George Rebane
Looking for national conspiracies? Now here is one that involves everyone from George Soros through the DoJ/FBI to the DNC/Hillary. “A dark money group with links to several high-profile liberal activists contributed $2 million to The Democracy Integrity Project, an organization founded by a former Dianne Feinstein staffer that has contracted with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to investigate President Donald Trump.” (more here) But no one gives a hoot after the FBI’s historical public exoneration of Hillary after confirming that she did indeed break several laws dealing with national security and destroying subpoenaed evidence.
The EU’s socialist-burdened, debt-ladened countries have had a hard time taking advantage of the global upswing in business, and appear to be heading for a slowdown if not recession. With low growth rates and still high unemployment, the continent added another harbinger as investors are exiting stocks and bidding up government bonds. The German bund last Friday was paying 0.04% or essentially no interest as a safe haven for cash. This, of course, sets up a vicious circle in which left-leaning countries regulate and tax their businesses to low profits, which causes their shares to be sold off, which reduces business expansion and hiring, which bids up bonds thereby lowering government debt service costs, which provides governments essentially free money to borrow and dispense into programs that grow bureaucracies and launch more programs of socialist largess, which makes the business climate even worse, which … . Our Democrats are taking notes on how to replicate such policies on this side of the pond.
[12mar19 update] Finland’s government collapses over healthcare costs (here). Other Nordics are not far behind as has been reported here for some time now. None of these socialist programs nationalizing this or that are sustainable – it’s only a matter of time when other people’s money runs out. H/T to a Sandbox commenter for finding an early report of it. You can bet the ranch that the lamestream will hide this as long as it can, and proto-communists like Bernie and AOC will lie through their teeth about the news. Their solution will, of course, be even higher taxes (aka wealth redistribution). We all await our progressive pundits’ response for an enlivening conversation; sure hope they don’t send in their cricket corps.
NPR’s Morning Edition today featured a segment on what our 2050 world will look like after we have stopped emitting CO2 and global warming has been stopped in its tracks. The reporter was almost delirious with joy reporting from the future and looking back on what it took to get to the brave new world where people live in ‘stack & pack’ housing, suburbia was no more, private electric vehicles cost a lot, were taxed a lot, and all roadways charged dynamic fees to keep you using public transportation. That future world was envisioned quite accurately by Orwell’s 1984, and even portrayed more honestly in Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago. Big suburban houses will repurposed for multi-family living, and standard houses will be home to 4-5 people sharing kitchen and bathroom facilities. (The Rebanes lived almost five years in such lodgings after WW2. See ‘My Story’) What the report conveniently omitted was what draconian measures it would take for government to herd people into such warrens and then keep them from revolting, and what would happen to the economy when taking risks was no longer rewarded, or even allowed by central planners and controllers.
[14mar19 update] Second Amendment attack by Connecticut's Supreme Court in ruling that manufacturer of the Sandy Hook AR-15 can be sued. (more here) This is more than a gun control nose under the 2nd Amendment tent. If this ruling is allowed to stand, then where will this kind of rogue litigations stop? The implication is that the manufacturer of a tool legally made for legal use can be held accountable for its illegal uses. What then of knife makers, or hatchet makers, or baseball bat makers, or rat poison makers, or rope makers, or even manufacturer of a car used by a terrorist or drunkard to kill people? What then of the item's distributors and dealers? You get the idea. 'The Left is evil' gets another confirming check mark.
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