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From Poetry of the Taliban.
“NGO” stands for non-governmental organization.
iSteve commenter Observer32 adds:
Sounds like a Pushtun channeling this gem from Ross Coggins:
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet
I’m off to join the Development Set;
My bags are packed, and I’ve had all my shots
I have traveller’s checks and pills for the trots!The Development Set is bright and noble
Our thoughts are deep and our vision global;
Although we move with the better classes
Our thoughts are always with the masses.In Sheraton Hotels in scattered nations
We damn multi-national corporations;
injustice seems easy to protest
In such seething hotbeds of social rest.
We discuss malnutrition over steaks
And plan hunger talks during coffee breaks.
Whether Asian floods or African drought,
We face each issue with open mouth.We bring in consultants whose circumlocution
Raises difficulties for every solution —
Thus guaranteeing continued good eating
By showing the need for another meeting.The language of the Development Set
Stretches the English alphabet;
We use swell words like “epigenetic”
“Micro”, “macro”, and “logarithmetic”It pleasures us to be esoteric —
It’s so intellectually atmospheric!
And although establishments may be unmoved,
Our vocabularies are much improved.When the talk gets deep and you’re feeling numb,
You can keep your shame to a minimum:
To show that you, too, are intelligent
Smugly ask, “Is it really development?”Or say, “That’s fine in practice, but don’t you see:
It doesn’t work out in theory!”
A few may find this incomprehensible,
But most will admire you as deep and sensible.Development set homes are extremely chic,
Full of carvings, curios, and draped with batik.
Eye-level photographs subtly assure
That your host is at home with the great and the poor.Enough of these verses – on with the mission!
Our task is as broad as the human condition!
Just pray god the biblical promise is true:
The poor ye shall always have with you.
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FIFY.
Better than most of the poetry I read in The New Yorker, back when I read The New Yorker. Can’t believe I used to read The New Yorker. Great, now I went and made myself depressed just thinking about reading The New Yorker.
(At times I think, this can't go on this way, because it is too boring/repetitive/illiberal. Bari Weiss recently said that this woke milieu has become essentially destructive and is a dead-end street in a wasteland (ok, that's me paraphrasing her bitter words).Replies: @Carol, @JimDandy
Hint: It’s not a bird. It’s millions of migrants.
Is it a plane?
No, it's a would-be Afghan migrant falling from a Boeing C-17 in Kabul.
if you read the NYT engagement page you can see what the better sort of people do.
disclaimer, I once worked for a law firm that justified inclusion in the engagements section which impressed my wife when she called in our wedding.
the New York Times, holy s..t. what achievement
any way now all the top grads of Yale and Harvard go directly into ngos. higher status than money Grubb and somehow more money comes
NGOs offer a new class of prestigious jobs, also seen in the new cache awarded to jobs in local politics that used to go to working-class go-getters. I think Wolfe in Bonfire has a bit about the Masters of the Universe paying no attention at all to déclassé local politics, but our new aristocracy is desperate for places to put their idiot second sons and dingbat daughters.
I wonder if it rhymes in Pashto.
Well, it’s better than anything published lately in the New Yorker.
Posted this on Mr. Derb’s column before, but Tim Dillon had an excellent stream-of-conscious rant on Afghanistan, eat-pray-intersectionalize NGO white chicks, and the invasion of Austin, TX by Blue State-yet-unwoke comedians and techies, whom he predicts will also ultimately succumb to the natives and their indomitable cultural ways. Funny and heartfelt reminiscence on how the guileless patriotism of so many of us was exploited by 2 generations of swamp creature grifters:
(Skip to 1:09:00 for the conclusion)
Wait, this is for real?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……..
I was listening to WBEZ (public radio) this afternoon and heard some program being brought to you by the “Gun Safety Alliance,” (https://gunsafetyalliance.org/) an NGO dedicated to destroying your gun rights.
They must have plenty of money because they are advertising on a so-called “conservative” radio station (WIND-AM 560) but on public radio too. I wonder if they advertise on “Chicago Progressive Talk” WCPT-AM 820?
Also, just to quiet my OCD, you missed the final stanza of the poem, which was on the next page:
Some migrants they housed in Nantucket…
The Taliban knows who the REAL enemy is.
And people act like the Taliban are just a bunch of AK toting rubes…
That poem is some fairly amusing wry material!
Sounds like a Pushtun channeling this gem from Ross Coggins:
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet
I’m off to join the Development Set;
My bags are packed, and I’ve had all my shots
I have traveller’s checks and pills for the trots!
The Development Set is bright and noble
Our thoughts are deep and our vision global;
Although we move with the better classes
Our thoughts are always with the masses.
In Sheraton Hotels in scattered nations
We damn multi-national corporations;
injustice seems easy to protest
In such seething hotbeds of social rest.
We discuss malnutrition over steaks
And plan hunger talks during coffee breaks.
Whether Asian floods or African drought,
We face each issue with open mouth.
We bring in consultants whose circumlocution
Raises difficulties for every solution —
Thus guaranteeing continued good eating
By showing the need for another meeting.
The language of the Development Set
Stretches the English alphabet;
We use swell words like “epigenetic”
“Micro”, “macro”, and “logarithmetic”
It pleasures us to be esoteric —
It’s so intellectually atmospheric!
And although establishments may be unmoved,
Our vocabularies are much improved.
When the talk gets deep and you’re feeling numb,
You can keep your shame to a minimum:
To show that you, too, are intelligent
Smugly ask, “Is it really development?”
Or say, “That’s fine in practice, but don’t you see:
It doesn’t work out in theory!”
A few may find this incomprehensible,
But most will admire you as deep and sensible.
Development set homes are extremely chic,
Full of carvings, curios, and draped with batik.
Eye-level photographs subtly assure
That your host is at home with the great and the poor.
Enough of these verses – on with the mission!
Our task is as broad as the human condition!
Just pray god the biblical promise is true:
The poor ye shall always have with you.
“The Strsnger” – Rudyard Kipling
The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk–
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.
The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.
The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control–
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.
The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.
This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf–
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.
The White Man’s Burden - Kipling
TAKE up the White Man's burden -
Send forth the best ye breed -
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild -
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden -
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden -
The savage wars of peace -
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden -
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper -
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead !
Take up the White Man's burden -
And reap his old reward,
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard -
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly !) towards the light:-
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our loved Egyptian night ?"
Take up the White Man's burden -
Ye dare not stoop to less -
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden -
Have done with childish days -
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers.
FIFY.Replies: @International Jew, @The Anti-Gnostic
That might be too subtle for me. Do you mean to imply that NGOs are, in fact, doing the work of governments?
I hear this is an entertaining account of relief work. Anyone here read it?
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1355995751l/611136.jpgReplies: @Cortes
Just as a pertinent example, go to the bottom of this Ann Corcoran article on VDare (also posted on her Refugee Resettlement Watch site) and look at those logos on the bottom. They are NGO's that get money for every alleged refugee foreigner that import.
(Sorry, I can't post an image right now.)Replies: @Coemgen
The Wikipedia Page is actually pretty good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-organized_non-governmental_organization
It's "grey propaganda" where, the NGO wants the impression of being some neutral, non-government grass roots, civic minded organization, but they are the opposite.
Freedom House is a notorious GONGO that paints itself as a neutral, non-government, civic institution, but in reality, is entirely funded by US government and staffed by top US politicians.Replies: @SaneClownPosse
I still read the cartoons.
Yeah. I definitely would, too, if I still read The New Yorker.
Hmm, maybe in the original Pushtun it rhymes, and rolls along in a traditional meter like, maybe, decapitational pentameter.
disclaimer, I once worked for a law firm that justified inclusion in the engagements section which impressed my wife when she called in our wedding.
the New York Times, holy s..t. what achievement
any way now all the top grads of Yale and Harvard go directly into ngos. higher status than money Grubb and somehow more money comesReplies: @Ghost of Bull Moose
Young ladies from good families used to work at Sotheby’s or as a buyer for a fashion house until they found a suitable husband. Now they have to do something ‘meaningful.’
NGOs offer a new class of prestigious jobs, also seen in the new cache awarded to jobs in local politics that used to go to working-class go-getters. I think Wolfe in Bonfire has a bit about the Masters of the Universe paying no attention at all to déclassé local politics, but our new aristocracy is desperate for places to put their idiot second sons and dingbat daughters.
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet
I'm off to join the Development Set;
My bags are packed, and I've had all my shots
I have traveller's checks and pills for the trots!
The Development Set is bright and noble
Our thoughts are deep and our vision global;
Although we move with the better classes
Our thoughts are always with the masses.
In Sheraton Hotels in scattered nations
We damn multi-national corporations;
injustice seems easy to protest
In such seething hotbeds of social rest.
We discuss malnutrition over steaks
And plan hunger talks during coffee breaks.
Whether Asian floods or African drought,
We face each issue with open mouth.
We bring in consultants whose circumlocution
Raises difficulties for every solution --
Thus guaranteeing continued good eating
By showing the need for another meeting.
The language of the Development Set
Stretches the English alphabet;
We use swell words like "epigenetic"
"Micro", "macro", and "logarithmetic"
It pleasures us to be esoteric --
It's so intellectually atmospheric!
And although establishments may be unmoved,
Our vocabularies are much improved.
When the talk gets deep and you're feeling numb,
You can keep your shame to a minimum:
To show that you, too, are intelligent
Smugly ask, "Is it really development?"
Or say, "That's fine in practice, but don't you see:
It doesn't work out in theory!"
A few may find this incomprehensible,
But most will admire you as deep and sensible.
Development set homes are extremely chic,
Full of carvings, curios, and draped with batik.
Eye-level photographs subtly assure
That your host is at home with the great and the poor.
Enough of these verses - on with the mission!
Our task is as broad as the human condition!
Just pray god the biblical promise is true:
The poor ye shall always have with you.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Professor Eric Rasmusen
Thanks.
The interview is mostly about education, and Murray's book "Real Education." The interviewer ignored the "elephant in the room" last two books by Murray.
The book is about four truths:
1. All kids are different.
2. Half of kids are below average.
3. Too many kids are going to college.
4. We need to educate, nurture, and teach ethics to our gifted kids, who are going to be running the joint whether we like it or not.
The book pushes vocational ... uh, "career and technical" education for the non-college kids.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9E9Lq50N2BQ
Speaking of, all the females in my life area burning up the group-text airwaves tonight about some negro who overdosed. I’ve never heard of the guy, though I have heard of the show he was in (The Wire). But I don’t care about any of it and finally turned my phone off.
The 'Omar' character in The Wire was one of the less plausible parts of the show, but still worked fairly well and only injected a small dose of poz into society.
How about a poem entitled:
“How Many are the Billionaires!”
In the primary schools, fixing black people
How many are the billionaires?
In the secondary schools, fixing black people
How many are the billionaires?
No more tracking, no more gifted classes, no more AP
Teacher’s got a concussion, Jamal’s still in class
Fixing black people doesn’t seem to be working
How many are the billionaires?
Vaccines to Africa, rotting on the docks
How many are the billionaires?
Thousand-dollar toilets in African villages
For sale on eBoombaBay, copper pipe gone missing
Billionaires fixing black people
African country’s leaders are billionaires
Their people are poor and unfixed
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
Billionaires will still be spending billions
Fixing black people
And that reminds me of how Richard Spencer is now destitute, and it’s hard to care about him either. Though it is somewhat troubling that the MSM and internet can make it impossible for someone to earn a living if he’s made the wrong enemies.
They used to be “quasi-autonomous”, as in quango. Whatever happened to that term?
I hear this is an entertaining account of relief work. Anyone here read it?
Me, too. And I used to read The Atlantic for those cute 2″-square ads in the back pages, for warm sox and rental cabins and the like. (Those were in The Atlantic, weren’t they? Or was it Harper’s?)
He might mean Corvinus.
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk--
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.
The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control--
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.This was my father's belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf--
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children's teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.Replies: @Anonymous
And let us not forget the perennial classic.
The White Man’s Burden – Kipling
TAKE up the White Man’s burden –
Send forth the best ye breed –
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild –
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man’s burden –
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.
Take up the White Man’s burden –
The savage wars of peace –
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man’s burden –
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper –
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead !
Take up the White Man’s burden –
And reap his old reward,
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard –
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly !) towards the light:-
“Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night ?”
Take up the White Man’s burden –
Ye dare not stoop to less –
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Take up the White Man’s burden –
Have done with childish days –
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers.
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet
I'm off to join the Development Set;
My bags are packed, and I've had all my shots
I have traveller's checks and pills for the trots!
The Development Set is bright and noble
Our thoughts are deep and our vision global;
Although we move with the better classes
Our thoughts are always with the masses.
In Sheraton Hotels in scattered nations
We damn multi-national corporations;
injustice seems easy to protest
In such seething hotbeds of social rest.
We discuss malnutrition over steaks
And plan hunger talks during coffee breaks.
Whether Asian floods or African drought,
We face each issue with open mouth.
We bring in consultants whose circumlocution
Raises difficulties for every solution --
Thus guaranteeing continued good eating
By showing the need for another meeting.
The language of the Development Set
Stretches the English alphabet;
We use swell words like "epigenetic"
"Micro", "macro", and "logarithmetic"
It pleasures us to be esoteric --
It's so intellectually atmospheric!
And although establishments may be unmoved,
Our vocabularies are much improved.
When the talk gets deep and you're feeling numb,
You can keep your shame to a minimum:
To show that you, too, are intelligent
Smugly ask, "Is it really development?"
Or say, "That's fine in practice, but don't you see:
It doesn't work out in theory!"
A few may find this incomprehensible,
But most will admire you as deep and sensible.
Development set homes are extremely chic,
Full of carvings, curios, and draped with batik.
Eye-level photographs subtly assure
That your host is at home with the great and the poor.
Enough of these verses - on with the mission!
Our task is as broad as the human condition!
Just pray god the biblical promise is true:
The poor ye shall always have with you.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Professor Eric Rasmusen
Haha! I like this bit….
The whole Afghanistan thing was a huge grift operation.
Everybody got paid off.
Female NGO workers.
Male defense contractors.
American politicians and retired military/intel personnel.
Afghan soldiers, govt leaders, and “translators.”
Over \$2 trillion was wasted.
That’s why the war went on for 2 decades, even if no real progress was being made. Lots of parasites were feeding off the host (US taxpayers like you & me).
Just on Afghanistan alone. Imagine how much more has been spent on Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc.
One day America will bankrupt – and you know why.
It just overwhelms the mind.
Long-time drug addict overdoses on heroin and dies. One negro is a tragedy, tens of thousands of whites is a statistic.
The ‘Omar’ character in The Wire was one of the less plausible parts of the show, but still worked fairly well and only injected a small dose of poz into society.
Pyjama Man.
Murray lives in Burkettesville, Maryland, and he appears to be doing fine. A few months ago a young guy interviewed him in person in his very pleasant home, in a very pleasant neighborhood, which is shown via drone footage. This is a smaller town near Frederick, Maryland, the site of the Fort Detrick base. I lived in Frederick for a while, and I think Murray is pretty safe ensconced up in that little corner of the world.
The interview is mostly about education, and Murray’s book “Real Education.” The interviewer ignored the “elephant in the room” last two books by Murray.
The book is about four truths:
1. All kids are different.
2. Half of kids are below average.
3. Too many kids are going to college.
4. We need to educate, nurture, and teach ethics to our gifted kids, who are going to be running the joint whether we like it or not.
The book pushes vocational … uh, “career and technical” education for the non-college kids.
You got it, I.J. They get grants and contracts from governments (mostly one in particular), so they are beholden to them.
Just as a pertinent example, go to the bottom of this Ann Corcoran article on VDare (also posted on her Refugee Resettlement Watch site) and look at those logos on the bottom. They are NGO’s that get money for every alleged refugee foreigner that import.
(Sorry, I can’t post an image right now.)
Also, is there any NGO that could survive without U.S. taxpayer funding?
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet
I'm off to join the Development Set;
My bags are packed, and I've had all my shots
I have traveller's checks and pills for the trots!
The Development Set is bright and noble
Our thoughts are deep and our vision global;
Although we move with the better classes
Our thoughts are always with the masses.
In Sheraton Hotels in scattered nations
We damn multi-national corporations;
injustice seems easy to protest
In such seething hotbeds of social rest.
We discuss malnutrition over steaks
And plan hunger talks during coffee breaks.
Whether Asian floods or African drought,
We face each issue with open mouth.
We bring in consultants whose circumlocution
Raises difficulties for every solution --
Thus guaranteeing continued good eating
By showing the need for another meeting.
The language of the Development Set
Stretches the English alphabet;
We use swell words like "epigenetic"
"Micro", "macro", and "logarithmetic"
It pleasures us to be esoteric --
It's so intellectually atmospheric!
And although establishments may be unmoved,
Our vocabularies are much improved.
When the talk gets deep and you're feeling numb,
You can keep your shame to a minimum:
To show that you, too, are intelligent
Smugly ask, "Is it really development?"
Or say, "That's fine in practice, but don't you see:
It doesn't work out in theory!"
A few may find this incomprehensible,
But most will admire you as deep and sensible.
Development set homes are extremely chic,
Full of carvings, curios, and draped with batik.
Eye-level photographs subtly assure
That your host is at home with the great and the poor.
Enough of these verses - on with the mission!
Our task is as broad as the human condition!
Just pray god the biblical promise is true:
The poor ye shall always have with you.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Professor Eric Rasmusen
Very good. It’s from 1976! http://shores-system.mysite.com/development_set.html
Oh yeah, a loss. It was nice once, The New Yorker. Now it’s dull. (The Atlantic too.) Turns out they lost it – lost the interesting small path of productive writing/thinking. Following the trend trumped being curious/adventurous/playful/investigative/enlightening.
(At times I think, this can’t go on this way, because it is too boring/repetitive/illiberal. Bari Weiss recently said that this woke milieu has become essentially destructive and is a dead-end street in a wasteland (ok, that’s me paraphrasing her bitter words).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters/ampReplies: @Dieter Kief
The late Tom Leonard gave us a Glasgow version some years ago:
Just as a pertinent example, go to the bottom of this Ann Corcoran article on VDare (also posted on her Refugee Resettlement Watch site) and look at those logos on the bottom. They are NGO's that get money for every alleged refugee foreigner that import.
(Sorry, I can't post an image right now.)Replies: @Coemgen
I wonder, is there any NGO whose grift does not align with the Democrat Party’s objectives?
Also, is there any NGO that could survive without U.S. taxpayer funding?
I hear this is an entertaining account of relief work. Anyone here read it?
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1355995751l/611136.jpgReplies: @Cortes
“They used to be “quasi-autonomous”, as in quango. Whatever happened to that term?”
Cutbacks mean government organisations are now sine q-a non
(I’ll get my coat)
Can anyone share good poetry about the current situation in America as our way of life slips through our fingers?
In a hundred years Pashtuns will read and enjoy this poetry’s will there be any descendants of heritage Americans to enjoy ours?
Billionaires who send their daughters to work for NGOs must hate them. They will return to overpriced Manhattan apartments to leaf through sperm donor catalogues.
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1435637690712666117
from the doc Bitter Lake … a Western development worker teaching Afghanistan women about conceptual art starting from Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), a readymade sculpture consisting of a porcelain urinal … an interpreter is needed
GONGOs: Government Organized Non-Governmental Organization.
The Wikipedia Page is actually pretty good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-organized_non-governmental_organization
It’s “grey propaganda” where, the NGO wants the impression of being some neutral, non-government grass roots, civic minded organization, but they are the opposite.
Freedom House is a notorious GONGO that paints itself as a neutral, non-government, civic institution, but in reality, is entirely funded by US government and staffed by top US politicians.
Humanitarian fascist do gooders.
"Hi, we're here from a non governmental organization and we're here to help you."
I wonder if Pres. Obama’s mother in her late 30s ever saw that poem “The Development Set.” TBF she was going more for the aspiring self-hating academic than quango parasite role. To a Taliban observer both probably look the same though
(At times I think, this can't go on this way, because it is too boring/repetitive/illiberal. Bari Weiss recently said that this woke milieu has become essentially destructive and is a dead-end street in a wasteland (ok, that's me paraphrasing her bitter words).Replies: @Carol, @JimDandy
They’re trying…
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters/amp
There is an archaic undertone still in there of sacrifices and dark lures etc. (Gideon Lewis-Kraus smears Jared Taylor badly - most likely because Jared Taylor doesn't understand that - there is a holy sphere of secret knowledge, that just must not be de-sacrificed (=shared publicly...).
FIFY.Replies: @International Jew, @The Anti-Gnostic
Well done.
In a hundred years Pashtuns will read and enjoy this poetry’s will there be any descendants of heritage Americans to enjoy ours?
Billionaires who send their daughters to work for NGOs must hate them. They will return to overpriced Manhattan apartments to leaf through sperm donor catalogues.Replies: @S. Anonyia, @Almost Missouri
Think it’s more millionaires’ daughters (plus their B student sons) working for them than billionaires’ children.
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
No, it’s a would-be Afghan migrant falling from a Boeing C-17 in Kabul.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters/ampReplies: @Dieter Kief
I had the same thought when I read this article.
There is an archaic undertone still in there of sacrifices and dark lures etc. (Gideon Lewis-Kraus smears Jared Taylor badly – most likely because Jared Taylor doesn’t understand that – there is a holy sphere of secret knowledge, that just must not be de-sacrificed (=shared publicly…).
Not a bad poem, Taliban victory in Afghanistan due to US government NGO policy IMHO—see: https://www.fpri.org/article/2007/04/ngos-new-class-international-relations/
This Coggins guy deserves a Nobel in Literature!
For anyone who doesn’t know the meaning of Development Set, just think “Clinton Foundation.”
https://youtu.be/HZMya4ZVSAsReplies: @Prester John
This is iSteve fodder on stilts!!
May have been eighty-sixed in as much as it looks and sounds–appropriately enough– too much like “guano.”
The Wikipedia Page is actually pretty good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-organized_non-governmental_organization
It's "grey propaganda" where, the NGO wants the impression of being some neutral, non-government grass roots, civic minded organization, but they are the opposite.
Freedom House is a notorious GONGO that paints itself as a neutral, non-government, civic institution, but in reality, is entirely funded by US government and staffed by top US politicians.Replies: @SaneClownPosse
I always thought that was what QUANGO referred to, arms length national intelligence units wrapped in humanitarian guises, sponsored by Corporations. Hence the “quasi” qualifier.
Humanitarian fascist do gooders.
“Hi, we’re here from a non governmental organization and we’re here to help you.”
You think they’d go with The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Funny how the left is talking higher taxes, wealth taxes etc., but never mention closing the largest tax loop hole for the ultra rich. That of course are NGO’s based in the USA with non-profit 503c tax status. Appreciated equity donated to these NGO’s can give several tax breaks including getting out of capital gain taxes and the more onerous estate taxes. Plus they get to send out a press release on how generous they are, the great good there doing and on and on. Think Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. Finally it allows them to give jobs to all their wealthy friends adult kids, especially those females that graduated from the very expensive elite liberal arts colleges…… they get pretend there both working and doing something meaningful.
In a hundred years Pashtuns will read and enjoy this poetry’s will there be any descendants of heritage Americans to enjoy ours?
Billionaires who send their daughters to work for NGOs must hate them. They will return to overpriced Manhattan apartments to leaf through sperm donor catalogues.Replies: @S. Anonyia, @Almost Missouri
The guy who writes the Titania McGrath parody account turns out to be a fairly talented poet on the subject of How We Live Now:
(At times I think, this can't go on this way, because it is too boring/repetitive/illiberal. Bari Weiss recently said that this woke milieu has become essentially destructive and is a dead-end street in a wasteland (ok, that's me paraphrasing her bitter words).Replies: @Carol, @JimDandy
What does Bari have to say about criticisms of Israel on college campuses?