Saturday, August 31, 2019

SATURDAY NIGHT MOLOKO, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS.

Moloko with Sing it back. From the 1999 album I am not a Doctor.





Relatively short-lived (1994-2003) dance group from Sheffield, UK, around Róisín Murphy en Mark Brydon.



Red Hot Chili Peppers with Snow. Album Stadium Arcadium (2006).





The band apparently has no intention to die just yet, and they've been around since 1983. Although Kiedis and Flea are the only members who were there from the beginning.


Goede nacht.


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FLOODS OF 'REFUGEES' CONTINUE TO INVADE EUROPE DAY AFTER DAY.

Horrible images from Lesbos, a Greek island. I can't even say that the floodgates are open again, because it is crystal clear they were never really closed in the first place:





As for Med crossings, it's bad enough that Salvini's gamble failed and that the 5 Star Movement and Partito Democratico are now poised to form a government leaving Lega in the cold - which would mean that Italy's ports will reopen again for the deluge of African 'refugees'. And if you doubt that a 5 Star/PD government would do that, watch the following interview with a PD ("center left") Senator:





But even without the thousands 'saved' twenty miles off the Libyan coast and transported up north per the wallet of the gullible EU taxpayer, many also cross the Med on their own, and succeed in reaching Europe's soft underbelly. They go ashore... and disappear, only to pop up weeks later in Berlin, Frankfurt, Brussels or Paris and wreak havoc there:





These are absolutely very, very, very dire times. The whole of the West is now under assault from the Third World. The time is approaching when violence against those who are behind the massive human trafficking schemes must be considered as a real but, unfortunately, necessary option.

We cannot let them turn our beautiful countries in islamic/Third World hellholes. If we do not act, then this will be our future: Just a street in Stockholm, Sweden:






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Friday, August 30, 2019

RECOMMENDED READS: MATT RIDLEY'S "THE MOST DANGEROUS THING ABOUT THE AMAZON FIRES IS THE APOCALYPTIC RHETORIC."

Probably the best article last week to destroy the Amazon fire nonsense came from the pen - keyboard - of Matt Ridley over at The Spectator:


"Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese expert on forests who also plays football, so when he shared a picture online of a recent forest fire in the Amazon, it went viral. Perhaps he was in a rush that day to get out of the laboratory to football training, because it later transpired that the photograph was actually taken in 2013, not this year, and in southern Brazil, nowhere near the Amazon.

But at least his picture was only six years old. Emmanuel Macron, another forest ecologist who moonlights as president of France, claimed that ‘the Amazon rainforest — the lungs which produce 20 per cent of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire!’ alongside a picture that was 20 years old. A third bioscientist, who goes under the name of Madonna and sings, capped both their achievements by sharing a 30-year-old picture.

Now imagine if some celebrity — Donald Trump, say, or Nigel Lawson — had shared a picture of a pristine tropical forest with the caption ‘Amazon rainforest’s doing fine!’ and it had turned out to be decades old or from the wrong area. The BBC’s ‘fact-checkers’ would have been all over it, seizing the opportunity to mock, censor and ostracise.

In fact, ‘Amazon rainforest’s doing fine’ is a lot closer to the truth than ‘Amazon rainforest — the lungs which produce 20 per cent of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire!’. The forest is not on fire. The vast majority of this year’s fires are on farmland or already cleared areas, and the claim that the Amazon forest produces 20 per cent of the oxygen in the air is either nonsensical or wrong depending on how you interpret it (in any case, lungs don’t produce oxygen). The Amazon, like every ecosystem, consumes about as much oxygen through respiration as it produces through photosynthesis so there is no net contribution; and even on a gross basis, the Amazon comprises less than 6 per cent of oxygen production, most of which happens in the ocean.

But it is the outdated nature of the pictures shared by celebs that is most revealing, because the number of fires in Brazil this year is more than last year, but about the same as in 2016 and less than in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2012. For most of those years, Brazil’s president was a socialist, not a right-wing populist, so in BBC-world those fires did not count. More significantly, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon basin is down by 70 per cent since 2004."








""Around the world, wild fires are generally declining, according to Nasa. Deforestation, too, is happening less and less. The United Nations’ ‘state of the world’s forests’report concluded last year that ‘the net loss of forest area continues to slow, from 0.18 per cent [a year] in the 1990s to 0.08 per cent over the last five-year period’. A study in Nature last year by scientists from the University of Maryland concluded that even this is too pessimistic: ‘We show that — contrary to the prevailing view that forest area has declined globally — tree cover has increased by 2.24 million km2 (+7.1 per cent relative to the 1982 level).’"




Lula da Silva was Brazilian President from 2003 till the end of 2010. Forest fires of the same scale as now or worse were normal during his Presidency. The absence of outrage then only makes sense when you consider that this moral standard bearer, see above, is a socialist.



"Possibly the biggest driver of this encouraging trend is the rising productivity of agriculture. The more yields increase, the less land we need to steal from nature to feed ourselves. Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University has calculated that the world needs only 35 per cent as much land to produce a given quantity of food as 50 years ago. That has spared wild land on a massive scale.

Likewise, getting people on to fossil fuels and away from burning wood for fuel spares trees. It is in the poorest countries, mainly in Africa, that men and women still gather firewood for cooking and bushmeat for food, instead of using electricity or gas and farmed meat.

The trouble with the apocalyptic rhetoric is that it can seem to justify drastic but dangerous solutions. The obsession with climate change has slowed the decline of deforestation. An estimated 700,000 hectares of forest has been felled in South-East Asia to grow palm oil to add to supposedly green ‘bio-diesel’ fuel in Europe, while the world is feeding 5 per cent of its grain crop to motor cars rather than people, which means 5 per cent of cultivated land that could be released for forest. Britain imports timber from wild forests in the Americas to burn for electricity at Drax in North Yorkshire, depriving beetles and woodpeckers of their lunch..."



From the plague of leftists, deliver us oh Lord.



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Monday, August 26, 2019

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, REAPS BENEFITS OF POST-APARTHEID AGE.

Pretoria, South Africa, during Apartheid:






Pretoria, South Africa, post Apartheid:




Progress!!!



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