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Mystery as NATO Auditor General is found shot dead in suspicious circumstances (express, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/747259/NATO-Auditor-General-is-found-shot-dead-in-suspicious-circumstances
“POLICE in Belgium are probing the death of a high ranking NATO official after his body was discovered in his car with a gunshot wound to the head.
According to reports, Yves Chandelon, the 62-year-old auditor general of NATO was found miles away from both his home and office.
His body was found in the Belgian town of Andenne, 62 miles away from his home in Lens on December 16.
According to local newspaper reports Mr Chandelon was the registered keeper of three weapons however the gun found at the scene did not belong to him, it has been claimed.
And more bizarrely it has been reported locally that the gun which killed him was found in the glovebox of the vehicle.
Local news reports say Mr Chandelon’s family are concerned about the circumstances of the case.
They say initial suggestions that it was a possible suicide are incorrect.
And it has been reported that the former director of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Luxembourg had complained of getting strange telephone calls before he died and “felt threatened”…”
He was quite a man, you don’t often find people who are capable of shooting themselves in the head and then putting the pistol in the glove box.
Turkish army says Islamic State attack in Syria’s al-Bab killed 30 civilians (reuters, Dec 26, 2016)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-idUKKBN14F0BW?rpc=401&
“At least 30 civilians were killed and many others were wounded on Sunday after Islamic State launched an attack in the Syrian town of al-Bab to prevent people from fleeing, the Turkish military said in a statement on Monday.
Syrian rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to the Islamic State-held town for weeks under the “Euphrates Shield” operation launched by Turkey nearly four months ago to sweep the Sunni hardliners and Kurdish fighters from its Syrian border.”
Indonesia: Local militants supporting IS planned New Years Eve attack – police (asiancorrespondent, Dec 26, 2016)
https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/12/indonesia-militant-new-years-eve-attack/
“INDONESIAN militants supporting Islamic State planned to attack a police post on New Year’s eve with machetes and knives, a police spokesman said on Monday.
The plot was broken up after police arrested two of the would-be attackers who led them to their hideout, where police shot dead their two co-conspirators on Sunday after police said they tried to attack officers with machetes.
“The four of them were planning to attack a police post in Purwakarta. They planned to attack New Year’s Eve,” Rikwanto, a national police spokesman, told reporters, referring to a district about 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, Jakarta…”
VIDEO: Germany Security Killed Anis Amri for Cover UP: Nephew SAYS (alalam, Dec 26, 2016)
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1902690
“A nephew of the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack told the Associated Press prior to his own arrest on Friday that more investigation was needed over who could have aided Anis Amri in the assault. Fedi Ferjani, Amri’s 18-year-old nephew, spoke to the AP in Amri’s hometown of Oueslatia….”
Just a little Muhammadan conspiracy theory. That dude is a really weak pretender…
He thinks the Moslems will believe him and doesn’t care what the rest of us think.
Trump to inherit more than 100 court vacancies, plans to reshape judiciary
Donald Trump is set to inherit an uncommon number of vacancies in the federal courts in addition to the open Supreme Court seat, giving the president-elect a monumental opportunity to reshape the judiciary after taking office.
The estimated 103 judicial vacancies that President Obama is expected to hand over to Trump in the Jan. 20 transition of power is nearly double the 54 openings Obama found eight years ago following George W. Bush’s presidency.
Confirmation of Obama’s judicial nominees slowed to a crawl after Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015. Obama White House officials blame Senate Republicans for what they characterize as an unprecedented level of obstruction in blocking the Democratic president’s court picks.
The result is a multitude of openings throughout the federal circuit and district courts that will allow the new Republican president to quickly make a wide array of lifetime appointments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-inherit-more-than-100-court-vacancies-plans-to-reshape-judiciary/2016/12/25/d190dd18-c928-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html?utm_term=.1a1aede7e14e
Richard: PET has promised to nominate strict constructionists to the bench, this will mean that fewer Federal Judges will be writing and rewriting laws illegally. The left is freaking because when the Republicans started resisting the nomination of ideologues to rewrite the US laws and Constitution from the bench they used the nuclear option and removed the Filibuster. Now this is turning around and biting them because they can’t block the conservative nominees and sanity will be returning to the Judiciary.
Talk about answered prayers!
It is quite a gift isn’t it.
“It is quite a gift isn’t it.”
The real gift is that Leftist termite, Hillary, won’t be making these appointments.
Obama Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” Into Law
ecall that as we reported in early June, “a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress. As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.”
Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. “These countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of America, the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.
“Surprisingly,” Portman continued, “there is currently no single U.S. governmental agency or department charged with the national level development, integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.”
Long before the “fake news” meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to “establish a Center for Information Analysis and Response,” which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true dystopic manner — ‘develop and disseminate’ “fact-based narratives” to counter effrontery propaganda.
In short, long before “fake news” became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label “fake news.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-24/obama-signs-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act-law
Berlin plans ‘center of defense against fake news’ ahead of elections – report
The German government is seeking to create a center of defense against disinformation ahead of next year’s elections, in the wake of ongoing “fake news” and “Russian hackers” hysteria generated during the election cycle in the United States.
The Federal Press Office in the Chancellery, which has a staff of over 500 professionals, will take the leading role in establishing the fake news defense center, Der Spiegel reported quoting a note from an anonymous Interior Ministry staff member.
https://www.rt.com/news/371552-germany-fake-news-defense-center/
All on board the CVE choo-choo train!
All on board the CVE choo-choo train!
India Tests Long-Range, Ballistic Nuclear-Capable Missile
by Bibhudatta Pradhan
December 26, 2016, 2:25 AM CST December 26, 2016, 6:20 AM CST
Surface-to-surface missile has a range of more than 5,000 kms
Agni-V is capable of reaching northern part of China
India successfully test-fired its longest range nuclear-capable missile, confirming its status in the select group of nations with weapons that can travel from one continent to another.
Agni-V, with a range of more than 5,000 kilometers (3,107 miles), completed its final firing test at the Defence Research and Development Organization’s range on Dr. Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of the eastern state of Odisha on Monday.
“This was the fourth test of Agni-5 missile and the second one from a canister on a Road Mobile Launcher,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. “All the four missions have been successful.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-26/india-tests-intercontinental-nuclear-capable-ballistic-missile
Welcome to the world Obama has created, India is worried about what China is planning and is notifying them that if push comes to shove there are nuclear weapons and ICBMs on both sides of the fight. This is also the reason that India has been building up their Navy, They know the US is weak and that it will take at least one year for us to rebuild our military and if the Dems fight the rebuilding (as they normally do) it will take longer. This gives China a one year (or possibly longer) window of opportunity to seize land and fortify the artificial islands they have built.
The situation in the far east is very dangerous because the unilateral disarmament of the US left a powr vacuum in that region that has caused Japan to rearm and to change their Constitution to allow them to project power beyond their Islands. It has caused the nations that China is threatening to bad together into a loose alliance to resist China and has caused the nations in that region that don’t have nuclear weapons bur are capable of building them and the associated launch systems (Japan and South Korea) to at least think about building their own nuclear deterrent.
Australia has the capabilities of building nukes but I don’t know if they are thinking about doing so, I do know that they are in China’s mind because that is where China gets a lot of their food and they many want to have that resource grown in their own lands.
Chinese carrier enters South China Sea amid renewed tension
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island’s Defense Ministry said of what China has termed a routine exercise.
The move comes amid renewed tension over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, ineligible for state-to-state relations, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with the island’s president that upset Beijing.
The Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier has taken part in previous exercises, including some in the South China Sea, but China is years away from perfecting carrier operations similar to those the United States has practiced for decades.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the carrier, accompanied by five vessels, passed southeast of the Pratas Islands, which are controlled by Taiwan, heading southwest.
The carrier group earlier passed 90 nautical miles south of Taiwan’s southernmost point via the Bashi Channel, between Taiwan and the Philippines.
“Staying vigilant and flexible has always been the normal method of maintaining airspace security,” said ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi, declining to say whether Taiwan fighter jets were scrambled or if submarines had been deployed.
http://www.oann.com/taiwan-says-chinese-aircraft-carrier-passes-south-of-island/
“Australia has the capabilities of building nukes but I don’t know if they are thinking about doing so, I do know that they are in China’s mind because that is where China gets a lot of their food and they many want to have that resource grown in their own lands.”
Access to clean water (i.e., food security) will drive the majority of this century’s large and medium-scale conflicts. Only Islam and Chinese belligerence stand a chance to compete at this level.
Richard: Those who live by Identity politics die by Identity politics. Those who live by victimhood die by victimhood. The coalition of victims is falling apart as each group tries to throw the others under the bus.
Good news: The victimist coalition may devour itself before it does the rest of us
By Benny Huang December 26, 2016
The University of California’s “Students of Color Conference” ended in disarray earlier this month with various racial, ethnic, and religious groups vying for the “Biggest Victim” prize. Though it was intended to foster thoughtful discussion about issues that affect minorities, the conference devolved into a “safe space gone wrong,” according to The Daily Bruin’s Jacqueline Alvarez.
Rather than hating white people, the various groups turned on each other. “[T]he conference eventually turned into a kind of ‘oppression Olympics,’ where students argued over which minority group was oppressed the most rather than finding solidarity and understanding amongst each other,” wrote Alvarez.
One point of contention was the conference’s theme: “Fighting anti-Blackness.” The whole conference was geared toward America’s premiere victim group, blacks, which displeased some members of other demographics. When one student asked why other groups’ issues weren’t being discussed, a black student replied that blacks were the most oppressed, which elicited a negative response from a Muslim student who said that her people were being bombed in the Middle East.
I don’t know about you but I find this whole story very entertaining. It’s a nice change to see the victimhood pathology eating away at the grand coalition of the oppressed rather than at our nation as a whole.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/12/26/good-news-victimist-coalition-may-devour-rest-us/
“Rather than hating white people, the various groups turned on each other.”
Popcorn! Getcher hot buttered popcorn, right here! Only ten cents a bag!
Fecking priceless.
PS: Combine “Biggest Victim” prize with “oppression Olympics” and you get the real keeper:
The “Victim Olympics”. Expect this to be a medalist event at Tokyo in 2020.
Obama administration awarding taxpayer-funded business grants to deported immigrants
By Kenric Ward December 26, 2016
The federal government under Barack Obama wants illegal immigrants to know that the U.S. has their backs, both on their way into the country and out.
The administration is using a taxpayer-funded program to award business grants to Salvadoran migrants deported from the United States.
Run by the nonprofit Instituto Salvadorno Del Migrante and funded through a $50,000 grant from the taxpayer-backed Inter-American Foundation, the program “facilitates [deportees’] reintegration into their communities and supports their enterprises by offering financial education, technical advice and assistance with business plans.”
“So, if you break the rules and get deported, we’ll help you start a business back in your home country. How absurd,” said Sen. Rand Paul ?
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/12/26/obama-administration-awarding-taxpayer-funded-business-grants-deported-immigrants/
were can i buy an mohamed, larry, curly t-shirt? thank you.
I think I only have large and XL left. Use thew idget for the cross of matamoros, and leave $30.00 (Including shipping) and in the note please specify its for that T shirt and I will get it out to you at the end of this week.
Germany: Hundreds begin 3000 km march to Aleppo in effort to raise awareness
Hundreds of people gathered in Berlin on Monday morning to begin a 3000 km (1864 miles) march which will follow the reverse refugee route – intended symbolically – to the city of Aleppo in Syria.
Civil March for Aleppo Zu Fuß von Berlin nach Syrien
Berlin – Manchmal beantworten Kinder komplexe Fragen am besten. Als die siebenjährige Hanna kürzlich gefragt wurde, warum ihre Mutter plant, zu Fuß nach Syrien zu laufen, lautete die Antwort schlicht: “Weil sie es will. Und weil sie es kann.” Ein Fußmarsch. Durch neun Länder. Über 3000 Kilometer. Mindestens drei Monate lang. Bei Minusgraden. Bis nach Syrien, mitten hinein in einen Krieg. Wer Anna Alboth, so heißt die Mutter von Hanna, gegenüber sitzt, spürt: Diese Frau wird das wirklich versuchen. Ist sie von allen guten Geistern verlassen?
“Jetzt tief einatmen. Lesen. Und denken.” Das ist der erste Satz auf der Facebook-Seite des “Civil March for Aleppo”. Gleiches gilt für ein Gespräch mit Anna Alboth: Es erfordert, alle Einteilungen in möglich und unmöglich auf Null zurückzusetzen. Zu denken wie ein Kind, das noch nicht gelernt hat, dass ein Geldschein mehr als ein Stück Papier ist. “Ich habe viel über diese angebliche Machtlosigkeit nachgedacht. Menschen sagen, dass man nichts tun könne. Aber ich hatte schon immer das Bedürfnis, das gegenzuchecken.” Anna Alboth lacht.
Rund 3000 Menschen zum Start erwartet
Die 32-Jährige lehnt sich über den Tisch nach vorn, wenn sie spricht. Ihre Augen sind zwar etwas unterlaufen, aber hellwach. Sie sitzt in einem Café am Platz an der Luftbrücke. Gegenüber liegt der ehemalige Tempelhofer Flughafen, in dem aktuell noch rund tausend Flüchtlinge leben. Alboth war schon öfter hier. Sie engagiert sich in der Flüchtlingshilfe, organisierte im vergangenen Jahr Picknicks für geflüchtete Frauen und sammelte in einer Großaktion 3000 Schlafsäcke. Auf dem Flugfeld vor den Hangars soll der “Civil March for Aleppo” am 26. Dezember beginnen.
“Mit ungefähr 3000 Leuten rechne ich beim Start”, sagt Alboth auf Englisch. Obwohl sie schon vor neun Jahren nach Berlin kam, spreche sie immer noch etwas holprig Deutsch, sagt die Polin entschuldigend. Sie bekomme unendlich viele Emails mit Anfragen, auf Facebook sagten bereits rund 2000 Leute zu. Die Route ist die vieler Flüchtlinge, nur rückwärts: Von Deutschland über Tschechien, Österreich, Slowenien, Kroatien, Serbien, Mazedonien, Griechenland und die Türkei bis nach Syrien.
Etwa sechs Stunden will die Gruppe pro Tag gehen. Trucks transportieren Gepäck und Verpflegung, geschlafen wird in Schulen, Kirchen, bei Unterstützern oder im Zelt. Binnen kürzester Zeit organisierte Alboth ein Helferteam in ganz Europa.
130 Personen kontaktieren Hilfsorganisationen in allen Ländern, machen die Aktion bekannt, initiieren eine Crowdfunding-Kampagne, holen rechtliche Einschätzungen von Richtern ein, planen die Route und sprechen mit der Polizei. Die soll die Wanderung dauerhaft eskortieren, wie bei Demonstrationen üblich. Auch Ärzte werden mitlaufen. “Unterwegs sollen sich jederzeit Leute anschließen, egal ob für einen Monat, eine Woche oder einen Tag.”
Anna Alboth hofft, dass so ein Protestmarsch aus tausenden Menschen entsteht. Vielleicht aus zehntausenden. Prominente, deren Namen sie noch nicht verrät, unterstützen die Aktion, teils wollen sie sogar selbst mitlaufen. Allein aus Polen haben sich ganze Gruppen mit hunderten Teilnehmern angekündigt.
“Das wird kein schöner Gemeinschaftstrip für junge Europäer”
In ihrem Heimatland ist Anna Alboth keine Unbekannte. Mehrere Jahre arbeitete sie in Warschau als Journalistin für eine renommierte polnische Tageszeitung. Seit sie zu zu ihrem heutigen Mann nach Berlin zog, betreibt sie ein Familien-Reiseblog. “Das war wieder sowas: Du kannst doch nicht mit zwei kleinen Kindern in Entwicklungsländer reisen, sagte jemand.”
Mittlerweile hat Tochter Hanna in ihren sieben Lebensjahren 38 Länder gesehen, vom Kaukasus über Honduras und Madagaskar bis zur Südsee. In Pankow, wo die Familie wohnt, waren Hanna und ihre fünfjährige Schwester Mila wohl die wenigste Zeit. Reisemagazine haben das Blog ausgezeichnet, Anna Alboth verdient inzwischen Geld damit.
Dennoch: Syrien ist mehr als ein weiteres Entwicklungsland für ihren Blog. “Das wird auch kein schöner Gemeinschaftstrip für junge Europäer. Wir gehen jetzt, im Winter, das ist hart. Aber das Sterben und das Leid – das passiert eben jetzt.” Die Idee sei entstanden, als sie vor ein paar Wochen abends im Fernsehen mal wieder die Bilder aus Aleppo sah, von Blut, Trümmern und schreienden Kindern.
http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/civil-march-for-aleppo-zu-fuss-von-berlin-nach-syrien–25293390
Wie Anna Alboth die Entscheidung traf, loszuziehen
“Da brach etwas in mir zusammen”, sagt Alboth. Sie weinte. “Das hätten ja meine Kinder sein können, in dieser besetzten Stadt, in einem Keller sitzend und ohne Zugang zu Essen und Medikamenten. Ich habe nur Glück, auf dieser Seite der Welt geboren zu sein.” Sie setzte einen Facebook-Post ab: “Ich ertrage das nicht mehr. Was, wenn ich dort hingehe? Was, wenn wir alle gehen?”
Innerhalb eines Tages erntete sie so viel Zuspruch, dass die Idee sie nicht mehr losließ. “Das Ziel des Marsches ist simpel: Wir wollen, dass die Zivilisten in den durch die Gefechte abgeschnittenen Gebieten humanitäre Hilfe bekommen”, erklärt Alboth. Die Stadt Aleppo sei dabei eher als Symbol zu sehen. “Die Lage in Aleppo ändert sich täglich.”
Die Nachtrichten der vergangenen Tage, die erbitterten Gefechte, der scheinbar finale Sieg der syrischen Armee über die Rebellen, die Waffenruhe, die nach wenigen Stunden scheiterte, der brüchige Evakuierungsplan – all das besteht für Alboth mittlerweile aus Fleisch und Blut.
Über Facebook und ihre geflüchteten Freunde in Berlin wissen Menschen in Aleppo vom Protestmarsch. “Es sind nicht mehr bloß Fernsehaufnahmen. Es sind Bekannte, die mir wochenlang fast stündlich schrieben und seit zwei Tagen schweigen.” Niemand wisse, wie es in ein paar Monaten in Aleppo aussieht. “Die Stadt steht deshalb für alle besetzten Gebiete in Syrien, wo es einen Korridor zu schlagen gilt.”
“Die Welt wird hingucken”
Dass die Gruppe tatsächlich eine Hilfsschneise in ein Kriegsgebiet pflügen kann, dass sie also selbst in Aleppo irgendwann Wasserflaschen verteilt, glaubt Anna Alboth eigentlich nicht. “Aber was passiert, wenn da 5000, 10.000 oder 20.000 Europäer an der Grenze zu Syrien stehen? Oder was, wenn die Türkei zehntausende Menschen mit weißen Fahnen nicht ins Land lässt? Die Welt wird hingucken und es sehen.”
Sie und das Team wollen Druck aufbauen. Wollen als normale Leute, als Bürger, ohne Organisationen oder viel Geld im Rücken, Politiker zur Suche nach einer Lösung drängen. Weil sie viele sind.
ie selbst kenne den Schlüssel für Frieden in Syrien nicht, sagt Anna Alboth. “Ich kann auch keine Seite in dem Konflikt wählen. Mir geht es um Menschlichkeit: Ein toter Zivilist ist ein toter Zivilist, egal, wo er politisch steht.” Sie weigere sich hinzunehmen, dass die Welt in Entscheider und Nicht-Entscheider geteilt sei. “Wenn ich eine winzige Chance sehe, Aufmerksamkeit nach Syrien zu lenken – dann mache ich es, anstatt untätig zuzuschauen.”
“Besser mit Hoffnung sterben als ohne”
Sie habe das so gelernt. Ihre Mutter habe nie reisen oder etwas bewegen können, weil sie sich um Alboths im Rollstuhl sitzenden Bruder kümmerte. “Aber ich habe dieses Privileg: Ich kann.” Ihr Mann halte ihr den Rücken frei, er besitzt eine Webdesign-Agentur, die die Familie ernährt. Die erste Woche der Reise, auf dem Weg nach Dresden, sind Kinder und Mann dabei. Danach muss Hanna zurück in die Schule.
Anna Alboth weiß nicht, wo ihr Protestmarsch enden wird. Auch nicht, ob es irgendwann zu gefährlich wird. Ob eine Regierung ihnen Steine in den Weg legt oder ob ihre Mitstreiter nach einer Woche im Zelt vor dem Frost kapitulieren. Sie habe lange darüber nachgedacht, was für sie Erfolg heißt.
“Vielleicht schon die alte Dame aus Italien, die mir schrieb, sie schaffe es körperlich nicht mehr, mitzuwandern, sei aber inspiriert worden und veranstalte nun ein Weihnachtsessen für Flüchtlinge. Oder der Mann aus Aleppo, der mir schrieb, er werde wohl sterben, aber das Projekt gebe ihm Hoffnung – und besser mit Hoffnung sterben als ohne.”
Es sei viel Energie entstanden, allein während der Planung. “Wir sind eine große Gruppe, das gibt mir Mut. In großen Gruppen ist immer Kraft.”
http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/civil-march-for-aleppo-zu-fuss-von-berlin-nach-syrien–25293390-seite2
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If they make it to Aleppo the average intelligence of the Human Race will go up.
“If they make it to Aleppo the average intelligence of the Human Race will go up.”
In BOTH locations.
euronews -In the footsteps of refugees: Berlin-Aleppo peace march begins
MEMRI TV -Saudi Writer Calls for Reexamination of Islamic Concepts: Understanding of Jihad Is Stagnant
This man will be silenced. The ghost of a chance for an “Islamic Reformation”.
“The ghost of a chance for an “Islamic Reformation”.”
There’s good news and bad news: The good news is that, over the past several decades, Islam has reformed.
The bad news is that this reformation has made Islam moreintolerant, more violent, more misogynistic, more puritanical, more xenophobic, more radical and—if it is even possible,—more incompatible and immiscible with Western civilization.
It’s true. There’s that tendency in Tardism historically.
Every couple hundred years in Spain, there’d be a bracing wave of “unspoiled” Berbers or such, just raring to clean up the decadent [civilized] old order of Moorish princelings.
MEMRI TV – Saudi Cleric: Muslims are forbidden to say “Merry Christmas”
Saudi cleric Khaled Al-Felaij said that the holidays celebrated by “the infidel Jews and Christians” were “based upon Falsehood, heresy, and polytheism” and that it was haram for Muslims to celebrate them, to greet those who celebrate them, or to give or accept presents from them. His statements were posted on the Internet on November 13.
Egyptian Host: Celebrates Assassination of “Crusader Pig” Russian Ambassador
and Calls for Assassination of Russian, U.S., and Other Ambassadors in All Islamic Countries…
Muhammad Saber, a TV host for the Cairo-based Saudi Islamist TV channel Safa TV, rejoiced upon hearing of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
Saber aired the video of the assassination and thanked the assassin “for causing that pig of an ambassador to die like an animal.”
He expressed the hope that all Arab countries would “assassinate the orthodox pig Crusader ambassador,” and that the ambassadors of the 5+1 – Russia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, plus the United States – would be assassinated in all the Islamic countries, since these countries are unwilling to expel them.
The comments were made on the night of December 19, following the assassination of the Russian ambassador.
Richard: He has been saying this for most of this year.
Putin: Russia must strengthen its nuclear arms
Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week that his nation must guarantee its nuclear arsenal is capable of handling any global threats.
Putin’s call to action comes the same day President-elect Donald Trumpalso urged America to boost its nuclear weapons stockpile.
“We need to strengthen the strategic nuclear forces,” Putin said at a Russian Defense Ministry board meeting in Moscow Thursday, according to Tass.
Putin also praised Russia’s nuclear triad, which is a nation’s nuclear weapons delivery system including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), strategic bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
“The state of the nuclear triad that plays a key role in keeping strategic parity was maintained at the proper level,” he said.
Putin said 60 percent of Russia’s nuclear armaments are modernized, and also urged the country not to neglect its non-nuclear military capabilities.
http://conservativeforce.com/2016/12/putin-russia-must-strengthen-its-nuclear-arms/
Scientists plan to send greetings to other worlds
After decades of fruitless scanning the skies for alien messages, scientists say it’s time to try a basic rule of etiquette: Say “hello” first.
A new San Francisco-based organization called METI, or Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, plans to send signals to distant planets, rather than waiting for them to call Earth.
By the end of 2018, the project aims to send some conversation-starters via radio or laser signals to a rocky planet circling Proxima Centauri, the nearest star other than the sun, and then to more distant destinations, hundreds or thousands of light years away.
It would be the first effort to send powerful, repeated and intentional messages into space, targeting the same stars over months or years.
“If we want to start an exchange over the course of many generations, we want to learn and share information,” said Douglas Vakoch, president of METI and former director of Interstellar Message Composition at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in Mountain View, Calif.,, known as SETI.
Founded last year, METI will host two workshops next year, one in Paris and the other in St. Louis. It also plans to start raising the $1 million needed annually to staff and build or borrow a powerful transmitter in a remote location.
Part of the mission will be to figure out how to craft the perfect message to say “Hello.”
Like much else in science, the project has turned controversial. Some ask: If aliens are hostile, do we really want them to know where we are?
We shouldn’t draw attention to ourselves, say science fiction writer David Brin and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
“We have almost zero idea of whether aliens are likely to be dangerous,” physicist Mark Buchanan wrote in journal Nature Physics.
Other experts say it’s worth waiting until we’re better conversationalists – and, then, use use well-established groups with international consultation.
“Babbling babies are not always appreciated during adult conversation,” said Andrew Fraknoi, chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. “Listening and learning is how children become adults, and why not try that for a while?”
Others endorse the effort. “I’d be happy to see this done,” said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute. “I think there’s something to be learned, nothing to be feared, and at least the possibility of discovering something truly revolutionary: We have company nearby.”
“By reflecting on how we can communicate what it means to be human to someone who is not human, we view ourselves differently,” said METI treasurer Dalia Rawson, a former dancer with Ballet San Jose and now managing director of the Silicon Valley Ballet. “By looking at our bodies, our movements, and our dance through the eyes of an alien, we gain a renewed appreciation of what it means to be uniquely human.”
There have been plenty of other efforts to connect with aliens, but they’ve come in fits and starts. There are no regulations for sending signals into space.
In the early 1970s, NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft carried a message in the form of a gold plaque, then a phonograph record (stylus included). SETI’s Frank Drake beamed a radio message that could be assembled into a pictogram of images. More recently, we’ve sent arithmetic, concerts of Vivaldi and Gershwin, and the Beatles song “Across the Universe.”
SETI and the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project at the University of California, Berkeley, funded by internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner, scans space in hope of finding some signature of alien technology.
“If everyone who can send a message decides only to receive messages, it will be a very quiet galaxy,” Fraknoi said.
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-scientists-worlds.html
Shocking PROOF liberals are extremely intolerant
In the days since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the self-proclaimed “tolerant” left has proven they are only tolerant when it fulfills their political agenda.
Liberals claim to be very open-minded — but a shocking new scientific study has proven the opposite. Turns out, the left is only tolerant to opinions that align with theirs — and are unwilling to listen to anyone else.
A poll by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute revealed 24 percent of Democrats will silence people on social media because of their political postings, compared to just nine percent of both Republicans and independents who did the same, The Hill reported.
And it’s goes even further than their friends.
The same poll revealed 10 percent of Democrats said they would actually avoid certain members of their own family based on their political affiliation, compared to just two percent of Republicans that would shun their own blood relatives.
The self-proclaimed tolerant and accepting left is quickly losing credibility as we see how they react to not getting their way for the first time in eight years.
Just look at how they’re reacting to celebrities.
https://thehornnews.com/shocking-proof-liberals-extremely-intolerant/
No finer example of the Left’s supremely hypocritical “selective tolerance” can be found than the suicidal way that Liberals heartily embrace Islam despite the fact that Muslims would like nothing better than to murder every last pro-feminist, gay-loving, anti-religious, sexually liberated, gun hating one of them.
Christmas Under Radical Islam Around the World
As Islamist terrorists strike around the globe, Christians are keeping the faith, marking Christmas in their traditional way.
https://www.clarionproject.org/news/christmas-under-radical-islam-around-world
This thing actually made it out of the station without any accompanying “festivities”?
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Now, would someone please explain to me why all the automatic weapons?
Phoenix Man Arrested for Plotting Attack on Midnight Mass
Since 2014, he was been an “avowed jihadist,” posting on his Google+ account in October, “We need to get down with this ISIS S***.”
An Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporter was arrested in Phoenix last week for plotting a jihadi attack, very likely on a midnight mass.
Derrick Thompson, who goes by the name of Abu Talib Am-Amriki, tried to buy a gun to carry out attacks as early as January 2015, however, since he was a convicted felon, he was prohibited from purchasing a firearm.
Thompson was released in 2013 from prison after being convicted of committing two armed robberies in 2005. Thompson was armed with a handgun and an SKS rifle with a bayonet when he and two other men committed the robberies over a two-day period.
Since 2014, he was been an “avowed jihadist,” posting on his Google+ account in October, “We need to get down with this ISIS S***.”
During the same month, Thompson used Google to search for key words including “midnight mass,” “martyrdom vs. suicide” and “most powerful weapons.”
Thompson’s arrest follows the conviction of 18-year-old Mahim Khan, also of Arizona, who was sentenced to eight-and-a half years in prison for planning to attack a motor vehicle office in Phoenix, as well as a possible attack on a Jewish community center. Kahn pleaded guilty to charges of terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons.
https://www.clarionproject.org/news/phoenix-man-arrested-plotting-attack-midnight-mass
The only remaining question is whether Derrick Thompson was already Islamicized before entering prison. If not, who was he in contact with during his incarceration and why isn’t that jihadist recruiter sitting in solitary confinement?
Muzzling Critics of Islamism: France in the 21st Century
The latest case against Georges Bensoussan, an expert on European cultural history, tries to stifle the discussion about Islamic anti-Semitism.
The Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) was set up in November 2003 by Samy Debah, a former preacher of Tablighi Jaamat, the global Sunni Islamic revivalist movement, after the French parliament banned the hijab in schools.
The association claims to be non-denominational and dedicated to combating “all actions or words directed at an individual linked in a real or supposed manner to Islam.”
Although it denies being associated with any political, religious or ideological groups, spokesman Marwan Muhammad has shared platforms with radical Islamists such as Imam Hassen Bounamcha and Salafist preachers Nader Abou Anas and Rachid Abou Houdeyfa.
Campaigning under the slogan “Islamophobia is not an opinion, it’s a crime,” the group’s principal mission is to file criminal lawsuits against “Islamophobes” and they regularly sue journalists who write on the subject of political Islam.
They secured a conviction against secular website Riposte Laïque and recently filed a complaint against Laurence Rossignol, minister for the family, children and women’s rights for criticizing Muslim women who wear the burka.
In October 2015, Ivan Rioufol, senior journalist at the Figaro newspaper, was acquitted by the Paris Criminal Court in a defamation case brought by the CCIF.
https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muzzling-critics-islamism-france-21st-century
Netanyahu spokesman: We have ‘ironclad’ info. that Obama ‘helped craft’ anti-Israel resolution
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Netanyahu’s government has “ironclad” information tying President Barack Obama directly to the anti-Israel resolution passed last week by the United Nations Security Council.
David Keyes, Netanyahu’s spokesman, said on CNN Sunday that top Israeli officials have evidence that Obama not only pushed the deal to pass, but he helped “craft” it.
“Well, we have ironclad information, frankly, that the Obama administration really helped push this resolution and helped craft it, from sources internationally and from sources in the Arab world, and it’s really an unfortunate legacy, kind of last minute jab at Israel that actually distances peace,” Keyes said.
“We have full confidence that the information is accurate,” he added of the accuracy of the information. “This resolution is shameful and actually pushes peace farther away.”
Keyes doubled down on his comments during a second interview with Fox News, where he explained that an “abandonment” of Israel by the Obama administration is currently playing out for the world to see.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/25/netanyahu-spokesman-we-have-ironclad-info-that-obama-helped-craft-anti-israel-resolution/
The Suicide of Germany
by Guy Millière
December 26, 2016 at 6:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9645/germany-suicide
The attack in Berlin on December 19, 2016 was predictable. German Chancellor Angela Merkel created the conditions that made it possible. She bears an overwhelming responsibility. Geert Wilders, a member of Parliament in the Netherlands and one of Europe’s only clear-sighted political leaders, accused her of having blood on her hands. He is right.
When she decided to open the doors of Germany to hundreds of thousands of Muslims from the Middle East and more distant countries, she must have known that jihadists were hidden among the people flooding in. She also must have known that the German police had no way of controlling the mass that entered and would be quickly overwhelmed by the number of people it would have to control. She did it anyway.
When hundreds of rapes and sexual assaults took place in Cologne and other cities in Germany on last year’s New Year’s Eve, she said that the perpetrators should be punished “regardless of their origin”, but she did not change her policy. When attacks took place in Hanover, Essen, Wurzburg, and Munich, she delayed comments, then pronounced sanitized sentences on the “need” to fight crime and terror. But she still did not change policy.
She only changed her position recently, it seems because she wants to be a candidate again in 2017, and saw her popularity declining.
The comments she made immediately after the December 19 attacks were mind-numbing. She said that “if the perpetrator is a refugee”, it will be “very difficult to bear” and it will be “particularly repugnant for all Germans who help refugees on a daily basis.”
the gateway pundit – Media’s Hero 7 Year-Old Girl from Aleppo Is Pictured with ISIS Killer
The New York Times even headlined the little girl with Turkey’s President, stating “Erdogan Embraces Bana al-Abed, Who Brought Child’s View of Aleppo to Twitter”.
Bana al-Abed was allegedly tweeting very grownup insights about the horrors of war from Syria.
Here she is arriving safely in the countryside after fleeing Aleppo.
.@AlabedBana and many children arrived to #Aleppo countryside. @sams_usa @UOSSM and partners arr coordinating the response plan there.
pic.twitter.com/k3iAohYbFY
— Ahmad Tarakji, MD (@tarakjiahmad) December 19, 2016
What Western media is not telling you is that the girl, who is only 7, but somehow knows how to tweet, was evacuated from Aleppo by ISIS killers.
The man in the tweet above, who is responsible for Bana’s evacuation from Aleppo is the same man who appeared in a video from July with a group of men who cut off the head of a 12 year old boy.
A picture of the man in the back of a truck shortly before the 12 year old boy is beheaded is the same man noted the tweet above with Bana.
The media is trying to tell us that the ISIS killers are somehow more civil than the Syrian fighters supporting Assad. This is not the case.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/hero-7-year-old-girl-from-aleppo-pictured-with-isis-killer/
BBC – Seven-year-old Bana Alabed tells the BBC’s Orla Guerin about the night a house she was playing in was bombed.
I’m confused, it was confirmed that he was a “moderate” Syrian rebel (Obama himself took a hit for the US sponsoring them) and had nothing to do with ISIS…
So why is TheGatewayPundit linking her to ISIS? She is linked to a terrorist group, just not ISIS.
Does Islamic State Engage in Organ Trading out of Turkey?
by Kasim Cindemir?
December 26, 2016 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9646/turkey-organ-trading-isis
Charges that Islamic State (IS) engages in organ trading — taking body parts from their victims in Iraq and Syria and selling them to traffickers in Turkey — have surfaced again.
The Iranian news network Alalam reported on October 6 that IS has set up a market in Turkey where it sells human organs stolen from innocent people. Alalam also posted a photograph of a person whose organ was taken.
The Iraqi News also reported that IS has kidnapped and sold many children in Syria to Turkish organ traffickers in order to finance its operations.
Turkey’s government-funded news service, Anadolu Agency, reported months ago that ISIS opened a “medical school” in Northern Syria.
Wayne Madsen, an American investigative reporter and a former intelligence analyst at the US National Security Agency (NSA), told Gatestone that IS has been, and is, involved in organ trading. “The Uyghur battalions of ISIS are?heavily engaged in this. They are also known to be involved in organ harvesting in China.”
“We have no reason to doubt them given similar atrocities that have been documented and other heinous crimes for which ISIL has taken credit,” U.S. State Department said in response to charges of IS’s organ harvesting. In December, the U.S. government revealed that it had obtained an ISIS document during a raid by Special Forces in Syria. “The apostate’s life and organs do not have to be respected and may be taken with impunity,” the document said.
Anne Speckhard wrote that ISIS?is involved in organ smuggling and earns profits from it. “Former prisoner Abo Rida stated that surgeons for IS terror group removed kidneys and corneas from prisoners. He said that they were told that jihadists were more deserving of organs,” she added.
Richard: The problem here is I can believe the charges are true but I can also believe that Iran is lying about this! We need info from a different source that is more trustworthy, but at the same time we have to act as if the charges are true.
Having read the rest of the article there is a lot of evidence that ISIS is indeed selling the body parts of their victims. This should be all over the alt media and the Propaganda Media, it isn’t to our eternal shame.
This goes straight into the realm of Fake News.
Harvesting organs requires surgical extraction (and transplantation) conditions—plus sufficiently consistent “positive patient outcomes”—to where this becomes a viable process.
While I cannot doubt that Iranian terrorists have no compunction about slaughtering innocent victims for their organs, it’s difficult to imagine that Iran has reached anywhere near the level of medical proficiency whereby they might attract such a degree of “surgical tourism”.
None of this should dismiss the chance of Iranians being so inhumane. Just not them being very capable at doing such complex tasks in a competent manner.
Disgusting attack by gang who set homeless man on fire in Berlin (express, video, photo (of the suspects, not the victim), Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/747430/berlin-homeless-man-set-fire-gang-metro-train-station-christmas-attack
“A HOMELESS man was set on fire as he slept on Christmas Day at an underground station.
Police have launched an investigation after the homeless man was saved by a quick-thinking train driver.
The 37-year-old was sleeping at Schönleinstraße underground station when he was allegedly set alight by a gang of youths.
Police praised eyewitnesses for saving the man’s life after a train driver used a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze which destroyed the man’s belongings.
Officers investigating the attack, which took place at around 2am on Christmas Day, have issued photos and CCTV of the suspects.
A spokesman for Berlin Police said: “The seven teenagers or young men are suspected of having put a sleeping homeless person in danger by setting him on fire on the night of Christmas day at the Schönleinstraße underground station…”
Place your bets before you click the link…
‘We will make your children pay’ Migrant threatens terror attack in Italy (express, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/747444/migrant-threatens-terror-attack-italy-bus-passengers-genoa
“A MIGRANT promised Italy would be hit by a terror attack and threatened terrified passengers on a bus, warning “we will make your children pay”, sparking a counter-terrorism investigation.
The 38-year-old from Senegal promised Africans will launch an attack in Italy and appeared to refer to the recent Berlin terror attack which killed 12 and injured 48.
German police believe Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri was behind the wheel of the lorry that ploughed into the busy Christmas market.
Passengers in Genoa were reportedly terrified when the man started ranting on the bus…”
BOXING DAY HORROR: Teenage boy stabbed in JD Sports in front of horrified shoppers (express, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/747416/teenage-boy-stabbed-hackney-jd-sports-boxing-day-shoppers
“A TEENAGE has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in an attack in front of Boxing Day shoppers.
The 15-year-old was stabbed in JD Sports, Mare Street, Hackney in an alleged “postcode war”.
Footage captured on an eyewitness’ phone showed shoppers and workers fighting to save the boy as he lay on the floor covered in blood.
A man was seen applying pressure to the stab wound as another stood near the victim’s head.
Another customer passed them paper towels as a man shouted about the violence.
The man is heard yelling: “All you kids see this? Do you all see this?
“This is what you’re doing – you’re killing each other. For what?”
He appeared to shout at somebody thought to be “holding the knife”…”
Somalian asylum seeker hospitalised after sex attack arrest on Christmas Eve (express, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/747410/Somalian-asylum-seeker-attempted-rape-arrest-Christmas-Eve
“A SOMALIAN asylum seeker has been detained in hospital after the alleged rape of a woman and an attempted robbery of another in Austria.
The 19-year-old man is under police supervision after being taken for medical care in the city of Klagenfurt following the attack on Christmas eve.
It has been reported locally the man attempted to rape a 23-year-old woman in a bar but she was able to fight off the attacker.
However, he is alleged to have attempted to steal another 22-year-old woman’s wallet after going into a female toilet in the bar following the first attack.
According to reports the man grabbed the second victim by the throat after she caught him trying to steal her wallet.
He is said to have fled the bar and was later arrested in the Schillerpark of Klagenfurt, sixth-largest city in the country.
He had collapsed after the arrest and was put into an induced coma.
Police were unable to interrogate the individual accused of the attack until this morning and have yet to press charges, it has been claimed.
Local reports suggest the man told police that he could not remember the incident…”
“He had collapsed after the arrest and was put into an induced coma.
Despite all hopeful wishes, none of the foregoing has even a slight connection with Capital punishment. [Sigh]
Turkey cafe boss held for Erdogan ‘tea insult’ (BBC, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38439232
“The boss of a cafeteria at a Turkish opposition newspaper has been detained after saying he would refuse to serve tea to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Senol Buran, cafeteria head at Cumhuriyet, was remanded accused of insulting the president. He denies the refusal was an insult, his lawyer said.
Turkey has cracked down on dissent since a failed coup in July.
Cumhuriyet staff have been among tens of thousands of people detained, suspended or sacked.
The newspaper is one of few to have taken an anti-Erdogan line.
Mr Buran was on his way to work on 24 December when he found roads were closed as part of security measures for a speech being given by Mr Erdogan.
Mr Buran told police officers: “I would not serve that man a cup of tea.”
A judge at the Istanbul criminal court jailed Mr Buran pending a trial.
Insulting the president can carry a four-year jail term…”
Cafeteria manager jailed for insulting Turkey’s Erdogan, lawyer says
Czech President Links Europe Attacks to Migration Wave (abcnews, Dec 26, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/czech-president-links-europe-attacks-migration-wave-44401877
“The Czech president has linked recent attacks in Europe to the ongoing influx of migrants escaping war-torn, poverty-stricken countries.
Milos Zeman told Czechs in his annual Christmas speech on Monday that “today almost no one doubts the connection between the migration wave and terrorist attacks.”
In order to prevent terrorist attacks on Czech soil, the president said that the Czech Republic shouldn’t take in migrants on a “so-called volunteer basis,” alluding to the European Union’s efforts to distribute migrants across the continent.
Zeman says he has nothing against helping migrants “on their territory or on neighboring territories,” or helping Italy and Greece, but “placing Muslim, hardly compatible migrants on our territory would mean creating a breeding ground for potential terrorist attacks.””
euronews -Refugees in Sweden – one year on
Hungarian PM urges Brussels to change migrant policy after Berlin attack (RT, Dec 26, 2016)
https://www.rt.com/news/371836-orban-brussels-change-berlin/
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called on Brussels to protect Europe’s borders from illegal immigration in the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in Berlin, but European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker prefers to rely on European values.
“It is unprecedented that, in the heart of Europe, Christians were murdered at Christmas,” Orban said in an interview with Hungarian online newspaper veol.hu.
A 24-year-old Tunisian, Anis Amri, drove a truck into Christmas market stalls next to Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in a December 19 terrorist attack that left 12 people dead and 56 others injured.
The Islamic State terror group (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack and later released a video of the suspect pledging allegiance to their leader.
“It’s clear that, in the case of migration, nothing can remain the way it was before. Brussels needs to change, migrants who entered Europe illegally must be deported, the borders need to be protected and the inflow of migrants has to be eliminated,” Orban said…”
Over 2,000 Saudi Extremists Fighting Abroad (sputniknews, Dec 26, 2016)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201612261049014977-saudi-arabia-extremists-abroad/
“Saudi Interior Ministry identified that 2,093 Saudi citizens are fighting abroad, according to ministry’s spokesman.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Over 2,000 Saudi citizens are fighting abroad on the side of the extremists, country’s Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour Turki said Monday, as cited by the local media. The ministry identifies the exact number of extremists at 2,093 noting that the location of the majority of them had been verified, Turki told Al-Hayat newspaper, adding that 73 citizens were in detention outside of the country on terrorism-related charges. A total of 1,540 of Saudis are taking part in hostilities in Syria with others fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, he said.”
I thought they were 20,000 or so… 😉
If anything your number is low.
The New York Times Thinks Trump ‘Stole’ A Supreme Court Seat. Because They’re Stupid.
One of the great benefits of Hillary Clinton’s shocking election loss is the full-scale meltdown of the American left. Leading the pack: The New York Times, which had set up a prayer shrine in the editorial board conference room. Now, they’ve been relegated to whining about how the Republican Senate wouldn’t approve Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
Get out the world’s tiniest violin.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/11891/new-york-times-thinks-trump-stole-supreme-court-ben-shapiro&utm_medium=email&utm_content=122616-news&utm_campaign=position1
Richard: In previous cases when it was a Republican President in office the alt left Dems said that the President should wait until the new President was sworn in before any nomination was made. Once again the alt left confirms that they don’t believe in the rule of law, they think there is one set of laws for everyone else and they (the alt left) get to do what they want.
“One of the great benefits of Hillary Clinton’s shocking election loss is the full-scale meltdown of the American left.”
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
Drexel University Professor’s Christmas Wish: ‘All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide’
A professor at Philadelphia’s Drexel University has a heartwarming Christmas message: Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies George Ciccariello-Maher is wishing for a “white genocide.”
Taking to his Twitter account on Christmas eve, Ciccariello-Maher, himself a white man, tweeted, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” He later deleted the tweet.
The professor who describes himself as a “visiting researcher” at El Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales in Mexico also had praise for the “massacre of whites.”
In another tweet, Ciccariello-Maher, an Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel, denies being “alt-left” and says he is, instead, an outright communist.
Later he “jokingly” claimed his account was hacked.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/
Of course, everyone knows that Haiti’s purge of Whites is what has made it into today’s Caribbean industrial and information technology powerhouse. Its long-term standing as an international economic and corruption cellar-dweller indisputably proves this point.
CAIR LA Director Tweets Wish for Twice the Dead in Russian Plane Crash
Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which purports to speak for American Muslims, spent part of Christmas Day tweeting that he had hoped more people had died in the previous night’s Russian plane crash into the Black Sea.
He then backpedaled on his offensive comments.
Ayloush, whose Twitter bio lists him as a “Human rights and civil rights activist. Community organizer. CAIR-LA Exec Director. Son. Husband Father of 5,” tweeted Sunday morning, “I’m sad about the crashed Russian military jet. The TU-154 could have carried up to 180 military personnel instead of just 92!”
As Fox News reported about the crash, the 92 dead included military musicians and a choir headed to Syria to perform on Christmas:
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/12/26/muslim-human-rights-activist-tweets-wish-twice-dead-russian-plane-crash/
Perhaps the ambulance that arrives at his burning house should have been able to carry seven, instead of just one. It just rips my heart out to think of such tragic circumstances.
German petition urges honour for dead Polish truck driver
Berlin (AFP) – Calls grew in Germany on Monday for the government to posthumously honour the Polish truck driver who is believed to have saved many lives during the Christmas market attack.
More than 33,000 people had signed an online petition at Change.org by Monday afternoon, demanding that Lukasz Urban be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, the highest civilian honour, by German President Joachim Gauck.
Opposition Greens party lawmaker Omid Nouripour meanwhile called on Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to honour Urban with the national Order of Merit.
Police say Urban was shot dead by the suspected jihadist attacker, Tunisian Anis Amri, shortly after Amri had ploughed Urban’s 40-tonne truck through a crowd of revellers at a Berlin Christmas market on December 19.
Twelve people were killed and dozens injured, but investigators believe Urban prevented even more casualties by grabbing the steering wheel in a struggle with Amri and directing the truck back out of the crowd.
The Change.org petition said that “according to current reports, the autopsy shows that he struggled with the perpetrator and was severely injured and eventually killed by him”.
“With this heroic act, he probably saved many lives … For this bravery, he deserves Germany’s highest decoration.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-petition-urges-honour-dead-polish-truck-driver-144123930.html
What does it say that this came to light so long after the actual event? This sort of forensic evidence would have been apparent within less than a day of subsequent investigation.
Explosive-laden donkey seized along Durand Line, Pak officials claim (khaama, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.khaama.com/explosive-laden-donkey-seized-along-durand-line-pak-officials-claim-02560
“The Pakistani security officials are claiming that an explosive-laden donkey was seized from the vicinity of Durand Line.
The officials further added that three suspects were also arrested after the donkey was captured by the security forces, according to the local media reports.
The political administration told The Express Tribune on Sunday that after seeing the donkey moving towards the border they pursued it and recovered explosives of more than 40 kgs from it.
According to the officials, Afghanistan’s border administration has been informed about the incident and a protest was registered.
No further details were given regarding the possible target of the attack…”
“The Pakistani security officials are claiming that an explosive-laden donkey was seized from the vicinity of Durand Line.
The [gasp!] dreaded Donkey-O’-Doom™
Which all goes to show that one must be very careful when wishing for a piece of @ss.
Schoolchildren BANNED from singing Silent Night over fears it will OFFEND other religions (express, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/747396/schoolchildren-banned-singing-christmas-carol-holy-night-fears-offend-religions
“SCHOOLCHILDREN were banned from singing a popular Christmas carol and told to hum the tune instead, over fears the performance could offend other religions.
Children in Flero, Italy, did not sing the lyrics of Holy Night.
Instead pupils hummed the carol during a concert dubbed the “Winter Recital” in Bresciano, northern Italy.
The decision was criticised by a local councillor.
Elena Franceschini, the culture commissioner for the town of Bresciano, said: “Even if the state and the school claim to be secular, we would like to have ‘Christmas Concerts’ and not ‘Winter Recitals’ where children can feel free to sing Holy Night without thinking that this offends or excludes pupils who belong to other cultures or other religions or who declare to be atheists.”
It is not the first time children in Italy have been censored over Christmas…”
After the jihadi terrorists have been dealt with, let these Politically Correct termites be given the very next reservation at the wall.
Turkey detains more than 1,000 people for suspected links to Gulen (france24, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.france24.com/en/20161226-turkey-detains-more-1500-people-suspected-links-muslim-cleric
“Turkish authorities last week detained 1,682 people over suspected links to militants and arrested 516, the interior ministry said Monday, with more than 1,000 of those detained suspected of having links to exiled US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Ankara says Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen orchestrated an attempted coup in July, with 1,096 of his suspected supporters detained and 426 of those subsequently arrested.
Another 508 people were detained for suspected links to Kurdish militants and 78 of those were arrested, the ministry said. Authorities detained 78 people for alleged links to the Islamic State group and arrested 12, it added…”
Question:
Is there even one single person at Vlad Tepes Blog who sincerely believes that this entire Turkish kerfuffle was anything more than a classic false flag operation to weed out Erdogan’s opponents?
Even my own Turkish friends refuse to believe otherwise.
Afghanistan hope US deny asylum to female pilot Niloofar Rahmani (khaama, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.khaama.com/afghanistan-hope-us-deny-asylum-to-female-pilot-niloofar-rahmani-02551
“The Afghan government officials have said they hope the United States will deny asylum request by the first fixed-wing female pilot of the country.
Captain Rahmani denied to return to Afghanistan last week after completing months of further training in the United States, citing security concerns while requesting asylum in the country.
However, a ministry of defense spokesman Mohammad Radmanish has said the government hoped that her request would be denied by U.S. authorities.
Pointing towards the billions of dollars spent by US to build the Afghan forces, Radmanish told Reuters “When an officer complains of insecurity and is afraid of security threats, then what should ordinary people do?”
He said “She has made an excuse for herself, but we have hundreds of educated women and female civil right activists who work and it is safe for them.”
The Afghan nation was shocked when news regarding Captain Rahmani emerged last week of requesting asylum in US with some condemning the act while some speaking in her favor.
She is one of the celebrated pilots in the history of Afghanistan for being the first female pilot to fly fixed-wing plane and was presented the International Women of Courage award for the year 2015 in Washington DC.
Capt. Rahmani broke a sobering piece of news to her American trainers, saying she still wants to be a military pilot, but not under her country’s flag. This summer, she filed a petition seeking asylum in the United States, where she hopes to eventually join the Air Force.
“Things are not changing” for the better in Afghanistan, Captain Rahmani told The New York Times in an interview on Friday. “Things are getting worse and worse.””
Taliban militants behead young woman in North of Afghanistan (khaama, Dec 26, 2016)
http://www.khaama.com/taliban-militants-behead-young-woman-in-north-of-afghanistan-02559
“A young woman was beheaded by the militants in northern Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, local officials said Monday.
The officials further added that the woman was beheaded late on Sunday night in a remote village located in the capital of Sar-e-Pul.
Provincial director of the women’s affairs Nasima Arzoo confirmed the incident and said the woman was beheaded in the village which is under the control of the Taliban group.
However, the Taliban insurgents reject the allegation and said the woman was beheaded by irresponsible gunmen…”
However, the Taliban insurgents reject the allegation and said the woman was beheaded by irresponsible gunmen…”
How can anyone tell the difference? (More importantly, why should they bother?!?)
Morocco: Islamic Education Textbook Describes Philosophy As ‘Perversion, Blasphemy’ (moroccoworldnews, Dec 26, 2016)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/12/204518/morocco-islamic-education-textbook-describes-philosophy-as-perversion-blasphemy/
“The disparagement of philosophy in an Islamic education textbook has created controversy and prompted philosophy teachers in Morocco to organize sit-ins from December 21 to 23 in denunciation of the misinformation, which they considered “dangerous.”
The controversy around the issue of education has once again surfaced in Morocco as the Islamic education textbook, “Manar At-tarbia Al-Islamiya”, for first year baccalaureate students, qualifies philosophy as “perversion and blasphemy.”…”