What it’s like to hear a genuine conservative speak.
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Viktor Orban talks to Tucker Carlson
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Monthly Archives: August 2021
The rest of the world thinks Australian state governments are run by idiots
And they’re right. Australia is Under Dystopian, Military-Enforced Lockdown Despite Less Than 5 COVID Deaths a Day. Obviously whoever wrote this thinks Australian governments are exaggerating our problems and over-reacting in an hysterical way to threats from the Chinese flu.
Melbourne, a major Australian city, just entered its 6th lockdown. (Yes, you read that correctly). It joins many of the nation’s other major metropolises, such as Sydney and Brisbane, in once again restricting its economy and social life. According to the BBC, the lockdown will be in place until at least August 28 and “bars people from leaving their home except for essential exercise, shopping, caregiving and other reasons.”
“Our people are [poor and] they already feel picked on and marginalised,” Cumberland Mayor Steve Christou told the BBC. “They can’t afford to pay the mortgage, the rent, the food or work. Now to throw out the army to enforce lockdown on the streets is going to be a huge issue to these people.”
It’s mind-boggling that the Australian government is practically placing its citizens under house arrest and outlawing their incomes over five deaths per day. It’s particularly bizarre given that countless studies have shown the ineffectiveness of stay-at-home orders and lockdown policies. (In fact, most COVID-19 spread happens at home.)
And the conclusion.
It’s inexplicable. If lockdowns could really vanquish COVID-19, why would Australian cities be on their sixth one? And how could a handful of deaths per day in a nation of 25 million possibly justify such draconian measures and using the military to crack down on citizens?
Ultimately, it’s not our responsibility here in the US to answer these questions. But there’s a bigger lesson we can take away from watching such a totalitarian policy descend upon a Western, advanced society like Australia. If we are not vigilant, it can happen here….
Americans must heed this warning, lest we end up meeting Australia’s sad fate.
Alas, it has happened here. Australia’s reaction to Covid really is pathetic and genuinely shameful.
It’s called love of country
https://twitter.com/Edward_Chang_8/status/1423371074406731777?
A concept now unknown on the American left who know only hatred and envy.
For more, see Leftists Blast U.S. Women’s Soccer Star Carli Lloyd for Refusing to Take a Knee.
Economics for Infants
Economics for Infants – full text with illustrations (1)
Available for sale here.
And here is my recommendation.
If you have friends who like the way a market economy works, and who are leery of governments, buy a copy for their children. Their parents will enjoy the book as much as their children, who will learn things they would not otherwise find out so early in life.
However, for parents of a contrary disposition, buy the book for their children, as above, but never expect the book to be passed on to their children, and certainly not read to them. You will just have to content yourself with knowing the parents have read the book and then had a meltdown before throwing it on the compost heap, or hopefully passing it on to the local op-shop where someone else will buy it.
Serfdom returns
The future of the world as it is currently being planned: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”: The Great Reset’s Vision of the Future. This was published last November, in The Guardian even, but remains as relevant today as it was then.
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues.
Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus Schwab, the WEF is the main driving force for the dystopian ‘great reset’, a tectonic shift that intends to change how we live, work and interact with each other.
The great reset entails a transformation of society resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance as entire sectors are sacrificed to boost the monopoly and hegemony of pharmaceuticals corporations, high-tech/big data giants, Amazon, Google, major global chains, the digital payments sector, biotech concerns, etc.
Using COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions to push through this transformation, the great reset is being rolled out under the guise of a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ in which older enterprises are to be driven to bankruptcy or absorbed into monopolies, effectively shutting down huge sections of the pre-COVID economy. Economies are being ‘restructured’ and many jobs will be carried out by AI-driven machines.
If this is invisible to you, you are too stupid for words. I won’t say it will serve you right, since we will all be in the same boat, both the stupid and the rest of us. But it is where things are heading, if we allow it. The final paras of the article:
The massive technocratic transformation currently envisaged regards humans as commodities to be controlled and monitored just like the lifeless technological drones and AI being promoted.
But do not worry – you will be property-less and happy in your open prison of mass unemployment, state dependency, track and chip health passports, cashlessness, mass vaccination and dehumanisation.
Which part of all of this is do you think is off the agenda?
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
In a sense things are as they ought to be. First, Australia to play for gold in beach volleyball final against USA.
And then, second, Aussie athletes defend actions on controversial Japan Airline flight.
Rugby Sevens players have been issued with an official warning and will have to undergo counselling about behaviour and alcohol consumption, following an investigation about drunken antics on board a flight returning from the Tokyo Olympics.
An internal integrity commission into the behaviour of the men’s team on the Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo to Sydney last week found “a number of members of the team were drinking excessive amounts of alcohol on JAL 15 while also being disruptive to cabin crew and other passengers’’.
But the investigation found “no evidence that any JAL property was damaged or mess in seats, aisles or bathrooms was made by the Men’s Rugby Sevens team.’’
It is only what to expect. These are rugby players, not beach volleyball.
Pfizer CEO is vaxx-hesitant
It’s a post from March but wonder if things are now any different: Pfizer CEO’s Israel visit canceled because he is not fully vaccinated. This is the sub-head:
Bourla said in December that he has not yet received the vaccine yet because he does not want to “cut in line.”
Four months later he still had not had the vaxx. He must know something he is not saying. And there is no doubting that he could get a vaccination certificate if he wanted one, with or without the vaxx, so there are lots of questions his reluctance to be vaccinated must raise.
LET ME ADD THIS: No hesitancy allowed, and certainly not in public: Fact check: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla received COVID-19 vaccine from USA Today, a standard issue piece of journalistic rubbish that will allow no counter story to exist if they can help it. So bear this in mind as you read the text, that if someone were in any way worried about Covid, and if they thought the vaccine would be a net positive in maintaining their health, they would not hesitate for a nanosecond to take the vaxx. So here is what he said.
The video features a CNBC interview with Bourla in which he is asked when he will get vaccinated. In response, he says that he is 59 years old, in good health and is not working on the front lines, so he “is not recommended to get vaccinated now.”
“As soon as I can, I will. The only sensitivity here, Meg, is that I don’t want to have an example that I’m cutting the line,” Bourla says in the video, which also includes a clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
So why should anyone who is in good health, not old and not working on the front lines not get the vaxx if they can? So we come back to what I said before, there are lots of questions raised by his example, the most important being why he would not be gung ho to take the vaxx himself as soon as he could. And here is the supposed proof, and it is astonishing how similar he looks to a certain premier of Victoria.
Once you get used to being an introvert you really like it
This is the description of a book that is a description of me. The book: The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World. And this is how they depict an introvert:
Some people – a sizeable minority – prefer to avoid the limelight, tend to listen more than they speak, feel alone in large groups, and require lots of private time to restore their energy. Often they feel different, not right, less than. But as Marti Olsen Laney proves, that is far from the truth.
The Introvert Advantage dispels common myths about introverts – they’re not necessarily shy, aloof, or antisocial – and explains how they are hardwired from birth to focus inward, so outside stimulation such as chitchat, phone calls, parties, or office meetings can easily become “too much”. Most importantly, it thoroughly refutes many introverts’ belief that something is wrong with them. Instead, it helps them recognize their inner strengths – their analytical skills, ability to think outside the box, and strong powers of concentration.
My wife always complains when we go out that I didn’t say a thing. But I always do, with the intention of listening to what others have to say. Of course, the place where I am most at peace is in a second-hand book shop, just browsing the shelves.
Our freedoms are being destroyed for no reason whatsoever
You can go here for the background and full text of the speech: Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts: “If The Government Can Decide Who is Free and Who is Not, There is No Freedom Only Tyranny”. Naturally from a non-Australian source.
What is also become more clear by the day is how little risk there is in covid: Israeli scientist says COVID-19 could be treated for under $1/day. This is the sub-head the comes with the story:
Double-blind study shows ivermectin reduces disease’s duration and infectiousness • FDA and WHO caution against its use
And here’s the picture you can find in the article.
We are destroying our freedoms and ruining our economies for no reason whatsoever, other than to sow panic and create a socialist state with the people least capable of managing a society – not that anyone at all is capable – left at the top to ruin the lives of everyone else.
And then there’s this: Freedom in the Coming Time of Madness.
We all know how central economic planning diminishes freedom, produces scarcity and adds to the cost of products. Now we know that central micromanagement of health care kills people….
They ordered the closing of most businesses and nearly all retail establishments. They acted as if they, and not we, owned our faces. They shuttered religious institutions. It took a year for the courts to interfere partially with this madness.
The fulfillment of these totalitarian impulses put millions out of work, closed and destroyed thousands of businesses and impaired the fundamental rights of tens of millions.
The Will to Power is strong, and where it is strongest there is the greatest reason to oppose it. It’s not yet too late, but the time is getting later and the will to resist across the West seems to be weakening.
A cold uncomfortable uninviting region, from which nothing but furrs and fish were to be had
Samuel Johnson, writing in 1756, “An Introduction to the Political State of Great-Britain”. Here he discusses how the French ended up in Quebec.
About this time, it was, that the French first began to turn their thoughts to traffick and navigation, and to desire like other nations an American territory. All the fruitful and valuable parts of the western world were already either occupied or claimed, and nothing remained for France but the leavings of other navigators, for she was not yet haughty enough to seize what the neighbouring powers had already appropriated.
The French therefore contented themselves with sending a colony to Canada, a cold uncomfortable uninviting region, from which nothing but furrs [sic] and fish were to be had, and where the new inhabitants could only pass a laborious and necessitous life in perpetual regret of the deliciousness and plenty of their native country….
In this region of desolate sterility they settled themselves, upon whatever principle; and as they have from that time had the happiness of a government by which no interest has been neglected, nor any part of their subjects overlooked, they have, by continual encouragement and assistance from France, been perpetually enlarging their bounds and increasing their numbers….
The French settlement in the mean time went slowly forward, too inconsiderable to raise any jealousy, and too weak to attempt any incroachments. (Johnson [1756] 1968: 6-8)
I also found this quite interesting, also about Quebec.
If the Spaniards, when they first took possession of the newly discovered world, instead of destroying the inhabitants by the thousands, had either had the unanimity or the policy to have conciliated them by kind treatment and to have united them gradually to their own people, such an accession might have been made to the power of the king of Spain, as would have made him far the greatest monarch that ever yet ruled the globe; but the opportunity was lost by foolishness and cruelty, and now can never be recovered…. [6-7]
[As for Quebec] their greater security is the friendship of the natives, and to this advantage they have certainly an indubitable right; because it is the consequence of their virtue. It is ridiculous to imagine, that the friendship of nations, whether civil or barbarous, can be gained and kept but by kind treatment; and surely they who intrude, uncalled, upon the country of a distant people, ought to consider the natives as worthy of common kindness, and content themselves to rob without insulting them. The French, as has been already observed, admit the Indians, by intermarriage, to an equality with themselves, and those nations, with which they have no such near intercourse, they gain over to their interest by honesty in their dealings. [16-17]
Johnson, Samuel. [1756] 1968. “An Introduction to the Political State of Great-Britain.” In Johnson, Samuel 1968. The Political Writings of Dr Johnson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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