IN THE WORDS OF A LIGHTWORKER, DON’T THINK WE’RE NOT KEEPING SCORE, BROTHER. Facebook Purges Epoch Times’ Pro-Trump Ads, Bans Outlet From Future Advertisements.
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Archive for 2019
August 28, 2019
MARK FALCOFF: Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela. “The United States would be ill-advised to become excessively concerned with the course of Venezuelan politics. To be sure, other Latin American countries are upset about the migrants fleeing from Maduro. But then let them gather together in their many, many regional organizations (UNASUR, the Latin American Parliament, MERCOSUR, etc., etc., etc.) and work out a ‘regional solution’ of the type they were always urging us to pursue in the past. The United States should assume a position of non-alignment in this matter, much as the Latins were happy to do with regard to our security concerns during the long years of the Cold War.”
I’m not much concerned beyond my enjoyment of a good cautionary tale.
DEEP STATE UPDATE: U.S. Intel Gatekeeper Dragging Feet on Trump-Russia Files, Insiders Say.
WHAT A WAY TO GO: U.S. To “Drown The World” In Oil.
Because so much drilling in the U.S. is concentrated in a few areas, individual U.S. states on their own tower over the rest of the world. If Texas were a country, it would account for the most new oil and gas production in the world. Between 2020 and 2029, Texas could account for 28 percent of all additional output, Global Witness says.
Canada and Pennsylvania tie for second and third with 7 percent each. Then comes New Mexico at 5 percent of the growth and North Dakota at 4 percent. Oklahoma, Brazil, Colorado, Russia and Ohio are all tied at 3 percent a piece.
In other words, 7 out of the top 10 sources of new oil and gas production globally over the next decade are U.S. states.
“If things don’t change, by the end of the next decade, new oil and gas fields in the US will produce more than twice what Saudi Arabia produces today,” Global Witness said in its report.
Global Witness says that like it’s a bad thing, but I call it “winning.”
HMM: Lawfare Expects McCabe Arrest – That Explains Why CNN Hired Him…. “When McCabe is charged the media narrative will be it’s because he took the job with CNN… Trump/Barr weaponizing the DOJ and trying to kill free speech etc. CNN doesn’t have to defend their action in hiring a known liar, they’ll instead frame McCabe as a victim, a fellow traveler to the larger cause of justice – whose indictment is evidence of how far Trump and Barr will go to destroy their enemies etc.”
But:
However, it is worth remembering how this entire internecine mess was started.
Andrew McCabe lied to INSD about leaking to the media when the INSD was investigating leaks to the media. McCabe’s statements contradicted the statements of his assigned DOJ lawer, Lisa Page; who said McCabe instructed and coordinated the leaks to journalist Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal.
When confronted with two sets of competing stories, Lisa Page -vs- Andrew McCabe, it appears the IG-INSD asked Page if she could prove her side of the story. The need to prove her version of events appears to be the impetus for Page revealing her text messaging. Page’s texts proved her story, and proved McCabe was lying.
However, from that text messaging review (June/July 2017), in addition to texts between Page and McCabe, the investigation turned-up discussions between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
And that’s how that whole thing got started.
McCabe’s pretty obviously dirty here, but maybe not obvious enough for CNN to shy away from him. I mean, this is CNN.
WHAT HATH TRUMP WROUGHT? Hasbro CEO: Moving out of China has ‘gone very well for us.’
CHANGE: Maddow’s TV Ratings Fall Again As Hannity, Carlson Remain On Top. “It was the second straight month that Maddow failed to finish in the top three, something she had previously accomplished every month dating back to October 2018.”
THE ATLANTIC: Angering China Can Now Get You Fired. “The pressure on Hong Kong executives to suppress dissent could go global.”
By harassing these specific firms, Beijing’s leaders are clearly sending a wider message to all business in Hong Kong, both local and international: Support the crackdown, or suffer the consequences. A recent commentary in the Global Times made that threat explicit. “Companies should not become accomplices of the rioters. Moreover, they need to see themselves as an important symbol of maintaining a stable and prosperous society,” it read. Otherwise, “behavior that hurts Chinese people’s feelings are always eventually uncovered by netizens, and the companies guilty of such behavior are criticized or boycotted.”
For now, the pressure on these companies to act against democracy advocates has been limited to Hong Kong. Yet the businesses in Beijing’s crosshairs are also global, with employees and operations around the world. (Even MTR operates rail services in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Sweden.) It is not such a big leap to fear staff working for these firms outside of Hong Kong could also be vulnerable if they express favor toward the protest movement.
“Kowtow” isn’t a Chinese word because the emperors played nice, but it seems like if Beijing thought they could afford to really crack down on Hong Kong, they’d have done so already. Or maybe Xi just isn’t desperate enough yet to try anything really rash.
AS USUAL, SHE WAS LYING: Linda Sarsour Claims That Pro-Israel ‘Zionists’ Marched With The KKK.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Trump — or What, Exactly? Let’s compare Trump’s policies and behavior to that of prior presidents — and to his 2020 opponents’.
Not a word comes from Trump’s critics about the need for Social Security or Medicare reform to ensure the long-term viability of each — other than the Democrats’ promises to extend such financially shaky programs to millions of new clients well beyond the current retiring Baby Boomer cohorts who are already taxing the limits of the system.
To counter every signature Trump issue, there is almost no rational alternative advanced. That void helps explain the bizarre, three-year litany of dreaming of impeachment, the emoluments clause, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment, the Mueller special-counsel investigation, Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti, Trump’s tax returns, White Supremacy!, Recession! — and Lord knows what next. . . .
Instead of vague socialist bombast and promises, where is the actual detailed socialist version of the Contract with America, so voters can read it, digest it, and then decide whether it is superior or inferior to the status quo since 2017? Let us see two antithetical visions of America’s future, and let the voters decide.
For those who insist that “character matters” more than policy, then, let us compare the Trump behavior in the White House since 2017 with JFK’s, Lyndon Johnson’s, and Bill Clinton’s. Let’s compare his supposed efforts to “obstruct” justice with Obama’s actual record of politicizing federal justice, intelligence, tax, and investigatory agencies.
So far, all that is something that apparently no presidential candidate wishes to do.
Plus:
Trump’s crime is that, without sanitized surgical gloves, he completely ripped the scab off what we call “journalism” and exposed a festering wound of narcissistic, mostly incompetent, and utterly partisan reportage.
Indeed, we knew what was beneath but dared not touch the scab. We had smelled the fetid pus when journalists rallied around the mythographer Dan Rather, chatted in the JournoList files, and competed to toady up to Hillary Clinton in Wikileaks’ trove of Podesta emails. Dean Baquet’s latest New York Times pep talk about the next “racist!” newspeak to follow the failed Mueller hoax was thus anticlimactic — well aside from the epidemics of #MeToo accusations not usually associated with woke, progressive journalistic professionals.
We know that the New York Times, so eager to accuse Trump and the nation at large of serial racism, is itself fond of publishing anti-Semitic cartoons and hiring those with a paper trail of racism and anti-Semitism as its editors, reporters, or editorial-board members, as we see with Sarah Jeong, Jonathan Weisman, and Tom Wright-Piersanti.
Trump did not destroy CNN or the New York Times as viable news organizations. He had nothing to do the past three years with their suicidal abandonment of ethics, professionalism, and disinterested reporting.
True.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: No, the Electoral College Is Not ‘Affirmative Action’ for Rural Voters.
WASHINGTON POST: Smearing Pro-Lifers, Especially J. D. Vance. “For most of its length, Marissa Brostoff’s Washington Post op-ed on the alleged links between the pro-life movement and white nationalism is merely propagandistic. At the end it becomes a despicable smear of conservative author J. D. Vance.”
“White Nationalist” is just the new version of “Fascist” — anyone who disagrees with a leftist. But if you keep calling genuinely admirable people white nationalists, the most likely effect will be to convince some people that white nationalism isn’t as bad as they’d thought.
PROFESSOR’S PARTISANSHIP METRIC RANKS HOUSE COMMITTEES: I’ve been around Congress for a long time and I have to confess the results here were a bit surprising. But then he who administers controls, right?
SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL: Stanford University has a separate physics course for students from under-represented minorities. Plus two course physics courses focusing on diversity and inclusion.
LYCANTHROPE-AMERICANS PROTEST THIS NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE: Babies contract ‘Werewolf Syndrome’ from tainted formula.
YOU CAN’T DO THAT. THEY DON’T PILLAGE WHEN THE LIGHT IS ON: Danish city puts Vikings at crossing signals.
APPARENTLY WE MUST BAN FAST FOOD, FOR THE HEALTH OF CORVID-AMERICANS: Fast food contributing to higher cholesterol in urban crows, study says.
SEE, SOME MEN ARE THOUGHTFUL! (COFF): Indonesian man marries 2 girlfriends in unusual ceremony ‘so nobody gets hurt’.
I’M SORRY. I’M USED TO ROAD SIGNS SAYING “BEWARE FALLING ROCKS” BUT THIS IS BEYOND THE PALE: Beware of rolling mountain poop balls: National Park Service.
THEY’RE REALLY GOOD AT GETTING HYSTERIA GOING: The Great Amazon Fire Fraud.
You know what else is a fraud? Plastic in the sea. Sure there’s plastic, particularly at river mouths and beach regions, mostly from third world countries. But there are no big “rafts” of plastic or islands of plastic. Almost every picture you see of that are carefully cropped debris from tsunamis or other disasters. However, in the name of this they’ve got hysterics going and want to ban straws and plastic bags.
Why? Why would they do that? Well, partly to virtue signal. If there’s a crisis and they can “solve” it by using cloth grocery bags, they do, and are “virtuous” (even though it does nothing. But then there is no crisis.) Partly? They hate humans. Anything that makes everyone a little less comfortable or happy appeals to them. Track everything they do or want to do and tell me I’m wrong. I mean, we’re talking about team anti-vaccine, anti-electricity, anti-cars, anti-meat, anti… anything that makes our life easier or better.
THAT’S BECAUSE THAT’S WHO SHE IS, AND THAT’S WHAT SHE DOES: Omar’s lies proliferate.
OH, LOOK. HE CAN RUN EVEN MORE PEOPLE OFF WORK! Biden Raises The Minimum Wage Stakes.