Rediscovering the Russian Imperial traditions.
Bliny on sour dough of buckwheat flour and sour dairy, served with sour cream, salmon, and red caviar at the apartment of a Finn whose family maintained the Imperial traditions.
I will be departing for Romania very early tomorrow. Any last tips/recs? I’ll be two days in Ploiesti for two days, in Transylvania for three (castles & hiking), and in Bucharest for five.
Before anyone asks, I am traveling to the wedding of one of my best friends (who also happens to be a recognizable name amongst Alt Right intellectuals). So no, I’m not going just because I have nothing else to do with my money, which is unfortunately rather limited.
But reminder that you can help change that: http://akarlin.com/donations/
Featured News
- Alexander Mercouris: Italy’s crisis and the crisis of democracy in Europe (best take on Italy)
* How Worried Should We Be about an Italian Debt Crisis?
In related news, gap between Italian and German bond yields widest since 2013:
- Ron Unz: Why The American Conservative Purged Its Own Publisher. I outlaid some of my thoughts in the comments. Found little surprising about it, though its good to be reminded not and then of the depths of cuckservative mendacity.
Based Portugal. SWEDEN YES!
PS. Eastern Europe polls on religion here.
- Gregory Hood – Why Aztlán Matters. Interesting observations on the building of a new nation. How prevalent? (h/t Thorfinnsson for the tip that Gregory Hood is now at Amren).
* Gregory Hood: Steve Bannon: Quit Boosting Martin Luther King. Will cuckservatives take this advice? A rhetorical question.
- Jonathan Anomaly – 2008 – Defending eugenics
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Audacious Epigone: Hear, O Israel. Generation Zyklon much less Israelophilic than the boomers. So are the Latin immigrants.
The Epigone in the comments:
One of my first experiences with the ADL was a report they put out in the early 2000s highlighting the high levels of ‘anti-semitism’ among foreign-born settlers in the US from Latin America. But even in the very report there was no anti-immigration sentiment expressed–they just need more education!
- Longtime readers will now I am positive on Ethiopia (relative to Africa in general).
Tyler Cowen was there and has some comments: Will Ethiopia be the next China?
Ethiopia also had a relatively mature nation-state quite early, with the Aksumite Kingdom dating from the first century A.D. Subsequent regimes, through medieval times and beyond, exercised a fair amount of power. Most important, today’s Ethiopians see their country as a direct extension of these earlier political units. Some influential Ethiopians will claim to trace their lineage all the way to King Solomon of biblical times.
In other words, the process of organized, national-level governance has been underway for a long time. It was this relative strength of Ethiopian governance that allowed the territory to fend off colonialism, a rare achievement. It is also why, when you travel around the country, a lot of the basic cuisine doesn’t change much: Dishes are seen as national and not regional…
Like many Iranians, they think of themselves as a civilization and not just a country. They very self-consciously separate themselves from the broader strands of African history and culture. And, as in China, they hold an ideological belief that their country is destined to be great again.
My impression is that Ethiopians have less Afrocentric svidomism than e.g. Nigerians.
Also: Ethiopian food in Ethiopia
- The history of the world every year:
Russia
- Update on the Babchenko story (for those not following the comments): He’s alive. Whole thing was a setup.
Could have been a Ukrainian provocation to undermine Russia’s World Cup that went awry. But perhaps it’s far more banal. The proposed killer (who went straight to the SBU) was a Ukrainian nationalist and Right Sector member. The contractor was the owner of a weapons factory who supplied the ATO. It would be hilarious if this was actually a straight out corporate raid.
- Double standards (Western journalist reactions to real assassination of Oles Buzina vs. fake assassination of Babchenko):
https://twitter.com/ValLisitsa/status/1001585873530556416
- On this note, interesting account from KP journalist Dmitry Steshin: During a Facebook debate with him while Steshin was in Slavyansk, Babchenko asked him for his location so that he could better target the artillery on him.
That said, Babchenko is – if this is true – someone who has actively tried to get other journalists killed.
- Share of Russian goods in Russian retail rises from a 56% in 2013, to 65% in 2017. Quality improves.
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Map of where Russians pay by card (green), or withdraw money from their cards (red). The usual north/south division. Crimea is probably redder than it should be due to some combination of the legacy of Ukrainian backwardness and Western sanctions.
World
- Commenter Polish Perspective on the Swedish nationalist scene
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Looks like Japan is going to start mass labor importation. Under the nationalist Abe no less.
Foreign workers will be allowed to stay in Japan for five years under a new framework that covers five industries — agriculture, construction, lodging, nursing and shipbuilding.
- Food (in)security in 2017:
https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan/status/999327978378145792
- The insanity of Maoist economics:
Here's what I mean when I say Soviet central planning was sane relative to Maoist economics. pic.twitter.com/vnbIHZlgR7
— Anatoly Karlin (@powerfultakes) May 13, 2018
- Map of Internet penetration in Europe, via /r/europe. Italy can into Eastern Europe. Poland was beginning to do better on these sorts of maps.
- Analysts need to be made to predict things, publicly.
The CIA ought to record all its analysts' predictions, make them all be quantitative (probabilities), compare against #Superforecasters for same questions, and publish public summary comparative accuracy rates. Get other US intelligence agencies to do the same. https://t.co/BepVzSbTwB
— Randall Parker #VaccinesForMoreViruses (@futurepundit) May 28, 2018
- Irish abortion referendum: Very few differences by geography, income, etc.; cardinal differences by age cohort.
Science & Culture
- Why does Elon Musk have to become sympathetic only when he’s (possibly) on the verge of ruin? Anyhow, I fully support this journalist ratings website. RateMyJourno.
Who do you think *owns* the press? Hello.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2018
- Another week, another GWAS on IQ.
Gail Davies, Max Lam, […]Ian J. Deary (2008) – Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function
- Berezin, Alexander (2008) – “First in, last out” solution to the Fermi Paradox
No present observations suggest a technologically advanced extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has spread through the galaxy. However, under commonplace assumptions about galactic civilization formation and expansion, this absence of observation is highly unlikely. This improbability constitutes the Fermi Paradox. In this paper, I argue that the Paradox has a trivial solution, requiring no controversial assumptions, which is rarely suggested or discussed. However, that solution would be hard to accept, as it predicts a future for our own civilization that is even worse than extinction.
Powerful Takes
- More on Russian origins of the Great Pyramids:
https://twitter.com/BotNamedSue/status/1001416585737854976
- I didn’t ask for this.
— Deus Ex (@DeusEx) May 29, 2018
- Good political science take:
Every Saturday morning you are challenged by stronk Swede to contest of rope-tug. If you lose you must remain SUBORDINATE for the coming week!
(this is only form of govt I believe in btw, and also in positions like intel, hierarchy to be sorted by chess match, etc.) pic.twitter.com/kMwsRIC9od
— Bronze Age Pervert (@bronzeagemantis) May 26, 2018
- Boris N. takes a brief break from his boycott of the Internet.
They don’t need to since they’ve got a real history of continous civilization. And they even defeated the Italians in open battle during the latters’ first attempt at colonization in the 1890s.
The polls about ancestry as requirement for truly belonging to the national community are interesting…and very surprising to me, since at least in Germany the churches are extremely anti-national and among the biggest supporters of Merkel’s open borders policy.
Sweden…lol, what’s going on there? Are they really that brain-washed or so conformist that people don’t express their true sentiments?
The polls about US sentiments towards Israel are also fascinating, I wouldn’t have suspected that so many Americans have a negative view of Israel (even 20% of Jews view it as a “threat”?). That has interesting implications for the future. If there’s a war against Iran that ends in disaster, I could imagine Israel being blamed for it and in the end being left with very few friends even in the US.
Only 26% of church-going people in Sweden link ancestry with national identity? Are these mostly Nigerians? Or did they conflate “mosque” with “church”, or are normal Swedish churches really are crazy as that?
A worthy open thread issue concerns JRL/Paul Robinson promoted Keith Gessen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/ovechkin-babchenko-putin-golden-knights.html
Absolutely no mention of the horrid fate facing journalists in Kiev regime controlled Ukraine – having nothing to do with Russia and a good deal with the influence of nationalist anti-Russian elements, seeking to eliminate pro-Russian sentiment in Ukraine.
As a comparison, the Russian situation doesn’t seem worse. As one example: if I’m not mistaken, the Kremlin didn’t make a concerted effort to ban the recent UEFA Champions League final played in Kiev. Compare that instance to the Kiev regime seeking to ban World Cup telecasts in Ukraine.
An earlier Keith Gessen moment:
Re: http://russialist.org/sean-guillory-comment-on-keith-gessens-the-quiet-americans-behind-the-u-s-russia-imbroglio/
Enough already! At his blog, Sean Guillory states that David Johnson asked him to submit a piece concerning Gessen.
Like Gessen is really needed to state what has been otherwise obvious – a point relating to this piece:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/10/11/slanting-against-russia-us-establishment-pastime.html (non-JRL promoted)
Contrary to Paul Robinson, Keith Gessen isn’t so radically different from his more well known sister Masha. The latter has said that too much hype has been given to the notion that the Russian government greatly interfered in the 2016 US presidential election. Ultimately, both Gessens have an overall slant against mainstream Russian views – thereby explaining why Keith got the nod by The NYT to run his much discussed piece.
Regarding “the paper of record”:
https://www.eurasiareview.com/09062016-enhanced-russia-bashing-at-the-new-york-times-analysis/ (non-JRL promoted)
20% of US Jews say Israel poses a threat to the US – I am impressed!
Every time that I hear Africa compared to China, I laugh out loud.
My favorite formulation is the basic “Is Africa going to be the next China?” But I enjoyed them all – Djibouti being compared to Singapore is also one I treasure.
Cowen is pretty bold to drop the interrogative and one-up with the humorous phrase “China of Africa.”
Anytime the US acts in Israel’s interests, Jews sell it as Evangelicals determining policy. It seems obvious to me though, that it has other origins. I bet anything that Jews contribute more money to both parties than Evangelicals do to either. When the Jewish pundit on TV is saying “Evangelicals”, it seems like a rather thin veneer. I expect many Jews in Congress will lose their seats due to the demographic transition, so many of them have sought, but I don’t expect policies to actually change because they aren’t democratic to start with.
I don’t know, if there’s a war against Iran (which seems like a real possibility), the Jewish angle will be hard to cover up, given how Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer etc. have literally bought influence with Trump and other politicians. And since such a war will probably end in a catastrophe, I could even imagine the US becoming seriously antisemitic as a reaction.
I wish I was a big-brained libertarian so I could have takes this intelligent
Vapin’ Jack’s clown car has committed its most grievous sin yet–suspending Wild Goose 999, the world’s foremost anti-shitbull activist.
Twatter must be stopped!
The return of the capital to Moscow from St. Petersburg perhaps further depressed the presence of salmon in elite Russian cuisine, as Moscow is not near any salmon fisheries.
It’s my understanding that in Soviet times lots of seafood regarded in the West as being very high quality (Atlantic and sockeye salmon, king crab, etc.) was simply canned and sold as a commodity. Tragic.
I could see Ethiopia being the next Malaysia or Mexico perhaps. Current progress looks quite good. Nilotics are an intermediate racial type and Ethiopia has a long history of civilization. Ethiopia’s semiarid highland geography also reduces disease burden and parasite load.
Biggest problem for Ethiopia doesn’t seem to be blackness, but rather ethnic conflict and typical emerging market issues.
What would you suggest him to do instead of accepting more immigration?
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cover-Story/Famous-for-its-resistance-to-immigration-Japan-opens-its-doors
Fish roe is another problem. In the USSR, due to underdevelopment/lack of freezing facilities/whatever, fish roe was canned with chemical preservatives, and blended with vegetable oil (!!) not to mention huge amounts of salt. (The Soviets were absolutely obsessed with vegetable oil. Even now, so much stuff like olives with pimento are smothered with it, making them inedible).
According to my Finnish friend, roe in Finland is only slightly salted, preserved through simple freezing, and tastes fresh upon defrosting.
The Finnish byliny are also much better. In Russia – thin wheat and milk pancakes, which in Finland are made with sugar and strawberry jam for children; in Finland – the old Russian style byliny are made of sour dough of buckwheat flour and sour dairy.
The Soviets did untold damage to Russian culinary culture, up to and including eliminating the old recipe books. (Nor did they even manage to replace it with anything worthwhile – in the modern marketplace, old school Soviet stolovayas are getting massively outcompeted by burger joints and sushi bars). This tradition is only now being restored.
I want to know more about the success rates of using pick up artist techniques on Romanian women compared to other Central and Eastern European countries.
The difficulty of any HBD-optimism with regard to Ethiopia is that Somalia is very close to Ethiopia, and so Somalis are probably quite similar to Ethiopians. Of course, geography is not necessarily everything. Irish Travelers and Irish are basically the same people split off about 500 yrs. from each other, and yet they possibly have genetically-based behavioral differences.
There is nothing wrong in principle with importing foreign labor, as long as one prevents any roots from being established. It is very easy on a technical level. The only difficulty is willpower, and the Japanese seem to have the willpower.
What? You mean blini (блины)?
Damn, you really sound like a foreigner when you’re talking like that. There is nothing wrong with Russian blini. You can make them with sugar and salt if you like. And you can eat them with jam once they are ready (mixing strawberry jam with milk and flour, and then cooking sounds like a really strange idea to me).
Tell me, what is your opinion of dill? Does this herb taste strange to you? lol
There’s a number of things Japan could do in the short-term, aside from the obvious (automation):
-Abandon noncompetitive agriculture, which currently absorbs 3% of the labor force (triple the rate in the United States)
-Sweeping deregulation of services, particularly retail, to increase abysmal productivity in the sector
-End unproductive “education” and put most teens into the labor force
-More with prefabricated, manufactured buildings
-Stop demolishing 30-year old structures
-Increase the retirement age, and use government compulsion to increase the fitness level of the elderly to keep them in the labor force
-“Export substitution”–allow in more manufactured goods to free up manufacturing workers (probably not a good idea, but it’s on the table)
-More efforts to reduce the mortality rate
Long term of course Japan needs to end women’s rights, eliminate “dating” and romantic love (Japan traditionally had arranged marriage), and adopt a suite of aggressive natalist policies and propaganda.
Trouble with the long term is it’s just that…long. Even if the entire yellow sharia program were implemented today, you wouldn’t have any new workers for a dozen years (I doubt kids under 12 are useful for much labor these days).
Has black caviar consumption declined in Russia now that the world’s beluga sturgeon are mostly farmed in China?
It might be the next Malaysia in the sense of a Chinese minority supervising native grunt work, which is what the Ethiopian ‘manufacturing boom’ consists in. But doubtless they will get pogromed eventually, like Asian minorities usually do in Africa.
The fabled Ethiopian civilisation was sub-Mesoamerican tier
Well it is since they still have problems with famine that require huge amounts of foreign food aid.
Vegetable oil wasn’t just a Soviet obsession. The industry was after all developed in North America, with disastrous health consequences.
Adolf Hitler was also a vegetable oil enthusiast.
Modernizing regimes generally favored vegetable oils on the grounds of economy.
Food really does seem to be an area where one wants to follow Taleb’s maxim of only consuming Lindy-tested commodities.
According to FAOSTAT Russia is the world’s #1 producer of buckwheat, and the Ukraine is #3. I assume this isn’t just a post-Soviet phenomenon.
Did the Soviets have some other use in mind for buckwheat?
Bretons also make buckwheat pancakes called galettes.
Besides, wheat doesn’t make for bad-tasting pancakes. Crepes and Nordic pancakes (almost the same thing) are simply made with wheat flour, eggs, and milk. North American flapjacks are more or less the same thing with the addition of a leavening agent.
I am surprised the Finns served strawberry jam instead of lingonberry jam.
They destroyed culinary traditions in Hungary, too. It’s being restored, but before, say, 2008, there really was not a single good restaurant in Budapest.
Buckwheat is paleo since it’s a seed, not a grain. Ukraine should make gift baskets with soba noodles and buckwheat blossom honey and sell to the Japanese.
Japanese government is too traditionalist to accept and execute such radical measures, but not traditionalist enough to ensure that they have Japanese children.
Incidentally, twitter user labeled “Ластик и Абырвалг” is Valentina Lisitsa, a pianist with eight fingers on each of her hands.
(especially starting from around the 6th minute.)
I was going to say something snarky about how massive, unexpected technological transfer to China was totally okay to me, but looking at it, it seems that they’re largely low-paying jobs so it’ll be focused on SEA guest workers(individuals mentioned in the article were Indonesian and Vietnamese). It should be interesting.
I think its most common use is in kasha. Really basic stuff:
https://i0.wp.com/russianrecipebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Buckwheat-Kasha.jpg
PS. According to relatives, buckwheat was not entirely trivial to get in the USSR, even in Moscow. One more achievement of socialist economics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressed_herring
This took me quite awhile to get used to, I remember. I miss it now, its nigh impossible to find in the States.
Is the European media talking about the Samantha Bee thing at all?
edit: or the tariffs?
I thought it was spelled bilyni in English, but actually I was just mistaken.
Borsch is spelled borscht. Former is correct in Russian, but latter is correct in English. I can hardly insist on spelling Kyiv as “Kiev” and Ukraine as “the Ukraine” unless I myself scrupulously stick to established rules.
AFAIK that was mostly when they had a Commie government.
I remember having to fake my way through not hating it during a Unity Day dinner I got invited to in St Petersburg. Probably the only time I’ve ever regretted my Russophilia.
Didn’t deserve to get killed, but a dishonest troll/provocateur. I suppose he could be a Ukrainian Babchenko.
I could never eat that. Nor holodetz. Vodka helps with forcing oneself to eat something out of politeness.
From English Wikipedia:
More proof of the bogus nature of the Ukraine. 🙂
And now for the Swedish presentation.
https://www.recipetineats.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Salmon-Gravlax-8.jpg
https://assets.marthastewart.com/styles/wmax-1500/d46/martha-cooking-school-preserving-gavlax-cs2009/martha-cooking-school-preserving-gavlax-cs2009_horiz.jpg?itok=UCimWt4G
Served without fail at every holiday and special occasion throughout my childhood.
My mother gave me the “secret” family recipe she inherited recently. Of course the version I came up with myself is better. My mother throws an amazing party and is the hostess with the mostess, but she never could cook.
There’s a great similarity of cuisine between the Germanic countries and the Slavic ones (not counting the South Slavs). Probably just down to geography, though no doubt some historical factors come into play as well.
Tired: Slavs are untermenschen
Wired: Slavs are disciplined warriors who will bear any burden and pay any price for victory
Inspired: Germanic-Slavic hybrids are the true master race
https://pmchollywoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/barron-trump-dresses-up-for-dinner-ftr.jpg?w=620
Enjoy the wedding. You will write about your impressions of Romania afterwards right?
The obsession with vegetable fat goes back to when sunflowers were introduced to Russia.
Salmon on bread (your second picture, though with white bread) is typically served during intermissions in Moscow theaters. It goes well with champagne.
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in other words…..like the insidious troll fucktard you are…..you have no idea who Buzina is ( or Babchenko for that matter) but as you are a POS you makeup this stupid nonsense.
Buzina was a brave, level-headed journalist who calmly and rationally destroyed all argument of these nutjob ukrop bandera-nazitards you idiot.
He also got plenty of heat in Russian media for subscribing to an idea of Ukraine as a culture and nation, that had many differences, as well as many alignments with this Russkiy mir outlook. To call him a provocateur is beyond demented….even for a fantasist cretin as you.
This is none more obvious in not only a few interviews on Ukrainian radio stations (naturally all done in Russian, like everything in Ukropia) and print articles….but in his tv debate on Russian TV against Zhirinovsky, you dumb prick.
Don’t know if Buzina ever expressed joy over the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers (let alone people loosely affiliated to them, or Ukrainian children). Happy to be corrected if not, but that is what would make the two equivalent.
Kholodets is essentially just a very thick bone broth that has gone cool. Thinkinv of it that way makes it far more appetizing. However, I dislike dressed herring too, and selyodka in general.
Sunflower oil is obviously the best for use with cold foods, for example in salads (where unrefined oil is the best tasting).
But when it is heated above around 170 °C, it becomes carcinogenic.
So if you are using it for cooking, it is better to buy olive oil (which has at least a slightly higher heat tolerance before becoming carcinogenic).
To check they sold you not fake olive oil, but a real olive oil, refrigerate close to 0°C and it should become cloudy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd-nRusV4AEhUdE.jpg
Sunflower oil should be prohibited by law for human consumption.
And no, it is not the best tasting for salads you philistine.
Nikkei had a recent and very interesting story on Japan’s immigration policies.
Cover Story: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors
A graph:
https://i.imgur.com/tWldBUC.png
And a key quote:
The article is worth reading in full.
I’ve also read that South Korea has begun to take more and more migrants, from Laos, Cambodia and so on. It’ll be interesting to follow these developments. So far, China seems to be a positive outlier under Xi Jinping who really does seem to be /ourguy/ to a greatr extent than almost any world leader (banning hiphop, purging the African street peddlers from Guangzhou, tightening immigration for all but the educated elite etc etc).
Meanwhile, Taiwan in talks to build a 50,000 capacity mosque to accommodate Indonesian & Malaysian migrants.
OT, but interesting on European identity.
https://i.imgur.com/vvjijgT.jpg
Note that this is asking everyone, not just Europeans, in that subreddit. The European-only part comes later.
https://i.imgur.com/koMhVox.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ohBYt5P.jpg
The sample size is probably quite small, but it is nevertheless reasonable. I think most people would put CZ as Central Europe. Though many Poles often stress that Poland is a Central European country, I think mentally and culturally we are more Eastern. People like to LARP as Central Europeans because of status anxiety(read: it has better and more positive connotations) but the rest of Europe correctly see us primarily as Eastern. I’m fine with that, since I dislike people who are inauthenitc LARPers.
Croatia’s identity is mixed, of course.
There’s more here if you want to see the other charts. One final bonus pic which made me chuckle.
https://i.imgur.com/42BkqAo.jpg
Should I feel flattered or threatened? 😉
You think the problems with the PIGS were over? Just as Italy is reaching political crisis, Spain’s prime minister managed to get sacked and having his government fall by losing a no-confidence vote from the opposition.
Spain’s PM will lose the no-confidence debate after the Nationalist Basque Party confirmed its support to the Socialist Party initiative
This will mean that the EU funds will probably be slashed even more for the Eastern European countries, given that while Brussels whines about us being “illiberal”, we are for the most part quite stable whereas the South increasingly is not.
Greece is a financial black hole, Italy is imploding politically and now Spain is thrown into chaos. Only Portugal seems to be doing okay politically, though it’s gross debt is quite high. I have hopes for Spain to pull through, in part because they are my favourite Southern European country and frankly always seemed to me to be the least stereotypically ‘Southern’ whenever I would visit.
Must have been a lot of Turks and Arabs in that last one, to place Turkey as maybe being inside Europe.
I just wanted to give a historical and cultural perspective on sunflowers in Russia particularly that most Russians probably think a sunflower is a native plant. Sunflower halvah was invented in Russia, I guess. Here is Sophia Loren in Russian sunflowers:
Los Girasoles de Rusia
As far as the smoke point of different fats it depends whether they are refined or not. Refined sunflower oil may have a higher smoke point temperature than olive oil. However different internet sources give different values going all over. Health and nutrition sites are not reliable as often they are run by health obsessive flakes and wackos two are not well grounded in scientific reality. Not sure how trustworthy is this one:
https://jonbarron.org/diet-and-nutrition/healthiest-cooking-oil-chart-smoke-points
I think it’s an acquired taste (addiction).
Also one that almost all Russians over 50 suffer from. I’m surprised Dmitry is in those ranks, though, since he’s reasonably young and likes the Mediterranean clime and lifestyle.
On Ethiopia.
https://i.imgur.com/CeQSMIL.png
It’s important to point out just how far behind Ethiopia really is. They are, even for third world status, extreme laggards. Growth at these rock-bottom development levels should easily surpass 8% by any but the most incompetent governments.
https://i.imgur.com/rR8Sxy9.png
Much of their recent growth has been on debt. True, their economy has grown quickly, but even at 10% per annum, you double every seven years. Debt is growing far faster than that.
https://i.imgur.com/Hb485vd.png
The most bizarre claim, however, is the comparison with China. China, like the rest of East Asia, managed to get rich by manufacturing-led export growth. Malaysia has also had manufacturing-led growth, so any comparison to them is equally spurious.
That just isn’t happening in Ethopia. The press always focuses on the shining exceptions, but by and large, there is simply no serious comparison with China. Malaysia is another ridicolous comparison, which I saw a few people in this thread make, who frankly should know better.
I’ve long stopped taking Tyler Cowen seriously, when I read his “thoughts” on how to deal with automation. His “solution” was to push an app-economy and services. But as Dani Rodrik and a number of economists pointed out, large countries have only ever been able to get truly rich by industrialisation, in part because mass manufacturing can absorb what poor developing economies have a lot of: masses of unskilled labour. He basically had no comeback to this criticism.
Africa will not rise. It can hopefully be haphazardly be contained, but given the complete failure of their leaders to do any semblance of fertility control, they will just export their problems elsewhere and we will have to deal with it, because it would be “racist” otherwise.
Yeah, the same thought crossed my mind. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if quite a few Nowak’s tipped the scaled for us, too, though we aren’t as numerous as turks in Germany are. Secondly, we weren’t put in the either/or category like Turkey, which means that the results for us were much more lop-sided. Therefore quite a few of ethnic Germans at least in that sub really must see us as Central Europeans, but the reasons(benevolent or future Ostsiedlung) for this can only be speculated on 🙂
It depends on the bottle. If you do it with the one designed for cooking, it won’t taste of anything. If you use the nonrefined and cold-pressed one, it is tasting delicious.
Briefly reading around, it seems sunflower oil does less well
E.g. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/div-classtitlethe-intake-of-fried-virgin-olive-or-sunflower-oils-differentially-induces-oxidative-stress-in-rat-liver-microsomesdiv/89B43A5B331AEA300CDDBA445B71D4EC
Although from abstract only, cannot see if they tested nonrefined or refined oils.
I was talking about what happened last year
Healthy shmelthy is your problem. Everything in moderation is my approach including the unhealthy if tasty. I was just interested in the cultural aspect of fat from sunflower in Russia.
https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1002180397139034112
Any potential EU member is per definition European.
Sunflower seed vs. rape seed consumption. They are main sources of vegetable fat in Western countries.
https://www.indexbox.io/blog/which-country-consumes-the-most-sunflower-seeds-in-the-world/
Which Country Consumes the Most Sunflower Seeds in the World?
In 2015, the countries with the highest consumption were Ukraine (11,570 thousand tonnes), Russia (9,318 thousand tonnes), China (2,249 thousand tonnes), together comprising 51% of total consumption. They were followed by Tanzania with a 5% of global consumption share and Turkey with a 5% share.
Per capita sunflower seed in Ukraine was estimated at 258.12 kg/year, much higher than the global average of 7.81 kg/year. Ukraine was the leading country in terms of per capita consumption, among the main consumers of sunflower seed, followed by Russia (64.95 kg/year), Tanzania (39.07 kg/year), Turkey (26.54 kg/year) and China (1.60 kg/year).
https://www.indexbox.io/blog/which-country-eats-the-most-rapeseed-oil-in-the-world/
Which Country Consumes the Most Rapeseed Oil in the World?
The highest levels of rapeseed oil per capita consumption was registered in Germany (37.89 kg/year), followed by France (26.79 kg/year), China (4.74 kg/year), the United States (4.67 kg/year) and India (2.11 kg/year), while the average per capita consumption of rapeseed oil was estimated at 4.14 kg/year in 2015.
Olive oil consumption is highest in Greece, Spain and Italy from 20l/y -11l/y. Surprisingly in France only 1.8l/y and in the US 1.1 l/y. Order of magnitude higher consumption of olive oil in Mediterranean countries does not make them 10 time healthier than Americans.
One more thing. Butter is good for you and lard has no cholesterol. And I also love chicken, duck and goose fat. And my grandmother used to make a desert dish using beef suet.
“Long term of course Japan needs to end women’s rights, eliminate “dating” and romantic love (Japan traditionally had arranged marriage), and adopt a suite of aggressive natalist policies and propaganda.”
that’s the most important point, though I would avoid natalist policies and propaganda.
Apart from that I would simply do nothing concerning the shortage of workers. Just let the market work. Rising loans for workers would mean a incentive to stop useless academic education. Finally be ready to accept a decline in material wealth.
Slovenia as Eastern European? That’s strange. Maybe some people mistook it for Slovakia.
EU values are un-European.
though foreign workers form China would be a good thing. East Asia needs some cultural diplomacy. They need to get to know each other, so military tensions can be avoided.
What brave not journo Babchenko likely shies away from:
https://forward.com/opinion/401518/violent-anti-semitism-is-gripping-ukraine-and-the-government-is-standing/
concerning costs/benefits of PGD
The plan sounds good. I wonder how many people actually do it right now.
Although I would add that especially for male off-spring attractivity on the partner market should also be thought of – at least until white / yellow sharia is not implemented. That makes optimization much more difficult or even practically impossible.
How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech
The British left reports on the ongoing process of preparing the ground for a “revision” of the US First Amendment to reflect the new dominance of the liberal left, and the fact that its former adherence to freedom of speech as a non-negotiable principle is no longer convenient.
It’s pretty easy to read through the stark, characteristic dishonesty of the left here (for instance, the usual shameless mischaracterisation of events in Charlottesville to blame the victims, refusing to even mention the context that this was a legitimate and lawful political demonstration attacked by “protesters” seeking to shut down the freedom of their opponents to express their opinions, with the protesters enabled by sympathisers in local government ensuring that proper police cover was not available to protect the marchers) to see that this is a matter of the left shifting to position itself to reflect its new position of entrenched dominance, from its former underdog posture. Far from the leftist campaign against dissent being a response to a “rise of the right”, it actually is based upon the triumph of the left. which no longer fears the powers that be abusing power to control dissent because the left are now the “powers that be”.
Some of them are even pretty open about admitting the truth that leftist support for freedom of speech was a mere tactic and a lie:
Now freedom of speech is an existential issue for conservatives, nationalists and the right in general, and a lot of necessary realignments are under way. The ACLU will eventually have to choose between being an advocate of freedom of speech largely for the underdogs, and its other role of being an attack dog for leftist causes, which now means being an establishment enforcer against the underdogs. My assumption is that such bodies, like Liberty in the UK, will mostly go with the much more comfortable and well rewarded establishment enforcer role, and will gain hugely in resources and powers as a result, but will consequently lose a lot (ultimately all) of their energy.
Bretons also make buckwheat pancakes called galettes.
More formally, gallettes de sarrasin; where I lived (southern France) they were generally called called crêpes au sarrasin — “buckwheat” is sarrasin, having been brought back from the Middle East by the Crusaders.
Most amusing event this week imo was the German-looking Luxembourgish Euro-apparatchik Jean-Claude Juncker smoothly pouring oil on the troubled Italian waters by suggesting that Italians should stop dissenting from the Euro-elite’s prescriptions and work harder, be less corrupt and be more serious.
I’m sure that went down well, and that there is some truth in it is unlikely to make it less inflammatory.
Italy’s new populist government reacts furiously to Juncker suggesting southern Italy is corrupt and lazy
https://i.imgur.com/wvf1hhl.png
New unemployment figures for the EU came out today.
The euro currency has been an utter failure. It has completely failed in its core objectives (convergence). Instead, we’re seeing the direct opposite: divergence.
The Southern states in particular are stuck. Italian unemployment at 11.2% has not budged one iota.
https://i.imgur.com/WTu6kx7.png
All countries + the US, Iceland and Norway for reference. Only really Portugal among the Southern states has done a fairly good job. Not hard to understand the instability in Italy, Spain etc when you see this table. Youth Unemployment rates are even more disastrous.
Freezing fish roe is an absolute travesty. Only ‘American Cheese’ can be compared in sheer, mind-boggling blasphemy.
Visit the Far East (Sakhalin/Kamchatka) and try some real fish roe.
Italy’s new populist government reacts furiously to Juncker suggesting southern Italy is corrupt and lazy
People always complain that politicians are not honest enough. Well, the reason is simple: the few times they dare to be, people don’t typically like to hear the truth.
“We must be aware that those who observe us from afar are worried. We have seen and heard many leaders of other planets are very worried because they ask questions concerning the way in which the EU will follow. So we must insure Europeans as well as those who observe us from afar.” – Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission President.
I don’t know why anyone would take anything he says too seriously or personally.
He’s an alcoholic from an insignificant country that probably shouldn’t even exist and is only important as a tax haven. But if he manages to enrage the Italians even more, maybe he’ll have done at least some good.
You need to freeze it to eliminate worms and parasites.
Even top end sushi places freeze sushi and roe first.
I’ve seen maps that included not only Turkey but all of North Africa. I get the idea that Juncker and his pals would fully support it.
Doesn’t seem to be the case. He just lied repeatedly, and took a pro-Russian approach in Kiev at a time when Ukraine had gotten its territory taken by Russia and when Russian volunteers and weapons were killing Ukrainians. Unlike Babchenko, Buzina didn’t flee, so he was either braver or more foolish. He worked for a Donbas oligarch’s newspaper so may have thought he was protected.
Were Babchenko’s articles full of lies?
In openly celebrating the deaths of soldiers, Babchenko was more nasty towards his own country and people, but the two had in common the fact that they were both trolling their own people and country’s government and taking the side of the enemy during a time of conflict.
Here’s a pro-Ukrainian take on the Babchenko case:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/05/31/in-ukraine-a-russian-journalists-staged-murder-casts-attention-on-a-forgotten-war/
That’s true. Of course thinking this way about jello makes it less appetizing.
I am sure the Martians will exterminate us anyway, no matter what we say.
I’d never eat anything raw – including fish.
Not only the bacteria, but the worms. Some of them probably have life cycles that involve stages in mammals. Sometimes, if worms get into the wrong host, they become confused and go into places they wouldn’t normally go – like the eyeball or brain.
Sure, freezing will kill a lot of that, but it is not as psychologically satisfying as fire.
You are mad. Frozen and thawed roe is inedible. The correct and traditional way of treating roe is with salt. (That kills parasites and also preserves it.)
Sunflower seeds are delicious to chew on.
The oil is inferior to EVOO in every respect, and given its health consequences there is no reason to use it.
The Wehrmacht however found it useful as a machinery lubricant.
So Russians who love sunflower oil are simply aiding and abetting German panzer armies. Traitors!
There’s nothing wrong with American cheese.
It’s a processed cheese product which is mostly cheese. The additional ingredients are just whey and enzymes.
It’s not flavorful, but that’s not the point. The point is superior meltability and thus texture in cheeseburgers.
See here: https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/07/whats-really-in-american-cheese.html
This is pretty funny.
I wonder what exactly the deal is with the Mezzogiorno.
Two Sicilies was reportedly relatively advanced prior to unification.
Most Italian-Americans hail from Sicily and Calabria, and they do not differ from other American whites in achievement.
They had an initially corrupt trajectory which saw them heavily involved in organized crime, but the same was true of the Irish and the Jews. These days the mafia is just a bunch of overweight 70 year olds in track suits trying to avoid indictment talking about the movie Goodfellas.
Purely based on geography, I’d consider a lot of what has traditionally been called Eastern Europe to actually be Central Europe, but I think people naturally like a dichotomy more.
For instance, I think it would make more sense to include Finland as an honorary member of Scandinavia, than to call the whole group Northern Europe, which is a term that I think makes more sense with a wider aspect: Northern vs. Southern.
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Think of North Italians and South Italians as North Europeans and South Europeans in one nation state which was primarily created and run by the former.
Not in the 19th century. Otherwise, it would not have fallen so easily.
It was notoriously backward since at least the 18th century. Maybe it was relatively advanced in the 13th century.
I believe they used to call anyone who could read professore. Differences in height were quite remarked upon, but they are at least partly genetic.
If I understand it correctly, the article proposes that we are the first and, provided we start colonizing the Galaxy, will exterminate all the others. Why is it worse than extinction? Nothing is worse than extinction.
Though it’s possible it won’t be us but our AIs who will colonize the Galaxy. Which would be extinction for all practical purposes.
You just admitted that taking a “pro-Russian approach” in Kiev at this time will get you killed (with full complicity of the regime, that didn’t punish Buzina’s killers). So how can you argue that pro-Russian approaches are unpopular in the Ukraine? This isn’t a free country we’re talking about, regime has effectively outlawed pro-Russian views under threat of death.
You can point to the results of recent elections , but these are “elections”, supervised by the Azov batallion. I can guarantee you that an election in Kiev overseen by the Army of Novorossia would produce markedly different results.
I honestly think it would be pretty disturbing if aliens showed up. It is not about my fear of them directly, but rather what it would mean for our psychology. I’ve encountered many blacks that I would consider to have been driven insane by living in the constant shadow of whites, so much so, that I’ve come to think re-segregation would be a compassion, provided the worlds did not intersect and were completely isolated.
He was a public figure who not only took a pro-Russian approach but publicly mocked and ridiculed Ukrainian patriots at a time of war. He was a provocateur. Such people shouldn’t be killed and turned into martyrs of course.
Comparing his situation to that of someone “taking a Russian approach” in the voting booth or when answering a poll is absurd.
Demographics, polls and voting. Even if nothing else changes, removing Crimea and Donbas alone results in a solid pro-Western majority. Add the war, and the advantage grows.
After 9-11 some people wearing turbans were shot in America.
Apparently, according to your logic, there was a lot of pro-Muslim sentiment in America after 9-11 but people were afraid to express it because it isn’t a free country and someone could get killed.
Russian skinheads sometimes kill Tajiks in Russia. Apparently according to your logic there is strong support for Islam in Russia but people are afraid to express it. Nemtsov’s killing proves that elections don’t mean anything the Russia – the liberal majority is silenced.
In the world of Felix Keverich, whenever someone is killed who holds unpopular or offensive views, it really means those views are popular, but suppressed.
You are not ashamed to mention Azov battalion after you were caught stupidly claiming they were western Ukrainians, revealing your ignorance.
I just tried and failed to purchase a side of salmon at Kroger.
I went to the self checkout, and to my dismay there was an item rung up in the till. Required an employee intervention to void.
The salmon was not bar coded and thus could not be scanned.
I looked over at the regular checkouts, and there were deep lines of geriatrics buying 800 tons of cake mix so they could bake dry, tasteless desserts for their fat proletarian prediabetic grandchildren.
I just dropped the salmon and walked out.
Never going shopping ever again.
Ukrainian “patriots” deserve to be ridiculed. Just look what at the stunt they pulled with Babchenko. They actually think it was some brilliant operation they executed. Describing Ukrainian regime as fascist would be giving it too much credit. They are, in the words of Mikhail Saakashvili, допотопныe бандерлоги.
Poll after poll shows, that бандерлоги running the Ukraine at this time are extremely unpopular. In this situation, it is natural for people to search for the alternatives. This is why the regime takes care to shut down disseting opinions – they recognise their vulnerability.
Are Poles as sensitive as Czechs about being referred to as ‘Eastern’ rather than ‘Central’ Europeans? Czechs just can let it pass without correcting anyone who says it. I guess they must look down on the more Eastern Europeans and don’t like being mixed in with them, otherwise why take it so personally?
Due to the superior Scandinavian genes of the inhabitants of backwoods Wisconsin to what extent is underclass decay limited compared to other rural regions (e.g. Ohio and West Virginia) with a poorer stock of human capital?
Hungarians are.
This is Gordon Allport’s completely discredited Contact Theory, one of the sociological theories used to justify the disastrous integration experiment in America.
Often getting to know foreigners just makes you hate them more.
And Japan already has quite a few Chinese guest workers and students. It’s not the 1980s anymore.
I do, however, have a radical proposal involving foreigners. Japan could relegalize polygamy with foreign women, provided you already have a Japanese wife and she has borne at least four children. Naturally the foreign wives would need to be scrutinized by the intelligence services and a eugenic board.
“Often getting to know foreigners just makes you hate them more.”
I don’t think this would be a problem in Japan with Chinese workers. Japanese would simply learn that Chinese are pretty similar to themselves, with all the strengths an weaknesses. Of course poorer, with a higher tendency to cheat, but in this regard Chinese will converge to Japanese in the the next decades anyway. Thats something different than for Euro-Americans getting to know African-Americans better and learning that behavioral differences are bigger than expected.
I dunno. There wasn’t such a reaction to the Iraq War.
Other than Scalia and outside of the arts, there doesn’t appear to be a single Sicilian in America who has a big intellectual achievement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sicilian_Americans
Considering Italian Americans are overall 5% of the US population and their lack of contributions in proportion to numbers, the Mezzogiorno migration has been a net drain for America.
Ever hear of the narcissism of small differences?
Below is a video of Japanese nationalists attacking a Korean school:
And then of course on mainland China you have anti-Japanese riots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_China_anti-Japanese_demonstrations
And my personal favorite, Honda China workers going on strike and attempting to physically attack a Japanese executive who made some unfortunate remarks about the Second Sino-Japanese War: http://www.ibtimes.com/chinese-workers-strike-after-japanese-execs-controversial-comments-1618010
You can find this sort of thing with whites as well.
Americans think Canadians are gay.
Russians think Ukrainians are neo-nazi Banderists.
Swedes think Danes are extremely tricky and dishonest.
The English believe that “wogs begin at Calais” and everyone on the Continent is a fool.
The French think that the Germans are violent barbarians.
http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/foreigners.html
A good deal of whataboutism that you received. As one svido extraordinaire put it:
http://russiafeed.com/crazy-ukrainian-leader-says-half-of-ukraine-is-mentally-retarded/
It’s probably easier to be a pro-Bandera svido in Moscow than a reasoned and openly pro-Russian advocate in Kiev.
Recall the not too distantly deceased (not murdered) Ekho Moskvy host with a surname starting with the letter N, who praised Bandera. That station had on at least another svido leaning advocate whose name escapes me.
Why not just look at a list of all Italian-Americans, instead of strictly Sicily? There are exceptions, but most Italian-Americans came from the Mezzogiorno.
Lee Iacocca, one of the greatest automotive executives in American history, has his origins in Campania.
The legendary investor Ray Dalio is of Italian descent, though I’m unable to find his origins in Italy as searching for it keeps turning up stuff about his Italian bets.
The real harm Italians inflicted on America is contributing to the decline of the Northern European phenotype.
From JRL promoted McFaul:
http://russialist.org/jrl-newswatch-assassins-were-trying-kill-babchenko-he-has-every-right-to-do-anything-to-survive-as-someone-who-also-has-had-death-threats-lodged-against-me-i-find-lectures-about-how-hunted-pe/
To be expected from someone who lauds Julia Ioffe. So much for Mr. Meduza (Kevin Rothrock) describing McFaul as a Russophile.
Like McFaul has proof that there was a murder attempt on Babchenko as described by the Kiev regime. On the other hand, there’s considerable proof that the Kiev regime has launched negative lies about Russia.
As my Lithuanian friends are wont to remind me, the geographic center of Europe is in
Purnuškės, Lithuania
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Lithuania_Centre_of_Europe.jpg
which I guess means that Hungary must be in southern Europe, or perhaps south-central Europe.
EU values are anti-European.
Not as much as the Czechs, who are hypersensitive about it, but I am certainly annoyed by the rather large amount of Poles who indeed are.
Poland is fundamentally not a Western country. The arguments I’ve heard in favor of it (“we used the latin alphabet while the East used cyrillic!”) or (“we were the last bastion of Latin Christendom against the barbarous Eastern Orthodox!”) are all unconvincing. Polish statehood has historically oriented itself towards the East, and there’s always been an element of opportunism in how identity was construed.
For instance, Polish elites were fond of making up bullshit stories about how Poles are supposedly “sarmatians” and often used to LARP as Ottomans in their dress code when the Ottoman Empire was strong. Now, we’re supposedly these ‘Central Europeans’. It’s all rather bullshit to me.
I pin it down to status anxiety, and not much else. It’s a sad reflection on how insecure many Poles feel about their own culture and history, as well as many other Eastern European peoples, because deep down they know we belong to the Eastern sphere in a very decisive way and we’re just larping as Westerners.
This is amplified with the significant amount of Russophobia in Poland. We have far more in common culturally and socially with Russians than we do with the French, despite being supposed ‘enemies’ with Russia. We are not Westerners and this ‘we wuz Central Europeans’ is an attempt at that.
Hey, Anatoly, when you are in Bucharest we should meet.
If Poland is to be Eastern European who is left to be Central European? Austrians and Czechs only? Do we need this Central European term for just two inky dinky countries? Then we could say we have Eastern and Western Europe plus Austria and Czechia which also happen to be in Europe.
I looked up about Czechs and how they feel about it. Indeed they seem to be touchy. More so than I would fit my concept of Czechs.
Anyway, it is all a pointless nonsense.
I’m writing a screenplay about Noah’s flood, except the movie is from the perspective of a family that isn’t on the Ark.
Assuming that the film is well written (which it will be since I’m the one writing it) is that a movie that any of you would be interested in seeing?
I have a friend who is a writer in Hollywood and he was super negative about the idea when I pitched it to him. He said no Hollywood studio would ever touch it. He added that the only market for such a film would be Evangelical Christians but that they would never allow their children to see a movie that humanized the flood’s victims so they are out as potential ticket buyers as well. He basically thought that it was a film with no audience.
Whatever. I think that if you make a good movie with an original plot people will want to see it.
https://www.rt.com/news/428493-india-buy-s-400-systems-russia/
There was a noticeable attempt to shift away from Russia – which has traditionally been India’s main arms supplier – to the US during the Modi era. Though any shift takes a long time and Russia still had the lion’s share of arms deals. He has tried very hard to align India with the US and during Obama’s presidency this came into full bloom.
However, we have to thank Trump for souring relations, in no small part because of Washington’s hassling the Indians on H1B and related visas, as well as Trump naming India’s trade deficit as a potential problem. The Trump administration has also taken many cases against India in the WTO and has threatened to remove GSP, which are a series of trade concessions to developing countries that the US and the EU give to poor countries. None of these moves are very friendly to India.
The Indians knew that the S-400 was superior even before Trump, but refrained from buying during the Obama era as they sought closer ties with DC. This is now in shatters, and we can thank Trump. Outside of MENA, where he continues to be a puppet of the Israeli lobby, he has actually had a quite decent foreign policy, at least from my worldview. Moving India closer to Russia is a net win. Alienating the EU is a net win, which weakens the hand of the ‘Atlanticist’ servile class that Merkel belongs to and strengthens the voices of those calling for greater distance. He calls African countries shitholes. He has tried to unify NK with SK (though with considerable help from China). All around, not a bad record.
That food map of Africa will probably change a lot by 2100.
Maybe you could also include a plot about the animals that died in the flood, like dinosaurs. That could make it interesting for creationists.
Maybe you can visit Vee when your in Romania? Of course that may just be a waist of time hahahahahah!!
Since we are all “nationalists”, I thought you would would all be interested in this section of an e-mail I just sent to my father:
Did you really write that and feel like that?
Yes. 🙁
Sounds bad, I feel sorry for you.
I get the impression though that America doesn’t even work that well for many people with deep roots in the country nowadays. If you define a country solely by reference to abstract values and have permanent mass immigration, that’s bound to be pretty alienating.
I am going to redeem this country.
I don’t know how yet, but I will.
Thank you for your kind remarks. I appreciate it.
Hungary claims the same:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe?wprov=sfti1
It depends how you calculate or weight places like Iceland or Svalbard.
So does Ukraine:
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/ukraine/rakhiv/attractions/geographical-centre-of-europe/a/poi-sig/1383331/360939
I started to have similar feelings around age 32, by which time I had made a number of irreversible or near irreversible decisions.
Anyway, it’s worthless to obsess over things you cannot change, but identity is something you need to provide for your children. That’s what globalization eventually deprives all of us of.
Part of then Hungary. Curious how the calculations slightly changed a few hundred kilometers to the east when it no longer belonged to Hungary.
If it’s a consolation – it’s not an uncommon feeling. Unfortunately for you, there is not a diaspora community of similar individuals with similar backgrounds to you, you might have had a community.
I grew up not too close to my diaspora. My best friend in HS was a kid with German parents. I dated an exchange student. In university, also almost always among foreigners, eventually marrying one. Perhaps the trick to not feel uncomfortable is not to take too seriously a personal national identity. You come from aristocracy, right? In that case your family tradition was always to be different from the masses around you, this may have been national also. Think in such terms, not focusing on alienation from the happy hobbits in your Midwestern idyll with whom you feel such a distance. But don’t allow your distance to become contempt, despite temptation.
https://i.imgur.com/NhCK6iu.png
It is really astounding how badly the US does on health-related matters compared to its high national income.
I’ve always found it distasteful when European nationalists disparage and mock Americans for being “mutts” and “not having a real identity”. I hope you didn’t absorb too much of that. American whites did go through ethnogenesis. Just as Swabians and the other German regional identities underwent ethnogensis to become Germans, a country which is actually younger than America.
Do your kids know Swedish?
He “dates” younger women and goes on sex trips to the Philippines. I doubt he has any children he recognizes.
Since this blog is in particular interested in ethnography can you go to the two counties in the middle of Transylvania that are majority Hungarian? I would like to hear your observations on how the Hungarian minority has avoided assimilation. Are they constantly hostile towards the majority (e.g. grocery clerks only speaking Hungarian to keep Romanians out)? What other strategies do the Hungarians use?
The strategy they used was having come under Romanian rule relatively recently, only a century ago. The majority Hungarian areas are constantly shrinking.
Lithuania? Never! Germany is center.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/geographic-center-european-union-brexit
Oh c’mon. The treaty ceding over Transylvania from Hungary to Romania was 99 years, 6 months ago. Considering one county is even 75% Hungarian according to the last census, the decline isn’t happening very fast.
I’m also curious to know what is the scholastic performance and overall quality of life of Hungarians in Romania versus Romanians. A popular explanation from American sociologists for explaining the test gap between whites and blacks in America is that there is a residual benefit to academic performance for students from a historically privileged group in a herrenvolk society. The poorer performance of Afrikaners compared to the English in South Africa is given as an example of this phenomenon. Considering Hungarians ran things for so long in Romania, even if they had a lot of property confiscated, they should still perform better than Romanians according to the idea.
https://i.imgur.com/LYsBIyI.png
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/7wrgvs/18thcentury_chinese_drawing_of_a_swiss_mercenary/du2mb2c/
Bear Poland could be described as Eastern, but Poland was moved westwards in the last century, hence Central Europeans is the correct term for the new Poles.
giggles The new cartographic center of the EU is a field of rape.
The Czechs are capable of being self-aware about this particular hang-up. There is a famous Czech comedy set in 1946, where the father of the main character gives a patriotic speech that includes the line. “We’re Slavs! But Western Slavs!”
For me, the concept of Central Europe is inseparable from the legacy of the former Habsburg realm. There’s a certain architectural, culinary, bureaucratic, and general cultural overlay in those areas that you notice the presence or absence of when passing in or out of the region. Even a dimwit wouldn’t take too long to start suspecting that Budapest and Prague used to be in the same country, or that Vienna was too but Berlin wasn’t.
Yes, was moved rather than has moved. You’re using the correct terminology, which implies that our movement was done by others (Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia) because of external circumstances (WWII and the Cold War) and we just adapted to those. These movements are recent in our long life as a nation and should be seen as historical anomalies.
Over the next 20 years, as the boomers die off, we will start the procress of rebalancing. The Western orientation will still remain dominant, as we are part of the EU, but it won’t be overwhelming as it is now. Most Young Poles want a balanced mix, whereas most Hungarians and Czechs want to remain totally in the Western camp.
https://i.imgur.com/81OmSQP.png
The Polish Boomer question which I keep harping on is very real.
https://i.imgur.com/nTjGVJv.png
We will never be as Eastern as Russia simply because our geography does not allow for it, rather we will move towards a hybrid culture with a stronger re-orientation towards our long-neglected Eastern heritage while still balancing the Western impulses. That is not as far as I’d like to go, but it will nevertheless be better than the blatant and inauthentic LARPing as Westerners and the absurd denial far too many Poles engage in that we have strong roots in Eastern Europe, to a frankly much greater extent than the Czechs.
https://lowiczanka.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/polmap.jpg
Poland, of course, would’ve been much better off without the war, inside its pre-1938 borders. I read that the formerly German areas vote consistently left, probably because the inhabitants are rootless. It’d probably be different if there was a strong German nationalism, then they’d feel under threat and be more nationalistic, similarly to how eastern Germans felt under Polish threat between the wars and voted nationalist. But as it is, it’s not very good for Poland, though of course changing the borders would be pointless now.
Regarding Jobbik. They are currently slightly to the left of Fidesz for most practical purposes.
The former leader Vona started an Evola-esque traditionalist academy (nominally totally independent of the party) for select party cadres and sympathizers (it closed some three years ago, apparently it cost too much), and apparently he is (was?) fond of traditionalism (especially Evola and a few Hungarian thinkers like Béla Hamvas), so we cannot fully know how genuine this leftward turn is. You have to remember that all these moderates were extremists just four years ago. It’s possible that they are just faking it in the hope of getting to the corridors of power.
The school mentioned above taught anti-science views (I think they rejected the theory of evolution, for example – it might endear them to some commenters but not to others), and while I’m unsure about the school itself, but some of the Vona supporters or moderates continue to be extremists when it comes to the idiotic we wuz kangs (we wuz Sumerians, we wuz Jesus Christ, etc.) strain of Hungarian nationalism, which came into being after the war in the emigration, and possibly was a diversion created or cultivated by the communist intelligence services, but which definitely took on a life of its own.
As to their alliance with the leftists. Since 2014 they have been doing that in by-elections (but not in the general election), and they openly stated the possibility of an electoral agreement with one of the leftist parties, LMP, which was founded only in 2009, and which until the election explicitly rejected any cooperation with the other leftist parties (whose main forces are the former communist socialists and a spinoff of the socialists, therefore implicated in both pre-1990 communism and the horrible 2002-10 leftist government), and they had been better on most questions than the other leftist parties. I think it might have been possible to form a coalition with them where they accept strict immigration enforcement etc. in exchange for some minor concessions. However, since their former leader resigned in 2016, they seem to be drifting leftwards, so probably they will now just join the rest of the leftist parties. I don’t know if Jobbik will ever consider joining up with these, or what will happen.
It must be noted that Fidesz tried really hard to push them to the left, probably because after moderating their image, they seemed to be more dangerous than the socialists. So they gave them an extreme fine for doing something which Fidesz also did. (All opposition parties received fines, except smaller. Fidesz didn’t receive, because – you want believe it – the authorities only audited the opposition parties, they explained that they were not chosen randomly.)
Jobbik now has no money (because of the extreme fine) to run a candidate in the by-election, so they decided to just support it. Fidesz is now using them for a “Socialists Are The Real Racists” deranged campaign. The district is in Budapest, normally pro-Fidesz, but with very weak support for Jobbik, so it matters very little.
Regarding LMP. They are nominally a green party, and they took it seriously, so they were anti-globalists and anti-TTIP etc. They weren’t that good news for the globalist masters, except that I’d expect them to cave in at the end, just as Tsipras did. Anyway, now they are about to split up with the majority just joining up with the socialists. It’s somewhat surprising, because in 2013 they already had a split with a minority of them joining the socialists and leaving the party. But apparently now those who stayed have no better idea either.
It’s because America has an imported population of Africans and Mexicans, nothing more. If Belgium had annexed Congo it would have much worse stats.
Hispanics’ life expectancy is longer than that of whites. Probably good Amerindian genetics.
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/life-expectancy-hispanic
I get a little maudlin sometimes.
To be clear I do not obsess over this in general, and am much more comfortable being an American than most other first generation people.
I had the good fortune of growing up with upper class American WASPs who unthinkingly accepted me because I look, talk, and act like them. Right down to go-to-hell pants and boat shoes. But I still had the luxury of summers in Sweden with family.
But yes, globalization eradicates identity. I understand that materialism is powerful and even important, but at the end of the day we’re all here fighting for identity (and beauty–see BAP and Handsome Thursday).
There is actually such a diaspora community. When I lived in Chicago I belonged to the Swedish American Club, which was a lot of fun (and provided a lot of dates).
And I should point out the lack of large diaspora was helpful to me. It wasn’t until I became a man that I started wondering about this. I’m much more American in spirit than you are for instance. You obsess over the Ukraine in a way I do not about Sweden.
Like I told the Magyar Miracle, this is not actually that much of a problem for me. These days I feel more isolated as a result of class.
And, of course, by personality. Probably like many of us.
I have always enjoyed being different, but we different people still have a need to be heard. That’s why the internet is such a godsend.
Oddly one of my proletarian female employees seems to understand me and is very curious. But I can’t get too close for very obvious reasons. None the less next weekend I will attend a charity benefit on behalf of her terminally ill daughter (talk about having real problems).
Just like Western Poland.
http://assets3.bigthink.com/system/tinymce_assets/3769/original/Poland_Germany_Election_Map.png
https://i.imgur.com/mMGYYva.jpg
Americans have a real identity, in fact a glorious one which they deny themselves owing to what has happened in this country. My comment was about how I don’t.
I don’t know anything about my kids as they are the result of R-selection.
I mean future k-selected children I am planning on as legitimate heirs. Unless I marry a Swede, I will not teach them Swedish. I’m committed to this country.
Snarky European nationalists who bash us are jerks. They should have some sympathy instead. We’re a prototype for what the The Enemy is trying to do to them.
Not sure about the Mexican part.
https://i.imgur.com/TdvZi3e.png
Furthermore, even the racial gap between blacks and whites is decreasing.
https://i.imgur.com/yQDmyE4.png
Finally, the US life expectancy actually fell in the last recorded year we have (2016) and the white death rate, particularly among the high-school educated white middle-age men, is now as high as it was in Russia in the 1990s, except that the US has (on paper) a booming economy.
The problem with that meme map is that most of the Poles who live in the western parts are actually transplanted Poles from Ukraine, Belarus etc.
In other words, the populations who live there now have historically nothing to do with German influence, which is the impression one who is not fluent in Polish history could easily get, which is why the meme map became popular in the first place (“close to the German border = must mean that they are liberal-minded!”).
That’s problematic for entirely different reasons, of course, since it implies that Polish liberalism is more deeply rooted and cannot be explained away on muh Germans/Germanic influence.
They do it to themselves, too. I noticed this strain of smugness in Denmark, even if Denmark is just Sweden T-minus 20 years. It’s all very narrow-minded and idiotic, but I can’t say that Polish nationalists are any better. My ‘debate’ with Another Polish Perspective showed as much. Many still live in a fantasy world where Poland will just magically skate by and be largely untouched.
As they say: we either hang in there together or we’ll be hanged separately.
Thank you for the native account.
That’s the part which I still struggle with, if they weren’t genuine far-right, how come nobody caught them. Or if they were – and presumably still are – then I fail to see the 4D chess here.
It seems the most banal explanation is also the most likely: they never had any real principles and just went for whatever the most expedient position was possible at the time. Though your point about Vona setting up a traditionalist academy seems to fly in the face of that thesis.
To me, it just seems odd how one of the more impressive political parties in Europe folded so quickly. It’s definitely an issue that I will track over the years, maybe there will be a book by some of the insiders. I am still holding out for the June 23rd platform fight for Jobbik. It seems that the challenger has about half the party with him and at least that is something he could salvage.
Depressing tactic even if the stakes are low. The most optimistic interpretation is that Fidesz doesn’t really believe that BS but feels compelled to push it since it’s (comparatively) liberal Budapest.
Hopefully they could evolve to play the same role that M5S plays in Italy. There is certainly common currency between right and left on stuff like globalisation, free trade, neoliberal economics etc. M5S is deeply split on the issue of migration (and similar identity issues), though I am too lacking in knowledge of the Hungarian left to make any judgement on those guys. It was my impression that much of the Hungarian left are some of the worst shitlibs imaginable (some were even outright calling for tearing down the border fence, IIRC). Is there space for a pragmatic left? From your words, it seems the mainstream socialists are just eating them all up. Are there factions within the socialists who would possibly emulate the stance of M5S?
That is what I meant.
They are descendants of uprooted Poles and have weaker roots than the Poles in the South-East.
I first met that map on a Hungarian nationalist forum, and the explanation was largely that the population is probably rootless as a result of being transplanted from Eastern Poland.
I had a few friends who felt the same dislocation. That generally abated after they married and had children and had no time to do anything but work\sleep\look after the kids.
The Philippines?
Never been there.
Where do you get this stuff?
So many (poor) Nigerians, wat do?
https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1002882522647105537
https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1002897620421898240
The way I see it, nothing wrong with Nigeria that a few millennia of evolution couldn’t cure.
This map should be used to teach people about what are the foundations of conservative and liberal sentiments. It all comes down to the connection to soil. The Poles in the western Poland lost that connection. They got uprooted. This changed their outlook.
Bolsheviks new exactly what they were doing when the decided to exterminate kulaks. People with connection to land which thew owned could not be turned into a New Man. They would not buy indoctrination into some abstract notions.
Capitalists and liberals love immigrants for exactly the same reason. Uprooted people can be indoctrinated and ‘modernized.’
To be modern means to be uprooted w/o a connection to the soil. Jews were always the vanguard of modernity. Modernity is Jewish. The question one should ask who ends up owning all the land in the end.
They impact educational statistics.
Correct. But if you look at the stats for whites overall, it’s about the same as for people in Europe. The US white life expectancy of 79 is a bit higher than Czech Republic.
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In general, across all stats (crime, education, health) Americans of Europrn descent are within the range of people in Europe. America only looks “worse” when its large third-worldish population is added to produce a misleading overall “average.”
Great comment.
In Ukriane the more “uprooted” population in the newly-settled southern and eastern parts have been more pro-Soviet or pro-Russian, while the older longer-settled core territory has been more pro-Western.
There was a nice pancake place in the old Swedish neighborhood, which has become Chicago’s lesbian neighborhood (Ukrainian village has a bit of a hipster infestation, but the Ukrainians are holding on – advertising for rent only in the Ukrainian language is a great way of keeping a neighborhood intact without getting in trouble).
TBH this is my solitary hobby; I don’t play videogames or watch TV shows on my own. I devote a couple hours daily to it (I go to bed late) but my “work” here is not representative of daily life. Now a patient is filling out paperwork and completing surveys so I’m here.
I had a circle of eastern European friends from various countries with whom we had often passionate political debates; most of us have gone our separate ways so this is a nice outlet for that sort of thing. As you wrote, the internet is great for such things.
I didn’t mean that as a critique, despite my irritation over small states with marginal cultures. Simply a matter of fact.
If you stick with this country your children will be as American as I am.
And in this comment section we’re building the Reptile Ragnarok. I am more impressed with you people than I have been anywhere else on the internet (in this political culture).
I am not a farmer.
But I feel a great connection to my home.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Lake_Forest_City_Hall.JPG/1200px-Lake_Forest_City_Hall.JPG
http://data2.finalsite.com/cf82/lakeforestschoolsorg/data/media/fullsize/1652.jpg?v=102516011440
It is my dream to return and raise a family there.
Whenever I pass through I make a point of driving past my childhood home.
Is the bottom house on Lake Michigan? There is a great public but unmarked beach there, no lifeguards to prevent deep swimming out into the lake.
Has anyone heard of this?
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/will-the-real-mohammed-bin-salman-please-stand-up/
I wouldn’t miss him. This whole image of him as some kind of benevolent reformer is totally fake anyway.
No. But strange that he could be dead and our free media is the last one to find out. If true, then the Iranians reported it much earlier. If untrue, then there’s still a strange disappearance, which our free media is not reporting us.
Fascinating series of posts by Craig Murray digging into the opinion management operations of a particular pro-war “anti-Semite witch”-finder on Wikipedia:
The Philip Cross Affair
Emma Barnett: A Classic “Philip Cross” Wikipedia Operation
The “Philip Cross” MSM Promotion Operation Part 3 278
Philip Cross Madness Part IV
Credit as always to Craig Murray for having the persistence to pull on the thread until interesting things really start to get revealed.
As an aside, though, it should be born in mind that Murray’s characterisation of “Philip Crioss” as being “right wing” is really just another example of the commonplace wishful thinking of anti-establishment leftwingers who refuse to admit that the establishment they rail against (legitimately in many cases) is overwhelmingly leftwing in every aspect except being supportive of indigenous working class interests. Every single one of the people he names as likely being behind these operations or supported by them would back every leftist social radicalism of the past few decades of political correctness, from anti-white “anti-racism” through promotion of the normalisation of homosexual activity to any mention of the problems caused by jewish lobby power, and every one of them would justify the wars and confrontations they promote by reference to a supposed need to make the world safe for feminism and homosexuality etc, from Afghanistan to Russia.
These are Blairites, and Blairites are every bit as fundamentally of the left as you would expect from people who grew up as Trotskyists and similar and transitioned to the Labour Party in order to gain power and status. Only in their adherence to the late C20th unholy alliance of the establishment left with big business and the concomitant abandonment of the indigenous working classes have they departed from the longstanding program of the left to radically transform society.
First I’ve heard of that, but I was away in the wilds of Scotland for a week until last weekend, and haven’t really caught up.
Taking that story at face value, though, it doesn’t sound plausible as a successful coup, because if it had succeeded most likely the winners would have let us know by now. Same if he had been killed – the succession fight would have broken out immediately and probably very publicly imo. More likely he was wounded and his loyalists are keeping a lid on it while he recovers.
Of course, he might not recover if the wounds are serious…..
Another interesting story is the Malaysian minister announcing that they don’t agree that the JIT had any conclusive evidence about Russian culpability for the MH17. (This I know only from Mitleser’s comment yesterday.)
Yesterday I shared it in a Facebook group. The commenters complained that there was no “mainstream” source. Actually, there was, but a quick online search resulted in only Asian and Russian (Sputnik, RT) sources. Interesting, eh?
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/no-conclusive-evidence-russia-behind-mh17-downing-malaysia-10290266
Yes, very likely.
You might find this just posted comment interesting, from longtime Sic Semper Tyrannis commenter FB Ali:
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2018/06/were-taking-names-.html#disqus_thread
If they were successful and want to avoid a succession fight, it would make sense to cover up his death.
At least for awhile.
China, the next drone superpower
http://static.atimes.com/uploads/2017/12/00300232266_f2c54a52.gif
https://youtu.be/5upRXXnPfvY
That’s true, but keeping it quiet (or at any rate out of western establishment media) for over a month seems a big ask unless there is an expectation he will eventually be able to return to the public eye and refute all these rumours. Although it’s true that it would be easier given he’s the “power behind the throne” and not the titular head.
Though that would not really be a coup as such but rather just an assassination of a powerful figure in the regime, with the monarchy continuing in power but under different guidance.
I hope I didn’t read it here.
So India just agreed to buy S-400 Triumf systems. However, since April, Rozoboronexport, the Russian weapons exports company, falls under the very same sanctions as Rusal. This means that theoretically India itself would fall under the extraterritorial sanctions.
Anyway, the Americans are pressuring India not to sign the deal, but it seems likely that they will sign it anyway. It’s possible that they will grant some kind of exemption to India. But it’s possible that the proposed sale of Predator drones or fighter jets might be canceled.
I think this is good news, especially because the Indians are probably angry that the Americans are trying to tell them where they are supposed to buy their weapons.
Though no one mentions it, I guess it might be possible that Indians will get back to the Su-57 development..?
https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-to-go-ahead-with-s-400-defence-deal-with-russia/story-BgOK3oEBHkRTaW6WKMDA4J.html
https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/s-400-deal-with-russia-to-complicate-india-us-interoperability-congressman/story-VPOIHKkt6LSjbflbeH7vTK.html
The king was very active today and appointed the crown prince to head some new useless committee.
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/536078/SAUDI-ARABIA/King-Salman-issues-several-royal-orders
Yet more evidence that Evola, Spengler and their ilk should be vigorously purged from nationalist thought
No way. The Indians have learned the hard way that co-developing weapons with the Russians doesn’t work. The Russians refuse to share their tech, they miss deadlines and they charge way too much.
Well if you think that’s potentially a ludicrous over-reaction try this report from Le Monde per South Front:
Saudi Arabia Will Take “Military Action” Against Qatar If It Purchases Russian S-400 System – Report
Everyone seems to be getting excited about Russian-built AD systems these days.
So does Ukraine
A map with various “centres”,
http://assets4.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/26658/size_896/europecropped.jpg?1295997571
as well an interesting article setting out some of the history of the issue:
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/498-monumental-drift-europes-many-midpoints
Don’t you just want to see them in action? Tell your Lebanese and Syrians to attack Israel so we can see what the S-300 and S-400 can do.
Today is the general election of Slovenia. Slovenia has been a ‘model nation’ in the eyes of the eurocrats, which is why it is interesting that the guy leading the polls – Janez Janša – has been moving from the center-right to the populist-nationalist right. He’s been remolding himself in the image of Orban and ALDE – the liberal grouping in the EU parliament – has even accused him of taking money from Orban-connected businessmen. Politico.eu, which is the house organ of the pro-EU liberal establishment, has been running scare stories about “buhuu Slovenia is turning illiberal!!”.
There’s a good general thread over at /r/Europe that will be updated throughout the day:
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8o1wvj/slovenian_parliamentary_elections_megathread/
The most likely outcome is somekind of hung parliament, but getting the center-right in Slovenia to stop being like CDU in Germany and more like Fidesz in Hungary is a very good thing. It would allow for more space for similar movements in Croatia.
Overall, I’m very impressed by Orban and Hungary. They are doing very good work in their neighbourhood.
Well, sure, but my contention was about health 😉
Yes, but the US is a much richer country. It should be at the same level of the Nordic countries given its high per capita income. Even poorer countries like Spain or Italy do better.
Also, my point about middle-aged whites with a high school degree having very high suicide rates deserves to be re-emphasized. Angus Deaton, who won a Nobel prize a few years ago, has been mostly focused on poor developing countries like India for much of his career but suddenly turned his gaze to the US and he made this observation few had done before. It’s actually shocking that this demographic is now on par with their Russian equivalents in the 1990s, despite living in a much wealthier country with far lower unemployment. And then there’s the opiod crisis among the young, which is not leading to mass deaths but to mass addiction in many ‘flyover’ places.
On top of that, the US spends a much greater percentage of its GDP on health care yet its outcomes are either as good, or worse. And as I pointed out, Latinos and Asians actually have higher life expectancy than US whites, while the gap with blacks is decreasing. Oh, and life expenctacy fell last year. I don’t think everything is as sanguine as you believe, certainly not if you look at the actual data. The US is not falling apart by any means, but given its sky-high per capita income, the fact that it spends a far greater share of its GDP on health than any other industrialised country, I do think it is fair to say it is underperforming. And I don’t really buy that it is all due to non-whites. As I said: the data doesn’t show that.
In terms of education, economics, that’s a different point entirely.
Point taken.
It’s also not as healthy. Being richer means more people have cars and drive, rather than walk. They eat more processed foods and can afford it. Obesity leads to poor health.
I was looking at houses with a friend living in flyover country, in an expensive (average price about $750,000) subdivision. I saw an overweight family decided to visit someone a block away by riding in a golf cart rather than walking. So a lot of it is lifestyle, not an inferior healthcare system. And again, blacks do bring the averages down.
A good point. What is the rate for these people? Suicide rates of all American whites is about 17/100,000:
https://www.sprc.org/racial-ethnic-disparities
This is high, but within the range, of European countries (Lithuanian 26.1, Belarus 19, Poland 18.5, Russia 17.9, Ukraine 16.6, Ireland 11.1).
Also many deaths. I’ve seen this.
Largely a myth, once you take into account the population and lifestyle. Also America is much more generous with its interventions. People would be excluded from certain procedures in Europe because it isn’t cost effective to treat them (if they are too overweight, or have other chronic conditions, or are too old, etc.) are often treated anyways in the USA.. Result is high cost and worse outcome. But if it is your overweight grandma who can have a chance with the procedure, wouldn’t you want to go for it?
Sure, once one excludes other variables. A good way of comparing apples to apples is to focus on mostly European-settled states such as Vermont or Minnesota. Minnesota has better outcomes than Manitoba in next-door Canada, with its supposedly superior system. Vermont better than New Brunswick. Okay, West Virginia doesn’t do well.
Jesus! How many kids do you intend to have?
Does it have Taylor Swift?
The /pol/ thread on the Slovenian election is very interesting. Some examples:
First, a Hungarian on the feasibility of intermarium:
https://i.imgur.com/54P6eNF.png
(click to enlarge)
And then a Czech-bro weighs in on why Piłsudski’s idea in the 1920s fell through, from the Czech perspective
https://i.imgur.com/2TNAWIg.png
(click to enlarge)
There’s also lots of Slovenes talking about the political situation from a right-wing PoV, which is something you almost never read about in the MSM (which largely ignores Slovenia as things stand, and whenever it writes about them, only does so through a neoliberal establishment prism).
boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/173888241
Update: seems the thread got very popular. So it got archived(max replies reached). Still tons of great discussions in the old one worth reading. New thread here:
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/173894290#p173894290
The extra spending is because private insurance companies are not allowed to compete across state lines, so allied with state legislators they build themselves comfortable oligopolies and charge what they feel like.
AP have you been in these village?
https://uzh-city.livejournal.com/10789.html
Quite a tangent – but I have always been a fan of the Berlin Bear and the other heraldic symbols and flags of German cities. I know that a lot of people don’t like the current flag of Germany – but it is my hope that Germans will someday rally locally along these great, old feudalistic symbols.
But we must calculate based on Juncker’s future plans: what will be the center when Turkey and all the MENA countries are added?
Some states are larger in populations than many European countries so your argument about across the state line competition does not work. States could negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies but they are prohibited form doing so by federal laws. The health insurance system in the US as it is because the System wants it to be like that. So far no serious effort was made to break the system because there is not enough law maker who are not on the take from pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
Germany is the strategic heart of Europe – that is why I am very much concerned over Germany, even above other parts of Europe. I’m not saying Arabs and blacks have good militarily skills or anything, but it will make things much more difficult if it is lost – no part of Western Europe will be safe, especially given the complicated demographic situation in other countries. Meanwhile, they would control any entrance into the Baltic Sea.
If you ever want to redpill someone on race – someone who is reachable – first make all the arguments: scientific, observation, and theory – and then finally hand them a book on worldwide development. Preferably, one with a Leftist or PC author, since the question of regional differences will need to be addressed, and the excuses given for Africa will be side-splittingly funny and transparently stupid.
They would probably need to live in a different environment though – perhaps South Africa or Lesotho would be enough. Assuming total isolation of Africa.
Probably about the most un-PC thought you could have: HIV could lead to rapid African evolution, if we stop sending the pills.
What if the little political parties are a synthetic creation? The operator in charge of them can unfold them and fold them at will. There is a room for spontaneity but most of the dancing these parties do is controlled. Somebody else is in charge of music and tunes. Assuming for a moment that indeed the political landscape in various countries is under complete control one question must be asked: To what advantage Orban was allowed to operate and succeed?
I would consider a possibility that Orban’s Fidesz in Hungary and PiS in Poland have a strong support of neocon faction of America’s Deep State with strong links to Israel. Somebody is holding a protective umbrella over these two countries. Orban can afford getting rid of Soros w/o being condemned and destroy with accusations of nationalism and anti-semitism. It is harder to understand recent attacks on Poland by Holocaust Industry because it can undermine Polish commitment to America.
Poland and Hungary are there to keep Germany from gaining too much power. The whole anti-Russia hoopla masks the true purpose of this policy which is anti-German. Poland’s Russophobia is kindled to keep Russia away from Germany. The Intermarium is a trick conjured by Trump while in Poland for consumption of Poles and V4. The incentive is letting V4 countries to have their sovereign immigration police at the expense of complete subjugation to American foreign policy.
What is so curious to me about Saudi Arabia is why they don’t ban marriages between first cousins. The leadership absolutely knows that it is bad – they’ve been told, and, I think, convinced, as they do offer free pre-marital genetic tests, for certain recessive diseases.
But why do they not ban it, and, to mollify, just say you can still marry your second cousin? The only reason I can think of is that they are genuinely afraid to – that is the only reason that makes sense to me. And, so the question is: how much reform can you do in a place where they are afraid to ban cousin marriage?
I guess an alternative explanation would be the King wants stupid subjects, and I guess that is possible.
But you’ve got zero proof for that, and it seems very unlikely to me. Orban and the Polish government are strongly demonized even in US media as far as I can tell.
That being said, I think there might indeed be a risk of European anti-establishment movements letting themselves become coopted into the imperial projects of the Americans. When I read something like this
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/03/trumps-right-hand-man-in-europe-wants-to-empower-european-anti-establishment-conservatives/
it certainly sets off my alarm bells. Grenell seems to have close contacts with John Bolton (he was his spokesman at the UN and seems to regard him as somewhat of a mentor) and also worked for Romney’s campaign back in 2012 (before being removed because of his open homosexuality). That’s not an “anti-establishment” background at all, it’s the return of Bushism.
So far he’s criticized Germany for not taking part in airstrikes on Syria and has also demanded German companies should “immediately” leave Iran.
Any European right-winger with self-respect should tell that presumptuous asshole and other Americans like him to take a hike.
Probably that. Wouldn’t surprise me if the entire system in Saudi-Arabia collapses at some point in the 2020s and the royal family gets overthrown by jihadis.
Must read if you are interested in European politics (focus on German, French and to a lesser degree Italian politics): https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/europe-under-merkel-iv-balance-of-impotence/
Why Germans are dangerous cucks and Poles and others should be worried.
🙂
That’s pretty perceptive, and useful since I don’t think people outside Germany quite get how “Europe” is a quasi-religious project in German political discourse, with dissent marking you out as a morally deficient person, possibly a Nazi.
CNN’s idea of media review, regarding the Kiev regime’s stunt with Babs:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/06/03/the-journalistic-ethics-of-faking-a-death-rs.cnn/video/playlists/reliable-sources-highlights/
No challenge whatsoever to the much overrated Julia Ioffe, presenting dubious opinions as facts. Specifically, stating that the Russian government poisoned the Skripals and downed a civilian airliner over eastern Ukraine.
Later with the JRL court appointed Russia friendly types, who do handshakeable things like promote Meduza over the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Also how it’s difficult to understand the German mindset which now conflates German economic self-interests with common European interests and even moral values in a way which I had thought only Jews were capable of. On the other hand it also thinks basic self-preservation instincts should be abolished for the greater good, even for Germany itself. Here also Jews come to mind, more precisely the liberal secular atheist Jews, who, while spreading the rot for others, are themselves disappearing and promote policies for themselves which long term destroy them just as much as others.
I know, Germans are basically insane and incapable of any rational discussion. Everything is covered under a thick layer of moralistic self-righteousness, no opposing views to be tolerated. I still think talk of the EU as a “German imperial project” misses the mark (many Germans really believe in the EU as some kind of atonement for Nazism, bizarre as that may seem), but I can see how others find German national character quite insufferable. I wish it were different, but that would require a complete change of German political culture.
I wrote: ‘I would consider a possibility…’ to which you responded: ‘But you’ve got zero proof for that, and it seems very unlikely to me.’
Sleepwalkers walk down the stairs unconcerned because they haven’t yet stumbled on some kind of proof that stairs may end. A part of inquiry is to make hypotheses and then to look for proofs not the other way around.
But frankly for me it is more than just considering a possibility. I believe that all those attaches in embassies and NGO’s and their agents of influence are doing something and thinking about things that haven’t occurred to you or me.
Grenell is just an overt manifestation of clumsy and heavy handed style of Trump administration. I argued a much stronger case than just a cooptation. I can image their fingers in the creation of these movements. I consider a possibility that nurturing anti-EU (which means anti-German) and anti-Muslim sentiments among European New Right in Europe will inevitably result in pro-Israel and pro-American stance of these factions providing that Russia will be made not attractive for the Nw Right which is being accomplished by the campaign of full spectrum Russia’s vilification. Hungary and Czechia try to be much more sensible in the act of balancing than Poland which is the most extreme in its anti Russia stance.
I’ve always wondered what the Vegas odds are for things like this. Basically, what the market is saying about things the market doesn’t talk about, except perhaps in really obfuscated, nebulous ways. For my model of Saudi Arabia, I’d look to Iran and the Shah, except I think Saudi Arabia is probably easier to control from the top down, because of its more arid geography and smaller population. Age pyramid seems to be different too, not as lopsided, compared to revolutionary Iran. The Shah probably did not have the same massive familial/tribal patronage system to help him keep power too. What complicates things is there are millions of foreign nationals in Saudi Arabia.
I think Thorfinnsson spoke about how Swedes went from one excess into another.
Germans seems to be similar, replacing toxic national socialism with toxic German Europeanism rather than some moderate German nationalism.
There’s lots of potential for conflict in the royal family though, given the rather odd succession system (iirc so far all of the kings after the 1st have been his sons). If MbS has indeed been killed, this might be due to such conflicts, given how he tried to consolidate his power with rather ruthless methods.
And I have difficulty imagining that a country like Saudi-Arabia can successfully modernize and move away from its dependence on oil.
If there was indeed civil war in Saudi-Arabia and a risk of jihadis taking over, I wonder what the international reaction would be. Foreign intervention in Islam’s holy places would probably look pretty provocative to many of the world’s Muslims.
Atheistic Jews may just fade into the woodwork, with a combination of low TFR and intermarriage. Of course, they’ll be affected in other ways, but I don’t expect them to be pogromed, unless they start giving out DNA tests and offing anyone >10% Ashkenazi, which seems unlikely.
I know many atheistic half-Jews love Jewish identity, but I think they can take it or leave it, depending on how well it suites their political goals. It is the religious ones who will be screwed.
The EU is an imperial project, France’s imperial project.
The French are the Americans of Europe.
I wonder what’s going to happen in Italy now, actually quite impressive in some ways that the Italians have managed to break with the political past (maybe easier there since their original party system collapsed in the early 1990s). I wish something like that were possible in Germany.
I’m a bit ignorant of German laws regarding birthplace and residency of political candidates, but here’s my pitch for German political revolution: recruit David Hasselhoff to lead the German Freedom Party. Have him sing his nostalgia and German-unity inducing hit “Looking for Freedom” with a leather jacket with blinking lights. Have him belt out his ballad from the bucket of a cherrypicker, lifted into the sky, to crowds all over Germany, while people below him shoot off firecrackers.
And I’m only half-joking: I think he would mop the floor with Merkel.
Regarding US Jewry, there has been a noticeable decline in reformed and conservative congregations.
Comparatively, the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews seem to be holding their own.
Yeah, numerous part Jewish types who meet your criteria. There’s also the flip side, involving Jews with another background or more, who are quite eclectic – Jewish issues included.
Next step: Use the respected classics?
https://twitter.com/mostqualmishly/status/1003070751782719488
Another benefit of running Hasselhoff as a darkhorse candidate would be that he is a faux-German, and so born free of the original sin of Nazism and perhaps more immune from the slander. He has the appeal of global pop culture, so will seem cosmopolitan and not insular.
According to polls Merkel is still quite popular with many Germans. I have no idea why, but many people actually seem to really like her and consider her to be modest, selfless, competent etc. (instead of the narcissistic monster whose record is disastrous on every level that she actually is). Even her lack of rhetorical skills and her tendency to speak in meaningless platitudes might actually work in her favour, since Germans distrust charismatic orators, given the Hitler experience.
Probably why cousin marriage is still a thing. Easy to pick a replacement with some legitimacy. The regime may have stability, even if the head does not.
Neom sounds like a joke. It is like a satire of the ability of SA to modernize.
Probably a coalition of Sunni partners with Western advisors.
Good idea.
The latter part is one of those weird statistics that is easy to see, for you see a man with his wife or children and can easily identify him, which is something not even perfectly true of Mormons.
They have a large system of welfare, which results in a well disposed population (government giving to the public freely petrodollars is the opium of the masses).
The issue of peasant uprising will be if oil demand falls (probably in the 2030s), and they cannot transition to other sources of income fast enough, and the system of welfare becomes bankrupt.
It’s not the only oil-exporting country which may have the problem though, and is not yet preparing enough for transition – problem which, again, I guess could come as early as the 2030s.
I wonder if we should all be immigrating to somewhere safe like Switzerland by the 2030s.
Might even lead to trouble in the US, if the petrodollar collapses.
I doubt they’d let me in, my set of skills is hardly high in demand, and they don’t really like Germans there (I’ve heard stories of Germans in Switzerland finding messages like “Next time we’ll get you” in their mail).
Russia might be one of the better places to live by the 2030s.
Long Island has some areas (especially in the “Five Towns”) which had noticeable conservative and reformed Jewish populations. Around the mid-1970s, (if not a bit sooner) that dynamic started to noticeably decreasee, as the orthodox Jews from NYC (mostly from Brooklyn) moved in, with the reformed and conservative Jews either moving out, getting intermarried and dying.
Orthodox Jews put their kids in private Yeshivas, while serving on the public school boards, as is their right as tax payers. They proceed to advocate public school budgets cuts and typically succeed – in large part because the:
I understand that a similar trend is evident in some other parts of the US.
This is what I was thinking about. Same question as for the Saudi Arabian economy, although surely at least more promising.
What happens in the 2030s, when there is a high probability of peak, or even fall in global oil demand.
The important thing is the economy can transition to other sources of income and development paths. Government knows the importance of this- but has not been a ‘total success’ so far with things like Skolkovo.
So all the question is set for the 2020s – and how much more urgency there will be while there are still large scale oil incomes that can be re-invested into developing competitive export industries – hi-tech sector, tourist sector, automobile sector, etc.
I feel a little confident just because I think the feeling of urgency and national prioritisation will be growing much greater in the 2020s.
It was an unpromising start in both Rusnano and Skolkovo.
Former head of Rusnano accused for stealing funds, and former finance director of
Skolkovo, also symmetrically accused for stealing funds (acquitted, but with a lot of funds missing).
Many of them in fact speak very poor Romanian. Outside of the major cities they mostly live in self-segregated villages. Driving through such areas you see Sekely flags or Hungarian tricolours everywhere.
I guess you’re talking about the Székelys (sometimes called Szeklers in English).
1) Those villages have been Hungarian for something like eight centuries or more. I don’t think “self-segregated” is a good description here.
2) Székelys are less than a third of Hungarians in Romania anyway.
3) The Székelys I’ve met where I found out about their knowledge of Romanian (or lack thereof) invariably could speak Romanian. For example they often could understand some Spanish or Italian based on the language, and then went on to tell me the same sentence in Romanian. Or stumbled into Romanians and managed to hold conversation with them. Though I cannot comment on the level of their knowledge beyond that. My understanding is that the older generations could speak only poor Romanian.
I doubt non-Székely Hungarians speak only poor Romanian, since they live in majority Romanian areas. They are also mostly urbanized.
No, I haven’t been to that oblast. It is one of the poorest ones in Ukraine so I suspect that this village is not typical. However Lviv outskirts look a but similar.
Kim replaces military leaders ahead of summit.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-04/kim-replaces-top-3-military-officials-ahead-historic-us-summit
Apparently there are people in North Korea unwilling to give up nukes…
…again more stupidly braindead bollocks
Putin signs into law the counter-sanctions. I wonder if Anatoly could add some further information after he came back, I think it’s important enough to post about even with a delay.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-04/putin-signs-law-countersanctions-unfriendly-actions-us-and-its-allies
In case anyone is interested – Some of the beautiful (expensive) stadiums built for the World Cup.
Now Mordovia (only in the second league domestically and previously always with an 10,000 person stadium) has a 45,000 person stadium, to be a centerpiece of Saransk.
The design of the stadium supposed to represent the sun.