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“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.” – C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Chris Gaubatz, Vice President of Understanding the Threat – Focus Today” – theDoveTV – Published on July 7, 2017
Alex Jones – Chris Gaubatz – July 12, 2017
OpenMind – Published on July 13, 2017
Let’s go to the Champs Elysees life for the 14th July (Jour de la Bastille) with the POTUS present. I wonder for how long the new masters will still allow this kind of celebration:
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/france/14-juillet/direct-regardez-le-defile-militaire-du-14-juillet-sur-les-champs-elysees_2279291.html
Anti-Macron protesters take to the streets of Paris amid Bastille Day celebrations
Activist movement ‘The Social Front’ has called to rally in Paris on Friday, July 14. Anti-war protesters march against the Bastille Day Military Parade, US President Donald Trump’s attendance of the parade and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to France on Sunday.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sydney-uni-adopts-law-courses-pushing-for-sharia-law-in-australian-legal-system/
THE most prestigious law school in Australia has two courses which call for elements of sharia law to be recognised in the mainstream legal system — including allowances for polygamy and lowering the age of consent.
One of the Sydney University courses, Muslim Minorities And The Law, is taught by Salim Farrar and Dr Ghena Krayem and it uses a book the pair wrote as “the monograph upon which the unit of study bases its teaching”.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the book claims “sharia and common law are not inherently incompatible” and that police’s failures to accommodate Islamic religious identity during operations was hampering the fight against Islamist terrorism.
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has warned universities that religion has no place in the law.
“Equality of the law, under the law and before the law should be one of the first principles in our law schools,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
“We all operate under the one legal framework in Australia, applied consistently to all and that is not a matter for negotiation.”
Mr Birmingham’s office also warned universities about using taxpayer funds to promote ideologies at odds with the Australian public
“Universities must keep in touch with Australian community expectations and that includes respect for and adherence to Australian law,” a spokesman said.
“Universities operate under a social license and we rightly expect that the taxpayer funding going to those institutions is being used to deliver benefits to all Australians.”
The book also takes aims at judges for denouncing “conservative Muslim values” during sentencing.
“Where found guilty of transgressing Western values, for example in gender equality, or violating national security, courts have clearly communicated their denunciation of ‘traditional’ or conservative Muslim values when sentencing, dispensing exemplary sentences and announcing aggravating factors, even when the written law does not explicitly demand it,” it says.
The idea of mixing sharia law with Australian law has been criticised by the legal fraternity and Islamic leaders, who said the “division between religion and courts” must be upheld.
However, the authors say when it comes to the law “we will suggest that ‘accommodation’ is not enough and that, as liberal democratic societies, we should move towards a notion of ‘recognition’.”
The authors also call for research into whether polygamy should be legally recognised.
“There is no doubt that this is an area that needs to be researched, particularly given the fact that anecdotal evidence suggests that this is an increasing practice in Muslim communities,” it says.
The course brief for Mr Farrar’s undergraduate course Introduction To Islamic law says it will focus on “shari’ah (the classical laws as derived from the religious sources), and will seek to explain its relationship to the contemporary laws of Muslim states and to the cultural practices of Muslim communities living in Australia and other predominantly non-Muslim states.”
Sharia law is Islam’s religious law. It is often described as a code for living for Muslims. There is ongoing dispute between traditionalists and reformists over its application in Western society.
At its most extreme, sharia law calls for death by stoning for adulterers.
However, the Sydney academics condemn such practices in their writings.
The book says “in terms of police operational practice, there has been little evidence of accommodation of Islamic religious identity across our jurisdictions.“Rather, evidence suggests police have targeted and discriminated against Muslims simply on grounds of religious identity. While Muslims tend not to object to greater personal intrusions where clearly justified for security reasons, such procedural unfairness is likely to be counter-productive in the fight against Islamist terrorism.”
In a chapter on Islamic Family Law, the authors say a man has the “exclusive” right to divorce his wife and states that sharia does not recognise minimum age in marriage.
“There is no minimum age for a contract of marriage, but it should not be consummated if that would cause harm to the putative spouse.”
It also criticised the Australian legal system for not recognising the religious significance of paying a woman a fee to marry her, a practice known as mahr.
Law Society of NSW president Pauline Wright said universities were “places of ideas and should be exploring them but having said that in terms of the law — in my view — all Australians should be subject to the same law.
“I don’t think bringing different laws in based on the religion of people coming before the courts is appropriate.”
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils spokesman Ali Kadri said sharia was often “misunderstood”, but expressed a similar sentiment.
“I think there is nothing within Australian law which stops me from following my religion as I am supposed to and I would not be compromising anything within my religion by following Australian law as it is,” he said.
“I don’t think we need to have religious connotations with any law because we are a secular country.”
Dr Krayem and a team of Melbourne academics were awarded a federal government research grant in 2015 to research the Response Of Australian Family Law To Islamic Community Processes, to influence “future policy developments”. Family law expert Robert Balzola said it was concerning that public funding was behind the research.
A university spokesman said the “optional” course would provide students with a “basic understanding of the sources of Islamic law and its interpretation”. Both academics declined to comment.
The article has been removed from the papers website.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-14/sleepwalking-to-world-war-three-stan-grant/8710390
Australia is plunging headlong into catastrophe and we are utterly unprepared. In fact, we may be past the time when we can prepare.
The time-bomb is ticking and it will explode in our lifetimes.
All certainty will be lost, our economy will be devastated, our land seized, our system of government upended.
This isn’t mere idle speculation or the rantings of a doomsday cult, this is the warning from a man who has made it his life’s work to prepare for just this scenario.
Admiral Chris Barrie was chief of Australia’s Defence Force between 1998 and 2002.
He has seen war and sent troops into battle.
Now, he says we are sleepwalking towards a conflict that will alter the world as we know it.
Australia, he says, will be invaded. He fears for the country his grandchildren will inherit….
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The war is coming, and its not just Austrialia that is going to be plunged into it unexpectedly, and the war is going to be much longer and bloodier then WWII.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/spy-agency-employees-reveal-shocking-allegations-of-toxic-workplace-culture-1.3502270
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/07/11/turkey-demands-cash-to-ratify-paris-agreement/
London acid attacks: Teenager arrested (BBC, Jul 14, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40604002
“A teenager has been arrested after acid was thrown in people’s faces in five attacks over one night in London.
Two moped riders attacked the victims over 90 minutes in Islington, Stoke Newington and Hackney on Thursday.
An eyewitness said he heard a victim, who he believed was a delivery driver, “screaming in pain”. One victim suffered “life-changing injuries”.
Police said they were looking into whether moped riders were targeted so their bikes could be stolen.
Hackney resident Jon Moody said he was watching TV when he heard screaming and ran to the window.
“I could see a man in serious distress, he was screaming in pain.
“There were only two police officers with the victim, they took out two large water canisters and poured it over him.”
He said he believed the victim was a delivery driver and about 20 fellow delivery drivers turned up at the scene.
The Hackney Gazette last week reported many delivery drivers are refusing to work in some areas after 21:30 BST because of robbery fears.
The assaults happened amid increasing concern about the sharp rise in acid attacks in London.
Since 2010 there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in the capital. Last year, it was used in 458 crimes, compared to 261 in 2015, according to Met Police figures.
Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said the growing trend of victims being doused with corrosive liquids was concerning.
Ms Dick told LBC Thursday night’s attacks were “completely barbaric”.
“The acid can cause horrendous injuries,” she said.
“The ones last night involved a series of robberies we believe are linked – I am glad to see we have arrested somebody.”
Police said the latest attacks were linked and were questioning the teenager at an east London police station on suspicion of robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.
A Met spokesman said one line of inquiry detectives would be pursuing was whether the attackers were targeting moped riders to steal their bikes.
The attacks began at 22:25 BST on Thursday in Hackney Road.
A 32-year-old man on a moped was left with facial injuries after another moped, with two male riders, pulled up alongside him and threw a corrosive substance in his face.
One of the men stole his moped and the other drove away on the vehicle they arrived on.
The Met said it was awaiting an update on the extent of the victim’s injuries. Inquiries are ongoing.
Attacks timeline
At 22:25 BST on Thursday in Hackney Road a 32-year-old man on a moped was left with facial injuries after a moped, with two male riders, pulled up alongside him and attacked him.
At 22:49 BST a man was reported to have had a corrosive substance thrown in his face by two men on a moped in Islington.
At 23:05 BST a corrosive substance was reported to have been thrown in the face of a person by two men on a moped in Shoreditch High Street. The victim has been taken to hospital, although police said the injuries were not believed to be life threatening or life changing.
At 23:18 BST police received reports of a robbery in Cazenove Road, Stoke Newington, where a corrosive substance had been thrown. Officers attended and found a man suffering from facial injuries that have been described as life changing.
At about 23:37 BST, a man on a moped was in traffic on Chatsworth Road, Clapton when two men on a moped pulled up alongside him and sprayed liquid in his face, before stealing his vehicle. The victim was taken to an east London hospital.
Assaults involving corrosive substances have more than doubled in England since 2012, with the number of acid attacks in the capital showing the most dramatic rise in recent years.
The Met’s own figures show there were 261 acid attacks in 2015, rising to 458 last year.
So far this year – excluding Thursday night – the Met has recorded 119 such attacks.
Shadow Home Secretary and Stoke Newington MP Dianne Abbott responded to news of the attacks, tweeting: “More terrible acid attacks, Why would you scar someone for life just to steal a moped.”
Labour MP for East Ham Stephen Timms has tabled an adjournment debate for Monday in the House of Commons on the rise in the number of acid attacks.
About a third of last year’s acid attacks in the capital took place in the London borough of Newham, which is in his constituency.
Mr Timms told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that carrying a bottle of sulphuric acid without justification should be treated as an offence, like carrying a knife, adding he was “most concerned about sulphuric acid.”
“We could certainly come up with arrangements that would allow people to use sulphuric acid in the normal way, perhaps with the benefit of a licence. But simply walking around the street with a bottle of sulphuric acid, that should be an offence,” he said.
A Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister viewed acid attacks as “horrific”.
“We are working with the police to see what more we could do. The prime minister’s view is that the use of acid in this way is horrific.”
Home Office minister Sarah Newton told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast the government was considering tighter controls on some chemicals in response to the acid attacks in East London and elsewhere.
But she said regulation would be difficult, as “these chemicals are under everyone’s kitchen sinks”.
She said it was clear acid was being used “as a weapon” and work had been commissioned “to understand the motivation” of people who use it to injure others.
She also said the government was examining sentencing for those who use acid to injure people.”
Five terror attacks just minutes away from being carried out in London stopped by police
Five terror attacks , some of which were just minutes away from being carried out, have been thwarted by police in the capital.
Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick appeared on radio this morning and gave the first insight into the force’s successes over the last three to four months.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/five-terror-attacks-just-minutes-10797063
‘HE WAS HOLDING HIS FACE IN AGONY’ London acid attack witnesses tell of horror as victim in Hackney suffered ‘catastrophic’ injuries when two muggers on moped carried out FIVE assaults in just 90 minutes
One teenager has been arrested after two suspects carried out the depraved attacks and robberies in Stoke Newington, Hackney and Islington on Thursday night
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4016167/london-acid-attack-hackney-attacks-stoke-newington-moped-latest-updates/
At some point, the police will never be able to arrive soon enough before the assailants mysteriously disappear into the hands of unamused witnesses.
What happens to these punks and thugs thereafter will be a matter for the coroner’s office to guess at.
Assuming the bodies are found.
Shortage Of Foreign Labor Forces Maine Businesses To Hire Local Workers
Businesses in Bar Harbor, Maine are turning to locals to make up for a shortage of foreign guest workers that normally fill summer jobs in the bustling seaside resort town.
Because the H-2B visa program has already reached its annual quota, Bar Harbor’s hotels, restaurants and shops can’t bring in any more foreign workers for the rest of the busy summer tourist season. Like hundreds of similar coastal resort towns, Bar Harbor has for many years depended on the H-2B visas for temporary workers. The program allows non-agricultural companies to bring in foreign labor if they are unable to find suitable employees domestically.
Now they are coming up with creative ways to attract local labor, reports the Bangor Daily News.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/13/shortage-of-foreign-labor-forces-maine-businesses-to-hire-local-workers/
What?!? Hire some Americans? There’s an unusual concept.
If it isn’t the jihadis making life miserable, it’s cheapskate employers hiring Americans last. I wonder how much more of this grinding down US workers will stand for.
The civil war is close, you can tell that by watching the reaction to the Propaganda media.
Summer residents of Bar Harbor are FILTHY rich.
Nothing wrong with being rich as long as you don’t decide that makes you better then everyone else.
“Summer residents of Bar Harbor are FILTHY rich.”
All the less reason for businesses catering to the wealthy needing to hire foreign workers. Their profit margins should be adequate to employ locals.
This sort of cheapskate crap really needs to be outed for the “micro-treason” that it is. Add up all these little economic “paper cuts” and it translates into a huge chunk of earning power being handed off to people that immediately send those wages overseas.
And don’t fool yourselves. Processing all of those HB visas adds up to millions of dollars at the Federal level. American taxpayers have no need to finance the importation of regular labor. Hire Americans or piss off!
Is it cheapskate or is it scoring points over the neighbors by having servants with an accent?
US, Somalia forces raid al-Shabab, kill several: Official (abcnews, Jul 14, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-somalia-forces-raid-al-shabab-kill-official-48630985
“United States and Somali military forces raided a rebel-held village in southern Somalia and killed several al-Shabab fighters early Thursday, a senior Somali intelligence official said, as both countries step up efforts against Africa’s deadliest Islamic extremist group.
Somali commandos accompanied by U.S. forces in two helicopters raided two locations, the official said. They included a detention center run by al-Shabab in Kunya-Barrow village in Lower Shabelle region, and an unknown number of detainees were freed.
Troops engaged a small number of extremist fighters, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
U.S. Africa Command spokesman Mark Cheadle said U.S. forces conducted an “advise and assist mission” against al-Shabab with members of the Somali National Army in Kunya-Barrow. He gave no further details.
There were no U.S. casualties, AFRICOM spokeswoman Jennifer Dyrcz added Friday morning…”
Troops foil attack on Pakistan army camp, 2 soldiers wounded (abcnews, Jul 14, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/troops-foil-attack-pakistan-army-camp-soldiers-wounded-48630417
“Pakistani security officials say two suicide bombers have attacked a military camp in northwest Pakistan, triggering a shootout in which the attackers were killed and two soldiers wounded.
The officials said the attack took place Friday morning. One of the attackers detonated his suicide vest and the other was killed by snipers deployed at the camp in the Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media…”
Exclusive: North Korea may have more bomb fuel than thought – U.S. think tank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thermal images of North Korea’s main nuclear site show Pyongyang may have reprocessed more plutonium than previously thought that can be used to enlarge its nuclear weapons stockpile, a U.S. think tank said on Friday.
The analysis by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korean monitoring project, was based on satellite images of the radiochemical laboratory at the Yongbyon nuclear plant from September until the end of June, amid rising international concerns over North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.
The think tank said images of the uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon could also indicate operation of centrifuges that could be used to increase North Korea’s stock of enriched uranium, its other source of bomb fuel.
There were signs too of at least short-term activity at North Korea’s Experimental Light Water Reactor that could be cause for concern, 38 North said.
http://www.oann.com/exclusive-north-korea-may-have-more-bomb-fuel-than-thought-u-s-think-tank/
“cause for concern” = Accelerated timetable
Yup, instead of a couple of years it is probably 6 months.
Buckle up and put on your crash helmet, the world is about to go on a trip that will make LSD look tame.
Time for POTUS to terminate the Nuclear Test Ban treaty and begin testing and manufacture of nuclear weapons again.
That will clearly delineate the Old Globalist World Order and a new America that puts our interests first.
This would be very nice.
Gunmen kill 5 policemen near Egypt’s oldest pyramids in Giza (abcnews, Jul 14, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypts-state-run-media-attack-kills-police-giza-48631936
“Gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire Friday on a security vehicle patrolling a Giza village near some of Egypt’s oldest pyramids, killing five police, the Interior Ministry and officials said.
The deadly shooting heightened fears of what has become near-weekly attacks by suspected Islamic militants after a blitz attack left 23 troops dead in northern Sinai a week ago. Friday’s attack comes amid a months-long state of emergency following a series of church bombings in the spring, and threatens to deal a blow to Egypt’s struggling tourism industry and economy.
The attack took place in the village of Abusir in Badrashin, part of Greater Cairo, on a weekend in Egypt when there is little traffic in the streets. The slain policemen were part of the force tasked to guard the district of Saqqara, one of Egypt’s most popular tourist sites and host to a collection of temples, tombs and funerary complexes.
The Interior Ministry said the militants sprayed the policemen’s vehicle with machine guns as the security force was on the move to patrol the surroundings. They fled after one policeman returned gunfire, the ministry said in a statement. Earlier, officials said that the attackers were masked and that they targeted a checkpoint.
Attackers stole the weapons and radios of the victims and tried to set fire to the bodies but fled upon seeing people gathering nearby, witnesses said…”
If you include attacks in the Sinai, the toll is much higher.
Asserting sovereignty, Indonesia renames part of South China Sea
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea as the North Natuna Sea on Friday, the latest act of resistance by Southeast Asian nations to China’s territorial ambitions in the maritime region.
Seen by analysts as an assertion of Indonesian sovereignty, part of the renamed sea is claimed by China under its contentious maritime boundary, known as the ‘nine-dash line’, that encompasses most of the resource-rich sea.
Several Southeast Asian states dispute China’s territorial claims and are competing with China to exploit the South China Sea’s abundant hydrocarbon and fishing resources. China has raised the ante by deploying military assets on artificial islands constructed on shoals and reefs in disputed parts of the sea.
Indonesia insists it’s a non-claimant state in the South China Sea dispute but has clashed with China over fishing rights around the Natuna Islands, detaining Chinese fishermen and expanding its military presence in the area over the past 18 months.
http://www.oann.com/asserting-sovereignty-indonesia-renames-part-of-south-china-sea/
Considering that Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, this could get “interesting”. I’d much rather that Indonesia sent its jihadist killers to China (instead of The Philippines) in order to stir things up.
Someone, anyone, really needs to pour sand into China’s gears.
Also if China has to have an overseas adventure to seize assets and remove some of the excessive number of young men I would rather it was in Indonesia then elsewhere like say Korea.
The Caliphate Project in Iraq Post-Mosul
Destroying the vestiges of IS governance will not eliminate the group — which will continue to pose an insurgent and terrorist threat — but it will remove any arguments the jihadists might be inclined to make about the near-term viability of their state.
CONCLUSIONS
Given this profile of holdout areas of Islamic State control, Iraqi and coalition forces should indeed laud their victory in Mosul — but should likewise keep an eye on what’s next, regarding not only where IS retains insurgent strength but also where it holds territorial control and administrative resilience. Destroying the remaining vestiges of the IS caliphate project will not eliminate the group, which will continue to pose an insurgent and terrorist threat, but it will remove any arguments the jihadists might be inclined to make about the viability of their state — even if that state is a shell of its former self.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-caliphate-project-in-iraq-post-mosul
The terrorist diaspora: After the fall of the caliphate
Thomas Joscelyn’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Task Force on Denying Terrorists Entry into the United States. The hearing is titled, “The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/07/the-terrorist-diaspora-after-the-fall-of-the-caliphate.php
The terrorist diaspora: After the fall of the caliphate
Thomas Joscelyn’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Task Force on Denying Terrorists Entry into the United States. The hearing is titled, “The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/07/the-terrorist-diaspora-after-the-fall-of-the-caliphate.php
The Fight Against the Islamic State Is Far from Over
?It took nearly nine months for Iraqi security forces to dislodge IS from Mosul despite the fact that they significantly outnumbered IS forces and were backed by the U.S. (By comparison, it took IS only two weeks to take Mosul.) The Islamic State could not have lasted as long as it did without a fair amount of local support. The population of the majority Sunni city doesn’t trust the central government and so Iraq’s fundamental problems remain unresolved.?
Iraqi security forces were so bloodied in the battle of Mosul that they will be in no rush to resume the fight in other IS-controlled areas such as those in Anbar province. Moreover, the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is irrelevant. Groups like the Islamic State are more hydra than snake: Cutting off the head doesn’t kill the body, it just creates new heads.?
Islamic State is not yet defeated. It still holds defensible territory stretching from Deir el-Zour to Abu Kamal. It still conducts terrorist attacks. And it still tries to infiltrate surrounding countries, most notably Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/really-matters-middle-east/
After the Defeat of ISIS in Mosul, Iran Prepares for Regional Domination
?The commander of the largest Shiite militia in Iraq – the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF) – is Jamal al-Ibrahim, known as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Abu Mahdi is a former colleague of Hizbullah leader Imad Mughniyah and a protege of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force.
?Abu Mahdi escaped from a Kuwaiti prison in 1990 after he was convicted and sentenced to death for bomb attacks on the American and French Embassies in Kuwait that killed five people. Incredibly, he was elected to the Iraqi parliament in 2005 as a member of the Shiite governing coalition. When his involvement in the Kuwaiti bombing became known, Abu Mahdi fled to Iran.?
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei has said that the PMF is an “important and blessed phenomenon” that will have an important role in ruling Iraq after the defeat of the Islamic State. Thus, Iran has virtually won control over Iraq, a key segment of the “Shiite arc” land route from Tehran, through Iraq and Syria, to southern Lebanon and the Mediterranean.
http://jcpa.org/article/defeat-isis-mosul-iran-prepares-regional-domination/
Lets see if I have got this right, the preliminary bouts may or may not be over but the fighters are warming up for the main event? Did I read the analysis’ right?
I note that they are all looking at Iraq and Syria and ignoring North Africa where a lot of the ISIS types are fleeing to. Of course a lot are trying for Europe and the US also.
That’s the focus of my sources – the ones I’m following closely.
Video: The IDF Underwater Missions Unit
The IDF’s Yaltam unit is trained for underwater missions such as neutralizing mines and search and rescue.
They use the latest technology and operate over 300 feet below sea level.
Yaltam divers are present aboard any on-duty navy vessel, ready to provide aid should the ship need repairs at sea or should a sailor fall overboard.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/WATCH-Israeli-army-divers-train-under-water-for-special-missions-499579
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Note: Jerusalem Post – Too much junk at the site. I couldn’t get rid of it, didn’t watch.
Now let’s look at the Merkava Mk.4, Israel Main Battle Tank. [Review]
RE: Soros vs Orban, by Evelyn Gordon.
The Left’s Inversion of Anti-Semitism
…Some attacks on Soros are anti-Semitic, like when someone at an anti-refugee rally in Poland in 2015 set fire to an effigy of an Orthodox Jew which he said represented Soros. That’s classic anti-Semitism; it implies both that the real problem is Soros’s Jewishness rather than anything he did, and that all Jews are responsible for Soros’s actions.
The Hungarian campaign, however, targets Soros not for his Jewishness, which it never even mentions, but for his actions: specifically, the fact that he is one of the main financial backers of pro-immigration organizations in Hungary. . . . Yet both Jews and non-Jews have risen up to declare such criticism “anti-Semitic” solely because he happens to be Jewish. . . .
Now contrast this with, say, what happened at last month’s “Chicago Dyke March,” when three people carrying rainbow flags with Stars of David on them were kicked out of the march because the flag was “pro-Israel,” and therefore unacceptable at a progressive demonstration. The Star of David is the most recognizable Jewish symbol in existence; . . . that’s precisely why Israel put it on its national flag. That’s also why the so-called “Jewish pride” flag has a Star of David on its rainbow background—not to represent Israel, but to represent the marchers’ Judaism. . . .
In other words, these marchers were expelled solely for carrying an obviously Jewish symbol at a progressive event. This is classic anti-Semitism: Jews are welcome only if they divest themselves of anything that could identify them as Jews. Yet in the progressive world, such anti-Semitism is deemed perfectly acceptable so long as you claim, as the march organizers did, that the victims were expelled for being “Zionists.”. . . .
[Thus, for] the progressive left . . . targeting people for being Jewish is no longer anti-Semitic, but targeting people for being progressive activists is. . . . [I]nstead of being a shield to protect Jews, charges of anti-Semitism have become a shield to protect leftists. And thereby the left has completed the process of redefining anti-Semitism to its own benefit, to the detriment of the Jews.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/lefts-inversion-anti-semitism/
Berlin and Tehran
Why Germany Tolerates Iranian Cheating
[W]henever reports of cheating threaten to derail non-proliferation agreements, governments invested in those agreements are willing to bury the evidence to make a quick buck. Often, the [U.S.] State Department is [also] willing to look the other way in order to keep the process alive. That was the case with Iraq in the 1980s, North Korea in the 1990s, and Iran in the first half of the last decade.
. . .
German diplomats have [in the past] not only been willing to excuse Iranian terrorism, but also nuclear cheating. [In] 2003, . . . despite finding that Iran had been developing a uranium centrifuge-enrichment program for eighteen years, and a laser-enrichment program for twelve years, the German foreign minister Joschka Fischer corralled European Union authorities into giving the Islamic Republic another chance.
German leaders might preach human rights and the virtues of multilateralism, but when it comes to the Islamic Republic, the German government’s desire to promote business always trumps holding Iran to account. Yes, Iran likely seeks to renew and advance its nuclear-weapons program. Iranian leaders correctly calculate that even if they paraded a nuclear missile through the streets of Tehran or tested a warhead in their southeastern desert, German authorities would embrace any excuse, however implausible, to look the other way, deny reality, and run interference—all in order to keep trade channels open….
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/iran/germany-tolerates-iranian-cheating/
Palestinian Group Hosts Terrorist Fundraising Event in Germany
The Democratic Committee of Palestine hosted an event in Berlin on Saturday to raise money for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group, according to the Berlin daily Tagesspiegl and as reported by the Jerusalem Post.
The event reportedly took place in the building that also hosts Neues Deutschland‘s publishing house — a socialist newspaper.
A recent NGO Monitor report outlined how several European governments fund organizations with PFLP links. The PFLP is a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization designated as such by the EU and other Western states. These NGOs often justify attacks against Israeli civilians, and maintain ties to known terrorists.
According to the NGO Monitor report, PFLP operatives founded some of the listed organizations directly, while other groups include staff members who were convicted of terrorism-related charges by Israeli courts. These so-called human rights organizations are at the forefront for the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, while prominent individuals within some of the NGOs are known to promote violence and antisemitism.
Berlin Mayor Michael Müller faced criticism for not blocking the PFLP fundraiser; he also faced backlash for allowing Hezbollah sympathizers and members to participate in an annual al-Quds Day march in Berlin last month.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/07/12/palestinian-group-hosts-terrorist-fundraising-event-in-germany/
The Future of Religious Liberty
Religious liberty is on trial in America, both in legislative debates at the state and federal level and in court cases now working their way through the judicial system. As the environment for religious traditionalists becomes more hostile, observant Jews will increasingly confront some difficult questions: Will American society continue to respect the religious freedom of traditional communities? Will the moral teachings and ritual practices of Orthodox schools and synagogues get restricted, and will leaders of these institutions be kept out of the public square? What can Jewish leaders and activists do to help protect and preserve religious freedom in America—not only for Jews, but for all Americans?
In order to help us think through these issues, Tikvah invited two of the nation’s foremost experts on religious liberty to the Tikvah Center in New York City as part of our lecture series on “Torah Jews and America.” The Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson helped provide a general overview of the religious freedom issue in America today, and Professor Daniel Mark of Villanova University, and the Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom explored the unique challenges that increasingly face by the Orthodox Jewish community.
The signals are mixed so we don’t know what is going to happen.
Middle class kids as young as EIGHT groomed by gangs to sell drugs and trafficked for sex (express, Jul 14, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/828499/middle-class-kids-young-eight-groomed-gangs-sell-drugs-trafficked-sex-criminal
“MIDDLE class children and teenagers are being groomed to sell drugs by criminal gangs, a parliamentary report has found.
Youngsters from “stable and economically better-off” backgrounds are being drawn in and exploited by crime networks.
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Runaway and Missing Children and Adults warns that children are being used in drug networks known as “county lines”.
It typically involves city gangs branching out to coastal or county towns to sell heroin and crack cocaine, where they are used as couriers to move drugs and cash between their new market and original base.
The APPG report, which includes statements from experts, says: “The participants of the roundtable heard that any child can be groomed for criminal exploitation.
“It affects boys and girls, children from families that experience a range of issues as well those from stable and economically better off families.
“Some children are initially approached by their peers, who have also been groomed and exploited, which can make it even harder for them to identify the risks without prior education.”
Children and young people as young as eight or nine who go missing are said to be at a “serious risk” of being targeted for gangs, for use of trafficking, criminalisation, sexual exploitation and violence.
The report claims that children are too often are perceived to have “made a choice” to go with the gangs and are criminalised rather than being viewed as victims.
Chair of the APPG, Labour MP Ann Coffey, said: “Young people who are groomed into drug-running by adults are being exploited in the same way as those who are enticed into sexual activity.
“They too are vulnerable and need our support.
“Children from all backgrounds can be affected.
“We need a greater understanding and awareness of this kind of criminal exploitation of children and better training to ensure it is recognised and prevented at an early stage.
“Once a child is criminalised it is very hard to get them back to the other side of the law.”
A Home Office spokeswoman added: “Missing children are some of the most vulnerable people in our society and it is absolutely abhorrent that county lines gangs are seeking to exploit them and other vulnerable young people.
“Improvements have been made to the accuracy of police crime recording, including in instances of abduction, because it is essential that we fully understand the extent of the issue.
“There is more that all partners can do, which is why we are tackling county lines through a national action plan and reviewing our cross-Government strategy on Missing Children and Adults and developing a clear implementation plan for delivery.””
‘Inca values’: Americans’ turning to superstitions, the paranormal, and neo-paganism. We can do better than this.
MY SHAMANIC HEALING
What I saw in Brooklyn is happening across the West. Christianity’s decline is leading not to austere secularism, but to a wild flowering of shamanic healers, spirit crystals, and transcendental maharishis. . . . Worship of strange spirits is on the rise in America, often in ways we do not acknowledge. Tarot readers, ghost hunters, UFO abductees, and shamanic healers may not seem to have much in common with the noble pagans of old. But in a society shaped by comics, sci-fi, and multi-culti kitsch, inchoate polytheism manifests itself as paranormal belief. . . .
Rigorous skepticism may work for storybook characters, but it cannot satisfy man. . . . We may be tempted simply to have an urbane laugh at the follies of the superstitious, but that would be a mistake. . . . [V]ery few are capable of sustained and thoroughgoing unbelief. This is why no superstition is more ridiculous than the pretense of secularism, and anyone who thinks Christianity will give way to atheism is a far greater fool than the most credulous ghost hunter.
This winter, I hiked across the lava fields on the south slope of Kilauea. Shortly after we began, the guide bent down over the rock. In hopes that the volcanic goddess Pele would forgive us our trespassing, she made an offering of cocoa beans (organic—she grows them herself and sells them at the farmers’ market), laceleaf, and M&Ms, along with a libation of IPA. Her brand of bourgeois superstition has a bright future in post-Christian America.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/08/my-shamanic-healing
First published in Hebrew at Mida on June 28, 2017. English by Avi Woolf.
Evangelical Christianity’s Changing Demographics Bode Well for Israel
In the 21st century, evangelical Christians have come to constitute the world’s fastest-growing religious group; if current trends continue, they will outnumber Catholics and possibly even Muslims in a few decades. The movement’s growth corresponds to a shift in its center of gravity; a majority of evangelicals now come from Asia, Africa, and Latin America rather than the U.S.
Given that evangelical Christianity tends to encourage a positive attitude toward Jews and the Jewish state, argues Jürgen Bühler, this change could be especially significant for Israel:
One factor that unites evangelicals across the world, whether in the Amazonian rainforests, the Niger delta, or in Chinese cities is a great love of Israel. . . . The rapid increase in the number of evangelicals may turn these countries into strategic allies for Israel, as they are becoming a significant part of the general population. In Brazil, between 26 and 30 percent of the citizens are evangelicals. In Guatemala, more than 40 percent. In Uganda, 37 percent. In Nigeria, 40 percent. Even in Muslim Indonesia, 12 percent of the population are evangelicals. Their number in China is estimated at around 100 million.
Already today, this phenomenon has political and diplomatic influence that aids Israel, both at the national level and in international organizations like the UN—and this influence is set to increase in the coming years. For instance, the previous president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, ordered the state’s representatives in the UN not to support the vote on recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a state, due to pressure from the evangelical community in his country.
http://en.mida.org.il/2016/01/06/the-evangelical-revolution-is-an-engine-of-support-for-israel/
Christianity isn’t dead yet and outside of the big cities is thriving.
The movement is growing more slowly in North America than elsewhere.
Which is unfortunate.
Yes it is growing slowly but I am seeing people who left to Christianity to go Pagan returning to Christianity,
Endangered species’ ISIS’ sick attack on Western females for ‘abandoning motherhood’ (express, Jul 14, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/828597/ISIS-latest-dabiq-magazine-terror-western-women
“WOMEN in the West have become an “endangered species” as they continue to abandon “motherhood, wifehood, chastity and femininity”, depraved jihadis have blasted.
Bloodthirsty Islamic State (ISIS) extremists accused women of adopting a “vile path” where they bare no resemblance to the mother of Jesus, Mary.
The depraved terror cult said women in the UK faced dangers and deviances, which would “threaten her own soul” because of the Western way of life.
In the 15th issue of its propaganda magazine, jihadists wrote: “There is no resemblance in the Western woman to what is found in Mary, just as there is no resemblance in the Western man to what is found in Jesus the Messiah of humility, religiosity, and chastity.
“And as the fitrah continues to be desecrated day by day in the West and more and more women abandon motherhood, wifehood, chastity, femininity, and heterosexuality, the true woman in the West has become an endangered creature.”
“Western way of life a female adopts brings with it so many dangers and deviances, threatening her very own soul.”
Fitrah is a word ISIS terrorists use meaning rituals critical entering the ritual state preceding the pilgrimage.
In a list of rituals aimed at women, ISIS extremists said a women must not “imitate man” and “does not rule man”.
They wrote: “They say the fitrah is also that woman does not imitate man. The Prophet cursed those men who emulate women and those women who emulate men (Al-Bukhari).
“The fitrah is also that woman does not rule man. The fitrah is also that women are not responsible for waging war, rather it is man who is judged for his abandonment of physical jihad.”
“She is the willing victim who sacrifices herself for the immoral “freedoms” of her people, offering her fitrah on the altar of secular liberalism.
“If she feared for her soul, she would reflect on where the paths of Christian paganism and democratic perversion continue to lead her, contemplate on how the world would have been had its women adopted the path of the vile West centuries ago, and liberate herself from her enslavement to hedonistic addictions and heathenish doctrines.
“The solution is laid before the Western woman. It is nothing but Islam, the religion of the fitrah.”
The sick rant comes as the extremist group is thrown into chaos after the suspected death of brutal al-Baghdadi and a loss of territory in the Iraqi city of Mosul.”
Christian paganism and democratic perversion
The tardish prove once again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The Islamic faith guarantees that all of the followers of Mohammad will end up going to hell to meet Lucifer, they aren’t going to enjoy the meeting or what follows.
MEMRI:
Criticism In Gulf, Egyptian Press: Trump Administration Is Pro-Qatar
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain, the four countries that have been blockading and making demands of Qatar for the past month because, they say, of its support for terrorism and for Iran, are also waging a diplomatic campaign aimed at persuading the world, primarily its purported allies in the West and first and foremost the U.S., that they are in the right in the current Gulf crisis. These diplomatic efforts, however, do not seem to be succeeding.
https://www.memri.org/reports/gulf–press-criticizes-us-for-being-pro-qatar
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Tillerson, et al, are pro-Qatar. Deep State is MB.
whatever…“Tillerson, et al, are pro-Qatar. Deep State is MB. ”
What could possibly go wrong?
Secure Freedom Podcasts
July 13 & 14, 2017…
https://securefreedomradio.podbean.com/
This is hugely important.
Flag this article.
There’s a lot more, solid corroboration. It’s coming out in Russian in real-time.
We’re dealing both sides, we’re gonna be murdered with our own weapons.
“We’re dealing both sides, we’re gonna be murdered with our own weapons.”
What was that old saying about “capitalists” and “ropes”?
Qatar Petroleum and France’s Total launch 25-year joint venture to develop giant oil field
State-owned Qatar Petroleum and French energy giant Total formally launched a 25-year joint venture on Tuesday to develop the Al Shaheen oil field.
The North Oil Company, launched on Tuesday, will be made up of a 70 percent stake from QP and a 30 percent stake from Total, which is taking over operations from Maersk Oil, according to a statement released by Qatar Petroleum.
The site it will develop is located some 80 kilometres (50 miles) off Qatar’s northeast coast and lies over the North Field, one of the world’s largest oil and gas fields.
The existing development consists of 30 platforms and 300 wells, and production from the field represents about half of Qatar’s total oil production.
While the contract was announced last year, the launch comes amid the worst crisis to hit Qatar, the world’s largest exporter of natural gas, in years.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain last month cut diplomatic, political, and economic ties with Qatar, which they accuse of supporting Islamist extremism.
Qatar denies the charges.
Despite its regional isolation, Qatar has said it can survive what it has called a “blockade”. Qatar Petroleum last week announced it would increase natural gas production by 30 percent by 2024.
Central bank Governor Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saoud al-Thani also told US media at the weekend that Qatar has $340 billion in reserves to weather the crisis.
The signing of the Total contract also comes amid reports that Saudi Arabia and the UAE may pressure international companies to either do business with them or with Qatar.
The deal comes in the same month that Total defied US pressure to sign a multi-billion gas contract with Iran on July 3, the first by a European firm with Tehran in more than a decade.
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/7/11/qatar-and-french-energy-giant-launch-25-year-joint-venture
“Brilliant tour de force”
Melanie Phillips sounds off on Modi, Trump’s Poland speech and Christianity
As usual, Melanie Phillips speaks the truth.
But Trump’s temperament is perfect for this time.
ok.
Fatah’s reaction to Temple Mount events
This morning, three Israeli Arabs emerged from the Temple Mount where two of them took a selfie (and posted it on Facebook,) shot and killed two Israeli police officers outside Lion’s Gate and then ran to the Temple Mount. Police gave chase and shot them dead, one of them dramatically after he played dead and then jumped up and tried to stab them.
In response, Israel closed the Temple Mount to all, the first time that Friday Muslim prayers were banned on the site since 1967.
Read is autotranslated reaction from Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party:
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/07/fatahs-reaction-to-temple-mount-events.html
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely to Arab MKs: You are thieves of history
From her press release:
In a highly charged debate that developed in the plenum tonight (Wednesday) in the framework of a motion on the subject of UNESCO’s decision on Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely responded on behalf of the government to the Arab Knesset members, by presenting two books: one being the Bible and the second “A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era,” by Assaf Voll.
Deputy Minister Hotovely said: “What is happening here is a process of stealing Jewish history on the part of the Palestinians via international forums. I recommend to UNESCO and to the Arab Knesset members to read these two books, the Bible which tells the story of the Jewish people, and Assaf Voll’s new bestseller, “A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era.” It will captivate you because it is empty, because the Palestinians don’t have kings and they don’t have heritage sites. The Palestinians are appropriating Jewish heritage sites and displacing them just as they are are trying to change the Western Wall into an Islamic site and just like they are attempting to sever the connection of the Jews to the Temple Mount. ”
She makes her argument with an error which should be avoided. By using the identity “Palestinian” she validates another lie. Rather, she should refer to them as migrant Arabs from various Arab states.
Abu Yehuda gives me that warm, Zev Jabotinsky feeling:
Hating the Jewish Jew-hater
On September 16, 1992, George Soros made $1 billion in one fell swoop by shorting the British Pound. The British government spent £3.3 billion of taxpayer’s money trying to prop it up, to no avail. Interest rates were raised by 5%, but still nobody wanted pounds. The currency fell 20% overnight. Did you have your savings in Sterling? Tough.
George Soros is also a “progressive” (although it wasn’t so progressive to rip off all those British working people), and viciously anti-Zionist. He donates very large sums to left-wing organizations all over the world, including many that advocate BDS against Israel. Soros and groups connected to him have given millions to J Street, the phony “pro-Israel” lobbying group in the US.
Indeed, the Soros contribution to anti-Israel incitement is probably exceeded only by what comes from European governments, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
[…]
http://abuyehuda.com/2017/07/hating-the-jewish-jew-hater/
What would YOU do with $1.1 billion? The Palestinian Authority’s spending priorities are shocking.
MEMRI: Tunisian Human Rights Association, Liberal Party Denounce Call To Ban Jewish Comedian Michel Boujenah From Tunisian Arts Festival For Being A Zionist: ‘Leave Art And Artists Out Of Political Controversies’
After Tunisian-born French Jewish comedian Michel Boujenah was invited to perform at the International Festival of Carthage, a music festival held every summer in the city, Tunisian activists identified with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement demanded to exclude him from the festival for being a Zionist.
In interviews, Boujenah has identified as a Zionist and expressed support for Israel, alongside support for Palestinian independence. For example, in a 2009 interview he said: “I feel Jewish, French, Tunisian, Zionist and very close to Israel, as well as a supporter of a Palestinian state.” In an open letter they sent to the Tunisian Culture Ministry and to the organizers of the festival, the activists demanded to cancel Boujenah’s show at the festival because “there is no place for the Zionists, whatever their nationality, in our country and festivals.”
The call to ban Boujenah from the festival sparked a reaction from Yamina Thabet, president of the Tunisian Association for the Support of Minorities (TASM), who denounced it and defended Boujenah’s right to perform. The Tunisian Liberal Party likewise criticized the call in a statement it posted on its Facebook page, which said: “The Tunisian Liberal Party is deeply sorry that Tunisian artist Michel Boujenah should be the subject of media and political campaigns to prevent him from performing at the Carthage Theater.” The statement urged to “keep art and artists out of political controversies.”
On June 29, 2017, the Tunisian media outlet Kapitalis reported on the affair and on TASM’s denunciation of the call to cancel Boujenah’s show. The following is a translation of the report.
https://www.memri.org/reports/bds-campain-agaisnt-tunisian-comedian
TORONTO – Five CSIS employees are accusing the spy agency of Islamophobia, racism and homophobia in a $35-million lawsuit
“Careful your Muslim in-laws don’t behead you in your sleep for being homo,” a CSIS manager allegedly wrote in a 2015 email to an intelligence officer, one of several shocking incidents outlined in a statement of claim obtained by the Star.
Five intelligence officers and analysts with Canada’s spy service have launched a $35-million lawsuit against their employer, claiming the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is a toxic workplace with managers who openly espouse Islamophobic, racist and homophobic views and discriminate against Muslim, Black and gay employees.
The allegations contained in a 54-page statement of claim — filed in Federal Court and obtained by the Toronto Star — provide detailed accusations from inside one of the country’s most secretive organizations.
One of the complainants, a Toronto intelligence officer with more than a decade of service and identified in the claim by the pseudonym “Alex,” is gay and has a Muslim partner.
According to the statement of claim, an October 2015 email sent to him by his manager “Simon” stated: “Careful your Muslim in-laws don’t behead you in your sleep for being homo.” Another boss, given the pseudonym “Joe,” allegedly wrote: “You’re just a fag hiding in your little corner sobbing.”
None of the allegations contained in the claim, which was filed Thursday morning, has been proven in court.
CSIS Director David Vigneault issued a statement responding to the Star’s questions about the claim. Vigneault, who was appointed as the spy agency’s director last month, said CSIS “takes any allegations of inappropriate behaviour very seriously.”
“I would like to reinforce that, as an organization, CSIS does not tolerate harassment, discrimination or bullying under any circumstances. The Service’s values and ethics must be reflected in all of our behaviours and decision-making, and reflect the CSIS Employee Code of Conduct principles of respect for democracy, respect for people, integrity, stewardship, and professional excellence.”
He also wrote that employees are encouraged to report “real, potential or perceived incidents of harassment, without fear of reprisal, to their supervisor or senior management.”
Toronto lawyer John Phillips, who is representing the five employees, said in an email to the Star, “I am not in a position to provide a comment at this time.”
The lawsuit follows three scathing reports on RCMP harassment, including the May federal auditor general report on the police force’s failure to manage the mental health needs of its employees.
While CSIS has come under scrutiny for past intelligence operations, this lawsuit is a rare public airing of internal complaints for an organization that was recognized as one of Canada’s top 100 employers for 2017.
Among the criteria cited by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which manages the competition, is the spy agency’s attempt to “help employees find a balance between work and their personal lives.” CSIS was given a B+ for “work atmosphere and communications,” and commended for “summer golf and softball tournaments, winter hockey tournament (with time off for players and fans) to raise money for the United Way, annual spy BBQ, summer parties across the organization, long service awards celebrations and a special Christmas party for employees’ children.”
The five intelligence officers and analysts are identified by pseudonyms the claim states, “because they have been warned by their employer, CSIS, that they are forbidden from publicly identifying themselves, or any colleagues.” The Star does not know the identity of the complainants, nor have they been interviewed.
Under Canada’s Security of Information Act identifying a spy can be considered an offence. All of the complainants are CSIS employees but are on medical leave due to stress and other mental and physical conditions that they claim were caused by the alleged abuse.
Managers mentioned in the claim are also identified by fake names.
In addition to Alex, the CSIS employees making the allegations are a Muslim analyst with more than 20 years at the agency who alleges he was told he should “complain to Allah;” a multilingual Muslim analyst who was allegedly called a “sand monkey” by his boss; a female intelligence officer, also Muslim and multilingual, who claims she faced constant suspicion after deciding to wear a hijab in 2004; and the service’s first female Black intelligence officer who claims she was told, “it’s people like you the Service likes to promote.”
All five allege in the claim when they tried to report the abuse, their circumstances got worse and their complaints resulted in no action.
“Bahira,” who says she was discriminated against as a Muslim woman, alleges, “CSIS has a culture of secrecy which does not accept whistle-blowing or complaints, regardless of the underlying harm.”
A ‘gay boy who wanted to take gay selfies with VIPs’
Alex, described in the claim as a highly decorated employee who was in an elite management program, alleges that in addition to being called a “fag” or “gay boy,” a manager reportedly joked to the service’s Toronto office during a 2014 Town Hall meeting that Alex “(took) it from behind.”
According to the statement of claim, one email concerning Alex states: “OT for the homo is approved.”
“Simon,” the manager who allegedly wrote some of the most offensive emails, often teased Alex about “getting fat,” and allegedly posted an unflattering photo of him in a staff elevator. When a colleague removed it and complained to her director, she was allegedly told to “mind her own business.”
Alex also allegedly clashed with Simon when he tried to get information about an ongoing operation during a mid-afternoon Christmas party he did not attend. His attempts to reach Simon and others at the Toronto office — calls, texts and emails — were ignored, Alex claims.
The following day, Alex alleges Simon confronted him about being friends with someone who was a terrorist. (They were connected on Facebook). The claim states the accusation was “unfounded and maliciously motivated” and when Alex mentioned that the individual in question was gay, Simon went on a tirade about “gay men always having their shirts off.”
“Alex then used the meeting to complain that Simon had let down the team the day before by refusing to take a call on an operational matter during a party. Simon responded that Alex was just a ‘gay boy who wanted to take gay selfies with VIPs.’”
According to the statement of claim, Alex left the meeting in tears.
‘All Muslims are terrorists’
Bahira is described as an intelligence officer with more than a decade of experience. In 2004, she decided to wear a hijab, which she alleges caused “an uproar, and a stirring of suspicion so intense that it exists today.”
She alleges her managers, “William” and “Charles,” told her to report all activities connected with the Muslim community.
“She reported attending the mosque biweekly, and making donations randomly. Bahira was told that her security clearance could be revoked for associating with organizations or individuals in the Muslim community who could be perceived as antithetical to CSIS.”
During a foreign posting with the service’s counterterrorism unit Bahira claims that she was treated differently due to her faith. “She was embarrassingly underworked relative to her colleagues, who were overburdened. When this circumstance became a matter of contention in her group, Bahira went to her supervisor who admitted to Bahira that he had been instructed not to give her access to any source files due to her involvement with a Muslim organization,” the claim states.
When she complained, she alleges that rather than deal with the issue a director general asked her if she was frustrated being a second-generation Canadian Muslim. “With tears in her eyes, Bahira listened to the Director General explain that he perceived security threats emanating from second and third generation Canadian Muslims — clearly referring to her — despite the fact that she was a CSIS Intelligence Officer and subject to the same rigorous security clearances as non-Muslim officers.”
Bahira claims she remained dedicated to CSIS, but “the loyalty was not returned,” and that she eventually became withdrawn and “began having her lunch in her office and crying in the stairwell.”
“I want you to take care of the liaison with the ‘Sand Monkeys’ because you are one of theirs and you speak their language.”
— A request allegedly made by the boss of a complainant named “Emran,” according to the statement of claim.
By contrast, when Bahira was seconded to help an ally’s intelligence service she was praised for her communication skills and knowledge of Islamic and Arabic culture, according to the statement of claim. She alleges Anne McLellan, one of Canada’s former deputy prime ministers, also received thanks from the foreign government for Bahira’s service. “However, Bahira’s work was not even acknowledged by CSIS,” the statement claims.
Ignorant and discriminating behaviour among managers was not contained to one region, according to the claim. Bahira moved to a different unit and was allegedly goaded by one manager with comments such as, “Muslim women are inferior.” The same boss allegedly “went on at length about how then-President Barack Obama was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“Cemal,” an analyst who has worked for CSIS for more than 20 years, is also Muslim. He claims: “The culture of CSIS is hostile to Muslims, and this is more than just an unfriendly work environment — it is deeply ingrained prejudice of distrust for Muslims which has meant that Muslims are used and managed as needed, but are not part of the team.”
Cemal alleges a poster of the Twin Towers burning on Sept. 11, 2001, with the words “Ninety-Nine Names of Allah” once hung in the Toronto office.
In the claim, Cemal says Alex told him that senior managers would call Cemal “Muslim Brotherhood,” “Sheikh” or “Imam,” when referring to him at social events or “drinking sessions.”
“Through participation in these group sessions, Alex learned that anti-Muslim sentiment was pervasive within the group. There existed a deep-seated distrust and contempt for all Muslims, which manifested in conversations ranging from terrorism to human resources,” the statement of claim alleges.
Alex’s Muslim partner accompanied him to one social event where his boss Simon allegedly declared, “all Muslims are terrorists.” Alex’s partner left the room, uncomfortable, after which Simon reportedly yelled, “All Muslims are terrorists.”
The complainant called “Emran” in the statement of claim is a Canadian citizen who has worked as an analyst for CSIS for more than 10 years. He is fluent in five languages and worked in Canada except for a two-year international posting.
During a training session for that overseas assignment, Emran claims a colleague would single him out as being Muslim, making comments such as “Muslims and armed weapons are a bad mix.”
“The attacks were relentless, and clearly made some participants in the group uncomfortable, but nobody spoke out, including the trainers,” the claim states.
‘It’s people like you the Service likes to promote’
Emran worked abroad for two years, but says the abuse followed. He alleges his boss “Jeff” had a problem with Arabs.
“I want you to take care of the liaison with the ‘Sand Monkeys’ because you are one of theirs and you speak their language,” Jeff allegedly told Emran.
“We have been here long enough to know how this place works… our culture… for 35 years. It isn’t right but it is what it is.”
— A witness’s comment about alleged harassment at CSIS, according to the statement of claim.
When he returned to Canada in 2013, Emran says he faced a smear campaign where he was called “a sexual deviant” and “dangerous.” He alleges another rumour circulated that he was “being sought by the Arabs and they were out to get him.”
“The threats and rumour-mongering were part of the craft of manipulation and deceit that was stock and trade of CSIS agents, and Emran recognized these techniques being used against him, to undermine his mental well-being and career.”
In its most recent public report, CSIS, with more than 3,000 employees, is described as a “unique workplace” that is “flexible and innovative.” As of March 31, 2016, 52 per cent of the workforce was male and 15 per cent were visible minorities. Although 69 per cent spoke both French and English, only 18 per cent were fluent in another language. Those employees spoke more than 105 languages, the report states.
In 2014, the Canadian Human Rights Commission conducted an “employment equity audit report” of CSIS. The internal report concluded that visible minorities were under-represented in management and “faced barriers to advancement.”
Dina, who joined the service in 2001, seemed to be the exception. She was the first female black intelligence officer at CSIS, according to the claim, and rose through the ranks, becoming a “level 9 Supervisor.”
Yet Dina claims she was often made to feel as a “token black woman (who) was promoted without merit.”
Fed up by the discrimination, which she claims was tolerated by management, she decided in 2016 to bring a harassment complaint against one colleague directly to the Staff Relations chief, the director general and her boss, Simon.
She claims she was given a runaround — told by Staff Relations that Simon had decided to personally investigate. A few weeks later, the director general told her that the complaint was “unfounded.” He assured her that Staff Relations had properly investigated, after she had been told they weren’t. The claim alleges she then went to her boss Simon, who told her “he wasn’t involved.”
‘The public would be shocked about this if they only knew’
All five complainants allege they raised objections and made claims of harassment — formally and informally — to managers and representatives of CSIS’s employee association over the years but say “management was simply indifferent.”
Often colleagues or managers told them to just tolerate the alleged abuse.
“We do what’s asked of us and keep our heads down and don’t cause trouble,” wrote one colleague, according to the claim. Another email to Alex stated that if he complained, “there will be no turning back.”
Alex claims he was “overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal,” and by 2016 could no longer stay quiet.
Two months after he formally complained in April 2016, according to the claim, several colleagues wrote a joint email supporting him, saying the managers often yelled at him for speaking out. “None of these things are professional and this is not how (we) expect managers to act,” the email stated, adding that they can attest Alex “is NOT making any of this up.”
Last summer, a “third-party” investigation was conducted into Alex’s allegations, and according to the statement of claim, concluded that CSIS had an “old boy’s club” culture and there is a general fear of managers’ “reprisal, retribution and punishment,” while complaints made against management are often “dismissed and disregarded.”
“The workplace atmosphere is ‘work-hard, play-hard,’ with regular consumption of alcohol in the office and politically incorrect, off-colour jokes and teasing. It is a loose, locker-room type of environment.”
According to the claim, one witness reportedly commented to the third-party investigator: “The public would be shocked about this if they only knew; we keep our own secrets.”
Alex threatened legal action, at which point he was issued a letter acknowledging that he had been harassed. But the letter “failed to propose any redress or even offer an apology,” the claim states.
Instead, Alex said the situation got worse. He was told to stop coming to weekly management meetings. “Alex was punished,” the claim states, “for exposing management to the scrutiny of an outsider — scrutiny that had never been imposed on this enclave of privileged individuals who considered themselves above the law.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/07/13/five-employees-accuse-canadas-spy-agency-of-islamophobia-racism-and-homophobia-in-35-million-lawsuit.html
Yet another Palestine flag to fly in Ireland
“I hope that PM Netanyahu or someone has the gumption to tell visiting Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney how pissed off we are by yet another Irish local council flying the red, black, white and green (like most Arab states in various combinations) Palestine flag in solidarity with the people of Palestine.”
http://5mfi.com/moral-flagging/
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Fine graphic!
The graphic:
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Psych profs who signed letter arguing Trump should be removed should themselves be fired. Here’s why
By Howard Portnoy July 14, 2017
Shortly after the election last year, three professors of psychiatry — one from Harvard, two from the University of California, San Francisco — sent a letter to then-President Barack Obama questioning Donald Trump’s fitness to serve. In the letter, the experts correctly noted that “professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally,” but then went on to submit:
In other words, they were barred from rendering a professional opinion about the president-elect’s sanity, but they were willing to accept the opinion of the angry untrained masses on the Left.
In April, several psychiatry professors banded together to create a group called “Duty to Warn.” The group held a conference at Yale to double down on the liberal claim that Trump’s “dangerous mental illness” is a threat to America.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/14/psych-profs-signed-letter-arguing-trump-removed-fired-heres/
Remember that post yesterday, “UAE to UN: Al Jazeera Antisemitic, Promotes Terrorism”?
ElderOfZiyon write-up:
United Arab Emirates – defender of the Jews
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/07/united-arab-emirates-defender-of-jews.html
Set-up? Dems, media show their hand with rush to judgment on feds’ Prevezon settlement
By J.E. Dyer July 14, 2017
I know I’m not the only one who suspected three days ago, after the “Veselnitskaya meeting” story broke, that the media and congressional Democrats would rush to suggest that President Trump got rid of federal prosecutor Preet Bharara so he could tank the civil case against Prevezon Holdings, Natalia Veselnitskaya’s Russian money-laundering client.
And rush they have. On Wednesday, Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent Attorney General Jeff Sessions a letter demanding to know why the Prevezon case was settled by the Justice Department for $6 million in May 2017.
The question itself is not uninteresting, as a general matter. The monetary figure has little meaning, as we’ll see. The point that the case was settled just a couple of days before the civil trial was to start is what’s of interest.
But the implication that Trump orchestrated any of the dealings in the matter is unsupported by any facts in evidence. Moreover, if Trump or his associates had improper relationships with Russians connected to the Prevezon case, U.S. authorities would have known that for months – if not years.
It is ridiculous for the Democrats to play-act at this point, forwarding indignant letters to the attorney general when the FBI and/or NSA presumably have had the answer since before Trump was even nominated by the GOP. Obama had Trump and his associates under “back door” electronic surveillance throughout the 2016 campaign, and – as leaked repeatedly by unnamed “U.S. officials” – the Obama administration had access to whatever Russian communications it wanted to run queries on during the same period. If there was collusion related to Prevezon Holdings, someone in the Obama administration would have known that before Trump took office.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/14/set-dems-media-show-hand-rush-judgment-feds-prevezon-settlement/
Far-left Democatic congressman worked for Russian lawyer who met with Trump, Jr.
By LU Staff July 13, 2017
Radical left-wing icon former California Democratic Rep. Ron Dellums was a hired lobbyist for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. June 9, 2016, the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
Dellums, who represented liberal San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., is a long-time darling of left-wing political activists. He served 13 terms in Congress as an African-American firebrand and proudly called himself a socialist. He retired in 1996.
The former congressman is one of several high-profile Democratic partisans who was on Veselnitskaya’s payroll, working to defeat a law that is the hated object of a personal vendetta waged by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A national outcry has erupted in the establishment media about Trump Jr.’s meeting with Veselnitskaya. But there has been little focus on the Democrats who willingly served for years on her payroll helping to wage a Russian-led lobby campaign against the law. Congress passed the legislation, the Magnitsky Act, in response to the murder of Sergei Magnistky, a Russian lawyer who alleged corruption and human rights violations against numerous Russian officials.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/13/far-left-democatic-congressman-worked-russian-lawyer-met-trump-jr/
Egypt terror as six female tourists stabbed in Hurghada holiday resort, two dead
Two Ukrainian tourists were killed in the attack, as it emerges the knifeman appeared to to have swam from a nearby public beach to access the holiday resort.
Other victims have been taken to nearby hospitals and their nationalities are still unknown.
The interior minister confirmed the attack on a beach in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada.
The assailant has been arrested and is being questioned to determine his motives, according to a statement from the ministry.
A spokesman for Thomas Cook, who offer holidays in Hurghada said: “Thomas Cook is aware of a knife attack that has taken place on the beach in Hurghada in Egypt. We are working with our team on the ground to gather further information. At this stage there is no indication that any British tourists are involved.”
Hurghada is one of Egypt’s tourism hubs and stretches for 25 miles (40km) along the country’s Red Sea coast. As well as being renowned for scuba diving, it also has a host of resorts, restaurants, bars and nightclubs.[…]
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/828718/Egypt-terror-attack-Hurghada-stabbing-red-sea-beach-holiday-resort
Egypt attack: Two tourists killed and four injured after stabbings on beach resort
Two tourists have been killed and four injured after a knife attack on an Egyptian beach resort.
The victims of Friday’s attack, in the popular Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, were reportedly all female and of different nationalities.
The two killed are believed to be Ukrainian nationals.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said a preliminary investigation showed the attacker appeared to have swum from a nearby public beach to the holiday resort.
He has been arrested and is being questioned by police.
The motive of his attack is not known.
The ministry said the tourists were rushed to a local hospital but gave no further details.
Hurghada is one of Egypt’s tourist hubs, known for its scuba diving, and stretches 25 miles along the country’s Red Sea coast.
It has a host of resorts restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
The attack came hours after five policemen were shot to death in Cairo’s twin city of Giza when suspected Islamic militants opened fire on their vehicle early in the morning.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/six-tourists-stabbed-in-egypt-beach-attack-a3588281.html
Updated: Two tourists killed in knife attack in Hurghada
Two German tourists were killed and four other tourists injured at a resort in Hurghada when a man attacked them with a knife, Al-Ahram Arabic reported on Friday afternoon.
The injured include one Czech woman and two Armenian women, a source at Hurghada General Hospital told Ahram Online.
The nationality of the fourth tourist was not immediately clear. All of those attacked are women.
According to a short statement from the Egyptian interior ministry, the assailant, who was arrested after the attack, had swum to the Sunny Days Palacio resort from nearby Dahabia public beach.
The interior ministry has not issued any more details about the assailant or his motives, nor any details about the injured tourists.
The governor of Red Sea governorate, Ahmed Abdullah, cut short his holiday in Cairo and returned to the governorate, where resort town Hurghada is located, to follow up on the incident, Al-Ahram reported.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/273604/Egypt/Politics-/Updated-Two-tourists-killed-in-knife-attack-in-Hur.aspx
Together with the attack in Giza, another huge blow to Egypt’s essential tourism industry. MB is chortling, rehearsing for date with the Devil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwx3To-KcD0
The EU-agenda now decentralized the importation
of African rape- and fakefugees, so the public should thinks
the crisis is over, but in reality the numbers inceases.
Italy takes in 4,400 migrants in one day
Quiet Italy hamlets struggle with migrant ‘human warehouses’
BBC is on board a rescue Ship in the Mediterranean Sea – BBC News
Migration crisis: Are we fueling people smuggling?
The House of Lords says that far from deterring people smugglers, Europe’s naval operation in the Mediterranean has actually encouraged it, putting migrants in even more peril.
Meanwhile, the Human Trafficking Foundation has condemned Britain for failing to protect unaccompanied children who end up in Europe, often falling victim to traffickers. We report on the dangers facing those attempting to reach Europe by sea.
yes.
MSF. Mafia. WTF.
MSF => Mafia => BLM.
Seamless.
Note the trademark Soros flags. “Palestinean” flags left over from Eid al-Fitr, now the official World Festival of Jew-hate.
reuters – Hungary to end anti-Soros poster campaign
“Video: Muslims murder two Israeli police officers in Temple Mount jihad attack” by Robert Spencer – July 14, 2017
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/video-muslims-murder-two-israeli-police-officers-in-temple-mount-jihad-attack
the daily caller Trump Admin Continues Obama-Era Tradition Of Giving Millions To Soros-Linked Groups
The Trump administration gave $6.3 million to a group linked to liberal mega-donor George Soros as part of an effort to develop “independent, professional media” in Moldova, The Daily Caller has learned.
The Agency for International Development (USAID) doles out millions of dollars to groups around the world, and frequently this money ends up in the hands of organizations supported by Soros. The Daily Caller has previously reported that USAID during the Obama administration gave at least $15.8 million in Macedonia to groups ran by Soros and to organizations tied to his Open Society Foundations.
This led to inquiries from several Republican congressmen and senators. Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee urged President Trump at an April event to stop this practice of supporting “political activism that undermines legitimate governments and long-held cultural norms” with “leftist policies and leftist politicians.”
However, just weeks before Lee gave the speech, USAID gave Internews Moldova a grant for $6,349,728 over five years, a USAID spokeswoman told TheDC Thursday. This grant was given out as part of a funding opportunity announced in the later months of the Obama administration entitled: “Media Enabling Democracy, Inclusion and Accountability in Moldova.”
This grant “aims to promote the development of an independent, professional media that gives citizens access to a variety of perspectives, and to create a media sector that is more resilient to political and financial pressures.”
This description of this funding opportunity is similar to the grants given by USAID in Macedonia. The report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in January about Russian election interference focused heavily on state-funded media, which is exactly what USAID is doing here.
The media group in particular that USAID is supporting in Moldova, Internews, lists Open Society Foundations as a donor, and is working in Moldova with the Independent Journalism Center, which includes the Soros Foundation-Moldova as a donor.
Internews was founded in 1985 in California. A 1995 Wired Magazine story said the group “funds for-profit TV enterprises half a world away, thanks to multimillion-dollar contracts from the Agency for International Development, effectively the US government’s foreign aid bank. Along with this generous funding comes grants from more than a dozen foundations, including one handsomely endowed by financier-philanthropist George Soros.”
President Trump’s nominee for administrator of USAID has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, and the president has not nominated individuals for several other key positions including assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia. This grant isn’t the only one in recent months that runs counter to the Trump agenda.
A grant announced by the U.S. embassy in Belgium on May 12 designated $200,000 for a group to promote positive narratives about refugees in Europe.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/13/trump-admin-continues-obama-era-tradition-of-giving-millions-to-soros-linked-groups/
Refusing To Accept The Election Results 9 Months Later, Jesse Jackson Says 2016 Election Was Stolen
Islamic state – SYRIA – Raqqa –
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=1mdR5pqE1kE
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=x40OugNl66k
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=AmhYloxFNMY
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=HOItTl1J-Sg
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=A8NmqK9BudM
Islamic state – video –
Egypt -cctv – Father kills his son –