Hi there, !
Today Mon 07/08/2019 Sun 07/07/2019 Sat 07/06/2019 Fri 07/05/2019 Thu 07/04/2019 Wed 07/03/2019 Tue 07/02/2019 Archives
Rantburg
532926 articles and 1859669 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 70 articles and 235 comments as of 5:28.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT        Politix   
Second ‘son of Hamas’ leaves terror group, exposing corruption, Turkish spy ring
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 4: Opinion
5 14:18 Dron66046 [5] 
5 14:54 Iblis [9] 
3 09:05 JohnQC [6] 
1 08:03 g(r)omgoru [11] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
2 20:17 jpal [12]
0 [6]
13 13:32 trailing wife [5]
0 [5]
0 [7]
0 [5]
0 [6]
0 [8]
0 [6]
0 [6]
0 [4]
0 [4]
0 [10]
0 [5]
0 [10]
0 [13]
0 [14]
2 17:02 Frank G [12]
0 [6]
0 [5]
9 12:01 Frank G [9]
Page 2: WoT Background
15 13:22 chris [7]
0 [4]
9 19:05 chris [8]
1 01:32 lord garth [9]
0 [6]
0 [8]
5 14:43 Dron66046 [8]
1 08:37 g(r)omgoru [10]
0 [9]
0 [13]
0 [4]
0 [11]
1 10:02 Chereting Pelosi1889 [7]
0 [8]
0 [7]
0 [7]
0 [4]
7 19:00 chris [4]
0 [5]
Page 3: Non-WoT
9 21:01 Procopius2k [7]
4 19:09 chris [7]
8 21:45 anymouse [9]
1 16:05 gorb [8]
2 10:07 Frank G [10]
5 16:21 Skidmark [5]
1 11:38 49 Pan [6]
13 18:08 Frank G [8]
12 17:59 brujotejano [7]
9 16:36 gorb [5]
0 [9]
9 22:28 SteveS [8]
0 [7]
2 10:47 Rambler in Virginia [8]
1 07:46 Procopius2k [4]
2 17:20 gorb [7]
5 14:42 M. Murcek [5]
5 16:44 Alaska Paul [4]
4 10:52 magpie [4]
Page 6: Politix
2 20:02 Silentbrick [5]
5 13:09 Beavis [8]
8 18:13 gorb [5]
18 21:09 Procopius2k [8]
17 21:34 trailing wife [11]
8 21:07 Rambler in Virginia [6]
6 19:29 SteveS [9]
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Controversy over Lebanese town’s non-Christian ban highlights segregation
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The exposure of a non-Christian housing ban in the Lebanese municipality of Hadat last week caused controversy over Leb’s religious coexistence. Supporters of the ban, spearheaded by President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
...

, are promoting a dangerous cause.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Smarter than Hawaiian judges?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2019 8:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Liberal War On You
[Townhall] We are witnessing the death of the liberal political machine that the elite has operated since the end of World War II, and everything that it is doing to conservatives right now ‐ the censorship, the threats, the intimidation, the violence ‐ is proof that it is dying. These are not the acts of an ideology in ascendance but rather of a scurrilous political paradigm in precipitous decline. And it’s only going to get worse as those losing their grip on political and cultural power desperately try to hold onto it in the face of our populist revolt.

Be prepared. It’s going to get uglier. Our would-be masters see the stakes ‐ their power, prestige and position ‐ and that’s why there is nothing they won’t do, no alleged principle they won’t upend, no bogus value they won’t abandon, to put off the reckoning that their greed and incompetence have brought upon them.

It’s not just happening here in America. It’s happening all over the world ‐ in places like Australia, Hungary, the UK, Brazil, and Italy, uppity citizens have proclaimed that enough is enough, that they want to have a say in their own future. That they have had enough of multiculturalism, globalism and scorn. They want their countries back.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2019 08:14 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think this applies for us all:
Admiral Josh Painter: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/05/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  I do believe you are wrong my friend. I believe that Trump is an unexpected event in the socialization of America. A rather last attempt from the center to stop the US from becoming a globalists/socialist/communist nation-in that descending order. The lefts failure was with Obama, they attacked too hard and too fast. America, at least in the center, reeled in horror and Trump was their answer. Trump, however, has not slowed the socialist movement one bit. They are more powerful in our schools I.E. Red for Ed, the local and state government have exploded with socialism, and the states voting give the electorate to the masses shows the states have written off the Republic. We on the side of our republic are foolish to believe that this is "their" Alamo, its "ours", and we are not in a position of strength. When Trump wins in 2020 they will riot in mass, the state will continue to slide left, and congress will hold impeachment hearing, derailing our nation for 4 more years until they can get their dear leader into power and finish us. The globalist/socialist/communists realized that overthrowing the Euros and America is a bridge too far, but if America falls, so will all of Europe, France of course being the first to surrender to it... The real fight for our soul has yet to start, the left has built their positions, they have got all the money in the world, their alliances are strong, and they will attack. This is not their death nail, this is their preparations for counter attack. With all this doom and gloom from me I do hold one thing certain, and the 4th brings it to light, we took on a very powerful nation to become America, we defended the world in its darkest hour, with the threat to our republic we have in front of us, our enemy must understand we have not yet begun to fight. When we do, as G(r)om states, it will be ugly. The left needs to understand that our republic will stand when this is over. Or everything the left hold in value will look like Atlanta after Sherman got done with it.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/05/2019 11:34 Comments || Top||

#3  The scary thing about Trump is that he's an anomaly, a welcome anomaly along the lines of Ronald Reagan, but an anomaly nonetheless. He might buy us some time but after his term we'll be back to the same old GOPe with candidates like Bush, McCain and Romney running against increasingly socialist Democrats like Obama and Harris with all of their totalitarian tendencies. Meanwhile, the left will keep its grip on the media and academia and they will continue to import Third World masses to vote against any future anomalies. It is scary.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/05/2019 13:12 Comments || Top||

#4  I think we have a march leftward towards destruction and every once in awhile a Thatcher/Reagan/Trump shows up and pushes back a bit, giving us a couple of decades extension.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/05/2019 13:21 Comments || Top||

#5  I wouldn't despair yet. As long as the earth has its salt, God will make a way for liberty and freedom to survive. Because this war is not only political, but spiritual. Consider the Kamalas and Pellosis. Aren't they modern day Jezebels ? Aren't the Clintons and Romneys of this world the Ahabs and Nabals in the spirit ?

This war is a manifestation of another, deeper conflict being fought in homes, hearts, churches since the early 20s. Remember that there was no way for Hilary to lose when Trump came to the fore. He had himself watched from the ropes and probably never wanted to come in and do this. The entire bloody horde of deepstatists thought it a foregone conclusion. But there is a God that raises up one and makes another to fall. All for a reason. I believe that reason has just begun to manifest. If America was so done, there was no purpose for this... anomaly, as Abu said. Not that the republicans are saints (and neither is Trump, no sir) but the left are demonic. They are not inspired by some marxist-Kalergi-wahabist-Orwellian plan. That is all a sham. They are simply a mass psychosis institutionalized and paid for by suicidally unreasonable men. Aren't they all described in Romans 1 ? From the Cross haters to the islamophiles and climate correctors.

I believe Trump is simply a servant raised by God to counter their vile anti-christian and anti-Israel momentum. And they were winning, maybe even appear to be yet winning, as Pan says. But there are still people of God in America. And men with faith. People that have been denigrated by the smart metropolitans as holly rollers and bible-nuts. It's these nuts holding this ship together. Israel has yet to fulfill his destiny. Remember the smug, clapping Pelosi, and the likes of Tlaib an Ilhan, how they hold their pride and arrogance. In my experience(and I've never seen it fail), that smug look is the last look God tolerates.

So do not despair or think it's lost. Keep your own families, communities mentally sound and untouched by the poison that seeps in for sake of convenience, egos, petty entertainment. Keep faith. For those that don't believe, find faith. And trust that when the enemy comes in like a wave, the Spirit of God will raise a standard against it. For today, for this political realm, that standard is this guy.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/05/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||


Abortion Might Not Cut Crime Rates After All
[Free Beacon] Using data from the rise and fall of communism in Romania, a new paper suggests that abortion's effect on crime is minimal, once its effect on population size is properly accounted for.

The paper, authored by economists Randi Hjalmarsson, Andreea Mitrut, and Cristian Pop-Eleches, looks at sudden changes in Romanian abortion law during and after the Ceaușescu regime. It shows that while overall numbers of crimes rose and fell in line with abortion, this effect vanishes when adjusting for the size of the population. This conclusion challenges prevailing explanations, including the idea that abortion reduces the number of "unwanted" children who might otherwise commit crimes.

The proposed link between abortion and crime has a long, and fraught, history. Back in 2001, economists John Donohue and Steven Levitt (the latter of Freakonomics fame) released a paper arguing that the legalization of abortion ‐ first in specific states, and then nationwide via Roe v. Wade ‐ drove the massive decline in crime from 1995 onwards, as children who would have been in their teens and early-to-mid 20s‐a high-crime age range‐simply were never born. They contended that this abortion effect accounts for up to 50 percent of the overall drop.

Donohue and Levitt argued that abortion affects crime through two mechanisms. One is cohort size ‐ if there are fewer kids, there will be fewer crimes in absolute terms. The other one, that the pair described as "far more interesting," is selection, i.e. "the possibility that abortion has a disproportionate effect on the births of those who are most at risk of engaging in criminal behavior."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2019 06:12 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not about crime, it's about convenience, power, and government dependency. These services are necessary to ensure everyone remains on the urban plantation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2019 6:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Ever thought you are misapplying the principle? Maybe application of swift and predictable termination of criminal post-natal adult critters would alter behaviors just as effectively?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/05/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Not even a retroactive one?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  I swear these two have got to be the dumbest 'experts' ever. They should certainly have been aborted. That's like saying, 'Because young people indulge in more crime, having lesser young people means lesser crime.' Of course it does but so what ?

It's also incontrovertible truth that a decrease in some sections of the population will lead to an overall decrease in crime. I say, fight the abortion battle not in legislatures, but in classrooms, medical schools, churches, families and with counselors.

And let the 'pro-choice' imbeciles prove Darwin. They don't deserve to be mothers anyway. God knows their children don't deserve them.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/05/2019 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Given the racial-eugenics underpinnings of the abortion lobby, the idea that it's an anti-crime program is stunningly racist.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/05/2019 14:54 Comments || Top||


April Ryan: Trump ‘Schoolhouse Rock' July 4 Speech Was President ‘Trying to Recreate His History'
[Breitbart] Thursday on CNN’s wrap-up coverage of President Donald Trump’s July 4 "Salute to America" speech, American Urban Radio Networks’ April Ryan, also a CNN contributor, accused Trump of "trying to recreate" history with the address.
"Fat, dumb, and racialist is no way to go through life, ya cud-chewing dimwit"
Ryan pointed to several points of the speech in which Trump highlighted American achievements and contrasted those with times she felt he betrayed those moments.

"If you didn’t know better, and the list goes on ‐ I could go on," she said. "But if you didn’t know better, this president is trying to recreate his history before he celebrated the military. He needed this moment. If you didn’t know better, if you didn’t fact check or go back to what he said or had done about certain issues, it would be a soaring speech. But for someone who covers him day in and day out, and understands some of the issues, and I’m still checking on when he said the ISIS caliphate is 100% gone ‐ we have to check that one as well. There are a lot of things in this speech. It may have been ’Schoolhouse Rock,’ Trump version, but nonetheless, we still have to fact check. It was his attempt at a soaring moment for history."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2019 05:54 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Following July 4 speech, number 9 moves to number ONE !
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2019 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Does she sing?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2019 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  CNN contributor splains a lot. The "hate-everything-Trump" and fake news network; formerly known as the Communist News Network (until people realized there was no news) and the Clinton News Network (until people realized they are crooks and scammers).
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/05/2019 9:05 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
31[untagged]
8Islamic State
5Taliban
4Govt of Pakistan
3Moslem Colonists
3Commies
2Govt of Iran
2Arab Spring
2Govt of Iran Proxies
1Houthis
1Palestinian Authority
1Sublime Porte
1Baloch Liberation Army
1al-Nusra
1Govt of Iraq
1Govt of Syria
1Hamas
1Haqqani Network
1Hezbollah

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
Fri 2019-07-05
  Second ‘son of Hamas’ leaves terror group, exposing corruption, Turkish spy ring
Thu 2019-07-04
  Wishing all Rantburgers a happy and safe Independence Day!
Wed 2019-07-03
  Airstrike hits migrant detention center in Libya, 40 killed
Tue 2019-07-02
  Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher found not guilty on murder and attempted murder charges
Mon 2019-07-01
  Seven Sudanese protesters killed, 181 wounded in Sunday demonstrations
Sun 2019-06-30
  Journalist Assaulted By Antifa/Portland - Face, Neck, Ear Injuries
Sat 2019-06-29
  Three Soldiers Killed in Philippines' Restive South, ISIS claims attack
Fri 2019-06-28
  57 Taliban militants including 10 Pakistanis killed in Ghazni clashes, airstrikes
Thu 2019-06-27
  Suicide bomber in Tunisia kills at least one, state TV reports
Wed 2019-06-26
  Saudi Special Forces capture emir of ISIS in Yemen
Tue 2019-06-25
  Ethiopia security forces kill alleged coup leader
Mon 2019-06-24
  Trump calls on China, and the world, to protect their own ships from Iran
Sun 2019-06-23
  Army chief shot dead in coup attempt in Ethiopia
Sat 2019-06-22
  Libyan army forces enter Tripoli Airport, seize major positions from Haftar's forces
Fri 2019-06-21
  Niger Says 18 IS Fighters Killed in Joint Operation with U.S.


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.
3.137.161.222
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (21)    WoT Background (19)    Non-WoT (19)    (0)    Politix (7)