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Jordan Peterson on Postmodernist
Epoch Times – July 3, 2017 – 7 videos
Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, speaks with The Epoch Times about Postmodernism and Cultural Marxism.
How’s the puppy, EB?
Yucki, I posted in the wrong place 🙁
I’ll find you, EB.
If not tonight, over the weekend.
‘Migration Crisis Is Time Bomb Planted Under EU’: Russian Envoy (sputniknews, Dec 20, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201712201060154592-migration-crisis-eu-time-bomb/
“The migration crisis is a time bomb planted under the European Union that is undermining the bloc’s standard of living, however, it is unlikely to result in its dissolution, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told Sputnik…”
Women Flee a Hellscape in Yemen. Here Are Their Lives Now (bloomberg, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-19/how-to-make-a-shoe
Charlie is doing fine. He is a sweet little dog with a lot of energy. He is like a speeding bullet when he runs. But he behaves himself when he is on a leash 🙂
Good workout for his parents!
ISIS shadow judge among 5 killed in Afghan forces operations (khaama, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.khaama.com/isis-shadow-judge-among-5-killed-in-afghan-forces-operations-04083
“At least five ISIS militants including a shadow judge of the terror group have been killed in the latest operations of the Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the militants were killed during the operations conducted in the past 24 hours in Khogyani district.
The statement further added that the operations are being conducted as part of the Silab-4 and 9 operations to eliminate the militants of the terror group from Nangarhar.
At least seven militants of the terror group were also wounded during the same operations, the statement said, adding that three areas including a village have been cleared from the presence of the terror group.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the ISIS terrorists have not commented regarding the report so far.
At least nine ISIS militants were killed or wounded during the Silab-4 and 9 operations in this province on Monday, the provincial government media office said on Tuesday…”
Migrants in Serbia’s north brave winter to cross to EU (reuters, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migration-serbia/migrants-in-serbias-north-brave-winter-to-cross-to-eu-idUSKBN1EE0MQ?il=0
Police braced for threat to churches (tribune, Dec 20, 2017)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1587948/1-police-braced-threat-churches/
“Lahore is facing threats of terrorist attacks on Christmas and New Year’s and therefore, an officer at the rank of a superintendent of police will be reviewing security arrangements for A-category churches, a senior police officer told The Express Tribune on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, SP Security Lahore Police Ammara Athar said they were ensuring foolproof security arrangements at a total of 551 churches and all parks, including 18 major ones, in the city. She said 427 fell into the C-category, 61 in the B-category and 63 in the A-category, according to sensitivity.
In the City Division, there were a total of 67 churches of which 46 fell into the C-category, 13 in the B-category and eight in the A-category. In the Civil Lines Division, there were a total 42 churches of which 27 fell into the C-category, seven in the B-category and eight in the A-category…”
Man dies after being found injured in central Gothenburg (thelocal, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.se/20171220/man-dies-after-being-found-injured-in-central-gothenburg
“A man who was found near Gothenburg’s Central Station with severe knife wounds has died from his injuries.
“We don’t know what happened, he was found by a police patrol that was at the location for another matter. It emerged that he had serious knife injuries,” Swedish police West region spokesperson Morten Gunnneng told news agency TT.
The man was quickly taken to hospital in critical condition but later died. He had injuries in the abdominal region which police say could have been caused by a sharp weapon.
Police have launched a preliminary investigation into murder and cordoned off the area around Odinsgatan where he was found in order to carry out a forensic investigation. Commuter traffic may be affected.
The man has still to be identified and police were not able to speak with him.”
All so passive and remote.
May as well be street-cleaning routine.
Greece: At least 7 injured in migrant detention center fight (wapo, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greece-at-least-7-injured-in-migrant-detention-center-fight/2017/12/20/adc5ee32-e55b-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_story.html
“Greek authorities say at least seven people have been injured in an overnight brawl at an overcrowded migrant detention center on the island of Lesbos.
Police said Wednesday the fight broke out Tuesday night between Kurdish and Arab men in the Moria camp and lasted for hours, leaving several tents inside the camp burnt.
Island authorities and human rights groups have long complained about the conditions in Moria, which has been severely over capacity for several months.
Under a 2016 European Union-Turkey agreement, migrants arriving on Greek islands from Turkey are held on the islands facing deportation to Turkey unless they successfully apply for asylum in Greece. The deal has created a massive backlog as hundreds of people continue to arrive.”
UAE’s Etihad Airways to suspend flights to Tehran (memo, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171220-uaes-etihad-airways-to-suspend-flights-to-tehran/
Strikes kill 19 in rebel village in Syria’s Idlib – Observatory, rescue service (reuters, Dec 20, 2017)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-idlib/strikes-kill-19-in-rebel-village-in-syrias-idlib-observatory-rescue-service-idUKKBN1EE10D
Mass Acquittal in Heinous Gang Rape Trial Ignites Public Fury in Sweden (sputniknews, Dec 20, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201712201060155898-sweden-gang-rape-protests/
“A Swedish court’s decision to acquit five men of immigrant backgrounds accused of a gang rape in the Stockholm suburb Fittja for lack of alleged evidence has sparked an emotional outburst across the Nordic nation…”
Egyptian forces clash with militants near Sinai airport (abcnews, Dec 20, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egyptian-forces-clash-militants-sinai-airport-51902978
“Egyptian officials say security forces have clashed with Islamic militants near the airport of the northern Sinai city of el-Arish, killing five of them a day after a missile hit the facility during a visit by the defense and interior ministers.
The officials said an army captain was killed in Wednesday’s fighting in olive orchards near the airport. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
The clashes came a day after a missile hit the airport during a previously unannounced visit to el-Arish by Defense Minister Sedki Sobhy and Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, who is in charge of police.
Egyptian security forces have for years battled Islamic militants in the northern region of the Sinai Peninsula.”
Saudi Arabia to Freeze More Bank Accounts in Crackdown
Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on alleged corruption showed no signs of letting up, with more people being questioned and banks freezing more accounts, according to people familiar with the situation.
Almost seven weeks after the purge started, authorities are detaining new suspects and releasing some of those held, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority is also telling banks to freeze the accounts of more individuals who aren’t under arrest and people linked to them, the people said.
The government’s Center for International Communication didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. SAMA referred questions to the public prosecution, which didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/saudi-arabia-is-said-to-freeze-more-bank-accounts-in-crackdown
Missile attack escalates tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Saudi air defences intercept a ballistic missile in skies over Riyadh in an incident that is jangling nerves across the region.
Tensions are escalating between Saudi Arabia and Iran following a missile attack on the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Saudi air defences intercepted the ballistic missile in the skies over the city in an incident that is jangling nerves across the region.
The attack comes the week after the Trump administration presented evidence it says shows Iran supplied another missile launched at Riyadh’s international airport last month.
And it comes as a video has gone viral, apparently made in Saudi Arabia, which visualises open conflict between the two sides.
So what is going on?
Saudi Arabia and Iran back opposing sides in neighbouring Yemen’s nasty civil war.
https://news.sky.com/story/missile-attack-escalates-tensions-between-saudi-arabia-and-iran-11177870
Erdogan rival vows to overturn executive presidency
Ankara (AFP) – A dissident Turkish nationalist who founded a new political party and is now viewed as a possible rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to scrap her opponent’s vision of a super-presidency if elected.
Meral Aksener, 61, Turkey’s first female interior minister between 1996 and 1997, told AFP in an interview that she was likely to stand against Erdogan in the next presidential polls.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/erdogan-rival-vows-overturn-executive-presidency-012231633.html
Kim Jong-un is testing new warheads loaded with ANTHRAX for his intercontinental ballistic missiles, South Korea warns
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5197189/S-Korea-says-delay-military-drills-depends-N-Koreas-behaviour.html#ixzz51oGFFTK2
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North Korea is conducting biological weapons experiments to test the possibility of loading anthrax-laden warheads on its intercontinental ballistic missiles, it has been reported.
Japan’s Asahi newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing an unidentified person connected to South Korean intelligence, that North Korea was conducting biological weapons experiments to test the possibility of loading anthrax-laden warheads on its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Asahi report said the U.S. government was aware of the tests, which were meant to ascertain whether the anthrax bacteria could survive the high temperatures that occur during warheads re-entry from space.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5197189/S-Korea-says-delay-military-drills-depends-N-Koreas-behaviour.html#ixzz51oGOExkU
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South Korea FIRES 249 bullets at Chinese ships as WW3 tensions reach breaking point
A WAR between South Korea and China was nearly sparked yesterday after 249 shots were fired at ships “swarming around” near the coast.
A group of Chinese fishing boats were grouping around a patrol ship in South Korean waters, its coastguard said.
The act of aggression led to 249 warning shots being fired at the boats – prompting a call for restraint from Beijing.
South Korean coastguard vessels regularly chase Chinese boats suspected of fishing illegally in its waters.
This comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked Britain for its lack of warships.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/668322/ww3-crisis-south-korea-china-war-tensions-shots-fired-nuclear-north-korea-kim-jong-un
Africa could become a security threat unless we give it LOTS of money says minister (express, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/894318/rory-stewart-dr-congo-africa-security-threat-minister-money
“BRITAIN and Europe face a “major security threat” from Africa within the next decade without international aid support, a minister has warned.
Rory Stewart, the minister for Africa, said there was a “possibility” that terror groups on the continent could link up with wider groups such as al Qaida, whose Islamist ideology and Jihad aims can be “supercharged” worldwide.
His comments came as the Government announced £30million of aid to tackle an “acute humanitarian crisis” in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Mr Stewart said the crisis was “on top of extreme underlying poverty” in the central African country, where earlier this month rebels attacked a United Nations peacekeeping base.
He said: “The attack in Beni in which 14 peacekeepers were killed and 45 injured was an Islamist group, so at the moment that is an Islamist group which is pretty poorly understood, which tends to seem to focus on terrorism on the DRC/Ugandan border.
“But we know for sure that in the past many apparently indigenous groups like the Taliban have begun to connect themselves with external facing groups like al Qaida because their Islamist ideology and their vision of Jihad can easily be supercharged into an international basis.”
Mr Stewart warned that while that had not yet happened in Africa, there was a chance it could in the “medium term”.
“By which I mean if you look at ADF in DRC, if you look at al-Shabab in Somalia, if you look at Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria, if you look the Islamic State in Malia – at the moment these are not seen by the US or the UK as much as a fundamental threat as foreign fighters coming out of Syria or Iraq.
“But if you look forward five, 10 years, unless we create the preconditions for some basic security, some development, some employment, Africa is more and more likely to become one of the major security threats to Europe.
“And even before you worry about terrorism, there will be a significant risk of migration because 18 million Africans enter the job market every year, and at the moment unemployment rates in many parts of Africa are at about 85 per cent so most of those people don’t get jobs.”…”
WAR GAMES Russia ‘secretly practised full-scale invasion of Europe with bombing raids on Germany during Vladimir Putin’s military drills’
The terrifying Russian war drills were carried out in September and featured ground, sea and air forces as well as artillery and missile launches.
RUSSIA has practised a full-scale mock invasion of the West that includes capturing Baltic states, bombing Germany and invading neutral countries, it has been revealed.
The terrifying war drills were carried out in September and featured troops, artillery, tanks, missile attacks and naval and air force raids.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5177666/russia-military-drills-invasion-europe-vladimir-putin/
WH Confirms N. Korea Was Behind Wannacry Malware Attack
Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert confirms North Korea was behind the WannaCry ransomware attack, which infected computers in more than 70 countries earlier this year.
In a press briefing from the White House Tuesday, Bossert said the North Korean regime has been acting especially bad in the past decade when it comes to hacking in foreign nations.
He called on governments and businesses to cooperate, assuring the U.S. will lead the effort while saying Facebook and Microsoft played a crucial role in curtailing the North Korean hacking scheme.
“After careful investigation the United States is publicly attributing the massive WannaCry cyber attack to North Korea,” announced Brossert. “We do not make this allegation lightly…we do so with evidence and we do so with partners.”
The Homeland Security adviser said several other nations including the U.K have joined the U.S. in denouncing North Korea over the malware attacks.
http://www.oann.com/wh-confirms-n-korea-was-behind-wannacry-malware-attack/
Speaking of Hezbollah’s criminal racket, the Awans sure fit its profile
By LU Staff December 20, 2017
knew Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak would be coming out with this update after Josh Meyer’s Politico post on Hezbollah and the Obama administration. Rosiak is the one to write this. I would add only that, although the Awans did financial business with some of the same financial institutions implicated in the U.S. charges filed in December 2011 (see below), there was nothing eye-catching in that. The banks involved – e.g., PNC Bank – are so big that having loans and other accounts with them is not a stand-out feature.
There doesn’t seem to be a direct, readily documentable connection between the Awans’ car dealership and the entities involved in the Hezbollah scheme. That includes any links with the 30 dealerships named in the 2011 charging document (which, as Josh Meyer outlines, was a good start, but never had the punch it would have if the administration had pursued the tougher charges it had the evidence for). Still, Luke Rosiak shows that the profile of the Awans’ own little scheme is very similar to what Josh Meyer described in his article.
The differences in the Awans’ case are two. One, they had access for more than a decade to an extraordinary amount of information from inside the United States House of Representatives. They were being highly paid by House Democrats for services that most of the time were not even clear.
Two, the Awans’ potential link to Hezbollah was an exceptional one: Dr. Ali Al-Attar, one of the Iraqis who advised U.S. officials in DOD on post-war planning before the 2003 invasion. Al-Attar is an Iraqi Shia, at least one of whose parents is reportedly Iranian, and who lived in Lebanon after being kicked out of Iraq in 1980 (when the Iran-Iraq War started), and got his medical license in Beirut (see Rosiak’s links for some of these facts).
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/20/speaking-hezbollahs-criminal-racket-awans-sure-fit-profile/
‘The United States will not be told by any country where we can put our embassy’
By J.E. Dyer December 19, 2017
It’s not astonishing that there are politicians and pundits decrying the veto speech made on Monday by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, when she registered the United States’ objection to the draft UN Security Council Resolution on Jerusalem.
But it still has an impact, to see people anxious to disavow the acknowledged privileges of national sovereignty. Those privileges are actually enshrined in the United Nations Charter. There would be no UN if they weren’t. Few would agree to belong to an organization that didn’t acknowledge the necessity for sovereign nationhood.
Sovereign nationhood is why you can sleep in your bed at night, unmolested, while your children sleep a few feet away, secure in the roof over their heads and the food your labor will provide them tomorrow, without you having to spend your life on your knees to an imperial master.
Sovereign nationhood is why you don’t have to stay awake every minute of every day, perched on your own roof with weapons at the ready to fight off marauding tribesmen from the next geographic feature over.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/19/united-states-will-not-told-country-can-put-embassy/
Nikki Haley to UN on Jerusalem. Dec 18, 2017. UN Security Council meeting on Jerusalem
Trump Nat’l Security Adviser: President asked us to prepare ‘military option’ for North Korea
By LU Staff December 19, 2017
White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster stressed Tuesday that the U.S. must “act urgently” to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
“As this regime continues to perfect its long range nuclear capabilities, it’s just a risk that the world cannot tolerate,” McMaster told PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff. He called for increased pressure in coordination with allies and international partners, highlighting the need for proper sanctions implementation.
McMaster has repeatedly warned that America is running out of time to resolve this problem peacefully, as the North is rapidly advancing its nuclear and ballistic missile development programs. North Korea has successfully tested five new missiles, including two intercontinental ballistic missiles theoretically able to reach anywhere in the continental U.S. The rogue regime also detonated a suspected staged thermonuclear bomb built to destroy cities.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/19/trump-national-security-adviser-claims-president-asked-us-prepare-military-option-north-korea/
It isn’t a hot war yet, but it isn’t that far from one.
The Chinese have their fishing ships mass swarm a South Korean patrol boat ( https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/668322/ww3-crisis-south-korea-china-war-tensions-shots-fired-nuclear-north-korea-kim-jong-un )
The North Koreans test a war head to see if the anthrax spores will survive re-entry. ( https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/668322/ww3-crisis-south-korea-china-war-tensions-shots-fired-nuclear-north-korea-kim-jong-un )
We have reports of North Korea possibly getting ready for either a new nuclear test or a missile test, or both probably during the Olympics.
China has moved troops to the North Korean-Chinese border and now they are mass swarming South Korean patrol boats in South Korean waters. The libs are sceaming about Trump wanting to start a nuclear war but all of his actions have been designed to prevent North Korea from acquiring the means to use nukes and other WMDs against the US and our allies.
As I said in the first sentence, it isn’t a hot war yet, but it isn’t far from one.
Rosie O’Donnell publicly offered bribes to two U.S. senators to vote no on tax bill
By Howard Portnoy December 20, 2017
On Tuesday, the House and the Senate voted to pass the historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which after a brief retooling by the House, will head to the president’s desk for his signature.
The measure will deliver a tax cut to 80% of Americans, but Democratic lawmakers are in full denial mode, claiming the measure is a ploy to rob the poor while lining the pockets of the rich. Obviously, they would prefer the status quo, where the government directs taxpayer funds toward such nationally beneficial ends as buying the silence of rape accusers.
The passage has triggered liberal celebrities as well, none more than Trump-hater Rosie O’Donnell, who is so convinced that the law will “f*ck the nation” (her words) that she is willing to do jail time for her beliefs.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/20/rosie-odonnell-publicly-offered-bribes-two-gop-senators-vote-no-tax-bill/
Title 18 §201 of the U.S. Code:
Whoever directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent to influence any official act shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.
The DOJ should go after her based on her tweet and the US Code, I wonder if they will?
Haley warns US ‘taking names’ of UN opponents on Jerusalem move
Monday’s veto at the Security Council marked the first time the US has used its veto power since 2011.
The United States has publicly warned United Nations member states not to support Thursday’s UN General Assembly resolution denouncing US President Donald Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.
The text will also call for nations, including the US, not to relocate their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. To date, the US is the only country who said it will do so.
Muslim Suing Little Caesars For $100 Million Hears 4 Words That Make Him Instantly Drop It
Recently, a man filed a $100-million lawsuit against Little Caesars Pizza for allegedly feeding him pork instead of halal pepperoni. However, it only took 4 words from the franchise manager to have him dropping the lawsuit as quickly as he could.
According to the left, Muslims simply want tolerance and acceptance of their religious beliefs. Of course, their pleas for coexistence quickly turn to demands for Sharia recognition, special privilege, and accommodation of their endless religious compulsions. When these demands go unfulfilled or simply fail to meet their standards, threats and legal action are sure to follow.
While the tiny Muslim minority in the U.S. is perfecting the manipulation of our laws against us, we are finding that many of their grievances are either frivolous or completely fabricated. Unfortunately for one Muslim man, he forgot to tie up the loose ends in one of the most corrupt lawsuits in recent history.
Earlier this year, Dearborn resident Mohamad Bazzi and his convert wife, Michelle Meade, acquired the legal services of attorney Majed Moughni, a fellow Muslim who gained notoriety for suing a local KFC for serving a Yemeni-American couple bacon on their chicken sandwiches.
Hoping for a massive payout and to serve as a warning to Americans not to violate Sharia law, Bazzi and Moughni demanded a whopping $100-million in compensation for ingesting the pork product. However, they won’t be seeing a penny after hearing the franchise manager’s simple response.
In an unexpected twist, Moughni and his Muslim client have dropped the $100-million lawsuit shortly after the Dearborn-based restaurant manager revealed to the media that Bazzi had “ordered a regular pepperoni” but wanted a halal sticker placed on the box to make it seem as if the restaurant had sabotaged his order, Fox News reports. Not only will Moughni and his clients receive nothing for their relentless efforts, but Little Caesars also recently filed a counter lawsuit against Bazzi for “frivolous actions.”
Of course, Moughni wasn’t about to admit his attempt to scam the chain out of millions, instead claiming that he chose to drop the case because he has received multiple death threats against him and his 11-year-old daughter, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Majed Moughni, who is Muslim and of Arab descent, said he decided to drop the two remaining lawsuits after receiving threats on social media from a man who sent him an instant message on Facebook on Oct. 26 that read: “You better stop your lawsuit against Little Caesars you” followed by an expletive and a racial slur used against Arabs and blacks.
In addition, the man then posted to his Twitter account a tweet with photos of Moughni and family members, including his daughter, that read: “Muslim lawyer who wants to sue #LittleCaesars for $100,000,000 and his wife’s Facebook, daughter goes to” followed by the name of a school she attends, according to screenshots taken by Moughni.
While most lawyers would summon their aptitude for the law by taking these threat-makers to court instead of kowtowing to their demands, Moughni suspiciously threw out his clients’ major lawsuit simply because of a few threatening messages sent via social media, which almost anyone who speaks ill of Islam receives on a daily basis.
Of course, Moughni knows that it’s Muslims who tend to make good on these types of threats. Still, he makes a teary-eyed attempt to gain sympathy and direct our attention toward “Islamophobia” and anti-Muslim hate crimes, most of which turn out to be purely fabricated or committed by fellow Muslims.
The man who made the threats openly describes himself as a “white nationalist,” “homophobe,” and Donald Trump supporter, which gives off the stench of a fake account created to make Moughni the victim. The terms used by the social media account echo the exact lingo that leftists and their Muslim allies specifically use toward conservatives but that conservatives do not use to describe themselves.
Much to Moughni’s dismay, the police informed him that they won’t be pursuing his case against the man because they didn’t believe the messages contained actual threats. Expectedly, Moughni resorted to the typical rhetoric utilized by Muslims, accusing the police of Islamophobia.
For them, “it’s not a crime to threaten a Muslim attorney and his family,” Moughni said.
This only provides further evidence that not only was Moughni likely spearheading a fraudulent suit but also that he’s not very good at his job. In fact, the Muslim attorney already had this lawsuit thrown out of court for failure to provide evidence of their claim.
“Little Caesars is extremely pleased with the court’s complete dismissal of this meritless claim,” the company said in the statement.
Moughni and his Muslim clients are demonstrating the ideal form of conquest in a powerful, progressive democracy. While Muslims have vanquished societies by the sword for over 1,400 years, they’ve discovered that using our laws, liberties, and political correctness against us is a more effective way to bring the West under Sharia rule.
http://madworldnews.com/muslim-suing-little-caesars-100/
WoW !!
Belgium: European Commission to trigger article 7 against Poland – Timmermans
Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans announced that the European Union has invoked Article 7.1 of the Lisbon Treaty against Poland, speaking at the press conference in Brussels, Wednesday.
He stated that Poland had three months “to remedy the situation.”
Poland: ‘We will all be punished’ – Warsaw reacts to EC invoking Article 7 against Poland
The first reactions of Varsovians near the Polish Parliament in Warsaw, Wednesday, following the statement of the Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, who confirmed that the European Union had invoked Article 7.1 of the Lisbon Treaty against Poland.
Poland: We will be punished again and again.
“Stalin’s Day of Infamy”
By Herbert Romerstein – Summer 1989
http://www.glaukopis.pl/images/artykuly-polskojezyczne/Herbert-Romerstein-Stalin_Hitler_and_the_Rape_of_Poland.pdf
“The Hitler-Stalin Pact: An ‘Unholy Alliance’ that Sparked World War II”
C-SPAN – August 21, 1989
Herbert Romerstein – 33:45
https://www.c-span.org/video/?8806-1/hitler-stalin-pact-unholy-alliance
German prosecutors say Afghan Taliban suspect arrested (abcnews, Dec 20, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-prosecutors-afghan-taliban-suspect-arrested-51904979
“German authorities have arrested an Afghan man accused of being a member of the Taliban.
Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that the 21-year-old suspect, identified only as Jabar N. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested on Tuesday.
He is accused of joining the Taliban in Afghanistan in or before 2011, and taking part in at least 30 battles against the Afghan army, police and later against militants allied with the Islamic State group.
Jabar N. told investigators he left Afghanistan via Iran, Turkey and Greece in the summer of 2015. In the summer of 2017, he fled to France where he was arrested and held until the country deported him to Germany, which had issued a warrant for his arrest.”
European court: EU rules don’t cover Sharia law divorces (abcnews, Dec 20, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/european-court-eu-rules-cover-sharia-law-divorces-51902800
“The European Union’s top court ruled Wednesday that the bloc’s divorce regulations don’t cover private agreements, throwing a case back to a Munich court to decide whether to recognize a divorce granted under religious Sharia law to a couple who are both Syrian-German.
Raja Mamisch and Soha Sahyouni, who married in Syria and live in Germany, had been granted a divorce in 2013 in Syria in an Islamic Sharia law proceeding. The case came to Europe when Mamisch applied to have the divorce recognized in Germany and the Munich state court ruled the EU’s “Rome III” regulation applied and granted his application.
But Sahyouni appealed to the Munich court, which asked for the European Court of Justice’s opinion, which in turn ruled that Rome III doesn’t apply to such “private” divorces.
The court sent the case back to Munich, saying it needs to decide under national law.
The Munich court said it could not comment on what might happen next in the case until it receives the full European Court of Justice decision.”
Swedish man arrested at UK airport suspected of terrorism (abcnews, Dec 20, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/swedish-man-arrested-uk-airport-suspected-terrorism-51908255
“British police say they have arrested a Swedish man at Stansted Airport, north of London, on suspicion of terrorism offenses.
The 34-year-old man was stopped by counter-terrorism police officers after he got off a flight from Stockholm early Tuesday.
Metropolitan Police said Wednesday he was arrested on suspicion of possessing “material containing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.”
No other details were available.
The man remains in custody at a police station.”
2 Kosovo citizens arrested on terror charges (abcnews, Dec 20, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kosovo-citizens-arrested-terror-charges-51908773
“Kosovo police say they have arrested two people suspected of promoting extremist groups.
A statement from police said the arrests happened on Wednesday in the northern city of Mitrovica and Lipjan, a town in the south.
The statement says the suspects were detained for allegedly “distributing propaganda in support of terrorist groups.”
A conviction on that charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
Police did not specify what kind of propaganda they are accused of disseminating or for which organization. Police say electronic devices and other objects they used were seized.
Kosovo authorities have said that about 180 of the country’s citizens are active in extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.”
Amir Khan hit with horrific death threats over Christmas tree ‘I want to kill your family’ (express, Dec 20, 2017)
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/894828/Amir-Khan-death-threats-Christmas-tree-Instagram-wife-Faryal-Makhdoom
“But moments after sharing the photo, Amir was stung with a tidal wave of backlash of followers accusing him of betraying his religion…”
Turkey wants NBA star jailed for insulting President Erdogan (reuters, Dec 20, 2017)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-turkey-security-basketball/turkey-wants-nba-star-jailed-for-insulting-president-erdogan-idUKKBN1EE2JU
“A Turkish prosecutor asked for NBA’s New York Knicks star Enes Kanter to be jailed for up to four years for insulting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the state-run news agency Anadolu reported on Wednesday.
Kanter’s passport was revoked by Turkish authorities earlier this year, and an arrest warrant was issued after he was named a “fugitive” by a Turkish court over his support for U.S-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating an attempted coup in July 2016.
Kanter is a long-time supporter of Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999 and whose extradition Erdogan is seeking. Gulen denies involvement in the failed putsch.
The indictment on Wednesday said Kanter used Twitter to “defame and deride” Erdogan, Anadolu said.
The 6-foot-11-inch centre tweeted on Wednesday in response to the indictment, adding screenshots of the media reports.
“I have said less than that honourless (man) deserves. Add another 4 years for me, master,” he told his 526,000 Twitter followers.
Kanter was detained in Romania in May when authorities learned his Turkish passport had been revoked. He later returned to the United States…”
Saudi General Prosecutor Orders Arrest of Arab Resident for Backing Houthi Strike against Riyadh (aawsat, Dec 20, 2017)
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1118911/saudi-general-prosecutor-orders-arrest-arab-resident-backing-houthi-strike
“Saudi Arabia’s general prosecutor ordered on Wednesday the arrest of an Arab resident for supporting the Houthi militias’ firing of a ballistic missile towards Riyadh…”
Israeli Politician Demands Obama Return Nobel Peace Prize After Hezbollah Report
A bombshell report on Sunday revealed that former President Barack Obama intentionally sabotaged a major federal investigation into the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah because he did not want the investigation to interfere with the Iran deal. Now an Israeli politician is demanding that Obama return the Nobel Peace Prize that he won — an award that he did little to nothing to earn.
The Politico report outlines how the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had gathered evidence that Hezbollah had grown into a major international crime syndicate that was earning approximately $1 billion per year. The federal agency launched “Project Cassandra” — a major federal investigation into Hezbollah — which the Obama administration derailed by throwing an “increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way.”
https://vladtepesblog.com/2017/12/20/readers-links-december-20-2017/#comments
NETANYAHU ADDRESSES EU FOREIGN MINISTERS
Stressing Jerusalem’s importance to the Jewish people and to Israelis.
December 20, 2017
Joseph Puder
As part of his political tour of Europe, on Monday (December 11, 2017), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressed the European Union’s foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium. Netanyahu also serves as Israel’s Foreign Minister. At the center of Netanyahu’s address was a call to the foreign ministers to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Last week’s historic announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, bolstered Netanyahu to call on the Europeans to do the same. In addition to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he also set in motion the physical move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The visit to the EU headquarters was the first for an Israeli prime minister in 22 years.
Netanyahu articulated Jerusalem’s importance to the Jewish people and to Israelis. He said “I believe that all, or most, of the European countries will move their embassies to Jerusalem, recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and engage robustly with us for security, prosperity and peace.” Following his meeting with the EU foreign ministers, Netanyahu issued a statement saying that “Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital doesn’t obviate peace, it makes peace possible, because recognizing reality is the substance of peace, it’s the foundation of peace.”
Netanyahu, in addressing the EU foreign ministers, reminded them that Israel is in the frontline of the war against Islamist terrorism. He thanked Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and the government of Lithuania for inviting him, and said, “Europe and Israel are important partners in three main areas: in the area of security, in the area of prosperity, in the area of peace. In security, Israeli intelligence has prevented dozens of terrorist attacks, many of them on European soil, and I think countless lives have been saved as a result of this cooperation that is well known to the security services of many European governments.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268766/netanyahu-addresses-eu-foreign-ministers-joseph-puder
I’d sooner he spit in Mogherini’s eye.
It would be nice but not practical at the moment.
Why Would a Trump Admin Official Want His Office Swept for Bugs?
December 20, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
I can’t think of one possible explanation for this. Not one.
It’s not like members of the Obama administration have eavesdropped on members of the Trump administration, generated fake investigations of them and convicted them not of an actual crime, but of lying to the investigators. So this is just completely and utterly inexplicable. It’s not like we live in some sort of police state in which an investigation consisting of Hillary and Obama supporters have violated attorney-client privilege (with the aid of a Democrat Federal judge), illegally seized transition team materials from the GSA and in which FBI agents wanted “insurance” against Trump winning.
So this is baffling. Utterly baffling.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268777/why-would-trump-admin-official-want-his-office-daniel-greenfield
Note he had an outside firm do the sweeping, not the FBI counter intel people.
How many other Trump people have done the same thing?
All the ones on our side.
Trump Makes Space Great Again
Muslim self-esteem may be one of the casualties.
December 20, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
“Foremost,” the NASA administrator described his marching orders from Obama, “he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world.” The great new mission of America’s space agency would be to make Muslims “feel good about their historic contribution to science.”
President Trump has another mission for NASA.
Looking over at former Senator Schmitt, the last living man to walk on the moon in the Apollo 17 mission forty-five years ago, President Trump said, “Today, we pledge that he will not be the last.”
“This time, we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint, we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and, perhaps, someday to many worlds beyond.”
The message was clear. American greatness would no longer be held hostage to political correctness.
Obama had reimagined NASA as an “Earth Improvement Agency” that would push Global Warming and Muslim self-esteem. NASA’s iconic shuttles were turned into museum pieces. The replacement vehicles were sidelined. Bush era plans to go the Moon and Mars were thrown out. What was left of NASA’s space exploration was reduced to buying tickets on rickety Russian Soyuz rockets just to get into space.
And the Russians jacked up the price.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268712/trump-makes-space-great-again-daniel-greenfield
President Trump’s America First National Security Strategy
Principled realism finally comes to the fore.
December 20, 2017
Joseph Klein
President Trump unveiled a new National Security Strategy on December 18th, which is driven by “principled realism that is guided by outcomes, not ideology.” It is based on a sober evaluation of the world as it really is, not as some wish it to be. Policy makers responsible for America’s national security must remain fully cognizant that, as the National Security Strategy document puts it, “a central continuity in history is the contest for power.” This includes economic as well as military power. Today is no different, except that the threats to America’s national security come not only from major Cold War era global players such as Russia and China. They also come from rogue countries such as North Korea, already equipped with nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles, and Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism that harbors nuclear ambitions. And the threats come from Islamic terrorists acting out a hateful jihadist ideology that “justifies murder and slavery, promotes repression, and seeks to undermine the American way of life.”
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy is a much-needed corrective to the misguided foreign policies of the Obama era. The Obama administration avoided confronting challenges to U.S. national security head-on. It preferred instead to engage in what it called “strategic patience” with North Korea. The Obama administration enabled Iran to mimic North Korea’s path to becoming a nuclear armed nation via its disastrous nuclear deal with Iran. The Obama administration’s foreign policy of “leading from behind,” political correctness and micromanagement of battlefield decisions by bureaucrats in the White House hindered the fight against jihadist terrorist groups. Refusing to acknowledge the common radical Islamist ideology that links the jihadist groups together world-wide compounded the problem. The Obama administration also rushed into multilateral agreements that jeopardized America’s economic security, most notably the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268782/president-trumps-america-first-national-security-joseph-klein
Khaled Abu Toameh
Mueller’s Sinister Coup Attempt
The special counsel threatens the rule of law by stealing Trump transition documents.
December 20, 2017
Matthew Vadum
The unprecedented theft of thousands of likely privileged Trump transition emails by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s investigators is yet more proof that the open-ended fishing expedition is continuing to move forward with its effort to reverse the results of the 2016 election.
News of the misappropriation of the email tranches comes weeks after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged that Mueller quit or be fired, saying the independent prosecutor has “indisputable” conflicts of interest.
“We are at risk of a coup d’état in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected president of the United States,” Gaetz said, echoing earlier remarks by writer Michael Walsh who asserts the Left is engaged in a “rolling coup attempt” against President Trump.
Monday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” author Mark Steyn said, “I see no reason at all why a guy who is supposed to be investigating Russian interference in an election that took place on November the 8th should be able to seize, effectively, an incoming government’s entire confidential communications between each other in the period after the election took place. That seems to be entirely unwarranted by Mueller.”
Trump himself was more restrained in his rhetoric.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268774/muellers-sinister-coup-attempt-matthew-vadum
Trump Returns “Jihad” to Intelligence
But will it reverse decades of entrenched indoctrination?
December 20, 2017
Raymond Ibrahim
President Trump’s new national security strategy is set to return words relevant to understanding Islamic terrorism—such as “jihad”—that had been expunged from the Intelligence and Defense communities’ lexicon, most notably under the Obama administration. According to the new strategy document, “The primary transnational threats Americans face are from jihadist terrorists and transnational criminal organizations”; the document also vows to “pursue threats to their source, so that jihadist terrorists are stopped before they ever reach our borders.”
This is significant on several levels—the first being as basic as “knowing one’s enemy,” which President Obama had refused to do. In 2011 it was reported that “the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.” One Obama official explained the logic: “I want to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for. They will not be tolerated.”
It should be noted, however, that the politically correct induced paralysis that Obama championed was already well entrenched before him. Speaking in 2006 during the George W. Bush administration, William Gawthrop, a former Pentagon official, said “the senior Service colleges of the Department of Defense had not incorporated into their curriculum a systematic study of Muhammad as a military or political leader. As a consequence, we still do not have an in-depth understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268781/trump-returns-jihad-intelligence-raymond-ibrahim
Brookings Now Just Running Qatari-Iranian Propaganda
December 20, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
Let’s say you’re a state sponsor of Islamic terror with links to 9/11, which prominent American think-tank do you pick up for pennies on the dollar? How about Qatar?
vigorously denies.
Since Qatar is now part of the Iranian coalition, Brookings has a hilarious explainer on Iran’s Houthi terrorists in Yemen. “Who are the Houthis, and why are we at war with them?”
You’ll be shocked to learn that Qatar, I mean Brookings, has determined that the Houthis are misunderstood, and far more moderate than Iran, and our backing for the Saudi embargo has aligned them with Iran and Hezbollah. If only we reach out to them… etc
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268779/brookings-now-just-running-qatari-iranian-daniel-greenfield
My file on the Brookings is already huge. So dirty, I keep it zipped.
France: ‘There will be total anarchy’ – Hundreds decry Macron’s Labour reform
French Trade Unionists gathered in Paris’ Opera Square on Wednesday, to demonstrate against French President Emmanuel Macron’s planned labour and tax reforms.
Hundreds of protesters brandished red smoke canisters as they marched to the Ministry of Labour, carrying flags and banners. Protesters claim that the cuts implemented by Macron’s reforms of the labour market, will hurt the commerce and services sector workers.
“It is a total violation of the labour code and we consider these reforms dangerous”, said trade union (CGT) representative Yanick. “The government is cutting the branch it is sitting on. Tomorrow there will be nothing to return to the state treasury, and there will be a total anarchy”, he added.
Berkeley City Council Fired Jewish Commissioner for Not Boycotting Jewish State
December 20, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
This is the sort of garden variety bigotry that BDS inevitably leads to.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268783/berkeley-city-council-fired-jewish-commissioner-daniel-greenfield
Greece: At least 10 injured following violent brawl at Moria camp
At least 10 people were injured when a violent brawl broke out between migrants at the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday night. More than 60 people were reportedly involved in the fight.
Groups of Afghan and Iraqi nationals became embroiled in the brawl, which saw tents being destroyed and fires started. Riot police was called to the scene.
It’s Time to Examine Who We Are as a Country
December 20, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
Sally Yates, Obama’s #Resistance DOJ official has a message for all of us. It’s the same message Obama incessantly wheedled us with. It’s about “who we are”.
Those core values apparently being racism. Or something.
When the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were being enslaved by their fellow Americans.
Yes I agree. Sally Yates should be very ashamed of her party’s policy of lynching black people to appease white racists and then lynching white people to appease black racists. The last one was DOJ policy under her boss. Right down to legalizing voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party.
Sure.
That’s why Obama’s AG was chatting with Bill Clinton before giving his wife a pass. It’s why her predecessor was held in contempt by Congress. It’s why Obama’s DOJ took opposition research from Hillary Clinton and turned it into a pretext for eavesdropping and prosecuting Trump administration members.
So Sally Yates is admitting that under Obama, the country became an autocracy? Because those were the DOJ’s functions under Obama.
Anyway it’s time to examine who were are as a country. Obama style.
We stand true to our core values by outlawing freedom of speech, eliminating due process on college campuses, smuggling money to terrorists, protecting terrorists drug lords, arresting a filmmaker for a movie that Muslims didn’t like and then spying on the political opposition to protect domestic policies ranging from the Iran Deal to the Clinton succession.
This is who Sally Yates and the Dems think we are as a country. And they think it’s all justified because the alternative to them is Jim Crow.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268778/its-time-examine-who-we-are-country-daniel-greenfield
Special Report
The Unsilent Coup
conservatives for noticing it.
The scolds of the chattering class have spent the last few days rebuking Fox News for wondering aloud if a “coup in America” is underway. Such talk is “irresponsible,” say the Brian Stelters. According to their estimate, warning of a coup is more “inflammatory” than engaging in one. All these suddenly prim nincompoops appear on networks or host shows that regularly feature pols calling for Trump’s impeachment on the most trivial grounds, former “intelligence” officials who encourage insubordination if not insurrection, and pundits who insist that Trump’s cabinet and executive agencies defy him.
Much of the media’s energy is devoted to calling for a de facto coup. The premise of practically every story, from the travel ban to the most basic executive appointments, is that it is somehow “controversial” for a duly elected president to use the powers vested in the executive branch. Trump is apparently not to hire or fire anybody, should never tell executive agencies what to do, should take, not give, orders from diplomats and bureaucrats, should submit to all acts of judicial activism, must never criticize Congress, and should in general stop offering any opinions at all. All of this is deemed “unpresidential” and “scandalous” by the media.
It is comic the lengths to which the media will go to try to mau-mau a Republican president into passivity while seeking to maximize the power of unelected officials. The more undemocratic the figure (provided he is liberal), the more the media demands that his power go unchecked. The media loves bureaucrats, regulators, career diplomats, unelected judges, and other assorted “experts.” They wear the white hats in almost all of the media’s stories while elected officials wear the black ones. This week, for example, the New York Times decreed it a scandal of “censorship” that Trump is pulling the plug on propaganda at the Centers for Disease Control. The head of the executive branch controlling his own executive agencies is cast by the Times as sinister — a “continuing effort to mute, censor, and spy on employees in federal agencies whose words or views don’t sync with President Trump’s agenda.” How dare Trump not let unelected policy analysts treat the CDC like their own personal think tank — that’s the upshot of the complaint.
https://spectator.org/the-unsilent-coup/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=c1f95bc154-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c1f95bc154-104523669
There’s fascinating coverage these days at MEMRI. Messaging is a kaleidoscope of govts-controlled, media spin. Different angles, who’s trying to convince/compell, so much more – and less – than on the ostensible topic: the Trump-Jerusalem announcement.
The article below translates a few editorials that describe the feeeelllings of the tender Turk, the drunken-dwarf-kinglet, the haughty Saudi, et al.
Following Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement, High Tension between Saudi Arabia and Palestinians, Jordan
https://www.memri.org/reports/strain-in-saudi-relations-with-palestine-jordan-over-Trump-Jerusalem