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I’m not just a classic liberal – I’m a PALEOLIBERAL. Which in these incipient socialist times means that I now resemble a “classic conservative”.
Yeah, it’s complicated.
But the bottom line, is that I want America to be conservative enough that it’s MORALLY SAFE to be a wee bit liberal again, championing such radical things as a “wide interpretation” of the BILL OF RIGHTS.
You know – so I can be a flaming liberal moonbat like RAND PAUL!
OK – that’s not working. Let’s try something else.
This is a BOOK REVIEW. Of a GREAT BOOK. By a GREAT THINKER.
William S. Lind is a name I had heard of before, back on some blog we now call OT, otherwise known as CTH, or The Conservative Treehouse, or The Last Refuge. Lind’s name came up in the context of two great ideas, both of which I was heavily schooled in, by several of the sharp conservatives hanging out at Sundance’s place. Those ideas were:
4GW – short for 4th Generation Warfare
Cultural Marxism in America
But if you look these up on Marxypedia, and search out any connection to William S. Lind, you will get the impression that he’s an unknown crackpot of some kind. HA! More deception by the communist occupation.
Lind is not without controversy, as BOTH of his claims to fame have been vociferously criticized by people who typically get FOUR OR MORE Suspicious Cats from me.
You know – like THE DAILY KOS.
The criticisms of Lind, in my opinion, give away his importance.
So as you might imagine, Lind’s name and his self-description as a “paleoconservative” on the back cover were very attractive to me – just as attractive as the 4GW paleo-hottie featured on the front cover of his book.
TIME WARS.
Cunning stuff, from the master of 4GW.
Yes, retroculture looks a bit like cultural retreat, and that is indeed part of its brilliance.
Retroculture is an extremely disruptive idea that was just waiting for somebody to BRAND it.
Retroculture was with me every time I grabbed OLD AMERICAN HARDWOOD AND STEEL HAND TOOLS from one more estate sale, to replace CHEATIN’ CHINESE POT METAL JUNK that broke during the first few uses.
Retroculture was with me and the wife, when we purchased our dear abode, which looks, how shall we say – “OLD-TIMEY”.
Retroculture was with me when I proposed to my dear wife, whose very old cultural roots were a bit n00by compared to some of mine, but were still old enough to guarantee retention of TIMELESS values.
I always wanted to CALL these thoughts of LONG-TERM AND PROVEN VALUE something.
RETROCULTURE is exactly what that something is.
Retroculture is, incidentally, the very idea that got Trump elected.
Really? Why?
BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE WISH THEY COULD GO BACK TO A BETTER PAST, THE MAN WHO CAN ACTUALLY HELP THEM PULL IT OFF IS THEIR CHAMPION.
TIME TRAVEL TRUMP. Yeah. There is a REASON he seems so “timeless”. HE IS.
For those of you who REMEMBER, there was an episode of Original Star Trek called “All Our Yesterdays” – in which people on a planet facing a supernova ESCAPED INTO THE PAST.
This idea was unsettling. BUT what is quite possibly bothering you EVEN MORE right now is the EVEN MORE unsettling idea that this plot actually sounds better NOW than it did THEN.
ADMIT IT.
Let’s take a stroll……
But before we do, just a word of warning. Yeah, we know that Star Trek is filled with the usual Hollywood satanist and Illuminati symbolism, including Spock’s ears, but just keep your hat on for the duration of the ride. It’s not ALL satanic, demonic, and ugly. It’s. Just. Hollywood.
Here we go.
Kirk and the boys end up on some planet that they were thinking might need some HELP, and it turns out that everybody seems to be GONE.
Those old guys are lookin’ pretty good right there, AM I RIGHT? With age, comes discernment. You stop seeing things as “dated” and “old fashioned”, and you see past that stuff. SO……
If “old” Star Trek is lookin’ good to you now, just wait.
All our Star Trek hereoes get “accidentally or on purpose” lost in the past of this planet. Including Spock, who ends up going EXTREME RETRO. And who does he meet?
Remember Mariette Hartley? You kinda missing her right now? Think things mighta been better in Hollywood back then? This was TV, mind you.
Don’t get me started about the Westerns.
You ain’t seen nothin’. Watch this.
We weren’t racists back then. It’s a LIE.
We had INTER-SPECIES LOVE IN PRIME TIME. And I watched this as a KID with my PARENTS IN THE ROOM.
Yeah, the satanic ears probably sailed a lot of this stuff past the Hollywood creeps who would have otherwise nixed some ground-breaking sci-fi and “preppertainment”, but still – ignore for the moment. Factor it out. This wasn’t “The Gong Show”.
Lind correctly identifies the 1960s as where things started going to hell, but not without a valiant attempt to go where things SHOULD have gone – very likely under media victim Barry Goldwater.
Note how the Uhura-Kirk kiss wasn’t the only groundbreaking “civil rights” on television. How these proggies can claim we were racists back then is beyond ludicrous – it’s horsefeathers.
They LIE to us about our past, so they can drive us into THEIR vision of OUR future.
Just ONE random old TV show from the 1960s, betraying the relative innocence of America in only the EARLY Marxist takeover of Hollywood….
Ironically envisioning both PALEO PAST and RADICAL FUTURE…..
And yet it ALL seems so much more NORMAL and DESIRABLE than the INFLICTED INSANITY OF NOW.
Or maybe THIS is more your style. Hold that SCARY THOUGHT that PBS liberals might very well yearn for RETROCULTURE every bit as much as you do.
I mean, you don’t think that William “4GW” Lind would come up with an idea that wasn’t ACTUALLY dangerous to the dark side of the force, do you?
OR THIS….
https://youtu.be/_C25CwNlVjA
Note that this isn’t “real” in most senses – it’s actually a dramatization of code-breaking basics that the World War II code-breakers knew from the start. More than that, it’s also filled with PC encouragement of women to enter STEM. But THAT isn’t the point, either.
The point is that this movie, which I JUST. KEEP. USING. to demonstrate point after point about information warfare, is ULTIMATELY RETROCULTURAL, and that is why it works SO. DARN. WELL. People love retroculture because HISTORY proves its VALIDITY.
Retroculture throws all of our current chaotically ridiculous social and technical problems BACK IN TIME where they are SENSIBLE and SOLUBLE (including REJECTABLE) in a proven framework where GREATNESS WAS ACHIEVABLE.
And this brings up an important point which Lind addresses over and over, so that it gets past our ALINSKY FEARS – those fears that it’s all just some kind of “reenactment” written as large as our whole lives.
Retroculture is not mere NOSTALGIA, nor is it ABOUT nostalgia, although our current CULTURAL NOSTALGIA is indeed a SIGN that we are actually IN NEED OF retroculture.
Retroculture is something bigger and more profound.
Retroculture SOLVES PROBLEMS. And not necessarily in ways that socially damaging, urgency-foisting progressives want.
Retroculture is more about classic VALUES and LIFESTYLES than about the mere outward trappings of those times.
Retroculture is not any kind of “running away”, into the past. Retroculture is ENGAGING THE FUTURE on solid ground.
And SOME OF US on this very site may actually be a bit “ahead of the curve” on this stuff. Ya know? Look at all our own retrocultural symbolism and take comfort.
The idea of RETROCULTURE as the PROPER COURSE OF PROGRESS of America is such a BIG and profound idea, it escapes any attempt to box it in, and Lind knows this. Lind does not merely remind us that this sort of cultural re-examination and emulation of our classic past has happened before – and was GREAT for humanity – even great for HUMAN PROGRESS. Lind is actually able to make some easy yet startling predictions about what things might look like as this idea of retroculture takes over and defines the rest of this century.
You can’t read this book and not feel your head fill up with YOUR OWN IDEAS about what this means. Here is some of my thinking, inspired by Lind.
Retroculture is MOVEMENT, but it’s BIG MOVEMENT – more like a cultural paradigm shift. Political movements like MAGA and fads like steampunk fall like snowflakes within the mountain range of retroculture and the YEARNING for it, as tiny derivations and exemplars.
Retroculture is also something that I am quite sure scares the hell out of our faux “progressives” – seemingly better described as “regressives”. Why do you think our crypto-socialist social media czars, at the behest of Adam “Pencilneck” Schiff, banned the ultimately retrocultural “Natural News”?
Retroculture might actually be MORE POSITIVELY “progressive” than progressivism. This is shocking to even contemplate, but yet it seems likely. Part of retroculture’s 4GW appeal is that – no matter what liberals SAY, THEY TOO will find value in the past – and likely more than in the current, modern, incompetent, and faulty visions of progressivism.
Retroculture amounts to popular selection of principles by LIVING THEM, not just by TALKING about them. It is validation of tenets of both conservatism and liberalism which PROVE THEMSELVES WORTHY TO RETAIN – voted on BY PEOPLE with their very lives.
Retroculture is selective rejection of the present – of what things are NOT QUALIFIED to become part of our past – our LIVING, INTELLIGENT PAST.
What liberalisms DIE IN THE NOW are fads. What liberalisms are retained by THE PEOPLE are judged WORTHY and maybe someday CLASSIC, possibly enduring who knows how long.
Retroculture is the FINE SIEVE of a truly free and truly equal people which judges and chooses WISELY, not POORLY.
Retroculture is a rejection of CONTROLLING TECHNOLOGY and CONTROL BY TECHNOLOGY. It demands CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGY. It is utterly HUMAN.
Retroculture, embracing what the dishonest subset of modernists tell us must be rejected, instead REJECTS their lies, their fakery, and their deceptions, by CHOOSING what they FALSELY say is dead, and which therefore becomes alive by our mere act of CHOOSING TO LIVE IT.
Retroculture, free and selective, falsifies controlling globalism by its very existence. And yet retroculture, AWARE and never IN DENIAL, retains what powers – moral, cultural, and technical – are needed to defend itself. It’s pure and utter allegiance to TRUTH insures that it will never – can never – be destroyed. RETENTION OF TRUTH is in accordance with CREATION ITSELF.
But that’s JUST ME – running away with Lind’s amazing ideas, in my own directions. It is far more critical to simply take a look at LIND’S THINKING, which I can only begin to address here. And – as a way to share his thinking without stealing his thunder, I think his CHAPTER HEADINGS tell you everything you need to know, to understand that Lind wants you to (1) decide if retroculture is right for you, and then (2) implement a retrocultural lifestyle in the ways that are right for you.
If you are conservative, or old-fashioned in any ways, you are likely doing much of this already. However, Lind is offering you ways to UP YOUR GAME. Particularly if you’re more of a “crypto-retrocultural” like me, hiding behind modernist gimmicks which pass me off as unremarkable despite ANCIENT values. Lind challenges you to WEAR THE SIGNS and SPREAD THE FAITH.
Signs of Change [observations on the rise of overt retroculturalism]
Retroculture [defining retroculture and understanding its origins]
Getting Started [answering your real and basic questions about retroculture]
Retro-Homes [how retroculture can be happily expressed in your living space]
Retro-Families [how retroculture will flower in your most basic relationships]
Retro-Clothing [how you can brand yourself openly as part of retroculture]
Retro-Entertainment [how retroculture replaces the hated “fake entertainment”]
Retro-Manners [how retroculture changes our personal interactions and principles]
Retro-Travel [how your retro lifestyle can be expressed smartly in travel choices]
Retro-Business [how to do business according to older, more honest standards]
Retro-Service [how retroculture sees SERVICE as an honorable, moral, GOOD thing]
Retro-America [the promise that retroculture holds for America and Americans]
Now – let me go a bit beyond Lind and explain why this book is so dangerous – and how to make it even more dangerous.
If *I* was ARKTOS, the publisher, I would have about TEN versions of that cover. Why? Because everybody wants to either BE on that cover, or be ATTRACTED to the person on it.
Sure – jumping right out with that 1950’s white blonde in a dress was utter genius and a perfect thumb in the face of all that is PC, but trust me – EVERYBODY is going to want to get in on the act. RETROCULTURE lets everybody BE WHO THEY ARE WITHOUT GUILT, in beautiful and validated lifestyles that ACTUALLY WORK.
The very next cover, if I were doing it, would be some historical version of Candace Owens. Then maybe a young, swoonable Elvis Presley type. Then more. No matter what, it would show the IN YOUR FACE attractiveness of retroculture and retrosexuality to EVERYBODY.
YES – that genius cover is more than just retrocultural – it is specifically RETROSEXUAL.
This is why I admit that I’m not just a retrocultural – I’m a RETROSEXUAL. Our restrained yet artfully constructed, sexually dimorphic past – GUILTLESS in its beauty- was AWESOME. Sure – now we’ve learned not to be MEAN to well-behaved sexual minorities – but why are we demonizing NORMALCY as part of it? We were doing it right before, more or less, with just a few things that we can EASILY FIX NOW with reterocultural MANNERS (see the book).
That’s the whole POINT of retroculture. It’s not the past. It’s LIKE IT, only BETTER.
And I’m not just an activist – I’m a BACKTIVIST. I’m saying that the direction FORWARD is to ACTUALLY GO BACK. We have been DECEIVED FORWARD, so the PROPER ESCAPE from this WORLD OF MISTAKES we are in, is to simply GO BACK.
Do you see how amazingly dangerous this idea of RETROCULTURE actually is, to phony progressivism and spatially and temporally monolithic globalism? This is jumping the track to ALTERNATE HISTORY where Martin Luther King, Jr. NEVER DIED, and REFUSED – absolutely REFUSED to support racial quotas and all the other stupid stuff that the communists forced upon us.
RETROCULTURE leads to a world where all of the mistakes that were forced upon us after they killed Kennedy just plain NEVER HAPPENED.
RETROCULTURE IS TRUE REBELLION AGAINST PAST ERROR BY ADMITTING IT AND THEN GOING BACK TO FIX IT.
How could we not want this?
The truth is, WE ALREADY WANT THIS.
“Nothing can stop what’s coming.”
Look at your life. I will bet MONEY you are already adopting retrocultural memes, but are just shy about it, or even feeling a bit GUILTY.
Stop feeling guilty!
Here you go. List FIVE unfashionable, out-of-date, out-of-style, quaint, or old-fashioned things that you LOVE, timeless as they may be, but in some cases may feel that you can’t openly love them as much as you would like to love them.
Deep down – EVERYBODY LOVES THIS STUFF. EVERYBODY WANTS THIS STUFF.
They just need to embrace it guiltlessly while the cabal VAINLY tries to stop it.
The fashion and luxury industries LOVE this stuff, too. Reinventing the past with greater and greater authenticity yet adding some form of “new and shiny” polish is their DREAM COME TRUE.
Retroculture subverts all of the mistakes of the past and present – and it does so without being stupid or gullible.
NOW – we have to be ready for the commie cabal to counter with their own schtick, OR their usual criticisms. I’m sure there is some way they can gerrymander retroculture into “appropriation” of some kind, but that criticism is weak sauce – just ignore it. Humanity is too far along to worry about spreading good and classic ideas.
The greater danger, in my opinion, is a kind of faux retro that leads right back to progressive error.
To see this, you have to dig into Lind’s personal vision of Retroculture. These are not things you will assume at first have to be a part of Retroculture, but the fact is, any self-consistent version of Retroculture DOES HAVE THESE THINGS, because retroculture simplifies life, culture and technology.
Retroculture VALUES things like WALKING, and TAKING THE TROLLEY, and CONSERVING ENERGY, and BEING HEALTHY and GETTING BACK TO NATURE.
BUT HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!
One can almost envision Alexandria Ocacio-Cortez jumping up and down in her CIA white dress, biting her old-timey ruby-red lips, raising her hand excitedly, and saying “WE’VE GOT THAT!!!”
Yes, she does. But that’s not all there is to TRULY conserving retroculture. At the same time, retroculture embraces ALL of the smarter past, including HIGHER SMARTER VALUES like GETTING BACK TO GOD, and HIGHER SMARTER TECHNOLOGY for everybody when they want it – not just for a TECHNOCRATIC ELITE.
Retroculture includes the FEARLESS ADMISSION OF TIMELESS TRUTH.
So let’s be fearlessly BLUNT.
Their “Green New Deal” is really the GREEN NEW STONE AGE, ruled over by a political elite, supported by a technocratic elite, and based on LIES.
Retroculture – in America’s case – is a TRUTH-BASED RETURN TO CLASSIC VALUES ACROSS AMERICAN HISTORY AND ACROSS THE POPULACE.
THAT is a much bigger, better, and brighter thing.
You don’t think Lind and his editors put that plane in the picture for NOTHING – do you?
Of course not. SMART, MORAL retroculture is not about to get fooled ONE MORE MINUTE by shifty-eyed progressive techno-hoarding and communist privilege rationing.
Retroculture is not simply the past – it’s the FUTURE, too.
Now – you probably have a million specific questions, PROBLEMS TO POSE, and “whataboutisms” which you feel need to be addressed. LIND ADDRESSES THEM. JUST BUY THE BOOK.
The book is cheap. Eight dollars on Kindle, or nineteen dollars in paperback.
Get it, read it, and make your RETROCULTURAL PLANS.
The most amazing ideological child abuse recollection of our time!
H/T Duchess, for inspiring the werewolf meme used as this post’s theme
ADMISSION
Eventually, it had to come out.
I – notorious anticommunist Wolf Moon – was a communist SHILL as a youth.
Of course, I didn’t realize at the time that I was shilling for communism, and perhaps other things, both good and bad, but that doesn’t matter. I was doing it all the same. OH – and my parents were so proud of me!
I wasn’t just ANY child shill for Lenin’s birthday Earth Day – I was really, really good at it.
I was SO GOOD, that I was picked to “lecture adults”.
SO – when I look at David Hogg or Greta Thunberg, the thought which goes through my head – along with a sigh – is “Yeah. Been there. Done that.”
Maybe not as big. Maybe not as famous. And maybe – just maybe – thank GOD for that.
It is my hope, that my recollections – viewed BACK IN TIME from adulthood – will give people INSIGHT into the cynical abuse of children AND teachers as political pawns.
Because – yes – I believe that TEACHERS are also abused by what has been done to the student-teacher relationship. The POLITICIZATION of that relationship is WRONG.
On the path to my youthful recollections and admissions, we will wander past DAVID HOGG and GRETA THUNBERG, as I view their SIDESHOW ACTS from the perspective of an adult with his own regrets about both HOW and WHY he was so similarly used.
We will stroll past what is likely to become the most controversial and shocking theory of the climate change hoax EVER. Which I offer with NO REGRETS, because it fits like O.J.’s glove without the TRICK rubber glove underneath. My SCARS form an ARROW pointing straight back to the source.
FUTURE PROVES PAST.
Yes, there is NOTHING like an educated MARK. And while we’re at it, somebody wake up their SHILL POPE. Who knows? Maybe he can be SAVED, TOO.
His Jesus tweets are great. But when he shills for heavenly satanic deceptions, he errs in ways that can only be FIXED by exposure, opposition, rebellion if needed, slow deliberation, and greatest transparency before all of humanity – NOT “emergency” measures at the behest of MONEY and HIDDEN POWERS.
Finally, we will see how cultural Marxism and the degradation of the student-teacher relationship, which can even include elements of pedophilia – are part of this abuse of kids and teachers.
BUCKLE UP.
REALIZATION
It was the Parkland psychological operation which woke me up from the blissful state of having rather intentionally forgotten my “useful idiot” junior high school past. I don’t remember exactly how long after the communist-orchestrated shooting of *17* children…..
…. it was, that David Hogg appeared, but it was at the moment when Hogg disrespectfully attacked the NRA that I was psychologically shocked into REMEMBERING all things connected to CHILDREN lecturing ADULTS.
I remembered that movie about the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia – The Killing Fields – and the horrifying moments therein, as children were used as informants, enforcers, and executioners against adults.
I remembered personally-told tales from Hitler’s Germany – how children were used as spies of the National Socialist state against everybody – even their own families.
And THEN – right then – is when I remembered MYSELF lecturing adults. I remembered their faces. I remember their STARING BACK AT ME. And I remember SOME of those faces showing a kind of OUTRAGE – an outrage which I myself now felt, in horrible realization that the TABLES OF IDEOLOGICAL IMPOSITION HAD TURNED, but it was the SAME WICKED HAND doing the turning.
THERE, but for the grace of God, went I.
NOW, by the grace of God, I understood.
It’s actually interesting that this same state of “outraged adult being lectured by a kid” happened to me ANOTHER TIME, after the Chinese communists obtained leverage over my old tech employer, and their “spy-boy” lectured our assembled workers, in utterly Orwellian fashion, telling us how taking our jobs to China was a “victory” for us.
The primary witness to which happens to be DEAD now.
And of course, let us remember who BACKED THE KHMER ROUGE during their genocide.
But that’s another story.
SO – anyway – that point of recognition is when I got on Twitter and related, in concrete but abbreviated terms, about my having been a “child advocate” for Earth Day.
This is a great post that shows kids used by leftist teachers for propaganda. I was used for "Earth Day" and "save the planet" propaganda in the late 60's. Words put in my mouth, love-bombing – it all seems so phony and cringeworthy now. FAKE!
Great points – thank you. I was used as an child "ecology shill" back in the 60's – we actually have Earth Day (Lenin's bday, but ignore that) because us kids lobbied for it for our teachers. Same thing, different issue. They USED us, just like they're using these kids.
Y'all I'm having flashbacks to 5th grade in florida… our class did something for one of the local news channels about Earth Day, or something environmental. It was the rage back then I guess.
If you think this political gun-grab by leftist teachers and student shills is a new thing, it's not. The progs did this before, and Grandpa and Grandma remember. It is how they began the regulatory, bureaucratic monster known as THE SWAMP.
This was one of my most effective moments on Twitter, despite everything @jackboot could do to shut me up. I observed a CHANGE in the audience. The simple admission that what we were hearing from the mouths of our children was propaganda shattered the ice in the room of adults who were being lectured by kids, and afraid to talk back.
I was talking back loudest and most confidently, because I had been one of them. I had been one of them, and I had lived to the point of KNOWING and ADMITTING that I had been USED in psychological propaganda.
I want to talk about my days as an Earth Day shill, but first, I want to explain how effective we were in talking back to the child shills in Parkland, by NOT talking back to them. Instead, we ATTACKED THE HOAX ITSELF. It helps to understand how the left can take TREMENDOUS LOSSES if we stand up to their CHILD-ABUSE bullshit – even if we do so by STRIKING ELSEWHERE.
FUTURE PROVES PAST.
PARKLAND
The Parkland psychological operation largely BACKFIRED, beginning with the fact that the “conspiracy theory” of a STAND-DOWN was pushed forward until PROVEN TRUE. This was key. Once we showed that the shooting was very likely some kind of “allowed event”, there were GROUNDS to believe that it truly was some form of STAGED PROPAGANDA.
Once THAT happened, communist dominoes fell everywhere. Check my old Twitter for the WAR CORRESPONDENCE.
Eric Holder’s devious “Promise Programs” – which I likened to “propaganda farms” – were closed. Multiple forms of FBI political malfeasance and likely intentional negligence were exposed. The communist Runcie brothers were outed, along with the Ivy League KGB-CIA crypto-communist on-campus recruitment programs which had created them. This was a HUGE BREAK – the recognition of KGB-wing CIA malfeasance on American campuses – particularly our best ones, like Stanford and Harvard. While communist SHILLS protested eye-rolling, fake CIA “recruitment sessions” as STAGED OPS, deep recruitment of the best and the brightest to RULE OVER US was taking place every day on those same campuses, and had been for DECADES.
Most of all, for me, a “black swan” of sorts came out of Parkland. It was an understanding of an old scandal ALMOST NOBODY KNEW ABOUT, but which affected EVERYBODY.
And trust me – the white hats “have it all”.
Through what was probably a misinterpreted Q post, I looked closer at the idea that the subsequent fatal FIU bridge collapse was some kind of payback and leverage on Florida Republicans, for having dared to mess with the wrong people in Parkland.
It was a brilliantly RIGHT IDEA, but I got it from what was most likely a WRONG IDEA about a Q post.
When the FIU bridge collapse happened on the IDES OF MARCH, 2018 – undoubtedly (IMO) some kind of orchestrated sabotage accident to pressure and intimidate Florida Republicans who were pushing too hard on Parkland – particularly the stand-down – I remembered Q’s mysterious post from February 24, number 827.
“The BRIDGE” most likely refers to OBAMA, but I didn’t know that at the time. The whole post is very cryptic, and likely had a very different meaning than where my mind went. But my mind went exactly where it needed to go. SO BEAUTIFUL. The “error as discovery” idea on full display.
Stanislav Lunev is an extremely important Soviet defector who told us about plans for sabotage INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. Just add “The BRIDGE”, which I took as the FIU bridge collapse, and the fact that information about a STAND-DOWN started coming out in the press on February 24, 2018, and you can see that – even though it’s weirdly clairvoyant (or more rightly pseudo-clarivoyant) – that interpretation fits like a glove.
I was thinking – well – maybe the Q team was throwing CHATTER and CODE back at the PLOTTERS. Maybe the good guys know from CHATTER that a BRIDGE is going to be the payback target, but they don’t know WHERE or WHEN. So maybe they were playing MIND GAMES with the [communist?] enemy to make them stop. At least – that was my reasoning at the time.
But that’s not important. Even if that was WRONG, the idea of LEVERAGE was one that I needed. It was RIGHT.
Funny how that works. RANDOMNESS. It’s beautiful.
You see, that idea of a university accident as leverage popped into my mind as a NEAR PARALLEL of a memory, where historically important but apparently unrelated legal leverage “just happened coincidentally” as the apparent BYPRODUCT of a university accident.
It was a “coincidence” which made somebody’s huge problem “just go away”.
Well, what if it didn’t “just happen”?
What if “preservation of a future windfall of trillions of tax dollars” wasn’t just a silly byproduct of that university accident, but the actual driving PURPOSE?
And then it ALL SOLVED. One of the most beautiful scams ever pulled, almost 40 years ago. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS and THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY rested on that scam. And I had no idea. None. I was at the EYE of that HURRICANE and never realized it.
I thought it was all about me. Oh, I was the PERFECT CHUMP for that scam.
People were USED like plastic toy soldiers, melted with a torch, to make sure history happened a certain way. Funny. And sad. But THAT is who we are dealing with.
And I would be remiss not to mention that this hurricane was related, in a strange way, to 9/11.
But we don’t have to talk about that now. I do hope, however, that you get the point.
There were LOSSES for the other side, on Parkland. HUGE losses. Simply because we REFUSED to knuckle under to the pleadings of CHILD INFORMATION COMBATANTS.
So where are we now? Ah, yes. One more diversion.
Greta Thunberg.
SAINT GRETA OF CARBON DIOXIDE
It was a conversation with Duchesshere that got me realizing that climate hoax child-shill Greta Thunberg is an even closer analog to what I was, than David Hogg.
Greta Thunberg is an ingenious invention – and she IS an invention, as can be found in THIS amazing investigation of her “creation”:
Leave aside this young girl’s high-finance origination in the schemes of Euro-money weenies…..
Climate Nazis. Egads, I cannot STAND them.
Doesn’t this whole thing just SMELL like some “gotta sign the contract TODAY” scam? OMG – these people are stupid. They just give away the HOAX with everything they do. But THAT is exactly what love of money will do.
Sorry. Where was I? Oh, yes. His little “find” – Greta. His “Climate Youth”.
By any political propaganda technology measure, the idea of Greta Thunberg is INGENIOUS.
Greta Thunberg is the autism/climate equivalent of the Downism/LGBT “unassailable” invention Drag Syndrome.
This is a new and extremely toxic form of cultural Marxism, which did not stand a chance when I was a child shill, but it works like crazy now.
People would have rebelled at this shit in HORROR back in my childhood. Now, a “woke” but non-communist left-wing Republican art ninny (yeah, I know) who realized that an appearance by Drag Syndrome was about to wreck his little world in controversy, had to produce tortured psychobabble logic about protecting the most helpless of the “differently abled” to NOT ALLOW SAID FREAKSHOW to happen under his watch and destroy his brand.
When I was a child shill in the late 1960’s, the GIMMICK was that I was SMART. That was still a SIDESHOW TACTIC, but it could not be called out because TELEVISION and HOLLYWOOD – what I now call “Fake Entertainment” – was already littering our culture with sideshow acts faking forward as “top billing”. In our post-Gong Show world, we now think of this as normal, but that is, in fact, the power of the media to DEFINE NORMALCY – to create what I now call – you guessed it – “Fake Normal”.
Allow me to JAR YOU out of your complacency about how this worked.
And I didn’t even have to show you what you expected – The Stones – fronted by a WHITE GUY with BLACK VOICE and WOMAN LIPS – singing ROCK AND ROLL in GOSPEL VERSE.
Sideshow acts. Just like me – “the whiz kid”.
Yeah. You probably see it now. Greta Thunberg fits right into this “man bites dog” world used to soft-sell communism to Americans.
What they are doing now is actually using MENTALLY DISABLED CHILDREN or similar CHILD MINDS as advocates.
The NORMAL are now HOSTAGES to the ABNORMAL who must be allowed to ACT OUT as long as that acting out is POLITICALLY CORRECT.
Good GOD. SHILLDREN of the FUCKING CORN.
Part of the SCAM here is misdirection. We argue about the CHILD SHILL PATINA instead of the CORE PROBLEM of the fraudulent hoax. A hoax which these children invariably BELIEVE, but do not actually understand with anything approaching even beginner wisdom.
And WHAT a hoax it was, in St. Greta’s case. With the collapse of Michael Mann, refusing to show his BAD DATA, the world of lay truth-seekers now sees what we silenced scientists knew all along. AGW always was and remains a weirdly weaponizable “reverse-logic” scientific error, supported by the top-dog leftist scientific establishment which loved the control it implied, and which the globalist bureaucrats who fund them could and would give them. The ERROR was then brazened out by the small set of scientists needed to uphold it as valid (at least one of whom was murdered, BTW), with the encouragement of a rapidly growing FAKE GLOBAL ECONOMY that everybody from churches to China wanted to build on it.
Good LORD, what a scam. But THAT is how REAL conspiracies work. Everybody is in it for themselves, everybody deceives everybody else, and it works AUTOMATICALLY toward a common goal that a completely shielded party desires.
Think about it. Fake “global warming” and its successor “climate change” are – alone or together – quite possibly the GREATEST scientific hoaxes in MAN’S HISTORY. You can quibble about “hoax” without knowing origination, but you certainly can’t quibble about “pathological science” once you understand the process that absolutely upended normal science with POLITICS.
People will be talking about this for THOUSANDS – quite possibly MILLIONS of years.
However, it gets worse.
Originally, I suspected that the bizarre scientific proposals being offered to alleviate “climate change” – things like the chemical equivalent of throwing volcano dust into the atmosphere to cool the planet – were just academic bullshit. I assumed that these radical “geoengineering” offerings were just ridiculous byproducts of the hoax itself. I assumed that these scientists were just “acting out” – vying to be the most politically correct and scientifically radical of the bunch, for some kind of virtue signal attention other than cutting off their own dicks and breasts, or those of their own children.
But I may have been wrong.
What if these weird and radical ideas about changing the planet are actually the POINT of the hoax? What if the whole hoax was intended to GIN UP certain terra-re-forming mass processes that will undoubtedly WIN APPROVAL from the bevy of insane proposals?
I am now wondering if these “Earth-changing” ideas were in fact the GOAL of the hoax.
BIG PICTURE: What if the bottom line is “shake-n-bake-r-us”?
Are you following me? I sure hope so, because if I’m RIGHT, we are in REAL TROUBLE.
What if big, dramatic, obvious alien attack movies are a form of disinformation?
I’m just asking questions here. Because who the FUCK thinks terraforming EARTH is a good idea?
Probably not us.
The climate hoax may be falling apart, and we may be tempted to let Greta Thunberg fade into obscurity, as she surely will.
Nevertheless, I think it may be worthwhile to see what we can do to END the use of these “shilldren” to effect change for communists. Or WHOEVER would use children against humanity.
In that regard, I think the CHILD ABUSE ANGLE is indeed the one that is needed to end both SHILLDREN and TRANS KIDS as a threat to Americathe World Humanity.
IMO (speaking as a "child advocate" for Earth Day in 1969-1970) she is fighting to "emote properly" per her conditioning, and as a child is having difficulty masking. You can see her *fighting off smiles* and trying to retain her "serious" look, for which she is rewarded.
Greta's look reminds me of Bill Clinton at Ron Brown's funeral, when he realized he was on camera, and was laughing with a friend. Laughter is a natural thing, but it had the wrong optics. Clinton quickly forced a serious, frowning, sad look, but it broke up similarly.
Disinformation shills will try to tell you that Greta Thunberg’s bizarre facial expressions here are some kind of uniquely autistic problem, so you cannot figure out what they are doing to her, but they are just forwarding a human division and control meme used to hide the truth, so I would kindly ask you to CUT IT OUT. You have been TAUGHT to VIRTUE SIGNAL to this shit, and I am having NONE OF IT.
It is more important for us to break out of their mind control, than it is to grab the obvious broken weapons they leave within easy grasp. It’s why a chimp will fling SHIT instead of side-eyeing the perfect ARROWHEAD or KILLING STONE.
You following? If not, come back to this post in a couple of days. Understanding what is actually going on, is a huge, huge, mind-bending task.
We have to get past the FAKE NORMAL they created.
I grew up around all the hapless geeks and other inappropriate kids, now medicated on shooter drugs and labeled as medical freaks under expanded categories of control – kids who did NOT shoot up their schools back in my childhood, and who became all the scientists and engineers who were RETIRED AND FIRED so we would not get in the way of GLOBALIST LIES with their morally innocent imported H-1B replacements who would code any lie and
WHERE WAS I?
Oh, yes. Lovely Greta.
No – just watch her. She is stifling a smile. THAT IS ALL. You need to CONNECT WITH HER and FEEL HER CHOICE to see that this is ABUSE.
She wants to smile like a normal child, who just performed successfully for adults, and she knows that she SHOULDN’T. She’s supposed to maintain “serious Greta” – that stony face of CLIMATE SERIOUSNESS that GETS ATTENTION. The SIDESHOW FREAK FACE WE LOVE. So the signals get crossed, and she FIGHTS THE SMILES.
Trust me – I *LIVED* in that same moment. I faced the same choice.
What this child is doing is simple. She is accidentally pointing out the horrible fact that she is being REWARDED for pouting, frowning, and acting like we have to do something about money-making carbon dioxide Ponzi schemes with deeper, darker purposes RIGHT NOW or else she is going to be terribly, horribly hurt.
And we LOVE IT.
We love the FREAK SHOW.
And when she does her NEW JOB WELL – speaking to adults – LIKE I DID – she wants to smile.
THAT IS ALL.
But that is a HELL of a message, and it blows up EVERYBODY.
It blows up YOU – for believing the ways you are told to VIRTUE SIGNAL. That you need to coddle and swaddle this girl in your sympathy, and believe any lie she tells you, so that you can get your social ATTABOY / ATTAGRL REWARD for being a good person who loves poor little autistic girls that you CAN’T STOP LOOKING AT when they are made to act as FREAKS.
It blows up ME – for being a fucking child shill, just like her, who KNOWS THE SCAM, and didn’t have the GUTS to say anything until it was safe enough to even ADMIT IT to myself, much less TELL YOU.
It blows up the MEDIA – for being a PARTY to CHILD ABUSE.
It blows up the child welfare establishment – for LETTING THIS SHIT HAPPEN.
It blows up the medical establishment – for knuckling under to politically weaponized INSANITY.
It blows up social media – for being the GONG SHOW that mixes this CRAP into our brains. And these precious ASSHOLES like Jack Dorsey and Mind Control Zuckerberg have the GALL to talk about filtering out “fake news” when they SHILL A FAKE UNIVERSE and FAKE NORMAL at us every day.
I know this post you are now reading is EXTREMELY over the target, because TWITTER literally cut off the engagement of the above tweets INSTANTLY after two very fast likes. It is SO obvious. Silicon Valley and social media are working DESPERATELY to protect Greta Thunberg. The world’s greatest and SICKEST front for a deadly, world-ending SCAM.
THEY DANGLE OUR OWN CHILDREN IN FRONT OF US TO HYPNOTIZE US.
The fact is, however, that as Q says, “These people are stupid.”
You just have to wake up to see it. Slap yourself. Wake the FUCK UP and TAKE A LOOK.
FACE. THE. TRUTH.
So let’s move on to the most interesting part now. My very own experience as a child shill for Earth Day.
WOLF MOON OF THE ECO-SHILLDREN
As a seventh grader – or sevvie, as we were called – I was small, geeky, and unattractive. I wasn’t even in the gifted program, because my sixth-grade teacher had failed to get the names of her smart kids loaded into the new computerized systems that fed all the accelerated programs.
Ironically, this failure hurt mostly WOMEN, because most of the sixth-grade teacher’s smart kids were GIRLS. Nevertheless, during sixth grade, all of us were trained in a special class about digital computers, and I like to think that ONE OF THOSE GIRLS is out there, somewhere, doing the RIGHT THING about artificial intelligence.
But in seventh grade, I was a NOBODY, until something happened.
I “overperformed” – massively – in a class book report project which had to be presented as a SPEECH.
Instead of stuttering, half-cheating, reading my cards, forgetting my place, and doing all the things everybody else did, I gave a television-worthy Carl Sagan / Ken Burns act.
I was a BORN SHILL.
I might as well have thrown away my cue cards. Nobody expected it – even me. But I was so over-practiced, and so INTO what I was talking about, that it turned into something like a MOVIE. The class was MESMERIZED.
When it was over, they sat in stunned silence for a moment – and then erupted in CHEERS.
After that, I got respect. I was “one of the smart kids”. Everybody wanted to know “what I got” when grade cards came out. The same kids who ran out of the classroom spreading gossip about my “amazing speech”, would spread the word about everything I did after that.
And THAT is how the trouble began.
Well, not exactly. I’m leaving out Hitler’s Germany, World War II, the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in New Mexico, flying saucers and the early computerization of Russian data in America. But you don’t need to know those parts for now.
My eight grade teacher was SO HOT.
SO hot.
Actually, she wasn’t particularly hot, by most people’s standards, but THE CRUSH does not obey movie-casting logic of what’s “hot” and what’s not.
Between 7th and 8th grade, my body had grown in an almost unimaginable way, and I was now almost a MAN. I gained almost 50 pounds, and was now one of the BIGGER kids. I wasn’t a jock, but I now had muscles, and they WORKED. My new body was perfect for gymnastics, and I could do amazing things I could not have dreamed of the year before.
Boys respected me. Girls acknowledged I was THERE.
I looked DOWN on the girls’ tits. That was NEW.
AND YET – I still looked like a kid overall. I still had that SIDESHOW quality of being “too smart” for my appearance.
I probably could have gotten a girlfriend, but my MIND ruled my body, and as far as I knew, I was still a GEEK and a LOSER, whose only saving grace was being SMART.
So when my teacher took an interest in me – that NONE of the girls did – well – I was more than happy to go along with her ideas.
I was in the CORE of puberty at this point. I spent every unproductive moment I could checking out all the girls, having crushes on half of them, and working hard to see the beauty in the rest.
I didn’t know it yet, but I had a GIFT from GOD – the ability to “figure out” how any woman was physically beautiful in one way or another, if only by some hidden symmetry. As soon as I would figure out how said girl was “hot”, she became my newest and greatest crush. It was a wondrous ability, and I thanked God for it when I finally understood. I felt a kind of secret gleeful pity for all the guys who could not see how amazing all these girls really were.
But my teacher. OH BOY. She had LEGS that thrilled even the picky boys. She was still young enough that she didn’t seem like a MOM. She seemed like something out of TELEVISION. Everything about her was YOUTHFUL, and yet – well – she was the same age as PLAYBOY BUNNIES. She kinda looked like one, too, only REAL.
And THAT is how it started.
There must have been some motivation – some offering, competition, or reward – behind SO MANY of our teachers getting on the Earth Day bandwagon. Whatever the reason, it became CENTRAL to most of our activities.
The GIRLS in our class loved it. The idea of CLEANING STUFF UP appealed to their inner selves in some way that I fully realize sounds “sexist” as hell today, but FUCK IT – we were kids, we were raised to be the way we were, and girls back then HATED DIRT AND TRASH. Anything connected to CLEANING was marketed to women, and nobody questioned it. The girls all wanted to be liberated super-mom brain surgeons, but they wanted to CLEAN SHIT UP, TOO.
The GIRLS were SUCKERS for Earth Day. They were on it immediately. And if you were a CAD LIKE ME who wanted IN, you needed to be for Earth Day, too. It was a VIRTUE SIGNAL PARTY.
So – the bottom line is that SEX was used to sell Earth Day, but the marketing was subtle. VERY subtle. The teacher sold the GIRLS on it, and the GIRLS sold the BOYS.
Now – what does my teacher do next? CLASS DEBATE on POLLUTION as an Earth Day topic. The question: Which is more dangerous to the planet – AIR POLLUTION or WATER POLLUTION?
Oh, I was ready for this one. Ready like a MARK. I don’t remember which team I was on, but I actually believed that the OTHER form of pollution was more dangerous. But it’s a trick question.
As Q would say, “Define dangerous.” It’s a LAWYER’S GAME, but a PSYCHOLOGIST’S TAKE.
LENIN’S BIRTHDAY WINS, no matter what. The PLANNED DEINDUSTRIALIZATION OF AMERICA, in preparation for sending that industry to CHINA, was about to begin.
AND I HELPED.
As you can imagine, my debate speech for “our side” won, and I was the star of the class. The finest FEAR-MONGERING my ingenious little mind could construct. Oh, I had these kids thinking they were gonna DIE tomorrow. I remember the smiles fading from their faces in horror.
Of course our side won. Are you kidding? These kids were now afraid to WALK HOME.
Scare Wolf had done his job.
In a kind of silently learned (see Greta Thunberg) faux magnanimity, I “admitted” that I really thought the other form of pollution was even MORE dangerous than the one I had so effectively argued, thus swooning ALL THE GIRLS, as the new Maple Castro of Eighth Grade, and uniting our class in baby communist solidarity that somebody better fix this shit now, because it was even more dangerous than I had PROVEN.
Yes, I was a slimy little sucker, but we’re talking GIRLS. Surely you understand! I know Bill Clinton would.
The next thing you know, the HOTTEST WOMAN ON THE PLANET, with the BEST LEGS IN THE UNIVERSE had even MORE plans for me. It was time to bring my extremely convincing speech to the ENTIRE SCHOOL. I would be giving my speech – with some modifications that she and I would work out in private sessions after school – to ALL THE HOT GIRLS WHO LOVED EARTH DAY.
I mean – how could I say no? It’s not like cultural Marxism wasn’t just a FEW YEARS from bringing such fantasies out into the open – and then, a few years later, making them a REALITY.
This was the beginning of an intoxicating – and clearly toxic – relationship. This was EXACTLY like those situations I would find myself in, years later, fighting off inappropriate relationships in the university or the workplace.
Or NOT fighting them off. Anybody who has ever met a boyfriend, girlfriend, fiance or spouse through an office romance knows exactly what I’m talking about.
Now – let me get things right out in the open, and not resort to cultural Marxist teasing to keep your attention.
I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN.
But I would be lying if I didn’t admit to having ENDLESS fantasies about it.
This woman had me on a string, and I desperately wanted to be there. We literally RUINED EACH OTHER in a kind of virtual pedophilia.
She KNEW – she absolutely had to know – that I was utterly smitten with her. But – and this is key – she did not “disabuse me of any notions” while I was useful to the cause. She let it drag on, and she would have kept letting it drag on, had I not been SLAPPED to my senses by reality.
It was when her HUSBAND showed up unannounced, at the same time as one of our little after-school planning sessions, that I WOKE THE HELL UP. This guy was a REAL MAN. No – more. He was a MENSCH. I was a kid. The whole thing was RIDICULOUS. My “psychological erection” vanished.
At the time, I didn’t interpret things properly. I thought that maybe she brought him there to “cool me off”. Now, I tend to believe that her husband was starting to wonder about things, given that her plans began to involve nighttime events without him. There WERE adult male teachers at the school. They weren’t stupid, either. If there was anybody naive in the mix, it was probably ME.
OR it could have been even weirder. The teacher’s husband may have understood his broken wife’s need for male attention, and realized that she was getting sucked into an inappropriate relationship that needed intervention. Maybe she was playing games, because the guy was clearly a keeper, and was apparently spending time away from HER. Whatever it was, he showed up, and my stint as a childhood eco-shill Romeo stumbled to an embarrassing end.
Now all of that is getting a bit ahead of the story, but I wanted you to understand not only the SEXUAL COMPONENT of my time as a child eco-shill, but also the weird way that pedophilia simply DOGS leftism. I tend to think now that it’s important – that SEX is a key motivator in all these leftist temptations and manipulations.
Animals. They use us like ANIMALS.
Back to the school speech. This is where I was introduced to the beginnings of politics and intellectual compromise. Teachers inevitably LEAD students by encouraging some things, discouraging other things, and even suggesting still others. This is understandable. However, in preparing THIS speech, the level of insertions, suggestions, and modifications made me feel significantly less “pride of ownership” than I had in – for example – my amazing seventh grade speech.
Even my class debate speech, filled with other people’s ideas, at least had been arranged by me in a way that felt “all mine” as some kind of composer and conductor.
I was already feeling uneasy that this wasn’t really my speech any more. But there was one line that REALLY BOTHERED ME.
There was one point of argument that I simply did not want to make. It involved trophy fishing. I did not know if it was relevant, important, or even TRUE. It sounded a bit like propaganda to me. It sounded GREAT, but it sounded like it could be easily called out. I knew a bit about the subject – not enough to call it out myself, but enough to think it might very well be hokey.
My inner fact-checker was dubious. FUTURE WOLF WAS SHOWING UP.
The teacher was really attached to it. It made her smile. And I was really attached to her. I liked to see her smile.
OH, WHAT THE HELL.
I could slip it past the kids, but not necessarily certain adults. However, this speech was just for kids and teachers who also loved Earth Day. So IN IT WENT, and I figured it was fine.
The speech went really well. NOT AS WELL as my “authentic” speeches, but this speech was IMPORTANT, and I told myself that it was OK that people weren’t as enthusiastic.
There was a part of me that wanted to admit the truth – that I was both compromising principles and seeing the result of that compromise – but this clashed with my inappropriate adoration of my teacher, so I stuffed that thought back where it would not bother me.
Based on this success, the teacher wanted me to give the speech to several community groups. This was now “beyond extra credit”. This meant more speech preparations outside class hours, and some evenings out.
I avoided even thinking about this stuff for years. What little I do remember is easily described as cringeworthy.
I only remember one speech in significant detail – the one I mentioned at the beginning. To me, that night represented a confluence of good and evils – all wrapped in the uncertainty of which was which.
I was very nervous about the speech. I did NOT like that one line. To me it felt like I was professing knowledge I did not have. It was, in my opinion, the WEAK POINT of the whole speech. The problem – my teacher was insistent that we keep it. Her reasoning was purely political, and a classic example of left-wing presumptions. She reasoned that the audience contained “rich businessmen” who would be influenced by the point, because – if true – it might impact them personally – not professionally. It was important to influence them. Perhaps, but what I was saying was not something that I could state with any authority or true knowledge. It violated some inner standard that demanded a higher burden of familiarity. Among fishermen – and more particularly fishers of men, it was the kind of bullshit I hated. I could not say it authentically. Worse still, I wasn’t even sure it was TRUE.
It’s funny, but had I KNOWN LESS, it would have been easier to speak the line. But in KNOWING, I had a responsibility toward the TRUTH.
Her insistence bordered on getting annoyed with me. For some reason, this HAD to stay in. PERIOD. So I relented.
The speech went well – outwardly. A few nodded as I gave it. Nobody booed. Everybody clapped at the end. Nobody had any serious questions for me – at least that I can remember. I think I remember being happy about that. The teacher was definitely happy about it. That part made me happy.
However, several things simply BOTHERED me. I could just FEEL that something was WRONG. The fact that there were no questions made me realize that it was probably because I was a KID. Something seemed very wrong about that. It wasn’t FAIR to give a speech where KIDS could argue back, but ADULTS felt they could not. And some of the people RESENTED me. I could FEEL IT. I could SEE IT in their faces. Their FACES HAUNTED ME.
WHY? WHY did they resent me?
It would be YEARS before I truly understood. Even more, before I admitted WHY the whole thing made me uncomfortable.
In the end, I was very happy that the teacher’s husband showed up. We never did the “last” speech. His appearance RESCUED me from what began as infatuation, and ended as disillusionment. I returned to a respectful relationship with my teacher. I think she must have “snapped out of it”, too. However, there was a twist ending.
Something happened to her. She disappeared from the junior high, but showed up later teaching at a nearby high school. Her personality was completely different. She was like a different person. She even LOOKED different. Others noticed the difference, too. She never even acknowledged my presence. It was like she had completely forgotten about me – or wanted to forget.
I was glad, and let it be. I had enough problems – new problems – in high school. And thankfully, many of them involved girls of my own age, or slightly younger. I was finally growing up normally.
EPILOGUE
I’ll be very blunt. Kids should not be used for politics. Nobody will ever convince me that it’s a good thing for kids to get involved in politics.
Observing? Learning? Maybe. And that’s a very weak “maybe”.
Learning ABOUT government and politics has its uses.
Otherwise, keep politics OUT.
The student-teacher relationship strikes me as a sacred thing, just like the doctor-patient relationship. Politics can do nothing but corrupt it.
Now – about global warming.
SOMETHING is very, very, very wrong here.
If I have to take TWO changes to the planet’s atmosphere…
(1) one that is actually evolutionarily forseeable – the eventual burning of fossil fuels, appearing in every graph I can see as a kind of CARBON SALVATION that extends human habitation and even LIFE ITSELF, and
(2) one that is untried, untested, is even more shockingly is based on radical ANTI-LIFE principles learned from EXTINCTION EVENTS in Earth’s history,
then the CONSERVATIVE solution is to go with the natural, evolutionarily forseeable change – NOT the “cold-death extinction chemistry” being suggested by SHILLS, MONEY-GRUBBERS, FAKE POPES, COMMUNISTS, and used-car-sales types who say “we gotta do something completely ridiculous NOW”.
I mean, just RE-READ what I wrote there.
This “climate change” as an excuse to TERRAFORM EARTH is BULLSHIT and you know it.
People just don’t have the courage to stand up to it.
Well WOLF is here to kick their ASSES and say STAND UP.
HERE is how we do it.
First things first, GET THE HELL RID OF FAKE NEWS.
I mean, kick this shit to the CURB.
Next – FAKE ENTERTAINMENT. It’s NOT what you think it is. It’s MIND CONTROL.
Get rid of it.
Next, FAKE SCIENCE. QUESTION IT.
You don’t have to be a scientist to TALK BACK to FAKE SCIENCE.
It is your RIGHT as a HUMAN BEING to TALK BACK TO IT.
QUESTION THIS SHIT.
Lastly, one of the biggest things you can do is RE-READ Q. RE-READ QANON. Only this time, THINK BIG. THINK BIGGER. THINK BIGGEST.
Ask what would make most of science and religion TRUE – even if it blows your mind.
Let a LOT of possibilities FILL YOUR BRAIN. Look for the answers that EXPLAIN EVERYTHING.
The chances are, THE ACTUAL ANSWERS WILL BE IN THAT SET.
….and once I realized that the BIGGEST goal was inhibition of our SPEECH – well – I just rammed a CONSTITUTION-SIZED poison pill down that DRAGON THROAT….
Knowing what I know about how these people “grease the wheels” with MK, and seeing that they pulled off an airplane-wrecking chain of extraordinary incompetence in multiple people to make sure this guy “committed suicide”, I realized that we are up against WORLD-CLASS CAPABILITIES. This is WAR in ways that go beyond any kind of criminal activity this world has ever seen before, in my humble opinion.
These people pull off whatever they want, and leave a trail of plausible deceptions behind. It is, quite literally, “the event people” I keep talking about.
So at this point, I’m thinking that MAYBE whatever MK tech these people are using must be WAY beyond 1981 stuff. But that thought just sits there, unable to compute.
Then, for completely different reasons, I get blown away by THIS VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpN5PjOxHbo
This video, connecting secret nuclear and alien tech to science I was innocently interested in via the public sector, explained in a very general but still-mysterious way, WHY bad things started happening to me at a certain point in time. I had no clue that I was wandering into stuff that was going to get me into a LOT of trouble. WEIRD STUFF was definitely going on. I am STILL not sure how it all relates, but I definitely know it’s all connected.
So I run out to get a Bob Lazar DVD, which I cannot find, but I come home with something else:
….and THAT prompts me to realize that things are somewhat different than I thought, but in other ways a lot like I suspected. Prompting me to write THIS….
Ah, yes. HOT AUGUST. And yes. August was kinda hot.
But I think there is going to be a LOT of light in September.
SO – I have to start off with a question.
Is there anybody who wants to begin doing a DAILY THREAD one day a week? The available days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Let me know if you want to do this A.S.A.P., because I’m going to begin preparing September’s daily open threads, on all the available days not covered by Wheatie and T3.
Now – WHY am I doing this? Well, the bottom line is that this last month has shown me WHY I need to be working on BATTLE POSTS every month – not just once in a while. I need to engage the other side promptly and strongly. And in order to write those battle posts, I need to have time away from creating and posting on the open threads.
Thus, I will again be creating “placeholder” Open Threads, before the next month begins. I may try to add a bit more diversity to these posts, but they are too good of a “thing” to pass up, and I need them! Quickly!
So – there you have it. Let’s bring MAJOR light to the darkness in September!
The primary presser from President Trump/Macron. Presser starts at 6:22 in video. Transcript follows. Bi-Lat videos added. Thorough exam of Melania’s red dress.
Here is President Trump’s solitary 30 minutes of his presser.
Here is the link to the transcript from the Presser: Link
White House video of Biarritz, “Thank You, France.”
Here is the Bi-Lat with President el-Sisi of Egypt (rotating head of African Delegation this year):
Here is the Bi-lat with Prime Minister Modi of India:
Here is the bi-lat with Merkel of Germany:
Included below is the Schedule for Day Three of the G7 in Biarritz. We will also include the transcript from President Trump/Macron presser when it becomes available. But first, we have to talk about this red dress.
My mom was a model in her youth, and she used to say, “Never be afraid to wear RED!” Well, no one wears red like FLOTUS Melania Trump.
And some killer Ruby Slippers………….
Look at the back of this dress, and then notice where everyone else’s eyes are looking.
And who decided to force the wives, in heels, to walk on pea gravel? THAT person should be fired, asap. Guaranteed it wasn’t a woman who thought up the staging location. Too easy to roll a heel and break an ankle.
Okay, okay…… on to more important things…. like ruling the world.
Well, we can’t really tell how it is going in Biarritz, can we? Most of the photos show our POTUS looking disinterested, peeved, too warm, and impatient. Yet, we KNOW a photo is no way to judge a situation for accuracy or temperature in the room, and the media vitriol is at warp speed, and we can’t trust their photos. The only smiling pics of President Trump we’ve seen are the ones with Cousin Boris.
Prime Minister Abe and President Trump took center stage this afternoon to announce an “Agreement in Principle” on the trade deal between Japan and the USA. The media actually complained because it was “sudden” and they didn’t have time to get situated. SMH, the media thinks they are more important than the leaders.
Formal signing of a JUSA expected to occur at the UN General Assembly at the end of September. Trade Ambassador Lighthizer looked happy. Apparently, the deal is very good news for our farmers and involves industrial equipment importation (keeping in place auto tariffs), and a further agreement on E-commerce.
The African Delegation, Modi from India, Al Sisi from Egypt, and the addition of others was interesting but we’re left wondering….. why are they there? This isn’t the United Nations. It’s not the G20. What is Macron doing? Check out Abe’s face. Abe seems to always know exactly what is going on. He’s a good leader.
The whole thing, the agenda, the location the attendees, lack of formal attire for evening, it …. just…. seems …. “off”. Here is the schedule:
♦ 2:30am EDT / 8:30am CEST – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with President Abdel Fattal al-Sisi of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Biarritz, France
♦ 3:05am EDT / 9:05am CEST – THE PRESIDENT departs the Hotel du Palais en route to the Centre de Congrès Bellevue, Biarritz, France
♦ 3:10am EDT / 9:10am CEST – THE PRESIDENT arrives at the Centre de Congrès Bellevue, Biarritz, France
♦ 3:15am EDT / 9:15am CEST – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Federal Republic of Germany, Biarritz, France
♦ 4:00am EDT / 10:00am CEST – THE PRESIDENT participates in a G7 working session on climate, biodiversity, and oceans. Biarritz, France
♦ 6:00am EDT / 12:00pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister Modi the Republic of India. Biarritz, France
♦ 7:00am EDT / 1:00pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT participates in a G7 working lunch on digital transformation, Biarritz, France
♦ 8:45am EDT / 2:45pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT participates in the G7 closing session, Biarritz, France
♦ 9:30am EDT / 3:30pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT participates in a joint press conferencewith President Emmanuel Macron of the French Republic, Biarritz, France ~ Day Three G7 Concludes ~
♦ 10:35am EST / 4:35pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Biarritz, France en route to Anglet, France, Biarritz, France
♦ 10:50am EST / 4:50pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Biarritz Airport, Anglet, France
♦ 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Anglet, France en route to Bordeaux, France. Anglet, France
♦ 11:40pm EST / 5:40pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, Bordeaux, France
♦ 11:50am EST / 5:50pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Air Force One (C-32) en route to Air Force One, Bordeaux, France
♦ 11:55am EST / 5:55pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Air Force One, Bordeaux, France
♦ 12:05pm EST / 6:05pm CEST – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Bordeaux, France en route to Washington, D.C., Bordeaux, France
♦ 8:10pm EDT – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Joint Base Andrews, Joint Base Andrews
♦ 8:20pm EDT – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House, Joint Base Andrews
♦ 8:30pm EDT – THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at the White House, South Lawn We should wait to hear from the Boss and get his take on the meeting.
End.
PS – Things that make you stop and scratch your head.
Two things: Whoopsie Daisy!
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1165809641344962561
Alrights, frens…
The name of the Hibiscus flower on Melania's dress is "Perfect Storm."
This past afternoon I was thinking about what I am going to do for those Sundays coming up when I will be traveling and not able to compose the usual on-the-spot posts that often happen pretty close to the beginning of Sunday (but sometimes arriving a tad bit late to our WQ Tree House).
I thought about an excellent fictional book series that I believe carries many important messages for us in the time we are living in. There’s a good number of books in the series. I could have covered a book per Sunday. But that just didn’t quite fit right.
What to do?
I thought about Psalm 119. Another good basis for a series.
But, no, still not it.
And then I recalled how strongly Candace and Steve’s conversation about the leftist media being cowards struck me yesterday. So there’s that.
Maybe a series based on the qualities of a Patriot? We shall see. But for today, we will ponder the quality of Steadfast Fortitude or Courage.
In church tradition, fortitude is often used when reflecting on the character of the martyrs. Fortitude is closely related to faithfulness, a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
FAITHFULNESS (πίστις)
“God is faithful” (1 Cor. 1:9. cf. Rom. 3:3), not as having faith, but as being constant (cf. 1 Cor. 10:13), trustworthy (cf. 2 Cor. 1:18). It is a divine quality. The martyrs were “faithful unto death” (Rev. 2:10), not vacillating at the face of bodily harm and suffering, imitating thus their Lord “Jesus Christ the faithful martyr” (Rev. 1:5. cf. 3:14).
In lieu of an example from the life of a Saint, we quote the following lines from the Wisdom of Solomon, read in the Vespers service for Martyrs:
“The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be a disaster, and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace.
For though in the sight of others they were punished, their hope is full of immortality. Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of Himself; like gold in the furnace He tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering He accepted them.
In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble. They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them forever.
Those who trust in Him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with Him in love, because grace and mercy are upon His holy ones, and He watches over His elect” (Wis. of Sol. 3:1-9).
An important component to fortitude seems to be a quality of perseverance.
Can you think of anyone that has recently demonstrated fortitude in the public arena?
An interesting thought about how one goes about developing fortitude comes from the idea that it is a fruit.
That is, it is something we grow in our character, not something we build or think our way into. It has to come from something we have developed. Like learning to field balls behind 2nd base in baseball. You don’t just go out there and instantly do it well. But it’s not just an internal skill as you might think of will power or the like. No, it’s more like learning to dance.
We are learning to do hard things within the context of our trusting relationship with the One who leads in this dance called life.
And we will not go far without steadfast fortitude.
Today there is a planned confrontation (street brawl?) in Portland.
Oath Keepers have made a statement.
This is a time for discipline.
August 15, 2019
Public Notice: Oath Keepers Will NOT be Participating in the August 17, 2019 “End Domestic Terrorism” Rally in Portland, OR
by Stewart Rhodes
I wish I didn’t have to do this, but it must be done. I must make it clear that Oath Keepers will not be participating in the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally scheduled for this Saturday, August 17, 2019, which is being organized by Joe Biggs and the Proud Boys.
I must also make it clear that Oath Keepers is NOT an organizer of this event, as has been erroneously reported by some media outlets. This event is being organized by Joe Biggs and the Proud Boys, not Oath Keepers. Oath Keepers was invited to attend, but we will not be attending.
We fully support free speech, and we fully agree that Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that uses force and the threatened use of force to intimidate, silence, and suppress the free speech of Americans. However, we cannot participate in this event for the following reasons: A. We have not seen adequate steps taken by the organizers to exclude known or suspected white nationalists from attending this event. Oath Keepers has a zero tolerance policy for white nationalism or any other ethno-nationalist ideology that discriminates along racial lines (as our bylaws make clear) and we do not, and cannot, knowingly associate with known or suspected white nationalists.
First, we consider white nationalists (along with any other ethno-nationalists) to be dangerous domestic enemies of the Constitution, every bit as deadly to our Republic as the violent communists within Antifa, because white nationalists also hold the Constitution in contempt and wish to overthrow it and replace it with their own desired totalitarian system. On that, the white nationalists and the communists are in agreement. And all of us who swore to defend the Constitution must stand against both of them as clear domestic enemies of the Constitution.
Second, we have a considerable number of active duty military and police in our membership who cannot knowingly associate with racists and we owe it to them to be diligent in avoiding participating in any event where white nationalists will not be actively, stringently excluded.
Third, the left in this nation is desperate to paint all conservatives and, especially, all Trump supporters as “white nationalists” to the point of absurdity. Allowing any actual white nationalists into an event where attendees are encouraged to bring Trump flags as well as American flags would be a grave mistake and does no favors to either President Trump or to the broader conservative cause. Conservatives, libertarians, and Trump supporters must be diligent about making sure the events they organize exclude white nationalists who want the same thing the left wants – to paint the false impression that we agree with their racist, collectivist, anti-constitution agenda (which is exactly why CNN loves to give airtime to the white nationalist troll Richard Spencer, as he desperately tries to tie his Neo-Nazi agenda to Trump).
I want to stress that we at Oath Keepers DO NOT believe that Joe Biggs or Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, the two organizers of this event, are white nationalists. Nor do we believe that the great majority of those groups and individuals who plan on attending the event are white nationalists. But we do not believe the organizers are taking the steps necessary to ensure that white nationalist and suspected white nationalist groups and individuals will be excluded.
A closely related problem is that the organizers have not secured a permit for exclusive use of the Waterfront Park where they will be holding the rally this Saturday in Portland. Yes, they still have a right to free speech, but one of the advantages of securing a permit to use a public space for a particular time is that it allows you to exclude others from using that same space at that time, such as excluding known or suspected white nationalists.
We saw the problems a lack of a permit can bring when we helped to protect a free speech event in Berkeley, CA in April, 2017. That was an un-permitted event, and because the event organizers had not secured a permit for exclusive use of the MLK park, they could not exclude the white nationalists group Identity Evropa from entering the park. Identity Evropa promptly placed themselves and their anti-Semitic, racist signs front and center, facing off with Antifa.
I instructed those under our command in the event security element that under no circumstances were they to allow Identity Evropa to enter our security inner perimeter around the audience and the stage. I was willing to go to jail to prevent Identity Evropa from actually entering the audience for the event, but we could not kick them out of the park. And, of course, the media all focused their cameras on Identity Evropa. We were able to maintain some separation between them and the event we were securing, but it did give Identity Evropa the opportunity to attempt to co-opt the event for their own agenda.
For this event in Portland, in contrast to the April 2017 event in Berkeley, Oath Keepers is not in charge of the security element and, if we attended this Saturday, we would not be able to actively exclude suspected white nationalists as we did in Berkeley. As such, we cannot attend. B. Some of the past rhetoric, public statements, and memes/graphics posted online by the event organizer and by planned attendees expose those who attend the August 17 rally to possible civil and criminal law liability.
We understand the anger and frustration among patriots after watching the footage of the violent Antifa attack on Andy Ngo on June 29, 2019 and the horrific attack on two other patriots that same day. However, angry, undisciplined public statements that can be construed as expressing an intent to come to Portland to seek out Antifa and engage them in street fights and to assault them, and memes posted online to that effect, or worse, do a disservice to anyone who wants to attend a free speech event in protest against Antifa terrorism and against the failure of Portland officials to secure the free speech rights of Americans.
Those angry statements cannot be undone, and despite the organizers and planned attendees subsequently dialing back on the rhetoric, those prior statements are already being used against them by their political opponents and by the leftist dominated media. All of the angry videos,Twitter posts, and incriminating photos, etc by the organizer leading up to this rally have been preserved by Antifa and their supporters. Likewise for memes/graphics posted by planned attendees depicting violence against Antifa.
Further, those prior statements, videos, photos, and memes/graphics by the event organizer and other planned attendees potentially expose all attendees to possible prosecution using both an Oregon state “rioting” statute and a federal rioting statute that was used on some of the attendees of the disastrous Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in August, 2017 (which Oath Keepers also did NOT attend). Even though the vast majority of the planned attendees for the Portland rally this Saturday have no intention of initiating unlawful violence against Antifa, the prior statements of the event organizer, expressing his intent, can potentially be used against all attendees.
I share the frustrations many patriots feel about the obvious double standard of Antifa having free rein in Portland while patriots are under the microscope. But I cannot and will not expose Oath Keepers members to possible persecution/prosecution because of undisciplined statements made by others, however understandable the anger that prompted the undisciplined statements. Therefore, I must urge all Oath Keepers members to stay clear of this event in Portland on August 17, 2019. C. More Than Ever, This is a Time for Discipline and Professionalism
Because of their own actions, Antifa is currently on the ropes and is on the verge of being declared a domestic terrorist organization. Much has taken place since Joe Biggs first announced his intent to hold this rally. First, on July 13, 2019, the self-identified Antifa terrorist Willem Van Spronsen used a rifle and Molotov cocktails to attack the ICE detention facility in Tacoma, WA. Only by the grace of God was he not able to kill responding officers. Van Spronsen pointed his AR-15 at the officers, but it apparently malfunctioned, and he was shot and killed before he could fix that malfunction. He also failed in his attempt to ignite a 500 lb propane tank. If he had been successful, it could have killed all the personnel and the detainees in the center. Thankfully he was an incompetent terrorist.
Since that attack, Antifa has lauded Van Spronsen as a martyr and an example to follow, and, in the graphics promoting their planned assault on the border in El Paso, Texas September 1-10, Antifa has openly threatened to kill CBP personnel.
And, of course, Antifa widely celebrated the July 12 illegal trespassing at the Aurora, CO ICE facility where protesters tore down the American flag, attempted to burn it, and in its place hoisted up the Mexican flagand also flew a defaced, upside down “blue lives matter” flag with “Abolish ICE” written on it in red.
And most recently, at 3am on August 13, 2019, shots were fired into the occupied ICE offices in San Antonio, Texas.
A maxim of warfare, expressed by Napoleon Bonaparte, is to “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Patriots, conservatives, Trump supporters, all need to be disciplined and let Antifa continue to show their true colors. It would be counterproductive to engage in undisciplined activities (or in a rally who’s main organizer made undisciplined statements of intent) that can be construed by the media and politicians to paint patriots as the aggressors and Antifa as the victims.
Frankly, given the prior statements of Joe Biggs that will be used against all attendees of his rally, it would be best for the patriot/conservative cause if this August 17 rally were simply canceled. Those who want to protest the way Portland coddles Antifa should start over, with a clean slate, and then do so in a much more disciplined manner.
In addition to the above noted Antifa terrorism, after the mass shootings in California, El Paso, and Ohio, we are in a decidedly “kinetic” (guns and bombs) environment and we should expect Antifa to use even more deadly force as they go full “Weather Underground” in their revolutionary communist-terrorist trajectory. Expect it.
As such, Oath Keepers will be very disciplined about what events we participate in, and we are currently instructing our members to focus on publicly supporting and directly backing up ICE and CBP personnel in a disciplined, purely defensive posture, using only clearly lawful self defense and defense of others, and to focus on our upcoming operation in El Paso, TX where we will also be assisting in securing private property (including homes) against deadly threat by Antifa.
If the event organizers do continue on with their planned event this Saturday, we sincerely hope it goes off without a hitch and is peaceful and successful. But Oath Keepers will be focusing our resources elsewhere.
For the Republic,
Stewart Rhodes
Founder and National President of Oath Keepers Credits: Author, Stewart Rhodes at OathKeepers.org Recommended by andyocoregon here at WQTH
Let’s P.R.A.Y.!
Whatever the outcome today, may I suggest to include this struggle in our prayers. Thy Kingdom Come. Thy Will Be Done. Think *3
Kalaallit Nunaat – Start practicing how to say it.
You have to admit, never, ever, in a million years, did you EVER think the Trump Presidency would be THIS GOOD. Admit it, come on, admit it, no one saw this coming.
Mid-afternoon yesterday, we were all getting ready for the Trump Rally in Manchester, NH. I checked Twitter for new pics from our supporters and noticed a WSJ article about President Trump trying to buy Greenland. Link Full Stop. Huh? He wants to buy a country?
Buying a country? Hehe, yeah baby – There’s your new GREEN Deal!!!!
The WSJ article went on to explain the idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Apparently, the USA tried to buy Greenland in 1867. Again, in 1946, Truman offered 100 million dollars for Greenland, but the Danes turned us down. Greenland is an
“autonomous region” owned by Denmark.
The WSJ continued. Apparently, President Trump was at a round table, meeting with leaders, somewhere, when the subject of Greenland came up. Denmark subsidizes the 50K+ residents of Greenland to the tune of 591 million dollars, annually. The drain on Denmark’s purse was causing strain. Someone asked Trump if he was interested. President Trump turned the question back to the table and replied, “What do you think?”
Well, if the largest island in the world is a distressed asset, a fixer-upper, and in a great location, who else but Donald Trump could put the deal together? One tidbit, the residents of Greenland are not allowed to buy land. They only have the use of the land, to build a home/biz, whatever. The land still belongs to Denmark, making such a transaction much easier.
Well, it may have been an offhand joke at the time, but the WSJ is reporting President Trump came home and asked his WH Counsel to look into the idea. Additionally, the WSJ reports President Trump has brought up the idea of purchasing Greenland several times in Cabinet meetings. The USA has a Treaty with Denmark giving the USA almost unlimited access and use of Greenland. Treaty has been updated and amended a few times take a look at latest revisions here. Link
By the time the Trump Rally was over, about 8:40pm Eastern time, CNBC posted an article about Greenland and also referred back to the WSJ article. Link
I woke up to let the dog out about 4:00am Eastern (bewitching hour for the east coast media), and was still thinking about how terrific the rally was last night. The first 9 tweets were all about Greenland, including this one.
President Trump has on multiple occasions brought up buying Greenland from the Danish government, and the White House counsel's office has looked into the possibility, sources say https://t.co/xbb4x0qObWpic.twitter.com/84wfdpARzQ
The MSM has clearly been caught with their pants down. Pundits can’t talk and they are stuttering without approved talking points from (whomever sends the talking points).
Meanwhile, others are looking at the idea seriously. This morning, suddenly, everyone is talking about GREENLAND. We want to know EVERYTHING about Greenland.
Here’s a map to get you oriented:
Found this article, written by Rick Mills, which is excellent: Link Rick’s motto is ” As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information”
Good Motto, we need good information. Here is some basic background about Greenland from Rick.
The population of Greenland is 56,648 with 14,719 inhabitants living in the capital Nuuk (formerly Godthab). The majority of Greenland’s population live in towns along the fjords in the southwest of the country where the climate is relatively mild. The second largest city is Sisimiut, followed by Ilulissat and Qaqortoq.
Whoops, this might be a problem…..
Greenland has had “Self Rule” since June 21, 2009 (including control over minerals and petroleum) – which means that the country has assumed making the political decisions that previously come from Denmark.
Did Obama agree to giving away our stake in Greenland? Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strønfjord) in the West or Narsarsuaq in the South, were American air bases. We still have Thule Air Base in Greenland. From the WSJ article, Pompeo was scheduled to visit Greenland in May, but the trip was canceled in because of tension with Iran. Hmmmm….
In Greenland, the story is all about minerals and natural resources. Yet, we might have another problem……. because of Greenland’s new autonomous rule, but owned by Denmark. Gee Whiz, might be why the WH Counsel is looking into it. Greenland’s constant reliance on Denmark for ‘grants’ and subsidies, is straining the relationship.
The BMP is the authoritative body for all administration in relation to the mineral resources industry in Greenland. Licensees only have to apply to one place to obtain all their necessary licenses – the BMP is very much a ‘one stop shop’ – ensuring efficient administration in the area of mineral resources. The BMP has the regulatory authority to review, evaluate and approve all SIA’s, licenses and facilitate public hearing processes.
….. The BMP took over from the Danish authorities in 1998. (my emphasis added)
Rare earth’s, coal, lead, zinc, silver, diamonds, and exploration of gas and oil makes Greenland very tempting.
*Greenland’s geology is continuous with that of Canada and Northern Europe. It includes:
Archaean cratons – potential for diamonds, gold, REE
Paleoproterozoic mobile belts – potential for base metals, PGE’s, gold and tantalum
Lower Palaeozoic sediments – potential for base metals
Carboniferous Cretaceous sediments – potential for coal
Lower Tertiary intrusive complexes, the Skýrgaard intrusion being the most important in terms of gold and PGE potential
Greenland’s offshore geology is highly prospective for petroleum. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated, in 2007, that the East Greenland Rift Basins Province could hold over 31 billion barrels of oil, gas and natural gas liquids. The USGS also estimated that the waters off Greenland’s west coast could contain more than 110 billion barrels of oil (roughly 42% of Saudi Arabia’s reserves).
For anyone who thinks President Trump is crazy, take a look at what the CEO’s are doing. Yeah, they already know………
ExxonMobil, Chevron, Husky, Encana, the UK’s Cairn Energy and Denmark’s Dong Energy are among the companies that have either already won or applied for exploration licenses from Greenland’s Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum for acreage.
And finally, here is the hook, and probably why our VSG is pondering the idea.
But how will Greenland pay for the responsibilities it may eventually take over from the Danish state? The main challenge to securing greater self-government is overcoming the reliance on the annual grant Greenland receives from Denmark and replacing it with revenues generated from within the country. Mineral mining and oil and gas production would ease this dependence. Fortunately Greenland is highly prospective for minerals and is hugely underexplored – the country is a new, and one of the last, frontiers for mineral and petroleum exploration.
Greenland is still reliant on Denmark, and Denmark is tired of paying for Greenland….. enter……. President Trump.
It’s such a PRETTTyyyy country.
And development would make America WEALTHY again….. Hmmmm…..
He’s thinking about it……..
This morning, is was 63 degrees in south Greenland at 4:00AM Eastern time. Want to visit Greenland?
Here is an hour long documentary about Greenland. The ice is 3 kilometers thick in some areas. And hey, with all the talk about Climate CHANGE, maybe we could get AOC to move to Greenland??????? Maybe? The video is great and the photography is spectacular.
Thanks to our QTreeper realsauce who posted a great Tom Petty video, Won’t Back Down, here: LINK: https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/speech-protecting-the-red-flags/comment-page-1/#comment-230851 Suddenly I remembered one of my FAVORITE videos of all times – the one where Tom Petty understood FAKE NEWS, FAKE ENTERTAINMENT, FAKE SCIENCE and FAKE HISTORY literally DECADES before we did. Here are the original lyrics, …
Wolf, August 15, 2019
It didn’t end there. Thursday night, I thought about doing ANOTHER “audio visual” production like it, using another great song. However, I stopped myself. I knew it WASN’T ENOUGH.
Yes, it would have been powerful, but it was not going to WIN. It was not getting DEEP ENOUGH on the problem. Not deep enough to MAKE THIS MOVEMENT SUCCEED. And I believe that each of us needs to FIND WHAT IT IS that we can do to make this movement WIN and WIN BIGLY.
Maybe I’ll come back and do that musical “meme-stream” someday. But not tonight.
There is something welling up in me – a kind of urge to scream FUCK YOU at the people who have screwed up this world by TAKING what was not theirs – who used not only RIDICULE, but DECEPTION and TRICKERY to grab the steering world of this planet and drive it into a kind of ongoing TRAIN WRECK, from which, instead of accepting their own mistakes, they merely demanded MORE POWER and MORE CONTROL.
Do you know what I’m saying? What I am feeling is RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.
This isn’t merely an intellectual argument – it’s a CULTURAL ARGUMENT – an EMOTIONAL ARGUMENT – even a SELF-CRITICAL ARGUMENT – an argument grounded in our FAILURE to engage the enemy – an enemy which mocks us from the TRASH HEAP of their own mistakes.
These people deserve FAR WORSE than what we have the RIGHT to do – which is to THROW THEIR ASSES off of their trash heap of not just mistakes, but LIES, TRICKS, and CRIMES – and FORCE THEM to help us clean it all up.
THERE. Now that I’ve GOTTEN THAT OUT – it’s time for STORK to BITCHSLAP MY ASS.
Now – I could put that in the hilarious context of the original movie, and THAT is, indeed, part of the answer.
But let’s not go there yet. Someday, perhaps, in a full post. The cultural deconstruction of Animal House over time is a great way to look at both cultural Marxism and reaction to it, as BOTH are embodied in the film. And THAT is something we need to understand. But not right now.
Tonight, I was going through replies in my notifications, and thinkthinkthink pointed out a video which is, ultimately, the whole point of this post.
This is a STILL from the video. Clicking on it won’t make it play. Nevertheless, the image is worth a closer look in zoom.
If there is NO OTHER 1-hour video that you watch this year, then I would recommend that THIS BE THE ONE.
This is possibly the SMARTEST discussion on the right since the 2016 primaries.
What you have here are two of the GREATEST intellects and culture warriors on our side not quite agreeing on things – maybe even not quite getting each other. What results is FAR, FAR BETTER than if they were just high-fiving each other in total understanding. They are trying to convince each other of two perspectives of the SAME THING, and what that paints is a STEREOSCOPIC PICTURE of a NEUTRON BOMB for WINNING THE CULTURE WAR.
What that thing is, is CORE ANDREW BREITBART. Eventually, Bannon actually brings up Breitbart, and recommends Righteous Indignation as the must-read book for this moment, and particularly for a deep understanding of cultural Marxism.
There was a film back in the day – My Dinner with Andre – that was one of those artworks you never forget. This was 1981 – three years after Animal House. The movie is just two people talking about things that have nothing to do with the setting, so you have to use your imagination to tap into the RICHNESS of what they are talking about. AND IT WORKS – in a huge way.
There is a person you never see – central to the discussion – who is like the THIRD STAR. Not exactly a new technique – both Shakespeare and Hitchcock loved it. But when the cast is this small, it has a wonderful effect. It is DEEPLY SATISFYING.
THIS video of Candace and Steve has the same effect. And what is even more wonderful, is that – along with the “stars” of this video, you get to “discover” that the je ne sais quoi they are trying to put their finger on actually IS Andrew Breitbart himself.
WE NEED ANDREW. And we need him NOW.
NOW – before I make everybody RUN AWAY in horror, thinking this video is merely some kind of “rightstream intellectual art flick bullshit“, let me confidently estimate that there are HUNDREDS of game-changing and actionable political ideas here, that will make a huge difference in winning not just 2020, but 2024 and 2028. So THIS NEEDS TO BE WATCHED. By as many people on our side as possible.
But savor it. You don’t see stuff like this every day.
It’s bizarre as hell. These two geniuses could be talking on a park bench in New York City, a dock in Florida, or a picnic table in Wyoming. The setting doesn’t matter. Yeah, the border figures into some of what they talk about, but ignore it. The TRUTH of what they’re saying – especially toward the END – is amazing.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
2nd Amendment Sunday
Well, it’s really quite the hot August and there are a lot of chores to be done around our place. To be honest, the number of really excellent threads inspires me. To not be very wordy. To allow for some strong conversations here…
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
You’ve Got To “Know When” Sunday
In researching for the prayer post earlier this week, I came across the following story of a family returning to their home town in Iraq after ISIS was finally driven out. It is told from the perspective of the young daughter and includes video of earlier interviews from the time when her family was in exile in Egypt.
This is a beautiful story of resilience anchored in hope.
Assessing Situations
The lyrics from Kenny Rogers song, The Gambler, succinctly sum up the necessary task of discerning the right response to a high stakes environment. If you judge the situation correctly you can sometimes take in big winnings, just stay in the game for future wins, move on or live another day.
See also: https://genius.com/Kenny-rogers-the-gambler-lyrics
Jesus’ Parable About Investment
Jesus often taught principles of the Kingdom of Heaven using stories (parables). In the following parable, Jesus is gently directing his disciples attention away from their expectation of God’s immediate judgment coming to earth, wiping out their enemies, and the restoration of Paradise for the righteous among them.
As you read through it, consider your own expectations. What you expect from God. From the White Hats. And, most important of all, what do you expect from yourself?
11 While he had their attention, and because they were getting close to Jerusalem by this time and expectation was building that God’s kingdom would appear any minute, he told this story:
12-13 “There was once a man descended from a royal house who needed to make a long trip back to headquarters to get authorization for his rule and then return. But first he called ten servants together, gave them each a sum of money, and instructed them, ‘Operate with this until I return.’ 14 “But the citizens there hated him. So they sent a commission with a signed petition to oppose his rule: ‘We don’t want this man to rule us.’ 15 “When he came back bringing the authorization of his rule, he called those ten servants to whom he had given the money to find out how they had done. 16 “The first said, ‘Master, I doubled your money.’ 17 “He said, ‘Good servant! Great work! Because you’ve been trustworthy in this small job, I’m making you governor of ten towns.’ 18 “The second said, ‘Master, I made a fifty percent profit on your money.’ 19 “He said, ‘I’m putting you in charge of five towns.’ 20-21 “The next servant said, ‘Master, here’s your money safe and sound. I kept it hidden in the cellar. To tell you the truth, I was a little afraid. I know you have high standards and hate sloppiness, and don’t suffer fools gladly.’ 22-23 “He said, ‘You’re right that I don’t suffer fools gladly—and you’ve acted the fool! Why didn’t you at least invest the money in securities so I would have gotten a little interest on it?’ 24 “Then he said to those standing there, ‘Take the money from him and give it to the servant who doubled my stake.’ 25 “They said, ‘But Master, he already has double . . .’ 26 “He said, ‘That’s what I mean: Risk your life and get more than you ever dreamed of. Play it safe and end up holding the bag.“
And so we come to the very heart of this exploration.
How do we assess the appropriate response when the place where we live is in outright rebellion to our Heavenly King and His ways?
Whether it’s Baltimore or Broward County, Cleveland or California, the right move for you and your family will require discernment. We can all agree that these places come with a higher level of toxicity than other places.
What is a Toxic Environment?
Chernobyl comes to mind. But did you know that plant and animal life around the reactor is stronger and more diverse than before the accident? From an Institute for Creation Research article just published this week (emphasis added):
“Interestingly, in addition to this innate resilience to radiation, some plants in the Chernobyl exclusion zone seem to be using extra mechanisms to protect their DNA, changing its chemistry to make it more resistant to damage, and turning on systems to repair it if this doesn’t work [added emphasis].” His observations coincide with research on the progeny of Arabidopsis plants from Chernobyl.
Several Russian scientists discovered that when exposed to high radiation there was a resistance to mutations through a more than 10-fold decreased frequency of extrachromosomal homologous recombination, major differences in the expression of genes controlling DNA-repair and for proteins removing dangerous free radicals, and a higher level of global genome methylation.
Other research on several bird species at Chernobyl found that they also have internal mechanisms for detecting free radical molecules that are a byproduct of radiation exposure and then up-regulate mechanisms for DNA repair.
Because all DNA damage was repaired more quickly, radiation-exposed birds surprisingly “may even obtain beneficial hormetic effects following an adaptive response.”
It is now obvious that creatures have innate mechanisms that enable them to self-adjust to a higher range of radiation than anticipated. The existence of these systems precedes radiation exposure—Chernobyl was a unique radiation producing event—as there has not been enough time for them to have developed due to evolutionary “tinkering” via “trial-and-error” struggles to survive.
… [T]he Institute for Creation Research has been promoting an organism-focused, design-based model of adaptation called Continuous Environmental Tracking (CET).
This model explains what organisms are doing when they adapt. The organism-focused arm of the framework hypothesizes that: organisms possess internal mechanisms that enable them to actively and continuously track environmental variables and respond by self-adjusting to changing environments—which results in their adaptation.
The other design-based arm assumes that these internal mechanisms utilize the same engineering principles that constrain how human-designed objects self-adjust to changes.
CET postulates that how organisms adapt is via innate systems with elements analogous to those within human-engineered tracking systems, namely: input sensors, internal logic mechanisms to select suitable responses, and actuators to execute responses. CET, therefore, expects that the creatures’ self-adjustments would be characterized as regulated, rapid, and targeted to specific challenges.
Growing up, I was mercilessly bullied.
I hated myself because I believed their lies.
The bullies never expected, however, how strong they made me.
As an adult, I choose to be a victor, not a victim.
In the parable above, the foolish servant was a complete failure at adaptation. Maybe he saw the rebellion fomenting and buried his master’s money in hopes of cashing in if the rebellion succeeded. Maybe he just was really afraid of loss and that’s why he hid it.
But look at the admonition of the King to this foolish servant, “Why didn’t you at least invest the money in securities so I would have gotten a little interest on it?”
Apparently, Jesus wants his followers to understand that He rewards smart risk taking for potential gain and will be more pleased with someone gaining a little in a very safe investment rather than not investing what they have been given at all.
Risky Investments: Exhibit A
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His work reminds me of a story that takes place during the settling of the “promised land” by the Israelites. Certain tribes wanted to settle on the east side of the Jordan river which had already been conquered. This would be allowed, but the stipulation was that they had to agree to send their fighting men to the west side to help take the whole of the land for their nation before they could enjoy the peace of their own territory.
Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them until the Lord gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the Lord your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.” Then they answered Joshua, “Whatever you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.”
In Scott’s case, he is traveling around the country to invest his talents in whatever way benefits all patriotic Americans. He is fighting for us! May the Lord guide, protect and equip this young man for what lies ahead in his life.
Risky Investments: Exhibit B
Later in Israel’s history, their land was conquered and the people were carried away captive to Babylon. God gave their prophet, Jeremiah, instructions to help them know how to respond to this upheaval.
“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:“Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.”
Now imagine the risk of following these instructions. What if the situation changes and you are able to return to your homeland quickly? What if the Babylonians decide to relocate you and all your work is for nothing? Quite the risky investment.
And yet, they are told to pour their sweat equity into building houses, growing food and making big families. They are to seek the welfare of the city where they have been placed–while remaining in captivity!
As it turned out, they were there for some 70 years. Those that heeded the words of the prophet would be coming out of captivity strong and prosperous.
Risky Investments: Exhibit C
In the case of the Iraqi Christian family returning to Qaraqosh (mentioned at the top of this article), they are returning to their hometown which has been bombed, looted, nearly destroyed–with about half of the original residents choosing to not return to rebuild. A different set of risks, but certainly made the choice to return and invest in the community they came from instead of seeking refuge in another, perhaps safer, place.
So back to that pesky question…
How do we assess the appropriate response when the place where we live is in outright rebellion to our Heavenly King and His ways?
I don’t think there is a simple answer.
It’s true that for some people there comes a point in time when they just know in their hearts it is time to leave. And for others it is just as clear that they are to stay and “pray to the Lord” on the behalf of the city God has placed them in.
Many will spend a long time working out what is right for them. But that is the journey and no one else can tell anyone what is the right path for another. I have deep respect for anyone that takes that journey. A journey of truly seeking God’s highest and best purpose for them no matter the cost.
May God grant us all discernment, wisdom, and peace in the process. Think *3
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Now imagine the risk of following these instructions. What if the situation changes and you are able to return to your homeland quickly? What if the Babylonians decide to relocate you and all your work is for nothing? Quite the risky investment.