These people in our institutions - you think they choose to be wilfully ignorant or are they actually at stupid or willing conspirators? Or some combination there of? Can never really make up my mind.
I lean towards believing her. In my country when we had COP26 last October there was some travel disruption due to a storm that most of the media and Twitterati shit libs attributed to the "climate crisis" where as storms are a pretty normal part of the weather in the UK in October. Given that weather systems frequently roll in off the North Atlantic.
Yeah - I read it probably about 5 years ago. I found it fascinating.
A lot of Americans think Stilwell was a communist agent. Being armed with an understanding of how obstinate and corrupt the generalissimo and his regime were makes me doubt that. The idea that 'we lost china' has always seemed strange to me. China is one of the worlds great civilsations, it was never Americas to loose or to decide what course they took and the futility of trying to foist our system on them seems doomed to fail from the start when you understand just how backwards China was at the time.
Yeah - even though I'm not American I remember being blown away watching clips of Ron Pauls run in 2007. It was my introduction to a lot of those ideas and that there was a genuine alternative to the corrupt 2 party apparatus most of the world lives under.
SerpantZA and Loaway86. Good guys. I used to watch their ADV china show all the time. Everything you ever wanted to know about China and what life is like there.
On the one hand we would all cheer the demise of the CCP but on the other hand it could unleash abject chaos, warlordism, gangster capitalism and even turn China into a failed state. Its easy to liberate people but hard to know what you're liberating them for. China has lived under authoritarian regimes since the origin of their civilisation, they have no concept of freedom or any of the dangerous western ideas that might be in vogue among the Chinese youth. Just like the USSR at this point the communist party is probably the only single unified mechanism that actually runs China.
The USSR was the same. It was a miracle that it didn't become Yugoslavia with nukes. A dozen men ended up owning 50% of the Russian economy, everything was looted. Gangsters fought wars in the open. The state was on the brink of collapse before the KGB seized back power in 2000.
Probably the best outcome might be elements of the CCP staging a coup against Xi and being able to pacify the mobs. Similar to how Deng eliminated the gang of four or how Ceausescu was deposed in Romania.
Yeah - there has always been an undercurrent of rabid xenophobia in China. These sorts of very high emotions can unleash it for a time and then things would go back to normal and you would be welcome again as a foreigner.
In the 1930's when Stilwell was on assignment in China he was tasked to do some recon mission which saw him travelling across land to Shanghai and he was very nearly lynched on a train. It was only his Chinese associate telling them that he was on his way to see the Generalissimo and if anyone impeded that they would have to answer to him that took the wind out of their sails.
Is it possible AZ has gone blue because so many Californians have relocated to Phoenix in the last few years. When I was in the states a couple years ago Phoenix was booming and a few guys told me that a bunch of tech firms had set up offices there because it was cheaper than paying bay area wages.
None of this made any sense to me - everyone knows Trump will run in 2024 and he will most likely win this time even though they'll try and do a steal again. DeSantis will be a shoe in for 2028, he's still young. Everyone can see Florida has been one of the best states in the union to have been in the last 4 years.
So maybe you're right.
If Trump wins in 2024 he should just name Mar-a-lago the Florida whitehouse and govern from there. Given what the feds have been up to the last few years it would make sense to govern from a state with a friendly government.
My understanding is he is giving them 90 days severance which is above what is contractually required so I don't know if they have a leg to stand on with their law suit.
Yeah - My expectations are very low. He cucked out to the ADL earlier in the week only for them to stab him in the back today by organising an advertiser boycott. Now it seems he is a little salty. So who knows.
You know given what has come out about how the US government was basically running big techs censorship regimen when free speech is explicitly protected by your constitution then I dread to think how insidious the relationship between Twitter UK and the British government was. These people might have been Twitter employees on paper but my guess is a lot of them were GCHQ spooks or Met police special branch first and foremost and will be given a soft landing somewhere else.
I've been to Israel. Jews don't like blacks - even though the IDF got an influx of Ethiopian Jews who were some kind of "lost tribe" that they put in the most dangerous places and the lighter Jews treat them like shit.
I used to work with a friend of mine from school in a business park that had dozens of tech firms - on the smaller side. The biggest had 100 employees but most had a dozen, maybe 30. We would see them start new guys and probably once a month my friend would see one of these guys and say "he's a pedo" and it was creepy because the police turned up and arrested an awful lot of the guys my friend said that about... There are A LOT of them in tech.
The hybrid war that the US is waging against Russia ultimately needs Europe's cooperation as they were buying a lot of their energy from Russia - the US is trying to keep Europe in the game but totally dependent on them. I believe straight up 15% of Europe's diesel supply came from Russia and I believe there are many European refineries set up to distil the "heavy sour" Russian oil much of which becomes diesel fuel.
Europe ultimately will not survive this war whatever the outcome is.
You are way to early to say this for sure.
Remember 2020. Trump had won and then the large vote dumps all for Biden happened.
That's interesting - I have a Windows 7 machine on a really old laptop. It has some pirate factory scan tools on it (Toyota, Honda, Ford, BMW) and my oscilloscope software. Haven't booted it for a while and it hasn't been connected to the internet since 2020 - I haven't noticed that doing it. I was so paranoid I actually physically removed the wifi card from it. Funny how officially its only security updates but if you are right behind the scenes they basically run it on the same creepy AI that Windows 10 and 11 run on. From everything I know about the Windows OS they absolutely have the capability to do that and there is nothing you can do really.
You know mate depending on what you do you should try Linux Mint - its very user friendly. It's Ubuntu based. With the Cinnamon desktop its basically a windows 7 work alike. For my general computing needs - internet, documents, watching videos and doing some light photo editing, programming, listening to music there is decent Linux software to do all of that. Linux plays better with AMD graphics than Nvidia though. If you've got an old machine it'll be happier on Linux Mint than it ever was on windows. My sisters 12 year old laptop that runs a 540m i5 at idle it uses 2% CPU and 1GB or RAM. Generally it can cope with the browser and 1080p video, she uses it for working from home and gets by with it though the RAM and the processor use is high with modern applications. You have to learn the terminal a bit and get used to doing things the linux way instead of the windows way and I spend a bit of time combing through stack exchange. Mint is also a very stable distro and a stable system - I did bork a few of my systems early on entering commands I didn't understand but my current system is 3 years old and very stable with one little bug with software I use an alternative to and 1 time it kernel panicked. My dads Windows 10 laptop has had stability issues and weird bugs. I end up having to look at it every 6-8 weeks.
You notice how generally most windows installs only last a few years before you have to restore from backups or do a clean install? It's basically because if you look at the EULA you don't read but just click accept essentially it isn't your OS. Essentially Microsoft act as a secret root user in the background and are forever changing things - ultimately all the hackers and those who write the malware and viruses exploit this vulnerability and over time your system just becomes corrupted and you have to start again. I think my record with a Windows system before I had to start again was 3 years and 8 months.
I put up with it for a long time because it was what I was used to - then in 2017 I decided to jump ship to Linux for my general day to day computing. It was a steep learning curve but I did have some experience with it when I was in university in 2007-2008. Its certainly better now than it was back then and I find it far more stable - although there is a compromise in that there are many applications you have to go without and doing some things is more difficult. Over all I'm happy I decided to jump ship.
I haven't entirely got rid of Windows - I have a gaming PC for flight simming which has Windows 10 and a few bits of software I can't get away from but I don't think I have ever opened an internet explorer on it.
It explains all the vaxxers who came down with shingles or had other conditions caused by viral reactivation.
I heard it was fake - Gonzalo Lira played it on his episode of the round table show and one of his guests said it had been debunked. It's a dutch guy doing the translation, you can tell by the accent.
I wouldn't get to excited - while western values had seeped into a handful of the large cosmopolitan cities in Iran the prevailing culture in the rural areas most of which were poor and backwards was deeply hostile to western secular values and the Shahs reforms - especially in economic terms were deeply unpopular. He needed a far more conservative program. Some middle eastern rulers have changed their nations for the better - King Hussein in Jordan. Sultan Qabos in Oman. The Assad regime in Syria had succeeded in keeping a lid on his countries internal issues - partly by playing his anti-American cards.
We may not like the Islamic revolution in Iran or the regime there but there is a very good reason the shahs government fell.
It's much the same in the United States - many of the people from the hinter land care little for the cosmopolitan values of the coastal elites.
Islamic civilisation and western civilisation are fundamentally different. Americans in particular do struggle with this notion. I knew many people of many nationalities who worked in Iraq as contractors - Brits, Aussies, South Africans and Pakistanis and most of them came back with stories of the chaos in large part caused by a lack of understanding. Freedom and democracy and all these cherished American ideas mean nothing to Arabs. Arabs respect strength. Arabs are incredibly "clannish" in their behaviour - the order of western society is very alien to them. Haranguing them or wanting to "get down to business" offends their custom. Americans live in a continental civilisation 2 oceans away from the rest of the world, Americans find Europeans strange even though most of them come from here. Islamic or Orthodox civilisation are very alien. It's geography and its history.
Over all though I would say the Islamic world has changed in the last 100+ years and in many ways not for the better and the west is not innocent in this with support for Israel and the corrupt regime in KSA and with an endless series of wars, coups, repressions and the "lines on the map" drawn by diplomats at the end of the great war and in some cases - the end of colonial rule was harmful - Egypt for example has not ruled itself domestically since the Iron age and gained independence in 1952 to a raving lunatic like Nasser. Egypt is an entirely fucked up and dysfunctional country which could become one of the worlds largest humanitarian disasters.
If you read Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E Lawrence when he was fighting the Turks the middle east seemed more cosmopolitan than it is today. There was more variation in caste and sect and while there was fighting between groups there was a big stick (the Ottomans) to put it down. The "right of guests" actually meant something and a foreigner could feel safe knowing he was above the pettiness of the Arabs and their family squabbles. Now - there are many places a westerner would not be safe.
With the queen herself? Probably not - I give it a 15% chance. Hanging out at Balmoral - which is a huge estate used by the entire Royal Family and many of the queens distant relatives in the nobility? I can see Ghislaine having visited there several times - probably her first as a young girl with her father. Its probably how she first came to know Prince Andrew. I can see them having gotten permission to visit on a weekend or visiting Andrew or some of the other obscure royals there with Epstein.
From what I understand the queen was quite particular about her private company when not on duty. I really don't see Epstein as someone she would spend time with. The queens favourite Primeministers for example were Harold Wilson and John Major because they were very different characters from those she was used to meeting. Her favourite family members were apparently Zara Tindal and Sophie the countess of Wessex.
Someone who I do wonder might have spent time with Epstein - the Duke of Edinburgh. Before him - probably before Ghislaine was born my guess is Lord Mountbatten was familiar with Robert Maxwell. There are a lot of stories about Lord Mountbatten being a sexual deviant - he was Charles favourite uncle. He was also the Royal Families "patriarch" to some extent when George VI died. When Mountbatten was assassinated the Duke of Edinburgh took over as family patriarch. If Diana was assassinated or was going to be for whatever exact reason it would have been him who gave the order.
Ghislaine is the key link - her father was Robert Maxwell who was a key member of the British establishment and owned a significant part of the UK media. She probably had a fair degree of access to the Royals. I see Epstein as a more peripheral figure in whatever exactly was going on here - someone who was expendable.
Yeah - monarchy, hereditary power and land owners long ago lost out to capital.
They are just one of the many appendages of the real hydra. They are a great source of bread and circuses and essentially act as a layer of insulation between the real power the the rabble - sort of like regional governors in some archaic empire.
I think the guy was just a grifter faggot all along - honestly was anything he said really new information to anyone who has been awake any length of time? People on our side of the great divide were a little taken in by these people 6 years ago or so because we enjoyed seeing more "mainstream" figures coming out and agreeing with us and it gave the populist movement more currency to "red pill the normies" but really all they were was a bunch of grifting parasites.
I would guess Adams probably leveraged his position to get money from the Gates foundation and other NGO's in 2020 to push COVID narratives and probably only changed his tune somewhat when the money dried up this year when the grift ran its course.