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Halsey “English”

Because he wants to do his level best to get the goyim to believe that he is on their side (he is part of the “solution”, i.e., a White and Jewish right wing alliance against “the problem”,  “The Left”, by which he refers to the international Leftism, i.e., liberalism imposed on Whites, that his (((tribe))) was instrumental in having created and imposed in crass, vast distortion in the first place. Now that his tribe is confronted with the intersection of leftism confronting Jewish hegemony, he will do everything in his power to distract from, assist in burying and thwarting a White Ethnonational Left, a platform which is wise to and secured against his tribe’s game.

Witness this chat, which he participated-in alongside my discussion of the question, “Are Jews good for Western Civilization?” with Luke Ford.

Halsey tries to act as if not the first word of what I say makes any sense, is worth any consideration (let alone having significant insight), it is all just worthless - only summary dismissal is deserved from the get-go. True to his slovenly pig self, he is so heavy handed and mono thematic in the comments that he makes his agenda as such entirely too obvious.

Rodney Martin - Rodney says his family is from Silesia. The Mongoloid invasions of the 1200s shows in his face.

Rodney Martin (who goes by the handle “Movement Critic”) is absolutely disgusting. He tries to say that I am Polish and Jewish (I am 3% trace Jewish from my Italian side). He is a Nazophile who confabs with Jews in typical right wing perfidy. He takes a near identical line against me as (((Halsey))).

This post will look at the chat from the Hangout,  “Are Jews good for Western Civilization?”, 6 Jan 2019, and it is appalling.

But first I’d like to remark that upon review of the audio, one interesting point that I didn’t notice at the time was that Luke was asking how it was that Jews, as such a small percentage of the population, could marginalize people?

Luke Ford (Orthodox Jewish convert): who tries to suggest that Jews can’t have such important influence because they are such a small population; and with that, straw mans my argument about “marginals” by asking how such a small population can create marginals, when I did not say that they were creating marginals, I suggested that they were opening the bounds and borders that would otherwise protect marginals first - they are opening the borders and bounds to liberalization and therefore running roughshod over accountability to and from marginals (which is everybody within a group, from time to time).

Luke Ford - “The social justice warriors are winning” against my Jewish hegemony and White, right wing sell-out coalition

Worse, when I described the theory of horizontal transmission and its prescription (which is separatism, not genocide), Luke Ford then tried to say that I was saying that Jews are parasites. And a few people in the chat tried to make that smear stick.

Furthermore, what Luke Ford is doing by pushing this right wing agenda and coddling Nazi sympathizers is evil - the trajectory of conflict that he’s instigating is evil.

But the whole transcript (which I posted with the audio) is interesting - probably better than waiting through my uhms and ahs - though I must say in my defense, I deliver significant content after a short wait as surely as I hesitate in those ums and aahs. I finally looked at Luke Ford’s chat room and these people are totally full of shit. I mean really stupid, even in their lame attempts to obstruct my voice and message.

Poor (((misguided))) Holly. Part of her personality is fixated at 14 - years of age, that is.

Perhaps the most disappointing antagonist in the chat was Holly R. - a lawyer but a Christ-tard and shockingly stupid. It’s a shame because her comments about the OJ trial and the demands of PC (at Dennis Dale’s Hangout) were well considered, but her remarks on this chat were, well, there is no other word but stupid.

Halsey, it’s to be expected. Like the rest of them, his comments were so lame that I can’t even take them seriously.

The chat’s mind was so clearly made up beforehand that it made it too obvious. There was no way to be hurt by it. There was no pretense of objectivity, just sheer malicious intent from the get go.

Church of Entropy was surprisingly lame in her comments.

There were only a few grudging acknowledgments. Those people really suck. Honesty has a very limited role in their platform.

Below and in further comments I am going to present excerpts from the chat. Here’s a look at all of the most malicious characters. You can get a sense of their political/ideological perspective.

Halsey Right Now

Halsey, we know, is a Jewish guy who is figuring heavily in promoting “The Left’ as the enemy and the Leftist Jews are the bad ones, while we right-wingers need to stick together to fight the real enemy, ‘The Left.”

Of course I am promoting a White Left ethnonationalism which is entirely different and at odds with international leftism or the liberalism that he wants people to take for granted as “the left”. It closes off the Jewish games and entryism, also shuts out their misrepresentations as it affords us capacity to define it for ourselves (not liberal, not taking away private property, not seeking equality, though justice, yes, and not against wealth], and finally, it brings to account those right wingers who would sell us out to them] I call him and people like him out on the games they are playing and suckering people into [ “The Left” is the enemy and the right is the solution is a variant of problem - reaction - solution ] and so he and his kind are doing all they can to bury and misrepresent my platform.

“Movement Critic” is Rodney Martin - calls me “Jewish” because I have 3% trace Jewish ancestry.

“Movement Critic” is the Nazophile Rodney Martin. Rodney used to be on friendly terms with Carolyn Yeager until right wing schisiming did its thing. On a subsequent stream he said that he has no sympathy for the Poles that were killed in the Polish Warsaw uprising.

He calls me “Polish and Jewish” in this stream. I am half Polish and half Italian, with trace 3% Jewish from my Italian side (according to DNA tests).

Holly R. is the aforementioned lawyer and a Jesus freak, making a very strong case for the phenomenon of compartmentalized intelligence.

Not only utterly stupid in her assessment, not only malicious (some Christian), but doing it an a puerile way. I’ve listened back and can’t for the life of me hear how I am supposed to pronounce “modernity” in a ‘gay sounding’ way.

Not sure who James James is yet, maybe Babylonian Hebrew.

Brian Brennan is a confused and misguided White guy.

Brundlefly -Jewish wife, kid and a Christard; that sums it up.

Brundlefly is a Christard with a Jewish wife and son. In a subsequent stream’s chat, he told me to “gass myself.” Some Christian.

Norvin Hobbs: A ginger, thus Halsey attributes no soul.

Norvin Hobbs: pro White Anglo American needs to get out of the right wing.

In the subsequent comments I will present the most virulent excerpts from the chat - there was almost no support except from Norvin Hobbs who said he wanted to talk to me and pushed back on Holly’s insistent Christianity.

Ecce Lux has his heart in the right place, but he’s being misguided into the company of these Jews, and taking the bait of their right wing misdirection.

Alex Delarge, well who cares?

Church of Sky-Lilly, er Entropy

Church of Entropy is a kind of Jewish groupie - takes her physics degree and tries to promote a fanciful version of reincarnation; when it’s clear to anyone that DNA reconstructs at least to some extent over generations. Further, for the degree of intelligence required of that field, she’s surprisingly stupid in her remarks.

1) When I talk about Clerk Maxwells Demons, the Augustinian and Manichean Devils, these are clearly metaphors for two different kinds of classic challenges that people are up against.

a) Augusitinian devils: natural challenges which don’t change their rule structure if you solve them.

b) Manichean devils: man made challenges, which can include deception and trickery - including changing the rules if you solve them.

Stupidly, Church of Entropy acts like I am talking about literal devils rather than clear metaphors.

David Hival​ (Doovid), never evolved to believe in evolution.

David Hival​ (Doovid): Doovid, is a classic liberal Jew. And he doesn’t believe in evolution, lol. Why should anyone take him seriously?

“Movement Critic” is Rodney Martin; more like Jewish minion

27:14 Movement Critic (Rodney Martin - this overcompensating, Mongoloid looking Nazophile’s sentiments are clear from the get go). Typical right winger, look (((who))) he is hanging out with and ingratiating himself with.

Rodney Martin, ‘Movement Critic’ says:

​This is why the Poles lost, they tried to talk both the Germans & Soviets to death and both just got fed up & shot them.

Halsey Jewish

28:14
Halsey News Network (((Halsey)))

​How autistic is this guy?

28:33

Halsey News Network
​Germany, the heart of Somalia

“Movement Critic” is Rodney Martin, looking very much like a victim of Downs Syndrom

29:13
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin….and doesn’t he look like he has Downs Syndrome)
​@Halsey News Network please translate

29:19
Halsey News Network
​This guy is a broken Deep Blur

29:42
Halsey News Network
​Translate what this guy is saying?

29:55
Halsey News Network
​He is saying herpa derp derp

29:56
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin)
​@Halsey News Network yes

30:07
Halsey News Network
​Like I have any clue

30:29
Halsey News Network
​He sounds like he is is broken

30:34
James James (I am not sure who James James is)
​This is why Daniel hasn’t received a phone call since 1980.

30:45
Halsey News Network
​Like a dictionary program that lost some bits

30:47
Alex Delarge (who cares who Alex Delarge is. His mind was made up before the start, like the rest of them)
​LOL James

30:50
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin, his Downs Syndrome is acting up….and doesn’t he look like he has Downs Syndrome)
​@Halsey News Network I think I need a blunt to understand him????

31:18
Halsey News Network
​This guy smoked thirty blunts before he came on

31:38
Halsey News Network
​Ever I am not cranky

36:09
Halsey News Network
​Is this guy trolling?

36:10
Brian Brennan
​funny that 90 people are listening to this

Norvin Hobbs: A ginger, thus Halsey attributes no soul.

36:11
Norvin, hello

36:14
Halsey News Network
​I will call it

36:14
Alex Delarge
​hey Norvin

Poor (((misguided))) Holly. Part of her personality is fixated at 14 - years of age, that is. She is an attorney, making a strong case for compartmentalized intelligence.

36:17
Holly R. (Lawyer, Jesus Freak, Puerile idiot):
​zzz

36:17
Halsey News Network
​Like won

36:20
Levi
​@John Harris america was a refuge for ashkies for centuries

36:24
Halsey News Network
​Save our brains

36:42
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin) [Doesn’t like the fact that I see Christianity for what it is]
​This clown just lost all credibility, he is a Jim Goad

36:43
Halsey News Network
​This guy is as coherent as carrot top

37:11
Holly R.
​☦️☦️☦️

37:19
Alex Delarge
​oh no

37:21
Luke Ford​
holly!

37:26
BatsintheBarbell​ (this guy might be White and sincere)
what did he mean by this

37:26
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin) [there’s a lot wrong with the golden rule, Rodney]
​There is nothing wrong with the Golden Rule

37:29
E. Vee​
oh its Holly

37:32
E. Vee
​hey Holly

37:34
Holly R.
​“Rejecting Christ to own the Jews.” So smart.

37:37
Halsey News Network
​Because gingers have no souls

37:38
Alex Delarge
​anti-Christian too…

37:44
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin)
​This guy is just a crybaby

37:46
Levi [No, they’ve deceived Whites into worshiping one though]
​jews worship a jew on a stick?

37:47
Holly R.
Hi @Luke

38:20
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin)
​Hi @Holly R.

38:33
John Harris
​Daniel is a former catholic?? Repent daniel!

38:39
Holly R.
​Hey @movementcritic

38:39
Halsey News Network
​I am really glad I am high IQ because this guy is making me dumber

38:44
Alex Delarge
​he’s as tedious as Kant

38:58
Norvin Hobbs
​@holly R lots of people are not into Christianity for a number of logical and metaphysical reasons

39:00
Movement Critic (Rodney Martin)
​@Holly R. bet this guy’s GF has air in her

39:18
Holly R.
​LOL @movementcritic

39:26
Brian Brennan
​what’s going through Luke’s head right now?

39:28
Holly R.
​Hi Norvin

39:37
Luke Ford​
guess Brian

39:49
Alex Delarge
​lol Luke

39:58
Jmriccitelli​Luke, u have the patience of a bobcat hunting, they can sit and wait for several hours

40:25
E. Vee​
hey Norvin

40:31
Halsey News Network
​Tell this guy I will throw a super chat if he takes an Adderall

40:35
Holly R.
​Hey EVee

41:32
Chris Alton​
@Halsey News Network lollllll

41:34
John Harris
​lets accept for the sake of argument that the JQ isnt real, now what luke?

41:35
Movement Critic [Nice Nazi sentiments, Rodney]
​@Halsey News Network I’ll give $100 if he snorts Zyklon B

41:48
Holly R.
​@movementcritic I’ve been spending time at Orthodox Christian churches. Pretty amazing.

41:56
Halsey News Network
​That would make him slower movement crotic

42:05
Luke Ford
​John, we could talk NFL

42:16
Halsey News Network
​If he gets any slower he will be fully regarded

42:18
Movement Critic
​@Holly R. very majestic

42:20
Halsey News Network
​Retarded

42:27
Holly R.
​Yes

43:24
Halsey News Network
​Usually it is regular autism, this is autism on Valium after catching chlamydia

44:34
Holly R. [she knows nothing about what I know about Christianity, but talks anyway]
​Christianity is way more mystical & amazing than what you see with these tv preachers. I think this guy is just reacting to cartoonish Christianity.

44:53
Halsey News Network
​This guy knows as much about Jews as Rodney knows about non alcoholic drinks

45:31
Holly R.
​@halsey he doesn’t know Christianity either

45:47
Halsey News Network
​This guy knows as much about Jews as norvin does about holding a job

46:48
Halsey News Network
​Doovid he wants to debate you on violence

47:01
Halsey News Network
​He is warming up, he will be ready in 2036

47:02
El Jim [This is probably ecce lux, a sincerely concerned White activist, who probably doesn’t “get me” yet.]
​@doooovid I suspect he’s a russian bot with pre-recorded responses

47:08
Isaiah Sellassie
​Wrong! it was not the captives who returned to Jerusalem—it was the collaborators of Israel who had joined Babylon in the war against Judah

47:35
David Hival​ (Doovid) I have zero idea what this guy’s position is, after all this talking

47:38
Holly R.
​Abraham wasn’t “a Jew.” Fight me.

47:51
Halsey News Network
​I am not fighting you holly

48:08
Holly R.
​LOL @Halsey

48:20
El Jim
​I would love to see this guy and David Duke have a monologue with each other

48:34
Halsey News Network
​This guy is a human tranquilizer, I would lose to Enoch even right now.

48:41
Norvin Hobbs​@Holly R he was a levtine person, so an early jew

48:55
Isaiah Sellassie
​there is chronic misunderstanding of the Israel-Judah civil war—- it is the main problem I see in exegesis

49:02
Halsey News Network
​This guy is making me so slow David duke would be able to beat me with nothing but the power of steroids and Botox

49:23
Active Monad​Well, this is exciting!!

49:28
Halsey News Network
​No you don’t dooovid.

49:38
Halsey News Network
​He is speaking downs syndrome

49:46
El Jim
​Well, at least he’s not setting his cubicle on fire.

49:55
Halsey News Network
​Duke is a human manaquin.

50:01
John Harris
​frame goy

50:06
Halsey News Network
​The man is more plastic than death vader

50:13
Norvin Hobbs​
@Holly R are you CI?

50:13
Halsey News Network
​Darth

50:31
Josh Randall
​@Halsey News Network he can’t even smile without dislocating his ears..

50:38
Halsey News Network
​Lolololk

50:40
Holly R.
​no @norvin I’m a Lutheran but moving toward Orthodox Christianity
50:56

Halsey News Network
​The last time he ate something hot he popped a lip.

51:26
Halsey News Network
​This guy isn’t speaking English. He is speaking cerebral palsy.

51:35
Movement Critic
​@Halsey News Network This guy must be a 1-900 Gay phone sex operator, keep talking & saying nothing so the Schmuk keeps paying in hopes he says something “interesting”

51:49
E. Vee​
Striker is a good man

52:03
E. Vee​
of course you dont, you dont like Jesus either

52:09
Halsey News Network
​I want to debate Rachel Maddow on Who has a bigger dick, her or Richard spencer

52:34
Halsey News Network
​Luke wants to respond but he has no clue what the guy is saying

52:45

Movement Critic
​@Halsey News Network Rachel, hands down

52:48

Halsey News Network
​Actually yes on January 14
53:10

Movement Critic [I said that my DNA tests say that I have 3% trace Jewish from my Italian side]
​@Halsey News Network This guy is Jewish, he has said so

53:19
Halsey News Network
​Communism vs nationalism

53:22
Holly R.
​I’m so busy cleaning my own side of the street right now I can’t be bothered with this guy & his problems.

53:32
Brian Brennan
​70 verbal IQ

53:50
David Hival
​yes, systemic homeostasis for whites. exactly what I’ve been saying

54:03
E. Vee
​ehh Brian, i wouldnt judge him that harshly. nerves play a role. he is probably better if he’s at ease

54:25
Brian Brennan
​I’m just being mean, he could be smart I don’t know his work

54:33
Halsey News Network
​You think is Luke just snapped his fingers this guy would fall asleep?
54:56
BatsintheBarbell​This guy just says what he wants WHEN he wants

55:02
Church of Entropy
​the virgin cares what people think the chad bores the audience to death

55:09
E. Vee
​lol Bats, interesting take

55:11
Halsey News Network
​This guy been hittin the purple drank

55:18
Holly R.
​What if God DID entrust the Jews with his revealed truth as a priest class? What are you going to do then, if that really happened ?

56:09
Halsey News Network [because he knows his game is exposed]
​This is straight painful

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LONDON (AP): Liam Neeson says he’s ashamed to admit he had violent thoughts about killing a black person after learning that someone close to him had been raped.

Neeson says that after being told the attacker was black, he “went up and down areas with a cosh [stick or truncheon]” hoping a black person “would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.”

(((Schultz/Starbucks vulture capitalism - governmental collusion with NGO’s and tribal interests)))

I haven’t visited Morgoth’s for several months, and not for more than a moment in over a year… but having taken a peek today, a fine comment jumped out…

Augur Mayson rendered a fine comment in response to the question of why people hate journalists.

In regard to his example that the (((media))) conveniently promulgated Harold Schultz’ crypsis, referring to him as “a white man”, Augur might have added discussion of which (((Frame Games))) spilled the beans - it is still on line: [url=The Perplexing Case of Starbucks The Perplexing Case of Starbucks) about the scheme that Starbucks is involved in, making deals with black NGO leaders in order to buy-up inner city property on the cheap and then gentrifying it to turn huge profits in sales and rent. ...while these blacks were moved in as block busters to begin with by tribal elders who benefited by driving out Whites, taking advantage of driving down property values and welfare slum lording.

A Starbucks in your neighborhood means this racket is coming to your city.

One wonders, given Starbucks property vulturism, if Trump and his cronies don’t figure into the Schultz deal - as Kumiko surmised, they are mostly about a second tier of wealth, based on real estate investment, particularly U.S., and their concerns as such.

* I took the liberty to correct the malapopriative term, “left”, for him and replaced it with what it should be - “liberal”

Augur Mayson • 6 days ago

Because journalists enhance Jewish racial crypsis, is my current reason. They’re statists posing as rebels. The major media outlets either through commingling with the state or via self-interested owners of a certain ((( race ))) typically parrot whatever ridiculous claims are coming out of the government, either about domestic social issues or correctness of foreign policy. They are not some unelected but real check against government abuses. They are attack dogs. They are megaphones for the rich and the state. They are overwhelmingly leftists liberals* and disproportionately Jewish.

For example, in America now the presidential election in 2020 is shaping up as follows: Trump for the Republicans, because it’s unprecedented for a party to not run an incumbent, unknown candidate for the Democrats, maybe Mrs. Clinton, maybe Joe Biden, maybe someone else, they have a young gay guy they’re trying to talk up now. And the only big independent as yet talked about in the media is former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who’s a Jew, who has used Starbucks to push progressive social policies. For example a few Blacks got thrown out of a Starbucks for presumed loitering; media uproar ensued, Schultz declared to do the exact opposite in future, now they have beggars out front, heroin needles in one bathroom and people giving birth in the other.

So this article in the Judenpresse in America talks up Schultz and says point blank he’s a White man.

“And at 65, he’d have to do that as an older white man who’s never run for office before and has zero national name recognition.” https://www.theatlantic.com...

False, as a CEO of a major corporation he had major exposure and name recognition only second to say Hollywood stars and politicians and media. So the journalist paints Schultz as an unknown (read: underdog, as in, a fetching backstory) and says he’s White when he’s really a Jew.

This is why I hate journalists. Plus if you have a Jewish war you’d like to wage in the desert for no good reason you can always count on the likes of CNN or the BBC to carry the load of b.s. you’re pushing.

NEW YORK: Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz, credited with taking the company from small beginnings to an international behemoth, is stepping down as CEO to focus on new high-end coffee shops, handing the reins to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Johnson.

Schultz, 63, will continue to serve as chairman of the Board and will be appointed executive chairman effective April next year. He handpicked 56-year-old Johnson, the company’s president, chief operating officer and a 7-year member of the Starbucks Board of Directors, to serve as the new CEO.

The Seattle-based company said in his new role, Schultz will focus on the “next wave of retail innovation”, design and development of Starbucks Reserve Roasteries around the world, expansion of the Starbucks Reserve retail store format and the company’s social impact initiatives.

“I will remain Starbucks executive chairman, focusing full-time on the incredible growth opportunities we have in expanding Roasteries and building out our portfolio of Reserve stores and on Starbucks social impact agenda which will be a significant part of the focus going forward,” Schultz said in an investor and media conference call yesterday.

Schultz, who was named by Fortune magazine this month in its list of Businessperson of Year is credited with doubling the company’s revenues since he returned for his second stint in 2008, surpassing USD 20 billion for the first time over the past 12 months

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      Unite the Oxymorons

        At Affirmative Right, Matt Parrott writes:

A few hours ago, President Trump capitulated on the government shutdown, handing Schulosi and the open borders lobby a historic victory. He did so after it became clear that the GOP leadership were planning to override him. A few days before that, Rep. Steve King was stripped of all of his committee assignments by the GOP for speaking up on behalf of “Western Civilization.”

At every turn, it’s the GOP which proves to be our true opposition, with the Democrats and the Jewish community cashing in on the concessions, compromises, and capitulations of the nominal “white guy party.” Alex Linder explained this in his essay, “Attack the Conservatives”:

“The rise of nationalism is almost a mathematical function of the decline of conservatism.”

George Lincoln Rockwell put it even more pointedly:

“To hell with the right wing!”

I have lived this myself. Back in 2010, I orchestrated a statewide robocall campaign, set up a plausibly deniable front group, and hustled the hell out of dozens of state legislators to pass Senate Bill 590, an illegal immigration bill. It took a tremendous amount of effort to get the GOP majority to even bring it to a vote. They didn’t want to. Then after it passed, the GOP governor, Mitch Daniels, vetoed it. I pumped thousands of my own money into an even greater putsch to override the veto. And we achieved it; then the Secretary of State, also GOP, declared it unconstitutional, shelved it.

So what does Parrott conclude? More “unite the right against ‘the left’ is needed”....

Ibid.
Charlottesville was a mistake because it was too deep into enemy territory, but the mistake wasn’t street activism. In Pikeville, we had several locals join us, both before, during, and after the event. At the end of the event, even the locals who came out to oppose us turned on the antifa, chasing them back into their charter buses with “Blue Lives Matter!” chants.

[...]

Say what you want about the lawsuits and arrests, the combined forces of America’s east coast left all joined together in one place to physically destroy us, and were decisively defeated. We only lost Charlottesville after they ran home to their attorneys and politicians, a setback which we could be confronting head on instead of with our backs turned.

How were they decisively defeated? More casualties?

Ibid.

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        Mike Enoch at Pikeville ...

Those Whites who know what’s good for them and their people will really say to hell with the right, stop leading with their chin, uniting line formation with motley anti-social idiots and provocateurs and walking into enemy traps and fire. So long as you want to unite the right, you will be uniting with nuts and infiltrators who are fixated in what should be provisional a-social perspectives.

Unite the right = unite the anti-social = oxymoronic

In Brussels, students skip school for mass global warming protest

EURACTIV.com with Reuters Jan 25, 2019:

Belgian students gather to call for urgent measures to combat climate change during a demonstration in Brussels, Belgium, 24 January 2019. According the police more than 35,000 students are taking part in the demonstration.
   
Thousands of Belgian school children skipped classes on Thursday (24 January) to flood Brussels in an unprecedented protest against global warming and pollution, vowing to miss school once a week until the government takes action.

Students banging drums and carrying signs decrying man-made climate change gathered around the European Parliament.

Police said the 35,000-strong gathering was the biggest turnout of recent times for a student protest in the Belgian capital, which is also home to European Union institutions.

“If we skip every Thursday, if we don’t go to school, the big people in our country and in the world will see that this is a problem,” said high school student Joppe Mathys.

Another student held a sign saying: “Be part of the solution, not the pollution.”

A nine-year-old girl, who gave her name only as Lalla and was with her teacher, said it was time people stopped driving cars and walked and cycled instead.

“Dinosaurs thought they had time too,” read one banner.

The Brief – The future is theirs… unless we destroy it first

Belgian school students feel abandoned by their politicians so they have started a weekly strike for the climate. Their protests pose a major question about how young people are represented in politics ahead of the EU elections in May.

Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said the student demonstration was the biggest in recent memory.

Broad protests started across Belgium on 2 December with a “Claim the Climate” march, when over 65,000 demonstrators called for Belgian and European leaders to adopt ambitious climate policies in line with goals set by the Paris agreement in 2015. That demonstration came before the COP24 UN climate summit in Poland, where a report was released ranking Belgium 31 out of 60 on the 2019 Climate Change Performance Index, or a “medium” performance in implementing the Paris agreements. Brussels has been regularly ranked as one of the most congested cities in western Europe in recent years due to Belgium’s high population density and large number of commuters.

That is also a mark of shame for a capital where the EU sets European climate policies.

Across the EU, road congestion costs the bloc one percent of its annual economic output, or €100 billion per year, according to the European Commission.

German anti-coal demonstrations: ‘We’re running out of time’

In the run-up to the UN climate conference, which began in Katowice in Poland on 2 December, many thousands of people demonstrated to support accelerating the phasing out of the coal industry. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Wind turbines in Nordhorn, Germany. (M. Meissner/AP)

The Financial Secret Behind Germany’s Green Energy Revolution

TruthDig.Org, 24 Jan 2019:

The “Green New Deal” endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D.-N.Y., and more than 40 other House members has been criticized as imposing a too-heavy burden on the rich and upper-middle-class taxpayers who will have to pay for it. However, taxing the rich is not what the Green New Deal resolution proposes. It says funding would come primarily from certain public agencies, including the U.S. Federal Reserve and “a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks.”

Funding through the Federal Reserve may be controversial, but establishing a national public infrastructure and development bank should be a no-brainer. The real question is why we don’t already have one, as do China, Germany and other countries that are running circles around us in infrastructure development. Many European, Asian and Latin American countries have their own national development banks, as well as belong to bilateral or multinational development institutions that are jointly owned by multiple governments. Unlike the U.S. Federal Reserve, which considers itself “independent” of government, national development banks are wholly owned by their governments and carry out public development policies.

China not only has its own China Infrastructure Bank but has established the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which counts many Asian and Middle Eastern countries in its membership, including Australia, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia. Both banks are helping to fund China’s trillion-dollar “One Belt One Road” infrastructure initiative. China is so far ahead of the United States in building infrastructure that Dan Slane, a former adviser on President Donald Trump’s transition team, has warned, “If we don’t get our act together very soon, we should all be brushing up on our Mandarin.”

The leader in renewable energy, however, is Germany, called “the world’s first major renewable energy economy.” Germany has a public sector development bank called KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau or “Reconstruction Credit Institute”), which is even larger than the World Bank. Along with Germany’s nonprofit Sparkassen banks, KfW has largely funded the country’s green energy revolution.

Unlike private commercial banks, KfW does not have to focus on maximizing short-term profits for its shareholders while turning a blind eye to external costs, including those imposed on the environment. The bank has been free to support the energy revolution by funding major investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Its fossil fuel investments are close to zero. One of the key features of KfW, as with other development banks, is that much of its lending is driven in a strategic direction determined by the national government. Its key role in the green energy revolution has been played within a public policy framework under Germany’s renewable energy legislation, including policy measures that have made investment in renewables commercially attractive.

KfW is one of the world’s largest development banks, with assets totaling $566.5 billion as of December 2017. Ironically, the initial funding for its capitalization came from the United States, through the Marshall Plan in 1948. Why didn’t we fund a similar bank for ourselves? Simply because powerful Wall Street interests did not want the competition from a government-owned bank that could make below-market loans for infrastructure and development. Major U.S. investors today prefer funding infrastructure through public-private partnerships, in which private partners can reap the profits while losses are imposed on local governments.

KfW and Germany’s Energy Revolution

Renewable energy in Germany is mainly based on wind, solar and biomass. Renewables generated 41 percent of the country’s electricity in 2017, up from just 6 percent in 2000; and public banks provided over 72 percent of the financing for this transition. In 2007-09, KfW funded all of Germany’s investment in Solar Photovoltaic. After that, Solar PV was introduced nationwide on a major scale. This is the sort of catalytic role that development banks can play—kickstarting a major structural transformation by funding and showcasing new technologies and sectors.

KfW is not only one of the biggest financial institutions but has been ranked one of the two safest banks in the world. (The other, Switzerland’s Zurich Cantonal Bank, is also publicly owned.) KfW sports triple-A ratings from all three major rating agencies—Fitch, Standard and Poor’s, and Moody’s. The bank benefits from these top ratings and the statutory guarantee of the German government, which allow it to issue bonds on very favorable terms and therefore to lend on favorable terms, backing its loans with the bonds.

KfW does not work through public-private partnerships, and it does not trade in derivatives and other complex financial products. It relies on traditional lending and grants. The borrower is responsible for loan repayment. Private investors can participate, but not as shareholders or public-private partners. Rather, they can invest in “Green Bonds,” which are as safe and liquid as other government bonds and are prized for their green earmarking. The first “Green Bond—Made by KfW” was issued in 2014 with a volume of $1.7 billion and a maturity of five years. It was the largest Green Bond ever at the time of issuance and generated so much interest that the order book rapidly grew to $3.02 billion, although the bonds paid an annual coupon of only 0.375 percent. By 2017, the issue volume of KfW Green Bonds reached $4.21 billion.

Investors benefit from the high credit and sustainability ratings of KfW, the liquidity of its bonds, and the opportunity to support climate and environmental protection. For large institutional investors with funds that exceed the government deposit insurance limit, Green Bonds are the equivalent of savings accounts—a safe place to park their money that provides a modest interest. Green Bonds also appeal to “socially responsible” investors, who have the assurance with these simple and transparent bonds that their money is going where they want it to. The bonds are financed by KfW from the proceeds of its loans, which are also in high demand due to their low interest rates, which the bank can offer because its high ratings allow it to cheaply mobilize funds from capital markets and its public policy-oriented loans qualify it for targeted subsidies.

Roosevelt’s Development Bank: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation

KfW’s role in implementing government policy parallels that of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) in funding the New Deal in the 1930s. At that time, U.S. banks were bankrupt and incapable of financing the country’s recovery. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to set up a system of 12 public “industrial banks” through the Federal Reserve, but the measure failed. Roosevelt then made an end run around his opponents by using the RFC that had been set up earlier by President Herbert Hoover, expanding it to address the nation’s financing needs.

The RFC Act of 1932 provided the RFC with capital stock of $500 million and the authority to extend credit up to $1.5 billion (subsequently increased several times). With those resources, from 1932 to 1957 the RFC loaned or invested more than $40 billion. As with KfW’s loans, its funding source was the sale of bonds, mostly to the Treasury itself. Proceeds from the loans repaid the bonds, leaving the RFC with a net profit. The RFC financed roads, bridges, dams, post offices, universities, electrical power, mortgages, farms and much more; it funded all of this while generating income for the government.

The RFC was so successful that it became America’s largest corporation and the world’s largest banking organization. Its success, however, may have been its nemesis. Without the emergencies of depression and war, it was a too-powerful competitor of the private banking establishment; and in 1957, it was disbanded under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. That’s how the United States was left without a development bank at the same time Germany and other countries were hitting the ground running with theirs.

Ellen Brown is an attorney, chairman of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including “Web of Debt” and “The Public Bank Solution.”

Today some U.S. states have infrastructure and development banks, including California, but their reach is very small. One way they could be expanded to meet state infrastructure needs would be to turn them into depositories for state and municipal revenue. Rather than lending their capital directly in a revolving fund, this would allow them to leverage their capital into 10 times that sum in loans, as all depository banks are able to do, as I’ve previously explained.

The most profitable and efficient way for national and local governments to finance public infrastructure and development is with their own banks, as the impressive track records of KfW and other national development banks have shown. The RFC showed what could be done even by a country that was technically bankrupt, simply by mobilizing its own resources through a publicly owned financial institution. We need to resurrect that public funding engine today, not only to address the national and global crises we are facing now but for the ongoing development the country needs in order to manifest its true potential.

Poland, Hungary and France: A Common Cause

By Antoni Trzmiel.

Visigrad Post, Jan 2019:

Poland – We publish here the translation of Antoni Trzmiel’s editorial about the partnership we started with them.

The dorzeczy.pl website, belonging to the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy, has begun cooperation with the Visegrád Post and with the French independent Web channel TV Libertés.

Let us reclaim our own story!

Journalists from these media were in Poland during the days of national celebration of our regained independence. They were preparing a TV documentary for their viewers. Their perspective is not our perspective. But while it may not be rosy, their narrative differs vastly from the infamous description of “thousands of fascists, neo-Nazis and white supremacists marching 300 km from Auschwitz”.

These were the words of a prominent European politician, Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the Liberal group in the European Parliament. They show how much we have to do to stop such statements being made, including – as was the case here – during a debate on the rule of law in Poland. There is just one way to make this happen, and it is not by prohibiting such lies in Polish law, as such a law could not be enforced abroad anyway. Indeed it is not only Poles that should be outraged, but above all those who vote for the people making such ludicrous claims: French, Dutch, Slovakians, Czechs, Hungarians, Greeks, etc. But for this to happen, first they need to know when their representatives are telling them gross lies.

Conversations with my fellow journalists shed light on many bad things that are happening in their countries, which one would not necessarily notice when travelling there on holiday or for work. This is especially true in the field of freedom of expression. We will be writing about such matters on dorzeczy.pl.

Was it worthwhile for David to fight Goliath?

We have decided to cooperate on a permanent basis. Let’s be honest: from a business point of view, this will bring no benefit. Translations, travel and the time spent are all quite significant costs for independent media, which are low-budget non-profit entities. But we believe that if our journalists prepare more materials about the situation in Poland, there is a chance that in some of the media they know and trust, the Hungarians, Belgians and French will get a different picture than the one reflected by the liberal newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

For the time being, there is a huge imbalance in forces, resources, and decades of cooperation. They are tied by common interests, while we share our opposition to the current situation (even though much separates us). True, it is a struggle of David against Goliath. However, cheered by that biblical story, we believe in the victory of truth. Let us be frank: there is a long way to go. But, as the Chinese say, a journey begins with a single step.

On November 11 we took that first step

In our case it consisted of three interviews conducted for our media on the eve of November 11. They were published simultaneously on dorzeczy.pl, visegradpost.com and http://www.tvlibertes.com on the following days.

Our journalist Karol Gac spoke with deputy prime minister Jarosław Gowin. Olivier Bault, a writing editor of Do Rzeczy and correspondent of French alternative media in Poland, questioned the Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Ryszard Terlecki, as well as MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.

Thus, Polish readers and viewers had the opportunity to hear what these politicians wanted to tell people from other countries. This is important. After all, it has become clear lately that they are not heard often enough abroad, given that representatives of foreign voters proved able to compel those who represent a majority of Polish voters to change the law [as was the case with the retirement age of judges sitting in the Polish Supreme Court and Higher Administrative Court].

Our journalists too will regularly prepare materials for what we are confident will be a growing number of partners. At the same time, we will publish materials prepared by our partners on dorzeczy.pl. It is indeed not a normal situation that we know more about Bollywood or Hollywood stars than about the real life of Slovaks or the French. And, as the above examples show, this has a real impact on our own lives.

Antoni Trzmiel is a journalist working for Polish public television (TVP) and is also the head of dorzeczy.pl, the website of the Polish conservative weekly news magazine Do Rzeczy.

Opinion piece originally published in Polish on the Do Rzeczy website. Translated to English by Olivier Bault.