[PJMedia] Drownings in the Mediterranean now account for 75% of all illegal immigrant deaths worldwide, the waterways filled with a constant stream of people from Africa and the Middle East fleeing their culture in the hope of re-establishing it again on the European shore. In 2014 the number topped 200,000 [1], twenty times greater than number than four years before. The numbers for 2015 are on track to equal 2014.
The overwhelming majority now come from Syria [2], which is largely destroyed. "The civil war, which began in 2011, has left over 220,000 dead so far. Over half the 22 million people of Syria have fled their homes since 2011. ... Even many Assad supporters, living in the parts of the country largely untouched by the war, are fleeing."
Under this enormous weight, the normal mechanisms of relief and compassion are breaking down. "Foreign donors are spending over $8 billion a year to keep these refugees outside Syria alive. Turkey and Lebanon have taken most of the refugees and Turkey is spending nearly $4 billion a year to support their portion." As in wars past, people smugglers are profiting from the desperation and shipping boatloads packed like sardines to Europe, many of whom drown at sea. The Mediterranean, says Time [3], is becoming a "mass grave".
Italy is constantly pulling people out of the water or from foundering vessels, dumped by people smugglers who are sure the Europeans will rescue them. Over 13,500 have been rescued in the last 7 days. Italian PM Matteo Renzi, whose coastguard is overstretched, has denounced the tide as "21st Century slavery" and "singled out Libya as the key problem, saying it was the starting point for about 90% of the migrants reaching Italy by sea." There is a sense of hopelessness in the task, because the more rescued, the more come. "Some Italian politicians had called for a naval blockade but Mr Renzi said this would only help the smugglers as there would be more ships to rescue migrants." I guess I must be a bad person, because the main thought running through my mind is "Arab-Israeli Peace is the key to Stability in the Middle East".
[The Right Scoop] Mark Levin opened his show tonight warning that there will be more terror attacks in this country if we don't deal with the urgent Islamo-Nazi problem that has been made evident via the Somali community in Minnesota. He plays audio of officials from a press conference in Minnesota today where they blatantly say we have a terror-recruiting problem in the Somali community and it's not just one person doing it.
Levin ties this into the current issue of illegal immigration and points out that our weak politicians aren't doing anything about it.
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speak out against the Islamofascists, you will be branded "racist" or "islamophobic"
so be careful always to separate secular Muslims from Islamist fascists - these people are the enemy and want sharia.
So never say "ban Islam" instead say "ban Sharia"
And watch out on your food industry - the Halal Certification industry is where they are setting up big income streams.
Islamic Council will ring up say Nestle. If you don't certify your chocolate halal, Muslims won't eat it, Saudi and Indonesia won't import it. To get certified you have to pay us $30,000 per month, and we inspect to make sure there is no haram ingredients. You also have to hire XX% Muslim employees, and we choose those employees not you.
Same for abattoirs: only Muslim Men allowed to kill the animal in a ritual slaughter where the throat is slit while prayers to allah are said over it. A temporary stun only is used, not the humane permanent stun that we normally would use in a non-religious killing.
seriously they will build mosques and religious schools and force YOU to pay for their constant lobbying through your own consumer dollars
they've done it in Ausralia - all the meat is now halal certified. Cadburys, vegemite, nestle all halal certified. Dairy Farmers cream - pays the money to Islamic certification organisations and doesn't even have a label so you don't even know you're funding them.
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so be careful always to separate secular Muslims from Islamist fascists - these people are the enemy and want sharia.
anon1: Interesting observations from down under. It would appear that in the movement in Australia that there is not much separation between secular Muslims and Islamist facists. At some point we are all going to have to stop worrying about the PC criticism of being Islamaphobes (leveled by liberals and Islamics) and just say piss off.
h/t Instapundit
The Obama administration security apparatus has to leave a knowledgeable man feeling a little queasy. You've got national security advisor Susan Rice, with credibility somewhere south of zero. You've got assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for strategic communications Ben Rhodes. What is this man doing here?
You've got Secretary of State John Kerry, the man whom Obama has entrusted to bring home the bacon in negotiations with his counterpart from Iran. Who will represent the United States?
You've got Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. He seems to be in over his head as he occasionally blurts out the truth. That's a distinction with a difference in this crowd.
You've got Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, an apparently serious man.
You've got Valerie Jarrett, the woman with her finger in every pot. What is she doing here? Even former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates found her tough to take in matters involving national security.
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Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, John Kerry, James Clapper, Valerie Jarret, John Brennan? Missing are former SOS Hillary Clinton, Marie Harf, Jen Psaki, and Josh Ernest and the head cheese, Barack Obama. Throw them in and a few others and you have a entire circus from hell.
[Dawn] Recently, I came across a few reports from the South Asia Terrorism Portal which offered an account of all the terrorist activities in South Asia this year. My focus was Pakistan, of course.
The thing with good research is, in order to make sense of data, one needs to understand the setting in which it was extracted. For example, a solitary drop of water might mean nothing, but if we are in a desert, it means everything.
Similarly, the state of terrorism in 2015 tells a woeful tale of human casualties. Even a single casualty is one too many, but in Pakistan, this could also mean a sharp decline.
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[Rudaw] The black clothes, balaclavas, boots, the violence--it took me a while to realize where I had seen them before they became ISIS' trademarks. Then it struck me: the Fedayeen Saddam. A special force Saddam Hussein set up in the 1990s to fight a guerrilla war against any enemy--the most probable one being the American army--as the Americans were more and more critical of Saddam's ambitions.
And these highly trained and hardened men in black did actually fight against them in the first weeks of the American invasion in 2003. I remember a location in Basra where the Fedayeen were said to have fought to their deaths to defend a water basin that could have hidden weapons or chemicals.
During the street battles reported then in Basra and Umm Qasr, many Fedayeen took part. Even in the battles in the center of Kirkuk with the Peshmerga, some witnesses say the black-clothed Fedayeen were there--fighting till their demise.
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More evidence that Obama's cut-n-run in Iraq for the election was a disaster.
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...Lots of these guys survived ODS and OIF, because 1) their job was to hide out until called for, and 2) they are vicious bullies who tend not to challenge trained men with guns.
Old they may be but they are the keepers of the flame, and we should have learned by now that berserk Muslims - be they fundies or more sectarian - know how to play a long game. We've NEVER learned.
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[ArutzSheva] I'm pretty sure it was Mark Twain who compared Jews to horses -- if they knew their own strength we should be afraid to ride them.
That was in the days of Herzl before everything, or rather at the start of everything.
I am no Mark Twain but in my stays and service in Israel I noticed something of an inferiority complex among my brothers and sisters, or call it a grasshopper mentality that remains a legacy from our days in the Wilderness when the Spies misinformed us about "giants" who lived on the other side.
Compared to them, compared to the rest of the world, what are we? Yes, grasshoppers.
That attitude is to be expected, I suppose, because after 2,000 years of being granted no favors, Jews became conditioned to expect nothing and to be grateful for anything. At the time of the Partition Plan, the Jews said thank you, and thank you again even after British White Papers made Israel smaller and smaller.
Gratitude in excess can be hazardous. It's led modern Israel into making lethal concessions from lopsided prisoner swaps to land giveaways that produced nothing except more disrespect, more hatred, more terror, more war, with Gaza the ultimate proof of what goes wrong when the Jewish State extends a generous hand to Palestinian Arabs.
After all that, still at the moment there is talk of a "two-state-solution." The signal is obvious. We, Israel, will do anything to make the world happy.
Israel trained itself to accept abasement and unlike the nations, only Israel is to desist from pride and glory.
COPENHAGEN – Russian authorities recently threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships if Denmark joins NATO’s missile-defense system. This was obviously an outrageous threat against a country that has no intention of attacking Russia. But it also reflects a more fundamental factor in the Kremlin’s foreign policy: desperation to maintain Russia’s strategic influence at a time of unprecedented challenges to its authority.
Of course, Russia’s leaders know very well that NATO’s missile defense is not directed at their country. When I served as NATO Secretary General from 2009 to 2014, we repeatedly emphasized that the purpose was to defend Alliance members from threats originating outside the Euro-Atlantic area. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of physics and engineering – two subjects at which Russians excel – can see that the system is designed to do precisely that.
Russia’s nuclear threats, against Denmark and others, are the hallmark of a weak country in economic, demographic and political decline. NATO has not aggressively victimized Russia, as Kremlin propaganda claims. The current conflict between Russia and the West – centered on the crisis in Ukraine – is, at its core, a clash of values.
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interesting and well-thought piece. Yes, Russia does know that nothing is directed at undermining its sovereignty, if NATO or the US had wanted to do that, it had the entire decade of the 1990s when the Berlin wall had fallen and it was in a weakened state.
So it is not just a lie but a knowing lie - a deliberate propaganda falsehood.
however this does expose also the problem that we cannot any more lay claim to be liberal democracies.
This was the very great danger of that nasty web of legislation that has been rammed through the parliaments of all the five-eyes alliance countries in the last year, under the pretense of fighting Islamofascism (it was not mentioned or targeted).
That legislation was a response to edward snowden. It criminalised journalists. It criminalised whistleblowers. It gave unlimited powers to spies, police and affiliates and subcontractors to knowingly break the law but to enjoy immunity from prosecution. In Australia that became law last October - once the Minister declares a Special Intelligence Operation, they can break the law with full legal immunity.
They will not even appear in a court. If you are the victim you cannot even tell your lawyer what happened to you. You go to court and they won't appear to be cross-examined instead ASIO will present an "evidenciary certificate" that the court is forced to accept as prima facie evidence.
The court also lost the power to reject evidence that was illegally obtained in the SIO.
goodbye right to a fair trial - that is more like what we think of when we think of Putin's Russia. But it was oassed here in Australia in October, with similar laws passed in Canada, Britain, New Zealand and I'm betting the US, too.
This was the same tranche of legislation that legalised wholesale government spying of all your emails and phonecalls, without a warrant. And to track your whereabouts also without a warrant. No judicial oversight.
So we have turned our liberal democracies into panopticon spy states.
This is what edward snowden was warning us that the government was doing illegally - well they've just rammed through the legislation to make it all legal.
How can you have a functioning liberal democracy? You cannot. If any politician looks like they are getting popular, forming a party, and the spy community doesn't like them or their politics, they will simply create a dirt file on them and leak it and do the same for their key lieutenants. Nobody would ever know and if they did it would be illegal to tell anyone.
So we now only get the rulers that have been pre-approved for us by the bureaucrats and spies. We are no more free than Putin's russia - it's just the bars are well-hidden.
This was the very great danger that came of those rights-destroying laws.
And let's not forget where it came from: the original lie that we were only fighting "terrorists" and not "Islamofascists". Because we could not name the enemy we all of us every one became an equal suspect.
This is why "profiling" is so necessary - but now it is too late, we've already self-destructed.
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