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How far will the pendulum swing - and where will it stop?
GBN ^ | April 2nd, 2022 | Neil Oliver

Posted on 04/03/2022 7:50:55 AM PDT by shadowlands1960

I wonder how far all this will go. By “all this”, I mean the headlong push, always in the same direction, always away from the world I recognise. To me it seems as though a pendulum is swinging, has been swinging for years now, but always and only one way – further and further from the point where I stand. I wonder too, how far that pendulum can swing before it must stop and, inevitably swing back the other way, and with a vengeance. Every action, after all, has an equal and opposite reaction.

To me there seems no avoiding the conclusion that, as a key part of all this, official misinformation and propaganda all over the world has been shaped to make reasonable people feel like they’re simply going mad, that they have lost the ability to understand and interpret events and make decisions for themselves. Many people have felt the only option was to toe the line – even when it seemed pointless, or counterproductive, even insane. The name of the game was avoiding the anger of those shouting loudest.

Last week US President Joe Biden spoke in front of millions about how: “there’s going to be a new world order out there”

New World Order: three words that have been floating around on social media like something unpleasant that just won’t flush. Hardly were the words out of the president’s mouth before commentators – on his side of the line, at least – were gleefully reporting his statement … while somehow simultaneously offering the opinion that only the tin-hat-wearing, swivel eyed loons (which includes people like me, apparently) had been triggered by his language.

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: 202203; biden; bidenspeech; change; misinformation; newworldorder; pendulum; societaldecay; wef; worldgonecrazy


"How much longer will we let children listen to lectures about sex instead of enjoying a handful of years pretending to be princesses and superheroes, asks Neil Oliver"

1 posted on 04/03/2022 7:50:55 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
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To: shadowlands1960

Great Scot!!!


2 posted on 04/03/2022 7:51:16 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

I’m now 68. Young people will say that I”m just an old man “lamenting over the loss of my world and the ‘good ol’ days’”

That may be true, but I’m a bit like an old German in the early 1930’s warning of the direction this new “nazi party thing” is going.

I’m confident what is happening, literally globally now, is going to leave a mark.

And make no mistake. this is like nothing the world has ever seen or experienced, and is ramping up exponentially. Keep your powder dry.


3 posted on 04/03/2022 7:54:56 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: cuban leaf

Yes. I decided to start posting Neil’s Saturday monologues just for that reason: we need to understand that this ‘woke insanity’ is a global problem and not just an American ‘sociological phase’...


4 posted on 04/03/2022 7:59:31 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

Nice try - but life isn’t a swinging pendulum.


5 posted on 04/03/2022 8:03:35 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: enumerated

Subtle as a flying mallet.


6 posted on 04/03/2022 8:05:45 AM PDT by sauropod (So may we start? When can we start?)
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To: shadowlands1960

Pendula tend to swing as far back the other way as it wall pulled to before the pendulum started to swing. Don’t want large pendulum swings don’t push it way far out of equilibrium.


7 posted on 04/03/2022 8:10:27 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: cuban leaf
I’m a bit like an old German in the early 1930’s warning of the direction this new “nazi party thing” is going.

I'm 72. I feel the same way. I'm reminded of the beer garden scene in Cabaret where everybody stands and joins in singing with the young Hitler Youth lad - and there's a quick shot of an old man who remains seated while dropping and shaking his head.

As far as when the pendulum will swing back is concerned - there's nothing that says it has to. Sometimes civilizations crash and burn.

8 posted on 04/03/2022 8:11:05 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: shadowlands1960

Pendula tend to swing as far back the other way as it was pulled to before the pendulum started to swing. Don’t want large pendulum swings don’t push it way far out of whack.


9 posted on 04/03/2022 8:11:06 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: shadowlands1960

The rope on the pendulum is frayed and ready to heave the planet into a hell no generation has experienced since the days of Noah.

There’s only one man who can set things right along with His Father. The pendulum isn’t swinging back despite the faithful magic eight ball Q-tard faithful.

I’m trusting Jesus’ plan, all other ground is sinking sand.


10 posted on 04/03/2022 8:13:10 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: AndyJackson

Physics!


11 posted on 04/03/2022 8:15:45 AM PDT by refermech
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To: enumerated
life isn’t a swinging pendulum.

Most of the natural world is swinging pendula. That is because life can only exist where thermodynamic equilibrium does not prevail so things are out of balance. When things are out of balance they oscillate like a pendulum, so things start out of balance, head towards equilibrium, overhoot and go off some other way. That is exactly why you get waves of hot weather and cold weather in the spring.

12 posted on 04/03/2022 8:29:08 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: cuban leaf
New World Order - Socialism or Communism if Joe and his Democrats can get it. RINOs and the Press hunger for it as well.

Say goodbye to Private Ownership; instead the government will be the owners and can give what you think is yours to others.

Say Goodbye to good healthcare; the goverenment will decide when you get treatment if ever.

Say Goodbye to your Children for the government will own them. I have seen this.

13 posted on 04/03/2022 8:40:55 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: shadowlands1960

We are approaching what I call “Peak Perversion”. As soon as the pervs achieve one goal they immediately jump to the next. Normalizing pedophilia seems next in line, but then what? Beastiality? Then what, dead bodies? Then what? I can’t imagine what it will be after that, but they will think of something. The real question is how far will we as a society will allow them to take it?


14 posted on 04/03/2022 8:50:36 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: AndyJackson

It is true that the first law of thermodynamics manifests in many aspects of nature and life.

However, the second law of thermodynamics gives a better understanding of the rise and fall of civilization. It takes far more time and energy to build than to destroy - order tends to give way to disorder.

What we are seeing isn’t a swinging pendulum - it is decay.

Of course, new growth can eventually emerge from the ashes.


15 posted on 04/03/2022 8:53:22 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

The objective is to break America and usher in Socialism or Communism so they can rule.


16 posted on 04/03/2022 9:28:09 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: CptnObvious

New World Order alternative:

1. Russian gangster elite appropriates Ukraine and moves on the Baltics and Poland; has complete supremacy over grain, mineral and naval supremacy.

2. Western liberals who are incredibly stupid keep on trying to cut a deal with Putin. Even though they know there ain’t ever going to be a deal with Russia that Russia won’t subvert or break in seconds if they think it’s to their advantage.

3. Major world capitalists and oligarchs laugh their ass off at the inane stupidity of people who think any of this conflict in Russia has even a whiff of Communism about it. It’s the Caviar Express, it’s always been the Caviar Express, and we’ve known it since the 1990s.

So while I broadly agree with your warnings, I’d revise as follows:

- New World Order - Caviar Express zaibatsu capitalism if Joe and his Democrats can get it. RINOs and the Press hunger for it as well.

- Say Goodbye to Private Ownership except where your goods and services are bought from the Caviar Express zaibatsu; many in the the government will be middle managers with masters and owners in distant lands who can give what you think is yours to others whenever they decide.

- Say Goodbye to good healthcare; Caviar Express zaibatsu capitalism will decide when you get treatment if ever. Which basically means, hello American healthcare system with bells on - your insurance will pay out ONLY if you’re demonstrably loyal or worth something to the zaibatsu.

- Say Goodbye to your Children as the government will be under orders from the Caviar Express zaibatsu capitalism to breed them into ideal, compliant, unquestioningly loyal consumers for the China-Russia megacorp.

In Robocop 3, a Japanese megacorp hoovers up everything they can - by any means necessary. They make the ultracapitalist OCP look positively benign. Anything they want to buy they buy at cents on the dollar, whatever they don’t own fully they drive into bankruptcy to buy it at fire sale prices, and if they can’t grab what they want legally they use organised crime to maintain plausible deniability.

That is where China and Russia are headed. India’s not quite decided to jump on board but is certainly considering it.

The main difference between Robocop’s OCP/Kanemitsu Corporation, and modern day Russia, is that the Caviar Express doesn’t operate under a single corporate identity. A chunk of resources goes into managing the propaganda mill, another chunk goes toward paying private contractors and mercs to do the dirty work on the ground. The conscript army is basically there for smoke and mirrors, to make Russia look big and scary - but stick those grunts into a conflict and they’re useless. The real power in their military is through private contractors and organised crime.

Abouy 60% of ALL Russian wealth created since the collapse of the USSR has ended up in the pockets of Putin, his oligarchs, and their financial backers around the world. Along with anyone corrupt enough or rich enough to buy a ticket into their pyramid scheme. It’s all laundered through layers of ostensibly legitimate businesses.

For that reason, we understand how literally the whole political spectrum in the UK has been compromised by it - the Tory Boy George Osborne, the More-Tory-than-Tory Nigel Farage, the “intensely relaxed” Blair’s underling Peter Mandelson and even Gorgeous George “Too commie even for Corbyn” Galloway are ALL shilling for the oligarchy. At least Farage has had the decency to admit he was a bit too starstruck by Putin.

Left wingers and right wingers from the UK have all partied on Oleg Deripaska’s yachts for one reason or another. They’re all utterly enthralled at the way all those magnificently super-rich Russian dudes totally robbed their country and bought out the media and paid for hits on anyone likely to expose them.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The conspiracy theories are so utterly convoluted it’s ridiculous. What’s staring us in the face is a far simpler explanation. Russia has always thought Ukraine was just a jerkwater of cossacks and poor people but over the last 25 years the internet age, advances in computing, improvements in vehicle engineering and a huge agribusiness sector has seen Ukraine turn into a pie that can’t possibly be allowed to be under Western control.

If Russia can take over and “nationalise” Ukraine, the Caviar Express can put hands round more throats. Europe’s oil, gas, nuclear, wheat, grain, aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding and automobile industries were heavily dependent on Ukraine - an extortion racket like the one Putin runs simply can’t afford to pass that up.


17 posted on 04/03/2022 11:06:22 AM PDT by MalPearce
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