Winter Olympics

Martial Media, Culture and Other Arts Off Topic
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The MSN - The War on Human Freedom 24/7

The politics that is heard from the MSN on the Olympics coverage is not merely North/South Politics. The MSN is using the event to wage Globalist Propaganda war on the American people.

If anyone listens to anything from the MSN , there is no escape from politics, The MSN pursues the Globalist agenda of eliminating all individual freedom and individual choice in America and installing a Globalist Totalitarian State. With the MSN every aspect of a person’s life is politics. All of us must be “Reprogrammed”. There is no escape from it.
Personally, I don’t listen to the MSN, nothing , no Cable TV, no newspapers, no radio. I get my news from the internet, I only hear about what the MSN is saying from the internet or inadvertently. The alternative internet has everything that is important - most of the MSN “News” is just propaganda or irrelevant distraction. It takes a great deal of strength of mind to turn off the MSN and disconnect the cable, but once it’s done it’s just like kicking a bad food addiction or smoking which I did years ago) - you feel wonderful and you never want to go back.

If anyone listens to the MSN and thinks they are not involved in politics then they have been successfully manipulated and are unaware of how the strings are being pulled.
Take a litmus test. What did the MSN say about the War in Europe, the Slow Death of Europe.. Today? Yesterday? Last Week?
About Islamification? FGM? Honor Killings? Islamic Terrorism? Islamic Jihad?
About illegal immigrant crime in California?
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Their main method of deceit is lying by omission. That is what being re-pilled means - not to learn to “truth”, but to learn the full information what the MSN has hidden. Once you see behind the curtain, you’ll never go back to the matrix. That is why they are now so desperate to censor the internet, ..google, youtube, facebook etc.

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Media Hearts North Korea | The Andrew Klavan Show Ep. 460

Amoung other things Andrew Klavan goes over the history of the Olympics - how the MSN has praised tyranny - even listen to how they gushed over Adolph Hitler.

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Globalism Versus Nationsilsm is a Reality.

[QUOTE=Jimbo;1307459]I always took John Lennon’s Imagine to mean nothing left to fight and hate over; a naive, idealistic peace fantasy. As I recall, John Lennon did not think Mao was cool at all. From his song Revolution:

‘But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.’

And as far as me wishing I lived in South Korea: I don’t think so. I’m of Japanese descent, and Korea (North and South) is probably the most anti-Japanese country on the planet. Even though I did have a pleasant traveling experience in S. Korea 27 years ago. No, I’m quite happy where I am. Anywhere you run to to avoid the ‘globalists’ or the ‘Marxists’ or the ‘Bilderbergers’ or whoever the Bogeymen are will have its own issues and can ‘collapse’. Some guy was advocating that all smart Americans pack up and move to the Brazilian jungle to start a large American community to avoid the collapse. Yeah, great idea.[/QUOTE]

Yes the lie in the imagine song is that nothing to hate and fight over means peace and happiness. If you don’t hate tyranny and fight for freedom, you don’t have it. Just because Lennon said something negative about Mao doesn’t mean he wasn’t a liberal socialist and that his "naive peace fantasy" wasn’t in fact a prescription for totalitarianism. Lennon was rich and privileged, he got rich telling people fantasies and illusions, he would never have to suffer he consequences of open borders and his liberal fantasies.

Well, if you are Japanese, you can escape to Japan. If you are privileged in America you may last longer than most common folk but your descendants if you have way will not. You just look at Europe, not the MSN’s Europe, the real Europe - that is your future.
Japan is remaining nationalistic and they don’t allow any immigrant invaders to destroy their country nor do they have a Globalist propaganda machine attacking their national identity. . Donald Trump did not stop the destruction of America, he merely slowed it down a little. If you knew something other than what the MSN is telling you you would know this.
I don’t recommend Brazil, I recommend Asia. Europe is Dead, Canada is Swedenstan 2.0 and becoming a Stalinist Sate, When Europe goes, America will be alone and most probable descend into Chaos.
Forewarned is Forearmed. You will not be blithely practicing individual Martial Arts in a One Party Globalist State in 2030. Maybe you will be practicing Government-Fu like the Chinese.

You think Globalism is some kind of boogeyman? Everything that is happening in America is a war between Globalism and Nationalism, between totalitarianism and individual freedom.
Trudeau declared he would make Canada into a Post-Nationalist country. He is succeeding. THIS IS GLOBALISM.

How many families do you think own the MSN in America? Five? Seven? Do you think that could possibly mean anything, seven people maybe less, deciding what all the American MSN will say and what people will think? I know that the lie is so well done, the illusion created seems so nice and pleasant, so “reasonable” and groovy that it doesn’t seem to matter that all the information is coming from a small group of people that own 95 percent of the wealth and have an agenda. .
The American people are under assault 24/7 from Globalist Propaganda. How is it you can “mistrust” DJT and those “people in Washington” and yet totally trust everything the MSN is telling you? Almost everything important that is told the people about politics and is a lie.They are truly the enemy of the people The MSN is the bogeyman’s mouthpiece. Do you not see the attacks made on every single individual and every single group by the MSN?What would it take to redpill you I wonder?
How can the Bogeyman not exist, when the Bogeyman is whispering in your ear every minute of every day?
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Do you think the Cultural Marxist assault on human beings is some kind of fantasy? Do you understand what "Cultural Marxism means? u Do you not see SJW’s at work every day trying to destroy the lives and freedom of people and the MSN telling you how “good” if it is to be re-programmed?
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If America goes like Europe you may wish you were in the Brazilian Jungle. Europe no longer exists a s “Europe” anymore or didn’t you know? Of course you don’t know, the MSN doesn’t want you to know. The people of Europe certainly do know. They know everything is wrong but even as they are being led to their deaths they don’t know why.

The thing about totalitarian control of the media is that nothing is real. the reality of the lives of people will never match the propaganda image of what their lives are supposed to be.

For instance the IMAGE of feminism is more important than women. In order to promote the image of feminism, millions of women can be killed or raped just to maintain the image. In the propaganda world only the image is real, people are not real.
From the way you phrased things, it doesn’t seem you understand your society, you don’t seem to understated the words like “Marxism” you are using. Actually the people engaging in the processes of civilizational suicide and self-destruction don’t think about themselves much or understand what they are doing. They are only reacting emotionally without using their intellectual rational function. To the SJW’s , even though they are practicing Cultural Marxism they have no understanding of what it is.

The manipulative propaganda job is done so well on people that even at the point of death, even as the bomb drops on them , even as they are sent to the gulag they have no understanding of what is happening to them.
Take for instance in one of the London Islamic Jihadist knife attacks (that of course had nothing to do with Islam :rolleyes: ) .. as the Muslim was coming to kill them, one guy said “Damm Muslims!” and the guy next to him said “Don’t be racist”.
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If you practice Martial arts I would suggest try to use some strength of mind from the practice to resist the manipulative control of the MSN Globalist Propaganda machine. I guess the first thing to accomplish is to become aware that you are in a propaganda bubble.

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The Mass Brainwashing of Germany

Capitulation This is the canary in the coal mine. It is dead. It’s has passed on. It is not a real canary anymore, it’s feet are nailed to the perch

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I said I’m of Japanese descent. That is not the same as being native Japanese. Look at Japan’s treatment of Brazilian-born Japanese who were living in Japan doing the dirty work most native Japanese won’t. Japan wanted them out. Japanese descent does NOT equal being accepted or treated as Japanese in Japan. Move there? Not for me. From the outside, any place can seem perfect until you realize it isn’t. Japan and South Korea also have among the world’s highest suicide rates. I wonder why. And wish I were in the Brazilian jungle? How much do you know about living and surviving in the jungle? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts most Brazilians wouldn’t know how.

I’m aware of quite a bit more than you think. I just don’t like constantly worrying or proselytizing about it. I can choose to live my entire life in fear and anxiety, or choose to make my bit of the world a better place for myself and those in my life. I choose the latter. If that makes me ignorant or a lesser human, so be it. Constant fear, worry and self-righteousness is not good for quality of life, and can kill as well as any terminal disease.

Besides, [SIZE=3]anything can happen anywhere.[/SIZE]

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What is happening here and now

[QUOTE=Jimbo;1307464]I said I’m of Japanese descent. That is not the same as being native Japanese. Look at Japan’s treatment of Brazilian-born Japanese who were living in Japan doing the dirty work most native Japanese won’t. Japan wanted them out. Japanese descent does NOT equal being accepted or treated as Japanese in Japan. Move there? Not for me. From the outside, any place can seem perfect until you realize it isn’t. Japan and South Korea also have among the world’s highest suicide rates. I wonder why. And wish I were in the Brazilian jungle? How much do you know about living and surviving in the jungle? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts most Brazilians wouldn’t know how.

I’m aware of quite a bit more than you think. I just don’t like constantly worrying or proselytizing about it. I can choose to live my entire life in fear and anxiety, or choose to make my bit of the world a better place for myself and those in my life. I choose the latter. If that makes me ignorant or a lesser human, so be it. Constant fear, worry and self-righteousness is not good for quality of life, and can kill as well as any terminal disease.

Besides, [SIZE=3]anything can happen anywhere.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]

I’m well aware of Asian and Japanese Racism. But it has some good effects in protecting those countries form the ongoing Globalist War from the West.
So no Korea, no Japan, well then, there is always HK, China the Philippines and the rest of SE Asia. Andy one of those places will be a safe haven when the bubble pops. A perfect place is not needs, just a safe place.

Well you know, the solution to the threat of to high suicide rates is simply not to commit suicide. :rolleyes:

The thing about the Brazilian jungle is that a form of it is coming to you. Being prepared for it, doesn’t mean you have to be afraid and anxious. You can use your Martial Arts to conquer your fear and remain calm in a world of threat, oppression and violence.

So my take is that you said you are making the world a better place for yourself but you don’t want to worry about it or “proselytize” (?) about making it a better place. That does not compute. It sounds like words used to make a emotional protective bubble. I suppose that works,
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Anything can happen anywhere, but knowing what is happening here and now is what is important.

In the following video, the German MSN are completely exposed as liars and propagandists in the face of social collapse brought about by the European Globalists. The same thing is happening in America, the consequences are so far hidden and disguised by the MSN.

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Tommy Robinson: Germany Fights Back!

(..but obviously to anyone, Germany is losing.)

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[QUOTE=wolfen;1307466]I’m well aware of Asian and Japanese Racism. But it has some good effects in protecting those countries form the ongoing Globalist War from the West.
So no Korea, no Japan, well then, there is always HK, China the Philippines and the rest of SE Asia. Andy one of those places will be a safe haven when the bubble pops. A perfect place is not needs, just a safe place.

Well you know, the solution to the threat of to high suicide rates is simply not to commit suicide. :rolleyes:

The thing about the Brazilian jungle is that a form of it is coming to you. Being prepared for it, doesn’t mean you have to be afraid and anxious. You can use your Martial Arts to conquer your fear and remain calm in a world of threat, oppression and violence.

So my take is that you said you are making the world a better place for yourself but you don’t want to worry about it or “proselytize” (?) about making it a better place. That does not compute. It sounds like words used to make a emotional protective bubble. I suppose that works,
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Anything can happen anywhere, but knowing what is happening here and now is what is important.

In the following video, the German MSN are completely exposed as liars and propagandists in the face of social collapse brought about by the European Globalists. The same thing is happening in America, the consequences are so far hidden and disguised by the MSN.

//youtu.be/lTZZ_lcV1kY

Tommy Robinson: Germany Fights Back!

(..but obviously to anyone, Germany is losing.)[/QUOTE]

I think you’re twisting my meaning. I’m not afraid or anxious. I said I choose not to live in fear, not that I do. That isn’t creating an “emotional protective bubble”, as you say. Constantly obsessing over a thing IS anxiety. I could say something like you’re fleeing the West in fear; or that you’d LIKE the collapse to happen so you could say, “I told you so.” But I won’t, because I don’t know you, and what you do with your life is none of my business, anyway. I would expect that same courtesy from you. If you’re in a place where you’re happy and feel secure in, why do you care so much about everybody else that you feel aren’t? By ‘proselytizing’ I mean the constant preaching and fear-mongering that makes no one’s life better, and in fact turns many (most?) people off from caring to learn about the truth.

And regarding Japan and S. Korea’s extremely high suicide rates: Have you ever wondered WHY they are so high? The solution would be in revealing what about life there has driven so many to it. Like the opioid epidemic in the States. ‘Just don’t use opioids’. Well, what is the root cause or reason for it? Otherwise, ‘just say no’ isn’t going to do squat. Personally, I’m not the suicide type. But there is no solution to the problem by only addressing the outer symptoms without examining and treating the root cause(s). Suggesting ‘just don’t commit suicide’ does nothing to address the societal issues that drive so many to do it in the first place. That would require a monumental cultural self-examination and overhaul that will likely never happen.

Oh, yes, and I am aware of the ‘liberal media’ and politicians, global elites, and what has been planned. I started becoming aware of these things more than 20 years ago. Unfortunately, the ‘right’ isn’t much better. They’re two arms attached to the same body to give the illusion of ‘sides’. Anybody who believes THE ANSWER is in the next politician (experienced or not) is sadly mistaken. It hasn’t worked out for the past few centuries.

That’s as far as I’m going on this subject here. Anyway, we’ll have to agree to disagree on certain things.

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Greg Gutfeld’s review of the Winter Olympics

One of the Guests is Sean Kanan from Karate Kid 3

“Ha, Ha, You’re Dream’s Dead”

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Greg Gutfeld’s review of the Winter Olympics

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Facts Versus Feels 1

[QUOTE=Jimbo;1307467]
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That’s as far as I’m going on this subject here. Anyway, we’ll have to agree to disagree on certain things.[/QUOTE]

Hmm Argumentum Ad Insaniam Convertun = I am correct because I am insane. :stuck_out_tongue:

To be fair , it’s not insanity, I’m just joking, but it is some kind of emotional dysfunction. I don’t know how anyone could write such a defense of rejecting facts in favor of feelings and not realize they are confessing to being unable to be rational. Assessing ideas and facts on the basis of “feels” and rejecting negative facts because you can’t cope with your own feelings is an emotional problem.

This is the archetypal Liberal mindset which is the inability of modern Liberals to be able to be involved in rational argument, reason and discussion. All their responses are “feels” and emotions. The moment they are confronted with reason and facts they withdraw because of cognitive dissonance.

This Liberal Mindset is much discussed, exposed and analyzed on the alternative media which you no doubt do not follow as it is “negative” and would make you feel bad. That’s the cork in the bottle.
I’m quite familiar with this but I was not aware that that is what I am dealing with here.

Why Liberals develop these “feels” and why they favor them over reality is an interesting exploration. But you provide me here with the answer which is it is difficult for them to face and deal with their emotions. I would guess the answer for most lies in early education in which I think they are deliberately taught self indulgence and dependence and not taught to take responsibility for their feelings but to blame others for them and to avoid their negative feelings , not use them accept them and grow with them .
By the time these kinds of children reach the MSN they are primed and set for emotional manipulation. It’s so easy, just spin them a nice fairytale, use emotional identification with an 'in-group’ (BIRG) blame an ‘outside group’ for their “bad feelings” (CORF) and they will be compliant, gullible and manageable.
They are in their boxes. When the box is crushed and thrown away , they will never know what happened.. Hopefully it’s quick and painless.

Caring about things is what integrated personalities do, it is not obsessing and caring promotes good health.
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Anxiety is a State of emotional fragmentation resulting form holding the breath, not breathing properly due to fearfulness. Anxiety is not worry, those are different things.
The intellectual consideration of the negative or the threatening does not need to make a person feel unhappiness or fear. How a person decides to feel about anything depends on their attitudes, expectations and personal growth experience.
These terms you use “preaching”, “proselytizing”, “fear mongering” are only epithets as you do not qualify them. What you are just saying is that you don’t want to listen to anything negative because you make yourself feel bad about that and you can’t deal with your emotions. You have fear of being afraid and you handle that by avoiding things about threats in life.
Intellectual thinking should not cause you distress. Intellectual analysis of this entire subject is very interesting and pleasant for me.

For fear mongering to be true you have to prove that the threats presented or the existing facts about various oppressions and atrocities described are not true and you don’t and can’t because you are self-admittedly incapable of listening to “negative” facts about reality.
Likewise preaching what? proselyting what? - you are using words without reference to anything because you can’t look at the negative and so those words are just a protective bubble. It’s similar to leftists screaming “racist” because they have been lied to about the situation and are not able rationally discuss illegal immigration.

What do I care? As for the brainwashed, the battery cell sleepers, I don’t It’s probably better they are eliminated from the gene pool. I know they have been deceived but maybe there is something about them that makes them so deceive-able. So when they get blown up in the UK or murdered or fired etc in the USA I hold my sympathy until I know who they were. Are they the ones who have brought down h3ll into the world with compliance and empowerment of the Globalists? Then let them perish.
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As for the children, yes I care about them and I care about the people who are wide awake, aware of the the threat, who are under repression, who don’t want to lose their freedoms, their lives, property be raped etc as is currently happening to many. And also for the inheritance of our civilization. It’s a good chance every art gallery, library and museum in Europe will be torched in 12 years. Three thousand years plus of historical culture and civilization wiped out. I would like to do my bit to help out, to help the humans survive and triumph against the oppressor.
I am actually sticking my neck out. I have nothing personally to gain and quite a lot to lose by continuing in these researches and studies and speaking out.
Really, I often think I should just forget about it and selfishly save my own life. Good idea?

There are different levels of the ‘Pro-Globalists’ - there are the utterly gullible who recite the propaganda mantras and participate in one way or another without any self awareness whatsoever.
Then there is the Palace Guard, the ones who the ones who really have no belief, they just are loyal to the ‘Emperor’ because they are given a (very small) share of the profits or rewards
And then there are the orchestrators - the ones who are fully aware of what they are doing and why.
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It’s actually very hard or even impossible at first to separate who is who from this mix since they all recite the same lies and deceits. So I probe and provoke until I can determine motive and intent. Eventually I can get my answer.

If threats are genuine then correctly assessing them can certainly make your life better.

Waking up from the matrix must require a great deal of pain for Liberals, for the first time in their lives the pain of facing up to negative facts and dealing with them and growing emotionally. Theri egos must be totally fractured, dissolved and restructured. A Herculean task.
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But in any case the sheeple are dangerous It is not that they live in a matrix of lies but that they replicate toxic ideas and ideologies and take real action upon innocent people. The truth set alongside the deceits will set people Red-Pilled! (If only they will allow themselves to see it). I am only hoping to protect what is left of humanity and the free world from the reptiles.
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I would say you live in a bubble bases on lies and deceits, images of things rather than the things themselves. So long as others tell you nice things, they are part of the bubble. If someone brings in negative facts from reality - oops you feel bad, you can’t cope, and it’s all their fault. I would say your entire social fabric was mingled with those lies. Every single word about almost anything from someone outside the bubble would annoy you and sound "preachy’ and fear-mongering to you. Daylight can burn when you spent your life locked up in the battery cell.

So it was pointless me countering any information for your arguments because you simply ignore and don’t delve into anything that sounds ‘negative’. So in fact I won all the arguments just simply because you withdrew from it. Am I wrong? So how many people did you say run the MSN? Too hard to think about isn’t it? That leads to considering something negative and has terrible negative consequences.
No. we don’t disagree, you have to understand another person’s position to disagree.
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Yes, you are aware of all those bad things out there, so you don’t have to listen to anything else from the here and now and can stay in that feel-good protective bubble. You are entitled to do that. But the bad things are not “out there”, they are no doubt whispering in your ear and eyes 24/7 and you have no defense or awareness of them. There is no “right” versus “left” anymore. The Left died 30 years ago and became Progressive Marxism. The current struggle is Globalism versus the People or Nationalism. Countries and places have already lost the struggle. Do you want to live in London? Paris? California? Sweden? As an ordinary person without the protection of wealth or privilege? Rotsa Ruck.
No you do not, not if you have any sense.

No one politician/reformer is not enough. America needs about 100 Trumps or maybe 1,000 and the rest of the world 100,000. I don’t see any solution. I think the field is lost. It’s going to be bloody though. America will not go down silently like Germany is going down right now because simply the Germans don’t have guns. Only the Islamic Jihadists, criminals and police have guns over there.

(To Be Continued…)

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Facts Versus Feels II

This strange obsession you have with the suicide stats in another country! Maybe you do have reason for that. I just said a move to Japan as an expat would be a safe out for the coming maelstrom. An expat would live a different life from the natives and usually in Asia and American Expat lives a pretty charmed life. Others in the West want to ride out the whirlwind and stock up on ammo and guns - take your choice but do a correct and rational threat assessment based on facts not feels.

I didn’t advise others to go to Japan to become social workers and help out with the suicide problem. BUT , but maybe it is a real threat to you, since you have to live in a positive bubble and find it difficult to deal with negative facts, most possibly you must depend on group identity in some way. So you are right this dependency would give you a risk factor for suicide in a high suicide rate culture.

Well I got to get my Boot Heels to be wandering so …

.. time will tell just who fell
And whos been left behind
When you go your way and I go mine

(Just don’t take the innocent with you.)

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North Korean Moranbong Band - - With Pride

The worst thing that can happen to Liberals is that they get what they want. :cool:

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“That’s as far as I’m going on this subject here.” syndrome…

Quote Originally Posted by Jimbo View Post
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That’s as far as I’m going on this subject here. Anyway, we’ll have to agree to disagree on certain things.
Hmm Argumentum Ad Insaniam Convertun = I am correct because I am insane.

To be fair , it’s not insanity, I’m just joking, but it is some kind of emotional dysfunction. I don’t know how anyone could write such a defense of rejecting facts in favor of feelings and not realize they are confessing to being unable to be rational. Assessing ideas and facts on the basis of “feels” and rejecting negative facts because you can’t cope with your own feelings is an emotional problem.

This is the archetypal Liberal mindset which is the inability of modern Liberals to be able to be involved in rational argument, reason and discussion. All their responses are “feels” and emotions. The moment they are confronted with reason and facts they withdraw because of cognitive dissonance.

Great postings on this and the BP thread Wolfen. Jimbo treated me this way in a thread several years ago. It is what he does. It is what they all do. They do one of two response: 1) ignore you 2) ridicule you. You are dealing with a belief system here. Belief= religion. As you point out, full of emotion, run by emotion, ruled by emotion. You will not change these beliefs but that does not mean you should not make the authors of them uncomfortable.

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Wolfen, I’m aware of far more than you think I am. The difference between us is that I don’t choose to write about these things in every single post. That’s not ‘feels’, that’s fact. Perhaps there’s some level of delusion on your part to think that anyone who has a different opinion from you is therefore ignorant. Or perhaps you’re still in ‘the matrix’ and believe the old ‘liberal’ vs ‘conservative’ argument that only serves to create division while the real ones in power sit back and laugh.

And your suggestion that Westerners abandon the US, Canada and Europe to resettle in Asia is ironic, considering that’s exactly what you’ve been complaining about with the waves of migrants from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia flooding into Europe.

No, you’re no more right on this than I am. But it’s obvious you’re going to continue believing only you know what’s really going on and everybody else is ignorant. Up to now I’ve chosen to be respectful on the matter. The fact is, nobody convinces anybody to their side by getting in their face and shrilly screaming that they’re ignorant, wrong, stupid, etc., etc. It doesn’t work for the ‘anti-fascists’, the ‘white nationalists’, the BLM movement; and certainly not for the #metoo militants.

All of which has nothing at all to do with the Olympics, which is what this thread is/was about.

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[QUOTE=SKM;1307549]Great postings on this and the BP thread Wolfen. Jimbo treated me this way in a thread several years ago. It is what he does. It is what they all do. They do one of two response: 1) ignore you 2) ridicule you. You are dealing with a belief system here. Belief= religion. As you point out, full of emotion, run by emotion, ruled by emotion. You will not change these beliefs but that does not mean you should not make the authors of them uncomfortable.[/QUOTE]

SKM, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Treated you ‘this way’ regarding what? If you can’t answer that, you have no point to make.

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Jimbo…

[QUOTE=Jimbo;1307551]SKM, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Treated you ‘this way’ regarding what? If you can’t answer that, you have no point to make.[/QUOTE]

You said to me also, during a discussion that I was beginning to enjoy, and which you could not dominate, “That’s as far as I’m going on this subject here.” It is your habit. Of course you don’t know what I am talking about.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” = “That’s as far as I’m going on this subject here.”

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So you don’t have an answer. OK, fine. If you’d been able to give a clear example and prove I was clearly wrong about something, or being impolite to you personally, I would have manned up and apologized if I was wrong. I never said I was perfect.

Now who’s the one ruled by emotion?

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Dr. Mark Cheng, Tai Chi instructor at Sochi Olympics

Delaware grad and tai chi master training Olympic athletes in Pyeongchang
Jessica Bies, The News Journal Published 9:46 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2018 | Updated 10:16 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2018


South Korea and Norway fans wave flags during a venue victory ceremony for men’s speedskating 500m during the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games at Gangneung Ice Arena in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
(Photo: JEFFREY SWINGER, USA TODAY Sports)

A St. Andrew’s School graduate and tai chi instructor is in Pyeongchang, South Korea, this month working with the U.S. Olympic speedskating team.

Tai chi is just one of several out-of-the-box training ideas U.S. Speedskating has embraced since a disastrous showing at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, The New York Times reported. The team won one silver medal.

Though athletes originally blamed their poor performance on speedskating suits made by Under Armour, experts have since determined the racers just weren’t as good as they thought they were. They were underprepared and overhyped for the games.

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February 19 at 12:22pm ·
St. Andrew’s goes to South Korea!
We are so excited to follow the U.S. Olympic Speedskaters as Mark Cheng ’90 is an essential member of their training team. His successful work with the athletes as a tai chi instructor last spring at their annual strength and conditioning camp led him to continue on as “Mindfulness and Recovery Specialist” for the team.

Here he is on Friday in a photo sent to Al Wood, our St. Andrew’s Director of Athletics. Cheng wrote, “Ready to jump into a long day of work here with US Speedskating on the Gangneung coast for the Pyeongchang Olympics. Repping SAS all the way!”

Good luck, Team USA… The Saints are on your side!

For more of his story, read this article in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/…/speedskating-pyeongchang-games.ht…

Since then, both U.S. Speedskating and Under Armour have been working together to turn things around. In addition to spending $240,000 a year in gear and cash, the clothing company has brought on an eclectic group of advisers, including a fitness guru, a Tour de France cycling veteran, a Navy Seal, a sleep expert and Delaware-native tai chi master, Mark Cheng.

Cheng’s successful work with the athletes as a tai chi instructor last spring at their annual strength and conditioning camp led him to continue on as “Mindfulness and Recovery Specialist” for the team. Tai chi helps reduce stress and relax athletes, as well as helping with breathing. Cheng has also been teaching the athletes to meditate.

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drmarkchengMy iPhone X camera can’t even come close to capturing the speed that these dudes manifest on this ice. Watching them floor it when they train inspires me in ways you can’t even imagine! So honored to be part of the @usspeedskating staff here at the @pyeongchang2018 @olympics!
#winterolympics2018 #gangneung #pyeongchang2018 #speedskating #iceicebaby #korea #highperformance #speed #uatraining #wewill #passionconnected

One speedskater, Aaron Tran, even gave Cheng a shoutout on Twitter this week. Tran did not make it past the qualifications of the 500 meters Tuesday and will leave South Korea without an individual medal.

Cheng has been tweeting at him and other Olympic athletes and praising for them for their work ethic and resilience, even in the face of huge disappointment.

[QUOTE]20 Feb

Dr. Mark Cheng
@DrMarkCheng
Your attitude is what makes you so awesome & so much fun to work with. I’ll gladly have your back anytime! #respect https://twitter.com/aaronvaughntran/status/965909264656199680 …

Aaron Tran

@AaronVaughnTran
Thanks man! But you’re the real man You have so much knowledge and understanding, and have a good way to apply those in an effective way. It’s an honor to work with you! #TeamUSA

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Tran told Cheng he’s helped him develop that mindset.

'You have so much knowledge and understanding and have a good way to apply those in an effective way," Tran told Cheng. “It’s an honor to work with you! #TeamUSA”

Cheng said he is representing St. Andrew’s School in Middletown at the games in South Korea. He graduated from the Episcopal, co-educational boarding school in 1990.

“Ready to jump into a long day of work here with U.S. Speedskating on the Gangneung coast for the Pyeongchang Olympics," he told the school’s athletic director Al Wood in an email last week. "Repping SAS all the way!”

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drmarkchengUp in the house with @celskeet & @thomasishong to cheer on @usspeedskating teammates @thejessicakooreman, @biney.biney, & @lagehring1 for the Ladies’ 1500m Short Tracks heats here in Gangneung for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics!
#winterolympics #speedskating #korea #squad #pyeongchang2018

Cheng, who has a private practice in Santa Monica, California, and works with patients recovering from surgery or in rehabilitation, grew up and went to school in Delaware. His parents are immigrants who still live in Delaware, and his father, Cheng Yu-Nien, started teaching him Chinese martial arts when he was 4 years old.

Find more pictures of Cheng at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang at https://www.instagram.com/DrMarkCheng/.

Contact Jessica Bies at (302) 324-2881 or jbies@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter @jessicajbies.[/QUOTE]

I’m going to copy this Winter Olympics post to the Olympic T’ai ji quan form, which I’m hijacking for this particular topic (that decade & a half old thread is way off base anyway :stuck_out_tongue: ).

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Relax Jimbo

[QUOTE=Jimbo;1307555]So you don’t have an answer. OK, fine. If you’d been able to give a clear example and prove I was clearly wrong about something, or being impolite to you personally, I would have manned up and apologized if I was wrong. I never said I was perfect.

Now who’s the one ruled by emotion?[/QUOTE]

Take it easy. I was only pointing out a defect of character, dismissive condescension, that you used on me and that I saw you use on Wolfen. You told Wolfen that he takes up a lot of space writing too much, taking up too much bandwidth, and being off-topic. I invite anyone to read your posts which are long, winded, and are frequently off topic. If you honestly disagree with somebody, have an honest discussion. It looks rather silly to accuse someone of that which you are doing. I find Wolfens posts refreshing and he does cite sources. Something most martial artists seem to be incapable of or unwilling to do, preferring rather to pretend they invented every idea they propose.

Your last post reveals another defect of character. You are always trying to be right; to be dominate. You claim to be an excellent martial artist, in past posts, with over 30 years of training and experience. If so, then work on letting that reflect in your words. Fewer words if possible.

There is a core of about 12 of you on this forum that dominate the entire forum. The moderators and their buddies are the in-group here. You use this forum as a digital dojo. I suggest you spend more time in the physical dojo and sweat until you cannot stand up, then your authentic truths will reveal themselves and you might have something profound to share.

There are a lot of people on this forum. Rather than the same dozen people constantly posting, let’s hear from the new people. Quit intimidating them into remaining lurkers. Are you up for that? And before you say you and others do not do that, yes you do. Be honest with yourself. This forum has turned from a potential gold mine clearing house of martial information into a celebrity and movie site. Personally, when I want to read that stuff I can go to looper.com. You helped create this situation.

If you do not like what Wolfen says to you, complain and the moderators can expunge his posts, then this forum can join twitter, Facebook, and google in their quest for censorship. Would that make you and the in-group comfortable? I doubt it.

I have nothing against you personally. I am only pointing out the patterns I see you do. Change your patterns, the way you treat people; start asking questions rather than telling people what their opinion is, have open, equilateral discussion, and watch the magic. It is a great opportunity for you to upgrade yourself. So relax. It’s all good, man.

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[QUOTE=SKM;1307577]Take it easy. I was only pointing out a defect of character, dismissive condescension, that you used on me and that I saw you use on Wolfen. You told Wolfen that he takes up a lot of space writing too much, taking up too much bandwidth, and being off-topic. I invite anyone to read your posts which are long, winded, and are frequently off topic. If you honestly disagree with somebody, have an honest discussion. It looks rather silly to accuse someone of that which you are doing. I find Wolfens posts refreshing and he does cite sources. Something most martial artists seem to be incapable of or unwilling to do, preferring rather to pretend they invented every idea they propose.

Your last post reveals another defect of character. You are always trying to be right; to be dominate. You claim to be an excellent martial artist, in past posts, with over 30 years of training and experience. If so, then work on letting that reflect in your words. Fewer words if possible.

There is a core of about 12 of you on this forum that dominate the entire forum. The moderators and their buddies are the in-group here. You use this forum as a digital dojo. I suggest you spend more time in the physical dojo and sweat until you cannot stand up, then your authentic truths will reveal themselves and you might have something profound to share.

There are a lot of people on this forum. Rather than the same dozen people constantly posting, let’s hear from the new people. Quit intimidating them into remaining lurkers. Are you up for that? And before you say you and others do not do that, yes you do. Be honest with yourself. This forum has turned from a potential gold mine clearing house of martial information into a celebrity and movie site. Personally, when I want to read that stuff I can go to looper.com. You helped create this situation.

If you do not like what Wolfen says to you, complain and the moderators can expunge his posts, then this forum can join twitter, Facebook, and google in their quest for censorship. Would that make you and the in-group comfortable? I doubt it.

I have nothing against you personally. I am only pointing out the patterns I see you do. Change your patterns, the way you treat people; start asking questions rather than telling people what their opinion is, have open, equilateral discussion, and watch the magic. It is a great opportunity for you to upgrade yourself. So relax. It’s all good, man.[/QUOTE]

No problem, SKM. I actually never thought we had a problem. To be clear, I’ve never referred to myself as an excellent MAist, only that I’ve been around the block a few times over the years and occasionally try to share some insights on that. I don’t like online bullying and never have done it, but if that’s the impression I’m giving anyone, I’ll look into that. I’ve always said, I always try to remain civil online, and write as I would actually speak to someone in person. But I also feel I must correct someone if they are misinterpreting what I’m saying (whether purposefully or not). And to be fair, on any forum only a relatively small number of members actually post regularly. And I suspect that participation in martial arts-related forums has fallen over the years.

I have nothing against wolfen or his posts, except maybe the tone of some of them, and I’ve never yet complained about someone or tried to get them banned.

As far as this becoming a movie site, I only post that stuff in the martial media forum, with the exception of the Hollywood Secret thread in this forum, because I didn’t feel a thread exposing sexual abuse was appropriate in the entertainment-related forum.

Anyway, it’s all good.

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Glad you guys sorted that out among yourselves

For the record, we have had some unofficial complaints about Wolfen’s posts recently. A few have threatened to leave on his account. If enough leave, well, despite this forum being open to the public, it is privately run and membership is a privilege that can be revoked at any point. And at it’s heart, our forum is a capitalist venture, so when the numbers fall, heads must roll. We offer this as forum as a public service, however our take is we get eyeballs, and our web platforms thrive on those. But this is not an ‘official’ warning really, just a side note, because those complaints aren’t official yet.

As for the dozen or so that ‘dominate’ this forum, anyone can post here. Even Wolfen at this point. This forum is what you make of it. Relevance is relevant I suppose, especially here in the off topic sub forum. :rolleyes:

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Alibaba & Pyeongchang Olympics

There are some embedded vids behind the link.

I’ll also plug my article from last week here because it’s relevant to Jack Ma & the Olympics: [URL=“http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1402”]Natasha Liu Bordizzo on Gong Shou Dao (The Art of Attack and Defense)

2018 Olympics
Alibaba bets on Olympics to make it a household name
by Sherisse Pham @Sherisse
February 20, 2018: 10:36 PM ET

Alibaba is ready to compete on the world stage.

China’s biggest e-commerce company just made its debut as an Olympic sponsor at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. Its massive pavilion at the event is a stone’s throw from those of Coca-Cola (KO), McDonald’s (MCD) and Samsung (SSNLF).

Those brands have instant global recognition, something that remains elusive for Alibaba (BABA) – for now.

The Chinese company made a big splash when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 with the world’s largest IPO. Chairman Jack Ma frequently pops up at major international events like Davos, and he drew attention with a photo op with President Trump last year.

But Alibaba’s “brand awareness outside China is not commensurate with its size,” said Junhong Chu, a marketing professor at the National University of Singapore.

The company, whose market value is bigger than that of Walmart (WMT), is banking on its Olympic sponsorship to help change the situation.

Brands pay millions of dollars to snag the highest level of Olympic sponsorship. To join that elite club, they must commit to a minimum four-year contract and fork over some serious cash. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) predicts it will make $1 billion from the program for the 2013-2016 period.

The companies that sign on to become top sponsors are typically household names, such as Toyota ™, GE (GE) and Visa (V).

Alibaba joined them in 2017. Financial terms of Olympic sponsorships are not made public, but it is reported to have spent $800 million for a deal lasting through 2028.


Alibaba’s pavilion in Gangneung Olympic Park is near those of Coca-Cola, Samsung and McDonald’s.

The Chinese company’s big Olympic debut comes as one top American brand is leaving the party. McDonald’s announced in June that it would end its decades-long deal with the Olympics three years early.

Alibaba is stepping in “at a very critical time,” the company’s chief marketing officer, Chris Tung, said in an email to CNNMoney. It will use its technology to help make the Olympics “more efficient, secure and engaging,” he added.

So while sports fans won’t be catching any Big Mac commercials during the Pyeongchang Games, they will see Alibaba’s ad campaign.

“This is Alibaba’s global coming-out party,” said John Gutteridge, Asia Pacific CEO of advertising firm J. Walter Thompson Company.

Its commercials feature stories of underdog athletes or small acts of kindness that took place at past Olympics.

“To the greatness of small” is the campaign’s tag line. And all the commercials end with the following phrase written in white on a black screen: “Alibaba empowers small businesses and young people around the world.”

The company is also sponsoring some Olympics-related content on CNN Digital during the Games.

For someone who has never heard of Alibaba, its Olympic commercials do little to clarify what the company does. But it might prompt them to find out, according to Chu.

Research suggests that people often respond to ads with online searches, she said, suggesting that if consumers hear about Alibaba during the Olympics, and their interest is piqued, they will do their own research into the company.

Wooing U.S. businesses

Alibaba is often called the Amazon (AMZN) of China, and much like its U.S. rival, the company has expanded well beyond its original e-commerce business. It has a growing cloud computing business, operates a major video site and is affiliated with a massive digital payments platform. It’s even expanding into brick-and-mortar stores in China.

It is also trying build up its business in the U.S., holding a big conference in Detroit in June to encourage American small businesses and farmers to sell their products to Chinese consumers through Alibaba platforms.

Expanding internationally has so far proved tough for Alibaba because its e-commerce sites and other main services are tailored to the Chinese market.

As part of its Olympics sponsorship, Alibaba became the official cloud services provider and e-commerce platform for the Games, as well as a founding partner of the Olympic Channel.

But raising its profile significantly in the U.S. through Olympic marketing campaigns may be a challenge.

Alibaba is signing on as a sponsor at a time when fewer people are watching the Games on NBC, the official U.S. broadcaster of the Olympics.

The network pulled in an average of 22.2 million prime-time viewers in the first week of Olympic coverage, down more than 6% from the first week of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, according to NBC Universal.

CNNMoney (Gangneung, South Korea)
First published February 20, 2018: 10:36 PM ET

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Taufatofua

This guy

redefines stud


2016 GETTY IMAGES
DATE 09 FEB 2018
PYEONGCHANG 2018
TONGAS TAUFATOFUA COMPLETES SWITCH FROM TAEKWONDO TO CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

ONLY THE SECOND WINTER OLYMPIAN IN TONGAS HISTORY, PITA TAUFATOFUA IS SET TO JOIN AN ELITE CLUB OF ATHLETES TO COMPETE AT THE SUMMER AND WINTER GAMES, HAVING REPRESENTED HIS COUNTRY IN TAEKWONDO AT RIO 2016.

In a reinvention worthy of a Hollywood script, the Tongan taekwondo athlete will compete as a cross-country skier at PyeongChang 2018.

Having rejected movie offers and modelling contracts after his eye-catching displays in Rio, the Australia-born 34-year-old who had never seen snow until two years ago becomes just the second athlete from the Pacific nation to qualify for a Winter Games.

Taufatofua had to battle through four Olympic cycles before becoming Tonga’s first Olympic taekwondo competitor at Rio 2016, so making it to PyeongChang was simple by comparison.

It still feels quite strange actually being here, because it took me 20 years to get to Rio, and just one year to get here, the former youth worker said. "Its just an honour. I mean, how many countries in the Pacific get to go to a Winter Games?


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FLYING THE FLAG FOR TONGA

As he did in Rio, Taufatofua will carry Tonga’s flag at the Opening Ceremony as the country’s sole athlete at the Games. But he will certainly be opting for warmer clothing at the PyeongChang Olympic Stadium than he did in Rio.

After the Opening Ceremony in Rio, images of Taufatofua oiled up, shirtless and wearing a traditional Tongan skirt at the head of the country’s tiny delegation went viral on social media, thrusting him into minor celebrity.

Eighteen months on, Taufatofua presents a much leaner figure than the muscular martial artist who competed in the 80kg division. After Rio, he rejected various offers of modelling gigs and film roles, choosing instead to ponder his next big challenge.

He opted for the gruelling discipline of cross-country skiing because it was the hardest thing he could think of doing.

TRAINING ON SAND

With no snow in Tonga or near his Brisbane base in Australia, Taufatofua’s training regimen began with running on sand dunes with wooden planks strapped to his feet.

We had to mimic being on snow while not being on snow, he said. Wed strap pieces of wood to our feet and run on the sand just to get the balance and some sort of glide.

Taufatofua’s cross-country skiing adventure may only be a brief interlude before he refocuses on taekwondo, a sport that has given him six broken bones, three torn ligaments and hundreds of hours of rehabilitation.

Indeed, he is already thinking about the possibility of a third successive Olympic appearance at Tokyo 2020.

Taekwondo and skiing, now theyre all in my blood, he said. I may go for the magic three [in Tokyo]. Its never been done [by a Tongan] before.

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See? I knew the 2022 Olympics would pay out.

Chinese sports authorities recruit Shaolin monks, teach them snow and ice disciplines to boost Beijing Winter Olympics squads
Sports Agence France-Presse Jul 31, 2018 18:58:10 IST

Shanghai: A Chinese kung-fu monk rockets down the halfpipe, his robe fluttering behind him, bald head glistening in the sun, to claim snowboard Olympic gold.


Representational image. Reuters

It may sound like a sequel to hit comedy film “Cool Runnings”, but for Beijing 2022 hosts China this is no joke. China is so worried about its lack of winter Olympians and losing face on home soil that it is plundering the martial arts schools of Buddhist monasteries in the search for a star.

Frantic sports chiefs have plucked 125 teenage students from the renowned Songshan Shaolin Temple in the central province of Henan in the hope their martial arts prowess can translate into medal-winning performances on the snow.

The latest batch of 23 students left for Beijing on Monday for initial training in freestyle skiing and other Olympic disciplines, the Henan Daily newspaper said. The best among them will then venture to New Zealand to hone their skills.

Medal-hungry China is turning to martial arts training schools as part of what it is calling “cross-discipline candidate selection” for Beijing 2022. More than 600 prospective Olympians — boys and girls — have been hand-picked so far in Henan alone, the Xinhua news agency said.

China’s General Administration of Sport, the government’s top sports body, said the nationwide search was designed to “enrich the talent pool for ice and snow disciplines”. Officials are also considering asking talented skateboarders, acrobats and trampolinists to switch disciplines as part of the ramped-up recruitment drive.

It is easy to see why they came up with the idea, seeing as at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February, China won just nine medals, only one of them gold.

Updated Date: Jul 31, 2018 18:58 PM

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