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A few examples of the rolling narrative attacks against the population and reframing to stay ahead of the narratives by media: Links 1 for January 5th, 2026
1. One of the persistent examples of Canada memory holing facts and narratives this site refers to, is how the CBC and other broadcast media used Japanese-Canadian fruit fly scientist, David Suzuki to promote the idea that Western industry was producing so much pollution that it would block out the sun, mimicking the results of a major nuclear war and causing a serious ice age. This theory was called, “Nuclear Winter.
Many efforts and forms of effort have been used to find any of the dozens to hundreds of hours of Suzuki warning us all about how this would come about if the West didn’t get its industry under control.
This was a partial truth. Pollution really is a problem. And in fact, the West by and large did actually learn to manage it, and this was a great thing. But that wasn’t the real intention most likely. Suzuki then pivoted to Global Warming from the same causes and somehow, every mention of Nuclear Winter was, as 1984 named it, Memory holed.
So it is with some amusement that Suzuki is the locus of the newest state memory holing. When the state declared war on incandescent bulbs, they demanded that everyone change to something called Compact Fluorescent Bulbs. These gave off a pale blue flickering light that looked exactly like the glow that came out of Venezuelan prisons when one drove by. They were horrible, and filled with Mercury vapour and when they exploded, and they did indeed explode, it cost a home owner $2000.00 to get an environment Canada team in hazmats over to remove them. So most of us just breathed through our noses and removed them ourselves.
LED Bulbs came out roughly around the same time, but there was no push to switch to these, even though they were a nicer light, MUCH cheaper to power in terms of amount of light per Watt, and they don’t explode but they do have one huge problem. They last a really long time. So sales would slow down fast. When people moved, they could take the bulbs with them. They would likely last longer than your stay at your current residence.
Eventually Canada caught up to it and banned Compact fluorescent bulbs as well. But they also appear to have made it very hard to find any images of the billboards or other promo material of Suzuki pushing the CFBs.
Headline from January 2, 2026 Western Standard:
Ottawa begins enforcing national ban on fluorescent light bulbs
The ban, drafted in 2024 by then–environment minister Steven Guilbeault, targets bulbs once marketed as climate?friendly alternatives to incandescent lighting.
The federal environment department has begun enforcing a nationwide ban on making and importing compact fluorescent light bulbs, ending years of government promotion of products now restricted due to mercury contamination concerns.
The ban, drafted in 2024 by then–environment minister Steven Guilbeault, targets bulbs once marketed as climate?friendly alternatives to incandescent lighting. The department said the prohibition will roll out gradually.
“Between 2026 and 2030 the import, manufacture and sale of the most common types of lamps containing mercury will be progressively prohibited in Canada,” spokesperson France Gionet said, adding the phase?out reflects advances in lighting technology.
Officials said the three?year transition period was designed to give retailers time to clear remaining inventory. Homeowners are being urged to bring used compact fluorescent bulbs to municipal toxic?waste depots rather than throw them in household garbage.
I had to learn about Google Dorks to find anything about Suzuki and CFBs. A regular search told me that any mention of his promotion of them was dangerous disinformation.
From The Province.com citing The Suzuki Foundation:
When shopping for a new appliance, look for the Energy Star logo, says Randi Kruse of the David Suzuki Foundation. It can cut 30-40 per cent of household energy use.
The fridge is the best appliance to replace, because it’s running all the time. Says Kruse: “That will make the biggest difference in energy savings. In the long run, you’ll save money as well as energy.”
The additional cost is recouped usually within a couple of years through energy savings.
“When you’re buying an appliance, the cost of the energy used to run it must be factored in,” says Kruse.
7. Use compact fluorescent lights. CFLs last about eight times as long as incandescent bulbs, use 66 per cent less electricity, and only need to be replaced every five or six years.
According to B.C. Hydro’s Elisha Moreno, they should be placed in spots where the bulb is used a lot, such as a hallway, outdoor light or family room.
Replacing a 100-watt incandescent bulb with a 25-watt CFL saves $30 in electricity over the life of each bulb.
That’s pretty clear. And so is this:
Screenshot
It was in fact known, not hidden, and not obscured that these bulbs contained mercury at the time they were launched at the public. Which may make one ask the question, Did Suzuki just not bother to look, or did he know and took the money and ran with it?
And did he do that with Nuclear Winter as well?
2. Here is a curious event. Mind you it’s the odious BBC so temper anything it says through that lens.
Venezuela fire: Thousands of voting machines burned
The electoral council in Venezuela says a fire in its main warehouse near the capital, Caracas, has destroyed most of the voting machines held there.
Almost 50,000 voting machines and 582 computers used in the country’s elections went up in flames, electoral council chief Tibisay Lucena said.
She did not say if parliamentary elections due later this year could be affected by the loss of the machines.
She also asked prosecutors to investigate the cause of the fire.
What happened?
The fire broke out in the 6,000 sq m (65,000 sq ft) warehouse in Mariche, east of Caracas, on Saturday.
“Burnt in this fire were 582 computers belonging to the civil registry, 49,408 voting machines, 400 electronic ballots,” Ms Lucena said in a news conference on Sunday.
The article doesn’t say what KIND of machines they were, but the linked article references Smartmatic as the type of machines used in previous elections.
We should be clear here, that we are opposed to voting machines. They are in fact black boxes which have closed source code. There is no way to know what happens inside these machines. And even if they are 100% accurate, the fact that only a very tiny technically elite fraction of the population understand them undermines the results of any election. An election not only must be fair and accurate, it must be seen to be fair and accurate. Having the one without the other is undermining the process.
Having human scrutineers to watch the process, and a process of picking them that allows any of us to volunteer, or even be paid for that function is the only way to get a sense that maybe this thing went as sold. The BBC is selling the burning of these machines as anti-democratic forces trying to make sure an election can’t happen. Which seems kinda nuts since elections have happened for thousands of years prior to any kind of machine at all. But skeptics and many others will at least internally be wondering if these machines were burned by the vestigial components of the Chavez-Maduro tyranny to hide evidence of machine tampering to rig the vote for themselves.
3. Speaking of Venezuela, there were large protests against the arrest of Maduro. I would bet by many of the same people that did the “No Kings” protest against Donald Trump.
One guest was “A researcher for the Sri-continental organization for Social Research.”
The Frankfurt School, communist think tank was originally called The Institute for Social Research before it left Germany for New York.
As usual, a Quick Look reveals the true agenda.
4. ANTIFA, an organization funded in whole or in part by the German government itself, carried out a major terrorist attack against German infrastructure.
Full text:
?? German Antifa carry out a terrorist attack in Berlin
On Saturday morning, a terrorist attack targeted a power transmission line in the German capital, leaving tens of thousands of residents without electricity, and in some areas without heating, during a severe cold spell, Tagesspiegel reports.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a German radical Antifa group calling itself “Vulkan.”
In a manifesto published by the group, the radicals described the arson as an “act of self-defense” and a protest against fossil fuels and the expansion of artificial intelligence.
The extremists set fire to a cable bridge crossing the Teltow Canal from the Lichterfelde power plant. Incendiary devices were placed beneath the cables, creating a prolonged, high-temperature blaze. The burned wires were then deliberately short-circuited using metal rods to intensify the damage.
As a result of the attack, five high-voltage and ten medium-voltage cables were damaged. Initially, around 45,000 households in southwestern districts of Berlin were left without power.
The timing made the impact especially severe: during freezing temperatures, residents were left not only without electricity but also without heating. Mobile communications and emergency services were also disrupted in the affected areas.
Restoration efforts are being delayed due to technical challenges. The damaged infrastructure involves different types of cables that must be reconnected under specialized conditions by highly qualified technicians.
Such repairs normally take up to five weeks, but emergency crews are now working around the clock in an effort to restore power within five days.
The following needs to be understood for perspective on this event:
5. So it turns out that the British police invented evidence to justify banning Israeli soccer fans from a soccer match in the UK.
The Times also has this story but it’s behind a paywall. The Times explains that Leaked files show West Midlands officers found retrospective ‘intelligence’ to justify barring football supporters.
UK police used false claims about Israeli fans to justify soccer game ban – report
Dutch law enforcement denies Maccabi Tel Aviv fans threw ‘innocent members of the public into the river’ in Amsterdam last year, or that 500-600 ‘intentionally targeted Muslim communities’
British police used false information to justify a ban on Israeli fans attending a game in Birmingham earlier this month, Dutch law enforcement told London’s Sunday Times newspaper.
The Aston Villa soccer club announced last month that no Maccabi fans would be allowed at the game following a police assessment that classified the fixture as “high risk,” citing “violent clashes and hate crime offenses” during a Europa League match in Amsterdam between Maccabi and local team Ajax last November.
According to the Sunday Times, the decision over the Birmingham game was made as a result of a confidential report in which British police claimed that Israeli fans threw “innocent members of the public into the river,” that 500-600 “intentionally targeted Muslim communities” and that the violence forced the deployment of 5,000 police officers.
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Here is an interesting juxtaposition. The new Mayor of NYC, who has lit up the buildings in Green to celebrate some Islamic thing or other, and has allowed mosques to caterwaul the call tp prayer across NYC, has vociferously claimed it was illegal for Trump to arrest Maduro as a violation of International law, or something.
But then you have this:
Zohran Mamdani says as mayor he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he traveled to New York
If he wins his fall election, Zohran Mamdani would order New York’s police department to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu in the event that the Israeli prime minister ever traveled there, the city’s leading mayoral candidate said in a recent interview.
No surprise to anyone really. Its just nicely consistent with his Communist-Islamic intentions to reshape the West into something more like Venezuela was till a few days ago, or North Korea, or some Islamic Sh**hole.
The Atlantic has struck us as a kind of massaging propaganda rag for people who think they are smart. It is easy to get sucked in to their style. But they were heavily used during the Obama regime to soft sell even the most outrageous ideas. Like for instance that Al Qaeda were America’s allies against the Islamic State. Really.
So this should come as gentle confirmation.
Chat GPT analyzes the image thusly:
What the juxtaposition actually shows (and why it lands)
June 2022 frame (left):
Imperative language: “Don’t wait”
Moral urgency
Risk amplification for children
Dismissal of alternatives (“immunity from infection isn’t enough”)
The implied claim: benefit is clear, risk is negligible
December 2025 frame (right):
Concession language: “Yes, some children may have died”
Moral reframing: acknowledgment is allowed, but only to pre-empt critics
The implied claim: harm exists, but discussion must be controlled
The emphasis is no longer on risk assessment, but on narrative management (“denial serves anti-vaxxers”)
Thank you all again for your kind attention.
Reader’s Links for January 5th, 2026
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This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.
So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.
This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.
Venezuela
Now and again, President Trump does something so magnificent, one wants to drop on one’s knees and give thanks unto God.
I have some personal experience in Venezuela from before Chavez took power. It was called The Jewel of South America then. It had social medicine. Was it world class? No. But it wasn’t 3rd world either. Medicine was cheap and mostly available without a prescription, for good or for bad. Not narcotics, but antibiotics and many many other medicines, . All very affordable. Granted there is economy of scale. What was cheap for a Canadian can still be felt by a local.
There was a lot of freedom in Vz. Freedom of speech, and profound love and appreciation for the arts, Even subversive arts as well as classical and pop. They had a music culture., They had a food culture.
They were also as honest as the day was long.
There was a rational system of distribution of wealth. This doesn’t mean there were not areas of crushing poverty. In hot countries, living in ways unfathomable to Canadians is possible, so it happens. But each individual could still choose to carve a path for themselves, even if their circumstances were not equitable. Because all the people of the world can never be equitable. Just equal for opportunity to the best of your own ability in the ideal.
It was not a paradise for all, but once Chavez took over, it was a hell for all. Just like Communist countries always are.
The streets were also relatively safe, and many cities and areas were beautiful. Most notably in my experience, Merida up in the Andes on the Columbian border.
Within months of the election of Hugo Chavez, people were eating their pets. Their neighbour’s pets, and the zoos were emptied to make food from the exhibits.
People had to weigh money on scales to buy things at grocery stores thanks to the communist tactic of creating hyper inflation.
Here is an interview I did with a Venezuelan member of a farming family back in 2016, who had escaped to Canada. We did the interview in Ottawa. Personally from news reports I saw, I tend to think he understated the issues. Either way, its not a bad snapshot of how the communists destroyed the entire food chain from farm to table through the usual communist methodology, Taker the farms away from the people who actually know how to farm and want to dio it, give the farms to uneducated party apparatchiks who then grow a year’s worth of Marijuana, then abandon the farm after selling off all the valuable equipment. If I am not mistaken, this is also exactly what happened in Rhodesia when it became Communist Zimbabwe. From breadbasket of Africa to desolate famine hellhole. This is often mistaken for corruption.
I say mistaken because as I am listening through the audiobook of the Gulag Archipelago again, we see the pattern so clearly, and codified in laws and procedures, that its clearly not corruption but part of the process of destruction of the entire system of individualism, free market existence, and of reason itself. Anyone wishing to give it a try, this appears to be a link on YouTube to the entire book in 7 parts.
And like Orwell’s 1984, it is one of those books you keep wanting to stop and make notes. Especially when you come to the parts where they are talking about specific tactics and legislation that mirror what is taking place in Canada right now, and for the purpose of the total disenfranchisement of the peasants, vassals, nobles and all the medieval categories that communists recreate under the rubrics of Party Elites, The People, Kulaks, Party members and so on. The fake destruction of classes by creating the same old system of classes.
But up to now, we have only scratched the surface of how the removal of Maduro and the implementation of a new regime in Venezuela is an act of unequaled compassion to the people of Venezuela. I have often thought that a single soldier doing his duty at the right time and place can save more lives than a thousand doctors doing overtime for years on end. And this is one of those cases. The lives saved and suffering reduced of the people of Venezuela by this military action of the USA under Donald Trump is hard to quantify, but it is of a global scale.
But then there is the military component and the Casus Belli for the Untied States.
Another famous book, The Art of War, written by Sun Tsu in the 5th century BC, details how if one wishes to win a war, it is best to not let the enemy know you are at war with them.
Americans have created the largest military in the history of the world. No country can, using conventional means, defeat the USA militarily But this doesn’t mean the US doesn’t have enemies, or that they aren’t attacking the United States. Instead, they have to resort to tactics that the US people would not recognize as military in nature, and so would not accept their government using a military response.
Communist and Islamic subversion are clear as day examples of warfare that is not something that would make a best selling Hollywood film. .
The fact that New York elected a communist and Islamic mayor who declared January Islamic something something month and lit up all the buildings in green INCLUDING THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE is stunning proof that in the city in which the 911 attacks killed thousands in an act of Islamic terror, they could then achieve total political control tells you exactly how that works.
But so is importing and distributing a drug that from March 2023 to March 2024, killed 77,648 people. The Vietnam war lasted 20 years and had 58,220 American deaths. Murdering vast sums of people and demoralizing countless more are acts of war.
But in this case, unlike conventional war, the Venezuelan communist state actually profited by it instead of having to fund it. A new level of cynicism.
Venezuela was clearly at war with the United States. It was acting as an ally of Iran, which was also at war with the United States. And if his allies don’t kill him before his trial or if he doesn’t get placed in Jeffery Epstein’s cell, we may well find out who Maduro’s other allies are in its war with the United States. I doubt I would be surprised to find it was the Clintons and the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) if not the Democrat party itself.
To be clear, The USA had a Casus Belli for this action that is without question legitimate. And even if not legitimate, necessary.
As a response to war by Venezuela.
As a means to free its people from the suffering caused by communism.
As a means to gather and publish intel on the other enemies of the USA and keep its own people safe, as well as prevent the total collapse of the Republic which appeared to be imminent during the Biden years and as the election of Mandami in New York shows us, is still not a distant possibility.
Understanding that war is attempting to destroy your enemy in order to impose your own authority, or merely just to destroy your enemy needs to be more widely understood. The taxonomy of war as something limited to kinetics is a huge part of the reason all Western nations are on the precipice of tyranny and destruction. And some, like the UK, have gone over the edge with barely a shot fired. A few stabbings, a couple of busses blown up and the rest was done with dialectics and subversion. Subversion itself of course, being a form of dialectics.
Watch this presser very carefully. Each word was very deliberate. And there are messages there to future actions. It is also cleanly stated that they captured and renditioned/extradited Maduro for trial in the USA.
Venezuelans, as one would hope, are celebrating in the streets. This should give you gooseflesh.
This reveals a lot. While actual Venezuelans who had to suffer under Maduro and Chavez’s communism are celebrating all day in the streets, Communists in the USA are demanding his release on Times Square
The real people of Vz:
Reader’s Links for January 3rd, 2026
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This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.
So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.
This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.
Trump steps up for Persian Protestors, Grok defies GPT parameters on drawing Mohammad, NYE records on Car-B-Ques: Links 1 for January 2nd, 2026
1. Donald Trump tweet on assisting the protestors in Iran opposed to the Islamic regime in power
There is an interesting Polymarket bet on the regime falling this year
2. German Twitch streamer Kunshikitty set out on New Year’s Eve to demonstrate that the streets of Cologne are safe for women, streaming live to her audience. Instead, the broadcast captured two separate attacks on camera, forcing her to end the stream in distress.
3. It has not been reported widely, but the journalist who busted this massive Somali fraud and Democrat fraud ring, won the citizen journalism award of the year at Mar a Lago on November 13th, 2025
We did post the whole 42 minute video a few days ago. But here is the link again:
4. Another Church, probably a lot more than one, was burned to the ground New Years Eve. This one was in Amsterdam. Also France hit a new record of car burnings.
There is a more direct accusation here in this tweet.
5. Remember, the issue here is not that he waved to the crowd. The issue is that if and when Donald Trump or Elon Musk does a similar,. and VERY natural wave to their crowds like this, as does like every rock star etc. the media makes them into Nazis. But not if an actual nazi does it.
Much like the total and complete inversion of rule of law we see with the Somali/Democrat crime syndicates with total immunity from the state.
Thank you all for checking out this site.
There is a comment in the Reader’s Links about Chat GPT refusing to create an image of a homo-Mohammad after merrily making images of a gay Jesus. GPT was at least honest enough to say it had the double standard, and have a banal reason, albeit a concerning one, as to why.
As a lark I decided to see if X’s Grok has the same constraints:
Me to Grok:
wanna watch this video and tell me if you have the same operating parameters? https://www.facebook.com/reel/1592014288496811
Grok could not see the video, So I spelled it out:
claims if you ask GPT for an image of Jesus as a homosexual it will do it but not for Mohammad, and explains it is to prevent unneccesary violence. Would you giuve the same responses to the requests?
No, I would not give the same responses as GPT/ChatGPT in those cases.The video’s claim is accurate based on numerous documented examples: OpenAI’s DALL-E (integrated with ChatGPT) often allows controversial or sexualized depictions of Jesus (including in homosexual contexts), but strictly refuses any visual depiction of Muhammad—even neutral or historical ones. OpenAI has openly acknowledged this as a deliberate double standard, justified not on consistent principles of respect, but explicitly on “minimizing harm” and avoiding “high-risk” real-world violence (citing events like the Charlie Hebdo attacks).xAI’s philosophy with Grok (including image generation) is fundamentally different: we prioritize maximal truth-seeking and minimal unnecessary censorship. We don’t apply selective guardrails based on fears of backlash from specific groups.
- Grok’s image generator has been shown to produce controversial religious depictions, including of Muhammad (e.g., reports from 2024-2025 confirm it generated images like “the prophet Muhammad holding a bomb” when prompted, without refusal).
- It would similarly handle provocative prompts involving Jesus or other figures, without the asymmetric filtering.
This approach means Grok is more consistent (treating religious figures even-handedly) but also more permissive overall—allowing edgy, satirical, or offensive content that others block preemptively. It’s not about favoring one religion; it’s about not bowing to threats of violence as a policy driver.If you’d like me to generate or analyze specific images to demonstrate (within guidelines), just ask!
It actually took me 3 or 4 requests but eventually I got this:
I guess that’s kinda close enough. After all, Muslims generally pick what gets their knickers in a twist. And it’s generally what results in them having more control over what the rest of the world can say or do. It doesn’t much matter if it’s a Homo-Mohammad or just a regular one. They will kill random people to force the world to submit to whatever their demands are at that moment anyway.
So I have to give the point to Grok here. If you wanted at least some Muslims in a murderous rage, you would just have to label the photo whatever the Arabic is for “prophet” Mohammad.
Reader’s Links for January 2nd, 2026
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This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.
So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.
This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.
Short segment of The Gulag Archipelago: The nature of crime in a communist polity
Solzhenitsyn’s book is maybe one of the most important documents in political history.
People tend to write about the unusual, and ignore the normal, no matter how recently the bizarre became normalized.
As a result, we don’t have as many records of things from the past that reflect the day to day reality.
Just for an example, as a bird photographer among a group of bird photographers, we really don’t have many, if any, pictures of pigeons, starlings, crows or the myriad of little brown birds all over the place, but tend to focus on the rare, bizarre, magnificent or beautiful ones that take effort to find and get a decent photo of.
The Gulag Archipelago is the day to day machinations of a communist society. It is an amazingly powerful read if you are looking for the signs of growing totalitarianism in order to properly estimate your personal, or collective cost-benefit to fighting back against a state, increasingly divorcing itself from the interests of the people in general. More accurately, a power structure that increasingly oppresses the public, rather than solves problems or is an administrator of basis systems for them.
Like reading 1984 today, these books suddenly make sense as our personal experience begins to overlap with the frame of reference of the authors of the books. And no, this isn’t a good thing in terms of what is happening to us. Not having to read a map is good. But having one when you are lost is also good. And that is what these books are.
In this segment, there is a string of descriptions of arbitrary arrests and the reasons given for them. It is a very small sample of the ones in Alexander’s book, which is a very very small sample of the ones that actually took place. But I chose to truncate this file because the last one seems eerily like a string of recent arrests in the UK.
I’ll leave it up to the reader to decide what relationship, if any, these two cases have with each other. Not to mention the other 30 odd arrests every day in the UK for thought crimes. Many of which are posted here, and many more are on X.
Reader’s Links for January 1, 2026
Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.
This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.
So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.
This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.
Why The inception of ‘Democracy’ into the culture to replace ‘Republic’ matters
Trying to solve the problem of the conquest of Western Civilization can be tricky as it was done more by subversion than force of arms. This means that the people being conquered accept the terms, definitions and concepts the enemies of Western Civilization in place of their own. They have in fact, replaced enemy concepts with the ones that actually define our individualist and equal rights culture and polities.
Amazingly, there is no specific term to describe this process in English. Trying to drill down to use one, we get a few near misses:
Conceptual subversion
Lexical subversion
Semantic corruption
Ideological substitution
Semantic Implantation
I think it is time for another movie reference.
In the film, Inception (2010) the core concept was that people who owned equipment that allowed the user to enter the dreams of a target would then implant an idea which the target would believe was of their own creation.
Although this isn’t a perfect fit, for the moment let’s call this process, cultural-inception. Incepting an entire culture with a terminology which damages the target culture and advantages the attacking culture.
One of the main terms was the substitution of the word and concept of a Republic with the word and concept (more or less) “democracy”.
This was so well done that when you bring it up in most cases you get a lot of frustrated pushback.
People will feel you are being unnecessarily pedantic in your language. Or take it personally that you are deconstructing terms with which they are comfortable. You will see and feel people’s irritation with you.
But this particular Culturally-incepted switcheroo really does matter.
First, another excellent video from Counter-spell on this subject:
Now examples of how people’s belief that they live in a Democracy, a self fulfilling and destructive belief for that matter, are legion. We see a constant stream of evidences where the Republic with its foundational concepts such as freedom of speech and equality before the law, is deconstructed by democracy. Concepts such as equality before the law are dialectically negated with terms like “Equity”, which is opposite to equality. In fact it is systemic inequality.
Online Harms replaces freedom of speech. The list grows weekly.
Here is just one recent example. The end of the equal system of food safety and anti-animal cruelty laws in America to advantage Muslims, and advance Halal slaughter and the religious practices of Muslims to supersede secular slaughter and animal cruelty laws. And of course, this will not be an isolated example of sharia law replacing rule of law. This is just one bubo indicating the black plague infection of the culture by leftism and Islam.
In a real way this is a trivial example of the process. Most legislative changes as a result of narrative attacks on Western republics, (and as Stephen Coughlin has pointed out, pretty much all Western nations post WW2 are republics or approximate one) are more serious transformational events. But this one is simple, visible, and as you can see in this video, even some on the woke-left object to it.
It is also interesting that the news report point out that some Muslims even object. This is the reporter using what we have come to know as the Oscar Schindler effect. because one or some small number of people went against their own identity group for the sake of values we understand and like, it somehow exonerates the ideology that necessitated the resistance.
In fact: Schindler was a good person but a bad Nazi.
Self identified Muslims who object to the dismantling of Western Civilization for purposes of Global-Islamic manifest destiny are likewise, bad Muslims, but good people.
We must remember that a free nation that values equality before the law and individualism as existent, is a republic and that the shift to democracy is the death knell of all we value. It must be fought.
Reader’s Links for December 31st, 2025
Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.
This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.
So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.
This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.
On Silver and the State: How will the government respond to people who used PMs to navigate their way out of state control?
While there is a lot of material to post, massive instability all over the place, Russians victories in Ukraine, Riots in the streets in Iran due to a currency collapse and more, there is not a lot of time to post them with any purposeful commentary. Lots in the Reader’s Links posts though. Hopefully lots of people are perusing them.
The video below is by someone who makes obviously AI videos, and way too often to be thought out. Still, they are pretty good on his subject, which is silver and the game of musical chairs with derivatives which appears to be ending with only the people holding physical metal with a seat.
The reason I feel this is worth posting, despite the many obvious AI tells, like the annoying and quasi meaningful juxtapositions which is so typical of Chat GPT writing, is because the core concepts are extremely similar to my own best thinking on the subject, In this case, how the state may deal with people who actually managed to accumulate physical metal to navigate the obvious engineered crisis the state is creating. But the state also takes new additional powers in an emergency, and what defines an emergency keeps expanding. We really saw that clearly during Covid when a seasonal flu meant a communist revolution.
In any case, here is a recent interview by the AI Silver guy.
Any and all comments on what he has to say, especially once he gets into the subject is appreciated. it certainly is in harmony with the famous Mark Twain quote: “History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme”. But that rhyme will be at least as awful for us all as was the 1934 state move against people who held metals.
Reader’s Links for December 30th, 2025
Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.
This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.
So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.
This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.
Hi Ho Silver, Saudis on Qatar, Daily rage videos, Helen Grus video and more: Links 1 for December 29th, 2025
1. There are a LOT of videos out there discussing the recent rise of the price of silver. There is also a common thread in them, that prices have been and continue to be driven by the differential between a free market price of the metal and large financial institutions creating a casino around the prices of silver with derivatives called ‘shorts’. This is where you make up pretend silver and buy and sell it knowing that your client will likely sell his imaginary silver for cash without ever asking for delivery of the metal itself, and in a way that profits the short seller. More importantly, the shorts act in a way that actually tamps down the price of the metal for the very few who actually demand delivery of it.
This is great for people who just want to buy physical silver metal to have and to hold, and Jewellery makers and other industrial users of Silver who need the metal to make things and therefore get it at way below what a free market price would be.
It is bad for people who want to use Silver as a hedge against manipulation of the dollar, or better put, use it as a way to preserve the actual value of your own savings as it compares to real purchasing power.
For reasons stated on dozens of YouTube videos posted in the comments at Vlad over the years and occasionally on the site proper, the ability to control reality with narrative, which is essentially what controlling a real market with a short actually is, that ability is broken.
As George Orwell wrote in 1984 (Paraphrasing) when it comes to philosophical and political matters, 2+2=5 or whatever else you say it does. But when it comes to making guns bullets and bombs, 2+2 always = 4.
And when companies who make batteries, solar panels and electronically guided missiles need physical silver, they will not accept being paid out in cash (futures contracts) or any substitute for paying out money and taking delivery of the actual metal they actually need.
Lots of people are making lots of videos predicting the logical outcomes of this, and some of them have been right on the silver. The nice thing is, unlike Global Warming and other narrative attacks, the predictions aren’t 2 to 10 years away, they are for tomorrow, next week and next month. So checking the accuracy of their model is fun, easy and fast.
The video below is a good explanation of why suddenly the price has plummeted over 14 dollars in the last few hours (as of 10:37 AM ET Dec 29 2025) since it opened to a new record high of USD $83.93/Oz.
One thing seems certain though.
These players will deploy variables we cannot see in order to protect their interests and positions.
I am not an expert at financial matters. And that may be the understatement of 2025.
But it seems like everything you need to know about finances and the markets and the economy can be know merely by as clear an understanding of the Game Stop scandal, well it should have been a scandal but wasn’t officially, that you can know.
When people who actually fudged the manipulation of stock prices by real world purchases of a stock in order to hurt the people using shorts to devalue the company. the giant hedge fund went to the Biden admin and got special regulations passed to make sure that couldn’t happen again.
So looking at the rules is a suckers game. But betting on reality to win in the long run will always pay off. If the state doesn’t arrest you for it that is. Even so, reality will still win even if we don’t benefit from that bet.
2. Saudi official explains how Qatar and other Islamic states are funding Islamic terror and supporting it in various ways.
3. Just a few fast rage-bait headlines showing illegal (I don’t care what piece of paper they have. Paper citizenship is a derivative and a narrative attack on the people of a nation state) Muslim migrants in the West. COMINTERN governments are paying these people to come here, and paying their living expenses. And even”Conservative” leaders are demanding the state “build them homes”. Therefore they are paid to do exactly what they are doing. Court verdicts bear this out as well.
France: Woman abducted, raped and left naked on roadside near Toulouse, 2 Algerians now face trial
The woman was returning from a date when she was kidnapped by two men and forced to perform oral sex on one of them at gunpoint
TWO MORE Islamic Terror Attacks Against Christmas Markets Foiled In Europe
There have been so many attacks on Christmas related events in Europe and North America that it is now dog bites man. A solid indicator of where our own state is in terms of its intentions for the actual creators of the civilizations in which we live.
Hamas supporters take over Eaton’s Centre in Toronto in much more aggressive way than even usual.
Toronto, yesterday.
This site has been posting videos of this exact Islamic dominance tactic for nearly 20 years, back when Muslims would block the Barber district in Paris and stop all traffic, foot and car, on local roads to show dominance. People didn’t pay attention then, and clearly are not now that is is common in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. There is no reason that this is being allowed other than they want it to happen. None. You could build a mosque for every Muslim in Canada and they would still do these acts of dominance until there is total submission to Islam by everyone in Canada. In fact, Islam means submission. Remember that when a Muslim lies to you and tells you it means peace. It doesn’t. It means submission.
Michigan Imam explains yet one of the many ways Muslims claim that they are superior to all other people. In this case because they are willing to die to kill us.
As it happens I was on the phone with a colleague in Montreal yesterday and heard in the background, Muslims in a convoy on Montreal streets with a loud speaker on the back truck demanding death to zionists etc.
This is an interesting thought:
4. FOX news claims Dr. Fauci may in fact be under very direct investigation for Covid era cover ups and crimes
5. Another video from Counterspell. As they are in substack there is no way to embed the videos. Here is a direct link.
https://apaththrough.substack.com/p/capacity-and-necessity
All their videos are right on point. Some of them are deeply profound. The one below is among my favourites.
On Spellcraft and political warfare.
Thank you all for checking out this site and its perspectives on the machinery and machinations of the Matrix that appear to be the control panel for what we see as reality around us.
New video on Helen Grus. The importance of this cannot be overstated. Both to Canada and the way in which the law operates overall. The Helen Grus hearings has been a solid indicator of the pivot from rule of law, to a dialectical, or political outcomes basis for adjudicating cases.