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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Masturbating Florida man slugs elderly man who asked him to stop
[NYPOST] A drunken man who was masturbating in a Florida supermarket’s parking lot slugged an elderly man who told him to cut it out, a report said.

The suspect, 39-year-old Kerry Vandergriff, was allegedly masturbating with his pants down in the Fresco Y Mas in Miami on Saturday afternoon at about 5:30 p.m., CBS New York reported.

The elderly man approached Vandergriff and told him to stop, he later told police.

Vandergriff then slugged him in the face, knocking him to the ground, according to the report.

Vandergriff then allegedly continued pummeling the man while he was on the ground.

He was arrested on a number of charges, including indecent exposure, battery and disorderly intoxication.

Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 08:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lesson

Do not play the hero with a Florida man, unless you're the Florida Man.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Publix-interruptus. I believe I might have shook my head and kept on walking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2019 13:57 Comments || Top||

#3  A baseball bat or pipe applied to his neither area would put a quick stop to this!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/28/2019 15:50 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure that arm was in great shape for a sucker punch
Posted by: Regular joe || 11/28/2019 16:06 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Five people are killed in a 'devastating' fire that was 'like a blast furnace' on the 14th floor of Minneapolis high-rise
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/28/2019 13:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  The building is in Little Mogadishu, known for the many Somali immigrants
Firefighters believe the blaze was an accident but its cause is still unknown
Rescue teams had to run upstairs while residents were fleeing on the stairwells
The building was built in 1969 and wasn't required to have a sprinkler system
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2019 22:06 Comments || Top||


Tanning where the sun don't shine
[NYPOST] They’re soaking up some rays where the sun don’t shine.
"What's the matter, Hervè?"
"I went butt tanning."
"Wossa motta widdat? All us trendy folk are doing it. It's very edgy."
"I got second degree burns of my bung hole."
"Ooh! Dat's bad!"
"And I gotta poop."
"Ooh! Dat's worse!"

The hottest trend gripping wellness die-hards is tanning their cans, or "perineum sunning," as influencers are calling it.
Occasionally airing out the old gennies is good for you. Scorching them, not so good.
"In a mere 30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole, you will receive more energy from this electric node than you would in an entire day being outside with your clothes on," says an influencer, who goes by Ra of Earth.
If you can't believe someone named Ra of Earth, who can you believe?"
In a viral video that has racked up more than 35,000 views, he gestures toward the sun as three naked men lie down, point their backsides to the sky and make sounds of pleasure.
If it's cloudy, pop on down to the drug store and buy some Vitamin D gummies. Then go home and pop one right in there. Works like a charm, I'm sure. Maybe I should change my name to Anubis of Arcturus? Kinda catchy, I think.
Ra of Earth has also posted a step-by-step "Sun Worship exercise" pulled from "The Tao of Sexology: The Book of Infinite Wisdom" by Dr. Stephen T. Chang that says the practice can help keep the area "healthy and free of germs."
"Infinite Wisdom?" Does that imply that Doctor Chang knows everything about everything?
Chang and Ra of Earth aren’t the only ones, either. Other influencers appear to be just as inspired to catch some ultra-vile rays.
It's the new Goldfish Swallowing, the Mutton Chop whiskers of the 21st Century... No. Wait. That's Taliban Beards. Phone Booth Packing then. Or maybe Saint Vitus Dance.
"[Thirty] seconds of direct sunlight injection to the anal orifice is equivalent to being outside in the sun all day!" writes influencer Troy Casey.
Better than two enemas and a light spanking, without the mess!
One Caliphornian
Dewd, are you surprised?
claims butt-chugging vitamin D not only helps her sleep better but helps to regulate her hormones.
Best to get a little regulation into those raging hormones!
"For the past few weeks I have included sunning my bum and yoni into my daily rising routine," a woman who goes by Metaphysical Meagan captions an image of herself fully naked on a rock.
For the past few years I have included groaning, scratching, brushing my remaining teeth, and peeing into my daily rising routine. Then I go looking for breakfast. My preferred breakfast is owls, but I'm not the hunter I used to be. Last week I did bring down a box of Raisin Bran.
Meagan says she first learned about perineum sunning through her study of Taoism and has recently given up her morning cup of coffee in favor of sunning her anus.
If you use a gummy bear you can sit on it and have your coffee, too.
The phenomenon caught the wider internet’s attention after one Twitter user posted Meagan’s photo and caption, to the tune of more than 84,000 likes.
Since she's nekkid as an egg and holding her feet up by her toes, I can see why. 83,902 of the likes were from eighteen-year-old boys, the remainder from lesbians.
Even A-listers are sunning their bums.
Be still, my racing heart!
"Big Little Lies" actress Shailene Woodley, who is known for her holistic lifestyle that doesn’t even include a TV, has admitted she’s also practiced a version of perineum sunning.
No teevee? The woman is serious! How can she watch herself on the... ummm... Maybe she goes out or something.
"Another thing I like to do is give my vagina a little vitamin D," she told Into The Gloss in 2014.
That's certainly essential information. I'll bet the GRU jumped on that!
"I was reading an article written by an herbalist. I studied about yeast infections and other genital issues. She said there’s nothing better than vitamin D.
I can think of several things, but I'm a Dirty Old Man™.
If you’re feeling depleted, go in the sun for an hour and see how much energy you get. Or, if you live in a place that has heavy winters, when the sun finally comes out, spread your legs and get some sunshine."
It's a vision to take your breath away. Especially if the vision is really, really fat.
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
medical professionals are far from convinced the practice has any merit.
"What's your opinion, Young Doctor Kildare?"
"Those people are crazy!"
"Doctor Casey?"
"I got more important things to do."
"Doctor Quincy?"
"They're not dead."

"There is no evidence that sunbathing in this way has any effect on physical well-being," Dr. Diana Gall of UK-based online doctor service Doctor 4 U tells Insider.
"Works really good if you're into attracting attention, though."
"Yes, practicing mindfulness and meditation, and getting your dose of vitamin D, is beneficial for mental and physical health, but you don’t need to damage your skin in the process from sun exposure," she says.
"Not to mention any essential orifices!"
That taint right....
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 09:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Alien probe is quicker and more thorough. Only rates one star on enjoyability though...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/28/2019 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Here's an indoor solution. Think of it as the tanning bed concept, miniaturized and shaped to fit your 'energy receptacle'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Watch it Dron. You will be accused of starting a cult...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/28/2019 11:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Vitamin D is dandy but liquor is quicker.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/28/2019 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  "The seagulls make the beach routine somewhat...problematic"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2019 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh dear ... 😲

And a list of litigants demanding millions for their irreparably browned orifices.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  It's called "changing your ring tone", Dron
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2019 11:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh, I see. Interesting times we live in. I suppose there must be something like 'lighting your shaft' then too.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  No thanks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/28/2019 12:15 Comments || Top||

#10  changing your ring tone

Snark o the day vote here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/28/2019 12:28 Comments || Top||

#11  irreparably browned orifices

Another Caucasian fad.
Ranks right up there with anal bleaching in things I will not try.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/28/2019 12:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Fog clouded nipples, a true weather phenomenon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2019 14:11 Comments || Top||

#13  So when they get cancer of the bung hole they can learn to play bagpipe tunes on their colectomy bags . At least this will stop a lot of them from reproducing leaving more for the rest of us. " Oh God! You are so old an wrinkled ! , "Yeah baby but I'm all that's left , close your eyes and think of England. "
Posted by: Gomez Flugum6633 || 11/28/2019 15:25 Comments || Top||

#14  Hope they don't get sunburned...
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/28/2019 17:42 Comments || Top||


Explosion at Texas chemical plant
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An explosion at a chemical plant in Texas early Wednesday sent a large fireball into the sky, media reports said, triggering a mandatory evacuation.

"Please be aware that there is a mandatory evacuation for everyone within a 1/2 mile of the TPC plant in Port Neches," local fire officials said in a post on the Nederland Volunteer Fire Department’s Facebook page.

Dramatic videos and photos shared on social media showed a massive explosion, with one resident describing waking up to a huge boom and "glass all over us".

Ryan Mathewson, who lives roughly two minutes from the plant with his family, told AFP: "We woke up to glass all over us and parts of the ceiling caved in, (and) doors blown in."

The 25-year-old said they were "shook up and scared" following the blast.

County Judge Jeff Branick told local news site KFDM News that there were no injuries reported.

The site of the earth-shattering kaboom is believed to be a petrochemical plant roughly 85 miles (135 kilometers) from Houston.
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Flooding, landslides claim 32 lives in DRC capital Kinshasa
[TWITTER]

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Africa Subsaharan
Guinea-Bissau presidential election to be decided in run-off
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Benin sacks 'harmful' EU envoy meddling in domestic affairs
[TWITTER]

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Britain
Jeremy Corbyn flounders on anti-Semitism, Brexit, tax and spending
[BLOGS.SPECTATOR.CO.UK] Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with Andrew Neil was one of the most uncomfortable half hours of the Labour leader’s tenure. In contrast to the ITV debate, where he appeared confident and quick-witted, Corbyn struggled to answer questions on a number of different issues, complaining all the while that Neil wouldn’t let him finish. By the end, he might have wished that he’d had more interruptions as this was a very poor interview.

His refusal to apologise for the Labour party’s handling of anti-Semitism has naturally attracted the most attention. He point blank disagreed with the Chief Rabbi, saying he was ’not right’ to say it was ’mendacious fiction’ that Labour had investigated every single case of anti-Semitism, and once again saying he was ’looking forward to having a discussion with him because I want to hear why he would say such a thing’. He expressed clear irritation at having his anti-racist credentials questioned, insisting that opposing racism is ’what my life is about’ and that he felt ’very passionately’ about this, as though making the sort of statements you’d see in a university application immediately inoculates you against ever being wrong. Taken together, these two responses to Neil’s questions suggest that Corbyn still blames those who accuse him, rather than wondering whether there might be a different way of approaching the racism in his own party. He could quite easily have said that he too was appalled that his party had given Jews the impression they wouldn’t feel safe if he were in government, and that he would do everything in his power to change things in Labour to win back trust. Instead, he wants to do everything in his power to persuade those Jews that they are wrong.

But there were other areas where he seriously floundered too ‐ and on these he lacked the strange confidence that he exudes when asserting his lifelong anti-racist credentials. His case that he can bring the country back together by remaining neutral in a referendum on a Brexit deal that he’d just negotiated would be much stronger were Corbyn able to give at least an inkling that he’d thought through how this might work.
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeremy Corbyn flounders on anti-Semitism, Brexit, tax and spending

But, I bet, he can do "LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH, MUHAMMADUN RASULULLAH" without stumbling once.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2019 3:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Other than that, he's doing swell.
Posted by: Lex || 11/28/2019 11:49 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
US accuses Venezuela, Cuba of exacerbating regional unrest
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States on Wednesday accused its adversaries Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
and Cuba of fomenting strife in South America, where a number of countries have seen major protests.

Elliott Abrams, who leads the US effort to topple Venezuela’s leftist leader Nicolás Maduro
...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground...
, said the two governments have used social media and other means to stir up unrest.

"There is evidence beginning to build about an effort by the regimes in Cuba and Venezuela to exacerbate the problems in South America," he told news hounds.

Abrams pointed to US ally Colombia’s recent expulsion of 59 Venezuelans for taking part in mass demonstrations against the unpopular conservative president, Ivan Duque.

He also cited allegations, denied by Havana, that Cubans financed protests against the right-leaning interim leader in Bolivia, where longtime leftist president Evo Morales quit after disputed elections.

US officials have previously also alleged Venezuelan involvement in demonstrations that have rocked Ecuador and Chile.

Despite the turbulence in the region, Maduro remains in power even though most Western and Latin American nations consider him illegitimate after wide reports of irregularities in elections last year.

The United States in January launched a campaign of sanctions and other pressure to topple Maduro and back Juan Guaidó
...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis....
, the head of the opposition-led National Assembly whom Washington considers interim president.

Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China-Japan-Koreas
Trump signs bill expressing support for Hong Kong protestors
[AXIOS] President Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on Wednesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the city's autonomy after months of pro-democracy protests.

Why it matters: The bill, which was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in both the Senate and the House, serves as a major rebuke of China at a time when Washington and Beijing are engaged in critical trade talks. China has warned that it will take retaliatory measures if the bill becomes law.

Between the lines: Even if Trump had declined to sign the bill, it would still likely have the two-thirds support in Congress necessary to override a veto. In a statement acknowledging the signing, Trump noted that certain aspects of the bill would "interfere" with his "constitutional authority to state the foreign policy of the United States."
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Chill Beijing. It's like a strongly worded statement from the UN.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2019 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Think a President Biden, Sanders, or Lieawatha would do this?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2019 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Ref #2: Think a President Biden, Sanders, or Lieawatha would do this?

Of course not! The protesters are waving American flags.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2019 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  A couple of friends and I are trying to get some Trump masks to get to HK. If they get to the guy, we should soon see. They're made in China Yupp ! , so they look ridiculous but it should be... interesting.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Should have made a deal. We'll take the faculty and students of the Hong Kong demonstrations, in return we'll send you the Oberlin faculty and students.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2019 21:22 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Deal.
Posted by: Lex || 11/28/2019 21:31 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Instagram and Facebook are DOWN: Thousands of users claim they are unable to refresh their feeds or upload photos or videos on either social media site
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/28/2019 13:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  who cares?
Posted by: chris || 11/28/2019 14:45 Comments || Top||

#2  That explain why the internet is so fast this morning!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/28/2019 15:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Group lobotomy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/28/2019 17:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone decided that they were organs of hate speech and intolerance and blocked them?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2019 20:22 Comments || Top||


Hawaii suspect faces hearing in cyberstalking of Utah family
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Hawaii man tormented a Utah family for over a year by sending more than 500 people to their house for unwanted services including food deliveries, repairs, tow trucks, locksmiths, plumbers and hookers, according to a US prosecutor who called it "extreme cyberstalking."

Loren Okamura is scheduled for a detention hearing Wednesday afternoon in Honolulu’s federal courthouse following his arrest last week. He was indicted last month on charges of cyberstalking, interstate threats and transporting people for prostitution, court documents show.

Okamura, 44, targeted a father and his adult daughter, sending the woman threatening messages and posting her picture and address online, authorities said. One posting said the homeowner wanted drugs and hookers at the house in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood in a Salt Lake City suburb.

The Gilmore family was "tormented" during the year-plus that the "extreme cyberstalking" took place, US Attorney John Huber told news hounds on Tuesday.

Investigators had been focused on Okamura as the suspect since January when the Gilmores were granted a protective injunction from him in Utah. It took Sherlocks time to gather enough evidence to charge Okamura because of his use of encryption and apps that made him appear anonymous, Huber said.

"For all the good that technology offers us in our modern lifestyles, there is also a darker, seedier side to it," Huber said. "That’s what you have here."

Huber declined to disclose the relationship between the victims and Okamura, but said it was not random. He noted that most stalkers have had previous relationships with their victims and said, "those dynamics are present in this case."

A sealed indictment was issued on October 2, but Okamura wasn’t arrested until Friday as police struggled to find him because he doesn’t have a permanent address or job and authorities said he was "savvy" with technology used to mask his phone’s location.

Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
EU will not replace Nato, says new Brussels chief
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The new EU chief insisted Wednesday the bloc would not replace NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
as guarantor of Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an security as the backlash to French President Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of the alliance rumbles on.

Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming European Commission president, became the latest major European leader to distance herself from a pugnacious Macron interview in which he said NATO was suffering "brain death" and that Europe could defend itself.

The French leader’s comments have caused a rift with Germany, with Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists...
breaking with her usual reserve to slap down unnecessary "sweeping judgements", and anger among eastern European allies who see NATO as a vital bulwark against Russian aggression.

The EU has launched various initiatives to make its military spending more coherent and efficient, but former German defense minister von der Leyen said the transatlantic alliance would remain responsible for European collective security "without any question."

"The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
will never be a military alliance. The European Union is completely different," she told news hounds after the European Parliament approved her new commission team.

"I see many, many fields where I do not see NATO but the European Union is called upon," she added, pointing to the bloc’s "huge tool box of instruments" including trade, development aid and humanitarian assistance.

In his Economist interview, Macron said allies should "reassess the reality of what NATO is" in light of US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s apparent ambivalence about the alliance, adding that he believed "Europe has the capacity to defend itself.”
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, they won't replace the US monetary contribution, at any rate...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/28/2019 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  It will suck to be them!
Posted by: 3dc || 11/28/2019 12:01 Comments || Top||


Merkel vows to hit 2% NATO spending target 'by early 2030s'
I’m sure she really means it this time.
[DW] Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday underscored her commitment to NATO, pledging to raise Germany's defense spending to the alliance's 2% target "by the early 2030s."
Russia, in a spectacular outbreak of European solidarity, promises no hostile action against European countries until at least the early 2030s.
"The preservation of NATO is in our own interest, more than during the Cold War," Merkel said while addressing lawmakers in German parliament.
As protesters chanted "USA fascists out of Germany!"
"At the moment, Europe is unable to defend itself," she added, urging the bloc to stay together.
If only there were some kind of way for European countries to defend themselves. Some kind of...armed force. That countries could spend money on. Just a pipe dream, I guess.
Ouch.
Merkel said NATO has been a "bulwark for peace and freedom." Highlighting Washington's changing role in foreign policy, she said that "the United States no longer automatically takes up responsibility when it's burning around us."
And it was about goddamned time. Europeans sneering at us for having a military, and expecting us to do everything for them despite being wealthy First World nations that can easily afford it. The broomstick industry is now considered as part of their military spending.

I've been looking at comments by Europeans and they think they shouldn't have to spend the money. They don't see why a military is important and think they might as well just flush the money down the toilet. They should spend instead on things they like for themselves, like social welfare and infrastructure. Ungrateful assholes, the lot of them. Cut 'em loose. Disband NATO, bring the boys home.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If it takes you that long to spend 2% on defense, you ain't serious. Let the Germans rot on their migrants.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/28/2019 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  pledging to raise Germany's defense spending to the alliance's 2% target "by the early 2030s

"Naturally, that means I shall have to remain in office to ensure that."

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump administration to cut its financial contribution to NATO

The Trump administration has moved to substantially cut its contribution to NATO's collective budget according to several US and NATO officials, a symbolic move that comes as many continue to question President Donald Trump's commitment to the transatlantic alliance as he prepares to attend a summit to mark its 70th anniversary in London next week.

Previously the US provided some 22% of NATO's direct funding, which covers the cost of maintaining the NATO headquarters, joint security investments and some combined military operations.
It's a largely symbolic move as NATO's direct budget is relatively small, at about $2.5 billion, and is separate from national defense budgets that NATO recommends should stand at 2% of GDP.
US defense officials tell CNN that the Trump administration sought to reduce its contribution to about 16%, bringing it in line with Germany's, which provides 14.8% despite the US having a larger economy.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/28/2019 2:12 Comments || Top||

#4  "Naturally, that means I shall have to remain in office to ensure that."

The first thought that occurred to me while reading the article.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2019 2:38 Comments || Top||

#5  NATO’s European Allies Won’t Fight for Article 5

But when it came to committing to upholding Article 5—the alliance’s sacred cow, which requires NATO members to defend an ally if it is attacked—the results were devastating. The Pew poll showed that among Europeans, a median of 49 percent of respondents thought their country should not defend an ally, a response that exposes a lack of commitment to collective defense. Not only that: the majority of Europeans (67 percent), with the surprising exception of the Poles (49 percent), believed the United States would come to the defense of its allies.


Once again, the Europeans take the United States as their security guarantor for granted. Why successive U.S. administrations ever tolerated this is hard to fathom. Europe is prosperous. It has the means both to take care of its own security and to contribute to a greater role in burden sharing.

It does neither.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/28/2019 2:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Replace NATO with bilateral deals w Poland, Romania, Sweden, Denmark, UK, Germany Italy Spain.
Posted by: Lex || 11/28/2019 4:29 Comments || Top||

#7  No different than never occurring climate change predictions
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/28/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Why successive U.S. administrations ever tolerated this is hard to fathom.

I believe the original purpose of NATO was "to keep the the Germans down and the Russians out". And by NATO, we mean the US presence in Europe.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/28/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||

#9  No problem. Trump can take Germany's contribution out in import duties. 25% is a good start. 35% is better.
Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 || 11/28/2019 12:30 Comments || Top||


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Government workers more likely to support socialism, repealing Second Amendment: Poll
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2019 15:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You exist to serve them. What do you expect?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2019 15:44 Comments || Top||

#2  They already live in socialism: from each according to their abilities (very modest in many public servants' case), to each according to their need (never modest).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2019 16:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm a gov't worker and I've never seen this poll. Must of been in DC. Of course, I've never been polled about anything. Do you think it's because of where I live or how I vote?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/28/2019 16:59 Comments || Top||

#4  They see the kind of moolah the third world Government 'workers' bring in and wish for a system like theirs. America is already quite socialist in spirit, enough to satisfy the most suicidally guilt-ridden public conscience; but what they want is more opportunity for graft.

Ask any retired or middle rung civil servant and they'll tell you everything is fine as is, it's only reasonable policies, execution and employee incentive that is needed. But ask a 'big-wig' and you shall get this litany the article speaks of. Tighter controls on what people can earn, own, keep in their homes, drive, watch, eat oh yes ! ... and arbitrary re-distribution of moolah the final goal in the back of their heads They may never acknowledge it to themselves, such is the nature of the disease we call corruption.

While most western nations may deride us for people shitting in the streets, trust me when I say their civil servants are especially taken with us as a rather interested audience, and only for the wrong things. You can see the experiments with 3rd world level graft and the results already in some American states.

My words may seem like tinfoil hat buffoonery to some, but I know I'm right. It's not a theory, it's something observable throughout the world's history and even around us so kindly bear with me. And in my country I'm part of 'the boot', so I know.

The deepState will not usurp rights of people and sell out America to others overnight. There is an unwritten plan, 'a vision for the future' as if it were, in the leagues of overly autocratic officers, judges and legislators - for a Utopia of corruption where taxes and resource leases to foreign States or corporations will fuel a 'Socialist Dole State'. This will mean enormous sums of money to distribute through the hands of some civil 'servants'. Like the planned Insurance nightmares.

A crackdown on the 'long leash' given to arms manufacturers will also become evident in time. It shall be couched as civil interest litigations over trifles like hi-capa mags with enough inanity for the average person to assume it's just daft activism.

Absolute control and zero resistance to further control requires a public that is always scared, defenseless, looking to the State to protect their families, property, businesses. And that's where the 'monopoly of force' comes in. For all who think your 2A is something that shall enable you to fight the APCs rolling down Madison Square, or defend against SWAT teams that come for your M1903 and Colt Root repeaters, that is not the game the park is being mowed for.

Your 2A may say it is for defense against the 'tyranny of States' in word, but in practice in the real world it mainly protects against things like Antifa and violent criminality from illegal immigrantsThese, and the 'civil servants' are actually banking upon them to chip away at public self-confidence and the very spirit of nationalist communities. Oh, the police will rush there as soon as you dial that '911', but soon all you may have left is the '911' and an underpaid dispatcher saying 'Alhamdulillah' while your throat is cut. And the rulers will be okay with mayhem in numbers acceptable to them. The State shall assume control of life in acquiring the sole right to defend it. In a few generations, when the last 'rebellious white bastard', Republican voter, NRA member and 'nationalist nut' has been incarcerated and ousted from society - their work of transforming America shall be complete.

Someone will be doing the same to Israel mind you, and in other nations where a woman doesn't need a 'rape-whistle' if she's got a Taurus .32. These fine ideas they are getting from watching other 'sheep democracies' perform their task of propping up their respective ruling classes. People lorded over by illiterate assholes and absolute thieves in executive suits driving around in motorcades, uniforms trotting about only concerned for their masters and ready to bring the truncheon down on the next upraised neck. Economies functioning just well enough for bureaucrats and politicians to secret away moolah in securities and offshore accounts, where the usual reply to a 'Right to Information' petition is a drive-by or 'accident' paid for by a contractor. Police-states with a happy face and people drowning in shit in the hinter parts.

So the Government Workers this thingy speaks of simply cannot be clerks and report jockeys. They are surely the highest echelons of bureaucracy.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 22:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Shit. I posted it at 'closing time'.

Like the last speech of Billy Wallace in Braveheart, which was probably red bubbles anyway.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahhg hakka hakka ...cough !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 22:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
ICE arrests 90 more foreign students at fake university created by DHS in Michigan
h/t Instapundit
About 90 additional foreign students at a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested in recent months.

A total of about 250 students have now been arrested since January on immigration violations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a sting operation by federal agents who enticed foreign-born students, mostly from India, to attend the school that marketed itself as offering graduate programs in technology and computer studies, according to ICE officials.

Many of those arrested have been deported, while others are contesting their removals. One has been allowed to stay after being granted lawful permanent resident status by an immigration judge.

The students had arrived legally in the U.S. on student visas, but since the University of Farmington was later revealed to be a creation of federal agents, they lost their immigration status after it was shut down in January. The school was staffed with undercover agents posing as university officials.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2019 02:45 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooops
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2019 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I read an Ad in a local paper for an 'Emigration Consultants' agency. A pvt business that 'prepares, coaches and provides legal support' to Indians who want to simply 'Live in America !'

They blatantly offer to arrange all documents, knock a bit of smarts into you to pass checks and have slimy lawyers and agents waiting in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto etc. to fake a university course or employment over there.

And the kicker, and I quote -

'We promise a high paying career in Social Re-engineering in a welcoming and forward society. Learn to operate Twitter Yupp ! and influence people, medical and social services training, help other people settle in America... '

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/28/2019 4:20 Comments || Top||

#3  "a welcoming and forward society" would seem to preclude Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2019 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  fake university

How could you tell from so many others grifting off the student loan program?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2019 8:07 Comments || Top||

#5  RE #4: LOL!
Posted by: borgboy || 11/28/2019 16:13 Comments || Top||



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