Category Archives: North America

9th Circuit Refuses To Reject Order Staying Trump Executive Action

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The 9th Circuit Court of appeals in San Francisco refused to lift an order by activist James Robart in Washington State which supposedly prevents the enforcement of a 90-day restriction on certain entries into the United States. The decision, which does not constitute a ruling on Trump's executive action and its constitutionality, includes the supposing that:

In short, although courts owe considerable deference to the President’s policy determinations with respect to immigration and national security, it is beyond question that the federal judiciary retains the authority to adjudicate constitutional challenges to executive action

In a flurry of activity, the mainstream fake news media is thus far misrepresenting this decision as coming against Trump's executive action itself at a rate of approximately 75% in a quick survey of headlines.

Socialist Seek To Replace Socialist Zuckerberg On Facebook Board For Insufficient Socialism

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A minority group of Facebook shareholders are organizing an effort to replace socialist Mark Zuckerberg (WOT:nonperson) as Chairman of the board at the firm. The coup organized by "consumer watchdog" SumOfUs claims that an "independent" chair would:

"oversee the executives of the company, improve corporate governance, and set a more accountable, pro-shareholder agenda."

SumOfUs describes itself as an organization:

"Fighting for people over profits"

Which raises the serious question of what they imagine a "pro-shareholder" agenda to be.

This goes to show that even a sworn friend of socialism like Mark Zuckerberg who presides over one of their favorite cesspools is in reality far less protected from the activists than those who deny the leftists their support, sympathy, and proximity. This coup seems unlikely to forcefully unseat Zuckerberg from the Facebook chairmanship unless he chooses to step down, but it highlights the fact that when dealing with leftists, you can not possibly pay your enemy enough to love you. So long as you have and they have not, you will always be their enemy.

Police One Forum Hacked In 2015, Users Notified Now

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Police One, a forum frequented by members of US Federal and State "Law Enforcement" agencies, confirmed today that 715,000 of member accounts have gone up for sale on the deep web after a breach that occurred in 2015. The database contains usernames, password hashed with every hacker's favorite md5, email addresses, dates of birth, and other miscellaneous data for the bargain sum of 0.4 BTC. Forum officials said they were notifying members of the hack so they could reset passwords, although this will do little to prevent dedicated attackers from future attacks.

Pence Casts Tie-Breaking Vote In Blow To US Socialist Extraction Machine

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After a 51-50 vote of the United States Senate Trump nominee and Amway heiress Betsy DeVos is now the United States Secretary of Education. Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote after lich Senator John McCain1 and Lindsey Graham defected from Trump's party. Money from unions purporting to represent "professionals" "working" in public education is a major source of funding for socialist politicians in the United States. Pence in our time.

  1. Notably in this past election, McCain was saved from a credible primary challenge by a late endorsement from Donald Trump.  ↩

US Likely To Reimpose Tariffs On Canadian Softwood Lumber Soon

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As the Trump administration enters its third week, it appears the first substantive action by the Trump administration on trade may be looming.1 Loud whisperings are that overdue anti-dumping tariffs against Canadian softwood lumber are set to be restored.

The core of the dispute is over the fact that low administratively determined stumpage fees charged by the Canadian government for harvesting timber are a de facto subsidy for timber production. The arrangement leads to cushy long term land tenure arrangements where Canadian lumber producers get to enjoy cheap trees and multi generational harvests for a pittance. By contrast the right to harvest timber in the United States is sold at market determined prices.

Beyond the market impact tariffs would have, they would create a substantial point of leverage in a future effort to renegotiate NAFTA.

  1. Withdrawing from masturbatory talks about creating a treaty which isn't yet a treaty, is merely sanity. Not really substantive.  ↩

US Postal Service Posts Curious Job Ad

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The United States Postal Service is stepping up efforts to combat "darknet" market sales by hiring cybercrime investigators. The official title will be “Intelligence Gathering Specialist" and would be expected to trawl onion sites as well as popular clearnet gathering sites seeking to obtain information to help stem the flow of so called contraband through USPS channels.

An excerpt from the listing stated:

“Candidates shall be capable of performing a prioritized assessment of the data to identify the most critical and reliable data in order to identify , bitcoins, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses and other pattern of life data in an effort to determine physical attribution of an Internet identity. Candidates shall be capable of creating intelligence and investigative reports which represent the steps taken, the data sources reviewed and the conclusions drawn from the evaluation of the Internet information.”

Violence Today: Leftists Beat And Burn UC Berkeley

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Activist agitators under the cover of a protest against noted homosexual and Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos speaking at a campus event started a number of fires, beat presumed attendees, and trashed the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center on the University of California Berkeley campus. The university and anglophone press covering the event expressed a tremendous amount of unfounded certainty that ~150 violent leftists who obscured their faces were not students at the school.

The University rescinded Yiannopoulos' invitation to speak several hours before the event was scheduled and the log cabin republican was safely ensconced in his hotel room as the leftists terrorized one of their own supporting institutions. President Trump suggested in response that the university could face a withdrawal of Federal support if it can not safely protect the free expression of ideas on its campus.

US Pork Belly Inventory Falls To 50 Year Low

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Bacon reserves in the United States fell to a record low in December,according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Frozen pork belly inventory totalled 17.8 million pounds, the lowest in 50 years. The result is a 20% increase in bacon prices, with demand outside the U.S. accounting for 26% of total volume. The Ohio Pork Council assured consumers that while prices of the crispy ambrosia may increase, supplies are in no danger of running out.1(archived)

  1. Which is different from would be consumers being priced out.  ↩

US University Endowments Net Loss In 2016

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Universities in the United States experienced an average endowment return of negative 1.9 percent over 2016. Harvard University enjoyed a very bright and special negative 2 percent return. Across US universities the 10 year average annual return fell from 6.3% to 5% and the 5 year figure went from 9.8% to 5.4% compared to 2015 figures. Continued dismal energy and mining sector performance along with the activist led divestment fad likely contributed to the suffering of these fiat institutions. In the inflationary fiat monetary system exemplified by the US dollar, a positive ~7.4% growth rate is typically cited as a target for endowment growth to outrun the inflationary loss in purchasing power. Sorry for your loss.

Reminder: Hussein Bahamas Banned Iraqi Refugees By Executive Order In 2011

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In 2011 first term United States President Hussein Bahamas quietly through executive order suspended the admission of refugees from Iraq for six months (archived).1) Beyond the press hypocrisy that one President's action is hate-crime (TM)(R) while an ex-President's action was a necessary National Security (TM)(R) measure, a fundamental contrast exists between the current and former executive's manner of executive action. Hussein Bahamas preceded executive actions popular with his constituency in months of debate and appeals to congress2 before cautiously wading into action while embarking on actions of substance in the shadows where they could spend years before receiving any attention in the mainstream media, if they received attention at all.

By contrast President Trump is engaging in executive action decisively, publicly, and according to the promises he made during the election winning campaign.

  1. A fact that was missed in mainstream media reporting until 2013 after the immediate threat which prompted the ban had passed. (archived ↩

  2. This in fact means that the legislature decided rejected the possibility of Hussein Bahamas queer ideas becoming law before Hussein Bahamas acted on those ideas.  ↩