[ARABNEWS] The Anti-Terror Quarter (ATQ) ‐ comprising Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain ‐ has added two more radical Islamic organizations and 11 krazed killer individuals to its terrorism list.
The classification of the International Union of Moslem Scholars (IUMS) ‐ which was established by the Moslem Brüderbund and supported by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... ‐ and its sister organization the International Islamic Council (IIC), was a late step. Prohibiting dealing with these two organizations, especially the IUMS, should have happened sooner.
Since its inception, which coincided with the rise of al-Qaeda, the IUMS has represented a threat to Islamic societies and moderate Islam worldwide. The IUMS was established in Qatar in 2004 while al-Qaeda was carrying out bombings and killing people in the name of Islam. They share the same krazed killer ideology.
IUMS members justified violence and started an intellectual war with muftis and traditional Islamic scholars, undermining them in their home countries and ridiculing their religious edicts.
Saudi scholars from the traditional Salafi school prohibited jihadist operations since the 1990s, because such operations are carried out without state permission. This infuriated IUMS muftis, who tried to justify "martyrdom operations." The IUMS also engaged in the destruction of major, legitimate Islamic institutions such as the Council of Senior Scholars in Saudi Arabia and al-Azhar in Egypt.
Terrorism hiding behind the guise of Islam started at the same time as the establishment of councils that issued radical religious edicts. Like al-Qaeda and ISIS, these councils considered themselves international rather than domestic.
Al-Qaeda’s birth coincided with that of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) in 1997 in London, headed by radical preacher Yusuf Qaradawi. al-Qaeda opened branches all over the Middle East and Europe, as did radical councils and associations.
The most dangerous side of terrorism is krazed killer thought. As such, had it not been for religious personalities and associations incubating krazed killer scholars, and had it not been for Qatar offering them a base and huge funds, the birth, spread and militarization of krazed killer thought worldwide would not have been possible.
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Please USA, please! We need a serious filter too.
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the Saudi leadership got seriously annoyed by the Muslim brotherhood when they basically overthrew
Murbarak. As things went along, the brotherhood became seen as an actual existential threat.
This opinion is slowly working its way down the population class structure.
Ironically, this coincides with American academicians thinking more highly about the brotherhood.
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[Guardian] The Guardian has reported that John Le Carre, the famed British spy novelist, recently said of the Trump presidency: "something truly, seriously bad is happening and we have to be awake to that." Chillingly, he expressed alarm about the "toxic" parallels between the rise of President Trump and hard right regimes in Poland and Hungary and the rise of fascism in the 1930s.
Mr Le Carre may be overstating the risk of rising fascism but he is surely right to warn that many of Mr Trump’s early actions and words challenge fundamental tenets of democracy.
These challenges include his assertion that the media is "the enemy of the people", that news he doesn’t like is "fake news," that there were "good people" among the neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville, and that the Senate should change its rules to abolish the requirement for 60 votes to end a filibuster, thus eliminating the single most important protection of minority interests in our system of government.
At the same time, the Trump administration has mounted a systematic effort to "deconstruct the ’administrative state’" as his recently departed chief strategist, Steven Bannon, was fond of saying.
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Mr Cohen concludes that “an American jewel (the State Department) is at stake, a place where honorable patriots take an oath to the Constitution” – not to any given president.
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...POINT OF ORDER: LeCarre - real name John Cornwell, career civil servant in Her Majesty's Foreign Office - loathes America. He does not like us.
Not one. Little. Bit.
He held it together through most of his books (including his best, the Smiley Trilogy) but let it go full blast after that. Quite frankly, if DJT is pissing him off, then may it please God to send the President to do so every day.
Mike
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And some people - not necessarily Russian, Chinese, of Muslims - say "long overdue".
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Not too long ago I read The Looking Glass War by John Le Carre. The point of the book seemed to be that a great many people in the British intelligence community are full on bat shit crazy, delusional and longing for their glory days in WWII. It was so depressing I could barely get through it and I resolved never to read another one of his books. Many years earlier I read A Perfect Spy about an MI6 double agent who ended up committing suicide. Real inspirational stuff...not. The only redeeming theme in these books is that good old Smiley manages to police the organization and weed out the nut jobs. But who wants to rely on the one sane person in the mad house for national security?
If any little bit of what Le Carre writes is based on actual people and events then Trump is absolutely correct in his efforts to dismantle the intelligence community because it is full of delusional and dangerous freaks. OTOH, if Le Carre is a clinically depressed nut case, he should be ignored and so should his books. Either way it's no surprise that al Guardian is attempting to promote him.
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His Politics
Le Carré feuded with Salman Rushdie over The Satanic Verses, stating that "nobody has a God-given right to insult a great religion and be published with impunity".[25]
In January 2003, The Times published le Carré's essay "The United States Has Gone Mad".[26] Le Carré contributed it to a volume of political essays titled Not One More Death (2006). Other contributors include Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Michel Faber, Harold Pinter, and Haifa Zangana.[27] [28]
In 2017, le Carré stated: "These stages that Trump is going through in the United States and the stirring of racial hatred ... these are absolutely comparable signs of the rise of fascism and it’s contagious, it’s infectious. Fascism is up and running in Poland and Hungary. There’s an encouragement about."[29]
Cornwell said he did not know his mother, who abandoned him when he was five years old, until their re-acquaintance when he was 21 years old. His father had been jailed for insurance fraud.
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“an American jewel (the State Department) is at stake, a place where honorable patriots take an oath to the Constitution”
...and then his lips fell off.
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“an American jewel (the State Department) is at stake, a place where honorable patriots take an oath to the Constitution” That is crazy talk from a crazy man.
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thus eliminating the single most important protection of minority interests in our system of government
That's the Constitution, not the filibuster.
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Le Carré feuded with Salman Rushdie over The Satanic Verses, stating that "nobody has a God-given right to insult a great religion and be published with impunity".[25]
Except Rushdie was writing about Islam, so no "great religion" was "insulted".
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[Spectator] It’s not easy watching California self-destruct. After all, my four sons are 6th generation Californians. One relative of ours journeyed here prior to the Gold Rush when the state population was just a handful of people. Family lore has it he was a gunslinger who, victorious in a gun duel, headed to California to avoid the law. He ended up ranching on what is now known as Mammoth Mountain. Other family members took part in the gold rush and one ended up discovering gold in 1895 in the Mojave Desert. My grandparents arrived in Kern County in the 1930s and worked as teachers educating the children of oil workers shortly after the discovery of oil in that region.
Proud of my heritage, I had this urge to run for the state legislature, so I did and I won. I was hoping I could do something in Sacramento to slow the decline of the Golden State. But it was not to be. I quickly discovered that the legislature was so dominated by far left ideologues, there was nothing that could be done to reverse course. My Democrat colleagues were not concerned one bit about how their policies were destroying the economic golden goose that made California so famous worldwide. Indeed, they actually believe their big government and nanny state policies have made California the model of how progressives can succeed in governing. Seriously.
The entire time I served in Sacramento, the Democrats were focused almost exclusively on legislation which either had to do with wealth redistribution or creating new “rights” for alleged victims such as illegal aliens, criminals, union members, homosexuals, transgenders and other “oppressed” groups. And it’s no different today. The reality is that the average middle class Californian hasn’t had representation in the halls of Sacramento for decades. Indeed, I predict the destruction of California will, unfortunately, be one of the great legacies of the progressive movement.
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Those "high-tech" firms had better get out soon before California falls into the ocean. There is that climate change thing, as Californians know ALL too well.
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...had to do with wealth redistribution...
firms such as Apple, Google, and Facebook...
California barely squeezes past impoverished New Mexico..
Well, Los Lunas, New Mexico is getting some of that 'redistribution' as Facebook opens a server farm there. At least their employees will not find hundreds of thousands of dollar shacks as their only housing opportunities.
That's why I want Trump to deport all illegal aliens. To hell with DACA. Deport them all. Jail the politicians who think they can get away with declaring the state and its municipalities to be sanctuaries for people who broke our nation's laws to get here. Arrest the marijuana growers and dealers and charge them with violations of federal laws. Cut off all discretionary federal grants to the state. Get serious about it or else you really will lose this state and, let me tell you, you don't want to lose it. If you think Mexico is dangerous now, think how bad it will be when they control San Diego Bay, San Francisco Bay, San Pedro, Camp Pendleton, Edwards Air Force Base, Elk Hills, etc., etc. It's no joke, people. You could lose it and then you would be sorry.
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I'm a fifth and last generation Californian in my family. Ancestors were in the second group on the Oregon Trail, did not take the shortcut to California, thank you very much. Settled in Oregon, then down to Yrekia, Dorris, and Happy Camp in North border of California. Did all right. It really pains me to see what the looney left has done to this once great state. Its going over the tipping point.
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[DAWN] MANY think that our education rot is irreversible. Among countless other problems one stands out ‐ school textbooks written and produced in Pakistain. These are probably the world’s worst. For decades, children have studied from books printed upon smudgy newsprint replete with mistakes, stuffed with materials containing hate against other peoples and religions, and impoverished of actual subject content.
There’s now a ray of hope. Last week, two towering piles of books from the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
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Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William Burroughs, Richard Wagner, Sid Vicious, V. S. Naipaul, John Galliano, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Caravaggio, Floyd Mayweather, though if we start listing athletes we’ll never stop. And what about the women? The list immediately becomes much more difficult and tentative: Anne Sexton? Joan Crawford? Sylvia Plath? Does self-harm count? Okay, well, it’s back to the men I guess: Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Lead Belly, Miles Davis, Phil Spector.
They did or said something awful, and made something great. The awful thing disrupts the great work; we can’t watch or listen to or read the great work without remembering the awful thing. Flooded with knowledge of the maker’s monstrousness, we turn away, overcome by disgust. Or … we don’t. We continue watching, separating or trying to separate the artist from the art. Either way: disruption. They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them.
We’ve all been thinking about monsters in the Trump era. For me, it began a few years ago. I was researching Roman Polanski for a book I was writing and found myself awed by his monstrousness. It was monumental, like the Grand Canyon. And yet. When I watched his movies, their beauty was another kind of monument, impervious to my knowledge of his iniquities. I had exhaustively read about his rape of thirteen-year-old Samantha Gailey; I feel sure no detail on record remained unfamiliar to me. Despite this knowledge, I was still able to consume his work. Eager to. The more I researched Polanski, the more I became drawn to his films, and I watched them again and again—especially the major ones: Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown. Like all works of genius, they invited repetition. I ate them. They became part of me, the way something loved does.
I wasn’t supposed to love this work, or this man. He’s the object of boycotts and lawsuits and outrage. In the public’s mind, man and work seem to be the same thing. But are they? Ought we try to separate the art from the artist, the maker from the made? Do we undergo a willful forgetting when we want to listen to, say, Wagner’s Ring cycle? (Forgetting is easier for some than others; Wagner’s work has rarely been performed in Israel.) Or do we believe genius gets special dispensation, a behavioral hall pass?
And how does our answer change from situation to situation? Certain pieces of art seem to have been rendered unconsumable by their maker’s transgressions—how can one watch The Cosby Show after the rape allegations against Bill Cosby? I mean, obviously it’s technically doable, but are we even watching the show? Or are we taking in the spectacle of our own lost innocence?
And is it simply a matter of pragmatics? Do we withhold our support if the person is alive and therefore might benefit financially from our consumption of their work? Do we vote with our wallets? If so, is it okay to stream, say, a Roman Polanski movie for free? Can we, um, watch it at a friend’s house? More at the link
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Claire Dederer is an American writer. She is best known for her book Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses which was a New York Times best seller
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Found a charming and entertaining show on Netflix called, "Stranger Things." My kids had watched it and loved it, too.
Then, I watched the back story interviews with the cast and production members. The adults creeped me out. I hope someone is keeping an eye out for the kids.
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They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them.
Is there greater genius than monster on the scales of justice? Should the genius be diminished to the weight of monster, is there balance? Accept the destruction of genius as the wages of harboring a monster.
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It's simple. Do I really need to say it? When they break the law, throw them in jail.
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Because artist are human and humans are flawed?
Example: article never explains what monstrous is. Some places are legalizing drugs, others will execute you for having them. Others wouldn't dare put Doubting Thomas in the same breath as Naked Lunch.
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Apparently, according to wiki, Caravaggio was a bit of a brawler, one fight leading to the death of the other.
Later, after fleeing to Malta, he broke down the door and beat the crap out of a Knight of Malta, leading to his arrest, and subsequent escape from prison.
[American Thinker] I find it tremendously sad that so many supposedly intelligent people who tell us how to run our lives are all of a sudden faking that in 2017 that powerful people have been mistreating people for years while they have intentionally looked the other way. They are obviously enablers.
I am 64 years old and have been working with other people for over 59 years, and I have never believed that it was OK to slap them on their behinds ‐ or any of the rest of the nasty stuff coming out now. I certainly have known not to hang around with pedophiles, let alone fly over two dozen times with a billionaire who procures underage girls for powerful men on an airplane called "Lolita" to something called "orgy island." (Somehow, almost all reporters have never cared about Jeff Epstein and Bill Clinton and still don't.) I also know that cigars are for smoking.
I have worked for seven employers after I graduated from college, and I didn't see any of them in possession of a slush fund for treating people badly. I would have been fired. How did anyone in Congress believe he had the right to use our money to pay claims and then keep them secret? Where was the appropriation? Was it the same place Obama stole unappropriated funds from to cover up losses in Obamacare? Who approved the payments? My guess is that a lot of people know whom the payments were made for. Why weren't those people expelled from Congress?
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Remember, socialists don't have empathy for the poor. They just hate the rich.
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Except their rich socialist friends...
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And Al Franken(stein) is on his full court press apology tour. Will have to see how that works out. Senate ethics investigation? Surely a world class oxymoron.
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[Breitbart] A federal judge has struck down a Texas law that bans second-trimester dismemberment abortions, those in which an unborn baby is "torn limb from limb" and then extracted from the uterus.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that banning dismemberment abortion ‐ a form of "D&E" (dilation and evacuation) abortion ‐ places an "undue burden" upon women.
"The State’s valid interest in promoting respect for the life of the unborn, although legitimate, is not sufficient to justify such a substantial obstacle to the constitutionally protected right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability," the judge wrote.
In a medical animation video provided by pro-life organization Live Action, former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino demonstrates a second-trimester D&E abortion during which the abortionist uses instruments to remove the limbs from an unborn baby, between 13 to 24 weeks into a pregnancy, prior to extraction from the uterus:
I'm sure the judge can point out the language in the paper document that reads that way. Otherwise its a judicial creation built upon one presumption after another ignoring the actual text which reads "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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The State’s valid interest in promoting respect for the life of the unborn, although legitimate, is not sufficient to justify such a substantial obstacle to the constitutionally protected right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability...
If the fetus has limbs, a brain and a heart that is beating that all sounds pretty viable to me.
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If the fetus has limbs, a brain and a heart that is beating that all sounds pretty viable to me.
Sadly the left sees them as commodities to be sold on the open market - hence Planned Parenthood and Baby Parts.
h/t Instapundit
It’s become a fact of American life that girls are better than boys at school. They get better grades. They’re suspended less. For every generation since the boomers, women have been more likely than men to earn high school and college diplomas.
...There are many theories for this widening academic achievement gap, but first, here’s another observation that might shed some light: The differences between boys and girls are largest among the most disadvantaged children. Socioeconomic status does not entirely explain the gender gap. Even well-off boys struggle to compare to well-off girls. But a tough upbringing sets boys back much farther. Expected any different in schools run by third wave feminists?
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Don't expect any change in the narrative or any help for boys. They'll just grow up to be rapists anyway.
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Few surprises here. The further we remove man from his primal mission, the more likely he is to assume confusing transgender solutions. The same might apply to women.
When I am too old to carry my tree stand, leave me beside the road. I am finished.
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Town I grew up in had no really well-off families. The smartest boys in class were as good as, or better than, the smartest girls. At high school reunions, turns out, about the same %-ages got Ph.Ds, JDs and MDs, for example. This was back in ye olden tymes, 1950s America, not the same place any more.
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.
[ARABNEWS] The Anti-Terror Quarter (ATQ) ‐ comprising 
[Guardian] The Guardian has reported that John Le Carre, the famed British spy novelist, recently said of the Trump presidency: "something truly, seriously bad is happening and we have to be awake to that." Chillingly, he expressed alarm about the "toxic" parallels between the rise of President Trump and hard right regimes in Poland and Hungary and the rise of fascism in the 1930s.
[DAWN] MANY think that our education rot is irreversible. Among countless other problems one stands out ‐ school textbooks written and produced in Pakistain. These are probably the world’s worst. For decades, children have studied from books printed upon smudgy newsprint replete with mistakes, stuffed with materials containing hate against other peoples and religions, and impoverished of actual subject content.
[Breitbart] A federal judge has struck down a Texas law that bans second-trimester dismemberment abortions, those in which an unborn baby is "torn limb from limb" and then extracted from the uterus.
