Building the state of Europe: Mario Draghi, the 1 trillion euro man

Greek FinMin Venizelos has said that it's early days for the debt swap, and too soon for private bondholders to be declaring their participation. He expects this will happen nearer to the March 9 deadline. The German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, says that the bailout depends on participation of the private sector, and that the final decision will be taken in a conference call on March 9. The ISDA - surprise! - ruled today that the bond swap was not a "credit event", after it was asked if the presence of a CAC - legislation to force bondholders to take a loss - constituted a default. But that left unanswered the question of what would happen if 100pc of bondholders didn't agree to take a loss and the CAC was brought into play to force the issue. Little pOmo Napoleon, "Junker Says There Is A "Plan B" If Greek Debt Swap Fails" -

Zerohedge: "Mario Draghi Is Becoming Germany's Most Hated Man"

Back in September, before the transition from then ECB head J.C. Trichet to current Goldman plant and uber printer Mario Draghi we asked whether "Trichet will disgrace his already discredited central banker career by pushing a rate cut before he is swept out of the corner office by Mario Draghi, or will the former Goldmanite Italian become the most hated man in Germany soon, after he proceeds to ease, even as Germany still experiences Chinese inflationary re-exports. The answer will be all too clear in just a few months." Sure enough, following a whopping €1 trillion in incremental liquidity released by the ECB in the three shorts months since Draghi's ascension on November 1, all under the guise that the ECB is not printing when it most certainly is, albeit "hidden" by the idiotic claim that it accepts collateral for said printing (what collateral - Italian and Spanish bonds, which will become worthless the second even more printing is required in a few short months? (...) >>>

Mar 1, 2012
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Money & Economy: Paul vs The Bernank

The Bernank is on a two day visit in Congress. In the meanwhile, there's this unbelievable piece of news! "Next Leg Of The Ponzi Revealed - Foreign Central Banks To Begin Buying US Stocks Outright Starting Today" -

SSI: "BERNANKE'S INFLATION GRINDER"

Statement before the House Committee on Financial Services
Congressman Ron Paul
February 29, 2012

View Video of Dr. Ron Paul's Statement and Q&A with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (...) >>>

Mar 1, 2012
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Persian Power Play: Iran's global tentacles

Daily Caller: "Leaked Documents Confirm Iran’s Intent To Attack America"

According to an analysis posted in February on a website linked to Iran’s government, the Islamic republic has plans to attack targets in both America and Israel, The Daily Caller has learned. The analysis, posted in Persian on the Iranian website psyop.ir, is titled “From Mediterranean Sea to the Waters of America.” It ominously warns of an impending attack on American soil. (...) >>>

Mar 1, 2012
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Natural Resources: gas and oil in the East Med

RT: "New Mediterranean oil and gas bonanza"

The Middle East could soon see new battles over rights to oil and gas beneath the eastern Mediterranean in the Levant Basin and Aegean Sea. The discovery of huge reserves off Israel's coast is changing the geopolitical balance of power in the region. (...) Energy self-sufficiency had eluded the state of Israel since its founding in 1948. Abundant oil and gas exploration was repeatedly undertaken with meager results. Unlike its energy-rich Arab neighbors, Israel seemed out of luck. Then, in 2009, Israel’s exploration partner Noble Energy discovered the Tamar field in the Levantine Basin, some 50 miles west of Israel’s port of Haifa and with an estimated 8.3 tcf (trillion cubic feet) of highest-quality natural gas. Tamar was the world’s largest gas discovery in 2009. (...) >>>

Febr. 26, 2012
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Ethics of Capitalism: the African dream

Quite an achievement! Singing the praises of capitalism under a Leftist ethics program! This article did it! -

The Atlantic: "Africa's Amazing Rise and What it Can Teach the World"

(...) The economic evidence that they were right, building since the start of the new century, now seems incontrovertible. In the ten years from 2000 to 2010, six of the world's ten fastest-growing countries were in sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique, and Rwanda. In eight of the past ten years, sub-Saharan Africa has grown faster than Asia, according to The Economist. In 2012, the International Monetary Fund expects Africa to grow at a rate of 6%, about the same as Asia. (...) >>>

Feb. 26, 2012
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The Balkan Caliphate: as Obama retreats, neo Ottomans move in

Another day of treason in the life of the Obama regime -

Related: "Turkey joins Multi-National Battle Group-East" and "US 'Winding Down' Bondsteel Base in Kosovo" -

Occidental Libertas: "Neo-Ottomanism:Turkey is back and it is not going to return to Kemalism"

One of the biggest winners of the Arab Spring besides the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and the Wahhabi movements which are supported by Saudi Arabia is the Islamist government in Ankara which is led by Prime Minister Recep Ergodan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davotoglu and President Abdullah Gul which together with the rest of the AK Party are reviving the Ottoman Empire which ruled North Africa,the Balkans and the Middle East for centuries. Turkey has abandoned the principles of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk which somehow has kept Islamist forces under control in which the military had a right to intervene if the secular system was under threat.  (...)

Due to the weaknesses of the Obama Administration which is retreating all across the globe,the Balkans are no exception.Recently came the news that the US military base Bondsteel in Kosovo will be left to the Turkish Army,which technically means that after a century when Turkey was pushed from the Balkans in the First Balkan War (1912-1913) it is returning.The Turkish government stated that the Balkan region is its priority and it wishes to rebuild the links from the Ottoman Era when Turkey was the ruler of the Balkans.The initiative of the Turkish government to return to the Balkans was welcomed by the Bosniak political and spiritual leadership which is led by Bakir Izetbegović which is the Bosniak member of Presidency of B-H and by Reis Ulema Mustafa Cerić which made a statement that Turkey is the mother of the Bosniaks.Most of the soap operas which are broadcasted on Federal TV and Bosnia-Herzegovina TV are of Turkish production, TRT opened its website on Bosnian language and the Bosnia-Herzegovina Post has made a postal mark to commemorate the wonderful relations between Ankara and Sarajevo.But the Croatian population which wants its own entity sees it as a return of an occupying force which has turned Bosnia-Herzegovina from Croatian land in an Oriental mockery which is to this day. (...)  >>>

Feb. 23, 2012
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Infiltration in Greece -

World Press: "Radical Islam Passing through Greece", by Ioannis Michaletos

In a broad sense, Greece, due to a mixture of its geographical placement, history and business links, is considered a gateway for the Islamic element in close proximity to the European Union and the Balkans, and over the past 10 years it has become one of the main transit territories for Islamic-originating illegal immigration to Europe. (...) In 2007 a rocket launch attack with an RPG against the American Embassy in Athens was carried out by the Greek group Revolutionary Struggle, which stated in its proclamation note support for Hezbollah in Lebanon. In 2009 the Greek weekly To Proto Thema reported that Greek leftist terrorists seem to have been trained in Lebanon in paramilitary camps operated by Islamists.(...) >>>

July 5, 2011
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Turkey Trot: neo Ottomanism is taking shape

Occidental Libertas: "Neo-Ottomanism:Turkey is back and it is not going to return to Kemalism"

One of the biggest winners of the Arab Spring besides the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and the Wahhabi movements which are supported by Saudi Arabia is the Islamist government in Ankara which is led by Prime Minister Recep Ergodan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davotoglu and President Abdullah Gul which together with the rest of the AK Party are reviving the Ottoman Empire which ruled North Africa,the Balkans and the Middle East for centuries. Turkey has abandoned the principles of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk which somehow has kept Islamist forces under control in which the military had a right to intervene if the secular system was under threat. Recently Ilker Basbug which is the former chief of the Turkish Army was arrested and it is going to be trialed because he wanted to topple the Islamist government. (...) >>>

Feb. 23, 2012
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Church & Theology: We Are All Catholics Now

The Obama regime has opened the attack on religion and is using Obamacare as a club. Two articles: pOmoland compares it to an event the Netherlands and draws conclusions for freedom. David Goldman is looking beyond the assault on the Roman Catholic Church -

Spengler: "Memo to Jews: After They Come for the Catholic Church, They Will Come For Us"

Feb. 22, 2012
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"The Jihad Project": the hindu experience

Atlas Shrugs: " THE RELENTLESS JIHAD AGAINST HINDUS"

Over eighty million Hindus have been slaughtered in Muslim wars against the non-believers.

"When British India was partitioned in 1947 Hindus and Sikhs constituted about twenty percent of the population in what is now Pakistan. Now it is barely one percent." Jihadwatch
"While India is constantly berated for having severe problems with an amorphous communalism, Pakistan is rarely brought to task over this same standard." "Cleansing Hindus From Pakistan," by Rabir Singh for Conservative Papers, February 12:

In his 1993 BBC television series Akbar S Ahmed, former ambassador from Pakistan to Britain and presently Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington DC, stated that Jinnah had created Pakistan so that India's Muslims could be "safe from Hindu reaction". But he has remained largely silent on the Hindus of Pakistan who have been the victims of Islamic 'reaction', aside from a few meaningless platitudes towards communal harmony. In this he is far from alone. 

When British India was partitioned in 1947 Hindus and Sikhs constituted about twenty percent of the population in what is now Pakistan. Now it is barely one percent. This is a demographic catastrophe which has hardly warranted attention in the media, or from human rights groups and other NGOs. While India is constantly berated for having severe problems with an amorphous communalism, Pakistan is rarely brought to task over this same standard. In one way however Pakistan can be said to have resolved the communal issue; by simply having negligible numbers of minorities to strive for equal rights. (...) >>>

Feb. 14, 2012
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Under the Bus: Muslim power grab - who cares?

Here we go! Archeological News Network: "Mob storms Maldives National Museum, destroys Buddhist statues" -

American Thinker: "Coup in the Maldives", by Rick Moran

Well here's a head-scratcher. The Religion of Peace backs a coup that overthrows a democratically elected government on Tuesday. On Thursday the US recognized the new government. There were reports that the police and security forces forced the president out, but Victoria Nuland, spokeswoman for the US State Department, saw no problem because "President Waheed, as you know, has committed to forming a national unity government." Of course he did. All any new tyrant has to do is coo magic words like "national unity government" and we bow before him. (...) >>>|

Feb. 12. 2012
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Ruled by the Mob: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Where's the chatter coming from against "sovereign citizens". Aren't all Americans sovereign citizens? This is deliberate campaign against patriots -

Zerohedge: "Believe In A Return To The Gold Standard? You Are Now Officially An Extremist According To The FBI"

Just when we thought the US could not sink any further in its usurpation of civil rights, here comes the FBI to advise all those who tend to think that the broken economic model of the past century is the cause for the global insolvency, that wanton fiat diluation and reckless debt issuance does not 'fix' the problem of uber-leverage, and that the gold standard is the proper way to return to monetary stability, will henceforth be considered extremists. From Reuters: "Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday. These extremists, sometimes known as "sovereign citizens," believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference." And the most epic line ever written: "The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard." (...) >>>

Feb. 7, 2012
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Greenism: Germany's green pope turns sceptic

This is the end, folks! If Europe's power house is done, that's it. Read the original piece on No Tricks Zone too. Sit down and enjoy this moment of historical proportions -

Telegraph: "'Germany's George Monbiot' turns climate sceptic", by James Delingpole

When the Germans start running headlines like that in their biggest tabloid newspaper, you know that for the eco loons Der Krieg ist Verloren. It means "Global Warming stopped twelve years ago," and it's part of a serialisation being run by Bild (circulation: 20 million) of Germany's newest surprise bestseller – a climate sceptical book called Die Kalte Sonne (The Cold Sun). (H/T Jay). What's even more surprising is this: one of the authors, Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, is a former environment minister and well-known green activist. P Gosselin at No Tricks Zone has the story (...) >>>

Feb. 7, 2012
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Science as a Narrative: 'scientific' postmodernism

Anyone with half a braincell knew this was going on. Once Dutch sociologist Diederik Stapel had been exposed as a fraud, the flood gates opened. As was the case in the Soviet era with 'scientific Marxism-Leninism', in the war against reality any tactic is ethically legitimate. What stands out? Generalizations are evil, unless it is to indict the opponent: scientically proven, Conservatives are stupid. What else? The premises hardly have any relation at all with Conservatism. it's Conservatism according to Leftist narrative: it's a caricature! From there onwards it's garbage in/garbage out. Probably there's a lot more wrong with this particular 'research'. You parse it yourself for a bit -

Live Science: "Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice"

Feb. 2, 2012
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Transnat'l Progressivism: Davos: FU Capitalism!

While the real avant guarde is looking ahead what what to do after the onset of the bankruptcy of globalization (entry Jan. 26), the degenerated elite is breaking up its annual confab at Davos. Jeffrey Folks is looking back -

Jan. 30, 2012
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A new global paradigm -

If we can keep it together or not with the collapse of the monetary system and deliberately triggered revolutions that have destabilized the entire Middle East, this author is predicting the time of Cumbaya, #NWO, globalization, interconnectivity and interdependence, is over. Indeed, everything is in place for a new global paradigm -

Foreign Policy: "The End of the Win-Win World", by Gideon Rachman

I have spent my working life writing about international politics from the vantage points of the Economist and now the Financial Times. Surrounded by people who tracked markets and business, it has always felt natural for me to see international economics and international politics as deeply intertwined.

In my book Zero-Sum Future, written in 2009, I attempted to predict how the global economic crisis would change international politics. As the rather bleak title implied, I argued that relations between the major powers were likely to become increasingly tense and conflict-ridden. In a worsening economic climate, it would be harder for the big economies to see their relationships as mutually beneficial -- as a win-win. Instead, they would increasingly judge their relationships in zero-sum terms. What was good for China would be seen as bad for America. What was good for Germany would be bad for Italy, Spain, and Greece. (...) >>>

Jan. 26, 2012
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Globalists descend on Davos #NWO -

CanadaFreePress: "Capitalism is the Problem—Who Knew?", Daren Jonescu

The perfectly named World Economic Forum—that is, an organization dedicated to the creation of a world economic system—is meeting in Davos again to discuss the problems of the day, and to propose solutions. Although the official problem-solving has not yet begun, a hint as to the direction of said solutions can be found in the definition of the main problem to be solved, offered by the group’s leader: the “out-dated and crumbling” economic system, capitalism. Surprise!

Among the problem-solvers in attendance: the dean of the China European International Business School, a joint project of the Chinese communist and European socialist governments; the President of the European Central Bank, formerly the head of the Bank of Italy; the Treasury Secretary to America’s first openly redistributionist President; and Tunisia’s new Islamist prime minister, who recently stood with a Hamas Party deputy and called for the “liberation of Jerusalem.” Who better to reform the world’s economy? (...) >>>

Jan. 24, 2012
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Middle East Project: the new divide

The pieces are starting to fall together. Here's how it looks like: USA+NATO+Qatar+Saudi (Sunnis incl. Muslim Brotherhood)) x Iran+Syria (Shia)+Russia. Here's how the Arab Spring came together. Gideon Rachman in "The End of the Win-Win World" foresees an end to globalization and the happy Cumbaya of the #NWO. He may well be right: all the signs for a new paradigm are in place -

RT: "Arab spring: 'Western-backed exported Islamist revolution’"

The string of uprisings in the Arab world boils down to Saudi Arabia and Qatar using money and influence to hijack public dissent and bring Sunni Islamists to power, says John R. Bradley, British author and expert on the Middle East. He argues that the turbulence that saw several governments overthrown in 2011 came from sectarian divide among Muslims, which the West played on, to support its own allies. (...) >>>

Jan. 26, 2012
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Pomo Lingo: all about control and conditioning

The New Editor: Killing the Speech - "Modern" Kids losing Language and Confidence?" Hat tip: @victorsterren

Jan. 23, 2012
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Socialist Utopia Redux: Argentina's serial collapse

"War with Argentina might save the United Kingdom and see Scots abandon independence move", opines @PurpleLine - Indeed. More tinder added to the global powderkeg. Argentina's socialists meanwhile have no learning curve to speak of, as is usual with the Left. The narrative without a doubt: socialism proper has NEVER been tried LOL -

Zerohedge: "Another Consequence Of Economic Decline"

Nearly 10-years ago to the day, the government of Argentina collapsed. Beset by weighty deficit spending and a completely unrealistic currency peg to the US dollar, Argentina became the poster child for the golden rule of economics: ‘that which is unsustainable will not be sustained.’ It’s reversion to the mean. (...) At this point, it’s all just tough talk and petty annoyances. But here’s the thing– there are four billion barrels of oil estimated to be within the Falklands’ territorial waters. Given the utter insanity with which Fernandez governs her country and the desperation in the Argentine economy, one cannot rule out the possibility of her trying to grab Las Malvinas by force. After all, military conflict is the ultimate social distraction.

I’ve often written that economics drives everything. A solid, vibrant, competitive economy lifts an entire nation into prosperity, while deteriorating fundamentals and a socialist agenda create inflation, unemployment, and social turmoil. War is just another one of those consequences. And given the vast deterioration in the global economy coupled with deeply-seeded conflicts around the world, the Falklands is just one of many that we may have to look forward to in 2012. >>>

Jan. 10, 2012
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Freedom isn't Free!: Obama downgrades military

The Guardian: "Barack Obama sets out plans for leaner military in historic strategy shift"

President says armed forces will move away from large-scale ground warfare and focus more on China in wake of budget cuts (...) >>>

Jan. 6, 2012
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#Occupy: orc agit prop

NewZeal: "How serious is the left about disrupting America?"

Jan. 3, 2012
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Iraq: Obama's historical enormity

WaPo: "Obama’s worst error", by Jennifer Rubin

President Obama missed the boat on tax reform. He put politics above entitlement reform. He worsened already-tense relations with Israel. But the worst error, in large part because it was both avoidable and is not irreversible, was to pull all troops out of Iraq. (...) >>>

Dec. 25, 2011
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Political Correctness: merry solistice

This year's harvest of madness and preventive bowing to offended minorities -

OCR: "Mark Steyn: Even Christians taking Christ out of Christmas"

Dec. 17, 2011
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The Pomo Presidency: Obama, the appeaser

Con Underground: "Breaking: We were right, Obama GAVE Iran the Drone!"

A couple of days ago Conunderground.com was the first to point out that the circumstances surrounding the “crash” of the top secret RQ170 Sentinel drone simply didn’t add up. And we were right! The story continues to develop and it doesn’t look good! (...) >>>

Dec. 11, 2011
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Rumbling Russia: danger zone

On the day Putin has his booing election loss "Medvedev ‘drops a bomb’ on missile defense"- Russia’s 'squeezed middle’ is disenchanted with Mr Putin, as his election humiliation shows – even his allies are getting nervous about his plans -

Russia Today: "Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party suffers poll blow"

Dec. 5, 2011
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The Levant's Intricate Intrigues: the sunni-shia divide

Telepraph: "Syria: fall of Bashar al-Assad 'will bring war to Middle East, warns Iraq" ...

and "Here Are The Next Steps In The Escalating Middle East"

Dec.4, 2011
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"Arab Spring" 5.0 -

AsiaTimes: "The shadow war in Syria", by Pepe Escobar - FEATURE

Target Syria - the strategic prize that outstrips Libya. The stage is set. The stakes couldn't be higher. Libya 2.0 equals Syria? It's more like Libya 2.0 remix. With the same R2P (''responsibility to protect'') rationale - starring civilians bombed into ''democracy''. But with no UN Security Council resolution (Russia and China will veto it). Instead, Turkey shines, fanning the flames of civil war.

US Secretary of State Hillary ''we came, we saw, he died'' Clinton set the scene on Indonesian TV a few weeks ago, when she prophesied there would be ''a civil war'' in Syria, with a well financed and ''well-armed opposition'' crammed with army deserters. (...) >>>

Dec. 2, 2011
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Life Ethics: a monster virus

Mail Online: "'Anthrax isn't scary at all compared to this': Man-made flu virus with potential to wipe out many millions if it ever escaped is created in research lab"

A group of scientists is pushing to publish research about how they created a man-made flu virus that could potentially wipe out civilisation. The deadly virus is a genetically tweaked version of the H5N1 bird flu strain, but is far more infectious and could pass easily between millions of people at a time. The research has caused a storm of controversy and divided scientists, with some saying it should never have been carried out. The current strain of H5N1 has only killed 500 people and is not contagious enough to cause a global pandemic. But their are fears the modified virus is so dangerous it could be used for bio-warfare, if it falls into the wrong hands. (...) >>>

Dec. 4, 2011
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The Press from Hell: the emulation of the ChiComs

The Left has somehow come to the conclusion that the autocratic commie republic of China is something to emulate. They never, ever learn, do they. Two items (or three actually), one from a latter day wannabe Walter Duranty and another from the hand of SEIU's Andy Stern: "China's Superior Economic Model: The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash heap of history". Stern by the way was partly indoctrinated at the infamous Marxist Alinsky training center, the Midwest Academy -

WaPoOpinions: "A response to Eugene Robinson on China", by Jennifer Rubin

My colleague Eugene Robinson is in China and wrote a column Wednesday that reads a little like Walter Duranty in the USSR. He says this is his first visit to the country but then plunges into an attack on those who take issue with China’s trade and human rights policies, calling such critics’ arguments “wrong” and imploring us simply to “cheer” China’s progress.

His first bit of “evidence”that China isn’t so different from the good old U.S.A? He’s in a really nice hotel. “My hotel is in the chic, yuppified Chaoyang District, just up the street from an Apple store, a Starbucks, a Calvin Klein boutique and just about every luxury retailer you could possibly name. An hour’s drive away, at the visitors center for the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall, the first restaurant you see is a Subway. High-status automobile brands in China include not just Porsche, Audi and Mercedes, but also Buick.” Umm, so??

He concedes that doesn’t justify China’s unfair trading practices. But then what’s the point of raising it? He says, “But when you walk the streets of Beijing, you see a huge, rapidly growing consumer society that in many ways looks much like our own. I know this is an oversimplification.” Actually, it’s horrible, tragically wrong. (...) >>>

Dec, 1, 2011
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China Chill: the hidden nukes

DailyMail: "China's nuclear arsenal could be up to FORTY times bigger than thought, three-year study of secret documents reveals"

China's nuclear arsenal may be many times larger than estimates suggest, a group of students have claimed after three years of painstaking researching through restricted documents. Led by a former top Pentagon official, the students at Georgetown University, in Washington DC, have scrutinised satellite imagery, translated Chinese military documents and filtered through thousands of online files. The focus of their extensive research has been the thousands of miles of underground tunnels dug by the Second Artillery Corps to hide China's missile arsenal. (...) >>>

Nov. 30, 2011
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The Dialectics: Hegel's rat wheel

Gold Werewolf: "Likely, the most important thing you will ever read"

Georg Hegel is probably the most important man that most have never heard of. Hegel’s theory of argument and persuasion absolutely pervades the entire way issues are viewed in the instant media driven 21st century. I have borrowed an excellent synopsis of Hegel’s methods from Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich.

In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure. The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision.When we remain locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the box. (...) >>>

Nov. 29, 2011
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Americana: politically incorrect guide to Thanksgiving

EPJ: "The Truth about Thanksgiving"

Julie Borowski explains that the generally told story about Thanksgiving leaves out many important facts, and that there was no huge feast, i.e. Thanksgiving, until the Pilgrims dumped their commie ways for a private property society. In other words, though few realize it, Thanksgiving is a celebration of the plenty delivered because the Pilgrims began to respect individual freedom and private property. (...) >>>

Nov. 23, 2011
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Nuclear Proliferation: the Iran-Syria-Pakistan axis

Update: "UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears - British officials consider contingency options to back up a possible US action as fears mount over Tehran's capability". More here. Too bad Cameroon and the Obama are like boys playing war games in a china shop -

In Israel rumor has it an attack on Iran is imminent. Even The Guardian is running the latest UN report: "Iran's nuclear activity under scrutiny as evidence of weapons threat emerges - Atomic agency report uncovers Iranian nuclear experiments experts claim could only be used for development of warhead" -

Breitbart: "AP Exclusive: New signs of Syria-Pakistan nuke tie"

U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms. The buildings in northwest Syria closely match the design of a uranium enrichment plant provided to Libya when Moammar Gadhafi was trying to build nuclear weapons under Khan's guidance, officials told The Associated Press. The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency also has obtained correspondence between Khan and a Syrian government official, Muhidin Issa, who proposed scientific cooperation and a visit to Khan's laboratories following Pakistan's successful nuclear test in 1998. (...) >>>

Nov. 2, 2011
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Rules for the Right: Rick Perry and the Aga Khan

WND: "Rick Perry's dangerous Muslim compromise"

(...) cause for deep concern is an apparently close relationship Perry has fostered over the years with a Muslim leader know as "His Highness" Prince Shah Karim Al-Husayni, the Aga Khan IV. Al-Husayni is the spiritual leader of the Shiite sect of Nizari Ismaili Muslims. Nizaris, a group with roughly 18 million adherents, believe that Al-Husayni is both the physical and spiritual descendant of Islam's prophet, Muhammad. Nizaris refer to Al-Husayni with such grandiose titles as the Imām-I-Zaman (Imam of the Age) and "the Face of Allah." (...) According to the Austin American-Statesman, Perry met Al-Husayni while vacationing with his family in Paris in 2000. In 2002, at a dinner in Houston hosted by Al-Husayni, Perry spoke glowingly of his new friend. Since this time, Perry has continued to attend various Nizari Ismaili Muslim events and by several accounts has become a close friend of Al-Husayni and the Nizari Muslim community. (...) >>>

Oct. 26, 2011
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Out of Africa: troops to Africa, Obama sends a letter

This may be the worst idea since Vietnam - the Obama sends the Speaker a letter that he's sent 100 service personnel to the hell of Africa (Uganda, South Sudan, DRC, and the Central Afr. Rep.) (WTF is Odinga?) *hm* to take the leader of the LRA "off the battlefield" -

Big Peace: "Uganda, LRA, And The ‘Christian’ Lie"

Joseph Kony, the monstrous leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, a group possibly more despicable than Hitler’s nazis, has apparently been targeted by the Obama administration. News broke on October 14th that 100 US troops were being sent to track Kony down. The meme that is being floated in the liberal media is that Kony is a radical Christian protestant. Obama’s apparatchiks might attempt to advance that meme as much as possible for political advantage against the Christian right. There’s a small problem with it. It’s a lie. (...) >>>

Oct. 17, 2011
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The Case for Neo Communism: agit art

Greek Communist Party (KKE) poster in Athens -

photograph by @MajaMischke



























Oct. 16, 2011
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Socialist Causes Explained: the uncle Tom complex

You have to be liberal first -

NYDailyNews: "Why the left fears Herman Cain: Surging candidate threatens allegiance between blacks and Dems"

Though he's been a GOP candidate for President for months, it wasn't until he won the Florida straw poll last month and performed adeptly at the Fox News/Google debate in Orlando that Herman Cain caught the eye of millions and started surging in most polls. And just this week, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed him leading the GOP pack.

One can see why. He espouses a Reagan-esque likeability, he isn't stiff or staid and his story of personal success through hard work and determination is enormously inspiring. (...) That is, unless you're on the left. Yes, the man who compares himself to black walnut ice cream is giving liberals a brain freeze.(...) >>>

Oct. 15, 2011
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The Nazi Appreciation Movement: little Hitler, Egypt edition

Founders of the Egyptian Nazi Party: All We Want is World Supremacy for the Egyptian Race
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Oct. 3, 2011
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On the Record: when's the next revolution?

BBC News: "Supercomputer predicts revolution"

Feeding a supercomputer with news stories could help predict major world events, according to US research. A study, based on millions of articles, charted deteriorating national sentiment ahead of the recent revolutions in Libya and Egypt. While the analysis was carried out retrospectively, scientists say the same processes could be used to anticipate upcoming conflict. The system also picked up early clues about Osama Bin Laden's location. (...) >>>

Sept. 29, 2011
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Obama's Radical Connections:

Who's Harrison J.Bounel? -

Before it's News: “The Wormhole” by Peggy Knutson

I’ve been in a funk lately. Some people seem to think I’m merely a figment of a social media site. Some people think I’m just a joke. Let me be clear, I am neither a figment nor a joke. My name is Harrison J. Bounel and I share the Social Security Number of one of the most powerful men in the world, whom I shall refer to only as “The Other One”. I am, however, a mystery, an enigma, a ghost. Who is the man behind this mask? Who am I and where did I come from? What are my secrets? Those are the things I deliberately obfuscate. I will, however, tell you the truth. I promise I will. But let me warn you, I lie. But not every word is a lie. It will be like walking through a minefield. Or like catching a butterfly without crushing it. Or like herding cats. All at the same time. This is the Truth. The world is made up of two kinds of people. The people who are real and who are powerful. And the people who aren’t. (...) >>>

Sept. 27, 2011
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"The Dystopia of Paradise": positivist epistemology worked out

Spurred on by Pope Benedict's assault on relativism and positivism (read his full address to the Bundestag) it was time to sort through the various theories of epistemology available. One piece of postmodern fallacy might easily be mistaken for another, like Skepticism, Nominalism and Pragmatism, which all share the same fallacious root: thought creates reality -

Aristotle: "Experience is the source of knowledge, logic the structure".

Empiricism: Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience. One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge (...) empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or traditions.

But now for the subjectivist theory:

Positivism: Positivism is defined as "the view that all true knowledge is scientific," and that all things are ultimately measurable. Positivism is closely related to reductionism, in that both involve the view that "entities of one kind... are reducible to entities of another," such as societies to configurations of individuals, or mental events to neural phenomena. It also involves the contention that "processes are reducible to physiological, physical or chemical events," and even that "social processes are reducible to relationships between and actions of individuals," or that "biological organisms are reducible to physical systems."

But positivism is rooted in irrationality and is a fallacy that denies objectivity, morality and follows the subjective 'thought creates reality' 'logic'. It is also nominalist (words are labels without reference in reality).

Ayn Rand cracks it: Logical Positivism declares that “reality,” “identity,” “existence,” “mind” are meaningless terms, that man can be certain of nothing but the sensory perceptions of the immediate moment . . . it declares that the meaning of the proposition: “Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo” is your walk to the library where you read it in a book.

And

"Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach. In the name of reason, Pragmatism established a range-of-the-moment view as an enlightened perspective on life, context-dropping as a rule of epistemology, expediency as a principle of morality, and collective subjectivism as a substitute for metaphysics. Logical Positivism carried it farther and, in the name of reason, elevated the immemorial psycho-epistemology of shyster-lawyers to the status of a scientific epistemological system—by proclaiming that knowledge consists of linguistic manipulations."

Also

"As a defense against the Witch-doctory of Hegel, who claimed universal omniscience, the scientist was offered the combined neo-mystic Witch-doctory and Attila-ism of the Logical Positivists. They assured him that such concepts as metaphysics or existence or reality or thing or matter or mind are meaningless—let the mystics care whether they exist or not, a scientist does not have to know it; the task of theoretical science is the manipulation of symbols, and scientists are the special elite whose symbols have the magic power of making reality conform to their will (“matter is that which fits mathematical equations”). Knowledge, they said, consists, not of facts, but of words, words unrelated to objects, words of an arbitrary social convention, as an irreducible primary; thus knowledge is merely a matter of manipulating language. The job of scientists, they said, is not the study of reality, but the creation of arbitrary constructs by means of arbitrary sounds, and any construct is as valid as another, since the criterion of validity is only “convenience” and the definition of science is “that which the scientists do.” But this omnipotent power, surpassing the dreams of ancient numerologists or of medieval alchemists, was granted to the scientist by philosophical Attila-ism on two conditions: a. that he never claim certainty for his knowledge, since certainty is unknown to man, and that he claim, instead, “percentages of probability,” not troubling himself with such questions as how one calculates percentages of the unknowable; b. that he claim as absolute knowledge the proposition that all values lie outside the sphere of science, that reason is impotent to deal with morality, that moral values are a matter of subjective choice, dictated by one’s feelings, not one’s mind."

Which brings us back to core Aristotle:

Objectivism: Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears (in other words: thought does not create reality. It exists outside, and independent of us. Never confuse the metaphysical and the man-made).

"Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival. Objectivism holds that reality exists independent of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic."

"Objectivism makes morality objective: Ethics is an objective, metaphysical necessity of man’s survival. . . .The standard of value of the Objectivist ethics—the standard by which one judges what is good or evil—is man’s life, or: that which is required for man’s survival qua man. Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil. Since everything man needs has to be discovered by his own mind and produced by his own effort, the two essentials of the method of survival proper to a rational being are: thinking and productive work."

September 25, 2011
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Justice, Pomo Style: giving justice its proper place

Justice isn't social justice or eco justice as leftist postmodernists have us believe. It's morality, the moral compass, which they prefer we think does not exist: the difference between right and wrong, truth from lie, true or false, good en evil -

Catholic Herald: "Full text: Pope’s address to the Bundestag"

(...) Allow me to begin my reflections on the foundations of law [Recht] with a brief story from sacred Scripture. In the First Book of the Kings, it is recounted that God invited the young King Solomon, on his accession to the throne, to make a request. What will the young ruler ask for at this important moment? Success – wealth – long life – destruction of his enemies? He chooses none of these things. Instead, he asks for a listening heart so that he may govern God’s people, and discern between good and evil (cf. 1 Kg 3:9). (...) Read it all >>>

Sept. 24, 2011
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TeaParty Album: the secret agenda

Hannan makes a correct observation. The Ruling Party prefers to deal with the Tea Party as an authoritarian mob. But there's another effect: the Overton Window. It lands the far Left somewhere in the mainstream -

AdamSmith.org: "The Tea Party tendency"

In his speech at the Liberal Democrat Party conference yesterday, energy secretary Chris Huhne declared: “we need no Tea Party tendency in Britain”. My view is completely different – I would argue that a Tea Party tendency is precisely what Britain needs. But let’s be clear about terms. As Daniel Hannan wrote on his blog yesterday:

The Tea Party, perhaps more than any other contemporary movement, brings out the 'Yeah, but what they're really saying…' tendency. The 'tea' stands for 'Taxed Enough Already' but, if you relied on the BBC and the Guardian for your information, you might not know it. Many Lefties pretend – or perhaps have genuinely convinced themselves – that the Tea Party is clandestinely protesting against immigration or abortion or the fact of having a mixed race president; anything, in fact, other than what it actually says it's against, viz big government. The existence of a popular and spontaneous anti-tax movement has unsettled the Establishment. They'd much rather deal with a stupid and authoritarian Right than with a libertarian one. Hence the almost desperate insistence that the Tea Partiers have some secret agenda… (...) >>>

Sept. 21, 2011
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The Flotilla Tactic: Turkey picking a war, GR, CY, IL pull together

DebkaFile: "Israeli-Greek defense pact invoked versus Turkish naval and air movements"

Israel and Greece have invoked the mutual defense pact they signed secretly only 12 days ago in the light of heavy Turkish sea and air movements in the eastern Mediterranean. DEBKAfile's sources report that this was decided in a long nocturnal phone conversation Wednesday night Sept. 14 between the Israeli and Greek prime ministers, Binyamin Netanyahu and George Papandreou, and at Israel's expanded cabinet of eight, which was called into session over the Turkish threat to its off-shore oil and gas rigs. (...) >>>

Sept. 15,2011
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The Finer Points of Warfare: verdict on #DigiNotar hack

EFF: "A Post Mortem on the Iranian DigiNotar Attack"

More facts have recently come to light about the compromise of the DigiNotar Certificate Authority, which appears to have enabled Iranian hackers to launch successful man-in-the-middle attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users inside and outside of Iran. (...) EFF has been worried about structural flaws and systematic insecurity in the CA ecosystem for some time now, and our SSL Observatory project has been studying and documenting these problems. Sadly, they have now been demonstrated in a more pointed way. (...)

The problem we face with Certificate Authorities is not just that there are particular vulnerabilites in any one CA. Rather, the massive structural crisis is that, as the SSL Observatory has shown, there are many hundreds of certificate authorities and an attacker only needs to break into one of those order to start issuing fraudulent certificates. Furthermore, these CAs appear to exist within around fifty countries' jurisdictions. Any one of these countries could conceivably compel a CA to create fraudulent certificates for purposes of espionage or for spying on that country's citizens. The DigiNotar hack has merely underlined how fragile the certificate authority system really is. Anyone who values the privacy and security of their communications and financial transactions online should take steps to protect themselves.

Statements have appeared strongly suggesting that the DigiNotar attacker is the same person who attacked Comodo earlier this year. The Tor Project has published extensive updates on the scope of the attack, including the list of the 531 fraudulent certificates issued by DigiNotar. This list shows that the attacker was prepared to facilitate spying against many major Internet sites. The attacker claims to be an individual Iranian who has chosen to help the government monitor individuals' communications. Additionally, he claims to have compromised four additional as-yet-unspecified certificate authorities. If true, the Iranian government may still have the power to forge new certificates in the name of these other authorities. (...) >>>

Sept. 15, 2011
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Updates on the cyber war mullahs dated Aug. 30 -

Tweeps can follow @cinnamon_carter and @hkashfi  -

F-Secure: "DigiNotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers"

(...) DigiNotar's portal has been hacked. Somebody claiming to be an Iranian Hacker has gained access. This would look like a smoking gun. Obviously this has to be connected somehow to the rogue certificate. But if you keep looking, you'll find this page from https://www.diginotar.nl/Portals/0/owned.txt: (...)

Another Iranian hacker group? If you keep digging deeper, you'll find that although these web defacements are still live right now, they are not new. Much worse: they were done years ago. (...) >>>

Sept. 10, 2011
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Update Sept. 5: Intel is now trickling through as to the extent of the hacking of Dutch Internet certificate authority DigiNotar, most probably by Iran. A Kaspersky Lab Expert has a break down of most of the important takeaways from this incident:

The damage sustained to the Dutch (government) IT infrastructure is quite significant. A lot of services are no longer available. Effectively, communications have been disrupted. Because of this one could make an argument the attack is an act of cyberwar. 

Stuxnet had a huge impact. However, there didn't seem to be a sense of urgency to put cyberwar and cybersecurity on most of the political agendas. This incident will clearly put cybersecurity and cyberwar on the political agenda.

The Dutch govt meanwhile is playing it down, telling corporations, go ahead, please file your tax declaration!

Pomoland: "DigiNotarGate! Islamofascists Stole Dutch SSNs. So What?"

Dutch Internet safety certificate authority DigiNotar has been hacked by Iran. Entirely. Not just the commercial department, but also the 'hermetically separated' section that provides safety certs for the Dutch govt. DigiNotar has foreign companies and governmental agencies as its clients too. It will take some time to figure out the total damage involved. This is the conclusion of forensic ICT company, Fox-IT (govt statement (PDF)). DigiNotar, the Home Office, Logius (SSN management agency) and GovCERT have maintained until last night that Iran's islamohackers have not been able to get to the state certs. But in an unusual midnight presser the Home Secretary has admitted that the govt certs have been compromized as well. (...) >>>

Sept. 4, 2011
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Communist Crimes on Trial: control by humiliation

Jamie Glazov's epic interview with Theodore Dalrymple -

FrontPage: "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It"

(...) FP: You mention that your dad was a communist. Tell us about his world view and how this affected your family and your own intellectual journey.

Dalrymple: My father was a communist though he was also a businessman. Our house was full of communist literature from the 1930s and 40s, and I remember such authors as Plekhanov and Maurice Hindus and Edgar Snow. It was always clear that my father's concern for humanity was not always matched by his concern for men, to put it mildly, for whom (as individuals) he often expressed contempt. He found it difficult to enter an equal relationship with anyone, and preferred to play Stalin to their Molotov. We had The Short Course in the house, incidentally, and one of my favourite books (which I used to leaf through as a child) was a vast picture book of the Soviet Union in 1947. (...) >>>

Sept. 10, 2011
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The Cold War's 9/11 -

CFP: "Castro and Che’s Foiled (and Forgotten) 9/11"

“I’m proud of the path of Osama bin Laden,” gushed Ilich Ramírez Sánchez from a French prison in 2002. Ramirez was also known during the 1970’s as “Carlos the Jackal,” and “The World’s Most Wanted Terrorist.” In 1967 Ramirez-Sanchez was an eager recruit into Cuba’s “guerrilla” (terror) training camps started by Che Guevara in 1959. “Bin Laden has followed a trail I myself blazed,” he continued during an interview with the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. “I followed news of the September 11 attacks on the United States non-stop from the beginning. I can’t describe that wonderful feeling of relief!” “We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home,” raved Carlos the Jackal’s idol and spiritual mentor (Che Guevara) in his Message to the Tri-Continental Conference in 1966, “to his places of work and recreation.

The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm!” 

Fortunately, on Nov. 17 1962, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI foiled the “war” Castro and Che had planned for us “hyenas,” in some of our favorite “places of recreation.” On Saturday morning, November 17th, 1962, FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. took on “all the trappings of a military command post,” according to historian William Breuer. As well it might have. The night before an intelligence puzzle had finally come together. The resulting picture staggered the FBI men. (...) >>>

May 7, 2011
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Stop Islamization of America: a practical guide of the resistance

Atlas Shrugs: "THE BATTLEPLAN HITS BOOKSTORES TODAY!"

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You know what's at stake. We both do. That is why I wrote this essential primer for patriots. You must read this book. Go to SIOAbook.com Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance

The book is out! This must-have book is the how-to guide on how to fight the islamization of your town, your city, your country. This is a guide to protecting our country. (...) >>>

Sept. 6, 2011
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Assault of the New Storm Troopers: fascism in London

Double bill -

MailOnline: "The moment EDL bus is attacked by dozens of Asian men after it broke down following protest meeting in East London"

YouTube: "UAF - Celebrating Violence Against Women in Tower Hamlets" (video)

UPDATE: The woman had her jaw fractured by the UAFs, but is now back from the hospital. She had been dragged out from a back-door and beaten to the ground - Apparently the bus-driver not only drove the wrong route, but oppened the emergency door aswell - ALL prior coaches went another route. (...) >>>

Sept. 5, 2011
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Through the looking glass -

Big Government: "Why Is the New York Times Shilling for Far-Left Terrorists While Smearing the Patriot Who Exposed Them?", by Matthew Vadum

As a wave of left-wing violence threatens to engulf the nation, why is the progressive New York Times running an ugly campaign of character assassination against a real-life American hero who saved lives and helped to safeguard the nation’s sacred democratic process?

Could it be because the newspaper is sympathetic to the goals of the thuggish community organizers and union goons intimidating state legislatures across America and wants to help advance the liberal-left narrative? (...) >>>

Feb. 27, 2011
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It was going so well...

Spiegel: "Crisis Fuels Rise in Left-Wing Extremist Violence"

Following the 2007 protests at the G-8 meeting in Heiligendamm, the number of attacks by leftist extremists has risen dramatically in Germany. The government is increasing its focus on the autonomists, but authorities know little about a new generation that is torching cars, and worse, in its fight.

The man is a member of Berlin's left-wing radical autonomist movement, and he's engaged in a struggle against the system. If a few things have to go up in flames as part of that struggle, it doesn't usually bother him too much. But there are limits -- and the deaths of three people recently in Greece, employees at a bank where someone threw a firebomb, have left him contemplating them.

"I never imagined something like this," the man says. He's come to a cafe at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin's diverse Kreuzberg district to talk about left-wing militancy in Germany. In his mid-twenties, he's wearing a baseball cap and a t-shirt bearing the logo of the Zapatistas, Mexico's left-wing guerrilla movement. He gives no name, revealing only that he was involved in organizing the May 1 protest in Berlin and that he belongs to an anti-fascist group. He begins to talk about Greece. The revolutionary resistance there seemed to have entered a promising phase, with unions and autonomists united on the streets. It was going so well, he says. And now this. (...) >>>

May 20, 2010
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Pointing fingers -

Townhall: "Liberal Violence: Five Names You Should Know", by John Hawkins

(...) liberals in the media who are forever baffled by events that the average person has grasped since he was a child, these killers tend to break down into three groups. If they're devout Muslims and are connected to terrorists, then they must have killed for some reason OTHER than their religion. If they're conservative murderers, then they must have killed because of Glenn Beck, talk radio, the Tea Party movement, or whoever the hot conservative villain of the moment is and they're obviously part of a wider trend. On the other hand, if they're liberal, well then, at best the killer in question must be some random wacko who should immediately be forgotten. At worst, liberals try to paint leftward leaning killers as conservatives. (...)

This is actually quite ironic given that openly violent groups have been tolerated, if not embraced by the Left. ELF, ALF, the Black Panthers, G8 rioters, the black bloc at anti-war rallies, and even the Weathermen are looked upon favorably by liberals. (...) Still, it's not enough to simply point out that liberals wink at leftist groups that engage in violence. When the next nutjob kills someone -- and regrettably, there will always be a next time -- conservatives need examples to point towards when the MSM tries to once again convince the public that only right-wing wackos do that sort of thing. Here are a few worthy examples to throw back at them when they try it. (...) >>>

May 3, 2010
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Update on Broken bones for a Palin pin -

Human Events: "UPDATE: Beaten Jindal Staffer Says Protesters are the Perpetrators", by Connie Hair

The mother of one of the victims of a brutal beating in New Orleans outside of a Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) event has confirmed in a new interview that the two victims assaulted outside of the high-dollar GOP fundraiser believe their attackers were part of the crowd of protesters outside the event. Allee Bautsch, 25, a top fundraiser for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, 29, were verbally assailed as they left the event, followed to their car then savagely beaten.

Bautsch’s leg was “stomped” by her assailants causing breaks in four places that required surgery, a steel rod and seven screws to reconstruct. Brown suffered a broken jaw and nose, a brain concussion and black eye. (...) The main group planning the protest according to their fliers was The Iron Rail Collective, a New Orleans-based anarchist group in the vein of those who make news in America and worldwide as they trash and burn cities whenever and wherever world leaders meet.

(Other reported protesters at the SRLC event included a group of University of New Orleans "UNO" professors and local Democrat groups.) Their signs at the GOP event protest included the capital “A” with a circle, an anarchist gang-style symbol, and such gems as, “Capitalist f***s,” “Tax the Rich,” “JINDAL, tell your rich friends to GO HOME,” and “Ruling class robbers” to name a few. Select protesters attempted to hide their identity by tying scarves or bandanas around their heads to cover the lower half of their faces right below the eyes. (...) >>>

Apr 19, 2010
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Update: jury still out on Palin pin -

Free Republic: "Report: Attack on Jindal Aide and Boyfriend Politically Motivated (Beaten for wearing Palin buttons)"

Allee Bautsch, chief campaign fundraiser for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend Joe Brown, were savagely beaten Friday night in New Orleans after leaving a Republican party fundraising dinner by a group of thugs who reportedly targeted the couple because they were wearing Sarah Palin pins. Bautch's leg was broken and Brown incurred a broken jaw and nose as well as a concussion. (...) >>>

Apr 13, 2010
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Eric Cantor denounces the agitation, as his Richmond campaign office was shot at -

WaPo: "Eric Cantor accuses Democrats of 'fanning flames' on member threats"

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) angrily lashed out at Democratic leaders for their handling of reported threats against members of Congress Thursday, accusing them of "dangerously fanning the flames" by blaming the GOP and confiding that he has also been the recipient of threats.

Concerns about security for members of Congress burst into the spotlight this week after several lawmakers reported death threats or incidents of vandalism directed at them and their offices because of their support for the health-care overhaul legislation. Some Democrats have suggested that Republicans may have encouraged such behavior by acting rowdily during the weekend House debate on the reform bill. (...)

"I've received threats since I assumed elected office, not only because of my position but also because I'm Jewish. I've never blamed anyone in this body for that, period. Any suggestion that a leader in this body would incite threats or acts against other members is akin to saying that I would endanger myself, my wife or my children. Just recently I have been directly threatened. A bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond this week, and I've received threatening e-mails. But I will not release them, because I believe such actions will only encourage more to be sent," he said. (...) >>>

Mar 25, 2010
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Ann on "positive space" (wtf?)

Human Events: "Oh, Canada!", by Ann Coulter

Since arriving in Canada I've been accused of thought crimes, threatened with criminal prosecution for speeches I hadn't yet given and denounced on the floor of the Parliament (which was nice because that one was on my "bucket list").

Posters advertising my speech have been officially banned, while posters denouncing me are plastered all over the University of Ottawa campus. Elected officials have been prohibited from attending my speeches. Also, the local clothing stores are fresh out of brown shirts. Welcome to Canada! (...) >>>

Mar 25, 2010
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Another cute acronym -

The Seattle Times: "2 radio towers in Washington state toppled"

Two radio station towers near Seattle that have generated intense local opposition were toppled early Friday in an act of sabotage that bore the initials of the radical Earth Liberation Front. An e-mail from the North American ELF Press Office, which has represented the shadowy group in the past, says the towers for KRKO-AM were torn down because of health and environmental concerns. Authorities say a banner that bore the initials of the ELF was left at the scene. (...) >>>

Sep 5, 2009
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Update on Aug. 12, 2009

Thoughts.com: "Obama, Acorn and SEIU in charge??"

(...) After you watch them, please get as many black people as you know to watch them (...) >>>

The Health Care Reform debate (the SEIU is an ACORN tentacle) and other issues:

• Breitbart TV: "SEIU LAUNCHES NEW VIDEO ATTACK ON ‘TEABAGGERS’

• Breitbart TV: "SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER RACIAL ASSAULT ON BLACK CONSERVATIVE AT ST. LOUIS TOWN HALL"

• Popmodal: "Union Thugs beat up woman in Los Angeles"

• Gateway Pundit: "PROTEST THE OBAMA GOON SQUAD-- Rally Today at SEIU Headquarters in St. Louis - JUST SAY "NO!" TO CHICAGO-STYLE POLITICS!

Team Obama called out their goon squad this week to beat down the anti-Obamacare protesters at a local town hall event in St. Louis. Team Obama wants to silence those who dare stand against his takeover of the health care industry. (...) Today there will be a peaceful protest and press conference at the SEIU goon squad headquarters in St. Louis at noon. Address: >>>



Aug. 8, 2009
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Wikipedia: "Black bloc"

A black bloc refers to a tactic, developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, whereby participants attended protests and marches wearing black clothing, ski masks and motorcycle helmets with padding, steel-toed boots and often carrying their own shields and truncheons.[1] The clothing is used to avoid being identified by authorities, and to theoretically appear as one large mass, promote solidarity, and create a clear revolutionary presence. (...) >>>

May 19, 2009
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Mail Online: "Fifty years for 'urban terrorists': Animals rights fanatics jailed for campaign of intimidation"
A judge branded seven animal rights extremists 'urban terrorists' yesterday as he jailed them for a total of 50 years for a ruthless campaign of intimidation. Mr Justice Butterfield said the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty activists made life a 'living hell' for thousands of men, women and children by subjecting them to a 'relentless, sustained and merciless persecution'. He also called for the law to be changed to allow tougher sentences for blackmailers, after warning the ringleaders of the network were likely to return to extremism once they were freed. (...) >>>

Jan 22, 2009
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JIDF: "Starbucks in London's East End FIREBOMBED"

Harry's Place has a story up which isn't getting much coverage. Apparently terrorism is happening now for online "glory" while it is barely being covered elsewhere. Here are some excerpts:

"Early this morning, thugs smashed their way into the coffee shop as the manager hid inside the office. As he watched on the security monitor in the office, they daubed racist graffiti and finally lobbed a molotov-cocktail through the plate-glass window. Luckily he managed to make it to the fire-escape and raise the alarm. Fire-fighters managed to stop the flames spreading to the adjacent buildings." "...At Indymedia, it is being flagged up as a triumph of "peace activism" ("Smashing the Israeli war machine - Starbucks, Whitechapel firebombed " is the headline)." "...Depressingly, the news that a shop in London was firebombed and daubed with antisemitic graffiti seems only to have been reported in the local press - and of course, crowed about at Indymedia." (...) >>>

Jan 15, 2009

Of cource, these are no longer isolated cases, but for the December 2008 goings-on in Greece we must refer you to that particular page.
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Smoke and Mirrors: fascism=Fabian socialism

Forbes: "Obama, Hitler, And Exploding The Biggest Lie In History", by Bill Flax

Numerous commentators have raised alarming comparisons between America’s recent economic foibles and Argentina’s fall “from breadbasket to basket case.” The U.S. pursues a similar path with her economy increasingly ensnared under the growing nexus of government control. Resources are redistributed for vote-buying welfare schemes, patronage style earmarks, and graft by unelected bureaucrats, quid pro quo with unions, issue groups and legions of lobbyists.

In Argentina, everyone acknowledges that fascism, state capitalism, corporatism – whatever – reflects very leftwing ideology. Eva Peron remains a liberal icon. President Obama’s Fabian policies (Keynesian economics) promise similar ends. His proposed infrastructure bank is just the latest gyration of corporatism. Why then are fascists consistently portrayed as conservatives?

In the Thirties, intellectuals smitten by progressivism considered limited, constitutional governance anachronistic. The Great Depression had apparently proven capitalism defunct. The remaining choice had narrowed between communism and fascism. Hitler was about an inch to the right of Stalin. Western intellectuals infatuated with Marxism thus associated fascism with the Right. (...) >>>

Sept. 4, 2011
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Transnational Bankruptcy: the racist anti racism counter conference

Durban III: "What happens when a group of states collude to corrupt the meaning of human rights?"

Aug. 31, 2011
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The Political Pathology Asylum: Muslim Denial Psycho Explained

pOmoLanD: "OUCH! Psycho Explaining Muslim Denial"

In Judeo-Christian guilt culture we attach a lot of value to truth, sincerety and individual rights. The feeling of guilt is allowing us to live in accordance with our own morality and the dominant ethics system. But in the Arabic-Islamic shame culture it's more important how others see you. In this culture honor must be preserved and shame must be averted at all cost. You have basically carte blanche to do whatever evil comes to mind, as long as no one finds out about it (the hypocs!). Just consistently deny everything! (...) >>>

July 10, 2011
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Antisemitism: Council of Churches joins Islamo-Socialist Nexus

YNet: "The churches against Israel"

(...) The World Council of Churches, an ecumenical Christian body based in Genève and boasting 590 million worshippers, just ended a four-day conference in the Greek city of Volos. Not a single word of criticism was uttered there against the Islamists who are persecuting Arabs who believe Jesus.

Lutherans arrived to Volos from the United States, Catholics and Protestants from Bethlehem and Nazareth, Orthodox Christians from Greece and Russia, lecturers from Beirut and Copts from Egypt. The conference declared the Jewish State "a sin" and "occupying power," accused Israelis of "dehumanizing" the Palestinians, theologically dismantled the "choseness" of the Jewish people and called for "resistance" as a Christian duty. (...) >>>

6 juni 2011
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In Defense of Liberty: Wilders' nemesis turns to the UN

The Amsterdam Court acquitted Geert Wilders last week of all charges. Since then we've had this piece of news -

pOmoLanD: "ShocK! Wilders' Plaintiffs To Appeal ... @ the UNHRC!"

Now that Wilders has been acquitted of all charges of hate spread, group insult and differentation, the plaintiffs are showing their hidden agenda. We learn from the Leftist 365/24/7 Wilders Bash Blog, Joop @2525 (pica) they will be appealing against the verdict in a formal complaint lodged at the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. (...) >>>

June 29, 2011
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Stop the Obama Constitutional Crisis: proof of fraud

WND: "Criminal complaint charges Obama birth record 'forged' - 22-page brief filed with FBI claims 'irrefutable proof' document a fraud"

This is the first of three articles on the criminal complaint that scanner-expert Doug Vogt filed last week with the FBI.

An international expert on scanners and document-imaging software filed a 22-page criminal complaint with the FBI, charging that the long-form birth certificate released by the White House is criminally fraudulent.

"What the Obama administration released is a PDF image that they are trying to pass off as a Certificate of Live Birth Long Form printed on green security paper by the Hawaiian Health Department," Doug Vogt writes, "but this form is a created forgery." (...) >>>

June 1, 2011
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