[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Just as troubling as the suggestion of an Islamist conspiracy in Birmingham schools is the refusal of the local non-Islamic establishment to do anything about it
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Islamism and myopic political correctness are the two jaws of the same trap.
He's left off western cultural guilt and social inequality, but I reckon myopic PC would be all inclusive.
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Yes, if you're seen as having overcome social inequality, those formerly suffering from cultural guilt and pity are quickly overtaken by class envy and hate.
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The Renaissance, while it was thrillin',
Was plagued with a whole lot of killin'.
Could we start with homegrown
Cuckoo clocks of our own,
Or at least make our own penicillin?
[Iran Press TV] An American political commentator says any attempt to encircle the Russian Federation by the US is destined to fail and that future belongs to Russia, China and Iran, not to the West.
James H. Fetzer, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday.
He was commenting on a recent New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report which says that US President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... and his national security team are looking beyond the crisis in Ukraine to adopt an updated version of the Cold War strategy of containment against Russia.
"The latest report of Obama adopting the strategy to encircle Russia is simply one more manifestation of the incompetence of American foreign policy in this day and age," Fetzer said.
"We have the approach towards Iran in based upon the false assumption that Iran is keen to develop nuclear weapons, which our own intelligence agencies refuted in 2007 and reaffirmed it in 2011. We have an approach towards Syria that's predicated on the assumption that the Assad government launched the sarin gas attacks when in fact there's overwhelming evidence that it was in fact done by the rebels and not by Assad," he added.
"And that we have an attitude and an approach towards Ukraine that involves encircling Russia, but in fact the unrest in Ukraine was the result of Western powers putting five billion dollars into the country some by George Soros," Fetzer noted.
"And now we have a new article from Strategic Culture that the West is about to perpetrate false flag attacks in Ukraine in order to justify the intervention by the Pentagon," he said.
"In my opinion any attempt to encircle Russia is destined to failure. The future appears to be one in which Russia, China and Iran together emerge as a mighty power in the world, and where the US efforts to staunch the flow of history are misconceived...and will not make a significant difference to the way events are going to play out," Fetzer emphasized.
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"James H. Fetzer, PhD, UM-Duluth" (Duluth, pronounced with an emphasis on the DUH). Bona fide kook.
Since the 1990s, attaining wider publicity, he has claimed that the 1963 Kennedy assassination, the 2002 death of Senator Paul Wellstone, and the 9/11 attacks resulted through government conspiracies. Having cofounded Scholars for 9/11 Truth in 2005, Fetzer has accused the G W Bush administration, Israeli government, and Obama administration of involvement in these and other conspiracies
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Judging from the graphic Besoeker posted last week it looks like we've already got 'em surrounded. We have bases in Japan, Korea, Turkey, Eastern Europe, all over the ME. Where are they gonna go? China? The Artic Ocean? And what are they gonna do when we smack Iran? My guess is absolutely nothing.
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The Base in Korea? Because they tried to take over the place, and the half they did take over is a hell on earth? The base in Japan: supports the base in Korea... Eastern Europe... you mean that place which wasn't allowed free and fair elections for forty years, courtesy of Soviet troops?
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"Russia, China, + Iran together memerge as a mighty power".
Uh, no, IMO once the Hard Boyz have effective access to Nuke-WMD techs they will attempt to attack + destabilize Russia + China.
The greatest threat to Putin ala the Ukraine-Crimea Crisis is NOT the US-NATO/EU response but the LT threat from NUCLEAR ISLAM.
Again, the Globies desire for Great Powers, espec the remaining "Sole" Superpower USA to unilaterally give up power-n-authority, etc. to New or Resurgent Powers = "Co-Superpowers", so that the former can rise to parity - THE GLOBIES, HOWEVER, HAVE NOT DESCRIBED HOW MUCH IS TO BE [safely] GIVEN UP SUCH THAT STATE OR GREAT-POWER-SPECIFIC NUCLEAR OR GEOPOL SECURITY + EXISTENTIALISM IS NOT THREATENED BY SAME ANDOR THIRD-PARTY WANNABES.
The Globies want the US to SSSSHHHH ... CCCCCC be the proverbial TIP-OF-THE-SPEAR in setting up OWG-NWO = SPACE GOVT-ORDER, but in the end for the USA to N-O-T dominate or control saidsame OWG-NWO = Space Govt-Order.
* E.G. DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IS UKRAINE CRISIS THE END OF UNIPOLAR WORLD ORDER?
versus
* TOPIX > [VDARE] NATIONALISM, NOT NATO, IS OUR GREAT [+ only REAL?] ALLY.
No more such thingys as GOP-VS-DEM, Republican-vs-Democrat, or even Fascist [rIGHTIST]-vs-Communist[Leftist], but now only NATIONALIST-VS-GLOBALIST???
[Watchdog.org] The so-called “shadow economy” in the United States accounts for as much as $2 trillion in economic activity, according to Edgar Feige, a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ThatÂ’s larger than the GDP of Canada and India.
Feige says more people are participating in the shadow economy than at any time since World War II, when strict price-controls and rationing drove many people to the underground economy for goods and services.
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In other news, the govt would like to do away with cash...
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In other news, the govt would like to do away with cash...
They would so they can track and tax every single purchase.
However that would just make people return to the barter system, which then would be made illegal and then the black market would get bigger and less tax would be collected, etc., etc.
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Just like the USSR before the collapse there, where 50% of the GDP was the underground economy. The govt forced the creation of an underground economy. 5 year plans and govtgoals were so much BS.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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I recommend googling "Going Gault". In a couple of more years, I will have to start drawing down my IRA so, this subject interests me. I spent 10.5 yrs in Uncle Sam's canoe club an left because of the lack of a family life. I love this country.
Thoughts I ponder:
How can I withdraw enough cash to cover my monthly expenses without it being recorded?
Will buying from the farmers market really lower costs?
Will paying cash lower some of my costs (yes).
Will paying cash for everything take me (mostly) off the grid?
Would putting on "camera" proof license plate covers reduce surveillance of my location? Are they available?
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"Would putting on "camera" proof license plate covers reduce surveillance of my location? Are they available?"
Not according to Mythbusters, BB. Sorry.
Posted by: Barbara ||
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Real Farmers' Markets aren't part of the "underground economy."
I sold at our Farmer's Market for several years, and had to collect (and report) sales tax. I had to present proof I had a tax number before I could set up at the Market, and they kept a list of who was there each week.
The veg stand at the end of the farmer's driveway, however . . . .
Posted by: Barbara ||
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IF you're looking for currency, dont buy gold buy silver.
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Isn't the problem with gold is that governments and big banks have a *lot* of it in reserve? All they have to do is release it and crash goes the price.
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They won't do that(Release gold)It'd ruin the Government a well.
Don't strangle the goose.
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THIS gummint would willingly cut open the golden goose to get all the gold for themselves, Jim.
Assuming Bambi doesn't try to declare martial law and cancel the next Presidential election, that's exactly what I expect them to do the day before they leave office. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara ||
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To accomplish that Barb, he would need some sort of civil disturbance involving a large number of people, possibly gunfire, that sort of thing.
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I think Obama is beginning to realize he doesn't quite yet have enough marshals for marshal law against 300 million armed citizens and their gun clubs militias.
#18
If you really thought the economy was going to melt down you'd run up the credit cards and save the cash. Perhaps cash out the 401K and pay the insane tax rate with the credit cards. Transfer all your debt to the banks while shifting to hard assets (such as bullets as the government seems to be doing).
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Martial law doesn't worry me greatly;
It's the culture that frightens me lately:
I'm awake in the night
Wondering how to fight
When the Brady bunch sends Marcia Brady.
[AmericanThinker] A new Danish statistical study finds that "Mohammedans [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first." While some of these crimes are clearly related to Islam -- such as attacks on Mohammedan apostates to Christianity -- others, such as rampant theft against non-Mohammedans, would appear banal, until one realizes that even robbery and plunder are justified by Islamic doctrine -- as one U.K. Mohammedanholy man once clearly said.
The interesting question here is why second-generation Mohammedans, who are presumably more Westernized than their Mohammedan parents, are also more "radical." Lest one dismiss this phenomenon as a product of economics or some other "grievance" against European host nations, the fact is, even in America, where Mohammedans are much better assimilated than in Europe, young Mohammedans are turning to "radicalism."
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There are plenty of Muslims who truly are Westernized -- the known six million/year conversions to Christianity that the clerics back home fuss about suggest a much higher number have become unbelievers without going so far as formal repudiation -- but as they are for the most part a wisely silent minority, they don't figure into the calculation.
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I don't believe they fully assimilate by the second generation but I see two reasons for this.
(1) They probably get smashed in the bell curve by the little Jewish kids who study their butts off, this leads to feelings of inferiority that Islam (or hard study) is the only real answer to.
(2) They are most likely losers who can't get a girl, but Islam promises spoils and Islamic gangs let you gang rape the occasionally foolish christian girlfriend so what's not to like from a loser point of view?
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To answer a question with a question: Why do many second-generation-plus Westerners embrace Eastern religions like Buddhism, or philosophies like Marxism?
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Why do many second-generation-plus Westerners embrace Eastern religions like Buddhism, or philosophies like Marxism?
Because there are no authorities-in-the-community enforcing orthodoxy and/or community standards for Buddhism or Marxism in most neighborhoods. They can convert and think about stuff without having to actually adhere to anything.
A bit of silliness as a beta male confesses his sins before other males, and females.
Hello. My name is Christopher Tognotti, and I'm no good with women.
An unpromising start...
This is a slight generalization, perhaps, but that's how it feels. Whether I've been bright-eyed or gloomy, fat or slender, young(er) or old(er), the ladies have never seemed to love me quite as much as I love them. My days as a fit gym employee involved no more fulfilled loves than my days now as a portly writer. Neither of which can be thought of as hypergamous careers that the ladies flock to....
Let me lay it on the line: At nearly 28 years old, I've never been in a proper relationship. Even further -- I've never actually been on a date with anyone I felt a real flare of passion for. I'm not virginal in any other sense, but at least for me, the emotional droughts feel much worse than the sexual ones. That's okay, buddy. You've had other priorities. I understand.
Many people I know can measure out sections of their adult lives by the benchmarks of sustained, serious relationships, and that's an ability I find myself brutally envious of. I've cried over the feelings and experiences I've longed to have, and cried to the people who, one way or another, haven't provided them. Hint: Maybe that was the first hint. A willingness to cry alone. Crying at all.
That's not to say I haven't spent time with women I've liked or fallen for. I've been more or less surrounded with women since my childhood, having always gotten along more easily and naturally with girls than boys. As you might expect, I've sometimes found myself smitten; a situation considerably more perilous when the person you desire is also your friend. Which is to say, someone with whom you might be wrecking something that's already pretty good. One person wrecks another's life in order to be with them. How many women have done this? How many men? Disrupting the very lives of people you profess to love is a basic feature of having a new relationship. It happens thousands of times daily.
This article cries out for some wonderfully noir background music.
I have a handful of images frozen in mind of the moments at which I've told people how I truly felt about them. I've become adept at reading the language of rejection: It's most often been the eyes where the answer comes first, while the face stays still. You'd be shocked how easily the thought I really like you as a person but I'm not attracted or interested in dating you can be conveyed with just the flicker of an eyelid. Some minefields you want to go around. Others you want to breach. What's so hard about those concepts?
"Local heterosexual white man dissatisfied with love life." I know, some headlines aren't as grabbing as others. There is at least one way in which I'm not dissatisfied however: my own ability to weather life and love's disappointments, and to never blame the women who reject me in the process. Good for you, and I am certain the women who rejected you breathed a sigh of relief you didn't try harder.
Perhaps you've heard this story before, of a self-proclaimed "nice guy" who feels miffed by the romantic inattention of a close female friend. But assumptions that the alleged "nice guy" may be making -- feeling aggrieved, maybe even angry, that she couldn't be more open-minded, or see how great a couple they'd be -- fall perilously short of anything describable as "nice." It's called the Friend Zone. You get to comfort her when her steroid boyfriend beats on her, and then you get to watch her have make up sex, or at least her description if it.
Ick. What kind of a woman tells other men the details of her sex life?
Vehemently complaining that a woman is dating somebody else instead of you hinges on the assumption that she'd want to date you otherwise. I understand the impulse, even the drive to convince oneself that such a romance could flourish. It ain't for you to convince yourself. It is up to you to convince the woman, however.
And it's true -- friendships can sometimes lead to pretty awesome relationships -- or so I'm told. But if a man is basically complaining that female friends aren't actively seeking to repay their platonic kindness with sex, then let me say, clearly and loudly: that attitude is full of sh*t. See Friend Zone, above.
Sometimes, the answer to the question "why don't they love me?" is best given simply: because they don't. The amount of mental exhaustion I've put myself through in dodging this truth is embarrassing in retrospect. The truth is you're doing a crappy job of selling yourself.
I owe immeasurable amounts of my life's happiness and well-being to women who've never been anything but my friends. Those relationships, and the experiences shared within them, are not consolation prizes, or pathetic stepping-stones. Unless, of course, you decide to treat them as such.
I'd love to end this on a note of some burgeoning optimism. But in truth, I can't. It simply wouldn't feel true to my heart, my state of mind, or my expectations right now. Translated: I want to be alone.
But I'm buoyed by the knowledge that all things change in time, and that what (or who) waits around the corner could also be a pleasant surprise. It might sound small, but if dime-store optimism is the best I can muster, I'll try to take it, every time. In that way, I'll always be a romantic. Perhaps Chris can make arrangements to donate his testicles to more deserving males, since he is not using them anymore.
But please, no more than two. Deserving males, I mean. Nobody wants a fraction of a testicle, no matter how intriguing the geometry problem.
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I have a friend who is aprroaching 50 and is in the same boat. He asks the same question and we tell him:
1) quit having such high expectations. Start in the minors and work your way into the big leagues.
2) quit approaching ever relationship as the future mrs. Try just and actually have fun.
3) quit expecting every girl to like everything about you. in fact if you get a 2nd date I would call that a victory
4) grow up and stop acting like a loser. everyone loves an underdog but no one likes a loser
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It is a tough lesson to learn, but really, the info is out on the internet in droves and anyone that doesn't know how not to be Beta is blind or simply unwilling to make the changes required.
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This guy's beta-ness made me throw up in my mouth a little.
I knew a guy like this when I was younger. Great buy, good fishing buddy, liked to laugh, but when he was around women desperation wafted off him like pig stench. Fifteen seconds of conversation and you could see the wimmins move away.
We all tried to enlighten him. DOn't seem eager. Don't be too interested in outcomes. Women like mystery. Women like a guy who is a bit of a pr!ck. Etc. But he just wouldn't listen. Twenty years on and he still doesn't get it.
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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.
A event well worth the visit if you're in the Madison, WI area. 
