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- “The political asymmetry of Covid” – James Allen in Spectator Australia argues lockdowns have hurt centre-right governing parties globally most of all because they have meant they have ceded huge amounts of political ground to their opponents by indulging in massive deficit spending and severely curtailing civil liberties.
- “Did lockdown contribute to Seoul’s Halloween tragedy?” – Philip Patrick in the Spectator notes that witnesses have stated numbers were far in excess of pre-pandemic festivals.
- “49 Case Reports Documenting Fatal Vaccine Associated Adverse Events” – Ashmedai lists 49 case reports in the medical literature of fatal vaccine adverse events.
- “Update: CoronaVax safety in the Netherlands” – Dr. Robert Malone with an update of Dr. Theo Schetters’ survey of public data from the Netherlands showing a correlation of excess deaths with the booster campaigns.
- “On the Great Reset and the Hopelessly Complex Self-Propagating Cancerous Institutions Which Govern Us” – Eugyppius with his latest thoughts on whether there is a grand overarching conspiracy being played out.
- “The Real Anthony Fauci” – Last chance to watch parts I and II of this informative film for free ahead of the premier coming to an end on Tuesday.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg: ‘Will we be ready by 2030 to ban petrol engines? That’s not a long time off’” – The former minister now back on the backbenches tells the Telegraph the new PM must take control of Net Zero, tax and immigration.
- “Oxford has gone back to feudalism” – Simon Cooke in the Telegraph says new plans for a ‘15-minute city’, featuring unprecedented restrictions on drivers, channel the controlling spirit of Medieval England.
- “The World is Transitioning to Fossil Fuels” – Many Western leaders are not ready to admit that this is a misery self-inflicted by their green-energy obsession that compromised the supply of fossil fuels, writes Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT.
- “Woman with sick child shouts at Just Stop Oil activists for blocking roads” – Activists holding banners temporarily blocked traffic by sitting in Commercial Street and Hanbury Street, GB News reports.
- “Amnesty International Condemns Prosecution of Ambulance Blocking Climate Protestors” – Eric Worrall in WUWT says that in his opinion, Amnesty International has “just blown up its credibility, by objecting to the prosecution of climate protesters who block ambulances”.
- “Amnesty International has become a woke joke” – The organisation has ditched its valuable advocacy in favour of hard-Left campaigns and a deranged stance on Israel, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “Pelosi and Kavanaugh Murder Plots Show Media Double Standard” – The same news media that mischaracterised psychosis as fanaticism in the alleged plot to kill Pelosi also downplayed the assassination plot against Kavanaugh by an abortion rights fanatic, says Michael Shellenberger.
- “Worse than Qatar – Britain’s hounding of a Christian teacher” – Julian Mann in TCW Defending Freedom draws attention to the plight of a teacher in England sacked and threatened with being struck off for raising concerns about allowing a child to identify as the opposite sex at school, as the courts refuse to come to her aid.
- “Private school pupils twice as likely to need top grades for universities, Telegraph reveals” – The findings have reignited a row that students are facing discrimination by institutions under pressure to boost state school numbers.
- “Germany is a world leader in wokeness” – German elites are in thrall to gender ideology and BLM-syle identity politics, says Lauren Smith at Spiked.
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To paraphrase a German politicians whose name I’ve thankfully fortgotten: Merit, hard work, rational thought, respect for authority and [..] punctuality¹ are secondary virtues of people who could as well command extermination camps.
Chicken coming home to roost, it seems. Have fun with it!
¹ It goes without saying that duty, honour, country would be sufficient grounds for an investigation by the German inland secret service if something warranting immediate imprisonment can perhaps be uncovered.
There is no such thing as “historical guilt”, “communal guilt”, “ancestral guilt”, nor “racial guilt”.
These are all variations of the Christian trope of the original sin, probably (if assuming propagandists know what they’re doing) intentionally so.
Rubbish!
No. The idea is always that everbody’s born in a state of irredeemable guilt and has to live a life of penance because of this. The woketurds have only modified this insofar as they don’t promise forgiveness and paradise at the end but so-called pallative care, ie, once you become a real nuisance to us, we’ll drug you to death.
Well, I must admit that you are actually right to say that most Christian denominations have been deceived into adopting the Augustinian concept of “irredeemable guilt”, or “Total Depravity” as mass-murderer Calvin called it, and that infant baptism was necessary because even babies were guilty of the sin of Adam.
That was NOT the belief of the early Christian fathers for the first three centuries AD, nor of the great British theologian Pelagius, a Greek form of the Welsh name “Morgan” (“sea-born”). He was vehemently denounced as a heretic by Augustine for denying original sin, stressing human choice in salvation, the freedom of human will in choosing whether or not to sin, and mankind’s essential good nature.
Pelagius accepted no excuses for sinful behaviour, but taught that it was unjust to punish one person for the sins of another, and that infant baptism was useless, as they are blameless. But adult baptism by full immersion, as John the Baptist taught, was essential for demonstrating true repentance for sins already committed, and beginning a new relationship with God, by doing your best to sin no more.
He taught that “humans were created in the image of God and had been granted conscience and reason to determine right from wrong, and the ability to carry out correct actions.”
“In Pelagius’ view, the doctrine of original sin placed too little emphasis on the human capacity for self-improvement, leading either to despair or to reliance on forgiveness without responsibility. He also argued that many young Christians were comforted with false security about their salvation leading them to relax their Christian practice.”
“Saint” Augustine was determined to wipe out these ideas, and called the Council of Carthage in AD 418, where Pelagius was condemned as a heretic, expelled from Jerusalem and driven into the Egyptian desert, whence he never returned.
Thanks for the information. It’s alway nice to learn something new. But that’s really immaterial to my statement: Original sin is concept everybody in Christian Europe (here including American colonies) will be familiar with. And the woke propagandists have repurposed this, either because it naturally came to them as they’ve also been taught about it. Or – that’s what I suspect – because they considered it a highly useful propaganda tactic.
This has also existed in Germany long before 2010. The so-called special responsibilty of Germany and all Germans is just another form of the concept of the original sin. A past German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, once dared to speak of the mercy of late birth, ie, that there would be some German who were free of nazi-guilt because they simply weren’t alive at that time. He was then pretty much crucified by the antifascist establishment for this. Blameless Germans is something which must not be.
I did say in another post that the concept of ancestral guilt or racial guilt had been used against the German people, Japanese people, American people, Australian people, etc. to justify the ridiculous demands for “Reparations”.
Some Third World ethnic groups also use the Hindu concept of “karma” to justify their demands for reparations from the West.
‘Values’ another useless component of the endless word salads.
What are values? Nothing but weather vanes and vain platitudes.
Virtues. Honour, Courage, Dignity, Reason, Faith, Family.
National flags were largely red, white and blue, usually bars, to denote, faith, family, country.
No longer. I guess along with rewriting what the Army’s mission is, we might as well redesign all the national flags into various rainbow patterns.
Ten to one Trump will have those reinstated.
Drumpf the AntiChrist has deceived American patriots into trusting him yet again as their “Saviour”.
May their eyes be opened soon.
Cannot be any worse than Obiden !!..
No government Military Academy in any country should have “External Stakeholders” dictating policy. That includes Japanese companies like Fujitsu controlling highly classified military information in the UK.
I believe the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst changed its motto some time ago so that it was more in tune with the careerism of its senior officers in peacetime Whitehall.
‘Serve to lead’ became ‘Swerve to lead’
What exactly are “Army Values”? Unless explicitly stated, which “Duty, Honour, Country” expressed very succinctly, they are nothing.
Cultural Marxism and entryism gone mad.