Hi there, !
Today Sat 04/17/2021 Fri 04/16/2021 Thu 04/15/2021 Wed 04/14/2021 Tue 04/13/2021 Mon 04/12/2021 Sun 04/11/2021 Archives
Rantburg
531704 articles and 1855995 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 68 articles and 217 comments as of 14:59.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT        Politix   
Minnesota National Guard have deployed to Brooklyn Center following mass race rioting and looting by BLM
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 4: Opinion
4 16:10 Angstrom [2] 
2 09:06 ruprecht [] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
1 10:23 Frank G [1]
0 [2]
0 []
0 [3]
17 16:01 Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 [2]
0 [2]
0 []
0 [2]
0 [3]
0 [3]
0 []
1 13:34 Skidmark [3]
0 [2]
0 [2]
0 []
0 []
6 20:08 Beldar Lover of the Boskonians3113 [2]
2 13:30 746 [1]
0 []
0 []
0 [1]
0 [1]
0 []
4 09:31 b [1]
Page 2: WoT Background
3 21:58 Clem []
5 16:33 M. Murcek [1]
11 22:37 KBK []
0 []
1 07:18 Skidmark [1]
0 []
5 17:22 Spolurong Bonaparte7201 [2]
1 18:17 g(r)omgoru [1]
2 07:57 Mercutio []
8 21:14 Clem []
0 [1]
0 [2]
0 []
0 []
0 [1]
0 [1]
0 []
0 []
25 21:52 SteveS [1]
1 03:27 g(r)omgoru [2]
2 11:00 Phavimp Smith9261 []
0 []
Page 3: Non-WoT
0 [1]
4 13:09 Phavimp Smith9261 []
1 15:19 Matt []
1 16:16 Skidmark []
17 23:26 Besoeker []
4 20:11 Thatch Grusoper5430 [1]
7 16:56 badanov []
6 11:53 Seeking Cure For Ignorance [1]
5 13:32 Abu Uluque []
2 03:54 M. Murcek []
6 09:49 DarthVader [1]
4 20:59 trailing wife [1]
1 03:22 g(r)omgoru [1]
11 22:09 Mad Eye Flemp4426 [1]
4 14:46 Frank G []
Page 6: Politix
9 21:55 Silentbrick [2]
4 13:52 Skidmark [1]
10 17:42 Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 [2]
8 16:49 swksvolFF []
11 21:12 These Forkbeard7574 []
-Great Cultural Revolution
If this is a woman....
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2021 07:44 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually it is a wireless hole punch. You should have several to make sure you can punch different-sized holes as needed.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/14/2021 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Some kind of ventilator.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/14/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Diceman talked about the "veinalated meatpipe."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 15:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Woke idiots are creating a new kind of wealth -- rooted in reality. Go to public school or receive a real education at home. Get a 401K of rely on government handouts to retire. Date a real woman or ... this.
Posted by: Angstrom || 04/14/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
The Arab street has come to America
[American Thinker] - Beginning last June with the George Floyd riots across America, and resuming now, with the Daunte Wright riots, I’ve had a continuing feeling of déjà vu. It seems to me that I’ve seen all this before. Then, it suddenly hit me what is happening in America: The Arab street has come to town.

It’s important to note that riots happen constantly. If you type the word "riot" into YouTube, you get videos from every corner of the world. Many of the riots in the Arab world were part of the Muslim spring, when liberty seekers and Muslim Brotherhood despots alike took to the streets, anxious to unseat the governments then in charge. In the West, riots tended to be focused on a specific political goal, complete with signs and the usual leftist street theater.

However, the notion of the "Arab street" connotes a very specific type of riot, one in which imams and other activists stir up a mob to take to the streets in a blind rage. We started hearing about these riots after the Iraq War started. The media turned their cameras to the Middle East, and we started hearing routine stories about "the Arab street." This almost invariably meant a sudden, spontaneous riot by people driven to a maddened frenzy, usually by their imams.

If you check out the phrase Arab spring at Wikipedia, you get a scholarly statement saying it refers "to the spectrum of public opinion in the Arab world, often as opposed [to] or contrasted [with] the opinions of Arab governments." In other words, it’s just the marketplace of ideas where people gather to meet and talk.

Read further down, though, and you discover the definition to which I’m referring and the one that was supported by the images flooding television screens for the first two decades of the 21st century (emphasis added; footnote omitted):
    While sometimes the American media used "Arab street" as to be interchangeable with "Arab public opinion," suggesting rationality and calm, [Terry] Regier and [Muhammad Ali] Khalidi found that most uses carried the connotations of incipient unrest. "We propose that a central association of the Arab street is indeed that of a volatile potential mob, dangerous to the established order of Arab states, and thus to any agreements Western powers may have with those states." While users may not always have intended it that way, in many cases they did.
IMO. While African-American clergy been inciting violent riots for ages, it was localized.
...The initial George Floyd protests, while they were built on a lie, had the indicia of a traditional protest: People focused on an issue gathered together with signs and slogans to impress politicians with their numbers and, often, marched down the streets.

However, once those protests devolved into riots and looting, they took on the patina of the Arab street. And when the people skipped the formal protest part entirely, as they did in Kenosha and are now doing in Brooklyn Center (and will certainly do in Minneapolis after the Chauvin verdict), we are witnessing pure Arab street theater: Demagogues are whipping volatile crowds into frenzies that do not result in formal protest but simply lead to anarchic street violence.

As a reminder, in Brooklyn Center, the mob hit the streets before the facts were known about Daunte’s death. They continued to hit the streets (and loot the stores) when bodycam video showed that Daunte violently fought back against arrest and that the police officer, for whatever reason, actually thought she was tasering him, not shooting him. (Tasers should be fluorescent colors so this can’t happen again.) The facts didn’t stop the mob:
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2021 05:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The cost of being a white person going left is going up. When it starts pricing itself out as a way to talk and think things will get interesting.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/14/2021 5:58 Comments || Top||

#2  M. Murcek will get interesting, but the damage is done. We've all but encouraged the worst anti-civilization behavior for years now. I'm not sure how you put the genie back in the bottle short of a war that causes everyone to unite against a common enemy and even that might just divide us further.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/14/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
29[untagged]
8Islamic State
5Antifa/BLM
4Govt of Syria
2Taliban
2Govt of Pakistan
2Human Trafficking
2Govt of Iran
2Muslim Brotherhood
2Govt of Iraq
2Sublime Porte
1[untagged]
1al-Shabaab (AQ)
1Boko Haram (ISIS)
1Devout Moslems
1Hezbollah
1Houthis
1Ottoman Proxies
1TTP

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2021-04-14
  Minnesota National Guard have deployed to Brooklyn Center following mass race rioting and looting by BLM
Tue 2021-04-13
  Babel's governor ''disappears'' after an arrest warrant issued against him
Mon 2021-04-12
  Occupied Portland ICE building set afire by left-wing extremists during Saturday night insurrection
Sun 2021-04-11
  Convicted ISIS supporter tells Chicago judge he's 'just a normal guy'
Sat 2021-04-10
  Somali army captures Al-Shabab bases in central region
Fri 2021-04-09
  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II's husband, dead at 99
Thu 2021-04-08
  US vows to ‘return to compliance’ with Iran nuclear deal, lift sanctions
Wed 2021-04-07
  Iranian ship affiliated with IRGC attacked
Tue 2021-04-06
  Puntland troops foil car bombs, kill 24 ISIS militants in operation
Mon 2021-04-05
  Mozambican Armed Forces Secure Palma Airstrip
Sun 2021-04-04
  Police arrest 100 gang members who smuggled drugs into Spain on speed boats
Sat 2021-04-03
  125 ISIS arrested in al-Hol operation
Fri 2021-04-02
  Sri Lankan boat associated with Pak drug network intercepted off Kerala coast with 300 kg heroin, arms
Thu 2021-04-01
  Taliban targets coalition base in Khost province
Wed 2021-03-31
  Rebels leave beheaded bodies in streets of Mozambique town

Better than the average link...



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.
3.237.44.242
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (24)    WoT Background (22)    Non-WoT (15)    (0)    Politix (5)