[Daniel Pipes] Note the contrast: when Matteo Salvini, Italy's interior minister recently visited Jerusalem, which he hailed as the capital of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him a "great friend of Israel." Back home, however, Italy's liberal Jews denounced Salvini for, among other things, his Gypsy policy and his alleged "racism against foreigners and migrants."
A similar battle, pitting the mighty State of Israel against small and shrinking Jewish communities, takes place in many European countries, invariably arguing over the same subject: what the press calls far-right, populist, nativist, or nationalist parties – and what I call civilizationist parties (because they primarily aspire to maintain Western civilization). Israel's leadership unsurprisingly focus on these parties' foreign policy, broadly seeing them as its best friends in Europe, while Europe's Jewish establishment no less predictably emphasizes the parties' domestic profiles, portraying them as incorrigibly antisemitic, even auguring a return to the twentieth century's fascistic dictatorships.
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Can Israel announce that any Jew who gave aid and comfort to the enemy will never be permitted into the country, or are they obligated to take them in when the SHTF?
[The Washington Standard] Many of you are familiar with a couple of congressional seats that were picked up by Muslim women and the first Muslim state attorney general put into office in Minnesota. What you may not realize is just how many political offices were filled by electing Muslims in 2018. Even more concerning is the high percentage of Muslims voting and their openness to promote the fact that they want to "change" our culture and society.
FEDERAL
Rashida Tlaib (D) MI 13th Congressional District WON
Keith Ellison (D) MN Attorney General WON
Ilhan Omar (D) MN 5th Congressional District WON
Andre Carson (D) IN 7th Congressional District WON
STATE
Sheikh Rahman (D) GA State Senate District 5 WON
Safiya Wazir (D) NH State House Merrimack 17 District WON
Robert Jackson (D) NY State Senate District 31 WON
Nasif Majeed (D) NC State House District 99 WON
Mujtaba Mohammed (D) NC State Senate District 38 WON
Mohamud Noor (D) MN State House District 60B WON
Jason Dawkins (D) PA State House District 179 WON
Hodan Hassan (D) MN State House District 62A WON
Charles Fall (D) NY State House District 61 WON
Ako Abdul-Samad (D) IA State House District 35 WON
Aboul Khan (R) NH State House Rockingham 20 District WON
Abdullah Hammoud (D) MI State House District 15 WON
Abbas Akhil (D) NM State House District 20 WON
COUNTY
Sam Baydoun (D) MI Wayne County Commission District 13 WON
Sadia Gul Covert (D) IL Dupage County Board District 5 WON
Sabina Taj MD Howard County Board of Education WON
Mohammad Ramadan NJ Passaic County Board of Education WON
Cheryl Sudduth CA West County Wastewater District Director WON
Babur Lateef VA Prince William County School Board WON
Assad Akhter (D) NJ Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders WON
Abdul "Al" Haidous (D) MI Wayne County Commission District 11 WON
MUNICIPAL
Salman Bhojani TX Euless City Council Place 6 WON*
Dawn Haynes NJ Newark Public Schools School Board WON*
Yasir Khogali MI City of Plymouth District Library Board WON
Mohamed Khairullah NJ Prospect Park Mayor WON
Mohamed Al-Hamdani OH Dayton Public Schools Board of Education WON
Mo Seifeldein VA Alexandria City Council WON
Maimona Afzal Berta CA Franklin-McKinley School Board WON
Jihan Aiyash MI Hamtramck Public School Board WON
Javed Ellahie CA Monte Sereno City Council WON
Hazim Yassin NJ Red Bank City Council WON
Haseeb Javed VA Manassas Park City Council WON
Farrah Khan CA Irvine City Council WON
Ali Taj CA Artesia City Council WON
Alaa Matari NJ Prospect Park Borough Council WON
Alaa "Al" Abdel-Aziz NJ Paterson City Council Ward 6 WON
Aisha Wahab CA Hayward City Council WON
Ahmad Zahra CA Fullerton City Council District 5 WON
Salim Patel NJ Passaic City Council WIN
Sabina Zafar CA San Ramon City Council WIN
Shahabuddeen Ally NYC Civil Court, NY County WON
Sam Salamey MI District Courts, District 19 WON
Rabeea Collier TX District Courts, 113th District WON
Halim Dhanidina CA Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three WON
George Abdallah Jr. CA Superior Court of San Joaquin County, Office 12 WON
Adel A. Harb MI Wayne County Circuit Court WON
In breaking these down by state, Deplorable Kel formulated a list.
California
Cheryl Sudduth ‐ West County Wastewater District Director
George Abdallah Jr. ‐ Superior Court of San Joaquin County, Office 12
Halim Dhanidina ‐ Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three
Maimona Afzal Berta ‐ Franklin-McKinley Board of Education
Javed Ellahie ‐ Monte Sereno City Council
Al Jabbar ‐ Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees
Ahmad Zahra ‐ Fullerton City Council District 5
Aisha Wahab ‐ Hayward City Council
Ali Taj ‐ Artesia City Council
Farrah Khan ‐ Irvine City Council
Sabina Zafar ‐ San Ramon City Council
Florida
Amira Dajani Fox (R) ‐ State Attorney
Georgia
Sheikh Rahman (D) ‐ State Senate District 5
Illinois
Sadia Gul Covert (D) ‐ Dupage County Board District 5
Indiana
Andre Carson (D) ‐ 7th Congressional District
Iowa
Ako Abdul-Samad (D) ‐ State House District 35
Maryland
Sabina Taj ‐ Howard County Board of Education
Michigan
Rashida Tlaib (D) ‐ 13th Congressional District
Abdullah Hammoud (D) ‐ State House District 15
Abdul "Al" Haidous (D) ‐ Wayne County Commission District 11
Sam Baydoun (D) ‐ Wayne County Commission District 13
Adel A. Harb ‐ Wayne County Circuit Court
Sam Salamey ‐ District Courts, District 19
Minnesota
Ilhan Omar (D) ‐ 5th Congressional District
Keith Ellison (D) ‐ Attorney General
Hodan Hassan (D) ‐ State House District 62A
Mohamud Noor (D) ‐ State House District 60B
Siad Ali (D) ‐ District 3 member of the Minneapolis Board of Education
New Hampshire
Aboul Khan (R) ‐ State House Rockingham 20 District
Safiya Wazir (D) ‐ State House Merrimack 17 District
New Jersey
Assad Akhter (D) ‐ Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders
Alaa "Al" Abdel-Aziz ‐ Paterson City Council Ward 6
Mohammad Ramadan ‐ Passaic County Board of Education
Alaa Matari ‐ Prospect Park Borough Council
Dawn Haynes ‐ Newark Public Schools School Board
Hazim Yassin ‐ Red Bank City Council
Mohamed Khairullah ‐ Prospect Park Mayor
Salim Patel ‐ Passaic City Council
[NationalReview] Elizabeth Warren is not proposing a tax; she’s proposing asset forfeiture.
History is very short, if you look at it the right way.
The American Revolution seems like it was a very long time ago, but looked at with the right kind of eyes, it was the day before yesterday: The revolution of Washington and Jefferson inspired the French Revolution, which unhappily perverted the classical-liberal principles of the American Founders and created instead an ersatz religion purporting to be a cult of pure reason ‐ le Culte de la Raison ‐ which culminated in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship. The French Revolution inspired the Russian Revolution, which created its own cult of pure reason ‐ "scientific socialism" ‐ and modeled its "enemies of the people" purges on French revolutionary practice, culminating in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship. The Russian Revolution in turn inspired the Iranian one, which had intellectual roots in the Bolshevik experience in the Caucasus and culminated in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship. The Iranians exported many of their revolutionary principles to Hugo Chávez, his United Socialist party, and their so-called Bolivarian Revolution (whose colectiovos gangs were modeled on Iran’s basji militias) which culminated in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship, currently on particularly dramatic display.
In most cases, the revolution begins with a peasant prelude and reaches its crescendo with some variation on the theme of Napoleon; socialist revolutions in particular have a peculiar habit of beginning with a man in a work shirt and ending up with a man dressed like Cap’n Crunch. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro does look a sight in his beauty-pageant sash and Mr. T-worthy gold chains. The people who endure his socialist government are eating zoo animals and pets in what was the richest country in South America.
Elizabeth Warren is going to look terrific in those mirrored aviator sunglasses and peaked captain’s hat. She’s spent half her life playing dress-up, morally ‐ pretending to be an Indian ‐ so she may as well dress the part of her aspirations. "Who are you wearing to the state dinner? Oscar de la Renta? Prada? Pinochet?" More at the link. Funny article in a "I'm gonna' need more ammo." kind of way.
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If this is that Kevin Williamson article, he never apologized or confessed himself when he was carrying the anti-Kulak's water back in Administration Zero.
#3
You may not feel like a kulak. You may take comfort in hearing that only the “tippy-top” wealthiest people are to be expropriated in the name of social justice. Those children at Covington Catholic probably didn’t think they were Nazis a week ago, either.
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[AmericanThinker] Much has been made of the pre-dawn arrest of Roger Stone in his home in Fort Lauderdale. To make this arrest, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, probably having delegated the task to his subordinate Andrew Weissmann (who is known for this tactic), assembled a full-scale FBI SWAT team of 29 members As I recall, only (2) agents were required to bring in Ted Kaczynski ("The Unibomber")
replete with long weapons, body armor, and even a flash-bang grenade or two. The arrest took place at "zero dark thirty" or 5:30 A.M. Nevertheless, a CNN crew was on hand to film the whole thing.
Once upon a time, this level of force was considered necessary only to raid suspects able and inclined to shoot back, or who might destroy evidence. Think Symbionese Liberation Army or drug kingpin Frank Lucas of American Gangster fame. In such cases, in which the suspects really might shoot back, a television crew would never be allowed, on the grounds that they could be killed in the crossfire. The fact that a CNN crew was allowed to film Stone's arrest is evidence that nobody believed he was dangerous. Indeed, he was not: he is 66-year-old white-collar suspect with no prior history of violence, who didn't even have weapons in his house. Even the judge processing Stone's arraignment implicitly accepted that Stone was not dangerous; he allowed Stone to be released on a $250,000 surety bond.
The usual procedure in white-collar cases is not to assemble an unnecessary SWAT team. Instead, the Justice Department informs the suspect's attorney that the suspect has been indicted and needs to turn himself in to whatever courthouse for arraignment. The attorney informs the suspect and usually surrenders his client peacefully in the courthouse. No guns, no flash-bangs, no pre-dawn raids. Alan Dershowitz has said the only purpose of this level of force is to intimidate the mark into flipping on someone higher. In the case of Roger Stone, that can mean only President Trump. Continues at link.
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Americans, by international standards are well off. That prosperity must be looted. In order for the plundering to succeed by a ruling class, the Americans must have no representation, the ruling class import their base to help loot and drain everything.
Those elected to the highest levels by the prosperous must be prosecuted. 32 Trump related indictments have been issued in 2 years.
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Doesn't it make them look incompetent to have such overkill in front of the CNN cameras (that they made sure where there?) while arresting a non-violent fellow?
#6
None of these cases ever make it to juries anyway. They all plead guilty to something rather that be boiled in oil.
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This SC is a political tool of the left and has little to do with justice. One has only to look to Hitler's Nazi Germany for analogs (secret police, phonied-up laws, jack-booted thugs, star chambers). At the center is Andrew Weissmann, Mueller's pit bull. He did a number on Enron, Arthur Anderson, and Merle Lynch. Fortunately, most of his handiwork got turned aside on appeal but not before much damage was done. At least, the guy ought to be disbarred. He has no respect for the law.
[Townhall] The problem for them is Donald Trump is still President.
He knows all of this, saw it long before it got to this point, and has made the chess move of being "presidential" in reopening the government while allowing them yet "one more chance" to "do the right thing."
Partly to be able to honestly say the American people, "I gave them every chance to solve the border problem."
Partly to be able to tell voters in 2020, "Do you want their ’vision’ of America, or do you want America?"
They live in an obsessed existence‐pacing the floors at night‐dealing with how he’s taking away the vision of what they want America to become.
He slept last night like a baby.
He’s five moves ahead, even while they dance on his "grave."
[Truthdig] In the latest installment of "Scheer Intelligence," the journalists tell Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer how an interview with Richard Clarke, the counterterror adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, led them to a jaw-dropping revelation regarding two hijackers involved in the infamous attacks. As it turns out, Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar
...who is in our archives in abbreviated form as Khalid al-Midhar
and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two men linked to al-Qaida, were staying at an FBI informant’s home in San Diego in 2000, and they were being tracked by the National Security Agency.
Despite knowledge of the men’s ties to the terrorist organization responsible for 9/11, neither was investigated by the FBI. Clarke and others believe that this may have had to do with a CIA attempt to turn the two men into agency informants.
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"jaw-dropping revelation"....? "Recruitment" gone bad? I thought it was an 'intelligence sharing' failure, 'stove piping' and so forth.
Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi..'on the FBI's radar' were they ?
Not one person in the Intelligence Community or Law Enforcement was ever held accountable or fired. Yes, it was all a big intelligence sharing fuc*k-up. We'll do better next time.
Perhaps this is something the Mueller investigation may wish to look into. Oh wait !
#7
Ask Jamie Gorelick. She helped put in place walls between intel and law enforcement.
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In history one problems that empires have is "Too Big To Fail" Disease. The so-called elites starting using foreign actors, or foolishly ignore the machinations of same, because they are convinced that "..they can't hurt us!"
[Red State] When it comes to the culture wars, the Left has taken off the gloves and rewritten the rules of engagement. In some respects, their actions make sense: there are still just too many "bitter clingers" out there who are, at the end of the day, simply "deplorable." It should then come as no surprise that even children and families of those involved in these "difference of opinions" wars are now the targets of Leftist vitriol.
We can juxtapose media coverage of attacks on conservative or Republican leaders in restaurants, book stores and even at their homes against coverage of the recent Covington Catholic High School controversy. An attack on Rand Paul that left him with broken ribs garnered nowhere near the attention a smiling high school student received. Many of those in the Resistance were quick to rush in even after facts and over 1-3/4 hours of video surfaced that contradicted the lies perpetrated by Chief Bad Teeth, Nathan Philips. As a result, an entire student body has been slurred and portrayed as a breeding ground of neo-Nazism complete with doctored black face pictures and alleged Nazi hand salutes. The lives of students have been threatened.
When you have crazy moonbats like Maxine Waters basically encouraging people to punch others in the face and harass them wherever they may be, including filling a gas tank at a gas station, this is to be expected. But, sadly, this is not a strictly American phenomena. In Great Britain, 51 men were recently arrested and interrogated in connection of allegations of gang rapes occurring in West Yorkshire. You will not find too many stories on this in the British media beyond a 200-word buried article in The Mirror. The reason is simple: those arrested were Muslim. The British press is particularly susceptible to this journalistic technique. Stories of this nature are scrubbed of references to anything "Muslim" or noting the country of origin of the perpetrators. If they do mention anything, then it is depicted as "Asians." Months pass and one eventually learns in passing that the convicted had names, usually with the word "Muhammed" in it. But by then, the story has died a slow death.
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Well, I think a jot of the "journalists" advocating for punching kids probably don't have kids of their own (not an excuse for their assholerie) I think a lot of the celebrities advocating for punching kids either don't have kids or like kids in a way that a normal person can't abide.
In any event, the ones that do have kids ALL need chronic visits from CYS to make sure they are not punching their kids. And if they do, their previous advocacy for punching kids should go against them at sentencing time.
As an aside, let's be careful using the term children for teenagers. Though semantic hairs can certainly be split, remember 25 year old gang bangers were statistically considered "children" in BJ Clinton era violence studies.
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I think it's getting to be time to encourage people to punch journalists and progressive politicians in the face. What should the bag limit be?
That’s the position of our enemies, and we know it because they told us ‐ openly, proudly, in the garbage public forum that is Twitter and elsewhere. Oh, they backtracked a little when the extent of their killing fantasies got exposed, scampering like their insect analogy, the roach, when someone flips on the kitchen light. But that kid in DC with the Frigidaireborne reefer ranger banging that drum in his baffled mug? They wanted that kid to die for having a Wrong Smile.
Cue the excuse chorus: "That’s nonsense! We just wanted to pummel that kid and then destroy him, his family and and all his classmates! Don’t look behind the curtain at the woodchipper comments and bomb threats, you cisnormative monsters!"
Think of what they would do with real power...
Accept that that kid was you, and me. If they’ll ice a kid for not having the right grin, they’ll waste you or me in a heartbeat. Murder is, after all, how leftists roll. The USSR, Red China, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba ‐ that cadaver-strewn litany teaches what’s lurking at the bottom of the slope we’re sliding down. The Dems are spooning with socialism, and the goal of socialism is written in blood on the pages of history. The unapproved must be liquidated, and they are making no secret that you are unapproved.
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It wasn't the smile that triggered the Left. It was the MAGA hat. The hat was an inexcusable sin.
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The one bad thing about the economic recovery is that people have more to lose and more to absorb their energies and attention.
And this is even more likely to happen among the "normies" than others.
One reason why Trump won was that more and more "normies" were starting to wake up to what was happening to the country.
Unfortunately, a lot of them went back to sleep in the last couple of years, as shown by the election of 2018.
I don't think that even Trump fully grasps this point; hence, his boosterish tweets and harping on the falling black/Hispanic unemployment rates (which availed the GOP nothing in the election).
Like it or not, non-whites vote on the basis of identity rather than pocketbook issues, and if they register an improving economy at all, they give credit to Obama -- or magic.
Trump has done what he can by his understanding and experience of things, but I think he's hit the ceiling of what can be gained by economic cheerleading and Magic Dirt "Civic Nationalism".
At some point, he'll have to pivot, or be relegated to the status of well-meaning failure.
He could start by emphasizing what is noted in this Townhall article, and consistently hammer on the abuses his supporters are suffering -- and not just his celebrity pals or family members.
I know some people will say "No no, he should lie in the weeds and let the left expose and destroy itself."
Well, the left has been exposing itself for awhile now.
How did laying low in the face of all that work out last year?
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...well, when you finally land a job after a long layoff, it becomes more important to be there then the otherwise unemployed SJW ward healers in farming votes.
If you really want to keep that job, take a day of leave if necessary in 2020 to vote.
Every time I blunder into a discussion of covers in my field, I realize that the left has turned into puritans so slowly we barely noticed.
When I was young ‐ yes, and Mastodon roamed the Earth ‐ the left was all about "liberation."
Of course, even then, if you paid close attention ‐ or any attention, really ‐ you’d see they idolized the Soviet Union and no one could really believe it was "free" when people were dying to get out.
But as the seventies progressed on their very strange way, I told myself they were just odd people who believed the lies published about the Soviet Union, and they wanted complete freedom to do whatever they wanted.
It might surprise the people who were born after the seventies to find out that the left really wanted no taboos at all. At least in Europe, if you attended a certain type of party, you might be importuned by adult males way before the age of consent. And when you refused you were told you had a problem and were repressing your sexuality or had "inhibitions." (I developed an answer that was something like this "No, I don’t have any hang-ups about nudity. I just have no interest in seeing old men naked, thank you." It usually made them go away.)
In fact, just about anything you didn’t want to do or try, you were told that you had hang-ups, and how much better you’d feel if you just gave them up and did whatever the person talking to you wanted.
If someone had told me back then that the left would in time become complete Puritans, I’d not have believed them.
But just look at them now.
...I was reminded of this today when I blundered into a science fiction fan group online. Someone had posted a picture of an improbable space-babe with big boobs and a space suit that showed a little more cleavage than normal.
...Of course, things being the truth have never made any difference to leftist notions.
They have got all up in their Marxism and become convinced that the purpose of doing their jobs is not to sell books or movies or for that matter razors, but to educate a populace they despise.
In that sense, apparently, if they don’t put naked women on covers, or hetero romance in books (I had a book rejected once by a subsidiary of Harlequin that was interested in SF/F because the love interest in the book was "too masculine." That imprint has since stopped existing) they think somehow they’ll make humanity over and paradise will arrive.
This is roughly equivalent to the imaginary Puritans (the real ones were a randy bunch) and how the left used to say such Puritans wouldn’t even tolerate mention of sex.
For a while now, I’ve been expecting the left to start wearing poke bonnets and naming their kids "Eschew Material Gain Jones" or "Thou Shalt Not Objectify Women Smith" or perhaps "Excoriate the Cishet White Male Harris."
...This is because at the end of the day, what they actually want is power. In the seventies, it gave them power to shock the "squares" but as they’re now having trouble shocking anyone at all, they’ve taken the opposite tactic and are trying to bully us with how unenlightened we are because we like art with naked people. (Or fluffy books that are fun, or movies with an actual plot, or advertisements with[out] a "social justice" message.) Because they imagine this will give them power.
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.
