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John Day said
Revolutions succeed when the cops change sides, and the captains, majors and colonels, and the teachers, and businessmen…
You could be right but the most recent big revolution, the one in China, didn’t work that way.
oxymoron said:
I’m thinking food, soap, kerosene, baking soda and an NFT for the memories of 2019
No generator, no NFT …. electricity, I remember that.
“Green Party Official Tells Germans to Use Washcloths instead of Taking Showers”
And this guy is still alive? When will the Germans start to take this crisis seriously.
In a letter to the chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, independent brewers on Tuesday called for immediate government intervention, warning a once thriving cottage industry was now facing “grave uncertainty”.
An Islamic British-Iranian is going to decide whether pubs should stay open ….. ummm. Why would anyone return to the UK to live if they are currently in a sane country abroad, one that allows them to criticise Jews and drink beer? That country is so finished, but it is only the peoples’ fault because they sat back and did nothing, like they are doing now. The oligarchs have promoted the most unlikely people into positions of power, they have obviously been pushed there in order to destroy the sense of British Culture. Add to that the child abuse gangs and the epidemic of knife crime, both powered by immigrants and you can see that this is a controlled destruction. But, if the people won’t fight for their country – and I didn’t, I saw the writing on the wall, so I left because I couldn’t stand the people – then let it die.
People need to stop focusing on the enemy’s leaders and start focusing on the enemy’s foot soldiers. You cannot win a war by just killing the leader, you have to win a war by killing the foot soldiers until there are no foot soldiers left. If that were not the case, Putin would have killed Zelensky and it would all be over, but we know that is not reality, you have to kill his foot soldiers so that his replacement has no power. Trudeau will get his reward, but first the people need to remove his foot soldiers, they need to remove his power.
The entire facility that was leaked to The Counter Signal is sketched to be over 50,000 square feet, will house hundreds of ECCC staff, and will also be home to weather forecasting staff.
What would stop local residents to completely eliminate these employees within a week? Other than mental weakness – subservience in fear – there is no reason why the entire facility would ever function, if the Canadians were willing to save their country, their towns, their families, their children …. but they are not.
With the upcoming 20th Party Congress likely to usher in an unprecedented third five-year term for Xi, there is good reason to believe that China’s growth sacrifice has only just begun.
Xi will destroy China, preventing its “great leap forward” in order to further his own power ambitions – to become the Mao of the 21st century. He will destroy all the potential of the Chinese people by insisting that the party have total control over everybody, which they already have and obviously plan to use to further some power ambitions of the future. Their problem will be innovation: at the moment they steal innovation from the USA and Europe, what will they do when the USA and Europe are not sending their designs to China for manufacture any more? At the moment they have the money to pay western engineers to design cars, western engineers to provide the machine tools, to support their car companies, but what happens to those companies when the western engineers and project managers no-longer go to China? Isolation is not going to give China prosperity.
Roger Waters: “NATO doesn’t want the war in Ukraine to end. There’s huge fortunes to be made. They will fight until the last Ukrainian.”
Roger Waters said that international recognition of Taiwan as part of China means that NATO should not be supporting Taiwan. This immediately raises the questions of the Palestinians and the international recognition of Paestine as owned by the Jews of Israel. What is your position on that Roger? If he could not work out the implications of his statement, why are we listening to him? If he did know what he was saying, when will he reveal his view of the Palestinians? Musicians play music, it takes many hours of practice every day, as a result they are, without exception, total morons when it comes to politics. The best evidence was Live Aid, the money going to buy guns, not food …. sad.
V. Arnold said
The sun will rise, life may go on…or not…
I assume it will…doesn’t everybody??We are all dreading your demise, we all know it ends when you pop your clogs. Stop being grumpy 🙂
D Benton Smith said
The Universe is created, continually, by the non-material omniscient and omnipotent awareness that we call God (or some other designation signifying the same concept).
God has obviously revealed something to you, and the “we” that you speak of, that he has not revealed to me.
Afewknowthetruth said
Too silly to describe in words, Especially coming from someone who does not even live in NZ and clearly has no idea what is going on nor how the system works.
I hold a NZ permanent resident visa, although I have not lived there for 17 years, and have many friends there who I am in contact with regularly. I also have two houses there, one of which I consider to be my “western” home, although I am considering selling my assets in NZ simply because the country has gone crazy, no small thanks to Ardern and her policies. Oh, and my mother did and some sisters do live there as well, with their families, so I visit regularly. Sure, I am not there today, but I get the same news from Welligton that you do.
However, I do live in China, unlike you, so at least I have a foot in both camps when comparing the two.
D Benton Smith said
God. . . , Reality . . . , pretty much the same thing, so losing touch with either has pretty much the same result, and it ain’t pretty.
Your Christian nurturing shines through but this is not the same for all peoples. Here in Taiwan the concept of God is meaningless to the majority. I understand that this describes your reality, but not the reality of others, many of which do not involve the concept of God or Logos etc. Reality is an individual concept and is not prescriptive, as Dr D was suggesting.
phoenixvoice said:
Karl Marx was a philosopher who thought about economics – NOT GOVERNANCE.
Marx wrote, in “Demands of the Communist Party in Germany”:
Demands of the Communist Party in Germany
“Workers of all countries, unite!”
1. The whole of Germany shall be declared a single and indivisible republic.
2. Every German, having reached the age of 21, shall have the right to vote and to be elected,
provided he has not been convicted of a criminal offence.
3. Representatives of the people shall receive payment so that workers, too, shall be able to
become members of the German parliament.
…Something smells.
Afewknowthetruth said
I hear utterly ludicrous statements such as: “Jacinda Adern is a communist” so frequently that I despair.
It is not a ridiculous statement as both fascism and communism in the last century have very similar authoritarian, governmental and corporate traits. For example, the authoritarian “communists” of China are not communists but are authoritarian, the authoritarian “national socialists” of Germany were fascists but were not that different to the communists of China, they murdered millions etc. they controlled corporates for their own benefit, even using some as forced labour camps, just like in China.
If China is communist and Nazi Germany was fascist then describing Ardern as a communist is pretty accurate as she wants to enslave people in the same way as China does and to totally control peoples’ bank accounts like China does, or take away your home, like China does, or prevent you travelling, like China does, or prevent you living in the city, like China does, or lock you in a factory 24 hours a day to live and sleep there like China does etc. If China is not communist then fair enough, but then you should be telling them to rename the CCP.
Dr D said
Will there be rule of law and Western, Christian values, however young and fleeting, or will we fall into the dark night of the #Opposite? Where rules, logic, custom mean nothing, only raw #Power?
Confusing as both the western and Russian sides are nominally Christian countries. Ironically Russia’s victory is more likely to retain the “Western, Christian values”, even though the pope is firmly on the side of the globalists as is the head of the CoE. In either case, raw power will continue to rule the earth as it has done for ever, only adopting a romantic orientation would make you think otherwise.
Dr D said
But I need them to stop killing everything, so I’d really like to find a way to communicate and break through, which is impossible when they reject #God, #Logos, and therefore #Reality in any form,
God as reality … Dr D on a rant?
Fauci’s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.
Ha ha, the crimes this man has committed in front of the people of the USA, yet he is able to wander free without his brains being used to decorate a wall? Nobody is willing to avenge their dead loved ones? It is a sad state of affairs.
Scholz inherited ludicrous Marxist policies from Merkel. For example to close down both nuclear energy and coal was always a recipe for disaster with no medium term viable alternatives.
How do you think Merkel was reelected forever? She turned her party into the oligarch teat sucker party and sold out Germany. I remember when she was pushing the line that she was friends with Putin and would be looking to build their relationship. Obviously she got a better offer from the green oligarchs. She then resigned after doing max damage to Germany …. look at them now, Oaf Scholz didn’t do this! It is amazing what German naivette – I have lived and worked there for three years – will accept in terms of complete bullshit. They are genuinely wanting to do good, but so naive that they can be conned into anything.
For the Western Alliance, financially and economically his timing is particularly awkward, coinciding with the end of a 40-year period of declining interest rates, rising consumer price inflation, and a deepening recession driven by contracting bank credit.
I love these writers, they pretend that the people for whom this is awkward are not the same people who made this awkward. They pretend there is some sort of disconnect between actions and their consequences. They pretend that inflation caused by excess spending is an act of god and how nobody could have ever guessed this would happen.
Isn’t it weird how so many people in the west respect Putin and despise their own “leadership”. It almost appears as though a good number of the people of the west would fight on the Russian side if they invaded, helping the Russians to destroy the oligarchs that are trying to cull us.
I wonder if this has ever happened before in history?
Which would have made them “fair game” according to the usual Ukrainian standards.
They are now martyrs and this gives Putin the support of the Russian people to respond in any way – however extreme – that he wishes. This is an opportunity for Putin and Xi to redefine this battle.
SeaBirds said:
Jb-hb
C’mon, give V Arnold a break! TAE wouldn’t be the same without him.Hear hear … although he’s been a little grumpy of late, telling off our one and only Dr D.
jb-hb said
If you’re an atheist, you should have SOME respect for empirical data. You should have SOME respect for facing up to facts and considering them. Like John Cusak in Say Anything …I can’t work for that corporation. But I’m not blind either.
Are you connected to God and have been told by him what we should do, or is this just left wing “I can tell you what you should be doing and thinking” nonsense? Maybe you see atheism as your religion and feel obliged to therefore qualify/disqualify members?
jb-hb said:
That said, if you are going to heap every single evil action done by demographically predominant Christian societies, nations, organizations etc onto the religion, like, if your assumption is that anything done by a demographic IS their religion, then, following the same rule, you would have to heap every single good or useful thing onto it as well, wouldn’t you? To be even close to intellectually honest?
Britain during the empire days was officially a christian country, Britain also had an official church for its official religion. It had nothing to do with demographics. However, your argument for filling the voids in historical record keeping with supposition is compelling, but we got rid of that method after the age of enlightenment, but good to see that some still hold onto it. Maybe we can go back to Henry IIX and see how self-declared CoE Christians really behaved in historical context?
As for the crusades, demographics played even less of a role, given that they were driven from Rome, the pope giving free reign to rape and pillage Islam in the name of God. Looking at the crusades, the wiki entry says:
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were intended to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule.
Religious wars run by Christian demographics? The goodness and moral integrity of Christians and their officially Christian countries, in this case the monarchs gaining permission from Rome, but the plundering and murder of foreign lands was not morally defensible under the Catholic faith.
Hypocrisy all round. Religion was used as a cover for bad behaviour such as mass murder and theft, both under the Catholic and CoE churches.
Oroboros said
Liz Cheney, Devil’s Spawn running for President
DNC must be very confident in the 2024 vote rigging system.
Saskatchewan Minister Jeremy Cockrill has sent a warning to the Trudeau government that officers sent by Ottawa will be arrested if they continue to trespass on farmland to test nitrogen levels.
Nice bit of flannel politics that may help this guy get reelected, but do you think this will stop the Trudeau WEF cabal from stealing the farmers’ land? How to fight tyranny when the tyranny has all the cards and can pick your team off one by one. Maybe all the farmers should agree to stop shipping any food for the next three years? Keep their land but refuse to supply Canadians with food until the Canadians decide to back the farmers by getting rid of Trudeau who they reelected last year? Your enemies are the people who voted for Trudeau, they are as much to blame for this as Trudeau and his WEF controllers.
The average British household can expect to see annual energy bills soar to £6,000 (nearly $7,100) in 2023, according to the latest outlook issued by the UK independent energy consultancy Auxilione on Saturday.
Remember children, your government did this, same as your government steals some of your income every year and every time you purchase something, now they are also making it difficult for you to afford anything with the small amount of remaining income that they let you spend. The price of being a left wing loony and supporting big government is coming home to roost. The one thing you should not forget is that all this extra money will be going to your governments’ friends in the USA and elsewhere, the ones pretending to save you by providing over-priced energy, the ones trying to steal all your stuff and saying it will make you happy.
The tragic irony of the situation, from Russia’s perspective, is that while Moscow is attempting to spare infrastructure and human lives, it is branded the ‘terrorist state,’ whereas Ukraine is granted hero status as it employs those same tactics that put civilian life at grave risk.
The vaccinated were also granted hero status but look at what is happening to them. Being granted hero status by this system is not good, it means the governments and corporations have their eyes on you, it means you will be selected for culling in the near future. There is no tragic irony, classifying Russia as a terrorist state may mean something to the WEF global leader-sheep, but it means nothing to the average human in the street, it is name calling and yet another excuse for sanctions, if they have any left.
It’s not all bad news. The huge explosion of the alcohol industry over the past 10 years proves that market forces work, the market really works: when the bullying government is distracted by something else. The quality has also improved in some areas, but the staggering number of new labels is overwhelming as is the new variations. Go into any whisly shop these days and you will see so many new labels that you will feel ignorant of whisky, so much so that some of the old timers are missing and have been replaced by the new kids on the block. Same with gin, so many new gins, so many variations from the old timers like Tanqueray, but also lots of new, good labels. The failure of society is turning us all to alcohol and variety is exploding and proving that humans still have what it takes to make good stuff, when sufficiently motivated. No doubt the government will soon put a stop to this.
Swedish artist Karl Jilg shows how much public space we’ve surrendered to cars
My home in Hong Kong is on an island without cars, scooters or any mechanized transport. It is a small island and you have to walk. The beach is just 10 minutes from home and you are always bumping into people you know. The best bit is that you can leave your dog off its leash forever as it will never get run over or suffer any other dangers from humans. Not only does your dog know your home, its friends also know your home, so do not be surprised to hear a scratching noise in the middle of the night as one of the dog’s mates has decided to wander round and wants to sleep in your place. Dogs are fabulous when they are socialised and are a positive complement to human life, but you have to treat them right and free is right.
Dr D said
I’ve seen this elsewhere: people grow up Christian, get disillusioned, leave it, and then do very well while dumping on religion because they got all the benefits of religion, but having left it now have little maintenance costs for the drawbacks. In fact, all American culture is this way. However, if you had grown up lacking all moral code in complete moral relativism, as many do, you would not have internalized the code and would not be receiving the benefits. This is happening now in the general population whose parents (barely) were Christian or Churchgoers, but the children never were. They now have no code and no reason to adopt one.
I assume you are joking? The Crusades and other Christian Imperialism does not count? Since when has Christianity prevented rather than encouraged anything but the worst in people? British, Spanish, French empires went out and slaughtered people, stole their possessions and were Christian, so what does it mean to be a successful Christian? Hypocrisy, you go out, do your worst, then come back beg forgiveness and pretend nothing ever happened. The Chritians were the worst in recent history and God made them rich as a result, all that stealing, all those moral values …. I am sure you were joking.
I was brought up in a Christian family in Africa, my father working for British then American charities. I always hated Christianity and boring Church services, and I turned my back on it the moment I could, although I still recognise the wisdom contained in some of the Bible. Of course, being white, I was sent to boarding school in the UK, used to fly BOAC or BUA every holiday … never missed a holiday in Africa … while all the people my father was “saving” were living in mud huts in uneducated poverty. My father was devout, and did help those people, but he recognised that the white people helping black people deserved the best things in life, he had no problems using his charity benefits to send us to school in the UK rather than the local schools.
My back was always turned on Christianity. What I have done is to turn my back on global charity, despite benefitting from it as a child. My reason being that true charity begins in your local area, any global charity that you participate in is mostly a combination of religious imperialism and the usual corporate theft. Sponsor a child in Africa, the same Africa that your government and the church is actively keeping poor. Please! Why are people such suckers.
Wang’s pledge also came as Widodo told Bloomberg on Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping planned to attend the Bali summit in person, along with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Xi could meet US President Joe Biden, who is also expected to attend the gathering.
One nuke on Bali and the western neo-cons’ problems are solved? Why would you rule out such an act? I suspect that some of these attendees may back out at the last moment.
The real problem with the CDC, NIH etc corruption is that we now know that our local MD has – probably unwittingly – been trained in the use of corrupt medicine. They are implementing the cures, standards and policies of the medical establishment, an establishment that is totally corrupt. One example is the use of MDs to spread the opiod medicines that have made many drug dependents and others dead. How can you trust your MD if your MD cannot work out which CDC, NIH etc policies, medicines etc are good and which are designed to steal from you?
Farmers in the Netherlands are giving the government another chance to see if they will change their mind – otherwise known as cowardice – while their government, as part of NATO, has just murdered Putin’s mate’s daughter in an aparent hit on one of Putin’s mates, making this personal.
Good for NATO, I am relieved to see this as it means that at least some of humanity has worked out the value of violence. Unfortunately they are not my team, but it gives us hope that humanity will survive, even if farmers go the way of the dinosaurs.
v. Arnold said
Living in an Asian (SE) culture, I can fully appreciate that video; typical western ignorance and insensitivity towards everything not western…fuck all……..I’m done…
There are plenty of white people living in Asia who get pissed off with the locals because they do not practice British manners. You choose to live in a foreign culture but expect the people to “behave”?
Friday evening we had met some friends and were standing outside a restaurant, as were other groups of people, when this white guy walks up to us, he obviously is wanting to walk along the stretch of pavement that we were occupying. He stopped short of us, looked at me with the clear message “move out of my way and let me pass” and when I did nothing – I am in Taiwan, so Taiwan rules apply and everybody else in the group is Taiwanese – he rolled his eyes and tutted then pushed his way through in standard Chinese fashion.
Then you hear all the white people complain about people not keeping their dogs on leads, how they drive so badly etc etc …. you sometimes wonder why these people chose Asia as home, maybe they didn’t, maybe they were thrown out of their home countries for being so grumpy.
Afewknowthetruth said
I mean, I have only got an Honours Degree in Chemistry and only spent several decades in the field of environmental monitoring, and only won the international debate with professor Guy McPherson when he tried to pull a fast one by twisting the science to his own agenda, so what would I know, whereas you…..?.
Oh, it’s a my dick is bigger than yours contest? How does this settle climate change? Tell you what, if your dick can flip the light switch from 2 meters, I will grant you your wish of being seen by me as “talented”, but I have to be able to film it for TikTok!
John Day
“Modelling is bullshit” needs some explanation. You can model stuff that happens daily because you can do “back testing” to verify your model. If you are going to model the climate, specifically climate change, how do you back test your model? Sure, you have ice cores etc, but they just tell you the atmospheric gases – and completely rule out CO2 as a cause – but that is about it and they do not cover periods when there was no ice. A model is only valid if it can be back tested across transitions similar to those it is being asked to predict. A climate model cannot do that, so it is not back tested. As a result, it is just a cognitive model of the way the climate works in the modellers’ brains, it is a theory converted into a model-like program so that the scientists can say they have a model, even though that model is actually just a theory, not reality. It is a fantasy and it is 100% subject to subjective inputs such as the 100k that was depositied into my bank account yesterday, by a person called Gates with a reference of “Make it predict warmer”.
John Day said
I think it’s accurate, the greenhouse gas modeling, and anthropogenic global warming, but it needsto be taken in the context of lots of things changing Earth’s climate, and unpredictably, especially big volcanoes, but also solar output, which is not just absorbed by the atmosphere and planetary surface, but by the planetary core, which heat is slower to surface. There are “electrical universe” weather events, also. A big destabilization may soon arrive, or our solar system may pass into it.
I believe in climate change because everything changes everyday, there is no constant. I absolutely do believe in humanity causing climate change because humanity is part of nature. Those are my beliefs over and done with.
There is no evidence that humans are a primary driver of climate change. Modelling is bullshit, I happen to do financial modelling and I know it is bullshit. Whether modelling which has been practiced for over 50 years, is still not able to predict anything beyond 5 days – in the most stable environments – or 2 hours – in the least stable environments. Its inaccuracy is legendary.
Given the number of inaccurate climate predictions – plain opposite in most cases, thinking of the “we are about to enter a new ice age” bullshit 30 years ago – and the total lack of improvement in weather forecasting, let alone climate forecasting, I see absolutely zero reason to believe that their models are any better than they were many decades ago.
Remember, climate is a superset of weather: if you cannot model the weather you cannot model the climate unless, by some amazing chance which has so far proven to be false, all the unmodelled variables happen to cancel each other out and their effect become infinitesimal.
Afewknowthetruth said
Yep. That’s what you get when you elevate the atmospheric CO2 level to 190 ppm above the long-term average or 140 ppm above the pre-industrial level (current 420 ppm versus 230 ppm 800,000-year average and 280 ppm pre-industrial). Superheated oceans = greater evaporation and supercharged storm systems.
Yet more “pulled out your arse” science … no better than the MSM media. It doesn’t matter how many times you slam this crap in our faces, it will continue to be “out your arse” science, as perfected by our friend Fauci.
ezlxa1949 said
What we need is a permanent change in the human psyche, one that will not atrophy over the years.
Fixing how people live their lives, how they think? The biggest problem humanity has is that there is a significant majority of the population who believe that they can tell others how to live their lives. They do it for all the right reasons – or so they claim – except that it is none of their business: humanity needs to learn to mind its own business and let people alone to do as they wish.
