The Manafort Indictment-Much to do about nothing

Big news,big deal,Mueller indicted Paul Manafort on a variety of charges,few if any of which that he can make stick-

National Review-

Here’s the bottom line-

“Even from Paul Manafort’s perspective, there may be less to this indictment than meets the eye — it’s not so much a serious allegation of “conspiracy against the United States” as a dubious case of disclosure violations and money movement that would never have been brought had he not drawn attention to himself by temporarily joining the Trump campaign.”

The Global Failure of Globalism

Can we survive it’s collapse?

Daniel Greenfield-

“To Merkel and Obama, returning to pre-globalization times was every bit as mad as going back to the caves. Globalization had become synonymous with civilization. And its prophets, like Thomas Friedman, traced back its rise to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the city where Merkel and Obama were chatting.

But globalization didn’t bring down the Berlin Wall. Nationalism did. The pro-democracy activists wanted a country where the people had a voice. That’s the opposite of globalization in which there are no nations and only the influential figures of various stripes have any kind of impact.”

Catalan Parliament declares Independence from Spain

Read here-

“Barcelona (AFP) – Catalan lawmakers voted Friday to declare independence from Spain but Madrid immediately moved to quash the breakaway bid in a sharp escalation of a crisis that has caused jitters in secession-wary Europe.

As tens of thousands of pro-independence activists gathered outside, the regional parliament in Barcelona passed a resolution to “declare Catalonia an independent state in the form of a republic”

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NZ Herald’s propaganda recycling headline:

‘The Big Read: Our slow moving disaster as sea level rises’

On behalf of the U.N.? The Greens? Al Gore?
Who knows?
All the Herald’s “science reporter” Jamie Morton has done is gather the most hysterical of Al Gore’s climate scam claims, the IPCC’s propaganda on behalf of the U.N.’s wealth distribution project and the combined claims of just about every climate racketeer and opportunist that slithers out from the taxpayer trough.