July 17, 2017
The Darkness of Delta
Jack Kemp
I think Delta just hit a hornet's nest. Ann graduated #1 from her class at the U. of Michigan Law School and has no trouble getting into the print and televised and internet media. This will be "Hosech Mitzriaim" (The Darkness of Egypt, one of the Ten Plagues) for Delta.
Jack
http://nypost.com/2017/07/16/delta-allegedly-boots-ann-coulter-from-reserved-seat/
Delta allegedly boots Ann Coulter from reserved seat
By Michael Hechtman
July 16, 2017
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter flew into a fit of fury Saturday after Delta Airlines booted her from her reserved "Comfort+’’ seat — which comes with 3 additional inches of legroom — and gave it to another passenger.
In a two-hour tweeting tantrum,she quoted her exchange with a flight attendant: "Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked?’’ she asked.
Their answer, she said, was "I don’t know.’’
The 6-foot-tall Coulter, who is 55, tweeted a picture of the woman who got her aisle seat on the flight from LaGuardia to Florida, noting, "Delta didn’t give my extra room seat to an air marshal or tall person.’’
A Delta spokesman said it appeared Coulter was in the same extra-room row, just in a different seat. But he promised to look into it.
One Twitter user, clearly not a fan of the columnist, wrote. "Ann Coulter is having a bad day which makes my day better. Thanks Delta.
I think Delta just hit a hornet's nest. Ann graduated #1 from her class at the U. of Michigan Law School and has no trouble getting into the print and televised and internet media. This will be "Hosech Mitzriaim" (The Darkness of Egypt, one of the Ten Plagues) for Delta.
Jack
http://nypost.com/2017/07/16/delta-allegedly-boots-ann-coulter-from-reserved-seat/
Delta allegedly boots Ann Coulter from reserved seat
By Michael Hechtman
July 16, 2017
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter flew into a fit of fury Saturday after Delta Airlines booted her from her reserved "Comfort+’’ seat — which comes with 3 additional inches of legroom — and gave it to another passenger.
In a two-hour tweeting tantrum,she quoted her exchange with a flight attendant: "Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked?’’ she asked.
Their answer, she said, was "I don’t know.’’
The 6-foot-tall Coulter, who is 55, tweeted a picture of the woman who got her aisle seat on the flight from LaGuardia to Florida, noting, "Delta didn’t give my extra room seat to an air marshal or tall person.’’
A Delta spokesman said it appeared Coulter was in the same extra-room row, just in a different seat. But he promised to look into it.
One Twitter user, clearly not a fan of the columnist, wrote. "Ann Coulter is having a bad day which makes my day better. Thanks Delta.
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Insanity and hypocrisy Down Under
Paul Driessen
Australia has had a series of massive power outages and blackouts – and its green, climate-centric politicians are setting the stage for many more. The Wall Street Journal suggests that excessive Aussie natural gas exports may be to blame, offering lessons for the United States. There certainly are lessons to be learned, but not that. The key lessons are don’t lock up your energy resources, and don’t try to get 30, 50 or 100 percent of your electricity from expensive, unreliable, grid-fouling wind and solar sources.
Meanwhile, Al Gore is Down Under, showing a seemingly endless stream of what climatologist Jo Nova derisively and accurately calls "primal weather porn.†The man whose homes and private jets spew more carbon dioxide than almost anyone else on Planet Earth is hectoring and propagandizing teachers, journalist and politicians, seeking to convert still more gullible folks to his Church of Manmade Climate Chaos. Marc Morano and other climate realists are not taking the nonsense lying down. They’re following Gore around, showing their "Climate Hustle†documentary film (an annoyed Gore refused to accept a free DVD) and working hard to inject a little truth and sanity into the Goracle’s fear-mongering.
Insanity and hypocrisy Down Under
Al Gore’s bombast and hypocrisy, an energy debacle "no one saw coming,†lessons for USA
Paul Driessen
The Wall Street Journal called it the energy shortage "no one saw coming.†Actually, a lot of people did see it coming. But intent on pursuing their "dangerous manmade climate change†and "renewable energy will save the planet†agendas, the political classes ignored them. So the stage was set.
As an Australia-wide heat wave sent temperatures soaring above 105 degrees F (40.6 C) in early 2017, air conditioning demand skyrocketed. But Adelaide, South Australia is heavily dependent on wind turbines for electricity generation – and there was no wind. Regulators told the local natural gas-fired power plant to ramp up its output, but it couldn’t get enough gas to do so. To avoid a massive, widespread blackout, regulators shut off power to 90,000 homes, leaving angry families sweltering in the dark.
According to the Journal, Aussie politicians and the wind industry, the primary problem was businesses that exported 62% of Australia’s natural gas production in 2016, leaving insufficient supplies to run gas backup power plants that are supposed to step in when wind and solar power fail. Policy makers "didn’t ensure enough gas would remain at home†and couldn’t foresee temperatures soaring with no wind.
Gas export licenses were issued without regard to the consequences for the domestic market,†said one pol. We should have had "a national interest test†in place to ensure domestic gas needs, said another.
During this and even bigger Aussie blackouts, valuable fish, meat and produce rotted when freezers and refrigerators shut down. Business operations were interrupted or shut down. Rising electricity prices and unreliable power impacted smelters, factories and other businesses, causing many to lay off workers.
The blackouts and energy debacle "offer lessons for America, as it prepares to vastly increase natural gas shipments abroad,†the Journal advises. It certainly does, though not the lessons suggested by the article or people quoted in it, amid the "excessive exports†narrative. Here are some of the correct lessons.
First and foremost, have debates and red team-blue team exercises. Listen to experts who aren’t locked into climate chaos and renewable energy themes. Foster public discussions, instead of silencing them. Understand the entire situation and all the likely consequences of each alternative, before legislating.
Recognize and study reality. Dead calms occur frequently when temperatures are at their highest, or their lowest – when families, businesses, hospitals and schools need electricity the most. Clouds can blanket regions for days or weeks on end. Reliance on wind and solar is risky, and reliable backup is essential.
The justification for eliminating coal and mandating 50% wind and solar is heavily rooted in fears of catastrophic manmade climate change. But the alleged crisis has no basis in observed evidence. The 18-year pause continues apace, with the El Niño temperature spike of 2015-16 gone … and average global temperatures back down to where they were in March 2015. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts are in line with or below multi-century historic trends and fluctuations and are hardly unprecedented. Greenland just recorded its most frigid July temperature reading in history: -33 C (-27 F).
If alarmists have evidence to the contrary, they must present it for review – including original temperature data, not the revised, homogenized data that American, Australian and other scientists have been presenting to support cataclysm claims and justify demands that we eliminate fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy, regardless of the unprecedented energy and economic risks that would pose.
Second, if Australia (or the USA) is to "keep what’s theirs,†instead of exporting it, keeping it in the ground is the wrong way to do it. Exports may be playing a role. But Victoria and New South Wales have banned fracking, more are likely to follow, coal burning and nuclear are also banned – and you cannot export, use or generate electricity with energy that you are prohibited from taking out of the ground. You cannot benefit from resources you hoard and lock up.
Ban fracking, and you ensure more natural gas shortages, soaring electricity prices, ever-greater reliance on expensive, unreliable wind and solar power, more blackouts, more layoffs, more economic downturns and dislocations, more shipping of good jobs overseas. Your may get many new low-pay jobs hauling, installing, maintaining and removing wind turbines and solar panels made in China. But you won’t have smelters, foundries, turbine and panel factories, or the high-pay jobs that go with them.
Adding to the problem, Institute of Public Affairs research director Brett Hogan notes, many coal and gas operators are investing less in maintenance because there is little point in spending on plants that activists and politicians are trying to shut down. "That explains why their reliability is starting to wobble at times, which the renewables crowd falsely claims is proof that fossil fuels are also unstable.â€
Meanwhile renewable energy mandates "are pushing out the cheapest electricity provider in Australia (coal), gas prices are being set at the international level, and activists are demanding fracking bans that limit gas supplies and make gas still more expensive,†he adds. The results should be easy to foresee.
Third, applying a "national interest test†should not pertain only to export licenses. It must also apply to fracking and nuclear bans, coal and gas plant closures, and effects of skyrocketing electricity prices on smelters, factories, hospitals, schools, local governments and families. Government-imposed Australian austerity and sacrifices will have trivial, un-measurable, irrelevant impacts on atmospheric CO2 levels in the face of growing coal use and emissions from China, India, Indonesia, virtually all other Asia-Pacific nations, and the rest of the world. How does Australia’s overall national interest stack up against that?
Once again, open, robust debate, honest, transparent information – and stiff penalties for prevarication, fabrication and falsification – are absolutely essential.
Under sustainability and climate precepts, we are supposed to safeguard the assumed needs of future generations, even if it means ignoring or compromising the undeniable needs of current generations. We are supposed to protect people from theoretical, exaggerated risks of dangerous manmade climate change, regardless of how slashing fossil fuel use impacts millions of businesses and families. That is untenable.
In the midst of all this, the Journal reports, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to build a giant battery system in South Australia – as though batteries can back up wind power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses … especially under true sustainability, economic and national interest tests. Mr. Musk, however, needs new customers to offset plunging sales in Hong Kong, Denmark and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the ECOCITY World Summit is being held in Melbourne. City planners, architects, elected officials, professors, teachers and eager recipients of more taxpayer-funded renewable energy grants are soaking up fake facts and clever strategies for imposing sustainable development goals on the governed classes. As my CFACT colleagues observing the summit put it, they want to use financial instruments and courts to transform communities into "sustainable and resilient cities,†with them in charge.
Al Gore is jetting around the land Down Under, promoting his new climate chaos film and claiming manmade pollution is equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs going off daily! Making Australian heat waves five times more likely because of manmade global warming! Teachers and journalists get free passes to Gore’s events, to get their propaganda talking points, but no one is allowed to record any part of his talks, to avoid embarrassing the false prophet. When Climate Depot’s Marc Morano offered him a free DVD of the Climate Hustle documentary film, a scowling Al Gore headed to his SUV and private jet.
Mr. Gore and other alarmists are generally panic-stricken about debating climate realists, especially in debates proposed by USEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Participating in them would expose their claims to unaccustomed scrutiny, but refusing to do so would leave the impression that they have something to hide: such as their raw data, deceptive methodologies and absence of evidence to support their models.
They should be worried. If the crisis is exaggerated, fabricated or exists only in computer models, we will refuse to keep spending countless trillions on junk research and job-killing renewable energy schemes.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death.
Australia has had a series of massive power outages and blackouts – and its green, climate-centric politicians are setting the stage for many more. The Wall Street Journal suggests that excessive Aussie natural gas exports may be to blame, offering lessons for the United States. There certainly are lessons to be learned, but not that. The key lessons are don’t lock up your energy resources, and don’t try to get 30, 50 or 100 percent of your electricity from expensive, unreliable, grid-fouling wind and solar sources.
Meanwhile, Al Gore is Down Under, showing a seemingly endless stream of what climatologist Jo Nova derisively and accurately calls "primal weather porn.†The man whose homes and private jets spew more carbon dioxide than almost anyone else on Planet Earth is hectoring and propagandizing teachers, journalist and politicians, seeking to convert still more gullible folks to his Church of Manmade Climate Chaos. Marc Morano and other climate realists are not taking the nonsense lying down. They’re following Gore around, showing their "Climate Hustle†documentary film (an annoyed Gore refused to accept a free DVD) and working hard to inject a little truth and sanity into the Goracle’s fear-mongering.
Insanity and hypocrisy Down Under
Al Gore’s bombast and hypocrisy, an energy debacle "no one saw coming,†lessons for USA
Paul Driessen
The Wall Street Journal called it the energy shortage "no one saw coming.†Actually, a lot of people did see it coming. But intent on pursuing their "dangerous manmade climate change†and "renewable energy will save the planet†agendas, the political classes ignored them. So the stage was set.
As an Australia-wide heat wave sent temperatures soaring above 105 degrees F (40.6 C) in early 2017, air conditioning demand skyrocketed. But Adelaide, South Australia is heavily dependent on wind turbines for electricity generation – and there was no wind. Regulators told the local natural gas-fired power plant to ramp up its output, but it couldn’t get enough gas to do so. To avoid a massive, widespread blackout, regulators shut off power to 90,000 homes, leaving angry families sweltering in the dark.
According to the Journal, Aussie politicians and the wind industry, the primary problem was businesses that exported 62% of Australia’s natural gas production in 2016, leaving insufficient supplies to run gas backup power plants that are supposed to step in when wind and solar power fail. Policy makers "didn’t ensure enough gas would remain at home†and couldn’t foresee temperatures soaring with no wind.
Gas export licenses were issued without regard to the consequences for the domestic market,†said one pol. We should have had "a national interest test†in place to ensure domestic gas needs, said another.
During this and even bigger Aussie blackouts, valuable fish, meat and produce rotted when freezers and refrigerators shut down. Business operations were interrupted or shut down. Rising electricity prices and unreliable power impacted smelters, factories and other businesses, causing many to lay off workers.
The blackouts and energy debacle "offer lessons for America, as it prepares to vastly increase natural gas shipments abroad,†the Journal advises. It certainly does, though not the lessons suggested by the article or people quoted in it, amid the "excessive exports†narrative. Here are some of the correct lessons.
First and foremost, have debates and red team-blue team exercises. Listen to experts who aren’t locked into climate chaos and renewable energy themes. Foster public discussions, instead of silencing them. Understand the entire situation and all the likely consequences of each alternative, before legislating.
Recognize and study reality. Dead calms occur frequently when temperatures are at their highest, or their lowest – when families, businesses, hospitals and schools need electricity the most. Clouds can blanket regions for days or weeks on end. Reliance on wind and solar is risky, and reliable backup is essential.
The justification for eliminating coal and mandating 50% wind and solar is heavily rooted in fears of catastrophic manmade climate change. But the alleged crisis has no basis in observed evidence. The 18-year pause continues apace, with the El Niño temperature spike of 2015-16 gone … and average global temperatures back down to where they were in March 2015. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts are in line with or below multi-century historic trends and fluctuations and are hardly unprecedented. Greenland just recorded its most frigid July temperature reading in history: -33 C (-27 F).
If alarmists have evidence to the contrary, they must present it for review – including original temperature data, not the revised, homogenized data that American, Australian and other scientists have been presenting to support cataclysm claims and justify demands that we eliminate fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy, regardless of the unprecedented energy and economic risks that would pose.
Second, if Australia (or the USA) is to "keep what’s theirs,†instead of exporting it, keeping it in the ground is the wrong way to do it. Exports may be playing a role. But Victoria and New South Wales have banned fracking, more are likely to follow, coal burning and nuclear are also banned – and you cannot export, use or generate electricity with energy that you are prohibited from taking out of the ground. You cannot benefit from resources you hoard and lock up.
Ban fracking, and you ensure more natural gas shortages, soaring electricity prices, ever-greater reliance on expensive, unreliable wind and solar power, more blackouts, more layoffs, more economic downturns and dislocations, more shipping of good jobs overseas. Your may get many new low-pay jobs hauling, installing, maintaining and removing wind turbines and solar panels made in China. But you won’t have smelters, foundries, turbine and panel factories, or the high-pay jobs that go with them.
Adding to the problem, Institute of Public Affairs research director Brett Hogan notes, many coal and gas operators are investing less in maintenance because there is little point in spending on plants that activists and politicians are trying to shut down. "That explains why their reliability is starting to wobble at times, which the renewables crowd falsely claims is proof that fossil fuels are also unstable.â€
Meanwhile renewable energy mandates "are pushing out the cheapest electricity provider in Australia (coal), gas prices are being set at the international level, and activists are demanding fracking bans that limit gas supplies and make gas still more expensive,†he adds. The results should be easy to foresee.
Third, applying a "national interest test†should not pertain only to export licenses. It must also apply to fracking and nuclear bans, coal and gas plant closures, and effects of skyrocketing electricity prices on smelters, factories, hospitals, schools, local governments and families. Government-imposed Australian austerity and sacrifices will have trivial, un-measurable, irrelevant impacts on atmospheric CO2 levels in the face of growing coal use and emissions from China, India, Indonesia, virtually all other Asia-Pacific nations, and the rest of the world. How does Australia’s overall national interest stack up against that?
Once again, open, robust debate, honest, transparent information – and stiff penalties for prevarication, fabrication and falsification – are absolutely essential.
Under sustainability and climate precepts, we are supposed to safeguard the assumed needs of future generations, even if it means ignoring or compromising the undeniable needs of current generations. We are supposed to protect people from theoretical, exaggerated risks of dangerous manmade climate change, regardless of how slashing fossil fuel use impacts millions of businesses and families. That is untenable.
In the midst of all this, the Journal reports, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to build a giant battery system in South Australia – as though batteries can back up wind power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses … especially under true sustainability, economic and national interest tests. Mr. Musk, however, needs new customers to offset plunging sales in Hong Kong, Denmark and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the ECOCITY World Summit is being held in Melbourne. City planners, architects, elected officials, professors, teachers and eager recipients of more taxpayer-funded renewable energy grants are soaking up fake facts and clever strategies for imposing sustainable development goals on the governed classes. As my CFACT colleagues observing the summit put it, they want to use financial instruments and courts to transform communities into "sustainable and resilient cities,†with them in charge.
Al Gore is jetting around the land Down Under, promoting his new climate chaos film and claiming manmade pollution is equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs going off daily! Making Australian heat waves five times more likely because of manmade global warming! Teachers and journalists get free passes to Gore’s events, to get their propaganda talking points, but no one is allowed to record any part of his talks, to avoid embarrassing the false prophet. When Climate Depot’s Marc Morano offered him a free DVD of the Climate Hustle documentary film, a scowling Al Gore headed to his SUV and private jet.
Mr. Gore and other alarmists are generally panic-stricken about debating climate realists, especially in debates proposed by USEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Participating in them would expose their claims to unaccustomed scrutiny, but refusing to do so would leave the impression that they have something to hide: such as their raw data, deceptive methodologies and absence of evidence to support their models.
They should be worried. If the crisis is exaggerated, fabricated or exists only in computer models, we will refuse to keep spending countless trillions on junk research and job-killing renewable energy schemes.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death.
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Chaos in the White House
Jack Kemp forwards this:
http://theresurgent.com/this-is-really-just-stupid/
This is Really Just Stupid
By Erick Erickson | July 16, 2017, 10:29pm | @ewerickson
You know what? It is ultimately irrelevant that either the Democrats set up Donald Trump, Jr. or the Russians set up both the Democrats and the Trump campaign. Whether there was a set up or not, the only reason we are in this situation is because Donald Trump, Jr. chose to take that meeting, chose to lie about that meeting, chose to feign full transparency and disclosure about that meeting, and is still hiding stuff about that meeting.
If the meeting was perfectly innocent, why hide so much that it perpetuates a media cycle?
If nothing came of the meeting, why not get it all out there now?
Who all was in the meeting? We should all know this by now instead of seeing the media drip, drip, drip out that first there was a Russian lawyer who the Trump team said was not there. Then it turns out there was a former Soviet spy in the meeting too. Kushner allegedly left the meeting pretty quickly, but the others stayed and there were more in the meeting than we know about.
If the Trump team truly has nothing to hide, they ought to get it all out there quickly, forcefully, and make the case that they should move on.
The problem is at this point no one can really trust them and you can tell no one trusts them because even their own chief defenders are divided on how best to defend them and what talking points work best. It seems they have hired outside, expert damage control advisers and have refused to listen to them given the array of defenses and decisions being made.
On top of it all, it is more and more obvious that most of the leaking is coming from within the Trump team. In fact, one person in the White House tells me he is even convinced it is his colleagues leaking and not the Mueller team leaking. Two senators familiar with the Mueller investigation also tell me the leaks are Trump team originated and not with Mueller’s team in their opinion. In fact, one person with direct knowledge of the investigation tells me that Mueller’s team is looking at something the media speculation is not currently covering and has only shifted its attention to Trump, Jr. after the release of that email thread.
Read the rest!
A NOTE FROM TIM:
Thanks Jack!
Not sure why Reince Preibus is still in the WH. He's Chief of Staff and is supposed to be handling this sort of thing. I wonder if old Preibus himself isn't the leaker; an inside job by the RINO class to wreck Trump's presidency.
Daren Jonescu and I had long discussions about this, if the RINO class wasn't acting through Trump to forever destroy the prospects of an outsider. If they bring Trump down they will largely succeed, because nobody will ever talk about anyone except a Senator or other insider ever again.
Tim
Fay Voshell says:
Trump needs to stop running the government as if it's a family business venture.
Jack replies:
Exactly, Fay.
Here's what I wrote today as a comment to Brian Joondeph's AT blog piece on Donald Jr.:
The problem is that even though Donald Jr. didn't break any law, his actions have gone a long way to pushing tax reform and Obamacare repeal down the road, hopefully to be done either later this year or early next year. Trump needs to clean house and get rid of the internal - and infernal - leaks within his adminstration. A Democrat working for Trump's real estate interests in 2012 had a very similar everyday agenda to The Donald's. A Democrat working for the 2017 Trump adminstration has a very different agenda than Donald Trump's.
From FAy:
Well put, Jack. He needs to say, "You're fired" to a host of people who are determined to sabotage him.
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Trump doesn't seem to see that he can't do the same type of deals with Dems he did in NYC. Those were business deals. Government deals are a different species. Ideology matters more than pragmatism; posturing more than achievement; keeping the old machine running rather than give it new wheels.
Fay
http://theresurgent.com/this-is-really-just-stupid/
This is Really Just Stupid
By Erick Erickson | July 16, 2017, 10:29pm | @ewerickson
You know what? It is ultimately irrelevant that either the Democrats set up Donald Trump, Jr. or the Russians set up both the Democrats and the Trump campaign. Whether there was a set up or not, the only reason we are in this situation is because Donald Trump, Jr. chose to take that meeting, chose to lie about that meeting, chose to feign full transparency and disclosure about that meeting, and is still hiding stuff about that meeting.
If the meeting was perfectly innocent, why hide so much that it perpetuates a media cycle?
If nothing came of the meeting, why not get it all out there now?
Who all was in the meeting? We should all know this by now instead of seeing the media drip, drip, drip out that first there was a Russian lawyer who the Trump team said was not there. Then it turns out there was a former Soviet spy in the meeting too. Kushner allegedly left the meeting pretty quickly, but the others stayed and there were more in the meeting than we know about.
If the Trump team truly has nothing to hide, they ought to get it all out there quickly, forcefully, and make the case that they should move on.
The problem is at this point no one can really trust them and you can tell no one trusts them because even their own chief defenders are divided on how best to defend them and what talking points work best. It seems they have hired outside, expert damage control advisers and have refused to listen to them given the array of defenses and decisions being made.
On top of it all, it is more and more obvious that most of the leaking is coming from within the Trump team. In fact, one person in the White House tells me he is even convinced it is his colleagues leaking and not the Mueller team leaking. Two senators familiar with the Mueller investigation also tell me the leaks are Trump team originated and not with Mueller’s team in their opinion. In fact, one person with direct knowledge of the investigation tells me that Mueller’s team is looking at something the media speculation is not currently covering and has only shifted its attention to Trump, Jr. after the release of that email thread.
Read the rest!
A NOTE FROM TIM:
Thanks Jack!
Not sure why Reince Preibus is still in the WH. He's Chief of Staff and is supposed to be handling this sort of thing. I wonder if old Preibus himself isn't the leaker; an inside job by the RINO class to wreck Trump's presidency.
Daren Jonescu and I had long discussions about this, if the RINO class wasn't acting through Trump to forever destroy the prospects of an outsider. If they bring Trump down they will largely succeed, because nobody will ever talk about anyone except a Senator or other insider ever again.
Tim
Fay Voshell says:
Trump needs to stop running the government as if it's a family business venture.
Jack replies:
Exactly, Fay.
Here's what I wrote today as a comment to Brian Joondeph's AT blog piece on Donald Jr.:
The problem is that even though Donald Jr. didn't break any law, his actions have gone a long way to pushing tax reform and Obamacare repeal down the road, hopefully to be done either later this year or early next year. Trump needs to clean house and get rid of the internal - and infernal - leaks within his adminstration. A Democrat working for Trump's real estate interests in 2012 had a very similar everyday agenda to The Donald's. A Democrat working for the 2017 Trump adminstration has a very different agenda than Donald Trump's.
From FAy:
Well put, Jack. He needs to say, "You're fired" to a host of people who are determined to sabotage him.
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Trump doesn't seem to see that he can't do the same type of deals with Dems he did in NYC. Those were business deals. Government deals are a different species. Ideology matters more than pragmatism; posturing more than achievement; keeping the old machine running rather than give it new wheels.
Fay
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United Air - OMG
Jack Kemp
Reading an article at Amer. Thinker about the insurance situation in America, Brian Joondeph drew a comparison with United Airlines...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/junk_insurance_vs_junk_news_at_the_ny_emtimesem.html
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Other industries offer less expensive alternatives for consumers. Look at United Airlines. When they aren’t dragging passengers off planes, they offer "basic economy†fares. Less expensive and with fewer niceties: no seat selection or upgrades. No group or family seating. No carry-on luggage. No flight changes or refunds. Last boarding group.
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I had plenty of incentives not to fly United Air but now I have even more reasons.
Reading an article at Amer. Thinker about the insurance situation in America, Brian Joondeph drew a comparison with United Airlines...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/junk_insurance_vs_junk_news_at_the_ny_emtimesem.html
BEGIN QUOTE
Other industries offer less expensive alternatives for consumers. Look at United Airlines. When they aren’t dragging passengers off planes, they offer "basic economy†fares. Less expensive and with fewer niceties: no seat selection or upgrades. No group or family seating. No carry-on luggage. No flight changes or refunds. Last boarding group.
END OF QUOTE
I had plenty of incentives not to fly United Air but now I have even more reasons.
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Trump insiders sinking 1st year of Presidency
Jack Kemp forwards this:
http://theresurgent.com/this-is-really-just-stupid/
This is Really Just Stupid
By Erick Erickson | July 16, 2017, 10:29pm | @ewerickson
You know what? It is ultimately irrelevant that either the Democrats set up Donald Trump, Jr. or the Russians set up both the Democrats and the Trump campaign. Whether there was a set up or not, the only reason we are in this situation is because Donald Trump, Jr. chose to take that meeting, chose to lie about that meeting, chose to feign full transparency and disclosure about that meeting, and is still hiding stuff about that meeting.
If the meeting was perfectly innocent, why hide so much that it perpetuates a media cycle?
If nothing came of the meeting, why not get it all out there now?
Who all was in the meeting? We should all know this by now instead of seeing the media drip, drip, drip out that first there was a Russian lawyer who the Trump team said was not there. Then it turns out there was a former Soviet spy in the meeting too. Kushner allegedly left the meeting pretty quickly, but the others stayed and there were more in the meeting than we know about.
If the Trump team truly has nothing to hide, they ought to get it all out there quickly, forcefully, and make the case that they should move on
The problem is at this point no one can really trust them and you can tell no one trusts them because even their own chief defenders are divided on how best to defend them and what talking points work best. It seems they have hired outside, expert damage control advisers and have refused to listen to them given the array of defenses and decisions being made.
On top of it all, it is more and more obvious that most of the leaking is coming from within the Trump team. In fact, one person in the White House tells me he is even convinced it is his colleagues leaking and not the Mueller team leaking. Two senators familiar with the Mueller investigation also tell me the leaks are Trump team originated and not with Mueller’s team in their opinion. In fact, one person with direct knowledge of the investigation tells me that Mueller’s team is looking at something the media speculation is not currently covering and has only shifted its attention to Trump, Jr. after the release of that email thread.
Read the rest!
http://theresurgent.com/this-is-really-just-stupid/
This is Really Just Stupid
By Erick Erickson | July 16, 2017, 10:29pm | @ewerickson
You know what? It is ultimately irrelevant that either the Democrats set up Donald Trump, Jr. or the Russians set up both the Democrats and the Trump campaign. Whether there was a set up or not, the only reason we are in this situation is because Donald Trump, Jr. chose to take that meeting, chose to lie about that meeting, chose to feign full transparency and disclosure about that meeting, and is still hiding stuff about that meeting.
If the meeting was perfectly innocent, why hide so much that it perpetuates a media cycle?
If nothing came of the meeting, why not get it all out there now?
Who all was in the meeting? We should all know this by now instead of seeing the media drip, drip, drip out that first there was a Russian lawyer who the Trump team said was not there. Then it turns out there was a former Soviet spy in the meeting too. Kushner allegedly left the meeting pretty quickly, but the others stayed and there were more in the meeting than we know about.
If the Trump team truly has nothing to hide, they ought to get it all out there quickly, forcefully, and make the case that they should move on
The problem is at this point no one can really trust them and you can tell no one trusts them because even their own chief defenders are divided on how best to defend them and what talking points work best. It seems they have hired outside, expert damage control advisers and have refused to listen to them given the array of defenses and decisions being made.
On top of it all, it is more and more obvious that most of the leaking is coming from within the Trump team. In fact, one person in the White House tells me he is even convinced it is his colleagues leaking and not the Mueller team leaking. Two senators familiar with the Mueller investigation also tell me the leaks are Trump team originated and not with Mueller’s team in their opinion. In fact, one person with direct knowledge of the investigation tells me that Mueller’s team is looking at something the media speculation is not currently covering and has only shifted its attention to Trump, Jr. after the release of that email thread.
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The Last Days of Social Security and Medicare
Wil Wirtanen
Guess we will work till we drop
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/social-security-and-medicare-are-in-worse-shape-than-you-think/
Guess we will work till we drop
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/social-security-and-medicare-are-in-worse-shape-than-you-think/
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WAKE UP AMERICA
J.D Leatherwood
The information below demonstrates the lunatic fringe in this nation: it shows what they are attempting to accomplish, in their own words and deeds. The information demonstrates their complete disregard for the American people and our system, our liberty based system.
To these people it matters not, for through their words and actions, they show us who they truly are - fascists (communists). They are funded in large part by a fascist - George Soros; they practice fascist tactics and strategies - Saul Alinsky; and they are "led," organized and orchestrated through the "expertise" of all Soros sock puppets - the "democrat" national socialist party.
Fascism lives and it lives through the national socialist "democrat" party and its auxiliaries and institutions.
This is a warning to America about those in this nation seeking the demise of your way of life; for they seek to overthrow it and replace it with "democratic socialism," which of course, is oxymoronic. It is not "democratic" and certainly socialist.
Socialism in all its varieties is totalitarian in its objective to seize, maintain, consolidate and extent their political power; control the apparatus of the State as its governors; and regulate or nationalize all human actions under its direction ...
Socialism in all its variations is nothing more than organized crime taking (monopolizing political control) over government with the intent of using its instrumentalities to benefit its organizers and allies, all couched under the rubric of "humanity" and "compassion."
The evil doers (criminals) are marching in our streets, destroying property, not to help others, seeking to intimidate the citizens of this nation and to restore themselves in power and establish control over you and your life...
https://refusefascism.org/find-a-july-15-event-near-you/
The information below demonstrates the lunatic fringe in this nation: it shows what they are attempting to accomplish, in their own words and deeds. The information demonstrates their complete disregard for the American people and our system, our liberty based system.
To these people it matters not, for through their words and actions, they show us who they truly are - fascists (communists). They are funded in large part by a fascist - George Soros; they practice fascist tactics and strategies - Saul Alinsky; and they are "led," organized and orchestrated through the "expertise" of all Soros sock puppets - the "democrat" national socialist party.
Fascism lives and it lives through the national socialist "democrat" party and its auxiliaries and institutions.
This is a warning to America about those in this nation seeking the demise of your way of life; for they seek to overthrow it and replace it with "democratic socialism," which of course, is oxymoronic. It is not "democratic" and certainly socialist.
Socialism in all its varieties is totalitarian in its objective to seize, maintain, consolidate and extent their political power; control the apparatus of the State as its governors; and regulate or nationalize all human actions under its direction ...
Socialism in all its variations is nothing more than organized crime taking (monopolizing political control) over government with the intent of using its instrumentalities to benefit its organizers and allies, all couched under the rubric of "humanity" and "compassion."
The evil doers (criminals) are marching in our streets, destroying property, not to help others, seeking to intimidate the citizens of this nation and to restore themselves in power and establish control over you and your life...
https://refusefascism.org/find-a-july-15-event-near-you/
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July 15, 2017
No Progressives; Reagan did not Establish Obamaphones
Timothy Birdnow
Yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh sow a guest host (Ken Mathews) got burned by a sneering progressive caller and failed to correct the record. This Prog called in huffily complaining when Mathews said the Democrats make their political fortunes by giving away free stuff; the caller launched with "and the Republicans do the same thing". When Mathews asked for an example the caller went on a diatribe about "tax cuts for the rich" and Mathews pressed him for specifics. See, Mathews had stated that Obamaphones were an example of liberal largesse and this caller then slammed him "That was started under Reagan, IDIOT!"
Funny how this fellow didn't call when Rush was hosting; he would be picking his teeth out of larynx. I suspect he knew that.
But instead Mathews, unused to such rudeness, simply went on to generalities and never actually answered this guy.
I was really angry, and thought about calling, but had things to do and couldn't wait in line.
So let me answer this Progressive pinhead here.
First, letting people keep THEIR OWN MONEY is not a freebie. The fundamental assumption of this fellow (who admitted he was a Bernie supporter) was that all wealth belongs to the government and it is by their good graces that we are granted our living. He and the rest assume the government has a right and duty to determine how much someone should have (to each according to his need) but that somehow the rich got control of the levers of power and diverted the flow of wealth to themselves. (They do that now, in our neo-fascist economy where government DOES decide winners and losers, but whose fault is that? The Left set this up by insisting on empowering government in the first place; it wasn't the market that created this situation.) The idea that someone's money belongs to that person and that government taking it and doling it back to them is a form of theft never occurs to these popinjay. See, by hard work, or by risk taking, or even by having the right parents these people EARNED it; it is theirs. The most hated of all people - the trust fund kids - still deserve it because their parents worked and slaved to acquire it FOR THEM.
Our system of government and in fact our core philosophical belief is that the individual is first master of himself, and that he therefore has the right to enjoy the fruits of his own labor. This is fundamentally at odds with the liberal view - bequeathed by Jean Jacques Rousseau - that our society is a collective one, where the collective will is supreme, and thus wealth ultimately belongs to the collective and the individual is merely a caretaker.
Had I been Mathews I would have asked this buffoon if he would mail me his paycheck every period and I would gladly send him some back - what I figured he needed. Would he still consider that some sort of freebie?
But on to his "Reagan created Obamaphones" flame.
No.
This has become a popular meme among Progressives to excuse Osama’s expansion of an existing program, but it was not Reagan who did this. CONGRESS created the Lifeline Assistance Program to give Federal assistance to low income people to pay for LANDLINE phones (not cell phones, which used to be considered a luxury until the 21st century.) This program was created by the Democratically controlled Congress and it was done because a Federal judge ordered the breakup of ATT. ATT was sued under anti-trust regulations in 1974 and a settlement reached in 1982. With the loss of AT&T as a primary telephone provider prices rose, leading to the Democratically controlled Congress passing the act, which was then passed on the to FCC (an independent branch of the bureaucracy) for implementation. It was initially funded by taxation on ATT, but is now funded by taxes on every telecommunications system.
Reagan had little to do with it. I couldn't find any information on whether Reagan signed the bill, and if so what it was attached to (probably a rider to something Reagan needed, but I can't be sure as Google only gives "Think Progress" type articles that do not go into the details - even the Wikepedia entry does not give this information.) The program was clearly implemented by the FCC, the five-member commission of which enjoys appointment every five years (thus all commissioners at the time the program was devised in 1984 were carter or Nixon appointees). But suffice it to say the Democrats were in charge of the purse strings when this was first established. And the program was expanded under Clinton, then Obama.
This is the typical liberal trick of revising history to suit themselves.. It is very dishonest. I don't know whether the particular liberal in question knew it and was lying or really was miseducated, but the guest host should have done a little research (he's got a staff on hand) and corrected the record after the fact. Donald Trump is right; you don't let the Left lie and get away with it. We've been doing this for years "moving on" and where has it gotten us? If you let a lie stand it becomes the conventional wisdom.
It is unfortunate because now this jerk is walking around bragging about how he 'put those moron conservatives in their place" when in fact he himself played the fool.
It should also be pointed out that just because Republicans don't live up to what should be their standards does not mean those standards are incorrect. Republicans HAVE given away freebies to buy votes in the past. It doesn't make it right.
I wish all this had been said at the time. We have simply got to do better with these people. The time to worry about civility over substance is over. We are at war, folks, and the sooner our side understands that the better.
Yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh sow a guest host (Ken Mathews) got burned by a sneering progressive caller and failed to correct the record. This Prog called in huffily complaining when Mathews said the Democrats make their political fortunes by giving away free stuff; the caller launched with "and the Republicans do the same thing". When Mathews asked for an example the caller went on a diatribe about "tax cuts for the rich" and Mathews pressed him for specifics. See, Mathews had stated that Obamaphones were an example of liberal largesse and this caller then slammed him "That was started under Reagan, IDIOT!"
Funny how this fellow didn't call when Rush was hosting; he would be picking his teeth out of larynx. I suspect he knew that.
But instead Mathews, unused to such rudeness, simply went on to generalities and never actually answered this guy.
I was really angry, and thought about calling, but had things to do and couldn't wait in line.
So let me answer this Progressive pinhead here.
First, letting people keep THEIR OWN MONEY is not a freebie. The fundamental assumption of this fellow (who admitted he was a Bernie supporter) was that all wealth belongs to the government and it is by their good graces that we are granted our living. He and the rest assume the government has a right and duty to determine how much someone should have (to each according to his need) but that somehow the rich got control of the levers of power and diverted the flow of wealth to themselves. (They do that now, in our neo-fascist economy where government DOES decide winners and losers, but whose fault is that? The Left set this up by insisting on empowering government in the first place; it wasn't the market that created this situation.) The idea that someone's money belongs to that person and that government taking it and doling it back to them is a form of theft never occurs to these popinjay. See, by hard work, or by risk taking, or even by having the right parents these people EARNED it; it is theirs. The most hated of all people - the trust fund kids - still deserve it because their parents worked and slaved to acquire it FOR THEM.
Our system of government and in fact our core philosophical belief is that the individual is first master of himself, and that he therefore has the right to enjoy the fruits of his own labor. This is fundamentally at odds with the liberal view - bequeathed by Jean Jacques Rousseau - that our society is a collective one, where the collective will is supreme, and thus wealth ultimately belongs to the collective and the individual is merely a caretaker.
Had I been Mathews I would have asked this buffoon if he would mail me his paycheck every period and I would gladly send him some back - what I figured he needed. Would he still consider that some sort of freebie?
But on to his "Reagan created Obamaphones" flame.
No.
This has become a popular meme among Progressives to excuse Osama’s expansion of an existing program, but it was not Reagan who did this. CONGRESS created the Lifeline Assistance Program to give Federal assistance to low income people to pay for LANDLINE phones (not cell phones, which used to be considered a luxury until the 21st century.) This program was created by the Democratically controlled Congress and it was done because a Federal judge ordered the breakup of ATT. ATT was sued under anti-trust regulations in 1974 and a settlement reached in 1982. With the loss of AT&T as a primary telephone provider prices rose, leading to the Democratically controlled Congress passing the act, which was then passed on the to FCC (an independent branch of the bureaucracy) for implementation. It was initially funded by taxation on ATT, but is now funded by taxes on every telecommunications system.
Reagan had little to do with it. I couldn't find any information on whether Reagan signed the bill, and if so what it was attached to (probably a rider to something Reagan needed, but I can't be sure as Google only gives "Think Progress" type articles that do not go into the details - even the Wikepedia entry does not give this information.) The program was clearly implemented by the FCC, the five-member commission of which enjoys appointment every five years (thus all commissioners at the time the program was devised in 1984 were carter or Nixon appointees). But suffice it to say the Democrats were in charge of the purse strings when this was first established. And the program was expanded under Clinton, then Obama.
This is the typical liberal trick of revising history to suit themselves.. It is very dishonest. I don't know whether the particular liberal in question knew it and was lying or really was miseducated, but the guest host should have done a little research (he's got a staff on hand) and corrected the record after the fact. Donald Trump is right; you don't let the Left lie and get away with it. We've been doing this for years "moving on" and where has it gotten us? If you let a lie stand it becomes the conventional wisdom.
It is unfortunate because now this jerk is walking around bragging about how he 'put those moron conservatives in their place" when in fact he himself played the fool.
It should also be pointed out that just because Republicans don't live up to what should be their standards does not mean those standards are incorrect. Republicans HAVE given away freebies to buy votes in the past. It doesn't make it right.
I wish all this had been said at the time. We have simply got to do better with these people. The time to worry about civility over substance is over. We are at war, folks, and the sooner our side understands that the better.
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More on Nazi Mistakes
In a recent post here at The Aviary Dana Mathewson forwarded an article about the things Hitler did wrong that cost him the war. Dana was [liink=http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/hitlers_mistakes_cost_germany_the_war]a bit skeptical of them and so was I; they were rather simple and not well connected. Dana sent me the following:
And now you've got me thinking (might be a dangerous thing!): For example, Hitler was constantly hoping England would capitulate so he wouldn't have to invade, since the Battle of Britain turned out to be such a bust for him. (Historians have speculated that's why he let Britain off the hook at Dunkirk, too.) The vaunted Luftwaffe failed him big-time there, and would likely have failed to provide adequate air cover in the necessary sea-borne invasion. He lost a whole slew of men and planes and got nothing in return. And Goering's reputation lay in tatters.
Speaking of hoping Britain would capitulate, Hitler always hoped Britain would surrender and he could plug in Edward (Duke of Windsor) as King, since Edward was pro-Nazi.
Hitler's invasion of Russia was driven by his ever-present need for oil. This guy ignores that. Hitler was stupid in not preparing for the Russian winter, but no less a military genius than Napoleon screwed up on that too. (Germany and France have never had winters like Russia.) Hitler had no knowledge of the way the Soviet armies would fight -- chalk that up to lack of intelligence. Nobody fights more fiercely than a German army but they are solicitous of their men. The Russians don't care how many soldiers they lose as long as they beat off the enemy.
It's true that Hitler should have kept his grubby little fingers off operational command, but he didn't trust his generals, and for good reason: they had nothing but contempt for him. Good reason for that too. Look at the various attempts to assassinate him.
I think, too, that this guy's factoring in the Holocaust was gratuitous. I may be wrong, but I don't think the world knew about the Holocaust until after the war. Now, it could be argued that the Holocaust took too much effort away from the war.
Yes, there are some interesting facts. But the more I look at it, the more I think he's some kid who went to a liberal arts college and absorbed the new-age way of looking at things. He cherry-picks facts and doesn't tie things together well. He "wasn't there," in other words. Hitler was, although as the war went along he increasingly wasn't, if you follow me -- ordering into battle units that no longer existed.
He does get one thing right: all the war planning, both on land and at sea, was done with the idea that the war would start in about 1942. Obviously, somebody forgot to tell Hitler. If Admiral Raeder had gotten his full complement of surface ships and submarines, and if Goering had gotten all the planes he wanted, the war would have been a different story. But it's equally possible Britain would have re-armed by then and, more to the point, France would have relocated her fighting spirit. Or would Chamberlain still be PM? Mr. Peace-in-our-time? I fear THAT would be the case.
Consider this: assume that Hitler didn't start his fun-and-games until around the end of 1941 or the beginning of 1942, but that Japan did exactly the same as she did, when she did it. That would mean we would have entered the war against Japan in 1941 as before, Hitler would have been caught with his pants down having to declare war against us because of his treaties with Japan, but with a lot more toys to fight with. Our two-front war would have been a lot tougher. And one would assume we would be further asleep than we already were because nothing would have been going on in Europe to wake us up. Oy vey!
And now you've got me thinking (might be a dangerous thing!): For example, Hitler was constantly hoping England would capitulate so he wouldn't have to invade, since the Battle of Britain turned out to be such a bust for him. (Historians have speculated that's why he let Britain off the hook at Dunkirk, too.) The vaunted Luftwaffe failed him big-time there, and would likely have failed to provide adequate air cover in the necessary sea-borne invasion. He lost a whole slew of men and planes and got nothing in return. And Goering's reputation lay in tatters.
Speaking of hoping Britain would capitulate, Hitler always hoped Britain would surrender and he could plug in Edward (Duke of Windsor) as King, since Edward was pro-Nazi.
Hitler's invasion of Russia was driven by his ever-present need for oil. This guy ignores that. Hitler was stupid in not preparing for the Russian winter, but no less a military genius than Napoleon screwed up on that too. (Germany and France have never had winters like Russia.) Hitler had no knowledge of the way the Soviet armies would fight -- chalk that up to lack of intelligence. Nobody fights more fiercely than a German army but they are solicitous of their men. The Russians don't care how many soldiers they lose as long as they beat off the enemy.
It's true that Hitler should have kept his grubby little fingers off operational command, but he didn't trust his generals, and for good reason: they had nothing but contempt for him. Good reason for that too. Look at the various attempts to assassinate him.
I think, too, that this guy's factoring in the Holocaust was gratuitous. I may be wrong, but I don't think the world knew about the Holocaust until after the war. Now, it could be argued that the Holocaust took too much effort away from the war.
Yes, there are some interesting facts. But the more I look at it, the more I think he's some kid who went to a liberal arts college and absorbed the new-age way of looking at things. He cherry-picks facts and doesn't tie things together well. He "wasn't there," in other words. Hitler was, although as the war went along he increasingly wasn't, if you follow me -- ordering into battle units that no longer existed.
He does get one thing right: all the war planning, both on land and at sea, was done with the idea that the war would start in about 1942. Obviously, somebody forgot to tell Hitler. If Admiral Raeder had gotten his full complement of surface ships and submarines, and if Goering had gotten all the planes he wanted, the war would have been a different story. But it's equally possible Britain would have re-armed by then and, more to the point, France would have relocated her fighting spirit. Or would Chamberlain still be PM? Mr. Peace-in-our-time? I fear THAT would be the case.
Consider this: assume that Hitler didn't start his fun-and-games until around the end of 1941 or the beginning of 1942, but that Japan did exactly the same as she did, when she did it. That would mean we would have entered the war against Japan in 1941 as before, Hitler would have been caught with his pants down having to declare war against us because of his treaties with Japan, but with a lot more toys to fight with. Our two-front war would have been a lot tougher. And one would assume we would be further asleep than we already were because nothing would have been going on in Europe to wake us up. Oy vey!
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Evan Sayet writes about Trump
Jac Kemp forwards this:
https://townhall.com/columnists/evansayet/2017/07/13/he-fights-n2354580?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
He Fights
Evan Sayet
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are "beneath the dignity of the office.†Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized "collegiality†as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything "dignified,†"collegial†or "proper†about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything "dignified†in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent
filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything "statesman-like†in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was "articulate†and "polished†but in no way was he in the least bit "dignified,†"collegial†or "proper.â€
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
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He Fights
Evan Sayet
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are "beneath the dignity of the office.†Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized "collegiality†as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything "dignified,†"collegial†or "proper†about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything "dignified†in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent
filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything "statesman-like†in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was "articulate†and "polished†but in no way was he in the least bit "dignified,†"collegial†or "proper.â€
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
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July 14, 2017
Media Ignored Obama Foreign Interventions
Timothy Birdnow
So, America's poppinjaywalking parasitic media has now discovered that it is bad if a foreign power intervenes in national elections. Hmmm. They never seemed to care in the past. But now that things have gone poorly for their chosen Moosiah Hillary and an orange troll doll somehow defeated her it becomes obvious that the Eeevilll Russkies must have stolen the election, and that is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad! Funny; they ignored all sorts of election tapering in the past.
Take for example the Obama legacy. Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him!) meddled with all manner of elections overseas and the media yawned.
1. Obama meddled in the Kenyan elections to get his fellow tribesman Raila Odinga elected. Odinga, a socialist and Muslim sympathizer, is a member of the Luo tribe - the same as Barack Obama's family. In 2013 Obama spent large sums of money to guarantee "fair" elections, which in reality were support for Odinga. This is illegal according to U.S. law, but such niceties never bothered Mr. Obama.
2. In 2009 the socialist president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, attempted to overrule the term limits imposed by the Honduran constitution and declare himself President for Life. The Honduran congress objected, and the national Supreme Court ordered Zelaya removed from office. The military complied with the Court's request and overthrew Zelaya, who was forced to flee the country. The Obama Administration was furious that this protege' of Hugo Chavez was overthrown, and immediately called for his return to poer. They kept calling it a coup, but the reality is this was a failed coup on the part of Zelaya and his supporters, who sought to overturn the Honduran constitution. While Zelaya never returned to power the pressure put on Honduras by the Obama Administration led them to allow him to return to the country. Interestingly enough, violence ensued and tens of thousands of unaccompanied minor children made the long trek through Mexico to the United States, where the Obama Administration so kindly embraced their refugee status. Why, it was almost as if Obama planned this whole filthy episode.
The point is, he TRIED to itnerfere with the internal workings of a sovereign nation where we had no compelling interest. The media yawned.
3. Obama spent American money and personally campaigned against Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
4. Obama spent money to oppose Marine LaPen in France.
5. Obama hosted a seminar on the use of social media in fomenting revolution in Egypt. It was sponsored by Google and Facebook, if I recall correctly, and we helped organize and promote the revolution against our ally Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. After Mubarak's fall Obama promoted the Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Morsi, who began instituting Sharia Law as soon as he was sworn into power. The military removed him in a coup in 2013 that enraged the Obama administration.
6. Obama spied on numerous foreign heads of state, including Germany's Angela Merkel, the President of Mexico, the President of France, the Presidents of Peru and Bolivia, and of cuorse Israel's prime minister. At one point the French threatened the U.S. over the spying activity.
7. Barack Obama meddled in the Brexit vote in Britain.
8. The U.S. forcibly detained and invaded the airplane of the President of Bolivia while searching for Edward Snowden, clearly a lawless act.
In fact, the meddling by the Obama Administration was so bad that the GoP formally requested an investigation. There was little said by the media.
The media also ignores the fact that both Ukraine and Estonia meddled in the last election on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And let us not even begin to recount the Clinton Administration, who accepted illegal campaign contributions in return for Clinton issuing a waiver to Loral Aerospace so they could teach the Chinese how to fix their launch vehicles, thus giving them ICBM technology and making them a super power. The media wasn't too concerned, although Tim Russert was shocked that more people didn't care about that act of actual treason.
The American media is not a journalistic enterprise but rather a propoganda machine. Rush Limbaugh thinks the media is calling the shots rather than the Democratic Party and he's rigth, but I suspect it is the Ivy League that is the real brain and the media is their church. Any way you look at it, however, the reality is we aren't getting facts, nor are we getting anything other than what the media and whoever is their master want us to have.
Americans no longer really believe in the mainstream media, but they still listen to them. That has to change.
So, America's poppinjaywalking parasitic media has now discovered that it is bad if a foreign power intervenes in national elections. Hmmm. They never seemed to care in the past. But now that things have gone poorly for their chosen Moosiah Hillary and an orange troll doll somehow defeated her it becomes obvious that the Eeevilll Russkies must have stolen the election, and that is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad! Funny; they ignored all sorts of election tapering in the past.
Take for example the Obama legacy. Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him!) meddled with all manner of elections overseas and the media yawned.
1. Obama meddled in the Kenyan elections to get his fellow tribesman Raila Odinga elected. Odinga, a socialist and Muslim sympathizer, is a member of the Luo tribe - the same as Barack Obama's family. In 2013 Obama spent large sums of money to guarantee "fair" elections, which in reality were support for Odinga. This is illegal according to U.S. law, but such niceties never bothered Mr. Obama.
2. In 2009 the socialist president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, attempted to overrule the term limits imposed by the Honduran constitution and declare himself President for Life. The Honduran congress objected, and the national Supreme Court ordered Zelaya removed from office. The military complied with the Court's request and overthrew Zelaya, who was forced to flee the country. The Obama Administration was furious that this protege' of Hugo Chavez was overthrown, and immediately called for his return to poer. They kept calling it a coup, but the reality is this was a failed coup on the part of Zelaya and his supporters, who sought to overturn the Honduran constitution. While Zelaya never returned to power the pressure put on Honduras by the Obama Administration led them to allow him to return to the country. Interestingly enough, violence ensued and tens of thousands of unaccompanied minor children made the long trek through Mexico to the United States, where the Obama Administration so kindly embraced their refugee status. Why, it was almost as if Obama planned this whole filthy episode.
The point is, he TRIED to itnerfere with the internal workings of a sovereign nation where we had no compelling interest. The media yawned.
3. Obama spent American money and personally campaigned against Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
4. Obama spent money to oppose Marine LaPen in France.
5. Obama hosted a seminar on the use of social media in fomenting revolution in Egypt. It was sponsored by Google and Facebook, if I recall correctly, and we helped organize and promote the revolution against our ally Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. After Mubarak's fall Obama promoted the Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Morsi, who began instituting Sharia Law as soon as he was sworn into power. The military removed him in a coup in 2013 that enraged the Obama administration.
6. Obama spied on numerous foreign heads of state, including Germany's Angela Merkel, the President of Mexico, the President of France, the Presidents of Peru and Bolivia, and of cuorse Israel's prime minister. At one point the French threatened the U.S. over the spying activity.
7. Barack Obama meddled in the Brexit vote in Britain.
8. The U.S. forcibly detained and invaded the airplane of the President of Bolivia while searching for Edward Snowden, clearly a lawless act.
In fact, the meddling by the Obama Administration was so bad that the GoP formally requested an investigation. There was little said by the media.
The media also ignores the fact that both Ukraine and Estonia meddled in the last election on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And let us not even begin to recount the Clinton Administration, who accepted illegal campaign contributions in return for Clinton issuing a waiver to Loral Aerospace so they could teach the Chinese how to fix their launch vehicles, thus giving them ICBM technology and making them a super power. The media wasn't too concerned, although Tim Russert was shocked that more people didn't care about that act of actual treason.
The American media is not a journalistic enterprise but rather a propoganda machine. Rush Limbaugh thinks the media is calling the shots rather than the Democratic Party and he's rigth, but I suspect it is the Ivy League that is the real brain and the media is their church. Any way you look at it, however, the reality is we aren't getting facts, nor are we getting anything other than what the media and whoever is their master want us to have.
Americans no longer really believe in the mainstream media, but they still listen to them. That has to change.
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Trump Jr.’s Email: Want to Talk About Treason? Okay….
Selwyn Duke
The obsession with Donald Trump Jr.’s "Russian†email chain is just the latest example of what the Media/Democrat Party/Establishment Axis does best: engage in misdirection to confuse people about who America’s real enemies are.
Now, since the emails are currently Exhibit A in Trump treason allegations, let’s talk about treason. No, we don’t have to go back to when Democrat senator Ted Kennedy secretly HYPERLINK "http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/10/ted-kennedy-secretly-asked-the-soviets-to-intervene-in-the-1984-elections/" approached the murderous Soviets and asked for help defeating Ronald Reagan in 1984. That’s too old and too obvious. But try this on for size.
We’ve now learned that U.S. soldier Ikaika Erik Kang, just arrested for Islamic State ties, expressed allegiance to the group as early as 2011 (which is much like a serviceman having expressed support for the Nazis during WWII). Instead of being immediately put in the stockade, however, Barack Obama’s military and FBI, the Daily Mail HYPERLINK "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4688400/US-soldier-ties-ISIS-pledged-allegiance-SIX-YEARS-ago.html" reports, "investigated to determine whether he posed a threat, authorities said.â€
They must have still been wondering in 2013, because that’s when they gave Kang back his security clearance after having revoked it the year before.
This clearly was part of the leftist Obama mentality that sought to elevate anything contrary to Americanism. It didn’t matter that Kang had already threatened "to hurt or kill other service members back in 2011,†as the Mail relates it. It doesn’t matter that he could have been the next Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 at Ford Hood in 2009 after he, too, HYPERLINK "http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1940011,00.html" expressed jihadist sentiments but wasn’t stopped. Hey, if you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.
Some will point out that the Left’s enabling of intra-military jihad isn’t, technically speaking, treason. That’s true. Neither is what Trump Jr. did, with experts saying it wasn’t illegal. But we’re talking here about treason in spirit, which is often worse than the illegal variety.
The Trumps also aren’t inviting aliens into the nation to overwhelm the natives. But that’s precisely what the Left has been doing for ages via im/migration, with Obama ratcheting the process up to a fever pitch. He used every trick in the book — granting gratuitous "refugee†status, ceasing border enforcement, etc. — to ensure that as many non-Americans as possible would occupy America.
Obama did this because, as the Daily Caller HYPERLINK "http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/09/obama-hints-immigration-will-drown-conservatism/" reported in 2015, he believes "immigration will drown conservatism.†Actually, it drowns Americanism.
But the Left knows what it’s doing. Eighty-five percent of our legal immigrants come from the Third World (also, in part, Ted Kennedy’s handiwork); 70 to 90 percent of them vote for leftist Democrats upon being naturalized. Obama HYPERLINK "http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/09/obama-hints-immigration-will-drown-conservatism/" hailed this, mind you, saying that becoming a "hodgepodge of folks†extinguishes Americanism.
No, he wasn’t as blunt as overseas soul mate and Social Democrat politician Mona Sahlin, who HYPERLINK "https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5161/mona-sahlin" said, alluding in 2001 to "her nation’s†immigration-born changes, "he Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden is never coming back.†But what do you call people who import foreigners for the purposes of disempowering and defeating fellow countrymen? What do you call those who use demographic genocide against "their own people� At least, I guess, they aren’t doing it via email.
The obsession with Donald Trump Jr.’s "Russian†email chain is just the latest example of what the Media/Democrat Party/Establishment Axis does best: engage in misdirection to confuse people about who America’s real enemies are.
Now, since the emails are currently Exhibit A in Trump treason allegations, let’s talk about treason. No, we don’t have to go back to when Democrat senator Ted Kennedy secretly HYPERLINK "http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/10/ted-kennedy-secretly-asked-the-soviets-to-intervene-in-the-1984-elections/" approached the murderous Soviets and asked for help defeating Ronald Reagan in 1984. That’s too old and too obvious. But try this on for size.
We’ve now learned that U.S. soldier Ikaika Erik Kang, just arrested for Islamic State ties, expressed allegiance to the group as early as 2011 (which is much like a serviceman having expressed support for the Nazis during WWII). Instead of being immediately put in the stockade, however, Barack Obama’s military and FBI, the Daily Mail HYPERLINK "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4688400/US-soldier-ties-ISIS-pledged-allegiance-SIX-YEARS-ago.html" reports, "investigated to determine whether he posed a threat, authorities said.â€
They must have still been wondering in 2013, because that’s when they gave Kang back his security clearance after having revoked it the year before.
This clearly was part of the leftist Obama mentality that sought to elevate anything contrary to Americanism. It didn’t matter that Kang had already threatened "to hurt or kill other service members back in 2011,†as the Mail relates it. It doesn’t matter that he could have been the next Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 at Ford Hood in 2009 after he, too, HYPERLINK "http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1940011,00.html" expressed jihadist sentiments but wasn’t stopped. Hey, if you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.
Some will point out that the Left’s enabling of intra-military jihad isn’t, technically speaking, treason. That’s true. Neither is what Trump Jr. did, with experts saying it wasn’t illegal. But we’re talking here about treason in spirit, which is often worse than the illegal variety.
The Trumps also aren’t inviting aliens into the nation to overwhelm the natives. But that’s precisely what the Left has been doing for ages via im/migration, with Obama ratcheting the process up to a fever pitch. He used every trick in the book — granting gratuitous "refugee†status, ceasing border enforcement, etc. — to ensure that as many non-Americans as possible would occupy America.
Obama did this because, as the Daily Caller HYPERLINK "http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/09/obama-hints-immigration-will-drown-conservatism/" reported in 2015, he believes "immigration will drown conservatism.†Actually, it drowns Americanism.
But the Left knows what it’s doing. Eighty-five percent of our legal immigrants come from the Third World (also, in part, Ted Kennedy’s handiwork); 70 to 90 percent of them vote for leftist Democrats upon being naturalized. Obama HYPERLINK "http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/09/obama-hints-immigration-will-drown-conservatism/" hailed this, mind you, saying that becoming a "hodgepodge of folks†extinguishes Americanism.
No, he wasn’t as blunt as overseas soul mate and Social Democrat politician Mona Sahlin, who HYPERLINK "https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5161/mona-sahlin" said, alluding in 2001 to "her nation’s†immigration-born changes, "
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An Overview of the Hoax Monkey Mann Trial
This from Americans for Limited Government. It is an overview of the Michael Mann/Tim Ball trial (that I covered here and at American Thinker) and is worth a look:
By Printus LeBlanc
A little-known court case is taking place in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver. This case involves two scientists and two set of graphs. One of the graphs is very famous, and the basis for every man-made climate change believer's faith, while the other…is not. The foundation of the church of man-made climate change is on shaky ground, and an earthquake could be coming.
Michael Mann is a climatologist and geophysicist working at Penn State University. In 1998, he was the leader of a group using statistical techniques that created a graph showing the earth's temperature over the last 1,000 years. The graph would gain international fame and become known as the "hockey stick graph." The graph showed steady temperatures on the earth's surface with a sharp increase in the last few hundred years, giving it the shape of a hockey stick.
The graph is a religious artifact to those that belong to this religion. It is so revered that those who created it, were invited to work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on its 2001 scientific assessment report. The assessment came to many conclusions, but three stick out:
1. There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities;
2. Human influences will continue to change atmospheric composition throughout the 21st century;
3. And, global average temperature and sea level are projected to rise under all IPCC SRES scenarios.
Not surprisingly, the conclusions also involve more government control over what people do, and more money for man-made climate change research. Figure 1. shows how much money the Government Accountability Office claims the federal government has spent on combating supposed climate change between 1993 and 2010. Today, it is harder to find the facts on how much is actually being spent by the federal government, but Salon is reporting over $12 billion is to be spent this year, and other organizations are reporting up to $27 billion is expected to be spent.
The worldwide climate change industry is valued to be worth $1.5 trillion. https://ct1.publicaster.com/ClickThru.aspx?pubids=6812|950715|6687959|5&digest=6B95DoHMkLO1bbHxt8Ci1Q&sysid=1That's a lot of money for "research." Enter Dr. Timothy Ball.
Dr. Ball has a PhD in climatology from Queen Mary University of London, and was a professor at the University of Winnipeg. He is an avid critic of the man-made climate change theory. It is not that he does not believe in climate change, but he does not believe humans are having the impact the church of man-made climate change says they are. He has written dozens of articles, appeared on numerous television shows, and written a book called "The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science."
Dr. Ball also created his own version of the "hockey stick graph," but it looked nothing like Mann's. Ball's graph shows what is known as the Medieval Warm Period. That period occurred between AD 900 and AD 1300 in which the Northern Hemisphere was much warmer than it is now. It is a much-debated period because of the possibility it destroys the man-made climate change theory.
Dr. Ball is enemy number one for the church of man-made climate change. One article he wrote made light of the connection between Mann and the Climatic Research Unit email controversy. Mann did not take to kindly to the slight, and decided to sue for libel. It is one of Mann's many libel lawsuits he has filed against people with whom he disagrees.
The court case has not worked out the way Mann envisioned. Dr. Ball did not lay down and instead decided to fight the case. The case was filled in Canada and known as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation suit. It was filed six years ago, and is going sideways for Mann. The judge in the case has ordered all data used to make both graphs be handed over by all parties. Dr. Ball has cooperated, but Mann has not.
Dr. Ball recently stated, "We believe he [Mann] withheld on the basis of a U.S. court ruling that it was all his intellectual property. This ruling was made despite the fact the U.S. taxpayer paid for the research and the research results were used as the basis of literally earth-shattering policies on energy and environment. The problem for him is that the Canadian court holds that you cannot withhold documents that are central to your charge of defamation regardless of the U.S. ruling."
John O'Sullivan reports on the punishment that Dr. Ball's lawyers could ask for if Mann is found to be in contempt, "Ball is entitled to have the court serve upon Mann the fullest punishment. Contempt sanctions could reasonably include the judge ruling that Dr. Ball's statement that Mann "belongs in the state pen, not Penn. State' is a precise and true statement of fact. This is because under Canada's unique 'Truth Defense', Mann is now proven to have willfully hidden his data, so the court may rule he hid it because it is fake. As such, the court must then dismiss Mann's entire libel suit with costs awarded to Ball and his team."
If this holds true, then the basis of the entire Paris climate agreement, IPCC, and every climate change agreement is in jeopardy. If it was all formed from faulty data, it is all at risk. The hockey stick graph is responsible for hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent around the world, and hundreds of job-killing regulations being enacted on the American worker. It is time we find out if it was all fake.
Printus LeBlanc is a contributing reporter for Americans for Limited Government.
By Printus LeBlanc
A little-known court case is taking place in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver. This case involves two scientists and two set of graphs. One of the graphs is very famous, and the basis for every man-made climate change believer's faith, while the other…is not. The foundation of the church of man-made climate change is on shaky ground, and an earthquake could be coming.
Michael Mann is a climatologist and geophysicist working at Penn State University. In 1998, he was the leader of a group using statistical techniques that created a graph showing the earth's temperature over the last 1,000 years. The graph would gain international fame and become known as the "hockey stick graph." The graph showed steady temperatures on the earth's surface with a sharp increase in the last few hundred years, giving it the shape of a hockey stick.
The graph is a religious artifact to those that belong to this religion. It is so revered that those who created it, were invited to work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on its 2001 scientific assessment report. The assessment came to many conclusions, but three stick out:
1. There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities;
2. Human influences will continue to change atmospheric composition throughout the 21st century;
3. And, global average temperature and sea level are projected to rise under all IPCC SRES scenarios.
Not surprisingly, the conclusions also involve more government control over what people do, and more money for man-made climate change research. Figure 1. shows how much money the Government Accountability Office claims the federal government has spent on combating supposed climate change between 1993 and 2010. Today, it is harder to find the facts on how much is actually being spent by the federal government, but Salon is reporting over $12 billion is to be spent this year, and other organizations are reporting up to $27 billion is expected to be spent.
The worldwide climate change industry is valued to be worth $1.5 trillion. https://ct1.publicaster.com/ClickThru.aspx?pubids=6812|950715|6687959|5&digest=6B95DoHMkLO1bbHxt8Ci1Q&sysid=1That's a lot of money for "research." Enter Dr. Timothy Ball.
Dr. Ball has a PhD in climatology from Queen Mary University of London, and was a professor at the University of Winnipeg. He is an avid critic of the man-made climate change theory. It is not that he does not believe in climate change, but he does not believe humans are having the impact the church of man-made climate change says they are. He has written dozens of articles, appeared on numerous television shows, and written a book called "The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science."
Dr. Ball also created his own version of the "hockey stick graph," but it looked nothing like Mann's. Ball's graph shows what is known as the Medieval Warm Period. That period occurred between AD 900 and AD 1300 in which the Northern Hemisphere was much warmer than it is now. It is a much-debated period because of the possibility it destroys the man-made climate change theory.
Dr. Ball is enemy number one for the church of man-made climate change. One article he wrote made light of the connection between Mann and the Climatic Research Unit email controversy. Mann did not take to kindly to the slight, and decided to sue for libel. It is one of Mann's many libel lawsuits he has filed against people with whom he disagrees.
The court case has not worked out the way Mann envisioned. Dr. Ball did not lay down and instead decided to fight the case. The case was filled in Canada and known as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation suit. It was filed six years ago, and is going sideways for Mann. The judge in the case has ordered all data used to make both graphs be handed over by all parties. Dr. Ball has cooperated, but Mann has not.
Dr. Ball recently stated, "We believe he [Mann] withheld on the basis of a U.S. court ruling that it was all his intellectual property. This ruling was made despite the fact the U.S. taxpayer paid for the research and the research results were used as the basis of literally earth-shattering policies on energy and environment. The problem for him is that the Canadian court holds that you cannot withhold documents that are central to your charge of defamation regardless of the U.S. ruling."
John O'Sullivan reports on the punishment that Dr. Ball's lawyers could ask for if Mann is found to be in contempt, "Ball is entitled to have the court serve upon Mann the fullest punishment. Contempt sanctions could reasonably include the judge ruling that Dr. Ball's statement that Mann "belongs in the state pen, not Penn. State' is a precise and true statement of fact. This is because under Canada's unique 'Truth Defense', Mann is now proven to have willfully hidden his data, so the court may rule he hid it because it is fake. As such, the court must then dismiss Mann's entire libel suit with costs awarded to Ball and his team."
If this holds true, then the basis of the entire Paris climate agreement, IPCC, and every climate change agreement is in jeopardy. If it was all formed from faulty data, it is all at risk. The hockey stick graph is responsible for hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent around the world, and hundreds of job-killing regulations being enacted on the American worker. It is time we find out if it was all fake.
Printus LeBlanc is a contributing reporter for Americans for Limited Government.
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Citizens of the World
Dana Mathewson
Did youse guys catch this cute story?
CNN anchor Poppy Harlow mistook the Star-Spangled Banner for the French national anthem, while covering President Trump's arrival in the country Thursday.
Trump is in France to meet with President Emmanuel Macron, before celebrating Bastille Day together. Trump and Macron shook hands during the arrival, and a band played the United States' national anthem.
But despite Harlow’s pedigreed education at Minneapolis’ exclusive Blake School [emphasis mine] and the prestigious Columbia University, she seemed to not realize it was her country’s national anthem.
Harlow voiced over the event: "Let’s just listen in to the French National Anthem for just a moment.â€
It was moments before Harlow noticed her mistake. Whispers could be heard in the background of the CNN set, and Harlow corrected the error.
"The U.S., American national anthem, I should say,†Harlow said with a chuckle. "Let’s listen.â€
Hey, these are the elites who want to tell us what to think, how to think, how to do everything. . .
Entire story here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/13/cnn-anchor-mistakes-star-spangled-banner-for-french-national-anthem.html
Did youse guys catch this cute story?
CNN anchor Poppy Harlow mistook the Star-Spangled Banner for the French national anthem, while covering President Trump's arrival in the country Thursday.
Trump is in France to meet with President Emmanuel Macron, before celebrating Bastille Day together. Trump and Macron shook hands during the arrival, and a band played the United States' national anthem.
But despite Harlow’s pedigreed education at Minneapolis’ exclusive Blake School [emphasis mine] and the prestigious Columbia University, she seemed to not realize it was her country’s national anthem.
Harlow voiced over the event: "Let’s just listen in to the French National Anthem for just a moment.â€
It was moments before Harlow noticed her mistake. Whispers could be heard in the background of the CNN set, and Harlow corrected the error.
"The U.S., American national anthem, I should say,†Harlow said with a chuckle. "Let’s listen.â€
Hey, these are the elites who want to tell us what to think, how to think, how to do everything. . .
Entire story here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/13/cnn-anchor-mistakes-star-spangled-banner-for-french-national-anthem.html
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The Reason why teh Media Insults Us
Wil Wirtanen
Interesting take on the news:
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2017/07/media-seeks-fear-not-trust.html
Interesting take on the news:
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2017/07/media-seeks-fear-not-trust.html
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Hitler's Mistakes Cost Germany the War
Dana Mathewson
This is a sketchy look at the facts. The author purports to be an expert, but he does not go into depth on any of his ten ideas. In particular, he does not analyze why Hitler made any of his "mistakes."
But it's still interesting reading. I especially like the idea that the Holocaust is listed as one of Hitler's "mistakes." Yep, I'll agree to that!
http://listverse.com/2017/07/13/top-10-ways-the-nazis-could-have-won-world-war-ii/
A NOTE FROM TIM
I can quibble with a lot of this, Dana, although he makes some good points. The invasion of Russia was indeed a mistake; Hitler should have invaded Britain and when they did launch the attack on Russia they were delayed several months. Had they invaded on schedual they probably would have taken all of European Russia and been able to dig in for the winter. It seems the author fails to understand this.
Hitler did make a mistake in declaring war on the U.S., but he had a reason; he wanted Japanese help with Russia. I don't think the author made that clear.
I think the Holocaust issue is not as big as the author thinks because it certainly was not used to rally people in Britain or America (there was still quite a bit of anti-semitism in both places and, frankly, Fascist ideas were prevalant all over the world at that time.) It was a mistake, for sure, but I think other factors were more important.
Dunkirk. He's right, but I don't know if he understands it. My father had a friend who fought at the Bulge and he told me that the Germans purposely let the British leave to get them to make peace. He was convinced of that, and he got the notion from people who had actually been at Dunkirk. If that was the case it would explain why Hitler never tried to mount an invasion of Britain, and why he bombed heavily (including the cities) but never truly imperiled the islands. He wanted to scare them, not hurt them enough to counter attack. His scheme clearly failed.
The Germans wound up fighting on Three fronts, not two.
There are any number of other mistakes made by Germany during the war; Hitler insisted on fixed fortifications for his V2 rockets, overriding the creator of the system who wanted mobile strike units so the RAF couldn't hit them, for instance. Contrary to popular belief the V2 were causing enormous damage in Britain. Hitler also insisted on pursuing rocket technology rather than nuclear research, and the heavy water experiments they did could not use "Jewish science" so the Germans were forced to take a ridiculous convoluted path to get where America could easily go (using Einstein's work). The author fails to mention this stuff.
In the end I think the Nazis lost because they were evil and arrogant. But so many kids today fail to understand that it was a lot closer of a thing than we realize. It was so close because the West hadn't the stomach for it at first and Hitler did. Sort of like this war with Islam.
DANA REPLIES:
Agreed. And Hitler overrode his generals on the invasion of Russia because he needed Russian oil. England had no strategic resources to justify invasion, and the Luftwaffe had proven to be impotent over England. It would have taken a naval invasion and Hitler didn't have the air power to support it.
As far as tho Holocaust, that wasn't known about till after the war, for the most part.
This "historian" is living in a bubble.
This is a sketchy look at the facts. The author purports to be an expert, but he does not go into depth on any of his ten ideas. In particular, he does not analyze why Hitler made any of his "mistakes."
But it's still interesting reading. I especially like the idea that the Holocaust is listed as one of Hitler's "mistakes." Yep, I'll agree to that!
http://listverse.com/2017/07/13/top-10-ways-the-nazis-could-have-won-world-war-ii/
A NOTE FROM TIM
I can quibble with a lot of this, Dana, although he makes some good points. The invasion of Russia was indeed a mistake; Hitler should have invaded Britain and when they did launch the attack on Russia they were delayed several months. Had they invaded on schedual they probably would have taken all of European Russia and been able to dig in for the winter. It seems the author fails to understand this.
Hitler did make a mistake in declaring war on the U.S., but he had a reason; he wanted Japanese help with Russia. I don't think the author made that clear.
I think the Holocaust issue is not as big as the author thinks because it certainly was not used to rally people in Britain or America (there was still quite a bit of anti-semitism in both places and, frankly, Fascist ideas were prevalant all over the world at that time.) It was a mistake, for sure, but I think other factors were more important.
Dunkirk. He's right, but I don't know if he understands it. My father had a friend who fought at the Bulge and he told me that the Germans purposely let the British leave to get them to make peace. He was convinced of that, and he got the notion from people who had actually been at Dunkirk. If that was the case it would explain why Hitler never tried to mount an invasion of Britain, and why he bombed heavily (including the cities) but never truly imperiled the islands. He wanted to scare them, not hurt them enough to counter attack. His scheme clearly failed.
The Germans wound up fighting on Three fronts, not two.
There are any number of other mistakes made by Germany during the war; Hitler insisted on fixed fortifications for his V2 rockets, overriding the creator of the system who wanted mobile strike units so the RAF couldn't hit them, for instance. Contrary to popular belief the V2 were causing enormous damage in Britain. Hitler also insisted on pursuing rocket technology rather than nuclear research, and the heavy water experiments they did could not use "Jewish science" so the Germans were forced to take a ridiculous convoluted path to get where America could easily go (using Einstein's work). The author fails to mention this stuff.
In the end I think the Nazis lost because they were evil and arrogant. But so many kids today fail to understand that it was a lot closer of a thing than we realize. It was so close because the West hadn't the stomach for it at first and Hitler did. Sort of like this war with Islam.
DANA REPLIES:
Agreed. And Hitler overrode his generals on the invasion of Russia because he needed Russian oil. England had no strategic resources to justify invasion, and the Luftwaffe had proven to be impotent over England. It would have taken a naval invasion and Hitler didn't have the air power to support it.
As far as tho Holocaust, that wasn't known about till after the war, for the most part.
This "historian" is living in a bubble.
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I found this hilarious stuff...
Dana Mathewson
while following a thread on Day By Day's comments. Do NOT have coffee (or anything else) in your mouth!
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/07/13/advance-team-of-journalists-left-literally-shaking-after-scouting-run-for-huffpointheheartland-tour/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
I'm sure I don't need to tell you it's satire. At least, I think it is. Liberals CAN'T be this dumb -- can they?
while following a thread on Day By Day's comments. Do NOT have coffee (or anything else) in your mouth!
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/07/13/advance-team-of-journalists-left-literally-shaking-after-scouting-run-for-huffpointheheartland-tour/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
I'm sure I don't need to tell you it's satire. At least, I think it is. Liberals CAN'T be this dumb -- can they?
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July 13, 2017
Russian Collusion Story a Black Op Against Trump?
Timothy Birdnow
This whole "Russia colluded with Trump to hack the election" meme has become utterly ridiculous on so many levels. The media is quick to report that Donald Jr. met with a lawyer who supposedly had dirt on Hillary and then wound up trying to influence U.S. policy (to no availe) and THAT, we are breathlessly told, is the smoking gun of collusion, as if any responsible campaigner wouldn't have done the same. It would be irresponsible to not hear this woman out.
What of Donald Jr. not going to the FBI? Why wouldl he? NOTHING HAPPENED AT THE MEETING. And he was under no obligation to inform anyone that it had happend. Why make an issue of it when the news media was already chewing on this thing? There is no point in handing a robber your gun so he can shoot you.
I knew the whole Crowdstrike story; when the DNC was hacked they went not to the FBI or NSA but to a private firm, one with close ties to Google (which had close ties to Obama and the Democrats). All of our information saying the "Russians hacked the election" are based on the report issued by Crowdstrike. But did you know the founder and grand poobah of Crowdstrike is an expatriated Russian? Dmitri Alperovitch was the child of a Soviet scientist named Mikhail, who taught him to code.
According to an article in Esquire:
"mitri Alperovitch knows a thing or two about what the Russians call "active measures," in which propaganda is used to undermine a target country's political systems. He was born in 1980 in Moscow, in an era when people were afraid to discuss politics even inside their homes. His father, Michael, was a nuclear physicist who barely escaped being sent to Chernobyl as part of a rescue mission in 1986. Many of Michael's close friends and colleagues died of radiation poisoning within months of flying to the burning power plant. The takeaway for Dmitri was that "life is cheap in the Soviet Union."
Michael also taught Dmitri to code. Without a computer at home, Dmitri practiced by writing down algorithms on paper. In 1990, his father was sent to Maryland as part of a nuclear-safety training program for scientists. Per Soviet custom, Dmitri stayed in the USSR to ensure that his parents didn't defect. He lived with his grandparents, and when his parents returned, after a year, they brought him his first computer, an IBM PC
In 1994, his father was granted a visa to Canada, and a year later the family moved to Chattanooga, where Michael took a job with the Tennessee Valley Authority. The work was not particularly challenging, so Michael began studying cryptography on the side. While Dmitri was still in high school, he and his father started an encryption-technology business. Dmitri says he loved the beauty of the math but also saw cryptography's fatal flaw: "If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were."
Alperovitch studied computer science at Georgia Tech and went on to work at an antispam software firm. There he met a striking dark-haired computer geek named Phyllis Schneck. As a teenager, Schneck once showed her father that she could hack into the company where he worked as an engineer. Appalled, Dr. Schneck made his daughter promise never to do something like that again."
End excerpt.
So the Soviets let Mikhail (not Michael, that is a Western name - the writers at Esquire didn't want to use the Russian so as not to make our man sound like a foreigner) come to America at the heighth of the Cold War. Interesting, no? And the old man began studying encryption "on the side", a rather strange pasttime.
Does this smell fishy to any of you? This looks rather like an embed, an old Soviet trick. Yet the media is largely silent on the fact that a Russian immigrant is the primary source for the "Russia hacked the election" meme.
There's more to this story:
"To better understand his adversaries, Alperovitch posed as a Russian gangster on spam discussion forums, an experience he wrote up in a series of reports. One day he returned from lunch to a voice mail telling him to call the FBI immediately. He was terrified. "I was not a citizen yet," he told me.
As it happened, the bureau was interested in his work. The government was slowly waking up to the realization that the Internet was ripe for criminal exploitation: "the great price of the digital age," in John Carlin's words. In 2004, the bureau was hacked by Joseph Colon, a disgruntled IT consultant who gained "god-level" access to FBI files. Colon was eventually indicted, but his attack showed the government how vulnerable it was to cybercrime.
In 2005, Alperovitch flew to Pittsburgh to meet an FBI agent named Keith Mularski, who had been asked to lead an undercover operation against a vast Russian credit-card-theft syndicate. Mularski had no prior experience with the Internet; he relied on Alperovitch, whom he calls "a good guy and a friend," to teach him how to get into the forum and speak the lingo. Mularski's sting operation took two years, but it ultimately brought about fifty-six arrests."
End excerpt.
So now this guy was "posing" as a Russian mafiosa and hacker and wound up being recruited by the FBI. And then there is this:
"his past March, Alperovitch hosted a cyber war game at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Four teams of ten people—representing the government, the private sector, European and Australian allies, and the hackers—met for two hours to play the game. Shawn Henry; John Carlin; Chris Painter, coordinator for cyber issues at the State Department; and Chris Inglis, the former deputy director of the NSA, were all part of the government team. Executives from JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft represented the private sector. A former member of GCHQ, the British intelligence organization, was on the international team. Frank Cilluffo played a hacker. Ash Carter, the defense secretary, arrived halfway through and asked to play, but the game was already under way, so he was politely turned down."
End excerpt.
At the Russia center, with MI5?! British Intel are the ones who gave us the fake "golden shower" dossier on Donald Trump, in which they falsely claimed Trump paid a hooker to urinate on a bed the Obamas slept on. It was ridiculous, and wound up being dismissed in the end, but it made great hay at the time. Curious.
Now, let us leave Alperovitch and Crowdstrike for a moment, but keep in mind that Crowdstrike was paid BY THE DNC and not by the government; he who pays the bills is the boss. And Alperovitch is a member of the strongly Democratic Atlantic Council along with Susan Rice, Mike Mullin, and Trump's biggest critic in the GOP (and the man who promulgated the "golden shower" fake memo - John McCain, as well as globalists like Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brezhinski - father of Trump's top media critic.) There are a couple of other fellows we should meet.
Congressional Democrats entrusted their as of then unhacked servers to a shadowy group of foreign contractors. According to Fox News:
"The investigation was announced last month by the U.S. Capitol Police and purportedly focuses on the contractors' access to House computers and whether they took hardware and made questionable IT-related purchases.
A police spokesman, while declining to go into detail, told Fox News this week that the case remains opens and focuses on "the actions of House IT support staff.â€
But a high-level House staffer acknowledged Monday to Fox News that the probe has raised concerns about emails being hacked.
Official documents and multiple sources say at least five contractors -- including brothers Imran, Jamal and Abid Awan -- are the focus of the probe but that as many as six people could be involved.
The others purportedly involved are Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi, and Rao Abbas, who is not part of the family.
They allegedly removed hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment from offices, including computers and servers, and ran a procurement scheme in which they bought equipment, then overcharged the House administrative office that assigns such contractors to members.
Sources also say the contractors, including one who worked for Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had "unauthorized access†to the House computer system.
The connection to the former Democratic National Committee boss has sparked questions about whether the contractors could have ties to the DNC hack last summer, which was seen to hurt Hillary Clinton’s ultimately failed White House bid -- or whether Russia or other outside operatives accessed emails that the contractors allegedly put on a cloud server."
End excerpt.
And despite the clear evidence that these Pakistani contractors were sloppy at a minimum with security many Democrats kept them employed as their IT men, giving rise to charges of blackmail. At least one of these men fled the country to escape the probe of his activiy.
Doesn't this smell fishy? But we know exactly who hacked this election; it was that SOB Donald Trump and his BFF, the former KGB guy Comrad Putin.Foun
I ask you, who is wagging the dog? Looks to me like the Democrats have been the ones involved in foreign entanglements.
Hillary had a most profitable relationship with the Russians. She wrangled a huge donation to the Clinton Foundation by smoothing the way for a Russian-owned Canadian company to buy 20% of American uranium. Bill got lavish speaking fees for that, too. And it was Hillary who pranced about with a cardboard "reset" button.
Bear in mind, too, that Hillary's e-mails were a violation of her security clearance and nobody says the Russians hacked those. Nor did the Russians hack John Podesta's e-mails; he fell for a phishing expedition, clicking on an ad and using the word password as his password. Sloppiness took these guys down, not the Russians.
And why would the Russians want Trump over Clinton? Trump wanted energy independence, something that would seriously damage Russian oil and gas interests. Trump wanted to deploy the U.S. missile defense system in eastern Europe (in fact, Mr. Trump just signed a memo to sell patriot missiles to Poland) something against Russian interests. Trump wants to pull back from putting out all of these brushfire wars - starting brushfire wars was the Soviet strategy to bankrupt the U.S. Trump's industrial policy is intended to restore American manufacturing, something that the Russians couldn't possible desire. Hillary, on the other hand, would continue the policies of the Obama Administration, ones that were promised to "Vlad" Putin when BHO was caught on a hot mic saying he'd have "more flexibility" in giving things to the Russians after he was re-elected.
Meanwhile, the woman who Donald Jr. met with had been given a visa waiver to come into the U.S. by the Obama Administration. More and more this looks like a black op, with Russian collusion with the Democrats and perhaps some of our own national security people who are loyal to the Obama regime and wanted it to continue under Hillary.
The smell of rotting fish is making me retch.
This whole "Russia colluded with Trump to hack the election" meme has become utterly ridiculous on so many levels. The media is quick to report that Donald Jr. met with a lawyer who supposedly had dirt on Hillary and then wound up trying to influence U.S. policy (to no availe) and THAT, we are breathlessly told, is the smoking gun of collusion, as if any responsible campaigner wouldn't have done the same. It would be irresponsible to not hear this woman out.
What of Donald Jr. not going to the FBI? Why wouldl he? NOTHING HAPPENED AT THE MEETING. And he was under no obligation to inform anyone that it had happend. Why make an issue of it when the news media was already chewing on this thing? There is no point in handing a robber your gun so he can shoot you.
I knew the whole Crowdstrike story; when the DNC was hacked they went not to the FBI or NSA but to a private firm, one with close ties to Google (which had close ties to Obama and the Democrats). All of our information saying the "Russians hacked the election" are based on the report issued by Crowdstrike. But did you know the founder and grand poobah of Crowdstrike is an expatriated Russian? Dmitri Alperovitch was the child of a Soviet scientist named Mikhail, who taught him to code.
According to an article in Esquire:
"mitri Alperovitch knows a thing or two about what the Russians call "active measures," in which propaganda is used to undermine a target country's political systems. He was born in 1980 in Moscow, in an era when people were afraid to discuss politics even inside their homes. His father, Michael, was a nuclear physicist who barely escaped being sent to Chernobyl as part of a rescue mission in 1986. Many of Michael's close friends and colleagues died of radiation poisoning within months of flying to the burning power plant. The takeaway for Dmitri was that "life is cheap in the Soviet Union."
Michael also taught Dmitri to code. Without a computer at home, Dmitri practiced by writing down algorithms on paper. In 1990, his father was sent to Maryland as part of a nuclear-safety training program for scientists. Per Soviet custom, Dmitri stayed in the USSR to ensure that his parents didn't defect. He lived with his grandparents, and when his parents returned, after a year, they brought him his first computer, an IBM PC
In 1994, his father was granted a visa to Canada, and a year later the family moved to Chattanooga, where Michael took a job with the Tennessee Valley Authority. The work was not particularly challenging, so Michael began studying cryptography on the side. While Dmitri was still in high school, he and his father started an encryption-technology business. Dmitri says he loved the beauty of the math but also saw cryptography's fatal flaw: "If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were."
Alperovitch studied computer science at Georgia Tech and went on to work at an antispam software firm. There he met a striking dark-haired computer geek named Phyllis Schneck. As a teenager, Schneck once showed her father that she could hack into the company where he worked as an engineer. Appalled, Dr. Schneck made his daughter promise never to do something like that again."
End excerpt.
So the Soviets let Mikhail (not Michael, that is a Western name - the writers at Esquire didn't want to use the Russian so as not to make our man sound like a foreigner) come to America at the heighth of the Cold War. Interesting, no? And the old man began studying encryption "on the side", a rather strange pasttime.
Does this smell fishy to any of you? This looks rather like an embed, an old Soviet trick. Yet the media is largely silent on the fact that a Russian immigrant is the primary source for the "Russia hacked the election" meme.
There's more to this story:
"To better understand his adversaries, Alperovitch posed as a Russian gangster on spam discussion forums, an experience he wrote up in a series of reports. One day he returned from lunch to a voice mail telling him to call the FBI immediately. He was terrified. "I was not a citizen yet," he told me.
As it happened, the bureau was interested in his work. The government was slowly waking up to the realization that the Internet was ripe for criminal exploitation: "the great price of the digital age," in John Carlin's words. In 2004, the bureau was hacked by Joseph Colon, a disgruntled IT consultant who gained "god-level" access to FBI files. Colon was eventually indicted, but his attack showed the government how vulnerable it was to cybercrime.
In 2005, Alperovitch flew to Pittsburgh to meet an FBI agent named Keith Mularski, who had been asked to lead an undercover operation against a vast Russian credit-card-theft syndicate. Mularski had no prior experience with the Internet; he relied on Alperovitch, whom he calls "a good guy and a friend," to teach him how to get into the forum and speak the lingo. Mularski's sting operation took two years, but it ultimately brought about fifty-six arrests."
End excerpt.
So now this guy was "posing" as a Russian mafiosa and hacker and wound up being recruited by the FBI. And then there is this:
"his past March, Alperovitch hosted a cyber war game at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Four teams of ten people—representing the government, the private sector, European and Australian allies, and the hackers—met for two hours to play the game. Shawn Henry; John Carlin; Chris Painter, coordinator for cyber issues at the State Department; and Chris Inglis, the former deputy director of the NSA, were all part of the government team. Executives from JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft represented the private sector. A former member of GCHQ, the British intelligence organization, was on the international team. Frank Cilluffo played a hacker. Ash Carter, the defense secretary, arrived halfway through and asked to play, but the game was already under way, so he was politely turned down."
End excerpt.
At the Russia center, with MI5?! British Intel are the ones who gave us the fake "golden shower" dossier on Donald Trump, in which they falsely claimed Trump paid a hooker to urinate on a bed the Obamas slept on. It was ridiculous, and wound up being dismissed in the end, but it made great hay at the time. Curious.
Now, let us leave Alperovitch and Crowdstrike for a moment, but keep in mind that Crowdstrike was paid BY THE DNC and not by the government; he who pays the bills is the boss. And Alperovitch is a member of the strongly Democratic Atlantic Council along with Susan Rice, Mike Mullin, and Trump's biggest critic in the GOP (and the man who promulgated the "golden shower" fake memo - John McCain, as well as globalists like Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brezhinski - father of Trump's top media critic.) There are a couple of other fellows we should meet.
Congressional Democrats entrusted their as of then unhacked servers to a shadowy group of foreign contractors. According to Fox News:
"The investigation was announced last month by the U.S. Capitol Police and purportedly focuses on the contractors' access to House computers and whether they took hardware and made questionable IT-related purchases.
A police spokesman, while declining to go into detail, told Fox News this week that the case remains opens and focuses on "the actions of House IT support staff.â€
But a high-level House staffer acknowledged Monday to Fox News that the probe has raised concerns about emails being hacked.
Official documents and multiple sources say at least five contractors -- including brothers Imran, Jamal and Abid Awan -- are the focus of the probe but that as many as six people could be involved.
The others purportedly involved are Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi, and Rao Abbas, who is not part of the family.
They allegedly removed hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment from offices, including computers and servers, and ran a procurement scheme in which they bought equipment, then overcharged the House administrative office that assigns such contractors to members.
Sources also say the contractors, including one who worked for Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had "unauthorized access†to the House computer system.
The connection to the former Democratic National Committee boss has sparked questions about whether the contractors could have ties to the DNC hack last summer, which was seen to hurt Hillary Clinton’s ultimately failed White House bid -- or whether Russia or other outside operatives accessed emails that the contractors allegedly put on a cloud server."
End excerpt.
And despite the clear evidence that these Pakistani contractors were sloppy at a minimum with security many Democrats kept them employed as their IT men, giving rise to charges of blackmail. At least one of these men fled the country to escape the probe of his activiy.
Doesn't this smell fishy? But we know exactly who hacked this election; it was that SOB Donald Trump and his BFF, the former KGB guy Comrad Putin.Foun
I ask you, who is wagging the dog? Looks to me like the Democrats have been the ones involved in foreign entanglements.
Hillary had a most profitable relationship with the Russians. She wrangled a huge donation to the Clinton Foundation by smoothing the way for a Russian-owned Canadian company to buy 20% of American uranium. Bill got lavish speaking fees for that, too. And it was Hillary who pranced about with a cardboard "reset" button.
Bear in mind, too, that Hillary's e-mails were a violation of her security clearance and nobody says the Russians hacked those. Nor did the Russians hack John Podesta's e-mails; he fell for a phishing expedition, clicking on an ad and using the word password as his password. Sloppiness took these guys down, not the Russians.
And why would the Russians want Trump over Clinton? Trump wanted energy independence, something that would seriously damage Russian oil and gas interests. Trump wanted to deploy the U.S. missile defense system in eastern Europe (in fact, Mr. Trump just signed a memo to sell patriot missiles to Poland) something against Russian interests. Trump wants to pull back from putting out all of these brushfire wars - starting brushfire wars was the Soviet strategy to bankrupt the U.S. Trump's industrial policy is intended to restore American manufacturing, something that the Russians couldn't possible desire. Hillary, on the other hand, would continue the policies of the Obama Administration, ones that were promised to "Vlad" Putin when BHO was caught on a hot mic saying he'd have "more flexibility" in giving things to the Russians after he was re-elected.
Meanwhile, the woman who Donald Jr. met with had been given a visa waiver to come into the U.S. by the Obama Administration. More and more this looks like a black op, with Russian collusion with the Democrats and perhaps some of our own national security people who are loyal to the Obama regime and wanted it to continue under Hillary.
The smell of rotting fish is making me retch.
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Gore Praises South Australia Energy Scheme, Forgets Major Blackouts
Timothy Birdnow
Poor Al Gore; he just doesn't get a break. He should ahve walked away with the election of 2000; a roaring economy and he was the sitting Veep, but still he got aced out by that Texas billy with a body temperature I.Q. Every time he (Gore, not the Texan Bush) gives speeches on Global Warming a blizzard strikes or temperatures plummet to Arctic levels. It was so bad the Gang Green - his sponsors and pidgeons, er, patrons - had to change the name of the "crisis" to "Climate Change" because the more Gore spoke about warming the colder it seemed to get.
Well, poor old Al stepped in it again, this timein South Australia where he praised the Aussie state for promoting battery storage of energy - after they had a major power blackout caused by too much reliance on wind power for electricity.
CFACT has the story:
"The electricity from both solar and wind continues to come down every single year. And the new historic development is battery storage is coming down significantly in cost,†Gore told the Aussie press, referring to South Australia’s deal with Tesla.
"And this historic announcement that South Australia is leading the entire world with the installation of the largest battery in the world, it will be the first of many to come,†Gore said.
End excerpt.
Poor Al just continues to dine on his own insole. Just last year South Australia went darker than Gore's Presidential ambitions and continues to suffer from rolling black and brown-outs. Too much wind and solar fails to provide adequate, steady electricity. The Gang Green call these "renewables" and it is fitting, because they have to be constantly renewed. It's as if every time you wanted gasoline you had to drill a new oil well.
In point of fact, the whole idea of "sustainability" is code for no economic growth. The socialists pushing this agenda believe you can have a perfectly balanced society where there is no growth but also no shrinkage. It's a fine mathematical model, but completely impractical in a world ruled by entropy and metamorphosis. This little slice of the Universe requires growth or death. We simply cannot build a static system, because there are more people all the time, and technology changes the demand - and always increases it. In the neolithic energy was expended through muscle power or fire alone. People were few, and they didn't live all that well. You cannot have a neolithic power system in a world with smartphones, air conditioners, and jet planes. ""Sustainability" in their view means carefully managed energy usage, which means a central authority to control it i.e. world government. It is nothing but a back door to a worker's paradise.
And it just doesn't work. More from the article:
"But gore is leaving out some big problems South Australia has had with green energy.
In September, 1.7 million people were left without power for up to two weeks in some cases after 200 megawatts of wind power stopped coming on the grid during a storm. That was enough to destabilize the grid.
The storm caused some problems in the province’s transmission lines, but the blackout didn’t happen until wind power went offline. The question of how to handle future blackouts sparked a political fight.
South Australia closed its last coal-fired power plant in July, and energy experts warned there could be reliability problems as reliance on wind increased. South Australia gets 41 percent of its electricity from solar, wind and other green energy sources.
Australia’s Energy Council reported South Australia’s reliance on solar panels and wind turbines "has not only led to a series of technical challenges,†but "also increased wholesale price volatility as the state rebalances its supply from dispatchable plant to intermittent generation.â€"
End excerpt.
Anyone who has tried to balance a basketball on the tip of their finger knows it doesn't last long; sooner or later the ball will swing one way or another and drop.
But Gore doesn't seem to learn, and he keeps stepping in his own biofuel. Or, rather, he does indeed know but doesn't care as the biofuel may be brown and smelly and hard to get off his shoe, but the greenbacks he has reaped from it means he can just buy a new shoe. Gore has become filthy rich off this War of the Worlds scare.
But it is fun to watch him make an endless fool of himself. I suppose he isn't too proud to get rich by playing the buffoon. And he does that SOOOO beautifully!
Poor Al Gore; he just doesn't get a break. He should ahve walked away with the election of 2000; a roaring economy and he was the sitting Veep, but still he got aced out by that Texas billy with a body temperature I.Q. Every time he (Gore, not the Texan Bush) gives speeches on Global Warming a blizzard strikes or temperatures plummet to Arctic levels. It was so bad the Gang Green - his sponsors and pidgeons, er, patrons - had to change the name of the "crisis" to "Climate Change" because the more Gore spoke about warming the colder it seemed to get.
Well, poor old Al stepped in it again, this timein South Australia where he praised the Aussie state for promoting battery storage of energy - after they had a major power blackout caused by too much reliance on wind power for electricity.
CFACT has the story:
"The electricity from both solar and wind continues to come down every single year. And the new historic development is battery storage is coming down significantly in cost,†Gore told the Aussie press, referring to South Australia’s deal with Tesla.
"And this historic announcement that South Australia is leading the entire world with the installation of the largest battery in the world, it will be the first of many to come,†Gore said.
End excerpt.
Poor Al just continues to dine on his own insole. Just last year South Australia went darker than Gore's Presidential ambitions and continues to suffer from rolling black and brown-outs. Too much wind and solar fails to provide adequate, steady electricity. The Gang Green call these "renewables" and it is fitting, because they have to be constantly renewed. It's as if every time you wanted gasoline you had to drill a new oil well.
In point of fact, the whole idea of "sustainability" is code for no economic growth. The socialists pushing this agenda believe you can have a perfectly balanced society where there is no growth but also no shrinkage. It's a fine mathematical model, but completely impractical in a world ruled by entropy and metamorphosis. This little slice of the Universe requires growth or death. We simply cannot build a static system, because there are more people all the time, and technology changes the demand - and always increases it. In the neolithic energy was expended through muscle power or fire alone. People were few, and they didn't live all that well. You cannot have a neolithic power system in a world with smartphones, air conditioners, and jet planes. ""Sustainability" in their view means carefully managed energy usage, which means a central authority to control it i.e. world government. It is nothing but a back door to a worker's paradise.
And it just doesn't work. More from the article:
"But gore is leaving out some big problems South Australia has had with green energy.
In September, 1.7 million people were left without power for up to two weeks in some cases after 200 megawatts of wind power stopped coming on the grid during a storm. That was enough to destabilize the grid.
The storm caused some problems in the province’s transmission lines, but the blackout didn’t happen until wind power went offline. The question of how to handle future blackouts sparked a political fight.
South Australia closed its last coal-fired power plant in July, and energy experts warned there could be reliability problems as reliance on wind increased. South Australia gets 41 percent of its electricity from solar, wind and other green energy sources.
Australia’s Energy Council reported South Australia’s reliance on solar panels and wind turbines "has not only led to a series of technical challenges,†but "also increased wholesale price volatility as the state rebalances its supply from dispatchable plant to intermittent generation.â€"
End excerpt.
Anyone who has tried to balance a basketball on the tip of their finger knows it doesn't last long; sooner or later the ball will swing one way or another and drop.
But Gore doesn't seem to learn, and he keeps stepping in his own biofuel. Or, rather, he does indeed know but doesn't care as the biofuel may be brown and smelly and hard to get off his shoe, but the greenbacks he has reaped from it means he can just buy a new shoe. Gore has become filthy rich off this War of the Worlds scare.
But it is fun to watch him make an endless fool of himself. I suppose he isn't too proud to get rich by playing the buffoon. And he does that SOOOO beautifully!
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July 12, 2017
Good summation of the situation
Wil Wirtenen
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/07/what_counts_as_treason_differs_depending_on_the_letter_after_your_name.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/07/what_counts_as_treason_differs_depending_on_the_letter_after_your_name.html
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