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Quillette gets trolled - just like all other major publications

Claire Lehmann
Claire Lehmann, Quillette founder.


Quillette
has been under fire since it was founded by Claire Lehmann in 2015. The old guard doesn't like a fresh face, so when Lehmann launched and was then lauded by Jordan Peterson, the media lined up to take shots. Quillette may not have been the birthplace of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web, but it's been an essential publication for the documenting of free speech concerns and heterodox ideas. It also made space for voices that had been cancelled and writers and intellectuals who had been unpersoned in their communities. Publishing both controversial ideas and controversial people made it a desirable target for take-down artists and hoaxsters alike.

At issue was an article about a construction worker from Queens, a regular Joe who, along with his union buddies, attended a Democratic Socialists of America meeting. The narrative goes that he was horrified to find just how far into academic, privilege theoretical nonsense the socialist movement had drifted. Quillette editors took the man at his word. The story is an interesting one, after all.

Modern media rolls fast, and outlets that run with a lean tight staff are at a disadvantage to the mainstream media outlets until they're not. Mainstream media is also susceptible to hoaxes. We don't have to go too far back to find the case of Jayson Blair who duped The New York Times, running plausible, reported pieces from places he didn't go. This was in 2003, before the proper digital age, and the Times couldn't take these pieces down, all they could do was retract the print with print.

Comment: Since its inception, Quillette has been getting a lot of (largely unjustified) criticism. As the author above states, that's because it's actually good.

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Evil Rays

Norway mosque attack suspect allegedly inspired by El Paso shooting

Baerum’s al-Noor Islamic Centre
© Terje Pedersen/AFP/Getty ImagesBaerum’s al-Noor Islamic Centre, where the attack occurred on Saturday.
The suspected gunman in an attack on a mosque in Norway on Saturday was inspired by recent white extremist attacks in New Zealand and the US, online posts suggest.

Police in Norway have so far only said the attack in Baerum, a town 20km from Oslo, the capital, will be investigated as a possible act of terrorism.

In messages posted on the day of the attack, Philip Manshaus, a 21-year-oldman who has been named by local media as the main suspect, described himself as "chosen" by "Saint [Brenton] Tarrant", the gunman who killed 51 people at mosques in New Zealand in March.

"My time is up, I was chosen by Saint Tarrant after all ... We can't let this continue, you gotta bump the race war threat in real life ... it's been fun," one post reads.

In a meme also posted by Manshaus, three rightwing extremists suspected of being responsible for other attacks this year are depicted and praised as heroes of the white nationalist movement.

Tarrant is described as having "addressed the Muslim problem" while Patrick Crusius, who has been charged with the attack in El Paso, Texas, in which 22 people died, is praised for "fighting to reclaim his country".

A third attacker suspected of killing a woman during a Passover celebration at a synagogue in California in April is also praised, alongside antisemitic abuse.

Comment: Attacks like this tend to occur in clusters, along with seemingly unrelated outbreaks of craziness. The psychological explanation is social contagion. See the Truth Perspective discussion on social contagion here: But even social contagion probably can't provide a full explanation, as discussed in the show. Are the initial triggering events completely random? And is there something in addition to media coverage that 'amplifies' the signal, so to say? The dynamics of social contagion are not a mystery. That means there are individuals and groups who are aware of how it works, and who can shape events in a manner of their choosing. Could that be what has been going on for the past week or so?


Pocket Knife

Over 100 tires slashed in Orthodox Jewish community, police say

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More than 100 tires have been slashed in a predominately Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey in recent days, according to authorities there.

All of the vehicles targeted in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, were owned or driven by Jewish people. The incidents are being investigated as bias crimes, police told ABC New York City station WABC.

The most recent tire slashings occurred outside homes over the weekend, police told WABC. The New Jersey town is home to one of the world's largest yeshivas.

Comment: Uh, maybe go house-to-house, see if anyone there knows something?...

Serial complainer about anti-Semitic graffiti left on and near his home in Paris... caught daubing cars with anti-Semitic graffiti


Pirates

Tajik man emerges in Afghanistan as leader of IS unit of Central Asian fighters

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Forces from Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security escort alleged Taliban and Islamic State fighters in Jalalabad on May 23.
A little-known, 31-year-old Tajik man who grew up in a Dushanbe suburb has emerged as a unit leader of the Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Afghanistan as the extremist group tries to expand its footprint in the war-torn country.

A recent report by the UN Security Council says Sayvaly Shafiev leads a group of approximately 200 fighters who hail from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other Central Asian countries.

Shafiev is also involved in recruiting Tajik fighters for IS and using online propaganda in the Tajik language, says the study by the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team.

Authorities in Dushanbe believe Shafiev and his associates are training their Tajik recruits in Afghanistan and sending them back to Tajikistan to create a terrorist sleeper cell.

A Tajik law enforcement official said Shafiev has been "under the Tajik security services' radar for quite some time."

"We know that Shafiev has become a key IS figure in Afghanistan," he told RFE/RL on August 8. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.

Comment: For years it was looking as if Central Asia was to be the next front in the Mossad/CIA/MI6-directed effort to spread radical Islamist ideology. That changed with the war in Syria, but it looks like the plan hasn't been abandoned entirely. Either that, or it is simply an unintended but not unwanted development simply by virtue of the fact that Central Asian IS members will naturally want to bring the revolution home with them. Either way, the IS monster unleashed by western intelligence is not dead, and will continue to create chaos. Like Frankenstein's monster, there's not much to stop it now.


Che Guevara

Cognitive dissonance: Elites' darling Greta Thunberg poses next to masked German 'eco-extremist', prompting confusing feelings

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© AFP / dpa / Oliver BergSwedish teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg (C) stands next to German climate activists as she visits the Hambach Forest, Germany, on August 10, 2019.
The young Swedish environmentalist, Greta Thunberg, who has found attentive audiences among Western elites and media alike, has flabbergasted a German politician and police by posing with a masked "left-wing extremist."

Thunberg, 16, who rose to fame last year after organizing school strikes against climate change and has since attended an array of high-level meetings and conferences, has unexpectedly visited Germany's ancient Hambach Forest on her way to two climate conferences in the Americas - just ahead of her journey across the Atlantic aboard a multimillion dollar racing yacht.

But it was not just another of Thunberg's eloquent speeches filled with doomsday messages that drew the attention of politicians and media. Located in western Germany, Hambach Forest is an arena of a longstanding battle between environmentalists-turned-squatters and Germany's second largest electricity producer, RWE, which operates a local open-cast coal mine.

Much to the dismay of a local politician and a police official, the now prominent climate activist seemingly sided with those whom German security services have branded extremists for quite some time. Photos taken at the scene show Thunberg posing next to a masked figure in black alongside local environmentalists. The veiled woman is one of the squatters who occupied the 12,000-year-old forest in an attempt to prevent it being razed to the ground for the sake of the mine expansion.

Comment: It's pretty sad that officials couldn't see this one coming - and pretty amusing to see the confusion as their climate angel associates with radicals who are only taking their ideology to its natural, logical conclusion.


Handcuffs

Austrian court 'convicts' five migrants who gang raped 13-year-old


Comment: By the sounds of it, they might not even go to prison...


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Five migrants between the ages of 17 and 22 have been convicted by an Austrian court of raping a 13-year-old girl.

The attack happened in October of 2018 after the 13-year-old girl was lured to an apartment by the young men after meeting them at the central railway station in Graz. According to a report by Austria's Kronen Zeitung, once the girl was inside of the apartment, the five migrants are said to have given her alcohol and other substances before they forced her to undress.

Before this incident, two of the migrant rapists had previously been convicted on drug charges.

As the 13-year-old victim tried to resist the 5 men, the rape is said to have become progressively more violent and aggressive as each one of them took turns raping her.

One of the migrants even videotaped the entire ordeal with his mobile phone. Following their investigation and subsequent arrests of the perpetrators, the phone along with the footage were both later discovered by police.

Each one of the defendants has been handed lengthy prison sentences. However, at present, none of the sentences are final since the migrants' lawyers have filed appeals.


Comment: What is there to appeal? They don't even deserve prison. They should be put on a plane, and its doors accidentally open mid-flight.


Comment: And yet pro-migrant advocates on the left seemingly can't realize why anyone would be against open-door immigration policies. In their minds, you'd have to be racist to even be a tiny bit pro-borders. But there's nothing inherently racist about seeing the rise of rape as a bad thing, and tying it to migration. You'd think it would even be a position the feminist left would look upon favorably. But there's no common sense in this ideology. For some reason, race and religion trumps feminism in cases like this.


Bomb

Another huge explosion set off in small Swedish city of Landskrona - 8th such this year - Mayor's office targeted

Landskrona Sweden explosion Mayor office
Since December 2018, seven explosions not dissimilar to this one have occurred in Landkrona – a town of just 30,000 people, the Helsingborgs Dagblad reported.
A strong explosion has shaken up residents living in the town of Landskrona in southern Sweden, blasting the City Hall's windows and causing serious damage to a statue in front of the building.

Several buildings and structures on the property including the Mayor's office were also hit by the blast wave, which broke many windows and caused damage to structures, Sweden's Expressen reports.

Following a careful examination of the scene, explosion engineers are still uncertain as to what kind of explosives were used.

"There is a lot of intensive work going on right now, particularly that of processing witness testimonies, which were taken the previous night," explained Patric Fors, spokeswoman for the Police Department of the Southern Region.

One eyewitness reported that the blast was so powerful that the floor shook inside of her house. Luckily, no injuries were reported.

Comment: Sweden's native population has been paying a heavy price for its government's open-door policy on migration, but, in addition to that, is someone handing out explosives to the migrants??


Road Cone

Brand new Boeing plane literally falls apart over Rome: Engine fails, breaks off and rains debris on people, homes and vehicles


Comment: Just take your planes and go home, Boeing, you're drunk!

Seriously though, this is getting ridiculous. Boeing is a public safety hazard.


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© Il Messaggero
A Norwegian Air Boeing 787 plane was forced to turn around in Rome and make an emergency landing after engine failure caused hundreds of fragments to rain down on vehicles, homes and people below.

One person, 25 vehicles and 12 houses were struck by fragments falling from the Dreamliner flight DY-7115 from Rome to Los Angeles. Pilots declared an emergency when it suffered single-engine failure at 3,000 feet shortly after takeoff on Saturday, and returned to Rome's Fiumicino Airport 23 minutes after departure with 310 passengers and crew on board. There were no reported injuries.

However, eyewitness reports of hundreds of pieces of hot debris raining down on the area surrounding the airport soon emerged. Images of smashed windscreens, damaged roofs and other objects in people's gardens were shared online. One person received mild burns from the falling pieces, according to Italian media.


Heart - Black

3yo Philadelphia girl in critical condition after mother hacks her with machete

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© Reuters/Luc Gnago
A woman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been arrested after attacking her three-year-old daughter with a machete, sending the child to an emergency room in critical condition, local media report.

The child was rushed Albert Einstein Medical Center shortly after 8pm local time with wounds to her head, shoulder and knee, following the brutal attack by her own mother inside their home.

"It appears as though the parent was under the influence of something," police told local media, without stating whether anyone else was present at home at the time of the attack.

Sherlock

The rise and fall of ISIS

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© Associated Press / Emrah GurelDaesh pins are on display at an Islamic bookstore where books about Islam, militant Islamic leaders and Islamic flags are displayed in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014
A year or two ago, I would have never imagined that I would be writing an article with this title, at least not this soon; but things change.

If anything, my previous articles about ISIS which I wrote back between 2014 and 2017 were very alarming and predicted the worst, but again, things change, and back then there were many reasons to feel alarmed.

I have reiterated in that era of the past that the ISIS ideology had deep roots in fundamentalist Islam, and I still have this view. I have professed many times that this fundamentalist doctrine had been in place long before Christopher Columbus set a foot on American soil and that we cannot blame the CIA, Israel, the UK, or the West in general for the creation of this ideology, and I am not retracting. I have also said that those fundamentalist views do not represent real Islam, and there is no change in heart on this aspect either. So what has changed?

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