[American Thinker] Homeland security is, and should be, our biggest priority as a nation. If our safety as a people is threatened, little else matters. We tend to focus our attention on nuclear threats around the world, which is sensible, considering the sheer destructive force capable of being rendered by those threats, or on terrorist attacks, which is understandable, considering the shock and scale of those attacks. However, there's one threat we aren't paying close enough attention to: cyber-espionage.
Why Espionage Is So Threatening
Espionage seems inherently less threatening than large-scale attacks, and in terms of immediate casualties, it may be. We've also faced a long history of espionage, throughout the Cold War and beyond ‐ so much so that it has its own museum.
Essentially, espionage is a threat for three main purposes:
[National Review] There are many things to admire in Ireland’s written constitution. Most especially, the text includes, since a popular referendum in 1983, the Eighth Amendment: "The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right." This is the most advanced law protecting the life of unborn children in the Western world. It is also, in its way, beautiful. In the controlling Irish language, it protects "na mbeo gan breith," or "the living without birth." We urge the Irish people to retain it when a referendum aimed at its repeal is presented to them this May.
Ireland’s government, most of its media class, and a number of NGOs are campaigning to erase the Eighth and allow the Dail to legislate to make abortion available. The law they are proposing to enact afterward is modeled on legislation found in the United Kingdom. It includes an unlimited right to terminate a pregnancy in the first twelve weeks of gestation, and then an expansive health exception that would effectively allow the termination of any pregnancy at any time. The choice before the Irish people is not just to make abortion legal in Ireland, but to make it common there.
President Trump's decision to postpone new economic sanctions against Russia on Monday brought some clarity to the foreign policy fight in Washington. The issue isn't whether UN Ambassador Nikki Haley gets confused, as she waspishly denied, but the fact that the president is fighting the swamp single-handed.
...When the dust settles, I believe, the president will conclude that he was duped into launching last Friday's missile strike on Syria. As Angelo Codevilla, the dean of conservative foreign policy analysts, wrote yesterday at American Greatness, we do not know whether poison gas was used at the Syrian village of Douma or who used it. "The U.S. government’s claim that the Assad regime used chlorine gas and sarin together (that would be a first) against civilians separately from movement of ground troops (military nonsense) may or may not be correct. The government presented no evidence except videos. When it does have evidence, it usually crows."
The whole preposterous allegation that Trump somehow colluded with Russia is designed to sabotage diplomacy between Washington and Moscow.
...To reiterate my own longstanding view: Russia is a nasty place and Vladimir Putin is a nasty man, of the ilk that always has ruled Russia, a country where nobody talks about Ivan the Reasonable. On my Ogre-ometer, Putin barely registers a 1.9 against Stalin's 9.8. Russia is NOT our friend and NOT a prospective ally. But we have two choices. One is to attempt to bring Putin down and bring in a government we like, and the other is to strike a deal with Putin that we can live with. The first is delusional, but pervasive in a foreign policy establishment that still believes that we can reshape the world in America's image. If you don't believe that the foreign policy establishment is that crazy, please read my review of Condoleezza Rice's new book, Democracy, in the current issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Rice foisted Rex Tillerson on an unsuspecting Trump as a "Texas oilman" rather than as a cut-out for the George W. Bush wing of the Republican Party.
...The utopian wing of the Republican Party (George W. Bush, Condi Rice, McCain&Graham, Mitt Romney) have an objective: Isolate, weaken and destabilize Russia with the ultimate goal of regime change. That will simply push Russia closer to China, Russia's biggest customer for oil and gas, and cement a Eurasian alliance hostile to the United States. It will also encourage Russia to act as a spoiler in the Middle East.
The alternative is to reach some sort of agreement with Russia (and China) which serves our basic interests and gives our competitors something in return. I sketched the parameters of a prospective agreement in a Dec. 17, 2016 essay for Asia Times, "How the US Should Engage Russia and China." That is what President Trump wants to do, according to numerous media reports, but the foreign policy establishment is doing everything in its power to prevent him from doing so.
IMO, and seems Trump agrees with me, is that USA and Russia need each other in alliance against China - who's getting just a bit too pushy (it's the 20 million unpaired young men)
[American Thinker] Hillary Clinton and her sycophants are still upset that James Comey does not get on his knees and beg forgiveness for re-opening on October 28, 2016 the investigation of Hillary because of emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer.
In Clinton world, Hillary lost because Comey publicly announced that he was re-opening the investigation. The Clintonistas (Democratic Party and mainstream media) are also still upset that even though Comey publicly announced in July 2016 that he would not file criminal charges against Hillary, Comey publicly described in detail the facts that warranted to any honest prosecutor criminal prosecution of Hillary. Comey should have just taken a dive quietly.
In the real world, the Clintonistas should be happy that Comey took a dive not to indict Hillary. Comey wrote the exoneration letter to give Hillary a walk months before he even questioned her in July 2016. Exoneration first, investigation later.
The Clintonistas are oblivious to the fact that if Comey had honestly done his job, then Hillary would have been indicted. Maybe the Democrats would still have nominated Hillary, and the media and the NeverTrumps would still have supported her over President Trump.
Comey looks confused. He believes that Hillary and her sycophants should have praised him for saving the Republic from Trump by taking a dive not to indict Hillary. Comey believed that Hillary would win, so he did not indict. What more could Comey have done for Hillary? He wrote the exoneration letter before he interviewed her, not under oath; gave immunity to all of Hillary's pals involved in the email scandal; and publicly announced that no reasonable prosecutor would file charges. No gratitude from Hillary and her pals.
[FloppingAces] Zack stays quiet for two reasons. One is that anything uttered out of his mouth will immediately be taken wrongly and will only cause the mob to go into loud hysterics. The second reason is that Zack is a modern man who will take the abuse because society has told him that he deserves it, and in order to be a good guy he must take whatever punishment the mob throws at him. Zack may have not even been present when the two men were arrested, but he shares the blame. That’s what society has told him, and Zack wants to be a good man by society’s current standards.
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I wonder how much Soros is paying the guy with the bullhorn. Zack is doing his best to cope with an impossible situation. He must really need the job, or he would have removed his smock and quit. And then sued Starbucks for abeting an unsafe working environment.
Personally, I've never darkened a Starbucks door, and plan to maintain that record.
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Speaking out against the entitlement crowd will produce undesirable results. Nothing new here, it's just being highlighted by the actions of a successful national chain.
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With the closing of 8000 stores and diversity training does Starbucks still have a policy of ‘customers only can use restroom’? Does the CEO back employees who adhere to company policies?
BTW, you've forgotten the only reason you exist - the customer. You think you're going to have many after your stores are overrun like the streets of San Francisco?
#7
I heard on the morning radio news today that Starbucks fired the employee who called the police on the men who were sitting/not purchasing.
Unfortunate for her, a Wright State University grad, her company throws her under the bus.
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Unfortunate for her, a Wright State University grad, her company throws her under the bus.
Standard procedure in retailing. Remember, the customer (or loitering layabout looking for a warm dry place for his daily constitutional).... is always right.
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I live in a touristy area. In town, it is not uncommon to see a sign saying No Public Restrooms in the window of small shops.
I greatly suspect there was some interaction after the men were refused access to the restroom that led to them being asked to leave and ended with the cops showing up. This will not be reported in the mainstream news since it breaks The Narrative. Already, any mention of the restroom is disappearing from the news stories. Yet another "Hands up, don't shoot!"
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I might have had some sympathy for Starbucks if they'd stood up for themselves. But they volunteered to turn their stores into public restrooms. No pride. No gumption. Oh well, McDonalds makes pretty good coffee. Or Dennys. There are always places to get coffee.
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Haven't been in a Starbucks in years. Do they really dress the help like Keebler elves?
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Do they really dress the help like Keebler elves? Not always. Some wear very dark work clothes.
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There is a business opportunity for a temp agency full of deaf contractors. If you know you will be harrassed tomorrow, call us today and we will provide respectable employees immune to blowhorns and blowhards at a reasonable rate.
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That fellow with the beard and glasses is in dire need of an 'on the linoleum, ear grabbing twitching fit' and personal injury attorney. Just say'n.
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