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Nunes on Fusion GPS co-founder taking the Fifth
Rep. Jordan reacts to Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson pleading the Fifth
Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson stonewalls Congress
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discusses how Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson pleaded the Fifth before the House Judiciary Committee.
Tom Fitton: DOJ won’t lift a finger on Fusion GPS founder
Trump: US economy is going to bring people together
Trump on US economy, Russia meddling and Saudi Arabia arms deal
https://www.jpost.com/International/How-the-Bible-pushed-a-man-to-flee-North-Korea-569097
While I am no Christian, I know which side I am on. He I but he is also one willing to FIGHT for it and these three statements appealed to me:
1) “But until today it is hard for me to understand the pop culture and self-indulgence among capitalist countries. Pop culture seems to talk mostly about love and eroticism, but not about higher values such as patriotism and love for the country. And the political sides in South Korea are just fighting each other, in the process shaking the foundations of this country”
2) “In the Western media, there has been a great deal of speculation over the years as to when the regime in North Korea will collapse. When do you think this will happen?
There is no chance that the regime will collapse. I met some American officials on a visit to Hawaii and I told them very clearly: the only way to bring down the regime is with force and it must be done.
Why don’t you believe it will collapse?
There are three reasons. First, the entire country has been brainwashed for decades and the populace adores and worships the Kims as if they were gods. Secondly, the regime uses the notion that South Korea and the United States pose a threat to North Korea to maintain control and justify their rule. Finally, and no less important, is the reign of terror that is imposed by the Kim regime, which tolerates no dissent and punishes it severely”
3) “What do you think of Israel?
When I lived in North Korea, we thought of Israel as the enemy, but we also were told they are good at fighting and we respected them because they took their own land back and liberated it. I visited Israel once, in 2009, and I loved it. I still remember eating St. Peter’s fish in the Galilee. But I will say this: you need to be tough. If you have any problems with your neighbours, just put me in charge for a little while and I will take care of it.
Another one I admire is Sohrab Ahmari.
His biog from Amazon blurb:
Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Roman Catholic Church.
In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young intellectual’s finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection of the great ideas and events of our time, the book marks the debut of a compelling new Catholic voice.
Writes for Commentary, superb insight on news from Iran, the ME:
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/author/amari-sohrab/
Twitter Feed:
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari
Just when you think the loonie left have no more looniness to offer – IMAGINE MY SHOCK!
I’m trying to chase the source of this story. Anyone seen this before?
https://yournewswire.com/queen-elizabeth-descendant-muhammad/
Queen Elizabeth has begun claiming she is a direct descendent of Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and has instructed BBC News to begin pushing this idea in the Muslim world, according to BBC staff.
The extraordinary move by Queen Elizabeth has sparked fears the Illuminati are in the final stages of preparing to use Islam to usher in the New World Order, with the House of Windsor at the apex of the pyramid.
Claiming to be the 43rd great-granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, the Queen cited the genealogical guide to royalty, Burke’s Peerage, for proof of her claims.
https://www.newsweek.com/queen-england-descendant-prophet-mohammed-newspaper-claims-883512
IMVHO it sounds like the muslim buttock kissing of the UK elite has now been given official crown verification so that when the UK becomes sharia the royals will remain untouched as will most of their friends. Either that or poor Liz is starting to lose the plot totally. I have more chance of being related to mo that she. Just think of the degree of investigation and verification that all mates to future monarchs had to undergo in the period 800 to 1950 AD). I very much doubt that anyone (and that includes Philip) with a drop of ME blood would have even reached the palace gates. Cornwall apart the UK was the one place almost untouched by islam until the idiot socialists allowed in the flood of Pakistanis.
Addendum…. Atlee and labour’s victory in 1945. Today I just heard someone say that he is convinced that Stalin swung this via his control of UK labour as he wanted Churchill out of the way post war in Europe as he had little respect for the US and thought that he could handle them. By all means rubbish this as I have no idea myself. I am curious.
Your theory about Stalin fits the facts that I know, Stalin had fooled FDR and to a lesser extent Truman, it wasn’t until Ike got in that true anti communism reached our government and even then he was limited by the vast number of Communist infiltrators that were in our government.
Actually he was wrong: it was a 100x times worse and he just found the tip of the iceberg. Diana West shows this to be the case. McCarthyism should be a word for idealistic patriotism, meaning that although naïve its intentions are honourable.
“Queen Elizabeth has begun claiming she is a direct descendent of Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and has instructed BBC News to begin pushing this idea in the Muslim world, according to BBC staff.”
Let’s keep this real simple: Couldn’t the old bag just keep her big mouth shut?
We’re talking about someone who once displayed sufficient good sense to play the Star Wars “Darth Vader Theme” for the court arrival of Saudi King Abdullah during his visit in 2007.
Now she has to try and co-opt her way into the top tier of England’s newest invaders. Wasn’t there a time when the Brits would have gone all “pitchforks and torches” over such a pollution of their monarchy?
“The extraordinary move by Queen Elizabeth has sparked fears the Illuminati are in the final stages of preparing to use Islam to usher in the New World Order, with the House of Windsor at the apex of the pyramid”
From all indications, Illuminati or not, this is just one more button on the coat when it comes to the naked greed of this world’s 1%. At this point, it also would be a good time to mention how this reeks of fake news.
All the same, as disinformation goes, this one’s a winner.
I agree that this one smells of very fake news, This doesn’t sound like what her history says she would do.
“This doesn’t sound like what her history says she would do.”
Agreed. This is not the behavior of someone who sat through The Blitz as a model for her people. Would that current EU “leadership” had just half that spine.
All the same, prolonged fence-sitting regarding Brexit must be inducing some serious discomfort. People experiencing lengthy episodes of unenjoyable circumstances are known to make very questionable decisions.
From some random Paul Newman western:
“A friend of mine once took off all of his clothes and threw himself into a cactus patch. I asked him later, ‘Why?’. He said, ‘It seemed like the logical thing to do at the time.'”
We’re about to see lots of people do “logical” things that may well only ever make sense to them and no one else.
Muslim Professor of Islamic Theology Concludes After Research: Prophet Muhammed Never Existed
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/muslim-professor-of-islamic-theology-concludes-after-research-prophet-muhammed-never-existed/
Muslim Professor of Islamic Theology Concludes After Research: Prophet Muhammed Never Existed
Buy the prof’s grandma a crate of steel wool so she can knit him a bulletproof vest.
There was a Spencer article about it – scrubbed – 404.
WATCH: Cologne Antifa rallies for Islamic hostage-taker–
After the hostage-taking at Cologne Central Station, where a 55-year-old suspected Syrian and jihadist wanted to set fire to his hostage, Antifa arrives at the scene of the crime to support the perpetrator and his comrades. On the other hand, counter-demonstrators are building up – among them also Arabs, who do not find the shouting of the Antifa combat troops funny. “You’ve lost the war, you’ve lost the war – twice” and “Alerta, Alerta, Antifascista!” it can be heard from the throats of the left-wing extremists – especially loudly the many young women in their midst, who are known repeatedly to like to stand up for Islamic criminals.”You’ve lost the war, you’ve lost the war – twice” and “Alerta, Alerta, Antifascista!” it can be heard from the throats of the left-wing extremists – especially loudly the many young women in their midst, who are known repeatedly to like to stand up for Islamic criminals. Separated from police officers are a few “right-wing” demonstrators – according to broadcaster SAT1 – who respond with “Antifa terror supporters” from the other side. A few young men with a so-called migration background mingle with the antifa opponents. “Look what a Nazi I am”, “I am an Arab”, “They want to divide us”, so the young men.
Read more:
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2018/10/cologne-antifa-rallies-for-islamic.html
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Eighteen people killed in armed attack on Crimean college
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Eighteen people were killed and dozens injured at a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea on Wednesday when at least one attacker set off a bomb in the cafeteria and went through the building shooting at random, officials said.
Law enforcement officials said they were treating the incident, in which many of the victims were teenage pupils, as a terrorist attack.
Sergei Aksyonov, the head of the Russian-backed administration in Crimea, a region Moscow annexed from Ukraine four years ago, said the main suspect was a male student a the college and that he had killed himself.
Video footage from the scene showed armored personnel carriers and military trucks lined up on the approach to the college, in the Crimean city of Kerch. Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the military was sending forces and supplies to help the victims.
https://www.oann.com/thirteen-people-killed-in-armed-attack-on-crimean-college/
Crimea college shooting investigated as murder, not terror attack – investigative committee (RT, Oct 17, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/441511-crimea-college-investigated-murder/
“Russia’s Investigative Committee said that it now treats the attack on a college in the Crimean city of Kerch as murder and not a terror attack as it was classified previously.
The preliminary examination of the bodies of the victims indicates that they died of gunshot wounds.
Nobody was killed by the blast that rocked the college earlier on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee said.
The attacker was identified as 18-year-old Vladislav Roslyakov.Roslyakov, who was one of the students at the college, was caught by CCTV cameras with a rifle in his hands. His body with a gunshot wound was later discovered on the college’s premises.
“The investigation believes that this young man shot the people in the college and then committed suicide,” the Committee said.
The new finding led to the criminal case being reclassified from terrorism to murder of two or more people, it added.
The Investigative Committee said 17 people were killed and dozens injured in the attack.”
Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6285769/Ten-killed-40-injured-explosion-school-Russian-occupied-Crimea.html
Beslan II.
It will never end until we end it.
No it won’t and we won’t end it until it gets much worse.
Turkish Store Owner Bans Syrians, Iranians, Afghans From Shop, Vows to Beat Them (sputniknews, Oct 17, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201810171068963070-turkish-store-ban-migrants/
“Earlier, protests erupted in a city in the Turkish province of Denizli over a notorious case of six Syrian men who sexually abused an underage Turkish girl. The protests led to the expulsion of nearly 30 Syrian families from the city.
The owner of a small store in Cinar in Turkey’s Denizli province put up a sign saying that migrants from Syria, Iran and Afghanistan were banned from his shop and would be beaten otherwise. A photo of the controversial sign was uploaded online by a Syrian migrant and surfaced in local media.
“Those arriving from Syria, Iran, Afghanistan are banned from entering and shopping in this store. In case you still do — you will be beaten,” the sign read.
According to the local media outlet Evrensel, police arrested the store’s owner after information about the sign became public. He is reportedly facing charges of instigating violence and incitement of ethnic hatred. The sign has been removed.
Previously, another city in the same Turkish province, Kale, was engulfed by protests after one Turkish and six Syrian men were charged with sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl.
Residents of Kale gathered in front of the city’s courthouse and attempted to attack the Syrian suspects. At least 30 Syrian families were moved out of Denizli province, as many Syrians were attacked by protesters across the city…”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/how-a-global-lgbt-coalition-is-trying-to-lobby-the-vatican-youth-synod
Speaking at Italy’s 5th Forum of “LGBT” Christians on Oct. 6, Bishop Marcello Semeraro took up Pope Francis’ image in Amoris Laetitia, n. 299 of the Church as a welcoming mother who desires to integrate divorced and civilly married Catholics, and broadened it to include those in the “LGBT” movement. The bishop, however, failed to reassert the Church’s teaching regarding homosexuality, saying that he “wasn’t [there] to give lessons on … morality.”
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In 2014, at the extraordinary Synod on the Family, the European Forum of “LGBT” Christians partnered with other groups around the world to found the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC) coalition. One of the chief aims of the GNRC is to work “for the inclusion, dignity and equality of this community in the Roman Catholic Church and society.”
The GNRC assembled in Oct. 2015, in Rome, in the lead up to the Ordinary Synod on the Family.
At the conclusion of the 2015 synod, the GNRC said its final report marked the “beginning of a new era of inclusive pastoral care for and with LGBT people.”
However, they expressed “regret” at the report’s assertion that a child’s best interests “requires parenting by opposite sex couples.” And they “strongly rejected” what they called the report’s “baseless accusation that financial aid to poor countries is conditional on the introduction of laws that institute marriage between same-sex people (n. 76).”
Youth Activists’ Homes Targeted in Germany Police Raids After Anti-Migrant Crime Protest (breitbart, Oct 17, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/17/german-populist-party-youth-homes-following-demonstration-bavarian-merkel-allies/
“Members of the Bavarian Alternative for Germany (AfD) Youth had their homes searched by police following a protest in which they wrote down the names of victims of migrant criminals outside the offices of the Christian Social Union.
Police searched the home of several members of the Young Alternatives Bayern with a total of six searches being conducted in Bayreuth, Augsburg, Amberg, and Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk reports.
The searches came after the youth wing of the AfD held a political action outside the offices of the Christian Social Union (CSU), allies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in which they wrote down the names of victims of crimes committed by asylum seekers and migrants sprayed with black paint and left candles and fake blood.
According to a website linked by the Young Alternatives, the message of the protest was to protest the mass migration policies of the CSU which are allied with Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union in the German federal parliament.
“Germany, indeed the whole of Europe sinks into blood and chaos since the beginning of the illegal mass migration, caused by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel,” they wrote.
“The borders are wide open: Through them, Islamists, knife killers and rapists flow into the country. Professionals who are more valuable than gold to leftist Germany haters,” they added.
“But today the patriotic youth of Bavaria rises to make it clear: Stop this woman, stop these murderers! We have enough of Merkel’s dead. Today we remember their victims and the blood toll they had to pay. There is blood on Merkel’s hands,” they said.
The prosecutor behind the raids said that the investigation was based on charges of property damage but did not go into detail on the identities of those searched. One of the searched party members is believed to have been a candidate for the Bavarian parliament…”
Alleged Islamic State Terrorist Tried for War Crimes in Netherlands After Posing With Severed Head (breitbart, Oct 17, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/17/alleged-islamic-state-terrorist-tried-war-crimes-netherlands-posing-severed-head/
“A suspected Dutch jihadist who travelled to Syria, has gone on trial after allegedly posing next to a beheaded body in a photo posted on Facebook.
The man, who is now back in the Netherlands, was arrested in July after allegedly fighting and recruiting for the Islamic State terror group.
The 23-year-old, known as Oussama A., comes from Utrecht and could be found guilty of war crimes, Dutch press claims.
He has already been sentenced to six years in jail in Turkey for membership of a terrorist organisation, but was released whilst awaiting an appeal, Algemeen Dagblad reports.
He is on trial in the Netherlands along with another suspected jihadist, 24-year-old Reda N., who is described as Syrian but comes from the Dutch city of Leiden.
The pair arrived back in the Netherlands at the beginning of summer, flying into Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where they were arrested and detained.
It is very unusual for someone to be tried and convicted for the same crime twice; however, Dutch lawyers argue that he has not yet been charged with recruiting others to the cause or for the war crime charge relating to the beheading image.
“In addition, the lawsuit in Turkey has not yet been completed, so we can also prosecute,” a spokesman told Algemeen Dagblad.
But a lawyer for the two men, Yasar Özdemir, said the Dutch prosecution was “unnecessary” and could be politically motivated…”
France to Introduce National Service to Force ‘Social Mixing’ Among Youth (breitbart, Oct 17, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/17/france-introduce-national-service-promote-social-mixing-french-youth/
“The French government under President Emmanuel Macron is introducing national service for 16-year-olds across the country to “socially mix” youths and promote common values.
A pilot project is set to begin in the autumn of 2019 with a small sample group of 16-year-olds. By 2026, the programme will encompass every 16-year-old in the country, totalling some 700,000 young people, Le Telegramme reports.
The programme was originally mooted during the election campaign and revived in a watered-down version — without actual military service requirement — in June 2018. The latest comments from Macron’s government amid a major reshuffle suggests the project actually going ahead could be closer than ever.
Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer described two phases of the national service programme. The first would occur at age 16, would be compulsory, and would take place over a month’s time during summer holidays. Fifteen days would be allocated to “integration” and “social mixing” would be encouraged in shared collective accommodations.
The next 15 days would see 16-year-olds break off into small groups for more personalised work.
He also described a second phase which would occur before the age of 24 in which youths would be given the opportunity to spend anywhere from three to twelve months in more specialised fields such as national defence, ecological work, assistance to elderly and disabled people, or cultural positions.
According to General Daniel Ménaouine, who is chairman of the working group behind the project, they are still developing the programme and he will present a report in November.
Gabriel Attal, 29, who was appointed Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education on Tuesday and will head the project, said: “This is a fundamental structural reform for society. When we talk to a lot of young people today, they all tell us they need to get involved, but many do not know how to do it. For me, the National Service will give them a universal taste and pathway of engagement.”
The national service project aims to unite French youth and give a “feeling of national unity around common values”, according to the French government.
The programme could also combat the rise of parallel societies, which are particularly prevalent in the migrant-heavy suburbs of major cities, according to academics like Professor Gilles Kepel who described to Breitbart London the disconnect in areas like the suburbs of Paris.
The emergence of parallel societies within Western nations, especially those linked to radical Islam, have been seen not only in France but also in Sweden, Austria, and Denmark.
While some, like Professor Kepel, have advocated better integration policies, others, like German political scientist Ulrike Guérot, have proposed the opposite saying that migrants should just be given their own towns or cities in order to live according to their own values.”
“While some, like Professor Kepel, have advocated better integration policies, others, like German political scientist Ulrike Guérot, have proposed the opposite saying that migrants should just be given their own towns or cities in order to live according to their own values.”
“Colonize us, PLEASE!”
Left unconfined and unmedicated, individuals such as Guérot are capable of inflicting unexpected degrees of harm to entire political bodies. Recently modified EU speech policies have further disincentivized even the most polite and rational opposition to this ongoing PoMo assault against the Scientific Process (i.e., The Truth).
Macron, prince of ponces, flits from one harebrained dhimmi scheme to the next. His tardish benefactors reward him.
Guérot is sprouting a zebiba.
Fighting in Kashmir city leaves 3 combatants, civilian dead (abcnews, Oct 17, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/militants-troops-waging-gunbattle-kashmirs-largest-city-58549193
“Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city in disputed Kashmir on Wednesday after a gunbattle between militants and government forces killed at least two suspected rebels, a civilian and a counterinsurgency police official, residents and police said.
At least a dozen journalists covering the fighting were beaten by counterinsurgency policemen well after the fighting ended, media groups and reporters said.
The gunbattle began early Wednesday after troops cordoned off a neighborhood in Srinagar on a tip that some rebels were in a civilian home, police said. The exchange of gunfire lasted for about half an hour, police said, leaving two militants, a son of the house owner and a police official dead…”
Iran calls latest US sanctions an ‘insult’ to world order (abcnews, Oct 17, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-calls-latest-us-sanctions-insult-world-order-58556652
“Iran says the latest round of U.S. sanctions is an “insult” to the international order that stems from “blind hostility.”
On Tuesday the U.S. imposed sanctions on businesses allegedly linked to the Basij, a volunteer wing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. The businesses include several banks as well as mining, industrial and trade companies.
The semi-official ISNA news agency on Wednesday quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as calling the new sanctions “cruel and unfair.”
The U.S. has steadily restored sanctions on Iran following President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear accord in May. Next month the U.S. plans to impose sanctions on Iran’s oil and gas industry.
Iran is already in the grip of an economic crisis, and has seen sporadic protests in recent months.”
Taliban warn teachers, students to avoid Afghan polls (abcnews, Oct 17, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/taliban-warn-teachers-students-avoid-afghan-polls-58550844
“A Taliban bombing in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province killed a candidate running in the parliamentary elections this weekend, a provincial official said, as attacks elsewhere in the country killed six policemen and two soldiers.
The attacks came as the Taliban warned teachers and students not to participate in the vote and not to allow schools to be used as polling centers. The insurgents said in a statement that they will target Saturday’s elections, which they view as illegitimate, but that they do not want to harm civilians…”
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“The insurgents said in a statement that they will target Saturday’s elections, which they view as illegitimate, but that they do not want to harm civilians…”
Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle! My ACME Prevarication Detector™ didn’t just red-line, its needle wrapped around the peg! [/R.J. Squirrel]
ISLAMIC MEME No: 24,675 —
As always, Islam remains a religion of peace. However, we have no control over what some hotheaded youth might do if they are displeased with so-called Democratic processes making their own manmade laws instead of following the immutable laws of Allah (i.e., the sharia).
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TRANSLATION: We Muslims—the ummah—are this world’s perpetually aggrieved people and the planet’s Ultimate Squishy Balloon of Protestation™. As in: Sit upon (i.e., oppress – even if just imagined by) us and whatever least-resisted pseudopod available will unpredictably bulge forth from somewhere beneath you – snapping away at your nethermost reaches. Ours—for all of its outward appearances as a hideously calcified, hidebound, ossified dogma (which it is)—has shockingly elastic moral, ethical, and ideological properties. Especially so, when it comes to taking anyone else’s less restrictive judicial layer cake and poisoning that entire legal process (i.e., Lawfare).
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As in, “Of course Islam wants peace!” [insert dramatic pause >here<] "Nevertheless, we cannot guarantee what a difficult-to-control mob of our
SundayFriday School dean’s list pupils might do.”To close: A few minutes of synopsis regarding this rather pedestrian racket in far more familiar terms (starting at – 01:40). Enjoy!
Domenico Lucano: Italy’s migrant-friendly mayor banned from Riace (BBC, Oct 17, 2018)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45887193
“The mayor of Riace in southern Italy has been banished following accusations he organised “marriages of convenience” for immigrants.
The court order puts Domenico Lucano in the unusual position of being mayor of a town he is forbidden to step foot in.
He had spent the last fortnight under house arrest.
His partner was also accused of helping illegal immigration but has been allowed to stay on condition she signs in regularly with the authorities.
Mr Lucano has vowed to continue his methods of integrating migrants into southern Italy without public money.
His banishment follows months of tougher migration enforcement from Italy’s populist government…”
Turkey shells Kurdistan Region, claims it killed 12 PKK members (kurdistan24, Oct 17, 2018)
http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/12d915ae-aec5-45f6-be3a-5d67cad1a416
“Turkey claims to have “neutralized” 12 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) following attacks on Wednesday by its warplanes that struck targets in mountainous areas within the Kurdistan Region’s borders.
Locals told Kurdistan 24 they witnessed bombardment by Turkish military aircraft near the villages of Sargale and Sgere, both of which are part of Amadiya (Amedi) district, Duhok Province, and only four kilometers outside the district’s center.
Following the attacks, Turkish Armed Forces claimed in a Twitter post that their operation in the Metina region, part of Amedi district, left 12 “neutralized,” a term their authorities often use to indicate the killing, capture, or incapacitation of enemy fighters.
All 12, they said, were members of the PKK, a group fighting a decades-long insurgency with Ankara over Kurdish rights and self-rule. As part of the conflict, the Turkish army has crossed its southern border several times in the past year, in some places up 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) deep into the Kurdistan Region.
On Tuesday, nearly 15 kilometers eastward of the town of Amedi in Deralok, Turkey launched a similar operation lasting for 30 minutes, with only material damage reported…”
U.S. general says conditions for Islamist extremism still linger (reuters, Oct 17, 2018)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-militants/u-s-general-says-conditions-for-islamist-extremism-still-linger-idUSKCN1MQ2BJ
“The United States’ top military officer said on Tuesday that little progress had been made in dealing with the underlying conditions that have given rise to armed Islamist militants, even as military gains have been made against groups like Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
“Little progress has been made in addressing the underlying conditions that lead to violent extremism,” said Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
U.S.-backed forces and Iraqi militias liberated nearly all of the territory that Islamic State, also known as ISIS, once controlled in Iraq and Syria.
“Challenges remain in our political, our military, our intelligence, and our law enforcement cooperation despite the fact that we’ve had some positive trends and cooperation; clearly there is much more to be done,” said Dunford, who was speaking during a conference countering violent extremism.
One of the issues facing U.S.-backed forces in Syria is the large number of foreign fighters being detained.
The U.S. military says the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters led by the Kurdish YPG militia, is holding about 700 foreign fighters and attempting to repatriate them to their home countries.
Speaking with reporters later on Tuesday, Dunford said the detained foreign fighters came from 40 different countries and progress to try to repatriate them had been slow.
“The challenge has been there’s not only political issues but … legitimate legal framework issues for addressing this in many of the countries,” Dunford said in a press conference.
He added that none of the more than 80 chiefs of defense from around the world at the conference were able to commit to doing something about the problem.
In a report earlier this year, the State Department warned that Islamic State, al Qaeda and its affiliates have adapted by dispersing and becoming less vulnerable to military action after the United States and its partners made “major strides” against the armed Islamist groups.
Islamic State, al Qaeda and their affiliates “have proven to be resilient, determined and adaptable, and they have adjusted to heightened counterterrorism pressure in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere,” the report said.
“Perhaps the greatest challenge facing us today is the danger of complacency,” Dunford said.
In a sign of the threat militant groups posed, the U.S. military said on Tuesday an air strike killed 60 militants from the Islamist al Shabaab group in Somalia.”
underlying conditions…greatest challenge… danger of complacency…
Dunford – 0’s Pentagon holdover. It’ll be good to see the back of that sack of evasions and euphemisms.
Joint Chiefs’ General has to be a political animal. That’s part of the job description for a nation led by a civilian C-in-C.
Built into the system; we’ve had ups and downs.
A president who has ZERO respect for the military will make poor choices. (And even undermine those.) Regrettable delay in cleaning house, but things should turn around when Mattis leaves.
Rebuilding the senior command is going to be tough. Good people were passed over, early retirement cost us our best. The academies dropped their standards to be “inclusive”, wasted precious time with PC-ed, ended up graduating plenty of garbage.
Beats out Israel’s top brass, at any rate.
They’re mostly politically left of the population as a whole. Like the Supreme Court and intelligentsia, they grew up in the socialist Israel so admired by Bernie Sanders and Barry Soetaro.
(That lived off Diaspora charity. Good thing Israel is financially independent of Jew-ish Americans.)
Worse yet, they go straight into politics or media when they retire. Consideration of future prospects affects their military decision-making. That’s done real harm.
Then they use their civilian platform to diss the elected govt, reframe their own career errors, and mouth off to enemedia abroad. As leftists, they’re welcome to blather at The Atlantic, the Slimes, et al.
Weeding out O’s people is going to be very hard, unlike him we have to find a good reason to retire someone, We are working on getting them out but it will take a lot longer then I would like.
“Good people were passed over, early retirement cost us our best. The academies dropped their standards to be “inclusive”, wasted precious time with PC-ed, ended up graduating plenty of garbage.”
Those are bells that we cannot “un-ring”. The latter case of lowered standards will require years to sort itself out, mostly through performance reports:
All the wisdom of youth, all the vigor of old age*
* Actual line entry on British Army – Annual Merit Review
I like the Brit Army review on a young officer that said; “If I had my way he wouldn’t be allowed to breed.”
Adding that to Home Truths Folder.
It’ll take time. Lives, too.
I hate having such contempt for our top brass, but they’re almost uniformly third-rate. Simply awful command in Afghanistan, lousy louts at our bases in Oman and elsewhere in the ME. (I’m generalizing from the only region I know well enough.) So unfair to the soldiers and sailors under their command.
We can build the armaments, but the service people…
Polluted Congress-critters recommending brainwashed kids to academies filled with PC instructors. Ugh.
Don’t worry Yucki the soldiers know what is happening and when push comes to shove they will do what soldiers always do, by time for the civilians to rebuild the military by teaching the enemy not to mess with the US Army. We don’t like being put in the position of surrender or die, when this happens the causality rate on the enemies side increases by several orders of magnitude.
It’s a terrible cetainty.
The first waves to fight will take heavy casualties because of the competence lag.
We should fear and loathe the 2020 campaign. Here’s why
By Myra Kahn Adams October 17, 2018
“It’s gonna make ‘The Circus’ look like a zoo.” — Mark McKinnon, GOP presidential strategist and creator/producer/host of “The Circus,” Showtime’s political documentary series, when asked to comment on the headline above.
In “normal” pre-Trump times, the next presidential campaign began the day after the midterm elections. Now, in the Trump TV Twitter Era, with all remnants of political normalcy extinguished, the 2020 Democratic primary campaign has already been raging for months.
“The presidential field is likely to be so crowded and brutal that no one wants to wait,” according to Axios’s Mike Allen.
But come 2020, when the Democratic nominee wages war against the president, he or she will experience the new meaning of “brutal” when delivered with a Trump-force multiplier.
Before we discuss why 2020 is on tap to be the most vicious, ruthless, and unpredictable presidential campaign in history, Democrats should be reminded of two overarching and inconvenient math facts
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/10/17/we-should-fear-and-loathe-the-2020-campaign-heres-why/
Read the full article, the problem I have with the article is that the author assumes that we are going to have to live with this cultural and political divide for ever. He hints at but avoids the idea that the Right is going to react to the leftists violence with more intelligently applied violence from our side. This hinting at is probably the best thing for the Liberty Unyielding web site but it leaves the readers thinking there is no solution.
There is a solution that is going to be applied but it will probably put the last nails in the coffin of the rule of law. The soft civil war or the uncivil war is about to end and the very nasty low intensity civil war is about to begin.
Here is a Republican ad for the Mid Terms.
Yeah, not J.E. Dyer by a long shot. I agree that the premise is poorly reasoned and shallow clickbait.
The author seems positively titillated by the prospect. I’d say to her and to her counterparts on the left, Get a life!
(If I was into email contact with the grownups at LU, J.E. or Jeff Dunetz, I’d tell them directly. They’re also increasingly just another platform for Daily Caller. Some nuggets, but a lotta junk too.
I miss the exceptional analysis of days gone by…)
Yeah I wonder if JE is doing some work for the DoD that is taking up most of her time?
She comments as “Jennifer” at Israeli military blogs and tweets.
But not the lengthy meals with maps on the side she used to serve.
“Man Convicted Of Helping 9/11 Terrorists Is All Smiles After Early Release” Weasel Zippers – October 17, 2018
https://www.weaselzippers.us/399961-man-convicted-of-helping-9-11-terrorists-is-all-smiles-after-early-release/
Secure Freedom Radio Podcast
with Frank Gaffney – October 16, 2018
Guest: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
https://securefreedomradio.podbean.com/e/with-elisabeth-sabaditsch-wolff/
Raw Politics: French left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon reacts angrily to police raids
Tim Kaine calls for the Dems to take things to the streets.
Senator Tim Kaine: Public Outcry Will Help Democrats Do Their Jobs Better | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Evidence suggests hostage-taker in Cologne had Islamist motive: prosecutor
BERLIN (Reuters) – German prosecutors said on Wednesday there was evidence the Syrian man who took a woman hostage in Cologne on Monday had a radical Islamist motive.
The chief federal prosecutor said witnesses reported that the man, identified only as Mohammad A.R., had said he was a member of Islamic State and wanted to travel to join the group in Syria.
He had made demands by phone to be allowed to travel to Islamic State in Syria, the prosecutor said in a statement.
“Based on the knowledge we have now, there are sufficient indications that there was a radical Islamist background to the act,” it said.
Police said on Tuesday the suspect was in a coma after being shot several times but his life was not in danger.
The suspect poured a flammable liquid on the floor of a fast food restaurant and lit it, and a 14-year-old trying to escape the flames fell and suffered burns, the prosecutor said.
The suspect is charged with attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm.
Prosecutors said they were investigating whether the suspect had carried out the attack on behalf of IS or another terrorist organization and whether there were accomplices.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-rail/evidence-suggests-hostage-taker-in-cologne-had-islamist-motive-prosecutor-idUSKCN1MR1VX
Federal prosecutor takes over Cologne hostage case
Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office has taken over the investigation into a bloody hostage taking in the western city of Cologne amid concerns that it was connected to Islamic extremism.
The office, which handles terrorism and national security cases in Germany, said Wednesday in a statement that the 55-year-old Syrian citizen — abbreviated to Mohammad A.R. as German authorities never release the last names of suspects — is charged with attempted murder in two cases and serious bodily harm.
Though it said there was “sufficient evidence” to connect the incident to “a radical-Islamist background,” it said it had not yet found enough evidence to classify the attack as a terror attack.
The suspect is accused of entering a fast food restaurant Monday inside Cologne’s train station, pouring fire starter on the floor and setting it alight, injuring two people.
A 14-year-old girl was operated on Tuesday for severe burns while the other injured party was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene.
After the incident, the suspect is alleged to have moved to a nearby pharmacy where he took an employee hostage. After about two hours, police stormed the shop, shooting the suspect several times. The hostage was also injured, but it isn’t clear how and she has been released from hospital.
During the standoff, the suspect made several demands to authorities, prompting the terrorism investigation, prosecutors said.
In addition to demanding the release of a woman whose husband was active in terrorist activities, prosecutors wrote he “also claimed to be a member of the so-called Islamic State and wanted to travel to Syria.”
Prosecutors are now trying to determine whether the suspect, who came to Germany in 2015 and was granted asylum, “committed the attack as a member of the IS or another terrorist group or whether he, immediately before or while the attack, was in contact to or under the influence of a terror group.”
They are also investigating if the suspect had any accomplices.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/federal-prosecutor-takes-cologne-hostage-taker-case-58552353
No moderate Democrats left in Congress
By Hans Bader October 17, 2018
“There are no moderate Democrats, basically left,” said Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez on October 8. He may not have intended to say this to MSNBC viewers, but it is certainly true about Democrats in Congress. As we noted earlier, the Democrats have lurched so far to the left that Democratic elder statesmen such as former President Jimmy Carter have warned against their ideological shift. But today’s Democrats are ignoring his warnings. According to a Gallup survey, 57% of Democrats have a positive view of socialism, unlike capitalism. Democratic primary voters replaced several veteran legislators with avowed socialists in some safe Democratic seats in 2018.
Not a single Democrat in the U.S. Senate is a moderate by historical standards. A few pretend to be, but that is just to get reelected in a state that the GOP carries in presidential elections, by fooling moderate or conservative voters into voting for them.
Democrats in states that that Trump carried in the 2016 election will sometimes vote to confirm someone Trump nominates, but they only do this if the Republicans already have enough votes to confirm that person, making any additional votes from Democrats unnecessary. And they won’t even do this for positions Democrats view as their political property, such as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. For such positions, the Senate Democrats vote as a bloc against any moderate or conservative nominee, to make sure that no one is there who can check the abuses committed by left-wing bureaucrats.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/10/17/no-moderate-democrats-left-in-congress/
The great Facebook purge: Soros’s signature tactics and the crisis in social media
By J.E. Dyer October 17, 2018
When Facebook abruptly purged more than 800 publishers and accounts on 11 October, claiming that the purges addressed “spamming” behavior that violated Facebook policies, it was a tremendous disturbance in the Force for many conservative voices.
People who had spent years building an online presence with Facebook as the core were suddenly cut off from all their followers, their content, and in a number of cases, their livelihoods.
This was a political purge, focused on publishers of political content. It has affected some of their non-political commercial interests as well, but the victims were selected because they were political publishers.
The vast majority of the accounts eliminated were conservative or right-wing. A small number were left-wing, and in its coverage of the event, the Washington Post chose to focus on two left-wing sites that were removed by Facebook.
The left-wing publishers may not be representative of the type of site that was affected. But the account holders’ concerns about the purge are exactly the ones also expressed by right-wing users.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/10/17/the-great-facebook-purge-soross-signature-tactics-and-the-crisis-in-social-media/
Be sure and take the time to read the entire article, it lays out what she thinks Soros’ goals are and what he is probably thinking, it also shows that we have to decide if we can afford to let him destroy the current social media and replace it with a digital social media version of the EU.
Soros hates the idea of national sovereignty and is doing all he can to destroy the idea of the nation state. his weapon of choice is money combined with political activism by the radical left. If he succeeds the new Dark Age will be very deep, very long and very nasty.
It’s very scary.
Without alternative media, the Witch would’ve stumbled to coronation. A figurehead for the most nefarious forces on the planet!
Timing “The Great Purge” just before midterms is sinister and cynical. Such abuse of power – how to fight it?
The people who are charged with defending the commonweal are complicit. Such a mediocre, shallow lot!
We are once again being call upon to fertilize the Tree of Liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants,. As is usual the US and the west is waiting until the very last moment to decide to fight back. All we can do is pray and do our best to preserve liberty for the future generations.
“Timing “The Great Purge” just before midterms is sinister and cynical. Such abuse of power – how to fight it?”
You starve them. Hit them at the hip (i.e., wallet). They operate for profit, choke off that revenue stream. People who built their online presence using Facebook built castles on sand.
I stopped updating my Facebook page somewhere around 10 years ago. My next step is to pull the plug completely. I feel guilty just knowing that Facebook may have trawled my computer.
Zuckerberg’s hinting at making a run for the presidency should have been sufficient warning to all involved that Facebook was and is a political vehicle. At whatever point, some rich conservative genius is going to construct a Constitutionally Correct platform (complete with video streaming) for genuine Freedom of Speech.
It cannot happen too soon.
I blocked the entire domain. When I happen to click on a link, I get the most satisfying little blue, blinking question mark.
Hungary Revokes Government Funding for Gender Studies
Hungary has revoked funding for gender studies after the government cited concerns about employment opportunities for graduates.
Hungary’s government announced in August that it would no longer fund the Master’s programme which is taught at the biggest state-funded Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and the Central European University (CEU), founded by George Soros.
According to 444.hu, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signed the degree on Friday, the document reading: “139/2015 is expired. (VI.9.) Government Decree No. 115. Line.”
CEU published a statement on its website Tuesday, claiming there was “strong opposition” to the removal of the programme from the country’s list of accredited postgraduate courses.
“This is a major infringement on academic freedom and university autonomy,” they said.
“Gender Studies is an internationally recognized academic field, which produces socially relevant knowledge, and which has been taught at CEU for well over two decades.
“Eliminating this program will be a significant loss to the Hungarian scholarly community and for democratically-minded public policy makers,” they added.
In August, Prime Minister Orbán’s Chief of Staff Gergely Gulyas had said that “The Hungarian government is of the clear view that people are born either men or women.
“They lead their lives the way they think best, but beyond this, the Hungarian state does not wish to spend public funds on education in this area.”
The country’s deputy prime minister, Zsolt Semjen, had rationalised withdrawing funding on grounds that the discipline was “an ideology not a science” and market demand for gender studies graduates was “close to zero”, hence using taxpayer’s cash to fund the course was a waste.
“No-one wants to employ a gender-ologist,” Semjen added.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/17/hungary-revokes-funding-gender-studies-programme/
The New American – Videos
USMCA Promoting UN’s Agenda 21 “Sustainable Development”
Polish Pastor Exposes De-Christianization of the West
New NAFTA/USMCA Threatens American Sovereignty
Polish Pastor Exposes Secret EU Agenda
Polish Pastor Exposes Commies in High Places
etc., etc., etc.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/itemlist/user/15475-tnavideo
Donald Trump’s Doppelgänger
Wojciech – Twitter – October 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/PolishPatriotTM/status/1047135355340828672
“Keith Ellison and Michigan Candidates Top the 2017-18 Islamist Money List”
Middle East Forum – October 5, 2018
https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/keith-ellison-and-michigan-candidates-top-the-2017
“MEF Uncovers Obama-era Scandal; Congress Investigates”
Middle East Forum – October 16, 2018
https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/mef-uncovers-obama-era-scandal-congress-investiga
“The Fate of Empires – Sir John Glubb”
Red Air – Published on May 5, 2018
Enemy pos.
DAILY MAIL – ‘Do this outside; you’re going to get me in trouble’: What Saudi Consul ‘was heard telling hit squad as they cut off journalist’s fingers one by one’, in audio as it’s confirmed Crown Prince’s ‘bodyguard’ IS a suspect
A source claimed to have heard audio of Jamal Khashoggi’s dying moments
Source said that Khashoggi was dismembered while still alive on October 2
According to source Saudi Consul can be heard telling killers to ‘do it outside’
Four men sought in connection with Khashoggi have links to Saudi Crown Prince
One of them has acted as his bodyguard during trips to the US and Europe
Turkey said Tuesday they found ‘certain evidence’ he was killed in the building
Investigators ‘looking into whether his body was dissolved using acid’
A Turkish official also claimed police believe Khashoggi was dismembered
[…]A strongly pro-government Turkish newspaper also published a recounting of the allegedly authentic audio tape, claiming Khashoggi had his fingers cut off one by one, before he was decapitated at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6285357/Jamal-Khashoggi-murder-Saudi-Crown-Princes-bodyguard-murder-suspect.html
BBC – Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance –
Trump Says Jamal Khashoggi Was Not An ‘American Citizen’ In Remarks About Missing Journalist | TIME
Marine Le Pen is again being investigated because she published the picture of her psychiatric expertise’s injunction on Twitter.
On 20 September, Le Pen published on Twitter an injunction from the justice minister that requires her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
According to French justice she needs that evaluation after she published pictures of ISIS victims on her twitter feed to expose the gruesome acts the group commits.
Among other things, she posted a photo of a man being burned alive and of the body of American journalist James Foley with the text “Daesh is THIS”.
“I am being charged for having condemned the horrors of Daesh. In other countries, this would have earned me a medal,” Le Pen then said. She could face three years in jail as well as a €75,000 fine.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/10/french-justice-continues-witch-hunt-on-marine-le-pen/
dehumanizing vs empowering:
https://imgur.com/L20SDD5
At least 19 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a shooting at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea.
An 18-year-old student ran through the technical college in Kerch firing at fellow pupils before killing himself, Russian investigators say.
Officials and witnesses have also spoken of at least one blast caused by an unidentified explosive device.
Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 in a move condemned by many Western powers.
The annexation marked the start of a simmering conflict involving Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine that goes on to this day.
What happened at the college?
Details are still emerging, and there are contradictory reports about the chronology of the attack.
The alleged perpetrator, named Vladislav Roslyakov, is said to have run from room to room as he fired, starting in the area near canteen. He then shot himself dead, Russia’s investigative committee said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45891201
Members of the Young Sweden Democrats are threatened and assaulted in their country and police don’t seem to act accordingly. Many members of the young group connected with the democratically chosen Sweden Democrats consider quitting, newspaper Nyheter Idag reveals.
Since spring, Sweden Democrat Daniel Lönn from Borlänge has been subjected to repeated threats and hatred.
Some of the threats have been reported to the police, but they have closed the cases almost immediately despite the existence of both witnesses and screenshots.
A few weeks ago, Daniel received a note with a threat saying: “SD apologise on FB (Facebook) or 03:00” and a poorly drawn knife.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/10/migrants-threaten-democracy-as-they-beat-up-members-of-swedish-youth-party-members-no-longer-feel-safe/
The Metropolitan Police leader who stayed in his car with the doors locked while a radical Islamic terrorist murdered PC Keith Palmer outside Parliament is in line for a pension 12 times larger than the slain officer’s widow, according to reports.
Sir Craig Mackey was Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during Khalid Masood’s car and knife attack outside the Palace of Westminster, and has been dubbed ‘Commissioner Coward’ by the British press for his decision to watch from behind a locked car door while unarmed PC Keith Palmer was fatally stabbed by the Islamic extremist and then drive away.
The 56-year-old now serves as Deputy Commissioner to controversial Met boss Cressida Dick, but is due to retire in a matter of weeks — and will, according to reports, be in line for a pension worth some £154,000 a year, or around £12,800 each month.
PC Palmer’s grieving widow, meanwhile, is said to be entitled to no more than £12,757 per year.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/15/police-boss-who-hid-during-terror-attack-to-get-pension-12x-bigger-than-murdered-officers-widow/
This has to be seen to be believed: Tucker tries to talk to an NPC
Not an NPC as even they have several stream divides. He was talking to a leftist parrot and a mildly retarded one at that akin to: “4 legs good; 2 legs bad!”
I’ve never had birds that stupid.
Stubborn and crafty, yes.
My mum’s mynah learned to imitate the telephine ringing. I’d run to the phone and the bird would laugh.
Daily dose of enrichment – getting on the bus(or not):
WATCH LIVE AS THE NPC MEME TIDAL WAVE CRUSHES THE AUTHORITARIAN LEFT, PLUS MSNBC OFFICIALLY CALLS FOR TRUMP’S OVERTHROW
https://www.infowars.com/watch-live-as-the-mpc-meme-tidal-wave-crushes-the-authoritarian-left-plus-msnbc-officially-calls-for-trumps-overthrow/?fbclid=IwAR2V5A3cp1DU-a-KlGkKGH_7QJgKOj-3L7M_u2FmSrrHBiyMjl987KDU1_8
(KMSP) – In a sign of how heated the fall campaign has become, two Minnesota Republicans say they were attacked and punched in separate incidents over the weekend.
State Representative Sarah Anderson of Plymouth said she had confronted a man for kicking her campaign sign when he charged at her. First-time candidate Shane Mekeland of Becker said he suffered a concussion after a man punched him in the face at a Benton County restaurant.
Plymouth Police and the Benton County Sheriff said they had opened investigations into the incidents. Both candidates said they were stunned by their assailants.
“The idea that they will physically attack me, that is un-Minnesotan, that is not how we operate, and that’s not how we solve problems in the state,” Anderson said.
https://www.fox9.com/news/two-minnesota-gop-candidates-say-they-were-attacked-punched
Really interesting connection between Avenatti – the creepy porn lawyer – and some very specific Saudis… Long, but worth the read.
https://www.thetrumptimes.com/2018/08/02/who-is-michael-avenatti/
Reminder: SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg believes that it is OK to prostitute 12 year old girls
https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/9oqwbu/reminder_that_supreme_court_justice_ruth_bader/
Citations in the link
Clinton appt.
The damage that fiendish couple have done…boggles…
She is looking bad, real bad she may not live to see another Dem in the White House.
Apparently, ‘Stormy’ is a very popular name for a horse…
https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/9or2aa/you_literally_cannot_write_thisstormy_is_the_16th/
Now that I think about it that is a popular name for a horse.
“Now that I think about it that is a popular name for a horse.”
I presume that appelation includes the horse’s @ss? … Of which there seems to be an over-abundant supply of late—named Stormy or not.
In a major religious split, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the body seen as the spiritual authority of the world’s Orthodox Christians.
The break came after the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recognised the independence of the Ukrainian Church from Moscow.
The row is being described as the greatest Orthodox split since the schism with Catholicism in 1054.
Relations soured after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Many Ukrainians accuse the Russian Church of siding with Russia-backed separatists in the east.
Russia sees Kiev as the historic cradle of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Church now fears losing many of its 12,000 parishes in Ukraine.
Constantinople holds sway over more than 300 million Orthodox Christians across the world. The Russian Orthodox Church is by far the biggest.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45870939
In a major religious split, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the body seen as the spiritual authority of the world’s Orthodox Christians.
While I realize that following the machinations of Orthodox Christianity is like a currency speculator making a particular expertise based upon value conversion for Yap Rai stones, at day’s end there remains an inexorable conclusion:
Modern Christianity, in all of its manifold forms, must seek meaningful unification and not this ongoing fragmentation which merely invites further Islamic oppression and genocide. ALL nations with any sort of historic Judeo–Christian backbone had best begin assembling between them a network of rescue and relocation for our world’s persecuted Christian minorities.
The only alternative to this is bearing mute witness to the ongoing genocide of non-Islamic believers (especially) and sectarian dissenters (for bonus points). It’s an insufferable loss to all of this world’s honorable religious communities.
Remember, I’m an AGNOSTIC. Yet, all the same, I can see the immense harm being done around the globe by Islamic terrorists hell-bent (literally) upon sterilizing this planet’s ‘free marketplace of ideas and beliefs’ until it is a lunar landscape of Koranic and Sharia-based dogma.
This must not be allowed to pass. Even at the risk or toll of losing every last historic vestige of Islam’s legacy (a massive tragedy by any definition). As in, just demolishing Granada’s “The Alhambra” or Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia—yes, I know is began life as a Christian temple—would be permanent crimes against earth’s architectural record. Let’s face it, any mob capable of jackhammering The Alhambra wouldn’t blink at rubbishing the Hagia Sophia. This is just a tiny part of the conundrum involved with finding strong enough minds that aren’t total meatheads.
A ‘free marketplace of ideas and beliefs’ is what took American astronauts to the moon and safely returned them to earth. No other country or group of nations on earth have achieved this this astounding degree of Low Context in its sociocultural currency of exchange.
For those unfamiliar with the hyper-critical role played by sociocultural context, I can only refer you to Sarah Rosenberg’s invaluable essay: “Face – Beyond Intractability“. (Although a bit lengthy, her essay is far from dry [especially considering the subject matter & target audience] and is guaranteed to astound all those who track Islamic jihad). An excerpt:
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“To understand the relevance of face in different cultures, one must learn how to identify low-context and high-context societies and what types of characteristics they each imply, especially in negotiating behavior. It is important to note that many cultures are neither wholly low-context nor high-context, but instead combine the two, and that the context may vary depending on the situation. However, these principles are helpful as a framework for discussion and analysis.
In general, the U.S. and other Western countries are considered low-context societies. This means that verbal communication is most often direct, and that there is very little concern or need for nonverbal cues in order for people to understand each other. Raymond Cohen, a respected researcher on culture and negotiation, explains that at the core of a low-context society is the belief in the freedom of the individual, hence the term “individualistic” societies.
In these societies, individual rights supercede blind duty to one’s family, clan, ethnic group, or nation. People generally try to “say what they mean and mean what they say.” In individualistic societies, “[e]quality is the prevailing ethic in society and politics. Status is acquired, not inherited…” and, more importantly, “…contract, not custom, prescribes the individual’s legal obligation to a given transaction, role or course of action.” In these societies, it is individual, personal guilt that serves as a moral compass. If one commits a social blunder as an adult, in most cases, there is no group shame involved, only personal embarrassment, and (one hopes) a desire to correct the wrong with a sincere apology. Conflicts are seen as a natural part of life; they are simply dealt with and then people move on. In individualistic societies, in theory if not always in practice, people are free to move and associate themselves with any groups they like. In light of all this, the place that face issues hold in low-context cultures is not nearly as important as in collectivistic societies. But when communicating with cultural “others,” it is obviously extremely important to make oneself aware of possible differences beforehand. Face, it turns out, is quite a serious issue in many places.
High-context societies include countries such as Korea, China, and Japan in Asia, Middle-Eastern countries such as Egypt and Iran, and Latin American countries. Sometimes, these cultures are referred to as collectivistic, or interdependent. Very often, these high-context cultures are hierarchical and traditional societies in which the concepts of shame and honor are much more important than they are in low-context societies.
In high-context cultures, group harmony is of utmost importance. People in these cultures dislike direct confrontation, and for the most part avoid expressing a clear “no.” Evasion and inaccuracy are preferred in order to keep appearances pleasant. There is a danger of losing face simply by not reaching an agreement with another person or group, if that was the goal. Being humiliated before the group, or losing face before one’s constituents, can be a fate worse than death in some cases.”
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To continue: The taken-for-granted ability (and freedom) of us Westerners to casually strike up a conversation with some complete-and-total stranger which even may include expression of deeply held personal beliefs or highly technical details regarding career or hobbyist pursuits, highlights this ‘free marketplace of ideas and beliefs’.
Completely contrary to high-context cultures, in a low-context culture, this “institutionalized informality” permits a bare minimum of personal introduction or any elaborately detailed outline of family status or caste position, prior to productive exchange. This has made, still makes, and (left unfettered) will continue to make America the greatest enduring Republic in all human history.
Back on topic: With several centuries worth of a head start, it is not unreasonable to expect that Christianity can find some way to peacefully overcome the sectarian rifts that currently prevent it from truly wholesome unification. Such is not the case elsewhere amongst the supposedly spiritual landscape.
If anybody has the slightest need for a profoundly negative example of the aforenoted ‘sectarian rifts’, there can be no better specimen than Islam. This ideology’s endless internecine slaughter is a ‘tell’* regarding what awaits Western nations who are idiotically stupid enough to invite much less facilitate (Sweden and Germany, anyone?) Muslim infiltration of their shores.
* In poker terminology, a ‘tell’ refers to whatever outwardly observable signs, such as a twitch, touch, toying or twiddling that indicates (especially during bluffing) whether the player in question is holding a winning or losing hand.
Is this Jayme? Witness claims to have spotted missing 13-year-old girl, whose parents were found murdered in their Wisconsin home, 1700 miles away in a Miami gas station with two ‘well-dressed Middle Eastern men’
Jayme Closs was reported missing after her parents were found dead on Monday
Denise, 46, and James Closs, 56, were found dead with gunshot wounds at 1am
Someone reported seeing a girl that looked like Jayme around 2pm on Monday
Girl was with two bearded men in their thirties driving car with Wisconsin plates
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6282083/Missing-13-year-old-girl-Wisconsin-girl-spotted-Miami.html
Tucker Carlson: Having protesters scream at you in a restaurant ‘just wrecks your meal’
by Caitlin Yilek
| October 16, 2018 10:12 AM
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson says he can’t wait for protesters to stop confronting Republicans and Trump administration officials at restaurants so he can dine out again.
“I can’t really go to a lot of restaurants anymore because I get yelled at,” he said on a National Review podcast released Monday. “I don’t feel threatened, but having someone scream, ‘Fuck you!’ at a restaurant, it just wrecks your meal.”
Carlson, who lives in Washington, said he’s still a regular at one unnamed restaurant “because I love it and nobody hassles me.
“I can’t wait for this revolution to end, so I can go back out to dinner,” he said.
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It wont end until they are FORCED to end it
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