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“Church massacre shatters tranquility of Central African capital”
By Illia Djadi – Central African Republic – May 3, 2018
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2018/05/central-african-capitals-tranquillity-shattered-by-church-massacre/
“Iranian Christians’ jail terms ‘increasing’”
By World Watch Monitor – Iran – May 3, 2018
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/coe/iranian-christians-jail-terms-increasing-in-length/
““Church massacre shatters tranquility of Central African capital””
What happens when the mosque massacres begin?
Just askin’.
Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney – podcast
First Guest: Kenneth Carlson, Director and Producer of The Heart of Nuba:
The Heart of Nuba film – Persecuted Christians in Sudan
The oppressive regime of Omar al-Bashir – May 2, 2018
https://securefreedomradio.podbean.com/e/with-kenneth-carlson-rep-steve-king-dr-lawrence-sellin-and-diana-west/
“The Heart of Nuba – 15 minute supercut” – Dr. Tom Catena
The Heart of Nuba – December 4, 2016
“Interview with Dr. Tom Catena”
okayhwang – Published on June 2, 2014
Video courtesy of Sudan Relief Fund:
“The poor people of the Nuba Mountains are under attack from the radical Islamic government of North Sudan. The North is bombing their villages, schoolyards, churches and parish centers. Men, women and children are being starved. Villages burned. Innocent civilians gunned down; their dead bodies left along roads and in open fields.
One spot of hope exists – the mother of Mercy Hospital that supporters of the Sudan Relief Fund helped build. And while most aid organizations have left this region of Sudan, Dr. Tom Catena, an American doctor, labors night and day to ease suffering and save lives in Christ’s name.”
Mother of Mercy Hospital – Nuba Mountains, Sudan
“Putin meets with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir”
AFP news agency – Published on November 23, 2017
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and war crimes, asks Russia’s Vladimir Putin to protect his country from the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzby_yx-rY
“Bashir in Russia: Sudanese President’s first official visit to Moscow”
FRANCE 24 English – November 23, 2017
“Whay Sudan receives Su 35 fighter jets ahead of Bashir’s first Russia visit”
NFN Military News – November 25, 2017
“Turkey’s Erdogan pays historic visit to Sudan”
New China TV – December 25, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyHvndQOrmc
“Turkey’s President Erdogan on Africa – Exclusive Interview” – AllAfrica Newsdesk – December 23, 2017
“Khartoum preparing upcoming visit of China’s president to Sudan: Ambassador”
April 22, 2018 (KHARTOUM) Sudan’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday said arrangements are underway for the upcoming visit of China’s President Xi Jinping to Sudan during this year.
The Sudanese Ambassador to Beijing Omer Issa Ahmed said the Chinese President has accepted the invitation extended to him by President Omer al-Bashir to visit Sudan.
He pointed out that the joint team tasked with arranging for the visit is working to set a date that fits into the schedule of the two presidents.
According to the ambassador, al-Bashir has instructed to implement the strategic agreements signed between the two countries, saying China seeks to increase its investments in Sudan particularly in oil, energy and industry sectors.
China has been Sudan’s largest foreign investor, particularly in oil and telecommunications after western firms shunned the East African nation due to conflicts and sanctions.
It has invested more than $20 billion in Sudan mostly in the oil sector during the past two decades. Beijing provides low-interest loans and weapons transfers in return for oil.
Sudan hopes to attract new Chinese investments after Beijing had refrained from implementing a number of projects agreed upon with Khartoum following the latter’s failure to settle its debts.
Sudan’s total debt is estimated at $ 10 billion, accounting for about one-fifth of Sudan’s estimated $ 50 billion foreign debt.
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article65248
“Chinese lasers injure US military pilots in Africa, Pentagon says”
By Ryan Browne, CNN
Updated 11:56 PM ET, May 3, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/03/politics/chinese-lasers-us-military-pilots-africa/index.html
The Chinese have also lased our pilots in the South China Sea recently.
I knew about the lasing in Africa but not the South China Sea. According to the reports some of the pilots were injured, they didn’t mentioned what the injuries were but my guess is that the beam hit one eye on several pilots.
My husband has worked with lasers for pretty much his entire career. When in the lab beams bounce around and sometimes strike his eyes. He has scarring that is closely monitored, a trip to the eye Dr. every 6 months is a rather extended affair as he is subject to tests and photos that the average person is not. Yes, his eye sight is compromised but not extensively. He is rather relaxed about it but… the Chinese lasing our pilots really is an act of war not some experiment in the lab.
Yeah it is an act of war, but it isn’t a serious enough attack to justify going to war. We will find some way to strike back that can’t be blamed on us and go back to waiting for the balloon to go up.
As someone who has owned lasers for over forty years (Spectra Physics 5 mw HeNe in 1978 and a 20 mw Argon head and power supply in 1989) I’ve taken a few “dazzles” in my lifetime.
This is not minor crap. Communist Chines lasers can be counteracted. Expensive? Yes. Worth it? You decide.
No it isn’t minor crap and yes we should have the equipment on all planes to counter the Chinese and Russian Lasers.
The Chinese are trying to use the lasers as a provocation to cause the US to react with overwhelming military force so they can claim to be the victim.
Thank you, Richard.
Counter-reflection or offensive energy injection, I could give a rusty duck.
Still whining after all these years
“O”h, still whining after all these years.
“Michelle Obama Speaks at 2018 College Signing Day”
Temple University – Published on May 2, 2018
Michelle Obama – Discover the Networks
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2311
Princeton – “Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide” + links
by Jeffrey Ressner – February 22, 2008
https://www.politico.com/story/2008/02/michelle-obama-thesis-was-on-racial-divide-008642
“Mike Rowe Destroys Reader, Says Higher Education Is ‘Under Attack’ From ‘Within’” by Katie Jerkovich – April 27, 2018
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/27/mike-rowe-higher-education/
“The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe – The Greaseman Cometh”
“FOX CONSIDERS REVIVING ‘LAST MAN STANDING’ AFTER CONSERVATIVE BACKLASH”
by Jena Greene – May 3, 2018
http://smokeroom.com/2018/05/03/last-man-standing-fox-reboot/
A member of my family, now deceased, was involved in the Biafran war and told me that it was ALWAYS a muslim genocide of Christians. Hugh Fitzgerald in an arrogant sod but his articles are always worth reading: https://gellerreport.com/2018/05/iwobi-defend-country.html/
Interesting, especially in light of Africa’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Jews
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“Why just from Ethiopia,” I was asked by someone who identifies as a Jew.
“Hugh Fitzgerald is an arrogant sod but his articles are always worth reading”
If I could write half as well as Hugh Fitzgerald, I’d be proud to be called an “arrogant sod” (despite having been called much worse). Although Mister Arrogant Sod might have to figure in there somewhere.
My contact with him was from Jihad Watch and my opinion of him is based solely upon the way he treated those others who asked what were IMO sensible and relevant questions. I do understand that the assumed intellectually superior have problems enduring lesser beings but he could have shown a little more respect and patience. I agree that his articles are both knowledgeable and incisive but that has no effect on my opinion of him as a human being.
Fair enough and thanks.
Its just hard for me to imagine him like that, as my experience of him is of a remarkably humble fellow. Really thoughtful and considerate.
But we all have our moments. I certainly have had a few and still wince when I think of them sometimes.
I think that my posts here have made it clear that “foot in mouth” disease has been a recurrent problem all of my life and so I appreciate your post. I have worked with not few people whose public and private personalities were totally opposite. (As an intern: “for god’s sake stop tiptoeing around! I am not going to eat you”…he godfathered my son 10 yrs later )
“I think that my posts here have made it clear that “foot in mouth” disease has been a recurrent problem all of my life…”
Good for you! I’m still trying to figure out how to to get the toothbrush past my shoe.
I am very familiar with that problem, in a little over 71 and a half years on this planet I have yet to discover anything to prevent me from having periodic returns of the problem. I do know a Doctor who is looking for a vaccine to prevent the problem, he says I will be the second to know when he finds one.
Just FYI, I worked with Hugh F. for a number of hours over days and found him to be anything at all but arrogant. He is actually a tremendously nice and considerate person.
I haven’t read enough of his stuff to form an impression of him that way, but people can often seem that way inside their own field of expertise I suppose.
But he really is a tremendously decent fellow. It was an honour to have the chance to work with him.
“But he really is a tremendously decent fellow. It was an honour to have the chance to work with him.”
Thank you, Eeyore. I’ve never had a slighter perception of the man. His writing style and overall eloquence are enough to make me drop a volume of Victor Hugo.
I’ve followed his writing since 2005, since the War in Iraq.
Mr. Fitzgerald was onto the RoP early and often. He has a rare feel for this country’s history. Perhaps my friendly ghost, Prez. John Adams (Potus-2), contributed to his enlightenment.
Why perhaps I did! Thank-you, my dear.Euthanasia poster from Nazi Germany
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NVZLsEhNybg/Wui3Qu00a0I/AAAAAAAALv4/iQtyXL0biGoWiI3H1_5GuPMff3hQJU1TQCLcBGAs/s1600/EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg
from http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-truth-about-hans-asperger-nazi.html?m=1
Montreal weirdos. I refuse to give them their preferred pronoun.
https://youtu.be/FRkif15T-uQ
I find this story most conspicuous for its attempt to normalize deviancy. Not a discouraging word to be found. And forget about this man’s gender disguise screaming for public approval–nay admiration–how about a serious opinion from professional makeup artists? Imagine digging a ditch looking like that.
http://torontosun.com/life/fashion-beauty/toronto-teens-grad-photo-goes-viral
What if we just call Nazis the new “politically fluid” to satisfy the Left?
http://torontosun.com/news/national/montreal-mayor-valerie-plante-shocked-by-photo-of-nazi-flag-at-may-day-protests-in-montreal/wcm/e48dbdbc-24ca-4c02-8958-867504f2e6a5
As they realized that the end of the War was close, Nazis attempted to hide evidence of their atrocities, fearing punishmant from the soon-to-be victorious Allies. There is today no such fear or precaution among the murderers of Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, athiets, and those caught in between. These murderers display their bloody hands and deeds for the world to see.
Just after the war there was a river near Auschwitz where you could grab a bucketful of human ash that formed a “sandbank” there as they had been being dumped by the truckload during the active “solution”. These were not only from the new gas chambers/cremotoria but also from the old mass graves there that had been dug up and the bodies cremated in fire pits. This is what awaits most of us in a future Islamic world.
“This is what awaits most of us in a future Islamic world.”
Thank you, dear Michelle. The rubble and smoke from smashing Michelangelo’s “David” and torching Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” will barely cloud the horizon compared to what awaits a world unwilling to resist Islam.
But the secular left being the cowards that we all know they mostly are, will all convert overnight. When the massacres had stopped in the arab conquest of north Africa, the elite and the intellectuals both of whom had been well warned and well hidden, were all happy to convert. It was the common man plus a few intellectual “renegades” who hung on to the old ways whether Jewish or Christian and who by so doing defied them. Until >2000 many of their descendants still clung to their old beliefs but very few remain now in other than Egypt. it is the Copts who have my admiration as they were the first target and they have managed to survive persecution for so long.
There are signs the tide is turning in our favor but it will be a long and bloody war before we come close to winning. I know I won’t live long enough to see the end of this war, very few of us on this blog will live that long.
But we will die knowing that humanity will gain its second(???) if undeserved, chance.
Dear Michelle,
Western Civilization has attained too much for it to merely fade away. However, it needs acolytes and attendants. It’s is why I drop the equivalent of part-time employment into this fabulous website.
NR
https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/04/03/the-new-york-times-celebrates-reem-assils-antisemitic-cafe-in-oakland/ California cafe features murderer’s poster– NY Times restaurant critic forgets to mention why it’s there.
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I can’t quite articulate it, but contemporary terrorists make the Nazis look like God-fearing people, along with the Allies who once fought them.
“I can’t quite articulate it, but contemporary terrorists make the Nazis look like God-fearing people, along with the Allies who once fought them.”
That’s because, remarkable as it may seem, the Nazis and Allies had limits to their barbarity Less so for the Nazis and other Axis powers.
Islamic terrorism has no upward ceiling on the cruelty it inflicts. Only a near-miraculous lack of access to nuclear weapons has prevented these monsters from launching the first terrorist nuclear attack.
If you read the memoirs of those “tortured” by the Nazis (The White Rabbit & not a few others) it was equivalent to waterboarding IMO (truncheon beatings , nail removal etc.) and hardly comparable to Islamic tortures. Not a few German soldiers were shot for raping civilians or murdering them(mainly in the west but not rare even in the east). So yes, they were more civilized in that respect. However cyanide poisoning may be quick but it certainly is NOT painless as I witnessed such a death and it was frankly terrible(we thought that he was an epileptic but the tutor noticed the beaker and the KCN bottle..a suicide) and making that industrial forever stains the nation of Bach and Beethoven.
“However cyanide poisoning may be quick but it certainly is NOT painless as I witnessed such a death and it was frankly terrible(we thought that he was an epileptic but the tutor noticed the beaker and the KCN bottle..a suicide) and making that industrial forever stains the nation of Bach and Beethoven.
I could not agree with you more. It is why I made such a clear distinction between the actions of Allied and Axis troops. The problem at present is that Germany is gutting itself in a feeble attempt to repent for its earlier WWII sins.
How do we balance this?
If you wish to retain our western ethics and values then you must be prepared to fight for them. Currently man’s greatest creation: the western welfare state(unpolluted, that is) is sitting next to the islamic abyss.
If you wish to win then you fight a war to win it and the civilian collateral is regrettable but necessary as there will always be such. But, first you have to realize that you are at war and we have no Churchill and no one remotely near him in stature, to be brave enough to do anything about it.
This stance of dropping ethics in war vs a barbarous foe has placed me out on a limb countless times on websites. In war ONLY Hammurabi’s code works viz the Ostfront and the Pacific war. After Milne Bay in Papua Australian troops found out what the japs did to POWs and an unofficial word went out: “no prisoners unless intelligence required”. This was not adhered to 100% and many still lost their lives trying to be decent ethical humans. War is about winning and killing the enemy and those who help him i.e. civilians. Until the stupid b******s who lead us realize this we have NO chance. The higher ground in morality is a handicap in war.
You are right, war is by its very nature uncivilized, what you have to understand this and understand that trying to civilize war is impossible. In fact it is an act of national and civilization suicide to try and civilize it. When fighting nations with the same culture you can impose some rules/laws on both sides but when fighting a different culture you have to adjust your actions to fit that culture. You do this because until you break the enemies will to resist (both the military and civilian population) the war is not won. Another way of saying this is that you haven’t defeated the enemy until he says he is defeated. To do this you learn his culture and use it against him, the left and Islam are using our culture and the love of the rule of law against us. We must start using our culture against the left and the Islamic culture against the invaders. Doing the latter will give the left ammo to use against us but if we are to win this war of survival we will have to figure out how to do this.
One thing we need to figure out how to do is to make the open borders people responsible for the actions of their pet immigrants.
I think that we may have to “remove” them or to make them so scared that they switch sides. Yes I am an authoritarian and why? because we are at war.
Michelle (just so that you know), your lengthy replies are exceptionally enjoyable.
NR
They weren’t upset over the displays of the communist flags. Since they were celebrating the number 1 murderous ideology of the 20th Century why get upset over the number 2 murderous ideology?
‘Kill them all’: ISIS thugs call on fanatics to launch attacks at the World Cup in chilling new propaganda (dailymail, May 4, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5690359/Kill-ISIS-thugs-call-attacks-World-Cup.html
“ISIS thugs have called on their supporters to launch attacks at the World Cup in chilling new online propaganda.
The terror group’s latest poster, showing a knife set on a red back ground in front of a football stadium in Russia, comes with a French caption translated as ‘Kill them all’.
It is the latest in a series of ISIS threats made against football’s showpiece tournament, which kicks off on June 14 in Moscow…”
Much as with Red China, please pay close attention to how Russia deals with this terrorist threat. While neither group may seem to use palatable measures, their actions are instructive nonetheless.
Russian are efficient viz the Problem that they had in Lebanon when someone? Hamas kidnapped some Russian diplomats and the Somali pirates who do not venture when Russian ships are out there(They fire on sight), It is called “fighting a war” as opposed to pretending to fight one with one arm and one leg tied (By the MSM) behind your back. May the west could learn from this? I am kidding.
Potentially NSFW
“Russian are efficient viz the Problem that they had in Lebanon when someone (Hamas?) kidnapped some Russian diplomats”
Dear Michelle,
Here is a link to repay your kindness:
KGB Reportedly Gave Arab Terrorists a Taste of Brutality to Free Diplomats
The Jerusalem Post said the Soviet secret police last year secured the release of three kidnaped Soviet diplomats in Beirut by castrating a relative of a radical Lebanese Shia Muslim leader, sending him the severed organs and then shooting the relative in the head.
The incident began when four Soviet diplomats were kidnaped last September by Muslim extremists who demanded that Moscow pressure the Syrian government to stop pro-Syrian militiamen from shelling rival Muslim positions in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
What could possibly go wrong?!?
Thank you…I have a rule of never checking as it makes me remember better. But like all roads of idealism it has its potholes. Hezbollah not Hamas.
That is an example of using their culture against them, something we need to learn to do.
The sooner, the better.
Official Talks on Deployment of Arab Forces to Syria Underway – Egyptian Gov’t (sputniknews, May 4, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201805041064140288-egypt-deployment-arab-forces-syria/
“The idea of deploying a military contingent of Arab countries to Syria is being discussed officially, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Friday.
“The idea of replacing one type of forces with another, possibly Arab, is being discussed. This proposal is not only being mentioned in the media but is also being considered at talks of official representatives of countries,” Shoukry said as quoted by the Al Ahram newspaper…”
US Halts Funding for White Helmets in Syria – Reports (sputniknews, May 4, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201805041064135803-usa-stops-white-helmets-funding/
“The US administration has reportedly halted funding for the White Helmets in Syria, a nonprofit praised by the West for helping civilians and blamed by Russia for faking proof of the Syrian government’s alleged atrocities.
Raed Saleh, the leader of the controversial group, told CBS the flow of US cash, which amounts to a third of their budget, had stopped in recent weeks, almost two months after their delegation was hosted by the US State Department in Washington, DC in March.
An internal State Department document reportedly said the Near East Bureau required confirmation from the administration by April 15 or else all funding for the self-styled humanitarian group would be frozen.
The State Department said the White Helmets financing was “under active review,” according to the US broadcaster. Saleh complained they had not been formally notified and only had enough money to last for one or two months.
The White Helmets reported in early April an alleged chemical attack in Douma, which they claim was performed by the Syrian government, who has refuted all the allegations. Soon after the incident, France, the United States and the UK launched massive missile strikes against government targets in Syria…”
‘You’re only supposed to buy NATO-compatible weapons’ – State Dept to Turkey over Russian S-400 deal (RT, May 4, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/425803-us-russia-s400-turkey/
“Being a NATO member apparently means you can only buy arms and military hardware that the US-led bloc approves. At least, that’s what the State Department said in its latest warning to Ankara over an S-400 air-defense system deal.
The new warning came on Thursday from US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert, who said that Washington has “serious concerns about Turkey’s potential acquisition” of the S-400 anti-aircraft systems.
“Under NATO and under the NATO agreement, which of course, Turkey is a NATO member, you’re only supposed to buy, they are only supposed to buy, weapons and other materiel that are interoperable with other NATO partners. We don’t see that as being interoperable,” the State Department spokeswoman said during a press briefing…”
During WWII we have problems with interfacing our equipment with the British equipment the NATO treaty solved that problem by requiring all military equipment to be compatable with each other no matter what nation.
IIRC soviet weapons will fire NATO rounds but not vice versa. Not certain about the M4 etc. and now
Scores of NATO-made mines found amid massive ammo cache in Syria’s Douma (VIDEO) (RT, May 4, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/425795-syria-nato-mines-explosives/
“Hundreds of mines, some said to originate from NATO countries, as well as scores of mortar shells and frag grenades have been retrieved by Syrian sappers in the town of Douma. The mine-clearing effort was caught on camera.
A stunning amount of projectiles, among them land mines, hand grenades and mortar shells, were recorded strewn on the ground in Douma, in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, which was one of the Islamists’ last remaining bastions in this part of Syria.
Syrian bomb disposal teams have been dealing with explosives on a day-to-day basis, having so far detected and defused a total of 1.2 thousand mines, 1.5 tons of explosive material and four thousand improvised explosive devices (IEDs), according to the Russian Reconciliation Center…”
‘Extremely urgent’: Sweden makes sex education films for migrants (VIDEO) (RT, May 4, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/425793-sweden-sex-education-immigrants/
Sweden to Spend Millions for Migrant Sexual Education (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/04/sweden-spend-millions-migrant-sexual-education/
“The Swedish government will invest of 3.7 million Swedish Krona (£305,948) to educate newly arrived migrants on sexual rights and sexual health.
The programme is primarily aimed at newly arrived female asylum seekers, but also at men to teach them the sexual and reproductive rights they have in Sweden as well as societal sexual norms, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
Describing the need for the programme as “extremely urgent”, Minister of Social Affairs Annika Strandhäll said: “We find that some of the women in this group of new arrivals come from communities where there are completely different norms, laws, and regulations…”
Sweden to Spend Millions for Migrant Sexual Education
And then BILLIONS on welfare for aid-dependent children.
Study: ‘Collective Narcissism’ Drives Liberal Belief in Fake News (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/04/narcissism-liberal-belief-fake-news/
““Exaggerated feelings of moral superiority” make liberals vulnerable to believing fake news, according to a study which looked at stories relating to Brexit and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University found liberals and conservatives are equally likely to believe untrue news stories that correspond to their worldview and dismiss factual information that undermines it, but that their reasons for doing so differ.
While right-wingers “followed their gut instinct” in order to judge the veracity of news, high levels of “collective narcissism” — strong belief in the righteousness of their ideology and of others who share it — affected how liberals respond to stories.
Examining the concept of “fake news”, Dr. Craig Harper and Professor Thom Baguley carried out three studies to look at people’s responses to true and invented news articles relating to Trump and Brexit.
After asking 722 Americans to read a positive or negative invented story about either the U.S. President or his predecessor Barack Obama, the researchers found that while participants were quite good at recognising an article was fake, they still rated the story that was favourable to their ideology as having more truth than the one that contradicted it.
The second study, which saw 570 UK residents split into ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ voters read one pro-Brexit story and one which was opposed to the EU referendum outcome, revealed participants tended to be much more sceptical about the article that went against their worldview.
Researchers set out to understand why these reactions took place with the third study, in which a sample of 904 Americans with views ranging across the political spectrum read one positive and one negative story about President Trump, both of which were true.
Displaying the same trends as in the previous research, with participants rating the stories as more or less legitimate based on their political opinions, the study found that high collective narcissism drove liberals’ confidence in the anti-Trump piece.
While conservatives displayed some degree of collective narcissism in their response to the positive story about Trump the effect was not statistically significant, according to the study, which found that right wingers who said they were guided by intuition were more likely than other participants to believe both stories…”
“Exaggerated feelings of moral superiority” make liberals vulnerable to believing fake news…
“Exaggerated feelings of moral superiority” make liberals vulnerable to believing whatever-the-fü¢k their Fit Bits tell them.
There, fixed that.
Saudi Arabia Inks Deal with Vatican to Build Christian Churches (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/04/saudi-arabia-inks-deal-vatican-build-christian-churches/
“For the first time in history, Saudi Arabia has entered into a joint agreement with the Vatican to build churches for Christians living in the officially Muslim nation.
The agreement was signed by the Secretary General of the Muslim World League Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdel Karim Al-Issa and the President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue in the Vatican, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, according to a report Wednesday from the Egypt Independent newspaper.
The Financial Express has reported that Saudi Arabia’s newfound openness to and socio-cultural cooperation with the non-Muslim world stems from a desire to reduce dependency on oil resources, its primary economic driver.
Cardinal Tauran visited Riyadh on April 16-20, where he was received at the royal palace by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who acts as the country’s prime minister as well as the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and his son, the crown prince Muhammad bin Salman. Tauran and his delegation also visited the Center for the Fight against Extremist Thought, and met with the current Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh.
In his address to Saudi officials, Tauran made mention of the “hundreds of thousands of Christians in the Saudi Kingdom,” insisting that Pope Francis follows their situation “with close attention.” The cardinal also reiterated the Vatican position on the equal treatment of all citizens regardless of their religion, including those who do not profess any religion, and called for establishing a common basis for the construction of centers of worship.
Fruit of the cardinal’s visit was the joint agreement that provides for the building of churches to care for the needs of Christians in Saudi Arabia as well as underscoring the key role of religions in renouncing violence, extremism, terrorism and achieving security and stability in the world.
The new accord also calls for the establishment of a coordinating committee with two representatives from each side to organize future meetings. The committee is expected to meet every two years, alternating between Rome and a city chosen by the Islamic World League.
Saudi Arabia is currently the only country in the region without a single Christian church, after Qatar opened a church in March. Saudi Arabia embraces Islamic Wahhabism, which bans all forms of non-Muslim religious activities.”
Let me me know when they build any synagogues. After all, why wouldn’t they want lots of Nobel Prize winners visiting them?!?
Let the games begin! If KSA is anything like Egypt it’s going to be some rough and tumble while building churches. I thought it said in the Koran or the Hadith or some freaking place that not only can’t churches be built, they can’t even be repaired!
Quite honestly, I think it would be a safer for small groups of Christians to meet quietly in homes rather than go to a church. Just stop dragging people out of private homes and arresting them for holding a prayer meeting. That would be a huge step forward.
Just stop dragging…
Excellent point. They’ll continue to go after sincere Christians while keeping the cameras on dubious “show Christians”.
Iran has a few synagogues for the pet anti-Israel Jews they trot out when necessary.
Multicultural Wales Gets First Female Genital Mutilation Clinic (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/04/mwales-first-female-genital-mutilation-clinic-thousands-victims/
“Wales is opening its first-ever female genital mutilation (FGM) clinic to provide medical and psychological help to victims of the practice imported from Africa and Asia.
Wales is the second-smallest of the Home Nations which make up the United Kingdom, with a population of only around three million and relatively low level of immigration compared to neighbouring England — which already has five FGM clinics.
Nevertheless, figures obtained by the BBC show maternity staff in Wales were discovering a new FGM case once every three days, on average, in 2016, with the Welsh Women’s Aid charity estimated that there are at least 2,000 victims in the country.
The emergence of FGM in Britain has been one of the unfortunate downsides of the embrace of state-sponsored multiculturalism following race riots in the 1980s.
The practice is most often associated with Islamic migration, being obligatory in the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence, which is influential in Africa and also strongly promoted by the Ulema Council in Indonesia, which is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country by population.
It is not unique to or universally accepted by the religion’s adherents, however.
The National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) estimates there are as many as 137,000 victims of FGM throughout the United Kingdom.
However, the authorities have yet to bring a single successful prosecution for the practice since it was criminalised more than 30 years ago, with the police making a number of dubious statements with respect to the crime being “nuanced” and arrests “unlikely to benefit [the] child” — generating significant public backlash, but no observable changes…”
Wouldn’t the cessation of FGM and the punishment of those involved be a better spend?
I would suggest public hangings of the criminals.
All of the above…
To be perfectly clear, FGM is one of the most egregious and pervasive Crimes Against Humanity that has persisted for even anything like anti-Semitism.
Societies and cultures that practice or accept FGM have no place on this earth. See Ann Barnhardhart’s excellent:: Islamic Sexuality A Survey Of Evil. Caution: NSFW – Graphic Information.
I have seen the scars. I don’t need her book. I was even asked once “can the G spot be removed?”.(It can but…) so that they can turn ALL women into semen containers or jihad wombs. I would really like to see castration brought back for mass violent rape or FGM
“I would really like to see castration brought back for mass violent rape or FGM”
I cannot blame you.
No argument here, as far as I am concerned rape should still be a capital crime. Death will probably be restored as punishment for rape in the future.
Capital punishment will be on the agenda for many crimes in the next 100 years. the PRIMARY problem on this planet is overpopulation and we will not be able to luxuriate our ethics with those who do not deserve to live.
“… we will not be able to luxuriate our ethics with those who do not deserve to live.”
Do you mean to say that certain “breeds” of criminals just ain’t gonna get any air?
Italy and Greece Accused of Waving ‘Irregular Migrants’ Through Borders (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/04/netherlands-italy-greece-registering-third-migrants-returns-impossible/
“Italy and Greece have failed to properly log and register around two-thirds of the irregular, illegal, and asylum seeker migrants pouring over their borders, the Dutch have claimed.
The systematic shortfalls have undermined the European Union’s (EU) open borders Schengen system and acted as a massive pull factor, the Netherlands migration minister, Mark Harbers, has said…”
“Italy and Greece have failed to properly log and register around two-thirds of the irregular, illegal, and asylum seeker migrants pouring over their borders, the Dutch have claimed.”
And precisely what was expected from two of the EU’s most corrupt countries?
They use to be the most corrupt, the Western European nations are sprinting hard to catch up in the level of corruption.
‘Disrespectful Behaviour’: Islamic State Recruiter’s Wife Guilty of Not Standing for Judge (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/04/islamic-state-recruiters-wife-guilty-not-standing-judge/
“The self-described second ‘wife’ of a convicted Islamic State terrorist recruiter who refused to stand for an Australian judge has been convicted of disrespectful behaviour.
The 50-year-old Muslim woman was found guilty in Sydney of nine counts of disrespectful behaviour in court. She claimed in her defense that she only stood for Allah.
Moutia Elzahed, the wife of jailed Islamic State extremist Hamdi Alqudsi, was the first person in the Australian state of NSW to face the charge after she refused to rise for a judge in 2016 purportedly on religious grounds, as Breitbart London reported.
Elzahed, clad in the traditional Islamic burqa, again did not stand but folded her arms when magistrate Carolyn Huntsman left the bench after delivering her ruling on Friday…”
Well worth the 65 minutes, Stefan Molyneux is at his best debunking Liberal poster-boy “Che” Guvera:
He was a murderous piece of everything vile, the left worships him and teaches the kids he was a hero. With luck in the future people will look on the fools with pictures of him the way they now look on people with pictures of Hitler.
Thank you, Richard.
Don’t you find it interesting that this guy, an insane mass murderer, is worshiped by know nothings, or people that refuse to know anything? What he did in Bolivia was so insane that even Castro couldn’t abide and took him out.
One must be truly uninformed to hold Che as a cult figure. I guess the other explanation is that those that do are truly sick to the bone.
Look at the little arrogant snot Hogg and you see a Che or Hitler in their youth, he may not turn out to be as evil as they were but right now he is on that path.
And it is interesting that his parents haven’t been exposed to the media.
That is interesting, it is almost like they are hiding in shame, or fear.
“… it is almost like they are hiding in shame, or fear.”
Preferably both.
He looks so much like a young Rudolph Hess. it is incredible!.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRi-UouACL8
He is scary, so far he hasn’t committed any crimes we know about but has the potential to be a major war criminal.
Pakistani police: Gunmen kill 6 workers for phone company (wapo, May 4, 2018)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistani-police-gunmen-kill-6-workers-for-phone-company/2018/05/04/c14675e2-4f89-11e8-85c1-9326c4511033_story.html
“A Pakistani police official says gunmen have killed six laborers who were working on a project for the national phone company in the country’s southwestern region bordering Iran.
Local police official Mola Bakhsh says the workers were from Punjab province. They were killed in the border town of Kharan in Baluchistan province on Thursday night.
He says their bodies were brought to the city of Quetta on Friday.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but Baluch separatists often target people from Punjab, who tend to dominate the ranks of the military stationed in Baluchistan that the separatists are fighting…”
Migrants trapped in Libyan detention centre in “critical” state: MSF (reuters, May 4, 2018)
https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN1I515A-OZATP
“TUNIS (Reuters) – About 800 migrants in a government-run centre in western Libya are being detained in worsening conditions without sufficient food or water, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said.
Many of the migrants have been trapped for more than five months in the centre of Zuwara, about 100 km (62 miles) west of Tripoli, where some arrived malnourished after being held by smuggling networks, MSF said in a statement late on Thursday.
“The situation is critical,” said MSF emergency program manager Karline Kleijer.
The centre is one of several nominally run by the internationally recognised government in Tripoli. They house migrants who are rounded up on the streets or intercepted by Libya’s EU-backed coastguard as they try to leave for Italy by boat.
The centres only hold a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of migrants in Libya. Most live in communities or are held by smuggling networks.
Many detention centres have been closed in recent months as migrants are repatriated under a voluntary returns programme run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) or through bilateral flights.
Activists say conditions for migrants in Libya that were already dire may have deteriorated further since last summer, when numbers reaching Europe dropped sharply following an Italian-led push to cut off crossings. Some are being held for longer by smugglers who use torture to extort money from migrants’ families, they say.
Zuwara itself used to be a major smuggling hub before a local backlash against smugglers in 2015. Recently, boat departures from the city have picked up again, aid workers say.
More than 500 people had been detained in the city in the past 15 days, according to MSF.
The U.N. refugee agency airlifted 88 migrants from Zuwara to another detention centre in Tripoli on May 1 in order to identify the most vulnerable cases for evacuation.
Libyan authorities have also transferred some migrants in an effort to reduce severe overcrowding at the Zuwara centre and the IOM has begun a process to repatriate others.
“However, there is no solution in sight for many of the estimated 800 people who remain in the detention centre in Zuwara,” MSF said.
“We strongly urge all international agencies with a presence in Libya, representatives from the countries of origin, and the Libyan authorities to do everything they can to find a solution for these people over the next few days,” said Kleijer.”
MSF is part of the team responsible for luring these unfortunates.
“MSF is part of the team responsible for luring these unfortunates.”
Too right, yucki! Médecins Sans Frontières is becoming a serious anti-Western troublemaker.
All left win globalist groups are a major danger to the world.
California store faces suit over no-Spanish language policy
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A grocery store in San Diego subjected Hispanic employees to harassment and a hostile work environment by implementing a no-Spanish language policy, federal officials said Thursday.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit alleging store managers at Albertsons publicly reprimanded Hispanic employees who were caught speaking Spanish. The workers were barred from speaking Spanish around non-Spanish speakers, even during breaks or when talking to Spanish-speaking customers, the lawsuit said.
No action was taken despite employee complaints, causing some workers to transfer to other stores, according to the EEOC.
Albertsons wouldn’t comment on the lawsuit but said in a statement that it does not require its employees speak English only.
“Albertsons serves a diverse customer population and encourages employees with foreign language abilities to use those skills to serve its customers,” the statement said.
The conduct violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the EEOC said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-store-sued-over-no-232825278.html
LaGuardia Airport’s security robot is giving women the creeps
By Kevin Sheehan, Danielle Furfaro and Ruth Brown
May 3, 2018
They paid for RoboCop — but got Bender.
The Port Authority is paying thousands of dollars every month renting a security robot to patrol LaGuardia Airport — but the bot is creeping out women while the crooks look on and laugh.
“It’s upsetting to have that thing creep up on you,” said one female security guard at the airport, adding that she had just fended it off with a luggage cart.
“It’s a pain in the ass. It keeps bothering people.”
The airport deployed the R2-D2-esque Knightscope K5 three months ago to roll around outside Terminal B, recording everything with its four cameras, microphones and sensors.
The airport wouldn’t say how much it’s paying for the blue-and-white machines, but Knightscope says it typically rents the droids out for between $6,500 and $8,300 a month.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/03/laguardia-airports-security-robot-is-giving-women-the-creeps/
It reminds me of the Daleks on the original Doctor Who show.
“They paid for RoboCop — but got Bender.”
Give that copy writer a yuge raise (and more booze). Fecking brilliant!
Violence of May 1st: graduate of Ecole Centrale, son of researcher at the CNRS ( French National Center for Scientific Research)… defendants with amazing profiles
The first immediate appearances after the May 1st violence in Paris took place on Thursday, May 3rd. In front of the court, the profile of some defendants is amazing: among them, a graduate of Ecole Centrale with salary 4,200 euros per month.
Six people arrested during the violence in Paris on the sidelines of the demonstration of 1 May were summoned to the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris Thursday, May 3. There were six referral requests. Prisoners with very different profiles: five men and one woman. All were prosecuted for participating in a group formed to commit violence or material damage. They were arrested with their faces often concealed. In their bags Some had stones, scissors, sledgehammers , swimming pool masks among others.
Hearing postponed until 30 May
In the box, a young man of 29, white t-shirt, graduated from Ecole Centrale, consultant. His monthly salary is 4,200 euros. His criminal record is blank. The young man is calm, polite. Beside him, barely younger, a man and a woman in a sweat jacket. “Is your name Anne?” Asks the president. “No, I lied: my real name is Andrea,” she answers. This Frenchwoman also told the police before that she was Swedish.
His neighbor also said he gave a false identity “in the panic of custody”. A custody that lasted 48 hours for the son of CNRS/French National Center for Scientific Research/ researcher and daughter of chief financial officer.
The three defendants asked for time to prepare their defense. The hearing was postponed until May 30. The young graduate returned home without even a judicial control. For the other two, lying is expensive. The president explains to them: “This gives little guarantee that you are coming back for the hearing”. For them, it’s prison: four weeks of pre-trial detention. In the box, the young man is livid, his neighbor in tears. In the room, comrades shout: “Courage, we think of you”.
https://mobile.francetvinfo.fr/decouverte/1er-mai/violences-du-1er-mai-centralien-fille-de-chercheur-au-cnrs-des-prevenus-aux-profils-etonnants_2736481.amp
“All were prosecuted for participating in a group formed to commit violence or material damage. They were arrested with their faces often concealed. In their bags Some had stones, scissors, sledgehammers , swimming pool masks among others.”
Conspicuous in its absence (throughout the entire article) is the word “ANTIFA”. Why is this minor omission so remarkable?
I found out earlier today that some antifa people were arrested at Kansas City Mo. for things they did during the celebration.
Shopkeeper Rana Aslam Receives Light One-year Sentence for Grooming 12-Year-Old in Scotland (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/04/shopkeeper-rana-aslam-one-year-sentence-grooming-12-year-old/
“Dundee shopkeeper Rana Irfan Aslam has been given a short one-year sentence for grooming a 12-year-old for sex.
Aslam, 51, of Wallacetown Court, was branded a “dirty, paedophile scumbag” by his victim, now in her thirties, Dundee’s Evening Telegraph reports.
“He was in his 30s and I was 12. He worked at a shop in Kirkton. I would go in with my pocket money to buy sweets with my friend. He said we were ‘really pretty’,” she said.
“He enticed us into his car and bought us a McDonald’s — from there the abuse started…”
““He enticed us into his car and bought us a McDonald’s — from there the abuse started…””
Happy meals!
Belgian Islamic Party Founder Fired from Bus Driving Day-Job For ‘Islamic State’ Comments (breitbart, May 4, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/04/head-belgian-islamist-party-fired-day-job-bus-driver/
“One of the founders of the Belgian Islamist party Partij Islam has been fired by his regular employer after he said he wanted Belgium to become an Islamic state.
Anderlecht municipal councillor Redouane Ahrouch, who also serves as the treasurer for the Partij Islam, was fired by the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (STIB) earlier this week after the Islamist politician made “remarks in contradiction with the values of the company”, Belgian radio broadcaster RTL reports.
STIB spokeswoman Françoise Ledune said one of the reasons for his dismissal was that Ahrouch identified himself as working as a bus driver which the company felt could lead to confusion that it endorsed his statements.
“During an interview on Wednesday morning, the management signified his dismissal on the grounds that the remarks he made are in contradiction with the values of the company,” Ledune said…”
“Anderlecht municipal councillor Redouane Ahrouch, who also serves as the treasurer for the Partij Islam, was fired by the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (STIB) earlier this week after the Islamist politician made “remarks in contradiction with the values of the company”, Belgian radio broadcaster RTL reports.”
The eyelids of another slumbering European nation begin to flutter.
NXIVM
“According to the FBI, Raniere’s followers call him The Vanguard. He not only rakes in their money but also commands their sexual devotion.
Court papers say he ‘maintained a rotating group of 15 to 20 women’ who ‘are not permitted to have sexual relationships with anyone but Raniere’.
They say Nxivm teaches ‘the need for men to have multiple sexual partners and the need for women to be monogamous’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5689273/Twisted-sex-cult-guru-brainwashed-Americas-privileged.html
OK. So they’re Sharia compliant. What’s the problem?
“In March 2018, Raniere was indicted on federal charges after being arrested in Mexico on sex trafficking charges.[10] Following his arrest, Raniere appeared in front of a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas to face charges of sex trafficking and forced labor in New York state.[31] The complaint alleges that followers were coerced into sex with Raniere, who forced them to undergo a branding ritual in which his initials were burned onto their skin with a cauterizing pen.[32] Former NXIVM members had accused the organization of the same branding.[33]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM
And decades later the Me-Too movement will easily be able to show their proof. Or not.
Confused in Idaho.
“They say Nxivm teaches ‘the need for men to have multiple sexual partners and the need for women to be monogamous’.”
Come on, everyone. Is it just me that’s having a WTF moment here? What is this, Mormonism and Islam reborn?
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
And that’s just one of the ways bad guys are putting drones to use, law enforcement officials say.
DENVER, Colorado — Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of “high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,” the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here. Result: “We were then blind,” said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost situational awareness of the target. “It definitely presented some challenges.”
The incident remains “law enforcement-sensitive,” Mazel said Wednesday, declining to say just where or when it took place. But it shows how criminal groups are using small drones for increasingly elaborate crimes.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/05/criminal-gang-used-drone-swarm-obstruct-fbi-raid/147956/
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
The moment drone technology went on sale to the general public, the FBI (and other agencies) all should have had engagement protocols in place for over a YEAR.
It is this same sort of “mission gap”—that precluded American intelligence organizations from anticipating the Soviet Union’s (inevitable) collapse—which contributes to perpetual lack of vision at the FBI and all other agencies.
The Soviet Union collapsed because of the excellence of their counter intel organizations. They had identified everyone we recruited and turned them so they sent only what the Soviets wanted us to know. When our spies reported how strong their economy was President Reagan went ahead with full anti missile research and drove the USSR bankrupt. If he had known how weak their economy was he said he probably wouldn’t have pushed so hard and the Soviet Union wouldn’t have collapsed.
As someone who met Ronald Reagan personally, it grieves me to say that, although the Gipper’s rhetoric was top-drawer Hollyweird material, his lack of follow-through on the SDI (Strategic Defensive Initiative)—which I also did first-surface optical coatings for multi-megawatt free-electron ground based lasers that could shoot down orbital satellites—was a serious disappointment.
Mounting economic chaos leaves many Venezuelans in the dark
MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) — A month-long blackout in Jennifer Naranjo’s neighborhood in the Venezuelan port city of Maracaibo leaves her anxious. She’s eight months pregnant and passes hot, sleepless nights with no air conditioning, swatting away mosquitoes, worried about her unborn daughter’s future.
“I dream about getting ahead for my baby,” said Naranjo, whose husband left in January to find work in Chile. “In Venezuela, the situation gets worse every day.”
Blackouts are nothing new under two decades of socialist rule in Venezuela. But they’ve grown more frequent, and are lasting longer, as the OPEC nation’s economy hits a breaking point with hyperinflation making increasingly scarce food and medicine unaffordable for many.
Naranjo’s La Chinita neighborhood has gone without power since late March, when a transformer exploded. Officials repeatedly promised the parts needed to repair it would arrive the next day. So far they haven’t come.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mounting-economic-chaos-leaves-many-venezuelans-dark-040137878.html
Awww hot sleepless nights with no A/c and mosquitoes. My heart it bleeds…this is how 50% of humans live anyway and it will only become worse as the west disintegrates.
Venezuela’s Maduro threatens ‘armed revolution’ ahead of May 20 election
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is warning that he’ll take up arms and lead a revolution if a government comes into power that wants to hand the country’s “riches” to “imperialist” forces.
In a campaign speech Wednesday, Maduro — who is hoping to win a new six-year term in a highly questioned May 20 election — accused his nearest opposition rival, Henri Falcón, of wanting to sell the country out to “the gringos.”
“If someday a government was in power that intended to hand over [our] riches, I would be the first one to raise the alarm, grab a gun and start an armed revolution with the people, if necessary,” he told a crowd of supporters in Vargas. “I would be the first one to do it, and call the people to arms.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article210363554.html#storylink=cpy
British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can’t read them
Schools in the United Kingdom are beginning to remove analog clocks from the classroom — because students are complaining that they can’t read them, reports say.
Officials have begun replacing the traditional clocks with digital ones as children have been unable to tell the correct time on analog clocks, The Telegraph reports.
https://www.ajc.com/places/school/british-schools-are-removing-analog-clocks-from-classrooms-because-kids-can-read-them/FmT45BUpAvoUUjP8C5IM9I/
Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers ‘cannot tell the time’
Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.
Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.
Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-removing-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/
Another 5 point drop in the mean IQ of those leaving school in the UK.
Yeah, we are heading towards a very dark age when once again the vast majority of people can’t read and are proud of that fact.
“Yeah, we are heading towards a very dark age when once again the vast majority of people can’t read and are proud of that fact.”
Books are expensive, space-consuming, cumbersome objects. Ridding one’s home of these pestilential, difficult-to-absorb, unmanageable hard-copy artifacts is all that comes before bragging about how they weren’t going to be read anyway.
Cue, “Fahrenheit 451″…
BUT! Turn off the power, deaden the towers,(EMP) run out of batteries and …there will be nothing. Digital knowledge is only as good as the power supply In the days of fibre optic telephones there will also be no phones (they need power). With screwed, skewed schooling we will all be eating each other within a year. Unlikely? What cloud are you on? My grandfather said that had I given him a DVD as a child he would have used it as a drink coaster and I often wonder just how many items that we now use would be recognizable in 20+K years. Only trace element analysis would show where a mobile phone once lay. Think about it! the more sophisticated a society, the more fragile it is and the less it leaves behind as proof of its existence. It is quite possible although not necessarily likely, that a past high technology state, did exist on this planet and we will never recognize its traces. If far enough back, geological upheaval will make certain we never see its traces.
Read Null ABC by H. Bean Piper about a future of illiterates. Issac Asimov (leftist collectivists to the core) wrote some good books about the far future when archeologists are trying to discover what we had during the 20th Century. I don’t know if he was the one who wrote the story about how they were having trouble identifying what a toilet stool was. I haven’t read him in a long time, Piper I read often enough to keep his stores fresh.
I have list of about 60 post apocalyptic novels if you are interested. BUT IMO if you are curious obtain Forbidden Archaeology (not cheap) by Cremo and Thompson… this is a study of artefacts that do not fit current concepts and hence are ignored.
BTW thank you I must add that one to the list. Asimov is old news but again thank you.
“Read Null ABC by H. Beam Piper”
If you enjoyed Piper’s original “Little Fuzzy”, definitely check out John Scalzi’s, “Fuzzy Nation”.
While you’re at it, make sure to read Scalzi’s, “Red Shirts”. If you are a dyed-in-the-wool, first generation Trekkie, it’s a (side-splitting) must-read.
Grand Jury Subpoenas Issued in Harvey Weinstein Criminal Case
The criminal case against Harvey Weinstein in New York may be coming to a head, because we are told subpoenas have been sent out for some of his closest advisors to appear before a grand jury.
According to sources familiar with the case, subpoenas were sent by the Manhattan District Attorney in New York and specifically said the person receiving the document would be a “witness to attend the grand jury.” However, we’re told some instances documents could be sent in lieu of appearing and testifying in person.
Our sources say the subpoena requested a wide array of items, which could include phone records, e-mails and financial records related to any services requested or provided to Weinstein, The Weinstein Company and other business owned by the disgraced movie producer. We’re told the subpoena even asked for dated records, as far back as 2004.
https://theblast.com/harvey-weinstein-grand-jury-subpoenas-issued/
Cannes in crisis: has the festival learned the lessons of Weinstein?
A sexual harassment helpline has been set up – but they have also welcomed Lars von Trier back to the Croisette. And out of 21 films competing this year, only three are directed by women
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The 70th Cannes film festival.
The 70th Cannes film festival. Photograph: Georges De Keerle/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock
With its outsize red carpet, compulsory sunglasses and auteur-worship, the Cannes film festival has been at the pinnacle of the international film festival circuit for decades. It somehow manages to shoehorn both movie-world glamour and austere artistic rigour into the same 10-day screening frenzy on France’s Côte d’Azur, packing movie stars on to its gala premiere conveyor belt as well as bestowing the Palme d’Or, one of the film industry’s most prized and valuable awards. But for this year’s edition, the 71st, Cannes is having to face up to the fact that business cannot go on as usual: the Harvey Weinstein scandal has seen to that.
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The film festival is now, in effect, a crime scene. Weinstein was one of Cannes’ princes, a showman who used the festival as a personal fiefdom: buying and selling films, holding court to the press and public, and, it would now appear, using the festival as a private playground. A good number of the accusations against Weinstein are alleged to have taken place at Cannes – most notably Asia Argento’s allegation of rape, which she claimed took place in 1997 in his hotel room at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the super-luxe hotel down the coast from Cannes where the A-list names go to avoid the festival hubbub.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/04/cannes-crisis-lessons-weinstein-scandal
Meanwhile the grauniard ignores the rape grooming, the rapes, the murders, the….etc….ad infin. of its chosen: the muslims and even glorifies the violence (and yet to come rapes) of its leftist brethren.
Palestinian flag to premiere at Cannes film festival
he Palestinian flag will be raised next week at the Cannes film festival, which will host their first ever national pavilion.
Film-makers said the new level of representation in the international village of the prestigious festival was a significant step for the fledgling Palestinian cinema industry.
The pavilion, one of around 70 representing countries from across the globe, will give Palestinian film-makers an opportunity to pitch their work to top international industry executives.
Mohanad Yaqubi, one of the co-founders of the Palestine Film Institute, said it was a significant moment.
“Almost every year Palestine has a film selected in Cannes but until now we didn’t have an official presence there,” Yaqubi, who is also a film-maker, told AFP.
“Industry-wise it is very important to have a presence… (to) network at an industry level,” he said in English.
The pavilion will be mostly funded by the Palestinian ministry of culture, which declined to say exactly how much it invested.
Lina Bokhary, head of the ministry’s cinema department, said the decision was part of wider efforts to promote Palestinian film.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/721/palestinian-flag-premiere-cannes-film-festival-doc-14i4wh1
Grand Prize Winner for Special Effects.
IDK, in one respect I think it is OK for the “Palestinians” to participate and have their “Ministry of Culture” fund it. It sure beats the snuff films they are so famous for. Maybe look at it as a step toward civility?
Palestinian flag to premiere at Cannes film festival
Next up, an appearance of the special vest.
Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
Incidents near Beijing’s Djibouti military base injured American air crews flying nearby
The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that Chinese nationals fired lasers near a military base in east Africa against U.S. military aircraft in the region, injuring several pilots.
Pentagon Press Secretary Dana White said the U.S. government made diplomatic protests to the Chinese government over several recent incidents of laser firings near China’s first overseas military base at Djibouti.
“These are very serious incidents. There have been two minor injuries. This activity poses a threat to our airmen,” White told reporters.
“We have formally demarched the Chinese government, and we’ve requested that the Chinese investigate these incidents,” she added.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-confirms-chinese-fired-lasers-u-s-pilots/
Just as with the Soviet Union, Red China will inspire another round of “measures-and-countermeasures” escalation cycles. Unfortunately, technology is proliferating and increasing in cost-efficient quality to where there may be no meaningful form of armaments “parity” anymore. Except for nuclear, and we all know where that sh!t is heading…
This is not a good thing. As it is, we in the West are confronted with how to deter a death-loving Islamic culture. Few people seem to appreciate the apocalyptic implications of just that one simple equation.
Maybe we could engineer a china Islam confrontation and sit back and smile. Certainly that would be an ideal option but China is depending upon the fall of Europe as an integral part of its world domination plan and would have to be coerced. Maybe if that Iranian ICBM hit a Chinese city (thanks to Mossad) ??? Who knows?
Your idea has merit but will be hard to carry out.
China is gambling big that we will back down before their economy collapses, it they can hold out until Europe falls they will have a much freer hand in the far east since we will have to transfer military assets to Europe and the Mideast. This gamble on their part has many things that can go wrong but there are many possible outcomes that helps them. Any type of major attack on the Middle East will help China, something they are counting on.
Consider these scenarios, someone in France or Britain gets their hands on the codes to get their nukes launched at the Mideast. Second scenario some one in Europe lays their hands on a real deadly bio weapon and turns it loose.
“Maybe we could engineer a China Islam confrontation and sit back and smile.”
You wicked-wicked woman. Spend the next hour in my bedroom.
U.S. says will be consequences for China’s South China Sea militarization
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has raised concerns with China about its latest militarization of the South China Sea and there will be near-term and long-term consequences, the White House said on Thursday.
U.S. news network CNBC reported on Wednesday that China had installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three manmade outposts in the South China Sea. It cited sources with direct knowledge of U.S. intelligence.
Asked about the report, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a regular news briefing: “We’re well aware of China’s militarization of the South China Sea. We’ve raised concerns directly with the Chinese about this and there will be near-term and long-term consequences.”
Sanders did not say what the consequences might be.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. intelligence had seen some signs that China had moved some weapons systems to its artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago in the past month or so, but offered no details.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-says-consequences-chinas-south-china-sea-militarization-012917674.html
You know, it is one heck of a lot harder to clean up a mess then to let it happen in the first place. Year after year those that were paying attention watched China build those military atolls. And year after year the Obama admin did nothing. Now Trump and the US Navy need to do something and it won’t be pretty. And, the Western media will pillory our actions.
If I really wanted to get into a hissy fit I would ask where was the rest of the Western world while this was taking place? Did they really not care that China intends to control trade from the Pacific rim? Or, are they so dependent on the US that they were just paralyzed.
They are so dependent on the US and so use to using the money that should go to their military for welfare bribes that they had trouble grasping the fact that Obama wasn’t going to do anything to stop China. They like many thought that Obama’s inaction was part of some brilliant plan and didn’t want to upset what was planned. Now they are stuck with the problem that their and Obama’s inaction created. We are also stuck with it and with a left wing news media that will refuse to believe there is any danger until the nukes start falling and then will find someway to blame the conservatives for not building a strong enough missile defense system.
“If I really wanted to get into a hissy fit I would ask where was the rest of the Western world while this was taking place?”
Hiss away, Babs! Please.
The “rest of the Western world” is of such economic insignificance that they, long ago, were drawn into Red China’s withering embrace. Globalist rectal cavities like 0bama (and Bush 2.0) were perfectly content to see America swirl down the same Sino-sinkhole.
It challenges my upward limits of optimism to hope that a political outsider like Trump might, for once, step outside of the Capitol Hill regimentation and read Beijing the Riot Act™.
I watched them build on those reefs via satellite photos and the implication staggered me but no one seemed interested in doing anything about it. You have to give them credit as they turned a few rocky reefs into (IIRC) couple of islands complete with airfields and barracks etc.. Many assumed that this was simply to enforce their claims WRT local sea oil fields but the heavy militarization of the islands points to a strategic military aim.
I know what you mean.
The “Spratly Squatdown” is going to prove a major flash-point.
Yuan Weakness Revives Old Question: What Is China Doing With Its Currency?
The yuan’s moves spark suggestions it is being used as a bargaining chip in U.S. trade talks
https://www.wsj.com/articles/yuan-weakness-revives-old-question-what-is-china-doing-with-its-currency-1525412863
Richard: The Chinese are playing games trying to scare us into giving in. They have a lot more to lose then we do so all we have to do is stay the course. They may have started arming the Spratly Islands to try and force our hands on trade with Taiwan and some other nation in that region but once again all we have to do is stay the course. China can’t afford to engage in a long term trade war and they can’t afford a shooting war with the US.
Them not being able to afford a shooting war doesn’t mean one won’t start if they think it will be short and they can win.
Good analysis, Richard. Anyone who wants to pretend about having the slightest geopolitical awareness had best get the basics of Red China’s expansionism under their belt.
And needs to pay as much attention to them as to the Islamic invasion. They are rapidly becoming as much a danger is Islam is.
How Five Robots Replaced Seven Employees at a Swiss Bank
(Machine translation provided by Google and reviewed by Bloomberg editors.)
Have seven employees work for three days or use software robots instead? In a pilot project, St. Galler Kantonalbank AG opted for the second option. The bank is so satisfied with the test results that it wants to decide on further assignments by the end of May.
“We’ve seen that’s technically feasible and now we’re exploring whether other applications are worthwhile, and I’m very optimistic about that”, Felix Buschor, member of the management board, said in an interview with Bloomberg. “The assessment of the potential is in full swing.”
Buschor admits that the use of robots is causing some employees to worry about their jobs. “However, as we have always compensated efficiency gains through natural fluctuation and because we paid close attention to enabling our employees to develop new technologies, the acceptance is high,” he
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/how-five-robots-replaced-seven-employees-at-a-swiss-bank
Yeah, right. When was the last time you actually used a teller for a transaction vs an ATM?
On the first, I had to make sure the pension payment was deposited before I withdrew any money.
Israel and Iran on Path to War as Mideast Tinderbox Awaits Spark
By David Wainer
, Donna Abu-Nasr
, and Henry Meyer
There have been coups and revolutions, external invasions and proxy conflicts, but the Middle East hasn’t seen a head-to-head war between major regional powers since the 1980s.
There’s a growing risk that one is about to break out in Syria, pitting Israel against Iran.
The Islamic Republic’s forces are entrenching there, after joining the fight to prop up President Bashar al-Assad. The Jewish state, perceiving a direct threat on its border, is subjecting them to an escalating barrage of airstrikes. Nobody expects those strikes to go unanswered.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/israel-sees-iran-war-looming-as-mideast-tinderbox-awaits-a-spark
Yawn!! I guess that someone actually read a translation of a recent Iranian speech. A real pity that they did not notice those of the preceding 20 years.
Any confrontation with Israel will be in Syria and by proxy and Iran will stay out of it. Only if Israel crumbles will Iran move.
There are a couple of other scenarios that would cause Iran to move in person but right now they are very low probability.
Saudi Arabia Inks Deal with Vatican to Build Christian Churches
For the first time in history, Saudi Arabia has entered into a joint agreement with the Vatican to build churches for Christians living in the officially Muslim nation.
The agreement was signed by the Secretary General of the Muslim World League Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdel Karim Al-Issa and the President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue in the Vatican, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, according to a report Wednesday from the Egypt Independent newspaper.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/04/saudi-arabia-inks-deal-vatican-build-christian-churches/
Special Counsel Robert Mueller Requests 70 Subpoenas Ahead of Paul Manafort Trial
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:14 AM PT — Fri. May 4, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller requests 70 blank subpoenas in preparation for the trial of Paul Manafort.
On Thursday, Mueller put in a request for subpoenas in the Virginia court where Manafort — the president’s former campaign chairman — is set to face trial.
A spokesman for the special counsel confirmed the requests are in addition to the 35 subpoenas requested previously by prosecutors.
http://www.oann.com/mueller-requests-70-subpoenas-ahead-of-manafort-trial/
Greek gunboat on patrol nudged by Turkish cargo vessel-Navy (reuters, May 4, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-greece-gunboat/greek-gunboat-on-patrol-nudged-by-turkish-cargo-vessel-navy-idUKKBN1I51NH?rpc=401&
“A Greek gunboat was nudged by a Turkish cargo vessel early on Friday while on patrol for unauthorised migrant crossings in the Aegean Sea, the Greek navy said.
The gunboat “Armatolos” was on patrol off the island of Lesbos as part of a NATO operation when the incident occurred at 4 a.m. local time (0100 GMT).
The Turkish-flagged vessel “approached and touched” the Greek gunboat, the navy said in a statement. It then accelerated towards Turkish shores and did not respond to subsequent radio calls from the Greek gunboat, according to the statement.
The Greek navy said NATO authorities had been informed, adding that there were no injuries or any serious damage to the ship. Turkey’s transport ministry later confirmed that there were no casualties on either side following the collision.
The Greek island of Lesbos, which lies close to Turkey, was on the frontline of a migration influx in 2015, when hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict found sanctuary there. The number of arrivals has since eased considerably after an agreement between the European Union and Turkey to allow migrants to be sent back.”
Stormy Daniels Payment Scandal Part of Contingency Policy Against President Trump
BTW, Stormy’s attorney is totally loaded up on the Dem. side.
Who ever is sick to death of this, please raise your hand.
I am sick to death of this whole affair, they are doing this because they know that it is delaying any indictment of Hillary and Obama’s people (he will have to wait until they flip some of his people) they know that if they can delay this until 2020 there is a slim chance that enough of the dirt they are throwing will stick and who ever they nominate will win.
Stormy Daniels, James Comey, Robert Mueller, and Hillary Clinton all could slip over the event horizon and I would not miss them for an instant.
The only significant dilemma being keeping all of these jerks around for annoyance value during the upcoming midterms.
Seriously she is revolting! And I do not mean her statements or behaviour. Hasn’t her 15 mins run out yet?
What the left doesn’t want you to know about school safety
Dozens of French Military Personnel Spotted on Syria’s Manbij Border (PHOTO) (sputniknews, May 4, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201805041064147305-french-military-seen-manbij-border/
“Amid reports coming from Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) about the growing French military presence in the area of Manbij in Syria, Sputnik has received a photo providing further evidence for the report…”
Chemical weapons inspectors back from Syria’s Douma: source
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Chemical weapons inspectors have returned from a mission to the Syrian town of Douma, where they took samples and interviewed witnesses to determine whether banned munitions were used in an attack last month, a diplomatic source said on Friday.
A team of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons returned to the Netherlands on Thursday night after going to Damascus on April 14, the source said on condition of anonymity.
The suspected chemical attack prompted missile strikes by the United States, France and Britain on April 13 against several alleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria.
The OPCW is investigating the deaths of dozens of people in Douma, an enclave in Ghouta on the oustskrts of the Syrian capital, on April 7.
The United States and its allies say they were caused by chemical weapons, possibly a nerve agent, used by forces of the Russian-back government of President Bashar al-Assad.
http://www.oann.com/chemical-weapons-inspectors-back-from-syrias-douma-source/
Richard: Can we trust the experts? Thanks to what is happening around the world lately I don’t know who to trust.
Nope! Far too many “scientists” are leftist conditioned for them to be impartial and fair. IMO the fact that it was used vs civilians = proof that ISIS did it as I and Assad IMO would have only used it on enemy troops. Otherwise what was the point? Palywood’s Syrian branch.
Reminder: The Mueller investigation is neither due process nor the rule of law
By J.E. Dyer May 4, 2018
Three arresting posts in the last few days have reminded me of the basic character of the Mueller investigation. The nature of the investigation is such that, in itself – aside from its procedural arrangements – it cannot be due process or the rule of law.
That means something very important about it. It means that there is no automatic, inherent moral high ground on it. No side can claim the “right,” at least by having in view a process and an outcome that can meet a standard of measurement (such as the definition of a crime, and the elements of proof for it).
All support for the Mueller investigation, like all criticism of it, is political. It’s an argument over politics and policy. Frankly, as others have pointed out, it’s a bastardized re-litigation of the 2016 election. You’re either for that, however you work your way into that position, or against it.
The Mueller investigation itself is an arbitrary use of state power: the very opposite of due process and the rule of law. It invokes the rule of law only when it wants to constrain its targets. It is not bound by the rule of law in terms of its own actions.
And we see the effects of that in a number of ways. Two of them have been topics for the arresting posts I refer to.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/05/04/reminder-the-mueller-investigation-is-neither-due-process-nor-the-rule-of-law/
“Homeless man describes entering Governor’s Mansion after being scared by cat” by Tom Miller – April 28, 2018
http://www.kcra.com/article/homeless-man-describes-entering-governor-s-mansion-after-being-scared-by-cat/20095155
“He’s an open door policy kind of guy, so I figured the door would be unlocked or else I wouldn’t have ran over there if I thought the door would be locked.” Steven Seeley
Another ailurophobic!
Heh! I had to look that one up. It wasn’t in my phobia lexicon.
I had to look it up too.
“Another ailurophobic!”
No need to be catty…
I didn’t look it up cause I was sure it meant a fear of garlic. Which would be a real tragedy.
MSNBC issues massive ‘correction’ to Michael Cohen ‘wiretap’ story
By Howard Portnoy May 4, 2018
The euphemistic quotes around the word correction in the title of this post hark back to a recent editorial of mine which noted we have entered an era of journalism where posted errata go well beyond simply miscaptioning a photo.
Nowadays, so-called corrections are a reflection of willful recklessness by a reporter hellbent on writing a “gotcha” story, usually about the Trump administration, and always designed to promote a leftist narrative. If the truth is a casualty, it’s a small price to pay for today’s “elite” media to pay.
The latest ethical breach was committed by MSNBC on Thursday in a piece published under the headline “Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones.” The story is still running, though if you click on the above link now, you will now be taken to a story titled “Feds monitored Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones.” The swapping of verbs is a small but highly significant edit, as is reflected in a “correction” that now leads the story:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/05/04/msnbc-issues-massive-correction-to-michael-cohen-wiretap-story/
The words “monitored” and “tapped” have entirely different connotations.
Only idiots (unfortunately in plentiful supply) would be immune to this distinction.