[Kanuk Free Press] Greetings enlightened ones. Most of us admire the practical thinker. Often I have attended meetings or rallies where conservative Californians reveal their practical solutions to the state's problems and guarantee if they regain control of the state they will implement them.
Being of a practical nature myself I marvel at the absolute banality of democrats in this state, who greedily continue with their Cloward-Piven-Keynesian dreams of starting the state over, as a new progressive-humanist Agenda 21 working model.
Case in point, Governor Jerry Brown's seizure of fresh water in California is reminiscent of a U.N. Official's punch list. Yet Governor Brown is apparently unwilling to take proper action to alleviate the drought, because he will not stray from California's liberal platforms, and of course its ideologies, methods and practices.
And the rank and file Democrat legislature are no better. Most of them will abrogate anything as long as it serves their purpose. The only real cure for all of California's extensive problems is a change at the polls. Which, due to sweeping changes in the state's demographics, will never result in a republican majority in California, for at least the next decade, maybe never. However, continued democrat control of this state could result in a fiscal and societal semi melt down that the left seeks to re-start California as per their Cloward-Piven-Keynesian U.N. progressive-driven goals.
Meanwhile the citizens of this once great state, continue to suffer, as do our livestock, our pets and our loved ones, not to mention our crops, and livelihoods. People's livelihoods and personal lives are literally being wiped out, and the Democrats will not stray from the new mega monolith known as radical environmentalism, which is now beginning to seriously cripple California in nearly every sector in the state's economy, in private life and in general.
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...You know, there's always the grim possibility that the stupidity being shown on the drought issue is intentional - that Governor Moonbeam et al are intentionally screwing it up under the belief that the Federal Government will 'have' to help them. And some moron in Washington, with more power, bad scientific ideas and greed than good sense, will try and push it through.
Want to see when the next Civil War starts? Watch what happens when the Federal Government goes to Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, and so many others and says, "We're pumping YOUR water to California."
Mike
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Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, and so many others and says, "We're pumping YOUR water to California."
It'll go by Warren Buffett tank cars. Pipelines are icky and pollutitary.
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Buffet's losing stroke - new moves afoot in the northeast to ban 'train bombs' as well as pipelines. And nukes too. Everything needs to be clean and green and renewable. I don't think they passed math and physics.
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I would expect them to pull it out of Lake Mohave at Searchlight, NV and pipe it down I15 and dump it into the headwaters of the Mohave river, then pull it out at Victorville, CA for distribution.
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This is a perfect metaphor for the Blue State model. Billions on a high speed train that might never be built. Zero dollars to move water south from northern CA and OR.
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We don't need your water, guys. We have toilet to tap. We have desal. Now, if you wanna send some oil so we can power the toilet to tap and desal plants that'd be cool.
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There might be a ray of hope for California if the drought persists for another two to five years. The demographic problem might just be totally reversed. Please don't move to Texas.
[DAWN] ANWAR Gargash is not happy. The UAE's minister of state for foreign affairs took to his Twitter account within hours of the parliamentary resolution desiring neutrality in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to upbraid both Pakistain and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for their ambivalence.
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[DAWN] A COUPLE of things we've learned this week. Parliament did a great job, but it was the government that allowed parliament to do the job to begin with.
Depending on which side of the fence you are, the government either passed the buck to parliament or the N-League used parliament as a shield.
Whatever the stories that may emanate about opposition-led changes and tweaks to the resolution, this much was known from the beginning: there is no closer ally of the Saudis in politics -- mainstream politics, anyway -- than the PML-N.
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The newspapers you read, the textbooks you studied, the movies you watch, the professors who taught you and every adult you grew up with all reflect your point of view. You have no sense of being marginalized or out of step. Nor do you have any sense that there is another point of view out there. Only ranks of ignorant teabaggers paid for by corporate money who are about to be swept away into the dustbin of history as soon as the multicultural youth of tomorrow put together another Hip-Hop Against AIDS protest.
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If Liberals had a mind, it was never open to begin with.
And yes, I use the modern version of Liberal, I know the old definition as well.
I've reached the point where I find very few ways to have any common ground with these people. They worship human sacrifice, live in an alternate universe that doesn't take into account the fact that there are evil people in the world (Including them) and they are totally resistant to all forms of logic or facts.
There really is no compromise that you can make with them, because they have to be considered insane due to their denial of reality.
[DAWN] IT is good to know that at least someone from the Bhutto Zardari household wants to and is allowed to pursue business and agriculture rather than politics as a career. But even as we learn, on the authority of a person no less than her father, that young Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari has chosen to stay away from politics, the focus remains on the future plans of her brother Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... . Former president Asif Ali Zardari says his son will be gradually eased into a political career. From a few reports of the news conference given by the ex-president it appears as if an acknowledgement has been made that the young scion, already the saviour to look forward to for his party, is not mature enough for the mantle of leadership. Alternately, it has been reported that security concerns kept him away from Pakistain and its politics. Whatever the case, a 'gradual' induction could prove a little too late for the PPP, if projections about the party's falling popularity are true. There will be grumblings and calls for measures focused on the PPP's classical appeal and its current profile.
There remains the pending case where Paks must debate the demerits of politics by inheritance. Also, there is the issue of a section of Paks wanting to revive the old PPP, something many of them believe can only happen with a reversal of roles currently played by Asif Ali Zardari, who is in control, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who stands at a distance and is sidelined. The young heir was showing sure signs of rebelling against the situation when he was packed off to London last year. It is not improbable for some in PPP circles to be found urging him to skip the 'training' and take up the reins. Whether or not he does so is his choice -- so long as it is his choice. Whatever decision he makes, given his earlier posture of siding with the people, the latter would like to hear it from Bilawal Bhutto Zardari himself.
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[DAWN] IT is unfortunate that whenever Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... surfaces on the national radar, it is usually for all the wrong reasons. Whether it is the separatist insurgency or sectarian bloodshed, violence and insecurity are what have come to define the province in recent times. Saturday's atrocity in Turbat also falls in line with this unenviable trend. As per reports, at least 20 labourers were killed when bully boyz opened fire on the men as they slept. The victims were reportedly all non-Baloch, with most of them hailing from Punjab, while a few of the men were from Sindh. This is not the first incident in Balochistan where people have been targeted because of their ethnic identity; last year, several workers were killed after their ethnic backgrounds were determined by gunnies in an incident near Hub. Turbat happens to be the hometown of the current chief minister of Balochistan; however, such brazen attacks show that even the native area of the province's highest elected official is not insulated from the effects of the krazed killer insurgency.
Balochistan remains far from pacified; on Saturday there were reports of the security forces carrying out search operations in Dera Murad Jamali and Panjgur, while a suspect wanted in the 2013 attack on the Quaid-e-Azam Residency in Ziarat was killed by coppers in Bolan. Moreover, the missing persons' question remains unresolved. While many of the issues raised by political activists pertaining to the security establishment's heavy hand used in Balochistan are genuine, these legitimate grievances are relegated to the back-burner whenever bully boyz carry out atrocities similar to what was just witnessed in Turbat. It is unfortunate that nationalist forces claiming to speak for the rights of Balochistan are either silent or offer muted criticism whenever such gory incidents take place. Nationalists must speak up and condemn such horrendous murders just as strongly as they slam the security forces' alleged excesses in Balochistan. As it is, for most of the rest of Pakistain -- apart from human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists and a few concerned groups and citizens -- within the general population there is much apathy where Balochistan and its plight are concerned, with the province generally considered a distant entity. The callous murder of non-Baloch workers and 'settlers' will do little to attract the sympathy of the people towards Balochistan's legitimate grievances, which is why those who believe in fighting for the province's rights peacefully must raise their voices against such unacceptable violence.
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[DAWN] ALTHOUGH most Iranians are celebrating their nuclear deal with the P5+1, the framework 'understanding', once implemented, will effectively block Iran's ability to develop a nuclear weapons capability for the foreseeable future.
Hardly a week after the Iran deal was announced, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... -- which often reflects official US policy -- editorially propagated that attention be turned to constraining Pakistain's nuclear and strategic capabilities. The issue was also covered by other US media.
The NYT arguments, taken from the Indian hymnbook, were not surprising; the timing of the proposal to target Pakistain is significant. If the editorial indeed reflects official US thinking, it would confirm the view of many in Pakistain and the Moslem world that America's aim is to denuclearise all Islamic countries. With Iran neutralised, Pakistain remains the only nuclear-capable Islamic nation.
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[PJMedia] Since the year before his disciple, Champ was elected president, many of us have been raising alarms about how Saul Alinsky's brass-knuckles tactics have been mainstreamed by Democrats. It was thus refreshing to find an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week, by Pete Peterson of Pepperdine's School of Public Policy, expressly calling out a top House Democrat for resorting to the seminal community organizer's extortion playbook.
But in the end, alas, Mr. Peterson gets Alinsky wrong.
Skipping to the bottom line:
Alinsky was a radical leftist. Of course, he struck the pose of one who eschewed faithful adherence to a particular doctrine; but that is a key part of the strategy. To be successful -- meaning, to advance the radical agenda -- a community organizer needs public support. Thus he must masquerade as a "pragmatist" rather than reveal himself as a socialist or a communist. The idea is for the organizer to portray himself as part of the bourgeois society he despises, to coopt its language and mores in order to bring about radical transformation from within.
But it is not as if Alinsky organizers are indifferent to the kind of change a society goes through as long as it is change of some kind. Alinsky was a man of the hard left, a social justice activist who sought massive redistribution of wealth and power. Peterson acknowledges this in a fleeting mention of Alinsky's "professed hatred of capitalism." Noteworthy, moreover, is Alinsky's Rules for Radicals critique of such seventies revolutionaries as the Weathermen: his contempt stemmed not from disagreement with their goals but from the fact that their terrorist methods enraged the public, making those goals harder to achieve. When a book begins, as Rules for Radicals does, by saluting Lucifer as "the very first radical," it is fairly clear that the author has taken sides. Last para captures the essence of current progressive's 'death by a thousand cuts' effort.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Kanuk Free Press] Greetings enlightened ones. Most of us admire the practical thinker. Often I have attended meetings or rallies where conservative Californians reveal their practical solutions to the state's problems and guarantee if they regain control of the state they will implement them. 
[DAWN] A COUPLE of things we've learned this week. Parliament did a great job, but it was the government that allowed parliament to do the job to begin with.
[DAWN] IT is good to know that at least someone from the Bhutto Zardari household wants to and is allowed to pursue business and agriculture rather than politics as a career. But even as we learn, on the authority of a person no less than her father, that young Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari has chosen to stay away from politics, the focus remains on the future plans of her brother 
