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Why Liars Like Bernie Sanders and Clinton Are So Popular – Thomas Sowell || Thomas Sowell Reacts
Posted by M. C. on June 1, 2024
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The Pope thinks the whole US southern border is a small train station in Arizona
Posted by M. C. on June 1, 2024
Out of his skull
https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/pope-us-border-small-train-station-in-arizona
Mind your own business, Francis. You’ve got plenty of it.
In a CBS interview, the Infallible One has pronounced, “The Migrant has to be received.” Meaning: let them all in, and then sort them out, one at a time. After they’re in America, do a case by case exam and decide whether to keep each one or send him back.
I’m not kidding. That’s the Pope’s considered position.
See, only two or three migrants come across the whole border every week. And at that small dusty depot, US ICE personnel can casually make phone calls to law enforcement in any of 25 different foreign countries and obtain comprehensive background reports on these people. Uh-huh.
That’s the Pope’s picture.
“They must be received.”
Why? According to what principle?
Is the Vatican taking in Mex cartel members? Is the Vatican providing rooms for military-age men from China, Nigeria, Panama, Venezuela, Haiti?
Is Francis an actual Pope, or is he a front man for Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden, and Merrick Garland?
Why doesn’t Francis say,…
Paywall starts here
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Biden Lets Ukraine Strike Russia With US Weapons While Ukraine Attacks Russian Nuclear Defenses
Posted by M. C. on June 1, 2024
Oh no big deal, just a NATO proxy repeatedly attacking part of Russia’s nuclear defense infrastructure. What could go wrong? https://t.co/RysGjsVAF1— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 30, 2024
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-lets-ukraine-strike-russia
Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago are becoming increasingly common as Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers to fight.
In a new report from Politico titled “Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons” which cites multiple anonymous US officials, the article’s authors correctly describe the new White House authorization as a “stunning shift the administration initially said would escalate the war by more directly involving the U.S. in the fight.”
This report comes shortly after an article by The New York Times titled “From Allies and Advisers, Pressure Grows on Biden to Allow Attacks on Russian Territory,” in which David E Sanger accurately forecast that “Biden is edging toward what may prove to be one of his most consequential decisions in the war for Ukraine: whether to reverse his ban on shooting American weapons into Russian territory.”
Politico reports that the approval for these attacks is limited to “solely near the area of Kharkiv,” but, again, these escalations were once unthinkable even for this administration, and every time a new escalation is authorized the warmongers are already well on their way to pushing for a further one. We will surely see increasing calls for Biden to authorize US-backed strikes deeper into Russian territory in the coming weeks.
This new development comes just after we learned that Ukraine has been repeatedly attacking Russia’s early warning systems for incoming nuclear strikes, with Ukrainian drones targeting Russian radar sites hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Just a few years ago if I had told you that a NATO proxy would soon be attacking Russia’s nuclear defense infrastructure, you’d probably have assumed we’d be pretty close to another Cuban Missile Crisis-level nuclear standoff, and that it would be receiving high levels of alarm and attention. But this report is barely in the news, and hardly anyone in the west even knows it’s happening.
This also comes as Reuters reports that France is preparing to send “several hundred” troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, which of course means we may soon be seeing the armed forces of a NATO power getting killed by the Russian military.
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Nikki Haley Again? — Really President Trump?
Posted by M. C. on June 1, 2024
Signing Israeli bombs! What makes these people want the US to fight other countries battles?
Like the man said-Follow the money (and votes).
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The Danger Is Not China But the ‘Fake China Threat’
Posted by M. C. on May 31, 2024
Either China is very strong, he says, “in which case antagonizing China over issues directly in its backyard is stupid; or actually China is quite weak in which case antagonizing China in its backyard is unnecessary and counterproductive.” He continues, “In any event is hard to hard to imagine how the life of the average American would be improved by courting conflict with China, while it is quite easy to imagine countless ways in which it could be made worse.”
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-danger-is-not-china-but-the-fake-china-threat/
At times a book is convincing not only because its arguments are sound but also because of the author’s identity. It would be no surprise to encounter a book penned by a socialist or Sinophile that takes on the false portrait of China that graces the U.S. media. But Joseph Solis-Mullen, the author of The Fake China Threat And Its Very Real Danger, is neither socialist nor Sinophile.
Solis-Mullen is a libertarian in the mold of Randolph Bourne and Justin Raimondo. Hence, he is classified as a conservative in our impoverished political taxonomy. But his book is not written to appeal to people of any single political outlook. It is written with only one thing in mind, the interest of the American people and, dare I say, of humanity in general, China included. Hence it is of great utility for people across the political spectrum who sense that our people are being hoodwinked by fake China threats. It may answer your questions on China or those of your friends in ways understandable to the average American.
The Fake China Threat is Ubiquitous—and Dangerous
Solis-Mullens explains the purpose and scope of the fake China Threat as follows:
“On the one hand, (the fake China Threat) serves as a legitimating device, a new reason for continually climbing defense budgets…and for the continued meddling…in the affairs of other states…
“On the other hand, the fake China Threat serves as a convenient scapegoat for the end results of the bad policies that Washington has itself authored and for decades pursued. America deindustrialized? China’ fault. Millions of Americans hooked on drugs? China’s fault. The Saudis and Iranians don’t want the Americans around anymore? China’s fault. Et cetera.”
“There is one element of truth to the fake China Threat, however; the existence of an independent China (or Russia) is a threat to Washington’s accustomed ability to do more or less whatever it wants, wherever it wants. But the existence of an independent China is already a fact. Refusal on the part of Washington to accept it will cause more than theoretical problems, and therein lies the real danger.” [Emphasis Added]
To remedy that “real danger” is the purpose of this book as the author explains in these words:
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Here’s a Reality Check on So-Called Green Energy… And It’s Not What You Think
Posted by M. C. on May 31, 2024
A picture emerges of an aspirational Western industry captured lock, stock, and barrel by secretive, coal-loving Beijing. It’s a worry for the West’s economic development, never mind energy security and climate action. If solar is anything to go by, the great transition seems less based on data than a mixture of blind faith and vested interests.
China has the world over a barrel in more ways than we have been led to believe.
It isn’t so much that China has the biggest resources of these minerals. Rather it has the refining capacity to produce these materials. Note that most of these “lesser known base metals” don’t occur naturally on their own (like copper or tin), rather they occur concurrent with other minerals and are essentially a by-product of refining common base metals. Of course, refining minerals is a messy, polluting, and energy intensive business that few countries want to engage or allow. In doing so, they open themselves up to national security issues.
All rather interesting, but what I’d like to point out is that there exists the probability that this all becomes weaponised. Reducing or entirely eliminating supply of these critical resources to “non-friendly” nations is increasingly becoming a real threat. That in itself would entail significant supply disruptions, higher costs of production (much higher), and subsequent acceleration of stagflation.
The New vs the Old Economy
We thought we had it all before with the TMT bubble of 2000 (goodness, that is now 24 years ago). But history has been rewritten highlighting the extreme performance of one theme against another. Real assets are more out of favour compared to financial assets than at any time since the 1920s. Some random charts we found on the information superhighway providing illustrative view of what we’re saying.
Any relationship in the chart above to the one below?
OK, let’s put it another way. What if the US 10-year yield is 10% 10 years from now? How do you think real assets would have performed vs financial assets?
Just a reminder of how out of favour materials and energy are compared to the broader market. Granted this is over a year old, but not much has changed since then.
We recall a couple of years ago when Tesla had a greater market cap than the S&P 500 energy sector and Microsoft had bigger market cap than the S&P Materials and Energy sectors combined. Seems like not much has changed on a global scale.
Taking out Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, and Apple have about the same market cap as the global energy sector.
A Think Piece on Solar Panels
Finally someone who has dug deep into the assumptions:
You really have to read the article. It’s a humdinger. But first, a warning to the tree huggers who buy the concept that paying more taxes to multiple home owning, jet setting globalists in order to eliminate a gas that is 0.04% of the atmosphere and for which all plants are dependent upon. My friends and colleagues over at International Man said it well:
But back to the report. Check out these snippets:
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Forced Busing: Biggest DEI Debacle in U.S. History
Posted by M. C. on May 30, 2024
by Jim Bovard
While politicians speak of free public education, it is the parents who are paying much, if not most, of the bill for their children’s education. Yet paying for schooling indirectly effectively turns parents from buyers into beggars. Regrettably, there is no way that parents can sue the government officials who forcibly sacrificed their children on an altar of equality.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/forced-busing-biggest-dei-debacle-in-u-s-history/
President Joe Biden seeks to boost government school spending to close the achievement gap between white and black students. According to the Biden administration, disparities in student test scores justify further government intervention. But Biden ignores how previous government education decrees ravaged Americans’ freedom and domestic tranquility.
In a speech earlier this month, Biden touted the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education. That decision ruled that “separate but equal” systems that intentionally segregated students by race violated the Fourteenth Amendment. That decision resulted in profound changes in southern states that had created parallel but inferior school systems for blacks, along with other barriers for learning.
In his speech, Biden sniped at Republicans and conservatives, claiming, “We have a whole group of people out there trying…to erase history.” But the biggest erasure involves the largest Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity crusade in American history—the forced busing that disrupted many cities and metropolitan areas from the 1970s onwards.
Ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which specified that “‘desegregation’ means the assignment of students to schools ‘without regard to their race,’ and ‘shall not mean’ assignment ‘to overcome racial imbalance.’” Regardless of the clear language of the law, the Supreme Court began rubberstamping court decrees that compelled the busing of children far from home to satisfy constantly changing demands for racial balance. As professor Lino Graglia noted in his 1976 classic, Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court Decisions on Race and the Schools, forced busing was “the compulsory transportation of school children out of their neighborhoods to increase school racial mixing or ‘balance.’”
Though the issue may seem obscure if not archaic to many young voters, forced busing was briefly a hot issue in the Democratic presidential race in 2019. During one of the debates, Kamala Harris attacked Joe Biden for having opposed forced busing in the 1970s, his first decade in Congress. Biden was mentally sharper then than he is now, so he did not falsely claim to have been a heroic civil rights demonstrator who was arrested at the South African embassy after almost being at the famous 1965 Selma protest. In his response to Harris, Biden stressed that busing should have been “a local decision made by your city council.”
Harris demanded to know: “Do you agree that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?”
Biden denied that he opposed busing per se: “What I opposed was busing ordered by the Department of Education.” Actually, the federal Department of Education was not created until late in the 1970s and it had no power to order busing. The vast majority of busing conflicts stemmed from judicial decrees, which Biden seemed to understand a half century earlier.
According to Harris, forced busing was necessary “because there are moments in history where states fail to preserve the civil rights of all people”—and thus the federal government must intervene.
Biden’s narrative on busing has evolved over the last half century. In 2007, in his first memoir, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, Biden called busing a “liberal train wreck” that was “tearing people apart.” He honestly admitted: “White parents were terrified that their children would be shipped into the toughest neighborhoods in Wilmington; black parents were terrified that their children would be targets of violence in the suburban schools. Nobody was happy.” Biden endorsed legislation in the 1970s to limit the power of federal judges to order busing. His position on busing was one of his signature issues before he became one of the most fanatic supporters of the federal War on Drugs the following decade.
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