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Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2022
Def: Joke – Washington DC
As the Daily Mail notes, “Ocasio-Cortez was seen walking escorted away by police with her hands crossed behind her back, as if she were in handcuffs, but she was not. At one point she uncrossed her hands and raised her fists to the other protesters.”
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Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2022
One of the markers of a civilised and compassionate society is the extent to which its public institutions prioritise the safety of its most vulnerable citizens. But when it comes to tackling child sexual exploitation, Britain is failing spectacularly. A toxic mixture of racial identity politics and victim-blaming tendencies among the authorities has left vulnerable children – many of whom have experienced family breakdown, parental neglect and domestic violence – exposed to sexual abuse and exploitation.
Must be Politically Correct old chap.
By Rakib Ehsan
Spiked
The report into grooming gangs in Telford in the West Midlands, published last week, told an all-too-familiar story. Groups of men, of largely Pakistani heritage, sexually abused young girls for years while the authorities, fearful of appearing racist, did nothing.
This ought to shame the nation. Over and over again, we have seen the same story unfold. Local councils and police forces, paralysed by the forces of political correctness and identity politics, have failed spectacularly to protect the children and young people in their care.
This raises urgent questions: How did we get here? What is the true scale of the problem? And what can be done to tackle it?
Rotherham
Rotherham, a large market town in South Yorkshire, is at the heart of the grooming-gangs scandal. In 2012, The Times revealed that a confidential 2010 police report had warned that vast numbers of children were being sexually exploited in South Yorkshire each year by organised networks of men ‘largely of Pakistani heritage’. South Yorkshire Police and local child-protection agencies were shown to have knowledge of widespread, organised child sexual abuse. And yet they had failed to act on that knowledge.
Rotherham borough council, South Yorkshire Police and other agencies responded by setting up a child sexual exploitation (CSE) team to investigate the reports. In 2013, an independent inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay was launched. Her subsequent report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, published in 2014, made for horrific reading. It found that at least 1,400 children had been subjected to sexual abuse between 1997 and 2013. Jay detailed how girls as young as 11 had been raped, trafficked, abducted, beaten and intimidated by men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
Jay was also deeply critical of the institutional failures that had allowed organised child sexual abuse to flourish in Rotherham. She concluded that there had been ‘blatant’ collective failures on the part, firstly, of the local council, which consistently downplayed the scale of the problem; and secondly, on the part of South Yorkshire Police, which failed to prioritise investigating the abuse allegations. Indeed, the Jay Report found that the police had ‘regarded many child victims with contempt’. The inquiry discovered cases involving ‘children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone’. One young person told the inquiry that gang rape was a normal part of growing up in Rotherham.
The Jay Report also took the local authorities to task for elevating concerns about racial sensitivities over the protection of the children in their care. As the Jay Report put it: ‘Several [council] staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.’
Rotherham was not an isolated case, of course. By the time of the Jay Report, men had been prosecuted in other potential instances of organised grooming in places like Keighley (2005 and 2013), Blackburn (2007, 2008 and 2009), Rochdale (two cases in 2010) and Oxford (2013).
The cases all bear striking similarities. The mainly Pakistani-heritage perpetrators. The vulnerable young victims, usually in care. And in each case, as later reports were to reveal, the authorities had been afraid to tackle the abuse for fear, effectively, of being called racist.
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Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2022
I wonder how much of this is CARES (your tax) money? Covid is about the money for common scum like Hochul, but, for those at the top like Klaus Scwab it is about control.
By Jordan Schachtel
The Dossier
For the average New Yorker, the economy is in shambles. However, if you happen to be connected to the New York political elite, business is booming.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s health department has awarded a stunning $637 million in no-bid contracts to a company led by one of her major donors, for the supply of junk COVID products like tests, masks, and other “medical” devices.
Hochul megadonor Charlie Tebele, who has contributed some $300,000 to her campaign, has scored major business from COVID Mania, securing some hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. Before securing the money from offices controlled by his sponsored politicians, Tebele transformed his electronic device outfit (a company called Digital Gadgets) into a COVID-19 business.
The Albany Times Union reports that Tebel received “$637 million in taxpayer funds to provide the state Department of Health — an agency controlled by Hochul — with at-home COVID-19 test kits,” adding, “the huge expenditure was made without the agency conducting competitive bidding.”
According to OpenBookNY, the democrat megadonor has received all of the $637 million over the course of the last 7 months, over 29 separate payments.
The timing and nature of the deal gives off the stench of massive corruption in Hochul’s office.
One month prior to the no-bid contract being awarded, Hochul signed an executive order suspending “competitive bidding for certain contracts as well as the normal contract review and approval process conducted by [the New York Department of Health], which oversees state government spending,” the Times Union adds.
Tebele’s business is far from “essential,” as the company does not even manufacture the “COVID PPE” products that it supplies, which are likely made in China. It only acts as a “wholesaler,” or really, a middleman, for the goods. Before pivoting into COVID-19 as a business, his company sold electronic gadgets like hoverboards.
Under Kathy Hochul, New York has become fully committed to embracing COVID Mania. In ordering countless rounds of lockdowns and other mandates, Hochul has routinely outed herself as a power drunk authoritarian menace. Now we know she’s both corrupt and tyrannical.
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Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2022
The average wait time for a rent-controlled apartment in Stockholm has risen from five years to nine years in the last decade and even double this in the more desirable locations. The proportion of Swedish people ages 20–27 living with their parents has been rising and is currently the highest since records began.
It’s almost like the rent controls have caused housing shortages. Who could have predicted it! Just about anyone with eyes, honesty, a passing interest in economic history, and a not entirely closed mind. Price controls have always and everywhere produced the following results.
https://mises.org/wire/contrary-public-myths-rent-control-hasnt-been-success-sweden
Sweden’s rent control is widely touted by many who don’t understand economics as a model for how a property market should work. Young people in Ireland, for example, like to point to Sweden as a nirvana where rent control ensures easy availability of affordable and high-quality rental stock.
I was once told by a young work colleague with strong socialist tendencies that they could move to Stockholm and get a high-spec modern apartment for a mere pittance compared to rents in Ireland. A cursory Google search, which garnered a string of news articles attesting to various issues arising from Swedish rent control, shone a harsh light on my young colleague’s fervently held, yet thoroughly fallacious belief.
Even left-wing newspapers and media outlets have had to accept (begrudgingly) that rent controls do not work. In Sweden, as in other cities with similar policies, rent-controlled apartment contracts have become valuable assets to be husbanded and exploited. Many tenants who hold the coveted rent-controlled “primary” contracts sublet properties to “secondary” tenants on the black market at rates double the rent-controlled amount.
Once renters obtain primary contracts, they rarely relinquish them. Only half a percent of primary rental contracts in central Stockholm find their way back to the housing agency. It is almost impossible for any newcomers to the city to get one of the contracts (woe betide my young colleague and their putative flight to Stockholm!). People keen to jump the queue revert to a range of methods, ranging from leveraging personal networks (leverage newcomers rarely possess and hardly something a “fair” and corruption-free model rewards) to paying bribes (definitely corrupt) that can amount to several years’ rent.
As one can imagine, one class of people gaining advantage (through chance, corruption, or seniority) over other classes of people is not a recipe for social harmony. The first class’s then lording this over the others makes it worse. Another pernicious effect of the waiting lists is falling mobility across Sweden (people waiting on a particular housing agency’s list do not want to move and go to the back of another list). This lack of mobility is feeding into difficulties for employers, one in five of whom cite accommodation shortages as a major impediment to hiring staff and growing their workforces.
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Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2022
https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/hrdepts?e=fa1aba8cd8
At this point most people, if able to speak freely, would probably say they’re a bit tired of the whole “woke” charade, and wish everyone would just lighten up.
And yet the “woke” thing is all over the corporate world, with the driving force being that source of all evil, the HR department.
That’s all right, people tell you: you can just go get a job at a non-woke corporation.
Here’s the problem:
There are no non-woke corporations.
Yes, I’ll bet someone here and there can send me the odd exception. But what would be the point? We all know it’s the odd exception.
Why should this be? Why is the entire corporate world, in its public statements and its internal culture, to the left of almost everyone?
There is an explanation, it turns out, and we discuss it in the most recent episode of the Tom Woods Show.
I feature a guest who lost his job after his politically unpopular social media posts were discovered.
He decided that instead of trying to worm his way back into the corporate world, he would take the opportunity to pivot into something else.
Now he helps people who want to exit the corporate world (because of the politics, because it’s sucking the life out of them, because they’re miserable — whatever the reason) and helps them flourish even more on their own.
So I devoted an episode to the problem of the woke HR department, the kinds of occupations that help you avoid them, and how, if you choose, you can escape a career that’s killing you.
Enjoy:
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2163-the-problem-of-and-solution-to-woke-hr-departments/
Tom Woods
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Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2022
https://mailchi.mp/ronpaulinstitute/ukrainepoll?e=4e0de347c8
| Dear Friends: As we highlight in today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report, a new poll brings more devastating news to the Biden Administration and to Democrats hoping to salvage something in the upcoming elections: a healthy majority of Americans oppose the President’s policy toward Ukraine. This poll was not commissioned by the GOP or RPI or any hostile entity. It was commissioned by a news outlet most invested in the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party: CNN. When the Democrats lose CNN… well it’s probably similar to Republicans losing Fox News. But according to the poll, not only does a scant 25 percent believe he’s doing a good job handling inflation, but a majority 52 percent of all Americans oppose his disastrous Ukraine policy: |
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| As Americans are facing inflation the likes of which they haven’t seen in four decades, it’s no surprise that the idea of sending 60 or so billion dollars in funny money to Ukraine would not be popular. As I mentioned in a recent speech, the US has sent the equivalent of one-half of Ukraine’s ENTIRE GDP for 2021 to ensure that the US can fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. Additionally, as Americans struggle to afford healthcare, it’s no shock that the idea of the US propping up Ukraine’s healthcare system to the tune of $1.7 billion is not earning many fans among American citizens, even among the Left. We’ve endured the slings and arrows as to be expected for opposing Washington’s proxy war against Russia at the price of Ukrainian blood. And there are plenty of soi-dissant libertarians who also got themselves into a tizzy replacing their “mask up” avatar with a “support Ukraine” avatar. But you all, subscribers and supporters, expect nothing less. You keep us going because we resist the siren song of the Beltway liberventionists and their counterparts in the neocon and left-neocon choir. You want to avoid what’s happening in Ukraine in 2022? Don’t foment coups d’etat in Ukraine in 2004 and 2014. It’s not like Washington denies being behind these coups. You want to end the Russia/Ukraine conflict? Cut off the money and stop telling Ukraine’s president “we got your back.” Because we don’t. All we’ve got is an unprecedented threat of nuclear war. For nothing. Here’s a shocker to MSM consumers: Ukraine is 100 percent irrelevant to the US. Oh but if we allow Russia to affect change in Ukraine through the use of force, democracy is under threat everywhere! Well tell that to the Libyans, Syrians, Serbians, and hundreds of other countries where the US overthrew democratic governments through subterfuge or force of arms. So, just as with Iraq and all the other US interventions, Ron Paul has been proven right in opposing involvement in Ukraine and the American people are coming our way. Dear Friends: Join us in Washington for the 2022 “Anatomy of a Police State” conference. Students: Apply NOW for our 2022 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar! |
| Sincerely yours, Daniel McAdams Executive Director Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity |
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Posted by M. C. on July 19, 2022
You may recall references in the past to central planning and miss-allocation of funds.
One example might be using taxpayer supplied funds given to SA to bomb one of the most already impoverished countries to before the stone age.
Another can be seen in Northwestern PA. Build Back Better funds given to the PA department of transportation whose mindset appears to be spend it all or we won’t get more next year. As mentioned last year I noted tar and chipping of perfectly acceptable highways. Way too much of the wrong type of stone resulted in a fine year for windshield repair shops.
You will never in a million years guess what I saw today. Some of those same rods being tar and chipped again this year.
They are from the government and are here to help.
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Posted by M. C. on July 19, 2022
Dr. Deborah Birx was the real power behind President Trump’s disastrous Covid policy. She was the lockdown fanatic who admits in a new book that she subverted the hapless Trump Admin and pushed falsehoods to get what she wanted. Millions of lives were ruined. Also today: Washington freaks out as Ukrainian-born US Rep accuses “Saint” Zelensky of corruption…
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Posted by M. C. on July 19, 2022
The State Department told Antiwar.com ‘Crimea is Ukraine’ when asked if the ban on using HIMARS on Russian territory applies to Crimea
But since Russia considers Crimea its territory, any attack on the peninsula would be a major escalation and would risk provoking a response from Moscow.
The State Department on Sunday implied that Ukrainian forces are allowed to use US-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) against Russian targets in Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014.
When the US first announced it was sending HIMARS to Ukraine, Biden administration officials said they received “assurances” from Ukrainian officials that the rockets won’t be used to target Russian territory.
When asked if the ban on Ukraine using the HIMARS to target Russian territory applies to Crimea, a State Department spokesperson told Antiwar.com, “Crimea is Ukraine.”
“The United States does not and will never recognize Russia’s purported annexation of Crimea. We will continue to stand up against Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against the people of Ukraine,” the spokesperson said.
On Saturday, a Ukrainian intelligence official said that Ukrainian forces should start attacking Russian facilities in Crimea and suggested US-provided HIMARS could be used for such strikes.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chair of Russia’s security council, warned Sunday that if Ukraine launched attacks on Crimea, it would mean “doomsday” for Ukrainian leadership.
“Should anything of the kind happen, they will be faced with a doomsday, very quick and tough, immediately. There will be no avoiding it. But they keep on provoking the general situation by such statements,” Medvedev said, according to Russia’s Tass news agency.
Medvedev also said that the fact that Ukraine and Western nations don’t recognize Crimea as Russian territory poses a “systemic threat” to Russia. “If any state, either Ukraine or a NATO country, thinks that Crimea is not part of Russia, it is a systemic threat to us,” he said.
The HIMARS the US has sent to Ukraine are equipped with munitions that can reach targets up to 50 miles away. The rocket systems could be outfitted with longer-range rockets, but the US chose the 50-mile range and sought assurances that they won’t be used to target Russian territory over fears that such attacks risk escalating the conflict.
But since Russia considers Crimea its territory, any attack on the peninsula would be a major escalation and would risk provoking a response from Moscow.
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Posted by M. C. on July 19, 2022
https://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2022/07/jordan-petersons-russia-ukraine-do-over.html
Early on in Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine, Jordan Peterson decided to get educated, and chose as his teacher the perpetual warmonger Frederick Kagan. The video of their discussion is here, and I wrote a short post covering the video here.
To summarize my thoughts on the video…
I made it through about 15 minutes of this garbage. I could have heard the same thing in about two minutes on CNN.
A sampling of the many of the comments Peterson received as a result of his choice in teachers…
· This interview was garbage from beginning to end.
· NATO is not only a defensive alliance, it bombed Yugoslavia with no attacks from it on NATO members
· I miss Prof Cohen. And listening to this guy, who seems to be a typical Putin-hater, reminded me
· Kagan is way off base. No mention of the Nazi brigades, no mention of bloated militarization of Ukraine, the illegal Maidan coup, etc. Everything is Putin, Putin, Putin. Donbas is mostly Russian speaking and they are a cancelled abused people. Kagan should take his academic ego and crawl back under his know-it-all rock. Bad choice JP! You can do better!
· Kagan’s failure to mention Ukraine’s state sponsored neonazi forces shows his hand. I don’t trust or believe him.
· Frederick Kagan is schilling for the Neocons.
There were several suggestions that Peterson speak to John Mearsheimer. One of which was mine.
Well, Peterson has taken a do-over. But, first, an update on Peterson news. He has recently joined the Daily Wire. To me, something like this was inevitable – assuming Peterson’s health held out such that he could continue in his task of bucking (for the most part) the leftist turn of his liberalism.
So, with that, on to the subject video, entitled Russia Vs. Ukraine Or Civil War In The West? The title suggests that Peterson is aware of something deeper going on than merely “Putin is the next Hitler.”
I won’t go through a blow by blow. But here are the main themes (and I am not directly quoting Peterson, but offering a flavor):
· I was pilloried for choosing Kagan as a teacher
· I watched Mearsheimer
· It turns out the situation is much more complicated than I was led to believe
· Putin is concerned that the West wants to turn Russia into the same morally depraved hell-hole that they have forced onto Western society
· The fight in Ukraine is a mirror of the civil war consuming the West
· Whatever one might have as a complaint about Putin, he is a far better person than anyone who has led that country in over a hundred years.
Now, Peterson made a few mistakes – he kept messing up on the geography (“…the Russian speakers in the northeast of Ukraine,” etc.). He didn’t touch very much on the history of Western antagonisms in Ukraine. He also decided to get into the economic prediction game (“$300 oil”), which is an easy way for others to attack him if he is wrong on any of it.
But he did point out the extreme risks of this war and of the West’s continued actions. He made a strong statement that there must be work toward a settlement now – and he recognizes this will have to be on terms acceptable to Putin.
He also threw a strong punch at the covid lockdowns, and he took several shots at his disaster of a prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
Conclusion
As I have noted about Peterson before, the arrow doesn’t fly straight, but at least it occasionally comes with a self-correcting function. Considering the very strong left-liberal upbringing and his university experience as well as his filed of expertise, one has to say he really has come a long way.
But he still has a long way to go.
Addendum
Maybe not quite as long as I thought. A short (23-minute) interview of Peterson by Snorri Másson in Iceland. Peterson makes some very strong points and doesn’t back down when pushed. He gets most forceful and emotional on the topic of physically mutilating minors who are confused about gender. His is an example many Christians could learn from.
He likes the idea of abortion in America being decided at the state level – on such a difficult topic, many experiments are needed. He notes that there are signs of a rational left emerging from the destruction of the crazies (I anticipated this years ago). Bill Maher and Russell Brand are noted.
He makes a very interesting observation on Trump, that Trump – whose entire persona is “I am a winner” – shouldn’t have got caught up in “the election was stolen.” That’s the talk of losers, not winners.
Peterson’s stumble: he says it has been demonstrated in many court cases that the election wasn’t stolen. So he still has a ways to go.
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