The destruction of the Georgia guidestones
I am rather sad at the destruction of this eccentric monument to one man's ego. It cost him $100,000 to create it but he evidently thought his ideas were worth drawing to the attention of a lot of people for a long time. He meant it to stand more or less forever -- hence its extremely durable construction. It was intended as an American version of the Egyptian pyramids
The monumnent was harmless. The ideas inscribed on is were between mundane and anodyne but were predominantly of a Green/Left character. But in a world of a lot of uniformity and conformity the structure was a refreshing change: Something genuinely original
The usual suspects are of course assuming that conservatives blew it up but, given the past history of such accusations, the truth is more likely to be the reverse
A mysterious granite monument in rural Georgia has been destroyed after an explosive device reduced it to rubble in the early hours of the morning.
The popular yet peculiar attraction is often called "America's Stonehenge" by locals, but has become the target of far-right conspiracy theorists in recent years — including a candidate who was in the race to become Georgia's governor.
Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating the explosion, which was captured on nearby CCTV cameras.
What are the Guidestones?
The Georgia Guidestones are grey stone slabs that have stood in a field in Elberton in eastern Georgia since 1980.
Standing at 5.8-metres tall, the unusual structure is made up of four large granite tablets arranged around an upright column, complete with a large rectangular capstone lying on top, and would illuminate a date engraved on the granite at noon each day.
No one knows exactly who is behind the Guidestones, but an article in Wired Magazine in 2009 reported the monument was commissioned by a man who used the pseudonym of Robert C. Christian on behalf of "a small group of local Americans" who had been planning the monument for decades.
The slabs themselves were inscribed with a 10-part message in a dozen different languages, including Sanskrit, English, Russian, Hebrew and Spanish.
According to the Elbert County Chamber of Commerce, the message roughly translates to:
"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature; Guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity; Unite humanity with a living new language; Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason; Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts; Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court; Avoid petty laws and useless officials; Balance personal rights with social duties; Prize truth, beauty, love ... seeking harmony with the infinite; Be not a cancer on earth — leave room for nature — leave room for nature."
What happened?
According to surveillance footage, a sharp explosion occurred at the Guidestones shortly after 4am local time on Wednesday, July 6.
The footage shows the bottom half of one of the granite panels shattering, sending debris flying across the field for several metres.
A short time later on a separate security camera, a silver sedan was seen leaving the remote location as the panel collapsed entirely, leaving a cloud of dust in its wake.
Officers from the Elbert County Sheriff's Office attended the site to discover a large portion of the structure had been destroyed.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GIB) said no-one was at the site at the time of the explosion, and that initial investigations indicate that the explosive device was detonated by unknown individuals.
Why was the site targeted?
The Georgia Guidestones have often been the subject of far-right conspiracy theories because of the mystery of how the structure came to be, and how some of the messages have been interpreted.
The site has been vandalised in the past, including with the phrase "new world order" — a longstanding, baseless conspiracy that a totalitarian world government is emerging, which prompted local authorities to install video cameras at the site.
The structure had also attracted more attention in recent months, after becoming the target of Republican candidate for the governor of Georgia, Kandiss Taylor, who had committed to destroying them as part of her conspiracy-laden election campaign.
Ms Taylor, who received just 3.4 per cent of the primary vote in May, said the destruction of the "satanic" Guidestones was proof of God's intervention.
"He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down Satanic Guidestones," she wrote on Twitter.
Ms Taylor later released a video insisting she would never support vandalism, and that "anyone who goes on private or public property to destroy anything illegally should be arrested."
Police have not yet identified any suspects, nor have they commented on whether conspiracy theorists played a role in the monument's destruction.
What will happen to the monument?
Although most of the pillars were unaffected by the explosion, the popular tourist attraction is no more.
Shortly after the explosion, the Elberton Granite Association, which maintains the stones, had estimated the repair bill would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But authorities ultimately deemed the site a safety risk, and knocked down the remaining granite slabs shortly after finalising their investigation at the scene.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-07/mobile-georgia-guidestones-destroyed/101216348
********************************************Leftist corruption of language
Perhaps we could pay tribute to the US Supreme Court’s courageous decision to remove an entitlement to wholesale abortion that should never have been allowed by discarding the dishonest term ‘reproductive health’ from our everyday speech. Leftists invented it to mean what plain speakers call abortion or foeticide.
While we’re at it, we could clear out a whole lot of other linguistic lies and prevarications the Left tries to make us use. Language is the vehicle of thought and if we unresistingly accept leftist distortions of words we end up thinking like leftists.
How many of us now say ‘gender’ when we mean ‘sex’? But ‘gender’ has become a leftist trap word. By using it we are tacitly or unwittingly assenting to the leftist notion that an artificial sexual identity called gender exists in the mind, ‘constructed’ for us by either ourselves or some arcane social force, and which may or may not align with the sex of our birth.
Avoid accommodating leftists by using their terminology. Never say ‘woman’ of someone who isn’t one. Don’t fall for expostulations like, ‘of course I’m not a sexist’. If you do, you have already conceded ground by recognising a leftist concept as legitimate. ‘Sexism’ only exists in the imaginations of feminists, who invented the term to discredit opposition to their spurious campaign against that other mythological entity, ‘patriarchy’. To this end they turned ‘lady’, ‘gentleman’ and anything ending in ‘-man’ into ‘boo words’. Let’s ignore that and use these words when we can.
Leftists have mounted a linguistic attack on the family. Resist this and say ‘father’, ‘mother’, ‘husband’, ‘wife’. Revive the use of ‘Christian name’ whenever appropriate.
(By the way, the latest boo word, not just among leftists in this case, is ‘Putin’. Putin is what you blame when anything that is the responsibility of government, like keeping the lights on, or controlling inflation, goes wrong. President Biden is adept at this.)
‘Racism’ and ‘racist’, were adopted to demonise anyone not wholly on board with the leftists’ BLM-mandated goal of white subordination. You can defy this bullying by being as ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ as you like, since sensible people accept racial and sexual differences as part of human nature. All humans have an affinity for their own kind, for people who speak the same language and share their beliefs. That doesn’t mean, which leftists try to twist it to mean, that they regard everyone else as inferior.
‘Racist’ has a particular application in Australia, where indigenous activists apply it to ordinary Australians doubtful of the wisdom of going down the path once followed by South Africa and dividing our national legislature racially. Imagine the screams of rage from proponents of the ‘Voice’ if a separate voice were suggested for Irish Australians, or Australians of Indian origin or any other racial group.
It’s best to avoid debate with leftists on subjects which have no existence outside their chimeric world. Sane people should treat statements such as ‘Australia is a racist country’ as the Logical Positivists treated metaphysics, as not wrong or right but as utterly without meaning.
Leftists have long, to use one of their favourite terms, ‘colonised’ many words, misusing them to mean the opposite of what they really mean. Mao Zedong’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ was not the dawn of prosperity for millions but a mass push backwards into a communal grave. The various ‘liberations’ wrought by Stalin, Castro and others have invariably meant enslavement. ‘People’s’ means ‘relating to the oligarchy that rules the people’. In this sense it wouldn’t be out of place in contemporary Canberra. Albanese and co. would be in good socialist company if they described themselves as the ‘people’s government’, given that two-thirds of the ‘people’ didn’t vote for them. And if anti-monarchist obsessives ever manage to foist their shoddy republic on us, they could go the whole hog and call it a ‘people’s republic’ like the Beijing regime so uncritically admired by Labor luminaries such as Richard Marles.
‘Democratic’ in national names invariably means undemocratic. Arbeit macht frei over the gates of Hitler’s concentration camps didn’t mean that ‘work sets you free’. It meant, as Dante wrote, ‘All hope abandon ye who enter here.’
When leftists say ‘comedy’ as in comedy festival it means utterly unfunny, and if the event is funded by the taxpayer or (which is the same thing) produced by the ABC, coarse, scatological and blasphemous as well. ‘Your ABC’ is probably the concisest lie ever told. Only the ABC’s ‘friends’ are fool enough to believe it; the rest of us know the ABC is ‘ours’ only insofar as we have no choice but to pay the prodigious sums wasted producing its unique mixture of propaganda and incompetence.
‘Your ABC’ holds a place in another category, that of words used untruthfully, such as that ominous phrase creeping through public discourse, ‘the Great Reset’. This, invented by that sinister pair of James Bond-villain lookalikes Klaus Schwab and George Soros, is meant to sound like a wonderful fresh start for humanity but really means a plot to impose ‘global governance’ by unelected authoritarians such as themselves, intent on filching what’s left of our freedom.
Leaving the mentally sick to shiver and starve in the street is described as ‘community care’. Responsibility-shirking governments have encouraged this lie.
Near me in Melbourne is a wide expanse of green sward with a lake and a golf course. ‘Welcome to Albert Park’ reads a sign. That’s meaningless as well as being based on an untrue premise. Albert Park is publicly owned so who is doing the welcoming? Ourselves? Or is that a giveaway revealing that the ‘public service’ confuses stewardship with proprietorship?
‘The climate’ is a leftist fantasy-land bearing little or no relation semantically to the weather. Antarctic depths of cold in normally temperate seasons, leftists still say the planet is ‘warming’. In the 1970s they were predicting a new ice age. Perhaps they will again if global warming really sets in, such is their perversity with words.
Even the humble pronoun has been pressed into service in the language wars. Leftists have always hated third-person singular male pronouns used generically and confusingly replace them with ‘they’, ‘their’ or ‘them’, as in ‘a fool and their money are soon parted’. In such contexts it is clearer to continue the traditional use of ‘he’ or ‘his’ unless the subject is female. And as for all those ‘gender-diverse’ individuals who want to be pronominally referred to as ‘they’ and wail that they are not respected if ‘misgendered’, take no notice. It is far better to respect the integrity of the English language.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/07/aussie-life-76/
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First it was AIDS ....
To paraphrase the old adage, “Pride Month” cometh before a rise in monkeypox cases.
At least, that is the experience of San Francisco and New York City, both of which are grappling with spiking cases of the disease that is largely associated with the LGBT community, which marks June as “Pride Month.”
New York had a nation-leading 119 cases as of Wednesday, according to the New York Post. San Francisco is at 40 cases, with local officials saying that is likely an undercount, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
New York is avoiding a direct link between “Pride Month” and the monkeypox increase, even though cases went up 50 percent once the partying was over.
“Anyone can get and spread monkeypox,” the city’s health department said.
“The current cases are primarily spreading among social networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, so this community is currently at greater risk of exposure,” it admitted.
The Examiner noted that “the vast majority of cases so far in San Francisco have been self-reported by gay and bisexual men,” adding that organizers of major “Pride Month” events warned attendees about the risk of infection.
“In the last few weeks, we’ve seen cases of monkeypox at our clinic. We don’t want to scare you, but we’re now seeing cases on a regular basis. And we’re going to start seeing a lot more cases if we don’t act swiftly and boldly,” Dr. Tyler TerMeer, CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said Tuesday.
“It’s much more common than people suspect. We doubled in cases last week,” said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California at San Francisco.
Monkeypox is spread by direct skin-to-skin contact. It comes with flu-like symptoms and lesions or rashes that spread over the body. The current crop of infections has not been linked to any deaths as of yet.
The outbreak has concerned the World Health Organization because 84 percent of the roughly 3,000 worldwide cases have been in Europe instead of the areas of West and Central Africa where monkeypox is most often found.
“What makes the current outbreak especially concerning is the rapid, continuing spread into new countries and regions and the risk of further, sustained transmission into vulnerable populations including people that are immunocompromised, pregnant women and children,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
In San Francicso, Chin-Hong said the city needs to ramp up testing and vaccination.
“There should be a clear direction for men who have had exposure or have multiple sexual partners. It’s the usual risk factors for an STD, really,” said Monica Gandhi of UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital.
“If we can vaccinate people quickly, maybe we can shut it down,” Gandhi said. “But if we don’t, it will get in our population.”
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Thomas Jefferson's famed Monticello home is accused of haranguing visitors with constant references to racism and evils of slave-owning former president's past
American Leftists will do almost anything to inspire hate of their own country
The reactions come after a ten-year effort to overhaul the exhibits at the Virginia estate and provide a more balanced view of the third US president who wrote: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' in 1776, yet owned slaves till his dying day in 1826.
'The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation,' founder of the libertarian Brownstone Institute Jeffrey Tucker told The New York Post after a recent visit, 'People on my tour seemed sad and demoralized.'
Recent visitors have described a deluge exhibits and signs that criticize Jefferson, and even employees who go out of the way to 'besmirch' him.
Some visitors however have argued that the changes are not enough, with one visitor labeling the slavery exhibit specifically as 'benevolent slaveholder b.s.'
In the decades since Monticello opened to the public in 1923 the attention given Jefferson's slaves were few, mostly consisting of cursory references to the quarters and cabins where they lived on the estate.
But as Jefferson's legacy as a slaveholder has come under increased scrutiny in recent years.
Last year his statue was removed from the New York City Council's chamber, with the exhibits at Monticello also enjoying an overhaul intended to address Jefferson's enthusiasm for owning slaves head-on.
He began building Monticello in 1794, and continued working on the property until his death in 1826.
'Our goal is to present an honest, inclusive history of Monticello in all its aspects as well as Jefferson's contributions to the founding of the country,' a Monticello spokesperson Jenn Lyon told The Post.
The current tour of Monticello begins with a reference to the Native Americans who once lived on the land, and a ticket booth adorned with a painting of the president's slaves in tears.
Throughout the building, signs pointing out household positions continually refer to them with the moniker 'enslaved' before them, according to The Post, while trigger warnings abound and signage asks questions that provide their own answers.
'Is 'all men are created equal' being lived up to in our country today?' a sign hung on the patio outside the snack shops reads, 'When will we know when it is?'
And the centerpiece of the house - the octagonal music room that was meticulously restored to look as Jefferson's exact decorative specifications - a portrait of a black man with his face marred out hangs front and center.
The man's 'hands and face of featureless tar' are meant to represent 'the faceless lives of all who served in bondage, witnessing but never recognized,' the painting's placard reads.
Former Virginia governor and senator George Allen characterized the new Monticello as a 'contemporary politicization of a beautiful historic property.'
'Some of this to me just detracts from how people can be inspired and understand Thomas Jefferson and his time and how brilliant he was, how creative he was, his innovations and how ahead of his time he was.'
And Douglas McKinnon, author of The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign The Declaration of Independence, said the exhibit's view of history is clearly warped through the lens of contemporary politics.
'It's very problematic to look at 1776 and Thomas Jefferson through the prism of 2022,' MacKinnon said. 'You can't go back 250 years to know what was in their hearts at that time.'
'Jefferson was the ultimate Founding Father of our nation. His name should not be diminished because of our political disagreements.'
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The religion of gender fluidity
There’s a new heretic in town. It’s the great Macy Gray. Ms Gray has uttered that most blasphemous of beliefs – that a man can never become a woman, even if he has his bits lopped off. Cue the pointing of fingers and howls of ‘BIGOT!’. If this were the 15th century this is the point at which Ms Gray would be marched off to the stake.
It was on Piers Morgan’s Talk TV show that Gray came out as someone who understands biology – a dangerous thing to do in the 21st century. In her soulful, plain-speaking style she said:
‘Just because you go change your parts doesn’t make you a woman.’
For me the most sublime moment was when Gray did a chopping motion with her hand as she said ‘change your parts’. This is clearly someone who will brook no nonsense.
‘You feel that?’, Morgan asked. ‘I know that for a fact’, Gray clarified, sending a clear signal to any members of the mob who may have been watching and warming up their thumbs for a good ol’ cancellation on Twitter. This is the truth, Gray was essentially saying, whether you like it or not.
The cancellation has come nonetheless. Like many other women who have questioned the idea that someone born with a penis and testicles can become a woman – whether by hormonal intervention or simply through self-ID – Gray has been mauled online. TERF, bigot, hater – all the usual slurs have been hurled her way. ‘She’s dead to me now’, some have claimed, as if she murdered someone or came out as a lover of Hitler. Reminder, folks: she said men are not women.
But that is all you need to say these days to feel the flames of the intolerant mob. There is no better proof that the transgender ideology has crossed the line into being a modern-day religion – and a fiercely unforgiving one at that – than the fact that any woman who questions it will be raged against, demonised, sacked, cast out of polite society. Religions have always had a problem with pesky women who say: ‘Hang on a second…’. The religion of genderfluidity is no different.
Just stop and think about how odd it is that there should be such a furious reaction to a woman saying what a woman is. If someone had told you ten years ago that one day Macy Gray would become a figure of hate for saying that a castrated man is not a woman, you would have thought them mad. And yet here we are. The speed with which the idea that human beings can change sex has become an orthodoxy that you question at your peril is terrifying. It should worry everyone who believes in freedom of conscience and open debate, regardless of your views on transgenderism itself.
What is most striking about Gray’s heresy is that she very clearly knew there would be a horrible, violence-tinged response to her perfectly reasonable comments. ‘Everyone’s gonna hate me’, she said to Morgan before committing her speechcrime. ‘Sorry’, she said at the end of the interview. This is the world we live in today: where women feel cagey about expressing their opinion, about giving voice to biological reality, because they know what the consequences will be.
Imagine how many women there must be who are in a more precarious position than Macy Gray – or JK Rowling – and who have calculated that they simply cannot afford to raise their voice in defence of the reality of sex. That they just cannot afford to lose their job or to be hounded online for months on end. That they do not have the means, financial or personal, to withstand such an onslaught. This is the truly baleful consequence of cancel culture – the chilling message it sends to people lower down the pecking order about how foolish it would be for them to say what they believe.
This is what is wonderful about what Gray has done. And about what Rowling does, and Maya Forstater, and Kathleen Stock, and Posie Parker, and Helen Joyce, and Julie Bindel, and all the other women who put their heads above the parapet to say: ‘I am an unbeliever.’ They chip away at the culture of intolerance and help to make other people feel confident enough to speak out. They create the conditions in which it becomes at least a little bit more acceptable to dissent. Men need to do their part too, by fully supporting the Macy Grays of the world when they come under attack for saying normal, rational things.
Gray has helped to expose just how serious the assault on freedom of thought has become. She pre-emptively apologised for her comments, and even made it clear that she is happy to refer to trans women with the words ‘she’ and ‘her’, even though she doesn’t believe they are real women. But that wasn’t enough. Because here’s the thing: there are some who don’t only want to police what we say about sex and gender, but also how we think about sex and gender. Gray’s offer to use female pronouns is insufficient – they want to remould her actual mind, her moral belief system, so that she starts to truly believe that trans women are women. This is some Room 101 nonsense.
Enough is enough. I’m with Macy Gray and her right to think and say whatever she pleases. It is a right everyone should enjoy.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/i-stand-with-macy-gray/
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http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)
http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)
http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)
http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)
http://snorphty.blogspot.com/ (TONGUE-TIED)
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Kristina Pimenova, once said to be the most beautiful girl in the world. Note blue eyes and blonde hair
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