Trudeaumania: List Under Satire

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Can someone please call The Guardian a taxi, they’ve had too much to drink.

Imagine a West Wing episode come to life, and that’s basically Justin Trudeau. The winsome Canadian prime minister blew up the internet again this week via an old photo of him larking about for the cameras, balancing his entire weight on his wrists on the edge of a desk in trademark manly-but-sensitive fashion. One more for a photo album that so far includes Trudeau cuddling pandas, Trudeau proudly proclaiming himself a feminist, Trudeau wearing a Barbie-pink sweatshirt in solidarity with kids bullied for looking different – and of course a newly elected Trudeau last autumn answering questions about why half his new cabinet was female, with the words “because it’s 2015”, and a shrug that clearly meant “so deal with it.”

Who else is still pulling off the whole hopey-changey thing, still surfing a wave of sunny progressive feeling when the US and much of Europe are increasingly convulsed with rage against either poor migrants or privileged elites, or both? While Britons contemplate a supposedly “kinder, gentler politics” of the left that turns out to come garnished with vicious personal attacks and repulsively antisemitic undercurrents, lucky old Canada gets a photogenic ex-snowboarding instructor calmly explaining why it’s not so mad to run a deficit.

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From the outside at least, Canada seems to be pulling off the elusive trick of remaining tolerant, relaxed and at ease with itself in challenging circumstances with more aplomb than most. You’d think all progressives would be hammering on the door to find out how they do it. But while any leftish policy wonk can give you chapter and verse on Scandinavia, few have made a life’s work of studying Canada, even though its quietly self-effacing culture seems in some ways a more realistic vision of what a future progressive Britain could be.

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The Myth of Integration

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The Ofsted chief inspector of schools in Britain, Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned that thousands of children are in danger of being radicalised as they remain hidden from authorities in unregistered schools across Britain.

Hold on a minute. Are you telling us that in modern Britain there are unregistered schools that do not meet national standards or inspection? Apparently.

Where are these schools?

Last month, inspectors issued seven warning notices to suspected illegal schools in London, Birmingham, Luton, Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent, where they found around 350 children on the premises…

Inspectors have identified 100 suspected unregistered schools across the country since a team was set up in January to investigate the problem.

January? They’ve only been looking since January and already they’ve discovered 100 unregistered schools; that’s 20-25 per month!

The article in the Telegraph does not mention if any group in particular is responsible for dragging parts of modern Britain into the tribal lands of Pakistan, but obviously if ‘radicalisation’ is a major concern, and the list includes London, Birmingham, Luton & Wolverhampton, you have to be ideologically impaired not to work it out.

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Needless to say, this is a small price to pay for living the progressive dream of Multiculturalism. The fact that a minority with a significant & violent extremist element are operating an educational system outside of the national curriculum or scrutiny, should only be of issue to racists.

Everyone else should just relax. This has never gone wrong in the past.

Ivan Penaluna

I Got 99 Problems and Mo Bitchez is One

Sophie Trudeau has reached out to the public. After the Trudeaus’ recent trip to Washington to see how the Obamas live, she’s decided that she needs more help.

“I’d like to be everywhere, but I can’t, I have three children at home and a husband who is Prime Minister. I need help. I need a team to help me serve people.”

Trudeau currently has a staff of three: a cook and two nannies to help with their three children, but Michelle Obama boasts a phalanx of 24 assistants to wipe her bum and open her mail etc, and Sophie Trudeau wants some of that.

He comments have caused controversy and lead to a #prayforsophie campaign where Canadians can leave emotional support for the Prime Minister’s wife.

Interestingly, even the U.K’s Guardian newspaper wanted in on the action. It ran a reader’s opinion piece, as it increasingly does when out of ideas, which at first glance appears to be satire. Read Article

And if you thought the Guardian could not get its nose further up Trudeau’s arse, the paper’s Gaby Hinsliff penned what must be the most sycophantic piece of progressive Trudeau propaganda to date. Enjoy

This is why we fight.

The Wrath of Khan

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This week, newly elected Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan addressed Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Islamic immigration. It should have gone something like this:

Khan: ‘Let us into your country.’

Trump: ‘I’d rather not. Some of you people are violent extremists who seek our destruction.’

Khan: ‘You better let us in. If you don’t, some of our people may become violent and seek your destruction.’

Trump: ‘Like I said…’

Instead, Trump offered to make an exception in the case of Khan.

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And if Khan’s self incriminating logic and affiliation with Islamic extremists wasn’t enough, he then went on to put himself firmly in the camp of the ‘enemies of humanity’ by promising to help Hillary Clinton get elected as President of the United States. Read More

We won’t even bother addressing his ideologically inconsistent and naive comments about being a Muslim and a feminist, as we’ve already covered that fallacy in a previous article.

Jihadis Gearing Up For A Busy Summer

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The Independent reports on a plot to attack a number of European soft targets by an Islamist cell based in Italy. The discovery came after police arrested a number of suspects in a counter terrorism operation. The targets included Rome’s Collosseum and London’s Canary Wharf. Read More

As the Telegraph also reports:

There are also fears that a huge ‘fan zone’ to be set up near the Eiffel Tower during the Euro 2016 football Championship will “offer terrorists a chance for a massacre,” according to a former French police chief.

Frédéric Péchenard, who headed the national police until 2012, urged the authorities to scrap plans for the Paris fan zone, where spectators will gather to watch matches on giant screens. Read Full Article

No shit! Besides European, and in particular, Turkish beach resorts (read more), the softest target this summer must be the Euro 2016 football tournament in ethnically fractured France, with the England v Russia game on June 11th no doubt top of the Jihadi hit list.

Socialism in Venezuela: Eating Cats & Dogs

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In the socialist paradise that is contemporary Venezuela, they have attained a state of revolutionary utopia where people are eating cats and dogs to stay alive.

The situation in Venezuela is reaching all out chaos, as crippling socialist policies have resulted in a devastating power and food shortage, as well as looming political instability. This is a country with more oil than Saudi Arabia.

Ramón Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food.

Through Twitter, Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a “painful reality” that people “hunt cats, dogs and pigeons” to ease their hunger. People are also reportedly gathering vegetables from the ground and trash to eat as well.

No One Could Have Predicted That (Part 1: Austria)

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Angela Merkel’s Summer of Love has claimed its first victim, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann.

The BBC reports:

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has resigned after losing the support of Social Democratic party colleagues. Mr Faymann came to power in 2008 but has faced criticism within his party since the far right won the first round of presidential elections last month.

Earlier this year, he yielded to pressure from his coalition partner, the conservative People’s Party, to cap the number of people allowed to claim asylum in Austria after the arrival in 2015 of more than 90,000 asylum seekers.

That decision prompted criticism from trade unionists and the SPO’s youth wing who clearly felt that 90,000 wasn’t anywhere near enough to rupture the fabric of Austrian society.

There was further pressure on Mr Faymann after far-right Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer won the first round of the presidential election a fortnight ago. The green candidate was second while Mr Faymann’s Social Democrats and the centre-right People’s Party failed to make it to the run-off vote on 22 May.

To be fair, Mr Faymann seems like a decent man caught between the inflexible ideology of those on the fringes of his own party and the practical reality of mass immigration.

Of course no one could have predicted that the open door immigration policy adopted last summer would lead to right wing parties doing well during elections or the fall of national leaders.

We should consider Mr Faymann the first of many.

Finally, London Gets the Mayor It Deserves

There is a saying attributed to Robert Kennedy, that goes: ‘Every society get the criminals it deserves.’ Equally... it goes on, ‘every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.’ Somewhere between these two points lies the election of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London last week.

Sadie Khan is the first Muslim mayor of London, which in isolation should be no big deal. The issue comes when you apply this fact to the broader picture of what is happening in Europe, and when of course, people learn that Khan has shared the stage with Islamic extremists.

Again, this should not be really be a controversial revelation. Every Muslim public figure in Britain probably knows a number of Islamic extremists with whom they are on first name terms – that’s the nature of the beast. He probably bumps into extremists on a daily basis; waves to Islamists from across the street both knowingly and unknowingly. To him, these are regular Muslims. Not your ‘Uncle Tom’ secular Muslims as he describes – the ones who contemptuously put the law of the land before the Mohammed’s teachings of conquest and subjugation.

Khan’s rap sheet is pretty damning. Here is just a snap shot:

In 2004, Khan was the chief legal advisor to the Muslim Council of Britain, a group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. Khan defended Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born Islamist who has been banned from entering the UK. Al-Qaradawi has expressed support for Hamas suicide bombings against Israel: “It’s not suicide, it is martyrdom in the name of Allah.” According to Khan, however, “Quotes attributed to this man may or may not be true.”

Also in 2004, Khan shared a platform with a half-dozen Islamic extremists in London at a political meeting where women were told to use a separate entrance. One of the speakers was Azzam Tamimi, who has said he wants Israel destroyed and replaced with an Islamic state. Another speaker was Daud Abdullah, who has led boycotts of Holocaust Memorial Day. Yet another speaker was Ibrahim Hewitt, a Muslim hardliner who believes that adulterers should be “stoned to death.”

In 2006, Khan attended a mass rally in Trafalgar Square to protest the publication of cartoons of Mohammed by Western newspapers. One of those present at the rally was Tamimi, who told Sky News: “The publication of these cartoons will cause the world to tremble. Fire will be throughout the world if they don’t stop.” Khan defended Tamimi: “Speakers can get carried away but they are just flowery words.”

In 2008, Khan gave a speech at the Global Peace and Unity Conference, an event organized by the Islam Channel, which has been censured repeatedly by British media regulators for extremism. Members of the audience were filmed flying the black flag of jihad while Khan was speaking.

Also in 2008, Khan wrote that Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union in order to prove that the bloc is not a “Christian Club” that discriminates against Muslims. Full Rap Sheet

Bumbling tussle-haired Eurosceptic former Mayor, Boris Johnson never realistically or convincingly represented the capital and its values. The people of London seem quite comfortable with the creeping Balkanization of Europe, even going out of their way to promote such progressive policies, despite overwhelming evidence of their failure.

Finally, they are getting the mayor they deserve.

The House Of Saud Has 10 Years

Today’s exclusive report in the Daily Telegraph that Saudi Arabia is to sell off part of its nationalized oil industry only lends credence to what we have been saying for some time: the kingdom is running out of oil and will face ruin within ten years.

As Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Telegraph reports:

Saudi Arabia is planning a three-way foreign listing in London, Hong Kong, and New York for the record-smashing privatisation of its $2.5 trillion oil giant Aramco, anchored on a triad of interlocking ties with three foreign energy companies.

The moves come amid a profound shake-up of the kingdom’s energy strategy, with the dismissal of veteran oil minister Ali al-Naimi over the weekend.

Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince aims to clear away a clutter of subsidies, pushing through a Thatcherite shake-up of what still remains a medieval economic structure. The plans draw on a McKinsey report, “Beyond Oil”, which warned that the kingdom is heading for bankruptcy if it fails to grasp the nettle.

The vast IPO is the spearhead of his “2030 Vision” to break the country’s “addiction” to oil and diversify, using the proceeds for an investment spree covering everything from car plants to weapons production, petrochemicals, and tourism. “We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility,” he says.

While the Saudis are shocked by the anti-Muslim rhetoric of Donald Trump, they are more disturbed by legislation in Congress that would let survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks file lawsuits for damages against Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia keeps its estimated oil reserves a close state secret, and hasn’t updated projections since the 1970’s.

The vast Ghawar field –with capacity of 5m barrels a day – dates back to the 1940s, with no major finds in the kingdom since the 1960s. Yet declared reserves have been strangely stable for decades.

It looks like the kingdom’s royal elite are starting to diversify while the getting is still good. They have a restive and increasingly militant population they keep sedate with oil wealth and a craddle-to-grave welfare state.

Yet there are mounting concerns over the fragility of the Saudi state itself as the Middle East is engulfed by a Sunni-Shia battle for dominance, all too like Europe’s Thirty Year War.

Aramco’s oil reserves are largely in the Shia regions of the Eastern Province. This is a combustible zone after the execution of the Shia sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in January for civil protest, prompting outrage and vows for revenge.

Couldn’t happen to nicer people, we agree. Especially as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the #1 exporter of toxic Islamist doctrine and propaganda on the planet; it would be sweetly poetic if that same extremist ideology they’ve been pimping around the world for decades provided the fertile soil for their own downfall.

However, the geopolitical ramifications of the kingdom either starting to running out of oil or falling victim to an Islamic revolution (most likely both in close succession), would be cataclysmic.

Without oil, Saudi Arabia quickly becomes Yemen or Somalia.

The Progressive Aggregation Fallacy with Pat Condell

An Aggregation Fallacy is the support for two or more causes that are in opposition to each other that co-exist within an ideology. Currently the best example of this is the support within progressive liberalism for third way feminism and LGBT rights at the same time as support for Islamic immigration.

It is both ideologically and practically impossible to champion the causes of the former, whilst also supporting the latter. We should not need to point out this logical inconsistency, but hey, that’s the world we live in.

In his book, The Uses of Pessimism, political philosopher, Roger Scruton explains the idea of an aggregation fallacy as follows:

‘When the French Revolutionaries crafted their famous slogan, ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ they were in a state of exaltation that prevented them from seeing any fault in it. In their eyes liberty was good, equality was good and fraternity was good, so the combination was thrice good. That’s like saying lobster is good, chocolate is good and ketchup is good, so lobster cooked in chocolate and ketchup is thrice good.

The French had to go through a painful process of discovery before realizing what they had embarked upon. Even when Robespierre fanatically promoted ‘the despotism of liberty’ it did not dawn on the Jacobins that they were committed to a contradiction: the goal of equality requires the destruction of liberty.

The thinking here embodies a fallacy that is replicated whenever the desire for good things impetuously cancels any attempt to understand the connections between them… As a result, they add one good thing in an ever expanding wish-list. And because each good has been taken from its context and transferred to an imaginary world, the result is almost certain to involve aims that cannot advance together.’

Warning: pointing out progressive aggregation fallacies might lead to being labelled a fascist or a racist.

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