Reader’s Links, November 15, 2019

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120 Replies to “Reader’s Links, November 15, 2019”

    • People should never cede territory. The globalists who are perpetrating demographic genocide benefit when people leave.

      • Not sure about that. If there are 50 good and valuable people left in a town which is all left and Islamic, then a strategic retreat to where they can do good until a renewed attempt to take back the territory seems a more practical plan than holding unholdable ground. Any classically minded person in Malmo or Saville Town should probably move to somewhere provably Western in thought and law, and start working towards the new Reconquista.

        • You are both right you make a strategic retreat to a more defensible position where you start planning your return to the place you were pushed out of.

          During WWII when MacArthur was ordered out of the Philippines he started a propaganda campaign of “I Shall Return”, the people out side the Philippines made fun of that statement but it was one of the best propaganda campaigns of the war. You can retreat without ceding ownership of the territory.

          Another things that needs to be done is to stop thinking of defensive moves and start thinking of offensive moves. At the Battle of Tobruk when the Brits holding the city were surrounded the commanding General made the (very true) statement that defense is a state of mind that he didn’t want the garrison to develop. He ordered smalll scale attacks on the Germans every night. We are seeing a lot of people (including Katie Hopkins) who are talking about the Europeans retreating to a strong point for a valiant last stand. You retreat to a more defensible position to prepare for and plan you return in force.

          We see too many people who are talking about running to some place that is safe but there is no safe space. We either accept the fact that the world is returning to the historical norm of small to medium scale military violence as a way of live or we join the failed societies on the dust heap of history while others who are willing to adapt to the historical norm grow and create new cultures and civilizations.

          We can fight and win or we can surrender and die.

          • “…you can retreat without ceding ownership of the territory…”

            Isn’t this Exactly what the Muslims have done since they lost their caliphate?

        • What about ceding ground that doesn’t need to be given up? Only for a tactic right? But that’s not what’s happening. The opponent is dictating the tempo and the locations.
          And most don’t even know the where. Most people don’t care to map it out.

  2. IDF attacks Islamic Jihad targets

    …According to an IDF statement, IDF fighter jets and aircraft attacked a military compound that was used, among other things, as a site for the production of components used to make rockets.

    In addition, the headquarters of the terrorist organization’s Khan Yunis division, which houses the offices of several Islamic commanders, was attacked.…

    The air strikes followed the continued rocket fire from Gaza towards Israel despite the ceasefire agreement which was supposed to take effect at 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning.

    On Thursday evening, around 10:00 p.m., two rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip toward the city of Sderot.…

    As a result of the ongoing attacks, local authorities in the Gaza envelope, Sderot and Ashkelon decided that schools and kindergartens will remain closed on Friday.

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/271703

    • Israelis in south brace for more rockets as barrages continue despite Gaza ceasefire

      Iron Dome intercepts rockets over Sderot in fresh truce violation; schools to stay closed in Ashkelon, Sderot and Gaza border areas Friday; Gazans call for fresh rocket fire as Islamic Jihad spokesman says fighters still have ‘fingers on trigger’

      …In northerm Gaza, protesters took to the streets following a spontaneous social media drive to call for continued rocket strikes on Israeli population centers.

      Abu Hamza, the spokesman for the Islamic Jihad military wing, said Thursday evening: “Our fighters in all military units still have their fingers on the trigger and are functioning in an integrated military system. They are at the disposal of the organization’s leadership.”

      https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5625816,00.html

    • These facts need to be published more often, one of our most effective offensive tactics (if we will use it) is to broadcast how the current radical left leaders in t he west are using the techniques developed in Stalinist Russian and Nazi Germany. Remove the support of the people who are still capable of thinking and the left has lost a major advantage.

  6. “Messages Are Being Projected By The [DS], Distractions On Deck, Incoming – Episode 2021b”
    X22Report – November 14, 2019

  7. Military Affairs: Did whacking al-Ata prevent two-front war?

    ‘On both the northern and southern fronts, the situation is tense and fragile and could deteriorate into a confrontation,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi said in late October. Israel was facing a complex set of threats among Iranian proxies and allies and was increasing its pace of preparations.

    We now know that one of those preparations was to strike Bahaa Abu al-Ata, who was planning terrorist attacks and had been deeply involved in Islamic Jihad’s escalation against Israel over the past year.

    …Al-Ata is just one person, but eliminating him was supposed to send a message to PIJ’s leadership and operators. Over the course of two days of fighting, Israel struck another two dozen PIJ members.

    The operation Israel planned took into account a harsh response from PIJ. The organization has thousands of rockets with ranges up to 80 km. The expected barrage of rockets was met with rounds of airstrikes designed to deter PIJ and deal it a significant blow, according to Israel. Terrorism infrastructure was hit, naval assets, tunnels, headquarters and rocket launchers. Israel is assessing how much impact this had.

    THE LARGER picture is that PIJ is Iran’s proxy in Gaza. This is not a relationship of convenience, as Hamas has with Iran. This is a direct relationship… The operation against PIJ should be seen as a way to reduce the chances of a two-front war, if and when there is another round of tensions with Iran in the north.

    In short, here is what happened.…
    https://www.jpost.com//Opinion/Military-Affairs-Did-whacking-al-Ata-prevent-two-front-war-607919

  10. Germany: Has the 14-year-old rape victim been made compliant with drugs by asylum seekers?+++
    In connection with the rape of a 14-year-old girl, the investigating authorities are examining whether the victim should be made compliant by narcotics. As reported, the 14-year-old was on her way to Ulm on the day before All Saints Day. Here she met one of the later suspects, whom she had met before. At that time, the police found out, the young person had already consumed alcohol. In this condition, she had agreed to go to an apartment in the Illertal with the suspects. According to the police, she had apparently been given drugs there. This was also a preliminary result of the toxicological investigations, which was available to the authorities. According to the results, various drugs had been diagnosed in the girl’s blood. This suggests the suspicion that the girl has been made compliant with drugs. The parents of the 14-year-old believed that the girl was accompanied by her friends, according to the investigators’ findings.
    More:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/11/germany-has-14-year-old-rape-victim.html

  11. Germany: After the rape of a 14-year-old girl by Muslims, the Lord Mayor of Ulm has to apologize for his Sharia-compliant remarks+++
    After the presumed rape of a 14-year-old girl, the Lord Mayor of Ulm, Gunter Czisch (Christian Democrats, CDU), has issued a statement that has provoked fierce criticism. On Thursday, the 56-year-old told the newspaper “Südwest Presse” how horrified he was. Ulm is a safe city, “but there is no absolute security”. The local politician thanked the police for their quick reaction. The constitutional state must now “show strength. No matter which state someone comes from”.But Czisch did not leave it at that in his first statement. Sentences followed, which after their publication caused massive criticism, among others in the social networks.”I wonder, though, what a 14-year-old girl is doing at night in Ulm. Parents have a duty to make sure that a minor girl doesn’t walk around the city alone. I say this so plainly because if we want to prevent such cases, we all have to take responsibility”, the Lord Mayor of Ulm continued.After the criticism of these statements, Czisch made a second statement in the late afternoon, according to newspaper Südwest Presse, in which he apologized and backed down.He deeply regretted that his initial statement was “misleading. “Of course, the girl is not to blame. The blame for this crime lies exclusively and unequivocally with the suspects.” He expressed his sympathy for the victim and his family.An employee of the Ulm city administration told the newspaper WELT in the evening that it was of course not Czisch’s intention to give the girl or her parents even part of the blame for the crime. Nevertheless, the basic statement “The world is as it is” remained – nobody could guarantee 100 percent security. “We must take care of each other.” And women, children and adolescents are particularly in need of protection.
    More:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/11/germany-after-rape-of-14-year-old-girl.html

  12. Former Swedish PM Attacks Denmark’s Border Controls: ‘Completely Fatal, Will Create War’ (sputniknews, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911151077311532-former-swedish-pm-attacks-denmarks-border-controls-completely-fatal-will-create-war/

    “The border controls were introduced following a blast against the Danish Tax Authority and a gang murder in the Danish capital, both of which were suspected to have a Swedish connection.

    Denmark’s recent move to introduce border checks following a string of violence described as being “imported” from its neighbour has sparked strong reactions in Sweden.

    Former Prime Minister and former leader of the liberal-conservative Moderate Party Fredrik Reinfeldt didn’t hold back when he blasted Copenhagen’s decision to introduce border controls and rebuked the neighbouring nation for a lack of cofidence that has since led to the restriction of free movement.

    “More borders, more walls, and more police. That’s what the Danes are doing now. Now the Danes are proud as they finally get to control all Swedes. They frame it like we have gone collectively mad in Sweden, so we cannot be admitted into Denmark, because then Denmark would be infected”, a noticeably annoyed Fredrik Reinfeldt exclaimed at the Swedish Fair at Gothia Towers in Gothenburg. “It is the kind of us-and-them think that currently reigns in the world. Completely fatal. It will only create new wars”, he added.

    However, his take was widely criticised on social media, as Reinfeldt, who at one point likened immigration to having children, is widely seen as the architect behind Sweden’s immigration policy.

    “The biggest fool in Sweden’s history. He should be held accountable for children being shot to death”, a user wrote.

    ?“He now has a clear overview of what his migration policy and ‘no walls’ talk is leading to. He still continues to churn out the same infantile propaganda as 10 years ago. Which means that: 1) He knew exactly what he was doing 2) This is precisely the social development he hoped for”, another one chimed in.

    Earlier this year, a heavy explosive charge was placed barely 60 centimetres from the main entrance to Danish Tax Authority. Within a week, two Swedes were charged in absentia, because it turned out that the explosives had been smuggled in from Sweden.

    “It should not be possible to travel from Sweden to Denmark and place dynamite in Copenhagen”, Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen said.

    Meanwhile, Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest city and part of the twin-country Øresund Region opposite Copenhagen, has seen an alarming spree of explosions and shootings tied to mobster infighting and gangland crime. Following the killing of a 15-year-old boy in a street shootout, tycoon Bert Karlsson, who runs a YouTube channel, called the condutions in Malmö, Sweden’s face to the outside world, catastrophic. To remedy them he called for extreme measures.

    “Send in the military there, and shut down the whole city”, Bert Karlsson suggested. “There must be an end. Only the military applies now. This is not right. You hardly dare to go home”, he said in a video recorded from Tenerife.

    During Reinfeldt’s tenure, which was marked by his trademark “Open your hearts” speech, where he called on Swedes to embrace mass immigration, the Moderate Party (previously known as the Right and sometimes referred to as the Conservatives) moved to the centre and embraced multiculturalism.”

  13. North Korea Lambasts Joe Biden as ‘Rabid Dog in Final Stage of Dementia’ (sputniknews, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/201911151077315727-north-korea-lambasts-joe-biden-as-rabid-dog-in-final-stage-of-dementia/

    “North Korea previously called US Vice President Joe Biden “an imbecile” and “fool of low IQ” in May for calling their leader a dictator and tyrant.

    North Korea’s official KCNA news agency has launched a tirade against US Vice President Joe Biden in response to his unflattering comments about the country’s leader Kim Jong-un.

    The news agency likened Biden to a “rabid dog” that will soon pass away and needs to be put down. The media outlet went on to say that the vice president was manifesting the “final stage of dementia”.

    It is not immediately clear what insult the media is referring to; however, Biden has been on record accusing President Trump of pandering to Kim, whom the former vice president called a “murderous dictator”.

    “Such a guy had the temerity to dare slander the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK. It was the last-ditch efforts of the rabid dog expediting his death. Rabid dogs like Baiden [sic] can hurt lots of people if they are allowed to run about. They must be beaten to death with a stick, before it is too late”, the KCNA stated.

    At the same time, the news outlet applauded close personal ties between President Trump and the North Korean leader…”

  14. Raids Against Romanian Slavery Ring Find Dozens of Alleged Sex Trafficking Victims in London (sputniknews, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911151077316290-raids-romanian-slavery-ring-sex-trafficking-london/

    “Police have stormed 16 houses in the British capital, arresting alleged members of a Romanian gang suspected of smuggling women from Eastern Europe to sexually enslave them and force them into prostitution. The raids were part of a mop-up operation by UK law enforcement, as well as the Romanian police and Europol…”

  18. Germany: Syrian Clan members beat up a policeman and threaten him with murder – “Your prison sentences here in Germany are ridiculous.”+++
    The trial against three members of an Arab family clan has started in Halle.

    The tabloid BILD reports:

    In his videos Mazen A. (26 y.o) raps as “Maze618” about violence and mocks the police. On Thursday, he was handcuffed to the dock in Halle, with his brother Ahmed A. (23 y.o) and his father Fadel A.(48 y.o). The trio is said to have insulted, attacked and injured police officers in Naumburg.Background of the family feud with the police: Achmed A.’s driving license was to be confiscated.The Syrians are said to have shouted: “We do not recognize your legal system. Your prison sentences here in Germany are ridiculous.” And finally: ” We’ ve had enough boys, get out your guns, we’ ll shoot them!”
    More:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/11/germany-syrian-clan-members-beat-up.html

  19. ‘I’m struggling financially right now, I’m sinking’: Ethics probe into ‘squad’ member Rashida Tlaib reveals frantic messages she sent asking her congressional campaign to give her money for personal expenses (dailymail, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7689623/Ethics-probe-squad-member-Rashida-Tlaib-reveals-asked-campaign-money.html

    “Rashida Tlaib sent texts and emails begging staffers for campaign funds to help cover her expenses in a move that may have broken campaign finance laws.

    The House Ethics Committee revealed the messages Thursday as it announced it is extending an investigation into Tlaib that began in August, because there is ‘substantial reason to believe’ she violated rules and possibly committed a crime.

    In the messages, Tlaib can be seen asking senior staffers including future chief of staff Ryan Anderson for money, saying ‘I’m sinking’.

    Among the reasons she gives for needing the money are for ‘car maintenance, child care, other necessities’ and ‘to get out of debt’.

    The messages reveal that Tlaib began struggling financially while campaigning around April 2018, when she considered renting out her home and going back to work a second job with a previous employer.

    However, she was urged not to do this by staff including Steve Tobocman and Anthony Gooddeeris, who were afraid it would limit her time for campaigning.

    On April 4, Tlaib wrote in an email: ‘I am just not going to make it through the campaign without a stipend.

    ‘With the loss of a second income to lean back on, I am requesting $2,000 per two weeks but not exceeding $12,000.

    ‘The cost of living stipend is going towards much needed expenses due to campaigning that includes car maintenance, child care and other necessities.

    ‘Please let me know if I can proceed.’

    After discussing various finance options – including the use of private gifts – the campaign lit on the idea of paying her a stipend of $4,000 per month, which they believed was in line with the law.

    After a series of back-and-forth emails discussing the potential bad press if the scheme is discovered, finance records show the team ultimately went ahead with the idea.

    A series of checks reveal that between May and December 2018, Tlaib was paid a monthly stipend, typically in line with the $4,000 limit.

    However, in August she was handed three checks totalling $8,000, although she was not paid at all the previous month, perhaps explaining the discrepancy.

    Then in December, as the campaign was wrapping up, she was handed a single check for $15,500.

    At the bottom of the check it says ’11/16 – 12/31 adjustment.’

    In a written response, Tlaib’s legal team writes that she did nothing wrong by claiming the salary, and says the texts and emails show she clearly considered the legal implications before accepting the money.

    ‘In short, the facts as presented in the findings are entirely consistent with compliance with the law and House rules,’ a statement said.

    The statement also hits out at the Office of Congressional Ethics, saying it ‘exceeded its authority’ by recommending the ethics committee expand its probe.

    Lawyers also warns that the committee risks making itself a ‘partisan battleground’ by choosing to pursue an investigation against her.

    In its press release, the OEC said: ‘Tlaib’s campaign committee, Rashida Tlaib for Congress, reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes.

    ‘If Rep. Tlaib converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use, or if Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes, then Rep. Tlaib may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law.’

    Tlaib took office for Michigan’s 13th district on January 3 this year and quickly established herself as part of the Democrat ‘squad’ also featuring Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.

    The group have been among Trump’s most vocal critics and the targets of his most vicious attacks, including a suggestion that they should ‘go back to their home countries’.

    They have also been vocal proponents of impeachment, describing Trump as corrupt, with Tlaib the most outspoken among them.

    In front of video cameras, she once told a supporter rally that ‘we’re going to impeach the motherf***er.’

    Public hearings as part of the Democrat impeachment inquiry got underway this week, focusing on Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.”

  20. Egyptian Woman Fights Christian Persecution, Unequal Islamic Inheritance Laws (breitbart, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/11/15/egyptian-woman-fights-christian-persecution-unequal-islamic-inheritance-laws/

    “One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men.

    Since her father’s death last year, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has stood before three different judges to demand an equal share of the property left to her two brothers by their father. Yet courts have twice issued rulings against her, basing them on Islamic inheritance laws that favor male heirs.

    Nasrallah, a 40-year-old Christian human rights lawyer, is now challenging the rulings in a higher court. A final verdict is expected to be handed down later this month. She has formulated her case around Christian doctrine which dictates that heirs, regardless of their sex, receive equal shares.

    “It is not really about inheritance, my father did not leave us millions of Egyptian pounds,” she said. “I have the right to ask to be treated equally as my brothers.”

    Calls for equal inheritance rights began to reverberate across the Arab world after the Tunisian government had proposed a bill to this effect last year. Muslim feminists hailed the bill…”

  21. Rights group: Bosnian migrant camp “dangerous and inhumane” (abcnews, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rights-group-bosnian-migrant-camp-dangerous-inhumane-67035905

    “A prominent human rights group is warning that migrants trying to reach Western Europe are living in “dangerously cold and harsh conditions” in Bosnia, where tensions mounted further Friday over the influx of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty.

    Impoverished Bosnia has been overwhelmed by the arrival of migrants heading toward Europe along the so-called Balkan route. Most migrants flock to the northwest section of the Balkan country, which borders European Union member Croatia.

    This has led to tensions in the border region, with local authorities demanding that other parts of the country share the migrant burden and take in some of the more than 6,000 people staying in the area.

    The Doctors Without Borders group warned that “people may die without adequate shelter and other basic services” in Bosnia, where many migrants are sleeping in makeshift shelters and abandoned homes.

    “Four official centers for migrants exist, but services are inadequate and tensions are high, leading most people to stay elsewhere,” the report added.

    It singled out the improvised Vucjak refugee camp in northwestern Bosnia, describing it as a “dangerous and inhumane place” that does not meet minimum living standards. The camp is located on a landfill and next to a minefield from the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

    “People arrive at our clinic from Vucjak in flip flops, without socks or jackets, a lot of them suffering from respiratory infections and from skin diseases caused by the horrific living conditions,” said Nihal Osman, Doctors Without Borders’ deputy field coordinator. “It should be closed now.”

    In a bid to pressure the central Bosnian government to relocate some of the migrants, the regional government vowed to fully restrict migrant movements at the two main camps beginning Friday.

    Protests demanding the relocation of migrant centers were planned for later in the day.

    Bosnia’s central government has said it would turn two former army barracks in other parts of the country into new migrant facilities. This was hailed by the EU mission in Bosnia on Friday, which expressed hope that it would lead to the closure of the Vucjak camp.

    “We expect all the authorities in the country to continue working together in good faith to find ways for burden sharing and long-term solutions,” the EU said.

    Ethnically divided since the war, Bosnia has failed to come up with a unified, efficient response to the migrant crisis. Bosnian Serb part of the country has refused to accept any migrants on its territory and has blocked efforts to deploy the army to stem the influx of migrants from Serbia. Many other Bosnian regions have also rejected hosting refugee centers.

    A municipal official in Bihac, Ermic Zulic, said both Bosnia and the EU have failed to manage the migrant influx.

    “The situation is out of control, the situation has escalated,” he complained. “They are telling us that even greater number of migrants will be pouring in next year, so we had to react.”

    While many Bosnians have expressed sympathy with the migrants because of their own war experience, many also have protested their presence and demanded that the migrants be moved or restricted to the refugee camps.

    Fadil Dizdarevic, who lives close to the Bira camp in Bihac, said “we want this to stop, we want them out of here.”

    Bosnian guards were seen Friday at the entrance to the Bira camp to make sure that no new migrants arrived and a police car was parked outside.

    Migrants said police wouldn’t let them move freely about the town.

    “Everything is a problem, it’s cold and everybody is dirty,” said Obit Han from Afghanistan.”

  25. Hong Kong protests draw attention from US senators, Xi Jinping, activists in Brazil and London

  26. Slovak man convicted, sentenced after explosives found (abcnews, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/slovak-man-convicted-sentenced-explosives-found-67037425

    “A court in the Czech Republic has convicted a Slovak national of public endangerment and promoting terrorism and sentenced him to six-and-a-half years in prison.

    Two years ago, police seized chemicals that can be used to make explosives and videos on how to make them in Dominik Kobulnicky’s apartment in Prague.

    He also faced charges of planning a terror attack in the Czech capital but Prague’s Municipal Court ruled Friday there was not sufficient evidence for that.

    Friday’s verdict is not final and Kobulnicky can appeal.

    The 25-year-old who converted to Islam four years ago had pleaded not guilty. However, he admitted he had been planning a terror attack at a bus station in the eastern Slovak city of Presov several years ago.”

  28. ‘I’m struggling financially right now, I’m sinking’: Ethics probe into ‘squad’ member Rashida Tlaib reveals frantic messages she sent asking her congressional campaign to give her money for personal expenses
    Rashida Tlaib is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly violating finance laws by using campaign money for personal expenses
    Committee released texts and emails showing her begging for financial help
    Also released series of checks showing she was paid up to $15,500 by campaign
    Committee has expanded probe, saying there is ‘a substantial reason to believe’ that funds were used in a way that broke the law
    Tlaib says the payments were part of a salary she is legally allowed to receive

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7689623/Ethics-probe-squad-member-Rashida-Tlaib-reveals-asked-campaign-money.html

    • Highway blockade reveals splits in Hong Kong protest movement

      HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters partially unblocked a key highway on Friday and then blocked it again during the evening rush hour, exposing splits in a movement that has been largely leaderless in months of often violent unrest.

      The Tolo highway runs along the side of the leafy campus of Chinese University. Protesters blocked it this week and clashed with police, throwing debris and petrol bombs on to the road linking the largely rural New Territories with the Kowloon peninsula to the south.

      https://www.oann.com/hong-kong-condemns-london-attack-on-justice-secretary-as-protests-rumble-on/

  31. Turkey detains 4 elected mayors on terror charges (abcnews, Nov 15, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-detains-elected-mayors-terror-charges-67034922

    “Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained four mayors over their suspected links to Kurdish rebels, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the country’s pro-Kurdish party.

    Anadolu Agency said the mayors of the towns of Savur, Derik and Mazidagi in Mardin province and the town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province were detained along with some 20 municipality officials on Friday.

    The mayors, members of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, were elected into office in March.

    The government accuses the party of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

    Some 20 HDP mayors have been removed from office and replaced with government appointees, and 14 of them have been jailed.

    Seven former HDP lawmakers, including former chairman Selahattin Demirtas, are also in prison.”

  33. Chinese killer robots sold to Middle East will leave ‘every human dead’

    Fears that ‘fully autonomous’ military drones sold by China to Middle East countries could have dire results with the machines able to decide on who lives and dies

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    China is selling its most advanced “fully autonomous” military drones with fears that it could lead to a bloodbath in the Middle East.

    The Asian superpower is reportedly selling AI-enhanced combat drones to the region, with potentially disastrous consequences.

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/chinese-killer-robots-sold-middle-20882729

  35. We may want to have an impeachment process (and maybe even a trial in the Senate)
    By J.E. Dyer November 15, 2019

    yler O’Neil has a great article at PJ Media summarizing points made by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in the faux-quasi-para-impeachment “inquiry” Thing hearing on Wednesday.

    The series of hearings is being run by the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Adam Schiff (D-CA), and bears no resemblance to due process of law. Intelligence has got it like that; as John Brennan said to Congress in 2017, “I don’t do evidence.”

    Brennan’s point was exaggerated for effect (intelligence does require evidence as part of the cycle of its work). But it’s true that evidence, as statutory law requires it, is not job one for intelligence. That’s because intelligence is about prevision, preemption, and the fortunes of policy. Law, which uses intelligence but is not intelligence and cannot operate like intelligence, is about enforcement.

    Law, properly administered, doesn’t produce witnesses ponderously recounting their dismay at learning that someone else had been appalled by what he perceived the president’s policy to entail. Might as well parade 50 million TV-watching Americans through the witness chair if that’s all you’ve got. Heck, I could testify to my dismay at any number of second- and third-hand accounts of who was appalled about what in the Trump administration, for all the good it would do us.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/11/15/we-may-want-to-have-an-impeachment-process-and-maybe-even-a-trial-in-the-senate/

    Richard: Done properly a Senate trial will destroy the left for many years if not decades, what we have to decide is if the potential rewards are worth the gamble.

  36. UK – FAITH ROW Judge slams council after three Muslim children were ‘fed bacon sandwiches while in foster care’

    MUSLIM children were fed bacon sandwiches when they were taken into foster care, a court has heard.

    The three siblings — all under 16 — were removed from their parents over concerns about domestic violence in the family home.

    They were placed with non-Muslim foster carers who gave them bacon sandwiches and bacon and eggs for breakfast.

    One of the children also ate a hot dog at a fair.

    Their carers allegedly told them: “If we make bacon, you eat it.”

    The father accused the council in Yorkshire of “playing God” with his children by ignoring their Islamic faith. And Judge Angela Finnerty said she “shared the abhorrence of the parents”.

    The children’s care has been at the centre of a four-year battle after the father was accused of being violent and abusive towards their mother.

    He told the judge: “One matter that sits terribly with me is that they have been feeding my children bacon. You yourself told them not to feed my children pork products.”

    The mother added: “I have never used my culture throughout all these proceedings but there is a limit to my patience.”

    She also told a social worker the council “don’t like Muslims, they don’t want Muslim kids to be raised as Muslims by Muslim parents”.

    The foster parents said the children were Westernised and had turned their backs on religion.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10314187/muslim-kids-fed-bacon-foster-care/amp/

  37. Adam Schiff’s first witness today was herself accused of obstruction of justice and perjury
    By Jeff Dunetz November 15, 2019

    Round Two of Adam Schiff’s impeachment farce is scheduled to start this morning at 10 a.m. The star witness is former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was fired by Donald Trump on May 20, two months before the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. She is being called with the purpose of furthering smearing the president.

    Yovanovitch has been accused by Ukrainian prosecutors of preventing criminal evidence from being given to AG William Barr and was exposed as lying under oath during her testimony to Adam Schiff’s double secret hearings in the congressional basement.

    This past April, Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Prosecutor General’s International Legal Cooperation Department, told The Hill’s John Solomon that “he and other senior law enforcement officials tried unsuccessfully since last year to get visas from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev to deliver their evidence to Washington.”

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/11/15/adam-schiffs-first-witness-today-was-herself-accused-of-obstruction-of-justice-and-perjury/

  38. Papa Francesco lancia l’allarme: “Certi politici parlano come Hitler”

    Papa Francesco denuncia nuove “persecuzioni degli ebrei, degli zingari e delle persone di orientamento omosessuale”. E accusa: “L’antipolitica aiuta il potere autoritario”

    Ricevendo i partecipanti al XX congresso mondiale dell’Associazione internazionale di diritto penale, come riporta il sito online Vatican News, papa Francesco torna a denunciare la “cultura dell’odio”, che a suo avviso sta rapidamente degenerando nel riemergere di episodi e azioni “tipiche del nazismo”, e il “sentimento di antipolitica” di cui “beneficiano coloro che aspirano a esercitare un potere autoritario”.

    Il nazismo di ritorno

    http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/papa-francesco-lancia-lallarme-certi-poltici-parlano-hitler-1784936.html

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    Pope: certain politicians speak like Hitler

    https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2019-11-15—pope–certain-politicians-speak-like-hitler-.BkgnDqEhjr.html

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    REUTERS – Pope compares politicians who rage against gays to Hitler

    VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler.

    “It is not coincidental that at times there is a resurgence of symbols typical of Nazism,” Francis said in an address to participants of an international conference on criminal law.

    “And I must confess to you that when I hear a speech (by) someone responsible for order or for a government, I think of speeches by Hitler in 1934, 1936,” he said, departing from his prepared address.

    “With the persecution of Jews, gypsies, and people with homosexual tendencies, today these actions are typical (and) represent ‘par excellence’ a culture of waste and hate. That is what was done in those days and today it is happening again.”

    During the 1933-45 Nazi regime in Germany, six million Jews were killed and homosexuals and gypsies were among those sent to extermination camps.

    Pope Francis did not name any politicians or countries as the targets of his criticism.

    In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro had a history of making homophobic, racist and sexist public remarks before he took office on Jan. 1. He told one interviewer he would rather have a dead son than a gay son.

    In May, Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah extended a moratorium on the death penalty to incoming legislation prohibiting gay sex, seeking to temper a global backlash led by celebrities such as George Clooney and Elton John.

    The United Nations had warned Brunei it would be violating human rights by implementing Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality.

    In recent weeks, Pope Francis has also denounced a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe.

    On Wednesday, in improvised remarks at his general audience, he said: “Today the habit of persecuting Jews is beginning to be reborn. Brothers and sisters: this is neither human nor Christian; the Jews are our brothers and sisters and must not be persecuted! Understood?”

    Last week, a Vatican cardinal said he was “disgusted” by anti-Semitic abuse directed at an 89-year-old Italian senator and Holocaust survivor, who was given police protection after receiving death threats.

    In July, a European Union study said young Jewish Europeans experience more anti-Semitism than their parents, with a rise in abuse coming in emails, text messages and social media postings.

    More than 80% of Jews of all ages said they felt anti-Semitism had increased on the Internet over the past five years and around 70% said they faced more hostility in public, the study found.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-lgbt-hitler/pope-compares-politicians-who-rage-against-gays-to-hitler-idUSKBN1XP1MM

  39. Schiff delivers message to Trump in chaotic open to hearing

    Chairman Adam Schiff clashes with Reps. Jim Jordan and Elise Stafanik at the onset of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s public testimony.

    • Yovanovitch calls Trump tweets very intimidating

      Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch says President Donald Trump’s tweets during her testimony in the impeachment hearings are “very intimidating.” Trump tweeted: “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.”

    • Stefanik Gets Democrats’ Top Witness to Admit That Obama Admin Knew Hunter Biden’s Corruption Was a Problem

      • “I’M ABOUT TO GAVEL YOU DOWN”: Schiff warns Jordan during impeachment hearing

        Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, pointed her finger at Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani while detailing her sudden removal from her diplomatic post this year, as a new transcript between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was released and the president said every place she worked “turned bad.”

        On the second day of nationally-televised impeachment testimony, Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who served both Republican and Democratic presidents, relayed her story of being suddenly recalled by Trump in May, saying she believes Giuliani played a key role in telling people she was not sufficiently supportive of the president.

        “I do not understand Mr. Giuliani’s motives for attacking me, nor can I offer an opinion on whether he believed the allegations he spread about me,” Yovanovitch said.

        She argued the efforts against her by the president’s allies hindered her work.

        “If our chief representative is kneecapped, it limits our effectiveness to safeguard the vital national security interests of the United States,” Yovanovitch said.

        After the hearing started, Trump began attacking her, tweeting, “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.” He added, “It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.”

    • Rober Ray: No end to how far Dems will go to impeach

      Ukrainian Official Says Fired Ambassador Yovanovitch Lied About Her Target List

  40. Greta Thunberg: Trump is ‘so extreme’ that he helps climate activists

    Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg tells AFP that US President Donald Trump’s climate change denial is “so extreme” that it has helped galvanise the movement to halt long term planetary warning.

    She was speaking to AFP on the eve of her departure from North America where she has spent almost three months.

  41. AFPravda – Baghouz, the end of the caliphate

    After the fall of Syria’s Baghouz in the spring of 2019, AFP recaps its coverage of the final weeks of fighting by the Syrian Democratic Forces against the last holdout of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate”, the world’s most feared Muslim organisation.

  45. Military cadets, families were profiled long before the coup attempt, secret documents reveal

    Turkish intelligence agencies secretly investigated thousands of cadets at military academies and high schools and looked into their families in order uncover any links to government critic the Gulen movement, confidential documents obtained by Nordic Monitor show.

    The documents laid bare of the real motive behind a massive purge of cadets and the closure of military schools immediately after a failed coup on July 15, 2016 that was deemed by many observers to be a false flag operation to transform NATO’s second largest army into a bastion for Islamists and neo-nationalists. The documents reveal that the intelligence agencies found no link to the Gulen group in almost all cases in which an investigation was requested.

    The allegations leveled against the cadets turned out out to be fabricated in nearly every instance. In a very few cases some association was found through family members, which was not sufficient evidence for the military to dismiss the cadets under the laws in force at the time, which barred any punishment by reason of guilt by association.

    This revelation explains why the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan orchestrated a limited mobilization during the 2016 events with the involvement of hundreds of cadets who were sent unarmed into the streets on the pretext of a military exercise. Although the evidence showed they did not participate into the failed coup and were acting in line with orders from their commanders, the government charged them with a crime and the courts convicted and sentenced the young students to life in prison. Using the coup as a pretext, all military schools were shut down and all students were dismissed.

    …President Erdogan said on July 12, 2017 that thanks to the state of emergency, they had gained ground against the Gulen movement. He also called the failed coup “a gift from God” a few hours after abortive putsch began.…

    https://www.nordicmonitor.com/2019/11/turkish-intelligence-agencies-illegally-investigated-military-students-and-their-families-before-the-coup-attempt/

  46. OMG! It’s Getting CRAZY!… Democrats Start Reading Off Trump’s Live Tweets During Schiff Show Trial! (VIDEO)

    INCREDIBLE!
    Adam Schiff interrupts testimony and started reading off President Trump’s mean tweets during fired Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony!

    OMG! It’s Getting CRAZY!… Democrats Start Reading Off Trump’s Live Tweets During Schiff Show Trial! (VIDEO)
    Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft November 15, 2019 414 Comments

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    INCREDIBLE!
    Adam Schiff interrupts testimony and started reading off President Trump’s mean tweets during fired Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony!

    This was insane!
    Schiff then threatens to use President Trump’s mean tweets to charge the US President with threatening the second-hand and corrupt Schiff sham witnesses.

    This is crazy!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/omg-its-getting-crazy-democrats-start-reading-off-trumps-live-tweets-during-schiff-show-trial-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  47. WOW! Pompous Blowhard and Fired Ambassador Yovanovitch Compares Herself to US Hostages in Tehran and The Benghazi Four! (VIDEO)

    Fired Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified on Friday before the Adam Schiff show trial.

    Yovanovitch made it through auditions in the basement star chamber and Democrats are hoping she can revive their failed narrative that President Trump committed quid-pro-quo, extortion, bribery in his July phone call with the Ukrainian president.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/wow-pompous-blowhard-and-fired-ambassador-yovanovitch-compares-herself-to-us-hostages-in-tehran-and-the-benghazi-four-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

  48. LIGHTS OUT: Watch a Defeated Yovanovitch Admit She Has No Knowledge of President Trump Accepting Bribes or Committing Crimes (VIDEO)

    Fired US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch appeared on Capitol Hill Friday to publicly whine that she got canned by President Trump.

    Yovanovitch, an Obama holdover, was fired in May of this year and she perjured herself in last month’s closed-door testimony.

    Ambassador Yovanovitch was not on the July 25 Trump-Zelensky phone call, but she’s one of Schiff’s star witnesses.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/lights-out-watch-a-defeated-yovanovitch-admit-she-has-no-knowledge-of-president-trump-accepting-bribes-or-committing-crimes-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily

  49. Caroline Glick:
    Our European ‘friends’

    Just as permitting the inherently hostile ECJ to adjudicate issues related to Israeli Jewish exports from Israeli-controlled territory was a mistake that harmed Israel, so Israel’s legitimization of the ICC will come back to haunt it.…

    To this end, the time has come to end the tax-exempt status of hostile European-funded and directed NGOs.

    It is also time for Israel to act in the legal arena in jurisdictions that are not inherently hostile to the Jewish state. For instance, Israel should seek justice against the EU’s hostile and unfair trade practices at the World Trade Organization’s arbitration bodies and in US courts.

    But before Israel can do any of these things, government officials have to abandon their delusion that Europe is Israel’s enlightened ally with whom Israel can reason.

    Europe is not enlightened and it is not Israel’s ally. It is not susceptible to reason and evidence.

    It is a hostile post-national governing structure that is conducting political, diplomatic and economic warfare against Israel to harm the Jewish state and assist its enemies.

    So long as our leaders and our officials refuse to accept this basic truth, we will continue to experience defeat and discrimination as individuals and collectively at the hands of our European “friends.”

    https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/our-european-friends/

    [The whole article is smoking hot!
    People talk of Caroline as UN ambassador. I say it would waste her unique gifts. Immense credibility with U.S. and Israeli military, experience in key diplomatic initiatives, political savvy.]

  50. ‘Terror-supporting shill’ Rashida Tlaib tries to stir up sympathy for Palestinian terrorists firing rockets at Israeli civilians

    Earlier this week, the Israel Defense Forces launched a successful “precision strike” that left a Palestinian Islamic Jihad senior leader dead. Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have retaliated by firing rockets into Israel to target and kill civilians. The IDF is currently defending Israel against attacks from Gaza, where children are regularly used as human shields and sacrificed for purposes of terrorist propaganda.

    https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/11/14/terror-supporting-shill-rashida-tlaib-tries-to-stir-up-sympathy-for-palestinian-terrorists-firing-rockets-at-israeli-civilians/