1. Shooting at mosque in Switzerland One fatality.
One person has been found dead after a shooting in a mosque full of worshippers at Friday prayers, police have said.
Police arrested an individual with a handgun when they were called to a suburb of St Gallen in Switzerland after reports of gunfire.
A man was found dead in the mosque’s prayer room, a police spokesman said.
Around 300 people were reportedly in the mosque for Friday prayers at the time of the shooting.
It was not immediately clear what the motive may have been.
Witnesses believe the killing may have been linked to a family dispute dating back a number of years, Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes reported.
2. Article in DM about younger jihadis in the Islamic State. However it exposes much more than that. Worse things than weasels seemingly can live in old tractor tires.
3. Public beheadings in Saudi Arabia
(If there is to be capital punishment, then probably it should be public if one wishes a deterrent effect from it. But once again most will miss the point of the problem with this.
The nature of the crime being punished is likely trivial and possibly not even a crime in a reason based society, and the process of determining guilt is also likely not designed to get to the truth of events but to entrench the nature of authority in the area, as well as use the system to carry out personal vendettas.
In simpler terms, a person who has crossed a religious authority may find himself being publicly beheaded because he practiced witchcraft or was allegedly overheard to say something bad about islam or its founder, the pirate mohamed.)
4. Jewish Man Arrested after Chasing off ‘Anti-Semitic’ Pro-Palestinian Protesters in London
A Jewish man has been arrested for common assault after he drove away socialist, pro-Palestinian protestors who were menacing a kosher delicatessen in Bushey, just north of London.
Jewish News is reporting that witnesses described how a group of around 15 men, who had been taking part in a socialist ‘March for jobs’ unfurled Palestinian flags outside Flax’s Kosher Deli, at about 5.20pm last Tuesday. Some of the customers went out to confront the men, chasing them down the street where the scene escalated into violence.
5. Work With Syria’s Dictator to End ISIS Says Former UK Army Chief
(Anyone interested in Western Foreign policy at the meta level may want to check out the following 1970s TV series. BBC in the UK once made 3 seasons of an exceptional spy program, one that many people call, “The best TV ever made” and I think they are close if not spot on about that. The show is called, ‘The Sandbaggers’. The show was about British secret agents during the cold war dealing with cloak and dagger manners in a way which was so close to the truth, the British Naval Captain who wrote the show had to submit scripts to Mi5 to make sure he was not in violation of the official secrets act. As it was, one of his scripts was turned down for production on that basis.
The show’s genius is amplified is you watch it today as you can see what problems they were dealing with then, even in the background. If you watch closely, you can see on file folders the names of terrorist organizations like the PLO and on chalk boards in the background various things, some of which I suspect may not have been publicly known as problems till sometime after these shows were broadcast. But the thing that makes me write up this show here is a discussion in one episode about the switch from ‘Stability’. the policy of supporting dictators in the middle east to keep things working properly, to democratization. Remember, this show was made in the 1970s. So those who want to blame all this on George W. Bush really need to get their heads out of the latrines.
For those who do buy the series or find a way to stream it, please watch at least 3 whole episodes before you write me to complain. This is a show that has nearly no action. But speaking for myself, I was on the edge of my chair, literally, the whole time as the analysis and politics within the show was so clearly to be likely how the things which translates down to often trivial headlines, really do take place, and almost certainly the perfect and complete explanation for what a former UK military commander said in the article linked above.
Eeyore for Vlad.
6. US CENTCOM video of airstrike against Islamic State moving truck.
7. Hagel, Dempsey discuss The Islamic State:
(The Islamic state’s vision includes the state of Israel…” Good of them to notice)
8. The Ontario branch of the Canadian Federation of Students unanimously voted to boycott Israel
Just days after 4,000 members of Toronto’s Jewish (and non-Jewish) communities rallied together to prove they will not be silent in the face of growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, Ontario’s branch of the Canadian Federation of Students – representing some 300,000 students – unanimously passed a resolution to boycott the State of Israel.
Anna Goldfinch, one of the group’s executive members, said that the resolution “endorses a number of solidarity tactics that have been called for by Palestinian civil society,” as reported by the Canadian Press.
In joining, the student union now endorses the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel movement (better known as BDS), a movement that has been gaining rapid speed in the wake of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
9. British ISIS Jihadi Campaigns For Her Equal Right To Behead Infidels
(This is predictably how feminist equalitarianist thought will first hit islam)
Thank you M., Buck, Richard, and all who sent in material. More to come.
Syria death toll ‘more than 191,000’ (BBC, Aug 22, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28892552
“More than 191,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict up to April, the UN human rights chief says. Navi Pillay said the figure was “probably an underestimate” and criticised what she called “international paralysis” on the issue. The figure is more than double the UN estimate given a year ago.
Opposition groups in Syria have been fighting President Bashar al-Assad for over three years, but have lost ground in recent months. The UN report was based on data from four different monitoring groups and the Syrian government which was then cross-checked.
“Tragically it is probably an underestimate of the real total number of people killed during the first three years of this murderous conflict”, Mrs Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said. “The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis” she added.
The highest number of killings was recorded in Damascus province, with 39,393 deaths, followed by Aleppo, with 31,932.
Both the Syrian government and Syrian rebel groups have been accused of war crimes by the UN…”
Ebola crisis: Speed and extent of outbreak ‘unprecedented’ (BBC, Aug 22, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28905382
“The World Health Organization has said the speed and extent of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “unprecedented”.
The WHO’s Dr Keiji Fukuda expressed concern over so-called “shadow zones”, areas which cannot be reached and where patients are not being detected.
The organisation confirmed 142 new cases of the disease had been reported since 19 August, as well as 77 deaths.
Already more people have died in this outbreak of Ebola than in any other.
At least 1,427 people have now died in the outbreak so far, with the number of cases now standing at 2,615.
Speaking at a news conference in the Liberian capital Monrovia, Dr Fukuda said combating the disease would take “several months of hard work”.
“We haven’t seen an Ebola outbreak covering towns, rural areas so quickly and over such a wide area,” he added.
Also on Friday, Nigerian authorities said that they had detected two new cases of the virus, both spouses of medical workers who had direct contact with a man who died from the virus in Nigeria after arriving from Liberia….”
There used to be peace in Syria, then some people decided that they should be in charge rather than Bashar al-Assad and there has been war ever since. If the rebels had not decided to attack the government, there would be no war and the thousands of people who have died would be still alive. I really don’t get how this is supposed to be al-Assad’s fault. Why should he step down just because some Jihadists think he should? And how did McCain get so twisted up over it? Isn’t John smart enough to know that “democratic” revolutions don’t work out in the Middle East?
McCain’s medical records have not been released. His mental condition’s been deteriorating steadily for a long time. Watching his decline is painful; not acknowledging the fact of it is dangerous.
2/ You’re 13? Now you are a man, my son.
3/ Those are exemplary beheadings.
Along with Sharia 101 textbooks, the KSA should send execution instructors and some sharp swords to their satellites.
The “Sandbaggers” is available on youtube and shows what intelligent TV used to look like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzWLUS1i40
The statement about the totalitarianism of Soviet Russia, at 47 minutes, would have not been passed by the BBC and the produces and writer arrested by the British Socialist Conservative Government citing it as a Hate Crime.