That’s a Wrap!


From: https://afipn.com.au/thats-a-wrap/

  Peter Chris   February 19, 2022  3 min read

You know you are living in strange times when a British Rapper makes more sense than groups of “experts” such as Ozsage and politicians when it comes to managing and understanding humanity during a pandemic.

Nzube Olisaebuka Udezue, better known by his stage name Zuby, is a British rapper. Born in Luton, Udezue was raised in Saudi Arabia and England and graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 2007. In 2006, he started his rapping career and pursued it full-time in 2011 and has released numerous albums.

Here is a list of the twenty things he observed about humanity during the Covid Pandemic.

  1. Most people would rather be in the majority than be right.
  2. At least 20% of the population has strong authoritarian tendencies, which will emerge under the right conditions.
  3. Fear of death is only rivalled by the fear of social disapproval. The latter could be stronger.
  4. Propaganda is just as effective in the modern day as it was 100 years ago. Access to limitless information has not made the average person any wiser.
  5. Anything and everything can and will be politicised by the media, government, and those who trust them.
  6. Many politicians and large corporations will gladly sacrifice human lives if it is conducive to their political and financial aspirations.
  7. Most people believe the government acts in the best interests of the people. Even many who are vocal critics of the government.
  8. Once they have made up their mind, most people would rather to commit to being wrong than admit they were wrong.
  9. Humans can be trained and conditioned quickly and relatively easily to significantly alter their behaviours – for better or worse.
  10. When sufficiently frightened, most people will not only accept authoritarianism, but demand it.
  11. People who are dismissed as ‘conspiracy theorists’ are often well researched and simply ahead of the mainstream narrative.
  12. Most people value safety and security more than freedom and liberty, even if said ‘safety’ is merely an illusion.
  13. Hedonic adaptation occurs in both directions, and once inertia sets in, it is difficult to get people back to ‘normal’.
  14. A significant percentage of people thoroughly enjoy being subjugated.
  15. ‘The Science’ has evolved into a secular pseudo-religion for millions of people in the West. This religion has little to do with science itself.
  16. Most people care more about looking like they are doing the right thing, rather than actually doing the right thing.
  17. Politics, the media, science, and the healthcare industries are all corrupt, to varying degrees. Scientists and doctors can be bought as easily as politicians.
  18. If you make people comfortable enough, they will not revolt. You can keep millions docile as you strip their rights by giving them money, food, and entertainment.
  19. Modern people are overly complacent and lack vigilance when it comes to defending their own freedoms from government overreach.
  20. It’s easier to fool a person than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Imagine if the politicians had this amount of common sense and courage so they could challenge and say no to some of the ridiculous and outright moronic Covid rules demanded by the experts to keep us all safe instead of shaming people’s concerns and calling them conspiracy theorists which is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss critical thinking.

I, like most of you reading this article long for the day when the final scene of this pandemic horror movie is finished, and we hear the words “that’s a wrap” but for now we have to be content with a Rapper making more sense than so-called experts who have never missed a day off work or a cent of their pay.

Adam Piggott: Let Democracy Die

A remarkably good post from Adam Piggott today about the idols we have erected.

I don’t do social media, but when I do it’s only on Gab. There are a lot of Christians on Gab, and when I chance to glance at it my feed is invariably filled with politics. At present the topics vary from Trump won, to Trump is a Jewish-controlled moron, to how this one Republican representative is the only one that gets it, (hint: she doesn’t), to something about ballot counting in Arizona, to how we need to form a real political party that represents real – insert your Anglo-Saxon nation here – and take back our nations, you get the drift.

It’s not just on Gab, it’s all around the websites and forums of the right. And I’m here to tell you that it’s the dead wrong approach. It’s not just a waste of time, it plays into the hands of the Enemy. Because democracy, our most lauded and precious democracy, is the work of the devil himself.

Democracy has no inherent moral compass. This is because all morality comes from God, and thus anything not focused on God is immoral. Our democracies were never focused on God from the beginning. They might have pertained to do so, but the separation of Church and state meant that the world turned from focusing on the spiritual to focusing on the material.

The reason that the vast mass of people are willing to subject themselves to the poison peck is because they look to government as their guide for goodness. They want to be good, (or at least to be seen to be good), but lacking their own internal moral compass due to a complete absence of personal spirituality, their only recourse for guidance is what the government tells them. The catchall is that the people in government, running the government, are in exactly the same position. They too have no moral compass. What are the substitute moral compasses of humanity today?

Read the full article here

The January Parliament: marking 750 years of British democracy

From The Week

The January Parliament: marking 750 years of British democracy

This year is the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the treaty which limited the power of the monarchy and laid the foundation for British democracy. But today marks another, less well remembered anniversary: 750 years since the January Parliament.

What was the January Parliament?

On 20 January 1265, knights, burgesses and aldermen met in London for the first real parliament in British history. Of course, the representatives were ‘elected’ in a far less democratic way than they are now, but the meeting is still seen by academics as the birth of British parliaments.

Why isn’t the January Parliament better known?
The BBC suggests the gathering has been eclipsed in history by the signing of the Magna Carta, fifty years previously. Magna Carta limited the power of the monarch and, after some teething troubles, changed history – but it did not institute anything resembling a parliament.
Who called the meeting?
The January Parliament was summoned by French-born noble Simon de Montfort”, says the Daily Telegraph. He had beaten and taken prisoner both Henry III and his heir – later Edward I – at the Battle of Lewes the previous year, becoming de facto monarch, though ruling in Henry’s name.

Why did Montfort institute a parliament?
Montfort’s position was tenuous – he had risen to the top as one of a group of barons and could expect to be unseated at any moment. He wanted the backing of “as wide a section of society as possible”, the BBC says. But his motive wasn’t purely self-interest: as a Christian, Montfort was advised by the church he should work for the good of the poor.

Who were the first ‘MPs’?
Montfort ordered each county of England to send two knights, says the Telegraph. Towns were asked to send two burgesses and two aldermen. The delegates were ‘elected’ locally – in some cases chosen by lot.

Was it really the first parliament?

There had been parliaments before – but in a more limited sense. They were “elite gatherings between the king and his chosen advisors”, says the BBC, to which knights were occasionally invited – but only to discuss taxation. The January Parliament discussed wider affairs of state, was not called by the king, and included burgesses from the towns. ·

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/62173/the-january-parliament-marking-750-years-of-british-democracy#ixzz3POyReuoZ