Category Archives: Totalitarianism

Finnish officials mull taking children into care over low-carb diet

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Finland is getting to be as totalitarian as England or California.

Mind you I don’t know if in California they actually take your children away from you because your ideas of proper diet vary from officialdom. Say, if you don’t feed your kids an organic vegan diet or something like that. But i bet lots and lots of people would like to.

Helsinkikittimes:

Domestic news – General Monday, 28 November 2011 13:32

Finnish officials have told a family of low-carbohydrate enthusiasts that their children would be taken into care if they failed to heed nutrition advice, provincial paper Iisalmen Sanomat reported Sunday.

Ursula Schwab, a clinical nutrition specialist at the University of East Finland, said at least one family had received such an ultimatum after parents ignored healthcare staff’s warnings about the dangers of an imbalanced diet for children.

“If a child’s growth slows down because of a poor diet, one must send a wakeup call to parents,” Schwab told the Finnish News Agency.

“Should this prove ineffective, the child must be moved to a place where he receives enough nutrition.”

Schwab added that she knew of parents who had put toddlers on so-called low-carb diets.

“A strict low-carb diet is very fatty, and it suppresses hunger. If you down eggs and bacon for breakfast it will take hours before you can even imagine eating again.”

“A growing child needs a varied diet.”

STT
Photograph: Lehtikuva – Sari Gustafsson

Military police burn medical supplies, detain doctors

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Al Masry Al Youm

Doctors and volunteers treat patients at a makeshift field hospital in a mosque behind Tahrir Square.
Photographed by Jano Charbel

Military police burned medical supplies and detained a number of doctors at the field hospital at Omar Makram Mosque on Saturday, Ahmed Hussein, a board member of Egypt’s Doctors Syndicate, told Al-Badeel newspaper.

Hussein added that three injured people, Mohamed Mahmoud Hanafy, Mohamed Abou Soud, and Tamer Ismail, who left the hospital to seek x-ray examinations, have disappeared.

The Omar Makram Mosque is located in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

The Tahrir Doctors Organization published a statement on its Facebook page saying that 15 doctors and nine injured people, some in serious condition, are being held inside the Omar Makram Mosque. The statement added that military police threatened to arrest doctors if they attempted to leave.
Several doctors have been arrested by military and intelligence members in other field hospitals in mosques and churches, the statement added.

The Tahrir Doctors Organization said that those responsible for this situation are the military, political forces, and everyone else who could have acted quickly to save people’s lives and secure paramedics and doctors in the field.

Violence has continued for a second day in Cairo after members of the police and army clashed with protesters staging a sit-in outside the cabinet building in the early hours of Friday morning. At least 8 people have died and hundreds have been injured, according to the Ministry of Health.

In England, the life of sexual deviants are worth twice the life of straight men and women.

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Just another symptom of totalitarianism, when you take away the ability of a judge to factor motive in sentencing for a crime and force the issue on ideological grounds. Clearly, we lost the cold war.

By the way, no slight is meant by ‘deviant’. Any activity which deviates from the norm, is deviant. That is how I mean it, not as a rhetorical device.

From Google News:

Longer sentences for hate murders

(UKPA)  Murderers motivated by hostility towards disabled or transgender victims will face life sentences with a starting point of 30 years, after a pre-operative transgender prostitute was murdered in London.

Kenneth Clarke doubled the length of sentence which judges use to calculate the minimum term offenders must serve behind bars, saying hate crimes were abhorrent.

Killers “should be in no doubt that they face a more severe sentence for these unacceptable crimes”, he said on Thursday. Continue Reading →

ARAB CONFERENCE: DON’T BE SCARED OF POLITICAL ISLAM

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The Arab winter of fundamentalist delight

 

Take the time to read Barry Rubin’s latest: When Romanticism Trumps Reason You Get Radical Chic Catastrophes

To put it in one sentence, what made the Middle East different from every other place in the world is that there the Nazi collaborators won. They weren’t just clients or students of the German national socialists but rather on an equal footing, with parallel ideas of their own. These included hatred of the West, desire to commit genocide against the Jews, belief that a repressive regime was best able to achieve progress, a willingness to fight for total victory rather than compromise, and similar characteristics.

What makes this evaluation incredibly timely is that the “Arab Spring’ is not changing this tradition but merely continuing it. The radicals defeated the moderates in the 1930s and early 1940s but were set back by their foolish alliance with the Axis. They then came back in the late 1940s and the 1950s to wipe out the moderates completely, seizing power in most of the Arab world and intellectual hegemony in all of it. The nationalist radicals also suppressed their old Islamist partners

There is nothing in the Middle East to be joyful about, other than Israel still existing as a Jewish state despite the odds. The Arabs/Muslims of the region are so deep in the hole, that even when they’re looking up, they’re still seeing down. The region is being set up for a major conflagration, and the near sighted, ignoramus West is in part to blame. KGS

H/T: Fjordman

Arab Spring:conference, don’t be afraid of political Islam

Director of American Studies Centre, acid test after elections

(ANSAmed) – ROME – People must not be frightened by election results in Tunisia and Morocco, which have seen victories for Islamic parties like Ennadha and Justice and Development, but must watch closely to see what the parties are able to do. This, in short, is the message sent out yesterday at the end of a study day dedicated to the Arab Spring and the future of Euro-Mediterranean partnership, which was organised by the French embassy in Italy and by the Ecole Francaise de Rome.

“Slogans such as ‘Allah is the solution’ should not scare anyone,” said the director of the American Studies Centre, Karim Mezran, in his speech. “The solution now is no longer Allah. From now on they are the solution”. Once they have been democratically elected, Mezran said, “exponents of Islamic parties will have no more alibis. They will no longer be able to keep hiding behind a slogan but will instead need to answer to the people who have elected them”.

The best consequence that the Arab uprisings have so far produced is to “bring Islam out into the open”, he added. Now, Mezran believes, those elected must show what they can do and in which direction they intend to go. For this reason “we must not be afraid”. The issue now, if anything, is to understand what Europe and the West are able to achieve. So far, they have done almost nothing, according to the EU’s special representative for the southern Mediterranean region, Bernardino Leon.

“Europe and the West have been unable to respond swiftly to this political and social earthquake within the Arab world. Now Europe must act, providing economic help for countries going through a period of transition”. For this reason, Leon continued, “in the next two months new task forces will leave for Jordan, Morocco and Egypt, and perhaps even Libya”.

More here.

Egyptian Military Using Nerve Gas on Protesters

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Thanks Richard:

From NEWSMAX:

The Egyptian military has been using a banned chemical agent to deal with hundreds of thousands of protesters, according to several news sources.

At least 23 Egyptians have died and more than 1,700 have succumbed to a lethal gas military forces have been using during the past three days in clashes in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

The International Business Times reports that demonstrators have been struck with “dangerous levels of CR gas over the past two days of protests” and Australia’s The Age said Wednesday that the canisters are marked “Made in the USA.”

CR gas is an intense and lethal version of CS gas, called “tear gas,” widely used by police for crowd control. Continue Reading →

Orientalist, Hans Jansen speaks on the totalitarian instincts of man and Islam’s turn to implement it.

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Hans Jansen was one of the three people permitted to give evidence at the trial of Geert Wilders last year. His testimony, which I subtitled and several volunteers were kind enough to translate, was some of the best thinking on the issue of Islam and the west I have ever read.

This video is part of my attempt to restore the best from my deleted youtube channel to MRCTV. It is difficult because my back-ups are all over the place largely. But when I find one I will try and restore it.

This is from June 2010 and also has Ayaan Hirsi Aly.

Who is more totalitarian, Afghanistan, or the EU?

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This story makes me rather ill. To recap so far,

A Danish film maker does a documentary about Afghanistan and women’s (lack of) rights there.

Her film is then banned by some (until now) unelected faceless bureaucrat at the European Union because he is afraid of making the Afghan justice system look bad. The exact point of the fifth estate is in fact, to expose the horrors of government institutions and even private ones, so the EU banning a documentary for telling the truth strikes me as every bit as bad as what the Afghans are doing to their women. Worse in that Afghan women know they can expect this at least.

The subtext the EU bureaucrat uses, is that it might endanger the life of the young woman languishing in an Afghan jail. At least the EU was smart enough to make-up a reason that would be more palatable to those EUropeans still living in the gossamer-thin illusion that they live in a democracy.

Next, the Danish film maker goes back to Afghanistan where she says quite clearly that she wants Europeans to see her in jail, to know what happened to her specifically to embarrass the Karzai government in the hopes something will change. Again, this is the entire point of mass media. This woman could have been a student of Thomas Jefferson.

This of course shows that there is only one reason the EU bans the documentary. To not make Islam or Islamic law look bad, merely because it is bad. The EU does not lift the ban even though the victim explains how much she wants this information to get out.

Now, the Afghan government is offering her a ‘get-out-of-jail early card if she marries her rapist.

Watch the EU bureaucrat explain why he banned a film for all Europeans. Clearly Western EUrope lost the cold war. Truth, takes a distant back seat to convenience for a few.

“In the past two weeks we’ve witnessed a coup d’état”

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Peter Hitchens chillingly reflects in the London Daily Mail today (How long before the grey dictators march on London?) on how the European Union is entering a frighteningly authoritarian endgame:

Civilian juntas have seized power in Rome and Athens. Soon, similar gangs of grey men may be sweeping aside national governments in Madrid and Lisbon. Nobody much [in the media] is protesting. In time – don’t rule it out – it could be our turn here [in Britain]…

Our ruling Left-wing elite seem oddly untroubled by the ruthless snuffing-out of national sovereignty across southern Europe. If the same thing had been done by a bunch of colonels, they would have been piously outraged…

But of course these putsches are the work of the European Union, a project the Left have long supported. And the EU is more subtle than any colonels. There is no need for midnight arrests or tanks on the streets. The enormous invisible power of the EU’s law and institutions gets its way without any need for such things.

He continues.

The sheer dictatorial nerve of Italy’s new viceroy, Mario Monti, is impressive. He has formed a government without a single elected politician in it…

Once again, please pay close attention. This is the best warning you will ever get of what the EU is really about. It is an empire, in which the great nations of Europe, including ours, are intended to disappear for ever.

What’s taking place in Europe should stagger and frighten us all, but it doesn’t seem to affect the populous, and it’s true horror is not even momentarily permeating the mainstream media. Maybe because it’s all happening so smoothly, so effortlessly? It’s almost as if the European system had been gently and deliberately designed for decades, with the aim of facilitating precisely such a total removal of democracy, and its substitution with a Euro-statist technocracy.

The British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, also this week, very adroitly summarized events in the following speech to the European Parliament.

The fecal irony of British policy.

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Usually irony is described as wry. I understand that. Usually it brings a kind of half-smile. The irony of arresting over 160 members of the EDL before they have done a single thing, and when it was well publicized that their intention was nothing more than to show respect for those who fought and died to give and defend freedom to British patriots, well that is a irony that requires at the very least an anti-emetic if not an army sent from Roto-Rooter.

Simply put, arresting people who wanted to attend a ceremony commemorating those who fought for freedom…. makes one wonder who or what actually won the war. Perhaps more accurately, who inherited the Kingdom from those who did win it.

Below, a first hand account from an EDL member who was there…

London 11/11/11

I arrived at Westminster tube station at around 10.30 am. There was a minimal police presence, even outside the two pubs that I passed that were full of EDL supporters who I recognized. From previous events, I knew the police could quickly surround groups of people and contain them for long periods of time, waiting for an excuse to arrest someone or cause trouble, even if they had to attack people with batons and dogs, like in Rochdale. I didn’t particularly fancy being contained like cattle today, as I was there to pay my respects to our fallen war heroes and experience being at the cenotaph to do it, I didn’t want the police to take this opportunity away from me. Continue Reading →

Police arrest EDL supporters ‘to prevent breach of peace’

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More evidence that England is becoming more and more unabashedly totalitarian. Over 100 EDL members have been arrested for a pre-crime. Police concern that the EDL may respond in a provocative way to Muslims attempting to dishonour and disrupt the proceedings at the remembrance ceremony today caused them to arrest 165 or so EDL members.

Well then. Perhaps the EDL should start arresting members of Parliament in case they might do something treasonous during their term in office. Hell there are a hundred things the EDL could justifiably do once you accept the notion of pre-crime. I think it’s well past time that the government at the highest levels in the UK sit down and re-evaluate what exactly their values are. That is, if they have any left. (additional material here from the Daily Mail)

From the Guardian.

Scotland Yard says it has arrested 156 English Defence League supporters, who may have planned to target Occupy London

Red Lion pub

Police surround the Red Lion pub in Westminster, where dozens of EDL supporters were arrested. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Police have arrested 156 supporters of the English Defence League in order to prevent a breach of the peace, Scotland Yard said.

It is understood the EDL supporters were planning to target Occupy LSX protesters outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

The EDL followers were arrested outside the Red Lion pub, in Westminster, and taken to central London police stations. Continue Reading →

This was the week that European democracy died

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 The plan to tackle the eurozone crisis will only render ordinary people more powerless.

Protesters in Athens demonstrate against German plans for their economy - Democracy in Europe died last week

Protesters in Athens demonstrate against German plans for their economy Photo: EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU

9:00PM BST 29 Oct 2011

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Democracy went down in a blaze of glory last week. Both the German Bundestag and our own House of Commons put up one hell of a fight against the dying of the light. Maybe history will record that fact in an elegy on the demise of the great 18th-century experiment in government by the people: they were eloquent to the end. Because at the end, eloquence was all they had.

Trying to hold back the resurgence of oligarchy – the final dismantling of democratic responsibility in the governing of Europe – has been looking pretty hopeless for a long time. That eruption of excellent rhetoric and faultless argument which sprang to the defence of the rights of the governed (and in Germany’s case, of constitutional legality) made the loss seem all the more tragic, but no less inevitable.

So this is where we are. The agreed EU “stability union” triumphantly paraded before the media in Brussels will have the power to approve or disapprove budgets of countries in the eurozone – that is, to vet and police them – before they are submitted to the elected parliaments of those countries. In other words, parliaments which are directly mandated by, and answerable to, their own populations will not control the most essential functions of government: decisions on taxation and spending. Even without the ultimate institutions of economic and political union, which still elude the EU, actual power over fiscal policy will be taken from the hands of national leaders. And if, as a voter, you cannot influence your prospective government’s tax and spending policies, what exactly are you voting for? Continue Reading →

David Cameron betrays the British people. Again.

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Quite stunning really. Its like the Royal flush of treason and betrayal. He has denied the right to self determination of England and he people in the E.U. as well as aiding and abetting, hell funding the Islamic domination of his own people and literal destruction of the very history of the British people and her accomplishments by changing the educational system to deny it.

If I were British I would be arrested now just for what I am thinking.

Fortunately I am not.