[American Greatness] Just a few miles from my hometown sits the Welsh Rust Belt‐the south Wales Valleys. Stamped onto those verdant galloping hills is what remains of the industrial revolution’s once convulsing heart. Legions of coal-dusted men once winched down into the pits, day after day after day, chipping away at the other black gold.
Up until the 1980s, the mines employed virtually every man here. Then they closed. And the rot inched toward the bone.
I remember the day she died. Maggie-Maggie-Maggie! Dead! Dead! Dead! was the more cordial of expressions. Margaret Thatcher passed away in 2013. But, here, she’ll never die.
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[Stanford Law] News of governments such as Russia and North Korea deploying their tech teams to hack into companies for political reasons has made headlines (think Sony after release of the movie The Interview). But what about when the U.S. government "hacks" to get around security measures designed to protect consumers? Can those hacks backfire and put us all at risk? Riana Pfefferkorn, Cryptography Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, looks at these issues in a new paper Security Risks of Government Hacking. Here, she discusses her findings.
[AmericanGreatness] Last year, as a member of a Southern California moms’ group, I received an email from a woman with a dilemma. Her part-time nanny, who had been in her employ a little over a year, was asking for a raise, from $25 to $30-an-hour. The mom wanted a basis for comparison before she said "No." (The language she actually used was far more colorful.)
The response she got was nothing short of astounding. "Absolutely not!" said one. "That’s highway robbery!" said another.
And then the truth. Another mom on the list suggested‐and I’m paraphrasing here‐that because she could just go to our local park and pick up another "helper" for less than what she was already paying, that raise was over the top.
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It's what I've long said, the demonrats need their slave class. Since it's no longer considered appropriate to have black servants, now you have illegals.
Demonrats, the party of Slavery, human sacrifice and zero morality. Might as well vote Satan!
#2
The "park". The homeless at the park can no longer get a labor gig because dozens of illegals now hang around Home Depot or Lowes to get picksd up to paint the garage instead.
#4
As I’ve said. Illegal aliens are the new slave class. And are indeed cheaper than traditional slaves in their masters don’t have to even feed or shelter them.
#5
A lovely Edward Roworth oil depicting Cape Dutch Architecture, the mighty Drakensburg Mountains, and on the right, farm pillars with a slave bell hanging between them.
#6
Under the old system of slavery, the master had to provide clothes, food, and shelter. Now the master uses the public treasury to cover those, while still getting cheap labor.
#10
We can pay them whatever we want. That is always & everywhere true. The bigger question is always, will there be anyone willing to work for what you are willing to pay?
#12
there are banks that discriminate against undocumented people
That's actually refusing to be an accessory after the fact, not "discrimination".
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And at the same time they send money back to Mexico acting as a safety valve from utter poverty that would be the result of the Mexican gov idiot policies.
No safety valve equals political reform or revolution. Oligarchs are smart enough to give up power to avoid being hanged.
Not just China. Lukoil too
[American Thinker] As they say in the news industry, follow the money. And the money in Venezuela, like a lot of Venezuelans, is fleeing.
Here's a new one from Rooters:
SINGAPORE (Rooters) - PetroChina Co plans to drop Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) as a partner in a planned $10 billion oil refinery and petrochemical project in southern China, said three sources familiar with the matter this week.The company's decision adds to state-owned PDVSA’s woes after the United States imposed sanctions on the company on Jan. 28 to undermine the rule of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. However, dropping the company was not a reaction to the U.S. sanctions but follows the deteriorating financial status of PDVSA over the past few years, said two of the sources, both executives with China National Petroleum Corp, the parent of PetroChina."There will be no role of PDVSA as an equity partner. At least we don't see that possibility in the near future given the situation the country has been through in recent years," said one of the executives, asking to remain unidentified because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The Reuters sources say it's nothing to do with U.S. sanctions. But that, in the context of what the pullout means, is irrelevant: The Maduro dictatorship still loses the use of the money, or the oil earnings the money can bring. And the Chinese reasons are just as damning as if the whole thing had been about U.S. sanctions: Chavista fiscal practices, which have almost literally run Venezuela's once-vast oil industry back into the ground. The story signals that the Chinese have decided that right about now's a good time to finally cut their losses.
It follows a big Russian pullout move that does seem to be linked to U.S. sanctions:
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Lukoil is among about half a dozen oil traders who cut or suspended contracts with Pdvsa today, according to traders and a Pdvsa supply official. This threatens to leave the company without gasoline and diluent to move its crude.
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[Jpost] Strangely, the Israel issue has become emblematic in the battle over Irish identity.
There’s a particularly sweet spot in the enormous technology deal Israel has just pulled off.
Over the next five years, the tech giant Intel will invest a whopping $11 billion in a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Israel. The investment will be worth around 0.7% of Israel’s gross domestic product and is expected to produce thousands of jobs.
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stereotypical hatred of Jews as parasitical moneylenders and exploiters of working people.
The Irish, for whatever reason, have always been a combination of Nazis and Communists (granted that's a distinction without a difference). Which should make them persona non grata in any polite society.
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The IRA had no problem with Middle East terrorist groups.
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The Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual advisor Yusuf Qaradawi founded the European Council for Fatwa and Research, and placed it headquarters in Ireland, in 1997.
[Imprimis] The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 15, 2019, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.
Seventy miles northwest of New York City is a hospital that looks like a prison, its drab brick buildings wrapped in layers of fencing and barbed wire. This grim facility is called the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Institute. It’s one of three places the state of New York sends the criminally mentally ill‐defendants judged not guilty by reason of insanity.
Until recently, my wife Jackie‐Dr. Jacqueline Berenson‐was a senior psychiatrist there. Many of Mid-Hudson’s 300 patients are killers and arsonists. At least one is a cannibal. Most have been diagnosed with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia that provoked them to violence against family members or strangers.
A couple of years ago, Jackie was telling me about a patient. In passing, she said something like, Of course he’d been smoking pot his whole life.
Researchers record sharp improvement in measures such as quality of life, ability to dress and shower independently after 6 months of cannabis oil treatment.
Six months, 188 teenagers, recommendation to do a proper double blind study against a placebo. But there does not appear to be any thought about to the problem that schizophrenia can be misdiagnosed in childhood as autism, as happened to my girlfriend’s son.
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.
A lovely Edward Roworth oil depicting Cape Dutch Architecture, the mighty Drakensburg Mountains, and on the right, farm pillars with a slave bell hanging between them.
[Imprimis] The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 15, 2019, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.
