Yes, related.
“An Embarassment for Germany”
Yep. I’d say the inability to effectively control the riots after so many cities have experienced the same thing is a little embarrassing.
“I can barely breathe with anger because Chancellor Merkel and Hamburg mayor (Olaf) Scholz trivialize the brutal riots as ‘not acceptable’,” wrote a commentator in Bild am Sonntag.
It’s beginning to appear that the only reasonable way to deal with these left-wing rioters is to curtail civil rights and implement a riot act when the children start acting up.
“Just watch me.” didn’t cost him any seats in Quebec two years later.
Attack on Balikpapan
This rare footage shows the epic scale of the assault, in which 3,000 tons of aerial bombs and 46,800 of naval ammunitions were used.
Turning the anger into something good….
The radicals love what Trudeau has done for Omar Khadr in our name, most normal Canadians, even Liberal voters, are outraged.
So let’s do something good with that anger. I launched this campaign late Friday, already we are at $36,000 and growing. The goal, to raise $1 million for the Speer Kids, Khadr’s victims.
I know everyone is in a different position but donating $10, $20, or thousands if you can swing it, would help.
And if you can’t donate, or have already, please share the campaign on Facebook or Twitter.
More here.
BC is burning
Nearly 200 wildfires burn through B.C. as state of emergency continues.
Related, a map of the fires.
Blowout 184
An ecelctic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Mississippi’s state auditor on Wednesday demanded that a troubled electric car maker or its leader repay $4.9 million in state and local aid the company received, plus $1.5 million of interest.
Auditor Stacey Pickering issued the demand to GreenTech Automotive and its CEO, Charles Wang, saying the company has failed to live up to pledges to invest $60 million and create 350 jobs in Tunica County, just south of Memphis, Tennessee.
GreenTech once planned to build 250,000 cars a year and invest $2 billion, but first sharply downsized its goals, and then failed to meet them, authorities said. In a July 2011 agreement, GreenTech promised to invest $60 million and hire 350 full-time workers by the end of 2014, paying each at least $35,000 and maintaining those jobs for at least 10 years.
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Red Rose Country
DBRS downgrades Alberta’s long-term outlook to negative.
“Moreover, the Province has yet to provide a credible plan to restore balance. While Alberta’s debt burden is low and the economy is showing signs of recovery, the fiscal plan demonstrates a lack of willingness to contain debt growth, which is likely to lead to a one-notch downgrade of the long-term ratings,” the agency’s statement said.
GIGO
When the bosses said make it warm, “scientists” at NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU asked, “How high?”
“Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever – despite current claims of record setting warming,” according to a study published June 27 by two scientists and a veteran statistician.
The peer-reviewed study tried to validate current surface temperature datasets managed by NASA, NOAA and the UK’s Met Office, all of which make adjustments to raw thermometer readings. Skeptics of man-made global warming have criticized the adjustments.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Related: Airbrushing the Inconvenient Pause out
The more Dems change,
Clinton has already launched a PAC aimed at helping congressional Democratic candidates in 2018, signaling the former first lady, senator and secretary of State is ready to help her party with fundraising.
The Clinton cartel are worrying about being left in the DNC’s past and not having enough favours to call in when the bosses decide it is Chelsea’s turn.
Culture War
Even before Breitbart’s warning there was Orwell who understood that the Left’s ultimate ability was to uproot the past and plant their chosen seed for the future. His famous dictum “he who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past” is an unsurpassed indictment of groupthink totalitarianism. There seemed no doubt they would succeed. Within its bubble the Left’s control of culture is so absolute they can watch 1984 without realizing it’s about them.
Yet the real mystery — one which even Orwell himself did not anticipate — is why, despite having won every culture battle, the Left has lost the war. Look around you. Every single country which adopted socialism as an economic system went bankrupt. The Soviet Union collapsed. Now the Western Gramscian project is self-immolating in the fires of its own absurdity. The current political crisis is the collective shudder of mortality passing through “every university, newspaper, TV network, Hollywood studio, publisher, education school and museum in the nation”. The left may have “wrapped up the culture war two generations ago” but it is rotting inside the wrapping.
The Battle of San Jacinto
Because I’m in Dallas: Where Santa Anna Lost Texas By Falling Asleep
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Journo Lives Matter: I’ve just come to appreciate even more the words of those minorities when they speak of harassment and police arrogance. I had a good dose of arrogance on this evening and, in my rear view mirror, the image of the second officer out of the car, his hands ready in case I made the wrong move. My life seemed to be in danger.
The Tolerant Left
Heh. Man, Jezebel morphed into Stormfront so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
It’s Probably Nothing
Sears Canada has filed a motion with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to seek, among other things, permission to suspend certain monthly payments to its pension plan and post-retirement health and life insurance benefits, the company announced today.
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Oh. Yeah. You’re the victim.
She added, “I have weathered a lot of micro-scandals but this one hurts MOST, because of the vulnerability of letting people know Lamby and my story, and because I miss him so damn much. “
BooHoo, woe is me, see how broken I am. What a pastry-assed, fluff-head.
She got a perfectly good dog with a history, the dog adjusted and was quite happy. Four years later dog is a problem. That doesn’t happen because of puppy trauma. Dogs aren’t 5th Avenue idiots, there is no canine breed called Hollywood Drama Queen. Dogs are either flakes, not flakes or working the way out of it. If something with the dog changed it’s because something in the environment changed and that’s all on you Lena.
Matt Beisner, trainer and owner of Zen Dog, told The Cut that Lamby was “a hot mess” when he arrived to the facility.
Beisner said the dog was heavily medicated, had a nasty temperament and was drinking his own urine. The dog has since stabilized and found a new home.
I’d probably be more stable if there was less Lena Dunham in my life too.
We’re all gonna boil and our eyes explode
Stephen Hawking claims that Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Accord could lead to the Earth being pushed past a tipping point, with Venus-like 250 deg. C temperatures and sulfuric acid rain.
Rex on Khadr
Rex Murphy: Justin Trudeau skips the theme socks for his scheming Omar Khadr apology
Three things mark the Khadr announcement. The government didn’t want in any visible way to be associated with it. They wanted it done swiftly and with maximum distraction. And they didn’t want Trudeau on the same continent when the news broke.
Via don morris