Immigration, ISIL, ISIS, Muslim Immigration

Europe: Suicide by Jihad

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 by Guy Milliére

  • In the last two decades, Belgium has become the hub of jihad in Europe. The district of Molenbeek in Brussels is now a foreign Islamist territory in the heart of Belgium. It is not, however, a lawless zone: sharia law has effectively replaced Belgian law.
  • One of the organizers of the Paris bombings, Salah Abdeslam, was able to live peacefully in Molenbeek for four months until police decided to arrest him. Belgian police knew exactly where he was, but did nothing until French authorities asked them to. After his arrest, he was treated as a petty criminal. Police did not ask him anything about the jihadist networks with which he worked. Officers who interrogated him were ordered to be gentle. The people who hid him were not indicted.
  • Europe’s leaders disseminated the idea that the West was guilty of oppressing Muslims. They therefore sowed the seeds of anti-Western resentment among Muslims in Europe.
  • Hoping to please followers of radical Islam and show them Europe could understand their “grievances,” they placed pressure on Israel. When Europeans were attacked, they did not understand why. They had done their best to please the Muslims. They had not even harassed the jihadists.

The March 22 jihadist attacks in Brussels were predictable. What is surprising is that they did not take place sooner. What is also surprising is that more people were not killed. It seems that the authors of the attacks had larger projects in mind; they wanted to attack a nuclear power plant. Others may succeed in doing just that.

In the last two decades, Belgium has become the hub of jihad in Europe. The district ofMolenbeek in Brussels is now a foreign Islamist territory in the heart of Belgium. It is not, however, a lawless zone: sharia law has effectively replaced Belgian law. Almost all the women wear veils or burqas; those who do not take risks. Drug trafficking and radical mosques are everyplace. The police stay outside and intervene only in cases of extreme emergency, using military-like commando operations. Other areas of Belgium, such as Shaerbeek and Anderlecht have the same status as Molenbeek.

The Belgian authorities have allowed the situation to deteriorate. The situation in the country now is virtually equivalent to a surrender.

They seemed to hope that willful blindness and accepting the unacceptable would permit the country to be spared. It did not.

The attack on Belgium’s Jewish Museum on May 24, 2014 should have served as a warning. It did not. That “only” Jews were the target led the Belgian government to underestimate the threat. The jihadi who wanted to kill passengers on train from Amsterdam to Paris, on August 21, 2015, prepared his attack in Brussels. That three American heroes neutralized him before he could start shooting again led the Belgian government to think the danger was not large.

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The Brussels jihadist attacks took place two days later.

Despite the worst attacks on Belgium soil since World War II, Belgian authorities do not seem ready to change their behavior.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud (left), one of the planners of the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, was — like many terrorists in Europe — from Molenbeek, Belgium. Philippe Moureaux (right) was mayor of Molenbeek for 20 years, thanks to his alliance with radical Islamists.

After the attacks, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel denounced “violent and cowardly acts” and stressed his “determination,” without saying what he intended to do. He did not speak of the necessity of changing the Belgian laws to make them more effective. He did not mention any enemy. He never used words such as “jihad” or “radical Islam.”

He behaved and talked as most of his European counterparts did. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls used more courageous words and said many times he is fighting “radical jihad” and “Islamism.” The French parliament passed laws allowing what is still impossible in Belgium:police searches at night. But France stands alone, and effectively the situation in France is no better than in Belgium. Islamist enclaves exists in many suburbs. Whole cities are controlled by thugs and radical imams: cities such as Roubaix, Trappes, Aubervilliers and Sevran in the northeast of Paris.

Islamist enclaves also exist in other European countries: Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, theUnited Kingdom and Sweden.

European leaders have been making choices. After World War II, they decided Europe would be a region of the world where war would be banished and all problems solved through diplomacy and appeasement. They gradually abandoned financing defense and security activities. Instead, they built welfare states. They thought that taking care of people from cradle to grave would suppress anger and conflicts. They denied the existence of totalitarian dangers and the necessity of showing strength. To this day, their statements indicate that European leaders think both the Berlin Wall and the Soviet empire fell thanks to the benevolence of Mikhail Gorbachev, not thanks to the determination of Ronald Reagan. To this day, they seem to think that Islam is essentially a religion of peace and that the jihadis belong to a tiny, marginal sect.

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When in the Muslim world jihadis started to kill, Europe’s leaders wanted to believe that the attacks would take place in the Muslim world only. They thought that by not interfering with what European jihadis were planning, they would not risk jihadi attacks on European soil.

When Jews were attacked, Europe’s leaders decided that the problem was not jihad, but Israel. They stressed the need not to “export Middle East conflict in Europe.” Hoping to please followers of radical Islam and show them Europe could understand their “grievances,” they placed increasing pressure on Israel. They also increased their financial and political support for the “Palestinian cause.”

When Europeans were attacked, they did not understand why. They had done their best to please the Muslims. They had not even harassed the jihadists. They still do not know how to react.

Many of them now say privately what they will never say in public: it is probably too late.

There are six to eight million Muslims in France, and more than thirty million in Western Europe. Hundreds of jihadis are trained and ready to act — anytime, anyplace. European intelligence services know that they want to make “dirty bombs.” Surveys show that tens of thousands of Muslims living in Europe approve of jihadi attacks in Europe. Millions of Muslims living in Europe keep silent, behave as if they see nothing and hear nothing, and protest only when they think they have to defend Islam.

European political leaders know that every decision they make may provoke reactions among the Muslims living in Europe. Muslim votes matter. Riots occur easily. In France, Belgium, other European countries, Islamists are present in the army and police forces. In the meantime, Islamist organizations recruit and Islamic lobbies gain ground.

European governments are now hostages. The European media are also hostages.

In most European countries, “Islamophobia” is considered a crime — and any criticism of Islam may be considered “Islamophobic.” People trying to warn Europe, such as the Dutch MP Geert Wilders, despite an apparently biased judge and forged documents against him, are now on trial.

Books on radical Islam are still published but surrounded by silence. Books praising the glory of Islam are in every bookstore. When Bat Ye’or’s Eurabia was published in Europe, she was denounced and received hundreds of death threats. Bruce Bawer’s While Europe Slept, published in the U.S., was not even available in Europe. Ten years later, the situation is worse.

Political movements expressing anger and concerns are rising. All are demonized by political power holders and the media. They have almost no chance of gaining more influence.

Populations are gnawed by fear, frustration and impotence. They are looking for answers, but cannot find them. A few hours after the attacks on Brussels, a man on Belgian television said that Europe is on the verge of suicide.

Europe looks like a dying civilization. European governments created a situation that can only lead to more attacks, more massacres, and maybe unspeakable disasters. Europe’s leaders continue to react with speeches and a few police operations.

If some European governments decided to restore their abolished borders, it could take years, and most European leaders would probably disagree with such a policy. Meanwhile, millions more “migrants” will enter Europe, and among them many more jihadis. In spite of the mayhem created in Germany by “migrants” who arrived in 2015, Angela Merkel said she would not change her decisions. No Western European government dared to disagree with her, except Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a lone voice of dissent.

In Brussels, as in Paris earlier, people gathered where the attacks took place. They brought candles and flowers to mourn the victims. They sang sentimental songs. They cried. There were no shouts of revolt against jihad. Members of the Belgian government called on the Belgian people to avoid reactions of violence, and declared that Muslims are the main victims of terrorism.

In Europe’s near future, more people will bring candles, flowers and songs to mourn victims. Another two or three jihadists will be arrested. But nothing will be done
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Immigration, Islam, Muslim Immigration

“German Islam”: Another European Fantasy.

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A U-Bahn metro train drives past the Mevlana Mosque in Berlin's Kreuzberg district © David Gannon

A senior German politician has put forward a proposal to “cultivate” a European kind of Islam in Germany by barring foreign investment from Muslim countries, introducing local training for imams and making German obligatory in mosques.

Andreas Scheuer, General Secretary of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s governing CDU party, in an interview with Germany’s Die Welt, spoke of the need for a so-called Islam law that would help Muslims smoothly integrate into European society.

“We cannot tolerate a situation in which extremist views are imported from abroad… Europe must cultivate its own Islam,”Scheuer stressed.

The law would involve curbing the money flow from foreign countries such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia to mosques and Islamic kindergartens in Germany. Imams serving the Islamic population should “be trained in Germany and share our core values.”

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“Whoever does not integrate themselves cannot stay here. We must stop with this integration romance. Multiculturalism has failed. Whoever is not integrated must deal with leaving this country,” he concluded.

The idea of a European kind of Islam may have come in response to a recent proposal from Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere to impose sanctions on migrants who do not want to integrate and prefer to stay away from social life.

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Immigration, Moral Degradation of the West, Muslim Immigration

Migrants Change Europe: Is The Point of No Return Passed?

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Expert: Migrants change Europe. Point of no return passed. Migrants

Sweden does not officially keep recording of the languages, its residents speak. Mikael Parkvall, linguist at the Stockholm University, decided to find it out by himself what the situation is and which language is the most popular after the Swedish one.

Having analyzed statistics, and after having made a lot of research works, he concluded that the Arabian is the most second popular language in Sweden.

Sweden is not the only European country, where the Arabian became the second popular one. As Mikael Parkvall found out, the same situation is in Denmark. In France and the Netherlands the Arabian is on the 3rd place.

Karine Gevorgyan, a political scientist and Iranist, explains how Europe would change after such an “arabization”.

“Europe has already changed. The case is that there migrants who change the cities’ landscape, while there are also those who don’t change the landscapes. Thus, the Armenian refugees from Turkey did not the Europe’s landscape when they appeared there. They fitted in. The Iranian immigration after the revolution in 1979 also integrated in the local flavour. And both of them act like that and maintain their own identity at the same time.

The Syrians, the Kurds are also not inclined to change the cities’ landscapes and aim at integration.

But in small towns of France, Germany migrants build up a so-called parallel town. I tried to teach my friend’s wife, a professor in France, to cook an Armenian chicken soup, but she said that a chicken can be bought in an Arabian quarter. The Frenchmen themselves go to these small shops, because it’s cheaper there.

In France, they speak in French, but there are also various jargons, argo. And, in particular, a language that was made up by the Arabian teenagers that were born in France. It is called “verlan”. These are the inverse French words, and there are also many arabisms in the language.

Europe has already changed- and goes on changing. It is  is getting older, the demography curve goes down. In Germany there are 5mln young people under age of 25 years. 2.5mln of them are boys. “Among them half a million has not yet determined their sex and sexual orientation, given existing propaganda and system of education. For the latest months 700,000 boys, who know well how to handle the gun , have arrived to Germany. So, here’s the picture.

Now, it´s a cultural pressure. After that there will be a cultural expansion  inveitably followed by the capture of the political power.

After that- the end.

 

Immigration, Moral Degradation of the West, Muslim immigrants raping European women, Muslim Immigration

Another Liberal Freak Raped by an Immigrant Apologizes Before His Rapist

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We already wrote about a 24-yeas-old Selin Gören, speaker for the  Lefitst German “Left Youth” Party, who was brutally raped by three Muslim immigrants in Manheim- and who later apologized before the rapists for  the “racism” that might be caused by the revelation that the rapists had been Muslim refugees.

In her post on Facebook, this crazy “liberal” wrote:

But what truly makes me feel sorry, are the circumstances by which the sexist and boundary-crossing acts that were inflicted on me, make it so that you [the refugee] are beset by increasing and more aggressive racism.

I thought a woman apologizing before the men who gang-raped her was the wildest thing in the world, a record of the desease called “liberal insanity” – but as it turned out, I was wrong. Another liberal, Karsten Nordal Hauken, a 34-yeas-old male from Norway, has outbeaten her.

Some years ago, the leftist Norway politican Karsten Nordal Hauken who classifies himself as “a feminist and anti-racist”, was brutally sodomized by a Somali immigrant. The rape happened in Karsten´s own house. Our liberal “heroe” is not too clear on how the Somali immigrant got into his house, and the Norwegian Police in its report does not mention any weapons, beating or any other phisical violence involved. How a man can rape another man, young and strong, without threatening him with arms or beating him to unconciousness is a mystery to me. And looks like it was also a mystery to that Somali immigrant, who in court  claimed the interaction was totally  consensual. However,  Norwegian authorities begged to differ – and the Somali went to prison for four and a half years, with posterior deportation back to Somalia.

And then,  our “feminist and anti-racist” all of a sudden felt deeply guilty. He felt SO guilty that  in the aftermath he subsequently begged authorities not to deport the man.

“I got a strong feeling of guilt and responsibility,” Hauken wrote. “I was the reason he wouldn’t be in Norway, and instead be sent to an unknown future in Somalia. He had already done his time in prison. Would he get punished again, and this time much harder? I don’t feel anger against my rapist, because I look at him as a product of an unjust world. A product of an upbringing full of war,” Hauken said.

So, this man says he  was humiliated and brutally raped by another man- but he does not feel anger, he  asks the authorities not to deport the guy who did all this to him – and is ready to give another cheek.

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Recipe For Collapse: Rising Military & Social Welfare Spending

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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,


Leaders faced with unrest, rising demands and dwindling coffers always debauch their currency as the politically expedient “solution.”

Whatever you think of former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, he is one of the few public voices identifying runaway entitlement costs as a structural threat to the economy and nation. We can summarize Greenspan’s comments very succinctly: there is no free lunch. The more money that is siphoned off for entitlements, the less there is for investment needed to maintain productivity gains that are the foundation of future income generation: Greenspan: Worried About Inflation, Says “Entitlements Crowding Out Investment, Productivity is Dead” (via Mish)

Many people look to the rising costs of the U.S. military as the structural problem, and they have a point: there is no upper limit on military spending, and the demands (by the civilian leadership of the nation) on the services and the Pentagon’s demands for new weaponry are constantly pushing budgets higher.

But the truth is entitlement spending now dwarfs military spending: entitlements are more than $1.75 trillion, half of all Federal spending, while the Pentagon, VA, etc. costs around $700 billion annually.

We have a model for what happens when military and social welfare spending exceed the state’s resources to pay the rising costs: the state/empire collapses. The Western Roman Empire offers an excellent example of this dynamic.

As pressures along the Empire’s borders rose, Rome did not have enough tax revenues to fully fund the army.Hired mercenaries had become a significant part of the Roman army, and if they weren’t paid, then the spoils of war became their default pay.

This erosion of steady pay also eroded the troops’ loyalty to Rome; their loyalties switched to their commanders, who often decided to take his loyal army to Italy and declare himself Emperor.

Meanwhile, the costs of free bread and other foodstuffs and public entertainments (bread and circuses) exhausted the Imperial coffers. Originally intended to alleviate the suffering of the poor, the free bread program had expanded from feeding 40,000 citizens of Rome in 71 B.C. to 320,000 under Augustus–roughly one-third of the entire populace of Rome. (The free bread was by then augmented by free cooking oil and other goodies.)

(Source: page 85, Food in History)

Costly entertainments such as bloody gladiator fights that had once been staged on rare public holidays were commonplace by the late Empire, another drain on the state coffers.

Like all states under financial pressure, the Empire devalued its currency as a means of stretching sagging resources. A measure of wheat that cost 6 drachmas in the first century A.D. cost two million drachmas after 344 A.D.

How’s that for inflation?

Today, we face the same crunch: the costs of entitlements are outracing the economy’s ability to fund them.Entitlements already consume half the federal budget:

This is up from 20% in 1970. Going forward, they will only consumer more.

In nine years or less, the three primary entitlements of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and interest on the soaring federal debt will consume all federal tax revenues:

To pay for entitlements, federal tax rates will have to double: if you think the wealthy elites who benefit from the status quo are going to pay 80% of their income in federal tax, please read Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

No politico dares touch “the third rail” of American politics, entitlements. Since there’s no free lunch, it’s best not to even mention it, except to blather on about how “growth” will solve everything.

The Romans were not interested in facing the problem, either. Once the masses became dependent on the free bread, near-riots ensued when the grain shipments were late.

Leaders faced with unrest, rising demands and dwindling coffers always debauch their currency as the politically expedient “solution.” Our own Establishment is readying the “free money” of helicopter drops and printing money to subsidize federal deficits, willfully blind to the eventual destruction of the currency this will inevitably cause. (Even Greenspan admitted as much.)

Sadly, nations get the leadership they deserve. Turning a blind eye to reality is not a sustainable “solution.”

Israel, Muslim Violence, Palestinian Terrorism

Why There Are Not Terrorist Attacks in Israeli Airport

Y.K. Cherson 8 Comments

by Y.K.Cherson

Ben Gurion airport in Israel is the safest  airport in the world. But when you visit it, you will not see armed men around. The airport looks so calm and  defenceless…

But it´s only an illusion.

The norm of the Israeli security system in Ben Gurion airport is: any terrorist  who  will be insane enough to  draw a gun will not live more than 10 seconds. Moreover, he will not even understand, who or what killed him.

Terrorist attacks in Brussels airport left Israeli experts speechless. What struck them most was an absolute and complete unprofessionalism and incompetence of the European security services.

By Israeli standards, the level of the readiness of security in European airports to deal with a terrorist attack is not just low; it´s, actually, “zero”.

In Ben Gurion, the measures of security are so strict that human rights activists weekly groan: it´s  not democratic, we have rights… But, rights or not, the last terrorist attack in Ben Gurion airport happened in May of 1972. After that, in spite of numerous attempts, Arab terrorists could not even approach it.

The principal difference with the European and American approach is that Israelis place the Right for Life above any other rights, and do not hesitate to profile passengers.  However, the passengers do not have to take off shoes, and nobody confiscates their bottles of water. And those long talks with Security officers (mostly young and attractive girls) do not pursue the goal of  checking you; they are  just a part of profiling. These girls who ask you  simple but multiple  questions do not have a goal to clear out something. They just look at your reaction and your behaviour- and  decide, if you should be thoroughly checked- or not. Putting it in a simple way: a European-looking woman with two children  will not be checked  and questioned so thoroughly as a woman in hijab without children. The argument in favor of such an approach is simple: not all Muslims are terrorists- but 94% of the terrorist attacks in the world have been committed by Muslims.

If the girl has a slightest doubt, she will invite a superior officer- and there will be a second round of questions, and most probably, your luggage will be inspected. If there are still doubts,  there will also be a third round, a fourth… Or you will be politely invited to proceed to a specially equipped room for an interrogation.

Trainings of the Security officers in Ben Gurion are daily, and in the course of these trainings, the officers learn to act in any possible and impossible situation: flood, fire, earthquake,  individual terrorist attack,  group terrorist attack… Anything. Every day, for hours. Israelis joke that  Security officers in Ben Gurion would be ready  to successfully deal even with an attack of aliens.

Security officers in European airports do not have training at all. As a result, the wounded in the Brussels airport were left bleeding on the floor for half an hour, while the armed security officers were running to and fro without knowing, what exactly they had to do, and passengers were wounding each other in the stampede.

After the attack,  military patrols with machine guns appeared in Brussels at every corner. But it´s just a demonstration by the Authorities, to show to the people that “we are on guard and take care of your safety.” A suicide terrorist goes to die, he is ready to die, and to hope he will stop and get scared just because of the sight of the armed men at the entrance is stupid. Such a terrorist should not even have a chance to come close to the entrance, that´s the only way to stop him.

And the only way to do it is multi-level profiling. Human rights? They come second.

This fundamental difference in priorities: safety and life in Israel, comfort and rights in Europe- makes the next terrorist attack in Europe just a matter of time. A very short time besides.

The problem is not in technologies; the problem is in how to apply them. And Europe, where the word “profiling” has become strongly associated with such “holy cows” of the modern neo-liberal ideology as “Islamophobia” and  racism”, hopes that installing some sophisticated devices, some super-scanners, will bring safety.

Vain hopes.

Ben Gurion Administration has been for years receiving requests from their European colleagues to share the secret: how Israelis have managed to combine the comfort with safety, and why there are not terrorist attacks in Israeli airport.  Israelis patiently explain that the secret is very simple and that  the basic rule is multi-level profiling, but it seems that European security services  either cannot get this concept- or cannot apply it in their countries of the triumphant multiculturalism and political correctness.

Until they understand it and change their approach, the only thing we can hope for is that there will not be too many dead in the next terrorist attack in some European airport.

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Media Bias, Russia, Ukraine

Top Ten Ways You Can Tell if Russia Has Invaded Ukraine

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 by Dmitry Orlov

NEWS Russia Invades


Last Thursday the Ukrainian government, echoed by NATO spokesmen, declared that the Russian military is now operating within Ukraine’s borders. Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t; what do you know? They said the same thing before, most recently on August 13, and then on August 17, each time with either no evidence or fake evidence. But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.

You be the judge. I put together this helpful list of top ten telltale signs that will allow you to determine whether indeed Russia invaded Ukraine last Thursday, or whether Thursday’s announcement is yet another confabulation. (Credit to Roman Kretsul).

Because if Russia invaded on Thursday morning, this is what the situation on the ground would look like by Saturday afternoon.

1. Ukrainian artillery fell silent almost immediately. They are no longer shelling residential districts of Donetsk and Lugansk. This is because their locations had been pinpointed prior to the operation, and by Thursday afternoon they were completely wiped out using air attacks, artillery and ground-based rocket fire, as the first order of business. Local residents are overjoyed that their horrible ordeal is finally at an end.

2. The look of military activity on the ground in Donetsk and Lugansk has changed dramatically. Whereas before it involved small groups of resistance fighters, the Russians operate in battalions of 400 men and dozens of armored vehicles, followed by convoys of support vehicles (tanker trucks, communications, field kitchens, field hospitals and so on). The flow of vehicles in and out is non-stop, plainly visible on air reconnaissance and satellite photos. Add to that the relentless radio chatter, all in Russian, which anyone who wants to can intercept, and the operation becomes impossible to hide.

3. The Ukrainian military has promptly vanished. Soldiers and officers alike have taken off their uniforms, abandoned their weapons, and are doing their best to blend in with the locals. Nobody thought the odds of the Ukrainian army against the Russians were any good. Ukraine’s only military victory against Russia was at the battle of Konotop in 1659, but at the time Ukraine was allied with the mighty Khanate of Crimea, and, you may have noticed, Crimea is not on Ukraine’s side this time around.

4. There are Russian checkpoints everywhere. Local civilians are allowed through, but anyone associated with a government, foreign or domestic, is detained for questioning. A filtration system has been set up to return demobilized Ukrainian army draftees to their native regions, while the volunteers and the officers are shunted to pretrial detention centers, to determine whether they had ordered war crimes to be committed.

5. Most of Ukraine’s border crossings are by now under Russian control. Some have been reinforced with air defense and artillery systems and tank battalions, to dissuade NATO forces from attempting to stage an invasion. Civilians and humanitarian goods are allowed through. Businessmen are allowed through once they fill out the required forms (which are in Russian).

6. Russia has imposed a no-fly zone over all of Ukraine. All civilian flights have been cancelled. There is quite a crowd of US State Department staffers, CIA and Mossad agents, and Western NGO people stuck at Borispol airport in Kiev. Some are nervously calling everyone they know on their satellite phones. Western politicians are demanding that they be evacuated immediately, but Russian authorities want to hold onto them until their possible complicity in war crimes has been determined.

7. The usual Ukrainian talking heads, such as president Poroshenko, PM Yatsenyuk and others, are no longer available to be interviewed by Western media. Nobody quite knows where they are. There are rumors that they have already fled the country. Crowds have stormed their abandoned residences, and were amazed to discover that they were all outfitted with solid gold toilets. Nor are the Ukrainian oligarchs anywhere to be found, except for the warlord Igor Kolomoisky, who was found in his residence, abandoned by his henchmen, dead from a heart attack. (Contributed by the Saker.)

8. Some of the over 800,000 Ukrainian refugees are starting to stream back in from Russia. They were living in tent cities, many of them in the nearby Rostov region, but with the winter coming they are eager to get back home, now that the shelling is over. Along with them, construction crews, cement trucks and flatbeds stacked with pipe, cable and rebar are streaming in, to repair the damage from the shelling.

9. There is all sorts of intense diplomatic and military activity around the world, especially in Europe and the US. Military forces are on highest alert, diplomats are jetting around and holding conferences. President Obama just held a press conference to announce that “We don’t have a strategy on Ukraine yet.” His military advisers tell him that his usual strategy of “bomb a little and see what happens” is not likely to be helpful in this instance.

10. Kiev has surrendered. There are Russian tanks on the Maidan Square. Russian infantry is mopping up the remains of Ukraine’s National Guard. A curfew has been announced. The operation to take Kiev resembled “Shock and Awe” in Baghdad: a few loud bangs and then a whimper.

Armed with this list, you too should be able to determine whether or not Russia has invaded Ukraine last Thursday.

ISIL, ISIS, Media Bias, Moral Degradation of the West, Russia, Situation in Syria

Why is David Cameron So Silent On The Recapture Of Palmyra From The Clutches of Isis?

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By Robert Fisk


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Palmyra’s historic monumental arch. Bernard Gagnon

The biggest military defeat that Isis has suffered in more than two years. The recapture of Palmyra, the Roman city of the Empress Zenobia. And we are silent. Yes, folks, the bad guys won, didn’t they? Otherwise, we would all be celebrating, wouldn’t we?

Less than a week after the lost souls of the ‘Islamic Caliphate’ destroyed the lives of more than 30 innocent human beings in Brussels, we should – should we not? – have been clapping our hands at the most crushing military reverse in the history of Isis. But no. As the black masters of execution fled Palmyra this weekend, Messers Obama and Cameron were as silent as the grave to which Isis have dispatched so many of their victims. He who lowered our national flag in honour of the head-chopping king of Arabia (I’m talking about Dave, of course) said not a word.

As my long-dead colleague on the Sunday Express, John Gordon, used to say, makes you sit up a bit, doesn’t it? Here are the Syrian army, backed, of course, by Vladimir Putin’s Russkies, chucking the clowns of Isis out of town, and we daren’t utter a single word to say well done.

When Palmyra fell last year, we predicted the fall of Bashar al-Assad. We ignored, were silent on, the Syrian army’s big question: why, if the Americans hated Isis so much, didn’t they bomb the suicide convoys that broke through the Syrian army’s front lines? Why didn’t they attack Isis?
“If the Americans wanted to destroy Isis, why didn’t they bomb them when they saw them?” a Syrian army general asked me, after his soldiers’ defeat  His son had been killed defending Homs. His men had been captured and head-chopped in the Roman ruins. The Syrian official in charge of the Roman ruins (of which we cared so much, remember?) was himself beheaded. Isis even put his spectacles back on top of his decapitated head, for fun. And we were silent then.
Putin noticed this, and talked about it, and accurately predicted the retaking of Palmyra. His aircraft attacked Isis – as US planes did not – in advance of the Syrian army’s conquest. I could not help but smile when I read that the US command claimed two air strikes against Isis around Palmyra in the days leading up to its recapture by the regime. That really did tell you all you needed to know about the American “war on terror”. They wanted to destroy Isis, but not that much.

So in the end, it was the Syrian army and its Hizballah chums from Lebanon and the Iranians and the Russians who drove the Isis murderers out of Palmyra, and who may – heavens preserve us from such a success – even storm the Isis Syrian ‘capital’ of Raqqa. I have written many times that the Syrian army will decide the future of Syria. If they grab back Raqqa – and Deir el-Zour, where the Nusrah front destroyed the church of the Armenian genocide and threw the bones of the long-dead 1915 Christian victims into the streets – I promise you we will be silent again.

Aren’t we supposed to be destroying Isis? Forget it. That’s Putin’s job. And Assad’s. Pray for peace, folks. That’s what it’s about, isn’t it? And Geneva. Where is that, exactly?

Human rights and victimization, Muslim Immigration, Muslim Violence

Europe and the Islamic ‘Refugee’

Rachel Molschky 7 Comments


By: Rachel Molschky

She saw him rushing toward her, and she took pity. Opening her arms with a smile on her face, she welcomed him, but as he approached, he pulled out a gun and shot.

She felt the bullet penetrate and flinched but quickly regained her composure- and her smile. Stretching her arms out to him, she said, “We must help the unfortunate.”

The year Y.K. Cherson and I first started this website was 2013. That same year, there were 2821 Islamic attacks in 50 countries, in which 16774 people were killed and 29577 injured.

He shot again.

She felt the second shot, and damn if it didn’t hurt, but she smiled again. “Come, let me help you.”

The following year, 2014, there were 3001 Islamic attacks in 55 countries, in which 32863 people were killed and 27522 injured.

The third shot rang out.

A tear began to slither down her cheek, but she wiped it away almost as quickly as it began. “You know not what you do. These shots have nothing to do with anything.” Her arms still reached out to him.

In 2015, there were 2859 Islamic attacks in 53 countries, in which 27594 people were killed and 26145 injured.

Confused and unaware of what was to come, a fourth shot took her by surprise. She fell, grabbing at her wounds and writhing in pain. “Please, we love you. We are here to help in any way we can,” she smiled, using all her strength to open her arms out once again, as her own compassion overwhelmed her.

Though it’s hardly begun, in 2016, there have been 481 Islamic attacks in 39 countries, in which 5025 people have been killed and 6359 injured.

Altogether since Cherson & Molschky began, there have been over 9000 attacks, over 80,000 have been killed and nearly 90,000 injured. Some of those injured may have later died.

These are merely the numbers beginning in 2013.

There have been over 28,000 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11, yet the people on the sidelines, screaming for Ms. Europe to take cover, are told to stop hating the poor, pitiful gunman in dire need. When will the last shot come? Will Europe ever learn?  And should we worry over a continent which puts its own people in jeopardy and spits on its Jewish population in the name of “compassion”? Who is truly the victim in this situation?

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The More of Them Will Come- The More of Us Will Die.

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 Brussels attackers (March 22, 2016) were Muslims
Paris attackers(November 2015) were Muslims
San Bernardino attackers were Muslims
Mumbai attackers( November 008) were Muslims
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims 
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Beslan Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims’

Think of it:
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
Christians living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Confucians = No Problem
Confusians living with Baha’is = No Problem
Baha’is living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Baha’is = No Problem
Baha’is living with Christians = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem
Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Baha’is = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH WHOEVER INCLUDING OTHER MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM
**********SO THIS LEAD TO *****************
They’re not happy in Gaza
They’re not happy in Egypt
They’re not happy in Libya
They’re not happy in Morocco
They’re not happy in Iran
They’re not happy in Iraq
They’re not happy in Yemen
They’re not happy in Afghanistan
They’re not happy in Pakistan
They’re not happy in Syria
They’re not happy in Lebanon
They’re not happy in Nigeria
They’re not happy in Kenya
They’re not happy in Sudan
******** So, where are they happy? **********
They’re happy in Australia
They’re happy in England
They’re happy in Belgium
They’re happy in France
They’re happy in Italy
They’re happy in Germany
They’re happy in Sweden
They’re happy in the USA & Canada
They’re happy in Norway & India
They’re happy in almost every country that is not Islamic! And who do they blame? Not Islam… Not their leadership… Not themselves… THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES WHICH ACCEPTED THEM AND WHERE THEY ARE HAPPY! And they want to change the countries where they’re happy , to make them  like the countries they came from where they were unhappy. 
And our governments accept these people, and invite us to feel happy that more of them will come.
!!!!
Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Palestine Liberation Front: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
AND A LOT MORE!!!!!!!

Muslims :
1] Kill any one who insults Islam or Muhammad. (Koran.33;57-61).
2) Kill all Muslims who leave Islam. (Koran.2;217/4;89/Bukhari.9;84-57).
3) Koran can not be doubted. (Koran.2;1).
4) Islam is the only acceptable religion. (Koran.3;85).
5) Muslims must fight (jihad)  non-Muslims, even if they don’t want to. (Koran.2;216).
6) We the non-Muslims are pigs and apes. (Koran. 2;62-65/Koran.5;59-60/Koran.7;166).
7) We the non-Muslims are sworn enemies of Muslims and Islam. (Koran.4;101).
8) We the non-Muslims can be raped and converted to  sex slaves. (Koran.4;3 & 24/5;89/23;5/33;50/58;3/70;30).
9) We the non-Muslims are the vilest of creatures deserving no mercy. (Koran.98;6).
10) Muslims must strike terror into non-Muslims hearts. (Koran.8;60).
13) Islam permits Muslims to lie to non-Muslims to strengthen and spread Islam. (Koran.3;28?16;106).
14) Islam permits and invites Muslims to  behead us (non_Muslims) (Koran.47;4).
15) Muslims are promised Paradise if they kill us (non-Muslims). (Koran.9;111).
16) Muslims are allowed to crucify and amputate us (non-Muslims). Koran.8;12/47;4)
Immigration, Muslim Immigration

A Weekend Break in Belgistan

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In the wake of the Brussels terror attack, I find it fitting to repost this article, written by our guest blogger, Paul Wilkinson, some time back. RM

By: Paul Wilkinson

I had not been to Belgium for around 13 years, so when the opportunity arose for a weekend trip to Antwerpen and Brussels, I could not wait! Belgium is a relatively small country, well known for waffles, French fries and excellent chocolate and beer.

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Immigration, Muslim Immigration

Immigration Secrets No One Wants You to Know

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By: Y.K. Cherson

There is a high probability that in just some 50 years, native Europeans will be substituted in their own countries by immigrants from the Middle East, China and Africa. Sociology, statistics and biology confirm this in one study after another. But to say it in public is taboo! It´s bad. It´s racism. And xenophobia. It´s something a decent man should not say. And to say that immigration should be stopped? It´s nationalism, and some crazy liberal journalists even tend to call such ideas something close to fascism!

But: who says that?

The liberal media, which are the mainstream today.

And who else?

Advocates, journalists, university professors; at least most of them.

Anyone else?

Yes, government officials of the liberal governments in power in almost all Western countries.

Oops! Supplanting the native populations of Western countries with immigrants is a governmental policy! If it were not so, governments would have found ways to make journalists and professors say something very different; if they can find ways to silence those who say they are against losing their national identity and being supplanted with immigrants in their own countries, they would have found ways to silence those who say they welcome it if that was what they wanted.

But State officials are representatives of the people, aren’t they?

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No, they are not. People are needed only at the elections, and the famous Vox Populi- Vox Dei today is merely a declaration. After politicians are elected, the opinion of the people becomes the last of their priorities. If it were not so, they would have taken draconic measures against immigration long ago, as they are well aware that the people in Western countries are AGAINST immigration. The main reason why is because they do not want to lose their national identity and get melted in the ocean of immigrants from Africa, Muslim countries and China who demonstrate a much higher birth rate and when given the right to vote,  tend to vote for those who belong to their own ethnic or religious group without paying much attention to the details of campaign promises and proposed programs, like it was with Barak Hussein Obama who was  elected as the President of the USA mainly due to the votes of blacks, Muslims and Hispanics.

Politicians are a part of the people and act in the interest of the people? The first part is true, to a certain extent; politicians are a part of the system called the People, but what they do is not necessarily in the interests of the People; more often, they defend the interest of the system called the State. This system´s interests are closer and more important to them. And if in the interests of the State it´s necessary to bring immigrants, they will do it, although it puts in danger the vital interests of the people, telling to this people the wild stories about how bringing immigrants is absolutely necessary for the Western economy, because this desolate economy urgently needs the working hands. But with the number of unemployed in many Western European countries being  higher than in Gaza, Egypt or Yemen ( in Spain, it´s 27%, and among the people in the age category between 16 and 30 it exceeds 57%; Greece is quite close too, and Italy is not too far either), such declarations sound like saying to the public: you are a fool who will eat anything we feed. And judging by the number of people who repeat this stupidity, maybe they are right.

It´s not the working hands the Western economy needs; the truth is that there are even too many of them. And this is what pushes the politicians to defend bringing millions of strangers, when millions of native citizens are unemployed. A paradox? No, a result of the struggle for rights.

At the beginning of the era of the Industrial Revolution, workers had practically no rights at all. Then in the course of their fierce battles, they managed to scratch some rights out of the capitalists. Then the pendulum passed the center and, by natural law, moved further to the left- and these rights became guarantees, like a retirement, paid holidays, and numerous social payments united in the people´s collective mind under the commonly used term “welfare.” These developed social guarantees now permit an enormous number of people to live reasonably well: eat, drink, have a place to live- without having to work. Growth of productivity due to the use of machines made the demand for labor less- but the population grew. This, quite logically, led to the growth of people who now live on welfare because the economy simply does not need so many of us. It also meant an increase of the funds needed to support these welfare users. How are these funds formed? By taxes. Who pays the taxes? Those who work. But their number became relatively small, while the number of those who live off welfare became relatively large. The tax base then shrunk.

At the same time, the West is aging. The elderly population has grown. And people are living longer now. Where do their pensions come from? They also come from taxes.

So a constantly decreasing number of taxpayers must support the constantly growing number of people who sit on welfare and as well as the retired people, now living longer, which means  that social security must last for a far longer period of time.

The system called the State, whose part the government officials and politicians are, is an instrument of oppression, and taxes are its vital interest; the State– and its elite, politicians and State officials- lives from the money the oppressed pay. That is why the State, in all eras, reacted extremely fiercely to any attempts of the people to avoid paying taxes; the punishments for this crime were quite often more severe than the punishments for a murder.  But in the current situation, the State could do nothing; people paid taxes, but the number of people who pay taxes became smaller. There was no one to punish.

Increasing taxes negatively influences the economy and leads, among other serious problems,  to the outflow of capital from the country; so there is a limit to this method. And printing money leads to inflation.

What to do? There are three possible solutions. First is to increase the number of people who pay taxes, for example, by including women in the economic activities. As the number of pediatricians, nurses, school teachers and other traditionally women´s professions is limited, women were stimulated to go to the traditionally male ones, to such an extreme that women were used in digging trenches, serving as police officers and making a career as professional sportsmen not only in gymnastics and volleyball, but also in weight lifting, boxing and wrestling. The result was a fast drop in natality and an increase in divorces, and consequently the situation very quickly returned to what it was before.

The second possible solution is to stimulate natural growth. But stimulating the birth rate supposes that women are leaving the workforce. Besides, it is costly; the State must pay allowances for children until they reach the age of 16, and finally, it leads to the growth of the people – citizens of the country, and that means that the State will have to pay them the usual benefits citizens receive if they become unemployed. Plus, they are entitled to social security. So stimulating the growth of children among citizens will actually mean MORE social payments, not less.

Another way is to reduce the number of people who are entitled to social benefits and pensions. In the past, a State could start a war. But now, when the weapons became increasingly deadly and when wars became so costly, this method of reducing the population is impossible. And what to do with the constantly growing number of long-living pensioners? Sink them in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

The problem can be solved by increasing the number of people who pay taxes, who agree to low wages – but who are not entitled to the social benefits and pensions. Some kind of guests, who come, do the job, get a minimum wage and no social benefits, and besides, are quite content with this situation and who can be sent out when their working contract expires- or at any moment at all, if need be.

Legal immigrants.

And what to do with illegal ones? Arrest them, put them in jail, and deport them without mercy and without hesitation. But above all, do not let them enter. The wall on the border with Mexico, almost 17 meters high and patrolled 24 hours/day by the Border Police, does not look too democratic, but it serves its main goal: to not let illegal immigrants from Mexico enter the USA.

That was the initial idea behind immigration. Nobody in the West planned to let immigrants set their roots in Western countries. Immigrants were seen as temporal workers who would come to fill the positions that were not wanted by the citizens, pay taxes – and leave after working some years in the recipient country. That was the original intent, but something changed.

To be continued…

Read the rest of this series:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5: Nationalism

Part 6: After Us- The Deluge

Related articles:

Muhammad, the First Muslim Immigrant: Part 1

Muhammad, The First Muslim Immigrant, Part 2: Buying Off The Local Muscle

Human rights and victimization, Islam

Women around the World Are Being Stoned to Death; Under Islamic Penal Code

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Stoning [Rajm in Arabic] to death is a barbaric act from a primitive societies in
the world,women have become victims of honor killing in the world. (Image from the Stoning of Soraya’s movie)
Recently, an Afghan woman, identified as Rokhsana, has been stoned to death in central Afghanistan after being accused of adultery, news agencies stated. Rokhsana had been allegedly forced to marry against her will and fled with another man, Afghan officials said. She, 19-year-old, was allegedly accused of trying to elope with another man but detained, tried and executed in a Taliban-controlled area, confirmed Ghor’s governor, Seema Jowenda, to the reporters.


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ISIL, ISIS, Russia, Situation in Syria

Contrary to West’s Humpty-Dumpty Allusion Syria is ‘Coming Together Again’

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 Western media is ignoring what is really going on on the ground in Syria, presenting its own, largely distorted narrative, Canadian freelance journalist and rights activist Eva Bartlett notes. What lies beneath the attempts to hide the truth?
Liberated Syrian Salma, Latakia Province

For years US policy-makers have been repeating the mantra “Assad must go,” turning a deaf ear to warnings that once Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Syriawill turn into another failed state and a hotbed of terrorism in the region.

The US-led coalition’s “Phoney War” against Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) did not inflict any serious damage on Islamists who had been spreading like a plague across Syria and Iraq.

The situation has changed drastically after Russia stepped in.

“In September 2015, upon request of the Syrian government, Russian fighter planes entered Syrian airspace, from the start doing what the US-led coalition had purported it would do: targeting terrorist hotbeds in Syria,” Canadian freelance journalist and rights activist Eva Bartlett writes in her Op-Ed for Russia Today.

“In contrast, in the year and a half that the US-led coalition has been illegally violating Syrian skies, they’ve done little to stop terrorists’ movements and have repeatedly ‘accidentally’ dropped supplies to terrorist factions, while terrorists transit through hundreds of miles of open desert, thereby prolonging the otherwise-real fight against terrorism being waged by the Syrian army and allies,” she underscores.

Servicemen of the Syrian Arab Army at the Syrian-Turkish border near the town of Kessab

The Russo-Syrian joint military campaign has raised the Syrian population’s hopes, while the US-Russia brokered ceasefire is seen by many as the first step toward peace in the region.

It means a lot for Syrians who are strongly committed to the country’s sovereignty, integrity and independence.

However, it seems Western policymakers and media pundits do not share Syria’s hopes and aspirations.

The ink was hardly dry on the Syrian truce agreement when US Secretary of State John Kerry came up with a “Plan B,” envisaging the splitting of the sovereign state up.

US academic James Stavridis, a retired four-star US Navy admiral and NATO supreme allied commander, echoes Kerry’s stance in his latest article for Foreign Policy magazine.

“What is increasingly apparent amid all this misery is that Syria as a nation is increasingly a fiction,” Stavridis insists.

“Like Humpty Dumpty in the children’s nursery rhyme, the odds of putting Syria back together again into a functioning entity appear very low. It is time to consider a partition,” the former NATO commander believes.

Masyaf Castle is seen near the town of Masyaf in Hama province, in Syria

Stavridis envisions that Bashar al-Assad would resist the partition of Syria, that’s why “the most likely course would be a mix of a combined campaign to defeat the Islamic State and a federal system allowing a high degree of local autonomy.”Stavridis and his co-thinkers in Washington completely ignore reality on the ground in Syria.

In her article Eva Bartlett quotes Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, Political and Media Advisor to Syria’s President, who commented on the inconsistency of US leaders’ position on Syria:

“Here is the difference between them and Russia. If you take the statements of Putin or Lavrov from the beginning of the crisis until now, you find them consistent, in line with each other. You find them coming from a stand against terrorism, that countries have sovereignties, and that it is the people of these countries who should decide the future of the country, with no foreign intervention. All of their stands are in line with international legitimacy and with UN resolutions,” Dr. Shaaban told the Canadian journalist.

Syrian students, look for souvenir items at a shop displaying a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic legend reads We love you, in the old city of Damascus, Syria
Syrian students, look for souvenir items at a shop displaying a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic legend reads “We love you,” in the old city of Damascus, Syria

What makes matters even worse, the West continues to conduct its policy of sanctions aimed against Syria. As a result, the country’s civilians struck by the war are suffering even more.

A female fighter from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) looks at destruction in the Syrian town of Ain Issi, some 50 kilometres north of Raqqa (File)


In his February interview with El Pais newspaper Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called attention to the fact that the Western embargo imposed on Syria is fanning the flames of the ongoing refugee crisis.”The first… is terrorism, because not only do the terrorists threaten civilians, but also deprive them of basic livelihood. The second reason is the embargo which the West, primarily the United States, had imposed on Syria, this is what created even greater difficulties for people’s lives here, mainly in the healthcare sector,” Assad emphasized.

Contrary to the Humpty-Dumpty allusions, promoted by the Western media, Syria is coming together again.

“On my December visit to various parts of Homs, including the Old City, there was evidence of the pulse of life: new shops and stalls opened; homes and restaurants rehabilitated,” Bartlett recalls.

Despite the fact the war against terrorism is still going on, Syria is healing its wounds little-by-little.

“…the streets have been cleaned and shops opened and people continued their work,” Dr. Shaaban noted as cited by the journalist, “This is the secret to victory in Syria.”

 

Russia, Ukraine

How EU & NATO Exploited Ukraine To Serve Their Own Geopolitical Goals

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by Bryan MacDonald

“Ukraine will definitely not be able to become a member of the EU in the next 20-to-25 years, and not of NATO either.” Let’s play a guessing game. Who made this statement last week?

Was it:

(a) Vladimir Putin
(b) Sergey Lavrov
(c) Viktor Yanukovich
(d) Jean Claude-Juncker

If the correct answer were (a) or (b), western journalists and pro-Kiev regime activists – which are frequently indistinguishable – would be lining up to dismiss the quote as “Russian propaganda.” Or “Hybrid War.” Or whatever this month’s agreed catchphrase/Twitter hashtag is.

As it happens, Russia has been consistent on one particular point since Kiev’s ’Orange revolution,’ back in 2004 – that the US’s primary objective is to exploit Ukraine’s fratricidal divisions to serve its own geopolitical goals. Which Moscow believes are to push American forces as close to Russia’s borders as possible, in the name of ‘containment.’

Two things have prevented this plan from fully succeeding. Firstly Ukraine’s internal conflicts. Capital city protestors, aided by Galician allies, have now removed two eastern-dominated governments. The second of which was fairly elected. As sentiment in Kiev and Lviv doesn’t reflect the entire country, the regimes these demonstrations created have been unable to consolidate popular, nationwide, support. For example, current President Petro Poroshenko, now enjoys lower approval ratings than his ousted predecessor, Viktor Yanukovich, had before Maidan. The other barrier has been many NATO and EU members’ reluctance to countenance full Ukrainian membership of their institutions.

Thus, Ukraine is drip-fed with aid, and warm words of praise, while getting no closer to joining either club. It’s instructive to note that NATO is more than willing to supply military assistance and funding to Ukraine, but, despite heavy lobbying from the likes of Bernard-Henri Levy, a ‘Marshall plan’-esque economic strategy remains unfathomable to western leaders.

Guns Versus Butter

We hear plenty of, often bellicose, Washington solidarity with Ukraine’s army, but very little about its pensioners, who are expected to survive on average payments of just $14.07 a week, at current exchange rates. This compares to $40.51 in Bulgaria and $41.25 in Russia, where utilities are significantly cheaper.

A guess at (c) would also be incorrect. Yanukovich might have been a terribly corrupt and weak President, but, back in 2013, he did, belatedly, realize one thing: the EU association agreement, which he pulled back from signing, would become an unmitigated disaster for Ukraine. That’s because it involved sacrificing ties with the country’s biggest trading partner, Russia, and replacing them with a far less certain alternative.

Free trade with the EU is largely useless to Ukraine, as things stand. For the past two decades, the country’s ruling classes have stolen everything they could, and moved that money abroad. As a consequence, there has been little or no investment in modernizing Ukrainian industry. That means its products are of insufficient quality to compete in cutthroat European markets.

Confusingly, many activists at Maidan seemed to believe that EU accession was on the cards for Ukraine. It never was. A free trade pact, heavily loaded in Brussel’s favor, was all that was available.

By contrast, Russia offered $15 billion and a 30% discount on gas. This was in response to an IMF demand that Ukraine raise utility prices and slash public spending in return for a bail-out. Post-coup, Ukraine was forced into the latter scenario by default. Since then, nominal GDP has fallen from $183 billion to around $90 billion. Meanwhile, public debt was 94% of GDP in 2015 and annual salaries now average about $2,000, the lowest in Europe. On January 1st, foreign reserves stood at a meagre $12.5 billion.

His Master’s Voice

You’re surely guessed by now that (d) Jean-Claude Juncker is our man. The President of the EU Commission was speakingin the Netherlands, where a referendum on the EU-Ukraine free-trade agreement will be held in April. While trying to assuage the fears of Dutch voters about more, unpopular, easterly EU expansion, he let the cat out of the bag about where Ukraine stands with Eurocrats.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (L) is welcomed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. © Yves Herman


Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (L) is welcomed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. © Yves Herman / Reuters

In the heady days of late 2013, EU leaders, like the ultimately deposed, pro-American pair of Carl Bildt and Radoslaw Sikorski, gave Maidan protestors the impression that Brussels was open to Ukrainian membership. Even now, Kiev has NGOs devoted to EU integration and we’ve heard endless talk of Ukraine’s  “European choice.” As an aside, given that the EU only controls 44% of the continent’s land area, it’s endlessly amusing when activists say ‘Europe’ when they mean the EU.

Juncker’s words, though an example of rare sincerity from a Eurocrat, are a kick in the teeth to Kiev’s EU-integrationists. While he’s merely confirming what smart analysts have already known for a long time, the fact that someone of his stature is openly dismissing Ukrainian ambitions is highly significant.

The EU Commission President acknowledged that the EU had enlarged too quickly in the past and insisted Brussels “will not make that mistake again.” Interestingly, it could be argued that the haste to admit Romania and Bulgaria back in 2007, and the British media reaction to it, created the circumstances for this year’s Brexit vote. For that reason, the behavior of the UK authorities during Maidan was always quite amusing. We’ve seen Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond promote the idea of Ukrainian membership of the EU, while simultaneously admitting he’d vote to remove his own country from Brussel’s orbit. The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

Ukrainians are living under the illusion that their country is on the road to EU membership and acceptance into the western political and economic system. To achieve these aspirations, they are enduring great sacrifices. The problem is that the EU elite doesn’t want Ukraine to join the club. It’s too big, too corrupt, too poor and too close to Russia. It’s time Kiev’s legislative, and oligarchic, elite told their people the truth. Ukraine’s ‘European choice’ is a fraud, built on false promises.

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I’m Confused, Can Anyone Help Me?

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by Neil Clark

There are some strange happenings in the world of late and I’m confused. Very confused. Can anyone help me?

The first thing I’m confused about is the claim made this week by Supreme Allied NATO Commander General Strangelove, sorry, Breedlove, that Putin (along with Assad) are deliberately ‘weaponizing’ the migration/refugee crisis to ‘overwhelm European structures and break European resolve’.

According to Breedlove, Russia and the Syrian government are deliberately bombing people in Syria to get them to leave the country and cause major problems for Europe. How absolutely deplorable! What utter swines they must be!
But hang on a minute.

I could have sworn that there was quite a significant refugee crisis before Russian intervention in Syria began last autumn and before the Syrian government launched new offensives. If the crisis began long before the Russian bombing how can Russia be responsible for it? Here’s an article from the BBC website from September 2014, a full year before Russia’s intervention in Syria-on the big increase in the number of refugees/migrants coming from Libya after 2011.

Libya was a country which was bombed and regime changed by the US and its allies in 2011- so surely it’s more accurate to accuse them of ‘weaponising’ the migration crisis? Many refugees are coming from Afghanistan and Iraq, again countries where the US and its allies invaded. Can we blame Putin and Assad for this?

As to Syrian President Bashar Assad wanting to drive people out of his country in order to cause trouble for Europe, he has stated on more than one occasion that he would like to see the refugees return.“Of course they can come back without any action being taken against them by the government. We want people to come back to Syria,”he said in February.

Also in February, Assad urged European leaders to help refugees return to Syria.

“I would like to ask every person who left Syria to come back,” he said, as reported by Telesur. And this is the man who – along with Putin- we are told is deliberately ‘weaponising’ migration by the NATO commander? I’m confused. Can anyone help me?

I’m also confused – very confused in fact- by the portrayal of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as a ‘progressive’ who in a US Presidential election contest with Donald Trump would be ‘the lesser of two evils’.

Now, from what I‘ve read about her, Clinton seems to be a serial warmonger and ‘regime changer’ whose actions in government caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people (including women and black people) and have undoubtedly made the world a more dangerous place.

Gary Leupp documented Mrs Clinton’s foreign policy record in this 2015 article. Among Hillary’s boasts are that she ‘urged’ her husband to bomb the Federal Republic Yugoslavia. The innocent civilians killed in the illegal ‘humanitarian’ bombing of Yugoslavia of 1999 which Clinton ‘urged’ included passengers on a train, staff at Serbian television and 73 Kosovan Albanians in a convoy – an attack that NATO had attempted to blame on Yugoslav forces.

Four years later, Hillary sided with hard-right Republican Party hawks and supported the illegal invasion of Iraq.

Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa. But in 2011 Clinton, now Secretary of State, helped destroy all that and turn Libya into a failed state and a base for IS. You don’t have to a cheerleader for Muammar Gaddafi to condemn the brutal way he was murdered, but Clinton thought it was all rather funny. “We came. We saw. He died!”

Last week on George Galloway’s Sputnik show on RT, the Green Party’s Dr Jill Stein told us ‘Hillary Clinton never found a war she didn’t support’.

 

How does Clinton’s record make her ‘progressive’? Or has the word ‘progressive’ today been redefined to mean ‘an enthusiastic for war whose campaign is bankrolled by Wall Street
and the hedge-fund billionaire George Soros.

I’m confused. Can anyone help me?.

The EU referendum. Now there are some good arguments for the UK staying in the EU and some very good ones for leaving too.

But I’m confused about some of the claims as to what would happen if Britons voted for ‘Brexit’ in June’s Referendum.

We’re told that the economy would collapse,
investment would leave, jobs would be lost, that we need to be in the EU for ’national security’ and in order to deal with ‘Russian aggression’.

We’re told a ‘Brexit’ would ‘shock’ the world economy. And the UK itself would break up.
But hang on, until 1973, Britain wasn’t in the EEC/EU. And our economy far from being in a state of collapse was doing rather well. In 1969/70, just three years before the UK joined the EEC, the country enjoyed a record balance of payments surplus of £550m.

As I wrote in the New Statesman in 2010 about this period: ‘The public finances were also in rude health – a borrowing requirement of £1.96bn in 1967/68 had been transformed into a surplus of £600m by the end of 1969. And, fuelled by the export boom, GNP grew by over 6 per cent between the middle of 1967 and the end of 1969.’

Not only did living standards rise considerably in this pre-EEC accession era, but the UK wasn’t subject to a Soviet invasion either, or at least I don’t remember us being under Red Army occupation when I was growing up in the early 70s (although we did have lots of excellent children‘s programmes from eastern European communist countries on the tv). So our national security clearly didn’t have anything to do with membership of the EEC/EU.

Of course that was over 40 years ago and its true that it’s a different world today. But Norway and Switzerland aren’t in the EU and didn’t seem to be doing too badly the last time I visited. Nor did they appear to be under a Russian military occupation.

The thing is that the dramatic claims made about what will happen if UK voters do vote for Brexit are being made by some very distinguished people. Leading bankers. City people, the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, top business leaders. Tony Blair. They can’t be trying to pull the wool over our eyes, can they? They surely wouldn’t be trying to scare us to vote in a certain way? I’m confused. Can anyone help me?

I’m confused- still confused- about the ongoing investigation into the MH-17 plane disaster. After the tragedy, in which 298 people were killed, we were told that the US possessed satellite imagery and raw radar data which was strong ‘evidence’ that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air- missile.

“We know because we observed it by imagery that at the moment of the shoot-down, we detected a launch, from that area (rebel controlled), and our trajectory shows that it went through the aircraft,”said US Secretary of State John Kerry in a CNN interview in July 2014.

But we now learn that investigators into the crash have no satellite imagery or raw radar data. Now surely if the US did have such evidence, they’d have shared it with the investigators? At a press conference this week, State Department spokesman John Kirby refused to answer questions
about what data the US had shared with the investigators. Now if it was so clear cut that ‘rebels’ supported by Russia did shoot the plane down and the US had evidence to prove this, surely we would have seen it by now?

After all the plane disaster took place in July 2014, over 18 months ago. I’m confused. Can anyone help me?

I’m also confused about what we’ve been told by western political figures about Russia’s intervention in Syria. When Russia began its air campaign in late September 2015, we were told that it wasn’t really fighting IS but targeting civilians and ‘moderate Syria opposition forces’.

“You have a strong propaganda message that says you’re doing one thing while in fact you are doing something completely different and when challenged you just flatly deny it,” UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond aggressively stated at the Tory Party conference in October.

But a couple of weeks later, when the Russian Metrojet passenger plane came down in the Sinai, with the loss of all 224 people on board, Hammond was quick to say IS was responsible and said that the downing of the airliner had been a ‘warning shot’ for Russia.

But if Russia hadn’t really been hitting IS, as Hammond had claimed, why on earth would IS wish to take down a Russian passenger plane?
Since then, we’ve seen renewed allegations that Russia isn’t hitting IS. But some western media has been caught using footage of Russian attacks on IS and actually passing them off as the work of the US and its allies!

We know that since Russia’s intervention, the IS advance has not only been checked, but the group has suffered significant reversals. ‘Russian air support for the Syrian army means that it is now far more difficult for Isis to win easy victories such as its capture of Palmyra in May, wrote veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn in the Independent in January: “It had been conceivable, if not likely, that Assad’s rule would crumble under pressure and IS would be the beneficiary. This is no longer the case.”

How could any of these things have happened if Russia was actually IS’s ‘air force’. Surely IS would be advancing if Russia’s campaign was really aiding the group?

I’m confused. Can anyone help me?

Finally I’m confused about Turkey and British support for ‘democratic values’. British Prime Minister David Cameron wantsTurkey in the EU and said in December 2014 that getting Turkey in the EU was a ‘long-standing goal for Britain.

His views on Turkey are shared by most neocons. When Turkey shot down a Russian plane in November, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond praised Turkey as an “important ally”.

Yesterday in Turkey, police raided the offices of Zaman, an opposition newspaper. A Turkish court has ruled to sack the entire editorial team of the newspaper, which is critical of President Erdogan, and for them to be replaced by a three member board appointed by the court.

“By lashing out and seeking to rein in critical voices, President Erdogan’s government is steamrolling over human rights,” says Andrew Gardner of Amnesty International.

Of events in the last year in Turkey, Amnesty said: “The media faced unprecedented pressure from the government; free expression online and offline suffered significantly. The right to freedom of peaceful assembly continued to be violated… Impunity for human rights abuses persisted. The independence of the judiciary was further eroded.”

Now, neocons always tell us that they’re implacably opposed to repressive political systems and are strong supporters of freedom and democracy- so much so that they believe in going to war to fight for these worthy causes. So why has there been no condemnation of Turkey by David Cameron and Philip Hammond?

Instead of condemning Turkey’s undemocratic crackdowns, Hammond tweets about extending sanctions on Russia.

The accession criteria for membership of the EU includes: “stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities.”

Why are neocons so keen on Turkey joining the EU when its clear that these conditions are not met?
I’m confused. Can anyone help me?

Neil Clark is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger. He has written for many newspapers and magazines in the UK and other countries including The Guardian, Morning Star, Daily and Sunday Express, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Week, and The American Conservative. He is a regular pundit on RT and has also appeared on BBC TV and radio, Sky News, Press TV and the Voice of Russia. He is the co-founder of the Campaign For Public Ownership @PublicOwnership.

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Germany: Migrant Rape Crisis Worsens

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Public spaces are becoming perilous for women and children

by Soeren Kern

  • Sexual violence in Germany has skyrocketed since Angela Merkel allowed more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the country. The crimes are being downplayed by the authorities, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.
  • “The moment they [male migrants] see a young woman wearing a skirt or any type of loose clothing, they believe they have a free pass.” — Restaurant owner at a mall in Kiel.
  • “Every police officer knows he has to meet a particular political expectation. It is better to keep quiet [about migrant crime] because you cannot go wrong.” — Rainer Wendt, the head of the German police union.
  • Police are warning about a potential breakdown of public order this summer, when women who are lightly dressed are confronted by young male migrants.
  • Jakob Augstein, an influential columnist for the magazine Der Spiegel, says that Germans worried about migrant crimes are motivated by racism. His views shed light on the worldview of German multiculturalism: Migrants who assault German women and children are simply rebelling against German power structures. Germans who criticize such assaults are racists.
  • Police in Cologne received more than 1,000 complaints from women, including 454 reports of sexual assaults, related to New Year’s Eve. Police in Hamburg received complaints from 351 women, including 218 reports of sexual assault that took place on the same evening.

A mob of asylum seekers from Afghanistan assaulted three teenage girls at a shopping center in the northern German city of Kiel. The attack — which occurred over two-hours on the evening of February 25, and mirrored the mass assaults of German women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve — shows, once again, that public spaces in Germany are becoming increasingly perilous for women and children.

Police reports show that sexual violence in Germany has skyrocketed since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the country. But the crimes are being played down by German authorities, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.

Police in Kiel say the assault began at around 5:30 pm, when two Afghan males (aged 19 and 26) began stalking and photographing three girls (aged 15, 16 and 17) at a food court in the Sophienhof, a large shopping center near the city’s central train station.

After posting photographs of the girls on social media, the two men were quickly joined by at least 30 other migrants who began collectively to harass the girls in a Muslim “rape game” known in Arabic as “taharrush” (al-taharrush al-jinsi, Arabic for “sexual harassment”).

When police arrived, the migrants, rather than running way, began verbally and physically abusing the officers, some of whom were injured. It took police two hours to restore order. The initial two perpetrators, asylum seekers from Afghanistan, were arrested; the other migrants involved in the incident remain at large.

At a news conference on February 27, police spokesman Oliver Pohl revealed that more women are now coming forward to report similar experiences at the Sophienhof.

The owner of a restaurant at the mall said:

“Groups of young men gather at the Sophienhof every evening. What they do here is unacceptable. The moment they see a young woman wearing a skirt or any type of loose clothing, they believe they have a free pass. It is about time migrants are made to understand: things in Germany function differently than in their home countries.”

In an interview with Kieler Nachrichten, the local leader of the Free Democrats (FDP), Wolfgang Kubicki, expressed dismay at the deteriorating security situation in Kiel:

“It cannot be that girls and women, as well as their parents or spouses, should be afraid in public spaces. People are asking: If you are no longer safe in Sophienhof, where then?

“The perpetrators must be brought to justice. We must not create the impression that perpetrators will go unpunished for such assaults. … Turning a blind eye to such incidents is the opposite of integration and ultimately leads to the creation of parallel societies.

“It starts with small things. Time and again I keep hearing from the police how disrespectful young migrants are towards the officers. We have to support our security forces and reverse the loss of confidence in the police and judiciary. Otherwise we risk citizens taking the law into their own hands. I do not want to see vigilantes patrolling our streets.”

Kubicki was referring to revelations that politicians in Kiel ordered the city police to overlook many of the crimes perpetrated by migrants. A document leaked to the newspaper Bild in late January showed that the orders were given in October 2015, when more than 10,000 migrants were entering Germany each day. According to Bild, police in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony have also been instructed to be lenient to criminal migrants.

Meanwhile, the raping and assaulting of German women and children by migrants and refugees — German police often refer to them by using politically correct euphemisms such as “southerners” (Südländer), men with “dark skin” (dunkelhäutig, dunklere Gesichtsfarbe, dunklem Hauttyp) or a combination of the two: “southern skin color” (südländische Hautfarbe) — continues apace (See Appendix below).

Left: At least 30 male migrants assaulted three girls (aged 15, 16 and 17) at the Sophienhof mall in Kiel, Germany, on February 25. Only two of the men were arrested by police. Right: In the first two months of this year alone, there have been dozens of reported cases of migrants sexually assaulting women and children at public swimming pools across Germany. In some areas, authorities have distributed cartoon guides, to “educate” migrants that sexual assault is not acceptable.

Reliable statistics on sexual crimes committed by migrants are notoriously elusive. German authorities have repeatedly been accused of underreporting the true scale of the crime problem in the country. For example, up to 90% of the sex crimes committed in Germany in 2014 do not appear in the official statistics, according to André Schulz, the head of the Association of Criminal Police (Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, BDK).

On February 25, the newspaper, Die Welt, reported that authorities in the German state of Hesse were suppressing information about migrant-related crimes, ostensibly due to a “lack of public interest.”

On January 24, Die Welt reported that the suppression of data about migrant criminality is a “Germany-wide phenomenon.” According to Rainer Wendt, the head of the German police union (Deutschen Polizeigewerkschaft, DPolG), “Every police officer knows he has to meet a particular political expectation. It is better to keep quiet [about migrant crime] because you cannot go wrong.”

On January 22, the newsmagazine Focus reported that the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes, ADS) put pressure on police in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) to remove a reference to “North African criminal groups” in a press release. According to Focus, the ADS wrote: “There is a danger that people from these countries are placed under a general suspicion. We encourage you to delete the reference to the North African origin from the press release.” NRW Police later removed the offending words because “it could not be excluded that our formulation in the press release could be misunderstood as a discriminatory statement.” Interestingly, the original article by Focus has since been removed from the magazine’s webpage.

Some German commentators are downplaying or rationalizing the growing sexual violence against women and children. According to Jakob Augstein, an influential columnist for the newsmagazine Der Spiegel, Germans worried about migrant crimes are presumably motivated by deep-seated racism.

Shortly after the attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, Augstein ridiculed the idea that Muslim migrants were targeting German women. On his Facebook page, he wrote:

“We are so racist. Everyone immediately wanted to believe that 1,000 North Africans were committing mischief. One thousand: this is a fairy tale figure. Just like the three golden hairs of the devil. Or the seven dwarfs. Or the thirteenth fairy.

“One thousand Tunisians who attacked ‘our’ women. That is just what we needed. The foreigner and his menacing sexuality — this is the oldest prejudice of racism.”

Now Augstein says the sexual assaults committed by migrants are a form of social rebellion.

Writing on his Facebook page on February 23, Augstein argued that the true victims in all of this are the migrants, because of their low rank in Germany’s social hierarchy. He wrote:

“The victims of Cologne were inferior to their perpetrators only in the immediate moment of the attacks. Those women were powerless and helpless at the moment they were assaulted and robbed. But before the attacks and after, they were and are superior to their attackers.

“For the victims of Clausnitz [on February 18, an anti-migrant mob tried to blockthe arrival of 20 asylum seekers into the town] it is different: they were inferior to their attackers before, during and after the incidents. They are always inferior.

“The lawbreaking in Cologne brought a brief rupture in the established hierarchy, a reversal of the true balance of power. The reason is that in this moment, the relationship between victim and perpetrator was reduced to physical strength. In all other respects, the victims of Cologne are superior to their perpetrators: language, nationality, education, social status, wealth, legal certainty, self-confidence. …

“In Clausnitz, the strong subdued the weak. This makes the attack in Clausnitz so repugnant. And — if you really want to draw such comparisons — this gives the attack on Clausnitz a different moral quality than the attack on Cologne.”

Augstein, whose opinions have not been seriously challenged by the mainstream media, sheds light on the upside-down worldview of German multiculturalism: Migrants who assault German women and children are simply rebelling against German power structures. Germans who dare to criticize such assaults are racists.

Meanwhile, on February 24, a court in Cologne handed down the first sentence related to the mayhem in the city on New Year’s Eve, when more than a thousand migrants sexually assaulted hundreds of German women on a public square in front of the Cologne Cathedral. A 23-year-old Moroccan migrant was given a six-month suspended sentence and fined 100 euros ($108) — for stealing a woman’s cellphone. So far no one has been charged for sexual assault.

In an interview with the television program, Kölnische Rundschau, Cologne’s chief of police, Jürgen Mathies, admitted that most of those who committed the assaults will never be brought to justice. He said the surveillance videos are too fuzzy definitively to identify anyone.

Police in Cologne say they have received more than 1,000 complaints from women, including 454 reports of sexual assaults, related to New Year’s Eve. Police in Hamburg say they havereceived complaints from 351 women, including 218 reports of sexual assault that took place on the same evening.

Police are now warning about a potential breakdown of public order this summer, when women who are lightly dressed are confronted by young male migrants.

Kaczyńska: Sprawa honoru

Appendix

Sexual Assaults and Rapes by Migrants in Germany, January-February 2016.

Gatestone Institute first reported about Germany’s migrant rape epidemic in September 2015. The problem has now spread to cities and towns in all 16 of Germany’s federal states. Following are a few cases from just the first two months of 2016:

January 1. More than a thousand migrants sexually assaulted hundreds of German women in the cities of Cologne, Hamburg and Stuttgart.

January 4. A group of migrant youths sexually assaulted a handicapped girl in Bielefeld.

January 5. An Afghan migrant attempted to rape a 15-year-old girl in Burghausen.

January 7. A 36-year-old asylum seeker was arrested for raping a 16-year-old boy inside the city hall of Wolfsburg. A “southerner” (südländisch, arabisch) sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl near a train station in Ellwangen.

January 8. A 17-year-old Syrian migrant exposed himself to women at a swimming pool in St. Ingbert.

January 9. A 48-year-old woman was raped by three migrants in Dresden. The perpetrators have not been arrested. Also on January 9, a 45-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by an “Arab-speaking” man in Gleidingen, a town near Hanover. A group of five North Africans (Algerians, Moroccans) sexually assaulted five women in Oldenburg. Two North African migrants (Libya, Tunisia) sexually assaulted a 31-year-old woman at the main train station inLeipzig. A migrant attempted to rape a 46-year-old woman in Saarbrücken-Altenkessel.

January 10. A group of “southerners” (südländisches Aussehen) sexually assaulted three girls at a public swimming pool in Ansbach. A 21-year-old West African was arrested for raping a 15-year-old girl at a train station in Wuppertal. A 36-year-old Syrian migrant sexually assaulteda 20-year-old woman in Bornhöved. The woman was showing the man an apartment that had been advertised for rent.

January 11. A 35-year-old migrant from Pakistan sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl at a refugee shelter in Kamen. Eight migrants attempted to rape a woman at a grocery store inAmpfing. She defended herself by using pepper spray. A 20-year-old Moroccan assaulted a 24-year-old woman in Frankenberg.

January 12. A “southerner” (südländisch aussehenden) raped a 16-year-old girl in Wuppertal. Two “Arabic speaking” men assaulted a 37-year-old woman in Fröndenberg.

January 13. Four migrants (südländisch aussehen) attempted to rape a 13-year-old girl inGelsenkirchen. Three migrants sexually assaulted a 31-year-old woman in Oldenburg. A migrant attempted to rape a woman at a train station in Altötting. She defended herself by using pepper spray. Three “southerners” (südländischer oder arabischer Herkunft) assaulted a woman in Bad Münstereifel.

January 14. Three migrants (südländische Hautfarbe) sexually assaulted a 47-year-old woman in the Bavarian town of Dingolfing. Three “southerners” (Südländer) assaulted a 22-year-old women on a train in Bremerhaven.

January 15. A 36-year-old migrant sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl at a public park in Hilden near Solingen. A 31-year-old migrant from Tunisia was arrested for attempting to rapea 30-year-old woman in Chemnitz. A 31-year-old migrant from Morocco appeared in court forraping a 31-year-old woman in Dresden. A migrant sexually assaulted a 42-year-old woman inMainz. A migrant (dunkleren Teint) sexually assaulted a 32-year-old woman in Münchfeld. An African migrant sexually assaulted a 55-year-old woman in Mannheim.

Also on January 15, all male migrants over the age of 18 were banned from a public swimming pool in Bornheim, near Bonn, after assaults against female patrons at the facility. The measure was branded as racist by German media outlets.

January 16. A migrant from Syria sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in Mudersbach. A 36-year-old migrant sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl in Mettmann. A 36-year-old migrantassaulted an 8-year-old girl in Hilden. A 19-year-old migrant from Afghanistan sexually assaulted four girls between the ages of 11 and 13 at an indoor swimming pool in Dresden. The migrant was arrested but then released. A 25-year-old Moroccan migrant assaulted two woman at a grocery store in Zeithain.

January 17. Three “southerners” (Südländer) attempted to rape a young woman in Kiel. Two migrants (19 and 38 years old) sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman at a restaurant in the main train station in Nuremberg. A 19-year-old Afghan migrant assaulted four girls (aged 11 to 13) at a public swimming pool in Dresden. Migrants invaded female changing rooms at a swimming pool in Burghausen. Two “southerners” (dunklen/südländischen Typ) attempted to rape a 42-year-old woman at a pharmacy in Altötting.

January 18. A 43-year-old Syrian migrant assaulted a 63-year-old woman in Wetzlar. Police say the man also assaulted two other women (aged 62 and 74) in Wetzlar.

January 19. A 17-year-old Eritrean migrant attempted to rape an 18-year-old woman in a parking garage in Bad Oldesloe. After police intervened, the man head-butted an officer, who was hospitalized.

January 20. Migrants invaded female showers and changing rooms at two public swimming pools in Leipzig.

January 21. A “black skinned” (schwarz glänzende Hautfarbe) man attempted to rape a 13-year-old girl in Langenfeld. Two migrants assaulted an 18-year-old woman in Dingolfing.

January 22. A migrant (südländisches Äußeres) attempted to rape a 16-year-old girl in Feuerbach district of Stuttgart, and in downtown Stuttgart, four “Arabic looking” (arabisches Aussehen) men sexually assaulted a 23-year-old woman. Migrants harassed women at public swimming pools in Zwickau.

January 23. Migrants sexually assaulted two 11-year-old girls at a public swimming pool inWilhelmshaven. Two asylum seekers from Afghanistan assaulted two 17-year-old women at a public swimming pool in Straubing. Three 16-year-old migrants from Afghanistan and Syriaassaulted two 13-year-old girls at a public swimming pool in Hachenburg.

Also on January 23, a 35-year-old migrant sexually assaulted a woman in a restroom on a train in Düsseldorf. A 22-year-old Syrian migrant exposed himself on a train in Hanover. An 18-year-old Syrian asylum seeker raped a 17-year-old woman in Straubing. Two unidentified mensexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman in Wiesbaden.

January 24. Two men speaking “broken German” attempted to rape a 25-year-old woman inLehrte as she was walking home from the train station. The men pulled a knife on the woman and ordered her to “spread your legs.”

January 25. A 30-year-old migrant from “North Africa” (nordafrikanischem Erscheinungsbild)exposed himself to a 19-year-old woman on a public bus in Marburg, and then to passersby at the main train station.

January 26. A 35-year-old migrant attempted to rape a young girl in Bochum. Two female passersby intervened and called police.

January 27. Two “southerners” (dunklem Teint) sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at a bus stop in Überlingen. A 21-year-old asylum seeker assaulted an 18-year-old woman in a female changing room at a fitness studio in Lahr.

January 28. A migrant from Sudan sexually assaulted a female police officer in Hanover as she was attempting to arrest him for theft. Two “underage refugees” (minderjährige Flüchtlinge)sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl at a shelter for children in Düsseldorf. It later emergedthat one of the perpetrators was a 22-year-old migrant from Iran who claimed he was 16 years old to gain access to the shelter. A 17-year-old Afghan migrant assaulted a 14-year-old girl inFrankenberg. A “southerner” (Südländer) sexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman inBacknang.

January 31. A 30-year-old German, originally from Turkmenistan, raped a seven-year-old girl inKiel. The man kidnapped the girl from a school playground at 11AM, took her to his apartment and, after abusing her, set her free. It later emerged that the man had been accused of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl at another kindergarten in Kiel on January 18, but due to insufficient evidence, the public prosecutors failed to pursue the case.

Also on January 31, four unidentified migrants (ausländischem Aussehen) sexually assaulted a 17-year-old woman in Vilshofen. An unidentified “dark skinned” (dunkelhäutig) man assaulteda woman in Villingen. Two North African migrants sexually assaulted two 15-year-old girls inSalzgitter.

February 1. A 40-year-old asylum seeker from Syria kissed a 7-year-old boy at a bus stop inGaildorf.

February 2. Two “dark skinned” (dunklere Gesichtsfarbe) men assaulted a 31-year-old woman, who was nine months pregnant, in the parking lot of a supermarket in Schweinfurt. A 26-year-old migrant using several different identities assaulted three women on a train in Berlin. Two “dark skinned” (dunklem Hauttyp) men assaulted a 14-year-old girl on a school bus in Eslohe.

February 3. Three Afghan migrants sexually assaulted two 14-year-old girls from France at a public swimming pool in Munich. A 16-year-old migrant assaulted a 16-year-old girl at a swimming pool in Heidenheim. An 18-year-old Libyan migrant attempted to rape a 25-year-old woman in Leipzig. A “southern looking man” (südländisch aussehend) exposed himself to passengers on a regional train in Harburg.

February 4. A 29-year-old migrant from Nigeria raped a 21-year-old woman at a carnival celebration in Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock. A 25-year-old asylum seeker from Syria assaultedtwo women at the same carnival. More than 20 women were sexually assaulted during carnival celebrations in Cologne. A Syrian migrant sexually assaulted a 49-year-old woman after a carnival in Bad Reichenhall. A 29-year-old migrant assaulted a woman after a carnival inDinslaken.

Also on February 4, an African migrant (Schwarzafrikaner) assaulted a woman at a supermarket in Lörrach. When police arrived, the man assaulted the officers, who needed backup to subdue him. Police have been unable to determine the man’s identity; he was carrying a fake ID. An Eritrean migrant who assaulted two women in Zeithain was freed after a judge determined the man was drunk when he committed the crimes. A “southerner” (Südländer) assaulted a young woman in Elsfleth.

February 5. Groups of North African migrants assaulted women at carnival celebrations in downtown Cologne. Two migrants sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in Straubing. A migrant assaulted a 19-year-old woman in Villingen-Schwenningen. Two “Arabic looking” (arabisch aussehend) men assaulted a 13-year-old girl in Klietz.

February 6. A group of 30 migrants attempted to rape an 18-year-old woman in Mühldorf am Inn, a town in Bavaria. Three Afghan migrants were arrested for sexually assaulting several women at a carnival celebrations on in Laufenburg. A 28-year-old Iraqi migrant assaulted a woman after a carnival in Bocholt. A 24-year-old migrant assaulted two 15-year-old girls at a carnival celebration in Badorf. A 48-year-old Jordanian migrant assaulted a 16-year-old girl at a carnival parade in Frankfurt. “Five or six” migrants assaulted a 25-year-old woman after carnival celebrations in Cologne. Several “foreigners” (Ausländer) assaulted “numerous” women at a carnival in Konstanz.

Also on February 6, a “southerner” (südländisches Aussehen) sexually assaulted a 19-year-old man in Ravensburg. Four “southerners” (südländisches Aussehen) assaulted and robbed two girls (13 and 14 years old) near the main train station in Bochum. A migrant (dunklen Teint) assaulted a woman in Friedrichstadt. Five migrants sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl at a public swimming pool in Celle.

February 7. A 24-year-old Algerian migrant assaulted two teenage girls at a carnival inRietberg. Three “Arab looking” (arabisches Aussehen) men sexually assaulted several women at a carnival in Mainz. Two “dark skinned men” (dunkelhäutige Männer) sexually assaulted a 31-year-old woman at a carnival in Gütersloh. Four Afghan migrants were arrested forassaulting two 14-year-old girls at carnival celebrations in Erfurt. Four Afghan migrantssexually assaulted a 17-year-old woman in Heppenheim. Several women were assaulted at a carnival in Hardheim. A 21-year-old Moroccan migrant sexually assaulted a woman at a carnival in Kranenburg. Two “dark skinned” (dunkelhäutig) men assaulted two women at a carnival in Flieden.

Also on February 7, a 17-year-old Afghan migrant sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl at a public swimming pool in Landshut. A 16-year-old migrant from Afghanistan sexually assaultedseveral women at Schillerplatz, a large public square in downtown Mainz. A “dark skinned” (dunklem Hauttyp) man sexually assaulted a 17-year-old woman in Backnang. Three “southern looking” (südländischem Aussehen) assaulted a woman in Offenburg. A group of “dark skinned” (dunklen Teint) migrants sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in Ochtrup.

Also on February 7, a “dark skinned” (dunkelhäutig) man sexually assaulted a 24-year-old woman in Mühldorf. Five migrants assaulted a 15-year-old girl in Bernburg. A “southerner” (südländisches Aussehen) assaulted a 37-year-old woman on a bus in Bochum. Two “southerners” (zwei Südländer) sexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman on an express train in Stuttgart. A “southerner” (südländisch Aussehen) assaulted a 39-year-old woman near the train station in Dresden. A migrant assaulted a 46-year-old woman in Eppelheim.

February 8. A 35-year-old migrant sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at a carnival inSiegburg. Two Moroccans assaulted a 36-year-old woman at a carnival in Brilon. Three migrants assaulted a 49-year-old woman in Andechs.

February 9. North African migrants assaulted a 19-year-old woman during carnival revelry in Opladen, a district of Leverkusen. Several “southerners” (Südländer) assaulted a 23-year-old woman in a supermarket parking lot in Göttingen. Four migrants sexually assaulted three 13-year-old girls at a public swimming pool in Borghorst.

February 11. A 36-year-old asylum seeker raped a 14-year-old girl in Braunschweig.

February 12. A “dark skinned” (dunkle Teint) sexually assaulted a boy at a swimming pool inNordenham. A migrant assaulted a boy at a swimming pool in Nordenham. Three “dark skinned” (dunkle Hautfarbe) men assaulted a 16-year-old girl in Füssen.

February 13. Several migrants assaulted three girls (aged between 10 and 11) at a swimming pool in Norden. A migrant assaulted a 49-year-old woman in a bakery in Gütersloh.

February 14. Two migrants from Iran and Syria assaulted two girls (aged 10 and 11) at a public swimming pool in Dresden. Four migrants assaulted a 19-year-old woman in Duisburg. Migrants assaulted several women at a discotheque in Mengeringhausen.

February 15. A 17-year-old North African assaulted several women at the main train station inBremen. A 23-year-old Algerian migrant assaulted a 14-year-old girl on metro train inFrankfurt. Four “dark skinned” (Dunkelhäutige) men assaulted a 35-year-old woman inKünzelsau.

February 16. An “Arabic looking” man assaulted a 14-year-old girl on a bus in Dörzbach.

February 17. A man with a “dark complexion” (dunklem Hautteint) exposed himself to passersby in the Biebrich district of Wiesbaden. A “14 or 15-year-old” boy with “dark skin” (dunkler Teint) exposed himself to several women at a traffic light in Hörstel. Two “southerners” (südländischem Aussehen) assaulted a 25-year-old woman in Dresden.

February 18. Three “southern looking” (südländische Erscheinung) men attempted to rape a woman in Uelzen. At least one of the men was attacked by the woman’s Rottweiler.

February 20. A 34-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker assaulted two girls, aged 13 and 14, at a supermarket in Rotenburg. Two “dark skinned” (dunklen Teint) men speaking broken Germanraped a 49-year-old woman near a cemetery in Biberach. A 51-year-old Bosnian migrant was arrested for repeatedly raping a 17-year-old woman in the Feuerbach district of Stuttgart. Two “dark brown skinned” males sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman in Trier. A 28-year-old Afghan migrant attempted to rape a woman in Blankenburg. A “dark skinned” (dunklen Teint) man sexually assaulted a 23-year-old man in Greven.

February 21. Seven migrants from Afghanistan and Iran invaded female changing rooms at a public swimming pool in Aurich. A 35-year-old Syrian migrant assaulted a 14-year-old girl at a pool in Eckernförde. An unidentified migrant raped a 21-year-old woman at the train station inBad Schwartau. A 44-year-old migrant sexually assaulted a 29-year-old female volunteer at a refugee shelter in Großenlüder. A “southerner” (südländisches Aussehen) assaulted a 14-year-girl on a train in Neubrandenburg. Several days later, the same girl was attacked by the same suspect at a playground in the city.

February 22. A man “speaking German with a foreign accent” sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman in Asperg. A “southerner” (südländischer Typ) assaulted a 16-year-old girl inFeldkirchen. Two “Turkish or Arab” man attempted to rape a 15-year-old girl in Brandenburg.

February 23. A 16-year-old migrant who raped two boys (9 and 11 years of age) in the town ofGlöwen was released from jail. A judge ruled that because the suspect lives with his parents and has no money, he does not pose a flight risk. A 34-year-old Algerian migrant assaulted two women (17 and 22 years of age) at a subway station in Berlin. A migrant touched himself in front of a 19-year-old woman on a public bus in Chemnitz. A migrant touched himself in front of a 21-year-old woman on a subway train in Chemnitz.

February 24. A 31-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman in a church in Weilheim. Police say the man previously assaulted another woman in the same church. He also assaulted two women in the town hall and another woman at a nursing home. A “southerner” (südländischem Äußeren) assaulted an 18-year-old woman in Kassel.

February 25. A dark skinned (südländische Hautfarbe) man assaulted two girls (13 and 15 years of age) on a city bus in the Mockau-Nord district of Leipzig. An “African” (afrikanischen Typ) man assaulted a 48-year-old woman on a tram in Leipzig.

February 26. Two Afghan migrants were accused of raping a 24-year-old woman inMagdeburg. A 29-year-old man was arrested for assaulting several women at the train station in Mülheim an der Ruhr. A 20-year-old asylum seeker assaulted a 20-year-old woman inLandau.

February 28. Two Afghan migrants (aged 14 and 34) raped two girls (aged 14 and 18) at a public swimming pool in Norderstedt. Two Afghan migrants sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman in Mannheim. A “southerner” (südländischer Typ) assaulted a 46-year-old woman in front of the city hall in Schwarzenbach. A 19-year-old Algerian migrant assaulted a 21-year-old woman in Hamm
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Muslim immigrants raping European women
Islam, Muslim Immigration, Muslim Violence, Russia

Islam and the Mentally Ill

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A nanny parades around with the severed head of the four year-old girl in her care. (Credit: RT.com.)
A nanny parades around with the severed head of the four year-old girl in her care. (Credit: RT.com.)

By: Rachel Molschky

Car rammings, stabbings, shootings, bombings…  beheadings. Gory, gruesome and cold-hearted violence.

In case after case, it’s always the same old story. The initial reports have eyewitness accounts where all that was seen and heard at the time is relayed: “They were screaming, ‘Allahu Akbar,'” and other similar things.

The world is in shock. Devastated. Everyone cries over the victims and their families.

More news reports on what the police have discovered. Nothing more on Allahu Akbar. Those witness accounts disappear from the news.

The suspects may or may not be named. If they are, we are told they are locals, local Europeans, Americans, Australians… named Muhammad or something like it. More daring media outlets might be brave enough to let the public in on the secret that they originally came from the Middle East or North Africa, or their parents did. Others ignore that apparently extraneous detail. Or maybe they were recent converts or previously secular Muslims, suddenly energized by a newfound “faith.” Faith in what exactly? In a violent doctrine?

Violence. And more violence. The final reports summarize the investigative findings: after searching the perpetrators’ apartments and interrogating friends and family, it is concluded that the terrorists are no terrorists at all. It is merely a case of mental illness.

At this point, it’s like the punch line to a joke. Mental illness every time. This joke is getting old, and it wasn’t amusing the first time, far less so now.

Supposing every Islamic terrorist is mentally ill, and the experts are right- what does that say about Islam? A violent doctrine attracts the mentally ill. Whether it’s a crazy doctrine or crazy people, something is amiss. But whatever it is can only be discussed in whispers among the counter-terrorism authorities working in secret to combat the unspeakable problem plaguing our world today, that is, if they’re even allowed to do their job. It can only be contemplated behind closed doors among government officials, while the media and spokespeople inform the public it doesn’t exist except for a handful of officially labeled terror organizations.

The public cannot breathe a word of it to anyone without being called a racist, and websites which report the truth are thrown into the same trash heap, discounted as hate sites and pegged by Loonwatch as a bunch of crazies. Yes, we’re the crazies.

Well, here we go again. The cycle continues. Another Muslim terrorist deemed mentally ill. This time, it was a nanny who beheaded a four year-old girl she was paid to take care of, and take care of her she did, parading around with her head while saying that Allah told her to do it. Allah.

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America is on the Road to Declinistan

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By Lauri B. Regan

In After America, Mark Steyn wrote, “…when you hit the expressway to Declinistan there are few exit ramps.”  We are now approaching the point of no return.  Future generations will attempt to understand how the most exceptional civilization in the history of mankind voluntarily ceded its culture, moral superiority, and unrivaled accomplishments to apathy, willful ignorance, egoism — and ultimately darkness.

Several years ago I began accumulating data to support the thesis that we are living through America’s decline.  My premise was initially based upon my distress over the degradation and corruption of our moral fiber.  I watched Miley Cyrus twerk on stage, Janet Jackson expose her breast on national television, and near-naked panhandlers run rampant through Times Square.  On the heels of a philandering POTUS who swore  to the nation, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” before being impeached for lying under oath and spending his retirement years with rumors of untold numbers of affairs, I have to remind myself that I’m not living in France.  Hillary standing by her man in Mao-style pantsuits makes it easy.

The legalization of marijuana and footage of people smoking across Denver made this mother of three sick.  Bob Dylan’s “Everybody must get stoned” was a song from the 60’s, not the law of the land.  Speaking of the law, with a Supreme Court that legislated out of thin air constitutional rights to abortion and gay marriage, we shouldn’t be surprised that our current president ignores constitutional restraints imposing everything from the destruction of the coal industry to socialized medicine.

In the age of reality television and social media, college students cannot identify  Joe Biden but resoundingly know Kim Kardashian.  They  have no idea who fought in and won the Civil War but know that Snookie appeared on The Jersey Shore.  Hollywood elites are distressed over alleged discrimination against black actors who live in $10 million homes, ignoring the real tragedies occurring in inner cities where blacks are killing each other in record numbers.

Progressives co-opted K-12 education with Common Core and an anti-American AP U.S.  History curriculum.  College campuses are rapt with progressive professors more obsessed with their hatred of democracy and capitalism than teaching facts and promoting critical thinking.  Radical 1960’s crazies are now respected professors and their hate speech against America and Israel is common in lectures.  Trashing these two liberal democracies appears to be the only exception to the PC zanies who constantly demand safe spaces rather than the more appropriate rubber rooms.

Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matters, various Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated individuals and organizations, and other virulently anti-American hoodlums are welcomed into a White House currently occupied by an angry, self-entitled, ideologically dangerous black couple.  Our president spends more time playing golf, vacationing, throwing parties, and hanging with the rich and famous than he does on critical matters.  Rather than visit with wounded warriors, lecturing youngsters on the importance of family values and hard work, and uniting a divided nation, Obama focuses his attention on transforming the “more perfect union” into a footnote in the annals of history.

But the state of affairs in America cannot be placed at the feet of Obama.  Americans elected him twice, enamored with his empty promises of “Hope and Change” and ignorantly believing his lies.  Ignoring all warning signs once, Americans could perhaps be forgiven.  But with a four-year record of ideological governance, divisiveness, and laziness, there was no excuse in 2012.

Which brings me to the current election.  Were there any question as to whether we are a country in retreat rather than decline, the 2016 election ends the debate.  At a time when the world is in flames, Islamic terrorism is spreading like wildfire, and the government is incinerating money at unprecedented rates, the only burn Americans are feeling is that of a 74-year old Marxist.  The top candidates include a devout, unapologetic socialist supported by millennials and a growing population of people who love free stuff; an unconvicted felon supported by an older generation that should know better and an establishment that cheats and lies almost as much she does; and a narcissistic, megalomaniacal man-child Democrat-masquerading-as-Republican supported by individuals who are angrily and desperately rolling the dice on a cult-of-personality much like the Democrats did eight years ago.  Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

And shame is likely what Trump supporters will feel if he wins.  Not only has he degraded acceptable political tactics and discourse.  He epitomizes everything conservatives hate about Obama — disdain for the rule of law, elitism, narcissistic self-indulgence, arrogance, bullying, and self-entitlement.

Excessive partying and golfing with Obama? Just wait until the king of hob-nobbers and country clubs moves into the White House.  Abuse of executive powers? The guy obsessed with winning (and lover of eminent domain, universal healthcare, and massive government regulations) won’t even need a phone and pen when he sits in the Oval Office.  A horrific economy and high unemployment rate? Imagine what the billionaire who made his living off of bankrupting businesses and employing foreign workers will do to “make America great again.”

The current bully-in-chief who promised to bring a gun to a knife fight is the jayvee team compared Trump, who believes dissenters should be “punch[ed] in the face” and “carried out on a stretcher.” Conservatives who fell victim to Obama’s corrupted IRS and DOJ should brace themselves for immoral threats against those who don’t support him.  And if you think Obama left behind a divided electorate, try and explain how the candidate whose rhetoric includes attacks on Muslims, Hispanics, POWs, women, the disabled, the poorly educated, and a host of others will unite us.

Teflon Don apparently kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed.  On Sunday he defended tweeting a Mussolini quote.  His defense?  “ [W]hat difference does it make…”  I’m not sure if he was channeling his inner fascist murderer or Hillary Clinton but it’s clear that, win or lose, millions of adoring fans cheering him on is not a good sign for the future of the country.  But no worries, the KKK’s David Duke, who Trumprefused to condemn as a white supremacist, believes that “voting against Donald Trump…is really treason to your heritage.”

How are we to believe that America is not in decline when eight years ago the electorate voted to transform the country into another failing, socialized and demilitarized Europe? How can we have faith that things will turn around when 35-40% of the GOP supports Trump who is, in business jargon, anything but a turnaround artist?

How can America remain the world’s shining beacon on the hill when the ever-growing Democratic Party with a strong possibility of winning the White House and Senate obsesses over abortion, gay marriage, transgender rights, global warming, safe spaces, white supremacy, free stuff, and “Islamophobia?” Ready for Hillary? How about Ready for the next Liar-in-Chief? Feel the Bern? Think Feel the Smoldering Remnants of a Once-Great Nation.

What is wrong with Americans who standby Clinton rather than the families of heroes Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, and Glenn Dougherty who were killed in Benghazi? Soulless Clinton had the audacity to call these families liars for exposing that she stood over their coffins and blamed their deaths on a video.  And her fanatical devotees shout down and boo anyone who questions the facts, including a retired Marine.  One of our worst secretaries of state has spent her entire life lying, cheating, and bullying her way to the White House and tens of millions of Americans actually want to see her there!

America no longer has a Greatest Generation.  Those growing up during this great recession are reading Karl Marx’s A Communist Manifesto and cheering away their futures. Donald Trump attacks rational thinkers like Stephen Hayes, Charles Krauthammer, and George Will and Americans eat it up because he’s “telling it like it is.  “ Americans have turned off their brains because if Trump’s version of political rhetoric is acceptable discourse, Hillary’s pathological lying is ignored, and Bernie’s socialism is all the rage, we’re done.

Academia, Hollywood, journalism, and the federal government are driving us to Declinistan while Americans enthusiastically pay the fare and jump on board the train.  Socialism and open borders did not work for Germany, France, Belgium, or Sweden.  Borrowing like there’s no tomorrow didn’t work for Greece and Portugal.  And open borders resulting in massive rolls of migrant government dependents and untold numbers of terrorists are leaving Europe in disarray, the worst of which we have yet to see.

But follow in Europe’s footsteps is exactly what we are doing — history be damned.  These are not sins of omission as we passively watch helplessly as things spiral out of control.  The future of the country has always been in the control of its citizens.  Our sins are those of commission as we elect, in the words of Trump, loser after loser.  And those of us who realize this may very well lose the battle as rational and intelligent thinkers are marginalized and demonized, demographic changes become irreversible, and ignorance remains blissful — for now.

The world of Father Knows Best and Happy Days has grown into the era of 24 Hours and Homeland.  Yet Americans are failing to recognize that they are welcoming the dawn of a new Dark Age.  Islamic terrorism is moving steadily and stealthily across the globe and is now within our shores.  This is a battle with which the left has shown little interest in fighting let alone acknowledging.  A citizenry of self-entitled youngsters and desperate elders ignore history’s lessons while cheering on Hillary, Bernie and Donald — none of whom will save the Republic.

The seeds of destruction and decline continue to be sown and they will grow and flourish for decades to come until somehow the rational and sane, the good and moral, win the hearts and minds of those finally disabused of the notion that free stuff is actually free, Islam is a religion of peace, isolationism will keep us safe, we can Coexist if we sing Kumbaya, and America is the evil empire.  I won’t be around for the twilight of this Dark Age but I pray that it is short enough that my children and grandchildren help usher in a new dawn.  How much death and misery they must suffer in the interim is anyone’s guess but hope will not prevent it.  Presence of mind is all that can save us from the road to Declinistan.

 

Silence can be tantamount to being an accomplice to a crime.