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Archive for 2019
September 5, 2019
WHEN VIRTUE-SIGNALLING LEADS TO HORROR: The Terrible Truth About ‘Live Aid.’
The assignment was simple — all this money had been raised, where was it going, was it actually doing good?
He discovered it was not doing good, but, horrifically, unimaginably, the exact opposite. The Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu, until then deadlocked in the war, was using the money the west gave him to buy sophisticated weapons from the Russians, and was now able to efficiently and viciously crush the opposition. Ethiopia, then the third poorest country in the world, suddenly had the largest, best equipped army on the African continent.By this time we had all seen the pictures and TV footage of Bob Geldof, the figurehead of Live Aid, bear hugging and playfully punching Mengistu in the arm as he literally handed over the funding for this slaughter. It was on TV now alright, but as an endless, relentless reel of heroic Bob Geldof highlights. He drenched himself in the adulation and no one begrudged him it, until our investigation exposed the holocaust that Live Aid’s collected donations had help perpetrate on the Eritrean independence fighters.
Most damningly, Keating reported that Geldof was warned, repeatedly, from the outset by several relief agencies in the field about Mengistu, who was dismantling tribes, mercilessly conducting resettlement marches on which 100,000 people died, and butchering helpless people. According to Medicins Sans Frontiers, who begged Geldof to not release the money until there was a reliable infrastructure to get it to victims, he simply ignored them.
But people felt good about themselves, and that’s the important thing.
Related (From Ed): As I wrote at the Weekly Standard in 2004, when Live Aid (minus Led Zeppelin’s disastrous set) was first released on DVD, “While Live Aid was spectacular television, it was just another in a series of Big Events from people who believed that throwing money at a problem eventually solves it. Eerily, it forecast how the left would interact with Iraq: Substitute Mengistu for Saddam Hussein and it’s amazing how all the rest of the players stay the same–the BBC, the United Nations, and celebrities who believe that despots can be reasoned with to do the right thing. We won’t get fooled again? Of course you will.”
THE BOSTON HERALD: “Our elected leaders need to call out antifa for what they are: a hate group.”
FASTER, PLEASE: The Anti-Aging Drug That’s Just Around The Corner.
HE WAS ALREADY PRODUCING THEM, WHICH IS WHAT CAUSED THE DEMISE OF THE NUCLEAR PACT: Putin says Russia will produce new missiles after demise of nuclear pact.
STILL NOT TIRED OF WINNING: Private payroll growth way above Wall Street estimates despite recession fears.
TUCKER CARLSON: AFTER ‘DESTROYING AND DEGRADING RURAL AMERICA,’ WALMART NOW WANTS TO LECTURE THEM ABOUT GUNS.
Carlson called Walmart CEO Doug McMillon’s “strident statement calling on Congress to ban many semi-automatic rifles” a “big step” that has people who used to hate the retailer suddenly on its side.
“It’s a fascinating turnaround,” he said after playing several media clips. “For years, you’ll remember, Walmart was the target of coordinated attacks from the left. Progressives accused the company of destroying small towns, and of exploiting workers.”
The retail giant figured out, Carlson noted, that it could “buy immunity from criticism by mouthing left wing pieties.”
Flashback: “Leslie Dach: a well-known progressive and former senior aide to Vice President Al Gore. In July 2006, Dach was installed as the public relations chief for Wal-Mart. He drafted a number of other progressives into the company, seeking to change the company’s way of doing business: its culture, its politics, and most importantly its products.”
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WHAT CRIMINOLOGISTS DON’T SAY, and why.
IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH OBAMA’S IRAN DEAL WASN’T WORTH A DAMN: Trump Admin Sanctions Iranian Space Program for Covering Nuclear Weapons Work.
THE BABYLON BEE JUST GETS BETTER: Catholic School Cures Harry Potter Fans By Forcing Them To Read JK Rowling’s Twitter Feed.
ALSO MANY YOUNGER AMERICANS: Many older Americans aren’t prepared for emergencies like Hurricane Dorian. “The poll of more than 2,200 adults, ages 50 to 80, found that less than one-third have an emergency kit with essential supplies and medicines that can sustain them at home or that they can take with them in an evacuation, and only one-quarter who rely on electrical power to run health-related equipment have a backup power supply.”
Related: Emergency Preparedness Checklist.
SENATOR RON WYDEN: Mark Zuckerberg should face “the possibility of a prison term.”
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Is Joe Biden’s Eye Okay? “Everybody’s talking about it on social media, and almost nobody’s talking about it in the news. Not even CNN, which hosted the debate where it happened. Which makes sense, because Biden is a Democrat and the job of the press is to protect Democrats. This can’t be used against the Republicans, so the media will just ignore it and hope it goes away. That’s what they did when Hillary Clinton collapsed in the street and had to be tossed into a waiting van like a sack of potatoes. They just pretended it never happened, until they were forced to finally cover it. They want a Democrat in the White House, and they’ll ignore any story that interferes with that, as long as they can.”
80 YEARS AGO TODAY: FDR declares U.S. neutrality in WWII.
That was one day after Belgium and the Netherlands declared neutrality, for all the good it did them.
APRÈS TRUMP, LE DÉLUGE: Dems at Climate Forum: Ban Everything! [Supercut Video]
FORGET IT, HE’S ROLLING: Andrew Yang Wants Buybacks… for Your Car?
ROGER SIMON: It’s Time for Conservatives to Build their Own Hollywood.
What is needed here by investors on the right is a little guts for a change. It shouldn’t be so hard, but somehow it is–or has been. It’s obviously true that film, theatre, publishing are risky investments, but the center-to-right audience is huge. Plenty of “proof of concept” exists with films like “The Blind Side,” “Lone Survivor” and “American Sniper” just some examples of box offices smashes that fit that profile.
Now those movies have something in common other than their ideologies — they’re good. (They also don’t hammer you over the head with their views.) And that, of course, is the bottom line. If art isn’t well made, it doesn’t matter where its heart is. And if it isn’t free to skewer both sides — like Dave Chappelle’s hilarious new show that apparently has offended the left — it isn’t worth much either.
Read the whole thing.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Nonprofit director slams ‘self-inflicted wound’ of ‘identity politics’ in English after liberal arts majors found to make less money.
“DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:” Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer. When taxpayers tire of funding this, we’ll be told it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”