Yes, they are No Good. But Very Very Good.
Having a cup of instant coffee, waiting for it to warm up a bit before going outside to do some work. Same ole, same ole, in the news.
some people took exception with lake street’s covers of a few like bohemian rhapsody
The Australian Broadcasting Company has gifted us today with a picture of our own future lifestyle. Funny, how the US media has not yet reported this exchange with our neighbor!
Evidently you’re drinking instant coffee voluntarily SHIREHOME? Mind if I ask the brand? I’m always on the hunt, for my hiking trips, but have yet to find anything I really like.
yes no one seems to have learned the lesson of pablo escobar, when the combined Colombian
and American special forces, dispatched him, it caused more chaos, the chestnut at the heart of sicario, is that Del Toro’s character is trying to bring this kind of order to Mexico, working with Josh Brolin’s character, there’s too much money in the enterprise, for the blood price to be taken out of the picture, banks like HSBC and Deutsche Bank part of the overworld that enables the underworld,
Mike, I make a pot of Coffee on Sundays, and have a cup a day until it is gone, usually last cup on Wed. Then, it is instant coffee. Not sure, it could be Folgers or WM, most likely WM. And, I am not saying I like it, but it is caffeine in the mornings.
With regard to instant coffee for camping trips: Buy Peet’s coffee and fine grind it, use a paper filter and you will have a great cuppa without the pain of drinking instant coffee. Grind it up in advance and keep in the refrigerator. In the morning heat your water put the paper filter and coffee in your cup, add water, let water pass through filter. It will probably only take about an extra 3 minutes to get a really fine cup of coffee!
Ukraine hit two more Russian missile & ammunition storage depots—that’s three in about three days.
Western intelligence had pinpointed the Tikhoretsk missile and ammunition complex as being at the end of a 6,000-mile transit route across Siberia from North Korea for mountains of munitions sent by Kim to aid Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The North Korean firepower was stashed here before being sent to the frontline.
Among supplies from Pyongyang are deadly KN-23 missiles and 122mm and 152mm artillery shells.
Putie gave up a lot for those artillery shells, and hopefully all of them were wiped out (fingers crossed).
Tikhoretsk is east of the Crimean Bridge.
Today’s other strike was “ten miles from an ‘indestructible’ 30,000 ton munitions storage site that had been obliterated on Wednesday.”
Bad news for Putie and America’s pro-Russians…
(NOTE: has anyone else’s Click to Edit window shrunk??)
I thought this was a particularly good, and succinct, editorial in today’s WSJ.
Israel appears to be pursuing a new strategy to deter a broader war with Hezbollah. Instead of tit-for-tat exchanges, it will make clear to the Iran-backed militia the damage it will suffer if it continues to fire missiles at Israel’s north.
Israel made clear for 11 months that it didn’t want this fight with Hezbollah. Even as 8,500 Hezbollah rockets forced the depopulation of Israel’s north, it limited its responses. But diplomacy went nowhere as Mr. Nasrallah tied Hezbollah’s actions to a Gaza cease-fire. This has mortgaged the future of Lebanon to the priorities of Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar.
Even the Biden Administration has now recognized that Mr. Sinwar doesn’t want a deal, the Journal reports. Maybe Mr. Nasrallah would like to have a word with him?
And then there’s this:
Aqil also had a $7 million U.S. bounty on his head for two 1983 truck bombings that killed more than 300 people at the U.S. Embassy and Marines barracks in Beirut.
Which make me wonder why Israel could find him and kill him while we wanted him for over 40 years.
And there’s this pleasant thought for any never-Trumpers still out there:
Mr. Nasrallah could end up facing Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu for several more years. That is a prospect neither he nor his Iranian bosses want.
Mike Plaiss, I have some “Highground” instant coffee for emergencies and for iced coffee on hot days. It’s not as good as brewed, but it’s not awful.
When I was a college freshman, I thought Nescafé’s “Taster’s Choice” was the height of sophistication.
Of course, I used a lot of milk and sugar in those days.
Mike Plaiss I thought this was a particularly good, and succinct, editorial in today’s WSJ.
Easier access link:
So, the news is that the UFO legislation which passed the Senate but was gutted last year by the House, and was just passed again by the Senate, was again gutted by the House.
Since this attempt to get a regime for “controlled Disclosure” in place has again been successfully blocked, by several members of the House who are apparently beholden to the aerospace contractors who are likely in possession of the “exotic materials” mentioned in the defeated legislation, the alternative means of Disclosure is likely.
This alternative method of Disclosure has been characterized as “Catastrophic Disclosure,” and that is likely what we may well see.
Despite the peril they will be in if they do so, a person or persons inside the crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs, having had enough, will find some way to—all at once—release all the information they know, and the world will have to deal with the consequences.
Alternatively, the powers that be who have sunk this Disclosure attempt will try to shove this issue down the “memory hole” for another 80 years.
This time, I somehow think that they will not succeed. What worked in past decades just ain’t gonna work in today’s world.
Karmi,
my view of the “Preview” button is about half the size of the Post Comment button.
I did not notice that button before you mentioned something about the Click to Edit window. I may have tried to use it at the wrong time in the comment creating sequence, but the Preview button did not work for me.
So let me try a test.
Yes, that edit window [only available for 10 minutes after posting] was smaller than I recall previously, but I could expand it to a decent size without any problem by mousing on the lower right corner.
Test of Preview button – no response observed by me.
Holy Moly, take a look at this!: UATX —
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Since her arrest, which landed her in jail with $150,000 bond, she told ABC 11 she’d like to restore Adams’ ownership and that she stopped all the paperwork once she realized the home wasn’t actually in foreclosure.
However, there’s no reverse button under North Carolina law and the only way for Adams to get the property records straightened out is to take Mangum to civil court – a feat he believes will cost him around $8,000.
The Dentist & his wife were still living in the house when it was done!?!?
Saw that, Karmi. It’s in my county. The Register of Deeds offers to notify by email if anything happens to the title, but that doesn’t prevent fraud. A neighbor, several years ago, had a lot on the beach in southeast NC. He got a letter from a legal office thanking him for doing business with them. On inquiry, he learned the title had been stolen and the property sold! Lawyers fixed the problem for him, and I suppose the people who thought they bought the lot had to sue the fraudster to get their money back.
@ Kate – Geez…do they have Warranty Deeds up there? Fraudsters still get around them? I don’t see how the title can be switched w/o proof of a sale or something. Seeing more and more attempts at property theft—that ends up costing the owner big attorney fees to just to get their property back…
“By striking at the very heart of Hezbollah’s leadership and internal communication structures, the Israelis are sending a strong message to Hezbollah’s leadership to back down or else.
“The main goal of these attacks by the Israeli leadership is a first step in changing the security situation on the border between Lebanon and Israel by pushing Hezbollah back to the Litani river in south Lebanon, many kilometers away from the border, and thus make it less likely for Hezbollah to be able to threaten the Israeli border communities.”
Push Hezbollah north of the Litani river, and then claim everything south of that belongs to Israel now – sorta like the Golan Heights…
The theory that the Left of today is the spawn of “The Jews (TM),” arises here rather frequently— only to be swatted down by inconvenient facts. While Our host often leads in the replies and critiques, other commenters here are pretty prominent too.
The youngest intellectual I follow — in part, because so well read — is Rudyard Lynch on YouTube (age 23, “Whatifalthist”). Five days ago he briefly tackles this debate and adds worthwhile light, I think.
The unmeasured other sources in the rise and domination of the Left has other sources, too. Examples include women under capitalism and the Calvinist faith, which gets pushed rudely aside.
And he agrees with neo that Jews as a group are heavily over represented among urban educated and capitalist elites. But his three minute dive ends up concluding that Jews are also, persistently, a moderating influence on the much larger Left. And thus salutary. Readers here ought keep a list of his named exemplars and update it.
The topic in his new hour-long speed dive is “The anthropology of the Left”. The shorter segment on modern Jewry is about minutes 23-26, although he makes nods to this thesis throughout much of his graphic intense dive.
People averse to image bombardment like neo ought to simply not look but listen.
Personally, I find my self being screen shot snap happy in “Whatifalthist” video essays. The opposite, perhaps? And I’m often stopping or slowing down! LOL!
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:01:01 — What Am I Talking About?
00:03:26 — Looking At Ukraine
00:10:38 — Production Volumes
00:13:35 — Fiscal Stability
00:26:40 — Defence Production
00:38:08 — The Long Range Strike Campaign
00:41:11 — The Ukrainian Power Grid
00:51:45 — What Is Going On Here?
00:56:38 — Interpreting The Data
01:03:08 — A Hard Winter Ahead
01:05:03 — Channel Update
In an official document filed in a US court, the United Nations, with support from the US Department of Justice, has argued that UNRWA employees who were involved in the October 7 massacre are immune from legal action, Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 News reported on Saturday evening.
According to the document, UNRWA employees involved in the massacre are shielded from prosecution due to their immunity.
“Since the UN has not waived immunity in this instance, its subsidiary, UNRWA, continues to enjoy absolute immunity from prosecution, and the lawsuit should be dismissed,” the UN’s response stated.
I have no knowledge how matters will proceed between Israel and UNRWA, but I do have an opinion how they should go on simple prudential grounds: Israel, I believe, ought to ban UNRWA entirely from Gaza, from Judea and Samaria, from Israel proper, and from any territory Israel comes to govern in any near term future. Wholly and utterly ban, with arrest and prosecution of any and every violation thereafter.
because of their diplomatic status, that seem unlikely
i knoe that un peacekeepers were active in the congo, and other places, like the peacekeepers in farscape
RE: Catastrophic UFO Disclosure
So what would such Disclosure
consist of?
My guess is that a trove of documents won’t do it.
See, for instance, the controversy over whether the “Majestic-12” documents are real, or the same type of controversy and uncertainty about the “Wilson Memo.”
Similarly I don’t think that—in the age of CGI and the like—the legitimacy of videos or still images would be easy to prove.
What might work is an object, an unmistakable piece of obviously Alien technology.
For instance, one science fiction story had that obviously Alien object be a universal tool— what looked like a piece of bar stock, and when you rotated a control it morphed into a multitude of different tools— a shovel, a wrench, a wrecking bar, and all sorts of other alien tools.
‘Here’s what Kamala Harris said this week about what we should do when the war is over: “No reoccupation of Gaza, no changing of the territorial lines of Gaza” and an ability to have security in the region for all concerned in a way that we create stability.” I feel like if that’s what you have to say, don’t say anything. Just shut up.’
‘The problem is that one side wants a two-state solution, or at least always did. It’s a little more right-wing now, I’m talking about Israel, but that still has been their position,’ said Maher.
‘One side never did and still doesn’t. One side uses terrorism to get their goals. One side retaliates against terrorism. One side is accused of genocide, but doesn’t do it. The other side actually would love to do it. People keep saying Israel has the right to defend itself, and then whatever Israel does, they object to it.’
I disagree with Maher on the “Just shut up.” Harris/Walz ticket should speak freely at least 4-hours a day…
Unicorns don’t need no stinkin tools! They are beyond Earthly engineering and physics, or not.
One of these things us not like the other (arguments for Unicorns).
So take a quick look at this 1:00 video clip of a Hezbollah convoy traffic jam in south Lebanon, then sigh with me when you think what a mere pair of A-10s could have done with it in less time than it took to view the video: https://x.com/Philipp27960841/status/1837954578664263747
Donald Trump revealed he likely will not run for president in 2028 if he loses the election to Vice President Kamala Harris.
That’s a relief…
Sinwar dead? I wouldn’t bet on it.
sdferr, your suggestion of what Israel should do with the UN sounds pretty reasonable to me.
It would be nice if the US would help things along by suggesting the UN better waive (diplomatic?) immunity for the Oct. 7 UN “contributors” or else the US will:
1) as a minimum not pay its yearly dues until that is corrected
2) kick the whole UN out of the country
3) start an organization of “democratic” or “republic” states in its place.
Who in their right mind would want help from the UN if their real contribution is the importation of a set of murderous rapists into your country? Or simple support for local same?
Eric Weinstein has a Ph.D in mathematical physics from Harvard. He has put forth his Theory of Everything, which hasn’t taken the science world by storm. He has switched into economics and is now the manager for Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm.
He is a high-powered fellow. He also appears on major YouTube channels like Joe Rogan and Chris Williams. Though mostly an old school liberal Democrat from a left-wing Jewish family, he is alarmed by the leftward authoritarian lurch of the D-party and its leadership.
Anyway. In this YouTube Williams asks Weinstein about the now-notorious Kamala quote above. Weinstein goes silent for several seconds, then…
_____________________________________
I don’t know if I should… I don’t know if I should say. There’s a line in Marx where sometimes you hear certain phrases, like:
“A World to Win.”
AOC uses the phrase “We Have a World to Win,” which comes from the end of The Communist Manifesto, originally written in German….
It basically says you have to wipe out what has been to arrive in the new.
And where’s it from? “What can be unburdened by what has been”—it’s not a direct translation, but it occurs in Karl Marx. Now, I wasn’t expecting this [question], but I could find you the exact reference.
If you think about what Mao had to do to wipe out Chinese history, or what Pol Pot had to do… You’re trying to wipe out memory because memory carries all of this burden.
I asked ChatGPT how that quote might relate to Marx:
_____________________________________
In a broader sense, Marx’s work often deals with the idea of being “unburdened by the past,” especially in terms of oppressive systems, but he focuses on how those systems can be changed through conscious human action, rather than merely envisioning an ideal future.
So while Marx never phrased it exactly this way, the sentiment of liberating what can be from what has been is very much in line with his revolutionary ideals.
_____________________________________
I was expecting a more evasive answer from Chat, but that’s my sense of it too.
BTW, Eric Weinstein is the brother of Bret Weinstein, the Evergreen State College professor of evolutionary biology who opposed white discrimination at Evergreen and was eventually forced to resign.
I thought that name seemed familiar…
We’ve got some good people on our side.
Huxley, thanks for the clarification between Eric and Bret Weinstein.
I was confusing the two and wondering how this math whiz ended up teaching at Evergreen State College.
I guess they are both high powered guys, in their own respective ways.
But it will be helpful to keep them separate. 🙂
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Yes, they are No Good. But Very Very Good.
Having a cup of instant coffee, waiting for it to warm up a bit before going outside to do some work. Same ole, same ole, in the news.
and back to the clownshow
https://www.powerlinneblog.com/archives/2024/09/the-week-in-pictures-paging-all-cats.php
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/highlights-of-the-week-2bf
ALMOST as good as LInda’s version.
some people took exception with lake street’s covers of a few like bohemian rhapsody
The Australian Broadcasting Company has gifted us today with a picture of our own future lifestyle. Funny, how the US media has not yet reported this exchange with our neighbor!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-21/sinaloa-cartel-violence-death-toll-rises-over-50/104380756
Evidently you’re drinking instant coffee voluntarily SHIREHOME? Mind if I ask the brand? I’m always on the hunt, for my hiking trips, but have yet to find anything I really like.
fake but accurate
https://babylonbee.com/news/15-seconds-into-kamala-harris-interview-oprah-decides-to-endorse-trump
yes no one seems to have learned the lesson of pablo escobar, when the combined Colombian
and American special forces, dispatched him, it caused more chaos, the chestnut at the heart of sicario, is that Del Toro’s character is trying to bring this kind of order to Mexico, working with Josh Brolin’s character, there’s too much money in the enterprise, for the blood price to be taken out of the picture, banks like HSBC and Deutsche Bank part of the overworld that enables the underworld,
Mike, I make a pot of Coffee on Sundays, and have a cup a day until it is gone, usually last cup on Wed. Then, it is instant coffee. Not sure, it could be Folgers or WM, most likely WM. And, I am not saying I like it, but it is caffeine in the mornings.
With regard to instant coffee for camping trips: Buy Peet’s coffee and fine grind it, use a paper filter and you will have a great cuppa without the pain of drinking instant coffee. Grind it up in advance and keep in the refrigerator. In the morning heat your water put the paper filter and coffee in your cup, add water, let water pass through filter. It will probably only take about an extra 3 minutes to get a really fine cup of coffee!
Ukraine hit two more Russian missile & ammunition storage depots—that’s three in about three days.
Ukrainian kamikaze drone strikes destroy two more Putin arsenals – one packed with Kim Jong Un munitions
Putie gave up a lot for those artillery shells, and hopefully all of them were wiped out (fingers crossed).
Tikhoretsk is east of the Crimean Bridge.
Today’s other strike was “ten miles from an ‘indestructible’ 30,000 ton munitions storage site that had been obliterated on Wednesday.”
Bad news for Putie and America’s pro-Russians…
(NOTE: has anyone else’s Click to Edit window shrunk??)
I thought this was a particularly good, and succinct, editorial in today’s WSJ.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/israel-hezbollah-beirut-attack-ibrahim-aqil-lebanon-hassan-nasrallah-f9e22411?st=1b46dxctkv72qsg&reflink=article_copyURL_share
A few quotes – out of order FYI:
And then there’s this:
Which make me wonder why Israel could find him and kill him while we wanted him for over 40 years.
And there’s this pleasant thought for any never-Trumpers still out there:
Mike Plaiss, I have some “Highground” instant coffee for emergencies and for iced coffee on hot days. It’s not as good as brewed, but it’s not awful.
When I was a college freshman, I thought Nescafé’s “Taster’s Choice” was the height of sophistication.
Of course, I used a lot of milk and sugar in those days.
Mike Plaiss
I thought this was a particularly good, and succinct, editorial in today’s WSJ.
Easier access link:
https://archive.md/WTmKC
Military Chain of Command of Hezbollah
Getting ‘Pruned…
RE: UFO Disclosure
So, the news is that the UFO legislation which passed the Senate but was gutted last year by the House, and was just passed again by the Senate, was again gutted by the House.
Since this attempt to get a regime for “controlled Disclosure” in place has again been successfully blocked, by several members of the House who are apparently beholden to the aerospace contractors who are likely in possession of the “exotic materials” mentioned in the defeated legislation, the alternative means of Disclosure is likely.
This alternative method of Disclosure has been characterized as “Catastrophic Disclosure,” and that is likely what we may well see.
Despite the peril they will be in if they do so, a person or persons inside the crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs, having had enough, will find some way to—all at once—release all the information they know, and the world will have to deal with the consequences.
Alternatively, the powers that be who have sunk this Disclosure attempt will try to shove this issue down the “memory hole” for another 80 years.
This time, I somehow think that they will not succeed. What worked in past decades just ain’t gonna work in today’s world.
Karmi,
my view of the “Preview” button is about half the size of the Post Comment button.
I did not notice that button before you mentioned something about the Click to Edit window. I may have tried to use it at the wrong time in the comment creating sequence, but the Preview button did not work for me.
So let me try a test.
Yes, that edit window [only available for 10 minutes after posting] was smaller than I recall previously, but I could expand it to a decent size without any problem by mousing on the lower right corner.
Test of Preview button – no response observed by me.
Holy Moly, take a look at this!: UATX —
https://x.com/uaustinorg/status/1837639698573152686
R2L- OK, that resizing of the Click to Edit window works…Thanks! That Preview button has never worked for me…
More Squatter horrors – in this North Carolina case, it was apparently ‘Prep’ work for squatting:
Part 1 – Complete stranger obtains deed to $4 million North Carolina home without homeowner’s knowledge through loophole
Part 2 – Brazen excuse given by amateur ‘fraudster’ for stealing dentist’s $4M house – and why homeowners everywhere should be concerned
The Dentist & his wife were still living in the house when it was done!?!?
Saw that, Karmi. It’s in my county. The Register of Deeds offers to notify by email if anything happens to the title, but that doesn’t prevent fraud. A neighbor, several years ago, had a lot on the beach in southeast NC. He got a letter from a legal office thanking him for doing business with them. On inquiry, he learned the title had been stolen and the property sold! Lawyers fixed the problem for him, and I suppose the people who thought they bought the lot had to sue the fraudster to get their money back.
@ Kate – Geez…do they have Warranty Deeds up there? Fraudsters still get around them? I don’t see how the title can be switched w/o proof of a sale or something. Seeing more and more attempts at property theft—that ends up costing the owner big attorney fees to just to get their property back…
Israel on brink of ‘full-scale invasion’ of south Lebanon as it warns ‘back down or else’
Push Hezbollah north of the Litani river, and then claim everything south of that belongs to Israel now – sorta like the Golan Heights…
AOC accuses Israel of violating international law after attack targeting Hezbollah kills children
Cuomo counters:
‘She’s Dead Wrong’: Chris Cuomo Fact-Checks AOC Over Israeli Pager Attack
The theory that the Left of today is the spawn of “The Jews (TM),” arises here rather frequently— only to be swatted down by inconvenient facts. While Our host often leads in the replies and critiques, other commenters here are pretty prominent too.
The youngest intellectual I follow — in part, because so well read — is Rudyard Lynch on YouTube (age 23, “Whatifalthist”). Five days ago he briefly tackles this debate and adds worthwhile light, I think.
The unmeasured other sources in the rise and domination of the Left has other sources, too. Examples include women under capitalism and the Calvinist faith, which gets pushed rudely aside.
And he agrees with neo that Jews as a group are heavily over represented among urban educated and capitalist elites. But his three minute dive ends up concluding that Jews are also, persistently, a moderating influence on the much larger Left. And thus salutary. Readers here ought keep a list of his named exemplars and update it.
The topic in his new hour-long speed dive is “The anthropology of the Left”. The shorter segment on modern Jewry is about minutes 23-26, although he makes nods to this thesis throughout much of his graphic intense dive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_AiXLdsxo
People averse to image bombardment like neo ought to simply not look but listen.
Personally, I find my self being screen shot snap happy in “Whatifalthist” video essays. The opposite, perhaps? And I’m often stopping or slowing down! LOL!
As a contrast, take onboard a distinguished scholar’s view: Why We Remain Jews, part 1 of 2 (1:19:00)
Open Thread Sunday: Russian war on Ukraine:
The Ukrainian Economy at War (2024) – Defence Production, Energy & Endurance – Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiAWQ0h7g-g
JPost: UN seeks immunity for UNRWA employees complicit in Oct. 7 massacre – Channel 12 report
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-821221
I have no knowledge how matters will proceed between Israel and UNRWA, but I do have an opinion how they should go on simple prudential grounds: Israel, I believe, ought to ban UNRWA entirely from Gaza, from Judea and Samaria, from Israel proper, and from any territory Israel comes to govern in any near term future. Wholly and utterly ban, with arrest and prosecution of any and every violation thereafter.
because of their diplomatic status, that seem unlikely
i knoe that un peacekeepers were active in the congo, and other places, like the peacekeepers in farscape
RE: Catastrophic UFO Disclosure
So what would such Disclosure
consist of?
My guess is that a trove of documents won’t do it.
See, for instance, the controversy over whether the “Majestic-12” documents are real, or the same type of controversy and uncertainty about the “Wilson Memo.”
Similarly I don’t think that—in the age of CGI and the like—the legitimacy of videos or still images would be easy to prove.
What might work is an object, an unmistakable piece of obviously Alien technology.
For instance, one science fiction story had that obviously Alien object be a universal tool— what looked like a piece of bar stock, and when you rotated a control it morphed into a multitude of different tools— a shovel, a wrench, a wrecking bar, and all sorts of other alien tools.
That might possibly do it.
Walz campaigning for Trump?
Walz – ‘We can’t afford four more years of this.‘
Bill Maher had enough of Harris?
Kamala Harris *BLASTED* after she called for an end to the war in Gaza.
I disagree with Maher on the “Just shut up.” Harris/Walz ticket should speak freely at least 4-hours a day…
Unicorns don’t need no stinkin tools! They are beyond Earthly engineering and physics, or not.
One of these things us not like the other (arguments for Unicorns).
So take a quick look at this 1:00 video clip of a Hezbollah convoy traffic jam in south Lebanon, then sigh with me when you think what a mere pair of A-10s could have done with it in less time than it took to view the video: https://x.com/Philipp27960841/status/1837954578664263747
Sigh……….
Israel probing whether Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar has been killed
Fingers crossed…
UPDATE:
That’s a relief…
Sinwar dead? I wouldn’t bet on it.
sdferr, your suggestion of what Israel should do with the UN sounds pretty reasonable to me.
It would be nice if the US would help things along by suggesting the UN better waive (diplomatic?) immunity for the Oct. 7 UN “contributors” or else the US will:
1) as a minimum not pay its yearly dues until that is corrected
2) kick the whole UN out of the country
3) start an organization of “democratic” or “republic” states in its place.
Who in their right mind would want help from the UN if their real contribution is the importation of a set of murderous rapists into your country? Or simple support for local same?
“What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been”
–Chris WIlliamson, “Why Does Kamala Harris Keep Repeating This Quote? – Eric Weinstein”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDX5q30V_-E
____________________________________
Eric Weinstein has a Ph.D in mathematical physics from Harvard. He has put forth his Theory of Everything, which hasn’t taken the science world by storm. He has switched into economics and is now the manager for Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm.
He is a high-powered fellow. He also appears on major YouTube channels like Joe Rogan and Chris Williams. Though mostly an old school liberal Democrat from a left-wing Jewish family, he is alarmed by the leftward authoritarian lurch of the D-party and its leadership.
Anyway. In this YouTube Williams asks Weinstein about the now-notorious Kamala quote above. Weinstein goes silent for several seconds, then…
_____________________________________
I don’t know if I should… I don’t know if I should say. There’s a line in Marx where sometimes you hear certain phrases, like:
“A World to Win.”
AOC uses the phrase “We Have a World to Win,” which comes from the end of The Communist Manifesto, originally written in German….
It basically says you have to wipe out what has been to arrive in the new.
And where’s it from? “What can be unburdened by what has been”—it’s not a direct translation, but it occurs in Karl Marx. Now, I wasn’t expecting this [question], but I could find you the exact reference.
If you think about what Mao had to do to wipe out Chinese history, or what Pol Pot had to do… You’re trying to wipe out memory because memory carries all of this burden.
–Eric Weinstein
_____________________________________
I asked ChatGPT how that quote might relate to Marx:
_____________________________________
In a broader sense, Marx’s work often deals with the idea of being “unburdened by the past,” especially in terms of oppressive systems, but he focuses on how those systems can be changed through conscious human action, rather than merely envisioning an ideal future.
So while Marx never phrased it exactly this way, the sentiment of liberating what can be from what has been is very much in line with his revolutionary ideals.
_____________________________________
I was expecting a more evasive answer from Chat, but that’s my sense of it too.
BTW, Eric Weinstein is the brother of Bret Weinstein, the Evergreen State College professor of evolutionary biology who opposed white discrimination at Evergreen and was eventually forced to resign.
I thought that name seemed familiar…
We’ve got some good people on our side.
Huxley, thanks for the clarification between Eric and Bret Weinstein.
I was confusing the two and wondering how this math whiz ended up teaching at Evergreen State College.
I guess they are both high powered guys, in their own respective ways.
But it will be helpful to keep them separate. 🙂