[Snafu-Solomon] I wanted to piggyback off our discussion of the Houthi drone attack on the Yemeni Army that succeeded in wounding (reportedly) several high ranking officers.
In that talk we hit on the idea that civilians would be screwed in unrestricted warfare in the future.
Thinking about this a bit more I believe the people that will be pounded like a street whore by a drugged up pimp (before the big fight happens) will be Law Enforcement.
Imagine this.
A LEO is on the way to work. Unknown to them, they've been stalked by a local gang because he's been tenacious in defending the citizens of his city from their predatory behavior.
He sees a gang member zooming around town then he makes it a point to fill his pockets full of tickets. He checks constantly to make sure that he's isn't carrying...whether weapons or drugs. In other words he's doing his job. Making life hard for someone that is trying to ruin the lives of the law abiding.
Well on this morning he jumps into his truck and is headed to work 20 miles away from his home. The bad guys know his shift. The learn all the cops in the area and when this guy comes to work everyone knows to lay low.
Except the guys from the cartel.
He's ruined their business and its time for payback.
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Low tech killer drones are quite feasible. Even those with exotic weapons or camouflage. {why can't a drone look like an air vent when parked on a roof lurking?}
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Three weeks ago, a ship loaded with weapons was seized at the Libyan port of Khoms. It was coming from Istanbul. The story became evidence of the malicious Ottoman Turkish role in this devastated country, in connection with Libyan murderous Moslems and their presence in the entire Maghreb.
Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tried to cover up the incident, but The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been caught red-handed in this crime.
The preliminary results of a probe into what happened revealed that the huge arms and ammunition shipment seized at Khoms was imported by private companies that specialized in "importing food." The Libyan Customs Service announced that the officer investigating the Ottoman Turkish weapons shipment, had survived an liquidation attempt.
Brigadier General Ahmad al-Mismari, the front man of the Libyan Armed Forces, accused agents of Turkey inside Libya, of executing the liquidation.
OTTOMANTURKISHAUDACITY, WESTERN SILENCE
A strange Ottoman Turkish audacity and even stranger Western silence followed, which made Brigadier General al-Mismari demand that the UN Security Council should promptly investigate the matter.
We are facing a blatant financing and arming of terrorist militias that kill and slaughter hundreds, or even thousands of people, not just one person, who Erdogan gave us unconvincing humane lectures about.
During a presser with the Moroccan foreign minister, his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry clearly said that Turkey, along with 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , is contributing to creating a Libyan civil war and reinforcing murderous Moslems there, meaning through money, weapons and the media.
This reckless Ottoman Turkish behavior can be understood through looking at the illusion that inhabits the minds of New Turkey’s leaders; who are brandishing a form of "neo-Ottomanism." There are dangerous indicators that point to the existence of this illusion.
Among them is the major Ottoman Turkish desire to return Ottomanism to the Balkans once again, as proposed by The Guardian, in a report on Ottoman Turkish attempts to court Kosovo with investments and advocacy ‐ building an Ottoman-style mosque in the capital of Pristina.
While it had been six years without construction work beginning on Pristina’s central mosque, Turkey’s new "assertive foreign policy" aims to now build the mosque "that will closely resemble the hundreds built across the Balkans under Ottoman Turkish rule ‐ only much larger," according to the newspaper. Of course, this has struck a sour note with many Moslems in Kosovo who were against Ottoman Turkish invasion in the Ottoman era.
A widely-known Ottoman Turkish political trend seeks to revive the Ottoman State in a new version, as former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu predicted would be achieved by 2023.
Also resonating is a sentence said by Erdogan when he visited Kosovo in 2013: "Turkey is Kosovo, and Kosovo is Turkey."
Does Erdogan’s Turkey, which is on the cusp of an economic slump, has internal security issues and faces strategic challenges in Syria, really have the luxury to dream of a huge, new Ottoman-style state?
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Fast and Furious V 2.0 Turkish edition perhaps?
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ It was supposed to be a great holiday shopping season. Many investors had expected department stores to enjoy robust sales in light of a U.S. economy buoyed by low unemployment, higher wages, strong consumer confidence and cheap gas.
So when Macy’s and Kohl’s reported lackluster numbers on Thursday, they were taken aback, sending retail stocks into a tailspin and calling into question whether such mall-based chains can compete in a changing landscape where shoppers are shifting more of their spending online.
Macy’s saw only a slight increase of 1.1 percent in sales during November-December at stores opened at least year. And while sales were strong during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the company said sales fell off noticeably until the week of Christmas.
Meanwhile, Kohl’s reported a small sales growth that showed a dramatic slowdown from a year ago. Comparable sales rose 1.2 percent, versus 6.9 percent in the previous year.
Shares of Macy’s plummeted nearly 18 percent Thursday, suffering its worst one-day decline. Kohl’s stock closed down nearly 5 percent. Even Target’s stock took a hit, falling nearly 3 percent despite showing strong holiday sales.
Earlier this week, J.C. Penney, one of the stragglers in the department store sector, reported a drop in comparable store sales of 3.5 percent for November and December. But because Macy’s is considered a barometer of spending, particularly for the middle class and for mall spending, investors may be looking for deeper meaning in its performance.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday it had grounds to pursue a legal claim for billions of euros in reparations for the Nazi occupation of the country in World War Two.
Germany has dismissed Athens’ demands in the past, but the Greek president raised the issue anew with Merkel, who is on a two-day visit.
"As Greeks, we consider these demands legally active and (can be) judicially pursued and should be solved in the competent European forum, judicial forum," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos told Merkel during a short meeting.
World War Two reparations resurfaced as an emotional issue during Greece’s 2010-18 period of bailouts when austerity-hit Greeks, evoking past injustices, blamed their biggest creditor Germany for painful cuts associated with three international bailouts.
[Haaretz] After Bolton remarks, Erdogan must decide between attacking Kurds and risking face-off with U.S. troops, or waiting for their departure ■ Erdogan cast aside as Putin helps Assad reintegrate into Arab world
Who decides on American policy in Syria? Three weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... announced to the world that he had decided to withdraw the American troops stationed in northern Syria. But it turns out that Trump's hasty decision, made during a phone call with his Ottoman Turkish counterpart, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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If you screw me, Erdogan, I swear this is the end not only of your Ottoman Caliph dreams but your very Life and Soul.
You are a parasite and I do not trust you with anything. You are just another worthless king like Maduro and I also do not care.
You are pissing me off every day of your very existence. Worthless A Hole.
You are lucky I AM so patient, but that is ending with all your stunts.
You should have been a bullshit bull fighter and wrapped your cape about yourself.
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Erdogan, in any case, was caught off guard and became furious. "It's not possible for me to swallow this," Erdogan said of Bolton's remarks on Tuesday
Tilt your head back, and open wide. Don't gag, and no teeth!
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When I was growing up Ottomans were something you put your feet up on. Still are looks like.
[Victory Girls] How does a woman signal that she is not listening to you and totally disrespects you as a human being? She files her nails. And, then to slam the lid on you, she will utter the words, "Don’t care." CNN analyst Ana Navarro did both of those things during a panel discussion of illegal immigration and border security. The host was Chris Cuomo and the other guest was Steve Cortes, formerly of Donald Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council.
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Total lack of professionalism, much less common courtesy. Next time she demands to be "respected" everyone should laugh in her face.
...But then MSM Punditry has been circling the drain for years...
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I am weary unto death of endless casual misogyny... but if this creature isn't greeted with the, ahem, nail filing gesture wherever she goes, there is no justice. Plausible deniability like that is not to be, uh, denied!
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Somehow, some day, the nasty deadlock between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats that’s shuttered federal agencies for a near-record 20 days will end. The only real questions are when, how and who will be crowned the winner in public opinion polls and ultimately by voters.
Things got bleaker this week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told Trump at a fiery White House meeting that Democrats would not bow to his demand for $5.7 billion to start building a wall along the border with Mexico. Trump slammed his hand on the negotiating table and stormed out, Democrats said. Trump said he calmly left the room, saying, "Bye-bye."
[Townhall] It seems the newest members of Congress in the House Democratic Caucus are off to a banging start...by saying and voting for bills that are considered anathema to the progressive base. Yesterday, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), who booted incumbent Republican David Brat in 2018, brought up campaign finance yesterday at the National Press Club. Reversing Citizens United is one of the many issues that jack up the progressive Left. At the event, Spanberger brought up Virginia’s campaign finance laws, the remarks voters said to her about corporate PAC money, and what her mother told her every time she got into trouble for whatever her younger sisters had done.
When she tried to explain, her mother would say, "her perception is her reality." She circled that back to the long-standing feeling that there’s a lack of trust in government.
"When a voter believes that a $5,000 check is enough to vote in a way that is somehow against their interest, I don’t think that’s true in many cases, but if that’s their perception, that goes back to this whole conversation about trust," she said. "And for me to say, you know, I want to sit down with this company, I’m going to sit down with this company, I’m going to maybe vote in a way that this voter may not like, but you will know that I didn’t do it because of a campaign contribution."
Oh, I forgot, she isn’t offended by the concept of corporate PAC money existing. Spanberger added that her refusal to accept such money isn’t anti-business, but a way for her to speak with any company that could potentially create economic activity in her district. It sounds nice. It’s certainly tailored to the moderate Richmond suburbs that are within her district, but as a liberal Democrat, you have to be offended by corporate PAC money. It’s in their ten commandments.
[American Thinker] Mitt Romney knows he is a smart guy and is used to thinking of himself as the smartest guy in the room. But I don't think he thought through the now infamous Washington Post op-ed attacking President Trump's character that he published on New Year's Day, just a few days prior to assuming his new job as U.S. senator from Utah. Virtue-signaling feels great, like a sugar high, but the aftermath often brings predictable consequences that somehow escaped the notice of the person anxious to demonstrate righteousness.
Mitt failed to understand that he is joining what is often called "the world's most exclusive club." The Senate, with only 100 members and immense powers, is not at all like the raucous House of Representatives. And though Senators face re-election only after six long years, they are very, very concerned with their ability to keep their membership card.
[American Thinker] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is my congresswoman. I know that because I drove two hours to vote against her, to no avail. The rude woman at the poll challenged my vote because my signature didn't match from when I registered as a Conservative in 1976. It's possible that the "C" next to my name provoked her ire, because the man in front of me, a stinky white nonagenarian from the retirement home, escorted by an apparently olfactory-challenged, nice, and tolerant young black woman (she smiled as he told the poll lady she was his illegitimate love-child) didn't sign at all, and the malicious monitor didn't throw her challenge flag.
I explained that I had been crushed against a wall by a 48' tractor-trailer in 2008, and my hand had been cut off and sewn back on, which was why I was wearing a glove. I offered to show her my driver's license, which had proved enough, lo these many years. She said ID wasn't allowed, and the mere mention of it made her angrier and ruder. I thought she was going to slap me in my privilege.
So I guess my vote didn't count. Living in the Bronx, it never counts. Still, I vote every year, although, unlike the apocryphal Einstein quote, without expecting different results.
I'm not entirely confident that the doctors who promised me the hand job did it correctly.
For a sarcastic bastard like myself, Ocasio-Cortez and her constant stream-of-consciousness utterances are a target-rich environment. As America's own special lacuna, she has much in common with our last president. Except, to my eyes, she fills her empty suit a little better. As with Barry, she knows very little about a lot of things and a lot about very little. Yet she is pretty enough and enigmatic enough that people listen.
[Breitbart] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday called on President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall, citing Democrat leaders’ unwillingness to comprise on border security legislation which would reopen the federal government.
"Speaker Pelosi’s refusal to negotiate on funding for a border wall/barrier ‐ even if the government were to be reopened ‐ virtually ends the congressional path to funding a border wall/barrier," Graham’s statement reads. "It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier. I hope it works."
Graham’s support for a declaration comes after expressing caution about the move earlier this week, saying it was not his "preferred route" and should be a "last resort." Speaking with reporters earlier Thursday, the South Carolina Republican said he doesn’t see lawmakers will find a solution to end the shutdown, which has entered its 20th day. "I have never been more depressed about moving forward than I am right now. I just don’t see a pathway forward. Somebody’s got to like, get some energy to fix this," he said.
In a Fox News interview last week, Graham predicted it will likely be "the end of [the Trump] presidency" if the president reopens the government without securing border wall funding.
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You do this, the idiots will "emergency" fund their fake and phony RICO global warming tax bullshit.
And I AM already am pissed I let them get away with this much. Fraudsters.
It is time to prove lack of Alliance with The American People.
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And in hostile takeover - I AM ready.
It is time . They want this whole Country under Foreign influence and Law and beck and call. I want them out.
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If he pulls the Emergency Powers lever, the liberal judges will go into overdrive issuing restraining orders.
If he pulls the Emergency Powers lever, the liberal judges cannot do a damn thing. If they try, they should be arrested immediately on charges of sedition and held without bail. Better yet, immediately transported to GITMO to face a Military Tribunal.
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Someone suggested that anyone refusing the land for the wall, just move the wall north until someone agrees and they will be south of it. Betcha they change their mind real quick.
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You wanna play chicken? Let the shutdown go to 2020 and then the American people can decide.
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If he pulls the Emergency Powers lever, the liberal judges cannot do a damn thing. If they try, they should be arrested immediately on charges of sedition and held without bail. Better yet, immediately transported to GITMO to face a Military Tribunal.
That'd sure be fun to watch.
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Dear God......
If he pulls the Emergency Powers lever, the liberal judges cannot do a damn thing. If they try, they should be arrested immediately on charges of sedition and held without bail. Better yet, immediately transported to GITMO to face a Military Tribunal.
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I've been watching this can get kicked down the road by both sides for nearly 40 years. Until Trump came along, no one has been serious about trying to secure the border and seriously address our immigration problems. Congress has been spineless on both sides of the aisle through the years. We've been lied to over and over through the years. If our problems can't be addressed in a serious way, those being obstructionists deserve to be fired.
[Strategic Culture Foundation] Why is America’s Baghdad Embassy the world’s largest embassy ‐ and the largest by far?
"It's as if the US Embassy is there not only to protect American interests, but to manage the entire world from the heart of the capital, Baghdad."
‐ Iraqi Sheikh Qassim Al Ta’ee, as quoted on 27 December 2011 in Al Iraq News and translated by Ibrahim Zaidan from the original Arabic by Nicholas Dagher
Zaidan’s article went on to say:
The world's largest embassy is situated in the Green Zone and fortified by three walls, another barrier of concrete slabs, followed by barbed wire fences and a wall of sandbags. It covers an area of 104 acres, six times larger than UN headquarters in New York and ten times larger than the new embassy Washington is building in Beijing ‐ which is just 10 acres.
[Editor's' Note: The ten-acre US Embassy in Beijing is the second largest overseas construction project in the history of the Department of State ‐ and the 104-acre US Embassy in Iraq is the largest.]
So, America's largest diplomatic mission is surrounded by high concrete walls, is painted in black, brown and grey and is completely isolated from its environment. ... The United States announced several months ago that between diplomats and employees, its embassy would include 16,000 people after the pullout of US forces.
On January 1st, Will Sillitoe headlined at the Helsinki Times, "What does the US embassy in Baghdad export to Finland and dozens of other countries?" and he reported that:
More than a million kilograms of cargo were shipped from Baghdad to different parts of the world, reveals US embassies procurement documents.
Mysterious cargo shipments from the US Embassy in Baghdad to other American embassies and consulates around the world have been revealed on a Wikileaks' database. Procurement orders of US embassies are public documents, but Wikileaks put them in a searchable database making it easier to analyse.
[Breitbart] The archbishop of Philadelphia has joined the chorus of those condemning the anti-Catholic harassment of U.S. district court nominee Brian C. Buescher by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A Breitbart News reported, several Democrats assailed Mr. Buescher for his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic charitable organization, declaring that the organization holds "extreme" position on abortion and same-sex marriage.
"The sheer ignorance, not to mention injustice, in the senators’ describing the Knights as ’extreme’ would be baffling ‐ if it weren’t part of pattern of bigoted thinking already sanctified by other senators like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in her vulgar 2017 grilling of now-Judge Amy Coney Barrett (’The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s a concern’)," Archbishop Chaput (pictured) wrote in a column this week.
In their interrogation, the senators suggested that the Knights’ opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage could impair the candidate’s judgment and render him unfit for the post in the District of Nebraska. The questions asked by the senators seemed remarkably close to a religious litmus test, since the positions under examination are held and taught by the Catholic Church itself and are not unique to the Knights of Columbus.
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution forbids the government from considering a person’s faith when appraising fitness to hold federal office. This clause is part of the original Constitution and has been a bedrock principle since the founding of the Republic.
In his column, Archbishop Chaput cited a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by the Rev. Eugene Rivers, an African-American Pentecostal minister and a leader of the black Christian community, who decried the "anti-Catholic bigotry" shown by the Senators in their examination of Mr. Buescher.
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As a general rule, early advocates of the socialist cause will eventually discover their error. It is then that they too must be removed and new advocates brought to the fore.
[PoliceOne.com - Jan 30 2014] I came up with five categories of general behavior ‐ it is not a total list of all behaviors, but rather, a list of general behavior ‐ to look for during an interview or interrogation.
When I began teaching others about body language, I would spend at least eight hours of classroom time on different types of gestures found in body language and their possible interpretations. After the instruction, we would watch videos of interviews, interrogations, and people communicating.
The goal was to put to use the information about body language we’d been discussing. The problem we encountered was there was too much information to remember and put into practice so soon after the instruction. Seeing the difficulty the students were having watching the videos while searching through the material to make an interpretation of the kinesics, I needed to come up with something that would help them get organized.
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The best liar I ever met could tell someone a damaging truth and at the same time give the impression to the other that a lie was being told. That is a step beyond the thinking in this article.
The absolute best training I ever had was as a 3rd year medical student interviewing real patients on video tape. Immediate playback & critique along the lines of "what were you thinking?" followed. Our esteemed professors were the first interviewers, to demonstrate the process. To their credit, they too were interviewing patients they were completely unfamiliar with.
Practice makes perfect.
Reaching back nearly five years for perspective and truth.
[Daily Caller 8/17/2014] The Center for Security Policy’s Vice President for Research and Analysis, Clare Lopez, says in this exclusive video interview with The Daily Caller that very few have seemed to care that America switched sides in the global war on terror when President Obama deposed an erstwhile ally in the Middle East and provided weapons to al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Ms. Lopez made the point that the majority of information supporting her policy shift assessment is 'open source (OS)' or unclassified. I fully concur.
The majority of intelligence supporting data or information is derived from unclassified or OS documents, events, and sources. The fusion of the OS data and the creation of assessment products is generally the stuff that gets classified.
The corroboration and validation of the collected data (OS or classified) and the creation of fusion products helps answer the 'so what' question.
This is where disinformation and fake news assist in the creation of doubt, clouding of events, statements, and facts come into play.
[News With Views] Proof of this is that, contrary to all predictions and despite the concerted efforts of both sides of the Repucratic Party coin, the mainstream press, the social media, the FBI, the CIA and the rest of the alphabet soup of shadow agencies, as well as some active and retired high-ranking members of the military who have betrayed their Oath of Office[1], Donald Trump is still alive and kicking in the White House. Moreover, every single day President Trump keeps deconstructing the NWO machinery piece by piece: no more global warming threat, no more unfair global trade agreements, no more borders open to illegal immigration ... the works.
To top it off, Trump just took the first step to bring home the best of our youth exposed to loss of life and limb while waging unwinable, never-ending wars carried out in foreign lands for the sole purpose of benefiting a few tax-dodging transnational corporations that don’t see themselves as American anymore.
And this is just the beginning, and the NWO conspirators and their minions know it and they are powerless to stop it.
To make things worse, Trump is not alone. To the globalist conspirators’ utter dismay, nationalism is coming back in force and growing in most of the world. The yellow vest riots that erupted in France now have spread to Belgium and the Netherlands. Even in Londonistan, until recently an inexpugnable reduct of the globalist conspirators, some people wearing yellow vests have appeared on the streets in protest against the government’s unfair treatment of the working class and its inaction when faced with the attacks of religious fanatics on people they see as infidels.
[The Federalist] In modern society, many of the ways we talk about male identity have either negative connotations or encourage disparaging, eye-rolling satire. If the term is man, then common terms we hear are "man flu," "manspreading," or "mansplaining."
If the term is dad, then there is a droll shaking of the head at a "dad bod" or at "dad jokes." If the term is guy, it is often in relation to stubbornly self-defeating behaviour: ’I got sick, but I did the typical guy thing, and didn’t go see the doctor." Or: "I was battling with my mental health, but I did the typical guy thing and didn’t ask for help." If the term is masculinity, it is often used in relation to things males must atone for or confront: "toxic masculinity," or "the crisis in masculinity."
If educators, psychologists, and the media want to dissect emerging troubles in masculine identity, then a good place to start would be to acknowledge that many of the ways we talk about male identity undermine this goal. This is a problem that affects us all, because boys are growing up in a culture that is increasingly questioning what’s wrong with them, whilst perpetuating casual cynicism towards them.
There are several reasons why this kind of thing gets overlooked. One argument is that it’s just light-hearted ribbing, and shouldn’t be taken too seriously; but many of the examples above are not light-hearted, and it all adds up to a big picture of masculinity being an obligingly easy target. It seems that women are in many ways entitled to "punch up" at a fracturing but still prevalent male entitlement, and that therefore putting male-chauvinist antics or clumsily wayward men "in their place" is an amusingly empowering thing to do.
1. Start Calling This Bias and Negativity Out
So, the first change that needs to be made is simple and attitudinal: When boys see this kind of stuff on the TV, they should get in the habit of calling it out for being lame, and if anyone starts talking in a lazily derogatory way about men, they should tell them to take a hike.
Do we still believe that the male hierarchy remains rigidly oppressive? Certainly not boys, or at least not as much as they used to. When they look out at the world, they aren’t seeing a society dominated by a tyrannical patriarchy. They’re seeing their sex through an increasingly disorientating lens of negatively reinforcing pop culture and politically correct ideology, and they’re seeing themselves, as a sex, continuing to fall behind.
Women make up 60 percent of university graduates, and dominate education, health care, and law. Yes, there is a pay gap. While some of that is due to bias, it’s actually more to do with the fact that men do most of the dangerous jobs, work outdoors more than women, are in arduous trades more than women, tend to pick higher-paid occupations when they’re in training, and are more willing to move to get higher-paying jobs.
In many big urban and metro areas, women are also outperforming men in wages. In highly upskilled New York, for example, women are earning on average 8 percent more than men. In domestic life, boys see that women make the decisions on big-ticket items, and are responsible for 65 percent of new vehicle purchases.
Boys see that girls and women have better prospects, but don’t see anyone ever questioning the structures behind those developments, and they are culturally disincentivised to question such developments themselves. Psychologist and author Bettina Arndt, in her book "#Mentoo," asks: "Why are boys doing so badly at school when the whole curriculum is set up to advantage girls? Why do women have such power in the family courts to shut men out of their children’s lives?"
Boys are being made to feel that their sex is in disarray, in crisis, and in decline, and that they are part of an enduring tyrannical patriarchy for which their sex must continuously account and atone, and they ought to help tear down. Points two thru five follow at the link.
[The Hill] Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is questioning how terms such as "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" became offensive in the U.S.
"White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization ‐ how did that language become offensive?" King asked in an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday. "Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"
King later on Thursday, responding to the Times article, said he is not a white nationalist or white supremacist.
"I want to make one thing abundantly clear; I reject those labels and the evil ideology that they define. Further, I condemn anyone that supports this evil and bigoted ideology which saw in its ultimate expression the systematic murder of 6 million innocent Jewish lives," he said in a statement.
"It's true that like the Founding Fathers I am an advocate for Western Civilization's values, and that I profoundly believe that America is the greatest tangible expression of these ideals the World has ever seen. Under any fair political definition, I am simply a Nationalist."
The comments came as part of an expansive report from the newspaper on King’s hard-line views on immigration and how they mirror much of what President Trump has pushed for during his presidency.
[Center for Security Policy] This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The claim by Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer that the humanitarian and security nightmare at our southern border is a "manufactured crisis" calls to mind the famous Marx Brothers line "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
Fortunately, recent polling makes clear that the vast majority of the American people ‐ including overwhelming numbers of Democrats ‐ perceive that illegal immigration is a real crisis.
That’s because we see that such immigration is accompanied by increased crime, drug- and human-trafficking, sexual and other abuse and, yes, the threat of terrorism. As a result, we recognize that public safety and national security are being endangered by drug overdoses, gang violence, murder and mayhem ‐ often on a very large scale.
Thank you, Mr. President, for fulfilling your oath of office by standing firm for a secure border, not disorder.
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.
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[American Thinker] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is my congresswoman. I know that because I drove two hours to vote against her, to no avail. The rude woman at the poll challenged my vote because my signature didn't match from when I registered as a Conservative in 1976. It's possible that the "C" next to my name provoked her ire, because the man in front of me, a stinky white nonagenarian from the retirement home, escorted by an apparently olfactory-challenged, nice, and tolerant young black woman (she smiled as he told the poll lady she was his illegitimate love-child) didn't sign at all, and the malicious monitor didn't throw her challenge flag.
[Strategic Culture Foundation] Why is America’s Baghdad Embassy the world’s largest embassy ‐ and the largest by far?
[Breitbart] The archbishop of Philadelphia has joined the chorus of those condemning the anti-Catholic harassment of U.S. district court nominee Brian C. Buescher by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
