OMG. My mother if she were alive would not believe what you just showed. She was born in Dresden. The Germans are tolerating putting up w/ this? well what else can one expect after the country has been run into the ground by Angela Merkel and the foreign invasions. I was in Berlin in 1995 to visit my family (now passed except one cousin) and Germany was still in celebration that the Wall had come down. My family owned property in Dresden which was sold to BP oil in 1993. yes, my grandfather owned land and a gas station. That is very shocking. When I saw your page I just said yes that interests me.. WOW. I was born in Darmstadt (my father was Army, mother German). both long passed .. as they were older parents to begin with,.. still very disturbing to me at any rate. WOW. what bloody mess over there. I knew that Germany was in trouble but I had NO IDEA that this Trans sickness was being presented as art or whatever one would call that putrid garbage. WOW.
When methane capturing devices (tube up the arse like the climate neutral depiction) are required because of "climate change" I absolutely expect a majority of the populace to willingly and gleefully bend over to get that tube shoved into them just like they did for masks and *experimental* "vaccines"...
It will take a century for the Germans to escape the psychological damage of the curse of Naziism and the Holocaust. Until then they will continue to do penance at the Altar of Virtue and engage in all sort of insane policies such as admitting one million muslims and shutting down their power grid.
All those Germans are dead. I assure you .. and their children have been indoctrinated for years by the EU left wing. I know this as I still have living family there, what is left of them.
The ones who escaped by coming to America (I am one of them, my father was an American married my mother) and I came here when I was 3. YEP. that is a very interesting observation Altar of Virtue. When I think of Goethe, Schiller, Albert Brecht, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, then there was the amazing scientist.. many of them German Jews.. who were forced to work for the Americans and the Russians.. and worked on the Manhattan Project... and then we have Martin Luther.. some of the most profound and brilliant thinkers.. I am grateful that I am a Christian and live in the USA where ONE HALF of the country are as indoctrinated as the Germans and the rest of the WORLD have been indoctrinated as I write this. It may not matter as IRAN may just have gotten the nuclear bomb. Glad I have lived out most of my life and my sons are grown men,, and doing well. NORMAL .. Thank God for that.
Aug 11, 2023·edited Aug 11, 2023Liked by Richard Seager
Great article !! I like the "Climate Neutral Warrior". It captures and illustrates the nonsensical and dangerous structure of closed systems, closed social groups, and close mindedness.
Here's something to think about....
What most don't understand is why diversity and inclusiveness has become public facing policy for businesses. Like anything corporations and other businesses want is to maximize profit, often at the expense of others. ESG rules now provide tax breaks and tax offsets for compliance. That means ESG compliance reduces businesses' tax liabilities, i.e. maximizes profit.
Disproportionate attribution of ESG program compliance benefit is at the core of diversity and inclusiveness policies. Why should a business make large financial investments in reducing carbon footprints when they receive the same tax benefits for hanging up a few rainbow signs ? What is the ROI of green energy programs vs hanging a few signs ?
Excellent point. And what is the ROI on green energy programs? All those interviewed on Planet of the Humans seemed to be suggesting a negative ROI a few years ago.
It's still a negative ROI today. That's way govts are subsidizing green energy programs. In the US, they have a vehicle called "transferable tax credits". The govt assigns credits based on business reporting. Credits may be used to offset tax burdens on profits. Businesses without taxable incomes may sell credits at a discounted rate for others to paydown their tax burden commonly between $0.70-$0.90 on the dollar. Purchaser can make $0.10-$0.30 profit per tax dollar. Companies with these credits can also offer them as non-taxable compensation/bonuses and non-reportable gifts (to politicians).
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Now we're all on the same page. Govt's can't officially sanction favoritism of one company over another. But, they can create opportunities for companies and individuals to take advantage of polices and administrative programs. You need to be involved in the process of influencing/drafting policy, or need to be friendly with a group that's involved. Limiting knowledge means less or no other competitors for program awards.
I know that, for example, you could get an 8k credit on buying a new EV. At the same time the offset to that was those with older more polluting cars (allegedly) paid up to 5k for the 'damage' they did in CO2 emissions. Thereby benefiting the rich and penalizing the poor.
Nothing here either. Using art to protest has a long history. I guess that means there's no protestors here. The local cartoonists, save one who the media sacked, are all quislings for the Labour Party.
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I agree.
Wouldn't it be nice, for old times sake, if the Brits sent their last two airworthy Lancasters to finish their mission over Davos. Just daydreaming.
Short excerpts from two of Churchill's speeches joined together. The second is his tribute to the British airmen. Of course, Churchill was a flawed character as so many are only too willing to point out; but we know from events in the lead up to war that there was no other candidate more suitable to lead Britain at the time. Was Bomber Harris a war criminal? Probably. I understand Britain's resolve to defeat the Nazis at almost any cost, but I think the total destruction of Dresden's architectural significance was a mistake.
The music accompanying Churchill's speeches is the Nimrod variation from Elgar's Enigma Variations. The cryptic title comes from it being a musical tribute to Elgar's publisher and friend August Jaeger, Hunter in English—hence the Biblical Nimrod, also a hunter.
Is the one with an exhaust pipe a real person.
So far fetched that I can believe it.
They're all around you.
But no that one is a statue.
Takes the concept of Dresden figurine to new heights.
Where are the shepherdesses.
Women were at least 50% represented in that guy's art. Probably more.
And from a pro-woman angle as well. Definitely has his head in the right place.
That's a whole new topic.
Climate Neutral and Klaus eating crickets made my day. Art is possibly the last resistance.
OMG. My mother if she were alive would not believe what you just showed. She was born in Dresden. The Germans are tolerating putting up w/ this? well what else can one expect after the country has been run into the ground by Angela Merkel and the foreign invasions. I was in Berlin in 1995 to visit my family (now passed except one cousin) and Germany was still in celebration that the Wall had come down. My family owned property in Dresden which was sold to BP oil in 1993. yes, my grandfather owned land and a gas station. That is very shocking. When I saw your page I just said yes that interests me.. WOW. I was born in Darmstadt (my father was Army, mother German). both long passed .. as they were older parents to begin with,.. still very disturbing to me at any rate. WOW. what bloody mess over there. I knew that Germany was in trouble but I had NO IDEA that this Trans sickness was being presented as art or whatever one would call that putrid garbage. WOW.
Trans is pushed everywhere in the West by the powers that be.
When methane capturing devices (tube up the arse like the climate neutral depiction) are required because of "climate change" I absolutely expect a majority of the populace to willingly and gleefully bend over to get that tube shoved into them just like they did for masks and *experimental* "vaccines"...
It will take a century for the Germans to escape the psychological damage of the curse of Naziism and the Holocaust. Until then they will continue to do penance at the Altar of Virtue and engage in all sort of insane policies such as admitting one million muslims and shutting down their power grid.
All those Germans are dead. I assure you .. and their children have been indoctrinated for years by the EU left wing. I know this as I still have living family there, what is left of them.
The ones who escaped by coming to America (I am one of them, my father was an American married my mother) and I came here when I was 3. YEP. that is a very interesting observation Altar of Virtue. When I think of Goethe, Schiller, Albert Brecht, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, then there was the amazing scientist.. many of them German Jews.. who were forced to work for the Americans and the Russians.. and worked on the Manhattan Project... and then we have Martin Luther.. some of the most profound and brilliant thinkers.. I am grateful that I am a Christian and live in the USA where ONE HALF of the country are as indoctrinated as the Germans and the rest of the WORLD have been indoctrinated as I write this. It may not matter as IRAN may just have gotten the nuclear bomb. Glad I have lived out most of my life and my sons are grown men,, and doing well. NORMAL .. Thank God for that.
You misunderstood my comment, which I have edited for clarity. I don't think we disagree.
Great article !! I like the "Climate Neutral Warrior". It captures and illustrates the nonsensical and dangerous structure of closed systems, closed social groups, and close mindedness.
Here's something to think about....
What most don't understand is why diversity and inclusiveness has become public facing policy for businesses. Like anything corporations and other businesses want is to maximize profit, often at the expense of others. ESG rules now provide tax breaks and tax offsets for compliance. That means ESG compliance reduces businesses' tax liabilities, i.e. maximizes profit.
Disproportionate attribution of ESG program compliance benefit is at the core of diversity and inclusiveness policies. Why should a business make large financial investments in reducing carbon footprints when they receive the same tax benefits for hanging up a few rainbow signs ? What is the ROI of green energy programs vs hanging a few signs ?
Excellent point. And what is the ROI on green energy programs? All those interviewed on Planet of the Humans seemed to be suggesting a negative ROI a few years ago.
It's still a negative ROI today. That's way govts are subsidizing green energy programs. In the US, they have a vehicle called "transferable tax credits". The govt assigns credits based on business reporting. Credits may be used to offset tax burdens on profits. Businesses without taxable incomes may sell credits at a discounted rate for others to paydown their tax burden commonly between $0.70-$0.90 on the dollar. Purchaser can make $0.10-$0.30 profit per tax dollar. Companies with these credits can also offer them as non-taxable compensation/bonuses and non-reportable gifts (to politicians).
It's a bit crazy. I should look into what it is here.
Now we're all on the same page. Govt's can't officially sanction favoritism of one company over another. But, they can create opportunities for companies and individuals to take advantage of polices and administrative programs. You need to be involved in the process of influencing/drafting policy, or need to be friendly with a group that's involved. Limiting knowledge means less or no other competitors for program awards.
I know that, for example, you could get an 8k credit on buying a new EV. At the same time the offset to that was those with older more polluting cars (allegedly) paid up to 5k for the 'damage' they did in CO2 emissions. Thereby benefiting the rich and penalizing the poor.
A Labour Party (supposedly on the left) policy.
Also if there wasn't enough of the second, or they didn't pay their 5k penalties, then those late to the EVs might not get their 'subsidy'.
Remarkable. I see no one in this former dissident town offering resistance. I go to Open Studios now and then.
Nothing here either. Using art to protest has a long history. I guess that means there's no protestors here. The local cartoonists, save one who the media sacked, are all quislings for the Labour Party.
Banksy never made it to Auckland, he stopped at Beijing. In the precise manner of Christ stopped at Eboli, never making it to the Italian Boot.
Take a stroll through Dresden in the 1930s (it's in colour). What a Baroque jewel of a city it was before we bombed the bejesus out of it.
https://youtu.be/fja_P4mlGDA
It was a war crime. As Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the firebombing of working class Tokyo were as well.
I agree.
Wouldn't it be nice, for old times sake, if the Brits sent their last two airworthy Lancasters to finish their mission over Davos. Just daydreaming.
Short excerpts from two of Churchill's speeches joined together. The second is his tribute to the British airmen. Of course, Churchill was a flawed character as so many are only too willing to point out; but we know from events in the lead up to war that there was no other candidate more suitable to lead Britain at the time. Was Bomber Harris a war criminal? Probably. I understand Britain's resolve to defeat the Nazis at almost any cost, but I think the total destruction of Dresden's architectural significance was a mistake.
The music accompanying Churchill's speeches is the Nimrod variation from Elgar's Enigma Variations. The cryptic title comes from it being a musical tribute to Elgar's publisher and friend August Jaeger, Hunter in English—hence the Biblical Nimrod, also a hunter.
https://youtu.be/Kx3W4F80L04
And as Coventry was too it should be said.
Hard to think of much, if anything at all, that the Nazis did that wasn't or should have been a war crime.
The pictures are priceless. I especially like the one of the climate warrior. Thanks for sharing this