Seneca III, writing for Gates of Vienna
‘The tides of human affairs rarely rise and fall to a regular timetable, unlike those of the oceans with their predictable lunar rhythms. Rather, the mass consciousness of nation states ebbs and flows in fits and starts, with long periods of slack water followed by furious surges. Here, now, on the eve of the third year of the second decade of the 21st century we find ourselves yet again on the cusp of such a surge. In greater numbers we are awakening to the sobering reality that all but a few of the freedoms we for so long and so carelessly took for granted have been spirited away during the times of affluence and indulgence, and that we in the West have degenerated into little more than a collective of embryonic police states…’
A fine and very sobering essay, part of a series.

George Orwell. He knew a thing or two about totalitarianism. And this news item illustrates it perfectly:
‘North Koreans ‘told to go gloveless at funeral’

‘SCIENTISTS have found the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters.
Leading researchers in marine biology discovered 57 animals along a 2000 km stretch from Queensland to NSW.

The predators are a cross between the common blacktip shark and Australian blacktip shark, two related but genetically distinct species.
The scientists say interbreeding between the two shark species is a sign the animals are adapting to climate change…’

Huh? On what evidence? What other factors have been ruled out? Has there previously been a search specifically for hybrid sharks? What evidence is there that this isn’t simply a perfectly ordinary evolutionary development? Besides, ocean temperature measurements don’t point to any significant increase..did the sharks become aware of the ‘higher’ air temperatures when they popped ashore for a Big Mac and thought: “bloody hell! I’d better go and find a closely-related species to root before we’re all doomed!”
And does that mean the new/modified species which came into existence when the earth was warmer than it is now, may be exterminated, since they’re obviously not “natural”?
FFS!

..when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was asked for her reaction to the Supreme Court’s notorious eminent-domain ruling in Kelo v. New London, she replied as though a new tablet had been handed down from Sinai: “It is a decision of the Supreme Court. If Congress wants to change it, it will require legislation of a level of a constitutional amendment. So this is almost as if God has spoken.’’
But judges are not divine and their opinions are not holy writ. The judiciary is intended to be a co-equal branch of government, not a paramount one. If the Supreme Court wrongly decides a constitutional case, nothing obliges Congress or the president – or the states or the people, for that matter – to simply bow and accept it…’       source

‘Dont’ take care this New Year
..Risk is fuel for the optimistic. For the pessimistic and the timid risk prohibitions are the precautionary cords with which you bind your optimistic neighbours, revenge for their sunny boldness having made you look meagre.  Risk aversion is the tool of womens’ revenge against the scary experimentation of men…’
Stephen Franks

‘Olympic VIPs will be whisked around London in 4,000 BMWs..’
while below we have a post:
‘..Employees will have to work 208 days next year until they have paid their share of government spending and regulation..’
Pitchforks and torches time….no, scrub that. Insurrection time.
It can’t possibly be argued that this is the “free market” or “capitalism” in action. This is blatant theft by a ruling elite,  for which the cure is the guillotine or the rope.

A guest post by Darin:
Recently I was accused of being a freeloader,why,because I live with my Father.Now understand I have a house of my own, however after my Mother died from cancer my father –  who is 75 and was married to the same woman for 51 years –  became depressed.He had his own health problems arise as well. Since I am the youngest of three sons and the one who lives the closest with the least obligations I decided it best to move in with him.I work on average 40-60 hours a week just down the street, pay my own way and also provide the slack for my Father’s income.
I am not freeloading or leeching off him, yet I was accused of such by a know-it-all/know-nothing lefty. This woman assumes I am like her lazy,leeching offspring but I am not, and told her as much.

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‘I just want you to know that we are working on [additional limits on gun ownership]. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.'”
And
““I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns,”     source
Adolf Hitler:
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms…”

Britain:
‘..Employees will have to work 208 days next year until they have paid their share of government spending and regulation, according to a campaign group..’