Some tweets and a Christmas Message from Viktor Orban: links 1 for Christmas Day 2017

1. James Woods puts it out there:

He is a Muslim. He can deny it, his apologists in the media can refute it, and his enablers can promote a narrative that he is a Christian. It’s a pack of lies. Obama is a Muslim and that is where his allegiance lies. Always has. Always will. https://t.co/jZs1wK851B

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 24, 2017

2. Bus in Moscow plows crowd

DEVELOPING: At least four people were killed after a city bus plowed into a pedestrian underpass in western #Moscow, traffic police said. “A bus drove into a pedestrian underpass,” a traffic police spokesman, Andrei Kolesnikov, told @AFP, giving the death toll.

— dwnews (@dwnews) December 25, 2017

3. Jordan Peterson segment on how polygamy affects society.

4. Nikki Haley Announces $285 Million Reduction to U.N. Funding.

Nikki Haley, United States Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.), announced Sunday night that the federal government has reduced its contribution to the U.N.’s annual budget by 285 million dollars.

The Christmas Eve statement reads in full:

Today, the United Nations agreed on a budget for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. ?Among a host of other successes, the United States negotiated a reduction of over $285 million off the 2016-2017 final budget. In addition to these significant cost savings, we reduced the UN’s bloated management and support functions, bolstered support for key U.S. priorities throughout the world, and instilled more discipline and accountability throughout the UN system.

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5. For those looking for Julian Assange on Twitter, this might be him.

#JulianAssange speaks from #Gab pic.twitter.com/HNgbeP5Gad

— Dr. Dot (@dr_dot) December 25, 2017

6. Scott Adams discusses his own confirmation bias and how it fooled him into retweeting a fake Assange tweet. Julian Assange seems to be nowhere to be found, The Gab account also appears to be fake.

Scott Adams check soon to say merry Christmas well enjoying delicious coffee https://t.co/sP1haktaSg

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 25, 2017

7. A top 10 at The Rebel.

8. And this above all. A voice of reason. Viktor Orban tells the simplest and most important of truths. Our whole culture is what it is above and beyond the rituals that are ascribed to it. 

Hungarian Christmas Message: ‘We’ll Protect Christian Culture, Not Retreat Behind Concrete Blocks and Watch Our Women Harassed on New Year’s’

Viktor Orbán has used his annual Christmas message to call on Europeans to protect their Christian culture, and vowed Hungary will not “retreat behind concrete blocks” at Christmas and watched its women and daughters “harassed in the New Year’s Eve crowd” like its multicultural neighbours.

“Christianity is culture and civilization. We live in it. It is not about how many people go to church or how many pray honestly. Culture is the reality of everyday life… Christian culture defines our everyday morals,” wrote the Fidesz leader, in an article published in Magyar Id?k.

 

Orbán took aim at the enemies of his ‘country first’ policies, who say he cannot claim to be Christians if he will not allow “millions from other continents to settle into Europe” in accordance with the commandment to “love thy neighbour as thyself”.

Thank you all who are members of this community, which you all built wth your thoughts, your loyalty, your dedication and sense of fraternity with all others who, as JohnnyU pointed out, are not joiners. And therefore look for a place for healthy skepticism while avoiding unhealthy cynicism.

Thanks primarily to Donald Trump, but not to discount a large number of brave and very hard working people who also have been working for the restoration of classically liberal values, we have seen some, no, lots of fantastic news in 2017.

We have been a part of that process. It has been pointed out, sometimes subtly, and sometimes less so, that information from this site and its related channels has more reach and influence than we may think. Some of you have spotted the evidence of that from time to time.

And thus we enter the mid game. The time for slow, steady thoughtful pursuance of the goal. But the game is at least on and we have pieces on the board.

We must be careful not to celebrate what looks like victory however, when its really a gambit.

Those of us who wish the restoration of classical liberalism must demand the application of due process. This means when the leftists try to sacrifice a pawn like Al Franken and get the ‘Right’ to cheer because we don’t like him, its really opening up a path for checkmate. Because once we accept that an elected representative can be removed for unproven allegations then the game is theirs.

You can guess what they will demand next. And losing Franken is nothing to them. The victory would be short lived.

Due process, like freedom of speech, must be for all. Just as a healthy distinction between what is a law and order matter and what is an act of war is also needed to preserve our civilization.

And on that, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and extend my thanks for the amazing efforts of so many of you to use this site to help inform us all.

And of course, all of those of you who have supported this site financially and myself in many ways.

Thank you again.

Eeyore for VladTepesBlog.