There’s a long list of names now connected to Epstein.

I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of elites who had no or barely any connection to him, as least so far as proven by public documents.

See if you can spot any common threads:

• Mark Zuckerberg
• Jeff Bezos
• Warren Buffet
• Satya Nadella
• Tim Cook
• Rupert Murdoch
• Oprah Winfrey
• Steven Spielberg
• Jay-Z
• Barak Obama
• Joe Biden
• George W. Bush
• Boris Johnson

What do they all have in common?

If it helps, trying grouping them by category. I’ve already hinted at this in the order.

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Imagine if you met a version of yourself from a parallel universe where you took a different turn.

A different career, a different choice, whatever.

That’s what happened to me, and I found it disturbing.

When I was around 16, it occurred to me that I should try to go my whole life without wearing a tie.

Why?

I don’t know. I suppose I absorbed by osmosis that wearing a tie was selling out, man. It meant you’d got some boring job and cared about appearances more than, like, real shit.

Who knows the nonsense that goes through teenagers’ minds. My mate of the same age decided it would be cool to never leave Australia in his whole life. Three years later he was on surfing trips to Indonesia.

What set me apart was that I had a lot of these teenage principles, and I held them well into my twenties: wear daggy clothes exclusively, no haircut, be vegetarian, give a percentage of my piddling income to a Third World charity, no corporate jobs, buy no products that were too ‘consumer’ or unnecessary. No driving to university (bus or bike only). My only investment was an ‘ethical investment’ platform where the returns were donated to charity instead of reinvested because I thought it was unacceptable for money to make more money.

At the same time, I had utter contempt for anyone who did not live up to my strict principles – marketing students, people who ate meat, people who lifted weights (I forgot that one), people who paid attention to their appearance.

I had not thought of all this nonsense for many, many years, until I recently I met a guy who brought it all back.

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When I first moved to Taiwan, I bought a millionth-hand 125cc scooter from an American for $50.

The small amount of paint left on it was purple. It pulled to the right. Otherwise, it was okay.

He threw in the helmet for free.

This was a ‘ghost bike’ – a bike that was unregisterable because it had passed through too many hands and previous owners were uncontactable. It actually came with papers from a guy who’d once owned it maybe 15 years ago, and who knows if he was still in the country or even alive.

As Asian countries develop, law gradually spreads from the city centres to the mountains. At that time, you could ride ghost bikes out in the sticks without a problem but you’d run into police checkpoints in the cities.

I rode it into the city.

I think I saw a terrible film there with a terrible girl, but anyway I’d just started driving home when some other riders pointed out my taillight was dead.

There was nothing for it but to keep going.

Then I realized: as it was Saturday night, it was very likely that I’d run into a checkpoint. That would be bad for me because I was breaking… I counted… four laws at once.

Broken taillight. No registration. No license. No insurance.

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When I was a kid, my family once made the epic road journey from miserable, freezing Melbourne all the way up to tropical northern Queensland.

Summer’s too short for a kid in Melbourne. You want it to be at least 30 degrees for a good day at the beach, but the best nearby beaches are even further south than Melbourne, jutting down into the icy Bass Strait, and the changeable weather there often disappoints. On a weeklong camping trip to the Great Ocean Road you’d be lucky to have one real beach weather day.

For me, Queensland was paradise.

T-shirt weather every day! Pineapples! Coconuts! Lush, tropical rainforests with vines you can swing from like Tarzan! Endless, yellow beaches so hot you can’t stand still in bare feet or you’ll hear sizzling.

At that time in the 80s, all things tropical were cool, like fluro coloured shirts with palm tree designs and that sort of thing. Popular songs sang of equatorial getaways. These were clearly the best places in the world and grey old Melbourne sucked. Everyone who was able to move to Queensland, did.

Now that I actually live in the tropics, I can see the other side.

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This is an excerpt from my new collection, Tales From Madness.

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By ‘Min Jee Park’. Translation by Hyun Jun Lee. First published in Better Dreams, the in-house magazine of a Busan health facility. Republished here with permission from the original publisher and the author’s family. Slightly edited for clarity and readability. Names and places have been changed.

This is a first-hand account written by a patient suffering psychosis. The ‘Elevator Game’ is an urban legend of unclear origin.

Min Jee continues to receive treatment.

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Seung Joo, who was my friend in middle school, told me about this thing called the elevator game. She said she saw it on the internet. I don’t know if she really believed it or not, but sometimes we want to joke while imagining scary things. We become scared while knowing that it has no relation to reality, and then we become really scared. It’s like turning off the light when watching a thriller movie. If the light is on, we can see the real world and, if we turn our eyes from the screen, we can know what is real and what is fake. But if we turn off the light, we feel like what comes out on the screen is reality and, in the darkness, we imagine eyes and movements.

The rule is this. We have to ride an elevator alone and go up to floors in a decided order. The order is 1st floor, 4th floor, 2nd floor, 6th floor, 2nd floor, 10th floor, 5th floor, 1st floor. A woman gets on at the 5th floor, but we must not talk to her or greet her at all. This is important. She will keep trying.

If you do it wrong, when you press 1st floor the last time, the elevator will go to 1st floor. Then you have to go out of the building right away. Because they just say that. You must not look back.

If you do it right, when you press 1st floor the last time, the elevator will go to 10th floor. Then if you get off, it’s a different dimension.

That’s the game.

Me and Seung Joo liked scary games. It’s much more fun to do something in reality than to just see a screen or a book. We talked about how we should do it once and worried about where we should do it and imagined what there would be in the different dimension.

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We went too far with Covid restrictions, says Germany’s pro-lockdown minister

. . . Some Covid restrictions were “idiocy” and lengthy school closures were an “unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief has admitted.

Karl Lauterbach, who became the face of the pro-lockdown movement, said some regulations went too far.

“Much of what we did was right, but what was idiocy was the things like jogging with masks, or rules for outdoors. Those were excessive,” Mr Lauterbach said.

Mr Lauterbach, of Olaf Scholz’s ruling Socialist party, also conceded that too little attention had been paid to the wellbeing of children, describing school closures as “a big mistake”.

Global competitiveness of Japan’s universities under scrutiny

While written from a left perspective, this article’s descriptions of the Japanese university system could equally be written about the Japanese anything else:

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I said that I wouldn’t post on the you-know-what anymore and I haven’t for a year or so, but it’s time to make some concluding remarks.

It’s now been about three years since the Dawn of the Coof and about two years since the first people started receiving shots for it.

Half the people online were screeching that those who didn’t get the shots would end up dead of Coofitis. The other half were screeching that anyone who did get the shots would be dead of side effects.

Seriously, Red thought Blue would all be through and Blue thought Red would all be dead. People seriously predicted this was going to solve the West’s Cold Civil War by wiping out the other side, though I could elicit specific numbers from few because they backed off when challenged, but then they’d return to the frontline trenches of ‘they will all die’ as soon as my shelling question bombardment ended. Motte and bailey is largely a psychological tactic rather than a rhetoric one; it allows people to hold a more exciting view than the facts allow.

The overall result still isn’t clear except that most of us somehow survived it all.

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We find our story today in the Australian state of Victoria, most famous for its spectacular coastline, cute penguins and tyrannical government.

This is the article that piqued my interest:

Too many women, not enough sperm: The Victorian donor dilemma

Executive summary:

• There’s a lack of Caucasian sperm available in Victorian sperm banks
• The pandemic is to blame because donors would not leave the house
• Women want YT sperm because their infertile husband is white or because they don’t feel confident raising a child of another race without that ethnic experience blah blah you get it
• Demand has also increased
• There are some local laws that make it hard to import sperm from elsewhere

The article is vague and raises more questions that it answers. I dove down the rabbit hole and this is what I found.

No white sperm?

Australia is still around 60-70% white if you count Greeks, Italians and so on. I suspect some women seeking donors do not.

Fertile women seeking mates are the world’s most unapologetic eugenicists. They eliminate short genes more enthusiastically than Karl Brandt exterminated the disabled.

There’s no word on a shortage of tall DNA in Victoria but all involved know they’re not allowed to talk about that. Mentioning the white sperm issue is risky enough.

I would make a guess that proportionally more white women than other women are seeking donors, which would partly explain the Caucasian shortage. Australia’s next two biggest ethnic groups, East and South Asians, generally belong to cultures that frown upon single motherhood.

The fathers can now be contacted for comment

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Here it is. I had requests for this as some don’t like to use Amazon.

Also, SovietMen will be going on hiatus for a month or so while I chase some dragons. Ooroo.

In a comment, Luisman mused as to why immigrants continue to come to the West. I’ll try to dissect the reasons in this post.

The First Immigration Paradox

1. The West is uniquely racist and white people are responsible for most of the world’s problems.

2. Non-white immigrants continue to flock to the racist West in order to be discriminated against by evil white people. Some cross deserts and oceans, risking rape and death to do so.

The Second Immigration Paradox

1. The West is in catastrophic decline and Asia is rising.

2. Many immigrants, including Asians, continue to flock to the declining West.

Confusing, no?

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In democracies, politicians are often lauded for harmful policies and derided for sound ones.

Joe Biden does a good thing

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Some time ago I tried looking up total death rates for different countries to get a mathematical view of Covid’s impact. Curiously, one of the countries that compiles and releases its data first is Sweden.

What I found was so interesting that this post will only consider Covid in passing as it investigates broader trends.

Have a look:

You can see the Covid bump in 2020, likely to be repeated in 2021, but there are many other interesting things going on in this graph.

First, there’s a very obvious downward trend over the decades. You can see how improved nutrition, medicine etc. over the last century led to dramatically lower death rates, especially among infants.

There’s also a bulge over the 1980s. This is no doubt due to the age structure of society at that time as the graph shows crude death rates that are not adjusted for the age of the population.

Do you see those really big spikes? That’s what major pandemics look like. No doubt you can spot the Spanish Flu of a century ago.

Notice how early years have much more irregular death rates due to pandemics (mostly), harsh winters, crop failures and other perils of the pre-modern period. Compare to how death rates smooth over the twentieth century along with economic and technological development.

Most people understand that death rates have gradually declined since the Olden Days but it’s surprising to see that mortality has continued to drop even in the twenty-first century. In Sweden’s case, this decline is such that the Covid blip pushed 2020’s mortality rate up to what would have been normal a decade ago and still well below the average of two decades ago.

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This is an extract from The Poor Man’s Guide to Financial Freedom: A Realistic, 10-Step Manual to Building Liberating Wealth on a Low to Medium Income.

Save an emergency fund first, or pay off debts first?

The next chapter explains what an emergency fund is, where to save it and how large it should be.  It is essentially a rainy-day fund, and you definitely need one for financial freedom. 

But you also need to rapidly pay off your debts in order to reach financial freedom, as will be explained in the chapter after that.   Which of these should you do first?

Here is the order of operations:

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Note: this article contains no links to the forums mentioned because these guys get bullied enough.  Search them out if you like, but be nice.

I am a serial lurker.  I lurk all sorts of places I ought not be – MumsNet, forums for marriage problems, Jezebel comment threads.  I am very curious about these other worlds.  One of the places I lurk is incel forums.

I find them entertaining, not in a cruel way, but in a genuine way.  Sometimes those guys can be extremely funny.  One notable post described how the OP accidentally drank his own urine (long story), and the comments that followed were hilarious.  At least one other member confessed to doing the same thing by confusing his bottles by his bed, and then another member demanded to know why suddenly everyone was pissing in bottles.  There were several other funny comments that rely too heavily on in-jokes to explain here.  For the initated: “It’s over for pisscells.”  “Incel trait: drinking your urine.”  Bwahaha.

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Australia’s heritage population is partly descended from convicts sent from England and Ireland.  It’s no secret.  We brag about it!

And we cheerfully assume that this convict stain which we’re so proud of has contributed to our culture, making us egalitarian, anti-authoritarian, cheeky, unserious.  And yes, there are aspects of that.

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One of my goals is to read the Western Canon in order to better understand our world and to be less ignorant.

There are lists available here and there, all hotly disputed.   I have selected from these and added to it several eastern works which have had a significant impact upon our history and culture.

So, here is what I’ve got. I have probably omitted Read More