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A Dangerous Year
‘Tis the season for making predictions about the events lurking in wait for us all in the upcoming year, and I see no reason to demur from that common if risky habit. Those of my readers who’ve been following my blog since the days of The Archdruid Report know that my method in making these predictions is at once simple, effective, and highly unpopular. Put briefly, I pay attention to what happened when the same conditions occurred in previous historical epochs, and predict that the same consequences are going to follow.
It’s simple because I’ve got five thousand years of history to work with, and since human beings are much less original than they like to think, it’s a safe bet that the events taking place now have occurred many times before, with predictable consequences. It’s effective because, again, human beings are much less original than they like to think, and the more of them get involved in any given event, the more of the Brownian motion brought into being by individual cussedness gets canceled out. Sure, we have lots of shiny new technogimmickry now, but the brains, hearts, and less mentionable organs guiding said technogimmickry haven’t changed noticeably since the end of the last ice age. That’s why the American special forces wasting their time and your money in the northern Euphrates valley right now are enacting a failed strategy that was already old when the legions of the Babylonian Empire were doing the same thing in the same place three thousand-odd years ago.
It’s highly unpopular, finally, because an astonishing number of people in today’s industrial societies labor under the bizarre delusion that when we make the same old mistakes and get the same overfamiliar consequences, we’re actually doing brand new, innovative, unparalleled things that will inevitably succeed in ways nothing has ever succeeded before, and how dare anyone suggest that we might learn something from the lessons of history! Now of course when somebody proposes a course of action, it’s simple common sense to ask “Well, what happened the last few times somebody tried that?” Try raising that obvious and necessary question in today’s collective conversation, though, and you can count on being shouted down with ringing cries of “But it’s different this time!”
What’s more, when you turn out to be right and they turn out to be wrong—and let’s be fair, that’s nearly always what happens in such cases—you can bet the farm that the next time the question comes up, they’ll be making the same claims. Whether it’s technofetishists insisting that some imaginary mechanical marvel that’s been just ten years in the future since before I was born really is going to happen this year, or purveyors of utopian daydreams insisting that this is the year when their fantasies will become reality, or people who’ve invested in the speculative bubble du jour insisting that said bubble really will keep on levitating forever, or apocalypse fans insisting that modern industrial civilization is going to crash into ruin in a matter of weeks sometime soon, just you watch—well, dear reader, if you’ve been following the collective chatter of our time, you know the words and the music of all these ditties well enough to sing them in your sleep.
When we look back on the steaming remains of 2018 a year from now, in other words, we won’t be thinking of it as the year when fusion power finally became viable, or the year that world peace broke out, or the year that Bitcoin made everyone a godzillionaire, or the year when industrial civilization rolled over, belched, and died. A year from now, what’s more, the dollar and the Euro will still have value, there will still be products on the shelves of your local grocery, petroleum-powered automobiles will still be lurching wastefully down the streets, petroleum-powered airliners will still be rumbling even more wastefully through the skies, and more Americans will be concerned with the outcome of the latest Super Bowl game than with the subjects this blog discusses.
Does this mean that nothing’s going to change? No, quite the contrary.
Some historical epochs are more dangerous than others, and the most dangerous of all are those in which a once-great empire is on the way toward history’s dustbin. Imagine yourself living in such a time. The world you live in—whether that world is a river valley or a planet—is dominated by a nation which could once pound the living bejesus out of anyone who challenged its dominion. Can it still do so? No one knows for sure. The leaders and publicists of the imperial power insist on its invincibility and snarl threats at its rivals; the rivals position themselves for the moment when the illusion of omnipotence cracks once and for all; minor powers push at the boundaries of international order and take risks that would have been unthinkable a few decades before. If this doesn’t sound familiar to you, dear reader, you really do need to get out more.
Several years ago I wrote that the accelerating decline and impending fall of America’s global empire is the single most important fact of contemporary world politics. That’s even more true now. As we move deeper into decline, the gap between what the United States used to be able to do and what it can still do today is widening—but no one knows just how wide it is, much less which possibilities have fallen into the gap and which remain on firm ground. Everyone in the world, from Donald Trump in his gold-plated bathtub to the poorest of the poor in their teeming Third World slums, is scrambling to deal with a situation that with each passing day has more resemblance to a crapshoot at long odds. In all probability, some of the most crucial events in the year ahead will be the product of desperate gambles set in motion at three in the morning in response to fragmentary data about a situation too complex for anybody to understand or control.
My first prediction for the new year, therefore, is that one of the biggest stories of the year will be an event that nobody has predicted. Do I know what it is? I’m not even going to guess. In Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s useful phrase, we can expect at least one Godzilla-sized “black swan” event to dominate headlines and shake what little faith the world still has in rational planning.
That said, even in a time of rising uncertainties, some things can be predicted by paying attention to what’s happening now and comparing it to what happened the last half dozen times the same set of conditions put in an appearance. Let’s start with domestic politics here in the US.
As I write this, the Trump administration has been in office for just under a year, and as usual at this point for an administration with a first-time president, it’s just beginning to hit its stride. The tax bill just passed is a harbinger of things to come. The giveaways to the rich that got nearly all the media attention are sideshows; the main event is the tax benefits it gave to Trump’s working class supporters, the elimination of deductions that benefit the largely Democratic middle and upper middle class, the incentives it gave to US-based multinationals to bring overseas dollars home and invest them here, and—above all else—the abolition of the most hated part of Obamacare, the individual mandate that forced people who can’t afford health insurance to buy it anyway at whatever price the insurance industry wanted to charge.
That is to say, Trump did what successful US administrations always do, and handed out pork to his supporters at the expense of his rivals. That’s going to help shore up his base when it comes time for the 2018 elections, and if he manages to hand out more pork to his voter base between now and this coming November, the Democratic dream of a sweeping midterm victory that will leave Trump paralyzed in 2019 and 2020 will almost certainly go whistling down the wind.
That’s all the more likely in that the Democrats have handled their defeat in the 2016 elections very badly. When you lose—especially when you had the advantage going into the contest, and blew it anyway—the first and most essential rule of survival is to figure out what you did wrong and stop doing it. Not only haven’t the Dems done this, many of them have responded with blind fury to the suggestion that they ought to learn anything from their failure, and insisted that their party has to keep doubling down on all the things that cost Hillary Clinton the White House.
Those aren’t the things Democrats like to blame for Clinton’s loss, by the way. What doomed Clinton’s campaign was her commitment to business as usual at a time when business as usual had become intolerable for a vast number of ordinary Americans. What catapulted Trump into the nomination, and then the White House, was the hope on the part of those same Americans that he might do something different. What happens now that Trump’s team and the Republican leadership in Congress have worked out their differences and started to get legislation passed will determine whether the voters who backed Trump in 2016 will stay with the GOP in 2018 and 2020. Unless the Democrats get a clue in a hurry, that’s likely to happen.
Overall, while there’s still plenty of room for uncertainty at this point, I’m going to call the 2018 Congressional elections as a tossup, with a few seats changing hands and maybe a very slight gain for one side or the other. This is one place to watch for black swans, though.
While you’re watching domestic US politics, by the way, keep an eye out for a massive sea change that’s under way this year, though it probably won’t have an impact for a few years yet: the absurdity of Christians in America supporting a political agenda that directly contradicts the teachings of Christ has begun to sink in, in a big way, among young American Protestants. The devil’s bargain by which the evangelical Protestant churches sold their souls to the Republican Party in exchange for political influence was never destined to have a long shelf life, and it’s starting to stink too strongly for a good many sensitive noses. Donald Trump, interestingly enough, seems to have been the bright orange straw that broke this particular camel’s back; a great many young evangelical Christians, watching their elders turn cheerleader for a man who’s a poster child for every one of the seven deadly sins, have had enough.
The Democratic Party as currently constituted is unlikely to benefit from the resulting defections, but then the Democratic Party as currently constituted is not long for this world. I expect the party to go through tectonic shifts as its current leadership either gets chucked out or ages out, and one of the current crop of outsiders does to it what Jeremy Corbyn’s doing to the Labour Party on the other side of the Atlantic—that is to say, turning it back into something like what it was before it became a pallid clone of its conservative rival. If that happens before 2020, and Trump fumbles badly enough, the new social evangelicals may become a massive force in US politics in the 2020 election; if not, and the Democrats go down to a humiliating defeat in 2020, the rise of the new social evangelicals will come immediately afterwards. One way or another, it’s going to stand a lot of the certainties of American politics on their heads.
Okay, let’s turn to foreign affairs. As already mentioned, the United States is a waning force, trying to maintain a fingernail grip on the levels of global power while backing away from foreign commitments it can no longer afford. That backpedaling is already moving much faster than I would have predicted a few years back. The Russian intervention in Syria was the critical event here. Having embarrassed the Pentagon with an efficient win, the Russians are now reaping the benefits of victory, building permanent bases in Syria from which they can project power throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
Egypt, formerly a US ally of sorts, has quietly changed sides and leased several air bases to the Russians. Turkey, a member of NATO, seems to be headed the same direction. A decade ago the United States would have moved heaven and earth to stop these things from happening; now it merely blusters. The unrest being fomented in Iran as I write this is a temporary gimmick; a similar US-funded attempt at regime change was crushed easily in 2009, and the Iranian authorities can squash this one readily enough. My working guess is that it’s being done this time to try to bluff Iran into bringing some of its Revolutionary Guards units back from Syria, at least for a while, so the US special forces teams who have been stage-managing the Pentagon’s end of the Syrian rebel scene have time to extract themselves and cover their tracks adequately.
Elsewhere in the world, it’s the same song. The US is trying to carry out that most difficult of military operations, a staged retreat through hostile territory. That could blow up without warning, of course. For what it’s worth, I don’t expect the blow-up to come from America’s principal rivals, Russia, China, and Iran; they’ve displayed admirable patience, and for good reason; they know that they simply have to wait, taking precisely measured actions to shore up weak spots or to press their claims in narrowly defined areas, and they’ll get what they want once the US finishes its trip down history’s greased chute.
No, it’s the minor powers with regional ambitions that might decide to gamble that the US can no longer back up its threats. Faced with a direct attack on US interests, Trump will have to respond with as much force as America still has; what happens next depends on how deep the rot has extended through the US military, and on whether the other side has figured out how to capitalize on the vulnerabilities of a military machine that’s still basically designed to refight World War II. If the US military suffers a serious defeat at the hands of some other nation, all bets are off. (That was the central theme of my one venture into political-military thriller fiction, my 2014 novel Twilight’s Last Gleaming.) Otherwise, expect the US to bluster and threaten in an attempt to win breathing room for its retreat from empire. Black swans? A constant possibility.
While we’re discussing foreign affairs, by the way, keep an eye on Saudi Arabia. One of the riskiest maneuvers in all of politics is the attempt by an absolute monarchy to modernize the economic system of its nation and still retain power. That’s what King Louis XVI of France tried to do in the decades before 1789, what Tsar Nicholas of Russia tried to do in the decades before 1917, and what the Shah of Iran tried to do in the decades before 1978; I trust my readers know what happened to the monarchs in question. The current crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, is trying to pull off the same trick right now. Will he and the House of Saud survive the experience? An interesting question, which could set the Middle East aflame.
Okay, on to economics. Right at the moment it’s impossible to tell whether the cryptocurrency bubble is going to go into permanent slump or reinflate and head for the Moon. One way or another, expect the rise and fall of speculative bubbles to be a constant feature of the business pages all year. Partly that’s because the real economy of nonfinancial goods and services by and large no longer provides the kind of profits investors expect, and so a hallucinatory economy of paper wealth has leapt into being to meet the demand. Partly, though, there’s another factor.
For the last three years, while the US stock market has hit record highs, more money has been withdrawn from US stocks than has been put into them. In theory, that’s impossible. In practice, it shows that the stock market has stopped functioning as a measure of economic health and turned into an instrument of economic propaganda. Back in the day, the US government funded its deficits by selling Treasury bills to other nations, counting on the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency to keep the market brisk; when that stopped working, the Treasury started buying its own debt through intermediaries and stashing the debt in off-book subsidiaries in various corners of the world—yes, that’s the same gimmick that got Enron in trouble. Now it’s pretty clear that the same gimmick, or something very much like it, is also being used to prop up the stock market.
The usual prognosticators are predicting a stock market crash this year, the same one they’ve predicted (inaccurately) for nearly a decade now. It might happen, but the chances are against it, since hallucinations don’t need to obey the laws of gravity. The trend to watch, rather, is the increasing disconnection of the official economy from the actual state of economic affairs in the real world. Many years ago Bertram Gross predicted that economic indicators would turn into “economic vindicators” that said whatever the government wanted them to say. I think he’d be impressed to see just how enthusiastically the federal government has fulfilled his predictions.
What we’re seeing, in other words, is the transformation of the US economy into a Potemkin Village capitalism in which government largesse backed by Ponzi financing props up a thin imitation of prosperity over the top of spreading impoverishment. It’s not accidental that Elon Musk, one of the most highly touted of the new generation of capitalist grandees, runs all his businesses on government subsidies. Meanwhile, outside the narrowing circle of the official economy, the United States is rapidly becoming a Third World nation in which off-book employment and subsistence economics are increasingly the norm. I don’t expect any significant change in that picture this year, just a continuation of vapid cheerleading from the media and increasingly grim conditions in the real world. Black swans? Always a possibility but not, I think, a likely one.
The environment? That’s the big issue, of course, but it’s going to get nothing but lip service. We’re going to see more big storms, more big floods, more big fires, and the streets of Miami Beach and a hundred other low-lying coastal communities will fill a little deeper with salt water every time they get a high tide and an onshore wind, but nothing’s going to be done about it. Oh, sure, the left will demand with a voice both loud and bold that somebody else, somewhere else, ought to use less carbon; the right will insist that the earth rests on the back of a giant turtle, if that’s what it takes to let them keep on claiming that anthropogenic climate change isn’t happening; and only a few of us out here on the fringes will do the one thing that can actually make a difference, and cut back sharply on our own carbon use in order to lead by example.
I expect to hear any number of predictions of impending environmental doom this year, and they’ll be wasted breath as usual; preachers, sacred and secular alike, have been trying to scare people into being good since long before Jonathan Edwards ranted about “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and—ahem—it doesn’t work: never has, never will. There are plenty of other ways that people concerned about the environment could help build a movement for change that might actually have an impact, but all of those ways start with activists embracing the changes they expect everyone else to embrace. Since environmental activists by and large come from the privileged middle and upper middle classes of our society, and since most would sooner fry and eat their own fingers than accept a standard of living they associate with the despised poor, none of these promising options are going to be taken up. Instead, we’ll get more posturing, more loud pronouncements, more empty gestures, as the seas keep rising and the climate gets worse.
One way or another, we’re probably going to be facing a fair amount of rough sledding here in the USA over the year ahead, as our domestic politics remains frozen in gridlock, our foreign policy struggles to deal with the impacts of our accelerating decline, our economy devolves into nothing so straightforward as honest smoke and mirrors, and the environment that sustains us all tips further into sudden-reset territory. It’s going to be a dangerous year—and yes, that faint rhythmic noise you hear in the sky is either the wingbeats of a black swan or the sound of another flock of birds coming home to roost.
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Ecosophia by John Michael Greer
92 Comments on "A Dangerous Year"
Dredd on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 4:15 pm
Historians have illustrated the reality for quite some time (Etiology of Social Dementia – 18).
The direction is so obvious that it has to be ignored or denied.
As usual.
Hello on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 4:23 pm
A lot of talk from Greer, similar to Kunstler.
2018 is most likely going to be just like 2017.
Rupturing events are rare and unpredictable.
Hello on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 4:25 pm
>>>> the United States is rapidly becoming a Third World nation
yes, people make a nation, not the other way round. Import 3rd world, you get 3rd world.
onlooker on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 5:22 pm
Great link Dredd. Certainly Group dynamics are certified and manifested convincingly
MASTERMIND on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 6:15 pm
Great link Dredd!
Makati1 on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 6:43 pm
“As already mentioned, the United States is a waning force, trying to maintain a fingernail grip on the levels of global power while backing away from foreign commitments it can no longer afford….
The US is trying to carry out that most difficult of military operations, a staged retreat through hostile territory….
Russia, China, and Iran; they’ve displayed admirable patience, and for good reason; they know that they simply have to wait, taking precisely measured actions to shore up weak spots or to press their claims in narrowly defined areas, and they’ll get what they want once the US finishes its trip down history’s greased chute…
In all probability, some of the most crucial events in the year ahead will be the product of desperate gambles set in motion at three in the morning…It’s going to be a dangerous year”
Slip slidin’ down the greased slope to the 3rd world. Exciting times!
MASTERMIND on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 6:58 pm
Hello
We took in 1.5 million people last year..That is adding less than 0.24% of 325 million people…You are just a paranoid loon who doesn’t know the facts.
Makati1 on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 7:51 pm
two sites to visit for a remembrance…
“38 Pictures That Show The Decline Of America Since The 1950s”
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/01/03/38-pictures-that-show-the-decline-of-america-since-the-1950s/#more-167334
“35 Things Wrong With America”
http://www.returnofkings.com/52021/35-things-wrong-with-america
Slip slidin’ away…
Boat on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 8:41 pm
MM,
Even after the crash and ensuing 10 % unemployment the US continued immigration of over 1 million per year. Both parties are at fault. Even dumb ass Trump tapped into the unfairness and rode the dissatisfaction to the white house.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 9:08 pm
Boat
OMG they imported a whole 0.24% worth of immigrants to our country this year! LOL Jesus do you know how stupid you sound?
Boat on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 9:25 pm
Peckerheads like yourself don’t have enough brains to tally the ramifications. Over 40 million foreign born in the US and growing. Now tell me again how we’re gonna crash because we’re running out of shyt and once again how 40 million immigrants isn’t something we should fix.
Makati1 on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 10:48 pm
America 2017:
The new boss proved to be the same as the old boss.
911 calls turned deadly.
Traffic stops took a turn for the worse.
The courts failed to uphold justice.
A culture of compliance paved the way for sexual predators
Patriotism trumped free speech.
Mass shootings claimed more lives.
Civil discourse was drowned out by intolerance, violence and militarized police.
The cost of endless wars drove the nation deeper into debt.
Government agencies padded their pockets at the expense of taxpayers.
The plight of the nation’s homeless worsened.
Free speech was dealt one knock-out punch after another.
The Surveillance State rendered Americans vulnerable to threats from government spies, police, hackers and power failures.
Technology drove teens to suicide.
Police became even more militarized and weaponized.
Drones became more lethal.
Science got scary.
The government waged a renewed war on cash.
The U.S. military industrial complex—aided by the Trump administration—armed the world while padding its own pockets.
https://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/apocalypse_now_2017_was_another_terrible_horrible_no_good_very_bad_year_sho
THIRD WORLD AMERICA!
Makati1 on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 10:54 pm
US Immigration:
“Back in 1970 less than 1 in 21 Americans were born overseas; however, this figure has now grown to one in seven, with around 80 million Americans being either immigrants or the children of immigrants….Over one million immigrants will arrive in the United States next year, according to the US Census Bureau, with future projections showing that the nation may add up to another 49 million new residents from overseas over the course of the next 35 years.”
https://www.us-immigration.com/us-immigration-news/us-immigration/over-one-million-immigrants-to-come-to-us-in-2016/
MM is young. He will get to greet all of those ~49,000,000 new Americans. lol
MASTERMIND on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 11:53 pm
Boat
Our country has 325 million people.. So 40 million is around 12 percent…WOW call me when they make it to 40….Yawn…And madkat those 40 million will never make it here and you know why! You and me and those migrants will be dead within the next decade. one way or another!
MASTERMIND on Wed, 3rd Jan 2018 11:53 pm
Madkat
Lately, and following the downgrade of his country’s credit rating, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, has warned of a “Minsky moment”, a financial storm after a long period of deceptive calm.
https://www.ft.com/content/5d6ca2d6-de81-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52f9c
ouch China just got downgraded! And might have a misky moment coming!
Revi on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 1:13 pm
Excellent! I don’t always agree with Greer, but this time he has it exactly right. I particularly like his take on environmentalism. We have some friends who purport to be enviros and they flew up to see the last polar bears which are being killed by climate change which is caused by people flying all over the place…
Revi on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 1:17 pm
I think the challenge of this century is to cash out and turn as much into dirt and 2×4’s as possible before it all goes pear shaped.
Theedrich on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 3:50 pm
“Original sin” is the deadliest of all myths. Upon this single lie is based the whole subconscious of the entire West, theist or atheist. All of the “guilt” propaganda used to maneuver the masses into believing in “righteousness” is derived from it. The divine right of kings (a favorite of the Left) and justification for warring on other countries (a favorite of the Right) stems ultimately from that same falsification. The cultic practice of “tithing” to enrich Bible-pounders is supported by it. The assumption of inherited White guilt — it is primarily Whites who believe in this perversion — is used to great effect by the Jews and others to pry money and power out of mindless mushrooms everywhere. Above all, it is employed to disarm Whites psychologically so that they will not defend themselves from the race-mixing genosuicide preached by the elites in power.
This is not so say that there is no Master Intelligence behind the cosmos. That would be to throw the baby out with the bath. But the twisted idiocy which demands self-crucifixion of the White race is branded into the collective White unconscious and must be extirpated if there is to be any planetary survival at all. Technology and “science” will not save a species that refuses to save itself. Understood rightly in this light, even the ideology currently driving North Korea is vastly superior to the sicko idea that evolution must come to a stop so that some divine god-man will “save” us.
By the way, if anyone is interested in knowing the truth about the origin of the “original sin” accusation, he should read Professor Ziony Zevit’s What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden.
Cloggie on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 4:09 pm
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm
Nietzsche – The Antichrist
MASTERMIND on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 5:27 pm
Clogg and Theo
I can’t wait till the oil runs out and society collapses and you two are eaten by zombies like you deserve!
Makati1 on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 5:36 pm
Well said, Theedrich. If there is a ‘god’, it is physics/biology/chemistry, not some mythological being.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 7:18 pm
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by “a world of enemies”, “one against all”, that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.
-Hannah Arendt – The Origins Of Totalitarianism p.227
Cloggie on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 11:46 pm
“Hannah Arendt – The Origins Of Totalitarianism p.227”
Yep, that is the communist creed of every jew like Ahrendt, who want to mix all tribes and put them in one giant multicultural box, owned by them. Just observe the US, where their program has advanced the most world-wide.
It is pretty rich for her to pontificate about “totalitarianism”, refering to Germany, where in reality the humanitarian situation in het USSR was far, far worse before the war, where millions were killed, rather than a few hundred in Germany.
Absolute nihilist zombie trash like millimind, who loves to gloat about how white women will be used as sex toys by non-whites, is strongly attracted by the communist world view. He can’t wait to be a guard in some US gulag, which will arise if the US manages to remain in one piece, under control of (((Washington))). The communist jew (but I repeat myself) Paul Krugman spells it all out: whitey needs to be made powerless (so he can be setup for the slaughter).
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/paul-krugman-white-americans-are-losing-their-country/
Typical American cuck Davy said the other day that “it sucks to be an American these days”. He has no idea how deeply it really is going to suck, once Soviet conditions will prevail on US soil. Mass immigration from the third world since 1965 served one purpose only, namely to import a new proletariate with which the (((owners))) of the US can carry out their revolution aimed at the destruction of whitey. Millimind will volunteer to do the raping. Communists love to rape as every German woman knew all too well.
Cloggie on Fri, 5th Jan 2018 11:53 pm
Apneaman has left the building, mastermind enters the scene.
Related events?
Cloggie on Sat, 6th Jan 2018 1:36 am
That Hannah Arendt quote is a little too apneaman-like.
Makati1 on Sat, 6th Jan 2018 3:35 am
“The CDC Will Start Preparing Americans For Nuclear War”
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just announced that it will conduct a briefing on January 16 concerning the “public health response to a nuclear detonation” over the skies of the United States. …
While there is no definite confirmation, it increasingly appears that the US federal government is actively preparing for a possible, if not probable, nuclear catastrophe,…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-05/cdc-will-start-preparing-americans-nuclear-war
Will the 3AM flashes really happen? Stay tuned…
Davy on Sat, 6th Jan 2018 5:00 am
NederNazi, have you been drinking tonight? You sound as stupid as ever. The US has advanced market based capitalism and if that has turned out to be multicult it is because of the color blindness of profit. You are wrapped up in a xenophobic fear of losing control. You wear out a chair in a little Dutch village ranting at a multicultural world. You dumbass Europeans started all this multicult shit with your exploitation and colonialism. The worst sins of invasion, exploitation, and despoiling are European. They rest at your feet NederNazi.
Davy on Sat, 6th Jan 2018 5:05 am
“Will the 3AM flashes really happen? Stay tuned…”
Another board idiot regurgitating his death lust. mad kat has a fixation on NUK war and 3AM attacks. This 3AM wake up call to a NUK attack is hilarious and show just how incompetent mad kat is with military matters. Recall mad kat and NederNazi swore up and down there are 10MIL men under arms on the Korean Peninsula. LOL. mad kat thinks you need to surprise a country with a NUK attack in the darkest hour of the night. You know he thinks NUKs are like a hit team attack. DEMENTIA? Stay tuned…..
Cloggie on Sat, 6th Jan 2018 8:19 am
The US has advanced market based capitalism and if that has turned out to be multicult it is because of the color blindness of profit. You are wrapped up in a xenophobic fear of losing control. You wear out a chair in a little Dutch village ranting at a multicultural world. You dumbass Europeans started all this multicult shit with your exploitation and colonialism. The worst sins of invasion, exploitation, and despoiling are European. They rest at your feet NederNazi.
Complete rubbish from the board greatest anti-American, Desperate Dave. The European countries before 1945 would not have dreamed to give their countries away to Muslims or Africans. That shit began to happen in 1965 in America and Britain and was exported to the European colonies of the so-called “free West”. And its was all organized by your deep state:
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/immigration.pdf
The plan to destroy European civilization in both America and Europe originates from the enemies of Europe, meaning your deep state.
But Davy, whose only interest is finance and understands shit about history, other than what he gets served up via propaganda outlets like the History Channel, in line with what Davy’s master want the Davy’s of this world to think, doesn’t want this to be true, so in his view it isn’t.
The American empire is the worst disaster in European history. The good news for us Europeans is that that empire is walking on its last legs and is about to implode USSR-style. Good riddance to that empire. Next we can get rid of the US vassals…
https://treeoflogic.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/merkelhat.jpg?w=336
… 1991-style… and start with the great cleanup, meaning systematically get rid off egalitarian modernity. And the first thing to clean up are multiculturalism and the lies regarding history and WW2 in particular.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 6th Jan 2018 11:06 am
Davy
Clogg paranoid conspiracies are laughable! He is in a deep state of paranoia
Davy on Sat, 6th Jan 2018 12:23 pm
“The European countries before 1945 would not have dreamed to give their countries away to Muslims or Africans. That shit began to happen in 1965 in America and Britain and was exported to the European colonies of the so-called “free West”. And its was all organized by your deep state:”
BS, nedernazi, you have been letting in Africans, Asians, and Hispanics for years from your many colonies. LIAR.
“But Davy, whose only interest is finance and understands shit about history, other than what he gets served up via propaganda outlets like the History Channel, in line with what Davy’s master want the Davy’s of this world to think, doesn’t want this to be true, so in his view it isn’t.”
I have been here going on 5years and never referenced the history channel as a link. LIAR
“The American empire is the worst disaster in European history. The good news for us Europeans is that that empire is walking on its last legs and is about to implode USSR-style. Good riddance to that empire. Next we can get rid of the US vassals…”
The Americans have helped Europe get rich and vice versa. FRAUD AND LIAR
Cloggie on Sun, 7th Jan 2018 3:35 am
Oh la la, exactly like I love to have our Davy, all excited and full of rage, indicating that Davy realizes how bad his cards really are.
BS, nedernazi, you have been letting in Africans, Asians, and Hispanics for years from your many colonies. LIAR.
We haven’t, big whopper. I vividly remember the first black person I saw in my life. That must have been in 1966. His name was Eddy and he was from Suriname, our colony. My youth and university years were 100% white. In the seventies we had a few “guest workers”: Spanish, Italians and Turks. These Spanish and Italians went back to their sun at the first opportunity when their economies improved thanks to the EEC, the Turks stayed, but were not really problematic as they were all secular. I remember sitting in a restaurant with fellow students beginning eighties and hearing myself saying: “well this multiculturalism is indeed an enrichment”. That was my first f* ITALIAN restaurant and one of the first pizzas in my life.lol
Then came the Moroccans in the eighties, mostly trash. And their religion began to become more prominent. The first mosques were build. In reaction the first nationalist parties arose, like the “Vlaams Blok” in Flanders and the “Centrum Partij” in Holland. Both were systematically demonized in the media and politics. In those years a world-wide holocaust campaign was launched, beginning in the US. And that “event” was used to combat nationalism. But it all happened on the watch of the US empire and its deep state rather.
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/immigration.pdf
[part 1]
Cloggie on Sun, 7th Jan 2018 3:35 am
And America was a victim itself even more than Europe, because Europeans have stronger “identitarian reserves” and offer more resistance than America, Canada and Down Under, these “nations of immigrants”.
I have been here going on 5 years and never referenced the history channel as a link. LIAR
Your entire brain or what passes for one has no other content than the standard US empire lies, like “Germany wanted to conquer the world”, the holotale and “America is an indispensable nation” and should act as the “policeman of the world” or “benevolent hegemon”, euphemisms for an attempt to ram he entire world into a single power structure, owned by your (((owners))).
The Americans have helped Europe get rich and vice versa. FRAUD AND LIAR
Oh yeah, that’s the only criterium for a “material boy” like you. Money. How American. Nothing else matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-lDYPR2P8
But in the mean time we are losing our countries and civilization. Bach, Beethoven and Mozart are being replaced by jungle rap. We are intentionally being destroyed by the owners of the US. You can’t see an ice cream add without obligatory race mixing propaganda. And ever more third worlders are dumped into our lands under the complete fake “refugee” pretext. And you hear constant sounds like this and that is “too white”. We are currently living in a communist system with capitalist economy. Everybody equal. Anti-racism. And it is all originating from the NE-coast of the US. From Washington, NYC, Wallstreet, Hollywood.
[part 2]
Cloggie on Sun, 7th Jan 2018 3:38 am
But it is enough. Eurasia of 2 billion is going to stamp that empire of yours into the ground. We can use ca. 100 million of you, folks with an attitude…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-LnO2DOGE
…and integrate them in a global European Commonwealth. Down-under and western Canada go to China, West-coast and most of Texas to Mexico and an independent country or countries at the East-Coast (New Israel and New Africa).
Let the rest, like millimind, Brasilianise. This collapsenik is ready for a $5k/year life. And so are you. Say hello to Chief Seattle for me, you treehugger. Your time is up. And THAT USSR-style collapse is indeed going to happen. Expect Eurasian troops all over America, just like Anglo and Soviet troops were all over continental Europe after 1945, as a consequence of a conspiracy originating from 1933, when the koshers had both the US and Soviet governments and decided to team up with one purpose only: the destruction of Europe.
Here the two koshers Bullitt and Litnovski who brought the US and USSR together as a first act of the Roosevelt government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6hqfcoXfmc
Next they had Churchill, the head of the UK war party, volunteering to get a war in Europe started. And the rest is history.
[part 3]
Davy on Sun, 7th Jan 2018 5:40 am
3 part series of a racist Nazi pig
“I vividly remember the first black person I saw in my life. That must have been in 1966. His name was Eddy and he was from Suriname, our colony. My youth and university years were 100% white. In the seventies we had a few “guest workers”: Spanish, Italians and Turks.”
Nedernazi, Europe is a big place and 1966 was a long time ago. I think you are living in a personal history revision as well as a historical one. Most of the world was segregated back then anyway of course you are not going to see blacks. I didn’t see many where I lived either just when we went to the inner city.
“And America was a victim itself even more than Europe, because Europeans have stronger “identitarian reserves” and offer more resistance than America, Canada and Down Under, these “nations of immigrants”.
Total racist nonsense of a delusional Nazi.
“Your entire brain or what passes for one has no other content than the standard US empire lies, like “Germany wanted to conquer the world”, the holotale and “America is an indispensable nation” and should act as the “policeman of the world” or “benevolent hegemon”, euphemisms for an attempt to ram he entire world into a single power structure, owned by your (((owners))).”
Do you have any references for the above claims? I am here on an American critical site and American critical forum in hopes of talking about change. A change that is much deeper than all those American sins the rest of the dirty world wants to blame on the US. I think that this what I despise the most about dirty anti-Americans and that is how white and shiny they think they are. It is so subhuman to blame everything on others and not reflect on oneself. A wise human says how have I contributed to this mess and how can I begin to make it better starting with myself. Nations can do this also. The poorest of the 3rd world have a right to this victimization mentality but a dumbass fat and rich European does not. Europe is the reason this planet has been destroyed. Europe created the American monster and now that monster which is globalism has moved to Asia and is now even more ravenous and dangerous. Europe is a backwater the board Nazi cant except. He is embarrassed by how impotent his continent is and the reason he is always revising history and talking about an Empire with Russia.
“But it is enough. Eurasia of 2 billion is going to stamp that empire of yours into the ground. We can use ca. 100 million of you, folks with an attitude…”
There you go nazi, let that hate out and show how delusional and ugly you are inside.
“Say hello to Chief Seattle for me, you treehugger.”
I am proud of my spirituality and welcome your taunt.
“Expect Eurasian troops all over America”
LMFAO, sounds more Hollywood and delusional all the time.
“when the koshers had both the US and Soviet governments and decided to team up with one purpose only: the destruction of Europe.”
Notice how the Nazi wants to deflect blame for his failures as a people. What a fraud.
“Next they had Churchill, the head of the UK war party, volunteering to get a war in Europe started. And the rest is history.”
Delusional history revisionism in the flesh.
Makati1 on Sun, 7th Jan 2018 6:49 am
Cloggie, Most Americans have no idea of true history. They have been brainwashed from birth and don’t even realize that they live in a fake world brought to them by the USMSM Propaganda Department. They have never been outside the Police State.
“Eurasia covers around 55,000,000 square kilometres (21,000,000 sq mi), or around 36.2% of the Earth’s total land area. The landmass contains around 5.0 billion people, equating to approximately 70% of the human population. Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago.” WIKI
Davy on Sun, 7th Jan 2018 7:28 am
One thing is certain mad kat from your many comments you are oblivious to history. It reminds me of when you said there are 10MIL under arms on the Korean peninsula. That clearly shows the depth of your understanding of geography and history.
Cloggie on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 10:27 am
It is so subhuman to blame everything on others and not reflect on oneself.
Well, well, “subhuman”. That’s a phrase attributed to Nazis, who in reality never used that word, other than perhaps 1 or 2 racial theoreticians.
The empire and mass murder apologist Davy still tries to peddle WW2 as the Good War, where in reality it was a pre-planned act of naked US-Soviet aggression against Germany.
How many American cities were bombed by the Germans? Zero.
How many American women were raped by Germans? Zero
How many American prisoners of war were intentionally starved to death? Zero
How many Jews were the Americans falsely blamed to have intentionally murdered? Zero.
How do this figures look like in reverse?
– All larger and mid-sized German town destroyed.
– 200,000 German women raped by filth from the prairy and 2 million more by the Soviets, the natural palls of the Americans
– 1.5 million POWs starved to death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Losses
– 6 million, almost certainly a lie, designed to create the moral pretext for what in essence was the intentional Anglo-Soviet rape of Europe for no other intent as to colonize and destroy the greatest civilization on earth buy a bunch of goons from the prairie and taiga, all on orders of (((those))) who can’t be named.
It is so subhuman to blame everything on others and not reflect on oneself.
As I have said many times before: I do blame my own Dutch government for giving in to pressure from Churchill to abandon neutrality and allow overpass to British and French troops to attack Germany via Dutch soil, thereby exposing their own Dutch population to what had to happen next: a preemptive strike by Germany, who did not fancy to have their Ruhr area attacked by French and British forces. Can’t blame them.
Davy the hardcore imperialist will always piss on the nation of his own mother and is willing to peddle any lie to make the US look good. Davy is a lying POS.
Davy on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 10:45 am
Nedernazi lying about history again, yawn. He is so vocal because that’s what it takes to make a lie believable. FRAUD
GregT on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 12:48 pm
“Most of the world was segregated back then anyway of course you are not going to see blacks. I didn’t see many where I lived either just when we went to the inner city.”
The first “black” I ever saw in Vancouver was in 1983, and I lived in the “inner city”.
“Nedernazi lying about history again, yawn. He is so vocal because that’s what it takes to make a lie believable. FRAUD”
Cloggie has provided more than enough evidence to back up his claims. Surely you can easily tear apart his arguments, without resorting to name calling and all caps? No?
Davy on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 1:19 pm
You don’t qualify to determine enough evidence was provided. What kind of answer is that?
Cloggie on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 2:23 pm
http://theduran.com/chinese-president-xi-jinping-orders-troops-prepared-war/
Are you sure you want to take on China AND Russia, America?
Davy on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 2:31 pm
Do you think he might also be referring to India too? Maybe he made a broad statement including all China’s hot spots. He is pumping up the troops so to speak. I know for you it means a great fight between China and the US to satisfy your dirty Gaullist ambitions. You want a great war and that makes you morally repugnant.
GregT on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 2:40 pm
“You don’t qualify to determine enough evidence was provided.”
You have given nothing that refutes the evidence that Cloggie has provided. Name calling and ‘shouting’ are not reasonable arguments, but rather indicators of having lost an argument.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 2:53 pm
Davy
Just ignore Greg he is a hateful bigot! Cloggs evidence is about as lousy as it gets. Greg just wants to believe it..
MASTERMIND on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 2:57 pm
Hate..It’s caused a lot of problems in this world. But hasn’t solved one yet.
-Maya Angelo
GregT on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 3:05 pm
“Just ignore Greg he is a hateful bigot!”
The first ‘black’ person that I ever saw in Vancouver back in 1983, became one of my best friends.
“Cloggs evidence is about as lousy as it gets. Greg just wants to believe it..”
Cloggie’s evidence is the same that was presented to me many years ago, by my girlfriend at the time, who was/still is, a professor of history. Her area of expertise was the first and second world wars.
Davy on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 3:16 pm
You have no qualifications to determine who won or didn’t. You are irrelevant. You want to act the expert but all you do is stalk and prick Americans. You rarely say anything useful. Mostly you enable hate from the Nedernazi and the Mad Kat. DESPICABLE. Those caps are special for you.
GregT on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 3:23 pm
More of the usual. Name calling, childish rhetoric, and delusional accusations.
If you have nothing of substance, then move along.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 8th Jan 2018 3:28 pm
Davy
Greg has some serious personality issues if he bugged out and left society..Just like Madkat.