Sic Semper Tyrannis

Jim and Joe's political allies

""Every day that I show up here, I'm not here to peacefully protest," Grayson told the "U.N. Me" filmmaker, who also embedded himself in Minneapolis protests earlier this month.

"I'm here to disrupt until my demands are met," Grayson continued. "You cannot rebuild until you break it all the way down."

STREET PREACHER TELLS SEATTLE PROTESTER: ELECT BIDEN 'TO SEE BLACK MEN GET KILLED'

The CHOP group has blocked off six city blocks in downtown Seattle, where the East Precinct is located, as an act of protest for the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25. On Tuesday, protesters reached an agreement with the city to reduce the occupied area to three blocks and to allow traffic. The agreement came a day after the Seattle City Council voted to ban police from using chokeholds and crowd-control devices like tear gas and pepper spray."

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"It's not a slogan. It's not even a warning," Grayson said. "I'm letting people know what comes next."

"If the Seattle Police Department turns in their badges, we'll have made a move forward," Grayson said.

The group has published a list of demands for the city council and mayor, including abolishing the police, prisons, courts and criminal justice system "as we know it today."

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""If there's no change, there might be a lot more destroying until there is!" a hooded man wearing sunglasses and a black face cover, told him, "but I think some destruction and looting kinda sends the message to people and breaking their s--t is justified."

Another said, "'F--k the property. f--k the consumption, f--k capitalism."

A woman then said, "white people owned slaves so f--k them."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-chop-protest-police-video

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What does Biden say about this or more importantly what does Clyburn say?  ?  Who among you condones this?

I watched video yesterday from the "new country."  Men urinating  and defecating on the streets, some of them with their pants stained with their diarrhea.  The level of drug consumption seems very high.

Ms. Grayson says that she is an African forcefully brought to the US.  Could she be persuaded to return to her ancestral homeland?  Probably not.

Our British and Canadian cousins should not feel smug.  Canada has a colonial past and the treatment of the metis by the colonial Canadian government will be examined in spite of all the modern day BS that claims Canada to be a "metis nation."

Oxford University is taking down a statue of Cecil Rhodes.  Baden Powell's statue is under threat as is a statue of Churchill in downtown London.  Who will be next, Gladstone, Disraeli, Joseph Chamberlain?  Do you think the mob will spare the Albert Memorial, or statues of the Queen Empress herself?

I do not.  pl 

Weapons banned in Canada by "Le petit Justin"

 

That is an M-14 rifle.  Someone tell Trudeau.  It is on his list.  It is quite suitable for hunting deer, elk and the like.  But, then, we know that he has seized on the NS murders as an excuse for disarming Canadians.  What is the word?  "WEXIT?"  pl 

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/the-list-here-are-the-weapons-identified-as-prohibited-in-canada-444750/

"Democrats should give Trump a win on his trade deal with Mexico and Canada" Washpost (Bezos)

"A TOP priority for President Trump in what’s left of this session of Congress is a vote in the House of Representatives on his trade deal with Mexico and Canada. Passage in the Republican-controlled Senate is all but certain, and, because trade interests don’t track precisely with partisan ones, there would probably be a bipartisan majority for it in the Democratic-controlled House, too — if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) brings it to the floor. Should she?

A certain naked but understandable political calculation says she should not. Democrats’ primary goal is to resist Mr. Trump; a trade victory could help his 2020 campaign. Better, on this view, to stick to Ms. Pelosi’s current approach — insisting on modifications to the proposal’s labor, environmental and pharmaceutical provisions, and discussing them with Mr. Trump’s trade representative, Robert E. Lighthizer — indefinitely.

The problem is that Mr. Trump might revive his threats to withdraw from the existing trade framework, the North American Free Trade Agreement, damaging the hemispheric economy. Yes, Mr. Trump would bear primary responsibility; indeed, he’s responsible for insisting on renegotiating NAFTA in the first place. On balance, though, it’s better not to gamble with people’s jobs and income, even for an understandable political reason, unless overriding substantive policy concerns justify it."  Washpost

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Yes!  Yes!  For God's sake, yes!  Thank you, Jeff Bezos!  I now have two reasons to like you.  1.  My house is worth more money every day (I live in Alexandria, Virginia) and 2. You want the Pelosi creature to bring the USMCA to a floor vote.

Hallelujah!  pl

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-should-give-trump-a-win-on-his-trade-deal-with-mexico-and-canada/2019/09/11/ea5be9c6-d3ea-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html

"Well mum, I think you should suspend this parliament." "Yes prime minister.."

"Lawmakers reconvene Sept. 3 but under prorogation will disband the following week. They return Oct. 14, just 17 days before Britain's Oct. 31 deadline to leave the European Union.

In 2016, Britain voted in a referendum to leave the EU. Former Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated a divorce deal with the EU but Parliament rejected the agreement three times. The impasse ultimately brought down her government.

Meanwhile, Brexiteers have insisted that despite concerns over economic chaos, Britain must leave even without a deal.

"All these people who are wailing and gnashing of teeth know that there are two ways of doing what they want to do," Rees-Mogg, a member of Johnson's Conservative Party and a confirmed euroskeptic, told the broadcaster. "One, is to change the government and the other is to change the law."

"If they don't have either the courage or the gumption to do either of those then we will leave on the 31st of October in accordance with the referendum result," he added."  NPR

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Brexit?  I don't really care about that.  IMO the Brits will be better off if they crash out of the moribund EU and make a wide reaching trade deal with the US. 

Ireland's internal border?  Really?  The Micks can't solve that problem between north and south?   Really?  As I said, I don't really care what they do with the Brexit issue.

OTOH I am surprised at the evidently automatic action of the sovereign in abjectly submitting to BJ in this clearly political situation.  It would seem to me that if the sovereign is not sovereign then why have a sovereign?  Tourism?  Really?  The whole panoply of Dukes and Duchesses, lords and lordlings is damned expensive.  Some of the lifestyle of the monarchy and its parasitic "followers" is funded from long held properties acquired  through dubious means but a lot of that lifestyle is publicly funded. 

For what?  The British people are so sentimental that they swoon at the sight of people like Harry and his duchess? 

Does anyone here have a realistic estimate of how much money would be saved in the UK's budget by abolishing the monarchy and its other dimensional and separate world?  pl

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/29/755326470/many-britons-react-with-anger-over-suspension-of-parliament

USMCA will now move to ratification

IMO Trump had a very good trip across the pond.  It was pretty much flawless in its execution.  The only real glitch in the whole thing was the fit of Trump's white tie monkey suit at the royal dinner.  He looked very funny in that rig.  Evidently he just doesn't give a damn about clothes.  That may actually be one of his better points.  I have a tail coat and a couple of dinner jackets and a tuxedo hanging in a closet.  I praise the lord for not having needed to wear them for a long time.

The success of his negotiation with Mexico is another massive success.  He got what he wanted.  The Mexicans got what they wanted.  Canada is going to ratify USMCA.  Mexico will do the same.

Will the Democrats in the US Congress really dare to try to block ratification of this favorable trade pact.  I doubt it.  If they do the damage done to US workers by their action or inaction will damage their electoral prospects.  pl

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-could-decide-over-the-weekend-to-hold-off-on-tariffs-white-house-official-says/2019/06/07/6adb7d86-892d-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html?utm_term=.0b5e0e27b63d

Mike Pence made Ellen Page cry ...

OK.  You can watch it yourself.  Ellen Page, the Nova Scotian lesbian hobbit, appeared on Colbert's anti-Trump show and wept because of the cruelty and indifference to suffering that she said Mike Pence's whole career epitomizes.  She said Pence would prevent her from being at the "side" of her beloved wife if he could manage it.  Whether Pence (the self-described Evangelical Catholic) knows that about himself is unclear.

Having been accused a number of times of possessing a heart of stone in matters of  war, peace and policy, (although not about Sapphic marriage), I feel his possible pain at the condemnation she flung at him.

Hey folks, Pence and I like dogs.

I used to think Ellen was kinda cute, although I would have been fearful of suspicions of child molestation ... 

She was adorable in "Inception." Unfortunately, in the scene in which the team attacked the winter castle wearing snow camouflage, she looked like a ten year old in a white snowsuit,  But, she was still very cute.

Mike Pence could make a statement, something addressed to her, stating that he really does not mean to be cruel to people in general and she in particular in spite of her life of sin in the eyes of the Great Jehovah.

Perhaps he and Karen, could invite the happy couple over for dinner.  pl

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ellen+page&view=detail&mid=C73314E6C2BBD79B2F09C73314E6C2BBD79B2F09&FORM=VIRE

HARPER: TRUMP-XI SUMMIT PAVED THE WAY FOR TRADE SOLUTION

Last weekend's summit meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping was more successful than the MSM wants you to believe.  From a combination of American and Chinese sources, I can report:

Xi Jinping came into the meeting fully prepared and well-versed in all of the critical trade disputes.  He was open to finding solutions and made clear that China is even flexible on the issue of intellectual property protections, a big part of the Trump-Lighthizer agenda.  While USTR Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin are leading the US negotiations and Liu He is leading the Chinese team, the summit meeting made clear that it is actually Xi and Trump who will be leading the effort.

One of the factors in the relative success of the summit was the clear understanding on the part of both leaders that a further erosion of US-Chinese relations, particularly economic relations, would be bad for both countries and even worse for the global economy.  The months of tit-for-tat sanctions and other punitive measures have already slowed down global economic growth, and a full-blown failure of the Buenos Aires talks would have rapidly made matters worse.

The outcome of the 2-and-a-half hour meeting and dinner between Trump and Xi was an agreement to negotiate in good faith.  China pledged to buy more American products, including agricultural products as a way of reducing the trade imbalance.  Trump froze the expanded tariffs, scheduled for January 1, 2019.  The handshake between Trump and Xi was similar to previous handshakes with EU's Jean-Claud Juncker and  with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.  So far the only full-blown trade deal is the USMCA with Mexico and Canada.  But in the European Union and Japanese cases, the agreement to negotiate in good faith halted escalating tariffs and set a good framework and mindset for negotiating.  Good enough for starters.

Now the hard work begins.  The initial 90 day period for negotiating a substantive trade agreement, eliminating all of the existing tariffs and other trade barriers is really a much shorter period of time.  Both the US and China have holidays that will interrupt the negotiating.  Both sides need time to prepare, and if the talks succeed, both sides will need time to present the outcome and establish a consensus.

The fact that much still needs to be done does not in the least change the assessment that the Trump-Xi meeting was an important step.  Previous US Administrations let China continue its unfair trade practices without a whimper.  There were consequences to that vacating of US leadership.  Trump has made clear that the past business as usual cannot continue.  There is begrudging international consensus that he is right, even though European leaders are very wary of giving Trump much credit.

Both Trump and Xi face extremist elements that don't want any rapprochement between Washington and Beijing, and who believe that conflict is inevitable and their side will emerge victorious.  A failure of the summit in Argentina would have bolstered those factions in both countries, and that would have had very dangerous consequences.

A "Tour d'horizon" of the ME - Lang's opinion

1.  Saudi Arabia has expelled Canada's ambassador and recalled its own for consultations.  It has halted any new business with Canada and stopped giving any new Saudi scholarships to its nationals for study in Canada.  'Adil Jubair (aka The Chihuaha, FM of THE KINGDOM) has taken umbrage with the statements of Chrystia Freeland and Le Petit Justin.   This happy couple said they were unhappy at Saudi governmental nastiness to women's rights activists.  Good heavens!  How dare the Saudis act like that in this modern age, an age filled with Canadian liberal values and Chrystia's well known disdain for local governments.

2.  The SAA is mopping up the jihadi population in east Suweida province.  These jihadis will probably be processed locally into soil enrichments as part of the Greater Syrian Desert Soil Bank program.  Their attack on several Druze villages this weekend with attendant rapine and massacre sealed their fate.

3.  At the same time the SAA and friends (R+6) continue to deploy to the north for the soon to be general offensive against NE Latakia and all of Idlib Province.  Air preparation of key terrain and targets is underway.  This will intensify as D-Day approaches.  At the same time assassinations of key jihadi figures is occurring all over the Idrib-Latakia-Afrin District area.  Some of this is murderous cannibalistic rebels.  Some is Kurdish in nature, but IMO a lot of these are operations of the commando units of Syrian military intelligence who have been more and more active in enemy occupied territory both in ambushes and reconnaissance.  The troop list for the big push is going to include kampfgruppen made up of tailored combinations of most of Syria's quality units and it will be armor heavy.  Tiger Forces teams, 4th Armored Division. Republican Guard, Syrian Marines,  these will all be represented.

4. China is teasing us all with the idea that it may send troops to participate in the Idlib offensive.  Their twin objectives would probably be to insure a foot in the door with the SAG for contracts in reconstruction as well as a desire to kill as many Uighur Muslims as possible in Idlib before they escape and return to western China.

5.  Trump's faithful execution of Israeli policy will result in re-imposition of US sanctions on Iran tomorrow.  The UK, France and Germany have announced that they will not be governed by these sanctions and IMO Trump will not have the stones to sanction these actual American allies. This will be another instance of Trump learning that intimidating countries is a different game than making hotel project deals.  In the case of tariffs the EU caved in what can be seen as bi-lateral negotiations but in this case accepting American orders to reimpose sanctions will be  seen as acceptance of a servile position.  The US position with regard to desired Iranian concessions includes acceptance of a statehood bereft of foreign policy or foreign interventions of any kind.  This is a maximum Israeli position that has been sold to Trump ,the real estate guy, by his donors and family.  Pompeo and Bolton, the neocons, are fully on board as well.  DoD is supportive.  Mattis is always seeking a childish revenge against the Iranians for their actions in Iraq.

6.  On the Palestine Front Jared has been swanning around the Arab World seeking to have them all accept an end to Palestinian support by UNWRA.  He, and the Israelis want the Palestinians deprived of the status of refugees so that they can be said to have no right of return to their ancestral homes in Palestine. With the exception of Jordan, the Arab States have always refused to make the refugees citizens of their countries.  The Palestinians are a distinct ethnic group among the Arab Peoples.  The Israelis hate that idea and have always insisted that the Palestinians could be easily absorbed in the Arab countries.  In fact, they have always been a profoundly disruptive political group in the Arab countries and are not desirous of absorption.  The general ignorance in the Trump Administration of anything resembling the history and nature of the ME continues to make ridiculous all the efforts of Trump & Co. to make peace among peoples of whom they know nothing except whatever the neocons and Zionists tell them  King Salman of Saudi Arabia has rejected the Jared Peace Plan and he is only the first to do so.  There will many.

7.  Trump, Mattis and Co. want to form a Sunni Arab version of NATO united against Iran.  This would include the GCC plus Egypt and Jordan.  Words fail me at the blind ignorance of this idea.  All these countries will gladly accept Saudi money.  That does not mean they will accept Saudi leadership in anything.  This has been proven over and over again.

8.  Yemen? We are assisting a genocidal war.  What else can be said?  pl

Another theory bites the dust - TTG

An article of interest to both techno-geeks and hyper-partisans came out Tuesday in, of all places, Computer Weekly, a UK-based online magazine dedicated to the IT business community. In an investigative piece entitled “Briton ran pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign that helped Trump deny Russian links,” Duncan Campbell outed the man behind the “Adam Carter” identity as Tim Leonard, a British IT manager and former hacker living in Darlington. In addition to running the G2.space site and vigorously pushing the Forensicator theories, he ran defianet, an online gathering place for right wing conspiracists. 

Campbell, an investigative journalist and recognized computer forensic expert witness, investigated Leonard for more than six months with the help of fellow journalist Kelly Hayes, programmer Matt Fowler, media network analyst Lawrence Alexander, and former hackers Lauri Love and Mustafa Al Bassam. I don’t think any of these individuals are card carrying Borg operatives. 

Campbell covers a lot of territory in his article, but what I find most interesting is his interactions with William Binney and Thomas Drake. Campbell took Binney to the UK to examine the original Forensicator data first hand. Binney’s reaction restored my faith in him as a clear-eyed and sober intelligence analyst. I never doubted his sincerity, honesty or patriotism. 

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According to former NSA technical manager Tom Drake, “Ray’s [McGovern] determination to publish claims he wanted to believe without checking facts and discarding evidence he didn’t want to hear exactly reproduced the Iraq war intelligence failures which the VIPS group was formed to oppose”. He and other VIPS members refused to sign McGovern’s report. 

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Trump then told CIA director Mike Pompeo to see Binney to find evidence to support the claims. Pompeo met with Binney on 24 October 2017. Binney said he told the CIA chief that he had no fresh information. But he said he knew where to look – in the surveillance databases of his former intelligence agency, NSA.  

As a former top NSA insider, Binney was correct, but not in the way he expected. NSA’s top secret records, disclosed in the DoJ indictment earlier this month, lifted the lid on what the Russians did and how they did it.

A month after visiting CIA headquarters, Binney came to Britain. After re-examining the data in Guccifer 2.0 files thoroughly with the author of this article, Binney changed his mind. He said there was “no evidence to prove where the download/copy was done”. The Guccifer 2.0 files analysed by Leonard’s g-2.space were “manipulated”, he said, and a “fabrication”.

On inspecting the full data analysis, Binney agreed: “It’s clear G2 is messing with the data. Everything G2 says is suspect and needs to be proven by other sources/means. I agree there is no evidence to prove where the download/copy was done.” He added: “The merger of data from 5 July and 1 September ... makes all the G2 crap a fabrication ... we should only say what we can prove with evidence.” 

Privately, Binney says his colleague Ray McGovern, who has also pushed the Forensicator theories, accepts that there is no evidence where the files were really copied. “Ray no longer argues that point – except to call it an ‘alleged location’,” said Binney. McGovern has refused to confirm this, or to answer questions about evidence for his claims.

Despite accepting that there was no evidence, Binney and McGovern have not retracted the claims in the 2017 VIPS report at the time of writing.

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Another one bites the dust.

TTG

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252445769/Briton-ran-pro-Kremlin-disinformation-campaign-that-helped-Trump-deny-Russian-links

Space X goes from strength to strength ...

 "Telstar 19V is the latest in a new generation of satellites operated by Canada’s Telesat, and will be used by Hughes Network Systems to expand broadband satellite services in Brazil and other South American countries. It’ll also enhance broadband coverage for NorthwesTel, a Bell Canada subsidiary, in the far northern territory of Nunavut.

The satellite has a 15-year design life. It weighs 15,600 pounds, making it by some accounts the heaviest commercial telecom satellite ever successfully launched.

SpaceX is to launch yet another satellite in the series, Telstar 18 Vantage, in mid-August. But first, the California-based launch company is due to execute two other missions.

A Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch 10 telecom satellites into low Earth orbit for Iridium from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday. The spotlight returns to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 2, when yet another Falcon 9 is due to launch the Merah Putih satellite for Telkom Indonesia.

The Falcon 9 Block 5 is designed to be capable of far more reuse than SpaceX’s previous Block 4 variant. The new-generation rocket is also an essential part of SpaceX’s plans to start sending astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA by 2019."  Yahoo

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And now for something pleasant.  pl  

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-063442927.html

At least Nauru is still with us ...

 

"  nine states – including the United States and Israel –voted against the resolution. The other countries which supported Washington were Togo, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Guatemala and Honduras."  Guardian

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(irony alert) So, Perfidious Albion has bitten the hand that fed them.  That's right isn't it?  No?  What about all that Spam we sent them when they ran out of crumpets?  What about that?  Why would Palau have voted on our side?  Ah, there must be some pot of Golden Grickels from which they sup, maybe something about a Jack London memorial pearl fishery or, something. (end of irony)

 

Nikki Haley, is a city girl flower of South Carolina politics.  Do you suppose that she may be learning that THE WORLD is harder to bully than a bunch of "good ole boys" who like to put Rebel flag decals on their pick-up trucks?

And then, there are the related spectacles of the Israeli UN ambassador sneering just now on the TeeVee at THE WORLD whilst Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Turkey and Egypt voted for the resolution.  I guess that means that they don't need the money badly enough to roll over when ordered. 

There will be no peace for Israel.  pl 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/united-nations-un-vote-donald-trump-jerusalem-israel

French Canadian meat stuffing for fowl.

(Regimental Color of the VanDoos)
 

"Put all ingredients in large pan except crackers. Cook on medium heat until meat is well cooked, approximately one hour stirring occasionally, so it will not stick to bottom of pan. Add 1 ladle of turkey drippings.Simmer for 20 minutes and drain 3/4 of liquid from pan. Add rice (or crushed crackers or bread cubes instead of the rice) until the rest of liquid is absorbed. Add salt and pepper to taste.Store the stuffing in refrigerator overnight to get more flavor and then stuff the turkey."  geniuskitchen

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This approximates the way my mother stuffed turkeys, capons, and other fowl.  My father particularly liked goose and guinea hen.  The giblets; heart, gizzard and liver as well as the neck meat should go into the mix after grinding.

This is really good stuff and is rather like the filling in a Canadian tourtiere.   Any that doesn't fit in the bird can be cooked in a casserole dish.  pl   

http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/french-canadian-meat-turkey-stuffing-411915

Trump Affirms the Military Ain't a Freak Show by Publius Tacitus

Well, let's give Donald Trump credit for one clear act of sanity. The White House announced today that the United States military is not going to surrender to the demands that transgenders be treated as normal people when it comes to fighting wars:

President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will no longer “accept or allow” transgender people in the United States military, saying American forces “must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory” and could not afford to accommodate them.

If you disagree with Trump then, in my view, you are an extremist and in denial by human biology. While transgender people exist, they are an extremely small minority. A biological rarity if you will. This is not to say that transgenders should be treated differently under the law. No. They should have the same basic rights as a biological man or woman. But the U.S. military is not a social biosphere for testing social and sexual justice theories. The Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Air Force are predominantly male and heavily dependent on unit cohesion.

The vast majority of the members of the U.S. military units are heterosexual. The social justice warriors who promote the mythology that you can have a gender neutral Army or Marine Corps, for example, have never been around 18 to 20 year old young men who are fully charged on testosterone and generally thinking a lot of the time about having sex with females. One of my old mentors, a retired Marine colonel told me the story of being in South Korea on maneuvers when he was a young lieutenant. As he came out of his tent one morning his nostrils were assaulted by the smell of human sweat and kimchi. The aroma was piercing and his nose led him to the last tent in the camp site. There he found two 18 year old privates enjoying the fleshly delights of a South Korean farm girl who, by the smell of things, had not been a frequent visitor to bath water. 

His lesson to me? "The troops will do anything for pussy." Whether you like it or not that remains a reality today. The vast majority of soldiers, sailors, pilots and marines are not focused on embracing or protecting transgender folks. When they step naked into a shower the vast majority are not ogling one another in hopes of spotting the dude who wants to be a woman. 

Trump made the smart and simple decision--he is not going to subordinate the war fighting role of the U.S. military to pandering to extreme minority political positions based on the notion that transgenderism is a normal, common phenomena. It is not.

The "Eastern Bloc" and the "Russia is a Communist Country" lines live on.

Today on Foxnews a couple of newsbimbos, one blonde, one brunette reflected the level of sophistication with regard to foreign affairs now prevalent in the American people.

1.  The brunette referred to Poland as an "east bloc country."  Evidently she has not heard that the Warsaw Pact and the USSR no longer exist and that Poland is a NATO country.

2..The newsblonde (dark roots) referred to Russia as one of the remaining Communist countries.  It is true that there is a neo-communist political party represented in the Russian parliament but they are a minority party and Putin is not a member, quite the opposite.

In general, Americans are ill equipped to deal with any level of complexity in world affairs above the "Captain America" and "Wonder Woman" level.  The Canadians should not feel smug about this.  They are basically a protectorate of the "Wonder Woman" crowd and Justin Trudeau is oh, so, precious.

pl

 

"Clinton Cash" a documentary

Just watched this.  It is well worth seeing and has been watched on U tube by 1.5 million as of now.  Send me a link to an analogous film on Trump.  pl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM

Is Trudeau Canadian enough?

" ... the Prime Minister was caught in a storm of controversy Wednesday afternoon when frustrations in the House of Commons saw Trudeau grabbing one lawmaker and then, accidentally elbowing another.  The altercation occurred when members had gathered for a vote on a controversial assisted-dying bill.  Trudeau, impatient to get the vote started, is seen on video striding over to Opposition whip Gordon Brown. He grabs Brown's arm to direct him to his seat. New Democrat Party (NDP) Parliament member Ruth Ellen Brosseau gets elbowed by Trudeau in the process."   CNN

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"What sort of man would elbow a woman!"  Evidently Trudeau is that sort of man, and on the floor of the House of Commons as well.  Trudeau became impatient with members not quick enough to do his will and waded into a group of them pushing and shoving a bit.  This doesn't sound like the Canada depicted in John Candy's comic masterpiece, "Canadian Bacon."

Seriously, sort of,  this is the kind of behavior to be expected in the 3rd World.  The last time we had something vaguely like this happen in the US Congress was an incident involving Dick Cheney Senator Leahy.  The "F" word was spoken in direct address. 

Of course in the 19th Century there were various parliamentary skirmishes like the occasion in which Senator Charles Sumner was beaten nearly to death at his desk in the senate chamber.  But then, perhaps he needed a good beating.

Poor Trudeau, he may have overestimated the potential power inherent in his position.  His nice wife is meeting resistance in her desire to have a couple more flunkies around the Prime Ministerial Lodge or whatever it is called.  How ungenerous!  What is it called?  pl  

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/asia/canada-trudeau-apology/

I think attacks in the US are likely.

 

(This was posted on 21 November, 2015 on Sic Semper Tyrannis)

There is a lot of "bleeding heart silliness" being spouted in the media as US networks try to convince themselves that IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!  Well, IMO that is incorrect and it probably will happen here.

The US and Saudi Arabia, are, I think the two most important target areas for IS.  The US because it represents the new Rome, the great Satan and Saudi Arabia because IS sees the royal family as sinners who should not be in charge of the Haramayn.

We have pretty solid police in the US and robust external border controls at crossing points, but, in fact we have a large and potentially recruitable disaffected segment in our population among racial minorities, resident Muslim youth and the like.  Remember.  It only takes a few people to pull off such attacks.  Weapons are easy to obtain in the US and the materials with which to make explosives are everywhere.

Four of the Paris attack group had entered Europe in the last few months, two on Syrian passports as part of the migration and two on Turkish passports simply traveling within the Schengen area without much trouble.  You never know what you don't know and we don't know how many others IS has sent toward targets in Europe and North America, especially before the Paris attacks.

PM Trudeau and his political colleagues are going to admit at least 25,000 "Syrian" migrants to Canada in the next few months.  There is no possibility that the Canadian authorities will be able to adequately screen that number of people for identity or prior associations.  It will anger Canadians here for me to say so but the US/Canada border is a joke.  You can walk across it in thousands of places outside the ken of authorities on either side.

The pattern is clear, IS sends in fighters to reinforce local adherents.

IS has announced its intention to attack New York City and Washington, DC.

We should take this statement of intention very seriously.  pl

http://globalnews.ca/news/2352983/60-of-canadians-disagree-with-liberal-plan-to-accept-syrian-refugees-ipsos-poll/

Images of the US/Canada border

Folks - I don't want to put up more barriers at the border, but we must understand that the usually used border control points on major roads and at airports can simply and easily be by-passed.  pl 

"... Liberals leap ahead to majority government" CBC

"The Liberal Party had jumped to a solid lead early in the evening, painting Atlantic Canada red with a sweep of the entire region. 

But the key to the Liberal majority was the strong performance in the vote-rich provinces of Ontario and Quebec. In Ontario, the Liberal Party was leading or elected in around 80 seats, having won in the big cities, including a sweep of Toronto, and recapturing many of the coveted seats in the suburban 905 area around Toronto that it had lost to the Tories in 2011.

The Liberals also made huge gains in Quebec where they have been declared the winners in more than 40 ridings. 

The Conservatives had held 159 seats in the 308-seat House of Commons and the NDP had 95, with another 18 seats either vacant, held by Independents or shared between the Green Party (two seats) and the Bloc Québécois and a splinter group. 

Because of population growth, 30 new seats have been added this election, including 15 in Ontario, six each for Alberta and British Columbia and three more for Quebec."  CBC

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Bravo! - I think...  pl

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-voting-results-polls-1.3278537