observe "the graffiti all over and hte trash on the ground. Californians didn't do things like that. One thing that's in the culture of hte Hispanics is to have Saturday night cul-de-sac parties with the boom boxes going and all that. Americans didn't do things that way. It was not in our culture to disturb the whole neighborhood partying with no consideration of other people." -- Mrs Sears (p.28), leader of anti-invader movement in St. George. ... "The government and corporations "just want worldwide unfettered trade and to build one free highway from Mexico through the U.S. and up to Canada," she says... "Basically, Mrs. Sears adds, "the powers that be want Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. to become one entity -- like the EU." her favorite protest sign: "He who puts country before commerce is a patriot. He who puts commerce before country is a traitor." --Benjamin Franklin.

"Latinos that publicly oppose amnesty get called Tio Taco." (p.47)
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"Since you can only say "gated community" so many times, local Realtors have to hatch an army of Orwellian euphemissms to appease the buyers' tastes: "master-planned community," "landscaped resort community," "secluded intimate neighborhood," "private luxury community" . . . No matter the label, the product is the same: homogenous, conservative, safe." (p.49)
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Roy Beck says he's a "race liberal." "We have lived in seven different cities, not in the same state. Every single city we moved into, we deliberately chose racially integrated neighborhoods. In the early seventies, you actually had to force a Realtor to do that for you." ... "There are two ways that white liberals and, frankly, black liberals, too, prove themselves in just how affirmative and aggressive they want to be: where they live an dwhere htey send their kids to school. On those two things my wife and I have always been aggressive." (p.67-8)
- many of the movers are former System people - cops and teachers - who retire to Whitopias

- what happens when browns invade: "Then you're going to see cases of drug abuse in your own population that you never saw before. You're going to know about Mary and Joe and Phil and Susan. They used to be nice kids, but now they're totally wasted on meth. There will be a group of heroin addicts nearby and they're going to have to do stuff to get money for their drugs. It's going to be identity theft, scams, and burglaries galore, all intimately interrelated with the illegal alien issue." (p.81)

..."to my mind, the most dramatic way California ruins North Idaho is to export its high-end racists."


Gutshot Straight (2010), by Lou Berney.

Written during writers' strike of a few years ago. Very smooth. Panama, Vegas. Subtler and smoother than most crime fiction.

The Vigilantes (2010), by W.E.B. Griffin.

Crime fiction based in Philadelphia, pop and drop. Idea of mind-binding, mind-binders.

- never-think-it-through mentality in these crime novels. At most the cop thinks through the personal implication - he could get shot and killed. As for his job, he either thinks job security or crime just continues to get worse or we're only cleaning up a little bit of the problem. Never any discussion of root causes, just some mention of symptoms and Systemic problems, in this case bond.

- vocabulary: 'knurled' - "~ back of the hammer"

Cuts:

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"Badde [nigger politician], affecting a bit of a French accent, authoritatively said, "It would have been a faint plea, of course."

Wynne cocked his head as he puffed his pipe.

"A what?" Wynne said.

"You know, a faint plea -- the French saying for 'the cow is out of the barn,' or even 'you can't get the toothpaste back in the tube.' It's a done deal, and you can't go back."

"You mean fait accompli," Wynne said. "An accomplished fact."

"That's it," Badde said.

Wynne noticed that Badde was wholly unembarrassed by the correction.

[Wynne is white prof working for nig pol] (p.232)
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"The vast majority of America's biggest cities used the bail bond system, a private-sector enterprise administered by for-profit companies. In contrast, the City of Philadelphia (and the City of Chicago, Illinois, which had a similar number of fugitives from justice) used a system of deposit bail, which was government-funded and government-run. [...] The main difference between the two models arose if hte offender missed or skipped out on his court date. Under the bail bond model, the court went after the bail bondsman for hte deadbeat's forfeited fee -- the company then had financial incentive to find the deadbeat and deliver him to court. There was no similar financial incentive, however, with a deposit bond. The government already owned the deadbeat's IOU. It was funny money, more or less worthless unless they hunted down the deadbeat and collected the remaining fee -- if they could find him, and if he had the funds to pay.

And so, not surprisingly, those who'd blown their deposit bail numbered around fifty thousand -- no one knew the exact number because, due to more bureaucratic blundering, a master list was never kept.

These fugitives collectively owed hundreds of millions of dollars for their unpaid IOUs.

Worse, in the meantime they remained at large on the streets, acting with impunity -- effectively telling the City of Philadelphia and its judicial system to go fuck itself. (pp.22-3)
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"The prison had been conceived in Ben Franklin's house in 1787 and opened in 1829. It promoted a new type of incarceration, one encouraging rehabilitation by locking up prisoners by themselves. It was believed that being alone in the cold, hard cells would force inmates to consider their crimes, and perhaps find God as they sought penance -- thus the word 'penitentiary.' The cells even had a small skylight, a simple glass pane -- the "eye of God" -- that was meant to remind the prisoners that they were always being watched." (p.264)
- mention of nig congressman who thought Guam would tip over from navy stationing 8,000 troops and families on it

- Will Curtis, white man in fedex disguise killing deadbeats as he dies of cancer, after his daughter is raped.//

Last edited by Alex Linder; June 9th, 2014 at 05:16 PM.