ISIS IS CONTAINED AND GLOBAL WARMING IS THE REAL TERROR THREAT: How safe is your next trip? Map reveals Turkey, France and Germany among countries at ‘high risk’ of terror attacks as experts call for airport security to extend beyond terminals.

WHY DETROIT fears driverless cars.

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MARKETS, HOW DO THEY WORK? Three Amigos “call for action to address excess global steel supply.”

In statements released as the summit began, the three countries announced the Nafta rule-of-origin changes will affect pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, rubber, metals, industrial and electrical machinery, precision instruments and natural gas.

On steel, the countries “agree on the need for governments of all major steel-producing countries to make strong and immediate commitments to address the problem of global excess steelmaking capacity,” a statement from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office said.

I suppose prices could be allowed to fall until inefficient producers are forced out, but that would eliminate channels for cronyism and graft.

A RARE MOMENT OF SANITY IN THE MIDST OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: UNC removes guidelines calling golf, compliments microaggressions.

Don’t worry though, golf will always be racist at MSNBC.

SO, ANITA SARKEESIAN’S “TRUST AND SAFETY COUNCIL” IS DOING ABOUT AS WELL AS EXPECTED: Death threats against senators remained on Twitter for 2 weeks.

ANDREW McCARTHY: Willful Blindness and Radical Islam: My Testimony to the Senate.

[OMITTED] IN THE TWIN CITIES.

SO WORKPLACES HAVE GONE DOWNHILL: 5,000-year-old pay stub shows that ancient workers were paid in beer.

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FLASHBACK: Watch: Clinton called TPP ‘gold standard in trade agreements’ in 2012.

SUPERCAVITATION: Bubble-Enclosed Submarines Could Go Really, Really Fast.

IDAHO U.S. ATTORNEY WENDY J. OLSON: I’m sorry people misinterpreted my threats about prosecuting people for “inflammatory statements” to mean I was threatening to prosecute people for inflammatory statements.

ROGER SIMON: If the EU Ends, Merkel Has Herself to Blame.

But she was Time magazine’s person of the year. That’s got to count for something, right?

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

• “With all the attention being paid to college-aged social justice warriors and microagressions, one has to ask: What happens when all these delicate snowflakes enter the workforce?”

—“The survivor class: Coming to a job near you,” Ashe Schow, the Washington Examiner, March 26, 2015.

I was able to get a summer internship at a company that does work in the industry I want to work in after I graduate. Even though the division I was hired to work in doesn’t deal with clients or customers, there still was a very strict dress code. I felt the dress code was overly strict but I wasn’t going to say anything, until I noticed one of the workers always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of these things were contrary to the dress code.

I spoke with my manager about being allowed some leeway under the dress code and was told this was not possible, despite the other person being allowed to do it. I soon found out that many of the other interns felt the same way, and the ones who asked their managers about it were told the same thing as me. We decided to write a proposal stating why we should be allowed someone leeway under the dress code. We accompanied the proposal with a petition, signed by all of the interns (except for one who declined to sign it) and gave it to our managers to consider. Our proposal requested that we also be allowed to wear running shoes and non leather flats, as well as sandals (not flip-flops though) and other non-dress shoes that would fit under a more business casual dress code. It was mostly about the footwear, but we also incorporated a request that we not have to wear suits and/or blazers in favor of a more casual, but still professional dress code.

The next day, all of us who signed the petition were called into a meeting where we thought our proposal would be discussed. Instead, we were informed that due to our “unprofessional” behavior, we were being let go from our internships. We were told to hand in our ID badges and to gather our things and leave the property ASAP.

We were shocked. The proposal was written professionally like examples I have learned about in school, and our arguments were thought out and well-reasoned. We weren’t even given a chance to discuss it.

— “I was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code,” a young special snowflake writes into Ask a Manager.org, whose proprietor replies:

Firing the whole group of you was a pretty extreme reaction, but I can understand why they were highly annoyed. Y’all were pretty out of line. You were interns there — basically guests for the summer. Their rules are their rules. This is like being a houseguest and presenting your host with a signed petition (!) to change their rules about cleaning up after yourself. You just don’t have the standing to do that.

Really? It worked so well crybullying our professors at Oberlin and Mizzou. You mean those tactics don’t work as well in the corporate environment?

UPDATE: “Now as foolish as the girl was this is really a failure of her educators and parents. She was only repeating what she had been trained to do and rewarded for all during her snowflake education. She truly did not see that she had no standing to complain and that her narcissistic activism would be disapproved of so strongly. And from her letter in the article it doesn’t appear that she has learned very much from the experience either.”

DALE FRANKS: Vote Properly, You Virulent Racist! “Most people, most of the time, are perfectly happy to let elites run the country. After all, it seems to make the elites happy to run run things, and, as long as they’re reasonably competent at it, and do it reasonably unobtrusively, no one much seems to care. But when elite competence is compromised by faulty ideology and cronyism, people become unhappy. And when the elite response to complaints is dismissal or insult, political problems begin to bloom. People begin to think about politics. They begin to do things. It is no coincidence, as our Soviet friends used to say, that the last decade has seen the rise of the TEA Party, the Occupy Movement, and the Trump phenomenon. People of all political stripes are becoming unhappy. I think we’re about to watch the elites start paying a price for that inattention and contempt.”

If so, it’ll be the first time they’ve paid a price for anything in quite a while. Which is also the point, I suppose.

Related: Liz Peek: Pushed Around and Left Out. The Frightening US Parallels to Brexit.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: This Tiny Camera Can Be Injected Into Your Body.

NBC HAS TOP MEN WRITING THE NEWS. TOP. MEN.:

But then, this is the logical endpoint of NBC’s Tom Brokaw, who by then had over 40 years as a journalist and teleprompter reader claiming the week before the 2008 election that he didn’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is. “We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy,” Brokaw told Charlie Rose. “Unexpectedly,” as the kids say at Bloomberg, neither man was horrified at the implications of that statement. Both what it says about Obama himself, and the DNC operatives with bylines (such as Brokaw and Rose) who not only failed to vet him, but covered for him every step of the way.

CLARICE FELDMAN: The McDonnell Case: Another Study in Criminal Law as Democratic Partisan Warfare. This sort of thing will continue until the personal price involved becomes sufficiently high to deter it.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: NJ third grader mentions brownies being served at class party, called racist by another student, police dispatched:

On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.

A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was “racist,” the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment.

The police officer spoke to the student, who is 9, said the boy’s mother, Stacy dos Santos, and local authorities.

Dos Santos said that the school overreacted and that her son made a comment about snacks, not skin color.

“He said they were talking about brownies. . . . Who exactly did he offend?” dos Santos said.

No one of course, but like the Junior Spies in Orwell’s 1984, it’s always good for “Progressives” to use hapless kids to keep the rest of the proles on their toes. As Jonah Goldberg wrote in 2008’s Liberal Fascism, “Because liberals have what Thomas Sowell calls an ‘unconstrained vision,’ they assume everyone sees things through the same categorical prism:”

So once again, as with the left’s invention of social Darwinism, liberals assume their ideological opposites take the “bad” view to their good. If liberals assume blacks—or women, or gays—are inherently good, conservatives must think these same groups are inherently bad.

This is not to say that there are no racist conservatives. But at the philosophical level, liberalism is battling a straw man. This is why liberals must constantly assert that conservatives use code words—because there’s nothing obviously racist about conservatism per se. Indeed, the constant manipulation of the language to keep conservatives—and conservatives—and other non-liberals—on the defensive is a necessary tactic for liberal politics. The Washington, D.C., bureaucrat who was fired for using the word “niggardly” correctly in a sentence is a case in point. The ground must be constantly shifted to maintain a climate of grievance. Fascists famously ruled by terror. Political correctness isn’t literally terroristic, but it does govern through fear. No serious person can deny that the grievance politics of the American left keeps decent people in a constant state of fright—they are afraid to say the wrong word, utter the wrong thought, offend the wrong constituency.

Which is why everything must be racist, right down to the food on your kids’ plates.

Related: Needless to say, racism is also a particularly useful cudgel for “Progressives” at election time.

AN IMPORTANT OBSERVATION FROM IOWAHAWK:

A CONVERSATION WITH MEL BROOKS: 2,000-year-old writer, director, and producer is still blazing saddles at age 90.

PRIORITIES: Michelle Obama Pledges $100M of U.S. Tax Dollars to Educate Girls… in Morocco.

That’s about how much Barack Obama spent trying to improve Chicago’s schools through the Annenberg Project to no measurable result.

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO IMAM HAS BOUGHT BEFORE: White House Emerges as Iran’s Top ‘Lobbying Shop,’ Obama administration’s campaign to boost business in Iran under congressional scrutiny.

Crony socialism – the final frontier!