I am angry. It’s not a passing emotion brought on by a single circumstance. This anger is a deep, painful, abiding anger created by a mix of frustration, despair, hopelessness, and injustice. For decades I have been told to trust American institutions and if I have grievances to work harder to improve them. I have done so, far more than most Americans, and my reward has been watching corruption and ineptitude only increase.
China’s leader Xi Jinping has directed the military to bolster training in 2021 and use more hi-tech in its drills. The order comes after tense standoffs with India and Taiwan last year.
Xi, who chairs China’s Central Military Commission, ordered the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to maintain “full-time combat readiness” and to be ready to “act at any second.”
A few weeks ago I compared the emergence of the British variant of coronavirus to the twist at the end of a “Twilight Zone” episode. The entire planet spent 2020 waiting for a cure to the plague, and then it arrived to global jubilation just before New Year’s — only to be followed immediately by ominous news that a new strain of the virus had begun to circulate widely.
When editors in 2020 weren’t being fired in bunches, they were taking aim at everything from Beethoven to mermaids to skyscrapers
The year 2020 will be remembered in the real world for a terrifying pandemic, mass unemployment, a nationwide protest movement, and a historically uninspiring presidential race. The year in media, meanwhile, was marked by grotesque factual scandals, journalist-cheered censorship, and an accelerating newsroom mania for political groupthink that was equal parts frightening and ridiculous.
Every weekend — for months now — protesters gather at Calgary City Hall to protest the provincial and municipal restrictions on civil liberties meant to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
At the best of times, anybody trying to sell a hard national lockdown is going to have their work cut out for them — and this week would be even harder.
The public is rightly skeptical of the political class telling them to stay home, that would be just ‘for a few weeks’ and we’re all in this together — all while they’re jetting off to a beach.
The Star is Gung Ho – To avoid COVID’s third wave, embrace longer lockdowns, gradual relaxing of restrictions, group urges provinces
A would-be porch pirate ran into some trouble when he was caught in the act, then got caught in a snowbank while trying to flee the scene. All while being heckled by the person he was allegedly trying to rob.
stay safe , porch pirate karma for 2021 pic.twitter.com/2RDfNxsKzR
— basedengland8 (@basedengland8) January 5, 2021
A state by state analysis of the fraud allegations and what can be done.
This second of four articles covers how time-tested traditional fraud tactics dating back to Boss Tweed appear to have been used in targeted “battleground” states in 2020, how their detection revealed abundant evidence of massive fraud, but nevertheless the state courts turned a deaf ear to lawsuits. (Allegations of vote machine fraud will be the topic of a later article.)
December 14: Another 2020 Surprise. In seven states — Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes or EV), Georgia (16 EV), Michigan (16 EV) Arizona (11 EV), Wisconsin (10 EV), Nevada (6 EV), and New Mexico (5 EV) — Republican lawmakers voted to send a competing slate of Electors to Congress come January 6, 2021.
“Cuomo and de Blasio are destroying the city,” cried a local restaurateur in a recent radio ad calling on people to visit his homey Italian eatery, where they can “fuggedaboudit.” The sentiment would have fit well in New York, where countless restaurants are struggling to pay rent, and where indoor dining is again banned. The Brooklyn accent griping from my car radio seemed out of place, however, as the Palm Beach trees flew by. The restaurant is in Jupiter, Florida. I’ve never been tempted to make the half-hour drive north from Palm Beach to dine there, but deserting New York for Florida’s warmer climes is easier to understand these days.
The European Union’s investment pact with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been characterised as a “real setback for the free world” by the founder of Hong Kong Watch, as human rights campaigners, diplomats, and others chastise the bloc for cosying up to the dictatorship in Beijing.
The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) was signed in principle last week, following claims of concessions from the communist regime in Beijing. The deal, which has been characterised as the first stage of cooperation between the bloc and China, is said to pave the way for €120 billion in trade.
Amid the pandemic, some US Congressmen already appear to be spending their political capital on one thing: Appeasing the Iranian regime and pushing for a softer policy towards the mullahs. More than 100 Congressmen recently signed a letter expressing their support and urging presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden to rejoin the nuclear deal, which, incidentally, Iran never signed.
A story Vice President-elect Kamala Harris told in a months-old magazine interview about her childhood has resurfaced after readers noticed parallels to a story told by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965.
Speaking to Elle Magazine for their October cover story, Harris detailed a time when she became separated from her parents at a civil rights march in Oakland, Calif.
Heels Up is an inveterate liar.
“Back in the last century, I spent a large part of my investment career packaging up financial assets, like mortgages, into bonds – securitisation. I was heavily involved with the acquisition financing of a US home lender… which went spectacularly wrong a few years later when we discovered to our shock and absolute horror – about the same time everyone else did- that all assumptions behind sub-prime mortgage lending were pants. Pretty much ended my career in big banks…
Sub-prime was a small, but very significant part of the ABS market. When it tumbled it shook markets to the core.”
