Cum Laude

What is your definition of Stalinism? Sorry...I should have used the more pleasant Marxism. Soory.

CBC fan by any chance? I'm assuming, yes. I tour reality.

You just displayed more common sense than anything I've seen on CNN. Personally, I enjoy listening and reading the writings of Mark Steyn.

I was watching the "news" the other day and the MSM sounds like some 3rd rate country’s government controlled media outlet. It’s really incredible. CNN in particular is transparently and eagerly attempting to say anything to discredit the Nunes memo; “partisan”, “controversial”, “disputed”, “intel agencies dispute it”, etc etc. When did the MSM become the guardians of government bureaucracy & the establishment? I was watching the Rubin report a couple days ago, and Rubin had on Jordan Peterson and Ben Schapiro together. Rubin made the remark, and I think he is correct about this, is that the type of platform and the type of guests that he had on is becoming wildly popular, and is really replacing the MSM. People actually do wanna watch a 3 hour program with very intelligent people that do not tow the government line and are perceived as ‘thoughtcriminals’ by the MSM and elites. Canadians think that a panel that includes Craig Oliver, Bob Fife, and Rosie Barton is top notch. Ahhh...Canadians.

Don’t expect this matter to go fast and furious. It is not only that the investigation of Trump’s links with Russia began with a fabricated case, but that it could become the reason for appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Trump’s illegal wiretapping, that is, creating an independent security agency that will find evidence of a Hillary’s coup d’etat.

Let's pretend the Democratic party will cease to exist? What replaces the Dems could be even worse. Given how well the Far Left has succeeded in snuffing out free speech on our nation’s college campuses, is Marxism out of the question? We should be careful what we wish for

Let’s not forget Mister and Missus Schmikle, formerly inhabitants of the White House, laughably presenting themselves as “progressives” while schmikling 150 million or so, stuffing their pockets until their pants fell down, making the rounds of Wall Street. It’s a joke really, horn-dog Bill – and Hillary as his defender – surely you jest! And let’s not talk about Bill’s role in shepherding NAFTA and other globalist schemes, all of which spelled wrack and ruin for American workers but riches for the rich. Bill is Wall Street’s boy and he was richly rewarded. These two and the Democratic Party are a lot of things but “progressives” they are not.

When we think of conspiracy theorists, the name Alex Jones will always be mentioned. Does Alex Jones work for those he "pretends" to expose? Conspiracy theories have long gotten a bad rap – by design. Conspiracies are nothing more than private plans and execution of same, a well-known and time-honored business and military strategy since time immemorial. Dubbing such plans a “conspiracy” connotes a certain nefarious illegitimacy to them – once again, by design – usually by official government authorities to crack down on those they don’t like. Meanwhile, all state-sanctioned secretive plans and strategies – all secretive “for our own good” of course – are deemed completely legitimate and above reproach – INDEED, PATRIOTIC EVEN! Funny/ironic how that works. Adding the implied derogative scientific term “theory” to the label completes the linguistic coups de gras, by explicitly implying that the idea is merely a random supposition, and thus has no grounding in fact whatsoever. [Needless to say, the same linguistic trick is employed universally against Climate Change “theorists” as well.] In short, the term “Conspiracy Theory(ist)” is used extensively, if not almost universally, as a mere label to dismiss that which the labeler does not want to hear. But even most interestingly, that opens up the question as to what questions exactly the labeler(s) are most resistant to being asked, and even more importantly, what answers are they most afraid they might find if they do? But who am I and what the hell do I really know?

I didn't know Canadian schools stilled expected students to stand for the Canuckian national anthem. I thought it was replaced by Kumbaya long ago.

Then you aren't paying attention.

Recently I asked my resident Business School director if the bond market was going to implode when benchmark interest rates go up and he said that the bond market would adjust to the incremental rate rise over time. Unfortunately, I, for one, am too skeptical to believe an Economist given their obvious bias over the last half century. Suffice to say that the low interest rate environment is a Control Fraud that parallels the bond market, and Real Estate market, plus the Dark Pool Derivatives market. When the bond market begins to show signs of imploding the Federal Reserve Chair-crony from the Giant Vampire Squid cartel will reintroduce QE Infinity, and lower the benchmark interest rates so that USD flight to Emerging Markets will be repatriated to force the USD Petrodollar up on the market. The precarious balancing act will continue on like this until China & the Russian Federation decide that America should be put into receivership so that they can sell it for pennies on the dollar.

Impact, let me tell you about a little experience I had with econ 101 professor back in the early 80’s. I was in econ 101 (macro economics) and taking second year calculus in the same semester. In calculus we were studying what happens to equations when the input values go to infinity or just get really, really big. Being the curious engineering nerd I am, I applied calc theories to the growth equations in econ and quickly determined that to meet “normal” growth rates of 5 to 7% (remember this was 1981) we would be mining more tons coal and pumping more tons of oil than the earth weighs within about 100 years. The econ professor threw me out of his office when I brought this up with him. That day I learned that economics has little foundation in reality and any time a business school muckity-muck or economist says something like “it will adjust” they really have no idea what’s going to happen. My experience in the 38 years since then tells me to hold onto my ass because it’s not going to be pretty. What are you holding on to?

My goodness, there are tons of things Trump can be successfully criticized for. But his critics, in their drooling rabidity to get him out of office, seized upon the crackpot conspiracy theory Du Jour that was floating out there when he took office, and chomped on it like a rabid dog, and continued to drool and bite into it months after it already died. And the left’s other favorite sport is calling political dissenters racists or white supremacists. A far more restrictive immigration policy is supported by most Americans. African Americans support the policies espoused by Stephen Miller over those of Chuck Schumer by about a 2 to 1 margin. And yet such views are called “white nationalist”. So leftist actually claim that most black people in this country are white nationalists. The left is absolutely insane, and will wipe out the human race if not stopped. It’s political power needs to be scaled down to a level that it deserves- instead of dominating the country’s politics and culture, it needs to have the status of a small, dangerous extremist clique.

Well, I support most of Trump’s positions, not because of the audacity of his persona, but because he sees the problems and is trying to do something, anything to get it fixed. He is infuriating a large group of elites that want him to do nothing; they are perfectly satisfied with things the way they are. His brash manner is a wake up call to these do-nothing phonies manning Washington, DC and they hate him for it. America and its government is sick, and required cures are painful.

You are absolutely correct BC, and a wage slave is often a debt slave as well. I hear so many say that they will just have to work until they die, a more retarded statement has never been made. Unless of course you are planning on dying young or hold a seat in the US Senate or Congress, but then you’re not really working. It amazes me how a simple catch phrase or cliché can justify retarded behavior in stupid people. Everyone seems to have forgotten the wisdom of old in the sayings, of “a fool and his money are soon parted”, or “never give a sucker an even break”. The horror, the horror…

As I Listen and watch Americans you can guess at some of the inter-locking wheels turning in the collective psyche. Some of that mechanism doesn’t work, for example, you hear the wheels generating paranoia grinding their gears against those powering grandeur. The mal-function manifests itself in delusion which itself affects the behavior of US foreign policy and military elites. For instance, this absurd Iranian nuclear deal: who was at the table across from Iran? The US was there, the UK, Russia, France, China and Germany. Who SHOULD have been at the table? It’s very simple, the countries in closest geographic proximity to Iran, for example, the Turks, Egyptians, Iraqis, Saudis, Syrians, Israelis, Lebanese, Russians. Iran has been military power and imperial aggressor for going on three thousand years. A long, long time IOW, long before either the US or its empire-building mother-country (Britain). And who would have suffered from Iranian mis-behavior? Its immediate neighbors, that’s who. Could it possibly be that Americans mis-read the goings-on in the middle-east? Is it possible that what powers the place has nothing to do with the US? Could it be that what Iranians do, what they think, how they behave, is all rooted in their own age-old collective interests and habits that far pre-date the age of oil and gas? As you realize, there’s shit that’s been festering for 14 centuries, ever since the inception of Islam. The middle-east is an old, old place with ancient animosities and rivalries. There’s even Chaldeans and Assyrians still kicking around. That place is ten thousand years deep. There’s mounds covering ruins of cities that date back to the ice-age. Does anyone think that Americans really have “influence” in that place? This is a fantasy. The best thing the US can do is to leave the middle-east to middle easterners to sort out.

No one is qualified to be POTUS. The job has become far too big for any one person. I can’t understand why this country doesn’t have both a president for domestic affairs, and a prime minister for foreign ones. Trump is good at the former while he’s in over his head on the latter.

And, so, by 2020 the world’s financial system will be in ruins and the mideast will be in flames. What could be more promising for our quadrennial exercise in democracy – or whatever we call it by then? -c.l.

Today I watched a circus number on CNN performed by Jake Tapper with two tamed spies – former CIA director John Brennan and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and I got a full impression that in the ranks of Clinton Nomenklatura Jake is much higher up then both spies, despite John Brennan’s effort to help levitate his carrier by converting to Wahhabism.

Good point. I'm learning to ignore him.