Artificial Intelligence and The New World Order

Editor’s note: This is not the usual kind of stuff you would find in Little Micky Machiavelli or any of our Greenteeth D P sites, but it is our policy to introduce all ideas and opinions that question the narrative of the ruling elite and this long article, not reproduced in full here, certainly offers some new angles on the bizarre situation in which we find ourselves – Ian Thorpe 7 Dec 2021

Black Goo and Nanotechnology posted by ‘I Am’ on Minds.com, 28 November 2021

The current plandemic is the final spiritual battle for setting the stage for their anti-human transhumanist goals.

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale and for our purposes of discussion, on the quantum levels. Recently the massive influx of Cosmic Rays and intergalactic plasma gases into the earth core and Polar Regions, along with the alien attempt to harvest and collect this new incoming energy source, has revealed the deeper purpose of Black Goo. The massive plasma gas transmissions are shifting the dark matter template in the earth at the elemental level. This is being observed as transforming Carbon Allotropes that are present in fullerenes or Buckyballs. Carbon allotropes such as Fullerenes are solids in normal conditions, but are changing their state of matter into liquids at subatomic scale from the massive amount of recent plasma gas exposure. A fullerene is a molecule of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, and many other shapes. Spherical fullerenes are also called Buckyballs.

The Dark Matter Template is the anti-matter instruction set of the planetary body, and it has been filled in certain areas with this Alien sourced Black Goo. It was programmed into the dark matter template of the Albion Body and appears to have had its point of entry into earth around the time of the Nephilim Wars. This “alien black goo”, acts as a faux synthetic artificial intelligence elemental that mimics and controls carbon allotropes and how they function in the dodecahedron structures on earth. It is clearly how the Negatives have been accessing carbon elements to control matter forms, including control over genetic expression of the human body. … Continue reading >>>

How the covid scam can be over in 5 minutes

Dr. Jean Seignalet (Pronounce it “Shon Saynyalay”) was a French professor of medicine who devised and trialled a “hypotoxic” diet with 2,565 patients with 115 different, so called “incurable” diseases over a period of twenty years. 91 of the diseases responded to treatment with the diet and there were 1,631 complete remissions. 2,300 patients improved. (more >>> )

How to get the Frankenstein/pharma  white coats and their globalist masters off our backs

What happens now is that we do not wait to be told what to do anymore. We all take 5,000 i.u.’s of vitamin d (healthy adults) 10,000 i.u.’s for the obese, over 60’s and those with  existing conditions. This will a) make us immune to covid-19 and any future virus pandemic hoaxes b) go a long way to putting most chronic diseases into remission or close to it. We can then tell the WHO, the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, the NHS, our “leaders” who are corrupt puppets, the Rockefellers, Gates and tutti quanti to F…. OFF!

Why Coronavirus is a scam

Coronavirus is a scam. We are all vitamin d deficient. We have all been brainwashed to believe that if we go out in the afternoon sun in summer and 3 rays of UVB light hit our skin we will instantly develop melanoma and die a horrible death. It’s garbage. Propaganda to keep us dependent on the Rockefeller drugs and vaccines.

TL:DR version

By popular demand here is the TL:DR version . Please take the time to read the full post and watch my videos for substantiation. You will find it rewarding I promise.

a) We are all vitamin d deficient. The medical profession is lying to us about vitamin d to keep us ignorant, diseased and dependent on drugs and vaccines.
b) Among the many benefits of adequate vitamin d is the production of antimicrobialss made by our own bodies which will kill covid-19. In case of viral infection take a one-off megadose. (See my video for more details)
c) A high enough dose of vitamin c kills all viruses. You can only take so much orally without provoking diarrhea but you can take up to 150 grams or more intravenously in a 24 hour period without side effects. (Caution is needed in some rare diseases). Anyone who dies from covid-19 in an ICU has been murdered by a corrupt and ignorant medical profession.
d).Pandemic scares are used to control us and to get billions for the drug companies. They are hoaxes.

The medical profession is lying to us

At least 10 ways to kill coronavirus

There are at least 10 natural ways to kill the coronavirus without side effects. Vitamin d and vitamin c are the most obvious. I give you full substantiation for these in my video. See underneath for why the Japanese are hardly affected by it.

The Chinese have it under control since March 2010

The Chinese had it under control in December last year. Why? Because they were using high dose vitamin c intravenous in Emergency Rooms for acute infection. That’s why it’s no longer a problem in China. They posted up their Shanghai Experts Consenus Protocol on the internet in all the languages. Google have buried it but you can see it as inserts in my videos. The Chinese did not get the Rockefeller memo which says you cannot use any natural substance in medicine, only drugs. People who die from infection in ICU’s die from acute scurvy.

The reason Japan is little affected by coronavirus

Breaking news From Time. December 18: “… So far, nationwide cumulative cases remain under 200,000 and fatalities below 3,000—resulting in rates many times below those in the U.S. and Europe. This is despite the fact that Japan has one of the highest proportions of vulnerable elderly people in the world, and its coronavirus countermeasures have, in most cases, been mild….”

Fucoidan in shiitake “dashi” (stock) in miso soup

The Japanese all eat miso soup after every meal. It’s made with a stock (“dashi”) made from Kelp and Shiitake mushrooms. The shiitake contains vitamin d and the Kelp contains a sulfated polysaccharide called Fucoidan. It’s anti-viral, immuno stimulant and anti-inflammatory. See my video on the 28 health benefits of miso and how to make authentic miso soup in one minute.

28 health benefits of miso soup and how to make it in one minute

The Comparative Analysis of Antiviral Activity of Native and Modified Fucoidans from Brown Algae Fucus evanescens In Vitro and In Vivo  Krylova et al 2020
“…Thus, native and modified with enzyme Fucoidan have comparable potency against several DNA and RNA viruses, allowing us to consider the studied fucoidans as promising broad-spectrum antivirals….”

Sulfated polysaccharides effectively inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
Kwon et al 2020
“…Our results reveal that specific sulfated polysaccharides bind tightly to the S-protein of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, which suggests that they can act as decoys to interfere with S-protein binding to the heparan sulfate co-receptor in host tissues3,11, inhibiting viral infection. …”

My miso video (make if. from scratch using authentic ingredients in one minute) :

17.22 immunostimulant

17.28 anti-viral

17.44-inflammatory

This vaccine made by our bodies kills all strains of the virus

A vaccine that our bodies makes under the right conditions naturally will klll all strains of this virus. Clue: it’s the reason that seasonal flu is seasonal and the reason the covid infections diminished during the summer and are now spiking. Yes – its UVB rays from the sun hitting our skin in the afternoon in summer and making vitamin d. The UK National Health Service is making up stories about how 2 rays of UVB hitting your skin will give you melanoma.  The NHS is a corrupt organisation  Newsflash: 90% of Melanomas are on the face and caused by dental x-rays. See my series of 10 videos on UVB and vitamin d.

The Rockefellers and their drug companies are maiming and killing us

We need an investigation into the corruption in medicine which has allowed this scam to happen. Medicine has been run by the Rockefellers for the past 100 years. Time for a proper investigation and a complete overhaul of the system. Make sure that the Rockefellers and their drug companies have no more influence. They are killing us. It’s as simple as that.

Enough of this  covid garbage

We don’t need the ridiculous social distancing that was used to prevent observers seeing what was happening at polling stations; We don’t need lockdowns. We don’t need masks. We don’t need mass testing and tracing. We don’t need quarantines. We don’t need mass vaccinations which are killling the elderly in much greater numbers than covid-19 (suppressed in the media) and  turn us into GMO’s with God know’s what long term consequences.

Those who die in ICU’s have been murdered!

All we need is for everyone to take sufficient vitamin d as a supplement. At least 5,000 i.u.’s. And high dose vitamin c intravenous for ALL acute infections which present to the ER (A & E in UK). Not just coronovirus infections. Anyone who dies in an ICU from an acute infection, dies from acute scurvy and has been murdered by an ignorant and corrupt medical profession who are “just following orders”.   Watch my video for full substantiation with medical studies

Time to investigate and prosecute those involved in this scandemic

How come I know this stuff and Fauci and Patrick Valance don’t? I believe that Gates and Fauci and Victor Dzau were involved in the manufacture and release of this virus. Time for a proper investigation. The WHO and the CDC are guilty of crimes against humanity. The medical profession are “just following orders”. They are ignorant and corrupt.

Corrupt Sociopaths in charge of social media have suppressed this knowledge

If social media was not censoring people like me the content of my video would have become common knowledge in an instant and people would have laughed at the Gates/Fauci/Rockefeller drug company show.

Make sure you take enough vitamin d. At least 5,000 i.u.

Covid-1984 is a scam like previous hoaxes

Covid-1984 is a scam like the 2 previous big pandemic hoaxes which were orchestrated by corrupt insiders at the CDC and the WHO. We are being controlled and manipulated by an evil banking mafia.

The medical profession are Rockefeller mafia soldiers

The Rockefellers and their cronies use the medical profession as their soldiers and they have controlling stakes in all the tech companies. The UN and the WHO are Rockefeller fronts.

The virus is man made

It’s common knowledge now that the virus was manufactured. If it was manufactured. someone must have intended to deliberately release it. All that was needed was a corrupt employee at the Wuhan virology lab. Did they infect an animal and put it in the wet market? We need to find out. As a matter of interest, the president of the National Academy of Medicine, a typical Rockefeller drug company front, is Victor Dzau a Chinese American. He is also on the boards of all the Global Public Health mafia fronts together with Gates and Fauci.

Watch my videos on the 3 previous big “pandemics”

The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was caused by a Rockefeller vaccine! It started on a US army base. The Rockefeller vaccine was definitely the cause of the pandemic in the US and UK. Was it the Rockefeller vaccine which caused the pandemic in Spain which started in the Madrid garrison a couple of months after the US pandemic started or was it a homegrown Spanish vaccine? (Support me on patreon so I can give up my day job and devote the time needed to find out) The French and the Germans were also mass vaccinating troops. All of these vaccines were extremely dangerous because they were produced in horses. No-one knew what a virus was in 1918. See my video which substantiates that the population all had sub clinical scurvy at the time. After the Ludlow massacre Ivy Lee taught the Rockefellers how to use PR to manipulate us and they learned that they would have to control the media in order to get away with their crimes.
The 1918 Spanish Flu

The 1976 Swine Flu hoax was orchestrated by corrupt insiders at the CDC The evidence was not flimsy. It was non-existent!. That one only cost the US taxpayer 800 million dollars in today’s money. 500 people developed Guillain-Barre syndrome. Paralysis to you and me. 20 million vaccinated before they called a halt. I think it was a dry run for the later hoaxes. They found out that we are all suckers and that they could get aways with it.
The 1976 Swine Flu Hoax

The 2009 Swine Flu hoax was orchestrated by corrupt insiders at the WHO this time. Corrupt insiders who had worked at the drug companies which eventually made the vaccines changed the definition of a pandemic to declare it one. Four different vaccines – four different crippling, lifelong diseases. Some deaths from the Canadian GSK vaccine from anaphylactic shock minutes after being jabbed. Narcolepsy from theUK GSK vaccine. 10 billion dollars banked by the drug companies for that one. Slight inflation since 1976 where they found that they could get away with it. So the Covid one will cost us hundreds of billions! You couldn’t make it up. The next one will no doubt cost us trillions for a vaccine. Unless we wake up!
The 2009 Swine Flu Hoax

Don’t let yourselves be manipulated by these crooks. No-one has to die from covid-19. Watch my 2 videos on vitamin c and vitamin d that kill covid-19

The 2 natural “vaccines” which kill covid-19: Content

Running Order

Banned on youtube because the evil mafia has a controlling stake

0:00 to 8:57 intro
8:57 to 25:22. ICU 101
25:22 to 1:24.00. High dose vitamin c intravenous (IVC) prevents the need for intensive care in acute infection. I show you the studies and how the medical mafia is trying to suppress this protocol with phoney studies. I show you why they are phoney.
1:24.00 to end. Vitamin D. The studies which prove it works to kill viruses. What dose to take? The vitamin d “hammer”. Protocol given to avoid infection. DIY protocol in case of acute infection.

ONLY THE SEVERELY VITAMIN D DEFICIENT DIE FROM CORONONAVIRUS (OR THE FLU)

i. Numerous studies show that only the severely vitamin d deficient die from covid-19. Vitamin d sufficient are not even infected. See the 4th part of my video. 1.24.00 to end. Therefore you should supplement with at least 5,000 i.u.’s of vitamin d. If you are infected, take the vitamin d “hammer” of 50,000 i.u.’s in one hit.

ii. High dose vitamin c intravenous (IVC) given in the first 6 hours of an acute covid patient presenting, prevents the need for intensive care. Watch my video to see how to get a diy version that is just as good as intravenous.

HOW TO END THIS CHARADE

a). Mandate that every hospital use the MATH+ protocol for acute infections. Not just covid infections. ALL acute infections. No more deaths from covid and no more deaths from the flu either. This is a proven protocol. 10 ICU physicians are using it in the US. If used in the first 6 hours of an acute patient presenting to the ER, intensive care Sedation, drugging, intubation, ventilation, catheter tube shoved into your private parts. etc, etc.) is not necessary. Full details and irrefutable proof in my video

b) Give every citizen a year’s supply of vitamin d.

How many more studies do we need which prove that only severely vitamin d deficient people die from covid-19?  The real pandemic is vitamin d deficiency.

Only vitamin d deficient people die from covid-19.   The real pandemic is vitamin d deficiency. The corrupt medical profession is telling us lies to keep us out of the sun and and out of tanning beds so we remain vitamin d deficient. My video  catches them in the act of lying.

How to finish with covid overnight – vitamin d supplement for every citizen

Give every citizen a year’s supply of vitamin d. But not the useless dose of 600 iu’s stipulated as RDA (US) or even more ridiculous NHS RDA of 400 iu.=’s, by the corrupt medical profession. Give 5,000 iu’s per day. The dose recommended by Dr. Hollick who is THE expert on vitamin d. 20,000 iu’s for the obese, 10,000 iu,s for blacks, over 60’s and those with existing conditions. I estimate that this would cost about $50 million in the US and something like $15 millions in the UK. Chickenfeed! . It would stop not only covid-19 infection but also seasonal flu. It would also put all chronic diseases into remission and make the population 100% healthier because in every single chronic disease vitamin d deficiency is implicated. I show you a 2 minute montage of 80 studies which prove this in my video. Hit pause to read the disease which interests you. Get the drug companies to give back the biilions that they have extorted to make filthy vaccines which maim and kill.

Tips for watching the bitchute video on the 2 natural “vaccines”: * Watch in x1.25 or x1.5 speed where you find my delivery slow. * It’s in 4 parts. Watch in 2 or 3 or more sessions. (It’s long and detailed) * You don’t need to hit pause to read every medical excerpt insert. Come back and watch a second time and re ad the ones which interest you. * I give you a protocol to avoid infection in the first place and another “failsafe” emergency protocol in case of acute infection to keep you out of a death trap ICU.

Read:   None Dare Call it Conspiracy by Gary Allen. Written 50 years ago but more relevant than ever

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reply to Swiss Libertarians post on Minds.com

Joe Biden loved the New World Order since 1992, this article from The Wall Street Journal proves it

basil_hallward·@basil_hallward·23m ago·Edited

What is really scary about that title is it closely echos the final line of George Orwell’s “1984”

I’ll give a very brief summary and the full final paragraph for context: The dystopian novel “1984” is set in Oceania, one of three superstates, which exists under the rule of Big Brother, the leader of the totalitarian Oligarchic Collectivist regime.

The central character is Winston Smith who works in the Ministry of Truth, which performs the function of ensuring the regime’s propaganda cannot be challenged.

In a world of total surveillance, the thought police, strict control of information and the duty of total obedience Winston is a rebel, he thinks for himself and circulates ideas forbidden by the regime. On meeting a fellow rebel, Julia, the pair fall in love though they suspect each other of being a spy for the regime. Such relationships are forbidden, the regime selcts partners for people.

Eventually the Thought Police catch up with these rebels and Winston ends up in Room 101, where the regimes enemies are taken to face the thing they fear most. And the story ends with these hearbreaking words …

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself.He loved Big Brother.”

More on “1984”

The Bidens – A continuing story too crazy to be a soap opera.

from Terry’s PC-free topics at Quora

The Biden’s – A Historical Perspective

If this mess was about a conservative Republican, the Mainstream Media (MSM) would have demanded a special investigation by now.

To begin, Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia, had three (3) children: Hunter, Beau and Naomi. In 1972, Neilia and Naomi, were killed in a car accident. Joe eventually remarried a woman named Jill. He already knew Jill because she had been Hunter’s babysitter at the time of the car accident. ( yea, THAT seems normal- marry the babysitter). They had a daughter named Ashley. Ashley lives ‘a quiet life’ and is frequently in and out of rehab for various substance abuse issues. Now sadly, the sanest, most normal one, of the 3 surviving kids, Beau, dies in 2015 from a brain tumor. He had been married to Haillie and they had 2 children, a boy and a girl named Natalie, who was 11 yrs old when her dad died.

Now, enter Hunter Biden, in 2015, to “comfort” his brother’s widow. Mind you, Hunter was married at the time, to Kathleen Biden, since 1993. Hunter Biden starts fooling around with his dead brother’s wife in 2015. Then his wife Kathleen finds out about it and they separate. Hunter moves in with his dead brother’s wife, Haillie, and her two kids. He ultimately gets divorced from Kathleen in 2017. Meanwhile, he starts screwing around with a stripper, while still shacking up with his dead brother’s wife, before his divorce is finalized, and gets the stripper pregnant. Haillie kicks his butt to the curb supposedly for this indiscretion in 2018. He denies the stripper’s baby is his, although a paternity test proves otherwise and eventually marries a woman named Melissa in 2019 after 6 days. So, does the tale end there? Why no, it doesn’t. That just sets the stage for more drama.

Enter the laptop from “Hell” loaded with emails, text messages, photos, child pornography, videos, and other sordid digital images. Hunter Biden drops the laptop off at a small computer repair shop in Delaware, his home state, to get it repaired because it seems that he dropped it in some water while in a meth-induced state of mind. He then neglected to pay the $85.00 repair fee and the laptop became the repair shop owner’s property for non-payment. When the owner saw what was on it, he contacted the FBI. No response. The DOJ? No response. Eventually, it landed in Rudy Giuliani’s possession and he turned it over to the Delaware State Police AFTER making 4 copies of the hard drive. Turns out, there’s quite a lot of child pornography on there much of it involving children on Hunter’s many trips to China. The Chinese Communist Party uses this as a blackmail tactic they supply the young girls, they film you, unknowingly, and then they can keep you “in line”, while paying you the big $$$ to do their bidding, like lucrative deals with your VP father. Millions of dollars was paid to Hunter Biden for favors with the US Govt while Joe Biden was VP under Obama. For eight (8) years Hunter made the contacts and split the money with his father: Joe Biden sold out his country and used his meth head son to do it.

However, IT GETS WORSE. Today, on the laptop, emails were released between Beau Biden’s widow, Haillie, and Joe Biden in 2017 and more in 2018 when she and Hunter were still living together. They were casually talking about Hunter’s continually “sexually inappropriate behavior” she had witnessed from Hunter toward her 14 year old daughter, Natalie, HIS NIECE! Image removed by sender. She told Joe that she felt she had put her children in a dangerous situation by getting involved with Hunter Biden. Joe knew his son was screwing around with his niece and he advised his daughter-in-law to go to therapy. Worst yet, no one went to the police and the abuse escalated. THAT is the main reason she broke off her relationship with Hunter. Among the pictures of Hunter having sex with young Asian children, there were hundreds of provocative pictures of a 14 year old girl, mainly topless, and hundreds more of Hunter Biden, in sexual poses with her, HIS NIECE. She was 14 yrs old and HE WAS 48!! BOTTOM LINE: ANY MAN WHO CAN’T TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN HOUSE, HAS NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THE END…..but, is it?

Nope. Rudy says there is more to come, primarily involving Joe Biden getting rich off laundering foreign money through our country, using his son as intermediary. Biden is as dirty and crooked as they come. Hillary looks clean compared to him. Now it makes sense why Obama REFUSED to endorse him as the DNC candidate until he was the last man standing!

More to come…Dear God, how much worse can this get? The saga continues. Stay tuned…

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Vaccines Are The Only Way To Beat COVID – Or Are They?

As governments and supra – national bureaucracies ramp up the propaganda in their effort to force dodgy and untested vaccines on us we want to share this very long and informative comment posted on Breitbart Europe

Chris Parkinson • 4 hours ago • edited

“….“Vaccines are the key to releasing us all from the grip of this pandemic, and today´s news is yet another important step towards ending lockdown and returning to normal life,´´ Business Secretary Alok Sharma said….”

Wrong! A purge of corrupt puppet politicians and a corrupt medical profession and paying proper attention to the medical literature is the key to ending the scam.

See my video on the 2 natural “vaccines” which kill covid-19 and any other virus and which are being suppressed by the evil mafia who orchestrated this scam.
https://www.bitchute.com/vi…
Banned on youtube because the evil mafia has a controlling stake

It’s a scam. Why do the Brits have such a high infection and death rate? Because we are all vitamin d deficient. We have all been brainwashed to believe that if we go out in the afternnoon sun in summer and 3 rays of UVB light hit our skin we will instantly develop melanoma and die a horrible death. It’s garbage. Propaganda to keep us dependent on the Rockefeller drugs and vaccines.

Give me 2 days free access on Mumsnet and the scam will be over. I tried posting last night. Post instantly removed and my account deleted.

By popular demand here is the TL;DR version. Please take the time to read the full post and watch my videos for substantiation. You will find it rewarding I promise.

a) We are all vitamin d deficient. The medical profession is lying to us about vitamin d to keep us ignorant, diseased and dependent on drugs and vaccines.
b) Among the many benefits of adequate vitamin d is the production of antimicrobialss made by our own bodies which will kill covid-19. In case of viral infection take a one-off megadose. (See my video for more details)
c) A high enough dose of vitamin c kills all viruses. You can only take so much orally without provoking diarrhea but you can take up to 150 grams or more intravenously in a 24 hour period without side effects. (Caution is needed in some rare diseases). Anyone who dies from covid-19 in an ICU has been murdered by a corrupt and ignorant medical profession.
d).Pandemic scares are used to control us and to get billions for the drug companies. They are hoaxes.

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How much longer are we going to put up with this nonsense?

There are at least 10 natural ways to kill the coronavirus without side effects. Vitamin d and vitamin c are the most obvious. I give you full substantiation for these in my video. See underneath for why the Japanese are hardly affected by it.

The Chinese had it under control in December last year. Why? Because they were using high dose vitamin c intravenous in Emergency Rooms for acute infection. That’s why it’s no longer a problem in China. They posted up their Shanghai Experts Consenus Protocol on the internet in all the languages. Google have buried it but you can see it as inserts in my videos. The Chinese did not get the Rockefeller memo which says you cannot use any natural substance in medicine, only drugs. People who die from infection in ICU’s die from acute scurvy.

JAPAN Breaking news From Time. December 18: “… So far, nationwide cumulative cases remain under 200,000 and fatalities below 3,000—resulting in rates many times below those in the U.S. and Europe. This is despite the fact that Japan has one of the highest proportions of vulnerable elderly people in the world, and its coronavirus countermeasures have, in most cases, been mild….”

The Japanese all eat miso soup after every meal. It’s made with a stock (“dashi”) made from Kelp and Shiitake mushrooms. The shiitake contains vitamin d and the Kelp contains a sulfated polysaccharide called Fucoidan. It’s anti-viral, immuno stimulant and anti-inflammatory. See my video on the 28 health benefits of miso and how to make authentic miso soup in one minute.

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The Comparative Analysis of Antiviral Activity of Native and Modified Fucoidans from Brown Algae Fucus evanescens In Vitro and In Vivo* Krylova et al 2020
“…Thus, native and modified with enzyme Fucoidan have comparable potency against several DNA and RNA viruses, allowing us to consider the studied fucoidans as promising broad-spectrum antivirals….”

Sulfated polysaccharides effectively inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
Kwon et al 2020
“…Our results reveal that specific sulfated polysaccharides bind tightly to the S-protein of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, which suggests that they can act as decoys to interfere with S-protein binding to the heparan sulfate co-receptor in host tissues3,11, inhibiting viral infection. …”

My miso video (make if. from scratch using authentic ingredients in one minute) :

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17.22 immunostimulant
17.44 anti-inflammatory
17.28 anti-viral

A vaccine that our bodies makes under the right conditions naturally will klll all strains of this virus. Clue: it’s the reason that seasonal flu is seasonal and the reason the covid infections diminished during the summer and are now spiking. Yes – its UVB rays from the sun hitting our skin in the afternoon in summer and making vitamin d. The UK National Health Service is making up stories about how 2 rays of UVB hitting your skin will give you melanoma. Newsflash: 90% of Melanomas are on the face and caused by dental x-rays. See my series of 10 videos on UVB and vitamin d.

We need an investigation into the corruption in medicine which has allowed this scam to happen. Medicine has been run by the Rockefellers for the past 100 years. Time for a proper investigation and a complete overhaul of the system. Make sure that the Rockefellers and their drug companies have no more influence. They are killing us. It’s as simple as that.

We don’t need the ridiculous social distancing that was used to prevent observers seeing what was happening at polling stations; We don’t need lockdowns. We don’t need masks. We don’t need mass testing and tracing. We don’t need quarantines. We don’t need mass vaccinations which turn us into GMO’s with God know’s what long term consequences.

All we need is for everyone to take sufficient vitamin d as a supplement. At least 5,000 i.u.’s. And high dose vitamin c intravenous for ALL acute infections which present to the ER (A & E in UK). Not just coronovirus infections. Anyone who dies in an ICU from an acute infection, dies from acute scurvy and has been murdered by an ignorant and corrupt medical profession who are “just following orders”. Watch my video for full substantiation with medical studies.

How come I know this stuff and Fauci doesn’t? I believe that Gates and Fauci and Victor Dzau were involved in the manufacture and release of this virus. Time for a proper investigation. The WHO and the CDC are guilty of crimes against humanity. The medical profession are “just following orders”. They are ignorant and corrupt.

If social media was not censoring people like me the content of my video would have become common knowledge in an instant and people would have laughed at the Gates/Fauci/Rockefeller drug company show.

Make sure you take enough vitamin d. At least 5,000 i.u.

Covid-1984 is a scam like the 2 previous big pandemic hoaxes which were orchestrated by corrupt insiders at the CDC and the WHO. We are being controlled and manipulated by an evil banking mafia.

The Rockefellers and their cronies use the medical profession as their soldiers and they have controlling stakes in all the tech companies. The UN and the WHO are Rockefeller fronts.

It’s common knowledge now that the virus was manufactured. If it was manufactured. someone must have intended to deliberately release it. All that was needed was a corrupt employee at the Wuhan virology lab. Did they infect an animal and put it in the wet market? We need to find out. As a matter of interest, the president of the National Academy of Medicine, a typical Rockefeller drug company front, is Victor Dzau a Chinese American. He is also on the boards of all the Global Public Health mafia fronts together with Gates and Fauci.

Watch my videos on the 3 previous big “pandemics”

The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was caused by a Rockefeller vaccine! It started on a US army base. The Rockefeller vaccine was definitely the cause of the pandemic in the US and UK. Was it the Rockefeller vaccine which caused the pandemic in Spain which started in the Madrid garrison a couple of months after the US pandemic started or was it a homegrown Spanish vaccine? (Support me on patreon so I can give up my day job and devote the time needed to find out) The French and the Germans were also mass vaccinating troops. All of these vaccines were extremely dangerous because they were produced in horses. No-one knew what a virus was in 1918. See my video which substantiates that the population all had sub clinical scurvy at the time. After the Ludlow massacre Ivy Lee taught the Rockefellers how to use PR to manipulate us and they learned that they would have to control the media in order to get away with their crimes.
https://youtu.be/ZW419ox_yj4

The 1976 Swine Flu hoax was orchestrated by corrupt insiders at the CDC The evidence was not flimsy. It was non-existent!. That one only cost the US taxpayer 800 million dollars in today’s money. 500 people developed Guillain-Barre syndrome. Paralysis to you and me. 20 million vaccinated before they called a halt. I think it was a dry run for the later hoaxes. They found out that we are all suckers and that they could get aways with it.
https://youtu.be/Z_HRtt4P3ps

The 2009 Swine Flu hoax was orchestrated by corrupt insiders at the WHO this time. Corrupt insiders who had worked at the drug companies which eventually made the vaccines changed the definition of a pandemic to declare it one. Four different vaccines – four different crippling, lifelong diseases. Some deaths from the Canadian GSK vaccine from anaphylactic shock minutes after being jabbed. Narcolepsy from theUK GSK vaccine. 10 billion dollars banked by the drug companies for that one. Slight inflation since 1976 where they found that they could get away with it. So the Covid one will cost us hundreds of billions! You couldn’t make it up. The next one will no doubt cost us trillions for a vaccine. Unless we wake up!
https://youtu.be/hO_Q0oTWrEs

Don’t let yourselves be manipulated by these crooks. No-one has to die from covid-19. Watch my 2 videos on vitamin c and vitamin d that kill covid-19

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Banned on youtube because the evil mafia has a controlling stake

0:00 to 8:57 intro
8:57 to 25:22. ICU 101
25:22 to 1:24.00. High dose vitamin c intravenous (IVC) prevents the need for intensive care in acute infection. I show you the studies and how the medical mafia is trying to suppress this protocol with phoney studies. I show you why they are phoney.
1:24.00 to end. Vitamin D. The studies which prove it works to kill viruses. What dose to take? The vitamin d “hammer”. Protocol given to avoid infection. DIY protocol in case of acute infection.

ONLY THE SEVERELY VITAMIN D DEFICIENT DIE FROM CORONONAVIRUS (OR THE FLU)

i. Numerous studies show that only the severely vitamin d deficient die from covid-19. Vitamin d sufficient are not even infected. See the 4th part of my video. 1.24.00 to end. Therefore you should supplement with at least 5,000 i.u.’s of vitamin d. If you are infected, take the vitamin d “hammer” of 50,000 i.u.’s in one hit.
ii. High dose vitamin c intravenous (IVC) given in the first 6 hours of an acute covid patient presenting, prevents the need for intensive care. Watch my video to see how to get a diy version that is just as good as intravenous.

HOW TO END THIS CHARADE

a). Mandate that every hospital use the MATH+ protocol for acute infections. Not just covid infections. ALL acute infections. No more deaths from covid and no more deaths from the flu either. This is a proven protocol. 10 ICU physicians are using it in the US. If used in the first 6 hours of an acute patient presenting to the ER, intensive care Sedation, drugging, intubation, ventilation, catheter tube shoved into your private parts. etc, etc.) is not necessary. Full details and irrefutable proof in my video

b) Give every citizen a year’s supply of vitamin d.

How many more studies do we need which prove that only severely vitamin d deficient people die from covid-19? The real pandemic is vitamin d deficiency. The corrupt medical profession is telling us lies to keep us out of the sun and and out of tanning beds so we remain vitamin d deficient. My video catches them in the act of lying.
https://youtu.be/ii9GgEK5vYA

Give every citizen a year’s supply of vitamin d. But not the useless dose of 600 iu’s stipulated as RDA (US) or even more ridiculous NHS RDA of 400 iu.=’s, by the corrupt medical profession. Give 5,000 iu’s per day. The dose recommended by Dr. Hollick who is THE expert on vitamin d. 20,000 iu’s for the obese, 10,000 iu,s for blacks, over 60’s and those with existing conditions. I estimate that this would cost about $50 million in the US and something like $15 millions in the UK. Chickenfeed! . It would stop not only covid-19 infection but also seasonal flu. It would also put all chronic diseases into remission and make the population 100% healthier because in every single chronic disease vitamin d deficiency is implicated. I show you a 2 minute montage of 80 studies which prove this in my video. Hit pause to read the disease which interests you. Get the drug companies to give back the biilions that they have extorted to make filthy vaccines which maim and kill.

Tips for watching the bitchute video on the 2 natural “vaccines”: * Watch in x1.25 or x1.5 speed where you find my delivery slow. * It’s in 4 parts. Watch in 2 or 3 or more sessions. (It’s long and detailed) * You don’t need to hit pause to read every medical excerpt insert. Come back and watch a second time and re ad the ones which interest you. * I give you a protocol to avoid infection in the first place and another “failsafe” emergency protocol in case of acute infection to keep you out of a death trap ICU.

Read: “None dare call it conspiracy” by Gary Allen. Written 50 years ago but more relevant than ever.

PS. The short version for President Trump. How to quickly kill the virus and stay out of a death trap ICU. https://youtu.be/EcYyruafOZY. (Pity he never watched it!)

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White Privilege?

White privilege?

It’s time our elected representatives and mainstream media started to defend the white people of these British Isles against the onslaught of racist bigots like Black Lives Matter and Marxist nutters like the EkSTINKtion Rebellion crusties. It’s time these anti-white Marxists were told there was no “privilege” working 12 hours a day in coal mines, 12 hours a day in the steel and cotton mills, and living bleak lives on bleak housing estates.

We white people built, with our brain and muscle, the greatest, most affluent and most free society in history, a truth that the old Labour Party understood but that is now overrun by anti-white Marxists who promote the interests of blacks and Muslims whose collective efforts never managed to progress their homelands beyond medieval feudalism and who now hate white people and the prosperity and liberal values of societies whose countries they want to destroy.

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Want to Know the Truth About Carbs? Here It Is

We all want to stay healthy right, but there’s so much conflicting advice out there about diet and health it’s hard to know what is useful and what is just a sales pitch. Still there are independent voices out there in the cyberuniverse who are not trying to sell you diet or exercise plans or dodgy maging pills. Here’s one of them >

by Auriene Alix<, Medium.com/a>

Are carbohydrates responsible for fat gain? Yes and no. That’s the complexity of the matter. Let’s stop with the false assumptions and shortcuts. The reality is not so difficult to understand. It’s actually quite simple.

We make nutritional choices based on what we’re told, without ever making the effort to understand how these foods affect our body. Yet, food is our fuel.

For a long time, I just ate what I wanted to eat. I was told that fruits and vegetables were better for my health than hamburgers and pastries, so I tried to eat more of the former than the latter. It wasn’t until I began to realize the crucial importance of diet, and started my fitness journey, that I became interested in nutrition.

I wanted and needed to know what I was putting into my body. Which choices were to be preferred. What false beliefs had been guiding my diet for years.

Starting with carbohydrates. Most people misunderstand them. Most explanations on the subject make it more complicated than it is.

Here’s a digest of the ton of reading I’ve done.

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What led to an ice age during the late Pliocene era when CO2 levels were high?

Real causes are not known to our science a this time because mathematics and comupter modeling have blinded everyone involved in studying the climate to the reality of what is happening in the climate now (clue: it’s noting to do with carbon dioxide emissions from human activity).

The process of an ice cycle on our planet begins in the earth’s mantle not in a computer in some tenth rate university that in its quest for revenue has launched a research grant phishing project to come up with the scariest climate change scenario and link it to CO2 emissions from industry, commerce and civilized life.

The Earth’s mantle is a layer approximately 1,800 mile (2,900 km) thick and composed of compressed and heated rock, beginning below the Earth’s crust (lithosphere), which descends from the surface to between 20 and 30 below sea level. Surprisingly the lithosphee tends to be thinner under mountain ranges than under plains or oceans. The mantle makes up 70% of Earth’s volume, in comparison to the Earth’s crust, which makes up less than 1% of the total. In fact, the crust is just a thin layer of frozen rock shielding the mantle from outer space. The two layers are separated by a transition area called the Mohorovičić discontinuity (the “Moho” in geologits jargon) where a certain type of seismic wave quickly speeds up when transiting through.

Below the mantle is the superheated molten core of the planet.

Like the crust, the mantle is composed of many different types of rocks that fall into three main categories: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. However, most of those rocks originated as either granite or basalt. This layer differs in its chemical ratios from the crust, however. It is composed of approximately 45% oxygen, 23% magnesium, 22% silicon, 6% iron, 2% aluminum, 2% calcium, with trace amounts of sodium, potassium, and other elements. Like the crust, the mantle can be broadly described as as silicate. Below it the molten core consisting of an outer core and inner core, making up about 29% of the Earth’s volume, and composed primarily of molten (outer core) or solid (inner core which although immensely hot it kept solid by the enormous pressures it is subject to,) iron and nickel.

The upper mantle (aesthenosphere) has a relitavely low density compared to the rest of this layer, and flows fluidly, like a plastic. The layer gets hotter and denser as it goes down, until the rock melts entirely where the lower portion ends and the inner core begins. Convection (hotter material ascending, cooler material falling,)in the upper layer drives continental drift, the natural process that moves tectonic plates around the surface. By this process (described here in very simplistic terms, the entire oceanic crust is recycled every 100 millionish years. By comparison, portions of the continental crust are billions of years old.

As you must know (because we have all seen news video of erupting volcanoes,) the mantle is very hot and some of the heat warms the surface of our planet(this fact is unknown to climate science because were climate scientists to acknowledge it their whole Anthropogenic Global Warming money making scam would fall apart). Sometimes hotsopts in the mantle heat shift from place to place cooling some areas, warming other areas. So, when the warmth is directed away from the poles the planet gains ice and when the heat is directed toward the poles ice retreats. It is well known to geologists and paleo – geographers, though few will now admit it for fear of having their careers trashed by far – left political activists who plan to use climate change scares as a stopping stone to power.

The reason no scientists are publishing research on how these processes in the planet’s crust affect the advance and retreat of the ice caps is because any who attempts to do so will lose funding, be fired by their university, ruled persona non grata by international media and called ‘denier’ across social media. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a wholly owned subsidiary of that wannabe global government The United Nations Organisation, prefer to pretend it never happened, like the little ice age, the medieval warm period or the Roman hot period. These are areas that will cause a scientist to loss funding, be discredited and labeled a denier.

Greta Thunberg Slams Australia for Coal Industry, Expands List of Climate Demands
Little Greta Thunberg, who was elected by nobody apparently now speaks for us all on matters relating to climate change. The Swedish climate change hustler who is making a fortune for her handlers from donations to her campaign, again castigated Australia for continuing to mine and export coal despite her previous complaints, adding a call for an end worldwide to the actibity to her list of climate demands to be delivered at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos …

Another Kick In The Bollocks For Warmageddonists And CAGWARTS*
I’ve had many arguments with the Warmageddonists, the people who have been saying that if we did not shut down all coal, oil and gas related activites the earth was going to turn into a giant furnace and we would all burn. When the scaremongering first started, the deadline for frying was “after dinner”. Then it got to “Tomorrow …… or the day after tomorrow perhaps,” then “next year”, “before 2050,” and eventually “soon.”

What if man-made climate change is all in the mind?
If our view of reality is shaped by the mind and our perceptions of information, how successful are attempts to manipulate the perceptions of the whole populations through manipulated data, spin and assertions of authority likely to be. As scientists and politicians moan that the public no longer take sertiously climate change scare stories, we have to conclude, not very.

Meteorologists Begin To Admit To Climate Engineering
The freethinkers and Libertarians of New Media have been questioning the pseudoscientific certainties of the global warming lobby for a long time. During that often acrimonious process (because the Global Warming lobby are ever bit as organised and as driven by blind hatred of those who question them as the Bearded Queens In Bridal Gowns lobby) and most of us have been accused of infanticide, genocide and worse. At last the respectable climate scientists (the ones who didn’t sell their arse for the corporate dollar) are speaking, and the media are listening.

Mad Scientists Now In A Race To Create Human – Animal Hybrids
Scientists all over the world are busy creating extremely bizarre human-animal chimeras. Once again The Daily Stirrer has to say “We told you so”. There is something very creepy and sinister embedded in the typical scientists desire to play God. It is a complete, psychopathic disregard for moral boundaries. If we can do it that …

UK Offshore Windfarms Produce More Rust and CO2 Than Electricity
A private case going through a British court of arbitration at the moment involves two very large supply organisations.
Unfortunately the case is being heard away from the prying eyes and radar like ears of the media. A 1996 Act Of Parliament enabled such things as a way to free up Court time taken up by complex technical disputes…. And, perhaps, to keep embarrassing truths away from …

Doctors may withhold treatment from patients with “green lifestyle issues.”

A few weeks ago an item on the BMA’s website linked to the “Doctors against climate change” group of the doctors’ trade union. This body of medico-environmental socialist – utopians stated …

The Two Faces Of The Politics Of Failure

What a mess the modern way of doing politics based on a politically correct consensus and social engineering has produced. The daily stirrer looks at how the bipolar left – right divide stops things getting better rather than helping get the developed world back on track.

Green Policies Will Not Save The Planet But Are Costing Poor Families The Earth>

Politicians bleat sabout the plight of the poor then press on with their clean, green, sustainable energy policies which include stealth taxes to subsidise expensive and inefficient wind turbine and solar panel power generators. Can they not see it is the green agenda that is driving up inflation …[Environment]

Solar Storm Armageddon: Will This Be What Makes Warmageddonists Shut T F UP

An eruption on the surface of the sun, aka solar storn will send a flood of highly charged particles towards earth. Satellite communications and other technology might suffer sone disruption but the best thing about it is from here in the north of England we will be able to see the Aurora.

The Danish Experience – Problems With Wind Power And The Truth About Turbines
The truth about wind turbines, their real efficiency as opposed to the hyperbolic claims of clean sustainable energy firms and their lobbyists, politically correct politicians and green activists and how wind farm operators have been given a licence to pick the pockets of taxpayers

Statistics, Graphs and Hockey Sticks
A poem about the famous hocvkey stick graph and the science scam it was a frony for. Posted now as a valedictory celebration because US climate monitoring agncies NASA and NOAA have at last admitted the global average temperature has risen only marginally over the past few decades.

Climate Change – The Edge Of The Abyss

Media and government reports still say we are staring into the abyss because carbon emissions are too high. But have they ever though we would have to shut down all economic activity in the developed world to change things.

We Might As Well Ask The CRU climate scientists to forcast the economic trends

As our finance expert John de Roe digests today’s economic statement by Chancellor George Osborne we advise readers to ignore gloomy economic forecasts from supra national bodies with close political ties to the “New World Order”. Both the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) along with numerous other thinky tanky type thingies published their latest economic forecasts ahead of the Chancellors statement. These forecasts which are invariably gloomy and predict …

The Pain In Spain as Green Energy Policy Fails

You will not find anything in mainstream media, either print or broadcast, about the failure of the green energy initiatives that have left Spain in dire economic strais or Denmark in the dark. Bizarre, as other governments are pressing ahead with plans to make us reliant on these crackpot schemes and intellectual wanks of mad scientists …

Climate Scientists versus Free Speech and Freedom Of Information
This week four groups, whose boards represent a distinctly liberal world view and who oppose scrutiny of taxpayer-funded science by academics, asked the University of Virginia to disregard its agreement before the court with American Tradition Institute to provide the records of former climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, which belong to the public. The groups, led by the far-left Union of ….

Ever Changing Ocean

The scientists warn us climate change will cause massive extinctions, species will be destroyed, nations will die, the oceans will swamp huge areas of land as sea levels rise and lots of scaremongering stuff like that. But life in the seas has survived much worse catastrophes, much more violent changes than anything we puny humand can conjure up. It is a measure of the arrogance of humans in general and scientists in particular to imagine we puny humans could destroy the planet.also availabe HERE

Climate Change and the Population Explosion
In all the debates about climate change and the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on the environment there is one issue that has a huge bearing on humanity’s relationship with our planet that neither politicians nor scientists will discuss. Population growth. So a philosopher has to step up to the mark and ask why people are encouraged to have children when we face so many population related problems?

 

The Real Thunberg Agenda?

By William B. Stoecker – All News Pipeline
The environmental extremists continue to chant their monotonous mantra about the “existential threat” of man-made global warming, or climate change. Indeed, the climate is changing, and it has been changing for nearly four billion years. They recently began using an (apparently autistic) teenager as their spokes-mouth. Like all leftists they talk a good line, assuring us that they care deeply for wildlife, nature, clean air and water, etc. But it has long been obvious that their pretended concern for the environment is merely a cover for their real agenda, which is the impoverishment, enslavement, and eventual extermination of the human race. They are the ultimate “againsters,” people who pretend to be in favor of some noble-sounding cause, but who are really not for anything, only against.

I confess, like many of their rank and file followers, I used to believe their beautiful lie, even joining the Sierra Club until I gradually became disillusioned with them. Even today I have a fondness for mass transit and feel that, as long as we have cities, it would be better if they were more compact; less urban sprawl would mean paving over less farmland. And I think both the US and the world in general would be better off with fewer people. But no one has the right to dictate to others how they should live, and the Earth can sustain the seven billion plus people now crowding onto it, and, in any event, birthrates are dropping.

In fact, in First World countries, birthrates have dropped too far, and are below the replacement rate. The Japanese are a dying race, as are the Russians. After working for many years as a welfare eligibility worker, watching our tax dollars fund the breeding of a class of multi-generational parasites, I can almost see the point of eugenics; I’ve often thought that it might be a good idea to require that people submit to sterilization as a requirement to get welfare benefits. But there is no need, and no one has the right, to forcibly sterilize people or to target certain races.    READ ALL >>>

Why are Britons becoming less tolerant of gay sex? Hint: it’s not due to Christians like Rees-Mogg

Little Nicky loves a bit of irony and this is classic.

Published in RT, 11 Jul, 2019

Gay pride in London and Muslim worshippers in Baitul Futuh mosque in the same city. ©  REUTERS/HENRY NICHOLLS;  REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

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Acceptance of gay sex and pre-marital relationships has fallen for the first time in decades in the UK, but the media is insistent on blaming the wrong people for intolerance.

The annual British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has found that 74 percent believe that sex before marriage is “not wrong at all,” a percentage point less than last year, and 66 percent of adults say the same about same-sex relationships. While the declines are marginal and the numbers remain near historic peaks, the last time Britain grew less tolerant of homosexuals was during the AIDS panic of the late 1980s, and researchers state that openness has “plateaued” after years of rapid growth.

If in doubt, blame Brexit

The left-of-center media took no time to identify the reasons: the Guardian’s article on the subject features “Ukip, the Brexit party and the European Research Group (ERG) of Conservative MPs,” Arlene Foster of Northern Ireland’s DUP, “senior Conservative politicians including Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey” and singles out Jacob Rees-Mogg, even though he doesn’t actually oppose same-sex relationships. In any case, one is left wondering why millions of Britons are suddenly taking their social cues from a Catholic father-of-six raised in a stately home by his devoted nanny. The Independent goes through much of the same list, throwing Theresa May and Boris Johnson into the mix, while on Sky News an LGBT activist said that Brexit had “emboldened” social conservatives.

©  BSA Survey

A more sophisticated thesis claims there is a backlash against the rapid progress of LGBT rights and other liberal causes that have become visible everywhere from shop fronts to street parades to politicians’ lapels, and sites that have left comments on are full of opinions from those claiming to be sick of alternative lifestyles “rammed down their throats.” As recently as 2012, fewer than half of Britons told the same survey that there was nothing wrong with homosexual relationships, so perhaps some of the defections to the rainbow flag may have been fleeting.

‘Non-Christians’

But the more obvious answer appears to be hiding in plain sight, in black and white, in the survey itself.

For example, fewer Catholics (82 percent) believe that premarital sex is “rarely wrong” or “not wrong at all” compared to those who do not follow any religion (93 percent). But the real social conservatives are not the old or the Christians, but a grouping of “Non-Christians” only 35 percent of whom believe that sex before marriage is acceptable.

©  BSA Survey

The picture is likely the same for same-sex relationships, though for reasons unknown the survey withholds a detailed breakdown of who exactly is against gay sex. But using the figures of 2016, which are available, only 30 percent of those non-Christians make allowances for LGBT couples – with acceptance rates 20 to 30 percent lower than Christian denominations, and even further behind atheists. Even if that number has improved against the overall trend, the group likely remains laggards. When LGBT advocates talk of a hardened rump that won’t fall in with other social trends, this is who they should mean.

So, who are these statistically interesting outliers? In the majority of cases, Muslims, with significantly smaller Hindu, Sikh and Jewish groups.

Using data from the BSA survey itself, the proportion of Muslims has doubled in the past decade alone from 3 to 6 percent. Government statistics estimate that there are over 3.3 million Muslims in the UK, more than twice as many as in 2001, with the real number thought to be higher as many migrants are not counted in such figures.

It might not seem like a lot, but if this group is radically different in its social attitudes it is enough to put a dent in the steady line of progress for tolerance, as it grows proportionally bigger.

Growing concerns

Other than the specific example of parents in Birmingham schools protesting against a new pro-LGBT curriculum, there is no acknowledgement of the impact of Muslims as such, or of their changing demographics on overall British attitudes in any of the reports. Similarly, the Independent writer talks about “an atmosphere of hostility creeping into our lives” and complains that he has “been subjected to a huge number of homophobic comments recently and several friends of mine have been assaulted or attacked” but doesn’t reveal who is behind these aggressive acts in London, a city with the highest “non-Christian” population.

Lefties love to shout their support for Gay BLTs from the rooftops. Likewise their love for Muslims and all things related to Islam (except the bits of Islam they are in denial about of course.) They’ve been so keen in both Gay / Lesbian / Trans rights and the acceptance of Islam, including Sharia Law, in British society that they have campaigned for both simultaneously just as they have campaigned for tolerance of perverts, druggies, criminals, gangstas, and members of the Jew – hating Labour Party.

Ironically homosexuality, sex outside marriage and any kind of drug use are crimes in Sharia Law, the first two so serious they are punishable by death.

Little Nicky and his friends over at Boggart Blog have often wondered how the lefties would react when the muslims they campaigned to introduce into British society started to turn on the Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transexuals and Qs, whatever they are. Because ‘tolerance is a word that does not figure largely in The Koran.

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The Internet Goes Wild With Speculation About The Notre Dame Fire

No report on today’s big story from me, I’ve been busy making arrangements for my wife to transfer to home care after three months in hospital. She’s a long way from well, but will be happier here, with carers looking in four times a day. So here are some controversial reports on the Notre Dame fire. At this stage I do not believe any of them but I do not disbelieve them, we have no evidence on which to form an opinion.

But coming so close to the main Christian holy day in France, an attack on France’s principal religious centre at a time when attacks on Christian churches in that country are a daily occurrence, does lead those of us with a sceptical frame of mind to think that media attempts to explain away the catastrophe as ‘just an unfortunate accident’ stink of cover – up.

Source Zero Hedge

Update 2: Ever careful to watch for false-flags and conspiracy theory concerns, video is emerging of a Gilets-Jaunes in black clothes at one of the two towers half an hour after the start of the fire at Notre-Dame…

One definite way to disenfranchise the yellow vests – as they crush French autocracy – would be to set them up as the fall-guys for this national disaster. Surely that is not possible!

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Update 1: A silver lining – if that’s possible: a Catholic priest was today hailed a hero as it emerged he entered the Notre-Dame last night during the height of the inferno to rescue precious cathedral relics including the Crown of Thorns.

The hallowed artefact, which symbolises the wreath of thorns placed on the head of Jesus Christ at his crucifixion, was stored in the cathedral’s treasury and was brought to Paris by French King Louis IX in 1238. Jean-Marc Fournier, Chaplain of Paris Fire Brigade, was also said to have saved the Blessed Sacrament last night from the 850-year-old Gothic masterpiece.

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Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz stressed early indications suggest the fire was accidental, as he added:

“Nothing indicates a deliberate act.”

Nothing? How about the surge of attacks on Christian and Jewish places of worship, business premises and individuals in France

or this?

Pakistani Migrant Faces Trial for Smashing Historic Church Holding Tombs of French Kings

and these …

French Church Is Ninth in Eleven Days Vandalised Across the Country

France rallies after anti-Semitic attacks – bbc.com

Macron’s France: Average of Three Church Attacks Per Day

French Muslims attack Jewish synagogues in Paris

But, as Michael Snyder details below, now that the initial shock of the fire has subsided, the Internet is buzzing with speculation about the origin of the fire.  In the end, there are only two options.  Either this was an accident, or someone intentionally started the fire.  And if the fire was intentionally started, obviously someone had a motive for doing so.

Time columnist Christopher J. Hale set off a firestorm of speculation when he tweeted that a friend who works at the cathedral told him “cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set”…

Hale deleted the tweet just a few minutes later.

Was he lying about what he had been told?

Coming from a professional journalist, that doesn’t seem likely.

Instead, it is much more likely that Hale quickly figured out that he said something that he wasn’t supposed to say.

A YouTube video that purportedly contains audio of Muslims celebrating the fire at the Notre Dame cathedral has also sparked a lot of speculation.  But at this point there doesn’t appear to be any way to verify the authenticity of the video.

But what we do know is that all of this comes at a time when churches all over France are being attacked.

On March 17th, the second largest church in France erupted in flames, and police later ruled that it was not an accident…

While Notre Dame is undoubtedly the most well-known landmark to be affected, Paris’ second largest church, Saint-Sulpice, briefly burst into flames on March 17, the fire damaging doors and stained glass windows on the building’s exterior. Police later reported that the incident had not been an accident.

Overall, a dozen Catholic churches were either set on fire or greatly vandalized during one seven day stretch last month…

A dozen Catholic churches have been desecrated across France over the period of one week in an egregious case of anti-Christian vandalism.

The recent spate of church profanations has puzzled both police and ecclesiastical leaders, who have mostly remained silent as the violations have spread up and down France.

Last Sunday, marauders set fire to the church of Saint-Sulpice — one of Paris’ largest and most important churches — shortly after the twelve-o’clock Mass.

And some of the vandalism that was reported during that seven day period was deeply, deeply disturbing…

In Nimes (department of the Gard), near the border with Spain, the church of Notre-Dame des Enfants was desecrated in a particularly odious way, with vandals painting a cross with human excrement, looting the main altar and the tabernacle, and stealing the consecrated hosts, which were discovered later among piles of garbage.

Likewise, the church of Notre-Dame in Dijon, in the east of the country, suffered the sacking of the high altar and the hosts were also taken from the tabernacle, scattered on the ground, and trampled.

Could it be possible that there is a connection between those attacks and the fire that just erupted at the Notre Dame cathedral?

That is a question that any decent investigator would be asking at this point.

We also know that anti-Christian and anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in France.  Just check out these numbers…

The number of anti-Semitic attacks (541) rose 74 percent from 2017-2018 while anti-Muslim attacks numbered just 100, the lowest since 2010.

Meanwhile in the same period, there were 1063 anti-Christian attacks, a slight increase on the previous year.

Needless to say, radical Islamists are responsible for most of the attacks against Christians and Jews, and the number of Muslims living in the Paris area has greatly increased in recent years…

According to reports, the number of Jews fleeing France for their safety has dramatically increased since 2000.

In one Paris suburb alone – Seine-Saint-Denis – 40 percent of the population is Muslim while 400,000 illegal immigrants also live there.

But in this politically-correct era, we aren’t supposed to talk about attacks against Christians, and this is especially true if those attacks are conducted by radical Islamists.

On Monday, even anchors at Fox News had apparently been instructed that any speculation about who started the Notre Dame cathedral fire must be immediately shut down.  These days there is very little difference between Fox News and the other major news networks, and that is very unfortunate.

On another note, I also find it very interesting that at one point on Monday a YouTube algorithm linked the fire at the Notre Dame cathedral with the 9/11 attacks…

A YouTube feature designed to combat misinformation offered some of its own during a major news event Monday: It linked the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The company blamed the mixup on its algorithms. It removed the links on all Notre Dame fire posts after the issue was flagged.

In this day and age, the “spin” is often more important than the actual events themselves.

In the coming days, a tremendous effort will be made to get us to feel a certain way about the Notre Dame cathedral fire.

But what would be so wrong with allowing us to think for ourselves and allowing us to come to our own conclusions?

The Internet was one of the last bastions for global free speech, but now the heavy hand of censorship is descending, and our ability to freely discuss global events is eroding a little bit more with each passing day.

Notre Dame Cathedral Burning a False Flag – VA

 

Notre Dame would not have burned as it did without the explicit complicity of the Church — and key police, fire, and government offices in Paris — in detail, in advance, and into the future.

Here is what I have been told by a ranking source in France:
Extraterrestial View of the Satanic Sacrifice Site

01 Canadian intelligence officers who went immediately to the site for a first hand look were prevented from getting close.

02 No electricity in the area where the fire is alleged to have started.

03 Two dead within the fire, both evidently murdered (two bullets each)

04 No helicopters brought in to fight the fire

05 Dysfunctional water spraying machine, a mockery of a fire-fighting performance

06 Official narrative pretending it was an accident was immediate and clearly on the shelf and ready to go.

07 Timing impossible to dismiss — intended to prevent announcement of Macron’s loss in the national debate inspired by the Yellow Vests.

08 Afternote A: anniversary of the Titanic that was precursor to the creation of Central Banks and the subversion of all governments.

09 Afternote B: This is intended to save the global financial system owned by the Satanists by saving the European Election in May, anticipate a call for “financial solidarity” that keeps France trapped in Europe by “EU” agreeing to pay for the renovation of the cathedral. “EU” and Central Banks are the beneficiaries of this false flag event, along with Macron as the token leader of France on behalf of the Satanic Deep State.

10 Afternote C: This is an intended “death blow” against Western Civilization. Although the Muslims are not being blamed, the sub-text is Frankfurt School / Tavestock Institute fundamental: whites and the West are shit, hail all illegal immigrants, transgenders, and fat stupid people — the sheep of all sheep.

11 Afternote D: The roof of Notre Dame was original to the 13th century and has survived all wars, all manner of natural hazards. This was the single most precious asset in France, not so much a Catholic religious asset as a national spiritual cultural asset. Final conclusion: the Satanists are DESPERATE.
Notre Dame burning early on, fire brigades evidently held back

Separately I am told by sources in Asia with access to secret society leaders:

01 This was a Satanic Easter energy sacrifice by Satanists Macron, Merkel, and May, each believed to be an individual Satanist (and pedophile and sacrificer of children in ritual torture ceremonies). Each has their own major secular physical world failures pointing toward their Earthly demise.

02 This was assuredly done with the complicity of the Pope and the Catholic Church hierarchy, the two dead may have been murdered because they would not comply with Satanic instructions. This was not an accident, this was an inside job with outside (French national police) complicity in closing the area off and preventing effective responses from being coordinated. For the existing plan to blanket this sacred site with water to not have been executed instantly is the equivalent of Dick Cheney controlling NORAD on 9/11.

03 The coincidence of Steve Bannon setting up shop in an Italian monastery and calling the Pope an enemy with the timing and scope of the fire (total destruction) is considered just that — a coincidence.

04 The Pope’s incentive — apart from being a Satanist for whom God is the enemy and Notre Dame a lovely sacrifice to Satan — is said to revolve around the WikiLeaks dump and the exploding pedophilia scandal that if properly investigated would lead to every single cardinal and most bishops being defrocked, and the arrest of Assange.

05 Commercial insurance fraud is beginning to be discussed. The Church’s income has suffered from the pedophilia scandal, apart from a Satanic sacrifice of epic proportions, the Church should be investigated for the possible use of the event as a two-fer: Satanic sacrifice and insurance fraud.

Scott Bennett, always a good source for Grand PSYOP, says this:

If I was a betting man, my guess is this Notre Dame Cathedral fire was a “Kristolnacht” type of psyop event, similar to when the Nazis ignited the 1930’s fire and blamed the communists to win the election….my guess is this is similar, with Macron benefiting by shutting down the yellow vest protests (which have been destroying him and putting France in civil war. Who benefits from the fire? well perhaps Israeli Mossad and/or Shin-bet doubling-down on their “religious war” between Muslims and Chrisitians as may have been the case in the “Chr*st-Ch_rch” NZ event and the fake video of the guy running around like he’s in a video game with fake weapons, etc. A renewed religious war is always good for the military industrial complex. Perhaps they might even try and blame it on Iran–but most likely would have been MEK if it was anyone, working with MI6-CIA. Just another day in the police-state.

Scott provides this link:

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Fire, Worker Claims it Was “Deliberately” Started

The official story [Credible false flag reports are being censored]:

Macron Vows to Rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral After Devastating Fire

Biblical Quote:

“There is to be a particular insult, which will be inflicted upon My Holy Name, in an effort to desecrate Me, during Holy Week. This wicked gesture, during Holy Week, will be seen by those who keep their eyes open and this will be one of the signs by which you will know that the imposter, who sits on the throne in My Church on earth, does not come from Me.”

Message of Jesus – Thursday, March 14th, 2013 – from The Book of Truth

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Told You So: Harold MacMillan’s EU warning revealed

Harold MacMillan

This blog and its partners in the Greenteeth Digital Publishing family has never been shy about sharing our belief that the European Union is, and was from the start designed to be, a vehicle for German domination of Europe. Germany is a young nation, until the 1870s it was a collection of Kingdoms, Principalities, Grand Duchies and city states that had cultural links but no political cohesion.

The most powerful of these stakes was the Prussian Empire, a militaristic society run by its aristocrats and headed by despotic Kaisers. When the Prussian Chancellor, Count Otto von Bismarck set about uniting Germany, he had one aim, to create a pan Germanic state to rival France and Britain. Germany, Bismarck and his Prussian colleagues believed, was a nation of superior being destined to dominate Europe (and by extension the world)and that belief apparently still prevails among Germany’s ruling elite. Does all that sound a bit familiar?

Harold MacMillan, British Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 gave us a chilling warning about the EEC – (European Economic Community) the precursor to the EU – before Britain joined the bloc, claiming that Germany had planned on using the trading bloc, originally called the European Coal and Steel Community, then The Common Market as an instrument to assert its supremacy across the continent once more, it can be revealed. After Britain joined while it was the EEC, another name change had it becoming the European Community, then with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1995 the European Union was formed (not the pattern of progression towards ever more grandiose ambitions in those titles,) and the plan that had been the founders goal from days one, “ever closer integration,” towards the creation of a federal union, The United States Of Europe, was openly declared.

On Wednesday, 3 April, 2019, five days after we should have left the European Union by default having failed to agree mutually acceptable terms for the future relationship with the fledgling Fourth Reich, the UK’s elected representatives, The House of Commons voted in favour of legislation which forces the Government to request another extension for ‘Brexit’, giving our current Prime Minister Theresa May (it rhymes with betray,) more time to trample on the British constitution and show us the comtempt the ruling elite have for the principles of democracy.

Despite Government opposition, the motion passed by just one vote on its third reading, by 313 MPs to 312, and it will now proceed to the House of Lords, which is likely to give its approval. Should this take place, the motion will become legally binding, significantly reducing the chances of a no deal EU exit. May has negotiated what she claims is a good deal, a set of terms and conditions (allegedly dictated to May’s hand picked negotiators by German Chancellor Angela Merkel,) which in reality see the UK become a vassal state of Brussels rather than quit the union and regain all the sovereignty our previous leaders have surrendered.

This betrayal of democracy and of the nation by our elected representatives comes as the Conservative Party descended into civil war over Mrs May’s strategy. Senior figures in both main parties raised the prospect of a second referendum to obtain the British public’s backing for any deal – and to offer the choice of remaining in the EU.

As Britain’s future appears even more uncertain with Brexiteers arguing the views of the 52 percent who historically voted to leave the EU in June 2016 are being betrayed, a newly-resurfaced warning about the bloc by former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has resurfaced.

In the MacMillan era, the late Fifties, full employment combined with an unprecedented rise in consumerism meant Britons saw their standard of living rise. Wages, exports and investment were strong, and it looked as if the nation was at last recovering from the effects of the century’s two great wars.

Despite the feelgood factor Britons remained suspicious of Germany particularly when the German economy, boosted by American and British money appeared to be in a position to challenge Britain’s.

In 1958, as the Common Market, driven by the rapidly recovering economies of Germany, France and The Netherlands began to look as if it pointed the way forward for Europe to resists the economic juggernaut of the USA, Harold Macmillan issued a chilling warning about the Common Market, a year after its creation.

He said: “Western Europe dominated in fact by Germany and used as an instrument for the revival of power through economic means… is really giving them on a plate what we fought two wars to prevent.”

Mr Macmillan was not the only one who feared Berlin.

According to 2017 report “Euroscepticism and Opposition to British Entry into the EEC” by the French Journal of British studies, a British official similarly warned that the EEC would provide “a means of re-establishing the hegemony of Germany”.

More recently, political analyst Mark Brolin claimed in his 2016 book “A State of Independence: Why the EU is the problem and not the solution” that the Maastricht Treaty, which was signed in 1992 by members of the European Community to further European integration, planted the seed to make Germany the most powerful country in the bloc.

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Macron Makes Honest Criticism Of Africa – Get’s Called A Nazi

by Ian Thorpe Jul 13, 2017

Plenty of room inside the African Malthusia express

 

It is on record that none of the contributors to this blog have much time for recently elected French President Emmnuel Macron. We have dubbed the former Goldman Sachs executive a ‘grandmotherfucker’ and dismissed him as just another globalist appartchik who will do the bidding of the faceless people who run the financial cartels. However we should always give credit where it is due and, fair play to the lad, he is the first European leader to publicly utter the truth about why the problems of that dysfunctional continent, Africa, are insoluble.

 

Macron has been criticised for claiming Africa’s perpetual humanitarian crisis is due to ‘civilizational problems’ and women in tribal societies having “seven or eight children” hampering social and economic development in African nations.

 

Addressing a session of the the G20 summit, the French President was questioned by a reporter from former French colony Ivory Coast on the possibility of implementing a policy like America’s Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe after the Second World War to kick start economic development in African nations.

 

“The problems Africa faces today are completely different {to those of Europe after World War Two]  and are civilizational”, Mr Macron told the journalist. “What are the problems?” he went on. “Failed states, tribalism and extremely difficult demographic transitions.”

 

Only through by a more rigorous form of governance, a fight against corruption, a fight for rule of law, a successful demographic transition when countries today have seven or eight children per woman, can change be achieved,” Mr Macron added. “At the moment, spending billions of Euros outright would stablise nothing. So the transformation plan that we have to conduct together must be developed according to African interests by and with African leaders.”

 

In a far reaching reply, Mr Macron also identified issues such as Islamist terrorism, drugs and weapons trafficking and human trafficking.

 

He said that although France had controlled dozens of colonial territories across Africa and accepted responsibility to help with infrastructure, education and heath, a simple money transfer was not the answer. Again he is correct, billions of Dollars, Pounds, Euros, Francs, and Marks have been thrown at Africa’s problems since the end of colonialism and yet the crises only ever seem to get worse.

 

He is absolutely right of course, Africa’s population explosion is unsustainable. Nigeria is on course to be the world’s third most populated nation by 2050, passing Russia, Brazil, Indonesia and the USA. With a population estimated at 195million, Nigeria has seen a 200% growth in population since 1967. Ethiopia, where a famine that threatened the lives of millions of a population that stod at 40 million triggered the ‘Live Aid’ relief effort in 1985 is now over 100million. And yet there has been no agrarian or industrial revolution in Africa in that time, attempts to encourage the use of contraception have been resisted and many tribal communities simply refuse to adapt their traditional lifestyles to changing conditions.

 

At the time of writing, Ethiopia, with a population three times larger than last time, is facing a famine caused by prolonged drought again.

 

Not only is hunger an ever greater problem in some parts of Africa, with vast numbers of people dependent on aid agencies for food, there are also crises arising from shortages of drinking water in drier regions. With economic development not just stalled but propped up on bricks at the roadside because the wheels have been stolen, there is little to invest in infrastructure projects such as a water distribution grid.

 

To make matters worse global corporations, having no doubt bribed government officials, are privatising water supplies so in future only those who can afford to pay for water will be able to drink safely.,  (To do your bit about this, ask your readers to boycott Nestle products)

 

The excerpt of Macron’s speech published on Saturday went largely unnoticed during the G20 summit, where saw violent protests by ‘anti – capitalist’ protesters disrupted life in Hamburg and effectively distracted the media from important news. But an edited clip of his response being shared on social media has since provoked outrage, with the kind of left wing activists who set Hamburg alight accusing the French President of blaming women for poverty, being a Nazi and, inevitably, racism.

 

Media figures also criticised Mr Macron for referring only to “Africa”, rather than specific nations, ignoring huge differences across the world’s second largest continent. Writing for South Africa’s Daily Vox website, Mishka Wazar said: Africa is not a country. You cannot, as a world leader (or even an ordinary person on the streets with no political ambitions) conflate African nations with Africa.

 

Siddhartha Mitter, writing for Quartz Africa, commented: Macron’s remarks fall into a tradition of grandiloquent and condescending statements about Africa that point to every cause of the continent’s difficulties other than colonialism and its enduring trace, he wrote. £There is a long history of population panic and its use in racist ideology.”

 

Mr Macron called colonisation a during his election campaign called colonialism crime against humanity but has been quiet on France’s troubled legacy since his election victory.

He visited Mali, where thousands of French troops are bolstering local forces against an Islamist and separatist insurgency, during his first foreign tour in May and has restated France’s commitment to military intervention in the Sahel region.

 

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Stone-Eater Added Jul 13, 2017 – 4:25pm

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“Failed states, tribalism and extremely difficult demographic transitions”

What a fucking asshole. Old military colonization has been replaced by economic colonization and exploitation as it ever was. Resources.

That idiot is too stupid or too young to see that ALL presidents of francophone Africa from Senghor to Eyadema to Nguesso to Compaore to Biya are and were French bought puppet regimes.

I don’t even discuss that shit anymore.

Ask IMF/World Bank and WEF about the practices on how they plunder the continent. In Africa, every country is in fact 2 countries: Customs and government are one, the people are the other.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 13, 2017 – 4:26pm

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BTW: Anyone who is really interested in the truth is welcome to come to Africa. The people know what’s going on. But they can do fuck all about it….

Stone-Eater Added Jul 13, 2017 – 4:30pm

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has restated France’s commitment to military intervention in the Sahel region

What did I say before ? The French are the same as the US or the Brits. Desperately trying to preserve power over regions they don’t have ANYTHING to do.

What can an American do when he has an intruder on his property by law ? Shoot him…

Stone-Eater Added Jul 13, 2017 – 4:31pm

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,,,sorry, that subject gets me extremely hot…..;-)

Dino Manalis Added Jul 13, 2017 – 4:37pm

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Better governance should be the main focus to use Africa’s wealth responsibly to invest in people and infrastructure.  Economic improvements would lead to social changes.  For example, all African countries should transform the continent into a free trade zone without tariffs and other trade barriers, while North Africa ought to be part of a Mediterranean enterprise zone to boost the region and world economy.  Africans themselves have to modernize Africa and America’s Export-Import Bank ought to help poor countries buy food; medicine; and anything else they need!

Stone-Eater Added Jul 13, 2017 – 4:45pm

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Dino

Good ideas, but Africans can NOT decide. As Europe can not decide as well. It’s the US who decides, because the US$ is still world currency and linked to oil. That’s what the intention of BRICS is: To break the $ hegemony. Before, nothing will change.

Simple as that.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:29am

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HL

it looks like you own IT firms in Africa

LOL Not quite, My IT “firm” is actually an NGO, and the new company SW@XE is a consulting firm. We connect businesses from Europe to businesses in Africa. The goal is not exploitation but actively trying to help developing the local job market. But we just started really.

And I have and am living with the people not in a white luxury slum. I don’t have more money than the people I work with.

Believe it or not.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:33am

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BTW: Instead of lamenting about economic refugees in Europe people should better start doing such stuff. After all, WE are responsible for that situation by simply exploiting Africa and not giving a shit about their development.

I don’t know ONE African who has left his family for other reasons than finding work in Europe and supporting his family from there.

Family and clan are holy in Africa. Nobody leaves if not absolutely neccessary.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:34am

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John

Right on.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:38am

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John G; were you born a complete idiot or do you have to work at it. My guess is maintaining your level of stupid had become a full time job for you.
Anybody with a many brain cells as they have tits or testicles would understand the ability of a nation to support a growing population is not dependent on physical space but having the economy and infrastructure to support its population. Only somebody who has been completely brainwashed by left wing propaganda would put forward the “there’s plenty of room” argument, and as for you “economic colonialism” argument, the African tribal leaders who sold out their people for corporate money are as much to blame as any western interests.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:48am

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Ian

the African tribal leaders who sold out their people for corporate money are as much to blame as any western interests.

Admitted, true. Keeps being forgotten here, or PC forbids it. On the contrary, in Africa people point that out too. They’re a lot more rational than our “free press”.

BTW: The birth rate is alarming. Why ? Because the more kids a family has the better the chance that one or two of them find a job, and in certain countries the governments pay a very modest sum for each kid. When you have 10 kids in Mali, that’s the equivalent of a monthly workers’ salary……

It’s not about religion. It’s about economy, stupid LOL

JOBS. When there would be enough, most problems would be solved.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:51am

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BTW: The way people prepare food, two or 5 or 10 kids don’t make the same difference as here. They don’t need many clothes, and gadgets or vacations are off limits anyway. The whole way of life is difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t lived it.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:54am

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SEF, I agree that grandmotherfucker Macron is an arsehole, but I can’t accept your placing blame entirely on the former colonial powers and the USA.
African leaders, with very few exceptions, are not puppets, they are bought and paid for assets who don’t give a flying fuck about the people they govern because they are only interested in lining their own pockets and looking after their friends and the military they rely on to keep them in power.
And you of all people should know that because Swiss banks facilitate the corrupt deals between corporate pirates and African tyrants.
I do feel for the people of Africa who are abused and exploited by both their own leaders and the west, but a few years ago I read an essay by Dambesa Moyo, an academic from Zambia I think. She argued that before African can  begin to solve its problems the addiction to western aid must be broken because ‘dead aid‘ as she called it simply does not work.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:57am

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Dino, your solutions are intelligent and reasonable but before they could begin to work it would be necessary to rid African nations of the endemic corruption that blights their development.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 14, 2017 – 12:12pm

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Linestepper, SEF is one of the good guys and I don’t think his businesses are on a par with the corporate pirates that are plundering Africa. On the question of a new, corporate colonialism however, I think what the French president meant was that since the end of colonial rule many African nations seem to have slipped backwards towards tribalism and barbarity.
Recall how left wing activists in the west idolised Winnie Mandela in the 1980s, before it emerged that Mrs. Mandela was running organised crime networks in the townships and had known of executions by various tortures including necklacing.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 12:45pm

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Ian

African leaders, with very few exceptions, are not puppets, they are bought and paid for assets who don’t give a flying fuck about the people they govern because they are only interested in lining their own pockets and looking after their friends and the military they rely on to keep them in power.

I know. Fact. But when the West would stop to employ them…….the problem is that these countries are too poor, too little educated and too little organized to enable an effective change by people pressure.

And the well-meaning ones are killed or imprisoned. Take Sankara, Nkrumah, …. Kennedy LOL

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 12:46pm

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BTW: Not only we Swiss. London and the US are no better with their offshore locations. I find it hypocritical to criticize us only.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 12:48pm

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BTW: I agree on Dambisa Moyo. But the fate of Gadhafi has shown what happens when you refuse to play their game….

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 14, 2017 – 1:48pm

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SEF: ” London and the US are no better …”
Yeah but you’d already mentioned them 🙂

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 14, 2017 – 1:52pm

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SEF, you’re right on Gadaffi, but which game he was killed for not playing is uncertain. There’s the gold based currency theory, the water pipeline theory, the Wahhabi colonialism theory and a few others.
And then there are suspicions that he’d followed Saddam Hussein in accepting payment for oil in currencies other than the petrodollar.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 2:04pm

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And then there are suspicions that he’d followed Saddam Hussein in accepting payment for oil in currencies other than the petrodollar.  

That’s the point, really. And it was one of the triggers for the creation of BRICS.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 5:28pm

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John

Hmm…….I missed that 😉 True, the same actually, is it not, Ian ?

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 5:52pm

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Saddam and Gadhafi were killed because they wanted to sell their oil independently of the $ binding. Easy as that. And every African leader who doesn’t follow orders of their old colonial powers (NATO -> US) is potentially dead. As are European leaders as well. But here in Europe they aren’t killed, but disposed of. See Yanukovich in Ukraine as the latest example.

Some remarked that – and that was the birth of BRICS. But … I see no future for them as long as Uncle Sam is the master of Uncle Ben and Salam Aleikum.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 6:30pm

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John

You’re right, that’s only a part of it. He was forcing African unity, and his country was well organized. A brother of my wife worked in Tripoli for 2 years and he said it was a superb expericence, good pay and no problems.

On the way back to Bamako he was attacked and the robbers (probably Touaregs) took all what he had and wanted to bring back to Mali.

He died in 2007 in London of AIDS. I was with him those last weeks in Hammersmith hospital. It was cruel. He didn’t support the meds, and the skin just peeled off his whole body.

Life is shit.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 7:09pm

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Bruce Cockburn ??

I mean, sure, in the hot sun in Mali I could burn my cock easily…

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 7:12pm

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…ah ok. I don’t really get the lyrics when the song starts, but the intro……

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 7:19pm

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BTW: Didn’t know he was so good. He should have played with Ali Farka Touré. He really can play the style.

Thanks a lot. A brother in mind.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 14, 2017 – 7:22pm

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Ok. Got it 🙂 I should have thought that they know each other….you see, here, Cockburn is known as a simple folkie. I didn’t know that.

Utpal Patel Added Jul 14, 2017 – 7:47pm

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With so much anti-capitalist rhetoric in your article, it surprises me you condemn their actions at the G20 summit.  So what exactly are you, anti-capitalist or pro-capitalist?

Jeff Jackson Added Jul 14, 2017 – 11:08pm

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Great article and comments, Ian. I could be wrong, but is there a cultural thing in Africa, where the status of men is determined by how many children they can father, with no regard to how many children they can support, only how many they can father. I have been told this by someone who would know. Fathering children earns males of Africa respect, but taking care of them is nothing they need be concerned about.

Jeff Jackson Added Jul 15, 2017 – 2:53am

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G, you are despicable. A native of Africa, from Kenya, told me this.

Jeff Jackson Added Jul 15, 2017 – 3:03am

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And by the way, I kept her from being fired, and defended her on numerous occasions. So much for the obscene reference.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 15, 2017 – 8:06am

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Jeff

Fathering children earns males of Africa respect, but taking care of them is nothing they need be concerned about

It may vary in different countries, but in West Africa a woman gains status with the number of children she has. But ONLY when she’s married. When she’s got 2 kids and is not married she’ll have a hard time. But you’re right about the men not taking care of them. I can confirm that through my own adoptive family in Cameroon, where my dear friend raises 10 kids of which half of the fathers simply quit the mothers and abandoned them with the child.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 15, 2017 – 8:06am

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AND the child, sorry.

Jeff Jackson Added Jul 15, 2017 – 9:55am

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Thanks Stone-Eater for verifying what I had been told in person as well as what I have read. The truth apparently makes anyone a racist. They will have so many offspring that they starve, and beg for more resources so that they can repeat the same poor behavior. It’s like giving a drunk more liquor. Thanks again.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 15, 2017 – 11:13am

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Jeff

It also has an economic background. 10 kids give a better chance to have 2 kids working later than 1 or 2 kids. Education is expensive. And in some countries the government pays per child per month a very modest sum. So the calculation is:

10 kids is the equivalent of a worker’s salary for the father given he finds a job…

Jeff Jackson Added Jul 15, 2017 – 10:58pm

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The U.K. recently set a limit of two children that they would pay welfare for, and after two kids, you’re on your own. Good idea, although the Democrats would never go for it.

Saint George Added Jul 16, 2017 – 2:59am

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Yeah, starving kids is excellent socio-economic policy.

Keynes would have gladly approved . . . of course, only if the kids came from working class families. That’s why he was head of the Eugenics Society from 1937-1944 promoting the blessings of contraception as a way of keeping the numbers of the “drunken” working classes down.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:03am

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Saint George,
Thanks for reminding the resident loony leftie of one of the left’s dirty little secrets.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:09am

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Utpal, there is no anti – capitalist rhetoric in my article apart from some allusions to the behaviour of global corporations (which are not capitalist at all, but corporatist. And the condemnation of protestors at the G20 in an earlier post related not to their right to argue their case, but to the fact that being intellectually bankrupt they have to resort to violence, intimidation and looting (the latter of which somewhat undermines the claims of these neo – fascists to be anti – capitalist).

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:15am

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Jeff, good point, while what Stone Eater says about there being economic advantage in large families in some African states is true, I also have been told by Africans working or studying in the UK than  in many tribal societies the number of children (sons) a man fathers related to his status.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:33am

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Jeff, another good point about the UK benefit cap. Unlike the Chinese ‘one child’ policy it will not affect demographics and it leaves people free to decided the size of their family based on their means and material ambitions.
I’ll try to preempt an outburst from any Trots still in the thread, by pointing out this does not exclude people on low to middle incomes from having five or six children. There are people who love family life and choose to go without a car, 60″ plasma TV, foreign holidays etc. to live a different kind of life.
There is a family in the town where my mother lives, Morecambe, where the Radford family consist of two parents and 16 (maybe 17 now) children. They’re not rich but the father runs a bakery business so they’re not dependent on benefits. And in a TV documentary (linked) featuring them, they appear very happy. The parents have made their choices for non economic reasons and that’s their right.
When people are having children for economic gain, that’s going to be a bad start for the children.

Jeff Jackson Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:56am

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Geez, Ian, you too supporting my so-called “racist” theories? Please be careful, you’re going to come under attack by some of the trolls. By the way, I am deleting on my posts the threads that include insults and mindless conjecture of one loony leftie. I for one have had enough of these infantile rants and baseless accusations of racism, and all the rest of it. It has to stop somewhere. He can say whatever he wants on his posts, not mine anymore.

Jeff Jackson Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:58am

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Thanks for some solid reasoning and sensible discussion Ian. There seems to be less and less of it here.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 16, 2017 – 11:00am

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Jeff, I’m always on the verge of quitting this site, it would be a pity to do that because there are some good people here (not necessarily the one who usually agree with me,) but Autumn makes a fundamental error of prioritising comments over good quality content. Somewhere on the internet there is a graveyard for such sites.
Anyone offering unmoderated comment threads is going to attract a number of bottom feeders of course, but tolerance of out and out insults, with no point relating to the thread being made, has attracted a even more unpleasant kind of vermin, those repulsive creatures that live up the bottom feeders’ bottoms. It only needs one or two of those to drive away good content and good readers.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 16, 2017 – 11:22am

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Ian

That’s life. I don’t take that too seriously and usually comment to articles which I think have value, are personal and where I sense the person behind it. Not necessarily the subject.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 16, 2017 – 12:50pm

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SEF, I don’t take it seriously (hence the bottom feeders remark)- that’s why I get pissed off with the site. Life’s too short to waste on bullshit that is not worth wasting time on.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 16, 2017 – 2:11pm

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Ian

I agree, although for me it’s entertainment also. No worse than watching TV. And at the same time, by being here, I could improve my English a hell of a lot in terms of “good” English but also in street “talk.” So in some ways, it has educational value for me LOL,

Saint George Added Jul 16, 2017 – 4:58pm

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Jackson the racist doesn’t like the label. His comments betray him.

John G the communist hyper-inflationist doesn’t like the label. His comments betray him.

Saint George Added Jul 16, 2017 – 7:08pm

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African woman generally have too many children

Women in all poor countries (that aren’t outright communist totalitarian) generally have many children. They always have fewer children as, and if, they become more affluent.

The way for Africa to quickly become more affluent is to abandon tribalism and nationalism and open its doors to foreign capital investments.

Saint George Added Jul 16, 2017 – 8:04pm

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who wants to invest in an unstable economy?

Then maybe the west should help stabilize it.

John Minehan Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:10pm

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I spent 2004 in East Africa as an activated Army Reservist as Part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

It is an incredibly rugged and an incredibly poor part of the World.

However, I have the strong impression that Africa will be the Asia of the 21st Century.

They have a large population that has next to nothing and needs almost everything.  They are not tied to the past and not having land line phones, Cellphone use has exploded since 2000, for example, generally on a more advanced level than in the US.

There is a large population and little to employ them (yet).  There are vast natural resources.  the entrepreneurial potential of the Merchants can be see (albeit in a negative way) by the efforts of Nigerian scammers.

The PRC is there in a big way.

When you are in the boonies in Ethiopia, you see PRC companies employing Africans to build roads.  Is it exploitation?  Maybe.  In Asia, the same kind of thing put the PRC & Japan & the “Dragons” at the center of world industrial production in 50 years.

There are vast problems . . . but there is also vast potential.  I suspect it will be realized and I suspect that France (and the US) will be the ones left behind.

A century from now, if the PRC’s New Silk Road/One Belt-One Road idea works, I think the main beneficiary will be Africa.

John Minehan Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:12pm

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“Saint George, the doors are open to foreign investments but who wants to invest in an unstable economy?”

So far, the PRC . . . .

John Minehan Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:16pm

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“That idiot is too stupid or too young to see that ALL presidents of francophone Africa from Senghor to Eyadema to Nguesso to Compaore to Biya are and were French bought puppet regimes.”

The French are still there in a substantial way.

I remember seeing French junior soldiers (boule à zéro and being pushed around a bit, so I assume recruits) being sent further south in Dijbouti years ago.

John Minehan Added Jul 16, 2017 – 9:24pm

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“And I have and am living with the people not in a white luxury slum. I don’t have more money than the people I work with.”

Which seems in my limited experience, the only thing that really works there.

Glenn Verasco Added Jul 17, 2017 – 2:35am

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I still can’t get over the fact that people thought Macron was a left-winger and Le Pen a right-winger. Since when did immigration policy become the litmus test?

Macron is a business-friendly moderate who is capable of criticizing faulty cultures without hating people who look different. He’s a common sense guy.

Le Pen is a National Socialist. She’s an honest version of Bernie Sanders.

Saint George Added Jul 17, 2017 – 2:54pm

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The Chinese are making capital investments with relatively fair terms.

The Chinese have done impressively stupid things like building “Mega Cities” that nobody wants to live in. Those are not “investments” but represent pure “consumption”. It’s no different in principle from building a million franchise restaurants that prepares food nobody wants to buy or eat. Pure consumption waste.

John Minehan Added Jul 17, 2017 – 3:48pm

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“The Chinese have done impressively stupid things like building “Mega Cities” that nobody wants to live in.”

I think John G is talking specifically of Africa.  The PRC seems to have a longer time horizon than Western Companies, which makes it easier to invest in Africa, where everything is longer term due to the underdevelopment.

I have always wondered if those cities were pure pump-priming or if they also represent stockpiled resources that they thought might become unavailable.

John Minehan Added Jul 17, 2017 – 3:51pm

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“So we now have AFRICOM to enforce the US imperial will.
AMERIKKKA FUCK YEAH!!!!!”Given the new PRC base in Djibouti and the PRC’s greater economic presence in Africa, I’m not sure AFRICOM, which is still in Europe will do much at all.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 17, 2017 – 4:16pm

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John Minehan,
“The PRC seems to have a longer time horizon than Western Companies”
Correct, Chinese and other eastern businesses and governments appear to think generations ahead, western businesses don’t think beyond next year’s profit and loss account, governments don’t think beyond the next election cycle.

John Minehan Added Jul 17, 2017 – 4:39pm

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The longer time horizon did not benefit Japan, but it does seem tobe the key to Africa.

Stone-Eater Added Jul 17, 2017 – 6:11pm

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Ian

Exactly. I’ve been Swiss businesses for the last 20 years to invest in Africa, but they don’t listen. No risk, no gain – and after – complain…..

Saint George Added Jul 17, 2017 – 7:20pm

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Chinese and other eastern businesses and governments appear to think generations ahead

They think one bribe ahead.

“Chinese companies in Africa are also able to offer the bribes that are usually crucial to securing large contracts in the region. By contrast, American companies are prohibited from engaging in these practices by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.”

Bingo.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 18, 2017 – 8:11am

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Saint George,
British companies and businessmen have also faced prosecution for paying the bribes demanded in order to obtain orders / contracts, not just in Africa but throughout the third world.

Ian Thorpe Added Jul 18, 2017 – 8:15am

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MJ, I don’t think he was saying US companies adhere to federal or international law when doing business in the third world, just that if caught they face financial penalties. In my experience allowances are made for that in the contingencies budget.

John Minehan Added Jul 22, 2017 – 5:59am

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“China executes people for corruption. America gives them cabinet positions, ambassadorships and massive bonuses.
How many bankers went to gaol over the GFC?””And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law! . . . .  Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”  Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

The question is not  “How many bankers went to gaol over the GFC.”  It is should any of them have gone based on the laws existing at the time.

That is the difference between a republic, “a government of laws and not of men” and something else.

“Margaret More: Father, that man’s bad.
Sir Thomas More: There’s no law against that.
William Roper: There is: God’s law.
Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him.”  Id

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Something for the solstice

by Ian Thorpe

The summer solstice is associated with Druid beliefs but celebration of the Dance of The Seasons goes back much further.

 

“Humankind has to get back to the rhythm of the Cosmos”
D. H. Lawrence

In midsummer’s solstice rite
light triumphs over dark.
The sun-king in his glorious prime
climbs to his highest mark.
In turn the darkness will advance,
begin another round of dance
across the celestial arc.

Within rhythm’s easy fluxion
destruction is prescribed.
All things come to reduction,
from corruption all things rise.,
To the beat of a joyous reel
the endless turning of the wheel
binds that which all things comprise.

Written in night sky the reasons
seasons must turn in their dance.
Unmaking old and making new,
few permutations left to chance.
All things have their opposite,
thus may all life procreate
and perpetuate the sequence.

Now for this cycle’s generation
consummation is the goal.
Partners move, station to station
in formation around the pole.
Every egg and seed and spore
carries within its living core
a unique segment of the whole.

The Making and Unmaking Dance is a summer solstice poem which will eventually form part of my cosmos cycle “The Eightfold Year.” I do know of certain pagan traditions which hold a ceremony called The Making and Unmaking dance but my use of it as a title here is a bit of poetic licence. I do not know if it is actually a summer solstice rite. (As a poet it is not always wise to constrict oneself within literal interpretations.) At this time of year, as the sun passes its apex and begins the decline a few minutes in any garden will confirm that pollenating is in full spate while a careless walk through a secluded stretch of woodland is likely to disturb a human couple joined in their exclusive pollenation rite. All living things want to get in on this act.

There are so many legends, parables, and folk tales attached to the summer solstice it would be futile to list any in a brief note such as this. The essence of them all is that as one cycle begins to wind down the seeds of the next are being sown.

OTHER PAGANISTIC POEMS FROM THE SAME SEQUENCE.
Fires of Love
Three Secrets
Dancing With The Dead
Equinox
Solstice Fires
Imbolc

 

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Jeff Jackson Added Jun 21, 2017 – 3:45pm

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Didn’t make it to Stonehenge this year. Maybe will dance around the fire in the back yard. Or just water the tomatoes and grill a burger.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 21, 2017 – 4:20pm

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In my view anything that gets you close to nature is paganistic, so watering the tomatoes is a good was to celebrate the solstice. And a cold beer with that burger will complete the traditional solstice feast.
It’s a long time since I ran around naked under the moon, and even then it wasn’t part of any ritual – I’ll rephrase that, it wasn’t part of any ancient religious ritual.

Stone-Eater Added Jun 21, 2017 – 4:28pm

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https://weoccupyearth.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/stonehenge-under-construction-1954-very-real/

LOL

Is it a joke ? But anyway: Fact is that ancient beliefs from the North American natives to the Dogon of Mali and the Bamiléké of Cameroon to the Vikings and old Germans were much closer and more respectful to nature.

That alone is enough reason to reconsider them before it’s too late. I love them….philosophical. What a difference to that blunt “god” and Jesus and Allah blather !

Dino Manalis Added Jun 21, 2017 – 5:26pm

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Have a sizzling summer!

Lady Sekhmetnakt Added Jun 21, 2017 – 11:15pm

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Good article, nice to see someone else here remembering the Solstice 🙂

Autumn Cote Added Jun 22, 2017 – 5:58am

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Just some friendly advice, to improve readability.  I would use a uniform font for your entire article.  You also have some strange paragraph spacing issues going on.  As always, many thanks for your participation with Writer Beat!

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 11:41am

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Stone, not a joke but to be taken as a light hearted piece – and of course a way to wind up the god squad. Not that I want to offend, but Autumn likes us to generate comments. When asked about faith I describe myself as paganistic, the idea that nature is the highest manifestation of the divine is the only one that makes sense to me. Having said that I would not join any pagan group, as Groucho Marx once said, “I wouldn’t join any club that would have me for a member.”

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 11:53am

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Autumn, thanks for the comment but as this poem, posted elsewhere, in this exact form has garnered over a quarter of a million hits, I don’t think there is much wrong with the presentation. Different fonts can be used very effectively as demarcation of segments, the poem section is set out as lines and stanzas of poetry and the notes on mythology in standard paragraph format. It works for me.

Bill Caciene Added Jun 22, 2017 – 12:13pm

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I completely understand where Autumn is coming from.  The beginning is in italics, then it switches to bold without italics, then to a larger font bold, then underlined and all caps, then blue and in a really small font.  The whole thing makes my eyes hurt.  I also couldn’t understand what the text above the quote has to do with the quote has to do with the poem has to do with the text below the poem.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 12:39pm

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Dino, you too.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 12:45pm

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Bill, looks fine in Firefox. The italicised line is an introductory comment, not part of the article, The smaller type is a quotation, not part of the poem bit part of the article, the notes on the mythical inspirations are in exactly the same font as the poem.

The single line of underlined text is a headline, marking another section, links to related posts.

OK?

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 12:52pm

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Jenifer, the north of England, where I live, has strong associations with our pagan past. We still have well dressing in the spring and many ancient churches have Sheela Na Gigg figures, representations of the fertility goddess with exaggerated genitals, and other figures representing ‘the old gods’ carved in the stonework in dark corners of the buildings.

Leroy Added Jun 22, 2017 – 12:55pm

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The summer solstice is always depressing.  The days become shorter and shorter.

Donna Added Jun 22, 2017 – 1:43pm

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Good Article,
I took the day off, took my mom and went on a nature hike, until she had to stop. Has health issues, but she still will head out that door for fresh air, and light..Nice to know old traditions are still held in great regard all over, and by so many )0(

Janie Smith Added Jun 22, 2017 – 2:01pm

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Nice!  Some of my ancestors were Druids.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 3:12pm

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Leroy, look at it this way, its only six months until Christmas.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 3:14pm

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Donna, a bit of sunshine gives us all a lift, and being close to nature makes me feel very relaxed, and I think that applies to most people.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 22, 2017 – 3:16pm

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Janie,
OK, you’ve got me hooked, I want to know more. Any chance of you posting an article?

Janie Smith Added Jun 22, 2017 – 4:11pm

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Hey, Ian.  Its a bit of a tagline, there really is only but so much information that survives from as far back as 500 BCE especially since Druids didn’t actually keep records so all I really have is family rumors.

opher goodwin Added Jun 22, 2017 – 4:57pm

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well paganism is all about getting close to nature. I agree. That’s the real spirit of religion.

Ric Wells Added Jun 23, 2017 – 9:45am

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Ian if people would a little more attention to the rhythms and harmonies of the planet we might just might become a little more humane. Been to Stonehenge. Wonderful energy transfer.

opher goodwin Added Jun 23, 2017 – 9:58am

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May the long-time sun shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on
Incredible String Band

Ric Wells Added Jun 23, 2017 – 10:08am

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Some cultures used to count age by how many snows they have been through. Me I have been through 65 of them.

opher goodwin Added Jun 23, 2017 – 10:37am

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There’s snow on the mountain top but there’s fire down below.

Ric Wells Added Jun 23, 2017 – 10:49am

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Old but true.LOL

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 23, 2017 – 11:12am

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Janie,
Janie, maybe there’s more survived than most people imagine. And Druids did keep some records, ever heard of oghams. The Druids did not write their sacred texts because they believed each god ( they had a very different concept of the divine to the Abrahamic religions) had three names, the name enemies used, the name used by followers and the holy and unspeakable name. Their belief was that if the unmentionable name became known to anyone other than druids, the god lost all powers.
When the Romans took up Christianity and decided to destroy the Druids completely,, it became necessary to have some way of recording their knowledge. So the ogham alphabet was invented.
In a strange twist it was Christian monks of monasteries in Ireland, Scotland and Wales who translated the Oghams into latin in books like The Book Of Ballymote (linked above), and The Red Book Of Hergest
So we have a bit more to work with than the mainstream would have us believe.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 23, 2017 – 11:16am

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Opher, I agree, but not being young and mad these days, come the winter solstice I tend to eschew nature and seek the spirit in a bottle of Bushmills single malt.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 23, 2017 – 11:25am

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Donald, in the poem I tried to capture the mood of ancient ritual dances that celebrate the endless cycle of seasons. The best known of these is the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, performed in August at the Bartholomew Fair since the 12th century and probably before that.
Age however, is a state of mind 🙂

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 23, 2017 – 11:30am

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Opher, The Incredible String Band were underrated I thought, saw them at Manchester College Of Commerce a couple of times, they were as good as Jethro Tull, another band of that period I liked.

Ian Thorpe Added Jun 23, 2017 – 11:33am

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Ric, In north west England our climate benefits a little from The Gulf Stream so we don’t get snow every year. now I know why I don’t feel anything like my numerical age.

opher goodwin Added Jun 23, 2017 – 7:05pm

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I saw them a number of times and thought them excellent too.

opher goodwin Added Jun 23, 2017 – 7:06pm

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Ian – I know the feeling. But I’m not ready to call it a day just yet.

The Burghal Hidage Added Jul 18, 2017 – 7:41am

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Its fine, wouldn’t change a thing. And I find a revelation here! I guess I must be a pagan!

 

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Nihilism The Real Winner In French Election

by Ian Thorpe May 11, 2017

While the mainstream media and those who relish the prospect of living in a society best represented by the image of “a military boot stamping down on a human face, forever” (George Orwell, 1984,) are celebrating the victory of the global elite’s office boy, Emmanuel Macron, in the French presidential election and proclaiming the death of nationalism, another, potentially more significant, story has emerged from the voting statistics.

 

Though the former Goldman Sachs executive Macron won easily in terms of the number of votes cast for each candidate, the largest number of votes, in a situation reminiscent of the movie Brewster’s Millions, a majority of French voters cast their vote for ‘none of the above,’ by declining to choose either centrist Emmanuel Macron or Front National leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s presidential election. They preferred to either abstaining by returning a blank voting paper or spoiling their ballots.

 

According to election officials the abstention rate stood at 24.52 percent — the highest since the presidential election in 1969. Additionally the interior ministry reported a record number of blank and invalid ballots, amounting to nine percent of all registered voters, compared to two percent in the first round.

 

“That would make a total of one French person out of three who decided not to choose between the two candidates. It’s really a lot for a presidential election,” Anne Jadot, political science professor at the University of Lorraine, told AFP.

 

Macron’s victory on Sunday was by a large margin, he took approximately 65 percent of the vote to Le Pen’s 35 percent, but don’t forget that is 65% of 66%. It was also the first time since the 1969 election that participation in the second round has been lower than in the first. And that does not take into account the people who simply did not register a vote at all.

 

“The presence of the far-right in the second round did not prompt a lot of mobilisation compared to the first round, in contrast to what happened in 2002,” Jadot said in reference to the election in which Le Pen’s father Jean-Marie saw voters of all parties unite to block him by backing his opponent Jacques Chirac.

 

This year, “there wasn’t the ‘shock’ effect, because (Marine Le Pen’s) presence was expected,” according to Jadot.

 

The large numbers of voters choosing not to participate shows that while France has rejected Le Pen as it’s president, the anti establishment pushback is far from over, add the supporters of Le Pen’s anti – EU, nationalist candidacy to the ‘none of the above’ vote and a huge majority have rejected the pro – EU, pro – immigration line of France’s political establishment.

 

Looks like M. Marcron is going to have a rough ride, assuming that he lasts the course.

 

This is a couple of days late, my previous article on the French election has been hanging around on the front page so I decided to hold off for a while

 

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Lady Sekhmetnakt Added May 11, 2017 – 6:25pm

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Something you may want to figure into the equation:
Marine Le Pen: The French Election Was Rigged – Your News Wire – http://yournewswire.com/marine-le-pen-election-rigged

Dino Manalis Added May 11, 2017 – 6:27pm

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That’s interesting, Macron has to position himself center-right to deal with France’s economic and security concerns, as well as contain Le Pen, because terrorism and the refugee crisis will continue to enhance her popularity.

Thomas Napers Added May 12, 2017 – 4:24am

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Your entire first paragraph is nothing but a strawman argument.  Nobody relishes the prospect represented by the image of a military boot stamping down on a human face.  There is no conspiracy orchestrated by the global elite to elect Macron.  Nobody is proclaiming nationalism to be dead. Macron, like most elections, was simply the best choice of some really bad options.  Unlike places like Russia and other dictatorship societies, France and the United States should be happy we have options.

Thomas Napers Added May 12, 2017 – 4:52am

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How can one prove something that never happened?

Ian Thorpe Added May 12, 2017 – 9:24am

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Jenifer Frost, thanks for that comment and link. Though Your News Wire is not the most reliable source, they story is worth checking out, because I heard from someone in the UK government (in confidence so I can’t name names) that the Leave majority in the Brexit vote was really much bigger than published, and that in some inner city districts over 100% of the electorate voted to remain. I’ll get back to you after checking with some French friends.

Ian Thorpe Added May 12, 2017 – 9:27am

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Dino, Macron’s government will probably be an even more ineffectual version of Hollande’s. Politically Le Pen and Front National are left of centre on everything except immigration and the EU.

Ian Thorpe Added May 12, 2017 – 9:33am

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Thomas, your glass might be half full but unfortunately neither Frances’ nor the USA’s are. Macron’s political movement was cobbled together by the French political establishment when it became obvious Hollande had destroyed the French socialists and voters felt still felt betrayed by the conservatives after the debacle of Sarkozy’s presidency.

Ian Thorpe Added May 12, 2017 – 9:50am

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Re above: Of course nihilism can’t be a winner, it’s an abstract concept. Once again John G is so lost in his monomaniacal ravings he completely misses the joke even though it is right up there in big letters in the title.
He did the same on my article “Champagne Socialists,” (an oxymoron) after failing to insult everybody in the thread with profanity strewn, irrational comments he started whining when I responded in the same vein, and accused me of ad hominem attacks on him.
When I pointed out the hypocrisy of someone who never has a point to make but simply relies in calling people ‘fucking idiot,’ bigot’ or ‘cunt’ he said, totally irrationally, that my whole article had been an ad hominem on ‘the left’.
Ad hominem means ‘at the man’, so obviously ‘Champagne Socialists’ like ‘the left’ being an abstract concept rather than an individual, we see the irrationality of his responses.
People may wonder why I respond to him. Fact is, whenever I see one of his crazy attacks on somebody who is trying to further a civilised discussion threat it makes me feel embarrassed that I, like him, am British.

Billy Roper Added May 12, 2017 – 1:14pm

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“Nihilism The Real Winner In French Election”. You spelled “Jewish” wrong. Of course, they’d coopted the FN, too.

Utpal Patel Added May 12, 2017 – 3:39pm

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It would have been interesting to see the data if Macron had faced another centrist politician with a legitimate shot at winning.  Because he faced an extreme far right politician he was able to corral a large majority of the electorate.  Based on the choices and polling data, it’s completely understandable that abstention was at 24.52%.  I’ll never understand why someone would waste their time and submit a blank ballot.

You said Macron is going to have a rough ride, he could argue he has a mandate seeing he won 65% of the vote.

Jeff Jackson Added May 12, 2017 – 5:26pm

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I could be wrong, but when 25% of the voters refuse to vote, that leaves a great big hole for a new party or candidates who are less well-known. Macron’s pyrrhic victory is evidence, is it not, of just how disappointed the French are with the politicians?

John Minehan Added May 12, 2017 – 5:33pm

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“Macron, like most elections, was simply the best choice of some really bad options.”

Not to about a third of the eligible voters who either did not vote or filed a blank ballot as a protest.

 

 

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Liberté, égalité, fraternité, inshallah?

by Ian Thorpe May 7, 2017

If, as now looks certain, ‘the empty suit’ Emmanel Macron, the candidate with no party, no philosophy and no policies becomes President of France when the official announcement of the result is made, what will become of those French people who do not want Islamification to continue.

Apart from his being a globalist, pro European integration, mass immigration supporting apparatchik of the banking cartel, who knows what kind of France Marcon’s government will deliver? Macron doesn’t, that’s for sure. That’s if he is able to govern effectively at all.

French investor and political pundit Charles Gave, commented when asked what Macron’s agenda would look like, said:

“Well, first, nobody knows. Because during the whole campaign, all these talks were on one hand, on the other. I’m in favor of apple pie, and motherhood, you see. Basically he has, to my knowledge, very little program. So he’s running. That is what Hollande said. That he was going to make some fundamental changes without hurting people. And so Macron is a big, empty suit. That’s what he is. You did the right curriculum vitae, he went to the right schools. And you have the feeling that the guy never had an original idea in his life. He was always a good student.”

In other circles there is a strong feeling that Macron is a kind of golem created by Hollande, a globalist, federalist mini – me forged in the hope that at least a couple of socialist fingers would remain on the helm of the French state. They knew they were going to lose the election, and that a socialist candidate would suffer a heavy defeat so they created a sort of hologram candidate (we must not forget that before quitting to form his new centre left popular movement, Macron had a senior position in the socialist government under Hollande.

The idea, according to cynics – and there are a lot of cynics in France, was Macron would run for them and prevent the pro – EU, pro – Federalism party from losing power. It appears then that, the French political system has been taken over by the the Technocratic / Managerialist class. And this Technocratic class is presenting Macron as something new but in reality he represents business as usual except that the seat of power will be even more remote and detached from the working and middle classes. The pro – EU elite have been in power for 50 years, they have not survived that long without learning a thing or to about using propaganda to manipulate public opinion.

The biggest problem, barring terrorist outrages, that Macron will faceing in the French national assembly to enable him to get laws through. As stated above, he has no party, no base of support, and in the assembly elections, due in a few weeks, the socialist party where he might have expected to find most support, is likely to suffer heavy losses. The conservatives will not support him unless they dictate policy. In a sense Le Pen has really won the day because the worst case scenario for her, that she will have to tun again in the 2022 elections, is still achievable. As for the parliamentary elections, Le Pen could reasonably expect to have anywhere between 40 to 100 MP’s if the results bear out polls as accurately as in the presidential vote, and thus could effectively ally with the conservatives to block most of Macron’s likely measures…. which would be a total disaster for the ruling class.”

In other words, assuming Macron triumphs and is president elect tomorrow, the National Front isn’t going anywhere. And its rising star Le Pen’s niece Marion, has a distinct advantage over her astringent aunt:

Marion, is very young, 28; probably too young to be a candidate in 2022. She is already an MP in the French Parliament. She’s extremely pretty, which will win the votes of French males, and she represents the family oriented values of the French Catholic Right, which is where most Republican and Socialist votes come from. 2022 is going to be interesting.

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Ian Thorpe Added May 7, 2017 – 3:25pm

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Just had a little debate with myself about whether to leave this post up, when I saw how the title came out on the front page. The first bit should be in French, as above, followed by Inshallah (God willing). Chance that as the site’s host has and the joke is lost.
Bit to much to expect artificial intelligence to have a sense of humour of course.

Dino Manalis Added May 7, 2017 – 4:45pm

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Terrorism and the refugee crisis will continue to enhance Le Pen’s popularity, so Macron should position himself center-right on economic and security issues to reassure the public, as well as contain Le Pen.

Tamara Wilhite Added May 7, 2017 – 5:54pm

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The first obligation of a nation is to protect its citizens. A man who says “Muslim terrorists killing people, get used to it, we can’t protect you, we’re bringing in millions more who believe they have the right to hurt you and demand free stuff from you, you’re the one to be punished if you oppose any of this” is violating the most basic reason why governments exist and shouldn’t be allowed to be in power.

Stone-Eater Added May 8, 2017 – 6:33am

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Macron has a party. The Bilderberg and Rotschild group.

Billy Roper Added May 8, 2017 – 8:36am

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Le Pen was cucked, too, but the French, like the rest of us, will have to learn the hard way that they won’t be able to regain control over their destinies through the ballot box.

Ian Thorpe Added May 8, 2017 – 11:58am

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Dino, you’re right in saying terrorism and immigration will continue to drive the agenda, but I don’t think Macron can position himself anywhere. He’s controlled by the banking cartel, so is just an office boy really.

Ian Thorpe Added May 8, 2017 – 12:01pm

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Tamara,
“Muslim terrorists killing people, get used to it,”
Yeah, I thought that would be the campaign killer too 🙂
As Cicero said 2000 years ago, “The welfare of the people is the paramount law.”

Ian Thorpe Added May 8, 2017 – 12:12pm

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EXPAT, correct; Macron is from the same school as Obama and Clinton. There is a war on for control, globalised technology and globalised labour were among the weapons The Powers That Be created to give them control, but in the internet they gave us a weapon we could use to fight back.
Some parts of European society are waking up, the technocratic and managerial classes are still totally committed to ‘the project’ however. I predict Italy will be next to leave the EU (Quitaly), France isn’t ready yet, they probably need to see a few German regiments marching through Paris before they realise France is done for.I know what you mean about AI having a sense of humour, watching TV with simultaneous subtitling on is hilarious at times.

Ian Thorpe Added May 8, 2017 – 12:14pm

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Stone,
Very good point. There will be a few breadcrumbs for the poor, but he will govern for the benefit of the super – rich.

Ian Thorpe Added May 8, 2017 – 12:18pm

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Billy, you may be right. I hope not because although I’m a great believer in the masses rising up and taking direct action if it comes to a bloody conflict THEY have some formidable weapons for us to take on with our pitchforks and cudgels.

Ari Silverstein Added May 8, 2017 – 5:04pm

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For whatever it’s worth, the last person you’d want running a country is someone with an original idea.  Desired should be someone that respects the views of others so much that he takes the very best ideas and pursues them.  Speaking of there being a lot of cynics, that’s exactly how I would classify this article, cynical to a fault.  Macron’s supporters obviously don’t think he’s an empty suit.  If they did, he wouldn’t have won the popular vote.

Is it good or bad to be:

A Federalist?
Pro-EU?
A globalist?
A member of a political party?

It seems to me that sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad.  It depends, yet all this post does it make it sound like he stands on the wrong side of issues where it behooves politicians to stand on both sides on occasion.

Jeff Michka Added May 8, 2017 – 6:13pm

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THEY have some formidable weapons for us to take on with our pitchforks and cudgels.– If THEY re anything like Them, we’ll need walking staves and Morris dancers, too.

Mark Hunter Added May 9, 2017 – 2:29am

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From what I’ve read about it, this seems to be another example of voters eager to avoid facing their problems.

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 7:15am

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A Federalist

Best idea. Globalist is shit and delusional. You can make business global, but not culture. And culture defines the art of business. So global business demands a hell of a lot of understanding of – cultures, if not, it won’t work.

Except when you dream about a world which is McDonalds in all areas. But that’s another stupid dream that even Rothschilds and Bilderbergs will never be able to realize.

Ian Thorpe Added May 9, 2017 – 9:00am

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Ari Silverstein,
I get the impression you understand little about French politics and even less about human nature. Because French elections are over two rounds of voting, French voters tend to vote for the candidate they prefer in the first round, and then, because France does not have a simple major party duopoly, but a highly fragmented electorate with numerous parties to choose from, many voters are forced to coalesce behind the candidate they least dislike in the second round, a run off between the two leading candidates from the first.So when I say many French voters think Macron is an “empty suit”, that might actually be the very reason he won a majority of the valid votes cast, an empty suit was seen by many as preferable to Le Pen.

I mentioned “valid votes” there Ari, a topic I will expand on in another article. Please don’t start pontificating until and unless you understand what I am referring to.

Ian Thorpe Added May 9, 2017 – 9:04am

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Jeff, the people who make up the inner core of THEY or Them will be shuffling around on their zimmer frames, safe in their ivory towers, it’s the people they pay to stand in their shield wall we have to remove first.

Ian Thorpe Added May 9, 2017 – 9:08am

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Mark, there is always a lot of that in elections, voting out the people who cause the problems and replacing them with a government that offers something different is a high risk strategy and a lot of people don’t ‘do’ risk. Thus after Brexit, Britain is turning to The Conservatives. Safety first, better the devil you know and all that …

Ian Thorpe Added May 9, 2017 – 9:18am

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Stone, when I tell you the idea of a single state Federal Europe has its roots in Nazi Germany you might change your mind about it being a good idea.
And when you read the ideas of Richard Coudenhove – Kalergi, one of the ideological founders European Union, on the abolition of nations, compulsory inter – racial marriage and the creation of a global culture, the EU will suddenly appear in a different light.

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 11:12am

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Ian

I know that. We were fooled in the Nineties by the promise of open borders, free trade and “never any war in Europe again”, whileas the original idea was to build a block ruled by the US in order to gain advantage over Russia.

I was 30 at that time and a follower of the idea. Because we didn’t know better. Only the Internet and the starting to reflect globally made us see the real purposes of those strategic moves.

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 11:14am

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BTW: I never said the EU was a good idea for the reasons I stated above.

Ian Thorpe Added May 9, 2017 – 11:26am

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Stone, sorry if I misunderstood.

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 11:40am

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Ian

No sweat. Who’s that guy in the avatar you got there ? Looks like a 70’s serial actor LOL

Ian Thorpe Added May 9, 2017 – 1:33pm

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That’s me when I was a 70s and 80s radio presenter (small station I had to keep my day job on) – only photo of me that was taken by a pro, all the others I’m messing about with the kids or something

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 2:59pm

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Hehe……get a pic of NOW up there 🙂

Norton Louis Added May 9, 2017 – 3:07pm

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For me, the main event about Macron’s election is not “who is he and what is his agenda?”.  More importantly, the French, like the British and the US are increasingly rejecting the status quo.  Both Macron and LaPen were not mainstream candidates.  Macron is just one more step along the scale towards a resurgence of nationalism and populism in the world.  When you are as far left as France has been over the years, an inexperienced “empty suit” without major party affiliation is still a repudiation of the EU and open borders. I predict the next ruler beyond Macron will be an even more populist head of state.

Cue the black helicopters……..

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 3:22pm

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Both Macron and LaPen were not mainstream candidates

Macron is a high finance product. Le Pen is a bourgeois product of Vive La France. Both are nil. As are Merkel or May. Forget that left-right shit. It’s all about money and the continuation of feudal structures, nowadays called corporatocracy.

George N Romey Added May 9, 2017 – 3:30pm

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As is Trump.  He is also a creature of the corporatocracy swamp.  They all offer much for the people then settle down into a world of never ending arguments, disagreements, posturing, pontificating and posing as to appear to be for something. In the interim the corporatocracy gets richer while everyone else poorer.

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 3:33pm

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George

I told you. Come to Senegal LOL

George N Romey Added May 9, 2017 – 3:36pm

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Got a job starting next week.  Need to get money into the bank so I can run away.

Donna Added May 9, 2017 – 4:42pm

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Stone, i will be hiding in Georges Suitcase.the joy of being small!!    🙂

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 5:11pm

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George

Good luck ! And remember: You can only be you own boss when you want it. And often it works without much money, but with experience and courage.

Stay cool, you’re a good guy. Thumbs up !

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 5:12pm

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Donna

Why be small ? I am BIG. Unfortunately people haven’t noticed it yet LOL

Stone-Eater Added May 9, 2017 – 5:14pm

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BTW George:

You know the door is open. Gotta learn some French but after that you’ll forget Internet LOL

Norton Louis Added May 9, 2017 – 5:15pm

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Stone, George and Donna…..I know how tempting it is to want to run away and hide from a situation that seemingly has every card stacked against us as average citizens. However, each of us has a choice to respond to a world increasingly controlled by corporate interests to fight, to do nothing or to run and hide.

These votes for Trump, Brexit and Macron represent an awakening by the People….regardless of whether your jaded and skeptical view of the individuals receiving these votes is correct.

One thing is certain, if enough people do nothing or run away, nothing will change.

If you are truly “run and hide” people, I encourage you to also remain silent so that you don’t unintentionally take the wind out of the sails of those of us that would like to demand more accountability from our governments.

Power to the People.

George N Romey Added May 9, 2017 – 5:46pm

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The people at least in the US need to wake up and demand first and foremost publicly financed elections and second and end to the party duopoly.

Norton Louis Added May 9, 2017 – 6:27pm

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George could not agree more…….I believe our “problem” as a society in the US is too much money.  Ever hear of the term “stuffed shirt”?  This comes from the early 20th century when wealth was measured  by the luxury of calories.  Shop at any Wal Mart today and you can visibly see the effects (think stretch-pants) of too much money in the system fostering gluttony & apathy in the average American.

As our individual wealth declines in the US, we hopefully will begin paying more attention to how the place is run.  I believe that is already happening in America.  It will be a close race to fully awaken as a people and enact change against agents of corruption before the complete collapse of the next economic bubble…but the race is worth running nonetheless.

Taking the long view for the human race, Phoenix can also rise from the ashes (provided they are not nuclear in nature) if we fail to save the US due to the actions of those that would strip her corpse for its gold fillings.

Stone-Eater Added May 10, 2017 – 3:26am

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Norton

These votes for Trump, Brexit and Macron represent an awakening by the People

Voting for Macron the Rothschild and Bilderberg puppet is not quite an awakening of the people. It rather shows how stupid they are. Even Le Pen would have been better. Wait and see…..

Ian Thorpe Added May 10, 2017 – 9:26am

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Stone, a recent pic? I’ll try to find something but there aren’t any recent ones I could use for a profile pic. And I am NOT using my passport photo.

Stone-Eater Added May 10, 2017 – 9:31am

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Ian

Forget it LOL

Ian Thorpe Added May 10, 2017 – 9:39am

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Norton, I agree that the French election coming down to a run off between Mr. No Party Macron and the political pariah Le Pen rather than being a victory for the establishment and ‘the end of the nationalist revival’ shows an increasing trend for voters to reject the establishments globalist, multicultural agenda.
People forget that Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain were anti establishment parties with a socialist agenda. The UK’s Brexit vote was not a ‘right wing extremist’ vote, most people who voted leave were working class traditional Labour voters and Trump’s win in the US election was a rejection of Hillary and Washington, I realy don’t think The Donald would have been most Republican voters’ first choise for president.
It will continue to move the same way until mainstream politicians remember they are elected to serve the voters, not dictate to us.

Ian Thorpe Added May 10, 2017 – 9:43am

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Stone; “It’s all about money and the continuation of feudal structures, nowadays called corporatocracy,”
Absolutely, and what is amusing is those who style themselves ‘the left’ and claim they hate capitalism don’t realise they are supporting the extension of corporate control when they argue for globalism.

Ian Thorpe Added May 10, 2017 – 9:47am

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Donna, welcome to the thread. When you get out of George’s suitcase we can have a cup of tea or something (English builders’ tea that is, the kind that dissolves the stir it)

Ian Thorpe Added May 10, 2017 – 9:57am

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George, we’re singing off the same song sheet. I recall in an earlier thread I had commented in on flaws in democratic electoral systems somebody told me the flaws in the US system are very minor and can easily be fixed, and I pointed out that a system that allows Super PACs and (usually) gives huge advantages to the candidate with most money looks very flawed to me.
I don’t know what the best answer would be, but the current system needs to change.

Stone-Eater Added May 10, 2017 – 10:21am

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Ian

those who style themselves ‘the left’ and claim they hate capitalism don’t realise they are supporting the extension of corporate control when they argue for globalism.

Well said 🙂

Jeff Jackson Added May 10, 2017 – 10:58am

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Ian, in a review of some of all this hoopla about Super PACs, there is a new book out where a legal analyst who was opposed to allowing Super PACS the privilege to contribute, and then read their case and changed his mind.
It is a Constitutional issue, no doubt. Given the influence that the Super PACs have, it is doubtful the issue would ever get to the level of amending the Constitution, now that they have wield such power and influence. I am personally amazed at all of the money that circulates, billions, and yet these firms can’t pay their employees very much money. That’s amazing in itself. We could have a revolution, doubtful, or balkanize (never can figure out if it is Capitalized, and a WB favorite).
Have you heard of the Constitutional Convention scenario? IT has been discussed several times. We get together and compose a new Constitution, and the states, of course, must ratify it.

John Minehan Added May 10, 2017 – 12:44pm

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I wonder if the French electorate has “hedged” by electing Macron but giving parties on the Right a legislative majority?  In the US, “that trick never works” (to quote Rocket J. Squirrel), but let’s see in France.

In the US, we have a fundamental problem that we have a large, unaccountable bureaucracy (for lack of a better term, call it “The Federal regulatory State”) but we also have legislators in the House and the Senate who do not generally have the technical knowledge to make decisions in areas like Health Care or Defense.  Is Macron, a Technocrat to his bones, a possible answer to that dilemma or will he make it worse?

John Minehan Added May 10, 2017 – 12:51pm

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“The first obligation of a nation is to protect its citizens. A man who says “Muslim terrorists killing people, get used to it, we can’t protect you, we’re bringing in millions more who believe they have the right to hurt you and demand free stuff from you, you’re the one to be punished if you oppose any of this” is violating the most basic reason why governments exist and shouldn’t be allowed to be in power.”

And, despite this, he crushed Le Pen, who took the opposite track.

Ian Thorpe Added May 10, 2017 – 1:02pm

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John M, the USA is not alone in having a large, unaccountable bureaucracy. The problem with ‘technocrats’ in the current environment is by definition they are experts in their specialist area. As Macron is an investment banker he is unqualified to legislate on areas such as health, defence, foreign policy, technology, transport, education etc. and it seems likely to me, given the state of western economies, that he can only make things worse in finance, employment and welfare.

Stone-Eater Added May 10, 2017 – 1:06pm

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John

Talking about Merkel ? LOL

A chaotic, disorganized Europe due to the flood of immigrants resulting from US wars and economic exploitation of other continents has a favorable result for the US:

1) Less economic competition from the EU
2) A renewal of the links US-Europe through NATO by the never ending damnation of Russia – the final goal.

http://www.belfercenter.org/publication/strategic-engineered-migration-weapon-war

Wars can be fought without weapons……;-)

John Minehan Added May 10, 2017 – 1:08pm

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“Stone, when I tell you the idea of a single state Federal Europe has its roots in Nazi Germany you might change your mind about it being a good idea.”

In a narrow sense, but it also goes back to Napoleon and even to Rome (if you want to go back far enough).

EU really grew directly out of the European Coal and Steel Community and France’s Robert Schulman’s attempt to integrate the Germans into Europe to avoid another World War.  (Sort of LBJ’s Better to have them inside the tent p!$$ing out, than outside the tent p!$$ing in,” and, in theory might be the best approach to Russia.)

Ian Thorpe Added May 10, 2017 – 1:10pm

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Jeff, I know there are regular calls for a new constitution (though I thought Obama had implemented a heavily revised one), but I had not heard of a Constitutional Convention before. I can’t see it getting far if states like Oklahoma and Mississippi can veto ideas put forward by New York or California and vice versa.
Controls on campaign spending should be fixable without a new constitution however.

John Minehan Added May 10, 2017 – 1:14pm

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“Voting for Macron is a vote against the status quo?
In what universe does that statement make sense?”Macron did not run as part of an established party, so, at least to that very limited degree, it was a break from the past.  Of course, as the Who said, “Here’s the new boss/same as the old boss.”

Jeff Jackson Added May 10, 2017 – 1:16pm

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Yes, Ian, the Constitutional Convention idea comes and goes. I’m with you, I do not see it succeeding any time soon, because of the divisions that you listed. The original Constitution was written by a Constitutional Convention, so some people think that we could do it again. We had a lot more in common and a lot fewer states in 1783…

Stone-Eater Added May 10, 2017 – 2:34pm

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John

attempt to integrate the Germans into Europe to avoid another World War.

Matter of perception. To me, the Germans were finally driven into war – not necessarily as bad as it cumulated, but as you know, the US always had the fear that Germany and Russia could unite in some way. Even today.

That’s the reason the EU (and NATO) was founded for. To cut them back, integrate them into a larger unit and get a block which was and is easier to control for the US.

Don’t forget that Germany is occupied up to now—

Stone-Eater Added May 10, 2017 – 2:36pm

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BTW: The US profited a lot by WWII. And Hitler was supported by them for a long time before it started. The Marshall plan created a lot of work on both sides…

That’s what Cheney wanted in Iraq. Flatten the thing and then get US companies to rebuild it. The system remains the same.

Stone-Eater Added May 11, 2017 – 8:50am

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John

GRIN

Ian Thorpe Added May 11, 2017 – 9:52am

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John G, one day you will make a sane comment and we will all be so surprised we won’t know whether to shit or go blind …
(It’s interesting to note here guys that for all his claims of intellectual superiority over the rest of us, Mr. G does not recoginse sarcasm when it jumps out and pulls his pisser.)

Ian Thorpe Added May 11, 2017 – 3:01pm

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Stone, since WW2 flattening countries or parts of them and then awarding its corporate cronies big fat contracts to rebuild the infrastructure has been a permanent feature of US government’s foreign policy. Since ‘Nam did not go quite to plan they have usually used proxies to do the flattening but the result is the same.

John Minehan Added May 11, 2017 – 4:08pm

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“Matter of perception. To me, the Germans were finally driven into war – not necessarily as bad as it cumulated, but as you know, the US always had the fear that Germany and Russia could unite in some way. Even today.”

I think the best solution for both German AND Russia is to become part of Europe and a Europe without those two powers was always incomplete . . . .

Jeff Michka Added May 11, 2017 – 5:28pm

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Give ’em an Inshah-allah, and they take a mile.

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Champagne Socialists?

by Ian Thorpe Apr 28, 2017

I was once told by somebody who identifies herself as a supporter of the progressive left that giving dictionary definitions when a “progressive” uses a word or phrase wrongly is “something conservatives do.”

 

Strange, because not only I have often been corrected and told I am a typical neo – con extremist by supporters of big government, big science, big Pharma, big education and big everything, those who usually ‘identify’ as progressive, but I have never voted for a Conservative candidate in my life. Unfortunately the people who corrected me were invariably wrong because rather than looking in Webster’s or the Oxford English Dictionary they look only in Wiktionary. which at best only gives a part definition.

 

I happen to think dictionary definitions are important. If we humans are to communicate those who share a language must all have the same understanding of what words in that language mean. Thus when one comes across people who style themselves liberals advocating Stalinist policies of authoritarian central government, social engineering and state ownership of all enterprises one is duty bound to try to enlighten that person about political philosophy and particularly the fact that variants on Marxism like socialism, Stalinism and Maoism are the antithesis of Liberalism which is as close as any workable system can get to anarchism.

 

Most of the leading advocates of such “progressive” politics are left wing elitists who operate a double standard, not inflicting on their own privileged social class the privations they would visit upon the masses. There is a name for this political sub culture, Champagne Socialists.

 

Here, because purpose of this post is to annoy lefties a dictionary definition of Champagne Socialists may be of use to Cultural Marxists, New World Order global government supporters and all the academics, public employees, special advisers and other ‘tax eaters’ (h/t William Cobbett) who enjoy the high life at the expense of Joe the Punter.

 

champagne socialist n. deprecative (orig. and chiefly Brit.) a person who espouses socialist ideals but enjoys a wealthy and luxurious lifestyle.

 

Lefties claim there is no such thing as a champagne socialist even as the guzzle Bollinger and Lanson paid for either directly or indirectly by you and me and eat in the kind of restaurants where a main course costs the equivalent of a weeks earning for a minimum wage worker.

 

One of the UK’s leading left wing newspaper’s journalists recently outed herself as exactly that: a bubbly-guzzling hypocrite who, though writing about education for the privileged with a definite collectivist bias and posing for years as a chippy, radical socialist, has actually been sending her daughter to a private school, fancy uniform, straw boater hat, jolly hockey sticks and all. So how does she square that with her demands to abolish private education?

 

Given the views of many of her readers expressed in comment threads where they enthusiastically call for the death penalty for parents who choose private education, anyone who goes to church, and anyone who does not support same sex marriage, 1 million per cent taxes and a totalitarian global government you might expect Janet Murray’s article to be a letter of resignation – or, if she was feeling more courageous, a grovelling apology to all the private school parents who she “resented” for “buying privilege through private education”.

 

But it’s neither. Instead, it’s a kind of weaselish justification for being what she terms an “‘accidental’ private school parent”.

 

It was, she whines,just that “the local private school for under thirteens offered 8am-6pm hours and holiday care”. And what she “hadn’t appreciated was just how much the nursery was part of the school”.

 

Then, weirdly, it becomes a ‘J’accuse’ style diatribe, addressed to parents of children at comprehensives:

 

The state sector in education is full of parents buying advantage. They kid themselves that what they are doing is somehow morally superior. The truth is that every person who moves house to get into the catchment area of a better school, or suddenly develops an interest in religion to get their kids into a Church School rather than having to mix with the chavs at the local state school is using private wealth to play the system.

 

Needless to say, even the ‘oligarchical collectivists’ (see ‘1984’ bu George Orwell,) who are her readers have managed to spot her hypocrisy. One comment read “I don’t get it Janet. You justify your own choice by criticising others who do the kind of thing you have done,” says one. Another adds: “the writer is making lots of money and is writing this piece to justify her snobbery.”

 

Elitist Lefties never turn on their own however, their belief in their own moral superiority is such that they see no contradiction in their raging against conservatives doing the very things they are busy doing themselves (Ah, but we are doing it for the right reasons,” they will argue): once Janet’s colleagues have come to terms with her defection to The Dark Side, many of them will stand by her. For, as much maligned Education Secretary Michael Gove pointed out when his education policy had been savaged by an editorial in The Guardian:

 

“…the Guardian has been edited by privately educated men for the last 60 years. But then, many of our most prominent contemporary radical and activist writers are also privately educated, at the most exclusive schools” he said. “George Monbiot the Marxist Environmentalist commentator was at Stowe, (according to my friend Colin who was also attented the school, the model for the school in Mervyn Peake’s surreal and subversive novel Gormenghast – made into a TV series in 2001, box sets available, Seumas Milne of the leading advocate of a single European superstate run by appointed bureaucrats as a stepping stone to global government was at Winchester and perhaps the most radical new voice of all, the feminist and ‘Yooman Rites’ ranter – Laurie Penny (a nanocelebrity according to right wing magazine The Spectator – was educated at Brighton College, an exclusive girls school.

 

I know it’s embarrassing for Ms Murray to be caught out in her one rule for me another for the proles* hypocrisy, but at least one  socialist Member Of Parliament will offer her a shoulder to cry on. Yes, little Miss “Everything is about race because I’se black” herself, Diane Abbot, after spending two decades denouncing private education as evil and (white, conservative) parents who choose private education as earthly manifestations of Enochian demons, sent her own son to private school, justifying her choice by saying the state system could not meet his needs.

 

Trouble is, from the illiteracy and innumeracy rates we are seeing and the levels of juvenile delinquency, state schools are not meeting very many pupils needs.
* This of course is the guiding principle of all socialist governments.

NB: this is an old article, updated somewhat, that is worth a rerun because the fragmentation of societies in the developed world is becoming extremely destructive.

 

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Thomas Napers Added Apr 29, 2017 – 1:23am

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I couldn’t agree more, most progressives/liberals/leftists are nothing more than champagne socialists.  Which is another way of saying they are all hypocrites.  With so much negative things to say about leftists, progressives and socialists why don’t you ever vote for conservative candidates?

Shane Laing Added Apr 29, 2017 – 6:10am

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At least when Margret Thatcher was PM she told the country when she was going to screw you. The champagne socialists i.e. Blair and Brown hid it. They really didn’t give a crap as long as they were all right.  Brown decided that all pensions should be taxed so screwing over the pensioners and what happened when it was found that there was a huge deficit (£2 billion) in the MPs pension pot? Yes you guessed it he took it from the public purse to top it up. Amazingly other pension pots that were in deficit weren’t topped up because it would be too expensive

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 29, 2017 – 10:06am

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EXPAT, agree with what you said, excepting I spend quite a lot of time trying to make sure words still matter. Not long ago (before I signed up here) I posted something on a comment from a silicon valley billionaire who said he wants to make the world more visual, so we don’t have to rely on language, which he thinks people find confusing.
I remarked that for all his babbling about technology improving human life in every way he was trying to take us back to the Indo European proto – language which was replaced by better options about 8000 years ago.
I had some liberal / progressive telling me going visual would be a great step forward, how much smarter the Chinese and Japanese are that us, having a picture everyone can understand. And she gave as an example a picture of a window with raindrops falling outside to tell someone it is raining.
OUCH! That one landed on her toes like a brick.
Things aren’t so simple as my liberal friend imagines. Very briefly, with a link to a better description, Chinese and Japanese characters are not ideograms which use an image to convey meaning (window with raid = ‘it is / was raining’), but phonemes, like the proto – language or ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, each one representing a sound, either a whole word or syllable. Oriental scribes must learn around 3000 characters while we who use the Roman alphabet manage to convey even complex ideas with just twenty six (plus a few numerals).
So if we get past the standard liberal / progressive conviction that foreign cultures always do it better than us, I think we actually developed the best form of non auditory communication.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 29, 2017 – 10:08am

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John G, I know you intend to intimidate us all with your mighty intellect, but to be honest mate the banalities you post are about as intimidating as a loud fart.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 29, 2017 – 10:22am

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Thomas, what I said is I have never voted for a Conservative candidate. In the past, if possible I would cast a protest vote for an economically conservative, socially liberal candidate. That option is no longer available as the old Liberal Party (classical liberals, i.e. small government, localism and maximum individual freedom) made the mistake of joining forces with a breakaway group of the Labour Party (big government, state ownership and socially, paternalistic liberalism, a horrible philosophy which infantilises the working and middle classes) and thus became a subset of The Labour Party.
Now I sometimes vote Green, sometimes UKIP, and sometimes for an independent candidate. I even voted a couple of times fron The Natural Law Party, which was sponsored by The Beatles guru, The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, they might have seemed like a bunch of nutters to many people, to me they represented a home for my protest vote.
To me politics is not a binary.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 29, 2017 – 10:34am

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Shane Laing, Margaret Thatcher made selfishness a virtue. I did well during her government because I was a computer networks expert and became a consultant to the big finance houses before and after deregulation. But my family home was in the north and I saw close up the consequences of her economic policies for core industries like mining and engineering.
My feelings on The UK Conservative Party are I know they are the party of self interest, and because they are open about that I can deal with it without having to like them. I have no time for Labour because they are such effing hypocrites, there’s nothing Labour politicians love more than sucking up to people with names like Rothschild, Barclay, Soros, Saud, Bush or Astor.
Thanks for reminding me about Brown’s pension raid.

Mircea Negres Added Apr 29, 2017 – 12:55pm

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Ian, it’s not that different in South Africa. Here we have members of the South African Communist Party who are in the ANC because they made a deal before the 1994 election to get positions in return for SACP not contesting the elections. ANC members call each other “comrade” in parliament where they are paid from R900.000 a year upwards (minimum wage is around R40.000  a year), dress to the nines for the opening of parliament and as a matter of course while millions of ordinary people live in rags, have private health insurance while urging people to stop using private hospitals and use the state ones instead so they can die from malpractice or preventable infections, are driven in expensive SUVs like BMW X5 and Porsche Cayenne and escorted by bodyguards while begrudging people who can afford it private security because the police’s service is poor, and bemoan the poor state of public schools in townships and the black parents who take their kids out of there as a result- while those same politicians send their own kids to former Model C schools (former majority white schools) and private schools. We call those politicians “Gucci communists”.

Mircea Negres Added Apr 29, 2017 – 12:56pm

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Nice post, by the way, and welcome to Writer Beat!

Micahel Dolan Added Apr 29, 2017 – 1:23pm

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“Culture”
Killing a culture is something to be alarmed about. Destroy a culture and you destroy a nation. There are people and mobs today actively trying to obliterate all vestiges of the common American culture.Let’s face it. American progressive liberals no longer have any foreign models for their utopian dreams and ambitions.There is no successful test case for these ideas anywhere. There never has been.
So liberalism-socialism today is re-inventing itself in the United States. What is it about conservatism that so angers the dominant media culture? For the Liberal, America is not a nation but a civil religion-an idea.

Dino Manalis Added Apr 29, 2017 – 1:57pm

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All Americans should support Americanism and we ought to strive to assimilate immigrants into our American culture as much as possible!  God Bless America!

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 29, 2017 – 3:07pm

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Mircea Negres, thanks for your comment. I have a Facebook friend, Gilly, who is a ‘saffer’, although she’s back in Britain now after some unfortunate experiences at the hands of gangsters. (We were with the same publisher about ten years back but they went broke). Gilly has described S.A. in much the same way as you.
It’s unfortunate that what is potentially the most prosperous nation in Africa, and a nation that could with good government become Africa’s first global power should be ruined by they hypocrisy of corrupt politicians who gain power and immediately sell out to corporate interests.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 29, 2017 – 3:16pm

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Michael Dolan, what is it about conservatism that angers liberals and socialists? A very good question, every day I hear and read left wing left wing commentators raging about how uncouth and ignorant supporters of the right are, yet whenever I see on TV a political protest turn ugly, nine times out of ten it is the left, the ‘liberals’, ‘progressives’ and silly tarts dressed as vaginas who, faces contorted with rage and hate, are yelling abuse and threats, throwing bricks and bottles and trying to attack people representing a different view.
And yet the left’s Social Justice Warriors are the ones who claim to be tolerant, inclusive and peace – loving.

Micahel Dolan Added Apr 29, 2017 – 4:57pm

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John G, The leftist today are infiltrated with paid for criminals who are anti America and terrorist. The Democrat Party is now a party of thugs and Losers. Burn down schools-Shoot Cops- attack innocent people because they dare have different opinions or they dare vote for someone other than a leftist-louse democrat. Your type never argue your case, your type promotes riots and crime.

Peter Corey Added Apr 30, 2017 – 12:14am

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>liberals are NOT leftists. They are pro-capitalist idiots like you.

In the US, the word “liberal” has meant “leftist” since at least the progressive era of Woodrow Wilson. True, “liberal” used to mean pro-capitalist, pro-private property, pro-gold standard, pro-rule of law, pro-limited government intervention, but the meaning of that word was changed by American leftists. See a standard history on this topic by journalist, Arthur Ekirch in his book, “The Decline of American Liberalism.” Free PDF download here:

http://www.independent.org/pdf/book_excerpts/Foreword_DeclineAMLiberal_Higgs.pdf
“The Decline of American Liberalism”
by Arthur Ekirch

If an American wants to reclaim the original intent behind the word “liberal”, he must instead use the phrase “classical liberal”, or a neologism like “libertarian”, which might capture some of the original meaning, but which is also vague in many ways, since there are people who call themselves, “Left libertarians” and “civil libertarians” and “anarcho-capitalist libertarians”, etc.

Peter Corey Added Apr 30, 2017 – 12:54am

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>The Democratic Party is a capitalist party

Actually, it’s a quasi-fascist party, or a neo-syndicalist party, or a crypto-corporatist party.

It’s not a “classical liberal” party. When you’ve plugged your current bout of verbal diarrhea, you can read Arthur Ekirch’s account of how “liberal” came to mean its opposite during the progressive era in the US. See link above to downloadable PDF.

Peter Corey Added Apr 30, 2017 – 1:16am

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>I’m not interested in your pamphlets.

I’m not interested in your lies, distortions, and overall ignorance of economics, banking, and history.

You’ve probably missed the link I posted to Arthur Ekirch’s interesting historical account of how the word “liberal” in American political discourse acquired the opposite meaning from the one it originally had. That’s understandable given that your head is stuck up your arse most of the time. Clear your orifice and click on the following link:

target=”_blank”>http://www.independent.org/pdf/book_excerpts/Foreword_DeclineAMLiberal_Higgs.pdf
“The Decline of American Liberalism”
by Arthur Ekirch

Robert Burk Added Apr 30, 2017 – 4:34am

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If the left and liberalism are good at anything it is controlling the narrative, they have been successful in claiming the high moral ground and keeping the right on the defensive. That and that along explains their success. If one can turn the tables around and get them on the defensive they are totally disarmed and unable to carry on a  conversation.  Has anyone ever seen a world leader more inarticulate than Justin Trudeau, yet he was idolized by the left during his election. The man is a buffoon.

Robert Burk Added Apr 30, 2017 – 4:37am

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In the 60 the liberal left was the party of the oppressed but now the oppressed are the power and liberalism has become a reactionary bunch of SJW with no agenda but they still want to joust windmills.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 30, 2017 – 9:11am

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John G,
If, as you say, you are not interested in the opinions of others (and are therefore by definition a bigot, a word you throw at others freely though you obviously don’t know what it means) then why do you enter these threads where you must know you will encounter opinions that do not coincide with your own and also a quality of discussion that is obviously way above your level of intelligence.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 30, 2017 – 9:14am

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Thanks to everyone who has contributed intelligent points to this thread, I can’t concentrate because of the white noise at the moment but I will respond either later today or tomorrow.
Cheers, Ian

Bill H. Added Apr 30, 2017 – 11:13am

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Both parties are so out of touch at the moment, they have become rendered useless. Therefore, those who continue to follow either one at this point are on the road to a dead-end street.
We blindly take “sides” and refuse to discuss, reason, and even think anymore because it is conveniently done for us by our “technology” and any “talking head” who makes us feel cozy and comfortable. Any news, information, or ideas that may be outside of our “bubbles” or comfort zone is simply deemed “fake”.
As technology increasingly makes our decisions for us, we will become less able to use our own minds to make what decisions we will have left to perform.

George N Romey Added Apr 30, 2017 – 11:40am

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Both parties have one master-the elite class.  Its a game they play and we are the chumps and pawns for amusement.

Jeff Michka Added Apr 30, 2017 – 3:29pm

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“Dolan” sez: The leftist today are infiltrated with paid for criminals who are anti America and terrorist.- More of your Trumpist bilge pumpings you have no source or proof for, but just “want to be true.”-I contend you are more of  phony patriot than any “leftist” you are so critical about.  Blight’d fool.

Barry aka. Hyperminde Added Apr 30, 2017 – 10:01pm

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RE (EXPAT): CAN A FEDERAL POLICE FORCE BE FAR BEHIND?

Uh … that’s what Obama wanted before he got in the White House (although the Media avoided reporting anything about it).

Do an Internet search with terms: video obama civilian national security force

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/08/27/barack-obama-civilian-army.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

Ian Thorpe Added May 1, 2017 – 1:34pm

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EXPAT, I understand what you mean about Vietnam, war do not necessarily change nations but humiliations do. Britian was changed by a much smaller war than ‘nam, the Suez crisis of 1956 (or 5 maybe) was before the dawn of my political awareness but I grew up with its consequences, and because my Dad worked for national Daily newspapers and I met his colleagues regularly I had no shortage of people willing and well qualified to explain how, after we had survived World War 2 much diminished, the humiliation of being forced to climb down over the sovereignty of the Suez canal brought home to the nation and our elite that Britain was no longer one of the world’s most powerful nations but was a second rate power.
And from there the seeds of our social revolution in the 1960s (which was different in some important ways from America’s) were sown.
The best thing to come out of it was the collapse of the class system, people were not content to ‘know their place’ any more.

Ian Thorpe Added May 1, 2017 – 1:51pm

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Peter Corey, it is absolutely right to assert that liberals are leftists, we seldom see those who ‘identify’ as liberal trying to engage in a discussion on any important topics, instead all we see from them are contradictions, distortions, lies, name – calling, smears and what they would call, were it directed at them, hate speech. This style of rhetoric which has been nurtured in university faculties and by liberal media is straight from the Alinsky and Frankrurt School playbooks for those intending to disrupt political stability.

Ian Thorpe Added May 1, 2017 – 1:55pm

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Robert Burk, I don’t think it is so much a case of the liberal left being good as controlling the narrative as the opponents of these authoritarians actually believe in free speech and so we are prepared to let them put their case while they repay that courtesy by trying to shout down people who hold different views to theirs.

Ian Thorpe Added May 1, 2017 – 2:28pm

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Bill H, you say both sides are out of touch, I know that to be true of out three main national parties and also of The Scottish Nationalists in the UK. You will also see similar claims repeated on news sites and forums all around Europe. The ruling elites have abandoned the people who put them where they are in pursuit of a global agenda.
What’s so laughable about much of the nonsense we see in these threads is that the people who scream about ‘evil capitalism’ don’t realise they are supporting the global banking cartels and the corporations that want to suffocate independent businesses.

Ian Thorpe Added May 1, 2017 – 2:30pm

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George, ALL parties appear to have one controlling elite, here, there, in Gremany, France, Japan, India, Australia

Ian Thorpe Added May 1, 2017 – 2:31pm

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Barry, aka Hyperminde, that’s not an issue I can common on but thanks for contributing to the thread.

Jeff Michka Added May 1, 2017 – 9:18pm

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Micahel “Fake News/Mr. & Mrs. Mindless Disinformation tries to suggest again:  John G, The leftist today are infiltrated with paid for criminals who are anti America and terrorist. The Democrat Party is now a party of thugs and Losers. Burn down schools-Shoot Cops- attack innocent people because they dare have different opinions or they dare vote for someone other than a leftist-louse democrat. – And you have a cite for all this, eh?  Of course you don’t.  It’s just stuff you think others should believe because you, primary sucker for it, does.  I Want to see a payslip.

Bill H. Added May 1, 2017 – 9:49pm

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When an administration attempts to negate and eliminate the news media, who’s job it is to question and critique the government on the people’s side, it is on the way to becoming a dictatorship. When the president seems to only make moves to increase his wealth, and that of his family and close business associates, that is a pure indication of corruption.
I have voted for candidate of both parties over the years, but I have never seen the likes of the Orange Buffoon.

J. Riddle Added May 2, 2017 – 3:42am

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Dictionaries aren’t noted for being particularly politically sophisticated; when it comes to those matters, history books are far more important.

This…

“Liberalism which is as close as any workable system can get to target=”_blank”>anarchism.”

…is ludicrous. Liberals are capitalists, the polar opposite of anarchists–a great example of why history is more important. Liberals advocating Stalinism, meanwhile, are like the Unicorn Division of the Orc Society (or the Alliance of Muslim Socialist Presidents of the United States)–a ridiculous, made-up thing invented to entertain certain people.

J. Riddle Added May 2, 2017 – 3:44am

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“Actually, it’s a quasi-fascist party, or a neo-syndicalist party, or a crypto-corporatist party.”

Yeah, when making up a bunch of shit, why limit oneself to only one, eh?

Ian Thorpe Added May 2, 2017 – 9:29am

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J Riddle, there’s a big difference between classical liberalism and modern, politically correct,  authoritarian liberalism. At the time classical liberalism was developed as a political philosophy there was no socialism other than in the communal living of certain Christian religious sects such as the Anabaptists and Moravians in Germanic counties and The Levellers in Britain.
Early advocates of Liberalism, including John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith, although the ideas can be traced back to Cicero and Seneca in ancient Rome and the Athenian Philosophers in Greece. At the time the founders of modern liberalism lived and worked there was no alternative to capitalism other than a return to medieval feudalism so it is ludicrous to talk of them being capitalists unless you favour a system of oligarchical feudalism such as the one George Soros proposes.
Neoliberalism, which is what I assume to mean by liberalism, is nothing to do with classical liberalism, it is about a system developed on the collaboration of an all powerful central government and lightly regulated big business cartels. As such it is hardly deistinguishable economically from neo-Conservatism. This is not capitalism but corporatism (although it closely echoes Mussolini’s definition of fascism,) so fascists, not liberals are the polar opposite of anarchists. In favouring small government, minimal intervention and maximum tolerance of individualism and self determination, liberalism is, as I said, as close as any workable system can be to anarchism, which advocates no government at all and which, therefore, no sane person would ever suggest as a viable form of government.
In eighteenth century Britain there was a loose political group known as Whigs who advocated laissez faire economics but were socially very conservative, (the Whigs were active in the American colonies too under a different name). These people are wrongly referred to a ‘liberals’ by most school and higher education history text books, in current terminology they are referred to as neoliberals and their political stance being based on the Patrician caste of The Roman Empire is about as far from ‘neo’ as is possible. The Whigs believed they should be free to further their own interests without any restriction, they also believed in, and used their wealth and power, to obtain draconian punishments for anyone who got in their way. Hardly acceptable behaviour for liberals, but these guys were really libertines, they claimed the right to act without constraint to the extend of being able to roger servant girls and take no responsibility for resulting pregnancies.
Before you start invoking history books to justify ill informed comments you might be well advised to read a few. The world did not begin when FDR’s government passed The New Deal.

Jeff Jackson Added May 2, 2017 – 1:30pm

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Ian, love the “champagne socialist” name, very fitting. You certainly know your history and ideologies. Very insightful and well-educated. Be careful, though. Lotsa WB’s don’t like the history textbooks that you and I read. Quoting historically important books often means little or nothing to them, even if you and I believe and understand it as the truth.

Ian Thorpe Added May 2, 2017 – 2:56pm

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Jeff, good advice, thanks. Trolls are a plague at any free posting site like this, as I warned someone a few days ago, we just have to be prepared to become Big Billy Goat Gruff. But even going down to the level of fairy tales is too advanced for some people who spend a lot of time in these threads.
Champagne Socialist BTW is not originally mine, it’s a well used phrase in Britain for describing politicians, businessmen and media luvvies who live millionaire lifestyles while telling people on ordinary incomes they must learn to be content with less because we have a duty to help Africa.
The name that has come up most often recently in connection with this is Bono, lead singer of the band U2, with an estimated fortune of £650million. When asked how much of his wealth he is prepared to give to African projects he babbles about how much time he spends working for third world charities.

Ian Thorpe Added May 2, 2017 – 3:12pm

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Having said above that no sane person would ever suggest anarchy as a viable form of government, I must confess that, emotionally at least, I am philosophically an anarchist. This is why I considered putting myself forward in the forthcoming election as a candidate for Britain’s long established joker party, The Monster Raving Loony Party.
As Benjamin Franklin said, “It is the duty of ever citizen to question authority,” but as difficult questions are met with evasions, the next best thing is to ridicule authority. The Loony approach is entirely in keeping with the spirit of my last political foray when I ran as The Liberal Libations Party, campaigning on a policy of “bigger drink for everyone.”
For years after that the Labour government at the time relaxed laws covering the sale of alcohol. My policies changed Britain even though I didn’t win 🙂

Jeff Jackson Added May 2, 2017 – 4:39pm

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Ian, aren’t some of those names straight out of Monty Python? I’d come over and vote for you, but I have these metal things that make loud noises of which I don’t think your government would approve.
By the way, the “politicians, businessmen and media luvvies who live millionaire lifestyles while telling people on ordinary incomes they must learn to be content with less because we have a duty to help Africa” sound like some of the folks here in ‘Murica, including, of course, the political class and the C-suite desk monkeys.
Jolly good show!  Carry on mate!

Ian Thorpe Added May 3, 2017 – 9:00am

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Jeff Jackson, not quite Python, but that school of comedy, Python did a sketch one about ‘The Silly Party’ but the Monster Raving Loonys were formed before that by a rock singer named Screaming Lord Sutch. Sutch stood in many elections over thirty years, losing his deposit in all but earning far more from the gig he was offered. A true British eccentric, and as long as the name of his joke party survives his sprit will live on.
BTW I do have several T shirts with Python catch phrases, ‘Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition,’ ‘He’s Not The Messiah, He’s A Very Naughty Boy,’ and ‘Blessed Are The Cheesemakers.’
Wherever I go in them, they raise a few smiles.

Ian Thorpe Added May 3, 2017 – 9:05am

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John G, the way that after reading a couple of articles and a few comments by somebody enables you to believe you know more about them than they know about themselves.
This tells me you are either:
a) endowed with super powers
b) stark raving mad
I know which I’d be willing to bet on.

Ian Thorpe Added May 3, 2017 – 9:09am

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John G,
Your last comment, I mean your most recent although many people here wish it would be your last, only tells us you do not know what either capitalism or anarchism mean.
Do you really think your monomaniacal ravings impress anybody?

Ian Thorpe Added May 3, 2017 – 4:23pm

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John G, by accusing others of indulging in ad hominem commenting when almost all your comments are ad hominem (because you cannot put together and intelligent comment on the topic under discussion) you show yourself to be a hypocrite on top of all your other shortcomings and delusions.
As for your having read enough of what I post, well why the fuck do you keep reading it then for fuck’s sake, you idiot?
You’re like a baby John, screaming until you get attention.

Jeff Michka Added May 8, 2017 – 3:28pm

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“Champagne Socialists” sound like interviewees in a BBC green room before showtime.  Not any that I know.

 

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Threat Of Major Scandal Prompted Conservatives early UK Election move Say UKIP Leaders

by Ian Thorpe Apr 19, 2017 – 1:45pm

Leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) have made astonishing claim that Prime Minister Teresa May’s move to call an early General Election in June this year was done to preempt a series of by-elections that could be called following a police investigation into alleged electoral fraud. Accusing May and the Conservative government she leads of “putting party before country”, UKIP front man Paul Nuttall appeared to suggest an electoral fraud scandal and the ensuing disqualification of sitting members of The House of Commons could rob the government of its slender majority in parliament.

Oops, that’s Teresa May the porn star, not Teresa May the British politician

Mrs. May strongly denied she would call a snap election after being chosen, unopposed, as the Conservative leader following the resignation of David Cameron after he was humiliated when the country voted to leave the EU (Brexit). After parliament approved the invocation of the Article 50 Bill with a massive majority, with many of the unelected members of the House of Lords, along with a large section of Labour MPs, the Scottish Nationalists and Liberal Democrats along with a rebel faction in her own party promising they would prevent Brexit going ahead (in defiance of the democratic will,) The Prime minister today claimed she had “reluctantly” changed her mind.

Her U-turn also comes exactly a month after reports suggested Conservative Party figures were fearful of a series of by-elections that could be called after up to 20 of their MPs were alleged to have broken electoral law in the 2015 campaign, mostly in seats UKIP had a good chance of winning.

More than ten police forces have referred cases to the Crown Prosecution Service and lawyers are now considering whether to charge the MPs or their agents after a year long investigation.

“…The prospect of a slew of Tory-held by-elections caused by the seeming systematic breach of electoral law at the last election, predominantly in places where UKIP were pressing the Conservatives hard” could have influenced the decision to hold an election now, suggested Nuttall in a press statement.

Deputy UKIP leader Peter Whittle also said the decision was “utterly cynical”, adding: “But we’re having [a general election] now and my party is actually quite excited about it.” Speaking on the BBC’s Daily Politics, he said there was “no question” the Tories were acting in their own self-interest.

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EXPAT Added Apr 19, 2017 – 3:48pm

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Ian.
Thanks for the photo. The cleavage displayed should be titled Silicone Valley.I believe that Mrs. May who was elected to lead Britain into the independence of Brexit, is becoming faint of heart at the thought of Scottish Nationalism.Why else call for an election in so short a period? She either wants
re-assurance from the people or an excuse to back away from the mandate she was elected to facilitate. She is proving to be a bigger coward than David Cameron.

If the result is Haggis being washed down with  Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbierm the Sassenach can send the Muslims to Glasgow to clean up the barf!

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 19, 2017 – 4:22pm

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Expat. Yes, if that Teresa May was our Prime Minister few people would be worrying about deflation when interest rates finally go up.
UKIP are flying a kite but there is something in their claim, there are investigations of electoral fraud in progress and the Tory majority is very thin. Also I heard from a Lib Dem House of Lords skiver I’ve known for many years that but for the stupendous numbers of postal votes for Remain in inner city areas the referendum majority would have been bigger so as various groups in parliament are sworn to stop Brexit at any cost, the option that May’s move is what it says on the box, a cynical bid to get a safe majority, has to be considered.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

EXPAT Added Apr 19, 2017 – 4:45pm

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Ian. America plays the same game! I am surprised UKIP hasn’t blamed the Russians for hacking the referendum. Liberals are the same worldwide. When they lose, it is always because of fraud.

Ari Silverstein Added Apr 19, 2017 – 5:28pm

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I know nothing about the electoral system outside the United States so will you do me a favor and explain the merits of politicians being able to decide when to hold an (snap) election?  Shouldn’t elections occur based on a pre-set date like they do in America?

Dino Manalis Added Apr 20, 2017 – 9:39am

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Don’t pick on her, May wants to be a modern day-Margaret Thatcher!

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 20, 2017 – 3:12pm

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Ari, in the British system the Prime Minister has always had the right to call an election at any time. On this occasion it is ostensibly for the purpose of seeking a mandate to negotiate Britain’s divorce from the EU (Brexit), but the true motive is probably more cynical than that.
The reason we stuck with this system is because the Prime Minister is not a president and has no power of veto (The Queen has but is not allowed to use it except in extreme circumstances). Mrs May was not elected but became leader of the largest party when David Cameron resigned, so she can use that as an excuse too although it would have been more credible had she called the election before she was sworn in.
Hope that helps you understand our contribution to the current global chaos.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 20, 2017 – 3:14pm

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Dino, I think she wants to be the modern day Boudicca. Few people understand the extent of the EU’s ambition to turn Europe’s twenty – eight member states into a frederal superstate controlled by the bureaucracy.

Ari Silverstein Added Apr 21, 2017 – 6:17am

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For whatever its worth, I think a system where the Prime Minister can call an election at any time is ridiculous.  Elections should come at set times on a calendar.  Even worse is that you’re stuck with a system like that, politicians should be able to change the law to their liking. *given a high enough amount of support.

As to her reason for holding a snap election, you said she’s putting party before country, but that doesn’t make any sense to me.  If she believes her party will do more for the country than the party that opposes her, than by putting her party first she’s also putting her country first.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 21, 2017 – 10:41am

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Ari, just backtrack a moment. I did not say that the Prime Minister was putting party before country, Paul Nuttall, leader of the UK Independence Party said that, I simply reported what he said. I actually don’t have an opinion on that point, she acted according to the law as it stands now.
You seem to be arguing the same case as those people who are still trying to claim Hillary Clinton should be US President because she won the popular vote. The case is that love him or hate him, trump won according to the law as it stands now. End of story
There are flaws in all democratic systems, the fact that the Prime Minister can call elections at a politically advantageous to her/his party (both Conservative and Labour  Prime Ministers have done the same in the past) is not the biggest flaw we have in the British system.

Billy Roper Added Apr 21, 2017 – 10:55am

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The UKIP Manchester Rabbi who burned the New Testament in protest for passover is indicative of how Zionist the organization is.

Thomas Napers Added Apr 22, 2017 – 5:49am

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So what are the bigger flaws in your electoral system than the one that allows a prime minister to call a snap election?  Do you think our Electoral College system is flawed?

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 22, 2017 – 11:33am

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Thomas, what are the main flaws in our electoral system? How much time do you have to spare? The biggest is our ‘first past the post’ selection. This was introduced for very good reasons almost two hundred years ago. Those reasons are not so good now, and with the solidifying of the party system we have developed too many ‘safe’ seats for either Labour or Conservative candidates.
The result of this is many people, myself included, who do not want to vote for either of the main parties but live in one of the ‘safe seats’ are effectively disenfranchised. Will that do for starters?
As for the electoral college, that too was introduced for good reasons a long time ago. I can see merit in the arguments of both those who want to scrap it and those who want to keep it. What I can’t understand about it is why so many states apportion E. C. votes on a winner takes all basis? Surely they should be divided between candidates on a pro – rata basis.
Doing that, however, would almost certainly open several new cans of worms.

Thomas Napers Added Apr 22, 2017 – 11:19pm

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Obviously not all that many voters are disenfranchised, otherwise they would vote for someone other than Labour or Conservative candidates.  No matter what country one lives, it makes logical sense for there to be two main parties.  Any more than two and the two parties with the most similar ideology will split the vote, causing the other party to win.

You raise an interesting point about our Electoral College system.  The reason most states award Electoral Votes on a winner-take-all basis is because they want their state to matter.  To the extent the winner doesn’t take all, there will be less competition to win the state and accordingly, the less the state will matter.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 23, 2017 – 9:19am

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Thomas, first prize for stating the obvious, if a majority of voters in a constituency wanted to vote liberal or green then that party would win. When I refer to safe seats however, I mean those with a built in majority for one or other main party. For many years this resulted in the liberals, with about ten per cent of the vote ending up with between five and ten seats in a 600+ seat parliament.
There are other flaws but from your remarks I guess you are not interested in discussing them objectively. What does state governments “wanting their states to matter” have to do with Democracy. Do the votes of all the Republicans in California and New York, or all the Democrats on Texas or Illinois not matter?

Ari Silverstein Added Apr 23, 2017 – 10:33pm

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I’m not sure why you’d infer that I believe Hillary should be president because she won the popular vote.  I’m ecstatic over the outcome of the election and think the Electoral College system is a great way to determine POTUS.  At the very least, it’s a far better system then the popular vote.

My comment to you has more to do with fixing an obviously flawed system. Our system may have flaws to some but they aren’t major.  By your own admission, your system is riddled with flaws and those flaws should be fixed.  Of course the law of the land should be respected, but that doesn’t mean the law can’t be fixed for the next election.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 24, 2017 – 9:54am

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Ari, if you think your electoral system does not have major flaws you must be living in Bizarro world. At least in Britain a billionaire could not buy the job of Prime Minister.

Shane Laing Added Apr 24, 2017 – 10:22am

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I believe the Prime Minister made a smart move.  The Conservatives are well ahead in the polls and if more tories are elected it helps her to get her brexit deal through the commons much easier. As for the Liberal leader spouting that he wants the UK to have the same benefits as being a fully paid up member of the EU when we leave, simply isn’t going to happen.  The EU have said so.  Everybody should vote a safe seat is only safe if people vote.  Bermondsey was a safe seat for Simon Hughes come the election he lost because of the Lib Dems going back on the tuition fees promise, saying that most of the Lib Dems lost their seats.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 24, 2017 – 3:49pm

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Shane, politically it is a smart move for the reasons you say and while it may seem cynical to some for a Prime Minister in UK (or other nations with similar systems) to call an early election to gain advantage, the ability to seek a new mandate has to exist for several good reasons, if the government loses a confidence vote for example.
What some people in this thread don’t understand (and don’t want to understand) is that unlike the USA, where the presidency and congress are separate, in the British system the Prime Minister is the leader of the assembly.

Jeff Michka Added Apr 26, 2017 – 6:03pm

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Billy the Nazi writes: The UKIP Manchester Rabbi who burned the New Testament in protest for passover is indicative of how Zionist the organization is.  -And totally, as always, irrelevant to Ian’s article and topic at hand.  Roper to WB: “I always blame Jews for everything.”

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All Is For The Best In This, The Best Of All Possible Worlds – Dr. Pangloss’ Philosophy

by Ian Thorpe Apr 15, 2017 – 11:46am

The title is a phrase used to sum up the philosophy of Dr. Pangloss. “Dr. who?” you might well ask because few people today are likely to be familiar with Pangloss or his philosophies. Dr. Pangloss, you see, is a fictional character, friend and mentor to the main character in Voltaire’s novel “Candide”.

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694 – 1778) known simply as Voltaire was destined for a career in law but found formal study “too disgusting” and gave it up to become a philosopher and man of letters among the Bohemian community of Paris’s left bank. Quickly becoming known for his wit, intelligence and decadent lifestyle he was accepted by other French radicals, writers, thinkers and political reformers.

Voltaire was a satirist best known for his religious polemic against the Roman Catholic Church, corrupt but al powerful at the time, but he did not spare the tight lipped protestants of his day from being pricked or beaten by his favourite weapons, sarcasm, ridicule and parody. Because so much of his work , particularly in early writing, targeted religion is common to dismiss him as a biter and resentful atheist, but to do so is intellectually lazy and exhibits ignorance. Discarding revelation and divine mystery, he steadily upheld the truths of natural religion, and was, in fact, a Deist. There is possibly no greater a master of stylish and polished ridicule in the literature of any language.

Through the course of his long (by the standards of his day) life Voltaire wrote ninety books and it is perhaps a measure of the man’s talent as a satirist that the best known, Candide or The Optimist is in fact a satire of philosophy, a subject he loved dearly. (Voltaire biography)

The novel tells in desultory fashion the story of Candide and his philosopher friend Dr. Pangloss as they embark on a ridiculously optimistic quest to prove the world is essentially a perfect environment and that everything in it that seems bad, brutal and evil is necessary as a stepping stone to a greater good.

Dr. Pangloss and his philosophy are the principal focus of Voltaire’s satire. Dr. Pangloss, Candide’s tutor and mentor, teaches that “in this best of all possible worlds, everything happens because no other course of events is possible and therefore everything happens for the best.” The philosophy of Pangloss parodies the ideas of Gottfried Leibniz, an Enlightenment era philosopher (the term ‘existentialist had not been coined at that point,) who posited that the world was perfect and its evil were simply a path to achieving “the greatest good of the greatest number.” A philosophy which, it may occur to you, has much in common with Barack Obama’s “hope and change” (all hold hands and sing Kumbiya to create Utopia) campaign of 2008.

Each twist in the plot, each natural disaster, disease, and misfortune that befalls Candide is intended by Voltaire to show the perpetual optimism of Pangloss’s thinking to be utterly absurd and detached from reality. Pangloss’s personal sufferings alone are unusually extreme. In regard to his own misfortune however, Pangloss convinces himself that his suffering is necessary for the greater good. The result is that the philosopher appears lost in his intellectual ramblings and thus utterly blind to his own experiences as well as the horrors endured by his friends.

At one point Pangloss contracts syphilis. Candide suggests they seek a doctor to cure the potentially deadly disease but the sufferer insists on philosophising about it to convince himself his infection is in fact “for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds.
“Oh, Pangloss!” cried Candide, “what a strange genealogy! Is not the Devil the original stock of it?”

“Not at all,” replied this great man, “it was a thing unavoidable, a necessary ingredient in the best of worlds; for if Columbus had not in an island of America caught this disease, which contaminates the source of life, frequently even hinders generation, and which is evidently opposed to the great end of nature, we should have neither chocolate nor cochineal. We are also to observe that upon our continent, this distemper is like religious controversy, confined to a particular spot. The Turks, the Indians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Siamese, the Japanese, know nothing of it; but there is a sufficient reason for believing that they will know it in their turn in a few centuries. In the meantime, it has made marvelous progress among us, especially in those great armies composed of honest hirelings, who decide the destiny of states; for we may safely affirm that when an army of thirty thousand men fights another of an equal number, there are about twenty thousand of them poxed on each side.”

Voltaire also uses Dr. Pangloss as a metaphor for what he considers useless, impractical metaphysical speculations on unknowable topics. Hence the philosopher is described as a tutor of “metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology.” Such scholars, according to Voltaire, waster their lives talking instead of doing (note that “pangloss,” derived from two Greek words, means “all-tongue”). At one point Candide is on the verge of death but rather than get him water which he is asking for, Pangloss carries on talking, analyzing the situation. Or when everyone ought be tending the garden (a metaphor for life), Pangloss instead wants everyone to talk, or rather to listen to him talking. Following the aforementioned earthquake, Pangloss also tries to reassure people by…talking. Pangloss is always so intent on talking about circumstances he is quite unable to heed good advice when it slaps him round the cheeks with a big dead fish.

In addition to his high irritant factor, Pangloss’s way of living is impractical. Completely absorbed in analyzing and theorizing, Pangloss and his student are unable to live their lives. It may have been Voltaire’s intention in ridiculing not only Pangloss’s particular philosophy that all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds and his obsession with philosophy in general to satirize the work of his contemporary Jean – Jaques Rousseau. Much of Rousseau’s work focused strongly on the subjectivity and introspection that has come characterized modern writing.

The Scottish philosopher, David Hume “professed no surprise when he learned that Rousseau’s books had been banned in Geneva and elsewhere” (Wikipedia). Hume wrote of Rousseau, “he has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and, as he scorns to dissemble his contempt for established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him. The liberty of the press is not so secured in any country… as not to render such an open attack on popular prejudice somewhat dangerous.”

Scientific research was fresh and exciting in Voltaire’s lifetime which overlapped with those of Isaac Newton, Joseph Priestly and Robert Boyle acknowledged as the founder of mordern chemistry a colleague of Isaac Newton, Christian Wolff in Germany , who revolutionised the teaching of natural sciences, Edwald von Kleist invented his Leyden (or Leiden) Jar, effectively the first capacitor and Benjamin Franklin proved lightening was electrical. In biology Anton van Leeuwenhoek used a microscope and discovered red blood cells, bacteria, and protozoa and Edward Jenner invented vaccination after discovering the relationship between cowpox and smallpox, just a few of the developments. Religious thinking however was stagnant under the dead hand of clerical bureaucracy that lay on the Catholic faith, the traditionalism of the Orthodox churches and the Bible literalism of Protestants.

Things have turned round now, with scientific triumphs in the practical field becoming harder to achieve and the dead hand of orthodoxy suffocating much original thought and experiment while those engaged in the futile quest for mathematical elegance in nature and the universe stretch their equations and torture their data in futile attempts to prove there is no more to life than mathematical formulae.

It is the scientists now who fill the shoes of Dr. Pangloss, claiming with unjustified enthusiasm that every blip in the electromagnetic radiation coming in from space is some enormously significant breakthrough in the search for alien life or every quirky and unpredicted reaction from an atom bombarded with a beam of sub atomic particles heralds the revelation by scientists of the secrets of the universe. These modern exponents of Panglossism are every bit as foolish as Voltaire’s creation, observe how they avoid addressing the problems of an ageing population, overpopulation, impending food shortages and an ongoing debt crisis while philosophising endlessly about problems that only exist in the virtual world of their mathematical models while reciting statistics to prove that ‘the truth is out there’ or that medical science can find a cure for death.
It is then, is it not, these inexhaustible enthusiasts for the science of speculation who are out of touch with reality, not the people who might believe in God, gods, nature, meditation or metaphysics but who do not let their beliefs get in the way of focusing on what must be done. Dreaming of exploring the galaxies does not grow any grain and the $billions being spent on searching for and trying to contact alien life forms when for all we know these aliens might be total bastards who want to kill us all is sheer folly.

In Voltaire’s novel Candide does eventually seem to renounce philosophy in favor of activity and work and learns the importance of staying in contact with reality, of tending our gardens (does that metaphor come from The Bible I wonder?) He takes Pangloss with him but the philosopher is never completely cured of his addiction. On the final page of the book we read:
Pangloss sometimes said to Candide:

“There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds: for if you had not been kicked out of a magnificent castle for love of Miss Cunégonde: if you had not been put into the Inquisition: if you had not walked over America: if you had not stabbéd the Baron: if you had not lost all your sheep from the fine country of El Dorado: you would not be here eating preserved citrons and pistachio-nuts.”

“All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our garden.”

For references to Voltaire’s text I have used my own dog – eared and heavily annotated copy of Candide, anyone interested in the book can find free e-book versions (Kindle, epub, pdf and raw text formats at Project Gutenberg)

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Leroy Added Apr 15, 2017 – 1:24pm

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Very enjoyable read.  Thank you.  Candide is one of the first books that I read.  I have forgotten so much of it.  I must go back and read it again.

Dino Manalis Added Apr 15, 2017 – 1:43pm

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We must always strive for the best and improve!  All the Best!

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 18, 2017 – 12:35pm

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Leroy,
‘Life changing book’ is an overused phrase but Candide is certainly one of those books that helps many people see the world more clearly.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 18, 2017 – 12:41pm

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Dino, that’s right. But unlike Dr Pangloss we need to take care not to deceive ourselves as those who say their glass is always half full do. Half full is not a bad thing but it is not a reason to rejoice.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 18, 2017 – 12:44pm

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Richard, thanks for the comment, I’ve never been a conformist – the internet received wisdom that short posts get most likes and comments does not interest me, if something is worth writing about, we should do it justice.

Billy Roper Added Apr 18, 2017 – 1:12pm

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Dr. Pangloss’s insistence that we live in the best of all possible worlds reminds me of those who defend the status quo through historical revisionism. Our country is being overrun by the third world? “Oh, they enrich us with their diversity and their cultural vibrance. We’ve always been a nation of immigrants, and America is the melting pot…” same mentality.

Ian Thorpe Added Apr 18, 2017 – 2:45pm

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Billy Roper, Good points. I tend to the Hindu way of thinking by trying to be objective as far as possible when looking at political and cultural matters. One of the Facebook memes that annoys me is “We [the British] are a nation of immigrants. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans and many others migrated to Britiain in the past
We’re not of course, Celts came as settlers and nations did not exist then. Romans, Danes and Normans came as invaders and conquerors. And since then the immigrants who arrived have been an easily absorbed trickle.

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Freedom Of Thought And Information: Quotes.

by Ian Thorpe Apr 7, 2017 – 1:21pm

If the ruling elites want to establish global control they need to be able to control all information the general population have access to. The idea of controlling information in order to limit the ability to think and develop ideas served Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and many other dictators well but was completely exposed by George Orwell in the novel ‘1984’.

In recent decades the technique for controlling thoughts and ideas has been more subtle, but that has not prevented many commentators higlighting what is going on.

“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” — Howard Zinn, historian and author

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“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity” – much less dissent. Gore Vidal

“Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true.” – Teresa Stover

“People in the West need to understand that if the news they receive bears on the interests of the US military/security complex, the news is scripted by the CIA. The CIA serves its interests, not the interests of the American people or the interests of peace.” – Paul Craig Roberts

In the years the USA could claim with some credibility to be the only global superpower, the elites managed to gain control of print and broadcast media throughout the developed world. Unfortunately the technology developed as a tool to to enhance the ability of the elite to control information while maintaining the illusion of freedom, The Internet, backfired on them. The General public forever despised by intellectuals and derided by the elite and the media proved to be a lot more intelligent and adaptable than ‘the controllers’ suspected.

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George N RomeyAdded Apr 7, 2017 – 4:12pm

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There will soon be a backlash against elites, particularly as the global economy implodes.  The smart ones have secured land on distant islands and have made sure they have hard assets. The dumb ones, most of the elite class, continue to live with their paper wealth clueless to the fault line opening beneath them.

I might like many others die in the ultimate economic crash do big and systemic even for Central Banks to print their way out.  But I will die laughing as the stock and bond market are in total freefall, real estate prices are collapsing and the Wal Marts of the world see their business drown.

Utpal PatelAdded Apr 10, 2017 – 4:40pm

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If not corporations, who do you wish control the media/information?  The government?  A wealthy individual who is not beholden to anyone? Or perhaps you think they should all be non-profits, as that would ensure their objectivity (queue sarcasm)?

In light of the power of the internet and our many different choices to receive news and information, no single corporation can control it.  And because corporations are all out to make money, you can be sure there is no conspiracy where they all decide to work together.  So spare me your references to 1984, Hitler and Mao Tse Tung, the media here is the way it should be.

Ian ThorpeAdded Apr 11, 2017 – 9:30am

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Utpal Patel,
you may spare yourself all references I make in future by not reading my articles. Oh and BTW I think you mean ‘cue sarcasm’.
But you really let yourself down with the comment, “In light of the power of the internet and our many different choices to receive news and information, no single corporation can control it. ”
Over the past two or three years independent media has been full of reports on how collaboration between corporate entities and state security agencies can control what information web users see.
How that is done is too complex to explain in a comment thread, to learn more you will have to read my subsequent articles. Oh but then you will be exposed to my references to Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Phillip K Dick, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Eric Cantona, The Frankfurt School, The Marx Brothers and anyone else I choose to mention.

Billy RoperAdded Apr 11, 2017 – 9:46am

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It’s a demonstrable fact that Jews control the news and entertainment media, almost exclusively, and seek to censor the internet, as well, but their inability to do so thus far has led to their continual exposure.

Billy RoperAdded Apr 11, 2017 – 9:47am

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George is correct, balkanization is coming.

Bill KampsAdded Apr 11, 2017 – 10:27am

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The rich will control things one way or another.  It used to be kings, now it is the wealthy and politically connected.  After George’s revolution it will still be the wealthy and well connected, perhaps just a different group.

Micahel DolanAdded Apr 11, 2017 – 11:14am

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The rich control things. The rich-very rich who control our lives everyday are our Politicians. They get a lifetime job-lifetime pension- they immediately ran from Obamacare and staid in their great health-plan. When the elected crook or degenerate gets caught, no problem the problem is ignored.

Dino ManalisAdded Apr 11, 2017 – 2:51pm

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They cannot control our minds individually, because we’re thinkers and we can analyze the news to determine the truth!

Utpal PatelAdded Apr 11, 2017 – 10:44pm

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“Over the past two or three years independent media has been full of reports on how collaboration between corporate entities and state security agencies can control what information web users see.”

Do tell, who is the independent media?  Of course each media outlet controls what information we see, how else would you propose it work?  Should the government control what information we see?  Look, it’s a free country, if you don’t like what the media is showing, turn the fucking channel.  Voila…problem solved.

Ian ThorpeAdded Apr 12, 2017 – 12:49pm

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Utpal Patel
If you are trying to be clever you are not succeeding. Who do you think the independent media are (or do you not bother thinking before hitting they keys?) Do you believe, for example that what is posted on writers beat can evade keyword filters the CIA have requested Google to put in its servers. Try this, search ‘immigrant riots in France’ on google. Now enter the same search terms on duckduckgo and observe the difference in results. Both are supposedly net neutral yet one is known to cooperate with Washington, while the other is Russian owned.
You ask should the government control what we see. How foolish do you have to be to remain unaware that the government do control what we see, in France, Germany, UK, Canada and USA you will encounter censorship of web content, aimed at suppressing criticism of certain government policies. Why do you think that while mainstream media has been screaming about chemical weapons use by Assad in Syria, you have read nothing about the US led coalition’s use in Mosul of thermobaric warheads which use fluorinated aluminium? You can learn how this” target=”_blank”>nasty stuff affects people here
For future reference, if you live in the USA you live in a fascist country controlled by the military / industrial complex, a cartel of defence contractors that through the lobby system influence policy. US President Eisenhower warned against their influence in his 1960 farewell speech (go on, look it up, don’t ask me to spoon feed you, your ignorance is not my responsibility). In 1962 John F Kennedy referred to secret” target=”_blank”>societies within the American government. A few weeks later he was dead. And as all intelligent people are aware because Kennedy was hit by two bullets fired from different directions, it was not the work of a lone shooter.You should practice what you preach, if you don’t like what you see in my threads, and you obviously don’t, do not read them.  Any further contribution from you in comment threads under my posts will be deleted because you are not capable of making an intelligent comment.

Autumn CoteAdded Apr 12, 2017 – 1:27pm

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Please note, the second best way to keep your comment thread active is to offer as many personal responses as possible.  As always, many thanks for your participation with Writer Beat!

Ian ThorpeAdded Apr 12, 2017 – 1:58pm

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Dino Manalis
They can’t control the minds of those who have strong minds. Jesus said there are two kinds of people, sheep and goats and he was for the sheep. Napoleon Bonaparte said there are two kinds of soldiers, sheep and goats, sheep are cannon fodder, goats win wars.
I’m with Bonaparte on that, Jesus can have the sheep, I hope he enjoys his lamb curry.

Thomas NapersAdded Apr 12, 2017 – 3:26pm

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If the ruling elites want to establish global control they need to be able to control all information the general population have access to.

Good point.  Thank goodness the ruling elites can’t control all information, which means the ruling elites don’t have global control. Phew…what a relief.

Speaking of the ruling elites, just who exactly are you pointing fingers at?  The way I see it, the elite members of society don’t exactly see eye to eye on anything.  So even if they wished to establish global control, there is no telling what they would do with that control.  I’m sorry but I’m simply not a conspiracy theorist, thanks for the chuckle.

Ian ThorpeAdded Apr 12, 2017 – 5:22pm

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Thomas Napers
You’re right in saying the ruling elites (ever heard of The Bilderberg Group, The World Economic Forum? Those a just for starters) can’t control all the information …….. unless we let them. Unfortunately people who understand how the internet works know it is now much easier than in the old Soviet Union when people had to resort to Samizdat documents to spread ideas and information. but those Soviet dissidents managed to pass around novels and other banned books sometimes retyped by hand or printed using an office duplicator. Do enough people have that kind of determination now I wonder, or will the majority, like the Dr. Panloss thinkalike higher up the threat (my mentioning George Owell pisses him off so I though I’d throw in a reference to Voltaire, that should drive him crazy) convinve themselves that “All’s for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds.”

Stone-EaterAdded Apr 17, 2017 – 7:51pm

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That’s no news but even without censorship and manipulation people have been so dumbed down by now that they simply wouldn’t understand a simple political discourse even less so when globally oriented.

They watch their stupid TV and read their favorite tabloids online now. That’s the only difference.

Stone-EaterAdded Apr 17, 2017 – 7:56pm

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BTW: The 1% are 1% because 99% are brainwashed sheep. If not they would have taken the street and caused anarchy seeing what the world has turned into.

Vietnam protest generation and todays dumbphone selfienuts are worlds and IQ’s apart.

Jeff MichkaAdded Apr 24, 2017 – 5:38pm

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Utpal PAtel writes: if not corporations, who do you wish control the media/information?  The government?  A wealthy individual who is not beholden to anyone? Or perhaps you think they should all be non-profits, as that would ensure their objectivity (queue sarcasm)?- According to the Telecom Act of 1934, and those variant since, the airwaves belong to the people.  I know, a quaint notion.  The airwaves belong to the providers, eh, Utpal?  When “ownership ratios” were change in the Telcom Act of 96′. basically a single entity could own most of the media outlets in the US.  People applauding the Act of 96 told critic “…who or what wouldn’t want to keep a free press and media?” following as a result there’d be little or no consolidation after passage.  Wrong, and it only took 4 years to find a group that found a free press annoying.  Thnik an article about the FCC is in order since few-nobody here on WB-UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE FCC is or really administers.

Jeff MichkaAdded Apr 24, 2017 – 5:41pm

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Dino writes: They cannot control our minds individually, because we’re thinkers and we can analyze the news to determine the truth!  – How’s that working out for you, Dino?

Ian ThorpeAdded Apr 25, 2017 – 10:06am

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Jeff Michka, those are good comments, thanks. I can’t claim an indepth knowledge of the FCC’s scope and limitation but I’m aware that like Ofcom in the UK they control and regulate domestic and international electronic communications which includes radio and TV, telephones (both landline and cellular?), satellite and cable electronic media. There influence on the flow of information is far greater than most people imagine.
The way the internet (which runs on the TCP/IP protocol, a descendent of the ISO seven layer model) render it simple to suppress information by filtering keywords coupled with the very cosy relationship Google has with the US govenment should give us all cause for concern.

Jeff MichkaAdded Apr 26, 2017 – 6:12pm

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Alphabet hired the individual who got credit for “inventing” “TCP/IP protocol”, Vint Cerf, who has acted as A Googlista “Secretary of State,” over the last several years and has been very actiVe in UK and EU.  Google’ parent co, ALPHABET VIEWS ITSELF AS ITS OWN NATION STATE, beholding to nobody save other tech giants. They see themselves as government.

Ankur MithalAdded May 1, 2017 – 12:00am

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Not sure if we expect our leaders, of all kinds, to act for the good of others. I don’t think humans are wired that way. Politicians don’t spend millions to contest elections to wither away in anonymity and penury. We are all complicit.

Ian ThorpeAdded May 1, 2017 – 3:16pm

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Jeff, I’ve always said Goggle’s full corporate slogan is:
DON’T BE EVIL – THAT’S OUR JOB
I was aware of Google’s attempts to infiltrate government, if fact I reported last year or in 2015 of how Google execs were sitting in on Obama administration security policy meetings. I don’t know if that has continued under Trump.

Ian ThorpeAdded May 1, 2017 – 3:19pm

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Ankur,
Politicians have always been driven by ego, but I think the influence of corporate lobbying and corporate money has now made the corruption so blatant we have no excuse for not acting.

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Sociologists’ Experiment Finds Large Effects From Small News Outlets

Jason Alcorn (@jasonalcorn),  MediaShift .

This article was originally published by MediaShift

Even small publishers have a large effect on the national discourse, according to a new paper published in Science on the effects of news. “Exposure to the news media,” the study states, “causes Americans to take public stands on specific issues, join national policy conversations, and express themselves publicly.”

The research aims to quantify the effect of news media. Put in terms that are increasingly common when talking about journalism: What is the impact of news organizations?

The act of publishing news is influential in still-surprising and robust ways.

The study by Harvard professor Gary King and collaborators found that a few, mostly small news outlets publishing simultaneously in a broad area of public policy concern increased the volume of conversation on social media by 19 percent the day after publication. Over a full week, the volume was increased 63 percent relative to the average day’s volume. The number of unique authors increased as well, and the composition of opinion changed in the direction of the published articles.

News outlets it appears, even in the face of social media algorithms, the echo chambers of political polarization and a barrage of digital information, have a profound and measurable effect on national discourse.

On of the challenges with research on media impact is the lack of control researchers have over the publication of news itself. You can’t exactly randomize the news. The need to maintain editorial independence and the timeliness of reporting means there have been relatively few large-scale, controlled experiments attempting to experimentally measure the effect of news media.

The research team found a way around this by actually collaborating with news outlets, using the first three years of the five-year study to build trust. “Frankly, when we began talks with the researchers in 2012, what they required seemed impossible,” Media Consortium executive director Jo Ellen Green Kaiser wrote on MetricShift in 2016. However, the researchers began attending industry conferences and worked with the Media Consortium to test the experiment with a small group of participants.

In the end, the study recruited 48 news outlets who agreed, in small groups, to publish at the same time on a broad policy area agreed-to beforehand and typical of the the outlets regular coverage. The 11 policy areas were race, immigration, jobs, abortion, climate, food policy, water, education policy, refugees, domestic energy production and reproductive rights. The media outlets retained full control over what was published, as well as the option to opt-out at any time. (A list of outlets that participated fully in the experiment is available in an appendix to the report.)

For their part, the researchers picked a two-week publication window when they expected a slow news cycle and randomized the publication date to either the first week or the second week. They then were able to measure and compare changes in the volume and composition of conversation on Twitter between the publication week and the control week.

Jason Alcorn (@jasonalcorn) is the Metrics Editor for MediaShift and an independent consultant working with non-profits, newsrooms and philanthropy.

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Catalans Protest Against Madrid Government’s Authoritarianism

Around three-quarters of a million Catalans have marched to demand the release of local politicians arrested for their role in the drive for independence.

Spain’s central government has dissolved the Catalan parliament, dismissed the Catalan government, and imposed direct rule following the region’s unilateral declaration of independence on October 27th.

This followed a self-determination referendum which the Spanish authorities deemed illegal and attempted to shut down violently, with the blessing of the European Union’s ruling bodies.

Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s ex-president — or president-in-exile, depending on your point of view — had given some indication that he would ignore Madrid’s attempts to terminate his administration and remain in post, but fled to Brussels, Belgium when the authorities closed in.

Several of those who remained behind have been arrested to face charges of rebellion and sedition, with eight former Catalan government ministers and the leaders of the Catalan National Assembly and Omnium Cultural jailed while investigations continue.

Protestors say the detainees are “political prisoners”, and flooded the Avenue Marina to hear speeches from their family members and demand their release.

This Video Proves The World Has Gone Insane

Little Nicky has been on a sabbatical since the old blog.co.uk site closed down, this was partly due to disillusionment with the web on finding something that contributors to this and our sibling Boggart Blog could just be snatched from us, and partly due to our efforts top rebuild elsewhere.

New posts may continue to be sporadic for a while but we are getting back in the groove, don’t dump us off your favourites list just yet.

One of the reasons this blog launched was for the purpose of chronicling the descent of western civilisation into collective insanity. The embedded video gives some examples of the craziness we are told, dishonestly, is diversity.

Story source: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed;ts=1499710538301

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Obama Setting Up A Shadow Government, Will Start Civil War To Discredit Trump

Former US President, Community Organiser and professional cocksucker Barack Hussein Obama has signaled his iintention to set up what amounts to a shadow government dedicated to bringing down the administration of Danald Trump. He also said said he is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in (ethnic minority) communities around the country against Trump.

This all points towards the conclusion that Obama is still throwing the mother of all hissy fits because his anointed successor, war loving Hillary Clinton was beaten in the election, and that the former president will now try to cause social chaos, iner – racial conflict and civil unrest in order to save his Muslim terrorist supporting, gay, lesbian and transgender friendly agenda. In his delusional mind he always had the full support of more than 100% of Americans and he believes they will rise up against democracy in the United States and trigger a civil war. Here is a map of the United States that is circulating after California submitted a petition to secede from the United States.

There is undoubtedly a planned coup forming among the loonier cohorts of the Democratic Party and liberal media, seeing their direct sales and advertising revenue evaporate, are fully behind it. Neither mainstream media nor the establishment will accept Trump and many people are determined to destroy the government as we have known it. Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates obviously pulled a political move by declaring that she would not execute Trump’s ban on people from the selected countries entering the USA. She has no problem arresting aliens and deporting them under Clinton era laws.

Trump’s executive order would only mean deporting someone on the next plane that tried to come in to the USA who was not a legal resident. They would not be arrested or put in prison as Clinton’s laws mandate. And the order was only for 90 days, to allow proper border controls to be restored, after Obama ordered that all people from terrorist states should be ‘waved through’. What was Yates up to? Obviously her move was a political and for that Trump rightly her. She is a disgrace to her profession.

The Trump ban is temporary, except on Syria, ranging from 90 to 120 days giving time to make sure the criteria is valid. Try going to India from Thailand. They will not let you in. You have to go back to your home country to apply for a visa. Try going from the UK to Nigeria withour proper travel documents. There are no open borders where you just go without agreements between countries. Americans could not go to Cuba for decades. Why is this temporary ban being misrepresented by liberal media to discredit Trump? It is noticeable Obama only opened US borders to people from nations where a gangster culture prevails, organised crime is rife and Islamic extremism makes a mockery of civilised western values.

The liberals and progressives could care less about the issue of aliens. They even try to call this a “Muslim” ban which it is not. What Obama, other Democrat politicians and mainstream media are trying to do is really more about creating political unrest designed to overthrow the Trump government.

European Union member states, bullied by Germany, opened their borders to the Middle East ONLY because Merkel’s polls were negative because of her harsh treatment of Greece. It was her personal decision for her own career that created the immigrant crisis in Europe and all the new terrorist attacks, rapes, and decline in security. Obama jumped in and said the USA would also accept these migrants claiming to be refugees when it was the USA bombing that turned them into refugees in the first place.

For the past 100 years every outgoing US president has packed his bags gone home and not passed comment om his successor. This is not what the Obamas are planning to do. They rented an eight-bedroom mansion in an upmarket suburb of Washington, close to other senior figures in the Democrats. Bizarrely Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s chief of staff and most favoured adviser moved in along and Michelle and the kids (and presumably Reggie Love, allegedly Obama’s gay lover).

The Obamas claim they are staying in Washington because the children want to stay in D.C..

According to insiders who are not fans of Obama and not in the pay of The Clinton Crime Syndicate that’s not the real reason they are staying there. Despite what the president said in his press conference, he’s in a sense of outrage over this incoming Trump Administration, which he thinks is going to wipe out his gay / trans friendly, terrorist supporting legacy. So he’s setting up this shadow government, picking people in foreign affairs, labor, abortion, union matters and setting them up to start appearing on television, making speeches and doing op-ed pieces for next four years, you’re going to see not only a Trump Administration but you’re going to see a shadow government opposing the Trump…

The attempted coup by the left started on Inauguration Day with the mass demonstrations organized by fat slob Michael Moore. Then classless, lowlife and allegedly chck-with-a-dick Michelle Obama whined on Oprah that Americans have lost hope.

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More Health Lies

by Mohan Gopal

Fluorine is used for etching glass, used in glass art work, and is well known – if tooth-paste used flourine what does it do to teeth enamel ? – absurd foolishness !
It was found a tiny part of African population had very good teeth, it was found the native water has fluorine, so conclusion ‘Fluorine is good for teeth’ – utmost stupidity of modern ‘egoistic’ science ! What about other 1000s of chemicals those Africans were ingesting ?
This is only one single ‘stupidity’ of ‘modern science’ !
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Working Class Wise Up To Labour Elitists

reblogged from Raedwald

Working class are now wise to Labour’s exploitation

Throughout the 20th century, British history has been one long chronicle of Labour’s exploitation of the working class to win political power for its internationalist and privileged leaders. The leitmotif of this campaign has been to disempower this traditionally independent and bloody-minded cohort of our people by creating total dependence on an overweening central State. From the very first 1911 National Insurance Act, which destroyed the mutuals, co-operatives, friendlies and self-insurance creations of mutually-dependent working class communities, the century was one lengthy litany of entrapment, enslavement and disempowerment. The nadir was Gordon Brown drowning the nation in a tsunami of borrowed cash, for which our grandchildren will still be paying, in an all-out effort to create total State dependency. He failed.

The loathsome Emily Thornbury’s sneering at ordinary people during the last election campaign was just a peek behind the curtain that usually hides both Labour’s hatred of the British working class and its fear of their realising their own capacity for independence. June 23rd was rightly a day on which this brave cohort of our people growled and set the establishment trembling. It was the day on which the working class showed they were wise to Labour’s exploitation.

And it really won’t help the readers of the Guardian if that rag continues to term anything that empowers the working class as ‘populist’, any more than it helps to label them ‘vulgar’ or sneer at their homes.

The establishment needs to understand that democracy means that our people are truly free – for the first time in a century free from Labour’s enervating talons piercing their flesh – to use universal suffrage and the secret ballot for their own interests.

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