RSSGermany lost the war on Sept 3 1939. Everything after that was a dead man walking. That was the day the British converted Germany from a world power to a landlocked European power. That is: a regional power. From this point onwards, without the Japanese it would never have been a world war.
Less than a year later in June/July 1940 Germans were stopped dead in the west with the battle of Britain. Any offensive in the west was now impossible for the Germans. British production of aircraft, ships and other critical technology outpaced the Germans throughout the war.
Germans next tried going South and were stopped dead in North Africa and the Middle East. They were in a trap. East was all that was left, so they were desperate enough attack their ally Stalin. That is what Stalin was up to this point.. Germany’s ally. He supplied the German war machine against the British. From 1939 to 1941 Stalin and Russia were Hitlers bestus buddies. Never forget this all you Russia lovers!
That the Russian managed to hold the Germans in the east was only possible due to the massive infusion of material from Britain and the United States. That the Germans were short of fuel always was down to the British and Americans. That the Russians lost 20 million was mostly down to absolute incompetence of their system and the fact that their leadership put no value on Russian lives. I mean Stalin murdered more Soviet citizens than this by some margin.
In the end the British/American way of war in 1944/5, namely freezing German armies in place and then destroying them would have prevailed no matter the quantity of wermacht.
Many people say the big mistake was stopping at the Elbe. British/American power was such that Vladivostok was a very doable objective and we would all be better off today had that been the case, even the Russians
The main reason the Germans went South was because the Italians were useless as allies and kept stepping on their own "privates" in both North Africa and Greece.
Germans next tried going South
Good essay. Couldn’t agree less though on some of the stuff.
For all their arrogance East Asians still have not learned basic things. Their societies have only prospered to the degree they have aped the west. There is nothing new coming out of there. Japan has still not digested their 90’s bubble nearly 30 years on. China is on a speedy vector to the same place.
Over the last 800 years it is only the West that has been able to continually renew itself from its own internal creativity. The sense of chaos which now abounds arises from the current round of renewal. The marxist disease of the last 100 years is at last being fully and permanently rejected by the host.
Likely this will be another Anglo Saxon century. You know, like the five preceding ones.
I can understand your enthusiasm to perpetuate this pax Brittanica/murikka franchise, its fun to be the ones dissing it out.
Likely this will be another Anglo Saxon century. You know, like the five preceding ones.
Paul Krugman is a man who would expect one and all to bend over and spread their cheeks ready to receive whatever it is that he is pushing at any particular time and if any are unwilling he is happy to question those persons right to speak at all. He is a truly loathsome specimen.
@ Nick Diaz
By 1943 the U boat threat was over – utterly defeated, beyond hope, finished, done, busted, kaput.
I can understand your enthusiasm to perpetuate this pax Brittanica/murikka franchise, its fun to be the ones dissing it out.
Likely this will be another Anglo Saxon century. You know, like the five preceding ones.
Oh dear. I quite understand your frustration. So sorry
No amount of raging on your part will change anything.
Dont you worry ,
If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts."
Equating British, American and French soldiers as equals is a bit rich. If you want to know how it was with the Americans read “Catch 22”, “The Naked and the Dead” or any number of others. An utter disgrace. Truman dropped the bomb because he did not trust his army to fight in the field.
The French, well I can politely say that they have not been able to defend the independence their country at any time since their revolution.
The British on the other hand have a very long track record of tenacity even in the most hopeless situations which usually happen because their leadership is low IQ. The bright and innovative are considered subversive in the British army. Ordinary British soldiers have have been the match of any, that includes the Germans.
Equipment that was better than the Germans: Submarines, air craft carriers, P51, Heavy bombers, , bren gun, jeep, 12.5mm machine gun, asdic/sonar, radar, artillery to name a few. Obviously some of the German equipment was the best, but this was not across the board.
The big German weakness was sequential strategic and tactical miscalculation to the point where no recovery was possible. Think Stalingrad, Russia summer campaign 1942, Tunisia, the Final Solution, Battle of Kirsk, the alienation of the populations of Ukraine and others to name a few. All massive miscalculations. Errors were not only the NAZI’s, but the General Staff too.
The Germans lost because Hitler always wanted it that way and he did everything he could to make it happen. He set the whole world against little old Germany and it was destroyed. The Germany of history is gone and in its place we have the Angela Republic
Very good first paragraph
If you want to see how a war against Russia would go look at what happened to Sadam’s 5000 tanks. The Russian have 20 000. The video game would be even more fun
Russian equipment has been good enough for conflict against the likes of Georgia and Ukraine. Not so much anywhere else.
The Germans were convinced all the way to the end of WWII that they would come with “super weapons” to save the day. It never happened. Russian vapourware is in this category which is a shame because sooner or later they will feel real pressure from the Chinese.
Siberia is a vast empty treasure trove right next to the most populated nation on earth and the Chinese are arming themselves fast. Russia will never be able to keep up. I do not see much discussion about the multiple between Chinese and Russian military expenditure
Let us not forget Russia/USSR and China have already fought serious battles in this area in the not so distant past.
USA is starting a “Space Command”. For how long after that will ICBM’s be relevant?
They might remain relevant long after that. It's simply not easy to catch such a fast object. And the Russians seem to be moving away from that anyway.
USA is starting a “Space Command”. For how long after that will ICBM’s be relevant?
Were they? I think the Ministry of Propaganda and Goebbels spread these rumors, but they were known to be false by the people spreading the rumors, and the only people believing it were the ones who truly wanted to believe it. So, only committed Nazis.
The Germans were convinced all the way to the end of WWII that they would come with “super weapons” to save the day.
I read this as a satire. If it is not then?
An excellent article. I would like to see the author revisit this theme in a year or two when he is more used to his village.
This article so wrong in so many ways and I am far too lazy to detail it all. I’ll limit myself to:
CO2 is good. Maxi net benefit all over, especially more food.
Global warming is good, if indeed it is actually happening. Maxi net benefit all over, especially more food.
Dangers of a nuclear war between the Paks and the Indians massively exaggerated for all except the Paks and Indians themselves. Much of this nuclear winter stuff has been debunked. These two only have a few hundred smallish nukes between them anyway. Barely enough to spare a few for the Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis and Chinese. See nothing to worry about at all!
I did cast my eye over this article a second time to make sure it was not an April fools piece, but alas it seems the author is being serious. Perhaps this is an artifact in support of the Dunning Kruger Theory
“second time” – brush up on your reading skills
I don't get it, which line is the punchline?Replies: @Pheasant, @Biff, @R2b, @Montefrío, @Leander Starr, @Alternate History
Walking into a bar, a guy shouts, “Women are all bitches, I tell you.”
Bartender, “Why, what happened?”
“I’ve just got a divorce.”
“That’s not unusual.”
“You don’t understand. This is, like, my 100th divorce. I’ve lost count.”
“You must be the world’s greatest asshole.” The bartender shakes his head.
“Fuck you, man, and fuck every woman! I’m the greatest guy ever.”
Look at the headline again. Then read the joke again. They are talking about the same thing. It is very funny. One of the best jokes I have read this year.
Comparing Germans to persons from the sub continent raises issues that have nothing to do with economics
In the 30’s South Africa let in a lot of persons who were escaping the NAZI’s. Persons who were not being accepted anywhere else. The children of these NAZI escapers all ended up supporting the ANC.
On a similar note one can view the events of 33-45 in Europe as a darwinian filter. The smart persons all got out. Only the slow and the weak got caught. Those who could not help themselves, that is. This might explain a lot
The United States in falling apart It’s “in a worse state than Russia”
The Krug woman certainly looks like the owner of a freshly punched nose. May this one day turn out to be more than an appearance.
Still talking about John McCain! That dude is gone. He soon enough won’t be visible even with a magnifying glass which is sad because he is such an excellent example of a real life cuckold. I think Trump had his number from the beginning.
For the rest, worry not. Trump will win and life will go on
Truly, you cannot keep a good man down. If this lot destroys us we deserve it for being too weak, too polite and too stupid.
These intersectionalists are not brain surgeons. There are no heroes among them. Their ideology is not consistent. They have no nirvana they are aiming for. Best case for them is like the slaves winning the Haitian wars. Hell on earth for the victors and death for everybody else who did not manage to escape.
The attitude of this author is so tacky, so yesterday, so inauthentic. He should remember that the US lost in Viet Nam for good reasons. It is a time tested rule of life that you should, at all costs, avoid military service, unless you intend becoming a professional soldier. Conscripts exist to be cannon fodder. If you ever get to heaven, ask around.
As I have commented previously, Margolis and others who constantly equate Trump deferrals to draft dodging, are claiming that a physician(s) has committed fraud in a medical report. At the time, the only way to identify a bone spur was by X-Ray, which would have been read by a physician specializing in Radiology issuing a written report, with a copy sent to the referring physician. The referring physician would be required to provide a report describing why the bone spur prevented Trump from meeting the military criteria for medical fitness. At any time, the military could have requested a copy of the X-Ray, and required Trump to submit to their medical examination. If Margolis and others have proof of fraud, then submit it, otherwise STF up.
Well your evil orange messiah doesn't need any "proof" when he accuses someone of something, so why does anyone else need "proof" when they accuse him of something? For example, where is the "proof" that Assad "gassed his own people"? Apparently there never was any such "proof" yet that didn't stop your evil orange messiah from mass-murdering 14 or 15 Syrians and risking WW3 when he attacked the Shayrat airbase with cruise missiles.https://www.newsweek.com/now-mattis-admits-there-was-no-evidence-assad-using-poison-gas-his-people-801542
"If Margolis and others have proof of fraud, then submit it, otherwise STF up."
A leader merely articulates a view that people had already more or less arrived at. Sometimes the people are wrong, but they live in the country and their collective assessment of how immigration and the EU affect them is the ultimate reality check.
From Wikipedia
“Patrick Oliver Cockburn (/ˈkoʊbɜːrn/ KOH-burn; born 5 March 1950) is a journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times since 1979 and, from 1990, The Independent.[1] He has also worked as a correspondent in Moscow and Washington and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books.
He has written three books on Iraq’s recent history. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009,[2] Foreign Commentator of the Year (Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2013), Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year (British Journalism Awards 2014), Foreign Reporter of the Year (The Press Awards For 2014).”
He must be talking about himself. His skill seems to be on all sides of every issue
I couldn’t finish this article after reading this garbage:
“Floyd was a violent felon who died with traces of fentanyl and cocaine in his system”
It was announced two weeks ago that he had a lethal dose. His toxicology report was finally made public and shows that he had a lethal dose of the dangerous pain killer fentanyl in his system. This caused his lungs to fill with fluid, which explains why he told arriving cops “I Can’t Breath” and did not cooperate as he was delusional and dying. The cops wrestled him to the ground and cuffed him as he died from a fentanyl overdose. Floyd would have died right there even if the cops had not shown up.
This is why coroners wait for toxicology results before declaring the cause of death, but in this case he bowed to political pressure and announced his death was caused by the knee to the neck. This news is so big that our corporate media, which has promoted the riots, refuses to air the truth. Details can be read here. https://spectator.org/minnesota-v-derek-chauvin-et-al-the-prosecutions-dirty-little-secret/
In fair and normal world, the accused cops would be immediately freed and rehired with a bad mark for Chauvin using an improper neck hold. Let’s see what happens, but I don’t expect justice.
Read the rest of the article, it's a great article. And, a 'lethal dose' of fentanyl is meaningless for a habitual user ... "Regular heroin users who have a tolerance to opioids can take more fentanyl, possibly two or three times more, without suffering an overdose."
I couldn’t finish this article after reading this garbage:
“The trouble with this whole discourse is that it denies a priori any significant biological differences between men and women. ”
Do we know for sure that Lagarde is a woman? Frequently those who make the most noise have the most to hide
I offer condolences’s on RBG’s passing.
Anyone, on any side, celebrating her death is at best unseemly and at worst immoral.
Nobody needs your idiotic, moralizing prescriptions on what’s good and what’s not. Ginsburg was the typical ashkenazi woman who thought she knew better than everyone else for what was good in society. Ginsburg was a villain within the traditional definition of the word. Even if it was just her abortion advocacy, the paradoxical empowerment of women at the cost of killing little girls, she is evil and the first thing I said when I saw the news was, “burn, bitch!”
If people don’t have contempt and hatred for that which is evil, that evil will propagate like the cancer that it is. That’s why we have AIPAC and endless wars for Israel.
Ok I will go first. The author is a cretin or perhaps on some bad Acid.
Puts the renaissance in a different light. There is so much new historical information coming out now, possible only because of new channels of communication.
This author convincingly truncates the dark ages. Others seem to be finding out that civilisation is far older than heretofore thought.
I feel privileged to read pieces like this one.
She seems to have chosen an excellent moment to pass away. Can’t wait to see how this develops. All kinds of unpredictable possibilities. Hope the Republicans can keep their sphincters tight (something they are not apt to do). The Catholic baby machine being proposed by some is a very suitable riposte.
This article reads like a report from the likes of BBC, Guardian and so on. Didn’t expect to see such here. This whole Middle East thing is dwindling mainly due to lack of interest. Israel and it’s peace partners are tiny little pimples in the greater scheme of things. Nearly everybody has better stuff to do. Even the Americans and the Russians are only pretending. Doing the bare minimum. The world is not going to explode over this. Beirut is about the biggest bang we will see from there any time soon
I just meant to defend the art of caricature which seems to be under attack by the PC culture. I wasn't thinking whether it is out of place on the cover of a book such as this. Serious publications often use caricatures to parody and satirise their intended targets, including the New York Times which published this cartoon:
Do you seriously not grasp this?
At least we can see who the dog is
It was no sacrifice at all to not watch this Netflix offering. I managed to not watch quite a few times and anticipate there will be quite a few times more. And after that it will be gone. Forgotten by all.
Literary Awards? Are/were they ever credible? Think of them as a fashion statement with all the enduring value of the latest fashion.
Limit copyright to seven years and patient to five. Things would broaden out quite quickly.
There are some easily recognisable British character types (and I would include the Irish in this). Of interest here is the one who seems to celebrate every possible negative outcome for Britain, for England, for Englishness. This combined with a smart mouth and an unearned stature from which to condescend make a fairly unattractive package.
For a tiny nation the UK, England do well and have much to be proud of. Brexit is a triumph for ordinary people who are not on board with the global program. Belittle it as you like, predict whatever disaster you want. Nothing changes.
Were one to draw a map of the world showing countries sizes as equivalent to their soft power England is about the size of the entire EU and this is unlikely to change any time soon.
Still, if writing this has made you feel better Mr Cockburn, bully for you.
Who knows where the Chinese are going? It is worth remembering how formidable the USSR looked in 1980
Biden is right that America has this partly because of its culture and immigration. But it also is dependant on DNA of the traditional ethnic majority of the US. While high, Chinese intelligence was selected for through the Imperial examination system, which rewarded Eight-legged essay type thinking. But China can get access to the fruits of such a society without the political inconvenience of allowing those un-Confucian freedoms.China is going to offshore its R&D to America and just shake down US corporations who want in on the burgeoning home market of China. he domination of Wall Street finance will go the way of Britain’s supremacy. China is going to be the centre of the world economy and the idea that Wall Street will retain its status as wealth allocation and asset pricing hub after that happens is dubious. New York will be like the City of London is now: home to ‘family office’ wealth management for billionaires’ private fortunes. Shanghai and Shenzhen will be where the action will be.Replies: @Audacious Epigone
Having covered adaptive landscapes in biology, he asks if this metaphor can have wider use. It can in chemistry, where there are many possible solutions to the problem of arranging atoms or molecules into larger structures. And in computing, such as delivery companies finding the optimal route for their fleet of vehicles. But Wagner even sees parallels in how artists, writers, or composers work, comparing what they do to a form of creative problem-solving in a mental landscape. Here too, finding better solutions sometimes requires big leaps, which can be brought about by play, daydreaming, or other means.
To be fair she is married to a drooling guy who will soon have his arm tied to his wheelchair to restrain his jacking off so why not cut her a little slack.
Erdogan sequentially overplays his hand. Libya, Syria, Cypress, Greece, S400 and so on. Each time the afterburn is worse than whatever gains.
There is no “great game”. For there to be a great game would require great players. So far no evidence of any.
The Iranians seem to enjoy pain as they go to great lengths to seek it out. Perhaps it would be better for them to cut out all the middlemen and pay the Americans directly to punish them. A real win win.
Good talking past the sale here. Vaccines for these flu like illnesses are notoriously unreliable and that is not even to talk about the experimental nature of the latest batch. Vaccines are not likely to have much more than a placebo effect on covid 19.
A strong immune system is one that is exercised often. You cannot get this isolating and wearing a mask.
You might catch a long term disability though from using an experimental vaccine. Seems some people keel over almost immediately. Never mind, at least you will be helping one or other of your fellow humans by increasing their bottom line.
Citation Needed beyond the flu. Which is a special case for pathogens we try to inoculate people for, our bodies don't latch onto "conserved" parts of the virus from either a natural infection, live virus vaccine, or the most common protein plus adjuvant vaccines. So those vaccines are not "eternal" like we have for so many other viruses that mutate at much higher raters than coronaviruses, which have a unique among RNA viruses proofreading mechanism.
Good talking past the sale here. Vaccines for these flu like illnesses are notoriously unreliable....
I expect most of India to hit current East Asian (Taiwan/S. Korea/etc) “lowest low” fertility by the 2030s.
That’s good news, isn’t it? Especially if it’s true.
Cortes was greedy and self-aggrandizing. He was constantly screwing his men over. He promised a lot but delivered little, and despite all the conquered Aztec gold the costs of the war left his men in debt. Despite that, he was extremely popular.The Trump of his day. He even had his never-Cortesers and deep-stater Velazquez tried to arrest him.Replies: @SaneClownPosse, @Wency, @nebulafox
IMO, Cortes was an inveterate liar and something of a hypocritical, preening prick even on imperialist standards, so I’m not doing to defend him.
“despite all the conquered Aztec gold the costs of the war left his [Cortez] men in debt”
If I did not already think that Cortez was Jewish, having his soldiers loan him the funds for the conquest, seals such a deal, and of course not paying them back is lox on the bagel.
Ah, maybe the soldiers had to buy shares in a profit seeking venture chartered in Spain’s version of City of London. The venture had to raise funds to buy/lease the ships, procure provisions for the voyage, etc. Cortez was just reinvesting profits instead of paying dividends.
Writers for Amren (such as Paul Kersey) routinely demonstrate essences of fealty and allegiance to cops through their articles, cops that they don’t know nor have ever met, much like a devout catholic exhibiting reverence to a priest. This is a criticalmistake conservatives make; belief that the sacred and sanctified cop is a friend to the Everyman. Another continually fatal mistake is the blind eye conservatives turn to the enormous damage cops cause all communities in varying degrees through corruption, cronyism and abuse of power. A first great start to rectifying the problem; All cop unions should be obliterated, countrywide. All prior soldiers would be dis-allowed from carrying a badge. All cops who have taken Israeli repression training would be let go.
The persons seeking the law enforcement (emphasis; force) life choose their line of work for a reason. Don’t confuse law with morals or ethics. There are over 2 million laws on the books in the USA, ever growing. A cop will follow and enforce every single one of them if it means he feeds his family and yours must go hungry, no matter how un-imaginable the law. A cop is an officer of the court, sworn to uphold the publics’interest, not yours. During arrest, anything you say or do can and will be used against you, not to help you. Sound friendly? The average american is guilty, unknowingly, of 3 felonies a day thanks to these heavily proliferated laws on the books. That cop doesn’t care if you are a nice guy or if you hadn’t known you were breaking anything at all. He has a salary, pension and a performance review to tend to. That takes precedent. You go to jail, or are charged. He’ll drag you into the psychopathic legal system whose objective is to find you guilty no matter if innocent. No skin off his nose. His union will make sure of that.
Anti-fa is filth, as are their BLM cohorts. Marxism has no place existing anywhere. Ever wonder what life would be like now if someone could have traveled back in time to the origins of the “Institut für Sozialforschung” and nipped matters in the bud. Nevertheless, Americans everywhere should make all efforts to completely wipe all forms of active communism in their land, without conscience. But Anti-fa does have a considerable point, even if contrived or misplaced; their beef with cops. The way cops are currently allowed to freely operate (and I say “operate” as they do with impunity in the coercive and reckless sense) in society must change.
If you identify as ‘White’, you are not awake.
Its not an identity.
Americans have an endemic historical relationship with Amerindians and blacks. The first were here when the white settlers arrived, and the second were brought over in chains.
If you identify as ‘White’, you are not awake.
Its not an identity.
Mixing up Covid 19 with the terrible nature of North American police is unfortunate.
I live in an undemocratic third world country. Here the police do not carry guns. If I am addresses by a policeman he/she will call me sir or Mr. There is no barking of orders or unprovoked physical assaults. There is no slapping on of handcuffs at the least excuse. Police will usually try and solve problems between parties without resort to the court system. All of this from a police force that has had a para-military structure since its inception 130 years ago.
Covid measures here are more or less by agreement. If you go into a shop or business they will squirt some germicidal sh1t onto your hands and make sure you are wearing a mask. If you wipe the stuff straight off onto you trousers in front them nothing will be said. If your nose is sticking out from your mask nobody will interfere with you.
The idea that the police would turn up at a small sports event and start manhandling the players is unimaginable.
This is all pretty mild stuff. Useful to see that Washington is not so different to Kiev.
With the Biden presidency you can certainly add the USA to the list of countries ruled by governments put in place by colour revolutions
The best way for Trumps place in history to be magnified and consolidated would be for them to imprison him and take away all of his assets (he’d become like a mini Jesus), though I am guessing this is the only reason he has not been assassinated, yet.
hip, hip, hooray (x3) for the alleged rioters
Gilad I am happy for you too. Though reading your article I did not find any happiness there. Maybe you are not really happy?
So those who disagree are mad then? From where I am standing compared to where this author stands I would have to agree, but not in the way he thinks.
Thoroughly enjoyable article, thank you.
The headline had me envisioning something like Custer’s last stand. You know, a hardon with an arrow through it. This time it might have Nancy’s false teeth embedded.
My wife had SARS 10 or more years back. She felt she had picked it up from one of her students who was recently back from school holidays in Iran. She was really sick. I slept in the same bed with her throughout, didn’t get sick at all, neither did our children. Only found out it was SARS when she had been sick for more than 3 weeks and the doctor did a test. By the time we had the results she was on the mend.
What’s the relevance of this? I think that there are a limited number of people who are susceptible to these infections which is why humans were not much prone to covid style virus pandemics until scientists started playing with gene editing techniques more recently. The mechanisms of these new vaccines are far from certain and may have very unanticipated outcomes, as indicated above.
If we look at the caliber of persons promoting this panic we should have good enough reason to pause. Every snake oil salesman, panhandler, seeker after unearned rents and general all round con artist on the planet has jumped into this feet first. So much so that we have even had a bit of a break on the climate alarmism front.
If Mr Cockburn says Scottish independence is on the cards it might be safe to bet the other way. The SNP is only at the beginning of coming unwrapped. Mrs Sturgeon will be slow grilled and it will be a joy.
People certainly seem excited. My advice. Do not let yourself be vaccinated. You will be sorry if you do
At what point will being de-platformed become a badge of honour? You know like veterans from some war. Already in some quarters the de-platformed voice is the strongest one.
Amongst people who think for themselves de-platforming is nothing. It does not exist.
If your biggest problem is that you cannot get heard by the app using cell phone crowd you are pretty useless anyway and I for one am happy not to hear your voice.
There are thousands of places where you can hear free speech. Just do not use platforms that de-platform people like you. They are horrible anyway.
Suicide is a personal matter. Why would this be an issue for public opinion? If somebody wants to kill him/her/itself, well, the less said the better, just try not to make a mess. The state and lawmakers have no place in this. Little busy bodies living vicariously at the expense of others even less.
Poor Patrick. Always barking up some fu3ked tree. I have to wonder where all the desperate hate comes from. In his world the British always have to fail. He should be writing for The Guardian (Or does he already? I never read the thing).
That frog gave me headache.
The thing you should look out for: A story denying something that was never reported in the first place. If you have an eye for this it happens a lot more than you think.
Waters should receive more exposure. The more people hear of her the more anything she stands for is discredited. Pictures too. She looks like something that would make you vomit if you saw it over the breakfast table.
The biggest CO2 producers are mostly European countries and the USA, Canada, Australia, etc. These countries are not industrial at all, they’re mostly service economies. Asia is where the industry is at.
White countries produce more CO2 emissions because they are lazy, selfish motherfuckers who use too much air consitioning, indoor lighting, plane rides and automobiles. They didin’t actually produce anything despite all the CO2 production, unless you count internet commentary as a production.
For the record CO2 is plant food. The pollutants are what come with the CO2 when it is produced.
The third world produces far more pollution than the western countries. This is true in every category. Air, water, noise, heavy metals, electro magnetic, food and more.
Anybody who would claim otherwise has likely never been anywhere. Sewerage in the streets, unpotable water in the taps (if there is any), dirty un-maintained factories and power plants, old clunkers in the streets spewing smoke all over the place, unmitigated spills of all kinds. Yet this is where the birth rates are highest.
A good correlation would be between poverty and fertility and that is actually well established
Good people tend to come from good families, not rich families or handsome families, but good ones. All this babble seems to me an attempt to not acknowledge this. For if this is true we should spaying and castrating with some gusto.
There must be a shortage of things to worry about. This is a matter of so little consequence that I am left scratching my head. Let the Afghanis molest themselves and their neighbours in peace.
How was getting Trump out of office useful? In what way are you better off now?
I read “Blood Meridian” the other day. Published back in the 80’s and still fresh (it seems to me). So insightful on these and many other topics.
The world is not a kind place and who knows if it may be you or me next in the cannibal’s pot waiting for the water to boil. Keeping your numbers and alphabet in good order would be increasingly difficult.
It is not so many years since long pork was regularly on the menu on the island of Hispaniola. Coming to academies on the mainland soon. What better way for the enlightened ones to show their true victory than by feasting on the vanquished. Each institution has large buildings suitable for use as banqueting halls. A roaring fire with an innocent victim screaming on the spit would be more entertaining than a BLM riot. Spiritual bankruptcy would be complete high IQ or no IQ.
The entertainment factor is now that the Dems have run out of kitchen sinks to throw at Trump, they’re actually going to have to look like they’re capable of running the country that they have so skillfully smashed politically, economically, spiritually, morally, and ethically. As the full horror becomes more clear in the coming months, Dems will completely own the disaster.
Jews are an Arab tribe
Both rotten and tainted fish ought in all decency to withdraw permanently from public life and make way for untainted successors.
Sturgeon is horrid. Any discredit that comes her way is well earned. Cockburn, reliable as always, has the wrong end of the stick.
It is misleading to concentrate on Israel, Jews and Zionism when thinking of this Covid-19 thing. Better to think of the “Cargo Cult” of the Pacific natives or the “Cattle Killing Movement” of the Xhosa in the 1850’s. Maybe even the Jonestown massacre.
Human Beings are prone to these millenarian bouts of madness and will believe the oddest things without reference to reason. Intelligence is no obstacle.
Stick to the evidence of your own mind and senses and you cannot go far wrong.
If you have to be vaccinated take a squash ball with you. The doctor can inject that (if he is a decent sort) and give you the certificate anyway.
Oh and if your doctor is not a decent sort find another, or if you rely on a government doctor, well you sold yourself a long time ago and you might just have to pay the piper
In the same way you never, ever see any documentaries about the HOLOMODOR. An event that was so catastrophic to Christians. Most people I have spoken to have never even heard of it- especially young adults. However, they can tell you detailed stories about the Holocaust:
QUOTE: SOLZHENITSYN: 66 Million Murdered By Jewish Bolsheviks…Solzhenitsyn asserts that since 1917, the Bolsheviks, continuing under assassin Stalin, through and even after WW2, systematically executed, and inside (and outside) their thousands of Gulags, worked, starved and froze to death, SIXTY-SIX million people, not all, but most of them CHRISTIANS (whom the Bolsheviks hated). = This mass death was THE LARGEST REAL “HOLOCAUST” in modern history
Where are their museums?
So step onto the other side. There is no point. Get used to it . Make the best you can. There is not going to be another.
Historically progress does not come from the universities. So it is now.
What we are seeing is the acting out of spoiled people who have never grown up. It will be over soon enough.
I would hope there is some kind of settlement in Israel, of any kind really. Then we can move on. Honestly this story is so tired, the worst soap opera ever.
What sane person cares about knit picking amongst various insane scriptures. None of this is even slightly rational.
What will the useless press fill their pages with if there is no daily dose of crazy from the Middle East? Crazy from the USA I guess, you can see it happening.
Muslim civilians are stuck:
I would hope there is some kind of settlement in Israel, of any kind really. Then we can move on. Honestly this story is so tired, the worst soap opera ever.
The USA has had essential elements of a banana republic since the beginning. The recent Zimbabwe style presidential election would be a case in point. The consequence of this corruption is that the US military has always been sub par. Like Mussolini’s army with a bigger budget you could say.
How many American soldiers did it take to squeeze a few thousand Japanese out of Iwo-Jima? Getting bested by untrained rabble in Somalia! Allowing themselves to be exploded in Lebanon. Total inability to pacify Iraq and Afghanistan. And Viet Nam, what a joke. Remember them helicopters being pushed off the deck into the sea?
Killing strangers video game style, as is the current habit, is not a plan with a good future.
Somebody ought to frag Biden in good military tradition if that sob starts a war with Russia, China or Iran which will be the end of us all. The MFer runs his mouth and makes threats like it’s his call, which it is not.
How many Americans, even intelligent ones, know much geography or history? What do Joe and his bum chums know of Afghanistan? Likely nothing useful. Their calculations will center around optics and leverage. Taliban don’t function on these plains.
America is corrupt. That is why it cannot win wars. Always a bad plan and screwy leadership.
I looked it up. MacOmber is an actual name. I had thought it might be like Green or Gold.
Minding your own business with neighbours who mind theirs and a state that does the same makes most of these problems disappear. The actual issue therefore is people who stick their noses in other peoples business. An acceptable custom amongst dogs, but not humans.
Content parents, content children, decent jobs and a bit of capital. That is what is wanted. All this post modern rubbish will evaporate soon enough. It is decadent.
I am almost at a loss for words having read this. I know my base reaction is to reject the entire article. Mr Hood seems to have bought and internalised ownership of the mythical Brooklyn Bridge.
People who do not like whites because they are white should carry on doing that, it is a free world after all, but I don’t need them around me and I don’t know anybody who is like that and I live in a country where slightly over 99.8% of the population is black.
I would never employ a graduate from a modern US Ivy League University. Large numbers of their student and faculty pretending to be something other than what they are is a sure sign of bad quality manpower. The quality of the teaching must be sub par. Imagine letting one of these lose in a productive business
Anybody claiming to be a victim is automatically less. This is basic psychology. Right or wrong does not come into it. Mr Kaepernick is such a case and he knows it. You can see it written on his face.
He might trigger a racial dispute through misspelling, or punctuation application tending toward niggardly.
Imagine letting one of these lose in a productive business
Imagine letting one of these lose in a productive business
He might trigger a racial dispute through misspelling, or punctuation application tending toward niggardly.
So the ruling establishment is a criminal operation. Name a time when it was ever different? Think of the Boston Tea Party and explain how it was different to 9/11 or JFK etc in kind or effect. George Washington himself was not a nice man. None of the heroes of the revolution were. The mendacity and greed were baked in from the beginning. America has always been corrupt to the core. The only saving grace was a certain puritan Christianity and that has been sidelined for now.
Oliver Cromwell is likely the last honest leader in the Anglo Saxon world and he was a piece of work in his own right. Many sainted and hollowed leaders from the past were true deviants. Winston Churchill is a good example. War monger and serial incompetent extraordinaire. FDR is another.
The thing is that most people are so stupid and unwilling to think at all, sheep you might say, that it is unnatural to imagine that the wolves will not feed. That the wolves are on a kamikazi mission to destroy themselves and everything else is a bit worrying. Likely they will not succeed because they are only human too.
Really? Or was he a Jewish puppet meant to kill Charles I in return for his 30 pieces of silver?
Oliver Cromwell is likely the last honest leader in the Anglo Saxon world
Winston Churchill may be traced back directly to Cromwell. John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, was paid a sum of 6,000 pounds sterling per year by Jewish banker Solomon Medina. This was during the Cromwell era and run by the same rootless bankers that ran Cromwell.What began as moneychangers luring dim "leadership" into debt traps in the 17th century ended up with Winston Churchill being deeply indebted to his financiers and willing to do whatever heinous things they asked of him in order to retain his opulent/corpulent lifestyle.Replies: @GeeBee
Winston Churchill is a good example. War monger and serial incompetent extraordinaire.
What an interesting summary of Russia’s current situation.
A country that is falling behind all of its cohorts, more and more, year after year, is somehow schooling and threatening the west with their new style of society in the manliest way. Putin, as we know, is a very powerful and manly leader.
It’s hard to make the Soviet Union look good, but Putin’s really making them look pretty good. The Soviets actually built up that country, in their own awful way. Putin is a leach, and there’s been little progress under his leadership. At best he has brought forth a partial, flawed and unstable restoration of the Soviet system. Which was a system that really did have a lot of flaws in the first place.
But Putin is smart about one thing, having a big military CAN get you a seat at the table with the big boys. But Russia really can’t afford that seat in the long run, and it can afford it even less than the Soviet Union could. The State of California alone has twice the GDP of Russia.
Just a reminder, invading Ukraine some more will NOT make anything in Russia better, even if it makes Vlad feel better. Here’s another observation: China will not turn out to be a strategic partner to Russia, they never have been and never will be.
You just never know how these kinds of dictatorships will end. What does happen after the big man retires? Who gets all of his money and real estate? No one knows. It’s never pretty. Democracy doesn’t always select the right people (see Trump (unless you’re Vlad – well played!)), but that’s actually not the key point.
The key is that in a democracy, on a periodic basis, rid can yourself of a leader who is not working out (Trump again). If only the Russians could do so.
Yeah right. Which is why Russia has the world's second-biggest immigrant population. All those 'wealthy' neighbors want to get in on that sweet sweet 'poverty'?Why don't you put down the hopium pipe and go have a look at this 'miserable' country for yourself? As many of us have done. I would be much more concerned about the house of cards right here at home, friend. For lots of folks in the land of Disney and Larry Fink, a folding cardboard box would actually be a step up the ladder of 'upward mobility,' lol. But nice try. I guess some folks will still buy the 'sizzle' eh?https://i.postimg.cc/hjJqhgtw/Old-Guy.jpgReplies: @marckus
A country that is falling behind all of its cohorts, more and more, year after year...
Yeah, but look at the state of the State of California, especially post-COVID California. Cali represents those shiny veeners, botox, and platic surgery people like Californians get when their actual physical reality is in a state of decay and decline.
The State of California alone has twice the GDP of Russia.
This article must be an attempt to troll. If it is meant to be taken seriously then it is pretty sad. Mr Margolis get yourself a life and stop being so thick.
The poll was about countries & regimes, not cultures or peoples.
I agree, the first comment here talking about Korea must have missed that point. Though in practice you can’t always disentangle the two. But, uh, you should be able to disentangle the two when it comes to the Koreas.
Also, surprisingly so- France.
Re: France, it doesn’t seem surprising to me. I imagine that divergent opinions about the French government largely date back to the Iraq War. While there was dissident right opposition to the war in the US, the Republican Party was basically all for it, while the Democrats were divided, and the Democrat hawks turned against it pretty quickly.
Old-timers might also remember De Gaulle pulling France out of NATO. Perhaps adding, “After all we did for them!”
But this might also be a case of culture being entangled with government. The leftist instinct (centuries old — see Thomas Jefferson) is to regard France as a place of culture, of sophisticated intellectuals and auteurs who have something to teach the badwhite rubes over here. The rightist instinct is to mock that culture and those intellectuals — they love to talk about deconstruction but they sure couldn’t find a way to deconstruct the Panzer offensive through the Ardennes!
When you feel pressured to move more quickly than you otherwise would it is likely that you are purposefully not being given enough time to think. Most con operations work this way at the crucial stage. The solution is usually to slow down when you feel this pressure. With these vaccines waiting a while is likely wise.
If you have to be vaccinated because you want to travel or because of your employer use one of the Chinese vaccines because they do not use this RNA tech and are more comparable to traditional vaccines. Same applies to the Russian vaccine.
Western pharmaceutical companies stopped developing cures a long, long time ago. Why would they suddenly be so helpful now? Something must be up!
curing illness —$$—$$—>> treating syndromes
Western pharmaceutical companies stopped developing cures a long, long time ago.
Israel doe not want any kind of settlement. Continued low level conflict very much serves their interests. So long as things continue this way they more or less have a free hand.
If a settlement of any kind is reached then there will be terms and conditions which constrain action and Israel’s own internal cohesion, such that it is, will wither.
A unitary state with a Jewish minority is always going to be how this ends. Look at the birth rates.
Creating excess new money is the cause of inflation. This is not debatable at all. Postulations about deflation right now are fantasy.
Since there is going to be a big inflation around the world in the immediate future look on the bright side. Inflation is only really damaging to wage slaves. If you work for yourself you can adjust as you go along and might even come out ahead
I have run a business through two big inflations. One of them of thirteen digit magnitude. It was no big sweat. Difficult times majorly favour well run businesses.
There are lots of things that hold value better than money.
Inflation gives a big discount, at the governments expense, to people who pay taxes since the taxes are usually paid in arrears
Interest rates tend to spike so being debt free really pays dividends
Opportunities for speculation multiply
Flu comes every year, usually several times. It has always been this way. Each outbreak is slightly different. The weak and the elderly sometimes die from it.
There seems to be not much in the way of general excess deaths anywhere. One would expect a noticeable spike if there was a deadly virus around. This pandemic is mostly a mental problem. Vaccinating against flu is a losing proposition. Mutates too fast. There is no real protection.
Humans are known for driving each other mad with fear.
Remember how everyone laughed at Trump when he said injecting household bleach would cure Covid? How is this any different?
It’s different because Trump never said that. Thx.
I am failing to see the problem. America has always been this way.
The American Revolution was mostly about blatant lies and propaganda put out by Washington, Franklin, Hamilton and co. Imagined grievances, one sided stories, withheld information and so on.
The civil war was similar with both sides displaying tactics that would be easily recognised today. Lincoln was no saint.
Roosevelt used these methods to force the Japanese into a war at a time when the American public and body politic had no appetite for war.
There is nothing new here except that there is now a tiny gap in the curtain caused by the internet and we can see what was previously hidden. Big efforts are being made to close this gap.
The persons who have been casualties of events on Jan 6 were willing stooges. That this was manifestly unjust is situation normal. Uncle Donald was certainly not playing 3d that day.
Face it: the American military and American leadership are just not that good. Nothing is ever learned.
US participation cancelled due to lack of interest, but the forces at play have not lost interest in the US. Expect more episodes closer to home.