h/t: Dave
Brooks’ idea that the reason Hollywood and Silicon Valley are so rich is because they have embraced the Latino immigrants who empty their wastebaskets is reminiscent of Richard Florida’s once-popular theory that Palo Alto’s Sand Hill Road was prospering because there were a lot of gays on San Francisco’s Castro Street only 33 miles away.
h/t: Scott
Need to sick the Israelis on this guy.
George Soros, the billionaire known as the man who “broke the Bank of England”, is backing a campaign to overturn Brexit, the Telegraph can disclose.
The investor is one of three senior figures linked to the Remain-supporting campaign group Best for Britain who plan to launch a nationwide advertising campaign this month, which they hope will lead to a second referendum to keep Britain in the EU.
If Americans are losing confidence in the FBI, whose fault is that? Is there not evidence that a hubristic cadre at the apex of the FBI—Comey, McCabe, Strzok foremost among them—decided the Republic must be saved from Trump and, should Hillary fail, they would step in and move to abort the Trump presidency at birth?
VDH:
The Watergate scandal of 1972–74 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration’s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though illegal, political break-in.
In the Iran-Contra affair of 1985–87, the media and liberal activists uncovered wrongdoing by some rogue members of the Reagan government. They warned of government overreach and of using the “Deep State” to subvert the law for political purposes.
We are now in the midst of a third great modern scandal. Members of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice sought court approval for the surveillance of Carter Page, allegedly for colluding with Russian interests, and extended the surveillance three times.
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But there is one huge (and ironic) difference. In the current FISA-gate scandal, most of the media and liberal civil libertarians are now opposing the disclosure of public documents. They are siding with those in the government who disingenuously sought surveillance to facilitate the efforts of a political campaign.
An FBI informant connected to the Uranium One controversy told three congressional committees in written testimony that Moscow routed millions of dollars to America with the expectation it would be used to benefit Bill Clinton’s charitable efforts while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quarterbacked a “reset” in US-Russian relations.
It’s not hard to believe that the thin-skinned narcissist, who politicized the IRS and DOJ, was pulling the strings.
Newly revealed text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page may directly implicate President Barack Obama in the Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) surveillance scandal.
For the most part, MSM journalists are sheep.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Serving Canada or Serving Islamists?
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The CBC appears to have a willful policy of protecting Islamists, including ISIS in Canada, from public exposure. Students who had tried to leave Canada to fight for ISIS were using violence and threats of violence to express their will to force their control over parts of a public educational institute. Yet the national broadcaster deliberately sent parts of the story down the memory hole by excluding any reference to ISIS sympathizers of any culpability for their actions.
The CBC also grants a free pass to those politicians who have been openly identified as Islamists, yet attacks Christians who have stated they will not bring their personal faith into the public realm.
“I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this…”
In 1898, Emile Zola was brought to trial for publishing J’accuse…!, an open letter exposing the cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus affair.
Peoplekind, as sock boy would have it, ain’t learned much.
Evidently Canadians didn’t pay attention to the McGuinty/Wynne/Butts disaster in Ontari-owe, so they voted in PM socks, who took Butts to Ottawa with him to impose their disastrous policies on the whole country. Liberals must continually laugh at how stupid Canadians are, else why would folks keep voting them in? Speaking of Butts, Liberals yell “BOHICA” and Canadians seemingly swoon.
Sir John A. McDonald, the man who did more than anyone to help create this country—and who is now under attack by the usual malcontents—purportedly said that ‘a Liberal is a socialist in a top hat’. True to their socialist creed, Liberals strive for equality of outcome, because Lord knows, equality of opportunity just ain’t cuttin’ it. Which bring us to their continued attack on small businesses—the economic engine of the country. Liberals never saw a tax they didn’t like. If a business is successful in Canada, it must be punished. Don’t try to help underachievers achieve: punish the successful and bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator. The Liberals are now going to steal more money from businesses in the name of “fairness”. Cripes. None of these new rules apply to the uber-rich, however, including the Hair Lisp and Willie Porno, the trust fund lads. And, of course, nary a thought for the “fairness” of the generous salaries, indexed pensions and health care plans of the public sector—that is, the parasitic class—that folks in the private sector have to pay for.
Here’s an article on Turdeau’s anti-business stance, although clearly it doesn’t apply to Bombardier. Writer, Allan Lanthier, calls the latest Liberal tax grab confiscatory. Time for some torches and pitchforks.
With both its rhetoric and its legislative initiatives, the government seems intent on driving business investment and jobs out of Canada.
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Speaking in Davos at the World Economic Forum in January, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued his anti-business mantra. He stated that “too many corporations have put the pursuit of profit before the well-being of their workers,” and that “companies avoid taxes and boast record profits with one hand, while slashing benefits with the other.” With both its rhetoric and its legislative initiatives, the government seems intent on driving business investment and jobs out of Canada.
For the best part of a decade the BBC – like most other mainstream media – chose to ignore the issue of the northern Muslim grooming gangs. When Operation Bullfinch uncovered similar crimes being carried out in leafy Oxfordshire there was a little more attention. But with the exception of some extraordinary reporting from one journalist at the Times, most media just wanted to keep a million miles away from the story. They didn’t know any of the victims, didn’t know the towns and somewhere along the way (subliminally or otherwise) made the decision that all this was just too horrible and delicate a story to wade into.
Sock boy embarrasses Canadians once again:
The appropriate response:
Update: Why is the self-proclaimed feminist mansplaining? PC hierarchies are tough.
Day after day, Ball records casualties and reports of rain and knee-deep mud. A rumor has it that his outfit will be pulled out of the Ypres Salient and sent south to the Somme. “This will be an eventful happening,” says Ball, “as Canadians stood their ground in this place and have held it since.” The Battle of the Somme was horrifically bloody. On the first day, July 1, 1916, British generals launched a series of assaults into withering German artillery and machine-gun fire. British troops fell by the thousands. By the time the day was over, more than 57,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. The battle would continue, sporadically, until November 18. By then, Germany had suffered 500,000 casualties; France, 200,000; and Britain, 420,000. Of the British casualties, 27,000 were Canadians; 23,000 Australians; 7,400 New Zealanders; and 3,000 South Africans. A German officer, Friedrich Steinbrecher, wrote, “Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.”
Grad a coffee and read the whole thing.
It was a pretty tasty nothingburger:
The alleged journalists of the legacy media spent all weekend denouncing President Trump and the GOP for ignoring their warnings against the release of the infamous FISA Memo. The party line from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and countless lesser outlets that parrot their “news” stories is that the memo was both a “nothingburger” and a dangerous attempt to undermine federal law enforcement agencies. Immediately upon its release the Times published a column titled, “Devin Nunes’s Nothingburger.” Then, 24 hours later, the Gray Lady published another piece under the headline, “The Memo Doesn’t Vindicate Trump. It’s More Proof of Obstruction.”
VDH:
“Elite” is now an overused smear. But it is a fair pejorative when denoting a cadre that is not a natural or truly meritocratic top echelon, but is instead a group distinguished merely by schooling, associations, residence, connections and open disdain. If this is supposed to translate into some sort of received wisdom and acknowledged excellence, ordinary Americans may be pardoned for missing it.
Europe no longer belongs to the Europeans. The Islamic power grab has taken place, silently, without democratic legitimacy and without debate.