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Chaffetz: Some things Comey said under oath were lies
Efforts to blame Trump after New Zealand mosque attacks
“Christchurch Killer: Nation with Closest ‘Values to My Own Is the People’s Republic of China’” by Ben Kew – March 15, 2019
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/15/christchurch-manifesto-values-china/
His stated goal was tot start a civil war in the US so that the US would be destroyed.
New Zealand police say gunman resisted arrest
France: Eiffel Tower goes dark in solidarity with Christchurch victims
New Zealand shooting: Quebec Muslim community reacts to Christchurch attack
New Zealand shooting: Suspect in New Zealand mosque shootings makes court appearance
CBC – New Zealand mosque shootings: A profile of the accused shooter
People lay flowers near Al Noor mosque in Christchurch
Flowers for mosques around the country
Flowers for mosques around the country
At the risk of sounding pathetically cruel: What useful idiots!
Let me know when Muslims are lining up with Teddy bears and candles after the next Bataclan. [spit]
Any time Westerners are simpleminded enough to console Muslims with these moronic Reprisal Memorials™, I hope one or two deplorables will leave some, THANKS FOR THE 9-11 ATROCITY placards there with the grovelers and their wreaths.
Let them guess whether it’s their thanks or ours…
(T = 00:00:04 of NSFW Language)
https://youtu.be/6kPYVEXTELU
London BLOODBATH: Man killed in Fulham HORROR stabbing (express, mar 16, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1100887/london-stabbing-fulham-knife-crime-rates-met-police-injured-hospital-dead-killed
“POLICE have been called after reports of a fatal stabbing in Fulham, London.
The Metropolitan Police were called by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) at 12:27am on Saturday to Gowan Avenue junction with Munster Road SW6, following reports of a fight. A 29-year-old male was found with fatal stab wounds. He was tended to by members of the public before police and the LAS arrived on the scene.
He received further treatment from medical professionals when they arrived but despite their efforts, the man was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:56am.
Officers are currently trying to contact his next of kin.
The Homicide and Major Crime Command have been notified.
A crime scene has been sectioned off and officers are working to establish what took place at the scene.
There have been no arrests at this stage.
The knife crime epidemic currently gripping the UK has prompted Scotland Yard to now use stop-and-search powers to search 1,000 suspects daily…”
“The knife crime epidemic currently gripping the UK has prompted Scotland Yard to now use stop-and-search powers to search 1,000 suspects daily…”
Mostly for being criminally insensitive to Muslims and shemales (an effortless task at worst) but that’s beside the point. What’s really encouraging is how, with GPS tracking on all knives, that whole stabby problem will take care of itself. Right?
Shocking moment two men brandishing hammers attack a moving car near a mosque which left 27-year-old man with head wound (dailymail, mar 16, 2019)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6815683/Shocking-moment-two-men-brandishing-hammers-attack-moving-car-near-mosque.html
“Horrifying footage has emerged showing two thugs smashing up a moving car with ‘a hammer and a baton’ in broad daylight near a mosque in East London today.
The men, described as white and in their 20s, were filmed clinging to the bonnet of the black Ford Fiesta and trying to attack the victim inside as it sped down the road in front of frightened witnesses.
A 27-year-old Asian man was hospitalised with head injuries following the violent assault at lunchtime on the busy street in Whitechapel, Met Police confirmed.
Some witnesses claimed the attackers shouted Islamophobic abuse from a car before getting out and brandishing weapons near the Ashaadibi Centre mosque.
But a spokesman for the force said initial witness accounts ‘didn’t indicate that this was a hate crime’.
Police – who were called to the scene at 1.18pm today – said the victim is yet to give them a full account of the incident…”
“Why We Are Losing to Political Islam”
Political Islam – Published on March 15, 2019
Christchurch Mosque Massacre
Acts17Apologetics – YT Page
https://www.youtube.com/user/Acts17Apologetics/videos
Morrison government bans Milo Yiannopoulos in wake of Christchurch massacre
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-government-bans-milo-yiannopoulos-in-wake-of-christchurch-massacre-20190316-p514ri.html
A typical current western politician: bans the alarm to stop the noise waking people to the danger as it might upset the fire or those lighting it. The really unfortunate thing is that rapist shorten is the only other choice.
Milo Yiannopoulos Rips Australia for ‘Betraying Western Values’ Over Visa Denial (sputniknews, Mar 16, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201903161073299232-milo-yiannopoulos-rips-australia-over-his-visa-refusal/
“Right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos believes that the attack on two Christchurch mosques was provoked by the establishment “pandering” to extremists on the left – a point of view Australia’s immigration authorities deemed to be “appalling” and inciting hatred.
Yiannopoulos has lashed out at Australian officials, who denied him a visa for his comments on the New Zealand mosque shootings.
“[Australian Immigration Minister] Coleman and his [Liberal] party deserve to be annihilated at the next election for their betrayal of such fundamental western values as free speech and for cravenly folding to pressure from the left,” the angry polemicist wrote on Facebook.
The Department of Home Affairs said in a statement on Saturday that his comments are “appalling and foment hatred and division”, despite Yiannopoulos saying that he is “explicitly” against violence.
A gunman killed 49 people with an automatic rifle at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday. In a manifesto published online before the shooting rampage, he called himself a “fascist” who wanted to repel an “invasion” of Muslims, who he said were gradually replacing white people with lower birth rates.
The attacker emblazoned his weapon and ammo with writings of historic figures and people who fought against foreign “invaders” at some point, whether it be a medieval Balkan nobleman who led an uprising against the Ottoman Empire or an Italian neo-Nazi who shot African migrants.
He also mentioned right-wing US commentator Candace Owens as the person who “influenced [him] above all”.
Yiannopoulos, who once famously claimed that all Muslims should be deported to the Middle East, said that the Christchurch tragedy was inspired by the policies pursued by the powers that be.
“Attacks like this happen because the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures,” the former Brietbart editor said.
He also defended Owens, saying that she “had nothing to do with what happened in New Zealand” because people “aren’t radicalised by their own side” — implying that it was the left-wing that provoked the shooter.
Yiannopoulos, who has a strong Australian following, was going to visit the country on a speaking tour, but has had his visa application rejected.
In a letter to the public speaker, the Department of Home Affairs cited violent scenes during his 2017 Melbourne event, when protesters clashed outside the venue.
“Victoria Police issued Mr Yiannopoulos with a bill of $50,000 for the cost of policing his event in Melbourne,” the department said, as quoted by the Guardian, adding that he has since not paid his security bill and may not be allowed into the country.
Officials also indicated that Yiannopoulos may not meet the character requirements, which is part of the visa application.”
Fraser Anning attacked by left winger, who gets a good response back from the Senator and then humiliatingly held down for ages
https://www.facebook.com/1018690331591700/posts/1958798554247535?sfns=mo
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-16/fraser-anning-egged-in-melbourne-while-speaking-to-media/10908650
https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/politics/politician-lashes-out-at-muslims-after-christchurch-shootings-they-are-the-perpetrators/news-story/8e3f11fe73821dc3e65d75432ac76f2e
Queensland Senator Fraser Anning will be censured when Parliament resumes: Scott Morrison
Eliza BerlageAAP
Saturday, 16 March 2019 3:42PM
https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/queensland-senator-fraser-anning-will-be-censured-when-parliament-resumes-scott-morrison-ng-b881137995z
FRASER ANNING: “TODAY IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO FORGET THE COUNTLESS LIVES LOST TO ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACKS”
http://sheikyermami.com/2019/03/fraser-anning-today-is-not-an-excuse-to-forget-the-countless-lives-lost-to-islamic-terrorist-attacks/
Egg smashed on Australian Senator Fraser Anning’s head while speaking to media in Melbourne
Queensland senator Fraser Anning punches teen after being egged while speaking to media in Melbourne.
“Christchurch Shooter Praises Communist China, Condemns Conservatism and Capitalism: Media Call Him a Trump Supporter”
By C. Mitchell Shaw – March 15, 2019
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/31759-christchurch-shooter-praises-communist-china-condemns-conservatism-and-capitalism-media-call-him-a-trump-supporter
“Mass Shooting Killed Dozens at New Zealand’s Christchurch”
The New American Video – March 15, 2019
UK: Tommy Robinson loses harassment case against Cambridgeshire police
As a counter to the “it’s a crime to shed no tears over Christchurch” bandwagon, I wonder how many kufirs have been killed in the name of allah since the death of the 49 and really if any one then cares. I have no idea but I would not be surprised to see the figure bettered within a week or two. Nigeria is a good place in which to start the count but all of the EU will help fill up the number.
Without knowing all the details about the shooter in Christchurch a thought ‘hit me’…
Who is the winner in this media outrage and condemnation?
Who and what do they blame?
Who and what is moving it’s position and influence forward?
Could the ‘winner’ in this attack be somehow the architect of the same?
Hmmmmm….
Police Officer Shot Dead by Militants in Kashmir (sputniknews, Mar 16, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201903161073296940-india-kashmir-police-officer/
“According to NDTV, a Special Police Officer (SPO) was shot dead by terrorists outside her house in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district.
SPO Khushboo Jan was attacked by militants at close range in the district’s Vehil village.
The injured officer was taken to a nearby hospital where she died…”
PARIS IN FLAMES: Tensions in France ERUPT- Riot police fire tear gas at furious protestors (express, mar 16, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1100978/Paris-riots-france-protests-anti-macron-riot-police-yellow-vest-latest
“FRENCH riot police fired tear gas and arrested dozens as they clashed with yellow vest protesters for an 18th straight week of anti-government protests.
Protesters threw smoke bombs and cobblestones at officers near the up-market Champs-Elysees avenue. Fires were started in nearby streets, with at least one car erupting in flames. Protesters pounded the windows of a police van and kicked the side of large trucks, as riot police were forced to retreat.
Police used water cannons and tear gas to try to push back protesters.
A total of 44 protesters have been arrested.
Protesters ransacked Fouquet’s brasserie, a popular eatery amongst politicians and celebrities, overturning chairs and tables and smashing windows.
They also vandalised neighbourhood boutiques, including Hugo Boss and Lacoste…”
Black death OUTBREAK: Deadly plague hits Africa – several dead (express, Mar 16, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1100859/Black-death-outbreak-Plague-spread-congo-uganda-pneumonic-plague-symptoms
“THE BLACK death has broken out in Africa along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Several people have been killed and dozens of others have been exposed to the virus.
The Black death – otherwise known as the bubonic plague – once scourged Europe during the 14th century. Some 30 to 60 percent of the World’s population is thought to have been killed by the vicious disease, which may have been transferred from China by fleas clinging to black rats. The widespread nature of the disease means most people have been protected by ancient immunity, but new strains still arise sometimes in African countries.
Here, little access to antibiotics and comprehensive healthcare has meant the disease is still responsible for deaths.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), several people have died from an outbreak of pneumonic plague – a strain of the ancient disease.
At least five deaths have been recorded by health officials, with dozens of people thought to have come in contact with the virus.
Health officials in Uganda have been praised for their swift response, and WHO is now working with them to tackle further developing cases.
While deaths from the plague have been reported only recently, cases of the pneumonic plague have been reported earlier this month from March 5…”
Black death OUTBREAK: Deadly plague hits Africa
How could this possibly happen in Africa?!? Don’t they already have enough on their hands dealing with:
• Malaria
• HIV/AIDS
• Leprosy
• Ebola
• Cholera
• Smallpox
• Chagas
• Yellow fever
• Meningitis
• Relapsing fever
• Polio
• Measles
• Younameit
What’s with this (latest) outbreak of bubonic plague? Why, it’s almost as if the entire continent is nothing but a big hellish, unsanitary, disease-ridden, impoverished, famine-prone, hyper-corrupt, cannibal-infested, illiterate, bunch of rape-culture savages!
… Looking at things that way, I do suppose it would explain a lot.
“… new strains still arise sometimes in African countries.
Well, knock me down with a feather!
Hubristic Globalism Has Failed
Iran is MAJOR THREAT to Britain – US issues terror warning to UK (express, Mar 16, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1100992/iran-news-terror-threat-sanctions-nuclear-deal-tehran-uk-security-trump
“IRAN remains a considerable terror threat to UK security despite increased sanctions imposed on Tehran, a US counter-terror chief has warned.
Europe as well as Britain is still at risk of an attack with the US calling for a tougher stance on the Middle-eastern nation. Nathan Sales, America’s counter-terrorism coordinator, said the UK was likely target because it is regarded as “fertile ground for its operations”.
He told The Telegraph: “It is unacceptable that Iran would regard the European continent as fertile ground for its campaign of terrorism.”
He added: “If there are no costs, Iran is going to keep at it. So it’s incumbent on us to impose those costs so that we can deter future acts of terrorism.”
Meanwhile, the US was full of praise for the UK for recognising Hezbollah, a Shi’a Islamist political party and militant group based in Lebanon, as a terror organisation rather than a credible political movement…”
WATCH Fraser Anning FIGHT OFF an Attacker
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Australian man is arrested after posting comments about the New Zealand terror attack which led police to seize weapons at his home (dailymail, Mar 16, 2019)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6816253/Australian-man-arrested-posting-comments-New-Zealand-attack-led-police-weapons.html
“A man who allegedly posted comments online about the Christchurch terrorist attack has been arrested after a police raid led to a haul of weapons in his home.
Officers swarmed the man’s northern suburbs home on Friday, where they found a replica firearm, two flick knives, an expandable baton and a crossbow.
The 37-year-old has been charged with possessing a Class H replica firearm, four counts of possessing a prohibited weapon and one count of possessing prescribed equipment, South Australia Police said.
The man’s online comments come after Bryant Tarant, 28, allegedly stormed a mosque in Christchurch and opened fire on defenceless people attending prayers.
Tarrant faced a New Zealand court on Saturday charged with murder a day after his rampage, which saw 49 people dead and more still fighting for life.
The 37-year-old South Australia man has been refused bail and will appear in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court on Monday.”
Sweden: Serious Crimes Committed by Returned ISIS Fighters (breitbart, Mar 16, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/16/sweden-serious-crimes-committed-by-returned-isis-fighters/
“According to a new investigation, one in three returned Islamic State fighters in Sweden have committed serious crimes after coming back from the Middle East.
The investigation, which looked into the activities of 41 Islamic State members who had returned from Syria and Iraq, found that all of those sentences or suspected of crimes, 13 people in total, were men, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
The crimes that the men have been either suspected or of convicted of have included serious offences such as the case of a 31-year-old man who was filmed by his neighbours attacking another man with a pair of scissors last July and is now looking at attempted murder charges.
Other offences include drug-related crimes, fraud, extortion, money laundering, abuse, and some have also found themselves in trouble due to owing taxes.
Gabriel Wernstedt, press secretary at the Swedish Security Police (Säpo), would not comment on specific cases but said they were working together with other authorities.
“The purpose is to protect Sweden and democracy. Within the framework of this mission, we follow a number of crime-active individuals within different extremist groups who have an intention and ability to commit crimes, which could, for example, be related to terrorist offences,” Wernstedt said.
The investigation comes only weeks after it was claimed that Islamic State members living in the heavily-migrant populated city of Malmö had been operating underground mosques and attempting to recruit new extremists.
“The situation here in Rosengård is really bad,” a local mother said.
Around 150 Islamic State fighters have returned to Sweden from the Middle East, but many municipalities have admitted they have no idea where they are.
In Gothenburg and Västra Götaland, for example, dozens of Islamic radicals are believed to have returned to the area, but the municipality only knew of ten adults and eight children who had returned.
With many ISIS radicals still in the Middle East, many of them arrested by Kurdish or Iraqi forces, some have requested to return to Sweden.
While other countries have stripped the citizenship of some ISIS members, Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven ruled out the practice, saying that Swedish citizens could return but they would receive little in the way of consular support to do so.”
British Pakistani charged for Abduction and Rape in Rawalpindi (desiblitz, Mar 16, 2019)
https://www.desiblitz.com/content/british-pakistani-charged-for-abduction-and-rape-in-rawalpindi
Destroying Leftist Racist Symbols of the past does Nothing to Stop Leftist Racism in the Present
Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTeUdJky9rY
“West Virginia Spends $87 Mil. For New MUSLIM Housing”
Hal Turner – Published on March 6, 2019
NYU students confront Chelsea Clinton, say she ‘stoked’ hatred behind New Zealand shootings
tudents blasted Chelsea Clinton at a vigil at New York University for the 49 worshipers massacred at two New Zealand mosques, claiming the former first daughter “stoked” the hatred that fueled the slaughter.
“This right here is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words that you put out into the world,” senior student Leen Dweik chided Clinton Friday night, according to a video posted to social media. “The 49 people died because of the rhetoric you put out there, added Dweik — who was wearing a Bernie Sanders 2020 t-shirt.
“I’m so sorry you feel that way,” Clinton, who is pregnant with her third child, responded, prompting other students to chime in.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/16/nyu-students-confront-chelsea-clinton-say-she-stoked-hatred-behind-new-zealand-shootings/
Yellow vest ‘ultimatum’ rally turns violent in Paris
Paris (AFP) – After weeks of declining participation, France’s “yellow vest” protest movement attempted to rebound on Saturday with a major rally in Paris which quickly turned violent.
A large crowd gathered on the Champs-Elysees avenue for the 18th straight week of anti-government protests which initially rocked President Emmanuel Macron’s administration, forcing him to adopt more anti-poverty measures, but had appeared to fizzle in recent weeks.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who erected barricades near the Champs-Elysees in scenes reminiscent of some of the most tense “yellow vest” rallies.
Saturday’s attempted reboot coincides with the end of two months of public debates called by Macron to take the heat out of the protests, which repeatedly ended in rioting in December and January.
https://news.yahoo.com/yellow-vest-ultimatum-rally-turns-violent-paris-102144009.html
Looting, clashes as Yellow Vests seek new momentum
https://www.france24.com/en/20190316-looting-clashes-mark-most-violent-day-yellow-vest-protests-months
Demonstrators looted stores on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on Saturday, on the 18th week of “yellow vest” protests, characterised by an uptick in violence after dwindling participation in recent weeks.
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A Boss menswear store and the gourmet Fouquet’s restaurant were among the premises vandalised as groups of masked protesters lobbed stones at police defending the Arc de Triomphe war memorial.
The police responded with teargas and water cannon but failed to disperse the more radical protesters who erected burning barricades in scenes reminiscent of the worst “yellow vest” riots in the capital in December.
Violence returns as France’s yellow vest protests enter fourth month
PARIS (Reuters) – Protesters set fire to a bank and ransacked stores on Paris’ landmark shopping street in a new flare-up of violence as France’s yellow vest demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron and his pro-business reforms entered their fourth month.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons as the protests turned violent again after weeks of relative calm during marches and declining numbers of participants.
https://www.oann.com/fresh-clashes-as-frances-yellow-vests-seek-new-momentum/
Bernie Sanders proudly announces his campaign will be unionized: What could go wrong?
By Howard Portnoy March 16, 2019
How pro-union is presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders? So much so that on Friday, he announced that his 2020 campaign staff was unionizing with his approval.
The announcement came in a tweet, in which the self-declared socialist wrote:
According to the HuffPost, the staffers decided to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400. As the name implies, the union primarily represents food and retail service workers, but it also represents employees of Solidarity Strategies, a far-left consulting firm headed by Chuck Rocha, who served as Sanders’s senior advisor on both his 2016 run for the Democratic nomination.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/03/16/bernie-sanders-proudly-announces-his-campaign-will-be-unionized-what-could-go-wrong/
Bernie Sanders proudly announces his campaign will be unionized: What could go wrong?
[scene: Sanders’ Presidential HQ]
[time – 23:58:00 – 11-02-2020]
Secretary: Head of your campaign union, to see you Mr. Sanders.
Bernie: Tell him to please come back later. Can’t everyone see that tomorrow’s Election Day?
Secretary: It’s not a “him”, sir. And ze says it’s very important.
Bernie: Oh, all right. Show ze in.
Campaign Manager: Mister Sanders, fellow member workers wanted to know if its true that you have not expressed prior support for key unions.
Bernie: Whaaa?!? I’m the only candidate with a Union team! What’s the problem?
Campaign Manager: We’ve noticed that it’s in name only, if you will.
Bernie: What’s that supposed to mean?!?
Campaign Manager: The posters say “Sanders”, but what about all the floor sanders? The road sanders? The cabinet sanders? What about all the orbital sanders? The drum sanders? The belt sanders? You haven’t lifted a finger for any of them! Who do you think labors at the seashore three-shift workweeks to put the sand in your sandwich?
Bernie: Well, I hadn’t thought of that. But … but … but, They’re not even 0.001% of the vote!
Campaign Manager: Precisely. You haven’t been thinking about our rank and file and I’m here to change that!
Bernie: Look. I’m really busy right now. Can’t this wait until they’re counting votes tomorrow?
Campaign Manager: I’m afraid not. We’re getting concerned grievance letters from Hawaii.
Bernie: Hawaii!?! But that state was in the bag before I even announced my 2020 run!
Campaign Manager: That doesn’t enter into it. I’ve got to think about the fluid gender hula dancers who are experiencing crisis-level panic attacks at VIP luaus and checking into emergency rooms all across the Big Island because no one can produce the certificates of origin needed to prove that my bearded hoolie-hoolies are wiggling around on Union Shop sand.
Bernie: But … but, it washes up out of the sea!
Campaign Manager: Precisely! This means my transitional apprentice terpsichores have no way of knowing whether they’re performing on genuine, shop-inspected Hawaiian sand or some cheap job-stealing import from the Mainland. Why, they’re so overwrought by this that they can’t even tell their k’oas from their u’ehes.
Bernie: Whaaaa?!?
Campaign Manager: Then there’s these grass skirts…
Bernie: Grass skirts? Grass skirts?!? What do grass hula skirts have to do with anything!
Campaign Manager: There’s no labels of origin on them, no union tags. How can anyone be sure that they’re made out of sun-grown, free range, organic da kine from the Islands and not some cheap warehouse aquaponic farm-busting knockoff Cali sinse?!?
Bernie: Gee, I dunno. Smoke one? … Look, I realize that this is keeping your reassigned rump wranglers awake during the long winter nights but we’ve got a campaign to run here.
Campaign Manager: All I know is that my rank and file are getting ready for a walkout.
Bernie: A walkout?!? Why … It’s almost midnight and tomorrow’s the First Tuesday! There isn’t time to negotiate about this. You can’t possibly call a general strike right now. There’d be picket lines in front of all the polling stations. Trump would win by a landslide…
Campaign Manager: Precisely…
Is Chief Justice John Roberts tacking left?
By Daily Caller News Foundation March 16, 2019
Chief Justice John Roberts has made common cause with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc as late, breaking with his conservative colleagues on cases relating to abortion, the death penalty, and President Donald Trump’s revised rules for asylum seekers.
Whether Roberts’s recent maneuvers reflect a substantive change in his approach to cases remains to be seen. In isolation, it’s difficult to know what to make of the chief’s votes.
That he is parting with his conservative legal views seems unlikely. This, after all, is a jurist who voted to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and strike down limits on firearms possession, corporate campaign expenditures. and all manner of race-conscious programs. Yet his recent moves are all the more interesting for that very reason.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/03/16/is-chief-justice-john-roberts-tacking-left/
Good old fashioned bribery/blackmail no longer occurs in the USA?
Maryland legislators pass $15 minimum wage
By Hans Bader March 15, 2019
Nothing is as powerful as a bad idea whose time has come. 72 percent of economists say that a $15 minimum wage is a bad idea. But Maryland’s legislature has passed an increase in the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2025, on a largely party-line vote. The legislature is mostly comprised of progressive Democrats, who have adopted the $15 minimum wage as a political litmus test. So the increase passed by a veto-proof two-to-one margin. Maryland law only requires a three-fifths vote to override a governor’s veto. It remains to be seen whether Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, will veto it and try to get legislators to change their mind.
It is crazy to set the minimum wage higher than the current average wage. But that is what a $15 minimum wage would do in some areas in Maryland with low living costs and low wages to match. $15 per hour is more than the average worker is paid in rural Somerset County, Maryland. Democrats argued $15 per hour is needed for a “living wage,” but this is untrue, because a family with two $12 per hour wage earners can readily support themselves, and their children to boot, in Somerset County.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/03/15/maryland-legislators-pass-15-minimum-wage/
New Zealand terror followed coddling of murderers
By Hans Bader March 15, 2019
Terrorists in New Zealand have massacred 49 people in attacks on mosques. None of the killers will ever face the death penalty, which does not exist in New Zealand. Forty more people were wounded in the attacks, so the death toll may rise. These vicious murderers may spend less than a year in jail for every life they took through this cold-blooded act of premeditated terror.
One of the suspects reportedly had contact with Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. Breivik killed 77 people, most of them at a youth camp, in 2011.
Breivik’s coddled existence makes him a living inspiration for other mass murderers. Instead of executing Breivik, Norway allows him to live in comfort, at taxpayer expense. Breivik’s prison cell in Norway has three rooms, “one for living, one for studying, and a third for physical exercise — as well as a television, a computer without internet access and a game console. He is able to prepare his own food and do his own laundry.”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/03/15/new-zealand-terror-followed-coddling-of-murderers/
“Breivik killed 77 people, most of them at a youth camp, in 2011.”
What a splendid example of The Narrative™.
It’s doubtful that any of this site’s habitués have much difficulty recalling how Fjordman was crucified on Breivik’s cross—to the point of effectively being doxxed.
If not for citizen journalists there is no doubt it would never have come to light that the “youth camp” mentioned was a hardcore pro-“Palestinian” indoctrination center.
From: Summer Camp? Antisemitic Indoctrination Training Center
FULL DISCLOSURE: — Pamela Geller is not usually a primary source but, to her lasting credit, she shone disinfecting sunlight on this journalistic abortion when others were staying in the shade. —
Excerpts
… the jihad-loving media never told us what antisemitic war games they were playing on that island. Utoya Island is a Communist/Socialist campground, and they clearly had a pro-Islamic agenda.
Only the malevolent media could use the euphemism summer camp and get away with it…
… Labour Youth League summer camp at Utøya got the Labour Party’s young hopefuls a visit by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
The Palestinians “must have their own state, the occupation must end, the wall must be demolished and it must happen now,” said the Norwegian Foreign Minister to cheers from the audience.
The main activity at the Utoya Island meeting were mock “Break the Israel blockade” games. One event was Palestinian aide boats would try to break the Israel blockage.The sign says “defeat the blockade” (opphev blokkaden – Gaza)
Utoya camp was not Islamist but it WAS something not much more wholesome (by our standards, at any rate).
It was a summer indoctrination camp run by Norway’s ruling Labor Party for up-and-coming children of the ruling elite.
Glen Beck was not far off when he compared it to the Hitlerjugend or Young Pioneers.
It’s so the junior members of the aristocracy can be properly told what to think and can network with each other in preparation for their brilliant careers ruling over the peasants.
I saw at least one article that had photos of previous summers with the little dearies and their handlers assembling Israel-bashing displays…
… The camp was run by the Youth Movement of the Labour Party and used to indoctrinate teens and young adults.
Breivik was targeting the future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives, including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole… all done without the consent of the Norwegians…
… Sevje [Norwegian ambassador to Israel] is quoted: … “We Norwegians view the occupation as the reason for terror against Israel. Many Norwegians still see the occupation as the reason for attacks against Israel. Whoever thinks this way, will not change his mind as a result of the attack in Oslo.”
NR: Ignoring these facts is the same evil as condoning Breivik’s actions. What happened in Christchurch has the EXACT SAME FRAME and the MSM will spare no effort to, once again, strangle this story in the cradle.
Here is an apocryphal tale of just how twisted Utoya’s nest of vipers had become. Supposedly, several of the camp participant victims were unsure of how to react about the shooting because some had been convinced that they were in a simulation of what it’s like to live in Gaza.
Instead, already there has appeared a news lede at Goeble headlining the NZ shooter’s contact with Breivik—sporting a thumbnail of Anders giving the Nazi salute.
Breathtaking levels of terminal hypocrisy and toxic cognitive dissonance are required to smear these retaliations against jihad as Hitlerian when Muslims adore the Austrian Corporal like no other Infidel.
Orwell
New Zealand: Top Muslim police officer pledges to do ‘everything we possibly can’ to ensure safety
New Zealand’s highest-ranking Muslim police officer, New Zealand Police Superintendent Naila Hassan offered her condolences on Saturday and assured the public that New Zealand police was doing “everything we possibly can” to ensure public safety in the wake of Friday’s mosque shootings in Christchurch.
“As a Muslim and as a leader in the New Zealand police I am horrified about the events that unfolded in Christchurch yesterday. I know this is a very distressing time for our brothers and sisters, but also for our wider community in Christchurch. I assure you we are doing everything we can,” Hassan said.
Hassan went on to say that “police in Christchurch are working alongside our Muslim leaders, and extra staff have travelled down in the past day to provide support and ensure our cultural considerations are taken into account in regards to our Muslim faith. I reassure you, the New Zealand police is doing everything we possibly can to ensure people’s safety.”
Hassan then added that an extra police presence has been placed outside New Zealand mosques and Islamic centres as a precaution.
Iran Inches Closer to its Goal: “Wipe Israel off the Map”
by Majid Rafizadeh
March 16, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13893/iran-wipe-israel-off-map
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/the-week-in-pictures-varsity-blues-edition.php
A must if you need a laugh..far too many to copy/paste even if I knew how.
europravda -Meet Abdul Aziz, the Christchurch hero who chased the attacker away
Abdul Aziz, 48, didn’t run or hide when the Christchurch shooter approached the Linwood mosque where he was praying with his sons. Instead, he went out and faced him
Trump Administration Approves Sale of F-16s to Taiwan
Jet export reverses Obama, Bush appeasement of China
The Trump administration has approved the sale of dozens of new F-16 jet fighters to Taiwan, the first major warplane sale to the island state in nearly 30 years.
The interagency decision, to be announced in the near future, authorized the sale of up to 66 F-16V jet fighters at an estimated cost of $13 billion, according to administration officials familiar with internal discussions.
The jets are among several new weapons systems, including missiles, that are part of the administration’s latest arms sale to Taiwan, a key U.S. partner in the Asia Pacific region.
The jet sale reverses the Obama administration rejection of Taiwan’s request for the same number of F-15C/D jets over fears of upsetting China. The George W. Bush administration also blocked F-16 sales in 2007, amid worries about triggering a backlash from Beijing.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-administration-approves-sale-of-f-16s-to-taiwan/
Iran Inches Closer to its Goal: “Wipe Israel off the Map”
by Majid Rafizadeh
March 16, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13893/iran-wipe-israel-off-map
Iran’s military activities and clear public threats to annihilate Israel continue to grow in frequency and intensity. These moves not only instill fear, as they are doubtless meant to do; they also threaten to disrupt the international community. With such dire promises of conflict, it would be expected that the international news media and politicians throughout the world would have something to say about this situation. Instead, Iran’s continued abusive behavior continues to be cozied up to at worst, or at best, ignored.
One of the core pillars and revolutionary ideals of the Islamic Republic is destroying the Jewish state. It is also one of the religious prophecies of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and his successor, the current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Israel will be eventually erased from the face of the earth. As Iran’s theocratic establishment believes that the Supreme Leader is Allah’s representative on earth, whatever words or desires the Supreme Leader utters are considered wishes, which must be brought to life by Allah’s true believers.
While they progress toward destroying Israel, not only do Iranian leaders believe that they are inching closer to fulfilling a religious prophecy, they also see that they are gaining strategic and geopolitical victories — in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip. The Deputy Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, recently threatened on Iran’s Channel 2 TV that Israel is “vulnerable and bringing itself closer to death”.
Salami recently made it vehemently clear the strategy of the Iranian government, stating:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13893/iran-wipe-israel-off-map
“The Deputy Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, recently threatened on Iran’s Channel 2 TV that Israel is “vulnerable and bringing itself closer to death”.”
Hossein Salami?!? Sounds a little too halal for the Denominazione Origine Protetta di Lardellato a Monti Sibillini.
‘Eggboy’ cracks an egg over Australian senator after he blames Muslims for New Zealand attack (abcnews, Mar 16, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/eggboy-teen-cracks-egg-anti-muslim-australian-lawmakers/story?id=61730581
A Critical Message from Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/just-war-vs-just-plain-old-jihad/
Interesting distinctions are clarified in this short piece.
Turkey: Protesters Want Hagia Sophia Turned Into Mosque in Response to Christchurch Attack (breitbart, Mar 16, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/16/turkey-protesters-want-hagia-sophia-turned-into-mosque-in-response-to-christchurch-attack/
“A few hundred demonstrators have protested the New Zealand mosque shootings outside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia – a Byzantine-era cathedral that was turned into a mosque and now serves as a museum.
The demonstrators – mostly members of Islamic civil society groups – on Saturday called for the symbolic edifice to be reconverted into a mosque. The demand was in response to a taunt by the gunman in Friday’s shooting rampage in a 74-page manifesto in which he reportedly said “Hagia Sophia will be free of minarets.”
The former Byzantine cathedral was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, now Istanbul, in 1453. Turkey’s secular founder turned the structure into a museum in 1935 that attracts millions of tourists each year.
There have been, however, increasing calls for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to convert the structure back into a mosque.”
“Hagia Sophia will be free of minarets.”
Brenton Tarrant’s likely more right than he can imagine. As with so much about Islam, regardless of which option is selected, the outcome remains unaffected.
Stop fighting and agree to hudna? Down down the road, more fighting will happen at a time not of your own choosing. Fight or hudna? Same outcome. ENDLESS WAR.
So things go with the Hagia Sophia. There is ZERO latitude as to whether or not this now-desecrated architectural masterpiece “will be free of minarets”. However clichéd the rejoinder, ‘It’s only a matter of when.‘
“Hagia Sophia will be free of minarets”, is an outcome that Islam guarantees with its very lifeblood, and will pay with it, too.
The Koran forbids otherwise and ever since ijtihad (i.e., self-interpretation) was
exterminatedconsensually rejected in favor of taqlid (i.e., blind obedience), devout Muslims have been murdering their own less-pious or conciliatory cobelievers for the blasphemy of advocating peaceful coexistence (or just because they feel like it).Same outcome, no matter what. ENDLESS WAR.
The oceans could be drained to ink an infinity of Oslo Accords and it would be the same outcome, no matter what.
More genocide, more jihad, more sharia, more intramural festivities, more building of nuclear weapons, more devastating atrocities, more certainty of Islam’s extinction. An annihilation that will be wrought by its own hand if we continue to be mooncalves about the West’s survival.
Whether through loving rehabilitation back to its Christian splendor or simply because of nuclear obliteration, “Hagia Sophia will be free of minarets”. Guaranteed.
A billion Muslims wouldn’t have it any other way.
“New Zealand Mass Murderer Visited Pakistan Last Year – Called it ‘Incredible Place Filled With the Most Kind-Hearted, Hospitable People in the World'”
by Jim Hoft – March 16, 2019
Excerpt:
The mosques that he targeted in New Zealand were Bangladeshi mosques. It is well known that Pakistan and Bangladesh are two Muslim nations that do not get along. The DailyTimes reported in 2016:
But if we look at foreign relations of Pakistan and Bangladesh of the past few years, it seems that they have worsened. Both states have also withdrawn their diplomatic missions and Pakistan also avoided attending the SAARC Sanitation Conference, which was held in Dhaka this year. The bilateral trade of Pakistan and Bangladesh is also not very significant. Statistics show that Pakistan’s export to Bangladesh in 2014 have been of $684 million and Pakistan import value remained $54.8 million.
The Government of Pakistan has never tried to thaw relations with Bangladesh. No significant action from diplomats or state officials has been taken to improve the relationship, while India has taken advantage of this situation and improved its ties with Bangladesh on all levels. Mutual cooperation is the reason why India and Bangladesh’s economies are the leading economies of the South Asian region. Pakistan, on the other hand, has lagged behind due to its sour relations with regional states. If this situation keeps on going, Pakistan would suffer.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/new-zealand-mass-murderer-visited-pakistan-last-year-called-it-incredible-place-filled-with-the-most-kind-hearted-hospitable-people-in-the-world/
“The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!” President Donald J. Trump – January 1, 2019 – Twitter
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/947802588174577664
Seriously would you say otherwise in a muslim country that you were currently visiting or residing? I learnt the lesson very quickly: shut your mouth and occasionally your eyes/ears.
channel 4 – New Zealand suspect emailed PM Ardern minutes before attack
It’s emerged that the suspect in the Christchurch mosque shootings emailed his far-right ‘manifesto’ to New Zealand’s Prime Minister less than ten minutes before the attack.
Jacinda Ardern said, however, that nothing in the message could have helped stop the killings.
She’s promised to change the country’s gun laws in response to the terror attack – as questions continue to be asked as to why the gunman was not known to the authorities.
CBC – A former white supremacist reacts to New Zealand shootings
Frank Meeink describes himself as a former white supremacist. He says far-right extremism is on the rise and social media has played a role.
CNN – Why a former hate group member started to think differently
CBC – New Zealand mosque shootings: Vigils mourn victims worldwide
CityNews Toronto -Toronto vigil honors victims of New Zealand mosque shootings
“Jewish Activists Stage Sit-In at Nancy Pelosi’s Office”
One America News Network – Published on March 16, 2019