Mark Andreessen, the creator of the Netscape browser defined the internet in these words.
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]]>the Internet has given all of humanity full read/write access to one another’s minds for the first time, and this is a massive shift in individual and collective psychology that we are just starting to grapple with. For example, we are now exposed to the crushing emotional load of suffering anywhere in the world, with no gatekeeping intermediary to insulate us, and not just occasionally but all the time. Figuring out the effects of this civilizational shift – certainly on par with the Gutenberg revolution, if not way beyond — will take a long time.
Andreessen has casually revealed perhaps the most profound change to humankind of our age. Sure bad things happened before but never so visibly.
While the Israelis carefully murder a million Palestinians, they traumatise the rest of the world who stand by and watch. Those who look away are effectively volunteering to abandon their humanity. Those of who look on have our humanity ripped away from us one bomb and one blocked food truck at a time.
It’s no wonder the Israelis tried and still try to cut off all communication from Gaza, images, video, even poetry.
Other national disasters and economic crisis create pain, but an entire literate civilisation dedicating itself to imposing a complete holocaust on another is new. The Israelis bark back that you Americans did the same thing to the natives in North America. They are not wrong. Some very bad men got a hold of power and murdered everyone. The population of the United States bear responsibility. No one stopped them. As a comparison, in Imperial Russia, occasionally similar men would seek power and start similar programs. The Tsar regularly stopped these monsters in their tracks when these actions reached his desk. Unfortunately the Bolsheviks were less benevolent, wiping out their enemies in the style of US total war (the English, the Indians, their own South, the Filipinos).1
I’m far from sure it was civilisational. Within the United States, there were many, many opposed to the extinction of the Indians. Yet the same kind of dehumanisation of the victim took place to cover for these crimes. At the time, some historians argued that it was precisely the lack of history which created the perfect storm which were the United States genocides.
In the case of Palestine, the Israelis claim five thousand years of continuous civilisation going back all the way to Adam and Eve (never mind that Chinese civilisation has existed for ten thousand years, well before Adam and Eve were born according to the Old Testament). It’s not a lack of expertise in ethical questions, it’s not a matter of a lack of wisdom, it’s not civilisational youth in the Israeli case. What shocks is that collective Jewry should know better but continues to make very bad choices.
It’s a very bad look for humankind. If we still cannot settle our disagreements civily and live peacefully with others, this suggests that auto-annihilation is inevitable. What’s particularly shocking is that the population genetically closest to the original Hebrews in the modern world are the same Palestinians that the latter day Israelis annihilate. The Israelis are killing these people in the name of the ancestors of their own victims.
1. Are there better people? I prefer to what I’ve experienced and seen first hand. The Slovaks historically have preferred to keep to themselves. I haven’t heard about Slovak people seeking to wipe out another nation. Instead, the Slovaks offered succour to the Hungarians during the Pecheneg-Turk invasion of Europe in 895. Result: the fall of Greater Moravia. After that event, the Slovaks found themselves tenants in their own lands, answering to Hungarian overlords. Due to their ability to co-exist with other peoples, as a people the Slovaks were not put to the sword and were able to reclaim their language and their lands later. The Slovak experience offers some hope that humans can learn to co-exist with a minimum of bloodshed and a fair amount of tolerance.
]]>Like many, I abhor the destruction of art work to make a political point or the removal of historical monuments. This time though…
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]]>Like many of you I abhor the destruction of art work to make a political point. The removal of historical monuments and statues, I also oppose.
But in this case, the targeting is exact. It is Balfour.1
In the comments, TarquiniusSuperbus notes:
Good for this protester, and very courageous! And what is so wrong about being anti-Israel anyway ? Israeli Zionist Jews are anti-Christian, anti-Druze, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, and anti anyone else who is not a Jew. Let’s face it, Zionist Jews are the most hateful people on earth.
That’s awfully blunt but not far off the mark. Charles Manson was close competition but he’s no longer with us.
There’s no lord prefacing Balfour’s name above. It’s deliberate. I suggest we stop recognising British titles, 1. most of us live in republics 2. our ancestors gave their blood to eliminate the pox of hereditary nobility 3. British titles are mostly given to war criminals i.e. Blair or economic criminals i.e. Philip Green]. who is indirectly responsible for the destruction of Palestine and the misery visited on the Palestinians for almost a century. ↩
Ipsos numbers seem gamed to me. Here's why.
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]]>We no longer even let our farmers work properly or earn a good living (anyone who thinks farmers live high on the hog have never worked a farm).
In the comments Peter Pan notes:
I think the responses would be quite different if every participant in the poll was made aware and took account of the demographic cliff facing many of their nations. I grant however that in the short run things are still standing due to the termites holding hands.
The demographic cliff is an illusion, modern economies need far fewer people and will need still fewer workers in the future. Deflation in hyper-inflated housing would help young families.
The only exception is if your country is planning to go to way. In which case, you need more soldiers and more mothers. Much better for the armed forces if the soldiers are native stock and not recent additions (barbarian mercenaries). Rome found about this the hard way.
Photo credit: Ansel Adams
]]>Here is your new leader - we chose him just for you- the other guy is gonna die - and we've arranged a coup
]]>China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called Mr Biden’s remarks “extremely absurd and irresponsible”. Speaking at a regularly scheduled press conference on Wednesday, she said that the comments were “an open political provocation” that violated diplomatic etiquette.
The poem is amusing and worth a read:
US 'etiquette' Here is your new leader we chose him just for you the other guy is gonna die and we've arranged a coup our good and faithful minions share all of our opinions so if you want to live here's what yer gonna do Arrest our competition and buy our submarines and force your population to submit to our vaccines just do as you are told don't make us use the stick for we can be quite ruthless when we want to be a prick.
While it’s doggerel, it’s both funny and on the money.
ld documents basically the story of Australia, who have lost several prime ministers when the US disapproves and are now stuck with boondoggle of a submarine deal, where Australia pays but the submarines and their weapons remain under the control of the USA. Canada is not much different but we don’t have to buy submarines. All the rest applies. It’s astonishing that the word democracy manages to come out of these puppets’ mouths. It’s been a long time in Canada or Australia or the US or the UK that there’s been a truly free election. It’s worst in the Homeland of course (US), where only made men and women are allowed anywhere near the starting line.
Illustration: created in MidJourney based on the poem above.
]]>We've been transported to a Jonathan Swift essay, where we must give up privacy, nature, civility, family in the quest for a green sustainable world
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]]>In the meantime, battery powered cars require previously unseen amounts of nickel and lithium for their batteries. This means the reserves of nickel and lithium must be urgently extracted from the earth. Even if they are under nature reserves, or if a previously uncontacted tribe (there’s few of those left) named the “People of the Forest” live in these areas.
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Petapixel notes:
The tribe’s home Halmahera island happens to sit on one of the world’s largest reserves of nickel. In recent years, the demand for nickel has skyrocketed due to its use in electric car batteries, bringing this once-quiet island to the attention of international mining corporations.
“It’s a deep irony that these people literally call themselves Hongana Manyawa — ‘People of the Forest’ — and yet they’re the ones being destroyed in the name of the green transition,” Russell tells the publication.
It’s hard to add much to the irony here. It feels like we’ve been transported to a Jonathan Swift essay, where we must give up privacy, nature, civility, family in the quest for a green sustainable world full of joyous gay couples peacefully committing war crimes.
Gradually transgender men win all the women’s athletic medals and break and hold all the women’s sports records.
What ever happened to equal rights and tolerance? Not to mention the [Nuremberg Principles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles.
Image Halmahera island by Eustaquio Santimano via Wikipedia. CC license. The second image above is not a joke or photoshop. It’s a real image taken by Yoav Atzmuni of himself 12 November 2023 during the Israeli invasion. Atzmuni is a member of a tank brigade partially responsible for the ruins behind him.
]]>When I was a kid, they used to say that the world would be a better and more peaceful place if the women were in charge.
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]]>When I was a kid, they used to say that the world would be a better and more peaceful place if the women were in charge. Then along came Madelaine Albright, Victoria Nuland, Condoleeza Rice, and Hilary Clinton.
Margaret Thatcher deserves to be on this list. Recent relative non-entities who win awards for war-mongering include Nikki Haley, Liz Truss (four months before becoming British prime minister she announced “we are at war with Russia”, she gave the go-ahead for blowing up Nord-Stream, even Boris Johnson didn’t want to be in office for that won, reverse musical chairs), Annalena Baerbock (another “we are at war with Russia” foreign minister).
The image is from Madeleine Albright’s 60 minutes interview where she answers the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was “worth it”.
]]>Neither side could score in this important game for both sides. No goals, no triumph, no despair just grey rain and dirty uniforms.
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]]>These photos were shot with an Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 135mm f2.5 manual focus lens from 1968.
There’s certainly better technique required with manual focus sport. The ideal is to set oneself up parallel to the action so that the players remain in focus during a sequence. Most difficult is to shoot an onrushing player. There’s a lot less contrast in these older lenses. They are much better stopped down to f3.5 or f4 (which is how the photographers of the time shot them in daylight), which is what I did after a time.
Fabian Thüringer and Jakob Fischer can quickly clear as Juraj Fuska springs into action
Without adequate leadership and an altruistically patriotic ruling class, any society is doomed.
]]>This evening I ran across an essay from professional investor and thinker Jayant Bhandari. Canadians should enjoy Canada while they can. The times they are a’changin and faster than even I thought:
When I moved to Canada in 2003, its population was 32 million. Today, it is 40 million, an increase of 25%.
Had immigration not occurred, the Canadian population would have fallen, given its fertility rate of 1.47, which itself would have been lower had immigration not occurred…For those who don’t have a sense of numbers, more than one out of every four people in Canada arrived after my arrival twenty years back. As it stands today, 26% of Canadians are first-generation immigrants. 18% are second-generation. 32% of children under fifteen in 2021 were second-generation immigrants.
My interest is not to get into statistical nuances but to show that nearly 50% of Canadians are first or second-generation immigrants. And immigration continues to ramp up, most of whom come from the Third World.
Before the early 1970s, most immigrants came from Europe. Today, only 10% of the total immigrants come from Europe….
India is by far the most significant source of immigration, accounting for 27% of total immigrants. A distant second is China, with 7%. Third is Afghanistan, with 5.4%. Fourth is Nigeria, with 5%….
Western political correctness has metastasized into a puerile understanding of cultures. Even those who can see prefer to make money and maintain their lifestyles, their country houses, the size of their kitchen cabinets, and the schools their kids attend rather than speak up.
Canadians have put Canada on a path to inevitable destruction.
There is no history in human affairs when a society willingly gave itself away to foreigners. There is no history of a society maintaining any values once foreigners overtook it. Indeed, there is no history in human affairs where muti-culturalism and ethnic diversity have not led to massive civil conflicts, but Canadians love romanticizing these anti-values.
What are the consequences of these policies?
Canada now has massive ghettoes. Visit and soak in the Indian ghettos of Surrey, Brampton, or Richmond to get a sense of proportion and perspective. I mention the Indian ghettos, for I know them better, but you should also visit the Afghani, Syrian, Somalian, etc. ghettoes. If you do, you will realize that Canada is like a train constantly changing its passengers. For most Canadians, the passengers aren’t what they started with.
Recently, Eritrean immigrants fought a pitched battle in Calgary. Khalistan’s posters can now be seen in many places. These don’t leave a lasting impression on native Canadians, but they must.
How does Canada choose its immigrants?
India provides 27% of Canada’s new immigrants….
Every Indian city today has at least one high-rise building devoted to housing agencies that help people immigrate to Canada, most offering help creating fake documents or getting admission to colleges structured not for education but for assisting people to stay in Canada long enough to become citizens.
Crazy, isn’t it, that Canada has given itself away to those who faked documents? So much for the much-touted skilled-class immigrants!
This essay is written from the perspective of an Indian Canadian. Bhandari knows what he is talking about. Here’s another perspective.
I was born in Canada and live in it now, product of immigrant Slavic parents. I can tell you that the biggest enemy of Canada are the Old Stock Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Irish population. This population was always the most brainwashed into worshipping the system and any dogma the system put(s) out. The second thing they did was to (exploit) rely, at first on continental European Immigrants to build up their infrustucture and know-how, and then later on affuent Chinese immigrants that they could sell their houses to at huge premiums as well as services, with the goal being to be as least productive as possible. Still other immigrants at first Europeans, and then later replaced by Indians and Filipinos, were building the homes and working in the service sector, serving these Anglos.
What has been the downfall of the Old Stock Anglo-Canadians is the way they treat their offspring and family. Their families do not stick together and they look at their children as a burden, as opposed to an investment. As a result the chidren of the Old Stock Anglo Canadians have been and are at disadavantage, kicked out of the home at 18 years, while Italians, later Vietnamese, Indians, Chinese supported by their families receive the higher education and top class jobs. The period I describe here is from the late 60’s to the 2000s.”
That sounds like the Canada I know and where I grew up. So few heirs of the WASP elite truly wanted to build a greater Canada. Canadian WASP culture celebrates inebriation, hedonism, selfishness and at best shallow materialism. As a child of that culture, I’ve not been exempt from its failings. It’s a long way from the world of my great aunts and uncles who toiled decades to improve education in British Columbia, or grandparents who helped build one of the greatest retail empires in the world or Polish count Peter Mielzynski who arrived after the second world war and built a successful import business in the seventies. That generation was dedicated to building Canada and making space for Canadian life and as an inevitable consequence Canadian culture2.
How did we plunge so quickly, so far? The siren call of Jane Fonda and the drop-out generation. It’s hard to have ideals when your society’s idea of positive contribution is to head two thousand miles across an ocean into a jungle to commit war crimes. Of course Canada did not directly participate in Viet Nam but we don’t really exist on our own, we are a shadow of our larger neighbour to the south. And before that, to the centre of Empire, in London. If malaise infects those societies, it is reflected in Canada. Our country had lost its mission, having children and raising them properly was no longer fashionable. Turn on, tune in, drop out became the mantra of a generation.
For Canada, the seminal moment was the election of Brian Mulroney in 1984. When Mulroney pushed through NAFTA with Reagan, Canada’s status as a colony of the United States effectively moved from geography to law. Those of us who felt strongly patriotic had been set adrift by our own government. On the economic side, NAFTA gave up control of our water and our resources (if we sold any resources, US companies had equal rights to any Canadian enterprises) and our culture. Canadian broadcast rules were to be phased out, US magazines were to be given near peer rights on the newsstands as our Canadian magazines. Canadian cultural protectionism mattered as our cultural market was 10% the size of the neighbour with a shared language. Without protection, Canadian culture would just be subsumed within the US culturesphere within decades. Which is exactly what happened. Canadianism is now more or less simple regionalism, not much more distinct than the Pacific Northwest or the US Southeast.
Immigration did nothing to hinder this process. Our Canadian immigrants as Bhandari points out live in their own culturesphere, mostly ignoring Canadian culture. Where they pursue or follow North American culture, it’s probably US popular culture. Divided between their home countries and the United States, they are the perfect globalist citizen, loyal to noone except brands and economic success. At the same time, these immigrants to Canada suffer from cultural disorientation and discomfort. Canadian culture is neither present enough or strong enough to give them renewed orientation in this world. We drift past one another, unable to interact in more than a functional way with one another. We are too different, we share nothing.
There’s a certain irony in our national anthem, as a commenter on Bhandari’s essay pointed out:
I have nothing but utter contempt for the stupid, white Canadian liberals who let demonic globalist elites deliberately destroy their country. “Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee”. Bullshit. Change this f** song. It hasn’t been true for decades.
What’s worse is that in moving back to Europe, the birthplace of European culture I’d hoped to leave behind the self-destructive progressiveness of the New World. We couldn’t be that stupid in the Old World to allow the destruction of our cultures and cities, many of which we’ve built up over a thousand years. Over three thousand for those who trace their origins back to the Ancient Greeks. Could we?
It turns out that we could. Europe stood by and watched the United States destroy the Middle East (Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2012. Yemen 2014) in wars of choice and aggression and then allowed Germany’s Chancellor to announce open season on Europe, opening our gates to many millions of economic migrants whom the US had created and sent our way to destroy our standard of life. What continues to astonish me is how citizens stand by to observe the destruction of everything for which their parents, their grandparents, great-grandparents and their grandparents before them had worked so hard.
We stood by in Canada and for now it looks like we’ll stand by in Europe. Without adequate leadership and an altruistically patriotic ruling class, any society is doomed. Where adequate leadership appears in any single country, the EU immediately takes measures to suppress local outbreaks of good sense and prudent administration.
What is to be done? Novel and visionary Leo Tolstoi argued that individuals matter not in history and are only the jetsam on surface of the tide. I’d disagree. Only a strong individual can lead us out of the fog of moral and ethical confusion which has sent our societies into a slow whirlpool of self-destruction. Some argue that such an individual would not be allowed to raise his3 head4.
The dangers of doing the right thing will not prevent the brave from acting on the courage of their convictions. Napoleon Bonaparte could have died in battle many days before leading France to rule Europe. Most of us in Continental Europe still live by his legal code. Many crowned heads of England fell in battle, even while leading their armies to success.
Life is dangerous but it always ends in death. To accept servility to linger a decade or two more on our earth is to accept ignominy. Conformity is no guarantee of prosperity and long life. Our governments have damned enough of its most loyal henchmen to an early death. Life will be a struggle whichever side you take, make sure you fight for right.
In fairness, at least one of my grandparents was against culture and cultural activities in general on principle. Culture to him represented decadence and sloth. He was wrong of course, but not far wrong. ↩
Such against-the-current leaders are almost exclusively men, particularly the successful ones. Among women, in the West we have the Sabine women and Joan of Arc as counter examples. One can argue long and hard why it’s the case, but mostly it’s related to the male relationship to abstract ideas. More men are prepared to sacrifice their lives for abstract ideas and to defend a worldview. This may not be a strength – dying for an idea sounds much better in print than in real life. Dead is dead, heroic death or not. ↩
It’s true that there has been a long string of assassinations of such leaders. Whether one consider J.F. Kennedy a revolutionary leader (history suggests Kennedy was more of a standard American imperialist than we credit in retrospect), his brother R.F. Kennedy was a charismatic firebrand with a clear and alternative vision for the United States. On the short list of the famous removed while in power, there are Salvador Allende in Chile, Patrice Lumumba in Congo, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. Sometimes the assassination is not physical but political, as in the case of two-time Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam who was removed from power by the Queen of England with the connivance of the CIA, MI6 and the Australian DSD. ↩
SC Breitenbrunn's visit to Kittsee was a high scoring affair, 3:2 in favour of the home team.
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]]>SC Breitenbrunn was promoted just this season from Burgenland I Klasse – coming in to SC Kittsee and going goal-for-goal in a close game is a very good result. Their coaching team of Alexander Janisch and former Kittsee coach Erwin Raithofer did impressive work winning I Klasse Nord. Coach Raithofer’s presence on the sidelines gave Breitenbrunn a good insight into the SC Kittsee game as the core players remain the same since his 2021-2022 season as SC Kittsee coach.
Sadly, like many recently promoted clubs SC Breitenbrunn is at risk of immediate relegation. It’s very hard to go up and down leagues successfully in Burgenland. Burgenland Liga is a huge step up from II Liga Nord. Last year’s victors Halbturn have gone from topping II Liga Nord with a 35 goal advantage and 55 points to a -25 goal deficit at mid-season with just 5 points.
But without further ado, the photos from SC Breitenbrunn at SC Kittsee on 22 September 2023.
After a difficult 2022-2023 season, SK Pama is back on track. Whatever was wrong, SK Pama has fixed.
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]]>Congratulations to SK Pama on pulling the team back together after a difficult 2022-2023 season. Curiously it’s mostly the same players and same coaching staff. Whatever was wrong, SK Pama has fixed.