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One Analysis of a Potential North Korean Conflict:
The left keeps talking about a limited strike, limited strikes are used when the target nation and weapons aren’t threatening the United States, and when the target isn’t a nuclear weapon manufacturing facility.
1) We don’t know how many nukes Kim has, I have heard 50 but that was several months ago so it is probably more. We can’t be sure we destroy all of them with a limited missile attack.
2) If we do destroy all of the nuclear weapons but don’t do anything else what is to stop Kim from rebuilding?
3) Currently we are in a position that makes it unlikely that China will do more then bluster if/when we move in and let South Korea take over the North. How long will this remain true? Given number 2 can we take a chance?
4) When we hit North Korea we will be not only removing Kim’s nukes we will be sending a powerful message to Iran, if we use a limited attack we will be saying we are afraid to go all out to remove the threat to the US. That is the wrong signal to give to Iran.
“3) Currently we are in a position that makes it unlikely that China will do more then bluster if/when we move in and let South Korea take over the North. How long will this remain true? Given number 2 can we take a chance?”
I wish there was some way of agreeing with you but reunification of the Korean peninsula, with Seoul at the helm, is a non-starter for Beijing.
The last thing Communist China wants is a Democratic, Capitalist, industrial powerhouse on its Eastern border. Even the remote possibility that a South Korean-led peninsula might allow establishment of American airbases along the Yalu River (border) is the stuff of Chicom nightmares.
A more reasonable forecast is that North Korea is absorbed by Red China after (whichever side) goes in and mops up. This would provide the territorial integrity which might ameliorate Beijing’s qualms.
Would I prefer for South Korea to lead a reunited peninsula? Hell yes! I just do not see where it is a likely outcome until there is meaningful régime change in Red China. This is why the economic angle is so important. It is one of the few levers that could motivate large masses of Chinese people to rise up and take back their government.
Once Beijing is in new hands, the North Korean question might be a lot easier to answer. The central issue is a time-squeeze of Kim getting too far along (nuclearly) while the West waits for Communist China to collapse. This is a most dangerous waiting game.
The old Cold War analogy springs to mind of two guys sitting in a powder magazine arguing over who has the most matches.
You got valid points and I suppose some part of my mind is expecting China to collapse before we move on Kim. This is probably unrealistic hoping on my part, but Red China moving into remove Kim and take over North Korea will work to increase the economic problems they have and will hasten their inevitable collapse.
“You got valid points and I suppose some part of my mind is expecting China to collapse before we move on Kim.”
I’d like nothing more than to see Red China collapse economically in the very near term. It certainly would simplify things in dealing with the Norks
“… Red China moving into remove Kim and take over North Korea will work to increase the economic problems they have and will hasten their inevitable collapse.”
This is why you see me yammering so much about time-squeezes, timelines, and synchronization. And, yes, Chicom intervention of any sort on the Peninsula could definitely blow out their bank balance.
In terms of timing, this will be the geopolitical and strategic equivalent of stepping from one high speed train to another. It is why I continue to advocate a complete shutdown of trade with The Mainland. Let’s get this process going.
One the bright side, Trump’s worst-case tariff package for Red China would essentially equate to a comprehensive trade shutdown.
This much you can bet on, the Politburo just ordered several cases of Tums. They’re going to need them.
If the trade war brings them close enough to economic collapse they may not move against anyone. But the trade war will have to do a lot of damage to them.
We go in there, we wipe out the regime.
Get the intelligence to kill that fat animal. Hunt him down like a rat, same with all the military elite.
I’d agree with Norse that China would probably get to suck up what’s left. It’s too bad, but that’s what looks feasible at this point.
The South Koreans have been playing games for decades. They’ll might come to terms with China, helping their kin in the north to join the human race.
“We go in there, we wipe out the regime.
Get the intelligence to kill that fat animal. Hunt him down like a rat, same with all the military elite.”
Waaay tooo oversimplified. I realize that you are probably just synopsizing, but—without first collapsing Communist China’s economy—there will be little hope of any simple “in-and-out” operation.
“I’d agree with Norse that China would probably get to suck up what’s left. It’s too bad, but that’s what looks feasible at this point.”
Thank you, yucki. Without totally sidelining Red China, we’re going to have to cut them in on the deal somewhere along the line in order to get them to stand down while we go in and break things.
Given this particular contingency (of China ending up with North Korea), it might be best to inform Beijing that the less they do to solve this problem, the more infrastructure we will be forced to demolish.
This would leave the Chicoms with an unappetizing prospect of having to spend billions rebuilding inherited Nork infrastructure. Either way, we need to paint them into a corner where they lose face going in any other direction.
“The South Koreans have been playing games for decades.”
Too right! This whole “lake of fire” nonsense has been played like some dog-eared Race Card for decades. It’s time for immensely wealthy South Korea to start shouldering the financial burden and accepting some of the strategic risk.
“They’ll might come to terms with China, helping their kin in the north to join the human race.”
This is the real upshot from all of this. As I have noted elsewhere, only the South Korean people genuinely desire reunification so that they can once again see their long-lost relatives before everybody is in their graves.
This last observation of yours, yucki, was very compassionate. Especially with respect to the hard and brutal decisions that we are faced with.
To exterminate the fat rats let’s borrow some of that tunnel-busting technology we were talking about…
Your version, sans my delicate concern for the mental health of IDF youngsters.
“To exterminate the fat rats let’s borrow some of that tunnel-busting technology we were talking about…”
The problem being that the tunnels in Gaza are an order of magnitude (or more) smaller than what awaits in North Korea.
Additionally, the Nork tunnels are hewn through solid rock beneath entire mountains, unlike their much softer counterparts in Gaza.
In the case of North Korea, bunker busting warheads likely will be needed to breach either points of ingress and egress or any of the numerous requisite ventilator shafts the tunnels use.
At that point, lobbing in some fuel–air bombs into those breaches will abruptly (as in within seconds) suck the breathable atmosphere out of whatever part of the underground network.
There’s little doubt that hermetically sealed internal blast doors have been installed to isolate given segments of the tunnel system from each other. For that reason, this breaching strategy will probably need to be applied at numerous locations.
My own approach would be to start with any underground connections adjacent to test or launch sites, enrichment facilities, or warhead storage depots and then work outward from those places.
This is done on the premise that—even if the targeted weapons and support equipment have been moved much deeper into the network—demolishing these portals will prevent any rapid deployment of these weapons and potentially entrap those troops or staff that took shelter during whatever air raid evacuation.
All of the above represents somewhere around 5%–10% of the overall sorties that will be flown over the North. Take that as a measure of just how demanding it will be to accomplish such a blitzkrieg.
Perhaps Richard will be kind enough to drop by and put his oar in.
Pyongyang holds giant ball to commemorate founder’s birth
These massive, self-aggrandizing and ostentatious displays would be merely pathetic were it not for the fact that millions are being spent even as the North Korean people experience Third World levels of deprivation.
Remember, back in the 1990s, even as North Koreans were starving en mass, every night Kim Jong Il was drinking a $400 bottle of Hennessy Cognac brought up from his cellar—the largest private collection of fine French cognac in the entire world.
This is vampirism, plain and simple. One of the best previous examples was Ferdinand Marcos. Almost single-handedly, he siphoned off nearly all of the foreign aid needed to rebuild railways, freeways, schools, hospitals, and other critical infrastructure in that island nation.
Instead, what once the most literate Asian country (in English) is watching as illiteracy increases. Illiteracy is a slow-acting drip fed poison that corrodes even the best organized societies. In one like the Philippines, this could be a death knell.
Entry into the high tech world demands both ordinary literacy and computer literacy. The longer this issue remains unaddressed, the worse it will tend to spiral out of control for Manila.
Robert Mugabe is another excellent specimen of vampire. There’s many more, I’m sure, it’s just that an insufficient number of people (much less news outlets) will even call this sort of cannibalism by name.
I doubt if they are educated enough to recognize this as cannibalism. I know they don’t realize that this is part of the collapse of civlization or that once civilization has collapsed that their safe spaces will no longer exist. they will be forced to live in the real world, something they are ill equipped to do. They are destroying all of the protections to prevent strongman rule in the west and that is probably tthe only thing that will preserve some form of freedom in the West.
Maybe they’ve got cannibal sympathies.
The Japanese were known to eat prisoners. One limb at a time.
“I doubt if they are educated enough to recognize this as cannibalism. ”
Quite right. Most people cannot comprehend that Bernie Maddox committed multiple murders. Although his investors should have known better than to believe in unbroken 15% annual returns year-after-year, none of this ameliorates how Maddox didn’t even make a pretense of running a professional investment operation.
The collapse of this classic Ponzi scheme financially destroyed people and ruined their lives. What about the (now) homeless seniors who lost everything and are living under a bridge eating cat food?
What happens when one of them starves or freezes to death?
Will Maddox have to face charges for that? Horse snot!
Er, I mean … Of course not!
Stealing from someone is just murdering them slowly. By appropriating someone’s property (or wealth), you are robbing them of their time spent acquiring those items. Time is life and Maddox stole big chunks of many people’s lives.
Yet, as Richard notes, few seem able to perceive this and the 1%’s media lapdogs will never allow such a disturbing notion to dawn upon us, the Great Unwashed™.
As a consequence, sociopaths like Jong Un, Mugabe, Marcos, Hussein, Arafat, 0bama, and a host of other hyper-corrupt parasites are, unwittingly or otherwise, let off of the hook for their crimes against humanity.
Second only to Islam, corruption drives a vast portion of this world’s avoidable misery. It is able to do so almost exclusively because of this willful blindness on the part of world mass media and their refusal to out whatever portion of the 1% desperately needs it.
The Fourth Estate has much to answer for.
The following article strongly disagrees with the previous video and puts the lie to all that, “Sea of fire”, crap that North Korea keeps spewing.
Why North Korea Can’t Flatten Seoul
Whatever death toll comes from a barrage of Seoul, it will likely be orders of magnitude lower than most existing (i.e., official) estimates. This article and a few others are serving as the core for my upcoming essay about North Korea.
People Wouldn’t Go Back to Syria If They Were ‘Persecuted’ as Media Claim – MP (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201804161063611653-people-wouldnt-go-back-to-syria-if-persecuted/
“German broadcaster NDR has discovered that Syrian refugees with German residence permits are being smuggled into Turkey due to the fact that Berlin is hindering the reunification of refugees with their families and is not providing them with the visas needed to return to Ankara. Radio Sputnik discussed this with AfD politician Dr. Christian Blex.
Sputnik: Can you tell us about the situation surrounding the refugees who have received status in Germany and yet are returning to Turkey?
Christian Blex: Well, you know, if it’s so dangerous, it wouldn’t have come. These people obviously do not expect any danger in Syria. Therefore, a few return because they cannot bring their families to Germany and if these people really were persecuted in Syria like people are being told by our state-run media, they wouldn’t return. So, the situation in Syria, it’s important, and here they have subsidiary protection which means that the protection is limited in time. If, for example, the war is over, they would have to return. People are not allowed at the moment to catch up with their families right now in Germany. And I think this is how it should be. Because it is temporary.
Sputnik: I think the members of your party have recently traveled to Syria to scout the Syrian situation. Do you believe it is safe for them to return?
Christian Blex: Well, I was a member of this group. In fact, I organized the trip to Syria. Where we met, there were quite a lot of high-ranking groups of representatives of all religions and all of them called for return of the Syrians to Syria. And even members of the Red Crescent did it as well. For me, I think, for the most part, they want their people back, on March 8, and that was certain, religious representatives in Aleppo — Christians, Muslims, all together — were united in peace and they told us that they want their people back.
Despite this warmongering of the United States, I don’t think that all of, well if there would be an attack, it will hopefully [be] limited to some military installations, probable attacks won’t cause new suffering in Syria by the US and its willing helpers. But, nevertheless, I think most parts of the country are secure. There is no fighting.
Sputnik: It’s reported that as many as 4,000 people have disappeared and it’s thought that they may have returned using the services of human smugglers. Do you really think this trip is safe?
Christian Blex: It’s always dangerous if you travel illegally through a lot of European countries to finally reach Germany. It’s a fact. But the return could be easier, for example, with German residents, they can use allies. They can travel freely in the European Union; all they have to do is to cross through Turkey. Yes, therefore they have to pay. It’s not a regular travel, it’s illegal. So, every illegal travel has its dangers.
Sputnik: Can you please explain a little bit more about their exact status?
Christian Blex: Their protection is limited to the end of the conflict… And the conflict here, for our German government, for the Merkel government, it’s the Syrian war. And therefore, after the war, everybody should return, but it depends on the United States and their interference there. The Merkel government, they need this picture of Syria because they let everybody in two and a half years ago, and this was illegal. And the only justification was this situation which is brought to our German people by the German state media, in Syria. After the war, people should return to Syria and therefore they shouldn’t bring their families to Germany. Why should they?
Sputnik: The German parliament is set to discuss a draft legislation which will restrict refugee family reunifications. What are your expectations? Will that be passed?
Christian Blex: In fact, it will allow them to bring their families to Germany. If these people with the subsidiary protection they can’t bring their families to Germany right now, and the Merkel government wants to change this. So, I don’t think that Mrs. Merkel wants to send them back after the war. I think she wants to have these people permanently living in Germany. This is Merkel, and CDU, and SPD, they want to do this. They want to get more people to Germany.
Sputnik: What are the reasons? There must be a reason [for this].
Christian Blex: The politics of Mrs. Merkel’s moralism. It’s not about pragmatism; it’s not about right or wrong. It’s simply, we want to be good.
The views and opinions expressed by Dr. Christian Blex are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect Sputnik’s position.”
Turkey-Russia Ties Too Strong to be Broken by French President Macron – Ankara (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804161063608748-turkey-russia-ties-strong/
“The Turkish Foreign Minister has said that French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement about the US-led strikes on Syria is trying to divide Moscow, Ankara.
“Many of our Western friends make populist statements. We expect from him (Macron) statements that are more suited to the level of a president. Our relations with the Russian Federation are just as solid as before. But they are not an alternative to relations with Western countries. Therefore, such statements are incorrect,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during the latter’s visit to Ankara.
Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag stated that Turkish policy on Syria was independent of other nations, as Western discomfort over Ankara’s alliance with Iran and Russia on Syria has seemed to grow…”
Putin wants to play Turkey against Iran limiting the power of each by using the threat of the other.
Like Baron Bodissey says: “Let’s you and him fight.”
It’s somewhere between amusing and pathetic to watch these Middle East gangsters try and duke it out. Erdogan and the Mullahs are mere learners in comparison to International Grand Master, Putin. Vlad will play these dimwit thugs like a well-tuned balalaika.
“Let’s you and him fight.
An old Army game played in lonely frontier outposts.
Putin learned this game to get ahead in the KGB and will use it to good advantage in the Middle East.
When we are looking at events in Syria and Iraq we need to remember this game and consider if Putin is trying to make us one of the combatants.
This is a most unnatural alliance.
Russians hate them both, instinctively. And Putin’s every bit a Russian.
All those Turk-types in the Near-Abroad, he’d like to do like Xi with the Uighurs. He was just short of discourteous to Erdoff when the “allies” met April 3 in Ankara.
He’s still infuriated over Operation Olive Branch, the Turk grab of Afrin from the Syrian Kurds. That was against his express wishes. Putin keeps score.
Playing with Twisted-Ragheads requires the skills of a snake-charmer. I have no doubt Uncle Vlad looks at them that way. They’re jealous and touchy. A necessary evil because they provide the boots on the ground.
Iran has dredged the Shitte world for cannon fodder. Pakis and Afghans in their myriad tribes are repellent; now – thanks to the mullas – they’re crawling all over Syria.
And if Iran doesn’t stop bothering Israel, those tough Jews will go for Assad. It’s a stark choice: curb the genocidal mullahs or we’ll topple your Syrian puppet. That will force Putin into a fight he can’t afford.
Glorious, gorgeous instruments!Thank-you, Martin~
Wiseacre.
Play an accordion, GO TO JAIL!
For anyone who has yet to see the astonishing (2009) prize-winning work of sand artist, Kseniya Simonova, the above video is a mind-bender.
Unfortunately, I was unable to locate a slightly longer version that intercuts over to audience reactions. In that edition, it is often wrenching to see elderly folks in the audience openly weeping because of how evocative Simonova’s artistry and story line are.
Enjoy.
This is magnificent.
Eeyore, I’m so glad you liked the sand art video.
Please consider posting it as the lead clip in a new daily “entertainment thread”.
From time to time, all of us need some
comic reliefsort of break from the stress of coping with and deconstructing Globalist Jihad™ (you saw it here first!).No need for any unpleasant calisthenics or strenuous bookkeeping. It would be just another self-posting repository for all of the art and loveliness that every one of us believes is at stake in this “Clash of Civilizations”.
What say ye?
WoW.
Russkis got SOUL.
I know, this is Ukraine. If you insist.
My friends are from all over the former Soviet Union, thoroughly Russified dissidents, refuseniks, and children of same. The Soviet jumble with Russian the mother-tongue, and internal passport stamped “Jew”. They grew up eating pig and stuffed cabbage; still enjoy vodka and chess, loathe communists and tards.
They’re all Russkis. And they’ve got soul.
Russia Sends Warship Allegedly Carrying Military Hardware to Syria – Reports (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201804161063607451-russia-syria-warship/
“With the crisis in Syria heating up, Russia has stepped up military and humanitarian supplies to the war-torn Arab country.
The large landing craft (LLC) Orsk has sailed into the Mediterranean, Turkish websites reported, posting photographs of the vessel’s passage through the Bosphorus.
Turkish naval observer Yoruk Isik posted photographs of the Russian warship online Sunday, suggesting Russia was stepping up its own military efforts in Syria.
According to Yoruk Isik, the Orsk, which is part of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, is heading to Syria’s Mediterranean port of Tartus, which is home to a Russian naval supply base…”
Church Leaders Condemn ‘Brutal’ US-Led Attack on Syria, Praise Gov’t Forces (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804161063610677-syrian-churches-condemn-strikes/
“Syria was subject to a tripartite attack by the US, the UK and France on April 14, with the aggressors launching over 100 missiles at targets across the Arab state. The Syrian government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons and described the strikes as a violation of the country’s sovereignty.
The leaders of three major Syrian churches condemned the attacks against Syrian Army bases and other facilities as “unjustified aggression” and a “clear violation of international law”, via a joint statement on April 15, according to Christian Today.
The statement said the church leaders “condemn and denounce the brutal aggression” and insisted the Syrian Army had no involvement in the alleged chemical attack in Douma earlier this month.
“[The Syrian Army’s alleged use of chemical weapons] is a claim that is unjustified and unsupported by sufficient and clear evidence,” the Patriachs said…”
YouTube, Twitter, Newspapers Participate in Swedish Government Meeting To Combat ‘Illegal Speech’ (breitbart, Apr 16, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/16/facebook-declines-participate-swedish-government-meeting-combat-illegal-speech/
“Social media giant Facebook declined to participate in a meeting with two Swedish ministers that addressed the government’s desire for online publishers to combat hate speech and other forms of illegal speech online.
While Facebook declined to participate in the meeting, several other major social media companies like YouTube, Twitter and the Swedish Newspaper Publishers Association (TU) did attend the meeting with Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson and Minister of Digitalization Peter Eriksson Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
Describing the meeting Minister Peter Eriksson said “Basically, we believe that the law needs to be maintained better, for too long of a time, one can say almost anything without being held responsible. They are often not known even to the authorities.”
Following the meeting, which both Eriksson and Johansson described as productive the Minister of Justice said, “I think it was a good start. There has been a very constructive spirit from YouTube and Google.”
“They say they are going to expand their organization and hire more people to make it easier to get in touch with them. They will also expand cooperation with non-governmental organizations that flag illegal content,” Johansson added.
Eriksson claimed that he had already met with Facebook previously in Dublin saying that Facebook would give the government access to identifying information of posters and added, “It’s important, especially in the electoral campaign, that we do not get negative campaigns where we do not know who is behind them.”
The meeting is part of a broader plan by the Swedish government to combat both hate speech and fake news ahead of the national election later this year.
As part of the initiative, the government granted four mainstream media outlets 13.5 million krona (£1.2 million) for projects to combat fake news online late last year.
There has also been a surge in hate speech prosecutions in the country recently, largely credited to the work of a hate speech reporting group named Näthatsgranskaren which has reported over 800 individuals, many of them older women by the groups own admission, to the Swedish police.”
“There has also been a surge in hate speech prosecutions in the country recently, largely credited to the work of a hate speech reporting group named Näthatsgranskaren which has reported over 800 individuals, many of them older women by the groups own admission, to the Swedish police.”
What brave defenders of human rights. The endless struggle to imprison “older women”—many who most likely have been previously sexually assaulted by “immigrants”—must be exhausting and gruesome.
I hope that the staff directory for Näthatsgranskaren is being preserved somewhere by those who will rebuild Sweden. It is just slightly surreal to imagine a future where Europe is awash in criminal trials for having propelled the Multicultural crisis.
With luck they will revive the old prison sentence of hard labor and put the snitches to work packing bricks or some equally hard physical job.
Pakistan watchdog says country failing on human rights (abcnews, Apr 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-watchdog-country-failing-human-rights-54493870
“An independent Pakistani watchdog criticized the country’s human rights record over the past year in a new report released Monday, saying the nation has failed to make progress on a myriad of issues, ranging from forced disappearances, to women’s rights and protection of religious minorities.
The damning report card issued by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says people continue to disappear in Pakistan, sometimes because they criticize the country’s powerful military or because they advocate better relations with neighboring India.
The controversial blasphemy law continues to be misused, especially against dissidents, with cases in which mere accusations that someone committed blasphemy lead to deadly mob violence, it said…”
Turkey warns Greece after flag is hoisted on disputed islet (abcnews, Apr 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-warns-greece-flag-hoisted-disputed-islet-54495933
“Turkey’s prime minister has warned Greece to refrain from “provocations” after a Greek flag was hoisted on a disputed, uninhabited islet in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters Monday that the Turkish coast guards removed the flag from the island off the coast of the Aegean resort of Didim.
Yildirim said the incident was similar to one in 1996 when the two NATO allies went to war over the uninhabited Imia islets — Kardak in Turkish — which both Turkey and Greece claim.
Yildirim says “our advice to Greece would be to stay away from provocations and agitations … We are determined to give the necessary response to such fait accomplis.”
In Athens, Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzannakopoulos said the government had no knowledge of the incident and described the remarks made by Yildirim as “provocative and reprehensible.”
“I think Mr. Yildirim should be more careful,” Tzannakopoulos said. “We call on Turkey to return to a path of respect for international law … They should take an initiative to de-escalate the tension.””
Refugee policy general named next Australian defense chief (abcnews, Apr 16, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/refugee-policy-general-named-australian-defense-chief-54493459
“An Australian army general who led a secretive military operation to stop asylum seekers from coming to Australia by boat was named on Monday as the country’s next defense force chief.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Lt. Gen. Angus Campbell will replace Air Chief Marshall Mark Binskin as chief of the Australian Defense Force in July. Binskin will retire after four years in the top job.
Campbell came to public attention as the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders, an operation established by a newly elected conservative government in 2013 to stop thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia from reaching Australian shores in rickety Indonesian fishing boats at a rate of 37 boats a month.
No asylum seeker boat has reached Australia since July 2014, although the government is secretive about what tactics are used to stop them.
The government recently announced that 32 boats carrying 800 people had been turned back to Indonesia since 2013, a practice that Indonesians consider an affront to their sovereignty.
Campbell was promoted to chief of the army in 2015.
Questioned by reporters on Monday, Campbell declined to say whether he was concerned by China’s militarization in the South China Sea…”
Humans will be genetically modified for the first time in Europe as scientists get the go-ahead to use DNA-splicing therapy to treat blood disorder
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Humans will be genetically modified for the first time in Europe after regulators have given the go ahead to trial DNA-splicing therapy.
A destructive blood disorder known as beta thalassaemia, which reduces the production of haemoglobin, could be cured using this therapy.
Haemoglobin carries the oxygen the body needs to its cells and without sufficient amounts those with the disease can be left with bone deformities, anaemia, slow growth, fatigue and shortness of breath.
Scientists at the biotech company Crispr hope that they can alter the body’s code to stop the genetic mutation and restore healthy levels of haemoglobin.
Use Of Force Investigation Underway After Naked Man Punched During Arrest
April 15, 2018 at 9:42 pm
CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – An investigation has been launched into the Friday arrest of a Harvard University student who was naked and reportedly on drugs after video allegedly shows an officer punching the man several times.
Around 9 p.m. on Friday, a woman called 911 to say Selorm Ohene, 21, had thrown his clothes in her face. Six other people called police to report the man.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/15/cambridge-police-use-of-force-arrest-selorm-ohene/
The left is trying to replay the 60s and that includes massive drug usage on campus.
Canada’s Liberal party considers decriminalization of all illicit drugs
The push towards decriminalization comes as the opioid crisis continues to claim thousands of lives on both sides of the 49th parallel
With months left before Canada becomes the first country in the G7 to fully legalise marijuana, members of the country’s Liberal party, led federally by Justin Trudeau, are calling on their government to go one step further and decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit drugs.
The internal push to embrace the idea is one of more than two dozen resolutions set to be debated this week as the political party gathers for their national convention in the east coast city of Halifax. The resolution is one of three put forward by the national caucus, suggesting widespread support among Liberal MPs.
“It’s one of the few issues where we’re taught from a young age, that drugs are bad and that it’s normal to throw people in jail for using drugs,” said Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, a Liberal MP who has championed decriminalisation since he was elected in 2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/canada-liberal-party-considers-decriminalization-all-illicit-drugs
See my above comment and remember they are once again pushing the idea that using LSD expands your brain.
It is not the government’s right to control what citizens put or do not put in their bodies.
Whether LSD or other drugs are good or bad or evil or whatever is a completely separate issue from government imposing its will on its citizens.
Very happy if the government decriminalize drugs… but under one proviso… that they fund not one dime of tax payers money for Welfare, Shelters and Rehabilitation Centers. Ziltch.
You want a grown up civilization? Then treat them all like grown ups to be held responsible for their own actions: without a rescuing Savior to redeem and say they had a curse, a genetic disposition or a disease. To be as infantile as Established Christianity practised today.
And if we glance at the Bell Curve, the majority of Western citizens are subnormal. (Taking the low IQ of 100 as normal). They cannot handle sex, alcohol and pot properly, so how are they going to manage hard drugs? Will there be a Drug Lord to guide them to Nirvana and The Promised Land? Those who cannot handle life will need a new God and Laws. Proverbs: Heroin in the morning, cocaine at night; hunger’s a warning, a craving’s delight.
For the Left it’s simply being up to their regular scam of Problem-Reaction-Solution. Milking yet another manufactured crisis.
For the Far Right, it’s Terror and Order. Haram and Halal. Shooting only the intoxicated if they are found staggering in the street. Your’re not a sinner if you’re never found out. What you do with your personal life remains behind a veil of sobriety.
A middle ground however, might be selling exclusively to responsible adults: Age and brains before youth and beauty. The self-experimenters rather than those tripping out unsuspecting people for further gain. A modern culture of drinking out of your own bottle and eating out of your own sealed container.
But all this could just be a way of keeping all muslims out of jail – claiming they had a bad batch of drugs before going on a killing spree for Muhammad and his Allah.
Chose your Heaven wisely.
The newest threat to California’s redwoods isn’t what you’d think
A new industry is thriving in California. It is green in terms of the money being made and the crop itself. Yet it is anything but that when it comes to the environment, posing horrendous ecological threats to the region’s redwood forests.
Lindgren Lumber and Humboldt Flakeboard are the newest additions to the Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone, an area in Arcata, California, zoned specifically for marijuana cultivation and processing. As businesses like Humboldt Harvest Wellness and Talking Tree Farms apply for the necessary permits to process cannabis in the former mill complex, it is evident that the cannabis business may restore the economy of redwood country.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-newest-threat-to-California-s-redwoods-isn-t-12835952.php
The newest threat to California’s redwoods isn’t what you’d think
This article is sensationalist as it attempts to project that redwood trees will be cut down for growing hemp. The residents of Northern California would not tolerate it, plus there’s plenty of arable land up North.
The California redwoods remain one of the most unique and fascinating organisms on earth. Some are as old as Christ. From one large tree you could build several houses. They used to blow them down with dynamite (wasting a lot of wood) just to get them on the ground fast enough for the sawmill.
When they find shale fossils of redwood trees, the formation and general morphology is identical to the modern growth. What this means is, that when you stand in a redwood grove, you are going back several million years to the time of the dinosaurs. Redwood trees are a time machine.
As you can see, I could go on for hours about these natural wonders.
Haley: More Russia Sanctions Coming Following Syrian Chemical Attack
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley says the U.S. will impose new sanctions on Russia — after the deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria.
In an interview today, Haley said the sanctions are designed to hit Russia for their support of the Assad government.
The ambassador added all allies of America know the U.S. sent a strong message, and the hope is that they listen.
Haley went on to say Russia is continuing to be involved with the “wrong actors” adding U.S. – Russia relations are “very strained.”
http://www.oann.com/haley-more-russia-sanctions-coming-following-syrian-chemical-attack/
Kremlin says U.S. sanctions amount to asset grab
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow considers U.S. sanctions a form of unfair competition and any response will be in line with Russia’s interests, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
“The sanctions drive against Russia is becoming an idée fixe. We still consider these sanctions illegal… and we’re convinced that any economist can see open attempts to squeeze Russian companies out of global markets,” Peskov told reporters.
“It’s nothing more than an international asset grab,” he added.
(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov and Ma?im Rodionov; writing by Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Christian Lowe)
http://www.oann.com/kremlin-says-u-s-sanctions-amount-to-asset-grab/
Trump says Russia, China playing ‘currency devaluation game’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump accused Russia and China on Monday of devaluing their currencies while the United States raises interest rates.
“Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates. Not acceptable!” Trump said in a Twitter post.
Trump’s tweet referred to what he sees as unfair trading advantages: if a country’s currency is artificially low, its exports are more competitive. Higher U.S. interest rates would generally increase the value of the dollar, making U.S. exports more expensive.
Since Trump took office in January 2017, the dollar has weakened substantially against most currencies, including the Chinese yuan and, until the U.S. imposed sanctions on Russia in the last few weeks, the ruble.
Against the yuan, the dollar has fallen by 8.6 percent since Jan. 20, 2017, while it has appreciated 4.5 percent against the ruble. Until the U.S. announced sanctions on Russian oligarchs earlier this month, however, the dollar had weakened by nearly 4 percent against the Russian currency. That gain was entirely erased by a two-day drop of 8.4 percent in the ruble on April 9 and 10.
http://www.oann.com/trump-says-russia-china-playing-currency-devaluation-game/
For China, a desperation move to bolster their flagging export base.
For Putin, a glaring reminder that he and his clique of oligarchs have stymied Russia’s entire future. Between alcoholism, FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome), mental depression, hard drug addiction, a negative demographic replacement rate, and an entirely unwholesome dependence upon petroleum exports, Rusia’s future is more than a little bleak.
You’d think that Putin would have learned from Saudi Arabia about having an unhealthy dependence on petroleum exports. But nooooooo!
Families of Chinese activists face house arrest, harassment from ‘smiling tigers’
April 16, 2018
By Christian Shepherd
BEIJING (Reuters) – When a team of Chinese state security agents picked up Li Wenzu and then prevented her from leaving her own home last week, she was scared but not surprised.
She was detained on the seventh day of a protest march she organized in an attempt to get the authorities to explain what has happened to her husband, Wang Quanzhang, a lawyer who has been missing since August 2015 during a sweeping crackdown on rights activists.
Li was initially barricaded in her home by dozens of people, including plainclothes security officers and members of the local neighborhood committee, she said. Scuffles broke out between her supporters and the crowd, according to videos shared with Reuters.
While Li was permitted to leave and go to a friend’s home the following day, her experience of being sporadically placed under house arrest and pressured by the Chinese authorities to stay quiet has become commonplace for the families of Chinese rights activists, they say.
http://www.oann.com/families-of-chinese-activists-face-house-arrest-harassment-from-smiling-tigers-3/
Tokyo fears Trump could link security with trade at summit with Abe
April 16, 2018
By Linda Sieg and Nobuhiro Kubo
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could find his oft-touted close ties with Donald Trump sorely tested at a summit this week in which Tokyo fears the U.S. leader will to try to link vital security matters with touchy trade topics.
It is a fraught time for both sides, and comes as Trump prepares to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose government has been openly antagonistic toward Japan.
Abe is struggling with declining popularity because of suspected cronyism scandals. Trump, whose White House is grappling with scandals and investigations of its own, may be hunting for a political win ahead of November midterm congressional elections.
http://www.oann.com/tokyo-fears-trump-could-link-security-with-trade-at-summit-with-abe-2/
It’s time for Japan to fish or cut bait. They’ve been sheltering beneath America’s nuclear umbrella for decades (even as they waged destructive trade wars against us). The age of the USA doing all of the heavy lifting is over and done with.
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines would all do well to come up with some sort of strategic regional doctrine. The less these four countries mesh with America’s own military planning the more likely failure is.
With nuclear weapons on the line, failure is not an option.
Taiwan is the one we have the least military ties with, South Korea and Japan are the best. Both train with the US in war games. We don’t train as much with Taiwan because we don’t want to irritate the Red Chinese too much.
I trust the Philippine military more then I trust their politicians but don’t want to trust them too far. They are probably the least reliable member of the group.
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan will be the big three of our allies if/when we have to go up against Red China. The current Philippine leadership combined with the memories of Obama make them the wild card. Their people and military are more loyal to the US then their leaders.
“The current Philippine leadership combined with the memories of Obama make them the wild card. Their people and military are more loyal to the US than their leaders.”
Really good points. While in Germany, several times I encountered the usual sneering attitude towards Americans.
In the Philippines, everywhere I went, I was treated like a king. The Filipinos recall very clearly who it was that liberated them from Japanese occupation and act accordingly.
With that in mind, you are absolutely right about how their “people and military are more loyal to the US than their leaders”.
This is an oddball “hole card” that, so far, may even have eluded the notice of American military observers. I certainly hope not but, then again, nobody in Foggy Bottom was able to predict something so tectonic as the Soviet Union’s (inevitable) collapse—consequently, I am dubious as to whether anyone in the forces is taking this Psyops element into consideration.
Don’t forget we (the US) wrote the Japanese Constitution after WWII, we are the ones who made them swear off using force and promised to protect them. Abe is trying to get the Constitution changed but a lot of Japanese are resisting the idea. They are afraid that if Japan starts Projecting force they will return to the conquering nation of WWII.
“They are afraid that if Japan starts Projecting force they will return to the conquering nation of WWII.”
Again—just like North Korea’s “lake of fire” bluster about Seoul—this is one of those “legacy” ideologies that may well have passed its “best by” date. For one thing—due to consistent negative population replacement rates—Japan no longer has enough young men to fling about so cavalierly as they did in WWII.
By depleting the young male population, involvement in a single major conflict could damage Japan’s already fragile demographics in unimaginable ways. To me, that would inspire a lot of careful consideration before projecting any military force.
As a consequence, I think that Japan’s dominant function would be in logistics, intelligence gathering, naval escort, and other semi-noncombatant roles.
One way or the other, it’s time for Japan to put some serious skin in the game. Just as I have mentioned about how Communist China now has everything to lose—compared to even just 50 years ago—so does Japan in that it can no longer remain quasi-neutral (i.e., demilitarized).
In this same category of “legacy” ideologies is Korea’s lingering hostility over the “comfort women” war crimes committed by Japan. In this particular case, the usual Asian obsession with (gaining or losing) “face” makes it nearly impossible for Japan to take full responsibility for their WWII wrongdoings. All of which complicates any possibility of a regional pact emerging from these four Asian nations.
Admittedly, if Japan made a full apology to South Korea and furnished financial remuneration for all “comfort women” related damages, it might trigger a domino effect. As in, who’s next, Nanking (Nanjing)?
I do not envy Trump as he attempts to navigate this (night)mare’s nest of ancient hostilities and mistrust. Between Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Red China, and North Korea, it must be like juggling running chainsaws after chugging a six pack.
Hi, Eeyore and readers of Vladtepesblog,
Imprisoned Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Gives Message of Hope and Strength in Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize
https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2018/04/imprisoned-rights-defender-narges-mohammadi-gives-message-of-hope-and-strength-in-accepting-2018-andrei-sakharov-prize/
Thank You.
Police probe two killings in London in just HALF AN HOUR: Young father becomes 59th victim of capital’s murder epidemic – just moments before a woman in her 30s is stabbed to death
Woman in her 30s died after she was stabbed in Brixton after 6pm last night
Romanian Raul Nicolaie was killed around the same time in Colindale attack
The two deaths take the murder toll in London to 59 this year as stabbings rise
Shocking footage released today shows stabbing of shopkeeper in Hounslow
London’s plague of violence continued last night as the stabbings of a young father and a woman in her 30s took the capital’s murder toll to 59 this year.
Raul Nicolaie, 26, has been named locally as the man stabbed to death in Colindale, north London at around 6pm yesterday.
His death came just half an hour before a woman was attacked and killed in Brixton in the south of the capital.
Paramedics and air ambulance crews treated Mr Nicolaie before he was taken to hospital in central London but died later in the evening.
Friends told the Evening Standard the Romanian, who came to Britain around five years ago, leaves behind a six-month-old son, who he adored.
A woman in her 20s, who knew the victim, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
In the second incident, a woman in her 30s was stabbed to death in Brixton, south London, shortly after 6.30pm.
The attack occurred on Sudbourne Grove, where houses sell up to £1,325,000.
It comes after wave of fatal stabbings and shootings saw London suffer more murders than New York in a single month for the first time.
The use of a blanket stop and search power in suspected violent areas of London has increased fourfold in the last year due to the wave.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5619465/Man-arrested-woman-30s-stabbed-death-south-London-road.html
“The use of a blanket stop and search power in suspected violent areas of London has increased fourfold in the last year due to the wave.”
At least the reporter saved the punch line for the end. That “blanket stop and search power” is the camel’s nose entering the tent. As many others here have noted, Islamic terrorism is being used as an excuse to ratchet up every possible restriction on human rights.
Could it be that government agencies are starting to get a little nervous about what finally happens when people must individually take sides?
This is a strong probability.
It looks like Michael Cohen is being set up on this ‘Prague’ thing
By J.E. Dyer April 15, 2018
The funny thing is that, in the end, the point made by our own Howard Portnoy this weekend may be the decisive one. There was a Michael Cohen in Prague in “August or early September of 2016,” but it wasn’t the Michael Cohen who’s been Donald Trump’s lawyer for years. It was a different Michael Cohen.
Not only did CNN – where they’re no fans of Trump – pick up on that back in January of 2017, just a day or so after the contents of the Steele dossier were published. It was widely reported at the time. According to Czech sources, the local authorities said it wasn’t the Michael Cohen who is Trump’s lawyer. It was a Michael Cohen with a different birth date.
That last detail matters, and we’ll get to it shortly. Before we do, we need to preview the “case” that’s being built against Cohen.
The narrative, as we know it
The McClatchy report from 13 April conveys the heart of it:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/15/looks-like-michael-cohen-set-prague-thing/
Read the article for the full info, a summery says that Cohen is being framed when he didn’t do anything. The dates of the supposed meeting are being kept vague so he can’t prove it wasn’t him.
Part of the info comes from a letter to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. According to J.E. Dyer they have been funded by George Soros since 1992.
Behind the IG report: How the Obama DOJ tried to block the FBI’s investigation of Clinton Foundation
By LU Staff April 16, 2018
The Department of Justice Inspector General report on the “lack of candor” by FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe also documents for the first time the Obama administration’s effort to shut down the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a review of the report by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.
The inspector general (IG) confirmed in its long-awaited report released Friday that in 2016 the FBI had ongoing field investigations of the Clinton Foundation in New York, Los Angeles, Little Rock, Ark., and Washington, D.C. The multi-city investigation was launched when agents found “suspicious activity” between a foreign donor and Clinton Foundation activity in the Los Angeles area, as TheDCNF reported in August 2016.
The report, authored by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, an Obama appointee, chronicles the Justice Department’s effort to to shut down the FBI’s investigation on Aug. 12, 2016. The pressure allegedly came in the form of a phone call to McCabe from a Justice Department principal associate deputy attorney general (PADAG) who pressed McCabe on the continuing investigation.The IG did not identify which PADAG made the call.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/16/behind-ig-report-obama-doj-tried-block-fbis-investigation-clinton-foundation/
Crimewave: Afghan Migrant Says UK ‘Just as Bad’ as Homeland After ‘Unknown Substance’ Attack (breitbart, Apr 16, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/16/crimewave-fast-food-worker-says-uk-bad-afghan-homeland-unknown-substance-attack/
“After witnessing people being sprayed with an ‘unknown substance’ as part of a suspected acid attack, a fast food worker has questioned why he bothered leaving Afghanistan to be more secure when the UK “is getting just as bad”….”
Russia Accuses UK Security Services of Staging Chemical Attack in Syria – Envoy (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804161063616104-russia-douma-attack-uk-us/
“The Russian Envoy to OPCW said that chemical weapons provocation in Syria was carried out by non-governmental organizations that the UK and the US paid for cooperation.
According to Shulgin, Russia has irrefutable evidence that there was no chemical weapons incident in the Syrian city of Douma.
“Therefore, we have not just a “high degree of confidence,” as our Western partners claim, but we have incontrovertible evidence that there was no incident on April 7 in Douma and that all this was a planned provocation by the British intelligence services, probably, with the participation of their senior allies from Washington with the aim of misleading the international community and justifying aggression against Syria,” he stated.
According to the Russian Envoy to the OPCW, the direct executors of this provocation were pseudo-humanitarian NGOs sponsored by opponents of the Syrian government.
“Among them, are the notorious ‘White Helmets,’ which some delegations are so fond of praising,” Shulgin noted…”
French Volunteer: New Chemical Attack to Come Within Few Months in Idlib (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804161063616212-new-chemical-attack-idlib-syria/
“Speaking with Sputnik France, Pierre Le Corf, founder of the NGO “WeAreSuperheroes,” who has been living in Syria’s Aleppo for some time, has warned of another attack to come, this time in the province of Idlib within a few months.
According to Le Corf, the coordinated airstrikes by the United States, the United Kingdom and France against Syria in response to the alleged chemical weapons’ use by government forces in Douma in Eastern Ghouta, imply that another attack will soon be prepared in Idlib. He believes that the trilateral strikes were launched after the Syrian people had started thinking that everything was over.
“Now, we are being bombed by the Americans, by the French and British, which means that more reprisals are to come soon if there’s another chemical attack, which will, apparently, take place in Idlib, evidently, in the coming months,” the young man elaborated.
In spite of recent developments, Le Corf is convinced that the Syrians remain strong.
“People are confused but life goes on […] people are stronger than this and are not intimidated by this kind of thing,” he concluded…”
Taliban Turns Down Afghan President’s Offer to Take Part in Elections – Reports (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201804161063616378-afghanistan-president-offer-taliban-participation-elections/
“The Taliban radical movement has rejected the offer of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to participate in Afghanistan’s parliamentary and local elections, TOLO broadcaster reported…”
About 10,000 Militants Deployed in Afghanistan – Russian Commander (sputniknews, Apr 16, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804161063614328-afghanistan-militants-russia/
“About 10,000 militants, most of whom are Daesh members are currently in Afghanistan, commander of Russian Central Military District troops Lt. Gen. Alexander Lapin said at a meeting with students and employees of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) on Monday.
“After the defeat of ISIL, members of gangs from Syria and Iraq are moving to other regions. The group’s leaders pay special attention to Central Asian countries… According to our estimate, about 10,000 militants, most of whom are members of ISIL… are concentrated on Afghanistan’s territory,” Lapin said…”
euronews – Violent clashes broke out with 300 protestors and police near Nantes
Mother Beating Imam Masjid caught him Red handed
nvestigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson takes on Facebook’s fake ‘fact checkers’
By Thomas Madison April 15, 2018
Video at site:
In a speech at Hillsdale College, Sharyl Attkisson, former D.C. bureau investigative correspondent for CBS News, weighed in on the well-known and growing problems conservative publishers are having with the liberal social media giant Facebook, which is on a clear mission to shut down conservative discourse on its site completely. Add Twitter and Google (which includes YouTube) to this cabal and you have an evil conspiracy to shred the United States Constitution, which guarantees free speech for everyone, not just liberals.
Despite a little (very little!) tough talk during Congress’s questioning of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg earlier this week regarding his site’s documented restriction of conservative speech, the restriction not only continues but has actually worsened. Facebook explains this phenomenon as “algorithm changes.” Uh-huh.
Facebook claims to be all about accurate reporting and fighting “fake news,” which in Silicon Valley translates to “conservative opinion.”
Among Facebook’s most recent initiatives to combat “fake news” is to hire a like-minded assortment of what they refer to as “fact checkers,” an objective enough sounding title until you find out who they are. Included in the assortment are well-known liberal tools Snopes and PolitiFact.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/15/investigative-journalist-sharyl-atkisson-takes-on-facebooks-fake-fact-checkers/
Christian, Yazidi Women Still in ISIS Captivity
by Sirwan Kajjo
April 16, 2018 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12138/christian-yazidi-captivity
After more than three years, Rita Habib, a 30-year-old Christian woman from the Iraqi city of Mosul, was recently reunited with her blind father in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. She and her father are the sole survivors of a family whose members, like thousands of Christians and other non-Muslims, was murdered by ISIS in mid-2014. Habib was among hundreds of Christian and Yazidi women and girls abducted at the time and sold into the sex trade. She was one of the lucky ones to be rescued by the Christian advocacy group, the Shlomo Organization for Documentation, which paid ISIS $30,000 for her release.
Abu Shujaa, a Yazidi activist who has been involved in rescuing hundreds of Yazidi women from ISIS, helps secure their release in various ways, but said that all require money, which is hard to come by.
When Raqqa, the former de facto capital of ISIS, was liberated by U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, many captured women were freed. Despite losing control of Raqqa and other major strongholds in Syria and Iraq, however, ISIS continues to enslave many of the women and girls it kidnapped during its rise in 2014. The world seems to have forgotten about them.
Tariq Ramadan’s Rape Trial: Blame the Victim
by Giulio Meotti
April 16, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12171/tariq-ramadan-rape-trial
“If you thought it was challenging for women to come forward and accuse Harvey Weinstein of rape, consider accusing the Islamic theologian Tariq Ramadan”, wrote Sylvie Kauffman, the former editor of Le Monde.
Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Bana, is a Swiss lecturer on Islam with millions of followers and one of Time Magazine’s “men of the year”. Accused of rape by three women, however, Ramadan is now in custody of the French police. In denying the allegations of sexual violence, his #MeToo case has turned into a political and religious affair.
The Algerian writer Kamel Daoud summarized the response of the Arab-Islamic world to the Ramadan affair: “Silence, discomfort, embarrassment and theories of mass conspiracy”.
The Muslim communities likely know what is at stake in the case of Ramadan, which the Muslim sociologist Omero Marongiu-Perria has called a “crumbling myth”. But if the Muslims’ silence and defense of Tariq Ramadan is something regrettable, Western silence is worse.
Dismantle Whiteness? University Backlash Over SJW Banner
A banner that was put up by feminists at the University of Southern California is creating an enormous backlash for what critics say is an example of liberal racism. Reading “DISMANTLE WHITENESS AND MISOGYNY ON THIS CAMPUS,” the poster was recently affixed to an archway leading to the school’s journalism building. Its creators say the purpose of the banner is to raise awareness of “racism, sexism, and xenophobia.” According to the College Fix, it was the brainchild of three separate groups of feminists on campus. Apparently no one in any of these groups thought white students might take exception to a message that seemingly targets them for extinction. Or, to put it another way, no one cared.
http://www.conservativefreepress.com/politics/dismantle-whiteness-university-backlash-over-sjw-banner/
Pay close attention to what is going on in South Africa and on the Campuses of North America, the actions in South Africa will be hitting North America in the near future, probably sooner then most people realize.
Lahore: April 16, 2018. (PCP) Three Muslim men have along with Muhammed Malak (Shop keeper) gang rape a Christian girl Miss Najma from Shera Kot, Lahore city Pakistan on 09/03/2018. Medical report has proved that the Christian girl was raped.
A police First Information Report has been lodged, however, the accused are still at large Sources have revealed that pressure is being mounted on the rape victim’s family for reconciliation. The family is very depressed by the act and the police have given no kind of hope and the family is under life killing threat. However, the Muslims have taken girl as captive. Local Media is never paying any single attention for the incidents which happen with Christians.
One Christian family have beaten badly by Muslims just because they haven’t return lender money on time and force to convert to Islam on 14/04/2018. Ashraf Masih resident of village check no.517 GB, district Toba Tek Singh, working as class 4 employee at Government Health Center at the same village where a Muslim health worker lady doctor Mrs. Zerqa also working from whom Ashraf have borrowed Pak Rupees 100000 three months earlier. Ashraf Masih have return half amount to her but Muhammad Ghufar who is related cousin of Dr. Zerqa and a Muslim, security guard tricked her to deny about returned money and blame that Ashraf have not returned her money back and do not willing to return either. on behalf of false story, the relative of her Mohammad Ghufar, security guard and other Muslims beaten Ashraf, his wife Shazia and his daughters very badly. now they are demanding and putting pressure on whole family to accept Islam and become Muslims otherwise they have to die
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/detail.php?hnewsid=6833
Lahore … the name says it all.
The Liberal government is loosening the medical inadmissibility rules for immigrants, but is not yet eliminating the policy that many have called discriminatory.
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said the policy, which has been in place for more than 40 years, is “way out of date,” and not in line with Canadian values or government policies of inclusion.
Under the revised policy, newcomers won’t be denied permanent residency if they or any of their children have developmental delays, special education requirements, or a hearing or visual impairment. The anticipated health-care cost threshold will also be increased to about $20,000 a year — about three times the previous threshold.
http://archive.is/ZMARl#selection-2293.0-2301.332
“Under the revised policy, newcomers won’t be denied permanent residency if they or any of their children have developmental delays, special education requirements, or a hearing or visual impairment.”
I guess that they just can’t bankrupt themselves fast enough.
The cost of a single medical treatment can potentially overshadow the value of an entire year’s worth of social benefits. Voluntarily allowing financially indigent people from alien cultures who have serious pre-existing medical conditions the enter the country represents an incontrovertible (further) drain on the already under-budgeted and over-stressed National Health.
500 years of first-cousin marriage. Musleema has 13 offspring, good share will be disabled. Solvent NHS?
hahahahahaha
“Solvent NHS?
Only in the sense of reagents like ethanol and formaldehyde.
Uh huh.
I’m virtually biting my tongue so I won’t sound like a Nazi.
Supporters of brain-damaged Alfie Evans stopped other sick children’s families and NHS staff accessing the hospital he is being kept in, a court heard earlier today.
Demonstrators have been protesting outside Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool for the past few days as the parents of the 23-month-old boy who has been at the centre of a life-support treatment battle have lost their latest legal fight.
A lawyer representing Tom Evans, 21, and Kate James, 20, on Monday returned to the Court of Appeal to ask judges to rule that Alfie Evans should be allowed to travel to a foreign hospital.
But Lord Justice Davis, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Moylan ruled against them after an appeal court hearing in London.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5620463/Bouncy-castle-appears-demonstration-outside-Alfie-Evans-hospital.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Blackwater founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince told Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM that according to one of his “well-placed sources” in the New York Police Department, “The NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making” in the Anthony Weiner investigation, but received “huge pushback” from the Justice Department.
Prince began by saying he had no problem believing reports that the FBI was highly confident multiple foreign agencies hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
…
“I mean, it’s not like the foreign intelligence agencies leave a thank-you note after they’ve hacked and stolen your data,” Prince said to SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
Prince claimed he had insider knowledge of the investigation that could help explain why FBI Director James Comey had to announce he was reopening the investigation into Clinton’s email server last week.
“Because of Weinergate and the sexting scandal, the NYPD started investigating it. Through a subpoena, through a warrant, they searched his laptop, and sure enough, found those 650,000 emails. They found way more stuff than just more information pertaining to the inappropriate sexting the guy was doing,” Prince claimed.
“They found State Department emails. They found a lot of other really damning criminal information, including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this sex island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times. Hillary Clinton went there at least six times,” he said.
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/
Greece: Protesters try to topple ‘capitalist’ Truman statue amid clashes
Clashes erupted between police and Greek communist party (KKE) supporters in central Athens on Monday, during a rally condemning air strikes on Syria by the US, Britain and France.
Protesters tried to topple a statue of former US president Harry Truman by tying ropes around it and dragging it down. Riot police responded by firing tear gas in an effort to disperse the crowd.
“Today we wanted to unseat the symbol of Capitalism, which is Truman”, said member of the communist-affiliated union PAME Giorgos Perros.
Regulation: While the media-driven scandals du jour roll on, President Trump quietly goes about reshaping the U.S. economy. Case in point: Last week, Trump directed the EPA to cut even more red tape for manufacturers. And he’s not done yet.
The idea is not to get rid of air quality standards, but to make sure that the science behind them is transparent and reliable — and not just part of someone’s political agenda, as has often been the case in the past.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trumps-deregulation-binge-shows-no-signs-of-ending/
“The idea is not to get rid of air quality standards, but to make sure that the science behind them is transparent and reliable — and not just part of someone’s political agenda, as has often been the case in the past.”
This is where Trump gets on some really thin ice. He must be exceptionally scrupulous when selecting whatever team it is that will analyze the data.
To date, the entire climate change debacle has been shot through with academics altering data in ways that will please their grant foundations, or Big Oil industry shills blowing smoke up everyone’s tailpipe.
A lot might change if a scientifically competent and unbiased panel could be established to get at the truth. Almost of equal importance would be using that truth to out eco-hucksters like Al Gore. Permanently derailing his credibility would go a long way towards the political “reset” we need on this issue.
You lot HAVE to watch this for a tragic laugh.
Good one, Sid. Well worth the three minutes to watch.
April 16, 2018: Ep. 699 The One Name You Haven’t Heard in This Scandal
https://www.bongino.com/april-16-2018-ep-699-the-one-name-you-havent-heard-in-this-scandal/
PICS – Trudeau in Paris
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http://www.epa.eu/politics-photos/diplomacy-photos/canadian-prime-minister-trudeau-in-paris-photos-54268468
FOX’s Ingraham Gets the Last Laugh After Advertiser Exodus
Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/fox-s-ingraham-gets-the-last-laugh-after-advertiser-exodus#EcrfQoEZ4rJe40wg.99
Laura Ingraham has maintained her ratings in her first week back since the ad boycott campaign launched against her show.
The Ingraham Angle was the leading cable news show in its time slot, averaging 2.69 million viewers throughout the week. Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell came at a close second, averaging 2.6 million viewers. CNN Tonight came third with an average of 1. 29 million viewers. MSNBC did however edge out Ingraham in the key demo (25-54) with Last Word averaging 596,000 viewers versus her average of 559,000 viewers.
Meanwhile, one company has reversed its decision in pulling their ads from Ingraham’s program.
Ace Hardware confirmed to TheWrap that it will resume its partnership with The Ingraham Angle and even apologized for having “incomplete information” that initially led them to pull out of her show.
Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/fox-s-ingraham-gets-the-last-laugh-after-advertiser-exodus#EcrfQoEZ4rJe40wg.99
ANTIFA SUPPORTS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
The Left Doesn’t Want to Help Syrians, It Wants to Create Syrian Refugees
April 15, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
The media responded to the bombings of Iranian/Syrian targets by complaining that the US has only accepted 11 Syrian refugees this year.
Here’s a sample NPR story.
A reasonable conclusion is that Obama was very interested in wrecking Syria by backing the Muslim Brotherhood and making a deal with Iran while bringing Syrians to America. Trump has no interest in bringing Syrians to America, but is addressing Syria.
Would the left prefer to create refugees or address the root causes in Syria?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269890/left-doesnt-want-help-syrians-it-wants-create-daniel-greenfield
“EUROPE IS HELL!’ (Tommy Robinson Uncut) | Louder With Crowder”
Steven Crowder – April 11, 2018
To Fire or Not to Fire Mueller
That is the question.
April 16, 2018
Bruce Thornton Robert Mueller, who just sicced a federal prosecutor on Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is out of control. Like many federal prosecutors, he is puffed up by his own self-righteous arrogance, one fueled by the unaccountable and unrestrained power he’s been given in our supposedly democratic republic. Forget all the “integrity” and “professionalism” encomia from the bipartisan, deep-state mutual back-scratchers. Mueller represents one of the greatest threats to our political order: the abuse of power under cover of law.
But the question is not whether Mueller deserves to be fired and disgraced. He obviously should. The real question is whether Trump should pull the trigger.
Most of the advice from mainstream Republicans is telling the president to back off. The Wall Street Journal summarizes their counsel: “Firing Mr. Mueller wouldn’t stop the investigation, though it would cost him Republican support and probably guarantee his impeachment if Democrats take the House in November.” Instead, ignore Mueller and line up some more achievement to lay before the voters.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269878/fire-or-not-fire-mueller-bruce-thornton
Providence College: Catholic or Counter-Catholic?
A college president’s peculiar remarks.
April 16, 2018
Jack Kerwick
In an essay of mine from last week, I brought to readers’ attention the painful fact—particularly painful from this Catholic’s perspective—that even traditionally religious institutions of higher learning have succumbed to the leftist, Politically Correct ideology that dominates much of the Western academic world.
I mentioned the case of Michael Smalanskas, a Providence College senior and Resident Advisor who, while acting within his job description, created an exhibit on a dormitory bulletin board affirming the Church’s teaching that marriage is inherently heterosexual and monogamous: “Marriage…As God Intended It: One Man, One Woman.”
The theme of the display was buttressed by select Biblical quotations as well as quotations from Pope Francis.
It’s also worth noting that Smalanskas constructed his display approximately a month after other students created a display celebrating “gay marriage.” Yet while the latter—at this Catholic college—encountered zero unpleasant consequences of any kind for their advocacy of a stance radically at odds with that of the Catholic vision that is the mission of their school to further, Smalanskas was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence, including rape. Things got so bad that at one point security had to move him from his residence on campus to an undisclosed location.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269880/providence-college-catholic-or-counter-catholic-jack-kerwick
“It’s also worth noting that Smalanskas constructed his display approximately a month after other students created a display celebrating “gay marriage.” Yet while the latter—at this Catholic college—encountered zero unpleasant consequences of any kind for their advocacy of a stance radically at odds with that of the Catholic vision that is the mission of their school to further, Smalanskas was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence, including rape. Things got so bad that at one point security had to move him from his residence on campus to an undisclosed location.”
Threats of violence and homosexual rape, all for expressing what should be bedrock doctrine for a Catholic college. How far off of the rails must this train go before people finally admit that watching an Amtrak express plow across a golf course represents a serious problem.
First we have to get the vast majority to admit that the Propaganda Media tells lies 99% of the time, the 1% that is the truth is due to lack of imagination.
“THE VATICAN: The Final Warning!”
The Late Art Bell interviews the Late Father Malachi Martin 13/07/1998 Coast To Coast AM With Art Bell “Vatican Conflict”.
TheNarrowPath – Published on September 8, 2016