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— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) August 10, 2020
WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
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Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
– – WH Auden
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
As if I had just woken from all water into dream.
— Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 1973
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The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
Down valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
Looking down for miles
Through high still air.
BY GARY SNYDER
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
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That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
– – W. B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
As if I had just woken from all water into dream.
— Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 1973
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Are you people really gonna lose your shit over this video? It’s the white-Aussie equivalent of George Floyd. Did you learn nothing over the last three months? Show me the rest of the video where the rough-looking dyke in the JNCOs and Docs was actually the picture of docile femininity. I ain’t buying it.
That cop was pitiful though. Looks like Bill Nighy trying to roll up a large carpet.
Really? So, if it is equivalent, when someone has a knee or a choke hold we should just film it or go on our merry way? Over not wearing a mask. Nice. I’ve got kids, and if they were handled like this, there would be no place to f’in hide. You better figure out what side you’re on because the time is nigh.
This is a kid not wearing a mask OUTSIDE in the summer, when coronviruses fail to thrive, due to heat
There’s thousands of feet air.above his head for the virus to circulate. There’s no AC to recirculate the virus in an enclosed space. Which is why nobody asked anybody anywhere to mask up during the first few months
Aussie culture is not British culture, but it comes from British culture. And one definite aspect of British culture is that one does not resist arrest. If a police officer says, “You’re nicked,” you don’t fight it.
This is disturbing on multiple levels.
Mark Steyn’s podcast of this date tells that the young woman had a medical exemption not to wear a mask. Yet that policeman wasn’t interested in whatever that young woman might have had to say, was he?
2 inexperienced buttplugs
HIS nutz were exposed
SHE didn’t de-nut him
@ Callmelennie
Just a small quibble, but August is a winter month in Australia.
But yeah, this is disturbing, and those responsible for enforcing these insane mandates should expect resistance. Eventually, somebody’s going to get shot. Over a mask.
How do you know it was because she wasn’t wearing a mask. Because the camera guy said so? How many protestors in Portland are Victims of “unprovoked attacks by police?”
You see what you want to see, but you haven’t seen the whole story.
Vignettes are never the whole story. One could make a plus or minus decision based on this snippet,with no real understanding of what the ? is really going on.
Very good point Gordon brought up-“If you’re nicked,don’t fight it.”
Pick your battles,and live to fight another day.
Ezra Levant is correct. Just you wait til the vaccine is mandatory for entry into a grocery store, liquor store, or the your local state park, what are you going to do then? I’ve a pretty good idea what the cops are going to do, and the local bureaucrats, and the local grocery store owner who doesn’t want to lose his state issued operating license. They are all going to become, in essence, deputized enforcers of the state, just like the cop in that video enforcing a mandatory mask order. The abject compliance we are witnessing, and zealous enforcement by both officials and Karens, over wearing a mask, to me seems to highlight the total abdication of the American people to what can only be described as overlords of micromanagement.
There is a video of the Melbourne police chief explaining that there will now be hundreds of police diverted to check points to stop people, check their ID, and demand that they reveal where they are going, as they want everyone to remain at home. He said that if you taunt police or refuse to lower your window to answer the questions, they will break your window and drag you out of your car. He also disparaged people who state that they are sovereign citizens saying “Whatever THAT is.” They are also enforcing mask wearing. Coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
Anonymous,
Your post provides a lot more context to the police policy. Thanks for providing that info.
Do you know anything further about how the encounter unfolded with the girl?
She is a young, poorly trained, Agent of Change.
On our last trip to Australia we met two different Australian men who had just travelled to the US to be trained as “consultants” “Agents of Change”. They were both going back home to Australia to waiting jobs in the education field.
The first was well dressed gay man in his early 30’s. Met him in the bar while waiting for departing flight to Sydney. We started chatting an he said, ” I was sent over to the states to learn how to make the private Christian schools back home accept homosexuality”. “My job when I get home is funded by a private group with government clearance to help these schools write their new curriculum.”
Second man we met at a restaurant in Melbourne. Older gentleman had lost his government job at the age of 55. As part of his retirement package he was sent to the states for “training”. His job when he got back home was to help “re-write some of the curriculum in the public schools”. He was a devout Australian union/liberal.
During the wildfires last winter there was a woman posting online from Australia. She was very good at silencing any opinion other than her own and when I asked what her profession was and how did she learn to be so good at managing the audience her response was, “I have been trained by a “Community Organizer from the States”. I followed up on the rest of the info she gave and found that the private consulting group that put on these “training sessions” in Australia is based in Chicago.
This young lady has all the indicators of a young person being directed from someone outside. Your guess is as good as mine as to who, or where, or which USA consultant has directed that act of rebellion.
The state of Melbourne put a total lockdown on all citizen . They are allowed out 1 hr a day to exercise can only travel 5 miles to Market for food .Curfew from 8pm to 5am daily ,Masks are MANDATORY outside at all times if you don’t have or wear one you are ARRESTED there are several more like if you travel the police can stop you demand your Identification ask where you are going where you came from if you don’t provide answers the arrest you if you don’t exit your car the break windows and pull you out. The reason given by the overlords of the state is that they had 7 COVID deaths in 1 day. Here is the kicker 3 were OVER 70 2 were OVER 80 and the last 2 were OVER 90 ALL had Major pre existing conditions HOW is that for Over reach .