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A Chance to Save Britain

12 Thursday Dec 2019

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This may be the last chance for the UK to reverse and prevent a cultural and demographic slide of USA proportions. The British People have spoken.

BORIS Johnson is on course for the biggest Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher tonight – after the exit polls tipped the Tories to win a whopping 368 seats.

Seconds after the polls closed at 10pm a joint poll put the Conservatives on track for a huge majority of 86, with Labour trailing behind on 191.

Boris had damned well better listen. Hard BREXIT. Now. Then, on to making Britain British again. Immediately.

20 Strict Conditions

02 Monday Dec 2019

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The other Khan of London, the one who was under court order not to be there, went anyway. Is anyone surprised that this cat was less than enthusiastic about following the rules in the West?

THE London Bridge terrorist was banned from entering London but had a one-day exemption to attend an ex-convict event, it emerged last night.

Usman Khan, 28, from Staffordshire, was released from prison in December last year on condition he obey 20 strict conditions – which included not visiting the capital.

The NTA (like the NRA, but short for the “Narwhal Tusk Association”) is lobbying hard to divert attention away from the dangers of bridges and fire extinguishers. Where’s Jeremy Corbyn when we need him? Sentencing reform is what will say the UK! Well, that and more DIEversity. If only they’d added a 21st fantasy condition about not stabbing people to death and running amock with a bomb belt. For shame.

A Self-Policing 1984

11 Monday Nov 2019

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It’s probably too late by the time people start making recommendations like “academic freedom champions.”

Fewer than half of students consistently support freedom of speech and two fifths favour censorship and no-platforming of controversial speakers, research has shown.

A “culture of conformity” may also be having an effect on undergraduates, who are often too intimidated to espouse unpopular views on campus, according to a report by the centre-right think tank Policy Exchange.

Deep-rooted reform is needed at universities, which should establish academic freedom champions reporting directly to the vice-chancellor, it says.

And it’s not just in the UK. Depending on how one looks at the problem, the US is either a little better or much worse. The good news is that soon there will be nothing left to conform to.

More Like It: A Good Old-Fashioned Crime

05 Monday Aug 2019

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From the UK: another “teen” tosses another child.

A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern gallery is a French national who was visiting the British capital with his family, police said Monday.

The boy is no longer in a life-threatening condition, according to London’s Metropolitan Police, who appealed for further witnesses to the Sunday afternoon incident to come forward.

A 17-year-old boy who was initially detained by members of the public on the tenth-floor platform and then arrested by officers, remains in custody on suspicion of attempted murder.

The gallery, the mall, the train station. The vibrancy! Better bans “weapons of war”…

A Tale of Two Bombs

21 Wednesday Nov 2018

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The UK MUST REMAIN! Or else BREXITers and Tommy Robinson fans will keep leaving bombs in abandoned apartments!

Two suspected bombs have been found in a disused flat in north-west London, sparking a large counter-terror operation.

Two suspicious items were found at a flat in Craven Park, Harlesden, this morning and are believed to be improvised explosive devices.

The flat was evacuated and the area cordoned off while detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command launched an investigation.

The two devices were subsequently made safe and recovered from the flat and are now undergoing further forensic examination.

There is no way these alleged weapons could have been made by the new “Britons,” Allah, honor them.

And, there’s no chance the criminals responsible for this bomb will ever answer for their crimes.

At first glance, it looks like a $9 trillion time bomb is ready to detonate, a corporate debt load that has escalated thanks to easy borrowing terms and a seemingly endless thirst from investors.

On Wall Street, though, hopes are fairly high that it’s a manageable problem, at least for the next year or two.

The resolution is critical for financial markets under fire. Stocks are floundering, credit spreads are blowing out and concern is building that a combination of higher interest rates on all that debt will begin to weigh meaningfully on corporate profit margins.

Do not worry. This debt can always be written down or refinanced – either or both at your expense. This is in contrast to your debts. Look for a bi-partisan tightening of (non-corporate) bankruptcy laws in a year or two, roughly the same timeframe for this particular bomb going off. Jubilee for them, slavery for you.

Both of these stories involve terrorism. Neither will result in meaningful action.

Some Happier Updates

05 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Two things:

First, as an add-on to my Opposite of Free Market Medicine, the sad story of little Charlie Gard of the UK, President Trump offers assistance, if possible:

President Trump on Monday offered to help a critically ill British child who has become a flashpoint in the United Kingdom debate over whether the government should have a say in individual matters pertaining to life and death.

Trump tweeted his support for Charlie Gard, a 10-month-old infant on life support due to complications from a mitochondrial disease. The controversy around Gard has engulfed the Vatican, which infuriated some on the right by not immediately siding entirely with the parents, who want to seek experimental medication in the U.S. or bring their child home to die.

“If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so,” Trump tweeted.

Let’s hope there’s something more official than a tweet behind this measure.

The Pope and the Vatican also weighed in. Oddly the “pro-life” Church seems to imply a big dose of Romans 13 is the cure here.

The Vatican has weighed in, saying “we must do what advances the health of the patient, but we must also accept the limits of medicine” and “avoid aggressive medical procedures that are disproportionate to any expected results or excessively burdensome to the patient or the family.”

“Likewise, the wishes of parents must be heard and respected, but they too must be helped to understand the unique difficulty of their situation and not be left to face their painful decisions alone,” Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia wrote.

“If the relationship between doctor and patient (or parents as in Charlie’s case) is interfered with, everything becomes more difficult and legal action becomes a last resort, with the accompanying risk of ideological or political manipulation, which is always to be avoided, or of media sensationalism, which can be sadly superficial.”

I suggest that “dying with dignity” when a possible cure is available might not be lawful authority. Also, “sadly superficial” would seem to encompass the Vatican press office.

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Vader does not bear the light saber for no reason.

Secondly, yesterday I plugged for Gary North’s (correct) position on the Fourth of July, the Revolution for higher taxes and all. He also recently posted some good advice for getting over your adolesent self.

I know people who, at age 16, did not have a strong self-image, and they have been afflicted ever since. The sooner anyone can shake this negative self-image, the better.

I recommend that at some point you should take leadership in some area of your life. In some area, you are in a position to exercise leadership. You may not have found this yet, but you are way ahead of the curve in terms of what most of your peers are aware of today. You will be in an even stronger position as the economy becomes less predictable and more threatening to millions of Americans. In a time of crisis, influence and power flow to those who take responsibility. That’s why the good guys had better be willing to take responsibility.

Read the whole thing. It’s good. You’re not 16 anymore (unless you really are). Move on.

There you have it: 13 and 16. Numerologists, make of that what you will…

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80% And Closing (Not Good)

28 Wednesday Dec 2016

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The Daily Mail reports that now 80% of middle-aged Britons are either overweight or obese. I am confident this reflects on my side of the pond as well.

Britons are so inactive that they do not need nearly as many calories as their parents’ generation, researchers claim. Guidelines suggest an average man requires 2,500 calories a day while an average woman should aim for 2,000.

But these were drawn up around the First World War when adults walked to work and visited friends in person rather than phoning or texting.

Britons are so inactive that they do not need nearly as many calories as their parents¿ generation, researchers claim

Researchers from the London School of Economics who analysed 30 years of data say the modern-day calorie requirements should be slashed.

Dr Joan Costa-Font, whose study is published in the journal Food Policy, said: ‘Typically, life in the 21st century might mean a commute into a desk-based occupation, and three or four meals a day, leading to many people consuming more calories than their lifestyles require.

‘We still eat like our parents did, or worse, but we don’t move around nearly as much as they did. People no longer have to visit each other to hold a face-to-face conversation, they can simply Skype. We jump in the car or the bus or the Tube rather than walking.
‘As lifestyles have slowed down and become more sedate, people haven’t amended their calorie intake accordingly. We should all eat less.

‘The amount of food we eat compared with energy expenditure is simply too much. If people were as active as they were 30 years ago then recommended daily allowances of calories would be fine. It’s very hard to change how you eat from how your parents told you to eat, but we should all eat less today.

I occasionally track various obesity numbers across various demographics. The U.S. in general is north of 70% overweight. 80% is the next natural measure. I once predicted that we are moving towards a virtual 100% score. Four-fifths of the way there, baby.

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And I do not want that prediction to become accurate. Let’s us, the U.S., the U.K. and everyone else, use 2017 to reverse the curse. It can be done! Starting very soon I’m going to tell you how. It ain’t easy but it is also not that hard. You’ll thank me.