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@ Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 9 2024 4:39 utc | 87
I don’t follow your implication – please clarify.
Those encouraged to leave their homelands by their political and racial masters and affiliations to come to the land of the Free with pavements full of Gold. Encouraged by direct consequences of sanctions for decades by the US qnd the Collective Waste, against their countries for continued colonial exploitation of the conquistadors, the elites who were always the slave owners, murdered local Indios and pretend they own the resources of the land invaded by their European Cortezs.
Are you saying the Cubans who long ago equally left and were forced with the same methods and lured by money to be the insurrectionists and Bay of Pig invaders are more legitimate Cubans than actual Cuban citizens who carried on living there after their revolution?
Are you saying such Venezuelans who have been compelled to migrate to the US – welcomed with open arms – are more legitimate Venezuelans than the ones who resist the imperialists conquistador aristocrats?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 9 2024 9:41 utc | 101
Case Strengthens for a Second Shooter in Butler, PA
Posted by: james | Aug 8 2024 15:20 utc | 8
Interesting. While the author doesn’t attempt to prove the presence of a second shooter, the article unfolds a plausible scenario as you would expect it if an entity like the FBI had organized the attack: While the first shooter’s task is to kill Trump, the second shooter’s role (Thomas Crook) is to fire his gun, get killed in response and receive the blame for everything, thus eclipsing the evidence pointing to the first shooter. I cannot help noticing the similarity in handwriting with the JFK shooting in Dallas, where Lee Harvey Oswald was set up as the (only) shooter in a similar way, and, of course, silenced before he could stand trial.
Beyond that similarity in handwriting: What makes this look to me like a secret service plot, if not involving further players, are details like:
– The passivity of the Secret Service after Crook had been spotted early, and brought to their attention
– Swift action, like well rehearsed, by the SS killing Crook after he had fired his gun
– The current effort to make the memory of the Trump shooting disappear in public space
Posted by: grunzt | Aug 9 2024 9:47 utc | 102
Considering a crazed, sexist, racist, blood thirsty pyscho killer as someone who has mental health issues could be considered a serious mental health issue.
Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 9 2024 5:54 utc | 94
When in the same sentence you use the words “crazed” and “psycho” to describe someone and deny this person any mental health issue, it means you don’t even understand yourself…
In the US about 95% of the illegals are male. Almost all come from not at war countries and are here as illegal economic migrants.
Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 9 2024 0:47 utc | 66
First, in the US, everyone, except Native Americans and Afro Americans, comes from the same illegal immigrant background. And barely two and a half centuries of White America won’t change these facts. Same goes for Australia. Whites are as immigrants as it gets.
Second, guess what Einstein, wars are not the only factor of migrations caused by white capitalism : resources looting, climate change, deforestation, subsequent poverty, famine, tyranny and oppression, corruption… etc.
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Aug 9 2024 10:27 utc | 103
This woman is so cute, funny and hep.
Take a minute to laugh:
Process burger
Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 9 2024 10:27 utc | 104
Let me also repeat that while my guess of the end of July for a civilization war climax was wrong but I still believe that that some sort of military climax will happen in Ukraine, Occupied Palestine or both before November.
I see a military event (series/group/whatever) happening that results in the end of military aggression by the West…..before November.
There will not be a pivot to China by the West because all those issues are being fought about right now….and will be resolved and not put on hold anymore, IMO.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 9 2024 4:41 utc | 88
Have some hope on end of october/start of november
Had none for July 2024 (Though May 2024 might have done the trick)
But only ukraine, as I said before it’s too early for a civilization level war
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 9 2024 11:07 utc | 105
I don’t know if you’re in Britain, but I was curious about one of the prevailing claims made by-and-about the demonstrations/protests/”race riots” in England. Namely, the complaint that there are two-tiered policing/justice and social service systems and that recent immigrants/refugees are given advantages in both not enjoyed by “white” native Englanders.
Is there any truth to this, and if so, how does it manifest in reality?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins |
No truth, but they have to have reasons to justify their racism, don’t they ? And if there isn’t any, they’ll invent some.
The whole current unrest kicked off due to lies posted on social media – that the murderer of three girls in Southport was a recently arrived illegal Islamic immigrant, and that the police were shielding his identity because of that.
In reality he was British born, of Christian parents and the reason his identity wasn’t released was because he was under 18, and had a legal right to anonimity – which the police later waived in the interests of defusing the situation, but as the old saying goes “A lie can travel around the world before truth has even got its boots on.”
The police seem to have been more pro-active in targetting pro-Palestine and climate change protestors in recent month, the government being pro-Israel and pro-big business.
Posted by: Red Star | Aug 9 2024 11:20 utc | 106
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a temporary ban on X (formerly Twitter) in the country. The decision followed his war of words with the platform’s CEO, Elon Musk, who has accused Maduro of election fraud.
In a televised speech on Thursday, Maduro accused the tech mogul of “inciting hatred, fascism, civil war, death, [and] confrontation of Venezuelans,” as well as violating national laws. The leader added that he has signed a resolution presented by the National Commission of Telecommunications to ban the social media platform for ten days.
“Let the plans on social networks to spread violence, hatred… [in] Venezuela from abroad end,” Maduro wrote in a separate post on X.
In response, Musk took to the platform to mockingly promise to “singe his [Maduro’s] mustache from space.”
https://venezuela-news.com/por-incitar-odio-promover-violencia-maduro-ordena-salida-red-social-x-venezuela/
It won’t help him zoning out into delusional land – Nicolás Maduro claims that Argentina President Javier Milei & Elon Musk are members of a Satanic Cult. short video
https://x.com/AFpost/status/1821243109604208985#m
Then again with what’s been done by Israel maybe Zionism literally is a satanic death cult that infects anyone it touches?
Posted by: Fred | Aug 9 2024 11:37 utc | 107
So having been ruthlessly exploited by the Establishment rich in the days of industrial revolution and empire, the poorer non-establishment citizens of Britain are now being punished *a second time* via destruction of their identity, culture and living areas.
Posted by: Cynic | Aug 9 2024 0:42 utc | 63
As one of those poorer working class white Brits, I have to say that I didn’t realise we were (alledgedly) having our identity and culture stolen by those dastardly immigrants.
Living in one of the first cities to be hit by the right wing mob (Sunderland) in a multi-cultural area and within 10 minutes walk from not one, but two mosques, I can say from personal experience that if anything my identity and culture have been enhanced if anything.
Of course it helps that I tend to see new experiences as generally positive, rather than frightening and a automatic threat.
And as for white working class culture here in north east England, then look no further than the annual Durham Miners Gala – 200,000 people descend on Durham City for a celebrating of the mining past, trade unions in todays world, socialist, anti-racist, pro-Palestine and abolishing the monarchy.
Missed it ? Well, the UK MSM tends to ignore it, and even the local press give only a cursory mention, but luckily for you we have videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4XNONAwf94
The white British working class not being victims. Shocking, isn’t it ?
Posted by: Red Star | Aug 9 2024 11:43 utc | 108
In case you missed it.
Stand Up For Racism is now promoting Zionism.
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 9 2024 7:52 utc | 96
In case you missed it, here’s the Esthablishment attempt to discredit those who took a stand against the far right this week.
Suresh, or individuals very like them, appear daily in the comments section of UK media, pushing pro-Israel, pro-Ukraine and right wing agendas, and always attempting to divide and rule.
Stand Up To Racism is of course doing nothing of the sort, and Suresh’s source – and there appears to be only one source – is a slightly hysterical unsigned letter from someone pushing their own agenda.
Posted by: Red Star | Aug 9 2024 12:06 utc | 109
War on Gaza: Israel has created its own Abu Ghraib – and the world is silent
Lubna Masarwa, Peter Oborne
9 August 2024 10:15 BST | Last update: 2 hours 46 mins ago
Western politicians must act on the mounting evidence of sexual abuse and torture of Palestinian prisoners
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-has-created-its-own-abu-ghraib-and-world-silent
Not much chance of that ever happening but at least they verbalize the obvious. Unfortunately the west is deaf and blind.
Posted by: Fred | Aug 9 2024 12:12 utc | 110
@xiao pignouf | Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:02:00 GMT | 99
I tend to think it’s a waste of time and energy to try and convince a racist that his racism has no other solid basis than his utter ignorance or bad faith. He ou she needs racism the same way the junkie needs his fix and the soak needs to get hammered. It makes him/her feel better about him/herself for at least a short time.
Racism presents in a person due to different underlying motives. Those that you describe, who seek inner homeoastasis by involving/blaming outside factors (call it projection; a bit like a cat chasing its own tail) are primarily psychiatric cases.
Other forms racism involve fear of the unknown. I myself grew up in a smallish town without much Ausländer (foreigners; étrangeres), there were just two Turks in my primary school class of 24. After moving to the city, I got to know many folks over the years; my own prejudices and insecurities faded away concurrently. I believe that “mechanism” is universal.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 9 2024 12:19 utc | 111
It’s a shame the linked video won’t play without TG login.
https://t.me/rusengineer/4906
Already forgotten footage from our history.
25 years ago, on August 9, 1999, Sergei Stepashin announces the appointment of V.V. Putin as acting head of the Russian government.
And Stepashin’s commentary about the almost lost Dagestan shows the atmosphere and expectations of the elites in the country at that time. That is, we were really on the brink of disaster and the collapse of the country. This is important for those who did not live through that period due to their age, and at the same time listen to fairy tales about the freedoms and democracy of the 90s.
Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 9 2024 12:58 utc | 112
I can’t see any future scenario where Ritter is “rehabilitated” and allowed back into the establishment fold.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 9 2024 1:38 utc | 75
IF, as I believe is likely, there is a real contest within the PTB to redirect the fundamental policies of the Deep State away from the precipice and into a Fortress America mode for rest, recovery and rebuilding if its fundamental economic powerbase, then Ritter could easily be ‘rehabilitated’ by the faction that wants that change, regardless of his sincerity or ties to psyops. How hard would it be to make him an American Mandela, validated by the persecution of the current leadership of the apparatus of state?
His current troubles don’t invalidate the thesis that he is controlled opposition, they just sharpen the question of who he is controlled by. He’s been singing from the same hymn book as the other ‘exes’ but a bit louder. His views are only dangerous to a clique of the broader ruling class, not in anyway even to the persistence of the state, let alone the Deep State or the capitalist class. Even if his dissidence is 100% sincere, it’s absolutely non-revolutionary. The same could be said of any of them, but that’s what controlled opposition does- it ‘opposes’ power in a safe, non-threatening way.
I think perhaps you are mistaking the Clinton/Obama/Biden gang for the top of the pyramid, and they certainly have a powerful grip on state power, but above them in the lofty realm of banks and bankers, there are people whose day to day due diligence tells them that the gangsters are on the verge of touching off something that will make their entire power base disappear in a radioactive cloud.
We’ll see. Sometimes Hitler can’t be rooted out without cataclysmic destruction. His gangsters were very much like the COB gangsters- greedy, psychopathic nobodies handed power to get a job done. The bankers think they can replace them, but they are pursuing their own idea of self-interest and refuse to heed the pink slips.
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 9 2024 13:03 utc | 113
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 9 2024 13:03 utc | 113
Ritter4 is not ‘controlled opposition’-that idea is fanciful
– The current effort to make the memory of the Trump shooting disappear in public space
Posted by: grunzt | Aug 9 2024 9:47 utc | 102
It doesn’t seem that way to me.
Instead of telling the whole story at once there seems to be a steady drip drip drip release of information about what happened that looks to me like they’re dragging this story out as long as possible.
Just last night CNN released the body cam footage from the cop that stuck his head up over the roof line saw the shooter and then dropped back down to the ground and ran like a mad man out into the parking lot.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/politics/police-body-cam-video-trump-shooting/index.html
Posted by: jinn | Aug 9 2024 13:12 utc | 115
I’m wondering what you think of allowing scabs to cross picket lines?
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 9 2024 0:16 utc | 60
I would say I take a very dim view of scabs. My ancestors came to America from Connaught in the 1860s and settled in as anthracite coal miners in northeastern Pennsylvania. Conditions were abominable and many of the men died before age 50. Attempting to organize a union was an invitation for a bullet in the head. So, they were Molly Maguires, a secret society. They struck back at the mine owners with their own violence, as best they could. America’s labor history is vicious. Anyway, I was brought up in a union household that viewed owners and their schemes (including scabs) with suspicion (if not outright hatred).
Posted by: Red Star | Aug 9 2024 11:20 utc | 106
Thanks for answering Tom Q’s question. Obviously, I don’t live in Britain and couldn’t speak to it. I am interested largely due to the number of barflies who are British and, like you, make excellent contributions here. I will only add that in America we certainly have a two-tired justice system: one for the rich and one for everyone else. That said, there is no question that black people here face the most brutal hand. We have too many cases of innocent poor people rotting in prison, while those rich enough to afford the best attorneys often walk free even though they are guilty.
Posted by: KMRIA | Aug 9 2024 13:32 utc | 116
Posted by: Michael A | Aug 8 2024 19:26 utc | 31
“How do 70 million people generate a fucking 50 million tons of e-waste every year? That’s close to a ton per person. I buy a new laptop once every 5-8 years and hardly have any other electronics.”
That figure appears to be out by a factor of 1000. 500kt per annum appears to be around the figures I’ve seen.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 9 2024 13:52 utc | 117
Another tour de force from Bhadrakumar, on southeast Asia.
Thailand aborts the colour revolution
. . .Washington is livid that its proxy, Move Forward led by a young man educated in the US and groomed to spearhead a colour revolution, has been banned. The Thai authorities understand that the western intention is to break up the ancient crust of their country’s polity, which is the only way to make inroads into what is otherwise a deeply Buddhist culture — specifically, to demolish the so-called lèse-majesté law protecting the institution of monarchy, an institution that dates back more than 700 years and is a pillar of stability in the country symbolising the unity of the Thai communities. By the way, Christian missionary work is active in both Thailand and Myanmar — as in next-door north-eastern region of India. And the evangelicals are an influential pressure group in the US politics. . .here
Posted by: Don Bacon | Aug 9 2024 14:34 utc | 118
Many thanks to karlof1 at Aug 9 2024 1:53 utc | 77, and psychohistorian lower down at 79.
The joy of following Michael Hudson’s discussions is that while he explains technical aspects of economics on the upper level for those who can understand, he also gives oi polloi answers that vividly describe what is actually happening. And at the same time, he points to solutions. Here is a portion of the discussion that takes into account what we need to know in ways I can understand:
“…This whole idea that somehow you have to make the investors whole, that you have to keep interest for them, making enough money so they can afford to go to the grocery store – this is an utterly false way of looking at the world, because it assumes that the financial sector is part of the real economy.
Think of it as a layer, or even a parasite wrapped around the economy, sucking out the economy’s surplus…”
Yesterday I took in the Duran’s discussion with Martin Armstrong – an economist who to me sounds very much as does Michael Hudson at least with respect to what is happening in a totally negative way. Without really knowing, I suspect he is one of those economists who took what Prof. Hudson is saying and used it successfully as a playbook. I think the Duran were taken aback; I certainly was.
The one positive I took from the discussion (and I have to go back to listen to what was being said in the question period after Armstrong had left) was his description of a republic as the worst form of government because more elements of corruption are enabled by it. So, a truer democracy would be the alternative, because those involved in profit are never going to do anything but follow the money.
Thanks to both of you — I think this is a valuable topic for discussion here. I appreciate your bringing it up. As you say, psychohistorian, people need to become aware of what is happening. I did when working in retail some years back and our retirement pensions got shifted into the market. I didn’t like that so I left.
Posted by: juliania | Aug 9 2024 14:51 utc | 119
What’s up with all the young folks doing the videos on how America deserved 9?11? I’m pretty sure it’s a ploy to cement the narrative that it was done by Islamic terrorists in everyone’s heads – maybe something is brewing that threatens to upset the apple cart: https://folkpotpourri.com/a-new-video-more-9-11-deception/
Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Aug 9 2024 14:53 utc | 120
Other forms racism involve fear of the unknown.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 9 2024 12:19 utc | 111
Which is what I meant by “utter ignorance”. Ignorance generates fear, fear generates rejection. But since the world is at our doorstep, fear is now artificially induced by the msm and social media.
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Aug 9 2024 15:01 utc | 121
Remember McAffee . Adventurous rebel ancap sort of character that not all would relate to, maybe mixed in to a wider story maybe not . British. Sort of drifted off the radar but I would keep up every now and again. As most will not have this is how all went:
While detained in Spain for US on tax charges, was found strangled. His wife and others disputed the self harm verdict and asked for own examination. He was put on ice for years while that was being witheld. It was turned into a media show for a while with various tell and sell stories by ex’s.
His wife waited for permission to contest the official verdict. When that was eventually granted she said along the lines of :
“When I applied I had the money to pay for that all, a year ago I had the money to pay for that all, half a year ago I had the money to. Now I don’t. ”
So a continued investigation was dropped.
His wife at the time was having to get by in Spain with any casual work she could find.
Bye MaCafee.
[Unedited – note McAfee is correct spelling]
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 9 2024 15:08 utc | 122
@ Honzo 113
We need to emphasize what canuck 114 wrote: “Ritter is not ‘controlled opposition.
Honzo’s criterion would have everyone who is not wanting to change the state, considered as controlled opposition. That’s a slap on the face to people with sincere opinions which just don’t match your own. The key word is “controlled.”
George Galloway tries to answer hecklers whom he considers sincere, hoping to help them start thinking. But when he finds the heckler is paid to heckle, he shuts them off without further ado.
Posted by: JessDTruth | Aug 9 2024 15:15 utc | 123
Posted by: grunzt | Aug 9 2024 9:47 utc | 102
Beyond that similarity in handwriting: What makes this look to me like a secret service plot, if not involving further players, are details like:
– The passivity of the Secret Service after Crook had been spotted early, and brought to their attention
– Swift action, like well rehearsed, by the SS killing Crook after he had fired his gun
– The current effort to make the memory of the Trump shooting disappear in public space
To me, what makes it look like a secret service plot is the no end of loose ends every which way but loosed.
Put another way: if Intelligence was NOT involved, they would be making sense of what happened rapidly, going through their bottomless comm files and security camera footage etc to quickly identify and apprehend the perpetrators.
They can’t do this because they are the perpetrators and their job is to obfuscate. Hence nothing makes sense. Which is what gives them away.
@ psychohistorian | Aug 9 2024 4:30 utc | 86
in answer to your question – i am not sure…
@ jopalolive | Aug 9 2024 5:54 utc | 94
sorry, but you don’t make any sense..
@ xiao pignouf | Aug 9 2024 9:02 utc | 99
yes, i think you have that right.. thanks..
Posted by: james | Aug 9 2024 15:43 utc | 125
With all respect due to Michael Hudson, I don’t get all this talk of a crash on August 5th. I just threw up a Weekly Chart of the SP500 and it’s in a strong uptrend with what is as yet a minor correction underway already looking like it might go back up to test recent all-time highs made only a month ago.
(Plus it is rare for the US market to tank in early August; late August, yes.)
https://www.tradingview.com/x/P6xz46dV/
The turquoise dotted line on the chart is the VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price followed by Institutions) calculated starting on Jan 1st 2024; basically the market corrected back to that volume-weighted level and immediately bounced. So this is not a ‘crash’ by any stretch. Now maybe later we will get one, but if so we’ll be going down to at least around 4,000 level versus the current 5,3-500 levels.
Anyway….
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/decoupling
Dugin’s latest, about how Russia and RoW will be decoupling from West over next few decades, and how deep, difficult and valuable a process this will prove.
Ritter4 is not ‘controlled opposition’-that idea is fanciful
Posted by: canuck | Aug 9 2024 13:06 utc | 114
Glad you cleared that up! The evidence you present is overwhelming.
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 9 2024 16:46 utc | 128
When the 2016 attempted coup occurred against Erdogan, there was (and still is) a question about whether it was real or a staged event by him to seize power. Because he responded exactly like how an autocrat would respond to an assassination attempt, creating a major nationwide crackdown on the Gulen movement and thereby flushing out CIA clandestine operations out of Turkey, I concluded that the assassination attempt was real and not staged. Perhaps that isn’t possible in the US, but I would expect there to be an army of attorneys filing lawsuits against the SS, FBI, and DHS demanding to know why he wasn’t adequately protected, afterall, there is indisputable evidence of incompetence if not a conspiracy to assassinate him. Instead Trump responds to the whole affair by letting the SS off the hook. That is not how someone with his defiant character, power within the Republican party and money should have responded to an actual assasination.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Aug 9 2024 16:53 utc | 129
As far as his Presidential run, what better way to expose the depravity of the Biden administration and show that he is a fighter. Instead, he rolled over and is now tied with an even worse Presidential Candidate, Harris, than Biden.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Aug 9 2024 17:00 utc | 130
Just like in 2016, the media is pushing Harris winning in every poll like they did with Hillary.
Drudge reads like the Communist Party USA’s website.
As for the UK, TwoTierKeir must have skipped history class because Europeans know how to do revolution. If this keeps going the King will end up with several hundred surprise guests on his front lawn demanding he do something about Comrade Keir. I don’t know if Keir is that deluded believing he will win this or if his deluded advisors are telling him that but he isn’t going to win.
Posted by: RobertJHarsh | Aug 9 2024 17:01 utc | 131
We need to emphasize what canuck 114 wrote: “Ritter is not ‘controlled opposition.
Honzo’s criterion would have everyone who is not wanting to change the state, considered as controlled opposition. That’s a slap on the face to people with sincere opinions which just don’t match your own. The key word is “controlled.”
George Galloway tries to answer hecklers whom he considers sincere, hoping to help them start thinking. But when he finds the heckler is paid to heckle, he shuts them off without further ado.
Posted by: JessDTruth | Aug 9 2024 15:15 utc | 123
Here is a way that the various elements of the Deep State control people: they bring them up through institutions they control, already led by people they control, and inculcate in them the values and expectations that the ruling class desires them to have. Good students get promoted, bad students have their careers stunted. This happens throughout the education/academic system, the military, the think-tank/government/corporate system, which are all intertwined and serve the same class.
Most mid/high-level functionaries in the institutions are ‘controlled’ because their thinking has been restricted to this Overton Window of acceptable thinking. People tasked with directly setting the tasks for these people have bribery, intimidation and blackmail added to their controls.
In this environment, there are agents set to become ‘thought leaders’ on every foreseeable axis of conflict, so that every kind of popular action can be shaped and prodded into more acceptable forms. If a person in a ‘thought leader’ position is not trying to overturn this system, then they are either painfully naive or they are controlled opposition.
Which is Ritter?
He has had a pretty serious real-life education in how the Deep State works. If he doesn’t get it by now, he is incapable of getting, and he’s not terribly useful to people who actually want to make systemic change. If he does get it- well, he’s been law-fared before, been painted as a pedophile, etc. A classic Deep State method of control.
Either that failed to take, and… what? Why hasn’t he been going after his persecutors directly in the public sphere?
Ritter may be such a prisoner of his upbringing, education, Marine corps training and intelligence officer background that he is simply incapable of connecting the dots- but this means that his entire world-view is fundamentally flawed and he’s just another victim, not a ‘hero.’
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 9 2024 17:04 utc | 132
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 9 2024 17:04 utc | 132
Despite Ritter’s endless opposition of Israel since October 7th, his first reaction to the event, was I love Israel. This indicated to me that at the time he had a limit to what he can say about Israel, those barriers seem to have been broken by now. That barrier maybe cultural – conspiracy theorist logic or dancing through the politics, PC language to not get him demonetized or indeed it could be a matter of being controlled opposition. I believe 90% of what Ritter says is the truth which is given with much greater liberty than anyone else, but it is the last 10% that worries me.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Aug 9 2024 17:26 utc | 133
A Gaza on our urban doorstep
https://fair.org/home/the-problem-is-theres-no-place-for-anyone-to-go/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEh095leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTrL5X9FeLhmOrSJ8mf030_QwkyXTOAdlUJa68D3rqiOiKBcThD9NuOgVA_aem_QVDzKWJg5ZA3Xe6lsSs_1w
Posted by: JAB | Aug 8 2024 16:39 utc | 18
a very disturbing realization, once the open genocide foreign policies were made clear, was how this would impact the short term prospects of homeless residents.
At the moment, California Governor Newsom is feigning disgust with the progress of local jurisdictions in removing the homeless from sidewalks, state property and undeveloped lots within reach of supportive “services” such as there may be.
A canvas of unhoused residents who would gladly receive any sort of assistance procuring housing (as opposed to shelter space, perhaps equally unavailable, but much more dangerous) would likely reveal that their efforts are met with shrugs. Locally, since Covid came to town, at least, many low budget hotels in seedy stretches have been remodeled (probably more than 100k each), repurposed, fenced off, gated and secured by operators suckling that particular teat. Whether these are meant to be the new private prisons for the poor remains to be seen, but those offered a room are typically given 90 days of it. Thrown out even faster for whatever convenient, obvious excuse comes along. Meanwhile, nothing productive occurs other than maximum money transfers to those connected enough to be involved. Now Newsom cleverly blames these localities for doing what has always been “done” and pushes a two faced attempt at eating the cake he previously served. THE REASON WE HAVE HOMELESS IN VAST NUMBERS IS BECAUSE OF THE POLITICIANS WHO WORK FOR THE DEVELOPERS WHO REFUSE TO SERVICE THE REQUIREMENT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Any other explanation is spurious.
Posted by: Not Ewe | Aug 9 2024 18:02 utc | 134
over one hundred thousand per room, remodeling hotels in relatively decent condition, as opposed to entire large apartment facilities on the market for a million or two, somehow, those sales are interrupted.
ENTIRELY corrupt proceedings, and neither Newsom or anyone else can be surprised at how things have gone. decades of this sort of odious corruption have shown the truth to all willing to look at it.
Posted by: Not Ewe | Aug 9 2024 18:07 utc | 135
xiao pignouf | Aug 9 2024 15:01 utc | 121
I’d like to ask you a question. What makes you think those white English folks currently demolishing things and confronting the police, with a high risk of ending up in prison, are afraid?
Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Aug 9 2024 18:32 utc | 136
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 8 2024 21:39 utc | 46
“Michael van Landingham wasn’t naive about what the Kremlin was capable of. His work as an intelligence analyst for the CIA had given him a front-row seat to the destruction that Russia’s spy services had wrought in places like Syria and Ukraine.”
““I think for the first time in my professional life, I felt physically ill reading something.” Patriotic, sanctimonious cunt.
Posted by: horseguards | Aug 9 2024 19:06 utc | 137
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 8 2024 22:12 utc | 50
He’s talking about (predominantly) ordinary working class people, not elected politicians or the powerful elite, you fuckin’ tosser.
Posted by: horseguards | Aug 9 2024 19:14 utc | 138
Just thinking, which is a bad habit. Who built the pyramids, Machu Pichu, Nan Madol and others? With all of our supposed technology, could we do it today? Probably not with Americans.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Aug 9 2024 21:12 utc | 139
I believe 90% of what Ritter says is the truth which is given with much greater liberty than anyone else, but it is the last 10% that worries me.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Aug 9 2024 17:26 utc | 133
I agree, as far as facts go. I am more concerned with what he doesn’t say, which is the biggest issue with all of these ‘dissidents’. There was some discussion of ‘Nelsonian Knowledge’ awhile back on this site- I think it’s valuable for everyone to make sure they understand the concept.
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 9 2024 21:33 utc | 140
What makes you think those white English folks currently demolishing things and confronting the police, with a high risk of ending up in prison, are afraid?
Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Aug 9 2024 18:32 utc | 136
We were talking about a certain kind of racism which is based on a mix between ignorance and propaganda. They fear what they don’t know, they fear because someone tell them to do so.
My neighbours and almost the entire village I live in vote for the far right even if they very rarely encounter an immigrant or a muslim. Though their lives were made harder on many levels by the ultraliberal policies they always had voted for in the past and that the far right openly commits to keeping up with, they were brought to believe, I don’t know how, that the very reason of that are the immigrants.
The white folks you’re talking about are nothing but thugs and hooligans. Oh no, they’re not scared of a group of unarmed policemen, a bookshelf in a library or a food store display window, but put some muscle in front of them and they won’t be so tough.
Fear, anger and stupidity are states of the mind that make it very easy to be manipulated.
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Aug 9 2024 23:06 utc | 141
I would also like to point out that yes, America was conquered. But it took at least 200 years. We don’t denigrate Ghengis for his exploits, why are we crying about Americans? They’re just doing what they were taught.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Aug 9 2024 23:35 utc | 142
Red Star | Aug 9 2024 11:43 utc | 108
*** And as for white working class culture here in north east England, then look no further than the annual Durham Miners Gala – 200,000 people descend on Durham City for a celebrating of the mining past, trade unions in todays world, socialist, anti-racist, pro-Palestine and abolishing the monarchy.***
UK population is more than 50 million. so seen in that context (especially when people there mainly for entertainment are factored on) … not a lot, really.
*** Missed it ? Well, the UK MSM tends to ignore it, and even the local press give only a cursory mention, but luckily for you we have videos.***
Why bother — “past” and ritualised, posing and gush is all it has got to offer.
* See how “the left” stopped the US using Britain as a base that also provided funds and cannon-fodder for the US-empire.
* See how “the left” stopped infrastructure and important UK industries from being ‘privatised; or just plain terminated.
* See how “the left” ended the infliction of austerity and neoliberalism on Britain.
See how “the left” prevented Pompeo and the US/Israeli regime from imposing the US/Israeli choice of Prime Minister on Britain.
* See how “the left” destroyed a major centre of global corruption, extortion and exploitation, called the “City of London”.
the list could go on … but in reality, it is a list of what “the left” didn’t do!
But see how “the left” ever so nobly has demanded, and still demands, ever more immigration — whether legal or illegal, and “refugee” however bogus — despite there already being insufficient food and energy supply within the country to meet its needs even with a lower population level.
Millions can starve or freeze in future Britain, but that will of course make the public really well-disposed towards the creators of that situation — including “the left” with its now obsoletely mangled ideology and well paid, crony appointed jobsworth alleged (but non) solutions to problems — won’t it?
Never mind : as nobody ever said, “Let them dine on ideological ‘pc’ quotes, and carbonless burn any left-over waffle for heating”.
*** The white British working class not being victims. Shocking, isn’t it ?***
Were you born blinkered, like so many of the supposed “left” nowadays, or did that condition develop gradually?
PS : wasn’t it a Labour Chancellor (allegedly “left”) who in the 1930s presided over the notorious “means test” … and declared that the prime duty of a Chancellor was to ensure the profitability of the (private) banking system?
Disturbingly like the “left” and (most) Union backed Starmer regime in power now!
Posted by: Cynic | Aug 9 2024 23:43 utc | 143
I see in Croatia, black shirts marching in large numbers.
Several decades of extreme left liberalism have brought about the emergence of a genuine far right.
And in the time of left extremism, any that are simply conservative have been labeled far right, fascists ect.
The liberals here that back this left extremism – the climate Greta Thunberg rubbish, that mas promotion of homosexualism for all and child grooming, and also unlimited migration of different cultures….. Well it is what you support that has given rise to the re emergence of a genuine far right, a fascist far right.
No culture, no social structure can survive what has been occurring in the last decades in the west. A period of mass insanity that will now only grow worse as the western world moves closer to collapse.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 10 2024 0:01 utc | 144
France -25% wheat… wouldn’t it be a pity if nothing came from ukraine?
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-faces-worst-wheat-harvest-in-the-last-40-years/
Less energy, less food, sounds fun.
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 10 2024 1:25 utc | 145
I watched an interview with Jeffery Sachs. The amazing thing is that he plainly states what I have suspected is true (and I’m a nobody).
The US government simply invents narratives and states “facts” with no regard for truth. While the US is delusional, the UK is somehow weirdly beyond that. A small nation that hallucinates that it’s an empire that will defeat Russia.
Watching him is like hearing a voice in your head say, “Yes, the ‘unipolar’ world is just as stupid and crazy as it seems”
Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 10 2024 1:35 utc | 146
This conversation from Ray McGovern is difficult to categorize but so full of interest it deserves to be considered on this forum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIyWGvMaQ4
Posted by: juliania | Aug 10 2024 1:43 utc | 147
Someone care for a serbia flavored color?
BELGRADE, August 9. /TASS/. Moscow has warned Belgrade of preparations for mass riots initiated by representatives of Western countries, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told reporters.
Asked about Western preparations for a coup in the country, he said: “Today, we received official information from the Russian Federation.”
“The information was provided through formal channels and we are working to sort it out. The Security and Information Agency (Serbia’s intelligence body – TASS) is responsible for that; besides, people in the Serbian government and other agencies who specialize on these things are doing their job,” Vucic stressed.
“Those who dream of achieving something by force will fail. Serbia is consistently moving forward and they cannot and will not stop it. They will never be able to stop it again. This is my message to everyone, and our people have nothing to worry about,” the head of state concluded.
Earlier, the Vecernje Novosti newspaper reported that members of Serbia’s opposition were ready to take advantage of the pro-Western protests in Belgrade planned for August 10 to seize the presidential palace, eliminate the head of state and launch the same scenario as in Ukraine.
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 10 2024 1:45 utc | 148
Newbie | Aug 10 2024 1:45 utc | 148
Color revolutions are ramping up along with everything else. US just had a success in Bangladesh. Idiots there can now likely go in the trashbin of history.
Hopefully Serbia will be okay but it is a small country surrounded by hostile forces.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 10 2024 2:03 utc | 149
I’m going to Colombia, from Madrid, 12 hours to Bogota. I’m with the cellphone on my own mess.
I have the cellphone. No problem. Gin. I gonna mess this. Well I have to sleep: but I Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB24_kIPIB4
Posted by: Premind | Aug 10 2024 2:14 utc | 150
Color revolutions are ramping up along with everything else. US just had a success in Bangladesh. Idiots there can now likely go in the trashbin of history.
Hopefully Serbia will be okay but it is a small country surrounded by hostile forces.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 10 2024 2:03 utc | 149
I mentioned Bangladesh a couple of days ago…
This whole situation is losing any semblance of respectability …
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 10 2024 2:32 utc | 151
“assassination attempt on Trump was a secret service failure.” (confusion)
New bodycam footage from Trump assassination attempt shows officer confronting shooter 3 minutes skynews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NuGjxWKVuE
NEW Bodycam Video Cop Spots Trump Shooter On Roof BEFORE Shooting
jeffostroff 14 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JmDL9_xBg
Posted by: Fred | Aug 10 2024 2:47 utc | 152
starting just after the trump shooting – Rally body cam footage
live for 20 minutes police video body cam with audio – at buildings with shooter on the roof already dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxR76yrJO-A
eg at 10:20
go ahead I need 5036 5030 start towards
the farm I [ fucking __ ] told them post the
guys [ fucking __ ] over here I told him that
the [ fucking__ ] the Secret Service I told
him that [ __ ]
Tuesday I told him to post [ __ ] guys
over here I have no contact
with what thought you got no we’re
inside Alpha One Bravo One
picky [ __ ] I told them to post [ __ ]
guys over here I wasn’t even concerned
about it because I thought someone was
on the roof I thought that’s how we like
how how can you lose a guy walking back
they were
inside in the building from you need to
guy Somewhere over the left side why why
W because I thought we were going to
post guys over here I talked to the
Secret Service guys like yeah no problem
we’re going to post guys over
here watch the large window beside
me I bet you claimed up here
I I don’t I don’t think so the trip pull
in right there I thought he didn’t see
Posted by: Fred | Aug 10 2024 3:01 utc | 153
On roof with SWAT and local police w dead body views – 17 to 20 minutes
2nd RAW Rally body cam footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DXWpZRFeX4
from 21 minutes
“we got shot at it was a real close snap
dude bro before you [ __ ] came
up here I pop my head up there like an
idiot by myself dude he turned around I
[ fucking __ ] dropped and I start [ __ ] I
got somebody put my head up here [ __ ]
dude that’s I was [ fucking __ ] calling out
bro [ fucking dude __ ] on top of the ROOF
[ fucking __ ] we on the same frequency (?)
we in theing up now I’ll let you know go”
Posted by: Fred | Aug 10 2024 3:27 utc | 155
Before and after shooting
RAW Compilation: Butler Township Police body camera footage from July 13 rally in Butler County
Butler Eagle 7 minutes multi cameras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOfok0L-Rc
Posted by: Fred | Aug 10 2024 3:30 utc | 156
This is quite good a montage of multiple videos including the recent ones.
Watch Clips All Put Together! #trump #thomascrooks #bodycamera #trumprally #rawBodycamera
Gray Hughes 20 minutes or so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=terj9En34Uc
Posted by: Fred | Aug 10 2024 3:40 utc | 157
Why do our politicians all sound like Grima Wormtongue? Must be the CO2 in the air.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Aug 10 2024 3:42 utc | 158
Stand Up To Racism is of course doing nothing of the sort, and Suresh’s source – and there appears to be only one source – is a slightly hysterical unsigned letter from someone pushing their own agenda.
Posted by: Red Star | Aug 9 2024 12:06 utc | 109
Not sure how long you have been at MoA, but most of us have already been schooled by Prof. David Miller.
https://x.com/Tracking_Power?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Here’s the link to the other organisation IJAN. Ask themself what they think of SUTR.
https://ijan.org/
Speaking of agendas, what’s your reason for pushing Stand Up To Racism?
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 10 2024 3:55 utc | 159
The red star… so much trash coming out of the woodwork. The western so called ‘liberalism’ so many here support its a bit mind boggling.
So many, so detached from any form of reality….
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 10 2024 4:24 utc | 160
Posted by: horseguards | Aug 9 2024 19:06 utc | 137
Couldn’t agree more. I retch any time I read that kind of shit.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 4:50 utc | 161
Stammer
This is organised thuggery, it has no place on our streets
When CIA/MI6 raised hell in HK 2019…..
Listen what they said,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbZZmyxzBY
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 4:53 utc | 162
Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 9 2024 4:39 utc | 87
Then you have only met expat Venezuelan “white” compradors who likely have fat bank accounts and condos in Miami or Madrid – and/or – dupes who fled the country on the basis of propaganda and have only continued to slurp it up like the artificially flavored Kool Aid that it is. All of Venezuela’s problems would be reduced to Norway level “social issues” by 95% if it wasn’t for the USA’s absolute hatred and sanctions designed to immiserate the majority of Venezuelans including the poor and middle class. The latter of which have the luxury of being able to flee by airline and bitch to people they meet like you.
But seriously, how many Venezuelans have you actually met, and where? Did you ask them if they were members of a country club in Caracas suburbs before they “fled”?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 4:54 utc | 163
Venezuela triggers the algorithim
A repost
Old timers please skip
Once again, we have a congress and a federal bureaucracy tossing around our money so some jerks can play at being power brokers around the world. The National Endowment for Democracy is a hoax. Now everyone in Latin America knows we were up to our ears n trying to get rid of Chavez. The whole thing backfired. The politicians walk away and we pick up the bill. Some democracy. But what I really want to know is, is there a Ritz in Caracas, so the hacks on the gravy train can meet to overturn a democratically elected government at our expense? And this stuff happens because we let it happen. If we choose to be a nation of sheep, we have only ourselves to blame.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2002/04/richard-cummings/i-met-her-in-venezuela/
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 5:11 utc | 164
Venezuela triggers the algorithim
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 5:11 utc | 164
That’s one way of putting it. Can’t have “the threat of a good example” in Uncle Scam’s backyard, amirite? Least of all when it’s “brown people” succeeding.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 5:16 utc | 165
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 4:53 utc | 162
HAHAHA! Perfect. Same thing with the George Floyd/BLM protests here. And in all cases it’s literally the US fascist thugs infiltrating the demonstrations specifically with the goal of causing violence and rioting.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 5:19 utc | 166
Violence, looting, burning, mayhem all attributable to USA and UK imperial fascist capitalist dictatorship thugs infiltrating or false-flagging or actually taking part openly in protests:
* Maidan 2013/2014
* Venezuela every year since 2001
* Chile 1977
* UK 2024
* US BLM/Floyd 2020 (virtually no violence or vandalism in Minneapolis until “Umbrella Man”) (“pallets of bricks placed by fascists, not “SOOOOROS” (who I cannot stand, due to participation in later bullet points)
* US St. Louis 2014
* Hong Kong Any time there has been an anti-China protest but most recently 2019
* Middle East Arab Spring followed by head choppers
* Georgia 2024 “foreign agent” laws exactly what they are in the Juice Zionist controlled USA/UK
* Ukraine 2004 (or was it ’08?) Orange Revolution
* Anywhere, anytime that the US capitalist terror state has been “interested” since 1945
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 5:25 utc | 167
Can’t have “the threat of a good example” in Uncle Scam’s backyard, amirite? Least of all when it’s “brown people” succeeding.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 5:16 utc | 165
——————
When good example arise, what to do ?
Organise terrorism, regime change, sanction, embargo, to kneecap its economy !
Then announce to the world triumphantly,
Thats your typical commie shit hole !
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 5:32 utc | 168
And in all cases it’s literally the US fascist thugs infiltrating the demonstrations specifically with the goal of causing violence and rioting.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 5:19 utc | 166
————————
Recently some irate limey upload a vid, showing a signboard with this message
Dogs not allowed in this area
Purportedly put up by some Muslim immigrants.
The reaction was fast and furious, with folks baying for genocide.
gawd knows it could be a FF to incite racial wars.
Divide and conquer, one of the oldest trick in ptb playbook
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 5:44 utc | 169
* Anywhere, anytime that the US capitalist terror state has been “interested” since 1945
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 5:25 utc | 167
—————
Dont forget…
TAM MASSACRE
TIBET GENOCIDE
XINJIANG GENOCIDE
HK GENOCIDE
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 5:48 utc | 170
Some western propaganda on China banning effeminate men in the awhile back. Any sane country would.
Russia bans the rainbow flag stuff.
Perhaps Russia should be spelled Ruzzia and China… well Chinezze ?
Tom Q of swinging dick fame – what say you to that.
You like some others here support what China and Russia stand against. What do you think of Russia and China’s immigration policies. What do you think of their ‘global warming’ policies.
You support everything they stand against.
Its not just you Tom. So many here have been drawn into the bullshit that is a big part of the west collapsing. As the collapse continues, the opposite extreme will arise and the collapse will simply continue.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 10 2024 6:46 utc | 171
Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 8 2024 22:56 utc
I could go on and on, but the easiest example is 2020.
BLM rioters were arrested during COVID lockdowns (so that two serious offences). Crown Prosecution Service issued a statement 2nd June 2021 stating that no charges will be brought against them.
Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Aug 10 2024 7:25 utc | 172
What do you think of Russia and China’s immigration policies. What do you think of their ‘global warming’ policies. You support everything they stand against.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 10 2024 6:46 utc | 171
They do have immigration policies but these are not subjected to similar circumstances EU and US have to face and that they’re responsible for : wars, chaos, misery… These circumstances resulted from colonialism, imperialism and atlantism. China and Russia don’t have to bear their consequences.
They do have global warming policies (at least China). Please check : https://english.mee.gov.cn/Resources/Reports/reports/202211/P020221110605466439270.pdf
Damn, you’re obsessed with them gay people… You should see someone, talk about it. I lived ten years in China (I left in 2015 at a time we didn’t hear much about wokeism) and I had some friends who were, you know… gay couples. Though homosexuality was and is still not socially accepted, it was quite common to see women/girls couples openly gay. Restrictions concern, as it is mostly the case everywhere else, men. Revealing your homosexuality to your parents is hard but it’s more due to the family structure than moral issues. As you’re supposed to take care of your parents when they’re old and they’re supposed to take care of your kids as a quid pro quo, homosexuality is a glitch. All of this don’t make a happy family, I guess, but that’s the way it is.
As for young women, I came to think that sometimes to find love and comfort in the arms of another woman was a way to reject the obligation and the subsequent pressure of marriage. But I may be wrong about it.
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Aug 10 2024 7:59 utc | 173
Strike2 or Boeing?
Emergency landing of the plane carrying Trump
The American media reported the emergency landing of Donald Trump’s plane, the Republican candidate in the US presidential election.
Associated Press: The emergency landing of Trump’s plane was caused by a technical fault of plane.
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/29900
Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 10 2024 8:35 utc | 174
B now has the difficult task of deciding the biggest conflict in a generation and creating a multi polar bar as we witness the war of Newbie versus newbie.
(Was I the only one who couldn’t tell the difference between their posts?)
Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Aug 10 2024 12:19 utc | 431 (Ukraine SitRep: Kursk Campaign Designed To Keep War Going)
Are there two, or are they arguing with themselves about which one of them is them?
Posted by: Rhymerez | Aug 10 2024 12:49 utc | 175
/laps up some spilt ‘bar water’
~_^
Oh yeah, that’s the good stuff.
All this frenetic energy trying to overturn everything, everywhere, all at once. Seems like the Masters of the Universe feel those galaxies slipping through their tightening fingers. Perhaps the best thing we could do is innoculate our little gardens from accepting anything from Empire and its false calls for ‘democracy’.
Just say no to internal in-fighting. ;D
/hiccup
/hops drunkenly away
Posted by: titmouse | Aug 10 2024 13:14 utc | 176
Russian Federation is an embarrassing entity. I’m supposed to be happy we are supposedly entering a new multipolar world and THIS is the other pole? Lordy. Funny the RF regime is ashamed of their Soviet past when all they are is a fucking parasite living off of a superstructure built by the Bolsheviks. They should be thanking god almighty everyday the Bolsheviks built up the formerly backwards empire into the superpower that the RF (nominally) exists as today.
Posted by: Savant Idiot | Aug 10 2024 13:26 utc | 177
But seriously, how many Venezuelans have you actually met, and where? Did you ask them if they were members of a country club in Caracas suburbs before they “fled”?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 4:54 utc | 163
Exactly. The majority of refugees that flee revolutionary situations to the center of Empire are compradors and counter-revolutionaries. Cubans, Vietnamese, and ‘Russian Emigres’ fleeing the Bolsheviks pop to mind. Their tales tend to be self-serving propaganda.
Posted by: Honzo | Aug 10 2024 15:13 utc | 178
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwD3zn5nA5I
“Mass Migration has destroyed the Britain I knew”
David Starkey on how Labour has finally and forever abandoned the white working class in England and calls for the need for an English Nationalist Party. Agree with him or not but he does examine various core issues head-on which most tend to avoid or deny.
I have entered and left both Britain and continental Europe several times since the 2000’s, each time with a sense of sadness and foreboding that the cultural civilization I grew up in has been deliberately destroyed.
And those forces behind such deliberation have yet to be called out and confronted. (Nor will they be.)
Scorpion @ 179
What !!!
And you cant see the buitifull irony in that ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Aug 10 2024 16:54 utc | 180
My piece on the Olympic doping issues, that perfectly match the concept of the Western Liberal “Rules Based” International Order. One rule for the West, another rule for the Rest, and no rules for the US.
US Soft Power Takes An Olympic Hit: Drug Cheating and Nobbling Opponents – The Tonya Harding Defence: Nobble Your Opponent
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 8 2024 23:33 utc | 55
«Black Agenda Report raises an excellent point on the riots in the UK.
“So racism isn’t a factor? Then why… While white Britain frets about people of color arriving at their doors, some 242,000 Ukrainians have arrived in the United Kingdom since 2022 […] The lack of anger directed at Ukrainians is proof that the anti-immigrant mania is racist in nature.»
I understand that old history is easily forgotten, but over a century ago, 108 years ago, in 2016, 🙂 a huge campaign was fought against the immigration of several million white christians from low-wage countries into the UK, and resulted in the major event of the UK leaving the EU to stop the free movements of those christian whites into the UK.
One of the arguments against that immigration was that it was racist because letting christian whites in without a visa was, “objectively”, discriminatory against “people of global majority” non-white-christians.
Posted by: Blissex | Aug 10 2024 17:59 utc | 182
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 4:53 utc | 162
«When CIA/MI6 raised hell in HK 2019….. Listen what they said, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbZZmyxzBY»
But… Those people in Hong Kong were “brave” “freedom fighters”: 🙂
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-49157807
“On 1 July 2019, hundreds of protesters stormed Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, (Legco), spraying graffiti and defacing symbols of the Hong Kong law-making body. The ransacking of the government building marked a turning point in a protest movement against a now suspended extradition law.”
Who just staged a “mostly peaceful” protest recorded here:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/07/01/hong-kong-protesters-legislative-council-matt-rivers-vpx.cnn
Posted by: Blissex | Aug 10 2024 18:20 utc | 183
Posted by: jopalolive | Aug 9 2024 0:00 utc | 56
«My theory for both parties promotion of illegal immigration, in addition to lowering wages and conditions, is to disappear the vacancy rates, spiking rental housing prices in order to give a big boost to investment banks/hedge funds.»
The purpose is to give a big boost to affluent older middle class voters, because they are the mass electoral base of neoliberalism: as long as they get massive real estate profits they do not care if someone else gets lower wages, small pensions, meaner social insurance.
Neoliberalism is the result of an alliance of globalist finance upper class with property owning rentier middle class voters.
«Twelve million illegal aliens can move the market.»
Greg Mankiw, a right-wing Economist, predicted in an academic paper in the 1990s that there would be a property crash because of the baby bust after the baby boom, after that did not happen he wrote another paper showing that immigration had avoided that.
How few people can move the market in the absence of house building? Here is a a pretty big example:
https://www.businessinsider.com/affordable-housing-crisis-us-west-coast-cause-explained-2023-9
“Tucked in the far southwest corner of Colorado is the historic city of Durango. Built in the 19th century at a railroad junction, it’s nestled in a bend of the Animas River as it flows through the magnificent San Juan Mountains. Stunning scenery and copious amenities helped attract 460 new residents to the town of 19,000 during the pandemic. That may not sound like a lot, but it was enough to juice median home prices by 50% in just three years, with them soaring from $500,000 in 2019 to over $750,000 by 2022.”
That is of course a fantastic win: 19,000 resident may mean 5,000 houses, which will be typically owned by around 60-70% of the families of Durango, and that means that the “wealth” of each of the 3,000 property-owning families of Durango ballooned on average by around $420,000 in 3 years, or $140,000 per year, tax-free, work-free, entirely (net) paid for by the lower classes.
Posted by: Blissex | Aug 10 2024 18:35 utc | 184
Those people in Hong Kong were “brave” “freedom fighters”: 🙂
Posted by: Blissex | Aug 10 2024 18:20 utc | 183
——————–
The rioters had a field commander, a white gringo.
A US consulate officer was caught red handed giving instructions to Joshua Wong and co in a hotel room !
Many of those ‘freedom fighters’ fled to UK to escape prosecution.
Unfortunately, I heard they are currently huddling behind closed doors, not dare going out, fearful that violence can turn nasty towards ‘Asians’ any time, !
Posted by: denk | Aug 10 2024 19:11 utc | 185
Elon King of Mars jumps the shark.
No credibility left.
https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGUofLSZWEAAuF26.jpg
Lol you can take the boy out of the apartheid state but you can’t take the apartheid mind out of that boy.
He is not the saviour.
He is just a very naughty boy.
He can Go.Fuck.Himself.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 10 2024 21:58 utc | 186
Breaking News: The Trump campaign’s emails were “hacked” by “Iran”!!! LMAO, here we go again.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/but-his-emails?
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503?
So when Trump wins in November, if the whole Middle East isn’t already at war, I guess we should expect a full-on war on Iran.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 22:20 utc | 187
Ahh! Britain! The nation that leaves passengers stranded on stuck trains for getting on for 6 hours without any water or food: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ecml-blocked-stevenage-hitchin-09-08-and-10-08.272079/
And these are the same clowns who think they are able to organise a mass industrial and military mobilisation in order to take on Russia, China or whoever else they think they have in their crosshairs.
Delusional isn’t strong enough to cover it. I despair…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 10 2024 22:24 utc | 188
The psych-ops going on in the UK to ferment ethnic violence is a classic divide and conquer maneuver. Kit Knightly at off-g nailed their agenda right from the get go.
There is a Canadian perspective here that is remarkably similar. The Trucker Freedom Convoy that rolled through my town in 2022 brought life back to this despairing senior. It wasn’t just the thrill of the horns and the music and giving the finger to tyranny which was great on its own; they confronted the lies behind the lockdowns with a knowledgeable expert who educated Canadians on the massive fraud taking place.
Ottawa responded by declaring emergency and branding the working class protest as far right racist and then froze the bank accounts of all Canadians who donated money, ten bucks, doesn’t matter. They panicked and blew their wad by using SANCTIONS on an individual level.
Canadians got a glimpse of the true fascism behind the fake democratic veneer of Ottawa. So now, today, in my country i am a far right racist prone to violence.
Never voted conservative my entire life lol
The working class is the new far right in their new normal world it seems.
Posted by: simon crow | Aug 10 2024 22:38 utc | 189
Posted by: simon crow | Aug 10 2024 22:38 utc | 189
I posted the following on the Palestine thread to ‘canuck’ who (I assume) is a fellow Canadian.
“Many of the ‘English Defense League” are concerned fathers because their under age daughters have been groomed by Muslim fanatics and are now drug addicts and prostitutes.”
The vast majority (if not all) of the EDL are far-right Islamaphobic racists.
Tommy Robinson was a co-founder of the EDL. Previously, he was a member of the fascist BNP (British National Party).
In 2017, American far-right billionaire Robert J. Shillman funded Robinson’s fellowship at the right-wing Canadian website Rebel News, with Robinson receiving over $6,000 (£5,000) per month. Shillman sits on the board of ‘The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces’.
In 2018 the American/Israeli Middle East Forum think tank (led by Daniel Pipes and described as “fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment”) said it had been funding rallies in Robinson’s support. He also received funding from the right-wing Yellow Vest Australia group. Robinson has also received support from some far-right pro-Israel organizations. See following link.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-are-us-pro-israel-groups-boosting-a-far-right-anti-muslim-uk-extremist/
Strange company you keep.
Posted by: Siddhartha | Aug 10 2024 22:35 utc | 244
Posted by: Siddhartha | Aug 10 2024 23:04 utc | 190
The RF wouldn’t even be around without the Bolsheviks. Russia would right now be a Balkanized series of statelets speaking German in the west and Japanese in the east without the 1917 revolution. Historical speculation is always perilous: there perhaps wouldn’t have been a third Reich, but the second Reich would have forced a defeat onto Kerensky as his army melted away into the country side in 1917-19. The allied intervention would have taken place anyways, and only the East would have been fortified against German, Czech, etc incursions.
Posted by: Chombywombo | Aug 10 2024 23:27 utc | 191
More on the Zionist connection to the riots in Britain.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tommy-robinson-zionist-agenda-hidden-forces-behind-uk-race-riots/288108/
https://x.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1820189449721872547
The EDL English Defence League LTD was registered on the companies house by former Israeli soldier Roberta Moore. She was head of the EDL’s Jewish Unit, which had around 100 members. When asked whether the EDL was exploiting the Zionist Movement, she retorted, “If anything, we are exploiting them.”
The Zionazis have riled up the British public to hate the one demographic likely to end years of support for Israel, or at least question it, and said demographic is *only* present in England in such large numbers fleeing Zionist-Imperialist wars in their home countries. All in service to Israhell.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 11 2024 0:07 utc | 192
Delusional isn’t strong enough to cover it. I despair…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 10 2024 22:24 utc | 188
That covers the entirety of the west. I can think of nothing more to add to your sentence/s there
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 1:21 utc | 193
xiao pignouf | Aug 10 2024 7:59 utc | 173
China is not self sufficient in energy. It also has a very high population density. It has a mix of energy. China’s energy supplies are mostly driven by necessity, plus the high population density, the very large domestic market greatly lowers prices. Compounding the low prices is energy for cost and very few monopolies.
“Damn, you’re obsessed with them gay people… ”
What adults do in their private life is their own business.
The basic building block of any society is the family. It doesn’t matter how hard you go at it, you cannot fertilize a turd.
President Xi said something about men not being effeminate – the girly boy bands taking after South Korea took a hit with that one.
Enjoy your gay paree but don’t push it on everyone else.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 1:36 utc | 194
So when Trump wins in November, if the whole Middle East isn’t already at war, I guess we should expect a full-on war on Iran.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2024 22:20 utc | 187
Yep. Iran and China.
Americans can vote for war faction one, or war faction two. Though in the rest of empire, we don’t get to vote on which war party is crowned emporer.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 2:11 utc | 195
When I was young, I remember several times hearing on the radio of homosexuals being caught, convicted and sentenced to jail. I though that was wrong and still do.
The early environmentalists – Smog, air pollution was bad in many places, mining companies going down into the sulfides and heavy metals wreaking havoc –
Most countries having regulated immigration….
The first two now taken to extremes = extremism. Migration….. unlimited migration in Europe and US.
And so many here fully support the elements that lead to destruction of the family, of society of economy.
So many so divorced from the land – we are elevated to something like gods in this mindset, the rules of nature do not apply to humans. The western world is simply following in the footsteps of the Ukroids. Resolutely marching to their own destruction.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 2:34 utc | 196
“The first two now taken to extremes = extremism. Migration….. unlimited migration in Europe and US.
And so many here fully support the elements that lead to destruction of the family, of society of economy.”
“So many so divorced from the land – we are elevated to something like gods in this mindset, the rules of nature do not apply to humans.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 2:34 utc | 196
Yep. I would just add that 60s-70s environmentalism was largely based on the idea of overpopulation, which has resonance. But now the same people who, back then, complained of overpopulation, just love unlimited immigration. Literally the same people in many cases. The corruption of the Sierra Club is described here:
https://capsweb.org/blog/how-sierra-club-was-hijacked-open-borders-radicals/
And here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/us/bitter-division-for-sierra-club-on-immigration.html
Posted by: Wisco | Aug 11 2024 2:52 utc | 197
Wisco | Aug 11 2024 2:52 utc | 197
Over population is a big thing with the WEF types. But I look at the world and if in peacetime, it can sustainably support the current world population. That word ‘sustainability’ – key to everything.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 3:24 utc | 198
“That word ‘sustainability’ – key to everything.”
That needs amending. “Peace and sustainability” is the term.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 3:27 utc | 199
The trash about Scot Ritter recently in one or anther thread. Craig Murray spent most of his life within the establishment. It has taken him far longer to shake off establishment beliefs than has Ritter.
His trash about Russia some years back…. we all live and learn, some slower than others.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 11 2024 4:25 utc | 200