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What Was the Riot in Bristol About?
Published by: November 8, 2022 Category: Interesting placesAuthor: Kane Nedane
The riot in Bristol refers to a series of major riots that took place in the city. The events that took place ranged from 'Kill the bill' demonstrations to 'Third Dragoons' protests. There were also police moves of protestors from the road.
'Kill the bill' protests
The 'Kill the bill' protests that erupted in Bristol this weekend were marred by shocking police brutality. Protesters were outraged by proposed changes to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) bill, which would limit the right to protest, restrict the duration and end times of protests, and increase the severity of the punishments for protesters who cause serious annoyance.
The demonstrations continued last night, leading to the arrest of 14 people. The police say that a large number of people were injured and several police officers were hurt. Police also released images of 10 people involved in the Bristol riot. The national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales said that his colleagues in Bristol feel under siege.
The protests in Bristol turned violent and the police claimed that several people were injured, including two police officers. Police have defended their actions, claiming that they were trying to prevent violent acts. But the protesters have been claiming that police used their shields as weapons. Police claim that they were just using their shields to keep away demonstrators.
Police have also charged several people with riot offences, which is the most serious public order offence. The charges stem from the protests held in Bristol last year, which were triggered by the proposed crime bill. The charges are rare for political protests but can result in jail terms of up to ten years.
The police continue to hunt people accused of the protests, and more people could be arrested and convicted of rioting. Some of those arrested are homeless, while others have mental health and learning problems. One of the people arrested during the protests, Ryan Roberts, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempted set-alighting a police van. Roberts has ADHD and lives on the fringes of society.
'Third Dragoons'
The 'Third Dragoons riot in Bristol of 1831 has many tragic and unjust consequences. The rioters burned down homes and other property and many were caught in the flames. Molten lead literally fell on people as the buildings burned. It is estimated that several hundred people died in this incident. In addition to Bristol, riots occurred in Coventry, Warwick, and Bath. These riots caused serious damage to the cities and were a cause of concern for the British government. In addition to this, the mayor of Bristol was arrested and later exonerated of all charges. The Bristol Political Union was also disassociated from the riots, and many citizens signed up as special constables.
In addition to burning buildings, the rioters also attacked businesses and houses of worship. They targeted clergy, wealthy merchants, and the finance industry. They also attacked prisons and toll houses. One man was even able to get into the Mansion House while dressed as a postillion and escaped. Later, rioters burned down three prisons in the city.
The riot in Bristol began after a statement from Sir Charles Wetherell, the Recorder of Bristol. A petition of 17,000 signatures had been circulated in the city in support of reform. The MP, who had been elected to represent the town, represented a group of rich merchants.
The riot in Bristol is a horrendous event. The 3rd Dragoon Guards were involved in the riot. Many people are still enraged by what happened. They'd like to know what caused this.
Police moving people from the road
The police moved people from the road during the riot in the city centre. Protesters were chanting "Kill the bill" and hurling objects at officers. Some were throwing glass bottles and cones. Others were playing music. A police van had been destroyed in the riot.
The riot was triggered by a raft of government policies. Bristol is the latest city to hold a protest against the controversial Police and Crime Bill. It is the third major demonstration against the legislation in a week. Police used riot gear to disperse the crowd, moving them away from the city centre. Mounted police also walked through the crowd, moving people from the road.
In a tweet, the Home Secretary declared that violent criminality will not be tolerated and that "order and civil peace are vital". While it is important to protect your rights, violence and disorder is not an acceptable means of protest. It is also unacceptable and inexcusable to injure police officers.
The riot in Bristol was not a good scene for anyone, particularly those who live close to the city centre. It is not clear how many people were injured or arrested. But police are appealing for information that could lead to the arrest of ten people. The Avon and Somerset Police Commissioner said the incident showed a reckless disregard for lives.
The protesters stayed mostly in the park, with a small number of people gathered on the street outside the park. Some of them chose to sit on the road. One woman shouted "Get off her, leave her alone."
Violence against protestors
The recent unrest in Bristol has prompted calls for greater reforms in policing. The protests were sparked by elements of the Policing Bill which target the travelling community. Protesters had set up tents and were ready to hold a peaceful day of action. However, police in riot gear attacked them and brutalised them. In the process, they also manhandled journalists and arrested 14 people.
The violent attacks on people protesting on the streets of Bristol were carried out by police using shield edges as weapons, CS spray, dogs and baton strikes. The Home Secretary has made clear that any form of disorder will not be tolerated. But police indiscriminate violence against protestors during a demonstration is unjustified and inexcusable. In a statement, a protester said: "It's important to remain peaceful when you're protesting peacefully."
The protests in Bristol started peacefully but turned violent as the evening wore on. Some protesters smashed windows and set fire to marked police vehicles. They also vandalized the police station and left graffiti strewn along the streets. At least two police officers were injured and rushed to the hospital.
The police are currently searching for up to 34 more people. They are investigating the riot and will be presenting further charges. At least three of those people have admitted guilt. This may be due to compelling evidence that investigators have gathered or they may have finally realised that their actions were too extreme.
According to a report from an all-party parliamentary group, there was significant police violence against protestors, including the use of dogs, shield strikes and batons. The report also found significant violence against police officers. At least 62 protesters sustained injuries during the riot. Some suffered head injuries, while others had broken bones. In one case, one man had a broken jaw.
Political meddling
After the riot in Bristol, a number of elected officials have taken a keen interest in the operational policing decisions made in the area. One example is Priti Patel's decision to publicly criticize the removal of a statue commemorating the slave trader Edward Colston. She has called for an explanation from the chief constable. Another example is Boris Johnson's support for the police version of events following the "kill the bill" protests.
Despite the arrest of four people for rioting in Bristol, a further 34 people are sought by detectives. Many are homeless, and some are thought to have mental or learning difficulties. One man, Ryan Roberts, is said to have been living on the fringes of society and attempted to set fire to a police van. He was sentenced to 14 years in December.
The police's use of force against protesters is controversial. In Bristol, the rioters attacked police vehicles. One police van drove down Newgate, and protesters chased it. As night fell, the demonstrators became more violent. Sisters Uncut, who organise Kill the Bill marches in cities across the UK, were at the riot. The Bristol Anarchist Federation and members of regional anarchist organizations were also there.
In the aftermath of the riot, police charged dozens of young protesters with rioting, the most serious public order offense. However, the police have not finished bringing the perpetrators to justice. The proposed legislation could lead to the conviction of protesters and could result in a jail sentence.
The police also released ten photos of people they wanted to trace. Some activists and journalists criticized the policing bill. Some were arrested for assaulting police officers.


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Whatever Happened to the Heroes? Punk, Trotsky, Che Chic and the consumption of revolutionary icons
Apr 9, 2020·5 min read
Wandering down steaming ramen shopping alleys from Tokyo's Koenji to Ueno in the mid-aughts, I was overcome by the ubiquity of Che Guevara's image on t-shirts in cheap military gear and punk shops. In the suburbs of Saitama, his likeness also punctuated the crowded roads lined by Marui and Seibu department stores. The irony of Marxist iconography being commodified is well known, but I couldn't help feel perplexed with Che's presence in a culture more conformist than my ganga-infused, DIY, punk East Vancouver home city where Che shirts seemed a right of passage, once upon a time. This is not to say the image of Che belongs any more in Vancouver. In fact, the appropriateness of using his image to signify revolution at all should be called into question given his thirst for murder and his homophobia. But how does the imported icon of Che Guevara relate to the logo worship of Kitty-chan and brand fetishism of Louis Vuitton in Japan? Especially with emerging trend of uniformity of no logo in brands like Muji and Uniclo. In my hometown, I have always wondered why and how icons of revolution project the views of wearers. Is it earnest social consciousness with awareness of the history behind the image? Irony? Naive rebelliousness? Further, why do we need to import our heroes and do those heroes signify truly subversive revolution?
The Stranglers song "No More Heroes" mourns the lack of sufficient revolutionary representatives by asking "whatever happened to Leon Trotsky…" a Marxist ledgend listed among several famous figures such as Lenin and Shakespeare. The 1977 punk song, as well as the punk movement, seemed to sense an absence of contemporary examples as it sought to cleave itself from the mainstream. Indeed, of cultural and ideological movements such as Literature, Trotsky argues continutiy of literary expression is dialectical and a series of reactions to and from which it is trying to break. The foundation of Punk was a break from the reliance on old, conservative forms that were less relevant to an increasingly restless urban culture. If one were to align punk with Trotsky's idealized proletariat, the revolutionary individual is one who changes culture and history by seizing and modifying it. But wearing a mass-produced Che shirt feebly hints at the wearer's rebelliousness. Even worn in sincerity, the ubiquity of the image alone has deadened the meaning. In most cases, the emergence of what Newsweek called "Che Chic" seems a non-revolutionary act of consumerism.
"No More Hereos" cites other famous figures such as Elmyr de Hory, famous for forging great paintings and it seems ironic that the Stranglers exalt a copyist, but I believe it references de Hory's ability to master the art of copying and undermine the legitimacy of the original paintings. Furthermore, the song "No More Heroes" itself became embattled in copyright litigation a few decades later against Elastica's too-familiar sounding "Waking up" echoing the tenous legitimacy of original, revolutionary art.
The key point of contention is whether or not the wearer of any pop or cult image is fully aware of the history of the signs they use. In the postmodern, capitalist exchange of icons and logos, the individual is too often worn by the logo. (I marvel, for instance at the prevalence of Disney paraphernalia and its cult of innocence in Japan, despite the company's historical use of characters as Japanese stereotypes in anti-Japanese WWII propaganda). One can be a chameleon without much accountability to the idea from which the image or cultural use emerged. This is as potentially liberating, as it is a meaningless repetition of mass culture. The rift between images and their origins allows us to use them in a way that can potentially challenge long-stale stereotypes or challenge rigid meaning to make it dialectical. It is not a given that the image of Che is one we should revere, given the accounts of his less-celebrated brutality.
My excursions to Tokyo's goth Mecca, Harajuku as both spectator and spectacle confirms that repetition of subculture can turn into a completely different expression from some of the same inspiration. A subculture like Goth in Japan is multiply-removed from one of its iterations via late 70s punk in the UK, yet is uniquely expressive of youth culture in its colourful Japanese interpretation, which itself has now been (mis)appropriated by North American pop idols.
But does Guevara, transfigured to a silk-screened face, long-since separated from the contested history of the "hero" himself, a hint of global consciousness? The rash of Che paraphernalia became popular in the 1960's and more recently spawned by the popular film The Motorcycle Diaries. Che Chic does not seem to capture the revolutionary spirit it had in the past because his image has been generally resurrected through consumerism and fashion, rather than ideological means. He has been donned by everyone from celebrities to left-wing college idealists. Is it possible to be aware of the irony, dismissing the claim that image never had authentic meaning? I am aware of my own hypocrisy here purchasing the 150th Anniversary Communist Manifesto from a huge, Canadian retailer Chapters, instead of my local, non-profit, socialist bookstore that had a cheeky sign at one point to liberate any books they did not have in stock at one of the bookstore giants. Yet, I have also delighted in buying American soda with Che's image on the bottle and own a tin Lenin lunchbox (barcode and all) as a playful comment on the exchange between communist ideology and capitalist reality. How can one be ironic or visibly expressive as a means to counter the mass replication and homogeneity of culture?
The last few decades has brough more playful incarnations of Che, allowing for the questioning of his image and legacy. Challenging monoculture and heternormativity, Comedian Margaret Cho modeled her likeness after Che in her one-woman show Revolution, using Guevara's icon as a new means to express multiple cultural revolutions. Cho's appropriation may be the most subversive because the parody of Cho wearing Che calls attention to the lack of representation of women and people of colour among revolutionary icons. The only female icon on t-shirts I can think of is Rosie the Riveter, who is not only fictional, but her edginess has been lost in a deluge of blasé, retro imagery on mugs and magnets aimed at women including "wine mom". At least more humorous play with Che's image recently includes drag, artisitc reinterpretations and commingling with other political heroes. For instance, Obama wearing a Che shirt wearing an Obama shirt hyperbolizes casual use of political iconography including Obama's 2008 Hope poster in an endless play of signifiers. While a conscious play with Che's symbolic meaning gives a glimmer of hope, I question how the image of revolution is being sold or misused as part of the mass culture of the individual. Revolution, transgression and anti-conformity can all be worn, but do they challenge or repeat? In a tacit responsibility for the individual to be a wearer and a thinker. We just may never know which it is until we open a dialogue about it.
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© 2016 Jim Spence - It is a strange sort of a thing. America is pretty much the wealthiest country on the planet and yet fewer and fewer adults seem to understand why. We are now on at least our third generation of poorly educated Americans.
According to my favorite college professor Walter Williams, America is getting more uninformed every year. He cites a 2011 investigation by WSB-TV in Atlanta. The investigation found that, "More than 700 Georgia teachers had repeatedly failed at least one portion of simple certification tests they were required to pass before receiving a teaching certificate. It gets worse. Nearly 60 teachers had failed the test more than 10 times, and one teacher had actually failed the test 18 times. There were 297 teachers on the Atlanta school system's payroll who had failed the state certification test five times or more." And yet these people are paid taxpayer dollars to "teach" kids. It is the blind leading the blind.
Atlanta's public education system is not an isolated situation. School teachers spend four years in colleges of education all over America learning so many things that are just not so. Accordingly, they do not understand wealth creation and they have no idea how America has achieved such high living standards.
Everyone loves to eat the economic fruit from America's magnificent orchards, without any emphasis on understanding how economic trees produce such wonderful fruit. Wealth creation is not rocket science. Several thousand years ago human beings separated themselves from the rest of the animal kingdom thanks to superior intellect. It was our brain power that made us wealthy, not having more "stuff."
Marxism, which is essentially a jealous theology, prefers to try to appeal to the simpletons. Socialists blame people who have more "stuff," and assume they got their "things" by exploiting others, rather than by producing. To those who are inclined towards envy and jealousy instead of productive capabilities, the simplistic solutions of wealth confiscation and wealth re-distribution that socialism offers have great appeal. The only thing the ambitious Marxist politician need do, once he or she has convinced the masses that everyone's "stuff" should be equal, is to get them to support policies that confiscate and re-distribute "stuff." Democrats love this romantic goal. They use catchy names like"income equality" to describe state sponsored theft. It is as if they want us to believe that income is created by some sort of spontaneous combustion and that all fair minded people need do to solve economic problems, is spread the stuff around that already exists…….more "equally."
Jonah Goldberg wrote a column recently that pointed to the fallacy of this view using the woeful example of Venezuela in 2017. Venezuela has more of a very valuable "thing" than any other nation on earth. The country is sitting on the largest proven oil reserves in the world. So the question that is begging to be asked is this: Why would a nation with hundreds of billions of dollars (if not trillions) worth of oil, have a population that is suffering from starvation and lawlessly violent anarchy?
Venezuelans are starving because the Marxists in charge there ignore the basic facts about wealth creation. Real wealth is not merely proven oil reserves. Wealth creation requires the intellectual capability to bring oil to market as well as a legal system that protects the efforts of the producers who do so. In socialist Venezuela, nobody knows or cares how to produce……especially the Marxists in charge there. Since Marxists have a mental block and think stuff re-distribution is the key, there is precious little stuff left for Hugo Chavez's successor Nicolas Maduro to re-distribute. The country is bankrupt.
The pattern in Venezuelan is all too familiar in human history despite the fact that these patterns are almost never taught to Americans in our public education system. Like the Democrats in America's decaying urban centers, Venezuelan Marxists are so obsessed with crushing business incentives they have run all of the productive people who know how to convert oil into cash out of the country. So while Venezuela still sits on huge pools of valuable stuff, the country has no ability to create wealth and the people starve.
The points here are simple. When anti-business types are in charge and do not encourage productive intellect, or productive activities, useful raw materials like oil or iron deposits become worthless.
Productive human beings have been combining the use of raw material, labor, and capital to raise living standards for all of recorded history. However, for at least three generations America has been populating the U.S. education system with teachers who do not understand these fundamental historical truths. If this trend in our education system continues, eventually it will lead to a catastrophic decline in U.S. living standards.
The tax reforms signed into law last week actually encourage wealth creation, innovation, and higher living standards for all. But don't expect school teachers to extol the virtues of these policies. Most public "educators" are uneducated. They have no clue why Venezuelans are starving. They have been conned into thinking re-distribution and income equality are the keys to living standards instead of encouraging productive intellect.
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© 2016 Jim Spence - Kristi and I own a couple of small businesses. We also own shares of more than a dozen publicly traded companies. And through exchange traded funds, we own shares of thousands of other public companies.
The processes are the same for all of our private and publicly owned businesses. Each business provides products and services to customers. These businesses make payrolls, collect and forward gross receipts taxes to states, make profit sharing contributions to employee retirement accounts, help pay for health insurance, pay other overhead (rent, utilities etc.). These businesses all comply with a myriad of costly rules and regulations. And if all goes well, most of these companies will have profits at the end of the year and write more checks to the state and federal government to cover the taxes on those profits. If there are NO profits, as shareholders the losses are OUR LOSSES. Because losses hurt financially, NOBODY is willing to share OUR losses……we simply lose OUR money.
You have to laugh at the words Democrats and their buddies in the media have been using to describe the new tax reform law. Let's see, it has been called: looting, ransacking, a heist, a theft, and a giveaway.
Now mind you, I don't have the largest vocabulary in the world, but I do know the meaning of these terms. However for those of you who need to brush up on your language skills, I pulled up the definitions for these words just to make sure I was getting it right. The terms "heist" and "theft" are synonyms. They mean stealing. The term "ransacking" is stealing too, but it also involves doing physical damage to property while stealing goods. The term "looting" is stealing goods, typically during a riot or a war. To receive a "giveaway" is to receive something of value for free without paying for it.
It is important to recognize in the paragraph above regarding our business holdings, that we pay taxes on, "OUR" profits."
Consider the language Democrats use to describe the adjustment in policy on OUR profits, assuming we are fortunate enough to have any. Democrats say that because this new tax reform law will require us to send a reduced percentage of OUR profits to the government, WE ARE ENGAGED IN THEFT.
Yes, we are receiving giveaways. We are looting. We are ransacking. We are heisting. Yep, people that millions of Democrats vote for, accuse us of stealing and damaging others property, because government passed a law that says government will be TAKING A LITTLE LESS of our income.
It would seem that Democrats and the media want people to ignore the fundamental nature of both profit and loss. They want voters to believe that private citizens and corporations don't own their private income, they are just responsible for covering all losses.
Theft and stealing are simple concepts to understand. First the thief needs to identify something that belongs to someone else that he or she wants. And then the thief figures out a way to take it away. Of course, stealing is immoral. And this is the essential point. According to Democrats, none of whom voted for this new law, requiring a little less in taxes from taxpayers, is not a change in economic strategy......it is "stealing." Stealing is immoral and so is anyone who votes for tax relief according to Democrats.
Sorry folks. Kristi and I are not thieves. Neither are millions of other risk takers. Private property, private income, and private operating losses exist. In the world of Democrats, everything belongs to government and it is to be distributed only as government sees fit. In the Democrat's world, since government owns all income streams, if a certain group, let's call them taxpayers, gets some tax burden relief……….this is a heist, this a theft, this is ransacking, this is looting. These taxpayers are receiving a giveaway, because none of those profits in question, only the losses, belong to the taxpayers.
What has just been described is Marxism. Not only is it Marxism, it is totalitarian Marxism. Sadly, and thanks to our failed public education system, the entertainment industry, and a Democrat-dominated news media, voters are being told that honest taxpayers are stealing. What they are not willing to admit is that you can't steal from yourself.
My hero Walter Williams suggests that if any entity is a thief it is government, not taxpayers. I'm with him. We all recognize liars and cheats when we see them, and they have been hurling false accusations around pretty freely lately.
Not a single Democrat in Congress voted to help America get more competitive.
© 2016 Jim Spence - Polls, polls, polls. Let's see, the wisest tax policy to pass Congress in sixteen years is supposedly UNPOPULAR, according to the latest "polls." Not a single Democrat in Congress voted to help America get more competitive.
The same people who were designing polls that told us in no uncertain terms that Hillary Clinton had an 88% chance of winning the presidency thirteen months ago and Trump had virtually none, tell us tax reform is not wanted by the majority of Americans.
Here is the sad fact. The media and many of the pollsters working for the media hate Trump more than they want America to be competitive. Democrats, with ever-dependable assists from their friends who actually do these polls are now commissioning polls that cleverly ask people if they are tired of the term "fake news." This is pretty rich since most news media outlets are despised simply because they report fake news. Bogus polls are media damage control operations. Media operators must think if the public hears that "polls" say they are tired of the "term" fake news often enough, people will reverse their opinion of the media. Smear merchants that engineer robot driven Twitter campaigns and draw reporter's attention to the......."Public's reactions on Twitter," are quite desperate to stem the tide of distrust directed at their buddies in the media.
Know this. Most polls are not designed to get a better sense of what the public thinks. Instead, the questions asked by pollsters are designed to SHAPE what the public thinks. I never read polls anymore. The evidence is clear. You cannot trust polls for obvious reasons.
Sadly, all of America is under a constant avalanche of media manipulation. And the horrific lie being told today will be that the benefits of corporate tax reform will only help the "rich." This the oldest bad economic policy scam in the book. Democrats play this con on America all day and every day. It goes like this. "If you want to keep what you earn, what belongs to you, you are greedy. However, if Democrats want to take something that someone else worked for.....for themselves, or to give to their "constituents" in exchange for their votes.........Democrats are deemed, "compassionate."
Democrats continue to pretend that the best way to run a society is for the worker drones to tender all their resources to Democrats to distribute as the elite Democrats see fit. Anyone who objects to the con is greedy.
Of course what Democrats never tell anyone, is they cannot force business people to engage in enterprises that are beneficial to society. When big government gets so greedy it steals too much of the fruit of people's labors, the people doing those labors adapt. In the real world, a world Democrats rarely visit before proposing economic policies, paycheck-writing business people constantly adapt their behavior to confiscatory scams foisted on them by Democrats. The result of Democrat economic policy is almost always fewer jobs and the lowering of living standards. If you are not sure of this ask a Venezuelan worker. Or read this story.
In the global markets most nation's want their businesses to be hyper-competitive on the tax front. However, Democrats, because they want to control all of the fruits of everyone's labors, never concede the simple fact that businesses can go to friendlier tax environments in jurisdictions outside the U.S. to get more competitive. The tax reform bill that will pass today addresses the realities of a heavy tax on domestic businesses that has caused America to not be a very competitive place to operate. Shamelessly, Democrats insist on clinging to a stubborn narrative that says any level of taxation in the U.S. that is lowered to match those levels of confiscation oversees, is a mean-spirited "giveaway" to nasty "corporations." The people who make payroll are cast as evil by Democrats. It is as if Democrats think letting companies keep what they earn is a "giveaway." This is language perversion.
Not a single Democrat in Congress voted to help America get more competitive. They simply do not care about competitiveness. They care about being able to,"Take something that someone else worked for.....for themselves, or to give to their "constituents" in exchange for their votes."
This tax reform law will serve as a beckoning call to job creators to bring their wage-paying operations back here, so Americans can have those jobs. That Democrats lie about this fundamental truth is the greatest economic scandal of our lifetimes.
So here we are. Questions that are intentionally deceitful lay the foundation for fake poll results that suggest that the tax reform law is UNPOPULAR. Fake polls, fake news, and worst of all fake Democrats. If Democrats have their way, there will be coal in everyone's stocking. But wait, I thought Democrats hated coal?
Posted by Jim Spence on Tuesday, December 19, 2017
© 2016 Jim Spence - It is almost comical to watch the so-called tax reform process unfold. The same thing happens every time our Senators and Congressmen seem to forget that rich people are rich for a reason, and it is not because government has not tried hard enough to confiscate what belongs to them. Rich people pay attention to what is going on and they adapt quickly, often in advance. That is why they are rich.
Some people (Democrats) think that government should always dominate the free market to protect the people from businesses which they view as almost always predatory. Essentially, they think that government is not part of the market.
Here is a news flash. Government has been part of the market for thousands of years. Markets came first and then shortly after came government. It is a FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH that markets take into account every factor and force……especially the immense force of government.
Smart people have been navigating around government dominated markets for thousands of years. The biggest and worst governments that have ever ruled did so in places like Nazi Germany, the USSR, Communist China, North Korea, and Venezuela. In all of these places the big government socialists actually completely destroyed private enterprise in favor of government controls of everything. They did so in the name of saving the people from predatory businesses. However, in doing so these great big governments WERE the entire market and in every case government turned out be a horrible combination of both predatory and incompetent.
In many places like China and Russia the big government proponents have since reformed things a bit and allowed market forces to at least provide FOOD for the people. However, in places like Venezuela and North Korea the government continues to micro-manage everything including the food market. The result? People are starving in Venezuela and North Korea while their leaders bash others for their failures.
Still U.S. Democrats think if government could just get bigger, it could create "income equality" simply by soaking the rich even more. Democrats refuse to concede they can do no such thing unless they drive down median incomes by a substantial margin, as is the case in Venezuela and North Korea where almost everyone is equally poor.
Back to tax reform. Not all taxes are coming down. Some are going up. And already the phones are ringing. With Congress apparently set to pass tax reform as soon as this evening or tomorrow, high state income taxpayers have an opportunity to snag some last minute tax savings that will end on December 31st.
Assuming the tax reform bill passes the House today and the Senate tonight or tomorrow, it will be wise for many high bracket taxpayers in high tax states all around the country to PAY THEIR FINAL ESTIMATED STATE INCOME TAX PAYMENT THIS YEAR, instead of waiting until January of next year. In 2018, subject to some restrictions, the state income tax deduction on your federal tax return will go away. The window for this significant deduction closes in just twelve days.
Again, this is the sort of thing that happens every time there is a TAX INCREASE on something. Democrats and Republicans never think of the consequences that are unintended. Mainly they don't think about these things because there are rarely any consequences for them for what they do to the rest of us.
Don't worry, the class warriors (Democrats) will continue to blame every ill in the world on rich people and try to change some other portion of their favorite confiscation procedures to tax the rich and help the poor, just like they do in Venezuela and North Korea. Sadly, in those places the poor people don't need any more help from big government worshipers. What they need is bread.
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Continuing education requirements for ALL journalists is long overdue
© 2016 Jim Spence - It is far past the time when journalists should be required to take continuing education courses. Pay attention to what is happening out there in the world for fifty years or so and you can't help but notice how our fundamental culture of investigative journalism has changed. Over the past few weeks I've documented how absurd the profession of journalism has become, with one bogus story after another plastered all over the airwaves and headlines. Even hardcore leftists are conceding that the coverage of Trump is way over the top in terms of being negative. They quickly add that this is "OK," because he is such a reprobate and deserves it. Sadly, there is a much bigger issue to correct here than the news media hating Trump's guts (minus Fox) or even that journalists fawned all over Obama for eight years (minus Fox of course).
Here are a couple of questions that beg answers: Is the epidemic of fake news a widespread conspiracy? Are false stories offered up intentionally by ethically-challenged journalists?
You have to take a few steps back to answer this question honestly and objectively. It is critical to understand how the investigative news reporting process has changed mightily since the days of Woodward and Bernstein. Think of the book and film, All the President's Men. The book and film documented the mostly meticulous process of tracing the money paid to Watergate burglars by Nixon's re-election campaign, until their work brought down a presidency. However, at one stage in the reporting process, Woodward and Bernstein took a bad short cut when they published a bogus assertion regarding grand jury testimony. Woodward and Bernstein made the mistake of answering a question in their story that was never asked at the grand jury proceeding. Forty-three years ago there was hell to pay for journalists reporting in error.
Let's fast forward to 2017. This is the year when the media seems to be publishing and then pulling, retracting, or correcting a false story every week. And every single story that has been corrected or pulled, has been a phony negative story AGAINST Trump. How can it be that the news media's mistakes are all harmful to one side? Isn't this evidence of a conspiracy? Are journalists intentionally running with negative stories about Trump they know to be false?
My answer would be NO they are not......but with a caveat. In a brilliant column over the weekend Jonah Goldberg suggests that what journalists are no longer bothering to do is vet the stories they want very much to be true. Instead they just run them. It is mindful of what Dan Rather did at CBS to harm the Bush campaign in 2004. Rather's sloppy unprofessional behavior forced him to resign in disgrace. Amazingly, behavior like Rather's now occurs on a weekly basis these days.
Did Dan Rather knowingly run with a false story? I don't think so. Rather simply wanted the false story to be true so much, he essentially believed it without doing any real work to verify it. There is a distinction between lying intentionally and believing someone else's lie. Sadly, Rather was already DEEP in unprofessional territory when he crossed the line. He got what he deserved.
Over the last couple of months I have urged readers to buy a copy of, The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote. CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson should be given a medal for writing this book.
It might be time for journalism schools to use this work as a textbook to clean up their profession. It is strange that journalists are one of the few professions that do not, through self-regulation, require continuing education. The arrogance shows.
There are still a few people left in the journalism profession who are not simply naked partisan advocates. But they are getting harder to find. Sadly, because government is so powerful and the stakes in elections are so high, journalists are being overwhelmed by information from hundreds if not thousands of shady political operatives who try to herd them like cattle or sheep in the direction they want them to go. Reporters want the tripe they are fed to be true. So they run with it because they by and large are not disciplined professionals. In the end, as long as 80-90 percent of all journalists want every negative story plant they are fed by smear merchants to be true, the vetting of all the crass anti-Trump propaganda will be minimal just as the pro-Obama propaganda was.
One aspect of this national disgrace that is almost comical is how many journalists scratch their heads and wonder why the news media and journalists are despised by a vast majority of Americans in every poll. This is called denial. It is time for continuing education classes to be required of journalists.
Posted by Jim Spence on Thursday, December 14, 2017
The New York Times and CNN have spent an incredible amount of energy discussing a rumor that Donald Trump really likes Diet Coke and drinks a bunch of them every day. The CNN panel seemed particularly critical of the president for his consumption vice. This Tony Branco cartoon says it all when it comes to how the media covers Trump.
© 2016 Jim Spence - The Democrat's post election Trump "strategy" reads like a first grade reader. Try as they might, the Democrat's Russian Collusion narrative has failed. It has failed even with titanic efforts by the American news media to make the Democrat's false narrative stick.
It turns out that the two biggest stories coming out of all the investigations into the Democrat's Russian collusion claims were backfires that blew up in their own faces. The facts regarding the Clinton Foundation and Russia clearly show that Bill and Hillary actually were colluding with the Russians eight years ago when she was Secretary of State. The deal was insidious. The Russians procured 20% of the U.S. uranium supply, and in return for their influence peddling out of the State Department, the Clintons received millions and millions of dollars in Russian "contributions" to the tax-free wing of their campaign known as the Clinton Foundation.
The other Russian "collusion" backfire was the revelation that Wikileaks was working with some Russian hackers when they released emails that clearly showed the Democratic National Committee was colluding with Hillary Clinton to cheat Bernie Sanders at every turn during the Democratic primary season.
So........it turns out the Russians may have interfered in the 2016 election by exposing the fact that the Clintons screwed Bernie. Of course none of this gets much press coverage because the press wants to get Trump not the Clintons.
Now that this Russian scam is not working what is the "new" plan for the Democrats? First let's identify what the new plan does not involve. Rest assured the new Democrat plan is not to offer policy proposals that have been proven to work. The Democrats entire policy existence for decades has been to keep defending nonsensical policies they have implemented and extended that DON'T WORK. And if you think about it, because Democrats have no ideas that actually work, they have not been particularly interested in actually grinding it out on the campaign trail. In 2016, Hillary seemed content with the frequent hurling of racist and sexist accusations against Trump. The idea of making her case that what Obama did was good, and doing so in the battleground states, never crossed her mind.
So what is the new plan? Are we finally going to talk about intelligent policies? Nope. The new plan is to talk about sex. Its a monkey see monkey do approach. After seeing one high profile Democrat after another get caught engaging in sexual misconduct (Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, John Conyers, and Al Franken) the new Democrat plan has become obvious. The Democrats decided last week to politically burn Conyers and Franken at the stake with no due process. And now that these two men have been convinced by other Democrats to resign in disgrace, Democrats are demanding that the contrived smears against Roy Moore and Donald Trump produce a Democrat Senator from Alabama and a White House resignation.
Now, it may well be that the people of Alabama won't be able to see through what is surely a David Brock-orchestrated character assassination of Roy Moore. However, it is also a safe bet that Donald Trump won't be falling for the latest Democrat con job.
It is a funny thing. All of this sexual misconduct has suddenly produced moral outrage on the part of Democrats. It is as if their moral compasses were buried inside a time capsule since the days when Bill Clinton served as Predator in Chief, only to be magically released when it has become politically useful to not call his victims "bimbos."
Wow. That is some plan. What Democrats are doing now should really help America solve its problems.
The Trump announcement that the U.S. was going to not just recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel but formulate plans to move the U.S. Embassy there drew some sharp criticism from partisan Democrats. It is the latest round of hypocrisy that seems to know no boundaries. All you have to do to understand how stupid Democrats think people are is watch this video of president's Clinton, Bush, and Obama SAYING THE EXACT SAME THING about Israel and Jerusalem. This should be passed on.
Posted by Jim Spence on Friday, December 8, 2017
© 2016 Jim Spence - David Brock is the infamous smear merchant operative who was so brilliantly exposed by former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson in her blockbuster book and national bestseller, Smear. The book is a must read.
David Brock has been on a not so secret smear campaign against people like Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and all non-Democrats for several years. However, several missteps by Brock and his propagandists are now hanging faux journalists out to dry. Those being hung out to dry are disgracing themselves as advocates writing news stories. It is clear dozens if not hundreds of journalists are now marching to the commands and cynical manipulations of David Brock.
The evidence is mounting that all of the recent embarrassments suffered by Democrat-biased news outlets can be traced back to a January meeting where David Brock gathered more than one hundred ardent partisan Democrats at Turnberry Isle Resort in Aventura, Florida. At the meeting, Brock revealed details of his plans to sabotage the Trump presidency. Unfortunately for Brock, the Washington Free Beacon had people in attendance at this "retreat" which revealed that Brock's four-year plan was to attack Trump and Republicans like Roy Moore every single day. The concerted effort was to involve Brock's propaganda ministries: Media Matters, American Bridge, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and Shareblue. All of these organizations are funded by partisan Democrats and committed to using outrageous lies, innuendo, and other despicable smear tactics against people like Roy Moore.
The cornerstone of the Brock propaganda effort is known as a "digital attacker." This is code for his clandestine camp planting phony stories and phony polls on the internet every day. Brock's minions then place hundreds of phone calls to higher ups at sympathetic print and television news outlets based in New York, Washington, L.A. and San Francisco. The Brock operatives ask gullible journalists to run with these bogus stories. Not always, but many times these fools actually do run with crap that any idiot would know was suspect. The Brock goal has been to undermine the legitimacy of Trump's presidency and damage Republicans like Roy Moore. Brock's efforts literally partner with Democratic stronghold giants like Facebook to engineer the dissemination of leftist fake news.
In recent weeks, the smear campaign against Roy Moore has been riddled with lies that are now unraveling. Just today Moore's dubious accuser made devastating admissions that should give prosecutors cause to consider throwing her and her "attorneys" in jail.
Make no mistake. There is no doubt that the smear merchants are behind this entire scam that targeted Moore just ahead of a crucial Senatorial election.
David Brock's stooges at CNN also ran with a false story today. This story was regarding Wikileaks and Donald Trump Jr. Already a major reporting disaster, the CNN report has already been debunked as a scam. It will probably lead to the same sort of suspension without pay that was slapped on ABC News' disgraced reporter Brian Ross. Ross was hung out to dry last week when he ran with a false anti-Trump story that sent the financial markets into a free fall and was later retracted. Again there can be little doubt that a Brock operative put a willing Ross up to it.
Americans don't trust the media because they know that the lowest forms of humanity, people like David Brock are manipulating what was once a free American press. Journalists are now turning their industry into one that appears to be run by naïve children instead truth seeking professionals. But then again, perhaps comparing them in this way is grossly unfair to all naïve children.
Posted by Jim Spence on Thursday, December 7, 2017
© 2016 Jim Spence - Only in America can a former president and ardent national socialist (Barack Obama) launch into a disturbing rant and compare his successor (Donald Trump) to Adolf Hitler. Obama essentially asserted that Americans need to vote for Democrats lest millions of people would be killed. Nobody is quite sure what these people might die of.
What is going on here? Maybe Obama has unpacked his old pot bong and gotten hold of some bad weed lately?
Obama's stage for the Hitler reference was an Economic Club of Chicago event on Tuesday night. Does Chicago still have an economy?
Amazingly, for everyone else it is pretty much taboo to compare anyone to the worst mass murderer in history (Hitler). And of course you will never see the media conceding that Hitler was in fact a socialist too. As is usually the case when Obama talks while his head is embedded in his rectum, the mainstream media did not report on his latest outrageous comments.
It does seems that Mr. Obama, an avowed globalist, revealed that he has a real problem with the, "Nativist mistrust and unease" he sees out there among the little people. Clueless, Obama does not realize he actually spawned the mistrust and unease when for eight years he opened the U.S. borders and turned the FBI, IRS, EPA, DOJ, and U.S. intelligence gathering agencies into his own private police force.
It should be pointed out that Mr. Obama himself provided an enormous boost to Trump and helped him win the election last year by INSISTING that the 2016 presidential race was a referendum on Obama's policies. Apparently he has never been told how much he is despised by working people.
On Tuesday night, Obama also suggested that the U.S. has survived "tough times" in the past and will do so again. Apparently Obama has not been watching consumer confidence measures surge to historic heights under Trump.
It is the same old Obama. Never short on asinine lectures the socialist suggested that, "The danger is "growing complacent." This comes from the man who lost in federal courts more than any other president in history for attempting an endless array of totalitarian-like efforts to circumvent the U.S. Constitution.
"We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly," Obama warned. Actually what is going on is America right now is we are trying desperately to reverse the "falling apart" that Obama ushered in during his eight ultra-dictatorial years as president.
Consider this statement by Obama on Tuesday, "That's what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate. "Sixty million people died. . . .So, you've got to pay attention. And vote."
It is pretty ironic that during the week when Donald Trump stood more firmly behind the 7.5 million Jews living in Israel than any president in U.S. history, that Obama, the man who turned his back on the Democratically elected Israelis, in favor of the Muslim dictatorships in the region, that he would use Trump's name in the same sentence as Hitler.
But then again, remember that the Obamas attended the Jew-hating church of Jeremiah Wright for sixteen years. Here is a sample of the sorts of things Wright preached to the Obamas and the rest of the "flock:"
"Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is."
Given Obama's deep relationship with a raving anti-Semitic jerk like Wright, it is the great scandal of our lifetime that a majority of Americans saw fit to give America's most famous national socialist two terms in the White House.
Posted by Jim Spence on Monday, December 4, 2017
© 2016 Jim Spence - Pictures don't lie. There are tens of thousands of empty seats in virtually every NFL stadium every week. Television ratings are plummeting. However, it is only after you read a few news articles on this topic, many written by clueless journalists, that you begin to understand all of the pieces that make up the black self-sabotage puzzle. In the NFL, black self-sabotage gets an assist from white liberal progressives like Commissioner Roger Goodell and his stooge, Democrat Joe Lockhart. These men, and many others like them, have been allowing naïve millionaire black athletes to engage in anti-American antics on the job. Yes, they have allowed these naive players to do these things right in front of pro-American paying customers. One would think that most players could connect the dots on their own and project what is going to happen when they trash America. However, these players cannot connect the dots. How can they be so dumb? It is easy. When critical thinking is neither encouraged nor taught in public schools kids are not just ignorant, they are dumb too.
Understanding black self-sabotage in the NFL begins with a failing public education system, controlled by the Democrat's strongest constituency, the National Education Association. Politically, the failing public education system is propped up by blacks, who vote for Democrats 90+ percent of the time. Amazingly, rather than teach inner city children to read, write, and do mathematics, the NEA insures that most classroom teachers spend their time indoctrinating children to parrot the Democrat's victim-oriented line of thinking. Kids emerge having been taught to embrace their victim-hood.
The statistics on the failure of our public education system are daunting. This data comes courtesy of retired James Mason professor, Walter Williams. Let's use my home town of Baltimore, Maryland as an example. First it is important to remember that Baltimore's public schools are not underfunded. Of the nation's 100 largest school systems, Baltimore schools rank third in spending per pupil. You would never know that after all the corruption. In 2016, in one third of Baltimore's 39 high schools, get this……..not a single student scored proficient on the state's mathematics exam. NOT A SINGLE STUDENT in thirteen high schools. Let that sink in for a moment. In six other high schools in Baltimore, only one percent of the entire student population tested out as being proficient in math. Sorry folks, this is not falling a bit short, this is colossal failure.
What about proficiency in English? Just 15 percent of Baltimore students passed the state's English test.
Know this. The Democrats have a stranglehold on both education funds and the entire education system in Baltimore. What are they doing about this ongoing travesty? The answer is simple. They do nothing except pretend they are doing their jobs. At one Baltimore high school last year diplomas were literally given away to a senior class in which 90 percent of the students tested out at the LOWEST POSSIBLE math score. Only one student came even close to being proficient. Still and sadly, one could see the naïve parents and family members applauding enthusiastically during the conferring of diplomas, despite the fact the entire "graduation" ceremony was a sham. Amazingly, some of the students actually received "achievement awards" and college scholarships.
The diplomas given to these kids asserted that they could function at a 12th-grade level. That is fraud. Most students who got a diploma could not function at a seventh- or eighth-grade level. As a matter of routine, public schools lie to themselves and their kids all over America.
Those in charge of this sham will never explain to the kids that these diplomas are fraudulent. They won't tell them they will be unable to pass a civil service exam or do anything but flunk out if they go to college. They run a protection racket, not education facilities.
Astonishingly, the NAACP does not fight educational fraud, it promotes it. The NAACP is calling for a moratorium on charter schools despite the fact that charter schools are the only hope for black kids who are interested in learning.
Most freshly minted black NFL millionaires have emerged from our failed educational environments. Many of these young men, who are blessed with the athletic gifts necessary to compete at the highest levels, are so ignorant they can be conned into engaging in self-sabotage. Despite being paid millions, many NFL players can't do basic math. Accordingly, it should come as no surprise these players cannot understand the dumb economics of running off customers and running off television audiences. They cannot see that they are going to severely diminish the revenue streams that fund their huge salaries.
Economics does not care about ignorance. Instead it simply prices ignorance into the equation. There are stunning ripple effects coming to the NFL and player salaries. Revenue estimates are going to plunge when it is time for television networks to bid for the rights to show these NFL games. As sure as night follows day, the value of the player's long term contracts are going to shrink substantially. Yes, poorly educated NFL players are about to get their first ever lesson in economics. It is a lesson that most Democrats refuse to learn let alone teach. Teaching black kids something besides victim-hood has not occurred to them yet.
© 2016 Jim Spence - Let's try to get this straight. Harvey Weinstein, the serial sexual assaulter was also a serial fund raiser for the Democrat Party for decades. Weinstein raised money for Democrats so his favorite candidates, all morally superior, just like Weinstein, could win against morally inferior GOP candidates.
And it seems that Charlie Rose, the living liberal legend of CBS News and NPR, has also become a disgraced sexual predator who was finally summarily fired by his employers. Again, like Weinstein's utterings at fundraisers, the primary themes of the Rose shows seemed to be that free market capitalists are morally inferior to the big government socialists he coddled on a regular basis when he wasn't trying to bang his female associates.
And then there is Matt Lauer, the liberal legend of NBC news and self-appointed protector of females by virtue of the fact he saw the GOP engaging in a get this….."a war on women." It turns out that Lauer has been a sexual predator at NBC for many years. Even co-host Katie Couric, also a devout leftist, acknowledged that one of Lauer's "most annoying habits" was pinching her on the ass too often. I guess you learn to tolerate annoying behavior from your teammate when you are on a morally superior political crusade against the GOP......because they are all so "anti-women."
Consider another Democrat and great protector of females……Al Franken. It turns out this Minnesota Democrat has a penchant for groping and kissing women, some when they were actually asleep. He also does some fondling when women are trying to pose for a picture with him. Caught in the crossfire of damning photographs showing his perverse nature, Franken seems to think an apology, now that he has been caught, will suffice. He just wants to stay in Washington doing great moral work by thwarting the evil things the GOP does to women.
Then of course there is Representative John Conyers. This Democrat has been slithering around the nation's capitol for decades. Over the last week or so a number of former female aides have identified him as a remorseless sexual predator. Nancy Pelosi's response to the flurry of charges against Conyers, and his own admissions was to leap to his defense and call him an "icon." One can only suppose that Conyers is an icon in what is left of Pelosi's mind because he has done everything in his power to destroy free market capitalism for his entire political career.
It seems that late 2017 has become the season when victims have actually dared to speak out against serial sexual assault artists. Accordingly, America is beginning to understand the sheer hypocrisy of Democrats like Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, and John Conyers. Each has pointed their crooked fingers at political opponents for waging a "war on women"
The truth is simple. Speaking out against high profile predators long ago would have protected countless female aides from sexual assaults. Bill Clinton presented the opportunity for all decent people to draw the line. Every single Democrat refused to do so. And in failing to define right and wrong, and do the decent thing, Democrats ushered in a toxic and criminal culture where women were treated as pawns much more frequently.
The most curious revelation regarding these sordid and often criminal behaviors was one made by veteran ABC News reporter Cokie Roberts. Over the weekend when Roberts appeared on ABC's "This Week," she said, "Every female in the press corps knew to avoid being in an elevator with Rep. John Conyers. Roberts added, "The fact that people are willing to be public can change things. I mean, we all talked about for years."
Wow. It is pretty clear that Roberts felt that Conyers' predatory behavior was no secret among the entire press corps in Washington. Really Cokie? That sounds to me like a story that needed to be reported to the public. No?
It would seem that Roberts, a powerful and well-respected reporter knew about Conyers predatory practices for many years but chose silence. Roberts went on to say rather crassly that while this has been the status quo for decades, she believes that things could change now that people are coming public with their experiences.
Well, ummm......Cokie....."Some people" finally came public, while others, like you, in a position to have an impact on stopping these crimes, did nothing.
When considered, Roberts' statements are astonishing. She is a respected ABC news reporter. And yet she has admitted that she and others did not feel "safe" riding in an elevator on Capitol Hill with a man the state of Michigan continued to send to Washington to "represent" them.
It would seem to me that we could rifle back through every story Roberts has reported on for the last thirty years and wonder why the John Conyers story that could have unveiled him is a despicable sexual predator many victims ago, never materialized until the little people, not a person of Cokie Roberts major stature, finally took the risk to expose him for what he is and help protect future victims.
Still Roberts and others who carry the water for Democrats while disguising themselves as objective reporters, don't quite understand why America does not respect or trust people in the press….like Cokie Roberts, Matt Lauer, or Charlie Rose. The fact that they create fake news is only part of the problem. These disgraced anchors (Rose and Lauer) made critical decisions on what stories to run every day.
What we don't consider often enough is what these people chose to sweep under the table. It would seem that there are more than a few things hidden under the morally superior facade that Democrats try to project. It also seems that it does not matter whether they are in public office or working in the Democrat dominated media, powerful men like Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Al Franken, and John Conyers get protection from supposedly objective journalists like Cokie Roberts. No wonder the media is held in such contempt in most of America.
Posted by Jim Spence on Monday, November 27, 2017
© 2016 Jim Spence - It is one of the most astonishing aspects of 21st Century life. Climate change paranoia is baked into every nook and cranny of our culture. It starts with our failed education system, which cannot separate fundamental facts from what Democrats wish were true. The brainwashing and indoctrination starts early and goes on non-stop in countless bastions of society controlled by Democrats. School children are conditioned to view all weather "events" based on the vague notion of "climate change." It is as if there is no longer any mention of the fact that hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods have been around for all of recorded history. And of course now that population density is higher, the impacts of common weather events are greater. However, these facts don't help the climate change paranoia narrative, so they are omitted……except when children are home-schooled.
What is even more disturbing is the total absence of accountability in the climate change alarmist's prior predictions. Having been an avid consumer of news as well as an observer of both climate prognostications and actual results, it is beyond amazing how wrong all of the supposed "settled science" types have been when it comes to forecasting dire consequences of global warming. It would seem that continuing to drive cars and fly commercial jets to and from the places we want to go to is not going to lead to an apocalypse after all.
Consider the fact that the San Jose Mercury News reported way back in June of 1989 that a "senior environmental official at the United Nations (Noel Brown), said in no uncertain terms that, "Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming was not reversed by the year 2000." Sorry folks. Not now, when we still don't have rising seas, but seventeen years ago when we did not have them, was the time when the jig was up on that catastrophic prediction. There are many more bogus predictions.
Though the U.N.'s most esteemed "climate scientist" could not have been more wrong in 1989, the U.N. continues to float the same anti-fossil fuel propaganda, as if it still has credibility. The U.N.'s top climate scientist said in 2007 that we had only four years to save the world. Rajendra Pachauri, who served as the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was emphatic in 2007. "If there's no action before 2012, that's too late," he said ominously. "What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment," he added. He was right about one thing. He defined himself as not knowing what he was talking about. Again, and amazingly, there seems to be no consequence to being chicken little or the boy who cried wolf for these schmucks.
Environmentalists did not stop at predicting rising seas and the wiping out of coastal communities all around the world. Noted climate change/global warming alarmist George Monbiot suggested in a column in the UK's Guardian in 2002 that within, "as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed the world's animals or it continues to feed the world's people. It cannot do both." Oh really George? It turns out that around 930 million people worldwide were undernourished in 2002, according to the U.N. However, by 2014, that number had declined to 805 million thanks to burgeoning agricultural production all around the world and despite big expansions in the global population.
Great Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined the folly. He actually said there was only 50 days left to save Earth back in 2009……from global warming. Talk about crying wolf. Brown was voted out of office, but not for his asinine global warming predictions. The U.K. suffered from a deep freeze a few years ago with thousands of deaths not long after Brown warned it would get "too warm."
What is going on here besides a public education system with a Democrat agenda that is determined to teach baloney? Well, there is Hollywood perpetuating apocalyptic myths as well as the news media parroting things that discredited scientists keep blathering on about.
The problem with the entire climate change scam is that it is built upon basic data misrepresentations. And sadly, it is the basic data misrepresentations of the climate change crowd, and not the so-called "deniers" that violates basic scientific norms.
Instead of welcoming all inquiry and sticking with a rigid adherence to clean data, grant gathering "scientists" have been caught over and over again acting as pitchmen for billions of dollars to fight the climate change boogieman.
One of the great thinkers of the 20th Century identified the problem which has from time-to-time plagued the advancement of knowledge. It was Richard Feynman who chastised scientists and suggested it was fundamental to discuss objectively all the relevant evidence, even that which does not support the prevailing narrative. Of course reasonable people know that this is the basic difference between "science" and "naked advocacy." And for the media, the Democrat controlled education system, and Hollywood to behave as advocates while claiming to be scientific is one of the great scandals of the 21st Century.
Repeatedly we see a grotesque violation Einstein's primary dictum, "One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true." This happens every day. There are no Einsteins in the climate change scam.
Posted by Jim Spence on Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Posted by Jim Spence on Tuesday, November 21, 2017
© 2016 Jim Spence - Many times I have written on this site about Democrats and their relentless efforts to claim moral superiority over business people who do not buy into their socialist scams.
Often the Democrat's basic moral superiority claims are, in their own minds, based on the fact that they draw government paychecks while we slimy business people must make a profit to pay our bills. The insinuation seems to be that we business people all exploit others, while Democrats always serve the "greater good."
Democrats often extrapolate their self-congratulatory attitudes by suggesting that anyone who thinks making government bigger and more intrusive is a bad idea, does so because they are selfish and greedy.
Dialogue and idea exchanges on public policies with Democrats always leads to the same place. Business people are not to be trusted.......but more government is. And socialism, despite all the starvation it brings to people living in places like Venezuela and North Korea, is much better than free-market capitalism. Democrats imply that business people exploit others. They say that business people are the oppressors in this world……especially white businessmen. Anyone who disagrees with Democrats on these views is probably a racist.
Our family, like so many others, long ago saw our holiday seasons turn into fiascoes as the Democrats in the family have insisted on trying their best to make anyone who does not drink the leftist Kool-Aid feel morally inferior. I remember instances when Al Franken's book lambasting Rush Limbaugh was trotted out as evidence of why the damned reprobate Limbaugh should be hated, while Franken was held up as some sort of morally superior angel. Charlie Rose interviews were also cited as must-see television, since Rose's soft spoken demeanor was surely evidence of a viewpoint that was morally superior to any view that might embrace the teaching of free-market principles, more self-reliance, and greater personal responsibility.
Low and behold it would seem that the legacy of outrageously immoral conduct near the end of the 20th Century is finally having repercussions that are resonating in ways that were actually fairly predictable eighteen years ago. Consider that then President Bill Clinton was caught on audio tape suggesting ways in which Monica Lewinsky should commit perjury when she testified before a grand jury. Consider that Bill Clinton not only suborned perjury by Lewinsky, he also perjured himself under oath. For these reasons and others, Bill Clinton was disbarred. Yes, even lawyers have standards that slimy Bill Clinton could not meet.
Ominously, most Americans (and a few GOP senators) decided, since the stock market was good, and the economy was humming along, that Bill Clinton should simply get a free pass on his lawlessness, including his sexual assault of Kathleen Willey. Poor Willey, a lifelong Democrat, went public with Clinton's assault on her and was crucified. Willey was immediately burned at the stake by Hillary Clinton and fellow Democratic hack James Carville while the media looked the other way.
The bottom line? Near the end of the Clinton presidency the highest profile American, who was holding an office that should have come with the highest expectations, was allowed to get away with every horrific act he committed. Astonishingly, Bill Clinton has been treated like a hero by most Democrats ever since.
Think about this precedent for a few moments. Imagine how emboldened sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, Charlie Rose, Kevin Spacey, John Conyers, and so many others must have become after the Clinton acquittal? The behavioral bar was lowered down to snake level. Accordingly, the snakes became confident they could slither over it to their decadent heart's desires.......with no consequences.
There is are several lessons to be learned here. First, set the behavioral expectation bar high, not low. Second, socialism is not morally superior, it is morally inferior. Just ask those people in Venezuela who are starving. Third, business people should be respected until proven to be not respectable….not the other way around. Fourth, just because people like Charlie Rose, Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, and John Conyers pretend they are morally superior……….simply because they want to be our self-appointed protectors from businesses, doesn't make them morally superior. These Democrats are the moral equivalents of Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert. They talk the talk but they refuse to walk the walk. And finally, the majority of American people, when they looked the other way on Bill Clinton's crimes nearly two decades ago, enabled a flood of atrocious criminal behaviors. Why should anyone be surprised?
Posted by Jim Spence on Saturday, November 18, 2017
© 2016 Jim Spence - A few weeks ago I wrote of a book called, "Smear" authored by former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson. I urged my readers to buy and read this book.
In "Smear," Attkisson documents in painstaking detail how smear merchants essentially control the narratives carried by the mainstream media every day. Through orchestrated efforts involving innuendos, bogus claims and counter-claims, and robotic digital assaults in social media, print, and television media, smear merchants exercise remarkable control over America.
Hundreds of millions of naïve Americans need to crawl out from underneath their naïve rocks and understand how fake virtually all forms of news are. We are talking news stories, polls, etc.
Consider what has been happening right under our noses the last couple of weeks. It all began with troubling revelations of criminal behaviors by Clinton and Obama White House buddy and campaign fundraising bundler….. Harvey Weinstein. It turns out that Weinstein is the tip of an iceberg. There are reprobates all over Hollywood and most of them are devout Democrats. What seems now like a trickle of revelations about Harvey Weinstein turned into a torrent as more and more women came forward to tell their stories. It did not take long before the atrocious behaviors of powerful Democrats served as a reminder to the public of what victims like Kathleen Willey told us about Bill Clinton two decades ago. It is important to remember that Willey, a LIFE-LONG Democrat had been sexually assaulted by one Bill Clinton in the White House when he was not taking time out of his Oval Office schedule to gratify himself with the help of young Monica Lewinsky. The treatment of Willey and other Clinton accusers by Hillary Clinton was so unabashedly aggressive it simply cannot be squared with what she is saying today about the behaviors of other men accused of far less than what her husband was.
The bottom line politically is simple. Democrats have been squirming for weeks trying to escape the hypocrisy trap they set and then got caught in themselves.
No problem. The best defense is a good offense and with a multi-billion dollar smear industry on retainer for Democrats, it did not take all that long for the Democrats to orchestrate an incredible diversion. Conveniently, the latest smear diversion served two purposes. First, it got the public's mind off of what utter slime bags both Weinstein and Bill Clinton are. Second, the diversion is now about to help the Democrats pick off a formerly untouchable Alabama Senate seat.
Amazingly, what has happened in the U.S. Senate in response to the Democrat's smear campaign tells you all you need to know about Mitch McConnell. As the Roy Moore smear job was unleashed, the Senate was already well on its way to shirking yet another solemn and sworn duty. Corporate tax reform was being put on the back-burner by McConnell and fellow GOP senators. Shortly after the Moore smear campaign was unleashed, Mitch McConnell and many other GOP senators stopped what they were supposed to be doing to help the country on taxes. Instead they became the self-appointed prosecutors, judges, jury members, and executioners of Roy Moore. This happened within a matter of a couple of days. Mind you there have never been any charges filed against Moore just politically charged accusations orchestrated by smear merchants. Still, Republicans in the U.S. Senate believe they are so profoundly wise they could become fact finders on the life of Roy Moore within 48 hours of the Democrat's smear campaign. McConnell and his chimps did this on the fly to the delight of the smear merchants paid for by Democrats.
With absolutely no sense of urgency whatsoever, McConnell and his cronies announced late this week that they had decided to stop working on tax reform until AFTER Thanksgiving. That is rich. The rest of us will be back at it Monday because………we have jobs.
It is time to admit that the 2017 GOP Senate is the greatest political disappointment of a lifetime. And that covers a lot of smelly ground. America needs to bulldoze Washington D.C. and start over. I would not let Mitch McConnell walk my dog.


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De Quicken Loans National, ook bekend als kortweg The National en voorheen bekend als de AT&T National, is een golftoernooi in de Verenigde Staten dat deel uitmaakt van de Amerikaanse PGA Tour. Het toernooi werd in 2007 opgericht door golfprofessional Tiger Woods. Sinds 2012 vindt het toernooi plaats op de Congressional Country Club in Bethesda (Maryland).

Geschiedenis

De eerste editie vond in 2007 plaats op de Congressional Country Club in Bethesda en werd gewonnen door de Zuid-Koreaan K.J. Choi. Het toernooi verving The International, een golftoernooi dat bestond van 1986 tot 2006. Van 2007 tot 2013 droeg het toernooi de naam AT&T National.

In 2010 en 2011 verhuisde het toernooi tijdelijk naar de Aronimink Golf Club in Delaware County (Pennsylvania). In 2012 keerde het toernooi terug naar de Congressional Country Club en wordt sindsdien de thuisbasis van dit toernooi.

De trofee is een kleine replica van het Capitool in Washington D.C.

In 2012 won de organisator Tiger Woods voor de tweede keer dit toernooi en tevens zijn 74ste zege op de Amerikaanse PGA Tour. Hij stak daarmee Jack Nicklaus voorbij (73 overwinningen) en kwam op de tweede plaats van de eeuwige winnaarslijst, na Sam Snead met 82 overwinningen.

Sinds 2014 wordt het toernooi georganiseerd onder de naam Quicken Loans National. In 2018 organiseerde men de laatste editie.

Winnaars

Meervoudige winnaars
Golfers die dit toernooi minstens twee keer wonnen:

  Tiger Woods: 2009 & 2012
  Justin Rose: 2010 & 2014

Externe links

  Officiële website
  PGA Tour: AT&T National

Golftoernooi in de Verenigde Staten
Golftoernooi van de Amerikaanse PGA Tour
Sport in Maryland

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I just thought I'd start a new and quite different thread to share some thoughts on sealed Panini sets from the 80s.
My recommendation is to always open them to let the albums and stickers recover.
For me these are really great finds and it's unlikely I will stick them. If you find yourself with a similar set as a fellow collector then my recommendation is to open them and give the albums a chance to breath again!
Just before you're wondering... yes all stickers are accounted for! Phew!
What a disgrace, even Panini didn't (doesn't?) know rubber bands will damage the stickers, because of this reason (they "stick" with the stickers) and damaging the margins.
Hey, can you tell where you bought them and how much they costed?
Including postage I bought both together in one eBay auction for just under £70.
Every now and again there's a real bargain and when sellers here don't open their auction up to international or EU the prices stay low.
I want to say Panini didn't think about the collector side of things when it came to storage. I remember when I emailed Panini America about how to keep my single set safe they said to use zip loc bags that's how they keep there loose sets. I can't blame them much,but we live in a world where other companies capitalize off of hobby supplies so nowadays there should be no excuse.
Great find Rob, I have a completed edition of the Dutch album, that I mainly purchased on the strength of Ronald and Erwin Koeman when they were at Southampton. There are a lot of familiar names in the album too that I thought I had forgotten about!!
I love the front cover action shots with the crowded stands behind them. For me it is a design that wins every time!
I've yet to open them and I'm guessing that the inside pages have very simple designs like the other European albums from the same era.
Hey can I ask where you bought them and at what price?
Both from eBay auctions here. Without giving too much away one was less than £100 and the other a lot more!
I saw a UK Panini Football 88 Sealed set go for almost £200 last week from a seller in Italy. I'm always amazed that finds like that get unearthed.
Perhaps the reason is the few copies and the great interest here in Greece for them.
Hi @Makis74 I think the supply of them is so small that when an eBay seller puts one up for sale they can open up to a worldwide market to get a good price. If only we could go back in time to stock up on these gems!
Looking for sealed Turkish & Egyptian Panini packs from the '80s...!


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