Josh Stanton has a nominee for "worst week in Washington", and it isn't Hillary Clinton. The mind boggles that we have such people at Foggy Bottom. An explanation with video at the link. Head-shaking, sad amusement for a Saturday.
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#3
No need to bomb any thing. Just seize the shipping as it comes out of the Gulf of Suez, Persian Gulf or any number of covenient choke points. Our friends and allies get it at fourty bucks a barrel. France and the rest get it say 200.
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Sink an oil tanker in the Houston Ship Channel, or New York harbor, or any other major Western oil port and watch all oil shipments to, among or from US ports to be shut down to 'save the planet.' Wreck a train in a sensitive spot or blow a pipeline in the Boston-Washington corridor and shut ALL oil shipments down. How long will the gas station lines have to get before things change?
[Hurriyet] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's visit to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Oct. 18, only two weeks before the key parliamentary elections, was one of the most important diplomatic developments in regards to Ankara's accession process to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Merkel's visit came only a few days after the Council of the European Union approved an action plan on how to cooperate with Turkey in dealing with its growing refugee problem. The plan envisaged to re-energize Turkey's stalled accession negotiations by opening more chapters, to hasten the visa liberalization period for Turkish citizens and to take steps to share the burden of more than 2 million refugees, while in return the Turkish government would do its best to keep these refugees in its territories.
There is no question the refugee crisis is one of the top issues in the entire European continent with its economic, social and political dimensions. Around 7,000 refugees enter the European Union every day, making the size of the problem bigger with each passing day. Germany believes around one millions refugees will knock on its doors this year.
For Turkish officials, this deal with the EU was a clear indication that European officials and diplomats have understood at last Turkey's significance as a partner in resolving the continent's problems. "This is a change from tactical to strategic thinking. They now have a clearer image that they need Turkey in addressing many of their problems in their countries," a senior Turkish official told me last week while commenting on the developments.
The fact the EU has come to this point is positive and encouraging for those who are true advocates of a democratic, pro-freedom Turkey. The EU becoming an anchor in Turkey's democratization process is of vital importance and something that many pro-EU Turkish intellectuals, journalists and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activists were long looking for.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... a sour development has happened at the same time: The European Commission postponed the release of the Progress Report once again, this time to the post-election period.
A senior Turkish official told me the postponement was not at Turkey's request and the move came upon the commission's decision in order to not influence the political process. European officials confirmed this as well.
It is obvious Brussels did not want to influence ongoing negotiations with the Turkish government over what they call a "burning issue," but they are not aware how wrong the message they conveyed to Ankara is.
This is wrong because the EU places itself at a position where it can bargain over the union's fundamental values for its strategic objectives. At a moment when Turkey's record in the implementation of basic freedoms has hit new lows, the EU's decision to postpone its report is unexplainable.
They can be quite sure that this move of theirs will degrade the effect and influence of the report and their future "we are seriously concerned" sort of statements in the face of future violations and restrictions of freedom of expression, of assembly and of press in Turkey.
The word "strategic" prevailed once again before fundamental rights and freedoms, this time at the hands of the European Union.
For right-thinking Canadians, election night was about as cheerful as the Red Wedding. Now, as we enter the reign of Justin, First of his Name, we must confront a painful reality: Canada is finished.
This is not merely a political truth. Culture trumps politics.
There is no question a hollow, misguided leader can cause tremendous damage, particularly in Canada where a prime minister with a majority has near-dictatorial power. What is much more important, however, is what it says about a people that they would elect such a leader in the first place.
In an election night musing, CBC’s Peter Mansbridge recalled prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau saying he is always underestimated.
People didn’t underestimate Justin, they overestimated Canadians – specifically, the capacity of the nation’s electorate to know a dimwit when they see one.
I have previously written that Justin is Canada’s Barack Obama. This is true not only inasmuch as both are embarrassing ciphers, but the election of each of these men heralds the end of once-great nations.
To understand this is to comprehend that America, too, is over.
Under Obama, America has taken on more debt than any entity in global history. Nearly 100 million Americans no longer work, and an increasing number of citizens see this as normal.
Internationally, Obama has abdicated the role of leader of the free world on behalf of future presidents.
Culturally, too, the nation is perpetually honked off, divided, and dumb as hell. Again, Obama cannot be blamed for all this, but he both reflects and exacerbates the condition.
Furthermore, electing such a person ratifies political correctness as national policy.
Some have said that racism in America was almost dead until Obama. This is one of those notions that could never find purchase in mainstream discussion. Racism as a concept, business model and organizing principle is alive and well, even as it has been crushed at the individual level.
Socialists love people in groups of a million or more so, while no decent person would behave as or associate with a “racist,” it is constantly claimed that “racism” is everywhere.
Neither you, gentle reader, nor anyone you socialize with would dream of overtly deriding or excluding someone because of their sex or skin colour.
And yet your school, places of employment and worship, your local media outlets and your government do just that as a matter of course.
Certainly, they do so in opposite terms from what we are conditioned to expect – that is, they reverse the targets of bigotry from those portrayed in movies, on TV and in the New York Times – but they are perfectly at ease limiting the number and influence of a particular race (if that race is white, or in the case of college admissions, Asian), and they are utterly unembarrassed to afford special privileges and less demanding standards to races they prefer.
Thus, since 2008, we have been bombarded by the nonsensical insistence that Obama became president despite his race when everyone, with the possible exception of Obama himself, knows he was elected because of it.
In Canada, it is more often gender than race that raises leftist hackles, and Prime Minister Justin promises to continue the Liberal Party policy of set-asides for women.
Taken to its logical conclusion, this would suggest Justin himself should have eschewed the leadership in favour of some distaff colleague, but this disregards a crucial caveat: If you are a wealthy, white, male scion of a political dynasty, and a leftist, you basically have to kill someone to be barred from national office.
This is but one, small instance whereby objective governance will be replaced by political correctness which, as many have observed, is merely totalitarianism masquerading as politeness. More at the link
#3
Welcome to the oligarchy. They seem puzzled that the round peg doesn't fit in the square hole. At least your brethren to the south are armed to the teeth. Makes the new masters a little hesitant in quickly and openly subjugating them.
#4
Not idiots so much as ones of diluted and surrendered character. For some it is no longer necessary.
"Isolation is the space in which I exist. But I am provided light through an Idea, an idea that defines me not as an individual in the infinite but as a part of a whole." - Yiota
#5
No, I don't think killing someone would be enough. The Left has an infinite amount of forgiveness for criminals. But only if their victims are of course the "right" people. Ñot to say JT is a murderer. But he and his ilk will be quite willing to murder a nation so as to not offend their political friends and allies. I hate to say this but maybe the time has come to make "The Nine Nations of North America" a reality as peacefully as possible.
...Hillary came away laughing despite her admissions all the way to the bank. Politico reports that "donations have been flooding into campaign coffers over the past 13 hours since her testimony in front of the House Benghazi committee wrapped late Thursday night, thrilling Clinton fundraisers".
Hillary's poll numbers have jumped in Iowa, where she lengthened her lead on challenger Bernie Sanders. "Clinton took 51 percent, up 11 points from the September poll, while Sanders remained statistically unchanged, at 40 percent." MSNBC reports that Hillary "picked up the endorsement of AFSCME, the massive public sector union whose support was coveted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton's top rival for the Democratic presidential nomination."
#1
With a few extra million votes cast by illegals (can't have an ID requirement), it's a shoe in. Why do you desperately want to believe there's any legitimacy to this government? It's all kabuki theater.
#3
At least with Sanders you know what you are getting. He walks like a duck, quacks like a duck because he is a duck. With Bitchery it is hard to tell. That's the thing about slime. It just sort of slides around and oozes all over the place. Its only true give away is the smell
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Certainly something to watch.
