(0841) Some brek and training coming up … hope both are efficacious. (0938)
13. Moosh corner again
12. The vlogging experience, such as it is
It’s not just that … it’s the fixation of drowning out the narrator with unwonted bkgd noise … it’s those awful ads (and nearly all are appalling) interrupting a piece of music for example … it’s the sanity, the voice, the thoughts of the narrator.
With the Uke three vloggers we use … Christoforou just wanders around the outskirts of some town in some Med country, putting a new point every ten minutes, sardonically … spinning it out … things we know already, Gudadze does show maps and give a Russian perspective, strange manner, the other was good but seems to be off air.
Kissin and some of the current and old GB News are ok, mostly, but when they start the empire building … give me money for my wisdom … bye bye … we have our own thang going here. Vox has insights still, so does the Z Man, occasionally:
When Trump halted all funding payments from USAID, for example, ninety percent of “independent media” in Ukraine had to close. Most of the pro-Ukraine accounts on Twitter suddenly fell silent. This is just one example, but it points to the enormity of the corruption centered in these quasi-government organizations. Much of what has been presented to the public as “democratic politics” has been theater staged by this swarm of not-for-profits and non-government-organizations.
One of the least surprising aspects of this is the realization that the people endlessly yelping about “our democracy” have been part of a system that works to prevent the will of the people. Similarly, it is no surprise that the lunatics screaming about fascism in the streets were underwritten by a network of organizations funding by the government and corporate donors. USAID was big into “gender” politics, for example. It was all a show, but also a massive fraud on the people.
The Z Man we mostly seemed to dump after his true colours showed quite a while back … but that doesn’t mean he can’t be right on some things.
11. Sooner or later, in the birthright citizenship question …
… each participant in the fight must come clean on certain issues:
- Is being born into a certain nation, culture, heritage … a “thing”? That is … are you of the “stock” of that nation? This is complicated, in Oz and NZ for example, as they’re not original stock but are that of the longtime masters of that land.
- How long is “longtime”? A century, two, five, a millennium? My feeling is that conquered peoples certainly have a case, just as the Englische did post 1066 under the Normans. Bloodlines? However, there’s such a thing as a long time. Moors in Spain? Ah but they were booted out.
- What of language? Well, as someone a long time in Russia, with passable Russian language, half Russian in amused Russian eyes … I was ok … plus useful, needed by sectors. Speaking the language passably is certainly a thang imho, plus being au fait, sympathetically, with the land’s history. Most certainly not protesting over some other country.
- Longtime? I’d say a millennium is fair. In Br and Oz, I understand you needed to produce a grandparent … I’d say that that should be great-great-grandparent before feeling secure.
Anyway, that’s debatable … consider this:
In 2025, America is an outlier among developed nations in offering unrestricted birthright citizenship. Corporate media outlets will remind you that we aren’t alone, that around 30 other countries do the same. But what they usually don’t report is that those countries are the likes of Grenada, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados. Not a single European country follows our lead. Nor do Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and the list goes on.
Only one country in the world with a per-capita GDP anywhere near the United States’ matches our policy — Canada. And Canada historically hasn’t had much to worry about on the illegal immigration front, because their only land border is shared with us.
To my mind, birth plus other factors come into it … looking at the invaders … ah, but which factors?
