Saturday, October 19, 2019

PIC OF THE WEEK.

Massive farmers protests in The Netherlands last week. The issue is about the government wanting to slash the agricultural sector because of a nonexisting nitrogen problem. It seems in a number of protected areas there's these rare grasses which only thrive on poor soil. Farmers utilizing fertilizer threaten to disrupt the precarious ecobalance i.e. enrich said soil. In the choice between poor soil and poor Dutch farmers the Dutch government has without much ado opted for the former. Not only that, but building activities too seem to produce an excess of nitrogen, and the ruling class, which gives the impression they think N2 is a variant of the gases the Germans used in the Great War, has halted all building activities.

The most vocal protests against government insanity so far were by farmers, who massively turned up last week to block key roads in 'Randstad Holland':





The most unhinged parties are left-liberal D66, sometimes referred to as D666, and watermelons on steroids GroenLinks (lit. GreenLeft). Hearing their top brass arguing about the N2 'crisis' has convinced me most of them think that you don't need farmers and cows to get milk, since it is sooooo much easier to go to a supermarket and buy milk cartons.

In World War I it was said the tommies were Lions led by donkeys. In The Netherlands 2019, it would be excessively rude to donkeys, not to say racist, to paraphrase that saying and thereby imply the elites are as smart as those lovely long-eared creatures.


MFBB.

DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES OF UN MIGRATION PACT KICK IN.

This is not only sheer and utter insanity from the part of our ruling elites, it is a crime against the own population:





Note, please, that UN Chief Guterres was practically weeping on TV for all the world to see because his beloved UN is practically broke. But apparently he still has money for chartered intercontinental flights of hundreds of welfare seeking individuals.


The crux of the matter is that too many developing countries have FAILED, and FAILED MISERABLY, in creating safe and prosperous countries where the rule of law and decent economic policies ensures the integrity and wellbeing of the citizens.

That they have failed miserably, IS NOT OUR FAULT. It is THEIR OWN FAULT. For too long, the explanation has been that the squalor most Third Worlders live in is somehow the fault of the West, because of, ah, capitalism (!), racism, colonialism of course, and because in the sick deluded minds of every leftist economy is like communicating vessels: if we in the North are rich, the only explanation is that those in the south are poor.

Enough of that! The time to put the blame for their misery squarely at their own feet is long overdue. Colonialism is now 60 years in the past and those developing countries still not making progress have only themselves, and their culture, to blame. Besides, how ironic is it that this first flight of UN-mandated 'refugees' come from a country, Ethiopia, that was never colonized.

Implementation of this sham of a pact will only ensure the demise of our house, because the hordes of welfare seekers now poised to invade Europe will bring their backward cultures and ways, which guaranteed their squalor in the first place, with them.



To fully grasp the stupidity, nay, insanity, of the bulk of our politicians who signed this monstrosity called the "UN Global Compact for Migration", let us recap the basic points:


"The Global Compact for Migration is the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. The global compact is non-legally binding. It is grounded in values of state sovereignty, responsibility-sharing, non-discrimination, and human rights, and recognizes that a cooperative approach is needed to optimize the overall benefits of migration, while addressing its risks and challenges for individuals and communities in countries of origin, transit and destination.

The global compact comprises 23 objectives for better managing migration at local, national, regional and global levels. The compact:

* aims to mitigate the adverse drivers and structural factors that hinder people from building and maintaining sustainable livelihoods in their countries of origin;

* intends to reduce the risks and vulnerabilities migrants face at different stages of migration by respecting, protecting and fulfilling their human rights and providing them with care and assistance;

* seeks to address the legitimate concerns of states and communities, while recognizing that societies are undergoing demographic, economic, social and environmental changes at different scales that may have implications for and result from migration;

* strives to create conducive conditions that enable all migrants to enrich our societies through their human, economic and social capacities, and thus facilitate their contributions to sustainable development at the local, national, regional and global levels."


You can find the full text here.


It's a steaming pile of shit which completely ignores the mechanisms laying at the basis of there being huge migration flows: backward cultures, socialistic policies, sluggish ways of trade, mysogyny, islam etc etc etc. It is therefore not only pointless, but at the same time autodestructive, for us to open our borders to people who, once here, will simply continue the very lifestyles that ensured their countries of origin's backwardness. One can get the man out of Africa, but getting Africa out of the man is far more difficult. If you think that is racist, think again. A handful of African countries are doing quite well. Botswana comes to mind. But Botswana always rejected the garbage that are leftist ideologies, and is firmly on the road to prosperity.

African leaders from hellholes like Mauretania, Mali, Somalia et al should, if they want to improve their standard of living, not resort to the UN chimera of siphoning excess population off to Europe and the US, no, they should look at Botswana.


As bad as the failures of the leaders of many developing countries are, we should not overlook the role of our perverted 'elites' in facilitating the biggest mass invasion in history.

People who frequent this humble blog know that I am not a fan of conspiracy theories.

But seeing the disastrous policies of lowlives like Merkel, Macron, Verhofstadt et al unfold, cannot but lead to the question of why exactly these arrogant closet tyrants are so hellbent on destroying the countries entrusted to them.

I have long known about the ideological thrusts that lay at the basis of the European Union, among them the intellectual justification for European integration provided by an obscure Austrian nobleman of mixed race, one Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. Several propositions sound reasonable, to the extent that they gained support from unsuspected Conservatives like Winston Churchill. Others are less innocent. In his book Praktischer Idealismus Coudenhove-Kalergi writes, a.o.:


»The man of the future will be of mixed race. The races and classes of today will gradually disappear due to the elimination of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-negroid race of the future, similar in appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the current diversity of peoples and the diversity of individuals. «






Now, I consider it unlikely that every now and then, Merkel, Macron, Varadkar, May, Rutte, Michel, Verhofstadt, Juncker and the whole lot of genuine deplorables convene in a top secret location to discuss, and report progress on, the implementation of a plan concocted by a deluded, possibly immensely frustrated individual like Coudenhove-Kalergi. In short, I doubt that somewhere in a supersecret vault there lie blueprints marked with his name and an ominous title like 'Plan for the Replacement of Europe's Indigenous Peoples'.

But what I do believe, is that for at least several decades now the European leadership has consisted of technocrats and administrators who have all been exposed to, and influenced by, schools of thought informed by figures like Coudenhove-Kalergi. The blueprints for white genocide possibly aren't there. The spirit, however...

.... does seem to be there. It suffices that you have leaders who think alike, and even without gathering on a regular basis to report on the progress of population replacement... their more or less unisono policies will automatically resemble a plan unfolding according to schedule.

If you still think that Coudenhove-Kalergi's sick ideology does not inspire European leaders at all, how about this? There IS a Coudenhove-Kalergi Award after all:





I do not consider it unlikely that wretched, barren creatures like this one:





Or this one:





... indeed get much of their inspiration for opening the gates of their countries to Third World flotsam from the sick intellectual fruits of an obscure Austrian count's deluded mind.



The future of humanity is almost certainly mixed race... a very long time frm now, when its different constituents, whether white, black, red or yellow have all come up to speed, and when natural processes akin to osmosis have in and of themselves made us all look alike.

But to strive to dramatically hasten that day by concocting insane migration and population replacement plans, and thereby endanger a key civilization ...

... is a crime.

And criminals must be punished.




MFBB.

Saturday, October 12, 2019

SATURDAY NIGHT COLDPLAY, REM.

Coldplay with Talk. Album X&Y (2005).





Using a riff from Kraftwerk's Computer Love (1981), for which they gave permission. The video is by well-known Dutch photographer/director Anton Corbijn, who, not surprisingly if you are familiar with the man's style, chose for a black-and-white clip reminiscent of a 50s sci-fi B-movie.




REM with The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite. From their 1992 album Automatic for the People. Prolly their best one, btw.





And if you ever wondered what that weird thing on the iconic album's cover is, it's a star ornament which used to adorn the Sinbad Motel on Miami's Biscayne Boulevard, near Criteria Studios, where most of 'Automatic for...' was recorded.


Slaap wel.


MFBB.

SWEDEN GOING TO-TAL-LY BONKERS.

I know, it's from RT, sometimes you gotta take what they tell with a grain of salt, but this is real:


"A Swedish municipality is facing backlash after selecting a local Muslim woman wearing a headscarf to be the ‘poster girl’ for its roadside ‘welcome’ sign. Her past ties to a controversial local imam were also discovered.

The image of Suzan Hindi, a local Muslim woman in her early 40s wearing a blue headscarf, now welcomes motorists entering Gavle, a coastal municipality in Sweden about 100km north of Stockholm. The photo is occasionally shown on a digital board along with the message: “Welcome to Gavle!”"








"The municipality said it was a gesture celebrating the diversity of its community, which counts over 100,000 people of various origins and cultures. But some saw it as a signal of support for suppressing women’s freedoms.

“One should think what this is signaling. Some indeed use this garment, the hijab, voluntarily. But not everyone. This a garment that for millions of women around the world represents a lack of freedom,” said Sweden Democrats MP Roger Hedlund, a member of the municipality council, as quoted by the news website Nyheter Idag.

The Sweden Democrats party has an anti-immigration platform and currently holds 62 seats in the 349-seat Swedish parliament. Samhallsnytt, an online publication reportedly close to the party, was quick to dig Hindi’s past ties to a controversial local imam, who was accused of preaching radical ideas and collecting money for terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Indeed, in 2009 the woman, who called herself Nizam Hindi at the time, was featured in a story by the left-leaning tabloid Arbetarbladet about the opening of a mosque in Gavle. She explained how having their own prayer house was good for the Swedish municipality’s Muslim community, how aid from Saudi Arabia and Qatar helped to buy and furnish the building, and how listening to the imam is important during the prayer.

The Al-rashideen mosque and its imam, Abu Raad, were involved in a scandal a few years ago, after the leading local newspaper Gefle Dagblad accused him of spreading radical Salafist ideas and collecting money for terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.

The editor-in-chef received death threats over the criticism. The man who issued the threats was sentenced to two months in jail.

It was not immediately clear whether Hindi is still associated with the mosque.

Gavle itself was the scene of a national scandal in Sweden two years ago, when six people were tried for the abduction and murder of 23-year-old Afghan man Ramin Sherzaj over an extramarital affair. Five received life sentences for the crime, while one got a 14-year jail term.

The woman involved in the affair, who was a relative of the defendants, left her husband for a brief relationship with Sherzaj. It apparently ended badly, since the man then sent photos of him kissing the woman to her husband’s family members. This led to them banding together to carry out the honor killing."



Sweden is now officially the Idiotarian Superpower of the world.


MFBB.

Friday, October 11, 2019

IN MEMORIAM ALEXEI LEONOV (1934-2019).

A sad day for humanity as a 'stellar' human being, Alexei Leonov, the first man ever to walk freely in space, has died.






Via Space.com:


"Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person to walk in space before co-leading the first joint mission between Russia and the United States, has died at the age of 85.

Leonov died on Friday (Oct. 11) at the Burdenko military hospital in Moscow after a long illness.

"One of the first cosmonauts of the world space era, forever devoted to his country and his work, he inscribed himself in golden letters in the world history of space," said Roscosmos, Russia's federal space corporation, in a statement. "With Alexei Arkhipovich a whole era has gone."

Selected alongside Yuri Gagarin among the first 20 Soviet Air Force pilots to train as cosmonauts in 1960, Leonov flew twice into space, logging a total of 7 days and 32 minutes off the planet."

Launched on Voskhod 2, the world's 17th human spaceflight, on March 18, 1965, Leonov made history as the first person to exit his spacecraft for an extravehicular activity (EVA).






"The Earth is round!" he exclaimed, as he caught his first view of the world. "Stars were to my left, right, above and below me. The light of the sun was very intense and I felt its warmth on the part of my face that was not protected by a filter," said Leonov in a 2015 interview with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) on the 50th anniversary of his spacewalk.

"What remain etched in my memory was the extraordinary silence," he said.

Leonov's historic EVA, however, almost spelled his end.

After several minutes outside, his spacesuit ballooned, making it very difficult for him to maneuver. His crewmate, Pavel Belayev, unable to do anything to assist, Leonov made the decision to release air from his suit in order to be able to re-enter his capsule.

"I decided to drop the pressure inside the suit ... knowing all the while that I would reach the threshold of nitrogen boiling in my blood, but I had no choice," Leonov told the FAI, the world governing body that certifies aviation and space records.

Ultimately, Leonov made it safely back inside after 12 minutes and 9 seconds floating outside his spacecraft. He and Belyayev returned to Earth the next day on March 19, 1965, having shown it was possible for a human to survive working in the vacuum in space."



Try to imagine the sheer guts Alexei Leonov must have had, getting out of the relative 'shelter' offered by a spacecraft whizzing around Earth at 27,000 kloms an hour or thereabout, into the Great Icecold Void. Nothing between you and that but a flimsy spacesuit. Respect!




Rest in Peace, Major General. God bless.



MFBB.

Thursday, October 10, 2019

A TALE OF ONE CITY: LONDON THEN AND NOW.

Via David Vance, London (and the UK) pre Cultural Enrichment:





And during it:





Happy thoughts to you.


MFBB.

Tuesday, October 08, 2019

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS: PRAGER UNIVERSITY'S "THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS".

Which for Normals is self-evident of course, but you never know if some dopey lefty or watermelon happens to come across DowneastBlog!






MFBB.

Saturday, October 05, 2019

SATURDAY NIGHT KEANE, BLACK EYED PEAS.

Keane with Everybody's Changing. From the 2004 album Hopes and Fears.





Blokes from Battle, Sussex. Active since 2004, although there was a hiatus between 2014 and 2018. But back together for the moment. Keyboards replace guitars as the main instruments.



Black Eyed Peas with I gotta feeling. Album The E.N.D. (2009).





Must be the first time DowneastBlog serves you hiphop. And because I'm in SUCH a good mood, here's a Fergie pic completely gratis:




Goede nacht.


MFBB.

Friday, October 04, 2019

COUNCIL OF EUROPE ABUSING FAKE CLIMATE CRISIS TO FLOOD THE WEST WITH THIRD WORLD WELFARE SEEKERS.

As time goes by, it is becoming crystal clear that the EU and its affiliate organizations are going the UN Way. It is becoming hard to ignore the signs that major policies which are promoted "for the common good" are in reality wealth distribution schemes.

Last Thursday, OCT 3, on the agenda of the Parliamentary Meeting of the European Council, which convenes in Strasbourg, France, there was this innocent looking proposal, neatly tucked away between all kinds of "well-meant" advice. The Council of Europe cannot "enforce" these proposals, merely pour them in a resolution, but the intention is clear. Check out Number Four:





"4.) In the light of the above, member States should recognise human migration as a tool for livelihood resilience and a legitimate form of climate change adaptation, and therefore review their management of migration taking this factor into account. Migration being inevitable in certain cases, States need to take a proactive stance to better identify and anticipate the impact on population movements that may be provoked by climate change."



Got that? Rahm Emmanuel once said 'Never let a good crisis go to waste'. In the course of less than two decades this has morphed into 'Never let a fake crisis go to waste'. There IS no climate crisis, there IS no climate emergency. Yes, the planet is now on average some 0.85 degrees Centigrade hotter than it was around, oh, 1850 or so. But the millions who are now on the move direction Europe and North America manifestly DO-NOT-FLEE because it's hotter over there, or because there are more tropical storms, but because, sixty years after the decolonisation, their countries have FAILED, and failed spectacularly, in creating successful states.

That is not our fault.

Yet, to justify opening our gates for Third World flotsam which will over here inevitably lead the very same destructive lifestyles that guaranteed their countries of origin's failures, they are now apt to receive the honorary title of 'CLIMATE REFUGEE'. And all of that because of a fake crisis. What nonsense! This horrible resolution is nothing less than another tool in the globalists' armamentarium to implement the 'UN Global Compact for safe migration'.

Concerned citizens in Europe and America and, to a lesser extent, prosperous non-Western countries, need to take a good, hard look at this disgusting specimen of a politician in particular, the Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans, now First Vice President of the European Commission, that is bad enough already, but also...





... European Commissioner for Climate.

In the following video you can see this scoundrel making the case for a CO2 tax:





And in this one, Timmermans is reassuring a German public that islam has been a consistent part of Europe "for 2,000 years" (!):






It all follows that this archglobalist is practically the worst possible person to be Number Two in the European Commission, the EU's "government". On many occasions, he has stated that Europe must embrace 'diversity' (and lose its identity). As an islamophile he's all for continued islamization of our continent. And now that he has the climate portfolio, he will MOST CERTAINLY give his ear to a Council of Europe Resolution recommending the creation of a 'Climate Refugee Status'.

God help us.



MFBB.

Saturday, September 28, 2019

RECOMMENDED READS: SOEREN KERN'S "ITALY: SALVINI OUT, MIGRANTS IN".

Very unfortunately, Salvini apparently shot himself in the foot and this is the result, via The Gatestone Institute:


"Italy's new government, which has pledged to reverse former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's hardline approach to migration policy, appears to have triggered a new wave of mass migration from northern Africa.

More than 1,400 migrants reached Italian shores since the new government took office on September 5, according to data compiled by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

During just the past several weeks, the number of migrant arrivals to Italy has increased incrementally: 59 migrants arrived on September 6; 67 arrived on September 9; 121 arrived on September 14; 259 arrived on September 15; 275 arrived on September 18; and 475 arrived between September 19 and September 25, according to the IOM. Overall, the number of migrant arrivals in September 2019 is up by more than 100% over the number of arrivals in September 2018.





Many of the new arrivals are reaching Italy by using new people-smuggling routes that originate in Turkey. In recent weeks, at least five migrant boats have landed in Calabria, in the far south of Italy. On September 21, for instance, 58 migrants, all Pakistani males, reached the Calabrian port of Crotone.

People-smuggling mafias are also using new routes in the Southern Mediterranean to move people to Italy from sub-Saharan Africa. In recent weeks, criminal groups have used small boats to transport migrants from Libya to Tunisia, from where the crossing to Lampedusa, Italy's southern-most island, is shorter and less risky. On September 20, for example, 92 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa — Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal — reached Lampedusa.

At the same time, Italy's new government also appears to be taking a more lenient approach to the migrant rescue ships operated by European charities, which have been accused of coordinating with people-smuggling mafias to pick up migrants off the coast of Libya and transport them to Italian ports.

On September 14, the Italian government authorized the Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, operated by the French charities SOS Méditerranée and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), to dock at Lampedusa, where 82 migrants picked up off the coast of Libya were allowed to disembark.

On September 24, the Italian government allowed the Ocean Viking, this time carrying 182 migrants, to dock at the Sicilian port of Messina.

Whereas Salvini had banned migrant rescue ships from docking at Italian ports, the new government's more lenient approach appears also to be encouraging European non-governmental organizations (NGOs). On September 23, the Spanish NGO Open Arms announced that it would resume migrant rescues on board a vessel called Astral.

In August, Open Arms and its rescue ship of the same name were involved in a three-week stand-off with the Italian government, which refused to allow the vessel to dock in Italian ports. After more than a dozen migrants jumped overboard and tried to swim to shore, Sicilian prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio on August 20 ordered the Open Arms, anchored one kilometer off Lampedusa, to dock in Sicily so that its passengers could disembark. Subsequent video footage showed that Open Arms staged the jumps to manipulate public opinion. Italian authorities later impounded the ship...."






The crux of the matter is that both North America and Western Europe are litterally under assault from the Third World. The reasons for this are twofold:


a.) First, there is a potential for migration because a considerable number of nations have FAILED as states, and failed miserably. It's not about war, and in the cases that there is, the reasons for that are the same reasons why the nations failed in the first place.

b.) Second, I have always considered myself an opponent of conspiration theories, but the events of the past 4 years are forcing me to reconsider that opinion. There are mechanisms behind (the facilitation of) migration flows. Perhaps it's not centralized. But there are... instigators, facilitators, financiers, and yes, ideologues... behind the stampede of Third World flotsam direction The West.



Western politicians who want to save their countries and indeed, Western Civilization itself, must dare to call out the utter failure of Third World countries to provide their citizens with the basics for what it is. The misery there is NOT the West's faults but rooted in their cultures and/or marxist/socialist ideologies. No more grovelling in the sand and weeping for 'the evils of colonialism'. Instead politicians must have the courage to say to the bozos running Mali, for instance: "Hey you there, YOU-ARE-FUCKING-UP!!!"

And at home, those same politicians must also start to confront the Open Borders lunatics among us FAR-MORE-AGGRESSIVELY. And I am sorry - I really am - that I feel I have to add "if necessary, with violence".



Western Civilization is far too important to squander it on the altar of insane multiculturalism and have it destroyed by the same attitudes and policies that caused the countries the 'refugees' are fleeing... to turn into shitholes in the first place.


MFBB.

Friday, September 27, 2019

THANK ALLAH IT'S FRIDAY!!!

During which Buzzfeed's Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara entertain us with some Area 51 stuff.





MFBB.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

RECOMMENDED READS: JUDITH BERGMAN'S "SWEDEN SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL."

Harrowing stories from Sweden, via The Gatestone Institute:


"Löfven, you have lost control of Sweden," the leader of the largest opposition party, the center-right Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, recently wrote in an article in the daily newspaper Aftonbladet, in which he criticized Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for failing to solve some of Sweden's biggest problems. According to Kristersson:

~ "Two areas that we [the Moderate Party] highly prioritize are law and order and integration. Because Sweden's biggest problems are there now.

~ "Last year, 306 shootings occurred and 45 people were shot dead. According to the police, the number of people killed has doubled since 2014. During the same period, the number of people who have been subjected to sexual abuse has tripled according to BRÅ [the Swedish Crime Prevention Council]...


....


One of the realities, according to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) -- the state authority for community protection and preparedness -- is that terrorism is now a threat everywhere in Sweden, and therefore even smaller municipalities need to be prepared for terrorist acts to occur.

"First of all," said Jonas Eriksson, who is responsible for security in the public environment at MSB, "you have to be aware that this can happen in smaller cities... Then you have to think about what is in the municipality that can be vulnerable and sensitive." The statement came after police intercepted a potential terrorist act in the city of Östersund in August. The suspect was trying to drive into a crowd and run people over, according to Aftonbladet. He is also being investigated for links to Rakhmat Akilov, a terrorist who was convicted of killing five people by plowing a truck into a department store in central Stockholm in April 2017.





From the beginning of 2019 to the end of July, there were 120 bombings in Sweden, according to police statistics. The figure represents an increase of 45% over the same period last year, when 83 bombings took place. The south of Sweden has been particularly badly hit, with 44 bombings. "At present, one can only really speculate on the reasons why. We have an increased problem with crime and exclusion," said Petra Stenkula, chief investigator at Police Region south. "It is possible that the supply of dynamite is good, whereas the supply is somewhat more limited when it comes to weapons today compared to before."

In the southern Swedish city of Landskrona alone -- a place of roughly 35,000 inhabitants -- since December 2018, there have been seven explosions or bombings. In August, the entrance to Landskrona's city hall was blown up.

In August, another city in the south of Sweden, Linköping, experienced its second blast this year. Police found an object that they suspected was explosives. When it was destroyed by the national bomb protection squad, a powerful explosion occurred. It destroyed a police storehouse and damaged several other buildings. In early June, also in Linköping, an explosion blasted through a residential building. Miraculously, no one was killed, but 20 people were wounded. The police suspect that the incident was gang-related..."



Some firsthand info from Peter:

















Meanwhile, the sole Swede the world is paying attention to is a 16-year old girl with Asperger, who will forever stay small because of a self-imposed hunger diet, and who by now must be seriously lagging behind in basic education because of all that school skipping. Yet she has the ear of throngs of gullible heads of states and their lackeys. She claims the world is burning because of "climate change"... while in reality it's beginning to look more and more that it's her country that's burning.



MFBB.

Monday, September 23, 2019

PIC OF THE DAY.

Compared to this prodigy, Laurence Olivier and Alec Guiness are pansies:





However, it seems they teach 'em young these days:





Some are convincing, like Estella Renee, see above.


Others, not so much:







The world is nuts.


MFBB.


Saturday, September 21, 2019

SATURDAY NIGHT PRINCE, NIK KERSHAW.

Prince with Mountains. Album Parade (1986).





The bare-backed beauty on the piano is Wendy Melvoin, one half of the duo Wendy & Lisa. And the gorgeous playing that piano is Lisa Coleman, the other half of course.



Nik Kershaw's When a Heart Beats. Album Radio Musicola (1986).





Well, only on the cassette and CD versions of the album anyway, not on the LP. Don't ask me why.



Goedenacht.



MFBB.

Friday, September 20, 2019

AUSTRALIA: CLIMATE CHANGE NUTTERS PROTEST IN SNOW THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GONE BY NOW.

Today was Climate Change Nutter Day or Climate Strike Day or whatever, and it seems all over the globe gullible idiots, far too many of them seriously indoctrinated schoolchildren, went AWOL from whatever responsibilities they had to protest the governments' lack of measures to combat climate change.

One such a bunch of bozos demonstrated on Mount Hotham, a 1,862 metres (6,109 ft) high peak in the south of the Australian Alps, renowned for its skiing possibilities:





As you can all notice, the demonstrators stand or sit in an, ah, peculiar..., powdery, White Substance.

Which is REALLY WEIRD, because that substance, apparently sometimes referred to as 'snow', SHOULD NOT BE THERE!

Indeed, back in 2012 an Australian Professor, Catherine Pickering, of the Griffith School of Environment no less, scared the living sh*t out of all ski aficionados with her scientifically underpinned claim that by 2020, the snow in the Australian Alps would be gone:





"ENVIRONMENTAL researchers say the end of Australia's ski culture is in sight, despite Victoria and NSW experiencing one of their best snow seasons in almost a decade.

People were still shredding up powder last weekend at some of Australia's top ski resorts, but Griffith associate professor Catherine Pickering says snow is rapidly disappearing because of global warming and by 2020 Australia may not have any left.

"We've predicted by 2020 to lose something like 60 per cent of the snow cover of the Australian Alps," Professor Pickering, from the Griffith School of Environment, said.

"Unfortunately because our current emissions and our current rises in temperatures are at the high end of the predictions, it's definitely coming to us sooner and faster."

Professor Pickering researched the effects of declining snow cover and hotter summers on the Australian Alps and says this year's better than average season has been a one-off combination of La Nina and a cold snap.

"We'll still occasionally have good years, but they'll become less frequent," she said. "A poor year in the past will be a good year now."

The research covered all Victoria and NSW ski resorts and Professor Pickering says the alpine region is most threatened by climate change, with an increasing threat to endemic and endangered mountain species as well as plants because of early thaws...."



Listen to Prof Pickering yakking about the catastrophic effects of climate change:





But that was then (2012), this is now (2019):


2019:

A low-pressure system will bring snow during Friday through Saturday, mostly above 1400m, but possibly reaching 1200m, followed by another cold surge and more snow during Sunday into Monday. All up we can expect 20-40cm across all resorts...

This season has already passed expectations... The latest reading from Spencer’s Creek a week ago was up at 228.8cm, which puts us well above average. But looking lower down at Deep Creek (1620m) and Three Mile Dam (1460m), snow depths are fairly average.



Via The Herald Sun.


Prof Pickering may still be right of course. There's some three months left before it's 2020!



MFBB.

Saturday, September 14, 2019

SECRETARY GENERAL OF WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION TO WARMISTS: COOL IT DUDES.

Warmists take notice! The Head of the World Meteorological Organization, Petteri Taalas, has called you out for nutcases!

Of course, you can now resort to your standard practice and shriek at the top of your lungs that Taalas is a climate denier and also moonlighting as a nazi and a racist.

Via The Global Warming Policy Forum:






Speaking to Finland’s financial newspaper Talouselämä (“The Journal”) on 6 September 2019, Petteri Taalas called for cooler heads to prevail, saying that he does not accept arguments that the end of the world is at hand:


~ It is not going to be the end of the world. The world is just becoming more challenging. In parts of the globe living conditions are becoming worse, but people have survived in harsh conditions.


He also says that the Finnish discourse on climate change has become overly doom-laden:


~ The atmosphere created by media has been provoking anxiety. The latest idea is that children are a negative thing. I am worried for young mothers, who are already under much pressure. This will only add to their burden.



Moreover, contrary to much of what is heard in the media, he thinks that the solution to climate change does not require people to live ascetic lives. “If you start to live like an orthodox monk”, he says, “the world is not going be saved”. He stresses that standards of living should not be lowered.

And he suggests that radical environmentalists are now a major problem:


~ While climate sceptisism has become less of an issue, now we are being challenged from the other side. Climate experts have been attacked by these people and they claim that we should be much more radical. They are doomsters and extremists; they make threats. Much more radical action is demanded by Extinction Rebellion movement. They demand zero emissions by 2025 and “honest” climate information from governments.


To Taalas, the deep greens have been abusing the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, cherrypicking parts that they think will support radical action.


~ The IPCC reports have been read in a similar way to the Bible: you try to find certain pieces or sections from which you try to justify your extreme views. This resembles religious extremism.


Although he is critical of right wing populists who do not accept any climate action, he warns of what might happen if fuel taxes are raised too far, noting the protests of the French gilets jaunes.

Taalas hopes that mainstream media will become more critical and hopes more for a more diverse presentation of views and argues that all sides should be interviewed.


~ We should consider critically, and with reservations, the thoughts of experts…”



Now if only we can get Mr Taalas to drop the nonsense about taking a measure of climate action...



MFBB.

Friday, September 13, 2019

THANK ALLAH IT'S FRIDAY!!!

In which we follow the restoration of a Citroën Traction Avant, the iconic car of the interbellum in Europe!





The legendary Citroën Traction Avant (litterally Front Traction) existed in a wide range of mostly 4-door saloons and executive cars, with four or six-cylinder engines. It was produced by Citroën from 1934 to 1957, and around 760,000 units of all types rolled off assembly lines in France, Belgium, the UK, Germany and Denmark.

The front wheel drive was but one of several quite revolutionary innovations which are still common in modern cars, like four-wheel independent suspension, a crash resistant monocoque body, and rack and pinion steering. Visually too, the car instantly stood out, because of its sleek lines drawn by famed Italian designer Flaminio Bertoni and the fact that its ground clearance was far less than that of contemporaries (because of the absence of a separate chassis underneath):





Isn't she a beauty? This is the Traction Avant 11CV, in which CV stands for "Chevaux fiscaux", or fiscal horsepower. The 11 CV was launched in 1935 and was fitted with the 1,911 cm3 engine. Real horsepower reached a maximum of around 55HP at 3,800 rpm, and maximum torque was 119Nm at 2,000 rpm.



MFBB.

Thursday, September 12, 2019

OUGHTERARD, CO. GALWAY, IRELAND: DEPLORABLES REJECT PROGRESSIVE PLANS TO REPLACE THEM.

We have dwelled before on multiculti scoundrel Leo Varadkar, soi-disant Taoiseach of Eire.

Ever since that unholy name entered my political vocabulary, I have found myself baffled at the improbability of a man reaching the highest office in a country of which he intends to replace the population in perhaps the most drastic scheme in all of Europe.

Before you watch the following video, it is necessary to understand what the Irish mean by 'Direct Provision':



"Direct Provision (Irish: Soláthar Díreach) is a system of asylum seeker accommodation used in the Republic of Ireland. The system has been criticised by human rights organisations as illegal, inhuman and degrading, while proponents argue that it ensures asylum seekers are housed and cared for, in accordance with international law. The system, operated by the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) of the Department of Justice and Equality, provides asylum seeker residents with accommodation free of charge and a living allowance.[2] Asylum seekers in Direct Provision are usually entitled to state-funded medical care,[3] and children have full mainstreamed access to the education system."



Got that? "accommodation free of charge", "usually entitled to state-funded medical care". There you are, a cream white Irishman at 60 or 65, having contributed 40 years of your life to social security, obeyed the law, doing your part in society, now looking forward to a meager pension and wondering how to pay the bills and stay healthy. Along comes Varadkar and his many cronies who intend to flood Ireland with up to a million welfare seekers who will get everything for free YOU worked for 4 decades of your life... and these bastards think they can get away with it???


Not so. Seán Kyne is a progressive dodo from Varadkar's traitor party Fine Gael and thought he could ram the construction of yet another Direct Provision Center down the locals' throats in Oughterard, County Galway:


"A Government Minister was booed and heckled as up to 700 people attended a public meeting in Oughterard, Co Galway, on Wednesday, and vowed to fight any plans to provide a direct provision centre in their community.

Speaker after speaker expressed anger at the lack of consultation, information and clarity which they say has fuelled rumours in recent weeks concerning refurbishment works at the Connemara Gateway Hotel in Oughterard, which has been closed for a number of years.

Cllr Tom Welby chaired the meeting on behalf of an ad hoc Facebook group which is campaigning to stop any plans to accommodate asylum seekers in the town.

Cllr Welby said neither he or any of the public representatives attending the meeting, including Minister of State Seán Kyne and TDs Catherine Connolly and Noel Grealish, had knowledge of any plans for the future of the building.

However, Mr Kyne told the angry meeting there was a tender process ongoing in the west to find locations for new asylum seeker centres but that this was under the remit of the Department of Justice and neither he nor his colleagues were privy to information about any applications.

He was booed and heckled when he reminded those assembled that Ireland was obliged under EU and United Nations laws to accept and process anyone who could prove they had fled persecution and injustices in their own country.

Many of the speakers accused the Government of ignoring rural towns such as theirs which had only one doctor for a population of 1,600, full to capacity schools, an intercom instead of a Garda station and a social housing waiting list with no sign of any new schemes being built.

One of the main organisers of the meeting, Patrick Curran, said time and again in the course of the night that if the politicians would not stop the centre, the people would."



A vid from the meeting:






Now if only genuine Irishmen and -women could show as much backbone as these people and throw Fine Gael off the Cliffs of Moher in the next general election, Eire has a chance to survive.


MFBB.

RECOMMENDED VIDEO: RUPERT DARWALL ON "GREEN TYRANNY".

In which Mr Darwall elaborates on the Nazi roots of radical environmentalism. For many years I have known about Walter Darré, read stories about concentration camp guards sparing what they called the 'Goethe Eiche' and of course about Hitlers vegetarianism, but to conclude from such circumstancial evidence that Nazis were greenies always seemed a bit far-fetched to me. Darwall's well-researched book just may change that perception:





Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media.

You can buy Green Tyranny here.



MFBB.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

9/11: NEVER FORGET.... THAT ISLAM IS CANCER. UPDATE.




Not extremist islam, not islamism, not islamic radicals murdered and maimed that day.

Islam murdered and maimed that day.

Islam is the enemy of humanity, and one day humanity will have to decide what to do with this insane and murderous belief system.


UPDATE:

I hear that President Trump refused to call the evil by its name. If that is so, then this is my first very serious disappointment in him during his years in office.

However, on my 'fatherlandish' soil we are lucky enough to still have politicans who are not afraid to call out a disease by its name. One of these men is Filip Dewinter, of Vlaams Belang. A true Flemish Lion:






MFBB.