Counter-Currents
The Surfside Condo Collapse, the Media, & the Polish-Canadian Question
James Dunphy
Nathan Reiber
1,076 words
Champlain Towers South, a condo building in Miami Florida, collapsed on June 24, 2021 at 1:25 AM EST. The event is commonly known as the Surfside Condo Collapse. It was a pancake collapse, which means a support structure at the bottom of the building gave way, and the floors collapsed from the top down, until the entire building was in ruins. The collapse took only twelve seconds as can be seen in this video. Officials confirm that it killed 98 people. It was a horrible death: most of the victims were probably awakened by a thunderous noise before they were crushed by falling debris.
The death toll is third highest among collapsed buildings in US history. Many people are outraged and seeking answers. Fred Grimm, a reporter for the Sun Sentinel, spent 41 years at the Miami Herald as metro reporter, southern bureau chief, and local affairs columnist. He is familiar with the real estate scene during the era when real estate developer Nathan Reiber oversaw the building of Champlain Towers South in 1981. Grimm refers to Reiber as “a Canadian tax cheat, disgraced lawyer and shady businessman” who “relocated to South Florida, a famously permissive destination for miscreants looking to escape tattered reputations.” According to Grimm, bribery was the norm for many developers in the 1970s and 1980s in South Florida. One suspects from his account that he believes Reiber probably bribed an official to bypass building regulations. According to Grimm’s article, he added a thirteenth floor to the Penthouse Suite despite having the building approved for only twelve floors, so there seems to be concrete evidence of impropriety.
According to the New York Post,
Reiber, who died in 2014, had been charged with tax evasion by Canadian authorities in the 1970s when he and his partners were accused of skimming cash from apartment buildings they owned. They allegedly skimmed tens of thousands of dollars from coin-operated laundry machines in the buildings and pocketed about $120,000 from phony construction checks, the Washington Post said. [Canadian] authorities later issued an arrest warrant for Reiber when he fled to Florida. In 1984, Reiber, a lawyer, was cited for professional misconduct by the Law Society of Upper Canada for evading the tax evasion case, the paper said. He ultimately settled the case by returning to Canada and paying a $60,000 fine.
Also, per the Post
In Florida, Reiber and his partners were initially unable to begin construction of the condo buildings due to a 1979 moratorium over faulty sewers. [This may have had something to do with the ground below the towers sinking since the 1990s.] The developers agreed to pay half of the $400,000 tab for the sewer repairs on the property and were given the green light — sparking anger from rival developers whose projects remained stalled by the moratorium. The rivals complained Reiber and his team got preferential treatment. The following year, the Champlain developers asked two local council members to return their campaign contributions amid accusations that the company had paid off officials to get the permits.
So Reiber allegedly dodged taxes, purportedly profited from fraud, and was accused of misconduct by a Canadian Law Society. None of this proves he did anything wrong in building Champlain Towers South, but it makes him the kind of guy who should be thoroughly investigated.
The structural engineers of Champlain Towers South were Brieterman, Jurado & Associates. Manuel Jurado told the media that his side of the firm handled electrical and mechanical work, while Brieterman handled structural work. Brieterman died in the 1990s, so he’s not around to give his side of the story.
The building seems to show signs he bypassed necessary safety precautions. According to the New York Times, the building’s ruins seemed not to have much rebar, the steel support bars meant to reduce tension in a building.
Grimm refers to Reiber as a “Canadian,” and other publications such as the New York Post refer to him as a “Polish-born Canadian,” but to my knowledge, no mainstream media outlet refers to him as a Jew even though it was a central part of his identity. His obituary lists he was “most proud of his involvement with the [pro-Israel] think tank Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs “JINSA” where he served as the National Executive Vice President.” The organization is associated with neoconservatives such as John Bolton, Dick Cheney, and Douglas Feith in addition to former US Senator Joe Lieberman.
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The Israel Defense Force (IDF) flew in from Israel to assist with rescue efforts. One might think this has something to do with Reiber being a big supporter of JINSA or the fact that many of the Champlain Towers inhabitants were Jews (about one out of four), but the IDF has sent similar rescue teams to Japan and Haiti where virtually no Jews live and to disasters such as to the 2019 dam collapse in Brazil which killed 40 people. It looks like the IDF would have been there to help look for people regardless of the number of Jews who perished in the collapse.
The media coverage seems to have been a net positive for Jews because the media showed the IDF wearing their kippas, but they did not mention Reiber’s Jewish background, referring to him as Canadian or a Polish-born Canadian.
The media did something similar in the news story surrounding Jack the Ripper’s DNA. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who murdered between 5 to 18 women in 1880s England. In 2019 DNA evidence revealed him to be Aaron Kominski, a Jewish barber who was born in Poland. (Back then barbers performed surgeries, so he was more like a surgeon.) The headline in the Sun reported that he was a “Polish Barber” and later referred to him as a “Pole.”
When Jews such as Aaron Kominski and Nathan Reiber do bad things, the media tells us they are Canadians and Poles and doesn’t mention that they are Jews. When Jews do good things, like dispatch IDF rescue workers, their Jewish identity is highlighted. When dealing with Jews, the Anglo-American mass media does not report simple facts. If it did, they would call a spade a spade and a Jew a Jew, even when they do bad things. Instead, the Anglo-American mass media functions as a public relations agency for the Jewish people. But to give Jews uniformly good publicity, the media maligns white nations like Poland and Canada, by associating bad Jews with them. That’s why we need white media like Counter-Currents to set the record straight.
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My time in Montreal is coming to a close; on Sunday 25 July 2021 I visited Deux-Montagnes & Saint-Eustache, two towns northwest of Montreal (population 17,000 & 44,000 respectively) to c if they too r allowing the invasion by the third-world, &, the answer is – yes. Attended two different church services in Deux-Montagnes (both church services had one African priest w/one church having no African attendees whilst the other having about 25%) & found a Québécois man, a senior, who spoke English. After some small talk, I asked “where r the Québécois People?” He said “we r international & most everybody speaks French & English”. We were joined by another senior, an Irishman & w/the two men I twice repeated my question adding that there aren’t many Québécois People in Montreal, &, the response was consistently the same by both “we r international”. Now, not being a trained writer, I will do my best in trying to articulate what I thought, sensed, & felt when listening to their responses – they didn’t understand my question, we’re talking past each other, they r oblivious to the reality surrounding them, some mind virus has infected them.
In Saint-Eustache I went into a big beautiful church where there were a few ppl as church services had already ended. Spoke w/a senior woman & her teenage grandson (who aided in some translation & I asked my same question as in Deux-Montagnes), & her answer was “what can we do?”. I indicated the fact that Quebec is the homeland of Québécois People, that Quebec will not b Quebec w/out the Québécois People. She repeated her answer more or less w/her grandson acting uninterested in said conversation. Was just informed that another church has an African priest in the Ville Emard part of Montreal. It appears African priests replacing European priests is the direction, which from the globalist’s plan makes perfect sense & the reason the globalist Francis replaced Pope Benedict. For the first time since 1417 a pope was replaced w/out dying. Y? Because Pope Benedict was not a globalist, hence, replaced by Jorge Mario Bergoglio who favors an end to national borders, supports illegal aliens & y he regularly clashes w/Matteo Salvini who wants to protect Italy as the homeland for Italians. He famously turned away an invading ship filled w/invaders w/the words “they will only see Italy on a postcard”. Try telling Jorge Mario Bergoglio the Vatican’s Leonine Wall was erected to defend against Muslims.
In closing, my realization is: the Québécois People, not unlike other European Ethnicities as a collective, will rapidly become a minority, perhaps even on the verge of extinction as allowing the third-world into Quebec is unimportant to them, in addition to African men w/European women increasingly becoming the norm (think for a moment how stupid, suicidal, & sick that is, wanting to not perpetuate ur collective gene, I know of no eg. in Nature of this occurring, Tigers mate w/Tigers, Lions mate w/Lions, Blue Birds mate w/Blue Birds, Pigeons mate w/Pigeons, etc.). It is as though Québécois People (not unlike other European ethnicities) r in a trance, the walking dead, completely unaware of the hole we dug for ourselves. Not being a doctor in mental disorders, I cannot explain this collective suicide.
In order to survive, we need to collectivize forming our own TOTALLY VETTED European communities. The caps r necessary empathizing our collective suicide is directly linked to some kind of suicidal mind disease, thus, we cannot allow even one infected (past or present) person among us in our newly formed communities (ideally our reclaimed homelands). And y we all must b vetted for this mental suicidal virus & continue to b vetted annually w/no exceptions. In addition to always keeping out our enemies, traitors, & useful-idiots. We have no choice but to walk away from our own ppl who r diseased, who r contaminated, who r unsavable, otherwise, they will destroy us. Think about it, think how powerful this mental suicidal disease is as the Québécois People r the only ppl in North America who overtly voiced for the protection of their identity some 20+ years ago, yet, here they r overtly committing collective suicide. Such is the destructive power of this mental suicidal disease our race has been infected with. This disease must b guarded against in perpetuity, our very survival depends on it.
U know, this is also embarrassing as our enemies r of course laughing at us, as well as other races must also b chuckling watching our suicidal behavior leading us to our genocide in our own homelands.
U know, we r still the majority & we can still choose to act as a collective in reclaiming our homelands, however, I c little evidence of that happening. Should we choose not to, then, we will b a hated minority in our own homelands w/our future looking like South Africa (translation = our blood will b spilled). Although we will b fewer w/a strong will to survive, we can still perish as did Leonidas & his powerful men at the Battle Of Thermopylae despite killing many multiples more of their enemy.
Time is of the essence in discussing our survival plans.
Our homelands r not inherited but borrowed from our children.
It’s not what they do, it’s what we don’t do.
You’re point of view is interesting, but not sure about its direct connection to this article.
Your post is very interesting reading; however, I found your use of text-message style abbreviations quite distracting — “r” instead of “are”, “Y” instead of “Why”, etc.
You have interesting and important things to say. Don’t spoil it with the distracting shortcuts, especially given the length of your comment.
Thank u Hyacinth Bouquet for exposing another of our problems(unable to c the big pic) which is leading us into a minority status enroute to extermination. U take issue w/my “text-message style”, meanwhile we have 25+ illegal aliens, over 100,000 illegal aliens r flooding into our homeland monthly, our own government is aiding & abetting this invasion which means we have a treasonous government, virtually all our institutions r anti-European aka White in our own homeland created & built by our ancestors, our dispossession is ongoing relentlessly, etc., yet, my “style”(uses less letters to simplify like we use the one letter “I”) for u is “quite distracting”!
Well, tell u what – once we stop our extermination, reclaim our homelands, & set up a system to secure & ensure our posterity have a bright future so this genocide can NEVER happen again, then, I’ll b happy to critique my “style”.
“But to give Jews uniformly good publicity, the media maligns white nations like Poland and Canada, by associating bad Jews with them.”
Yes, it does.
The building needed denser rebar not a richer Reiber.
The British government, casting aside a shameful rabble of naysayers, has today announced that, in a gesture of atonement for the nation’s historic crimes against the Jewish People(*), a new National Holocaust Monument and Museum will be erected next to the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament.
The stunning modernist structure, consisting of twelve monumental vertical slabs, will complement and complete Pugin and Barry’s victorian gothic fantasy castle, adding a somber reminder that despite the popular WWII narrative of national heroism, Britain is sunk as deeply in shame as the Third Reich, and has a long road to travel before she can offer satisfaction to her Jews.
At at time when antisemitism, nationalism and other forms of hatred have once again made an unwelcome return to British public life, there can be no more salutory rebuke to the public than this new focus of collective contrition. A formal opening ceremony for the National Holocaust Monument, with all major British political, cultural and religious figures paying homage, is being planned.
(*) From the Lincoln pogrom via the genocide of the Jews of Sark at British hands, to the Exodus incident at the founding of the State of Israel, there has been no more duplicitous and implacable foe of the Jewish People than the hypocritical and high-handed British.
Oh, the infernal eternally suffering Jew. Really, White people should take a lesson in dealing with those who are victimizing us.
Get rid of the manifestations of figurative art representing your own people in your capital city my goys. Replace them with a toaster rack concrete block instead.
The media is not “Anglo-American”, it is Jewish, hence the biased reporting.
Well, this story should warm the hearts of socialists worldwide:
‘Nasty Capitalist cuts corners on building construction and, from beyond the grave, kills 98 people.’
We can only add ‘nasty Jewish capitalist’, which the author here, thankfully, proceeds to do — since our contemporary media would never publish that truth.
However, I still staunchly support the concept of Capitalism, since it allows poor old me to scrape a few bucks out of the system (through day-trading) to support myself in my old age, without killing anyone. So, it’s not just a Jewish thing to make money in the market, though they have polished it to a fine diamond and make no apology for scamming and skimming in the pursuit of profits. I guess I’m just not smart enough to scam, though my morals would tug at me. What Reiber did in the pursuit of the quick buck was unforgiveable morally, and needs to be labeled as such by all the factors of his ‘Being’, including his ethnicity. It’s my contention that the word ‘elite’, which is bandied about so accusingly by our Democrat distractors (read: enemies) should be prefaced in many instances by “Jewish”.
That picture says it all, doesn’t it?
media did something similar in the news story surrounding Jack the Ripper’s DNA
“The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing.”
Goulston Street graffito (1888), attributed to Jack the Ripper.
Meaning what?
“Jews will not take responsibility for anything”? “Jews are to blame”?
Answers on a postcard please.
I wonder if these generous IDF rescue missions are not a way to deliver and retrieve Mossad agents.
Who would turn down such generosity? Under what sort of diplomatic arrangement would a bunch of Israeli troops and their aircraft, ships and “rescue” equipment be allowed to enter and move about within the U.S. ?
The IDF plays the good cop by going on rescue missions, while their fellow “Polish-born Canadians” make the US play bad cop by doing drone strikes and going to war for Israel. I don’t have a problem with the IDF playing good cop, but they shouldn’t make the US troops do their dirty work.
I have a “polish-Canadian” associate who had to leave a certain earthquake active third world country because he insisted that a hospital – whose rebar was stolen – be taken down due to its structural instability. This of course was because criminal gangs indicated he would be killed. Interesting that American regulators were not capable of that.
Now, it turns out that he’s neither Jewish nor Polish (A crypto Pole, if you will. A family secret owing to association with Nazis.)
I just don’t want this defamation by implication to stand. The Polish Question is settled: They defend their borders. However, the C(anadian)Q is an issue that remains open.
Any society that allows Jew lawyers is self-hating and self-destructive. Yet that and every other bad idea ends up getting implemented in a democracy. The worst form of government except for all the others? No, the worst, period.
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