A dozen little indicators: Links 1, Sept. 1, 2019

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1. Are the Russians manipulating Sweden?

2. AfD makes historic gains in East Germany 

Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. (06:00 GMT) on Sunday in Germany’s eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony, which in total have over 5 million residents eligible to vote in the regional elections.

 

Exit polls indicate big gains for Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that has managed to win over Merkel’s CDU party in Germany’s state of Brandenburg, gaining 22,5 percent of votes against CDU’s 15,5 percent. However, the palm of victory has been obtained by the SPD that has gained 27,5 percent of the votes.

 

At the same time, exit polls in the state of Saxony have shown that CDU receives 32 percent of people’s support while the AfD stands behind by five percent, gaining 27,5 percent of the votes.

 

Exit polls show a drastic shift of public support towards the right-wing forces as, during the last elections in 2014, the AfD gained just 9,7 percent of votes in Saxony and 12,2 percent in Brandenburg.

 

The results could have shock wave consequences for the already floundering government coalition of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats with the centre-left Social Democrats.

3. Protestors disrupt India Day celebrations in Torontistan

4. DOUGLAS MURRAY: How did the world lose its marbles? A new dogma has turned beliefs that once seemed common sense into hate crimes. If you say the ‘wrong thing’, you’ll be thrown to the wolves…

We are going through a great mass derangement. In public and in private, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and unpleasant. The news is filled with the consequences. Yet while we see the symptoms everywhere, we don’t see the causes.

 

Various explanations have been given, usually involving Donald Trump, Brexit, or both. But these explanations don’t get to the root cause of what is happening. For beneath all the day-to-day madnesses – over race, sex, sexuality, gender and the rest – are much greater movements and much bigger events. Even the origin of this mass derangement is rarely acknowledged. This is the simple fact that we have been living through a period of more than a quarter of a century in which all our grand narratives about our existence have collapsed.

 

Religion went first, falling away from the 19th Century onwards. Then, over the past century, the secular hopes held out by all political ideologies followed. In the latter part of the 20th Century, we entered the post-modern era, defined by its suspicion towards grand narratives.

(I have only skimmed the rest of this DM article, by DM. [Douglas Murray] but for the actual answer that makes sense and fills in the puzzle pieces, read this Stephen Coughlin essay.)

5. Pentagon Confirms Carrying Out Strike on al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorists in Idlib, Syria

Earlier this month, the Syrian Army launched an offensive in the province, citing militants’ constant violations of a ceasefire, and has liberated multiple settlements, including Khan Sheikhoun, which had served as a major strongpoint for anti-government militias and terrorist groups.

 

The Pentagon has confirmed that the US-led coalition has carried out strikes against the leaders of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group in Idlib province, Syria.

 

“The removal of this facility will further degrade their ability to conduct future attacks and destabilise the region,” US Central Command spokesman Lt. Col. Earl Brown said, his comments cited by AFP.

 

Earlier, local media reported that the coalition had launched a missile attack against the headquarters of Hurras ad-Din, an insurgent group affiliated with al-Qaeda* which has waged war with Syrian government forces during the Syrian conflict.

6. HUGE GAINS FOR THE AfD!!!!

7. Riot police storm metro, arrest 40 people

8. CBC celebrating islam in Mexico. Because nothing is better than more islam except more sexual deviancy from anything that might create a baby.

9. Chris Hull on OANN on the handling of illegal docs amongst the FBI/DOJ

10. There Is No ‘Gay Gene,’ Comprehensive Scientific Study Finds

Recent polls have shown that most Americans believe that homosexuals are “born that way” rather than become gay as the result of environmental factors. In fact, perpetuating the belief that sexual orientation is innate has been crucial to the gay rights movement. According to the most recent Gallup Poll on the subject, 88 percent of people who believe homosexuals are “born that way” support the legality of same-sex marriage, while only 39 percent of those who believe homosexuality is the result of environmental factors support the legality of same-sex marriage.

So, what happens when science proves that homosexuals aren’t “born that way”? Perhaps we’ll find out. A new comprehensive scientific study of the biological roots of sexual orientation released Thursday proved that there no “gay gene” and that genetic factors are insignificant in determining sexual orientation.

The research, which analyzed data on DNA and sexual experiences from almost half a million people, found there are thousands of genetic variants linked to same-sex sexual behavior, most with very small effects.

Five of the genetic markers were “significantly” associated with same-sex behavior, the researchers said, but even these are far from being predictive of a person’s sexual preferences.

“We scanned the entire human genome and found a handful – five to be precise – of locations that are clearly associated with whether a person reports in engaging in same-sex sexual behavior,” said Andrea Ganna, a biologist at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Finland who co-led the research.

According to Ganna, these genetic variances have “a very small effect” on sexual behavior, and  combined, only explain “considerably less than 1% of the variance in the self-reported same-sex sexual behavior.”

11. Sadiq Khan compares Donald Trump and Boris Johnson to the NAZIS in new rant against ‘extreme’ leaders and calls the US President a ‘poster boy for white nationalism’ who is inspiring the PM and Nigel Farage

(If Khan is ready to go to this level of rhetoric, he must see the writing on the wall for himself. This is a political Hail Mary if ever there was one)

London mayor Sadiq Khan has slammed Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as ‘extreme right wing leaders’ and claimed that the lessons of the Second World War are in ‘danger of being forgotten’ because of their rise in popularity. 

 

Khan labelled the US president ‘the global poster-boy for white nationalism’ and said that he inspired right wing leaders around the world, including the Prime Minister and Nigel Farage.

 

The London mayor added that support for democracy in the western world is at a ‘record low’.

He also believes that Brexit Party leader Farage has pushed Johnson and his Conservative party to become ‘ever more right wing, illiberal and intolerant’. 

12. Another Swedish Municipality That Took In Migrants Faces Economic Crisis

The Swedish municipality of Hässleholm, which took in nearly 3,000 asylum seekers in three years, faces an economic crisis as up to 80 per cent remain on welfare.

Hässleholm City Council chairman Lars Johnsson, a member of the centre-right Moderate Party, said that the Swedish municipality has at least 100 migrants who are illiterate and another 200 with very poor educational backgrounds, saying, “It will in principle be impossible to get them to work,” Kristianstadsbladet reports.

 

Social assistance costs have drastically increased since 2012, rising from 32 million Swedish krona ($3,259,680/£2,680,320) to 54 million ($5,501,124/£4,523,310) this year. They are predicted to increase by another six million each year.

 

The municipality says they put away around 30 million krona to cope with the projected costs but already half of that has been spent.

“We would need 100 million krona from the state to go injury-free, to keep our noses above the surface,” Johnsson said.

(Of course there is one factor missing from his analysis. At some point the money means nothing if people are not working, because money is only good so long as people accept it in exchange for goods and services. Once enough people are just getting money from the government and very few actually produce anything, they will either leave or invent a new form of trade between themselves. I don’t know what the percentage is that would make this system fail. But its not too hard to visualize people losing faith in currency when it has no meaning, or there is really nothing to trade it for, more importantly)

Thank you M., PePi, Johnny U., Yucki, Xanthippa, EB., Michelle, Wrath of Khan, and everyone who sent in materials. Back to the editing table for some more Brad Johnson and Barry Webb.

An interesting analysis of the use of film over the 20th century for the destruction of a moral society.

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11 Replies to “A dozen little indicators: Links 1, Sept. 1, 2019”

  2. AFD May win seats but the other parties will for a coalition and afd will be no important again.
    Sad

  3. I will agree with the vast majority of what he says in the entire interview, I don’t agree with the idea that their internal economy is strong enough for them to shift from an export economy to an internal consumption economy.

    I don’t agree with his vision of the economic growth in the Chinese economy in the past and being able to continue this through the belt and road program.

    I don’t agree with his unspoken idea that we will give the entire Orient and India to China.

    I don’t agree with his spoken idea that China can survive the international consequences of moving people into Hong Kong to crush the protests.

    I do agree that China will be forced to use force to crush the protests.

    He also contradicts himself when he implies that China will take over that region and move in to Europe but at the same time he thinks Nam will move to freedom like Japan and South Korea did.

    I don’t think the socialital and political collapse that the left is working for will hold off long enough for us to convert South America to full freedom and become prosperous trading partners.

    I don’t agree that China will end up controlling Europe and the area between China and Europe. I know China is trying to achieve that goal but I don’t see them being able to achieve that goal.

    Part of the problem is that he is ignoring the environmental degradation that the CCP has allowed to happen in China.

  4. I can’t help but think that PT, by words and actions, believes a bit of toughlove is due for America.

    A trade and currency war with Red China means a few things. PT has said a number of times that he wants to bring back manufacturing lost to China. You cannot have a meaningful economy based on the service sector. And let’s face it, we’ve handed them the world’s manufacturing driven by their abundance of slave labour. However this means that to wage a trade and currency war means we will start to see disruptions in the supply chain. Goods and even some services will cease to flow from China. PT is hoping to debilitate China’s manufacturing monopoly, repatriate companies and manufacturing, destroy the CCP by imploding the Chinese economy, and repatriate capital. He’s betting on the ability of American ingenuity to retool before the knowledge of American knowhow is lost with the end of the Babyboomer generation. All of these requirements I see as inarguable if we are to survive.

    But again, disrupting supply chains means a rough ride is ahead. We’ll have to go without some consumer goods until the private sector realizes there is a golden opportunity to start making Made In America wigits again. Trade unions must be decimated. They are a massive blight on our economies and serve only to wag the dog that is capital.