A conversation with Roger Scruton at Café Gerbeaud in Budapest, Hungary, on the topic of moral relativism. Hosted by the Common Sense Society on January 25, 2012.
SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Oxford Union on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoxfordunion Oxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnion Website: http://www.oxford-union.org/ Sir Roger Vernon Scruton FBA FRSL is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Oxford Union is the world’s most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. Since 1823, the Union has been promoting debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe
How long can the Communist Chinese government stand against the relentless onslaught of a people who’ve tasted freedom, and want more. Hundreds of thousands daily form the Hong Kong throng, waving the American flag and singing the U.S. national anthem. After more than four months it seems even tear gas can’t choke the voice of liberty rising. Right Angle, with Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, comes to you new 20 times each month, as part of the programming funded by the Members who love these principles. Join this voice of liberty now at https://BillWhittle.com/register/
The Business Roundtable, a group of some 200 corporations, sign an official statement that their purpose is no longer just to produce a return for their shareholders, but to provide social justice for their employees, suppliers, communities and to the planet. In other words, business isn’t just for profits anymore — to heck with Milton Friedman. This includes addressing issues like income inequality and climate change. Has Bernie Bro-Mania succeeded without even electing the patron saint of American socialism? Bill Whittle Now wrestles the news of the day to the ground and makes it answer to the time-tested principles of conservatism. If you think the country (nay, the world) needs more of this, join the producers who fund it at https://BillWhittle.com/register/
Barack and Michelle Obama are buying a nearly $15 million mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. They had rented it out in August from the Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck, who has been trying to sell it for the past 4 years.
What is fascinating is how Democrats always demonize the “rich” and then when they leave office, they buy houses that only the “Super Rich” can afford, especially with the annual taxes on the property. To qualify for a 30-year mortgage, you need to put down $2,970,000. Yes, he brought real change — for himself as all career politicians do on both sides.
In Australia, they want to make it a criminal act with a penalty of 2 years in prison for purchasing anything with more than $10,000 in cash. Australia is really going off the deep end. They are desperately trying to eliminate all cash and are forcing people to have only bank accounts so they can tax them as they like. This ensures that when there are bank failures, they can just confiscate the people’s money to save the bankers. Australia began as a penal colony, and they seem to retain that idea that the people are really criminals in their minds and are not entitled to their own assets. This also explains why non-Americans are starting to hoard US currency around the world.
We should just accept it. Everything is our fault because we elect these people who then see us as evil. This is not going to end very nicely. What happens when it comes crashing down? Do the police start shooting citizens as has been the case in Venezuela?
Whatever happened to liberty, freedom, and morality? I do not know. I was in the airport going through security and the guy in front probably had not flown in decades. He was appalled at having to take his shoes off, and then his belt. He had $15,000 in cash and they demanded to see his ticket for if it was overseas, they would have confiscated the whole thing. He was going on a domestic flight. He asked, what else? Should he just strip naked? They finally said just go. In Australia, it would be a small tiny step to arrest you for just having more than $10,000 in cash.
There were two girls between me and that gentleman. They were the probably early 20s. Their comments were telling. They said: This guy is stupid. You always have to take your shoes off. What’s he doing with all that money? So, here was one chap who hadn’t flown since 2001 and then two 20-somethings who had no idea that there was once upon a time when you did not have to go through all of this. They now see virtual strip searches as normal. Oh, how things change.
There is a major shift taking place within the Republican party that has some people on the Hill taking notice. Traditionally, the Republicans have had the image that they are the party of the rich and corporations, despite the fact that the bankers would not donate to Trump in 2016 and it all went to Hillary.
The donation patterns have completely changed and flipped upside-down with President Trump. Analysis of campaign finance data which has been released shows that over 60% of all the money raised has come directly from small donors of $200 or less, according to Federal Election Commission figures.
This demonstrates that despite all his tweets and the media bashing, there is a rising trend of voters who support Trump simply because he is not one of the career jockeys. The Democrats appear ready to put Joe Biden out front, although he has been gathering only 24% of the votes so far in the polls on debates.
Bernie and Warren are just too far out there for middle America, regardless of being Democrat or Republican. Thus far, it still appears that Trump will win the 2020 election which may be a very good thing since we are facing the Monetary Crisis Cycle in 2021/2022 where we will most likely be in a position where negotiations on the restructuring of the system will be a critical issue. The last thing we need is a career politician from either party to reset the world monetary system. Look at what career politicians have done in setting up the Eurozone — the elimination of Democracy.
After appearing on Fox Business, former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne appeared on Fox TV with Martha MacCallum. In this interview Byrne explained his impetus for contacting the FBI in 2015, about Russian national Maria Butina, surrounded a low-level security clearance he held and a responsibility to report suspicious contacts.
Mr. Byrne then names Peter Strzok, Bill Priestap, Andrew McCabe and James Comey as the top of an operation where Byrne was instructed to guide Butina into the contact circle of republican presidential candidates in 2015, and then back away.
Curiously, if you get beyond the confusing mess of communication, what Byrne is describing does factually align with what is already known. However, Byrne is describing an aspect to the DOJ/FBI operation that has not been discussed very much.
Byrne is describing the DOJ-NSD and FBI using Russian national Maria Butina as an unwitting, walking, FISA surveillance virus.
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In addition to Strzok, Priestap, McCabe and Comey, Patrick Byrne cites “Carlin” as one of the “suits” involved. Carlin is likely a reference to John Carlin who was head of the DOJ-National Security Division until October 2016.
John Carlin was the person who lied to the FISA court about non-compliant FISA-702(16)(17) searches; and then resigned only a few days before the Carter Page FISA application was submitted and approved.
Putting the issues together it seems Patrick Byrne is describing how Maria Butina, a Russian national, was allowed to run around in republican political circles by the FBI so they could create the impression of Russian infiltrators in/around the Rubio, Cruz and Trump campaigns.
Perhaps Patrick Byrne’s reporting of his security driven concerns was used to initiate legal FISA surveillance on Maria Butina. That sounds like what he ends up describing.
As a Russian national the DOJ/FBI wouldn’t need a surveillance ‘warrant‘. That would make Maria Butina essentially a walking Ebola surveillance virus, and any American she came into contact with would be infected for legal FISA-702 surveillance.
Makes sense if you think about it..
Run Ms. Butina into Rubio, Cruz and Trump campaigns and violá legal FISA(702) searches, surveillance and subsequent legally authorized unmaskings etc. Per the interview that is what Byrne appears to describe as happening from December 2015 through April(ish) 2016.
Staying with the nuggets within the word salad of an interview…. After April 2016, Patrick Byrne is asked by the FBI to re-engage with Maria Butina, only now targeted exclusively toward candidate Trump. Byrne is asked to develop a romantic relationship and introduce Butina to people politically connected in/around the Trump campaign.
Maria Butina was the walking FISA ebola virus. Ultimately, after the field narrowed, the Trump campaign became the target. To keep an arms length from the obvious motive of political surveillance, the FBI used Patrick Byrne as a civilian handler for Maria Butina.
Along the way Patrick Byrne suspected this was all sketchy. His work as a civilian handler for a Russian national, positioned as a Russian agent, by and for a politically motivated FBI operation, is what Byrne is now revealing.
Yes, the way Byrne describes it is weird; however, behind the odd descriptions, what he is describing does make sense.
Now read the letter (full pdf below) from Butina’s former lawyer to Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Durham:
Jumpin’ ju-ju beans this is interesting. During a live broadcast on Fox Business the CEO of Overstock Inc, Patrick Byrne, explained the earlier announcement of why he was resigning as CEO from the company he created.
According to Patrick Byrne, due to an earlier relationship relating to Wall Street and assisting federal officials with an investigation therein, he was approached in/around 2015 to assist the FBI with another operation. *UPDATE* Video added:
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♦Byrne now says in 2015 and 2016 the FBI operation was part of a network of political surveillance being conducted by the FBI on presidential candidates.
♦Byrne names FBI Agent Peter Strzok as the person giving the instructions.
♦Byrne names: Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump as the four candidates under FBI surveillance, and/or inside an operation consisting of political espionage.
♦Byrne claims he was offered a $1 billion bribe to keep his mouth shut.
♦Byrne claims there are additional witnesses.
♦Byrne states he went to the DOJ in April 2019 (3rd – 10th), after Bill Barr was Attorney General, because he was informed that Barr was trustworthy and going to support. Byrne told the DOJ everything that was happening.
After confiding with billionaire Warren Buffett, “my Rabbi” about his story, Patrick Byrne claims Buffett (a mentor and lose friend) gave him personal advice to distance himself from his company, Overstock Inc., because all of the DC interests would use his business to “grind him down”.
In essence Byrne has been given advice about how the deep state will now target him personally. This is the reason why Byrne resigned as CEO of Overstock.
♦Byrne now sees the deep divisions in the country as partly driven by this FBI operation which was political espionage. Byrne feels an obligation to share the truth in an effort to help the nation understand what was happening.
Patrick Byrne is anticipating being an unavoidable public witness to testify as to the nature of the political surveillance and “political espionage” that was happening in 2015 and 2016, and his role therein.
His interview is in the video inside the tweet below:
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Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne explains his resignation – Was working for FBI on Political Espionage in 2015 and 2016. Took instructions from Peter Strzok https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6075914613001/ …
God bless Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for having the diplomatic restraint to stand next to the absolute worst diplomat on the planet and retaining his cool. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland stands atop her proverbial high-horse and pontificates a diatribe that only a smug leftist can deliver.
If you are familiar with world events,… and you don’t want a blood pressure cuff to explode,… then don’t watch this joint press conference. [Transcript likely later today] If you’ve ever watched two diplomats pretend to have any commonality, while simultaneously jabbing each-other in the eye, this is an audio-visual exhibition:
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To say the Trump administration and Trudeau administration are ideologically oil and water would be the understatement of the year. The U.S. and Canadian, political, cultural, geopolitical and economic outlooks are entirely divergent.
That reality is one of the reasons why an open U.S. Ambassador to Canada position is unlikely to be filled. Seriously, who wants to talk to these smug and condescending jerks?
The Canadian ambassador to the U.S. also recently resigned. There is just no point to it. Everything is pretend now; and neither country is very good at pretending. Under Trudeau Canadian political policy, and the downstream issues therein, just sucks.
Both nations pretending to the international community it’s just a trial separation; but the whole neighborhood knows it’s a divorce.
♦Within the press conference Minister Freeland starts by using the worn-out and tired talking points about how the U.S. and Canadian military have worked together, fought together and died together… blah, blah, blah. It’s the same narrative positioning used by Trudeau/Freeland every time they clutch their parasitic pearls and demand equivocal status -in all things- from the U.S.
Minister Freeland literally stands atop her podium and spouts about the importance of NORAD and the U.S-Canadian military alliance within NATO… While simultaneously Canada doesn’t even live up to their NATO funding obligations:
Canada hides behind the skirt of the U.S. to inflate its self-importance, and yet it won’t even live up to its financial obligations. Hubris thy name is !
Also keep in mind, Canada is in the G7 for no apparent reason other than the historic connection to the U.S. has allowed them presence on the world stage.
Why isn’t Brazil in the G7?
The Canadian economy is far below all other G7 members; they only exist in the G7 group because of their relationship to the U.S.
Fortunately and rightly, Secretary Pompeo jabbed Freeland and Trudeau over their lack of NATO funding during part of his presser remarks.
Additionally, remember the big stink Trudeau and Freeland made about the Section 232 steel/aluminum tariffs President Trump put on Canada? Well, Freeland was pontificating about that again today, only to her surprise a Canadian journalist caught her off-guard.
In the Q&A portion of the presser Minister Freeland was specifically asked about why Canada continues to allow Chinese Steel to be dumped into Canada, and how the Canadian Steelworkers were impacted by this never-stopped (despite promises) process. The issue surrounds the Canadian LNG pipeline and export hub (port). Trudeau and Freeland are allowing super-cheap (dumped) Chinese Steel for the project.
You think she would answer the question about her hypocrisy? Oh, hell no… she spins a yarn about how LNG is so much better to save the planet; and never addresses the issue of the Canadian government allowing China to dump steel in Canada, which was the entire purpose of President Trump putting 232 tariffs on them in the first place.
Hopefully Canadians can get rid of this insufferable duo in their October elections.
It would be so much easier to like Canadians again if they could just get rid of these condescending leftist nuts that have taken over their government.
I digress.
Kudo’s to Secretary Pompeo for his restraint…. It was quite obvious during several moments that Pompeo was actively using that thumb tack he put in his shoe before the presser. (guessing)
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