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-Obits-
Physicist linked to China program
[Wash Times] A noted Chinese-born physicist and Stanford University quantum scientist who died Dec. 1 was linked to Beijing’s major program to corner the world market in key advanced technologies.

Zhang Shoucheng, 55, died in an apparent suicide and had suffered from depression, according to his family.

However, his death came days after a Nov. 30 report by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer linking the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Danhua Capital, which Zhang founded and led, to China’s "Made in China 2025" technology dominance program.

The 2025 program was launched in 2015 and has been cited by the Trump administration to show that Beijing is engaged in a strategic program of stealing American know-how. The program is aimed at helping China dominate world markets in advanced technologies, including aerospace, information and communications technology, robotics, industrial machinery, new materials and automobiles.

Stanford said in a statement that Zhang was involved in quantum physics research related to interacting electrons. The research led to predictions of new phenomena and exotic states of matter. He took part in research on novel materials, quantum gravity and artificial intelligence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 00:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


RS-25 engine just had a significant anomaly during a test fire

This was one of the "Shuttle" type engines being tested for the government's SLS rocket. (Senate Launch System - massive welfare package for Huntsville)
Can't say for sure, but it appears to have spun a rod bearing.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone added Carolina Reaper to the fuel mix? I understand you get exhaust issues like that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2018 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  How many engines? Sixteen, "enough" for four (4) launches ... maybe.
NASA defends decision to restart RS-25 production, rejects alternatives
Or is this a NASA job security program, instead?
Posted by: magpie || 12/13/2018 14:05 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Bearded Axe Restoration - NO Power tools (video)
Much to learn in this video from a very talented young man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 08:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Vinegar... Huh? Thanks Besoeker for a fun video!
Posted by: magpie || 12/13/2018 13:59 Comments || Top||


Glenn Beck Pays off $27,000 Worth of Layaway Balances at Texas Walmart
[PJ] Glenn Beck, conservative commentator and founder of TheBlaze, walked into a Texas Walmart on Saturday and in the spirit of the Christmas holidays paid off $27,000 worth of layaway balances.

Beck, who was at the store with his children and wife Tania, live-streamed their trip to the North Richland Hills Walmart to pay off customers' layaway balances that were set to come due on Monday.

"We were really inspired by [actor] Tyler Perry and what he did at the Walmart in Atlanta," Beck said in the video, "so we're going to buy everything in layaway as well for everybody who has put anything in layaway."

Perry paid off $434,000 in layaway balances for 1,500 shoppers at an Atlanta Walmart on December 6. That act of generosity led singer Kid Rock to do the same at a Nashville Walmart, where he paid off $81,000 in balances.

In the video, Beck challenged Bill O'Reilly, Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and others to follow Perry's lead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tyler Perry leans to the right. The others are considered "right wing radicals" by MSM. Atlanta, Nashville, etc. will take a positive note of Santa's Helpers.
Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 || 12/13/2018 3:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Where did Fake Conservative Glenn Beck suddenly get all this money? Wasn't The Blaze going bankrupt in the wake of Trump?

Is he just a new conduit for Google cash?

I suspect that 27,000.00 is a hell of a lot less than the dems have taken away from us down here on the Gulf Coast. Go away, carpetbagger.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/13/2018 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Better for all to do this sort of thing anonymously.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/13/2018 20:39 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Airport Travelers Stop, Stand and Sing National Anthem For Children of Fallen Service Members
[Daily Caller] A video of busy airline travelers standing, saluting and paying respects to children whose parents had died in combat has gone viral.

The video was taken at the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee as a plane of children who lost a parent in combat transferred flights. The kids were met with a rendition of the national anthem and patriotic decorations at the gate. As the anthem was played as other travelers in the airport stopped and saluted the children.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 01:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Egypt to renovate its Jewish heritage sites
[Ynet] Sisi earmarks $71 million as Cairo marks Hanukkah with unprecedented joint event for Jews, Moslems and Christians.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will allocate $71 million to renovate Jewish heritage sites and synagogues in Egypt, Minister of Archeology Khaled al-Anani revealed, as the country marked the festival of Hanukkah with an interfaith gathering.

The Egyptian government has some 500 items collected from synagogues, which will be presented to the general public. Cairo has 13 synagogues, but only three of them are active: the Shaarei Shamayim Synagogue, the Ben Ezra Synagogue in the Abbassia neighborhood and the synagogue of the Karaite
...a sect of Judaism that cleaves to the written law, the Old Testament only, unlike rabbinic Judaism giving no weight to the so-called Oral Law of the Talmud. Since the Egyptian expulsion following the establishment of Israel, the largest community lives in Israel...
community. al-Anani said that some of the synagogues would cease to serve as houses of worship and would instead become tourist sites open to the general public.

"There is significance in rehabilitating Jewish synagogues, similar to renovating pharaonic, Islamic and Coptic heritage sites," the minister said. But he added: "It should be remembered that the Jewish articles and the synagogues belong to the Egyptian government."
“So you Jewish exiles can just stop trying to regain your community treasures.”
Sisi stressed that there would be no "foreign involvement" in the renovation process - an indirect referense to attempts by Jewish organizations abroad to intervene in and finance the renovation work. He said that all the work would be carried out by Egyptians only, using Egyptian government funds.

"Most of the synagogues are currently in very poor condition and must be renovated in order to turn them into visitors' centers," explained al-Anani, during a special presentation at the Egyptian parliament. He also said that an anti-smuggling authority operating in the UAE city of Sharjah located hundreds of items from Egyptian synagogues that were destined for Europe.
Ah. I wondered what this was about: tourist fodder.
According to al-Anani, Jewish, Islamic and pharaonic artifacts were also smuggled into Italia, "and we are negotiating with the Italian government for their return."

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
Cairo for the first time celebrated Hanukkah with a joint event for Jews, Moslems and Christians. The head of the Egyptian Jewish community, Magda Haroun, invited dozens of non-Jewish guests to the Shaarei Shamayim synagogue on the outskirts of Cairo for a ceremony at which she explained the meaning of the holiday.
“See? We loves us those benighted but picturesque natives. Even if we no intention of allowing their expelled cousins move back.”
Fewer than a dozen Jews, most of them elderly, remain of what was once a large Egyptian Jewish community.
That’s what eventually happens when the law says all Jewish males must leave at the age of eighteen.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela-Russia wargames an 'alert' for region: Colombia
[PULSE.NG] Venezuela's joint military exercises with Russia should put the entire South American continent on alert against an "unfriendly act", Colombia's President Ivan Duque warned Wednesday.

Duque accused Venezuela of using the arrival of two Russian long-range bombers in Caracas as "provocative tools".

"The continent has to be alert," Duque told Colombia's RCN Television.

"This is not only an unfriendly act against Colombia, but an unfriendly act....against a region where there is something called the treaty of Reciprocal Assistance where, if there is any aggression, all countries should protect the country attacked," Duque said.

Two Russian long-range strategic bombers landed in Venezuela on Monday for what Caracas said were air force exercises aimed at strengthening the defence of the leftist-ruled South American country.

Bogota, which has emphatically denied socialist President Nicolas Maduro's claims that it is seeking his overthrow, said on Tuesday that it will continue to act with "prudence" during the wargames.

Colombia "does not allow itself to be intimidated, but neither does it allow itself to be provoked, nor does it go out to provoke our neighbors, any of our neighbors," said Defence Minister Guillermo Botero.

The two countries share a 2,200 kilometer (1,370-mile) border, but relations have been strained in recent years, with Duque and his predecessor Juan Manuel Santos branding Maduro a dictator.

Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I'm doubtful of Russia's ability to supply any thing at scale in this hemisphere. Venezuela is too broke to even eat.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam || 12/13/2018 9:52 Comments || Top||

#2  And speaking of that pic of a pretty Webster-looking Putin in a poopy suit...

While sifting one day through the rubble
And slides of a mountain of trouble,
She smiles. Sure as shootin',
The Hillspawn... and Putin.
Don't that take a load offa Hubbell?
Posted by: Percy the Slender6482 || 12/13/2018 18:08 Comments || Top||


Venezuela’s Maduro accuses John Bolton of plotting to assassinate him
[ALMASDARNEWS] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday accused US National Security Adviser John Bolton of preparing a plan to overthrow and kill him.
I felt a great disturbance in The Force...
"John Bolton leads the plan to unleash violence and conduct a coup to introduce a transitional government. Bolton is preparing a plan of my liquidation. He is training, in various places, mercenary and paramilitary units’ forces jointly with Colombia, whose president Ivan Duque is an accomplice of this plan," Maduro said at a presser broadcast on his Facebook page.
... as though millions of Venezuelans were crying out...
Earlier in the month, Nicholas Madure has already stated that the United States is preparing to topple the Venezuelan government.

"An attempt to undermine Venezuela’s democratic life and to carry out a coup d’etat against the constitutional, democratic regime in our country has been launched under the coordination from the White House," Maduro was quoted as saying by the AVN news agency on 9 December.

The president added that in the coming days, he would hold a presser to provide details on the alleged plans of Washington to carry out a coup in Venezuela.

In early August, Maduro was attending a military parade in Caracas, when his speech was interrupted by what the Venezuelan authorities said was a failed liquidation attempt involving explosive drones.

Maduro claimed in October that the United States had allegedly instructed Colombia to organize his liquidation.

Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Being told to "F off and Die" is not necessarily a plot to assassinate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2018 6:48 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Another Canadian Now Missing in China, Minister Says It's Businessman Michael Spavor
[Epoch Times] BEIJING‐Canada’s Foreign Ministry said it has been unable to contact Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, since he notified the government that he was being questioned by Chinese authorities.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland earlier told reporters that a second Canadian citizen could be in trouble in China.

"We are aware of a Canadian who got in touch with us because he was being asked questions by Chinese authorities," Freeland told the media on Dec. 12. "We have not been able to make contact with him since he let us know."

Authorities in China are already holding former diplomat Michael Kovrig who was detained on Dec. 10.

China has reacted angrily to Canada’s arrest on Dec. 1 of Chinese executive Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies and Spavor’s disappearance is likely to further escalate the diplomatic row.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 06:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "That's too coincidental to be a coincidence."
~ Yoggi Berra
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  So the Canadians arrest Meng based on an arrest warrant, duly notify the ChiComm Embassy as called for in the Vienna Convention, provide her medical care, and a transparent process to request bail.

These 2 Canadians are in dark hole and won't see daylight for quite some time.

Hmmm...which place would you rather be??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/13/2018 8:19 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Your Phone Is Tracking Your Every Movement. Here's What You Can Do About It
[PJ] In a revealing New York Times expose, an investigation revealed that hundreds of apps are tracking our every move, many without asking permission or explaining what they are doing with the information. They know exactly where we are and where we have been at almost any moment in time.

It’s a broad surveillance effort, affecting over 200 million Americans, designed to gather more personal data and sell it to corporations, including advertisers, banks, insurance companies, health providers, and retailers. IBM, for example, is one of the key players in this industry. Examples in the article include apps tracking people into hospital operating rooms, school classrooms, and doctor’s offices, with each individual being tracked thousands of times per day. While many in the industry claim the information is anonymous, it doesn’t take much effort to connect a residence or office to its occupants.

While we expect to be tracked by such apps as Google Maps and Lyft, what it was revealing to learn how many other apps are doing it ‐ apps that have no need to know our location for them to function. Tracking is simply being added to the app as a way to generate revenue.

It’s a good bet that you’re being tracked right now. When I checked my phone I found numerous apps tracking me that have no need to know where I am. They include games, news sites, credit card companies, and travel sites, with many of them doing it even when the app is not being used.

What can you do to avoid being tracked? You can turn off the tracking by these apps or reduce the amount of tracking. You have more control over iOS phones, but you can make changes to Android phones as well. Another benefit to reduced tracking is that it reduces battery usage.

Note that you can’t rely on the apps being upfront and telling you that they are tracking you unless you want to get into the detailed agreements. Even if you make the effort to read all the fine print, many don’t disclose it clearly, and when they do, they're evasive and don’t always tell you what they do with the information.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why not just keep the phone in a small Faraday cage?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/13/2018 2:11 Comments || Top||

#2  ..wrap it in aluminum foil.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2018 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes to all above. But be sure, hide it under a hammer.

We had a ZTE. I was having coffee with the boys at our country store and the French Press was brought up as a wonderful taste method of our morning fuel.

I got back to the cabin later, logged into Amazon looking for screen door part. Suggested other purchases came up and WTF!?

2 of the suggestions were French Presses.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/13/2018 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  And people wonder why I still have a flip phone.
Posted by: Raj || 12/13/2018 8:34 Comments || Top||

#5  French Press was brought up as a wonderful taste method of our morning fuel
I have tried cold brewing my coffee grounds for about 30 hours at room temp. Wonderful taste, for sure. Definitely coffee but much milder & smoother than the same grind brewed in a drip/filter machine with hot water. Next time I go tent camping I will definitely use that method.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/13/2018 8:41 Comments || Top||

#6  What can you do to avoid being tracked?

Keep your phone in a bucket of water. But make sure it is a metal bucket.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/13/2018 11:49 Comments || Top||

#7  You mean them people aren't making free apps out of the goodness of their heart or obligation to communism?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/13/2018 13:38 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Fears of growing far-right in Australia amid 'Deplorables' tour
[Al Jazeera] "Tommy Robinson's real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon. He changed it to hide the fact he is a life-long Nazi," said an activist addressing a rally outside Australia's Department of Home Affairs in Melbourne in late November.

"He was a member of the fascist
...anybody not a leftist...
British National Party in the 2000s and a march of 15,000 people organised while he was in jail in June this year saw marchers giving the Nazi salute in his honour."

For months, anti-racism campaigners in Australia have called for the denial of visas to Robinson and Gavin McInnes, both prominent figures in the global far-right movement. McInnes was a co-founder of Vice magazine before leaving the organization in 2008 and founding the Proud Boys, who describe themselves as "a pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologise for creating the modern world; aka Western Chauvinists".

McInnes and the Proud Boys were banned from Twitter this August and after the Guardian revealed the FBI had listed the organization as "an myrmidon hate group with ties to white nationalism", while the Southern Poverty Law Centreclassifies it as a hate group.
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#1  Tommy Robinson is not a socialist.

How can you be a Nazi if you're not a socialist?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/13/2018 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The Girl Scouts were briefly listed as a white supremacist group after a box of Thin Mints went missing.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/13/2018 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The Washington Post: "The FBI says the Proud Boys are not an extremist group after all"
Eli Rosenberg, December 7, 2018

A high-ranking FBI agent told reporters that the Western-chauvinist group Proud Boys, which has made headlines for its part in violent clashes in Portland, Ore., and New York, is not considered an extremist group, contradicting a report from a Washington state sheriff’s office that circulated in November.
According to the Oregonian, Special Agent in Charge Renn Cannon said during a discussion with Portland-area journalists that the FBI had not intended to designate the group as extremist during a slide show with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 12/13/2018 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The Left is now so far Left, that common decent people are far-right radicals.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2018 11:45 Comments || Top||


Europe
Poland and Hungary block ‘LGBTIQ rights' from being enshrined in EU legislation
[LifeSite] BRUSSELS, December 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) ‐ Poland and Hungary blocked the inclusion of "LGBTIQ" rights in a common European Union statement.

Last week representatives from Poland and Hungary annoyed other European Union (EU) member states by vetoing the inclusion of the "LGBTIQ" acronym in a joint statement by employment and social affairs ministers meant to promote "gender equity in the digital era."

LGBTIQ is a reference to people who derive their identity from lesbianism, homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism, intersexuality, or an experimental "questioning" approach to sexuality.

The European employment and social affairs ministers collectively form the EU Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO), which meets four times a year. Its most recent meeting was held in Brussels on December 6. Brussels is the capital of the European Union.

The official EPSCO Council Conclusions now refer only to "gender equality, youth and digitalization." To appease the other member states, who were reportedly furious with Poland’s and Hungary’s veto, Austria added a reference to "LGBTIQ" to the document in its current capacity as holder of the Presidency of the European Council. However, this addition is classified as only "presidential conclusions," which do not have the legal significance of formal Council conclusions.

One of the ministers complained vociferously about the actions of the Hungarian and Polish members.

According to Politico, Wouter Koolmees, the Dutch minister for social affairs and employment, called "LGBTIQ" rights "core values" of the European Union.

"LGBTIQ inclusion and equality are core values of our European Union," he said. "This is where I draw the line. We will never compromise our principles. This is not up for discussion and should have never been an issue for any member state. So I am happy that the reference is back in the text. Although I do regret we were not able to adopt them as Council conclusions."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 07:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fiat Chrysler may review $5.7 billion plan if Italy taxes diesel, petrol cars
MILAN (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler (FCA) could review its 5 billion euro ($5.7 billion) Italian investment plan, which includes a shift to cleaner engines, if Rome raises taxes on petrol and diesel cars.

"Were these measures to be confirmed as of 2019, a thorough examination of their impact and an update to plans already announced would be necessary," FCA’s (FCHA.MI) Europe head, Pietro Gorlier, said in a letter to government representatives in the northern Piedmont region, where some of the new investment would be targeted.

In an amendment to the 2019 budget law passed in Italy’s lower house last week, the government approved subsidies of up to 6,000 euros for lower emission vehicles, but included a surcharge of up to 3,000 euros on petrol and diesel cars.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 07:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  government approved subsidies of up to 6,000 euros for lower emission vehicles

Mmm, clean, non-polluting electric cars! Of course, the harsh reality is those electrons have to come from somewhere because. contrary to green belief, electrons are not a byproduct of unicorns farting rainbows. That leave wind, solar, fossil fuels, or uranium. Wind and solar are intermittent and tend not to work well at night. tl;dr: your green car is powered on decomposed dinosaurs or a nuke plant.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/13/2018 11:46 Comments || Top||


Yellow Vest protesters blame the Jews
[Ynet] It did not take long before the violent economic protests racking La Belle France turned anti-Semitic, blaming Jews for their woes and controlling the government; Synagogues shuttered for first time; Spike in emigration inquiries.

French Jews have become a focal point for the "yellow vest" protests plaguing La Belle France with an increase in anti-Semitism by demonstrators. In recent days, the Jewish community has reported numerous anti-Semitic videos, graffiti and actual threats.

Last Saturday, the Chabad House on the Champs-Elysées Boulevard temporarily closed its doors for the first time due to safety concerns. The Chabad House issued a message saying that "for the first time, the Chabad House will not open on Shabbat morning; the police do not have the situation under control and today is a very dangerous day."

At another synagogue in the city, emails were sent to members of the community before Shabbat, warning of the riots. "In the Eli Dray synagogue they recommended us not to conduct services in the morning," said Tova and Yehoshua Nagler who were staying in the city for Shabbat. "The caretaker announced that anyone who nevertheless wants to go will only be able to enter until nine in the morning, and take into account that the synagogue will remain closed until evening because the gates will be closed from inside, so they asked people who come to pray to bring food along."

"THE JEWS ARE PULLING THE STRINGS"
On Route A6, the main artery between Gay Paree and Marseilles, a huge banner was hung on a bridge: "Macron is a whore of the Jews." Social networks have also become an arena for spreading anti-Semitic expression. Thus, for example, a message circulated by an anonymous source wearing a mask: "It was the rich Jews who brought Macron to power so that he would be their puppet and they are pulling the strings. The Jews are responsible for the lowering of taxes on the rich and for the whole financial situation."

In another video, an activist from the "Yellow Vests" invited demonstrators to come to a Chabad Hanukah candle lighting, saying: "The Jewish people celebrate while the French have nothing to eat." The anti-Semitic French entertainer Dieudonné M'bala M'bala and his admirers joined the demonstrators and gave the Nazi salute.

A video circulated on the social networks of French musician Stephen Ballet, who lives in Istanbul, inciting protesters to "understand that the real enemy is the Jews," as he puts it. Ballet, an esteemed musician with a racist reputation, uploaded last week a YouTube video which garnered 36,000 views before it was blocked. In the video Ballet claims that lighting Hanukah candles in front of the Eiffel Tower "while the French are dying of hunger" is a deliberate provocation by the Jews against the French people. He also expressed regret that he could not come and "say hello" to the Jews who lit the candles.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Surprise meter?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/13/2018 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Soros? Once was? How many socialists are nominal jewish? Small j? Sort of like 1/1024th Occasional Cortex? Unfortunately the pious Jewish community takes the hit as usual. But hey, our Legacy Infortainment Enterprises go out of their way to smear 'Right Wingers' by the acts of crazies (who later turn out to be far more Lefty than Righty).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2018 6:46 Comments || Top||

#3  From one of rabbi Small books "An Irishman you know personally may be a drunken bastard. But you know that Irish are good People. All the Jews that you know personally might be nice people, but ..."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/13/2018 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  The establishment's pre-existing rental semites are being deployed in an attempt to smear all opposition to the establishment as anti-semites.

Grom, they do it here too. The only way to escape the stigma of anti-semitism is to support the establishment here, that's funded the Iranian "Islamic Bomb" program to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, if not more.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/13/2018 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  A lot of opportunists tried to join the tea parties and the media gave them a megaphone in order to discredit the tea party. I'm not saying that is what is happening here but it the government and media would like to discredit them...
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/13/2018 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Europe does have a history of blaming and persecuting the Jews when cocks rocket skyward.

I'm not surprised if it does show up, but I'm also cynical enough to wonder if this isn't a plant for a false flag.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/13/2018 10:39 Comments || Top||

#7  There are a few loonies in every group (not talkin' Canadian Dollars, eh).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/13/2018 11:32 Comments || Top||

#8  #3 I love the Rabbi Small books, especially the George Guidall narrated audio versions.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/13/2018 15:13 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Indian voters boot out cow, happiness ministers in state elections
[PULSE.NG] India's only dedicated "cow minister" has been dumped in state elections, ending a controversial tenure that saw hundreds of the sacred animals starve to death and poisoned on his watch.

Otaram Dewasi, the first head of Rajasthan's cow ministry, was turfed out Tuesday when the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was thumped in the western desert state and two other key regional polls.

He was not the only noteworthy casualty from India's ruling party, with the country's only "happiness minister" -- who stands accused of murder -- also tossed aside by voters in central Madhya Pradesh state.

Dewasi, the cow minister who in office wore the red turban and white sarong of a desert herdsman, lost by 10,000 votes to an independent candidate.

Hindus consider cows sacred and the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has campaigned for their protection at state and national levels, and introduced harsh penalties for mistreating them.

But the cause has spawned cow vigilantism in parts of India, with people accused of carrying beef or slaughtering the animals -- especially Moslems and low-caste Hindus, who consume beef -- murdered by mobs.

Rajasthan, bordering Pakistain, has witnessed some of the most high-profile cow lynchings in recent times, including the brazen beating to death of a Moslem dairy farmer on a busy highway last year.

The state created India's first ministry exclusively for cow protection in 2015 when the BJP won elections and appointed Dewasi, a policeman turned politician, to be in charge.

He imposed a 20 percent surcharge on new property purchases -- dubbed a "cow tax" -- to generate cash to run the 2,300 shelters in his state for abandoned cows. He also branded hundreds of thousands of cows under his care to stop them being smuggled.

But his reputation was marred in 2016 when 500 cows starved to death at a state-run shelter when the facility was flooded during heavy rains.

In August, 28 more died from poisoning, further denting his image as a sacred custodian in a state where cow slaughter comes with 10 years jail.

The BJP campaigned for the Rajasthan elections on tougher laws for cow slaughter and more money for shelters -- but was defeated by the Congress Party in results announced Tuesday.

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#1  dubbed a "cow tax" -- to generate cash to run the 2,300 shelters in his state for abandoned cows.

I am formally asking the moderators to remove this article before the crazy left sees this and gets ideas!
Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 || 12/13/2018 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  ...too late, here we call it mandatory classes (read - fees) in various university and colleges for 'studies departments'. One person's cow tax is another administrator's mandatory class fee.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2018 11:44 Comments || Top||


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Police arrest four Jewish teens for ‘price tag’ attack in northern Israel
[IsraelTimes] Suspects, all around 15 years old, allegedly punctured tires and spray-painted slogans on 20 cars in the village of Yafia, near Nazareth, in October.

Mosques, churches, dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases have been targeted by such nationalist vandals in recent years.

Police said Wednesday that the youths were tossed in the clink
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
at a yeshiva, or Jewish religious seminary, in the north of the country, but would not say which one.

Following the October incident, the Yafia Local Council released a statement condemning the crime and "calling on all reasonable people in Jewish society to raise their voices against these heinous acts. The fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
that starts with [attacks on] Arabs will continue until [attacks on] the reasonable members of Jewish society. Enough with racism!"

Also in October, police launched an investigation into an apparent hate crime at a Christian cemetery belonging to the Beit Jamal Monastery in Beit Shemesh, where some 30 cross headstones were found vandalized. Monks who visit the graveyard every few days discovered the damage and reported the incident to Israeli authorities. It was the latest in a series of attacks against the monastery by suspected Jewish bandidos bully boyz over the past two years.
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Science & Technology
Google Hosts Sharia Law App Enabling Muslims to Report Blasphemy and Heresy to the Police (or to whomever they wish)
[PJ] On December 7, 2018, the Google Play Store approved the latest version of "Smart Pakem," an app that allows Muslims in Jakarta, the capital of the largest Muslim country on earth, to report violations of Sharia law such as blasphemy and even heresy. The app allows users to report people who practice unrecognized religions or unorthodox interpretations of Indonesia's six officially recognized faiths: Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Protestant Christianity, and Roman Catholic Christianity.

According to Google's translation on the Google Play Store,"Smart Pakem" intends "to make it easier to find information and manage religion, belief flow and community organizations in the jurisdiction of DKI Jakarta," the capital of Indonesia.
Basically a 'targeting' App.
The app, which has more than 1,000 installs, claims to provide a list of "laws and regulations that regulate the activities of the flow of beliefs in the community."

While most areas of Indonesia do not enforce the entirety of Sharia (Islamic law), the national criminal code prohibits blasphemy, which it defines as "the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things." Article 156(a) makes it illegal to "express feelings of hostility, hatred, or contempt against religion," with a penalty of up to five years in prison.

Related: Washington Standard - Google Approves App For Muslims To Report People Who Commit Blasphemy
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#1  Dear Leader Sundar.

Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 || 12/13/2018 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Classic 'school shooter' eyes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2018 1:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Do No Evil

understand that blasphemy is a defacto death penalty in many Islamic countries
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2018 6:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure it will be designed so that it is easily adapted for letting people in other countries (including the US) rat people out for thoughtcrimes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/13/2018 8:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Beta test of the new Democrat/SJW software to be released by the new Congress. AOC applauds.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/13/2018 8:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Yep. Test run for the coming social credit score and thought police the demoncrats want to roll out.

Here ya go Google. May a pig shit on Mohammed and may you get raped by a goat.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/13/2018 10:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Of course
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/13/2018 13:48 Comments || Top||


Government
Border agents are copying travelers' data, leaving it on USB drives
Government is just another word for fucking shit up together
[NakedSecurity] Are you one of the travelers to the US who've been stopped, questioned, and required to hand over your electronic devices for search?

Our apologies: there's a good chance that we still have your data kicking around on a USB drive. Somewhere. Maybe. Unless we lost it, I guess.

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Posted by: DarthVader || 12/13/2018 09:43 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Or travel with a "scrubbed" laptop & ship the data ahead of you or leave it encrypted online somewhere for you to access later. Then scrub the laptop before you return.
Of course with this lousy security, it would be trivial for border agents to put crap on your devices, to be discovered at a later time & make you guilty of a felony. THAT has probably been happening too.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/13/2018 20:44 Comments || Top||

#2  it would be trivial for border agents to put crap on your devices, to be discovered at a later time & make you guilty of a felony.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience. You can even diddle the timestamps on the files to make it look they've been there for a while.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/13/2018 22:02 Comments || Top||


FBI (doing it's job) kept files on peaceful climate change protesters
[Guardian] A protest at a BP plant in Indiana landed three sixtysomething campaigners in a federal surveillance report, documents released to the Guardian under the Freedom on Information Act.

On 15 May 2016 three friends from Fairfield, Iowa, made the five-hour drive to an oil refinery on the shores of Lake Michigan to participate in what was part of a series of protests and acts of civil disobedience in the fight against climate change. They had every intention of getting arrested. What they didn’t expect was to end up in an FBI file for taking part in a peaceful protest.

But according to documents obtained by the Guardian through a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) lawsuit, the file on the Iowa protesters was part of a larger effort by the FBI to assess the danger posed by the climate change activist group 350.org in the run-up to a series of actions that were part of the Break Free from Fossil Fuels campaign. The FBI released seven pages and withheld 25.

Though there is no evidence the FBI has opened an investigation into 350.org, one of the documents, catalogued as part of a related domestic terrorism case, says: "350.org are referenced in multiple investigations and assessments for their planned protests and disruptions." The file also makes an apparent reference to the 350.org founder Bill McKibben.
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Home Front: Culture Wars
If you want to get into Harvard
h/t Instapundit
[AnnAlthouse] I strongly recommend this 25-minute segment of "This American Life," "The Veritas Is Out There" (listen at that link or read the transcript). Apropos of the lawsuit against Harvard, which alleges that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants
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