The UKGuardian dares to ask why security was so lax for Mr. Rushdie's lecture.
Why weren't those attending the lecture screened?
Actually, they were screened: according to one attended who was interviewed, they were kept from bringing coffee into the lecture. Priorities I guess. But no frisking, wanding or metal detector scans to those attended the lecture.
So why the lack of screening of the audience?
Because of it's mission of ''Inclusivity"
Security consisted of one state cop and one local deputy: well, duh.
Luckily the state cop was fast enough to run on stage and stop the assault.
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Neil Oliver is at it again.
now, any Scotsman or Irishman who knows the history of the highland clearances or the Irish potato famine knows not to trust the Government, especially when the government is implementing social reforms that benefit the powerful.
but the reason I posted this is because it questions why some governments, under the guise of the Paris climate accord, are shutting down farmers at a time when experts are warning of a famine in the near future?
Because Global warming.
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Those Dutch farmers are among the most productive and knowledgeable in the world, holding in their heads and hands the answers to all manner of questions about how best to produce food, and yet their government is so intent on scaring them out of the business that a teenage boy in a tractor, taking part in a protest to defend ancient rights and traditions, was fired on by police. Why do you think it matters so much, to the government of the second most productive population of farmers in the world, to gut and fillet that industry? Why? Why have similar protests, in countries all across Europe and the wider world, been largely ignored by the mainstream media
Shutting down Productive farms that could send food to areas where food shortages occur is not a good idea because it means people will starve if there is no food.
(yes, there are problems caused when you do this: like bankrupting local farmers when cheap imports underprice local crops. And of course fraud that makes the rich importers more affluent, and one even sees the food aid being diverted to the black market).
farming practices in recent years have improved the yields of grain enough to stop the famines predicted by Ehrlich and other doom sayers back in the 1980s.
But high yield grain requires fertilizer and herbicide and expensive seeds to plant: which sometimes cannot be done by poor farmers with small plots.
Here in the third world, it is a fight between the small farmers versus the larger farmers/agribusiness, whose farms are much more productive and who are best able to afford the high yield crops of the green revolution.
That article is from India, but it could also apply to the Philippines, where the gov't is supporting small farmers and organic growing, but there is a trend toward small farmers selling their fields to richer folk and/or Balikbayan who can afford to invest in these crops.
Where you stand on that controversy depends if you are a small farmer, just wanting to live as your ancestors lived, or if you live in the slums on a limited income and just want to be able to afford to eat food.
But as I pointed out in past articles: In our area, land reform has enriched small farmers so they sent their kids to school: but their kids often migrate to cities or work as OFW, so the actual farmers are getting old...
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and finally: Why is the MSM so hysterical about the latest "This time we really will destroy Trump" hysteria?
The hysteria about Trumpie boy having "top secret" papers is getting absurd, because many of us who worked for the feds have some type of clearance and know a lot of stuff is over classified by bureaucrats.
Since that story didn't impress anyone who knows how bureaucrats work, the story has now changed:
So now we read it is about NUCLEAR stuff: which really sounds scary.
Search the place! Leave no stone unturned in the search because you don't know where this evil guy might have hidden that dangerous information:
But again what I find absurd is that the articles are written as if Trumpieboy packed up all those papers by himself.
nope, he didn't.
Nor did his staff:
It was the GSA who did this: they packed and sealed the boxes and sent them to the President's residence.
So presumably these papers were checked by some bureaucrat before they were packed.
question no one is asking: so did a mole put suspicious stuff in those boxes?
Or did those searching those papers plant evidence?
That would be absurd, except for the fact that there were no observers by Trump's people, and the FBI even ordered the security cameras to be turned off (which wasn't done by the way).
but from what I gather is that since the search warrant said they could search everywhere and confiscate everything, it makes one susepct that maybe it is about finding all that classified information proving the RussiaRussiaRussia hoax was made up by the Democrats and pushed by people in the CIA etc.
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best joke of the week:
It's not beetlejuice, it's Chorizo:
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the PhilInquirer posts the rumor that Cardinal Tagle is being groomed as the next Pope, and explains why.
His reputation for working with the poor is a good sign, and he supervises world wide charities, but he also is involved in the Vatican Bank... and rumors that he backed the Chinese takeover of the church. Rumors also say he backs the newfangled rules of Francis, and supports the Bologna school ideat that vatican II was not a reform of tradtion but was a reset that was to remake the church into the image of the modern world.
two other problems: he is ethnically Chinese, which might not seem a big thing to outsiders but here it is seen as being part of the elite outsiders who run the place. And the bishops' PC policies have not stopped the huge influx of the educated middle class catholics into local Evangelical churches.
on the other hand, if he needs money, he can always sing for Philippine Idol:
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