Reader’s links for April 30 – 2017

Daily Links Post graphic

In order to preserve the flow of conversation about various posted items, and also in order to make it easier for visitors to find the list of related links being shared by other readers, regulars and interested parties in one place, each day a post is automatically created at a minute past midnight ET.

This way, under the various posts of the day, conversation can take place without as much ‘noise’ on the various links and articles and ideas in the main posts and all the news links being submitted can be seen under these auto-posts by clicking on the comments-link right below these ones.

Thank you all for those that take the effort to assist this site in keeping the public informed. Below, typically people can find the latest enemy propaganda, news items of related materials from multiple countries and languages, op-eds from many excellent sites who write on our topics, geopolitics and immigration issues and so on.

About Eeyore

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

62 Replies to “Reader’s links for April 30 – 2017”

    • What about just cutting off the scrotes of this puritanical b@stard and getting it all over with?

      Clearly, this scumbag has no problem with genitally mutilating his daughter, so I say, LET’S START WITH THIS SLIMY ROTTER FIRST?!?

      What’s not to like? This video’s narrator is someone that I might give a shout for without puking altogether. Then again, who knows?

      • I’d sound like a Nazi if I suggested Tardish circumcision of males be deferred, till after their first RAPE. Then make it a RADICAL cleansing.

            • I am, I don’t care how much education I get or where I end up working and living you won’t have to scratch too deep to find a hillbilly.

              • My father’s grandfather collected “scratch” expressions. It was the “lightbulb-changer” of his day.
                One I like was, “Scratch a Russian, you’ll find a Tartar.”

    • I luv it!
      He boils it down at the end, ‘I feels sorry for her…her father’s such a – wanker.’
      ~ le mot just ~

  1. Son of Isis terrorist Khaled Sharrouf reportedly shown in video wearing suicide vest (theguardian, Apr 30, 2017)
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/30/isis-terrorist-khaled-sharroufs-son-8-reportedly-threatens-to-murder-australians

    “A new video has surfaced that reportedly shows the youngest son of the Australian Islamic State terrorist Khaled Sharrouf wearing a suicide vest and threatening to murder Australians.

    The cabinet minister Matt Canavan has described the video and treatment of the boy as a form of child abuse.

    “It is reprehensible it, has to be condemned and I trust the proper authorities will look into this matter,” he told Sky News on Sunday.

    It is not the first time Sharrouf has used his children in this way…”

  2. Is Academia Finally Fighting Back Against Millennial Electro-Nerds? (You Heard it here First!)

    Merriam-Webster Adds ‘Sheeple’ To Dictionary Citing Apple Fans As Prime Examples
    __________________

    Not many at this site will clearly recall the introduction of Apple’s “Macintosh” desktop computer on January 24th, 1984. This relatively boxy, but nonetheless compact desktop computer permanently disrupted all further, affordable, personal computing, FOREVER!

    Fewer still may appreciate Apple’s gradual (and tragic) transition away from the MacIntosh’s superbly intuitive system architecture over to the current “different because we can patent it” framework that Apple currently embraces.

    If you are able to stop from vomiting while reading Walter Issacson’s shameless gushing about Bill Gates, then there is much to be gained from his account of Apple from his book, “The Innovators – How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution”.

    As someone who has spent much of his life in Silicon Valley working with solid state giants like Intel, please read the book for many unexpected insights.

    • Apple was my first and remains my only.

      Being able to create off the UNIX base with simple developer’s tools was what it was all about. No problem working with barebones, open-source geeks (all my friends), we were sharing quirky workarounds every day. An “app”? Absurd. We just messed around, found how to do what we needed done.

      Apple, Inc. was pretty special too.

      I upgraded my system shortly after my first [failed] hand surgery. The new trackpad required subtle changes that shot pain through the damaged nerves. Everything was on that laptop, from medication schedules to phone numbers to _my diary_.

      This was an emergency. I couldn’t hold a pencil or turn a page without a clumsy device in my mouth. By that time I knew that no occupational therapist could bring my life back to me again.

      I called Apple tech support. They kept passing me up the chain of competency. I’ll never know who it was, but sometime in the wee hours I got all the way up to Cupertino senior executive management.

      They worked with me for three solid hours. We made just the right adjustments together. Problem solved.

      Think different.

      • Jobs messed up in not letting 3rd parties write software for his system, by the time he was out and someone else strted working with th customers and 3rd parties most computing was/is a microsoft world. My first computer was an XT clone so I could take work home and then carry the finished product back on a disk. After I was no longer working in accounting I stayed with mocrosoft because I knew the systems. The work I did with a Mac was great but the lack of software limited the usefulness in an accounting division.

        • It was almost all third-party developers in the old days. Apple provided free Developer’s Tools, encouraged open-source. There was a bit of a problem with incompetent dummies making their own systems unstable, constantly complaining to Apple.

          Most surgeons used Apple for the high-res display. Everybody started watching procedures performed, learning techniques at a gallop. I believe the practice of surgery advanced at an exponential rate over those few years.

          • Not in the 80s, Jobs wouldn’t let anyone write programs for his system, he knew how he wanted the microcomputer use to go and wasn’t going to let his machines be used in anyway he didn’t want. It was after he was removed from Apple that they let the third parties write programs. The new management let anyone write programs but by then the big businesses were using Microsoft and didn’t want to change. I will admit that back when I was paying attention Apple had the better machines but their business software didn’t fill the needs of the medium sized and larger offices. Apple had such a small customer base Bill Gates had to give invest in Apple to keep from having a monopoly.

            • Yeah, I came along later. The elegant little OS-X laptop, with OS-9 and full UNIX complement. CD/DVD burner included, the works.

              My father had done his homework to perfection, as always. It was his vicarious digital adventure.

  3. Turkey bans TV dating shows with emergency decree (RT, Apr 30, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/news/386639-turkey-bans-dating-shows/

    “Turkey has banned radio and TV dating programs with a decree made possible by the country’s state of emergency. A new clause has been added to the article on protecting children in the country’s media law.

    “In radio and television broadcasting services, such programs in which people are introduced with the purpose of finding a friend or searching for a spouse… cannot be permitted,”says a statement in Turkey’s Official Gazette, which publishes new legislation.

    Reports that Turkey may ban matchmaking reality shows emerged this year in March, when Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that “there are some strange programs that would scrap the institution of family, take away its nobility and sanctity.”

    “We are working on this and we are coming to the end of it. God willing, in the near future, we will most likely remedy this with an emergency decree,” Kurtulmus said, adding “God willing, we will meet these societal demands.”…”

  4. DON’S DRONE ARMY Donald Trump is unleashing a killer drone squad as US admiral warns military is hammering ISIS so hard they are RUNNING OUT OF BOMBS

    THE US has mobilised a fleet of missile capable drones to blitz North Korea amid warnings it is running out of bombs to hit ISIS.

    The Grey Eagle drones are designed to carry Hellfire missiles and have reportedly been deployed in South Korea as war looms with the North after Kim Jong-un’s third missile test fire this month.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3448395/north-korea-war-threat-donald-trump-drones-bombs-latest/

  5. You Think Google Search Is Free? Austria Seeks to Tax It Anyway

    Austria is seeking ways to make digital services like Alphabet Inc.’s Google or Facebook Inc. pay taxes for transactions with the nation’s internet users, trying to plug gaps in a tax system still designed for brick-and-mortar business.

    The most ambitious part of the plan targets the business models of Twitter Inc., Google or Facebook: The tacit pact under which searching, liking, posting and tweeting remains free as long as users let the companies feed usage data into algorithms that help tailor advertising that can be aimed at the most likely buyers.

    That arrangement is a form of bartering, and a value-added tax could be imposed on such transactions just as the levies are extended in other parts of the economy, said Andreas Schieder, the parliamentary head of Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern’s Social Democrats, which govern in a coalition with the conservative People’s Party.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-29/you-think-google-search-is-free-austria-seeks-to-tax-it-anyway

  6. Gem TV: Iranian CEO Saeed Karimian shot dead in Istanbul (BBC, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39761451

    “The founder and chairman of the Persian-language Gem TV company has been killed in Istanbul.
    Saeed Karimian, 45, was shot dead in the Maslak neighbourhood, along with his Kuwaiti business partner.

    The vehicle used in the apparent assassination was later found burnt out. Turkish police are investigating.

    Mr Karimian had previously been tried in absentia by a Tehran court and sentenced to six years in prison for spreading propaganda against Iran.

    It is understood he died immediately after the gunmen – who were reportedly masked – opened fire on the vehicle on Saturday evening, while his business partner died later in hospital.

    Gem TV, which dubs foreign and Western shows into Persian and broadcasts them into Iran, has been criticized by Iran for showing programmes which go against Islamic values and has been accused the channel of spreading Western culture…”

  7. Dozens of Yazidis enslaved by IS in Iraq now free (BBC, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39762790

    “Thirty-six members of the Yazidi religious minority are free after nearly three years in the hands of so-called Islamic State (IS), the UN says.

    They have been taken to UN centres in Dohuk in Kurdish northern Iraq.

    It is unclear whether they escaped in Iraq or were freed, as the UN declined to give more information to avoid jeopardising future releases.

    IS killed and enslaved thousands of Yazidis after seizing the northern town of Sinjar in 2014.

    Kurdish Peshmerga forces regained control in 2015 but many Yazidis were held captive by IS elsewhere as the group took over large swathes of northern Iraq.

    The 36 Yazidi survivors include men, women and children who were enslaved, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said…”

  8. Saudi Arabia arrests 46 militant suspects involved in Medina attack (reuters, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-security-idUKKBN17W0H5

    “Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had arrested 46 members of a militant cell responsible for a deadly suicide bombing attack on the Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Medina last summer widely blamed on Islamic State.

    The suspects, which included foreign and Saudi citizens, were detained in the Western port city of Jeddah, state news agency SPA quoted the interior ministry as saying.”

  9. Leaked Memo: Airport Border Guards Ordered to Turn Blind Eye to Illegal Immigrants (breitbart, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/30/border-guards-blind-eye-illegal-migrants/

    “Border guards at Heathrow Airport have been privately told not to ‘waste time’ interrogating potential illegal immigrants, and instead focus on jihadis with European travel papers.

    Terrorists must be the Border Force’s “number one” priority, according to a leaked memo seen by the Mail on Sunday, because extremists entering Britain with European Union (EU) documents don’t require visas.

    The memo comes as thousands of EU citizens who fought with ISIS are fleeing Iraq and Syria, attempting to return to Europe as the Islamist terror group loses ground.

    Warning Islamists are plotting “indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians” in UK cities, in February Britain’s terrorism watchdog Max Hill expressed “enormous concern” at the prospect of large numbers of returning jihadis.

    Deputy director of Heathrow Airport’s Border Security Command, Nick Jariwalla, spelled out the threat in a recent message to Border Force guards entitled “Protecting the Public”.

    In it, he insisted staff change the way they work so as to “really focus” on the threat of terrorists arriving from Europe, writing: “We are not sufficiently focused on the threat from passengers seeking to enter on EU documents.

    “This is the number one thing that colleagues from the security services talk to me about.”

    Interrogating potential illegal immigrants is “a poor use of our time”, Jariwalla told staff in the memo, stating that visa holders already have permission to enter Britain.

    “We must recognise that every minute you spend with a potential doubtful visitor is a minute less you have to spend on passengers who might have more sinister intent,” he added.

    A Home Office representative told the Mail on Sunday: “100 per cent of scheduled passengers are checked when arriving in the UK’ and visa holders are subject to ‘extensive mandatory checks.”

    Earlier this year Breitbart London reported that illegal migrants found stowed away in lorries are frequently told to make their own way to a processing centre more than 50 miles away, and that Britain’s lax border controls mean authorities have “no way of knowing” the identities of individuals entering the UK.”

  10. Special Report
    Susan Rice’s Revealing Twitter Account

    It is clear from it that she is still proud of spying on Trump.

    Susan Rice’s Twitter account is one of many windows on her partisanship. Even in the midst of an investigation into her political espionage, she can’t resist a few feverish re-tweets. The most remarkable one came on Thursday. It was a re-tweet of a reckless column by E.J. Dionne that seeks to revive, sans evidence, the fable of Trump-Russia collusion in last year’s election.

    It is clear from this re-tweet that Rice remains proud of the Obama administration’s spying on Trump and his aides. Notice that the dispute has shifted from whether spying occurred to why it occurred. Both sides say it happened. The difference is that the Dems applaud the spying and the Republicans condemn it.

    Recall the evasive denial of Obama after Trump’s initial tweet. Obama never denied the surveillance. He just denied ordering it. Shortly thereafter, one of his speechwriters, Jon Favreau, punctuated this distinction: “I’d be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping. Statement just said that neither he nor the WH ordered it.”

    Of course, that too was a falsehood, predicated on, at best, an exceedingly narrow definition of the “White House.” In fact, the White House in any honest sense of the term — from John Brennan to Loretta Lynch to Susan Rice — did order it. These White House officials acted in Obama’s name and with his knowledge. Or are we supposed to believe that he was wholly unaware of a months-long investigation (which ran on multiple tracks, from the FBI investigation to a multi-agency investigation launched by Brennan) into the opposing party’s presidential nominee?

    https://spectator.org/susan-rice-twitter-account/

  11. Europe: What Happens to Christians There Will Come Here

    by Giulio Meotti
    April 30, 2017 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10230/europe-christians

    “I fear we are approaching a situation resembling the tragic fate of Christianity in Northern Africa in Islam’s early days”, a Lutheran bishop, Jobst Schoene, warned a few years ago.

    In ancient times, Algeria and Tunisia, entirely Christian, gave us great thinkers such as Tertullian and Augustine. Two centuries later, Christianity has disappeared, replaced by Arab-Islamic civilization.

    Is Europe now meeting the same fate?

    In the Middle East, “Christianity is over in Iraq” due to Islamic extremism; in Europe, Christianity is committing suicide.

    Within 20 years, more babies will be born to Muslim women than to Christian women world-wide; it is just the latest sign of the rapid growth that seems to be making Islam the world’s largest religion by the end of the century, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center.

    “Christianity is literally dying in Europe,” said Conrad Hackett, the head of the researchers who worked on the Pew report.

    According to it, between 2010 and 2015, the Muslim population increased by more than 150 million people to 1.8 billion.

  12. “The Judeo-Christian Community”

    by Amir George
    April 30, 2017 at 4:30 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10239/judeo-christian-community

    Seeing Turkey’s election this month, in which the Turks used their democratic freedom to vote themselves out of their democratic freedom — just to throw it out — should remind us that the Judeo-Christian values which we take for granted are more fragile than we may have thought.

    Shortly after the liberation of Iraq in 2003, the only way to get into immediate postwar Baghdad was to get a ride in Amman, Jordan, and take it across the desert to Iraq.

    A bulletin board in Jordan’s Amman Intercontinental Hotel would list who was going to Baghdad and we all hitched rides with whomever we could get.

    So, on a crazy trip, the well-known “Baghdad Dash,” three of us crammed into a tiny, not so cool-looking car and made our way across the desert.

    Halfway, the engine stopped. In typical Mohammedan fashion, the driver said “Insha’ Allah” (“God’s will”), got out of the car and walked off.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10239/judeo-christian-community

  13. Ethnic Slaughter in Bangladesh

    by Arnab Goswami
    April 30, 2017 at 4:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10296/bangladesh-ethnic-slaughter

    The Bangladesh government at present is carrying out atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities. Some foreign organisations helped me to flee to safety in Germany after nine of my colleagues were hacked to death by extremists.

    Unfortunately, all the minorities of the country are not as fortunate. Last year, the police themselves set fire to about 3,000 houses of minority people. Most recently, the Bangladesh Army killed Romel Chakma, an indigenous student leader. He was only 18 and had one eye. The army decided to pour Kerosene over his dead body and set it on fire.

  14. Trump’s First 100 Days Left U.S. Allies ‘Off-Balance,’ Susan Rice Says

    President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has shaken long-time U.S. allies and left them off-balance, according to his predecessor’s top national security aide.

    The U.S. “is supposed to be the grown-up at the dinner table,” former National Security Advisor Susan Rice said in an interview set to air Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” “We’re not supposed to be the crazy aunt in the attic that nobody knows what is going to do next.”

    Rice chided Trump for, among other things, calling on South Korea — a key U.S. ally — to pay for a missile defense system the U.S. is setting up in the country.

    “The deal was they provide the land and the installation, and we would provide the system in its operation,” she said. Trump also said this week he wants to renegotiate or cancel a trade agreement with Seoul.

    North Korea on Saturday test-fired a ballistic missile for the sixth time this year, drawing a scolding from Trump on Twitter. U.S. allies in Asia from Seoul to Tokyo have grown increasingly concerned about tensions with Pyongyang and the nuclear weapons ambitions of Leader Kim Jong Un. They want steadiness from the U.S., Rice said.

    “I’m concerned, frankly, that we’re hearing very mixed messages,” Rice said. “We need to reassure and secure our allies, particularly South Korea and Japan, who feel most directly threatened by North Korea.”

    War of Words

    Rice’s blunt assessment of Trump’s international agenda is latest in a war of words between the Obama White House’s top foreign policy adviser and the current administration.

    Trump this month, without citing evidence, said Rice may have committed a crime by trying to learn the identities of Americans associated with the president caught up in intercepted communications related to Russia. She has denied any wrongdoing.

    Trump will hold a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday night to mark his first 100 days in office, a milestone observers often use to assess an administration’s early achievements.

    After campaigning against the type of overseas interventions that have characterized American foreign policy for decades, the president has become increasingly embroiled in global affairs. That includes a U.S. missile strike against Syria, bombing Islamic State positions in Afghanistan, and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

    Meanwhile, Trump has shifted positions on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, China’s currency policy, and a free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.

    “It’s early days, but I would say that in many respects it’s been unsteady and rocky,” Rice said of Trump’s foreign policy. “A number of our closest friends and allies are feeling uncertain, off-balance, unclear as to where we stand and what we mean. ”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-29/trump-s-first-100-days-left-u-s-allies-off-balance-rice-says

  15. SAUDIA ARABIA – Siemens, SAP sign cooperation deals with Saudi Arabia – officials

    Saudi Arabia wants German companies Siemens and SAP to play an important role in furthering the kingdom’s “digital transformation”, company officials said on Sunday during German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to the country.

    Top executives at the engineering conglomerate and the business software company who were travelling with Merkel signed declarations of intent to work with the Saudi authorities, the officials said.

    Saudi Arabia is pushing a long-term economic transformation dubbed “Vision 2030” to reduce the country’s reliance on oil, attract investment and improve the lives of its citizens.

    Siemens signed a framework agreement with the Saudi National Industrial Clusters Development Program (NICDP) which the German group said could lead to equipping infrastructure projects worth at least a billion euros.

    The company also wants to provide vocational training in Saudi Arabia, while SAP has agreed with the Saudi Ministry of Planning to cooperate on the country’s digitisation efforts, officials said.

    The German business delegation travelling with Merkel on her Gulf visit also includes the chief executives of Lufthansa, national railway operator Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL] and industrial services group Bilfinger.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-germany-merkel-business-idUKKBN17W0KL

      • KSA, Germany sign several pacts (saudigazette, May 1, 2017)
        http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia/ksa-germany-sign-several-pacts/

        “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held wide-ranging talks here on Sunday.

        The talks focused on bilateral relations, fields of cooperation between the two countries and further possibilities of collaboration, as well as regional and international developments.

        King Salman and Chancellor Merkel oversaw the signing of a number cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding.

        A memorandum of understanding was signed on the development of sustainable industries through the localization of technologies and accelerating the pace of industrial transformation in Saudi Arabia in line with Vision 2030.

        A cooperation agreement was signed between the Saudi Ministry of Interior and the German Federal Police. Another cooperation pact was signed between the Saudi Fund for Development and the German Federal Ministry of Cooperation, Economy and Development.

        An executive cooperation program was signed in the field of technical and vocational training.

        A draft agreement was signed for the training of students in German military installations between the Ministry of Defense in the Kingdom and the Ministry of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany.

        A memorandum of understanding was signed on the support for Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program 2020 in relation to its digital strategy and related technological solutions.

        The German Chancellor is accompanied by a high-level economic delegation headed by Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. It includes CEOs of the largest German companies interested in the economic changes taking place in the Kingdom under Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Plan 2020.

        Merkel’s one-day visit is to be followed by talks on Monday in United Arab Emirates with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday.

        Her series of meetings form part of the buildup to the G20 meeting of the leaders of major and emerging economies.

        Both Russia and Saudi Arabia are G20 member states. Berlin currently holds the G20 presidency.”

      • Saudi Arabia ‘wants no more German weapons’: report (DW, Apr 30, 2017)
        http://www.dw.com/en/saudi-arabia-wants-no-more-german-weapons-report/a-38647662

        “A Saudi official has told “Der Spiegel’ magazine that good relations with Berlin come before arms deals. This comes as Chancellor Merkel, on a visit to the kingdom, called for an end to Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen.

        Saudi Arabia intends to refrain in future from asking for more weapons from Germany, and to concentrate instead on economic cooperation in other sectors, according to an interview in the German news magazine “Der Spiegel” published on Sunday.

        “We accept the German reticence with regard to exports to Saudi Arabia; we know the political background,” Saudi Deputy Economy Minister Mohammed al-Tuwaijri told the magazine.

        “We will not cause any more problems for the German government with new requests for weapons,” he added.

        Al-Tuwaijri said the reason for the change was a desire for closer cooperation with Berlin in areas other than arms, with Riyadh aiming to make Germany one of its “very most important economic partners.”

        “Relations with Germany are much more important to us than arguing about weapons deals,” he said.

        Controversial – but lucrative – issue

        German weapons deals with Saudi Arabia have been controversial for many years, with the kingdom frequently the target of criticism for its poor human rights record.

        Among other issues, the country’s involvement in the long-running war in Yemen, in which many civilians have died in airstrikes carried out by warplanes from a Saudi-led Arab coalition, has raised fears that German arms were being misused.

        According to preliminary figures, in 2016 Germany exported armaments to Saudi Arabia to the tune of more than half a billion euros…”

  16. Syria: 400 anti-govt fighters leave Homs as evacuation continues

    Some 400 anti-government fighters and their families were seen boarding buses in Homs’ al-Waer neighbourhood bound for Idlib, Sunday, as part of a transfer deal, brokered and secured by Russia, aimed at reducing fighting in the area.

    The last group of militants and their families is expected to leave the area in the middle of May.

  17. Cause when I call
    I hope you pick up your phone
    I’d like to talk to you
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    ‘Cause when I call
    I hope you pick up your phone
    I’d like to talk to you
    I hope you answer
    Hey dad, it’s me, um
    Oh, I’m Tyler, I think I be your son
    Sorry, I called you the wrong name, see, my brain’s splitting
    Dad isn’t your name, see faggot’s a little more fitting
    Mom was only twenty when you ain’t have any fucks to spare
    You Nigerian fuck, now I’m stuck with this shitty facial hair
    Also stuck with a beautiful home with a case stairs
    So you not being near fucking fire-started my damn career
    But fuck it, I got Clancy, he, gave me the chance to see
    A world I wasn’t supposed to, I’m stoked that I didn’t know you
    But, sucks you ain’t give a fuck and consider a sperm donor now
    The fuck is an Okonma? I’m changing my shit to Haley
    And I just ain’t being passive, nigga
    You’re a fucking faggot, nigga
    Got a show on Monday, guess who ain’t getting no passes, nigga
    But if I ever had the chance to ask this nigga
    And call him
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    ‘Cause when I call (when I call, baby)
    I hope you pick up your phone (please pick up)
    I’d like to talk to you
    Suck my fucking dick and swallow this case of nuts
    Ace hates your guts, I’m a selfish fuck
    And I ain’t sharing green as if I’m facing blunts
    Frank is out the closet, Hodgy’s an alcoholic
    Syd might be bipolar, but fuck it, I couldn’t call it
    Supposed to be gone until November but quickly came back in August
    I left two months through September to clearly remember all this
    I would like to tell my grandma, but she’s just nostalgic
    I’ll call her number
    But she won’t answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    I hope you answer
    ‘Cause when I call (when I call, baby)
    I hope you pick up your phone
    (I’d like to talk to you)
    I hope you answer
    You claim to hate my fucking guts
    But say I’m on an island in Thailand and I was wildin’
    And, if I got stranded had to man up and hold my nuts
    And hope that I could live off salt water and fucking coconuts
    Phone ain’t got no service this 3G is fucking worthless
    Day is getting dark like the area’s turning urban
    You’ll be fucking nervous like me inside of a church is
    But, I’ma get in contact regardless, and
    I hope you answer
    That last verse was about this girl
    Songwriters: Tyler Okonma
    Answer lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

    Brilliant retort to an absent father. That goodness he won’t be fooled by Muhammad’s fake Allah.

    https://g.co/kgs/ZKJuZu

    • And having a good effect on other people.

      “Went to six flags
      Six fags came up and said “ayo can we get a pic?” I said no
      And they said “oh it’s wolf gang, Yonkers, goblin is my shit though”
      Now I’m like, fuck, I don’t want to be an asshole
      So I’m sitting there posing with Travis, Devon
      With a fake smile like her titties was drawing it on
      So fucking annoyed because I missed Goliath
      Cause some kid said I was there then they caused a riot
      Now I’m surrounded by a 25 hound of fuckers tryna get a photo
      All because they noticed the top with the box logo
      And them fucking ears, guarantee they didn’t even hear bastard
      They bandwagon-jumped me from a pogo, I’m going fucking loco
      “Hey Tyler can I” no, bitch, don’t you see me tryna buy a fucking churro?
      “But Tyler, you’re my hero, I used to get bullied
      Until I heard radicals, the last part got to me
      See, I used to give a fuck until my cock would bleed
      Now I’m the happiest I think I’ll ever ever be
      My life is just like yours, no father
      My momma must have forgot to stop with a pop condom
      In school I was the one thinking outside boxes
      So everybody in them would say that I got problems
      So when I heard you say it, I said it back like fuck ’em
      You’re in inspiration to niggas like me
      Not the niggas who like you just cause of lyrics and beats
      I’m talking about the niggas who don’t know where they’re going to be
      I heard the song bastard right in the moment of heat
      Not in summer, but of course I was holding a heat
      Gun on the edge of my feet, I heard that first piano chord
      And it drew me in like predators carrying treats
      Then I said to myself fuck is he speaking to me
      See me and you we go together like snare in a beat
      I mean snare and a kick drum, see my forearm
      I carved of on it this morning with a glass shard
      On my green mini ramp that I built in my backyard (that’s weird)
      That’s hard, that scar from playing air guitar
      When I see you play at the Roxy (uh)
      Tyler, I love you, I wanna be just like you (alright)
      I think about your face and I don’t even fucking try to (no homo)
      Wish I had a basement mitt for me to hide you
      We could play Xbox and listen to ‘in search of’ and eat donuts
      Over conversating about what church does
      Come up with weird ass videos with roach bugs
      I’m straight edge too, so no drugs on this trip
      And Raquel that bitch, you should’ve killed that bitch
      You should’ve took me instead (uh, that’s weird)
      See, if you can’t have her then he shouldn’t neither
      And if I can’t have you then she shouldn’t either
      No one should see you, but me in your t-shirt
      I worship you until the fucking wrinkles on my knees hurt (what the fuck)
      Odd future, wolf gang, golf wang, flog gnaw, free earl mobbin’
      I know it seems like just I’m slobbing on your knob
      But I’m just a fan and I ain’t losing my fucking noggin (yeah you are)
      I ain’t got a job and I went out and bought goblin about 5 times
      Cause (thanks for the support) I love you man (alright)
      I like tie-dyed tees or just plain white tees, I like pants that’s cut
      I like words like fuck, I got your pics on my wall
      With the mouth cut out, now paper cuts on my balls
      Cause your dicks in my jaw (what the fuck)
      And I hit you on twitter about 10 minutes a day
      And I’m bitter cause you don’t even reply with a hey (sorry)
      And my boys think I’m gay cause I play VCR
      In my car all alone speakers waking up neighbors
      Alright my nigga, calm down, it’s getting weird, take this pic
      So I can get on colossus, line as slow as molasses
      (Tyler listen) no nigga I see you are loving my shit
      And I appreciate the fact that you would suck on my dick
      But I’m not gay so its awkward, now I’m grouchy like Oscar
      After spilling some shit on his newest pair of beige dockers
      Yonkers and Yonkers (I love that song)
      Sick of hearing about Yonkers
      I’m grateful that it worked, I attacked and I conquered
      “Yeah whatever but I had a fucking blast at that concert
      I was at the Boston one, I got a t-shirt from Sagan
      The one that says Sagan Lockhart
      And when you came out to sandwiches
      That’s when my fucking boycrush got started”
      Just take this fucking picture man, shit”
      Songwriters: Tyler Okonma
      Colossus lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
      https://g.co/kgs/pW9TS1

    • And with all these insights… Tyler the Creator was banned from the UK.

      “Coming to the UK is a privilege, and we expect those who come here to respect our shared values,” says British Home Office”

      “Based on lyrics from 2009 I am not allowed in the U.K. for 3-5 years (although I was there 8 weeks ago). That is why the shows were canceled,” the rapper wrote, in all caps, on Twitter.

      Tyler’s manager, Christian Clancy, echoed the sentiment in a post on Tumblr, alleging that a letter from the U.K. Home Office specifically cited lyrics from 2009’s Bastard and 2011’s Goblin.”
      http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tyler-the-creator-banned-from-united-kingdom-over-lyrics-20150827

  18. French centrist Macron’s win would be a global ‘victory’, says Tony Blair (france24, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20170430-uk-blair-says-macron-presidency-victory-global-politics-brexit-uk-france-election

    “Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke Friday to France’s Le Monde about French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, his opposition to Brexit, and the challenges facing the left in France and the UK.

    Le Monde: Some British observers see Emmanuel Macron as a French version of Tony Blair. Do you consider him your political heir?

    Blair: Obviously, Mr. Macron is his own man and isn’t anyone’s heir. What is important is that his election could be a real victory for a more global approach to politics. It could be an opportunity not just for Europe but also for the UK, which needs a strong European Union. I think that Macron represents a [centrist] spirit, a spirit which has echoes in every European country and in the western world in general.

    I tried to make Labour a vehicle for that kind of spirit, too. In the UK I would like to see Labour back on that path. Because if we end up limited to a choice between either the conservative supporters of a “hard Brexit” or the current extreme-left Labour [led by Jeremy Corbyn], a lot of people will be left by the wayside with no choice. So the ideas that centrist Macron represents aren’t just limited to France…”

  19. French Firm Signs Contract to Develop 2 Iranian Airports (alalam, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://en.alalam.ir/news/1961282

    “French construction company Vinci SA has signed a contract with Iranian firm Kayson Inc. to invest in the development of two Iranian airports, Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture confirmed.

    (financialtribune) — ICCIMA declined to provide more details, but reports published in the local media put the agreement’s value at $404 million.

    Bourse News reported on March 19 that the cooperation included a $380 million development project in Mashhad International Airport located in the northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province.

    Kayson will reportedly cooperate with the French company in the development of Isfahan International Airport, in the central metropolis of Isfahan–a popular destination among domestic and international travelers.

    Financial Tribune could not independently confirm the details…”

  20. French forces kill militants near Mali-Burkina Faso border (france24, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20170430-france-mali-forces-kill-militants-near-burkina-faso-border-barkhane

    “French soldiers killed more than 20 militants hiding in a forest near the border between the West African countries of Mali and Burkina Faso this weekend, its regional force said in a statement.

    The operation followed the death of a French soldier nearby earlier this month. It involved both air and ground strikes, the statement said, but failed to identify the militant group that was targeted.

    The French forces may have also captured some of the militants alive, the AFP news agency reported citing an unnamed army official.

    Mali has been regularly hit by Islamist militant violence, despite a 2013 French-led operation to drive them out of key northern cities they had seized…”

  21. At least 352 civilians killed by US-led strikes on Islamic State group (france24, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20170430-pentagon-civilian-death-toll-coalition-airstrikes-iraq-syria-islamic-state-group

    “At least 352 civilians have been killed in U.S.-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday.

    The Combined Joint Task Force, in its monthly assessment of civilian casualties from the U.S. coalition’s operations against the militant group, said it was still assessing 42 reports of civilian deaths.

    It added that 45 civilians were killed between November 2016 and March 2017. It reported 80 civilian deaths from August 2014 to the present that had not previously been announced. The report included 26 deaths from three separate strikes in March.

    The military’s official tally is far below those of other outside groups. Monitoring group Airwars said more than 3,000 civilians have been killed by coalition air strikes…”

  22. German interior minister speaks out in favor of ‘Leitkultur’ for immigrants (DW, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.dw.com/en/german-interior-minister-speaks-out-in-favor-of-leitkultur-for-immigrants/a-38643836

    “Germany’s interior minister has presented a 10-point plan on the divisive issue of “Leitkultur” – the idea of establishing dominant German values. Thomas de Maiziere believes this will help integrate immigrants.

    Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere shared his plan about the controversial issue of fostering a dominant culture in Germany in the Sunday edition of Germany’s daily “Bild” newspaper, saying he wanted to start a public debate about the subject.

    In his guest contribution to the paper, de Maiziere defended the idea of advocating a dominant culture in Germany, stating that strengthening set values under such a “Leitkultur” would ultimately create greater tolerance and that feeling secure in one’s culture would in turn create strength.

    Critics of the idea of “Leitkultur” argue, however, that among other things it would serve the purpose of limiting immigration by rejecting those who do not succeed in assimilating. Opponents also say that such a set core of values would automatically lead to cultural clashes, with a “Leitkultur” being treated as inherently superior to immigrants’ native cultures, and that they would therefore be designed to inadvertently limit the spreading of multiculturalism.

    The issue of “Leitkultur” has been part of much social and political debate in Germany for some 15 years now. The idea, mainly perpetuated by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party and especially its Bavarian CSU sister-party, supports the view that immigrants to Germany have to assimilate to a set of shared cultural values. Other parties, such as the Green Party and the SPD, Merkel’s partner in her governing grand coalition, reject the idea.

    De Maiziere’s comments came as political parties across Germany started to prepare for the general election, which will be held in September…”

  23. Four “Terrorists” Were Killed by Algerian Army (moroccoworldnews, Apr 30, 2017)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/04/215286/four-terrorists-killed-algerian-army/

    “Four suspected terrorists described as “dangerous” were shot dead by Algerian soldiers on Saturday 29 in the Algerian city of Batna, and three people died in an explosion on the same day.

    The Algerian Ministry of National Defense stated on Saturday 29 that its forces shot dead four “terrorists” it qualified as “dangerous” during a Search and Rescue Operation led on the same day…”

  24. Tunisia says 2 Islamist militants killed in security sweep (ahram, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/266907/World/Region/Tunisia-says–Islamist-militants-killed-in-securit.aspx

    “A militant linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb blew himself up and another was shot dead on Sunday during an operation by Tunisian security forces, the national guard said.

    Both were “dangerous terrorist elements”, and one, probably a foreigner, was a leader in a group linked to AQIM, national guard spokesman Khalifa Chibani told AFP.

    The operation took place in the central town of Sidi Bouzid when a house was raided in a security sweep after weeks of surveillance, he said.

    “A terrorist group was attacked in a national guard operation,” Chibani said, using Tunisia’s designation for Islamist militants.

    “Units had discovered contacts between the Okba Ibn Nafaa Battalion (a group connected to Al-Qaeda) and people inside Sidi Bouzid.”

    An AFP correspondent said security forces surrounded a house in the Ouled Chebli district and shots were heard.

    During the assault, one militant “was hit and blew himself up”, Chibani said…”

  25. Turkey may hit YPG in Syria ‘all of a sudden’: President Erdo?an (hurriyetdailynews, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-may-hit-ypg-in-syria-all-of-a-sudden-president-erdogan.aspx?pageID=238&nID=112570&NewsCatID=338

    “Ankara is gravely concerned by photos of U.S. soldiers attending the funerals of Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants, who it says are linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in the wake of Turkish air strikes on the two groups, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

    “We may come [to strike the YPG] overnight, all of a sudden without warning,” Erdo?an told reporters at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport before leaving for a two-day visit to India.

    “We are seriously concerned to see U.S. flags in a convoy that has YPG rags on it. We will mention these issues to President [Donald Trump] during our visit to the United States on May 16,” he added.

    Erdo?an was asked about photos said to show U.S. soldiers patrolling along the Turkish border and attending the funerals of the YPG militants apparently killed in Turkish air strikes.

    “If we are against global terrorism, then we need to tell them [U.S.] about these issues. If we do not work together against terrorism, then tomorrow it will strike at another ally,” he added.

    Erdo?an vowed that Turkey will continue operations against the PKK and the YPG, similar to strikes earlier this week on Mt. Sinjar in northern Iraq and Syria’s Mt. Karaçok…”

  26. Taliban are main reason behind US forces presence in Afghanistan: Hekmatyar (khaama, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.khaama.com/taliban-are-main-reason-behind-us-forces-presence-in-afghanistan-hekmatyar-02678

    “The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar once again slammed the Taliban group for leading a baseless insurgency, claiming that the group is the main reason behind the presence of the US forces in Afghanistan.

    Speaking during a gathering in eastern Nangarhar province in the presence of Second Vice President and other high level officials, Hekmatyar said the insurgency led by the Taliban has forced the American force to remain in the country, specifically pointing towards the attack on Kunduz city nearly two years ago.

    Hekmatyar further added that the major attack on Kunduz city was a major mistake done by the Taliban insurgents for launching the attack after the US forces had started withdrawal from the country.

    He said Hezb-e-Islami joined peace process since the US had taken most of its forces out of the country but the growing insurgency led to revision of decision by US to keep troops in the country.
    The Hezb-e-Islami leader called on Taliban group to get united with the Afghan people and build the country.

    Hekmatyar arrived in eastern Laghman province of Afghanistan on Wednesday and appeared in a gathering in front of media on Saturday, months after a peace deal was concluded between Hezb-e-Islami and the Afghan government.”

    • We’re America’s best friend in Syria. Turkey bombed us anyway.

      Erdogan is trying to force the United States to choose between us and Turkey. We don’t think such a choice is necessary, but it is worth considering what that choice entails. We, the Democratic Council of Syria, are an alliance of progressive, democratic parties that govern the Northern Syria Federation. Though we are besieged from all sides (by the Islamic State, the Assad regime and Erdogan’s Turkey), our region is more stable than any other part of the country. So much so, in fact, that in addition to our population of 3 million, we have taken in an additional 500,000 refugees (Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Armenians and Yazidis) from across Syria.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/04/28/were-americas-best-friend-in-syria-turkey-bombed-us-anyway/?utm_term=.68100976f1fd

  27. TERROR WARNING: ‘Active plots uncovered by police’ as militants plan to massacre Britons (express, Apr 30, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/798576/TERROR-WARNING-plots-uncovered-police-British-militants-plan-massacre-Britons

    “TERROR plots designed to murder Britons on the streets of London are being investigated by police after TWO were foiled in the capital last week.

    Another terror cell is planning multiple strikes in the city, police have revealed.

    Suspects are reportedly being monitored by officers, similar to those who took down a suspected cell last week.

    Sunday Times sources claimed officers are currently one step ahead of the would-be attackers.

    A senior anti-terrorism official told the paper: “There are another two plots being closely watched.”…”