July 2016 Bits and Bites

This writer is currently on vacation, however there have been a few stories that have come out lately that our readers may find of interest.

Back when we first wrote about Monika Schaefer, former Green Party federal candidate and current Holocaust denier, we anticipated that the like of Paulie, Arthur Topham, and now nutter Brian Ruhe would play the "persecuted German" angle. We haven't been disappointed:

Fromm Picks Up Levant's Islamaphobic Batton and Runs With It

On November 11, Ezra wrote an article accusing the Essex Board of Education in Ontario of exempting Muslims from participating in Remembrance Day and questioned the patriotism of Muslim Canadians. He suggested people who he outraged sign a petition that condemned the board's decision on a website his article linked to (Canada: Love It Or Leave) and, while there, to maybe purchase a charming t-shirt.

The problem with all of this is that none of it was true. Yes, there was a memo that went out from the school board which suggested alternative Remembrance Day commemorations, but the memo was directed at those schools where parents might have safety concerns as it had only been a couple of weeks since the murder of an honor guard at the Canadian War Memorial. The story was debunked as the product mainly of Levant's fevered, Islamaphobic, imagination, though he did do quite a good job of appealing to his xenophobic base of support.

One of those xenophobes though likely hats him as much as any Muslim though:

 

 

Yep, Paulie:

Really, it's not as if we should be surprised. Paulie might be an anti-Semite in addition to a racist, but he is also an opportunist and if there's any opening for him to inject his particular brand of Nativism and bigotry into the public sphere, he'll be in like Flynn.

Now, after a lot (and we mean a hell of a lot) of criticism, Levant backed down and even.... begrudgingly,... admitted he was wrong in the passive-aggressive way we have come to know and love from him. He also changed the website to omit mention of Muslims, though he still takes a crack at the school board:

He also noted that no parent in the entire Essex County School Board area had asked for an exemption for their child. In short, everyone participated.

So, the story ended in a bit of a whimper.

Except if you're Paulie Fromm and you want to continue to flog a dead horse:

Paulie posted the following video Sunday, a full 5 days after the original story Levant published was thoroughly discredited:

Brandon Martinez Schooled on Paulie's Facebook Wall

Our resident vampire has taken an extended vacation but should be back in October or early November. In the meantime you'll have to put up with more of me and any of the other members of the Collective who contribute during nosferatu's absence.

We first learned about "journalist" Brandon Martinez (who we've taken to lovingly refer to as Turd Blossom) this past February but didn't really pay all that much attention. Mr. Martinez has contributed to such august online journals as "Veterans Today" and "Veterans News Now" as well as Press TV out of Iran. The former two online publications are rife with conspiracy theories (many involving 9/11 and the involvement of Israel and/or Jews in general) and Holocaust denial. And Press TV, when looking for an international perspective on world events, believe that David Duke and Mike Harris are reasonable choices.

It then might not be surprising that Brandon Martinez also holds a similar world view of a world controlled by a vast Jewish cabal, as evidenced in most of his own writing:

• Feb­ru­ary 16, 2014: In an arti­cle titled “Scru­ti­niz­ing Israel role in 2001 anthrax attacks,” Mar­tinez claims that the anthrax attacks imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the 9/11 ter­ror­ist bomb­ings orig­i­nated from Israel’s bio­log­i­cal and chem­i­cal indus­try, and implied the exis­tence of a nefar­i­ous col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Israel and the Bush admin­is­tra­tion to carry out the attacks. Mar­tinez also claims that the Israelis placed the blame for the anthrax attacks on its Arab ene­mies as a pre­text to force the U.S. to go to war against Iraq 
• Jan­u­ary 26, 2014: In an arti­cle titled “Israeli mil­i­tarism pred­i­cated on 9/11 decep­tion,” Mar­tinez claims that Israel has a his­tory of con­duct­ing false flag oper­a­tions and that the 9/11 attack was Israel’s “grand­est deception. 
• Jan­u­ary 13, 2014: In an arti­cle titled “Zion­ist per­ver­sion of his­tory threat­ens world peace,” Mar­tinez pro­motes the age-old anti-Semitic con­spir­acy of Zion­ist con­trol over Hol­ly­wood. Zion­ist con­trol of Hol­ly­wood, Mar­tinez alleges, is why Hitler is depicted as a “vil­lain­ous demon,” while in real­ity, “Zion­ist Jews them­selves were Hitler’s most enthu­si­as­tic col­lab­o­ra­tors.” Else­where in the arti­cle, Mar­tinez calls the Holo­caust and the num­ber of Jew­ish vic­tims a “myth” and part of “Zion­ist propaganda.”

More recently, Martinez  has come under the influence of our favorite potential porcine politician Paulie (okay, he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning in October, but I had a "p" thing going and wanted to see how far I could go with it). Not only are the Jews responsible for 9/11 and most other nefarious international plots, but they are also responsible for trying to keep the white man down here on the home front:

By the way, Joshua Blakeney is another Canadian "journalist" who writes for "Veterans Today" and serves as a correspondent for Press TV. He's also quite a charmer.

Now Mr. Martinez, who has a very smug estimation of his own intellect, likely never expected that he would be challenged on Paulie's own Facebook page.

But challenged he was. And for those who appreciate a good, intellectual, beat-down, I hope you enjoy the show: