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“Facebook and other social media platforms have become a crucial component for international terror, the same as guns, bombs and money,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the founder of Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Centre. “For years now, Facebook has continued to provide a platform for terrorist incitement despite repeated warnings. This has become one of today’s top global threats. Social media platforms want to believe terror has nothing to do with them and that they have unlimited immunity and can do whatever they want. We are going to put an end to it.”
If there were just one single post that managed to supersede my crybaby rant about Vlad Tepes Blog sliding into the realm of “Echo-Chamber-Land”, I could not imagine a better one than this. Thank you, Dumbstruck. The modern-day Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Chatroom dynasty is toxic beyond all belief.
In the context of this particular website, Social Media’s tyrannous oppression of Conservative views has only been outweighed by the monstrous preference it shows for pro-Islamic (especially pro-terrorist and, most disgustingly, pro-“Palestinian”) propaganda.
Countless pages could be consumed in a futile attempt to demonstrate the devastating effect that Social Media has had upon modern society (entirely free and clear of Islam or terrorism—even if that is a distinction without a difference).
Be it Lifestyle Envy or suicide from cyber-bullying, Social Media’s obscene reach into daily
deathlife is something that demands keen scrutiny from all Internet denizens.I’ll stop now, but only because I’m in the middle of writing a multi-part essay about just how lethally venomous Social Media has become as it wades into the unwary shoals of naïve, clamoring online devotees.
Again, thank you, Dumbstruck. I can only hope that others here find your linked video even fractionally as
enragingdisturbing as I did.I’t not sure we are an echo chamber but Social Media has become incredible venomous and lethal to freedom. If some tech savvy conservative with the investment capital available were to create an alternative social media platform Facebook and Twitter would end up being driven out of business.
That is much closer than you may think. One is being tested now.
I will supply a link as soon as its functional.
But what I saw looks great. A kind of Twitter/Reddit analogue.
“That is much closer than you may think. One is being tested now. I will supply a link as soon as its functional.”
That is great good news, Eeyore. The Internet is a last redoubt for Freedom of Speech. This fact is made rather apparent by the near-continuous assaults upon it by the Left and its censorious minions.
Please update us the moment you know more. Feel free to offer my services as an editor or moderator.
COOOOOL long may it survive.
Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the evil trinity,
Take away the guns and free-speech and we’re down a further two
Freedom of Religion? Well now, it’s back to one.
And of course of every other book, burn until there’s none.
Doin’ the work for Islam. (Surrender your laptop, phone and ID on the way out).
Islam submits the dictatorships of Mohammadism as Socialism surrenders to the iron grip Communism.
The lawyers of Allah or the politicians of the proletariat.
Facebook did not do it. We all did it by not speaking the truth and allowing people to be imprisoned for it in return for the comforts of a sodomite.
This is the video that should be made.
https://youtu.be/AWeZ5SKXvj8
Better Dead than Red.
You can’t enslave a free man, the worst you can do is kill him. Robert A. Heinlein.
“Better Dead than Red”
Nope. Nope. Nope.
BETTER DEAD REDS.
Carry on.
The only good commie is a dead commie.
That more to your liking?
Thank you, Svengali.
That was pretty much what the military was taught.
NOTICE TO ALL AND SUNDRY
There’s no doubt how there are many people here (you know who you are) who contribute so many different valuable counterjihad articles and links. Please be sure that all of you deserve nothing but praise.
Be that as it may, all of us have a further obligation to exchange—not just informational URLs—but the perspectives and ideas that can only come from within our own well-considered opinions. I’ve been here just long enough to see that a lot of the traffic amounts to little more than a supermarket bulletin board.
Don’t get me wrong … it’s a really GREAT (counterjihad) Supermarket Bulletin Board—but it has all the lively exchange and repartee of a slightly caffeinated garden club tea time.
All of us deserve better. As in, everyone should consider providing responses that lead away (as in FAR away) from this site becoming any sort of “echo chamber”. That’s just one example … but it’s a great start.
As some of you have probably noticed, I make an effort to question even the most accepted doctrine and canon. Moreover, I am willing to posit some of the most repulsive or objectionable outcomes because (however lamentable or horrific) they represent potential results that either must be vigorously worked against or—in the absence of viable alternatives—facilitated as part of saving Western Civilization.
Please rest assured that saving Western Civilization is one of my primary (if not my most primary of) goals. Should doing so require alienating every last one of you and having Eeyore permanently ban me from this website—that’s a price I’m willing to pay. Yes, adhering to these perceived truths, even at the risk of losing all of you (along with your fabulous ideas and energy), means that much to me. Take that as you will, I’ve already been banned from far more Conservative websites than this one because I refused to kiss Republican or other doctrinal @ss.
So, please, let’s pump up the volume of our interpersonal exchanges and comments. Not only will it lend an air of active and truly meaningful “chatter”—it will create the sort of content that marks out Gates of Vienna and Jihad Watch as significant nodes on the counterjihad network. I think that Eeyore deserves nothing less.
What say ye?
NorseRadish
NR – Back in the day when men were men and women were women (round 08) a web site came along geared for professional financial types to argue money and economics. The level of racism, antisemitism, anti gay rhetoric and all the rest was bracing. So was the honesty and intelligence. Zerohedge modeled itself as a “fightclub” designed to root out truth sans PC. “Snowflakes” were impaled on their own sophistry as quickly as you can say “debt is money”. There was a gallows camaraderie in it all, but the second sentimentality raised its horns someone threw a haymaker to the temple. One of the strengths of Vladtepes is the wit, wisdom and civility of the contributors. I have learned much here. By contrast we are all aware of what one so easily finds on line with a simple errant keystroke. This said, I for one am picking up what you’re putting down.
Hey, I just agreed with you. Damn. What a hypocrite I am! ECHO…Echo…echo…
“One of the strengths of Vladtepes is the wit, wisdom and civility of the contributors. I have learned much here. By contrast we are all aware of what one so easily finds on line with a simple errant keystroke. This said, I for one am picking up what you’re putting down.”
Thank you so much. We are in strenuous agreement.
NorseRadish,
I’ve read your comment several times and really am not sure what you want. I must be missing something and would really like to understand your point, because I respect you.
It would surprise me greatly if all the contributors here were not actively trying to prevent the collapse of our civilisation. And I also seriously doubt that there are more than a handful of people worldwide who work harder at this task than Eyore.
Different sites shed light on our situation in different ways. If all of their approaches were the same, it would indeed detract from the total work.
Also, Eyore has stated in the ‘about’ page that this is a site with a specific agenda, presenting information from a particular point of view – so that the reader WILL understand this and use the appropriate lens to view the material through. That is responsible and honest, but it also means that this site focuses on only certain issues.
Echo-chamber? Really?
Please, do explain what you mean, I would really like to know. I hope this does not sound snarky, but I am genuinely perplexed.
I see what you mean by echo chamber and yes there are a lot who do post urls and don’t give opinion and analysis of what is said. Yes this should be done more and if we can do it without geting Eeyore in trouble giving advice on how to resist the jihad is also something we should do more of.
Saving Western Civilization is the goal we should all work for, as I have stated before I am not sure we can preserve Civilization and Freedom. The enemies of both are well entrenched and we may be forced to do things that will damage civilization in order to ensure freedom survives. If freedom survives we can rebuild civilization (something we are already being forced into by the left).
Thank you, Richard, for the well-measured reply. You managed to ferret out my intent rather perfectly and for that I am deeply grateful.
“Please, do explain what you mean, I would really like to know. I hope this does not sound snarky, but I am genuinely perplexed.”
Xanthippa, you may have mistaken me and, no, your response is not at all snarky. Nowhere am I accusing anyone of moving this site towards becoming the proverbial echo chamber. Quite the opposite in fact as I only asked that, “everyone should consider providing responses that lead away” from such a thing happening. I just think that increasing the degree of personal interaction at this site will make it more appealing to the less-well-informed (counterjihadist or not), who are quite rightly one of our more important target audiences. At this point I am guilty of preaching to the choir, what with your delightful Chamberpot and all.
Richard touched on this rather nicely by making mention of, “giving advice on how to resist the jihad is also something we should do more of.” That’s a fine synopsis of my goal.
I’ll close by agreeing wholeheartedly with Richard about how, “If freedom survives we can rebuild civilization…” Civilization can be rebuilt much more easily than regaining one’s fundamental freedoms. Just ask the Russians or Chinese about how that whole loss-of-freedom thingy worked out.
While I don’t think we’ll have to “destroy
civilizationthe village in order to save it”, some truly uncivilized behavior by us pro-Westerners may be on the horizon. Quite clearly (as demonstrated by their routinely destructive conduct), the Left and Islam just wouldn’t have it any other way.Thank you for the compliments.
While I don’t think we’ll have to “destroy civilization the village in order to save it”, some truly uncivilized behavior by us pro-Westerners may be on the horizon. Quite clearly (as demonstrated by their routinely destructive conduct), the Left and Islam just wouldn’t have it any other way.
No they won’t, in fact part of their program to destroy civilization is forcing us to act in very barbaric ways. Over the next couple of decades we will see al civilized nations act in ways that are currently considered war crimes. Some will be war crimes and some will be rational actions the left has outlawed. The extent that this will destroy/damage civilization will depend on how long those acts will have to be carried out so freedom can be preserved.
I agree. What alarms me is the possibility that decent, moral individuals may not have the necessary “depth-perception” to see the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel that civilization is hurtling into. As in, it will be meaningless to retain whatever virtue of “not descending to their level” if all is lost because of such aloofness.
Put another way, we defeated Hitler without becoming Nazis, just as we defeated the USSR without becoming Communists (well … sort of). We can defeat Islam but everyone needs to be prepared for inducing some serious terror in the world’s Muslim population.
Quite simply, there is little else that will compel Muslims to
pacifyrewrite Islam’s ideological doctrine. All through human history, the most common way of obtaining peace has been through war. By this, I mean actual war and not the Politically Correct bu!!shite military doctrine that currently passes for strategic planning.From all existing indications, Western powers will likely be required to visit the Islamic world with a downright existential threat (up-to-and-including nuclear weapons). I wish it were otherwise but the prospects of any non-violent persuasion meeting with meaningful success are exceedingly dim.
One need only examine the Arab–Israeli conflict for confirmation of this.
Prepare for the worst and get ready to fight on the nastiest level possible, then pray we won’t have to descend that low.
I know not what course others may take but as for me, Give me Liberty or Give me Death.
Patrick Henry
Well, there is a balance we must find. Sure, discussion is good and great, especially if it is insightful and witty. But, writing a witty and insightful commentary for each link and then engaging in debate about it will seriously reduce the number of links that will be submitted.
It takes time to find the relevant articles and as for myself – I scour weird corners of the webitude, open as many relevant things as possible and then just cut paste to here as fast as possible before meatspace interferes in my life.
As much as I love discussion, bringing as much information to this site as possible is very important.
“As much as I love discussion, bringing as much information to this site as possible is very important.
Dear Xanthippa,
Your dedication is more than obvious. More than anything, we are free to act as we please. What you do here (and at the Chamberpot) earns you a spacious amount of elbow room and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I hope this helps.
Xan’s said it for me. I too ”scour weird corners of the webitude”. I don’t necessarily have opinions on everything, certainly not worth sharing. And even when I do, I seldom have time to craft them for the discerning reader. So if I find an article or clip that says it for me – and much better – I offer the link for your delectation.
I love the “Supermarket Bulletin Board”! It gives me a jumping off point to explore aspects of Our Mission I’d never dream of picking up on my own. Contributors have their special interests; they open windows for me.
If there’s an incident somewhere, I add links that might expand the knowledge base, or offer another perspective. Usually not my own, rather a source from the high-quality international journals and think-tanks that are on my routine circuit.
Before coming here, all I knew about socialism was that it was bad. I never put “Left” together with “Islam”. This, despite knowing more about Muslims and their so-called religion than most. And having experienced life in a distant war zone. I don’t need gratuitous verbal violence in a chat-room “fight-club”.
Now things happening in the West begin to make more sense. Horrible – but logic helps contain what would otherwise be amorphous, soul-crushing terror. [Medications help too. Now I can think about the Boston Marathon without thinking Marathon Bombing.]
Sexual perversion wasn’t on my radar. I simply had no idea. Sexsquirrels, eh? Well, Eeyore introduced me to cultural Marxism that explains the conceptual framework for that, and other mysteries to a cultural alien like me. I’ve had other relentless instructors here; I’m getting it, like it or not.
Despite the awful stuff we read and watch, I’m comfortable here. The material itself is challenging, the insight penetrating, the conclusions painful. But I’m not alone. We’re an army and we’re good.
I am always interested in any comment or analysis you care to make, especially in what Israel is doing and why they are doing it.
For the entire time I have known you you have been a highly intelligent woman who has been seeking knowledge. Continue your search for knowledge no matter what horrors you have to wade through to find that knowledge. That is who wisdom is achieved, the snowflakes that the left is breeding will never contribute anything to the world except bad examples. You on the other hand have already contributed much to the readers of this and other blogs.
Oh, thank-you, Richard.
You’ve got that right, I’m a knowledge-junkie. That’s the way I cope with the emotional drain of secular society. And everything else, for that matter.
You’ve never failed to help me thrash out some understanding. Spent considerable time doing so, too. For which I’m always grateful.
I believe in history and purpose, as I know you do. Both unknowable, but worthy of pursuit nonetheless, as in “the pursuit of happiness”. They go together, and my Weltanschauung dictates that we’re meant to use the one to serve the other. Why else revisit “In the beginning…” every year?
All highfalutin metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. Better crawl over to my *new* treadmill to clear the cobwebs.
Do you have a link to post the news as below:
Forget the cultural Marxist BS in a situation like that go for the joints, jaw and top of the head. It is better if they get hurt then if you get hurt.
If you check at video time point 01:40, it’s clear that the female officer is not exercising adequate situational awareness. She is so intent on restraining the one detainee in custody that she neglects to monitor what is happening to the right of her. This is when the assailants manage to single out the officers and separately overwhelm them.
The officer with the baton probably needed to go
ballistckinetic right away, instead of attempting to disperse the group. A fewcenter-mass shots firedcaved-in skulls would have gone a long way pour encouragé les autres. Instead, the assailants were allowed to maintain strength and overwhelm them.I doubt that future calls for similar events will see just a pair of officers responding.
Both need more training and to decide which is more important going home unhurt or not getting the supervisors mad at you?
I was up on Yahoo News this morning reading an article about the new censorship being launched by media giants when the discussion in the comments turned to youtube taking down videos they disagreed with.
One person posted a link to a discussion that was taken down but then put back up do to viewer’s outrage. OK, I’ll bite, and I watched it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxnpoeVaS8Q
It’s pretty good. A Moslem British/Pakistani’s voyage from total anti-semite to pro Israel. If you have 57 minutes it is worth your time.
Tony Blair sees dangerous times ahead for Western democracies
WASHINGTON — Former British prime minister Tony Blair warns that political upheaval from Great Britain’s Brexit vote in June to the collapse of the Italian government on Sunday signals the most dangerous time for Western democracies in decades.
“It does feel perilous, actually, because I think there are decisions that are being taken of vast moment in circumstances where systems are fragile,” he told Capital Download on Monday. “And that is troubling.”
It has been a year of unexpected victories by populist and nationalistic forces that are challenging the establishment: passage of the referendum pulling Britain from the European Union, the election of Donald Trump as president in the United States, defeat of a measure in Italy that prompted the prime minister to announce his resignation.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/05/tony-blair-sees-dangerous-times-ahead-western-democracies-trump-italy/95006730/
Every time the left loses and the people prove they want true freedom the left reacts with statements about grace threats to Western Democracy. Self anointed elites ignoring the will of the people are the true threat to democracy.
Consider this Tony (Blair), the citizens of western nations are not as daft as you think they are. We are, in general, a law abiding, easy going lot who believe in giving everyone a fair chance. We did that with you but finally decided that, in retrospect, you, your policies and your henchmen weren’t really what we wanted and so you were politely told to go.
We did it with the EU. I mean we really gave the EU a fair crack of the whip (over forty years) but in the end decided it wasn’t for us after all. We cherish our freedom too much.
The good citizens of the USA were also disillusioned with the continual creep of socialism and so abandoned them in favour of a man who projected his love for country, the people, freedom and the Constitution.
Now, of course, the Italians have shown the wisdom of Abe. Lincoln in his famous speech “You can fool all of the people some of the time..etc”.
It is understandable that you don’t like it one bit. It is not the Utopian dream you had in mind but it is happening and you should learn to adapt. I did mention that we are a peace loving, easy going bunch of guys but please do not be fooled by our mild manner and see it as a weakness. Take away our freedoms and impose your desires and you will see the ugly side of us. Do not take this as a threat more of a gentle reminder. We are, after all, the descendants of those very same men who The Iron Duke said…” I don’t know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me.”
You and the rest of the English descended people in the west are the children of the nation little England that created the greatest Empire the world has ever seen, and then gave it up to be able to live up to their principles. Read the true history of the British Empire and pay close attention to the soldiers who fought and created the Empire. Then read the history of WWII and you will see that the British, Canadian Anzac’s and Yanks lived up to what their ancestors expected. If push comes to shove we will do it again, never doubt that we will react the way our ancestors did and the world will tremble because of what the left has awakened.
MERKEL’S U-TURN Angela Merkel calls for Germany BURKA BAN saying ‘the full veil is not appropriate here’ in astonishing U-turn
The German Chancellor made the announcement at a party conference having recently declared she will stand for re-election
ANGELA Merkel’s today completed an astonishing U-turn as she formally endorsed a full burka ban following a backlash over her open-door migration policies.
The German chancellor made the comments at a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) conference having recently declared she will seek re-election.
Angel Merkel speaks to CDU party delegates at conference in Essen
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2339873/german-leader-angela-merkel-says-full-veil-is-not-appropriate-here-in-astonishing-u-turn/
Richard: I can’t think of better proof that we are winning then Merkel calling for a ban on the Burka to slow down the destruction of German culture. We are winning the war, slowly but winning. There will be much fighting to come, some of it actual violent fighting and some political fighting, what we have to remember is that if we keep fighting we can’t lose and the left can’t win.
Germany: Merkel re-elected as CDU chairwoman with 89.5 percent of vote
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was re-elected as Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) chairwoman with 89.5 percent of votes, at the CDU annual party convention in Essen on Tuesday.
With an overwhelming majority of votes, but short of the 96.7 percent she won in 2014, Merkel was elected for another two-year term as a leader of Germany’s main conservative party.
SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “Dear delegates, I accept the election and I’m happy about the result. Thank you very much for the trust. [People applauding].”
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel was re-elected as Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) chairwoman with 89.5 percent of votes, at the CDU annual party convention in Essen on Tuesday.”
Sweet merciful crap! Since when did the Germans swap out their fine beer for Kool-Aid? Their entire
“immigrant” infestedcountry is crashing down about their shoulders—largely thanks to this one supremely malign individual—and they almost unanimously vote to let Merkel have yet another go at giving them more of the same. These loons remind me of the dim bulbs who clamor for 0bama serving a third term.The left always deifies their leaders which means they can’t learn from their mistakes and replace their leaders even when they are leading them into the depths of hell. After all once deified their leaders are at a minimum a Demigod and thus is incapable of making mistakes. While this means the left will never surrender it also means they are incapable of learning from their mistakes. Look at how the left in the US Deified the Kennedy family, then the Clintons and not the Obamas. We are already hearing talk about how Chelsea is being groomed for high office and there are calls for Michelle to be the next Democrat to run for President if Hillary doesn’t want to run.
Britain will NOT ban the burka – Theresa May confirms after call for outlaw from Merkel (express, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/740514/britain-not-ban-burka-theresa-may-confirms-after-call-for-outlaw-angela-merkel
“BRITAIN is not considering a ban on full face veils, Downing Street said today.
Number 10 made clear its stance after Germany’s Angela Merkel called for them to be outlawed in schools, courts, state buildings and “wherever legally possible.”
The German Chancellor also promised a tougher stance on immigration as she laid out her case to be voted back into office for a fourth term.
She faces a strong challenge in next year’s general election from the right-wing, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party…”
Germany: Merkel calls for burqa ban – ‘it is not appropriate and should be outlawed’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a burqa ban in Germany, saying that “the full face veil is not appropriate” at the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) annual party convention in Essen on Tuesday.
The German Chancellor was interrupted by cheering crowds as she stated that “the full face veil is not appropriate and should be outlawed wherever it is legally possible; it does not belong to us.”
SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “We don’t want any parallel societies, and where they exist we have to tackle them. Our laws have priority over honour codes, tribal and family rules, and over the Sharia. [People applauding].”
SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “[In] inter-human communication, which plays a crucial role, we show our face. This is why the full face veil is not appropriate and should be outlawed wherever it is legally possible; it does not belong to us. [People applauding].”
Don’t worry she doesn’t mean it and thinks the voters are too stupid to realize this fact.
U.S. seeks to reassure Beijing after Trump call with Taiwan leader
http://www.oann.com/pence-downplays-significance-of-trumps-call-with-taiwan-president/
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday it had sought to reassure China after President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Taiwan’s leader last week, which the Obama administration warned could undermine progress in relations with Beijing.
The statement from a spokesman for U.S. President Barack Obama highlighted concerns about the potential fallout from Trump’s unusual call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday, which prompted a diplomatic protest from Beijing on Saturday.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said senior National Security Council officials spoke twice with Chinese officials over the weekend to reassure them of Washington’s commitment to the “One China” policy and to “reiterate and clarify the continued commitment of the United States to our longstanding China policy.”
The policy has been in place for 40 years and is focused on promoting and preserving peace and stability in the strait separating China and Taiwan, which is in U.S. interests, Earnest said.
“If the president-elect’s team has a different aim, I’ll leave it to them to describe,” he said.
Obama, Kerry and the leftist in the State Department rushing to suck up to China and let them dictate the US foreign policy in the Far East! The US is a sovereign nation that goes its path and its government is suppose to work in the best interest of our citizens. Obama and the left talk to every left wing dictator in the world but freakout when PET talks to an elected leader of a democracy.
Effing priceless!!! Trump has 0bama back-pedaling so furiously that he might not even remember to pardon Hillary and Bill before getting the heave ho come January.
Let us pray that that happens.
Richard: Here is the perfect example of the effect of Cultural Marxism establishing the idea that we are all suppose to be safe from insults and not getting our way.
Overgoverned: Woman loses interest in ‘finding a partner’ because Trump won the election
By J.E. Dyer December 5, 2016
This is why I’ve been saying for so long that modern humans, very much including Americans, put far, far too much faith and hope in government. Most people have let government become a god to them.
A god, as in a real “God” god, one who tells them what to think and do about everything, and defends them from the bogeymen of their nightmares, and wipes their tears and changes their diapers. A “God” god who writes moral law on their hearts, and tells them who’s good and who’s bad.
That’s the way millions of Americans, and billions of people around the world, see temporal government now. As an entity that isn’t functioning properly, if it isn’t standing in that relation to them.
But the quintessentially American political project was not to design a God-like government that would do cool and amazing things for the people, requiting all their hopes and validating all their emotions.
The American project was to design a constitution that would leave the people in a remarkable condition of freedom, by limiting what their government would ever be allowed to do.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/12/05/overgoverned-woman-loses-interest-finding-partner-trump-won-election/
Thank you for a major larf, Richard. Do not miss the comments for this original article.
Some excerpts:
When did liberals become such frightened little birds?
This is a joke right? If not, there is no mystery as to why she is single and likely to remain so.
Now, how many conservative and libertarian women gave up on dating because Obama was elected? [Really great riposte!!!]
Sorry to be cruel, but I bet her ex-husband read this, thinking the entire time: “aaaannddd, that’s why we’re divorced.”
I had to go out just after posting the article and haven’t had time to go back and read the comments. Thanks for the reminder.
A minute or so ago I posted a reply about the left deifying their leaders. The reaction of this woman is a perfect example of the result of this happening, their God was defeated and is no longer capable of taking care of them. This causes massive pain and insecurity among the true believers. This is why so many people are busy trying to stop the inauguration they never seem to realize that their efforts are just going to get another Republican as President. Granted it might be someone like Paul Ryan but it might be Ted Cruz or Rick Perry.
Yeah, they say she is a therapy animal, but I suspect it really is a security measure:
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/05/pig-to-greet-travelers-at-san-francisco-airport/
This has certainly been the year for flying pigs, but the San Francisco International Airport has the first official one.
Although LiLou, a Juliana breed pig, doesn’t actually fly, she does hang around with humans who do. She is the first swine to join the airport’s a team of therapy animals, and is believed to be the only airport porker in the country.
Denmark: Copenhagen Police officer shot in the head by Danish male
A Copenhagen police officer, who worked as a dog handler, was shot in the head outside the Vestegn Police station in Albertslund, Copenhagen on Tuesday morning.
The victim is said to be in serious but not life-threatening condition after he was attacked at 08:20 local time (07:20 GMT). Police arrested a 26-year-old Danish male shortly after, who was already known to them.
euronews – Germany warns against anti-refugee incitement following student murder
Radical Islam breeds in deprived corner of Serbia
Lawsuit asks for court to release FBI interviews with Obama
I would love to be able to read the full transcript of those interviews but like the Judge doubt if the interviews will be made public until 50 to 100 years from now.
Half of Detroit could be ineligible for vote recount due to discrepancies favoring Clinton
Over half of Detroit’s 662 voting precincts may be ineligible for the ongoing Michigan recount, since the number of ballots in precinct poll books do not match those from voting machine printout reports.
More than a third of precincts in Wayne County, Michigan’s largest county and home to Detroit, could be disqualified from the statewide recount because county officials, “couldn’t reconcile vote totals for 610 of 1,680 precincts during a countywide canvass of vote results late last month,” according to the Detroit News.
Wayne County has over 1.7 million residents and voted overwhelmingly for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at 95%. Krista Haroutunian, chair of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, told the Detroit Free Press that the discrepancies could make 610 precincts across the county (including the 392 in Detroit), ineligible for recount. A final decision has not yet been made.
The Michigan Republican Party, President-elect Donald Trump, and the state’s Republican attorney general all filed notice that they plan to appeal a U.S. District Court decision to start the recount, arguing the effort should not be decided by the federal courts system.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/12/06/half-detroit-ineligible-vote-recount-due-discrepancies-favoring-clinton/
This is likely to be an unintended consequence of the filing for a recount, thanks to Jill Stein Hillary is likely to lose a lot of votes in all three states and it is possible that Trump will end up with a popular vote win as well as a electoral vote win.
Why doesn’t Facebook want you to see this video? *UPDATE*
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/12/06/doesnt-facebook-want-see-video/
As has been noted in this space previously, the reporting of the news has become the news in the wake of the 2016 election. Suddenly, the phrase fake news is on the lips of every liberal, from Barack Obama on down, as they try to make sense of Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why Clinton lost. For one thing, she protrayed herself during the campaign as the keeper of the Obama flame, which many in the country have grown weary of. For another, her tenure as secretary of state was tarnished by scandals, not the least of them her maintaining a private email account that likely jeopardized national security.
Democrats prefer to pretend that the hapless electorate was misled by devious forces on the Right, which suddenly developed the power to shape public opinion in what Democrats have been arguing for years is a left-of-center country. Go figure.
As we have pointed out, there are fake news outlets, but the majority of them are sympathetic to the Left and its social democratic agenda. “News organizations” like CNN have been duping viewers for decades by distorting the facts or avoiding them altogether.
Video at site, please click through and watch the video.
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube team up to stop terrorist propaganda
Four of the largest tech companies—Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube—are coming together to stop the spread of terroristic content on social media.
The plan is to create a shared database and track the digital fingerprints of accounts who share propaganda for terror networks helping them identify the content and easily remove photo or videos from their sites.
“Our companies will begin sharing hashes of the most extreme and egregious terrorist images and videos we have removed from our services — content most likely to violate all of our respective companies’ content policies,” the companies announced in a joint statement Monday night.
[…]However, the companies will not be automatically removed explicit content but each company will review the propaganda against their terms of service.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-microsoft-twitter-youtube-fight-terrorist-propaganda-a7458031.html
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube unite to ‘fingerprint’ terrorist content
Web giants Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube join together to quickly identify extremist content and stop it spreading.
[…]”No personally identifiable information will be shared, and matching content will not be automatically removed.
“Each company will continue to apply its own policies and definitions of terrorist content when deciding whether to remove content when a match to a shared hash is found.”
The database is expected to be up and running by early next year and more companies could potentially join the partnership.
[…]Islamic State and other groups have used social media websites as a tool for recruiting and radicalisation.
The companies themselves have argued they want to be open to free speech – but without being used to promote violence or hate.
http://news.sky.com/story/facebook-microsoft-twitter-and-youtube-unite-to-fingerprint-terrorist-content-10685099
Zuckerberg dont kill us
“The plan is to create a shared database and track the digital fingerprints of accounts who share propaganda for terror networks helping them identify the content and easily remove photo or videos from their sites.”
The question remains as to whether these “Web giants” will actually sprout a set and hand over those “digital fingerprints” to the NSA, Interpol, and other appropriate
non-Muslimagencies. Halting the online spread of Islamic propaganda is all well and fine. The lot of which means precisely nothing, however, if the creators of this jihadist filth aren’t gifted with .45 caliber third eyes at the earliest opportunity.Is anyone willing to bet against these pretentious elite SJW swine suddenly stopping short of making any sort of meaningful difference in our jihad-beset world?
[crickets]
Facebook is now allowing the video to be shown, watch before they change their minds again.
An irate Israel this week summoned an Ecuadorean diplomat in Tel Aviv to protest a speech delivered by his country’s envoy to the United Nations that equated Zionism with Nazism.
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“We repudiate with all our strength the persecution and genocide that in its time unleashed Nazism against the Hebrew people. But I cannot remember anything more similar in our contemporary history than the eviction, persecution and genocide that today imperialism and Zionism do against the Palestinian people,” Horacio Sevilla Borja said on Thursday.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-furious-as-ecuador-un-envoy-compares-zionism-to-nazism/http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-furious-as-ecuador-un-envoy-compares-zionism-to-nazism/
AUSTRALIA – Man was ‘held down and cut with razor to release evil spirits in an Islamic exorcism after his wife cursed him with black magic’
Arfart Ali was cut with a sharp razor during an Islamic cleansing ritual
He was said to be ‘cursed’ with ‘black magic’ according to his family
A self-proclaimed Muslim preacher allegedly performed the exorcism
Riza Morinaj and Ali Oulmakhzen are charged with actual bodily harm
A man has undergone a terrifying Islamic ‘exorcism’ against his wishes in which he was held down and cut with a razor to ‘release evil’, a court has heard.
Arfart Ali was believed to have been ‘cursed’ with ‘black magic’ by his wife’s family, after he announced he was moving out of his family’s extended home.
Mr Ali married Shugfta Nehar in an arranged marriage a year ago, but she was constantly completing chores in his parents’ home.
After Mr Ali decided he didn’t want this to continue, the couple controversially moved out.
The concerned family’s grandfather then allegedly contacted a self-proclaimed Muslim preacher from Melbourne to perform a cleansing ritual on a birthday, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Riza Morinaj, 37, allegedly performed a purification ritual, with the help of 44-year-old Ali Oulmahkzen, that involved cutting open Mr Ali’s skin with razors to release the ‘evil spirits’.
The alleged ritual was performed in Sydney’s south west on November 5 and both Mr Morinaj and Mr Oulmakhzen are charged with detaining Mr Ali and causing actual bodily harm while performing an Islamic ritual.
The accused, Mr Morinaj, allegedly told Mr Ali, ‘I’m drawing out the blood and after I recite the Koran, black blood’s gonna come out and that’s the evil’, court documents revealed.
The victim was allegedly pinned down to the bed – by Mr Oulmakhzen – and after a struggle he was cut with a sharp razor ‘five to seven’ times on his back and chest by Mr Morinaj, according to the publication.
Both men accused from Keilor Downs are fighting the chargers and will be facing court next year.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3997954/Man-held-cut-razor-release-evil-spirits-Islamic-exorcism-wife-cursed-black-magic.html
What’s there to say about an ideology that executes people for witchcraft?
It’s a tossup between the Chinese and Muslims for “biggest buncha superstitious gits.”
UK – Man found guilty of handing over cash to Brussels airport attack suspect
A man has been convicted of funding terrorism after handing over cash to a Brussels bomb suspect.
Zakaria Boufassil was convicted following a trial at Kingston Crown Court where the jury heard details of how Boufassil, together with Mohammed Ali Ahmed, arranged and carried out a meeting with Brussels bomb suspect Mohammed Abrini in a Small Heath park. Between 9 and 16 July 2015, £3,000 cash was handed over by the pair who knew the money could or would be used to fund terrorism.
Mohammed Ali Ahmed pleaded guilty to the charge against him – engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 – at an earlier hearing and is currently awaiting sentence.
Abrini ? who is in custody having been charged with murder following the Brussels airport attack in March 2016 – had travelled to London on 9 July 2015 where he then journeyed to Birmingham.
The £3,000 cash was withdrawn from a bank account belonging to 32-year-old Belgian national Anwar Haddouchi who is believed to be fighting in Syria for Daesh. Haddouchi previously lived in Small Heath and was known to Zakaria’s sister and her husband, who had been looking after Haddouchi’s affairs in the UK.
Ahmed, aged 27 from Coventry Road, Small Heath, and Boufassil, aged 26 from Coventry Road, Small Heath, were arrested on 14 and 15 April this year by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.
Before Abrini travelled to the UK, he flew to Istanbul and was then smuggled into Syria where he met Abdelhamid Abaaoud – Abaaoud is believed to have been the mastermind of the Paris attacks and was killed days later by armed officers in France.
During the meeting with Abaaoud, they talked about battles Abaaoud had taken part in and how Abrini’s brother had died whilst fighting. Abaaoud instructed Abrini to travel to Birmingham to collect some money.
Following the cash handover, 31-year-old Abrini then exchanged the money for another currency and returned with it to Belgium on 16 July. When the Belgian Police seized Abrini’s phone in July 2015, an image of Small Heath park was found.
ACC Marcus Beale, Counter Terrorism Lead for West Midlands Police, said: “The conviction of these two men is significant for the UK as it identified a dangerous link to Abrini and Abaaoud. Their conviction sends a clear message to those who fund terrorism that they will be prosecuted and potentially face lengthy prison sentences.
“We know that Abrini visited several locations during his visit to the UK, but that his sole purpose of being here was to collect the money and our case – whilst not focused on attack planning – acts as reminder of why our work to prepare for and prevent such incidents in the UK is important.
“We will continue to work with our partners in MI5 and the wider counter terrorism network to prioritise our resources against the cases that pose the most risk to the public ? this includes funding and facilitating terrorism which is a significant element of the counter terrorism effort.
“The threat to the UK from international terrorism remains at severe, meaning an attack is considered to be highly likely. Plots aimed at the UK continue to be foiled, with offenders being prosecuted; our communities, businesses, policing and MI5 work relentlessly to make the UK very hard to attack but we cannot be complacent and will always strive to improve.
“We will continue to work with our partners in MI5 and the wider counter terrorism network to prioritise our resources against the cases that pose the most risk to the public.”
ACC Beale continued: “Last week saw forces across the country join together to promote counter terrorism awareness week; people need to remain vigilant and be alert not alarmed.
“We remain concerned about the radicalisation of individuals and we would always urge anyone who has concerns to contact their local police or their local council.
“We are working hard with partner agencies and community groups around the West Midlands to alert the public to the dangers of radicalisation and explain what help is available to those vulnerable to negative influences.”
Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil will be sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Monday (12 December).
Anyone concerned about someone travelling to, or returning from, Syria or another conflict zone or is worried about someone showing signs of being radicalised should contact their local police on 101 or visit http://www.preventtragedies.co.uk to access relevant support and advice.
http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/latest-news/news.aspx?id=5208
Lebanese Women Protest Against Rape Law (abcnews, Dec 6, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanese-woman-protest-rape-law-44009270
“A dozen Lebanese women, dressed as brides in white wedding dresses stained with fake blood and bandages, gathered Tuesday outside government buildings in Lebanon’s capital to protest a law that allows a rapist to get away with his crime if he marries the survivor.
The law, in place since the late 1940s in Lebanon, is currently being discussed in parliament after a lawmaker called for it to be repealed.
Standing before a banner that reads: “White won’t cover rape,” the activists are taking advantage of a reinvigorated Lebanese political life following parliament’s election of a president after a two-and-half-year paralysis. They are calling on lawmakers who meet Wednesday to discuss the law to repeal it altogether.
“If they don’t put themselves in our shoes and feel what we feel, nothing will change,” said Hayam Baker, one of the protesters, dressed in a white gown and leaning on crutches. Baker said she was sexually harassed by a male nurse several years ago as she lay in a hospital bed recovering from a life-threatening injury.
“Imagine if he had raped me?” Baker said. “If my children ask how did I meet their father, what do I say? ‘I married the person who raped me!’ ”
After years of campaigning against articles dealing with violence against women, activists said they are optimistic they may be able to change them.
The law states that rapists are punishable by up to seven years. If the survivor is a person with a special need, physical or mental, the penalty is increased. Article 522 then added that if the violator marries the survivor, criminal prosecution is suspended…”
Yet another pluperfect example of Islam punishing the victim. What woman would want to wed her rapist?!? As in multiple WTFs. Talk about being given a
deathlife sentence!Example of Hezbollah and Iran’s baleful influence on what used to be Lebanon.
Greek Court Agrees to Extradite Members of Turkish Military (abcnews, Dec 6, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-court-rules-extradite-turkish-servicemen-44005880
“A Greek court agreed Tuesday to extradite three Turkish servicemen who were part of an eight-person helicopter crew that fled to Greece after a failed military coup, a decision that came a day after it refused to send three others back to Turkey.
All eight helicopter crewmen deny participating in the coup attempt and a plot to assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They flew to Greece the day after the attempted coup and maintain they would not have a fair trial in Turkey.
The six who already have been through extradition proceedings remain in custody while the outcomes are appealed.
A defense lawyer is challenging the rulings for the three who are supposed to be sent back, while a Greek prosecutor is fighting to have the three who were given protection in Greece removed.
The Athens court that issued the previous rulings through panels made up of different judges is expected to decide on the remaining two servicemen in coming days…”
Breaking point? Merkel will have to spend £2.52BILLION to deport HALF A MILLION migrants (express, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/740471/Angela-Merkel-2-52-billion-deport-half-million-migrants
“ANGELA Merkel will have to spend £2.52billion on deporting half a million migrants from Germany by the end of next year, a new report has revealed.
The report warned the country does not yet have the infrastructure to cope with the mammoth task.
Forecasts say the number of people on a list of those who should be deported from Germany will rise to at least 485,000 by the end of 2017 – yet only 85,000 of those will actually have left the country by then.
Financial incentives, cutting off of benefits for rejected asylum seekers, more staff and deportation centres are needed to cope with the numbers, the study said.
Streamlining the process of deporting asylum seekers is also needed, according to the study commissioned by the German government from leading consultancy firm McKinsey.
Many politicians wanted the investigation to stay in-house and with the results pointing to such a large amount of money to reverse Mrs Merkel’s open-door policy last year the report has remained highly controversial…”
Soros, Open Media got hacked:
Sorry, that should have said Open Society, NOT Open Media – much apologies
Will the US influence rebels to withdraw from Aleppo?
No they won’t withdraw.
Just tap-dancing.
Our side – with “our” moderate jihadis – spotted it, the shelling’s on us. No ambiguity there. We’ve got unsavory allies.
Israeli media reported it overnight.
We all know who is at fault but the LSM will never admit his guilt.
British thinktank received £25m from Bahraini royals, documents reveal (guardian, Dec 6, 2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/06/british-thinktank-iiss-received-25m-from-bahraini-royals-documents-reveal
Saudi Court Orders Executions for 15 Accused of Spying for Iran (NYT, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-iran-spying-trial.html
WikiLeaks reveals 57,000 emails from the son-in-law of President Erdogan, ‘proving his connection to ISIS operation smuggling oil into Turkey’ (dailymail, Dec 6, 2016)
http://dailym.ai/2gZIOs3
pressproject.gr – Exclusive: WikiLeaks documents highlight sinister relations between Erdogan and ISIS
The connection of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s family with the oil smuggling of the “Islamic State” is revealed after Wikileaks? revealing of emails from the Turkish energy minister, and Erdo?an?s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak. Albayrak?s emails seem to confirm the not-so-recent accusations, since the energy minister is appealing to be the “unofficial” owner of the oil company Powertrance which is importing oil from the Isis? land in Northern Irak to Turkey.
At the end of September 2015 a Turkish Marxist hacking organization, Red Hack, claimed that it has access to almost 20 gigabyte of data from Albayrak’s personal email accounts. Information and articles regarding the email’s content began to go online, however the Turkish justice system decided against the publication and reproduction of the emails, thus implying their authenticity. The newest accusations that the Turkish government -and, specifically, members of Erdogan’s family- has an active role in the oil smuggling from areas that are controlled by the “Islamic State”, were between the most important subjects that were temporarily released. The leaking of all the emails from the Turkish energy minister by Wikileaks seem to confirm these allegations.
The accusations against the Turkish government -and most specifically, Albayrak- became even more intense after the shooting down of the Russian aircraft by the Turkish forces on the 24th of November 2015. As well as imposing sanctions to Turkey, Russia also accused Erdogan and his family of involvement in the oil smuggling. In order to support those accusations, Russia delivered satellite images which reveal the routes of the oil from the ISIS grounds to Turkey. A similar research was conducted by the ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and came to the conclusion that the oil transported from the “Islamic State’s” territories to Turkey is sold in low price. Meanwhile, the American government has also mentioned the ISIS’ oil ends up, through a process, in Turkey. The Turkish president vowed to resign if these allegations correspond to reality.
Albayrak’s emails do indeed prove the Russian accusations, and so do the various international media features which connected him to the oil smuggling. Albayrak appears to act as the unofficial consultant of the oil company Powertrans, which by law is the only oil company allowed to import and export oil to and from Turkey. In about 32 subjected Powertrans emails which he has received, he is asked for his opinion regarding the future actions of the company and his approval in matters such as the organization chart, and the hiring and wages of new executives.
Powertrans’ oil monopoly
The ownership of Powertrans is not clear. As World Policy analyzes, the equities of the company have weirdly “travelled” from Istanbul to Singapore and from there to the Virgin Islands. The published information suggests that the real owner of Powertrans is now Calik Holding, behind which stands Albayrak.
In spite of this fact though, the Turkish government has offered Powertrans the monopoly in oil importing and exporting, in a case which often reminds the “photographic” laws and amendments that are often met in Greece. In November 2011, the Turkish government voted for a law that bans every kind of oil transport in and outside of the country. In the same law, there was a provision of an exception if the oil transportation would serve the interests of the country. A few months later, Erdogan’s government decided to give the exclusive privilege of oil commerce to Powertrans, which he expanded by law, in 2014, by giving the company the monopoly as well.
In the leaked emails published by The Press Project’s official partner, Wikileaks, the connection between the turkish Energy minister , and Erdogan’s son-in-law, with Calik Holding and Powertrans seems rather clear. There are about 30 emails which Albayrak exchanges with Betül Y?lmaz -officially the human resources manager of Calik Holding. In almost every conversation between them, the subject is clearly Powertrans, while Yilmaz is constantly asking for his approval in any company’s staff change, mentioning -for example- the planning of the organization chart, the future hirings and wages. The email exchange between Albayrak and Yilmaz lasts for three years, from 2012 until 2015. In another email, dated August 9th 2015, Albayrak talks with Ekrem Kele? who used to work for Calik Holding and is now a member of the staff of Powertrans, The two men discussed the marketing strategy of the company in Northern Iraq.
Perhaps the most strange result, regarding Albayrak’s relation to Powertrans, in the emails is found in a conversation of the Turkish Energy minister and his lawyer, Mustafa Do?an Inal. The two men talk ahead of a rebuttal statement regarding the relations between Albayrak and Powertrans. Dogan Inal had written that “my client has no longer any ties to the company” and Albayrak corrects him by writing “what is that supposed to mean? I never had any ties to the company!”. The rebuttal statement was going to be published in the end of 2015, while Albayrak denied his connection to the company again in October 2016, after the Redhack attack. There are of course tens of emails which mention the company and prove the opposite. However, given that any mentioning of Powertrans stop after the conversation with his lawyer about the rebuttal, there is a chance that Albayrak either pulled out of the company, or kept a distance from its management, under the pressure of the allegations.
Oil: Isis’ treasure
Although in the past weeks the reporting of international media mention that, due to its retreat, ISIS has -partially or totally- the control of important oil wells, for more than two years oils smuggling was the basic financing of this terrorist group. In 2014, The Guardian presented a graphic with the oil transporting routes, from the ISIS to Turkey, Iran and Jordan.
In October 2015, the Financial Times revealed that the average production of the ISIS’ oil was 34.000-40.000 barrels per day, which they sold for 20-45 dollars each. This meant that they had 1,5 million dollars daily income from oil, which was used to fund their fighters in military and terrorist operations. In July 2016, the Washington Post presented satellite photos and claimed that the “Islamic State’s” income from oil have decreased by almost 50% but remain high, at about 20 million dollars per month.
The route of oil from the ISIS-controlled oil wells to Turkey was revealed by satellite photos which were published by Russia in December 2015. According to Russia, the oil is transported by third routes.
The west route, which starts at the “capital” of the ISIS, Rakka, and goes through the camp of Azaz in the Turkish border. From there, the oil is transported -according to the Russian Defense ministry- to Reyhanli and then parts of it are channeled to the Turkish market while the rest reaches the Mediterranean via the ports of Iskenderun and Dortyol.
Another central route starts from Deir Ez-zour in Syria, goes through the Al-Qamishli area and from there to the Turkish town of Batman.
The third route, according to the Russian ministry, runs from Eastern Syria and West Iraq to the Southeastern corner of Turkey.
The photos and documents presented by Russia and the international Media show that ISIS’ oil ends up in various areas of Turkey and the only company that -based on the Turkish legislation- can realize this transportation is Powertrans. Until today, Albayrak and Erdogan refuse any relation to this company. The emails of the Turkish minister of Energy, prove the opposite.
https://www.thepressproject.gr/article/103870/exclusive-wikileaks-documents-relations-erdogan-ISIS-oil-smuggling
SWEDEN – 5 Afghan teens in Sweden charged with raping Afghan boy
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish authorities on Tuesday charged five teenagers from Afghanistan with aggravated rape for allegedly dragging another Afghan boy into a forest, threatening him with a knife and raping him.
The alleged assault took place in October in a forested area in the city of Uppsala, north of Stockholm.
Prosecutor Johan Stromback told The Associated Press that the five suspects are 16 and 17 years old, while the boy they allegedly assaulted is under 15. Stromback said all arrived in Sweden as unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.
The accused were charged with aggravated rape of a minor, a crime in Sweden that is punishable by at least four years in prison for adults and juvenile detention for minors, he said. The indictment calls for all five to be expelled from Sweden and barred from returning after serving any sentences.
According to the indictment, the accused punched the alleged victim in the head, raped him and spat on him. It said the assault “was planned and lasted for at least an hour” and left the boy with bruises, scrapes and bite marks on his back.
The accused allegedly filmed parts of the assault and threatened to post clips on social media if the victim went to police.
The indictment says two suspects have acknowledged some allegations, but none has confessed to a criminal act.
Stefan Wallin, a defense lawyer representing one youth, said his client neither admits nor denies the charges.
“He has no recollection of the events because of alcohol intoxication,” Wallin told the AP.
Defense lawyers for the others didn’t immediately return requests for comment.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWEDEN_SEXUAL_ASSAULT
Great! Now, when you buy your kid these latest toys, you are putting yourself under 24h audio surveillance:
• The My Friend Cayla and i-Que toys listen, record & send voice data to a defense contractor specializing in voice-recognition.
• The terms of service & privacy policies for these toys are difficult to find, and can be changed without notice.
• These practices may violate rules governing the collection & use of online data obtained from kids.
• Researchers claim that the devices are easily hacked to either intercept data or to turn the toys into remote listening devices.
• A coalition of consumer and privacy advocates have petitioned the FTC to investigate these toys and put an end to these practices.
https://consumerist.com/2016/12/06/these-toys-dont-just-listen-to-your-kid-they-send-what-they-hear-to-a-defense-contractor/
Finland: Thousands protest against far-right on Finnish Independence Day
Around 3,000 protesters gathered in Helsinki on Tuesday, to march against racism on 99th Finnish Independence day.
The protesters gathered at the Helsinki railway station, from which they made their way to the Kaisaniemi park.
At the same time as the anti-fascism protest, some 200 members of the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) marched along the streets of the Finnish capital, shouting slogans such as “Long live National Socialism”. Two NRM protesters were detained during the march.
SOT, Protester (English): “We are against Nazis, because Nordic defence movement is marching today on Finnish Independence Day, and we are against Nazis and fascism in Finland and all over the world.”
SOT, Nordic Resistance Movement protester (English): “Islam is bad and we don’t want it.”
SOT, journalist (English): “What’s wrong with Islam?”
Protester: “The Quran, everything is wrong, they are pedophiles, they are mass murderers. We don’t want them here.”
Finland: Thousands join far-right 612 march on Finnish Independence Day
Thousands of people took part in a torchlit march organised by the far-right, 612.fi movement to mark the 99th Finnish Independence Day in Helsinki, Tuesday.
Muslim Council of Britain: It’s Up to White British to Integrate, Not Muslims
A senior representative of the Muslim Council of Britain has said that white British people have a responsibility to integrate more to prevent communities becoming ghettoised.
His comments come in response to an official report warning that many of Britain’s towns and cities have been transformed “out of all recognition” by mass immigration.
The report, by the government’s community cohesion tsar Dame Louise Casey, warned that parts of British towns had been turned into ghettoes which successive governments have ignored “for fear of being branded racist or Islamophobic”, and which are creating “escalating divisions and tensions”.
But Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, has struck back, writing for The Guardian that Casey is wrong to blame Muslim communities. Instead, he said white flight and economic inequality were greater problems – and that white people ought to do more to tackle them.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/06/muslim-representative-white-british-integrate-more-not-muslims/
The mask are coming off more and more, statements like this show that the Moslems are aiming at the conquest of Europe and not becoming Europeans. Actions like this are what are going to drive the native Europeans to vote for politicians who will protect them and their culture and if this doesn’t work to resort to coups and civil wars.
Events and the political climate in Europe call out for leaders like Churchill to take power and fight to liberate Europe from the invaders. We are seeing this in most European nations with varying degrees of success in the attempts to have a peaceful change in government replacing the appeasers with patriots who will fight to preserve 1) Freedom, 2) National Sovereignty 3) Western Civilization. I put freedom first because without without out Freedom Sovereignty and Civilization are impossible to one extent or another.
Right now we are in the opening stages in a world wide movement (populism) that is seeking to preserve all of the above. I can not say how many nations this populist revolt is going to liberate from the left, or how long they can remain free. We need to work to ensure that all nations that have a tradition in democracy and the peaceful change of governments has such a revolution. And that the nations that don’t have this tradition try to start such a tradition. It doesn’t have to be either European or American style government as long as the people are given a semi honest vote and a peaceful change in government.
Do I think this will succeed? Not in all nations, some will have to be liberated but once that starts the goal there must be to win the war. Once the war is done we can try nation building but winning the war must come first. Without a clear victory there can be no successful nation building.
The day might come when the only choice before Europe is Subjugation by Islam or Military Rule.
That is what the left is counting on, they want things to get so bad that the ordinary people will support a dictatorship if they protect them from the Moslems. Then once the Moslems are kicked out the Dictators will fight among themselves to see who is supreme leader in Europe. That is why a strong non leftist resistance is so important.
EUROPEAN UNION – Islam, it’s also our history!
Description
The touring exhibition ‘Islam, It’s also our history!’ tells the story of the long relationship between Europe and the Muslim civilisation on European soil. The historical evidence displayed by the exhibition – the reality of an old-age Muslim presence in Europe and the complex interplay of two civilisations that fought against each other but also interpenetrated each other – underpins an educational and political endeavour: helping European Muslims and non Muslims alike to better grasp their common cultural roots and cultivate their shared citizenship.
Results
Between 2015 and 2018, the exhibition will be shown in six different countries.
EU Budget contribution to the project
2 500 000 EUR
https://ec.europa.eu/budget/euprojects/islam-its-also-our-history-fourteen-centuries-exchange-between-europe-and-muslim-civilisation_en
ISLAM – IT’S ALSO OUR HISTORY
Islam – It’s Our History! works to promote knowledge and understanding as they alone can bring people together
Above all else, this initiative was conceived as a civic project at a time of strained relations with Islam in Europe and beyond. With that in mind, this touring exhibition – which has won recognition as a major European cultural project – strives to ease understanding of the Other and the foundations of civilisation. Knowing that fear is the enemy of peaceful coexistence, Islam – It’s Our History Too! works to promote knowledge and understanding as they alone can bring people together.
The exhibition aims to raise visitors’ awareness of the strong links that have been forged between two civilisations, Islam and Europe, over the course of almost 13 centuries. While its content may be complex, its goal is simple: showing Europeans that Islam is part of their history too.
Islam – It’s Our History Too! is structured around one key message: Muslim settlement in Europe is as old as Islam itself and goes through cycles of expansion and retraction.> The exhibition highlights the shared spiritual and intellectual origins of Muslim and European civilisations (i.e. their Abrahamic heritage) and demonstrates that while relations between them have been conflicted over the centuries, the two civilisations have influenced and enriched one another. At the end of the day, Europe and Islam have a real shared history, with each stage of their journey together having both a light side (mutual understanding, artistic inspiration, reciprocal influences) and a dark side (conflicts, boundaries, integration problems).
The exhibit revolves around four periods and three legacies: the Arab legacy handed down by mediaeval Europe, the Ottoman legacy, the colonial legacy, and Europe and Muslims today.
The exhibition’s contemporary, accessible approach opens the door to a rich emotional and intellectual experience that marries museum artefacts with everyday objects, ancient art with contemporary works, and multimedia displays with more conventional backdrops.
http://www.ecsite.eu/activities-and-services/resources/extra/islam-its-also-our-history
ecsite on youtube :
https://www.youtube.com/user/ecsiteeurope/videos
This is totally vomit-worthy. Islamic slavers and pirates nearly collapsed European civilization before it managed to get on its legs. The exhibit is pure Liberal propaganda that should be met with massive and vociferous protests wherever it goes.
Not to mention that outside of a few names there is no connection between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Allah is the exact opposite to Jehovah.
Huthi supporters demonstrate in Yemeni capital
Senator Sessions Isn’t a Racist, His Left-Wing Accusers Are.
They’re coming for Sessions
December 6, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
They’re coming for Senator Sessions. The Alabama Senator, soon to be Attorney General, has been denounced by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which bills its poison pen letter as coming from “civil and human rights organizations.” Just don’t ask which ones.
The “civil rights” organizations include the AFL-CIO, which had just denounced its own “ugly history of racism” last year, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, whose leaders have at times defended and excused the anti-Semitic and racist Islamic terror of Hamas and Hezbollah, and the National Council of La Raza, whose name means “The Race” and reflects its racialist agenda.
A thuggish union that concedes its own ugliness and two racist groups, one of which defends Islamic terrorists, are the worst possible people to pass any kind of judgment on Senator Sessions.
But it gets worse.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265054/senator-sessions-isnt-racist-his-left-wing-daniel-greenfield
Why You Should Worry About Virgins in Paradise
Will our ideological war against Islamic Supremacism ever get out of first gear?
December 6, 2016
William Kilpatrick
In the wake of Abdul Artan’s car and knife attack at Ohio State University, the usual questions are being asked: What was his motive? Did he have psychological problems? Will there be a backlash against the Muslim community?
But to those of us who suspect we already know the motive, the most pertinent question is the question of what can be done to defeat Islamic terrorism. The answer according to many experts is that you can’t defeat jihad without first defeating the ideology behind it. We must, it is said, so thoroughly discredit and delegitimize that ideology that the enemy ceases to believe in it and therefore loses the will to fight.
So far, so good. That all makes sense. We should do everything we can to undermine the ideology that inspires ISIS, al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Lone Wolves. So, what exactly is this ideology? Here, things become a bit murky. I’ve read a number of authors who’ve written about the subject, but most come up short on specifics. They seem to assume that calling the beast “radical Islamic terror” is sufficient.
The reason for the evasiveness is that the elusive ideology of the terrorists is strikingly similar to Islam itself. When terrorist leaders speak of their “ideology,” they do so by citing the Koran and the commands of Allah. Here’s a sampling:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265052/why-you-should-worry-about-virgins-paradise-william-kilpatrick
“… the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Lone Wolves.”
While it’s difficult not to appreciate the humor in Kilpatrick’s image of amalgamated loners, I still wish like hell that he and everyone else would please stop perpetuating this nonsense about “lone wolves”. In fact, to his credit, the author goes on to make it abundantly clear that accepted Islamic doctrine is at the core of all jihadist terrorism.
Ergo, these supposed “lone wolf” attackers are not at all isolated or operating in any sort of ideological vacuum. Just as it is long overdue for the West to begin identifying Islam as the root cause of jihadist terrorism, it is equally necessary to dismiss and discredit any notion that this brutal violence springs full-grown from sundry Muslim heads.
Those who have taken the time to study Islam know full well that it is purposefully decentralized (e.g., no “Pope-like” figurehead) in order to diffuse any attempt at isolating or targeting responsible parties within its sphere. Similarly, through establishing capital crime blasphemy laws, Islam makes its core doctrine immutable—thus guaranteeing that the violence continues unabated even as any well-deserved finger pointing is discouraged.
All of which continues to point towards an unavoidably catastrophic disassembing of this intensely self-perpetuating ideology. Islam delenda est.
James O’Keefe: The Mainstream Media Is Dead. We Won.
Project Veritas President recounts his fight against the Clinton machine and its media enablers.
December 6, 2016
Frontpagemag.com
James O’Keefe: Thank you very much. I only have about 10 to 15 minutes before I go to lunch, but I wanted to say a few words. I was invited here at the last minute. My friend, Jim Young here, invited me, and thanks for having me. I want to say a few words and show just a very few clips from Project Veritas. I wanted to say that we did it, and the media in this country, as Bill Little said last night, is now discredited. It’s dead and we have killed it and it’s been a long time coming because they put us through so much over the last 10 years: Planned Parenthood, civil lawsuits, jail, defamation, lies, slander and now we’ve won.
I’m going to walk you through very quickly just some of what I think are the poignant historical moments. It all started 4 weeks ago when Twitter kicked me off. I was kicked off Twitter for releasing the videos, and out of nowhere thousands of people sent messages to the CEO of Twitter. Thousands of people sent messages to Jack Dorsey and they reinstated my account 36 hours later, and when they did we had 40,000 new followers.
I met Donald Trump two years ago. I did a story at Cornell. We went into Cornell and we said we were an ISIS club, and we wanted to get money from Cornell to do it, and we released this video on Cornell giving day, the day when all the alumni are supposed to give money to Cornell. We had alumni stop giving to Cornell and started giving money to Project Veritas. I got an email from New York from the Trump Tower that said Donald Trump would like to meet you. This was two years ago. And he printed out this video and said that that’s Donald Trump’s signature. James Graywork, as always “Best wishes, Donald Trump.” Donald Trump was always a fan, but this is well before he ran for president. Fast forward two years and we release the first video.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265043/james-okeefe-mainstream-media-dead-we-won-frontpagemagcom
Project Veritas has had an enormous impact.
And it may have a great deal more. Veritas uncovered the leader of the DNC goon-squad: a creep named Creamer. He’s the one who bragged on video about hiring thugs to incite violence at Trump campaign events. In Chicago a rally had to be cancelled; elsewhere highways were blocked, people assaulted. Wikileaks’ emails confirmed the link between Creamer and the DNC.
That’s interstate conspiracy => a Federal offense. So too are the riots organized by Soros since the election. Plus the death threats to indimidate the electors. If the FBI sits on this, Comey should get his own lawyer.
CAIR Pedophile Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Sexual predators can now be officially added to CAIR’s convicted fail list.
December 6, 2016
Joe Kaufman
t took well over a year, but the verdict is finally in. Ahmad Saleem, the former head of the Orlando, Florida office for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is headed to prison.
On the night of May 20, 2015, Ahmad Abrar Saleem was arrested in Clermont, Florida, a short distance from his Orlando home. He was charged with “use of computer to seduce/solicit/entice a child to commit sex act” and “travel to seduce, solicit, lure a child to commit sex act.”
Saleem was intending to meet the twelve-year-old girl he had been chatting with online, but instead, Saleem met Sheriff’s deputies waiting for him and 21 others in a child sex sting operation. He was detained at 9:35 pm and booked at one-in-the-morning.
This event surely had erased much happier times for Saleem. It was only a few months earlier that he had met with his fellow CAIR leaders to discuss organizational strategy.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265045/cair-pedophile-sentenced-two-years-prison-joe-kaufman
Richard: It is a shame the sentence couldn’t be much longer.
“Richard: It is a shame the sentence couldn’t be much longer.”
Cold comfort though it may be, please keep in mind the attitude that general prison populations typically have towards those who prey on children which inmates are unavailable to protect at home. May Ahmad Abrar Saleem repeatedly and frequently experience the not-so-gentle ministrations traditionally reserved for incarcerated child molesters.
Yeah, but any prison will have a large Moslem population that will protect him.
“Yeah, but any prison will have a large Moslem population that will protect him.”
While American penitentiaries are home to a disproportionate amount of Black men (who are displeasingly prone to Islamic recruitment), not all of them are Muslims (nor is Ahmad Abrar Saleem likely to be mistaken for being Black). In fact, according to 2011 statistics, less than 10% of US prisoners are Muslim.
Therefore, well over 80% of the 2016 general prison population is likely to be less-than-sympathetic towards the paedophilic ways of this Islamic scumbag. I can only hope that this might brighten your otherwise (too-frequently justified) cynical outlook.
Warmest regards,
NorseRadish
Terror fears as FBI investigate ‘imminent threat’ on Los Angeles metro (express, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/740211/FBI-Los-Angeles-Metro-under-imminent-threat-rail-station-us-america
“THE FBI is investigating threats made against the Los Angeles Metro sparking fears of an imminent attack, officials have confirmed…”
Syrian migrant, 16, who had links to ISIS charged with plotting bomb attack in Cologne (express, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/740561/Syrian-migrant-ISIS-charged-plotting-bomb-attack-Cologne
“A TEENAGE Syrian migrant has been charged with plotting a bomb attack in Cologne, Germany.
The 16-year-old received instructions on how to create bombs from online chats and investigators believe that the Syrian migrant wanted to build a bomb and cause multiple deaths in Germany.
The plot has been described as a “serious state-threatening violence” and police said his mobile phone has revealed that he was in touch with the Islamic State…”
ALIENATION BRITAIN: The danger of unqualified imams in UK who ‘REFUSE to speak English’ (express, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/740446/unqualified-imams-uk-refuse-to-speak-english-alienation-isolation
“UNQUALIFIED imams who refuse to preach in English are deepening isolation among some British Muslims and creating conditions ripe for radicalisation, a leading imam and theologian has blasted.
In a terrifying insight into a Britain divided, Dr Umar Al-Qadri said some of the rogue religious leaders even urge followers not to associate with non-Muslims.
The chairman of the Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council who has worked extensively in Britain, said the use in mosques of languages other than English for sermons and lectures “undermined the work of integration and isolated people”…”
Better late then never but it would have been better if this had come out many years ago.
“UNQUALIFIED imams who refuse to preach in English…”
Shall we bother to parse at exactly how many different levels this one phrase violates all rules of sanity? No? Well, all right. I should have expected that.
Nonetheless, WTF these jihadist maggots were doing on European soil—much less being given the slightest opportunity to spew their anti-Western bile—goes beyond all reason.
As in, what else is new?
The West’s Politically Correct Dictatorship
It Has Blinded Us to the Real Danger: Radical Islam
by Giulio Meotti
December 6, 2016 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9491/politically-correct-dictatorship
It might look like a golden age for free speech: more than a billion tweets, Facebook posts and blogs every day. But beneath this surface, freedom of expression is dramatically retreating.
Students at the City University of London, home to one of Britain’s most respected schools of journalism, voted to ban three newspapers from its campus: The Sun, Daily Mail and Express. Their “crime”, according to the approved motion, is to have published stories against migrants, “Islamophobic” articles, and “scapegoating the working classes that they so proudly claim to represent.” City University, supposedly a place dedicated to openness and questioning, became the first Western educational institution to vote for censorship, and ban “right wing newspapers.”
The filmmaker David Cronenberg called this self-censorship, after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo: “a weird, serpentine political correctness.” It is one of the most lethal ideological poisons of the 21st century. It is not only closed-minded and ridiculous, it makes us blind to the radical Islam that is undermining our mental and cultural defenses.
The countless attacks by Muslim extremists testify that the multicultural world to which we have been led is a fiction. Political correctness simply encourages the Islamists to raise the stakes to win the war they are advancing. The resulting tension has been fed by the Western elites with their sense of guilt for “colonialism” in the Third World.
Erdogan’s Gritted-Teeth Peace with Israel
Equates IDF with Hitler
by Burak Bekdil
December 6, 2016 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9484/erdogan-turkey-israel
Modern Turkey has never been so disconnected from its Western allies. Its Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, recently accused the West of helping the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). His evidence? Because, he said, ISIS is fighting with Western weapons — overlooking, of course, that they were probably captured or stolen.
This dislike and hostility is not unrequited. On November 24, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly for a motion calling to suspend Turkey’s membership talks with the European Union (EU), citing “disproportionate, repressive measures” taken by Erdogan’s government. The motion, although non-binding, passed 479 to 37 in favor. In retaliation, Erdogan threatened that “if the EU goes further,” Turkey will open its border gates and let refugees stream toward Europe.
The Turks, too, are distancing themselves from the idea of EU membership. According to a survey by the pollsters ANDY-AR, 75.3% of Turks believe that their country is drifting away from accession, while only 19.9% believe it is not. Forty-four percent think freezing membership talks would be a positive development.
Confirming the growing anti-Western mood, Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, wrote in a newspaper column: “With its internal problems, micro-nationalisms and the Brexit process, Europe is narrowing down its strategic outlook and losing its relevance.”
Against this backdrop, Turkey is normalizing its relations with Israel — in theory, at least. Ankara and Jerusalem agreed to appoint ambassadors to each other’s country after an absence of more than six years. Two prominent career diplomats, Kemal Okem and Eitan Na’eh, will struggle to improve ties in Tel Aviv and Ankara, respectively. They will have a hard job. The diplomats may be willing, but with Erdogan’s persistent Islamist ideological pursuits, they would seem to have only a slim chance of succeeding.
Erdogan wants to recreate the Ottoman Empire with himself as Caliph, he does’t have the monty or manpower to achieve this goal through military means and is trying to use duplicity and diplomacy to either get enough money to let him buy the military force to take the Middle East. Or to get the west to give him the Middle East as the best of a bad choice of either him or Iran controlling the entire Middle East. His main obsitcal right now is Putin who is playing a brilliant game of thrones in the Middle East and soon it will include Donald Trump whose games of cooperate warfare haven’t been as lethal as the ones in the Middle East they have been as Machiavellian.
This conflict is one the West must watch closely because we don’t want any of the major players (Putin, Erdogan, Iran and Saudi as the first ranking players with ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups as second rank. Also we have to keep an eye on Sisi because he may be forced into the game) to win the game of thrones and gain control of the Middle East.
Our best ally in that region is Israel and given the way the Dems and the US bureaucrats have been knifing them in the backs they aren’t sure how much they can trust the US. It will take time to rebuild the trust that Obama has destroyed.
Iranian-made unmanned drone involved in attack on Turkish soldiers in Syria (hurriyetdailynews, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/iranian-made-unmanned-drone-involved-in-attack-on-turkish-soldiers-in-syria.aspx?pageID=238&nID=106965&NewsCatID=352
“An Iranian-made unmanned drone was used in an attack on a Turkish military camp in northern Syria on Nov. 24, killing four soldiers, a senior Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.
Turkey identified the drone as Iranian-made, but it was still not identified whether Hezbollah, the Quds Force or another Shiite militia group in Syria had used it, said the official, who spoke on anonymity…”
Just because they are shooting at each other doesn’t mean they won’t join together to shoot at us.
“Just because they are shooting at each other doesn’t mean they won’t join together to shoot at us.”
[applause]
Sorta like the Bloods and Crips, eh?
If anything has put the lie to that old Arab saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,”, it has to be Islam. For whatever reason, everyone seems to forget about a much more ancient Bedouin truism:
“I against my brother, my brothers and I against my cousins, my cousins and I against the infidel”.
Click for excellent cartoon.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy, nothing more.
Yeah, but I’d enjoy the show for as long as it lasts.
Suspect arrested for sex attacks on Chinese students in west Germany (thelocal, Dec 6, 2016)
http://www.thelocal.de/20161206/suspect-arrested-over-sex-attacks-on-two-students-in-west-germany
“Officials said on Tuesday that they had arrested a 31-year-old man living in a refugee home after two Chinese students reported being sexually assaulted in recent months near Bochum University.
The suspect is described as being an Iraqi asylum seeker, who came to Germany in 2015 and lived with his wife and two children near the scene of the two attacks, state prosecutors said.
In August a 21-year-old student from China reported that a man had seriously injured her and attempted to rape her. Then in November, a 27-year-old student also from China reported that she was attacked and raped by a man.
Prosecutors accuse the man of attempted murder, rape and aggravated assault. The suspect has disputed the charges, according to prosecutors.
The decisive evidence that led to the man’s arrest reportedly came from the second victim’s partner. He noticed a man in the bushes near where the 27-year-old woman had been attacked and started taking numerous pictures on his phone, before the man ran away.
Police said these photos allowed them to identify the suspect living at the refugee home. The man was then arrested after a DNA test was conducted and linked him to both attacks. Police are now investigating whether he could be connected to other crimes…”
‘Trump Fish’: Iraqi Kurdish diner named after US president-elect (france24, Dec 6, 2016)
http://observers.france24.com/en/20161206-%E2%80%9Ctrump-fish%E2%80%9D-fish-joint-iraqi-kurdistan-named-after-us-president-elect
“A new fish joint with an unusual name opened up in Duhok, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, in mid-November. The restaurant is named after the American president-elect Donald Trump and uses his face as a logo. ‘Trump Fish’ serves grilled fish and is surfing on the wave of popularity for the American billionaire…”
Michigan appeals court rejects Jill Stein’s recount as unlawful
LANSING — The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Board of State Canvassers never should have allowed a recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein to proceed, because she has no chance to overturn the result of the presidential election in her favor and is not an aggrieved candidate.
The panel ordered the board to “reject the Nov. 30, 2016 petition of candidate Stein that precipitated the current recount process.”
The ruling came out almost simultaneously with a 2-1 order from the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith’s Monday order that the recount must get under way at noon that day, which it did.
The combined effect of the two rulings appears to set up further court proceedings in front of Goldsmith and the Michigan Republican Party has already filed for another federal hearing.
“The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in our favor, determining that the petition for recount filed by Dr. Jill Stein should have been denied,” said Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party. “Dr. Stein is not an aggrieved candidate as she has no chance of winning the election in Michigan.”
Attorney General Bill Schuette said: “I’m grateful, and I know Michigan taxpayers agree, that the Michigan Court of Appeals has adhered to the rule of law,” given that estimates of the cost of the recount are as high as $5 million — more than $4 million more than the fee Stein was required to pay.
Andrea Bitely, a spokeswoman for Schuette, said the Michigan Court of Appeals said that “there is no conflict between” its order and the federal district court’s temporary restraining order, so the recount should end immediately.
“To ensure clarity for Michigan taxpayers, (and as recommended in the Sixth Circuit’s opinion issued this evening), the Attorney General is now filing in the federal district court a motion to dissolve the temporary restraining order,” Bitely said.
Mark Brewer, an attorney for Stein, said the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stay the Republicans’ request to stop the recount, so it will continue until all the parties can get back to federal court to plead their case, again, before Goldsmith.
John Bursch, the attorney for Schuette, and Gary Gordon, attorney for President-elect Donald Trump, urged the state appeals panel to stop the recount, or at least find that the Board of State Canvassers never should have allowed it to proceed.
Brewer, representing Stein, whose campaign requested the recount because of what they called the potential for hacking, error or fraud in Michigan’s voting apparatus, had the edge in light of Goldsmith’s Monday order that the recount start at noon that day and “continue until further order of this court.”
Brewer told the three-judge appeals panel: “This court has no authority … to interfere in any way with a federal court order.”
He got little or no pushback from the judges on that point, who appeared to acknowledge that any order by them to stop the recount would result in further proceedings in federal court in Detroit.
Judge Christopher Murray told Bursch: “We could issue an opinion right now, and the recount wouldn’t stop.”
“I completely disagree with that,” Bursch replied.
He argued there is wording in Goldsmith’s order that anticipates the recount being canceled by the state or state courts, but the judges weren’t buying it. Bursch also said Elections Director Chris Thomas would have to decide whether to follow a state order to stop the recount, or go back to Goldsmith to find out what to do.
“Would you serve the jail time for us?” Presiding Judge Peter O’Connell asked Bursch, somewhat facetiously, raising the prospect of being found in contempt of a federal court order.
Short of ordering a stop to the recount, Bursch — a former state solicitor general who is now an attorney in private practice in Caledonia — urged the court to order the Board of State Canvassers not to certify a second set of electors if the recount is not completed by Dec. 13 — the federal deadline for guaranteeing that Michigan’s electors will be accepted by Congress. Michigan has already certified Trump electors for the state’s 16 electoral college votes.
The Michigan Republican Party appealed Goldsmith’s Monday ruling to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, where Schuette was also seeking to intervene against the recount. The 6th Circuit upheld Goldsmith’s ruling in an order issued late Tuesday.
Trump and Schuette each filed separate lawsuits Friday to block the Michigan presidential recount that began Monday and was requested by Stein, who finished fourth in the Nov. 8 presidential election with just over 1% of the vote. Official results show Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes.
Bursch and Gordon argued the Board of State Canvassers never should have allowed the recount to proceed, because Stein is not an “aggrieved” candidate under state law, having no chance of winning the election after a recount.
The state appeals court agreed.
O’Connell compared Stein to a baseball team that lost 99-0 and complained to the umpire that one run should not have counted.
“What my client has done is go to bat for voters,” Brewer replied.
Michigan judges run on a nonpartisan ballot, but the panel has Republican leanings. O’Connell, the presiding judge, was elected to the Michigan Court of Appeals in 1994 and has roots in the Republican Party. Judge Jane Markey was also elected in 1994 and has sought the Republican nomination to the Michigan Supreme Court. Murray was appointed to the court in 2002 by former Republican Gov. John Engler and is a former Engler deputy legal counsel.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/06/trump-schuette-michigan-recount-election/95048550/
Thank goodness we’ll get to appoint judges with common sense. Not just the Supremes, we need a solid Fed Circuit Court bench.
That we do, we also need a Constitutional Amendment making it a crime to rule in anyway that doesn’t reflect the original intent of the law and or Constitution. This will quickly remove the activist Judges and put them in the pen where they belong.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2324367/muslims-were-forced-out-of-a-christmas-market-after-setting-up-an-islamic-information-booth/
Vanessa Redgrave’s directing debut with migration film
Actress Vanessa Redgrave has directed her first film, Sea Sorrow, which shows the desperate reality of the migration crisis in Europe.
Farage warns Trump: Don’t let America become like Brussels