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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Farrakhan: The American System Has to Be Taken Down
[Breitbart] Friday in Cleveland, OH at a "Justice Or Else!" rally for "10.10.15," the 20th anniversary of The Million Man March gathering being held in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 2015, Louis Farrakhan said for real racial justice to occur the way God intended the whole American system "has to be taken down" as evidenced by President Barack Obama being elected and still not being able to change anything.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2015 02:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It will be, and the hardest hit will be, guess who Louis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2015 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  let's start with Louis' bank accounts, then...
Posted by: Raj || 09/05/2015 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Million Man March Anniversary

"Math is hard": Barbie Farrakhan
Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2015 11:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Inciting a riot. Treason.

I would lock his little fake punk ass into a federal Penn immediately had I any say.

He has always been a scumbag lackey freak.
Posted by: newc || 09/05/2015 11:57 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Making sense of the “DNR coup”
In the evening of Friday, September 4, news came out from occupied Donetsk which ultimately boiled down to a shift of power in the Moscow proxie authorities, with Denis Pushilin replacing Andrey Purgin as speaker of “DNR’s” “parliament”.

This is probably the first time many outside observers found out “DNR” even has a parliament or that Andrei Purgin or Denis Pushilin exist. We’ve decided to help you understand what the turmoil in Donetsk means.
More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 09/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Economic WWIII?
h/t Gates of Vienna
Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced legislation that would deal a tremendous blow to the U.S. dollar. If Putin gets his way, and he almost certainly will, the U.S. dollar will be eliminated from trade between nations that belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States. In addition to Russia, that list of countries includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Obviously this would not mean "the death of the dollar", but it would be a very significant step toward the end of the era of the absolute dominance of the U.S. dollar. Most people don't realize this, but more U.S. dollars are actually used outside of the United States than are used inside this country. If the rest of the planet decides to stop accumulating dollars, using them to trade with one another, and loaning them back to us at ultra-low interest rates, we are going to be in for a world of hurt. Unfortunately for us, it is only a matter of time until that happens.
Especially, if you keep using affirmative action to select your leaders
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2015 07:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While this is undoubtedly true it is also very incomplete.
Why do all these countries trade using the dollar?

The fact that, until now, the dollar has been the only reliable, safe and stable currency around capable of providing the necessary service. (See Greece, Spain, Italy on the Euro)

The traders are not using dollars for sentimental or compassionate reasons. Until those reasons produce a different conclusion things will continue a pace.

Whatever happened to the Yen?

Of course this seems to be part of Zeros grand plan so.................................................
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2015 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Resurrecting Gosbank? Yet another step toward the old Soviet Union by Putin.
Posted by: OldSpook || 09/05/2015 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  So what the combined total GDP of those countries? About the same as California.

Want to buy all those nice things available in the West? Rubles are not accepted.
Posted by: Betty Hitler2611 || 09/05/2015 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  However did me manage prior to 1992?
Posted by: charger || 09/05/2015 12:45 Comments || Top||

#5  However did me manage prior to 1992?

You didn't have 47% on "government assistance"? The public sector was half of what it is now?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2015 13:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Grom nails it.
Posted by: OldSpook || 09/05/2015 14:04 Comments || Top||

#7  The public sector was half of what it is now

Yeah, but the service I get is twice as bad.
Posted by: Matt || 09/05/2015 16:02 Comments || Top||

#8  but?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/05/2015 19:40 Comments || Top||


Europe
'The Great Replacment'
[Right Scoop] It is a staggering humanitarian crisis: the largest refugee influx since World War II. More than 300,000 Africans and Asians have crossed Europe's border this year, double last year's pace. Hundreds more have died trying in just the past few weeks.

The other side of this tragedy is how it will change Europe. Non-Western migrants had already been flooding into Europe for decades. Leaders refused to stop it for many reasons. Some saw migrants as cheap labor. Others were afraid of being branded racists for opposing it.

But long before this present crisis, experts were asking if Europe would still be Europe if immigrants someday outnumbered natives.

It is a staggering humanitarian crisis: the largest refugee influx since World War II. More than 300,000 Africans and Asians have crossed Europe's border this year, double last year's pace. Hundreds more have died trying in just the past few weeks.

The other side of this tragedy is how it will change Europe. Non-Western migrants had already been flooding into Europe for decades. Leaders refused to stop it for many reasons. Some saw migrants as cheap labor. Others were afraid of being branded racists for opposing it.

But long before this present crisis, experts were asking if Europe would still be Europe if immigrants someday outnumbered natives.

The Great Replacement

"It's increasingly clear in Western European countries that as populations reach a tipping point, that there are increasing groups of people," George Igler, with London's Discourse Institute, told CBN News.

"If the political establishment continues to get its way, in five, in 10, in 15 years, how many Germans are going to be left in Germany?" he asked. "How many French people are going to be left in France? How many English people are going to be left in England?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2015 06:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "If the political establishment continues to get its way, in five, in 10, in 15 years, how many Germans are going to be left in Germany?" he asked. "How many French people are going to be left in France? How many English people are going to be left in England?"

Is this a bug, or?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2015 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Camps must be built, factories, gov't farms, etc. This is a crisis !
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2015 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?



--Bertolt Brecht,"Die Lösung" ("The Solution"), 1953.
Posted by: charger || 09/05/2015 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4  'In the Camp of the Saints' - a not-very-good book, but looking prescient.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/05/2015 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  If the Merkel administration had consciously made the decision "To dissolve the people And elect another" then what would they do differently?

Merkel's father Horst "Red Kasner" Kasner moved to East Germany in 1954, with the intent to help the likes of "The Secretary of the Writers' Union" assimilate the Protestant Churches into the totalitarian regime.

Merkel grew up in a family that hated Western civilization, and it shows.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/05/2015 17:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Genocide, Islam and Weaponized Empathy
[Declination] As some of my readers know, I am part Armenian by ancestry. It used to be a thing that didn’t enter into my daily thought process, for I am also partially of English descent and am fully American, in culture, language and appearance. Armenians can generally tell that I am of Armenian ancestry, but few others can. But as militant Islam made its presence felt, increasingly in recent years, that identity has resurfaced because of the connection my own family has to the affair.

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/05/2015 04:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Blacks in America lecture me about my White privilege, saying that their ancestors were slaves. Mine were slaves much more recently than theirs. Mine were slaughtered wholesale.

Long past time for somebody to say this---I'm only sad it wasn't an American Jew who said it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2015 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  But back to the central point, why, then, if America sheltered my family, must the West turn back the refugees of Syria, of Somalia, of Libya?

Because they bring the source of infection with them. ... These refugees, for all that my heart yearns to give them sanctuary and a place to escape to, nonetheless carry Islam with them.


Thanks, Elmerert Hupens2660. A great article.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2015 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Sadly, I have to agree with the author of that piece. I believe that we in the US should offer asylum only to ME Christians, what few Jews are left, the Yazidis, and maybe provisionally to Kurds. Muslims? Go to Saudi, the Gulf States - after all, isn't charity to other Muslims one of the Pillars?
We let in Somali refugees ... and never has a kind gesture been more evilly repaid.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 09/05/2015 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Only when ALL non-muslims admit pisslam is a cult, not a religion can any progress towards a cure be made. Such an admission will result in blood leaking from the ears of all in the Bush clan, and an "Aaaaaaahhhhhgh! I'm melting!" moment from shrillary. But that's the very least it will take.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2015 15:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Sindh's madressahs
[DAWN] THAT hard-line madressahs are an essential part of the structure of militancy in Pakistain is no secret.

These institutions provide manpower for many of the country's proscribed sectarian and jihadi groups, as well as logistics and infrastructure, besides promoting an obscurantist worldview.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
in recent times, the real challenge for the state has been countering radical seminaries, especially in light of the National Action Plan.

There has been some movement in this regard in both Sindh and Punjab. As reported on Friday, "jihadi literature" has been recovered after a madressah hostel was raided in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
; the material apparently belonged to a banned krazed killer group and was put up by a student, who is now in jug.

The raids on seminaries in Sindh have followed disclosures by the Sindh authorities last month that there were 49 madressahs with suspected links to terrorism across the province. Half of the suspected institutions are in Karachi.

Clearly, religious militancy has put down roots in Sindh, particularly in Karachi, as frequent sectarian violence in the metropolis -- as well as bloodshed in other districts, such as the devastating Shikarpur imambargah bombing in January -- shows.

Hence, the identification of 49 suspected madressahs seems a little surprising. After all, as per official estimates there are over 9,500 seminaries in Sindh; around 3,000 of these -- again mostly in Karachi -- are unregistered. Therefore, raiding a handful of institutions and picking up a few suspects will have no long-term effect on solving Sindh's militancy problem.

The process needs to be continuous and based on solid intelligence. Perhaps in comparison Sindh has performed better than Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

in this regard, where 'only' 20 suspected seminaries have been identified. Considering that Punjab is the ideological heartland of many Pak sectarian and jihadi krazed killer groups, that number has justifiably raised eyebrows. Whether it is Punjab, Sindh or the other provinces, action against hard-line seminaries must go beyond cosmetic measures and have lasting effects in order to uproot the support structure of militancy.
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Bilawal's choices
[DAWN] BILAWAL Bhutto Zardari has the name; but does he have the game?

From his track record to date, it would seem that he lacks the fire in the belly — and the instinct for the jugular — that propelled his mother and grandfather to the top. But it’s early days, and I could easily be wrong. I hope I am.

I think it was Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s astute and ruthless spin doctor, who once said: “In every crisis lies an opportunity.” The problem is in spotting it, and then exploiting it to the hilt.

The crisis for the PPP obviously lies in the ongoing Rangers-led crackdown on its leadership and their bagmen in Sindh. It has prompted Khursheed Shah, the party’s leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, as well as its supremo Asif Zardari, to hurl threats and accusations at the prime minister.

In fact, Zardari has reportedly ordered party cadres to protest at the arrests that have taken place. But Zardari is no Altaf Hussain and the PPP is not the MQM, so don’t hold your breath waiting for the jiyalas to take to the streets.

The idea of party diehards risking arrest for Dr Asim Hussain, Zardari’s crony and alleged frontman, is laughable. The very fact that Zardari was ordering his troops into battle from the safety of London says it all.
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  he lacks the fire in the belly — and the instinct for the jugular — that propelled his mother and grandfather to the top.

I interpret this as a criticism that he hasn't murdered any political opponents/family members yet.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/05/2015 21:36 Comments || Top||



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  'At least 50 dead' in Shebab attack on AU base: Western sources
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