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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Demographic Bomb Set to Go Off in Europe
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/07/2012 00:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Subjectively speaking, Islam may win be default thanks to Sun/Solar-centric GWCC = "Land-Sea-Enviro Changes" + consequent pan-Human desire, methods to survive, ala "forced" basic or minimal human need to adapt to new changed environment.

THE ISLAMIC RELIGION PER SE MAY NOT BE THE SAME, BUT ANY + ALL MUSLIMS OR NON-MUSLIMS WILL WEAR THE BURQUA, ETC. JUST TO TO LIVE + WORK???

Time to put an ancient ICBM on the altar, live underground while wearing long-flowing white clothes or robes, + wait for a Leader among the Bigfeet [Sasquatch] to organize the Apes-Simians + then rise up + take over the Earth!

D *** NG IT, DAT MOVIE SOUNDS AWFULLY FAMILIAR, BUT WHERE!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/07/2012 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  In the U.S. there are reportedly 2.6 million Muslims, according to Pew people, not 9 million as the video claims. American Muslims own projection of 50 million in 2034 is considerably larger than the Pew's projection of 6.2 million in 2030... Were those perhaps the same Muslims who claimed an American population of 6 million a few years ago, until Pew showed them to be taking a Palestinian approach to counting?

It's going to get ugly, I agree. But possibly not as ugly as the video claims.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2012 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  As North Africa slides into chaos, famine and war. Not to mention the third horseman pestilence. Europe will have to do something to stop the flow and the demographics of previous flows.

Much as it will drive the Left nuts, the solution is to corral them into ghettos.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/07/2012 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  In America the census doesn't track religion so Cair and other groups took the Arab number as Muslum. Of course a lot of Arabs in America are non-Muslims who came here to avoid persecution but Cair doesn't care.

At one point they inflated their numbers trying to claim equal numbers to Jews but I believe they found lesser numbers more helpful to their plans of claiming persecution.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 05/07/2012 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  This is true in UK.Somali families are huge and the state keeps them.Same goes with the Bangladeshi and Pakistani families where the womens role is to bring up children dont work and the state keeps them.No wonder Europe is Skint!
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303 || 05/07/2012 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Looks like Europe is already a lost cause. Russia's salvation may turn out to be a few tens of millions of non-Muslim Chinese taking a short walk north, perhaps becoming Christian on the way and ethnically mixing it up with the few Russians remaining.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/07/2012 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  All the more reason for government funded birth control.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/07/2012 13:43 Comments || Top||

#8  /sarc
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/07/2012 13:43 Comments || Top||

#9  FWIW, TW.....

Pew isn't always the most accurate when reporting statisitcs. Their record in the area of fisheries, for example, is....ahem....less than stellar.

But your point is well taken. If we take the Pew report as an artificially low estimate, and the above ones as the upper asymptote, and split the difference, then that is most likely where the truth lies.
Posted by: no mo uro || 05/07/2012 16:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Good point, no mo uro. I can accept that. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2012 19:49 Comments || Top||


Europe
Dummies Guide To Europe's Problems
Posted by: tipper || 05/07/2012 03:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Zerohedge?
Posted by: gromky || 05/07/2012 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The end game is a collapse in multi-lateral trade. We are already seeing this in places like Argentina, Venezuela and Iran who don't have access to credit in an acceptable international currency.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/07/2012 5:37 Comments || Top||

#3  "Mittelstand"...have a look.

Klik
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2012 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  2 Zerohedge rules.

1/Don't waste your time reading the comments.
2/Don't waste your time reading the guest posts.

Both are drivel.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/07/2012 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Tyler Durden isn't too bad for a soap salesman (lets not mention the liposuction refuse,yuck!). As an Austrian, he at least doesn't swallow the Keynesian cool-aid.
Posted by: tipper || 05/07/2012 13:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Tyler Durden is pretty smooth, smooth enough that when I read what he writes, my background bullshit detector is chiming but when I bring it to the front I can't figure out exactly why.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/07/2012 14:11 Comments || Top||

#7  ZeroHedge is kind of like Memri. I take their various posts with a grain of salt, yet some good 'catches' regarding the markets can be found there, too.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/07/2012 14:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Obama Aide Says US Promotes Arab Spring Rebellions
The Obama administration "nurtures" Arab Spring rebellions, which have been promoted as democratic but so far have yielded anarchy, according to U.S. deputy national security advisor Denis McDonough.

He said the American administration views the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen as positive for democracy, arguing that "a more democratic region will ultimately be more stable for us and our friends." McDonough estimated that a similar rebellion in Iran will be to the advantage of the United States.

The American experiment with direct involvement in promoting democracy in the Palestinian Authority resulted in a shock for then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when the Hamas terrorist organization won the first, and until now the only, PA legislative elections. Hamas' strong base in Gaza gave it the catalyst to oust the rival Fatah faction, headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, from Gaza two years after the elections.

The Obama administration also openly backed the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last year and now is faced with a democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood, which fathered Hamas.

Since the Brotherhood's victory and its attempt to win the presidency, the movement has been openly anti-American and anti-Israel, imprisoning Americans and threatening to change if not cancel the 1979 peace agreement with Israel.
Posted by: tipper || 05/07/2012 02:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since the Brotherhood's victory and its attempt to win the presidency, the movement has been openly anti-American and anti-Israel.

All in parallel with the established tenets of the Obama administration.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2012 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Think "Carter and Nicaragua".
Posted by: Pappy || 05/07/2012 21:31 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
As much of the world starves, UN sends hunger probe to… Canada
According to the World Food Program, half a million people don’t have enough to eat in Syria. Fears are growing that the regime is using hunger as a weapon.

This is the kind of emergency which should attract the attention of the UN Human Rights Council’s hunger monitor, who has the ability to spotlight situations and place them on the world agenda. Yet Olivier de Schutter of Belgium, the “Special Rapporteur on the right to food,” is not going to Syria.

Instead, the UN’s food monitor is coming to investigate Canada.

That’s right. Despite dire food emergencies around the globe, De Schutter will be devoting the scarce time and resources of the international community on an 11-day tour of Canada—a country that ranks at the bottom of global hunger concerns. A key co-ordinator and promoter of De Schutter’s mission is Food Secure Canada, a lobby group whose website accuses the Harper government of “failing Canadians…and [failing to] fulfill the right to food for all.” The group calls instead for a “People’s Food Policy.”
Wow. Like...North Korea?
I asked De Schutter if his time wouldn’t better be spent on calling attention to countries that actually have starving people.
...and why Canada?
“Globally, 1.3 billion people are overweight or obese,” he responded via his spokesperson, “and this causes a range of diseases such as certain types of cancers, cardio-vascular diseases or (especially) type-2 diabetes that are a huge burden.”
...and nobody will shoot at me in Canada.
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/07/2012 01:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...and nobody will shoot at me in Canada.

Plus they have food. In case you get hungry or something.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/07/2012 3:57 Comments || Top||

#2  And they have better hotels.
Posted by: kelly || 05/07/2012 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Because starving countries don't have five star restaurants. Way past time to boot the UN.
Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili || 05/07/2012 7:53 Comments || Top||

#4  The group calls instead for a "People's Food Policy."

For more information and details, please contact any Super Walmart cashier.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2012 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Just lending a hand to their fellow travellers "Food Secure Canada" and their “People’s Food Policy.”. Starving Africans aren't party members, they're just hungry.
Posted by: Spot || 05/07/2012 7:59 Comments || Top||

#6  UN Hearts dictators.

Only the ruling classes are fat in U.N. favoured countries.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/07/2012 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Why do we still fund the UN?
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2012 12:25 Comments || Top||

#8  People have a "right" to food? Do they also have the "right" to enslave the farmers who grow it for them?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/07/2012 18:36 Comments || Top||

#9  "Why Canada" > the logic is the UNO already knows that many of these Third World juntas would rather deny or kill their own people than initiate serious reforms, which in turn puts the burden on the world's major food-producing Countries, e.g. Canada, to save these Juntas from themselves as per Agriculture.

OTOH, THE ABOVE IS THE KIND OF COUNTRY-SPECIFIC, INTERNAL OR DOMESTIC SITUATION WHICH THE "OBAMA DOCTRINE" WAS SUPPOSED TO ALLEVIATE, vee "food/hunger crimes"???

Giving out food to reward corruption and graft, or denying food to keep resisting regions docile.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/07/2012 23:45 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Abu Sayyaf discounts Australian Rodwell's ransom, threatens beheading
Dumbass. "Durr durr, let's live in the Southern Phillipines where life is cheap and foreigners are targets." A pistol vs. a kidnap gang. Nobody's going to buy him back, even at these low, low prices.
A newly released proof-of-life video shows Australian Warren Rodwell, 53, looking gaunt and making a desperate plea for a ransom payment to save his life after more than four months in captivity in the southern Philippines.

It should be noted that most embassies in Manila have strongly discouraged their citizens from traveling to the southern Philippines, particularly Mindanao and Sula, given the clear and present danger of ransom kidnappings by kidnap gangs and the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf.

Ron Masling, 57, an apparent friend of Rodwell's, who obtained the video, says the Abu Sayyaf kidnappers have set a four-week deadline to be paid or they will behead him. It should be noted, though, that the original ransom demand of A$2 million has been reduced to A$460,000.

COMMENT: In the second video, Rodwell, depicted as looking fatigued and frail, reportedly pleads for his life and appeals to Australia's prime minister and Australians to raise money for the ransom demand so he can be released. Obviously, Rodwell is unaware or is ignoring the fact that both the Australian and Philippine governments have stated policies of not making concessions to kidnappers.

Masling has reportedly told the media that the Australian government has done little to help Rodwell, which is unfounded. Assuredly, the Australian Embassy in Manila has urged its citizens not to travel to the southern Philippines for several years. Hence, if Rodwell had not "blown off" that advice, he would not be the predicament he finds himself.

Additionally, because of his risk of being kidnapped in Ipil, Rodwell was offered local police protection but declined it. Instead, he chose to buy a handgun to protect himself from kidnappers, only to be outgunned by kidnappers equipped with assault rifles.

Worse, the Australian resisted being kidnapped, which resulted in his being wounded at the time of the kidnapping. All and all, Rodwell has made several bad choices that have tragically led to his circumstances, all because he thought he knew better than anyone else.
Should be another couple of weeks before his beheading video comes out.
Posted by: gromky || 05/07/2012 02:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Jews unwelcome on campus
From the outside, Western faculties appear as genteel oases of wisdom and knowledge. In truth, institutions of higher education are becoming brutal offspring of anti-Jew hatred. Famous faculties that have been an historical cradle of European civilization are sacrificing freedom and Israel to barbarism and obscurantism.
 
Even in America the gloves are coming off. The Institute for Jewish & Community Research in San Francisco recently published a report titled "Alone on the quad: Understanding Jewish Student Isolation on Campus," one of the most comprehensive surveys of its kind. More than 40% of students confirm anti-Semitism on their campus; some 41% of students have encountered anti-Israel remarks made in class by professors.
 
Numbers are also telling in Europe. While boasting large numbers of Mohammedan students and students from Arab countries, European universities count very few Jewish or pro-Israeli students among their population. Whereas 15-20% of young people matriculating in America's top universities are Jewish, in Europe only a few faculties claim even a tenth of this figure.
 
Today, we are witnessing the worst wave of anti-Israel hatred since April 6, 2002, when 123 academicians signed an open letter, published in Britannia's The Guardian, calling for a moratorium on all cultural links with Israel.
 
Recently, the University of Gay Paree VIII closed its doors for two days to avoid a harder stance about a planned conference against the Jewish State. Elsewhere, while septuagenarian Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor Esther Orner has been banned from the University of Provence, Hezbollah officials spoke at the Sorbonne University.
 
Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system...
Rotterdam's Erasmus University recently hosted events in which Israel was equated with South Africa's apartheid regime.
 
'Israel absolute taboo in Europe'
But the case of Pieter van der Horst, the professor of Early Christian History and Judaism at Utrecht University, is emblematic of the fear and hatred dominating Dutch academia. The pioneering researcher wanted to argue in his valedictory lecture that "the Islamization of European anti-Semitism is one of the most frightening developments of the past decades." However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
his university's chancellor prevented him from doing so by censoring the lecture in advance.
 
"It should have been my last lecture", van der Horst told me. "In the Middle East of today, the demonization of Jews has reached unprecedented levels. Jews are accused of every evil under the sun, from cannibalism to the attacks on the Twin Towers, to causing the tsunami, the bird flu, AIDS and so on. The University's committee claimed it was too dangerous to give the complete lecture because it might trigger violent reactions from 'well-organized Mohammedan student groups.' I decided to submit an expurgated text because I did not want to expose myself and others to potential danger."
 
"I capitulated to self censorship," he added. "In the country of Anne Frank we accept that today the Jews don't walk in the streets with their religious symbols. We accept that in Holland synagogues are protected by the police. What will be the end of all this?"
 
Dozens of academicians just signed a petition condemning Liverpool University's invitation to Israel's deputy ambassador to the UK, Alon Roth-Snir. Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system...
students at Edinburgh University voted in favor of the boycott of Israeli goods. At Queen's University in Belfast, Paleostinian snuffies violently attacked Israeli attaché Solon Solomon.
 
Benny Morris, professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, was assaulted last year on a street by a group of Mohammedans before a conference at the London School of Economics. When Morris finished his lesson on Israel's war of 1948, he was unceremoniously bundled away through the back exit of the faculty, past the garbage cans, out of fear for his safety if he left the building in the normal manner.
 
"I felt like a Jew in Berlin in the '20s", a shaken Morris told me. "Israel is an absolute taboo in Europe. At Cambridge, my class was canceled after intimidation by Islamist groups. And I think that it will only get worse."
 
Matthias Küntzel, a German political scientist, was invited by Leeds University for three days of seminars. His lecture on "Hitler's Legacy: Islamic Anti-Semitism in the Middle East" was expected to draw a large audience. But when Küntzel arrived at the British faculty, he was informed that his lecture had been cancelled "on security grounds."
 
'Peace with Israel is a crime'
Last autumn, Israeli professor Ronen Cohen, whose "sin" is that of teaching at Ariel University, was expelled from a German academic conference in Berlin (he was later reinstated after a storm of protest.) Elsewhere, Spain's Housing Ministry disqualified Ariel University from participating in the international competition on solar power because of its address in Samaria.
 
According to a poll commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 62% of university students say they do not want Jewish classmates. These numbers are as surprising as they are worrying: the most anti-Semitic people in Spain are supposedly the most educated.
 
A prominent figure in Belgium's Jewish community, Jacques Brotchi, just resigned from the board of University of Brussels after denouncing grave anti-Semitic incidents within the campus. A study published by Professor Marc Elchardus of the Phlegmish University showed that 50% of Mohammedan students harbor anti-Semitic sentiments.
 
In Italia popular anti-Semitic websites called for the "blacklisting" of Jewish professors. An Israeli student at the University of Turin, Amit Peer, confessed to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that "the Jews here are hiding their own identity because they risk becoming a target". Israeli attaché Shai Cohen has been prevented from speaking at Pisa University after a violent attack by students, who called him "butcher." The Israeli ambassador, Ehud Gol, decamped Florence University after a similar "protest."
 
A shoe was hurled at Israeli ambassador Benny Dagan while he was giving a lecture at the Stockholm University and a Jewish student, Anja Savosnic, was forced to give up Hebrew studies at the University of Oslo due to anti-Semitic attacks from fellow students.
 
Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz was banned from Norwegian universities because of his views on Israel. In an article titled "Judar, ta avstånd," Stockholm University Professor of Philosophy Torbjörn Tännsjö argued that Jews should distance themselves from the State of Israel, or otherwise they might be subjected to anti-Semitism.
 
In 1936, at the beginning of a new wave of terrorism against the Jews, Zionist leader Berl Katznelson wrote: "We are called upon to defend ourselves not only from the physical marauders but also from the spiritual marauders." Today the new spiritual marauders are based in Western faculties. They want to bring the war to the home of every Jew. It's an academic final solution epitomized by a sign on the walls of London University: "Peace with Israel is a crime."

Giulio Meotti, a journalist with Il Foglio, is the author of the book A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism
Posted by: || 05/07/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tell me something Theodore Herzl didn't know.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2012 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Run to the altar of Islam as the religion of peace and wind up like Lenin's "useful idiots" when the roof falls in.

These morons never look at the ultimate consequences of an agenda they support.

The Second Crusade killed about 150,000 Jews and Moslems when Jerusalem was sacked.

Tamerlane killed an estimated 1.5 million when his army ravaged Baghdad and let it uninhabited with pyramids of human heads at the corners of the city walls.

Guess who the Moslems cry about?

The Left has been playing the Anti-Semetism card for over a hundred years. It is a red herring to divert attention away from the corruption and incompetence of both the ruling parties and the media. It is also a red herring for the superficial and intellectually barren academic cultivated by the Left to indoctrinate the students.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 05/07/2012 0:59 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2012-05-07
  Nine soldiers killed, military convoy attacked in N Wazoo
Sun 2012-05-06
  Man wanted in USS Cole bombing killed in Yemen: tribal chief
Sat 2012-05-05
  Pro-Regime Gunmen Kill 12 'Qaida' Militants in Yemen
Fri 2012-05-04
  Bajaur teenyboomer kills 24
Thu 2012-05-03
  Afghanistan: Pakistani driving truck bomb arrested
Wed 2012-05-02
  Suicide bomb blast hits hotel in Somalia, two MPs believed dead
Tue 2012-05-01
  'Egyptians thwart Iranian plot to kill Saudi envoy'
Mon 2012-04-30
  US drone 'kills three militants' in Miramshah
Sun 2012-04-29
  Syria Troops Kill 10 Rebels in Damascus Region
Sat 2012-04-28
   21 Taliban Insurgents Killed in Clashes
Fri 2012-04-27
  Separate bomb blasts rock Nigeria's newspapers, at least six killed
Thu 2012-04-26
  Libya bans religious, tribal or ethnic parties
Wed 2012-04-25
  Sacked Yemen Air Force Commander Quits Post
Tue 2012-04-24
  India orders deportation of 10 French nationals over Maoist links
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  Kazakh court sends 47 men to prison for terrorism

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