Sultan Knish: A Socialist Les Miserables in Venezuela

Venezuelan socialists used the familiar language of claiming that subsidies and free services were human rights. “Health care can’t be privatized because it is a fundamental human right,” Chavez once claimed. That should sound familiar. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have said the same thing.

But Venezuela’s universal health care has no actual medicine. Hospitals have no running water or soap. Victims arrive with gunshots and aren’t treated until they settle their bill. Babies die routinely.

Source: Sultan Knish: A Socialist Les Miserables in Venezuela

Japan’s top court has approved blanket surveillance of the country’s Muslims | Asia | News | The Independent

However, the presiding judges did not make a judgment on police profiling and surveillance tactics which a lower court had upheld as “necessary and inevitable” to guard against international terrorism.

Exactly what needs to be done here. Islam and Muslims are threats to life, freedom and security anywhere they congregate.

Source: Japan’s top court has approved blanket surveillance of the country’s Muslims | Asia | News | The Independent

The Bookworm Beat 6/27/16 — the “post-Brexit world” edition and open thread

These academics and professionals may style themselves as an intellectual elite, but the evidence on the ground shows that universities no longer teach, they propagandize. Students are no longer exposed to broad swathes of history, literature, and science. Instead, they drill down endlessly into victim studies, victim literature, and climate change “science.” They come out of college less educated than when they went in.

Source: The Bookworm Beat 6/27/16 — the “post-Brexit world” edition and open thread

The symbiotic relationship between the Westboro Baptists and the Left

Here’s the reality: The Westboro Baptist Church is tiny, with only about 40 members. It is not recognized by any mainstream Christian church, including Baptist or other fundamental churches. So far as I know, the church members have never committed an act of violence: no shootings, bombings, stonings, stabbings, beheadings, or even punchings. They are disgusting and cruel, but otherwise completely harmless.

Source: The symbiotic relationship between the Westboro Baptists and the Left

Watch as the world’s cities appear one-by-one over 6,000 years – Metrocosm

Watch the rise of human cities, beginning with [arguably] the world’s first city in 3700 BC and continuing up to the present. Use the controls at the bottom to pause/resume the map and to move back and forth in time. The history of urbanization, 3700 BC – 2000 AD (full-screen version) full screen / video […]

Source: Watch as the world’s cities appear one-by-one over 6,000 years – Metrocosm

PHOTOS: UN military vehicles seen rolling down Virginia interstate – The American MirrorThe American Mirror

“Tactical Vehicles, with bullet proof glass? What ever could those be for, and why are UN vehicles here, in THIS country?!” Fernando Johnson questioned, while Vincent Sammons noted, “They are sealed against gas too.”

WTF?

Source: PHOTOS: UN military vehicles seen rolling down Virginia interstate – The American MirrorThe American Mirror