1 of the useless 20 …

From Dianny at PatriotRetort

Have you seen the New York Magazine cover with crime-ridden South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg ?

Good grief. The coloring , the smoothness of his skin . Buttigieg doesn’t even look lifelike. In fact , he looks like a character from a Pixar movie.

[ If I were that kinda gal, I’d insert an inappropriate , gay-related Pixar joke here : Like maybe suggest “ Boy Story ” or “ Finding Homo ”. But I’m not that kinda gal. Then again , since I inserted it ( albeit inside brackets ) , I guess I am that kinda gal. ]

Worth the read … Well , written and with smatterings of humour , as always …

Lines like … ‘ He’s just another leftist who wants to do all the same miserable things to people like you and me that every other pinko trying to pick up the torch from Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit wants to do ‘ …

And this one … ‘ He looks like Sheldon on that Big Bang show, and when he talks you want to throw back your head and moan as the goo-goo clichés wash over you ‘…

Just click here Pixar Pete Buttigieg – PatriotRetort.com …

 

Much to Trudeau’s chagrin … SNC Lavalin hasn’t gone away …

A confidential document sent to the Liberal Party of Canada in 2016 , and obtained by CBC/Radio-Canada , reveals how top officials at the embattled engineering firm SNC-Lavalin were named in a scheme to illegally influence Canadian elections.

The list of names , compiled in 2016 by federal investigators probing political party donations and leaked to CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada’s Enquête , raises new questions about an agreement by the Commissioner of Canada Elections not to prosecute the company.

The federal Liberals were sent the list in a letter marked ” confidential ” from the Commissioner of Canada Elections — the independent office tasked with investigating election law violations — on Aug. 5 , 2016. But for nearly three years , neither Elections Canada nor the Liberal Party shared that information publicly.

The investigation reveals that over a period of more than five years between 2004 and 2009, 18 former SNC-Lavalin employees , directors and some spouses contributed nearly $110,000 to the federal Liberals , including to four party leadership campaigns and four riding associations in Quebec.

According to the letter, the investigation found that SNC-Lavalin reimbursed all of those individual donations — a practice forbidden under the Canada Elections Act.

So not only are they criminals guilty of bribery and obstruction … They ALSO actively sought to influence the election process , breaking the law once again …

 And , of course , the Liberal dominated bureaucracy of Elections Canada  ‘ decides ‘ that it won’t even bother to prosecute SNC employees and executives for illegally spending thousands of dollars in illegal Liberal Party donations…

SHIT !!! … These people are from the same embryo as the Democraps down south !!! …

More Than 80 Percent of Somalian Migrants On Welfare …

According to newly released data, several migrant groups of different national origins in Switzerland have welfare dependency rates well above 50 per cent , with over 80 per cent of Somalis in the country taking state handouts.

The data was gathered and released by both the Federal Statistical Office and the State Secretariat for Migration and shows that the 4,000 or so Somalis in Switzerland are by far the most prone to being on government benefits with 83.7 per cent relying on state income , 20 Minutes reports.

While Somalis are by far and wide the largest recipients of welfare , several other nationalities also have rates of over 50 per cent , such as Eritreans at 54.7 per cent and Angolans at 54 per cent.

Yet the left wingnut pundits and politicians ( that don’t reside anywhere near any of these immigrants ) continually spew the ‘ value ‘ and ‘ contributions ‘ added to society by these people …

Too many of them have nothing to contribute to there own societies … Hence the fact that those societies have never been able to create a system that is capable of taking care of the individuals …

That’s why they all break the laws to get to places of Western Civilization .. To reap the benefits of a society that … WORKS ! …

Hopefully all western countries have still got enough of a foot hold on the edge of the cliff so we can , following the bold lead of Donald Trump , first , put an end to this nonsense , and then set to the extremely arduous task of correcting generations and many decades of bullshit , nonsensical policies ‘ championed ‘ by the Left …

Source: Switzerland: More Than 80 Percent of Somalian Migrants On Welfare

From Larry Kudlow ( and CTH ) …

Big buiz doesn’t give a crap about the farmers …

This is what a GOP Senator ( obviously firmly lodged in the machinations of Washington ) has to say about Trump ‘ upsetting ‘ the Big Game ‘ …

Chuck Grassley – [ … ]  The Constitution assigns Congress the task of regulating foreign commerce. The House and Senate must pass legislation implementing USMCA. As chairman of the Finance Committee , I’m leading the Senate effort. I’ve been involved in the passage of every U.S. free-trade agreement, and it’s never easy. Reorganizing a massive economic relationship affects many constituencies and that’s inevitably complicated.

I’ve met with congressional colleagues , as well as U.S. , Canadian and Mexican trade officials , to discuss how our nations will secure legislative approval of USMCA. A significant roadblock is the administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum and retaliatory Canadian and Mexican tariffs on U.S. products. These levies are a tax on Americans , and they jeopardize USMCA’s prospects of passage in the Mexican Congress , Canadian Parliament and U.S. Congress.

Canadian and Mexican trade officials may be more delicate in their language, but they’re diplomats. I’m not. If these tariffs aren’t lifted , USMCA is dead. There is no appetite in Congress to debate USMCA with these tariffs in place.

Many Americans have been harmed by retaliatory tariffs. Mexican tariffs on U.S. pork , to take one example , have lowered the value of live hogs by $12 an animal. Iowa is the top pork-producing state in the country. That means jobs , wages and communities are hurt every day these tariffs continue , as I hear directly from Iowans. It’s time for the tariffs to go. ( more )

Hogwash !  The #1 contract owner of pork is Smithfield ; now a Chinese company. The price of pork is more related to the ongoing U.S-China trade negotiation than any Mexican reciprocal tariff.

♦POTUS Trump is disrupting the global order of things in order to protect and preserve the shrinking interests of the U.S. He is fighting , almost single-handed , at the threshold of the abyss. Our interests , our position , is zero-sum. Our opposition seeks to repel and retain the status-quo. They were on the cusp of full economic victory over the U.S.

Hit the article to get more … It later gets to this very interesting point …

… The exact same exfiltration and exploitation has been happening , with increased speed , over the past 15-20 years with “ CONSUMABLE GOODS “, ie food.

Raw material foodstuff ( From USA and Canada ) is exported to China , ASEAN nations and Mexico , processed and shipped back into the U.S. as a finished product.

Recent example : Salmonella Ritz Bits ( whey ) ; Nabisco shuts New Jersey manufacturing plant , moves food production to Mexico… the result : Salmonella crackers. This is the same design-flow with food as previously exploited by other economic sectors , including auto manufacturing.

Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM ) , Monsanto , Nestlé , PepsiCo, Bunge , Potash Corp , Cargill or Wilmar , stay out of the public eye by design. Most megafood conglomerates have roots going back a century or more , but ever-increasing consolidation means that their current corporate owners may have been established only a few years ago. Welcome to the complex world of Big Ag :

Start with the so-called Big Six [ PDF ]. Monsanto , Syngenta , Dow AgroSciences , DuPont , Bayer , and BASF produce roughly three-quarters of the pesticides used in the world. The first five also sell more than half the name-brand seeds that farmers plant , including varieties modified for resistance to the very pesticides they also sell. Meanwhile , if farmers want fertilizer, a list of 10 other companies , starting with PotashCorp , account for about two-thirds of the world market.

Once the plowing , planting , nurturing and harvesting are done , around 80 percent of major crops pass through the hands of four traders : ADM , Bunge , Cargill and Louis Dreyfus. These companies aren’t just financiers , of course—Cargill , for example , produces animal feed and many other products , and it supplies more than a fifth of all meat sold in the United States.

And if you ever had any ideas about going vegetarian to avoid the conglomerates , forget about it : ADM processes about a third of all soybeans in the United States and a sixth of those grown around the globe. It also brews more than 5.6 billion liters of ethanol for gasoline and pours more than 2 million metric tons of high-fructose corn syrup every year. And it produces a sixth of the world’s chocolate. { Continue – and go Deep }

So , essentially , you have the major players all profitting from both sides of the issue , actively undermining an actual solution , but to constantly further the need for their product … By selling you ANOTHER product that they manipulate and profit from as well …

The bottom line is this ;

Multinational corporations , BIG AG , are now invested in controlling the outputs of U.S. agricultural industry and farmers. This process is why food prices have risen exponentially in the past decade.

The free market is not determining price; there is no “ supply and demand ” influence within this modern agricultural dynamic. Food commodities are now a controlled market just like durable goods. The raw material ( harvests writ large ) are exploited by the financial interests of massive multinational corporations … This is “ contract farming ”.

I strongly suggest you enlighten yourself to the deep , murky workings of Big Global Corporations and peruse this entire article …

Source: The Last Refuge

Protester glues her breasts to ground …

A woman has glued her breasts to the road outside the Goldman Sachs offices today as activists ramp up disruption on the final day of protests.

The eco-protester was spotted by passengers on a bus lying face down with her top up to her neck.

Several police officers surrounded the woman and put up screens to stop the public watching her one-woman protest.

It was quite possibly the most spectacular stunt yet as climate change activists targeted London’s financial districts to highlight what they call the business world’s ‘ role in our collective suicide ’.

Extinction Rebellion ( XR ) demonstrators temporarily blockaded the London Stock Exchange by gluing themselves across entrances to the trading hub in the City of London early on Thursday morning.

They were un-attached before being taken away in police vans , with Scotland Yard saying 26 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespassing.

When I read the first few words of the above statement I thought the ‘ they ‘ being referred to were the tits from the pavement !!! …

I’m curious as to how they ‘ un-attached ‘ the petulant pair from the asphalt … A solvent coated spatula perhaps ? … Careful of those nips !! … Kinda like not wantin’ to break the yolk when you’re flippin’ an egg ! … Especially when the road isn’t coated with Teflon !!! …

Where do all these complete morons come from ?!!! … Mankind seriously has to look into its’ breeding habits these days … Obviously in today’s age we need to require people to meet standards of ‘ capability ‘ to procreate …

 

Source: Protester glues her breasts to ground outside Goldman Sachs | Metro News

Tim Hortons upset about falling profits …

This is the ideal time to be posting this story … I’m doin’ the usual mundane routine of the several cups of of morning java exorcise most of us do daily and places like this get stinking rich off our laziness !!! …

 Note ; I’m at home , making my own damn coffee !!! …

‘ It’s gotten old ‘ : Tim Hortons vows major changes to Roll Up the Rim after campaign fails to boost sales …

Ron Buist was blowing leaves in his garden on Monday when he found out Tim Hortons was planning to shake up its signature Roll Up The Rim promotion.

“ Son of a gun ” Buist said over the phone from his house in Oakville , Ont.

For Buist , the news was personal : The 79-year-old retired marketer created the contest while working in Tims’ marketing department in the 1980s.

Tim Hortons president Alex Macedo , after the coffee giant had a a losing quarter ( reported system-wide sales of US$1.5 billion, down US$61 million compared to the previous year. Comparable sales ) , decided to tap into the obsessive , empty skulls of the coffee addicted general public ( certain age groups ! ) and said his team is looking at creating “ a really cool app ” to bring Roll Up The Rim into the digital age — and a coffee market that has become far more complex and crowded than it was when the contest started.

Tim Hortons had tried this year to improve the program , after noticing that it wasn’t attracting customers to stores. The chain added more prizes and extended the length of the contest. But it didn’t provide the desired result — and the extra prizes dragged down Tim Hortons’ sales numbers.

“ It’s gotten old ” Tim Hortons president Alex Macedo told the Financial Post on Monday. “ No one drives the same car , not a lot of people , that they had in 1986 and expects the same results ”.

Asked about whether the promotion would stay on coffee cups ( when the company brings in its’ new app ) , he said he was still trying to figure out “ how many rims we’re going to continue to roll up ”.

“ You’re going to be able to play with it on your phone next year , no doubt ” he said. “ I’m promising that without talking to the tech people , but I assure you that’s going to happen ”.

“ I don’t want people to think  ‘ Oh , Roll Up is done ’. It’s not done ” he said. “ We’re not going to kill it … We need to make it exciting again ”…

Well … Unless you were the ONE that won a car … I’d hardly call a free donut or coffee ” exciting “…

The story of how Ron came up with the ‘ rim roll up ‘ idea is quite interesting …

The program was born in a boardroom sometime in 1985 , when Buist , then working in marketing at Tim Hortons , was meeting with a paper cup manufacturer about a Christmas cup design.

On his way to the meeting he passed the head of Tim Hortons marketing in the hallway , who asked him to start thinking about some sort of contest to run with the coffee cups. At that time , there were two ways to have a contest on a cup , he said : pull tabs , which doubled the cost of each cup and “ ridiculous ” ballots , which were easy for staff to just hand out to friends.

“ Now you’ve got to understand that we had very little money at that time for advertising ” said Buist , who published his book Tales from Under the Rim : The Marketing of Tim Hortons in 2003 , after retiring in 2001.

The cup manufacturer brought a roll of the cup paper with cups designed on them to the meeting. Buist , who knew “ zero about making a cup ” started asking questions. “ They sort of looked at me like I was a bit thick in the brain ”…

It’s rather ironic that decades ago , as I was switching jobs , expecting the birth of my first ( and only ! ) son , I works for several months at the old Dixie Cup factory here in Brampton … So I always understood completely how ‘ easy ‘ it is to print that tiny little two colour notification on the roll stock and other than a one off cost of time on in the computer room ( entailing something I could do in Photoshop in about 5 minutes !!! ) , it’s business as usual … And the machine operators on the floor don’t even have to be aware of it …

Ron simply inquires out ignorance ;

“ What’s the space at the top of the cup ? ” he recalled asking.

They told him it was for the rim of the cup. They had a machine to roll it down.

“ Can you print there ? ” he asked.

“ Yes ” they told him , “ but when you roll the rim down you won’t be able to see it ”…

That was the idea , Buist said.

Today , despite his qualms with the cup , Buist was adamant that the act of rolling up the rim must survive the transition to digital.

“ The entry for the contest is in your hand. You don’t need a computer. You don’t need anything ” he said. “ So much of the pizzazz was in those coffee cups ”.

In closing , I frequent Tim Horton’s simply because it’s there … I find absolutely nothing unique or special about their coffee …

Oh , and one final note … In 2018 , Tim Hortons annual revenue was 3.29 billion U.S. dollars …

Source: ‘It’s gotten old’: Tim Hortons vows major changes to Roll Up the Rim after campaign fails to boost sales | Financial Post