[Washington Examiner] Rampant crime has devastated Philadelphia in recent years. From murders to carjackings, innocent Philadelphians have fallen prey to the criminal underworld. After the city experienced a record number of homicides and carjackings, Democratic politicians in the City Council formulated a blueprint in 2023 to deter crime. While it was created in September 2023, a post on X this week revealed that one of the suggestions in "The Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia" to save Philadelphians from being victimized by criminals was none other than "combating institutional white racism."
Philadelphia set a record in 2021 for the number of homicides in a year with 562 murders. From 2021 to 2023, there were 1,486 homicides — the most ever during a three-year period in Philadelphia’s over 300-year history. The city recently set a record for the number of carjackings in a year; Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) was one of the victims. Retail theft has wreaked havoc in the area, causing many stores to shut down and move out due to the crime.
Hint: "Institutional white racism" was not responsible for all of those crimes.
If Philadelphia’s Democrats were serious about reducing the city’s crime, they would stop with these ghost hunts of institutional white racists and pivot toward the demographic responsible for the overwhelming majority of violent crime: black men. It’s the unfortunate reality that Democrats refuse to admit and continuously ignore, instead opting to blame things such as "institutional white racism."
[UnHerd] If history teaches us anything, it’s that you can’t be a warrior woman without some guy wondering what you’d look like going commando. According to Herodotus, after the Greeks defeated the Amazons, they loaded three ships with captives — only for the Amazon women to kill the ships’ crews and make landfall on coast of Scythia.
There they first fought with local Scythian men, only for those men to set up camp near them, creating an uneasy standoff. Herodotus recounts how the tension broke when a Scythian man met a lone Amazon woman near the camp, and sparks flew. After this, the two groups came together to form couples — though, even then, the Amazons refused to become Scythian village women, insisting their newfound husbands instead adopt their nomadic, pillaging ways.
The combustible cocktail of militarism and female sex appeal causes meltdowns to this day. Recently, news that 22-year-old US Air Force Second Lieutenant Madison Marsh had become the first active-duty soldier to be crowned Miss America caused instant media pandemonium: "She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’s bad to the bone," said NewsNation.
Marsh is a serving servicewoman, accomplished martial artist, and Harvard graduate student as well as beauty queen: not so much "bad to the bone" as a genuinely impressive avatar of modern American respectability. Even so, does her victory really represent another step in the long march toward women being able to Have It All? In a very limited sense, perhaps. And if recent mutterings from the MoD about reintroducing conscription come with a side order of liberal feminism, perhaps the young women of Britain will soon be obliged to Have It All too, whether they want to or not.
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[RIA] The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States in 2016 was remembered for the genuine jubilation of a certain part of the Russian establishment and the popping of champagne corks. Many respected people seriously believed that now relations with the United States would return to the time of bouquets and candy, friendly pats on the back, safe studies for their offspring at Yale and other attributes of the “well-fed noughties.”
Four Trump years flew by unnoticed and somehow indistinctly, and after them came grandfather Dementiy, but now there is a very high probability that Trump will return to the White House again.
Producers of elite champagne have perked up: fun is coming again in serious establishments. How can you not be happy?
The eternal and powerful enemy of Russia, through the mouth of the US President, in clear English, declares that he respects Putin, that Putin is smart and “he always got along with him,” and in general, Russians are not inherently bad guys, you can live and get along with them and make good money.
Moreover, Trump promised to end the conflict in Ukraine in 24 hours: “I want people to stop dying. Both Russians and Ukrainians are dying there.” Again: who doesn’t want to end the largest conflict since the Great Patriotic War so that the soldiers can finally return home?
Trump, a fan of Russia, went even further - he promised to withdraw America from NATO, stop sponsoring European armed forces and throw them to the Russians: “NATO is dead,” “if Europe is attacked, the United States will not come to its aid.” Isn't this wonderful?
This is fueled by the impatient excitement and open hysteria of Europeans. Once you look at the headlines of the local newspapers, it immediately becomes clear that with the arrival of Trump, the evil Russians will immediately win, and the fluffy Europeans will be driven under the bench with a broom: “Does the European Union need to be afraid of Trump’s return to the White House?” (TV channel Euronews); “Europe prepares to go it alone as Trump heads for the White House” (European version of Politico); "Politicians are worried after Trump's victory in the primary elections" (German TV channel ZDF).
Against such a benign background, the statements of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, which he made in an interview with CBS, were a clear dissonance with numerous opinions of respected experts who are confident that Trump’s return will be an unambiguous benefit for Russia (or at least will definitely be significantly better than Biden’s re-election).
And Lavrov said this: “I don’t believe that there will be any difference (between Trump and Biden).”
Previously, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke in a similar vein, saying that “Russia has no understanding of how former US President Donald Trump’s election promises to quickly resolve the conflict in Ukraine can be realized.”
And here two options arise in their heads: either Lavrov and Peskov have not read Trump’s declarations of love for Russia in general and Putin in particular, or they know something that the frantically buying champagne supporters of a strong and sincere friendship with the United States do not know.
And this is what they know.
Despite Trump's similar statements on Russia before his first term, he has done nothing during his presidency to improve relations with Russia. Moreover, the US anti-Russian policy has become tougher. A few typical examples: it was under Trump that a record number of “eternal” sanctions were introduced, massive deliveries of lethal weapons like the “Holy Javelina” began to Ukraine (which were slowed down by the most democratic Democrat Obama), the promise to recognize Crimea as Russian was withdrawn, and the Republicans led by Trump did their best to supported with their feet a bipartisan bill to simplify the procedure for confiscation of assets of Russians, proposed in the Senate.
If you look at Trump’s promise to end the conflict in Ukraine in one day a little more closely than at the cheerful headlines, it also becomes clear that it is too early to rejoice. The fact is that Trump did not say a word about how exactly he wants to end the conflict and what terms of the “deal” to offer Russia. And something suggests that these conditions will completely suit the United States, and no one will even think to ask Russia’s opinion in advance.
Trump, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, said literally the following: “I would say to Putin: if you don’t make a deal, we will give Zelensky a lot, we will give them more than they ever got if we have to.”
This means that any “deal” proposed by Trump to Russia will obviously be an ultimatum. For the United States, for many reasons, the result of the SVO in the form in which it was formulated by the leadership of our country is categorically unacceptable. The maximum that they can offer us with a broad gesture is to freeze the conflict so that the Kiev regime, with the help of the West, can recover, strengthen, rearm and begin military operations with redoubled force.
We wasted four years waiting for positive change during Trump's first presidency while Ukraine rapidly armed itself and trained to kill Russians. And there is no reason to think that in this case everything will be different.
In addition, Trump is known to have a negative fixation on China. This means that with 100 percent probability, part of the “deal” will be Russia’s obligation to betray its partner.
It is clear that we will never agree to either the first or the second, which means there will be no deal, and Trump, who has lost face, can in one second turn from a Russophile into the main Russophobe and surpass all the Bidens, Obamas and Clintons combined.
We must understand that Trump 2.0, even if he verbally wants peace, friendship and chewing gum, will inevitably act in the interests of the American (Atlantic) elites and large transnational capital, since he will be completely paralyzed, as the first time, by an effective system of “checks” and counterbalances", the threat of impeachment, sabotage and pressure from the main sponsor of the Republican Party - the large oil and gas business, which is completely satisfied with the current status quo and squeezing Russia out of the European market. The United States will not leave any NATO; there will be no “reset” buttons.
If we abstract away a little from the comedic aspect associated with Trump, the harsh reality remains:
1) neither the United States nor Russia will change their initial assessments of the causes of the conflict in Ukraine, and therefore a compromise there is impossible in principle;
2) Western financing of Ukraine will continue;
3) the spending of economic and human resources by Russia in Ukraine plays into the hands of the Americans, and they will prolong the conflict to the maximum;
4) Russia and the United States have radically opposing geostrategic interests, and there can be no peaceful coexistence, much less cooperation, in the current conditions.
We did everything we could, including numerous steps forward and “gestures of goodwill.” But the West, according to Lavrov, “has a deepening complex of superiority and a complex of impunity,” that is, they do not want to negotiate in an amicable way, they cannot and will not, but will only exploit our weaknesses.
The supposedly “friendly” Trump, in fact, could become a Trojan horse to lull our vigilance, slow down the speed of our transformations and reverse the nationalization of the elites, which could ultimately lead to our heavy defeats and losses.
And this means that we should not wave flags with Trump’s portrait, but do our job, grow stronger - and win.
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I predict Russia will re-double their efforts to capture or hold before Trump takes office and can broker a peace treaty. Then they will rebuild and prepare for the following four years.
[HotAir] Ireland’s newest political party, the Farmers Alliance, is now a fully registered contender in Irish politics. Following approval from the Registrar of Political Parties last week, it will now have the opportunity to field candidates in local, national and European elections. Party leader Liam McLaughlin says the alliance already has 40 potential election candidates lined up, with plans to run more than 100 by the time polling stations open in the summer.
Although this is undoubtedly big news, the creation of a farmer-led party probably won’t come as a shock to anyone familiar with the plight of Ireland’s farmers, who have been under relentless attack from the government for quite some time. Many farmers feel they are being made to pay the price for their government’s delusional climate policies. ...
For the past week or so, tens of thousands of farmers have also been out blocking roads across France, demanding that their government scrap punitive taxes and excessive green regulations. As in Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands, these protests in France have also struck a chord with the public more broadly. As is clear to see, from Ballinrobe to Bonn, Beauvais to Breda, farmers are speaking up — and the people are listening. The present day Western "civilization" is dominated by credentialed lumpen-intelligentsia (the pseudo-educated). Who lost all contact with reality. But, it turns out, these people can be replaced by AI.
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[MEForum] Islam is on the verge of completely taking over Europe, in all ways -- at least according to one who should know, Hans-Georg Maaßen, Germany's top domestic intelligence chief from 2012 to 2018. In a recent interview, he stressed several points that spell the imminent downfall of Europe to Islam.
His warnings are buttressed by disturbing demographic changes. According to conservative estimates from Pew Research, over the next 25 years -- meaning most of the current generation's lifetime -- Europe's Muslim population will triple to a staggering 76 million. In fact, the actual current and future numbers of Muslims appear to be higher, though there are no official tallies. For example, in an earlier, 2011 study, Pew Research found that "The number of Muslims in Europe has grown from 29.6 million in 1990 to 44.1 million in 2010. Europe's Muslim population is projected to exceed 58 million by 2030." Clearly 58 million in five years' time is more significant than 76 million in 25 years' time.
Not only is mass migration responsible for Islam's exponential growth in Europe, but once there, the average Muslim woman has significantly more children than the average European woman. "Muhammad" is taking West Europe by storm as the number one name for newborn baby boys.
During his interview, Hans-Georg Maaßen said that these large numbers are intentional, and the work of Europe's ruling elite. For this intelligence chief, the "great replacement" theory is no myth. The more ideologically mixed a population is forced into becoming, the less able it is to identify itself, much less protect any beliefs:
[O]ur politicians want a different population. The political left follows the course of the anti-German ideology. The more heterogeneous a population, the less able it is to articulate itself and have a democratic say. The more politics accept immigrants from other countries as they see fit and grants them citizenship, the more politics select the people of the state and influence the election results. These migrants then vote differently than the locals.
More at the link...
Someone want to put up that Well Bye image?
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First they were Nazis. Then they went to the other extreme. I wonder what's next? (Just kidding: if I were a Muslim in Europe, I'd be very, very afraid.)
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Unlikely.
About 5,7% of Germany's population (includes non-citizens) are Muslims. France has about 8,7%.
The time of big immigration waves is over. We won't see another million of Syrians etc. crossing the border. Times have changed, people won't accept this anymore.
Birth rates of first-generation Muslim immigrants are definitely higher, but they tend to fall in line in the second and third generation. Also 66% of Muslim women in Germany don't wear a headscarf.
On the verge of completely taking over Europe? I don't think so.
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Correction: It's 6,7% (about 5,7 million Muslims) in Germany.
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What I'm trying to say is that we won't see an alarming growth in the next 20 years. At least not a growth that will lead to "succumbing to Islam"). Beer and Schweinebraten are here to stay :-)
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Hope you're right, But I don't think you are.
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must be the Hells Angels doing all those bombings in Sweden
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Amish
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In 2002 Germany had 3,5 million Muslims. In 2015 (before the SYrian mass immigration), that number was 4,5 million. In 2023 it hat around 5,7 million Muslims. The big jump is mostly explained by the refugee crisis and mass immigration in 2015/16. It won't be repeated because nobody wants the AfD to run the next government.
Birth rates won't accomplish that "takeover". As I said, second-generation Muslim birth rates tend to fall in line. Germany experienced a population growth of 700.000 in one year, mainly attributable to Ukrainians, mostly women and children.
"Imminent downfall". I don't think so.
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I hope you're right.
The Brits said the same and lost London+.
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Also authorities are taking a much closer look at radical groups, imams and other undesireables.
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Anyone have that old article showing as the percentage of Muslims increase, more bad things occur?
[ZERO] A coalition of red states has rallied around Texas, after Governor Greg Abbott invoked the state's constitutional right to self-defense due to the migrant crisis, which he deemed an 'invasion.'
I used to surf at Windansea whenever I got a chance, whenever I felt up to the challenge of driving through La Jolla traffic. It's one of the best surfing beaches in California. Good thing they chose a day when the waves aren't very big to pull this stunt or they could have gotten a real bashing on the rocks.
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Perhaps the Orange Man's running mate can be found in Texas.
Don't be funny. Abbott is term limited and cannot run again. That's probably a big reason why he's doing this now. He still has plenty of time to cave.
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[American Thinker] I am reminded of an important lesson I received as a kid, when a friend of my father spent weeks trying to help my dad figure out what was wrong with our family car. For weeks on Saturdays, I would watch these two inexperienced men attempt to fix a jammed motor. My dad would pay his friend for the help, but it wasn’t until later that a real mechanic informed my dad someone had poured syrup into the gas tank, which caused sugar to expand within the pistons of the engine, thereby disabling our already old VW station wagon. The culprit was my dad’s friend. Imagine that! A guy shows up and helps fix something he caused, and takes money for doing so, even though he’d known all along what he’d done.
I never saw the friend after that, and his wife, who would often stop in and visit on occasion, was also never to be seen again.
The lesson I learned was that even your friends can screw you. I also learned that people like to create failure for their opposition when they know they are going to lose. Joe Biden is doing this right now, and what he is doing will most assuredly ail Trump if/when he wins the 2024 election. Biden knows that Trump has a good shot at winning, so the president is using his time left and deliberately pouring syrup into the engine of the White House.
Within less than eleven months, and if nothing else goes wrong, Trump, as the newly (re-)elected president, will inherit no less than three wars, a flailing economy, a 34-trillion-dollar federal deficit, high crime rates across the country, a broken Southern border that has spilled at least nine million new people into the country without being vetted, and a Deep State that doesn’t want him to succeed. If that isn’t pancake syrup gutting up an engine, then I don’t know what is.
I might even question Trump’s sanity — or his courage — to want to get anywhere near this calamitous effort of trying to fix what Biden has broken.
Biden is a disgrace. No other president in history has done more to cripple a country than the former senator from Delaware: devaluing the dollar, raising energy prices, forcing people to stay home, firing workers who showed up because they wouldn’t take a government-mandated experimental vaccine, causing massive instability in Ukraine through failed diplomacy, leaving thousands of men, women, and children behind in Afghanistan, who, because of his failed policy, now live under tyranny and death. Biden’s failure to protect Israel by doing business with Iran cannot be forgotten. His encouragement of sanctions of immoral health practices — even encouraging and supporting genital mutilation among "trans" youth — is criminal. Pandering to every progressive pipe dream, no matter the cost, including the inefficient desire to be carbon-neutral without any credible science or benefit to support his goals, is psychotic. All of this adds up to a country that has been mortally wounded, with blow after blow of egregious and sociopathic leadership. This is the legacy of the Biden presidency.
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Of course Biden's team is attempting to set Trump up for failure. Multiple wars and conflicts overseas, border chaos, destruction of the military, empty treasury, record inflation, J6 imprisonments, crime ridden cities.
Surely there must be some bridges that can be blown before 20 Jan 2025. (sarcasm, but not much)
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I really wish these scribblers would stop asserting that Biden has done all of these things. Biden is a barely coherent meat puppet. The blame resides squarely on Obama and his cohorts like ValJar...et. al.
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Is Biden Poison-Pilling Trump?
Nope. Biden (handlers) are running the country (and the world) the best way they know how.
#4
Open up the energy sector and shut down government offices that obstruct. A precipitous drop in energy prices would have major impact upon the economy overall.
[Simplicius76Substack] There are some very strange happenings in the Middle East which underscore the historic shifts grumbling just beneath the surface, ready to break through.
Firstly, to set the stage we turn to Israel, which appears to be concealing an operation that has gone off the rails, and is not yielding any of the expected results—and in fact has done little more than turn the world against them, creating a shockwave of anti-Israeli fervor that will steer sentiment for generations.
As we now know, Israel has withdrawn many of its brigades from the north, citing ‘rest and rotation’ when in reality it appears to be ‘reconstitution’, as the brigades took major attritional losses. Now in the wake of that, the latest bombshell reports state that resistance fighters have re-infiltrated the entire north, leaving the map looking like that of below:
I myself was skeptical—could Israel really have abandoned the entire north after “claiming” to have captured it?
But here’s the double bombshell: even ISW admitted it:
Two maps can be seen at the link.
What does this mean? Has Israel suffered a total defeat in the north? Or have they “cleansed” it of ‘Hamas’ and are now taking a victory lap? To be completely fair and unbiased, we can’t say for certain as there is a deliberate informational blackout, particularly given all the reports we’ve seen from CNN and co. which openly state nothing is allowed to be aired without the full editorial oversight and approval of the IDF.
All we can do is infer from a variety of objective observations, such as the distinct lack of any mass eliminations or captures of resistance fighters, which is very telling.
Now, at the worst possible time, Iran has decided to turn the screws on Israel, creating extremely unfavorable conditions by locking down the maritime chokepoints, as well as putting unprecedented pressure on Israel’s top ally of the US, militarily, all across the region.
Even as of this writing, a new US-flagged ship, the Maersk Detroit, was said to be attacked by the Houthis in the Red Sea, though US CENTCOM claims the three missiles were all repulsed. The US Navy has been relegated to a glorified escort, but since the al-Mandab strait has effectively become a warzone, it has nonetheless crippled commerce.
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Those perfidious juices! The easiest way to find the tunnels they missedin the north on the first pass is to catch bad guys popping out of them…
Israel is not set up for long wars. Most of their soldiers are reservists — there’s no one to do the work while they’re off fighting. Since this was always going to be a long fight once it started, it makes sense to rotate units through, as they did during the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Or so it seems to me.
As for the Houthis, we know what to do about pirates. The world is discovering the cost of the Biden administration refusing to do the work, but they all wanted Joe Biden as president instead of The Donald, so now they get to pay the price for getting exactly what they demanded.
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Also, we have no idea how many jihadi bodies are accumulated in the tunnels Israel has already destroyed of the 350 miles of the things the Gazans spent the better part of two decades digging, versus the 200 or so dead Israeli soldiers.
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.
[Washington Examiner] Rampant crime has devastated Philadelphia in recent years. From murders to carjackings, innocent Philadelphians have fallen prey to the criminal underworld. After the city experienced a record number of homicides and carjackings, Democratic politicians in the City Council formulated a blueprint in 2023 to deter crime. While it was created in September 2023, a post on X this week revealed that one of the suggestions in "The Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia" to save Philadelphians from being victimized by criminals was none other than "combating institutional white racism." 
[MEForum] Islam is on the verge of completely taking over Europe, in all ways -- at least according to one who should know, 
