We took a family trip to Spain and Portugal over the Christmas and New Year holidays for two weeks.
This was my first extended stay in Spain since 1997 when I spent a semester as an exchange student at the IESE school in Barcelona.
It’s good to be back at the desk at home. My original plan was to write about the China US competition in artificial intelligence as the first essay for 2026 – a subject I have done quite some research.
But the Iberian trip is still fresh in my mind, so I thought to put down the experience first and finish the AI piece later this month around the anniversary of DeepSeek’s launch last January.
We started the trip in Barcelona, then drove to Valencia, Granada, Sevilla, Lisbon, and Madrid and back to Barcelona.
It was a long drive over 3,000 kilometers but an enjoyable one as we got to see many places too time consuming to reach on public transport.
The weather was dreary with most days drizzling or overcast. The sun broke out on a couple of days, which was transformative to the landscape.
Iberia under the sun is just lovely.
Barcelona is nearly the same as in 1997. Looking down from Parc Guell, the cityscape is almost identical to the photos I took back then.
(Barcelona 1997)
(studying at IESE)
(looking out to the Barcelona beachfront from W hotel today)
The Torre Mapfre and the Hotel Arts, built for the 1992 Olympics, remained the sole two skyscrapers next to the Port Olympic Marina.
Together with the W hotel, the Barcelona waterfront is dominated by the same three tall buildings for over 30 years.
In comparison, more than 3 or 4 dozen skyscrapers have been built near the Bund waterfront in Shanghai since the turn of the century, especially in Pudong where there were only rice fields 30 years ago.
Still Barcelona is filled with architectural gems like Gaudi’s Casa Batllo, Palau Guell, the Gran Teatre de Liceu opera house, as well as Barcelona Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia.
After nearly 30 years, much progress has been made in the construction of the Sagrada Familia which is now the world’s tallest church and hopefully will be completed in 2026.
I was very happy to see it one more time before the construction finishes.
(Sagrada Familiar being finished)
(Sagrada Familiar inside look)
On the Christmas Eve, we visited the Barcelona Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia. Both are awe-inspiring structures with rich religious dedications. They are pure visual feasts.
However, the atmosphere in the churches was not particularly religious. Most visitors seemed to be tourists like us, taking photos, and few pious worshippers were present.
Secularization seems to have won. Europe now lives in a post-religion era, but I wonder what the replacement is since Christianity has been the source of morality and values for the West.
Emmanuel Todd, the French demographer and philosopher, wrote in his book The Defeat of the West (La Défaite de l’Occident), that the loss of religion is a driver of western civilizational decline.
The loss has contributed to ideological rigidity, loss of rational discourse, and the erosion of egalitarian values.
Todd argued Christianity has been a historical enabler of western modernity. Catholicism and Protestantism, in particular, played a crucial role in shaping individualism, egalitarianism, education and civic consciousness in Europe.
Todd observes that the west has moved into a “post-religious phase”, but not into rational humanism – rather into a kind of “ideological fundamentalism” (what he calls “neo-puritanism” or “woke ideology”).
In contrast, Todd sees Orthodox Christian societies such as Russia as preserving a more stable mix of tradition and modernity—unlike the West’s self-destructive ideological spirals.
January 7th was the date for Orthodox Christmas. I wonder what the Orthodox churches are like around that time.
Maybe a future Christmas trip to Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Aside from musings about religion, I did find the entry ticket price has risen quite a bit since 1997, when Sagrada Familia ticket cost 300 pesetas (less than 2 Euros). Today the price is 35 Euros.
Same is true with other public goods like parking, which generally cost 4-5 Euros per hour in most of the cities we visited. Overnight parking usually cost 20 Euros or more.
(Cascada Monumental)
On Christmas day, we started off from Arc de Triomf and walked to the grand Cascada Monumental in Parc de la Ciutadella, a beautiful fountain inspired by Rome’s Trevi.
I was surprised to find a couple of homeless people sleeping under the golden statue of Aurora in the chilly winter morning.
To me, one key difference from the Spain of 1997 is the visible increase of immigrants in the country, many from war-torn Middle Eastern or North African states.
Nearly half of the service staff we encountered during the trip were immigrants.
One experience stood out. We stayed in the Alarcon area in Madrid and went to dinner in a Thai restaurant near the hotel. The server was a Filipino named Jorge who openly told us he was working as an illegal immigrant, for a Chinese boss – which is amusing.
Jorge praised Spain for its very generous pro-immigrant policies, saying he has full rights as any legal residents and will get residency in 2 years as a subject from a former Spanish colony.
From Barcelona, we drove to Valencia and started the trips onwards to Granada, Sevilla, Lisbon and Madrid before returning to Barcelona.
The roads in Spain are excellent. Our drives throughout the trip were smooth and uneventful. The main infrastructure gap is mobile service.
(on the road to Lisbon)
Mobile signal was surprisingly weak in Montjuic, a high point in central Barcelona, adjacent to the marina and port.
We also didn’t get much signal on the drive from Sevilla to Lisbon. Even signals at Barcelona El Prat airport were very bad.
On my road trip to Tibet last June, the horse handler for my daughter was watching video streaming in the middle of a deep valley with perfect 5G signal. The contrast was stark.
The best stop on the trip was Sevilla, where we stayed a couple of nights. The city is the most Spanish and the most charming in all of Spain, in my view.
(Columbus coffin carried on the shoulders for 4 Spanish kingdoms)
(the Retablo Mayor)
(Real Alcazar – the water garden in Game of Throne)
We visited the Cathedral de Sevilla, the world’s largest Catholic church where Columbus was interred (in fact, his tomb is suspended in mid air on the shoulders of the four ancient Spanish kingdoms since allegedly he didn’t want to be buried in Spanish soil).
The Retablo Mayor (Golden Altar) in the cathedral is the world’s largest Gothic altarpiece, a colossal, intricately carved wooden structure covered in gold leaf, mainly looted from the New World.
It was a splendid wonder and a reminder of the wealth stolen through colonialism. Don Trump of the present day mafioso regime called the US government would probably be inspired.
We spent a sunny afternoon at the Real Alcazar, an active palace still used by the Spanish royal family and where the kingdom of Dorne and the Water Garden was filmed for HBO’S Game of Throne.
It is probably one of the coziest and most beautifully landscaped palaces in the world.
We had the best paella in Sevilla (though Valencia lays the claim to being the home of paella) and thoroughly enjoyed the Flamenco show at the Casa de la Memoria, located in a historical palace.
(Flamenco at Casa de la Memoria)
The lead cantaore (singer) was truly the emotional core of the show – even more impressive than the dancing.
One hour passed quickly. We topped up the Flamenco show with some delicious local churro.
In Sevilla, we stayed at the home of Victor and Tina, two pensioners in their 70s who rent out their 2-bedroom apartment in centro historico Santa Cruz area near the Cathedral de Sevilla.
They spoke little English but were delightfully warm and charming, going to great length to introduce their city and its main attractions.
I did a little math on the income from the apartment rental. The price is 250 Euros a night in the low winter season on booking.com. Presumably it could rent out for double the price in the summer. The apartment is nearly always booked.
So conservatively the annual rental income amounts to at least 80-90,000 Euros a year, which is equivalent to 3 or 4 average pre-tax salaries in Sevilla (23,000 to 30,000 Euros according to Gemini).
For pensioners like Victor and Tina, this is a small fortune. Besides a healthy rental revenue, they double dip through ever increasing asset value.
Tourism is a major income source in Europe’s sun belt. The overtourism issue is driven both by demand and supply.
Who doesn’t want an “oversupply” of affordable accommodations in the destinations like Sevilla? But European zoning laws and building codes will see to it there will be a perpetual under supply, thus guaranteeing high rents and escalating property prices.
We had a minor traffic incident in Sevilla on our first day. A Glovo delivery biker crushed into my car as I was merging into the main traffic from a side road in the Old Town. He was running a red light and his bike brake failed.
I was concerned whether he bruised himself or fractured a bone, but the biker was more concerned about whether he was liable for the damage to the car, which was minimal. Obviously he was not insured.
I told him not to worry as I bought full insurance to cover any damages, but he was afraid the insurer might lay claim on him.
Onlookers at a nearby restaurant called the police and two officers showed up shortly – we were in the tourist-heavy central area after all.
The officers were exceptionally professional and courteous. They tried to look after both sides of the accident, making sure no unnecessary paperwork and delays to either.
I walked away from the incident with very high regards for the police officers.
I have never had traffic incidents in a foreign country except a couple of parking fines but certainly have heard horror stories.
Back when I was working at eBay, I had a colleague, Sandeep, who ran PayPal Asia (when eBay still owned PayPal). Sandeep was originally from India and moved to the US for college and work.
Some local guy rammed his rickshaw into the car Sandeep was driving on a business trip in Mumbai. According to Sandeep, it was done on purpose.
A group of locals surrounded him and demanded outrageous compensation, essentially a ransom. When Sandeep refused, he was taken into custody by local police who were probably colluding with the scammers.
Sandeep ended up spending a night in a Mumbai jail and was bailed out by other PayPal colleagues the next day after paying thousands to settle.
Sandeep vowed never to set foot on his home country.
In comparison, my little run-in with the Spanish police was painless and even pleasant as the officers made small talks inquiring about my travel plans and shared tips about Sevilla.
The only scammers I have encountered have been the car rental companies.
Last April in Glasgow, the Europcar at the airport claimed they didn’t have the vehicle class I booked (a MG SUV) and gave me a larger Mercedes instead, for an extra 2000 pounds.
Only after I threatened to call their head office, the site manager agreed to lower the extra payment to 500 pounds supplementary insurance purchase.
This time, the Alamo at the Barcelona central station also claimed the SUV I booked was not available due to delayed return after I waited for an hour.
This time, they asked me to trade down to a compact Audi A3 since this was “the only car” they had. As of now, I still haven’t heard back on the partial refund they promised to compensate for the downgrade. I don’t expect to get it.
The experience with the rentals is interesting, as it sheds light on late-stage capitalism where gig worker is deathly worried about a possible insurance claim while large corporations do everything to scam their own customers.
Apart from the city visits, I had two interesting conversations on the trip – one with David in Valencia who is a Substack subscriber; the other with Paulo who worked at the Lisbon apartment hotel we stayed.
David reached out when he learned I was traveling to Spain and we met in Valencia. David was an American but has lived many decades in Europe. David hasn’t been to China but curious about the country.
We chatted about my experiences living in China and in Europe/US. David shared my views about the decline of the US and the broader West but was concerned that the US may still lash out in an attempt to reverse the fall.
It turned out David was prescient as Trump indeed launched a totally lawless attack on Venezuela and abducted the Maduros just days after our conversation.
While I share David’s concerns, I am more confident that Trump would be more rational when it comes to a confrontation with China, since the US simply doesn’t have the hard military or economic strength to push it around.
The Office of Net Assessment, a highly authoritative internal Pentagon think tank, recently prepared a report titled “Overmatch Brief” that warned the US could lose a conflict over Taiwan in a devastating fashion if it chooses to intervene in a Chinese military operation.
The report pointed out China possesses a large quantity of “cheap but technologically advanced” weaponry that can overwhelm the most critical US naval assets in the opening hours of a conflict.
The same conclusion is reached in numerous wargames and simulations.
Similar analysis was done by the US Navy Institute in its recent report titled the American Sea Power Project 2026 US-China Scenario.
In addition to losing a war near China’s peripheral, the USNI report warned potential large-scale devastation of the US homeland in a protracted war with China.
In my view, Trump was the stereotype schoolyard bully. He picks on the weak.
He knows China and Russia are unlikely to forcefully intervene in the western hemisphere as it is beyond their power projection capability and outside of their core interests.
Therefore he could do what he wants in the old imperialist fashion. But he doesn’t have the balls to get into the ring with either China or Russia.
Trump’s logic is identical to a mafia don running a protection racket – for the weak and small, you either pay up (i.e. be a US puppet) or he will break your legs.
Unfortunately, it is “might makes right” in the jungle we call “the international order”.
To the poor people of the western hemisphere, including Greenland, their tragedy is “so far from God, and so close to the United States”.
Mexico President Porfirio Diaz said that in the late 19th century. It is still true today. It’s only getting more naked since Trump doesn’t even want a fig leaf.
(Tram 28 in Alfama)
The conversation with Paulo in Lisbon was unplanned. In fact, the encounter was so unexpected and surreal that it felt fictional.
But it actually happened. Paulo was his real name, though I didn’t get his surname. He worked at the Lisbon Serviced Apartments at Liberdade, which is listed on Booking.com.
We had a late check-in after a long drive from Sevilla. Paulo helped with the registration.
When he saw my passport, he first expressed curiosity (I assume not many Chinese had stayed in the property) and then voiced his displeasure with the Chinese government.
This was quite unusual as most people, especially in the service sector, don’t usually bring up a contentious political subject without context.
I suspect Paulo was the type who are welling-meaning and feel sincerely sympathetic to people they perceive to be living under “tyranny”. He probably even expected me to echo his feelings.
He was also clueless, like the rest of the type.
As it was late and Paulo was manning the office alone, I decided to sit down and chat, just to set the record straight. We ended up talking for over 30 minutes.
Paulo had several questions, or problems, with Beijing. He started with Tiananmen. He heard about the 1989 “massacre”.
I told him I was there in Beijing that year as a college freshman. Unlike what Paulo was told, things went down very differently from the western narrative – it was a small group of agitators hiding among the protesting students who started to attack the soldiers imposing curfew.
These attacks triggered the bloodshed, which did happen but at a much smaller scale than told by western propaganda.
Of course, Paulo didn’t know any of this. Then I told him what really mattered was how China has changed for the better after 1989.
Rather than becoming another failed state as the many victims of “color revolutions”, China went on to become the most dominant industrial power in history.
The country lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and created the world’s largest middle class (some 400 million strong). It is also home to the second most number of billionaires today.
Paulo’s eyes almost popped out when I told him thanks to the Chinese economic miracle, I was able to retire 8 years ago at the age of 46 and I paid personal income tax in my last year of work that was enough to buy 4 or 5 downtown Lisbon apartments.
Where else can people see an income growth of almost 10,000 times in 25 years such in my case (from 93 to 2018)?
Put it in context, my parents, who were rocket scientists (literally), made about $20 each per month when they sent me to college in 1989.
Paulo was sold on China’s economic development, but he pointed out, triumphantly, China is a one-party state and lacks democracy.
He took a lot of pride to inform me there were 14 candidates in the upcoming Portuguese election.
However, when I asked him to name a few candidates and what policy platforms they run on, Paulo stumbled and failed to give any details.
It seems to him that the more candidates in an electoral procedure, the more democratic the country must be, and the better governance you will get.
An analogy would be a consumer must feel more empowered if there are more breakfast cereal selections on the supermarket shelf.
But somehow, Paulo forgets to ask: what is the difference between them? Does cereal become more nutritious simply because there are more flavors? Does a high number of electoral candidates translate into better governance?
Putting aside an electoral system must demand informed and involved citizens, which Paulo barely qualifies for, the actual track record of European governments in the last few decades is hardly a resounding endorsement of the success of the system, or even the legitimacy of such a system.
On the other hand, Paulo had no idea that the top Chinese leaders were selected through a rigorous meritocratic system based on their decades-long performance and results delivered.
You won’t get an incompetent clown like Trump or BoJo in the Chinese system. Or a US puppet like Mertz or von der Leyen – sorry, I forgot for a moment that von der Leyen wasn’t even elected.
Talking about European politics, Paulo vehemently disliked Le Penn or the AfD. When I asked why they don’t have freedom of speech since France and Germany are “democracies”, Paulo put his foot down – far-right nationalistic ideas that he didn’t like should not have a platform.
I guess this is par for the course for most Europeans brainwashed by woke neoliberals. Since it concerns me not a bit, I let him have that one.
Paulo also raised the issue of Taiwan, equating China’s quest for reunification with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It was almost comical when I informed him Taiwan is not an independent country and even his own government in Lisbon upholds the One China policy – Paulo clearly didn’t know that.
Paulo still insisted on Taiwan’s right to choose their own independence and allegiance. When I asked whether he supported the same for the people in Crimea or Donbass, he didn’t come up with an answer.
I further asked him whether he knew and supported Abraham Lincoln, which he answered in affirmative. I told him Lincoln waged a bloody civil war to prevent the Confederate to break away from the Union. The South wasn’t given a choice, were they?
In wrapping up, I suggested Paulo to do some homework to understand the media and political environment he lives in. As well as the real history of the West.
For a starter, he could read about Operation Mockingbird and Operation Gladio, two covert intelligence operations that have been long exposed and even have their own entries in Wikipedia.
Hopefully, it will help Paulo to understand how western intelligence has waged psyops on their own population and how NATO used false flag terrorism to prevent Italian Communists from winning elections.
Hopefully, those well-documented episodes in western contemporary history could enlighten him about the nature of his beloved “democracies”.
When I stood to leave, Paulo asked if I am a Communist Party member, I told him I’m not. But I fully support the Chinese government. For a simple reason – the Communist Party has delivered far more than it has failed me.
I think in simple terms, not abstract philosophical ones. A good governance system should be judged on what it delivers, not what it promises. Same standard for your employer or your spouse.
In China, I can say what I want and travel and live where I want. I can call 12345 to complain if there is an issue in my city.
The mobile network works and the trains are always on time. I never feel unsafe anywhere in the country at any hours.
And there is no homeless sleeping in the streets.
My own lived experience is the testament of Beijing’s governance model and economic system.
We parted on pleasant terms. I offered to show him around if he ever visits China. He had my email from the registration.
Paulo is just another kindly soul who has been so thoroughly brainwashed by the toxic western propaganda machine that you have to feel sorry for him.
He is merely one of many millions. George Orwell was prophetic – about the West.
The conversation with Paulo reminds me of Douglas Murray’s 2017 book The Strange Death of Europe.
Murray described Europe is like a person committing suicide for fear of death. Europe has lost most of its hard power (economic and military); it lacks civilizational confidence and now lives in a politically correct pretence of moral superiority.
Murray’s description of European hypocrisy is fully validated when it supported Israel’s genocide (particularly Germany) and failed to condemn Trump’s illegal kidnapping of the head of state of a sovereign country.
Europe’s call for “restraint” after Maduro’s abduction is pathetic and downright laughable, especially in contrast to its verbal outrage regarding the “Russian invasion of Ukraine”.
Holier than thou Europe kowtows to a thug which it calls “daddy”. It also has to pay, through its nose, for the privilege in the form of inflated energy and arms purchases.
European elites have nothing to offer to its own citizens except some cheap, empty and dishonest slogans about human rights and democracy.
(Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delight)
Our last stop was in Madrid for the museums – Reiner Sophia and Prado.
I stood mesmerized in front of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delight, just like the first time I saw the painting in 1997. It is my favorite painting.
Bosch’s triptych depiction of man’s descent from heaven (left panel) to the garden of the earthly delight/sin (central panel) to hell (right panel) makes one wonder the fate of human civilization.
Are we in the metaphorical garden now? Steeped in desire, vanity, and ultimately sin, where are we going?
Spain and many parts of Europe remain beautiful destinations and cultural meccas. But the term “fallen noble” seems bespoke to today’s Europe.
That’s what happens when you run a light. The failing brake story is just that… a story. As far as the criminal enterprise that masquerades as the rental car industry. They’re crooks through and through.
Who knew that China was such a perfect country. They can do no wrong. Right? What a hilarious bit of propaganda.
Chinese government interference in Canada consists of espionage, compromise of politicians and government officials, election interference, transnational repression, and control of individuals and companies with ties to the government of the People’s Republic of China or Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_government_interference_in_Canada
He calls it “neo-puritanism” and “woke”? Huh.
I call it Marxist-Zionism.
His term obviously implies provincial schizophrenia/bipolarity. My term implies global schizophrenia/bipolarity.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Thanks, jews.
Voltaire on the Jews
http://www.judeofascism.com/2011/03/voltaire-on-jews.html
How do you know the gold was looted? 🤔
Strawman alert. Chinese are definitely not saying China is a perfect country. You bring up a fake claim in order to attack it, which is the dishonest Strawman tactic.
Since the Author says he started his freshman year in 1989 in Peking, that means that he was actually not a witness to the protests. Same as “Paulo”. And yet he pretended in this innocent conversation to be an eye witness. Interesting …
It is the little things like this that help separate honest people from propagandists.
Trump (and the neocons who have been using Epstein to enforce his obedience) are effectively saying, “Yes, we just committed a major crime. But what will you do about it?”
Emperor Caligula said much the same thing: Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us so long as they fear us. Where is the Roman Empire now?
The Empire survived for centuries after Caligula’s arrogant remark, and the modern Neocons are probably hoping that the US Empire lasts as long. But things move overwhelmingly faster these days, when a message can go instantly around the world. Trump’s complete destruction of the US’s moral standing — if Biden’s Gaza genocide hasn’t done it already — will prove fatal to the US Empire.
Instead you get an incompetent like XIt stain. A middle educated fool who was granted a university degree after “participating” in Chinkland edumacation system. LOL!!!
You forgot to mention that she is AGAINST everything that America stands for. Christianity, free speech, gun ownership and of course … elections. ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Well written, thank you
“The Retablo Mayor (Golden Altar) in the cathedral is the world’s largest Gothic altarpiece, a colossal, intricately carved wooden structure covered in gold leaf, mainly looted from the New World.”
All I will say is that China accepted all that gold and silver that Spain paid them for trade goods for hundreds of years and never seemed to worry about where it came from
I generally concur with a lot of what the author says in this article about Europe and how it’s got a death wish. It seems that the relationship that Europe has had with the United States is like that of an old pederast with his young man, the old pederast provides food and safety and shelter, but in return the teenager has to bend over on a moment’s notice whenever the pederast desires it.
As far as China’s relationship with it’s people and Taiwan is concerned, it’s their business, it seems to work for them and as long as they don’t interfere in our affairs, leave them alone. If they want to buy our products and they have stuff that we want to buy, trade with them.
“You forgot to mention that she is AGAINST everything that America stands for. Christianity, free speech, gun ownership and of course … elections.”
US Christianity: With a few exceptions is not the Christianity in the Bible, it’s an Ashkenazi worshipping cult. You’re better with just about any other religion.
Free speech: Holding on tenuously.
Gun ownership: You are allowed to bring your guns out,shine them up, show them off to your friends Bubba and Bob, but if you ever think of using them for anything other than shootin’ at targets and huntin’ for possums, you’ll get a hundred “peace officers” surrounding your compound with the intention of killing you or hauling your ass off to a supermax.
How do you know that Hua did not witness the Tiananmen protest? He says he was a freshman in Beijing that year, which means that he could have been one of the students at Tiananmen Square: he could have seen the students leave the square peacefully, having done that himself. Despite the Western propaganda, the students were not massacred.
(There may have been some violence outside the Square, but from what I know the protesters initiated the fight, not the soldiers. Ron Unz wrote an article about this (link)).
You have been caught lying here (link). Now you call someone else dishonest?
I will add to that, China understands there not perfect thats why they keep building, expanding the military, fighting corruption and many other things.
Westerners who are afraid or jealous of China if smart should be happy if China figured they were perfect because China would stop improving and stagnate,
you missed a golden opportunity to get through to your clueless friend on the subject of taiwan independence, by not asking him about barcelona and catalan independence movement. the 2017 independence referendum, was brutally put down by the spanish government and their leadership jailed. it seems to me that the catalans have more of a right to independence than the taiwanese, who actually brutally repressed the indigenous people of the island, when they began their occupation. come to think of it taiwan sounds a lot like israel.
Ayup!!!
Canada can reduce US tariffs by 20% by guarding its border in order to prevent fentanyl from moving south. It has failed to do so.
So what does that mean, aside from the fact that the government of Canada is OK with Americans dying in mass quantities?
A fine fine attitude for an enemy, but not a fine fine attitude for a friend and ally.
“However, the atmosphere in the churches was not particularly religious. Most visitors seemed to be tourists like us, taking photos, and few pious worshippers were present.
In contrast, Todd sees Orthodox Christian societies such as Russia as preserving a more stable mix of tradition and modernity—unlike the West’s self-destructive ideological spirals.
January 7th was the date for Orthodox Christmas. I wonder what the Orthodox churches are like around that time.
Maybe a future Christmas trip to Moscow or St. Petersburg.”
So you decry that when you went into Spanish churches they were just full of tourists taking photos. And your solution to this is to go to Russia where you can go to churches full of real religious people so you can get better photos of actual religious people rather than other tourists. Presumably so you can show the pictures to people as evidence that you’ve had ‘real’ religious tourist experiences, unlike their interior touristy ones.
Maybe you are part of the problem?
If the ability to accumulate wealth is proportional to contribution to the society, Americans and Europeans do have a lot to thank Jews for their contribution.
The following gives a snapshot Jewish successes and wealth in various fields and provides 5 reasons for their sucesses. https://www.raeseforsenate.org/the-secret-behind-jewish-success/
I agree with all the above 5 points. Of course, Americans and Europeans also have good reason to be jealousy. Jealousy alone could explain the many of “Zs this” and “Zs that” accusations.
However, the above list of 5 is incomplete. Implication, Jews accusation could be an effort to change people’s attention?
It is obvious that the 6th point is “Western democracy” does not work as imagined. It enables Jewish political money to be super-effective. People would rather blame Jews than improve their “democratic system.”
my last sentence got me thinking about taiwan’s position on israel and being too lazy minded to find my own answers, i asked mr. google, because if you can’t trust mr. google, who can you trust? here’s what he had to say:
taiwan’s position on israel is strongly supportive, viewing israel as a fellow democracy facing threats similar to its own.
key aspects of taiwan’s stance:
*shared values*🤣, taiwan emphasizes common democratic values with israel, framing their relationship as a struggle against authoritarianism.😂
*security parallels* taipei sees parallels between israel’s conflicts and its own tensions with china, making israel’s defense model revenant.
*post oct. 7 support* taiwan strongly condemned the hamas attack and offered support for israels security, contrasting with china’s pro palestinian stance.
*deepening ties* this support has led to increased engagement, including high level secret visits, military cooperation discussions and support for israel in international forums.
*criticism and silence* taiwan has faced criticism for its support of israel and its silence on the humanitarian situation in gaza, though it prioritizes friendly nations.
taiwanese leaders view israel’s resilience as a model for their own self defense against china.🤔
now doesn’t that sound like banderstan?
I am afraid of the effects of 5G on the health.
What did you do so important that you paid personal income tax in the last year of work that was enough to buy 4 or 5 downtown Lisbon apartments?
“1. Surviving Discrimination Led to Jewish Success”
Satanic jews have always been “discriminated” against, from the time that “jealous” Moses put the golden calf jews to the sword.
“2. Christian Europe Discouraged Wealth Pursuit”
Moses discouraged wealth pursuit.
3. Banking and Finance Became Jewish Specialties
Praying to the Satanic egregore for Ponzi scheme riches/easy money has long been a demonic jewish imperative.
4. Land Ownership Restrictions Drove Jewish Innovation
The jews have long been stateless because they’re thieves, grifters and killers, always with one eye on the door. Now that they have a state, it’s Zionist HQ for these killers and criminals, which they hope to eventually make HQ for the golden calf/global fiat international Ponzi.
“5. Understanding Money Management”
Understanding the grift, the Ponzi, the flim-flam scam, the confidence game, jewish lightening, lawyering, swindling, inside jobs etc. Isn’t that what you mean?
“It is obvious that the 6th point is “Western democracy” does not work as imagined. It enables Jewish political money to be super-effective. People would rather blame Jews than improve their “democratic system.”
So the Satanic jew just did it all to improve “Western democracy”, is that it? Not out of Satanism and sin, but to improve his fellow man, as his “chosen” obligation to humanity?
The kike swindler and killer is truly a diehard stiff-neck.
Traveling around Spain I ended up ‘Cathedraled out’ in Seville, inexplicably El Grecoed out in Toledo, and Islamic decorationed out in the Alhambra. I was a little ‘Stendhaled’ in the Prado, but a few Goyas fixed things, but, all in all, next time it will be tapas and rationes and trips to the Bernabeu and the Camp Nou. Culture is so very demanding.
Yet another reason to finish the compradore regime, post haste.
Six, or seven-the Judaic doctrine of eternal hostility towards non-Jews enables the Jews, if so inclined, to parasitise goy societies without moral equivocation. See Palestine for the most extreme example.
Because apparently I do know more about China than chinese propagandists do 🙂
Academic year starts in China in the Fall.
QED
And you are exposed again, just like when you tried to claim that Guttenberg stole his idea from Chinese 🙂 Despite all the evidence that the concept of printing blocks originated in ancient Egypt and spread from there.
Veni. Vidi. Victus.
iterum 🙂
You obviously worship the world’s billionaires and think that the ability to accumulate money shows that they are some kind of godlike being. The hard truth is that while they may have street smarts in the business world, all this wealth doesn’t change the fact that they still have to eat, breathe and feel pain, they will die like the rest of us and they will be sharing the dirt with the poorest and lowest of us on the totem pole.
Fentanyl is a terrible problem in Canada also, but like the rest of the governments in the western world, politicians make a lot of money off the importation and sales of illegal drugs, so they have no incentive to seriously put a stop to the trade.
Thank you for the ‘conversation with Paulo’.
Influencers have the most success with this demographic. The Paulos of the world make up the cognitive battlespace.
Turkey is seeking to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a defense alliance intended to mirror NATO articles of mutual self-defence for members and according to Bloomberg conclusion of the deal is likely.
There has been a broader convergence of interests and this would further marry Gulf Arab capital to Turkish and Pakistani defense production. Islamabad also has a fast growing arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons
You made an excellent point HuMungus when you said:
When the Sunnis unite they will test their swords on India first because India is weak compared to both the West and China.
“The longest shot taken by Pakistan’s jets on that night was 98 nautical miles, which means India’s jets were targeted from the distance of 190km.”
Alhumdulliah
How is it a fake claim? Read the article. Your word salad doesn’t work on most people.
The replacement for ‘religion’ in the west – and eventually globally, including the Islamic world – is American style hyper turbo-capitalism of the free wheeling, free dealing type in which the ‘market’ is God and everything is monetized, commodified and for sale. A devil take the hindmost type system in which worth is measured only in dollars – everything else can be damned – and lack of clout in the market place leads to an ignominious death. Transactions, deals, salesmanship is everything. In such a world a man’s soul can truly be said to be murdered and destroyed beyond hope, that is religion has absolutely no place and no rationale. Ironically, that was always the Marxist ambition.
I dub this American turbo capitalism the ‘Pornographic’ society from the fact that the massive proliferation of internet pornography, in terms of monetization and commodification of the sexual impulse sums up American style turbo capitalism better than anything else.
Bakchod isn’t it remarkable he had the same experience as you.
The decline of Britain’s manufacturing, and now worries about the German automobile industry make an interesting contrast with China. MG now a Chinese brand, and Audi necessarily depending upon their joint Chinese venture.
Their decline is of course their own fault. I’ve owned two MGs. British Leyland models. Both fun (for a kid with a new DL), but both garbage in the QC department. When BL went south I was not unhappy. The upside of an MG was that it taught you how to work on cars, on the weekend, in your driveway. My first MG even came with a crank. This was helpful because the electrics never worked, and the small engine was easy to turn over.
My second MG, I named her Midge, didn’t come with a hand crank, but was small enough that you could push it down a slope, jump in and pop the clutch (in second gear, because first was not synched) and the thing would start. Who needed a battery? Right?
Now of course everything is computerized. The latest Audis (and most cars) can work through your cell phone. However the German car industry is hurting. In China, Audi especially is/was a prized brand, but now sales are declining as Chinese have figured out how to make cheaper luxury. I doubt the VW Group will ever go the way of BL-Rover, but without increased China sales, it’s not going to be an easy road for them. That much is certain.
Paulo is just a service worker so don’t expect much from him. He doesn’t make policy or call the shots but is just a passive consumer of what to believe. The world is full of Paulos; they’re just there to do as they’re told. The beliefs expressed by him are extremely common in the US. Discussing politics with Joe or Jane Average is an exercise in frustration. The vast majority know nothing, they are just parrots.
Feel free to hate well recognized Satanic jews or Satanic elements of whatever ethnic groups. No one would really object UNLESS the definition of “Satanic” is so board that it is kind of meaningless.
Regarding “It is obvious that the 6th point is “Western democracy” does not work as imagined. It enables Jewish political money to be super-effective.”
It is MY FAULT that you misread me.
I meant to say that “Western democracy” does not work as imagined and it was badly distorted by campaign contribution origined from rich donors, many of them are Jews. Of course, their money did not and would not improve the operation of democracy and make America as a whole better. It is the opposite. In his 1965 book, “The Logic of Collective Action,” Mancur Olson Jr. argued that concentrated minor interests will be overrepresented at the expense of average Americans. Jonathan Rauch followed his idea with his “Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government.”
Cause effect wise, the cause is still more and more expensive democratic campaigne financing which opens the door for minority interest, They then effectively alter the operations of the government per their liking.
Orthodox Easter in Belgrade St.Sava Csthedral should be on yout bucket list.
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Hua Bin needs to complain about Indians no matter the article. What a joke.
Inheritance, nepotism, in-group solidarity, not intelligence, get you somewhere.
Like typical Americans they dress like total slobs visiting a house of worship.
A nice travelogue. Roads in Spain are surprisingly good. Or they were when I travelled years ago. But my favorite part of the travel was in the Basque country.
About religion: yes, and unfortunately it’s not just Spain.
I recently visited the Strasbourg cathedral in France, a Gothic masterpiece (and to my mind more beautiful than the Sagrada Familia, which I don’t like so much — Gaudi was a genius but he died much before it was finished, he didn’t leave a plan for its completion, and some of the modern additions to the church are simply awful). But anyway — also in Strasbourg there were no locals and no one praying, just tourists taking pictures, many dressed in completely inadequate clothes.
Of course, we can blame the Vatican II for a lot of that — it basically killed the Catholic Church as a living religion.
And clearly the loss of religion and its substitution by empty secularism and materialism has made Europeans lose the will to live. After all, they are barely reproducing. Most don’t care that their cities are being run over by Africans and Pajeets running scams or pooping in the streets.
Unfortunately, AI and the techno-dystopia so admired by Hua Bin are part of the problem, and are going to make things even worse.
It seems Theodore Kaczinsky was right, after all.
Yup
“And you are exposed again, just like when you tried to claim that Guttenberg stole his idea from Chinese 🙂 Despite all the evidence that the concept of printing blocks originated in ancient Egypt and spread from there.”
There are inventions all over the world that sprung up without one civilization knowing that the other had it. The Bow and Arrow is one, it’s been used all over the world and the idea was just a basic one that many different people’s came up with. Europeans used it, American Indians used it and east Asians used it.
The wood block print is a pretty simple concept and any reasonably intelligent group could come up with it. Now intgegral calculus is a different story.
Sounds like you read me wrong. 1) The ability to accumulate money certainly do not make some humans godlike being, and 2) I don’t worship billionaires. This is why I qualify my statement connecting their wealth and their contribution to society with a big IF.
Bin, keep us posted on the CCP’s inroads into Iberia. When travelling next to Algarve, I expect to see nothing but straight black hair and mandarin everywhere. Ok? Thanks!
Depending on what you mean by “the concept of printing blocks”, many one year old could have discover that through using their fingers to make holes with their food or while playing in the sandbox. Their fingers could make patterns.
More important, having the concept and having the technique/capability are two different thing. Both Guttenberg and early Chinese printing were about books. Please tell what book or books were first printed by ancient Egyptians.
I was wondering why Hua Bin was writing about his holidays in the Iberian peninsula.
Who gives a f..k about his holidays after all?
But it is only when I flew over some lines talking about how occupied Tibet destructive 5G towers where more effective than those in some Spanish cities that i started to understand the purpose behind this eassy: Chinese government propaganda.
This is when I stopped to read.
Thank you Mr Bin, shall I tell you about my Holidays in Cambodia?
So? Hua Bin didn’t say that he was about to start his freshman year. He was almost certainly finishing his first year in Beijing when the Tiananmen incident occurred (April to June of 1989).
As I said, Hua could have been at the Square during the protests, so he had personal knowledge that the students left peacefully. Of course, a proven liar like you (link again) would support the massacre propaganda. I seriously urge everyone to read Ron Unz’s article on the subject (link).
Why did books continue to be copied by hand for thousands of years after Egypt’s so-called invention? We all know of the many, many scriptoria in the West that did the copying. Obviously, duplication by hand was preferable to using whatever Egypt was supposed to have invented. China’s printing press, which came centuries before Gutenberg was born, was clearly a major advance.
I disputed your first claim, that people are saying China is a perfect country. Your claim was clearly a dishonest Strawman.
I have no intention of discussing whatever anti-China propaganda you spewed next.
You proved your dishonesty again by deliberately using a vague “it” to confuse your two claims.
One Word: Encomienda
Of course. And it goes without any doubt that Gutenberg’s invention was one of those.
But the little chinese punk here lost his sh*t when I once wrote exactly that.
So, occasionally, I like to remind him him about it. Hope you can live with that.
“We all know of the many, many scriptoria in the West that did the copying. Obviously, duplication by hand was preferable to using whatever Egypt was supposed to have invented. China’s printing press, which came centuries before Gutenberg was born, was clearly a major advance.”
Duplication by hand was not preferable, but it did keep all information controlled by the Catholic Church. Same with church services performed in Latin. The rabble were kept in the dark and dumbed down. Similar to how we are dumbed down by Western media, having been taught to trust them and believe what they said (until now, that is).
What Gutenberg did was monumental, but I do NOT believe he would have gotten very far had the elite not wanted him to. He would have been jailed, then his head would have been severed from his body. He was successful ONLY because the powers that be wanted him to be at that particular moment in history. Do your own research on why that could be.
Similar to the fentanyl labs in Canada (China) and the outrageous money laundering (again, China) and fraud. How is it these people were not strung up? Because the elite looked the other way; it was profitable for them to do so.
Speaking of “copying”, China has done well by copying Western invention and technology. How was this allowed? Simple: the Western elites were profiting off of it. They sold their own countries and citizens out in order to gain for themselves. China would still be a backwater if they weren’t handed all the Western know-how on a silver platter.
Lack of attendance in Catholic Churches as seen by the writer over the holiday in Barcelona is a poor gauge of Europe’s decline. You say you spent a semester there. You should know that the Catalans while Catholic are not big practitioners. That distinction largely falls on The Franco regime supporters. Catalans hated Franco and attending mass was anathema to them.
Someone who knows please weigh in. Taiwan wasn’t some indigenous paradise devoid of Han Chinese when Chiang and his million or two rolled in. Plenty of southern Chinese lived there prior to.
Actually, I found this “My Holidays in Spain” essay more interesting than Hua Bin’s usual fare about how “everything in China is better”.
However, I also found curious his observation about the lack of signal coverage in country roads… Does Spain really need ugly and 5G towers all over the countryside? Is being able to watch TikTok videos even in the most remote corners of the Earth so important? Or is this about digital identity and not escaping the AI grid?
Bin also didn’t mention the railway system in Spain, since he traveled by car. High-speed rail is one of the areas in which actually China kicks everybody’s ass these days. Even the previous mighty Germany is so embarrassing today. Deutsche Bahn is chaotic with crowded trains and delays almost every day. Even Italian trains are running better these days, and they don’t even have Mussolini, LOL.
But yes, do tell about your holidays in Cambodia. 😀
‘One hour passed quickly. We topped up the Flamenco show with some delicious local churro.‘
I do hope the Unz review returns to alternative essayists at some point .
Because it went from hither to yon, snagged by people who did not mine it.
Keep in mind the only universal right recognized on earth, and all through history, is the right of conquest. Saying the gold was looted implies Spain had no “right” to it, which shows an abysmal lack of historic sentience.
Even China enjoys this right, as well it might. Tibet is just one of the treasures China either looted (Bin) or seized as its right (all human history).
I’m just sorry that the Chinese, a people I admire, have to make use of such rubbish as this Hua Bin.
Canada –you mean Canada –that little vassal flunky once led by Justin Trudeau who now is touring the world with Kary Perry? You mean Canada –running up Debt and sending Dope runners world over to earn a living?
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg sitting in a Chinese pen awaiting execution. Robert believed making dope in Dalian for shipment to Australia was OK because in Canada Schellenberg pulled the dope for sale game and was caught—but the Canadian Judge handed Robert a petty sentence with a caution–“Do not do this elsewhere–some countries apply a Death Penalty”!!
Canada today —-homeless squatters in every city with the Dope crew lying along Main Street and the Cost of Living is going UP UP UP–rent some 400 square foot pad in Tranna or Van and it is 5,000 smackers per month.
Pipeline—nonstop talk about pipeline ( Only 1) and then the other issue that there are just too many immigrants arriving into Canada and Donald Trump –Donald Trump is going to Liberate Alberta before taking Greenland.
Alberta has millions of tons of coal in the Eastern Slopes and Donald needs this removed —by Australian Coal miners–before getting the mother load of rare metals.
The 2 Michaels –Luckly Lads —spying on North Korea and all —they should be kissing the ground that they were not sent back to North Korea by China for a Final Exit.
Today in Canada–not much happening –Elon Musk is not there yet to trim the forces in the Federal Government and Tax deadline is way down to April…
Canada now —-Canada way back then years ago was great but then it collapsed—1959. Then it had small population following WWII the second largest maritime merchant marine force but today —builds nothing and seems everyone works 2 jobs to make ends meet —rent is High——
ICE vehicles only but living in a car during winters is cold and confining….
Trump’s decision to abduct Maduro was idiotic. And I’m not saying it happened because of the following, but I only hope that the decision made was the lesser of two evils. Similar to how Trump went into Iran and barely bombed their nuclear facilities, then bragged all over the Internet about it. I think that too was the lesser of two evils, perhaps preventing an even worse outcome. His doing this put a stop to the neocons going further.
Everything is about economics and maintaining Western hegemony. As Trump said, Venezuela is free to sell their oil, but it had better be in U.S. dollars and not the yuan. If the U.S. wanted oil, they could have gotten their fill from Canada. Venezuela was not only about the oil; it was about maintaining the strength of the U.S. dollar.
The City of London and the bankers rule. Trump did what every other President has done before him if they wanted to stay alive – he’s taken his orders from the bankers and the military that backs the bankers up.
To build things you need STEM and technicians.
China will have 28 Million Engineers by 2028—Science and Math—-likely the same if not more.
Created in China today——manufacturing is primarily robotic action —-ports are robots loading/unloading vessels and the container vehicles in the ship yard –no operators in the cab—going 24/7.
if we had white countries with actual white leaders as opposed to white countries that are literally flooded with non whites and ruled by others we wont name – western civilisation would be in much better shape – with or without religion.
a few token intelligent non whites here and there wouldnt make much difference – even people such as the esteemed author of the article
‘Rent is high’.
Supply and demand.
Massive subcon immigration.
Simple as that.
Although you’ll get shit cunt ‘economist’ after shit cunt ‘economist’ denying it until they are blue in the face.
Exact same thing in Australia, New Zealand and ‘the mother country’ the UK.
No doubt that mass Christianity has faded out in Europe but solid minority Christianity remains – at least in Spain. There’s also a difference from (for example) the UK with regard to the standard Jewish leftist guilt control mechanisms of “racism”, “misogyny” and “anti-Semitism”.
Activists have tried to ramp up the Leyenda Negra (Black Legend) of Spanish colonialism in South and Central America and activate the “racist” guilt trip but it hasn’t worked. People of South American origin don’t see a problem. Those of 25-35 years are now approaching 30% of the Spanish workforce and integrate well. As the Spanish say, the 7.000km that separate Spain and Venezuela are less than the 13km that separate Spain and Morocco.
Argentinians are ethnically indistinguishable from Spaniards and South American Indians have the employment level of Spaniards (they come to work ). They pay taxes and in fact keep the extensive lower wage sectors of the Spanish economy functioning. That’s to say tourism, agro, construction, healthcare etc. They can typically double the wages they were earning in Colombia or Venezuela + get better schooling and healthcare.
There’s also the aspect that they want to integrate and have no group identity type political ambitions.
The real issue in Spain seems to be the “misogyny” guilt trip. It’s true that Spain was until recently a “macho” society (still is at the lower levels) with women now urgently seeking equality in all things. They’re already a majority of university graduates (future professionals taking mens higher paid jobs) and the country has introduced corresponding laws.
Ley de Igualdad 3/2007 (Law of Equality). Legal obligation to plan for and implement equal numbers of women to men in senior administrative and corporate positions. The Ministerio de Igualdad (Ministry of Equality) enforces it along with what’s come to be known as the “Ley Trans” 4/2023 to enforce LBGT rights – such as the right of any 16+ year old to visit their local Civil Registry and inform them that they have changed their sex (no proof required).
The problem is the consequential collapse in the Spanish birthrate (currently 1.12 per woman while replacement is 2.10). Educated career women are getting married later or not at all. They’re having children in their 30’s or remaining childless, and they complain of the difficulties of combining work with family life and the impossibility of meeting suitably high status men (are they aware that they have replaced them). Marrying a plumber doesn’t seem to be an option. However, there does seem to be a growing realization that it’s not working with unmarried, childless career women being the principle group of social depressives.
The Anti-Semitism guilt trip doesn’t work. Most Spaniards go along with the government in condemning the Gaza genocide and supporting Palestinian nationhood and they don’t care about US/Israeli hostility. Holocaust guilt seems to be non-existent and there’s that noticeable gap between Spain and N. European people/psychology. An affinity ranking would probably run something like Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, rest of S. America (excluding Brazil), Portugal, Brazil, Italy, rest of Europe, rest of the world, USA, North Africa. China remains in the “rest of the world” indifferent category.
Sounds like Paulo is a feeler, not a thinker. World views cannot be changed. As far as driving in a third-world country, I don’t recommend it. Get a car-and-driver. In any accident or altercation, get out and walk away or run away, whatever the situation requires. Christianity has been the source of morality and values for the West. That might be your thoughts. Good luck with that.
Church attendance is down all over Europe. Almost nobody of native European stock goes to church any more. In the under-40s it is down to single digit percentages.
Christianity is absolutely dead among under 40s Europeans. When the current older generations pass away, it’s only going to be immigrants keeping the churches going.
My local Catholic church is now basically an African congregation, for example.
Same all over western Europe and, to a slightly lesser but still similar degree in Eastern Europe.
They are not troublemakers like the Arabs or Africans, but nevertheless they change the ethnic composition of the country. Spain looks more and more like Latin America now. How long it will remain distinctly Spain?
And it’s even worse in the “independentist” regions. Catalans fret about their “identity” but it’s only focused on language. The bulk of the population of Barcelona is formed by Venezuelans, Moroccans, Africans, Pakis, and a few old Catalans dying out.
Not really. The typical Argentine is half-Spanish, half-Italian, and has a small percentage of Indian blood (which increases the farther you get from Buenos Aires and other central cities, especially towards the Northern provinces).
Spain is already one of the most feminist countries in the world. No wonder it is also the one with the lowest fertility rate in Europe, even lower than Italy now. Feminism is so over the top, even kissing a lesbian slut is a crime, as that football manager found out.
Our “rulers” have discovered the perfect tool to destroy a society: single women and “women’s rights”. Everything else flows from that. From mass migration to abortion to war in the Ukraine, there is no policy from the establishment that they won’t follow.
Citing Wikipedia? LOLOLLOLOLOL LOLOLLOLOLOL you clown.
Spend your coming vacations in China dude and just marinate in the awesomeness.
It’s obvious that you’re not a native English speaker. You use English words in an unnatural way.
The US did not “decline”. There was no “fall” which needed to be “reverse[d]”
The US was pushed. And that, with a gun held to its head.
I would say that those holding the smoking gun to the US’s head were treasonous traitors but that too would be an abuse of the language. They cannot be traitors because they were never loyal to the USA to begin with. And boast about that fact and their hatred for all that the USA stands for.
Sagrada Familia is ugly and a financial boondoggle, a farce.
For the vociferous anti Christian crowd that lurks around here take a good look at your greatest victory: Europe. Europe is not a place of the ruthless pagan warriors but whimpering liberals.
Hua Bin has a lot of insight, but his allegiance to China warrants scrutiny.
He is remarkably astute on quite a lot, and I’ve enjoyed many of his columns. I greatly appreciate his recommendation of Emmanuel Todd’s book, and I will read it soon. The decline of every nation and empire rarely fails to be accompanied by immorality, so “Defeat of the West” appears to be aligned with the lessons of history. A professor, who was brilliant on the classics and history, though he never deciphered the JQ, and if he had, he likely would have lost his job, was Rufus Fears at the University of Oklahoma, whose courses are well worth listening to. His “Famous Greeks” and “Famous Romans” ought to be mandated in every High School in America.
Bin posits that China has safety and order, which may be true. It’s also a country that has escaped the ravages of immigration that parasites have deliberately introduced into the West to destroy it. The West had safety and order before its White populations came under demographic attack from Jewish overlords seeking their decline. One wonders how many countries and empires over the centuries have suffered the same fate at the hands of the People of the Book. One thing is sure, every White nation has collapsed in the 2,000 years of Christianity. Indeed, there seems to be no group in history as adept at melding into cultures and races, as chameleons, with the intent to deceive and conquer, and in using races and religions, and the three Abrahamic religions all have a common denominator, against each other for Jewish interests.
I disagree that China being infiltrated by the Rothschild associates, the Sassoons, in the 1800’s, and the deliberate introduction of opium leading to the collapse of a 3,000-year civilization was a good thing. The installation of Jewish puppet Mao in 1948 and the subsequent murder of 60 million Chinese can hardly be called enlightened or advantageous for any country. Though this perfectly aligns with the Rothschilds’ motto, “Out of Order, Chaos.” Today, China is the largest slave force in history, with 1.5 billion Chinese living on around $2.00 a day on average. How is this advanced? I understand materialism is rampant in the West, and the Chinese are far better at contentment, but China is only an economic colony of the Jews. There are no First and Second Amendment rights in China. Yes, America is under attack by Jewish criminal gangs, and China is not, because China is already conquered.
So, I don’t think I prefer being a slave state of Jewish interests to the level China is, though every nation is, to a degree.
Trump, like Mao, and China’s current rulers, and likely along with Putin, are all lackeys of their Jewish overlords. They have no sovereignty. To believe these nations actually have their destiny in their own hands is, to my mind, naive.
That said, the author is an excellent writer and reasonable, like the vast majority of writers at Unz. One major exception is the crude Andrew Anglin, whose columns I avoid like rattlesnakes.
The website is one of the premier ones on the internet on current events, though Unz, being Jewish, despite his being a critic of Jewish perfidy, and the shadowy funding of the website, leaves me with questions. When people are lied to on the scale we have been over the last century by Jewish media, it’s wise to carefully scrutinize every single source of information carefully, especially in light of the promise of the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” to control every aspect of information, every politician, and every celebrity, which is essentially the case today, as any careful observer can confirm.
I recall visiting Thailand ( with my family). Prostitution and transsexuals are quite visible. That said, the people there are respectful to their gods and temples. If you enter a temple dressed improperly, especially females, you will be stopped if there is a proctor on the temple grounds.
Thailand is a deeply problematic nation. That said, even there, liberalism hasn’t fully de-sacralized the nation, unlike much of the post Christian nations of Europe.
“Where else can people see an income growth of almost 10,000 times in 25 years…” This probably is the single most greatest achievement in the Million year history of mankind. Incredible that it happened and yet it happened.
You are a real work of Art !!!
So very true. Bin ignores that China is 90% Chinese and isn’t being diversified.
Having already been dominated by Jewish interests and having the largest slave force in the history of humanity, 1.5 billion, the Jewish overlords are not interested in immigration in China, leading to chaos. They are planning on destroying White nations, and to weaken them, they must have immigration.
Christianity has failed to distinguish between the races. It’s moral precepts are sublime, but the effect of there being more Christians on earth than any other religion today is to elevate Jewish power to unprecedented heights.
You are a real work of Art !!!
Mao punted the Jews for the scourge of opium addiction and the Jews in Shanghai had earlier been kicked out of Japan. Enola Gae–the pilot did not press the button releasing the atomic bomb but the guy sitting in the co-pilot’s seat—this guy worked on the Oppenheimer Project Arizona and was a Jew.
Catalans are funny.
They are willing to kill and die in order to separate from other Spaniards from whom they are genetically, if not culturally, indistinguishable.
Yet, they make a big show about what ‘good people’ they are by ‘welcoming’ in as many profoundly different people in as possible.
Come to think of it, this is the common default position amongst the wanker left in various European states. One thinks of New Labour, Scotland’s SNP, Ireland’s Sinn Fein etc.
I wonder if a few of you so poised to jump on whatever little bit the author writes would be so inclined should Hua Bin have a western name?
I have about had it with the Chinese. Their economic growth was entirely the result of the theft of U.S. and other Western technology and buying off our venal corporate “leaders”. Their efforts to undermine our country are endless and varied. Trump is making the Western Hemisphere secure for all Americans, North, Central, and South, and the Chinese can stay the hell out. I have seen them in action all over the Americas and it is ugly. Anybody who falls for this guys rap is a fool.
Who really runs Canada just like they run the US?
Why it’s the fake Jews of course with their total control over the mainstream media; Jewish Press
Why don’t you call them out as the real problem, instead of blaming bamboozled average folks
Whose side are you on?
And almost no mention of this phenomenal rise to the skies in the Jew/American media.
Thanks for sharing your experiences on your trip. Very interesting indeed.
I do not understand the hatred of the Chinese, their government or the Wests interference in regard to the dispute between Taiwan and China – it is not the Wests business – or Japan. Surely, the fight for/against and reunification might affect the Wests business interests – but there are solutions for that. The majority Chinese people are all genetically related and love their own. Europe could learn from that. I have more problems with fellow Europeans and the coloreds that infest my corner of the World. .
One’s experience in Mutt-Amerika depends upon your socio-economic class and where one lives. Racine, WI went from the ‘Belle City” to Ratcine Hell with the migration of the former slaves from the South to the North – talk about revenge for the South losing the civil war. The highway 20 exit from I-94 to Ratcine (or Rapcine) is exit 333 – that’s how you know you’re 1/2 way to 666 Ratcine Hell – with a Brooklyn Jew for a Mayor and a very Jewish female County DA who dispenses injustice to White males daily. But I love and know the Sh*thole that’s Racine become and the Lake Michigan shoreline is great for cycling between Ratcine and Kenosha. From Ali Express (I’m a frequent buyer) I just bought a Chinese made carbon fiber SAVA bicycle and what a tremendous piece of engineering, elegance and beauty (!) at an affordable price! Sure, it’s a rip-off of a Trek Aero – but I don’t have 5G plus to spend on a bike – I got mine on sale for $1,250 and can’t wait to ride it this Summer! Unless Trump -in -stein manages to blow up the World.
When I consider the corruption I see here in my little corner of SE WI – the Chinese system of government is much more desirable than what I experience here. There is only the illusion of freedom and if you rub your rulers the wrong way – they will bring their power to bear against you. There’s no real freedom in Amerika – your dumb a** is only allowed to mouth the words – Freedumb.
I want to see the policies of China enacted in Mutt-Amerika to purge the Kakistocracy that is enthroned in SE WI – usually generational – at all levels from elected politicians to bureaucrats both elected and hired by nepotism – it would bring some relief:
Europeans chose suicide and the parents too often hate their children. Their children get in the way of their lifestyles. But that comes with a materialistic world – and China better beware because it has now joined Industrial Civilization.
NOTE: I was adopted and through genetic testing learned I am 100% European, no Ashkanazi Jew – I am Scandanavian/Danish. It’s a sad story learning about my genetic family – but this isn’t the place for details. Glad you had an enjoyable and enlightening trip.
Stop reading the newspapers or watching the idiot box for a few months and you will be amazed at how much brainwashing Joe and Jane Average are actually subjected to. It is probably worse in China as I believe the internet or similar such things are censored there. In their favor at least it can be said that the Chinese are not controlled by Jews, and as such retain more of their native intelligence and wisdom.
I lived in Sevilla in 1974-5, working in the Consulate General. We rented an entire house in the Barrio Santa Cruz on a narrow street about a hundred steps from a plaza that had two restaurants. The rent fit entirely within our US Government allowance. That house is now a hotel, sporting about five hotel rooms. I looked it up online. One night in one of the rooms would now cost us about five times the monthly rental of the entire house.
Franco was running Spain at the time. All the liberals were clamoring for openness to the economic prosperity of the world that Franco’s regime was keeping under control. Franco was a mercantilist and was vilified in the West for his ignorance and backwardness.
“Economic Prosperity” means that cheap little thieves like your pensioners are able to ruin greatness and tradition with gaudy signs, overpriced lodging and food, streets crowded with trashy gawkers and lower standards of respect, like the atmosphere in the Catholic churches and cathedrals you mention. The curse of modern consumerism knows no depths.
Now that the ship carrying crude oil from Venezuela to China has been confiscated by the US, notwithstanding Russian attempt to rescue it at the behest of the CCP, Hua Bin, in my view, has gotten off the high horse and writing about things more up the Chinese alley, i.e. saving face. Well done!
On that, as a devout Roman Catholic, I agree. Gaudi seems to be mocking the Catholic tradition, not reverencing it.
Hua is as brainwashed as Paulo
No, it wasn’t. The natives are or were akin to phillipinos, malays, original inhabitants of Guam, etc. For some centuries, mainland Chinese took over the coastal areas, driving the natives inland.
The place was also popular with pirates from at least the fifth century.
However, when the Portuguese and then the Dutch attempted to establish trading ports there (early 17th century), native populations were still visible in coastal areas.
After the Qing (Manchu) deposed the Han Ming dynasty, some die-hard Ming loyalists moved to Taiwan. It is an interesting case of history rhyming, since it established the model for Chiang Kai Shek’s later moving the Republic of China there in 1948 and 1949.
After Qing China lost to Japan in the war of 1894-5, Taiwan became part of the Empire of Japan. It remained so until Japan’s defeat in the Pacific war in 1945. Many Taiwan Chinese people served in the Imperial Army.
I must read more on the period from 1945 until the arrival of the defeated KMT/RoC forces in 1948-9, the latter didn’t make themselves popular by conducting several massacres of Taiwan Chinese protestors.
However, the C.P.C. does recognise the KMT (National People’s Party) as to some extent legitimate, the P.R.C. even had several KMT representatives in major state bodies for many years.
So, in Taiwan, many factors are in play, roughly corresponding to the several layers of Chinese immigration there, and to the popularity of Japanese Imperial rule among those who grew up in that time and their descendants.
The true indigenous, to the extent that they still exist, are almost completely forgotten.
For those who speak Spanish, the following YouTube channel gives insights into current and historic topics in Spain and geopolitics in general: Clave Geopolítica. Here is a recent livestream title: “España: La Década del Colapso Social” (Spain: The Decade of Social Collapse). Here are a few translated quotes and a longer translated excerpt below the more tab:
In it, they record the majority expectation of transformation—and also deterioration—for Spain in the coming 10-year horizon. How do we Spaniards see the next 10 years in Spain?
69% of those surveyed say that there will be many or quite a few social and economic changes. This is a clear indicator that the majority perceives a profound transformation over the next decade.
And this anticipation, specifically, is focused on a hierarchy of global risks, where wars appear first—24.2% cite wars as one of the defining features of the next ten years. Next, 19% mention hunger, and in third place, social inequality, at 17.3%.
So this, if you pay attention, boils down to three main ideas:
• Conflict
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• Scarcity
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• A distributive fracture of wealth
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These are the three axes that will dominate the international stage.
When one is alert… (he doesn’t know me at all, and I’ve never met him either—we’ve never even exchanged a word)… but if you watch the latest video by Adrián Díaz on his channel—who I consider to be the person who knows the most about China, by far—far beyond any other loudmouth. I mean, there are 40,000 guys who’ve written books on China, but I don’t think there’s anyone alive who knows more than him in Spanish.
Well, he tells us the reality: the poorest 50% of Chinese people are twice as wealthy as the poorest 50% of Americans.
And we often fail to realize just how much the world is changing. We think we still have a shot at success in the world doing things the way we’ve been doing them. But the truth is—we don’t. We have no chance in the current world, because we lack everything.
In fact, I’m planning a future program to analyze the differences between this Spain of 2026 and China in 2026, so that it becomes clear why no matter how much we may want it, we won’t be able to achieve the prosperity, development, or progress that China has—for the simple reason that we are prisoners of our own circumstances.
That’s the reality.
In this image of the world, Spain appears as a country with consistent expectations, curiously, all negative.
• More than 70% believe that there will be greater social and economic inequalitythan there is today.
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• 84% believe that robots will replace workers.
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• 55% are convinced this will lead to more unemployment.
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• 45%—almost half—anticipate that fewer people will enjoy their jobs.
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In day-to-day life:
• 62% believe we’ll live in a much more violent society.
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• 53% believe crime will increase.
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• 49% are convinced that racism and xenophobia will rise.
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Now, it would be worth investigating what exactly the CIS meant by “racism and xenophobia” in their question—and how the respondents understood those terms. If by racism and xenophobia they mean people who simply don’t want to disappear, who don’t want to become another country, and who don’t want to be a minority in their own land, and if that’s called racism and xenophobia—then, frankly, the vast majority of Europeans today have become racists and xenophobes.
Not because we harbor any special hostility toward people from other places, but simply because they are from elsewhere—and not from here. This is our place, not theirs. This is our land, not theirs. And we don’t want them here. That’s the reality.
From there, on the relational plane:
• 79% say there will be more loneliness and isolation, which says a lot about how people perceive their own futures.
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Because, evidently, liquid relationships in every sense have consequences. If today you’re with one person and tomorrow with another, it’s hard to lay the foundations for a family.
If you let yourself be dragged along by all the stimuli you receive… just think for a moment:
In the time before television, how many sexual stimuli did a person receive in their day-to-day life?
Daily?
Let’s exaggerate: two… one… five?
But now, when we step into today’s world, we receive several hundred sexual stimuli constantly.
There is an overexcitation of the instincts, an overstimulation of the senses—with lights, noises, constantly.
That is not normal for any animal—including humans.
For example, the sound of fireworks—that’s a deafening sound that most people wouldn’t have heard even once in their entire lives in the past.
And I’m not even talking about walking down the big avenues of the world’s major consumerist cities, from Hong Kong to New York, passing through London, Madrid, or now even that great world capital of little lights: Vigo.
That wasn’t part of the script either.
Just imagine: complete electrification in Spain didn’t happen until the second half of the 20th century. In the first half of the century, having electricity at home was already a luxury. And by mid-century, having a radio was the highest technological achievement you could have at home. If you couldn’t afford that, you had a crystal radio set.
Therefore, in the conditions in which man lives today, we can safely say—without exaggeration—that man lives in a state of total overstimulation, and that this overstimulation has unhinged him.
And not everyone has—well, and if on top of that you have certain circumstances, how should I put it, very specific ones, in which all of a sudden you decide to lock yourself in your room to pray for three weeks straight with a mobile phone, and you radicalize and go out into the street to kill people—
I won’t say anything more, so as to avoid anyone accusing me of any crime, because that topic is very closely monitored. Because, as you all know, we—meaning Mr. Marlaska, the police units dedicated to political repression, and the Hate Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, which is the successor of the Francoist Court of Public Order in the persecution of dissent in Spain—acting as good errand-boys and bailiffs of the European Union, will accuse you of anything.
And that—careful, eh. Very careful. Because right now we have the Hate Crimes Prosecutor’s Office appealing the acquittal handed down by the Provincial Court in the case against Father Custodio Vallester, who said nothing more than what, in my judgment, is an analysis of reality.
But of course, at this moment, depending on which words you use in that analysis of reality, you can find yourself in trouble.
In fact—and I’ll be frank with you—I’ve put together a small manual of expressions that I must intersperse into what I say in order to exclude my statements from the criminal classification under Article 510 of the Criminal Code. Being a criminal lawyer has to be good for something.
And even so, I assume perfectly well that they can edit a fragment of what I say, mutilate it, and file a complaint on that basis.
Obviously, I also know that the examining judge always requests the full video, and that in that situation the “magic phrases” appear—those in which I always say that what I am saying is an analysis.
Of course, this does not mean that I am inviting anyone to hostility against any group, etc., etc., etc.
I remind you that we are not only monitored from a criminal-law standpoint by the police and the hate-crimes prosecutor’s office; we are also monitored digitally under the Digital Services Act, which also imposes economic sanctions.
We are monitored from an administrative standpoint as well, because depending on how many followers you have and how you have them, you must take certain administrative precautions—registration in registries so that you can be monitored.
And finally, in case there was any doubt, we are also controlled by community standards.
In other words, running a YouTube channel today and having 100,000—or even 1,000—followers across your social networks is by no means something you can do with impunity if you slip up.
If you dedicate yourself to saying stupidities in favor of the PSOE, or against the PSOE, and you move within frameworks in which you don’t touch any of the elements that underpin this regime, this system—well—
I’m going to shut up.
So this is the situation, and because of all this, it’s normal that the overwhelming majority of people project themselves into the future in a way in which they will hardly be happy. Because the human being is a social animal, and therefore the fact that practically 80% of people—79%—project themselves thinking that there will be more loneliness and more isolation is, in itself, already complicated.
But then there is also 54.9% who believe that family ties will weaken.
Obviously, for a very simple reason: because you are an only child, your parents will die, and you will be left alone. So at best, if you’re lucky, you’ll have some distant cousin with whom you’ll maintain contact for a while, and then you’ll lose track of them.
64% anticipate more separations and divorces, and that also makes sense.
Today, the emergence of romantic love and the romantic concept of love from the 17th century onward—placing at the center of the relationship two elements, infatuation and sexuality—has completely displaced the axis and the focus of attention.
The focus before was permanence: forming a family. Now the axis of attention consists of things that are often—I’m not saying they aren’t important, for some more than for others—but that play a subordinate role compared to the central fact of forming a family, such as sexuality, which is instrumental to family formation.
In the Code of Canon Law, they spoke of sexual cooperation ordered toward the generation of offspring, and priests, in their obsession, spoke of a “remedy for concupiscence.”
They have normally remedied concupiscence with other elements. Let’s leave it at that.
The fact is that, obviously, this is logical. There’s an old song called Tower of Sand, and the idea is that if you build a structure on beach sand, in the end it collapses.
And clearly, the issue of infatuation—no matter how much it can be measured chemically—is something temporary. And sexuality across lives that today last 70 or 80 years obviously presents itself in a different way than it did in other eras.
And this means that, as a consequence, there are more separations and more divorces, and also more frustration, more dissatisfaction, and also a feeling of not belonging anywhere.
And then, continuing this projection, as a consequence 68% also foresee lower birth rates.
At this moment, we Spaniards, with a birth rate of 1.1, are finished. We have no chance of survival.
When someone says, “We have to go into political struggle, do something practical in elections,” look, kid: last year in Spain the Spanish population declined by 117,000 people, and that includes naturalized foreigners.
And 700,000 people arrived in Spain.
Since 2022, 600,000 foreigners per year have arrived in Spain—600,000—so we’re already at two and a half million.
That’s just in the last years: 22, 23, 24, and 25. Four years.
If we count the last 30 years, at this moment in Spain, people of foreign origin—whether born here or not, which is irrelevant; whether one of their parents is Spanish or not, which is also irrelevant for continuing to be foreign—then obviously in Spain approximately 20% of the population, or even more, already comes from outside, is not Spanish.
The legal status doesn’t matter. According to what is projected with the Popular Party, the CEOE, Foment del Treball, and all the employers’ associations, at least—and at a minimum—we have to bring in another million and a half people, plus their descendants, plus family reunification, minus those who are dying, and with a birth rate among the foreign population that is much higher than that of the native Spanish population.
We Spaniards have no existence left in our own country beyond 15 years.
That is the reality.
The so called boomer generation, we are the last generation of Spaniards—the last to have known a country, a Spain inhabited by Spaniards with a Spanish way of life. I remember that when I was a child, having a Coca-Cola was a celebration simply because it wasn’t something ordinary—it wasn’t in homes. You might see it at the pool, on a bottle cap stuck to the wall of a snack bar, and the way of life was distinctly Spanish. American influence was still very limited culturally. The United States had only been pestering Spain for barely 20 years—and not like now, when it’s already been a whopping 70 years. So, half a century of Americanization of European, and particularly Spanish, life has passed—and it shows.
Now, young people who want to marry a girl don’t give her a bracelet, which was the Spanish tradition—they give her a ring, because that’s what they’ve seen in American movies. And so on. So it’s not surprising to say that what we’re seeing—and the title of today’s stream, “The Decade of Spain’s Social Collapse”—is not far from reality. It’s no exaggeration. That’s why when some people think that forming a political party to run in elections in the short term is the main goal—that what really matters is getting a parliamentary group because that’s where the fight is—they have no idea of the giant they are facing. No idea. There is no possibility, in political terms, of reversing this situation in the short term.
What’s essential is to preserve the cultural, social, moral, and genetic capital we have and to start rebuilding in places like Cangas de Onís—which is where Don Rodrigo was—so that we can someday maintain a resistance. They’ve given us nothing, and yet they’re going to hit us hard.
Now, in a situation where 68% of people still predict even lower birth rates than we’ve had so far, it’s no surprise—because impoverishment is rampant. 57% add that there will be less care for the elderly. I mean, if there are five siblings and you have elderly parents and need to put them in a nursing home—how much does a home cost in Spain today? More than a salary. More than what a person receives in a pension. Until now, it was common to rent out the elderly person’s house to combine that income with their pension to pay for the home. But Pedro Sánchez has decided to expropriate the nursing homes and give them to those arriving from across the seas—those who come with the waves—when the world was once a jungle of Spanish spears, and now it’s not. And all of this paid for with our money, with our wages.
The public prosecutor in Badalona asks the city council if they’ve made sure the newcomers have housing solutions. Look—I’m fed up with people who come in here for free and stay illegally, violating the law, while the Spanish authorities allow it. That’s no accident. This is a plan carried out consciously by the political powers serving big capitalists. It’s the Kalergi Plan. Stop with the Tolkien nonsense—there’s no need for exotic tales or hooded men in caves. It’s just the logic of life, the need to exploit people. That alone is a sufficient rational explanation. The result is the same, but without the conspiratorial bedtime story. That’s the reality.
Logically, there’s no money—because now it’s no longer five kids per family. The generation born between 1958 and 1975 had two children, and two children can’t each pay €600 a month to combine with a pension to cover one nursing home. As a result, the elderly will be lonelier. And they’ll be used as an excuse to justify the theft that taxes represent today—the robbery they have become. They’ll say the taxes are paying for home care, which typically ends up being provided by some woman who took a three-month course. I’ve held the course books in my hands. If that woman had had to actually pass the material, she wouldn’t have passed in 25 years. I’m telling you the truth—I saw it myself two years ago, the full course. I had it in my hands and thought: “Damn, if I had to learn this to go clean someone’s house or work in a nursing home, I’d have to study—and I’m a lawyer.” You don’t just learn this stuff by osmosis. Yet they all pass. All these women pass, they join the home-care service, and then all the usual problems happen with the elderly at home—missing this or that.
So, the future for the elderly is beginning to look very grim. Start by browsing through the headlines on digital newspapers today, and you’ll see there’s no way to pay pensions anymore. Right now, they’re still increasing social security contributions to try to pay today’s pensions—but there’s nothing left for tomorrow’s. In fact, there’s currently only money to pay January’s pensions—not February’s. And as we’ve explained in recent days, with hard data, the pension system’s pressure on public debt is now structural. It’s no longer possible to pay pensions solely from worker contributions.
As for the environment—something I won’t pretend to understand—I know nothing about climate change. For starters, I hear so many conflicting things and know so little about the topic that taking a stance would be foolish. But what I do know is that this whole climate change story is being used by everyone to advance their own agendas. “Eat crickets—it’s good for climate change.” Yeah, well your damn mother can eat crickets. Fortunately, the largest cricket production company, I think it was, went bankrupt this week. One good piece of news. Let the idiot who came up with this eat crickets—and I’m not calling him an idiot for no reason; he has a name. Don’t get me wrong—it’s not Zapatero or Pedro Sánchez. Though honestly, the only thing left for those two was to start raising crickets.
Anyway, environmentally, two-thirds of people believe there are more natural disasters now, and 54% say they see increasing environmental deterioration. You don’t have to be a genius to notice. When I was a kid, I used to go down to the river in a town in the province of Madrid—I’ll name it: the area around Robledo de Chavela and Valde Maqueda, where my family had been going since the 1930s. I’d go down to the Roman bridge and jump into the river in my swimsuit. The river crayfish were still there. By the way, a lot of people think the American river crayfish is the invasive one and the Spanish one isn’t. But the Spanish one is invasive too—Philip II brought it over in the 16th century. Anyway, I’d go in the river, and you could bathe in it, even drink the water, and nothing would happen.
If you drink water from the Cofio River now, go ahead and start heading to the hospital in El Escorial—you’ll save time.
Why? Because the environment is truly wrecked.
And don’t even get me started on wildfires.
The internal coherence of all these data—expectations of inequality, job insecurity, deterioration of family ties, isolation, rising tensions in coexistence, violence, poverty—just think how that makes you feel.
And then along comes the typical shrimp-munching union guy and says, “But the bars are full.”
Look, buddy—if anyone has doubts about this topic, I suggest you watch Mar Vidal’s latest video on why the bars are full. You’ll see the explanation is excellent.
And honestly, it was new to me. Like I always say: you can learn something from almost anyone. Today, I learned from Mar Vidal—even though he has an ideology and worldview radically different from mine.
And sure, maybe I wouldn’t need to do videos with a cat perched on a reading chair, trying to climb a bookshelf—right, Rayitas? Get down from there. If you damage a book, you’ll regret it. The stresses of cat life…
Anyway, as I was saying, the situation doesn’t look good at all.
The study then moves on to the issue of politicization. More and more people are feeling the noose of life tightening.
Long-term unemployment mostly affects people over 50—about 45%.
People are stuck in cycles of crap contracts well into their 30s.
There’s no realistic way for working people to save enough to buy a home—or even rent one.
So under those conditions, people inevitably become politicized.
They start thinking: “What the hell are those in power doing?”
And then they discover—surprise!—that when the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) audits itself, among the receipts they list as party expenses you find shellfish feasts, prawns, Iberian acorn-fed ham.
Paid for with public money.
I don’t know… There are things about cats I’ll never understand. Like—why is my cat trying to climb a lamp right now? I don’t get it. Rayitas, you’re lucky I’m live. Otherwise I’d be over there already. You’re going to fall and hurt yourself—and I’ll end up at the emergency vet mid-livestream. Anyway. Cat stuff.
As I was saying: people are becoming politicized.
58% say they’re very or quite interested in politics.
But only 3.5% express medium-level confidence in political parties.
53% say their trust in parties has declined over the last five years, and 49% expect it to decline further.
And then Felipe VI shows up with the girl—who clearly wouldn’t have passed basic military entry tests—and they’ve made her a fighter pilot, even though she doesn’t have the lung power to even climb a ship’s rope ladder.
They had to lower it for her.
But I’ll shut up.
Anyway, he tells us we need to “trust the institutions.”
Listen: the institutions are the ones who let that murderous business conglomerate ETA survive and stay active across the Basque Country.
They’re the ones who’ve made sure that all the killers and terrorists are free on the streets, while the victims and the dead have no voice.
And it wasn’t just PSOE—it was the Popular Party (PP) too. Rajoy continued all of it.
Now you want us to trust the system?
We still don’t know where your father got his money, and all the criminal proceedings against him have been dropped.
We see Zapatero meeting with some shady guy, handling documents in a deserted field in El Pardo—on a road that’s state property—protected by six national police officers while two suspected criminals make deals.
If you’re interested, I suggest watching Juan Soto Ivars’ analysis on the Vozpópuli YouTube channel about Zapatero.
You’ll be stunned.
I guarantee most people have no idea about the vast criminal web involving Zapatero in Spain’s power structures and his connections with China and Venezuela.
You’ll be shocked.
No wonder 49% say their trust will drop even more.
According to this fifth CIS survey, the future appears as a phase of increasing internal and external conflict, weakening social cohesion, and declining confidence in the institutions’ capacity to maintain stability.
Actually—that part’s wrong.
The institutions have enormous capacity to maintain stability in everything bad, and to make sure the worst continues.
The real question is: what exactly does the CIS survey measure?
This fifth Social Trends Survey by the Center for Sociological Research measures medium-term expectations across concrete areas of social and political life—with a 10-year time horizon.
For example—here’s a detail:
Spaniards are currently spending more, and consumer credit levels are now the same as right before the peak of the last financial bubble.
The difference is that this time, people are going into debt just to cover daily expenses.
They can’t make ends meet.
In other words: Spaniards are getting poorer and borrowing to fund their own poverty.
That’s the reality.
This is the regime Spaniards have given themselves.
And democracy—despite all the good things it’s brought since 1975—
I always take that as the starting point, because I view Franco’s dictatorship as an exceptional episode that reduced Spaniards to the status of minors.
Why? Because we stopped being protagonists of our own history and were placed under the guardianship of a monarchist general, who handed absolute power to the Church—the most power it ever had in Spanish history.
And as soon as he died, and Spaniards could choose whether or not to attend Mass, we left—
For the first time in our history—
Because until then, all of Spain’s previous constitutions, whether under the Republic or the monarchy, were confessional—formally Catholic states.
The best we’ve achieved since then is to be a non-confessional state—not even secular.
Spain is not a secular state.
And clearly, as soon as Spaniards were able to leave the Church’s corral without fear, they bolted.
That’s the reality.
So in this case, the instrument [i.e., the survey] is simply talking about the future across various dimensions that are both identifiable and quantifiable by citizens.
Social, economic changes, global risks, labor markets, social cohesion, public order, environment, political institutions, and the international influence of major actors.
First of all, I’m going to try to speed up because otherwise I could spend a lifetime here, and I’ve already been going for an hour.
So, first: the intensity of the expected change is set by the figure of 69% of respondents who anticipate many changes—and this percentage sets the general framework for interpretation. The next decade is not being perceived as a period of continuity, but as one of deep disruption. A break. A brutal blow.
A blow that has already begun with recent governments, especially starting with Zapatero, who came to power through the March 11th coup d’état—yes, the biggest terrorist attack in Spanish history—and who decided to destroy everything in Spain. He was not just a sectarian leftist (though good luck finding another one quite like him), but the one who reopened the Civil War question and pitted Spaniards against each other once again.
Iñaki Gabilondo asked him in an interview: “So, how’s it going? What do the data say?” And he replied: “We’re interested in tension and polarization.” That’s a literal quote. We’re interested in making people think “Hey, you son of a b—,” to intentionally stir up hate between Spaniards so as to reap political gain. That alone should be grounds for dragging him out of his house and settling scores with a rope.
That’s the truth.
Then came “democratic memory,” the so-called “marriage equality” law, and a whole string of others—all with one goal: to dismantle Spanish society.
Take the Gender Violence Law, which destroyed the presumption of innocence for half the population and shattered the principle of legal equality before the law. It undermined the foundation of the entire legal system.
And in this full survey analysis, Spaniards talk first about wars and conflict, then hunger, then social inequality.
In the economic and labor realm, the picture is threefold:
• Robots replace workers.
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• This causes more unemployment.
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• Fewer people enjoy their work.
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This describes a technological transformation with predominantly negative social effects, especially in terms of jobs and job satisfaction.
The survey also measures the expected evolution of social order: more violence, crime, racism, and xenophobia.
And that’s logical. When they talk about racism and xenophobia, it’s not about some peaceful coexistence—it’s about things like that video of the imam who says they’re conquering Europe with their children, and therefore have the right to seize men, women, children, property, and animals—because that’s what the Sharia allows. He literally says this. I don’t know if the video is real, I just mention it for informational purposes—I’m not attributing that imam’s words to the whole Muslim population. But it’s clear that there’s a jihadist tendencythat sees it that way.
Then there’s the issue of isolation, disintegration of family ties, separations, divorces, no children being born. All of that erodes social cohesion and family structures, leading to:
• More depression
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• More insomnia
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• More antidepressants and anxiolytics
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• More mental disorders
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• Worse and worse social outcomes
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People are becoming more politically engaged, but this might lead to loss of faith in institutions and radicalization. And this radicalization won’t be limited to just one group or ideology.
What will the descendants of… well, you know, now Alicante is the capital of Ecuador—not Quito anymore! What will happen to immigrant populations when they continue to be excluded—not inheriting wealth, while native Europeans remain more economically stable?
Do you know what they say in El Raval? Do you know why girls can’t walk there at night? I saw something today, didn’t have time to investigate. But if anyone knows, please say so.
So we see that the global horizon of war, inequality, and poverty shows that a large portion of the population expects prolonged or recurring conflict.
Here’s a question: if we think that’s the future, why assume it won’t affect Spain?
And if it does affect us, what kind of conflict will it be? A Russian threat? That’s the usual scapegoat.
But there’s a contradiction: we’re told Russia is so weak it can’t even beat Ukraine after 3.5 years—yet simultaneously they’re going to invade Europe?
Come on. Either they’re weak, or they’re strong. But not both.
They tell us Russia has to strip washing machines for microchips… yet also that it’s preparing to conquer Germany?
That doesn’t add up.
And if Russia isn’t the threat, then what is? Has anyone looked at how Moulay Hassanbehaves at age 22? The guy’s a natural leader—totally in command in public. Compare that to little Leonor—she could barely fill a ceremonial gap in a harem. She’s no match.
Meanwhile, we’ve got the goat parade on the Castellana, where Spain’s army creates mixed-gender combat units—yet serious armies around the world do not.
Why don’t elite units like the Navy SEALs have women? And why has the so-called “Battle of the Sexes” in tennis only had one match in 50 years where a woman won?
Maybe because physical strength matters?
And if it does, why are trans women (XY chromosomes) competing in women’s sports?
Just asking stupid questions.
But this is the mindset with which we’re supposed to face the coming global conflicts.
War is no longer exceptional.
And if that’s the case, which wars are the 69% referring to?
Because I doubt they’re watching Clave Geopolítica or following the real wars. Beyond Ukraine, what war?
“Uhh, China?” But China isn’t in a war.
“Uhh…” They don’t know.
Did you know that Israel just recognized Somaliland—a country that technically didn’t exist until now?
I haven’t made a video on it because it would flop. People aren’t interested in real geopolitics—they prefer fluff.
If people really cared, they’d read, educate themselves, and niche programs would do better. But no—Africa content always flops.
There is a clear link made by respondents between war and hunger—hunger caused by instability, supply chain disruption, and pressure on basic resources.
And yet what do Spaniards do? Vote for the PP and PSOE—the parties that are destroying agriculture and livestock, and thus Spain’s food sovereignty.
What kind of idiot school were you all educated in? Assuming you were educated at all?
I mean, explain it to me.
But no worries—someone always says, “What about Vox?” And I snap, because that person is an illiterate.
Then they get offended. “Oh, you called me illiterate!”
Yes. And rightly so.
Vox is all we’ve got left—hunting, bullfighting, the Virgin of Rocío, and the Legion goat.
That’s it. Patriotism and the flag. Boom. Done.
They treat people like oxen, unhooked from the plow just long enough to go vote for Vox and Santiago Abascal, who talks patriotism, tradition, and Catholicism… yet never did military service himself.
Divorced with kids, excommunicated but in favor—of work and getting up early in the morning. A full year living off a foundation set up for him by Esperanza Aguirre. Hasn’t lifted a finger since arriving in Madrid with his politicking. A hero, folks, a hero. “Consistency,” as they say. There you have it. That’s where we are.
Then they say 77% of those surveyed believe China will be much more influential in ten years. Well, seeing how China is doing, one almost wishes he’d been born Chinese, because the comparison is downright hellish.
And yes, they pay with their face—not in the sense we mean in Spain. They literally pay by facial recognition. And I’m telling you, go check it out.
Head over to Adrián Díaz’s channel—he doesn’t pay me anything, just like Marc Vidal doesn’t either, nor does that guy I showed you talking about the Great Replacement theory.
I’m being honest with you when I mention the channels I follow and watch—because they offer something real. They’re not like the bullshitters of Hispanidad or the clowns playing dumb out there. I’ll stop now. Okay?
And don’t even get me started on another joker from the gang of street thugs who now suddenly claim the communists are going to save Spain.
I mean, some idiot I know—whom I never reply to but who still sends me stuff—sends me this greeting from that gang with a publicity campaign they’ve got going. They’ve made T-shirts and mugs and everything that say “Save Spain.”
Let’s see: the guy who wanted a referendum for Catalan self-determination because Castile was oppressing them—that guy is going to save Spain? The one with the tattoos? The one who wanted to go beat up Nazis in the street?
We’re screwed. These people go around shouting with megaphones and flags in the street, all of them very communist, and everyone laughs because they’ve got their gang of groupiesegging them on.
And I’ll shut up, because the rest of the stuff known about him is even more pathetic.
Right now, 44% of Spaniards believe the United States will also increase its influence. And what’s the best we can do? Send Pedro Sánchez to go poke Donald Trump and the U.S. in the eye.
So the widespread perception is that we’re heading into a much more competitive world, with power shifting and European multilateral institutions losing their ability to stabilize the environment.
What does this survey tell us? That Europe is garbage, has lost control of everything, and has no idea what to do next—robbing Peter to pay Paul, basically.
If they rush to the eastern front with Russia, they lose the Maghreb. If they go toward the Maghreb, the Russians slip away.
And Europe is bankrupt—wrecked by the damn Russia war, the blowing up of Nord Stream, and now we’re being dragged into a financial black hole to keep Ukraine alive with duct tapefor two more years.
That’s the reality. But hey, now it’s time to get ready for the pre-New Year’s Eve grape countdown at midnight, because that’s what really matters.
Party, party, party. Hahaha. And the TV morons brainwashing the public, of course.
Or me, a far-right YouTuber, which is how they label me. Naturally, that’s what they’d say about me—because they’re the moderate, reasonable people.
They’re the moderates.
They’re the ones whitewashing the image of ETA terrorists from Bildu, whitewashing knife-wielding murderers, whitewashing serial rapists who had three deportation orders.
Because they’re the ones for democracy and moderation, obviously.
They’re the ones going to the Planeta Awards, handed out by the guy who goes to Bilderberg meetings, where he runs into the King, and we’re never told what they’re doing or what they’re planning.
Would be nice if they explained.
If I had a TV station, I’d say things that would make Pablo Iglesias look like a comb salesman. Hopefully, one day this “penglarian” society will help us advance in the culture war, get better organized, gain visibility in the public space—not in party politics—and build even a modest media outlet capable of exposing all the things these people hide.
We’ll see how long it takes before they throw us in jail—me first, I imagine.
That said, I’m planning to sing like a canary, because I’ve got a list of every member of this channel, and if the cops nab me, I’m going to hand over the list first thing. “Look, these were the ones funding it! These guys!”
Just kidding. I’m joking—don’t want anyone to take it seriously.
Anyway, poverty is linked to other issues, like social insecurity, labor instability, pensions, divorces, declining birthrates.
And obviously, I don’t want to go on too long about the dissolution of the social fabric and structural loneliness, because I’ve already been talking for a while and don’t want to keep repeating myself.
But I do want to linger a bit on violence, insecurity, and the breakdown of public order, because the CIS survey says 62% believe there will be more violence in 10 years than today.
And of course, when they ask about all this, people connect perceived insecurity with expectations of social conflict.
And here’s where the CIS plays smart. They manipulate the answers because they say, “No, the people are convinced: 62% say there’ll be more violence, 53% say more crime.”
Is there some phenomenon currently happening that might be related to this rise in violence and crime?
I can’t think of any. Can you?
Anyone in the chat want to name a current trend that could be connected?
Maybe my friend Paco, not sure if he’s here—he works in Catalonia’s prison system, though right now he’s on vacation in Galicia.
Does anything strike Paco as a possible cause when he looks at the prison population?
I’m not saying anything, because if I do, you know what happens—it might be classified as a hate crime for attributing or associating something negative with a whole group.
And I’m not about to hand these bastards anything on a silver platter.
So yeah, what can I say? I won’t make it easier for them.
If one day they bust me, fine—but I’m not going to serve myself up on a plate.
Oh, wait—someone got it right! It’s climate change!
Yes, climate change is what’s causing the rise in violence and crime.
People get heatstroke and hit the streets saying, “Let’s go!”
That’s always how it’s been, right?
I remember the Tennessee Williams plays—the suffocating heat—and with the rising temps, people just decide to start killing others.
“Hey, look, there’s a procession—let me go stab someone.”
Or maybe it’s the video games, right?
You play too much GTA, so what do you do?
You buy it for Epiphany (Three Kings Day), load it up on your PlayStation—not that I play it—and then after a bit, you say:
“Hmm, time to go buy bread. But on the way, I’ll stop and stab the sacristan.”
Of course, because that’s normal—climate change is the obvious cause. And video games are the two main phenomena linked to the rise in crime and violence. Clearly.
The perception of insecurity, obviously, goes beyond just criminal matters. Maybe it has something to do with this thing they call squatting? You go away to the beach for 15 days and you feel relaxed because you know when you come back your house won’t have been touched… Oh wait, no, now with the squatting problem…
Like those two guys in Elche who had been arrested who knows how many times for trying to squat in different properties in the same area. Both national and local police had dealt with them. And in the end, the two officials sent to evict them—because the house was inhabited and legal—were attacked, beaten, and killed. Then the squatters barricaded themselves inside until the Civil Guard managed to arrest them.
Well, that’s another issue: squatting. And the coup. Because it is a coup at this point. The golpetazo, the heavy blow, of Pedro Sánchez’s December 24th decree with his so-called “social shield.” And then some idiot PSOE voter comes at me saying I’m lying because the decree includes compensation. And I say, look, it makes you want to slap them across the face and burst it wide open.
So you’re telling me that collecting my rent from the 1st to the 5th of the month is the same as getting thrown into a legal process where the tenant might be insolvent, and by the time I finally have a ruling and get them out, the state will pay for all the damages? Really? And what does the state give you? Just the amount of rent, right? Not the interest, not the court costs. That’s what the state’s going to compensate you for? Really?
But you have to defend Pedro Sánchez and his government of terrorists, separatists, and coup-plotters. Man, it makes you want to slap these kids so hard. Straight up. Honestly.
And you know what? I’m glad that the Podemos candidate in the Basque Country—the very woke, solidarity-minded, bleeding-heart one—decided to rent a room to one of these guys, wearing a chilaba, probably full of “love for others” and self-hate. Well, being a Podemos supporter in the Basque Country already links you sentimentally to terrorist groups, right?
So she signs a lease with this guy. You know where she is now? On the damn street, bitter about life. Because the guy used to masturbate to porn in the living room while she was having dinner, harassed her, made a scene, until she had to leave her own house.
And I say, look, all squatters should be evicted—but let that one be the last to go, so that this spoiled, dreadlocked hippie chick can enjoy the full experience.
Today I’m really doing a service to Podemos. Good.
And finally—yes, finally, not “penultimately”—the issue of growing politicization and the collapse of trust in institutions.
In this case, political parties rank as the lowest-rated institution in the entire survey, with an average score below 3.5 out of 10. 53% of respondents say their trust in political parties has decreased in the past five years, and 49% say they’ll trust them even less in the next five.
And in my opinion, this proves that about 90% of respondents are mentally deficient. Because if they ever had trust in a political party, it means they have blood flow issues in the brain.
Seriously. They don’t know? Well, maybe it’s because they’re not taught history anymore—only how to touch themselves and ask themselves in the mirror whether they’re a boy or a girl. Maybe that’s why.
But the Socialist Party already ran off on a yacht to Mexico back in the day—with the Vita treasure, by the way, all the gold they looted from safety deposit boxes and churches. A huge gold fortune. And Socialist senator and Freemason José Prat, when he came on Balbín’s show La Clave after being in Toulouse, said: “Well, when there are elections we’ll explain what we did with the money.”
It’s been 50 years. Senator Prat, Mason apron and all, is buried, and no one’s ever explained where that stolen treasure went.
So, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party—with that long tradition of crimes, murders, and thefts—what’s new? They started with the Flirt Consortium scam and the money given to Felipe González to set up this racket we’ve discussed here on the channel. Those of us who are old enough remember waking up every day to a new corruption scandal in Felipe González’s government.
Crime is in the marrow, the DNA of the Socialist Party.
And what about the PP? Let’s see. The PP? You want us to do the math on them? From their founding as Alianza Popular until now, they’ve never stopped being part of the same corrupt system.
I was involved in one of the nine Gürtel trials as a defense lawyer. I was blown away—if you want me to put it nicely. Totally blown away.
But do you want to talk about the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) now? Or would you rather focus on the huge bags of cash smuggled across the border by the Catalan separatists from the Pujol family?
Or maybe we should talk about Chimo’s brother in Valencia, from the PSOE? Or perhaps we can focus on VOX’s Christmas lottery scandal in Extremadura? Or ask Macarena Olona about the little matters involving the Vox Foundation?
Which political party would you like us to turn upside down and see what spills out? Because when has any political party been anything different in Spain?
Not in my lifetime.
Since I’ve been conscious, since I’ve had memory, every political party has been dedicated to stealing—no exceptions.
So how is it that you used to trust them and now say you’ve “lost” that trust?
53% now say their trust has “declined”—not even vanished.
And these people vote.
Would you go into a special-ed school with students with IQs of 65 and say, “You’re going to study mining engineering”? Would you put people who never passed a driving test in charge of steering a bus?
This is a system of inverted selection: the more corrupt, the more clueless, the more addicted, the more shameless and criminal you are, the more chances you have to climb in a political party.
Now we have Pilar Alegría as government spokesperson. Since she’s running in the Aragón elections where she’ll get her face smashed in, she’s now calling herself “Pili Alegría.”
Hey, Pili—why don’t you tell us what happened between you and Pablo Iglesias? I don’t know if Montero knows, but she might be curious.
Everyone else too. And by the way, what happened with those invoices from the Parador of Teruel? Because it seems that the repair costs and some nonsense from a guy who set something up — a buddy of yours, who’s now in jail — don’t seem to show up. Little things like that. So this is democracy, and you people trust democracy. You believe in the party system, you trust the media, which are perfectly functional to democracy.
Why do you think people like us — people with solid, well-developed thought, like mine, published in book form (not one, not two, not three, but four books) — why are we silenced, ignored, marginalized, and blacked out, while a whole bunch of puppets get promoted? At what point do you think that’s just a coincidence?
Do you really think, for example, that I’m ever going to be invited back to UNET to give a lecture alongside generals and admirals? Come on. I know I’m like Benito and Manolo from that TV show Manos a la Obra — every time they got a job, they’d say, “That’s another place we can’t go back to.” Every time I get invited to speak, I say the same things, and then they get scared. So why do they even call me? You knew who I was. Don’t act surprised.
That’s how it is. That’s the situation. And finally — yes, this really is the final point — there’s this curious trend: blaming the older generation and deifying the young. I’ve been seeing this lately in comments on videos from the December 13th event. People say: “So few young people there!” And I say: thankfully!
Because they’re the worst-educated, least experienced, least capable of understanding reality, with the poorest judgment — so of course there are other biases too. For example, most young people can’t afford to attend an event like that. But it’s not just economic. Most of the young people who applied to attend, I rejected. At the very least, you can’t be illiterate. You have to know how to behave. You have to show respect.
Some mentally deficient guy emailed us yesterday or the day before asking if — besides opening his wallet — he could help in any other way. I said: not you. Because you have no manners, and no sense of decorum. You don’t even know how to read and write properly. There’s a huge percentage of functional illiterates among “the best educated generations in history.” Why? Because they don’t read.
The other day, someone close to me surprised me — they had set an alarm on Instagram to block the app if they go over 2 hours a day. And I thought: what a tragedy. Two hours a day wasted on Instagram. And what are you looking at there? Girls with tits like every other woman ever. Why are you watching these idiots dance and jiggle their boobs?
I’m not saying the girls aren’t good-looking, or that their boobs aren’t worth seeing — but come on, after 10 minutes, shut it down. You’re missing Crime and Punishment, kid! Use your head! But no. Two brain cells? Not even that. What’s common among young people is they can’t even earn the foie gras they snack on. They can’t think. “Let’s go to a rave!” Oh really? A rave?
Just today I heard a radio ad on a youth station: “Excite your experience in Tenerife!” I happened to hear it while driving a replacement car. And I thought: holy mother of God — excite myself in Tenerife? What do I have to go to Tenerife for to get excited? This is the crap they’re pumping into their brains.
But hey — what matters is having young people in the movement, right? For what? They can’t do anything right! It’s hard to find responsible young people. They exist — but they’re a minority. They are a minority.
Our grandparents were out herding cows on the mountains at age 12. Today, you send one of these dimwits — 25 years old — to buy two bottles of skim milk, and they bring back the wrong brand. That’s the reality of young people today. If it stings, get some ointment.
Today’s youth are the reject pile of all previous generations. No doubt about it. And if that bothers you, go scratch. And then they complain about what we’re leaving them. You’re right — we should have sent you all to the countryside with the cows. Instead, we bought you a PlayStation and made you into whiny little brats, softies, principleless nobodies. Just little Manolos and Charitos — and that’s all 90% of you are good for.
So of course, in Spenglerian terms, being young today makes it harder to stand out — you have to prove you’re different from the rest of your generation.
Is that clear?
That said, I value knowledge, wisdom, responsibility, maturity, and experience. And you’re far more likely to find those in someone who’s 40 than in someone who’s 20. That’s just a fact. And someone who’s 50 more than someone who’s 30. Understood? Good.
Well, 43% of the youth say they now prioritize generational or cultural bonds over political ones. 43% identify mainly with people their own age, 29% with those who share their hobbies, and only 23% with people who share their political ideas.
Back to the youth: you have to be consistent. If you ever think I’m wrong, then next time you go in for heart surgery, pick the youngest cardiologist. Say: “I want the one who’s never operated before — make mine the first!” Even though there’s another guy who’s done a hundred surgeries over 25 years. Say: “No, that guy’s too old. Give me the new one!”
How many of you would do that?
When it really matters — when something affects your life directly — you choose experience. That’s the reality. That’s the truth.
So, Spain today: taken as a whole, the survey results show an accumulation of negative expectations that aren’t limited to any single area. They affect the economy, jobs, social cohesion, security, political representation, personal life — all at once. Most people don’t see this as a temporary problem, but as a prolonged, structural deterioration across all aspects of life. They feel like they’re in a moment of critical rupture — and they’re right.
That’s the situation.
The defining feature of all this is the dissociation between politicization and legitimacy. Political interest is growing — but there’s no corresponding increase in adherence to representative institutions.
But how could someone like Irene Lozano represent you? She was part of UPyD with Rosa Díez, back when Rosa Díez used to say “Come to the Basque Country and speak out!” I’d say: “I’ve already gone — and I’m still speaking out.”
“Even today—right now—Iñaki Arteta tells us that the sons of their holy mother in the Basque Country continue to vandalize the plaques placed on sidewalks to honor ETA’s victims. Why? Because the neighborhood associations, the owners’ communities in the Basque Country, don’t allow them to be placed on their building facades. Example: Baracaldo.
So I’ll say it clearly, even if it won’t earn me any friends up there. The Basque Country is a thoroughly rotten society. I’ve just made many friends north of Vitoria, including Vitoria—but this is the reality. If we like it or not, let me assure you: if what I had in mind back in the day had actually been implemented, there would be no problem in the Basque Country today. True, there wouldn’t be many people left either.
It probably would’ve had to be declared a national park and repopulated with trees—because there wouldn’t be much else. I used to say that the Basque problem was a real estate problem: a matter of freeing up land for tertiary use. But I won’t go into detail so I’m not misunderstood.
Anyway, what I can say is this: I hate ETA to death—from now until my last day on Earth. I hate every member of ETA, and everyone who has supported ETA. No forgiveness, no forgetting. I will hate you all until my final breath.
Having said that, the current situation—this generalized mood among the population—doesn’t seem to translate into any support for democratic institutions. And this is where the survey shows a heavy concentration of negative expectations that reinforce one another:
• Over 70% anticipate more inequality.
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• 84% foresee technological replacement of jobs.
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• 55% expect more unemployment—and we’re already the country with the highest youth unemployment in Europe.
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• 79% anticipate more loneliness.
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• 54.9% expect less family life.
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• 68% foresee declining birth rates.
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• 57% predict worse care for the elderly.
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• 62% expect more violence.
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• 53% foresee more crime.
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And the majority declare a sustained loss of trust in political parties. So, if we’re lucky, maybe we can manage to throw all of you with a party card in jail—because none of you are innocent. Whether by action or omission, directly or indirectly, none.
Clearly, this is not a temporary disruption or a sector-specific crisis. This is the expectation of total collapse—of Spain—across every dimension of life.
This is job insecurity, family instability, social isolation, tension in community life, crime, and fear. Fear doesn’t show up in survey graphs, but how many women today feel fear walking through El Raval? Not even El Raval—just walking at noon through Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona? How many? How many women would dare to wear a miniskirt and go for a walk there at noon on a Saturday?
Many? Let them raise their hands—starting with Irene Montero first, then Yone Belarra second. Well, not Sumar’s Aina Vidal, because if she goes, they won’t touch her. They see pork as haram—forbidden food.
That’s the way it is.
And obviously, the significance of the study is this: the majority of the Spanish population sees the coming decade as a period during which every aspect of life will get worse:
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This accumulation of negative expectations is the core finding of the report.
And remember—this report is produced by the CIS, the research arm of the PSOE. Just imagine what the results would be if the same survey were done properly, with the right questions. Folks at La Hispanidad probably wouldn’t like those results.
Anyway, I’m afraid I haven’t gotten past slide two—but I had a bunch of slides ready to show you, and I won’t leave without doing it, because each one reflects the reality we’re living.
So, in the photos you’ll see:
• 86.4% are concerned about social inequality—and that’s from establishment media.
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• Still, some are optimistic for 2025.
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Ipsos predictions show personal optimism but global pessimism.
And here we have the Eurobarometer: “The war in Ukraine remains the main challenge facing the EU.” Yeah, right. Not even they believe that. It’s the same old tale they spin. People aren’t worried about the Ukraine war anymore—it’s already been digested. What we’ll pay for now are the consequences of the Ukraine war.
Most Europeans think public pensions will be unaffordable—The Guardian says. German consumer pessimism is rising amid economic and political concerns. Economic inequality is seen as a global challenge. And these are politically correct headlines—they’re still too soft.
The Bank of Spain improved its growth forecasts. But many Spaniards feel overburdened. Of course they do. The Bank of Spain measures macroeconomic figures that look great for capital and the rich—but not for working people. And when I say working people, I don’t just mean employees. I mean anyone who lives off the income from labor.
Meanwhile, Fundación Madrina warns of rising hunger lines in Madrid. They’re right.
Just look at the photo. Look at the line. How many Spaniards do you see?
Then maybe you’ll start connecting some dots.
That’s all for now.
There was a time when the State wasn’t just a theory—it was destiny.
Spengler’s The State deciphers the deep structure of power, class, war, and politics—with a clarity that cuts across an entire century to speak directly to our present.
This book shows how nations rise, how elites are structured, how late-stage democracy dissolves old institutions, and how money and propaganda replace tradition and authority.
Spengler reveals the logic of civilizations in decline, the arrival of formless powers, and the inevitable advance of Caesarism in a world that has lost its old certainties.
For the first time in our language, The Spanish Spenglerian Society publishes this essential text, with a critical study by Francisco José Fernández Cruz Sequera (analyzing its political, historical, and conceptual value), and an epilogue by Sebastián Fabricius (placing the book within Spengler’s morphological framework and its relevance today).
The State offers no comfort or utopias—it exposes the real structure of politics. It shows how nations rise or collapse, and it identifies the place reserved for those still capable of understanding.
A book for those who reject superficiality and seek the truth of power.
The State, by Oswald Spengler — now available on Amazon.
Anyway, I’m here with all of you, and yes, I went on a bit—an hour and change talking. Awful, right?
But I want to thank everyone who has supported the channel, and I don’t want to forget anyone. Here we are.
Thank you for saving China by crushing Paulo the Portuguese customer service worker.
He does use an English name, it is ‘Oliver’. Hua Bin Oliver on his own posts.
Relax Scro!
Sometimes a travelogue is just a travelogue and not a frontal attack on Orthodoxy
A very pleasant read. Thanks.
And a refreshing change from the usual fare. Although I’m not a nature enthusiast I still enjoyed Hua’s description of Spain’s local flora and fauna, which I previously had no knowledge of.
But my favorite part was the all-encompassing feeling of peace and oneness he experienced while “forest bathing“, a practice I’d never heard of but will definitely try out this coming spring!
Thanks. But for the Western Dystopian States of Confusion, I believe that a two-step process would be optimal. One, like minded and compatible people should secede from their respective Zionist dominated countries and set up a separate republic. Second, use the Russian Constitution as a template, and Russian governmental and political practice as guidance.
I’ve laid all this out in gratitude detail in my past archives here and on The Occidental Observer. As retire Marine Mechanical and Process Engineer, I enumerated in detail the elementals and essentials. Of course, there was no reflected interest or response.
Social research and acute observation indicates that in any group or community of any size that a desire for change or modification of some social, political, economic structure exists, only a small minority will lead, initiate, and husband the numbers and cohorts into a cadre that will act for change. It is obvious that the extra-legal channel activism of The Left is several times more in intensity and quantity than the more traditional and The Right or Conservative Valued segment plurality.
And that is why The Center has been shifting to the Left for decades. That is why The West is waist deep in sewage and sludge. And the level is ever rising.
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Truth, and behind China and America are small hats. It was Jews who were behind communism in China, and it was Jews who transferred American manufacturing and technology to China.
It’s now the Jewish media in America damning China and the Jewish media in China damning America. Clever connivers.
You don’t think the Chinese are controlled by Jews?
Really?
The Jews were behind the communist revolution. It’s unlikely they lost control.
To think Russia and China are autonomous and free of Jewish control is naive, considering both are friendly with Israel.
How’d the Jews get their wealth?
From subversion with the Federal Reserve and income tax.
I don’t see anything praiseworthy about that, do you?
Hua Bin’s articles, I find, are informative and a balance to US msm info. They are food for thought.
It’s very simple – the oldest printing blocks and printed textiles have been discovered in ancient Egypt. And some archeologists claim that they found those spread from Spain to India.
Simple as that. No amount of bending over backwards will change that.
Just the same as no amount of bending over backwards will show that Gutenberg “stole” his design from the chinese 🙂
But of course you’re welcome to try – it’s a free country and you’re free to make a fool of yourself.
You’ve been proven to be a moron over and over.
But now also a functional illiterate:
“Put it in context, my parents, who were rocket scientists (literally), made about $20 each per month when they sent me to college in 1989.”
QED
You can get back to me on more complicated historical issues, when you learn to read with a semblance of understanding 🙂
Please distinguish taxfraud from tax loophole. Are they getting rich beacuse of tax frauds which are illegal? Or tax loopholes which are created by law makers to reward their campaign contributors. Quid pro quo? Without doubt Yes. But totally legit.
Isn’t it dishonesty IF one blame the Jewish people for well known fault of the democratic system?
Please elaborate. Hope you don’t think it is a matter of your say so only.
No more than the Antipope currently installed in the Vatican.
LoL, point understood. Perhaps his prose is amateurish, but of course he has never claimed that he was – or is – a professional essayist. On the other hand, there is a surfeit of “the damn Jews” articles. I am not saying they are wrong; I am only pointing out there are plenty of them.
The above are your words. Not the author’s words.
Are you sure you could not read different meanings from
1) “as a college freshman in 1989” and
2) “to start his freshman year in 1989?”
If one were considering retirement abroad, both countries are excellent candidates, but Portugal has a clear lead. Spain has a wealth tax (like the one some Dems keep threatening to pass over here), and isn’t as accommodating to English speakers as Portugal is. Portugal has a fairly large British expat community, probably spurred by the historically close ties both countries have had. Your definitely more likely to run into bilingual Portuguese than Spaniards.
To be completely fair, the Economist-whipped neo-liberal elite who have run the west since at least 1980, are and were absolutely committed with a cultic like fervor to the notions of ‘free trade’ and ‘globalization’. Nothing but nothing could temper their zeal in imposing to the maximum extent possible those two shibboleths, and they brooked absolutely no opposition or even scepticism.
The Chinese merely took the western Economist-whipped elites to their word, or indeed to their most sacred of dogmas.
The rest is, as they say, history.
That’s true – but as long as the the City of London and the Federal Reserve exist it will not be allowed and any movement which threatens them will be destroyed externally or infiltrated and destroyed internally. I once contemplated revolution or moving to the redoubt of Idaho and decided that it would never succeed.
In the 1990’s – after separating from the USAF (6 years – RIF’d by Congress, E-4, NORAD CMC and West Germany/Italy/Greece AUTOVON) I became radicalized and joined the US Taxpayers Party. Our candidate for President was Howard Phillips. This led me to meet many interesting people and become entangled in the “Taking Back America” movement – End the Fed, Tax Protest, (Lynn Meredith, Irwin Schiff, Nord Davis Jr. and his Sui Juris phamplet) etc. We lost.
People I met include: Pastor Pete Peters (Christian Identity), Richard Kelly Hoskins (Author of controversial books/Christian Identity), Gary and Martha Cooper (who practice a very different type of Christianity) See: https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/CooperCompl.pdf The “Bobs” locally DBA Morning Star Consultants out of Milwaukee – Bob Bernhoff and Bob Raymond – see: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/228/804/478750/, Pastor Matthew Trewhella of the unincorporated church movement/ Missionaries to the Preborn and author of “The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government” see: https://missionariestothepreborn.com/. Most of these people suffered legal process and many went to prison for their beliefs. The movement was broken.
In my ancestry I have more Neanderthal genes than most – I know they came from my Danish Mother (Benson-Hanson) because my Scandinavian Paternal side (Russell) has far fewer. While my deceased (1995 at age 55) Father rejected my Danish Mother, the Woman he married and my paternal genetic sister and brother have Native and Sub-Saharan genetic ancestors. So truly – I am a Neanderthal who was bred out of existence by co-mingling with Homo Erectus – or perhaps the Homo’s raped my Neanderthal Mother as it is likely my genetic Father date-raped my Genetic Mother (who does not want to acknowledge me – but I share 50% DNA with – my maternal sister Lenora (25% DNA) denies I exist and I won’t argue). My paternal Sister Kate is OK with me – we’ve never met – I’ve talked to her once, but she’s 43, divorced, remarried to a younger man and busy with life and my Niece Genevieve (Class Valedictorian 2025 ) – I’m 62. My Aunt Margaret is 64! That is just a small portion of my families – adopted/maternal/paternal.
Your plan might have a chance if/when the US breaks up – but then we’ll need to become Farmers again – form communities like the Amish, and life will be hard IMO. Industrial civilization makes one soft and I enjoy the comforts of it too much – besides, I’m getting closer to death than life. I never married or reproduced – by choice, and I’m NOT gay.
I visit the Occidental Observer from time to time and find the articles interesting. But the Europeans are going the way of the Neanderthals. But I do see that SOME young people are waking up and the fight to regain what we’ve lost has been renewed. But with Trump-In-Stein in position – the Jews are making their final moves for the complete takeover – and only time will tell what the future will be.
I still have to read Madison Grant’s “The Passing of the Great Race” – https://www.gutenberg.org/files/68185/68185-h/68185-h.htm
Only the survivors will know if it is true:
Since you appear to be a functional illiterate, I don’t believe you will comprehend the meaning of the above quote from the text you allegedly read. But I’ll give you a chance. One.
I decided to print this comment on paper just so I could wipe my ass with it.
The Western govmnts and the PharmaCorpses run the narcotic drug trade.
The Toronto Dominion Bank is apparently the largest money laundering bank in the world.
Please advise me about how many Catalans were killed when their drive for independence was “brutally put down by the Spanish govt.” I suspect that it was nowhere near the amount killed in the War for Southern Independence, 1861-65, which was around 800,000 when counting both sides. Yet, Abe Lincoln, who destroyed the US Constitution in his bloodlust to prevent Southern secession (which was their Constitutional right), is often considered the country’s greatest president.
you don’t have to be killed, to be brutally put down. what the hell does abraham lincoln have to do with anything anyway? are you still mad about the lincoln brigade? and you’ve got the name of that war all wrong, it’s supposed to be the civil war of independence between the northern and southern states, didn’t you go to school?
:He was also clueless, like the rest of the type.:
You are not humble in your description of other people, especially when they criticize CCP and China, And what type are you.?
There was no theft needed, when traitorous American elites (both Republicans and Democrats) freely handed everything over to the Chinese on a platter between 1980 and today because of muh lower costs and muh free trade and muh globalization.
Well we don’t really know what Gaudi planned as it was only partially completed when he died and he didn’t leave very clear plans. I like some of his civil buildings (basically fancy houses for rich people) but I agree that building a Cathedral is quite different.
I don’t really like it, it doesn’t give you an impression of grandeur as much as confusion. It looks more like something rising from the ground than a building as ending to Heaven.
Still, the best parts of the Sagrada Familia are those actually completed in Gaudi’s time. The modern sculptures, towers and de orations look like a mockery of Gaudi, or worse.
Salvador Dali said back then thai it should have never been completed, just put under a giant glass enclosing.. Perhaps he was right…
Thanks Nsf! This alone is the most damning indictment of Taiwan I’ve ever heard.
This and the willingness of its government to allow the US to use them like a cheap pawn in pursuance of its geo-strategic goals; especially after having observed the example of Ukraine.
Absolutely nothing can excuse this.
I assume you’re being sarcastic, Nsf, because fow is right of course about the name.
To quote the man himself: ‘how many legs does a dog have if you call it’s tail a leg?’ Yeah, the school books might well call it “civil” but that don’t mean ‘tis so.
Apologies for the remedial semantics lesson if you were being sarcastic with your comment.
Thx. – – Sagrada Familia and Bosch at the Prado – plus Sevilla – -that sums it up.
You might like Perter Handkes An Essay On the Juke Box (Versuch über die Jukebox in German) – – a short and meditative book about his winterly travels in central and northern Spain (Soria!) – lots of them – on his feet.
I find them to be either fluff or pro-CCP propaganda!
You’ll never see hm discussing China’s real estate crash.
Video Link
I spit on them! LOL!!!
I find the majority of people in most countries will try to scam you if they think they can get away with it, and if you’re a tourist you’re instantly a bigger target than most. I find most people are inherently dishonest and have to be watched closely. Maybe it’s just me though?
In my experience people will try to pull all sorts of shit if they think you’re a “soft touch”.
While in Valencia did you visit any Borja properties? Pope Alexander VI and his family? Seems a lot of glowing churn of the Iberian peoples throughout present mass media especially with the NEORECONQUIST occurring south of Virginia(USA). Don’t forget Otto Skorzeny expired a few months before Generalissimo Franco in Madrid 🙂
Sorry, I don’t understand your reasoing at all.
1) Given that you believe what the author had claimed about his parents sending him to college without any objective evidence, what make you doubt his other claims in the absence objective evidence.
2) You were putting words into the author’s mouth in your previous post. Namely, the author clearly wrote “as a college freshman in 1989,” but for some unknown reason, you added to his words and changed it to “to start his freshman year in 1989.”
Let me ask you again, do you not know the two are different and could carry different meanings?
From 1) above, you subjectively believe what you want to believe.
From 2) above, you read your own doubt into what the author had written. Nothing wrong with not being convinced by someone’s writing. But then you need to know you are not convinced. Not that you has proven the author wrong.
3) For argument’s sake, let us assume that the writer was going to Beijing for the Fall semester.
But you seem to have the rigid idea that students who attend the Fall semester could only in the city just before Fall semester. For sure, most students arrive shortly before the semester. But there is no rule forbiding them from arriving to the city early.
I wonder if this is just naïveté or if this is willful ignorance or deception. With anonymous commenters, one can never be sure one is speaking to a human, as AI chatbots dominate nearly every online forum that exists.
It is interesting that in 13 years of online commenting, I have rarely encountered any real human open to being persuaded. I have met thousands of dogmatic anonymous accounts, likely bots, who will never change their minds in the next 1,000 years.
I’m curious, the link you posted on Jewish success, who created that page, and who pays for it? It’s not readily apparent.
It doesn’t appear likely you’ve researched the history of the Federal Reserve, the biggest criminal money cartel in the history of humanity. “Creature from Jekyll Island,” is a good introduction book to it. It was conceived in fraud, and for you to believe that Jews, who own the Federal Reserve, are taking advantage of tax loopholes, is absurd and ludicrous.
When you have the ability to print unlimited money and to charge the taxpayers for it with interest, you’re a criminal.
Talmudic Jews have been taking advantage of democracy for centuries, they’ve been at it since at least the French Revolution, when their gangster Weishaupt subverted the French Masonic lodges, leading to the bloody guillotine.
It would be best if you responded with research on the Federal Reserve. Without this research, the Jews will look like innocent victims, just as they did to me just ten short years ago.
The greatest Judaic ‘success’, near universal, is to make the host societies where they settle come to dislike them and their presence. Supremacism, nepotism, duplicity will do that.
“The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act.” And the Fed Chief are appointed by the US President.
If it allowed any Jew to take advantage of it legally, it is American government’s problem. And indirectly all Americans’ problem. Blaming the Jewish people won’t solve the problem.
Wojtek is a Polack fascist, a race-hater to his boots. A nassty type, indeed. All Western racist and cultural supremacists view China’s rise with genocidal RAGE.
Nonsense. It wasn’t only the Church that preferred to copy books laboriously by hand. The Muslim areas did the same. They desperately wanted to propagate Islam, meaning that they needed as many copies of the Koran as possible. But they continued to copy the holy book by hand — because that was preferable to using whatever the Egyptians were supposed to have invented. China’s printing press was a revolution.
In a ‘free’ market all real market power belongs to capital, not labour. So the ‘Free Market’ religion is designed to produce neo-feudalism, as it has, and DEBT, up to the highest heights. And ecological destruction as everything is commodified and there is NO value but money price. It’s an extinction cult. All life, gone, and in its place, a vast pile of ‘money’, with, once human, cockroach-like creatures teeming over it.
So you depend entirely on your interpretation of four words (“to college in 1989”). Why don’t we ask Hua Bin what he meant by that?
In any case, he didn’t have to be personally present at Tiananmen Square to know what happened. He was at Beijing that year; he would have spoken to students who had exact knowledge of what occurred at the square. Once again I recommend Ron Unz’s article on the subject (link), which largely confirms what Hua has written.
I would take Hua’s words over those of a proven liar like you (link once more).
Here’s a little AI generated explanation for you. I would have said something more disparaging but I’ll let the robot do the talking:
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/RrygR7TwcqMBDw9GAjdj9
This picture of a Chinese type-writer shows how it’s not just a difference in techniques, but an entirely different conception of what the printed word should be, that limits, regardless of technique used, the practical significance of something like movable type in China.
Yeah, even the co-founder of Wikipedia said it’s controlled by the CIA.
Video Link
Joe Paluka wrote:
True, but if the printing press was so easy, why did the Roman Empire not invent it in 1400 years?
Plenty of doubt. In a previous bout with you, I presented much evidence that China’s printing press spread Westward (for example, link) long before Gutenberg was born. Knowledge of Chinese techniques was extremely unlikely to have skipped Germany then continued to spread to the Western edge of Europe. (The John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester, England, has a printed image of St. Christopher dated 1423, decades before Gutenberg’s work.) Therefore Gutenberg was unlikely to have been ignorant of China’s printing press.
Random my arse!
So I’m a “little chinese punk” am I? That says much about your racist and dishonest attitude.
Well, I called you a liar. And then I proved it (link once more).
I cant….
You’re going to have to be more thorough than that. Google searches will never reveal the truth, as Google was begun by two Jews, Brin and Page.
Creating money out of thin air is criminal. They steal with the income tax and with inflation.
Please respond when you’ve read at least one decent book on the Federal Reserve. Without that, you’re wasting all of our time.
The claim is often made that grammar schools of the Middle Ages were only for the wealthy or nobles. This is simply not true. After all, one of the best remembered popes of the Middle Ages, Hildebrand, Pope St. Gregory VII, was of a very humble background. This is the one who made Emperor Henry IV do penance at Canossa.
Reading was not a monopoly of clergy in the Middle Ages, but even after the invention of the printing press, books were very expensive.
When somebody like Ron Unz seriously repeats the claim that William Shakespeare’s father John Shakespeare was illiterate, and even suggests something similar about William Shakespeare himself, what it shows is that there is a serious lack of general knowledge among Harvard graduates of the last half-century, even in the era of the internet.
This issue was highlighted back in the mid 2000s. The following copilot link explains who gave the test, what the average scores were, and how it showed a severe lack of basic knowledge about American history. I remember many of us posting on a small forum (losers) noted at the time that it was obvious that we would do perfectly or a least close to it if given it.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/n4LHvTbkSDzpJo7X8tAhJ
Dug up something amusing the other day – it was about a “Ohio History Test” given by Ohio University in Athens. The little certificate said that I had gotten the highest score in the county. (this is a major urban county, by Ohio standards) What’s amusing to me is that I’m a rather vain fellow, and would have made a note of it at the time and remembered it, but I had no recollection of it. At that point in life, I would not have thought twice about something like that. It’s bad to peak early!
Dali always had a pretty good take on things, as weird as he seemed. I didn’t know those facts. Thanks.
That’s your problem, not mine. And the reason is you’re dumber than dumb.
Come back when you actually learn to read basic texts with a semblance of understanding.
PS. And check when the entrance exams were held in 1989 in China.
Why don’t you indeed.
I already know that he lied to poor Paulo, but you dummy clearly can’t read simple texts and draw your own conclusions, so go on, ask.
No, all he needed to do was to be honest about it. But he couldn’t. That says everything I need to know.
Yes you are – but don’t blame me for your own limitations.
Soros controlled Justin Trudeau and stupider yet was the Commons and Senate standing ovation to Hunka and Hunka was Ukrainian Bandera —follower and Freeland grandad was Chomiak–a Bandera Right Wing Man.
NOW THINK – the Einsatzgruppen B arrived in Kiev and supposedly took all the Jews on a pogrom to the local ravine and shot then ALL. AL the Jews in Kieve were deep sixed—BUT BUT BUT
Zlylenskyy’s dad who was Rabbi In Kiev was “untouched” –makes no sense unless the Rabbi and Nazi Einsatzgruppen B Boss made a Deal.
I give you the names and money–spare me but you can shoot them all…
Chrystia Freeland now in London and Zylenskyy makes appearances there often to chat with Starmer whose wife is Jewish.
The Jew and the Nazi are both joined at the hip. Yes miracles do happen IF the price is right !!!
Freeland and Zylenskyy—making a Big Deal —and Trump loves it !!!!
Come on man! A Chinese general who REFUSED to fire on the students was arrested, tried and imprisoned for 5 years. LOL!!!!
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/12/video-emerges-of-generals-trial-for-refusing-tiananmen-orders-with-transcript/
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports on the recent emergence of footage from the trial of General Xu Qinxian, who refused to lead the PLA’s 38th Group Army into Beijing to confront protesters in late May, 1989, and was subsequently imprisoned for five years as a result. Xu’s fate remained unknown until Apple Daily located him in 2011. He died in 2021. CDT Chinese has posted a copy of the six-hour video, as well as a transcript of around 70,000 characters. From Buckley:
and hail the murderous Frogface aka Jiang Zemin
I am perfectly willing to ask Hua. I don’t know if he reads the threads here, but if he does I would welcome an answer.
In any case, you are still a proven liar (link).
I have evidence that China’s printing press preceded Gutenberg by centuries, and that it had spread throughout Europe before Gutenberg presented his work. All you have is warm air emitted from some orifice or other.
Pipeline: President Joe Biden said the U.S. would “bring an end” to the pipeline.
Russia really is the last hope of the Christian Indo-European. Thanks for the comment. We share the same values, etc.
I can’t wait. You ar*e is going to hurt even more 🙂
Too bad you can’t show that Gutenberg was aware of these Chinese designs. Although feel free to show us any urviving records or archaeological evidence of Chinese or Korean-style movable type or printing presses in Europe before Gutenberg’s time.
I have been waiting for this for a very long time and all you do is yap and yap. Any facts? 🙂
Also too bad for you that Gutenberg’s press was a true innovative design, that improved over anything Chinese had by an order of magnitude.
I visited Notre Dame and a few churches in Paris 25 years ago. It struck me then that they were more like museums than place of worship.
The falloff of religious belief is believed, by some, to have encouraged the rise of political LGBT+, wokeness, feminism, and other radical ideologies. The argument is, nature abhors a vacuum.
I have a specific question about China. It is a country which has atheism as one of its core tenets, which tolerates, but discourages, religious beliefs.
Yet none of the ideologies I listed above have “rushed in to fill the vacuum”. Chinese people seem sensible, practical, and conservative.
Is this mainly because collectivism has always been prized above individuality?
Or do Chinese people feel “well, life is getting better, we’re getting wealthier, the system must be working”?
Why is a “godless” society doing so well? Why does it lack the cynicism and disillusionment that ate out the Soviet Union like a cancer?
I would love for Hua Bin to enlighten us on this.
Do you mean housing just became affordable? And it’s not just an investment?
Amerika desperately needs that sort of correction – more like 75% – but then the Plebes could afford housing and it would relieve their desperation and the Jew Masters can’t have that! Run faster on that treadmill so you’ll die exhausted.
Leave the Chinese alone and cleanse your own house first!
moi, being sarcastic? i can’t even imagine such a thing.😜
It really says something when you realize that you often have to exercise more caution regarding Spanish scammers once they are outside of their native borders than when they are actually within Spain itself.
Entering into their orbit abroad doesn’t just threaten your wallet; it is a genuine gamble with your physical safety that can cost you your life.
Look the Crans Montana bar that burned to the ground. It is hardly a coincidence that the establishment was under the control of a Spaniard with a Spanish name, perfectly illustrating the inherent instability and danger that seems to follow these operators when they are left unchecked
Another nauseating gook
I started listening to Hitler’s speeches not long ago
Hearing what he had to say for the first time I realized that there is no one better at calling out the fake Jew and their monstrous crimes than Hitler
Hitler nails it
Indeed reading the comments section under Hitler’s speeches there are countless observations that what Hitler is describing is exactly what is happening to the US right now
Here’s a good Hitler starter speech for those who want to listen to him for the first time;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8qQhOQUqwM&lc=UgzUna3gndIQsZgri794AaABAg.ARDetrzvpGBARZLT9rB3Ul
Your assertion that Hitler and the fake Jews were working together doesn’t hold a drop of water
Sure there are controlled opposition like the so-called National Socialists in Ukraine and AFD in Germany
They are not real nationalists they slurp on a fake Jew schlong and follow their orders
Regarding the fake Jew Zelensky and the Ukraine war
The Ukraine fake and phony war’s purpose was to sweep the murderous covid fraud under the rug when the fake Jews behind it figured it had run its course
To any thoughtful person this should be obvious.
Nope! I mean that probably 80-90% of Chinklander homeowners are now underwater on their mortgages … leading to them feeling poor (because they now are) … leading to reduced consumption … leading to the failure of XIt stains “internal circulation” plan … leading to factories closing … leading to increased unemployment … leading to the whole of Chinkland circling the porcelain bowl right before the flush. LOL!!!
and let’s not get into the fact that there are many Chnklanders who have bought 2-3-4-even more houses in order to profit from the RE bubble … and now wishing that they hadn’t!
Nope! Nobody needs a 75% correction in RE prices.
I’ll do a strong pass on the first and point out that Trump’s deportations are doing the second! LOL!!!
“that little vassal flunky once led by Justin Trudeau who now is touring the world with Kary Perry?”
Pillow biter Trudope is hoping that rumors that he is dating Katy Perry, will make the public think that he’s hetrosexual. Intelligent and informed people in his country know that he, like his late father is AC/DC.
“True, but if the printing press was so easy, why did the Roman Empire not invent it in 1400 years?”
Perhaps the Roman Empire had no need for the printing press. Many things have been invented over time, but never were mass produced because there was no demand nor need for them.
“The Western govmnts and the PharmaCorpses run the narcotic drug trade.
The Toronto Dominion Bank is apparently the largest money laundering bank in the world.”
I remember when I first went to the Caribbean, including the US Virgin Islands, wondering why the relatively small country of Canada, had such a large banking presence in the islands. Much later I found out that Canadian banks moved in there to take advantage of the enormous drug revenues that needed to be laundered out of Columbia and other narco states. Apparently, US banks were prohibited by US law to set up shop there.
Interesting fact, if you look at the assets of the biggest banks in the world, the biggest Canadian banks like the one mentioned, rival the size of the largest world banks despite the Canadian economy being around ten percent of the US economy.
https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/bank
This is just christcucker bullshit. Biblical christianity *is* a jew worshipping cult because the bible is a jew glorifying book. It is hardly surprising, since all of the bible is written by jews. Christianity is nothing else than universal reform judaism sold under another brand name because “universal reform judaism for goyim” would not sell anywhere. But that is what it is. It is the original jewish poison, the first form of jewish globohomo, the origin of biological leninism and marxism.
Ahem! It is a GOD glorifying book!!
I hate to tell you this, but Jews are only 1 of the 12 tribes of Abraham! I’m pretty sure that some of the older books of the Bible were NOT written by Jews. Yup! Pretty sure. The odds are 11 to 1. LOL!!
Jews disagree! LOL!!!
and where does the Bible, or Judaism, support Marxism??? I don’t see it. LOL!!!
I can show (and have shown: link) that China’s printing press spread slowly westwards all the way to England (as the printed portrait of St. Christopher demonstrates; its 1423 date precedes Gutenberg’s work by decades). Gutenberg was therefore extremely unlikely to have been ignorant of the Chinese technology.
What I have on my side is evidence. On your side is nothing but the statement of a proven liar.
Not really. The chingchong language consists of abstract emoticons painted with a brush. There are thousands of emoticons, and you need a cast metal piece for each and every of them. You also need several, in case of a word being used several times on the same page. Each metal casting of a chinese word requires its own complex cast. Contrast this with phonetic letter languages, where you only need the letters, but many copies of them, and there are not that many of them, nor are they very complex, so you can cast tons of them easily.
The north east asians were stuck in the iron age until very late in history. The japanese came out of it first after greedy americans forced them to open their ports, and promptly used their imported knowledge and technology to turn the koreans into their riceslaves. I snicker whenever some colored people boast about their three or four or five thousand years of civilisation, their entire history is a long period of total stagnation. If there had been no transfer of technology from Europe from the rest of the world, instigated by evil christians and their brothers in faith the jews, the global population would be less than 1 billion, and hundreds of millions of asians would still live an iron age farmer life while thinking that they are on top of the world.
That seems unlikely, Joe. When China’s printing press finally reached the areas once ruled by Rome, an explosion of books occurred. The pent-up demand must have been enormous. I doubt the Romans had no need for a way to replicate their documents. Yet they did not invent the printing press, not in 1400 years.
Whatever. Marco Polo’s jaws dropped when he visited China in the 13th century; the Middle Kingdom had far better technology than Europe, and the printing press was probably a major reason for it.
China’s technology had such tremendous impact on the West that Francis Bacon, one of Europe’s top scholars said
No empire, such as the Roman Empire, had greater impact on Europe. No sect, such as Christianity, had been more powerful. China’s technology completely changed life in Europe.
People like you are implicitly acknowledging the importance of China’s printing press: not only did the West steal it, the West continues very loudly to try to steal the credit for inventing it.
You’re the type of VICIOUS and arrogant Yankee racist that is taking China’s rise so very badly. I feel your pain at no longer being ‘Number One’, and it is DELICIOUS.
Churches in the RF are NOT “full of religious people”, because the actual religious people in the RF tend to be Muslims, not christians. (A large chunk of the burgeoning population from nominally muslim central asian countries, like Tajikistan and especially Kazakhstan, is quite secular. Just saying that if a russian federation citizen or permanent resident is religiously observant and attends services, he is probably just as likely to be a musl8m as a christian.)
Russians do not attend church much at all, period. The large, beautiful cathedrals built under Putin stand largely empty, not even well attended on major holidays in many places.
For better and for worse, Russia is hardly a christian country, let alone a particularly devout and observant one.
https://re-russia.net/en/review/278/
“…arrogant Yankee racist that is taking China’s rise so very badly.”
In order to “rise”, you’ve got to earn it.
According to Henri-Jean Martin (16 January 1924 – 13 January 2007) who was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and PRINTING, the Korean METAL movable type of 1377 ( about 70 years BEFORE Gutenberg developed metal movable type) that in turn, had been based on older Chinese METAL movable type, was described as “EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Gutenberg’s.
Also you should remember that in the Middle Ages, there were a lot of trades between China and Europe thru the silk roads.
So the chances of Gutenberg independently inventing movable type 400 years AFTER Chinese invented first, are slim to none.
Henri-Jean Martin was not an ordinary scholar when it came to printing and books.
I’ll quote from Wikipedia “Henri-Jean Martin (16 January 1924 – 13 January 2007) was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and PRINTING (emphasis mine). He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France, and the history of libraries and PRINTING (emphasis mine).”.
OF ALL PRIZES, he was awarded in 1998 the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz for OUTSTANDING artistic, technical and scientific ACHIVEMENTS in the FIELD of PRINTING.
Do you really think if the Gutenberg Society had thought Henri-Jean Martin’s statement that the 1377 Korean METAL movable type based on older Chinese METAL movable type, was EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Gutenberg’s movable type that was developed more than 70 years LATER, was not true, would have given him the prize?
I’m sorry I burst your bubble, little white boy.
I was gone for about 45 days. But I can see you have not changed a bit.
You are still the same moron from the Honkieland, LOL !!!
The World’s EARLIST computer was made in ancient China.
On 2nd Jan 2026, many news and social media such as South China Morning Post, Bang Kok Post, Interssting Engineering, RedHot Cyber,etc had big headlines claiming that world’s first computer was invented in China OVER 2000 years ago in about the 2nd century BC.
The prograamable computer based on binary code of 0 and 1 was in the form of figure loom called Ti Hua Ji built around the 2nd century BC in the Western Han Dynasty.
Ti Hua Ji loom was the computer hardware and it had “pattern card”(software) just like the modern punch card.
Here is AI summary:
” The ancient Chinese Ti Huo Ji (ti hua ji) loom, over 2,000 years old, is being discussed as a potential candidate for the world’s first computer due to features interpreted as programmable, binary-like logic.
In recent coverage, China’s science authorities and several outlets describe the Western Han dynasty loom as having programmable, modular elements that readers compare to early computing concepts, which has sparked debate about what counts as the first computer.
The claim is contested and sits alongside other ancient computing candidates such as Antikythera devices and Jacquard looms, depending on how “computer” is defined. For context, sources note the loom’s alleged binary-like programming and multiple modules dating back to around 150–200 BCE.”
Unlike the Greek Antikythrea Mechanism built in around 1st century BC that is supposd to be less advanced analog computer, the ancient Chinese loom is a more advanced binary therefore digital computer just like the modern computer.
Also China used so-called Jacquard loom in Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD)that is a preccursor of the modern computer.
The Chinese Jacquard loom technology was transmitted to Italy \ via Persia in about the 15th century.century AD.
Unlike the Greek Antikythrea Mechanism built in around the 1st century BC that was supposed to be a less advanced analog computer, the Chinese loom Ti Hua Ji was a more advanced binarary therfore digital computer just like the modern computer.
Also Jacquard loom was used extensively in Chinese Han Dynasty (202 BC- 220 AD ) and Jacquard loom technology was transmitted to Italy in the 15th century. Jacquard loom is considered a precursor of the modern computer.
In case you don’t already know. Creating money out of thin air by banks is part and parcel of economic expansion. U.S. banks can’t survive without their creating money out of thin air through fractional reserve. Such magic did cause problem from time to time. Viola, the Federal Reserve system is created to preclude serious problems.
Operationally speaking:
1) The Fed would drop or rise the Fed Fund Rate which would then encourage or discourage banks from expanding their loan portfolio.
2) All banks are required to have enough Fed fund to support their magical money making activities, and
3) The Fed also serve the function of the last bank and it would assist other banks, domestic and foreign central bank, as the Fed sees fit.
To accomplished 2), the Fed has a “Open market committee” buy and sell Fed fund from and to the banks. To accomplished 3), the Fed itself also created money from thin air, operationally speaking.
And the chinese wooden printing blocks were EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Egyptian ones from 2k years earlier 🙂
But you are lying (mostly to yourself I think) regarding the extreme similarity. The key point of Gutenberg’s originality was an element of mechanization in re-using a wine press. This is where his design was an order of magnitude better than the Asian ones.
However, do not worry about me, tiny yellowish boy, I am really glad that you are pointing out that even Koreans were better than the Chinese in printing technology 🙂 I’m sure all the little red chinks here will appreciate that 🙂
As far as we can see here you have proved anything in your life. You can’t even read shorts texts with a semblance of understanding 🙂
Your wishful thinking is not a demonstration.
Still waiting for that evidence: all you need to do is show us that Gutenberg had access to any such chinese technology. Instead of yapping about evrything just to change the topic.
PS. And by the way, H. Bin was not an eye witness to the Tiananmen massacre 🙂
You lying little Honkie said “And the chinese wooden printing blocks were EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Egyptian ones from 2k years earlier”
According to AI summary,Wooden blocks in ancient Egypt appear mainly in sculpture rather than large-scale construction blocks, with wood used for block-style statues and other wooden works NOT for printing
But Egyptian wooden blocks wre used for PRINTING ONLY in the 10th century AD, notably for decorating textiles and later in other printed patterns during the MEDIAVALperiod.
For your information,woodblock printing is a traditional technique using carved wooden blocks to transfer ink onto fabric or paper, also ORIGINATED from China BEFORE 220 AD.
You said “I am really glad that you are pointing out that even Koreans were better than the Chinese in printing technology ”
Again you devious pollock skipped the part in which I said ” the 1377 Korean METAL movable type based on older Chinese METAL movable type,”
No wonder you dumb pollocks are at the bottom of european honkie hierarchy, LOL !!!
I think you apply selective memory so that you don’t want to remember the things you don’t like. So I will repeat what I said before one more time for your benefit.
According to Henri-Jean Martin (16 January 1924 – 13 January 2007) who was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and PRINTING, the Korean METAL movable type of 1377 ( about 70 years BEFORE Gutenberg developed metal movable type) that in turn, had been based on older Chinese METAL movable type, was described as “EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Gutenberg’s.
Also you should remember that in the Middle Ages, there were a lot of trades between China and Europe thru the silk roads.
So the chances of Gutenberg independently inventing movable type 400 years AFTER Chinese invented first, are SLIM to NONE..
OF ALL PRIZES, he was awarded in 1998 the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz for OUTSTANDING artistic, technical and scientific ACHIVEMENTS in the FIELD of PRINTING.
Do you really think if the Gutenberg Society had thought Henri-Jean Martin’s statement that the 1377 Korean METAL movable type based on older Chinese METAL movable type, was EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Gutenberg’s movable type that was developed more than 70 years LATER, was not true, would have given him the prize?
So think about it, you little honkie.
Fiat currency always collapses, and it’s no coincidence the beginning of the Federal Reserve crime cartel in 1913 was followed by the outbreak of World War 1 the following year. I can’t believe any would defend the private bankers who own the Federal Reserve. It’s absurd, but, coming from an anonymous account, it’s likely I’m dealing with one of the millions of chatbots online. If I owned the Federal Reserve, I’d brainwash hundreds of millions and create millions of chatbots too.
Money that isn’t linked to labor is a scam. It’s common sense that when a small group controls the printing of a nations money, they will selfishly do it to promote and protect their own interests.
I have evidence that China’s printing press spread to England, the westernmost end of Europe, decades before Gutenberg’s work. You have no evidence, only the words of a proven liar.
This is the best summary of your knowledge and claims 🙂 Nuff said 🙂
And the real intelligence says that the printing blocks were EXTREMELY SIMILAR.
As opposed to Gutenberg’s invention, which was 50-60 times faster than its contemporary chinese “counterparts”. That’s all one needs to know 🙂
PS. I guess you must be using some chinesium AI, aren’t you?
Too bad Gutenberg wasn’t from England 🙂
A simple problem for you: if they were so extremely similar, how come Gutenberg’s was 50-60 times faster? 🙂
You were not missed!
and why should I? LOL!!!
and you’re still the same moron from Chinkland! LOL!!
Now call me Daddy!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
You are nothing but a dumb idiot living in the collapsing Honkieland led by the stupid ,MAGA wrecking balls.
Son, you can call me just your highness, LOL !!!!
No, but he was in Mainz, Germany, directly on the migration path of the printing press from China all the way to England, the westmost edge of Europe. Thus he was unlikely to have been ignorant of China’s technology. You really have no argument; you’re merely wasting everyone’s time.
I say once more: I have strong and nearly iron-clad evidence that Gutenberg did not invent the printing press. I also have evidence that Gutenberg was probably aware of China’s revolutionary technology for publishing books. All you have are your words, the worthless words of a proven liar.
Let’s get one thing straight. I get most of my information by reading books and journals, newspapers etc.
But sometimes I go online to find information, they provide AI summary FIRST AUTOMATICALLY without me asking for it so that I don’t even know which AI model they use
You said ” the chinese wooden printing blocks were EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Egyptian ones from 2k years earlier”
That’s pure bullshit. Because wooden BLOCKS in ANCIENT Egypt appear mainly in sculpture rather than large-scale construction blocks, with wood used for block-style statues and other wooden works NOT for printing.
So you still believe the Chinese wooden printing blocks were EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Egyptian ones from 2k years earlier, then show me this is true by listing credible source.
You said “A simple problem for you: if they were so extremely similar, how come Gutenberg’s was 50-60 times faster?”
You are full of nonsense here.It’s more likely the other way around. I’ll explain to you. So you pay attention.
The printing expert Henry-Jean Martin said the Chinese-Korean MOVABLE TYPE was EXTREMELY SIMILIAR to Gutenberg’s MOVABLE TYPE that was built about 70 years LATER.
So both MOVABLE TYPES were extremely similar. But the difference was that Gutenberg’s movable type was paired with a PRESS while Chinese movable type was NOT paired a PRESS.
Gutenberg’s printing PRESS was very cumbersome and inefficient due to it’s PRESS.
Gutenberg used old Roman-style WINE-PRESS for his printing PRESS. It was very time-consuming to operate because heavy platen at the end of the long screw, had to move down by turning a handle that was attached to the screw to press the inked paper and then the screw had to come back up for the next printing.
Gutenberg’s so -called mechanized printing PRESS was composed of MOVABLE TYPE and PRESS.. The most important part of Gutenberg’s printing press was the MOVABLE TYPE , NOT the PRESS..
Chinese printing PROCESS of inking the MOVABLE TYPE with horse -hair brush first and then set the paper firmly over the inked type and sweep the back of paper with un -inked brush then it’s done, printed. It’s a very simple and fast but efficient.
Compared to the Chinese printing PROCESS , Gutenberg’s printing PRESS was very time-consuming process. While the Chinese printing PROCESS could print 5 sheets of paper, the Gutenberg’s printing PRESS would be lucky to print 1 sheet of paper. Jesuit missionaries in China said the Chinese printing PROCESS had many advantages over the Gutenberg’s printing PRESS
But the Industrial Revolution changed all that. With the coming of the STEAM-POWERED printing PRESS in the 19th century, the European printing PRESS was finally more efficient than the Chinese printing PROCESS.
JPS summed you best 🙂
But here’s an aspen stake, to finish you off for good:
“Gutenberg made a mechanical machine, a printing press, which allowed printers to greatly speed up the printing process. Asian printing in contrast involved rubbing paper into types covered in ink. It was not done using a machine, and it was not done using mass-produced metal types. The difference was profound. Around 1600 European printing presses could output 1500 to 3600 pages per day. Chinese printing technique in contrast could only do about 40 pages per day.”
“wooden BLOCKS in ANCIENT Egypt appear mainly in sculpture”
I am wondering – are you really that dumb? Or are you just pretending?
Because I’ve seen those prints in the British Museum 🙂
🙂
Well, I really can’t help you. And I have heard that psychiatric issues in China are generally not welcome by the society. But maybe you can find some help online via zoom? You do seem to know English.
“Money that isn’t linked to labor is a scam.”
Yes, this!
Canada is a vassal state to the US already, spare me this gibberish.
Canucks are all natural born slaves.
Just like the Indians they import.
Just like you.
JPS? oh, I remember the imbecile who knows nothing about the pre-modern Chinese technology but loves spewing a lot of garbage out of his big mouth. So you got the information from the shithead, LOL !!!
I’ll quote from page 184 of The Eastern Origins Of Western Civilization by John M.Hobson.
“Moreever it is interesting to note that it was only in the 19th century that the European printing press became fastter than it’s Asian counterparts-up until then it (European printing press, emphasis mine) remained a SLOW and EXPENSIVE form of reproducing texts”.
According to History of Information
http://www.historyofinformation.com › detail
The Egyptian wood-block prints that are shown at British Museum displays are typically dated to the mid-14th century AD, with specimens excavated at Faiyum and believed to originate around the 1300s. That places them roughly 650–700 years old.
According to lockwoodonlinejorum; Gliding Textiles and Printing Blocks in Ten Century Egypt
Current evidence places the APPERANCE of wooden block printing in Egypt around the 10th century AD.
So your assertion that the Chinese wooden printing blocks were EXTREMELY SIMILAR to Egyptian ones from 2000 years EARLIER ,is very WRONG because in that time period, Egypt didn’t have printing wooden blocks in view of that China invented wood block printing in about 220 AD.
Where is India’s strategic autonomy?
Another surrender to Trump who just threatened 25% tariff on nations doing trade with Iran. India is pandering to this whimsicality by withdrawing all trade with Iran. Trump has made a habit of humiliating India.
When will your people stand up?
Brahmins from North India, primarily Uttar Pradesh, feel threatened because Mamdani is the the mayor of New York.
California has sued Cisco for caste discrimination against a Dalit. It defends 2 Brahmins who mentally harassed a Dalit and twice denied him promotion. No force in the world can civilize Bakchod. As Bakchod migrate with their filthy mindset, caste will emerge as a global problem.
If James Dickey wrote a novel about a canoe trip on Spain . . .?
As I said, you have only your words, the worthless words of a proven liar.
And that’s coming from an individual with a serious mental deficiency (vide “I have strong and nearly iron-clad evidence that Gutenberg did not invent the printing press.”)
🙂
Yawn.
But the printed textiles shown there date back all the way to 14th century but BC 🙂
“Current evidence places the APPERANCE of wooden block printing in Egypt around the 10th century AD.”
🙂
And Sumerian block prints for clay decorations date back all the way to 4000 BC. For that you need to go to Louvre 🙂
Not information – just making fun of you. I think that’s even better. Or worse – for you 🙂
It depends though what they use it for.
Henry Ford was rather in favor of using generated profits to fund his manufacturing investment. In general he didn’t trust the finance sector. Loans gave financiers leverage and back in 1920 he already saw them as looters.
China does it better than the US. They control the financial sector to make sure that manufacturing gets the created money that it needs.