[IsraelTimes] Referring to the Brenton Harrison Tarrant‘s manifesto, Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America, calls him a pro-China eco-Fascist, though the same manifesto also says Donald Trump is ‘a symbol of renewed white identity’.
BRUSSELS (AP) ‐ The latest on Britain’s exit from the European Union (all times local):
British Prime Minister Theresa May says the European Union has granted her "key request" to add an early exit clause to its agreement to a six-month Brexit extension.
The U.K. and the EU agreed early Thursday to delay Brexit until Oct. 31, but May says she wants to leave "as soon as possible."
She says that if U.K. lawmakers back her Brexit deal, her country can still leave before June 30 ‐ the Brexit deadline that she had requested from the bloc.
May says Britain faces "stark" choices "and the timetable is clear."
French President Emmanuel Macron says a last-ditch six-month extension for Brexit is the "best possible compromise" to protect the rest of the European Union.
Macron was the main holdout among EU leaders at an emergency summit in Brussels against a long extension of Britain’s already-delayed departure from the EU. But he agreed early Thursday with other EU leaders to extend Brexit until Oct. 31.
He told reporters later that he did this "to preserve the unity" of the remaining 27 member states and to give Britain "more time to deliver a deal" that would prevent chaos in trade and travel when it leaves the EU.
Macron said it’s now "up to Britons to be clear with themselves and their people" about whether they want to participate in the European Parliament elections next month even though they would have to abandon the legislature a few months later.
EU Council chief Donald Tusk is pleading with the United Kingdom to use the special six-month Brexit extension it has been granted to the fullest of its ability.
After the agreement was announced early Thursday, Tusk said, "Let me finish with the message to our British friends: Please do not waste this time."
And even though the decision also includes a June review of progress, Tusk says the new date will not amount to a cliff-edge cutoff of UK membership as March 29 had done for so long.
Tusk says that "our intention is to finalize the whole process in October."
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Well UK, you can't have the cake and eat it. Brexit means a hard border between EU-Ireland and non EU-Northern Ireland. That's a no brainer. What did you expect to happen?
So Parliament didn't like it. But Parliament doesn't seem to know what it does like.
Don't blame the EU.
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If the Second Coming was scheduled for Ireland, they'd screw it up somehow.
Snark O'The Day
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Can someone get Nigel Farage in as Brit PM? This massively irritating dog & pony show that May's been putting on (for how many damn months now?) is simultaneously exasperating, stupid, counterproductive and worst of all expressly opposite of the Brexit vote in 2016.
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Ireland? IIRC, they rejected the whole thing on the first vote. Then they were told to vote again, till they got it 'right'. Brussels is just Moscow, but with better suits. What the hell are we defending?
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The only thing that is totally understandable is that May never wanted Brexit and is trying to implement the wishes of the globalist cabal that is the EU. She is doing all in her power to get to a point where Brexit goes away by hook or by crook.
I wouldn't be surprised if she comes out in support of Corbyn.
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Britain needs to leave that abusive wife The EU now before they bring in more alley cats to sleep on their Britain's side of the bed, blows another paycheck on fancy VIP jets, talks bad with an advertising campaign of people pissing in Union Jack tea cups, and do it while you still have friends in the world.
What is the problem here, going to miss some rugby and meterball games? NFL not going to make a visit and get drunk and rowdy? No shit jobs making seat belts for the Airbus flying turkey? The vaunted Belgian air force with their what six aircraft shoot-downs in the last year?
Or sit there, getting the give me one more chance baby in six months treatment again and again, while she dictates what size and shape your bananas must legally be.
A hard Brexit will hurt the British (and European) economy.
A soft Brexit is rather pointless.
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UK is still looking for permission from the Germans, French and filthy Belgians to be declared a nation.
It's to laugh.
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EC, it may be just that we do not understand the EU and why it exists. I 'think' it grew out of the common market, and was seen as a way to defuse the many regional historical abrasions. I looks to me like a dictatorship that permits the citizens some semblance of having a say, but the constitution is/seems to be one of "thou shalt nots" rather than limits on the power and influence of the EU bureaucracy. It seems backwards. And yet the European Patent Office, which I think is part of the EU, is the only one that gave me the time of day in my filings. And allowed the patent. Go figure.
Everyone else here may be of one mind, but I am pretty sure I do not understand.
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We should invite the IAF for some "training" at Nellis and let them make some unfiled flight plan stuff. Just for fun...
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"Quantity has a quality all its own..."
Until they can install a multi-launcher network, and sustain them logistically, this is basically a really expensive target. Like a Maginot Line Fort sitting in the middle of Kansas it is an expensive gesture.
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I looked at Stratfor this morning and the CBG map showed three in relative proximity off the mid-Atlantic coast of the US. Very unusual. Do the still do the pizza index in Arlington?
[NATION.PK] The Organization of American States (OAS) conducted on Tuesday a special meeting on Venezuela at the request of seven member states.
The meeting was requested by Colombia, Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Brazil, Canada, Chile, Paraguay and Peru, all of which had recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s president.
The Organization of American States’ Permanent Council voted Tuesday to recognize Venezuelan self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido’s nominee to the group, Tarre Briceno, as the national envoy. "With 18 votes in favor, 9 against, 6 abstentions, 1 absent, OAS Council agrees to ’accept the appointment of Tarre Briceno as National Assembly’s designated permanent representative", it tweeted.
The council, which met in Washington for a special meeting on Venezuela, stressed that former politician Briceno would serve in the role pending new elections in this South American country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert climbed the cocoanut tree, looking for ships. He saw none. He looked in the other direction and saw Irene, vigorously scrubbing her backside... Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Caracas has decided to leave the OAS following the decision of the OAS Permanent Council to recognize the representative of opposition leader Juan Guaido.
"The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reaffirms its irrevocable decision to leave the Organization of American States on 27 April 2019 in accordance with the complaint filed two years ago and in the framework of the relevant procedures, given that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela cannot remain in the organization that stands on its knees before the imperial interests of the US administration", the ministry said in a statement.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country needs to deliver a "telling blow" to those imposing sanctions by ensuring its economy is more self-reliant, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday.
It was the first time Kim stated North Korea’s position on the second U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi that collapsed in February, and signaled a continued focus on economic development, a strategic direction officially declared a priority last April.
On North Korea’s position on the summit, Kim said he would double down on efforts to create a self-supporting national economy "so as to deal a telling blow to the hostile forces who go with bloodshot eyes miscalculating that sanctions can bring (North Korea) to its knees," according to KCNA.
U.S.-North Korean engagement has appeared to be in limbo since the Feb. 27-28 summit in Hanoi, which collapsed over differences about how far North Korea was willing to limit its nuclear program and the degree of U.S. willingness to ease economic sanctions.
[AnNahar] A Chinese city has opened a new border crossing with North Korea -- fitted with radiation detectors -- even as talks between Washington and Pyongyang have languished over disagreements for nuclear sanctions relief.
The new highway border crossing opened in the northeastern city of Ji'an on Monday, complementing its three existing ports with the North, the city said in a statement published to its website Tuesday.
"After three years of unremitting efforts, the China-North Korean Ji'an-Manpo Highway Port was officially opened," the city said.
The project cost 280 million yuan ($42 million) and the city estimated 500,000 tons of goods and 200,000 people would cross through the new port each year.
But crippling UN sanctions imposed on the North by the UN Security Council in 2016 and 2017 have crimped trade between the two Cold War-era allies.
China is by far the North's biggest trading partner. While Pyongyang publishes virtually no economic statistics of its own, Chinese Customs figures show exports to China have plummeted by more than 90 percent since 2016, down to $213 million last year -- although some observers question their reliability
Sanctions relief was top of North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... 's agenda for his Hanoi summit with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in February.
But the meeting broke up without a statement or even a lunch as the two sides disagreed over walking back Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme in exchange for loosening sanctions.
After the opening ceremony, the first 120 tourists crossed the border. Chinese tourism to the North has picked up as relations between the countries have improved in recent years.
The crossing also has a nuclear radiation detection gate, the city said. China has long been worried about any fallout from North Korea's nuclear activities and Jilin was rocked by an earthquake after a massive bomb test across the border in September 2017.
The main artery for North Korean trade with China has traditionally been through the Chinese border city of Dandong, to the south.
Ambitious city planners there started work on a Dandong New Zone in 2012, capped by a massive project to open a bridge connecting the city with the North Korean city of Sinuiju on the other side.
Authorities expected billions of dollars in investment to flood into jointly-run free trade zones on both sides of the border.
But after construction on the four-lane, $350-million bridge completed, it never opened, and the concrete runs into fields on the North Korean side.
[gCaptain] A key element that’s far hard to discern, is Beijing’s increasing influence in constructing and repairing the undersea cables that move virtually all the information on the internet. To understand the totality of China’s “Great Game” at sea, you have to look down to ocean floor.
While people tend think of satellites and cell towers as the heart of the internet, the most vital component is the 380 submerged cables that carry more than 95 percent of all data and voice traffic between the continents. They were built largely by the U.S. and its allies, ensuring that (from a Western perspective, at least) they were “cleanly” installed without built-in espionage capability available to our opponents. U.S. internet giants including Google, Facebook and Amazon are leasing or buying vast stretches of cables from the mostly private consortia of telecom operators that constructed them.
But now the Chinese conglomerate Huawei Technologies, the leading firm working to deliver 5G telephony networks globally, has gone to sea. Under its Huawei Marine Networks component, it is constructing or improving nearly 100 submarine cables around the world. Last year it completed a cable stretching nearly 4,000 miles from Brazil to Cameroon. (The cable is partly owned by China Unicorn, a state-controlled telecom operator.) Rivals claim that Chinese firms are able to lowball the bidding because they receive subsidies from Beijing.
Just as the experts are justifiably concerned about the inclusion of espionage “back doors” in Huawei’s 5G technology, Western intelligence professionals oppose the company’s engagement in the undersea version, which provides a much bigger bang for the buck because so much data rides on so few cables.
Naturally, Huawei denies any manipulation of the cable sets it is constructing, even though the U.S. and other nations say it is obligated by Chinese law to hand over network data to the government. The U.S. last year restricted federal agencies using from using its 5G equipment; Huawei responded with a lawsuit in federal court. Washington is pressuring its allies to follow its lead — the American ambassador to Germany warned that allowing Chinese companies into its 5G project would mean reduced security cooperation from the U.S. — but this is an uphill battle. Most nations and companies feel that better cell phone service is worth the security risks.
A similar dynamic is playing out underwater. How can the U.S. address the security of undersea cables? There is no way to stop Huawei from building them, or to keep private owners from contracting with Chinese firms on modernizing them, based purely on suspicions. Rather, the U.S. must use its cyber- and intelligence-gathering capability to gather hard evidence of back doors and other security risks. This will be challenging — the Chinese firms are technologically sophisticated and entwined with a virtual police state.
And back doors aren’t the only problem: Press reports indicate that U.S. and Chinese (and Russian) submarines may have the ability to “tap” the cables externally. (The U.S. government keeps such information tightly under wraps.) And the thousand or so ground-based landing stations will be spying targets as well.
Once Washington has real evidence of risks that it can share with allies, it can put the security of the Huawei underwater cable operations on the international agenda with the same vigor it has applied in addressing the 5G concerns.
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China bootstraped itself from regional, seceond world power to global superpower in the last half century through wholesale theft of every aspect of western technology and business. If it says Chinese, expect sharp dealing and spying. Why we pretend they play by the rules on anything is just naive and delusional. They are our primary adversary and we need to start acting like it.
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Cool stuff!
Hey, does this mean the Moon now has Juice cooties?
And what are the implications for *cough*Islam*cough* religions using a lunar calendar?
[NYPOST] The church’s still-radiating crisis, Benedict suggests, was a product of the moral laxity that swept the West, and not just the church, in the 1960s. The young rebels of 1968, Benedict writes, fought for "all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms."
Benedict adds: "Part of the physiognomy of the Revolution of 1968 was that pedophilia was now also diagnosed as allowed and appropriate." This might strike contemporary readers as puzzling. But those who lived through that wretched decade will remember that some of the leading ’68ers also advocated "anti-authoritarian education," which involved some pretty unsavory interactions between adults and children. Hippie communes weren’t child-friendly places, either.
"I have always wondered how young people in this situation could approach the priesthood and accept it, with all its ramifications," Benedict writes. "The extensive collapse of the next generation of priests in those years and the very high number of laicizations were consequence of all these processes."
The church, in other words, was no more immune to the disorders of that decade and its aftermath than the rest of society.
How come? Benedict blames holy mans and theologians who, in the aftermath of Vatican II, abandoned natural law ‐ the notion that morality is written into human nature itself and can therefore be grasped by human reason ‐ in favor of a more "pragmatic" morality.
Under the new dispensation, "there could no longer be anything that constituted an absolute good, any more than anything fundamentally evil; there could only be relative moral judgments."
The real world result was that "in various seminaries, homosexual clubs were established, which more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in seminaries."
The new morality also encouraged a "critical or negative attitude toward hitherto existing tradition," he writes, in favor of a "new, radically open relationship with the world."
For one bishop, the German pontiff says, that meant going so far as screening porn for seminarians. In many seminaries, meanwhile, students caught reading his own books, written while he was still a cardinal and known for their doctrinal rigor, would be "considered unsuitable for the priesthood."
The looseness of those years also affected how the church handled cases of abusive priests, who we now know targeted mostly boys and young men. In church proceedings, "the rights of the accused had to be guaranteed" above all else, "to an extent that factually excluded any conviction at all."
Such absolutism in defense of the accused was incorrectly seen as a "conciliar" requirement ‐ anything less was a betrayal of Vatican II. Hence the cover-ups and shuffling around of abusive priests.
It’s impossible to miss Benedict’s bitterness toward what he sees as distortions of Vatican II, a council he helped shape as a young theologian.
So what is to be done now? Benedict recommends reforming church law, to give as much emphasis to protecting the faithful, not least the faith of ordinary Catholics, as to safeguarding the procedural rights of accused priests. But no amount of procedural reform, the pope notes, can substitute for the recovering Catholicism’s absolute moral standards. "Why did pedophilia reach such proportions?" he asks. "Ultimately, the reason is the absence of God."
No mention of the KGB's massive attempt to kill the opiate of the people by perverting it (all sects) with infiltration? Oh, that's right, he's a revolutionary branch of the church. Seat 12 and other operations even deeper and it still goes on: in forms like this
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The church, in other words, was no more immune to the disorders of that decade and its aftermath than the rest of society.
Immune? Appears your group were (and possibly remain) significant purveyors of this debauchery.
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As much as I respect him, this is nonsense. It's a well known fact that Ratzinger was traumatized by the events of 1968 at the university he was at the time.
But abuse by priests has been going on in the 1950s already and of course much earlier.
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The church is supposed to stand against the ways of the world, not incorporate them.
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A pie shop in olde Kathmandu
Was always embracing the new:
When a Hindoo to-do
Began slinging some poo,
Well, that newfangled pie shop did, too!
Causing much consternation among pious locals until it was demonstrated to their satisfaction that the recipe involved no flesh whatsoever, and signs repainted from "Cow Pies!" to "Snack from Back of Yak," and eventually, during Modi era, "Grandma's Wholesome Hindutva Honest Indian Road Apple Pie."
[Townhall] Rep. Matt Gaetez (R-FL) on Wednesday filed a resolution to remove House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) from the Committee and revoke his security clearance.
Gaetz appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to explain why he filed the resolution.
"I have filed legislation today, sent to the House, that Adam Schiff needs to be removed from the Intelligence Committee, because how are the rest of us supposed to be able to rely on a man, who you just showed, lied to the American people when he said that there was not spying? Or when he lied and said that there was actual evidence of collusion or clear evidence of collusion?" Gaetz began.
"If Adam Schiff is able to review covert operations and intelligence, and if we have to rely on his representation, our whole system is broken," Gaetez said. "It would be like putting Lori Loughlin in charge of the college board. It would be like putting Jussie Smollett in charge of the hate crime of the FBI."
Others, including the nine Republicans on the Intelligence Committee, have called on Schiff to resign.
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Yes, the idiots Gowdy and Chaffetz never did nuffin.
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I think the worm may have finally turned with the Mueller report and the GOP may realize they are the dominant party for years to come if they start acting like it.
[Navy.mil] WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNS) -- At the recommendation of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer will issue a Secretarial Letter of Censure to USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) former commanding officer Cmdr. Bryce Benson and former crew member Lt. Natalie Combs.
This decision is in the best interest of the Navy, the families of the Fitzgerald Sailors, and the procedural rights of the accused officers. Both officers were previously dismissed from their jobs and received non-judicial punishment.
The comprehensive program to improve Navy readiness and training, to do everything possible to ensure that accidents like this will not recur, remains on track. The Navy continues to strive to achieve and maintain a climate of operational excellence.
Richardson will also withdraw and dismiss charges in the general courts-martial against the two officers.
The Navy will always keep the lost Sailors and their families in its thoughts and prayers.
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Some seriously dysfunctional shit. If you can't do routine operations like not running into other ships, what are you going to do when things get busy? I can see why the Navy wants to get it out of the news.
From the Rantburg archives at the link in the article: The OOD was named Sarah, and the Tactical Action Officer was named Natalie, and they weren’t speaking to each other!!! The Tactical Action Officer would normally be in near constant communication with the OOD, but there is no record of any communication between them that entire shift!
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Sad and uncivilized, this modern age. In my parents' day (not that either of them were huge socializers), even officers' wives knew how to play bridge.
[DAILYWIRE] In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, lawyers for The Washington Post have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from the family of Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, who was smeared by the media as a racist after a clip of him standing silently while a Native American man beat a drum in his face was shared online.
The Post "asserts its stories were accurate and did not impugn the reputation of Covington (Ky.) Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann," the news outlet wrote of its motion. The Post wrote in court documents that its articles "may not have been flattering of the Covington Catholic students" who were seen in the video "but they do not give rise to a defamation claim by Sandmann."
"Indeed, the Post’s overall coverage ‐ including the articles that the Complaint fails to mention ‐ was not only accurate; it was ultimately favorable to him," the motion states.
Sandmann is suing the Post for $250 million ‐ the amount Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid for the news outlet in 2013 ‐ claiming the outlet defamed him in its coverage of the incident.
Note Bezo's EX refused any stock in WaPo as part of the settlement... let that sink in.
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"Indeed, the Post’s overall coverage ‐ including the articles that the Complaint fails to mention ‐ was not only accurate; it was ultimately favorable to him,"
Yeah, we murdered the guy, but we helped clean up the crime scene later, so it's all good, bro!
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"Indeed, the Post’s overall coverage ‐ including the articles that the Complaint fails to mention ‐ was not only accurate; it was ultimately favorable to him,"
Wow. Thought $250mil was a bit much until reading the corn in that turd soup.
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.
North Korea
[gCaptain] A key element that’s far hard to discern, is Beijing’s increasing influence in constructing and repairing the undersea cables that move virtually all the information on the internet. To understand the totality of China’s “Great Game” at sea, you have to look down to ocean floor.
[NYPOST] The church’s still-radiating crisis, Benedict suggests, was a product of the moral laxity that swept the West, and not just the church, in the 1960s. The young rebels of 1968, Benedict writes, fought for "all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
