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Moroccan Meatball Stew (Tangine Kefta, or FTadjeen LKifta)
Meatballs spices based on two pounds of ground beef with the fat it holds the meatballs together! Its easier to make the meatballs if the beef is at room temperature.
Mix together first, then mix with the ground beef -
1/2 cup onion, minced very fine
½ cup parsley flakes
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon sweet red pepper (I use paprika)
Juice of one lemon
1 tablespoon salt
Blend together well.
Wet the hands to keep the balls from sticking to you and make the meatballs about the size of walnuts smaller is better, but more time-consuming. Allow the meatballs to stand while you prepare the rest of the stew.
Prepare and set aside the following:
4 pounds white potatoes, peeled and cubed coarsely (put them in water to keep from discoloring)
1 onion, sliced fine lengthwise
2 pounds carrots, peeled and cut into finger-sized pieces
2 pounds tomatoes, baseball sized, quartered
Or more vegetables, perhaps, I just sort of fill up the pot.
Put a layer the meatballs on the bottom of a large pot, then a layer the vegetables, another layer of meatballs, and the rest of the vegetables, on top.
Sprinkle over the top
One cup minced parsley (this is a good place to use fresh parsley)
Two teaspoons paprika
Two teaspoons black pepper
Two tablespoons of salt
One-half teaspoon saffron (0.046 oz. Or 1.3 grams, about $15 worth, in 2002 prices!)
One-half cup vegetable oil, to keep the meatballs from burning to the bottom
Four cups water
Cover and cook over a medium-high heat for . oh, fifteen minutes, or until the meatballs are pretty well cooked. Then stir and lower the heat to a low boil, until the potatoes are cooked, (break apart easily with a fork) - maybe another 15 minutes.
Based on two recipes in The Moroccan Cookbook, by Irene Day, copyright 1975, with the addition of carrots, as was typical in Morocco when I was there in 1978. Eveybody I've served it to loves it, but it does take a while to prepare.
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Lasagna Italian Pasta Casserole
Preparation Time: 2 Hours
Serves: 8-12 People
Ingredients:
24 oz. Lasagna Pasta
1 Pound Ground Beef
1½ Pints Marinara Sauce (Golden Grain brand is good quality)
12 oz. Italian Sausage
8-12 oz. Grated Mozzarella Cheese
8 oz. Ricotta Cheese (at room temperature)
8 oz. Button or Crimini Mushrooms
2 Large Yellow Onions
2 Large Eggs
4-8 Cloves Garlic
½ Cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
½ Stick Butter
¼ Cup Olive Oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
Note: Do not use cast iron or aluminum baking pans to make this dish. Enamel, glass or stainless steel is required to avoid the harsh aftertaste of corrosion byproducts.
Remove ricotta cheese from the refrigerator and bring to room temperature. Add a tablespoon of oil to a large pot filled with 2-3 quarts of lightly salted boiling water. Slowly add the strips of pasta to the pot. Avoid having them break or stick together. Stir gently once they have become semi-soft and bring to a low boil. Line the bottom of the oven with foil to catch any splashes and preheat it to F 300°. A cookie sheet placed under the casserole pan also will work well.
Warm a dry skillet over medium heat and melt a few pats of butter in it. Thinly slice the mushrooms and add to the buttered pan. Chop one onion while the mushrooms sauté. Once the mushrooms begin to brown add the chopped onion. Peel the garlic while the onions sweat. Once the onions are transparent, crush half the garlic and add it to the mushrooms. Mix well and tilt the pan a little to drain the mixture. Remove the vegetables and reserve them in a small bowl.
Raise the heat to high and crumble ground beef into the pan. Add the crumbled beef slowly so the pan does not lose heat and stop frying. Sear the meat well until brown, salt it to taste and reduce the heat. Just before the beef finishes cooking add a chopped onion and crush the rest of the garlic into it. Finish cooking the meat mixture then drain any fat and reserve in another bowl.
Remove the pasta from stove when it is al dente or still slightly undercooked. Strain noodles and run them under cold water to stop the cooking process. Drain the lasagna completely before using. Sort the intact and broken pasta. Use the partial noodles for interior layers of the pan.
While you build the lasagna, fry the ground sausage in medium large crumbles. Cook until almost done and somewhat brown. If you use Italian sausage links, peel away the casing, crumble into the pan and cook. While the sausage fries, beat two eggs in a small bowl then fold them into the ricotta cheese until blended completely.
Oil the bottom and sides of a 14"x10"x2" deep pan. Ladle ½ cup of sauce into the bottom of the pan and spread evenly to coat it. Make a complete layer of unbroken pasta running the long direction of the pan. Sprinkle a thin layer of grated Mozzarella cheese across the layer of noodles. Make a layer of the cooked ground beef and spoon a ½ cup of the sauce over it. Cover the meat with another layer of pasta using any of the broken noodles. Spread out the ricotta cheese into a complete layer in the pan. Spread another ½ cup of sauce across the cheese layer. Spoon out the mushroom mixture so it evenly covers the ricotta and sauce layer. Avoid overlapping the pasta and cover the mushrooms with noodles in an even and unbroken layer. Pour the sauce over the casserole and make sure to fill the sides and edges of the pan. Lift and drop the pan ¼" onto a towel a few times to settle the contents and eliminate any air bubbles.
Tightly cover the pan with foil and place in a F 300° oven for 30-45 minutes. After the pan begins to bubble remove the foil and cover the top with the remaining grated Mozzarella. Sprinkle the grated Parmesan cheese over the final layer of cheese. Dot the surface with crumbles of the cooked sausage and return to the oven. When the cheese has melted turn off the oven. Leave the pan in the oven until the cheese has completely melted and the lasagna is heated through.
Note: If you are storing the pan for a later cooking time, DO NOT cover it with aluminum foil. Use plastic wrap for refrigerator storage to avoid corrosion. Remove the plastic wrap and replace with foil prior to cooking.
If you intend to store the cooked dish in frozen portions, it is useful to chill the pan first. This will make it easier to lift out the cut pieces intact. Always reheat with a small amount of water in a closed container.
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Gorgonzola Stuffed Beef Filets Italian Style Pocketed Beef Tenderloin
Preparation Time: 30 Minutes
Serves: 2 People
Ingredients:
2 Filet Mignon Cuts of Beef (4-6 ounces each)
2-3 oz. Gorgonzola Cheese
1-2 Cloves Garlic (or one clove mild elephant garlic)
1-2 Minced Shallots
½ Stick Butter
Pinch of Sea Salt
Optional:
Ricotta cheese to blend with the Gorgonzola
Button or Crimini mushrooms for topping
Preparation:
Note: To pocket the steaks, stand one on edge and use a sharp knife to open a small one inch incision lengthwise in the side. Work the knifes point into the filet without piercing it through in any place. Continue working the blades end around inside until the interior is opened up enough to receive the stuffing. Repeat with remaining cuts.
Remove butter, ricotta and Gorgonzola cheese from the refrigerator and bring to room temperature. Warm a small skillet over low heat and add a few pats of butter and the minced shallot. Sweat the shallots until transparent then add the minced or crushed garlic. DO NOT brown this mixture at all. Drain and reserve sautéed shallots then allow to cool.
Mash the room temperature Gorgonzola cheese with softened butter. For a mild flavor, use equal parts butter and cheese or add some ricotta to the mix. Combine with sautéed shallots and garlic then mix thoroughly. Stuff most of the mixture into the pocketed filets, saving a little for use as a topping. Use a soaked toothpick or two to close the side incisions. Dust very lightly with sea salt.
Warm broiler, barbecue grill or stovetop skillet to very hot. Brown steaks nicely and top with a small dollop of the cheese mixture during the last minute or two of cooking. Allow the steaks to rest for three minutes before serving. Accompany with sautéed mushrooms.
The Best Way to Clear Up This Mess Is Not More Military Intervention, but a Return to the Peace Table.
By Gwynne Dyer [UN Tool]
On one issue, at least, George Bush and George Clooney are in perfect accord. What is happening in Darfur is genocide and something must be done.
But it isn't genocide and nothing will be done.
The end of September deadline for putting a 20,000-strong force of United Nations troops into Darfur, including large numbers of soldiers drawn from NATO countries, was always a fantasy. The deadline has passed without any softening of the Sudanese government's total rejection of the plan and no Western troops are heading for Sudan anytime soon.
Instead, the existing force of 7,000 troops from African Union countries that tries to protect the refugee camps, under-equipped and poorly supplied though it is, will stay at least until the end of the year.
This is the best available outcome and may even save tens of thousands of lives, especially if the Western countries now give the African Union force the money, fuel, night-flying helicopters and other resources it needs to do the job.
It will continue to be grim in Darfur, but at least the West has avoided a military intervention in Africa that would have made the Somalia debacle in 1992-93 look like a success story.
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This is the best available outcome and may even save tens of thousands of lives, especially if the Western countries now give the African Union force the money, fuel, night-flying helicopters and other resources it needs to do the job.
As far as I know there are no night-flying helicopters, only night flying pilots.
I actually didn't read the article. After she explained that it wasn't genocide I knew I didn't have to care anymore.
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Gwynne gets most of the history right but still gets the prescription wrong. Peace negotiations won't work because there's no peace to negotiate.
The southerners managed to get an agreement because, in the end, both sides had something they wanted -- oil money -- and no way to force the other to back off completely. The central government couldn't defeat the southerners militarily, and the southerners couldn't keep the central government from invading and killing lots of people. So they struck a deal (we'll see if it holds).
The people in Darfur have something the central government wants -- land, and maybe oil underneath -- but they don't have any way to keep Khartoum out. It's all one-sided right now, so Khartoum has absolutely no incentive to 'negotiate' a 'peace' agreement.
The AU troops are basically useless. Arming them better makes them better armed, useless troops. And we've already seen with Lebanon and Afghanistan that the Old Europe portion of NATO is feckless, cowardly and, well, useless. They can't be bothered to send troops to Kosovo let alone Darfur.
The solutions are two: 1) the people of Darfur surrender and get stomped or 2) the people of Darfur get some guns, training and moxie and defend themselves to the point that the Janjaweed backs off. Then Khartoum will have a reason to talk 'peace'.
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Sorry, SH. Gwynne Dyer is a guy. A left-wing tool, but a guy.
(strictly for those of you who want to wade into a heavy discussion of China-India-Russia-US-etc. war in the future. This is an 'advanced course' lesson, with advocates from most of the sides.)
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I think nukes will be flying if the US and China get in a conflict over shipping lanes in the western Pacific. By far the bigger story is the dependence of both the US and Chinese economies on imported oil, a tangled thread indeed.
Waaayyy too much hope invested in sarko, the Establishment man who talks about "shifting paradigm", IMHO, but it's true he would be a lesser evil, at least in the french context.
Eurabia: French police warn that Islamofascist thugs in the Paris suburbs are engaged in a full-blown intifada. The French government had better show some spine fast or surrender.
Riots exploded across Paris' bleak Muslim-immigrant suburbs this past week. The London Telegraph reported that police warn this situation no longer looks like a police matter, but a civil war. "Before, youths were in a mind-set of provocation," Laurent Ysem, chief of the Unsa police union, told the Associated Press. "Now, they come to get the cops."
He ought to know. This year, 2,500 police have been injured by young Islamic thugs in Paris' ghettolike "banlieues," amounting to 14 wounded cops per day.
A week ago Sunday, in the Paris suburb of Les Mureaux, Islamic youths attacked two patrolmen who tried to ticket an immigrant on a seat belt violation. He refused to stop and smashed through a police car blocking his path.
After that, hundreds of attackers poured onto the streets, burning a police car and attacking officers, leaving one with a double skull fracture.
Such incidents are distressingly common these days. Why? Since the October 2005 Muslim riots, France has appeased the predators and would-be intifadists.
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Most observers in the mainstream media (MSM) provide an occidentocentric analysis of the facts. They depict the youths as outsiders who want to be brought into Western society and have the same rights as the natives of Old Europe. The MSM believe that the youths are being treated unjustly because they are not a functioning part of Western society. They claim that, in spite of positive discrimination, subsidies, public services, schools, and all the provisions that have been made for immigrants over the years, access has been denied them.
This is the Marxist rhetoric of the West that has been predominant in the media and the chattering classes since the 1960s. But it does not fit the facts of the situation in Europe today
This is a good article. It shows that the winds are changing in Europe as well as America. I think it particularly interesting the reference to the MSM as "they". Most citizens are beginning to accept as fact the MSM and ivory tower elites are no longer representative of the views of average citizens. Cake anyone?
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I got kinda discombobulated reading this. Isn't France the country doing the mass deportations and employing their Napoleonic laws to throttle the jihadis? Hasn't Britain been one of only two EU countries who had citizens blown up by jihadis - and the site of several bungled or discovered plots?
Pretty weird to point the finger at France when there's at least as much official kowtowing and failure or nerve in the UK. Carbecues are pretty flashy stuff, yeah, but the UK is sinking without even the obligatory whimper. News Flash for Melanie: It's not the UK press under-reporting French jihadi grief that's the problem, it's your dumbfuck UK PCism -- that's the story not being covered or dealt with. Or that's my take, anyway.
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I'm glad she wrote it. France and Belgium are in deep trouble, no denying that. However, it's truly laughable that she makes it sound as though Britain has no problems. Huh? A 15 year old taken off the street, murdered and burned. And, no outcry ? Just like the incident in France a year or so ago where a French youngster(Jewish to boot) was kidnapped, tortured and murdered. Nothing done. These damn fools think the wolf will always go to the house next door ? Brits on the way to allowing the largest mosk in Eurabia without a whimper ? These people were all blindsided by their multicultural rot, not realizing how Muzzies function. Only compliant until their numbers rise. Has been the same throughout history. Maybe that's what lacking in civilization today. No knowledge of history or appreciation of the sacrifices and hardships endured by ancient ancestors to reach the heights of today. The only bright spot is the voice from the Brussels Journal, of all places. Some real clarity. I hope the right wing group gains power. Something has to be done fast. I fully believe this will happen in Germany also. Britain ? Who knows ?
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I think that the problem here isn't that people are not outraged - though the PC rot is certainly a part of the problem. I think the problem is that the MSM is actively working for the other side. They've done a good job of gobbling up just about every news outlet and wire. I don't mean all of the individual reporters or even the publishers themselves. I just think that they are given guidelines about what and where they get their news and they just fill in the blanks not always knowing they are pawns.
And too many politicians were put into office with money that doesn't represent the average Brit/Frenchman/American interests.
It's tough for the average person like you or me to get anything going when you can't have your voice heard. I mean - what are you gonna do - call your friends and say let's get together and march? The media won't cover it anyway. But it makes me mad, because then instead of measured responses, we will get rioting an senseless violence followed by seething,and more violence.
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.com - Phillips's article's focus was Islamist unrest on the continent, at the end she said, wrt the UK:
Just across the channel, therefore, there is mayhem: a religious war, escalating violence and gross intimidation, supine or ineffectual public authorities locked into a state of denial, and a growing climate of political violence and anarchy.
In other recent articles, she has already stated that the British establishment has taken leave of its senses.
NATO generals in southern Afghanistan have called on their governments to take a tougher stance with Pakistan over its active support for insurgents fighting Canadian troops, and those of Britain, the United States, Denmark and the Netherlands. It's about time. Pakistan's support for radical Islamic jihadis has been the elephant in the room that everyone has tried to ignore in the war on terror. Iran may be the principal underwriter of terrorism against Israel, and Saudi Arabia the biggest supporter of the insurgency in Iraq, but Pakistan has emerged as the main source of terrorists and terror supplies in Afghanistan, and against the Western world as well. Until Western countries force Pakistan to stop its quiet, but pervasive, encouragement of global jihad -- or at least to get tough with the terrorists who operate with impunity from within its borders -- the war on terror cannot be won.
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Boy, the turnaround on PakiWakiWorld sure was swift. Pervy really stomped on it - and everyone's got salt or rubbin alkehol...
Think, as long as Harper's in the Big Chair anyway, that we might see a change in immigration regs up north? Seeing as how it's become New PakiWakiWorld 'n all...
Very interesting, with issues applicable to the USA and the West at large.
By Jamie Glazov
Sources are now indicating that the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit may be imminent. Hamas has reportedly offered his release for approximately 800 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
These kind of exchanges have been a long tradition in prison swapping between Israel and the terrorists who seek to extinguish it. Several years back, Israel even had three of its dead soldiers bodies returned in exchange for the release of hundreds of living Palestinian terrorists with blood on their hands.
What does this unequal exchange indicate about the Israelis and Palestinians view of the value of human life? What does it say about each sides value of the human life of its own people?
To discuss this phenomenon with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests are:
Kenneth Levin, a clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a Princeton-trained historian, and a commentator on Israeli politics. He is the author of the new book The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege.
David Gutmann, Emeritus professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at North-Western university Medical School, in Chicago. As a clinician, he has practiced and taught intensive psychotherapy. As a researcher, he has conducted psychological studies of the Galilean and the Golan Heights Druse, as well as the Bedouin of the Negev and Sinai deserts.
and
Nancy Kobrin, an affiliated professor to the University of Haifa, Arabist, psychoanalyst and author of the upcoming book, The Sheikh's New Clothes: Islamic Suicide Terror and What It's Really All About. Long, see at link.
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I don't know any of these other people, but I kinda disappointed in Theodore Dalrymple. It's not Israel's long term purpose to educate Paleos for coexistence---that's been shown to be impossible.
The naval Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 when a galley fleet of the Holy League, a sometimes-flimsy coalition of the Papacy (under Pope Pius V), Spain, Venice, Republic of Genoa, Duchy of Savoy, the Knights of Malta and others, defeated a force of Ottoman galleys. The 5-hour battle was fought at the northern edge of the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, where the Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, in the morning of Sunday 7 October[1]. It was the final major naval battle in world history solely between rowing vessels.(...)
And if one wishes a more poetical view on that one, check the link...
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Little more than 10 years later, Drake and Howard would revolutionize naval warfare by using cannonfire alone to win naval engagements. Up until than point naval battles were always decided by boarding the opponents vessels.
This tactic defeated the Spanish Armada and Britain went on to become the premier naval power.
Galleys powered by rowing were of necessity light. Cannonfire was devasting to them both because they were lightly built and had a densely packed mass of rowers.
The Armada had a number of sailing, rowing galleys, delightfully named galleasses. The English shot them to pieces.
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The victory was a crucial morale-booster for western Europe, even though the Turks later consolidated their grip on the eastern Mediterranean and continued to raid European coastal properties and enslave European Christians for centuries after that. Even Protestant Britain officially celebrated the victory of Lepanto, although they contributed little or nothing to it.
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Galleys powered by rowing were of necessity light. Cannonfire was devasting to them both because they were lightly built and had a densely packed mass of rowers.
The problem with galleys was not light nuilding but the fact that they had could carry only a few guns while sail powered ships could carry dozens of them.
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JFM, I beg to differ. Anyone who has rowed boats of different sizes would know this. Mass (weight) makes a huge difference, whereas it makes much less difference to sail powered vessels.
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I sometimes feel a sense of disappointment when presented with articles like this. It's like looking at a beautiful buffet when you only have time for fast food.
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One of the key grafs in this article sums up today's situation:
That is what gave birth to the Crusades. They were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.
I think that George Bush is one of the few Western leaders that understand this.
The President of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, responds here.
Thousands of New Yorkers spent their mornings yesterday clicking on a video on the Internet showing the astounding melee that was permitted to take place on Columbia University's campus Wednesday evening.
The violence erupted when a crowd led by the student chapter of the International Socialist Organization rushed a stage where the founder of the Minutemen, Jim Gilchrist, tried to deliver a speech...
The violence erupted when a crowd led by the student chapter of the International Socialist Organization rushed a stage where the founder of the Minutemen, Jim Gilchrist, tried to deliver a speech. They could see the university's own police failing to take action to defend the rights of the speaker, who was being hosted by the campus Republican club. And they had to be wondering, as we were, where is the adult supervision on Morningside Heights.
The video of the event shows campus police officers paid for by the Columbia College Republicans standing by just feet away as students overturned tables and chairs onstage and proceeded to attack Mr. Gilchrist and his fellow Minuteman, Marvin Stewart.
It's not that some Columbia students chose to disagree with Mr. Gilchrist this newspaper does, too. It would have been entirely appropriate for school administrators to allow students to protest peaceably outside the lecture hall or to host a competing event. The university's willingness to allow this event to devolve into pandemonium, however, speaks volumes about its commitment to fostering open debate. The video of the event shows campus police officers paid for by the Columbia College Republicans standing by just feet away as students overturned tables and chairs onstage and proceeded to attack Mr. Gilchrist and his fellow Minuteman, Marvin Stewart.
The failure of Columbia's administration to make even the meekest effort to secure what it knew would be a heated environment in order to allow open debate is shocking. Its protestations after the violence were unconvincing. "We defend the right to peaceful protest and expression of opposing views," a spokesman for Columbia, Robert Hornsby, told us. "But it is never acceptable for anyone to physically take to a stage and interrupt a speaker." So why did campus police officers stand idly by as the physical intimidation of a speaker ensued?
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I'm just going to keep saying this. Those who support illegal immigration are immoral. They care nothing a system that encourages them to cross a dangerous border, where they are often robbed, raped and many have died. And once they get here they are forced to live in a shadow world where they are exploited.
Nor do these same "enlightened" people care that the arguments for allowing cheap labor risk their lives to cross and work for cheap pay are the same arguments that were used to support slavery: The economy would collapse without them; the little brown folk are willing to do jobs that Americans won't do; the cost of my lettuce would go up;
They can preen all they want to. They are the supporters of a very shameful arrangement.
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I wonder if their alumni contributions will increase or decrease as a result of all this wonderful publicity. I would think 'decrease', because statistically the alums who made (or even preserved) enough money to be making donations would be smart enough to doubt the wisdom of that these days. I quit giving to my old schools shortly after 9-11 after watching their 'Blame America' rallies. I don't know if they've noticed.
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Two of these Columbia student asshats were on H & C last night. Actually, they were both pretty hot. Too bad about their politics. But I suspect many of the young, white males who joined in this typical Left-Fascist "direct action" really had their sights on the "Hippy P***y."
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SOP of the progressists.
Intellectual terrorism at its finest : either you shut them up by demonizing them ("racists", "nazis", "fascists",...), with the PC-followers then forced to cast them out, or you just bash their heads in (it's right to use violence, you're the Good Ones, History goes your way, and you're the Progress, anyone opposing you is evil, and whatever is done to them is fair game).
For an example closer to home, the whole "CPE" french students demonstrations earlier this year were deeply marred by undemocratic procedures and other agit-prop, IE they really were a show of force by very efficient and well trained trostkysts and other leftis... a small minority, but with true and tried techniques, including supressing free speech by violence and (organized) mob rule.
It is human nature to ignore gathering storms until the tornado, hurricane, cyclone, or blizzard comes into plain view. In recent years, repetitive weather disasters have caused so much physical damage in certain areas of the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, that today some preparations, with the aid of new and sophisticated technology, do take place.
But gathering storms of political disaster do not seem to merit the same attention as the weather. Perhaps it is the naive belief that these storms of the recent past, such as world wars, holocausts and ethnic cleansing, cannot recur that inspires such passivity. In an advanced capitalist democracy such as ours, there is also a resistance to any deliberate change in our comfortable lives, and instead of vigilance we have indulged ourselves in a chronic politics of spectator political combat, reserving our emotions and passions for rhetorical electoral contests which have become so abstract they are essentially meaningless in the real world.
The gathering storm of the 21st century is quite visible in many places in the world, but apparently not sufficiently for many Americans to see it coming. When individuals, including the president of the United States, try to warn the citizenry that this storm has yet to hit the country in full force, they are dismissed by many Americans, most of them bitter partisans of the party out of power, as well as pacifists and radical populists, as prevaricators, warmongers and incompetents.
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Fascism emerged in the early 20th century in Italy, Spain and Germany. The slogan "Long live death!" was made notorious by Spanish fascists.
Much like Islam's fascination with death. George Orwell would be so proud.
In a famous confrontation in 1936, the great Spanish philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno responded in Salamanca to a speech by fascist General Millan-Astray in which the general had repeated the slogan "Viva Muerte!" ("Long Live Death!") with a speech of his own, declaring "There is a time when to be silent is to lie."
This applies in spades to the Mythical Moderate Muslims. After five years of Thundering Silence, that silence is no longer just consent.
The silence of mainstream Islam is now part of its "Big Lie". Namely, that Islam is the Religion of Peace [spit]. All pretences of seeking dialogue or proclamations of benign intent are part of that Big Lie. The Lie is told every single day that Muslims continue to attend mosques led by wahabbist clerics. The Lie is writ large by so-called moderates when they chant "not in our name", but remain eeriely calm about the Cartoonifada and the incessant stream of Islamic atrocities.
He then denounced General Millan-Astray and the Spanish fascists for their assault on Spanish civilization and culture.
And so it is that another group of militants who praise death over life itself seek to destroy, not just Spanish "civilization and culture", but that of the entire West as well.
The time is over for extending any benefit of the doubt that Moderate Muslims may once have deserved. It must be made patently clear to them that the price of silence is complicity. Muslims must face deportation and expulsion if they cannot bring themselves to begin the arduous task of disassembling the machinery of terrorism that has crept into nearly every corner of their lives.
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Pleaaaase. Stop calling the rebel side in the Spanish civil war as fascists. that is communist propaganda. Millan Astray was simply nuts.
Here is very brief review of the events leading to Spanish civil war.
1) What would become the Republican side during the civil war was NOT democratic. Its main componets were the anarchists (no comments), a hard line communist party (so strongly aligned with Moscow that later it brought all Spain's gold to Soviet Union's coffers) and the socialists but contrarily to the French or Scandinav Socialist Party it had NOT accepted democracy and openly told of making his stay in power permanent. It was more like a Communist Party independent of Moscow (a la post-war Yougoslavia) as waht we usually maind as socialist.
2) In 1933, the right won the elections but riots from the eft (specially the socialist party) led to President chickening out and not nominating the right wing leader as PM
3) In 1934 the Socialists tried unsuccessfully a coup.
4) It is untrue that the left won the elctions in 1936. What happenned is that after knowing the results in a few big cities (who favoured it), the left claimed victory, rioted and the memebers of preceeding cabinet fearing for their lives, stepped aside. The left also invaded the polling places and stole the ballots. So the votes of ruaral areas (who favoured the right). Went unaccounted. The definitive results of the elections were never published. What you see on wikipedia is a posteriori recosntutions aimed at proving that the kleft won. In fact nobody knows.
5) Once in power the socialists impeached most of the opposition parlamentaries. Opposition press was closed or intimidated and there were daily political assassinations or jailings perpetrated by the security forces, specially the Guardia de Asalto. This culminated with the assasination of the leader of one of the opposition parties but also with the failed attemps agasint the other main opponnent (he avoide to sleep in house) perpetrated by the Prime Minister guards.
Finallty the fascist elemnt in the rebel side was in 1936 near zero. It was mainly a colaition of conservatives, catholics, monarchists and right wing republicans. Most of the main military leaders (Queipo de Llano, Mola) were republicans.
and didn't envison long miltary rule. Had teh coup succeeded return to democarcy would have been probably quite fast. But it failed, it degenarated into a civil war and that meant that the rebels neede to find a provider of ammo and weapons. We could continue about how the insignificabnt Falange became the main component of the rebels and how Franco who was not even in the initial conspiration became their leader but that is another history.
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JFM, I'd worry more about this current crop of fascists than spend any more time debating the misnomer of a defunct regime. Plus, your points do not change the least thing about my own previous post.
#5
JFM, I'd worry more about this current crop of fascists than spend any more time debating the misnomer of a defunct regime.
Not so sure; we europeans (and you US Hegemons too) are living in the shadow of the soviet propaganda war; the whole System you decry in Europe was built on those taboos, memes and false narratives, lives on them to this day, and your own progressists are using them to push the "culture war" (IE the systematic errosion of western values).
What JFM is doing by correcting the article is IMHO very important.
#6
And I'd add that the islamists are but the vanguard of an anti-western wave fed on thoses same narratives, since the soviet-enabled decolonization wars, and the soviet arab terror-proxies.
#8
JFM beat me to it and added a lot of the real history.
Two points.
1. I would take these analyses a lot more seriously if they got their history right rather than regurgitating half-baked marxist inspired 'narratives'.
2. The facists were socialists, just nationalists as well.
To compare (equate) Islamicists who aspire to a global Caliphate with twentieth century (national) socialists, just shows how deeply corrupting and corrosive leftist ideology is to even a semblance of rational fact-based debate.
Guess the reasons Unamuno was living in nationalist instead of republican side? Also notice that after his tirade agsint Millan Astray Unamuno was not brought out of the room and shot in the spot. He didn't disappear the next night to never reappear He wasn't even arrested and sentenced to 25 years in Goulag.
Phil B
Wahen they were not in power the communists routinely betrayed tyheir nation's armies (cf Russia during WWI, France in 1940) as tehy believed defeat would bring revolution.
But once they were in power they were as nationalists as the fascists... specially when they needed patriotism and nationalism to fend off their enemies (cf Vietnam or the Great Patriotic War). And Jane Fonda, John Kery or draft doger Clinton would have been quicly dispatched.
#10
Always thought Tom Lehrer made the definitive comment on the Spanish Civil War in his song The Folk Song Army:
We are the folk song army,
Every one of us cares.
We all hate poverty, war, and injustice
Unlike the rest of you squares....
Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs!
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