Liberation struggles

What’s the root cause of Robert Mugabe’s destruction of Zimbabwe, and the fact that it went on for as long as it did without anyone making a serious effort to stop it? It has a lot to do with ideas originating in the West and an academic and political culture that actively promoted the worst of them.

Smith’s fears were not based on century-old horror stories about Reconstruction. If he believed that white minorities would be run out by the new regime in spite of all prior reassurances to the contrary, it was because that’s exactly what had happened in Algeria. If he worried that the country’s economy would be knocked back to subsistence, with famine following, it was because post-colonial Africa (with the exception of oil-boom Nigeria) had seen negative per capita economic growth in the 1970s. By the time of UDI, the world already had before it the examples of Ghana (Afro-fascism), Tanzania (police state), and the Congo (civil war). Instead of asking why Smith thought Zimbabwe would go the same way, we should ask why anyone thought it would be the exception.

 

Saturday On Turtle Island

Trudeau’s Canada:  CBC is excited about some brain washed kids.  Justin’s youth climate corps.  The world’s lamest country.  Justin’s favourite religion. A Canadian Imam (JW).  Justin Trudeau is lecturing foreign leaders again.  Hiding students’ trans identities.  The drag workshops for children.  It’s Harper’s fault.

Biden’s America:  The unwoke.  Conservatives on Target.  Another magazine promotes mental illness.  Little Mermaid is racist or something, because there are no slaves.  Warner Bros. celebrates Gay Sex Month.  A look at left-wing authoritarianism.  Your morning meme.

Another history lesson with Neil Oliver:  Standing tall, saving lives.

Book Review:  Defense of the Crusades.

Today In Islam:  Trudeau gives lots of money to these countries.  Five years in prison for blasphemy (JW).  A Muslim in Pakistan murders teen boy and girl (JW).

China Virus News:  Covid-19 was a biological weapon.

Trying It On, You Say

Another “non-binary” adventure in ladies’ changing rooms.

At which point, readers may note how Mr Firico’s professed “non-binary” status doesn’t mean that he’d be content in the men’s changing rooms, as an option, with either being fine, and instead grants, in his mind, an entitlement to violate store policy and the boundaries of women. He’s “not a man,” you see – and by the same logic, if that’s the word, not a woman either – but apparently, that women’s space is his kingdom now. And ladies who’d rather not get undressed near some random male interloper – whether that man is mentally ill or an opportunist pervert – are expected to shut up and comply. Because his identity, or feigned identity, trumps theirs.

It’s all terribly convenient.

Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia

Daily Caller;

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is stonewalling a judge’s subpoena of internal documents related to how the medical organization came up with its guidelines for gender confused minors.

WPATH, a leading advocate for child sex changes, was subpoenaed in March by a federal judge in Alabama after the organization’s guidelines were repeatedly referenced to argue against the state’s restrictions on sex changes for minors during a lawsuit. WPATH has attempted to quash the subpoena, which a judge denied in March. The court case challenges Alabama’s law banning sex changes for individuals under 19. While WPATH argued it was a non-party to the case, the U.S. District Court Judge Liles Burke said in a March ruling that the nature of its guidelines was of “crucial import in this litigation.” […]

Experts and advocates who spoke with the Daily Caller in March alleged that the subpoena could cause the entire medical organization to “come crashing down.” They said the subpoena would expose the process, or lack thereof, by which WPATH comes up with its often-cited guidance for transgender children, especially kids.

Newfie oil – delays and conversion

Geez, wonder who the federal government likes best? Federal government gives $86 million to convert Newfoundland oil refinery to biofuel.

And you know it likes Newfoundland because when they wanted to open up a major new oilfield, the federal Liberal government bit their tongue and said, “Sure!”

But now Newfoundland will also got a taste of what Alberta usually chews on – delays on energy projects. The Bay du Nord sailed through federal approvals (sailed – see what I did there?) , only to find out that Norwegian proponent Equinor is going to delay it three years. Didn’t they know the federal government is supposed to delay oil projects three years, not the oil company?

Friday On Turtle Island

Biden’s America:  What lefties think public schools are like.  A woke Target executive.  It’s Gay Sex Month.  The left’s climate change indoctrination.  How to parent through Gay Sex Month.  Los Angeles Dodgers to honour anti-Islam group.  Old Joe falls down.  The Pelosi insurrection exit.  This week in really big lies.  Your morning meme.

Today In Islam:  Muslim tries to burn down French church (JW).  Migrant attacks German police (JW).  Muslim attacks French police (JW).

Woke Britain:  The eco-terrorists are at it again.  Another lockdown achievement.  And special treatment from the police.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Canada’s Olympic team celebrates Gay Sex Month.  Justin’s gay military.  Diverse Toronto’s harm reduction strategy.  Our Dear Leader is still in diverse Toronto. After solving gun violence yesterday, Trudeau will be meeting with the Prime Minister of Poland today.  Justin’s National Security Advisor.  A farm junket to Rome.

The Sound Of Settled Science

The Illusion of Consensus

The project of science calls for rigor, humility, and open discussion. The pandemic has revealed the stunning magnitude of the political and institutional capture of science. For this reason, both of us — Rav and Jay — are launching a podcast devoted to investigating the concoction of pseudo-consensus in science and its ramifications for our society. To start — and for quite some time — they will be examining the illusory consensus during COVID. However they will soon branch out into issues pertaining to transgender care, mental health, psychiatry, and nutrition — topics that have been wholly corrupted with one monolithic consensus that has proven to bear many costs on our society.

The Most Interesting Man In The World

Jonathan Turley;

Putting aside the genuine desire to protect a family member with a history of drug abuse, the unpredictable Hunter also represented a threat to the entire family.

A panicked Hunter threatened more than family harmony. There were millions that were being generated in countries like Ukraine, Romania, Russia and China.

The messages show that Hunter was spinning out of control and needed money fast — a lot of money. He told Jim Biden that he could not even afford “food and gas,” including his monthly alimony to his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle.

He relays how President Biden was told that he “was in a real danger zone.”

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