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Elon Musk calls for sanctions against South Africa over Julius Malema’s Anti-Whiteness Comments, even calling to murder white farmers
Did you know White People have been fleeing South Africa and claiming asylum in America?
“I’m a white South African. I currently live in the… pic.twitter.com/SzpYnodS75
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 9, 2025
But it’s depressing that even with the disaster of present-day France, the polls say National Rally is at around 35 percent. This NYTimes op-ed talks a lot about budgetary problems, but then it’s pretty clear that in the end, it’s all about French identity and fear that the right is eventually going to take over.
In France, malaise is all around: In one recent poll, 87 percent of respondents agreed that the country is in decline. This story is often told in the language of civilizational threat and culture war, amplified by recent conflicts in France’s overseas territories. Fanned by a rising Fox News-style conservative media, the trio of insecurity, immigration and Islam fuels a mounting call to defend a besieged French identity. Even the centrist Mr. Bayrou speaks of a feeling of “submersion.”
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That’s where Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally comes in. The party is often stereotyped as a protest vote for “left behind” industrial workers, but its appeal is much broader. While the party still trails the left among the very lowest paid, its electoral support has in recent years stretched deep into the middle class. Given that Ms. Le Pen inherited the leadership from her multimillionaire father, the party might not seem like an ideal champion of meritocracy. Yet this promise, to restore the value of individual endeavor, is its pitch today.
Ms. Le Pen is often cast as a defender of the old French social model, and it’s true that her party opposed Mr. Macron’s raise of the retirement age. Yet she takes a far more ambiguous position on welfare provision generally, as her preference for a pension system more dependent on individual employees’ contributions shows. Her party channels the dissatisfaction of many late-career employees forced to work longer, to be sure, but also that of younger voters skeptical about paying into a system that might never reward them. By the same balancing logic, the party tends to oppose budget cuts while also standing against tax rises for consumers and households.
For much of France, Ms. Le Pen’s rise is itself cause for pessimism. Her poll ratings for the next presidential election, in 2027, stand at around 35 percent; given France’s fragmented party system, she is on track to receive the highest first-round percentage for any candidate in the past half-century. In last summer’s parliamentary elections, a so-called republican front of left-wing and centrist voters held back her party’s expected victory. Yet warnings of far-right danger are securing diminishing returns.
Perhaps France isn’t headed for disaster. For all its recent anxieties, it remains far from a Greek-style sovereign-debt crisis. If borrowing has risen sharply, the country has transgressed European Union deficit limits for much of the past quarter-century without risking economic meltdown. Productivity and worker incomes remain much better than in neighboring Italy. Social mobility is not especially strong, but wage inequality has tended to fall in recent decades. Even Ms. Le Pen’s triumph is hardly assured; an embezzlement trial may soon see her barred from running for office.
Yet France’s malaise is not simply a product of an overheated culture of complaint or political missteps like Mr. Macron’s rash call for snap elections last summer. The National Rally is exploiting a deeper disaffection with the public realm, as residual elements of the postwar social compact jar with a rising mood of privatization. In some areas, trade unions and social movements stoutly defend welfare and labor rights. But it is less clear that left-wing parties, which today command under one-third of the electorate, can rebuild a wider consensus around a more collectivist model.
This isn’t the only project in doubt. Mr. Macron began his presidency promising to rally both left and right behind a modernizing, liberal agenda. Yet his support has shriveled, a result of cutting social protections without securing broader public buy-in and offering tax breaks for the rich without lessening the debt load. His presidency has revolved around what has been termed a “bourgeois bloc,” appealing to a slice of wealthier voters but failing to offer much for the majority. The exhaustion of this strategy, and the political fragmentation it has caused, could prompt snap elections as soon as the summer.
The longtime patriarch of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died last month. Yet while the cadaver lies in the ground, to paraphrase Victor Hugo, the ideas are standing on their feet. France is in a rut — and time is running out to stop Mr. Le Pen’s heirs from taking advantage.
We wonder how the American taxpayer feels about their hard-earned cash being taken away from them and used for this purpose…
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In addition to propping up far-left corporate media outlets like Politico and the BBC with taxpayer funds, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funneled half a billion dollars to a secretive non-governmental organization operating a global news propaganda matrix.
WikiLeaks published the bombshell report in the overnight hours that shows the massive taxpayer-funded state propaganda network – operating as a shady NGO – called “Internews Network”:
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.
Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.
IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN’s budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows).
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Here are the downstream holdings on IN via public records forensics data:
“Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect, and the means to make their voices heard,” the NGO stated in an IRS 990 filing as its purpose of businesses.
Public records data shows IN has many business purposes worldwide, all in an effort to control a media matrix and ensure only state propaganda is told on the local level.
How does it feel to know that your tax dollars are funding a state propaganda media matrix around the world?
https://substack.com/@eternalhorus/note/c-90945854
“The far right says we are the greatest trick the devil has ever played. We appear to be white people. We look like we’re in the majority, we’re incredibly successful, but in fact… we’re disloyal to real, pure, white America. And in fact, we’re loyal to Black people and brown people and Muslims and immigrants.” – Bari Weiss laying it out in 2023.
Horus continues:
From a conversation on “How to Fight Antisemitism in the Arab World” – fdd.org/events/2022/01/…
Bari Weiss’ Free Press is the biggest thing on Substack, featured by Substack itself and suggested to readers in the Explore section.
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1888072129327083979
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives. The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN. Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted. IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN’s budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)
Another Ye Tweet:
STRAIGHT WHITE AMERICANS GET BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING THE JEWS TEACH BLACK PEOPLE TO HATE WHITE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HATE WHITE PEOPLE WHILE THE JEWS CONTROL NIGGAS WITH MISEDUCATION AND CONTROL OF THE BANKS THE JEWS PLAY VICTIM WHEN THEY ARE THE TRUE EARTHLY HIDDEN POWER AND OPPRESSORS
https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1888300344050163941
Kanye embarks on a new antisemitic spree on X, saying, ‘I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments’
“ELON THEY KICKED ME OFF OF INSTAGRAM SO HAPPY YOU BOUGHT X,” Ye tweeted early in his spree.
Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, flooded the social network X with antisemitic comments early Friday morning, in a repeat of the spree that cost him his fashion deals and public esteem two years ago.
In dozens of tweets to his 32 million followers, Ye praised Hitler [“soooo fresh“], called himself a Nazi and said antisemitism was “just some bulls–t Jewish people made up to protect their bulls–t.”
He also emphasized that he was unrepentant and in control of his faculties. “AMY JEWISH PERSON THAT DOES BUSINESS WITH ME NEEDS TO KNOW I DONT LIKE OR TRUST ANY JEWISH PERSON AMD THIS IS COMPLETELY SOBER WITH NO HENNESY,” he wrote in all caps, adding, “IM NEVER APOLOGIZING FOR MY JEWISH COMMENTS.”
The spree was reminiscent of what happened in October 2022, when Ye made a string of antisemitic comments on TV, Twitter and Instagram. He was soon booted off the social media platforms and was invited back to Twitter the next month, as Elon Musk took over the platform, but was once again suspended. He was reinstated again in 2023 as Musk rebranded Twitter as X. Ye also dined with Donald Trump and Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist and Holocaust denier, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate during this period.
The statement comes at a time when DEI is under fire from the Trump administration and within some Jewish communities.
“Jewish tradition teaches of the Divine spark in every person [except Palestinians],” the statement begins. “As Jewish groups that are committed to protecting and advancing the safety and security of our community, we know we have an invaluable tool to leverage: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.”
The statement, led by the Union for Reform Judaism, is the latest by a coalition of Jewish groups vocally opposing signature Trump administration policies. It follows letters against his immigration crackdowns and against the barring of transgender girls from women’s sports.
The letter says DEI is an outgrowth of the civil rights movement and of fights against the institutionalized American antisemitism of the mid-20th century. And it pointed to federal agencies canceling Holocaust remembrance activities. [“The Pentagon’s intelligence arm has issued a memo pausing any activities related to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Black History Month, LBGTQ+ Pride Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day, among other “special observances,” according to a defense official who confirmed the authenticity of the memo.”] in order to accord with a ban on DEI programs.
The statement also acknowledges that opposition to DEI isn’t limited to conservatives. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, some Jews have argued repeatedly that DEI is to blame for the widespread protests against Israel on campus. For example, the journalist Dara Horn wrote that DEI targets “people in our society [who] have too much power and too much privilege” — which plays into antisemitic tropes about Jews wielding too much control.
But the statement says Jews should not give up on DEI, including because doing so would put LGBTQ Jews or Jews of color at risk.
“Some Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion champions have spoken or acted in ways that have caused us pain, including through overt expressions of antisemitism, and others have shared visions of the future that differ from our own,” it said, adding, “It is for each of us to do the work of opening the doors of opportunity for all. It is not only possible, but necessary, to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts in a way that is truly inclusive of Jewish safety, identities, and history.”
In addition to Reform institutions, the letter was signed by groups including the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the National Council of Jewish Women, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Reconstructing Judaism and T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.
