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This Week in the New Normal #74

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.

1. The Ministry of Plenty Says Employment is Up

A few days ago President Biden (or rather the marketing intern manning his account) tweeted that they had created 300,000 jobs in September:

Now, the math of “created jobs” since the pandemic is well known. Essentially, after lockdowns “accidentally” resulted in the firing of hundreds of thousands of people in the name of “public health”, the eventual re-hiring of some of those people has been branded “job creation”.

But does the claim even have that much reality to its name? It’s just a number, cited by “Biden”, dismantled by Republicans, and debated on Twitter. We’ll never know its veracity or otherwise, it’s impossible to know.

The whole thing reminded me of the description of the Ministry of Plenty’s statistics in 1984. Orwell predicting the meaninglessness of “official statistics” as he did so much else [emphasis added]:

Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head.

For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled.

In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared.

All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.

And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

2. Re-education camps for Trump voters

On Friday Hilary Clinton gave an interview with CNN where she claimed those “MAGA” heads who still support Donald Trump should be “deprogrammed”. The republican media picked it and claimed she wanted to send people to re-education camps.

I don’t want to talk about the specifics but rather make a point about the nature of this kind of media output.

I don’t much care what Clinton says about anything, nobody should really. After all, she’s not seriously suggesting any kind of policy, and will never be in a position to enact or enforce policy again. She’s just saying something divisive and outrageous.

It’s about polarization. She says something stupid, and the Pavlovian response of the Team Blue Hat is to cheer and clap because they’ve been conditioned to approve of anything they hear from certain people. But just as important is the outrage produced in Team Red Hat.

For a while now the news hasn’t even been trying to unify opinion, it’s all about equally dolling out dopamine hits and rage bait tailored to the tastes of the opposing sides.

You are the intended target of news that makes you mad. Angry clicks count as much as happy ones.

3. Modern Visions of Freedom

Russia-born pundit Konstantin Kisin went on the BBC this week to debate the meaning of freedom with, among others, Novara media *ahem* “journalist” Ash Sarkar. You can listen to the whole program here if you’re so inclined, I just want to talk about this clip:

More specifically, the way Sarkar discusses the concept of freedom, and how terrifying it should be to any rational mind.

Essentially she argues that a starving person is not free. If he is dying he is not free to “be part of a community” (whatever that means), and therefore those people with food they are not giving him should be compelled to share.

In sum, property rights can and should be curtailed in situations where “private property” is somehow infringing other people’s “freedom” to “participate in democracy”.

This argument has been used about free speech for a few years now, with social media companies and governments pushing censorship because “hate speech” and “abuse” supposedly infringe other people’s right to free speech by intimidating them into silence.

I’ve never seen it applied to property rights before. A potentially concerning trend.

BONUS: Tragedy of the week

An 8-year-old boy, Yonatan Ehrlichman, died in Israel this week after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest in the bathtub.

According to Frontline News, Ehrlichman – whose father and grandfather are both doctors – was known as the face of a pro-Covid vaccine propaganda video in Israel.

It’s not all bad…

Not a good week, but there’s always this…

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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention last week’s “Covid” flight cancellations, Richard Madeley’s “Covid ear” or how Christianity set UFO research back decades.

There’s a lot of change in the air, a lot of agendas in the works, if you see a headline, article, post or interview you think is a sign of the times, post it in the comments, email us or share it on social media and we will add it to the next edition.

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Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Oct 12, 2023 12:25 AM

More of the same at Luton?

Note; the Liverpool Echo article doesn’t specify the “different fuel arrangement” which caused the arena car park fire.

And there’s something seriously odd about the Bradford bus fire.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mayor-joe-reveals-what-caused-14199555
24 Jan 2018
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson has revealed what caused the ECHO arena car park fire. Almost 1400 cars were destroyed on New Year’s Eve when the multi-storey car park burst into flames after a 16-year-old car caught fire on the third floor. At tonight’s full council meeting Mayor Joe said that the car that started the blaze had been converted to a “different fuel arrangement“.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12618033/started-London-Luton-car-park-fire-moment.html
11 Oct 2023
One hundred firefighters spent 12 hours battling the inferno at the airport’s Terminal Car Park Two when the £20million block was engulfed by flames and caved in just before 9pm last night. Five people were taken to hospital during the fire, which was finally extinguished this morning. Investigators believe the blaze was started when a diesel car suffered an electrical fault or leaking fuel line. The fire then spread as a number of electric vehicles burst into flames in a domino effect, one firefighter suggested. As many as 1,500 vehicles are feared to have been damaged.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23845358.bus-destroyed-bradford-city-centre-fire-broadway
Bus destroyed in Bradford city centre fire on Broadway
10th October

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One of the comments states:

The Sweet Stuff
Engine on these busses is located at the bottom rear. Accessible from the rear and directly under the back seats. There is no damage on the bottom deck, and a key giveaway, no damage to the advertising section on the back or the side vents. Something has combusted on the top deck.
Last Updated: 11th October 4:09 pm

james
james
Oct 13, 2023 5:04 AM

DIESEL does not combust easily under atmospheric conditions. Try to put a match to diesel you will be lucky to get it to burn let alone rage.

Cynicon Implant
Cynicon Implant
Oct 11, 2023 4:03 PM

I heard the jobs stats on the radio yesterday. My immediate reaction: I don’t believe it. I literally do not believe anything my government says now. My estimate is that there are about 20% of Americans who are in alignment with me.

I wonder where the liars think this will end up going? When it gets to 30-40%, society will stop functioning; too many people will just stop participating. That can’t be what they want.

futurist
futurist
Oct 12, 2023 3:22 PM

Our country did the job stats recently then blamed the sick and disabled for not contributing to society.
Blame them for covid money spent.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Oct 11, 2023 2:47 AM

I just realized that “be happy” is a command!

Ort
Ort
Oct 9, 2023 8:46 PM

RIP, Yonatan.

The linked article reports that his father’s announcement of Yonatan’s death does not mention the child’s vaccination status; it seems as if so far, no one has provided information about the child’s “COVID” jab history.

It’s too soon to see whether his jabmongering dad and grandpa will address this open question. If Yonatan had gotten the jabs his elders so enthusiastically recommend for children, will his death shock them into reconsidering their pious devotion to vaccination theory (i.e. Big Pharma marketing)?

I hope so, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the family eventually responds to public pressure to reveal Yonatan’s jab status by asserting that his tragic death was caused by NTDWTV* Syndrome. 😒

*NTDWTV = Nothing to Do With the Vaccine

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Oct 10, 2023 4:15 AM
Reply to  Ort

Fully jabbed Yonatan was virus infected by an unvaccinated who got a new variant of the covid bs.
This shows how important it is to manufacture a new vaccine against the variants to the entire global population, and to fully jab and post jab the unvaccinated.
You cant make these things up.

NickM
NickM
Oct 10, 2023 4:34 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

You can’t, I can’t but they can do.

Ort
Ort
Oct 9, 2023 8:22 PM

I have personal, if vicarious, knowledge of governmental statistics mendacity:

I worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s unemployment benefits agency, aka “Job Centers”; in 1992, I was assigned to the Job Center Regional Office in Philadelphia. Our offices were at one end of a suite we shared with related L&I agencies, or sub-agencies.

Philly had a three-person contingent from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). I don’t know whether these Labor Market Analysts made independent statistical calculations and analysis, or whether they just worked with the stats supplied by the Central Office and the Feds.

In passing conversations– off the record, of course– they all candidly acknowledged that the stats they worked with were fudged and manipulated in accordance with what amounted to political influence, if not outright control.

That, plus endemic bureaucratic biases, such as management feeling a general imperative to keep employers and the business community happy.

I was shocked– shocked, I tell you! 😟

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Oct 9, 2023 6:14 PM

Reprogramming camps. It just confirm how close the Leftist the Democrats are to Communism, useful idiots, doormats for totalitarian regimes, same shit.
No deviation is allowed to The Little Red Book.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Oct 9, 2023 4:59 PM

Edwige
Edwige
Oct 9, 2023 4:07 PM

Curious that the Fraud would admit this rather than just ignore it:
https://dumptheguardian.com/money/2023/sep/30/the-quotes-were-5000-or-more-electric-vehicle-owners-face-soaring-insurance-costs

Coming up next: those with solar panels realise they’ve been stuffed by the grand solar minimum and fail to take the lesson that compliance with their insane dictates doesn’t bring any rewards (unless you enjoy morbid mockery).

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Oct 9, 2023 6:21 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Easy: More public compensation to the Leftists from the Government.

Those who use gasoline to their cars, wood to their stoves, and oil/gas to heat up their houses, must pay for their pollution to the clean green vaccinated clima environmentalists.

Duckman
Duckman
Oct 9, 2023 1:52 PM

And as the crowds gather for the 3rd international All Team playoffs, we can see team A, fighting fit and raring to go (vax injuries aside), team B, pretty het up after being in the thick of it for so many years, (mainly unvaxxed and fuckin proper unhappy)… and whats this team C, the true “outsiders” never belonged fkn anywhere, never will,

and whats that you say?

team C are going to set up team A and B against each other Again!, surely team A and team B are not that fucking stupid… or maybe they just are

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Matt Black
Matt Black
Oct 9, 2023 1:27 PM

Not a good start to the week, FF in 3.2.1…

Germany’s Hamburg airport halts flights after threat to plane from Iran
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germanys-hamburg-airport-suspends-flights-due-police-measures-2023-10-09/

check the date:

https://www.newarab.com/news/over-800-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-compound-sukkot

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Oct 9, 2023 1:08 PM

Francis and I both supported the first lockdown.

Can anyone find Kisin presenting a thoughtful discussion on due process and the deprivation of liberty? Otherwise, I’ll conclude that he’s a vacuous media whore who takes up mildly contrarian positions so as to get his mug on the TV.

Piers Morgan ADMITS COVID Mistakes
Triggernometry
Mar 21, 2023
A piece from an incredible interview with Piers Morgan, at the Il Portico restaurant in Kensington, London. In this clip, Piers talks about how he has changed his mind about many elements of COVID, including the vaccine and lockdowns, along with the evolution in scientific findings

[Quote re supporting first lockdown at 4:10]

rangeofillusions
rangeofillusions
Oct 10, 2023 6:29 PM

at that time about 30 of them lot said all the same thing.

rangeofillusions
rangeofillusions
Oct 10, 2023 6:29 PM

fake sorry

Straight Talk
Straight Talk
Oct 9, 2023 12:24 PM

And now they’re drugging 40 yr old Ukrainian soldiers to get them to fight. “Get killed in a war… and be happy.” War is the worst solution to a problem and the easiest way to gouge the government for trillions of free money.

Love, war and loss: How one soldier in Ukraine hopes to be made whole againThis young Ukrainian soldier lost both arms and his eyes for GloboCap.

Keep Using Ukrainians As Cannon Fodder! – Says Dutch Defense Minister

Here’s your job growth at $1 a day:
Migrants describe hunger and solitary confinement at for-profit detention center

mgeo
mgeo
Oct 9, 2023 4:15 PM
Reply to  Straight Talk

Giving soldiers mood-altering drugs – or testing it on them – is standard pharma business. Somalis and Yemenis used a local leaf called khat.

NickM
NickM
Oct 10, 2023 4:28 PM
Reply to  mgeo

In Syria the CIA distributed “speed” to their ISIS mercenaries. In Israel there is a current scandal about Israelis near Gaza holding “speed” parties instead of watching the border..

“Speed (methamphetamine, C 10 H 15 N) is a potent and addictive central nervous system stimulant, chemically related to amphetamine, but with greater central nervous system side effects.”

Edwige
Edwige
Oct 9, 2023 9:34 AM

That BBC debate is yet more fake dialectics, the same one they’ve been running for nearly two centuries. They might as well have Karl Marx and Ayn Rand in the chairs (no coincidence this bloke is Russian imo).

One revealing thing is how Michael Buerk treats the two guests. She gets given a free platform, he gets the hostile questioning. She’s allowed to evade her opponent’s question about how she justifies her front door with no moderator intervention. Michael Buerk has played a role in separating viewers from their property for the “literally starving” before:
http://www.eprpyl.com/resources/exclusive.pdf
Did Buerk know what he was doing there? Probably not – but no matter. On-line sources estimate his current net worth as somewhere between $3m and $5m.

The two mouthpieces have been very carefully and deliberately chosen, especially to pre-determine the take-home for younger viewers. She’s young, female and ethnic so obviously the font of all virtue and the champion of the underdog. He’s white, male and Russian so obviously a vicious predator who wants to bomb poor, defenceless Ukrainians when not stomping on women and ethnc minorities. It’s all so laughably transparent.

To highlight two things she says:
1) She keeps talking about people “people literally starving to death”. Nobody has needed to starve to death in the UK for centuries (malnutrition is another matter – but that’s a different question not much related to wealth). The old and new poor laws and the welfare state prevented starvation although one can quite legitimately disagree with how they did so. It’s sophistry by emotional blackmail. Don’t you just know she’d argue mandatory vaccination is like being made to wear a seat-belt? Her arguments are so poor because she’s never never exposed to genuinely contrary views and her job is just to keep repeating the same points to batter the gullible into submission.
2) She talks about human potential. This is the concept of “positive liberty”, basically an attempt to re-define equality (never precisely defined) as liberty. Sir Isaiah Berlin popularised the idea and he worked for British Intelligence. The idea found more modern iteration in the Human Potentiality Movement. Unsurprisingly, the main obstacle to unleashing human potential in their teachings was tradition, especially Christianity. Funny how their every attack goes back to that. It had its usual planted celebrities to push it – for example, the actor Roy Scheider (from ‘Jaws’). Do they really believe many humans have great untapped artistic (for example) potential? Why then does Harari argue that the useless people of the future must be kept occupied by drugs and computer games? Why when lockdown started was the meme that it was going to be “three weeks watching Netflix”? What happened to all the symphonies and poetry that was going to be composed? They don’t really believe in some vast reservoir of untapped potential at all, it’s a cynical weapon. Every one of their attempts to create “the workers’ paradise” ends up with power and wealth more centralised and masses of the workers dead – just as they’re supposed to.

The real human potential is to be healthy, possess the ability to think critically and be rooted in a network of strong relationships. Who toxified health? Who turned “education” into mindless regurgitation? Who atomised society? Do the rich and powerful want healthy, intelligent, unatomised people? Or do they want isolated dumbasses with just enough brains to perform their mindless jobs until keeling over as soon as possible after retiring?

Grafter
Grafter
Oct 9, 2023 12:25 PM
Reply to  Edwige

The BBC are a cancer in our society. Don’t give them any money.

Cynicon Implant
Cynicon Implant
Oct 11, 2023 3:58 PM
Reply to  Grafter

I’m a dumb American so I’m probably wrong, but doesn’t the British government already give the BBC all the money they need?

moneycircus
moneycircus
Oct 9, 2023 3:10 PM
Reply to  Edwige

What can we do?

Don’t listen to big media, even alt big media like Conservative Inc – Peterson, Shapiro etc.

We can identify their message as toxic and so avoid sophistry. Above all we must reject their pharmakeia and witchery.

Focus on the important. Cut out the frivolous. Make yourself harder to kill.

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 9, 2023 6:10 AM

Yonatan.
Named after the PMs brother, or is it a common name in Israel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonatan_Netanyahu

NickM
NickM
Oct 10, 2023 4:18 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Same name as yours, Brother Jonathan.
In Hebrew means God-hasgiven (Jo-natan).

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Oct 9, 2023 5:51 AM

“nearly 14 million jobs – including 815,000 in manufacturing – created under Bidenomics.”, all in the new Covid Industry.

Big Al
Big Al
Oct 9, 2023 4:38 AM

EVERY U.S. administration lies about economic numbers. Every agency in every administration lies about numbers, it is totally expected and accepted. I’ve worked for the federal govt for almost 40 years now, almost ten as a contractor to the fed after retiring, and I’ve seen it over and over. Every department in every agency has to report the year accomplishments for performance reviews, I’ve participated in writing them many times, and the higher up and more political you get, the more shit is just made up to justify their existence. At the very top, nothing is real. Nothing unusual there. Lying about inflation, not unusual. It’s par for the course, something most reading this blog should understand without blinking. They lie, people die. Nobody really gives a shit. Because pretty soon, they’ll get to vote again.

Reasonable critique of Clinton’s deprogramming comments or whatever, I haven’t looked at them, I refuse to read or watch things that make me sick, but talk about a classic “consider the source” kind of thing. Like who cares wtf she says. That said, I and many others have noticed that the situation with Trump is definitely like a classic cult thing for many of his supporters. And what do you do with cult members? You deprogram their asses. Some of them are downright fanatic. I went to go get some Chinese food tonight, and at a fairly major intersection where I live (not a large urban area), some people, I saw two vans, were setting up a Trump shrine on the entire portion of one corner, right in front of a credit union. The credit union was closed but this looks like a long term setup and I’d assume the C.U. is on board with it. They had about 30-40 large Trump and Maga flags planted along about 200 feet around the corner lot with a large portable canopy setup and a couple tables and chairs underneath. I go thru there regularly, and it looks like they set it up tonight. It’s quite large and ostentatious and I’m not sure why, considering the presidential primary isn’t until Mar 2024 I believe, so I’m interested to see what’s up with this. I’m certainly very tempted to go talk to them, questioning them about Trump’s support for the Covid-19 vaccines and Big Pharma, support for U.S. imperialism, support for Israel and its quest for Greater Israel and the complete annexation of Gaza and the gas and oil resources they’ll get their greedy fucking hands on, support for more police powers to stop you whenever the fuck they want (that just came out, the asshole). But you can guess where that would get me with true cultists these days, right or left. I may just go ask them what the fuck they’re doing and go from there.

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 9, 2023 5:30 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Most sane thinking Folks outside the US see US jingoism as nuts.
Maybe there are only two types of voters in your country:
The hopeful and the hopelessness.

Big Al
Big Al
Oct 9, 2023 6:24 AM
Reply to  Johnny

I think there’s many sane thinking folks inside the US that see US jingoism as nuts also, Johnny. Humans are humans, man. As far as the voters, I don’t know anymore because I don’t do it, other than direct democracy referendums and the like at the state and county levels. But far as I can tell, voting isn’t doing a helluva lot of good most anywhere at the national level. Maybe you live in a country where it works.

Edwige
Edwige
Oct 9, 2023 8:26 AM
Reply to  Big Al

336 reduces to both 66, a freemasonic master number, and 93, Aleister Crowley’s favourite number.

I’m sure this is just a coincidence and the numbers are obviously an accurate depiction of the current US job market.

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 9, 2023 2:39 AM

We need to become ‘Heyokas’
CJ is one:

https://real-left.com/the-smiles-of-dictators/

les online
les online
Oct 9, 2023 2:21 AM

The Australian government has set up a limited inquiry to find out “What did we do wrong ?” during the ‘pandemic’ – in other words, “What didnt we know ?”
The inquiry has a 12 month remit during which, drip, drip, drip, we’ll be fed stories claiming
‘Lord, forgive us ! We did not know !”
But, of course They Did Know !

What We, The People, didnt know was that hundreds of NZ government workers were granted exemptions from the jab – conditional on not telling anyone…
Some suspect that all of Australia’s politicians were given exemptions, on condition they Kept Mum, which might explain why there were no jab injuries or jab deaths among the bastards…(I include those perfidious The Greens in that lot)…

They Did Know !
The NZ Ministry of Health granted vaccine exemptions to hundreds among its key staff:
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/guy-hatchard-vaccinegate/

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 9, 2023 3:18 AM
Reply to  les online

High paid JOBS FOR MATES Les.
It’s an oldie but a goodie.
And, an insidious way to assuage guilt.

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 9, 2023 6:33 AM
Reply to  les online

Mistakes WERE NOT MADE:

Straight Talk
Straight Talk
Oct 9, 2023 12:29 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Excellent!! “Fact chokers.” Good one.

moneycircus
moneycircus
Oct 9, 2023 2:15 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Sabbatarians, Jacobins, Frankists, Donmeh, Psychologists, Bolsheviks, Bankers, Hollywood… all the words you cannot use. Especially together.
And never use the prefix: The.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Oct 9, 2023 8:32 PM
Reply to  Johnny

“Lord, forgive us ! We did not know !”. Justice?

“I told you if you take the forbidden fruit you will certainly die. The Arch Angels will follow you out of paradise!”

We are already out of paradise, we cant be punished twice can we?

semaj
semaj
Oct 9, 2023 9:16 AM
Reply to  les online

I have maintained from the start that not a single member of any government that promoted the scam, including the so called royal family, ever had any real jab and neither did any so called expert. Just study the film of JT in Canada and it is so obvious what’s going on.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Oct 9, 2023 10:07 AM
Reply to  les online

I clicked on this link.
Kaspersky “Prevented downloading of a dangerous object”
Maybe time to find a new anti-virus.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Oct 9, 2023 8:07 PM
Reply to  les online

Quite funny actually.
The eternal refrain since Adam and Eve’s downfall: “Lord, forgive us ! We did not know !”.  😂 .

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Oct 9, 2023 2:11 AM

Klaus Schwab’s greatest hits. Talk about ear-worms!

https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1710393628483358879

E.F.
E.F.
Oct 9, 2023 1:08 AM

Wondering if these two collaborated somehow?

https://youtu.be/8ESl5jCxMA4?si=d48gA-Q9CAFEXjni

E.F.
E.F.
Oct 9, 2023 1:11 AM
Reply to  E.F.

Oh, the video is another version of “Own Nothing Be Happy” done by Mischa Paulin. Maybe it was just in the air.

E.F.
E.F.
Oct 9, 2023 2:05 AM
Reply to  E.F.
mik
mik
Oct 9, 2023 12:59 AM

Modern Visions of Freedom
Where did you get Freedom debate video? In a trash can?
That is not a conversation, let alone a debate. Even sophists would be shocked. Two looks like humans talk beside each other, disinterested to hear each other. Individualism on steroids, freedom of speech at its finest, nevertheless.

The world is falling apart, never mind, ……property rights are sacred, they are included in ten commandments, therefore we will go on barricades no matter what, no my stuff no my life, ….let me get serious.

Instead of just amusing libertarian brethren by taking a low hanging fruit, take a book Proudhon: What is Property? (property is theft) and put forward some major arguments against by refraining from pettiness.https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen

“In sum, property rights can and should be curtailed in situations where “private property” is somehow infringing other people’s “freedom” to “participate in democracy”.”

LOL

What an irony. Utterance that was meant to mock is actually very true.

Most people just talk about bad people. Some also talk about Events perpetrated by bad people. Just few talk about Ideas that lead and foremost enable bad people.

What is the materialized idea that enables schwabs and bad-billies? Private property.

They wouldn’t be filthy rich if private property would be defined better. Currently in essence, your collection of stuff undergoes the same rules as theirs. The difference between them is not exclusively quantitative, it’s primarily qualitative.

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 9, 2023 12:29 AM

Bidenomics?
Yeah.
Handouts to the Corparasites, tax breaks for the wealthy and military aid for any foreign TYRANTS who support the Empire’s agenda.
Following in the blood soaked footsteps of all those who came before him.

Wonder how those two Israeli doctors are feeling today.
A hell of their own making.

NickM
NickM
Oct 9, 2023 12:10 AM

From the NEW New Normal:

“China’s Next Venture: Rebuilding Syria!”

https://www.youtube.com/live/XqpDBFcAqTk?si=bRGesoHKrp3aCiuW

“Chinese interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad”

https://youtu.be/6hTfEdm0nKk?si=V1wvoD_Ii4kWQpCm

“Syrian President returns to China as Fellow Member of BRICS”


 

draeger
draeger
Oct 8, 2023 11:34 PM

nobody should go hungry in a truly free society – their argument is a lacuna

turesankara
turesankara
Oct 8, 2023 10:55 PM

Those Israeli doctors have the blood of their own son and grandson, and millions of innocent children on their hands, due to their own heartlessness.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Oct 8, 2023 11:08 PM
Reply to  turesankara

I think it’s brainwashed stupidity and laziness (too lazy to research beforehand) that’s to be condemned; I doubt that these fathers/grandfathers were heartless in having their son/grandson injected with gene shots. As professionals with the vocabulary and understanding of all things orthodox medicine they should have known to be cautious at the very least.

dom irritant
dom irritant
Oct 9, 2023 4:41 PM
Reply to  turesankara

i would say persil white brainless

turesankara
turesankara
Oct 8, 2023 10:52 PM

Frantz Fanon:

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because it is the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread, and above all, dignity.

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Eat the rich.

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Oct 8, 2023 11:29 PM
Reply to  turesankara

Western nations are now being colonized or ‘replaced’ by unlimited mass immigration. How should we defend what you describe as ‘first and foremost’, our land?

turesankara
turesankara
Oct 9, 2023 1:22 PM

First, honestly ask yourself who is allowing your lands to be colonised or replaced by unlimited mass immigration?

Then once you’re honest to yourself about the answer. What are you going to do about it?

“Don’t vote. It only encourages the bastards.” — PJ O’Rourke

Your move.

Straight Talk
Straight Talk
Oct 9, 2023 1:27 PM

Globalization, Migrant Labour, and Capitalism: Past and Present
“Migrant labour has been a feature of global capitalism since the latter’s beginning. Capitalism needed labour from colonies and semi-colonies, also from other parts of the world. Thus, while Atlantic slavery was supplying labour across the ocean, there was an increase in the mobility of labour in post-manumission age, when capital became global and global trade became a defining feature of global capitalism. While discussing primitive accumulation Marx wrote that labour was like an army in encampment waiting to move on to wherever ordered. He also said that much of the capital had no birth-ticket attached to it.

Migration, economy, and force were invariably the blood brothers of an earlier age, as they are now. Reflecting on the two times referred to in this essay—the colonial era of migration and the postcolonial age of migration, this essay also points to the need to revisit the history of Marxian thought on the question of migrant labour, colonialism, and the incessant wars associated with the bourgeois age.”

les online
les online
Oct 8, 2023 10:44 PM

Latest Headlines: Australia has tens of thousands of job vacancies…
Not in The Headlines: Australia to import tens of thousands of consumers (aka – migrants) – to keep the Ponzi Scheme (aka – The Economy) ticking over…

Hoomin Overshoot always calls to mind a book title: “The Day of the Locusts.”

Seansaighdeoir
Seansaighdeoir
Oct 8, 2023 10:16 PM

‘Ash Sakar and Konstantin Kisin’ – the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselvesVladimir Lenin

rangeofillusions
rangeofillusions
Oct 8, 2023 9:56 PM

No mention of the Tory conference.? being a Conservative blog and all.
what a week with Anti establishment Nigel garage dancing with Patel & Liz Mary Truss at the Tory conference. 

Do check out the talking points of the conference then check out Alternative media talking points within the last 6 months and see how UN Alternative the alt media cyber fake reality sphere really is.

Matt
Matt
Oct 8, 2023 9:26 PM

I don’t think Ash Sarkar’s comment on ‘freedom’ can be entirely dismissed. If you are always hungry, your practical ability to engage thoroughly in civic society is curtailed. What i don’t understand is how her response has any relevance to the preceding statement, which was about censorship.?

Paul Prichard
Paul Prichard
Oct 8, 2023 7:42 PM

Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-10-07. Young & Middle-Aged jabbed Adults Dying Unexpectedly in Sleep. 53k E&W excess deaths 2023 already (blog, gab, tweet).

Joe Smith
Joe Smith
Oct 8, 2023 7:32 PM

. . . and what? you think “UFO research” is a good thing? Sheesh.

Joe Smith
Joe Smith
Oct 9, 2023 10:36 PM
Reply to  Joe Smith
Joe Smith
Joe Smith
Oct 8, 2023 7:31 PM

Starving people who are around people who have food, if they have enough energy left, are going to take it from them if they can. Who cares about “rights”? What are they? Words? Whoopdedo.

Sgt Oddball
Sgt Oddball
Oct 8, 2023 7:26 PM

…1. – BLS Bullshit… – ’nuff said… – They actually lost ’bout a million anna half *Fulltime* joabs… – Part-Timers and Double(Triple)-Joabbers made up the shoirtfall…

…2: – In the immortal words of Sir Francis Begbie: “Come Aheed!: – Square Go, then ya fucken’ Radge!!…”

…3: – Sundry Gen-Z Spermatozoa make sundry mooth-noyzees, as required… – *Yawn*…