The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully, gradually liberalize and present enormous business opportunities. Behind that veneer of reform, Beijing has played a masterful influence game, ensnaring governments, academia, think tanks, cultural groups, and businesses in the West to further its goal of global preeminence.
Our Corporate and Political classes sold us out.
Scrutinizing the fake and defensive press when it covers Hollywood
Are you worried about film culture? The showbiz trade publication Variety is plenty worried because She Said, the slanted, moralizing New York Times #MeToo drama, flopped at the box office upon its debut last weekend. In an article titled “She Said Bombs: Why Aren’t Awards Season Movies Resonating With Audiences?,” writer Brent Lang highlighted the panic felt by Hollywood and the media when their political messages are ignored. The Wall Street Journal followed suit with John Jurgensen and Ellen Gamerman’s observing industry desperation in “Now at a Theater Near You: Cannibalism, Vomit and Severed Fingers,” an article about trends in “this season’s Oscar bait.” Anxiety has replaced drama. Worry has replaced criticism.
What became horrifying clear about Nov. 22, 1963, will also become clear about what is happening today.
Going through a box of memorabilia from family and friends recently, I found two letters. (The story you’re about to read is true; the names have been changed to protect the innocent.) On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, a young married professional in Dallas wrote to his parents…
Poland is militarising as Germany and France falter
Europe increasingly finds itself in a tough spot, one that will make it harder to chart the coming geopolitical turmoil. The pressure on the old continent is building from both outside and within, with global insecurity as well as internal divisions on the rise. Some of these developments are taking place under the radar of public perception, but they will have significant consequences in the years to come.
Blaming gender-critical commentators for the atrocity in Colorado is morally repugnant.
The Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs turns the stomach. Alleged gunman Anderson Lee Aldrich walked into the LGBT venue last Saturday night with a long rifle and a pistol. He killed five people and injured 25 more. He could have wreaked even more carnage had it not been for the remarkable heroism of army veteran Richard Fierro, who pulled the scumbag to the floor by the back of the ludicrous body armour he was wearing, before doing this to his face. Fierro says he was helped by another punter, who kicked Aldrich’s rifle away from him, and by a drag queen, who proceeded to stiletto Aldrich in the head. I’m sure none of them will ever have to buy a drink in Colorado Springs again.
For someone who wants his own species to go extinct, Les Knight is a remarkably happy-go-lucky human.
He has regularly hosted meteor shower parties with rooftop fireworks. He organised a long-running game of nude croquet in his backyard, which, it should be mentioned, is ringed by 20-foot-tall laurel hedges. Even Tucker Carlson proved no match for Knight’s ebullience.
During a 2005 interview with Knight on MSNBC, Carlson criticised him for espousing “the sickest” of beliefs but then added, “You are one of the cheeriest guests we’ve ever had.”
h/t EBV
Likely incoming Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said that he plans to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her troublesome habit of making anti-Semitic statements, and now the winsome Omar has struck back–not, of course, by apologizing for her anti-Semitism and vowing to make amends, but by accusing McCarthy and the Republican Party in general of (surprise!) “Islamophobia,” “racism” and more. To the man who has only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, and to Ilhan Omar, everyone who opposes her must be an “Islamophobe” and a racist. After all, why else would anyone possibly stand against such a patriotic, accomplished, and eloquent legislator as she?
If there is one thing investors like before committing funds to projects, it’s a sense of stability. They want to know circumstances won’t unexpectedly change and sour their investment. This is particularly true with foreign investors who entrust their capital to a nation over which they have no control. That makes them more skittish and inclined to close their wallets at any sign of political instability or lack of trustworthiness within the government.
UPDATE: After the publication of this article, Trump’s campaign provided Breitbart News with this statement from President Trump: “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”
Still, a bad look.
The inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act is in its sixth week, which, it may be useful to note, is about five times longer than the act itself was in force.
Hold in mind that the act was actually only half-passed. It got through the Singh-Trudeau House of Commons. How could it not, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau having exchanged the political equivalent of lovers’ vows — in greeting card lingo pledging “to be there for each other” any time scandal or Pierre Poilievre’s troops got close to presenting a real challenge.
As previously reported, the NEA has been distributing “safe space” badges to teachers across the country. The badge has a QR code which leads students to sites containing sexually explicit and pornographic content.
Here an elementary school teacher promotes it: pic.twitter.com/TMAwmAIdqh
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 25, 2022
The French have adopted a ‘when in Rome’ approach to the World Cup in Qatar, refraining from virtue-signalling their disapproval of their host’s beliefs. As their captain, Hugo Lloris, put it last week: ‘When we are in France, when we welcome foreigners, we often want them to follow our rules, to respect our culture, and I will do the same when I go to Qatar, quite simply. I can agree or disagree with their ideas, but I have to show respect.’
It’s no longer enough to censor or cancel whistleblowers or dissenters; they must also be punished. Enter COP27 and climate reparations.
Do you remember back when you were in school and your math or science teacher gave a test in class in which you were asked to solve a problem or two and you were explicitly admonished to show your work? The reasons for this admonition are self-evident. First, obviously, to prevent cheating. It might be possible for one student to copy the final answer over the shoulder of another, but if the cheater tried to copy an entire step-by-step process, he was likely to get caught doing so by the wary eye of the teacher. Secondly, by showing her work the student demonstrated that she really understood the problem and how to solve it.
… Ottawa and New Delhi want to turn the page on the past and focus on shared goals, including commerce. That’s why it’s disappointing that Mr. Singh, whose party is propping up the minority Liberal government with a supply-and-confidence agreement, took it upon himself to make clumsy comments about Khalistan independence that risk derailing Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy before it’s even off the ground.
Diversity means supporting foreign terror campaigns.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her policy towards Russia prior to the February invasion of Ukraine, saying she had run out of power to influence Vladimir Putin.
She said she had tried to convene European talks with the Russian president and French President Emmanuel Macron in the summer of 2021.
“But I didn’t have the power to get my way,” she told Spiegel news.
“Really everyone knew: in autumn she’ll be gone,” she said.
