Thursday, March 28, 2019

Stories behind the news

Austin Bay on the National Security impact of the Muller investigations.

he notes how the president could compartmentalize the kerfuffle so it didn't harm national security:
...thanks to Trump's ability to focus, at the operational level I don't think American national security has suffered much. World leaders, whether friendly or adversarial, see Trump as an American president willing to act and use America's vast powers with savvy.

However, it did have national security implications against the civil rights of American citizens.

Hard evidence exists that a serious national security crime was committed during the election and early 2017. Trump and his campaign were spied upon, not by foreign adversaries but by America's security agencies. Moreover, criminals in these agencies colluded with media compadres to mislead the American people.
The security agency corruption and media collusion produced a cold, hard totalitarian horror committed in and against America, the world's paramount democracy.
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Via Instapundit:

  Trump orders plan to protect against EMP attack.

Officials have warned for years that the electric grid is not safe from an EMP attack — either one from a solar flare or a nuclear attack from countries with EMP weapons, including Iran, North Korea, China and Russia. A congressional report warned that an EMP attack on the East Coast would kill 90 percent of those in the area over a year due to the lack of food, money, fuel, electricity, and medical care.
and not just an act of war: Solar flares can damage the grid too:

 like the 1989 solar flare that took out Quebec's electric grid...

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Cardinal Daneels who just died was not just a force behind the "st gallens mafia" that conspired to elect Pope Francis, but he was also one of the big shots behind a plot trying to change church teachings by a slight of hand in the 2015 synod on the family.

But has anyone noticed how he might have promoted pedophilia in many ways?

GetReligion has the story and links.

Caution: Strong stuff there in a "sex ed" manual that normalized child sex a la Kinsey.

sigh.

Ah, the good old 1970s and 1980s.....And I am old enough to remember this was also the position of the German "green" party, being pushed by certain experts in the UK, and we as medical students in the early 1970s were told it was normal and good, not to mention that California essentially decriminalized "non violent" sex offense by refusing to jail the perverts, which resulted in some very terrible crimes and a backlash... and the present day emphasis on keeping them in jail and watching them when released. 2007 article in the NYTimes discusses the problem.

when you read about African or Islamic countries who put Homosexuals to death, in many cases you are overlooking that these laws are about pederasty and sexual exploitation of children of both sexes, not about quiet consensual adult relationships.

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Herodatus was again proven correct: this time about boat construction techniques in ancient Egypt.


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