[AmThinker] Around the world as Jews are under increasing assault, police protection cannot be counted on. Across Europe there is not only increasing violence against Jews, but the police are often unable or unwilling to protect them. Here in America, one can see the same pattern beginning to emerge.
As rallies for or against Israel are cropping up across the country, the scenario goes something like this: A small group of pro-Israel supporters show up holding Israeli flags. They wind up outnumbered 10 to 1, if not more, by Jew-haters who scream, shout, rant, rave, curse, threaten, and in some cases become violent. And police protection is unreliable.
It's important to stage counter-protests, not to yield to those who hate. But as the local version of the JDF in France has shown, it's equally important to be prepared to fight off attackers, and to have video of the entire situation. The police are not there to protect, but to arrest after nefarious deeds are done.
Worth mentioning right at home in DC where the police had to escort the pro-Israel demonstrators away in police vans. That is, instead of arresting the threatening anti-Semite, pro-Hamas crowd...
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Has France repealed the act that classified recording incidents of violence as happy-slapping unless the MSM did the recording?
I'm sorry, Korora, I have no idea. I post stories as I find them -- I didn't know they even had such a law. I was under the impression that they have some sort of CCTV system, like Britain, but even that is not true knowledge. Perhaps JFM might know.
[Ynet] Analysis: Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is interested in ending 'small conflict' between Israel and Paleostinians in order to have Jewish state on its side in 'big conflict' against Shiite world and the growing Sunni terror threat.
The Arab world is watching the images arriving from Gazoo with shock. The corpse count on the Paleostinian side has crossed 1,400 and more than 8,000 people have been maimed.
Wait -- Israelis can do that?! And even Obama can't get them to stop, with his thinly veiled threats to block arms supplies? Uh oh.
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We have a saying at work "access and capability make you a performer". Makes no difference what your job title, org level, experience.... Sometimes the doers are called upon to get it done. Saudis can go back to hating Jews when the job is done.
These days the road to hell, or world war in a nuclear age, seems smoothly paved indeed. The temptation to complacency and appeasement may prove stronger than integrity and treaty, but should that prove the case then have we only traded one forerunner for a second? Only God and time will tell. Let us pray for peace.
To stop Putin you have to put NATO forces, American, German and French, into the Baltic States and into Romania. It's for 'training', you know. Then let Mr. Putin know that 'separatists' newly placed into those countries are dead on arrival. If you aren't willing to do that then dissolve NATO and let everyone fend for itself.
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To stop Putin you need to accept that there are areas worth fighting for and other areas that he has a reasonable claim to even if we don't like it. I would love to see Ukraine join the west but its not a good hand to play out as long as we have.
Draw the line in the sand accordingly rather than pontificating about areas everyone knows we won't do anything about.
[Huffpo World Post] VLADIVOSTOCK -- If the next world war is to happen, it will most likely be in Asia and feature a clash between the incumbent hegemon, the United States, and the principal challenger, China. The good news is China does not want war now and in the foreseeable future, primarily because Beijing knows too well that the odds are not on its side. But if we look ahead 20 years from now, in 2034, the circumstances will have shifted significantly. A fascinating short read by Artyom Lukin, Professor Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Well worth the time.
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See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > EIGHT WAYS THE US CAN CURB CHINESE EXPANSION BY 2020: RICHARD FISHER.
Making GUAM or GUAM-CNMI into a de facto new US State in WESTPAC would go far per protecting the US, to include the post-2015, future OWG Globalist NAU + related.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US ENHANCES NUCLEAR STRIKE CAPABILITY AT GUAM: SANKEI SHIMBUN.
GEN. John M. Paxton, Asst. Commandant of the USMC.
Iff true, among other regional steps the USDOD-USAF is looking into deploying up to 20 B-52's here to help deter, or iff necessary CONFRONT, Rising China.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Zero Hedge] WHY CHINA WANTS CONTROL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IN TEN CHARTS!?
VERSUS
* TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Thanh Nein News] CHINA SAYS IT CAN BUILD WHAT IT WANTS IN EAST SEA [aka South China Sea].
Yi Xianliang, Deputy Head of China FM's Boundary & Ocean Affairs Dept.
* GLOBAL TIMES > JAPAN NAMING OF ISLANDS [Diaoyus = Senkakus] ILLEGAL, INVALID: CHINA.
Chinese FM Spox Qin Gang.
* TOPIX > [SCMP] CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY [CCP/CPC] MUST WIN "EIGHT NEW BATTLES" TO STAY IN POWER, SCHOLAR SAYS.
Professor Han Quigiong, Vice-Dean of Central Party School.
* GLOBAL TIMES > [Itar-Tass] RUSSIAN AIRBORNE TROOPS TO EXPAND PRESENCE ABROAD.
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FYI, as per FREEREPUBLIC + RAPPLER.COM > SENIOR ABU SAYYAF LEADER PLEDGES LOYALTY TO ISIS.
ISIS aka ISIL officially reaches the Philippines.
* Also, IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Discovering Islam] = END OF ISRAEL PREDICTED FOR 2022???
#5
Khrushchev knew he couldn't trust Mao. Future Russian leaders are likely to reach the same conclusion wrt China. They might pay lip service to some kind of alliance but I think when push comes to shove the Russians would be happy to see China contained.
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Demographics are the key. Just as the US has an illegal immigrant problem, so does Russia. If the Chinese can stall 20 more years they'll have enough physical presence in Siberia for the various autonomous regions to simply "vote" one by one to secede from Russia and become part of China. Using Crimea as a precedent, the Chinese troops will move in to protect the rights of their new constituency.
#1
Christopher Columbus discovered America trying to find a better way to India rather than go through these kind of people to get spices from India. So, if they get control of even a part of the oil trade, it will have an impact.
#2
Iff the ISIS/ISIL takes Baghdad, it could mean that the heartland of any future OWG Nuclear?Islamic Caliphate, irregardless iff Sunni or Shia-based, will be exposed to alleged WORSE-THAN-AL-QAEDA ISIS/ISIL IDEOLOGY + VALUE SYSTEMS.
The blind leading the naked...from behind.
[FoxNews] The obsession by the Obama-Kerry administration with imposing a cease-fire on the warring parties in the Hamas-Israel war will go down in history as one of the most strategic mistakes in military history.
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It is only considered a strategic mistake from the perspective of an Israeli. From Obama, Kerry and Hamas perspective every cease fire is chance to reload, manipulate media and further frustrate the Israelis.
Between Kerrys Middle East missteps and the Administrations shaky grasp on international dynamics, its beginning to look to foreign powers as if however nattily dressed the Secretary may be, the emperors foreign policy has no clothes.
...Netanyahu, in stark contrast to his image in Europe and to a lesser extent in North America, is deeply cautious when it comes to the use of military force.
Indeed, the record shows that Israel elected to begin a ground campaign on July 18th only when it became clear from its actions and its statements that Hamas was not interested in a return to the status quo ante.
This caution does not come from a temperamental inability to manage military action. Indeed, the Israeli prime minister's performance in recent weeks may go some way to dispelling the image which his opponents have sought to disseminate in Israel in recent years. That is, Netanyahu is a man who buckles under pressure and is easily swayed from his course. This is the first time that one of Israel's longest-serving prime ministers has led the country in a military confrontation. The general sense in Israel is that his performance as a leader has been relatively effective -- setting clear and limited goals and pursuing them with vigor.
Netanyahu's caution derives, rather, from his perception that what Israel calls "wars" or "operations" are really only episodes in a long war in which the country is engaged against those who seek its destruction. In the present phase, these forces are gathered largely under the banner of radical Islam, though this was not always so.
In such a conflict, what matters is not a quick and crushing perception of victory. Indeed, the search for a knockout, a final decision in this or that operation, given the underlying realities, is likely to end in overstretch, error and non-achievement. What matters is the ability to endure, conserve one's forces -- military and societal -- and to work away on wearing down the enemy's will. Military achievement, as well as economic and societal success, are all weapons in this war.
This view notes the essentially implacable nature of the core Arab and Muslim hostility to Israel. So it includes an inbuilt skepticism toward the possibility of historic reconciliation and final-status peace accords.
At the same time, this view does not rule out alliances of convenience with regional powers.
As the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas appears to be winding down after more than three weeks of bloodshed, it is time to confront a painful and inconvenient truth.
Though hardly anyone has had the courage to admit as much publicly, the fact is that Operation Protective Edge should never have needed to have been fought.
All the destruction and loss of life, all the economic disruption and diplomatic fallout of recent events did not have to come to pass. Simply put, this conflict is a direct result of the grave and unnecessary strategic errors that Israel made nearly a decade ago, chief among them the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
Indeed, don't think for a minute that Operation Protective Edge began on July 17, when Israeli ground forces entered the Strip, or that it commenced on July 8, when Israel's air force launched its offensive in response to Hamas rocket fire. The groundwork for this bloody clash was laid precisely nine years ago this week, on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Av, when Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's government began dismantling Gaza's Jewish communities as part of the so-called disengagement plan.
Despite countless warnings at the time that the Gaza pullout would bring disaster, Sharon pressed ahead, demolishing more than 20 flourishing Jewish communities and withdrawing the IDF from the Strip. This foolhardy move paved the way for the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, a turning point that has had calamitous consequences for Israel ever since.
Had Israel not uprooted thousands of Jews from their homes, had the government not pulled the army out of Gaza, Hamas would never have been able to seize control over the area, transforming it into a platform for unprecedented terrorist attacks. Thus, through its own reckless actions, the Sharon government helped to create the monster that is now using Gaza to fire rockets at Tel Aviv and to build dozens of underground tunnels. IMO, the original mistake was made in 1967
[IsraelTimes] As the IDF completes the work of neutralizing more than 30 "attack tunnels," dug by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, under the southern border, the spotlight is also turning to the threat of subterranean terrorism originating from Hezbollah in the north.
The Lebanese Shiite organization has used tunnels and underground bunkers in its guerrilla warfare against Israel ever since the IDF withdrawal from southern Leb in May 2000. The heightened concern now is that Hezbollah may have expanded its network of internal tunnels inside south Leb, to enable attempts at offensive infiltration into Israel.
Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Hamas cross-border tunnel network had potentially "catastrophic" potential, and 11 IDF soldiers have been killed during Operation Protective Edge by gunnies emerging from those tunnels into southern Israel near army positions, kibbutzim and moshavim, even as the IDF raced to demolish them.
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"In fact, sovereign citizens were the top concern of law enforcement, but the concern about whether most groups were a serious terrorist threat actually declined for most groups (e.g., the KKK; Christian Identity; Neo-Nazis; Racist Skinheads; Extremist Environmentalists; Extreme Animal Rights Extremists)."
Defined in the text: Although most organizations group Sovereign Citizens with other right wing groups, they are quite unique. (and, apparently, repetitively redundant).
Sovereigns do not specifically share the supremacist views of the Klan, etc. Their focus is not on individuals (e.g., minorities, Jews, etc.) rather their focus is on government dysfunction and abuse of authority. Their anti-government ideology is arguably more akin to left wing anarchists than right wing Klansmen.
Ho-boy! Guess I'm a "Terrorist" (or something...). Ethyl! You better start watching me instead!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AmThinker] Around the world as Jews are under increasing assault, police protection cannot be counted on. Across Europe there is not only increasing violence against Jews, but the police are often unable or unwilling to protect them. Here in America, one can see the same pattern beginning to emerge.
Only one of many of his obvious mistakes, blunders, and lies. 
