[SultanKnish] In the months before weeping little girls with nails in their faces were carried out of the Manchester Arena, the authorities of that city were hard at work fighting the dreaded threat of Islamophobia.
While Salman Abedi, the second-generation Muslim refugee terrorist who maimed and killed dozens in a brutal terrorist attack, stalked the streets wailing, "There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah", Manchester police were busy with more important things.
The Greater Manchester Police are one of only two police forces to list Islamophobia as a hate crime category. Earlier this year, Chief Constable Ian Hopkins honored Tell Mama for fighting Islamophobia. Tell Mama had lost funding earlier when its claims of a plague of violent Islamophobia fell apart.
...After the attack, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham vowed on camera, "terrorists will never beat us". The terrorists don’t need to beat Burnham. He’ll eagerly collaborate without so much as a single slap.
Last year the left-wing politician fought the government’s efforts to crack down on Islamic terror. "It is creating a feeling in the Muslim community that it is being spied upon and unfairly targeted," he whined. Who's the real enemy -
mad dog, or the one who releases it on the public?
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Manchester government is controlled by the Labour party. They've been pummeled in election after election lately. I suspect Labour is finished in the UK. They won't be missed.
[PJMedia] Donald Trump and Angela Merkel now agree about the main issues in US-German relations. "The times in which we could rely fully on others -- they are a way past us," Merkel told a beer-tent rally of her political party. "We Europeans really have to take our fate into our own hands." That is just what President Trump has been telling the Europeans since the beginning of last year’s US election campaign, demanding in particular that Europe pay more for its own defense. Both Trump and Merkel, moreover, say they want the Euro to strengthen against the U.S. dollar. That buries the two bones of contention between Berlin and Washington. Everything else is political posturing and fake news.
...Merkel is running for re-election to a fourth term in next September’s national elections, and it does her more good to denounce Trump than to speak of policy convergence. The German public hates Donald Trump with a visceral passion. The country’s largest-circulation news magazine, Der Spiegel, titled an editorial last week, "It’s time to get rid of Donald Trump," explaining: "Donald Trump has transformed the United States into a laughing-stock and he is a danger to the world. He must be removed from the White House before things get even worse."
...For all the beer-tent talk about taking Europe’s destiny into its own hands, Chancellor Merkel knows perfectly well that she needs the United States to deal with the actual and prospective crises on Europe’s borders. Germany will increase its defense spending, but young Germans will not join the Bundeswehr to fight for future generations, for the simple reason that there won’t be much in the way of future generations. German women (excluding immigrants) average 1.3 children, one of the world’s lowest fertility rates. Germany’s infecund, aging population has no reason to fight for a dubious German future. And USA needs Germany because?
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The article does not mention Obama and Michelle dogging after Trump in Italy and then Germany. Merkel met with both Trump and Obama in two separate meetings on the same day. Obama still stirring up trouble and still trying to "lead from behind."
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I'm afraid that history will not be kind to Angela Merkel. Germany and her precious European Union are heavily burdened with debt and Third World refugeescolonists as a result of her policies. There is no indication that she is considering any effective remedies for these problems so they will most likely continue to worsen until they get completely out of control. It is most unpleasant to think about what will happen then.
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Ok, charger, we don't this tech falling into the hands of their (soon to be) Muslim rulers.
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JohnQC, I see that as a good thing. If even the media won't mention Obama,...well, how important is he?
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However this ends, whoever wins the cultural battle of Europe they will write about these feckless, inept and weak rulers that allowed their civilization to crumble and fall.
[Right Scoop] Bolton weighs in on Chancellor Merkel’s comments over the weekend, saying he doesn’t believe this is the end of the alliance at all. In fact he points out that her ire isn’t simply directed at Trump over the Paris Climate Accords, but also at Prime Minister Theresa May who agreed with Trump on many issues involving refugees and immigrants.
Bolton argues that more than Trump, Merkel is really upset with the UK for their Brexit vote because one thing she’s trying to do is get rid of national governments. She believes the only way to stop conflict is by getting rid of national governments and obviously Brexit stands in the way of that.
Bolton also pointed out that she had upset and alienated many EU governments herself with her unilateral policies on accepting refugees.
Of course Bolton reminds us that there is a German election coming up soon, and he believes much of what Merkel said has to do with those elections.
[AlAhram] Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... 's front man says Berlin is still committed to strengthening trans-Atlantic relations after Merkel suggested Europe can no longer entirely rely on the U.S.
Merkel's comments Sunday came after a Group of Seven summit at which the Europeans couldn't reach agreement on climate change with President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... . She said: "The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days."
Merkel front man Steffen Seibert said Monday Merkel's comments stand for themselves but the German leader is "a convinced trans-Atlanticist." He said German-U.S. relations "are a strong pillar of our foreign and security policy, and Germany will continue working to strengthen these relations."
Seibert added that "precisely because they are so important, it's right to name differences honestly."
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Germans want national suicide and think other peoples should to.
Their disaster will be a shining light for other nationalist movements which even the MSM will fail at suppressing. Germany's "new idea" may kill more germans than hitler managed.
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one thing she’s trying to do is get rid of national governments.
As have many "pols" wanted to do. Then they will be the leader of the whole governmentless entity that is left. Whether you call it the EU, the Reich, the Caliphate or something else the dream of the ruler is always the same at its core.
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It is hard to underestimate the national guilt felt by the Germans. A German I knew felt guilt even though her Grandmother was a child during WW2. Perhaps if they give up their country to the refugees they'll all feel better. I'll miss the beer but there are alternatives these days, many quite excellant.
[Hurriyet Daily News] In The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , freedom of thought should be explained for its practical benefits rather than for its high philosophical values, because in our society the political tradition that regards "thought" as a "tool" rather than an individual value is very strong.
Whoever is in power typically wants obedience rather than thought. In the past, the Kemalist government of the single-party era banned the magazine "Kadro" and the newspaper "Akin," which featured leftist or liberal interpretations of Kemalism.
Unfortunately the same tendency to ban remains dominant today, despite the fact that the horizons of freedom have grown unusually wide over the past three quarters of a century.
It is not possible to understand the arrest of journalists from dailies Cumhuriyet and Sözcu, or the fact that they have been in jail for months. I have worked alongside some of those enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , such as Kadri Gursel and Murat Sabuncu.
Other colleagues were professional writers and simply expressed their opinion in media outlets of the Gulen movement, back when they were legal. Several government spokespeople were also frequently seen in these publications. Names such as Ahmet and Mehmet Altan, Nazli Ilicak, Sahin Alpay, Ali Bulac and Mumtazer Turköne are today in prison.
Because they expressed oppositional opinions in their articles, prosecutors have attributed to them the "intention" of preparing the groundwork for the coup attempt or assisting the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
Hurriyet columnist Sedat Ergin has written about the concept "read the mind, arrest the journalist." In the future, when the history of this era is written, that would be a good name for this period.
Could it be possible to demand life sentences after gathering articles and reports that are disliked by political powers and then "reading the mind" of the journalist, attributing charges such as "assisting an illegal organization, supporting the coup"?
In several Constitutional Court rulings, it is stated that files containing articles and reports cannot be the basis of charges of "membership of a terror network," "espionage" or "assisting in a coup." These crimes require other concrete evidence.
What’s more, according to the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) judgment in the previous cases of journalists Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik, the arrest of a journalist - regardless of the content of their reports or articles - is a violation of freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
In recent years, such violations have been steadily increasing in Turkey. But why is press freedom so important? Should journalists have special privileges?
The philosophical principle frequently mentioned by the ECHR and the Constitutional Court is that freedom of expression "constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society, one of the basic conditions for its progress and for each individual’s self-fulfillment."
Let’s ask our consciences whether we want Turkey to be a country with unique individuals, or a country where people have become a herd.
Academic freedom, the number of scientific publications in citation indexes, technology, welfare, and national power all depend on this. Freedom of the press is thus not a privilege; it is a sign of development.
So freedom of the media is a tool for the public to form a healthy opinion.
But of course, in today’s Turkey nobody is arrested because of their journalism. They are all terrorists! In Egypt, journalists are arrested with similar justifications.
The standard we should strive for is the definition of freedom in universal law. We have been searching for it since the 19th century.
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Let’s ask our consciences whether we want Turkey to be a country with unique individuals, or a country where people have become a herd.
This is the existential question for the US. The progressives/democrats/left would say (if you could get an honest answer) that they would prefer a herd where they are the shepherds and set the rules. They are "more equal".
[Ynet] During the 1967 war, Israel seized Egyptian and Jordanian operational documents with clear orders to annihilate the civil population. Nevertheless, different academics are distorting the facts in a bid to turn the Arabs into victims and Israel into an aggressor. Here’s the real story.
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...trying to survive Iran? It sort of shoved its way to the front of the line while they were screwing with people they should have just left alone.
[WAPO] The oncologist was blunt: Stefanie Joho’s colon cancer was raging out of control and there was nothing more she could do. Flanked by her parents and sister, the 23-year-old felt something wet on her shoulder. She looked up to see her father weeping.
"I felt dead inside, utterly demoralized, ready to be done," Joho remembers.
But her younger sister couldn’t accept that. When the family got back to Joho’s apartment in New York’s Flatiron district, Jess opened her laptop and began searching frantically for clinical trials, using medical words she’d heard but not fully understood. An hour later, she came into her sister’s room and showed her what she’d found. "I’m not letting you give up," she told Stefanie. "This is not the end."
That search led to a contact at Johns Hopkins University, and a few days later, Joho got a call from a cancer geneticist co-leading a study there. "Get down here as fast as you can!" Luis Diaz said. "We are having tremendous success with patients like you."
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Immunotherapy and gene therapy, the frontiers of cancer treatment. There are benefits but also risks. Risks. Immunotherapy boosts the hosts immune system whereas gene therapy may alter the genetic structure of the cancer to destroy it.
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Not so much ego, but the patents and the medical industries themselves. Doctors are under pressure (often tremendous) to keep the income flowing in.
Researching on a laptop brings in no money, going from patent to patent brings in lots of money. Which route do you think most hospitals will take?
Johns Hopkins University OTOH is funded mostly by grants, etc.. There's little pressure (other than getting grants) to generate income so doctors there and in other similar non-profit centers can actually take their time to research properly and come up wit solutions.
[LI] Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren’t.
Zakaria noted that "at the height of commencement season," many new graduates across the country had made their political views apparent, from the Notre Dame students who walked out as Vice President Mike Pence gave his commencement address to the crowd members who booed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a speech at Bethune-Cookman University.
"American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely," Zakaria said.
The CNN host said he found this attitude strange, especially given that these incidents occurred on college campuses that "promised to give their undergraduates a liberal education."
"The word liberal in this context has nothing to do with today’s partisan language, but refers instead to the Latin root, pertaining to liberty. And at the heart of liberty in the Western world has been freedom of speech. From the beginning, people understood that this meant protecting and listening to speech with which you disagreed," Zakaria argued.
That means, he said, not drowning out "the ideas that we find offensive."
In addition, Zakaria noted what he called "an anti-intellectualism" on the left.
"It’s an attitude of self-righteousness that says we are so pure, we’re so morally superior, we cannot bear to hear an idea with which we disagree," he said.
"Liberals think they are tolerant but often they aren’t," he added.
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When the man is right, he's right.
IMO, most leftists are second raters who know (though will never admit it even to themselves) that they're second raters - the rest is just human nature
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Actually the Roman satirist Juvenal got it right a long time ago: "Nosse wolunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo." (Loose translation: Everyone wants to know things, to seem knowledgeable, but no one is willing to pay the price (of long, disciplined study.)
So much easier just to parrot the party line and have everyone tell you how intelligent you are rather than, you know, actually study and work hard.
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[Last Refuge] OK, there were a lot of requests for a picture of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson riding his motorcycle in the Rolling Thunder Memorial Day tribute. Yesterday we shared the video from the rally location just prior to the Noon start of the kickoff ride.
However, T-Rex didn’t want to create a stir or draw attention away from the purpose of the event ‐ so he was his customary self, low key. That said, after pouring through video footage I FOUND HIM.
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It's not so bad that Kerry is riding a bicycle but he should have known better than to ride a girl's bicycle. Besides that he's wearing sandals which are not appropriate footwear for riding a bicycle. They could easily slip off his feet and then he might sub his toe. Not smart.
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On top of all that not smartness, he is also not wearing a helmet, intended to protect his brains in a fall. But then, I think he was the only male Kennedy of his generation who failed to be accepted by Harvard Law.
[PJMEDIA] ... The new Puritanism cannot abide the time-tested sanctities and moral underpinnings of the Western tradition, in particular with regard to the institution of marriage, durable relationships, or the productive biologically based “contract” that allows for the perpetuation of normative civic existence. The new Puritanism is a pietistic fraud that puts sexual experimentation and violations of the norm before the stable arrangements that promote social and cultural continuity. The Mike Pences of this world must be pilloried and excommunicated while the Caitlyn Jenners are to be celebrated and canonized.
Absent bacterial cell division, the genetic binary is a fact of nature and those who propose that sexual dimorphism is a “social construct” that must be undone are flirting not only with one another but with disaster. The irony of this latest development, however, has escaped its progenitors, for it is precisely the trans phenomenon that is a “social construct.” It does not exist in nature; it has been invented. As Janice Fiamengo writes in an article titled Is Feminism a Religion?: “If evidence for the biological basis of sex is brought forward, a feminist will simply claim in response that all science is sexist,” in other words, we are sexist if we do not consider sex and multiple forms of sexual identity, however anomalous, as the end-all and be-all of human striving rather than as merely one aspect of mutual existence. It may be said that the Puritans of old suffered from repression and projection. The new Puritans suffer from genderitis, that is, libidinous self-election.
When culture attempts to pre-empt nature and deny biology, the result is catastrophic: the disintegration of civil existence, illusion substituting for reality and the peripheral displacing the central. Meanwhile, pressing issues on which our prosperity and survival depend -- a precarious economy, domestic subversion, Islamic jihad, unvetted and illegal immigration, international conflict, the falling replacement fertility rate -- go unattended. Buying into a subprime version of reality can lead to only one result: the foreclosing of the cultural mortgage. No matter. The gender Puritans go marching on.
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What we are observing is a bizarre form of Puritanism. And yet the left, who puts forth these fluidities or departures deviations from Puritanism are all too willing to accept the extremist Puritanism of Islam in all its forms and cruelties towards women and others who don't believe in Islam.
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It's simple. These wackjobs have resigned from humanity and should be treated like the vermin they are. If you think there is anything beyond male or female (The very rare genetic hermaphradite is a mutation) then you are dangerously insane and a danger to themselves and everyone else. I suspected lengthy repeated doses of ECT daily for at least 30 years is needed to restore them to reality.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[LI] Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren’t.
[Last Refuge] OK, there were a lot of requests for a picture of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson riding his motorcycle in the Rolling Thunder Memorial Day tribute. Yesterday we shared the video from the rally location just prior to the Noon start of the kickoff ride.
