The AfD once was a mainstream center right party but that hasn't been the case for a couple of years.
Today's AfD is being dominated by a cabal of thuggish anti-freedom, anti-Western Civilization, pro Russia/CCP/Iran/Qatar/China/Islam/Islamization grifters.
#3
"Today's AfD is being dominated by a cabal of thuggish anti-freedom, anti-Western Civilization, pro Russia/CCP/Iran/Qatar/China/Islam/Islamization grifters."
I agree.
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#4
Today's AfD is being dominated by a cabal of thuggish anti-freedom, anti-Western Civilization, pro Russia/CCP/Iran/Qatar/China/Islam/Islamization grifters.
Sounds like the way Democrats and the mainstream media talk about Trump.
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"Today's AfD is being dominated by a cabal of thuggish anti-freedom, anti-Western Civilization, pro Russia/CCP/Iran/Qatar/China/Islam/Islamization grifters."
And they put ketchup on their hot dogs!
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#6
"The AfD has zero political power and has always had zero political power, thus it bears zero responsibility for the state of the country."
Of course they don't when the establishment hack parties pull whatever parliamentary trick in the book to prevent the AfD getting any power.
AfD came in second place in Thuringia and Saxony elections, if I recall correctly. I suppose 20+% of the electorate just love to vote for "a cabal of thuggish anti-freedom, anti-Western Civilization [sic]...grifters." That fits the establishment political parties in Germany to a T.
Normally I would just shove the link into the weekly roundup, but Commentary senior editor Seth Mandel makes a point I completely missed.
[Commentary] In October, I asked what the next mutation of campus anti-Semitism was going to be, warning against the classic mistake of "fighting the last war." Well, we have our answer: terrorism.
A freshman at George Mason University in Virginia has been arrested and charged with plotting to bomb the Israeli consulate in New York.
By all accounts, the suspect, Abdullah Hassan of Egypt,
…more fully in the Rantburg archives as Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, 18, who is being held without bail as he awaits trial and deportation…
was serious about his mission.
"Hassan floated different options such as assault rifles, a boom jacket or a backpack stuffed with a homemade acetone-peroxide bomb
…the extremely touchy Mother of Satan (TATP) formula that the glossy magazine of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula once wrote up as suitable for easy mixing up in the bathtub of your mom, which is why beauty supply shops are required to report large purchases of acetone to the authorities…
— for which he sent the informant a detailed instructional video stamped with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... logo, according to charging documents," the Washington Post reports.
Hassan went through the relative merits of explosives vs. shooting sprees. Lest anyone try to argue this was some kind of purely political act of anti-Zionism and not anti-Semitism, Hassan had explained that he was targeting New York City because of how easy it was there to find targets who were "Yahud"—Arabic for "Jews." He was immersed in the intricacies of the plan, "micromanag[ing] details such as the size of ball bearings to be used as shrapnel for a bomb."
Hassan had been interviewed but not charged by the FBI two years ago for spreading ISIS propaganda, so we can say he was on their radar, as officials often admit when someone escalates their threat to society.
Thus far it hasn’t been reported that Mr. Hassan was executing a an ISIS plot, or even that he had spontaneously pledged to one of the formal jihadi organizations. It appears that he just absorbed ideas from the general jihadi swamp.
It has not been GMU’s strongest semester. In November, the president of the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Paleostine and her sister were barred from campus. A day earlier, police had searched their home and found guns, ammunition, anti-Semitic literature, and "death to Jews" paraphernalia. This was in connection with an investigation into an act of anti-Semitic vandalism on campus.
Jena and Noor Chanaa are the students. Their elder brother, Mohammad Chanaa, a GMU alumnus, turned in his own handgun, ammunition, and concealed carry permit the next day, accused of complicity in the project.
The worst part is that these two cases are not connected. We’re not dealing with a specific, extreme student group or a particular clique of activists under the influence of a radical professor or network. We’re just seeing an atmosphere on campus conducive to violent mostly peaceful Jew-hatred.
That does not, however, disconnect it from the on-campus radicalization that has been going on for a long time but which massively increased after Oct. 7, 2023. This is the next step in a process that nurtures both kinds of extremism. Post-Oct. 7, faculty and students teamed up to turn college campuses into mob sites. Tentifada encampments were set up to prevent Jewish students from accessing public parts of campus, and professors began not only joining the protests but reducing the necessity of going to class by rewarding anti-Zionist activism and participation at sit-ins. The administrations almost universally incentivized this behavior by bowing to activists and their outside patrons. Students were rarely punished and district attorneys dropped charges out of political sympathy with the tentifada.
That meant that in future years, already-radicalized students would seek to join these campuses, knowing they’d be well at home there. Which is exactly what appears to have happened with Hassan.
Which means Hassan is unlikely to be much of an outlier. We can’t know how many people with violent mostly peaceful designs will be caught while on campus, but we can be sure they know that America’s campuses—certain ones more than others—are the right destination for them.
After the Hassan news hit social media, an absolutely chilling detail emerged. Adam Mossoff, a Jewish professor at the university’s law school, posted: "For the past year, a permanent police presence has been assigned to the faculty suite of offices where I & [Professor David Bernstein] work. I have greater clarity now why this had to be done. It’s shameful that GMU has fostered an environment where this is needed for its profs."
The school seems to have good reason for taking extra measures to protect its Jewish professors. That it needs to do so—and it clearly needs to do so—is more proof that the American system of higher education is becoming a place that puts Jews in escalating physical danger.
[IsraelTimes] In interview with WSJ, Netanyahu lauds Lebanon op, says he dismissed Gallant’s call to strike Hezbollah immediately after Hamas attack, rejects permanent truce in Gaza
Getting the full text of yesterday’s post into the record for future searchability.
NOW WE KNOW ABOUT THE "DRONES"
The big mystery about drones being seen all over New Jersey, seems to have been solved: Photos make clear at least some of the drones are PteroDynamics XP-4 trans-wing drones, being developed for the U.S. Navy. Others are nuclear detection drones.
The XP-4 is being readied for work picking-up and dropping-off packages to a moving ship, even in high seas and high winds.
As its name implies, it is a trans-wing design, meaning it can switch from an aircraft-type winged flight, to a Quad-copter-type design for Vertical Take Off and Landings (VTOL).
Officially, it has a one-hour flight time, but that could have easily been upgraded.
It is about 13 feet wide by 6 feet long; closely matching the descriptions provided by so many witnesses.
Very VERY many of the "sightings" and "reports" about these drones show them traveling almost directly up the New Jersey coastline, and, wouldn't you know it, right where the most reports are coming from, and perfectly along the flight path is, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Home of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).
This also explains why drones are appearing every night in much the same area, and sticking around so long; they have a base they can go to to swap batteries all night.
Other- "Strange-Looking" Drones
Not all of the drones being seen are close in description to the XP-4. It seems that other types of drones are also being tested; specifically running nighttime missions between NAWCAD Lakehurst, and a U.S. Navy ships offshore.
One of the types of drones also being flown over NJ and NY are American-made HPGe nuclear-detector drones. They can detect Gamma Rays from miles away.
Gamma Rays are a dangerous form of radiation that can penetrate the bodies of living organisms and harm those organisms to varying degrees, depending upon the intensity of the gamma Rays and the duration of exposure.
These HPGe Drones were originally designed to inspect nuclear facilities but that's **NOT** what these drones are for. These drones are for sweeping a large area, in a grid pattern, to find a POTENTIAL Dirty Bomb or POTENTIAL other nuclear device, POTENTIALLY being smuggled-in to detonate in a terrorist attack.
Many witnesses have commented that the Drones they see appear to be sweeping over an area in "grid pattern" as if they're looking for something specific. The reason they are operating in a Grid pattern is not only to practice looking for something, but also because the drones are programmed to operate in a "Mesh Network" operating in the 200GHz communications band. 200GHz is very directional and requires bulky "horn" antennas to function.
It turns out the United States Department of Defense bought...are you ready for this..."Hundreds of thousands" of these drones!
They can be programmed to "swarm" a city.
Back in 2009-2010, the Dept. of Defense (DoD) needed a response to the threat of Dirty Bombs, being smuggled-in by ISIS, to a U.S. Port City. DoD has been stocking-up on these drones since about 2010.
The drones look weird because the nuclear detection gear requires a large and heavy Cryo-Cooler to be mounted beneath it, for the Gamma Radiation detectors, and as mentioned above, the giant "horn" antennas to communicate on mm-wave frequencies that cannot be jammed.
Here's the dicey part: These drones are being used, right now inside Ukraine! That is the first time these devices have been deployed in a Combat Zone.
Sources are now telling me what the purposes of these drone flights are:
First, the Navy is testing how the public will react (PsyOp).
Second, they are testing their ability to sweep a densely populated large area in a grid pattern without communication disruption or loss of drone control.
They are very reluctant to even send the drones into Manhattan because of the very real potential of losing communication with the drone amidst the towering skyscrapers, and enormous electromagnetic interference from all the electronic gizmos and gadgets operating in that area.
So why all the "hush hush?"
They are , in fact, U.S. Government Drones and they don't want to talk about it.
It seems some folks in the U.S. government have forgotten that they work for us...the people of the United States, whose hard work, ingenuity, and heavy tax burden, make their entire existence possible!
Other sources told me the government is, in fact, looking for a "Dirty Bomb" that perpetrators are allegedly trying to sneak into New York City to detonate as part of a terrorist attack. He mentioned Christmas and New Year's Eve (Times Square) as possible targets. I have **NOT** been able to corroborate that ONE source's claim.
ALL of the bridges and tunnels in-to and out-of New York City are equipped with radiation detectors.
Further, the NYPD, years ago, gave most of their 38,000 police officers, belt-worn radiation detectors, about the size of a belt-worn pocket pager, that would beep and vibrate if they detected radiation nearby. I do not know if NYPD still deploys such devices, but they did, at one time in the past.
Thus, it seems to me, to be virtually impossible for a terrorist to sneak such a device into New York City. But "virtually" impossible is also not "impossible."
Finally, there is a THIRD source who told me "There are drones with flight lights that are all over the news now, but there are other objects, referred-to as "Orbs." They are glowing balls that fly through the air, and NO ONE knows what they are, what' they're doing, or who/where they're from. He went on to tell me "All the Drones you see with flight lights are out looking for the "Orbs" that glow, so see what they are, where they are, and who is operating them. The glowing "orbs" are the UFO's."
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.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
