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GERMANY HAS CAPITULATED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms1EZ-liNEw
Thank You.
House Republicans call on Rosenstein to testify before Congress
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton says President Trump should have Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein investigated by the Inspector General.
Rep. Jim Jordan demands Rosenstein testify
Growing calls for Rod Rosenstein to testify before Congress
Some House Republicans says Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may face impeachment if he doesn’t testify before a committee; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports.
Markazi matami jaloos Toronto (Canada ) 2018
Juloos-e-Ashura Downtown Toronto 16 Sept 2018
I’m afraid to watch these because they trigger Parrot-Brain. I can’t stop repeating the chants in my head. Ear-worm more severe than Christmas elevator music.
Isn’t this discriminatory against women?
Drop the bomb.
Some kind of bomb-
Good idea.
Not wholesome.
I’m just sharing this as a point of interest about a kindergarten book with ” gender spectrum” just for book pictures I stumbled on at a Tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticalKathy/status/1044240737653706752
This is the age
Of infants’ identity
(To terminate the page
That maps reality)
These are the mothers
Rapists of sanity
Kill the same in others
So their children can’t be free
Better by Diversity
Equal-pain in everyone
Live to mount Perversity
Birth, belief and gone.
Saleh Ali: Terrorism Doesn’t Need Organization
Saleh Ali: Terrorism Doesn’t Need Organization
by Marta Hernandez in Everything Else Post Comment
A few days ago, police in Brea, CA charged a knuckle-dragging apparent extremist neanderthal with four felonies related to the explosive devices they found in his car during a routine traffic stop because of an expired vehicle registration. The suspect, Saleh Ali, was arrested, and police claimed there was “no evidence at the time that the defendant has any ties to a terrorist organization.” A few of my friends made some sarcastic comments about this, because with a name like Saleh Ali, he was quite obviously Amish or at the very least a Catholic, right?
Photo courtesy of the Brea Police Department
But many are also curious why police seem to always claim that they see no ties to terrorist organizations when they arrest these quite obviously terrorist assholes. The answer is probably a bit complicated, because although ISIS and al-Qa’ida are still active and more than willing to launch attacks on western interests, more than ever they rely on inspired malcontents to carry out attacks – cretins who access their content online, who are perpetually aggrieved and dissatisfied with their lives, and who blame the United States on their lousy lot because it has to be RACISM! WARONISLAM! VICTIMHOOD!
ISIS has lost a lot of ground since last year, and according to Foreign Policy magazine, the Islamic State’s revenues have been slashed by 80 percent after it lost roughly two-thirds of its territory.
“Territorial losses are the main factor contributing to the Islamic State’s loss of revenue,” said Ludovico Carlino, senior Middle East analyst at IHS Markit. “Losing control of the heavily populated Iraqi city of Mosul, and oil rich areas in the Syrian provinces of Raqqa and Homs, has had a particularly significant impact on the group’s ability to generate revenue.”
It costs money to send operatives outside its region, and given ISIS’s territorial and financial losses, it’s much more cost effective to radicalize individuals who are already present here in the US and in the West writ large. No passport costs, no transportation costs, no paying off sketchy guys who make fraudulent passports, no bribes to corrupt border and immigration officials to create false identities or supply documentation that will enable them to travel under the Visa Waiver Program, and no paying for their room and board once they get here.
According to a Department of Homeland Security assessment, most foreign-born violent extremists are radicalized right here in the United States.
It’s pretty easy for anyone with an Internet connection to find extremist propaganda online, and both ISIS and AQ have a pretty extensive online presence, and ISIS in particular has stepped up those efforts – especially after last year’s losses in Iraq and Syria.
The content has changed significantly since the loss of Raqqa, formerly home to the group’s official media division and production facilities. Gone are the glossy Isis magazines and slick videos extolling the virtues of life under militant Islamist rule. In their place is a steady stream of incitements, nearly all of them aimed at offering encouragement and detailed instructions for carrying out terrorist attacks.
So when the extremists here take it upon themselves to demonstrate their displeasure with their lot in life by staging attacks, they don’t need a terrorist affiliation. They don’t need formal ties to terrorist organizations. They need a computer and an internet connection. And that’s why law enforcement will many times confirm that there is not link to terrorist organizations, because ISIS and AQ probably won’t even know these troglodytes exist until they launch an attack, at which point the terrorist group can claim responsibility and laud the malcontent for striking at the enemy.
I doubt this means the police are somehow trying to downplay the terrorism angle.
It simply means they have found no connection to any formal terrorist organization, even though they may be guided or inspired by ISIS or others.
Omar Mateen – the perpetrator of the Pulse nightclub shooting was inspired by ISIS.
The murderer who killed US military personnel in Tennessee was inspired by al-Qa’ida.
Tnuza Hassan, who set several fires to her former university campus in Minnesota, was angry because of the US military’s intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, inspired by al-Qa’ida.
And on and on and on. Terrorists no longer have to be formal operatives or have direct operational support from a foreign terrorist organization, but they are still terrorists and should be treated as such.
In Ali’s case, this this is not his first brush with the law. He was arrested in 2003 for aggravated assault with serious bodily injury and terrorist threats in New Jersey, and given his past record and the type of explosives found in the car, the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center was notified.
“Terrorists no longer have to be formal operatives or have direct operational support from a foreign terrorist organization, but they are still terrorists and should be treated as such.”
This is where that entire “lone wolf” meme evaporates into thin air and the “fine grained” issue of ISIS-style individual agent recruitment strategy takes its place.
What this new Islamic attack pattern predicts is wholesale, massively disproportionate retaliation until jihadists learn to sit down and STFU.
The needless loss of life is incalculable—despite how collective punishment will be one of the only ways of assuring Islam that this game is for all the marbles.
Doing the same thing with Communist China will be another thing entirely.
But many are also curious why police seem to always claim that they see no ties to terrorist organizations when they arrest these quite obviously terrorist assholes.
Dion’t forget that Obama made it clear that he didn’t want anybody saying that someone was tied to a Terrorist group from the Middle East.
20-some months he’s been out of office.
High for changes.
We need a DoJ that’s working for us, not against us.
MASSIVE Rally For Free Speech AGAINST Facebook
Two stories about Google Be smart Get their products off of your machine and get rid of your gmail account if you have one.
Why I’m done with Chrome.
A few weeks ago Google shipped an update to Chrome that fundamentally changes the sign-in experience. From now on, every time you log into a Google property (for example, Gmail), Chrome will automatically sign the browser into your Google account for you. It’ll do this without asking, or even explicitly notifying you.
In short, Google has transformed the question of consenting to data upload from something affirmative that I actually had to put effort into — entering my Google credentials and signing into Chrome — into something I can now do with a single accidental click. This is a dark pattern. Whether intentional or not, it has the effect of making it easy for people to activate sync without knowing it, or to think they’re already syncing and thus there’s no additional cost to increasing Google’s access to their data.
Don’t take my word for it. It even gives (former) Google people the creeps.
Brave is a private and secure alternative.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-privacy/google-will-acknowledge-prior-mistakes-on-privacy-senate-testimony-idUSKCN1M52RG
W. Virginia’s Decision to Allow Smartphone Voting for Midterms Raises Serious Security Concerns
For the first time in our nation’s history, voters in 24 counties in W. Virginia will be able to vote using their mobile phones. While some are hailing the decision because it will make voting easier for members of the military deployed overseas, experts are warning of possible security breaches.
“After researching previously available options, the Secretary’s team identified that most electronic ballot delivery technology required access to a desktop computer, printer and scanner, all of which present significant barriers to overseas voters, especially those in combat zones or engaged in covert operations,” the W. Virginia Secretary of State’s office explained in a press release this week. The state is partnering with a Boston, Massachusetts-based company called Voatz, Inc.
https://pjmedia.com/election/w-virginia-announces-smartphone-voting-for-midterms-raising-serious-security-concerns/
Arizona prosecutor is GOP choice to question Kavanaugh and Ford
WASHINGTON – Republican senators have selected Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, a top senator announced Tuesday.
Mitchell, the sex crimes bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, will query the two at Thursday’s highly anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. A registered Republican, Mitchell has worked for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for 26 years.
In enlisting Mitchell to join their staff, Republican senators are taking an unusual step. They are turning to her to ask what are expected to be personal and potentially painful questions about the woman’s youth on live television, sparing the all-male panel of 11 Republican senators on the committee some uncomfortable exchanges that could sway the public’s opinion about the session.
“The majority members have followed the bipartisan recommendation to hire as staff counsel for the committee an experienced career sex-crimes prosecutor to question the witnesses at Thursday’s hearing,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement. “The goal is to de-politicize the process and get to the truth, instead of grandstanding and giving senators an opportunity to launch their presidential campaigns.”
He added, “I’m very appreciative that Rachel Mitchell has stepped forward to serve in this important and serious role.
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Arizona-prosecutor-emerges-as-GOP-choice-to-13258105.php
Trump’s Venezuela Military Option Gains Backers as Millions Flee
(Bloomberg) — When President Donald Trump said a year ago that the U.S. was considering a “military option” for Venezuela, hardly anyone in Washington thought it was a good idea.
Today, as Venezuela slides toward dictatorship and collapse, triggering a millions-strong migration crisis, support for such a move is being discussed openly. The notion of using force to topple the government of President Nicolas Maduro is gaining adherents — although it remains a distinctly minority view.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/09/26/trump-s-venezuela-military-option-gains-backers-as-millions-flee#gs.qzetNaU
Venezuela: Queues of Up to Five Days to Access Gasoline
Car owners in Táchira, Venezuela, had to wait up to five days to buy gasoline this week after Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime piloted a new scheme to keep foreigners from profiting off of subsidized prices.
Drivers reportedly had to wait between 72 to 96 hours in the searing heat outside service stations for the arrival of gasoline, a product in increasingly short supply amid the country’s dire economic crisis.
“We have waited three days in a row. They say that the gasoline lorry arrives in the night and we hope that is the case,” Jorge Bezones, one of the drivers waiting in the queue, told El Nacional. “On Wednesday they were going to rob us. In addition, there are gentlemen over 80 years old in line when they should be at home resting.”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/25/venezuela-queues-of-up-to-five-days-to-access-gasoline/
Refugee stream, bad enough.
But Venezuela is infiltrated by hardcore, “death to America” jihadis. Even if we manage to keep most of them south of our border, we don’t want them reinforcing existing terrorist cells across Latin America. Those countries are even less capable of controlling their borders than we are.
As a matter of national security, we’ve got to do something. Maybe train & equip security forces of our allies down south.
Yale study: Illegal immigrant population likely double, possibly triple previous estimates
Professors at Yale University have roiled the immigration debate with a new study calculating there are between 16 million and 30 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. — as much as three times more than most demographers figure.
The professors’ model looked at estimates of how many people came illegally, and how many people likely left, and concluded there are a lot more people who arrived than the 11 million suggested by traditional estimates. The model says the most likely figure is double that, at about 22 million.
If true, the numbers would mean U.S. officials have done a poorer job of catching illegal immigrants than imagined, and that one out of every nine people living in the U.S. is here illegally.
“Policy debates about the amount of resources to devote to this issue, and the merits of alternative policies, including deportation, amnesty, and border control, depend critically on estimates of the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., which sets the scale of the issue,” said the academics, Professors Jonathan S. Feinstein and Edward H. Kaplan and postdoctoral associate Mohammad Fazel-Zarandi, all at the Yale School of Management.
They published their findings in PLOS ONE, an open access scholarly journal, and sparked fierce pushback from the demographers who study the issue and say the professors’ numbers are impossible.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/24/yale-study-finds-us-illegal-immigrant-population-s/
Border Patrol launches Operation Blazing Sands in California desert
Just east of border fence construction that has been visited by both the vice president and the homeland security secretary, Border Patrol launched Operation Blazing Sands last month to deter illegal border crossings and thwart human smuggling attempts.
Border Patrol noticed an uptick in smuggling organization activity along a stretch of border in the southeastern-most part of the California desert, according to agent Justin Castrejon. Agents responded in mid-August with Operation Blazing Sands, a collaboration between Border Patrol’s El Centro and Yuma sectors.
“This operation leverages the strengths of El Centro Sector and Yuma Sector to better target transnational criminal organizations,” said Gloria Chavez, chief of the El Centro Sector, after the operation launched.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-blazing-sands-20180924-story.html#
Kavanaugh accuser asks Senate to limit press access for hearing
Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers have asked senators to limit the press who will be allowed in the room to cover Thursday’s hearing with her and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and sought to dictate at least some of the outlets.
Coverage is one of a number of issues Ms. Blasey Ford’s lawyers are negotiating with Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Michael Bromwich said in emails sent Tuesday afternoon that he was requesting access for three “robocams,” three specific wire services, photographers from the Associated Press, Reuters and one unspecified service, and a pool reporter for newspapers and magazines. In a follow-up email he specified that the robocams should be operated by “the CSPAN TV pool,” and said he also wanted space for a radio reporter.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/25/accuser-senate-limit-press-kavanaugh-hearing/
650 Bangladeshi Nationals Arrested in Single Texas Border Sector in 2018
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 650 Bangladeshi nationals this fiscal year. The number could hit near 700 by the end of the month–which concludes Fiscal Year 2018.
Laredo Sector agents arrested four who illegally crossed the border on September 21 near the Masterson area of Laredo, Texas. The agents processed the migrants and learned they are illegal immigrants who traveled to the U.S. from Bangladesh, according to Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials.
Four hours later, the agents came upon four additional migrants who crossed the Rio Grande River border from Mexico into the River Hill subdivision. An immigration inspection revealed the four were also from Bangladesh, officials stated.
https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/09/25/650-bangladeshi-nationals-arrested-in-single-texas-border-sector-in-2018/
Bangladesh terrorists are Paki subsidiaries. Like ARSA, the “Rohingya Salvation Army”. Figure Pakistan has all our domestic security intelligence via Awad and other satellites set up over the past decade.
Pakistan as gatekeeper?
sudderThese Bengali tards are rapid-breeding zombies who function as hive-mobs. They’re triggered by remote control, easily from Pak/Afghan/Iran/China – or cells in the UK and increasingly Canada. It’s like a consortium that’s neither Shitte or Sunni, that alternates between collaboration and conflict.
This is terrible.
Chinese Agent Living In Chicago Arrested For Spying On US: Feds
Accusers say he was a Chinese spy tasked with gaining intelligence on potential recruits for a Chinese intelligence service.
CHICAGO, IL — A Chinese national has been arrested on suspicion of spying on the United States for China, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office. Ji Chaoqun, 27, was living in Chicago while working as an agent for a Chinese intelligence agencies, the government says.
Ji “worked at the direction of a high-level intelligence officer in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security,” the press release said. Accusers say his mission was to obtain biographical information on eight people for potential recruitment by the Chinese intelligence agency.
Some of the individuals targeted for recruitment were Chinese nationals working in highly competitive STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — fields in the U.S., including some U.S. defense contractors.
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/chinese-spy-arrested-chicago-u-s-justice-department
President Trump calls on allies to isolate Iran
President Trump has called on the rest of world to isolate Iran’s regime by cutting all financial trade ties.
During his United Nations address Tuesday, the president said Iran does not respect its neighbors or their borders, and accused Iranian leaders of fueling the crisis in Syria.
He praised his administration’s decision to pull the out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. The president said the “bad” deal helped the country’s military budget grow by 40-percent, and allowed them to fund terrorist organizations.
President Trump urged allies to take a stand and deny Iran the funds it needs to advance its agenda.
He added, the U.S. has re-imposed sanctions on the regime, which are set to take effect on November 5, 2018.
http://www.oann.com/president-trump-calls-on-allies-to-isolate-iran/
Time to lower the boom on Kuwait.
Past time, in fact.
Kuwait best get with the program – or be prepared to face Trump’s wrath
https://nypost.com/2018/06/29/kuwait-best-get-with-the-program-or-be-prepared-to-face-trumps-wrath/
Kuwait’s Terrorism Finance Problems Compound
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/david-weinberg-kuwaits-terrorism-finance-problems-compound/
Why are Dems so hot for an FBI probe of Kavanaugh allegations? Joe Biden could tell them they don’t need one
By J.E. Dyer September 26, 2018
Mark Levin posted an article from NTK Network on Tuesday, which highlights video of then-Senator Joe Biden in 1991, explaining in a hearing on the Anita Hill allegations against Clarence Thomas that the FBI wouldn’t do any good by investigating Hill’s claims.
Here’s the relevant excerpt from Biden’s comments:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/26/why-are-dems-so-hot-for-an-fbi-probe-of-kavanaugh-allegations-joe-biden-could-tell-them-they-dont-need-one/
Yale classmate of Kavanaugh tells Limbaugh show: Reporters contacted me, tried to cue me give them dirt
By J.E. Dyer September 25, 2018
I heard this on the Rush Limbaugh Show Tuesday morning, while listening on the car radio running errands. A woman who was at Yale with Brett Kavanaugh during his undergraduate years, from 1983 to 1987, called in to the show, identifying herself as “Jenny.” She had very kind and laudatory words about Kavanaugh, but what really caught my interest was her description of being contacted twice by reporters, who were hoping to get dirt from her on her former classmate.
That’s not an unusual practice these days, but it still stands out when it is as egregious an attempt as “Jenny” recounted to put words in her mouth. The first reporter, in particular, seems to have tried to manipulate her into signing on to ugly, negative characterizations about Kavanaugh.
You can listen to the complete audio using the link at the top of the page of the Rush Limbaugh website (link above). Here’s the Limbaugh/EIB transcript of the first telling passage (emphasis added):
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/25/yale-classmate-of-kavanaugh-tells-limbaugh-show-reporters-contacted-me-tried-to-cue-me-give-them-dirt/
Transcript of the call:
Richard: Be sure and read the entire article J.E. lays out in great detail how this is a set up from word one, she shows how one woman was contacted by the Propaganda Media and pushed to say things that would hurt Kavanaugh. The left (both political office holders and propaganda media mouthpieces) has been busy contacting people to to get them to say that Kavanaugh was/is dirty.
The question is was Ford found this way?
Did the Media/Dems contact her and tell her that she wouldn’t have to testify?
Is this why she and her lawyers have been making so many stupid conditions before she will testify?
Nothing about this passes the smell test, this is a clumsy frame job from the word go and the Dems are counting on the Propaganda Media to push people into believing them. The courts are the weapon we most need in out quest to drain the swamp and restore liberty to the US. I know we haven’t lost as much as the people in the other Western Nations have but unless we can restore our liberty we can’t/won’t be able to help the other Western Nations regain theirs.
The Left’s ‘Say Something Stupid About Brett Kavanaugh’ contest has some new contenders
By Ben Bowles September 26, 2018
If you thought ‘comedian’ Jimmy Kimmel’s comment on Monday about cutting off Brett Kavanaugh’s “pesky penis” represented a low point for Democrats, then you don’t know Democrats.
On Tuesday, The Washington Post published a piece contesting Kavanaugh’s claim that he couldn’t have committed the acts he is being accused of since he was a virgin in high school and college. But if Post writer Eugene Scott had paid attention to the transcript from Kavanaugh’s interview the night before with Fox News Channel’s Martha MacCallum, which was the jumping-off point for his article, he might have noticed that the judge’s claim specifically addressed the accusation of gang rape leveled by porn lawyer Michael Avenatti. (Scott earns extra credit for making the same mistake that Avenatti made in an appearance on CNN the same day.)
The redoubtable far-left Tinseltown denizen Jim Carrey weighed in with a tweet, accompanied by one of his famous drawings, that accused Kavanaugh of “partying and pillaging” his way to the Supreme Court. The effort causes one to ponder whether the reason Carrey is so fascinated with pictures is that he can’t read.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/26/the-lefts-say-something-stupid-about-brett-kavanaugh-contest-has-some-new-contenders/
Meet the source behind the NYT’s hit piece on Kavanaugh’s prep school yearbook page
By Ben Bowles September 25, 2018
The New York Times wisely decided on Sunday to punt on the Deborah Rodriguez story on the grounds that its reporters were unable to find anyone who could corroborate Rodriguez’s story, much less with firsthand knowledge of the alleged sexual encounter. “Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself,” writers Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Nicholas Fandos conceded.
On Monday, the paper atoned for its sound journalistic judgment the previous day by publishing an equally baseless attack on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh based on an “inside joke” on his prep school yearbook page:
zero hedge – Avenatti Details Alleged Kavanaugh “Gang Rape” Scheme Involving Spiked Punch
Attorney Michael Avenatti has levied new allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Avenatti’s client, Julie Swetnick, claims that Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge made efforts to cause girls “to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be “gang raped” in a side room or bedroom by a “train” of numerous boys.”
“During the years 1981-1982, I became aware of efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to “spike” the “punch” at house parties I attended with drugs and/or grain alcohol so as to cause girls to lose their inhibitions and their ability to say “No.” This caused me to make an effort to purposely avoid the “punch” at these parties,” reads Swetnick’s declaration.
“I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room,” Washington resident Julie Swetnick said in a sworn affidavit released by attorney Michael Avenatti. “These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh,” she added. Judge was a high school classmate of Kavanaugh. -Bloomberg
Swetnick goes on to say that she “became the victim of one of these “gang” or “train” rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present,” adding that “Shortly after the incident, I shared what had transpired with at least two other people. During the incident I was incapacitated without my consent and unable to fight off the boys raping me. I believe I was drugged using Quaaludes or something similar placed in what i was drinking.”
Thanks but no thanks
Democrats and liberal pundits have been distancing themselves from Avenatti of late – and appear to be hesitant to promote his latest claims, according to the Daily Caller.
Senate Democrats have been hesitant to promote Avenatti’s claims and liberal pundits have expressed alarm that if Avenatti is bluffing, he could harm their efforts to stop Kavanaugh.
“We don’t know who Michael Avenatti’s clients actually are. But if he’s overhyped the information he has for attention, he will have done real damage to the anti-Kavanaugh efforts — and will deserve to be exiled from cable TV and public life,” wrote Vox blogger Zack Beauchamp.
Katherine Krueger, managing editor of liberal website Splinter, said Avenatti “could easily risk hurting the movement to keep Kanavaugh [sic] off of the Supreme Court.” -Daily Caller
Now that Swetnick’s claims against Kavanaugh have been officially levied, all eyes will be on Congressional Democrats to see if they pick up ball and run with it.
On Tudsday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) laid out his position on the Kavanaugh accusations, telling reporters that he isn’t going to deny the Supreme Court nominee a seat based on flimsy allegations, and that he will “apply the rule of law” as his standard.
What are they supposed to do, interview everyone in Maryland from the summer of 1982?
We’re talking about appointing someone to be in charge of the rule of law. I’m going to adopt the rule of law as my standard. If this were a criminal allegation you would never get out of the batter’s box, because you can’t tell the accused where it happened and when it happened, and there’s no corroboration outside the accusation itself. You couldn’t sue in civil court for the same reason – you could not even get a warrant.
So I will respectfully listen to Dr. Ford, but here’s the question for me and others; what is the standard? What is it going to be? Are you really innocent or guilty based on the accusation? Is there any presumption of innocence left in the confirmation process?
If the accusation is enough, God help us all. It’s OK to challenge the accuser.
I will respectfully listen, but if there’s nothing new, I am not going to deny him a promotion to the Supreme Court based on a 35-year-old accusation where all of the facts that we do know about seem to suggest it didn’t happen the way it was described.
If this is enough to deny a person a seat on the Supreme Court who has otherwise lived a good life, then I don’t know where this ends.
We imagine that given the level of evidence provided by Swetnick, Graham’s stance may not change.
Both Kavanaugh and his original accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, are scheduled to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning, while a vote has been scheduled to confirm Kavanaugh Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. EST.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-26/avenatti-details-alleged-kavanaugh-gang-rape-scheme-involving-spiked-punch
‘Thug Life’: Swedes Fret as Pippi Longstocking Becomes Homeless Roma in Ghetto (sputniknews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201809261068350043-sweden-pippi-longstocking-roma/
“In a new re-enactment of the popular children’s story, the lovable red-haired rascal becomes a Roma living in Rinkeby, one of Sweden’s most notorious ghettos. While Astrid Lindgren’s relatives initially opposed this transformation, they later gave their consent…”
French Party Calls for Creation of Bank to Finance Companies’ Operations in Iran (sputniknews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/business/201809261068351693-iran-eu-trade-french-party/
“France should consider setting up a special bank for trade with Iran and Russia, as the suggested special-purpose vehicle (SPV) to bypass US sanctions is insufficient, Damien Lempereur, spokesman for the French right-wing Debout La France party told Sputnik.
“If this decision [to set up the SPV] is useful, it is largely insufficient to strengthen our exports [to] countries under sanctions. We propose to create a bank without connection or interaction with the United States to finance operations of French companies in Iran but also in all countries under sanctions, especially Russia,” Lempereur said.
The party spokesman noted that this bank would not be able to help the European companies doing business in the United States, but could still be of use to many businesses.
“This bank could be created with the French state support before joining other European states to found a European financial institution dedicated to our exports and our jobs,” Lempereur said…”
This is uglier and…
=> Wicked important! <=
ANGELA MERKEL’S UGLY ROMANCE WITH THE IRANIAN REGIME
Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/270808/angela-merkel-iran
A name mentioned in the article, Heiko Maas, reminded me of a key figure he appointed. See the neo-Stasi framework supporting Merkel’s edifice?
GoV essay from July, 2016:
The Stasi Never Died, It Just Went to Work for Angela Merkel
https://gatesofvienna.net/2016/07/the-stasi-never-died-it-just-went-to-work-for-angela-merkel/
“Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction”
Shoah by proxy?
Danish Policewoman Probed for Hugging Niqab-Wearing Protester (sputniknews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809261068356102-denmark-policewoman-probe/
“A ban on full-face veils in public places has exposed deep divisions in Danish society, with some arguing that it upholds secular and democratic values and others that it infringes on freedoms of religion and self-expression.
A Copenhagen policewoman is being investigated after Reuters published a photo of her hugging a niqab-wearing woman during an August 1 rally protesting against a nationwide ban on wearing face veils in public, the force’s complaints body announced on Wednesday.
“The police’s job is to enact the law, not to hug people who are against it,” said Marcus Knuth, a lawmaker with the anti-immigrant Liberal Party, which is the biggest member of the country’s coalition government.
“The photo has made the police an involuntary actor in a very sensitive political debate which they should not participate in,” he added.
Knuth and others alerted the independent complaints body over the incident, where the protesting woman appeared to be in tears.
The policewoman’s lawyer said that the officer felt she had handled the situation appropriately within her role as a “dialogue officer,” a role specifically created to ease tension during protests, Reuters wrote.
In May, Danish lawmakers passed a ban on wearing garments covering the face in public, joining a number of European countries that have already introduced such bans.
The government says, however, that the law is not aimed at religions.
Danish society is bitterly split over the ban, with advocates arguing that it upholds secular and democratic values, while critics say that it violates the freedoms of religion and self-expression.
France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria have all imposed some restrictions on full-face veils in public places.”
Erdogan: Turkey Will Keep Importing Iran’s Natural Gas Despite US Sanctions (sputniknews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201809261068339420-erdogan-turkey-iran-natural-gas/
“The Turkish lira’s slide is not linked to a diplomatic row with Washington, and the country’s economic hardship has been exaggerated, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in an exclusive interview to Reuters.
Turkey will continue to purchase Iran’s natural gas, despite the US sanctions on Tehran, Erdogan noted while in New York attending the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting.
Erdogan said in the interview, that it was impossible for Syrian peace efforts to continue with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power, adding that the withdrawal of “radical groups” had already started within a newly-established demilitarized zone in Syria’s Idlib region.
Earlier the Turkish media reported that the Turkish and US presidents, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trump, held a short “on the go” meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York…”
Russian Bastion missile complex successfully tested in the Arctic
Footage released on Wednesday features a K-300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defence missile system which was used for the first time during the Russian Northern fleet’s military exercises in the Arctic.
The P-800 Oniks supersonic anti-ship cruise missile reportedly hit a sea target 60 km (37 miles) offshore, in the Laptev Sea water zone. The missile was shot at a target which simulated a detachment of ships belonging to an imaginary enemy.
The exercise was conducted from Kotelny Island in the Russian Arctic area.
Teacher fired for refusing to give half credit to students who did not hand in their work
By Daily Caller News Foundation September 25, 2018
A Florida teacher claimed she was fired on Sept. 14 for wanting to give zeros instead of half credit to students who did not turn in any work.
Eighth grade U.S. history teacher Diane Tirado gave students two weeks to complete an explorer notebook project, according to WPTV Monday. Tirado taught at West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/25/teacher-fired-for-refusing-to-give-half-credit-to-students-who-did-not-hand-in-their-work/
‘Distracted boyfriend’ meme is sexist, say Swedish authorities (RT, Sep 26, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/439466-distracted-boyfriend-meme-sexist/
“Advertising authorities in Sweden have criticized a major internet service provider for using a viral meme which “objectifies” women as “interchangeable objects” in one of its recruitment ads on social media.
Sweden’s Advertising Ombudsman (RO) criticized internet service provider Bahnhof for using the popular ‘Distracted boyfriend’ meme in a recruitment advertisement, describing it as sexist. The meme shows a couple walking in hand in hand, but the man has wandering eyes for another lady in the frame. It began going viral in the summer of 2017…
The ombudsman can only pass judgment, not impose sanctions. However, Stockholm City Council can remove any physical advertisements that are deemed sexist or degrading. At the time of publication, Banhof’s original offending meme remains on its social media accounts.”
Pass judgement? WTF??!?!
Austrian Interior Ministry memo urges police to disclose citizenship of sex crime suspects (RT, Sep 26, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/439425-austria-police-sex-suspects-migrants/
“The public has a right to know whether suspects in sex crime cases are citizens or asylum seekers, an email written by Austria’s Interior Ministry spokesman said. However, the suggestion apparently clashes with current policy.
Interior Ministry spokesman Christoph Polzl recommended in a leaked internal email reported by Deutsche Welle that police “proactively” furnish more details about sex crimes, particularly such crimes committed in public “with considerable degree of violence or coercion or when there is no connection between the perpetrator and the victim.”
The email also urged ministry employees to state the suspects’ citizenship in all sex crime cases when dealing with the media, adding that if they aren’t Austrian, police should tell the public “their status of residence and whether they are an asylum seeker.”
Citing Austrian media reports, Deutsche Welle, Germany’s public international broadcaster, said that the email’s recommendations are not compatible with current guidelines provided by the Justice Ministry, which state that a suspect’s ethnicity or religion should only be indicated when it is “absolutely necessary to understand the event in question.”
Polzl confirmed the authenticity of the email when contacted by DW, but said the contents of his message were merely “suggestions and comments” which “had no mandatory or even instructional character.”
The leaked email also mused that the ministry should not give any special treatment or exclusive access to “critical media,” limiting communication with hostile journalists to the legal minimum.
Polzl’s email, which was sent to Interior Ministry staff, was portrayed by some Austrian media outlets as government-promoted prejudice instituted by Interior Minister Herbert Kickl, of the right-wing Freedom Party (FPO). However, Polzl insisted that the minister had nothing to do with his message, and did not even receive it.
The number of crimes committed by non-citizens in Austria represented 40 percent of the 500,000 total criminal cases in 2016, a government report from January said.
Anti-immigrant sentiment in the country was sparked after Austria took in some 150,000 asylum seekers starting in 2015, which accounts for over one percent of its population.
The ruling conservative coalition government has adopted a strict stance on migration, with the Interior Ministry even considering a “border protection unit” to prevent a repeat of the 2015 migrant influx.”
Maldives Destroys British Statues Deemed Offensive to Islam (breitbart, Sep 26, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/09/26/maldives-destroys-british-statues-deemed-offensive-to-islam/
“Police armed with pickaxes and power tools have destroyed a modern artwork by a celebrated British sculptor in the Maldives, after the outgoing president in the tourist haven declared the installation offensive to Islam…”
Mohamed Most Popular Male Baby Name in Paris Suburbs (breitbart, Sep 26, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/26/mohamed-most-popular-male-baby-name-paris-suburbs/
“Mohamed is now the most popular name for baby boys in Paris’s migrant-populated suburbs, according to statistics released by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).
The INSEE data from Seine-Saint-Denis looked at the top baby names from 2017 and extrapolated that the trend will likely continue into 2019 with Mohamed being the most popular male name in the district, broadcaster BFMTV reports.
Several other non-traditional French names also made it into the top ten male baby names for the suburbs including Ibrahim at number three, Rayan at number four, Amir at seven, Imran at eight, and Ali at nine. Gabriel, the most popular name in the city of Paris, did not even make it into the top ten for the suburbs.
Of the top 20 names, 12 are of apparent Middle Eastern origin while the list of girls baby names in Seine-Saint-Denis also has a significant number of names that originate from the region, as well.
The new statistics come after Muhammed, and various alternative spellings of the name, were shown to be the most common name in both England and Wales for newborn boys earlier this month…”
8 Burkina Faso soldiers die after vehicle hits explosive (abcnews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/burkina-faso-soldiers-die-vehicle-hits-explosive-58092337
“Burkina Faso’s government says eight soldiers are dead after their vehicle hit an explosive device in Soum province.
President Roch Marc Christian Kabore condemned Wednesday’s attack that occurred between Baraboule and Djibo in the Sahel region. This raises the death toll of security forces to 11 since Sunday.
Kabore says the attacks would not affect the country’s determination to defend itself and establish peace and security.
The once-peaceful West African nation now faces deadly extremist attacks in its capital, Ouagadougou, the Sahel region and more recently its forested east.
Suspected extremists over the weekend kidnapped a South African, an Indian and their driver who worked for a gold mining company in Soum province. Three gendarmes were killed.
No claim of responsibility has been made for any of the attacks.”
Armed men kill 12 civilians in Mali near Niger border (abcnews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/armed-men-kill-12-civilians-mali-niger-border-58092076
“A Tuareg leader says armed men on motorcycles have attacked a nomadic community near Mali’s border with Niger, killing at least 12 civilians.
Moussa Ag Acharatoumane, secretary-general for the Tuareg self-defense group, said Wednesday the attack targeted men in the Iboghilitane community about 45 kilometers (28 miles) west of Menaka.
The violence risks setting off a new cycle of intercommunal clashes in the Menaka region where 100 civilians have already been killed this year.
Menaka governor Daouda Maiga says patrols have been sent to investigate.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Ag Acharatoumane said community residents include many members of the Islamic State organization. He said the attack may have been in retaliation for one by extremists a few months ago on the Idarfane community.”
2 held in Denmark suspected of buying drones for IS (abcnews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/held-denmark-suspected-buying-drones-58089222
“Danish authorities arrested two people Wednesday under Denmark’s anti-terror laws on suspicion of buying drones bound for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
Copenhagen police and Denmark’s security service, known as PET, carried out the arrests Wednesday. Police said the suspects were believed to be part of a network.
In a brief joint statement, police and PET said a series of raids were also carried out in greater Copenhagen.
The suspects will face a judge Thursday, and prosecutors are expected to demand they be held in pre-trial detention. Prosecutors say the hearing should be held behind closed doors because of the ongoing investigation.
No other details were available.
It was unclear whether the case was linked to the arrests in Denmark a year ago of a 28-year-old man for allegedly shipping drones, drone components and infrared cameras for the Islamic State group via Turkey.”
Turkey detains 39 over links to US-based cleric (abcnews, Sep 26, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-detains-39-links-us-based-cleric-58088827
“Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained at least 39 people, including military officers, over their suspected links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating a failed coup in 2016.
Anadolu Agency said the suspects were detained Wednesday in simultaneous raids in 23 provinces. Police were acting on warrants for the arrest of a total of 71 people, including former or serving officers from Turkey’s land, air and gendarmerie forces, Anadolu said.
Turkey regularly carries out such operations as part of a large-scale government crackdown on Gulen’s movement. Some 77,000 people have been arrested and around 130,000 others — including teachers, judges, prosecutors and police and military officers — have been dismissed from state jobs since the attempted coup.
Gulen denies involvement in the attempt.”
BREITBART – Jordan’s King Urges U.N. to Declare War on ‘Islamophobia’
Jordanian King Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussein, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, called on the international community to combat “Islamophobia,” deeming it a threat that fuels terrorism along with jihadi ideology.
The king declared:
An effective global response to terror also requires continued collective action. Let’s be clear about it: for all our victories, the fight against these outlaws, the khawarej of Islam, is not over. Winning the war demands a long-term, holistic approach, one that pairs security measures with strong initiatives that support inclusion and hope. Offline and online, we must counter all and I say all ideologies of hatred, including Islamophobia. Jordanians have led efforts to unite the world in mutual respect and understanding.
His remarks echoed comments he made before the international body in 2016.
During the general assembly’s annual meeting in September of that year, King Abdullah “decried both Western Islamophobia and the terrorist ‘outlaws’ who sully the name of Islam, warning the United Nation General Assembly that both threaten the future of society,” the U.N. reported.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has deemed “Islamophobia” an international problem.
“Racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or Islamophobia are … poisoning our societies,” the U.N. chief said in August 2017, adding, “It is absolutely essential for us all to stand up against them everywhere and every time.”
The U.S. provides Jordan with hundreds of millions of dollars each year in foreign aid, making the kingdom one of the largest recipients of American taxpayer funds.
In 2017 alone, U.S. assistance to Jordan, a member of the international coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reportedly exceeded $1 billion.
Despite disagreements over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, his administration agreed to further increase assistance to Jordan, signing a memo of understanding in February to provide the Middle Eastern nation at least $1.275 billion a year annually over the next five years.
The Jordanian king stressed his support for a two-state solution that would include an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and Israel.
“We will counter any attempts to change the holy city’s historic Arab Christian and Muslim identity,” Abdullah proclaimed.
Jordan joined 128 U.N. member states that urged the Trump administration to rescind its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/25/jordan-king-urges-u-n-declare-war-islamophobia/
He’s got a script, talking points.
– – Time to kick the MB out of Jordan.
whaddya say, dwarf kinglet?
Muslims in Europe facing ‘hostility in everyday life’, Islamophobia study finds (mee, Sep 26, 2018)
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/islamophobia-europe-uk-france-belgium-toolkit-islam-muslims-racism-670535899
“BRUSSELS – European academics and policy makers came together at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday to launch what they describe as a “toolkit” to tackle Islamophobia across the continent.
The report, based on research in eight countries including the UK, France and Germany, said it had identified a “worsening environment of Islamophobia” in which Muslims faced a “new and acceptable hostility… in many spheres of everyday life”.
“This is an issue that is poisoning our societies in the European Union and putting barriers between our communities,” said Jean Lambert, a Green Party member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing London, during the opening of the conference in Belgium.
Long present across the continent, the report highlights how Islamophobia has been further bolstered in the past decade, tied to the rise of far-right and anti-immigration movements in many European countries, the “War on Terror” both within and outside Europe, and the refugee crisis.
Recent examples included former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson’s newspaper column last month in which he compared niqab-wearing women to ‘letter boxes’.
In France, a veiled student union leader was publicly chastised for a televised appearance and caricatured as a monkey by a prominent satirical outlet; in Germany, stories in the media about alleged roving bands of rapist refugees stoked panic; while several countries across Europe have passed so called “burqa bans”, restricting the wearing of niqabs and Muslim veils in public spaces.
While countering such a wave of xenophobia and racism towards Muslim citizens and residents of Europe might seem like a herculean task, the authors of the “Counter Islamophobia Kit” briefing paper say it is a necessity.
“A worsening environment of Islamophobia was identified with respect to media content, political discourse and experiences of discrimination indicating the new and increasingly acceptable hostility against Muslims in many spheres of everyday life,” the report warned.
European academics led by the University of Leeds, in conjunction with NGOs and activists, explored the various drivers of Islamophobia in eight European countries – the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary and Portugal – as well as the efforts to foster counter-narratives to Islamophobia in each country.
“The project has revealed the vast expansiveness of Islamophobia, the fact that it permeates so many elements of our lives and of society,” Amina Easat-Daas, project officer for the Counter Islamophobia Kit, told Middle East Eye.
“We want to challenge the narratives that exist, to contextualise them and emphasise their normalcy, their everyday nature, and also highlight the brilliant contributions many Muslims are making in society. ”
Local variations of Islamophobia
While Islamophobia in most countries was strongly associated with the perception of Muslims constituting a “threat to security” and “a threat to local, national and European identity”, local culture and history has informed the way Islamophobia has been formulated.
While there is ample documentation of France’s instrumentalisation of its national conception of laïcité – secularism – to target its Muslim citizens for being visibly unsecular, in Portugal, the history of the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors in the Middle Ages has fed local narratives of civilisational struggle and fears of a Muslim “invasion”.
In Greece, the report said, some Islamophobic discourses raised the spectre of Turkey using refugees to expand its control across the Aegean – as refugees and Muslims become conflated identities in the public psyche.
Meanwhile, in countries such as Hungary that have served as a transit point for many asylum seekers attempting to reach western Europe, the narrative of Muslim as potential terrorists remain strong, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban telling Germany’s Bild newspaper: “We don’t see these people as Muslim refugees. We see them as Muslim invaders.”
Yet the most publicised recent “terrorism” conviction in the country involved an asylum seeker prosecuted earlier this month for throwing stones at police officers.
Even in countries like the United Kingdom, which have a long history of diversity, long-standing Muslim populations find themselves the target of hatred in the wake of attacks claimed by Islamic State group.
“The UK used to pride itself in its diversity, but that discourse is no longer there,” said Arzu Merali, the head researcher for the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in the UK, during Wednesday’s conference, describing how a generalised discourse targeting Muslims in schools or streets also culminates in “targeted legislation” which solidifies “the idea of Muslims as non-citizens”.
“It sounds pretty dramatic, but this is the kind of scenario we are facing in the UK today,” Merali said.
“There is an urgent need to recognise Islamophobia as a form of racism,” Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar, IHRC researcher in Germany said during Wednesday’s conference, pointing to “how easily Islamophobia moves between everyday life and politics” when Islamophobia “is not officially recognised as a form of discrimination”.
In Germany, Aguilar said, racist tropes have enforced the idea that “being a Muslim means being a problem”.
While Easat-Daas highlighted the differences between each country in the study, she expressed concern about France’s status as a “barometer” – and trailblazer – of Islamophobia in Europe.
“I worry that (France) is a potential leader, that it signposts that this is acceptable. Its laws set precedence, I worry that French policies set precedence,” she told MEE. “When you see the French ‘loi anti-niqab’ and how that then plays out in different framings, in Belgium first, and then further and further, I’m worried that it’s gaining credence and an image of legitimacy.”
Countering toxic narratives
In the face of mounting hateful discourse and actions promoted by public figures, media, and ordinary citizens, sometimes with deadly consequences, the Counter Islamophobia Toolkit highlights initiatives that seek to counter prevalent toxic narratives about Islam.
The report cast some doubts on the effectiveness of reactive condemnations of attacks committed by Muslim individuals and efforts to distance them from the broader Muslim community as still falling within a narrative of “securitisation” of Muslims in all aspects of their lives, and fostering the expectation that all Muslims must condemn any negative acts committed by one of their co-religionists.
Many efforts across the continent have sought to demystify Islam to non-Muslim European citizens, such as the Parle-moi d’Islam videos explaining aspects of the religion.
Key to combating Islamophobia, the report says, is the “normalisation” of Muslims – showing them as individuals with the same lives and aspirations as others, as in the Human Library in the Czech Republic, and highlighting food, fashion and culture as points of human connection between Muslims and non-Muslims.
In some cases, approaches to fight Islamophobia might appear counter-intuitive – as in Greece, where some efforts actually leaned on prevailing Christianity in the Mediterranean country to promote “Conservative anti-nationalist narratives and Christian ecumenical ideals such as peace, hospitality and care towards the vulnerable, especially towards refugees”.
Part of the efforts to counter Islamophobia, Easat-Daas said, include recognising the phenomenon as not simply exclusive to right-wing movements.
“I would argue that (Islamophobia) is not exclusive to the right wing, but rather something that you can see across the political spectrum,” she said. “It shouldn’t be acceptable political discourse to stigmatise or to speak on behalf of other people – which is often something we see in liberal Islamophobia.”
Legal shortfalls
While the burden of fighting against Islamophobia seems to mainly fall on the shoulders of civil society in Europe as hateful discourse has become further normalised in the political and governmental sphere, the report highlights the role played by the European legal system – and its shortfalls.
“There is limited engagement of European human rights law with the best legal practices to counter Islamophobia in individual EU member states,” the report reads. “As a result, the forms that both judicial intervention and legal measures, including positive measures, could take in order to effectively counter Islamophobia remain unclear.”
The report goes on to criticise the European Court of Human Rights for its “rigidity” in ruling on cases of alleged state Islamophobia which it said had shifted “the burden of proof away from the state and onto the applicants who should then prove that the restrictions against their right to freedom of religion are disproportionate”.
The brief nonetheless welcomed efforts by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in passing a number of non-binding resolutions analysing and defining Islamophobia, highlighting it as a necessary step towards tackling the problem.
The Parliamentary Assembly had been largely successful, it said in spelling out “different cultural, historical and socioeconomic elements that constitute Islamophobia”.
But it said there was a “striking contrast between the nuance and complexity of those soft-law instruments and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, where there is almost complete lack of references to Islamophobia and no distinctive legal response to the phenomenon”.
Sajjad Karim, a Conservative Party MEP representing northwest England, raised the alarm on Wednesday about Islamophobia across European nations, highlighting concerns that it had begun “seeping through to the European (Union) level” and could further worsen with the eventual election of more populists to the European Parliament in 2019 – which could lead to a EU Parliament “held ransom by those extremes”.
“Now we are in a fight, and in a matter of months from now… there is an issue of self-interest for every European,” Karim said.
Salman Sayyid, professor of social theory and decolonial thought at the University of Leeds, said during Wednesday’s conference that the fight against Islamophobia has a larger mandate than the protection of one specific religious community.
“Islamophobia is a challenge to the continuation of a particular type of European democratic project, and that’s why I think it should be taken seriously, and not just in relation to the defense of Muslim communities, but in defence of the kind of world we want to live in.””
MB cranking up the volume.
It’s one of those “theme packages”: Messages from the global corporate media that come out in coordinated bursts. No doubt echoed on social media, terrific multiplier effect. Follow up with a new UN “refugee” initiative?
September 26, 2018: Ep. 815 The Big Secret Revealed
https://www.bongino.com/september-26-2018-ep-815-the-big-secret-revealed/
Ricki Seidman Plots Strategy To Defeat Judge Kavanaugh Back In JulyIn July, Ricki Seidman – a Democratic operative, former Clinton White House official and current advisor to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford – laid out a strategy to defeat the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Be sure to like, subscribe, and comment below to share your thoughts on the video. Subscribe for the latest on the Democrats’ hypocrisy, media bias and punditry, and coverage of President Trump’s accomplishments: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c…
Human Rights For Rapists
The right of women to live safely and freely should be absolutely guaranteed above all rights for migrant rapists.
I made this video six months ago, but I didn’t post it on YouTube
SHOCKING! Day of action in Bradford, police expel Britain First from town
Related:
“The 10 Worst Police Forces: Most Corrupt Complaints System”
by Rob Warner – May 2, 2016
https://crimebodge.com/the-10-worst-police-forces-most-corrupt-complaints-system/
“What is Citizen’s Arrest and What is Breach of the Peace?”
Crimebodge – Published on February 27, 2018
“Welcome to the UK Religious Police – arresting those who offend muslims on facebook” – ‘Sentiment Analysis.’
By Rob Warner – June 14, 2016
https://crimebodge.com/welcome-to-the-uk-religious-police-arresting-those-who-offend-muslims-on-facebook/
“South Yorkshire Police Unfit for Purpose – Sack the Lot of them” by Rob Warner – August 27, 2014
https://crimebodge.com/south-yorkshire-police-unfit-for-purpose-sack-the-lot-of-them/
“The Story Behind This Website”
by Rob Warner – March 13, 2018
https://crimebodge.com/the-story-behind-this-website/
“Now the Cops are Coming for Me”
Crimebodge – Published on August 20, 2018
Leftist Sliming Rising
As progressives witness the death of their political fantasies, character assassination is all they have left.
September 26, 2018
Michael Ledeen
It’s uncanny the way perhaps the three most distinguished Supreme Court nominees in my lifetime—Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh—have all been brutally slimed. Those nominees who sailed through, and now sit on the court, are all distinguished citizens with admirable careers, but their places in the legal history of the United States are unlikely to be as significant as those of Bork, Thomas and Kavanaugh.
In other words, it strikes me as notable that the best of the best get the worst treatment. I think we’d do well to ponder this.
First of all, it’s not new. Bork and Thomas were quite a while ago, one or two generations, depending on your standard of measurement. The sliming of Judge Kavanaugh is part of a long-standing pattern, not a surprising eruption of some new form of feminism or just part of the current political conflict.
I think the pattern has to do with the failure of the left to win substantive debates on central issues. Not so long ago, the left, usually in the form of pidgin Marxism (“the world is the way it is because of economic and social factors, and if you want to change things, you must change the economic and social structure”) Or, as candidate Clinton put it, “it’s the economy, stupid.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271421/leftist-sliming-rising-michael-ledeen
Ledeen is a fascinating critter. He’s concentrated on Swamp/Sewer News lately, sort of a waste of his talents. Seems court-intrigue is irresistible.
[Just as I wish J.E. Dyer would let others untangle this mass of snakes. She could be covering Idlib, the downing of the Ilyushin Il-20, the S-400, Isis returning to al-Q fold, etc.]
Ledeen’s a real expert in Iran geopolitics. Extensive contacts, knows all the languages, wrote about Iran/- NorK/ -Syria collaborative weapons programs before almost anyone else. Knows the Iran Lobby players in this country.
President Trump Denounces Global Governance at UN
“Sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle where freedom has ever survived, democracy has ever endured, or peace has ever prospered. And so we must protect our sovereignty and our cherished independence above all. ”
September 26, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
There are few places most associated with global government, its vision and ambition, than the collection of tyrannies, failed states, terrorists and corrupt bureaucrats that are the United Nations.
And there was no better place for President Trump to bury the myth of a wise global government replacing the nation-state.
” Each of us here today is the emissary of a distinct culture, a rich history, and a people bound together by ties of memory, tradition, and the values that make our homelands like nowhere else on Earth. That is why America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control, and domination. I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs, and traditions. The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship. We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return,” President Trump declared in his UN General Assembly address.
He followed that up with attacks on specific global governance arms.
“As my administration has demonstrated, America will always act in our national interests. I spoke before this body last year and warned that the UN Human Rights Council had become a grave embarrassment to this institution, shielding egregious human-rights abusers while bashing America and its many friends. Our ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, laid out a clear agenda for reform, but despite reported and repeated warnings, no action at all was taken. So the United States took the only responsible course: We withdrew from the Human Rights Council and we will not return until real reform is enacted.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271426/president-trump-denounces-global-governance-un-daniel-greenfield
THE vast majority of Muslims living in Ireland have integrated successfully into society and strongly reject Islamic extremism. An opinion poll carried out for the Irish Independent/RTE Primetime on Muslim attitudes reveals an extremely high level of tolerance among Muslims living in Ireland.
THE vast majority of Muslims living in Ireland have integrated successfully into society and strongly reject Islamic extremism.
An opinion poll carried out for the Irish Independent/RTE Primetime on Muslim attitudes – the first of its kind carried out here – reveals an extremely high level of tolerance among Muslims living in Ireland.
It found 73pc believe they are fully integrated into Irish society, with 77pc saying they feel accepted here.
But the poll, which was carried out by Lansdowne Market Research, shows a minority of the Muslim community hold more extreme views.
More than a third (36pc) would prefer Ireland to be ruled under Sharia law, while 37pc would like Ireland to be governed as an Islamic state. The survey shows Muslim youths hold the strongest views within the Islamic community on politics and religion.
It found 28pc of young Muslims aged between 16 and 26 believe violence for political ends is sometimes justified.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/muslims-give-their-blessing-vast-majority-very-happy-here-says-poll-26351878.html
Put on a happy face: Ireland is a tardish cesspool.
Hopeless, gone. Wall it up, mine the surrounding waters.
LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — An investigation found that a police chief in North Carolina had rental units holding images of nude women, narcotics and firearms.
A Robeson County District Attorney’s Office release says Red Springs Police Chief Ronnie Patterson’s units were auctioned off for nonpayment and found to also have a file detailing a sexual harassment allegation against him. Citing the release, news outlets report crime scene photos, investigative files and ammunition also were in the unit.
https://wlos.com/news/local/official-police-chiefs-rental-units-held-drugs-firearms
A spokesman for left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is acknowledging that he indirectly funded Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier
Sources have told The Daily Caller News Foundation in the past that Soros helped fund Fusion’s post-election work on Russian interference in the election process
Soros’ spokesman told The Washington Post that Soros donated to the Democracy Integrity Project, a group founded by a former staffer to Sen. Dianne Feinstein
George Soros has indirectly funded Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous Steele dossier, a spokesman for the billionaire financier has acknowledged.
Michael Vachon, the Soros aide, told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius that Soros provided a grant to a nonprofit group called the Democracy Integrity Project.
That organization, which was formed in 2017 by Daniel Jones, a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, paid Fusion GPS as a contractor to continue an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/26/george-soros-funded-fusion-gps/
A billboard poster bearing the Google definition of the word “woman” has been removed after it was accused of being part of a transphobic campaign.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull told the BBC she paid £700 to have “woman, women, noun, adult human female” put up.
But it was removed after an LGBT activist complained Ms Keen-Minshull’s campaign represented a “hate group”.
Ms Keen-Minshull denied the allegation, but said the idea that trans women were women was “preposterous”.
When asked why the poster was erected in Liverpool, where the Labour Party’s annual conference is taking place, Ms Keen-Minshull said it was in response to the city’s mayor, Joe Anderson, who recently voiced his support for the trans community.
Dr Adrian Harrop, whose complaint led to the poster’s removal, said the billboard was a “symbol that makes transgender people feel unsafe”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45650462
AN IRISH woman who admits to having been radicalised after she converted to Islam claims that there are up to 150 Islamic extremists living in Ireland.
The woman has also alleged that on several occasions she was visited in Ireland by Khuram Butt – the leader of the terror attack on London Bridge which claimed the lives of eight innocent people.
‘AAliyah’ (not her real name) says that they travelled around the country together meeting other extremists in places like Cavan, Limerick and Clonmel.
The connections between Ireland and Islamist terrorism are investigated in a new documentary, Ireland’s Jihadis, which will air on Virgin Media One on Wednesday night.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/radicalised-irish-woman-claims-she-travelled-ireland-with-london-bridge-attacker-and-says-there-are-up-to-150-islamic-extremists-living-here-37349339.html
Facebook bans rainbow hijab photo for ‘Islamic Blasphemy,’ gay editor suspended for 30 days, threatened with expulsion for rolling eye emoji
https://gellerreport.com/2018/09/facbook-bans-hijab-photo.html/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
france 24 – Italy ruling coalition: “one really wonders who is the junior partner in this situation”
US to give $185m in aid for Rohingya Muslims
Bulk of aid will go towards helping Rohingya refugee communities and support services such as food, water, sanitation
WASHINGTON
The U.S. on Monday announced giving over $185 million in additional aid to Rohingya relief efforts in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The announcement was made by U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, at a meeting attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
In a statement, Haley said the bulk of the aid would go towards helping Rohingya refugee communities in Bangladesh to support emergency services such as food, water, sanitation, health care and psychosocial support.
“Still more needs to be done, so we need other countries to do their part as well,” she said in the statement.
“This additional funding brings U.S. humanitarian assistance in response to the Rakhine State crisis to nearly $389 million since the outbreak of violence in August 2017,” read the statement.
Rohingya Persecution
Since Aug. 25, 2017, nearly 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s state forces, according to a report by the Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA).
More than 34,000 Rohingya were also thrown into fires, while over 114,000 others were beaten, said the OIDA report, entitled Forced Migration of Rohingya: The Untold Experience.
According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly children and women, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community.
The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world’s most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.
The UN has documented mass gang rapes, killings — including of infants and young children — brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by Myanmar state forces. In a report, UN investigators said such violations may have constituted crimes against humanity.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/us-to-give-185m-in-aid-for-rohingya-muslims/1263758
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S U C K ERThe Impossibility of Disproving an Accusation
September 26, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
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Ignore the politics of the Kavanaugh case.
Ignore the fact that the Dem opposition decided to go with sexual assault accusations because they fit nicely with their larger message targeting a Trump nominee as a threat to feminism and abortion rights.
What we’re really seeing is the impossibility of proving or disproving an accusation when there’s no physical evidence. Add on decades to it and the impossibility becomes nearly total. Add on a well-funded system for making the accusation and it becomes devastating.
This is a problem that goes beyond Brett Kavanaugh and the political battle around him. It pervades the culture of the #MeToo movement, of campus kangaroo courts and the rest of the infrastructure of #BelieveAllWomen.
The impossibility of proving or disproving such accusations has led to an insistence that the burden of proof (for the sake of fairness) must be shifted from the accuser to the accused. Kavanaugh, like so many others, must prove he didn’t do anything wrong.
And, the only way to do that is for the accuser to name a date and place where the accused couldn’t have
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271429/impossibility-disproving-accusation-daniel-greenfield
Keith Ellison Accuser Claims He’s Running A Smear Campaign Against Her
Where is Democrats’ concern and support for Ellison’s ex-girlfriend?
September 26, 2018
Matthew Vadum
The former girlfriend of Congressman Keith Ellison is accusing her fellow Democrats of isolating her and attempting to silence her for speaking out about the domestic violence she claims to have suffered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend.
Democrats say they believe women when they come forward with claims of abuse inflicted on them by powerful men. But this claimed belief in women isn’t unconditional. When a woman accuses a powerful Democrat, all bets are off.
The episode is another reminder that Democrats are champions of women’s rights – but only when championing those women’s rights serves the Left.
Ellison is the in-your-face Muslim U.S. representative from Minnesota with ties to the Muslim terrorist underworld. He is an admirer of convicted cop killer and leftist folk hero Mumia Abu Jamal. He is a former co-chairman of the Communist-linked Congressional Progressive Caucus.
He is also deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Ellison is currently running to be Minnesota’s attorney general. Polling suggests Ellison has a narrow lead over Republican candidate Doug Wardlow in the race.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271420/keith-ellison-accuser-claims-hes-running-smear-matthew-vadum
Stop Google’s Kiddie Data Predators
by: Michelle Malkin
September 26, 2018
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No consent. No disclosure. No escape.
For legions of unwitting students and teachers across the country, this is the dangerous, de facto data policy Google has imposed over their school districts. An estimated 80 million students and teachers are now signed up for free “G Suite for Education” accounts (formerly known as Google Apps for Education); more than 25 million students and teachers now use Google Chromebooks. A Google logon is the key to accessing homework, quizzes, tests, group discussions, presentations, spreadsheets and other “seamless communication.” Without it, students and teachers are locked out of their own virtual classrooms.
Local administrators, dazzled by “digital learning initiatives” and shiny tech toys, have sold out vulnerable children to Silicon Valley. Educators and parents who expose and oppose this alarmingly intrusive regime are mocked and marginalized. And Beltway politicians, who are holding Senate hearings this week on Big Tech’s consumer privacy breaches, remain clueless or complicit in the wholesale hijacking of school-age kids’ personally identifiable information for endless data mining and future profit.
Over the past several years, I’ve reported in my column and CRTV.com investigative program on edutech plundering the personal data and browsing habits of millions of American schoolchildren. Remember: State and federal educational databases provide countless opportunities for private companies exploiting public schoolchildren subjected to annual assessments, which exploded after the adoption of the tech industry-supported Common Core “standards,” tests and aligned texts and curricula. The Every Student Succeeds Act further enshrined government collection of personally identifiable information — including data collected on attitudes, values, beliefs and dispositions — and allows release of the data to third-party contractors thanks to Obama-era loopholes carved into the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act.
http://www.theconservativeinsider.com/stop-googles-kiddie-data-predators/?roi=echo3-53495620538-49275132-7bba2c1b1460d97ff48db81ce93326e4