[Daily Mail] Globalisation was supposed to tear down barriers, but security fears and a widespread refusal to help migrants and refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building across the world, with a third of the world's countries constructing them along their borders.
When the Berlin Wall was torn down a quarter-century ago, there were 16 border fences around the world.
Today, there are 65 either completed or under construction, according to Quebec University expert Elisabeth Vallet.
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It took RUSH LIMBAUGH for the MSM + POliticos to finally say it, i.e. that by these mainly Muslim migrants-n-refugees Islam or Radical Islam INTENDS TO FORCIBLY "COLONIZE" + "ISLAMIZE" THE WEST + OTHER, NOT JUST WORK THERE.
NON-MILITARY GLOBAL JIHAD = NON-MILITARY MOHAMMEDDAN CONQUEST.
Essentially or effectively no different than the MEXICAN + LATAM "INVASION" OF THE US VEE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ACROSS THE US' SOUTHERN BORDERS.
[PAGESIX] Novelist Jonathan Franzen felt so disconnected from today’s youth that he contemplated adopting an Iraqi war orphan to better understand them. There's no better lab animal than an orphaned Iraqi, is there?
“Oh, it was insane, the idea that Kathy [his partner] and I were going to adopt an Iraqi war orphan,” the 56-year-old said in a recent interview with the Guardian. “The whole idea lasted maybe six weeks.” Had the adoption actually taken place that would probably have been about the time the interest wore off.
The idea’s roots went back to Franzen’s frustration with young people, who he felt were not living acting the way that young people should. How old an Iraqi war orphan was he talking about? Something maybe in his late teens or early twenties?
“One of the things that had put me in mind of adoption was a sense of alienation from the younger generation,” the “Freedom” author explained. Ahah! Alienated, was he? Light me a Gaulloise.
I will, if you explain about this "Freedom" (love the scare quotes they put around it!) he's so proud of. I've not heard of it, which puzzles me.
“They seemed politically not the way they should be as young people. They weren't responding to my leadership. There was a lack of interest, almost as though I didn't matter..."
"I thought people were supposed to be idealistic and angry. "I was looking forward to harnessing that idealism, focusing that anger..."
"And they seemed kind of cynical and not very angry. At least not in any way that was accessible to me.” "But of course I mattered. So the ones I had access to were defective. I needed to find a new set."
"Fortunately his editor stepped in to suggest something a little less permanent: A meeting with a group of fresh college graduates. It cured me of my anger at young people,” he said. "They had, of course, heard of me..."
If they had time to meet, they weren't gainfully employed; this suggests they had degrees in studying things like freedom in scare quotes.
Representatives for the author’s publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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Maybe these two moronic members of the intelligentsia should have adopted a little boy-killer/beheader from ISIS? They wouldn't get bored after 6 weeks (if they lasted that long).
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56 is a bit young to be all "get off my lawn" and shit
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I googled it. Wikipedia has a summary of the plot and a selection of reviews, the raves of which are predictable, the pans quietly scathing to my eye. link
It sounds like it was written by a smug, over-educated, under-brained pseudo-intellectual with considerably more technique than talent for an audience of much the same, all engaged in sneering at the strawmen they firmly believe their neighbours to be.
[Dhaka Tribune] A rickshaw-van puller died after a tiger sculpture fell down on him at Karwan Bazar in the capital early yesterday.
"Md Ali, aged around 42, was sleeping when the sculpture collapsed around 3:30am, leaving him critically injured," said fireman Md Shahid, quoting witnesses and employees of the nearby Sundarban Hotel.
"The victim was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! and the body was kept at the hospital morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy."
But Kalabagan cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Iqbal Hossain said it was not certain if Ali was asleep or took a shelter under the sculpture during rain.
"Rainwater might have weakened the base of the structure that eventually led to the collapse," he said.
There was blood on the road where the accident took place, and the Dhaka Tribune correspondent also saw Ali's shoes, a rope and some parts of the wrecked van yesterday morning.
In 2011, the sculpture was jointly placed at the Karwan Bazar intersection, just opposite the construction site where land subsided around two months ago, by Dhaka South City Corporation and an advertising firm as part of beautification measures. Another sculpture representing a tiger cub was also placed there.
Foshan Group is in charge of maintaining the sculptures.
Locals observed that such a heavy sculpture, made of concrete, was placed on a simple platform in an unplanned way that led to the collapse. They also blamed rain for the accident.
Dhaka South City Corporation Chief Executive Officer Ansar Ali told the Dhaka Tribune that a three-member committee had been formed to inquire into the reason why the sculpture fell.
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I'd like to think the sculpture pounced on the man.
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Nothing different than the people of south Florida (or the Gulf Coast) have experience about every 7 to 10 years when a big one hits the place and returns it back to the pre-electrical days. Except, this time outside relief will be 'iffy'.
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Katrina scenario. The millennials might have trouble since they are so dependent upon FB, Twitter, computers, and cell phones. The Mormons, military who have had survival training, and farmers would do better. The older generation who might have grown up during WWII in rural America before electrification and remembered that era would probably be O.K. I grew up on a farm in rural Michigan before it was electrified and I remember the lessons well. Heating with wood/coal, canning, making everything, killing what you eat, gardening, etc.
"An average person would live and/or die by the rule of three. 3 minutes without air, 3 hours without heat, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food."
Also you have less than 3 sec to react to a physical threat.
I watched a video last week extolling the virtues of carrying a gun with a round chambered. (Sorry, I can't find it) The individual in the demonstration explained that having a round already chambered gives the carrier an advantage he would not have if he doesn't have a round in the chamber. As he drew his weapon and fired, I noticed he fired immediately, no cocking of the gun, nothing. He was firing a double action pistol.
Not everyone can get a double action gun, and the nature of the single action gun makes a lot of what tactical trainers are saying problematic.
Take the 1911, for example. If I were to carry a 1911 with a round chambered, the gun would have to be cocked, with two of the three safeties off. Once I draw and hold it in my hand, the third safety is now off. I would need to train, with a live round, how to draw and fire as quickly as possible, without the possibility of pulling or hitting the trigger, and accidentally discharging the firearm. Carrying a loaded firearm is safe just as long as the carrier trains well enough to draw, insert his finger into the trigger guard as the gun is being laid on the target, and fire.
The whole idea behind carrying a firearm with a round chambered and the gun ready to fire is said to give the shooter an advantage in an active shooter scenario.
But wait a minute.
Do you really have much of an advantage in keeping a round chambered if an active shooter already has a gun drawn and is firing? The advantage rests, it seems to me, in relation with other carriers who chose to keep at least one safety on, or the chamber empty. The active shooter already has an advantage, and drawing to fire, and having a gun in Condition Three or ready to fire, increases your chances of surviving an encounter, but you still have no advantage in that scenario, and you never will have any advantage just as long as the shooter has not been hit by gunfire, and has stopped shooting.
This leads me to a post at Max Velocity tactical:
It is amusing that these types will talk about combat training, such as MVT, as ‘tactical band camp’ but really they themselves are just playing. Examples of this type of comment can be found in the ‘Normalcy Bias‘ post. It is the trainers of such students, who these students avidly follow, who will often state that they will not train civilians in basic tactics such as fire & movement “because civilians don’t need to know that.” How ironic. It is very prevalent – they will take your money for some sort of tacticool BS class, that can’t really be teaching you anything real, because they don’t believe you have a right to know the ‘real.’ Go figure….
MVT will teach what the others won’t teach you, because it’s “too dangerous” for civilians to know. We go the extra mile to make our students truly dangerous to their enemies. Gunfighters, not gun drivers. Simple.
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It would appear that we have a disconnect in this ‘tactical training’ world. We have a group that have been conditioned to sneer at those of us who wish to learn how to fight for real, conditioned and led by the big name trainers of the day. Why these guys are even armed with carbines at all I don’t know, other than to simply be fan-boys and girls, look good, and role play? This training is based solidly in law enforcement or pseudo-special ops, and civilians will be taught only as much as their trainer feels they have a right to know. That is even if you are allowed on such ‘advanced’ classes without a suitable LEO or Mil ID card. Don’t worry, if you get to be ‘on the inside’ they may tolerate your presence. Otherwise these civilians might get a little too dangerous, right?
The other side of this are those of us who consider it important to learn real tactical training in order to defend ourselves and our families in uncertain times ahead, to give ourselves a better chance of survival. You could say that those times are already here, given the news, the corruption and the lies at the highest levels. The thin veneer of civility, if any veneer at all, over the barbarian horde. After all, it is inevitable that these United States face a collapse of some sort. It is inevitable; all we are lacking is an exact timeline and means. Perhaps it is already here and we are just waiting for it to get sporty, after some sort of catalyst? Are we already in the ‘gray collapse’ but normalcy bias says it is all OK, because I can still get in my truck and got to McDonalds? When is the cyber-attack going to happen, or whatever it is? Go on, I wrote about it here, and that was before I knew that the Chinese for sure had all of the Secretary of State’s classified emails:
Some information being provided to the average individual, similar to the idea that you only have a legal right to carry or buy a firearms if you pass certain tests, is misleading a new generation of gun carriers into the thinking their Gawd given rights are at the sufferance of the state and their police agents. It seems in that context, the whole carry concealed program is a nationwide police program.
Oathkeepers want to arm residents of Ferguson, Missouri for a demonstration, they say. I have zero problems with that but I do have a problem with the whole idea that this is still a beauty contest, that as soon as the legislatures, courts, and their police/salesmen permit it, the residents of Ferguson will see the error or their ways and return to civility.
Reading the bearingarms.com the reaction to the Oathkeeper's announcement, the first and only thing Bob Owen's readers are concerned with is if the residents of Ferguson can "legally" carry firearms. The city of Ferguson and environs are on fire, and beararms.com wants to make background checks for firearms to see who can be approved to open carry.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady, while prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were lower across the board, while prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
Texas (.45 M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic): Llama: $325
Florida (.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic): Smith & Wesson Sigma: $200
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.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyformance, FMJ, steel cased, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lee's Mags, Northern Hills, FMJ, Reloads, .27 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, Blazer, FMJ, Alum. Cased, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Rare Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Blok Tactical, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .17 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (11 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .27 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
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.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, Steel Cased, FMJ, .37 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q 2015))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, CI Ammunition, RNL, .10 per round
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[AA.TR] Journalists in the South Sudanese capital Juba went on strike for three days as they mourned their slain colleague Julius Peter Moi who was shot in the back two by unidentified gunnies on Wednesday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in Nairobi immediately issued a statement condemning the killing of Moi, a news hound for "The New Nation" in Juba.
Referring to comments made by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir on Sunday, the CPJ's East African representative told Anadolu Agency on Friday that 2015 has been a deadly year for journalists in South Sudan.
"President Salva Kiir had issued a threat to journalists earlier this week before heading to Æthiopia, saying that 'the freedom of press does not mean that you work against your country and if anybody among them (journalists) does not know this country has killed people, we will demonstrate it to them one day' -- a few days later Moi was killed," the CPJ representative said.
"We strongly condemn the killing of Moi who I had a chance to train briefly back in 2007," he added.
While speaking to journalists in Juba, Oliver Modi, chairman of South Sudan journalist association, asked police to investigate the journalist's killing and called for a three day mourning period for the slain journalist.
"I appeal to all journalists in the Republic of South Sudan to lay down their pens, papers and cameras, and observe three-days of mourning," he said.
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Coincidence? Lax standards? Or is 007 working overtime?
Who could have seen this coming?
Just a little over a week after a powerful explosion killed 114 and injured more than 700 in the Chinese port of Tianjin, it appears as though a second blast has occurred at a chemical warehouse, this time in China's eastern Shandong province. A residential area is reportedly located just 1 km away.
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From Big Orange Book of Tom Clancy:
"Mishandled, Reds' fireworks are chancy,
So game may get hectic
And go pyrotechnic;
How much moreso down by the Yangtze?"
Law enforcement authorities in China have arrested 15,000 people suspected of involvement in cyber crimes. Part of the government's "Operation Clean Internet," the six-month campaign began last month with goals of eliminating cyber criminal gangs and improving security.
Heat getting a little high? China worried that western banks will stop doing business with them?
[Breitbart] CNN Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley said that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's rhetoric was the same as George Wallace's "segregation now" statement on Friday's broadcast of "CNN Tonight."
Brinkley, during a discussion on the term "anchor baby" was asked about the historical context of controversial terms in politics. During the question, host Don Lemon stated the last term he remembers being so controversial was "welfare queens." Brinkley's response began, "Or Donald Trump playing the birther card about Barack Obama."
He continued, "I think there's a lot of -- they used to call them [in] the 19th century, Know-Nothingness. [The] Know-Nothing Party was anti-Mormon, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish. And here tonight in California -- I mean, in Alabama, tonight, watching this, you think about George Wallace with 'segregation now,' and 'segregation forever.' Plays well with a certain audience, but is that the brand the GOP wants to have represented. In other words, Trump did well tonight. He had a lot of momentum --."
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Wallace was a "Donk." The report was on Brinkley, CNN and Don Lemon so the credibility is zilch. The party that is still perpetuating racism is the left-wing Donks (I guess left-wing and Donks is redundant). That empire is ruled by political correctness.
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Trump gains a little bit of traction and these hypocrites are scared shitless so they play the race care which is what they always do when they have nothing else. It really is fun to watch. Brinkley was in rare form calling Trump a demagogue and comparing him to George Wallace. The Chicana lady was pretty shrill too talking about how he's alienating Latino voters and offending veterans. You could see the fear in her face.
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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.
[PAGESIX] Novelist Jonathan Franzen felt so disconnected from today’s youth that he contemplated adopting an Iraqi war orphan to better understand them.
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