Where do your children play?

While Big Brother distracts you with victim porn disguised as social justice, the invasions and crimes of Islam continue unabated.  Islamists are out to conquer the world, and so-called “progressives” and “social democrats” are enabling them.  Really, it’s the Statue of Liberty that they want to take down.

The following could happen in your neighborhood soon.

Yesterday, August 23, 2017, in a community in England which allowed multicultural immigration of Muslims, Victoria Friedman reported a total of 6,226 child abuse allegations were referred to social services in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell – an average of three a day.

Regional newspaper the Express & Star reports that senior council figures said the number of children being “abused and neglected” was rising in Sandwell, a borough previously described as a “hot spot” for Muslim child grooming gangs.

Sandwell Council leader Steve Eling said it was a “worrying situation” and called for Government intervention.

“These are some of the most difficult and sensitive matters that we have as a council have to deal with,” he said.

“Over the last few years, we have seen increasing numbers of children being neglected and abused. There are now more children in Sandwell who are subject to Child Protection Plans than we have ever had before.

“This is a national issue and Sandwell like many authorities are having to commit more resources than we have ever had to in the past.”

The issue of child abuse has featured prominently in the UK again this month after another grooming gang was exposed operating in Newcastle. Eighteen, mostly Muslim, individuals were convicted of child rape and human trafficking on August 9th – the largest case of its kind since Rotherham and Rochdale.

Since 2010, Muslim grooming gangs across the country have been uncovered, including in Telford, Oxford, and Keighley.

In 2014, following an investigation by the Birmingham Mail, a West Midlands Police report found that three-quarters of known child sex groomers in the county were of “Asian” (South Asian) ethnicity, specifically of Pakistani origin, and 82 per cent of the victims, aged 14 to 16, were white.

The Sandwell Safeguarding Children Board (SSCB) report stated: “Intelligence suggests that of potential suspects identified, 75 per cent of those known are of Asian ethnicity.

“This has mirrored other forces’ experiences of known offenders and, as we have seen from the Derbyshire, Lancashire and Rochdale cases, has the potential to impact on trust and confidence within local communities across the West Midlands.”

In 2015, the Express & Star reported that official documents dating back to 2009 showed West Midlands Police were not aware of the extent of the number of vulnerable children being targetted by the Muslim rape gangs.

Additionally, such as with the Rotherham and Rochdale cases, police were too preoccupied with political correctness and not appearing racist than with effectively tackling child rape.

The media, politicians, and police have come under criticism from the public and campaigners for referring to the rape gangs as “[South] Asian”, referring to any person of Indian, Bangladeshi, or Pakistani origin of various faiths, rather than accurately as, predominantly, Pakistani Muslim.

Following the latest convictions in Newcastle, Sir Trevor Philips, who popularised the term “Islamophobia”, penned a piece for The Telegraph writing: “What the perpetrators have in common is their proclaimed faith. They are Muslims, and many of them would claim to be practising. It is not Islamophobic to point this out.”

Less than a week later, Labour MP Sarah Champion resigned from the shadow cabinet after she wrote an article for The Sun, likewise acknowledging that Pakistani Muslim men target white girls for sexual grooming.

Newcastle has joined a list of British cities where grooming gangs, made up of predominantly Pakistani Muslim men, systematically rape and abuse vulnerable, white girls.

A nationwide pattern emerged after the first prosecutions in Rotherham, and then Rochdale, where a “culture of silence” and political correctness led to inaction by authorities who feared being called “racist”.

Thousands of girls were raped and abused by Muslim grooming gangs since the late 1980s with cases largely going ignored until 2001.

One Rotherham rape survivor said that authorities did nothing and made her feel like she was a racist, being told specifically not to comment on the ethnicity of the perpetrators.

A former police detective who helped prosecute a Rochdale grooming gang claimed a conspiracy of cover-ups “goes right to the top of Government”, and said there were still paedophiles at large in the town.

On Wednesday, 17 mostly Muslim men (of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Iranian, Iraqi, Kurdish, Turkish, Albanian, and Eastern European heritage) and one white woman were convicted of nearly 100 offences against girls and women in Newcastle, in the largest case of its kind since Rotherham and Rochdale.

It was also revealed that police had paid a convicted child rapist nearly £10,000 to work as an informant on the case.

Speaking at a press conference, the head of Newcastle Council stressed the scandal was “not unique” to the city, adding: “Indeed, there has been evidence of similar [grooming gangs] offending in many other towns and cities.”

So far, that list has included:

– Rotherham –

The Rotherham child grooming gang scandal, described as “the biggest child protection scandal in UK history”, was exposed in 2010 after five Pakistani Muslim men were jailed for sexual offences against underage girls following Operation Central. Subsequent operations and trials led to a further 20 convictions.

In total, there were more than 1,400 victims in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.

The 2015 Casey report found that Rotherham Council had a “bullying” culture of “covering up uncomfortable truths, silencing whistle-blowers and paying off staff rather than dealing with difficult issues”.

In August 2015, Breitbart London reported that more than 160 police officers were under investigation over allegations they systematically ignored complaints of widespread child sexual exploitation.

– Rochdale –

Nine men, again, of Pakistani Muslim origin, were convicted in 2012 of rape and sex trafficking with 47 girls being identified as victims of the Greater Manchester grooming gang.

By spring 2017, all but two rapists had been released and four were using taxpayers’ money to fight deportation to Pakistan.

The scandal returned to public prominence when the BBC aired the drama Three Girls based on the experiences of some of the victims.

– Oxford –

In 2013, seven men (five Pakistani and two African) were convicted with five receiving “life” sentences and two sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment.

Some 370 white girls from deprived backgrounds or abusive homes, generally aged 12 to 15 years old, were systematically raped, drugged, and threatened. The gang operated in Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, over a span of 15 years.

One victim told Breitbart London that girls in the city are still being targetted because police refuse to act. Some of her own attackers still work as taxi drivers, businessmen, and are even on the local council, she said.

– Bristol –

In 2016, a Somali rape gang was jailed for “chilling”, “degrading”, and sometimes “violent” sexual abuse and sex trafficking of teenage girls as young as 13 years old in Bristol.

In a description similar to other rape gang cases across the country, the court heard how the abuse became “routine” and the men regarded their victims as “cheap and easy”.

– Aylesbury –

In the picturesque Buckinghamshire village, six Pakistani men were convicted for grooming and raping two vulnerable girls aged 12 and 13 between 2006 and 2012.

Again, a children’s charity claimed to have warned authorities about the rape gang, but police allegedly took “insufficient action”.

One Conservative Muslim town councillor admitted that some in the Muslim community “take the view that the victim is partly to blame. They believe it takes two to tango.”

– Keighley –

In 2017, police in Keighley began investigating almost 200 cases of child sex abuse, with 167 suspects, prompting fears of a ‘new Rochdale’ grooming gang in the small Yorkshire town.

Local Conservative MP Kris Hopkins warned that the town is “top of the list” for ‘Asian’ grooming gangs targeting white children to be sexually abused.

– Huddersfield –

In April 2017, 29 individuals appeared in court on over 170 charges of rape, child abduction, trafficking, drug dealing, and other crimes following a child sex abuse inquiry.

The alleged offences are said to have been carried out in Huddersfield by 27 mostly Muslim men and two women between 2004 and 2011. Their victims were girls aged between 11 and 17.

– Derby –

In late 2010, nine men were convicted in three separate trials for cruising the streets of Derby, targeting and raping young girls.

Many of the victims said they were given alcohol or drugs before being forced to have sex in cars, houses, or hotels across the Midlands. Twenty-seven girls came forward, the oldest 18 and the youngest 12.

– Peterborough –

A gang of men and boys befriended and then raped vulnerable girls, subjecting them to intimidation, violence, and “appalling” abuse in places such as children’s playgrounds.

Two men, Zdeno Mirga, 18, and Hassan Abdulla, 33, and five boys were convicted in 2014 of sexually abusing five teenage girls aged 13 and 14.

– Telford –

Police in Telford were accused of ignoring child sex abuse after it emerged volunteers had been passing evidence of grooming to them for three years.

Trained church volunteers began to pass information to police following Operation Chalice, an investigation into a child prostitution ring in Telford. The police probe saw seven Pakistani men jailed on charges of rape, trafficking, and prostitution of girls as young as 13.

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And now I return you to your regularly scheduled broadcast by Big Brother, who is in the middle of a self-created crisis intended to divert you via a device built on statues and racial guilt.  Remember, to succeed, collectivism needs chaos.  As Obama’s first chief of staff and now mayor of Chicago said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”  And they are arrogant enough in their “resistance” to lose their heads, literally, and to lose the nation while pushing their utopian dream.   

Do you know where your children play?

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All lives matter, by David Chaney

“All individual’s lives matter. This is why I am an individualist, not the opposite of this, a collectivist. Collectivists say each life only matters in relation to the State collective. Collectivists only say one ‘group’ or another matters–from ‘black lives’ to x, y or z lives–when they need that ‘group’s’ vote. They pander to one ‘group’ over another. All else is a charade as there is no real or unique ‘care’ for that one ‘group’ vs. another. At some point those who plan on becoming and remaining free figure this out and see those who pit one ‘group’ against other ‘groups’ for who they really are–arrogant with evil motivations. The fact is that free peoples and societies believe that all individual lives matter equally and that justice and individual rights should be equally protected for all. Finally, globalist fascists, collectivist governments, and their primary political parties–from DEM socialists, communists and fascists to GOP RINO fascists in America–are not interested in you or your individuality. Rather, they are interested in your wallet and lock-step allegiance to their ideological and suicidal whims towards their own controlling and tyrannical ends. AllLivesMatter#.” DM Chaney “Thoughts on Liberty” DM Chaney (from 2015, edited)

“Note: Further, every human life matters regardless in which nation they are born and reside. All individuals have individual liberty from birth, regardless one’s view that this is either driven by natural law, and/or by God, or both (my view). The blessing in America is that we have a Constitution and Bill of Rights which specifically state and protect that this individual liberty is unalienable. This liberty cannot be encroached upon by the State or others–without being wrong, at minimum, and evil, when institutionalized. Yet, all individuals in any nation, possess this same birthright to individual liberty. Most have been controlled from birth, however, and their freedom to act upon their natural liberty regulated, by the oligarchic nations in which they were born and reside. America is rapidly, if not already, becoming the same de-facto oligarchic State that has moved away from and diluted protections of individual liberty as framed by America’s founding documents. The nations of the world, in fact, are being organized into a global governance model where no longer is any one person’s liberty protected by a Constitution and Bill of Rights. Rather, a supranational constitution will be the supreme law–one in which the individual, all lives who all matter, will be subjects, serfs, to the State and those who control the state. These who control are elitist tyrants of varying degrees who will suppress all lives, all freedom, all pursuit of happiness. As such, beware the manipulations of our people by those who want to pit one ‘group’ against the other. We are all individuals, granted individual liberty by merit of natural law and by God. We all matter. All life must be respected, from womb to tomb. I am David. I am unique. I am an individual. I respect all individual’s rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. I will fight to the death, as an individual who loves life and liberty, as an American patriot, to defend any one individual–regardless their color, creed, or views–from tyranny of the State. Carry on.” (edited from 2015)

#AllLivesMatter (If only X Group Lives Matter, that is tyranny and evil, regardless the alleged wrongs against that group. That group, if truly motivated for good, should work to make all lives matter equally under the protection of lawful law.)

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Wind and solar are unreliable

Here is proof that wind and solar power are unreliable for commercial electric grids. This is a study by PJM, “a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia.” The PJM study is at the second link. Donn Dears summarizes the study at this link: http://www.powerforusa.com/2017/08/15/proof-that-wind-and-solar-are-unreliable/

Study: http://bit.ly/2wQJ44L

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Charlottesville

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2017/08/weimar-america.html

 

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Climategate in Review

Ken McMurtrie's avatarThe GOLDEN RULE

A presentation that is invaluable for ‘climate change’ education.

Its introduction is revealing, the complete informative post is linked here.

Author:

C. Jeffery Small

Introduction:

The bottom line is simple:

There is no significant scientifically established correlation between human activity and the warming of the earth’s climate.

The Climategate scandal caused independent scientists and laymen around the globe to take a much closer look at the information that was being presented in support of Anthropogenic (i.e., man-made) Global Warming (AGW), and the overwhelming conclusion was that the there was no credible and conclusive evidence to support the hypothesis. And it was further shown that the scenarios predicting that the planet was nearing the tipping point for a series of catastrophic climate disasters, was totally invalidated by an examination of the facts, as well as a review of the earth’s climate history. What came to light during this investigation was…

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How stupid America has been?

Read it and weep for America. How stupid “We” as a nation have been: Here are Zbigniew Brzezinski quotes from his book ‘Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era’. He is the father of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, on MSNBC. He died May 2017. He is best remembered as President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser and co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission, but he advised every U.S. President since Carter until Trump on regime change strategy.

Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller and Brzezinski, the Trilateral Commission embarked on a new international economic order based on “technocracy.” Brzezinski called this the “Technetronic Era” in his 1970 book, Between Two Ages.

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”

“Marxism represents a further vital and creative state in the maturing of man’s universal vision. Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief.”

“National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.”

“People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.”

“The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.”

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3000 ppm CO2 results in no harm to humans

Peer reviewed science: No Direct Human Health Risk Under a CO2 Exposure of 3000 ppm. “Increasing CO2 to 3000 ppm at 35 °C caused no significant changes in responses.”

(Note: 3000 ppm is 7.5 times (750%) higher concentration than the approximate 400 ppm average CO2 concentration in air today. It is unlikely CO2 could ever reach 3000 ppm due to any activity of humans burning fossil fuels. Humans contribute less than 5% of 400 ppm CO2. Even if humans tried in some giant misguided geoengineering project to increase CO2 – for example to stop an ice age – it would take hundreds of years to reach 3000 ppm. And then there would be no harm to humans.  Don’t hold your breathe. Enjoy the blessings.)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132316305121

Review:  http://www.co2science.org/articles/V20/aug/a1.php

 

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What’s more nefarious than the UN’s Paris Agreement?

Perhaps you thought that the UN’s Paris Agreement was nefarious.  But the Paris Agreement is nothing compared to this UN agreement.  Here is an analysis:

http://ileanajohnson.com/2017/06/diced-is-uns-environmental-constitution-for-the-world-and-our-own-constitution-will-be-diced/

Here’s the agreement.  https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/EPLP-031-rev3.pdf

And here are two UN IPCC explaining the global warming/climate change agenda in their own words.   Short video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvE8hkB1Tc

 

 

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The tragedy of so-called “progressives”

In his post below, David Chaney probes so-called “progressive” collectivism. So-called “progressives” never learned or were mistaught the lesson of the Tragedy of the Commons, mistaught probably by a Red Diaper Baby or a descendant of one. I call them so-called “progressives” because they are not progressive at all, but instead they are regressive to behaviors back in time to the centuries of feudalism, when kings, queens, emperors, sultans and caliphs owned everything including the people. Back then, you and everything you accumulated were property of the regent, and that class-based system is exactly UN/EU globalist elite dogma and goal today, whether you believe it or not. Today, so-called “progressives” are rushing backwards to those same class identity times and behaviors, when you bowed to and paid your ruler through his vassals with your goods and your life, submitting to political correctness enforced by the ruling elite classes assumed to be noble. Your natural adaptive ability to discern right from wrong has been defeated by propaganda, but you are not aware of that fact. Hail Caesar! You are in the throngs waiting for crumbs and circuses, waiting for your naked emperor to remove your guilt and victimhood, manipulated to madness or violence by the town crier. “Et tu, Brute?”

The following is a post by David Chaney:

“Fools weren’t just invented yesterday… “progressive” collectivism of all genres is simply the end state of characterless and foolish societies that have dominated history. It takes an exceptional people to be free–and aggregately as a society we no longer are that exceptional people of character. We’ve been lulled by proverbial hook and crook into serfdom. Carry on, suckas.

“Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed, so to speak, before their mouths. Truly it is a marvelous thing that they let themselves be caught so quickly at the slightest tickling of their fancy. Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naïvely, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books” — Étienne de La Boétie, 16th Century French political philosopher in his “Discourse on Servitude” (ht Phil Pausmer for this excellent quotation)

The following is by the playwright Arthur Miller, February 27, 1949

Tragedy and the Common Man

By ARTHUR MILLER

In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us, or else that modern man has had the blood drawn out of his organs of belief by the skepticism of science, and the heroic attack on life cannot feed on an attitude of reserve and circumspection. For one reason or another, we are often held to be below tragedy-or tragedy above us. The inevitable conclusion is, of course, that the tragic mode is archaic, fit only for the very highly placed, the kings or the kingly, and where this admission is not made in so many words it is most often implied.

I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were. On the face of it this ought to be obvious in the light of modern psychiatry, which bases its analysis upon classific formulations, such as Oedipus and Orestes complexes, for instances, which were enacted by royal beings, but which apply to everyone in similar emotional situations.

More simply, when the question of tragedy in art is not at issue, we never hesitate to attribute to the well-placed and the exalted the very same mental processes as the lowly. And finally, if the exaltation of tragic action were truly a property of the high-bred character alone, it is inconceivable that the mass of mankind should cherish tragedy above all other forms, let alone be capable of understanding it.

As a general rule, to which there may be exceptions unknown to me, I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing-his sense of personal dignity. From Orestes to Hamlet, Medea to Macbeth, the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his “rightful” position in his society.

Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks t attain it for the first time, but the fateful wound from which the inevitable events spiral is the wound of indignity and its dominant force is indignation. Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man’s total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.

In the sense of having been initiated by the hero himself, the tale always reveals what has been called his “tragic flaw,” a failing that is not peculiar to grand or elevated characters. Nor is it necessarily a weakness. The flaw, or crack in the characters, is really nothing-and need be nothing, but his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in the face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity, his image of his rightful status. Only the passive, only those who accept their lot without active retaliation, are “flawless.” Most of us are in that category.

But there are among us today, as there always have been, those who act against the scheme of things that degrades them, and in the process of action everything we have accepted out of fear of insensitivity or ignorance is shaken before us and examined, and from this total onslaught by an individual against the seemingly stable cosmos surrounding us-from this total examination of the “unchangeable” environment-comes the terror and the fear that is classically associated with tragedy. More important, from this total questioning of what has previously been unquestioned, we learn. And such a process is not beyond the common man. In revolutions around the world, these past thirty years, he has demonstrated again and again this inner dynamic of all tragedy.

Insistence upon the rank of the tragic hero, or the so-called nobility of his character, is really but a clinging to the outward forms of tragedy. If rank or nobility of character was indispensable, then it would follow that the problems of those with rank were the particular problems of tragedy. But surely the right of one monarch to capture the domain from another no longer raises our passions, nor are our concepts of justice what they were to the mind of an Elizabethan king.

The quality in such plays that does shake us, however, derives from the underlying fear of being displaced, the disaster inherent in being torn away from our chosen image of what and who we are in this world. Among us today this fear is strong, and perhaps stronger, than it ever was. In fact, it is the common man who knows this fear best.

Now, if it is true that tragedy is the consequence of a man’s total compulsion to evaluate himself justly, his destruction in the attempt posits a wrong or an evil in his environment. And this is precisely the morality of tragedy and its lesson. The discovery of the moral law, which is what the enlightenment of tragedy consists of, is not the discovery of some abstract or metaphysical quantity.

The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize itself. The wrong is the condition which suppresses man, perverts the flowing out of his love and creative instinct. Tragedy enlightens-and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man’s freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies. In no way is the common man debarred from such thoughts or such actions.

Seen in this light, our lack of tragedy may be partially accounted for by the turn which modern literature has taken toward the purely psychiatric view of life, or the purely sociological. If all our miseries, our indignities, are born and bred within our minds, then all action, let alone the heroic action, is obviously impossible.

And if society alone is responsible for the cramping of our lives, then the protagonist must needs be so pure and faultless as to force us to deny his validity as a character. From neither of these views can tragedy derive, simply because neither represents a balanced concept of life. Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

No tragedy can therefore come about when its author fears to question absolutely everything, when he regards any institution, habit or custom as being either everlasting, immutable or inevitable. In the tragic view the need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star, and whatever it is that hedges his nature and lowers it is ripe for attack and examination. Which is not to say that tragedy must preach revolution.

The Greeks could probe the very heavenly origin of their ways and return to confirm the rightness of laws. And Job could face God in anger, demanding his right and end in submission. But for a moment everything is in suspension, nothing is accepted, and in this sketching and tearing apart of the cosmos, in the very action of so doing, the character gains “size,” the tragic stature which is spuriously attached to the royal or the high born in our minds. The commonest of men may take on that stature to the extent of his willingness to throw all he has into the contest, the battle to secure his rightful place in the world.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism. Even the dictionary says nothing more about the word than that it means a story with a sad or unhappy ending. This impression is so firmly fixed that I almost hesitate to claim that in truth tragedy implies more optimism in its author than does comedy, and that its final result ought to be the reinforcement of the onlooker’s brightest opinions of the human animal.

For, if it is true to say that in essence the tragic hero is intent upon claiming his whole due as a personality, and if this struggle must be total and without reservation, then it automatically demonstrates the indestructible will of man to achieve his humanity.

The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy. Where pathos rules, where pathos is finally derived, a character has fought a battle he could not possibly have won. The pathetic is achieved when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity, or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force.

Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

It is time, I think, that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/specials/miller-common.html

 

 

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The real agenda behind climate change

Here it is in the words of UN and UN IPCC executives:

What’s the real agenda behind climate change alarmism?

 

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