Sunday, July 26, 2020
Reshoring? Not so much!
David Goldman writes in part in the Asia Times,
Intel’s chief executive Bob Swan yesterday told industry analysts that the former industry leader in chip manufacturing might quit the fabrication business altogether, outsourcing its designs to Taiwan or South Korea instead. The company’s shock announcement called into question US efforts to return critical manufacturing capacity to the United States, and came despite semiconductor industry lobbying to secure federal subsidies for chip production in the United States. Semiconductors are the building blocks of the digital economy, and America’s inability to slow the decline of onshore chip fabrication is a strategic liability of the highest order.Read more here.
Willful blindness
Jonathan Turley writes in part in the Hill,
...the Russia collusion allegations were based in large part on the dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Clinton campaign repeatedly denied paying for the dossier until after the election, when it was confronted with irrefutable evidence that the money had been buried among legal expenditures. As New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it and with sanctimony for a year.”Read more here.
FBI agents had warned that dossier author Christopher Steele may have been used by Russian intelligence to plant false information to disrupt the election. His source for the most serious allegations claims that Steele misrepresented what he had said and that it was little more than rumors that were recast by Steele as reliable intelligence.
...the Obama administration had been told that the basis for the FISA application was dubious and likely false. Yet it continued the investigation, and then someone leaked its existence to the media. Another declassified document shows that, after the New York Times ran a leaked story on the investigation, even Strzok had balked at the account as misleading and inaccurate. His early 2017 memo affirmed that there was no evidence of any individuals in contact with Russians. This information came as the collusion stories were turning into a frenzy that would last years.
...the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and inspectors general found no evidence of collusion or knowing contact between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. What inspectors general did find were false statements or possible criminal conduct by Comey and others. While unable to say it was the reason for their decisions, they also found statements of animus against Trump and his campaign by the FBI officials who were leading the investigation. Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified he never would have approved renewal of the FISA surveillance and encouraged further investigation into such bias.
Finally, Obama and Biden were aware of the investigation, as were the administration officials who publicly ridiculed Trump when he said there was spying on his campaign. Others, like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, declared they had evidence of collusion but never produced it. Countless reporters, columnists, and analysts still continue to deride, as writer Max Boot said it, the spinning of “absurd conspiracy theories” about how the FBI “supposedly spied on the Trump campaign.”
Willful blindness has its advantages. The media covered the original leak and the collusion narrative, despite mounting evidence that it was false. They filled hours of cable news shows and pages of print with a collusion story discredited by the FBI. Virtually none of these journalists or experts have acknowledged that the collusion leaks were proven false, let alone pursue the troubling implications of national security powers being used to target the political opponents of an administration. But in Washington, success often depends not on what you see but what you can unsee.
Justice Roberts and the other four liberals protect gambling, but not churches
In a Nevada case filed by Christians, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Thomas support First Amendment, while Roberts and the other four justices support gambling. Read more here.
Off-world vehicles
Clarice Feldman writes in part in the American Thinker,
It’s early. Polls are iffy and premature so far in front of November, but this has been a consistent trend -- minorities are not supporting the far-left orientation of the party they once supported in great numbers.Read more here.
If these crazy times (and the lockdowns) are stressing you out, there’s a glimmer of hope. Tucker Carlson reports, “The Pentagon has been conducting classified hearings on UFOs for more than a decade. We know very little about what they found, but apparently just recovered are off-world vehicles not made on this earth.” I’m trying to book the first flight out of here.
"We never sold out. We bought in!"
Gerard Vanderleun writes in part about his time at UC Berkeley.
...Nope, we never sold out. We bought in. But we kept the Che poster pinned up forever in our hearts.Read more here.
And now, we’ve arrived at our rendezvous with history.
In our aging hearts, we hate what we’ve become and, like any good group of neurotics, transfer that hate to the country that gave us everything including the Long Peace in which to enjoy it.
We’re the first in line to bitch and moan and hate a country that makes our freedom possible. More than that we’re also in love with the always -denied privilege, comfort, money, and safety that makes it possible for us to mouth off without limit. And finally, we’re coming to understand that we are not our parents’ generation, we’re “The Not-So-Great” Generation, and deep down we’re cowards.
We say we’re ‘afraid’ of losing our cherished ‘freedom’ to the jackbooted legions of Trump’s Conservative Brownshirts that seek to stifle our dissent from every street corner. That’s really what a lot of us think. That’s really just how bull-goose looney we’ve become.
...We like the slogans, books, movies, TV shows, politicians and publications that confirm for us the deep liberal dream that if we are just understanding enough, long enough, apologize for living enough, and offer enough in the way of bribes, the oppressed of the world will come to love us… and then just leave us alone.
...We’re so stupid we’ve even started to believe “It can’t happen here” after it already has.
...But my generation, being eternally drenched in a mindless nostalgia for its weird youth, refuses to learn that. It believes that the cool answer to the great crisis which has been brought to us in the last years is to make a sign that says ” I still heart New York more without the twin towers,” parade about in their plague infected ideology to say, “Give up.”
When I look at the spectacle that my Boomer generation has made of itself, a generation that had everything going for it, that had every opportunity, and came up with Caramel Soy Lattes and “Impeach the President,” all I can say is:
“I resign the Revolution. I’m joining the Resistance. The REAL Resistance.”
The violence engulfing various Democrat-controlled cities
Roger Kimball writes in part in American Greatness,
...Please don’t talk to me about the violent career criminal George Floyd. As I have noted repeatedly, the violence engulfing various Democratic-controlled cities has nothing to do with Floyd’s demise. “The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25,” I wrote in early June “is merely the pretext for the violence. The cause is hatred.”Read more here.
Why?
Chris Farrell writes in part in the Daily Caller,
Ask yourself why AG Barr fights Judicial Watch in virtually every FOIA lawsuit seeking records over the Obamagate coup plot. Why does he permit the FBI to claim in court that their agents’ text messages on their government phones are not government records? That’s insultingly preposterous – but it is the Justice Department’s position. Your tax dollars in action.Read more here.
One thing is for certain: Should Barr/Durham not bring indictments and go to trial against the officials who organized the coup against President Trump, then the United States will become a “failed state.” The compromised justice system would be held in contempt by the people it was designed to protect.
Punks use lasers to blind cops
These are the types of high powered lasers rioters have used to damage the eyes of law enforcement. #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/Es5bieo2LO
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 26, 2020
No more hapless dependents!
Is it time for the U.S. and India to form a security alliance? Doug Bandow says no in the American Spectator. He points to the lack of strength of our NATO allies. He wants the U.S. to encourage and assist India in strengthening their military and economy so they can cope with the threat from the Chinese Communist Party. Read more here.
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Quotes and tweets I liked tonight
Sundance in the Last Refuge wrote,
The Last Refuge tweeted,
Rasmussen Reports tweeted,
Catt tweeted,
Chris Cillizza tweeted,
….The problem for Attorney General Bill Barr is not investigating what we don’t know, but rather navigating through what ‘We The People’ are already aware of….
The Last Refuge tweeted,
Comey, Clapper interviewed by Durham.
[Don't know about Brennan]
Rasmussen Reports tweeted,
The Real Russian Swindle
Evidence dribbling out now indicates "Trump Russian Collusion" was a politically designed & media propelled fabrication. Relentlessly pushed & fake, it interfered with voter opinion, likely delivering the House to Democrats in the 2018 midterms. #sick
Catt tweeted,
Goya's CEO stood up for himself & refused to bow down to leftist mobs. It earns him the respect from Americans & Goya Food sales soared.
A&E caved to leftist mobs who don't even watch A&E, and lost half of viewers.
Never submit to intolerant leftists!
Chris Cillizza tweeted,
"Biden can't put two sentences together. They wheel him out. He goes up -- he repeats -- they ask him questions. He reads a teleprompter and then he goes back into his basement."
Brands using forced labor
The UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT announces,
What brands use the forced labor camps?
72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Uyghur Region”), known to local people as East Turkistan, and end their complicity in the Chinese government’s human rights abuses. The groups have issued a call to action seeking brand commitments to cut all ties with suppliers implicated in forced labour and end all sourcing from the Uyghur Region, from cotton to finished garments, within twelve months.
What brands use the forced labor camps?
Abercrombie & FitchRead more here.
adidas
Amazon
Badger Sport (Founder Sport Group)
C&A (Cofra Holding AG)
Calvin Klein (PVH)
Carter’s
Cerruti 1881 (Trinity Limited)
Costco
Cotton On
Dangerfield (Factory X Pty Ltd)
Esprit (Esprit Holdings Ltd.)
Fila (FILA KOREA Ltd)
Gap
H&M
Hart Schaffner Marx (Authentic Brands Group)
Ikea (Inter IKEA Systems B.V.)
Jack & Jones (Bestseller)
Jeanswest (Harbour Guidance Pty Ltd)
L.L.Bean
Lacoste (Maus Freres)
Li-Ning
Marks & Spencer
Mayor
Muji (Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.)
Nike
Patagonia
Polo Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren Corporation)
Puma
Skechers
Summit Resource International (Caterpillar)
Target Australia (Wesfarmers)
Tommy Hilfiger (PVH)
Uniqlo (Fast Retailing)
Victoria’s Secret (L Brands)
Woolworths (Woolworth Corporation, LLC.)
Zara (Inditex)
Zegna
Collusion
In American Greatness, Julie Kelly writes in part,
“We now see direct links between the Brookings [Institution] leadership and the creation, possibly, of the Steele dossier,” Nunes told Fox Business News’ Maria Bartiromo this week. “I think there are real questions that need to be answered here about what on earth was the president of Brookings doing texting back and forth to Steele? They’ve got a lot to answer for.” Nunes explained that for the past four years, Lawfare has “defended the dirty cops.”Read more here.
But Lawfare—and Brookings—did more than that. The organization helped perpetrate one of the biggest frauds in political history on the American people. They misled the country, attempted to destroy an elected president, manipulated news coverage, and defamed innocent people in the process while covering up the real scandal. Just like every other accomplice in Obamagate, it’s long past time for answers—and accountability.
Not happy!
Joe Biden has pledged to raise taxes on hardworking Americans like this young man. @realDonaldTrump CUT taxes because he wants you to keep more of the money YOU earn. It’s as simple as that. https://t.co/MeOHzUMZye
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 26, 2020
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