“WE DON’T EXPECT TO GO TO WORK AND GET SWARMED:” Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out.
May 7, 2024
A FORMER SAUL ALINSKI TRAINER EXPOSES THE PRO-PALESTINIAN ‘PROTESTS:’ Richard Pollock knew most of the luminaries leading the 1960s radicals, being a roommate of Chicago 7 defendant Rennie Davis, and an expert trainer of New Left agitators using Saul Alinski’s “Rules for Radicals. Pollock is launching a new Substack column today that includes this observation:
“In 1971, as a member of the May Day Collective, I was asked to be the author of the ‘May Day Manual,’ an instruction book about how to close down the nation’s capital during a particularly aggressive period of anti-war protests.
“The May Day demonstrators boldly stated, ‘If the government won’t end the war, we’ll end the government.’ Protestors flooded DC’s streets in acts of civil disobedience. Interestingly, Democrats never called it an insurrection. I myself was arrested on the Capitol Building steps with about 700 other protesters.
“As Rennie was my roommate, I quickly met a ton of anti-war leaders, including Chicago 7 co-defendants Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Dave Dellinger, and the notorious radical lawyer Bill Kuntsler.
“Later, as a direct action civil disobedience instructor at the Republican National Convention in Miami, I taught demonstrators how to launch disruptive demonstrations. I was arrested and shared a prison cell with Allen Ginsberg.”
In other words, Pollock knows the Left like few others. With his new Substack column, he is analyzing the Alinski-inspired tactics and strategies underlying the Pro-Palestinian protests and violence that have erupted across the nation’s campuses this Spring. Pollock is providing an invaluable public resource with his analyses and it will be interesting to see who in official Washington pays attention.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I may be a bit biased since I’ve known and respected Pollock for years. He worked for me as a tremendously talented investigative reporter at the Washington Examiner and Daily Caller News Foundation. Among many other achievements, he was the first Right media journalist to expose the deep and malignant influence of far-Left Swiss billionaire Hans Wyss.
AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Media Should Honestly Report on the ‘Protesters.’ “News outlets have a duty to both accurately report the news and include the context necessary for readers to understand it. The Post article not only casts the whitewashing of Hamas and the murders it committed as “criticism” of Israel; it also fails to explain Hamas’s aims—which include the complete destruction of Israel by any means, including the mass murder of innocent civilians. What happens to public discourse around the most controversial issues when media outlets don’t talk about what we’re actually talking about?”
Plus: “The American media are whitewashing these protests because honest reporting would expose them as rabid anti-Semites and Hamas terror sympathizers … and raise lots of questions about the environment and pedagogy on American college campuses. And the media would rather paint them as sympathetic, which raises all sorts of questions about the media.”
No, it answers all sorts of questions about the media.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Former Biden DOJ Official Prosecuting Trump Was on DNC Payroll.
POUR RESOURCES INTO HIGHER EDUCATION, THEY SAID. IT WILL INCREASE THE STORE OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, THEY SAID.
Some economists tried to reproduce the results of 67 economics papers and they pretty much couldn't do it:
Even with help from authors, only half of papers ended up being reproducible, and this was still a problem at journals with required reporting of code and data. pic.twitter.com/CriUcBcxku
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 6, 2024
ON SUNDAYS I HAVE A PROMO POST ON MY BLOG FOR (MOSTLY) INDY WRITERS, BUT I’M RECOVERING FROM AN EAR INFECTION AND WAS SO CONFUSED YESTERDAY I FORGOT TO LINK IT: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
THE PRESS WANTS YOU DISTRACTED FROM THIS, AS DOES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION:
Your reminder that the Palestinians started this war by invading a country, raping its citizens, slicing the throats of babies, tying people up and burning them alive, shooting children in the head and then kidnapping over two hundred people – including toddlers – and raping and…
— leekern (@leekern13) May 7, 2024
SHOW SOME SPINE? WE’RE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS, WE DON’T NEED SPINES: Columbia cancels university-wide graduation ceremony after weeks of anti-Israel protests.
TRANSPARENCY IS FOR HER PARTY’S OPPONENTS: Smirking Kamala Harris shrugs off reporters’ questions about Hamas with sarcastic response: ‘Shrimp and grits’.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO RECONSIDER: When your policy is too lefty for Jacobin.
WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? ‘Only One Solution, Intifada Revolution’: Boston High School Students Join MIT Anti-Israel Encampment.
Do their parents think this is cute?
WE ON THE RIGHT ARE VERY CAT-LIKE. JUDGING BY HOW OFTEN WE POUNCE ON THE TRAGIC STUPIDITY OF THE LEFT: Republicans Pounce on EcoHealth Alliance President’s Testimony on COVID Origins.
And after pouncing we chew, but ultimately bat it behind the fridge to rot.
DROP THEM ALL INTO GAZA. FROM A HEIGHT OPTIONAL: ‘Oink oink, piggy piggy. We will make your lives shitty’ – Pro-Hamas protestors taunting NYPD.
THEY WANT US TO USE THE NATIVE SWAHILI NAMES: BBC is lost for words over elephant.
Why are they obsessed with Swahili? In the continent with most of Mankind’s languages, why are they obsessed with a synthetic trade language, as containing the wisdom of the ages? An African friend once told me the worst insult in Swahili was “Cook’s assistant.” Probably not true, but hilarious anyway.
LONDON IS FALLING: Sadiq Khan and four more years of pushing the Great Reset.
THIS CAUSES ME TO ENSURE THAT ANY FUTURE MEDICAL PEEPS I DEAL WITH ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH HARVARD: Harvard Medical School Students Rap in Cringe Idiocracy Video.
CLOWNWORLD: NWC’s Accidental Oversight, or Something Else?
Let’s have a call for papers for conference that includes the use of rape as a strategic weapon of war by non state actors, and then not mention a recent documented day when use of rape as a strategic weapon of war by non state actors happened.
PROTECTING ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM… TRESPASSERS? Journalist sends his undercover agent Cesar into a hotel for illegal aliens.
We for real live in clown world.
OKAY THIS ONE REALLY IS THE GERMANS’ FAULT: How Modern Graded Schooling Implements Fichte’s Ideas.
May 6, 2024
WELL, THERE IS THAT: Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that his presidency is an utter failure.
TRUE.
This is the truth. “But Gavin Newsom doesn’t work for the people of California – we are only paying his salary. He works for higher powers – China, the WHO, WEF, the UN. He’s even a graduate of the World Economic Forum’s Young Leaders program.” https://t.co/6pxgCXS6FB
— HK (@hezzopolis) May 6, 2024
WELL, YES: We’re Now in Full Goat Rodeo Mode in the NYC Trump Trial. “How many catastrophic yet entertaining courtroom fails can one team of prosecutors suffer before the judge calls a halt to this goat rodeo? It’s time to dismiss this case against Donald Trump after Friday’s testimony. But don’t get your hopes up. The bulldogger of this rodeo is the judge.”
