Mike Allen@AMike4761No, it’s not the outskirts of Mumbai, it’s Paris!! How is Tourism?? #fo2eu
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Monthly Archives: August 2018
What did Australians use before they had candles?
Electricity!
Maddening because all of it is destructive of wealth and community but with absolutely nothing in return. If you see global warming and climate change as the biggest hustle in the history of the human race, repulsively stupid, where the community is defrauded and robbed to benefit a handful of grifters in a way that will make some of them very wealthy indeed [see Al Gore], or will raise incomes and status for quite a number beyond any worth provided whatsoever [the halls of academia and the business community are filled with such vultures], then the world as you see it has truly gone mad. Infuriating for the rest of us, but without the slightest idea how to change direction before we go over the cliff.
Two related stories, one sickening and the other utterly incredible
First this: The Most Stupid Meme on the Internet. Not stupid, but evil and sickening. Built around this:
The Coms get no credit for liberating concentration camps. They were as evil as the Nazis as the article at the link goes through in grim detail. Whatever role the Soviets played in bringing the Holocaust to an end was an inadvertent bi-product of their actual war aims and intentions.
But then there is this: Werner Goldberg is the name of the Nazi in the photo. Here’s how the Wikipedia entry starts, and if you read it through it is among the most incredible stories you may have ever heard.
Werner Goldberg (October 3, 1919 – September 28, 2004) was a German who was of half Jewish ancestry, or Mischlinge in Nazi terminology, who served briefly as a soldier during World War II. His image appeared in the Berliner Tageblatt as “The Ideal German Soldier”, and was later used in recruitment posters for the Wehrmacht.
And that’s only the half of it.
Goebbels on Propaganda
From here, not necessarily a reliable source but the list looks accurate enough. Sound advice as well, if your aim is to lead sheep into the sheep pen.
- A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
- The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.
- The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.
- It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.
- Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
- Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
- This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
- …the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
- There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
- The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.
- There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be “the man in the street.” Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.
Europeans have a culture of their own and you are fortunate indeed if you are part of that culture
Picked up myself randomly: You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught, that is, mis-taught. Here are the two paras out of four that make the point:
The ebb and flow of the internet brought to me the woebegone maunderings of a (presumably) white and (arguably) somewhat credentialed Millennial, who in her search for meaning and purpose in her life wound up involved in those anti-pipeline protests near the Sioux reservation. The ukase of her lament seemed to be that she had no native culture, not in comparison with those charming and dignified tribal elders. She appeared to view them as benign, terribly exotic, definitely ‘other’ – pretty much the same lens with which the old National Geographic viewed and photographed those interesting aboriginal peoples in far distant foreign lands all these decades ago.
And it was terribly sad to read, because the poor child does in fact, have a culture of her own – just that she has been deprived of it; deprived by intent or by cultivated sloth on the part of those who should have taught it to her; the unimaginably rich canon knowledge of western culture – our history, art, literature, music, technology, folkways. Homer and Cervantes, Shakespeare, da Vinci, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner and Rossini, Dickens and Twain, Michelangelo and Machiavelli, Brunel and Bruneschelli, the Brothers Grimm, the Brothers Wright, Don Juan of Austria and Ulysses S. Grant, the Duke of Wellington and whoever it was invented the toilet flush valve and the first working sewing machine. Likely all this and more were never taught to her, or what is worse – badly taught and as examples of western racism or whatever. To live without a sense of history is to be adrift in a kind of cultural sensory-deprivation tank, as exhibited by that child.
If you have never read a play by Shakespeare or heard a Mozart opera and yet you live in a Western country, you are as culturally deprived as it is possible to be.
The future of multiculturalism around the world
The first Muslim MP in the NSW parliament has sparked a row overnight, refusing entry to a respected Jewish leader to a Labor Party multicultural launch.
Upper House MP Shaoquett Moselmane refused entry to Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff at the launch of the Labor Union Multicultural Action Committee launch last night saying, according to Mr Alhadeff, that he was not a Labor Party member.
The full story here.
Then this from the United States: Palestinian Congressional Candidate ASSAULTS Jewish Journalist at Political Event.
A journalist was assaulted by a soon-to-be congresswoman while asking her questions at a political rally for U.S. Congressional candidate Ilhan Omar in Minnesota on Saturday.
Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian Muslim who won her primary in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday, forcefully grabbed Jewish journalist Laura Loomer and stole her phone when Loomer approached her to ask questions at the rally.
And then from the UK: British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Admits, After Months of Lies, That He Was In Fact “Present” At Ceremony Honoring the Terrorists Who Slaughtered Israeli Athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
Here is @yaelberda ‘s hero, leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, laying a wreath at the grave of one of the terrorist murderers of the Israeli Olympic Team in Munich in 1972. Yael, You are Disgusting!! pic.twitter.com/piGqLhYTFG
It’s a complicated world
Things were simpler back in the day. Here are two stories with an interesting overlap. First: Inside the Left-Wing Harassment Campaign Against Ruby Rose’s Lesbian Batwoman. Bottom line:
According to Deadline, Batwoman was revived in 2006 as a Jewish lesbian—the first lesbian title character in the DC universe. Back in May, it was announced that Batwoman would appear in the upcoming CW Arrowverse crossover event. Then came the news that Kate Kane would likely follow up that appearance with her own TV show, from Vampire Diaries executive producer Caroline Dries and Arrowverse visionary Greg Berlanti.
Last week, Ruby Rose celebrated her casting in an Instagram post, writing, “This is something I would have died to have seen on TV when I was a young member of the LGBT community who never felt represented on tv and felt alone and different.”
But just two days after the announcement, Rose quit Twitter in a series of tweets that appeared to call out critiques from the queer community, including misguided allegations that the gender fluid actor “is not a lesbian.” In the now-deleted message, Rose wrote, “Where on earth did ‘Ruby is not a lesbian therefore she can’t be batwoman’ come from — has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. I came out at 12? And have for the past 5 years had to deal with ‘she’s too gay’ how do y’all flip it like that? I didn’t change. I wish we would all support each other and our journeys.”
And then there’s this: What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused? Here’s the key moment in the story:
Mr. Reitman, who is now 34 and is a visiting fellow at Harvard, says that Professor Ronell [who is 60] kissed and touched him repeatedly, slept in his bed with him, required him to lie in her bed, held his hand, texted, emailed and called him constantly, and refused to work with him if he did not reciprocate. Mr. Reitman is gay and is now married to a man; Professor Ronell is a lesbian.
More, much more, at the link, but this is all for now from me.
#WalkAway Campaign Official YouTube
Watch.
“No borders, no wall, no USA at all”
That’s Antifa, the American left in all its insanity, just today. Is that really what they want, because whether or not that is what they really want, that is what they are heading towards? This, however, seems more to the point, which when all is said and done amounts to pretty much the same thing:
How do these people get half the votes?
It’s a dirty job and someone has to do it
How is it that this is the first time someone has come up with this idea? Or maybe it’s an old cartoon since it has Obama in the frame, and who remembers anything about him anymore?
Law of Markets 