NOVELIST/ROMANCIÈRE

the manufactured spectacle of even a major life milestone like a wedding shows a clear desperation for attention. imagine being such a sellout that fans think you are putting easter eggs in your own wedding for their consumption.

and imagine them being so in denial about who you are as a person that they’re refusing to believe the actual details you’ve purposely leaked to the press about it. the need for a personal secret service with her everywhere she goes also reads as deeply misanthropic and paranoid. (don’t know why her and hers fans act like she’s the pope or something!)

it’s a bit tragic. hard to imagine it all as something she would’ve wanted for herself as a little girl.

then again wedding to a football player in a castle built within msg on july fourth does sound exactly like something a little girl would come up with.

Ripple Effect - Antonia Tyz Peeples

American , b. 1957 -

All these assholes who riot and harass people in the name of climate change, Palestine, social justice, or whatever else is fashionable right now aren’t doing it out of love for humanity. They’re doing it out of hate for humanity.

This is what everyone must understand: radical movements today are driven by misanthropy, narcissism and nihilism.

They’re not so desperate to help other people that they are driven to reluctant violence. This is a mere excuse, and a feeble one at that.

The fodder of these movements are miserable losers who feel that humanity hasn’t given them all the toys they deserve. For them, there is no joy in civilization. The leaders are power-hungry cynics who wish to command these armies of morons to gain power.

They’re using these issues, which they don’t understand and barely care about, as an excuse to harass people, to bully people, to destroy beautiful things which they cannot possess. 

Notice how no matter what their goal is, somehow it always include vandalism and the destruction of art and statues. 

They are people who hate humanity.

The suffering they cause is not a byproduct of their noble goals. Causing suffering is their goal. They are pure bullies.

Let’s import the entire third world to the West, let’s make sure people in Europe die from heat because they don’t have air conditioning, let’s make sure universities don’t teach because there is a war 10,000 kilometers away, let’s burn the country to defend criminals who abuse the innocent, let’s convince people to become extinct and be replaced by bronze age barbarians… that is not justice. That is not compassion. That is not virtue.

It’s not even virtue signaling.

It is their way to take revenge upon humanity, to make everyone else as miserable as they are.

So don’t forget: these people are not misguided, they are not desperate, they are not noble.

They are evil.

URI KURLIANCHIK

Risposta a Tommaso (di Cambiare Rotta). Israele non ha “deciso” di aprire 7 fronti per espandersi, ma si è trovato coinvolto in più teatri perché il conflitto con Hamas dopo il 7 ottobre 2023 si è allargato a una rete di attori ostili già esistenti. Ecco i “fronti” di cui di solito si parla e perché si sono aperti: ⸻ 1️⃣ Gaza (Hamas) – il fronte principale 7 ottobre: attacco di Hamas con…

The battle for our political sanity is a battle for truth about Israel. Americans must recognize that the Jews did not bring this distraction. The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies are hard at work to undermine the West.

Do you think The New York Times would ever run a story complaining that Russians were facing increased utility bills, inflation, and missile strikes, without making it clear from the start that these are the direct consequences of Russia's decision to invade Ukraine? Has The New York Times attacked the current restrictions and bans on Russian immigration implemented by the European Union in response to Russia's invasion, for example?

Evidently many people in the West don't know or do not want to know that well over half of the Arab invaders on October 7 were civilians. The reason that Hamas had untrammeled access to kibbutzes on that day was due to Arab civilians with work permits that had steadily collected information on the Israeli families employing them and passed that information onto the terrorist group. This was a betrayal as calculated as it is utterly sickening. This is why Israel has drastically restricted Arabs from Areas A and B of the West Bank, as well as from Gaza, from obtaining work permits, while maintaining reliance upon foreign workers from India, Nepal, and Thailand.

"In our life there is a single color... which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

His claimed reason? The Allies must not “negotiate with the Nazis.” Ok — let’s consider the context.

By then, the Final Solution was in full operation. Yet Britain had slammed the gates shut years earlier. The 1939 White Paper gutted the legally-binding Mandate for Palestine, capping Jewish immigration to a tiny quota and requiring Arab consent for anything more (which was never coming).

And the British enforced the White Paper viciously and sometimes violently.

The Royal Navy actively intercepted refugee ships, fired on some, arrested survivors, and interned them in Cyprus or Mauritius — or turned them back toward certain death in Nazi-occupied Europe.

The Struma tragedy was the direct result: nearly 800 Jews fleeing Romania were refused entry, towed out to sea, and sunk in the Mediterranean — with only one survivor (see image).

Britain was a supposed ally fighting Hitler. And in doing so, they most certainly were an ally of all humanity. 

Also true: as of the 1939 White Paper, Britain became an active obstacle to Jewish survival — prioritizing Arab relations and oil interests as another appeasement of aggression after Munich. 

Jews were trapped between the Nazi murder machine and a British blockade on the one place ready and legally obligated to take them in.

When Jews had no state of their own, even their supposed allies treated their survival as a diplomatic inconvenience to be managed.

Joël Dicker.

Un animal sauvage. 397 pages.

Rosie Wolfe éditions.

2 juillet 2022, deux malfaiteurs sont sur le point de dévaliser une grande bijouterie de Genève. Mais ce braquage est loin d’être n banal fait divers… Vingt jours plus tôt, dans une banlieue cossue des rives du lac Léman, Sophie Braun s’apprête à fêter ses quarante ans. La vie lui sourit. Elle habite avec sa famille dans une magnifique villa bordée par la forêt. Mais son monde idyllique commence à vaciller. Son mari est empêtré dans ses petits arrangements. Son voisin, un policier pourtant réputé irréprochable, est fasciné par elle jusqu’à l’obsession et l’épie dans sa vie la plus intime. Et un mystérieux rôdeur lui offre, le jour de son anniversaire, un cadeau qui va la bouleverser. Il faudra de nombreux allers-retours dans le passé, loin de Genève, pour remonter à l’origine de cette intrigue diabolique dont personne ne sortira indemne. Pas même le lecteur.

Mon avis :

Intéressant comme histoire, il y a une intrigue jusqu’à la fin. Tous les personnages du roman sont un peu louches, qu’on se demande qu’est-ce qu’il se passe avec eux. Le début du livre est plutôt calme, jusqu’à ce que le suspense s’installe. On suit surtout deux familles, une plutôt très confortable ayant énormément d’argent et parfois on se demande d’où sort tous ces sous. Et l’autre famille un peu moins aisée qui doit travailler fort pour y arriver. Dans cette famille qui l’a moins facile, le père est policier qui aime le voyeurisme. Et la conjointe est un peu jalouse et envie Sophie de la famille riche. Donc, elle essaie et elles deviennent amies. Tout au long du récit, on revient dans le passé. Au départ, c’est facile de suivre. Plus que l’histoire avance, plus le récit est détaillé et il y a beaucoup d’informations pertinente à retenir. On suspecte un personnage puis on change d’idée tout au long du roman. La fin est intéressante!