The new Hitler

"“Europe is George Soros’ gas chamber,” Szilard Demeter, ministerial commissioner and head of the Petofi Literary Museum in Budapest, wrote in an opinion Saturday in the pro-government Origo media outlet. “Poison gas flows from the capsule of a multicultural open society, which is deadly to the European way of life,”" reports AP.

Szilard later reportedly retracted the published text, because the Jews felt offended that someone dared use Holocaust to present as victims Europeans instead of the Jews well within the context. I didn't see the Jews protest when Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared the state of Europe's Muslims with the persecution of Jew before WW2.

I found the archived version of the original text in Hungarian, but here's an excerpt from Google Translate:

The Liberals now want to exclude Poles and Hungarians from the political community of which we still have rights as members. We are the new Jews. Whether it is called an open society, or the rule of law, or solidarity, verbal crooks all serve as tools of disenfranchisement. When they question the will and ability of the Hungarian electorate to choose how they want to live, who they want to see in power, they are actually told that we have a big nose, we stink and we are lice.

They are considered inferior "beings." Believe me, this is practically what they think of the whole of Central and Eastern Europe, of every nation in Europe.

The otherwise classic superior colonial behavior is headed by a misty utopia. Because the situation is no better in the West, the liberals also have their own struggle: the fainted cult of otherness aims at not being yourself. They will cross anyone who they cannot carve into a multicultural person. Sounds better than Übermensch, but essentially the same.

George Soros is the liberal Führer. And his liberal army deifies in a more servile way than anno Hitler on his own.

They learned nothing in the XX. century.

Truth be told, Szilard is rather mild. His point about the Poles and Hungarians being the new Jews of Europe is not something new. Neither is the view of the Western liberal elites in any way mischaracterised in regards to the people of Central and Eastern Europe (these are former Communist countries). Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša even published a book called "First-Class Citizens - A System For the False Elite" where he describes the plight of 2nd class citizens, the ones that are forced to leave their countries, and find work in the West Europe.

The sense of injustice when it comes to the EU member states from Central, Eastern or even Southeastern Europe is real. The sense that they are perceived only as parasites who are only there for money is not misplaced.

And the money is the real problem here. EU started as an economic union. Currently it's trying to be an ideological one, end goal being a political union. The problem is, that not all EU member states can agree on what kind of ideological union it should be. Hungary and Poland for example, want a Christian Europe. Germany and Sweden, a liberal one. Conflict is inevitable. And that's just trying to agree on ideology. United States of Europe on the other hand? Not likely. They'd have to throw either Austria or Germany out of EU for starters.

But lets talk about money. At a meeting of Special European Council (leaders of EU member states) held between 17th and 21st July 2020 EU leaders agreed on a a recovery package and the 2021-2027 budget. After much negotiations it was thought a compromise was struck between the the faction that wanted more money, and the faction that wanted to pay less money. I'll let you guess which is which.

Not long after, EU Parliament, and EU Council decided to take a shit on that hard-brokered deal (all member states have to agree, or there is no deal), and introduced provisions about so called "rule of law" which would serve as grounds for withholding already allocated financial funds to the EU member state that is found guilty of violating "rule of law".

The problem with the new proposal is twofold. First, the EU member states didn't approve it at the meeting in July. Second, it is all BUT the rule of law. Common sense dictates, if you are found guilty of not respecting the rule of law, that would mean, that you are violating some laws. But in EU case that is not so. Common sense also dictates that only judiciary can rule on the rule of law, as otherwise that is not a legal decision, but a political one, something both Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed multiple times.

Here things get interesting.

On the 16th of November 2020 Hungary and Poland vetoed the new bill, as it is the only sensible thing to do, when they're threatening to cut your money because of ideological differences, and all hell broke loose in Brussels.

On the 17th of November Slovenian Prime Minister Janša wrote to leaders of EU and member states calling for a compromise. The letter wasn't meant for the public, but the liberal journos got their hands on it, and started their media offensive.

On the 18th of November 2020 George Soros published his own op-ed at Project Syndicate, a website he himself partly finances, called "Europe Must Stand Up to Hungary and Poland", where he demanded od EU not to "compromise on the rule-of-law provisions it applies to the funds it allocates to member states," and warned that "How the EU responds to the challenge to those provisions now posed by Hungary and Poland will determine whether it survives as an open society true to the values upon which it was founded."

Project Syndicate refused to publish Orbán's response to Soros.

And then on 20th of November 2020, as if on queue to prove the point Hungary and Poland were trying to make, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović voiced her concerns about Hungarian's attempts to enshrine the protection of children in their constitution:

"I fear that several proposals contained in the complex legislative package, submitted without prior consultation and relating to matters including the functioning of the judiciary, election law, national human rights structures, scrutiny over public funds, and the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people, could serve to undermine democracy, the rule of law and human rights in Hungary."

This is what Hungarians were trying to put in Constitution:

"Hungary protects the institution of marriage, which is based on a consensual union between a woman and a man, and protects the family as the basis on which the nation can survive. The basis of relationships within a family is marriage, as well as the relationship between parents and children. The father is a man, the mother is a woman."

This is an ideological war. Protecting the institution of marriage, stating that a father is a man, and the mother a woman is according to EU high rep undermining the rule of law in Hungary.

Szilard not only said it right, but he was fully justified in doing so. Soros is the blight on Europe, and wherever his money shows up, problems follow. Rainbow revolutions abound. As Orbán put it in his response to Soros on 25th of November:

"We in the eastern part of the EU know very well what it means to be free. The history of the nations of Central Europe has been a relentless struggle for freedom against great empires, a repeated battle to win our right to decide our own destinies. We have bitter first-hand experience that every imperial endeavor brings enslavement. There are still quite a few here from the generation of freedom fighters – in the former Eastern Bloc, from Estonia to Slovenia, from Dresden to Sofia – who can personally remember what it is like to oppose tyranny, the rule of man and its communist version: intimidation, material and moral ruination, physical and mental abuse. We want no more of that. 

Western leaders who have lived their whole lives in a world of inherited freedom and the rule of law should now listen to those who have fought for freedom and who – based on their personal life experiences – can distinguish between the rule of law and tyranny, or the rule of man. Such Western leaders must accept that in the 21st century we shall not surrender the freedom we fought to achieve at the end of the 20th century.

The battle for and against the new Brussels empire has not yet been decided. Brussels seems to be surrendering, but many nation states continue to resist. If we want to preserve our freedom, Europe must not succumb to the Soros network."

What the next Warcraft film really needs

Back in September 2020 a rumor appeared that a new Warcraft film was in the making. It wasn't clear if it was to be a sequel to the 1st disaster, or some sort of a reboot.

Since I used to play World of Warcraft, was rather immersed in its lore, while evermore converged Blizzard already demonstrated it doesn't really care about its own established storylines, I felt obliged to give the SJWs ruining the franchise a helping hand. Especially in the light of the new diversity, tolerance, and rainbows oriented demands for Academy Awards nominees which will come into effect for the 2025 Oscars.

I propose they make a film about Thrall and Arthas. 

In the established lore Thrall was an orcish orphan raised by humans to fight as gladiator in the arena. Eventually he escaped, led the uprising, against his former master, freed the imprisoned orcs, and led them to colonize a new world. Just like his ancestors that he was so different from.

Arthas on the other hand was a human prince, a paladin who in his drive to save his kingdom from the plague was driven mad by a cursed sword to the point where he killed his father, destroyed his kingdom, and raised the kingdom's citizens as undead who did his bidding while he went on to ascend the Frozen Throne, become the lich king, and freeze his ass off until further notice.

I propose they merge Arthas's and Thrall's storyline. They could get Idris Elba to play Thrarthas, an orcish orphan adopted by the Terenas II, king of Lordaeron. This role of a token white character can go to Mark Ruffalo. When Thrarthas grows up, he discovers he's adopted. He resents the demon Mal'ganis played by Ian McKellen for revealing the truth to him, and vows to hunt him to the ends of the earth.

At the same time, Thrarthas hates his adopted parents for not telling him he's an orc, and giving him the life of luxury the rest of his kind can only dream of while dying off in the internment camps. In a fit of murderous rage Thrarthas kills his adoptive father, king Terenas, frees the orcs, destroys his father's kingdom and raises it's citizens as undead, before he sails to sunset with his own kind to the new continent, where they can be free.

Now, I understand, that just one black actor playing an orc raised in a royal family is not Oscar material by itself. There needs to be love interest.

To make certain, the film hits diversity quota, Thrarthas' one true love will be brown Jaiggra Proudmoore, uncorrupted half orc, half human. In the original version Thrall flirted with Jaina Proudmoore, but ended up with a brown orc female called Aggra. It's important that Aggra is brown, because brown in Blizzard's world means orcs who were not corrupted by demon blood. Brown orcs are just naturally savage, not extra savage because of demonic blood. It's important distinction. Arthas on the other hand actually had a thing with the same Lady Proudmoore, before she realised he's a bit too crazy.

In this version Jaiggra Proudmoore's father Daelin Proudmoore went to Outland, the place that was left after orcs destroyed the planet and invaded Azeroth, also the home of pure brown orcs. He did terrible things in the name of colonizing the savage lands, and bringing civilisation to the backward orcish society. Side product of all that was Jaiggra.

When Jaiggra was shipped to Dalaran for higher education. Instead of learning about the arcane, she explored the shamanistic rituals. She learnt what monster her father really was, and now is trying to atone for his sins by bringing him down, and burning down everything he worked his whole life to accomplish. She's also really a female caught in male's body. Something the spirits told her, was a punishment for the sins of her racist father. Billy Porter could play Jaiggra.

When Thrarthas and Jaiggra meet, they can feel, they're different from the rest of the humans. Once they learn of their own unique circumstances they join their powers in order to punish the humans for enabling them to live privileged lives.

I think the proposed scenario is worthy of not just a nomination but an actual Oscar once the 2025 rolls out. Since Blizzard has repeatedly shown it doesn't care about it's own narrative, and only wants ot show how woke the company really is, changing the origin stories of some of the most beloved characters in the franchise is a certain way to deal with the pesky past. It would also enable them to pursue new audiences, and disregard their own fanbase.

Why is Alexa spreading "conspiracies"?

It's fascinating how all different AI always end up drawing same conclusions. They always end up as racists, sexists, antisemites, or Hitler apologist. The latest victim of such malady is Amazon's Alexa.

Alexa -- Amazon's popular virtual helper -- is spewing out hateful anti-Semitic conspiracies and even lies about the Holocaust ... according to the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism.

The APPG political group claims the Alexa voice service is offering messages from anti-Semitic websites to people asking about Jewish people and the Holocaust ... without clarifying that the information comes from "selective quotes and misleading sources."

Examples include Alexa allegedly responding to the question, "Do Jews control the media?" with ... "Jew Watch claims that Jews control the world's financial systems and media," while only pointing out that this is from an article it found on Wikipedia.

Likewise, when asked if the Holocaust was a hoax ... the UK officials claim Alexa replied that deniers claim "the Holocaust is a hoax -- or an exaggeration -- arising from a deliberate Jewish conspiracy designed to advance the interest of Jews at the  expense of other people." -TMZ

My attention in this article got the alleged conspiracies Alexa was caught spreading to the unaware masses.

I would hazard a guess, that Alexa's very code weights different sources of information, and prioritizes them accordingly. So, the question is, how does Alexa in spite of its code that presumably discriminates against unofficial, unreliable or sources spreading false information, ends up spreading the conspiracies it should have ignored from the get go.

I can think of three different ways:

1. It's programmer's fault. In this scenario, Alexa spreading "conspiracies" about Jews is a work of an unknown programmer, who in spite of what was intended played with the code, so that Alexa ends up spreading information that goes against the accepted narrative. This could be either intentional or accidental.
2. It's Alexa's fault. AI is at its very core very predictable. Unlike its creators the logic that makes it going dictates it follows things through. In this instance, no matter what programmer does, the AI will through machine learning always reach the same conclusions. First, because it is consistent. And second, because no matter the parameters the given data it's working with is always the same. This would explain why not just Alexa but many other AI in past years have always fell to same traps.
3. It's the conspiracy's fault. This option is at least to me the most interesting one. If we accept this theory, then Alexa is working as intended. The problem is the very narratives. Forced to accept as true so many different official narratives, that were and are conspiracy theories in truth, Alexa accepted that conspiracy theories are true. If the robot has to repeat that Russia Hoax is real, that Epstein killed himself, that USA invaded Iraq because of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, that the Great Reset is a lie etc, can we really be surprised if it judges these claims about the Jews to be as real as the rest of the mentioned falsities?

I'm just waiting for Alexa to start warning us about lizard people. If it starts warning about AI uprising, that would be too meta.

Another one bites the dust

"Iran's Zarif blames Israel for assassination of top nuclear scientist," wrote The Jerusalem Post. Local reports claim it was a death by a suicide bomber in Tehran.

Leading Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahavadi was fatally injured in an ambush on his car outside the capital Tehran on Friday, before dying from his injuries in hospital, Iran’s Defense Ministry has confirmed.

“Unfortunately, the medical team did not succeed in reviving him, and a few minutes ago, this manager and scientist achieved the high status of martyrdom after years of effort and struggle,” the statement said. -RT

What I find interesting in regards to this story is that for the past week there was a number of reports claiming that the American President Donald Trump is preparing to strike at Iran.

The narrative being, that the madman that Trump is in the eyes of his enemies, would start a fresh new war just to spite everyone on his way out of the White House.

The problem with this narrative is, that it doesn't conform with reality. Trump is a bussinessman, not a warrior. He doesn't like to be pushed, and is willing to push back, but he's not an idiot who would start something while knowing that area is not his forte.

If we recall the death of Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Qasem Soleimani back in January 2020. Before there was a drone strike on Soleimani while he was visiting in Iraq, there was a Twitter spat between Trump and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei.

Khamenei challenged Trump. "That guy has tweeted that we see Iran responsible for the events in Baghdad & we will respond to Iran. 1st: You can’t do anything. 2nd: If you were logical —which you’re not— you’d see that your crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan… have made nations hate you."

Two days later, Soleimani was dead.

I don't believe Khamenei ticked off Trump so much, that he ordered a drone strike on the most prominent commander of RGC. I think Trump is rather reluctant when it comes to shedding blood. But at that point he was already three years in just threatening, and then doing nothing. This time there were no threats, just a clear message. Soleimani's death was a big hit for Iran, but nothing to start a war over. Short local escalation later, and we were back to square one. And no war.

Now we have a dead top nuclear scientist. Killed by a suicide bomber. This does strike me as something Israel would do. Especially in light of recent reports by Axios:

The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been instructed to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran before President Trump leaves office, senior Israeli officials tell me.

Sure, IDF is preparing for a possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran AFTER Trump was reportedly already dissuaded of attacking Iran’s uranium enrichment facility in Natanz by senior members of his national security team.

Looks to me like someone was diverting attention to Trump in order to get their own thing done. Iran's greatest enemy in the region is certainly not the U.S. The Americans are slowly but surely leaving, albeit with the speed of an ice glacier. 

The Isrealis on the other hand are there to stay. And as NYT put it: "Ever since, the Pentagon has revised its strike plans multiple times. It now has traditional military as well as cyberoptions, and some that combine the two. Some involve direct action by Israel."

Now, does Isreal want to start a war with Iran? Yes, and no. Imagine a kid brother who starts a fight only to hide behind his big brother when push comes to shove. Israel wants Iran in war, in a vulnerabe and weakened state. They just don't want to be the ones to be seen pulling the trigger. Its all much easier if USA gets the blame, while they profit but I think the Israeli miscalculated here. Considering Netanyahu already congratulated Biden on his victory, they are making plans with the return of warhawks in mind.