Contributor’s links for Aug. 23, 2019

(Sorry it is late today, and thank you Xanthippa for pointing out it was missing)

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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

73 Replies to “Contributor’s links for Aug. 23, 2019”

  1. Turkey: 14 suspects arrested for FETO terror links (aa, Aug 23, 2019)
    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-14-suspects-arrested-for-feto-terror-links/1562806

    “Turkish police on Friday arrested 14 suspects for their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup attempt, security sources said.

    The suspects were taken into custody in simultaneous raids on 19 addresses early Friday, as prosecutors in the Aegean province of Izmir had ordered an investigation to identify FETO safe houses, said the security sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

    During searches of the premises, police seized many fake IDs, cellphones, and tablets as well as a large amount of money.

    Also, some suspects were seized by trying to escape and destroying some documents at the addresses.

    The suspects are accused of using the terror group’s encrypted messaging app, ByLock, and being active members of FETO.

    FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

    Turkey also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.”

  2. Turkey arrests 57 for suspected FETO links (aa, Aug 23, 2019)
    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-arrests-57-for-suspected-feto-links/1562985

    “A total of 57 people have been arrested Friday for their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 deadly coup attempt.

    Prosecutors in Turkish capital Ankara issued arrest warrants for 34 former Air Forces Command staff, who were dismissed after the defeated coup, as part of a probe to investigate the FETO members’ communication through payphone, according to a statement by the top prosecutor’s office.

    Twenty-one of them were arrested in operations conducted in 17 provinces.

    Separately, police in Ankara arrested 36 suspects, who worked at FETO-affiliated schools which were shut down following the defeated coup.

    The arrests came after the Ankara prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 52 suspects as part of a probe into FETO’s civilian wing.

    Both operations are ongoing to nab other suspects.

    FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

    Turkey also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.”

  3. MINEOLA, NY (WCBS) — An Uber driver is facing kidnapping charges in a crime police say was sexually-motivated.

    Authorities on Long Island say 32-year-old Sean Williams allegedly abducted a 15-year-old girl, who was a passenger in his car.

    Investigators say Williams was supposed to take the teen from Long Beach to Merrick on July 12, but instead drove her to Brooklyn.

    According to Nassau County’s district attorney, Williams was allegedly trying to convince the minor to come back to his home where he planned to sexually assault her.

    “The family of a 15-year old girl relied on a car service to get their daughter home safely after she attended a Sweet Sixteen party, but the defendant allegedly kidnapped her and wanted to sexually assault her after giving her alcohol,” D.A. Madeline Singas said.

    https://www.fox5vegas.com/year-old-girl-escapes-from-uber-driver-who-kidnapped-her/article_e59d384c-c488-5c7c-9349-93f59fd62482.html

  4. Note: brilliant primer for your friends/relatives:

    Have you ever heard of Antonio Gramsci? How about Herbert Marcuse? Or the Frankfurt School?

    These names are probably meaningless to all but a small minority of scholars academics and political theorists throughout the world. Yet, Americans — and indeed all those who treasure the religion, culture and history of Western Civilization — should become acquainted with these names if they are to understand the forces that are currently tearing society apart.

    Marxism appeared on the scene in Europe in the mid-19th century. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels posited a thesis that capitalist society was doomed to demise as the “proletariat” — the working class — rose up to overthrow their oppressors, the “bourgeoisie” — the middle class of property owners. Marx and Engels saw world history through the prism of a perpetual class struggle between these two implacable enemies. Marx predicted that socialist revolutions would spring up throughout the West as the proletariat overthrew the bourgeoisie and established dictatorships in the name of the “people.”

    Fortunately for us, but unfortunately for Marx, his prediction fell short. The socialist revolutions largely failed to materialize in Europe or America. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 arrived in Russia — vanguard of the East — and had as much to do with the tragic casualties and deprivations of World War I as anything to do with the wealth of the propertied classes. Subsequent communist revolutions that attempted to replicate what Lenin achieved in Russia — be they in postwar Hungary under Bela Kun or Germany under Rosa Luxemburg were either short-lived or failed altogether.

    Aside from Mao’s communist takeover of mainland China in 1949 — which again happened in the East, not the West and again on the heels of a major destructive world war — most communist successes in the post-World War II era occurred not as a result of a spontaneous uprising of the proletariat but at the point of a bayonet. Communist regimes were forcibly imposed by Moscow on most of central and eastern Europe as an Iron Curtain darkened the continent for the next 40 years.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/22/cultural-marxist-attack-western-society/

  5. Fraud investigator ‘was sacked for being white and probing crimes committed by Asians at East London council’
    Mark Edmunds, 54, is suing for £529,000 in a race and sex discrimination case
    Claims he was sacked by London borough of Tower Hamlets because of his skin
    His investigations saw 12 Asian men sacked for part in rigging 2014 local election

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7385727/East-London-council-sacked-fraud-investigator-white.html

  6. Senior Democrat Jerry Nadler condemns Omar and Tlaib over ‘growing anti-Semitic dialogue’ after they tweeted cartoon with ‘vile underlying message’
    The House judiciary chairman said such rhetoric was ‘repugnant’
    This follows the two congresswomen sharing a cartoon drawn by a controversial artist said to have anti-Semitic links
    Mr Nadler also condemned the US President for saying Jews were disloyal to Israel if they voted for the Democratic Party

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7387271/Senior-Democrat-Jerry-Nadler-condemns-Omar-Tlaib-growing-anti-Semitic-dialogue.html

  7. California police say a hotel worker may have prevented a mass shooting after the worker reported that a disgruntled colleague had threatened to shoot staff and guests.

    Acting on the tip-off, officers arrested a 37-year-old man who was found to have high-powered weapons and ammunition at his Los Angeles home.

    It comes amid a wider FBI effort to prevent such shootings.

    That followed attacks in El Paso and Dayton that killed 31 people.

    Since then US authorities say they have foiled a series of alleged plots to carry out attacks, some of which would have targeted minority groups.

    Man shocked as hundreds attend wife’s funeral
    What we know about latest US mass shootings
    Teenage footballer mourned in El Paso
    The FBI has reportedly instructed its field offices to conduct threat assessments and has also urged the public to report threats or suspicious activity.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49431699?ocid=wsnews.chat-apps.in-app-msg.whatsapp.trial.link1_.auin

  8. Young Turks Host Calls Terrorist “Brave Soldier” Who “F-D Dan Crenshaw In The Eyehole”

  9. A New York Times political editor has a years-long history of antisemitic and racist comments on his Twitter page, a Breitbart News investigation has found.
    Tom Wright-Piersanti, who has been a Senior Staff Editor at the New York Times for more than five years according to his LinkedIn page and according to his Twitter page oversees the newspaper’s political coverage, has made a series of antisemitic and racist tweets over the years. Many of them are still public on his Twitter page as of the publication of this article, but some have since been deleted.

    The revelation of these tweets come in the wake of the executive editor of the Times stating that the newspaper intends to target the president on racial issues over the next couple years, after the newspaper’s efforts on the Russia hoax scandal failed.

    One tweet that is still public is from the early morning of New Years Day in 2010, when he admits he is antisemitic but announced that his New Years resolution was to be less antisemitic—even though the tweet’s content mocks Jewish people.

    “I was going to say ‘Crappy Jew Year,’ but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic,” Wright-Piersanti tweeted on Jan. 1, 2010, at 9:35 a.m. “So…. HAPPY Jew Year. You Jews.”

    I was going to say “Crappy Jew Year,” but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic. So… HAPPY Jew Year. You Jews.

    — Tom Wright-Piersanti (@tomwp) January 1, 2010

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/22/exclusive-crappy-jew-year-new-york-times-editors-antisemitism-racism-exposed/

  10. Los Angeles passed a $1.2B bond measure in 2016 to address homelessness
    Projected per-unit cost of apartments for homeless ($700K) is greater than the county’s median sales price for a home ($618K)
    Spokesman: ‘Mayor Garcetti recognizes the immediacy of this crisis’
    LOS ANGELES — As this city tries to cope with thousands of people living on the streets, a few homeless and low-income senior citizens will be luckier than most next year.

    They will receive keys to one of 72 new apartments,complete with a fitness center, in the heart of trendy Koreatown, built at a projected cost of $690,692 for each unit, according to the city controller’s office. Two additional projects in the pre-approval phase are expected to top $700,000 per unit in total costs.

    “This kind of cost is utterly unacceptable,” Controller Ron Galperin said. “I believe we need a fundamental course correction.”

    Despite a booming national economy, homeless people have set up tents in makeshift encampments in major cities on the West Coast amid a housing shortage that has driven up rents to unaffordable levels.

    In Los Angeles, the tents are spread out on sidewalks across the city, the homeless emboldened by a court ruling that allows them to live outside if no shelter space is available. Making matters worse, many live in filthy, third-world conditions without basic necessities like toilets and sinks. It makes them and those who venture near susceptible to disease.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/20/homeless-people-los-angeles-la-builds-pricey-koreatown-apartments/1984064001/

  11. CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A newly elected St. Louis County councilwoman has been sworn into office using a Dr. Seuss book.

    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the council doesn’t require members to be sworn in on a Bible, and newly elected 2nd District member Kelli Dunaway chose “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” Her 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter held it for her during last week’s ceremony.

    https://fox2now.com/2019/08/20/st-louis-county-councilwoman-sworn-into-office-using-a-dr-seuss-book/

  12. A businessman in Amsterdam returned from vacation to find his property occupied by 40 refused asylum seekers who told him to leave.

    According to a report by AT5, entrepreneur Salih Ozcan was “expelled from (his) own premises” by the migrant squatters after returning from holiday.

    After recovering his property from a “bad tenant” who used it as a weed factory in January, Ozcan had refurbished the site and planned to use it for his car company.

    He was shocked to discover it had been occupied by 40 failed asylum seekers who had completely trashed the place.

    Referring to the piles of trash at the entrance, Ozcan said the scene was too “crazy for words,” adding, “Only rats and mice come here.”

    A video shows angry African migrants confronting both Ozcan and the camera crew from the TV station. The migrants threatened to call the police if they didn’t leave immediately.

    https://summit.news/2019/08/20/amsterdam-businessman-returns-from-vacation-to-find-his-property-occupied-by-asylum-seekers/

  13. Rashida Tlaib criticized the wall
    that stopped suicide bombings

    Rashida Tlaib, US Congresswoman:
    “Walls are destructive, not productive”

    Ramadan Shalah, Head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad:
    “[Suicide] operations… is an option which exists… However… there’s the separation wall, which is an obstacle for the Resistance [terror]. If it did not exist, the situation would be completely different.”

    By Itamar Marcus

    PA terror leaders complain about Israel’s security wall, specifically because it stopped Palestinian suicide terror. Yesterday Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib complained about that very same security wall even though it saved countless lives. Although Tlaib did not say that she supports Palestinian suicide terror, the American Congresswoman should be aware that she is criticizing a lifesaving structure that only exists to stop terror.

    Israel decided to build the wall in 2002 in response to Palestinian suicide terror that had murdered hundreds of civilians. In 2001, Palestinian terrorists committed 31 suicide bombings. In 2002 there had been 35 suicide bombings prior to Israel’s decision to build the security wall on June 24, 2002. In June alone there had already been 4 suicide terror attacks, two in Jerusalem, one in Herzlia and one in Megido, in which 44 Israelis were murdered.

    This was Tlaib’s complaint about the wall:

    “The [Congressional] delegation would have seen firsthand. Yeah, why walls are destructive, not productive. They could’ve asked the people in Bethlehem how walls cut people off away from economic opportunities, from a way to live and do psychological damage that lasts forever.”

    This was Islamic Jihad’s complaint about the wall – it prevents suicide terror.

    http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=27796

  14. “.@HillaryClinton, whom I have strongly supported for many years, told blatant lies about me today. As a result, I have been subjected to widespread condemnation by mainstream media. I’m going to fight this. Stay tuned tomorrow for my first-ever twitter storm.”
    Dr. Robert Epstein – August 20, 2019 – Twitter
    https://mobile.twitter.com/DrREpstein