There’s an adage that “inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.”
If there are too many consumers and not enough goods or services to go around, prices go up. And up.
Author: Blazingcatfur
U.S. Presidents Refuse to Protect the U.S. from North Korea’s Nukes
North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile on October 4 over Japan. The Hwasong-12 traveled farther downrange than any other of Pyongyang’s missiles. Setting a record pace, the test was the North’s 23rd of the year. Two days later, it fired off two short-range missiles.
The Biden administration has done little to stop the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), so that regime is likely to engage in even more provocative behavior soon.
The U.S., in response to the launch, asked for an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting, which was held on October 5th. As expected, nothing came of the session. China and Russia, blaming the United States for the North Korean launches, blocked any tightening of sanctions.
Liberal Media Spin Rising Violent Crime as Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Violent crime remains intolerably high, but the left wants you to think that perception is just a concoction of right-wing media.
After more than a decade of violent crime decreases with just a few interludes, crime has shot back up to levels not seen since the early 1990s.
When the left acknowledges this fact, it often does so by tying the violent crime increase to the sale of guns. However, there’s no evidence that the additional crimes are being committed by law-abiding gun owners.
h/t HN
Vanderbilt University Medical Center suspends transgender operations for kids – after video emerged of doctor boasting that surgeries are ‘huge money makers’
The prestigious Vanderbilt University has suspended gender altering surgeries at its medical center after outrage over claims the hospital ‘chemically castrates’ minors for financial gain.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center [VUMC] confirmed it was freezing all ‘gender affirmation surgery’ on underage patients pending a review of their processes, in response to calls from Tennessee lawmaker to investigate the hospital.
VUMC came under fire last month after conservative activist Matt Walsh released a 2018 video showing Dr. Shayne Taylor – an LGBTQ specialist at the hospital – touting transgender surgeries as ‘huge money makers’ for the hospital.
I hope we have a Nuremburg style trial for these monsters.
Why didn’t Canada designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization?
When the Trudeau government imposed sanctions earlier this month against a handful of Iranian individuals and entities for gross human rights violations such as the killing of Mahsa Amini, there was great concern that this represented the summation of the federal response to Iran’s egregious behaviour.
… Was this to deprive Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who has been championing this measure in recent days in the House of Commons, of a win? Why not truly use all the tools at the government’s disposal?
Paris Cuts the Lights to Save Energy. Will It Help?
Famed monuments are going dark early as part of a call for ‘energy sobriety’ in France
PARIS—The City of Light is going dark.
Luxury shops across the city are turning off their nighttime lights, plunging the Avenue de Montaigne and other areas renowned for evening window shopping into relative darkness. Tourists are showing up to monuments for late-night photos, only to find somber silhouettes. Even the Eiffel Tower, symbol of France’s rise as an industrialized nation, is hitting the off switch early.
Hmmmm …
🇫🇷 Tens of thousands of protesters in #Paris demand that the authorities withdraw from #NATO #NoNATO pic.twitter.com/64rMs9HClr
— Matreshka 🇷🇺🇰🇿🇨🇦 (@MatreshkaCB) October 9, 2022
Did Tucker Carlson’s Bobulinski Home Run Crack the Media Protection Racket of the Bidens?
The headline over at Fox News this last week told the tale:
Tony Bobulinski tells Tucker Carlson Joe Biden was ‘chairman’ of Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings
Fox’s Tucker Carlson — aka a real journalist — had scored another interview with one-time Biden family business associate Tony Bobulinski. And mysteriously?
New life for Musk-Twitter deal raises the Trump question
Elon Musk’s renewed interest in purchasing Twitter is again raising the prospect that its most famously banned user could be allowed back.
Former President Trump has been adamant that he will stick with Truth Social, the fledgling social media platform he helped found, regardless of whether he is welcomed back to Twitter. But experts and Trump allies believe the allure of the massive Twitter audience would be too great to resist, putting his future there front and center as the Musk deal shows new signs of life.
We all hope Musk is a savior but he has some very iffy ties to the CCP and I wonder if he hopes good PR will mitigate these serious concerns in the public eye.
OFFS, Just Stop It.
Mi’kmaw astonomer says we should acknowledge we live under Indigenous skies
As we mark Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we can consider how science as an institution has the same duty to participate in reconciliation as the rest of society does.
For science, reconciliation can mean, among others things, acknowledging the history of racism and exploitation of Indigenous people and their lands that science perpetuated. But another important part is understanding and incorporating Indigenous perspectives in research.
h/t DM
Biden’s real VP – his wife
She must know that America chose the wrong man to be president, but except for cringing when he is really bad, she says nothing.
Biden’s real VP is his wife.
Have you seen them in the same room recently?
There is no such thing as divorce between a president and his vice president…the Constitution never figured on this…and yet it appears to be a rift between Joe and Kamala.
He snubs her, she ignores him, and they are seldom seen together nowadays…and people are wondering what went wrong. Or, what took so long.
Trans row mother-of-five Caroline Farrow recounts her ordeal at the hands of the Twitter police
Caroline Farrow, a mother of five, despairs of the petty crime and anti-social behaviour afflicting her Surrey village. Youths vandalising the bus stop, shoplifting, taking pot shots at windows with catapults, keying cars.
But try getting the police to act, says Mrs Farrow, a 48-year-old priest’s wife and Catholic commentator, and your entreaty will invariably fall on deaf ears. When teenagers refused to climb down from the roof of a convenience store, police said it was a ‘civil matter’, refusing to get involved.
Still, there was a rare sighting of a patrol car in the village at around 4.45pm last Monday. Blue lights flashing, it sped not towards the latest vandalism scene but the Farrow household. Officers hammered on the door, barged inside and told Mrs Farrow she was under arrest.
China: The Immovable Supreme Leader
When he took over as China’s leader 10 years ago, President Xi Jinping was hailed by Western experts and media as a man who would open the path for major political reforms to reflect the rising tiger’s economic transformation. Some even saw him as a wiser version of Mikhail Gorbachev and speculated that he might adopt the end-of-history narrative by accepting democratization as the only option for a modern industrial power.
A decade later, however, we know how wrong those assessments of Xi were. As he prepares for the coming National Conference of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) starting 16 October, Xi may be the subject of another misunderstanding. This time he is presented as an ambitious autocrat whose dream of world domination threatens the fragile world order in place since the end of the Cold War.
Another Challenge to New York’s Gun Law: Sheriffs Who Won’t Enforce It
LYONS, N.Y. — Robert Milby, Wayne County’s new sheriff, has been in law enforcement most of his adult life, earning praise and promotions for conscientious service. But recently, Sheriff Milby has attracted attention for a different approach to the law: ignoring it.
Sheriff Milby is among at least a half-dozen sheriffs in upstate New York who have said they have no intention of aggressively enforcing gun regulations that state lawmakers passed last summer, forbidding concealed weapons in so-called sensitive areas — a long list of public spaces including, but not limited to, government buildings and religious centers, health facilities and homeless shelters, schools and subways, stadiums and state parks, and, of course, Times Square.
Jamie Sarkonak: The Ontario homicide case that has ended racial fairness in court
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled late September that the criminal records of Indigenous persons can be excluded from their trials to preserve fairness. Trial fairness, to Ontario’s top court, means creating race-based procedural rules to supposedly make up for the effects of systemic racism. In other words, these rules aren’t fair at all.
Russian governors threaten missile attacks on Ukraine’s ‘big cities’ in a ‘desire to seek revenge’ for the Crimea bridge explosion as top Putin propagandist calls for total war and return to brutal Stalinist-era operations
Top pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is demanding a brutal Stalinist response to ‘plunge Ukraine into dark times’ and round up all Russians against total war in the wake of the humiliating hit on the Crimean Bridge.
Alluding to an enemy within, Solovyov called for a return of the notorious Stalin-era SMERSH counter-intelligence to crush all internal opposition to a full-scale war against Ukraine.
SMERSH, whose motto was ‘Death to Spies’, was a conglomeration of counterintelligence agencies used by Stalin to root out and obliterate those trying to subvert his regime during and after World War II.