Don’t Drink Their Ink

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Lately I keep hearing things like “England is lost” and “Europe is lost” and–

Keeping in mind that they were never like us — NEVER — and that their system will always be closer to socialism, because it started from monarchy and it’s easy to convert from “subject” to “the happy citizen of Brutopia.”

I actually can’t watch their news when I visit because my head breaks, and then I start screaming at the TV, and then Dan has to grab my arm so I don’t throw shoes through the screen. It’s the little things “The government has decided more slots for pre-school are needed throughout the country. These are the numbers they’ll be building.” I THINK that was Holland. Might have been Spain. Or “the grand pubbah” (I don’t remember the designation) “of housing is ordering the construction of more housing units.”

It’s not real socialism, because they still have food, but I keep running into “Bro, do you even free market?”

But given that they’ve always been like that and got worse over the twentieth century, they’re not as bad as the news portrays.

Look, we keep buying what the news say. And OUR news, which you can’t hate enough, are still way way way more accurate than European news. Because among other things, Europeans believe that the state has the right to control the news. (Remember the French gigolo who commented here ten years or so back? When we told him the government did NOT control our news, he kept telling us “Then who does?” “How can they have news if no one tells them what to say?” Or words to that effect. They really, really, really think that makes some sort of sense.)

And part of the problem is that they assume OUR news too are controlled to paint a rosy picture, so they keep trying to “unspin” our news, which means what they get has… not resemblance to the US in ANY vague way. If you wonder why they think we’re Nazis.

The problem is, we also have no idea what is actually going on over there, because 90% of what we get is their elites planned narrative. Which might not even have a waving acquaintance with the truth.

So, for here, for instance, during Covid(iocy) a lot on our side were traumatized by “They did all this sh*t and people LET THEM.” But… granularly, on the ground, it wasn’t even close to universal compliance. Heck, it wasn’t close to mostly compliance.

Colorado was locked pretty tight, wasn’t it? Well, in the big cities it was, but as we drove out to my MIL’s funeral, we kept going by BILLBOARDS by the road side saying “Our town is completely open, no masks. Please come and shop.” And most restaurants and diners on the way ignored the mask stuff. The hotels we stayed in had signs that said everyone must wear masks, but no one did, really. Etc. etc. And this is in one of the most compliant states.

The other states? Yeah no. And I hear from friends that even in places like Iowa compliance was “by city.” And heck, even in CO, as bad as it was, someone got arrested for walking his fish. Yes, only in Polisland would a policeman think he should arrest someone for that, but OTOH think of the magnificent bastard who heard you could be out if walking your pet, then filled up a ziploc with water, got his goldfish out of his bowl….

But you didn’t hear about these things except under “see how draconian they are!” Only they were only draconian in a case in ten, and the rest of the people were pushing, pushing, pushing all the time.

Don’t forget that. Remember all the cashiers with the mask UNDER their nose? Who would pull the (untied) mask up so you could lip read? They were heroes too, and no, it wasn’t stupidity (I started doing it, when forced to wear masks at the doctor or whatever, because otherwise I had asthma attacks.)

Sure, it was horrible, and they managed to enforce the horrible just enough to tank the economy and steal the election, but our compliance was so so to not at all.

Well, the rest of the world is kind of like that, without the covidiocy. It’s just their priorities aren’t ours, so they don’t automatically foam at the mouth at “The secretary of affairs between middle aged married people will decide who your affair partner is this week.” (I made that up. Probably.) BUT they have their own trigger points.

The British really aren’t happy with the elites attempt to lock up their ability to take the piss out of politicians and tell the truth as they see fit. And no one in Europe is happy with the invasion. Remember the French yellow jackets?

If you get the image of a quiet European populace just going along with everything, remember they’re more like Colorado in the Covidiocy. They have just enough control and compliance to screw things a lot, but it’s nowhere near universal. And there is a point where even the European switch will flip.

The rest of the world is more unfathomable, because frankly we can’t understand them without it breaking our minds. It’s like the mating rituals of the people of Proxima Centauri: If you knew them, it would only disgust you.

However, about the press and its associated mass-entertainment industries: drinking leftist ink poured out in these mediums is how people end up believing nonsense like “fifty percent of the US population is black” let alone all the other bilge routinely poured out like “All blacks are natural communists.”

Look, don’t drink their ink. You know precisely where it’s been. It will only drive you insane.

Instead ALWAYS test everything they say. Always, always, always.

No, not everyone is going along with the invasion of Europe. Because never in the history of ever has EVERYONE gone alone with ANYTHING, including “you must eat to live.”

How big is the resistance? Well, you can tell by how they keep escalating threats and penalties. you remember what they did here, during the Covid lockdowns, right? They kept trying to enforce more and more, because more and more people were walking right up to the light and putting a toe across.

Western civilization isn’t lost. Benighted as it always was (don’t push me now) Europe isn’t lost.

And we? We are certainly not lost.

Let the left guzzle their ink by the bucket full. All it will do is make them crazier, and surely we’re approaching a singularity on that any minute.

Meanwhile, come along and roll up your sleeves. We have work to do. The future ain’t gonna build itself.

And the future always comes from America.

83 thoughts on “Don’t Drink Their Ink”

  1. If it ain’t dead or ashes, we can fix it (in theory). That being said, it’s a murthering LOT of work to fix said mess what is Yurp. That entrenched, deeply ingrained trust in elitism ‘gainst nigh ALL evidence is positively cultish, though.

    Don’t help that all, or most of all, of the best and brightest come here. We’re just too damned pretty for them to resist. I know, I know, liberty and filthy lucre (i.e. the blessings of raw capitalism) are pretty sweet. Being able to say what you want, whenever you want, even if it pisses off the pollies, that’s a bennie, too. Oh, and suburbia, can’t forget that. You don’t get just how damned good that is unless you’ve lived the alternative.

    We’re happier, richer, and better looking by the bushel. Yep, Yurp’s pretty well screwed. Might be getting better for them if they should decide to someday, I dunno, emulate us instead of running the other direction as fast as their feet can carry them. But that’s just crazy talk. Their culture is engineered a certain way that makes us, to them, look like absolute nutters, yet somehow we make it work.

    Eh. I say we keep on making America magnificent. Other countries? Well, we can trade with them, sure. But fixing them ought to be on them. They need their own Trump, their own Milei. Well? Get on it, Yurpeens. Make your states- I mean countries- great!

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    1. Hmmm. Took me until I hit Yurpeens to figure out Yurp. Maybe it should be Yurupp? 😛

      That also works as “We’ve had enough of carrying your worthless asses, so Yurupp now!”

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  2. I’m so disappointed. I was so ready to put my crusader grab on and free Europe for the… (checks bookshelves) …. fifth time?

    I guess I’ll have to save that spirit for the US.

    Canada is on their own. Can’t wait for Far North Texas, (Alberta), to break free!

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    1. I do like ‘crusader grab’. Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, liked it, too.

      The Europeans might seek out the return of Simon Bolivar for themselves.

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        1. I did mean the South American guy – did a lot of things for several countries, a returnee/reincarnation might do the same for the Schengen bunch.

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  3. “Don’t drink their ink”?

    Heck, I won’t drink Our Ink! [Very Big Crazy Grin]

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  4. However the situation is in the UK, in France and Germany and Spain – Dan is right. It’s their problem to sort, this time. If their native folks are sick of being run over rough-shod by their ruling class and imported Muslims – it’s their problem to solve. We’re not putting on our boots, metaphorically, and rushing to rescue Europe a third time.

    Wish them all the luck in the world, and am damn glad that I got to see Europe when it was still recognizable … but as for the US of A — We got our own problems.

    I still want a T-shirt that says “Globalize the Reconquista” though. Have to see of the ‘zon has anything with St. James dagger-cross emblem on it.

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      2. That said, Celia, at some point we will have to put something on/in the ground before they translate force de frappe into Arabic. Either Trump or Vance will make an excellent substitute for Churchill when he dealt with the French Navy in 1940.

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    2. “Globalize the Reconquista!” is truly inspired, and spot-on. Not only LOL-worthy (as Netspeak almost has it), but also likely to cause full-out apoplexy in all the right places, like Dearbornistan and its foreign-soil equivalents. (It also flies directly in the face of a cultural “arc of history” thing that basically declares, once Islamic, always Islamic… so expect some wildly rabid reactions.)

      Of course it might take awhile for them to figure out what it actually means, first.

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      2. It’s not just cultural; it is actually a religious mandate that is in the Koran and Hadiths, that makes keeping any land that is once Muslim always Muslim something that is required by Allah, and it is a violation of Sharia for such land to not continue to be held in perpetuity by Muslims. Unlike Christianity and other religions, Islam’s own foundational texts not only have no separation of church and state, they considers such separation unthinkable to the point of it being heresy.

        It is thus incredibly ironic that the same leftists who recite “land acknowledgements” and want all indigenous people, except Jews, to be restored to their homelands, accept the Jihadist demand that lands that were once Islamic must always be Islamic no matter that those lands were once the homes of others. It seems that if the great tribal nations of the plains had been conquered in the name of Islam instead of manifest destiny, the left would not have had a problem with it.

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            1. There are a few who claim that Muslims did. But there are also people who claim that the Olmec stone heads are proof that West African natives settled the Americas and brought civilization to Central America*, so …

              *Eric van Danikan did it already, folks. Go read the book. *kitty eye roll*

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  6. The United States was settled by those that sought liberty. It’s in the genetics, embraced by the majority, and when you get away from the large population centers, you find a demand for self-reliance, suspicion of those elected, and productive people that want to be left alone. Regardless of what happens in the rest of the world, trying to pattern the United States to fit centuries of acceptance, sometime brutal oppression, and what is now considered alien beliefs, is a fruitless task.

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    1. Yes. Now imagine Mars, most especially early-colonial-era Mars. “Martians are like Americans, only squared.” (Of course what I just said likely wouldn’t make any sense at all to many of today’s Europeans, especially the love-the-EU, believe-the-complicit-news types.)

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      2. They came here for liberty and then actively chose NOT to be subjects, unlike those in the places they came from. Yet another reason that slavery was such an abomination; those people who came here for liberty and freedom and not to be subjects who then made others into slaves and deprived them of liberty and freedom were themselves undeserving the liberty and freedom they claimed through their deprivation of it to others.

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      1. Their platform also called for a “return to nature” with vast areas turned back into wilderness with a pseudo-religious tone that predates the modern Green Leap Forward calls for pretty much the same thing.

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          1. The Mongols (Yuan Dyanasty) chased the Han Chinese out of parts of the Loess Plateau and steppe border areas because it was NOT meant to be farmed, but left as grass as the gods intended. Turns out the Mongols were right, it really should have been left as grass.

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  9. You can learn a lot from terminology. Much of the world speaks of “subjects” rather than “citizens”. As in “subject to the authority of the king”. And while kings by and large have little authority left, their previous powers have just been shifted to other parts of the government.

    Another one I remember from Dutch news is that tax reductions are described as “less money for the Treasury” instead of “more money for the people because less of their earnings are taken from them”.

    It’s also instructive to look for a Constitution. Sometimes you find that there is no such thing (e.g., UK). Sometimes you find there is one, like the USSR, but it doesn’t actually mean anything. Sometimes the situation is more subtle, like Holland. You’ll find something called a Constitution, and it seems to provide for freedom of religion and speech, but it then says “subject to everyone’s responsibility under the law” (article 6 and 7). Whatever that means. I think of it as “void when prohibited”. It provides freedom of association (article 8), but that this can be abridged “in the interest of public order”. So those protections aren’t all that strong. Still, you might think that there is some protection here from intrusive state power. Then you get to article 120: “The judge does not consider the constitutionality of laws and treaties”. In other words, the Constitution says that certain things can’t be done to you, but if the law does them anyway, article 120 forbids the courts from protecting you from that abuse. In other words, the entire document is “void where prohibited by law”.

    Neil Smith once pointed out that the “UN charter of human rights” doesn’t protect anything really; it doesn’t contain the equivalent of Amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 from the Bill of Rights, for example.

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    1. Another one I remember from Dutch news is that tax reductions are described as “less money for the Treasury” instead of “more money for the people because less of their earnings are taken from them”.

      So exactly like the news, and the Democrats (BIRM) here.

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    2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is readable at:

      https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/03/udhr.pdf

      It’s very 1940s idealist world government stuff, but vague on how that might come about, and similar to the old USSR Constitution in that it says all kinds of stuff that has no real effect language – there’s no “Congress shall make no law…” or similar anywhere in the thing.

      There’s stuff like Article 12, which seems like DJT would be able to file charges under it against the Autopen Administration for the years 2000-2024 if the thing had any force at all (which as with all the UN crap, really thank ghu it does not):

      Article 12:

      No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

      As with much else of Turtle Bay, it is irrelevant.

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        1. But, what if welfare and SNAP needs to pay me a living wage, like around 300 GigaEscudos per communist executed.

          Wouldn’t that be an argument for increasing the budget?

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    1. ”No! I must know how the Shogunate impacted the tree cutting profession, or this scene could be wrong!!”

      I feel you, Caroline.

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  11. Nevada was horrible enough during the covidiocy that I could not go into a store. And when they opened the schools after nearly two years they still muzzled the kids. And, driving from Nevada to Texas you couldn’t stop at a hotel in New Mexico with out of state plates. And they required muzzles in New Mexico even after Nevada was done with them.

    Your definition of non compliance is. Different. We had people ratting out businesses in my town. Businesses run by their own neighbors. Jolie LaChance KG7IQC

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    1. Yes. It was bad IN PLACES. Not everywhere. I think NYC was also particularly horrible. If I had to guess abt. Nevada, it’s being all hospitality in the area you’re in. The wheels were coming off, people went nuts.
      BUT most places there was a lot of resistance. And some people ratted out their neighbors. THE VAST MAJORITY refused to.

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      1. It was entirely blue state politics. Sisoslob very nearly killed Vegas by demanding muzzles well after he finally lifted the lockdown which was after even your tyrant Polic did.

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  12. I don’t know anything about Miami or Maine.

    Same country, bunch of little cultures and situations.

    I may know the academic theory of whereever.

    I may be familiar with the Census or the CIA or someone’s statistical claims about a place.

    I may lack a real fuller understanding of a place that I have lived in for decades, I most certainly do not have that understanding for a US place I have never visited.

    I mean, if Glowie McGlowface, my space alien FBI Canadian ‘girlfriend’ is telling me that France is lost, and so I must blow up the Eiffel Tower, this is obviously a trick.

    More broadly, if someone is telling me how weak, effeminate, and degenerate the Swabians are, there are clearly questions. One, if this is forecasting, how does one possibly know? How does one accurately evaluate the state space enough to so fully understand the limits of human choice? Two, why does someone want me to have an opinion on the basis of that evidence. Three, why does it matter what my opinion is?

    What do I care about the authentic Cornish culture?

    There are a lot of cutlrues, they are heavily on the other side of the world, and while the trends of the cutlure will obviously shape the future strategic environment, it is rare that a culture will spontaneously invent and adopt all of the customs that allow themselves to function enough to be well and truely dangerous.

    The time scale for adjusting strategy towards the rest of the world can be long, and can more or less allow us to adjust in real time to how they choose to treat people. For the most part, I don’t need to have an opinion.

    The main point I need to evaluate, if I am traveling to another country, is whether the government is very likely to kidnap and torture me for information I might have.

    Other than that, which hasn’t yet been a real need for me, I can basically allow the other countries to be intelligence puzzles that I have not yet fully understood.

    Just so stories can serve the purpose of personal reassurance, but the broader the scale in number of people, the mroe the just so story cannot accoutn for the full possibility and mess of reality.

    We should not care what Europeans think, and they should not care what we think, so this matter of hypotheses about each other should not be a thing where we emotionally commit to the first idea that comes along.

    If we don’t need to have some theory for some purpose, having an opinion on that theory can be a complete waste of time, energy, and understand. (Says an extremely wasteful dude.)

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  13. Remember the French gigolo who commented here ten years or so back?

    Was this the socialist and professional castle decorator? Because if so, yes indeed I do. Like a rabidly activist sheep crashing a wolf convention (with perhaps a dire wolf or two left over from the Old Cold Days.) Good times, good times, even thought I was too hors-de-Net at the ideal moment to properly join in the fun.

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  14. There are still people (9/10 female presenting) who wear masks alone in their cars out here. Most wear commercially procured surgical masks, but some wear the absolutely counterproductive handmade-fabric-decorated-with-beads masks whose only value is hiding their face, trapping and culturing their respirated bacterial load, and reducing their blood oxygen levels.

    In contrast, the last time we were at a hospital ED I saw maybe two of the staff wearing masks.

    And I only care if someone tries to make me wear a mask. You do you, knock yourself out, but leave me out of your delulu.

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    2. {sigh} I went to my local library one day a few months ago. Every staff member I saw, maybe half a dozen of them, was masked. That was an unusual case, but on more than half my library visits, at least some staffer is masked. Of course, I could quote chapter and verse on how this library is woke as fornication (I believe that’s the term: someone can correct me if I’m mistaken), but I won’t take up kilobytes for that.

      Yes, my local government hates me. I could quote chapter and verse on that, too.

      Republica restituendae, et, je suis Charlie.

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      1. My state went Constitutional Carry some time ago, but not only did the local library not take down their “no weapons” signs, they replaced them with new, larger ones.

        The signs don’t mean anything now. I guess if people don’t know any better, it’s less work for them.

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        1. As always, check the actual situation de facto as well as de jure:

          While Texas embraces constitutional carry, there are still specific locations and scenarios where firearm possession is restricted or prohibited:

          • Educational Institutions: Concealed carry is prohibited in university areas that restrict firearm possession. However, certain exceptions exist, such as firearm storage in vehicles away from public view.
          • Sporting Events and Venues: Concealed carry is not allowed at stadiums or event centers hosting professional sporting activities.
          • Places of Worship: Possession of firearms is prohibited in mosques, churches, and other places of worship.
          • Governmental Meetings: Concealed carry is not allowed during meetings organized by governmental bodies.
          • Schooling Activities: Firearms are restricted in locations used for schooling activities, including vehicles transporting students.
          • Alcohol-Centric Businesses: Concealed carry is prohibited in businesses deriving over half of their income from alcohol sales unless specific permission is granted.
          • Healthcare Centers and Prisons: Concealed carry is prohibited in hospitals, healthcare centers, prisons, and correctional facilities.

          Here, libraries tend to rely on 30.06 / 30.07 signs, backed by their status as Schooling Activities.

          https://thegunlaws.com/texas-constitutional-carry/

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        2. This link provided further clarification on why the signs got bigger:

          Private Property Rights: Property owners retain the right to prohibit handguns on their premises. Businesses can display signage (specifically, the language from Texas Penal Code 30.06 for concealed carry and 30.07 for open carry) to prevent individuals from carrying handguns onto their property.

          https://thegunzone.com/what-is-the-new-concealed-carry-law-in-texas/

          Bottom line: There’s ways to make exercising a Constitutional right too expensive, and our enemies will use them all until the laws are reformed.

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  16. Clear on the other side of the spectrum, I went to my cousin’s wedding in South Dakota during covidiocy and it made Nebraska—where compliance (if you don’t count masks in the schools (which were open)) was up to individual businesses (and you can guess how that worked out)—look like a gulag!

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    2. South Dakota was city-by-city. We were going to escape MN one night and go to a favorite place in Sioux Falls… but they were take-out only as Sioux Falls went with the schlockdumb. So, instead, we found a place in Tea, SD. The waitstaff were masked, yes, but in a clearly non-compliant mode that the them be understood and let them breathe.

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  18. Sarah, this is the first time logging in since seeing that your mother passed away; condolences to you and your family, and good luck dealing with the Portuguese government.

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  19. The biggest concern with Europe, especially countries like the UK and France, is the overt promotion of Jew hatred, and the fact that they are definitely heading in the direction of Holocaust 2.0 if things don’t change. The UK police officially are claiming that they “don’t know the motive” of the Jihadist named Jihad who attacked a synagogue on Yom Kippur with the intent to commit mass murder of Jews. Even in Italy, a country run by relative conservatives (as far as Europe goes), the overt Jew-hatred is widespread and growing. My advice for a number of years (dating back to the terror attack on leftist magazine Charlie Hebdo) has been for Jews to get out of Europe while they still can. That advice is simply much more emphatic now, as with rare exceptions (Austria and Hungary of all places), it is open season on Jews.

    Basically what the Democrats are pushing here if they can get their way, except the difference is that their targets in many cases are actually armed and can defend themselves, and if not armed yet, will become armed for self-defense.

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  20. It has always been my impression that the ‘rights’ the UN talks about implicitly assume that humans are are slaves of their countries and so the discussion around ‘rights’ is always about the humane treatment of slaves/serfs.

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    3. This really does, as far as I can tell, seem to be the approach of not only the UN but international law itself, much or most of the time (but see, e.g., the so-called “International Criminal Court”).

      We deal with nations, who in turn deal with ‘their own’. A clear separation of levels and functions.

      Only now imagine, just for one example, this “individuals don’t really exist” approach creating the basic law for… someplace. Like outer space, as now “regulated” by international and treaty law.

      The big one there is the Outer Space Treaty (of 1967), with 100+ signatories (including us). It asserts that countries keep ownership of what they launch into space, or even build in space; but also very specifically prohibits “national appropriation” of matter off-Earth, i.e., land. Period.

      The “Moon Treaty” (of 1979/1984) was/is much worse, explicitly prohibiting private, corporate, or government ownership of land… much of one whole article (11.3) is all about that. Only less than 20 countries ever accepted it, and one (Saudi Arabia) recently withdrew, leaving only 17 (plus a few who’ve signed but not ratified, the U.S. has done neither) countries “on board” and mostly ones with little or no actual space presence (but see Australia).

      Bluntly, it’s a mess, if not an outright dumpster fire; note the huge difference between the 1960s “Space Race” days and today… and especially the next decade if Starship or one of its competitors really works. The “Artemis Accords” are pretty clearly an initiative to start fixing that, but… not fast and maybe very incomplete.

      And the very idea of human “natural rights” is… nowhere at all in any of this I can see.

      (This is a big subject, but that’s at least the two-bit or $0.02 version.)

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      1. As one of my characters will observe: “Do you really believe this treaty, agreed to by some of the nation-states on this one primitive planet that has yet to send anyone beyond its own moon, grants you authority over my home world? If you tried to assert such authority, I suspect you would meet with strenuous disagreement.”

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  21. I tend to look at the official news sites (BBC, DW), then DW in German, then start poking around to things like MX, EuropeanConservative, Breitbart, and a few others to see what else is going on. I know that European Conservative is biased in some odd ways, but it does pick up stories that are ignored by the official news media, and gives me things to keep an eye on.

    I miss the old “Local” sites, but those got so over the top Russian that I gave up. (They were always Russian, but had some interesting regional news that other sources skipped. Last time I checked they’d gone down the tubes big time.)

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