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Title: The twilight of the elites...in the European Union
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URL Source: https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10 ... wilight-elites-european-union/
Published: Oct 17, 2017
Author: Jazz Shaw
Post Date: 2017-10-17 10:35:59 by Tooconservative
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Views: 12800
Comments: 109
Signs of that happening come to us with additional news in a similar vein this month. For one example, can you name the youngest national leader in the world right now? If you said Emanuel Macron you’re probably in the majority, but you’re also wrong. Macron is already almost an old man compared to the guy who is set to take power in Austria. That would be 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, leader of the reinvigorated People’s Party (OeVP), who is about to topple the Socialist Democrat establishment in his nation. This has resulted in what the Washington Times’ Wesley Pruden describes as, “An Austrian thumb in the eye of the elites.” But the new Austrian chancellor, youthful as he is, represents just the kind of new blood that Kennedy brought to the fore in the new world. He has achieved something close to rock-star status. He took over a fading political party whose party colors were black and black, replaced them with turquoise, rebranded the party as “a movement,” promised to get tough on runaway immigration, go easy on new taxes but to stay in Europe and “put Austria first.” Did Kurz come up with “put Austria first” as a copy of Trump’s America First or did they arrive at those catchphrases independently? At this point, it doesn’t really matter. But there’s more of a similarity here than simple sloganeering. Check out the details of the Kurz platform which the Daily Mail described with palpable alarm. Some of this may ring a bell to American observers of politics. (Emphasis added) Kurz, dubbed the Conservative Macron due to his age and his party reform, said: ‘I would of course like to form a stable government. If that cannot be done then there are other options,’ adding that he planned to talk to all parties in parliament but would first wait for a count of postal ballots that begins on Monday. Kurz may form a coalition with either the now weakened Social Democrats or with the more right-wing Freedom Party. But he’s also indicating a willingness to simply go it alone if he can’t structure a deal in keeping with his campaign pledges. But Kurz isn’t the only one. The Czech Republic, also part of that same eastern block, is closing in on their own elections and if the current polling is remotely accurate the race won’t be all that close. Their next leader is most likely to be a far less youthful, but equally revolutionary gentleman who is being referred to as “the Czech Trump” or “the new Berlusconi,” depending who you ask. 63 year old Andrej Babis is the leader of the ANO party and is on track to take control. He’s similarly alarmed the defenders of the status quo with comments about how he is, “done with multiculturalism.” (The Telegraph) To be clear, I don’t believe any of this signals the absolute end of the European Union, nor will the socialist tendencies of their more western member countries be completely subsumed any time soon. Neither Kurz nor Babis is signaling an immediate move toward leaving the EU and both of their nations still benefit greatly from trade through that organization. But at the same time, they have no interest in having Brussels micromanage the affairs of their respective nations and they want their borders to be secured. And seeing how well Hungary has done in thumbing its nose at the EU, both of these men have little reason to fear reprisal. “Make Europe Great Again?” When I recently wrote about the possibility of a coming east-west schism in the European Union (EU), I focused primarily on Hungary and Poland. They’re part of that eastern block of countries which joined the EU a bit later and introduced a definite culture clash with their significantly more socialist, globalist neighbors in France and Brussels. Recent events to the east seem to have signaled a swift erosion of the older, established “elites” who have been running the show. But there are still more dominos left to fall. Herr Kurz is called “the Austrian Trump,” and not, to celebrate his youth, “the Austrian JFK,” which illustrates just how far time has marched on. Two generations have been birthed in Europe that can barely recognize the late president by his mere initials. The young leader, dubbed Wunderwuzzi in his home country, which translates to Wonderkid, has pledged to cut benefits for all foreigners in Austria and has vowed to stop the European Union meddling in the country’s politics. “We have other enemies than Russia. We have to fight the human traffickers in the Mediterranean. Twenty thousand have died in that sea. We have terrorism blighting Europe. What are we waiting for?” Mr. Babiš insisted that there are no genuine refugees arriving in Europe.
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#1. To: All, IbJensen (#0)
The Czech elections are the likely tipping point between Old Europe and New Europe. The Czechs, Poles, Austrians and Hungarians could constitute a formidable counterweight against Germany's Merkel and her French boy-toy, Macron.
Who would have ever thought back in the 80s that Hungary, Poland and the Czech republic would be more western then west Europe.
It can't be too surprising that they don't like to be ordered around by Brussels any more than they liked being ordered around by Moscow during the Soviet era. Despite a rising resistance, I don't see Brussels stopping. They will keep pushing and may resort to more coercive measures. This is where Brexit has really hurt them. And the situation in Catalonia only makes things worse.
Despite a rising resistance, I don't see Brussels stopping. They will keep pushing and may resort to more coercive measures. This is where Brexit has really hurt them. And the situation in Catalonia only makes things worse. You have brought up what I have found to be a very, very interesting subject -- Catalonia and the Basque people/race. Linguists tell us that virtually all of the languages spoken in Europe and Asia and north Africa are derived from a common language that originated in Mesopotamia, that is, the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve. The only exceptions are the languages spoken by the Basques (in Catalonia), and the Turks/Turkish language, and the Uralic languages. To make a long story very short, God only wants the descendants of Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply until they have dominion over all the Earth. IMHO, the Basque people should be very thankful that they even exist 6000 years later, and submit to being ruled by the descendants of Adam and Eve and be exceedingly glad about it. Barry Midyet
To make a long story very short, God only wants the descendants of Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply until they have dominion over all the Earth. IMHO, the Basque people should be very thankful that they even exist 6000 years later, and submit to being ruled by the descendants of Adam and Eve and be exceedingly glad about it. Barry Midyet You have interesting views. Now let's perfect them a bit. (1) Catalonia is not the Basque country. Catalonia is the territory of the Catalans, centered on Barcelona on the eastern, Mediterranean coast of Spain. (2) The Basque country - Euskal Herria (in Euskal, which is the Basque word for "Basque") - Vasconia in Spanish - is on the western, Atlanic coast, of Spain and France, centered on the Pyrenees, the Atlantic, coastal borderlands between the two countries. Catalonia and the Basque country (which includes both Vasconia and Navarre, on the Spanish side, and Lapurdi, Zuberoa and French Navarre on the Frenchside) do not touch geographically. The Spanish province of Aragon sits between them. My point: Catalonia is not peopled by Basques, and the Catalans do not speak Basque. They speak Catalan, a Latin language, which is essentially the same as the traditional language of Southern France - the "Languedoc" dialect. (3) We Basques are descendants of the post-Flood Nephilim. The biological difference between us and the rest of the Europeans, reposing in our blood type, makes us only partially interfertile with other people. Essentially, a Basque woman with Rh negative blood has typically only been able to have one child with a male who has Rh positive blood, because of the "blue baby" syndrome. After she has had her first child, the leakage of the positive blood allele across the placental connection causes an allergic reaction in the woman, which in turn causes her body to reject all later Rh positive babies. (4) What this means is that when other folks have come through the Basque country, as conquerors or colonizers, that Basque women have been able to produce at most one child with them, but they can produce unlimited children with other Basques. In time, this has acted to genetically reduce the presence of the foreigner with each successive generation, and to preserve the Basque race. Basques have always been seafarers, the first open-ocean Atlantic ones. This has been for the purpose of fishing, not conquest. On land, we've been sheepherders since time immemorial. Columbus was the hired head of the expedition, but he got to America and back on ships crewed by Basques - nobody else were deep-sea sailors. Ditto for Magellan. He died. It was his Basque crew who actually made it around the world. (5) As far as us deserving to be "very thankful that we even exist..." and that we ought to "submit", you sound like a Nazi. Other people did not give us life. The same God that gave you your life, and that will take it away, gave us ours. We are men like anybody else, descendants of Adam and Eve. We're partly descended from the giants also, but what is that to you? We don't have the Rhesus monkey factor in our blood because we're descended from angels. YOU have it because YOU are descended from monkeys. So we're superior to you, obviously. The royal families of France and Spain - the House of Bourbon - comes out of Navarre and are Basque in origin. So, really, we are the greatest explorers and rulers - even our blood rejects your monkey blood. See how idiotic that sounds? (6) We fish. We herd sheep. We leave people alone. We came over to Christ in Roman times and have stayed with him. We haven't invaded our neighbors. We've had various folks pass through, and some stay...Celts, Romans, Visigoths, Arabs (the Song of Roland takes place in the Basque country), French and Spanish. Once we're all Christian and people are not abusive, what difference does it make? We're a smallish tribe that never had any ambition to take over the world, and it's better for us to be connected with the wider world. Catching fish and herding sheep is a living, but there's more to life than that, and to get out of your little province and see the world you need to be able to get along with other people. Some people get the idea of making other people "submit" to their imagined cultural superiority into their heads. The Romans did. They're gone. The Muslims did. They're gone. Franco did. He's dead and has shuffled off to hell. We're still there. And here. And all over the world. (7) Another correction: All of humanity is descended from Adam and Eve, and from Cain and Zillah, and Noah and Na'amah and either Ham, Shem or Japheth. Some of us are also descended from fallen angels. I think you're probably not descended from monkeys, you just act like you are with all of this "SUBMIT" business. Chimps and imperalists beat their chests. Always have. They die and rot in the grave like fishermen and herders, just the same. But the fisherman and the herder has a better chance of spending the afterlife in Paradise than the imperialist. He gets to spend a longer spell in purgatorial Gehenna repenting his violence and arrogance. So no, we should not be "submitting" to you monkey-bloods, any more than you should be submitting to us angelics. Really, the only difference between us and you, when you get down to the brass tacks, is that we are much better looking and therefore get more girls.
BTW, you may have missed the latest reindeer news. TheLibertyConservative: Reindeer Farmer Turned Congressman Hopes To Regain Lost House Seat In 2018
Now THAT's good stuff! If I win the lottery, I'm going to do it: milk the white-tails! It's proven technology with the reindeer, so let's take it to the next step!
I am curious: have you ever even milked a cow? Or a goat? Both are a lot more domesticated than any deer or reindeer. It isn't as much fun as you might think. And forget about any vacations or leaving home unless you have a neighbor or employee stupid enough to keep up the milking twice a day. You have to milk on schedule twice a day to keep up milk production. And they don't make any milking machines that can fit a goat or reindeer AFAIK.
It isn't as much fun as you might think. Of course. And you're right, it's not particularly fun. It's not a horror either. A chore. I assume that I will organize the farms and make sure they operate efficiently and have proper facilities and veterinary care. I assume that once I have gone through the rather dreary business of establishing the best practices and the proper standards of kind treatment, by example, that I will be able to step away from the actual teat-squeezing and hire peasants to do that part.
Your prospects of finding enough reliable teat-squeezing peasants may not be as rosy as you think. Even so, I wish you luck with finding them. Finding milkmaids in the 21st century isn't so easy. It seems they do have milking machines for goats and sheep at Amazon. Not just one, a number of types. They offer different sizes of teat cups, goat hobbles (I only ever had hobbles for a cow), other equipment.
Finding milkmaids in the 21st century isn't so easy. I always figured that I would have an easier time persuading the Russians to let me turn Siberia into a vast set of linked farms than persuading any American state to let me turn the wild whitetails into a semi-domesticated herd. There are plenty of peasants in Russia willing to do things a lot more demeaning than that. In the US, I would prefer to use prisoners. Handling their own animals often makes really bad men better than they were.
Russia is willing, eager even, to bring in American agricultural producers with expertise. They have ranchers and cowboys over there from places like Wyoming and Montana (people who are used to cold weather and a hard life).
Back after their Revolution and before World War II, many skilled American engineers went over there to help them set up factories using modern techniques. Tsarist Russia was really pathetic at educating engineers to do that, due to the class and wealth strictures on education under the old monarchy. I had a great uncle who was an engineer in the auto industry in Michigan who went over there in the 1920s and helped them design and build modern factories for machine production. It's a good thing Americans went over and did that, because it was those same factories that churned out war material that ate up the German armies two decades later. Without those production facilities, the USSR would never have been able to survive the German onslaught, and we would have faced an ugly one-front war against the Third Reich on the beaches of France. After the Cold War ended, men like Tillerson went over there with their companies and helped the Russians re-establish their oil industry on modern lines. Russia really is a land of opportunity for American engineers with vision. It's a vast land with people who are well- educated in the sciences, but who do not have the benefit of modern systems theory or capital. Russians are hardy, and they will work as regular employees in places so harsh that American workers would demand - and get - high pay as an incentive to go. Russia's a hard place, to be sure, and if you try to set up any sort of financial system, you are going to get robbed. (That is also true in China, for different reasons: the Chinese government will steal your intellectual property. The Russian government won't do that, but the Russian mob will literally steal any money you bring in.) In Russia, you can have security if you build things in agriculture, in raw materials exploitation, in power generation. And you building things means that you provide the money and some expertise - the Russians themselves will build it and operate it, but if you provide the funds and some plans, the Russians will let you get a reasonable profit stream from it and won't just seize it. There is a rule of law, of sorts, in Russian when you stay down in beetroots and machine parts. Try to make money on money flows, which is to say usury, and you're going to get devoured. In China, you can make a profit for a few years, while you build your big factories. But then they will steal you blind and take all of your intellectual property. And anyway, China is not full of deer. Siberia is. One of the Soviet Winter War plans was to move large populations of defeated Finnish Laplanders to Siberia to make it productive in cold weather agriculture and industry. Of course those plans never came to be because the Finns fought the Soviets off pretty effectively until the very end - and then Stalin had far bigger fish to fry than little Finland. "So many Russians, and our country so small, where will we find room to bury them all?" - Finnish expression from 1940.
Siberia aside, I still think it would be difficult to line up and milk reindeer with milking machines. And they still only would produce something like two quarts of milk per day. A dairy cow can produce gallons. You would really have to have a market demand to justify creating the herd and barns and machinery and such. And then get the reindeer to be a little cooperative.
Quite impossible, really. Reindeer, moose and elk are skittish. You have to do it by hand. Cervid milk is very rich in milkfat. Producer cow milk is 3.75% milkfat. Reindeer milk in on the order of 23%. Market demand is easy to generate. You take the milk and you make gjetost desert cheese out of it. You cut it into three ounce blocks and you put it in green, red and white wrapping with a picture of Santa's face and reindeer, and you market it at Christmastime as "Santa's own" - genuine reindeer milk cheese. You sell it for $15 a cube. Likewise, you make reindeer milk chocolate, in the form of a reindeer, and sell that. And finally, you market a triple-creamy Bullwinkle's Butter, made from moose milk.
There are ways to significantly gentle most any species. It may take a generation or so. We just haven't tried very hard yet. I can think of a number of approaches that might work beyond food bribery. First, you have to explain to the yuppie foodies what that is and why they want it more than life itself. You're making me uncomfortable. LOL
Remember, I'm Basque AND Sami. Basques have been fishing herring and milking sheep for something like 40,000 years. And Sami have been fishing herring and milking reindeer for about 30,000. The reindeer thing (and moose) is already a think in Samiland - has been since before anybody walked into America from Alaksa. But milking the WHITE TAILS, our kind of deer way down here - THAT is a new thing! Not hard to see why. Cows and yaks and buffalo are relatively docile (bison aren't - and nobody milked them), and sheep and goats are relatively docile and small, so you can manhandle them. There are those things wherever there are whitetails, and deer don't have the same production. So, to milk the deer would have meant trying to tame an immensely skittish, dangerously strong animal you can't manhandle, and that can get away, and kick the hell out of you...in other words, you get hurt a lot, and you get maybe a cup of milk out of them for your troubles. And the males will kill you during certain seasons (not that you're going to be milking the males (...not that there's anything wrong with that...)). OR you could just get three cups of milk everyday from a little goat that isn't going to randomly go berserk and kick you to death. Deer are hard. Reindeer are quite a bit more docile. You can actually harness them up to pull a sleight. Moose also. Try pulling a sleigh with whitetails. Think of the insane, tangled, braying, kicking goat rope that would be! There's a reason that we haven't tried this yet. But there's a reason to do it. Truth is, forests are good and clean the air, but they are really not economically productive at all, unless you chop them down (and then you h'ain't got no more forest). The deer naturally thrive in woodland, so if you turn them into vast semi- domesticated dairy herds, the forest becomes a source of ongoing meat, milk and soft deer leather that is native to the environment and does not require anything like the endless care that other dairy animals require. The forested vastness of Canada and Siberia is mostly uninhabited and has no economic function or much of a future other than to become Japanese chopsticks. Systematize cervid dairy, and suddenly there is a modest but steady stream of useful products that will generate more economic return and employ quite a few more people than simply slashing down the taiga. Also, because the milk is unique, wild and healthy, and a new thing, it could be done in a very different way. If you run the taiga whitetail farms (and red deer also) as wild organic no-kill, you could create a food supply for the animal loving niche, and no-kill soft leather.
#67. To: Vicomte13 (#60)
OR you could just get three cups of milk everyday from a little goat that isn't going to randomly go berserk and kick you to death. Deer are hard. Reindeer are quite a bit more docile. You can actually harness them up to pull a sleight. Moose also. Try pulling a sleigh with whitetails. Think of the insane, tangled, braying, kicking goat rope that would be! Yeah, I'd stick with the reindeer. Or try the elk maybe. Whitetails (or mulies) seem like an exercise in masochistic husbandry.
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#12. To: Tooconservative (#1)
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#13. To: A K A Stone (#12)
#15. To: Tooconservative (#13)
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It can't be too surprising that they don't like to be ordered around by Brussels any more than they liked being ordered around by Moscow during the Soviet era.
#20. To: interpreter (#15)
You have brought up what I have found to be a very, very interesting subject -- Catalonia and the Basque people/race. Linguists tell us that virtually all of the languages spoken in Europe and Asia and north Africa are derived from a common language that originated in Mesopotamia, that is, the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve. The only exceptions are the languages spoken by the Basques (in Catalonia), and the Turks/Turkish language, and the Uralic languages.
#22. To: Vicomte13 (#20)
#24. To: Tooconservative (#22)
BTW, you may have missed the latest reindeer news.
#26. To: Vicomte13 (#24)
Now THAT's good stuff! If I win the lottery, I'm going to do it: milk the white-tails! It's proven technology with the reindeer, so let's take it to the next step!
#27. To: Tooconservative (#26)
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I am curious: have you ever even milked a cow? Or a goat? Both are a lot more domesticated than any deer or reindeer.
#28. To: Vicomte13 (#27)
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#29. To: Tooconservative (#28)
Your prospects of finding enough reliable teat-squeezing peasants may not be as rosy as you think. Even so, I wish you luck with finding them.
#30. To: Vicomte13 (#29)
I always figured that I would have an easier time persuading the Russians to let me turn Siberia into a vast set of linked farms than persuading any American state to let me turn the wild whitetails into a semi-domesticated herd.
#31. To: Tooconservative (#30)
#32. To: Vicomte13 (#31)
#47. To: Tooconservative (#32)
Siberia aside, I still think it would be difficult to line up and milk reindeer with milking machines...You would really have to have a market demand t
#49. To: Vicomte13 (#47)
(Edited)
Reindeer, moose and elk are skittish. You have to do it by hand.
Market demand is easy to generate. You take the milk and you make gjetost desert cheese out of it.
And finally, you market a triple-creamy Bullwinkle's Butter, made from moose milk.
#60. To: Tooconservative (#49)
It may take a generation or so.
Replies to Comment # 60. There are those things wherever there are whitetails, and deer don't have the same production. So, to milk the deer would have meant trying to tame an immensely skittish, dangerously strong animal you can't manhandle, and that can get away, and kick the hell out of you...in other words, you get hurt a lot, and you get maybe a cup of milk out of them for your troubles. And the males will kill you during certain seasons (not that you're going to be milking the males (...not that there's anything wrong with that...)).
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