Climate Hairshirts with their apocalyptic warnings have become laughably boring. What will come to mind to any normal person is this famous scene from Ghostbusters. Please consider sending this to any Climate Hairshirt you may unfortunately know. It may get them to see their hysteria is hysterically funny.
Vast thousands marched on the streets of Hong Kong last night, chanting “Fight for Freedom – Stand with Hong Kong,” as they carried Rocky Trump posters:
Hong Kong November 28, 2019
That’s just for starters. It’s been a great week all around – here we go.
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country.
A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how “God helps those who help themselves” applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America’s birth.
This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable – for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. That made America possible.
This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead.
The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let’s drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is.
Prior to last week, for days Adam Schiff had concocted a pretty effective fix.
He conducted secret impeachment inquiries in the House basement. Schiff kept quiet about his rigged rules. He orchestrated selective media leaks from the opening statements of favorable witnesses and then more or less threatened with ethical violations any Republican member who copied his tactics and leaked their own often effective cross-examinations.
The result was that the public heard only from Schiff about Schiff’s damning slam-dunk hearings. A drip-by-drip melting of both Trump’s polls and resistance to impeachment followed.
Schiff emerged for brief soundbites, bit his lip, and for a minute or two regretted the tragedy of having to hear damaging testimony about his own president.
But then Schiff’s Hubris finally lured in Nemesis. So quo vadis? Where do the Dems go marching to now?
Next year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics may spell the swift death of the transgender movement as a dominant politically-correct touchstone.
Biological men, self-identifying as women, are poised to make a clean sweep of the Women’s Olympics, triggering a very public debate on this third-rail subject. That firestorm, pitting pro-women feminists against extreme pro-transgender progressives, will begin July 24th, just as the Presidential sweepstakes moves into its sprint to the finish line.
It could, in fact, deconstruct the entire progressive coalition. Currently, that umbrella of competing needs appears to be held together by duct tape and baling wire.
I attended two Ivy League schools (Dartmouth and Yale) some time ago, roughly the Early Paleolithic Age, and, best as I can remember, sort of liked them.
But lately I'm beginning to think the whole elite school thing has turned into one big shuck, maybe it even was then—and not just because of the revelations of all the cheating surrounding admissions or that the institutions apparently discriminate against Asians as they did against Jews back in the day.
No, it's more basic than that. These formerly august institutions have morphed into kindergartens for jejune, virtue-signaling wannabe Trotskys and Rosa Luxemburgs (a.k.a. social justice warriors) who can't even let us watch a farshtunkene football game in peace.
In the middle of this year's Harvard-Yale game last Saturday (11/23), the great activistes spewed out onto the field to demand, what else, action on climate change—delaying the game for over an hour. So why is there still an Ivy League?
Team Trump just started offering the Bull-Schiff T-shirt a few days ago and they’re selling like hotcakes. Other best-sellers are:
This is light years away from Romney’s and the Bushes’ Establishment GOP. This is straight up in-your-face. Notice to Hate America Dems, constantly outraged Lefties, RINO squishes – you all are invited to be the recipient of self-induced unlawful carnal knowledge.
When you absolutely positively need a strategy to combat anti-Trump insanity, this is it – a pure expression of The Donald’s greatest secret.
I’m going to let that cat of the bag here – despite the world’s best response to someone bugging you to tell them a secret. “Can you keep a secret?” you ask them, to which they nod with excited anticipation, “Yeah, yeah!” – and all you say is, “So can I.”
So here it is, Trump’s greatest secret, his greatest key to success:
Watching Schiff's trumped up inquiry about nothing but a phone call, the transcript of which has been available to the public for many weeks, is like watching The Caine Mutiny (1954) without the drama.
The film is about a naval captain whose first officer relieves him of his command when the man demonstrates obvious signs of mental instability. All that is missing from Schiff's on-air mental collapse are the little steel balls that Humphrey Bogart as Captain
Queeg fiddled with while on the stand at the court-martial of the mutineers.
Queeg was obsessed with missing strawberries. Schiff's impending mental breakdown is demonstrably more obvious, less subtle than Queeg's. He intends to see President Trump removed from office, no matter what. His eyes seem to radiate his inner fury and rage. He sits stone-faced while the smart people in the room destroy every bit of his carefully constructed narrative.
In December 2008, Barack Obama summarily fired every ambassador appointed by George W Bush.
The media did not care for four reasons. First, it was Barack Obama. Second, they recognized that the president controls the executive branch. Third, it was a parting shiv to Bush. Finally, it was Barack Obama.
Whether any of the ousted diplomats cried is unknown.
But now in the Trump era, as Obama-era somnambulists awake every day to a new outrage that heretofore had been considered standard operating procedure inside the Beltway, a dismissed ambassador is given hours to vent her thoughts and feelz in front of one of Capitol Hill’s most powerful committees.
If you weren’t moved by the sad tale of former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch—an Obama appointee—getting the ax by Donald Trump, according to Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, you don’t have a pulse.
Any suggestion that the wide-ranging sanctions regime the Trump administration has imposed against Iran was not having the desired effect has been roundly refuted by the nationwide protests that have erupted in response to the regime's decision to increase petrol prices.
Critics of American President Donald J. Trump's announcement that he was withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal last year and imposing a fresh round of sanctions against Tehran have argued that the measures would fail to have the desired effect.
They claimed that the ayatollahs would be able to circumvent the sanctions by trading with countries such as China, that remained committed to the nuclear deal.
Those arguments have now been decisively proved wrong – here’s why.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (front) is accompanied by Hungarian President Janos Ader, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Slovak President Zuzana Caputova and Czech President Milos Zeman at a memorial event commemorating the 30TH anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 2019
For over a decade, Moscow’s propaganda machine and its networks of agents and agents of influence have targeted Germany.
Russian narratives have played on German anger about the influx of Muslim immigrants, bolstered the political right’s hostility to change it feels threatens its values, encouraged the political left’s concerns about American influence, and inspired general unease about the consequences of the Western sanctions regime against Russia for the latter’s continuing aggression against Ukraine.
All of this has been well-documented, allowing for multiple close examinations of its impact on German domestic and foreign policies (Krym Realii, August 31, 2018; Gordonua.com, November 15, 2019; Kasparov.ru, September 27, 2014).
But now, the Kremlin is becoming involved in another “internal” German matter as part of its broader campaign to peel that country off from the West, weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union, as well as expand Russian influence there and across Europe.
Namely, Moscow is actively supporting a rise of East German separatism. Over the past several weeks, three developments have highlighted this Russian political offensive:
2019 was supposed to be Hollywood’s year of Intersectional Diversity, but the handful of good films—such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Joker, The Irishman, and now Ford v Ferrari—keep turning out to be period pieces about straight white men made for straight white men by straight white men.
Ford v Ferrari is an instant box office smash. Matt Damon plays Texan race-car impresario Carroll Shelby (one of the more glamorous names I recall from my 1968–1970 Car Craze years), and Christian Bale is inspired as Shelby’s hotheaded English test driver Ken Miles.
The impeachment charade is not working well for the Democrats. Ratings are in the ditch while the Senate salivates over the chance to hold a trial during the 2020 election year.
Nancy Pelosi has a problem. Does she convert her inquiry into a Constitutional hearing? Does she abandon all hope and open another bottle of Vodka?
People are dying in Syria, Bolivia, and Hong Kong as the will to be free and the iron fists of dictatorships clash.
This is the fourth in our series of Half Full Reports showing real-world, real-time examples of how the balance of power is shifting to those that understand networked organizational systems.
The world is changing.
Come on in, let's talk about it.
Central Planning Continues to Fail
Look around the world, and the evidence remains clear. Governments, political parties, and organizations heavily invested in central planning do not have a solution to their woes.
Some draw the sword, and others use the ballot box.
Some losers attempt to remain relevant through made-for-TV impeachment dramas.
In the end, performance and competency matter, and the will of the people shall be heard.