Morning all.
12. The Phantom
A Magnate's Soliloquy - written over 10 years ago [short video].
https://rumble.com/v14nnc5-a-magnates-soliloquy.html
11. Man with a lovable accent
Perfect example of why this type of drop is suited to t'other place, although obviously it's nice as a summary here.
10. France
The fall of the French model began in autumn 2010, when Nicolas Sarkozy backtracked on a promise to raise the retirement age. The French responded with seven marches in eight weeks with at least 1.5 million marchers each time. One week saw three marches with perhaps 3 million people each, but Sarkozy didn’t budge. Despite being even larger than the Yellow Vest protests, it was the first time since the re-reintroduction of Liberalism in the mid-1970s that major social protests failed to win any concessions. The reason for that was made crystal clear in the previous chapter: the Lisbon Treaty’s firm establishment of the European Union in 2009 had created supranational masters to which the French president was now solely accountable. No longer was he or she accountable to the French people, and this vital misunderstanding still afflicts French politics in 2022.
From:
https://thesaker.is/the-pan-european-project-wanted-a-great-recession-winds-up-with-yellow-vests/
Via:
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2022/05/14/vote-as-hard-as-you-can-in-a-rigged-system/
9. Yes
8. At Amren - diversity hires in the UK
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2022/05/woke-madness-across-the-pond/
My views started to change in the early 2000s when what was then known as political correctness infected culture across Europe. It became impossible to go to a Shakespeare play without between a third and a half of the cast being chosen for their race instead of their ability to speak verse.
Classical concerts were plagued by mediocre fillers in the first half, selected by reference to the gender or ethnicity of the composer, paid for by taxpayer subsidy and forgotten after the first performance. White musicians are now being dismissed from opera orchestras to make way for less talented blacks.
At the same time, a taxpayer-subsidized orchestra of black players programs the justly forgotten Florence Price alongside Beethoven and everyone is too polite, or too afraid, to comment on the unfairness of the comparison (3). The same establishment is also too afraid to comment on the success which Asian musicians have achieved, and entirely deserve, on the basis of talent, ability, and hard work.
My conversion finally happened when I had to deal with the effect of anti-white prejudice and woke ideology in my profession.
The sane approach would shirley be to hire on the basis of interest and ability, irrespective. There is the ongoing general question of the invasion but even so, among those might be some talent which could be co-opted.
Just through the right process, not by compulsory diversity hire, surefire road to ruin.
I see Ukraine 'won' eurovision (another 'bent' election?? That'll cost Bribem another few Billion to stage the spectacle in Kiev, and I wonder how they're going to do it if the US manages to keep the war going until then? Aren't we lucky the UK didn't come first!
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