[American Thinker] For years ‐ decades, actually ‐ the Democrats have been facilitating the invasion of our country by millions of people who are from, as President Trump once reportedly described them, "s-hole countries." The constantly cited figure of "11 million illegal immigrants [sic]" is a joke. It has remained constant for more than a decade, while new waves of illegal immigrants arrive annually. There are more likely tens of millions of illegal aliens here.
In California, according to the L.A. Times, July 8, 2015, non-Hispanic whites are now in the minority, having been outnumbered by Latinos, AKA "people of color." Little of this profound demographic shift is a result of legal immigration. This recent wave of immigrants, coming from poor countries with repressive backward regimes, as a rule do not believe in the laws and the importance and supremacy of the founding documents of this country, including the Constitution.
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I think the article has things a bit off. In California whites are a minority but not less in numbers than Latinos. They are less in numbers compared to all other minorities. A majority minority is the term I've heard bandied about. Which is to say no big deal.
[Breitbart] Mark Smith uses his new book, #Duped: How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting‐and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back, to highlight the left’s overarching goal of creating a gun-free world.
He also uses the book to explain how gun owners can fight back and actually defeat the left and their freedom-crushing endeavors.
Smith was a guest on the June 19 episode of Bullets with AWR Hawkins and he gave a quick synopsis of gun owners’ path to victory. He began with a rational comparison of gun crime in the United State versus countries that have stringent gun control:
The countries of the Western hemisphere ... if we compare the violence and murder rates of the United States and all the Latin American, Central American, South American countries, almost all of which are basically gun-free zones ... Mexico only has a single gun store in the country. Yet if you look at the crime and the murder rates compared to the United States, which has lots of guns, when these other South American, Central American countries which have no private gun ownership rights for all intents and purposes, guess what, we’re the safest country in the Western hemisphere, when you compare us to all the those other countries to our South. But no one wants to talk about that on the other side.
He goes into greater detail in his book, but his point is clear‐gun laws do not prevent criminals from using guns to commit crime.
[BBC] In his well-cut suit, with outstretched hand and beaming smile, Sibusiso Moyo is the very picture of a modern politician.
He speaks softly, smoothly and pauses to listen as if he had spent years on campaign trails listening to the supplications of constituents. His desk is covered with papers waiting to be read and signed.
We meet at the start of what will be another long day for Zimbabwe's foreign minister. Waiting in another room is the Russian trade delegation.
There will be more meetings after that for Mr Moyo: diplomats, civil servants, and the possibility that the phone on his desk will ring with a summons from President Emmerson Mnangagwa - whose office is five minutes away in another part of the building.
The president has declared Zimbabwe "open for business" and it is Mr Moyo's job to make sure investment starts to roll in. This is after all the "new" Zimbabwe. But perhaps "newish" would be a better description.
After all, the president was for decades a loyal supporter of former leader Robert Mugabe, whom he ousted last November after 37 years in power.
Former generals who were all complicit in Mugabe's era of oppression now occupy key positions in the Mnangagwa cabinet.
In his previous incarnation, Foreign Minister Moyo was Maj-Gen Moyo and commanded army operations in the provinces during past elections.
[The Hill] Rising insulin costs are drawing outrage from diabetes advocates, leading to calls for greater transparency and federal oversight of the market for a drug that helps more than 7 million Americans.
Insulin was first discovered nearly 100 years ago, and as newer forms of the drug have been introduced, the price has climbed.
Three companies ‐ Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk ‐ control 99 percent of the world’s insulin, and advocates have been asking them to explain their pricing. According to the American Diabetes Association, the average price of insulin nearly tripled between 2002 and 2013.
The price for a vial of one the most popular insulin brands, Humalog, increased from $21 in 1996, to $35 in 2001, to $234 in 2015, to $275 in 2017. There are no generic forms of insulin on the market, but there are some cheaper "biosimilar" versions.
"Americans need Congress to take action to ensure a vibrant, competitive insulin market that serves consumers instead of drug company CEOs. Insulin is not a luxury. It is required for life," said Ben Wakana, executive director of the advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs.
Insulin price spikes have also prompted scrutiny from members of both parties in Congress.
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That which should be going down in price, is going up. Strange, very strange.
Strange, indeed. And no generic form of a drug that's been around for a century? Stranger still. Call me whacky, but could there possibly be government regulations distorting the market?
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The free market failed a very long time ago. Investigate the 3 companies for antitrust violations - for starters. Fiddle with the laws on drug patents -- or even just "start a discussion". Ditto with laws on corporate existence vs. the common good. Nothing substantial will be done by our esteemed legislators, of that we can all be sure.
The United Kingdom matters not simply because Great Britain is an island, or because the Kingdom has the naval power to defend its island, but because the Kingdom has sufficient naval strength to project power well beyond its island. That enables the Brits to pick the time and place of the conflicts they choose to engage in. Even if they choose poorly, they can always pack up, sail away and try again later. Clashes that leave most in ruin at most force an early election in the Kingdom.
There are only two things that could undo this strength. First, the United Kingdom’s flexible strength could be overwhelmed by a more powerful navy. Since the only Atlantic Ocean navy that is more powerful is the American Navy, this is a low risk. Second, the United Kingdom could for whatever reason find its navy degraded to the point that it can no longer project power. And that is precisely the challenge facing the United Kingdom today.
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The anecdotal Story is that Eisenhower really grew to hate the British officers during WW II . He Considered them self inflated snobs. When he became President and he had the opportunity to stick it too them, he didn't hold back.
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...I don't think it was so much that Ike hated his British counterparts (there's lots of evidence, anecdotal and on the record, to the contrary, although he never really did like Montgomery much at all) as much as he understood that behind everything they did was the need to preserve the Empire and all it stood for. He was always willing to work with the UK - but he always took a very close look at their motives.
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#2...He was always willing to work with the UK - but he always took a very close look at their motives.
Yes. Carlo D'Este has written on WW2 military history. Eisenhower "got rolled" early and often by the British staff in the planning -- they showed up with a well-developed British Plan that always seemed, on careful study, to put British Goals first. Their job, certainly, but he learned that Caveat Emptor! was the watch word.
The poor darlings. It looks like all those confiscated Gulenist properties weren’t enough to keep the train rolling after all.
[ATimes] What happens next may look like Greece during its financial collapse – meaning Turkey’s economy could shrink by 10%-20%
The Turkish central bank managed to halt the free-fall of the country’s currency last week with a sharp rise in interest rates. But the move failed to stop the free-fall of Turkey’s equity market and – far more dangerous – the collapse of the credit quality of Turkey’s banks. Only last October, the euro-denominated 10-year bond of Turkey’s largest private lender, Garanti Bank, yielded just 3%. Now it yields more than 7%, and the dollar value of the bond has fallen from over 120 euros to around 80 euros.
Turkey’s Istanbul 30 stock market index meanwhile has fallen by 35% in US dollar terms since August 29, 2017. Its most vulnerable lender, Halk Bank, lost 63% of its US dollar value in the same period and now trades at 40% of book value.
Turkey’s banks are shut out of world capital markets, and the country is hard put to raise the US$50 billion in new hard currency it needs to finance a current account deficit running at around 6% of GDP. Turkish businesses have about US$300 billion in foreign currency debt, and the cost of servicing it has nearly doubled in local-currency terms due to the lira’s depreciation since 2015. The banks will have trouble rolling over their existing short-term borrowings in hard currency, and trouble collecting loan payments from customers crushed by the collapse of the lira.
Like the dead parrot in the Monty Python sketch, Turkey’s major banks have flipped the mortal coil and joined the choir celestial, but the Turkish central bank is there to maintain the illusion of life. The trouble is that the central bank’s resources are running thin: Foreign exchange reserves as of June 1 stood at just US$82 billion, or four months’ worth of imports, vs. nearly US$120 billion at the end of 2014.
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Turkey’s banks are shut out of world capital markets
It’s not clear to me why this is so, but they certainly aren’t a risk I’d be comfortable with.
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The US ought to be quietly working the bankers to push this collapse farther faster and deeper, to trigger an uprising against Erdogan and the Islamists.
[the Aviationist] Space May Be the “Final Frontier” Of a New Global Conflict Among Superpowers.
U.S. President Donald Trump launched a thousand memes when he announced the creation of a new military branch, a “U.S. Space Force” during a meeting of the National Space Council at the White House on Monday, June 18, 2018. The President told reporters that the new U.S. Space Force would become the sixth branch of the military to exist alongside but separately from the Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy and Coast Guard.
While President Trump’s announcement was received with humor and cynicism across social media, the formation of a U.S. military space force separate from and in addition to the existing five military branches is a credible and potentially overdue evolution for the U.S. military.
Since the first satellite, Sputnik 1, was placed in orbit by the former Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 over 8,000 objects have been launched into space. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists in a 2017 report, there were 1,738 operational satellites orbiting the earth at various altitudes broken into four categories; Low Earth Orbit, Medium Earth Orbit, Elliptical and Geosynchronous. Of those satellites, 159 are registered as “military” while an additional 150 are “government”. There are over 470 civilian satellites in orbit that provide everything from weather reconnaissance to communications.
Any disruption in vital space capabilities such as the six different national GPS constellations in orbit would have vast security and economic implications and present a significant vulnerability. Currently the U.S., Japan, Russia, China, the E.U. and India have GPS satellite constellations in orbit. These satellite constellations provide both vital commercial and military services ranging from civilian air transport to banking.
Head to article for remainder of the story. The site is really really incredibly SLOW TO LOAD.
[AspiStrategist] Late last week a US drone killed Maulana Fazlullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban—known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)—in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province. This is a serious body blow to the TTP, which had already been significantly weakened by several counter-insurgency and counterterrorism operations in recent years.
Fazlullah, who was 44 years old, was a particularly nasty individual. He took over as the TPP’s leader after another US drone strike killed his predecessor, Hakimullah Mehsud, in November 2013. Fazlullah sought the imposition of Sharia law throughout Pakistan. He led the insurgency in the Swat valley in 2007–2009 during which music and barber shops were banned and girls were discouraged from going to school. It took some 35,000 troops to dislodge him and his fighters from that area.
But Fazlullah will be especially remembered for two notoriously vicious terrorist acts. First he ordered the assassination in 2012 of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai because of her advocacy of education for girls. She was badly injured in the terrorist attack but recovered, and was eventually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
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[Strategic Culture Foundation] Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ’news’ media to be or to have been "ceding Syria to Russia" or "ceding Syria to Russia and Iran," or similar allegations. They imply that ’we’ own (or have some right to control) Syria. That’s not only a lie; it is a very evil and harmful one, dangerously goading the US President to go even more against Russia (and Iran) (and, of course, against Syria) than has yet been done ‐ but the ’news’media don’t care about that evil, and that falsehood, and that dangerousness ‐ they do it anyway, and none of them attacks the others for perpetrating this vicious war-mongering lie, that lying provocation to yet more and worse war than already exists there. And the fact that none is exposing the fraudulence of the others on this important matter, is a yet-bigger additional scandal, beyond and amplifying the media’s common lying itself. Because they all function here like a mob, goading to more and worse invasions, and doing it on the the basis of dangerous lies ‐ that America, and not the Syrians themselves, own Syria.
These lies simply assume that America (probably referring to the US Government, but whatever) somehow "has" or else "had" Syria (so that America can now ’cede’ it, to anyone); and this assumption (that the US somehow owns Syria) is not only an imperialistic one (which is bad, and wrong, in itself), but it reduces to nothingness the rights (in the minds of the American public) of the Syrian people, to control their own land. That lie is what America’s ’news’media won’t expose, but instead they all cooperate with it, when they’re not actually participating, themselves, in spreading these lies.
[Strategic Culture Foundation] Even before Donald Trump won the White House, there were strong indications that something was not quite right with the Liberal mindset. Today, all doubt on the matter has been cleared away.
The mass hysteria that swept across Liberal America, like one giant tear tsunami, following Hillary Clinton’s ’surprise’ loss in the 2016 presidential election has reached a new level of madness and can now be described as a deep-seated psychosis.
There are some understandable reasons for the Left’s collective mental breakdown. Briefly, ’Russiagate’ is disintegrating into a burlesque theater of the absurd, while Trump ‐ from jump-starting the Heartland’s industrial sector, to making peace with a nuclear-armed dictator, to ’winning’ the World Cup ‐ is on a serious roll. If the momentum continues, it may give the Republicans a crucial victory in November congressional midterms. The Democrats, acutely aware as to what is at stake yet unable to stop Trump, are showing a side of their character that can be best described as treacherous. And in order to see the symptoms of a disintegrating Democratic Party one only need look at the US entertainment industry.
For example, actor Robert DeNiro, one of the most outspoken Hollywood critics of Trump, forced his captive audience at the recent Tony Awards to sit through an invective against the US leader, which started with the juvenile comment, "F*ck Trump!" Just in case his audience - which may have included some minors, not to mention Republicans - did not hear him the first time, DeNiro repeated it. The pathetic outburst, which was certainly not the first time a fading Hollywood star has used the pulpit at an awards ceremony to make a weak political impression, won DeNiro a cheap standing ovation.
Back in January 2017, before Trump was even moved into Pennsylvania Avenue, actress Meryl Streep pulled a similar stunt, lecturing the president on the diverse composition of US society in general and Hollywood in particular: "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts," Streep said, a comment that reinforces the idea that actors should just stick to their scripts instead of venturing into the minefield of politics.
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Quit using the word Liberal. There's nothing of classical liberalism in them. They're socialists. It's the same mindset as the geniuses running Caracas. They love themselves cause they believe they are god since they've thrown out the old one. They truly believe "Thou shalt have no other gods before me".
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Lots of noisy ones heading ever further left, but the quietly thoughtful ones are more and more dismayed by this behaviour — and withholding their vote from those running on this nonsense, even though they can’t bring themselves to vote Republican for all sorts of reasons.
But a vote not cast for the Democrats is just as valuable as a vote cast for the Republicans. Especially when the feds are encouraging the states to clean up their voter rolls and harden their voting procedures. November is going to be very interesting indeed,
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For example, actor Robert DeNiro, one of the most outspoken Hollywood critics of Trump, forced his captive audience at the recent Tony Awards to sit through an invective against the US leader...
That's a load of crap - no one was 'forced' to sit there; they all had the option to walk out. Whether or not any of them did, that was never reported.
Washed up producer/director/actor whose only claim to fame is his daddy's name seeks publicity by advocating violence against First Family.
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I seem to remember not that long ago all the very best people were darkly worried at the prospect that President Trump might simply go off in public, you know just start swearing incoherently at some world leader. Now it gets a standing ovation?
[Weekly Standard] Colorado is the national pioneer of legalized marijuana. In 2014, it became the first state to allow any adult over 21 to buy weed or grow it without fear of prosecution. Since then, eight others and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug, and, with a momentum that feels irreversible, more are heading that direction. Public opinion is rapidly shifting in favor of legalization. Coloradans approved marijuana sales in a referendum, with state leaders musing that it would be a grand experiment and an exercise in federalism that could be instructive for the rest of the country.
Nowhere are the results of this experiment being felt more than in Pueblo, a small city of 108,000 about two hours south of Denver. Pueblo is an old working-class steel town largely left out of the prosperity of Denver and the state’s famous ski resorts. With nearly 200 legal marijuana farms, Pueblo is at the forefront of the state’s rapidly expanding pot industry. Marijuana has become big business. It is creating jobs, harnessing the energies of young entrepreneurs, raising millions in new tax revenues, attracting visitors to town, and giving residents more personal freedom.
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And, if you are in the pot biz you can't put your money in the stock market or a bank. Nobody want's your money that the Feds can seize at any instant. It, also, puts all titles (land, car etc.) into the same distress. So, to be involved you want to rent. But if a landlord rents to you and (land or home) and drugs are involved the Feds can seize his assets so...
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Easy enough to become the banker for 'less legitimate' businesses. Buy a junkyard, build salvage title vehicles, sell them to trafficers. It's a prison town, lend money for bail bonds.
Setup a transit service for prison visitors. Open donut shops outside the prison entrances for the COs. Wash money.
[Right Scoop] For those of us who have been clamoring for Trump to act more like a conservative, we just got great news.
He has a major plan to consolidate the government:
The White House plans to propose merging the Departments of labor and education as part of a broader reorganization of the federal government, said a person with knowledge of the proposal.
An announcement is planned for Thursday morning, after a monthslong review of cabinet agencies with an eye toward shrinking the federal government.
Wow. That’s pretty yuge. The WSJ doesn’t think it has much of a chance of success:
The reorganization would require approval from Congress, but it’s not clear that lawmakers have the appetite to undertake a far-reaching reorganization, especially at this point in the political calendar.
Lawmakers have shown reluctance to embrace such plans in the past, and Congress has limited time for major legislation before the November midterm elections. Previous proposals to eliminate agencies, including the departments of education and energy, have made little headway.
Streamlining the executive branch has been a longtime conservative goal. The new plan also meshes with the administration’s priority of retooling higher-education programs to train students more directly to join the workforce.
BUT, if Trump can summon his much vaunted negotiating power and get this through, he will definitely garner praise from us who just want the government to be smaller and smaller.
[RUSH] Okay, folks, I’m just gonna say it here. If the media keeps this up ‐ if they keep up generating this hysteria ‐ somebody’s gonna get killed. I think we’re pretty close to somebody getting killed already, and I’m not being hyperbolic, and I’m not trying to call attention to myself. I’m genuinely worried about the out-of-control aspect of this. The news media’s fanning the flames. The news media is leading the way on this. It’s again an oxymoron. News media? There is no media, and none of this is news.
It’s a manufactured crisis ‐ that is one of many ‐ after Donald Trump committed an unpardonable sin ‐ and that was winning the presidential election. This today is not about kids and the way they’re being treated anywhere. This is about Donald Trump winning and these people not being able to do anything about it. Look at everything they’ve thrown at Trump. They’ve had full-blown intelligence community FBI, CIA, DOJ, special counsel investigations all happening simultaneously designed to drive Donald Trump from office in six months.
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...until it turns on them. Their protestations will be far too late. The civil war is coming. Once they light the fire, no amount of 'talk' will stop it.
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I don't think that they're really this organized, but:
This turns into a no lose situation for the leftists.
(1) If the dead person is on the right, they cackle about 'had it coming' and use it to wave the red flag.
(2) If the dead person is on the left, let's say killed while attacking someone on the right, the creep becomes a martyr, and maybe the next argument in the gun control wars.
Remember, If it bleeds, it leads.
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Won't be Trumps campaign manager. The left locked hïm up and put him ion solitary confinement even though he has not been convicted of a crime.
The left storm troopered Trumps attorny so he is nuetralized with having him shot.
[National Review] According to a new textbook written by a professor at the University of Exeter, learning mathematics can cause "collateral damage" to society because it "provides a training in ethics-free thought."
"Reasoning without meanings provides a training in ethics-free thought," Paul Ernest writes in "The Ethics of Mathematics: Is Mathematics Harmful?" ‐ a chapter of his book The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today.
In an abstract for the book, Ernest claims that although he does "acknowledge that mathematics is a widespread force for good," "there is significant collateral damage caused by learning mathematics."
According to Ernest, this "collateral damage" happens in three ways. First, he argues, the styles of thinking involved with mathematics are "detached" and "calculated" ones, which value "rules, abstraction, objectification, impersonality, unfeelingness, dispassionate reason, and analysis" ‐ which he claims "can be damaging when applied beyond mathematics to social and human issues."
The second problem, he explains, is that "the applications of mathematics in society can be deleterious to our humanity unless very carefully monitored and checked."
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If the education system is morphed into the form of military academy-like institutions where a 'group-think' is indoctrinated instead of classical liberal arts...
Wait a minute, does that sound like Evergreen College, or UC Berkeley?
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Met a young man with a Physics degree from Evergreen College. Talk about bitter. He is so so pissed off that now nobody will take him seriously just because the leftist professors in the humanities departments went insane.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] For years ‐ decades, actually ‐ the Democrats have been facilitating the invasion of our country by millions of people who are from, as President Trump once reportedly described them, "s-hole countries." The constantly cited figure of "11 million illegal immigrants [sic]" is a joke. It has remained constant for more than a decade, while new waves of illegal immigrants arrive annually. There are more likely tens of millions of illegal aliens here. 
[BBC] In his well-cut suit, with outstretched hand and beaming smile, Sibusiso Moyo is the very picture of a modern politician.
[National Review] According to a new textbook written by a professor at the University of Exeter, learning mathematics can cause "collateral damage" to society because it "provides a training in ethics-free thought."
