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#23489554 at 2025-08-21 12:10:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28617: SEALs Edition

MATT GOODWIN OF REFORM U.K TAKE ON RAISE THE COLOURS
Note: something the elites in the u.k and the world cannot talk their way out of, there is no winning for them on this topic.
runtime: 4 mins 43 secs
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What Do You Expect People To Do?
https://youtu.be/QjNk57UUCVg
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19 Aug 2025
What is the "raising the colours" campaign about?
On one level, it is an act of resistance against mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, and the very deliberate decision to house illegal migrants in the heart of our communities while forcing the British people to pay billions to be left behind in their housing market
But it's also about something much deeper
"The English", Sir Roger Scruton once said, "are reluctant to display their identity - reluctant to sing their national anthem, to wave their flag, or to affirm their nationhood".
What he meant is the English have long had a very uneasy relationship with national symbols, even feeling embarrassed about the kind of displays of national pride that would appear entirely ordinary in, say, America.
A combination of post-imperial guilt, mass immigration, a model of multiculturalism that prioritises minorities over the majority, and the rise of a so-called 'progressive' elite have all established a taboo around flags, discouraging people from raising them.
But Scruton, rightly, saw this as a bad thing for British society and the future.
He warned that the taboo around national symbols and flying the flag deprived the British and the English of something that could be incredibly powerful and precious.
Such displays, he argued, were not merely symbols of exclusion, as elites argue, but could become a powerful, unifying emblem of a shared identity, a shared sense of history and collective memory, and a shared way of life.
A flag, in other words, is not just a symbol; it is where the individual connects with their collective cultural inheritance. It is where the individual can locate themselves in something greater which they also, in turn, recognise as their home.
Without this, warned Scruton, nations will soon run into major problems.
The reluctance to fly the flag, he suggested, brought with it huge costs, including what he described as "the steady erosion of something precious -a shared first-person plural", or a shared sense of "we".
With no sense of shared identity or culture, and few symbols to give expression to this, Scruton warned the British and the English would soon be left vulnerable to endless cultural fragmentation and rootlessness, no longer sure who they are, where they belong, or what is 'home'.
Which is how, I'd suggest, millions of people on these islands are starting to feel, if they do not feel this way already, hence "raising the colours"

#22760375 at 2025-03-14 20:47:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27803: Trump Brings The DOJ Back to Justice For Just Us Edition

>>22760342
>"It's going to be an interesting journey"

Roger Scruton Quotes
Written in November 1990, just after Margaret Thatcher had been removed from office:

"When the Athenians sent Themistocles into exile in 470 BC, they conveniently forgot everything he had done for them. It was he who had created the Athenian navy, held the Persians at Artemisium, and finally defeated them at Salamis. It was he who had fortified Athens and made it the most prosperous city of the Aegean. His work was continued by Pericles, but Pericles also was driven from office, tried on trumped-up charges and threatened with exile.

Democracies have a natural tendency to turn against their saviours. It happened to Winston Churchill. It happened to Charles de Gaulle, and now it has happened to Margaret Thatcher. It was not the faults of those great leaders that caused their downfall, but their virtues. Thatcher, like Themistocles, has been overthrown by the resentment of her inferiors. For in a democracy, inferior people have power."

6:17 AM ? Mar 14, 2025?4,708 Views
https://x.com/Scruton_Quotes/status/1900491358944526364

#19749785 at 2023-10-17 13:03:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24251: Spammers Delight Make My Day Edition

Kevin Spacey Receives Standing Ovation at Oxford University Lecture on Cancel Culture

In what is thought to have been his first public appearance since being found not guilty of sexual assault charges in a highly publicized U.K. trial, Kevin Spacey was given a standing ovation by an audience at Oxford University on Monday, Oct. 16 after giving a performance as part of a lecture on cancel culture.

The two-time Oscar winner delivered a five-minute scene from Timon of Athens, William Shakespeare's play about wealth, greed and betrayal that many contemporary critics have said explores what is today referred to as cancel culture.

Spacey, 64, who is understood to have remained in London since the trial ended in July, was introduced by journalist, writer and free-speech advocate Douglas Murray, associate editor of arch-conservative magazine The Spectator. Murray described Spacey as "one of the great actors of his generation and somebody I'm proud to call a friend."

Written by Shakespeare in the early 1600s, Timon of Athens follows a rich citizen of the Greek capital who would lavish his riches on parasitic companions, only to find himself rejected by them when he loses his wealth. He ultimately denounces mankind and lives in isolation in a cave. Although Spacey gave no context as to why he chose an excerpt from this play, the performance could be seen as linked to his own rejection by Hollywood and the cultural world in the wake of the sexual assault allegations that emerged in 2017.

Spacey's performance came during a lecture dedicated to the late Sir Roger Scruton, a philosopher who in 2019 was fired as a government adviser after a British journalist tweeted a truncated quote from an interview with Scruton in which he described Chinese people as being "a kind of replica of the next one." Scruton was later re-appointed after the full transcript was published.

The performance in Oxford University also came just days after London's Prince Charles Cinema dropped an offer it had accepted to host the world premiere of Control, Spacey's first film following the trial.

"Last night it came to our attention that your film features Kevin Spacey, in particular his first film since the court case," the manager of the central London cinema told The Telegraph. "My staff as well as I are horrified that we are being mentioned in the same breath as his new film for the premiere."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kevin-spacey-receives-standing-ovation-091029711.html

#18796865 at 2023-05-04 18:57:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23068: A Case of Sudden Euro Vacation Edition

>>18796795
"A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't." - Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy

#18705864 at 2023-04-16 21:20:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22950: Daily Comfefe Edition

Roger Scruton Quotes
"I wanted to remind people that there really is a tradition of conservative thinking in politics, that it is wiser and deeper than the left-liberal orthodoxies of the day, and that it is not reducible to free market principles, even if it contains them"


5:12 PM ? Apr 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/Scruton_Quotes/status/1647709647132925952

#16367321 at 2022-05-30 12:02:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20705: It's Not Whether You Win Or Lose, But Whether You Win Edition

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/the_ugliest_form_of_antagonismand_its_for_you.html



The Ugliest Form of Antagonism…and It's
for You

American Thinker, by Jeffrey Folks



Posted By: Imright, 5/30/2022 7:25:04 AM

Roger Scruton was a British philosopher who spent his life defending conservative values. Sir Roger, as he was after his knighthood in 2016, saw the antagonist culture as a rejection of inherited values, including gender distinctions, capitalism, patriotism, religious faith, and everyday morality such as honesty and prohibitions against theft, adultery, and other evils.No one understood antagonism better, on a theoretical level, than Scruton, and he wrote with passion and clarity. For anyone wishing to understand the culture of antagonism, Scruton's books, including The Meaning of Conservatism, The Aesthetics of Music, and How to Be a Conservative, are a good place to start.

#15557667 at 2022-02-06 03:04:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19673: Whacking the “Old Crow” for the Eleventh Time - PDJT Edition

https://t.me/techno_fog/303

Techno_Fog, [05.02.22 20:55]
"Human individuals are the most important of those real things, the obstacles that all revolutionary systems must overcome, and which all ideologies must destroy."

- Roger Scruton

#14126863 at 2021-07-15 06:54:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17873: Eyes On Arizona Edition

Roger Scruton - The Tyranny of Pop Music

#12753940 at 2021-01-29 12:07:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16282: NY Nursing Home COVID Deaths Far Worse Than Previously Known Edition

>>12753927
what is funny is seeking beauty in this world is one of the rare things i do understand, It has been one of the tethers to my humanity as well as the divine. Big fan of Roger Scruton.

#12709563 at 2021-01-25 18:59:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16225: The 'Ghost Baker Change Shindig, Again... Again.' Edition

Health Sec Says It's a 'Long, Long, Long' Way off from End of Lockdown

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it is still a "long, long, long" way off before the government can lift lockdown measures.

Despite some 6.4 million Britons - almost one in ten, and almost half of the most vulnerable groups - having received their first course of vaccinations and the government appearing on track for its mid-February deadline to reach those groups, Mr Hancock said on Sunday that the number of cases of Chinese coronavirus was still too high to predict an end to lockdown.

"... there is early evidence that the lockdown is starting to bring cases down, but we're a long, long, long way from being low enough because the case rate was incredibly high and you can see the pressure on the NHS, you can see it every day," Mr Hancock said on Sky News.

Mr Hancock added that he was "confident in the measures that we've got in place now" and "what really matters is that everybody follows them", asserting his support for the current strict lockdown measures which Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed on the country on January 4th.

When the prime minister unveiled England's third lockdown earlier this month, he refused to give an end date, mentioning vaguely the period of mid-February - "if things go well" - and later revealing that the new legislation means that measures could be in place until March 31st -nearly three months.

Mr Johnson later added to the speculation that some form of coronavirus restrictions could go beyond the first anniversary of March 2020's shutdown, when he said last week that it was "too early to say" if restrictions could be lifted by the Spring, with measures likely not to be lifted at once, but gradually, and as senior minister Dominic Raab predicts, with counties moving into tiered systems for the third time.

'Emotionally Manipulative Propaganda': UK Govt Releases 'Stay Home' Coronavirus Scare Video https://t.co/gY4LmQjiP0

- Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 23, 2021

Last week, England's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said it would be "insanity" to lift restrictions sooner than government scientists thought was appropriate.

However, there is mounting pressure on the prime minister to outline a strategy for taking the UK out of lockdown, notably from the COVID Recovery Group, comprised of some 70 Conservative MPs who are sceptical of the efficacy of long-term lockdowns.

The CRG has called on the government to being lifting measures at around March 8th, when the second dose of the vaccines should be taking effect in the most vulnerable.

CRG member Craig Mackinlay, who represents South Thanet, compared the government scientists' warning about the dangers of new strains to Remainers' Project Fear tactics during the EU membership referendum, saying that every time the country is close to answering the question of whether restrictions can be lifted, there is another "twist".

"It seems to me we are now being held hostage to a zero Covid policy which is completely unattainable - or if you do attain it we are going to be in lockdown for an incredibly long period. That just cannot be.

"The next thing will be 'oh dear, this new variant from Timbuktu is not responsive to the vaccine', or 'the vaccine doesn't work against it'," Mr Mackinlay told MailOnline.

He added: "There has got to be a time when you have done the elderly, you've done the vulnerable... but the words I seem to be hearing is that this lockdown has got no end to it, because there always seems to be a new twist and turn - a reason why it should continue."

Last week, lockdown sceptic Sir Desmond Swayne, the Conservative MP for New Forest West, warned that the people would "rise up" and demand change unless the government devised an exit strategy.

Delingpole: No, Gove - Conservative Hero Roger Scruton Would Have HATED Your Lockdowns https://t.co/ZQG4fXOVPB

- Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 23, 2021

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/25/health-sec-says-long-long-long-way-off-end-lockdown/

#9732329 at 2020-06-24 18:23:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12457: Take The Oath! We Got Incompetent Bastards To Slay With Memes Edition

A dirty dozen terms used to manipulate your thoughts

Before he died in January, Sir Roger Scruton wrote in the Daily Mail about his mission secretly educating people living under communist tyranny. He described being in Prague and "addressing a room of criminals whose 'crimes' consisted of uttering the wrong word." Controlling language is like "pawn to king four" in chess - a classic early move by would-be dictators - not that their efforts to police words and thoughts ever cease. Watching television or reading about current affairs is a constant reminder of this. Politicians, whether they have been elected or have merely emerged from the mob, and news media constantly seek to shape perceptions of events and policies according to their opinions. It's therefore a good idea to know what is intended by their use of certain key words and phrases when you're watching or reading the news, whether it be coverage of standard political hackery or of the violence and vandalism now afflicting our country.

Examples are legion, and a glossary within the short space of a column such as this can hardly scratch the surface. But here, in alphabetical order, are a dozen terms you're bound to come across, accompanied by their modern meanings. They aren't what you thought they were.

Brave: Parroting the latest left-wing ideas or acting on them without incurring any danger to one's reputation. An EU commissioner recently described Twitter as "brave" for censoring President Trump. Silly you. You thought bravery meant accepting personal risk, as would have been the case if, for example, a New York Times staffer publicly agreed with Sen. Tom Cotton that the military should be used to subdue urban rioters.
Fair share: An arbitrarily determined portion of someone else's income or wealth that, if you skate over economics and math, can be made to sound as though it will cover the vast cost of social programs promised by Democrats. President Barack Obama (2012) - "We don't envy the wealthy, but we do expect everybody to do their fair share"; Joe Biden (2017) - We need a progressive tax structure where everyone "pays their fair share"; Bernie Sanders (2019) - "Make the wealthy pay their fair share"; Elizabeth Warren (2019) - "I want billionaires to stop being freeloaders ... I want them to pick up their fair share." People in the top 1% earn 19.7% of the nation's annual income and pay 37.3% of all individual income taxes.
Free: Things paid for by someone else, as in free healthcare, free college, free food at demonstrations, and free stuff behind the windowpanes of Main Street stores.

Patriotism: Any expression of hatred or contempt for America, especially the incineration of our flag, once a unifying national symbol. Patriotism is most obvious in those who condemn the nation's past wholesale, know its ideals are lies, and fight to consign the reputations of its beloved Founding Fathers to history's ash heap.
Man: A human - at least, being human was still a prerequisite when this article went to press - who claims to be male. This has nothing to do with biological sex or having X and Y chromosomes rather than only X chromosomes. Men are just as able to menstruate, get pregnant, and exercise their right to have abortions.
Pig: A police officer of any race or either sex. Not to be confused with yahoos trying to provoke the police by screaming insults in their faces from a fraction of the 6-foot distance recommended by epidemiologists to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Pigs are not those who trash every district they occupy.
Protesters: A mob bent on destruction but given the heavy gloss of a legitimate cause by sympathetic left-liberal news organizations.
Racist: Anyone who won't endorse Black Lives Matter or other organizations trying to foment Marxist revolution. Anyone who rejects the idea that America and all its institutions are "systemically" hostile to minorities.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-dirty-dozen-terms-used-to-manipulate-your-thoughts

Meme Material

#9309931 at 2020-05-25 16:00:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11914: Memorial Day 2020 Edition

>>9309921

irony in architecture?

Sir Roger Scruton would explain how such a thing is an expression of mass psychosis, nihilism, every human vice.

#8509299 at 2020-03-22 01:42:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10895: We Wuz Sangs and Sheit Edition

The term itself came from an ancient Greek word that means "a turning back on one" and likened to the image of a snake devouring its own tail.[3] Socrates' peritrope described Protagoras' view as a theory that no longer requires criticism because it already devours itself.[3] Sextus Empiricus is thought to have given the name in a comment on Protagoras' view in Against the Logicians[4] written around 200 CE.[5] The name has been in continuous use ever since, as Socrates' argument provides the foundation for classical propositional logic and hence much of traditional western philosophy (or analytic philosophy). For instance, Sextus noted that Protagoras' famous doctrine that man is the measure of all things is self-refuting because "one of the things that appears (is judged) to be the case is that not every appearance is true".[6] This assumption was later refuted due to a mistake on the part of Sextus' interpretation that the Protagorean measure doctrine boiled down to a subjectivist thesis that whatever appearance whatsoever is true.[7]

Well-known attestations of peritrope also include Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas, and in modern times Roger Scruton, Myles Burnyeat, and many others. The word is occasionally used to describe argument forms similar in nature to that of Socrates' overturning of Protagoras. Modern philosophers overturning Protagoras' relative truth include Edmund Husserl and John Anderson.[8]

For many centuries the peritrope was used primarily as a tool for refuting versions of skepticism[9] that propose that truth is unknowable, which can be challenged by responding with the peritrope - the question, Well, then, how do you know that to be true? This kind of skepticism and similar views are considered to be "self-refuting." In other words, a philosopher has retained what he has disavowed in and by the disavowal itself. In general, versions of the peritrope can be used to challenge many kinds of assertion that universality is impossible.

In What Plato Said, Paul Shorey notes: "The first argument advanced by Socrates is the so-called peritrope, to use the later technical term, that the opinion of Protagoras destroys itself, for, if truth is what each man troweth, and the majority of mankind in fact repudiates Protagoras' definition of truth, it is on Protagoras' own pragmatic showing more often false than true".

In Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey (1996), Roger Scruton formulates the argument as such: "A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't."

#8275814 at 2020-02-28 18:39:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10595: Make It Rain Edition

Roger Scruton, a Provocative Public Intellectual, Dies at 75

https://twitter.com/Bask30173239/status/1233446374764494848
>>8275783
a lot

#7976638 at 2020-01-31 13:19:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10209: Nigel Farage, Happy Brexit Day! Edition

Roger Scruton, 1944-2020
[RIP]

Roger Scruton, who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, "re-enchanting the world" and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/14/sir-Roger-Scruton-obituary

#7827299 at 2020-01-16 05:08:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10018: Last post before going dark? Edition

Protests over citizenship law in India prove liberal elites only like democracy if they agree with the results

Protests in India over a controversial citizenship amendment law have curiously exposed the duplicity of liberals when it comes to their commitment to democracy.

Left-backed student unions and Muslim groups have been up in arms over a law that they perceive to be "anti-Muslim." Backing up this protest movement, liberal Indians have revealed their cards.

For the youth to resist the charms of "revolution" - to be angry without a cause and bask in the romance and idealism of protests is fine. Such a phenomenon is common across the world - and examples abound in India's own past. Pragmatism is usually a post-facto realization for the young.

As British conservative thinker, polymath and philosopher Roger Scruton said of the 1968 student agitation in Paris, an event that shaped his political thinking: "What I saw was an unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans" uttering "ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook."

Sir Roger died on Sunday, but he would have taken a forgiving view of student activism: Reason will dawn on them.

In contrast, liberal anger against Modi is cynical. It is politics by proxy. Led by the power brokers and elites who had been at the heart of India's power structure for decades since Independence but now have been cast aside.

As author Pankaj Mishra describes in Bloomberg: "Deeply united by caste (uniformly upper), class (upper to middle), education (mostly Western), marriage and profession, this elite was originally entrusted with the task of modernizing India's peasant society by Jawaharlal Nehru... Then, under the patronage of his daughter Indira Gandhi, the community came to accumulate more cultural and intellectual capital than any self-interested group in the country."
Where local becomes global

This group now feels threatened by the rise of Narendra Modi. They feel disempowered by the way a Modi-led BJP government has ended their grip over India's corridors of power. A blowback was inevitable, and it has come in the form of questioning the very tenets of India's representative democracy that elected Modi. The protests provide a useful context.

https://www.rt.com/news/478375-india-protests-liberals-democracy/

#7804385 at 2020-01-13 23:38:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9989: 11 more breads to 10000. Who Remembers the 10 Lost Breads? Edition

old farts die; just seems to be alot lately with prominent names

Tony Garnett, producer whose groundbreaking films and television programmes included 'Cathy Come Home', 'Kes', 'This Life' and 'Between the Lines'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/13/tony-garnett-producer-whose-groundbreaking-films-television/amp/

Conservative Philosopher Roger Scruton Dies at 75
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-01-13/conservative-philosopher-Roger-Scruton-dies-at-75

Neil Peart: 5 Things To Know About The Rush Drummer Who Has Died At 67
https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/who-is-neil-peart-drummer-dead-3873576/

Civil Rights Activist J. Charles Jones Has Died at 82
https://www.essence.com/news/j-charles-jones-passing/

Denmark's first F1 driver Tom Belso 1942-2020
https://news.yahoo.com/obituary-denmarks-first-f1-driver-095259576.html

Martina McBride's Mother Has Died After Undergoing Emergency Surgery
https://news.yahoo.com/martina-mcbrides-mother-died-undergoing-194600762.html

Gordon Wittenberg, Prominent Arkansas Architect, Dies at 98
https://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/129599/gordon-wittenberg-prominent-arkansas-architect-dies

Temecula resident, 'Colors of the Mountain' author Da Chen dies at 57
https://www.myvalleynews.com/temecula-resident-colors-of-the-mountain-author-da-chen-dies-at-57/

Don Larsen, the only pitcher to ever throw a no-hitter in World Series history, has died at age 90
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/don-larsen-died-the-only-pitcher-to-ever-throw-a-no-hitter-in-world-series-history-dead-age-90-cause-of-death-cancer-today/?

NBA says former commissioner David Stern has died at age 77 nearly 3 weeks after suffering brain hemorrhage
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/NBA-says-former-commissioner-David-Stern-has-died-14943633.php

John Baldessari, one of America's most influential conceptual artists, has died
https://fox5sandiego.com/2020/01/06/john-baldessari-one-of-americas-most-influential-conceptual-artists-has-died/amp/

Ed Filipowski, Co-Chairman of KCD and Fashion Industry Champion, Has Died
https://www.vogue.com/article/ed-filipowksi-obituary/amp

Chris Allen, Senate Finance Committee GOP tax aide, has died
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/chris-allen-longtime-senate-finance-committee-gop-tax-aide

PR industry legend Harold Burson, who died at age 98, still worked 3 days a week until late 2019
https://www.businessinsider.com/pr-industry-legend-harold-burson-has-died-at-age-98-2020-1?

Actor who played teen idol Vince Fontaine in 'Grease' has died
https://www.azfamily.com/news/actor-who-played-teen-idol-vince-fontaine-in-grease-has/article_41ab0b9c-33d8-11ea-be27-fb5831efed1e.

George Nicolau dies at 94, arbitrator in MLB collusion cases
https://www.chron.com/news/article/George-Nicolau-dies-at-94-arbitrator-in-MLB-14965709.php

#7804385 at 2020-01-13 23:38:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9989: 11 more breads to 10000. Who Remembers the 10 Lost Breads? Edition

old farts die; just seems to be alot lately with prominent names

Tony Garnett, producer whose groundbreaking films and television programmes included 'Cathy Come Home', 'Kes', 'This Life' and 'Between the Lines'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/13/tony-garnett-producer-whose-groundbreaking-films-television/amp/

Conservative Philosopher Roger Scruton Dies at 75
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-01-13/conservative-philosopher-Roger-Scruton-dies-at-75

Neil Peart: 5 Things To Know About The Rush Drummer Who Has Died At 67
https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/who-is-neil-peart-drummer-dead-3873576/

Civil Rights Activist J. Charles Jones Has Died at 82
https://www.essence.com/news/j-charles-jones-passing/

Denmark's first F1 driver Tom Belso 1942-2020
https://news.yahoo.com/obituary-denmarks-first-f1-driver-095259576.html

Martina McBride's Mother Has Died After Undergoing Emergency Surgery
https://news.yahoo.com/martina-mcbrides-mother-died-undergoing-194600762.html

Gordon Wittenberg, Prominent Arkansas Architect, Dies at 98
https://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/129599/gordon-wittenberg-prominent-arkansas-architect-dies

Temecula resident, 'Colors of the Mountain' author Da Chen dies at 57
https://www.myvalleynews.com/temecula-resident-colors-of-the-mountain-author-da-chen-dies-at-57/

Don Larsen, the only pitcher to ever throw a no-hitter in World Series history, has died at age 90
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/don-larsen-died-the-only-pitcher-to-ever-throw-a-no-hitter-in-world-series-history-dead-age-90-cause-of-death-cancer-today/?

NBA says former commissioner David Stern has died at age 77 nearly 3 weeks after suffering brain hemorrhage
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/NBA-says-former-commissioner-David-Stern-has-died-14943633.php

John Baldessari, one of America's most influential conceptual artists, has died
https://fox5sandiego.com/2020/01/06/john-baldessari-one-of-americas-most-influential-conceptual-artists-has-died/amp/

Ed Filipowski, Co-Chairman of KCD and Fashion Industry Champion, Has Died
https://www.vogue.com/article/ed-filipowksi-obituary/amp

Chris Allen, Senate Finance Committee GOP tax aide, has died
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/chris-allen-longtime-senate-finance-committee-gop-tax-aide

PR industry legend Harold Burson, who died at age 98, still worked 3 days a week until late 2019
https://www.businessinsider.com/pr-industry-legend-harold-burson-has-died-at-age-98-2020-1?

Actor who played teen idol Vince Fontaine in 'Grease' has died
https://www.azfamily.com/news/actor-who-played-teen-idol-vince-fontaine-in-grease-has/article_41ab0b9c-33d8-11ea-be27-fb5831efed1e.

George Nicolau dies at 94, arbitrator in MLB collusion cases
https://www.chron.com/news/article/George-Nicolau-dies-at-94-arbitrator-in-MLB-14965709.php

#7793382 at 2020-01-12 19:08:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9973: Kekistani WW Edition

Roger Scruton

Philosopher

Sir Roger Vernon Scruton FBA FRSL was an English philosopher and writer who specialized in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.

#6644727 at 2019-06-01 14:05:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

People used to talk about the ends of the university and how the academic establishment was failing its students. Today, more and more people are talking about the end of the university, the idea being that it is time to think about closing them rather than reforming them.

Last month at a conference in London, the distinguished British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton added his voice to this chorus when responding to a questioner who complained of the physical ­violence meted out to conservative students at Birkbeck University.

There were two possible responses to this situation, Sir Roger said. One was to start competing institutions, outside the academic establishment, that welcomed conservative voices.

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The other possibility was "get rid of universities altogether."

That response was met with enthusiastic applause.

Sir Roger went on to qualify his recommendation, noting that a modern society required institutions to pursue science and engineering. But the humanities, which at most colleges and universities have devolved into cesspools of identity politics and grievance studies, should be starved of funding and ultimately shut down.

It's an idea that is getting more and more traction.

In a remarkable essay in Quillette titled "After Academia," ­Allen Farrington summed up the growing consensus. "We need to stop wringing our hands over how to save academia and ­acknowledge that its disease is terminal."

Is he right? It is too soon to say for sure. But if so, Farrington is correct that its demise "need not be cause for solemnity." On the contrary, the end of academia "can inspire celebration," because it could "allow us to shift our energies away from the abject failure of modern education and to refocus on breathing new life into the classical alternative."

A huge amount of attention and public anxiety has been expended on the plight of free speech on campus. Every season the situation seems to get a little worse. Guest speakers are routinely shouted at, de-platformed, or disinvited. Students and teachers alike are bullied into ­silence or craven apology by self-appointed virtue-crats in college administrations and among designated victim groups among the students.

But the issue isn't really, or not only, free speech. Bret Weinstein, a former biology professor, was hounded out of Evergreen State College when he objected to a "Day of Absence" rally that insisted that all whites stay off campus for a day.

Since then, he has been frequently invited to talk about free speech on college campuses. But he notes that the real crisis in education isn't about free speech. Rather, it is about "a breakdown in the basic logic of civilization."

Academia is the crucible, the engine room of this rot. But the breakdown of which Weinstein speaks isn't confined to college campuses. The revolutionary ­intolerance that has made college campuses so inhospitable to free expression and the impulses of civilization has also deeply affected the woke mandarins of social media and Big Tech. It has made serious inroads into the HR departments of the Fortune 500 and elsewhere in the world of business. And it has insinuated itself into the values and practices of most governmental agencies, many of which have yet to meet a politically correct left-wing cause they do not embrace.

The economist Herb Stein once observed that what cannot go one forever, won't. In the coming decade, we will see many so-called liberal-arts college close their doors. We will also see more alternatives to traditional colleges. Many of these will be on-line. Some will be local, ad hoc ventures. All will be rebelling against the poisonous hand of identity politics.

Thoughtful citizens will want to hasten this process. Their best bet is to pursue strategies to starve Academia Inc. of funds. No public monies should be feeding institutions that claim to be educating students but really are simply indoctrinating them. Parents and alumni, rightly disgusted by what these institutions have done to their children, should refuse to subsidize their perversion.

Once upon a time, universities were institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the transmission of the highest values of our civilization. Today, most are dedicated to the destruction of those values. It is past time to call them to account.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/31/pc-insanity-may-mean-the-end-of-american-universities/

#6158262 at 2019-04-13 02:17:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7875: Spying, Lying, Sneaking, and Leaking From The Highest Levels Edition

It's funny how you fake ass wannabe anons actually think posting pr0n has been "a thing" on the chans.

"A Harmless Diversion?

The argument is that pornographic images don't harm anyone as they are merely fantasies. But fantasies of what? Of hurting women? Of humiliating them? Of treating them as dehumanised objects?As the philosopher Roger Scruton argues in his book `Sexual Desire,` fantasy has a tendency to remake the world in its own image. So the 'harmless' porn voyeur can turn into a rapist with a gun. For his fantasy is governed by monstrous myths and illusions - that women wish to be raped, that children are waiting to be awakened to sexual pleasure, or that violence is a natural right.

Pornography objectifies women and reduces them to a commodity. Such dehumanisation affects the man's behaviour, ranging from withdrawal of intimacy through to harsh treatment of women, to outright abuse. Dr Trevor Stammers, a GP who has often written about sexual problems, says most women he counsels whose husbands are into porn claim this has destroyed their marriages. The husband prefers to find sexual release from a computer because this doesn't require any personal engagement by him. So he chooses physical sensation without love. 'There is no doubt', says Dr Stammers, 'that as a result of using pornography such men become far more callous towards women. What they are seeking from porn is the illusion of power and control over them'.

Research studies back up the suggestion that using pornography badly affects behaviour and relationships. American academics Dolf Zillmann and Jennings Bryant have shown that pornography can diminish a person's sexual happiness, that it damages beliefs about sexuality and attitudes towards women, and that it desensitises people to rape as a criminal offence. An American survey last year showed that more than 200,000 people were effectively addicted to porn through websites and associated chat-rooms. Victor Cline of the University of Utah has documented how men who become addicted to pornography, begin to want more explicit or deviant material, and end up acting out what they have seen.

Isn't that to 'deprave and corrupt' by any reasonable understanding of those terms? Yet far from being outlawed, porn is becoming mainstream behaviour. Sado-masochism has its own fashionable clubs. In Britain, Sodomy was made legal for women when the age of homosexual consent was reduced to 16yrs; what was once considered an intolerable assault on women, from which the law should protect them, has now become their 'right.' And urination during sex - the 'golden shower' is even discussed enthusiastically in teen magazines."
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By all means, keep it up.
You think Freddy was the worst?
I'll fuck your world up if I diverge into "shilling".
Trying to wake you fucktards up but you're simple-minded morans.

#5370872 at 2019-02-25 03:40:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6865: Oscars So Pretentious Edition

>>5370512 lb
Agreed. It's also rather funny.

Unfortunately, prescribing Edmund Burke (or my modern favorite conservative, Roger Scruton) as an intellectual cure will be foul medicine for those whose engagement with literature is exhausted by SMS and Instagasm.

#4691929 at 2019-01-10 08:59:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5987: MSM LOST CONTROL Edition

kek imagine me posting this:

The idea of what is "fitting" takes its sense from a wider experience of community. People learn to adapt their behavior, their remarks, and their expressions to the demands and expectations of others around them, and this is what we mean by manners. It is from the resulting conventions, customs, and concessions that we draw our conversational repertoire. Knowing how to address a stranger in a new situation, how to move painlessly and quickly to a spirit of cooperation: these are not easy things to learn. But when we have learned them we have also learned something else: a comprehensive sense of the distinction between "fitting in" and "standing out." The most common form of rudeness involves standing out at all costs, drawing attention to yourself, regardless of whether you deserve it, dismissing attempts to fit in as the ploys of little people who cannot live in a more interesting way.

~ Roger Scruton

#3865250 at 2018-11-12 12:44:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4914 You're a shill! No, you're a shill! Edition

British MPs want conservative to resign for 'offensive' views on homosexuality, Islam

UNITED KINGDOM, November 8, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) - One of the most influential conservative philosophers in the Western world may soon be out of a job.

Sir Roger Scruton was tapped by the UK Housing Secretary on Saturday to chair a government committee whose purpose is to champion beautiful buildings.

Almost immediately after news of Scruton's appointment broke, several Labour MPs began calling for his removal from the non-salaried post, claiming he has a history of making "offensive" anti-semitic, Islamophobic, and homophobic remarks.

Scruton, who has taught at Princeton, Oxford and St. Andrews, among other places of higher learning, is 74 and has authored more than 30 books on topics ranging from art and architecture to literature and music. He received the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit in 1998 for having fought against communism in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. In 2016, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to philosophy and education. Currently, he serves as a senior fellow at the D.C.-based Ethics and Public Policy Center.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-mps-want-conservative-to-resign-for-offensive-views-on-homosexualit

#3847839 at 2018-11-11 11:36:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4891 Not Quite an eBake Edition

Washington Examiner
Verified account @dcexaminer

Former FBI Director James Comey used his personal email account to discuss his agency's investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-comey-used-personal-email-to-discuss-fbi-investigation-into-hillary-clintons-email-server



Former FBI Director James Comey used his personal email account to discuss his agency's investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server.

Through a Freedom of Information lawsuit, the Cause of Action Institute, a conservative watchdog group, obtained some of the emails Comey sent from a Gmail account and revealed them Friday evening.

In one email sent on Sept. 30 to James Rybicki, Comey's chief of staff, the FBI director shared a Fox News article about how Russia-linked hackers tried to access Clinton's email server.
Modern Conservatives: Sir Roger Scruton
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"Need to be sure our colleagues across the street don't think I actually said most of the stuff they attribute to me," he told Rybicki.

In a separate email a week later, Comey was aware that the revelation of his use of a personal email account for government business would be "embarrassing."

"Okay but [redacted] was going to email my written testimony to me. He will need to send to personal email I suppose. Embarrassing for us," the email said. The recipient's name is redacted, but Rybicki was carbon-copied.

As part of the Justice Department inspector general's June report on the FBI's handling of the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, it was revealed that Comey had used a personal email account to conduct FBI business.

Even though he told the IG that he did not have any concerns that he conducted FBI business on his personal laptop or personal email because "it was incidental," the Cause of Action Institute reported that some of the hundreds of pages of emails it sought were withheld.

Comey announced in July 2016 that his agency would not recommend criminal charges against anyone involved with Clinton's private email network, even after finding that Clinton's team was "extremely careless" in handling classified emails.

He announced the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton's unauthorized email server less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election - in which Clinton was the Democratic nominee - and closed it again just days before it took place. This controversial move has prompted Clinton and her allies to blame Comey, in part, for contributing to her 2016 defeat.

Comey was fired by President Trump as FBI director in May 2017 - a move which reportedly prompted special counsel Robert Mueller to examine whether Trump sought to obstruct justice by hindering the Russia investigation.