Moscow installs Monument to the Courier, who made self-isolation possible (via Актуальная Россия).
This is this week’s Open Thread.
As Steve Sailer just noted, this month has been record breaking for the website – despite a ~30-40% loss in traffic that we would otherwise have thanks to the Facebook ban and Google deranking. It was also very nearly a record for me as well, with this blog getting 160,000 pageviews and almost half a million comment words.
Thanks, to both my readers and BLM – and keep the “powerful takes” coming!
Please keep off topic posts to the current Open Thread.
If you are new to my work, start here.
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https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1279150168097591296?s=20
Nothing helps inflate the traffic of this website more than a good conspiracy theory yarn. I’m not sure that Giraldi’s latest rant will help in this vein, but Steven Yate’s latest “The World Through the Eyes of a Globalist” presents a colorful tale that in short form rivals even something written by Michael C. Ruppert. Personally, I tend to side with commenters #31 and #55 of that thread, and maintain a cautious if not disbelieving stance about the myriad of “Jews, Marxists, Deep State Actors, Swamp Things and College Professors” all being controlled from within the bowels of a Rothschildian opera with George Soros acting as the Director and guiding light of the whole show.
So why do you ask yourself, do I bring up my incredulity and mirth up over here at this thread regarding Mr. Yate’s recent piece? It seems that Yate’s is content to express his conspiracy theory including some startling and alarming ideas regarding tranhumanism, something that should interest our host here, Anatoly. I don’t know if AK has actually heard ideas like this expressed about one of his pet projects? Who knows?
https://www.unz.com/article/the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-globalist/
Reshuffling the global R&D deck, 1980-2050
China to dwarf US in R&D spending by 2050
“These changes have potentially profound domestic and international economic development implications over the medium to long term.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440631/
https://twitter.com/billbirtles/status/1278942433783320576
I’m pessimistic on India, but sometimes it helps getting an ‘on-the-ground’ perspective to make flesh out of air so to speak. This Twitter thread is a great rundown of why you should be skeptical of India ever reaching China’s heights, too.
https://twitter.com/dakekang/status/1257709936437592065
Anatoly, I posted in the wrong thread about recommended books about the Russian/Bolshevik revolutions of 1917. Do any stand out to you? I believe Tell mentioned AS the Red Wheel, bought the first book of that series.
On the Chinese-Indian confrontation, the best analysis I’ve read so far is this. Essentially, India has three options:
The first option will be very hard, as China has carefully taken very defensive positions, so any attacker would be in a significant disadvantage. China is also prepared for a counter-attack now, so any element of surprise is long gone. Finally, China has reinforced all these positions in recent weeks.
The second option is perhaps the most attractive one, but it would require a great mobilisation rate and a war of attrition that India cannot afford, as China has not only managed the fallout of COVID-19 better but also has significantly more resources at their disposal. India also has to watch the Pakistani flank at the Line of Control. A two-front campaign will be very straining for India.
The third option seemed to be Modi’s initial preference. In mid-June he bizarrely stated that “China hadn’t crossed into Indian territory”. He was faced with a torrent of attacks and even the submissive media had to, for once, take him to task. That said, unless something drastic changes, this may seem like the least costly option economically but will carry a heavy price in terms of prestige. There’s also the signal that India is weak and could be provoked further into the future.
To me, option #2 is the most likely to be tried and option #3 as a last-ditch only. Option #1 would be almost impossible given the excellent positions of China’s reinforced bases there. It would also essentially be tantamount to declaring an open war, which India at the moment cannot afford to spend money on. Finally, as Dan Altman has showed, the odds of a state getting territory back after a faît accompli is very low, and he has looked at the actual data. Most landgrabs aren’t actually stated threats, they “just happen”. Crimea is a great example of this.
Still, I believe the Chinese miscalculated badly as this will push India into the arms of the US even more. Modi genuinely tried to build a bridge of communication to China but the PLA and the CCP unilaterally burned it. All for a few patches of remote desert. Remarkably foolish.
Any insight of Turkey’s genetic makeup in terms of European admixture. We’ve been watching a Turkish TV show recently (Winter Sun) and so many of the actors look very Balkan European. Turks I’ve seen in Germany sure didn’t look like them. Is this because the Gastarbeiter types came from poorer Eastern Turkey. Or maybe these TV shows are Erdogan propaganda to get White men to convert to Islam and move to Turkey in hopes of marrying a nice, somewhat Whitish Turkish gal?
Which is why it’s highly unlikely that China initiated this conflict. China has bigger fish to fry than India. My take is that India sensed a moment of Chinese weakness, Covid19/global anti China sentiment/tacit US backing. Thought it was a good time to press the Chinese and change facts on the ground. India did not expect such a assertive response from China/ thought China would let this one slide. A bad outcome for both nations in my opinion. US wins this one.
Is there anything the Chinese working class can’t do ?
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Did you (or anyone else) ever play the game Empire Earth (2001)?
It features an excellent example of nationalist-futurism in the Russian campaign in which a Russian nationalist is elected president and then conquers all of Eurasia with mecha (and it’s a good thing).
Muhacir or Muhajir is a term used to refer to an estimated 10 million Ottoman Muslim citizens, and their descendants born after the onset of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, (including Turks, Albanians, Bosniaks, Greeks, Circassians, Crimean Tatars, Pomaks) who emigrated to Thrace and Anatolia from the late 18th century until the end of the 20th century. Today, between a third and a quarter of Turkey’s population of 80 million have ancestry from these Muhacirs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhacir
Definitely Turkish 44D-Chess:
https://i2.milimaj.com/i/milliyet/75/0x410/5c8c351d07291c1d74fac0f8.jpg
While an interesting take, I don’t think it’s accurate for two reasons.
1) The positions that China took were the same exact ones that India and China fought over in 1962. They’ve long coveted those positions precisely because how strong defensively they are.
2) China moved into these positions in April, when India was at its weakest (not vice versa). India had arguably the world’s harshest shutdown, and possibly the most chaotic as well. Migrants had to walk hundreds of kilometers back home, and many died on the journey.
It was in this environment that China began to move into these areas.
This was premeditated. China did a very calculated and coldly executed move. Now they have a near-insurmountable advantage along most of the LoAC, which is running 1000+ km between the two countries.
It’s basically a landversion of what they did in the South China Sea.
Whatever they gained militarily along the LoAC, they massively lost geopolitically. Clearly many in the Chinese leadership had written off India as a lost cause regardless, otherwise they wouldn’t have burned the bridges in such a public fashion. That was a dangerous miscalculation. Modi genuinely wanted a balance of power, now he has little choice but to run with abandon into the orbit of the US as India is too weak on its own. Very, very foolish of Beijing.
Your reasoning for not believing that China started it is solely built on your belief that they’re really brilliant, rather than what actually happened, which you then use to shore up your belief.
This is the definition of confirmation bias.
There’s something sad about Turkey’s self-hatred. Most of those women are Turkish, but they are forced to LARP as pseudo-white in some kind of bizarre racialised fantasy.
It’s not just that wannabe gangster either. This kitschy version of a ‘European village’ in Turkey sold 350 of 700 units before the economic crisis hit:
https://i.imgur.com/FkKgjp0.jpg
I’ve also found Turks to be desperate to be viewed as European whenever I’ve interacted with them on the internet. To tell them that they have more in common with arabs seems like the greatest insult imaginable, they invariably explode in wounded rage.
Energiwende was a failu-
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Why are reactionaries always wrong?
How is not wanting to be seen as Turkish-speaking Arabs self-hating?
Wrong about what?
What else do you expect if the system advantaged energy production that produces less CO2?
Bloomberg is complaining about politics around Nord Stream 2. Apparently, it doesn’t go as planned.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-07-03/nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-could-sever-u-s-germany-ties
The best thing about this pipeline is clarity it brings to the geopolitical situation. Either Germany folds and fades into irrelevance like the dying Japan (another occupied province), or Germans grow a pair.
As the old joke goes, the objective of NATO is to keep Americans in, Russians out, and Germans down. We will see if Germans are willing to stay down.
Germany made a policy decision years ago to replace its nuclear energy sources with non-nuclear ones, so this is hardly a huge surprise.
News from the insane asylum:
https://newsone.com/3970690/dawit-kelete-seattle-protest-hit-run-driver-identified/
Black Lives Matter protesters block highway. A black man runs over two white lesbians. Protesters, who demand defunding the police, call the police, and have them arrest the black man.
They should rename themselves ‘White lesbian lives matter’.
Absent from this post: the PRICE paid for electricity by German customers, which is far above the global average.
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/electricity_prices/
The policy is a success at its narrow mandate–to increase the share of electricity generated by renewables.
The several comments about Turkey reminded me of something Paul Theroux, the great travel writer, said. He was asked what country he would reside in if the sole criterion was the friendliness of the people. He named Turkey, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Italy. This result might have been skewed by the fact that Theroux is somewhat of a curmudgeon, and he had experienced which people responded with the greatest tolerance for a curmudgeon. Also, this was about 20 years ago.
With conspiracy theories, “support, but not believe” is the best course of action. No matter how outlandish.
As debunkers try to debunk it, and supporters prop it up, eventually the real truth shall be found. Apply this to everything
Like the Balkans, Turks are wildly diverse, always was. Such is the consequence on being located on the most important goddamn chokepoint on the planet.
Some do, some don’t, very random. Easterners tend to pull to the more swarthier side
Easterners tend to not be Turks
Turks in Istanbul look completely European. Many blonds.
The moment you leave Istanbul they look like Arabs.
The Ottomans used European slaves in their army, so there is a decent amount of – mostly Slavic – European blood in the capital.
Why does anybody need to “support” such outlandish ideas in the first place?
still a low price for higher indedepence (less imports of gas etc.) and lower risk (no nuclear energy).
Yet I imagine the whitest of Turks still identify more with the most Middle Eastern looking Turks than they would with other whites. Same goes for whites in other heavily mixed nations like India and Brazil.
Language and culture always seems to trump genetics at the end of the day. Ethnic nationalists generally claim the most important thing is race and that language and culture are small details by comparison yet I’m yet to see much real world evidence of that theory. Most people seem to divide themselves along linguistic and cultural lines, especially when thinking in an international sense.
Ethnicity seems to be something that has more relevance within the society. Like white Turks, high-caste white Indians, white Brazilians, etc, will tend to cluster together within their respective societies, but when it comes to foreign countries, most of these people will say that their non-white fellow countryman is more their brother than a white foreigner.
Lots of interesting points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE
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Oh, without question. I am blond, pale skinned, and look Aryan, yet I identify with a dark skinned Yemeni Israeli Jew much more than I do with any German or Norwegian.
You can’t build a nation on race. It is too abstract an idea. Its never been done before.
But things like “culture” are too unscientific for most modern “white” nationalists, who are rationalists. You can’t create a culture using conscious reason. It comes from the subconscious.
It’s interesting that BLM seems to have completely fizzled out in Britain, and the BBC and British establishment in general have turned on them. Taking the knee is now discouraged, sports pundits are no longer wearing “BLM” badges. The British military have even expressly forbidden taking the knee for BLM.
As far as I’m aware there’s been no similar backlash against BLM in the US, it still seems to be going strong over there. I suppose this is because most British people have finally realised that this is imported American bullshit that has nothing to do with this country and are finally treating it with the contempt it deserves. Also, I think it hasn’t been as successful here in that white British people have refused to grovel before blacks like white Americans have.
You did not read TF’s article, did you?
German energy policy is neither safer nor does it increase energy independence.
Haha, more than “somewhat.” I once heard him insulting a live audience at the site of an NPR event as if they were rednecks.
India is having an accelerating Covid pandemic, so the country will be weakening itself during this year and probably the next.
The IMF estimates growing economic gap between China and India due to this.
As for India running to the US, it actually just bought 30 russian fighter aircraft in connection with the border issue.
Moreover, the US is abandoning Afghanistan. “Partners” (Russia, Iran) will be important for regulating the US vacated area, so that it does not become a full gain for Pakistan.
WHO RULES AMERICA IS EASY TO SEE WHEN… (W/ KMN & M. COLLETT)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8kjDmVqhJKvS/
IMPORTANT: A RESPONSE TO JOHN DERBYSHIRE’S CLAIM THAT ‘WE’ ARE / WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS ‘DOOMED’.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VY3pu2CmAfdg/
No statue is safe:
‘Racist fish’: Little Mermaid statue vandalised in Copenhagen
https://www.thelocal.dk/userdata/images/article/a4bd816834473a0a1dd213e9989e18dab76e0de902825296b1e67b3acc423ab7.jpg
Monsters from the yID.
Premier League footballers are still going down on one knee in England.
Agreed. Turks are neither from Arabia nor Arabic-speaking.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Turks
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“I am not saying this is about race… but it’s totally about race.”
The Russian Revolution by Sean McMeekin.
Not really. https://www.unz.com/akarlin/outliving-your-usefulness/
Germany spent half a trillion dollars to get some of Europe’s highest electricity costs and probably isn’t even that big of a deal in climate terms because wind (especially offshore wind) has low EROEI according to most estimates.
Can’t call that a much better use of resources than America’s favorite pastime of Middle East adventures or Russia’s of providing more villas for the Rotenbergs…
In the US common sense is also gradually replacing madness. Newsweek published an unusually sane piece by a reasonable black guy “Why black lives don’t matter to ‘Black Lives Matter’”, where he exposes BLM for what they are, opportunistic frauds:
https://www.newsweek.com/why-black-lives-dont-matter-black-lives-matter-opinion-1515183
Nothing unexpected. Any organization getting money from large corporations is utterly disgusting. BLM included.
What else is new? Retarded primeval vandals don’t know or care what they vandalize.
Most of “Germany’s biomass” comes from outside of Germany, places like Indonesia and Brazil.
Renewable energy is the least robust energy source. It does not provide energy independence.
“Think before you speak”
I am seeing more of this, in the U.S., among liberal friends and family. It allows time to concoct the distortion. It reminds me of a scene in The Macintosh Man. James Mason, a spy, is confronting Paul Newman, also a spy. Mason wants to know the details of Newman’s activities. Mason is holding Newman’s girlfriend in front of himself, with a gun to her head. Mason says, approximately: “I am going to ask you a series of questions and you must answer instantaneously. If you hesitate I will know that you are constructing a lie, and I will shoot her.” Lying, omission, and distortion have become a progressive’s pattern of thought, habit of speech, a philosophy; but it is difficult to do this instantaneously.
I’ve been watching some old spy flicks recently including two really good ones including the perennial all-star James Mason, “Secret of Stamboul (The Spy in White)” and “Candlelight in Algeria” – both great films that I recommend. It’s good to know that there are a few more of this type out there to be enjoyed. In addition to “Macintosh Man” I’ve discerned a few more to add to my wish list: “Secret Mission”, “Hotel Reserve” and “5 Fingers”. There could be more?…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Candellight_in_Algeria_UKposter.jpg/220px-Candellight_in_Algeria_UKposter.jpg
Left of center but pretty good IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHZ1KX7RJYA
Another one based on the same character played by Michael Caine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYmE8SSf3E
I’ve seen “The Ipcress File” (but it’s been a long time) and haven’t “The Billion Dollar Brain”, so I’ll actually add both of these to my itinerary viewing list. What I had in mind though were spy flicks with the inimitable James Mason. If you’ve seen any of the ones that I’ve cited above or know of any others (his catalog of work is quite lengthy) that I haven’t listed, please don’t hold back.
They’ve totally withdrawn opening up any outdoor pools here in AZ – how about in NY? 🙁
You’ll like Billion Dollar Brain.
Are one of the Newman films you’re referring to the one where he’s in the DDR?
The college pool I use might be closed for the remainder of the year. The local town pools presently have ridiculously short hours with no locker use. A state of the art county facility looks promising. Might very well get a 3 month membership there. Gyms remain closed.
Meantime, a lot of walking at a nearby state park (with a lot of Russian speaking former Soviets, of numerous different ethnic groups), some home gym workouts and biking. Just got hold of a US made 1992 Trek 7000, with new tires. Needs a tuneup. I can’t get it in the max gear, offering the greatest resistance for a more efficient workout. No traffic on a flat road, I can manage 12 miles in 45 minutes on it.
Some questions I have as a White homeschooling mother in light of the immanent detonation of Mount Rushmore:
Will mainstream publishers of curricular materials that celebrate the founding fathers be considered “racist” and subject to cancellation going forward? (Yes, these exist.)
What about independent, conservative publishers specifically geared to homeschoolers?
How long until parents’ private teaching of the lives of the unpersoned becomes a cancellable offense? Will it be months, years, or a generation?
That is just the Anglo – Indian narrative.
Here is a take from an Indian that shows Indian aggression.
https://indianpunchline.com/1962-india-china-war-redeux/
What about this book? It’s old (from the late 1930s, I believe) but nevertheless quite good:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.163949
Newsweek is politically irrelevant after its 2009 collapse, its just trading in on the legacy brand name.
The system has firmly consolidated its culture war positions among white college women, which condemns our stances to Swine Right until further notice.
How appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW9cCWm53H4
The lyrics can be updated to present conditions.
in the long run a growing share of renewable energy in the energy mix will lead to less imports of all non-renewable resourcses like gas, oil, black coal.
‘…But things like “culture” are too unscientific for most modern “white” nationalists, who are rationalists…’
I’m certain that what little you share with a Yemeni Jew could not reasonably be described as a ‘culture.’
Go ahead: I’m sure there are venues where Yemeni Jews hang out. Drop in; tell me how at home you feel.
‘It’s interesting that BLM seems to have completely fizzled out in Britain, and the BBC and British establishment in general have turned on them. Taking the knee is now discouraged, sports pundits are no longer wearing “BLM” badges. The British military have even expressly forbidden taking the knee for BLM.
‘As far as I’m aware there’s been no similar backlash against BLM in the US…’
‘Black Lives Matter’ in the US has yet to make the mistake of attacking support for Israel.
The Turkish Govt themselves published data last year and opened up their immigration records from the time of the collapse of the Ottoman empre and according to their demographers at least 20% of Turks are of Balkan ancestry mostly Albanian Bosniak and Pomak and a further 20% are of Caucasian ancestry mostly Circassian, So a sizeable White or European minority. Most of the descendants of these Balkan settlers live in Western Turkey and these regions also have a very similar fertility rate to the nations of the Western Balkans whilst being the most secular. cheers
British people, blacks included, don’t tend to idolise Jews like Americans do. They are much more likely to look at Israel as a white Apartheid state oppressing non-whites than as “special chosen people who must not be criticised” as Americans regard Jews.
In the last few years the media establishment has been trying to change that and bring in the American mentality, with things like the Corbyn “anti-Semitism” nonsense.
I’d be pretty mad too, if someone called me an Arab.
Not true at all the Chinese have been ratcheting up the pressure on all fronts, Duterte who had kicked the US forces out in hope of a better relationship with China was badly disappointed and let the US forces back, for the first time ever ASEAN publicly called for China to follow UNCLOS because Vietnam, Malaysia and now even Indonesia had enough of their bullying. The pressure on Senkaku Islands and Taiwan is being ratcheted up. Australia also had enough. Chinese relationships with the US are at the worst ever so see it’s certainly not India’s fault. The Chinese are chimping out.
You’re right the US gains from this the Chinese have lost India for good, a momentous foreign policy blunder they’re going to have a Himalayan sized problem in the south where none existed before.
I’m surprised they haven’t cancelled Disney yet. Hint: Goofy is BLACK!!1!
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Goofystar_1600.jpg
To prevent staleness, but mostly to legitimize the others, as they’re all under fire as “conspiracy theories” anyway and therefore equated.
That’s India we allow dissenting opinions on crucial matters to be aired out freely, can you link us to the Chinese counterpart of Bhadrakumar? Surely the current Chinese policy to ratchet up pressure on all fronts should have dissidents who question the wisdom of such a move. It’s very risky don’t you think? What gain is there in pissing off so many of your neighbours and driving them into the American camp, shouldn’t there be a lively public discussion of such an important issue. Can you link us to essays regarding these discussions? I’m not holding my breath. Where are the intellectuals who disagree with this current antagonistic foreign policy of China vis a vis her neighbors.
I browse a number of hindu nationalist sites; my impression(before the recent clash)is the hindu nationalists will all die and be cremated with their 1962 war scars aching.
I actually have some sympathy for their mental malaise but lost by whom or for whom?
The Indians buy Chinese products because of the cost factor, not out of sentiments.
If the Indians stop buying some or all Chinese products, what would the Indians make do without Chinese products(from incense sticks to pots&pans to thermal electric generators to solar panels to cell-phones)? My guess:
–‘Make in india’—a slogan that has been around for a while. How different it’s now compared to years ago?
–Import from other countries.
…….
Either way, it means higher inflation rate or higher trade deficit.
…………
If trade deficit figure is the problem, I suggest Indians should try export more to china, like:
–Meat of non-holy bovine species
–Some agricultural products, like certain rice strains…
At a cynical level Russia is in a win win situation since it supplies arms to both the sides and it wants to regain its premier position as India’s largest arms supplier which has been lost to the US. But whats interesting about this sale is that it happened so quickly and despite the Chinese trying to scuttle the deal. The message is clear from the Russian side that they do disapprove of this gratuitous Chinese dickwaving. They have signaled to the Chinese that their foreign policy with respect to India won’t be influenced by the growing Sino-Indian problem. They also decided to expedite the supply of the S400 antiaircraft systems. Interesting isn’t it?
Black Smoke Matters
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We need a movement to stop modern-day slavery
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This. See the replies.
https://twitter.com/ukblm/status/1277177624884850689
And in the United States…
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1278494688937459712
If this continues, black lives will cease to matter very soon.
Even Brussels is increasingly the deals it makes with China. While rather awkward in how it manages itself, China is rather triumphant relative to others.
We can bet on this, though.
No amount of divergent Chinese views can help your inability to think.
I was told by “nebulafox” to come over here to ask this question. I’ll make it brief.
Why is contemporary Russia so unconcerned with “the legacy of serfdom” while contemporary America is tied up in knots about it 24/7?
I’m not a Hindu nationalist so go ahead and use some other stereotype. I’m certainly not obsessed with the 1962 loss we got our asses kicked fair and square and the Chinese did behave honorably by unilaterally withdrawing from most areas.
Our PM (whom I can’t stand) went out of his way to court Xi Jin Ping like a lovesick teenage girl meeting him 18 times!! for what? His face has been rubbed in the dirt but it’s not his face it’s the entire Indian foreign policy of dealing with China, grant them everything hoping to temper their behaviour but to no avail, you’ve not granted the smallest things like allowing us to be a member of the NSG, or support our bid to be a permanent member of the security council, all the while encircling us by cultivating our neighbors especially Pakistan, all this has been going on for quite sometime and yet we continued to ease trade restrictions and finally the brawl in the Himalayas. I welcome this stern message sent out by the Chinese, their are no more illusions about their larger foreign policy and there can be none, power struts naked. Our foreign policy makers have to contend with the terrifying fact that you will not countenance our ‘peaceful rise,’ strangle the infant in the cradle before it becomes a grown threat has to be considered as a Chinese strategic imperative in Asia. Did you think that we were going to gobble up Tibet? If the message was to scuttle the ‘Quad’ and India’s growing ties with the US you have precisely done the opposite driven us into Uncle Sam’s orbit. Believe me India’s extremely wary about that but what choice do we have since we have to plan for a disastrous two front war.
The trade relationships will definitely worsen at our pace because we’re the importers. What choice do we have since the surplus generated by your side is being used to finance our mortal enemy.
What to do their’s no other way to wean yourself off this supplier from Hell, drip drip we’ll use that fabled Chinese water torture against your businesses. The world has woken up to the peril of concentrating manufacturing in one country, it leads to deindustrialization on a massive scale with the concomitant loss of engineering and technical skills, we still do have industry and have no choice but to support it aggressively just like you support yours. All those trinkets and non essential stuff will be the first to go. It’s a long game and we have much to learn from you the masters of the long game.
It all could have been otherwise, a trustworthy relationship between Asia’s two largest countries and Asia would have been a bit different sadly it is not and how fervently we Indians wish that things didn’t come to such a sorry pass, but here we are and have to deal with a menacing fire breathing dragon which can’t be appeased. Hopefully we come out of it without 3rd degree burns.
And what are these divergent views pray tell me. there certainly are divergent views in India regarding this crisis, what are the divergent views in China?
Replaced by the import of the things necessary to produce renewable energy.
Note what happened to the largest German solar manufacturer.
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2018/03/german-solarworld-brand-files-for-bankruptcy-again/
Forget about overtaking China, India’s supposed transition into the world’s next big factory never occurred either. I remember in the late 2000s and early 2010s about how everyone was saying India would become the next manufacturing powerhouse and that Made in China would become Made in India. They just took this for granted. Now India’s lunch is getting eaten up by countries like Bangladesh, the Philippines, and especially Vietnam.
When did you hear Vietnam’s government and people constantly bombard the internet about Vietnam becoming a huge manufacturing hub? Never. And here we are looking at the emergence of a powerful Vietnamese manufacturing center that was supposed to be India’s for the taking.
Probably because comparing serfdom to slavery is an extremely false equivalence.
Serfs weren’t chattel, and they weren’t shipped from halfway around the world because to replace the locals who weren’t cheap enough.
Summary:
1959, Zhou Enlai offers to accept the McMahon Line in the East, if India accepts China’s claims in the West.
Nehru rejects.
1962 war, China wins but decides to withdraw forces from Ladakh unilaterally, asking India to do the same.
India refuses.
1976: DMZ and patrolling limits established with new ROEs (including the ‘no weapons while patrolling’ rule).
1993: “LAC” established.
China begins building infrastructure and amassing troops in its new theater command.
India keeps focusing all its energy against Pakistan.
2010: China declares that it doesn’t have a ‘border’ with India in Ladakh (validating Pakistan’s claim on Kashmir.)
2015 PLA’s strategic reforms begin.
2017: Doklam happens.
2019: India unilaterally annexes Kashmir/Ladakh by revoking article 370
China responds by throwing out the 1993 agreement plus the ’62 status quo.
As a college student I used to ride a 10 speed quite a lot, and enjoyed the activity quite a bit. I had a fancy bike for back then, quite light weight (made of molybdenum, the stuff they apparently used in building jet planes) and a shimano derailer. I notice that shimano derailers are somewhat ubiquitous these days, they weren’t back then and were considered quite state of the art.
Prices have really skyrocketed from back in the “molybdenum” age. I’m not really interested in spending $600+, and have seen bikes sold at outlets like Wal-Mart, Target and K-Mart selling for less than $200. Any opinions? What materials should I try to avoid or obtain for a bike? What little research I’ve already done several years back seems to indicate that alluminum is Okay?…
All Indian moves are aimed at a domestic audience. Beijing hasn’t retaliated because the damage done to Chinese interests is so slight it’s just unnecessary, and because China doesn’t want a war, so is not putting any pressure on Modi. In fact, China is actively limiting the pressure on Modi by not releasing casualty figures or making any public additional troop deployments to the boarder zone to counter the recently announced Indian military deployments. China is just letting him save face and not needlessly humiliate him.
The fact that Modi didn’t even mention China by name in either of his addresses speaks volumes. I think the current BJP government is willing to de-escalate on the military front. It doesn’t take much common sense and logic to deduct from even India’s description of the events to tell which story is more realistic.
I’m on a learning curve as well. Back in the day, I had a Schwinn Varsity, followed by a Peugeot 10 speed.
What I’m hearing is that the bikes of today have vastly improved in terms of performance, much like cars. My ’87 Integra was a blast to drive back in the day. My ’06 Spec V Sentra blows it away.
The ’92 Trek 7000 I’m using originally sold for $592. When compared to the current crop it’s considered quite subpar in overall performance.
Road bikes are ridiculously priced. Regarding hybrids, I’ve been paying attention to the Giant Escape and Roam models as well as the Trek FX series. Right now, they’re tough to find on account of demand – bikes made overseas, relative to Covid-19 leading to production and transport issues.
On Ebay and Craig’s List, sellers are generally asking a lot on account of the current market.
The judge in the case of Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, is a pioneer openly LGBT figure amongst the black robes of USA federal courts, Jewish lesbian Alison J. Nathan.
Beyond being LGBT … is she LGBT+Q+P? (+queer+paedo)? What is her view of MAPs, ‘Minor-Attracted Persons’, as they now call them? That might be important as the case continues.
Judge Nathan makes a household with her lesbian partner, law professor Meg Satterthwaite, and twin boys as their sons. She teaches part-time at the NYU School of Law.
https://i.ibb.co/qpft6qz/Judge-Nathan-n-Ghislaine.jpg
You don’t read Chinese, so it wouldn’t be obvious for you. But there were “dove” factions in the CCP as of 2016 and there still are in academia. Caixin is more business friendly, and Sixth Tone is more generally liberal.
No one really pays that much attention or likes India in a particularist manner though. This isn’t a factional thing. I’ve mentioned it before but the overall attitude of Indians(as you exemplify) is just irritating in its almost complete distance from reality and self-importance.
Its like having a lunatic as your neighbor. Ultimately there’s nothing to be done besides control because its impossible to engage with someone who doesn’t live in reality.
That sounds a bit like projection.
https://twitter.com/fravel/status/1272960358915989505
https://i.ibb.co/n76yj60/black-p-ssy-matters.jpg
Look you can get out of the thread if you don’t want to read me or don’t reply to any of my posts. It’s really that simple. As for irritable lunatics for neighbors here’s what they look like
https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+workers+killed+in+pakistan&oq=chinese+workers+killed+in+pakistan&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.14079j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Narendra Modi is the only high ranking Indian leader ever denied a U.S. visa, who for nearly a decade was prohibited from setting foot on U.S. soil. Mr. Modi was insulted and said that he wouldn’t apply for a visa again. U.S. officials say, however, that he has tried indirectly. “From time to time, we would get feelers from people who knew him, or on his behalf, on whether we would grant a visa,” says Richard Boucher, who headed the State Department’s South Asia bureau from 2006 to 2009. “We would tell them, ‘No, nothing’s changed.'”
Everything I saw from British television about Israel, is very anti-Israel.
British television is an opposite of Russian television on this topic (Russian television is pro-Israel, or presents the Israeli side only, and without criticism).
I think the reason British media hates Israel can be as uninteresting and simple as that they imagine Israeli Jews are “white people”, and therefore that its an extension of the evil of European colonialism.
In reality, most Israelis are a racially a brown Middle Eastern, people, but in the symbolic world of Western Europe they have been identified as another “white people”.
British documentaries of Israel (many on YouTube) are also intentionally only looking at the European people there. It’s really a strange image of the country in the English media compared to reality – where the main impression of the reality of Israel when you are there, is a very Eastern country, with many dark races included in the population.
There seem to be an awful lot of lesbian Jews involved in the American judicial system
Thanks for the passive aggression but no, I’ll remark on anything that pleases me to remark on, including my observations on you.
Didn’t know anything about Newsweek in the last 20+ years. I cancelled my subscription in 1995 after several issues were full of O.J. Simpson trial that I never gave a hoot about.
If you want a cheapest base load, the best option is gas combined cycle plant, – with German turbines.
https://i.imgur.com/2Fe7dbb.jpg
https://www.lazard.com/media/450784/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-120-vfinal.pdf
But wind is cost competitive (although not suitable for base load)
(Alternatives like nuclear energy is not only presently absurdly expensive, inefficient, unnimble – but a large part of its future costs are hidden and vastly subsidized by future tax payers. While coal includes many times more deaths as externalities of air pollution, than gas. So such options are not sensible alternatives for gas.).
Fravel’s work has gained attention because of an unanticipated finding growing out of his doctoral research: In the last several decades, to a greater extent than has been generally understood, China has often struck pragmatic compromises in foreign-policy disputes with its neighbors. Fravel’s 2008 book, Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes, reveals this tendency and analyzes the reasons for it.
My understanding of Russian serfdom is that they were, in practice, chattel, but chattel with some legal protections
Serfdom was the burden of the average Russian, not imported slaves. If Russians were to give consideration to serfdom, they would be considering the plight of their ancestors, not the ancestors of some other minority with a grievance against them.
Because nearly everyone in Russia is descendant of serfs, and there is no one who is supposed to pay the reparations.
After snowden, I give all conspiracy theories a 99% rating. Of course not the obvious crazy ones. The one you mentioned would require technology that will not be available soon or even 50 years from Now. Unless AI makes huge break through.
So, yes, support that theory (notice I took out the conspiracy word) but with incredulity.
‘The Turkish Govt themselves published data last year and opened up their immigration records from the time of the collapse of the Ottoman empre and according to their demographers at least 20% of Turks are of Balkan ancestry mostly Albanian Bosniak and Pomak and a further 20% are of Caucasian ancestry mostly Circassian, So a sizeable White or European minority. Most of the descendants of these Balkan settlers live in Western Turkey and these regions also have a very similar fertility rate to the nations of the Western Balkans whilst being the most secular. cheers’
‘Greeks’ on Crete and Rhodes look much the same as ‘Turks’ all the way east to Cappadocia. I only restrict my claims to those regions because those are the only ones in which I have traveled.
“EROEI” – is really quite a nonsense concept, with no relation to science, and which you can see is a tautology after a minute of thinking about it.
I can answer you as the person whose ancestors were slaves (indentured peasants, who legally could be sold, like cattle, disregarding family ties, etc.). Indentured peasants in the Russian Empire were freed in 1861, same year American Civil war started. They were given a raw deal with “freedom”: they were forced to pay for the land they received for decades to their former owners. However, if I start blaming my problems on the fact that 160 years ago my ancestors weren’t free, all my Russian acquaintances would consider me a hopeless piece of shit. They would be 100% right.
Oooh, so India is going to become a mere US satellite like Japan?
That is surprising considering all that chest thumping.
So I was right, India did give up competing with China.
Very interesting, especially when one considers that British t.v. has a large number of jews in senior positions (particularly news and current affairs). Do European jews prefer to look at Israeli jews who look like them?
I rode a 10-speed Schwinn Varsity in college back in the 1970s. During the 1990s, I rode a Trek 700 hybrid, and a Trek 7100 for almost 15 years after that. Both Trek hybrids were durable, reliable, safe bikes.
I recommend going to a real bike shop and avoiding the el cheapo models at Walmart and other mass merchandisers.
For many riders, especially younger ones, bicycling is all about going fast. Speed is often the primary if not sole consideration for many of these guys, and some gals, who like to pretend they are in the Tour de France, always wear colorful outfits not unlike jockeys, and try to go as fast as they can everywhere they ride.
Most of these riders are on road bikes with their very skinny tires, drop bars, tiny seats and uncomfortable riding position which has the further big disadvantage of poor vision while bent over like that.
For most city riding and commuting, a hybrid is the best choice for a number of reasons. Currently, I ride a Trek Verve 2, for which I paid just about $600 brand new.
I was very happy to get one of the last 2019 models that doesn’t have disc brakes. Additionally, the current Verve 2 has no front suspension, but does have a simple seat post suspension. Disc brakes are heavier than standard rim brakes, and complicate front wheel removal. Unless you are coming down a mountain, there is little need for disc brakes. Similarly, a front fork suspension adds weight and reduces front wheel stability. It’s overkill for city riding and really only worthwhile on a mountain bike.
Because of its adjustable handlebar stem, the Verve series is superior to the FX in my opinion. Safety and comfort are much more important to me than going fast.
The modern trend is toward wider tires. My Verve 2 has 700×45 tires, much wider than those on my two previous Trek hybrids, and much more comfortable than the skinny, hard tires on road bikes, with much better stability and traction, making them much safer, to boot.
The popular misconception has been that skinny hard tires are much faster than wide tires, but tests show that there is really little difference.
https://www.renehersecycles.com/12-myths-in-cycling-1-wider-tires-are-slower/
Finally, going to a bike shop will help ensure you get the right size frame for your height.
I thought Chinese troops never crossed borders. How did they take out indian territory? Wasn’t that what modi said? If Chinese troops did cross borders, took over 5+ indian posts, that would be huge.
You would have something.
Russians had the 1917 Revolution, where the landlord class (помещики) was either decimated or expelled. I guess that settled the case.
Appreciate the input. Was wondering about the need for disc brakes myself.
I heard that Dick’s isn’t as bad as Target & Walmart. The online sizing charts at Trek and Giant are pretty detailed.
I’m not so into speed. Notwithstanding, I want to get a good feel of leg resistance which when pedaled fast will cover a greater distance in less time.
My interest in outdoor use bikes is on account of the gyms being closed in my area. On a gym bike with 20 settings, I was once able to average 97.5 RPM for a full hour at level 14 manual.
I’ll look into that Trek you mention. Budget wise, I’ve been geared towards the Trek FX1, Giant Escape 3 and Giant Roam 4.
Rather, it is the Turks who look like Greeks good sir
Yea, black slaves were shipped from Africa, where they were enslaved and sold by their black “brothers”
Maiming and killing serfs were the only illegal actions. Everything else was considered OK. Owners were punished very lightly even for maiming or killing their serfs. Only a few sadistic ones that maimed or killed many were seriously punished.
That’s like saying that “in practice” Trump is a white supremacist or that “in practice” France is an African country. (I.e., a major dramatic overstatement.)
Serfs were not chattel legally speaking, and the majority of landowners didn’t view them as such.
Abuses, of course, happened; but this was due to the ineffiecient and lacking judicial system in Russia at the time.
Slavery, in contrast, was a vast industrial enterprise expressly designed to be inhumane, not an asystematic ad-hoc power imbalance.
Back in the day, when I went to college, I rode an ultra lightweight Japanese bike, one with skinny tires and drop bars with a tiny seat. I do remember, that after a long winter my first three days of riding resulted in a very sore butt, but it would soon pass as I became more of a hardass. 🙂 It’s been so long, that I don’t even remember how I shifted gears, but the hand brakes were always in hand and served me well. In other words I like this style of bike, and remember that I enjoyed being stooped over. The overall ride and feel was that I was driving a fast, lightweight bike that was very precise in maneuverability. I drove up and down the streets of a big city alternating between streets and sidewalks. Going up long hills was the extent of my “mountain-climbing” and sometimes, depending on the height and steepness of the hill, I would just abandon driving it and resume pushing the bike up the remainder of the hill.
Anyway, I don’t intend to take-up mountain driving in the backwoods, and am interested in something similar that will cruise comfortably on asphalt and concrete. Any suggestions are appreciated.
BTW, I really liked the new “chrome molybdenum” material that my bike posessed, but am afraid that this material is only now available in bikes that cost over $1,000. I’m budgiting now for $300 – $400.
Yes, the fact that slavery was expressly designed as an ethnic cleansing and population replacement exercise so that the (((usual suspects))) could turn a quick profit should be a major consideration in the equation.
Apparently support for independence in Scotland is now over 50%. I’ve noticed that most people and the media internationally now tend to refer to Scotland as if it was already an independent country by default, and perception is three quarters of the battle in independence struggles.
What I find odd is how the recognition of nationhood seems to vary by individual group. For instance, Ukrainians are now well established as a completely separate ethnic group to Russians, even though before 1991 I doubt most outsiders made any distinction between Russians and Ukrainians.
Another odd one is Catalans and Basques, their independence struggles have never managed to gain much respect or support abroad because no one outside Spain considers Catalans and Basques to be separate groups to the Spanish.
Edinburgh and Glasgow are always referred to as Scottish cities, but you would never hear anyone outside Spain refer to Barcelona as a Catalan city or Bilbao as a Basque city, they are both considered absolutely Spanish. The statement “Edinburgh is a British city”, although entirely factually correct would sound strange to most peoples’ ears, most people think of it as Scottish, in contrast to say “Barcelona is a Catalan city” would sound overly political or pedantic to most people.
White slavers adhered to different religions. There were Jewish, Christian, and Moslem slavers. None of them actually enslaved blacks. Not because they were so nice, simply because other blacks did this job. They just bought on slave markets in Africa blacks already enslaved by their black “brethren”.
To the best of my knowledge, they transported slaves to South and North America simply for profit: there was high demand there.
I think British Broadcasting television is a believer of “post-colonialist” ideology. Their attitude is something like – “If we do not have empire anymore, then nobody else can be allowed”.
In relation to Israel, British media seem to be enjoy to portray that it is a “white colony” (even though the majority of Israels are brown rednecks).
After South Africa has fallen, then British media probably view Israel as one of the last targets remaining.
Such a view is amusing, because Jews in Israel are more often brown people – not only racially, but also in part culturally and in their television and music -, than like some Europeans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8e3NXxWSDI
I don’t think many English speakers visit Israel from England.
On the plane between London and Tel Aviv, 2 years ago – I would say it is half Russian-speaking people. And then the other are mainly Haredi cults and (brown) Israeli tourists with rucksacks.
So I assume that one of the main demographic connections between London and Israel, are Russian-speakers, as well as Haredim (who are speaking Yiddish to each other), and some young Israeli tourists.
Russian domination of the flights to Israel is funny, because it shows how unpopular and disliked Israel is actually in England (at least as a travel destination) – that Russian-speakers can be dominant in flights between England and Israel, and yet in normal days it can be difficult to find Russian-speakers in England.
I think a lot of British people find it irritating that their history and legacy is widely chastised, yet many other countries still engage in practices that look very much like colonialism and yet get away with it, or are celebrated for it even.
I’d say a lot of British people feel bitter that their history has been singled out and scapegoated for colonialism in general, and that does promote a “If I can’t have one, you can’t have one” mentality.
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/-/media/44068c2e9dad40389108936fa121375d.ashx?mh=500&mw=500
I came across “Girl With a Pearl Earring” yesterday. (Vermeer; usually around No.10 in the “most famous paintings” lists). I remember when I took art history there was a discussion about whether she was turning away from the viewer, or towards the viewer. I had always thought it was the latter. Sadly, I now see her turning away from me. I am being canceled. I am no psychiatrist, but that’s a heckuva Rorschach. That is my new mindset. Her lips are parted, ready to speak, ready to call me a racist or a dinosaur.
London is not an English or British city.
I’ve heard this story from a Swiss girl who had a boyfriend from Barcelona. When he went home to visit his family, she asked him in an email how are things in Spain. He angrily answered that he is not in Spain, he is in Catalonia.
Serfs could be, and were, whipped.
Slave homicide laws were under constant revision in the US.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g2km8v
But yes, there was a difference in that families weren’t broken up. That is a huge difference.
Well, some things may pass, while others may not. Here is the big, bad thing about skinny bicycle seats (saddles), or maybe I should really call it a dirty, little secret.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/biking-and-sex-avoid-the-vicious-cycle-201209145290
Like many things in this world, there is a hidden or at least muted factor in the equation. In the case of bicycles, there may be several muted factors.
Indeed, it’s not only the seat itself that determines the amount of pressure on the perineum. The riding position itself play a big role. No matter what kind of saddle you have on your bike, if you’re riding bent over and leaning forward while pedaling hard and trying to go fast, it will be difficult if not impossible to avoid putting pressure on the perineum.
Wide, angled handlebars pulled back closer to the rider encourage the upright riding position, and when combined with a wide, soft seat, this position allows the rider to sit further back on the saddle near its widest point, thereby putting most of the pressure on the buttocks.
It helps also to get up off the saddle occasionally into the so-called attack position. Now the riders weight is being supported by the arms and legs, there is much more wind resistance, and the rider can use gravity to put his entire weight on one pedal while climbing tall hills, which is probably the best way to get a good workout on a bicycle without riding for hours.
Is the far east hektar program worth it for a foreigner who wants to immigrate, or are all the far east oblasti frozen hell?
For most people living worldwide you will find a historical period in which the vast majority of the ancestors of those people from that specific historical period have been slaves.
Almost all Jews in England have been to Israel at least one (thank you Birthright) and many visit it more frequently
When I was a young man going to college, I never seemed to have any problems with “erectile dysfunction” or the likes, actually very much just the opposite. 🙂 Of course I wasn’t always riding my bike, and had acquired a small car by that time too. But being much older now, I’ll pay heed to your warnings and cautions. Also, I recall that I often didn’t need to hunch all the way down the drop bars to hold on comfortably. There were actually two positions, a higher and a lower one where even the handbrakes were adjusted to handle either one. Getting down “deep and dirty” was usually reserved for only short bursts when speed was necessary, as in passing somebody or something. The lightweight and sturdiness of the bike is what impresses my memory most of all.
Edinburgh and Glasgow are always referred to as Scottish cities, but you would never hear anyone outside Spain refer to Barcelona as a Catalan city or Bilbao as a Basque city, they are both considered absolutely Spanish.
Although quite a few people outside of Spain do make a distinction – I’ve seen it literally written on a wall in Ireland that ‘Catalonia is not Spain’ – it’s not as common as the recognition that Scotland is distinct from England because outside of Latin America Britain is more culturally familiar & influential than Spain. For normies throughout the world just seeing Scotland’s national football & rugby teams playing against the likes of Italy and France is probably enough in and of itself for most foreigners to think of Scotland as a separate country already. If Catalonia had its own team at the World Cup it would eventually come to be seen by the masses as a country distinct from the rest of Spain.
Vladivostok region is pretty warm. The sea to the South of it is remarkably picturesque and user-friendly: bays off bigger bays that are off even bigger bays. 30 years ago if you saw another person in the same bay as you, you called that crowded. There were two downsides: 1) lots of sea urchins with huge spikes (the water was remarkably clean; sea urchins can’t live in contaminated water); 2) monsoon rains. I don’t know whether they give hectares (~2.5 acres) in Vladivostok region. I also don’t know whether they give land to immigrating foreigners. Find out.
Anyone have any thoughts about Croatia’s parliamentary elections today. Looks like mainstream “right wing” party did well as did Skoro which is supposed to be “far right”.
The forbidden Tintin books are on libgen. So far, I’ve only read the one where he visits the Congo, but it was quite good.
A quality gym bike and seat are considerably more comfy and I suspect less likely to develop or enhance ED symptoms.
Multiple sources say that Trek bike seats are known for being harsh. I’ve been told that cushioned bike seat covers are prone to not staying still and that getting a whole different seat is a better route. For $35.00, a bike shop near me says he might’ve a better seat in place of the original on my 1992 Trek 7000.
Be nice if he can tune my bike fairly soon. Specifically, the issue of my currently not getting the gear at its highest. Bike shops near me are swarmed with such work, with typical waits of a week to two weeks.
There are rumors that in view of America’s continuing descent into
anarchy, growing numbers of people residing in the Washington, DC
Beltway area are considering emigrating to Central Europe, esp.
Poland and Czechia. If they are of British descent, who would want them?
With all the horrors their ancestors inflicted on the world through colonialism
and the transatlantic slave trade they are clearly descended from low quality
stock.
Similarly, in Europe the Germanics (esp. Germans and Swedes) represent
low quality stock (I don’t want to say “untermenschen” because as Homo
Sapiens we are animals) in view of their proclivity for extreme violence,
higher than average for Homo Sapiens and amply demonstrated over the
last 1200 years if not longer. For example, Lutheran Sweden invaded Poland in
the 1650s killing, directly or indirectly, 4 million people, i.e., one-third the
population of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (which, by the way,
gained a very large area not through military conquest but through peaceful
means – personal union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania)
Has t0o be one of the best, if not the best bike movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RosTfFAs-XM
Swedish rule over Finland was if anything harsher than Russia’s.
In case anyone still has difficulty thinking of human beings as animals,
161 years since Darwin’s Origin of the Species (1859), clearly we are having
extreme difficulty rising above the level of predatory primates as proved
by the continuing wars, continuing arms race, and continuing criminality.
P.S. Pacifism (and Unitarianism) was a very strong movement in Poland
in the late 1500s as the Western Europeans were butchering each other
over something as trivial as theological differences
If you compared with 1960s English videos about Israel, they were matching an attitude they had of other former Imperial Possessions.
In 1960s – although British power has been displaced for more than a decade in the Middle East, they discuss like they view the region as if it was still one of their territories.
British of this era are still mostly interested about industrial process, modernization, trains, electricity – they still had some viewpoint of a ruling caste.
To some extent, there is concession of a tourist view as well – they assume some romantics are watching it for tourist infomation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOxWcI4V1xc
Similar on Rhodesia – most interest is practical about industrialization, with no interest in morality of the situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7C6bEep60
British attitude sounds a mainly discussing “how to rule these countries”, and concerns are related to a ruling class.
Watching the new videos, reminds more of how Sweden says they will be a “moral superpower”.
Without real power, British lost interest in practical issues of ruling – instead the interest of the English BBC man, is the moral dimension.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGahJzFdqaY
Israel is mainly interesting for him, because they view one side as “brown” (Arabs) and the other “white” (Jews), and therefore can be a stage where English media act with moral superiority, by siding against violence and colonialism.
Nowadays, if Ukraine fights with its own citizens, there will be no such angry discussion with Ukrainian officials, as there is no way for them to interpret the conflict according to post-colonial attitudes.
Similarly, they will not discuss with Indian or Chinese officials in this way. But they might to American and Russian officials.
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Although the attitude of 1960s England, is already that they are politely accepting the loss of their own imperial power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylDMrkHrWcg
And they are excited about prioritization of internal development and standard of living. Sweden is already such an aspiration for them, if you watch the 1960s BBC videos.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=572279669961124
Have fun powering your civilization by melting ice cubes.
It is often remarked how homos stole the word “gay.” And it was quite remarkable that they managed to do it, but it is even stranger how Jews stole the word “holocaust” and essentially made it their own. They should use a Jewish word like Shoah and not one derived from a Proto-Indo-European language. And certainly not an English word. I don’t think it would have had the same power if it had been Hebrew – and it should have been since it has become a religion.
As far as I can tell, in the sense of killing, it was first used to describe massacres of Christian Armenians by Turks. But it didn’t always have a dark tone. I read a novel from the early 1900s which contained a line like, “He had fallen so far behind, he would need a holocaust in order to catch up.” It was figurative, not referring to killing and only referring to fire, in a very figurative sense.
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/572279669961124/
The talk about mining on the moon is getting more and more frequent. Some say it will probably happen in the next 10 years.
https://oilprice.com/Metals/Commodities/Moon-Mining-Could-Begin-As-Early-As-2025.html
AnoninTN is always good for posting some nonsense “information.”
In January the average high temperature in Vladivostock is -8 C and average low is -15 C. That is colder than winter in Moscow and even Murmansk (which is on the Barents Sea north of the Arctic circle). It is not “pretty warm.” It is only warmer than places that are deep inland such as Irkutsk.
This is what happened in 2014 when Tamika Mallory, a leader in the BLM movement, began to turn against Israel. Within days, she was no longer invited to CNN where she had not only been a regular but treated with great respect.
Folks in these social movements may think they are revolutionaries but their agenda is pushed/propped up by the MSM. Ideologies that truly threaten the system always gets stomped on by the jackboot. In that sense, there is no difference between supposed ‘liberal democracy’ and any ‘authoritarian’ system. They all work the same way.
That’s why I wasn’t the least surprised Chapo got banned. It’s one thing to do performative wokeness for neoliberalism. It’s another to truly question its foundations. If you do, you’ll quickly see the limits of the supposed democracy you’re living in.
Most censorship in the West is carried out by corporations and private actors, which upholds the illusion that the system is free because the state is less active. Does it matter whether private capital does the dirty work rather than the state? The end result is the same. The neoliberal argument is one fixated on process, not outcome.
An inside look at the Chinese civil service exam:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n02/long-ling/diary
I am less concerned about speed per se, and more about making biking sustainable. Too many just throw away their bikes prematurely and don’t invest time to understanding how to repair your own stuff. It isn’t nearly as hard as many think and the most common things (like needing to change tires) are quite trivial. It’s just about getting past the initial hurdle for most people.
One trend in Sweden that I am grateful of is the relative increase of the so-called cykelkök. I go to this one from time to time. In these places, you can often exchange parts for free or a very low sum while learning the ropes of repairing your own bike. It’s quite social, too – you meet lots of friendly people. The clientele are anything from yuppies, to suburban soccer moms, careerist men in suits to of course young prole men.
It’s part of a larger movement towards repairability and away from wear-and-tear. The EU has been pushing tech firms to increase repairability in products, as most of the stuff we use often just need a battery or some other single component replaced to keep functioning. Using custom ROMs for your Android phone can also prolong its life for many years.
Absent from your post: climate change and pollution.
As Elon Musk has often dryly noted, there is no global carbon price, though there is one in the EU. That’s also why coal is sinking. It is finally starting to be priced accordingly concomitant to its destructive impact on emissions (and pollution).
Just thinking about energy in terms of prices alone without regard to other factors, including those which affect our very habitation on this planet, is monumentally idiotic.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NgXrMnZHoL4/TPko47ogS9I/AAAAAAAABHo/OeP9sxe8d5o/s640/Tintin+England.jpg
Europe Europa is right, they’ll never ban this one.
Coal isn’t going away for a very long time as it is pretty much the only source of baseload electricity that China and India both have in abundance.
For obvious strategic reasons it makes sense to have most of your electricity from a cheap fuel source that you have on your own territory.
Solar/Wind is not viable for baseload power unless there is a breakthrough in energy storage and even then given the massive amounts of land required I doubt these will come anywhere close to replacing coal in densely populated Asian countries.
That leaves breakthroughs in Methane hydrates(China/India both have theoretically massive gas reserves on their continenral shelves in the form of methane hydrates),Uranium from seawater (it presently costs 10x of mined uranium but if this becomes feasible the whole world effectively has unlimited Uranium) or Thorium based fuel cycles(India has the world’s largest Thorium reserve most countries haven’t surveyed theirs because Thorium is presently economically more or less useless).
Unfortunately breakthroughs in these along with nuclear fusion are perpetually just around the corner so we will be stuck with coal for many decades.
Rank City Population (2002) Avg Winter Temp (°C)
1 Moscow 10,126,424. −13.0
2 Saint Petersburg 4,661,219. −10.0
3 Novosibirsk 1,425,508 −20.0
4 Nizhny Novgorod 1,311,252. −15.0
5 Yekaterinburg 1,293,537 −17.0
6 Samara 1,157,880. −14.0
7 Omsk 1,134,016. −20.0
8 Kazan 1,105,289. −14.0
9 Chelyabinsk 1,077,174. −18.0
10 Rostov-on-Don 1,068,267. −7.0
11 Ufa 1,042,437. −14.0
12 Volgograd 1,011,417. −16.0
13 Perm 1,001,653 −15.0
14 Krasnoyarsk 909,341 −18.0
15 Saratov 873,055. −12.0
16 Voronezh 848,752. −6.0
17 Tolyatti 702,879 −18.0
18 Krasnodar 646,175. −7.0
19 Ulyanovsk 635,947. −11.0
20 Izhevsk 632,140. −14.0
21 Yaroslavl 613,088 −11.0
22 Barnaul 600,749. −15.5
23 Vladivostok 594,701. −14.0
24 Irkutsk 593,604 −15.0
25 Khabarovsk 583,072. −22.0
Based on India’s growth from 2010-19, I estimate India will reach where China is currently by 2060. China’s GDP was $14 trillion in 2019. In 2060, the same inflation adjusted amount will be $30 trillion+.
The Indian economy almost doubled over the last decade. I assume over the next several decades Indian growth by decade will be equal or lower to the performance of the 2010s. Naturally, as an economy becomes more developed the growth rate is lower. By back of the envelope math figures it will be 2060 or later before India reaches inflation adjusted Chinese levels.
Don’t plan on living too long if you’re a believer in the singularity in the 21st century. Well, at least not beyond your normal lifespan. Trouble in the paradise of longevity research. There is too much money in it, so it attracts fraud.
https://forbetterscience.com/2020/06/22/jan-van-deursen-left-mayo-clinic/
“Another source alleged that “99% of data that were not able to be reproduced over decades in the lab by anyone are traced back to Darren Baker and Bennett Childs“. Other sources reached me over their friends and are also considering speaking out.”
It is not a bizarre statement. The area where the clashed occurred is contested and not controlled by either side. There are different perceptions by each side with differing claim lines. So a patrol by one side could be within one’s claim and at the same time an incursion on the other side. There is routine jockeying by each side with patrolling and putting up temporary structures. I don’t know what the situation is tactically but I do not trust the characterization that China has simply salami sliced territory. Keep in mind actions by China occur in the context of a decade long mostly one sided Indian military buildup along the boundary area including the deployment by India of tanks and aircraft and construction of new roads.
I see the piece you linked to is authored by someone from the Stimson Center. They have been out in front for years on China-India issues and I distrust them. I believe as an institution they have an agenda to foster friction and conflict between China and India.
An AEI fellow who collaborates with Stimson on China-India gave this honest take of motivation:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/can-india-help-united-states-against-china
I do not believe the clash was a miscalculation because there was no calculation at work. It was not a pre-planned attack. According to the Indian Army, it was an on the spot escalation that spiraled out of control. However, I believe it will be a miscalculation for China to pursue this confrontation because allowing the Quad military alliance to take shape is too high of a cost. And it will be wise to figure out some way to reduce patrols to bring stability. However, there should be at the same time a large scale military buildup in the border region with India to give Indians a dose of realism that has been sorely missing in their calculations.
If this is true, India gets a guarantee from the US, then China will give a parallel guarantee to Pakistan. What do you think will be the extent of damage to India’s long term future from having to shoulder the threat of a 2-front pact?
The threat of a 2-front pact is a mutual threat the PRC will have to face as well.
Who would be more likely to be cut off from the high sea ship lanes?
Not India.
I am aware of this. However, the news media discourse is currently dominated by Indians who speak of options (e.g. military alliance with US, expanded naval base at Port Blair to menace Chinese shipping) without reference to repercussions. I am balancing the discussion by making it multi-sided.
As for the “Malacca Dilemma”, even over the long term with overseas bases and carrier armadas I don’t see the feasibility of defending a long sea lane going through the Indian and Pacific Oceans. I wish the planners would give up on the idea of naval parity and spend the money instead on EV adoption, building an alliance with Russia, and everything else it will take to drastically reduce energy imports and improve energy security.
Western perspective
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Sakha perspective
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I made my comments based on empirical observation and you can play around with your lexicals.
I’m a Christian of alt.conviction and I’m also a part-time muslim. I did not specifically called you a ‘Hindu nationalist’. You’re about as ‘Hindu nationalist’ as I’ve muslim ancestors.
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I’m not judging the reaction of the average Indians to the recent border clash because India is a large country, of course, go say whatever price the less well off Indians should pay to satisfy your urge.(I remember that even during bad moments of sino-japan relation in recent decades, sure there was a number of demonstration but the Chinese govt let the consumers to decide. No hysteria.)
https://theprint.in/opinion/newsmaker-of-the-week/green-tea-to-underpants-chinas-grip-on-indian-lives-goes-beyond-phone-apps/454259/
–“China has, in recent years, become one of the preferred destinations of Indian students for pursuing higher studies”, the Indian embassy in Beijing says.”
–“Citizens like Dimple were making a lot of money using these mostly Chinese apps and becoming famous.
“I would never make so much (money) with a 9-to-5 government job,” she had said last year.
But that’s just Dimple. There are so many like her in India who can’t do without Chinese goods, culture and overall Chinese influence in their daily lives.”
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I wish ‘Made in India’ well as I mentioned at other thread, India has great agricultural potential and could become a major exporter of food to China.
It is so refreshing to watch a documentary style production without the core tone being one of moral narcissism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
Well here is a thought experiment, say, how many people are getting killed by bad ideas from the right like coronavirus is a just a flu, as opposed to bad ideas from the left like bioleninism? I mean Vietnam has a third of the population of the US, and is a third world corrupt craphole, and yet managed to stop their cases at 369 cases and no deaths, if Americans acted in a sheep like manner, as people say, like Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese, how many lives will get saved?
“I’m not a Frenchy: I’m a Belgie!”
I mean how many excess US deaths are caused by Steve Sailer’s so called Ferguson effect, as opposed to excess deaths caused by coronavirus conspiracy theories?
And with regards to HDB, of there are in fact biological differences between races, why are people so reluctant to argue as to which race is superior to which? Or which superior race should rule over other inferior races, which is a logical extension of that argument. Since it is only natural and logical for those who are superior to rule, vanquish, and conquer those who are inferior, as demonstrated throughout history, through survival of the fittest. Like are whites superior to East Asians, or vice versa? I mean people sure do argue which sports car brand is superior to which.
I like it when people who have never been somewhere pretend to know something about the place. The first sign of an ignoramus: it believes that it knows everything. You pass the test, congrats!
Now, for those who really want to know.
The territory of Primorsky Krai (Vladivostok region) is 165,900 km² (64,100 sq miles) with population ~2 million. For comparison, the territory of Belgium is <31,000 km², Netherlands <43,000 km². So, its territory is more than twice as big as Belgium and Netherlands combined. It is located between 42 and 48 degrees North latitude, with North-South spread of ~900 km. So, the average temperature there is about as informative as an average fever level in a hospital. One can find detailed city-by-city info here:
https://en.climate-data.org/asia/russian-federation/primorsky-krai-896/
In mid-1980s I’ve spent two months (July-August) on the coast near Slavyanka, in the South of Primorsky Krai. The sea was remarkably warm, warmer that most years in Crimea at that time of year. The water was very clean, with abundant wild life. The only thing you had to be careful about in the sea were seas urchins with huge spikes. The shore is mostly stone, so there were thousands of them. On land it’s mostly forest-covered hills, with plenty of edible mushrooms in the forest.
In winter it gets colder and snows, but the temperature virtually never drops below -10 degrees C. So, it’s not hospitable for Africans and tropical Asians, but OK for those who are used to having four seasons. Would seem pretty mild for an inhabitant of upstate New York. Monsoon rains in summer are something you must tolerate, though, but there is never as much rain as in Seattle.
Separate England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland teams for most sports seems to be a fluke of history, I can’t think of another country where the national team does not correspond with the sovereign state. Probably a lot to do with the fact that Britain played a large role in setting up regulated international sport. The first “international” football match was England vs Scotland. Also in the 1800s I doubt there was quite such a formalised idea of what constituted a nation state than there is today, with the UN, etc.
Interestingly, only “Great Britain” is allowed as the Olympic team because England, Wales, Scotland and NI don’t meet the IOC’s criteria as sovereign states.
Yes, I replaced the stock saddle on my Verve 2 with a comfort seat from Bell. Its design allows me to sit back with my buttocks comfortably planted with no pressure on the perineum. The cushioned seat covers are worthless. Save your money, shop around, and get a replacement comfort saddle in the $30-50 price range. Even Walmart has them.
As always, get an estimate from your bike shop before committing the bike for repairs. Everything has gotten more expensive in the past decade, and bike shops are no exception, so prepare to be surprised.
When I took my 7100 in for service and repairs last year , the running estimate was up to $400 when I gave the cut sign, and walked out into the showroom. They rolled out the Verve 2, and it was love at first ride.
It’s rather difficult to justify spending maybe 500 bucks for repairs on a 15 year old bike that I bought new (last year’s model) for $180 in ’04.
It seems your bike needs a rear derailleur adjustment so it will shift smoothly into all gears. There are numerous videos and articles online showing how to adjust front and rear derailleurs.
Depending on the location and type of your shifters, it may be possible to invert your bike, stand it on the seat and handlebars, and work on your rear derailleur with the bike in that position, but usually, a bike stand is needed for derailleur adjustments because it is necessary that the bike be immobilized with the wheels and pedals free to turn, while also being able to use the shifters. There are articles online with suggestions and ideas for circumventing the need for a bike stand.
All those new bikes you’re considering are decent rides, but none in that group has an adjustable handlebar stem that allows the rider to fine tune his riding geometry. Neither does the bike you are riding now, as far as I can tell. No suspension seat posts either, but like the seat, those are easy to swap out.
Good luck.
Respect for bureaucracy is a definitive feature of Asian cultures. Russians do not have that, yet the West tries hard to lump them in with Asiatic Mongoloids.
Americans are distinct from Western cultures. This pandemic was bound to explode because “MUH FREEDOM” or because we want to use it against those “Trumptards”. No one can find any compromise in the US. The virus did spread at those protests. Probably not so much in NY – either because they were more careful or most people already had it. In Texas and California, protestors were not so lucky.
Post you replied to specifically mentioned Jews,not Israel.
US and Russia have plenty of similarities in their populations general national consciousness of Jews…..in UK it is practically zero.
US and Russia both have the common or interpersonal conceptions of “jewish mother” various “jewish humour” or “jewish character traits or mentality” “cunning” etc…none of them anti-semitic in tone, some of them complementary or just playful. UK has absolutely zero consciousness of Jewish traits among their population – perhaps explains why , even with a large number of muslims and afew terrorist attacks in Britain – zero Jewish communities( Orthodox or just rich-secular) have even been attacked (long may that continue)
We have got our great ( and some degenerate but popular)_ contributions from Jews in the arts, film, science, politics and so on from Soviet time and now. USA idolises Gershwin, great American songbook is jewish dominated, plenty of scientists, film directors, lawyers, humanitarians idolised with their jewishness a central, not incidental part of them promoted… even extremely ugly and low talent jews like Lauren Baccall and Barbara Streisand get overly promoted and idolised. In UK I don’t think the scale is anywhere near – and their jewishness is incidental
America, but particularly Russia have loads of successful jewish sportsman/woman and coaches……UK it is zero from what I can see.
Obviously Americans have great respect for those who make money, UK considers promoting such things vulgar. Russia is somewhere in between.
Plenty of Russian singers will have yiddish songs in their repertoire ( or at least russian language version) such as Tumbalalaika, Hava Naglia and many others sung on our entertainment or cultural shows…………such a cultural impression is non-existant in Britain, despite showbusiness, media business and plenty of other things dominated by jewish control over there.
What you consider “anti-Israel” is probably just the usual “self-hating jew” pseudo-complex…..I reckon all these supposedly anti-Israel media support Israel foreign policy 100%. Though I do agree with your European/brown people hypothesis
You mentioned “Vladivostok region” as being, in your words, “pretty warm”, and I provided statistics for the city of Vladivostok showing that it’s winters on average are colder than in Moscow and even Murmansk. You have written plenty of nonsense about a place where you have lived for 20+ years, it is no wonder that you also write nonsense about a place where you claimed to have spent a couple of months once in the 80s.
Vladivostok is in the southern part of its region and as a large city probably has a heat island effect. So other places in Vladivostok region are even colder.
Average low temperature in Vladivostok in January is – 15.4 Celsius. In February it is – 11.4 Celsius and in December – 11.9 Celsius.
These are average lows.
The coldest significant place in upstate New York, deep in the Adirondack Mountains, around Lake Placid, has a slightly warmer average low temperature in January (- 15.2 Celsius) than does the city of Vladivostok. All of the actual cities in upstate New York are of course much warmer than Vladivostok. Even cities north of upstate New York such as Montréal Canada (average January low is – 14 Celsius) are warmer than Vladivostok.
Thanks for demonstrating yet again your reliability as a source for information. 🙂
LOL…FFS….I’ve got Karlin effectively holding a shotgun up my a**, I’m on the edge of yet another ban, can’t make another wrong step…..but I’ve got another of your absurd drivel provocations right in front of me.
Vladivostok is not like Siberia or Far North you cretin! It is not even like Khabarovsk which is more cold,frozen and far less humidity. Siberia, such as say Irkutsk will have far, far colder winters….but much hotter summers, many more days of +28C – although with nowhere near the humidity of somewhere like Vladivostok in summer.
AnonFromTN’s Post was clearly reacting to the other guys comment on the scheme giving out free hectares of land in the Far East and siberia , and the common perception of this great section of land being the same thing and permanantly frozen. Obviously they are not and Far North, Siberia do not merit being considered the same with all of Vladivostok or the whole of the Far East region you dimwit.
Coming from AnonFromTN…
I can confirm, that is SO true, and so is….
…brings back memories.
If you want a low maintenance bike get one with a belt drive and hub gears, I bought one about two and a half years ago and so far with zero servicing it runs perfect, you will pay a little extra but its worth it IMO
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Most British people aren’t aware that well known media Jews in Britain are even Jews, and there’s certainly no shortage of Jews in the British media and entertainment world.
In general I’d say making a thing about peoples’ ethnic/national origin or noticing their ethnic/national origins is also considered vulgar in British culture, and at odds with British ideals of being a meritocracy and a “fair play” sort of society.
Also, due to the US’s history of immigration, Americans are generally a lot more acutely aware of their ethnic origins and being a “hyphenated American” is the norm, I think the same goes for Russia although perhaps to a somewhat lesser extent, but I think Russians are similarly very aware of peoples’ ethnic origins due to the similarly multi-ethnic history of Russia.
The BBCs main daily news program is called Newsnight, if they told the truth they would have to call it Jewsnight, its amazing how many times I watch it and it will be dominated by the Tribe telling the UK Goy how to run his country
watch the video below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8itF62yIJg
(((Emily Maitlis))) interviews the Hungarian foreign minister, a typical Jewsnight interview
Actually, there’s no evidence they’re LARPing as anything, much less that they’re engaged in a racial fantasy.
If they’re disproportionately featured on television, it’s because whiter people, on average, simply look better than less white people, and non-whites as well as whites (except white libtards) have a preference for seeing whiter/lighter faces on television. (This preference may be marked or it may be slight, but it is seldom absent.)
Of course, the average white is nothing much to look at. But at the highest echelons of human beauty, there’s no competition, whites crush all before them. (And good looking non-whites far more often than not have hefty proportions of European ancestry themselves.)
There’s a substantial educated, liberal-leaning population in Turkey. I think it’s more that they want to distance themselves from the conservative islamic image of their country and show that they can be enlightened and progressive too, rather than to be seen as European per se. When I used to post on race boards a lot, the Turkish factions there didn’t strike me as desperate to be seen as white. They were more concerned about correcting the distortions of delusional balkanoids who pretend there is some clear dividing line between themselves and Turks.
Serves them right. Maybe the virus will do something about violent criminals, as the authorities at all levels appear to be totally impotent.
It’s something of a “supremacist” attitude, really. They decided that racism, nationalism, colonialism etc are awful, and they simply assumed that everybody else simply would agree with them, or could be made to agree with them. It’s not surprising that they’d get ticked off on noticing that other peoples had only been pretending to abide by the same rules. The duplicity is most glaring in the case of Jews, who are never slow to assail Britons for historical misdeeds, while squealing about ‘anti-semitism’ the minute the spotlight is shined on themselves; but essentially everyone is up to the same thing, just substitute ‘racism’ for ‘anti-semitism’.
Also, I can’t prove this, but it does seem to me that a fair few Anglo-Saxons think they are the only people who could really be racist, so they don’t pay much attention to the racism of other races. Their feeling seems to be something like “they’re already so ‘unwhite’ anyway, what could they possibly have to be racist about?” A very self-centered view, to say the least.
The mainstream right in Croatia is as bogus (for nationalist purposes) as the right anywhere else in Europe. Skoro’s outfit is nationalist, but it seems pretty heavily watered down, at least in the face it presents to the public. The most notable aspect of the election to me was the migration of voters from the mainstream liberal-left to the far left, mirroring trends elsewhere in Europe.
More of your curmudgeonry you ungrateful lout! What you don’t seem to realize is that Karlin is doing you the greatest of favors in trying to block that cavernous channel of yours that always seems to get filled up with the residue of unscrupulous donors. Do you really want to take another step backwards and continue with your sex change nom de plume, “Ms. Karlin-Gerard”? 🙂
Puerto Rico has its own national teams for the Olympics, FIFA World Cup, etc.
Lol. If people wanting to prolong the life of their phones is actually a thing, it’s not surprising that Thulean fag would be among the first know about it.
(There’s some irony in me mocking him for this, since I am the biggest ‘prolonger’ I know: I’ve had the same phone for the last five years. Earlier this a year, a friend’s teenage daughter saw me take it out and pointed at it in shock “What is that?!?” I was actually a bit taken aback. I’d forgotten how uncool it was to have an obviously out of date phone.)
If I am stronger than you, does that mean I should bash your head in? What if I’d rather be your friend?
“holocaust, n.: a Jewish sacrificial offering which was burnt completely on an altar.”
At this point I would link to a history of the Judenrat, but why bother? This place is a dump with the collective IQ of an ape troop.
Good Lord, Yellowstone can’t blow its load sooner. Gott strafe Amerika.
It only works that way with open borders and internationalised environment, people start having more in common with their own countrymen, language, culture. Once you isolate them in their countries they will be at each other throat. With corona travel restrictions the internal divisions within countries will surface.
The dying globalism had an interesting side effect of strengthening solidarity within groups (elites and wanna-be-elites exempted). Soon we will see how they really feel when forced to live with each other. The recent migrant groups like Pakis in UK or Eritreans in Sweden will stand out like a sore thumb. And even within homogeneous countries it will be North vs. South, east vs. west, city against countryside, etc… We have already seen a dramatic increase in within-a-country hostilities. If corona goes on and on, there will be no stopping it. More people become aware of their identity, worse it will get.
It’s like you said. They’re what AK might call “fake & gay” https://twitter.com/lilyslynch/status/1279516514496974848?s=21
More to the point https://twitter.com/markojurci/status/1279727917296168960?s=21
I’m aware of that definition, and it is not meaningful.
Small “h” doesn’t have a Semitic origin. It was not an exclusive use, and I doubt it was very common among Jews themselves. At any rate, I don’t begrudge the use of a common word. I begrudge the theft of word, such that it becomes practically exclusive.
What does it mean today? How can you use it in other senses? “Nuclear holocaust”, maybe, but that just reinforces the idea – it’s more cataclysmic than its original use. Can you use it in a calavier, figurative sense like I quoted from 1904? Can you use it in a joke? Why don’t you go to the nearest ADL office and try it? Or make a donation, if you like handing stuff over to them. Or maybe collect a paycheck, if you are working for them.
Puerto Rico is sort of a country though. England, Wales, Scotland and NI are all integral parts of the UK, probably the closest equivalent would be like US states.
As far as I’m aware, Puerto Rico’s status is more like that of a “British Overseas Territory”, like the Cayman Islands or Falkland Islands, which I think are also treated as sort of countries in their own right in some contexts.
I think the IOC don’t allow individual England, Wales, Scotland and NI teams because politically it would be no different to having an individual Texas team or something.
Lol, another guy who gets everything wrong chimes in. All because I pointed out that the claim that Vladivostok, a city that is colder than Moscow, Murmansk, Montreal, etc. is “pretty warm” is nonsense.
In my post I did mention that places like Irkutsk are even colder, so you managed to include a wrong statement in your post like in almost all of your other ones.
“1. Will mainstream publishers of curricular materials that celebrate the founding fathers be considered “racist” and subject to cancellation going forward? (Yes, these exist.)”
Unlikely, but the curriculum could change meaning that what home taught students are tested in also changes.
You might recieve some woke books in the coming years 😉
Also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_international_status_and_statistics
Tammy Duckworth Lies on CNN
She’s considered a VP candidate for Biden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSioXuQosU
Seeing how CNN is big on saying that Trump lies on any number of matters, it should be fair game to say that Duckworth lied, when out of the blue, she stated as fact that Russia had put out a bounty on US troops in Afghanistan – something which remains unclear and likely bogus, along the lines of Adam Schiff saying he has proof of Trump-Russia collusion.
Of course CNN host Dana Bash didn’t question Duckworth on this particular.
Susan Rice is said to be another VP possibility for Biden. Rice gets a well deserved thrashing in this segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5wtWCs9j0
I am very curious about the anti-chinese sentiment China has been experiencing in recent months. I cannot find any good information on it and how well China is handling it. I am seeing only one sided Western, anti-Chinese takes. I would like a balanced take on the issue.
It seems to be escalating anti-Chinese hysteria with the introduction of the national security law. However, I may be missing something
Is China finished as a global manufactering powerhouse? Not only are companies trying to move out (Japan, Apple, etc), but it seems to be even further restricted from acquiring silicon or producing its own 7 nm chips and cannot acquire any as TSMC is afraid to work with China to not put its American factory at risk.
I fear I am not understanding tsomething and cannot read mandarin to see what the chinese themselves are saying on the issue
International competitions in soccer are between representatives of the “leagues” not sovereign states.
I naively thought that Ukies are like schizophrenics: deranged when you touch upon a certain subject, but relatively normal while discussing other things. I was wrong: Ukies are a lot worse than schizos, they are mental through and through, totally deranged on any topic. My bad.
Well, CNN comes up with its own lies and spreads the lies of Dems. What else is new?
I was providing a public service for other readers, to know that you are clueless about most hings you write. You claimed that Vladivostok region, which colder than Moscow, colder than Murmansk, is “pretty warm.” You claimed it almost never gets below -10 Celsius. But the average low in January is – 15 Celsius. Did you know that – 15 is lower than -10? One isn’t a “schizo” for pointing out reality.
And even funnier – you said you spent 2 months there. And are still so clueless. Well, remember some of the nonsense you’ve written about Tennessee, where you claim to live for the past 20 years?
Vladivostok climate:
https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainfall-Temperature-Sunshine,vladivostok,Russia
Moscow climate:
https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainfall-Temperature-Sunshine,moscow,Russia
Are these guys Baptist-Pentacostal Russian-Ukrainian immigrants to the Pacific Northwest?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-beach-nazi-salutes-black-family-police
Oregon police were called to an ocean beach on the Fourth of July and arrested seven white adults they say harassed a Black family with racial slurs and Nazi salutes.
The incident began with officers responding around 9:30 p.m. to a report of a group of people shooting off illegal fireworks and causing a disturbance, Lincoln City police said.
More officers arrived after the cops who initially responded were surrounded by the group, taunted and challenged to fights, police said.
Police said officers also spoke to the family who complained about the harassment and said they felt intimidated.
The family left the beach safely after officers formed a line between the group and the family, police said.
“During this time several in the group of white persons continued to taunt the officers, trying to challenge them to fight,” police said “Other members from the group of white persons then began shooting off multiple large illegal aerial fireworks in front of the officers.
“After several more officers arrived on scene, they moved in on the confrontational and highly intoxicated group and began placing them under arrest for a variety of criminal charges.”
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/07/1862/1048/fireworks-arrest.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
The men arrested were: Gennadiy Kachankov, 30, Antoliy Kachankov, 28, Andrey Zaytsev, 28, Oleg Saranchuk, 45, Ruslan Tkachenko, 22, and Yuriy Kachankov, 30. A seventh man refused to identify himself, police said. All were from Clark County in Washington state.
Of possible interest:
https://insomniacresurrected.com/2020/06/27/is-your-country-more-developed-than-ukraine/
Your redeeming quality is that at least you know your inferiority.
The short answer is no.
Even Vietnam, which is arguably the developing country doing best in manufacturing, doesn’t cut it in many areas.
China’s huge advantage is the scale. You can concentrate large supplier networks in a single country with great infrastructure. The only country that can theoretically mimic them would be India. Failing that, you need to spread suppliers out on many smaller countries. Branching out to many countries introduces complexity, which in turn raises costs. That is why there is a premium on density of suppliers. Interestingly, Apple’s concentration in China increased from 2017 to 2019 despite the trade war.
If you have the time, there’s a great and factual discussion on this issue here.
Coal is going away. It is mostly replaced by natural gas as I write this, but even that is a temporary phase.
Baseload power for renewables isn’t going to be a major issue as battery storage gets better and better. People who don’t follow the sector don’t understand that battery energy density improves by a factor of 2X every decade at the same pricepoint. And that’s just legacy tech like LiOn, excluding new methods like Solid State batteries which radically improves these metrics on their own merits.
And it’s not like we have to look far into the future for this to take effect. It’s already happening.
Lots of aging boomers on this site have very aging talking points because they don’t follow the sectors closely. This isn’t the 1990s or even the early 2000s anymore.
It is still unclear where the Virus came from, so there is still the possibility that it came from a lab-accident. A virus which came from one single country and affected almost every other country, leading to enormous costs. This would be a huge issue. Maybe China did right to enrage the international community with minor issues so that people talk less about the Virus, which right now is happening.
Any stock tips?
For sure. The bit with Duckworth is the latest. Among the absurd includes the follow-up on Fiona Hill’s Capitol Hill testimony with Wolf Blitzer repeating a CNN byline, saying that Hill shattered the notion that there was Kiev regime-Democratic Party collusion against Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential election.
Carrying on in a very un-academic manner, Hill did nothing of the sort. Rather, she launched a subjectively flawed claim, without directly answering the facts and fact based opinions running counter to the preferred Deep State narrative.
The details concerning this and related issues are given in these pieces:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/12/us-mass-media-government-ties-remain-strong-on-russia-bashing/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/17/geopolitical-realism-utilized-by-obama-and-trump/
As suggested in these articles, it can be reasonably believed that the evidence of Ukrainian government meddling in the 2016 US presidential election is arguably greater than what has been said of the Russian government.
Contrary to CNN-MSNBC spin, there’s nothing especially brave about what Hill said on Capitol Hill. If anything, its appears braver for someone in the US foreign policy establishment to openly shatter the overtly inaccurate anti-Russian BS regularly being spewed.
Matt Gaetz stood out for saying on Fox News that it’s overly simplistic to believe that the Ukrainian government is 100% right in its differences with the Russian government. The kind of thought typically not getting a substantive overview in the US mass media and body politic at large.
Pardon the hiccup, resulting from some glitch that wasn’t on my end.
The clash with India is not related to world events. The fight was an on the spot escalation that spiraled out of control. Indian sources claim the Chinese battalion commander was killed in the melee. That detail alone should put serious doubt in the minds of those who insist China launched a planned assault.
I think the backlash from Europe and the US towards the national security law is not harsh. Much of this is due to too much going on in the world.
No. Chinese manufacturing and the Chinese economy is powered by both debt and productivity growth. China is able to remain competitive despite headwinds because of productivity gains, other competitive countries are relatively small (Vietnam), and sub-optimal large scale organization of other developing countries (India). And just think about the overall picture that keeps businesses expanding in China. As early as 2040, China could become a developed country.
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2112-intelligence-community-statement-on-origins-of-covid-19
Let’s follow the statement and assume it was not modified. Then it is not likely to have come from a lab. Otherwise the virus would have jumped from bat cave to lab to people? Doesn’t sound likely.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/interview-pompeo-sends-mixed-messages-coronavirus-wuhan-lab-993341/
Pompeo during an interview with This Week forgot that the decision was made to not fabricate evidence the virus came from a lab.
Lord, give me patience and spare me from the Americans, the most moronic people in history.
Most right wing nationalist types seem to sincerely believe that Bulgaria and Greece are 100% white, and as soon as you cross the border into Turkey the population is 100% Middle Eastern/non-white.
If you suggest that the situation is not as “black and white” as that, they usually just call you a troll and a Muslim appeaser. The irony is many would try to argue that Armenians and Georgians are white, basically it’s a religious argument. They see Muslims as fundamentally non-white, it wouldn’t matter if a Muslim looked Nordic they’d still be non-white to most on the right.
Right, but they’re still not equivalent to Wales, Scotland and NI. That’s the point I’m making. People from the Cayman Islands and Falkland Islands are also British citizens, but they are not part of the “UK proper” like Puerto Rico is not part of the “US proper” so to speak.
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1280249226170175489
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1280211511550541824
Why does conservatism seem to be predominantly a white ideology? The most famous and outspoken conservatives internationally at the moment are people like Putin, Trump, Orban, Bolsonaro, Kurz, Salvini, etc. All white men, you could probably add Netanyahu to the list as well depending on whether you see him as white, I think many would.
Maybe it’s just the way the Western media portrays it, but there doesn’t seem to be many of these sorts of outspokenly conservative non-white leaders. The only non-white example I can think of is probably Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, but the Philippines is something of an anomaly in Asia anyway, being majority Catholic and highly Americanised/Westernised culturally.
A normal person might say “oh well, I guess he meant warm compared to the rest of Siberia, or Canada, or wherever, maybe he’s right and maybe he’s wrong, who cares”, but you are not normal.
I used to think the NYT had a racism plot wheel or dartboard. Now, I’m beginning to suspect that they have a Russian conspiracy plot wheel.
It’s obvious that whatever Fiona Hill or any other talking head that you follow says about any Ukrainian collusion with the Democratic or Republican party is pure nonsense. Trump and Zelensky made it abundantly clear that “no pressure” was ever applied to Zelensky or his new administration to cough up any dirt on Biden or his son’s shenanigans within Ukraine. Trump often relied on Zelensky’s pronouncements put forth at this famous news conference during the whole Democratic sponsored sordid affair:
https://youtu.be/eZVxMS3CWT8
I know people are tired of Corona, but Melbourne (AU) is now entering a six-week lockdown starting today.
Australia, as you may recall, handled the virus better than most. But as I’ve emphasised from the beginning, lockdowns aren’t sustainable. And you shouldn’t count on the vaccine being great, or being developed that quickly. So countries that got hit proportionally less early on are going to be massively vulnerable going forward to these kinds of episodes. Meanwhile in Sweden:
https://i.imgur.com/BpKtz0S.jpg
When in a hole, you keep digging.
Speaking of yourself? None of the cities I mentioned have a maritime climate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok#Climate
Vladivostok has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dwb)
Your record of being wrong in almost every post continues.
The average annual income for workers employed by companies in the telecoms, software and information technology fields reached US$22,998 per person last year. The average annual wage in information technology was 1.78 times higher than the annual average for all industries.
Compensation levels in China’s finance sector continue to lose ground to the tech industry, with the latest example being scientists and researchers who are now better paid than financial professionals.
After average salaries in China’s information technology industry exceeded those in the financial sector for the first time in 2016, scientific researchers have now achieved the same milestone when it comes to paychecks issued last year.
The average annual income for workers employed by companies in the telecoms, software and information technology fields reached 161,352 yuan (US$22,998) per person, followed by an average annual income of 133,459 yuan in the scientific research and technical services industry and 131,405 yuan in finance.
I was providing a PSA by pointing out when somewhere here wrote something ridiculous (i.e.,, Vladivostok region is “pretty warm” with temperatures almost never going below minus 10 Celsius). In reality, Vladivostok is one of the coldest cities on Earth, particularly in winter. In winter Vladivostok is colder than every large city in Europe (including European Russia, such as Moscow), America and Canada with the exception of Winnipeg (Vladivostok is even colder in January than Edmonton). Due to its continental climate its summers, while colder than those in Berlin, Siberia, or Moscow are similar to Stockholm’s.
AnoninTN: Mr. X is “pretty nonviolent.”
AP: Mr. X killed a dozen people.
Denis: A normal person might say “oh well, I guess he meant nonviolent compared to Breivik or the guy who shot all those people in Las Vegas he wasn’t really wrong. “
The problem, it seems, with Sweden’s approach is that it didn’t take into account improvements in care for people with Covid-19 over time, regardless of vaccine. If Sweden’s peak occurred later the death rate would have been lower. Places that will peak long after Sweden has achieved herd immunity will probably have death rates much lower than Sweden’s even if the vaccine isn’t made before everyone has gotten it.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/20/coronavirus-treatments/
It is better to be a coronavirus patient in June than it was in March.
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https://media2.giphy.com/media/3oxHQIjnn12jpjbeOQ/source.gif
How much is that per hour? Considering that 100 hour work weeks are not unheard of in China?
I am sure after your screw up, you would want others to screw up as much as you, so you would not be alone in your screw up, so that misery loves company. And you are not even a real Swede, just an Indian fraud and impostor pretending to be a Swede, are you even posting within 500 miles of Sweden, or from some undistinguished flat in Madras?
And a 100 sqm apartment in Peking is like 3000000000000000000000 dollars per square meter?
I consider strictly biological arguments about this to be silly. Culture matters enormously, and religion determines much of culture. A Catholic Spanish-speaking Mestizo is “ours” far more than is a blonde, blue-eyed Chechen Islamist.
Beijing population 1400000000. TIL
You weren’t arguing about killing people, you, a grown-ass man, were getting your panties in a twist over climate data. Oh no, God forbid, can’t have someone disagree with you about that! Better be snide to them to make sure it never happens again!
If the weatherman reports rain in Vinnytsia, do you call him to argue the point?
Americans (I mean born and bred in the US, not recent immigrants) are intellectually and educationally very diverse, from highly educated and brilliant to ignorant morons, and everything in between. It’s Ukies who have tunnel vision, which makes them morons regardless of individual intellectual capabilities.
It’s an endearing quality, isn’t it. More than that, it’s pretty useful personally too. There are numerous facts in this world that are not to our liking — some of them unsettle us and trouble us deeply — but if something is indeed a fact, it is best to accept it as a fact rather than deny it or fight it, because when you do, you will find its power dissipates surprisingly quickly. (That doesn’t mean liking it, or giving up trying to do anything about it; it just means accepting that, at least for now, it is true.)
When I was a kid I watched this movie “The Thief of Baghdad” (1978 version). The thief and some prince had to follow a narrow path up an enchanted mountain to retrieve a precious jewel. If they strayed from the path they would be petrified. To lure them from the path, the enchanted mountain projected faceless voices insulting the trekkers — eg “you’re mother was a whore.” The highborn prince, of course, was insulted and tried to answer back and was eventually lured off the path and petrified. When the thief heard the same insults, he smiled, nodded, and displayed an attitude of “yeah okay, and…?” I thought that attitude was the right way to go.
Although it sounds trivial, it made an impression on me because it was the first time I became conscious of an attitude that I approved of but which contrasted so sharply from my parents’ — who’d have rather died than admitted to any vulnerability. They were working class people but with extreme middle class values. They also refused to live in a working class neighborhood, so I grew up with everyone I knew having more and better stuff than me. That sort of thing can get to you at any age, but it’s especially tough to deal with as a kid. (Oh, and if you heap a few doses of old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon racism on top of it, it’s not a pretty picture at all.) So it really helped to have a way of shrugging it off when other kids inevitably put down your clothes, shoes or other possessions, or went for the racial angle (which was rare, but it only takes a few incidents). (It was far from a perfect remedy though — I still grew up pretty angry and feisty.)
If I position myself on the right today, a hundred years ago I would almost surely have been a commie. A world in which you’re deemed worthy or unworthy, and treated as such, on the basis of factors completely outside your control is a lousy deal for sure. But I think social reform has been taken as far as it can realistically be expected to go. Actually, it’s been taken too far — right into la la land.
In the area around Sanlitun Village in Beijing, a shopping district that is the city’s equivalent to Times Square, apartments cost about $8,000 per square meter (this is taking into account the hit in value in recent months from coronavirus). Superprime Central London was about $4,500 in 2018.
Imagine you worked 100 hrs a week in Tech/Science and still earned less on average than someone who works X amount of hours in Finance . That doesn’t happen anymore in China, that’s good.
I would call it a cultural argument, rather than strictly religious. I doubt they really care very much about religious beliefs per se, but it’s very hard (almost impossible) to share a truly meaningful common cultural identity with somebody of a different religion – especially a traditional enemy religion like Islam.
A definition of ‘white’ which encompasses the Balkans and the Caucuses is ‘good enough’ for most day to day purposes. That is, if they’re clearly ‘assimilated’ – if they speak and act more or less like any other white – then the fact they may look somewhat ‘off’ is generally not that big a deal. But trying to build a racialist-nationalist political movement based on that definition is a total non-starter. Put these people in the same room and your typical Anglo-Saxon would look around and think geezus, if that’s what I’m fighting to preserve, then this struggle is already lost. And because this phenomenon occurs so reliably, it becomes very hard to build the kind of unity that a nationalist movement requires.
He was right and presented a lot of data to prove his point. It looks more like it’s you that’s barking up the wrong tree and doesn’t know when to let it go.
Great comment.
Even tho I generally agreed with TF than you.
https://youtu.be/VlJMrXSyTIA
Impossible to predict when national policy has to be decided, which was March of 2020 for most of us. Hindsight is 20/20 after all.
If you look at excess mortality throughout most of Western Europe, Sweden does better than quite a number of them, while still having far less economic damage.
BTW, what nationality are you anyway? I thought that you were a Ukie, from Ukraine? You are so pathetic. 🙁
Race is useless as a biological category if its definition is cultural in nature.
You haven’t met Varg yet.
https://i.imgur.com/qev7JQ9.jpg
Tatlıtuğ was born on 27 October 1983, in Adana, to Erdem and Nurten Tatlıtuğ. During an interview he has stated that his father is Albanian from the city of Pristina.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kıvanç_Tatlıtuğ
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQ0SCs7UmpOavVj8cK1Q694lv-kTdDQliN4Qg&usqp.jpg
Pretty much all African leaders are “conservative” in one sense or another.
Addressing climate change and pollution is not the purpose of Germany’s electricity policy, because otherwise they would not have shuttered their perfectly functional atomic reactors.
The true purpose of this policy is to erect religious icons of the official German state religion–globohomo. “Green” people have for whatever reason chosen to worship solar panels and windmills.
If the purpose were to address climate change and pollution, wind and solar (maybe not solar so much in Germany) would of course be an important part of the generation mix, but one absolutely would not shutter functional atomic reactors.
The absence of a global price on carbon also logically dictates carbon import tariffs on goods as well as subsidies to domestic industries hampered by higher energy costs. And to be fair, subsidies are in practice paid by suffering German residential customers on behalf of German business.
That’s the one.
It was a more innocent time, when “Islam” to most westerners was still just magic lanterns and flying carpets.
One year before it all changed.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Iran_hostage_crisis_-_Iraninan_students_comes_up_U.S._embassy_in_Tehran.jpg
Correction. Nice parts of London are way more expensive.
https://www.propertyfundsworld.com/2018/04/03/262814/knightsbridge-losing-out-mayfair-londons-top-address
Chinese companies tend to pay outsized annual bonuses, often coupled with physical gifts and occasionally all in cash, around the Chinese New Year period. That on top of gifts from subordinates (China is still a 人情社会, a society of personal relationships, after all). Conversely, much of your disposable income goes towards gift giving – I recall a study of rural household spending patterns that found that something like 10 or 20% of disposable income went towards Chinese New Year gift-giving in the form of alcohol, smokes or just plain cash.
Anecdotal as always but I have a friend working at BAT whose base salary is around 40k USD who received a 30k USD bonus – practically doubling his real take-home income. The really salubrious bonuses are at the SOEs though (and I think corruption has something to do with it).
Race still retains its validity as a biological category, but its usefulness as a political category is called into question.
Look at that Turk Thulean posted and whom Varg was talking about. You’d have to be off your rocker to call him non-white. But cultural identity exerts a tremendous pull on people, and he’d be most unlikely, I imagine, to return Varg the favor. He’s already got a common nationality, common tongue, common culture. He’s supposed to give all that up and LARP as a ‘fellow nord’? Even if that’s what he is biologically, it’s just not a particularly meaningful basis for identity for most people – at least not at this juncture, after some 60, 70 years of hard propagandizing against racial thinking.
Now for Varg it is a meaningful basis. He’s not only able to imagine a common bond stretching back tens of thousands of years and to experience this bond as meaningful (to something like a religious degree, I gather), but he also has the advantage of being able to base this bond on biological reality — which is not insignificant in an age of extreme bullshit, in which “all that is solid melts into air.” His problem is that he has, so far, been unable to motivate very many of the people who share that biological bond to think the same way, and it’s doubtful he ever will.
Most Georgians are brown. But as a group, Georgians cannot quite be called as either fully white or brown, as the nationality includes diverse races of people who are brown (majority) and also white (minority) – unlike Armenians.
The nationality (Georgian) refers to nationalist created by different races (originally different tribes with different races), which have culturally/linguistically assimilated to each other – this is aside from slavic minority in the country.
Many Georgians looking like Saakashvili
https://im.kommersant.ru/Issues.photo/CORP/2020/05/07/KMO_175776_00003_1_t218_213318.jpg
But some Georgians have a Southern European appearance
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQfIfIBQtX/
Some look like Berbers from North Africa (their Minister of Economy)
https://i.imgur.com/PK0kTGV.jpg
Some look like like Arab men- this is wife of American nationalist Richard Spencer
https://i.imgur.com/fykdC9e.jpg
But a significant minority are like Europeans. This is Georgian nationalist politician – looks stereotypically French or Italian.
http://www.parliament.ge/cache/photos/2189.jpg
Someone wrote something wildly inaccurate (Vladivostok is pretty warm), I showed it with easy-to-find data. “Panties in a twist” is your projection.
If someone who claims to know anything about Ukraine writes that Vynnytsia has a tropical climate I would indeed highlight his ignorance of the place by posting data about reality. Someone this wrong about a seemingly trivial thing is probably wrong on much more (and he is). Someone willing to defend a ridiculous claim is likely to defend many more ridiculous claims. It is therefore useful to have this highlighted.
What’s interesting is the reaction of those who have read this exchange. Anonymous coward who is almost always wrong defends the ridiculous claim. He is just as clueless. You attack the guy who shows the ridiculousness of the statement, like a little ankle-biting dog coming to the defense of its master, extending what should have been a quick exchange about a minor point into several posts. So we see how some several people here react when they are told that black is black and not white.
I never believed that Richard Spencer was a homosexual previously, but that picture makes me wonder.
Favourite photo of Saakashvili.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/09/20/world/20EXILE/20EXILE-articleLarge.jpg
Not only the English produced such scientifically accurate documentaries about Italian economic processes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RheMP25O-Kc
Vladivostok is hot in the summer, cold in the winter, very wet and prone to monsoons/hurricanes. The climate is certainly harsh, but the world “cold” is about the last word you’d use to describe it.
Does this look like an arctic wasteland to you?
https://s00.yaplakal.com/pics/pics_original/0/1/9/3027910.jpg
Among Tokyo residents in their 20s, 1 in 10 is now foreign-born. And Tokyo is no longer an outlier. Much of the migration is happening in small industrial towns around the country, such as Shimukappu in central Hokkaido and Oizumi in Gunma prefecture, where migrant populations make up more than 15 percent of the local population. In the mostly rural Mie prefecture, east of Osaka and Kyoto, foreign migration has reversed years of population loss. So Japan is basically Germany in the 60s?
Jacek Komuda, a great when writing historical anecdotes and poor when writing mediocre fantasy stories, have published a fantasy story in “Nowa Fantastyka”. I have not read it, supposedly it’s rather poor (as usual with his stories). And there would be nothing to write about, if not for one thing:
It’s about homosexual trying to escape backward Lendia, where his homosexualism is punishable by death, to some liberal progressive paradise. His partner has kidnapped children to sell them to paedophiles in that paradise, so happy homosexual pair can live and prosper.
“Nowa Fantastyka” was attacked by hordes of enraged “fans”, most of whom do no read the magazine. Editors quickly apologised for a crime of having homosexual as a bad character and promised they will quickly publish a special rainbow issue, co-edited with LGBT activists.
All hail my based and conservative country!
Hill suggests a greater possibility of Russian meddling or Trump-Russia collusion than Ukrainian meddling or DNC-Ukraine collusion.
Chalupa was employed by the DNC, when she coordinated with some Kiev based politicos to find dirt on Trump’s then campaign manager.
On the subject of Zelensky:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/five-reasons-why-zelensky-failing-ukraine-164181
So, what proof does Hill provide to try and make her case of greater Russian collusion?
Ukrainian is a nationality. Ukie is a mental disorder.
Repeat:
Ukies have tunnel vision, which makes them morons regardless of individual intellectual capabilities.
Lol, keep digging.
It can have hot days in summer (as can the Arctic) but average high during the warmest summer month is only 23.2 C or 73.8 F. This is cooler than Moscow, Berlin, London. It is about the same as Saint Petersburg and Stockholm but of course winters in Vladivostok are much colder than in those cities.
Average annual daily mean temperature in Vladivostok (4.9 C) is significantly lower than in Edmonton Canada (9.3 C), Anchorage, Alaska (6.5 C) and Moscow (5.9 C ).
The picture you posted is nice and comparable to Arctic beaches in Norway.
Only a minority of Berbers look that way, a very tiny minority. Most look like ordinary North-Africans.
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for Covid-19 .
I think it was reasonable to predict that some progress would have been made with respect to treatment and that therefore the longer one held off the wave of cases, the better the outcome would be for those cases.
This may have to do with factors such as healthier population and better healthcare system than in those other countries. Sweden’s results would have been even better if the peak were occurring now rather than a month or two ago.
Where I grew up the term “Ukie” was used as a kind of insider way of identifying Ukrainians in general. As a teenager, I might ask somebody (in the know), “were there any Ukies there?” Actually, with time we even dropped off the “ie” sound, and shortened Ukrainian even further to just “Uke”.
Can you point out anybody that you consider to be a Ukrainian and contrast that to a “Ukie”?
BTW, there are many internet entries for the word “Ukie” and not a single one defines it as “mental disorder”.
There is however a syndrome called ethnic self hatred, and is defined as such:
The tatooed gentlemen on the right, with feathers in their hair are ancient Berber as depicted on frescoes during the Egyptian XIX dynasty.
https://dailyhistory.org/images/3/36/Libyans.jpg
Kabyle Children:
https://images.app.goo.gl/e9dkdFobwb2AK3617
A Kabyle granma with one of her offspring:
https://images.app.goo.gl/5tq6XgWJPCoRjzgs8
A young girl from Kabylia:
https://images.app.goo.gl/Vaoui4XSWSYp4dEt9
A young Chleuh Berber :
https://images.app.goo.gl/swwdpRgjH72QoDMJ7
A representation of captive Guanche Berbers from Canary islands being presented to the Catholic Kings:
https://images.app.goo.gl/4WwDftWJAhxY2U3V8
Guanche surrender to the Spanish conquerors:
https://images.app.goo.gl/j1ScZ6TToqRK4uVx7
Wogs start in Calais!
You have it the wrong way round.
Only white leaders wouldn’t classify as conservative in the West.
Where I was born (Lvov) and grew up (Lugansk), the term Ukrainian meant a Ukrainian. The term Ukie appeared in 2014, meaning deranged Banderite (the latter term in East Ukraine was always derogatory, and still is, despite continuous attempts of coup-installed “government” to make it sound good).
As far as languages go, Ukrainian remains grossly under-developed. Considering that self-appointed “patriots” are ignorant morons, it would remain so until sane people govern Ukraine (if there is still Ukraine ~5 years from now: current liquidation team calling itself government does its level best to destroy what’s left).
FYI, I speak Ukrainian better than 90% of self-styled “patriots”, including the two clowns calling themselves “presidents”. Unlike them, I’ve read practically all literature in Ukrainian worth reading, and have books in Ukrainian in my home (“patriots” don’t have books, as they never read, even low-grade dross written by Bandera).
There is nothing wrong in being a Ukrainian, and everything wrong in being a Ukie. Ukies are destroying the country, killing it’s industry, culture, and traditions. They are replacing culture with quasi-Nazi BS and history with preposterous myths. They are doing all they can to make Ukrainian language a sign of mental retardation. I do hope that they won’t succeed, that the country will shake off these lice and become normal.
Normal means having pragmatic relations with all its neighbors and staying away from the dying Empire, like from a leper, as it deserves.
Nothing significant. As I recall, along the lines of her sensing the possibility, as opposed to knowing for sure. In contrast, she was very firm on denying any DNC-Ukrainian government collusion.
Hill comes across as pretty much along the lines of McFaul
As reported Sweden didn’t do a good job in protecting the elderly in assisted living venues.
This is what Anglo-Americans like Coe and Tygart are hoping for:
https://www.rt.com/sport/494075-anzhelika-sidorova-citizenship-change/
Great movie. Directed by Ken Russell, of all people.
Censorship carried out by corporations and private actors is actually much worse. It’s carried out by people who are totally unaccountable and there is no possibility of challenging decisions or seeking legal redress. And in practice it can be much more draconian.
There are too many Eastern Europe-inhabiting sexpats among right wing “nationalist” groups.
Protesters in Serbia attempting to occupy the Parliament building: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-serbia-protests-idUSKBN24835R
They’re ostensibly over Coronavirus lockdowns but its pretty clear the real factor here is the elections a few weeks ago. No idea how important they will actually end up being. My guess is probably not at all.
As for an ideological alignment, Vučić is a Putin ally and vaguely sorta nationalistic, in the typical Eastern European fashion, so it smells kinda like a color revolution. But on the other hand, some of the protestors have been accused of being “fascist” and “far right” and Vučić’s party pretty much threw the hardcore nationalists out of contention. Thoughts?
There is a clear distinction between “Ukrainians” and Ukies/Ukrops you dimwit Mr Hack! This should be obvious for a schizophrenic state that can’t run itself like Ukraine.
It’s now going completely full circle into the abyss of farce and stupidity and failure under Zelensky….just like in Poroshenko/Valtsman’s time…and just like with Yushchenko – each time holding onto the next placebo and doing the same things over and over again – both from being forced by the west and things of their own volition.
I did enjoy one moment though – Zelensky saying that he can’t find a Education, Culture and Finance Minister who isn’t both non-corrupt and competent at the same time. Seeing as 2 of those 3 positions are the most Svidomy in all the cabinet, and the 3rd one is an American controlled department that just needs moderate amount of pig behaviour from the Ukie in position….that is quite an admission. lol!
Well, you can pick and choose individuals, but the fact that that Berbers do not differ much from other North Africans TODAY remains. Surely, they might have less Black admixture on the maternal side north of the Atlas, but that’s not even true everywhere else. I mean, just look at the Tuaregs. And yes, Guanches were described as both taller and swarthier than Spaniards. But hold on to your Berbers mystique because of Zidane.
Somebody of substance (AnonFromTN)wrote accurately and informatively about real experiences on something they know something about – visiting Vladivostok, and a whole myriad of other issues
Somebody else ( you) , a worthless bum , with absolute zero knowledge of the area and a raging jealousy of his knowledge, went to the only thing a pathetic creature as you can do ( copy and paste from wikipedia), ridiculously distorted it into a fake argument designed to occupy your non-life as long as possible and USE God knows whatever other deranged tactics . As it is, of course Vladivostok is warm in the summer you dummy, amplified by the humidity, and does not have winters as long and extreme as pretty much all the Russian mainland within about a 3000km radius of it, including along the same latitudinal line. There was nothing in his statement even remotely possible to contradict
I am under strict instruction from Karlin to follow the rules of the blog. So I , as the pupil, will ask for advice from you , “master” of the ” art ” of Ukrainian language – to teach me authentic ukrop, and give you the respect you warmly deserve.
Now, I thought I was fluent in Ukrainian,….and although nothing to suggest you have ever even been in Europe, and can actually say one even one word in Ukrop or Russian…. in order to comply with Karlin’s rules I am designating you master of Ukrainian language – a real honour
Please showcase my ignorance and explain more to me the real Ukrainian language being spoken by some of its biggest ideologists and practitioners in the following video!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=mhlHY_M5W48&feature=emb_title
Now this is right in the centre of Khokholistan, some of the real disciples are there in that room in this video, there is a load of people shouting in there, all under stress – during this time of emotion the natural Ukrainian language is going to flow from their tongues. Isn’t it? LOL
Can you do me another favour and select a favour Ukrainian word in this video, I know that even if they were quoting the words to the Ukrainian national anthem in this video, you would still be clueless to it – but with many high profile people talking in that video there is, of course, ONE Ukrainian word in there? LOL
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Well, some 66 million people in France would strongly disagree with the idea that Basques on their side of the frontier are Spaniards.
Most Irish people I’ve met (including my brother in law) also hold the opinion that Basques are different from Spaniards. Your English mother tongue is much more similar to Spanish than Basque is, after all.
And I suspect this is too much to expect you to know about but lots of people in places settled by Basque emigrants, like the West of the US or many Latin American countries would also disagree with your assessment.
On the other hand, it looks like in this thread you have not repeated your usual mantra about the rest of the world hating the English. I really don’t have any idea where you get that bizarre impression from. What I’ve always found is that Continental Europeans have a remarkable fondness of everything British: the culture, the music, London, the language (so much so that most everybody in Europe tries to speak British English as a native, usually failing in the attempt, except for maybe some Dutch).
The only thing that prevents me from being a total Anglophile myself is the existence of the BBC. I know that many Western public broadcasters are also outlets of left-wing, woke propaganda but none goes to the extents of BBC, specially in their multi-lingual, global outreach services. You can be driving through the Nevada desert and find that the strongest signal is from the BBC Radio. All of this funded by a docile British populace that can vote Conservative or Brexit but still meekly accepts to continue paying for the extortion of the “TV license fee”. Disgusting.
Len Deighton shouldn’t be overlooked as well.
Soon to be released:
https://www.si.com/media/2020/07/07/red-penguins-trailer-russian-hockey-red-army
His question is valid.
You cannot separate your male genes, wipe out ZNZN’s male genes, and have him become a new organism that is half you. Yet that’s what the spanish did in Latin America.
Comparing individual humans to racial collectives only gets you so far in terms of reaching a moral conclusion.
An interesting perspective on the tensions between China and India:
https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/territorial-nationalism-a-dead-end-for-modi/
So a term that I was completely familiar with and used in the late 1960’s is one that you only became familiar with in 2014. I think that the definition that I included in comment #282 and that is verified by at least one dozen definitions through the internet is a little bit more accurate than something that you’ve concocted in your imagination.
Since I don’t really know you, I cannot speculate on your proficiency in the Ukrainian language. But, I have listened to and know something about the six Ukrainian presidents, and in my judgement Kravchuk, Yushchenko and Poroshenko all have a very good command of the Ukrainian language.
This issue, and most “facts” that he provides, are simply nonsense, from the trivial to the substantive.
Buddy, I’m trained in history and both cultural and physical anthropology, (among other fields) and I’m familiar with modern population genetics. But whatever floats your boat.
Mind you, I am talking about people born and raised in Ukraine, not half a globe away. Part of the tragedy of Ukraine is that foreign people claiming to be Ukrainians had too much influence. They were instrumental in the destruction of Ukraine. A good example is US born Dr. Death (Ulana Suprun), who decimated Ukrainian healthcare system serving as Ukraine health minister, while not even being a licensed physician.
I don’t know about Kravchuk or Yushchenko, but Porky’s Ukrainian was pathetic even on those rare occasions when he was sober while speaking publicly. It is no surprise that he switched to Russian during questioning by law enforcement. While he is first and foremost a thief and liar, i.e., nothing to be proud of, his mother tongue is Russian, and his Ukrainian was and is defective.
You wrote nonsense about Vladivostok and now you write nonsense about Suprun. It’s your pattern. Most of what you “think” and write is nonsense.
She graduated with an MD from Michigan State, completed her residency in radiology at Mount Sinai in New York, and is a board-certified radiologist. She is licensed in New York.
https://www.doximity.com/pub/ulana-suprun-md
Dr. Ulana Suprun, MD is a board certified radiologist in New York, New York. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in New York. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Since you insist so much, why not do it yourself?
He wasn’t questioning anything. He was asserting that a logical extension of believing in racial differences is that if one race can be shown to be ‘superior’ (generally meaning a higher IQ) to another it has the right, perhaps even the duty, to ‘rule’ other races (which can mean various things)
So let’s say China storms into India, starts massacring the Indians as part of exerting its ‘rule’ over them: it may look horrible, but the Chinese have a higher IQ, so it’s all good. He claims that scenarios like this are what IQ-believers are refusing to discuss; we’re ‘hiding’ it.
I think his ethical reasoning is completely up shit creek, to say nothing of his conspiratorial skepticism about our motives.
So you’ve taken a term that was already in vogue by 1966 and changed its meaning in 2014 and expect the whole world to accept your own interpretation? Nice try buddy! 🙂
Part of the tragedy of Ukraine is that foreign people claiming to be Ukrainians had too much influence. They were instrumental in the destruction of Ukraine.
I couldn’t disagree with you more. There weren’t more than a dozen “Ukrainians” from the West that played any sort of a role in the formation of the new Ukrainian state. A lot of these were indeed good solid well-wishers who just found a situation already in place that was beyond their means to help change. It was actually “real Ukrainians” like yourself that really went on to help destroy Ukraine into the country that we have today, leftovers and heirs of their sovok past. Guys like you just happened to have a science background that wasn’t appreciated enough in Ukraine and were able to parlay your skills in the West and make a decent living. The political types stayed in Ukraine, a fledgling new country that didn’t have a developed culture that knew how to implement a democratic form of governance, and therefore resorted to what they knew best, swindle and theft. I wouldn’t at all be surprised that if you didn’t have a scientific skill set, you’d be still in Ukraine taking part in the orgy of theft and manipulation yourself.
So you’ve taken a term that was already in vogue by 1966 and changed its meaning in 2014 and expect the whole world to accept your own interpretation? Nice try buddy! 🙂
I couldn’t disagree with you more. There weren’t more than a dozen “Ukrainians” from the West that played any sort of a role in the formation of the new Ukrainian state. A lot of these were indeed good solid well-wishers who just found a situation already in place that was beyond their means to help change. It was actually “real Ukrainians” like yourself that really went on to help destroy Ukraine into the country that we have today, leftovers and heirs of their sovok past. Guys like you that just happened to have a science background that wasn’t appreciated enough in Ukraine and were able to parlay your skills in the West and make a decent living. The political types stayed in Ukraine, a fledgling new country that didn’t have a developed culture that knew how to implement a democratic form of governance, and therefore resorted to what they knew best, swindle and theft. I wouldn’t at all be surprised that if you didn’t have a scientific skill set, you’d be still in Ukraine taking part in the orgy of theft and manipulation yourself.
No, I mean it just begs the philosophical question, if there is a superior and an inferior, why is it immoral for the superior to rule over the inferior? Like who the Romans ruled over the Gauls and the various Italic polities, or how the Sioux ruled over the Cheyenne, or how the Wing ruled over the Turks in Sinkiang, I mean it has been going on all throughout history, so what is wrong with it?
Isn’t this just a bit of a tautological discussion.
As has been proposed (I would say, with validity) since philologists of at least the 19th century, what is “superior” and “inferior” in societal terms, has commonly emerged in terms of what is desirable to the ruling caste. Their favourite example, was to study when nomads conquer an agricultural society, as this has been quite a common story in history.
(E.g. In a case of the Aryan conquest of India which had influenced 19th century thought – the word “Aryan” in Sanskrit, which was self-designation of the conquerors, is also synonym in the language for “honourable”, “noble”, “respectable”, “master”,. While in Pali – it is synonym for “Buddha”.)
Discussion about “IQ” represents a bit of the idiotization that has occurred since the 20th century. Of course, if the Chinese government successfully conquered India, and has a monopoly of violence in the country. Then they might institute some arbitrary “measurement” like IQ, if it was seen to be favourable for a Chinese ruling caste.
Such behaviours are common in history, without implying some objective superiority. Often, nomadic Mongol/Islamic and perhaps even some Ancient Aryan conquerors, could be more primitive by our view, than more agricultural societies they conquered. The latter were simply less capable in the most important sense: the military one.
According to this theory, perhaps unfairly simplified – Christianity is a result of slaves and lowest castes of society, being able to trick what were effectively their masters to adopt values harmful to life of the elites. This adoption of slave morality was possible because being weaker, the lower castes, required a greater development of cleverness, etc. (Nietzsche even sees Socrates as a preshadow of Jesus in this sense).
http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/LoserLit/The%20Anti-Christ%20Ecce%20Homo%20Twilight%20of%20the%20Idols%20&%20Other%20Writings%20Friedrich%20Nietzsche.pdf
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It’s probably possible accept a “light” version of this view, without falling into relativism. It’s clear that a some of our society’s values, are mainly trained into us, because they historically benefit certain factions of society. But then there are others which have some more metaphysical and universal aspect – i.e. in terms of cruelty, killing, etc, we can understand this as metaphysical knowledge. There are also aesthetic values, like complexity, harmony, in music – which are clearly universal, and cannot be explained as relative to interests of power. There are also universal effects of some art – e.g. classical music effects Chinese as much as Europeans.
It’s not only in European Union, but much of the world, has such unrequited love of England and the English culture.
In Russia, there is might be even more anglomania, than probably in Poland, which sent a million immigrants to England in recent years. And probably China, Japan, America, Latin America, etc, there is not that much less anglomania.
There is just a usual reversal of reality of the Unz forum. Where people here are claiming that perhaps a China, or Poland are the desirable countries, while England is the undesirable.
In reality, a significant proportion of the world dreams to live somewhere like England, and English are the victims of their own popularity in some ways, when half the world tries to immigrate there.
Not to answer your post specifically, but just to write some arguments.
Culture and race is interacting, and (if you forgive me for the barbaric analogy) some “hardware” (race) is perhaps more suitable to “run in-house developed software” (“native” culture), and vice versa.
Japanese are believed to have a higher ratio of introverts in the population.
Introverts and extroverts are now believed to have the largely genetic basis. It would not be implausible to argue that Japanese culture is suitable precisely for a population with genetically high ratios of introverts in the population. There are many indications in the lifestyle of the country, its emphasis on etiquette, etc.
If you gave experimentally a representative group of Italian or Spanish, newborn children, to Japanese culture – on average they might have have a bit too genetic inclination to be noisy, loud and impolite, to recreate Japanese life very successfully as a mass.
On the other hand, perhaps representative children from Finland (where levels of introversion are closer to Japan) – perhaps there would be less “hardware limitions” to run introverted Japanese culture software as a group.
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Until the 20th century, when there was absurd reductionism about race and genetics, on both sides (both in favour and against) – most historians had usually assumed influence of blood as just one of many influences on historical development.
E.g. Thucydides seems to assume a “bloodthirty” tendency to Thracians’ race (not too different to a national stereotypes of Balkanoid races today). But neither, Thucydides would expect that the blood can explain anything interesting about Greek history, that required more than sentence of his book.
It’s obvious when you look at history, that the racial component, is at best just a necessary condition for anything interesting.
Tacitus has perceived Germanic tribes, only with ethnographic interest, like someone studying native American tribes. And their virtues are similar which were perceived by 18th century Europeans, in native American tribes. And their vices – incredible poverty and savagery . In the first century, Germans were far less interesting than Indians, or Chinese, Iranians, which seems almost comic to consider today, considering the German superiority in modern times.
Germanic tribemen encountered by the Romans, had the same genetics as the culture which would later produce the Waldstein sonata; and yet perceivable virtues and vices were those of the “noble savage”. German tribes that encountered Tacitus, there is no indication that such a people could create Bruckner’s 8th, or “Critique of Pure Reason”.
The awesome (and self-destructive) German soul, is a product of thousands years of lucky and path-dependent “software engineering”, using many foreign ingredients – fusing with Middle Eastern religion and Ancient Southern European high culture – and was only even conceivable in modern historical conditions.
A small correction to a generally excellent comment:
No, because there has been considerable pruning during the centuries of increasingly higher levels of civilization and urbanization, which presumably selects for traits conducive to living in an increasingly abstract and socially complex world and eliminates those that are not.
The (rare) wild, undisciplined, intemperate quick-to-violence German, who is marginalized and perhaps incarcerated in modern Germany, may be a an atavistic, or rather a leftover vestige of the old type of German written about by the Romans. A genetic leftover or emissary from the distant past. If civilization persists such types, rare as they are now, may almost completely disappear among Germans
I have been to Morocco a couple of times and I don’t remember having seen any blond natives. But I did get the impression that some people in the North (around Tetouan) were lighter than Moroccans from Rabat or Casablanca.
Since you are familiar with genetic research, do you have any opinion of any kind on the Basque origins question?
In a past discussion Dmitry, based on a trip to the Basque Country, was skeptical of any big difference with the surrounding populations.
But, having been born there, I do find obvious differences and I think that what I believe to be the current consensus is likely correct. Since the Iron Age, right after the IE incursions that made us all be R1b and up until the 19th century there was minimal admixture with any new group and that is mainly what sets us apart from our Spanish and French neighbors.
On the other hand, most autosomal DNA studies show that we are closer to our neighbors than to other very high R1b populations, such as the Welsh or Irish.
Would that be correct?
Sounds like an anti-Modi piece.
They cannot?
Isn’t it the opposite side who does not want to face them again?
In the UK in the New Year there are typically 2-4 weeks of high pressure weather (mostly late January to early February). This means windless weather and fog. No wind, no sun. This is also the time of maximum demand. There is no battery technology remotely in sight that can supply the UK’s maximum demand for continuous hours far less weeks. The UK’s biggest hydro scheme running flat out lasts for 20 minutes. Current storage technology is good for frequency protection. Even then, battery storage cannot deliver a Dark Start. The grid needs rotating devices to provide inertia.
Conceivably, tidal, configured to provide maximum demand could generate hydrogen for storage during the slack times. A tidal/hydrogen system would only have to cover a 6 hour lull in output. That is also within reach for compressed air and liquified air systems. Hydrogen might be preferred as it would also be a fuel for motor vehicles. Renewables could supply extra hydrogen. The tidal schemes to do this would be massive. ££££££££££
The King of Saudi Arabia is a liberal?
Modi is deeply conservative. Close to the Mussolini line.
Xi is hardly radical.
The military who run Burma/Myanmar are not members of Gay Pride.
Look around a bit.
Basques came from the Middle East, probably via the Caucusus, and thus are a Neolithic people, like Sardinians and Iberians.
Berbers are not a homogeneous ethnic group, they are a highly admixed heterogeneous population. They have lived in North Africa for a 10 000 years and have intermixed with completely different populations. Some of this admixture was European, some was Semitic or Levantine and there was also Sub-saharan admixture in the South of the Maghreb.
This is why you will have the both extremes of rather fair skinned and the rather dark skinned individuals depending on their geographical location. I would say that among the Algerian Berbers that I personally met in great numbers in Algiers, either Kabyle or Chaoui, around 20% were more fair skinned than a typical Mediterranean person from either Greece or southern Spain and Italy. Some of these people were really close to a Nordic phenotype: fair skinned, blond or red haired and blue, green or grey eyed. This is mainly the case in Kabylia.
On the other hand, Saharan Berbers (Touaregs mainly, but also Mozabites) would be more dark skinned, sometimes reminiscent of the Somali or Ethiopian people. The majority of the Berbers (probably some 60%) were somewhat in between these two extremes: typical Mediterranean / Levantine people, the like of whom you would find all around the Mediterranean sea. Zidane is a good representative of this category.
I believe that the Basque people are the direct descendants of the original Bell Beaker population. Of course given that Euskara is not an Indo-European language, this either means that the original Bell Beaker folks were not Indo-European, or that for some reason the Bell Beaker ancestors of the Basques have switched to an indigenous Iberian language after their arrival to the Iberian peninsula.
I would also add that the Picts, who inhabited Scotland and were assimilated into the Gaelic Scots, possibly also did not speak an Indo-European Celtic language. The Picts were also most probably directly descended from the Bell Beaker folks who colonized British Isles in the Bronze Age prior to the arrival of the Celtic tribes during the Iron Age.
Scots, Irishmen and Basque males have the highest proportion of the Bell Beaker subtypes of the haplogroup R1b. Gaelic mythology describes a series of invasions of the British Isles from modern day Spain. Maybe there is some truth to it, but the first populations of the Megalithic Britain were neither Bell Beaker, nor Indo-European and of course they were not Celts who arrived thousands of years later.
This is why the presence of the Mediterranean haplogroup E in the Welsh and Cornish male population is so intriguing. And this is why there is controversy around the possible Afroasiatic substratum in the Insular Celtic languages.
I agree that the article is somewhat imbalanced.
OTOH I find it highly intriguing that with the notable exception of the Hindu nationalists, everyone else seems quite confident that Chinese will be the ones who will have the upper hand in this standoff.
If true, Japan will be fucked.
It’s actually astounding that this cretin Mr Hack thinks Poroshenko/Valtsman has a decent level of Ukrainian. I’m baffled because I thought Mr Hack, unlike the fantasist nutjob troll, actually could speak Ukrainian. It’s undeniably bad Ukrainian that he speaks……..and no surprise that his youngest son can’t speak a word of it (LOL)- which just goes to show the hypocrisy and lies of these freaks.
Yushchenko was certainly not very comfortable in it, albeit some competence – his Russian was far better.
Zelensky’s Ukrainian is also terrible. Now, let’s consider these are the heads of state we are talking about…..the Minister of Defence and the (scumbag) Interior Minister can’t actually speak a word of ukrop. When he is in foreign interview ( well, English) – his translator is doing it in Russian, which is the language he talks in when he can’t talk in English.
You know, in comment 296 I did actually link the video! Even funnier is that none of the other Khokhols, including the National Prosecutor ( who can speak it fluently…I have to assume), say a single word of Ukrainian in the entire clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=mhlHY_M5W48&feature=emb_title
Saw that article from foreignpolicy.com
You can read the pro indian piece linked by thulean. It is unfortunate a lot of the Chinese experts are all in Chinese. I can barely understand them with my shit learned Mandarin.
I think he meant they don’t go around deriving elaborate ideologies from their basic values. (If not, I have no idea what he meant.)
Of course, it’s doubtful in the extreme he knows any of their languages, so even if they had created such ideologies, he is most unlikely to have ever heard about it.
They are about as Ukrainian as I am Chinese. Their language is outdated and full of mangled English words. Their worldview is decades behind the curve. Most of them are descendants of Banderites who served Hitler, committed numerous crimes, and ran away from the advancing Red Army with Nazi occupiers. Naturally, their interests have very little in common with the interests of the people who actually live in Ukraine.
As to well-wishers, we all know which road is paved with good intentions. They proved this once more beyond reasonable doubt.
Yes, in my opinion Ex-President Poroshenko does indeed have a solid ability to communicate in literary Ukrainian. BTW, I studied Ukrainian at the intermediate level at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and got an “A”, and also have communicated in it since I was born (I was brought up bilingual Ukrainian/English) so I know a little bit about the topic. I’ve also picked up some Polish “on the streets” and from my Godmother who was Polish from Ukraine. Two years of college Russian too (straight A’s). So what makes you such an expert about the Ukrainian language? 🙂
BTW, I don’t have the patience of AP to debate this point with you for 30+ comments, mainly because I think that you’re a moron. 🙁
Corsairs used to raid Wales, Cornwall, & England. Perhaps that accounts for the presence of the E haplotype.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves/
Ukraine’s main problem politically is that there just aren’t many real patriots in government that care about their country. Politicians around the planet are by and large part of a shiftless, parasitic class mostly in it for themselves to fulfill their own egotistical needs. Is there any country in today’s world that can count on the altruistic morals of their political class? Just look at the sludge and corruption going on in Great Britain, for the longest of time?
My theory is that libertarianism and individualism (the two always goes together) is the AIDs which shuts down that cultural immune system and allows globohomo to spread to metastesize throughout the body politic and culture, basically classical liberalism and individualism provides a legitimizing ideology and a platform for globohomo to propagate its ideologies, so basically libertarians and classical liberals are fellow travellers and useful idiots of globohomo ideology. Basically individualism breaks down the traditional cultural locks, and renders such classical cultural anti-subversion instruments like social ostracism as being ineffective in combating liberal cultural subversion.
Or maybe libertarianism and individualism is a cultural tool used by a culturally hostile high verbal IQ minority to break down cultural communities and make them vulnerable to cultural subversion, as in a small army isolating and cutting off various parts of a larger army and then destroying them in detail? Hence the need for unremitting Kulturkampf against hostile subversive elements within a society.
I don’t think that raids by Barbary Corsairs (the majority of which were either Turks or European Renegades) would explain Y haplogroup E prevalence among these Celtic populations.
The explanation of some (Berber?) Roman federati being stationed there at the time of Roman colonization is also not that convincing.
OTOH we know that Y haplogroup G and to lesser extent haplogroup E were found among the early European farmers. We also know that Wells and Cornwall were a refuge to which British people fled during the Anglo-Saxon conquest. Perhaps that was also the case in the Bronze Age. It might well be possible that some ancient farmer male lineages going all the way back to Megalithic England have survived in these regions during the Bell Beaker conquest of the British Isles that wiped out the majority of the previous male population. That might explain the presence of the Y haplogroup E there.
I am not really versed into British paleogenetics, but I will look into it.
Is it possible to get a large part of the SJWs to switch ideological sides, if they are fanatical warriors for globohomo, maybe they can be turned into equally fanatical warriors for conservatism? Like how historically states have tried to recruit the best units of the armies of opposing states to switch sides and fight for their side. I have read before that most SJWs have a ENFJ or INFJ personality type, and for ENFJs, they are somewhat split ideologically between conservatives and liberals, and whatever their ideologies are, they tend to be very fierce fighters for their ideological cause, it comes with the territory.
IMHO this is also true about Russia. It is quite interesting to contemplate that the Ukrainian and Russian political parasites have pitched their respective populations against each other using some nationalist pseudo patriotic verbiage. Maybe it’s time Eastern Slavs hung their rulers from some lampposts and move towards a Confederation of sorts based on mutual respect and rational self-interest?
Well it makes sense that there would be a correlation between having “elaborate” (i.e. semi-coherent and thought out) ideologies and IQ. So maybe in that regard he is correct about, e.g., Africa not being “conservative.” But even in this most charitable interpretation claiming that China and Japan are somehow a) progressive, or b) ideologically simplistic, is obviously stupid. Even if you don’t know either language.
All of this funded by a docile British populace that can vote Conservative or Brexit but still meekly accepts to continue paying for the extortion of the “TV license fee”. Disgusting.
Defunding the BBC has become a bit of a political issue in the UK with more voices suggesting it.
However, this idea that the British are unusual for having a TV licence fee is very American. I’ve been seeing it on Sailer’s blog for about a decade. Most Western countries have had a mandatory TV licence fee throughout the TV age with most that’ve dropped it having done so only in recent years.
Most Irish people I’ve met (including my brother in law) also hold the opinion that Basques are different from Spaniards.
I pointed out in my earlier post that I’d seen wall murals in Ireland on Spanish separatism. The Irish Republican Army and the Basque terrorists, ETA, have always had close ties. Basque musicians perform at annual Irish Republican music festival in Belfast and Catalonia’s independence cause is very popular amongst Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland who look at Spain as an imperialist country much like they do the UK. Lately, Scottish so-called nationalists – many of whom are of Irish descent – have also become vocal supporters of Catalonian independence.
In principle, I have nothing against Ukraine associating with Russia (and Eurasia) based on as you put it on real “mutual respect and rational self interest”. Of course Ukraine could configure itself to play an important role in such a scheme, but likewise it could do so rationally with some of its Western neighbors too. Probably drawn to the idea of Polish style advancement and material self betterment, Ukrainians made a decision to integrate into Western EU structures, rather than continue down what probably looked like just another continuation of Soviet style governance. Don’t forget, that already by 2014, Ukraine’s trading relationship with the EU was slightly greater than what it had been with Russia, and today?… Well, it’s too late to turn back the clock, it’s time to see how far and beneficial European entanglements will result for Ukraine. There’s nothing that says that one can’t realign sometime in the future – look at Great Britain. Personally, I’ve always felt that Ukraine would be best off as a larger version of Finland. Some, more adept at analyzing this situation maintain that Ukraine needs to align one way or the the other?…
Just what are the measures that made the biggest difference?
1) Not intubating people too soon.
2) Not moving them into care homes when they were still seriously ill without isolating them there under strict conditions.
3) Let patients ly on their stomach to prevent the need to intubate them.
4) Various medicines –
5) Better equipment for hospital staff.
6) Regulating access to the care-homes for the elderly (test and temperatures measured regularly for care workers).
7) Opening windows regularly and washing hands more rigorously.
8) Masks
9) More testing
10) CO-19 apps etc. – digital helpers for backtracking
The few people who speak both claim that there are resemblences between berber and Welsh. Well one professor in Wales did about 40 years ago.
Roman legions, especially around Chester.
“We have crushed the British to the ground, they are on their knees and they will not rise for a very long time”
This is allegedly a quote from the recent Russian Ambassador to Britain Alexander Yakovenko. If he said it, he is capable of these words, it would have been as an ironic counterpoint to a more conciliatory main idea. It is, if in any way true, half the quote taken out of context. It is being used as part of the propaganda war over the still concealed British Russia Report.
Anyone have the faintest idea of whether he said it and who first propagated it? SavetheBees on Twitter is the oldest reference I can find.
Turns out that the evil Dominic Cummnigs attended some of the same Russian events as me. Didn’t meet him. I haven’t traced him in Samara either. Turns out he was a bond salesman in Moscow. I’d ask Eric Kraus if he knew him but I am blocked on most of Eric’s social media.
I doubt any high verbal IQ minority can do anything if the native incumbent power isn’t stupid.
Case in point, the current China.
In the American case, I think it was allowed. But I have no clue why it was allowed and if it got out of control.
Genetics won’t disappear so quickly, especially given the fact that such people where favored as recently as WW2.
They are simply repressed and biding their time until the thin veneer of society slips.
Aligning with the EU and adopting its culture does not guarentee a prosperous future for Ukraine. The reason it worked with Poland was a combination of factors – namely a weak Russia and huge monetary donations from the EU to get Poland off the ground. These monetary donations will not be given to a non-EU state (and Ukraine will never be a EU state), also the rules in EU are changing and the streams of ‘free money’ for states are changing due to abuse by Poland and Hungary, Russia is no longer weak and most importantly, Ukraine itself is a basket case of Bulgarian style corruption. Ukraine aligned with Europe will be more along the lines of Bulgaria rather than Poland.
So nothing much to do with Poles’ own efforts then, lol.
In reality, it’s hard to see how Russian weakness was much of a factor at all, let alone the main factor. (Unless it refers to Russia having no choice but to keep their meddling hands out of Poland’s affairs — a luxury the hapless Ukrainians were obviously not afforded.)
German violence during World War II was not the violence of out of control savages like that of the Germanic barbarians whom the Romans encountered. This type had been bred out of them.
Aren’t you a native English speaker? Unless there’s some specific reason for that particular wording, the phrase “good times, friends, good times” sounds more natural to native speakers.
Very interesting. Didn’t know that. A question would be how did Afroasiatic speakers get to British Isles in the first place.
Although given that the ancestors of Guanche people somehow landed on Canary Islands, who knows were else they have been able to travel. Thor Heyerdahl, of Kon-tiki fame seemed convinced (for some elusive reason) that Canary Islands’ aborigines have possibly traveled to America. He thought that they used ancient reed boats and that the reed boat building skills have been lost after arriving to Canary Islands.
This is an entertaining theory, given that the Temehu Berber populations of pre-dynastic western Nile delta used this type of boats and that a similar type of reed boat was supposedly also used on the Northern coast of Morocco. A thing is certain though; when they have been conquered by the Spaniards, the Guanche were completely unable to build any boats and did not recall how their ancestors arrived to their insular homeland although they managed to bring along their sheep.
The strangest Berber related topic I ever came across was this:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330397918_WERE_INDIANS_RESPONSIBLE_FOR_ALL_OF_THE_PETERBOROUGH_PETROGLYPHS
Utterly outlandish stuff.
Agree. That would be the best outcome.
Roman legions would probably have been mainly Y haplogroup R1b just like the majority of the Western European population including ancient British.
Although as I have mentioned earlier, Romans used Berber cavalry as mercenaries / confederati. On the image below this cavalry is fighting Dacians under Roman command.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Lusius_Quietus_on_Column_of_Trajan.jpg/1280px-Lusius_Quietus_on_Column_of_Trajan.jpg
LOL……there is no way he speaks good Ukrainian. I will put your error down to factors such as the distance away from Ukropia you are……the fact that there is no “Ukraine” and the Banderatard community in North America has just invented one, complete with own fake language, fake history and so on over the last 75 years….you simply follow the English news on Ukraine/Russia and nothing else.
BTW , now I assume, again, unlike the fantasist freak nutjob spamtroll, you have ( or have had if you’re a pensioner), a decent job with a decent salary…so how if you were not involved in intelligence, or some RFE/RL scumbag, or another pseudo-patriot businessman cunningly exploiting the post-soviet space …have you ended up with that degree? I want to know. Or is just common for 1st/second generation of immigrants in US to go for degrees that are relatively easy because they are languages they have heard or spoken at home?
What about flywheels?
Of possible interest:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?473697-1/center-national-interest-interviews-russian-ambassador-us-anatoly-antonov
We don’t need to go overseas to see sludge and corruption on a grand scale. All levels of government in the US are at least as corrupt as the British government, although for a shorter period of time, as the US is much younger. In this regard Ukraine has an advantage: wholesale corruption is only 30 years old.
First, Ukrainain elites wanted cheap Russian natural gas, to resell it to Europe at a premium, and steal the difference. They also sold huge stocks of Soviet armaments Ukraine inherited, and stole the proceeds. When Russia started putting its foot down, Ukrainian elites turned to the West. They are now stealing credits from IMF and other sources. Of course, they did not tell the Ukrainians the truth. They told gullible populace that Ukraine is aspiring to become part of Europe and achieve greater prosperity. Naturally, fairy tales did not come true.
As to EU association agreement, EU has them with many countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Egypt, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey. All these agreements are 1-2 pages long. In contrast, the agreement with Ukraine is a sizable brochure. If you read it, it spells out essentially colonial rules, where the EU has all the rights and Ukraine has all the obligations. Recently Ukrainian government tried to introduce a rule that ~30% of its acquisitions should be Ukrainian products. They’ve got an immediate angry rebuke from the EU, saying that these quotas are against the EU rules. In a servant-master relationship it’s 100% predictable whose will prevails.
You are right that every government of every country is corrupt and self-serving. But there are different degrees. If you visit Ukraine and Russia, you’d see the difference with your own eyes.
There is an old joke explaining why Asia develops a lot more successfully than Africa. An Asian graduate of a European college invites his African classmate to visit him. He comes, and sees a huge villa, enormous gardens with fountains and peacocks. He enters the house and asks: when we were students, you were very poor. Where did all this come from? The Asian takes him to the window. See that highway? Yes. 10% were mine. Next year the African invites the Asian. He comes, and also sees a huge villa, gardens, fountains, and peacocks. He enters and asks: when we were students, you did not have two pennies to rub together. Where did all this come from? The African takes him to the window. See that highway? No, I don’t. 100% were mine.
The difference between Russia and Ukraine is exactly that difference between 10% and 100%. The results are obvious to anyone willing to see the reality.
You can’t understand the difference between historical origin and modern genetic make-up? Ever heard of the term acculturization? How come Hungarians aren’t 100 % Central Asian yet they speak a non-Indo-European language?
You need to get over Zinedine Zidane and Berber White Power, dude!
Writing the above and perhaps even believing in it too, you’re just confirming my opinion of you as that of being a moron. Most likely even a Ukrainaphobe too. If you don’t have the common decency to even admit that there is such thing as a Ukrainian nation and a Ukrainian language, than it’ really a waste of my time to converse with you.
There is no evidence for any of this.
It could if you had a eugenics program. But no such thing existed during those times, obviously.
What does being “a Neolithic people” mean? Do we still practice subsistence agriculture with some foraging in the bad years? 🙂
How are our resident Maidanist Putschists going to defend this?
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1280984402219216898
https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1280919499382939649
Kolomoisky is the Israeli oligarch who looted the state coffers in the past. He was the main sponsor of the current President. IMF demanded that his financial assets no longer be given precious state funds. Now his puppet, the current president, is attacking everyone who opposed this looting.
So much for reform.
Welsh belongs to the Celtic group of Indoeuropean languages and Berber is part of the Afroasiatic group, that also includes Arabic and Hebrew. Both languages are unrelated.
People have kept trying to find “resemblances” between different exotic languages since ancient times. Basque has also been associated with Berber, Caucasian languages, Iberian, Celtic and even American-Indian languages. But in the end it all boils down to some vocabulary similarities that are either a simple result of coincidence or at most loan or shared words from ancient times. If the bulk of the vocabulary and, more importantly, the grammatical structure is different in two languages, then there’s no real association and both evolved separately.
I thought that was t0 d0 with honouring criminal negros, I think it’s going a bit far for the Russian ambassador to take credit for that
I suspect that if you took an SJW and put him in a situation in which he was isolated him from other SJWs but surrounded by alt-righters you would have a decent chance of turning him into an alt-righter. Conversely if you took an alt-righter and put him in a situation in which he was isolated him from other alt-righters but surrounded by SJWs you would have a decent chance of turning him into an SJW.
If you could also set up that alt-righter with a really hot lady SJW girlfriend, or set up that SJW with a super-hot female alt-righter you’d have an even better chance of success. Sex is a powerful motivator.
Both ideologies appeal to similar personalities – people inclined to be paranoid, people who crave a feeling of moral self-righteousness, people who like to feel they belong to an exclusive intellectual/cultural elite, people who are not overly successful socially or sexually, people inclined to live in fantasy worlds.
In the 1930s Marxism and Catholicism were probably competing for the same target audience.
Thanks. I don’t know much about the Bell Beaker populations but I always thought that it was mainly a cultural phenomenon that spread throughout Western Europe in prehistoric times.
As you move westwards in Europe towards the Atlantic fringes you often end up seeing genetic and linguistic remnants from ancient times. This is probably most evident in the British Islands, where Celtic languages only survive in the westernmost parts and the Germanic component is also the weakest there.
There is probably some ancient connection among all the Atlantic peoples, when Western Europe was inhabited by a mix of hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers but things are very complicated. Not least because Atlantic people are disproportionately R1b, which does not seem to have originated in either of those two groups in the mix. I tend to be skeptical of simple explanations like people suddenly navigating thousands of miles to some far-away islands.
The Bell Beaker folks were the ones who brought Y Y haplogroup R1b to Western Europe. In a few hundred years they replaced the majority of the other Y haplogroups, while the mtDNA haplogroups largely remained undisturbed and actually thrived and multiplied.
In the British Isles some 90% of the other Y haplogroup lineages, including the Y haplogroup I associated with the Atlantic Megalithic, culture, have been wiped out in an estimated 400 years.
It was a nearly complete genocide of the competing male lineages.
Interestingly enough, the Bell Beaker cultural package has also been present in the Maghreb around the same early time it started its explosive spread from modern day Portugal. West to East and South to North through all the Europe until it finally reached the modern day Elbe river in the East, Ireland in the West and Scandinavia in the North. It took the BBC folks nearly a thousand years to conquer Western and Central Europe. But they failed in the Maghreb and in the North Eastern Europe.
Maybe push came to shove.
I need to emphasize again that only Y haplogroup DNA has been affected in the population, maternal DNA was not. As a consequence, the autosomal DNA transmitted by the mothers as much as by fathers allowed for the resurgence of the different Old European phenotypes that belonged to the different cultures annihilated by the BBC folks.
That is why when they analyze whole genome admixture and SNPs they write that there was a limited impact of migrations. But this is sophistry, if nearly all other Y haplogroup lineages, including the more ancient R1b subclades linked to the early migrations of Yamnaya people, were replaced, this could only mean that these males were prevented from mating: either killed or enslaved and squeezed out of the gene pool.
That is why the Basque people are mainly descendants of the Bell Beaker people on their paternal side and not some other population. They are among those who carry the most of the Y haplogroup R1b subclades linked to the Bell Beaker expansion.
In the case of Insular Celtic and Afroasiatic the grammar structure seems similar. It is also argued that that was not the case of Continental Celtic doalects prior to their demise. So Insular Celtic evolved differently from Continental Celtic dialects. The difference might be due to precedent languages that have been present in British Isles before the spread of Celtic people there some 600 years before present.
Actually college educated white SJWs have higher IQs than rural and working class white Trump voters, especially since white people have to go by the book in order to get into good colleges. I mean a lot of people are saying that they have useless liberal arts degrees, but to get into a fairly good college in order to get those liberal arts degrees requires a fair degree of intelligence for a start.
In order to find evidence either proving or disproving this, one would have to identify specific genes associated with behavioral traits such as impulsivity, delayed gratification, and violence (and also perhaps intelligence), and then compare genetic profiles of modern Germans to those of barbarian Germans from 2,000 years ago.
However it can be deduced. Many centuries of harsh death penalty laws applied towards people who couldn’t control their violence have removed such people from the gene pool across many generations. Urban, abstract, complex societies favored people who could plan ahead, think abstractly, deal with their immediate neighbors cooperatively, also for centuries and generations. Dmitry’s “software” can shape the “hardware,” the relationship between the two is not unidirectional.
Aslund can be quite pathetic.
For the neocons, neolibs and flat out Russia haters:
http://georgiatoday.ge/news/21713/Georgian-Basketball-Team-Captain-Shengelia-to-Play-for–CSKA-Moscow
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470491501300114
Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification by Peter Frost & Harpending
The paper in about a dozen pages accurately outlines all the various European class sub-cultures and compares them to other groups||
None of this is controversial, behavioral genetics & profiles being modified by culture and state/ideology||
This is quite clearly one of the main claims of Christian superiority, of creating order via eliminating thuggish, brutish males. Although, the paper does say this trend has been reversing as of late.
We’ll just stick to Khalsa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfQxfxTY4yc
Fake news Baltic style:
https://www.rt.com/news/494166-lithuania-bans-rt-kiselyov/
Back to back sketchy news reporting from a leading news wire:
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/russian-fm-plugs-book-blaming-downed-malaysian-jet-on-jewish-illuminati-634460
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200709-assad-angered-as-russia-meets-representatives-of-syrias-alawites/
I think that it’s time that Zelensky looked for new friends to associate with within Ukraine. Kolomoisky is just becoming a greater liability than benefit for Zelensky to deal with. In a very similar situation, as I recall, early on in his presidential career a younger Putin put quite a bit of distance between himself and one of his main founts of financial support, the rich oligarch Boris Berezovsky. For Zelensky to return for a second term, he has to make some real inroads in the fight against corruption, and its plain for everyone to see that his major oligarch supporter is just a great big impediment in this regard. It would be a gutsy move, but it could serve him well to do so if he wants to remain in power for a second term.
Also, see Jatt Arya’s post. So there is some evidence.
Putin played Berezovsky for the stupid simp that he was.
It’s pretty obvious that Putin & Co played it by the book; I’m sure the KGB had a ‘winning elections and controlling the political machine under decaying bourgeois democratic regimes’ howto manual. It must have been a good manual, it worked splendidly.
The great difference between Russia and Ukraine with regard to corruption is that it’s much more orderly in the former, within much more of an authoritarian slant coming straight from the top. Yanukovych tried to mimic this sort of a system within Ukraine, but the whole world viewed the spectacle of the ostentatious lifestyle of the thug from the Donbas, and was sympathetic to his demise. To his credit, Putin is much more circumspect about his wealth and has managed to control the country much more effectively from the very top. Ukraine has for the moment rejected this form of authoritarian control.
This matter was something to analytically highlight immediately after Z won the presidency. Recall how some were saying that Russians were jealous of Ukraine at that point in time. Related:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/04/24/gauging-ukraine-with-russia-and-belarus/
Excerpt –
Putin comes from an Intel background and has shown himself to be a rugged tactician. It remains questionable as to whether Z can weather the obstacles that stand in the way of improving the overall situation in Ukraine, in conjunction with his own standing.
It’s always hard “to bite the hand that feeds you” and Zelensky was in no position at the very beginning of his tenure to try anything so contradictory to his rise to power. But now, more than a year has passed since he was elected, and he should start thinking about distancing himself from this oligarchical parasite. It’s still probably too early to do so, but he’d be smart to start considering something like this and look for some strong allies to help him pull something like this off.
So-called reforms were a ruse to trick the sheeple into submitting to yet another fleecing. The populace being dumb and gullible, it worked.
“Democracy” in post-coup Ukraine is of the same flavor as in KSA or ISIS: freedom of “correct” speech. Those who do not toe the line are either murdered in broad daylight with nobody ever punished for the crime (Buzina was murdered in Kiev in 2015; it’s 2020 now), or arrested and tortured by SBU w/o an access to a lawyer or even mock court proceedings (numerous cases), or kept in custody indefinitely for no reason, like the survivors of Odessa massacre at the trade union building, who are in jail since 2014, while none of the arsonists and murderers were ever punished. Compared to post-coup Ukraine, the years of a thief Yanuk presidency, or any other pre-coup periods of presidency of earlier thieves (Kravchuk, Kuchma, Yushchenko), were remarkably democratic.
Sad truth is, every nation has the government it deserves.
No matter how you slice it or dice it, it’s still the difference between 10% and 100%.
IQ is heavily overrated in predicting career success, I mean Tesla had a higher IQ than Edison, and yet Edison had a lot more success than Tesla.
Since you’re so fixated on the accuracy of this arithmetic formula, care to show how you’ve determined it and how it applies to Russia and Ukraine?
Altright people usually look like the opposite of elite, and are therefore in a genre of “why lonely women want to be told they are special”, “why ugly women want to be told they are beautiful”, etc.
They usually seem like people who are low on points for intelligence, physical appearance and social skills.
Therefore, they are a demographic who most need to told they are “elite” – i.e. the people who are opposite of elite, and therefore desire to belong to a compensatory “elite” in their imagination.
People who never called “superior” in real life, are the people who feel starved of this sensation, and therefore need to seek feelings of superiority in internet political groups. This is why it operates as a filter or net – spontaneously designed by and for such class of disaffected people who were starved of superiority in the real world.
SJW ideology can be attractive for “elite” people, who are living in a cornucopia, and it requires you to live in cornucopia to understand some of its concepts.
In a country with mixed wealth levels like Russia. If you were SJW preacher in central Moscow, you will find plentry of bourgeois young people who could understand the ideology. Whereas in a poorer city , almost no-one would understand your SJW message and consider you mentally bizarre. I.e. it requires you to have some experience of cornucopia and privilege.
For people with fortunate and lucky lives, SJW ideology can solve some of your problems and provide customer satisfaction. For example, it can function for virtue-signalling, guilt-removal, noblesse oblige.
SJW (although including anger, jealously, etc) also aims for finer (Schopenhauerian/Christian) style of sentiments, like desire for helping others, “Works of mercy”, “story of Good Samaritan”, etc. Whereas altright seems simply to aim at the lower emotions of anger, persecution, and jealously.
So someone like Emma Watson, can use SJW ideology both for her selfish benefit as virtue-signalling, guilt-removal, noblesse oblige, etc. But it is probably also able to be channel for some of her genuine kind-heartedness.
Although how many homeless African-American and sexual minorities, does she shelter in her apartment? Her SJW is overall closer to being a virtue-signalling royalty, than a Francis of Assisi.
I think your Jewish component came to the fore with this comment
Pure qualitative observations.
Fact-supported item one. The authorities in both Russia an Ukraine are venal, government officials receive kickbacks from companies doing business with the government that routinely overprice everything they do.
Fact-supported item two. A lot of large infrastructure projects are actually done in Russia (Ust-Luga port, Yamal LNG facility, the bridge to Crimea), thousands of miles of roads are built or greatly improved (I know this first-hand, I drove on these roads in 2015 and 2018), Moscow and provincial cities are getting better organized and more beautiful (personal experience in 2018), cafes and restaurants in all price ranges appear in many cities and are full of customers (personal experience in 2018), etc. In terms of looks, cleanliness, and public transportation Moscow hands down beats every European capital, be it London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Athens, or even Rome (naturally, Athens and Rome have a lot more historic monuments, as they predate Moscow by thousands of years). Russian military is in decent shape, as its successes in Syria clearly show.
In contrast, the roads in Ukraine are in pathetic condition (acknowledged even by the government (https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-road-agency-head-vast-infrastructure-upgrade-continues-despite-pandemic/), the bridges built by the USSR are “getting tired” and falling apart even in Kiev, instead of serious infrastructural projects the previous clown Porky opened a public toilet, etc. Ukrainian military is pathetic, all it is capable of is stealing and selling arms and ammo (and covering this up by numerous ammo dump fires), marauding, robbing, beating and raping unarmed civilians, drinking, and using drugs, as its track record in Donbass and elsewhere clearly shows ( even biased YouTube did not manage to delete everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYzDt_dDoI; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6UnmkdyiuU; and many others you can find using any honest browser (meaning not Google) and searching “ukrainian army crimes donbass”).
Conclusion. While virtually all state funding in Ukraine is diverted by thieves at every level, a significant proportion of state funding in Russia is spent on real improvements.
That’s what I mean by the difference between 10% and 100%.
Lol, Jews don’t have a monoply on morality.
Sometimes I feel the alt right really despises white people more than any other group.
BTW, now the third set of tapes of the discussions between groveling Porky and then US Vice-President Biden was published. Of course, sane people did not learn anything new. But Ukies will deny the authenticity of these tapes, as they are too embarrassing even for the dumbest of them.
When I had started in Western Europe, I had a lot of culture shock from SJW politics of people with “technical education”.
It was in 2015, and after short months, there was the large terrorist attack in Paris. People in my program were saying “of course that’s sad what happens in Paris, but we kill thousand times more people in the Middle Eastern countries – this is a kind of payback.”
I never have hear (in real life as opposed to reading the internet) among office workers, that people had sceptical views about European policies of unfiltered immigration, Islamist extremism, etc.
The future is coming, and it is so rainbow bright we will all need mirror shades.
https://twitter.com/stabilityisgre1/status/1280534199548751874
Anyone who is homophobic, or, gods forbid, transphobic, is going to be cancelled. Regardless of nationality, religion or skin color. Everywhere.
And it will be beautiful.
https://twitter.com/nathancofnas/status/1278756948855255040
In comfort and cornucopia, Jews often have the same combination of virtue-signalling and Christian sentiments, as the Western Europeans (afterall it developed first from a Jewish culture).
Israelis hipsters in North Tel Aviv, speak the same language as wealthy and comfortable Western Europeans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLABDVuIkGs
But most of the Jews in Israel are still poorer brown rednecks, which can understand and be appealed to them SJW concepts of privilege almost as little as people in provincial Russia, if not the population of Mexico and India.
Please provide the link so that we can all hear it. Thanks!
https://youtu.be/wcLPx1D2oa0
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EceK840XkAACGCQ?format=jpg&
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EceKgOQWkAAUopw?format=jpg&
It tears my heart up to watch the pain and suffering of these innocent victims of this largely senseless war. Having said this, the video does indicate that a lot of the damage was inflicted by both sides, and it’s not exactly clear when this footage was shot, 2014 or 2017? Thankfully, the fighting isn’t as intense today, halfway through 2020. Let’s hope that Zelensky is capable of seeing his election platform promises of peace in Donbas come to fruition.
He doesn’t have the same background as Putin. Regardless of form of government, politics will have tough and nasty moments.
It might be too late for him to succeed as recommended.
This year couldn’t get any worse:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3092563/chinese-embassy-warns-deadly-unknown-pneumonia-kazakhstan
Other countries need to shut their borders with Kazakhstan.
Ze will fulfill exactly as many of his campaign promises as Trump: none at all. Even if he sincerely wanted to do something, the leash would get in the way. Neither Washington Politburo, nor thieving Ukrainian oligarchs, nor local wannabe Nazis would let him. War is a racket for all of these groups: there is MIC in the US, there are Ukrainian war profiteers (e.g., Porky is one of them), and there are bribes taken daily at checkpoints by “defenders of Ukraine”.
There are fewer crimes committed in 2020 than in 2014 (when I had to evacuate my elderly mother from Lugansk after her apartment was damaged by Ukie shelling), but the conflict drags on, and there is no end in sight. Civilians are still killed and maimed. The only progress I see is that when Ukies shell LPR or DPR, freedom fighters respond and destroy their firing positions. But that won’t end the war.
Putin style of quiet indirect management is not just very clever, but also too expensive for Ukraine.
For the example – Echo of Moscow is run as an interesting opposition media, but over years it is argued by some that it is a subtly or not “curated zoo” with unnatural numbers of unlikeable characters and strange personalities.
If it is intentional, it is subtle method, and also quite expensive, to manage a subtly self-discrediting pseudo opposition.
Similarly. bags of money for politicians, will be normal in Ukraine. But bags of money for bloggers? Maybe. Bags of money for “liberal” bloggers who are supposed to oppose you? – there is unlikely enough money.
Strange, how you left out the most important player in the war, whose opinion would carry the most weight in stopping all of the carnage:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZltjFLNAOUY/Vmm4_8Gt1SI/AAAAAAAAKSw/EF0xD1rkZ5I/s320/putin-icon.jpg
file under tags: please don’t say that it’s true
I listened only to the conversation within the video that you posted, and other than Poroshenko’s somewhat “groveling” posture before Biden, I don’t think that there’s anything there to cause him to put on the hangman’s noose?
Much more interesting would be to hear new news about the SBU putting pressure on former CBU heads Smoli and Honchareva that resulted in both of them resigning their posts. These actions seem in direct opposition to recently passed Zelensky sponsored legislation to combat corruption, and especially designed to thwart Kolomoisky’s bid to take over the bank operation? Is it just an overseas Amerikanec that sees the hypocrisy in all of this?
I couldn’t find anything readily available about this within “Ukrainska Pravda”, the major political news source from Kyiv?
If any saints, or even honest mortals with scruples, were involved in decision making, there would be no war in Donbass (and no wars anywhere, for that matter).
Putin is certainly no saint. My impression is that he cares about ordinary Donbass people exactly as much as Porky or Ze – not at all. He is playing his chess for much bigger stakes than Donbass or Ukraine.
In reality, the only good solution for the ordinary people in Donbass would be real independence of LPR and DPR. Unfortunately, both republics are too dependent on Russia, which prohibits them doing what needs to be done: kick Bandertites out of both Lugansk and Donetsk regions, seal the borders, and live normal lives. Putin apparently wants to use Donbass as a lever to turn around Ukraine. That’s why he does not grant the republics diplomatic recognition.
Ukraine itself is not a goal for Putin, just a piece in a geopolitical game. The US looks at Ukraine and Donbass the same way, as pieces in the big game, totally expandable.
Ukrainian elites, as well as Ukie army and Nazi battalions, are a lot more parochial. They spew “patriotic” BS for the sheeple, while using this war to enrich themselves, each at his/her level: some steal billions, some steal millions, some steal appliances and furniture from locals, some steal and sell fuel, arms, and ammo, some take bribes at checkpoints, etc.
The suffering of Donbass people won’t end until they defend their own interests, which differ from the interests of Kiev puppets, their US puppet masters, and Putin.
There are people who are sufficiently lacking in confidence and competence, and social skills, that they desperately need to find some movement or organisation to which to belong which will accept them with all their flaws. And they then become fanatically loyal, because they don’t have a choice. No-one else will have them.
Churches have gained plenty of converts from among such people. Also religious cults. And fringe political groups. Trotskyists in the 50s, 60s and 70s being a prime example. If you were extreme left and reasonably capable and intelligent you became a Marxist. If you were extreme left and a hopeless loser you became a Trotskyist.
I’m not suggesting that all members of the alt-right fall into this category, I’m not suggesting that at all, but the alt-right does inevitably attract more than its share of hopeless losers. If you’re such a hopeless loser that you’re a Hitler fanboy where else do you have to go? If you’re so crazy you think the moon landings were faked where else do you have to go? If you obsessively check under your bed every night for lurking commies who else would have you? If you think women won’t sleep with you because it’s a Jewish plot then nobody else is going to want to know you.
Bravo! You hit the nail on the head.
Yep. The LGBT crowd is firmly in charge. Being LGBT gives you so many victimhood Pokemon Points that you’re practically unassailable.
Unless you’re a lesbian. If you’re a biological woman and your girlfriend is a biological woman you’re in trouble. You might get away with it if you’re a POC. If you’re a white lesbian and you’re a biological woman and your girlfriend is a biological woman you’re in a whole lot of trouble. Lesbians who choose to have sex with biological women are transphobic by definition and therefore evil.
I predict that within the next couple of years the “L” will be quietly dropped from the LGBTqwerty moniker. White lesbians are about to get purged. Black lesbians who like actual women will hurriedly redefine themselves as Queer Persons of Color and hope that’s enough to save them (it probably won’t be).
The whole concept of lesbianism is outdated and oppressive and reeks of patriarchy and gender binary stereotypes. If you’re a lesbian and you say “I’d really like to find a woman to f*ck” then you’re oppressing trans people. In fact you’re genociding trans people!
Circa 1970s, I’m reminded of the Barney Miller episode, where a Gay cop gets a promotion, which frustrates Levitt, who in desperation blurts out “I’m Gay”. Upon seeing how his peers responded (not believing him) he says “I thought I’d give it a shot.”
Along with Car 54, the best police comedy TV series.
I think that Mozgovoï would have agreed. Perhaps that is why they killed him. Strelkov would probably also agree, that’s why he’s a dead man walking.
One of the most important projects in the history of humanity is progressing nicely – 16 Psyche mission passed critical design review at NASA.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/07/07/nasa-teases-psyche-a-robot-to-explore-an-asteroid-worth-more-than-our-global-economy/#21c86d781c4b
It is a prospecting/surveillance mission to an asteroid worth around $10,000 quadrillion. We will learn about planetary core that Psyche was once a part of.
It is also probably the most ironic mission in space history to date. It will launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy and will fly on Russian plasma drives (SPT-140 Hall thrusters straight outta Kaliningrad). Elon Musk, famous electric guy, created the finest oil burner on the planet (Falcon Heavy). Russia, famous oil country, created the finest electromagnetic plasma propulsion system around. Funny that they will fly together on such an important mission.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put my faith in people who can’t even grasp elementary-school economics.
The elementary school economics says that asteroid has value, and money does not. It is indeed an important lesson.
The value of commodities is due to their relative scarcity.
Even if it were feasible to mine this asteroid and transport the resources back to earth for free it would not be worth even a miniscule fraction of this absurd $10,000 quadrillion figure in this article as the resulting glut will crash the prices of these commodities.
This should be fairly obvious to most people.
Big deal..Most people don’t know what they’re talking about:
–The russ RD-180 is the most advanced LO&kerosene engine; smaller but lot more advanced than the US Saturn5 F1 engines.
–The Earth’s mass is about 6 x 10(exp 24) kg of which 6% is iron,… 0.57% is titanium,ie 3.4 x10 (exp 22) or 34 sextillion kg of titanium. The problem is how to get them out from the Earth.
Most people are clueless about how real world works.
By the time we will be mining this asteroid, $10,000 quadrillion will be an ordinary sum of money. It costs nothing to add zeroes to digital currency. In modern economic system credit must grow or crash occurs. Just like we create $10’s of trillions with a few keystrokes today, we will be creating quadrillions in the near future. But it will not be inflationary, on the contrary. Our money supply will rise to match the value of the asteroid. Money is worth nothing, it will stretch to accommodate the value of an asteroid.
If those engines don’t lift, they are pointless. Falcon Heavy lifts.
As for Earth titanium, nobody will give you environmental permit to strip mine the planet. No such problems for asteroids.
Saturn5 F1 rockets
Thrust (vac.)
1,746,000 lbf (7,770 kN)
Thrust (SL)
1,522,000 lbf (6,770 kN)
Thrust-to-weight ratio
94.1
Chamber pressure
70 bars (1,015 psi; 7 MPa)
Isp (vac.)
304 s (2.98 km/s)
Isp (SL)
263 s (2.58 km/s)
Russ RD-180
Thrust (vac.)
4.15 MN (930,000 lbf)
Thrust (SL)
3.83 MN (860,000 lbf)
Thrust-to-weight ratio
78.44
Chamber pressure
26.7 MPa (3,870 psi)
Isp (vac.)
338 s (3.31 km/s)
Isp (SL)
311 s (3.05 km/s)
………..
Faclcon 1st stage uses 27 engines
Saturn 5 used 5 F1 engines in the 1st stage
TheRD-180 is superior in fuel efficiency; fuel constitute 90% of the mass of liquid fueled rocket stage, saving 10% means either the next stage or orbital mass could be twice as big.
A manned lunar rocket could use 6 RD-180 in the first stage.
………….
Unless if one wants to get materials to build a space city, mining the asteroid sounds just meaningless or just PR for the uninformed/science-uneducated
You’re starting from the premise that Germanic people were less able to “control their violence” in Classical times and then making your deductions. That starting assumption is not something which has arisen from any logical deduction or empirical evidence.
A very small percentage of people in most societies are executed(that Harpending/Frost paper cites .5-1%). Even if we assume only violent people are executed and none of the people executed had children who survived to adulthood(both assumptions untrue/unlikely), you don’t get much selection from a tiny fraction of population culling over hundreds of years.
Malthusian civilizations tend to collapse(not necessarily for the reasons Malthus said however). Most of those people who lived in dense Roman cities did not leave as many descendants as people who lived on the outskirts. Disease and lower fertility made cities population sinks. Europe in the Middle Ages was overwhelmingly rural. If civilization and city living are causing reductions in violence through genetic mechanisms(rather than state capacity or some other explanation), we wouldn’t expect a linear decline in violent tendencies and we may not expect much selection for reduced violent at all. Even today, urban and intelligent people have low fertility. From what I know about the empirical evidence from hunter-gatherer societies, we find a wide range of levels of violence.
Civilizations also tend to attract barbarians who make a living stealing from civilized people and/or slave raiding other non-civilized people to sell to the civilized.
There is nothing crazy about the idea that agriculture or civilization led to reductions in genetic propensity to uncontrolled violence, but: 1. I know of no good evidence for this and 2. I doubt capital punishment was a particularly effective mechanism for reducing that genetic propensity.
Agreed, people who say it have very rosy view of medieval justice system.
And the whole idea of “genetic pacification”, the idea that late Romans were kind and gentle folk unable to defend themselmves against the barbarian brutes, is completely risible, idea that does not survive five minutes of studying ancient history.
Late Roman empire was extremely violent. The cities were full of gangs, country was full of bandits, sectarian and ethnic riots, pogroms and lynchings were commonplace, coups and assassinations were normal parts of politics, civil wars happened like clockwork about every generation.
Atlas 5 payload to GTO – 8.9 tons.
Falcon Heavy payload to GTO – 26.7 tons.
RD-180 may be a better engine but Falcon Heavy is a far more capable booster.
You will need minerals to build factories in space – it will be far cheaper than doing it on Earth. Heavy lifter is a requirement to accomplish that. Once in orbit, you will need Russian electric tech to get about the solar system.
I believe that mankind needs more Space. Anything that could help humans access Solar System’s resources is a necessary development even if it doesn’t yield a good short term ROI.
Same thing about the Ocean. We need to be able to colonize it and be able to mine its underwater mineral resources.
Where Skripals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQSHfUmgTLQ
LOL, I must say I enjoy your endearing cretinism, Mr Hack
Is there even a place named after a “Ukrainian” place from the sadist Banderetard community in North America? Of course not. There is only the Novorossiyan areas and Kiev that have expatriated place names.i.e from the Russian world. You have got places in America named after Moscow, Saint Petersburg( Florida), plenty called Odessa, Kazan, Kiev……where is the ukrop place?….none because there has never been such a country. In 200 years of immigration to the “New World” there would be such names if such a country existed….which it does not
Did you even see the video that I linked you cretin- a load of ukrainian “top” officials..and not a single one speaking “Ukrainian”. I forgot that Turchynov was acting president..he might be even worse than Avakov in speaking it
There is no such thing as “Ukrainian nation” and certainly not this concept called “Ukrainophobia”. There is no “Ukrainianism” in the North American community…merely anti-Russianism, that is more than willing to destroy the fake ” old country” of Ukraine, again and again in pursuit of it.
What there is though is Russian world, Russian people , of which Ukraine was and is a very important part for the last millennium. It has it’s different flavour of Russianian – just like in North Russia, Belarus,Siberia, South Russia- but it’s still undeniably Russian. Texans and New Yorkers and Californians have big differences in styles, food, dialect, lifestyle- bit they are all still undeniably Americans and could never be mistaken for anything else.Russia/Ukraine this same point is a million times closer
LOL “Ukrainian” words are so non-existent that the minuscule ones that are out there are basically cultural symbols or events in themselves in Russia! You see it in Runet all the time. Ironically using the very few Ukrop fews out there in some viral/meme thing taking the p*ss out of the latest tragi-comic thing to come out of Ukraine
It’s nauseating for the UPA scoundrel community in North America to even claim to be Ukrainian. UPA was such a joke – their flag was red for the “Blood lost by Ukrainians”, and Black for the rich black Earth. Seeing as practically all these UPA trash had absolutely zero connection to any of this “blood” lost over the centuries or these wars, and Galicia is the least Black soil part of Ukropia (most of these UPA trash would have lived in areas with zero of it)…what we have are expats descended from an already pseudo-expat community claiming on some imaginary cultural heritage! WTF
Even for this stupid habit of anglicizing words in Russian that are not exclusively US/UK invented technology or cultural terms…Ukrainian follows the exact same pattern as Russia (well, directly after Russia). Seeing as most science, cultural, technology and everything else in “Ukrainian” is a Russian created word – this further emphasises my point
It gets even worse – the top sadist Ukrop historian, leading their Institute of National Memory (or whatever this nonsense is called)……the main guy until recently was the POS called Viatrovich. Barely in his mid-30’s. Where had he just spent 5 years of his infant career? In US , LOL, in this same Harvard Ukrainian Institute BS! Just some Soros-funded , lying trash . It’s inexcusable . An actual nation would have had people available to lead it who had spent 30+ years researching IN UKRAINE.
GO on…about your degree
I think the ideology is indeed such a net, or filter search setting, for catching marginals, by design – as it combines the most unpopular and militarily defeated themes in American imagination, from school shootings, to Edward Norton in American History X.
On the opposite hand, immigration restriction and opposition to open borders, is a sensible and rational position (although far more in Western Europe, where there has a been a terrible flood of unsuitable, unassimilated immigrants from third world countries). It should also be supported by those powerful capitalists who represent industries which do not require unfiltered immigrant labour. So this should be a mainstream and normal position, without any social stigma.
A large part of the normal population should support policies like immigration restriction. However, if you wanted to toxify and discredit politicians who oppose the open borders, then you can try to mentally associate them with the country’s least popular marginals, and a parade of the most comic and grotesque themes of the American imagination.
Then maybe collect marginals all together in a single place, and make them march in torchlit ceremony (like villains from films of Steven Speilberg, especially Indiana Jones), shout something about Jews (which is going to also attain Pavlovian anger from the American manager class, haute bourgeoisie, and media, that by 21st century America include a disproportionate number of people with Jewish origin); shout something about how they hate blacks (which might anger the lumpen and proletarian factions, to the extent they consume media – which is much less than middle classes).
This would be one of the most effective anti-marketing ways, to reset an idea that open-borders policies is the more normal position, and associate closed-borders with marginals.
The best thing would be to make it seem like opposition to open-borders is related to the most unpopular defeated ideologies of the 20th century (of course, historically there was almost no relation, and many anti-fascist coalition members had closed borders and immigration restriction, even internally – as in the USSR).
Richard Spencer (leader of the altright) created a meeting where such marginals are even performing “Zig Hail” for Trump. It seemed like an intentional anti-marketing strategy against Trump – however, reality is likely more banal.
Richard Spencer is probably just a narcissist, and wants attention from media (e.g. he was not married to a white woman), while aside from their useful idiots, probably the most radical parts of altright doesn’t really want to have immigration stopped. (If immigration actually was stopped, those groups would lose their raison d’etre.)
In some sense, altright group seem too perfect, not to be an intentional strategy to try to toxify opposition to open immigration policy. However, then you have to look at Ukraine, where there are similar “useful idiots”, without any need for them to be organized from Lubyanka.
Does anyone understand what is happening with Tesla stock?
https://i.imgur.com/GNbuX0y.jpg
Is this just a banal “irrational exuberance”?
Obviously, with coronavirus pandemic, Tesla is producing and selling far less automobiles this year than it had planned at beginning of year, and economic damage of coronavirus, means demand for expensive new cars will likely be depressed for at least another couple years other things equal. Yet the response of Tesla stock to this year’s pandemic, is an inconceivable boom.
Its a combination of cult following and Robinhood day trader mania. Lots of small bids will do this to a stock.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Tesla – my inlaws have Model 3 and it is a very nice car, and Autopilot feature is cool. We are considering one ourselves. BUT – at current valuation they will need to sell so many cars that even if they are successful, I think antitrust regulations will kick in. Once this realization sets in, I think mania will subside.
They have good product, but yea, stock action is irrational.
Polish shock therapy doubled GDP before the EU got involved. EU support quickly took GDP to three times its socialist level.
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus failed to apply shock therapy. Russia’s pains were for other reasons, mostly various kinds of corruption and failure to have joined up laws and functional tax collection.
It might have been the “Celts”/Gauls reaching the Berbers. The current view is that the original Celtic language was a trading language of the Atlantic sea routes bringing metals from the British Isles to the Mediterranean. The very oldest “Celtic” inscriptions are found in Port-u-gal near mining areas. It is by no means impossible that the Bronze age trade network included Morocco.
Tree analysis suggests Celtic languages started to differentiate when the Phonecians turned up and took over the trade. Hallstat and the Gal-icias of Central Europe and Turkey can then been seen as outposts of an established trading culture moving from West to East unlike charioteers and horsemen.
There are some YouTube lectures by Prof Barry Cunliffe amongst others on the subject.
Legions came from all over. There were Syrians in Chester; Samartians (An origin of the King Arthur legend?) and North Africans on Hadrian’s Wall at the Carlisle end. There was a “first Africans in Britain” memorial plaque put up recently. Stationing troops at the other end of the Empire from home was the usual practice.
So far the Falcon rockets haven’t been too successful in reducing the cost nor really that ‘reusable’.
https://spacenews.com/spacexs-reusable-falcon-9-what-are-the-real-cost-savings-for-customers/
Why build ‘factories’ in space? Ans:
–Some thing valuable like helium 3 from the moon. The efficiency of extraction(mostly robotised) would be more important than cost of transporting at most a few tons/yr from the moon.
–Again, the need of sustaining huge space cities, like I said.
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My gut feeling is fundamental scientific breakthrough needed for really massive space activities like space colonization.
Bronze Age trade networks including Maghreb is quite plausible. There are megalithic structures in Morocco that are probably an extension of the Atlantic Megalithic Culture predating Bronze Age. Moreover, at the very start of the Bronze Age in Atlantic Europe, the Bell Beaker cultural phenomenon included North Western Moroccan sites, some even suggest that the Bell Beaker cultural phenomenon originated there before reaching Europe in modern day Portugal. Finally, during the Bronze Age collapse the alliance of the Sea People included the ancient Lybians and was even headed by a Lybian king according to the Egyptian records.
I will will have a look into it.
Thanks for your input.
Sarmatians perhaps?
https://followinghadrian.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/sarmatians-on-trajans-column-2.jpg?w=584&h=789
Interestingly enough, Sarmatians seem being mainly of Y haplogroup R1b, while the Scythians that they vanquished in the Pontic steppe were mainly R1a.
I was applying this towards modern Europeans, rather than towards ancient Romans.
Mozgovoi was a brave man with remarkable integrity. That’s why he was hated by Kiev scum and similar scum in Plotnitsky gang. Thank goodness, Plotnitsky was chased out of Lugansk People’s Republic, although belatedly. For those who don’t know, Plotnitsky battalion’s official name was “Zarya” (meaning “dawn”), but people in Lugansk called it “Zazrya” (meaning “in vain”).
It is still not clear who organized Mozgovoi murder, Ukie scum or Plotnitsky scum. One thing is clear, though: considering his intelligence, Mozgovoi was inexplicably naïve. He was murdered on the same spot on the same road where an unsuccessful attempt on him was made a few weeks before. As he was one of the smartest and most honest leaders of Donbass freedom fighters, which made him a prime target for various scum, he should have been more prudent.
Strelkov is a whole different kettle of fish. Someone rightly said that it took him very short time to revert from Strelkov (his nom de guerre; has the same root as the verb “to shoot” in Russian) to Girkin (his real name; a rather unremarkable Russian Jewish last name with no noble connotations). He appears to be reasonably brave, but either not particularly smart, or he has a serious ego problem.
While Mozgovoi did what he thought was right simply because he thought it right, Strelkov apparently did what he did to get appreciated. He wasn’t. Now he behaves like a cuckolded husband, in an undignified and downright ridiculous manner. Of course, he still looks orders of magnitude more respectable than Ukie propagandist Gordon, who interviewed him recently, but that bar is way too low.
In Britain you typically only hear open anti-mass immigration rhetoric from working class types who are beyond giving a shit, or more rarely some upper class types who are so self-sufficiently wealthy that they say what they like because no one can do anything about it.
Middle class career types almost all tow the line, partially because of the brainwashing of their education and partially because of fear of having their career/lives destroyed by saying something politically incorrect.
Reusability doesn’t really make sense for small to medium rockets (such as Falcon 9 FT) because it cuts payload mass too much, but for larger rockets (Starship sized) it can be highly beneficial.
You will need to build factories in space because it will be vastly cheaper than doing it on Earth. No need for environmental permits or complex pollution controls, very easy thermal management, infinite free energy, no real estate limitations on the size of the factory, no need to spend $billions on clean rooms for advanced manufacturing as vacuum is a pretty good clean room environment.
Eventually you will want to live in space too – on rotating ring space stations, you will be able to customize everything, from climate to gravity, to your liking, and alter it at will. It can be as comfortable or uncomfortable as you like. Imagine gym facilities spinning at 3g, and then a beautiful lake above the gym at gentle and relaxing 0.5g for a pleasant swim. Now thats good life!
Science for this has already been done, we just need cheap heavy lifters and fast, efficient spacecraft to get it going. By the year 2100 I expect a thriving space mining and manufacturing industry to form.
Barbarian pre-civilized peoples tend to be violent with high violent death rates. Romans (hardly pacifists themselves, as another poster pointed out) describe them as such also.
I don’t think execution would be the only reason, but it would be a major one. Presumably the executed ones would have been the super-violent people. The executed would likely have had some children prior to their execution but would have fewer than would have the non-executed. So every generation the worst .5% to 1% would be culled.
In addition to removal by execution, the traits of undisciplined violence, short-sightedness, inability to deal with complex social interactions peacefully (in a civilized way) would make someone less successful in an urban (and even civilized agricultural) environment, whereas such traits might reap better dividends in a savage barbarian culture. In the Christian context, violence (at least not in times of war, towards outsiders) might have played a role. Being better able to live in a more sophisticated and socially/cognitively demanding world would result in larger numbers of offspring.
Genes do exist that are linked to violent, criminal behavior:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29760212
It would be interesting to trace such genes over time by sampling the percentage of people from medieval remains or earlier and comparing.
I am not a determinist with respect to human behavior. We have the capacity and in cases of harmful activity the obligation to override our “hardware.” But when viewed in groups there will be more individuals behaving in certain ways depending on their “hardware.”
This may not have been the case before and there are confounds involved (today urban, intelligent people tend to be secularists who adopt a hedonistic worldview that precludes large families; in the past this was not the case). In the past, intelligent people tended to leave behind more of a genetic legacy because their children were less likely to starve or die. An impulsive violent 17th century marginal, living on the edge of starvation, would have had fewer children and fewer surviving children than would a civilized prosperous farmer or successful burgher who had the means and desire to care for their families.
It varies but seems to be very high mostly. Exceptions like the islanders slaughtered and cannibalized by the Maoris were rare. According to Roman observations, the Germanics were violent ones.
This one post makes up for all your tiresome Berberolatry.
Sure, but any company/ies seriously contemplating it would have run the risk:reward calculations. In that sense, it’s not much different to a mining operation on earth. The technical considerations at this point are much more pertinent than the economic considerations.
So will anyone be coming to Kiev to enjoy the “Holocaust Disney”?
A Russian filmmaker will make it an immersive experience with VR where people can run around and play the role of Nazi executioners, Ukrainian collaborators or Jewish victims. Built right on top of where actual people were executed. A weird spectacle.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-holocaust-disneyland-11594336467
Ukraine’s ‘Holocaust Disneyland’
A memorial would re-create the aesthetics of Nazi terror at the site of an atrocity.
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center initiative, launched in 2016, likely will be the last major Holocaust memorial built during the lifetimes of survivors. Costs are projected to surpass $100 million. Most funding has come from four Jewish billionaires, some of whose families perished at Babyn Yar. Yet three of the billionaires are Russian citizens. The leading role played by Russians has been controversial, given that the country has occupied and annexed swaths of Ukrainian territory and waged a war that has cost at least 14,000 Ukrainian lives since 2014.
This strife has been amplified by the appointment of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky to oversee the content and message of the memorial as artistic director. Although Mr. Khrzhanovsky is an undeniably talented filmmaker, his vision for the project is disturbing. His stated plan for Babyn Yar is to re-create an “immersive” experience in which visitors act in the roles of Nazi executioners, Jewish victims or local collaborators.
A document describing his plans proposed to present visitors with images and stimuli that guide them through the horror experienced by the victims. At the same time, they would be faced with a multitude of other trauma-inducing experiments while wandering a labyrinth. Mr. Khrzhanovsky proposed to use virtual-reality technology that would create an experience akin to the Stanford prison experiment.
The filmmaker had developed such techniques during the more than decadelong process of filming “DAU” (2019). That cinematic project—made up of a dozen immersive feature films—has led to a criminal investigation into alleged abuse of infants during production. The films also have been criticized for their re-creations of sexual violence and for including real-life neo-Nazis as central protagonists.
When Karel Berkhoff—the Western world’s foremost expert on Babyn Yar and the memorial’s former lead historian—resigned, he compared the project to a Shoah theme park. Over several months Mr. Berkhoff was joined by a majority of the staff, a paralyzing turnover. The scandal has led to months of criticism among Ukrainian civil society and opinion makers, and the previous architectural design for the memorial complex has been thrown out, leaving a “hole in the ground,” according to one observer.
The desire of the memorial’s core donors and board to forge an original and affecting memorial is laudable. Yet Mr. Khrzhanovsky’s record of approaching the totalitarian past by re-creating it in the most visceral manner raises a disturbing question. Is vividly bringing the aesthetics of Nazi terror on the very ground where it had taken place an appropriate way to honor victims?
Reusability doesn’t really make sense for small to medium rockets (such as Falcon 9 FT) because it cuts payload mass too much, but for larger rockets (Starship sized) it can be highly beneficial.
This is clearly wrong, its not 2015 anymore, we are five years into F9 reuse. any payload the F9 can’t launch go up on the Falcon heavy, but the F9 is the work horse for now, SpaceX clearly make a decent profit with every F9 launch, we even see Rocket Lab now trying for reuse with their far smaller rocket
People wondering about Tesla and especially people shorting Tesla need to take a close look at Nikola Motor, the company is worth more than Ford but have yet to even show a working prototype, I suspect they may not even got that far, it looks like another Theranos
One only wonders whether there will be any balance exhibited within this memorial, as most of its funding is being donated by Jewish billionaires? So often, sites such as Babyn Yar included the massacre of members of other nationalities besides the Jewish one too. According to Anatoly Kuzntsov, an eyewitness to these horrendous events, in addition to Jews, Roma, Ukrainians and Russians were all unceremoniously destroyed at Babyn Yar. I’m a big supporter of the “All lives matter” movement afoot.
I think the extent people are scared, is a possibly everyone else actually considers your view (which in my situation are rational and moderate opinions – but probably a bit unusual ones for non-online usage) will be shocking.
For a short time, when I came into Western Europe in 2015, I had culture shock, from the few political opinions I heard from people – i.e. that Islamic terrorism is nothing, just a natural response to colonialism.
Now, though I am completely habituated to Western European liberal political mentality and feel at home in it. I will probably be more surprised if I meet “rightist” person in Western Europe, in real life (rather than the internet).
But in the last 2-3 years, in the city I work in now, proselytization of increasingly confusing, non-binary and LGBT religion
LGBT religion was always something fashionable or developed by the academics and students of the country and region (for more than 100 years), so it is not surprising. But by 2019, it seems like it had become visually ubiquitous and decorating every object.
https://i.imgur.com/x1QHdcU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0h77fbi.jpg
Is a trans woman, a man who has transitioned to be a women, or a woman who has transitioned to be a man?
However, if you want to use a toilet in the building, there is no men and women – e,g, despite claims that trans woman are women; men and women do not exist on toilet doors.
https://i.imgur.com/lsqZOyl.jpg
You can go to Wikipedia and look up current Falcon launch prices and payloads.
To LEO, new Falcon 9:
$62M for 23 tons.
Used Falcon 9 to LEO:
$50M for 15.6 tons. Payload capacity drops due to return fuel requirements.
If you do the math, new Falcon 9 price is $2,700/kg. Reusable Falcon price is $3,200/kg. It makes no sense to use reusable Falcon 9 unless you are trying to study booster return techniques or have small payload and can not pack a full Falcon.
To give you a point of reference, Russian Proton M costs $65M to put 23 tons in LEO for international customers and $35M is a Russian price for same payload. This works out to $2,800/kg international, $1,500/kg Russian price. In addition, Falcon 9 is a simple 2 stage rocket, and Proton M has up to 4 stages which makes it capable of performing complex orbital maneuvers, though complexity makes it less reliable. See Spektr RG observatory mission to Lagrange point last year.
Russian Proton is more capable and cheaper rocket compared to Falcon 9.
That doesn’t make SpaceX fools though. As rocket size increases fuel losses get spread over larger payloads and the math turns. Reusable Heavy already saves you like $100/kg. With Starship I expect to see significant cost savings as it is huge. Reusability will be the future.
But SpaceX are clearly making money today with reuse, I agree Starship will be better because it will be 100% reuseable, its the large profits from the falcon 9 that make Starship and Starlink possible
If you look at the SpaceX launches most costumers don’t need any think like 15 tons to LEO, or 23 tons for that matter, the 15 ton launches are generally Starlink, you’re calculation price per KG assuming every customer needs the full 15 or 23 ton capacity, if you want to get your 10 to satellite to LEO what do you care if SpaceX are “wasting” fuel to land the first stage, your satellite made to to orbit and along with the price thats all that matters
With reuse you also save time, it takes months to build a new Falcon 9 first stage, with a fleet of used first stages SpaceX can have a high launch rate by just mass producing second stages
Also to begin with Starship will be launching some very small satellites for a rocket of its size, in the early days Starlink will be the big launches, it will take a few years before the industry come to terms with Starship
It sounds like you are talking about an old controversy, in the other direction, with Symphony 13 of Shostakovich.
Originally, Shostakovich has very specifically about commemoration of massacres of Jews, and against antisemitism, with poem of Yevtushenko, in the first movement.
However, this was unacceptable for authorities in Soviet times, and songs were rewritten to discuss about the death of Jews, Russians and Ukrainians together, to promote multinational brotherhood.
Here was the original uncensored version of the symphony, – which was considered unacceptable in Soviet times – with Yevtushenko poem about antisemitism and massacre of Jews in the first movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVXEMUNWcg
By the way, various parts are similar to the “War requiem” of Britten – the British composer Britten writing was influenced strongly by Shostakovich. Benjamin Britten uses a combination of words from Latin masses, and poems of Wilfred Owen for his “War requiem”.
Yes I’ve test drive in Teslas, and they are nice cars – and also I see more people driving them in the last year.
But overall production/sales of Tesla are falling this year, especially compared to plans before coronavirus, and the near-term sales environment is deteriorating this year – and the stock market response is to increase in value by more than 3 times since March. Irrational exuberance (but why for Tesla specifically, when major automobile companies are at best flat in the stock markets this year?).
I agree that customers may have smaller payloads and that refurbishment is probably faster than making a new stage, so there are probably significant time savings.
In general though, you want to load your rockets to the max. Imagine you need to deliver 200 tons to LEO. It will take 9 launches with expendable Falcons and 13 launches with reusable ones. With prices at $62M and $50M respectively, expendable rockets will cost $92M less in total relative to reusable ones. That is a significant cost advantage to expendable rockets.
Well, perhaps this is an instance when the Soviet ideologues got it right? According to Kuznetzov, in his memoirs about the tragedy at Babyn Yar, there really were representatives of other national groups massacred there over a two year period (the first two days were indeed a depiction of Dante’s inferno). I’m not sure what the percentages say as to the ethnic make-up of the groups, and it could very well be that a disproportionate amount of Jews met their demise there, but what would be wrong in pointing out that many suffered, not just Jews? Multinational commemoration doesn’t take away one iota of Jewish angst and suffering experienced there, but widens its perception to a world where anybody can fall prey to evil and suffering.
BTW, I’ve just finished carefully listening to Mozart’s 24 piano concerto, and Beethoven’s 3 is up next. I should have something to you on the comparison by tomorrow, if not tonight…
Major automobile companies are not futuristic hipster techno visionaries. Car sales may be down, but dreams are not.
Not to dampen your enthusiasm, I must point out the huge energetics involved. Unless new workable source of energy plus other tech advances, your ‘predictions’ and time-line are basically sci-fi ‘prophecy’. I’m saying it wouldn’t happen but it’s just far-stretched.
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So far, I doubt those Falcon thingies have outdone the ‘reusable’ LH-LO engine of the US shuttle which wasn’t that usable anyway.
I suspect the old soviet Energia rocket probably has the lowest kg to LEO cost.
With prices at $62M and $50M respectively, expendable rockets will cost $92M less in total relative to reusable ones. That is a significant cost advantage to expendable rockets.
You’re assuming that the known prices give a true picture of their actual launch costs, I doubt thats the case, I think they make big profits with a reuseable F9, look at their spending right now, they did raise some cash a while back, but clearly reuse generates significant cash flow, if you were right why are they using the reuseable F9 for Starlink ? because its cheaper by a long way
Oxford and Cambridge have been filled with homo flags for years (probably tranny and black ones as well now). Walking through them sometimes feels like being in an occupied country.
I think they use reusable Falcon for the following reasons:
It looks good in the media and hypes the company.
They have $billions from NASA and others and don’t care about money, and reusing is faster, so they get done sooner.
As for prices being different from the actual cost, yes, true, but you would think they offer used vehicles at a discount rather than jack up the cost per kg. Used cars sell at a discount to new ones, after all.
Source of energy is easy – the sun close by, it is infinite and free, and nuclear power in far off regions. Once we get effective cooling systems up there (Russians are working on it for their TEM project), we can start building more and more powerful powerplants.
Yeah, but shuttles and Energia don’t fly today.
Getting it “up there” is the problem. Rockets launched from Earth consume 80-90% of their total weight just to attain orbit.
Air launch to orbit from a large jet aircraft at altitude offers significant improvements in payload to orbit, along with several other advantages, but Elon Musk opposed it, and he’s riding the golden chariot right now, a media darling propelled by media buzz.
However, my view of Musk is not favorable. He seems to be a shady and suspicious character who got his start with some sweetheart deals. He is repulsive around the edges, and in the same category with several other highly visible celebrities, whose strange but seemingly charmed looks are a regular feature on the boob tube these days.
Anyway, it is highly doubtful that mining or mineral exploitation on any scale will take place on any extraterrestrial body any time in the foreseeable future. It’s comic book material. Earth’s mineral wealth has barely been tapped. We’re sitting on mountains of coal, which the climate alarmists and carbon-phobes think is too dangerous to burn because CAGW.
Except that helium-3 is not valuable at all. Mining of He-3 on the moon was pushed by science fiction fans since the 1970’s as “reason” for space exploration.
Was load of BS then, and load of BS it remains.
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2834/1
TL;DR:
http://teamphoenicia.blogspot.com/2011/04/guest-post-helium-3-lunar-chimera-by.html
TL;DR:
https://www.tor.com/2020/04/06/imaginary-space-programs-are-always-better-than-reality-but-reality-is-pretty-amazing/
Air launch is not very effective because airplane speed is very slow relative to what you need to complete orbit – orbital speeds start at Mach 33 and go from there – and aircraft has to carry both payload and rocket plus fuel. So your payload mass is limited, and all you gain is a few seconds that rocket doesn’t need to fight air drag of lower atmosphere.
Rockets don’t go up (all that goes up must come down), they go sideways, and they do it much faster than airplane can. For an air launch, the speed bonus provided by the aircraft is so small its a rounding error. What we need is big rockets like Starship, Falcon Heavy, SLS and Yenisey. Preferably reusable but its not a strict requirement. If we start with expendable its OK.
As for comic book material, flying across continent on jet airplane used to be comic book material, and now its mundane and cheap. Same will happen with space mining.
And as for Earth resources being barely tapped, can we stop with this delusion please? If you think environmental regulations will get easier rather than harder going forward, you are not living in real world. Nobody will let you strip mine the planet. Nobody wants to live next to a coal mine. And as global GDP rises, even the poorest of Africans will get rich enough to protest toxic runoff from existing mines in their backyard, nevermind allow construction of new ones.
We need industry that doesn’t dump lead and mercury into your children’s drinking water. And with 8 billion people, there will be few places to locate it on the planet. So moving it out of peoples’ way is the only rational choice.
Getting it “up there” is the problem. Rockets launched from Earth consume 80-90% of their total weight just to attain orbit.
This problem is now solved by having reusable rockets, once on orbit refuelling happens things get even better
Air launch was a nice idea but it clearly only works with smaller rockets
What’s interesting is that you take any opportunity to snap at an actual Ukrainian (AnonfromTN) when they have the gall to disagree with you. A very unfortunate habit of yours.
I just think that it is immature of him to find any reason at all to be snide to people like AnonfromTN, no matter how banal the subject.
But you have a point, nobody elected me Police Chief of the Karlin forums. I shouldn’t be barking at anyone.
You are laboring under several misconceptions.
The advantage of air launch is not the speed, but rather the altitude, which allows the rocket to escape the very bottom of Earth’s gravity well without requiring the massive first stage. The jet aircraft becomes the first stage, and it lands after launching the rocket. A large part of a rocket’s fuel is consumed just getting the whole shebang off the ground in a conventional launch, because escaping the very bottom of Earth’s gravity well is the most difficult, and most costly part of the entire launch.
You seem to think that all industrial processes are clean except for coal. Do a little reading please:
https://stopthesethings.com/2018/08/28/renewable-energys-dirty-dozen-12-reasons-why-chaotically-intermittent-heavily-subsidised-wind-solar-power-make-no-sense/
https://grist.org/article/report-going-100-renewable-power-means-a-lot-of-dirty-mining/
My problem is not disagreement; I disagree with many people here. I have a problem with dishonesty and/or nonsense writing presented as “fact.” And problems with liars and peddlers of nonsense is indeed a pattern for me.
He is a Donbasser of mixed descent – a Sovok, not a Ukrainian. From a region that is no longer part of Ukraine (thank God).
Nah, there is very difference between gravity at the surface and airplane at altitude, and even low Earth orbit. We measure gravity from the center of mass, which is like 6,000 km underground. Compared to that, 30 km for airplane or even 400 km for International Space Station is nothing much. Gravity at ISS is like 90% of gravity on Earth.
The reason for weightlessness and orbit is not because there is less gravity, but rather that you move sideways so fast, as you fall you keep missing ground. You could make orbit underground if you moved sideways fast enough, and there wasn’t stuff in the way.
So gravity gains for air launch are negligible. Altitude will allow you to bypass higher density air (stuff in the way), which can be a bonus for small rockets, but for bigger payoads it is also not the main concern. Orbit is all about speed.
As for pollution, my concerns cover all industries, not just coal. Hence the need to move factories to space.
Yes, the army shoots its own people only once. After that, it shoots foreign people. Thank God.
There is no “need to move factories to space.” That’s alarmist nonsense for the Star Trek set.
In any event, even if there were the need, such fantastic action is completely and utterly beyond mankind’s capability.
For remedial reading to better understand Earth’s gravity well, I refer you to some of Arthur C. Clarke’s early work, starting with The Exploration of Space, which I had the good fortune to read as a young man in the 1950s.
But even the Wikipedia article I cited earlier gets it mostly right:
Not mentioned by Wiki is the $$$ for the “fuel and equipment.”
Currently, SpaceX operates four launch sites. Apparently the $$$ for these operations is being beamed down from the Starship
EnterpriseTesla.Ok. Stay on Earth and enjoy paying $trillions in permits, fines, fees, and damaged reputational costs for any spill or atmospheric emission that you cause. Or if endangered life decides to move in, it will completely destroy your business. Or you can avoid all of this in space.
Flying jet airplanes across continents was once completely and utterly beyond mankind’s capability. And look at us now, it is so routine, it is boring. Same will happen with space mining and manufacturing.
There isn’t an airplane that can lift 100 tons cargo plus rocket required to make orbit for this cargo. It is a lot easier to just make a bigger rocket that can lift 100 tons to orbit and launch it from the ground.
All part of the full spectrum war on China.
China wants to go high tech, developing and making their own chips.
That is a huge no no. As that was exactly the same reason Japan got the smack down. I remember reading that Japan had like 60% to 80% market share of computer chips before getting smacked. China is too big to be smack by any country.
That is why you are seeing all these attacks in the English media.
In the case of India, it is just trying to profit from this new China vs US information and economic war. And it is willing to become a vassal from the looks of it.
And get this, India is blaming China that it wants to become a mere US satellite.
And the funny part of all this is, USA pushed China into this 2025 plan with the Asian pivot. The start of this show was 2012.