h/t Instapundit
[WashingtonExaminer] Emmanuel Macron founded a new party, and his election as France's president is said to herald the "revival of Europe." Interestingly, Macron has no children.
This is not that notable in itself. After all, George Washington had no biological children. But across the continent Macron wants to bind closer together, there's a stark pattern:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also has no children. British prime minister Theresa May has no children. Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children. Holland's Mark Rutte has no children. Sweden's Stefan Löfven has no biological children. Luxembourg's Xavier Bettel has no children. Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon has no children. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, has no children.
This is too remarkable to ignore. While Macron is young--39 years old--the rest of Europe is being governed by childless Baby Boomers.
Tom Wolfe wrote about Baby Boomers and the Me Decade:
Most people, historically, have not lived their lives as if thinking, "I have only one life to live." Instead they have lived as if they are living their ancestors' lives and their offspring's lives and perhaps their neighbors' lives as well. They have seen themselves as inseparable from the great tide of chromosomes of which they are created and which they pass on. The mere fact that you were only going to be here a short time and would be dead soon enough did not give you the license to try to climb out of the stream and change the natural order of things. Children are a lot of work. Really impact your "finding yourself" - especially if there is nothing much to find.
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Point: Washington was believed to have become sterile after a near death bout with smallpox in 1751.
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The press has fussed over the fact that Madame Macron is a grandmother, so she must have had children. Did her husband keep them when she divorced him for her no-longer-jailbait future politician?
[Armstrong Economics] Emmanuel Macron’s victory promises no change for Europe and it has been the blessing Brussels wanted so badly to further advance the federalization of Europe. Macron will surrender far more French sovereignty to Brussels than anyone suspects based upon reliable sources. Macron is a technocrat and the youngest President in France ever at 39. His message of surrendering the sovereignty of France was the subtle use at his rally in Paris of the European anthem, Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy," rather than the Marseillaise. This was indeed a powerful gesture of a surrender to Brussels that will be full and complete. It also signals there will be no change in direction or reform from Brussels.
The New York Times called the defeat of Marine Le Pen a battle against the evil forces of "xenophobic nationalism exploited by President Donald Trump." They also reported that this is the end of populism as expected, for they classified BREXIT as "Britain’s dismal decision last year to leave the European Union, and in the face of Trump’s woeful anti-European ignorance, was critical" to Macron’s victory. It is just stunning how the New York Times cheers on the EU and socialism yet never looks at the data to see if they are correct in pronouncing that the EU has created growth rather than destroyed it.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In the mid-1990s, the Kuwaiti magazine "Mugtama" which is affiliated with the Brotherhood interviewed Ahmad Yassin, the historic leader of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement. The headline predicted Israel’s demise before the millennium. Yassin spoke in a dream-like manner and refused to head in the direction of a conflict with the Paleostinian Liberation Organization despite all provocations and cited the Koranic verse: "If you should raise your hand against me to kill me, I shall not raise my hand against you to kill you." Few decades later, Hamas announced its new charter in which it amended its founding charter.
In the charter it announced on May 2, Hamas voiced its worry over its current situation due to political and ideological considerations and international changes. The movement has never denied its Brotherhood roots since its establishment in December 1987. Its founding charter stipulates that Hamas is a branch of the Moslem Brüderbund and is influenced by it, and it also commended the Brotherhood’s ideology. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... there is currently an international and regional wave against the Brotherhood which has been listed as a terror group by some countries. The current American administration has hinted that it will list the group’s cadres on its terror list. This made Hamas enhance its presence in the international legal arena in order to shield itself from any harm as a result of its Brotherhood affiliations.
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the Saudis (who control al arabiya)have given billions to the PA over the years; they began cutting back in 2015 and the total Saudi aid to the PA was only about $30M in 2016 and may not reach that in 2017
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You know, Old Testament is full of nations who were enemies of Israel - none of them is still around.
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[Armstrong Economics] Emmanuel Macron’s victory promises no change for Europe and it has been the blessing Brussels wanted so badly to further advance the federalization of Europe. Macron will surrender far more French sovereignty to Brussels than anyone suspects based upon reliable sources. Macron is a technocrat and the youngest President in France ever at 39. His message of surrendering the sovereignty of France was the subtle use at his rally in Paris of the European anthem, Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy," rather than the Marseillaise. This was indeed a powerful gesture of a surrender to Brussels that will be full and complete. It also signals there will be no change in direction or reform from Brussels.
[The American Mirror] Not-so-friendly street art greeted California Congresswoman Maxine Waters to a Inglewood town hall meeting on Saturday.
