London is pretty much the main hub of global finance. All sorts of shady business that you can't even get away with in New York is routed through London. It's the capital for financial fraud and rehypthecation. From there money can be routed through countries like Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Monaco to evade the tax.
In my opinion though, its all talk because to many powerful people with links to our political class don't want to upset this arrangement because they know if they can do it to Musk they can do it to anyone else they feel like going after. A lot of dirty money would probably move out of London to somewhere else.
Wasn't that basically the last series of the punisher on Netflix.
The end result of giving women rights and not beating children.
Oddly enough when I was still on reddit many years ago I got the distinct impression that an awful lot of those who were very active on the various UK subreddits were actually Americans. They seemed to have these very weird caricatured view of the country and there was just something "off" about them. Some obviously came off as very sad left wing blow hards - I have encountered people like this in my sisters friend circle from university. You also do get a very vocal Scottish nationalist crowd - they come off as somewhat genuine. I do know people like that exist.
Same thing with people who claimed to be Irish - always distinctly bitter and very anti-English even though I have literally not encountered a single person from Ireland who actually held views like this and I visit the country all the time and have travelled to the most remote corners where the local pub is also the local shop and petrol station and many people speak Gaelic.
It's all performative with them. They don't give a shit really, but its all about convincing others that they think they do.
Von Der Leyen is the quintessential example of someone who fails upwards. One scandal after another. Lays waste to everything she ever touches. The main reason she is EU president is they had to get her out of the German government before she did any more damage and her current job was considered somewhere she couldn't really do much harm since its actually the commission that's the real power.
I bet a lot of them called in sick this morning and are traumatised.
You need to unlearn modernity.
When the Roman empire died it left its constituent provinces behind to fend for themselves. The Romans left Britannia in 411AD. Within 70 years of that Londinium was uninhabited and a ruin. The 4th largest city in Roman Britain is a ruin today in the middle of pasture land, its only about 40 minutes drive from me. There are the ruined remains of villas and forts all over the country, probably the only really noticeable trace is some of our A roads like the A5 follow the path of Roman roads to some extent. It was a long and difficult road with anarchy after the Roman withdrawl. You had the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy and then the Viking and Norman invasions and England would not really see the kind of centralised unitary government it had under Rome until the 18th century and England has institutions with more than a thousand years of history and a mono-culture on a relatively isolated island. Even in the 17th century many regions of England were essentially under strong man rule who pledged nominal allegiance to the crown while enjoying considerable domestic autonomy. The county of Cheshire was ruled by such a man.
The United States has no future. Its an artificial and rotting edifice of a once great empire but its no more. The federal government has no future, the US dollar has no future. Most kids if you ask them what America is would draw the Apple logo or say its about defending transsexual paedophile rights or something. The states and counties that make it up especially the more rural ones probably will find themselves left behind to pick up the pieces when it eventually dies.
Maybe you get an American Cesar who can turn things around or you get a Vladimir Putin or an Adolf Hitler or a Teddy Roosevelt but that is incredibly unlikely these days. Just look at how dysgenic and retarded the population has become. A nation where the paedophile in Chief in the white house has to invoke Star Wars or Marvel to make the blob shaped mulatto dross in Walmart understand why we have to start WW3 with Putin over Ukraine where at Putin goes on TV and gives an hour long dissertation about the history of Ukraine and the intricacies of the Soviet system is highly unlikely to have the ability to produce such a man.
Oh and I'm not some smug Euro-trash gloating over the death of the Amerifat empire either. As someone who has spent a lot of time in both Europe and America I would say as shocking as it is the situation in Europe actually seems worse in some ways. We haven't been hit as hard by the opiate epidemic or obesity in our post industrial hinterlands but there seems to have been an even more severe generalised cultural collapse and an even greater proportion of the population who have lost all semblance of the concept of self preservation. Europe's financial system is on the edge of the abyss and without access to cheap Russian energy most of Europe will not even be able to heat itself come winter let alone operate any industry.
A lithium battery on fire is actually 3 different kinds of fire - its a chemical fire, an electrical fire and a metal fire all in one. When the 787 dreamliner was experiencing battery fires I believe the fire brigade at Boston airport basically discovered nothing really put it out and they could only really stop it spreading with enormous volumes of foam. Basically your best bet with a lithium battery fire is to let it burn itself out and maybe put it somewhere where it can't set fire to anything else or put out anything near by that starts to burn.
As far as I'm concerned. Lights out.
Maybe that's a factor as well.
I've noticed that as well. I cannot think of a more disastrous combination than the dysgenic trends in genetics coupled with an entire generation who have no actual life experience or useful practical skills and literally all they know how to do is play on their phones or make Tik Tok videos. I know exactly what you mean.
Growing up my dad was an industrial electrician and makes a point of turning his hand to most trades. My house was a building site growing up and I would always watch my dad or other tradesmen and then I would normally get given jobs to do. You learn by watching someone do it and then doing it yourself. My one grandfather was an electrical engineer and was also a mad inventor type on the side. I used to make money on the side doing all sorts of things for people I knew. I used to fix bikes for people, make things for them. Do things of questionable legality but those skills I developed as a kid have helped me immensely as an adult.
I think a lot like language - that you really need to have picked it up and be talking by a certain age and then be reading and writing at a certain age. I think the fine motor skills needed to do practical work also need to be honed when you're young. I wonder how many of these kids would be able to actually pick them up if they had to? Most western countries are going to become a lot like the USSR in terms of labour availability. In the USSR there were no tradesmen. You worked where you were told and labour was so short. If you needed wiring doing, your roof reshingling or your floor replacing or your car repaired you had to do it yourself.
Generally you're invaded by people of like type.
England has only ever been invaded by other Europeans. Had the Aztecs or Bantu tried to invade Europe (assuming they had gained the technological advantage to do so) our diseases would have wiped them all out. Now we wiped out most infectious disease with vaccination and antibiotics it has made it possible for different civilisations to mix freely.
I'm sure the mass indoctrination of kids has something to do with it.
Have you actually taken a minute to actually look at the average zoomer and how dysgenic they look? The last time we had Darwinian selection in European populations was the 17th century. The climate was harsh, food was scarce. Back then 1 in 3 children died in infancy and probably many more died before passing their genes on. Darwinian selection is critical in eradicating bad mutations, in keeping a population genetically similar enough to cooperate and promoting mutations that promote group centric values. The lack of this has produced the horde of spiteful mutants that make up modern society - and to be fair the modern left is an expression of this trend.
Zoomers are the end of the genetic rainbow.
You won't improve the situation unless you find a way to kill off all the weak children so only the strong reproduce. Civilisation is always dysgenic. The same thing happened with Rome. Skeleton sizes in Europe increased after the death of the empire and living standards for the peasants and barbarians actually increased.
If you're of Anglo or northern European ancestry then you're a barbarian by nature. We should probably take a leaf or two out of our ancestors way of doing things and put a stop to the soy faggotry.
Childhood diseases exist for a reason - in fact disease in general have a protective effect on ones homeland. If we still accepted a general rate of infectious disease like measles most 3rd worlders would not be able to colonise our lands as they have no resistance to it. Just like if we go to Africa we have no genetic resistance to Malaria or yellow fever.
Basically how it works in South Africa. When it comes to murder or justifiable homicide the police are pretty much just there to fill in the paperwork - either stage the scene to make it easier, dump the unregistered weapon you did it with and run or bury the body. A friend of mine popped two random vagrants who wouldn't back the fuck up from him one day with an unregistered weapon and an old lady came out the house and told him to give her the gun and she would cop to it. They didn't even bother trying to prosecute her.
If mainland Europe becomes lawless enough you'll get a booming private security industry like South Africa as well. Generally speaking if you're in trouble anyone with money will call armed response from their security provider and not the police. You don't have to wait half an hour for them to respond.
I would imagine if you live in one of the rural flyover states like Kansas or Nebraska or Montana that the cops could be several hours drive away. Some of our rural counties here in England the police would probably be an hour away. Rural crime is a big problem because criminals know they can get away with it. Some of our rural police forces like Devon & Cornwall police for example are completely and utterly incompetent and lurch from crisis to crisis.
We're doomed to live in the year 2001 forever.
The cultural momentum that carried on after that ended in 2007. It really does seem to have been the high point but also the end for the internet as it was in my era. I used to participate on half a dozen different forums in that era. People generally footed the bills to run them out of their own pocket. Moderators were volunteers. It was about people who loved something and about community.
It's all about large corporate IP owners manufacturing consensus and armies of bots and PR firms astroturfing everything to push their preferred narratives. Everything is just low quality corporate slop now.
I suppose 2007-2017 was an interesting era for the internet. There was still some freedom on the internet but corporate platforms probably used it as a lure to get to a certain market share and then it was just a matter of time before they could instigate a turn key tyranny. We had a surprisingly good run I suppose. The arab spring was organised on social media. The populist uprisings from Gamergate to Brexit to Trump. The results were pretty sub optimal but the elites had certainly lost control of the narrative and really shit themselves after 2016.
Each successive crisis in the system will be used to crack down on new forms of "misinformation" - medical, political. I'm sure the next will be economic misinformation when people start complaining there is no bread on the shelves and petrol is not available at any price. After that - who even knows.
I remember being on Livejournal in the early to mid 00's and I don't remember exactly happened because its so long ago but I remember there being a mass exodus of certain people off of there to Tumblr. Knowing some of the people who left I could see Tumblr would become some weird kind of hyper feminist cult.
Western intelligence agencies are merely tools of the puppet masters.
Dorsey is probably a pedo and he knows if he displeases his masters and if his website isn't facilitating them to control the narrative he will be arrested and someone who will can be in his job within the hour. The people who work for the CIA or the Atlantic council or whoever know they'll be suicided or outed as a pedo if they don't do their jobs for the same masters.
You take an enlightened view. We can hate on Dorsey for being a creepy soy faggot all we want but at the end of the day he, his god forsaken platform and our decaying civilisation are only the result of ideas and processes taken to their logical ends.
You know it's probably irrelevant what he stands for even if he is a hypocrite. It's quite obvious to me most of these CEO's are scared of vocal activist types who permeate their workforces (although probably don't actually produce anything) and that they are being leaned on from above to set the agenda for what their platforms do. Dorsey could be easily #MeToo'd or arrested for child pornography or pedophilia or whatever else degenerate that he likes to partake in.
The small era of freedom such as it was online which completely ended in 2017. My guess is the only reason this freedom existed is that the elites were caught off guard at just what a powerful subversive force the internet was. When I first got online in the 90's the internet was for nerds. No one gave a fuck in normieville. Now everyone is on here and now its as shitty as normieville.
The elites in Europe 500 years ago probably didn't hear about Gutenberg and his printing press at first and then probably thought it was a gimmick which would never catch on. Then the elites shit themselves and realised it must be totally controlled to prevent any kind of genuine opposition forming to their agenda. In the case of the printing press they couldn't really stop it. New elites had to rise up and adapt.
I'm in the UK - we depend significantly on natural gas for our electricity and heating although we have a more diversified supply from our own gas fields and Norway but we also import some LNG. We've seen sky rocketing energy prices. Someone I work with is seeing his dual fuel monthly bill go from £80 to at least £265. Fuel prices here have averaged around £1.20 a litre for petrol and £1.30 for diesel are now around £1.60 for petrol and £1.75 for diesel. I simply don't know what is going to happen. An awful lot of working people simply can't afford their energy bills anymore and we are more insulated from this than the continent is.
Energy is traded on a global market. The fallout from this will be the death of the western economies. It cannot be sustained.
Seems the elites really don't want a viable regional African power.
I believe this is likewise what motivated the destruction of Ian Smiths government in Rhodesia and the white government of South Africa. An independent wealthy regional power who could resist the globalists would damage the ability of multinationals to run roughshod over Africa.
Oh vey. Shut it down.
Canada really is the main hot bed of the Khalistan movement these days. Even in the UK the movement is pretty much dead and has even been marginalised in Gudwaras in areas with large Sikh populations like the West Midlands.
Singh actually first had designs on trying to become an MP in the UK. I know people who knew him years back and he wanted to try to get elected in one of the West Bromwich seats but it never got off the ground. He isn't loyal to anything. The most orthodox Sikhs are always the most corrupt.