(0723) Late start today … bad in that it sets back the programme, good in that it allows me to at least do the programme. Ditto with your sleep and eating pattern, exercise.
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4. Steve corner
3. And so it continues
2. DAD at 1265
Anti-EU day.
a) The European Parliament wants to grant the European Commission the power to control arms exports from EU member states to third countries. This initiative, introduced through an amendment, reignites an institutional standoff….
b) Leaked documents suggest that an Hungarian EU Official worked on organizing “Resistance” against Orbán “Regime”.
c) US technology companies that do not like the fines imposed under European digital rules can leave the European market, France’s economy minister said.
d) Censorship backfires: Germany’s assault on Press Freedom.
There is a direct link between our establishment’s struggle against social media and ‘fake news’ and the growing perception of politicians as dishonest.
1. How to win friends and influence people
a. Don’t write a post item like this.
b. We’re not just up against bad players, we’re first of all up against people who:
(i) Are historically and politically naive, without knowledge, plus self-satisfied with the little they do know;
(ii) Are therefore susceptible to the bad players and their highly organised brainwashing, which includes accusing those who resist of the very thing the bad players and ignorati themselves are guilty of.
Gladstone it was who said, of Disraeli: “I absorb the vapour and return it as a flood.” Not interested in what is or what is not but only in the game of parliamentary accusation and eloquent counter-accusation. Meanwhile little children die of starvation in the East End and other neglected slums.
c. These people somehow have the vote, which therefore perpetuates the horror ad infinitum.
d. The moment someone proposes meritocracy, two immediate problems rear their heads:
(i) Who exactly is going to set the test, the exam, the accreditation requirements?
(ii) Who is then going to forcibly introduce and then police those requirements?
How political naivety perpetuates bad policy, esp. if pushed by someone thinking he’s a Great Statesman … an example is the question of China on the US/Canadian border:
From Vancouver Island to Chinese bases above the northern border with Quebec etc., this is an existential threat to the US, just as the US letter agencies in the Ukraine, plus the EU globopsychos, inc. Meloni, are a threat to Russia … and the Iran Regime is a threat to its own area, plus around the world.