Contributor’s links for Aug. 15, 2019

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

70 Replies to “Contributor’s links for Aug. 15, 2019”

  1. The rise of ‘Far Right Terrorism’ targeting muslims from an ex-muslim perspective
    https://youtu.be/VPWnPvrJsZk

    Freedom of Religion is simply saying freedom of thought.
    And Freedom of Speech is the right to freedom of expression of such thoughts.

    Now, Religions like islam, Socialism and LGBTQ+ go beyond this. First they make themselves victims of Hate Speech. (Without this, their whole premis falls down). Then they demand protective privileges for their advancement from being shunned. And then they dictate their pronouns to be used above everyone elses.

    A schooled-child born under this intimidation in a broken host culture; means submission, capitulation and surrender can occur all at once. It’s like a Born Again revelation that stopped all the anxiety at once, by letting everything in, to receive the blueprint of these modern-day gods, so that they and the world become one. A Perfect Peace. God is Love. So of course, Islam, Socialism and LGBTQ+ are love!

    Muhammadans, Communists and Pederasts-Pedophiles are merely making mistakes on their way to the true path. Because their Dear Leader will come. After the Armageddon of Negligence.

    However, when a White Supremacist rises doing exactly these same three things: Religion, State and Sex, (the Race, Territory and Copulation rights of all animals), they are seen as the problem, and not the reaction to, these superior cults. To become just like them. And now the non-preferred Nazis have returned.

    Rather than cream rise to the top, only scum rises. White supremacists do not come out of a vacuum. It is when they are forced to be inferior. To defer to positive discrimination.

    This argument for equality, and not identify the loaded dice that caused it’s loss, I felt missed.

    • Hope Not Hate.
      The Hope you will see
      There’s no Pearly Gate.
      No whores for slaying
      No virtue for praying
      And Hate is replaced by debate.

  3. German Judge Attacks Salvini for Mocking Photo of Open Borders NGO Activist (breitbart, Aug 15, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/15/german-judge-attacks-salvini-for-mocking-photo-of-open-borders-ngo-activist/

    “A judge in Germany has ordered populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini to remove a photograph of a pro-migration NGO activist or face a hefty fine.

    The photo of Sören Moje, a member of the crew of a ship belonging to the NGO Mission Lifeline, was published on Twitter by Salvini last year after the group had labelled Salvini a “fascist”, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.

    “This gentleman is in the crew of the ship of the German NGO that, waiting to load immigrants, calls me the ‘fascist’ … Reassuringly I would say!” Salvini said.

    The photo was taken by journalist Friedhold Ulonska before it was then published on the Mission Lifeline website and then published on Twitter by Salvini.

    The judge in the case has ordered Salvini to delete the tweet and the picture stating that the Italian League leader had violated the copyright of the image owner. If he does not remove the image, Salvini could face a fine of up to 250,000 euros and even a potential prison term of up to six months.

    “Matteo Salvini uses photographic material of rescue missions at sea, images taken by me, as a tool of his incitement against us,” Friedhold Ulonska, who brought the complaint, said.

    “He didn’t ask me if he was allowed. Like everyone else, Matteo Salvini must respect the law. If he does not do so, as in this case, we should like to remind him of the limits of his actions with all constitutional means,” he added.

    Mission Lifeline are no strangers to controversy themselves, having called on German citizens to marry illegal migrants and asylum seekers in order to help them remain in Europe earlier this year.

    “You’re not married yet? Maybe you could fall in love with someone who doesn’t have the right to stay here? Could happen, right? Stay open,” the group said on Twitter.

    In 2017, the Saxony prosecutor’s office also announced the NGO was under investigation for people-trafficking.”

  4. Berlin police investigating attack on rabbi, 2nd in 2 weeks (abcnews, Aug 15, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/berlin-police-investigating-attack-rabbi-2nd-weeks-64987508

    “Berlin police are investigating an attack on a rabbi, the second in as many weeks in the German capital.

    Police said Thursday the victim, identifiable as Jewish by his attire, was pushed to the ground by two unidentified suspects while walking in the Charlottenburg neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. They say he was treated in a hospital for pain in his leg and head.

    They didn’t identify the victim, but the daily Bild gave his name as Jan Aaron Hammel. The rabbi told Bild the men insulted him in Arabic before assaulting him.

    Two weeks ago, another rabbi reported being spat upon and cursed at in Arabic by two men in a building in the same general neighborhood as he walked by.

    Both attacks are being investigated as hate crimes.”

  5. Pakistan observes ‘Black Day’ over Kashmir with march by militant group (reuters, Aug 15, 2019)
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-kashmir/pakistan-observes-black-day-over-kashmir-with-march-by-militant-group-idUSKCN1V50NU

    “Pakistan observed a ‘Black Day’ on Thursday to coincide with India’s Independence Day celebrations, as one of the main militant groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir led a protest through Pakistan’s part of the disputed region…”

  6. Germany: A hotbed for Salafists thanks to the ignorance of the authorities?+++
    Salafism can grow particularly well where the authorities look away for years. This applies not only to the Salafist stronghold of North Rhine-Westphalia, but also to Rhineland-Palatinate, where, according to media reports, the Al-Nur daycare center in Mainz was closed in spring after a long legal dispute. Now there is a second serious suspected case. A mosque association looking after children from Mainz and Wiesbaden is said to have propagated Salafist messages on its Facebook page.According to information from AfD party Rhineland-Palatinate, the Islamic-Afghan Cultural Association, which runs the Masjid-al-Ikhlas Mosque in Mainz district of Hechtsheim, promoted a lecture by Salafist preacher Amen Dali, who even appeared in the mosque.In addition, a board member of the association is said to have published posts by the Berlin Salafist Abul Baara on his private Facebook page.Joachim Paul, deputy chairman and education policy spokesman of the AfD parliamentary group in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, said: “After the closure of the Al-Nur-Kita, there is now a renewed suspicion of Salafism in Mainz. That should give us food for thought. If radical Salafists look after children for years, the scene is obviously not sufficiently monitored. Often the process of radicalization begins in childhood. Such developments must be decisively counteracted. The Al-Nur case has shown where years of systematic ignoring of the authorities lead.”The case of the Al-Nur-Kita in downtown Mainz had caused a nationwide media response. The owner of the sole Muslim day care center in the state, the mosque association Arab Nil Rhein, was accused of representing the contents of the Muslim Brotherhood and of no longer being in accordance with the Basic Law.
    More:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/08/germany-hotbed-for-salafists-thanks-to.html

  12. Experts say knifeman behind Sydney rampage was not a terrorist

    The knifeman behind yesterday’s stabbing rampage had a USB full of terror propaganda, but he wasn’t a terrorist, experts say.

    The knifeman behind yesterday’s stabbing rampage had a USB full of terror propaganda, but he wasn’t a terrorist, experts say.

    Mert Ney, 20, ran through the streets of the Sydney CBD yesterday afternoon wearing a balaclava and brandishing a knife after allegedly slashing the throat of a sex worker near Wynyard station.

    He was apprehended by good Samaritans after earlier escaping from a mental health facility.

    Ney, who has a long history of mental illness, spent Tuesday night under police guard at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick. He is yet to be charged but is facing murder charges as well as potential terrorism charges.

    But police and experts say while the attack has all the hallmarks of terrorism, and the offender was carrying a thumb drive with terror propaganda, the offender is likely not a terrorist.

    Deakin University terrorism expert Professor Greg Barton says he can see why people “jump to conclusions”.

    “Yeah, it’s an understandable response and the fact that we have video of him yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’,” he told the Today show.

    “People jump to that conclusion. But the people who very bravely responded were quick to point out they weren’t jumping to that conclusion, and it does look much more like a mental health come drugs problem come unhappy messed-up life, sad loner rather than somebody who was motivated by extremist ideas. The police will check it out very thoroughly.”

    “What we appear to have is someone attempting suicide by police and they wanted to go out by a blaze of glory,” Prof Barton said.

    “Apparently, there was reference to the Christchurch attack and other attacks, he may have been inspired to do something by what happened there.

    “That doesn’t mean that he internalised those ideas.”

    NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller described Ney as a “lone actor” and said early inquiries found he may have held some concerning ideologies, but the incident was not terror related.

    “Information was found on him that would suggest he had some ideologies related to terrorism, but he has no links to terrorism … he has no apparent links to terror organisations,” he said.

    People who grew up with the alleged killer say he did not have many friends.

    Reen Elomari, who went to school with Ney, told the Mail Online he kept to himself.

    “He was not much of a talker. He always used to walk fast, not many friends, never used to say anything,” he said.

    Police are today going through the former Blacktown Boys High School student’s home to search for evidence the crime spree may have been planned. The house in Marayong is sealed off by police tape.

    It comes as more information emerges about the 20-year-old’s struggles with mental health and drugs.

    Ney was just last week admitted to Blacktown Hospital suffering from a suspected drug overdose, The Daily Telegraph reports.

    Anxiety medication was found on the ground near where the suspect was arrested.

    https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/experts-say-knifeman-behind-sydney-rampage-was-not-a-terrorist/news-story/345bf3e88983094c938805e336104b71

  15. How Fake News Is Used to Undermine Trump & Divide America—Accuracy In Media’s Carrie Sheffield

  16. Huh? California Gov Newsom: ‘Vast majority’ of homeless in San Francisco are from Texas
    By J.E. Dyer August 15, 2019

    California’s Governor Gavin Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco (2004-2011) before he became lieutenant governor. So it’s reader’s choice whether to see him as especially expert on this subject, or as especially motivated to make claims about it that reek of political theme-placing.

    Whichever way you prefer to see it, the conservative fact-checking site Politifact California took it on this week, after the Los Angeles Times picked up on Newsom’s claim, from an Axios on HBO interview he did in June 2019. (The video is not posted online, but a promo clip can be viewed here. Newsom is seen making another drive-by allusion to “toxic masculinity,” like the one LU caught for you in our Web Crawler headlines on Wednesday.)

    Politifact California summarizes the governor’s point:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/08/15/huh-california-gov-newsom-vast-majority-of-homeless-in-san-francisco-are-from-texas/

  17. “VLAD TEPES
    This is a Canadian based counter-jihad blog site, named after Vlad the Impaler (aka Vlad III Dracula, 1431-1476), a folk hero of the Romanians, who campaigned against the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.

    It promotes the writings of Fjordman and attacks Islam, comparing it to Nazism and Communism.

    The website regularly produces English subtitles for foreign language videos or foreign subtitles for English language videos of counter-jihad speeches and other relevant material that is then posted on the Vlad Tepes blog YouTube page. The videos are often then posted on the Gates of Vienna blog. This service makes Vlad Tepes an important site in disseminating material around the international counter-jihad scene.”
    https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/research/islamophobia-hub/profiles/the-ideas-engine/blogs-websites-magazines-forums/#20

    Faint praise indeed.

    A bit wooly about the ‘Britons, who campaigned against the expansion of the German Empire.’

    But spot on it …”attacks [criticizes and deconstructs] Islam, comparing it to [the totalitarianism of] Nazism and Communism.”

  23. Khan’s London: Man Stabbed in Face Outside Govt Department Responsible for Law and Order (breitbart, Aug 15, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/15/man-stabbed-face-govt-department-responsible-law-order/

    “A man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a stabbing outside of the Home Office on Thursday.

    Armed police were called to Marsham Street outside the Home Office building to a report of a man with a knife at around 1 p.m., with Metropolitan Police Service firearms officers attending shortly thereafter.

    Police found a man in his 60s suffering from knife injuries, which the London Evening Standard reported were to his face, with the victim being taken to hospital.

    A statement from Scotland Yard confirmed officers detained a 29-year-old man, near to the scene at Smith Square who was arrested on suspicion of GBH and possession of CS spray.

    “Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances of the incident. We are keeping an open mind about any possible motive at this early stage,” the Met said in its statement…”

  24. Haftar Army Targeted Turkish Drones When Attacking Zuwara Airport Thursday – Spokesman (sputniknews, Aug 15, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201908151076559255-haftar-army-targeted-turkish-drones-when-attacking-zuwara-airport-thursday/

    “Airstrikes on Libya’s Zuwara International Airport that were carried out by the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, were aimed at Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles, LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari said in a statement obtained by Sputnik.

    “Having collected information about the movement of the Turkish drones, it became apparent to us that they were using two hangars inside the Zuwara airport,” Mismari said.

    Mismari confirmed that earlier on Thursday, “Libyan air force planes hit two hangars” located inside the airport and completely destroyed them.

    The statement came after the Libya A-Ahrar TV channel reported that LNA planes had attacked the Zuwara airport, located close to the border with Tunisia.

    Tensions between Ankara and eastern Libyan forces escalated in late-June when the LNA said its air defences had shot down a Turkish-made drone launched by the UN-backed GNA near Tripoli.

    At a press conference in Benghazi, the LNA spokesman, Ahmed Mismari, said that Turkish drones had been used in the recent GNA operation to recapture the strategic city of Garyan to the south of Tripoli from the LNA.

    In April, the LNA launched an offensive to retake Tripoli from forces loyal to the GNA. The LNA has already taken under its control a number of settlements on its way to the capital, including the Tripoli International Airport.”

  25. ***COLORADO SCHOOLS BEING DESTROYED BY RADICAL SEX ED
    video – 14 minutes 1 seconds
    Dr Duke Pesta sits down with Sherronna Bishop to discuss how Colorado schools are now indoctrinating students with a radical sex education agenda in pre-K through high school.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wGaKfFUrpc&feature=youtu.be

    ***NO OPT-OUT ALLOWED: THE CALIFORNIA SEX ED INDOCTRINATION
    video – 31 minutes 31 seconds
    This is a video that exposes what is happening in public schools. It contains under cover videos of Cardea Services and the ACLU training school districts how to cut parents out of their children’s lives. Hosted by radio show personality Don Dix, and Pastor Tim Thompson of 412 Church in Murrieta. They tell the story of the local battle to keep radical LGBTQ curriculums from being mandatory learning for children as young as 4 years old —and the massive backlash they received. Undercover footage of an actual meeting in California tells EXACTLY what the ACLU and radical LGBTQ groups intend to teach your children, and have already passed into law. This film will outrage you if you believe that parents should have the right to opt their children out of controversial classes taught in publicly funded schools.

  26. SCHOOLS PROMOTE TERRORISM
    video – 5 minutes 21 seconds
    In this video I talk about a PBS curriculum that is being promoted across this country that asks students to empathize with convicted terrorists. I talk about the numerous problems with this curriculum both in terms of the ideology & it’s one sided nature.

  27. GERMANY’S GLOBAL POLICY ASPIRATION
    BERLIN/TEHRAN(Own report) – German military experts have presented their first concrete plans for an EU naval operation in the Persian Gulf. According to the draft of two well connected government advisors and a Bundeswehr professor, warships should be cruising at the two entrances to the Strait of Hormuz. Supplementary warships should escort oil tankers through the strait with armed troops on board to ward off possible attacks – depending on the disposition to escalate. This would necessitate “between 10 and 30 percent of the EU’s naval capacities,” and Berlin should be in command of the deployment to demonstrate its aspiration to shape global policy. Whereas sectors of the SPD and the opposition reject the operation, the chancellor and foreign ministry are promoting the plan also within the EU. Previously, Foreign Minster Heiko Maas had rejected the US demand for Germany to deploy warships in a US-led naval mission in the Middle East. Berlin is positioning itself to be an independent power in global politics.
    ? Washington’s “Operation Sentinel”
    ? “No Support for US Policy”
    ? Berlin’s “European” Intervention
    ? Mission Plans
    ? Under German Command
    https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/8013/

  28. ISRAEL BANS ENTRY OF US CONGRESSWOMEN OMAR & TLAIB
    According to a press statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Minister of Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan explained that “the State of Israel respects the U.S. Congress, as part of the close alliance, but it is inconceivable that anyone who wishes to harm the State of Israel will be allowed” to visit. “Israel has decided. We won’t enable the members of Congress to enter the country,” Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely told Kan News. “We won’t allow those who deny our right to exist in this world to enter Israel. In principle, this is a very justified decision.”
    https://worldisraelnews.com/israel-appears-ready-to-bar-entry-to-omar-and-tlaibisrael-appears-set-to-bar-entry-to-omar-and-tlaib/
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    TRUMP: DON’T SHOW WEAKNESS – KEEP TLAIB & OMAR OUT OF ISRAEL
    The US president urged Israel to bar entry to Reps. Omar and Tlaib, saying they hate Israel and Jews and calling them a “disgrace.”
    https://worldisraelnews.com/trump-dont-show-weakness-keep-tlaib-omar-out-of-israel/
    +
    https://unitedwithisrael.org/zionist-organization-of-america-applauds-israel-for-refusing-entry-to-tlaib-omar/

  29. VACCINES: IF YOU WRITE TO THIS GROUP PLEASE BE CAREFUL
    The deadly charade continues. British television viewers were told on ITV NEWS on Thursday night that an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) was to investigate “the resurgence of the anti-vaccination movement”. They should not be deceived into thinking however that the APPG “Vaccinations For All is the equivalent of a parliamentary committee. The secretariat for the group – which itself consists of five little known members of the House of Commons and two of the House of Lords – is listed as an organisation called Results UK, which is in turn a satellite of GAVI, which we all know is a partnership of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WHO, Unicef, the World Bank and the Pharmaceutical Industry etc. Every single vaccine manufacturer is represented within GAVI. John Stone
    https://www.ageofautism.com/2019/08/if-you-write-to-this-parliamentary-group-please-be-careful.html

  30. Ilhan Omar Claims “Every Day” 500 People Die from Guns Yet She Hangs Out with CAIR Gun-Toting Radical!?!
    Joe Hoft by Joe Hoft August 15, 2019 155 Comments

    Ilhan Omar Claims “Every Day” 500 People Die from Guns Yet She Hangs Out with CAIR Gun-Toting Radical!?!
    Joe Hoft by Joe Hoft August 15, 2019 155 Comments

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    Ilhan Omar has a lot going on lately. She attacks 2nd Amendment rights while speaking with gun-toting radicals connected to CAIR. When she’s not doing that, she is busy hanging around with her new boyfriend and potential husband number three!

    Ilhan Omar tweeted, “Every day on average 500 people die from gun violence. How many more lives will we let gun violence claim?”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/ilhan-omar-claims-every-day-500-people-die-from-guns-yet-she-hangs-out-with-cair-gun-toting-radical/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  31. HERE IT IS: Complete List of Inconsistencies in Prison Policy Surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s Death
    Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft August 15, 2019 513 Comments

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    Jeffrey Epstein was 66 at the time of his death.
    Epstein was the highest profile prisoner in the US prison system.

    On Tuesday the autopsy revealed Epstein suffered broken bones in his neck common in homicide by strangulation.

    Since his death we have learned a number of things that make you question this man’s death.
    Here is a Complete List of Inconsistencies in Prison Policy Surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s Death:

    Jeffrey Epstein was 66 at the time of his death.
    Epstein was the highest profile prisoner in the US prison system.

    On Tuesday the autopsy revealed Epstein suffered broken bones in his neck common in homicide by strangulation.

    Since his death we have learned a number of things that make you question this man’s death.
    Here is a Complete List of Inconsistencies in Prison Policy Surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s Death:Jeffrey Epstein was 66 at the time of his death.
    Epstein was the highest profile prisoner in the US prison system.

    On Tuesday the autopsy revealed Epstein suffered broken bones in his neck common in homicide by strangulation.

    Since his death we have learned a number of things that make you question this man’s death.
    Here is a Complete List of Inconsistencies in Prison Policy Surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s Death:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/here-it-is-complete-list-of-inconsistencies-in-prison-policy-surrounding-jeffrey-epsteins-death/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  32. SMOKING GUN!….. SHOCKING FOIA DOCUMENT Shows FBI Agreed to Cover Up and Ignore All Hillary Crimes in Its 2016 Investigation!

    A recent FOIA request by attorney Ty Clevenger resulted in a plethora of new and unredacted information concerning the actions the corrupt FBI and DOJ took to cover-up and exonerate Hillary Clinton’s email crimes.

    What was released is truly shocking!

    Paul Sperry from the New York Post wrote in October of 2016, shortly before the election:

    Last August, FBI officials paid a visit to Hillary Clinton’s lawyers’ office in Washington and begged to see six laptop computers containing the former secretary of state’s classified e-mails. They were told to take a hike, and they did.

    Clinton’s lawyers “declined to provide consent” for the bureau to even search the laptops, let alone seize them, claiming they may contain “privileged communications.”

    Instead of seeking to subpoena the evidence, the FBI meekly “wished to arrange for secure storage of them in a manner agreeable to both the FBI and the attorneys” — even though the attorneys lacked authorization to handle the material, which included Top Secret information.

    Through documents received from a FOIA filing, we now have support for what Perry was alluding to back in 2016.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/smoking-gun-shocking-foia-document-shows-fbi-agreed-to-cover-up-and-ignore-all-hillary-crimes-in-its-2016-investigation/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  34. ZING! China Daily Advises Warmonger Hillary Clinton to Distance Herself from Hong Kong Protests

    Hillary Clinton never saw a war she didn’t like.

    As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton along with President Barack Obama led disastrous foreign policy that included destabilizing the Middle East and overthrowing regimes in Syria, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya.

    The Middle East has never recovered.

    This week Hillary Clinton called for support of the Hong Kong protesters.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/zing-warmonger-hillary-clinton-declares-her-support-for-hong-kong-protesters-china-daily-destroys-former-first-lady-in-one-tweet/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  35. Beware The Gun-Grabbing Crisis Vultures
    How the VA ‘red-flags’ patriots.
    August 15, 2019
    Michelle Malkin

    Gun-grabbing crisis vultures just can’t let the latest mass shootings go to waste. “Red flag” laws are now all the rage in the Beltway as the magic pill to prevent homicidal maniacs from wreaking havoc on the nation. Even President Donald Trump has endorsed the idea of preemptively confiscating people’s firearms if they are deemed a “threat.”

    But if you want to know how this American version of China’s social credit system would work in practice, let me remind you of how Veterans Affairs recklessly red-flags “disruptive” citizens without due process, transparency or accountability in the name of “safety.” Government bureaucrats routinely deprive our nation’s heroes of medical treatment based on arbitrary definitions of who and what constitutes a mental health menace.

    I first reported on the VA’s secretive database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets five years ago. Under the VA policy on “patient record flags,” federal bureaucrats can classify vets as “threats” based on assessments of their “difficult,” “annoying” and “noncompliant” behavior. The VA manual says the flags “are used to alert Veterans Health Administration medical staff and employees of patients whose behavior and characteristics may pose a threat either to their safety, the safety of other patients, or compromise the delivery of quality health care.”

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274609/beware-gun-grabbing-crisis-vultures-michelle-malkin

  37. The Philly Police Shootings Are About Locking Up Criminals, Not Gun Control
    August 15, 2019
    Daniel Greenfield

    he media is eagerly spinning the firefight and siege that left 6 police officers injured in Philly as a gun control issue. Except it’s obviously not.

    Hill’s history in the adult criminal justice system began in 2001 when he was 18 and was arrested with a gun that had an altered serial number.

    Public records show that he has been arrested about a dozen times since turning 18, and convicted six times on charges that involved illegal possession of guns, drug dealing, and aggravated assault. He has been in and out of prison; the longest sentence handed him came in 2010, when a federal judge gave him a 55-month term.

    And, his record would indicate, he does not like to go to prison. In 2008, he was convicted of escaping, fleeing from police, and resisting arrest. Along the way, he beat criminal charges on everything from kidnapping to attempted murder.

    Hill also spent time in federal prison. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations after he was caught with a Smith & Wesson .357 and later a Taurus PT .45 semiautomatic. His prior felony convictions should have barred him from owning those weapons. U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced him to four years and seven months in prison.

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    … a whole bunch of other stuff follows.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274636/philly-police-shootings-are-about-locking-daniel-greenfield

  38. Imagine If 2 EPA, Not ICE Offices, Had Been Shot At
    August 15, 2019
    Daniel Greenfield

    Imagine if the offices of two federal agencies had been shot at after a sustained campaign of hate, intimidation and threats by political radicals backed by the entire weight of a political party and its associated media?

    We don’t have to imagine that one too hard after a second ICE office was attacked. The shooting was predictably buried in media reports.

    But imagine if two gunmen had targeted EPA offices after sustained conservative protests and tweets by President Trump.

    You know exactly what the media coverage would have looked like. It would have denounced, condemned and assigned responsibility. There would have been lots of talk about extremism.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274635/imagine-if-2-epa-not-ice-offices-had-been-shot-daniel-greenfield

  42. The White House has appointed a Uygur-American academic to a top position on China policy in a move meant to put more pressure on China over mass detentions in the far western region of Xinjiang, analysts said.
    The appointment comes as Beijing faces intense international pressure over reports that up to one million Uygurs and other Muslims have been held in camps in Xinjiang, camps that Beijing says are vocational training centres.
    It also comes as China and the United States remain deadlocked in a trade war after more than a year of negotiations and tit-for-tat tariffs.
    Citing serving and former American officials, US-based Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday that Elnigar Iltebir, a Harvard-educated academic and daughter of a prominent Uygur intellectual, was appointed the US National Security Council’s director for China.

    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3023002/white-house-appoints-uygur-american-elnigar-iltebir-top-china

  43. While Orthodox Jews in New York City are being assaulted by Democrats, while religious Jewish schools are under siege by the New York City government, while Orthodox Jewish rituals, such as Kapporot, are disrupted by militant leftist animal rights activists, the media and NYC authorities keep trying to change the subject to one that fits their political narrative. The white supremacist threat to New York.

    “ANTI-NEW YORK WHITE SUPREMACIST HATE IS RISING, NYPD SAYS,” the headline claims.

    Except the banner story involves a threatening phone call. Whose perpetrator was prosecuted. The rest all seem to involve fliers, graffiti and leaflets.

    City’s Greg B. Smith, dishonestly implies that the anti-Semitic violence relates to white supremacists.

    …

    White supremacist shootings of Jews is a real problem. There have been two attacks on synagogues, in Pittsburgh and Poway, but not in New York.

    It’s not unreasonable for the NYPD to keep an eye peeled, but thus far the synagogue attack plots in New York City have involved Muslims.

    And the media can’t and won’t acknowledge that.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274631/media-tries-attributing-democrat-violence-against-daniel-greenfield

  44. A professor of religion and history claims he was booted from an American university in Cairo because he refused demands from a wealthy donor’s son, who allegedly encouraged non-Muslim students to convert to Islam — but the school says it is “based on inaccurate information.”

    Adam Duker was picked as the Abdulhadi H. Taher Chair in Comparative Religions, which was established in 2002 by a Saudi Arabian businessman who has since died, at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He says his position ended abruptly last year because of Taher’s Saudi billionaire son, Tarek Taher, who Duker calls an “Islamic extremist.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/cairo-professor-position-taxpayer-us-islam

  45. The Pulitzer-nominated poet Laurie Sheck, a professor at the New School in New York City, is being investigated by the university for using the N-word during a discussion about James Baldwin’s use of the racial slur.

    The investigation has been condemned by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which is calling on the New School to drop the “misguided” case because it “warns faculty and students that good-faith engagement with difficult political, social, and academic questions will result in investigation and possible discipline”.

    Sheck, who is white, was teaching a graduate course this spring on “radical questioning” in writing. She assigned students Baldwin’s 1962 essay The Creative Process, in which the black American writer and civil rights activist argued that Americans have “modified or suppressed and lied about all the darker forces in our history” and must commit to “a long look backward whence we came and an unflinching assessment of the record”. During the class, Sheck pointed to the 2016 documentary about Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, and asked her students to discuss why the title altered Baldwin’s original statement, in which he used the N-word instead of negro during an appearance on a talk show.

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    Sheck told Inside Higher Education that a white student had objected to her language. According to Sheck, she questioned the student about her objection, who said she had been told by a previous professor that white people should never use the term. At the end of term, the student gave a presentation about racism at the New School.

    Sheck told IHE that she used the word because Baldwin – a New School alumnus – did, and “as writers, words are all we have. And we have to give [Baldwin] credit that he used the word he did on purpose”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/15/white-professor-investigated-quoting-james-baldwin-use-of-n-word-laurie-sheck

  46. Malaysia to show India-born Muslim preacher the door after attacks on Chinese, Indians (straitstimes, Aug 15, 2019)
    https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-show-india-born-muslim-preacher-the-door-after-attacks-on-chinese-indians

    “The Malaysian government will seek to force controversial Muslim preacher Zakir Naik out of the country, after his incendiary attacks on minorities last week fuelled criticism of its refusal to deport the fugitive Indian televangelist…”

  47. Sorry, Not Sorry
    Johns Hopkins fires professor over clash with student protesters, but he says he has no remorse for either the attack or being a “white male.”

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    Johns Hopkins University terminated a nontenured associate research professor of speech and language processing who broke into a student sit-in earlier this year with bolt cutters. He says his counterprotest was supposed to be nonviolent and that he wanted to access servers in the occupied building. But protesters accused him of attacking them, and the university says that whatever happened, he put students in danger.

    The professor, Daniel Povey, shared his notice letter on his website last week — along with the news that he’s leaving Baltimore for a job in industry and is definitely not sorry.

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    “I am aware that some people are trying to ‘cancel’ me and get me fired from my next job. See if I care!” he said in a lengthy post. “I’ll tell you this, though: whatever happens, I will never apologize and I will never back down.”

    The “normal script is that I am supposed to get down on my knees and say ‘Please accept me back into your midst, liberal America! I accept that I was wrong,’” he said, adding, “No way. Fuck you.”

    Povey further accused student and local protesters of lying about what actually happened inside Garland Hall at Hopkins on day 35 of the overall protest, about a week after they forced a shutdown of Hopkins’s main administrative building and chained themselves to walls, railings and staircases. In reality, Povey wrote, he was attacked — not the other way around.

    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/12/johns-hopkins-fires-professor-over-clash-student-protesters-he-says-he-has-no

  49. BREITBART – German Judge Attacks Salvini for Mocking Photo of Open Borders NGO Activist

    A judge in Germany has ordered populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini to remove a photograph of a pro-migration NGO activist or face a hefty fine.

    The photo of Sören Moje, a member of the crew of a ship belonging to the NGO Mission Lifeline, was published on Twitter by Salvini last year after the group had labelled Salvini a “fascist”, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.

    Questo signore è nell’equipaggio della nave della Ong tedesca che, in attesa di caricare immigrati, mi dà del “fascista”… Rassicurante direi!? pic.twitter.com/4L5UAEizJS

    — Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) June 16, 2018

    “This gentleman is in the crew of the ship of the German NGO that, waiting to load immigrants, calls me the ‘fascist’ … Reassuringly I would say!” Salvini said.

    The photo was taken by journalist Friedhold Ulonska before it was then published on the Mission Lifeline website and then published on Twitter by Salvini.

    The judge in the case has ordered Salvini to delete the tweet and the picture stating that the Italian League leader had violated the copyright of the image owner.
    If he does not remove the image, Salvini could face a fine of up to 250,000 euros and even a potential prison term of up to six months.

    “Matteo Salvini uses photographic material of rescue missions at sea, images taken by me, as a tool of his incitement against us,” Friedhold Ulonska, who brought the complaint, said.

    “He didn’t ask me if he was allowed. Like everyone else, Matteo Salvini must respect the law. If he does not do so, as in this case, we should like to remind him of the limits of his actions with all constitutional means,” he added.

    Open Borders NGO Urges Germans to Marry Illegal Aliens So They Can Stay in Europe https://t.co/QG0nSb2Rg2

    — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 29, 2019

    Mission Lifeline are no strangers to controversy themselves, having called on German citizens to marry illegal migrants and asylum seekers in order to help them remain in Europe earlier this year.

    “You’re not married yet? Maybe you could fall in love with someone who doesn’t have the right to stay here? Could happen, right? Stay open,” the group said on Twitter.

    In 2017, the Saxony prosecutor’s office also announced the NGO was under investigation for people-trafficking.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/15/german-judge-attacks-salvini-for-mocking-photo-of-open-borders-ngo-activist/