SUBMIT OR ELSE!

Where have we heard that one before?

As small information sites on the internet capture more and more news cycles from the Main Stream Media (MSM) the MSM strike back.
Not with better reporting, or new deeply researched stories however, no...they strike back by 'exposing' these small operators to danger.
They threaten to expose these internet journalists with exposure of the home addresses, their family addresses their places of employment etc...why? So that the military arm of the left...ANTIFA (an ironically named product of the Orwellian imagination if ever there was one) are able to dox, threaten and abuse these small and largely defenseless outlets into submission or into hiding:

But, the rulers of legacy media think that they have a monopoly on truth. They believe they should decide who is a journalist and who is not. Citizen journalists are disdained by the legacy media from places like CNN, NBC, and MSNBC. Thus, the legacy media's response to the summit has been one of smears and ugly insults, even potentially dangerous doxxing. This is because the legacy media now understands that their influence over the American people is all but dead thanks to the internet. President Donald J. Trump's election, to colloquially put it, whacked the mainstream media upside the head. Now, they are taking vengeance on anybody who supports him.

MSM’s message is pretty clear: 'You’re thinking about making a pro-Trump meme? Think twice. Because CNN, DailyBeast, and Buzzfeed may plaster your face all over national media alongside descriptions like 'alt-right' etc.

To be clear, there are certain growing pains with this development -- fake viral news for instance. Some of the folks invited to the social media summit have actually promoted lies and falsehoods, but then again so have the traditional White House outlets represented by legacy media. Even in this case, internet transparency has increased the ability of the populace to call out viral fake news rather than depending on the mainstream media to admit their mistakes. Whatever the case and whatever the future holds, the legacy media is sending a clear message in order to cling to power-- if you partake in Drudge's dream, we will make your life a nightmare.  [Timothy Meads]

THE DISINFORMATION COMPLEX

Evan Sayets little book; The KinderGarden of Eden,(KGE)  explores the eccentricities and motivations behind the 'liberal left' that infests our modern culture. It is an enlightening and informative examination of what makes the modern left tick and as such is an invaluable resource for understanding the truly Machiavellian contortions that inform and instruct the lefts neo-Pravdian megaphone; the 'woke' media/entertainment/globalist disinformation complex.

This passage (one of many) deconstructs one of the largest lies that have been 'sown' into society by the Brobdingnagian liars of this complex:

Prior to the Modern Liberal era, the unrivaled success of Western Civilization was due to the healthy balance that was struck between the scientific and the extra-scientific, between craft and art, between the tangible and the imagination or, in my favourite locution, between Athens and Jerusalem.

This balance was not a s leftists portray it today, wherein science and the extra-scientific are mutually exclusive and wholly at odds with one another. Rather there was the recognition that both the scientific and the extra-scientific – both the cold, hard facts and the warmer human things like love, morality, decency, beauty, justice, and mercy were necessary for creating and maintaining a well functioning, happy, healthy, prosperous and progressing society.

In fact, in the Vatican – the supposed ground zero for religion’s war against science – there are, and have been, two spectacular murals of equal size and equal grandeur taking up the whole of opposing walls.

On one side are the great people and great moments from religious history, and on the other are the great people and the great moments form science. Far from Western religions ever being at war with science, they actually took great pride in how, time and again, science seemed to prove God’s majesty. [KGE, p.7]

JUSTICE AND CRIME

Theodore Dalrymple is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal,  a prolific author, a retired physician and psychiatrist who, most recently, practiced in a British inner-city hospital and prison. Denis Dutton, editor of Arts & Letters Daily, called Dalrymple the “Orwell of our time.”

Theodore Dalrymple on choice, crime and the importance of punishment:

One of the explanations of ill behaviour, if you like, is a kind of mechanical one. People have certain experiences and they react to them in a certain self-destructive way, as if their behaviour was that of a billiard ball being impacted by another billiard ball… [But] agency is extremely important. You don’t deny that things are more difficult for some people than for others, but if you deny the agency of people, then you begin to treat them as objects rather than as subjects.
There’s been a very strong current in British intellectual circles that criminality is akin to an illness, and therefore it’s wrong to treat it as something that people have any control over. And of course this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In England, the leniency of our criminal justice system - precisely, I think, because of our tendency to sociologise everything, to say that people are not agents… this actually promotes criminality… It’s as if criminals didn’t have thought processes like us, [as if] they’re completely different from people like us. But they’re not different from people like us, on the whole…

It’s very curious how people say that prison doesn’t work because a high proportion of prisoners when they come out commit offences again, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anywhere in a British publication that this might indicate that actually they should be in prison for longer. Another very obvious consideration, which is completely beyond the British intellectual class, is that the number of victims of crime is very much greater than the number of perpetrators. So each perpetrator actually creates large numbers of victims, and therefore it’s not kind to people who live in areas where there’s a lot of criminality not to deal properly with the criminals. We deal with criminality as if it is a benefit received by the poor, instead of what it is, one of the great hardships of being poor.
Mr Dalrymple’s views are somewhat at odds with those found in the pages of the Guardian, where readers are told with great certainty that burglary is “really quite inconsequential,” unworthy of punishment, and that anger at being burgled and the subsequent sense of violation are somehow trivial, plebeian and unsophisticated. Such that expectations of lawfulness and justice - and not being preyed upon, repeatedly, with impunity - are airily dismissed as “idiotic attitudes.”

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION

The radical left are always harping on about 'supporting the poor', looking after the 'underprivileged' etc ad nauseum...i.e. virtue signalling....the thing is, when you take a good, hard look at what they actually DO for the poor and underprivileged it paints a very different scenario.

Close inspection reveals that instead of making things easier, they usually hurt the very people they claim to want to help:

"As for "hurting kids," AOC is on the record opposing all proposed legislative solutions to the border crisis. She voted against each bill put forward -- and as I just mentioned, was one of just four Democrats (along with her radical pals Omar and Tlaib) to break with Pelosi on the House bill whose Senate demise she's now cynically lamenting. She has encouraged boycotts and collective action against a private company fulfilling a government contractor's order to provide more beds to children she claims to want to help. Relatedly, she'd absolutely fume and fulminate over images of those same kids sleeping on floors, having agitated against beds for them. Will she also rail against the food service providers feeding these children? After all, they're also "complicit" under her twisted rationale." [G Benson]

For Ideologues like AOC and her band of supercilious sisters, the path to power is usually over the bodies of the less fortunate; just like their 'heroes' in the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, North Korea, Cambodia, Venezuela.....need I go on?

GREEDY COMRADES

Socialism: the gospel of greed.
It amuses/saddens me to listen to young and uniformed voices blame 'capitalism' for greed and moral corruption. Sure, human beings sometimes abuse the systems and structures of their society to 'game' the bias to their advantage, but thats a human trait not a systemic one.
As far as political and economic systems go Socialism is the one with inbuilt methodologies destined to produce greed, corruption, bias and slovenliness, and it has been illustrated over a century and in many different cultures.
What more evidence can you ask for?

TOXIC IRRATIONALITY

The attached article engendered a modicum of hope in me that there remains in some of the 'educational' faculties of the West, a few brave souls who retain their intellectual abilities and stand as impenetrable barriers to fake science.

The fact that it is a mathematics teacher in this case is reassuring and I suppose somewhat predictable in that the STEM sciences have not yet fully capitulated to the onset of toxic irrationality that appears to have gripped the majority of Western 'educators'.

An excerpt from the piece:

I often come across students and teachers who express concern over climate change and the need for humanity to do something about it. I always begin such conversations with the question, “What’s the problem?” They always, eventually, get down to the fact that it’s carbon “pollution” and how we must stop burning fossil fuels and embrace renewables in order to save the planet. Again, its the MSM spin. My next question is how much CO2 is in the atmosphere? I have yet to come across anyone at school, when asked that question, who knows that it’s a bit above 400 ppm. After informing them of this particular fact, I ask if they know how low the CO2 concentration can fall before life on earth ceases. Again, I have yet to come across anyone at school who knows that once it drops to about 180 ppm, we are in trouble.

My third question after that is this: if 400 ppm is too much and 180 ppm too little, how much CO2 is just right? Again, no one has been able to answer this, as no one on the planet knows the answer. I then try to present students (adults have usually stopped listening by that stage) with some perspective on 400 ppm. I ask them to think of a million molecules of atmosphere as a million one-dollar coins placed adjacent to each other in a square. The square would be 25 metres by 25 metres, about the size of a school’s small gymnasium. The 400 ppm of CO2, if represented by those dollar coins, would make up a square 50 cm by 50 cm. What’s more, since humanity is responsible for only about three per cent of the CO2 in the atmosphere, the human contribution to those one million coins would be 12 coins.

 https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2019/06/a-remedial-lesson-in-climate-education/

HARD LABOUR

Steve Turner — 'If chance be the Father of all flesh, Disaster is his rainbow in the sky, And when you hear ... It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.”...and this research on incarceration in Australia is the result of men worshiping a god of their own making:

"Over the past decade, incarceration in Australia has grown at an unsustainable rate. The incarceration rate has increased by 30 percent in that time, from 167 prisoners per 100,000 adults to 217 prisoners per 100,000 adults. Taxpayers now spend $4.4 billion on corrective services, most of which goes towards incarceration. This figure has grown by 29 percent in just the past five years. Incarceration costs on average $110,000 per prisoner per year." [A Bushnell]

A cost of 110K per year? Ridiculous!

Take away the TV's, the sprung mattresses and other perks and let the perps work off their debt to society...that will cut costs in a big way.