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  1. Steyn hits a home run today.
    http://www.steynonline.com/6503/long-shadows
    An excerpt:
    “Just to consider this purely in psychological terms: Large numbers of German people genuinely believed “Jewish financiers” were behind the Great War. They wanted to live under Hitler because they thought the Nazis would govern better than the other parties; they offered the best possibility for a German rebirth. Many other Continentals felt the same, and started looking around for a Hitler of their own. Their Jew-hate arose from their calculation of their own self-interest, however deformed and contemptible that might be.
    But no western progressive wants to live under Hamas. His Jew-hate arises only from a dismal reflexive multiculti empathy. So, in the most perverse testimony to the persistence of post-1918 counter-tribalism, he hates Jews not out of perceived self-interest in the ruins of a devastating war but merely as a function of his support for the exotic other. As I said, just to keep it in psychological terms, this strikes me as far weirder than old-school Jew-hate, and makes its virulence even more unsettling. You’re at a protest with people shouting “Heil Hitler!” and “Hitler was right!” and “Death to the Jews!” and waving placards of Ayatollah Khomeini merely as a form of socially attitudinal accessorizing. There’s a decadence to that, and it will not end well.”

  2. An employee of the Black Educators Association in Nova Scotia was discriminated against, in part, because of the colour of her skin, a human rights board of inquiry has determined. … “It is clear to me that Ms. Brothers was undermined in part because she was younger than, and not as black as, Ms. Collier thought Ms. Brothers should be,” said Murray in his report.
    “In Ms. Collier’s eyes, Ms. Brothers was not really black enough.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rachel-brothers-wins-human-rights-case-for-wrongful-firing-1.2727886

  3. This reminds me of a battle for the Democratic Senate nomination in a primary in Massachusetts a couple of years ago. Of the two main contenders, one was black and the other was homosexual and all the speculation was about which minority group would win out. The black contender won and the homosexual candidate complained about his minority not getting the sure seat.

  6. Media Party loves adverb “unexpectedly”.
    “The surplus rose unexpectedly in June,”.
    “Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Tuesday’s agreement “the biggest (trade) deal our country has ever made”.”
    Da proof’s axiom: Anything a conservative can do, a liberal can do better.
    …-
    “Canada’s trade surplus soars to two-and-a-half year high of $1.86B on record exports” (FP)
    …-
    “Securing the CEPA would be a historic achievement for both countries.”
    “Why a Canada-India trade deal is within reach” (G-M)
    …-
    “Canada-EU free trade deal may pave way for US agreement”
    “Canada and the European Union have agreed the final text for a free trade agreement that could provide a blueprint for a US-EU trade deal.”
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28671105

  8. “Global economy one shock away from another crisis”
    “Fathom Consulting warns that world is sliding towards its next “Minsky moment”, with biggest risk stemming from China”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11013287/Global-economy-one-shock-away-from-another-crisis.html
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    “Globalism as Sacrificial Crisis: Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s Mark of the Sacred”
    “Gregory Copley has argued in his recent study of Un-Civilization (2014) that the global human arrangement, a creeping improvisation of the last three or four centuries, nowadays has outlived its jerry-rigged semi-functionality so that it totters on the verge of a radical spontaneous reconstruction whose survivors will have experienced it as nothing less than a catastrophe.”
    “… Dupuy in his diagnosis of the modern crisis arrives at the conclusion “that humanity is on a suicidal course, headed straight for catastrophe.” Dupuy uses the word catastrophe in the singular, but he insists that he describes no singularity, such as the earth-bound comet or runaway virus of the movies, “but a whole system of disruptions, discontinuities, and basic structural changes that are the consequence of exceeding critical thresholds.””
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/5148

  10. Devout Muslim Group has forced 650,000 Nigerians from home – See more at: http://
    pamelageller.com/2014/08/devout-muslim-group-forced-650000-nigerians-home-takeonhate.html/#sthash.DNNmAu7z.dpuf

  12. Kay News Visits Mohammed’s Fatal Alternative Mountain.
    …-
    “Sun News’ cynical attacks on Justin Trudeau have crossed the line into anti-Muslim hysteria”
    “Jonathan Kay: Am I the only one who’s unsettled by this network’s casual suggestion that visiting congregants at a mosque is akin to visiting convicted criminals?” (NP)
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    “40,000 Iraqis stranded on mountain”
    “Members of minority Yazidi sect face slaughter by Isis jihadists if they go down and dehydration if they stay”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/40000-iraqis-stranded-mountain-isis-death-threat

  13. Socialism: The Big Lie.
    “Yet you can’t bribe viruses, can’t “hide” infectious victims, can’t appease dictators and you can’t print money.”
    Tell Ontario’s Lezzy Wynne:
    “Ontario wants $12B a year from feds for infrastructure
    Toronto Sun”
    …-
    “Ebola is proving the proposition that when dealing with nature, if you lie you die.”
    “War, Famine and Pestilence all obey the laws of physics. The media, government and the academy have heretofore cared about the laws of political correctness and the tyranny of appearances. Now we get to see who wins. In recent years it has become fashionable to claim the Narrative trumps reality. Yet you can’t bribe viruses, can’t “hide” infectious victims, can’t appease dictators and you can’t print money. As I’ve written many times before, nobody beats arithmetic.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/06/the-first-horseman/#more-38498
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    “Shock as Italy stumbles into third recession
    Italian GDP contracted by 0.2pc in the second quarter of 2014, surprising economists”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11016018/Shock-as-Italy-stumbles-into-third-recession.html

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