BBC reports that radical environmentalists who targeted commuter trains got push back by angry commuters.
Best quote:
One shouts: "I have to get to work too - I have to feed my kids."
environmentalists tend to be very upper class white folks so don't seem to be aware that the peons might not tolerate their protests. Heaven forbid if you have to work for a living and have to actually take a commuter train to do so.
update:PJMedia has videos from twitter.
Best comment:
Extinction Rebellion, meet Employed Rebellion. The workers control the means of instruction.
and the "Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat" item of the day:
while Congress is busy condemning Trumpieboy for pulling out American troops from Syria, under the meme "orange man bad no matter what he does", and the press is happily predicting that "Syria could be the beginning of the end for Trump", they didn't notice this was going on:
US-Turkey joint statement.
BBC: Turkey to suspend Syria offensive to "allow Kurdish withdrawal".
more HERE.
Yup. As usual, Trumpie boy is ahead of them, playing 4 D Chess.
A couple days ago, StrategyPage had a long analysis of what is going on there... with a history lesson on the regional players and why they hate each other
backstory: fear of a new Ottoman empire.
and then there is the problem of PKK terrorism.
no, I don't expect this means "peace in our time": the locals have been fighting there for over 5000 years, so I doubt they will stop now.
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"watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat" take two:
Boris hopeful that MP's will okay his new Brexit deal
or maybe not: it's still a bad deal for the UK.
so the MP's might just say no, meaning either another change of government or a "hard Brexit". The establishment is up in arms to stop it, but hey, one little old lady agrees with Brexit.
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it's not just ESPN and the NBA: now it's Dreamworks doing China's bidding in pushing propaganda.
China had inserted a map of their illegal sea grab into the movie Abominable, and Viet Nam has banned the film as a result.
And the Philippines is also a tad angry too
there is absolutely no reason to put this map into the film: so why did they do it? To please their Chinese masters?
and in HongKong, the protesters are attacking Starbucks for backing the Chinese government.
Yes, "woke" Starbucks is backing a regime that has put a million Muslims into reeducation camps and takes organs from prisoners.
in contrast, Pepe the Frog is now the face of freedom. Whowuddathot?
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fake news story of the week: When Knob Creek Kentucky invaded Syria.
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the Pope, the ecoterrorists and others are all pushing people to live the good old fashioned "sustainable lifestyle" of the past, and have a low "carbon footprint", meaning no modern stuff: back to the sod huts with the cow in the living room I guess.
But there is an alternative: Make the poor richer.
Economists who wrote about how the poor actually live and how to help them win Nobel Prize for economics.
one solution: small lenders so the poor can borrow without paying huge interest rates.
And substitute smart phone apps for banks
The couple believe there are no magic bullets to end poverty. Instead, there are a number of things which could help improve their lives: a simple piece of information can make a big difference (what is the easiest way to get infected with HIV); doing the right thing based on what we know (cheap salt fortified with iron and iodine); and helpful innovations (microcredit or electronic money transfers using mobile phones).
italics mine.
Microcredit: Good for the poor?
China, which over a single generation has become the world’s second biggest economy, has also proven that microfinance can help enterprises flourish. Until 2005, China did not allow MFIs. A decade earlier the government had started experimenting with microfinance as a tool in poverty reduction, and in 2005 it allowed the commercialisation of microfinance. This opened the floodgates for resources that help tackle poverty and spur the growth of enterprises in rural areas, where the majority of the country’s 400 million people who live on less than $2 per day are concentrated. Since the approval of microcredit, the industry has grown exponentially.
and then there are smart phones: helping the poor with information, education, and financial transactions in rural areas without land lines in Africa and Asia.
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Instapundit links to this quote about impeachment that could be applied to the Pope and his refusal to clear up confusion:
“If it’s a mist in the pulpit, it’s a fog in the pew.” An old Baptist preacher said that years ago and it always stuck with me. Translated into secular-speak, if the speaker doesn’t present a simple, direct, crystal-clear message, the audience will never retain it.
well, in this, the Pope (as usual) is busy spreading the fog of confusion.
Sandro Magister (Italian journalist) points out the latest scandal: how the Vatican's meeting includes "Amazon" experts who are sort of saying killing live babies and old people by theses tribes are okay-- and no one seems to be upset except those rabid rigid Catholics who still believe in the ten commandments.
missing from the discussion: Do the people obey out of fear or from free choice? And why do the tribal leaders push killing when there are many alternatives? Why do they oppose letting their people be free to enter the modern world? Think of them as cult leaders instead of tribal elders and you might figure it out.
de Oliveira... went back to (discussing) the infanticide practiced in some Amazonian tribes, prefacing her remarks by saying that these questions are “very complex” and must be viewed from “different perspectives,” especially in their relationship with the sacred....In the words of de Oliveira there is an allusion to the selective elimination not only of children but also of the elderly, which was the subject of the question that had been posed to her at the press conference by Swiss journalist Giuseppe Rusconi.
The UKTelegraph has a story about when the tribal elders ordered the murder, the parents killed themselves rather than kill their child. (the child was saved by an uncle and eventually adopted by Protestant missionaries).
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| Hakani, who lived in the forest for three years after being abandoned, aged two, by her tribe. She was adopted by Marcia and Edson Suzuki |
and you thought that the only controversy in the "Amazon synod" was about if priests should be allowed to marry. Nope. Not true. It's about remaking the church according to the "holy spirit", meaning throw out the old and in with the New (world order).
Sigh.
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