Author: VD

Avanti Azzuri

That was big. Italy was much better than the world #1 Belgians, although a stupid and totally unnecessary foul gave Belgium the penalty that let them keep it close. I thought the Italians were the best in the group stage, and I don’t see any of the teams that are left beating them now.

Speaking of penalties, the Swiss did a fantastic job of playing catenaccio for 45 minutes to take the game to penalties after a dubious red card took them down to 10 men against Spain. But they promptly choked, missing three in a row to go out in an unexpectedly respectable performance against a better Spanish team.

A century of Communist rule

Xi Jinping’s speech on the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party:

The Chinese nation is a great nation. With a history of more than 5,000 years, China has made indelible contributions to the progress of human civilization. After the Opium War of 1840, however, China was gradually reduced to a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society and suffered greater ravages than ever before. The country endured intense humiliation, the people were subjected to great pain, and the Chinese civilization was plunged into darkness. Since that time, national rejuvenation has been the greatest dream of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.

To save the nation from peril, the Chinese people put up a courageous fight. As noble-minded patriots sought to pull the nation together, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Reform Movement of 1898, the Yihetuan Movement, and the Revolution of 1911 rose one after the other, and a variety of plans were devised to ensure national survival, but all of these ended in failure. China was in urgent need of new ideas to lead the movement to save the nation and a new organization to rally revolutionary forces.

With the salvoes of Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, Marxism-Leninism was brought to China. Then in 1921, as the Chinese people and the Chinese nation were undergoing a great awakening and Marxism-Leninism was becoming closely integrated with the Chinese workers’ movement, the Communist Party of China was born. The founding of a communist party in China was an epoch-making event, which profoundly changed the course of Chinese history in modern times, transformed the future of the Chinese people and nation, and altered the landscape of world development.

Since the very day of its founding, the Party has made seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation its aspiration and mission. All the struggle, sacrifice, and creation through which the Party has united and led the Chinese people over the past hundred years has been tied together by one ultimate theme-bringing about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

To realize national rejuvenation, the Party united and led the Chinese people in fighting bloody battles with unyielding determination, achieving great success in the new-democratic revolution.

Through the Northern Expedition, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, we fought armed counter-revolution with armed revolution, toppling the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism and establishing the People’s Republic of China, which made the people masters of the country. We thus secured our nation’s independence and liberated our people.

The victory of the new-democratic revolution put an end to China’s history as a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society, to the state of total disunity that existed in old China, and to all the unequal treaties imposed on our country by foreign powers and all the privileges that imperialist powers enjoyed in China. It created the fundamental social conditions for realizing national rejuvenation.

Through tenacious struggle, the Party and the Chinese people showed the world that the Chinese people had stood up, and that the time in which the Chinese nation could be bullied and abused by others was gone forever.

Never forget that the adjective modifies the noun. The operative word in the phrase “Chinese Communist” is “Chinese”. If one compares the original Communist Manifesto with the Three Represents and the 14 Points of the Xi Jinping Thought, it soon becomes clear that China is considerably less genuinely communist in the original Marxian sense than the United States is now. This makes sense, contra the mainstream narrative, because the US is presently ruled by the intellectual heirs of Leon Trotsky.

Furthermore, it should be noted that the literal translation of “Communist Party” into Western political terms is United Production Party. The correct emphasis is upon the Chinese concepts that underlie the translation, not the nineteenth-century label for a failed economic philosophy, especially given the fact that China was not an advanced capitalist society facing a crisis of capitalism. 

Both Putin and Xi have made it clear that the post-Cold War period of the USA as the one global superpower are over. Russia survived the financial occupation that followed its defeat and China won its unrestricted war with the US empire by avoiding the military conflict that would have ensured its defeat.

But empires seldom fall easily, which is why these are perilous times.

Build your own platforms

 It doesn’t only apply to technology. And furthermore, always keep out the SJWs and Karens:

In 2001, I was asked to coach the first 8-year-old all-star baseball team. My wife was concerned it would take up every weekend of the short summer we have in Massachusetts and she was dead against it. I declined but told the league if my son made the team I’d gladly help out…

The coach who accepted the position chose his team without having a tryout. I didn’t care that my son didn’t make it, but other coaches and parents demanded a formal tryout. I was asked to help out at the tryout so I put on the catcher’s gear and got behind the plate during batting. I also hit outfield later in the day.

The kids and their parents were told they’d receive calls in a couple of days… We got a call and my son didn’t make the All-Star team. In fact, other than two additional players, it was the same team the coach had already chosen prior to the tryouts. The tryout was simply a formality…

My son took it hard as did a lot of his friends, they wanted to play summer baseball. My son asked me why we played in the spring when it always rained and not in the summer when the weather was nicer and the Red Sox were playing. I told him that next year I’d start a summer baseball league so all kids could play summer baseball, not just the All-Stars…

My son wanted to go to the first game to watch his friends play and as much as I didn’t, I said okay. We watched as both teams made a dozen errors each and every kid either struck out or walked, there might’ve been two hits the entire game. At 8-years old there was very little difference between the kids who made the All-Star team and those who tried out and didn’t…

The next spring I spoke with the Director of Parks & Rec about my idea to start a summer league and she wanted me to pitch it to the Recreation Commission at their next meeting. At the meeting, I told the members about the need to start a summer baseball league so non-all-stars could play baseball through the summer and improve their skills. I told them how much I had enjoyed putting my glove over the handlebars of my bicycle when I was a kid, heading to the local playground, and playing baseball all day with my friends. I went on that these experiences weren’t available to our kids and that the league would be dedicated to recreating that sandlot experience where they would have fun without all the pressure put on them in other leagues… They liked the idea and were willing to support my league and make it a Park & Rec summer program, naming me as the director of summer baseball. They asked me to become a member of the Rec Commission, but my plate was full and I’m not big on board meetings, and so I declined their offer.

We advertised the new league in the local newspaper and I went to the equipment manager of the regular league and asked him if I could borrow four equipment bags for the summer. There were more than 50 not being used just sitting in the equipment room at the little league complex. He said he’d have to ask the league president. I called him back a few days later and he said it was going to be discussed at a “special meeting”…

I called a week later expecting the answer to be yes and why not, these were the same kids who paid to play in their league during the spring. They declined and said they unanimously decided not to lend me any equipment for my summer league…

Read the whole four-part article by initially clicking on Read Part One Here. This man did a really good thing, creating a summer baseball league for all the boys who weren’t permitted to join one of the official recreation league teams. It was a smashing success. However, he made a crucial mistake in not keeping entirely clear of the local Park & Recs bureaucracy, and ended up seeing the whole thing collapse while being publicly accused of criminal misconduct.

Never forget this: each and every and any success will attract parasites. So don’t accept any help, assistance, or investment from problematic people and organizations. The moment his request to use four equipment bags was rejected, he should have known that these were people of whom to steer well clear.

Also, if offered organizational power, take it. You can always resign later. One of my minor corporate missteps was rejecting a seat on the board of a public game publisher – you’d know the name – because what they really needed most urgently at the time was my design skills. But if I’d accepted the board position offered instead of successfully suggesting the alternative of a design contract, I would have outranked the lead producer, who then wouldn’t have been able to prevent me from implementing what needed to be done on the design side.

All ur info are belong to us

A privacy breach at LinkedIn illustrates why it’s simply not a very good idea to utilize mainstream social media for any reason:

Recent reports claim that a second data breach at Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has exposed the personal data of 700 million users, which is more than 92 percent of the platform’s total 756 million users.

9to5Mac reports that a second LinkedIn data breach has reportedly exposed the data of 700 million users and the database is currently for sale on the dark web. The user information reportedly includes phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation data, and inferred salaries.

The hacker who obtained the data posted a sample of 1 million records and checks confirm that the data is both genuine and up-to-date. 

I deleted my LinkedIn and Facebook accounts more than two years ago and I can honestly say it has not had any negative impact on my life whatsoever. 

Breaking the Boomer pattern

“As if you would have done anything differently,” the Boomer sneers at the younger generations. Actually, that’s exactly what we’re doing.

The portion of U.S. children who live with both parents exceeded 70{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} in 2020, reversing a nearly 30-year-long trend, data shows. 70.4{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} of children under 18 live in two-parent households, and 63{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} of minors reside with both birth parents, according to the Current Population Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, Institute for Family Studies (ISF) reported.

“[T]he proportion of children under 18 living with two parents declined from 88{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} in 1960 to just over two-thirds in 2005” while “the proportion living with divorced, separated or never-married single parents tripled from 9{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} to 28{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6}” over the same period, according to ISF.

A reversal in this downward trend started in 2006, improving from 67.3{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} to 70.4{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} by 2020, the data indicates. In 2020, the number of children living with a single parent reportedly fell to 25.5{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6}, marking a 25-year-low.

These numbers are particularly remarkable due to the way in which racial demographics have also changed; I anticipate that the percentage of white U.S. children living with both birth parents is even higher.

Get married. Have children. Stay married. Raise your children together. Build an inheritance for them and plant trees for their children to enjoy. That’s the post-Boomer way. That’s the eucivilizational way.

I suspect that the difference lies chiefly in the Baby Boomer belief that the grass is always greener. We know it isn’t.

Silenced by self-darwining

Further proof that a) MPAI and b) the pseudo-vaccines are a Darwin test:

Jason Bryan Maurer, a 45-year-old Ohio bartender, died. He had his first dose of Moderna mRNA on April 2nd at the Giant Eagle Pharmacy in Tallmadge, Ohio. He expected some adverse effects because “Dr. Fauci said yeah, the first shot is harsh.” He appeared to have experienced no difficulties until his second shot on April 30th.
On May 3, 2021, he compared COVID-19 to AIDS and chastised people who believed the vaccine was pushed too quickly without adequate testing, ordering them to “shut the hell up and get your Covid vaccine!”
On May 18th, he announced that he had signed up for the Ohio Lottery for anyone who had received a COVID-19 vaccine shot. To mark “Pride Month,” he updated his profile photo on June 1st, just four days before his death.
He’d posted an image a few days before that appeared to mock The Bible, with the caption, “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (Luke 8:32)
Jason Bryan Maurer’s number for COVID-19 injections did not appear in the Ohio Lottery, however a different number appeared on June 5. It was the last day of his life on the earth.

I suspect that one reason for the sudden shift in the narrative and the reduction in talk about the need for boosters is because the evidence of the adverse effects is piling up considerably faster than anticipated. 

They will sink the ships

Russian President Vladimir Putin is clearly ready to call NATO’s bluff:

Speaking at his annual ‘Direct Line’ call-in show, Putin revealed that a US strategic airplane took off from an airfield on the island of Crete and flew towards Russia on the morning before HMS Defender entered Russian waters.

However, despite the provocation, the two NATO members do not want a conflict, and it is not true to say that the world is now standing on the brink of a world war, he said.

“Even if we had sunk that ship, it would still be hard to imagine that the world would be on the brink of World War III,” the president said. “Because those who are doing this know that they can’t get out of this war victorious. That’s a very important thing.”

The president also pondered the exact reasons for the British provocation, noting that matters discussed at his recent summit with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, in Geneva might offer an explanation.

“Why was it necessary to make such a provocation? For what?” he asked. “To show that they have no respect for the choice of the Crimeans to join Russia?”

The danger is that the neocons who are slavering for war with Russia, Iran, and Syria don’t care at all if the USA can win the war or not. They’ll happily fight the Russians to the very last drop of European blood and they’re dumb enough to try to bluff while holding a pair of fours.