{"id":9193,"date":"2019-03-05T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T08:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9193"},"modified":"2019-03-05T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T08:27:30","slug":"tripod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9193\/","title":{"rendered":"TriPod"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a few podcasts I’ve listened to recently that have turned out to be better than expected. First up was Lauren Southern’s<\/a> appearance on James Delingpole’s new podcast. I’m no great fan<\/a> of Southern but she actually showed considerable maturity when talking about her most recent documentary Borderless<\/em><\/a>, about illegal immigration. She said when she and her crew moved from the destination areas to the places the migrants come from she realised the whole documentary would have to change. What she learned was there are professional people trafficking operations selling a dream of an idyllic life in Europe, and charge hopefuls several thousand dollars to make the trip. They have all the logistics worked out, they know the crossing points and which techniques to use at each (which includes charging fences en masse), and coach people to pass the refugee assessment process. They tell migrants they will be welcomed on arrival, given every means of support, and presented with opportunities for work. They get away with such lies because half the west – including politicians and national newspapers – publicly declare that refugees are welcome and citizens have an obligation to accept them. Every time a politician gives a speech about how tolerant their country is and how migrants have always been welcomed there, it is used by ruthless gangsters to sell their people-trafficking services. Only when the migrants arrive they find themselves sleeping rough having blown $5k to get there, and spend years bouncing from one country to another on rumours of better opportunities. Southern showed a degree of empathy towards these people’s plight which is all at odds with her public image, and she reserved her disgust for those in the west who are directly or indirectly aiding and abetting the people traffickers. She was particularly contemptuous towards those anonymous people in the British government who ensured she was permanently banned from entry to the UK. She is right on both counts.<\/p>\n

The second podcast was Johann Hari’s<\/a> appearance on Joe Rogan, in which he talked about drug addiction, its causes, and the history of America’s war on drugs and its appalling consequences, particularly in Mexico. I never liked Hari, having been aware of him when he blogged over at Harry’s Place and made a big deal of his being gay (he never once mentions this in his Rogan interview), and I assumed his career was over once he’d been caught manufacturing quotes. I started listening in the expectation I wouldn’t get through the whole thing, but I was pleasantly surprised by how Hari stuck on topic and really got deep into the issue at hand. It’s worth a listen.<\/p>\n

The third was Alex Jones<\/a> on Joe Rogan. Alex Jones has a deserved reputation as being a nutter, but the way social media giants conspired to remove him<\/a> from their platforms should concern everyone. The interview isn’t great in terms of a listening experience (although Jones in full rant is somewhat amusing, especially when he stops himself and apologises) but what is clear is Jones is not a hateful person, let alone dangerous. Sure he believes in some seriously deranged ideas, but then so do lots of people including senior politicians. The most disturbing thing in the interview is when he spoke of being added to some obscure list as “promoting hate” which had the same effect as being labelled a terrorist. All but one of his banks withdrew their services at the same time, citing his inclusion on this list. As I’ve said before<\/a>, governments are increasingly leaning on private companies to silence inconvenient voices, a process helped by those on the right who insist this is their right and targeted individuals are free to find another bank or start their own. As the Zman says<\/a>, Americans now have more to fear from corporations than their own government:<\/p>\n

Banks are now cancelling accounts, because they have deemed the client to be in violation of their HR polices. Visa and MasterCard are making private war on the gun industry. How long before someone like Jared Taylor finds he cannot get a credit card or bank account? How long before his bank calls his mortgage or his insurance company cancels his policy, because he is a blasphemer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Between encouraging people traffickers, financing drug cartels, and silencing wrongthinkers it’s sometimes hard to justify voting for politicians instead of putting them in front of a firing squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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