March 12, 2025: Reader Tips

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Seven Days in May is a fascinating film from 1964. Directed by John Frankenheimer and written by Rod Serling, it details a secret plot by military warmongers who attempt to seize power from a U.S. President, who wants peace.

Your best war & peace tips are always welcome here!

60 Replies to “March 12, 2025: Reader Tips”

        1. “So now they’re 1 1/2 inch long?”

          That’s a funny joke, for sure.

          (to a 14 year old)

  8. How Trump’s Anti-Semitism Crackdown Has Already Changed Education:

    https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/how-trumps-anti-semitism-crackdown-has-already-changed-education/

    Summary:

    Now it’s having financial consequences, university administrators are starting to accept that it’s no longer in good taste to automatically support the latest left-wing cause, much less allow fanatics who yearn for a second Shoah to raise Cain on campus.

    My proposal would be to make continued funding conditional on making every faculty and staff member re-apply for his job, with the understanding that anyone hired because he was an member of some anti-Semitic tribe (Arabs, Black Americans) or cult (Islam, militant queerdom) should not waste his time.

    It’s a start, though.

    1. Thank you for posting this – I love the phrase “The Trump team has hit the ground running!” I am currently re-reading “A Man Called Intrepid” about William Stevenson, a Canadian from Winnipeg. He left school at age 14 to help his family and then after being a flying ace in World War l, became a multi-millionaire industrialist in the 1920’s. He was a very intelligent man who could “connect the dots” and saw the rise of Germany under Hitler in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He and Winston Churchill were very good friends and he was responsible for setting up ULTRA at Bletchley Park and then setting up MI5 and MI6 after World War II. He was a mentor to Ian Fleming, who modeled James Bond on him (although Fleming made James Bond a tall intelligent man who was successful with the ladies!) William Stevenson “hit the ground running” because of his foresight and ability to “get things done!”

  9. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/reversing-kissinger-trump-china

    “…Russiagate was effectively a pro-CCP information operation benefiting a U.S. ruling class—including media, Big Tech, and corporate elites alongside the security services—whose wealth, power, and prestige are fruits of the opening with China. Many of those now disdainful of Trump’s initiative are deeply invested in his failure since weakening China weakens them…

    “With his reputation as the Marco Polo of globalism firmly established through his public sector work, Kissinger’s job in the private sector was to help get U.S. companies into the enormous Chinese market with nearly a billion potential consumers. According to Kissinger—and the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of Kissinger clones that came after—it was to be the heyday of U.S.-China trade. Except the Americans knew that dating back 200 years there had never really been a Chinese market for U.S. goods, except for opium. In fact, what the big U.S. corporate bosses really wanted was to replace American workers with China’s huge pool of cheap labor by offshoring manufacturing. And thus began the purposeful impoverishment of the U.S. middle class, what Trump calls American carnage.

    “This is what Trump is trying to undo with his protectionist policies, like his now 20% tariff on Chinese goods. Making America great again requires protecting American workers and our industrial base—our national security and national character depend on it. Thus, his strategic goal is to reverse the devastation of the heartland that began with Kissinger. And it seems he believes that trying to pull Putin away from Xi Jinping is a useful tactic in that larger effort. Who knows if he’ll succeed, but the fact is that unlike Kissinger, Trump isn’t playing for a tie. He intends to win.”

    1. Remember back to 1970 when life was the best it ever was for the working class. Everybody owned a house, even the poor people. And almost everybody bought new cars every few years.

    2. Unskilled factory labour being middle class was a result of WW2. Once those conditions ended, it was inevitable that the normal state of affairs would return. When WW2 ended the world was in ruins, except for the US the worlds industrial capacity was in ruins, and as a result of WW2 there was a shortage of labour. The entire world was an open market and the American worker was the beneficiary. When Japan, Germany and eventually China got back on their feet it was bound to end. Sure the US can put tariffs on to protect and encourage the growth of American industry, but those tariffs mean that the places that were the markets for American goods in the 50s and 60s will also do the same thing. American industrial workers got rich by being workshop to the world, being workshop to the US market only isn’t going to help all that much.

    1. Frickin’ media! “He won in a landslide”, there’s a “transition team” as though this is an actual change in government. Rideau Hall plays along by “swearing him in” as prime minister – which isn’t right even if something similar happened in the past. It’s a frickin’ snowjob.

    1. “Scientists say…”

      That’s the phrase that always gives KM an erection…

  21. NASA spent $20M in Biden DEI push that brought ‘anti-racist’ trainings to agency: report
    https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/nasa-spent-20m-in-biden-dei-push-that-brought-anti-racist-trainings-to-agency-report/

    I had heard rumours that Obama wanted to change the agencies name because he thought it was racist and discouraged People of Colour from applying for jobs because Barack felt none would want to work at a place where they might be expected to answer “yes NASA” or “no NASA”. 🙂

  25. Maybe the people of Tranna the Good, could learn a lesson from them in regards to how handle the masses of foreign students on the TTC who as a group like to prevent people from exiting the subway cars and blatantly pushing them back into the carriage with their forearms? I see this regularly at Queen’s Park station by the University of Tranna, and Dundas Station near Tranna Metropolitan University. As well, bus drivers on the York U route have told me how these foreign students outright refuse to pay the Toronto Transit fares.

    NYC overnight subway violence includes man beaten in mugging , another slashed over innocent bump: cops
    https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/overnight-outbreak-of-nyc-subway-violence-leaves-man-beaten-and-robbed-of-just-15-another-slashed-over-innocent-bump-cops/

    Emo Philips on NYC…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0OwIE7FNMI

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