Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 6:20 utc | 86 1 11:20 PM
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Unless you are referring to a different frkorz post listing, their post @9 above did not include any data from Aug 31 Ukraine Open Thread 2024-206 – which began on August 29, 2024.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 2 2024 6:06 utc | 84

Thanks Fred, you have just confirmed my theory that frkoz cherry picked threads and posts to include in his big list.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 6:20 utc | 86 1 11:20 PM

funny you did not notice the following line in my post 9:
Peteryourwifecalled|1 Oliver Krug|3 Milites|45
some cherry picking i did. you cherry picked by not checking my post.

Posted by: frkorz | Sep 2 2024 11:55 utc | 103

When pseudo-AI is rewriting the internet. Making sense of the thousands of BS articles must be difficult. Check that:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23190533
Searching for it with Brave (!!) you get an AI summary on top of page (not a wiki page) that is titled “Cannibalism case in the Syrian army”…
Puke.

Posted by: Tom | Sep 2 2024 12:10 utc | 105

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/09/02/geert-wilders-for-breitbart-the-netherlands-is-taking-a-pakistani-imam-to-court-for-issuing-fatwa-and-deserves-the-wests-support/

Today, September 2nd, is a historic day. It is the first time ever that an Islamic cleric will have to stand trial for issuing an assassination fatwa.
In a few weeks, it will be 20 years since policemen wearing bulletproof vests and carrying machine guns arrived at my home. They gave me ten minutes to pack, pushed me into an armoured car and drove me off to an unknown destination. The evening of November 4, 2004, was the last time that my wife and I were in our house. Since that moment, we have been forced to live in various safe houses. We have lost our freedom and privacy. Everywhere I go, I am constantly surrounded by bodyguards.
The same thing happened on that ominous evening to my colleague, fellow member of the Dutch Parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a fugitive from Islamic Somalia. We had both been fierce critics of Islam and the Islamization of our country, the Netherlands. As a result of this, Islamic death threats or fatwas ordering the Islamic faithful to kill us had been issued.
Since then, Ayaan has left Dutch politics and emigrated to the United States. I stayed and founded my own party, the Party for Freedom (PVV), which is currently the largest party in the Netherlands and the largest party in the ruling government coalition.
I have always been a firm defender of freedom of speech. It is the bedrock of a free society and a functioning democracy. I will never be silenced. Fatwas, death threats, being on the death list of the Taliban and ISIS, nothing will ever stop me from telling the inconvenient truth.
I realize, however, that the fatwas and death threats against me – rare is the day that I do not receive one in my mailbox – are not just intended to silence me, but also to intimidate everyone else not to be as ‘reckless’ as me in voicing their opinion.
Fatwas are a direct assault on freedom of speech. The Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini has never been taken to court for his 1989 fatwa condemning the British author Salman Rushdie to death, but he should have been.

I don’t understand why it has taken so many years for this to happen; like most unfolding these days in the West.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 2 2024 13:12 utc | 107

labels are crap meant only to divide, but the contemporary domestic US application of “far right” is now directed only to those who in fairer assessment would be considered “leftist”.
It is not as if they can point fingers with hostility at NAZI’s.
with the terminology upended and “progressive” being stolen by Fascists, the terms have lost any other usefulness.
labels are for bigots.
but there is no shortage thereof.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Sep 2 2024 13:30 utc | 109

james 65:

does anyone want to try to explain to me this popular term in the msm ‘far right’?? thanks..
German far right hails ‘historic’ election victory in east

I too would like an updated definition. Back in the day, the left-right dichotomy had a fairly specific economic context, and it wasn’t this “Take from the white working class ‘deplorables’ and give to the lumpenproletariat” nonsense. Compassion for the unfortunate was always something of a leftish trait, but as an adjunct; subordinate to what being “left” really meant. It certainly didn’t encapsulate the entire definition of “left”. To me, the dichotomy always boiled down to whether you stood with (the owners of) Capital or with (the owners of) Labor. Everything else was a distant second.
There are many who have been called “far right”, but do they stand stand with big business or with working people? Viktor Orban, for instance, or even Alexander Lukashenko has been called right wing. Putin is often classified by western presstitutes as right wing as well. Do these individuals lean towards working people or towards big business elites? If they had to choose between Blackrock and some grubby coal miners, which way would they go? And would that choice be informed by something as shallow and ephemeral as “compassion for the unfortunate” or some more fundamental understanding of the world?
My view is that in the desperate struggle by the servants of Big Capital (presstitutes and academia) to bury the ideas of Marx and successors, the very concept of left-right has been corrupted to be harmless to big business, with every hint of class struggle expunged.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 14:22 utc | 111

this person offered ”no” comment on it.. that is the correction to my comment to fred..

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 14:49 utc | 113

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 15:11 utc | 114
Are you claiming that the candid Trump fans don’t exist in great numbers ?

Posted by: Parisian Guy | Sep 2 2024 15:36 utc | 115

Parisian Guy @115
Trump fans exist just like fans of pro wrestlers exist, and there is a bit of crossover between the two. Trump has a presence in the pro wrestling world, after all.
But people knowing that it is just a show doesn’t make them less fans.
Strange that some people are having such a hard time understanding this.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 15:46 utc | 117

TDS people’s heads to explode
Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 15:11 utc | 114
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The bar is set so low. Trump was better than Hillary but that assessment by itself reveals an embarrassment of insufficiency.
The situation will descend into utter chaos before it improves. I look forward to watching the Americans fight amongst themselves rather than against “shithole countries”.
I’m certain the USA will have a go at Canada and the UK before they turn upon themselves. Schadenfreude awaits.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 2 2024 15:51 utc | 119

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 15:11 utc | 114
thank you very much.
Trump is needed and wanted BECAUSE HE FIGHTS!
he has to have a cast iron will to be able to take the corruption thrown at him from the uniparty. i consider it good luck that the 2020 election was stolen. he has gained new experience and new political allies in those four years and knows a lot more about the traitors he had trusted. i wish him well.

Posted by: frkorz | Sep 2 2024 16:02 utc | 121

In the UK the new “Labour” government are in full on “blame the previous government to hide our true neoliberal direction” as they both cut pensioners winter fuel subsidies (hitting 10 million pensioners) and now are raising energy prices by 10% (that’s after the huge increases due to the anti-Russia sanctions).
This could be easily solved by changing the pricing methodology that was invalidated with the Russia sanctions which reduced gas supply by policy. At the least, gas should have been treated separately to all other sources. But instead, they keep shovelling profits to the privatized providers. I explained how the system and pricing of European and UK energy had been set up to facilitate profiteering here, A European Energy Market Designed For Supply Disruption Profiteering And General Chaos, it still hasn’t been changed.
Oh, and of course no shortage of money for Ukraine and the military. And they want to restrict Russian gas exports even more …

Posted by: Roger | Sep 2 2024 16:13 utc | 123

“Strange that some people are having such a hard time understanding this.
Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 15:46 utc | 117”
Thanks, but your idea needed no justification. I just wanted to be sure there was no misunderstanding and you were actually believing that almost all Trump fans know it’s only a show.
I tell you: most of the real world is not like what is around yourself.

Posted by: Parisian Guy | Sep 2 2024 16:39 utc | 125

CNN reports that US has seized Maduros plane in Dominican Republic.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Sep 2 2024 15:59 utc | 121
______
You could’ve / should’ve pointed out that Maduro wasn’t on it. In fact, the plane had been holed up there for several months.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 2 2024 16:51 utc | 127

@128, malenkov, that’s why I said that his plane was confiscated. Not him.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Sep 2 2024 17:34 utc | 129

How about Turkey applies to BRICS?

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Sep 2 2024 17:38 utc | 131

They know it was election fraud and not voter fraud
Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 17:36 utc | 131
Its your delusion. Don’t blame others for not understanding how it works.
The establishment benefited enormously from Trump’s first term why would they not want a repeat?
Mr Gruff can’t be bothered with evidence or rational arguments and so he continues with delusional conspiracy theories.
The theories are not even original. Its all just the same evidence free stories you can find on any number of so-called conservative media outlets.

Posted by: jinn | Sep 2 2024 17:57 utc | 133

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 2 2024 14:22 utc | 112
alex christophorou of the Duran has a good piece this morning on what such terms mean in Germany’s election coverage, william: “far right, far left; far out!”

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2024 18:31 utc | 135

I’m puffing the thread partly because Juliania said we should.
Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 5:32 utc | 78
Thanks, Wisco!

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2024 18:51 utc | 137

Although caveat: Hudson is not an ancient historian. To the non-expert it sounds convincing, especially if you like the rest of his ideas. But it’s a highly tendentious reading of antiquity that attempts to align it with his view of the present. Hudson’s best on the 20th century.
Posted by: Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:27 utc | 37
Thanks for this Patroklos – it has stayed with me through a long of extra stuff I’ve unravelled since my comment to you explaining the problem I have with one small claim Hudson makes concerning the role of Jesus.
Could you explain your historical objections more specifically? What parts of his analysis fall short, or is it just the general focus on economic trends that perhaps don’t give the full picture? I myself would liken Hudson’s foray into the early stages of history to how Biblical scholars dig back into archeology. The purpose is to discover original texts and motivations, so I can see how that interests an economist as well. History is admittedly not his main field of study, but I found his willingness to explore it admirable.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2024 19:04 utc | 139

Of course, you can always make up your own clever stuff as well.
Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2024 18:49 utc | 137
This sounds a bit catty, so I hasten to say the remark wasn’t meant personally — it was made as I was seeing Buber’s first footnote in his book about Moses:

1. That a scholar of so much importance in his own field as Sigmund Freud could permit himself to issue so unscientific a work, based on groundless hypotheses, as his “Moses and Monotheism”(1939), is regrettable.

Were he still with us, I guess I’d be asking Buber to ‘please explain’ also. Patroklos, you are in good company!
😉

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2024 19:21 utc | 141

The “far right” as depicted only seems to have one common feature, which would be some kind of ethno-nationalism.
Obviously, anyone who favours isolationism or less migration or population integrity or anything at all that limits outside influences on a nation can then be pushed into that category.
Equally, the “far right” do not necessarily have any kind of wider project that favours local culture or tradition, or even that establishes religious or a moral hierarchy.
So the term is quite meaningless, and normally is just used to slander any oposition as being somewhat neurotic white thugs.
Unfortunately the “far right” do tend to have ties to “Israel” and ultra-nationalism, but so do the modern “right” as well … and the “left” in some countries… so that’s that all screwed up.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 2 2024 20:04 utc | 143

What relationship, if any, is there between Sahra Wagenknecht and the Alfred Wagenknecht who was one of the founders of the Communist Party USA?

Posted by: Lysias | Sep 2 2024 21:42 utc | 145

@ Ornot | Sep 2 2024 20:04 utc | 144
what do you call a party that is opposed to endless wars, or more specifically the war against russia?? is that ”far right”?? i say it is bullshit and the media that are pedaling this bullshit know it is bullshit.. instead they support the nazi far right illegitimate gov’t of ukraine, as does all of nato… so these terms as they are presently used have been turned upside down and mean the exact opposite with the intended purpose of slandering them for wanting peace over war… meanwhile the warmongers in power – sholtz, macron, biden, harris and etc – they are the real ”far right” politicians supporting the expired mandated leader zelensky, in the sale of more weapons for more death..

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 22:09 utc | 147

I’m not seeing this as a clarification to my confusion. – Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 2 2024 19:27 utc | 143
Your confusion is warranted. The Beatitudes are a direct contradiction to Christianity as it is practiced.
The “poor in spirit” are those who are social outcasts. That means jesus was specifically talking about thieves, prostitutes and any others who were outside the excepted norms. After all humans are social animals and the least among us are made so by the rest of humanity. Or to putn it another way: we are just like crabs in a barrel
Here is Chris Hedges take on the Beatitudes:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons and daughters of God. Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Killed as an Insurrectionist
Jesus, if he lived in contemporary society, would be undocumented. He was not a Roman citizen. He lived without rights, under Roman occupation. Jesus was a person of color. The Romans were white. And the Romans, who peddled their own version of white supremacy, nailed people of color to crosses almost as often as we finish them off with lethal injections, gun them down in the streets, lock them up in cages or slaughter them in Gaza.
The Romans killed Jesus as an insurrectionist, a revolutionary. They feared the radicalism of the Christian Gospel. And they were right to fear it. The Roman state saw Jesus the way the American state saw Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Then, like now, prophets were killed.
The Bible unequivocally condemns the powerful. It is not a self-help manual to become rich. It does not bless America or any other nation. It was written for the powerless…
Over the ages, there has been little difference between the “poor in spirit” and just plain poor. Money is how humans most often measure wealth.

Posted by: jinn | Sep 2 2024 22:50 utc | 149

Sorry jinn, in post 151 should have included a note that you were quoting Hedges.

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 2 2024 23:12 utc | 151

@148
That’s the strange thing james. I put the current leaders as sold, they have projects of their own that are more important than peace or moderation. I don’t know if they are “far right” or not but they are some kind of disconnected statist/globalist/regionalist mixture that is very corrupt.
The currently labelled “far right” I have trouble with also though. They are simpler themed and more disciplined which is good from my point of view. They tend to at least pay lip service to peace with Russia, which is good also. I personally don’t mind a degree of nationalism and sovereignty, and curbs on subsidised migration also.
The trouble is this though:
I know they are part funded by “Israel” , undoubtedly US also.
I know they are lackey to EU, in fact some seem like controlled opposition.
When it comes to actually acting they often fail – Melony vs Russia and on immigration is a good example. Maybe Liga del Norte is more sincere.
So Wilders is authentic, Le Pen is flexible and probably closest to Russia, in Italy it seems more like a show. Vox in Spain are a different kettle altogether. the leader has authentic complaints, funding is unusual and structure is ‘legal’ as in ‘make’ , which traditional more right find very unsettling. ADF I don’t know enough about.
How they get along with EU and so Ukraine (and so Russia) remains to be seen, but I could not say for sure they would be more interested in peace with Russia now than forming a larger block including Ukraine right – maybe they will look for both.
The point is that in politics you cannot trust anyone really. I could go on, about how placebo parties have been introduced to national crisis (e.g. gfc) that lead nowhere but to dilute tensions, or flash parties are created in otherwise stable duopolies to divide the vote after those have become corrupt, so leading to vacuum or corrupt minority governance etc. etc. etc.
That is what politicians do, it is their job, to influence public perception for whatever end . They tend not to be honest and they tend not to know how to manage a country beyond show and profit.
IMO.
I tend to count myself as apolitical, would be quite at home in countries to the traditional right also, but when the modern right took over where I lived normally (which became a strange concoction socialist right clique foreign influenced) I had to leave , and ended up in a communist region (which I would never have considered) of a traditional society , and just the lack of politics and rejection of strong oversight was a very great relief. Local culture and community, everything much simpler and more real. Some places should be able to resist or escape the current pressures I think, for not being worth bothering about if nothing else.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 3 2024 0:00 utc | 153

https://notrickszone.com/2024/09/02/new-study-human-emissions-irrelevant-in-determining-changes-in-atmospheric-co2-since-1959/

New Study: Human Emissions ‘Irrelevant’ In Determining Changes In Atmospheric CO2 Since 1959
By Kenneth Richard on 2. September 2024
“The main factor governing the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is the SST [sea surface temperature] rather than human emissions.” – Ato, 2024
Another day, another new scientific paper has been published reporting efforts to curb anthropogenic CO2 emissions are “meaningless.”
In this study multiple linear regression analysis was performed comparing SST versus anthropogenic CO2 emissions as explanatory factors and the annual changes in atmospheric CO2 as the objective variable over the period 1959-2022.
The model using the SSTs (NASA, NOAA, UAH) best explained the annual CO2 change (regression coefficient B = 2.406, P = <0.0002), whereas human emissions were not shown to be an explanatory factor at all in annual CO2 changes (regression coefficient B = 0.0027, P = 0.863).
Most impressively, the predicted atmospheric CO2 concentration using the regression equation derived from 1960-2022 SSTs had an extremely high correlation coefficient of r = 0.9995.
Thus, not only is the paradigm that says humans drive atmospheric CO2 changes wrong, but “the theory that global warming and climate change are caused by human-emitted CO2 is also wrong.”
“SST has been the determinant of the annual changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and […] anthropogenic emissions have been irrelevant in this process, by head-to-head comparison.”

PS. I don’t post/share these in order to provoke arguments, though I know that some get riled up. It’s because the global warming issue is not only widely held but at the forefront of many globalist policies, including Declarations coming out of WEF and BRICS conferences, despite these two blocs’ seeming conflict on other fronts. Since it is pushed as a science-based theory, science-based dissent might be persuasive to some and help them consider the good news: the climate is not heading to catastrophe because of CO2 emissions etc.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that the world isn’t headed towards human catastrophe of all sorts, namely plague, famine and war. We should work harder to eliminate corruption in our selves and our societies rather than worrying about high-falutin problems which only experts seemingly can perceive. It’s a classic bait and switch deliberately distracting humanity from knocking the current corrupt crop of international Robber Barons off their perch.
Thus far, it’s been working really, really well.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 0:52 utc | 155

ZH has a posting up with the title of
RFK Jr: There Has To Be “A Reckoning” For “Immoral, Homicidal” COVID Criminality
the quote

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that individuals who engaged in “criminal” behaviour during the pandemic still need to be held accountable.
Kennedy, who is in line for a health related position in Donald Trump’s administration should he be elected, declared recently that there needs to be a “reckoning” brought upon those responsible.
Speaking at the Limitless Expo, Kennedy explicitly referenced Anthony Fauci, noting “I wrote a book about Fauci. It’s a great book. There are 2,200 footnotes in the book… I invited people to find problems with the book… And nobody ever told us any factual error in that book.”
He charged that Fauci and others used their positions during COVID to enforce “totalitarian controls that were not science-based.”
“It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal criminal behavior,” Kennedy urged.
…
“There were cures for COVID from day one, very effective cures. But they didn’t want that. They wanted the vaccine only,” Kennedy posited, adding “if they admitted that any of [the treatments] were effective, the whole vaccine project would have fallen apart.”

That is Ivermectin that RFK Jr. is referring to.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 3 2024 1:25 utc | 157

Sigmund Freud was a charlatan.
Posted by: Lysias | Sep 2 2024 21:47 utc | 147
And his mother was a hamster!

Posted by: Fred | Sep 3 2024 1:32 utc | 159

Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 2 2024 19:27 utc | 143
I will add that I appreciated your post very much, steven; thank you. Here’s how Luke begins his gospel, as my Greek interlinear volume translates it:

Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed.
[The translators are Robert Brown and Philip W. Comfort.]

Posted by: juliania | Sep 3 2024 1:41 utc | 161

and the Roman military authorities — not sufficiently strong in the region to counter major unrest if they didn’t comply — really had no choice.
Posted by: Cynic | Sep 2 2024 23:08 utc | 151
Haven’t we seen that lately in the palestine thread?
At the time they didn’t ask for much, one here, one there… now its by the cartloads and “rome” just whistles (or sends more bombs if they run out)

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 3 2024 1:46 utc | 163

@ Walt | Sep 2 2024 23:52 utc | 153
you can’t trust the mainstream media today.. i am thinking of outlets like bbc, or cbc for example.. they will tell us something is far right when they are opposed to the wars in ukraine or israel.. if you live in germany, you probably aren’t allowed to say anything negative about israel as it would be illegal – anti-semite… that is part of the bullshit i am talking about… words are supposed to mean something but in george orwells 1984 they mean something completely different.. so here we are in 2024 and both his book and aldous huxleys brave new world are appearing increasingly prophetic.. thanks for your post..
@ Ornot | Sep 3 2024 0:00 utc | 154
thanks ornot.. you have a deeper perspective on euro politics and perhaps you are right about usa-israel money being pushed into all sorts of political parties for all the wrong reasons.. i can’t comment on that, but i believe you are probably right… clearly israel money is heavily involved in the usa 2024 race with both parties wanting to appear the most subservient to israel, so i can see how it would be much the same with any fringe type party in europe… but still, the european people don’t appear as easily fooled as some let on.. i just have a problem with people naming and labeling things wrongly and that is what i think is happening here… and worse – i think it is intentional…
@ Fred | Sep 3 2024 1:40 utc | 161
you’re speaking bullshit… same deal the fart poster… as for canucks comment, it has a lot of merit.. here is something to get you and mr. fart started.. The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire | Documentary Film not that either of you are interested…making snide and stupid remarks seems more your style..

Posted by: james | Sep 3 2024 2:47 utc | 165

Trump didn’t say ‘shithole countries’ but ‘shithouse countries’.
As usual, the mainstream press did a lousy job and created a twisted story out of it. Most of the impressions of The Donald most people have who hate him come from an endless stream of slanted stories like this.
Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 2 2024 18:14 utc | 135
———————
Oops,a bona fide Trump fan boz !
Shithole or shithouse…as if it had nuthin to do with the world’s no 1 shit stirrer ?
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58508.shtml

Posted by: denk | Sep 3 2024 3:00 utc | 167

A somewhat nuanced interview with Eric Weinstein, a generally left-leaning Democrat Jewish American intellectual who has been ‘kicking against the pricks’ of late explaining why populists like Trump are a threat to the ‘rules-based order’ and why there are both good and bad reasons for their discomfiture. One of which, for example, is that institutions make international agreements and they cannot have them jeopardized by a populist coming and ripping them all up.
Anyway, a sober, adult contemplation of the issue without partisan froth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRYXhU4kxM
He wonders out loud if They will allow him (now with Bobby, another populist as were his father and uncle) back in the WH.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 3:14 utc | 169

Posted by: Walt | Sep 3 2024 2:38 utc | 165
Fred 1.26
That reference does not appear to be a peer reviewed journal so really not worth spending time on.

a) peer review ain’t all it’s cracked up to be any more (or didn’t you get that memo?).
b) the paper is extensively footnoted with references. Of course I didn’t track them all down, I don’t understand such level of detail anyway. https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Ato-Multivariate-Analysis-Vol.4.2.pdf
But as you yourself have admitted, neither do you. You said you depend upon others to form your opinion, going with the ‘scientific consensus’.
I find that a little feeble, frankly, not to mention naive.
Seeing how you judge from on high, as you do, as to whether or not someone is sufficiently credentialed or a paper has been properly peer-reviewed by fellow professional prostitutes, I marvel at your confident arrogance passing judgment on a subject matter you freely admit you know very little about.
To each his own.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 3:32 utc | 171

That Weinstein interview linked above is 3 hours long! I listened to the first section, which the publisher thankfully has made easy to discern with labels on the red bar, and then skipped to near the end to a section entitled ‘the internet is destroying the sacred’. This Weinstein fellow, along with being very bright, is a real mensch.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 3:39 utc | 173

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 3:32 utc | 172
Straw man.
Unlike you I do not hold opinions on things I know nothing about.
I could write a paper dismissing global warming theory and cite lots of similarly worthless tripe.
It would similarly not be worth the paper is printed on.
Science is all about getting eventually to the truth.
But peer review from people who do understand the subject is the only reliable guide.
All else is conjecture and simply not worth wasting time on.
And to say “peer review ain’t all it’s cracked up to be any more ” is the silliest statement I have seen here this year.

Posted by: Walt | Sep 3 2024 3:45 utc | 175

i asked before – is it the same ”fred” that graced pat langs site?? it looks like it..
Posted by: james | Sep 3 2024 2:50 utc | 167
Are you 2 years old james? Careful, the sky is falling.
Now, IF this is what you think — “you’re speaking bullshit…” — despite the glaring evidence it’s a fair observation of what happens, here and elsewhere, then fuck you and your bullshit.
If what I said to Mr Fart hurt your delicate feelings then you must believe you are one of the people who think imagine believe say whatever conjecture and theory you want, no limits, no evidence, no logic required.
Are you? Or were you upset that I said people often don’t get replies? Because that is also true. Which was it?
.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 3 2024 4:02 utc | 177

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu-p15ZbueI
Just realized there are two Weinsteins, Bret and Eric. Bret made the above linked video a few days after Trump’s assassination attempt calling for him and Bobby to unite in order to overthrow the current Uniparty regime. It is a 2 minute appeal, short and pithy. And prescient.
Unfortunately, it looks like Bobby refused Trump’s offer to be VP only to join the ticket a few weeks later. Oh well. But they are teaming up and they say their mission is to overthrow the existing ‘swamp’. We’ll see, but again: this is potentially a very important political development which will effect the entire destiny of the West and, to a lesser extent, the world.
One tool in Their toolbox is to start a major war. We should not be surprised if that happens any day now.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 4:29 utc | 179

Haiti: A Victim of Naked Imperialism Printer friendly page Print This
By Ghali Hassan, Axis of Logic
Here’s one smart Hassan.
Here’s Smartass Hassan, interrogating
Victor Gao on ‘UIghur genocide’ !
Smartass Hassan at his ‘best‘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vs-paacpkM
Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Sep 3 2024 4:41 utc | 181

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 3 2024 4:53 utc | 183
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Off the loop now.
Be back, hopefully !

Posted by: denk | Sep 3 2024 5:09 utc | 183

Here’s some good advice,”Mind Your Own Business”, Hank Williams.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Sep 3 2024 6:06 utc | 185

The NY Times clarifies the politics of Sahra Wagenkneckt

The Woman Shaking Up German Politics From the East
Sahra Wagenknecht, a former Communist …
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After a career in Communist and left-wing politics …
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She joined the Communist Party at 19 …
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/world/europe/germany-politics-wagenknecht.html

Posted by: too scents | Sep 3 2024 6:19 utc | 187

Posted by: too scents | Sep 3 2024 6:37 utc | 189
Is this the first time that someone has named a party after themselves?
Bit vain, what?

Posted by: Walt | Sep 3 2024 8:55 utc | 189

Fresh pictures of new Chinese airborne electronic assets PLAAF Y-9LG EW-SIGINT platform (30211) and KJ-500 AEW&C (30178)
https://x.com/TheBaseLeg/status/1829428341054771699/photo/1

Posted by: too scents | Sep 3 2024 10:10 utc | 191

Posted by: Walt | Sep 3 2024 3:45 utc | 176
And to say “peer review ain’t all it’s cracked up to be any more ” is the silliest statement I have seen here this year.

Sincerely, you need to do more research and perhaps not trust the Authorities so much.
Once again, you don’t really make a point, just insult. As it happens, I don’t buy everything in the paper I linked and could easily have challenged a few points therein, but it is an example of reasonable argument against the dominant narrative/thesis.
Furthermore, peer review in climate science is one of the least reliable guarantors of reliability, however, because the field is highly corrupted on all sides, though generally the cynics have far less support and endure far more scorn, especially from group thinkers, so one has to wonder what motivates them if not the pursuit of truth. Am generally loth to call other people dishonourable, as many here do quite freely, if for no other reason than doing so diminishes us all.
In any case, especially in the medical field, it is my impression that peer review is grossly abused, moreover this is now the norm not the exception. Indeed, the entire discipline of science is being undermined by the widespread corruption that inevitably follows when so much of it is driven by profit.
Some say Russia and China are charting a different course, but I find what Gintzburg in Russia did with Covid, in teaming up with AstraZeneca, highly questionable or at the least not substantively different from what transpired throughout the West, which seems to have involved a military-industrial initiative fronted by the CIA who then had vaccines fronted by for-profit corporations of course owned by all the corporate-bankster usual suspects) who were then enabled by Emergency Use authorization – conveniently ignoring / denying HCQ and Ivermectin which demonstrated remarkable efficacy in both preventing and curing infection – all bundled up into the catchy label ‘Warp Speed’, for which to this day Trump takes credit making him either a fool or a liar – most likely both – at least on that issue. He probably has too much respect for Experts, so surrendered his own constitutionally mandated authority to Science. Big mistake. Impeachment-worthy IMO.
Perhaps you might reconsider trusting the Authorities so much. Meanwhile, a quick search on ‘are peer reviews corrupt’ yielded many results including the following which I offer because it features statements about this topic by a Nobel Prize Winning Scientist, so presumably an Authority you might give the time of day to:

https://retractionwatch.com/2014/03/03/nobel-prize-winner-calls-peer-review-very-distorted-completely-corrupt-and-simply-a-regression-to-the-mean/
Nobel Prize winner calls peer review “very distorted,” “completely corrupt,” and “simply a regression to the mean”
Sydney Brenner has been talking about what’s wrong with the scientific enterprise since long before he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.
And in a new interview, Brenner doesn’t hold back, saying that publishers hire “a lot of failed scientists, editors who are just like the people at Homeland Security, little power grabbers in their own sphere.”
In a King’s Review Q&A titled “How Academia and Publishing Are Destroying Scientific Innovation,” Brenner says:
And of course all the academics say we’ve got to have peer review. But I don’t believe in peer review because I think it’s very distorted and as I’ve said, it’s simply a regression to the mean.
I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It’s corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.

It appears the full interview was published on an obscure, alternative blog that no longer exists (Kings Review).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Brenner Sydney seems like the real deal, though you never know…
And there are several more recent articles flying around including many clearly designed to mislead and distract, par for the course these days.
So that’s several posts between us and not a single one discussing what was offered in the short paper I linked. Not very helpful. Again, I raise the topic only because both BRICS and WEF and UN are aligned on the Agenda 2030, Sustainability etc., including China where you live. They have all bought into this narrative. And the Science simply isn’t there!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 13:43 utc | 193

I provided a link to a paper which others can judge as they see fit. I did not judge it from on high myself. Others did without addressing any point, just judgment. Why bother?
So your mirror is distorted and actually is just reflecting back upon yourself.
Unless you have a point to make to further a discussion beyond silly ad hominem, I shall not reply further to your silly posts.
All best, Fred. Have a good life!
Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 4:32 utc | 181

It’s kind of enjoyable watching you trying to lie to yourself and everyone else. It’s like dance.
So I pointed this out – refs to you as much to anyone else.

Seeing how you judge from on high, as you do, as to whether or not someone is sufficiently credentialed or a paper has been properly peer-reviewed by fellow professional prostitutes, I marvel at your confident arrogance passing judgment on a subject matter you freely admit you know very little about.
Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 3:32 utc | 172

which goes back to this and what you said when posting the “paper reference”
I asked – Am I allowed to suggest that Kenneth is a know nothing blow hard idiot?
I also said Freud’s mother was a hamster.
Anyway, you posted the quotes from the non-scientific, non-peer reviewed article. I’m sorry to inform you that that is not science, let alone climate science. It is irrelevant fanciful jibberish masquerading as a ‘science paper’. It is in fact a fraud written and republished by frauds.
and then you said the following things @ Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 0:52 utc | 156 :

It’s because the global warming issue is not only widely held but at the forefront of many globalist policies, including Declarations coming out of WEF and BRICS conferences, despite these two blocs’ seeming conflict on other fronts. Since it is pushed as a science-based theory, science-based dissent might be persuasive to some and help them consider the good news: the climate is not heading to catastrophe because of CO2 emissions etc.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that the world isn’t headed towards human catastrophe of all sorts, namely plague, famine and war. We should work harder to eliminate corruption in our selves and our societies rather than worrying about high-falutin problems which only experts seemingly can perceive. It’s a classic bait and switch deliberately distracting humanity from knocking the current corrupt crop of international Robber Barons off their perch.
Thus far, it’s been working really, really well.

So says Baron Bras D’Or Must have been a pun, yeah? (smile)
I judged it seriously wanting. You judge it as “science-based dissent” which it is not. You did so “without addressing any point, just judgment.” Ooops.
It was not my mirror Ashley. Funny how you copy what others says and repeat it back to them as if it has some profound grandiose meaning for others. Original thoughts can be hard to come. As is original scientific research.
My life is fine and in good order my dear Baron. And all anyone has to offer are “silly points” to your good self. When confronted with the bs they are telling fraudsters generally run away. Maybe I’ll email Dai Ato directly and have a bit of fun.
about>>
“SST has been the determinant of the annual changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and […] anthropogenic emissions have been irrelevant in this process, by head-to-head comparison.”
Whacko horse shit Ashley. Bunkem. Lunacy. Fraudulent. Unscientific Swill.
Have a lovely day. I hope something really nice happens to you today. You need it.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 3 2024 14:12 utc | 195

And the Science simply isn’t there!
Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 13:43 utc | 194
Only for the record: You are an incompetent unqualified scientific illiterate fool telling Lies.
But have a nice day.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 3 2024 14:45 utc | 197

As it happens, I don’t buy everything in the paper I linked and could easily have challenged a few points therein,
Scorpion | Sep 3 2024 13:43 utc | 194
Please do share. What don’t you buy, and disagree with. What points do you challenge. Tell us.
Me I challenge the basis of what it claims to be evaluating ‘studying’ .
“This result indicates that atmospheric CO₂ has fluctuated as natural phenomenon, regardless of human activity”
No one in climate science disputes this. Never have. It’s a nothing burger false claim.
the title is fundamentally flawed and is not scientific: “Multivariate Analysis Rejects the Theory of Human-caused Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Increase: The Sea Surface Temperature Rules”
The data, logic and math, tables graphs and the commentary does NOT “demonstrate that SST has been the determinant of the annual changes in atmospheric CO₂ concentrations and that anthropogenic emissions have been irrelevant in this process”
Sorry. No cigar. Imagine, pro-climate actors hate me even more when I tell them voting Harris and the Dems is a waste of time fantasy which will solve improve nothing at all.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 3 2024 15:03 utc | 199