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Europe
Biased Reporting from WaPo on Euro 2016
Check out this graf:
Euro 2016, the once-every-four-years soccer tournament between Europe's top national teams, kicks off in Paris today. Ahead of the build-up to the games, there were plenty of security concerns, from the looming specter of Islamist violence to threats of far-right, ultra-nationalist terrorism.
That's right folks - only drunken Brit soccer hooligans are terrorists in this dickhead's mind. He fits right in at the Post.
Posted by: Raj || 06/10/2016 18:10 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


German Minister: Closed Borders Will Lead To Inbreeding
[Breitbart] Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has declared that if Germany closes its borders Germans will degenerate through inbreeding.

Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has made it clear that he does not support a securing or closing of the borders of Germany for various reasons, including what he believes may be the downfall of the German people: inbreeding.

According to Mr. Schäuble mass migration is a great opportunity for Germans to become more diverse as a people, especially the mass migration of Muslims: "For us, Muslims in Germany are an enrichment of our openness and our diversity," Tagesspiegel reports.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 08:07 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "For us, Muslims in Germany are an enrichment of our openness and our diversity,"

My dear Herr Schäuble, please re-examine the historical evidence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Inviting a closed community that already engages in inbreeding doesn't answer that issue, unless you are looking forward to rapey rape. That would explain the government's policy of down playing that reporting.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2016 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm starting to think the whole ruling class has a cuckold fetish.

No wonder "cuckservative" is a thing.
Posted by: charger || 06/10/2016 11:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Clearly someone who doesn't understand closed borders are not hermetically sealed.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/10/2016 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  If Herr Schäuble wants to commit suicide, why doesn't he just go hang himself instead of trying to destroy all of Germany as well?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/10/2016 11:52 Comments || Top||

#6  What is the minimum size group you need for successful future generations? Isn't it something like a few hundred?
Posted by: gorb || 06/10/2016 12:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Adam and Eve did alright.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/10/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#8  What'll Putin say?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2016 13:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Estimates vary, but a sufficiently diverse gene pool requires something like 300 individuals. So, I think Germany, at 80 million, should be OK.

And they call us anti-science...
Posted by: Iblis || 06/10/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Don't you'll still have the rest of Europe?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2016 15:44 Comments || Top||

#11  That's a double facepalm.

Actually Breitbart didn't get it quite right. Schäuble didn't say Germans will degenerate through inbreeding, he said Europe would.

Given the fact, that Europe has more than half a billion people, this is even more absurd.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/10/2016 17:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Founder of Judge Curiel's Group: Whites Should Go Back to Europe, CA To Be 'Hispanic State'
[Breitbart] The lawyers' association to which Judge Gonzalo Curiel belongs was co-founded by a man who publicly bragged about Hispanics taking over California and all of the state's governmental institutions - and insisted that whites should go back to Europe. The group, the California La Raza Lawyers Association, has been widely defended as "not pro-Mexican" by mainstream media outlets, though the outlets failed to report the inflammatory statements of the man listed first as a founder, Mario Obledo.

Oh Mexifornia? Just a book written over 13 years ago by little known author Victor Davis Hanson. Why do you ask ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 05:55 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suspect he might be right about CA as the economy remains stagnant and the whites migrate out.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/10/2016 11:42 Comments || Top||

#2  What more do you want? A formal Declaration of War?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/10/2016 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Aren't there some Europeans in the Mexican gene pool? Oh, but the Spanish are Hispanic, so that's OK. What about the Germans?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/10/2016 13:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Aren't Spanish nationals white? just because they mixed with Indians in Mex doesn't excuse them from their inherent "whiteness"
Posted by: Woodrow White1225 || 06/10/2016 13:27 Comments || Top||

#5  This is an act of love.
Posted by: Jeb Bush -- Once and Future GOP Nominee || 06/10/2016 13:45 Comments || Top||

#6  In an amazing revelation about the hypocrisy of the media and the left, Mark Steyn pointed out that the huge groundswell of support for the removal from the bench for the Judge involved in the lenient sentencing of a rapist in Palo Alto/Stanford included reasoning that he was guilt of "white privilege" and thus unfit to rule effectively in cases involving white defendants. How is this any different?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/10/2016 14:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Recent reporting indicates Judge Curiel was an anchor baby. His father never obtained US citizenship and his mother got hers when the Judge was sixteen.
Posted by: Ulusoque Speaking for Boskone3139 || 06/10/2016 16:02 Comments || Top||

#8  #5 act of love

"Amigos, quit pushin' and shovin'!
Nurse midwife Obama is glovin'
To birth a new nation
The Race will be safe in...
And then there'll be plenty of lovin'."

And more humane trafficking, too.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/10/2016 19:00 Comments || Top||

#9  D *** NG, DO THE CHINESE + HARD bOYZ KNOW???

As a reminder, China in future would like 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM for "living space", while the Hard Boyz wanna fly their black banners oer Washington DC in righteous conquest of the infidel. Iff the Hard Boyz conquer Amerika-fka-America, by extension the conquest of NORAM will occur soon after.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Disclose TV] PUTIN WARNS TURKEY: IFF YOU DON'T LEAVE SYRIA ALONE, I WLL [destroy Turkey + Turks, +] BRING BACK CHISTIANITY TO ISTANBUL [Constantinople].

PUTIN warns he will avenge the Tsarist Romanovs failure to [re-]conquer the Dardanelles + Constantinople.

* SAME > VIETNAM ACTIVELY INVITED CHINESE NAVAL VESSELS TO VISIT VETNAMESE PORTS, INCLUDING CRIP [Cam Ranh Bay International Port] | [Naval
Institute, Australia] ANALYSIS: CAN RANH PORT IN STARTEGIC CONTEXT.

BLOGGER = iff the US + USN can engage in alleged acts of FONS in violation of Chinese territorial or sovereignty rights, then China can + should do the same vee LIUQIU, KURILS, GUAM, HAWAII, + ALEUTIANS. THE PLA + PLAN CAN DO + GO ANYWHERE US-ALLIES CAN.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Asia Times] IS IT TIME FOR US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TO VISIT TAIWAN?

RUSSIAN? ISLAMIC NATIONS?

* SAME > [National Interest] AMERICA, CHINA, INDIA, + JAPAN HEADED FOR A SOUTH CHINA SEAS SHOWDOWN?

PAKISTAN? TURKEY?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/10/2016 23:13 Comments || Top||


Hillary and Bernie, please stop your violence
Posted by: anon1 || 06/10/2016 04:02 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  sorry mods not sure where to put this. Saw this on The_Donald and thought it's a great image to put on social media, tells a story right there.
Posted by: anon1 || 06/10/2016 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  It's Page 4: Opinion, because it asks for action, and Home Front: Politix, anon1. If it were just information it would be Page 6: Seedy Politicians, though it's not actually the politicians doing it. During the campaign season, page 6 is for politics in general.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Nowdays it's ALWAYS campaign season...
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/10/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||


Cook Report: Projected Electoral College Ratings for May 27, 2016
Certainly does not look encouraging. If these numbers are sustained through November and the inmates win yet again, I suspect I will suspend involvement in this process for the balance of my allotted time. Life is much too short to waste on nonsensical endeavors such as this.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Trump loses you can blame the GOP establishment. They are purchased cowards.
Posted by: jvalentour || 06/10/2016 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  First it was RINOS, then it was the Republican Establishment once we get thru with the circular firing squad the GOP will be down to roughly 10% of the voting population. After the war (WW Deuce, aka the Big One) The German population was subjected to the bizzare rites of de-natzification, good jobs and indeed food itself depended on having (forgiver me mein Deutsch) a clear past. The most sought after paper was the Pearl Schine, which made the past go away, if the past existed. It put you in the clear :)

Are you now, or have you ever been a RINO?
Posted by: Shipman || 06/10/2016 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Yale prof sez economy will bring about Pub victory.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  The Cook Report is a downer this Friday a.m. Should Hillary get indicted, then everything changes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/10/2016 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Should Hillary get indicted, the pardoner-in-chief has his work cut out for him. Probably already has the paperwork sitting on his desk, waiting for him to date & sign it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/10/2016 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  If Trump loses you can blame the GOP establishment.

Yeah, no. If Trump loses you can blame the people who got him nominated. They were warned.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/10/2016 13:11 Comments || Top||

#7  A lot of people here saying who is to blame for Trump losing an election that hasn't been held yet. But they don't say why. Well, here's why you can blame the GOP establishment types like the Bush, McCain, Graham, Boehner, Ryan, etc: They were complicit in turning California into a blue state via illegal immigration. Look at the chart and you see that California has 55 Electoral College votes. Subtract 55 from 304 and you get 249. Add 55 to 190 and you get 245. Not enough for Trump you say? OK, but what about the impact of illegal immigration on other states like New Mexico with five votes, Colorado with nine, Nevada with six. Then there's New York with 29 votes and it's Trump's home state. I think he might have a chance there. And if we could get Kasich out of his globalist funk to support Trump we might get Ohio.

Can you get a little more specific or do you just call Trump a racist and think that's gonna carry the argument for you?

You think George Bush was so great? 911 and the mortgage meltdown happened on his watch. So he invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and look at them now. Blame Obama for that? Yeah, it'd be nice if we could count on our government to maintain a consistent foreign policy throughout several administrations but we can't and Bush should have known that. So Jeb Bush was not a viable candidate. So who did that leave us? Little Marco? One in 38 Kasich? Who was that other guy? I've already forgotten him...

Then there was McCain, the Manchurian Candidate in 2008. And then there was Romney in 2012. Romney got me all excited when he talked about the 47 percent but then he didn't have the guts to stick with it. Not presidential timber.

Why don't you tell us, Glainter, what is your real agenda? Be specific, please.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/10/2016 13:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Is Glainter that poster with the Virginia IP?

I'm guessing he's a consultant whose iron rice bowl is being slowly melted.
Posted by: charger || 06/10/2016 13:48 Comments || Top||

#9  GU, for the record, I was a Cruz supporter. And with my money.

Now I'm behind the winner of the party primary.

The GOP establishment's power is safer with Clinton than they are with Trump, period. The whole beltway crowd is corrupt and needs to be removed. If you haven't noticed, voters who support Sanders, Cruz and Trump want to shake up Washington.

I didn't break it.
I want it fixed, and not in the way Bush or Clinton want it fixed.

Voting for Trump will be no worse than voting for the previous pathetic lot of Romney, McCain, or either Bush.

Sorry I had to explain this to you in public but it seems as if you are very emotional person.
Posted by: jvalentour || 06/10/2016 13:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Yeah, and don't try telling me that New York is also Clinton's home state. She is a carpet bagger. She is a crooked old hag. She's taken money from Soddies, Russians and Chinese. She'd take money from any old john on the street. Her husband is a well known sex pervert, she knows it and she enabled him. She had a hard time beating Sanders and he is a self confessed communist. The campaign for the general election hasn't even started yet. When Trump gets done with her she is going to wish that she had stayed in Arkansas.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/10/2016 14:01 Comments || Top||

#11  As somebody who actually voted for Rand even after he dropped out, I find this pathological hate of Trump by the inside self declared elites to be disgusting.

Nobody I ever wanted (first round wise) in any election has ever won. Never once did I whine about it the way these douche bags are.

Nuf Said.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2016 15:35 Comments || Top||

#12  There is no doubt in my mind the entire machine would be thrown at whoever would be nominated.

I find this 'no way Kansas City can beat the Mets in the World Series so why even play' as bullshit. Haven't even played the first game yet.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/10/2016 19:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Gawker Files For Bankruptcy
Couldn't happen to 'nicer' people...
Gawker filed for bankruptcy Friday in New York federal court shortly after a lawyer for the gossip website told a Florida judge that it couldn’t afford to pay a $140 million jury award to wrestling legend Hulk Hogan for posting his sex tape online.

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing says that Gawker has between 200 and 1,000 creditors, between $50 million and $100 million in assets and $100 million to $500 million in liabilities.

The company says that it will use two loans, one $15 million one made by Menlo Park, Calif. venture capital firm US VC Partners, and another $7.6 million one made by Silicon Valley Bank, to stay afloat during the proceeding.
Posted by: Raj || 06/10/2016 14:07 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Couldn't happen to 'nicer' people...

Just what I was thinking even before I opened this article.

Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/10/2016 14:28 Comments || Top||

#2  To anyone thinking that Gawker is going away -- sorry.

This is a Chapter 11 reorganization, not a Chapter 7 liquidation. And the VC loans clinch it. They'll come in and add "new value". Debts will go away and life will continue as before, but with a modified cap table.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/10/2016 16:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Nick Denton still owes $10M on his own. *SMACK*
Posted by: Frank G || 06/10/2016 21:44 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2016-06-10
  Rumour: Iraqi news site indicates IS supremo may have been hit by coalition force strike
Thu 2016-06-09
  Daesh blows up ancient monuments in Iraq
Wed 2016-06-08
  Five dead, eleven maimed in Karbala kaboom
Tue 2016-06-07
  US-backed Syria force closes in on Manbij
Mon 2016-06-06
  Attack on Logar Appellate Court leaves 7 dead, over 20 wounded
Sun 2016-06-05
  Iraqi forces say they have secured southern edge of Falluja
Sat 2016-06-04
  Syrian army opens new front against ISIS, edges towards Raqqa province
Fri 2016-06-03
  48 militants killed, 36 wounded in Paktika airstrikes
Thu 2016-06-02
  Air Strikes in North Syria Kill at Least 42 Civilians
Wed 2016-06-01
  Taliban kill 17 passengers after kidnapping around 185 in Kunduz
Tue 2016-05-31
  Ninevah Nightmares: 158 ISIS Bad Guys die
Mon 2016-05-30
  Thousands of Peshmerga move on ISIS in major offensive
Sun 2016-05-29
  Anbar Antics: 190+ die
Sat 2016-05-28
  Iraq forces fire tear gas to disperse protesters
Fri 2016-05-27
  Iraqi forces, militias retake al-Karma from ISIS


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