Month: September 2020

Police in Thessaloniki arrested 51 far-left Antifa anarchist extremists who attacked officers following a demonstration in the city on Wednesday night.

The arrests came after the anarchist extremists held a demonstration in the city and then caused damage at the White Tower, a former Byzantine fortification along the harbourfront that has since been converted into a museum.

Police attempted to get the anarchists under control and were met with force as the group attacked the officers with bats and other weapons, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.

Officers arrested 45 men and six women. Police also confiscated 28 stick weapons, 15 helmets, a Swiss Army knife, and a metal baton.

The arrests come after a wave of far-left Antifa activity in Thessaloniki in recent months and after the raiding of a squat occupied by anarchist activists last month. Officers seized weapons along with explosives after clearing out the squat, known as “Terra Incognita”.

It is believed that extremists were using Terra Incognita as a base of operations to plot attacks against both police and political opponents. Investigators were also able to seize a financial ledger containing information on those who had donated to the Antifa group.

In May, far-left extremists attempted to set off a bomb at the home of former minister of state Dimitris Stamatis in the Kalamariá area of Thessaloniki. A 27-year-old man was caught with improvised explosives hidden in his backpack before he could detonate the device.

His alleged partner, a 28-year-old woman, was also arrested after allegedly taking the role of a lookout for the suspected bomber. Police managed to seize a tear gas canister, four homemade explosive devices, plastic bottles full of flammable material, and electronic devices after raiding residences connected to the pair.

Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com

The child porn-loving media are doing two underhanded things to defend Netflix’s Cuties: 1) claim only conspiracy theorists are attacking the movie, and 2) refuse to accurately and completely describe the actual content in Cuties.

The conspiracy theory trope, which I addressed this week, is especially dumb and disingenuous. Apparently, the right-wing conspiracy works like this: America’s political, media, and Hollywood elites are all kid diddlers.

Now I don’t believe that any more than I believe all Catholic priests are kid diddlers. What’s more, my mind — what’s left of it — is an open book on these here Inter-Web-Dot-Nets, and you won’t find me anywhere furthering those conspiracies.

What I do know is that if I were worried about conspiracy theories attacking my elite tribe as a mob of child diddlers, I would maybe not have my elite tribe fire off countless hot takes defending a movie that will serve forevermore as yankity-yank material for every child diddler with access to the Internet.

But if you think about it, that’s really all part of the left’s plan…

Step 1: Produce indefensible soft-core child porn.

Step 2: Defend indefensible soft-core child porn.

Step 3: Attack TrumpTards opposed to soft-core child porn as conspiracy theorists.

See, we’re in a no-win situation. The trap set is so that we either say nothing and burn in Hell for eternity for enabling evil against children, or we’re attacked as conspiracy theorists.

Personally, I’d rather be smeared as a conspiracy theorist than defend child porn. But that’s just me and my bourgeois value system.

What’s so fascinating and revealing about this is how the media are forced to lie in order to defend Cuties. A lie of omission is still a lie, and almost all of these oh-so-sophisticated defenses of Cuties refuse to inform readers of just what these 11-yeard-old characters do and what the camera does to them.

Hey, if you’re going to defend Cuties, you not only have to detail and defend all the wide-open, 11-year-old crotch shots, you haveto  defend the motive for including those shots looooong after the point’s been made.

An honest person would say to their readers: here’s all the disturbing content; here’s how the director exploited a group of 12- and 13-year-old actresses; here are all the sophisticated reasons that make it okay to do that.

But no one’s willing to detail the truth because they know if they do, everyone will know they’re defending the indefensible.

Oh, sure, some allude to the content — how it’s “daring” and “provocative.” But that means nothing.

Let me give you a perfect example from far-left NBC News:

It is, annoyingly, important to state plainly that “Cuties” does not portray child abuse, it does not glorify or countenance pedophilia in any way, and it does not “sexualize” its characters[.]

[…]

The backlash to the film has, however, twisted the deliberately provocative choreography these girls perform into a problem[.]

Does not sexualize….

Deliberately provocative choreography…

That’s it… That’s all whoever’s dumb enough to get their news from NBC is allowed to know about what the little girls do in Cuties.

Why not lay out the facts?

I’ll tell you why not. Because the facts are this…

On countless occasions, the camera in Cuties lingers on 11-year-olds shaking their moneymakers in tighter-than-tight short shorts. On countless occasions, the camera in Cuties reveals 11-year-olds in short shorts spreading their legs wide open. On countless occasions, 11-years-olds dry hump the floor, put their fingers in their mouths, and pout while sticking their backsides all the way out in a pair of Daisy Dukes.

Why not inform your readers of that truth and then fire off your bullshit about how Cuties “does not sexualize,” how all of that only adds up to “deliberately provocative choreography.”

You can’t.

Which is why these liars won’t.

Get a load of the far-left Slate, which attacked little ol’ yours truly for reporting the facts:

[T]he diligence with which Nolte jotted down every purported crotch shot, at least until he “lost count after five,” speaks to its own kind of not-entirely-uncreepy obsession.

Sorry to offend. Just figured that if I were going to publicly report and criticize something, I had a responsibility to explain why.

Slate isn’t angry because I lied or exaggerated.

Slate is angry because I told the truth.

The far-left Washington Post, the same Washington Post that handed its religion coverage to an occultist without telling us, has defended Cuties more times than I can count. It’s like a cottage industry over there.

Here’s one WaPo description:

Critics of “Cuties” are zeroing in on images from the trailer and the poster, which show a group of 11-year-olds in blue costumes, shorts, dancing suggestively.

Here’s another, the closest I could find to the truth:

The dance routines become progressively more explicit and the camera filming them is unflinching. One minute-long sequence, set to upbeat music as the girls finalize their routine, includes a series of closeups on the girls’ gyrating thighs, butts and stomachs.

Weird how there’s no mention of at least a half-dozen open-wide crotch shots.

Here’s a third:

I can see how viewers might be turned off by the way Doucouré shoots the dance routines, using close-ups of her young actors’ bodies both to show us their abilities as dancers and to make us deliberately queasy.

Here’s the fourth but by no means last WaPo defense afraid to spill the details:

[D]irector Maïmouna Doucouré focuses her camera on the girls’ posteriors a bit too much for my taste as they learn their provocative dance moves.

That said, however, it requires a willful ignorance of the film itself to claim that these scenes sexualize the girls involved.

Oh yeah, cuz we rubes are totally missing the nuance found in more than a half-dozen wide-open crotch shots.

Here’s the far-left New Yorker, which doesn’t bother to offer readers any details, but there is plenty of this:

“Cuties” is a film of the center, and it’s aesthetically of the center—it depicts the unconsidered without advancing to the realm of the subjective, and it doesn’t allow its young protagonists much discourse, outer or inner. It’s not a movie of introspection and self-consideration; it’s more a story of the rule than of the exception, of what’s unduly extraordinary about the effort to live an ordinary life.

[…]

Its underlying subject is the connection of personal identity to public identity—and the urgency of transforming the very notion of French identity, of changing the idea of who’s considered the representative face of France.

My Pompous Ass Translator needs new batteries, so I have no idea what any of that means.

RogerEbert.com:

…watching the younger generation gyrate and twerk, biting their lips or their nail in a suggestive way.

I think you get the point, and my point is this…

If you’re going to defend Cuties, defend it.

Don’t water the truth down. Tell your readers the truth and defend it.

If you want to launch a defense of countless shots of barely-clothed 11-year-olds spreading their legs wide open, I’ll hear you out.

But when you hide the truth, when you refuse to acknowledge and directly address the facts and truth, it tells me you can’t defend the movie but still are — which makes me wonder why. 

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If it were up to the radical left Democrats that surround presidential candidate Joe Biden, criminals would be “running all over” Minnesota, President Donald Trump said Friday at his rally in Bemidji.

“Only by voting for me are you going to save — I hate to say this — I did it with your iron ore. I did it with some other things, and I’ll do it for you again. I’ll do it for you again, but if you vote for me. I’m the difference and I’m the wall,” Trump told the crowd.

“You know the wall that we’re building on the southern border? I’m your wall between the American dream and chaos,” he added.

If Biden is elected in November, he will turn Minnesota “into a refugee camp,” according to President Trump:

Think of it, 700 percent increase. So you’re not happy now … Seven hundred percent increase is what they have, in the manifesto. Now maybe they don’t honor it, but I would say they’ll go substantially higher than that number. Biden will overwhelm your children’s schools, overcrowd their classrooms, and inundate your hospitals.

“Biden has even pledged to terminate our travel ban of jihadist regions … jihadist regions. They’ve already been doing that to you, haven’t they? Opening the floodgates to radical Islamic terrorists,” he commented.

In July, President Trump said he directed his staff to draw up a list of over 40 disastrous things Biden proposed to do if he were elected in November.

“End all travel bans, including from jihadist regions,” was number 16 on the list, according to Breitbart News.

However, President Trump said Friday that his administration is “keeping terrorists, extremists, and criminals the hell out of our country.”

“Just today, we deported, as you know very well, dozens of Somali nationals charged or convicted with very grave crimes including rape, assault, robbery, terrorism, and murder of course,” the president noted.

“These hardened criminals are back in their country where they can do all the complaining they want. And your children are much safer as a result. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you,” he concluded.

Joe Biden’s nomination is the Democrats’ crowning insult.  They’re making another go at playing voters for chumps.  Democrats, the D.C. establishment, and the left started hoaxing Americans back in 2016.  The Russia Hoax was about destroying candidate, and then President, Trump.  The conspirators dragged the nation through nearly three years of divisive and costly investigations and hearings.  Framing Trump and destroying his presidency was worth stoking enmity.  The Russia Hoax morphed into the Impeachment Hoax, wherein vindictive congressional Democrats abused their powers to — yes — try to frame the president.  The Democrats’ malice knows no bottom.   

Biden’s nomination is more than a go at sly stagecraft; it’s the most audacious gaslighting in American history.  Everybody and his sister can see that Biden is suffering early onset dementia.  If not, then let’s see the neurological evals, because Biden’s compass isn’t pointing true north.  He’s slow, often confused, irritable, and, increasingly vacant.  He shuffles when he walks.  Trotting ten feet to a podium — once — doesn’t count.  He takes days off, and his availability is strictly limited.  Packing Biden off for a quick, canned event in Florida isn’t close to Trump’s indefatigable stumping.  Most days, Biden lives out the campaign at his spacious Wilmington, Delaware house.      

Not surprisingly, the MSM throws Biden softballs.  That’s a given among Fourth Estate bulldogs.  Democrats always get passes, even when their minds are intact.  But you’d expect so-called journalists to give enough of a damn about the nation’s welfare that Biden’s fitness would merit a few questions. 

Simple question: Does the Democrats’ nominee — the man put forward to occupy the most powerful elective office on the planet — have the mental acuity and stamina to meet the job’s 24/7 demands?  China is increasingly an adversary.  The nation faces stiff challenges domestically.  The MSM are reckless in their disregard.  They’re so corroded by cynicism, so in the tank for the Democratic Party, that they maintain a monkish silence.  Or glide over the obvious about Biden’s decline. 

Future generations will ridicule what passes for journalism today.  An entire generation of journalists is, in fact, made up of shills — propagandists — eagerly participating in a con. 

With Biden’s self-awareness drifting away, maybe he doesn’t grasp that he’s been set up.  Biden is the second coming of Chauncey Gardner.  The Democratic establishment wants addled ol’ Joe to be the empty vessel that voters pour whatever they want into. 

Orange Man bad?  Joe’s un-orange.  Hanker for an old-fashioned liberal Democrat?  Find a Kennedy to backslap Joe.  Need Joe to be a race healer?  Forget about his earlier anti-busing stance and ‘hood busting stands on crime.  Need him to be a working man’s friend?  Slap a little grease on his chin.  He’ll play that role.  Just skip over his support for the Green New Deal.  Speaking of which, want Joe to be pro-environment?  Why, pimp him as for the Green New Deal!  Want him to be a straight talker?  Deep-six his chronic lying and plagiarism. 

The Democratic establishment, in cahoots with the party’s ascendent left, has no illusions.  For them, Biden isn’t an empty vessel.  He’s a prop.  They want nothing more from him than to hit his marks and read the teleprompter without too many stumbles. 

Democrats and the left have their agendas.  They’ve cut a deal so that each can grab their pieces of the pie — for the time being.  In time, they’ll be at each other’s throats.  But for now, a deal. 

The establishment wants something close to the status quo ante, whereby they can reclaim sinecures while growing fat off our tax dollars.  The left wants power and loot, too, but it also wants to pick up where Obama left off: “transforming” America.  That’s always been code for destroying America as founded to impose the left’s anti-liberty schemes — schemes that cement their power and access to plunder.      

Wavering voters need to wrap their minds around this fact: President Trump isn’t squaring off against Joe Biden.  He’s battling the cabal that Biden is fronting.  If through some perversion, some warping of sensibilities — or epic fraud — Biden is elected president, it isn’t just Kamala Harris who becomes de facto president.  It’s the entire depraved enterprise that comprises the Democratic Party and the left.  Harris may well be the General Secretary in a “Harris Administration,” but you can bet that she’d have a Politburo to answer to. 

If Democrats steal the election, then for years ahead, a spiderweb of lies, fraud, and venality will stretch across America.  America will be run by some amalgam of Sacramento, Portland, and Chicago — or, in other words, some combo of Big Brother, lawlessness, and corruption. The country may not free itself for decades.  Or the nation could break apart.    

The convenient forgetting of Biden’s corruption is another aspect of the hoax.  If Biden is upright than crooked is straight.  Caught on videotape, Biden bragged about strongarming the Ukrainians.  Why?  To pull Hunter Biden’s, and Hunter’s business associates’, nuts out of a legal fire in the Ukraine. 

We know about Hunter and associates raking in millions of dollars from the Chinese.  Merely coincidental, goes the party line.  Joe confabbing with Xi Jingping and other Chinese oligarchs just days ahead of Hunter and company inking a deal with a state-owned bank there is pure chance.  Where were the packs of reporters hounding the Bidens?  No calls for congressional investigations from CNN or CNBC talking heads.  Instead, shrugs and offhand dismissals of Joe Biden’s highly suspect role.  What would be the point of Joe influence-peddling?  To make Hunter rich?  Any curiosity about a Biden skim?  Like the Clintons, Biden, now useful, is granted generous license. 

Understand what we’re up against.  We’re up against a Democratic Party that began unraveling in the late 1960s.  It’s policies and governance failed then, and have failed ever since.  Progressive (aka, liberal) economics needed bailouts from Reagan and Trump.  Progressive social policies have created the dysfunctions that are causing the lawlessness and collapse in Democrat-run cities.  Black generational poverty — a root cause of urban derangement — was spawned by LBJ’s Great Society.  Cronyism and corruption — always rife in the Democratic Party — are historic today in terms of pervasiveness.  Democrats are bankrupt.  What do they have left but bolder subterfuge and criminality? 

Then there’s the left.  Communism — Marxism, in fashionable parlance — started failing shortly after the Russian Revolution.  Communism’s ideas — tried across the globe — never worked.  Human nature — hundreds of thousands of years of human development — make it so.  Yet, those who are insatiably power-hungry love communism, because it’s a vehicle to unfettered power.  In little more than a century, to make communism stick, some hundred million people were killed, from Russia to China to North Korea to the Killing Fields of Cambodia and elsewhere.  Intimidation and violence are, finally, all the left has to gain the power it craves. 

Are American leftists any different?  In 2020, what have we witnessed unfold in blue cities from Seattle to New York?  The street thugs and shock troops now present on Democrat turf are mere prelude to what American leftists intend to unleash in their quest for dominance.    

The Biden Hoax is the crudest of the hoaxes yet perpetrated by Democrats and the left.  They’re playing, perhaps, the last card in their deck of hoaxes.  What comes next will have less to do with deception.  What’s next is the fully unleashed rage of a flailing party and ism.   

 J. Robert Smith can be found on Twitter @JRobertSmith1 and Parler @JRobertSmith.  He also blogs at Flyover.               

Image: Gage Skidmore

Joe Biden’s nomination is the Democrats’ crowning insult.  They’re making another go at playing voters for chumps.  Democrats, the D.C. establishment, and the left started hoaxing Americans back in 2016.  The Russia Hoax was about destroying candidate, and then President, Trump.  The conspirators dragged the nation through nearly three years of divisive and costly investigations and hearings.  Framing Trump and destroying his presidency was worth stoking enmity.  The Russia Hoax morphed into the Impeachment Hoax, wherein vindictive congressional Democrats abused their powers to — yes — try to frame the president.  The Democrats’ malice knows no bottom.   

Biden’s nomination is more than a go at sly stagecraft; it’s the most audacious gaslighting in American history.  Everybody and his sister can see that Biden is suffering early onset dementia.  If not, then let’s see the neurological evals, because Biden’s compass isn’t pointing true north.  He’s slow, often confused, irritable, and, increasingly vacant.  He shuffles when he walks.  Trotting ten feet to a podium — once — doesn’t count.  He takes days off, and his availability is strictly limited.  Packing Biden off for a quick, canned event in Florida isn’t close to Trump’s indefatigable stumping.  Most days, Biden lives out the campaign at his spacious Wilmington, Delaware house.      

Not surprisingly, the MSM throws Biden softballs.  That’s a given among Fourth Estate bulldogs.  Democrats always get passes, even when their minds are intact.  But you’d expect so-called journalists to give enough of a damn about the nation’s welfare that Biden’s fitness would merit a few questions. 

Simple question: Does the Democrats’ nominee — the man put forward to occupy the most powerful elective office on the planet — have the mental acuity and stamina to meet the job’s 24/7 demands?  China is increasingly an adversary.  The nation faces stiff challenges domestically.  The MSM are reckless in their disregard.  They’re so corroded by cynicism, so in the tank for the Democratic Party, that they maintain a monkish silence.  Or glide over the obvious about Biden’s decline. 

Future generations will ridicule what passes for journalism today.  An entire generation of journalists is, in fact, made up of shills — propagandists — eagerly participating in a con. 

With Biden’s self-awareness drifting away, maybe he doesn’t grasp that he’s been set up.  Biden is the second coming of Chauncey Gardner.  The Democratic establishment wants addled ol’ Joe to be the empty vessel that voters pour whatever they want into. 

Orange Man bad?  Joe’s un-orange.  Hanker for an old-fashioned liberal Democrat?  Find a Kennedy to backslap Joe.  Need Joe to be a race healer?  Forget about his earlier anti-busing stance and ‘hood busting stands on crime.  Need him to be a working man’s friend?  Slap a little grease on his chin.  He’ll play that role.  Just skip over his support for the Green New Deal.  Speaking of which, want Joe to be pro-environment?  Why, pimp him as for the Green New Deal!  Want him to be a straight talker?  Deep-six his chronic lying and plagiarism. 

The Democratic establishment, in cahoots with the party’s ascendent left, has no illusions.  For them, Biden isn’t an empty vessel.  He’s a prop.  They want nothing more from him than to hit his marks and read the teleprompter without too many stumbles. 

Democrats and the left have their agendas.  They’ve cut a deal so that each can grab their pieces of the pie — for the time being.  In time, they’ll be at each other’s throats.  But for now, a deal. 

The establishment wants something close to the status quo ante, whereby they can reclaim sinecures while growing fat off our tax dollars.  The left wants power and loot, too, but it also wants to pick up where Obama left off: “transforming” America.  That’s always been code for destroying America as founded to impose the left’s anti-liberty schemes — schemes that cement their power and access to plunder.      

Wavering voters need to wrap their minds around this fact: President Trump isn’t squaring off against Joe Biden.  He’s battling the cabal that Biden is fronting.  If through some perversion, some warping of sensibilities — or epic fraud — Biden is elected president, it isn’t just Kamala Harris who becomes de facto president.  It’s the entire depraved enterprise that comprises the Democratic Party and the left.  Harris may well be the General Secretary in a “Harris Administration,” but you can bet that she’d have a Politburo to answer to. 

If Democrats steal the election, then for years ahead, a spiderweb of lies, fraud, and venality will stretch across America.  America will be run by some amalgam of Sacramento, Portland, and Chicago — or, in other words, some combo of Big Brother, lawlessness, and corruption. The country may not free itself for decades.  Or the nation could break apart.    

The convenient forgetting of Biden’s corruption is another aspect of the hoax.  If Biden is upright than crooked is straight.  Caught on videotape, Biden bragged about strongarming the Ukrainians.  Why?  To pull Hunter Biden’s, and Hunter’s business associates’, nuts out of a legal fire in the Ukraine. 

We know about Hunter and associates raking in millions of dollars from the Chinese.  Merely coincidental, goes the party line.  Joe confabbing with Xi Jingping and other Chinese oligarchs just days ahead of Hunter and company inking a deal with a state-owned bank there is pure chance.  Where were the packs of reporters hounding the Bidens?  No calls for congressional investigations from CNN or CNBC talking heads.  Instead, shrugs and offhand dismissals of Joe Biden’s highly suspect role.  What would be the point of Joe influence-peddling?  To make Hunter rich?  Any curiosity about a Biden skim?  Like the Clintons, Biden, now useful, is granted generous license. 

Understand what we’re up against.  We’re up against a Democratic Party that began unraveling in the late 1960s.  It’s policies and governance failed then, and have failed ever since.  Progressive (aka, liberal) economics needed bailouts from Reagan and Trump.  Progressive social policies have created the dysfunctions that are causing the lawlessness and collapse in Democrat-run cities.  Black generational poverty — a root cause of urban derangement — was spawned by LBJ’s Great Society.  Cronyism and corruption — always rife in the Democratic Party — are historic today in terms of pervasiveness.  Democrats are bankrupt.  What do they have left but bolder subterfuge and criminality? 

Then there’s the left.  Communism — Marxism, in fashionable parlance — started failing shortly after the Russian Revolution.  Communism’s ideas — tried across the globe — never worked.  Human nature — hundreds of thousands of years of human development — make it so.  Yet, those who are insatiably power-hungry love communism, because it’s a vehicle to unfettered power.  In little more than a century, to make communism stick, some hundred million people were killed, from Russia to China to North Korea to the Killing Fields of Cambodia and elsewhere.  Intimidation and violence are, finally, all the left has to gain the power it craves. 

Are American leftists any different?  In 2020, what have we witnessed unfold in blue cities from Seattle to New York?  The street thugs and shock troops now present on Democrat turf are mere prelude to what American leftists intend to unleash in their quest for dominance.    

The Biden Hoax is the crudest of the hoaxes yet perpetrated by Democrats and the left.  They’re playing, perhaps, the last card in their deck of hoaxes.  What comes next will have less to do with deception.  What’s next is the fully unleashed rage of a flailing party and ism.   

 J. Robert Smith can be found on Twitter @JRobertSmith1 and Parler @JRobertSmith.  He also blogs at Flyover.               

Image: Gage Skidmore