New study reveals penguin farts cause climate change

Imagine my shock when I happened across this headline at Euronews; Antarctic penguins emit up to 7 million tonnes per year of methane.  Oh. My. God!!! And here we've been blaming ourselves for this disaster ever since Silent Spring came out! And it's been those gosh-darned penguins all along!

Well, this news is a real gamechanger! If it's been the penguins all along, that means all that crazy stuff like the energy transition and EVs was just the hoax Donald Trump claimed! 

Kinda hard to believe,  really. I mean, the little devils look so cute and cuddly, you'd never guess they're destroying our habitat with all that methane. Cute and cuddly they may well be, but each and every one of them is farting 7 tonnes of methane into the air we breathe. Hell, I doubt I'm putting out those volumes even since I went to the beans & cabbage diet on account of the gluten thing. And there's only one of me.

But truly, it is so refreshing when science can expose long-accepted verities as false with more science!

Canada to strengthen sovereignty by selling infrastructure to US hedge funds

Ever since Mafia Don started tossing around those hurtful jokes about us being nothing more than the 51st state, Canadians have been seriously pissed off. We're determined to push back - elbows up! Yup, we gonna teach Trump a lesson! To that end, our PM has convened a conclave of the 100 biggest money managers in the world in Toronto, the "Canada Investment Summit." Ponder that for a moment. Mark Carney spent his entire life pre-politics keeping the world safe for billionaires, either from the exec suites at Goldman Sachs or Brookfield or as central banker, first in Canada, then in England. He'd be strictly first-names-only with the world's top money managers. I'd like to know how many of them are American. 75%? 90%? I'd like some clarification on that, because remember, we're supposedley doing this to assert our sovereignty and diversfy away from USA. And PM Carney isn't shy about tossing around some mighty juicy carrots to entice the money managers. How about 100% mega-deduction for capital investments in Year One! Oh ya baby! That'll teach Trump! And we're opening up our ports and airports to foreign investment to strengthen our sovereignty! What's really puzzling is how this is being presented in our media, especially our government propaganda outfit. I would like to think that actual journalism would at least ask a few questions... like how many of the world's top money managers are members of Mafia Don's Mar-a-Lago Club?

Canada promises to flush another $200 millions down the Kyiv commode

Why? If the $22 billion (roughly $500 million every month) we've already sent hasn't moved the needle in Ukraine's favour, why would anyone think another $200 million would do the trick? But such are the delusions of the "coalition of the willing." It's the same flawed logic that demands a 20th round of sanctions because the previous 19 have hurt Europe more than Russia. This latest tranche of boodle willl be sent to Washington, there to be bundled with tribute from other vassals and distributed to American military contractors as Donald Trump sees fit. Yup, we're sending Canadian tax dollars to enrich Boeing and Lockheed! For 200 million I hope PM Carney at least gets a pat on the back and an "attaboy" from the big dog. Speaking of which, what's the Orange Ogre up to in Venezuela? Pack your bags, Maduro! The Free World is about to gift your longsuffering people Human Rights and Democracy! Too bad about those innocent fishermen... to be honest, when I see three or four V-10 Merc Verados hanging off the transom of a thirty footer, I'm pretty sure those aren't fishermen. Which doesn't change the fact that killing them "extrajudicially" is considered a crime against humanity, or at least it would be if anyone other than Uncle Sam did it. I would guess it's beyond Trump and his minions to appreciate the irony of pardoning a man convicted of facilitating the import of 400 tons of coccaine into America while they're busy vaporizing small-time drug runners.

Canada vows to fight against Trump threats

On A6 of today’s Globe & Mail, Marcus Gee, one of the top knobs at the Globe brain trust, throws down the gauntlet; “Thanks, Trump, for reminding Canadians why our county is worth fighting for.” Eight pages later, none other than the little guy from Shawinigan chimes in with a 3/4 page middle finger right in Trump’s face. We gotta get serious about Donald Trump’s outrageous threats! At 91 years of age, Jean Chretien has dusted off his Ross rifle and was last seen racing his mobility scooter in the general direction of the US embassy on Sussex street. He is “ready at the ramparts” to defend this great country from the evil designs of the brutal dictator, Donny J. It’s good to see Canadian thought leaders vowing to fight for us, at least till you realize they’re only fighting “metaphorically.” As in, not actually fighting at all. In terms of an actual real-world resistance, let’s get serious! Everybody knows we long ago surrendered our sovereignty. In the empirical world, ie the real one, we’ll fight Trump’s Anschluss the way Austria fought Hitler’s Anschluss… With cheering crowds!

Locker room talk

I thought both Trump and the media lowered the decorum bar with that entire grab-em-by-the-pussy business.

But the story did seem to facilitate a general coarsening of discourse. Perhaps that's what led Jeremy Roenick to conclude that putting his own locker room fantasy life in a podcast was a good plan.

It wasn't.

Roenick had a pretty good run at the top level and probably has a few millions to tide him over the jobless bump.

Wonder what Don Cherry would say?

Best conspiracy theory of the day

Everybody knows Trump was early in with the World Wrestling Federation, which morphed into the WWE. The name may have changed a little but their staple remains the same; scripted wrestling dramas with fake heroes and fake villians.

Fakery abounds!

So here's the scoop. When Donald Trump (aka Mafia Don, Donny J, Trumpenstein, etc...) moved into the White House, he moved a whole lotta former WWE script-writers into the basement.

No shit!

It's obviously true.


Pretty much every headline you see proves it.

Ellen DeGeneres and her pure Christian heart

You have to hand it to Ellen; she's done more than most Christians to visibly activate the "love your enemies" dictat found in the Bible.

There she was last week, yucking it up with Dubya, the President who worked tirelessly to deny gay marriage, not to mention having started the odd illegal war here and there.

The liberal icon obviously has a bottomless well of forgiveness!

At some level, it's discouraging to see how she has been corralled into the Bush Brand Rehabilitation Initiative.

It's just a matter of time before she reconnects with this old friend.

Conrad Black: forgotten but not gone

Both the Globe and Mail and the CBC have the happy story this morning about Conrad Black getting a pardon from Donald Trump. What particularly caught my eye was the roll-call of character witnesses who interceded on Mr. Blacks's behalf: Henry Kissinger, Rush Limbaugh, William F. Buckley, and...
Elton John!?

Huh? Which of those is not like the other ones? Do you suppose it was Elton John's word that tipped the balance? Or was the pardon granted in spite of Elton John?

Aside from having been Palm Beach neighbours, Connie and Donnie have something else in common; they were both born to great wealth and worked assiduously to squander it. Conrad seems to have been more successful in that endeavour than has Donald, but continues to live the high life thanks mainly to the largesse of the few friends who stuck by him when the going got tough.

Conrad was somewhat ahead of his time in terms of his business career. He was a pioneer in the looting of employee pension plans back in the 1980s, a practice that has since become commonplace. That episode may have earned him the opprobrium of the general public, but didn't derail his long-term campaign for a seat in the UK's House of Lords, where he remains Baron Black of Crossharbour.

Baron Black redeemed himself somewhat, at least in my eye, with how he handled his US prison term. If you look at the articles he wrote from prison, there's not a lot of woe-is-me griping. Instead, we see an actual mensch developing a surprising (for a pension fiddler) empathy for his fellow inmates.

Maybe that's what caught Elton John's eye too.

Trump's brazen interference in the Israeli election

Trump's gifting of the Golan to Israel on Thursday was a present meant to give Netanyahu's election campaign a boost, nothing else.

Bibi finds himself bedevilled by various corruption probes and up against the toughest competition of his political career since Ariel Sharon. The race between Netanyahu and Benny Gantz is so close that this could tip the balance.

This move can only be seen as a provocation by Arab states in the region, and provoking Arabs and Palestinians has long been a feature of Netanyahu's electioneering.

And you can't deny that it works.

Unfortunately, it comes at a time when there is a growing rift between the ever more right-wing tilt of Israeli politics and the attitudes of Jews in the US, especially the younger generation. As an example, consider that in recent memory any aspiring US political leader found it expedient to show up and speechify at the annual AIPAC convention.

This year, almost half of the Dems who have declared for the 2020 presidential race are taking a pass. This is a big deal. The Democrats are in the early stages of a generational sea-change. The momentum is clearly with the OAC-Ilhan Omar contingent. Last century Dem bigs like Pelosi and Schumer will still show up at the AIPAC shindig, of course, but anyone who wants to be perceived as progressive will give it a wide berth.


American policy in the Middle East has been an unmitigated disaster for at least fifty years. Legitimising Israel's theft of the Golan just makes it worse.

Justin and Chrystia double down on Trump appeasement strategy

Having completely and utterly fumbled the China file, I see where our dynamic duo of diplomacy are busy trying to further ingratiate themselves with the Bolton-Trump-Pompeo combine by doing Uncle Sam's bidding with the so-called "Lima Group."

Canadian journalist Andrew Mitrovica does a nice job of exposing our hypocrisy in this story at Al Jazeera. There's a reason you're reading it at AJE and not in the Globe and Mail. Our "free press" are doing all they can to obscure the fact that what our PM and Foreign Minister are really up to is desperately trying to curry favour with the war-mongers in Washington.


Much has changed in the two years since Justin thought it would be clever to give Mafia Don a poke in the eye with that virtue-signalling tweet welcoming the world's downtrodden and oppressed. It's a complete embarrassment to watch Justin and his Foreign Minister go all-in for America's regime change plans in Venezuela.

This is not what our last PM Trudeau would have done.

Errors, omissions, and bullshit

I'm not sure the bean-counters at the Globe and Mail are getting full value for whatever they pay Mark MacKinnon to traipse around the world digging up his "scoops." Take today's boffo epic, "Searching for Boris," wherein "a curious tip about Trump Tower sends Mark MacKinnon travelling across the globe" to get the low-down on international man of mystery Boris Birshtein.

I've read the entire four page feature several times and there's little of consequence in the story that you can't find on the internet in a matter of minutes, so why does this take months of international sleuthing on Mackinnon's part?

That was his modus operandi a couple of years ago with his scoop about the the graffiti artists who sparked the Syrian civil war. Mark claimed to have spent years tracking down a story that was readily available on the internet the whole time.

Anyway, about half way through today's effort it becomes clear that what we're after is the elusive Trump-Russia link. Maybe Birshtein is the missing link that Mueller's been looking for for the past two years?

As everybody supposedly knows, Trump was forced to cosy up to dodgy Russian financiers because he couldn't find conventional financing for the Trump Tower in Toronto. The only problem with this theory is that Trump hasn't built any Trump Towers in years, and he therefore does not require financing. He just gets paid for the use of the Trump name, which apparently some people are or were willing to pay millions for.

Go figure!

What the Russian emigres behind the Trump Tower in Toronto didn't realize is that the Trump brand was never going to fly in Canada.

Here's a year old story from the Toronto Star spelling out how Trump made millions on the Toronto tower even as it went bankrupt. Incidentally, the Star had numerous stories about mystery man Birshtein as long as fifteen years ago!

Post Soviet Russia was a veritable gold-rush for opportunists of all stripes attracted by the smell of easy money. Birshtein was one of them. So was Bill Browder. Both of them had connections to organized crime networks in Russia and Israel, as well as the intelligence services of various countries.

Elsewhere in the Globe we've got the obligatory good-news story about how the White Helmets we brought to Canada are faring. Ironically enough, there was a hearing about those folks at the UN this month, but you won't hear about it in Canada's newspaper of record. They'll stick to the official narrative; Israel, Canada, and a few other Nations of Virtue heroically saved these heroes from the clutches of the evil Assad.

Anything else is Putinist propaganda.

Axis of Evil redux

Whatever else David Frum accomplishes in his charmed life, he will be forever remembered for coining the phrase "axis of evil."

The son of a Toronto dentist who gave up pulling teeth for a far more lucrative career developing strip malls, Frum has become a leading Republican NeverTrumper. Can't say I blame him. After all, there's a new Axis of Evil loose in the world today, and Donald Trump is its quarterback. His go-to receivers are MBS and Bibi.

This is a far more toxic axis of evil than the Iran-Iraq-North Korea combine Frum was talking about. Two out of three have nuclear weapons and the other one has more money than God, a fact both Trump and Netanyahu fully appreciate.

It's hard to believe that any serious person imagines any good could possibly come from such an alliance, yet I don't see a lot of calling-out in our mainstream media. No, MBS is cast as a "reformer,"and when IDF snipers pick off unarmed Palestinians at the Gaza containment fence, we are solemnly reminded that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. As such, we must never impair her ability to "defend" herself by shooting dead unarmed protesters.

Any criticism of Israel is of course antisemitism, and no right-thinking journo who values their career is gonna go there.

And for all the splashy protests the NeverTrump resistance has pulled off, there's been not the slightest sign of a course correction from the White House, nor has the anti-Trump crowd offered any genuine critique of the over-arching arc of US foreign policy, which by far pre-dates Trump.

Instead, we see all manner of hand-wringing over the fact that America, under Trump, can no longer be relied on to lead and protect Europe!

Well, it's about time!

Europeans are a remarkably stupid people. Except for a few voices on the fringes of polite society, they haven't figured out that their "refugee crisis" is the direct result of US foreign policy. Instead, they natter about Trump being twelve minutes late for his date with the Queen.

Seriously?

Get the f@ck outta here!

A few years ago I set up a petition on one of those petition websites to get Canada out of NATO. Unfortunately, I was somewhat into my cups at the time, and I could never recall the password I used, so I was unable to check on its progress.

But I think we're at another crossroads where the time may be ripe for a lot of NATO members to ask themselves who they're following and where they're headed.


By the way, all the big US military contractors (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon, etc) enjoyed a nice spike in their share prices last week after Mafia Don suggested NATO members aim for spending 4% of GDP on defence instead of 2%. If you want to know who Trump is really representing, look no further.

The bogus hysterics over America's "migrant crisis"

Stripped of all superfluous hyperbole about human rights, sovereignty, and America's image on the world stage, there is one and only one reason that the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of history can't manage her borders.

They don't want to.

"Undocumented migrants" have the lowest rank in that "reserve army of the poor" old Karl Marx was scribbling about 150 years ago. As such, they provide a valuable service to the elite capitalist class who have been managing the affairs of The Republic since the time of the founding fathers.

They are absolutely essential in ensuring that real-life working Americans never get too uppity. After all, the lads at Paramount Landscaping in Bergen County won't be getting too boisterous in their demands for a living wage as long as their boss can assure them that there's plenty of hard-working Guatemalans around just waiting for a chance to do their $12/hr jobs for $6/hr.

Landscapers and roofing contractors and farmers and others who employ this lowest rank of the working class are hardly the "capitalist elite" of course. But trickle-up immiseration works way better than trickle-down prosperity. Downward mobility has trumped upward mobility in America since long before Donald Trump.

Just look around you.

The fact that an ersatz billionaire reality TV star promised to build a wall at the Mexican border speaks only to the calibre of his image-management team... as in he really cares about American workers and that wall is gonna make America great again!

Of course it is!


You don't imagine for two seconds that Donny J is interested in ensuring that all the grounds-keepers at his various properties actually take home a living wage, do you?

And if you thought Hillary cared more, you're an even bigger idiot.


Happy 4th of July, neighbours!

Can a newspaper be judged by what's not in it?

Took the hounds for a turn down the Bruce Trail the other side of Bass Lake this morning. Turns out the new pup is quite the water-girl. She'll fetch sticks out of the lake that the old girls turn their noses up at. They like to see a decent splash before they commit. The new girl will chase anything.

Lots of good stuff in my Globe and Mail this weekend. I see where the Trudeau gang are screwing over our PTSD-addled CAF vets by cutting back their medicinal marijuana allotment by two thirds. I thought maybe they'd make good on their promise to treat our vets with a little more respect after the lost decade of the Harper years, but it's not looking good.

Freeland's trip to Bangladesh gets lots of coverage. My sense is we're being prepped to open the refugee floodgates for the Rohingya, and why not? After all, according to Saunders' thesis in Maximum Canada, we'll be also-rans on the global stage and in the world economy till we hit that critical mass of a hundred million in population. A million Rohingya will give us a goodly boost in that direction. Let's just hope the Housing Matters crowd succeeds in it's quest to have lots more lux condos put up; we're gonna need a lot more luxury high-rise developments in our big cities to create enough trickle-down affordable housing for a million newcomers.

Made it down to the funeral on Friday. Is it actually a funeral if the guy's been cremated? Instead of a big old hardwood casket, there was just a little box with his ashes up on the altar. Saves on both wood and pallbearers, I suppose.

The deceased always prided himself on his immigrant heritage. He was from East Prussia. How fitting then that the officiating reverend spoke in a noticeably accented English, although I think it was perhaps more East Punjab than East Prussia. No matter; Werner would have been the first to point out that we're all equal in the eyes of God.

Elsewhere in the paper we've got a bit of fluff about the royal wedding and some obligatory drivel about the latest twists and turns in the saga of 45. Giuliani and Stormy Daniels figure in the reportage today. Ya, I know, but apparently it sells papers. That's the thing about Trump. A creation of the media from the mid-seventies on, anyone who follows media, entertainment, and politics will realize that the trajectory of Donny J has been a self-fulfilling prophecy for a society that has for far too long been amusing itself to death.

While Trump hasn't quite made America great again, he's sure given SNL a new lease on life, hasn't he? And I just learned today that Alec Baldwin used to be a busboy at Studio 54 back when young Trump was honing his pussy-grabbing skills at the notorious disco. Hmm...

Aside from a lengthy article about Syrian refugees in Lebanon, (a mere pit-stop on their way to Canada, I'm sure) there was utterly no news about the Middle East. Is that an oversight? A crooked cop in Hamilton gets eight feet worth of column inches and the most explosive tinderbox on the geopolitical map gets next to nothing? How can that be?

The Globe brain trust rightfully found room for a 3/4 page spread on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. That's something we never want to forget.

But not a word about what happened in Gaza yesterday or last week or last month.

That's something we don't want to know.

A drive to Tobermory in winter

I've been making a slow rebound from that nasty flu that's been going round, and the Farm Manager's been keen to get out of the house, so this morning she says, hey why don't we take a tour up the Peninsula.

I'm as sick of my company as she is, so I said, why not?

And away we went! First stop Wiarton, to ransom my Globe and Mail from the Korean extortionist. We were hardly out the drive when the CBC news comes on. Top story; Donny J admits to making shit up in his meeting with Justin a few months ago.

How is this the top story? How is Donald Trump pulling a whopper out of his ass even newsworthy? According to the Toronto Star's official Trump Fib Tracker Daniel Dale, Trump is up to 1,314 whoppers as of today. Trump lying is the top story? Surely there are more newsworthy goings on in the world.

Got our Globe, grabbed a pie at New Orleans, and up the Highway 6 we went. Turned off at Colpoys Bay road and headed for Lion's Head.

A hundred years ago the north shore of Colpoys Bay was totally built up all the way from Wiarton. This area was home to a major fishery at the time. In fact, fish from here went all over the world in those pre-globalization days. Entire trainloads of frozen fish departed Wiarton multiple times per week, in an era when you froze fish by storing ice from the bay year round.

Then another unintended consequence of global trade, the sea lamprey, decimated the fishery. Wiarton has yet to recover.

But it's hanging on. It's the last chance to pick up a Globe and Mail before you head up the Bruce. And while there's a couple of liquor stores further north, the Wiarton Foodland is an essential pitstop if your diet gets fancier than hotdogs and KD.

Went through Lion's Head, circled back to Highway 6 because I wasn't keen on trying the Forty Hills Road in winter, and ended up in Dyer Bay. That's a quaint enough cottage community just past the middle of nowhere. Still, a half decent waterfront shack is gonna run you half a million or more.

From there we made our way to Tobermory. I popped into the local grocery and came out with a bag of plums from Chile. $1.99/lb. Under five bucks for a bottle of Aquafina (tap) water and a bag of plums in the dead of winter.

Is this free trade thing  great or what!?

In the Globe there's an opinion piece by Jeff Rubin called "Has global trade liberalization left Canadians behind?" Rubin used to be the top economist at CIBC. He's saying today what I've been saying since the middle eighties... "left behind" is way too kind... left for dead is more like it.

But then, it's one thing to figure this out in 2018 as a big-time economist. Maybe somebody will pay attention.

When I was saying the same thing in 1988 I was a shop-floor workee... what the fuck would those guys know? Anyway, the horses are so long out the barn its beyond ludicrous to think you're gonna corral them now.

Stayed on the no. 6 all the way back. The FM remarked on what a boring drive it was, and she wasn't even driving. She's right though. I've done this drive a hundred times and the only time it's interesting is if you're the last car off the ferry in Tobermory but the first car to reach Wiarton.


That's how accidents happen, she says.

Selective outrage

I see where Kim Campbell, who was Canada's first female PM for about 15 minutes back in the nineties, has called out those slutty female news anchors who have the temerity to show bare arms on your evening newscast.

Well!

Bare arms undermine credibility, apparently.

Oh Kim!

Kim Kim Kim!

You have no idea how deluded you are.

Kim seems to think your evening news is about the news.

Get with the program, Kim. News is not news. It's content. It's entertainment. Us male viewers with the male gaze WANT to see bare arms...

By the way, and I ask this parenthetically, was there actually a TV show called "Naked News," wherein the female anchor removed her clothing while reading the news? Seems I saw it once or twice.

I personally didn't get it. I don't need to see the news-reader jiggling her girls while she's informing me of the latest suicide bombing in Baghdad. That's a combo that short-changes both boobs and Baghdad.

But back to Kim.

Kim's egregious breach of the protocols of political correctitude left me no option but to marvel at how out of touch this political icon is... but we expect this from Conservative politicos.

It also lead me to marvel at how quickly the story disappeared.

Had Stephen Harper or Patrick Brown or, god forbid, Donald Trump made such an asinine comment, we'd be hearing about it for days on end.

But Kim Campbell is Canada's first woman PM.

Therefore, she gets a free pass.

Great American bullshitters

You're looking at two of the greatest right there. Two Donalds. One white and one black. The white one has more in common with King than he has with any working class white trash.

The black one has more in common with Trump than he has with any random black kid from the hood.

Donald and Donald...

Only in America!

My favourite Don King anecdote goes like this; King was hustling some boxing promoter over something when the guy turned a little irate.

I can make a phone call and you'll be arrested within the hour, he says.

King rejoinders with; I can make a phone call and you'll be dead in fifteen minutes.

Apparently they were able to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement after that exchange.


Only in America!

Hillary takes Toronto

I see where Hillary sold out a 5,000 seat venue in Toronto this week to promote her latest book, "What Happened."

The cheapest seats (what, you thought Hillsie does promo for free?) went for $64. It went up from there, up to $2,400 to actually see Hillary sign your copy of her book.

I had no idea there were so many retarded Canadians who could spare that kind of cash.

Obviously, a lot of your Annex types who bought their homes when they were still affordable on their CBC paycheques remain committed to the good fight.

The "resistance."

You know; Mikey and Hillsie and Morgan Freeman and the rest of that crowd.

The Hollywood crowd, you could say.


Here's my take.

With the election of Donny J, a lot of very nice people suddenly realized that the American political system is a stinking cesspool.

What they don't see yet is that it's been a stinking cesspool for a long time.

They should be thanking Mr. Trump for opening their eyes.

Trump's foreign policy; too much too fast

I'm not suggesting that Trump actually has a "foreign policy". It is well beyond obvious at this juncture that Trump has no policies whatsoever.

I'm pretty sure he just makes shit up on the fly.

But when you're the putative leader of the "free world," making shit up on the fly has consequences.

Getting a building permit for a new build in Manhattan is no doubt a tough gig. I respect Donny J for having the smarts to do that.

Policing the world is a challenge of an entirely different magnitude.

The "deep state" operators who determine America's future have never had a more pliable piece of putty in their hands than they have in Donny J today.

Not Nixon.

Not Carter.

Not Clinton or anyone with the surname "Bush."

So if our deep state operators find it expedient to nuke N. Korea, they've got the perfect patsy in the White House, don't they?


I hope I'm wrong.

What? Trump has an "agenda?"

Who knew?

I don't think Trump had any agenda whatsoever. After he was goaded into the primaries by his old pal Hillsy, his only agenda was to beat those establishment fuckers. That's Donald. He's an alpha male who wants to win whatever race he's in.

We all applauded when he prevailed over those establishment fuckers. But neither Donald or anyone else on the planet expected he would actually win the election. No plan, no platform, no nothing.

Then the inconceivable happened.

While we're all still in a state of shock, I'm sure Donald was more shocked than anyone.

He didn't really want the job. He was confident that his long-time pal Hillary would triumph, and he would be able to go back to his regular life of egregious self-promotion and the occasional real estate development project, and of course squiring around the nubile young women who show up for his various beauty pageants.

Unfortunately for everyone, he won.


I have a lot of respect for Naomi Klein. Her Shock Doctrine book is pretty much on the money as far as I'm concerned. You see that strategy playing out everywhere you look, from school boards closing your local school to national governments suddenly changing direction and declaring long-time ally Qatar a sponsor of terrorism.

Hit hard, hit fast, and impose your "solution" to whatever crisis is at hand before folks have a chance to regain their equilibrium.

That's why I'm more than a little leery of Naomi's screed on view at The Intercept today.

That's Glenn Greenwald's baby. The Intercept has taken a bit of flak for outing leaker Reality Winner this past week.

As a leaker of note himself, Greenwald is undoubtedly keen to distance himself from the Winner scandal. What better way to get your eye off the ball than to push out a boffo Naomi Klein story?

So Trump has an agenda and Greenwald is in the clear.

We're spared questioning Greenwald about his agenda, about who pays his bills, and who he's really working for.

Come on Naomi, you're better than that.