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At Large
The British Tea Party
Obama, Gordon Brown, Europe, and the G20 protests.
Historians say Karl Marx, when not suffering from hemorrhoids and other maladies, would park himself at the British Museum library, sitting there up to ten hours a day as he researched and wrote Das Kapital. Were he still glumly gazing out the library’s windows, he would see a London today as hungry as ever for global socialism.
“Abolish money,” read the banners of London demonstrators on Wednesday, according to press accounts. Other subtle chants from the mob included: “Capitalism isn’t working,” “These streets, our streets! These banks, our banks!”
The demonstrators burned a stuffed capitalist doll in effigy, smashed windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland and encouraged apprehensive bankers peering down at the chaos below to “jump.” According to Reuters, protestors also marched behind “models of the ‘four horsemen of the apocalypse’ representing financial crimes, war, climate, and homelessness.”
But the rioters needn’t get too worked up; it looks like Gordon Brown and Barack Obama already agree with them. Brown’s cant theme for the G20 meetings — “global problems require global solutions — is chilling in its stupidity and socialist assumptions.
Brown’s formulation only makes sense if it is reversed. Every global “solution” hatches a global problem. What threatens the globe is not the environment but environmentalists, not population but population planners, not markets but meddlers in them.
The germ of the global financial sickness was coughed up not by capitalists but by socialists: ideologues in power told banks to give out bad loans in the name of egalitarianism. Obama supported these irresponsible loans as much as anyone else, and while the crisis he and others in Congress helped create quietly spread last summer he was soaking up adulation and applause in Berlin for a blah-blah-blah speech that contained zero insight into coming problems.
Showing off as a “citizen of the world,” he informed Europeans that “cars in Boston” are “melting ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.” If that’s the case, maybe nobody should buy them. This week he is talking about lifting people in Paris up from poverty, but last summer Europe and America’s “shared destiny” was to “lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty” and help the “blogger in Iran,” among other global chores he enumerated.
The Berlin speech is long forgotten, with its “scale of our challenge” giving way to a new one, which is whatever the latest news cycle dictates to Obama.
Global meetings like this week’s are called not to solve crises but to create them, drawing upon false ideologies to manufacture a calamity that only massive government intervention could eliminate. Marx and Malthus, master peddlers of this propaganda, still hover over London.
Population is still assumed to be the poverty not the riches of a country — a Malthusian claim that the Obama administration re-christened this week when a Hillary Clinton adviser told the BBC that the “planet can’t support many more people.” The Earth is reaching the “limits of sustainability,” she said.
Apparently this lie is the Obama administration’s idea of sound economic advice to a senile and sterile Europe, a continent whose young workers, save Muslim immigrants, will vanish in the century to come. Europe is losing more population through birth control and abortion than it lost through the Second World War.
The rioters in the streets and the dilettantish ideologues in the boardrooms deserve each other, one group expressing crudely, the other more sedately, the same essential death wish for Europe and the world.
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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David Mathews | 4.2.09 @ 7:39AM
George isn't well informed, is he?
* "The germ of the global financial sickness was coughed up not by capitalists but by socialists: ideologues in power told banks to give out bad loans in the name of egalitarianism. "
Oh ... please do elaborate!
We're these banks giving loans to people who were not lily-white? Was that the problem?
Kitty| 4.2.09 @ 7:55AM
D Mathews, here's your answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&feature=PlayList&p=417C9C360A3E667A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2
...
David Mathews | 4.2.09 @ 7:58AM
George says ...
* "Population is still assumed to be the poverty not the riches of a country -- a Malthusian claim ... "
True! China is four times more wealthy than the United States. India is three times wealthier!
Population is wealth! We need a billion American citizens in order to compete with China and India!
Helly Kitty,
That's too messy a link to bother with.
Siegfried X| 4.2.09 @ 8:29AM
Those "demonstrators" were almost certainly organized and funded by ex-Soviet communist countries. In the past this has always turned out to be the case for large demonstrations of this type.
Does anyone believe that a bunch of ordinary UK citizens just woke up one morning, and without any coordination wore such elaborate and expensive costumes, masks, etc. And does any believe those demonstrators just happened to be organized enough to get around the police and damage the Bank of Scotland?
The pictures of some demonstrators waving the Soviet flag, as well as the rhetoric like "abolish money" and "capitalism isn't working" are the final proof.
Kitty| 4.2.09 @ 8:37AM
Helly Dave, here y'go: http://tiny.cc/l7TH5
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David Mathews | 4.2.09 @ 8:59AM
Hello Kitty,
It is possible to post a YouTube link without utilizing the tiny url:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM
Now the number of people who have watched that video number 3.7 million. I am going to guess that these represent the bitter conservative losers.
Keep on crying, conservatives!
Alan Brooks| 4.2.09 @ 9:16AM
Karl Marx's social theories (e.g. my family again) are/were even more mousebrained than his economic 'theories'..
"...wives in common..."
As if STDs aren't spread enough already.
Eric Cartman | 4.2.09 @ 11:07AM
Dudes!
I can't believe it! I've been gone for only a few weeks and you let this fat hippy chick, David Mathews, to vomit stupid crap all over the board! Heed my warning, once you let one stupid, fat hippy chick on the board, other hippies will follow – dumb ass white guys with dreadlocks and Bob Marley hats. They will infest your neighborhoods. Then you know what you have? A music festival!
Listen, that stinky hippy, like all stinky hippies, only parrots what she was told in her freshman semester class in community college: Che Guevara for Dummies 101. Or worse, at the Rackham Social Science Graduate School at the University of Michigan. She gets her stipend from Gorge Soros or the DNC or Keith Olberturd’s dumpster to survive and pay for her granola cereal, trail mix, weed and Hippie Hippy Indian Water Buffalo Sandals! Then her and her ilk sit around their communal public housing tenement off State Street in Ann Arbor and infest discussion boards because they can’t get a job with their lousy degrees – not until Obama came along! Now they are on the verge of taking over!
Very soon, I warn you, Obama will mandate that we all buy our vegetables at a local co-op, and that is where you will find David Mathews and other fat hippy chicks! At places with names like The Chairman’s Little Red Book Community Co-op They will run the place – they will have to, since their boyfriends can’t hold down any jobs because they are too busy smoking pot and trying to finish the first chapter of their Eco Manifesto, “The Trees Are Crying!” (Can’t you understand, Babe! The world needs to hear what I have to say! This will be the male hippies’ plea to the females of the tribe! If you hear it, shoot the poor bastard – he’s too far gone at that point.)
I warn you here and now! Shun the fat hippie chick named David Mathews – and any other of her breed that may post here. The live on the blood and money of others! If you must see what your board will look like if you persist in letting this scum rest here, Google Detroit! See?! See what they bring! She must be captured, de-pierced, hosed down and scrubbed with a big soapy brush, forced to get a real job and ditch her hippy boyfriend! If she resists?! Well, I can only say that my services are expensive. I have only used the Hippy Driller once and many died. But I am willing to be hired again for this important mission. Damn you, hippies! I though I was out! But you always drag me back in!
Sadly, many innocent hippies will die along with the deranged, leftist community organizers. Those innocent souls who have been rendered harmless by years of Grateful Dead and Fish concerts and balloons of laughing gas and smoke tents. You will see their pathetic lives in what remains on ther bodies – bottles of patchouli oil, pot seeds in a plastic pill container, unused food stamps, old, unused rubbers (they had dreams, once) and underwear made from hemp (parts of them smoked). Both funny and pathetic, true - but the innocent always die in war.
So be warned! Banish the hippies from your midst or they will eat your seed corn; sleep in your garage; rummage through your rubbish; beg for change; fall asleep stoned behind the fertilizer spreader and smell up your garbage can area.
God Speed, posters. May you squash the stinky hippies before they skitter under the floorboards and infest your walls and drains. If you need me, you know where to find me – Eric Cartmen.
David Mathews | 4.2.09 @ 12:55PM
Hello Eric Cartman,
* "dumb ass white guys "
You've described the entire Republican party, Eric Cartman. From the top to the bottom (and Rush Limbaugh really is a bottom), the Republican party is filled with stupid white guys.
the-gunslinger| 4.2.09 @ 1:31PM
Don't waste the energy "squashing" them, Eric. Just ignore them. They really, really hate that.
Eric Cartman | 4.2.09 @ 1:41PM
Smell that everyone? Smell the sandalwood and BO? It’s the odor of the stinky hippy! It’s stronger than usual. They may be in heat! You can recognize the female of the tribe by her clear sexual frustration caused by the male’s impotence due to years of pot and nitrous oxide abuse. If you will stick around long enough, it will start blathering on about one of the five boogiemen that occupy its pot soaked brain. Don’t take my word for it!
Shhhhh! Listen carefully. You may hear the invective of the stinky hippy. It will begin with some sort allusion to either Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck and then it will hit you over the head with some boring point or a non sequitur. They are so predictable! It may be fat hippy-chick David Mathews or one of her ilk sitting in for her while she woman’s the cash register at the used clothing co-op.
Damn hippies! The smell of their horde is present. Grab you clubs and beat them like a baby seals! That’s the only way, people! We must exterminate them! Or lock them in my basement till they run out of pot and begin to sober up. It will be a long process, people. Man your clubs!
Eric
David Mathews | 4.2.09 @ 1:47PM
Hello Eric,
* "It will begin with some sort allusion to either Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck and then it will hit you over the head with some boring point or a non sequitur. "
Should I instead talk about the Republican Trinity of Tokenism?
Sarah Palin - the Christian fundamentalist moose-killer
Bobby Jindal - the Catholic exorcist former Hindu
Michael Steele - the Hip Hop Uncle Tom
Other than these, the Republican party is just a bunch of old white guys. I emphasize "old" ...
Eric Cartman | 4.2.09 @ 2:24PM
OMG! There it is - the stinky hippy! Careful, people - you can never be sure where its thoughts are going! But let’s take some notes. You can see the distinctive markings of the stinky hippy, fat chick type. Notice the muffin top over the filthy jeans, and the hair under her pits? This is the “natural” look all fat hippy-chicks aspire to. I know, I know, pretty gross, man. It’s attractive to the male hippy, though. They are too stoned to care or see stains, dirt, bugs, etc.
And notice the smell? They don’t believe in soap or toothpaste or toilet paper. Oh, they’ll bathe, but only in rainwater captured in a natural clay cistern made by South American Cashinahua Indians. It’s obvious by the stench that this hippy’s cistern has been broken for a long time. We think this is one of the David Mathews fat hippy-chicks – but we don’t know for sure. It may be one of her commune sisters, or maybe brothers. You see people, many times hippy chicks and dudes look a lot alike and you have to see their sex organs to be certain - and that’s one place you don’t want to go! We lost Chef last time we tried.
Now, don’t try to figure out what he/she it is saying, it’s too boring to decipher and you may waste half the day trying only to shrug your shoulders and get back to real life. That’s the problem with hippies – they waste time. Wait . . . where did she go?! Well, who cares, she/it will be back. They always come back when they run out of change. Just keep your eyes, ears and noses open. You’ll get a whiff of her again to be sure. Keep alert, dudes.
Eric
David Mathews | 4.2.09 @ 3:24PM
Hello Everyone,
Evidently the conservatives are as insane as advertised. Consider this lame brained person who just said ...
* "I want to point out for the record that hating whitey is NOT racism. "
Undoubtedly we have a person here who relies upon Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to power his/her impoverished conservative mind.
It is not difficult to find Lunatic-Conservatives. Finding a sane conservative ... that's a real challenge.
JEFFW| 4.2.09 @ 3:40PM
Ok Dave, I gotta hear this. How is hating whitey not racism? The way I was raised this was not the sole occuaption of whites as seem to be the popular theory today and according to websters still seems to be.
Racism
Noun
1. The prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races.
2. Discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race.
Or do you believe in the term "Reverse Racism"? Which to me is a pretty stupid label if you break it down to its parts it means just the opposite. But again, today is seems to mean racism towards one in power. So in todays terms if your white and hate blacks your a racist but if your black and hate whites its reverse racism (or discrimination, take your pick) . I like websters version better. It boils it all down to simple terms of one race hating another simply because of their skin color or race. Or do you, as seems to be popular on the college campuses today, believe that it is impossible for a black man to be racist simply because he is black? From reading your post it sounds like a progressive can also be a racist. Please ask your professor to explain it to me in simple terms so there is no room for mis-understanding. I will endeavor to keep up.
Jim| 4.2.09 @ 9:05PM
Dave,
"I want to point out for the record that hating whitey is NOT racism. Neither is my opinion that people browner than me can't make it on their own. They really can't; they're dealt a terrible hand by evolution, and they need enlightened progressives like me in order to survive in this world. That's not racism. That's progressivism. "
Thanks for admitting obama is nothing more than a token negro serving is white leftist masters.
Have a website?| 4.2.09 @ 9:06PM
D Mathews - do you have a website where you're views are more available? You seem to have a lot to say, and not too much worth listening to, which is the classic excuse for a personal blog. It might help us all if you could refer us to it.
Thanks.
thisistoofunny| 4.2.09 @ 9:25PM
David Mathews, I'm sure you mean well, but you'd have about as much success if you were talking to a brick wall. This goes double when you have a troll making tldr posts.
First, on "reverse racism." This refers to the disproportinatly high prison population of black men compared to other ethnicities. This is generally a result of the anti-crack legislation passed in the 80s designed to discourage the sale and solicitation of crack-cocaine. Such legislation was championed by black urban leaders when it was passed. However, we can see that the harsher sentences have done little to hurt the crack market. Indeed, the only tangible result of this legislation is the filling of prisons with black men who sold or purchased crack. Consider now, that 1 gram of crack will get you a much harsher sentence than 1 gram of cocaine. Consider also that white men are the typical users of cocaine, while black men tend to use crack. Thus, because the black community pushed for draconian laws against users of a substance that typically are themselves black, we get "reverse racism."
Now then, the troll said "You can recognize the female of the tribe by her clear sexual frustration caused by the male’s impotence due to years of pot and nitrous oxide abuse." lawl. Don't you know? Pot makes sex better! Perhaps the troll should smoke some. Or at very least lose his virginity.
Willey| 4.2.09 @ 10:32PM
Karl Marx: Just your typical liberal loser.
Catherine| 4.4.09 @ 1:54PM
Marxism is the opiate of the asses.
Trace| 4.4.09 @ 3:00PM
I just want to encourage this writer, Neumayr; he's got it goin' on. This piece is one of the clearest, most concentrated, and truthful I've read lately, not that there aren't intelligent writers available when you look for them, but it's pieces like this that help me keep hoping against hope that America has not completely lost the thought that formed it. Isn't it interesting, being witness to the downfall of the most beautiful nation on earth? I'd trade the intrigued for some quick reactionary measures, though. Obama must be stopped.
Daisies| 4.4.09 @ 3:33PM
David Mathews fat hippy-chicks--LOL!!
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