Lawyer Ron Coleman is spearheading a law suit against OffCom, the UKs “Office of Communications”, which under PM Starmer regime expects to censor free speech on the internet!
Pro Bono hats off to Ron!
The logic of this case in free speech defense is parallel to a minor art film from a few years ago, “The Woman in Gold” about Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann who’s family jewel was this famous Gustav Klimt portrait of her auntie from the early 19th century, but then held by the Austrian government like for ransom.
Altmann’s legal advisor pursued a rarely used exception to sovereign immunity doctrine applied to international trade. Appealing the case to higher courts (up to SCOTUS IIRC?) found a treasured piece of restitution succeed for the very elderly Maria Altmann.
Now, this new case by Coleman appears to use the similar strategy to defend against the UKs galloping speech fascism! Suing in US Courts against the UK, another foreign government.
The word late in this 30 minute interview is that theTrump White House is quietly supporting this lawsuit. Use US trade hegemony and tariff threats to secure freedom of speech internationally? So is seems!
Concluding this Zoom style interview with Counsellor Coleman is group agreement that the slide away from free speech among our cousin nations like the UK and Australia, has us all deeply worried.
Coleman momentarily mentions the decline in Europe — that soon may have Muslim nation states within cities demanding Sharia censorship of our speech and collective thought process on the Internet — a grave image of what’s coming if this small effort does not succeed.
A shoutout of thanks to the essential and costly role that Elon Musk performed for free speech in buying Twitter, concludes this important interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpv21PlUABY
Great video, and very informative.
A few questions remain:
(1) How did people stay alive long enough to develop these techniques?
Possibly the onset of climate change (in the correct sense) was slow enough for a gradual evolution as each winter got colder. Otherwise, it’s alien mentors.
(2) Why did people stay in those horrible climates? Were the others seasons rewarding enough, were they avoiding conflicts with other groups in warmer areas, did they just not realize there were warmer places?
(3) Why are we complaining about global warming? The paleolithic people didn’t!
(4) Really an observation: we need to stop looking down on our primitive ancestors; they weren’t nearly as stupid as their current descendants seem to be.
“(4) Really an observation: we need to stop looking down on our primitive ancestors; they weren’t nearly as stupid as their current descendants seem to be.”
AesopFan
Yes, they were very good at survival. Today’s Inuit and Eskimos, who live in the north, still know some of those skills, but they’re fading.
I read a book many years ago (like 80 years ago?) about an explorer who spent ten years living among the Eskimos in the early 1900s. They lived in igloos and were very dependent on seals, walrus, and occasional whales for their skins, sinews, meat, and fat. A very high protein and fat diet helped them stay alive. They also used the fat for small fires for heat and cooking.
I was very interested in camping in those days and did some winter camping to test out my survival skills. I survived, but it was no fun. 🙂
Our Paleolithic ancestors were hardy and smart.
If I had another bite at the apple of youth, I might consider anthropology…. I’ve always been fascinated by it, particularly archaeology.
Our ancestors in the Ice Ages were modern humans; like us, all they needed was pressure in order to drive them to develop technologies – both utilitarian and recreational. Sometimes I’m afraid that, societally, we’re in the third era of the old saw:
Hard times make strong men;
Strong men make good times;
Good times make weak men;
Weak men make hard times.
When my oldest was about twelve, we had a significant snowstorm in PA. The actual snowfall was about three feet or so, with drifts forming up to 5 feet in places. The kids and I undertook to build an igloo!
Well. The snow was not the right kind for igloos; it was too dry and not coherent enough to cut into blocks. But we made a sort of snow dugout in one of the drifts that had formed a light ice crust in the daytime sun, digging it out to a height of maybe two and a half feet to leave plenty of thickness of walls and ceiling for insulation, and the oldest and I slept out there in sleeping bags that night.
Until maybe 1am, that is. I had made my son crawl deeper into the shelter for warmth, and I started to get worried about CO2 buildup down in there. Meanwhile, my head was sticking out the door enough that, even cinching my sleeping bag around my face and wearing a wool hat, I was uncomfortable. So, noticing that we were both restless, I woke him up the rest of the way in the early hours and we went back inside, concluding that we wouldn’t have frozen to death that night but we also probably wouldn’t have slept more than a couple of hours, all told.
But the kids continued to play in our dugout by day for a couple of weeks before it melted – more like “slowly collapsed” – back into to a pile.
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Lawyer Ron Coleman is spearheading a law suit against OffCom, the UKs “Office of Communications”, which under PM Starmer regime expects to censor free speech on the internet!
Pro Bono hats off to Ron!
The logic of this case in free speech defense is parallel to a minor art film from a few years ago, “The Woman in Gold” about Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann who’s family jewel was this famous Gustav Klimt portrait of her auntie from the early 19th century, but then held by the Austrian government like for ransom.
Altmann’s legal advisor pursued a rarely used exception to sovereign immunity doctrine applied to international trade. Appealing the case to higher courts (up to SCOTUS IIRC?) found a treasured piece of restitution succeed for the very elderly Maria Altmann.
Now, this new case by Coleman appears to use the similar strategy to defend against the UKs galloping speech fascism! Suing in US Courts against the UK, another foreign government.
The word late in this 30 minute interview is that theTrump White House is quietly supporting this lawsuit. Use US trade hegemony and tariff threats to secure freedom of speech internationally? So is seems!
Concluding this Zoom style interview with Counsellor Coleman is group agreement that the slide away from free speech among our cousin nations like the UK and Australia, has us all deeply worried.
Coleman momentarily mentions the decline in Europe — that soon may have Muslim nation states within cities demanding Sharia censorship of our speech and collective thought process on the Internet — a grave image of what’s coming if this small effort does not succeed.
A shoutout of thanks to the essential and costly role that Elon Musk performed for free speech in buying Twitter, concludes this important interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpv21PlUABY
Great video, and very informative.
A few questions remain:
(1) How did people stay alive long enough to develop these techniques?
Possibly the onset of climate change (in the correct sense) was slow enough for a gradual evolution as each winter got colder. Otherwise, it’s alien mentors.
(2) Why did people stay in those horrible climates? Were the others seasons rewarding enough, were they avoiding conflicts with other groups in warmer areas, did they just not realize there were warmer places?
(3) Why are we complaining about global warming? The paleolithic people didn’t!
(4) Really an observation: we need to stop looking down on our primitive ancestors; they weren’t nearly as stupid as their current descendants seem to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzHwm2QDPfI&t=83s
“(4) Really an observation: we need to stop looking down on our primitive ancestors; they weren’t nearly as stupid as their current descendants seem to be.”
AesopFan
Yes, they were very good at survival. Today’s Inuit and Eskimos, who live in the north, still know some of those skills, but they’re fading.
I read a book many years ago (like 80 years ago?) about an explorer who spent ten years living among the Eskimos in the early 1900s. They lived in igloos and were very dependent on seals, walrus, and occasional whales for their skins, sinews, meat, and fat. A very high protein and fat diet helped them stay alive. They also used the fat for small fires for heat and cooking.
I was very interested in camping in those days and did some winter camping to test out my survival skills. I survived, but it was no fun. 🙂
Our Paleolithic ancestors were hardy and smart.
If I had another bite at the apple of youth, I might consider anthropology…. I’ve always been fascinated by it, particularly archaeology.
Our ancestors in the Ice Ages were modern humans; like us, all they needed was pressure in order to drive them to develop technologies – both utilitarian and recreational. Sometimes I’m afraid that, societally, we’re in the third era of the old saw:
Hard times make strong men;
Strong men make good times;
Good times make weak men;
Weak men make hard times.
When my oldest was about twelve, we had a significant snowstorm in PA. The actual snowfall was about three feet or so, with drifts forming up to 5 feet in places. The kids and I undertook to build an igloo!
Well. The snow was not the right kind for igloos; it was too dry and not coherent enough to cut into blocks. But we made a sort of snow dugout in one of the drifts that had formed a light ice crust in the daytime sun, digging it out to a height of maybe two and a half feet to leave plenty of thickness of walls and ceiling for insulation, and the oldest and I slept out there in sleeping bags that night.
Until maybe 1am, that is. I had made my son crawl deeper into the shelter for warmth, and I started to get worried about CO2 buildup down in there. Meanwhile, my head was sticking out the door enough that, even cinching my sleeping bag around my face and wearing a wool hat, I was uncomfortable. So, noticing that we were both restless, I woke him up the rest of the way in the early hours and we went back inside, concluding that we wouldn’t have frozen to death that night but we also probably wouldn’t have slept more than a couple of hours, all told.
But the kids continued to play in our dugout by day for a couple of weeks before it melted – more like “slowly collapsed” – back into to a pile.