Saturday, 29 September 2018

NORMAL DAY AT FACEBOOK: 50 MILLION ACCOUNTS BREACHED

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg
In yet another normal day at Facebook, the social media company has told users not to panic again after it was revealed that some 50 million accounts may have been compromised by a security flaw, as usual. 

The totally normal, run-of-the-mill problem occurred when hackers exploited a trio of software flaws to steal "access tokens," using the "view as" feature. These are equivalent of digital keys that enable people to automatically log back into the social network. 

But then this is the sort of thing that happens at Facebook all the time anyway.

The perfectly normal abuse of privacy and personal security was revealed on Friday, when Facebook announced that up to 50 million accounts may have been breached by the hackers. But of course it could have been announced on any day of the week.

As people kind of know this sort of thing is happening all the time, the social network's efforts to convince users to trust it with their data suffered no real blow. I mean Facebook's reputation is already as low as it can go.

The social network said it is investigating the harm done, and may try to protect users' data by selling it to several criminal organisations and possibly China for safekeeping, while banning users for using hate speech words like "men," "women," and "bake the cake."

The company's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg drank a glass of water to show his sympathy with the Earthlings who use his service.

"We don't know if any accounts were actually misused," Zuckerberg said. "But if they were that's entirely not our fault because my home planet is about to be swallowed by a black hole, which is why I came to your puny planet, despite its low low-methane atmosphere and lack of radioactivity."

Facebook has now reset the 50 million breached accounts. This means users will need to sign back in using their passwords. Once that is done, the passwords will instantly be stored in a top secret file along with  DNA data, gathered from tiny flakes of skin that have fallen into the keyboard as you type. This will then be stored on a stick memory which will then be left on a window sill somewhere to cool. 


Wednesday, 26 September 2018

SWEDES SIGNAL THAT CHANGING PARTNERS IS "SEXIST" AND WON"T BE ALLOWED WITH ATTACK ON "DISTRACTED BOYFRIEND MEME"


We live in an age of creeping totalitarian and slithering censorship. Just a few days ago the European Parliament passed a law that could actually ban memes. Now, in a further assault on our freedom to meme, Sweden's official Advertising Ombudsman has come out with a vicious attack on one of the best-loved of all the memes, the famous  'Distracted Boyfriend Meme.'

Based on a stock photo of a man turning away from his girlfriend to look at an attractive lady, the meme is used to comment on a wide variety of situations. After Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof used the image in a jobs advert, the Swedish advertising watchdog launched its vitriolic attack and ruled that the ad was "gender-discriminatory." 

According to the Stassi-like ad-policing agency, the meme presents women as "interchangeable sex objects" and perpetuates this idea among men. 

"It portrays women as interchangeable objects, and that only their appearance is interesting," wrote the ombudsman in a unanimous decision. "According to the committee, the objectification is reinforced by the fact that women are designated as workplace representatives while the man, as the recipient of the advertisement, is being produced as an individual."

Bahnhof attempted to defend its decision to use the meme. A statement from its head of communications Anya Alenberg and CEO Jon Karlung said the company's intent was to "show that Bahnhof is an attractive employer and that those who have a slightly less good employer could be interested in us."

"Everyone who follows the internet and meme culture knows how the meme is used and interpreted. Man, woman or neutral gender is often irrelevant in this context. We are an internet company and are conversant in this, as are those who would look for a job with us, so we turned to that target group. If we should be punished for anything, it's for using an old and tired meme."

FFS, you can see exactly where the feminazis and betacucks who run Sweden ultimately want to go with this one. 

If ads and memes that show men changing sexual partners -- or even just thinking about it -- are "sexist" then the actual act of changing a girlfriend is even more sexist, which under Swedish law will soon make it criminal and worthy of time in a "reeducation gulag." 




Tuesday, 25 September 2018

GERMAN JEWS SET UP GROUP TO SUPPORT WHITE NATIONALISM


Jewish organisations the World over have earned a nasty reputation for clamping down on healthy White nationalism and identitarianism. 

Unfortunately, this has also driven a lot of anti-Semitism, leading to a vicious downward spiral of more anti-White nationalism followed by more anti-Semitism in the West. 

This is a real pity because the interests of Jews and non-Jews alike are both threatened by mass immigration and the rise of the "Globohomo" promoted by the Left.

Now it looks like a group of Jews in Germany are about to change all that by setting up a Jewish group that actually supports White nationalism and identitarianism. 

As reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:

According to the influential daily newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), an association of Jewish supporters of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) will announce its incorporation with an event on October 7.

The news – following polls showing the AfD as Germany’s second most popular party – came in a letter to the FAZ, the newspaper reported. The letter’s authors were not named.

Naturally, the older Jewish organisations, heavily invested -- both emotionally and financially -- in their false, civilisation-destroying, globalist, anti-White narrative are none too happy:

Mainstream Jewish organizations and community leaders have condemned the AfD for its xenophobic views. In addition, some of its politicians have relativized the Holocaust and flirted with neo-Nazi groups, while claiming to be pro-Israel.

News of a Jewish AfD club was met with swift condemnation from the non-partisan Jewish-German “Values Initiative,” which in a statement expressed “surprise and concern.”


“We believe that any involvement in this party is wrong, because it uses its alleged Jewish or Israeli friendship in particular to gain legitimacy for its agitation against Muslims,” according to the statement. It called the party’s failure to criticize its extreme right wing tantamount to an endorsement of neo-Nazism.

There is bound to be a lot of kvetching and throwing around of the N-word by the Jewish "Old Guard," most of whom are still mentally living in the 1930s, instead of the present-day dystopia, where mass immigration and constant White cucking is creating a society deeply hostile to all Whites, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. 

Also, those Jews like (((Weev))), (((Andrew Anglin))), and (((Mike Enoch))) who have a personal interest in promoting a disgusting form of Nazitard White nationalism will find this move deeply disturbing.

TRS's Mike Enoch when he is not LARPing as
Andrew Anglin's "more reasonable" wing man.
 

But, to anyone with half a brain or more, the creation of a group of Jewish AfD supporters makes perfect sense in today's World. 


As the French novelist Victor Hugo once famously said, "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.


NEW EVIDENCE EMERGES THAT KAVANAUGH WAS JACK THE RIPPER


Since the late 19th century the identity of Jack the Ripper has been a closely guarded secret. But now, thanks to the Senate hearings on the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the cloak of anonymity that has covered the identity of one of history's most evil killers has finally been lifted.

Democratic Party Senators, keen to get at the truth, have managed to have Jack the Ripper's year book unearthed from the archives of Scotland Yard in London and flown specially to Washington to compare with the pages from the yearbook of Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court. 

Dated 1863, the Ripper's Yearbook reveals that Jack the Ripper, like Kavanaugh was part of a deeply misogynist subculture at his boarding school, located somewhere in the English countryside. The Ripper's page offers a sickening glimpse of the twisted teenage mind of a man who would later go on to stalk the mist-enshrouded streets of London and cut up old tarts. 

On his page the Ripper makes crude remarks about women, calling them "saucy jades" and "cheesy strumpets" who should be "pressed into domestic service," a possible reference to anal rape.

The yearbook paints a picture of lots of cricket, cold baths, plenty of unlicensed tea drinking, and "outings" to other parts of the county. Among the reminiscences of "rides" on omnibuses and hunting beggars for sport there is a mysterious entry: "Renate Alumnius," written clearly in biro pen (invented 1943). 

This is a direct connection between Kavanaugh and the ruthless caped and top-hatted figure who brought terror to the streets of London in 1888 with a string of grisly murders of clapped-out prosties, as the same word “Renate” also sickeningly appears at least 14 times in Kavanaugh’s 1983 yearbook, both on individuals’ pages and in a group photo of nine football players, including Kavanaugh himself.

This has led some analysts on the internet and Democratic Senators to speculate that Kavanaugh and Jack the Ripper are in fact one-and-the-same person, committing crimes against women in different time-space continuums either through the use of a time machine, as explained in H.G. Wells's Victorian novel of the same name, or else through a process of "split incarnation" or "parallel lives." 

This is a process by which one soul -- in this case the very evil soul of a violent murderer and aspirant Supreme Court judge -- can exist in two bodies in separate times and locations, as detailed on the internet here.

Eyes of the Ripper?
Walter Semkiw, MD, an acknowledged expert on the phenomenon, explains the mechanism by which the process takes place:

How does split incarnation work? Though we don't know for sure, we can imagine split incarnation as similar to how a mirror can split a beam of light into two or more beams of light.  Similarly, the soul can project more than one beam of light or energy template into physical incarnation at a time.

We can imagine two splits as two arms of a human being.  Each arm has its separate existence, yet both arms are controlled by one brain or mind. In split incarnation, we can see two splits as two appendages of the soul. How many splits can a soul project onto the physical world at a time?  As is discussed in the section, Soul Evolution, it is believed that the maximum number is about seven, though having this number of splits at the same time is rare.

So, not only is Brett Kavanaugh very likely Jack the Ripper, but he could also be Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Genghis Khan, Judas Iscariot, and Pee Wee Herman as well. 

And this is the kind of man that Donald Trump wants to sit in judgement on the nation's morals for the next 40 years!




Monday, 24 September 2018

ISRAEL'S "TERRORIST" AIRFORCE GETS ITS WINGS CLIPPED AFTER PUTIN OKAYS S-300s


As first predicted here in the immediate aftermath of the shooting down of a Russian surveillance plane with the loss of 15 aircrew, Russia has decided to go ahead and improve Syria's air defences with the installation of an S-300 missile Surface-to-Air defence system.

As reported by Russia Today:

Within two weeks Russia will deliver to Damascus an S-300 air defense system, previously suspended on a request by Israel. It comes as part of [a] response to the downing of a Russian Il-20 plane amid an Israeli air raid on Syria.

Moscow accused Tel Aviv of failing to inform Russia about its impending attack on targets in Syria, which resulted in a downing of the Russian electronic warfare aircraft by Syrian return fire. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the defense ministry to take several measures in response to the incident, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Arguably, the most concerning thing for Israel will be the delivery to Syria of an S-300 anti-aircraft system, which will boost Syria’s capabilities to deny Israel access to its airspace. The system was purchased by Damascus several years ago, but never delivered.

The S-300 will be a real upgrade for Syrian defences and make it much harder for the Israeli Air Force to violate Syrian air space. The Israel AF has made literally hundreds of illegal sorties into Syria since the Syrian Civil War started in 2011. 

Might be people from a state we are not officially
at war with hiding in that kindergarten.
With Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad now firmly back in control of the vast majority of his country, the Syrian government is also in a much better position to retaliate against Israel's clearly illegal actions against Syria. 

Israel claims these attacks, which include aerial bombings and support for anti-government forces, are "justified" by the presence of Iranian troops invited into Syria by the country's legitimate government. This is an absurd reason to justify terrorist bombings of Syria, as Israel is not even officially at war with Iran so they have no legal or moral basis to bomb Iranians in the country, let alone Syrians.

While Iran's support for Hezbollah, the Shiite Militia organisation in Lebanon, may be seen as a legitimate concern for Israel, it is one that it should address through diplomatic channels. In this sense maintaining good relations with President Putin of Russia would be extremely beneficial. 

Instead, by pursuing a gung-ho terroristic foreign policy, Israel has only succeeded in dangerously isolating itself and empowering its enemies. As we reported in May, Israel's aggressive stance towards Lebanon was a major factor in Hezabollah's election success. 

By trying too hard to be pro-Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu has merely succeeded in becoming the most damaging leader for Israel, which has always depended upon the goodwill of the wider world and grudging respect from its neighbours.



PEAK ANTI-TRUMP REACHED AS MOORE'S LATEST DOCUMENTARY FLOPS


Whether Republicans or Democrats, it seems that the members of the public are just plain bored with the liberal media's constant kvetching about Trump. A sure sign that we have now reached "Peak Anti-Trump" is the extremely poor performance of Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Fahrenheit 11/9," which takes its name from November 9th 2016, the date when Trump's 2016 presidential win was announced. 

This was designed to be a big attack on Trump going into the mid-term elections in November, and accordingly got a massive publicity budget and lots of hype. But instead of being the juggernaut that Moore intended, the documentary has turned out to be a toy truck, flickering on screens in front of empty seats.

As reported by Variety:

Michael Moore’s trump card failed him this weekend. “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Moore’s satirical takedown of President Trump and the current political landscape in America, picked up an abysmal $3.1 million when it opened 1,719 venues. It was the best start for the left-wing filmmaker since 2009’s “Capitalism: A Love Story,” but it’s a far cry from 2004, when Moore’s doc “Fahrenheit 9/11” launched with a record-breaking $23 million. At this point, “Fahrenheit 11/9” will be lucky if it matches the opening weekend of “Fahrenheit 9/11” during the course of its run.

$3.1 million may still sound like a lot of money, but once the cinemas take their cut their won't be much left, especially for a big eater like Moore. Then there are all the production and publicity costs, which have been particularly high for this movie. 

It is clear from this that Moore is going to lose millions here. But this should also be extremely worrying for others in the liberal media, for whom kvetching about Trump is their bread and butter. I am thinking here of fake news channels like CNN and MSNBC and lying news rags like the New York Times and Washington Post

What the liberal media has basically been doing since November 2016

All of these have benefited from the liberal hysteria caused by Trump's election victory and first two years in power, but after two years of doing the media equivalent of a screeching SJW, their audience of Lefties and soft Lefties are just feeling numb and jaded. 


Sunday, 23 September 2018

UKIP POSITION THEMSELVES IN THE POPULIST CENTER - BATTEN SPEECH A HIT AT CONFERENCE

Batten addresses the Party faithful.
In a barnstorming speech delivered at the latest UKIP Conference, held in England's second city of Birmingham (now 53% British), UKIP leader Gerard Batten outlined a radical populist program, with elements both from the right and left. 

Speaking to hundreds of delegates, Batten introduced the party's new manifesto Policies for People:

"UKIP policies are not about being right or left, but they are about standing up for what is right and opposing what is wrong...People should have jobs, a decent standard of living, and an affordable home. That's not left wing. That's about what is right. Controlling immigration, punishing and deterring criminals adequately, and combating terrorist ideology isn't right wing. It's about being right."

This message resonated strongly with the members, as did many of the policies included in the manifesto.

Not surprisingly, the manifesto urges a "complete and total withdrawal from the European Union," but it also goes a long way to defending freedom of speech, something that has been increasingly under serious attack in Orwellian Britain.

The manifesto reads:

"We are determined to protect our freedom of speech and the right to speak our minds without fear of the politically correct thought-police knocking on our doors."

Under a UKIP government, immigration would be based on a points-based system and severely limited, the National Health Service would be available only to British citizens who would also get free parking at hospitals, meritocratic grammar schools would be increased, the overseas aid budget
would be cancelled, and subjective "hate crime" definitions would be abolished.

The manifesto also sets out plans to scrap the BBC licence fee in favour of voluntary subscription, effectively meaning the end of the hard-left organisation that has a major negative impact on British politics. 

Batten said:

"These policies are aimed at helping the people who form the backbone of Britain: ordinary workers and taxpayers, the unemployed who would like to work, and small and medium-sized business owners."

Before the Conference there was talk of anti-Islamist activist Tommy Robinson being allowed to join the party, but unfortunately this move was rejected because it would have required changes to the party's rules.

Count Dankula (Nazi pug not included)
Instead, at the Conference, delegates could see the Alt-Lite personalities who have recently joined the party. Count Dankula, the YouTuber  fined over the Nazi pug "hate crime," addressed the Conference on the issue of free speech. 

Fellow YouTuber Sargon of Akkad was not able to attend due to attending Mythcon, but sent a video message

Under Batten's leadership, the party's membership, which was falling, has turned around, increasing from a low of around 18,000 to approximately 24,000. The party's finances have also recovered from near bankruptcy. 

In short, Batten's leadership has been successful, although questions still remain regarding the direction of the party. Will it become increasingly opposed to radical Islam in the UK, or will it finally cuck in a pathetic attempt to get mainstream acceptance?

Saturday, 22 September 2018

"AMERICA'S FUHRER" JOINS THE NAZI PARTY

New "Director of Community Outreach" for a movement
that is isolated to its hard-core members, LOL
Just as we reported in our previous article, Matthew Heimbach, the disgraced ex-leader of the Traditionalist Workers Party, sometimes nicknamed "America's Fuhrer," was actually mulling a return to activism and politics, and how!

A press release which we have just seen has announced that Heimbach is joining the serried ranks of the National Socialist Movement -- yes, literally, the American Nazi Party, where he has been given a high rank! 


Yes, you read that right -- "Director of Community Outreach." 

Wasn't that the whole problem when the TWP imploded earlier this year -- Heimbach's tendency to "reach out" to people in the TWP whom he shouldn't have been reaching out to, like Matt Parrott's wife?

We certainly hope Heimbach has now learnt his lesson, but if he hasn't, look on the bright side. The NSM has been around for years, achieving practically nothing except for a few pointless scuffles with antifa. It is essentially a failed "White Nationalism 1.0" paradigm that effectively helps keep White indenitarianism in America locked up in a small, ineffective, Hitler-themed ghetto. 

There is a very good chance that it is a shill Fed operation. 

Allowing someone as destructive as Heimbach to join its ranks, however, could be just what is needed to push it over the edge to its destruction. 

Along with (((Mike Enoch))) and {{{Richard Spencer}}}, Matthew Heimbach played a key role in the Nazification of the Alt-Right.  

If he pulls that off, Heimbach will be finally making amends for his past follies. But whose wives will have to get fucked before that happens? Stay tuned!

IS HEIMBACH MULLING A COMEBACK?

Matt Heimbach, comeback kid?
Ever since the Traditionalist Workers' Party (TWP) imploded in the wake of a major sex scandal earlier this year, the party's discredited ex-leader Matthew Heimbach has been keeping a low profile. 

He has been helped in this by the on-going deplatforming of Dissident Right figures. But, also, it was generally thought that the sex scandal was so bad that there was no chance of Heimbach daring to show his face again, let alone make a comeback.

But now it seems that those assumptions may be wrong, as Heimbach is now starting to be active again on social media, making posts that suggest that, once more, he is turning his attention to politics.

On the 2nd of September, Heimbach posted -- on his one remaining social media outlet VK (the Russia-based Facebook clone) -- a picture of Alexander Zakharchenko, the separatist leader of Donetsk killed a few days earlier by a bomb.

Zakharchenko
Zakharchenko was exactly the kind of person the old TWP, with their Duginist-inflected ideology used to look up to.

This was the very first post on Heimbach's VK page since February!

The very next day Heimbach was back on VK, posting a bit of National Socialist boilerplate about the Labor Day Weekend:




Then, just a few days ago on the 17th of September, came two posts from Heimbach -- one slagging off the homosexualisation of Swedish kindergartens, the other pledging solidarity to the Duginist concept of "Novorossiya," i.e. the view that large parts of the Ukraine should be ceded to Russia because of ethnic affinities. 

All these posts show Heimbach revisiting his old political positions. This can mean only one thing: he is planning to get a political movement together that he can lead again. 

But if he repeats himself there, then who knows what other aspects from his past he might repeat. Trad Workers, time to look to your wives and daughters!


Wednesday, 19 September 2018

PAULINE HANSON TO ASK AUSTRALIAN SENATE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT "IT IS OKAY TO BE WHITE"

We need an army of Pauline Hansons
Pauline Hanson of the Australian nationalist party "One Nation" is one of the best and bravest women in the world today campaigning for White wellness. 

Today (Sept 20th) she will attempt to get the Australian Senate, of which she is a duly elected member, to vote on whether or not it's OK to be White.

In a post on Twitter, the fiery-haired Queensland Senator said:

Today I will ask the Senate to acknowledge that it is okay to be white. I saw the huge overreaction to @Lauren_Southern's t-shirt with that message & decided if the Senate won't agree to this then we have to admit Australia truly has an anti-white racism problem. 

The "Notice of Motion" submitted to the Senate by Hanson reads as follows:

I give notice that today I propose to move:

that the Senate acknowledge:

a) the deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western Civilization

b) it is okay to be white

This is going to be a very awkward vote for the cuck parties that still dominate the Australian Senate. Let's hope that, whatever happens, it redpills a lot more people about the creeping marginalisation of Whites in their own countries by Leftist-inspired anti-White racism.


TRAD CATHOLICS BURN RAINBOW FLAG IN ACT OF DEFIANCE AGAINST GAY MOCKERY OF JESUS

Gays mocking Christ

Not everyone in the Catholic Church is on board with the happy, clappy, "let's love and forgive everyone" narrative that is being pushed by the organisation's Leftist and pedophile-infested leadership. 

There are still resolute Trad Catholics who believe in standing up for strict, traditional moral values of the Church. These include Father Paul Kalchik of Chicago, who has rejected the creeping homosexualisation of the Church by burning a rainbow flag that had previously been displayed in his parish church. 


The brave clergyman even defied orders from the city's archdiocese in order to make this stand, as reported by The Hill:

A Roman Catholic parish in Chicago went ahead with the burning of a rainbow gay pride flag, despite warnings from the city's archdiocese.

In a Resurrection Parish church bulletin posted earlier this month, the Rev. Paul Kalchik vowed to burn the flag as a sacrilege, according to NBC News.

The burning of the flag, which Kalchick wrote was ”unfortunately hanging in our sanctuary,” was originally scheduled for Sept. 29.

The flag was originally hung in the church in 1991, but was later taken down and put into storage, according to The Chicago Sun-Times. Kalchik was ordained as pastor of the church in 2007.

After learning of the planned burning, the Archdiocese of Chicago instructed Kalchik to cancel it. A spokeswoman for the archdiocese told LGBTQ outlet The Windy City Times on Sept. 11 that the pastor “has agreed not to move forward with these activities."

But Kalchick and a number of parishioners conducted the flag burning anyway in a private ceremony last week.

Kalchick told NBC News that the flag, which had the image of the cross intertwined with a rainbow, was a “profane” depiction of the cross and a “sacrilege.”

“We took matters into our own hands and said a prayer of exorcism over this thing," Kalchik said. "It was cut into seven pieces, so it was burned over stages in the same fire pit that we used for the Easter vigil mass.”

Some people will be horrified by such "hatred" but, really, they shouldn't be, as the teachings of Christianity are quite clear in advocating hatred of the sin, not the sinner. 

Of course there are also people who say that the activities commonly associated with homosexuality are not "sins," or that there are no such things as "sins." 

Well, they might even be technically right. Although it won't matter, as those people will have completely removed themselves from the gene pool within a (de)generation or two. 

But, also, when it comes to the question of who is attacking who, we should also bear in mind that homosexualists (i.e. politically active homosexuals waging a metapolitical war) have been more than active in attacking, mocking, and provoking contempt and hatred for Christ and his followers. 

What follows are a few images from "Gay Pride" propaganda events and marches to illustrate this humble point.

Gays publicly mocking Jesus

Gay parody of the Last Supper

Jesus as a "pain slut" being mocked by gays as a sexual masochist.
Gays pretending to be Jesus, having their penises evaluated in a pornographic "beauty pageant".

It should be added that the subject of this hatred and mockery is not just some minor cultural or political figure, but a God and a religion that is sincerely and devoutly believed in by hundreds of millions of people, and, whether you share that faith or not, it helps most of them to live better lives. Contrast that with the self-evidently degenerate and suicidal lifestyles of those attacking and mocking them.

Father Kalchick's decision to burn the flag is a rejection of this tendency, which has not only infected our civilization but also our religious institutions. 

Indeed, Kalchick's viewpoint is also based on his own deeply negative experience of the "gay community," who clearly could be behaving in a much more positive and less offensive way:

Kalchik says he was sexually abused by a neighbor and by a priest when he was a teenager, and blames homosexuality for the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. He has butted heads over the subject with Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, and told the Sun-Times that the archdiocese threatened him with “canonical penalties” over the flag burning.

The archdiocese spokeswoman told NBC News that the Archdiocese of Chicago was “unaware” that the flag burning occurred.

DignityUSA, a pro-LGBTQ Catholic group, has decried the burning, telling NBC News that rainbow flags in churches help foster a community of “welcome and affirmation,” and burning the flag is “disrespectful and destructive.”

Did they just say “disrespectful and destructive”? Well, would they care to explain what is going on here again?