UNEXPECTEDLY! Inflation accelerating faster than expected, says Obama economist Lawrence Summers.
Or to put it another way: When in Doubt, Print Money.
Archive for 2021
May 16, 2021
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Biden Stumbles on an Innovative Way to Push His Transgender Agenda: Import Trans Migrants.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: AOC Falsely Smears Israel as an ‘Apartheid State.’
AOC has company, of course: The Squad’s Noxious Anti-Semitism.
CCP REACHES HIGH GROUND OF RED PLANET: China Successfully Lands a Rover on Mars.
Fortunately, the Biden administration is laser focused on these sort of big issues: Space Force Unit C.O. Relieved of Duty for Criticizing Marxism in the Military.
AT HELEN’S PAGE (scroll down and click on blue logo) : The author of Before I Go and the Before I Go Workbook also offers financial planning here.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: May I present to you the photo of the year.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Bland Rebrand: CNN, Don Lemon Pull Desperate Stunt to Launch the New Show Title.
SCIENCE! Teacher caught on video berating vaccinated student for not wearing a mask. “The unidentified Poynette School District teacher can be seen on video calling the student a ‘little dink’ and a ‘jerk’ (twice), and telling him ‘nobody likes you.'”
Public schools are a hostile environment for students.
DISPATCHES FROM AL SHARPTON’S NETWORK, PART II: MSNBC Guest: ‘Jewish Supremacy’ Caused Israeli-Gaza Conflict.
Flashbacks:
● ‘Happy Anniversary’ Al Sharpton: 25 Years Since He Incited Freddy’s Massacre.
● Massacre at Freddy’s In Harlem: Fire Fueled by Anti-Semitism Kills 8.
As Jim Treacher previously asked: What’s Up with All the Anti-Semitism at NBC?
DISPATCHES FROM AL SHARPTON’S NETWORK, PART I: MSNBC’s Matt Negrin Falsely Claims Republicans Trying To Murder Democrats.
Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
ANALYSIS: TRUE: Johns Hopkins doctor: Closed schools are an ‘American disgrace’.
FLASHBACK: Pallywood.
Related: How the AP Botched Its Investigation of Civilian Deaths in the Israel-Hamas War.
Posed photographs. Intentional miscategorizations. Buried corrections. One-sided sourcing. Cherry-picked quotes. And a just-plain-wrong conclusion about “most” Gaza casualties being civilians.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Penn State bans all references to binary gender, including ‘he’ and ‘she.’
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The latest Navy UFO video displays a new level of weirdness.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Disney Stock Tanks As Subscription Numbers Plummet In Second Quarter.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Oops! AP Reporter Forgets To Remove Hamas Headband Before Going Live.
In real life, it works in reverse. The Israeli Ynet News Website reported in 2007 that: Terrorist at journalists’ party. Top terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi made “guest appearance” in video prepared by Reuters staff as “going away” gift for colleague, Ynetnews has learned.
GREAT MOMENTS IN AMNESIA: Leftist’s brain melts after hearing a conservative say, ‘property destruction is not violence.’
“That sounds familiar. Maybe it’s because 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones said last summer on TV that ‘destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.’ That was after Sally Kohn weighed in on the looting and property destruction in Minneapolis, pointing out that ‘property is insured and can be replaced.” Our brains melted a little bit when we heard both those statements, so we know the feeling.”
Flashback to the far-left Nation magazine a year ago: In Defense of Destroying Property. We cannot conflate the destruction of plateglass with the violence that is being protested.
And curiously enough — wait for it — the Associated Press as well last year!
WHY THEY FIGHT: HAMAS’ TOO-LITTLE-KNOWN FASCIST CHARTER.
If you had any doubts about what the conquest would entail, the Covenant’s Article 13 makes the political implications of these religious demands clear. Diplomatic efforts such as “peaceful solutions, initiatives and international conferences” are “in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.” In fact, there is “no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are a waste of time and vain endeavors.”4 Nor can any individual Muslim abstain from warfare, according to document. Article 15 declares, “Jihad for the liberation of Palestine is an individual duty. In the face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.” Many anti-Zionist assaults have been bloody, but Hamas’s distinctive contribution was the theological sanction of violence.
Though Islamism owes a considerable debt to Nazism, the Hamas Covenant claims that it is Israel that is the equal of Nazi Germany. In Article 20, the authors write that they confront “a vicious enemy which acts in a way similar to Nazism, making no differentiation between man and women, between children and old people….”5 The “Israelis as Nazis” canard has been a staple of both secular and religious anti-Zionist propaganda since the 1960s. When the secular anti-Zionists such as Nasser, Arafat, and Assad, Sr., spoke about global conspiracies against the Arabs, they attributed a mythical conspiracy against the Arabs to “U.S. imperialism” and its Israeli “spearhead”—echoing the propaganda of their patrons, the Soviets.6 Indeed, the Hamas Covenant of 1988 notably replaced the Marxist-Leninist conspiracy theory of world politics with the classic anti-Semitic tropes of Nazism and European fascism, which the Islamists had absorbed when they collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. That influence is apparent in Article 22, which asserts that “supportive forces behind the enemy” have amassed great wealth:
With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money, they formed secret societies, such as Freemason, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there.
The above paragraph of Article 22 could have been taken, almost word for word, from Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish propaganda texts and broadcasts.
Read the whole thing.
IT’S NOT ABOUT REVENUE, IT’S ABOUT CONTROL: The Biden Tax Mirage: Higher Rates Produce Less Revenue From The Rich.
May 15, 2021
OPEN THREAD: Wait a minute, this is not a place, it’s a state of mind.
AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY, A BIG PROGRAM FROM the McGill chapter of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship on May 31, including Jordan Peterson, Barbara Kay, Gad Saad, and many others.