About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

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  1. David Suzuki is a hypocrite who has become rich on the back of this climate hoax. He talks about ‘wilful blindness’. Well that’s sums himself up really.

  2. 7 Killed in Rebel Attack on House of Yemen Leader (abcnews, Nov 26, 2014)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/killed-rebel-attack-house-yemen-leader-27189649

    “Yemeni Shiite rebels attacked and occupied the seat of power of an influential tribe in the capital Wednesday, following clashes that killed six of the guards and one fighter, security officials and rebel media said.

    The rebels, known as Houthis, blamed the guards of al-Ahmar tribe for the clashes. Al-Masira TV station, allied with the Houthis, said the tribal fighters attacked a checkpoint erected by the rebels, setting off the clashes in the northern Sanaa district of Hassaba.

    Residents said the clashes shook the neighborhood before daybreak. Pockmarks were visible on the gates of al-Ahmar palace where rebel gunmen were deployed. Glass from broken windows of the palace’s facade littered the road.

    The security officials said four al-Ahmar fighters and four rebels were injured in the clashes. The officials spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to brief reporters.

    The attack early Wednesday is the latest move by the empowered Houthis to establish their control of Saana. The Houthis, supported by the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, seized control of Sanaa in September and have since engaged in battles in different parts of Yemen with both rival tribes and al-Qaida militants. The rebels are demanding a bigger share in power…”

  3. Freighter With 700 Migrants Being Towed to Crete (abcnews, Nov 26, 2014)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/freighter-700-migrants-towed-crete-27188046

    “Local authorities and Red Cross volunteers on Crete were racing Wednesday to prepare shelter and food for hundreds of immigrants on a crippled freighter being slowly towed to safety by a Greek navy frigate, a rescue effort hampered by gale-force winds and high waves.

    A day after it suffered engine failure in international waters, the 77-meter (250-foot) Baris cargo ship carrying some 700 men, women and children trying to enter Europe clandestinely ? one of the largest boatloads of the kind in recent years ? was being towed at a speed of about three knots (3.4 miles per hour).

    By midday Wednesday it had covered about a third of the way, and was expected to arrive well after nightfall at the port town of Ierapetra in southern Crete.

    The coast guard said initial indications suggested passengers included Syrians and Afghans heading for Italy. It was unclear where the Kiribati-flagged ship had set sail from, or when….”

  4. Waterloo – Ont – The Record dot com :

    We must remain on guard against Islamophobia

    By Brittany Livingston

    There has been a great misconception following the devastating terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 that Islam is inherently associated with the extremist violence enacted by Muslim terrorist groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State.

    This is not the case at all, because Islam, like most religions, is founded upon ideal altruistic values.

    I have come to believe that the massive Islamophobia — that is the hatred or fear of Islamic doctrine — has been perpetrated and encouraged by some the mainstream media as a way to cope with the tragic events of 9-11.

    Islamophobia existed before the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., but it has evidently increased in incidence and notoriety during the past decade.

    Islamophobia is also evident in popular culture, as many TV shows and movies feature Muslim terrorists and extremist groups as the antagonists who threaten the safety and liberty of the “civilized” western nations of the world.

    Muslims are commonly profiled at airport security checkpoints as “security risks,” even though not all terrorists are Muslim. Some are even middle-aged, heterosexual Caucasian men who hail from the First World.

    But despite the prevalence of Islamophobia in Canada, a recent online video that has attracted a lot of attention demonstrates the racial tolerance of some Canadians. The video depicted a social experiment involving an actor dressed in traditional Islamic attire and an actor portraying a racist Caucasian who accuses the Muslim character of being a terrorist threat.

    The video was created in Hamilton — the hometown of murdered Canadian soldier Cpl. Nathan Cirillo — to gauge if Canadian Islamophobia was on the rise following the Oct. 22 shooting rampage at the National War Memorial and Parliament Hill.

    The results of the experiment were astoundingly positive, since none of the bystanders in the video supported the Islamophobic actor and alternatively come to the defence of the Muslim character, even in the wake of the recent attacks by self-radicalized Islamists in Ottawa and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.

    Yet despite this positive example of Canadian intolerance of Islamophobia, anti-Muslim sentiment is by no means dissipated in modern ideology. The growth in Islamophobia has resulted in a recent explosion of prejudice against Muslims.

    Islamophobia is evident in political legislation, as demonstrated last year with the Quebec’s government proposed “charter of values” that forbids provincial employees from wearing religious attire and jewelry. This law specifically targets people of Islamic faith, since it afforded religious freedom to Christian citizens.

    Canadian Muslims have sufficient reason to be concerned about how they are perceived when other Canadians identify them by their religion. This discrimination extends to violent assault and hate crimes, both of which have escalated over the past few years, according to Statistics Canada.

    A 2013 poll conducted by Angus Reid concluded that Canadian attitudes toward Islam increasingly deteriorated between 2009 and 2013. However, the way in which Canadians view other major religions — such as Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism — did not significantly change during the same period.

    Brittany Livingston, of Kitchener, is a student at Queen’s University in Kingston.

    http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5155730-we-must-remain-on-guard-against-islamophobia/

  5. DAILY MAIL – Grieving Afghan mother takes bloody revenge by killing 25 Taliban militants during seven hour battle after they gunned down her son

    – Reza Gul looked on as the militants attacked her son’s police checkpoint
    – Flanked by her daughter and daughter in law she led the fightback
    – The Taliban remain tight lipped about the attack

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850031/Mother-kills-25-Taliban-militants-watching-kill-police-officer-son.html

  6. Reuters – Qatar runs covert desert training camp for Syrian rebels

    Reuters) – At a desert base, Gulf state Qatar is covertly training moderate Syrian rebels with U.S. help to fight both President Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State and may include more overtly Islamist insurgent groups, sources close to the matter say.

    The camp, south of the capital between Saudi Arabia’s border and Al Udeid, the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, is being used to train the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other moderate rebels, the sources said.

    Reuters could not independently identify the participants in the program or witness activity inside the base, which lies in a military zone guarded by Qatari special forces and marked on signposts as a restricted area.

    But Syrian rebel sources said training in Qatar has included rebels affiliated to the “Free Syrian Army” from northern Syria.

    The sources said the effort had been running for nearly a year, although it was too small to have a significant impact on the battlefield, and some rebels complained of not being taught advanced techniques.

    The training is in line with Qatar’s self-image as a champion of Arab Spring uprisings and Doha has made no secret of its hatred of Assad.

    Small groups of 12 to 20 fighters are identified in Syria and screened by the Central Intelligence Agency, the sources said.

    Once cleared of links with “terrorist” factions, they travel to Turkey and are then flown to Doha and driven to the base.

    GROUND FORCE

    “The U.S. wanted to help the rebels oust Assad but didn’t want to be open about their support, so to have rebels trained in Qatar is a good idea, the problem is the scale is too small,” said a Western source in Doha.

    The CIA declined to comment, as did Qatar’s foreign ministry and an FSA spokesman in Turkey.

    It is not clear whether the Qatari program is coordinated with a strategy of Western and Gulf countries to turn disparate non-Islamist rebel groups into a force to combat the militants.

    Such efforts have been hampered by Western hesitancy about providing significant military aid, because it could end up with extremists. Gulf states dislike the West’s emphasis on fighting Islamic State. Assad is the bigger problem, they say.

    “Moderate rebels from the FSA and other groups have been flown in to get trained in things like ambush techniques,” said a source close to the Qatari government who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the topic.

    “The training would last a few months, maybe two or three, and then a new group would be flown in, but no lethal weapons were supplied to them,” one of the sources said.

    SCREENING PROCESS

    As the war against Assad has dragged on, frustrated rebels asked their trainers for more advanced techniques, such as building improvised explosive devices (IEDs), requests which were always denied.

    “They complain a lot and say that going back they need more weapons or more training in IEDs but that’s not something that’s given to them,” said a Qatar-based defense source.

    The Qatar project was conceived before the declaration of the hardline Islamic State, when militants belonging to its predecessor organization were not regarded as an international security threat.

    The group’s rise in Syria and Iraq has hampered the rebellion: Moderate groups cannot fight Assad when the better-armed Islamic State seeks their destruction as it strives to build its “caliphate”.

    In recent weeks, the Qataris, disappointed by lack of progress in the fight against Assad, have started to consider training members of the Islamic Front, a coalition of Islamist rebels less militant than Islamic State or the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, but stronger than the FSA.

    None have been trained as yet, but Qatar has sought to identify candidates, the sources say.

    Some analysts say screening Islamic Front fighters would be harder than FSA rebels, since some Islamists have switched between various groups.

    ISLAMIST NETWORK

    Training fighters from Islamic groups could displease fellow Gulf state the United Arab Emirates, which dislikes Qatar’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood’s international Islamist network.

    But Saudi Arabia, which shares the UAE’s mistrust of the Brotherhood, is more indulgent of moderate Islamist forces when it comes to fighting Assad, diplomats say.

    Asked about the Qatari training, a Saudi defense source said: “We are not aware of this training camp, but there’s one thing we agree on: Assad needs to go and we would not oppose any action taken towards that goal.”

    To Qatar, ousting Assad remains a priority and youthful Emir Sheikh Tamim has said that military efforts to tackle Islamic State will not work while the Syrian president remains in power.

    A source who works with rebel groups said Qatar had delivered weapons, mostly mortar bombs, to the Islamic Front and some FSA brigades about two months ago and had paid some salaries for Islamic Front groups.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mideast-crisis-qatar-syria-idUSKCN0JA1BX20141126

  7. Never forget the economic side of war, if you don’t have money, can’t earn money and can’t borrow money it is hard to wage war. FYI if a nation is real broke but is borrowing money to fight the war the war actually hurts the economy and doesn’t help the economy. In WWII the war and government borrowing (the public buying war bonds) hurt the economy because the consumers didn’t have any money to buy consumer goods, thus the money the companies were making didn’t trickle down to the workers in a meaningful manner. After the war there was a tax cut that let the consumers keep more money, that ended the great depression.

    Its Grip on Oil Weakening, OPEC Will Meet on Prices

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/business/its-grip-on-oil-weakening-opec-will-meet-on-prices.html

    • Oh yes, reckoning guns and butter. And a little sugar and satin ribbon.

      A subdivision within the Home Front Command of the IDF monitors that status continuously. It sees and foresees. It climbs all over the PM and even the coalition. And – being Israeli – is demanding and noisy.

      But absolutely essential. I may be mistaken, but I think Caroline Glick was involved with that years ago.

      • The problem is that way too many people are so ignorant of economic facts they think we can have both or so ignorant of the real world they think we don’t need guns. Saudi is trying to force the price of oil so low that the oil shale wells will not be profitable the problem there is that if they drive the price down to the point they stop the pumping they have to keep it that low or the wells will be restarted once the price raises.

  8. Syrian Child Preacher: Men Should Stop Chasing Half-Naked Women and Go for the Virgins of Paradise

  9. SOUTH AFRICA – Zuma says Israel ‘defying world’ as Abbas visits

    Israel is defying the world by “undermining” prospects for a two state solution through its settlements policy, South African President Jacob Zuma said Wednesday as he welcomed Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on a state visit.

    “The reality is that the overwhelming majority in the world agrees with the position of two states living side by side in peace, but we have a problem of a country that is defying all of that,” said Zuma.

    “We reiterate our call for the total cessation of all settlement activities,” Zuma told a joint news conference with Abbas.

    Criticising the way the United Nations works, he added: “I don’t think the system should allow that one country can defy the world.”

    South Africa was ready to assist with negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and had appointed two special envoys for the task, Zuma added.

    Abbas said the Palestinians sought to benefit from South Africa’s “successful experiences” in building an independent state.

    “We are the last nation in the world that is still living under occupation,” he said.

    Zuma’s ruling African National Congress is a firm supporter of the Palestinian cause, with politicians regularly comparing Israel to the former racist apartheid state in South Africa.

    The white minority government had cooperative relations with Israel, but when Nelson Mandela was elected first democratic president in 1994, he pledged to support Palestine, saying: “South Africa’s freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

    Abbas was greeted with a 21-gun salute at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa’s administrative capital.

    He has visited South Africa before — last year he attended Mandela’s funeral — but officials said this is his first state visit.

    “People of South Africa and Palestine have a strong bond built in the trenches of our two struggles, we want to build even stronger relations and cooperation based on that historical relationship,” said Zuma.

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2014/11/26/zuma-says-israel-defying-world-as-abbas-visits?PageSpeed=noscript

    • This answers the question of, are there Islamic terrorists connected to the Ferguson protests.

      • When every “Popular Front for” -IRA/ -ETA, plane-hijacker, professional hit-man knew all the words to “The Internationale”.

        When Khomeini could lie down with Gorbachev and they’d giggle about Glasnost.

        And now PFLP killers shriek Allah-blah-blah.