1. The Washington Post’s story on the death of Al Baghdadi should put to rest any validity to anything that paper ever said about Kashogi and the Saudi Embassy in Ankara
2. WATCH: Canadian Professor Lost Her Job for Telling the Truth About ‘Endangered’ Polar Bears
A Canadian university has frozen a zoologist out of her adjunct professor post as punishment for saying the unsayable about polar bears: that populations are thriving; that they are not endangered; that stories about how they are being caused to starve by melting summer sea ice are junk science #FakeNews.
Dr Susan Crockford is one of the world’s leading experts on polar bears and had held her post as Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada for 15 years.
But by speaking the truth about polar bears she fell foul of environmental activists who have long treated Ursus maritimus as one of the poster children for their “the Earth is doomed and it’s all our fault” narrative. As a result, without explanation, Crockford was ousted from her position at the university.
In an interview with Crockford this week for Breitbart News, I ask: ‘Do you think you’ve been blacklisted for telling inconvenient truths?’
She replies:
“Oh I absolutely do.”
(How do you know you live in a communist country? When the truth is illegal if it contradicts the narrative. What we have here is tantamount to illegal. A fine and a weekend in jail would be better than losing your career/job.)
3. Vladimir Bukovsky (1942 – 2019)
From Diana West’s site:
The news I have been dreading comes out of England tonight: Vladimir Bukovsky has died. He was 76.
Now that Bukovsky is no more on this earth with the rest of us mortals, the obituaries, like so many doves, will be released to mark his passage out of our lives and into our memories.
I think I have always known that no matter how “prepared” one might be, this moment would be overwhelming. How do we mark the consequence and courage of such an extraordinary man who chose to lead his life in outspoken opposition to evil, who chose to sacrifice years of his life in Soviet labor camps and psychiatric hospitals rather than submit to communist slavery? The unflinching heroism, the giant scale of battle, the enormity of achievment was for Vladimir Bukovsky life’s routine, and thus defies the normal sort of reckoning at life’s end. The quandary lies in the colossal metaphysical sense of him that must be conveyed only in words.
Certainly, at this time there can be no better words than his own. I find myself thinking about a line that recurs in both of his memoirs, To Build a Castle (1979)and Judgment in Moscow (2019): “I did all that I could.”
4. The only injury in this mornings mission:
5. Patrick Moore nails it for the environment.
(There is no one more zealous than a convert)
6. France on Alert for Revenge Attacks after Baghdadi’s Death
(What does France being on alert look like that is different than what France looks like any day and twice as much on Saturday?)
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, in a letter to police prefects, called on Sunday for increased vigilance to prevent possible revenge attacks following the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northwest Syria.
The possible intensification of extremist propaganda following Baghdadi’s death, “which could possibly call for acts of vengeance, requires the most extreme vigilance, notable during public events in your departments in coming days,” Castaner said, according to Reuters.
One of the few senior ISIS commanders still at large, Baghdadi died Saturday when he detonated his suicide vest in a tunnel while being pursued by US forces in Syria’s Idlib province, killing himself and three of his children, US President Donald Trump announced Sunday. He was believed to be 48.
7. Italy’s Salvini set for victory in Umbria local vote: exit poll
ROME (Reuters) – A right-wing coalition is set for victory in an election on Sunday in the central Italian region of Umbria, according to an exit poll, giving a boost to Matteo Salvini’s League party.
The vote in tiny Umbria, a traditional centre-left stronghold with less than 900,000 inhabitants, restores impetus to Salvini after his political blunder that saw the League lose power nationally this summer.
The hard-right leader walked out of government with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement in August, expecting to trigger a national election that polls predicted he would win.
Instead, 5-Star hooked up with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), shunting Salvini into opposition.
In Umbria, the new 5-Star/PD alliance appears to have failed its first electoral test.
(The AfD appear to have won the most votes in a regional election in Germany as well, although we can all be certain corrupt and anti-democratic leftist parties will form a Cordon Sanitaire around them)
Thank you all who sent in materials this weekend. I lost track of everyone because I learned something today. it takes 20X longer and more work to fix an error sometimes than just to do fresh work. So posting has been slow. Also we have been plagued by technical details, failed uploads, computer crashes and so on. Just one of those days. But we have a lot of great material lined up for tomorrow, including Brad’s take on the Baghdadi raid and some videos from the German vote in Thuringia.
3. Vladimir Bukovsky (1942 – 2019)
“VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY IN MEMORIAM ?????? ??????”
Michael Yaroshevsky – October 27, 2019
“You have to understand first—what is the essence of our struggle. The essence of it is the struggle against fear. The fear that has gripped the people since the time of Stalin. The fear that has not left people, and thanks to which, this system continues to exist—the system of dictatorship and oppression. It is in the struggle against fear into which we put our greatest efforts.
And in that struggle great importance attaches to personal example, the example which we give people. I did what I considered right—I spoke out when I wanted to and I’m alive… It shows that it is possible to fight and that it is necessary to fight.”
Vladimir Bukovsky
1- There is no comparison between the loss of a heroic service dog and one human animal.
No there isn’t but that doesn’t stop the service animals team from morning them, they are vital and beloved members of the team and the team will miss that member. No one in the unit thinks the service animals are more important then the humans but they do place their value almost as high. A warrior from their team who loves them and played with them has been seriously injured they will they will feel that loss for a long time.