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Europe
Submission in France, a dilemma in Israel
[Ynet] Michel Houellebecq's 'Submission' presents a La Belle France that easily succumbs to Islamic rule merely for convenience. What will happen if similar processes happen in Israel? Will Israelis revolt, risking their next paycheck, their next vacation, their next meal? Or will they, too, submit?

The terror attack at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
and the Jewish supermarket in Gay Paree seven months ago shocked La Belle France and the rest of Europe. During that time, a book by Michel Houellebecq, "Submission," was released in La Belle France. The book immediately became a best seller and a hot topic of discussion on social media, on talk shows, and in political and literary magazines. A lot of things can be said against the French; but one of the things you can say in their favor is that books can still move them.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's hard for me to believe the French would give up their wine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/23/2015 15:45 Comments || Top||

#2  "The entire European Union begins a slow conversion to Islam" > Thus little Virginia, we learn once again why 1960's-1970's Guam Taotamonas = 2014's TOM CRUISE'S "EDGE OF TOMORROW" + "INTERSTELLAR".

Unlike June 6, 1944 = US-Allied invasion to liberate Nazi-Occupied Europe, THE ATTEMPT TO LIBERATE ISLAMIST/JIHADIST-OCCUPIED EUROPE = EURABIA WILL FAIL AT THE BEACHES.

NUKE-ARMED ISLAM AS ALSO LED BY ITS "ISLAMIC/MUSLIM NAPOLEON".

As I've said times before, IFF THE OWG GLOBIES MISCALCULATE, THE PRICE PAID WILL LITERALLY BE THE HEADS OF THE US-WEST = ENTIRE JUDEOCHRISTIAN + NON-MUSLIM WORLD.

* US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE EX/FORMER-SOLE-SUPERPOWER-SOON-TO-BE-ONE-OF-MANY-CO-SUPERPOWERS USoAMERIKA IS HELPING ITS MILPOL OR GEOPOL ENEMIES, RIVALS, + WANNABES, NGOS, ETC. BECOME STRONGER RELATIVE TO THE USA ITSELF.

To paraph CHUCKY KRAUTHAMMER = D *** NG IT, SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, OOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPSSSSIES!

* "GUAM WILL CAPSIZE" = Iff the OWG Globies miscalculate, Guam + other strategic Pacific Islands will be sunk or otherwise destroyed as the formerly facadial or superficially
"weak/declining" USA, NOW THE DE FACTO
"WEAK/DECLINING" USA, AS IT RETREATS OR FALLS BACK ACROSS ASIA-PACIFIC IN ORDER TO DENY THESE ISLANDS' MILITARY UTILITY TO CHINA + PLA + NUCLEAR ISLAM, ESPEC VEE CHINA + PLA ALA STRATEGIC "ANTI-ACCESS/AREA DENIAL" = "A2/AD".

The Marxists-Commies-Globalists used 9-11 + GWOT to impose OWG + US-Global Secular Socialist Order, BUT INSTEAD ENDED UP IMPOSING THEO-SOCIALIST RADICAL ISLAM + OWG ISLAMIST-JIHADIST NUCLEAR CALIPHATE INSTEAD.

What part of BUGS BUNNY'S "TAKE THE LEFT TURN AT ALBUQURQUE" DID WE ONCE AGAIN NOT UNDERSTAND???

I'd be LOL'ed iff it wasn't serious.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/23/2015 21:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Slipping into Panic Mode: Cuts Vacation Short to Hit Campaign Trail
You will have to forgive Hillary Rodham-Clinton for what appears to be at least a minor freak out because she has seen this movie before. Back in 2008, Mrs. Clinton was supposed to cruise unimpeded to the Dem nomination like the Wehrmacht roaring through Poland but a funny thing happened on the way to the inauguration. While she was busily shopping for new drapes and rugs for the White House, she was overtaken by a forked-tongued young community organizer from Chicago.

Reigning two-term Emperor Barack Obama beat her like a gong in Iowa, socked her in chops in South Carolina and the bitch never recovered. It wasn't supposed to be so difficult in 2016, the Dems after all were pushing all of their chips to the middle of the table and betting it all on Hillary but now it is looking like a sucker's bet. Hillary is not only proving to be one of the most unlikable and untrustworthy candidates in recent memory but she is dangerously close to facing criminal charges over those confidential emails on her "wiped" private server.

With Vice President Joe "Foghorn Leghorn" Biden looking like he is seriously considering his own run for the White House and socialist cadaver Bernie Sanders continuing to close the gap on Hillary, she may to her horror be seeing the writing on the wall. Biden has reportedly met with progressive darling Senator Elizabeth Warren in a sign that Queen Hillary may not be quite so inevitable anymore and could be ripe for toppling. Mrs. Clinton has to be shitting in her silk knickers because she is now cutting off her summer vacation in the tony enclave of wealthy pigs at the Hampton's to head back to the campaign trail lest she once again be left on the outside looking in due to her own arrogance.

The damned liberal New York Times reports that "Hillary Clinton Will Interrupt Vacation to Campaign in Midwest":

Hillary Rodham Clinton had planned to spend the last two weeks of August on vacation, unwinding and fund-raising on the exclusive shores of Long Island. But, as it turns out, this is no time for a vacation.

Amid concerns about Mrs. Clinton's softening poll numbers and her exclusive use of a personal email server as secretary of state, she will interrupt her Hamptons stay next week to travel to the Midwest and try to shift attention back to her campaign message by unveiling new policy positions.

She will then return to the Hamptons, where she and former President Bill Clinton are renting a beachside estate in Amagansett that costs $100,000 for a two-week stay, and will attend several $2,700-per-person fund-raisers hosted there by her wealthy friends.

With questions about Mrs. Clinton's use of private email persisting -- a federal judge said Thursday that the practice did not comply with government policies -- and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. considering seeking the Democratic nomination, the late-August doldrums have proven anything but.

"Two weeks is a long time in politics," said Richard Socarides, a Democratic strategist and former White House aide to Mr. Clinton. "The only way to counter it is to talk about policy and talk about substance."

On Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton will leave Long Island, where her husband has been spotted golfing and on Tuesday celebrated his 69th birthday alongside Jon Bon Jovi, to take her economic message to "reshuffle the deck" in favor of working Americans on the road.

You have to love the "reshuffle the deck" reference because with her sleazy abuses of power while she was Secretary of State coming back to bite her in her pasty white fat ass, it is looking more and more like she is shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. Who would have thought that the win-win matchup for the establishment of Jeb! versus Hillary -one that seemed as inevitable as death, taxes and another season of Dancing With the Stars -- would already be in serious trouble right out of the gate?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hillary Slipping into Panic Mode: Cuts Vacation Short to Hit Campaign Trail

Translation: Hillary Slipping into Panic Mode: Cuts Vacation Short to visit with legal defense team.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2015 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm Ready" for jail? Hard to scrub or erase this pic from the hard drive. One can abide the pant suits (sorta) but Hilda's close-fitting body suit is hard to look at for very long.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2015 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Further translation note: Searching the Midwest for someone to blame. He's gotta be here somewhere.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/23/2015 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Pass the brain bleach. I think my brain is gibbering in terror. Sometimes I think Hillary would make Cthulhu heave up his breakfast.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/23/2015 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  'brick, I think Cthulu did heave up his breakfast......that's how we got Hilda.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2015 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  "I'm Ready" to put you on the Amsterdam to Paris train and hope the military guys take the bus.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 08/23/2015 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  This brings up a question:

Will "Ever Ready" be in the Hamptons while Hillary is in the Midwest?

Al
Posted by: frozen al || 08/23/2015 13:17 Comments || Top||

#8  She is a Clinton, through and through.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/23/2015 18:03 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India-Pakistan spectacle
[DAWN] RARELY, even by the tortured standards of the Pakistain-India relationship, has there been as much farce and confusion surrounding the now cancelled talks between the national security advisers of Pakistain and India. The dual news conferences yesterday of National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj had made the late-night cancellation by Pakistain a mere formality. While it was obvious that neither side wanted to be seen to officially call off talks, it was also patently clear that neither side was willing to do much to rescue them in Delhi. That the Indian government reacted so angrily to what was to have been a fairly innocuous and standard meeting between a visiting Pak leader and representatives of the Hurriyat Conference is perhaps a sign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's true intentions. He does not really want dialogue with Pakistain, but does not want to be seen rejecting talks outright in front of the international community. Yet, for all the Indian obstinacy, there have been some serious errors by the PML-N government in Pakistain. To begin with, what was the understanding in Ufa, Russia, that led to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
and Mr Modi issuing a joint statement? Did Mr Sharif mention the Kashmire dispute or bring up the composite dialogue? If not, why not?

Then, there was the statement itself -- initially welcomed by many, including this newspaper, as an unexpected breakthrough, but pounced on by hawks in Pakistain for its so-called pro-India stance. That terrorism was made central to the upcoming round of talks without any mention of the broader Kashmire issue appeared an error on Prime Minister Sharif's part. At the very least, the government should have expected the domestic backlash and prepared for it. Instead, the government seemed to have been caught unawares and quickly found itself under intolerable pressure. Then came the next error: seemingly reversing itself on Ufa and demanding that the Indian government talk about Kashmire too. That elicited a predictable response from the Indian government in the form of an angry denial that the Ufa agreement had been about broader issues and a rejection of the Pak attempt to include Kashmire in the agenda. Finally, without a full-time foreign minister, the talks switched to being conducted at the NSA level, an awkward fit for full-spectrum dialogue and the Kashmire dispute.

Perhaps what is truly discouraging is the trend that has become apparent in the Sharif-Modi era. The prime ministers themselves mostly have encouraging words about the bilateral relationship, but they allow their underlings to damage goodwill and trust. Mr Modi in particular seems not to have a clear Pakistain policy at all. How does refusing to talk to Pakistain address any of the concerns that India has? But Mr Sharif needs to demonstrate stronger leadership internally too. How can a three-term prime minister find himself in a self-created bind?
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Untold truths
[DAWN] Denial and repression are also evident in the current state of legislation on child sexual abuse in Pakistan. For instance, Section 90 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) declares any consent (for sexual intercourse) given by a child under 12 years of age as invalid; Section 377 of the same criminalises unnatural offences which include same sex intercourse, a common form of child sexual abuse.
So remember, if you're in Pakistain and horny, he/she/it has to be twelve or better.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  unnatural offences which include same sex intercourse, a common form of child sexual abuse.

A way of saying pedophilia. I thought we were providing aid to Pakistain and shipping more goats over there.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2015 8:16 Comments || Top||


Blame Nawaz
[DAWN] You don't need to know anything about Kashmire to know that India hasn't quite got everything under control in its bit of Kashmire. Nor is about to.

And you don't need to know anything about global politics or diplomacy to know that the Pak-India relationship isn't in a shape to get big things done. Nor is about to.

So there's no point in talking about Kashmire. Not now. But there is a way to do it. And it's not the way Nawaz has gone about it.

There were basically two things Nawaz had to play off each other in Ufa: terrorism and Kashmire.

Modi had made it known that it was terrorism first if talks were going to happen or else it was going to be Indian foreign policy minus Pakistain.

If that sounds stupid and self-defeating, it is. But that's for India to decide and Modi to realise.

Over here, the boys are not in favour of rapprochement and would never countenance letting Kashmire slip off the agenda.

So, to make talks happen, Nawaz had to split the difference. But he didn't. Have a look at the five points of Ufa and you'll see how Nawaz got himself in trouble:

"1. A meeting in New Delhi between the two NSAs to discuss all issues connected to terrorism.

Early meetings of DG BSF and DG Pakistain Rangers followed by that of DGMOs.

Decision for release of fishermen in each other's custody, along with their boats, within a period of 15 days.

Mechanism for facilitating religious tourism.

Both sides agreed to discuss ways and means to expedite the Mumbai case trial, including additional information like providing voice samples."

Number two is important but boring. Three and four are plain boring. One and five is where the trouble lies.

If No 1 had just read "A meeting in New Delhi between the two NSAs to discuss all issues", Nawaz would have had some wiggle room. It's the "connected to terrorism" that made it Indian.

Same thing with No 5: the "including additional information like providing voice samples" was too specific and too Indian-ish. Extra clauses can be dangerous things.

After that, the only way Ufa was not going to be vetoed by the boys was if there had been a sixth point about Kashmire -- or Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
or Samjhota. Some kind of red meat.

Nawaz should have known this. Either Ufa had to be kept vague or it had to have specificity that was not just Indian but Pak too.

Or Nawaz should have waited until the next meeting, maybe at the UNGA or one of these big international conferences.

Remember, no one expected anything out of Ufa. The best-case scenario was that things would not blow up.

Remember also that the pressure was on Modi to talk. The Americans weren't happy with him on Pakistain nor were the Europeans, and the year-long shenanigans along the LoC and Working Boundary had caused some alarm.

Nobody but nobody doubted where Nawaz stood on India. The only difference opinion-wise lay in whether he was viewed sympathetically or somewhat derisively for still, in a third stint, being unable to wrest any space from the boys.

So Nawaz had two options: either split the difference between Modi and the boys in Ufa or wait a few months more and let the outside pressure build on Modi.

He chose to be greedy. Or hasty. Or, sadly, just plain stupid.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan



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