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American hostage mom Caitlan Coleman leaves Canada, returns to US with children
Former Taliban hostage Caitlan Coleman returned to the United States with her three children on Monday, almost six years after she was abducted while backpacking across Afghanistan with her husband, ABC News has learned.
Coleman is petitioning an Ottawa family court to grant her full legal custody of the children she shares with Joshua Boyle, who is facing multiple allegations of physical and sexual assault stemming from incidents since his return to Canada.
On Monday, a judge ruled that Coleman, a U.S. citizen, could relocate pending a resolution of her case, so she decided to leave both Canada and Boyle behind, crossing the U.S.-Canada border with her three children that same night.
Coleman declined to comment, and Coleman’s family declined to disclose her final destination but said the search for a suitable location for her and her family has taken on a new urgency – Caitlan discovered earlier this year that she is pregnant with her fourth child.
“I’m excited that my daughter and her children are finally coming back to the U.S. after all the years of captivity,” Caitlan’s father Jim told ABC News. “The first thing we want to do is to help Caity establish a good and stable home and help her and the kids continue their recovery from captivity.”
Boyle has pleaded not guilty to the charges filed against him. His criminal defense attorneys had no immediate comment in response to questions from ABC News.
Coleman, 32, her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, 34, and their three young children – all of whom were born as prisoners – were freed from captivity in Pakistan in October following a five-year ordeal under the control of the Afghan Taliban’s extremist Haqqani Network.
The family flew to Toronto and settled in Ottawa, and in her first television interview in November, Coleman detailed the family’s harrowing experience in captivity, telling ABC News that she had once been raped by Taliban guards.
It wasn’t long, however, before the already bizarre saga took another dark turn. On New Year’s Eve, police in Ottawa arrested Boyle and jailed him on multiple charges, including physical and sexual assault of a woman and physical assault of a child.
The judge ordered a publication ban in January, meaning the alleged victims and most details of the criminal investigation could not be revealed by news media. As a general policy, ABC News does not name victims in cases of alleged sexual assault.
Since the family’s arrival in Canada, Boyle has made a series of contradictory claims about their reasons for traveling to Afghanistan in 2012 and about their captivity.
Boyle was known in Canada for his activism even before becoming a hostage of the Haqqani Network. He was previously married to one of Canada’s most outspoken pro-jihadi women, Zaynab Khadr, whose two brothers were imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp but were later released.
While U.S. intelligence officials always considered Coleman a Taliban hostage, officials often expressed doubts to ABC News about Boyle’s motives in traveling to Afghanistan with his then-pregnant wife in 2012. Boyle told ABC News days before his arrest on assault charges that those doubts were unfounded and referred to his Haqqani captors as “criminal miscreants.”
Boyle was granted bail in June but still faces 19 criminal charges and is restricted to his parents’ home in Smiths Falls, Ontario, while he continues psychiatric treatment and awaits trial.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/american-hostage-mom-caitlan-coleman-leaves-canada-returns/story?id=56791123
Inmates with violent pasts being paroled under CA ‘early release’ Prop. 57
A number of California prison inmates who committed violent crimes, including stabbings and shootings, have been granted parole under Proposition 57’s Nonviolent Parole Program, according to records obtained by NBC 4.
Prop. 57, approved by voters in 2016, promised to reduce the state’s overcrowded prisons by expanding parole eligibility for nonviolent criminals, and by encouraging inmates to take part in rehabilitation, therapy, and vocational programs.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Number-of-Violent-Inmates-Released-Under-Non-Violent-Parole-Program-Records-474234543.html
Richard: Quoting J.E. Dyer “Justice Obama Style.”
Court Drops Bogus Charges Against David Daleiden for Exposing Planned Parenthood Baby Part Sales
A court has dropped some of the bogus charges against pro-life advocate David Daleiden, who exposed the sales of body parts from aborted babies at Planned Parenthood abortion clinics and throughout the abortion industry.
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) dismissed seven out of eleven claims on Friday against Daleiden and his organization, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), in court on Friday. In 2015, NAF sued David and CMP after they began releasing undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of baby body parts. Buying and selling fetal tissue is illegal under federal law.
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund attorney Charles LiMandri said NAF successfully obtained a “gag order” from the court preventing Daleiden and CMP, during the course of litigation, from releasing the undercover videos recorded at NAF abortion conferences. Although dropping seven of the charges is a positive step, by dismissing the seven claims NAF is trying to speed up the case so it can secure a permanent gag order against David and CMP, which would block the release of the videos regardless of the case’s outcome, he said.
“NAF’s latest litigation maneuvering shows that this case has only ever been about one thing—an unconstitutional silencing of a pro-life hero. As the Trump Administration continues its investigation of NAF’s gruesome actions, we expect their lawyers to do everything they can to permanently silence David. After all, NAF realizes just as much as we do that criminal indictments for many of NAF’s members are only a matter of time,” LiMandri said in a statement.
http://www.lifenews.com/2018/07/24/court-drops-bogus-charges-against-david-daleiden-for-exposing-planned-parenthood-baby-part-sales/
Elizabeth Warren supporter arrested after allegedly assaulting US Senate challenger
A supporter of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has reportedly been arrested for allegedly assaulting one of Warren’s opponents in this year’s U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts.
The suspect, identified as Paul Solovay, 74, was arrested Sunday for allegedly pushing a bullhorn in the face of Shiva Ayyadurai, resulting in a bloody lip for the Senate candidate, the Berkshire Eagle reported.
Ayyadurai, who is running as an independent, was using the bullhorn to shout at supporters lined up outside a venue in Great Barrington, about 135 miles west of Boston, to see Warren speak during a town-hall style event Sunday afternoon, the newspaper reported.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/25/elizabeth-warren-supporter-arrested-after-allegedly-assaulting-us-senate-challenger.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail&&roi=echo3-52481914972-48535441-460272d750f6553fbb7353eca275d1c2
ISIS Is Alive and Well in the US
Terrorists – Do We Arrest or Vaporize?
Terrorists – Do We Arrest or Vaporize?
YES!
Next question?!?
PS: You may as well ask an end-of-the-day harvest time farm-boy, “Cake or pie?”. Oops … left out the “brisket or ribs” interrogation. Of which I suspect the exact same response would be forthcoming…
President Kennedy’s Words Echo Today Concerning the International Space Station
13 hours ago
“This country was not built by those who waited and rested, and looked behind them.” On September 12th 1962. President John F. Kennedy said these words. “The exploration of space will go ahead whether we join in it or not.
Since its creation, America has led the world in many endeavors. In July of 1969, The United States was the first nation to put a man on the moon. Our nation must continue to fund the operation and preservation of the International Space Station (ISS) to continue that leadership. Since the launch of the first component of the ISS on November 20th, 1998, this human outpost in a low earth orbit has continued to increase our understanding of life in space on an explosive trajectory. Many of the continuing experiments will not even conclude before the proposed scheduled cessation of U.S. funding. NASA’s FY 2019 budget proposal included plans to end funding for the International Space Station by 2025 and leaves open the possibility of handing over that valuable taxpayer investment to private companies. Conservatives, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have voiced strong opposition this plan.
In addition to the incredible science advancements, the ISS is a tremendous example of how we Earthlings will work together with the international community as we transition to even more challenging missions in deep space. Let’s be honest when we establish a colony on Mars is should
https://eaglerising.com/61031/president-kennedys-words-echo-today-concerning-the-international-space-station/
I wish they’d spare us the St. JFK quotes.
That will take another 5 or 6 decades.
He had good speech writers and gave good speeches, screwed up everything he touched but the media loves the speeches.
‘No longer seeks truth!’: Macron slams media over Benalla scandal
euronews – Macron: “The only person responsible for this case is me”
Affaire Benalla: “Je suis fier de l’avoir embauché à l’Élysée”, réagit Emmanuel Macron
July 25, 2018: Ep. 770 The Liberal Rage Machine
https://www.bongino.com/july-25-2018-ep-770-the-liberal-rage-machine/
Vandal Takes A Pickaxe To Trump’s Walk Of Fame Star And Obliterates It
2:11 PM 07/25/2018
Henry Rodgers | Political Reporter
A vandal completely destroyed President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a pickaxe Wednesday morning.
Police say a man pulled the pickaxe from a guitar case around 3 a.m. and began hacking Trump’s star on Hollywood Boulevard, leaving it completely destroyed, according to ABC 7. Authorities have not yet released a description of the suspect, but the man reportedly was the one who contacted the police about the crime and later turned himself in.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/25/vandal-pickaxe-trump-hollywood-star/
This display of political violence follows a disturbing trend of Trump supporters and conservatives in general facing harassment and intimidation in public. (RELATED: Since Trump’s Election, Violence Against His Supporters Has Become Routine)
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/24/shock-video-proud-boy-beaten/
Trump Puts the Deep State on Notice
The President mulls lifting security clearances of key Obama cronies — and has a strong case.
President Trump will consider revoking the security clearances of former CIA boss John Brennan along with the clearances of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and former CIA Director Michael Hayden.
These officials, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday, “politicized and in some cases actually monetized their public service and their security clearances in making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia.” Retention of their clearances, Sanders said, gave “inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence.”
“John Brennan leaked information that almost cost the life of a double agent,” Sen. Rand Paul, told Fox News on Monday. “But now he’s a talking head on the outside, saying that basically President Trump should be executed – that’s what we do for treason. And so, yeah, I’m very concerned about him having privileges because of his past history.”
Earlier Monday Paul tweeted “Is John Brennan making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on @realDonaldTrump?” The senator, a supporter of the president’s Helsinki summit, also told Fox News he would support removal of top-secret security clearances from all retired CIA agents and officers.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270840/trump-puts-deep-state-notice-lloyd-billingsley
#AbolishICE Builds Fortified Camp With Borders to Protest Borders
July 25, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
#AbolishICE is having a busy month. Besides being only slightly more popular with voters than Bernie’s plan to take everyone’s money and invest it in a Marxist organic lettuce commune, it’s managed to shut down a food cart that was helping the homeless, gain the undying support of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (at least until she abandons it) and build a fortified encampment with its own laws and borders.
As Andy Ngo reports.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270842/abolishice-builds-fortified-camp-borders-protest-daniel-greenfield
SF city leaders push to ban company cafeterias
By: Alyana Gomez
POSTED: JUL 24 2018 08:44PM PDT
VIDEO POSTED: JUL 24 2018 06:52PM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) – San Francisco’s tech boom has created a bubble for local restaurants, many of which have been forced to shut down due to declining business.
Now city leaders are hoping to reconnect corporations with its community.
The idea is to prevent large corporate companies and startups from building internal cafeterias, in an effort to encourage employees to get out of the office and dine at a local restaurant.
San Francisco is a thriving metropolis with a vibrant food scene, filling the air with flavorful aromas that please any palette. It’s a restaurant owners’ dream to be here, but an unintended consequence of the tech boom is hurting their business.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-city-leaders-push-to-ban-company-cafeterias
In a major development, American Pastor Andrew Brunson has been moved from the Turkish prison to his house in Turkey.
The ACLJ represents the family of Pastor Andrew – a U.S. citizen from Black Mountain, North Carolina – who has spent nearly 21 months imprisoned in Turkey because of his Christian faith. Pastor Andrew has been on trial for the crime of “Christianization,” and the ACLJ has been working in this country and abroad to secure his freedom.
We have confirmed that the Turkish government has issued an order releasing Pastor Andrew from prison and allowing him to be returned to his home in Turkey. This is a critical first step that we believe will result in the freedom of Pastor Andrew so he can return to the United States and be reunited with his family.
https://aclj.org/persecuted-church/american-pastor-andrew-brunson-to-leave-turkish-prison-and-allowed-to-return-to-his-home-in-turkey
Europe is on the edge of calamity: Large European cities could soon become battlefields warns conservative Belgian leader
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/37052-2/
It’s Official: Toronto Muslim Gunman Not A Terrorist
Never mind that he expressed support for ISIS. That doesn’t fit the narrative.
July 25, 2018
Robert Spencer
We can all relax now: the Associated Press reported Tuesday that “Authorities say no link to terrorism in Toronto rampage that left 2 dead, 13 injured.” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale declared: “At this stage, based on the state of the investigation, which is led by the Toronto police service, there is no connection between that individual and national security.” But cracks are already forming in the narrative.
The establishment media is treating the shooting as a gun control issue, and almost everyone seems to be accepting the family’s claim that gunman Faisal Hussain had “severe mental health challenges.” As to what tripped Hussain over the edge and led him to start firing randomly into Toronto restaurants, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders is in the dark: “We do not know why this has happened yet. It’s going to take some time.”
Maybe not as much time as Saunders would have us believe – if, that is, he is willing to go where the evidence might lead him. CBS News reported Tuesday that “investigators in Canada have indications that Faisal Hussain visited Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) websites and may have expressed support for the terrorist group, a law enforcement source told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton.”
Although it seems to have made no impression on Ralph Goodale, that is a salient detail, especially in light of the fact that the Islamic State has called upon Muslims in Western countries, explicitly including Canada, to target non-Muslim civilians in lone-wolf jihad attacks. Might Faisal Hussain have seen such a call on one of the Islamic State websites that he visited, and decided to try to gain the favor of Allah by doing as the Islamic State directed?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270838/its-official-toronto-muslim-gunman-not-terrorist-robert-spencer
The owners of a non-profit food cart in Portland, Oregon, say they’ve been run out of business by the Occupy ICE protesters who set up camp outside an immigrant detention facility six weeks ago.
Julie and Scott Hakes, owners of The Happy Camper Food and Coffee Bar, operate the food cart to raise money for their nonprofit homeless advocacy group, Operation Off The Grid. They say they no longer feel safe in the neighborhood after Occupy ICE PDX began protesting across the street at the Southwest Portland U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility.
Mr. Hakes said it all started when his 21-year-old daughter made the mistake of laughing with a customer, and protesters assumed she was laughing at them and not supportive of their cause. A video Mr. Hakes shared with ABC-affiliated KATU News showed someone with a megaphone berating the girl from across the street.
“She’s laughing at the immigration laws that have [expletive] over families,” said the unidentified protester.
“Boom, there it went,” Mr. Hakes recalled. “We were on the number one hit list from that point on.”
He said the harassment got worse after protesters caught his daughter serving food to a Department of Homeland Security officer.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/25/occupy-ice-shuts-down-portland-non-profit-food-car/
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is — surprise, surprise — protesting Geert Wilders’ planned Mohammed Cartoon contest, which will be held later this year in the building housing the Lower Chamber (Tweede Kamer) of the Dutch parliament.
Here’s the OIC press release that came out earlier today:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/07/the-oic-tries-to-stop-geert-wilders-motoon-contest/
A Labour MP who spoke out against the UK’s “problem” with Pakistani grooming gangs has been given extra security by terror police after sustained attacks from “anti-racist” and Muslim interest groups.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/25/mp-who-highlighted-pakistani-rape-gangs-given-extra-security/
Swedish police officers in the city of Uppsala claim they were attacked by “youths” with stones after responding to cars being set on fire.
The officers were responding to a call that cars had been set on fire in the Valsätra district in the south-west of the city at around 9:40 pm on Sunday. When they arrived on the scene, locals began throwing stones and rocks at them, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
Due to the attack, the officers were forced to call in for reinforcements who arrived on the scene a short time later and were able to calm the situation down and perform identity checks on the remaining youths.
Just over an hour later, police were called to the same area at 11:10 pm after more reports came in that even more cars had been set on fire in the neighbourhood.
Regional police spokesman Daniel Wikdahl said that the two incidents may have been linked saying: “It is impossible to exclude a connection between the fires.” No arrests were made in connection with the two incidents.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/25/swedish-police-attacked-stones-responding-car-fires-vulnerable-area/
Immigrants Change Cultures
Whether it’s New Yorkers in Florida or Latinos in America.
July 25, 2018
Dennis Prager The most frequently used description of America by those who advocate for large numbers of immigrants — those here legally or illegally — is “America is a nation of immigrants.”
The statement sounds meaningful. But in reality, it’s meaningless. What else could America be? If no one had come to America from elsewhere, the North American continent would have remained populated only by its indigenous people — which is what many on the left wish had happened. As the late Howard Zinn, author of “A People’s History of the United States,” the most widely used American history text in high schools and universities, said to me, the world was not better off thanks to the founding of America.
So, the statement “America is a nation of immigrants” tells us nothing about the only questions that matter: Should be there any limits to immigration? And what should we do about illegal immigration?
Regarding the first question, an increasing number of Americans on the left do not believe in any limits: We should allow all those escaping poverty or violence into the United States. As Hillary Clinton was caught on tape saying, she doesn’t believe in borders. She speaks for the American left: In the past few weeks, leftists have marched in American streets demanding the abolition of ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Therefore, for the left, the second question, “What should we do about immigration?” is essentially irrelevant. Their answer is “Nothing. All migrants are welcome.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270773/immigrants-change-cultures-dennis-prager
Al-Qaeda operative Ali Charaf Damache was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by a U.S. court for his role in recruiting other radicals in a plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
The 53-year-old radical Islamist was found guilty after a drawn-out process that spanned nearly a decade for attempting to recruit like-minded jihadists from the United States and Europe to kill Vilks, who became famous as one of the artists involved in the 2007 Mohammed cartoons controversy, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
The plot to kill the Swedish artist began in 2009 and saw three U.S. citizens arrested including a 46-year-old from Philadelphia named Colleen LaRose who went by the nickname “Jihadi Jane”.
Damache, who was born in Algeria and became a naturalised citizen of Ireland, is said to have recruited and worked with Jihadi Jane and other conspirators in the failed plot to kill Vilks.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/25/radical-muslim-sentenced-15-years-recruiting-plotters-kill-swedish-artist-lars-vilks/
WESTERN EUROPE
German refugee football tournament against violence abandoned after refugees start massive fight
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/german-refugee-football-tournament-against-violence-abandoned-after-refugees-start-massive-fight/
“German refugee football tournament against violence abandoned after refugees start massive fight”
Invite skunks to your party and don’t expect to walk away smelling like roses.
A Tale of Two Killings
Chicago erupts in violence over a police shooting, but no outrage attends the far more typical killing of a bystander by a murderous felon.
July 25, 2018
Heather Mac Donald
Last Sunday, a 59-year-old woman on the West Side of Chicago was killed by a would-be carjacker. The felon walked up to the driver’s side of the car, which was being driven by a 71-year-old man, and pulled his gun. The senior citizen refused to surrender the vehicle and kept driving. The would-be carjacker opened fire at the car, striking the woman in the head and killing her.
The night before, on the South Side, a Chicago officer killed a 37-year-old man whom the officer’s patrol partners had observed behaving in a manner suggesting that he was carrying a gun. The officers tried to question Harith Augustus, and he appeared to pull something from his wallet, according to police body-camera footage, possibly his firearms owner-identification card. One officer tried to grab Augustus (the police report said that he became combative), but he pulled away and ran into the street, where he appeared to reach for the gun holstered on his right hip. One of the officers opened fire and killed him. Augustus’s gun was recovered at the scene.
True to script, the officer-involved shooting sparked violent street anarchy on Saturday night, instigated by Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and other anti-cop activist groups. Protesters threw rocks and bottles, some filled with urine, at officers. Four officers were injured. Chants included “How do you spell racist? CPD [Chicago Police Department],” and “Murderers.” Protests have continued, drawing intense local media and political attention. “This department is racist . . . and we’re tired of it,” said one of the
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270795/tale-two-killings-heather-mac-donald
Iran Flirts With Disaster
As the country spoils for a fight in the Middle East, it may have lost its biggest protector.
July 25, 2018
Joseph Puder
The Islamic Republic of Iran is playing with fire. To distract from its maneuvers in Syria, where along with its proxies – including the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah terrorist group, as well as Iraqi, Afghan and Yemeni Shiite militias it controls – Iran in gunning for the Israeli border in the Quneitra province of southwestern Syria. Tehran is directing Hamas, the Islamic terror group who they fund and arm, to provoke Israel by attacking the Israeli communities around Gaza. In recent weeks, Hamas launched incendiary kites across the Gaza border that scorched a whopping 8,000 acres of farms and nature reserves causing an “ecological disaster” in Israel. In addition, over 200 rockets have been fired by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists into southern Israel in order to kill Israelis.
Last week, Hamas and PIJ agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel. These terror groups, however, continued to hammer away at Israeli civilians with more death-kites and rockets. This violation of a ceasefire undermined the understanding reached between Israel and Hamas following the “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014. Israel’s response to these provocations has been rather mild hitherto, mainly firing on the location where the incendiary kites and rockets are being launched. Israel is limiting its application of force to, perhaps, prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza — one entirely of Hamas’ own making. The real victims in this latest batch of attacks are the Israeli residents of southern Israel, who have endured three and a half months of terror and severe economic damages.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270826/iran-flirts-disaster-joseph-puder
Glazov Gang: The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
STUARTS DRAFT, Va. (WSET) — A Virginia man has been sentenced to 276 months in prison (23 years) for going to Haiti and engaging in ‘illicit sexual conduct’ with a minor.
“This kind of heinous and evil activity has no place here, abroad or in-transit,” said Special Agent in Charge Lechleitner. “Those seeking to commit such abhorrent crimes and evade detection cannot hide from our highly skilled and dedicated investigators.”
https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-va-missionary-sentenced-for-sexually-abusing-haitian-boys
Food Service Employees Could Face Up To Six Months In Jail For Giving Out Straws
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiezehnder/2018/07/25/food-service-employees-could-face-up-to-six-months-in-jail-for-giving-out-straws-n2503608
Dutch Muslim Parties: A New Development in Islamization
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 906, July 25, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The emergence of Muslim political parties in the Netherlands is a new facet of Islamization. One of these parties, Denk, has three seats in parliament and is also represented at the local level, as are other Muslim parties. They usually oppose integration and do not accept Dutch culture as the country’s dominant culture. Anti-Semitism is a regular attribute, often disguised as hate speech against Israel.
New facets of Islamization keep emerging in Western Europe. An important one is the emergence of Muslim political parties, a development that has occurred primarily in the Netherlands so far. These parties exist on both the local and national levels. While identity politics in the Netherlands has greatly decreased, the full impact of this new development is not yet understood.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/dutch-muslim-parties/
Why isn’t anybody in Europe screaming in PANIC over this? When Prof. Gerstenfeld is alarmed, there’s a BIG problem.
Even if the ethnic Dutch are DEAD from the neck up, or half-way to the local euthanasia clinic, there have to be signs of life elsewhere.
Japan plans mobile mosques for Olympics
A project to develop “Mobile Mosques” is underway in Japan, as the country prepares to welcome visitors to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The Mobile Mosques are expected to help address the concerns of Muslim visitors, who must pray 5 times a day, facing Mecca.
A group of firms working on the project unveiled a model on Monday in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. They unveiled a model on Monday with an air-conditioned prayer room can fit 50 worshippers.
http://www.euronews.com/2018/07/24/japan-plans-mobile-mosques-for-olympics
Japan plans mobile mosques for Olympics
Anyone want to lay bets that one or more of these “mobile mosques” detonates?
[crickets]
I suspect its a statement by the Japanese that no such structure can be permanent. Once the event is over, no mosques, mobile or otherwise.
Clever.
As permanent mosques inevitably become…
cleaver.
We should Disqualify Votes from Sanctuary States and Sanctuary Cities
We now have officially, 7 states who consider themselves sanctuary states, more than that when states have sanctuary policies, but have yet to announce they are such as Hawaii, for example. The list increases drastically when local city and county jurisdictions are included in the overall picture of sanctuary given to those who are here illegally. Thus, when states who do not consider themselves as officially sanctuary states, but have various local jurisdictions who are, they should also be considered as official sanctuary states based on them allowing small jurisdictions within their state to be spots harboring criminals. In this case, we have over 24 states that are in some way offering refuge to people here illegally.
On top of this, we have entire states permitting people here illegally to vote in elections, both on a local, state, and Federal level. The state of California is a prime example of this when they issue drivers licenses to millions of illegals under their Motor Voter law which automatically registers those who obtain a DL to vote as well. Some local jurisdictions also are registering illegal aliens to vote, and a large number of these sanctuary cities and counties are not in states who are officially sanctuary states.
https://eaglerising.com/60973/we-should-disqualify-votes-from-sanctuary-states-and-sanctuary-cities/
Not sure what to make of this, but apparently, ISIS is releasing content from Toronto shooter’s social media:
https://twitter.com/1sansnom/status/1021830761522102274
The Obama administration gave taxpayer money to an Al Qaeda affiliate in Sudan — with most of the funds transferred after officials became aware of the mistake, a joint i24NEWS-Middle East Forum investigation reveals.The US Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $200,000 to the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a designated global terror entity placed on the US sanctions list over its financial support for Osama Bin Laden and other terrorist groups including Hamas.Independent sources have confirmed to i24NEWS that the funds were stopped as soon as it became clear that ISRA was a proscribed group — but that the US Treasury nonetheless issued a special license permitting a one-time $125,000 transfer to ISRA once the mistake was known.In February 2014, USAID authorized a grant of $723,405 to World Vision, an evangelical international charity, for a humanitarian project in the Blue Nile region of Sudan. According to the funding agreement, $200,000 of that grant was designated as a sub-award for the Islamic Relief Agency for the purposes of humanitarian relief for displaced persons.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/180244-180725-exclusive-obama-administration-gave-us-aid-money-to-al-qaeda-affiliate-in-sudan
Judge Rules Against Disgraced NY AG Schneiderman on Religious Speech
‘…preaching of the gospel on a public sidewalk is protected by our Constitution…’
(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Judge Carol Bagley Amon rejected an injunction that disgraced former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman requested in order to shut down Christian, pro-life speech outside an abortion facility.
Schneiderman, who resigned in May after women accused him of sexual abuse, filed for the injunction against 13 Christians who preached the Gospel outside Choices Women’s Medical Center in Jamaica, New York.
Liberty Counsel represented the Christians who counseled women outside Choices, including Scott Fitchett Jr., a pre-K teacher who said he comes to the facility on Saturdays “to persuade women to change their minds about seeking an abortion by communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“Judge Amon’s order completely vindicates Scott Fitchett because he did nothing wrong,” said Horatio Mihet, Liberty Counsel’s vice president of legal affairs and chief litigation counsel. “Scott Fitchett’s preaching of the gospel on a public sidewalk is protected by our Constitution, even if it’s in front of an abortion clinic, and even though New York’s Attorney General despises it.
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/new-york-schneiderman-pro-life-speech-abortion-clinic/
A suspicious package labeled “Anne Thrax” was left at the South Los Angeles office of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-25/anthrax-package-left-maxine-waters-office-evacuated
Double whammy: Female IDF officer downed Syrian jet and drone
IDF Captain Or Na’aman commanded the Patriot battery which shot down a Syrian fighter jet over Israel’s northern Golan Heights Tuesday, the IDF has confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.
As the commander of the Patriot Battery of the 138th Battalion, Na’aman was also in charge of the interception of a Syrian drone which fell south of the Lake of the Galilee almost two weeks to the day of the downing of the jet.
The Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet was intercepted Tuesday by two Patriot missiles launched from Safed after the jet penetrated 2 kilometers into Israeli airspace. The pilot identified Colonel Umran Mare of Tartous was confirmed to have been killed.
Israel says it shot down the the jet after it entered Israeli airspace from the Golan Heights border, and while it is now believed that the pilot likely made a navigation error, the incident is still considered by Jerusalem as a serious breach of Israeli sovereignty.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Double-whammy-Female-IDF-officer-downed-Syrian-jet-and-drone-563368
Good story:
Inside The Iron Dome
Chanoch Levin spearheaded the development of Israel’s famed defensive shield against short-range rockets. For the first time, he shares some of the previously undisclosed details of how a concept more likely to be found in a science fiction thriller became a reality.
https://www.momentmag.com/inside-the-iron-dome/
Tiny example of the Russian brain siphoned off into the Holy Land where it flourishes. Putin is smart enough to lure Russian-Israeli cooperation in a wide range of technical and research programs.
Access to crucial historic archives has been high Israeli priority from the start. Preserving records, securing documents that might be lost to revisionist Russian historians.
Ingraham: The clearance threat of John Brennan
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Putin and Russia through an Orthodox Lens
America has been in the grips of Russia hysteria for over two years now, and it hitting a fever pitch this past week following President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. In Beltway circles, Russian hysteria among the commentariat has morphed into an extraordinary Putin hatred. From potential ally, to rival, enemy, thug and mass murderer, we have heard it all.
But do we even know Vladimir Putin and what drives him? Yes, he is an ex-KGB officer, that we all know. Beyond the superficial, what do we know about Putin and his geopolitical goals for Russia?
https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/24/putin-and-russia-through-an-orthodox-lens/
*VDH* (Almost as sick of Cold War Redux as I am.)
Russianism
Trump’s critics need a scapegoat to explain why they haven’t managed to vanquish him.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/russianism-democrat-scapegoating-over-trump-victory-and-presidency/
Why the CIA Says We’re in a “Cold War” With China
“surrender key technologies to Chinese authorities, such as source code and encryption algorithms”
This reminds me very little of an account from a denizen at another web bulletin board detailing how—during negotiations over installation of multi-megawatt coal fired power plants—the Chicoms began insisting on being provided with all source code for the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) system. As in: The OEM’s most valuable asset, bar none.
This bright lady immediately inquired about whether or not they used the Microsoft™ platform. After confirming that they did, she then asked, “Did Microsoft™ give you its source code?”
Thundering silence ensued.
This is Red China’s own “stealth jihad”, and it poses a much more serious threat to Western powers than a significantly retarded Islam ever could imagine in its own sweaty, quivering, febrile, beturbaned wet dreams.
SIDEBAR: There are whole regions in Communist China known as “one-copy provinces”, where that entire area works using duplicates made from a single pirated MS disk.
Just Red China’s intellectual property theft alone, represents countless hundreds of billions of dollars being lost, each and every year. That translates into the additional, supposedly “hidden”, economic sabotage via Western homelessness, unemployment, bankruptcy, loan defaults, property foreclosures, divorces, drug overdoses, increased spousal or child abuse, more frequent emergency room visits, premature disablement or death, suicides, and steeply decreasing demographic replacement rates (not to mention limitless and unnecessary misery).
Talk about a toxic witch’s brew, complete with “eye of newt”.
It never ceases to astonish me how much of our off-kilter (Koyaanisqatsi) modern world that Old Bill was able to circumscribe in such “supposedly” outdated writings.
Dante (e.g., “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!”) comes in at a poor second showing compared with the number of existing euphemisms and currently used phrases that flowed from Shakespeare’s most eloquent pen.
In an ultimate irony, this ongoing global Sino-piracy only serves to destroy any future innovative abilities for The Mainland. As I have noted elsewhere, a person might become exceptionally skilled in cheating at chess (i.e., palming an occasional pawn or piece of minor wood from the board), but none of those “skillz” mean diddlysquat at the professionally supervised tournament level.
The Great Game™ is just such a grand-scale ‘chess tournament’, and Beijing’s bringing to the table such institutionalized deceit and ransacking of this world’s technological treasury is neither unnoticed, nor does it presage a slightest degree of genuine long-term success for the Middle Kingdom.
Much as with this self-imposed innovative deficit, decades of the—recently, but all too tardily and only conditionally revoked—OFOC (One Family One Child) policies represent nothing more or less than a Sino-Socialist, Venezuelan-style train wreck whose massive genetic and psychosocial vandalism will not manifest for decades to come (i.e., decades late and a bazillion dollars short).
The Mainland’s sheer geopolitical inertia virtually guarantees that very few of these Constant Communist Atrocities (just as with the USSR) ever will come into view within our collective lifetimes.
This is one quarter of the world’s population having professional thugs burn their collective candle at both ends. I could spend all day plugging in another several dozen Fatal Factors™ … ermm, like the largest economic and real estate bubbles in all of human history, but that’s still just the first couple of slots on the many pages of Reality’s Dance Card© for Communist China.
To paraphrase Winnie:
Never was so much vengeance owed by so many to so few.
And—most likely, just as with the USSR—never will this many be so abjectly cheated out of desperately needed retribution against such a tiny little claque of so few unabashed thieves. Traditional drawing and quartering comes nowhere close to what these past few generations of Socialist, political kleptomaniacs have worked so very hard to earn and so very richly deserve.
Although not for want of trying, even the USSR’s Gulag Archipelago® couldn’t manage to claim the hundred million lives that Mao Tse-tung (properly pronounced, “Mounds of Dung”), scythed from the very heart of an otherwise relatively admirable, ancient Chinese culture.
That countless future generations in China have been irremediably warped by OFOC and de-emphasis of authentic innovation is so far beyond the Crimes-Against-Humanity window that Bejing’s Mandarins had best hope there’s a fire escape hanging beneath that particular fenestration.
Very few—aside from Mohammad, Hitler and Stalin—ever have earned such closely proximate and well-deserved spots adjacent to Mao on hell’s gently turning rotisserie spit.
Judicial Watch Investigator Comments on Carter Page FISA Warrant Release
Helsinki summit proved Russia to be Ally of Israel
Trump said that he and Putin had reached a “really good conclusion” for Israel in regard to the situation in Syria.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Helsinki-summit-proved-Russia-to-be-ally-of-Israel-563183#spark_wn=1
Putin’s New Rules for the Golan Heights
At his joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump following the summit in Helsinki last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a revealing comment about his intentions towards Israel’s future on the Golan Heights.
“The south of Syria should be brought to the full compliance with the treaty of 1974 about the separation of forces of Israel and Syria,” Putin said.
The Russian leader then expounded further: “This will bring peace to Golan Heights. And bring a more peaceful relationship between Syria and Israel and also provide security to the state of Israel … we will make a step toward creating a lasting peace in compliance with the respective resolutions of Security Council, for instance the [UNSC] Resolution 338.”
What do these references to 1974 and 338 portend? Over the past month, Iranian-led militias and Assad regime units, backed by Russian air power, have launched an offensive to recapture southern Syria all the way to the borders with Israel and Jordan. In addition to its red lines about the Iranian presence in Syria, the Separation of Forces agreement has been a principal talking point for Israeli officials in recent weeks, and has been at the heart of their talks with the Russians.
https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/266933/putins-new-rules-for-the-golan-heights
The winner of the Trump-Putin summit is Israel
At their meeting in Helsinki this week, Trump and Putin presented a united front. Both agreed to uphold the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement between Israel and Syria. These leaders’ support of Israel is so astonishing that it calls to mind President Regan’s historical support of the Israeli air strike in Iraq.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5313297,00.html
When building a new alliance you start with something you both have in common and work from there.
The Soviet archives, gulag records. Russian-Israelis have been exfiltrating them for decades. Amazing stuff, think-tanks devoted to organization and analysis.
The Russians were willing to let it go in exchange for some of the STEM talent that vanished almost overnight. They took a big hit.
Of course they wasted talents of people like my Russki’s oldest brother, a Refusenik. Left to rot in gulag. Till Prez Reagan (z”l).
Russia Expert Sveshnikova: After The Helsinki Summit, Iran Is Desperate To Show That The Russia-Iran Alliance Remains Intact
Yulia Sveshnikova, a research associate at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, wrote an article for Rbc.ru,[1] titled “Alarm in Tehran: Why Did Iran Eagerly Await the results of the Helsinki Summit” in which she argued that a reversal of roles has taken place in Russia-Iran relations. If after the signing of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), Russia feared that Iran would now prefer to improve relations with Washington at Moscow’s expense, it is now Iran’s turn to be worried.
The Iranians fear that Russia (with whom the Iranians share a problematic history) may use Iran as a bargaining chip to secure concessions from the Americans in other areas. Since Tehran has low expectations from the Europeans, it must swallow slights from Russia and emphasize the bilateral military cooperation in Syria.
MEMRI’s translation of Sveshnikova’s article:
Iran Fears Russia Will Deliver It To Trump
https://www.memri.org/reports/russia-expert-sveshnikova-after-helsinki-summit-iran-desperate-show-russia-iran-alliance
We give Putin Syria he gives us Iran.
Most analysts don’t think he can. They see him as very smart, but “his cupboard is bare, he’s dancing on air”.
If we can bleed Iran some more, maybe kick the Turk where it hurts, he’ll be in place for our mutual benefit.
President Trump said Wednesday that he had reached agreement with the European Union for both sides to end all tariffs on industrial imports from the other side, easing fears about a widening trade war.
Standing in the White House Rose garden with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, Trump called it a “big day for free and fair trade.”
Neither Trump nor Juncker disclosed the timetable for ending tariffs, which must be negotaited by experts. But they did say that the move would include Trump’s imposition of tariffs on imports of European steel and aluminum as well as “reciprocal” tariffs imposed by the European Union.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charleswallace1/2018/07/25/trump-reaches-deal-with-europe-to-end-tariffs/#6834f7fd13d2
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Iran’s Long, Bloody History of Terror and Espionage in Europe
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/07/25/irans_long_bloody_history_of_terror_and_espionage_in_europe_113652.html