Five Iranian militia members were killed after unidentified aircraft attacked Iranian warehouses in Al-Bukamal in the Deir Ezzor area of eastern Syria near the Iraqi border on Saturday night, according to Syrian media. This is the second attack in the Al Bukamal area in the past four days.
The attack targeted three weapons depots belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the area, according to the Step news agency. Large explosions were reported in the area and some Iranian militias escaped the area after the attack in fear of additional attacks.
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The United States Department of Education has opened an investigation into Georgetown University for allegations of unlawful discrimination against men and preference toward women in their employment and hiring processes.
The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has launched a Title IX investigation to determine whether an illegal preference for women in hiring practices exists at Georgetown University.
The Title IX Inquiry was filed against Georgetown University on Oct. 4, 2018 by President of the National Coalition For Men Harry Crouch. The Inquiry listed 19 clubs that were alleged to be in violation of Title IX. Among the clubs alleged to be in violation is the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security started by Hillary Clinton in 2011.
"The complaint seeks to eliminate gender discrimination against men without jeopardizing the civil rights of women," Crouch wrote.
On October 11, the DOE responded, with a Partial Dismissal Letter. Portions of Allegations 3 and 4, and Allegation 1 will be investigated.
The complaint filed by Crouch strongly condemned Georgetown Professor Christine Fair noting that she "openly called for violence and terrorism against men as a class (and several specific men)." The complaint had requested her termination of position as associate professor of security studies. The DOE’s official response did not mention Fair.
Hattip to badanov. Long, with map and video, so get a large cup of coffee or your favourite equivalent, dear Reader, and enjoy some Sunday reading.
[SouthFront] The situation in the Sahel region is rapidly deteriorating and the region is about to turn into the zone of chaos and terrorism. According to the US, EU and the UN, it is becoming the new global frontline in the fight against terror, but the current news of the region are discouraging, at best.
The Sahel region is an area situated between North African countries and those of sub-Saharan Africa.
The countries that are most afflicted by violence from armed jihadist groups are Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso, for example, has recorded more than 700 deaths and 500,000 internally displaced persons and refugees as a result of incursions by armed groups since 2015.
This would never have happened if it was still Upper Volta
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[Breitbart] At least 15 of Venezuela’s 23 states woke up without access to electricity on Wednesday after another power outage occurred in the early hours of the morning.
According to local media, the affected entities included the states Nueva Esparta, Zulia, Táchira, Mérida, Lara, Falcón, Miranda, Carabobo, Yaracuy, and some areas of the capital Caracas. There were also reports of minor disruption in the states of Bolívar and Barinas.
Although power had been restored by mid-morning, another blackout took place around 3 p.m., affecting 15 states across the country, many of whom lost access to the internet.
By late afternoon on Wednesday, neither Minister of Energy Freddy Brito nor any other representative of Nicolás Maduro's regime had explained why it had occurred.
Venezuela has been afflicted by power outages since March this year, when around 70 percent of the country received little to no electricity for nearly a week. Maduro repeatedly accused the United States of being behind the attack, despite failing to provide evidence of such claims.
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Maduro repeatedly accused the United States of being behind the attack, despite failing to provide evidence of such claims.
Seems to me that their earlier issues had to do with the maintenance, or lack thereof, for the various power plant infrastructure and equipment essentials that require it.
No surprise if they didn't learn their lesson(s).
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[The Drive] It appears that the AGM-114R9X, a secret low collateral damage derivative of the AGM-114 Hellfire missile, has been employed against occupants of another vehicle in northwestern Syria. This is the second time this week. Previously, we knew of only one other instance in which the unique missile had been used, back in 2017 when an Al Qaeda kingpin was similarly targeted and killed in western Syria. The War Zone was the first to posit that an exotic new low-collateral damage weapon was being used after images from that strike surfaced.
There are no confirmed reports as to who was targeted in this latest strike, which occurred near the town of Afrin in Aleppo Governorate, although there are some unconfirmed claims. Supposedly, three people were killed in the vehicle when the bladed weapon smashed through the roof of the vehicle. The post-strike video below is very gruesome. You have been warned:
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Japan buys the AGM-114R9X, renames to the Musashi, in 5....4...3...
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Iran is trying to build their own. It's made of four machete wielding houthis totally high on qat, tied together and launched by a catapult. The Iranian version ululates too as it flies.
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Cheap, too. Only $19.95 plus postage and handling, and if you order now, you get a Burke class destroyer absolutely free! Dial 1-800-mincejihadis. Operators are standing by.
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The Iranian version ululates too as it flies.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
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...The idea of a missile that kills with swords is...well, downright Klingon (in the classical sense, not the political term).
I love it. Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam, jihadi scum.
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Come on - please tell me the nickname for the missile is 'Ginsu'...
[BBC] China's exports fell in November as shipments to the US slowed sharply, adding to concerns about the effects of the two nations' trade war.
November exports from the world's second largest economy fell 1.1% from a year earlier, the fourth straight fall.
Exports to the US were down 23%, the worst such result since February and the twelfth monthly decline in a row.
Another round of US tariffs on Chinese goods is due next Sunday, as part of the ongoing trade dispute.
On Friday, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the 15 December deadline - to impose a new round of tariffs on some $156bn of Chinese exports - remained in place.
[Zero Hedge] Most people know my name, George Zimmerman, largely due to negative stereotypes propagated by the media as a result of the 2012 incident in Sanford, Florida, in which Trayvon Martin died.
Unfortunately, most people don’t recall the fact that I was exonerated of any wrongdoing after a thorough investigation by the Sanford Police Department in March 2012. They had interviewed dozens of witnesses, analyzed 911 calls, and examined the physical evidence of my broken nose, the lacerations on the back of my head, as well as the bruised knuckles of my assailant.
[American Mil News] Command Sgt. Maj. Terry M. Sanchez, command sergeant major of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), with over 500 jumps, took part in his final airborne operations on Fryar Drop Zone, Fort Benning, Ga. Nov. 25, 2019.
The jump marked the last airborne operation for Command Sgt. Maj. Sanchez’s career and also marked the beginning for Pvt. Diego A. Sanchez, an infantryman, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, who was attending the U.S. Army Airborne School, and eldest son of Command Sgt. Maj. Sanchez.
"The significance of this jump is that I am passing the torch off to my son, who is going to go to the 82nd Airborne Division, which is where I started at ‐ and his jump career is going to begin where mine ends after 31 years," said Command Sgt. Maj. Sanchez. "It’s a proud moment, and it is bittersweet. It is bittersweet, but it is time for me to stop jumping and let these younger kids jump."
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The working and middle class have more of the sense of noble oblige than our ruling caste.
Yes, and some (from non-Euro backgrounds) manage to successful integrate into our society, set fine examples for their kids, as well as entire classes of soon to graduate, airborne students and cadre.
[IsraelNationalNews] Countries gone to the bad through hating Israel can fill a page, but how does it work? Rulers hate a slither of a Jewish homeland, and a whole country goes up in smoke? Who or what turns the screws and afflicts: God or man?
In anyone’s book such a claim is a strange, if not spurious one to make. Yet I have made the claim that a prosperous country at the tip of Africa went to wrack and ruin, and that an anti-Israel record played no small part. IMO, it's a package deal - whose who hate civilization (for not being perfect), also hate Jews
...In the words of Hannah Arendt, the great scholar on totalitarianism, the Final Solution was not a part of Germany’s war effort; instead it was fully equal to the effort. The German high command thought nothing of diverting resources needed for victory to the higher priority of putting "cockroaches" to death. Operation Barbarossa was a turning down point. Trains needed to keep the army going were diverted to transport Jews to death camps. Hitler let his troops perish in the Russian winter so that trains to the gas chambers would continue to run and oven chimneys continue to smoke.
...To look for self-defeating behaviour at work we don’t have to go back to ages past. And there is nothing like trouble over public access to water to bring out behaviour of the worst kind. In 2019, touring the Eastern Cape I encountered towns and trendy resorts with this trouble. The government blamed drought. Residents who knew better blamed comrades out of their depth who’d got winks and nods from higher comrades to run town councils.
Israel stepped up to the plate. The ambassador put Israeli know-how for desalination and other fresh water solutions at the disposal of dry towns. He might have saved breath. Political leaders would rather leave them dry and dying if the alternative meant getting into bed with Isaac’s seed.
...In her book World on Fire, Amy Chua argues that ethnic hatred will always be directed by the host society against a minority that fares well. Three conditions must be met:
[1] The hated group must be a minority or people will fear to attack it. Nowadays it doesn't have to be a minority --- look an anti-white/anti-male discrimination in USA.
[2] It must be successful or people will not envy it.
[3] It must be conspicuous or the majority will fail to notice the group.
Isaac fitted all three. That is why the Philistines hated him. Israel fits all three. That is why most member states of the UN hate it. The global community disputes with a minority of one ‐ an Isaac ‐ who grew its flocks and dug its wells and made itself mightier than it had the right to do.
The bearded, bookish, landless wanderer had no business turning into a conspicuous juggernaut winning wars and starting up many tech enterprises. As day follows night, anger and hate follow envy. And where hate incapacitates the faculty to reason and make sane choices, there we find self-destructive rulers, countries and cause groups on the road to wrack and ruin.
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In SAfrica and Venezuela socialism was more of a cause of economic collapse. It was coincidental that the top dogs were also Israel haters. In Iran Islam was the principal cause with Israel hatred a tangential
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'And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.' - GaWD (!)
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It's very simple, really. Nothing economic, political or sociological about it.
If you are someone whose very existence is an affront to Gawd, if He's simply decided you are not worth having in the universal register - you will hate Israel. You may not even be able to explain it. You may go to church, whine over candles and kiss the Pope's pinkie every year.
[Guardian] The climate emergency is a "challenge of civilisation" requiring sweeping changes to economic systems, but political leaders have not done enough, the pope has said in a message to governments meeting at the annual climate summit in Madrid.
"We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources [to the climate crisis]," he said, in the pontifical message, which was welcomed by activists.
"Numerous studies tell us it is still possible to limit global warming. To do this we need a clear, far-sighted and strong political will, set on pursuing a new course that aims at refocusing financial and economic investments toward those areas that truly safeguard the conditions of a life worthy of humanity on a healthy planet for today and tomorrow."
He put particular emphasis on the role of young people, who "show a heightened sensitivity to the complex problems that arise from this emergency. We must not place the burden on the next generations to take on the problems caused by the previous ones."
As a small state, the Vatican has observer status at the talks, so the pope is able to send a representative but has no voting rights on key decisions. As an Argentinian, Pope Francis’s words carried particular resonance as this is still regarded as a Latin American COP, despite the last-minute change of venue from Chile to Madrid following political unrest in Santiago.
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The best way to counteract this nonsense is to go back and read The Limits to Growth, published in 1975 (or thereabouts) by the Club of Rome, which predicted dates when the world would run out of just about everything. It was terrifying in 1975 but hilarious in 2019, when all of their deadlines have long since passed. Fool me once, you know...
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This Pope has totally lost it.
His only job was to cleanse the church of the child molesters.
It is not his job to re-write the Bible or make up sins from whole cloth. This is how you got into trouble in the first place.
There is also, for additional amusement, a 30-years-later update from the original authors using the same modelling approach on faster computers: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. It should be subtitled NOW WITH IMPROVED PANICKING!!!. Even the book blurb at the link is laughable.
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My career included 20 yrs of system auditing in one form or another.
Until I see a valid audit done of all these "models" I don't believe a word from their pushers.
The few code fragments in the climate gate fiasco that was the University of East Anglia included 3 screaming, flashing, warning lights of fraud that were never addressed, yes I can read Fortran.
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The few code fragments in the climate gate fiasco that was the University of East Anglia included 3 screaming, flashing, warning lights of fraud that were never addressed, yes I can read Fortran.
I saw some of that janky code. Big arrays of temperatures being "adjusted" for no obvious reason and not a code comment in sight.
[Reason.com] The new trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico is a mixed bag, but one of its undeniably excellent components is a provision that effectively exports American protections for online free speech to other countries.
But Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D‐Calif.) is reportedly pushing to cut that language from the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) before Congress votes on the new trade deal. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that Pelosi is considering removing the liability protections for online platforms from the trade deal because including that language might make it more difficult for lawmakers to hack away at those same protections domestically.
"There are concerns in the House about enshrining the increasingly controversial...liability shield in our trade agreements, particularly at a time when Congress is considering whether changes need to be made in U.S. law," a spokesman for Pelosi told the Journal.
As I've written before, the USMCA‐as well as a new trade deal between the U.S. and Japan‐will include provisions shielding tech companies from liability for content, similar to the protections offered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Though it's not a simple copy/paste, the trade deals effectively duplicate Section 230's promise that platforms will not be held liable for user-created content‐like videos posted to YouTube or comments made at the bottom of this article.
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[Dawn] MUZAFFARABAD / RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: British national Usman Khan was laid to rest in his family’s ancestral village in a southern district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (AJK) on Friday.
The body of the 28-year-old London Bridge attacker was brought by his family from Islamabad airport to Kijlani village in district Kotli where the funeral took place at 4pm, following which he was buried in a local graveyard.
His family members refused to speak to the media, saying they had already given their statement through the London police on Tuesday.
Talking to Dawn, PIA’s General Manager Public Relations Abdul Hafeez said that Usman Khan’s body was shifted to Islamabad from London aboard a PIA flight PK-792. Later, it was handed over to his family.
The official said it was the PIA’s policy that it carried bodies on the basis of genuine documentation, including foreign-origin card of the dear departed and Pakistain High Commission’s letter.
The body was handed over to his relatives after passing through immigration and customs process.
The relatives drove the body to the town of Kotli for burial as Khan’s family didn’t want to bury him in the UK. His funeral prayers were earlier offered in a Birmingham mosque.
Khan stabbed two people to death and left three others injured in an attack in London on Friday. He had been residing in the Staffordshire area of UK.
According to media reports, he was part of a gang of nine turbans, mostly of Bangladeshi origin, who were sentenced in February 2012 after being convicted. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he was released in December 2018, but was required to wear a GPS (electronic tag).
After the London Bridge attack, Khan was rubbed out by security personnel.
The Foreign Office front man was asked whether any special permission was required from the government for bringing the bodies of foreign nationals to Pakistain for burial or it was allowed for the people of Pakistain origin, and if any permission was granted in the case of the London Bridge attacker.
He replied through WhatsApp: "Is his body in Pakistain? I have no confirmation of this."
According to The Telegraph, Khan — a British citizen born in the UK and of Pakistani origin — left school with no qualifications after spending part of his late teens in Pakistan, where he lived with his mother when she became ill. On his return to the UK, he started preaching extremism on the internet and attracted a significant following.
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so they had too ay too ship this piece of shit too kashmir
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They were gonna bury him at sea, but we don't hav a toilet that big.
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Commodious was his commode,
Ever high, never low as it flowed,
And the size of its tank
Almost busted the bank,
But it choked on the monstrous load
Of that odious Islamist toad.
Pulling punches as usual. Because shying away from coarse language always works with limericks. Sigh.
[The National Interest] Key Point: At the end of the day, the G3 is just cheaper.
High capacity nine millimeter pistols were first introduced to the public as service pistols. Built for military and police without regard for size, service pistols were full-sized handguns that prioritized recoil reduction and magazine capacity over concealability. Over the years a compromise has evolved, resulting in a pistol mixing all three features. The Glock 19 is cited as the ideal compromise, and Taurus’ G3 pistol very much runs in that vein--but at a substantially lower cost.
The Glock 17 handgun was originally designed for the Austrian armed forces and then exported to civilian markets worldwide. The Glock 17 is a reliable handgun that, while lightweight, still has enough heft to absorb the modest recoil of the nine millimeter round. This makes it an excellent gun for conscript armies, where soldiers may not have a background in firearms. It also features a large, seventeen round magazine allowing soldiers to carry more rounds on their person.
The Glock 17 did well in the American commercial market but many buyers clamored for a handgun with a shorter barrel and slightly shorter magazine, resulting in the Glock 19. This defined the "sweet spot" for many compact nine millimeter handguns, and Brazil’s Taurus steps into that spot with the G3 pistol.
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Springfield XDM. I have shot glocks, I hate their grips, they feel funky while they shoot and get muzzle heavy as the magazine empties. I don't care if other people like them. Though I also don't like the idea of having a pistol with enough incidents to get an accident named after it. "Glock leg"
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Ugh... glocks. Hammerless is... meh, okay, I got a snub nose Taurus for the wife, but did Taurus have to copy the whole thing ? What is it with the sexless boxy design these days ?
Only revolvers for me.
I get to draw my gun so little I went all out and imported a Chiappa revolver in .357 on my new prohibited bore license in 2012, soon everybody wanted to see and shoot it. Nearly flew outta my boss's hand once.
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Crusader, it's because people think they will forget or won't have time to take the safety off in a gunfight. I am seriously not kidding. As if taking 2/10's of a second to drop the safety will matter. I've shot IDPA matches with my H&K USP and never once forgot the safety. Personally I think that's an idiotic reason to make your gun an accidental discharge waiting to happen. While the XDM I use doesn't have a safety you flip, it does have a grip safety. If it didn't, I'd have waited six more months and bought a H&K or Sig that did.
[Aljazeera] Seven police officers among the dead after gunmen attacked a bus in northeast Kenya, local media reported.
The vehicle belonging to the Medina Bus Company was attacked on Friday on a lonely stretch of road in the Kotulo area as it travelled between the towns of Wajir and Mandera, close to the border with Somalia.
The Somalia-based al-Shabab armed group, which has also carried out a number of attacks in neighbouring Kenya, took responsibility for the assault, saying it had killed people that included "secret security agents and government employees".
Police said 10 people had been killed and that the attackers had specifically targeted non-Somalis after flagging down the bus. The area is mostly inhabited by ethnic Somali Kenyans.
Seven police officers were killed in the attack, local media reported. A security source gave the same figure to the AFP news agency.
Witnesses said the attackers had shot all the victims outside the bus at close range, but police and the government did not comment on those accounts.
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A quick search did not reveal where it came from, but in the spirit of inquiry I tracked down the author, who gave me permission to post his letter to the editor — though he admitted he submitted it to several places, and has no idea who published it. Michael Ra Bouchard is a licensed s3x and relationship therapist, currently based in Hawaii, where hopefully he is doing much good.
Letter to the Editor
November 20, 2019
Dear Friends,
Earlier this week the Durham, New Hampshire town council cancelled their annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony and the hanging of street decorations downtown, then renamed their event "Frost Fest," allegedly after a private citizen complained to them that the decorations were "offensive."
Are you kidding me?
So much for the state motto, "Live free or die."
Even in today's mixed up, inside out, upside down world I had to do a double-take after reading this decidedly un-American announcement.
Where does it stop?
We must name and fight insanity whenever and wherever we find it or it will inevitably lead to our collective ruin. If we don't speak out, we risk the very real possibility that our nation and cultural heritage become lost and unfamiliar to us.
As a native-born New Hampshire former resident and 1980's UNH Durham undergraduate and graduate degree holder, I'm stunned by the town council's blockheaded and flat-out wrong overreaction.
Especially in today's highly polarized society, does anyone really believe achieving 100% consensus on anything (other than the possible exception of lowering taxes) is ever possible?
We must not abandon our hard-fought rights, fundamental principles and cherished traditions that enrich us alike as individuals and as a community simply because someone chooses to take offense.
After all, what's the problem?
Taking offense is a choice. In my counseling practice I gently urge those with the hair-trigger habit of being easily offended to straighten out their reactive "crooked thinking" and thereby stop upsetting themselves to everybody's betterment.
Stubbornly refusing to be reactive requires those taking offense to work on increasing their emotional intelligence by actively practicing tolerance of others. It further requires learning to live and let live with dignity and respect, as has been practiced by every generation of Americans going all the way back to our country's founding.
We all know that many of the colonies original settlers emigrated to this country for the express purpose of enjoying religious liberty, then commonly considered the most precious right of all, reflecting an enduring and deeply-held piousness still shared by many of us today.
People will always have differences of opinion. Suffice it to say, allowing a minority of disgruntled citizen's to dictate public policy for all is misguided and contemptibly stupid, standing against the very principles on which democracy is founded.
During my service as a U.S. Marine, it was understood by all who served that our purpose included helping to ensure the safekeeping of the very rights, values and traditions that define us as a people and a nation, including the practice of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
To get along best in this world, each of us must learn to respect our differences and the beliefs of others unlike our own, religious or otherwise, and safeguard the expression of those beliefs without interference so long as they are legal and cause no real harm to anyone.
And not just in Durham, but in every town or city in America wherever attacks on our basic rights and precious principles which have guided our nation from its very beginning hazards to raise its ugly head.
Thus even as we seek to make the circle bigger to reasonably include everyone, we must stand steadfast in vigorously protecting our values from those who would take away our individual and collective rights to freely express our culture and traditions as they have been practiced in America for hundreds of years; for personal expressions as such are ultimately what give our lives meaning.
Otherwise, it won't be long at all before we find ourselves devolving into a joyless, valueless and soulless people.
Think about it.
I therefore urge the Durham Town Council to immediately reverse their Grinch-like decision to cancel the lighting ceremony and placement of decorations, and to unflinchingly refer to the event for what it is and has always been: The Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.
In the spirit of the season, let us dare to imagine and strive to create a world of inclusivity, peace on earth, and good will towards all!
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Related: Read an article in Friday's Wall Street Journal entitled, "Don't believe in God? Lie to your kids." It seems that even secular therapists and psychologists are realizing the harm to children in particular from mindless secularization.
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[Aljazeera] Several Australian bushfires have combined to form a "mega fire" that is burning out of control across a swath of land north of Sydney, authorities said, warning they cannot contain the blaze.
New South Wales Rural Fire Service Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers on Friday said "there are probably more than eight fires in all" that have merged to form what has been dubbed a "mega fire" in an area of the national park forest.
The blaze was burning across 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) - with a front roughly 60km (37 miles) wide - within an hour's drive of Australia's largest city, which was again subsumed in a soup of toxic smoke.
[Barely a Blog] The "family of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan ’totally condemn his actions,’" but the father of Khan’s victim, David Merritt, is too busy condemning those who wish to condemn Khan and his ilk to life in a cell.
Usman Khan slaughtered Jack Merritt on November 29. Come December 2, the lad’s dad, David Merritt, was already penning woke op-eds about clemency and leniency for prisoners like killer Khan.
This minute-made forgiveness, claimed Merritt senior, sanctimoniously, would have been Jack’s wish. By calling his son’s murder a "tragic incident," Merritt senior also minimizes what was murder with malice aforethought.
How obscene is the progressive mindset!
Wrote Mr. Merritt sanctimoniously:
If Jack could comment on his death ‐ and the tragic incident on Friday 29 November ‐ he would be livid. We would see him ticking it over in his mind before a word was uttered between us. Jack would understand the political timing with visceral clarity.
He would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against. We should never forget that. What Jack would want from this is for all of us to walk through the door he has booted down, in his black Doc Martens.
That door opens up a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key. Where we do not give indeterminate sentences, or convict people on joint enterprise. Where we do not slash prison budgets, and where we focus on rehabilitation not revenge. Where we do not consistently undermine our public services, the lifeline of our nation. Jack believed in the inherent goodness of humanity, and felt a deep social responsibility to protect that.
Compared to such woke sentiments, the family of the London-Bridge Killer was mundane in its normal and correct expiation:
"We are saddened and shocked by what Usman has done," said the family . "We totally condemn his actions and we wish to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery to all of the injured."
No need to apologize. Speaking for his dead son, David Merritt appears to have already made peace with his killer. (Dad, if you ask me, is rather presumptuous in speaking for his son.)
Jack, apparently, had "devoted his energy to the purpose of ’Learning Together: a pioneering programme to bring students from university and prisons together to share their unique perspectives on justice.'"
If young Merritt’s murder proves anything it is that Cambridge University’s social justice outreach, Learning Together, is a costly indulgence.
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What Jack would want from this is for all of us to walk through the door he has booted down, in his black Doc Martens.
I'm sorry for the man's loss.
That said, what kind of grieving father would write such fulsome nonsense as this - barely 48 hours after his son's murder by a terrorist?
Was this idiotic tripe already published somewhere? Did he rip it off from some PC version of a dime novel? (Is that essentially what the Marvekcheritage
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Merrit's just like people who would disown their child for "disgracing the family". He places his social position above the lives of his children.
And I submit you cannot "rehabilitate" jihadis and other political criminals. They did not commit crimes of passion -- they carefully planned and plotted, and came up with justifications for their violence.
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I'm sorry for the man's loss.
I'm not. In my experience people like him are very good at getting other people's kids killed. And, in any case, an apple hasn't fallen far from the tree.
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I just saw his rambling about BoJo and can't help but think if a cheque from Corbyn was involved. I wouldn't put it past such a man. None of these altruistic sounding eulogies to his son sound sincere to me.
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Dumbass, it's bad enough that you don't mind yourself and your loved ones being killed by jihadis. But the rest of us would prefer to keep these mad barbarians where they cannot harm us. After all, providing for the security of its citizens is one of the primary functions of a civilized society. If you cannot understand or appreciate that, maybe you should move to the Middle Eastern cat box of your choice, live among the barbarians whom you love so much and leave the rest of us alone.
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The father is speaking from the cozy comfort of his bubble. It is sad.
A polyamorous woman in Florida with four partners is pregnant, and says despite sharing her bed with her many lovers, she’s certain of who the father is.
Tory Ojeda, 20, lives with three of her four partners in their Jacksonville, Fla., home. Marc, Travis, Ethan and Christopher take turns spending time with Ojeda, "swapping in and out" of her bed each night, she tells Barcroft Media.
The household’s love story began three years ago when Ojeda met Marc, 18, in high school. Two months later, she opened things up with Travis, 23 ‐ to whom she is now engaged. Later, she brought Ethan, 22, and Christopher, 22, into the fold.
And despite her plans to get married to Travis, Ojeda said he’s not the father of her baby girl, due in February.
"Chris is the biological father," she says. "We just know that because of timing and when the approximate conception date was. Based off of the approximate conception day, we had been on vacation. So it was only us."
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I don't believe any of them have a choice but too be with each other, I've always heard ugly pl make pretty babies. That child is going too be BEAUTIFUL
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[AlMasdar] Sudanese Prime Minister ’Abdullah Hamdouk said this weekend that the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i conflict cannot be solved militarily, but only through political dialogue between the rival parties.
Hamdouk further said that the Sudanese military is currently present inside Yemen, pointing out that there are thousands of soldiers in the country, Sputnik Arabic reported.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Hamdouk did specify that the total number of Sudanese soldiers in Yemen did not exceed 25,000.
The President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, last month touched on the participation of the Sudanese forces in the Yemen war.
In an interview with al-Jazeera, al-Burhan said that the Sudanese forces are present in Yemen at the request of the legitimate government, and that his country’s forces are not carrying out missions.
"The Sudanese forces will remain in Yemen until the goal for which they participated is achieved," he said.
Sudan has been participating in the Arab coalition-led war in Yemen since March 2015. While the total number of Sudanese soldiers killed is unknown, there have been reports of several casualties throughout the war.
And terribly effective they’ve been there, too. Without them there in all their martial glory, who knows what would have happened.
[AlMasdar] The U.S. aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Harry Truman, is passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and heading towards Syrian waters, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported on Saturday.
"An American aircraft carrier strike group led by the U.S.S. Harry Truman nuclear carrier has passed the Strait of Gibraltar and is currently heading straight for Russian military bases along the Syrian coast. Experts do not exclude that provocations directed against Syria and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... may be the key purpose of the appearance of the largest aircraft carrier here," Avia.Pro reported.
"The U.S.S. Harry Truman aircraft carrier group (ACG) includes a missile cruiser, several destroyers, and a Tomahawk cruise missile nuclear submarine from the sixth fleet of the U.S.," they said.
According to reports, the carrier with escort ships will be off the coast of Syria for some time with uncertain tasks, after which it will go to the Persian Gulf, where it will be replaced by the U.S.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which, due to the unfavorable situation with the state of the U.S. carrier fleet, is in the Middle East longer than planned.
It is not clear what the purpose of this mission will be and the U.S. Navy has not commented on the deployment of the U.S.S. Harry Truman.
Possibly it will include killing those people and breaking those things in need of it. Certainly by looming over the landscape it will provide a credible threat of both. Question: Is Saudi Arabia within reach of a carrier group hanging out near Damascus? Depending on what we learn about that Saudi 2nd lieutenant and his little friends, decisions may have to be made, none of which any longer depend on the Saudis continuing to pump oil.
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Are they doing a "Freedom of Navigation" exercise because of the recent annexation of the Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey? Greece is not happy about Turkey's accord on sea boundaries with Libya.
[AlMasdar] The Russian Air Force has been hammering the jihadist stronghold of Kabani in northeastern Latakia, launching several strikes over this key town in the past 48 hours.
According to a military report from the Latakia countryside, the Russian Air Force’s attack choppers repeatedly struck the jihadist positions in and around Kabani, causing several explosions that could be heard through the northeastern region of the governorate.
These Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by the Russian Air Force came at the same time that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) began mobilizing their troops for a new attack on this jihadist stronghold in the Latakia Governorate.
While the Syrian Army has not begun storming Kabani, they have carried out their preliminary shelling on the jihadist defenses around the Zuwayqat Mountains that are located south of the town.
Over the past few months, the Syrian Arab Army has repeatedly attempted to capture Kabani from the jihadist rebels; however, all of their attacks have been repelled or reversed shortly after the military launches their assault.
Kabani is a strategic mountaintop town that overlooks the northern region of the al-Ghaab Plain and some parts of the Jisr al-Shughour District in the Idlib Governorate.
[AlMasdar] The Russian Air Force launched a massive attack over the Idlib Governorate on Saturday, as their warplanes targeted several areas under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) and the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... (NLF).
According to reports from Idlib, the Russian Air Force primarily concentrated their strikes on the southern and southwestern countrysides of the governorate, with several attacks reported on the town of al-Barah, Hass, and Ahsim.
The Russian Air Force attack on al-Barah was reportedly the most intense, with over ten Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s hitting the town on Saturday.
A couple airstrikes were also reported over the Jabal al-Zawiya region, which is where several Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops are currently deployed at in southwestern Idlib.
Following these airstrikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) accused the Russian Air Force of killing four people in al-Barah.
Saturday’s attack by the Russian Air Force came just a day after their aircraft were grounded due to poor weather.
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Obviously, the Russians didn't get the memo about how bombing just creates more jihadis.
Interesting to note that Russian bombing is qualitatively different from American bombing:
Russians: old-school kill people and break their stuff
vs
Americans: drone-zap a High Value Target and hopefully not get too many of the innocent goat herding bystanders with the collateral damage. See Ginsu Missile thread, for example.
(inquiring minds might wonder exactly how innocent said goat herders are if they're hanging out with the HVT)
[AlMasdar] The jihadist rebels have reversed the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) advance in the southeastern countryside of the Idlib Governorate after the latter captured the air defense base near the town of Tal al-Khazanah.
With the jihadist recapture of the air defense base, the front-lines in southeastern Idlib have returned to the previous lines at the start of the week.
Golly. And this is the army Turkey cannot defeat?
At the same time, the Syrian Army continues to heavily target the southern region of the Idlib Governorate with artillery and missiles, with most of strikes hitting the area between Kafr Nabl and Ma’arat al-Nu’man.
Lastly, Russian aircraft are also participating in the attack; however, they were briefly grounded on Thursday due to poor weather.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army has taken control of new points along the strategic Hasakah-Aleppo Highway as part of their agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the army units on Friday expanded their deployment in the al-Hasakah Governorate, fortifying new points west of the Tal Tamr District.
SANA’s news hound in Hasakah said army units expanded their deployment in governorate’s northwestern country, taking control of new points around the Leylan crossroads west of Tal Tamr.
This latest deployment came at the same time the Ottoman Turkish-backed snuffies began to re-target the Syrian Army’s positions near Tal Tamr.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) graduated a new class of recruits in the Deir Ezzor Governorate after they completed rigorous training exercises.
In a video released on their official YouTube channel, the new graduates can be seen participating in military exercises in the Deir Ezzor countryside.
[Hot Air] Portland, Oregon, like many cities on the left coast, is struggling with a growing homelessness crisis. But what can they do about it? One idea that’s now being floated is to change the building codes so that all new structures (including private property, not just government buildings) include spaces for people to "rest" and "feel welcome and safe."
This understandably has prospective property owners concerned, since the wording is all quite vague and suggests that they will be forced to allow the homeless to camp in and around their buildings. (KATU News)
The obvious questions are already being raised. What specifically does "rest" mean in this context? Does that mean that new buildings will have to include spaces for the "unhoused" (their word) where they will be "protected from the weather?" That’s basically just an invitation for people to come trespass and stay there.
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#6 Correct. It was only a matter of time. Our idiot political class shows, daily, their ignorance of and outright contempt for the Bill of Rights.
Case in point: we now routinely hear that the 1st Amendmant protects slander and other forms of malicious, reckless, harmful defamatory speech.
This line of reasoning is being parroted by even those with degrees from our best law schools - cf the president of Oberlin College and its multi-year war against a neighboring family bakery.
#10
My dad used to say "Eventually they will tell you who is coming into your house when, how long they will stay and what you will have to do for them while they are there."
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We seem to be living through a saucy melange of 1765 and 1854.
With a skosh of the Great Terror and the Cultural Revolution thrown in for good measure.
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Comrade, the Housing Commissar has determined that you have excess capacity in your house. Therefore, you will make adequate space available for a homeless individual who will arrive this evening. We fully expect that you will welcome this individual with open arms in the spirit of socialist brotherhood.
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If I wanted to be a hotelier, I would have married a Trump.
#16
if i wanted to be a hotelier, i would have left the light on for ya (sorry TW, it sort of writ itself, bur you are the inspiration behind the crayon)
[Epoch Times] The Chinese communist regime is heading towards disintegration and the West needs to be prepared to manage the fallout, according to a leading China scholar.
Arthur Waldron, China historian and Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, made the remarks in a recent interview on The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders. He shared his views on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) imminent collapse, U.S. foreign policy on China, and the relentless Hong Kong protests that have posed a major challenge to Beijing’s rule.
The CCP has started on a path of decline and is headed towards a similar fate as the Soviet Union when it collapsed in 1991, the professor said.
"I believe that China is in this stage of disintegration or ’jie ti (解體)’, and it’s something that you don’t see immediately," said Waldron.
The Chinese regime’s practice of forced organ harvesting‐which results in an estimated tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience killed every year to supply its organ transplant market‐and its treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, made it "the most evil regime" since the Nazi Germany, Waldron said.
He recalled a conversation with an unidentified person, who is a close advisor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
"He said to me, Arthur, what the hell are we going to do? Everybody knows that this [political] system doesn’t work. We have reached a "si hu tong" (死胡同)," said Waldron said, explaining that the Chinese phrase means a "dead-end street."
The advisor continued: "But what we don’t know is what is the next step to take because ... there are mines everywhere and if we take a step, we may set off a terrible explosion."
The Chinese economy is not high-flying as it used to be. The country’s third-quarter (GDP) growth rose 6.0 percent year-on-year, the slowest rate in 27 years. According to Reuters, the growth decline was attributed by economists to weakness in export-related industries, particularly the manufacturing sector.
"This regime knows it’s in grave peril, domestically," Waldron said, before adding "So the real intellectual problem is how do you exit communism?"
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Now I'm not saying that Xi haven't lost the Mandate of Heaven. However, this doesn't mean China disintegrating - all it means that I expect to read, within a few months, that the revered leader died of heart failure - because he worked so hard on behalf of the People. And the replacement will be a lot more Deng-like than Mao-like.
#5
If it does crump, the PRC won't go quietly like the Soviet Empire. Every one star general and not a few colonels will try to carve out their own little slice of Heaven, Mandate or no.
#6
Cush would be advised to forgate about Mandates and start concentrating on their waalking shoes. When they do this, and they always do, they get broken into a million pieces.
[PJ] Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, an aviation officer in the Saudi Air Force, opened fire at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday, killing four people and wounding many others. In doing so, he showed yet again that the prevailing politically correct obfuscation and denial regarding the jihad threat is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. If we had a realistic approach to the jihad threat, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani’s victims would be alive today.
Before he embarked upon his killing spree, someone who appeared to be Alshamrani ranted on Twitter about the evils of America. First, he rejected the George W. Bush explanation for jihad terrorism, "They hate us because of our freedom": "O American people ‐ I’m not against you for being American, I don’t hate you because your freedoms, I hate you because every day you [sic] supporting, funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims but against humanity."
Alshamrani went on to elucidate exactly what those crimes were: "What I see from America is the supporting of Israel which is invasion of Muslim countrie [sic], I see invasion of many countries by it’s [sic] troops, I see Guantanamo Bay. I see cruise missiles, cluster bombs and UAV." He added: "I’m against evil, and America as a whole has turned into a nation of evil."
This statement, if it did indeed come from Alshamrani, as appears likely, makes clear that he was a jihad terrorist. He was killing because of America’s supposed crimes against Muslims; that rules out the alternative explanation for his acts, that he was lashing out after some negative incident or mistreatment at the Naval Air Station.
Many credulous Americans, meanwhile, will believe his list of grievances, and think that if we just stop committing these supposed "crimes," that the jihad will disappear. Actually, grievance lists such as Alshamrani’s are common from jihadis, who have to couch their jihads as defensive in the absence of a caliphate. In Sunni law, only the caliph can declare offensive jihad. So when there is no caliph, all jihad must be defensive. The enumerated grievances are pretexts that enable a jihadi lawfully to kill in accordance with Islamic law.
Alshamrani was in the country to get aviation training. No one flagged him as a potential jihadi. No one would even have dared to question him to try to ascertain his thoughts about the United States and the global jihad. Any effort to have done so would have been denounced as "Islamophobic," and would have been career suicide for whoever did the questioning.
We saw this with the Fort Hood jihad mass murderer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who was praised and promoted despite alarming his colleagues with his talk of violent jihad. None of his superiors dared do anything except promote him; they knew that if they questioned him about his loyalties, they would be the subject of a CNN feature story the next week on "Islamophobia in the Military," and they would be looking at a dishonorable discharge.
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Me also. The old woman wants to live. She isn't worried about shaming her fambly.
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Pensacola Jihad Massacre Proves We've Learned Nothing Since the Fort Hood Attack
Frankly, I don't think we've learned a damn thing since Yassir Arafat and his crew started hijacking airplanes more than 50 years ago.
Muslims don't hate us because of anything we've done to them, or anything we've failed to do for them; they hate us because their evil "religion" tells them to.
We need to stop this idiotic Stockholm Syndrome habit of thinking that "if only we were nicer to the poor Muslims and show them how inclusive we are, they won't hate us so much" and replace it with "let them hate us, so long as they fear us."
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I think "most of us" had it figured out a long time ago. We just don't happen to have a say in the matter...
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Pisslam is a religion of peace. Thanks boosh...
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#8 Murcek for the win.
Most Americans still have common sense. It's our idiot political class and virtue-signaling morons in the press and other left-dominated institutions who've refused to see the obvious.
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Agree with you Lex #10 - Libs think if we would just give in a little they would come around - NOT - will never happen that way. These muslims will take a mile if we give an inch. The only thing they might possibly "understand" is if we pounded them all into sand - we just might be able to put the fear of "Allah" into them.
[BBC] More than 30 people have been killed in a large fire at a factory in the Indian capital, Delhi, officials say.
The blaze broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning in central Delhi, and fire engines rushed to the scene.
Dozens of workers were sleeping inside the multi-storey building at the time, rescue services say. There are fears the death toll will rise further.
Home Minister Amit Shah called it a "tragic loss of precious lives".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the fire was horrific and that authorities were "providing all possible assistance at the site of the tragedy".
Delhi's firefighters received the first call about the fire at 05:22 local time on Sunday (23:52 GMT Saturday).
The area where the factory is located - Anaj Mandi - is home to one of the city's largest markets and many narrow laneways, which made it difficult to reach the blaze.
By 09:30 local time, at least 56 people had been moved to hospital, Delhi Fire Service director Atul Garg was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper.
"All of them had fallen unconscious because of smoke," he said.
Another senior fire service official, Sunil Choudhary, said the factory was used to store schoolbags, and bottles, among other materials.
[NYP] A professor who has accurately predicted the winner of eight of the last nine presidential elections says 2020 is still officially "too close to call."
"This is a very close and very difficult call. I don’t think either the Democrats or the Republicans should be sending up any victory flags at this point," Allan J. Lichtman, a political historian at American University, told The Post. "Too much is still up in the air and in the age of Trump, things can change very quickly."
Lichtman, 72, has become a cult figure in American politics for developing a set of 13 criteria which he has used to make his prediction. Metrics include things like scandal, foreign military failure and social unrest. The theory is laid out in his 1996 book "The Keys to the White House." The system was able to predict Ronald Reagan’s 1984 reelection back in 1982 ‐ during a recession.
(In 2000, he predicted Al Gore would win the popular vote, though tripped up on the ultimate outcome of the electoral college. Something he still doesn’t accept. "2000 was a stolen election," he says.)
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Hold on there, Perfesser - according to your own decision rule / criteria, it is not even close. We get it: everyone around Prof. Lichtman, all those in all his circles, professional and social, hates OrangeMan and therefore the Professor can't follow logic and evidence where they lead without destroying himself professionally and socially.
But eppur si muovo.
These are Prof. Allan Lichtman's 13 binary factors, or "jets" as he calls them. Per Prof. Lichtman, if the incumbent is running, then any 6 of these "keys," if TRUE, will predict re-election.
Let's review -- dispassionately, with no shading or virtue-signaling BS allowed. Count the TRUEs, using cold logic and
solid evidence:
1. Party Mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections. FALSE
2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination. TRUE #1
3. Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president. TRUE #2
4. Third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign. TRUE #3
5. Short term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign. TRUE, in spades #4
6. Long term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms. TRUE #5
7. Policy change: The incumbent administration affects major changes in national policy. (debatable)
8. Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term. TRUE #6 ... Panty-Fa =/= secession or the burning cities and multiple assassinations (MLK, RFK) of 1968
9. Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal. TRUE but let's not count this, as half the country thinks the existence of IrangeMan is itself a scandal
10. Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs. TRUE #7
Nb. We're already ABOVE Prof. Lichtnan's threshold of 6 "True" statements for the incumbent to be likely to be re-elected, but let's continue...
11. Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs. (debatable)
12. Incumbent charisma: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero. FALSE
13. Challenger charisma: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero. TRUE #8
Prof. Lichtnan, your test threshold was SIX out if 13. Even being generous to the Anti-Trumpers, using your own criteria I come up with an unbiased total of EIGHT "True" statements.
Sorry but it's not "too close to call." It's Trump's to lose.
#3
...Donk controlled states have outright legislated that federal electors have to vote a certain way. When in this country has the government had any authority to tell any voter how to vote?
You misconstrue the nature of Electors. They are agents of the State they represent, not unfettered voters. In that scheme the States themselves set the rules for their Electors as to how they vote. Some States its a winner take all deal. Others its proportional.
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Donk controlled states have outright legislated that federal electors have to vote a certain way.
You mean the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Procopius2k. They seem stalled at 196 electoral college votes (36%), with another eight states (90 votes/17%) having bills still underway in various state legislatures that are probably more Republican than when the process started.
Pick up the news. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled in a 2-1 decision against the Colorado secretary of state in a case stemming from the 2016 presidential race.
The appeals court ruled that the Constitution provides “presidential electors the right to cast a vote for president and vice president with discretion. And the state does not possess countervailing authority to remove an elector and to cancel his vote in response to the exercise of that Constitutional right.” - cite.
Very few Americans are able or willing to state their true political opinions anymore, for fear of jeopardizing their personal and professional relationships and reputation.
Lichtman is a social science professor in Washington DC. His circle is almost certainly over 90% Trump-haters -- maybe 100%.
He cannot possibly state the truth, that Trump is the overwhelming favorite and that the polls severely understate Trump's support, without incurring a sh!tstorm of denunciation and bitter attacks (and even worse) upon his head.
[American Thinker] Our Founders created a nation in which the rule of law would prevail and be applied equally to citizens from all walks of life and also would act as a restraint on the power of our leaders. The tradition also includes the assumed duty of all Americans, including our political leaders, to live within the established and agreed upon laws of society.
The Democratic Party's increasingly progressive, left-leaning, radical political agenda contests this fundamental and longstanding American tradition of the law applying equally to all our citizens. Whether I am walking on the streets of my city or viewing the news, I am witnessing on a daily basis increasingly uncivil, lawless, and visibly politically corrupt conduct being tolerated by our country.
Democratic Party policies today support the idea that adhering to the rule of law is no longer obligatory for several designated and politically favored groups selected by them. Progressive politics is attempting to move Americans to accept and adopt a multi-tier justice system based on the unequal application of the law, whereby treatment by the system is increasingly dependent on subjective political considerations.
On a local level in many cities and communities, Democrats in power are by their actions undermining the rule of law. For example, expected compliance with the law in several of our leading cities run by Democratic Party leaders, including most notably New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, is now often based on a person's economic and immigration status, race, sex, sexual orientation, and increasingly an indication of a person's political and religious affiliations. The reason for these exemptions being granted is based on the dual ideologies of identity politics and social justice.
The creation of an implied multi-tier justice system expressly violates our fundamental value of the law applying equally to citizens from all walks of life and most importantly results in the increasingly intolerable and dangerous conditions existing on the streets of these cities and an overall perception of communities in decline. It has led to environments where ordinary people feel increasingly unsafe due to a lack of enforcement of quality-of-life crimes such as rampart homelessness and loitering, open drug use, and the willing accommodation of numerous illegal aliens performing criminal acts.
Their policies absolve individuals belonging to their politically favored groups of their responsibilities to adhere to our agreed upon laws and act in civil ways. They contend that challenging social and economic conditions are responsible for criminal and antisocial behavior rather than the individual person acting in a negative way. Progressive leaders in these locations are resisting enforcing the law, especially against quality-of-life violations, because they label these actions as the criminalization of poverty and accuse the police of the ongoing use of racist tactics.
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Q: Why Is Our Society Degrading So Badly, So Fast?
A: Because of The Shitshow.
Q: Why and how did The Shitshow - the absurd virtue-signaling rhetoric, the gross incompetence, the destruction of due process and absence of good faith - why did this M.O. come to dominate our legislatures, our culture and our press?
A combination of:
1. Identity Politics: Since the collapse of Communism, western leftist and liberals went full-bore on All Identity Politics All The Time
2. Mau-Mauing the Cops (again): since 2014, since Trayvon the gentle Honor student and Michael Brown the Gentle Giant, we've heard nonstop lies about the extent of police brutality.
3. Twitter, the cesspool of the internet, the Collective Id. Remember: Twitter degrades all it touches; Twitter makes every conversation or discussion worse.
4. Facebook NewsFeed. See #3.
5. The complete clown-ification of The NYT, WaPo and talking heads cable.
6. Shitty public schools and progressively shitty public schoolteachers - made worse by, ironically, an extremely robust economy.
7. Careerist, rent-seeking politicians partnered with corrupt Deep State shadow government decision makers.
#4
Where's my tree stump ? Where did it go ?! Someone... ! Which one O' you removed my stu... Chill, Dron. They can't remove a stump like that. You see any holes in the ground ? It must be here somewhere. There ! The stump ! [gets on stump]
Now I've forgotten what I wanted to say ! Oh, P2k's already done said it.
[gets off stump]
#5
A lot of it has been said here but I would highlight #1.5.
There were always supposed to be honest brokers in the news industry that would spotlight the corruption among the powerful from the local level on up.
The muckrakers served a purpose and then the politicians could tip-toe around and keep this degradation in check at some level. See also Boss Tweed and Thomas Nast.
When the journalists sold out there was nothing to keep the sun shining on the scum.
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Democratic Party policies today support the idea that adhering to the rule of law is no longer obligatory for several designated and politically favored groups selected by them.
This nails it. Nothing is more insidious than this assault on the rule of law - dressed up, predictably, by the Shitshow as a righteous defense of rule of law.
So a universally-respected, middle-of-the-road jurist nominated by the evil Orange One is slandered and libelled, in a carnival of perjury, witness tampering and extortion, as a Gang Rapist.
So teenage school kids on a trip to an anti-abortion rally on The Mall are subjected to another national Shitshow of slander, libel, false accusations that they assaulted a toothless whackjob and professional provocateur, with calls for the boys to be ruined for life or even murdered coming from across the left-lib Shitter-sphere.
So a little family of college town bakers gets smeared as vicious racists by idiot students of a major liberal arts college, whose leaders rally the kids and lead the defamation effort and then try to interfere in and ruin the family's business.
So college boys across the country now face the potential risk of being dragged in front of one of the thousands of Kampus Kangaroo Kourts set up on the instructions of Obama's Shitsgow known as the Equal Opportunity Commission where they face being ruined for life because of bogus rape allegations.
And now a three-year Congressional Shitshow in which the party whose candidate's operatives broke laws and enlisted foreign intel agents to intervene in an election against the evil Orange One now accuse him, in Through the Looking Glass fashion, of the same crimes they committed.
Etc etc
And these shitheads have the gall to proclaim they're defending the rule of law.
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#5 What AlanC said. There has always been in every society a tendency toward misrule - the March of Folly, the corruption of the mighty, the ambition of Caesar and the stupidity and brutality of the mob etc.
What distinguished our blessed system for 200 years was not the absence of graft and grift, of slander and stupidity and misrule, but the control and containment of same by a culture and a set of self-correcting democratic institutions: a free and independent press, well-functioning courts, and major factions in each party which, though not always prevalent, at least produced heroic leaders such as Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
Those days are behind us. We are saddled with a generation of absurd, puffed-up, self-aggrandizing fools like Schiff, Fartacus, Fauxcahontas, KamalHo, Pierre Delecto, Carlos Danger and the rest of the repulsive clownshow; Schiff's Deep State clownish weaselblowers; the pseudo-sophisticated hard left academic clowns like "Dr." Blowsey Ford and Perfesser Karlan, and the endless parade of media and entertainment industry Mad Hatter talking heads and barking bots.
We will have to wait another 20 years for this mad generation to pass, and hope that the next generation of Americans will restore our democratic institutions to sanity.
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Has "Insty" weighed in on why Musk is allowed to make unsubstantiated claims of pedophilia and get away with it? I don't go to his site so I don't know.
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The defamation laws in this country are in serious need of a major overhaul.
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We will have to wait another 20 years for this mad generation to pass, and hope that the next generation of Americans will restore our democratic institutions to sanity.
Actually, the young generation: AOC, Antifa, Muslim congress persons; is even crazier.
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The US has faced similar problems before and something bigger always came along to focus us and bring us together. I don't think a modern World War would do that as it would be instantly disastrous or drawn out for twenty years so as to avoid the worst nastiness.
Maybe a grand push towards space again, a new frontier. Maybe. Probably not.
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Given I have small children, we see many families opting toward private/religious schools that will actually educate their children. There's a huge amount of worry about the gender craziness, teaching islam, climate insanity, etc. They don't want their kids becoming fanatics. So there is pushback against this stuff on the local level. Many of these parents are from younger generations as well, so they understand that we can't continue down the path of insanity.
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The left has taken control (sometimes slowly and subtly) of almost every "pressure point" of society --media, culture, human resources departments, bureaucracy, etc. and the right allowed them to do so because it was too "pragmatic" to care about such things.
Instead, the right spent all its time brushing on debating skills, not realizing that while such things have their place, they are not sufficient for the task before us.
The left understands the nature of power; the modern right does not.
It also doesn't help that fighting back will get you stabbed in the back by "principled conservatives" screeching "That is not who are!"
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These are all the kind of quality comments I come here to read, but I lean toward #3 as hitting the nail on the head. On a positive note, I think the Communists are confusing dominating "elite" opinion with dominating public opinion. (And the opinion polls are worthless -- who would tell a pollster what they actually think?) Who actually cared what Nadler's law perfessors had to say?
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"This is not who we are!"
= The Party is Right, Comrade
= The Chairman is in Power, and the Situation is Excellent
= All Hail the Glorious Soviet Identity-Politics Woke Revolution
[Dawn] Iraq’s anti-regime protesters gathered in the capital and south on Saturday, grieving but defiant after 17 were killed in an attack demonstrators described as "slaughter".
The protest movement faced another worrying turn on Saturday after an armed drone targeted the home of Iraqiholy manMoqtada "Tater" Sadr, an attack his office said could lead to "civil war." The dramatic developments have threatened to derail the anti-government rallies rocking Iraq since October, the largest and deadliest grassroots movement in decades. Whoa! What?
Late Friday, at least 17 people were killed and dozens maimed when unidentified button men attacked a large building where protesters had camped out for weeks, medics said.
To clarify, this took place in Baghdad. Sometimes reporters lose track of key details as they create their reports.
"Government forces were one kilometre away and didn’t interfere," said a young volunteer medic who treated people overnight. Another medic who had treated maimed protesters near the building said she came back to her field clinic on Saturday morning to find all the donated medical equipment had been stolen.
The violence pushed the protest toll past 440 dead and to nearly 20,000 maimed, according to a tally compiled from medics, police and a national rights commission.
One can assume the number is indicative rather than exact, in line with rgional traditions involving arithmetic.
Small clusters of protesters stood near the charred parking complex that was attacked, as larger crowds flocked to nearby Tahrir Square.
"They fired intensely, mercilessly on the protesters," one witness said. "They wouldn’t let us evacuate the maimed. It was slaughter."
As night fell on Saturday, protesters feared the same scene would play out again. "The same type of men who came in last night are back and police are not stopping them," one worried demonstrator said.
Protesters had suspected their movement’s legitimacy would be smeared or pushed towards chaos and were particularly wary of any partisan support.
After Friday’s attack, large crowds headed to Tahrir in solidarity ‐ many of them apparently members of Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades), headed by Sadr.
The notoriously politically versatile holy man was one of the main sponsors of the current government but then backed the protests.
He sent his followers into the streets after Friday’s attack "to protect protesters," a Saraya said.
But just a few hours later, Sadr’s home in the shrine city of Najaf was hit by an apparent mortar round dropped by a drone, sources from his party said.
"Only the external wall was damaged," one of them said, adding that Sadr was currently in Iran.
Dozens of his supporters flocked to his home on Saturday to show support, waving Iraqi flags and the holy man’s picture while chanting, "We are all your soldiers!" "This is a clear attack that could kindle a war ‐ maybe a civil war ‐ in Iraq. Self-restraint is essential," Sadr’s front man Salah al-Obeidi said.
Lawmakers from Sadr’s Saeroon, which make up the largest bloc in parliament, called for an emergency session over Friday’s violence.
Further south in Nasiriyah, the usual rallies swelled with crowds upset over the previous night's developments in Baghdad, an AFP correspondent said.
"We are coming in solidarity with Baghdad," one said.
Security forces were also deployed in Nasiriyah, where protests have continued despite an attempted crackdown last week that left more than two dozen dead.
In Diwaniyah, another protest hotspot, thousands turned out early on Saturday but security forces, too, spread across the streets in larger numbers.
[IsraelTimes] Assistant head of country’s Atomic Energy Organization says ’50 new achievements’ will be revealed next year
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is set to unveil at least 50 new nuclear-related "products," including new centrifuge systems and a heavy water power plant in 2020, boasted an Iranian official on Saturday.
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[Jpost] Sanctions against Qais al-Khazali target the leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) militia that has targeted the US and threatened Israel.
Qais Khazali once enjoyed a leisurely trip to southern Leb. It was December 2017, two years ago. Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias in Iraq were enjoying the height of their fame after having helped defeat ISIS and linking up with Syrian regime forces on the Syrian border of Iraq. They were cheering. Khazali was dreaming of larger plans: An attack on Israel using Iraqi Shi’ite, Iranian IRGC forces, Hezbollah and other elements from across the region.
On December 6, 2019 the US sanctioned Khazali along with other pro-Iranian elements in Iraq, accusing them of various abuses, including killing protesters and working with Iran’s IRGC. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Aassets Control (OFAC) designated Khazali along with Laith al-Khazali and Husayn Falih Aziz al-Lami under an Executive Order that enables the blocking of those involved in human rights
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Hattip Dron66046. I wanted to give this its own article in order to get it into the searchable record.
[IndiaToday] Pakistain's security agencies have thwarted an attack on the offices of an intelligence agency in south Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and arrested two faceless myrmidons of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) holy warrior group, an official said on Thursday.
Pakistain's security agencies have thwarted an attack on the offices of an intelligence agency in south Punjab and arrested two faceless myrmidons of Islamic State (IS) holy warrior group, an official said on Thursday.
"The Counter-Terrorism Department of Punjab police received information that some faceless myrmidons are hiding near Alipur bypass Muzaffarghar, some 350 kms from Lahore, and they have planned to target the offices of an intelligence agency there," the CTD official said.
He said a team of CTD Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... in collaboration with local police and the intelligence agency raided their hideout on Tuesday night.
"The raiding team surrounded the hideout of faceless myrmidons forcing them to surrender. The arrested faceless myrmidons have been identified as Akhtar Alam and Hussain Ahmad. They belong to ISIS (Islamic State)," he said.
Hand grenades, weapons and cash have been recovered from them. The suspects were shifted to an undisclosed location for further investigation.
Pakistain, which often denies the presence of ISIS (ISIS) in the country, has arrested scores of IS members mostly in Punjab during the last few years.
The trial of such suspects is held in anti-terrorism courts.
The authorities concerned usually do not officially share data with the media regarding the conviction of such suspects.
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[Dawn] WITH the passage of four months since New Delhi put India-held Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... under lockdown, another grim milestone has been passed. While the people of the forsaken Valley suffocate under India’s stifling restrictions, there is no sign that those who call the shots are willing to relent. As pointed out by the Foreign Office on Friday, the situation in IHK is getting worse, as millions of Kashmiris continue to live in an open-air prison. In fact, it would not be wrong to compare the situation in Indian Kashmire to the miserable plight of the Paleostinian enclave of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , where similar restrictions on fundamental rights are enforced by the Israeli military machine. Perhaps this is not coincidental, as an Indian diplomat in the US was recently quoted as saying that his country should follow the ’Israeli model’ in Kashmir; it is evident that quite a few of Tel Aviv’s brutal tactics are being replicated by the Hindutva-infused government in New Delhi.
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Isn’t the little wubbums the most terrifying thing you ever did see?
[Jpost] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... has carried out a "very significant" test at its Sohae satellite launch site, state media KCNA reported on Sunday.
The report did not specify what was tested, but the site has previously been used to launch rockets into space.
KCNA said the test results would be used for upgrading the country's strategic status.
The reported test comes as North Korea has warned it could take a "new path" amid stalled denuclearisation talks with the United States.
[FOXNEWS] A young graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, whose dream was to become a pilot, is being hailed a hero after he reportedly related crucial information about the identity of the Naval Air Station Pensacola shooter to first responders, despite having been shot several times, a family member revealed. toxic masculinity ...yet another example of the liberal concept (the science is settled, so shut up!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep...
Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, was confirmed as one of the three victims who was killed Friday morning when Saudi national, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, opened fire on a flight training program for foreign military personnel, Adam Watson revealed in a Facebook post. In an interview to air Sunday with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said all 3 victims were Americans. Two were members of the U.S. Navy, a Pentagon brasshat told Fox News.
"Today has been the worst day of my life. My youngest brother gave his life for his country in a senseless shooting," Watson’s post read.
"After being shot multiple times he made it outside and told the first response team where the shooter was and those details were invaluable. He died a hero and we are beyond proud but there is a whole in our hearts that can never be filled."
Watson’s father Benjamin told USA Today that his son was the officer on deck at the time of the shooting and sustained at least five gunshot wounds before being able to make it out to relay important information about the shooter before succumbing to his injuries.
"Heavily maimed, he made his way out to flag down first responders and gave an accurate description of the shooter," he told the outlet. "He died serving his country."
Watson, a rifle team captain, was reportedly sent to NAS two weeks before the shooting for flight training.
His family said his dream was to become a Navy pilot.
Officials investigating the deadly attack were working Saturday to determine whether it was motivated by terrorism, while President Donald Trump indicated he would review policies governing foreign military training in the United States.
The FBI identified the shooter in a statement Saturday night as Mohammed Alshamrani, 21. Investigators said he was a 2nd Lt. in the Royal Saudi Air Force and was a student naval flight officer of Naval Aviation Schools Command. A U.S. official on Friday said the FBI was examining social media posts and investigating whether he acted alone or was connected to any broader group. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Family members on Saturday identified two of the shooting victims, both of whom were hailed as heroes for trying to stop the shooter and flagging down first responders after being shot.
The shooter opened fire inside a classroom at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday, killing three people and wounding two sheriff’s deputies, one in the arm and one in the knee, before one of the deputies killed him. Eight others were also hurt. Both deputies were expected to survive.
“The Sailors that lost their lives in the line of duty and showed exceptional heroism and bravery in the face of evil,” Capt. Tim Kinsella, the commanding officer of Naval Air Station Pensacola, said in a statement. “When confronted, they didn’t run from danger; they ran towards it and saved lives.”
A second victim was identified as Airman Mohammed Sameh Haitham, 19, of St. Petersburg, Florida, who joined the Navy after graduating from high school last year, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Haitham’s mother, Evelyn Brady, herself a Navy veteran, said the commander of her son’s school called her and told her Haitham had tried to stop the shooter.
The former track and field star had been assigned to flight crew training and was looking forward to graduating from the program later this month, Brady said.
“He said he was going to get his flight jacket for Christmas,” she said. “Now that’s not going to happen.”
The Navy identified the third victim as Airman Apprentice Cameron Scott Walters, 21, of Richmond Hill, Georgia. All three were students at Naval Aviation Schools Command.
One wonders where Lt. Al-Shamrani got that gun for his sudden jihad — he can’t possibly have bought it legally...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Saudi military student Mohammed Saeed al-Shamrani, 21, killed three people and injured 12 when he opened fire with a handgun in a Navy Station Pensacola classroom on Friday
Another Saudi student allegedly videotaped the attack, while two others watched from a nearby car
Authorities have now detained 10 Saudi students for questioning, a number revised up from six yesterday evening
However, the FBI is still searching for 'several' other Saudis students who have not been seen since the attack
al-Shamrani hosted a dinner party on Thursday evening with three other Saudi students where they watched videos of mass shootings
He and fellow Saudi students also traveled to NYC in the days before the attack
US Naval Academy graduate, Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, and military student Mohammed Haitham, 19, have been named as victims of the attack The Daily Mail article has photos of both murdered American Naval trainees.
An uncle of Alshamrani, Saad bin Hantim Alshamrani, told CNN from Saudi Arabia that his nephew was 21, and "likable and mannered towards his family and the community." He said his nephew "has his religion, his prayer, his honesty and commitments."
Mohammed Saeed al-Shamrani, 21, bought the firearm legally from a store in Pensacola by providing the business owner with his hunting license, sources told NBC on Saturday.
Non-citizens are prevented from buying firearms, unless they are in possession of such a license.
The New York Times has reported the handgun as being a Glock 45 9-millimeter with an extended magazine. al-Sharami is said to have had four to six other magazines in his possessions at the time the shooting occurred.
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Labeling this a terrorist act fixes responsibility. The footprint appears to be growing. I simply cannot believe no one was watching, or was unaware of Alshamrani or his followers.
Total situational awareness failure, or foreknowledge and complicity. You decide.
An uncle of Alshamrani, Saad bin Hantim Alshamrani, told CNN from Saudi Arabia that his nephew was 21, and "likable and mannered towards his family and the community." He said his nephew "has his religion, his prayer, his honesty and commitments."
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Uncle's statement proves the entire society is totally insane
Besoeker's comment brings to the front a rather important background context, considering the fodder for the jihad. Islamic youth. Can they really be empathetic toward some photos of goat-herders killed in airstrikes, while being pathological in their hatred for the humans they live, eat, work with daily ? Or is their a set of peculiarities to a certain unhinged 'kind' that can help you differentiate between them and other, 'non-performing' muslims ?
If one were to be absolutely empirical about vetting, early warning, threat detection policies I'd say the well mannered, religious and 'liked by the community' type are the most dangerous bastards of all.
The phenomenon has been studied very well, by experts working toward bringing islam to political nullification, not academics wanting to bed an Arab student. Obviously no one in the west is listening to the real experts, Asians.
The concept of training martyrs is a dirty copy and bastardization of the idea of Nazirites in jewish history. Just like almost every major aspect of islam. You dedicate one son to being a 'faithful'. If Allan accepts your works your lovely summbitch could even be 'called' one day. The richest and most affluent, educated families, or those living in western countries maybe within reach of govt jobs or legal careers escape martyrdom since they're more valuable for lawfare. The poorest sections, down an' outs get to meet the virgins, their upbringing and tuition is taken care of by 'erb's beloved umma which also pays out their families after. Of course, not every young man allows his fucked society to do this to him, so tries to barter for a way out by 'diversifying' into other forms of jihad or the support of it.
'Uncle, I can't do all that. But I am sending a hundred quid a year, proceeds from my underage p0rn and extortion business. '
The ones who were 'raised right' are tasked with getting in to place and wait for years for the call from Allan, which usually arrives on phone or in a corner of the local mosque, where the handler meets them. This relationship is also not suspect, it's discussions and rapport between an old fuddy duddy and his favourite nephew mostly. Carried out in code and idioms, you cannot arrest them for it.
It's all too complex to deal with if you're going to go about with cause → effect jurisprudence and armed with modern legalities. To deal with it, the justice system shall have to formally detach from certain enforcement arms in a limited capacity, and this idea causes friction with the jurists because it is their niche - power over police. You know what that means. Yes. Extra-judicial actions.
The Xinjiang experiment in fact is the most humane way of dealing with islamic jihad, because you cannot deal with jihad without dealing with islam. And they too are not succeeding, mind you. They are at best holding a tide back, with very expensive dams.
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Tsarnaev brothers handler to the invisible scrambler phone...
"If you know the identity of these two young men, please call the Special Agent in Charge, Boston Field Office at the phone number provided on your screen."
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Know muslims, no peace. No muslims, know peace. I’ve long held the opinion that Islam must be destroyed, regardless of how many would have to perish.
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If Pensacola was a gun free zone how did he get it on base and why didn’t his purchase ring an alarm somewhere?
You would think a foreign military student buying a firearm through a legal loophole would have popped up on someone’s computer screen.
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The way things are, he could have convinced them he need it to feel safe in all this islamophobia in Pensacola and they'd have said, 'Oh, okay then'.
[AlAhram] Dina Ezzat reviews a book by Turkish historian Soner Cagaptay that tries to explain the peculiar case of Erdogan and its impact on the future of his country as a modern state rather than a head of a 'political Islam' empire.
A “democratic” Muslim-majority country with notable ethnic diversity, a NATO member, and a former colonial power of the Arab and other Muslim countries, Turkey is a very complex state.
However, even by these standards over the past 15 years and since Recep Tayyip Erdogan first came to power as prime minister from 2003 to 2014 when he amended the Turkish constitution to allow himself to be president, Turkey has received an enormous amount of world and regional attention.
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More like the new Khadafi, just with more armor.
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Women know I have more money than I have. They know I love their angry man hating friends. They know I will accept paternity of their black children although I am not black. Uh. Yeah....
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And they know that woman is better than a man - in doing male job.
[IsraelTimes] The Independent changes phrasing in opinion piece by philosopher Slavoj Zizek after allegations he used anti-Semitic language.
The Independent daily in the UK revised an op-ed that called West Bank settlements "the trouble with Jews today."
The change was made Thursday to an op-ed by the influential philosopher Slavoj Zizek published two days earlier titled "There is no conflict between the struggle against anti-Semitism and the struggle against Israeli occupation."
It contained an apparent defense of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britannia’s Labour Party, from allegations of anti-Semitism.
The original language said that "the trouble with Jews today is that they are now trying to get roots in a place which was for thousands of years inhabited by other people."
After amending the article, the paper wrote at the top of the piece: "We acknowledge that an earlier version of this piece did not meet our own editorial standards."
Following an outcry and allegations that the language used was anti-Semitic, The Independent replaced the phrase "the trouble with Jews today" with "the trouble with the settlement project today."
In the op-ed, Zizek, whom the German Der Spiegel newspaper in 2015 described as "one of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... ’s boldest intellectuals and also a self-avowed leftist," also condemned British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s warning last month about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party ahead of the December 12 election as "ethically disgusting."
Zizek also wrote: "I, of course, indisputably reject anti-Semitism in all its forms."
“I don’t hate the Jooooos, I just see them as they really are,” he added.
The Independent was established in 1986 and its digital editions are accessed more than 20 million times a month, according to the Newsworks website.
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Zizek ! I've heard the asshole who wrote that piece. An academic meet in China. A slovenly Slovenian pothead marxist. He thinks he's an 'intellectual'. Even refers pompously to himself and his group as 'we intellectuals'.
That’s nice. If the Senate takes up the question and passes their own bill, perhaps a law authorizing the president to urge India will pass. In the meantime, here are two American politicians Pakistan is paying attention to.
[Dawn] A bipartisan resolution moved in the US Congress urges India to end the restrictions on communications and mass detentions in Indian Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... e as swiftly as possible and preserve religious freedom for all residents.
Resolution 745 was jointly moved on Friday by Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat, and Congressman Steve Watkins, a Republican. Born in Madras (Chennai), Ms Jayapal is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the US House of Representatives. She is also a prominent human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist. Mr Watkins is a veteran of the Afghan war and conducted combat along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border.
The movers resolve that the Houses recognises the dire security challenges India faces in Jammu and Kashmir, including "cross-border terrorism," but rejects arbitrary detention, use of excessive force against civilians, and suppression of peaceful expression of dissent as proportional responses to security challenges.
The resolution urges India to ensure that any actions taken in pursuit of legitimate security priorities respect the human rights of all people and adhere to international human rights law.
It also urges India to lift the remaining restrictions on communication and to restore internet access across the occupied valley as swiftly as possible. The Indian government has been urged to refrain from the use of threats and excessive force against detained people and peaceful protesters and release detained people. It urges the Indian government to refrain from conditioning the release of detained people on their willingness to sign bonds prohibiting any political activities and speeches.
New Delhi has been urged to allow international human rights observers and journalists to access the occupied valley and operate freely throughout India, without threats; and condemn, at the highest levels, all religiously motivated violence, including violence targeting religious minorities.
The resolution reminds India that international human rights law holds that all people have the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom to practice, worship, or observe one’s own religion.
The movers note that on Aug 5, the Indian government cut all telephone service and internet access in the occupied valley.
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congress should consider shoving their resolutions u their ass
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We have a LOT more pressing problems in this country without Congress grandstanding over Kashmir (which I bet 99% of Americans couldn't find on a map if their life depended on it.)
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I suspect the Indian congress party may have had something to do with this. They share the same ancillary support organizations as your DNC, and the same globalist agenda. It could be, they're paying Jayapal a lot of money for this. From the current HoR, I can expect this.
They are not moving a resolution to stop the IMF from aiding the 'Stain, which would be easier. They are trying to drive a wedge between two nationalist leaders fighting terror, and just make trouble for both.
[IsraelTimes] Iran-backed Iraqi militias are suspected to be behind Friday’s assault on demonstrators in capital
Iraqi officials said Saturday the casualty toll had risen to 25 dead and 130 maimed after a bloody night of attacks targeting anti-government demonstrators in the capital. The button men who gave the demonstrators a whiff of grapeshot from a number of vehicles are suspected to be linked to Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, according to a report in the Saudi news network al-Arabiya cited by the Hebrew-language press.
The report came hours after the United States announced sanctions on three Iranian-linked Iraqi militia leaders for allegedly assisting the crackdown on demonstrations that have swept the country in recent months.
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You have to wonder who the Hell wants an endorsement from the perennially dim bulb Kerry. On the other hand, if things are going so well that the free range imbecile Biden is our salvation then I guess Scott Adams is correct about the dawn of a golden age.
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Kerry: please tell us about your insider trades right after hearing Hank Paulson's closed-door testimony at the height of the financial crisis in Sept 2008
[BREITBART] CBP officers assigned to the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry on Thursday encountered a woman approaching on foot from Mexico for entry into the U.S. Officers identified the woman as a 32-year-old U.S. citizen. Officers selected the woman for a secondary examination, according to information obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
During the secondary inspection, a CBP K-9 officer alerted to an odor it is trained to detect coming from the woman’s body. A search of the woman led to the discovery of two bundles of drugs "partially concealed in her vaginal cavity," officials stated. Officers also found two additional bundles during a subsequent search.
Officers tested the drugs and determined it was methamphetamine, officials reported. The officers determined the bundles of methamphetamine weighed in excess of a half-pound.
The officers placed the woman under arrest and turned her over to ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents. She will likely face charges connected to the failed drug smuggling attempt.
During the past seven days, officers assigned to this port of entry and others in the El Paso Sector, which includes far West Texas and all of the New Mexico border, made 14 arrests for attempted drug smuggling. The arrests led to the seizures of 894 pounds of marijuana, 35.7 pounds of cocaine, and 51.2 pounds of methamphetamine.
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Jerry in Heaven's Prisoner: I ain't no swingin dick!
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If women thinking they want to cross illegally into the U.S. understood there was a threat of search of their private parts, I think a good number ofthem might be deterred. Perhaps we need a good south of the border ad and pr campaign on this topic.
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That's nothing. You should see the half pound of weed they found up there!
(weed being less dense it has more bulk... hahah...I'll go to my room now)
[Rudaw] Following a series of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attacks in areas disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Peshmerga affairs deployed several armored vehicles to bolster Kurdish forces combating ISIS.
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani sent Sheikh Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa, his deputy for military affairs, to visit Peshmerga forces on the Garmaser front, which includes the Garmiyan and Khanaqin areas near the Iranian border.
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[Jpost] Less than a month after the death of Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... official Baha Abu al-Ata Egyptian officials claimed on Saturday in The New Arab paper that "Israel assassinated him despite its previous promises to avoid killing him."
They stated the liquidation brought about deterioration and a threat from the Egyptian government to no longer mediate between Israel and the various Paleostinian factions, which initially prevented the further liquidations of Islamic Jihad officials.
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[AlAhram] The transitional government in Sudan is moving painfully slow in curtailing Moslem Brüderbund influence ‐ a seeming reluctance that may return to haunt the country.
Sudan’s transitional government has made considerable strides in pushing back the influence the Moslem Brüderbund gained under the Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... regime. But if it has succeeded in closing some avenues that the Moslem Brüderbund and its affiliates had controlled for so long, it is still a matter of debate as to whether it will be possible to take the necessary measures to forestall the infiltration of Moslem Brüderbund members and allies into government institutions.
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[AnNahar] The Israeli army said it found a new cross-border tunnel dug by Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... on the Lebanese-Israeli border, noting that the party had "strengthened its presence along the border area a year after discovering a network of its tunnels," media reports said on Saturday.
Israeli official Roy Levy, the Northern Border Brigade commander, was quoted as saying that "the tunnel goes as deep as 18 meters and approximately one kilometer long."
Levy said the tunnel inside has "electricity, rooms and water," noting its depth is equivalent to the length of a building consisting of 20 floors."
A good deal of Hizb’allah effort and expense has gone into digging the thing, now all wasted. And at a time of tightened budgets, too.
[Jpost] The United States and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... each freed a prisoner on Saturday in a rare act of cooperation between two longtime foes whose ties have worsened since President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... took office.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF confirms retaliatory airstrikes hours after Iron Dome downs three missiles; Palestinians say at least two injured
Israeli planes and helicopters carried out strikes inside the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip early Sunday, hours after three rockets were shot from the Paleostinian enclave, authorities said.
At least three rounds of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s were reported in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-linked Shehab news agency and other Paleostinian news outlets.
The IDF confirmed that it struck "several terror targets, including a Hamas terror camp made up of: warehouses, offices and watch posts."
It said it also hit a Hamas naval installation.
Positions belonging to Hamas’s armed Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades near Jabaliya and Gaza City were targeted, according to Shehab.
Two people were reportedly injured in the strikes, Paleostinians reported.
The strikes came hours after Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel, according to the IDF. There were no reports of injuries or damage caused by the rockets or shrapnel from the interceptions.
No Paleostinian group grabbed credit for the rocket fire, but Israel generally holds Hamas, the enclave’s de facto ruler, responsible for all attacks emanating from the Strip.
Earlier Saturday, Israeli fighter jets were sent to fly over the Gaza Strip after suspicious activity was detected in the Paleostinian enclave. It was not clear what the suspicious activity was.
Also Saturday, the military said Israeli troops arrested two suspects who crossed the border fence in southern Gaza into Israel. The two were unarmed and taken in for questioning, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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The IDF confirmed that it struck "several terror targets, including a Hamas terror camp made up of: warehouses, offices and watch posts."
One wonders whether it is possible to bomb *anything* in Gaza and not hit a terror target.
No Paleostinian group grabbed credit for the rocket fire, but Israel generally holds Hamas, the enclave’s de facto ruler, responsible for all attacks emanating from the Strip
No doubt the usual suspects will whinge about 'collective punishment', but this is actually good practice for being a state. One aspect of a nation-state is that you are all in it together - you are the government and the government is you. Otherwise, you're just a big band of tribes.
Victor Davis Hanson lays it out for us in his inimitable style — this time covering China, Iran, and North Korea. A taste to tempt you to go to the link and read the whole thing:
[NationalReview] Donald Trump promised to shake up U.S. foreign policy. He has certainly done that from the Middle East to Asia. The U.S. is currently engaged in a three-front, maximum-pressure standoff with China, Iran, and North Korea ‐ involving everything from tariffs to possible military action and the strictest sanctions in memory.
At first, Trump critics saw these policy recalibrations as either impotent or counterproductive. Pessimists asserted that China, with a population four times the size of the United States’, was fated for world hegemony. Why antagonize those who might soon control our political and economic future?
Bipartisan experts talked not of the heresy of "stopping" China’s ascendance, but of "managing" America’s relative decline. Translated, the implicit policy conceded that the U.S., in its trade concessions, should overlook systematic Chinese trade surpluses, flagrant violations of world commercial norms, neocolonial provocations throughout Asia, stealing U.S. patents and copyrights, product dumping, currency manipulation, and technological appropriation. Supposedly, the more we appeased China through acts of magnanimity, the more they would reciprocate by becoming like us.
Our classic model for China’s supplanting the U.S. was the prior gradual hand-off of world hegemony from the British Empire to the Americans, as the United Kingdom in the 1940s tutored us on our global responsibilities and tried to play Athenian philosophers to our Roman legions.
The canard was that there was no alternative to appeasement, given China’s more dynamic economy and cold-hearted efficiency ‐ so beloved by progressives when it came to Beijing’s construction by fiat of high-speed rail, shiny airports, and solar and wind farms. Trump, we were told, was a ridiculous Quixote tilting at Chinese windmills, with his 19th-century talk of counterproductive "tariffs" and ossified "trade wars."
Not now. The U.S. economy is still humming. The stock market is at record highs. Unemployment stays at near-record peacetime lows. Oil and gas production is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination just a few years ago. The Chinese economy, from what we can tell from its state-controlled media and censored state agencies, is slowing down. Human-rights activists are coming out of the shadows to damn China’s reeducation camps. Riots continue in Hong Kong, along with Orwellian surveillance of China’s own citizens at home.
Beijing’s only hesitation in seeking an armistice seems to come from an expectation that Trump will not be reelected and that a Democratic administration will return to the status quo ‐ even as China claims that it sees Trump as an easily manipulated patsy. The bottom line is that China views the present recalibration as intolerable and is desperately seeking some way to nullify it.
So we are entering dangerous territory not because we are losing our trade war with China, but because we are beginning to win it. Xi Jinping not Trump has overplayed his hand. The Chinese know that they cannot end the standoff by returning to the former asymmetrical status quo. Nor can they embrace a new fair relationship ‐ it would be antithetical to the very means by which China obtained its enormous wealth in the first place. Something then has to give.
And the bow tying up the whole thing:
In the next few months, we should expect a major provocation from either an increasingly beleaguered Iran or a flummoxed North Korea ‐ and some sort of desperate quid pro quo from China presented as a last chance, a rare and magnanimous offer to stop the tariffs so "we can all just get along."
Trump should stay the course and not let up until he achieves the original aim of his maximum pressure campaign. Nothing is more dangerous than to enter an existential standoff, feel momentum accruing, and then appease and grant concessions that destroy all prior sacrifice that heretofore had been finally paying off. Instead, he should expect our strapped adversaries at some point to do their worst, and then meet that challenge with our best ‐ and ensure that our adversaries in their decline lack the power to take us down with them.
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Of all the wrongheaded, misguided, self-destructive follies perpetrated by our political elites over the last 30 years, building up China stands out as the stupidest.
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Why antagonize those who might soon control our political and economic future?
Uh, because it might not be too cool when they do.
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I think that Trump has been reading Peter Zeihan's book, The Accidental Superpower, or talking to him about the concepts.
He has been shaking up those that have been taking advantage of the US by calling their bluff and informing the other countries that the US will have fair bilateral relationships only.
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[TOWNHALL] Rep. Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-CA), high Chancellor of the Trump impeachment effort, might be getting away with murder. The impeachment circus that has engulfed D.C. has overshadowed the House Intelligence Committee chair’s egregious abuse of power. He executed a secret subpoenas adventure of phone records of prominent Republicans. He got their phone records and published them in the committee’s 300-page impeachment report. Now, the report is a work of fiction. Schiff is a liar, and nothing from House Democrats on this whole fiasco should be believed. This isn’t about the Constitution, or the framers, or the rule of law. It’s not about upholding the integrity of our institutions; Democrats have already perverted those with their deep state antics against this administration. It’s about the Democratic Party’s inability to grasp that it lost the 2016 election. Democrats wanted to boot Trump since day one of his presidency. The ironic twist is that their impeachment fetish could very well be what secures him a second term. This is not popular in swing states. No one cares. And the liberal media has been so wrong, so stupid, and so corrupt in their coverage of this White House, even Democrats in these states cannot believe what they hear. But let’s get back to that pencil head, Schiff.
He may have opened himself up to oodles of lawsuits by those he decided to go after with these secret subpoenas. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s attorney, was included in this hit list, and we now have to factor in attorney-client privilege into this whole mess. Seldom is this cast aside concerning an investigation unless the evidence of wrongdoing is overwhelming. Schiff decided to ignore those protocols because he wants to boot Trump before the 2020 election, or at least severely damage his re-election chances. It’s funny. The man who says he’s doing this for the country and the rule of law thinks he can break the rules...because he feels he’s right.
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This was thought out carefully by the Dims. In an ongoing investigation no warrants are required, just subpoenas. The only thing this proves is how cunning and disrespectful Dims have to anyone who gets in their way of totalitarian rule.
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Kabucki theatre for sure.
Lindsey and the do nothing Republicans getting their paychecks, so meh..... let him play in the sandbox. They will do nothing as always with the criminal Dems.
A serious round-up on the current state of ISIS support in Europe.
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As I pointed out here sometime ago - you cannot destroy ISIS because ISIS is the essence of Islam. You want to defeat ISIS in Europe - deport every single Muslim.
[Jpost] A report issued by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) given to the Norwegian parliament has led to calls by the ruling coalition to withhold funding for the Paleostinian Authority (PA).
The ruling coalition announced on Thursday, December 5, that it will instruct the government to "reduce or withhold financial support to the Paleostinian Authority if they do not provide satisfactory improvements in school materials within a reasonable time."
The ruling coalition added in a statement that the decision was due to "examples of content in the school books include references to violence, martyrdom and terror. The coalition considers this to be devastating to the grinding of the peace processor and the development of democracy in the region, as well as being an expression of irresponsible pedagogy, and finds it unacceptable that Norwegian funds support a school system that promotes such destructive values."
Norway is a major funder of the PA Ministry of Education, and the decision to without funds will cost approximately NOK 55 million in direct transfers to Paleostinian education authorities. The IMPACT-se report and the subsequent reactions was published in a leading Norwegian news, Aftenposten, leading to a public debate on the country’s funding of PA Ministry of Education.
The controversy was also featured in the country’s top comedy show.
The Paleostinian Deputy Minister of Education defended the education curriculum, claiming that they actually changed the textbook material already. The Deputy minister also criticized the Israeli curriculum for alleged racism and attacked the IMPACT-se report.
IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff responded to the criticism by PA authorities in a statement on the situation: "Norwegian politicians reached the only possible conclusion when shown the extremism in the current Paleostinian textbooks. Why would they want their taxpayers to be complicit in the radicalization of a generation of children or in encouraging them to acts of violence? "It was a mistake by the Paleostinian Deputy Minister of Education and the others in their organized campaign to lie about the content of the textbooks in the press. These things can be easily checked, and no politician likes to be purposefully misled."
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.
[American Mil News] Command Sgt. Maj. Terry M. Sanchez, command sergeant major of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), with over 500 jumps, took part in his final airborne operations on Fryar Drop Zone, Fort Benning, Ga. Nov. 25, 2019.
[Guardian] The climate emergency is a "challenge of civilisation" requiring sweeping changes to economic systems, but political leaders have not done enough, the pope has said in a message to governments meeting at the annual climate summit in Madrid.
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[Aljazeera] Seven police officers among the dead after gunmen attacked a bus in northeast Kenya, local media reported.
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[Barely a Blog] The "family of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan ’totally condemn his actions,’" but the father of Khan’s victim, David Merritt, is too busy condemning those who wish to condemn Khan and his ilk to life in a cell.
[AlMasdar] Sudanese Prime Minister ’Abdullah Hamdouk said this weekend that the 
[AlMasdar] The U.S. aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Harry Truman, is passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and heading towards Syrian waters, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported on Saturday.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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[Hot Air] Portland, Oregon, like many cities on the left coast, is struggling with a growing homelessness crisis. But what can they do about it? One idea that’s now being floated is to change the building codes so that all new structures (including private property, not just government buildings) include spaces for people to "rest" and "feel welcome and safe." 
'You don't own that property, somebody else built that house and owns that property.' 
[PJ] Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, an aviation officer in the Saudi Air Force, opened fire at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday, killing four people and wounding many others. In doing so, he showed yet again that the prevailing politically correct obfuscation and denial regarding the jihad threat is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. If we had a realistic approach to the jihad threat, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani’s victims would be alive today.
[NYP] A professor who has accurately predicted the winner of eight of the last nine presidential elections says 2020 is still officially "too close to call."
[American Thinker] Our Founders created a nation in which the rule of law would prevail and be applied equally to citizens from all walks of life and also would act as a restraint on the power of our leaders. The tradition also includes the assumed duty of all Americans, including our political leaders, to live within the established and agreed upon laws of society.
[Dawn] Iraq’s anti-regime protesters gathered in the capital and south on Saturday, grieving but defiant after 17 were killed in an attack demonstrators described as "slaughter".
[IsraelTimes] Assistant head of country’s Atomic Energy Organization says ’50 new achievements’ will be revealed next year
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[Dawn] WITH the passage of four months since New Delhi put India-held 
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...yet another example of the liberal concept (the science is settled, so shut up!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[AlAhram] Dina Ezzat reviews a book by Turkish historian Soner Cagaptay that tries to explain the peculiar case of Erdogan and its impact on the future of his country as a modern state rather than a head of a 'political Islam' empire.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[IsraelTimes] Iran-backed Iraqi militias are suspected to be behind Friday’s assault on demonstrators in capital
Ah, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha. I love this job. 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[Jpost] Less than a month after the death of 
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
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...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
[Jpost] A report issued by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) given to the Norwegian parliament has led to calls by the ruling coalition to withhold funding for the Paleostinian Authority (PA). 
