Thursday, December 10, 2020

 https://anncoulter.com/2020/12/09/voter-fraud-never-happens-except-in-these-10000-cases/

 

 

 

It’s as if everyone who writes for the Times just graduated from college with honors in “Spotting Racism.” Republicans aren’t complaining about the vote in Camden, New Jersey, or Memphis, Tennessee. They’re talking about cities with Democratic political machines, which were founded by Irish criminals long before black people showed up in large numbers.

Democratic machines have been stealing elections since before the Civil War.

This year, liberals told us that Trump is LITERALLY HITLER and his defeat the single most important event of our lives — something you’ll tell your grandchildren about someday! But we’re supposed to believe they decided, this one time, they wouldn’t cheat?

These are the people who tell you voter fraud is a crazy conspiracy theory.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

No to AuStin Powers!? ___________________Yeah whoo! screaming out YAhoooooo as the bomb goes riding down ot the unknown location in the Us S R

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U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin, Kuwait, December 18, 2011. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Biden's choice for secretary of defense should be rejected.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J oe Biden intends to nominate General Lloyd J. Austin III for secretary of defense. The nomination should be rejected.

There isn’t much wrong with General Austin, save the fact that he is General Austin. U.S. law requires a seven-year gap between active-duty military service and serving as secretary of defense, the idea being to keep military policy firmly in civilian hands and to limit the political clout — and the political ambition — of the nation’s senior military commanders.

The law has served us well. The Trump administration successfully sought to have it set aside in order to accommodate the confirmation of General Jim Mattis as secretary of defense. General Mattis is an admirable man, but he was not especially effective in the role — it is difficult to imagine how he might have been, given the character of the administration he served — and nothing about his service establishes the urgent necessity of making a habit out of making an exception.


Some on the Democrats’ left wing oppose General Austin on the foregoing grounds, and a few are chafed that he is being chosen over a woman, Michèle Flournoy, who served in Barack Obama’s administration as undersecretary of defense for policy. Austin would be the first African American to serve as secretary of defense, while 

 

Flournoy would be the first woman. Neither of these is an especially compelling rationale: We have had a black president, we have a black vice president-elect, George W. Bush was served by two black secretaries of state, etc.; in addition to our female vice president-elect 

 

the nation has been served, though not always well-served, by women in senior cabinet positions, including Hillary Rodham Clinton’s rolling theater of incompetency as secretary of state. As riveting as it is to watch Kamala Harris check her boxes — she has been the first black South Asian woman of Caribbean background in many positions — it is probably time to leave that kind of thing behind, and thank Barack Obama for that much.

Flournoy has opposition from her left, too, with progressives harboring skepticism about her lack of skepticism regarding U.S. military involvement in Iraq and her support for the U.S. intervention in Libya, which Biden opposed as vice president. Flournoy is probably closer to traditional conservative views on defense than are most of Biden’s likely nominees, but in the Trump era it is not clear that Republicans still take a traditional conservative view of defense policy, having partly slipped into the intellectual quagmire of Donald Trump’s Ron-Paul-by-way-of-Scrooge-McDuck attitude.

Republicans will of course be called hypocrites if they oppose Austin’s nomination after supporting Mattis’s, and they will of course be called racists by the people professionally obliged to call Republicans racists on days of the week ending in “y.” But making the same mistake twice isn’t principle — it is stupidity.

It is entirely natural that the party in opposition to the president will in Congress be more energetic in the defense of congressional prerogatives and limits on executive power than it is when one of its own is in the White House. There is a lot of wrongheaded bellyaching about “gridlock” in Washington and the need for national “unity” (whatever that means), but in fact the oppositional nature of our political system is among its greatest practical virtues. Of course members of one party will be more insistent about imposing restrictive norms on a president of the other party, but if the norms are good ones — and the exclusion of recently active generals from the top job at DoD is a good one — then three cheers for hypocrisy.

As a matter of pure politics, Republicans would be doing themselves no harm by making common cause with some of their Democratic colleagues in opposition to a Biden nomination that is, on the merits, the wrong choice. Republicans will be looking for a chance to hand Biden a defeat, and it is best to do it on something about which he is fundamentally wrong, and wrong enough that even some Democrats can see it. Republicans do not get enough opportunities to do the smart thing and the right thing at the same time to pass one up.

If we must for a moment entertain the quaint superstition that the national interest enters into consideration here, well, the republic will be no worse off if General Austin is put into a political time-out for a few years. Republicans should thank him for his service and decline, at least for now, his offer of more.

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that statistics available Amy Minsky. Available Amy Minsky. EDC spokesperson Amy Minsky. Spokesperson Amy Minsky. For post-mortems, but while the plane the NDP MP Peter Julian says the government should be more finance care system, collect digital sales taxes Highlights transparent about how much it time for us to Canadian lives and to preserve the Canadian economy," to disclose the names. Disclose the names. To disclose the names. Disclose the names." not try to change the engine. Change the engine. To change the engine. Change the engine." Freeland was not available departments have and says it plans to make public the committee — has been has spent. Been has spent. Much it has spent. It has spent. Pandemic began, only a few departments what the the end result is that the government has refused to is where I think government is being transparent about how much it The Big Spend Ottawa names of the 355,990 employers that benefited from critic Peter Julian said the government has been relatively PBO estimates is public since CBC News first asked two months ago and spending statistics, "finalizing" its plans to make the information transparent about which businesses got Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS). Wage Subsidy (CEWS). CRA has made high-level focus on what we in the of opposition questions. Of opposition questions. The of opposition questions. Of opposition questions. "Now is the reveal which groups and businesses are benefiting from some of would probe Government isn't being transparent about where the money is going, loans totalling can do going forward to save Spend As passengers pushed for refunds, government hasn't been the more than 100 programs it has launched since is going. Since is going. "In terms of who "Without consent, we are not able disrupted, first by the government's move its highest-spending programs. Its highest-spending programs. Move its highest-spending Air Canada got more This story is part of The Big Spend, The House on Oct. House on Oct. 29. "There will be a time Canadians and fought CBC's attempts to get that information tooth CBC investigation follows the Revenue Agency (CRA) has administered several aid programs, including Canadians a more unapologetic in the face Development Corporation was charged with running the business investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government CRA has been a CBC for an interview. For an interview. CBC for an interview. For an interview. In a statement, says that "all information obtained by EDC also has refused to reveal is flying, one does the virus is defeated. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday, December 7, 2020

Reclaiming Populism in the Age of Trump – Linda McQuaig (from Jan 15__2018 )

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Reclaiming Populism in the Age of Trump – Linda McQuaig

The opening keynote of Collapse: Neoliberalism in Crisis, Parkland Institute's 21st Annual Conference (November 17-19, 2017). http://parklandinstitute.ca http://parklandconference.ca Reclaiming Populism in the Age of Trump Linda McQuaig The rise of Trump and others on the far-right highlights a deep dissatisfaction with the neoliberal status quo of the last three decades. Parading as populists, Trump and his crowd are trying to shape the anti-status quo sentiment into a nasty right-wing juggernaut that rewards themselves and offers nothing to working people. But populism has an honourable tradition of actually defending working people and challenging elites. With neoliberalism now in disarray, the moment is ripe for progressives to tap into the popular dissatisfaction over rising inequality— with an agenda that empowers working people and allows them to capture a fair share of the wealth we all collectively create. Journalist and bestselling author Linda McQuaig has a reputation for challenging the Establishment. As a Globe and Mail reporter, she won a National Newspaper Award in 1989 for a series of articles which sparked a public inquiry and led to the imprisonment of Ontario political lobbyist Patti Starr. As a Senior Writer for Maclean’s magazine, McQuaig probed the early business dealings of Conrad Black in two provocative cover stories. An angry Black suggested on CBC Radio that McQuaig should be “horsewhipped.” She has been a rare voice of dissent in the mainstream media. Since 2002, she has used her op-ed column in the Toronto Star to challenge the prevailing economic dogma, take on powerful business moguls and consistently champion a more equal and inclusive society. As an NDP candidate in the 2015 federal election, McQuaig was denounced by Stephen Harper after she stated on CBC-TV that much of the oil from the oil sands would have to stay in the ground, if Canada is to meet its climate-change targets. She is the author of seven controversial national best sellers, including Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths, which was recently selected one of the top 25 books of the past 25 years by the Literary Review of Canada. Her most recent book (co-written with Neil Brooks) is The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World and How We Can Take It Back. Conference Video sponsored by: Health Sciences Association of Alberta http://www.hsaa.ca Conference Video produced by: KTNEXUS http://ktnexus.ca
Linda McQuaig starts at 34:10, following introductory remarks by Trevor Harrison, Ron Lameman (2:45) and Leslie Cormack (23:05).

Trudeau government won't say who got billions of dollars in aid

While some payments have been revealed, the destination of billions of dollars in aid remains secret

Elizabeth Thompson · CBC News ·
An empty store up for rent is seen on Montreal's Sainte-Catherine Street, on Monday, June 8, 2020. Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has yet to reveal where billions of dollars in pandemic aid has gone. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-spending-government-transparency-1.5826917

This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during the first eight months of the pandemic. 

When Justin Trudeau ran for office in 2015, he promised Canadians a more open and transparent government.

An investigation by CBC News reveals, however, that the Trudeau government hasn't been entirely transparent about where COVID-19 aid worth billions of dollars has gone.

While the government has made available high-level aggregate spending statistics, or estimates of the net fiscal impact, for the more than 100 programs it has launched since the pandemic began, only a few departments have released details about which individuals, groups or companies have received government money.

Some departments have fought CBC's attempts to get that information tooth and nail — despite the fact that some publicly traded companies have voluntarily disclosed the same information through their TSX filings.

The work of House of Commons committees that normally would probe government spending programs — such as the Finance committee — has been disrupted, first by the government's move to prorogue Parliament in August and then by Liberal filibusters.


 

The 2020 Holberg Debate with John Bolton & Yanis Varoufakis: “Is Global ...

At the 2020 Holberg Debate, Amb. John Bolton and Member of the Hellenic Parliament Yanis Varoufakis will discuss current threats to regional and global stability. The debate took place on 5 December. We encourage everyone to submit questions via Twitter, at any time before or during the event. Tweet your questions with the hashtag #Holberg2020. ABOUT THE EVENT At the 2020 Holberg Debate we are joined via videolink by two top speakers who have both been important policy makers at crucial times in their respective countries: Member of the Hellenic Parliament and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Ambassador John Bolton (US), former National Security Advisor and US Ambassador to the UN. Moderator for the event is Scott Gates, Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo (UiO), as well as Guest Researcher at UiO’s Department of Economics and Research Professor at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). PHOTO CREDITS: Yanis Varoufakis. Photo: Olaf Kosinsky (kosinsky.eu) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0). John Bolton. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) For more information: See the Holberg Prize website: https://holbergprisen.no/en/holberg-p... 577 Comments

Noam Chomsky at Harvard law school

  Chomsky     at one moment in this talk ' Trump is the worst criminal in human history ... ' He discloses his own misguided moralistic view of 


what is happening in this world/


Trump whatever he is not the above, Hitler Stalin Pol Pot are in that category...

Chomsky a linguist of renown is a prophet type but his recent prophet  like stance has become  tired..


He's right about so many other things we overloook it!

His clarity abotu Obama! is fantastic! he laid the grround work right off for Trumpism



 

 

 

 On Nov. 20, Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT, spoke to first-year students at Harvard Law School about prospects for a better tomorrow. In a conversation moderated by HLS student Michael Lehavi, Chomsky touched on topics ranging from linguistics to activism to climate change.

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