On a Sunday March 5th news article entitled "Donetsk water plant shuts down after only one day ", in the last paragraph I said that a Ukrainian navy boat detachment sailed off the coast of the Sea of Azov at Dokuchaevsk and began firing heavy machine guns on rebel forces.
The actual location was the village of Bezymennoye. Dokuchaevsk is close to 25 kilometers inland.
[GP] Holland was the first European country I set foot in as a lad, and it continues to have a special place in my memory. But the country I encountered in the summer of 1970 is all but unrecognizable now. In a fit of cultural enervation, social ennui, and just plain suicidal stupidity, it was among the first Western countries to throw open its doors to the avant-garde of Islam, and is now paying the price. So with the Dutch elections now looming, the question is: can the tide of Muslim social conquest be reversed?
The question is precipitated by the extraordinary sight of riots in Rotterdam this weekend when the Dutch government forbade the Turkish minister of family affairs from landing in Holland in order to openly campaign among Holland's Turkish "emigrant" community on behalf of Turkish strongman Erdogan's latest power grab, which is coming up for a vote on April 16. Naturally, she simply snuck across the border from Germany into the Netherlands, but the Dutch somehow managed enough backbone to block her.
[Haaretz] The far-right leader is slipping in the polls before Wednesday’s election, but he has managed to turn it into a referendum on migrants and Muslims.
It's a tad difficult to go out on the campaign trail when it's been proved one's government-provided bodyguard is sharing with the bad guys.
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[American Thinker] In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle demonstrated how human consciousness becomes imprisoned by the controlling mind, and how that mind, so much focused on the task of controlling and centralizing one's attention on the past and future, may feel threatened by any attempt to escape from mental control. The imprisoned mind will seek to reassert its enslavement at the first hint of change.
Just such a separation of consciousness from Being, or, if you will, of mankind from God, is exactly what is at play in our current national drama. A powerful mental construct ‐ the liberal myth of a progressive utopia brought about by surrender of the individual to state control ‐ is at risk of being swept away by a great movement to free consciousness from the controlling ideas of the liberal past. As Shelby Steele wrote in a remarkable March 6 op-ed ("The Exhaustion of American Liberalism"), we stand "at the end of something," that something being the radical mindset that has dominated so much of American intellectual life since the 1960s.
"The jig is up." Liberalism no longer possesses the moral authority to control our national politics.
Liberals are terrified of Trump because they know that their great myth, once the light of consciousness has been shined on it, will dissolve as quickly as a grain of salt in water. As Steele puts it, the "president rolls his eyes when he is called a racist, and we all ‐ liberal and conservative alike ‐ know that he isn't one." Elizabeth Warren's Jeff Sessions rant was just that: a hysterical rant, and everyone knows it. "White guilt," and all that goes with it, is now just tiresome noise. There is no reality to liberals' mental myth of the enlightened state. Once it comes under awareness, it dissolves.
In Tolle's thinking, the concentration of consciousness on the "now" to the exclusion of past and present awakens presence, a powerful field of energy that can be directed toward learning, acting, healing, or any other endeavor. Presence is transformative in a way that the mere chatter of mind can never be because presence transcends the self-limiting contradictions, inhibitions, and mental rubbish of regret, fear, and false hope.
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the liberal myth of a progressive utopia brought about by surrender of the individual to state control
Remember this came about through early PBS indoctrination of America's children by Sesame Street and purple Dinosaurs. It's as hard to shake as fundamentalist religions. We're seeing more domestic 'acting out' by liberal Barnians than radical Muslims.
[DAWN] DAYS after the military leadership publicly urged the government to accelerate the implementation of the National Action Plan, and more than a week since the combined military and civilian leadership pledged to take up the fight against extremism, 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... has made a frank and timely appeal to religious scholars and leaders. In a speech in Jamia Naeemia in Lahore, Mr Sharif called on religious leaders to reject preaching hate and sowing divisions among Paks and to instead promote tolerance and inclusivity. The prime minister is right and he must carry his message, personally and through his government, to all corners of the land. A frank assessment of what ails the religious right and its powerful networks across the country is the right starting point and is made all the more effective when it is done directly, without proxies and in simple but powerful language. Indeed, Mr Sharif should encourage other mainstream politicians to carry the same message across the provinces and territories of Pakistain. If the long war against militancy and extremism is to be won, the mainstream political forces in the country must patiently though determinedly confront the forces of darkness in the country.
Fighting extremism, promoting the message of democracy, tolerance and inclusivity, and healing the wounds that have cut so deep in recent decades will necessarily have to go beyond speeches. While Mr Sharif and all likeminded politicians who want to embrace the same social message should be applauded and encouraged, the difficulties of the fight ahead should not be ignored. With the PML-N, there is also a concern that Mr Sharif uses such speeches to either soften the party’s image or counter some unpalatable aspects of its politics as practised by other N-League leaders -- there being no evidence yet that the party intends to translate Mr Sharif’s occasional words into a viable policy, legislative or governance agenda. Consider that for all of Mr Sharif’s welcome words yesterday, there was no road map laid out for how the government intends to promote religious tolerance or what steps it is willing to take against religious elements peddling extremism. What the government either fails to understand or refuses to acknowledge is that extremism is not a static force; it is spreading and, in some cases, accelerating. The longer the government fails to draw up and implement a viable plan to combat extremism, the harder that eventual and necessary fight will be.
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DAYS after the military leadership publicly urged the government to accelerate the implementation of the National Action Plan.....
Nothing quite like a nice NAP.
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
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