[…]all too often the opposition to the […] appalling people-smuggling trade […] is something many human-rights lawyers are seemingly prepared to overlook.
[…] lawyers have continually cited our human-rights laws to defend the appalling trade in human suffering that is currently taking place in the English Channel. […]
[…]These lawyers could not be more wrong. The small-boats crisis cannot simply be ignored. Right now, tens of thousands of people a year are being ferried across a busy shipping lane by illegal gangs. […]
SPRING —— Christina Georgina Rossetti Frost-locked all the winter, Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits, What shall make their sap ascend That they may put forth shoots? Tips of tender green, Leaf, or blade, or sheath; Telling of the hidden life That breaks forth underneath, Life nursed in its grave by Death. Blows the […]
Wyoming has become the 19th state in the United States to fight the transgender agenda and ban men from competing in women’s sports. It did so with a new law, … 488 more words
[…]Among the starkest examples of government inefficiency in modern times is Joseph R. “Joey” Smallwood’s premiership of the Canadian province of Newfoundland (now officially known as Newfoundland and Labrador). Premier from 1949 to 1972, Smallwood was the most consequential statesman Newfoundland has ever produced, having been the driving force behind its joining Canada in 1949. A considerable influence in federal and provincial politics, he also built a substantial international reputation.
Smallwood’s chief goal was to modernize Newfoundland. The province was heavily reliant on its fisheries, whose outports often used antiquated technology and whose saltfish export trade was bringing in poor returns. Chronic unemployment had stalked Newfoundland for years. Most fishermen struggled to make ends meet, and there were few alternative means of employment. Ambitious young people, seeking a better life, were emigrating in droves.
Smallwood sought to overcome these difficulties through audacious government programs. The Canadian federal government had given the new province a cash surplus of approximately $45 million. Proclaiming that Newfoundland must “develop or perish,” Smallwood invested this money in new industries. In the 1950s, over a dozen manufacturing plants were established in Newfoundland, some built directly by the government and others having received loans.
At first, it all seemed quite promising. But as the commentator Harold Horwood remarks, Smallwood was ill versed in mathematics and had previously failed as a small businessman. He was therefore reckless with his finances even by the standards of government leaders.
As the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website notes, some of Smallwood’s manufacturing plants relied on expensive imported raw materials, which virtually doomed them to economic loss. Even those that utilized local materials frequently struggled to find a secure market for their products since the province’s market was rather small and the Canadian and international markets were extremely competitive. Despite handsome government support, many of the industries folded quickly, taking with them much of Newfoundland’s cash surplus. Those that survived could provide employment only for a select few.[…]
One cannot separate Leftism from globalism because the nature of egalitarianism is to include every living human in a collective reward scheme that protects their individualism against consequences in reality and nature. Naturally this expands to include all humans worldwide.
Outside the ideological level, Leftism needs globalism because it keeps open international trade so that the middle class can continue its rule despite having raised marginal costs with ideological objectives like anti-poverty and anti-racism programs.
Globalism came about for two reasons: first, the West raised the cost of its labor with marginal costs like unions, taxes, and regulations; second, to continue to the profitable colonialist system where resources are taken from the third world to the first for value-added production.
With globalism, the newest resource was labor for the first reason above. After unions wrecked the American auto industry, it became clear that production had to go abroad […] making parts abroad for final assembly by a smaller workforce in America.[…]
St. Michael’s Mount Castle, located on St. Michael’s Mount, a tidal island off coast of Cornwall, England. Castle is owned by St Aubyn family, who have lived there since 17th Century CE. 28 more words
[…]GianCarlo Canaparo, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, notes that all of the highlighted judges were Democratic Obama appointees. While there are ethnically diverse Republican appointees, they haven’t been picked, Canaparo told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview.
“[This] suggests the focus isn’t on true diversity of thought or character,” he said. Instead, he called it a “virtue signaling push.”
[…]Most of the DIE ʎǝʇᴉɥM initiatives are through the AO, an agency established in 1939 to handle the administrative business of the U.S. court system, including budgets, finances, statistics, management and technology services.
[…]U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell criticized Joe Biden’s prioritization of demographics over qualifications on the Senate floor.
Overall, the AO’s DEI efforts appear “out of control,” Canaparo told the DCNF. While Chief Justice John Roberts is “nominally the boss,” it seems the office “doesn’t answer to anybody,” he said.[…]
From the too funny not to report files. A CNN Crew was at City Hall in San Francisco working on a story about voter discontent over rising street crime. While doing their report, someone did a smash-and-grab on their rental car. Related: Liberal San Francisco Successfully Recalls Soft on Crime (Soros?) DA Chesa Boudin At[…]
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