RSSSome advice please for a travelling Kiwi. Im going to a wedding in Baltimore in June, then maybe New York. Given crime rates, handgun use etc, is it safe?
Depopulation is a demograhic fact. Its happening in most developed countries as population ages and fertility drops below replacement level.
If the esteemed clever and wealthy proponents only took notice of the real numbers they would know this.
I was a teenager in late 60s Britain. Class was the major determinant of who you were a fan of. The Kinks and Who had working class Mods as their hard core fans and played to their audiences life experience. The Beatles were clean enough to appeal to middle class girls and their mothers, grandma could hum along to McCartney melodies. The Stones audience were middle class boys having a rebellious moment, when these lads became managers the Stones morphed seemlessly into corporate rockers.
That said, take class out what are you left with? Musical genius, great music from all of them.
They were somewhat before my time, but as a fifth grader, me and some friends were riding in a car and Pinball Wizard came on. Next thing, we're all bopping our heads and going crazy. The Who can do that. The Stones are excellent lyricists with Ruby Tuesday, Gimme Shelter, She Comes in Colors, etc. Never much into the Beatles, but I can see their appeal to both sexes. Abbey Road is a gift. Pink Floyd is very good with what they do. Soothing songs for the sad young. The barking dogs in Dogs is comic gold.I really like Stevie Nicks' voice. Pure. transportive.
Musical genius, great music from all of them.
From here in NZ its hard to see this issue as totally pointless.
The US is in economic and cultural freefall, you’d think that they would have better things to do than create trouble with Russia.
From a Russian viewpoint I can understand that they feel threatened but these amazing weapons systems must be ruinously damaging to their economy. Cutting off gas would be far less costly.
My Christmas wish is for all people of goodwill to vote their current leaders out and stop this madness.
Interesting comment about the German government being “easy going”. We were educated in the 60s about efficient robotic Nazis, supposedly higher organised. That appears to be a total misconception especially compared to how Britain and the US committed organisation to production. Germany was not in the same league.
Did Stalin intend to invade the Nazi Germany? Yes, he obviously saw war as inevitable.
Was he preparing for it? Yes.
Was he ready? No, and for that reason any conclusion that Hitler beat him to the punch fails.
Conversely Hitler was well aware that the Soviet state was gearing for war and knew that he would have to act first.
The major factor missed on all these arguments is what was really forcing German haste. It was food, Europe was not feeding itself. It was raw materials, Europe could not provide enough for Germanys war economy. The problem as in 1914-8 was the Royal Navy command of the Atlantic which effectively isolated Europe from resources.
The solution was invade the Ukraine and Caucasus. Stalin lost the battle for readiness, the Purges put paid to that. Yes he deployed forces to the west, that concurs with military defensive thinking of the time. If they didn’t have plans for a first strike that would be negligent. But did Stalin want to pull the trigger? I think yes, in 1942 or 1943.
Major countries having disagreement with each other have strategy sessions that include hypothetical instances of war.
Did Stalin intend to invade the Nazi Germany? Yes, he obviously saw war as inevitable.
Was he preparing for it? Yes.
Was he ready? No, and for that reason any conclusion that Hitler beat him to the punch fails.
Conversely Hitler was well aware that the Soviet state was gearing for war and knew that he would have to act first.
The major factor missed on all these arguments is what was really forcing German haste. It was food, Europe was not feeding itself. It was raw materials, Europe could not provide enough for Germanys war economy. The problem as in 1914-8 was the Royal Navy command of the Atlantic which effectively isolated Europe from resources.
The solution was invade the Ukraine and Caucasus. Stalin lost the battle for readiness, the Purges put paid to that. Yes he deployed forces to the west, that concurs with military defensive thinking of the time. If they didn’t have plans for a first strike that would be negligent. But did Stalin want to pull the trigger? I think yes, in 1942 or 1943.
You obviously have no discernment whatsoever.
I was especially looking forward to No Time to Die because—although it is very much a minority opinion—my favorite Bond actor is Daniel Craig. (Timothy Dalton is my next favorite, although he only played the role twice and only one of his films, License to Kill, is first-rate.)
All the big bad villains of recent Bond have been corporate megalomaniac super rich dudes.
Here in New Zealand we have an increasing number of super rich Americans buying their way into our country, buying citizenship. Id rather they stayed put and faced the music on their own patch. Thats a nice way of saying that they can all fekk off.
Holocaust denial or revisionism is very offensive to the victims of the event. They were murdered en masse as were the victims of Armenian and Rwandan genocide, Soviet gulags, Pol Pot etc. Myself I would expand all Holocaust museums to commemorate all the other victims of mass murder
That would be both racist and antisemitic. Can't be done.
Myself I would expand all Holocaust museums to commemorate all the other victims of mass murder
A truly enlightened attitude to the Holocaust (assuming the six million victims are real) is that the Jews suffered a small portion of what was a universal global tragedy and holocaust. But Jews can't do that. They insist on defining their suffering as not only unique but warranting universal adulation and reverence. Once I was meditating and imagined the suffering of the concentration camp guards who themselves were part of a reign of terror that probably forced them to commit atrocities they didn't really want to do. The same probably can be said for IDF atrocities against Palestinian civilians. A lot of this is the result of coercive group behaviors. But again the Jews just cannot humanize their oppressors and insist on portraying themselves as unique. This is a sign of immaturity and perhaps pathological narcissism.I also once asked the woman running a Holocaust event at a local college why the fire-bombings of Dresden and Tokyo and the nuclear incinerations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not considered a holocaust. She turned white with rage and started shaking in anger and snarled at me:"Only Jews have a right to use that term." And she had me evicted from the event.
In World War II 60 million died.
The Jews were just a tithe...
This is so true and hopefully the world will wake up and recognize they are being conned by the Jewish guilt-meisters. But that will require a level of confidence that most non-Jews lack. Christians in particular are cowed by Jews imagining them as some kind of supernatural beings. I often tell Christian friends to speak to Jews with confidence and to realize that they know the Bible far better than even Orthodox Jews, who only study the Pentateuch. But nothing helps. At root Christians are filled with self-loathing and envy of Jews as the "Chosen Race" and the Jews exploit that for all its worth.Replies: @Francis Miville
Competitive victimhood is built into the liturgical fabric of Judaism through observances like the fast day of Tisha B’Av (the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Av, usually in the middle of August) when Jews reflect on the history of Jewish trauma from the destruction of the First and Second Temples to the medieval expulsions, the Spanish Inquisition, through to “the Holocaust.” One Jewish source notes how “references to the Holocaust, Nazis, Hitler, WWII, Germany etc. seep into the conversation amongst Jews, regardless of age, religious observance, or political affiliation.” Ashkenazi Jews in particular “continue to internalize and carry the trauma of the Holocaust in a way that shapes how we think and behave as Jews in America (and maybe throughout the rest of the world).” Carrying such feelings while comprising an ethnic ruling elite means Jews often feel “both entitlement and victimhood at the same time” which “can become unsettling and paradoxical.”
If the event was portrayed accurately there'd be no outrage, except at the fibs about ovens.
Holocaust denial or revisionism is very offensive to the victims of the event.
I hate racism. This lady is clearly a racist.
Do not use this word ; it is a anti-white slur.Replies: @Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist
I hate racism. This lady is clearly a racist.
That is a foolish sentiment. Being racist doesn't mean you are an inherently bad person. It simply means you have been paying attention.Sulu
I hate racism. This lady is clearly a racist.
Dr Robert, you appear to have it really bad with your cops. I take it that you don’t distinguish between cops by ethnicity, just cops are cops.
Here where I live, at the end of the South Pacific we marvel at your American relationship with your boys in blue. Ours aren’t perfect but we at least trust them to sort crime and leave us alone. After all, who you gonna call?
Im feeling less than well currently, Mr Dinh you bring copius light and happiness. Get well.
Nike = sweatshops
China = increasing wages
Nike + China = incompatibility.
I believe in the primacy of the nation state as the Wests basic political unit. Scotland, if a true nation should be independent.
In being independent they do need to recognise that the English and European taxpayers are not charities. Im sure both see the Scots as a fiscal drain. Both will be delighted to cast Scotland loose.
Interesting how most people in Western societies listen daily to music that bears its rhythmic origins to West African music. This arrived with slaves in the Americas, and it has conquered all cultures as jazz, rock’n roll and derivatives there of.
One wonders how the bearers of race based criticism of art
can utilise valuable time so frivolously, so insultingly? Who pays their upkeep allowing them time to develop such damage to everybody?
The US has the firepower, yes, but why? We all know the military industry is all about money, money, money. And attacking countries that can’t respond.
When the US goes to war it is not to win, its to expend expensive weaponry for years as in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq etc.
The Russians don’t claim military superiority over the US, but they have developed the defensive capability to give the US sufficient blood noses. As has China. Somebody has to keep the hawkes in check from dropping ever more bombs.
To be credible is the most important thing that a journalist and media outlet can have. Monbiot and the Gaurdian no longer have that, once most never regained.
Fun times, let’s see who has the cheapest hole in the ground.
Fonterra still doing a roaring trade, seems money trumps standards as always. Bad business in my book though.
In my mind large single product trade is a vulnerability, diversity is far safer. China is a big enough market for this.
Here in NZ we have a growing trade partnership with China on good terms compared to that with the West, the USA in particular. For my whole lifetime NZ trade negotiators have had the US tariff us, ban our products etc, USA is absolutely protectionist. Yet they demand our political loyalty against China.
My advice to young people around the world who wish to have a wealthy life, and to benefit their countries. Learn Mandarin or Cantonese. Get qualified in international trade, especially marketing. There are cities in China we have never heard of bigger than countries like us.
Here lies the difference....
Yet they demand our political loyalty against China
The mind boggles. Adults are supposed to protect children, full stop.
Here in NZ sex with a minor is illegal. We don’t distinguish between straight, gay, perverse etc, sex with a minor is sex with a minor. And you face the legal consequences equally before the law, gay straight or whatever.
What kind of state abandons those it needs to protect in favour of the offenders “rights”?
On an international level it is an imperial destabilizing junket, and all those attributes are coming home to roost. I don’t see much good in that, but I do understand that Americans are conditioned into true believers of exceptionalism. It will be a good and wonderful country all the way down to its’ final resting place next to the Titanic.Replies: @Nick J, @wlawlor
The majority of Americans believe, and rightly so, that this is a good country.
I’ve met Yanks on my own turf (NZ) and elsewhere for years. They are, despite their country, like you and me. Good, bad, compromised. I hope that America can find itself and be a place where good people can overcome today’s darkness of soul.
They will need it, the corporate imperial project is not going to be tolerated by either citizens of the world or citizens of the USA. Rather than wish for their destruction it would be better to wish that good American people can make the USA a force for good in a troubled world.
How does the complete destruction of Western Civ help a globalist? Aren’t things like disposable income and a thriving economy beneficial to an international merchant?
You're correct of course. Globalists want money and power. They want the freedom to accumulate more money and power. Therefore they do not want organised opposition, which is why they use divide-and-conquer tactics such as encouraging identity politics. And if the far right is dumb enough to play the identity politics game that's very much to the advantage of the globalists. It marginalises the far right (or marginalises it even further).
How does the complete destruction of Western Civ help a globalist? Aren’t things like disposable income and a thriving economy beneficial to an international merchant?
There are number of reasons. I’d say the main reason is the criminally irresponsible lie that Progressives relentlessly instill in young black minds–that white people are obsessed wth keeping the black man down, and that this fictional tyranny must be resisted, by any means necessary.
Another reason is the settlement culture; at some point city governments apparently came to the conclusion that reflexively settling whenever a black person made a police-brutality accusation was the most cost-effective policy. Word got around in the hoods that getting in a fight with a cop was a good way of winning the lottery, or the little-lotto at the very least. Another example of how the bean counters are actually fiscal cancer.
I came through San Fran Airport 4 years ago from NZ. The passengers on arrival were rudely hear
ded by men wearing guns, made to wait in queue for a long period before more staff with guns finger printed and eye scanned us. We were then released into the outdoor prison that is America.
Like many Kiwis I found this an unnecessarily hostile and threatening welcome. We in NZ don’t welcome any foreign visitors so rudely. When speaking to my friends who are travelling to Europe they all say go vi’s Hong-Kong or Singapore. Avoid the US. We don’t need their unpleasantness.
Race? WTF is race? Yes white people share common DNA but it doesn’t exclude other inputs. My wife is white, blond, but she’s got African blood six generations ago. Who’d know or care? Her culture British to the core.
I know I have cultural enemies, in the case of some their colour can be predicted rather well. That to me says I have a cultural enemy who is probably another colour, or maybe not.d3
Ive come to realize that “white” is of no real significance. Culture is everything. That I’m white is totally secondary to my cultural history of fifteen hundred years of Christianity, the two and a half thousand years inheritance of classical antiquity, and the specific geo cultural and linguistic peculiarities of Europe. I am the product of that tradition, I can’t divorce it and won’t apologize for it.
If a foreigner criticises my culture and whiteness, well whoopy look to your own. What have I got you want? Am I denigrating yours?
If one of my own for some warped reason dismisses their inheritance, well good, stand aside from all the benefits. You will miss them when you have to live by other cultures standards, not because they are wrong but because they are not yours.
Culture is an expression of a race/ethnic group. The culture you identify with is inseparable from the people who created it. The people who created it were Europeans. Asians and Africans have different cultures even in today's more globalized world.
Ive come to realize that “white” is of no real significance. Culture is everything.
I agree that the facts as compiled tell a very different story to the official narrative.
I’ve got a question over two issues.
First assumptions made about Churchill’s motivations. From my studies over the years my picture of him is that he had a deeply held fear of totalitarian and gangster regimes. He genuinely saw Nazism as evil and a danger to the values he held dear. To ascribe warmongering to him I believe is wrong in so much as he saw it as inevitable that it would have to be faced at some point. And he was dealing with two of histories most evil regimes. I’d challenge anybody to look me in the eye and tell me that either Stalin or Hitler and their whole state apparatus were not totally evil. Explain the body count.
Second concentration camps. I don’t care for Zionist narratives because they appropriate the evil to themselves as sole victims. They weren’t, but that doesn’t absolve the Nazis of attempted genocide of the Jews, of Gypsies, and anybody else. Question the death rate in the occupied east, millions of Slavic people died by deliberate policy. Millions of Russian POWs died through deliberate neglect. The “labour camp” only just does not wash. Then there’s the squads of SS killing Jews, the euthanising of German mental and retarded, the killing of homosexuals. This was deliberate, policy overt or covert. It happened.
If the Allies were fighting evil, Churchill got it right. The soldiers on the frontline were definitely fighting an evil regime, they uncovered and recorded the horror.
If there is a warning from how this occurred it is that we have allowed Bush, Blair and Killary Clinton to brand regimes as evil, then to impose greater evil. Compared to these gangsters Churchill appears saintly in his motivation. We have allowed Zionists to become Nazis. We have promoted the likes of ISIL for our own nefarious purposes to commit atrocities. Both Stalin and Hitler would have loved the police state repression of the greatest “democracy”. What a f…up.
nobody is totally evil - you couldn't be even if you tried
I’d challenge anybody to look me in the eye and tell me that either Stalin or Hitler and their whole state apparatus were not totally evil.
View from NZ, I see a criminal state committing crimes against it’s neighbours, funded aided and abetted by a co-opted criminal state. I see neighbours who too are sinners. What I see most of all is a lack of repentance, remorse or goodwill.
These are bitter fruit and will be barren. The future with global warming, oil depletion, financial strife makes the whole regions future dubious, it will fail and everybody will try to leave.
They will try and come to places like mine. I want nothing to do with them, their poisonous religions and bigotry, their history of strife and trouble. If they can’t see the writing on the wall and act accordingly they will find no refuge. We will have trouble sufficient for the day without adding theirs.