Bottom of table that scrolls off give the US 2 ticks: 1) Blogger or Social Media user physically attacked or killed. 2) Technical attacks against government critics or human rights organizations
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If it was up to me, the government would block all Internet traffic from all four of those countries; Russia, Turkey, China and Iran. But I'd add a whole bunch of other countries too; Romania and Malaysia in my system administrator days were just as bad. I monitored the logs every day and the probes from those countries were incessant. If they don't want to behave in a civilized manner then cut them off from the rest of the civilized world.
For that reason, IMHO, it is extremely hypocritical of Baraq Obama to accuse Donald Trump of colluding with the Russians to hack our election. Trump did no such thing, of course, but the real problem is that Baraq stood by and did nothing to stop the Russians, Chinese and all the rest of them who launch hacking attacks on our country every day.
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My big takeaway from the Justin Trudeau controversy: if you're the leader of a Western democracy who has starred in 50 or 60 minstrel shows, it's probably best to get that out before the media twists it all out of proportion
I have attended approximately 1700 costumed college beer bash bacchanals in my life, all in the pre-woke Stone Ages, and never once did I, or anyone I have ever seen, decide it was cool and/or funny to do Amos & Andy shtickhttps://t.co/QfOZ2kMYg5
I predict, by the end of the day, this will become a "teaching moment" requiring mandatory sensitivity training for all Canadians, with the exception of Justin Trudeau
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I predict, by the end of the day, this will become a "teaching moment" requiring mandatory sensitivity training for all Canadians
He's trying to be cute, but he's missing the point. As the Jordan Peterson affair shows, Canada now compels speech.
There won't be a "teaching moment"; there will be government compulsion.
This reality is what caused Peterson to step forth and stop being an obscure Canadian academic and be a champion for a simple but absolutely fundamental principle of democracy: except for oaths in extremely rare and tightly circumscribed formal situations, the state cannot compel any form of expression.
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Yesterday I had a thin crust "pizza" with "Italian" sausage and Bruschetta (it was really tasty!). Does that make me an evil person, too? This "Cultural Appropriation = Racism" schtick is getting old.
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This is just stupid. So what, who cares how he dressed on Halloween! Next thing you know frat houses will no longer have toga parties. People need to stop this Woke assed thin skinned cry baby crap. Trudeau's real problem is his hypocrisy.
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What do you call an onigiri with jalapeno jelly filling?
Dunno about the onigiri but the jalapeno is hot.
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So the scolds just now had the idea to look through the Prime Minstral's yearbook? Didn't raise a hand when after his cos-play in India? Or as the other Indian? Oh, and two more 'found' all at the same time? The same group of people turn an eye at that movie White Chicks? They can all go lick a snake.
That his paparazzi guard is so blatantly covering for him is embarrassing. I'd tell them I have an upside down stool waiting for them, but I'm afraid I'd attract four and suffer a spin the bottle session.
It is a case of the guilty lecturing the innocent, and the innocent paying for the sins of the guilty:
We’re going to ban military-style assault rifles in Canada.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 20, 2019
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The problem is the left no longer knows why they are angry at things they just want the world to burn. There was a time when blackface meant mocking people of color. When that happens it should be denounced as racist but there is no evidence that's what was going on. Just putting on dark make-up is not necessarily racist but that doesn't matter anymore.
Warren Wilhelm Jr. may actually have to do his day job. NYers incredulous with fear
[NY Post] President Trump wasted no time mocking Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday after Hizzoner announced he was ending his far-fetched bid for the presidency.
"Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, @BilldeBlasio, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking dropped out of the Presidential race," Trump tweeted Friday morning.
"NYC is devastated, he's coming home!" I'm sure he'll remain the time-tardy dilettante waste of oxygen
De Blasio announced on "Morning Joe" that he was finally pulling the plug on his sputtering campaign after failing to garner more than 1 percent of support in national polls.
The mayor and the president notably traded barbs throughout de Blasio's White House bid.
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"I've to finish destroying New York before I can think of bigger goals." sorta thing?
[Guardian] As they set national policy on important issues such as climate change, tech monopolies, medical debt and income inequality, US senators have glaring conflicts of interest, an investigation by news website Sludge and the Guardian can reveal.
An analysis of personal financial disclosure data as of 16 August has found that 51 senators and their spouses have as much as $96m personally invested in corporate stocks in five key sectors: communications/electronics; defense; energy and natural resources; finance, insurance and real estate; and health.
The majority of these stocks come from public companies, and some are private.
Overall, the senators are invested in 338 companies ‐ including tech firms such as Apple and Microsoft, oil and gas giants including ExxonMobil and Antero Midstream, telecom companies including Verizon, and major defense contractors such as Boeing ‐ in the five sectors as categorized by Sludge.
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Peter Schweitzer wrote a book about ten years ago about what goes on in Capitol Hill (both parties) that would put us in jail for insider trading. And, of course, it's all perfectly legal, even House & Senate "ethics" committees bless off on this.
Crony capitalists such as Warren Buffet make out quite well, too. Quite well.
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It's not illegal if you're the one who writes the law.
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Crony capitalists such as Warren Buffet make out quite well, too. Quite well.
His dad was a congress-critter. Junior learned early on how important government regulation can be for a company's competitive position.
His concept of a "moat" was almost always applied to companies that benefited from near-monopoly status, or favorable regulatory treatment: insurance companies and local newspapers were early favorites, including the Government Employees Insurance Company. His recent wins came from arbitraging the government bailout of Wall Street.
But his biggest scam of all has been to use Congress's favorable tax treatment of debt to borrow against his holding companies and thereby juice up his equity returns.
The man who rails against hedge funds is himself running a gigantic hedge fund. According to academics who've studied his returns, about 60% of his fund's performance can be attributed to financial leverage.
And he's our folk hero investor. We are living through the most corrupt period in over 100 years.
[CNN] Human Rights Campaign Foundation ... will host a CNN Democratic presidential town hall in California...focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer issues.
HRC said the October 10 primetime event..will take questions from the audience and CNN journalists on specific LGBTQ concerns as well as their plans to promote equality and civility.
... former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren have accepted HRC's invitation to participate in the event.
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Should be fun. I can hear them top each other in gaypandering:
"Everyone will be required to be LGBTQ for 10 minutes a day"
"30 minutes"
"A whole day"
"A week"...
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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.
[Guardian] As they set national policy on important issues such as climate change, tech monopolies, medical debt and income inequality, US senators have glaring conflicts of interest, an investigation by news website Sludge and the Guardian can reveal.
On Monday, the Women's March voted off its board Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland due to the anti-Semitism controversies surrounding them.
