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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Apparently Things Aren't Always As They Seem....

Japanese Foreign Minister Announces Plan to “Transform Japan Into a Diverse Multiethnic Society”

Says he wants to give foreign residents the right to vote.

The Japanese foreign minister has announced a plan to “transform Japan into a diversified multiethnic society” by encouraging mass immigration and giving foreign residents the right to vote.

Toshimitsu Motegi is a politician for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and has served as the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs since September 2019.

During a Q and A session, Motegi said his “national vision” meant “transforming Japan in the 21st century into a “diversified multiethnic society” by way of mass immigration from all over the world.

This would also be achieved by codifying English as the country’s second language and giving “suffrage to resident foreigners.”

Japan is 98.1 per cent ethnically Japanese, with the next most populous ethnicity being Chinese at just 0.5 per cent.

The country has an extremely low crime rate and terrorism is very rare. Back in 2017, at the height of the refugee crisis, it was revealed that Japan had refused 99% of refugees, having accepted just 28 in 2016.

Back in 2018, leftists in the U.S. began demanding that Japan embrace multiculturalism because a half-Japanese tennis player with a Haitian-American father won the US Open.

In an article entitled Japan Needs ‘Foreigner Blood’ Like Naomi Osaka’s, the Daily Beast’s Jake Adelstein acknowledged that limited immigration, ethnically homogenous Japan has a low crime rate and that shootings remain in the single digits every year, but claimed this is due to...

Obama: It’s Impossible to Have a Democracy if People Disagree With You

The socialist marketplace of ideas has nothing in it.

Obama is busy shilling for his book, A Promised Land, for which the American imprint of a subsidiary of a German publishing giant with a Nazi past, is paying him a fortune. And that means sitting down with his favorite shill, The Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg, whose book was published by the same giant, for some pseudo-intellectual preening at America’s expense.

As usual, he has deep thoughts about why everyone who disagrees with him needs to shut up.

"The First Amendment doesn’t require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there. At the end of the day, we’re going to have to find a combination of government regulations and corporate practices that address this," Obama fussily declaims.

The corporate practices by Big Tech companies that shut down Biden scandals are already in place. Government regulations to get rid of free speech are new, but not new for Obama.

Obama had become infamous for having the producer of The Innocence of Muslims thrown into prison after the disaster in Benghazi. “We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video,” Hillary Clinton would tell the father of one of the men killed there, as if a YouTube video had killed Americans and then dragged their bodies through the streets of Libya.

Obama's DOJ seized phone records from reporters, dug through their emails, and followed them around. But the whole point of Big Tech censorship is that Democrats avoid pesky constitutional issues by outsourcing the censorship to huge corporate monopolies. The practice of calling in CEOs to the Senate to berate them about insufficient censorship should raise some constitutional questions about an oligarchy colluding to suppress political speech.

But it hasn’t yet.

What would Obama's speech police look like? He has nothing to say about that, just more deep thoughts about how impossible it is to have a democracy if people keep disagreeing with you.

"If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work," he fumes.

But the whole point of a “marketplace of ideas” is that people decide that for themselves. If people don’t decide for themselves, there’s no marketplace of ideas, and no democracy. And in a democracy and a marketplace of ideas, people will disagree about what’s true or what isn’t.

If the government decides for people what’s true or false, then there’s no marketplace. Or rather there’s just the Soviet supermarket where there’s one option and you had better...

In a year where one terrible thing has happened after another, the employees of a Canadian book publishing company has found the latest liberal nightmare: a new book by Jordan Peterson. Apparently, these employees were even reduced to tears when arguing against the book’s release.

On Monday, November 23, Canada’s largest book publishing company, Penguin Random House Canada, announced that it will be publishing the book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson. While the book itself isn’t due out until March 2021, some people found plenty enough to be upset over right now.

In a town hall following the announcement, Penguin Random House Canada employees confronted their executives over the decision to publish a book they deemed to be too “controversial.” Reports from the town hall remark how the employees actually cried while discussing their views of Peterson.

According to Vice News, a junior employee and member of the LGBTQ community disparaged Peterson, stating that “[h]e is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him.”

Another employee said “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.

“The company since June has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things and them publishing Peterson’s book completely goes against this. It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative,” the employee added.

At least 70 anonymous messages regarding the book were sent to the company’s diversity and inclusion committee, with only a few in favor of the book’s release.

Employees told Vice News, "if the book isn’t cancelled, they would like Penguin Random House Canada to consider donating the profits from the book to LGBTQ organizations."

Although the company has not dropped the book - yet - a statement from Penguin Random House has confirmed that they are “open” to hearing employee feedback:

Biden Taps Staffer Who Said Suicide Bombings Were ‘Last Resort’ for Palestinians

The latest senior staffer tapped by President-elect Joe Biden (D.) has defended Palestinian suicide bombings as "the last resort of a desperate people."

Biden on Monday tapped Reema Dodin to serve as the deputy director for the Office of Legislative Affairs. The Jewish News Syndicate reported Tuesday that Dodin gave a presentation on the Second Intifada—a violent Palestinian uprising against the Israeli government in the early 2000s—while a student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002.

During the talk, Dodin claimed that the Israeli government had left Palestinians hopeless.

"The suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people," she said.

Dodin has worked on Capitol Hill for Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) since 2011, currently serving as his deputy chief of staff. According to USA Today, Dodin has volunteered on multiple campaigns, including that of former president Barack Obama.

She will become the first Palestinian-American...

Obama New Memoir Reveals He Read Marx As ‘Strategy For Picking Up Girls’

Former President Barack Obama in his new memoir “A Promised Land” admitted reading Karl Marx amongst other radical political philosophers influenced by the German socialist revolutionary during his college years as a “strategy for picking up girls.”

“My interest in books probably explains why I not only survived high school but arrived at Occidental College in 1979 with a thin but passable knowledge of political issues and a series of half-baked opinions that I’d toss out during late-night bull sessions in the dorm,” Obama recalled in Chapter One of his first of two volumes presidential memoir book that was released last Tuesday.

“Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships,” Obama added.

Obama’s A Promised Land, Page 10

Marx is best known as a revolutionary, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century. The “Father of Communism,” Marx proposed the political ideology in...