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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Judge Roy Moore: We Removed God from Schools, Shootings and Death Filled the Void
[Breitbart] CNN is lamenting the fact that GOP frontrunner for the U.S. Senate in Alabama Judge Roy Moore told pastors and Christians in a speech last month that shootings and killings in American society are the result of removing God from schools.

Andrew Kaczynski’s KFile on CNN dug up a video of Moore from late August speaking at Citizen Impact USA, making the comments that have CNN and the GOP establishment in Washington similarly freaked out.

"We are losing the acknowledgement of God and I’m standing here talking to Christians and pastors and I’m telling you we’re losing the acknowledgement of God," Moore said, per CNN’s report.

After, per Kaczynski, Moore began "reciting several verses from the Old Testament book of Hosea that deal with lack of knowledge of God," the front-running candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama argued that shootings and killings in U.S. society today is because of the lack of God in public life.

"You wonder why we’re having shootings, and killings here in 2017? Because we’ve asked for it," Moore said. "We’ve taken God out of everything. We’ve taken prayer out of school, we’ve taken prayer out of council meetings."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2017 04:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hear Hear!!! Couldn't be more correct! Government replacing personal and congregational values means that there are NO values. Note the violence in colleges; the lack of any moral values including the attack on the concept of marriage. Government decided that if there was a marriage of a man and a woman, it would not help support any children of that union; so, we have multi-generations of single parent children usually with either no committed male role model or a revolving door of here today gone tomorrow people.
Posted by: Alistaire Untervehr8459 || 09/21/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Third World Quarterly publishes "The Case for Colonialism" leading to censorship demands
BLUF:
[LI] Rather than celebrating the open mindedness of the journal’s publishing a piece challenging some of the central paradigms of their discipline, and taking this challenge as an opportunity to refute the piece, numerous academics have cried ’foul’ and are calling for the retraction of the article and for sanctioning the author and the editors.

Members of the editorial board have threatened to resign. Some have threatened to boycott the journal entirely (even not to cite it). Cries of racism and ’white supremacy’ dominating academia have naturally followed.

It is ironic that those outraged are so blinded by their own self-perceived (and frequently self-serving) victim status that they fail to see that it is precisely the overwhelming success of their own anti-colonial orthodoxy, rendering the defense of colonialism so marginal, that makes it possible for a journal like Third World Quarterly to view publishing such a piece as unthreatening in the first place.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2017 07:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If not for colonialism the would still be swinging from the trees
Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846 || 09/21/2017 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah. It was those Ancient Aliens who taught us about agriculture.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/21/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Rhodes Univ. Decolonizing - Humanising the university (safe) space through Umrhabulo
[Rhodes - Latest News] Rhodes University launched the first series of Umrhabulo: Breaking Bread talks, a programme through which interested staff and students converge to discuss the prospect of a university committed to social justice and Ubuntu.
UMRABULO - Word used to inspire political discussion and debate among convicted terrorists at Robben Island prison. This concept was revived in 1996 when the communist ANC published the first edition of Umrabulo.
The first event of the series, hosted on Thursday, 14 September, unpacked how teaching practices can be entrenched not just in knowledge, but also in humanity under the theme Humanising pedagogy.

The discussion took inspiration from Bell Hook and intellectual Cornel West, in their book, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life.

The premise of the discussion was the collective understanding that South African universities, and Rhodes, are at a crossroads with constituencies calling for the decolonisation of the university space, a reform of curriculums, teaching methods, and knowledge offering.

Dr Siphokazi Magadla, Senior Lecturer at the Political & International Studies department, led the discussion together with retired Rhodes University scholar, Professor Michael Joseph, chaired by Nompulelelo Babeli.

"We know that things must change, but we do not know exactly how. Where do we go from here? How do we guard against disillusionment? were the pertinent questions of the evening.

According to Babeli, "our aim is to begin to imagine a university in which students are central, social justice is served, and the African context is fully recognised".

Western teaching methods were said to play a role in de-humanising and alienating the African child. Therefore, there needs to be an establishment of a safe space for mutual vulnerability.

Dr Magadla sees learning as a space of both passion and pleasure. Drawing on author, feminist and social activist Bell Hook’s work, Magadla views scholarship not as an abstract inquiry, but as community work.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2017 07:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..."intellectual Cornel West"

Not a common name, and his nationality wasn't listed (all humanity is of African origin), but it must surely be another Cornel West.

Perhaps former U.S. President and Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton could add something to the Universities Umrahbula effort.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2017 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Used to be this went on in the local coffeehouse/pub. Back when free speech was in vogue.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Cornel West

Admittedly a Wikipedia entry, but not as much of a puff-piece as found elsewhere.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/21/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Obviously no real Umrabulo progress can be achieved until the university changes it's name.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||


Europe
Socialism Corrupts and Absolute Socialism Corrupts Absolutely
h/t Instapundit
There is a scene in one of Leo Frankowski’s Cross-Time Engineer series in which his main character ‐ a time-displaced engineer trying to prepare Poland for the Mongol onslaught ‐ comes across a rampaging Mongol party and a bunch of merchants.

In this scene, the Mongols order the merchants to kneel and present necks. And then start beheading them.

Frankowski’s character intervenes and slaughters the raiding party of Mongols, saving the merchants, then asks the merchants why they obeyed the order to kneel, knowing they’d be slaughtered. "Because otherwise, they’d do something worse," the merchants say.

I think of that scene every time I’m in Europe and dealing with the "local style" ‐ or even here ‐ interacting with the kind of government bureaucracy that expects us to kneel and present our necks.

By and large here it’s not advanced to the point of making us fully helpless, unless it’s in specialized areas and circumstances, like say New Orleans after Katrina.

Europe, though...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2017 04:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
Daniel Pipes: I taught NATO to stand up to a dictator
Posted by: Grunter || 09/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Daniel Pipes is a national treasure.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 09/21/2017 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  He is an International Treasure, Zang!
Posted by: newc || 09/21/2017 0:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Dick Morris: No impeachment for president with 60% approval rating
[Washington Times] During a speech at the Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan to highlight his new book, "Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump," political operative and commentator Dick Morris outlined the Deep State’s attempt to unseat duly elected President Donald Trump from power and the strategy Trump seems to be using to combat Obama operatives in our intelligence agencies.

According to Morris, upon gaining office in 2008, President Obama began a secret process to "weaponize" our intelligence capability in a bid to maintain power for the Left and weaken the Right’s hold on the American intelligence and defense establishment. Hundreds of personnel in the intelligence and military fields were fired in order to clear the way for Obama loyalists to implement the new agenda of using the military industrial complex to stay in power and promote a Marxist agenda rather than fight our enemies.

To the Deep State, Trump is seen as a disruptive figure who could end the power and privilege of those who shape American policy from a shadowy vantage point behind the scenes. Therefore the Deep State decided, upon being surprised by Trump’s election, to remove the irritant. Since none of the broadsides the Left used during the election worked, Trump’s enemies finally decided on a strategy of using a complete falsehood against him‐collaboration with the Russians. Their goal was to employ mass disinformation and create such uncertainty among the American public that a special prosecutor would be empaneled. It worked.

The outcome we see today was created by Obama using illegal surveillance and unmasking against Trump campaign figures to plant ’time bombs’ which went off once the Trump team was put in place, further eroding public perception. Hence the clearly planned accusations against Mike Flynn, Jeff Sessions, et cetera.

These disinformation and subterfuge techniques were honed by our intelligence services during the Cold War removing communist governments around the third world. According to Morris, Obama simply decided to use them against an American president. Morris also made the case that the techniques were also used against Kennedy, as well as Nixon.

However, there is a strategy which seems to be working for Trump as he fights the Obama Deep State‐it’s called competence. Trump’s policies are working, quickly, to heal the economy and make America great again. According to Morris, a president with a 60% approval rating, simply cannot be impeached. There would be violence in the streets. He used this strategy effectively while working for Clinton during his impeachment proceedings.

Morris sees Trump’s recent statements on DACA and other explosive issues, as a way to increase the overall approval rating among Americans. Morris offered some advice on DACA‐let them stay but don’t allow them to become citizens and bring in millions of chain migrants.

The speech was insightful and well received by the audience.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2017 07:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These disinformation and subterfuge techniques were honed by our intelligence services during the Cold War removing communist governments around the third world. According to Morris, Obama simply decided to use them against an American president.

Morris gives far too much credit to the dagga ravaged Soetoro intellect. Deep State plank holder and puppet master John Brennan is the likely author of the fictional Russian mischief.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  When you consider that they feel that the person who lost really won, then you know that popular approval doesn't come up in their plans.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/21/2017 15:02 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Invisible abuse
[DAWN] THE death on Saturday of a teenager who worked as domestic help in an upscale housing locality 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...
continues to throw up distressing questions. The 17-year-old was found hanging from a fan in the home of her employers who claimed that she had did away with himself. This assertion was upheld by the first post-mortem carried out by a medico-legal officer at a large public-sector facility. The family of the girl, however, maintained that it could not have been suicide, and launched a demonstration against the police until the authorities ordered a second post-mortem. Consequently, it emerged on Tuesday that the child had been strangled to death. The four-member medical board, which included an additional police surgeon, also found marks of torture on the body, and has sent samples for chemical analysis so that it can be ascertained whether, as the family alleges, she was also sexually assaulted. Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
an FIR has been lodged under the clauses of the Pakistain Penal Code relating to premeditated murder, and the child’s employers have obtained pre-arrest interim bail.

The law must now take its course and a thorough investigation should be carried out. Additionally, it is important to find out why the first autopsy produced an inaccurate report. There may have been technical deficiencies, but given Pak society’s realities, another deeply disturbing dimension cannot be overlooked: those who work as domestic labour in this country are among the poorest of the poor, with rights only on the statute books, and next to no capacity at all to seek justice ‐ particularly since such workers tend overwhelmingly to be women and kiddies. This category of persons, because of social custom and their own powerlessness as society’s most vulnerable members, must toil on, often in conditions that resemble modern-day slavery than a situation with proper terms of employment. They suffer high levels of abuse that rarely come to light. In recent years, however, several cases from across the country have emerged where domestic help ‐ mostly children ‐ have been abused to the point of death. It is tragic that only torture or death makes it to the news; abuse that does not prove fatal or falls short of torture is simply accepted. Laws regarding labour workforce rights must be extended to this unrepresented though numerically large section of the population. Further, some sort of enforcement and redressal system must be devised immediately.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another High Profile court case for you/
Posted by: newc || 09/21/2017 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  those who work as domestic labour in this country are among the poorest of the poor

Of course only the middle class uses domestic help.
The upper crust will have bought hired their captives indentured servants slaves help from offshore.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2017 13:41 Comments || Top||



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  Syrian Army kills Al-Qaeda emir of Aleppo in northern Hama
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  RAF Drone Stops Islamic State Public Execution
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  Al-Qaeda battles it out with ISIS across Idlib province
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  Egypt court upholds ex-president Morsi's life sentence
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  Lebanon arrests 19 people suspected of belonging to ISIS
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  Girl strapped with bomb kills 5 in Cameroon mosque
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  US forces have failed in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s FM claims
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  Rohingya exodus to Bangladesh nears 300,000
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