1, Ezra speaks to ex-counter-terrorism agent from Turkey about Erdogan’s ambitions.
2. Paris (again) police arrest knife-tard at Gare du Nord Station
3. 5 terrorist suspects arrested in Brussels after arms, ammo & drugs seized in police raids
Belgian police arrested five people suspected of having ties with a terrorist group after swooping down on their homes in a Brussels suburb. The prosecutor’s office said the arrests were related to a case not associated with Thursday’s attack in Paris.
Two of the four raids were conducted in Brussels’ infamous Molenbeek district, where the mastermind of the November 2015 terrorist attack in Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, as well as one of the main suspects, Salah Abdeslam, used to live amongst the area’s predominantly Muslim population.
4. This excellent video exposes some the forces behind ANTiFA
5. Paris Police Wives protest:
Thank you Richard, M., Xanthippa, Wrath of Khan, actually many people via Skype, some anonymous, some not and some I lost track of in the panicked train station of my brain.
Erdogan is Caliph in all but name, I don’t know if he cares what he is called but he does care about power and expanding the area he controls.
“4. This excellent video exposes some the forces behind ANTiFA”
At the end of this
tiraderant is that donor list shown during the video (at time point — 03:45) and scraped from the United for Equality and Affirmative Action website. Please consider circulating this to all other people monitoring Antifa or BAMN. On the UEAA home page, a link proclaims: “UEAALDF* is an affiliate of BAMN“.* United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund
These are very dangerous groups that merit intense opposition and unrelenting scrutiny. In yet one more unmistakable intersection of Leftism and Islam, please note how, “By Any Means Necessary“, carries the identical and explicit threat of physical violence that Islam so assiduously cultivates in its own language. Equally interesting is how STOP / RESET (this video’s publisher) notes how (at time point — 04:53), “There’s websites out there of ex-members of this group [BAMN] that claim it operates as a cult and it’s even more harsh to its members than to its enemies.”
If nothing else mentioned before this has done so, the immediately preceding sentence should be setting off some klaxons and strobes right about now. Maltreatment of neophytes is a hallmark of brainwashing that the most dangerous cults systematically employ (from EST to Jonestown).
Too often, providing an avenue to “honorably” escape the agony of such (orchestrated) mistreatment—whilst simultaneously avoiding any disgrace of self or the “parent” cult—is a classic method of coercing recruits into committing murder-suicides and other heinous crimes or acts of extreme violence.
This website is doing a magnificent job of dragging a vicious, anti-American slimeball like Yvette Felarca out from under her rock and into some “disinfecting sunlight“.
Felarca seems to be a stereotypical example of SPS (Short Person Syndrome). From the Oxford University link:
Scientists used virtual reality technology to reduce the height of volunteers travelling on a computer-simulated Tube train by 10in (25cm).
The experience of being shorter increased reports of negative feelings, such as being incompetent, dislikeable or inferior.
It also heightened levels of mistrust, fear and paranoia. Height-reduced participants were more likely to think someone else in the virtual train carriage was deliberately staring, thinking badly about them, or trying to cause distress.
Researchers believe the findings demonstrate the psychologically detrimental effect of experiencing social situations from a position closer to the ground.
If the foregoing isn’t a perfect synopsis of Felarca’s compensatory behavior, I’m not sure what is. This goes double when you consider how her role as a middle school teacher (in Bezerkeley, no less) gives her a position of indisputable authority over pliant and vulnerable adolescent minds. Try to imagine the bizarre sense of fulfillment she probably gets from warping the thought processes of children that most likely already stand far taller than her puny frame.
CAVEAT: Do not take this as a blanket condemnation of short people. One of the finest managers I ever worked for was short of stature and never once displayed a single moment of SPS behavior—even as the (similar height) head of field service engineering was a flamboyant case of Napoleonic neuroses to the point of him being a running joke. Guess who got fired first (and me, soon thereafter)?
Felarca’s status as a “vertically challenged”, minority woman could not be any further enhanced, unless there was the unexpected disclosure that she is a practicing lesbian who narrowly escaped earlier (and prolonged) heterosexual spousal abuse or, somehow, is suffering from a congenital or otherwise crippling terminal disease—preferably HIV/AIDS or anaphylactic gluten sensitivity. With the consummate finesse of an nearly-retired Las Vegas blackjack dealer, she is playing her deck of race and ethnopolitical cards like a hand of trumps (no irony intended – well, maybe a little).
This miniaturized Socialist weapons-delivery-platform requires immediate delegitimization in order to curtail the harm that her distorted agenda is capable of causing. It’s obvious that she parlays her diminutive stature into a way of evading the unwanted attention of law enforcement (e.g., Sacramento).
Someone who commented at STOP / RESET really nailed it by noting how they:
…would suggest printing lil “wanted” Posters with the faces of high value Targets – so they can get recognised while on protest ad targeted, maybe an app…?
It’s already quite apparent that being around this bundle of joy is an ideal route for a swift and unexpected visit to the emergency room. How best to legally return the favor seems one of the only remaining questions.
Contributors to UEAA:
Kellogg Foundation
Detroit Federation of Teachers
The Ford Foundation
The Impact Fund
California Federation of Teachers
Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Volunteers for Affirmative Action (Flint)
Michigan Federation of Teachers
Judge Gregory Mathis
Inner City Miracle
Law Students for Affirmative Action
Center for Constitutional Rights
Citizens for Affirmative Action’s Preservation
San Francisco Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
AFSCME Local 312 (DOT)
UAW International
Michigan AFLCIO
Judge Greg Mathis
UAW Local 6000
Buck Dinner (Fund for Equal Justice)
International Longshoremen’s Assoc. Local 1414
Movement For Justice
SEIU Local 79
Bowling Green State University (several departments)
Michigan Education Association
Committee to Elect Sharon McPhail
AFSCME Local 207 (Public Workers)
SEIU Local 790
Oakland Education Association
Steelecase Inc.
Women Law Students Association
Laborer’s International Union Local: 645
SEIU Local 535
Michigan Human Right Campaign
United Steel Workers of America Local 295
Steve Conn & Heather Miller
Dr. Melvin Murphy
Wilma Chan, California State Assembly Majority Leader
United Educators of San Francisco (UESF)
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 (AC Transit workers, Oakland, CA)
anaphylactic gluten sensitivity?
;-p
Made you smile!
1/ The wretched Turk
Daniel Pipes poses interesting questions in a recent article.
Mystery #1: Holding the referendum. Already had the power, why such urgency to make it official?
Mystery #2: The referendum results, 51.4% win. “Were the referendum fixed – entirely possible, given his party’s record– why was the affirmative vote so low and not a more imposing 60, 80, or – why not – 99%?”
Mystery #3: Gülen. Off-the-charts cuckoo, “Why did Erdo?an pick a fight with Gülen, creating turmoil within Turkish Islamist ranks and jeopardizing relations w the United States?”
Mystery #4: Semantic purism. He could’ve satisfied the EU by a “meaningless concession” in anti-terrorism laws. Why didn’t he?
Mystery #5: Canny or megalomaniacal. As Prime Minister he proved himself highly capable of running the economy, managing foreign policy, subduing the military. Now he’s picking fights (Syria, Russia, Ecuador[?!]), self-aggrandizing á la Nicolae Ceausescu, etc.
“What happened to the cunning leader of a decade back?
“Erdo?an’s Islamist supporters sometimes suggest that he’s on his way to declaring himself caliph. As the hundredth anniversary of the Istanbul-based caliphate’s abolition approaches, he may find this tempting; depending on whether he uses the Islamic or Christian calendar, that could happen, respectively, on either March 10, 2021 or March 4, 2024. You heard it here first.”
The Erdo?an Enigma
http://www.meforum.org/6653/the-erdogan-enigma
Believe it or not, Erdogan’s aspiration to become the Caliph of a resurgent Islamic super-state has been batted around at counter-jihad websites ever since he became Prime Minister back in 2003.
A key component in all of this is the rivalry between Iran who—despite being minority Shiite—would attain serious regional influence if it acquires nuclear weapons. My own guess is that Saudi Arabia has too much to lose by seeking some sort of dominant position. Between such massive oil reserves and their role as “guardian of the shrines”, they have a solid gold “rice bowl” (and likely want to keep it that way).
Turkey, on the other hand, is able to use its proximity with Europe (as it has been doing rather adroitly), to position itself politically. This is only augmented by the huge cadre of advance guard gastarbeiten (guest workers) it has positioned in Germany over the past few decades. Taken in combination with how Erdogan is using slanderous Nazi hysteria to play Merkel and German Liberals like so many carnival marks, the outcome is exceptionally unpromising.
The biggest priorities are quashing Iran’s nuclear program and denying Turkey accession to the EU (in that order). This is closely trailed by neutralizing Erdogan’s constant blackmail over admission to the EU which is backed by his threat to unleash immigrant hordes upon The Continent.
Fortunately (if that word even applies here), the ongoing jihadist and immigrant violence is gradually (or not so gradually ) realigning European perceptions, even as EU apparatchiks strenuously resist any recognition or publication of such concerns.
It’s the “not so gradually” that’s on our side. Reflexes better kick in soon, though.
I call The Turk “Erdoff” because there’s so much Hitler there. He celebrates the genocide Turks got away with; he’s one up on the biggest baddest Nazi ever.
The leverage he has over Europeans of Turkish origin is daunting. Even “good guys” are going to have a hard time, and there are plenty of bad ones. He’s got spies everywhere, threatens extended families.
I agree with your call on Saudi, though I’m not convinced this dynasty will survive. Only the presence of U.S. fleet can prevent disruption of those vital sea lanes. China should be grateful to us.
We should neutralize Fat Boy, that’ll set the ayatollahs back some. But even before nukes come into play, Iran’s a nightmare. Just look at this map:
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http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Evolving_Shia_Crescent_2015_lg.png