Reader’s Links for November 13, 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.

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  1. IDF estimates: Islamic Jihad will keep firing rockets

    …The IDF believes that the Islamic Jihad intends to continue the rocket fire on Wednesday morning in a fashion similar to Tuesday’s, and is likely preparing for several days of fighting according to the number of rockets in its possession.

    Zilberman added that Hamas has not been involved in the rocket fire so far and all casualties are from the Islamic Jihad organization, of which 10 members were killed.

    He said that another Iron Dome anti-missile system was completed on Tuesday and the defense system has been improved according to the situation.

    In a joint decision, it has been decided to try and get the school systems back on track as much as possible and there are various attempts to reach a ceasefire.
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/271580
    ……….
    IDF airstrike kills senior Islamic Jihad terrorist

    One terrorist was killed and several others injured after Israeli fighter jets bombed a terror cell in the Gaza Strip Wednesday morning, Arab media outlets reported. The Islamic Jihad terror organization later reported that the terrorist killed in the airstrike was one of its members.

    According to a report by the Palestinian Authority mouthpiece WAFA, Israeli F-16 fighter jets opened fire on terrorists southwest of Gaza City Wednesday morning, killing one “martyr” and injuring several others.

    An Israeli army spokesperson later confirmed that Israeli aircraft had opened fire, saying that a terrorist cell responsible for launching rockets at Israel had been hit in the airstrike…

    The Palestinian Authority now claims that a total of 11 Gazans were killed by Israeli attacks since Tuesday morning, including Islamic Jihad arch-terrorists Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife, who were killed in a targeted strike before dawn Tuesday.

    The IDF reported that a total of 220 rockets have been fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip since the fighting began early Tuesday morning.

    Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system has fired dozens of interceptor missiles to shoot down the incoming rockets, an IDF spokesperson said, with a hit-rate of about 90%. The IDF spokesperson added that some 60% of the rockets fired at Israel landed in open spaces.
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/271586

  2. Islamic Jihad in Gaza: Backed by Iran, challenge to Hamas

    Analysis: Killing of terror group’s military mastermind unleashes another round of escalation in violence in the Strip, but how far can the group, which has become a driving force in rocket fire and confrontations with Israel, really go?

    …Tuesday’s violence marked the latest in a long history of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, an armed group that is backed by Iran.

    Here’s a look at the Islamic Jihad movement:

    SECOND FIDDLE
    Islamic Jihad is the smaller of the two main Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip, and is vastly outnumbered by the ruling Hamas group, but it enjoys direct Iranian backing, both financially and militarily, and has become the driving force in rocket fire and confrontations with Israel.

    Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007 from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority, is often limited in its ability to act because it bears responsibility for running the day-to-day affairs of the impoverished territory. Islamic Jihad has no such considerations, and has emerged as the more militant faction, occasionally even undermining Hamas’ authority.

    The group was founded in 1981 with the aim of establishing an Islamic Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and all of what is now Israel. It is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, European Union and other governments.

    Tuesday’s killing of Abu el-Atta was the first high-profile targeted killing of an Islamic Jihad figure by Israel since the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip….

    THE IRANIAN CONNECTION
    Iran supplies Islamic Jihad with training, expertise and money, but most of the group’s weapons are locally produced. In recent years it has developed an arsenal equal to that of Hamas, with longer-range rockets capable of striking central Israel’s Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

    Though the militant group’s base is Gaza, its leadership is also based in Beirut and Damascus, where it maintains close ties with Iranian officials. Another alleged Israeli missile strike on Tuesday targeted Akram al-Ajouri, one of its top officials in Syria.…

    WALKING A TIGHTROPE
    Since seizing power in 2007, Hamas has fought three wars with Israel, often with support from Islamic Jihad fighters.

    But Hamas has largely upheld an Egypt and U.N.-brokered truce with Israel in recent months in an effort to improve conditions for the territory’s 2 million residents.

    In recent months Islamic Jihad’s militants have challenged Hamas by firing rockets, often without claiming responsibility, to raise its profile among Palestinians while Hamas maintains the ceasefire.

    Hamas must now walk a tightrope between restraining Islamic Jihad’s fire at Israel, while avoiding the ire of Palestinians if it cracks down on the group, Michael said.…
    https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5624306,00.html
    ………………
    Rockets flying, that’s when I hit Ynet. Their military nitty-gritty is solid, everything else is garbage.

    • ugh, Ynet.
      Trump: ‘I could become prime minister in Israel’

      U.S President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his public support in Israel is so great, that the Israeli public would have probably elected him prime minister ahead of premiership hopefuls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader MK Benny Gantz.

      “Ninety-eight percent support me, with what happens there I can become prime minister in Israel, ” said Trump in a speech in New York to supporters from the ultra-Orthodox community.

      “What kind of election system is there in Israel? Netanyahu and everyone there are fighting between themselves. We have fights of a different kind, but at least we know who’s the boss. So many elections over there, and no one is elected”.
      https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5624441,00.html

  3. Germany: Five asylum seekers rape 14-year-old girl+++
    Last Friday but one, a 14-year-old girl is said to have been the victim of a sexual offence in a community in the southern Alb-Danube district. The public prosecutor’s office and police are investigating five suspects. According to information from the investigating authorities, the 14-year-old met the suspects on Halloween night in Ulm, one of whom she knew better. She apparently agreed to go with them. She later told her parents and then the police that she had been raped in the home of one of the suspects. Police have now identified all five suspects. After successful investigations, police searched four apartments in Stuttgart and a Filstal and Illertal municipalities last Friday. The 14 to 26 year old suspected asylum seekers were temporarily arrested. On Saturday, the responsible magistrate issued arrest warrants against two 16 and 26 year old suspects at the request of the public prosecutor’s office in Ulm.A 15-year-old guy was provisionally arrested today, Tuesday. The judge in charge also issued an arrest warrant against him at the request of the public prosecutor’s office in Ulm. Two other suspects, aged 14 and 24, are at large. Investigations by the criminal investigation department are still in progress.
    More:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/11/germany-five-asylum-seekers-rape-14.html

  4. Video:
    American Isis suspect stuck on border ‘not our problem’, says Erdo?an
    Alleged militant deported as part of Turkey’s drive to expel foreign jihadists in its custody
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/turkey-will-free-isis-fighters-and-send-them-to-europe-says-erdogan

    An alleged American member of Islamic State, stranded for a second day on the border between Greece and Turkey after Turkey expelled him, is “not our problem”, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, has said.

    The man, named by the Turkish news agency Demiroren as Muhammed Darwis B, is believed to be a US citizen of Jordanian descent. He was deported on Monday as part of Turkey’s controversial new policy to deport foreign jihadists in its custody.

    A Turkish official told AFP that he had refused to be returned to the US and instead asked to be sent to Greece. Athens said he was refused entry when he tried to cross the no man’s land between the two countries to the Greek town of Kastanies. He is reported to have spent the night outside and witnesses said he has been trying to shout to reporters on the Turkish side of the border.

    Asked to comment on the reports on Tuesday, Erdo?an said: “Whether [the deported Isis fighters] are stuck there at the border it doesn’t concern us. We will continue to send them. Whether they take them or not, it is not our concern.”

    Speaking to reporters in Ankara on Tuesday, Erdo?an threatened that Turkey could release all of its jailed foreign militants and send them to Europe.

    “You should revise your stance towards Turkey, which at the moment holds so many Isis members in prison and at the same time controls those in Syria,” Erdo?an said, addressing European countries.

    “These gates will open and these Isis members who have started to be sent to you will continue to be sent. Then you can take care of your own problem.”

    The Turkish leader’s remarks come in the wake of a fresh push to repatriate some of the 1,200 foreign Isis fighters in Turkish detention centres and 287 captured recently in Syria, including those who have been stripped of western citizenship in an attempt to prevent them returning home.

    The interior ministry spokesperson ?smail Çatakl? said on Monday one US citizen, believed to be Darwis, had already been repatriated and seven German nationals would be flown home on 14 November. Preparations to deport two Irish citizens, as well as French and Danish nationals, were also under way, he said.

    Turkey has not given total numbers and nationalities of those it is planning to send home, or details on how such a policy will work, particularly regarding stateless individuals. Many countries request passenger lists for both military and commercial flights before a plane is allowed to enter their airspace.

    Germany’s foreign ministry confirmed that a German citizen had been returned to Berlin from Turkey on Monday, and that a further nine would be deported later this week. The suspects’ alleged links to Isis are still under investigation by Germany.

    British diplomats said the policy did not appear to apply to UK citizens in Turkey at this time. Aine Davis, a member of the cell known as “the Beatles”, who beheaded hostages in Syria, is serving seven and a half years in a Turkish prison.

    The British woman Tooba Gondal is also believed to be in Turkish custody, having escaped a Kurdish-run detention centre in the chaos caused by Turkey’s invasion of Kurdish-held Syria last month.

    While Turkey has quietly deported members of Isis for years, Ankara has now brought the issue to the fore after facing condemnation from European allies over its assault on US-backed Kurdish fighters across the border in Syria, which Ankara considers a terrorist threat.

    Turkey was also angered at an EU decision on Monday to impose sanctions on the country over its drilling for gas in disputed Mediterranean waters off Cyprus.

    Erdo?an is due to visit Washington on Wednesday, where he is expected to discuss the fate of foreign fighters caught in Isis ranks.

    A further 90,000 men, women and children with links to Isis are currently held in Kurdish-run detention centres in Syria. Analysts and military strategists have warned that Ankara’s invasion of northern Syria risks destabilising the detention camps and lead Isis to regroup.

  5. Matt Dillahunty, raised as a Southern Baptist – “His in-depth examination of his Christian beliefs, instead of bolstering his faith as he had intended, led him to no longer believe in Christianity and, eventually, all religions” – “He is the current president of the Atheist Community of Austin” – wiki

    Yes, all religions are human inventions, and unfold after the first teacher into a story between the intellectuals and the emotionals, (Pharesees and Sadducees).

    But, as there are ex-muslims, the ex-Christians should also be much the wiser, in understanding that Heaven and Earth will pass away, but the truth of moral character do not.

    So to discover Matt’s Open “Cuck” Marriage, that he had with his wife who was into sadomasochistic bondage with a lawyer (in the video below) – reveals a soulless feminist existence, where the Father is nowhere to be seen, and that to bully those seeking theirs – is the relationship of the muslim-dhimmi fueling shortcomings:

    https://youtu.be/ny5iXSxBiXw

  6. Swedish Municipality’s Migrant-Free Ad Sparks Accusations of Nazism – Video (sputniknews, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/society/201911131077294663-swedish-municipalitys-migrant-free-ad-sparks-accusations-of-nazism–video/

    “A tiny municipality in southern Sweden has stirred up a hornet’s nest with a new commercial proclaiming that it’s a safe neighbourhood, where ordinary Swedes can live and prosper.

    Staffanstorp Municipality in Skåne County has incurred the enmity of mainstream media with its new commercial.

    The film opens with a black and white scene from a dingy city full of graffiti, where some rowdy youngsters are seen harassing a mother and her daughter. The family then proceeds to move to Staffanstorp, where colour returns, and they get a new lease on life.

    “Dreaming of improvement and striving for a better life is nothing but a sign of health”, the narrator says. “There are municipalities where security, elderly care, schools, and businesses really work. Where the inhabitants are proud of their municipality”, the narrator continues, adding “We welcome you with all our heart”.

    The ad ends end with a slogan: “Staffanstorp, as the rest of Sweden should be”.

    Staffanstorp’s ad coupled with the municipality’s previous combative stance against mass immigration has sparked polarising reactions. Representatives of Sweden’s mainstream press, which is mostly liberal, spared no accusations.

    Moa Berglöf, former speech-writer for the Moderates’ former party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt and now an opinion writer for the newspaper Sydsvenskan, linked the film to a recent outbreak of violence in Malmö, when an immigrant teenager was shot, and called it “the most cruel thing” she has seen in a long time.

    “So while Malmö is in mourning, the Municipality of Staffanstorp is looking to put up a commercial that … I don’t even know. This is the most cruel thing move I have seen in a long time”, Berglöf tweeted.

    Last week, Berglöf attacked Staffanstorp in an opinion piece, calling the municipality “blue-brown”, blue being the colour of the Moderate party which calls the shots there, and brown referring to the brown shirts of Nazi Germany.

    The Nazi trope was utilised by her fellow journalists as well.

    “Genuine domestic art … blond und boden”, Dagens Nyheter’s political editor Per Svensson tweeted, referencing concepts that were popular in Nazi Germany, such as “blood and soil”.

    Furthermore, many found the fact that all the actors representing Staffanstorp staff were white disappointing, lamenting the perceived lack of diversity. Some even accused the municipality of promoting white flight.

    “People read too much. We do not register ethnicity, we do not think about what skin colour people should have when we make advertisements”, the municipality’s strong man Christian Sonesson told Expressen.
    “What is strange is that a family looking for security can irk opinion journalists to a degree when they pay more attention to the film than real, tragic events that happen”, Sonesson told the news outlet Nyheter Idag.

    Massive Support as Well
    By contrast, many on the right were excited about the film.

    “Fantastically nice commercial for Staffanstorp. Describes the situation of many Swedes and their quest for a safe life in a secure society”, Sweden Democrats MP Björn Söder wrote.

    “The thing with the Staffanstorp’s movie is that virtually every normal person is likely to find it quite sympathetic, while the establishment becomes hysterical over it. The latter’s reactions are a very useful reminder of the different worlds these groups live in”, a user mused.

    ?“I’m genuinely curious what caused the outrage. The fact that there are no one-legged actors? Blind? That no one is bald? Dyslexic? Sami? Wheelchair-bound? What is it?”, another one pondered.

    “Tweet: Figure 1: Advertising from well-known fashion chain in Sweden.
    Picture 2: video about Staffanstorp.

    One is racist, the other very good, nice and proper.

    Can you guess which is which?”

    ?Staffanstorp is a town in Skåne County and a central place in the municipality of Staffanstorp. Located between the cities of Lund and Malmö, it has about 15,600 inhabitants.”

  7. ISIS ‘matchmaker’ Tooba Gondal ‘is set to be deported from Turkey to France’ after she pleaded to be allowed to return to the UK (dailymail, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7681093/ISIS-matchmaker-Tooba-Gondal-set-deported-Turkey.html

    “A French woman who is accused of acting as an ISIS ‘matchmaker’ is among a group of female foreign fighters being deported from Turkey to France.

    French national Tooba Gondal, 25, who studied at Goldsmith’s University in London and lived in Walthamstow, claimed that she had permanent British residence but the Home Office issued her with an exclusion order last November.

    France’s Centre for Analysis of Terrorism told the Times Newspaper today that Gondal was being expelled to France as part of Ankara’s plan to rid Turkish prisons of jihadists…”

  8. Magyar M1- “…more and more migrants trying to break into Hungary. Trying to tunnel under fence. Mostly Syrians coming from Turkey..”

    -more trying to get to Europe by train.

    • Hong Kong readies for more chaos as violence spreads citywide

      HONG KONG, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Hong Kong prepared for more clashes on Wednesday as anti-government protesters paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalation of violence.

      Protesters and police battled through the night at university campuses and other locations only hours after a senior police officer said the Chinese-ruled city had been pushed to the “brink of a total breakdown”.

      Police fired tear gas at protesters overnight in multiple locations as activists blocked roads, torched several vehicles, hurled petrol bombs at a police station and metro train and smashed up part of a shopping mall.

      The flare ups come after police on Monday shot an unarmed protester at close range and a man was doused with petrol and set on fire in some of the worst violence since protests began more than five months ago.

      http://news.trust.org/item/20191113012941-iptni

    • As Hong Kong Universities Become Battle Zones, Mainland Chinese Students Flee
      Some Chinese students are worried about their safety as tensions escalate and protesters clash with police on campus

      Hundreds of mainland Chinese students fled across Hong Kong’s border into Shenzhen Wednesday, seeking temporary shelter in hostels, hotels and relatives’ homes after days of heightened violence on several university campuses in the city.

      Groups of undergraduate and postgraduate Chinese students enrolled at Hong Kong universities packed their bags and left by bus, ferry or high-speed rail. Some said they were worried about their safety and made last-minute travel plans on the advice of friends, local professors and school administrators. Hong Kong police said they had arranged for police boats to ferry students who wanted to leave but were hampered by blocked roads in parts of the city.

      The total number of Chinese students who left couldn’t be determined, and there are many who have chosen to stay in Hong Kong. There were 12,322 full-time students from mainland China in the eight biggest publicly funded universities in Hong Kong in the 2018-19 school year, according to statistics from the University Grants Committee. Separately, more than 100 Taiwanese students made arrangements to fly home with the help of Taipei’s Economic and Cultural Office in Hong Kong, according to Sophia Ma, a deputy director of the organization.

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-hong-kong-universities-become-battle-zones-mainland-chinese-students-flee-11573649430

    • Two people diagnosed with pneumonic plague in China

      Authorities working to contain outbreak of disease that is worse than bubonic plague
      Two people in China have been diagnosed with plague, the latest cases of a disease more commonly associated with historical catastrophe.

      Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and can arise in three forms – a lung infection, known as pneumonic plague; a blood infection, known as septicemic plague; and a form that affects the lymph nodes, called bubonic plague.

      The latter form is perhaps the most famous, and was behind several pandemics including the Black Death of the late middle ages, which is estimated to have killed up to 60% of the European population.

      The two new cases being treated at a hospital in Beijing are of the pneumonic form, which is even more serious than bubonic plague

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/two-people-diagnosed-with-pneumonic-plague-in-china

      • This would qualify as a wipe-out event.
        China can enforce the kind of quarantine that’s essential to contain this outbreak.

    • Uighur researchers say China running more camps than known

      Uighur activists said Tuesday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain members of the ethnic group, alleging that Beijing could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of one million people.

      The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China as Xinjiang, gave the geographic coordinates of 182 suspected “concentration camps” where Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their culture.

      Researching imagery from Google Earth, the group said it also spotted 209 suspected prisons and 74 suspected labor camps for which it would share details later.

      “In large part these have not been previously identified, so we could be talking about far greater numbers” of people detained, said Kyle Olbert, the director of operations for the movement.

      “If anything, we are concerned that there may be more facilities that we have not been able to identify,” he told a news conference in suburban Washington.

      https://news.yahoo.com/uighur-researchers-china-running-hundreds-more-camps-181157759.html

    • Hong Kong protests, violence brings city to ‘brink of total breakdown,’ police say

      2019-11-12 Source: Fox News

      A flash mob of more than 1,000 protesters descended on central Hong Kong on Tuesday in a scene authorities said was bringing the Chinese-ruled city to the brink of “total collapse.”

      Clashes in the central business district and elsewhere in the former British colony came a day after a police officer drew his gun during a struggle with protesters, shooting one in the abdomen. In another neighborhood, a 57-year-old man was set on fire after an apparent argument.

      “Our society has been pushed to the brink of a total breakdown,” police spokesman Kong Wing-cheung said at a media briefing in regards to the last two days of violence.

      Kong said masked “rioters” had committed “insane” acts that have caused Hong Kong’s rule of law to be “pushed to the brink of total collapse.” Police said that violent protesters have thrown trash, bicycles and other debris onto metro tracks and overhead power lines, snarling the transit system.

      https://gundynamics.com/articles/hong-kong-protests-violence-brings-city-to-brink-of-total-breakdown-police-say?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=20191113162242

      video at site.

  9. ‘Spectacular’ ISIS attack on a Western city is ‘expected’ because of Turkey’s Syria incursion and West’s refusal to take back prisoners, Kurdish general warns (dailymail, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7680531/Spectacular-ISIS-attack-Western-city-expected.html

    “Turkey’s aggression in northern Syria and the West’s unwillingness to repatriate its foreign fighters could lead to a ‘spectacular’ ISIS attack on Western soil, a top Kurdish general has warned.

    General Mazloum Kobane, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said that a combination of current events have created ideal conditions for the terrorist group to bounce back.

    A ‘spectacular’ terrorist attack in a Western city could be just around the corner, he said.

    ‘It’s one of the expected things that may happen in the future,’ he added.

    Kurdish forces, who have been guarding 5,000 ‘extremely dangerous’ imprisoned jihadists in jails across Syria, say they cannot keep the militants guarded on an ongoing basis.

    The changing balance in Syria means that the future is uncertain, Kobane said…”

  10. Dozens of Illegal Boat Migrants Brought Ashore over Weekend (breitbart, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/13/uk-74-migrants-brought-ashore-in-dover-over-the-weekend/

    “Dozens of illegal migrants successfully reached the shores of Britain over the weekend, being brought to Dover by the Border Force after four “incidents” of migrant boats being intercepted within three days.

    Border Force stopped five boats in the English Channel over the weekend, carrying 74 illegal immigrants. On Sunday night alone, 31 people in two small boats — 25 men, three women, and three minors — were stopped at sea, marking the fourth such “incident” in three days.

    The migrants were brought ashore in Dover, as is customary under European Union protocols. The illegal aliens will be processed and medically examined before immigration officials will make a determination as to whether any of those caught crossing illegally will be granted asylum.

    Those migrants not recognised as refugees — and few if any should qualify, given France is a safe country — will likely be added to the ever-growing number of people in the United Kingdom who have been denied status but not deported.

    “The nationalities of those found are yet to be established. Their cases will be dealt with in line with the immigration rules”, a Home Office spokesman told KentOnline.

    Though the United Kingdom has faced illegal migrants trying to break in by by boarding ferries, hijacking lorries, and even storming the Channel Tunnel, the illegal sea crossings of the English Channel, reminiscent of those in Italy, Spain, and Greece, are a more recent phenomenon, certainly at the scale the country is currently experiencing.

    Despite pronouncements from both the French and British governments a report from the local government in Calais found that an average of five migrant filled boats have set sail for Britain per week since the beginning of the year. So far this year over 1,500 migrants have successfully reached British shores — with only a very small number sent back, thanks to EU asylum rules…”

  11. Devin Nunes: Spygate is Greatest Political Scandal in Modern US History—& He’s Still Investigating

  12. Suicide bomber attacks Indonesian police station, wounding 6 (abcnews, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suicide-bomber-attacks-indonesian-police-station-injuring-66960965

    “A suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy police station in Indonesia’s third-largest city on Wednesday, wounding at least six people.

    The attack came during a counterterrorism crackdown and as authorities were on heightened alert for possible attacks against police and places of worship following a militant attack last month.

    National Police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal said the man in Wednesday’s attack at the Medan city police station passed through a guard post and into the station’s yard, which was packed with people who were lining up to get various police certificates.

    The attacker detonated his explosives and died near a parking lot after being confronted by other officers, wounding at least four police and two civilians, Iqbal said. They were rushed to a nearby police hospital, most with minor injuries…”

  13. Turkey says it captured ‘important’ IS figure in Syria (abcnews, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-captured-important-figure-syria-66965388

    “Turkey’s interior minister said Wednesday that his country’s forces have captured an “important” figure within the Islamic State group, in Syria.

    Suleyman Soylu said the suspect is still being interrogated but did not identify the person or provide further details…”

  14. GOP issues memo detailing strategy to defend POTUS
    By Jeff Dunetz November 13, 2019

    Senior Republicans serving on panels involved in the Adam Schiff-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump issued a strategy memo to GOP members on those committees. The 18-page memo (embedded below) outlined “key points of evidence” from the double-secret hearings from the “capitol basement bunker” that Schiff used as a propaganda tool by selective leaking.

    “The fact-finding is all unclassified, so the closed-door process is purely for information control,” the memo said. “This arrangement has allowed Chairman Schiff — who has already publicly fabricated evidence and misled Americans about his interactions with the anonymous whistleblower — to selectively leak cherry-picked information to help paint misleading public narratives while, at the same time, placing a gag order on Republican Members.”

    This memo gives a united strategy ahead of public hearings planned to start at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

    Addressed to the GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee, House Oversight Committee, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the memo makes four basic arguments poking holes in Adam Schiff’s attempt to overturn the 2016 election

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/11/13/gop-issues-memo-detailing-strategy-to-defend-potus/

  15. JEREMY CORBYN’S LABOUR WOULD CRUSH CIVIL SOCIETY
    The 1989 uprising against communism in Eastern Europe was a bid for freedom, and for many commentators it was little more than that. The oppressors happened to be the Communist Party, backed up by their Soviet masters, but they might have been the henchmen of a tin-pot dictatorship or a gang of Mafiosi. The important point, for many observers, is that the oppressors had set out to control things, and the people had at last said no. Yet to see things in that way is to overlook the peculiar contribution of communism to the tyranny exerted in its name. It is also to ignore the abiding relevance of a political system whose charm in Left-wing circles, as we learn from the pronouncements of Jeremy Corbyn and Seumas Milne, has been barely diminished by its enormous legacy of human suffering. Thirty years on, the same tactics employed in Communist central Europe are being mooted in Britain. Knowledge means privilege, advantage, curiosity, free enquiry, all of which were threats to the proletarian revolution and to the Party that had taken charge of it. A full stop had been put to its spiritual life… frightened people, with police on every corner, and deserted churches and civic buildings reminding the citizen that communal life had stopped… anything like spontaneous social life had vanished long ago. All free associations were seen by the communists as places of danger, where hierarchies, distinctions, privileges and deals could challenge the role of the Vanguard Party in its fight for equality and “social justice”. Reflecting on this, I came to see why freedom of association belongs with freedom of speech in the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Those two freedoms are the foundation of civil society, and the necessary shield against the abuse of political power. Take them away and all power ends up in the hands of the state. The result is what we know as “totalitarianism”. At the recent Labour Party conference Left-wing activists called for private education to be criminalised, as it was by the communists, and the funds of private schools to be confiscated and used for the “common good”. Meanwhile leftists in universities are mounting effective campaigns to prevent free discussion and to expel those professors whose views they dislike. Politicised subjects like Gender Studies, which forbid ideological disagreement and have doctrine and dogma as their goal, are driving free discussion from the curriculum. It is not clear, yet, how far this will go. But the arguments given and the tactics adopted are exactly those of the communists in 1948. The state is seen as the guardian of public morality; it must therefore forbid the misuse of our freedoms. It is surely likely that the underground university that operated in Czechoslovakia in the Eighties will be needed before long in Britain. In preparing for that moment we should be looking back, not to 1989 but to 1977, when the battle which had been fought and lost in the post-war years began again in earnest. And it is our battle today. Once again we must fight for civil society against the state, and for free association against totalitarian control. Roger Scruton
    https://unherd.com/2019/11/thirty-years-on-we-forget-the-lessons-of-communism/

  16. CO-FOUNDER OF WHITE HELMETS’ WIKI PAGE CLEANED OF CONTROVERSY
    video – 4 minutes 15 seconds
    The life and work of co-founder of the controversial White Helmets rescue group in Syria has come under scrutiny since his recent death in Istanbul, in fact, James Le Mesurier’s Wikipedia profile has undergone something of a rewrite, omitting anything detrimental.

  17. GERMANY: BERLIN AND THE COUP
    LA PAZ/BERLIN(Own report) – The German government and one of the opposition’s leading politicians have approved the coup in Bolivia. Elected President Evo Morales’ resignation, imposed by the military leadership is an “important step toward a peaceful solution,” claims a speaker of the German government. According to the foreign policy spokesman of the Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the military has “taken the right decision.” To avoid bloodshed, Morales resigned following a police mutiny and an ultimate threat of the chief of the armed forces. Mainly the white, wealthy circles from the Bolivian lowlands, whose politicians are occasionally cooperating with German party-affiliated foundations are the driving forces behind the coup. One of these politicians is in consideration for becoming the interim president. Particularly the indigenous people, who, to a large extent had been lifted out of abject poverty though Morales’ measures, are the ones suffering the brunt of the coup. A German company had also been involved in recent developments that had weakened the President’s standing.
    ? Coup d’État in Bolivia
    ? “The Military’s Right Decision”
    ? Driving Forces
    ? Support from Germany
    ? Berlin’s Networks
    ? Number Three to the Top
    ? Assassination Plans
    https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/8105/

    • A Germany company OWNS the lithium reserves of Bolivia, one of the largest sources of this essential element in the world.

      Morales didn’t approve of that deal. When he made it clear that it was to be renegotiated, he was thrown out of office. Funny, that…

  18. EVENTS IN BOLIVIA FOLLOW SCRIPT OF ‘COLOR REVOLUTION’ – THE ANTITHESIS OF DEMOCRACY
    From the claim of a ‘stolen’ election to the opposition burning ballots and the forced resignation of President Evo Morales, the events in Bolivia have followed the script of the original “color revolution” in Serbia. A politician critical of Washington seeks re-election, and wins the vote in the first round under the existing rules. Opposition parties cry foul and demand a runoff, only to attack the polling stations and burn the ballots, making an accurate count impossible. Then their demands escalate: the “dictator” must resign without a new vote, the “people power” in the streets demands it. Yes, this is Bolivia in early November 2019. But I remember it also being Serbia, in early October 2000 – back when it was still known as Yugoslavia. One or two similarities would be a coincidence; this kind of eerie overlap points to something more. Especially when what happened in Serbia would later be identified as the very first case of “color revolution.” Nebojsa Malic
    https://www.rt.com/op-ed/473269-bolivia-evo-morales-color-revolution/

  19. One-Third of Young Prostitutes in Paris No-Go Suburbs Under 15-Years-Old (breitbart, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/13/one-third-of-young-prostitutes-in-paris-no-go-suburbs-under-15-years-old/

    “Around one-third of young prostitutes in the Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis are under 15, with some as young as just six, according to a local NGO.

    The Observatory of violence against women in Seine-Saint-Denis published a study on underage prostitutes Tuesday, looking into 19 court cases in the juvenile court of Bobigny and around forty reports from French child protection services, France 3 reports.

    The children in sex work in the controversial neighbourhood ranged from 17 to just six-years-old, with 89 per cent being prior victims of physical abuse and 40 per cent victims of prior sexual abuse, most of the abuse occurring within their own homes. 61 per cent of the mothers of the child sex abuse victims also reported domestic abuse as well.

    Ernestine Ronai, head of the NGO, said that the goal of the study was to better understand the path that led to prostitution in order to better protect children in the future.

    “The course of these girls’ lives is marked by violence,” Ronai said and noted that the abuse led to failure in school which in turn led to the path to prostitution.

    The study also found the important role social media plays in facilitating prostitution, saying 50 per cent of “clients” — abusers — used social media and the internet to approach the children for sexual favours.

    The area studied for the report, Seine-Saint-Denis, has achieved a level of notoriety as a prime example of a so-called No Go Zone in France, or what the French government technically labels a Sensitive Urban Zone. It has become so difficult to retain staff to work in public services in the area the government now offers special cash incentives to civil servants not to move away, and the suburb has become synonymous with Islamisation, and often the most radical expressions of the Muslim faith.

    Child sexual exploitation in vulnerable communities is not limited to France, however. In Sweden, journalists used the homosexual dating app Grindr while pretending to be a 14-year-old boy named David and found that over 100 adult men messaged the boy for sexual favours.

    In another case, journalists claimed to be a 14-year-old girl on a website called “Sugar Daters” and had a man, later revealed to be an employee of Swedish broadcaster SVT, offer to pay the fake account £840 to take her virginity.

    Child prostitution is also a major problem in the Netherlands where it was revealed last year that some 1,400 underage girls were forced into sexual slavery per year by migrant-background men. Gideon van Aartsen from Watch Nederland, who works with police to combat child sexual exploitation, said the men were mostly from Moroccan, Turkish or Roma backgrounds and that they earned up to 800 euros per day from the child victims.”

  20. Report: IDF Drone Entered Islamic Jihad Leader’s Home to Confirm His Location before Strike

    Palestinian sources say the Israeli drone confirmed Baha Abu al-Ata precise location minutes before strike

    i24NEWS has learned that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used a drone to confirm that a Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander was inside his Gaza home minutes before his assassination.

    According to Palestinian sources, the drone entered his apartment to indicate his precise location. A few minutes later, an IDF airstrike was launched on the apartment, killing Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife.

    Additionally, the sources said following a barrage of rockets fired toward Israel’s southern city of Sderot over two weeks ago, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was spotted hovering over the home of Abu al-Ata and the homes of three other Islamic Jihad senior figures in the coastal enclave.
    https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/1573637516-i24news-exclusive-idf-drone-entered-islamic-jihad-leader-s-home-before-assassination

  21. After Gaza rocket fire, Indians tweet #IndiaWithIsrael in show of support

    After a day of rocket fire from Gaza, the top three hashtags trending on Twitter in India are #IsraelUnderFire, #IsraelUnderAttack and #IndiaWithIsrael.

    Throughout the day, people across the globe posted on social media about the rising tensions between Israel and Gaza.

    However, Israel-related hashtags were mainly trending within Israel. India was the exception, with its hashtags about the rocket barrage from Gaza remained trending long after Israeli Twitter began focusing on other things.

    Indian politician Kapil Mishra tweeted: “Time to stand strongly with Israel #IsraelUnderFire.”

    “Israel is under attack by Terrorists from Gaza. India is with Israel. #IsraelUnderFire,” Prashant Patel Umrao, an advocate at the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court, tweeted.

    https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Supporting-Israel-is-trendy-in-India-607693

  22. ‘What’s Going On?’ – BBC Wakes Up to Sweden Bombing Epidemic Years After Breitbart (breitbart, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/13/bbc-wakes-up-sweden-bombing-epidemic-years-after-breitbart/

    “The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has woken up to Sweden’s bombing epidemic years after Breitbart News.

    In an analysis article titled ‘Sweden’s 100 explosions this year: What’s going on?’, the BBC acknowledged the epidemic of gang crime, gun crime, and criminal use of explosives which Breitbart London has been reporting for years — while the mainstream media scoffed and continued to hail the country as a Scandinavial left-liberal paradise.

    “Swedish police are dealing with unprecedented levels of attacks, targeting city centre locations [as well as heavily migrant-populated suburbs],” the so-called public interest broadcaster conceded.

    “This category of crime was not even logged prior to 2017. Then, in 2018, there were 162 explosions and in the past two months alone the bomb squad have been called to almost 30,” they reported.

    The report managed to avoid directly citing the immigration connection for over twenty paragraphs, however, and then only addressed the issue obliquely, observing that “Swedish police do not record or release the ethnicity of suspects or convicted criminals, but intelligence chief Linda H Straaf says many do share a similar profile.”

    That profile, according to Straaf, is “second- or third-generation immigrants” in “socio-economically weak areas” — what some would call no-go zones — but the BBC was quick to follow this acknowledgement with a quote from a left-liberal criminologist downplaying this reality:

    Amir Rostami says ethnicity rarely plays a big role in gang membership in Sweden. “When I interview gang members… the gang is their new country. The gang is their new identity.”

    However, Rostami did tell the BBC that the use of hand grenades in Sweden, in particular, is almost without parallel, “the only relevant comparison [being] Mexico, plagued by gang violence.”

    “This is unique in countries that pretty much don’t have a war or don’t have a long history of terrorism,” the academic admitted.

    Breitbart News received (erroneous) pushback for reporting that the prevalence of grenade attacks in Sweden is comparable to Mexico as long ago as 2017, years before the mainstream media in the form of the BBC appears to have finally acknowledged the scale of the crisis.

    Indeed, Oliver Lane, who now leads Breitbart’s London and Europe bureau, was reporting on the ground in Sweden as long ago as 2015, interviewing top police officer Torsten Elofsson, a 42-year veteran of law enforcement in the no-go zone pockmarked city of Malmo, shortly after his retirement.

    “Malmo is infamous for explosions,” he told Lane, long before the BBC thought to ask “What’s going on?”

    “Yet thankfully nobody has been killed by the explosions yet – some of them are just used to frighten people,” he added.

    Sadly, this is no longer the case.

    “Many people think the media and the politicians have merged together to make people believe that it is safe and sound to live here, and there are no problems,” Elofsson added.

    “The media says immigration is always a positive thing because we have an ageing population and we need a young workforce to come from other countries. People don’t buy that picture 100 per cent Living here you can see a lot of the crimes are committed by people originating abroad.”

    Indeed, the left-liberal media-political establishment were certainly quick to close ranks when U.S. President Donald Trump put his (in)famous rhetorical question about “what happened in Sweden” in 2017, with commentators in Sweden, the United States, and the wider West all rejoining that there was, in essence, nothing to be alarmed over.

    The BBC appeared to acknowledge this reflex, if only tacitly, in its own article on “What’s going on”, quoting Stockholm University professor Christian Christensen as confessing to a certain surprise at the lack of coverage of explosions in the broadcast media — but at the same time revealing that there is a concern “that Sweden is used symbolically as proof of problems with immigration, proof of problems with leftist policies”.

    Sweden’s immediate neighbours are proving increasingly reluctant to go along with the charade, however, with their fellow Scandinavians in Denmark electing to close their border with the country — despite both being members of the European Union’s frontierless Schengen area — as a result of Sweden’s gang violence and explosions problem spilling into their own country.

    The BBC may not deserve too much credit for finally acknowledging that all is not well in the left’s symbolic utopia turned embarrassing cautionary tale, however, given the virulently anti-Trump New York Times conceded the point to Breitbart some 20 months ago — still late, but not so late as their British fellow-travellers.

    Which mainstream media outlet proves to be the last horse to cross the finishing line on the subject remains to be seen.”

    • Schiff claims he does not know identity of whistleblower

      Jim Jordan presses Adam Schiff on questioning the whistleblower during the first public impeachment hearing.

  23. Belgium: North African migrant arrested for using fake taxi to rape young women
    https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/11/belgium-north-african-migrant-arrested-for-using-fake-taxi-to-rape-young-women/

    A North African man has been arrested in connection to the rape of a young female student living in Brussels, who claims he posed as a fake taxi driver to lure her into the car after she had left a student baptism.

    The 20-year-old victim, a student of Université Libre de Bruxelles, said the perpetrator – a man who she described as North African – raped her about a week and a half ago after he picked her up while posing as a taxi driver for the Collecto ride-sharing service, L’Avenir reports.

    The following day, the victim also posted her experience on the Facebook page “ULB Confessions” to warn other potential victims.

    “I think he’s prowling around Jefke (Ixelles Cemetery) and he sees the drunk girls walking alone. He stops and pretends to be a Collecto taxi. He explains that he wants to take you anywhere. Except that he takes the girls away from Brussels, to a house, to rape them,” the victim said.

    Since the victim’s posting, additional victims have come forward recounting similar experiences in the same area.

    A Brussel’s prosecutor’s office confirmed last Friday that a 44-year-old man, who’s being referred to as YB, was arrested and charged with rape of an adult with a weapon and indecent assault with violence or threat of a weapon in the Ixelles area of Brussels, RTL reports.

    This isn’t the first time migrants have posed as rideshare drivers to lure unsuspecting women into their vehicles so that they can rape them.

    Earlier this year in January, Mohammed Awais, aged 28, was convicted by a London court of rape and sentenced to nine years in prison after he posed as an Uber driver and picked up a drunk woman.

    In August, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Bangladesh was arrested in Bordeaux after he was accused of raping a university student while working as a delivery guy for Uber Eats.

    After arriving at the victim’s door with the food, the migrant forced his way into her flat when he realized she was tired. He then allegedly raped her before fleeing the scene

  24. Nike – Just Do It Germany: Helden

    Helden features a new generation of German athletes, who work hard on and off the pitch, on the track and in their communities. They go beyond winning to pave the way for others.

    We believe in a world in which everyone can become a hero, leveraging the powerful platform sport provides to those who speak up.

    You never do it just for yourself.
    Just do it.

    ============================================

    In Helden geht es um eine neue Generation deutscher Athleten, die nicht nur auf, sondern auch abseits der Spielfelder und Rennstrecken ihr Bestes geben und sich für ihre Communitys einsetzen. Für sie steht mehr als nur der Sieg im Mittelpunkt – ihr Ziel ist es auch, den Weg für andere zu ebnen.

    Wir glauben an eine Welt, in der jeder ein Held sein und durch die Kraft des Sports für andere ein Zeichen setzen kann.

    Du tust es nie nur für dich.
    Just Do It

    Klicke hier und erfahre mehr: http://www.nike.com/de/just-do-it

  25. “This Is a Carefully Orchestrated Media Smear Campaign” – Devin Nunes Absolutely DESTROYS Democrats in Opening Statement- Brings Up Schiff’s Multiple Lies During Russia Collusion Hoax

    Nunes DESTROYED Schiff for his many, many lies during the Russian collusion and now the low-rent Ukrainian hoax.
    Nunes then congratulated today’s witnesses for making it through to the second round of the Democrat show trials.
    THIS WAS AN AMAZING SPEECH!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/this-is-a-carefully-orchestrated-smear-campaign-devin-nunes-absolutely-destroys-democrats-in-opening-statement-brings-up-schiffs-multiple-lies-during-russia-collusion-hoax/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  26. And They’re Off… Schiff Show Trials Begin – Rep. Ratcliffe Interrupts Schiff — Schiff Reads Off Long-Winded, Confusing and Boring Opening Statement

    The first impeachment hearing opened this morning at 10 AM Eastern.
    Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent are the first two witnesses called in by Adam Schiff.

    All of the GOP requested witnesses were turned down.
    The President is not allowed to confront his accusers including anti-Trump CIA operative Eric Ciaramella.

    Schiff threatened Republicans with ethics charges if they mention the name of the Trump-hating whistleblower.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/and-their-off-schiff-show-trials-begin-rep-ratcliffe-interrupts-schiff/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  27. Visitors to Whistleblower Eric Ciaramella’s White House Office Were Who’s Who of Soros Connected, East European Diplomats

    A review of Democrat Whistleblower and leaker Eric Ciaramella’s visitors in the Obama White House during 2016 shows a coordinated effort to reach out and meet with George Soros related individuals from Eastern Europe including the Ukraine.

    A review of the visitors to Obama’s White House that met with leaker and liar Eric Ciaramella shows a who’s who of deep state foreign diplomats, with some connected to George Soros. A query from the archives of WhiteHouse.gov of visitors to Eric Ciaramella over 200 times with many individuals with suspicious backgrounds.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/visitors-to-whistleblower-eric-ciaramellas-white-house-office-were-whos-who-of-soros-connected-east-european-diplomats/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  28. Meet the ‘American Students Last’ Lobby

    Who is funding the militant illegal immigrant youth army of thousands of entitled “Dreamers” that marched to Washington, D.C., for the Supreme Court hearing this week on President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty program?

    Follow the money; find the truth. I’ve got the “Open Borders Inc.” breakdown for you of so-called DACA financiers and enablers on both sides of the political spectrum. Call them what they are: the “American Students Last” lobby.

    Let’s start with Charles Koch. The libertarian billionaire has thrown his weight and fortune behind an amnesty brigade called the LIBRE Initiative. While the establishment right purports to oppose identity politics, LIBRE wraps itself in the mantle of “empowering Hispanics” to “advance liberty” and “prosperity.” Koch has poured more than $10 million into the ethnocentric group since 2011 under the slogan “Limited Government. Unlimited Opportunity.”

    Translation: driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, in-state tuition discounts for illegal immigrant students and securing a Congressional deal to codify the Obama administration’s blanket deportation shields and work permits for 800,000 illegal immigrant students if the Supreme Court strikes the deal down.

    Koch operatives send out weekly press releases urging Congress to “Protect Dreamers Now,” “Achieve a permanent solution for Dreamers” (hint: It’s not deportation), and “act promptly on relief for Dreamers.” Along with the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, LIBRE sponsored a “pop-up art exhibit” propagandizing the benefits of illegal immigrant Dreamers to coincide with their march on Washington on Tuesday.

    http://www.theconservativeinsider.com/meet-the-american-students-last-lobby/?roi=echo3-58066923971-53459326-4b5a23fda085d61e008bb5f203ba76df

  29. Abrar Fahad: Bangladesh police charge 25 over murder (BBC, Nov 13, 2019)
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50409831

    “Bangladesh police have charged 25 people following the killing of 21-year-old student in October.

    Abrar Fahad was beaten to death by fellow students at one of Bangladesh’s top universities, after posting criticism of government policy on social media.

    His death sparked protests at university campuses across the country.

    Police say 11 of those charged were directly involved in the killing, while the others helped organise the attack.

    Many of the students charged were members of the youth wing of the Awami League, the ruling political party in Bangladesh.

    The group, called the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), has been widely accused of using torture and extortion against students…”

  30. FBI: Michigan Muslim Engineer STOLE and SENT Confidential Nuclear/Tech Data to Iran

    https://gellerreport.com/2019/11/mich-muslim-stealtech-data-4-iran.html/

    FBI: Michigan engineer sent confidential tech data to Iran

    The FBI complaint accused the Iranian national of stealing confidential information and technical data from an unidentified company January 2015 through June 2016.

    By Sydney Dennen, J Post, November 12, 2019:

    A Michigan man is now in FBI custody after being accused of stealing and sending confidential tech information to his brother who has contacts with Iran’s nuclear weapon industry.

    Amin Hasanzadeh, an Iranian military vet, is a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan and hardware engineer. He made his first court appearance on Wednesday on charges of fraud – he did not disclose that he had been in the Iranian military – and “interstate transportation of stolen property,” according to NPR.

    The federal defense office in Detroit says that Hasanzadeh has still not been appointed a lawye