This Week in the New Normal #83
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.
As usual, since there was no edition last week, we’re technically covering two weeks in the new normal today
1. Are you ready for “heat-related deaths” to spike?
Last week Sky News reported the last scary climate change numbers: “10,000 people a year could die as a result of heatwaves”
Now, for the sake of argument, let’s pretend those numbers aren’t just made up.
Firstly, let’s go into “early 2020” mode for some perspective: 10,000 people is not that many compared to the ~650,000 people that die in the UK each year.
Secondly, let’s reasonably assume that as more people die of “heat”, fewer people will die of cold. Since thousands of people are supposedly killed by cold weather per winter, increased “heat-related” deaths could have almost no impact on overall mortality at all.
There, I’ve done my Devil’s Advocate due diligence, and we have established that – even if they are real – those numbers are not scary.
But, of course, they’re not real. The weasel-worded article establishes that if nothing else, using phrases like “could die as a result” and “heat-related deaths”.
Just as “Covid deaths” were ridiculously defined as “death from any cause within 28 days of a positive test”, “heat-related” deaths will simply be “deaths from any cause during a heat wave”. Soon after that they’ll probably start adding “climate change” to death certificates.
I’m not joking, they’ve actually suggested this already.
Don’t worry though, Anti-Establishment Elon is here with a solution: A carbon tax.
2. New Days are the New Days
This is a weird one. The Hawaii Supreme Court published a pro-gun control decision this week which used a quote from The Wire to make its argument:
“The thing about the old days, they the old days,” the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court ruling issued Wednesday said, borrowing a quote from season four, episode three of the HBO series to express that the culture from the founding of the country shouldn’t dictate contemporary life.
Now, I don’t want to get into the gun control issue again, or indeed why – in the current climate – governments would be trying so hard to disarm their civilian population. A different issue for a different article.
I also don’t want to repeat the argument that attacking the 2nd Amendment is about attacking the Constitution as a whole, as demonstrated by quotes like this:
“”As the world turns, it makes no sense for contemporary society to pledge allegiance to the founding era’s culture, realities, laws, and understanding of the Constitution,”
I just want to point out how far society has fallen when judges and legal scholars are using pop-culture references rather than legal precedents to make their arguments. Clown world is here.
3. Taylor’s Inevitable Superbowl Win
Today is Superbowl Sunday, and that’s always an interesting day to spot messaging (subliminal or otherwise) in the Superbowl ads as well as on the field.
And this year Taylor Swift will be there, just like she’s been everywhere else.
The same year she coincidentally became the biggest star in the world she coincidentally started “dating” a football player, who is coincidentally a Pfizer spokesman, and whose team coincidentally made it to the Superbowl.
And when that team coincidentally wins and Taylor coincidentally gets to kiss her Pfizer-sponsored boyfriend in front of the biggest TV audience of the year, it will be just one big coincidence.
As political scientist Richard Bensell told ABC News:
“If you were trying to design a public relations campaign or situation that would maximise her appeal to the American electorate and to her fan base, you couldn’t do better,”
Quite. And not many seem to be putting 2 and 2 together on this.
I have no idea what the purpose of this “let’s make everyone talk about Taylor Swift everywhere all the time for a year” project is, or what and/or who she sold her soul to create it, but it’s damn weird.
Some say it’s about endorsing Biden, but elections are rigged so that’s pointless.
Maybe she’s going to run for President.
BONUS: Warning sign of the week
“Climategate” scientist Michael Mann won a 12-year-long legal battle this week. In 2012 Mann’s work was called fraudulent by two journalists writing for the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review respectively, Mann sued for defamation and this week was awarded $1 million in damages by a jury.
It’s an interesting piece of timing for a 12-year battle to end, given the current…climate (pun very much intended).
The Guardian article covering the case closes with a quote from Mann:
“I hope this verdict sends a message that falsely attacking climate scientists is not protected speech,”
That’s a potentially worrying sign.
It’s not all bad…
I dunno, maybe it is all that bad.
Here’s some music:
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention resurgent calls for an EU Army or potential social media bans.
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Ahahaha…it’s becoming more and more absurd with your fucking bullshit propaganda…the best thing is to shove it up your goddamn ass and fuck the hell off, full-tonto moron!!!
This week’s Bowl was a programming master class, with three commercials from Israelis promoting the attacks in Gaza, and Taylor Swift — who transitioned from gospel singer to sprite — -with her gaze on the young, impressionable audience.
George Soros had purchased her “ouvre,” Swift complained; this year she convinced 100,000s of followers to register to vote; got a new boyfriend, who happened to win the Super Bowl…. and the press splashed their peck over the screens.
‘Symbolism And Civilization’s Collapse – Writhing and gurning in the Colosseum as war stalks the nations’https://rebrand.ly/3x0n3wf
Taylor looks like a ‘transformer’, just like many other ‘female’ celebs. Maybe it’s the hormones, who knows.
What the AF?
Texas Medical Board Responds To Complaint About Gates-Honored ‘Get Rid Of All The Whites’ Doctor
Dr. Carol Baker Proposed Eliminating White People To Increase Vaccination Rates
“So I have the solution. Every study published in the last five years, when you look at vaccine refusers. I’m not talking about…hesitance, most of them we can talk into coming to terms. But refusers. We’ll just get rid of all the whites in the United States,” Baker said at the “Achieving Childhood Vaccine Success in the U.S.” expert panel discussion sponsored by the National Meningitis Association in New York City on May 9, 2016. “Guess who wants to get vaccinated the most? Immigrants.”
Dr. Carol Baker: “Get rid of all the whites”
I hope her license was revoked. She is clearly deranged and genocidal. Where do they get these people??
England’s Farmers Join the New Boer War — This time on the side of the Dutch Boere.
https://www.youtube.com/live/q10YP_LR23E?si=4ATf-3j61kB6SK79
Proving that this 21st Century war of the Eurocrats against the people of the EU$A is a mere continuation of the 19th to 20th Century war of Anglo Zionazi Plutocrats against the Free Afrikaaner Republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
‘strayans are quite a hesitant mob…Their hesitancy is quite evident
during the lead-up to national elections, many not making up their
mind on which political party to “trust us !’ ’til about a week out from
polling day…In recent years the hesitancy numbers have increased –
if the increases in the level of the ‘informal’ vote is used as a yardstick…
Remember: ‘Hesitancy Saves Lives !”
Beethoven’s Symphony #7 is my favorite piece of music. It fills me. Thank you for linking to it.
Honestly what is with the Taylor Swift rubbish? She’s famous and she’s dating a footballer. Sometimes we are swamped with a particular celebrity for a year or two. Are the Kardashians CIA assets? Were the Beatles? You don’t even have a motive, it’s embarrasing for you.
Did you miss the parts about promotion of vaccines and witchcraft? Perhaps you were too bust being concerned about other people’s embarrassment?
Oh, and yes and yes – although the CIA is a misdirection.
You need to read more Miles Mathis 😎
Carrying weapons in public spaces is something that’s very modern. It was recognized centuries ago that this was undesirable. Firearms weren’t much of a problem before about the mid-19th century because they were expensive and inconvenient to use. Once they became relatively common then they were restricted by many communities, especially in the “Old West” where it was commonplace to have to check one’s weapons with law enforcement when you entered town.
The modern movement for open carry is truly modern, there’s no basis for it in custom. It is a fiction of old Western movies and TV series (themselves fictional, based on fantasy dime-store novels). A person carrying a gun in public is a threat; it doesn’t matter what their personal intent is. We know that even the police who routinely carry arms on duty and practice to use them under tight regulation cannot be relied on to always get things right when they use them so its unlikely that a civilian would be able to use a weapon without endangering others. (Notwithstanding the cases where they do get it right — usually they get it wrong.) The judge in Hawaii was merely stating the obvious — you can’t let your personal fantasies and hubris endanger the public, if you want to play with guns do it safely on a range and not on our streets.
Nothing must be allowed to interfere with the state’s monopoly of violence was the actual result
The fall of the house of (chatgpt) usher
….a very advanced chatbot, I might remark.
Well argued. Convinced me that the solution is not to arm the citizenry but to disarm the police. Back to the Britain of my youth when the British Bobbie carried a wooden baton, and one gang made headline news by arming themselves with sawn-off cricket bats to raid a bank.
I have the right to defend myself when I go public, because nobody else does.
I like the feeling of a Colt 45 hanging from my belt on the right side and my Stetson hat on, fully ready for any situation!
This is a right for every American since 300 years ago, and nobody is gonna take that right from me without a fight. 😇
“Talk like a man, not like a movie” — Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House.
I cant wait for the climate vaccines that help reduced heat stroke. 😂
why sunscreen?? when you can get boostered before visiting the beach.
All those industrial sunscreens may contribute to skin cancer.
Lab-grown fur… the pathway into lab-grown meat:
https://daily.jstor.org/take-back-your-mink/
No doubt fur farms follow some objectionable practices – but who owns them and is offering these solutions? The same people!
Thse things are encouraging because they show the propaganda, especially on lab-grown meat, hasn’t worked and they’re trying to find something that will.
I like the “nonprofit” in the banner. They must still imagine people read that as “trustworthy” rather than “propaganda so desperate we’re giving it away” and “if it’s free, you’re the product”.
Swift, Reed, Pfizer and the NFL have some decisions to make. This is what football brain injury looks like. Kelce has some “splainin” to do. As do the rest of them.
https://twitter.com/NahBabyNah/status/1756990092399321547/photo/1
Swift isn’t a “She”, see at 32:02
Next in full-on celebrity line to ‘Michelle Obama?’
You got to admit she’s got balls.
It can’t be denied. The dance routine and Joan Rivers (deceased)(prematurely?) told all.
Same procedure as last week James:
Loved the music video. Thanks.
There’s something funny going on with the Superbowl alright. For the first time in my living memory, mainstream scum media in NZ was promoting it as the top story, with explainers like “The 2024 Superbowl: what you need to know”, and normies who never gave a fuck about American foosball, let alone ever watched a game, were suddenly tuned in. Bizarre stuff.
My father asked me whether I would watch the Super Bowl yesterday. I don’t think he has ever seen a football and he has certainly never talked about it. So it was probably a big thing in German mainstream media.
Everyone in the world is invited to participate in the satanic rituals; covid was the pinnacle of this.
Still pending at 12:02 A2.
“The same year she coincidentally became the biggest star in the world she coincidentally started “dating” a football player, who is coincidentally a Pfizer spokesman, and whose team coincidentally made it to the Superbowl.”
So-called elite sport has moved from being mere distraction to full-on weapon of social engineering. The Rugby World Cup in SA in the 1990s was probably the key event in the transition. Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon even made a film about it.
The Australian cricket team had been a particularly egregious example recently. Captain Pat Cummins never sees a ‘woke’ cause he doesn’t like and had become widely disliked as a result. Hey presto, Australia win the World Cup with everything Cummins did in the Final turning to gold. Cummins, backed by former captain Steve Smith, then called for the scrapping of Australia Day. A new captain gets appointed in one of the shorter formats and… immediately tests positive for convid! Most creepily, one of the players announces his wife has had a baby yet nobody in this age of 24-hour social media knew she was pregnant.
The vultures are milking team sports before tanking them. Rugby could be destroyed any minute by court rulings about liability for head injuries. Football and cricket would follow. The only “sports” ultimately wanted are atomised activities like jogging and cycling that keep the drones fit enough for corporate slavery and moving about their 15-minute cities.
Oh no, the circus will continue, guaranteed. The entertainment, ‘democracy’, medical, cheap foods and treats, pornography, university ‘education’ and budget ‘tourism’ are the fundamental pillars of trash modern civilisation. Not only the will continue, they will get even more in your face.
As someone who reads UN reports for a living, the real bugbear they love “warning” about is climate-related deaths from FLOODING. Just wait until the next flood in the UK (a country which deliberately fails to protect its citizens from flooding) and you’ll hear all about it.
Also, you were right about the Superbowl, with the kicker that the “fans” got to see Taylor Swift pounding down drinks like she was at a frat party while her buddy flashed devil signs at the camera. Meanwhile, all the comments on the channel I saw were shouting “scripted! fake!” because of the Chief’s ludicrously easy win in overtime.
All sports is wrestling.
Wrestling is all sports.
You get a trophy
I get a trophy
Scripted indeed:
Viva las vegas!
Someone mentioned “diverse” orchestras re: the Beethoven and I recalled the case of Florence Price, an African American woman who has been given the big elevation – but mainly because she was black and female. See here:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/Feb/Price-sys-4862029.htm
“Although Price was a modestly talented composer whose work deserves better recognition than it had previously earned, she is hardly “America’s forgotten musical genius.” Her acclamation—to the detriment of the American continent’s genuine forgotten musical geniuses, among them Revueltas, Amadeo Roldán (whose all too slim musical output displays his imaginative use of Afro-Cuban elements), Luis Humberto Salgado, Roger Sessions, and Wallingford Riegger—is a troubling development for those who believe that a work’s musical merit is determined by factors unrelated to its potential use as fodder in the interminable culture wars.”
Exactly. Once again, the “saintly Americans” determine what is to be praised by reference to some “moral compass” unrelated to the actually relevant criteria. cf. Richard Strauss’s comment, ““Another glorious achievement of the Nazi regime …. Artists are no longer judged by their abilities, but by what Americans think of their political opinions.”
O/T, but is a ref. to my reply to your post on the Off-G article of a couple of days ago (I’ve not been posting on this site for a couple of months or so, due to ill-health). The link below takes you straight to my post, but have only just posted it, so it might not show up yet in print.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/10/when-good-for-you-is-too-good/#comment-652964
Hope your health returns to normal soon Christine.
Always enjoy your comments.
Many thanks for your wishes for my health, Johnny, and also for your words re. my posts!
Hope all is well, there in Australia! My longtime partner, Jim, and I, would have been making a visit to your country, but he sadly returned to the Spirit world in 2019. We both have relatives who live there (his live just south of Sydney, and mine in Brisbane).
In Jan. 2020, I decided to achieve my travel dream (this lifetime…) of visiting Sydney… so I booked a 2.5 week holiday there, for November 2020. I’d worked out, in great detail, the schedule/itinerary… and had bought a number of items specifically for the trip… including, for eg, some compression socks for the longhaul flight..! I thought “I really am going to see Sydney this lifetime!”. Had planned ferry trips down the Parramatta river, trip to Manly, etc etc! And had planned to sit on Bondi Beach on what would have been my 62nd birthday, in 2020!
But then, we all know what ‘happened’ as of March 2020.. the fake ‘pandemic’.
I wasn’t willing to wear a mask on the planes, nor to have any injection, nor to have my temperature taken at Heathrow and Kingsford Smith airports.. and so I had to cancel the trip… the travel agents kept the deposit (£700+…). As one of the regular contributors to the excellent Global Research site, an Australian, said to me, when we exchanged a few emails, a couple of years ago, re. that loss of £700+, “it’s a case of ‘criminals in suits'”. Well, exactly!
Maybe I’ll plan my soul’s next lifetime to be born in Australia!
Sydney harbour is beautiful, but like most large cities around the world the rest of the city is standardised stuff: Office towers, apartments, concrete, glass and retail conglomerates.
Australia is best enjoyed in the smaller coastal towns, national parks and cultural hubs.
Don’t let your dream wither Christine.
Thanks for you interesting comment. I’ve answered it in the proper place.
You seem to be suggesting the ego, or the “I’, transcends death.
My god, the spirit world must be full of arseholes.
I think you are partly right, but suggesting we carry on “with the same thoughts and memories” is just new age Blavatsky nonsense.
IMO its much more likely this is a computer simulation, just as its much more likely we are all figments of gods imagination.
Get well soon
We do actually carry on ‘with the exact-same thoughts, memories, feelings, attitudes, etc’, that is NOT ‘New Age Blavatsky nonsense’. Carry out some scholarly research into the subject; I’ve read 1500+ high-quality, scholarly books on this topic, and there are hundreds of thousands of such books that have been written on it… a large percentage of them having been written by the many properly-informed scientists, doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, etc etc, around the world.
P.S. to my earlier reply: thank you for your good wishes re. my health!
For those who (like me) have never heard of the Mann:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/27/climatologist-michael-e-mann-doomism-climate-crisis-interview
“Michael E Mann is one of the world’s most influential climate scientists. He rose to prominence in 1999 as the co-author of the “hockey-stick graph”, which showed the sharp rise in global temperatures since the industrial age. This was the clearest evidence anyone had provided of the link between human emissions and global warming. This made him a target. He and other scientists have been subject to “climategate” email hacking, personal abuse and online trolling. In his new book, The New Climate War, he argues the tide may finally be turning in a hopeful direction.
You are a battle-scarred veteran of many climate campaigns. What’s new about the climate war?
For more than two decades I was in the crosshairs of climate change deniers, fossil fuel industry groups and those advocating for them – conservative politicians and media outlets. This was part of a larger effort to discredit the science of climate change that is arguably the most well-funded, most organised PR campaign in history. Now we finally have reached the point where it is not credible to deny climate change because people can see it playing out in real time in front of their eyes.
But the “inactivists”, as I call them, haven’t given up; they have simply shifted from hard denial to a new array of tactics that I describe in the book as the new climate war.
Who is the enemy in the new climate war?
It is fossil fuel interests, climate change deniers, conservative media tycoons, working together with petrostate actors like Saudi Arabia and Russia. I call this the coalition of the unwilling.
If you had to find a single face that represents both the old and new climate war it would be Rupert Murdoch. Climate change is an issue the Murdoch press has dissembled on for years. The disinformation was obvious last year, when they blamed arsonists for the devastating Australian bushfires. This was a horrible attempt to divert attention from the real cause, which was climate change. Murdoch was taken to task by his own son because of the immorality of his practices.
We also have to recognise the increasing roles of petrostate actors. Saudi Arabia has played an obstructionist role. Russia has perfected cyber warfare and used it to interfere in other countries and disrupt action on climate change. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has made a credible case about Russia’s efforts to hijack the 2016 presidential election and get Trump elected. Russia wanted to end US sanctions that stood in the way of a half-trillion-dollar deal between Rosneft and ExxonMobil. It worked. Who did Trump appoint as his first secretary of state? Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil.”
In August 2017 the US congress removed all Russia matters from then-Pres. Trump. He should’ve resigned and moved on. He’d said to vote for him in 2016 because #1 he’d deliver a wall on day one, and #2, he was the one person strong enough to stand up to bureaucrats. But it was the opposite. Don was a coward. He’d received many votes in 2016 for suggesting normalization of relations with Russia. Medvedev commented at the time that Trump was humiliated. But Don was happy to be a pretend president which is why the Establishment wants him to win again. Don knows he’ll still be powerless and will simply be the front man talking up a big, scary enemy, Russia, for the purpose enriching weapons dealers by bleeding US taxpayers dry. When a person–for whatever reason–doesn’t deliver what he promised to get a job, he should resign. Trump wasn’t suited for the job. Instead of accepting that, he made hundreds of millions of dollars and created a new grift for his relatives by making people feel sorry for him. Don had made Jared Kushner de facto president anyway, Jared ran the White House. Don knew if he wanted to stay in politics he’d have to surrender to Russia-hating warmonger Lindsey Graham, which he did.
Breaking news! Researchers at the University of BS have found that so much as silently entertaining any thoughts that “question the safety” of the very, very – “safe & effective” vaccines – “can cause sudden death.” Researchers point out that to be on the safe side – the old tried and true – “prefrontal lobotomy” – can protect one from such dangerous thoughts creeping in. : /
Safety culture is the handmaiden of managed outcomes – the new managerial creed.
In Germany a couple of years ago they announced not a single child had drowned – not because they teach all kids to swim, but they tell them that water is dangerous: stay away.
Hello MC
Germans do learn to swim but not in school. Their parents teach them. (I remember one visit to the public pool during sports hours in my whole school time.) But what if all their parents know is sand and not water? And even forbid their little girls to participate in swimming courses as they’d have to undress in the presence of strangers? The ones drowing every summer season are most likely sons of the desert, boozed and stoned and then jumping into the Rhine or the Neckar. So yes, water is dangerous for them.
From redfire online:
‘Australia suffered a shocking 5162% increase in excess deaths in the first 38 weeks of 2022 compared to the first 38 weeks of 2020, which was the supposed height of the “pandemic” and prior to a single Covid injection. Moreover, these are figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, i.e., the government’s own data.‘
And now, hardly anyone in Australia is getting ‘boosted’.
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/australians-abandon-failed-mrna-covid?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
The stories of ordinary Palestinians are being obliterated:
‘Currently, in Gaza, Israel is destroying the institutional basis for the reproduction and maintenance of social and cultural life, as well as administrative capacities to maintain records and documentation by which social and cultural life is organised. But in demolishing Palestinian homes, it is also destroying family artefacts, heirlooms, personal records, books, photographs and photographic collections that constitute a family’s capacity to reproduce its memories. The intentions are clear: to destroy both the social and cultural infrastructure by which Palestinians reproduce their capacities for life.‘
More here:
https://overland.org.au/2024/02/refaat-alareer-storytelling-and-memory-as-infrastructural-livelihood/
The genocide continues, unabated:
https://www.winterwatch.net/2024/02/rafah-massacre-dead-ahead/
More new normal. Taylor Swift and Pfizer have won the super bowl, along with American wokeness, and “Super Bowl Sunday” has now been officially proclaimed an African American holiday. Swift and her football boyfriend, Kelce, will now go on the campaign trail for Biden (just kidding) before he finally proves he’s beyond help, then Michelle Obama will be given the democratic nomination with Hillary Clinton as vice president, who will both be soundly defeated by Donald Trump because they just went too fucking far, even though he did too.
The Super Bowl, famous in American circles for being an avenue for new and stupid corporate commercials, did feature a rather peculiar entry considering the prices for the damn things – a commercial endorsing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for President as an Independent. I found that a bit surprising. Certainly, the only (overt) political entry. Maybe it will be RFK Jr. instead of Obama’s wife. It’s not too late to switch. You heard it here first.
Why yes Big Al, we in the U.S. now have two National Anthems, the traditional National Anthem for all Americans and a Black National Anthem for Africa Americans. You would think we would think this, being a national event, after all it’s the National Football League event, they would not be so divisive.
I wonder what the Hispanic Americans and other minorities in our country think…hmmmmm
Taylor Swift is just more bread and circuses. She’s likely a MK-Ultra victim and deserves our pity.
This link from ~1999 is the infamous “Letter from your Globalist Friend” that reveals a great deal of truth:
https://archive.org/download/letter-from-your-globalist-friend/Letter%20from%20your%20Globalist%20Friend.pdf
“Oh, you silly people, of course we lie. In this way we can keep the people unbalanced and always facing controversy which is very helpful to us. Have you not seen the talk show spectacle? Some of you believe we are the liberals and the good people are the conservatives. In reality, both serve our purposes. Each camp merely serves with the stamp of our approval but they are not allowed to present the real issues. By creating controversy on all levels, no one knows what to do. So, in all of this confusion, we go ahead and accomplish what we want with no hindrance.”
The Royals were pushed off the front page of the Mail by Taylor Swift’s kiss….
Soros buys her ‘ouvre’; Swift gets the Swifties to register to vote; nabs a new boyfriend, who happens to win the Superbowl…. and the press goes ‘ahhhhh’.
Manipulation of the people is now at kindergarten level.
I agree Moneycircus. We deserve better psyops!
Reference Charlie Farley: his name popped up on the Epstein flight list, then he is apparently discussing abdication despite only being in the job five minutes, then he is whisked in for a prostate issue, then – oh my – he’s “got cancer” and won’t be undertaking public engagements. But heh ho he is able to thank all his well wishers via the MSM.
Yes, yes but what about the trip or trips to that island? Nah everyone has moved on.
The joys of being Not my King.
More Trans than MK-Ultra, I’d say. But the “letter” is certainly an MK-Ultra job, intended to break our spirits and put us in the same state of mental limbo as the Swift and Super Bowl fans.
I’ve lived in Hawaii for most of my life and one thing I know is that the political class in Hawaii, except for the conservatives which are small in number, are 100% tools of the Democratic party, zero independence, so whatever is done politically is due to the plans of the party at the national level, who have a lot of influence in Hawaii since the rich and connected tend to have property in Hawaii, i.e., at least a condo.
I also have interesting news for this week. Just 20 hours ago Putin’s long distance attack TU-95 bombers made their first test trip near Alaska’s borders.
After pouring gasoline all over ME, starting wars up in Ukraine, Gaza, Armenia, causing tensions in Africa, Europe, East and West and South, Putin is now heading for the fat steak filét, America!
Alaska is the next target on Putin’s lunch plate to be bombed and exposed to electromagnetic weapons, insect food, China Mrna Jabs and genocide.
And the innocent American people are still sitting on their thumb, refuse to wake up.
https://rumble.com/v4cn7v0-russian-tu-95ms-strategic-bombers-carry-out-long-range-flight-over-bering-s.html
Taylor Swift is simply emblematic of our times: shallow, showy, shiny, shrill and shapeshifting. She is a talented tool of distractive propaganda.
As for ‘big band’ Beethoven, you can’t beat one woman (with political attitude), one piano, and a magnificent melody:
How we can circumvent “not protected speech” laws is, instead of attacking the Orwellian news speak, we ignore it and simply voice and publish the facts.
Witches casting spells take on many forms..
Swift provides “witchcraft lite” to try to entice young girls down that path. Her shows aren’t wall-to-wall witchcraft like some other singers but she has 3 or 4 songs in a 3 hour show that push it. She’s the gateway into heavier things.
This “3 hour show” thing is interesting in iteself. When it suits, we’re told youngsters these days have miniscule attention spans and can’t concentrate longer than a Tik-Tok video. Apart from the distraction factor, my guess is they’re trying to use ego to create emotional commitment. Who wants to admit – to themselves, let alone others – they wasted hours on something damaging or merely useless?
Wicca is now the largest “religion” among young American girls. This hasn’t happened by accident. Wicca is not some harmless “white magic” – it’s founder Gerald Gardner was a devote follower of Crowley. Crowley’s “do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law; love under will. Every man and woman a star” isn’t the hippie-trippie injunction it might sound to the gullible. It roughly decodes as “put your procreative energy into sex magick and make the whole universe revolve around you”. The appeal to creepers, narcissists and de-populating eugenicists should be obvious.
I suppose the pity of Kit’s excellent Beethoven 7 is that all the orchestral players are White:-)). No Cultural Enrichers at all.
The orchestra is quite Undiverse although there are those who say that Beethoven had Black heritage, so they may be forgiven once they have watched an approved quota of BBC historical films with Black mediaeval monarchs :-)).Or whatever the Dutch equivalent is, after all, Surinam or Indonesia were Dutch once.
But I will bet that most or all of those players revile Geert Wilders as part of their perceived cultural superiority.
Should you ask them about Dutch immigration policy and mention that de facto open borders cut off the cultural branch they are sitting on by 2040 or so, not least as regards voter-driven State financing of classical music, you will get a blank look and insults..
After all, I recall that around 2015 the choir of the Mainz Symphony orchestra deliberately opened the rehearsal room window to drown out with their voices some “racist, xenophobic” rally of indigenous Europeans in the square below.
Why must brown sauce be mixed with béarnaise sauce to satisfy silly diversity rules?
‘Cultural enrichers’
Do you mean like all those brilliant Japanese, Chinese and heaven forbid, African American classical musicians?
Yet another example of who is really playing the tune behind the curtain.
As I have said, behind every one black man there is an orchestra of 100 whites doing hard labour.
No sonny.
The term “cultural enricher” has a specific connotation in northern hemisphere parlance, it stems from the German Kulturbereicher and refers to the millions of military-age male rocket scientists and neurosurgeons who cross the Med from Africa and West Asia etc. to immi-vade the EU to the joy of the WEF.
Some years back a German CDU Berlin politician, Barbara John, seems to have coined this by now notorious term. The idea is that such people enrich European culture.
If you want to see the dire state of Wokeist classical music in the USA, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/black-scholars-confront-white-supremacy-in-classical-music
I do like a gamelan jam.
I strike the jars, pots, pans and cats in my kitchen every morning.
Nasty:
We knew that. We can see on your site you are multi-culti.
I can’t talk about Taylor Swift till I can figure out what she’s famous for. I get the feeling that whatever it is, it doesn’t compete with Beethoven’s 7th.
Speaking of which here is a fun fact which I think I read in Fritz Spiegel’s Lives, Wives and Loves of the Great Composers: When Beethoven’s deafness was really progressing and he was reduced to writing down messages, he wrote one that went, “When you look at her sideways, she’s got a magnificent arse!” He probably wasn’t referring to Taylor Swift!
Famous for being famous?
A tsunami of manufactured distraction:
‘Millions of people (Four million!) jumped online earlier this year for a chance to get their hands on one of the 450,000-odd tickets available across the multiple Melbourne and Sydney shows.’
I just twigged something. “Exciting scientific discoveries” tend to appear through whatever the latest fixation is. Did anyone have “Freudian problems” before Freud showed up to – pretty much – invent them? Were so many people so hung up on finding “the perfect sexual partner” before the glamour industry took off? Did so many people doubt their sexuality before “the scientists” “discovered” the “transgender spectrum”?
So they say “covid” and suddenly everyone has covid! They say “climate related illness” and everyone has it!
I’m still hung up on “penis envy” – the invention of the millenium, besides viruses.
Glad you qualified it with ‘up’ Veri.
Haha… Good one!
On second thoughts, these days …..
William Sargant says in ‘Battle for the Mind’ (essential and very creepy reading – Huxley and Russell loved it. unsurprisingly) that patients taught by Freudians (or Jungians) started having Freudian (or Jungian) dreams during “treatment” but stopped once the “treatment” stopped.
Sargant is particularly interesting on Methodism. Methodism seems to have been a giant sytem of mind-control that prevented the mother-ship Britain from having the revolutions that the British elite were exporting to the continent.
Reminds me of Stanislaw Lem’s “Solaris” about a planetary ocean that can mimic whatever the scientists want it to be.
You mean it’s just one great gigantic ‘Simon says,’ for the mainstream mob?
‘Jump! ‘ How high?’