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Clarence Thomas and the racism of the woke elites

Brendan O'Neill
Spiked
Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
SC Thomas
© Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Why has Clarence Thomas become the target of so much flak following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v Wade? It's because he's black. It's because, as someone with black skin, he is not meant to hold conservative views on issues like abortion. In the eyes of the furious woke agitators who are haranguing Thomas even more than they are the other Roe-sceptical justices, he has not only made a bad legal decision - he has also betrayed his race. His sin is twofold: he has undermined the right to abortion and he has failed in his racial duty to nod unquestioningly along to every 'progressive' idea. He's a racial transgressor, a bad black man, and therefore he must be reprimanded even more severely than the white folk on the Supreme Court.

Ladies and gentlemen, behold the scourge of woke racism.

Comment: Sanctimonious assaulter Hillary Clinton disparages Justice Thomas:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is slamming conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom she described as a "person of grievance" in an interview on Tuesday. In an interview with Gayle King, during an appearance on CBS This Morning, Clinton said:
"I went to law school with him. He's been a person of grievance for as long as I have known him. Resentment, grievance, anger ... women are going to die, Gayle. Women will die."
Thomas has been on the receiving end of sharp criticism from women's rights groups and Democrats following the court's blockbuster decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling granting abortion rights.

Thomas has long been an opponent of Roe, and in his abortion opinion said the court should reconsider other rights such as contraception and same-sex marriage. Thomas's message to conservative judicial activists, according to Clinton:
"He has signaled in the past to lower courts, to state legislatures to find cases, pass laws, get them up. I may not get them the first, the second, or the third time, but we're going to keep at it."
Thomas has also been rebuked by Democrats over his refusal to recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, despite his wife Ginni Thomas playing a prominent role in organizing around efforts to keep former President Trump in office.


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Better Earth

Patrick Lawrence: Who should control foreign policy?

Patrick Lawrence
Consortium News
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
2 peeps and plane
© Ippnw Deutchland, Flickr, CC By-NC-SA 2.OPeace activists in Berlin discouraging Germany from buying combat aircraft that can be used as delivery systems for nuclear weapons - March 15, 2009
Proposing that foreign policy be subjected to democratic processes is a call, essentially, to revolution.

I had a letter in the mail the other week from someone named Barry Klein, who resides in Houston. I filed it knowing I would write about it, and now I shall.

Klein runs a group called ForeignPolicyAlliance.org. "Wars without end?" read the accordion brochure Klein sent. "Americans on the left and right are uniting to ask, Why? A call to reform U.S. foreign policy." This guy has endorsements that glow in the dark. Dan Ellsberg, Andy Bacevich, Sharon Tennison, Gordon Adams, Larry Wilkerson and Peter Kuznick: These are big names in the alternative foreign policy business.

Klein included a one-sheet flier with the Foreign Policy Alliance prospectus. "How to immediately spur a movement to stop the proxy war in Ukraine," is the headline. Good enough, but what stopped me cold was a Post-It note Klein stuck in the right-hand corner. "A strategy to make foreign policy a local issue," he scribbled.

Comment: All to say: The West doesn't trust the people it governs, nor represent their views.

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Supreme Court limits EPA in curbing power plant emissions

Mark Sherman
AP News
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
powerplant
© AP/Rick BowmerCoal-fired power plant in Craig, Colorado
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation's main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming.

The decision, said environmental advocates and dissenting liberal justices, was a major step in the wrong direction — "a gut punch," one prominent meteorologist said — at a time of increasing environmental damage attributable to climate change amid dire warnings about the future.

The court's ruling could complicate the administration's plans to combat climate change. Its detailed proposal to regulate power plant emissions is expected by the end of the year. Though the decision was specific to the EPA, it was in line with the conservative majority's skepticism of the power of regulatory agencies and it sent a message on possible future effects beyond climate change and air pollution.
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Arrow Up

France records highest inflation rate for decades


RT
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:03 UTC
Eiffel Tower
© James O'Neil/Getty ImagesEiffel Tower • Paris, France
Consumer prices in France have been growing at their highest rate in over three decades, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing data from state statistics agency INSEE.

According to the report, EU-harmonized preliminary inflation in the country increased by 0.8% in June from the month prior, driving annual inflation to 6.5%, its highest level since 1991. The figures marked the second month in a row in which inflation has reached record highs since France began using the EU's calculation methods in the early 1990s.

Meanwhile, the country's national consumer price index was somewhat lower, but still up at 5.8% year-on-year from 5.2% in May.

INSEE specified that inflation is mostly being driven by increasing energy prices (up 33.1% year-on-year and 5.3% month-on-month) and food prices (up 5.7% year-on-year and 1.4% month-on-month). However, prices in other spheres have somewhat stabilized, the agency says, with services inflation remaining at 3.2% since May, while manufactured goods inflation is down compared to last month, standing at 2.6% against 3.0% in May.

Comment: The inflation train has left the station and is gaining speed.

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Putin

Putin speaks about Ukraine during first foreign trip since February


RT
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 20:19 UTC
putin
© The Kremlin; Dmitry Azarov
Russia's objectives in Ukraine have not changed, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained on Wednesday during a press conference in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

The president clarified that while the goals stay the same, the tactics used to achieve them may change according to what the military considers appropriate. However, he insisted that "everything is going according to plan."

"Nothing has changed," Putin insisted, saying the final goal is "to liberate Donbass, to protect these people and to create conditions that would guarantee the safety of Russia itself. That's it."

"I'm not talking about deadlines, I never do, because that's life, this is reality. Imposing deadlines is wrong, because it is related to the intensity of fighting, and the intensity is directly linked to the possible casualties. And we have to first and foremost think about preserving the lives of our guys," he said.
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Putin

Putin authorized a major POW swap with Ukraine


RT
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:32 UTC
pows swap russia ukraine
© Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of UkraineUkraine’s military intelligence service was the first to announce the deal, releasing photos of the swap.
Russia has confirmed that 144 Ukrainian soldiers have been handed over to Kiev, in exchange for the same number of Russian prisoners, saying the decision was approved by President Vladimir Putin.

The exchange took place on Wednesday and was "organized and carried out on the direct orders of the Supreme Commander of the Russia Armed Forces," Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman, General Igor Konashenkov, said on Thursday.

The order was given by Putin because "the lives, the health, the release of our servicemen, the fighters of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, who make up the majority of those returned, is the most important task," Konashenkov said.
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Mr. Potato

Even Politico admits G7 summit showed club's impotence and increasing irrelevance


RT
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:23 UTC
g7 countries leaders
© Michael Kappeler / picture alliance via Getty ImagesThe current crop of G7 "leaders": a confederacy of dunces
In Germany, seven rich countries offered underwhelming solutions to problems of the world they don't represent, the outlet argued

This year's G7 leaders' summit in Germany was described as a great disappointment by Politico, which compared the meeting's results to Swiss cheese due to "gaping holes". Even the first spouses mostly ignored it, showing the irrelevance of the meeting, it argued.

The US-based German-owned news outlet blasted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his guests from Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US for being out of touch and lacking long-term perspective.

"In a world of interlocking crises, a few rich democracies cannot on their own provide the solutions the world needs anymore," it said, arguing that G20 was a more suitable forum for tackling global challenges.
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Bad Guys

Did Rockefeller Foundation predict the future?

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 07:46 UTC
WEF great reset
© Youtube/ World Economic Forum
It seems nothing escapes the prophetic minds of the self-proclaimed designers of the future. They accurately foresee "natural disasters" and foretell coincidental "acts of God." They know everything before it happens. Perhaps they truly are prophets. Or, perhaps they're simply describing the inevitable outcomes of their own actions.

Right now, we're told looming food shortages are primarily the result of climate change and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Yet, back in July 2020, The Rockefeller Foundation had already predicted it, and was calling for a revamp of the food system as a whole to address it.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Caving: Supreme Court rules Biden can end Trump 'Remain in Mexico' policy

Callie Patteson
New York PostNew York Post
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:59 UTC
illegal migrants tijauana
© AFP via Getty ImagesSupporters of the policy say it has reduced the flow of migrants to the United States.
In a major win for the Biden White House, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the administration properly ended the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy, which has forced many asylum seekers to wait south of the US border for their immigration hearings.

The 5-4 majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, found that the Department of Homeland Security's Oct. 29 memo terminating the policy was final.

"Nothing prevents an agency from undertaking new agency action while simultaneously appealing an adverse judgment against its original action. That is particularly so under the circumstances of this case," Roberts wrote in the court's opinion, which was joined by fellow conservative Brett Kavanaugh and liberals Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Comment: SCOTUS had originally upheld the Trump policy. It was certainly having the desired effect. What changed?

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Scottish Parliament votes to make Covid 'emergency powers' permanent

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:03 UTC
Scottish Parliament House
© Off-Guardian
Yesterday, Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) voted to make some the emergency measures - initially instated to "combat the pandemic" - permanent features of Scottish law.

Originally passed in March 2020, the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act established all sorts of powers never before claimed by the devolved parliament.

Now it is rebranded as the "Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill", and codifies a number of those "emergency" powers into permanent law.

These powers include permanently conducting criminal trials over video-link, registering deaths remotely, and other practices wide open to corruption.

Others grant parliament (or health bodies) the power to "restrict or prohibit access in respect of the whole or a specified part of an
educational establishment or of relevant premises", as well as "make different provision for different purposes (for example, for different descriptions of people attending an educational establishment)"

For those who haven't learned "bureaucrat" on Duolingo, that means ordering schools to close and/or exclude or segregate students of "different descriptions". Unvaccinated ones, for example.

The justification for extending the powers is as weaselly as you'd expect, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told the BBC:
...the passing of this bill maintains those [powers] that will ensure we are better prepared for future public health threats, pragmatic reforms that have enabled more efficient or convenient public services, and some temporary changes to mitigate the impact Covid has had on our justice system.
So, just like that, emergency powers allegedly put in place to fight this "pandemic" are suddenly reasonably public health practices preparing us for the next "pandemic".

The bill passed into law by 66 votes to 52 at its first reading.
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