Set your freedom loving bitch free!
I admire the San Diego wanderer and semi-pro Cyrus Sutton more than any other stud in the game. Where other surfers, who should really know better, live in a smug world of conspiracy theories (“The Jooz did 9-11!”), Cyrus, who is 34, isn’t afraid to voice an opinion based on studying the facts.
Let’s examine capitalism, for instance.
It’s a system that has given the west wealth, health and all the technological and educational advances that can only come in a stable, secular democratic society. In what other epoch could the poorest members of a society live in such abundance they can, literally, eat themselves to death? If we weren’t addicted to the death porn of the 24-hour news cycle, you might think you lived in an earthly paradise.
But, capitalism. Such a dirty word. Enslaves the little man while making a venal one percent obscenely rich. Right?
Wrong, says Cyrus.
“Capitalism, I’ve been hearing more and more people denouncing it lately,” writes Cyrus on his Facebook page. “As someone who’s come to embrace and succeed in it after years of alienation, I can understand both sides. On one hand I think the innovation and hustle it fosters can be positive, while the stratification and exploitation are insidious. I’m no expert but shouldn’t we be talking about the foundations of economic systems instead of their flavor?
“I mean shouldn’t we be discussing scale and values first? Is it capitalism that’s the problem or the extractive imperialist framework upon which it hangs? I’ve been fortunate to travel to many countries in which capitalism in a small population (Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Norway, Sweden, France) with government regulation and social services seems to leave most people feeling content and somewhat supported. I’ve also been to Russia and Cuba and seen some good things but mostly people feeling oppressed by the systems they are taught to increasingly rely on.
“I personally think the key is honoring the places we live by scaling down our needs and supporting our communities on a bioregional level with respect for diversity. The larger the scale and more dominant any form of rule, the more perilous it becomes for the people and the planet.”
Are you in Cyrus’ camp, capitalism, mostly good, but could do with a little tinkering around the edges? Or do you think we’d all be better served if the rich were eaten and the wealth distributed evenly?
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August 14th. Might want to stay in.
“As someone who’s come to embrace and succeed in it after years of alienation, I can understand both sides. On one hand I think the innovation and hustle it fosters can be positive, while the stratification and exploitation are insidious.”
What Cyrus is saying is his life in a Ford Econoline van sucked until he embraced the tits mcgee of capitalism 1%er van-lifers and got himself the Mercedes Sprinter. Living large. Living large indeed. Go capitalism
Hadn’t seen those Georgia Guidestones – interesting. Obviously some sort of Illuminati artifact. Aren’t secret societies the best? Make the world so much more strange, the way that truth is far stranger than fiction.
I’d love to know if there are any intersections between secret societies and surfing. everyone else seems to want something from surfing – why not them? Chas? (As if he’s gone anywhere near this thread.)
That’s pretty awesome – yeah, woke engineers are rad.
Whenever I’ve gone down to Bastiamentos in Bocas Del Toro I’ve spent many hours scouring the shoreline and filling trash bags. Kind of a no-brainer.
Surfmud is pretty good for a ‘natural’ sunscreen… otherwise I go the chemical concoction over the skin cancer.
Dear Derek, Chas and Rory, when making editorial decisions please ask yourselves the question – would Nick Dee engage with this or enjoy commenting on it?
Seas, you got a link for your favorite elucidation of this 300 year plan?
Here’s my problem with all these supposed rationales – THEY MAKE NO FUCKIN SENSE.
Like, okay, they want to reduce the Earth’s population by 9/10’s. I’ve got no real issue with that – that’s probably the Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity. But if that was their concern, wouldn’t they actualize a complete about-face on fossil fuel usage, nuclear, GMO’s, habitat destruction, etc.., instead of pushing in the OPPOSITE FUCKING DIRECTION??!
So … Either this Grand Elite, playing chess while we are all playing tic tac toe, are actually supremely stupid, or they are sociopathic beyond our ken, OR … we don’t really know their true plan or motivations. And I don’t really believe they are stupid.
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..and check the active ingredient percentage. Bronzinc is the best, for mine.
I’m going to have to look up most of those words in the dictionary and get back to you…
put ’em all up against the wall
This site sure continues its straying from surfing to uphold its Zionist propaganda. Israel was originally an economic beachhead to protect the new Rothschild oil & Suez Canal business interests, which is why Israel was the 1st nation to make war on Egypt when Egypt sought to nationalise the Suez Canal. Please keep in mind it was the Joo banker Rothschild (and not Moses, Jesus or Abraham) who signed the Balfour Declaration with the colonialist British government in 1917 (in exchange for the Joo New York bankers & media bringing the USA into WW1 when Britain was losing the war).
About Capitalism
Point 1: There is a vast difference between ‘free-enterprise’ & ‘capitalism’. ‘Capitalism’ comes from the Feudal System (& into the Industrial Revolution), where the Feudal Lords (using military force) took ownership of the capital (land) of the people. Capitalism is a form of dictatorship & has no inherent relationship to ‘Free-Enterprise’ or ‘Democracy’. That was why Capitalism was inherently connected to the economic exploitation of Colonialism & the rise of the great Western Multinational Corporations was based on the economic exploitation of India, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Australia & Central America (not to forget little surfing mecca Hawaii).
Point 2: ‘Capitalism’ functions to maximise profit, power & control for the Capitalists; which is called ‘Oligarchy’. Just because the Capitalists eventually learned a good harmonious way to make profit was to pay their workers decent wages so the workers could buy the actual goods they produced does not mean the Capitalists have our best interests at heart. Even into the early 1900s, American Capitalists (such as the Rockefellers) hired armed militia to kill their (impoverished) striking workers.
Point 3: Cuba may be genuinely Communist but the ex-Soviet Union was bankrolled by the same Joo Rothschild forces that bought Israel. The Soviet Union murdered millions of non-Joos. It is reported the Gulags were primarily run by Joos. The Bolshevik revolution was essentially a Jooish coup, which is why 85% of the 1st Soviet government was Jooish, the majority, such as Trotsky, Joos returned from New York. It was essentially a quest for Jooish power. There were 10 million Joos living in the Pale of Settlement (western Russia & Poland) in 1917. Simply Wiki ‘Joseph Schiff’, who was a mad Joo NY banker obsessed with destroying Tsarist Russia to the point he financed the Japanese 1904 war against Russia & probably much of the Jewish militarism that lead to WW2 (not to forget bombing little Hawaii). If in doubt, read a sample of what Winston Churchill wrote in 1920 about the formation of the Jooish Soviet Union, here: http://library.flawlesslogi…
Point 4: The Capitalists are currently being critcised because, in their never end quest to maximise profit, they (like 9/11 truther Kelly Slater) are moving their factories to jurisdictions of cheap labour & lax environmental laws, thus abandoning the former American & Western working class, creating unemployment. This also reduces the US tax base, which has created a huge govt debt & Jooish lead Federal Reserve & Wall St financing engineering, which will inevitably lead to a huge financial/economic meltdown & more dictatorship. In short, the Capitalists are bankrolling the US govt into a Lawless Soviet-Style Dictatorship.
Point 5. Unlike the former British Colonialism, American Capitalism has used a form of Covert Imperialism to uphold its foreign economic interests by installing murderous Puppet Dictatorships throughout the world. That is why, for example, American Capitalism is partners with Dictatorial States such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain & Kuwait and supports proxy wars against secular states, such as Kelly Slater’s Syria.
Point 6. To have a democratic (rather than totalitarian) discussion about 9/11, each side of the discussion should understand the position of the other side. This link clearly details the Israel-Did-it view: https://wikispooks.com/wiki…
I think any reasonable person can put 1 + 1 together. When alleged Saudi Hijackers do 9/11 but the US embarks on 9/11 wars, such as against the Taliban (no Al Qaeda found) Iraq, later Libya & now Syria (& restarts the Afghan opium trade), which fulfilled the pre-9/11 Israel foreign policy; but not wars against Saudi Arabia; suspicion falls on the Zionists. Al Qaeda has always been a CIA operation, which is why the USA bombed Libya to protect Al Qaeda rebels & allowed Al Qaeda to take over Libya. That is why the USA is on the same side as Al Qaeda in (Kelly Slater’s) Syria.
Nick Dee, you are very smart, and mostly right on. Where I feel you get into trouble is your throwing around Jewish and Zionist interchangeably. Jews follow a religion. Zionists have a worldview. One could just as easily make a case for the Protestant conspiracy or the fuckin Papist conspiracy.
But just because key Bildaberg players appear to be members of certain religions, you’d be ridiculous to throw all members of those religions under the bus (even if one would have to be fairly ridiculous to believe the claptrap they sell.)
And you are essentially doing that by talking about Jewish conspiracies. You know, as they’ve been bearing the brunt of for centuries, and can you seriously fault there sensitivity?
How bout you take a step past the anachronistic conspiracy terminologies to focus on what we KNOW about the Rothschilds, Bushes, Rockefellers, etc.. – their whiteness, their greed, their sociopathy, (and we can certainly keep going).
Like I said, Nick Dee, you’re real smart, and smart people know how not to lose their audience (all three of us.)
Good point re Zionist and Jewish faith, there is actually a pretty big backlash against Zionism growing in Israel apparently. In our western media we see absolutely non of this (no surprises there). This actually goes all the back to the original phonies – the Phoenicians…
Thanks. To be honest, I am not concerned about an ‘audience’. Sure. The world oligarchy is certainly not & has never been exclusively Jewish or run by Jews. Historically, certain Jews were the employees & public face of the powerful European nobles, which includes Rothschild. However, I do not hold a distinction between Judaism & Zionism because Zionism is Judaism. I have no doubts there are millions of good, decent & humane people who identify as ‘Jewish’. But the Zionists (who were originally atheists) are following the Biblical script, supported by the Neo-Con-Xtians, supporting the same Biblical script. Judaism is what is written in the Old Testament, a tribal fairy tale of tribal supremacy, of god ordained genocide & world rule. You are deceived by the Old Testament, that pretends it is ‘moral’ with its 10 commandments. Abraham was a deceiver that told lies about his wife to extort money, Joseph advised the king of Egypt how to use a time of famine to dispossess the common people of their land & autonomy (creating a serfdom), Moses culturally cleansed his own people from their Egyptian lifestyle by walking them around the desert for 40 years, Joshua & his thugs genocided (every man, woman & child) of many tribes & Isaiah declared the Joo God would crush the nations & have Joos rule the world from Joo-roos-salem. I have no doubts there are millions of good, decent & humane people who called themselves ‘Jewish’ but the primitive brutal merciless tribalism of Judaism will always be a problem. As I said, the Biblical script was played out in Israel & in the Soviet Union. This is the primitive Joo Bible, with its adoration of money, worldly power & one god that wants a classless society ruled by priests and anything different to that is to be culturally cleansed & genocided. Unlike genuine Christianity, Judaism is not something ‘spiritual’ (despite the multitude of ‘Jewish’ people that have spiritual aspirations).
Lol – but tell us how you really feel!
You’ll never catch me defending that grab bag of Semitic nonsense; but…
You may consider a religion to be its teachings and arcana. I consider a religion to be its adherents. One depends on the other to be brought into reality, and not the other way around.
So yeah, I’m not convinced that the penthouse of this pyramid of subjugation is occupied by the Star of David instead of the dollar sign, or some other heretofore unplumbed Egyptian glyph or whatever. The Jooish conspiracy continues to smell as half-baked as ever.
The Jooish conspiracy is certainly “half-baked” because those elite Jews are only half of the story. The actual power elite are not & have never been Jewish. What always exists is a Class Struggle. But the idiotic Jew drama never stops being played out in Washington & Israel. Has there ever been such an infantile group of people that never stop bringing infantile attention to themselves than the Jews? My diagnosis is they are a group of infantile people with generational self-inflicted trauma due to a generational history of believing they are a chosen people, different from & better than the rest of humanity. Given their history of conflict, they are certainly no ‘Light to the Nations’.
So then why then are we even talking about them? If you have some insight into the Power Elite, I’m all ears.
Why? Because they are 1/2 of the story but not the power (but lots of the brains). Power is who controls the military. The Jews themselves, for example, did not have the power to set up the US Federal Reserve but the Joo Paul Warburg devised the plan; just as it was the Jewish financing of Oliver Cromwell & William of Orange’s invasion of England that lead to the return of the (expelled) Jews to England (after 400 years) & the establishing of the Bank of England. Jews were key owners of the East India companies & the mining interests in South Africa. It is a PARTNERSHIP between Gentile rulers & Jew brains. Jews earned wrath throughout European history because they did the dirty work of the European nobles, such s lend money, collect taxes, administer the serfs, etc. This is how the “Jew thing” arose. European rulers deflected the blame for problems onto Jews, who were willing to do the dirty work of the rulers. This has obviously affected the Euro-Jew psyche over many generations. Jews always lived in Iran & other places without such issues. Its a European thing.
Whatevs. I’m interested in why, not particularly who. And if the Joos are only half the who, then the why isn’t a Jooish thing.
When the former supreme German economy was devastated after WW1, Jews, using funds from abroad, bought up the economy. It took just one stroke of a pen in 1933 to deprive them of their power. Jews have been expelled from nearly every nation on earth. The same as the USA now. They are wielding power in the USA for the benefit of Israel but if a military coup occurs; they will be kicked out, again. I just have a strong suspicion Israel planned 9/11 but they can only do that with the approval of the Gentile rulers. Its a partnership but Zionists do not hold the power
The problem with capitalism is, it works without anyone running it. Nobody rules the world unfortunately. It is an infantile world view to think if we just get rid of a handfull of bad guys, everything will be fine. This omnipotent conspiracy isn’t real. But genocidal antisemites were, and still are real, and you seem to have quite some ideological overlap with them..
Read the Old Testament (about how the Israelites genocided the local tribes following the orders of their god created in their own image) & learn what the Joo Bolsheviks did in Russia & Palestine to discover which group is genocidal. And please stop using the stupid ‘antisemite’ word. I myself am a ‘semite’. Many Joos are not semites. Auschwitz death toll reduced from 4 million to 1 million. Majdanek reduced from 1.5 million to 59 thousand. All concentration camps in West Germany eventually cleared by all of having gas gambers. I do not doubt Jews died in WW2 but many lies were obviously fabricated about the holocaust. Joos just have to admit they were intrinsically involved in the Internationalism & Communism that the Nationalist governments of Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain, etc) were fighting against. When Joos do this, they will stop calling others ‘genocidal antisemites’ & accept some responsibility about what happened to their people. You are so wrong to assert “nobody rules the world”. When the Joo Rothschild had the Balfour Declaration signed in his favour or when Joo Joseph Schiff financed the Japanese War & Jooish Bolshevism against the Tsar, these powerful Jews were playing their hand at ‘god’ in running the world & they brought the wrath of others against their own (common) people. Powerful people, be they Jewish or German, try to control their world & bring the suffering of war upon their own Jewish or German common people. Stop playing the “poor innocent Jew’ card. In the early 1900s, powerful Jews played their hand at world power (just as they do today in Washington & Wall St) and these powerful Jews created a dislike against the common Jewish people. Read this, particularly the last famous article: http://www.nkusa.org/pdf/Tr… Evil Jews & different to evil Gentiles. Like Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, who declared “we are doing God’s work”, the evil Jews continually identify themselves with the Jewish tribe (where as evil Gentiles do not explicitly identify themselves as being “Christian”). This brings problems for the common Jewish person.
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Does he think Russia is still communist? He seems like a nice guy, but this “california farmers market” type capitalism is not really a solution for the global problems we are facing. Only if you are trying to go back to some imaginary pre industrial golden age, but then you are as crazy as the tinfoil nutters..
Derek just loves his little Straw Man fallacies. If it’s not *the 9-11 official bedtime story* it’s THE JOOZ DID IT! I heart capitalism or eat the rich. Can’t figure out if he’s on the payroll or just simple.
Haha I think he is a tortured soul
He doesn’t come off as such. Just a brave front?
After missing out on the sale of (essentially worthless) Stab to Surfstitch, Derek seems to be hoping for a windfall (from the Jooish media) from the sale of BeachGrit. Unfortunately, the Surfstitch experience may dampen that prospect.
Do you really think he’s that calculating? Whatever else, Derek’s always seemed pure of heart. Besides, his Israeli crush isn’t a new thing, no? Maybe there was a girl…
Can’t blame him if he’s still hung up on missing the Stab boat, though.
Yes, I did read it.
It’s a classic preface: I am not (or don’t know much about) … but … (proceeds to tell us / give opinion anyway).
If someone does that at the pub do you stand there, listen intently, and nod furiously at their ‘wisdom’ or tell ’em they’re talking out of their hat and so it’s their round?
Seems like a lovely chap, so I understand you are here for him. But it’s his round!
The trend of buying your absolution from the excesses of capitalism is really fascinating. I go to Starbucks and buy a coffee, but feel guilty about the plastic and suffering necessary for me to drink my sugary caffeinated drink. So Starbucks raises prices slaps on a fair trade sticker and I can move on with my life. Look at what Tom’s shoes did with the one+one deal to show that consumption=charity. Or check out the bevy of ways Outerknown is greening up the supply chain. Consumer guilt over consumption is monetized, oh ain’t Capitalism grand! The libertarians sing the free market praises, while the socialists post another article on feeling the Bern.
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Has anyone ever been to a “developing” country and seen the local kids running around in their charitably-provided Toms? I sure haven’t.
“On tonight’s Beachgrit TV news, our investigative journalist Audit In Progress is dropped off in wave starved Haiti to verify Tom’s charitable contributions only to find it is the very same Tom from Myspace.”
It’s quite clear Cyrus doesn’t know the first thing about Capitalism. His ‘scaling down’ model isn’t how capitalism works.
And those countries he celebrates have been built on the back of some horrible exploitative shit.
And USA – capitalism HQ – is pretty damn oppressive.