[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Phoenix is a mythical bird that rises from its ashes and starts taking humans hostage. Recently, a huge new book, which is about 3,000 pages long, has been issued and it is attributed to Safar al-Hawali, the Saudi Sahwa figure and Sururist student of the Moslem Brüderbund’s Muhammad Qutb. Hawali has staged a comeback from a debilitating disease with this terrorist book or so it is said that he wrote it.
It is not easy to get rid of an ideology that has managed to control people’s hearts and minds for decades, included a religious authority and which societies and individuals were raised on its rhetoric.
The discourse of Islamist groups has shown great adroitness in navigating through contradictions without being questioned by their followers who remain servile and obedient without thinking. The battle against such ideological speeches is multi-dimensional, of which the most important aspects are building the most successful models, developing the best visions and planning the best projects in addition to a strict confrontation.
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[GatestoneInstitute] According to the British Foreign Office, the Golan Heights are 'occupied'. They have been 'occupied' -- according to the logic of the UK Foreign Office -- since 1967, when Israel took the land from the invading forces of Syria. Ever since then, the Israelis have had the benefit of this strategic position and the Syrian regime has not. This fact, half a century on, still strikes the British Foreign Office as regrettable, and a wrong to be righted in due course.
...Over the weekend, it emerged that the British government was among foreign governments to have made a dramatic request of the Israelis. As the war in Syria appears to be clarifying towards its end-point, a group of around 800 members of the 'White Helmets' and their families had reportedly become trapped near the southwestern border near the Golan Heights. The White Helmets only operate in 'rebel areas' and are despised by the Assad regime. With Syrian government forces moving in, a massacre may well have been about to occur.
...As it is, the area is in the control of Britain's most reliable ally in the region. An ally which -- even as it is lectured by Britain -- agrees to requests from the British government that takes advantage of a strategic reality, one which the British government still refuses to accept. The Israeli government has given the British government what it wanted. Perhaps now would be a good time for the British government to reciprocate in some way? There could be no better means of doing so than by admitting that the British policy of the last half a century has been a Foreign Office fantasy and a wholesale dud of 'realist' regional thinking. The Foreign Office will have to back out of its self-imposed corner regarding the Golan at some point and accept the reality on the ground. How much better it would be if it did so now in a spirit of goodwill and reciprocity, rather than later on in a spirit of inevitable and grudging defeat. I pray of your reverence [Prior Aymer] to remember that I force my monies upon no one. But when churchman and layman, prince and prior, knight and priest, come knocking to Isaac's door, they borrow not his shekels with these uncivil terms. It is then, Friend Isaac, will you pleasure us in this matter, and our day shall be truly kept, so God sa' me? [...] And when the day comes, and I ask my own, then what hear I but Damned Jew! (33.40)
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With Syrian government forces moving in, a massacre may well have been about to occur.
Almost the entire Near East is one big massacre, in progress for decades if not centuries. Only the cast of characters, both victims and perpetrators, seems to change from one day to the next. That impression gets reinforced every day I read the first bloc of times on the 'Burg.
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So the Brits arbitrarily draw a border line and then get their knickers in a bunch when reality contradicts their fantasy. What do they think Assad and his Iranian friends would do with this strategic position if they had access to it?
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The Syrians were bad neighbors, allowing people to snipe at Israelis in the low grounds below and did nothing to stop it. Think of it as a penalty for attacking Israel in 1973 and losing. Actions meet Consequences.
All borders are arbitrarily drawn, typically at a point that a given side's armies can advance no further. In the case of post-colonial borders, the question wasn't just the composition of the people living in a given area, mixed as they tended to be since all ethnicities and sects were allowed to intermingle within the empire, but whether the borders drawn would immediately lead to war. Arab borders have remained more or less stable since Europe's withdrawal, demonstrating that the borders drawn weren't particularly haphazard. Israel's problems with Muslims have to do with the fact that it exists on what Muslims consider both holy and Arab land, thanks to Muhammad's hallucinations re Jerusalem, not the decisions of British colonial officials from a while back.
...It is how Trump is approaching the half-century-old global trade nightmare mess he inherited.
The United States on trade ‐ has been the fool of the world. We have been a virtually open channel to any goods and services from any and everywhere (including really awful places like China). While we have let any and everyone everywhere ‐ impose all sorts of tariffs and import-limits on our stuff.
Meanwhile, we hardly subsidize anything ‐ while they subsidize the daylight of just about everything.
All of which made our products ‐ and our market ‐ dramatically less competitive. Not because our private sector can’t compete ‐ but because their governments were uber-assisting theirs.
And in our infinite stupidity ‐ and to our everlasting discredit ‐ we have spent decades doing nothing about it.
[NationalReview] Trump’s critics need a scapegoat to explain why they haven’t managed to vanquish him.
Russianism is a psychological malady in which furor at Donald Trump’s election victory and presidency ‐ and the ensuing depression resulting from the inability to abort it ‐ finds release through fixation on Russia.
The recent orthodox progressive and Democratic view of Russia ‐ until the appearance of Donald Trump ‐ was largely what it had been throughout the Cold War: one of empathy for Russia and understanding of its dilemmas, and shame over supposed right-wing American paranoia over a bogus "Russian bear."
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In addition, DOJ and FBI officials deliberately misled either gullible or partisan FISA court judges to obtain surveillance warrants on American citizens
This is the second major editorial that mentions FISA judges being partisan. The SC rebuked a FISA judge in 2016 I believe. We will find that the Deep State extends into the FISA courts as well. Not one FISA judge has commented on warrants requested, granted or denied.
[DailyWire] So why do polls show Dems ahead? If you were a GOPer, would you admit your leanings to a nameless pollster, given the possibility of being doxed or Twerked (being assaulted by a jerk on Twitter)? Let's wait until the election and see just what the spread is.
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Why didn't Ben link to the polls? That's the way it is normally done. Then folks can look at the details (how over sampled Democrats are for example).
The polls were way off prior to election 2016, I doubt they are suddenly worthy now.
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Summarizing Mercutio's link (#3), the Dems like more Dems and the Trunks like more Trunks.
Unexpectedly.
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I thought the cross-section in the "sample & methodology" section was interesting.. more independents than either Dem or GOP:
Republican 25%
Democrat 31
Independent 38
Other/DK/NA 7
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According to the polls, Hillary won the 2016 election.
On average, they got the popular vote to within 1% of the actual result. Trump's win was a fluke. He won by less than 1% in each of the 5 states that decided the election because Hillary thought she had the election in the bag and wanted to spike the ball by campaigning in red states she thought she had a chance of winning. If she had spent a little more time and money in the 1% margin states, it's likely she would have won.
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If she had spent a little more time and money in the 1% margin states, it's likely she would have won.
I don't know about the other four states, but Trump was in Michigan the Monday before the election and did five rallies at various places in the state. As far as I can determine with respect to Michigan, it wasn't a fluke - Trump out-worked her, plain and simple.
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Show me the internals: the ratios of Dem-Ind-Rep actually sampled and the wording of the questions.
Even that's not good enough. I always hang up the phone when people like that call. Either that or I have their calls blocked. And I suspect a lot of other folks do. There is only one poll that matters and that's the one in the voting booth on election day. In the meantime, if they were true to their philosophy and honest about it, they would argue their philosophy to the best of their ability and then let the voters decide instead of trying to figure out what voters want to hear and then saying that even though it's a lie. But then, I know it's too much to expect honesty.
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As far as I can determine with respect to Michigan, it wasn't a fluke - Trump out-worked her, plain and simple.
She did work - but in Georgia and other states she ultimately lost. Local Democratic pols in swing states she lost were puzzled at her indifference (as in WTF is she up to) before the polls came in, and livid at her neglect after she conceded.
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I watched many Trump rallies. He always had huge turnouts. I also watched Hillary rallies for as much as I could stand. The turnout for her rally was nowhere close to the Trump turnout; her's were kind of pitiful w/regards to crowd size and messaging plus she had a lot of baggage.
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Hillary worked California to add to her warchest. She didn't gain any extra votes for her efforts as Trump proved the conventional belief that the one with the most money will win was incorrect.
#mercutio a lot of independence might be socialists
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Trump's rallies drew people from far and wide, true, but within the watershed of each of those rallies fell how many college campuses? How many housing projects, federal buildings, city halls, senior centers, hospitals, clinics and other entitlement outlets? How many schoolteachers? Und die Unions... ach... die Unions! Die Unions und die SEIU und die Sauerkraut!
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She didn't gain any extra votes for her efforts as Trump proved the conventional belief that the one with the most money will win was incorrect.
It's correct as long as you don't make any bonehead errors. But Hillary ignored the advice of one of the greatest political talents in the Democratic party - Bill. That is the definition of bonehead error.
Due to TDS, Alexsandria, etc... we (at 'burg) neglected, IMO, the environment
[SultanKnish] The huge dirty secret of recycling was also one of the world’s worst polluters.
Every branch of government from Washington D.C. to your local town council had spent a fortune convincing people that recycling is a magical process that turns your old pizza boxes into new pizza boxes while creating those imaginary "green jobs" in the community. The reality was a lot dirtier.
All of America’s industries, including trash sorting, had been outsourced to China.
And recycling is just a fancy lefty way of saying "trash." All that recycling, which children in progressive communities are taught to sort as the closest thing to a religious ritual, was really being dumped by the ton on dirty ships and sent over to China. We weren’t recycling it. The Chinese were.
But now China is banning foreign recycling because it’s bad for the environment.
Even the Communists got tired of sorting through the trash of American socialists. The recycling scam shipped garbage on dirty ships for dirty industries while pretending that they’re clean and green.
...Now the recycling party’s over. Plastic recycling imports were banned early this year. Even fiber has trouble getting in to the People’s Republic. China’s mixed paper standards mean that most of the recycled cardboard and paper no longer passes muster. Instead it’s piling up in the United States.
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The Chinese were doing this as long as there wasn't something more profitable to do, and it also encouraged us to hobble our own industries long-term with unrealistic demands.
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It does sound a bit preposterous as a business plan
I thought it had something to do with the imbalance of trade between China and the USA. Those ships that would have returned empty to China might as well haul something for whatever pitiful profit can be made. In any case, the ships usually have to make a round trip.
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Perfectly logical from the Chinese point of view, the return voyage didn't bring competition it brought paid for garbage half of which probably was offloaded in the middle of the Pacific.
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Perfectly logical from the Chinese point of view, the return voyage didn't bring competition it brought paid for garbage half of which probably was offloaded in the middle of the Pacific.
The Chinese pay for the garbage, to the tune of $3.7b in 2016, for plastics alone. They buy it because making plastic pellets from recycled garbage is cheaper than making it from petroleum feedstock - in China, anyway. Other countries also pay for it, but their prices are lower, because of simple protectionism and corruption. The problem is that they pay much less.
...It’s like Groundhog Day with them ‐ every morning they wake up fussy and failing, then every night they go to bed, alone with all their friends, having pushed the latest TRUMP DID THE WORST THING EVER meme only to wake up fussy and failing in the same Trumpian hell again the next morning. Except instead of being funny, they are sad. And instead of waking up to Sonny & Cher crooning "I Got You Babe," they wake up to Beck singing "Loser." And it’s dedicated to them.
...Here’s the reality. In 2016, Normal Americans rebelled against an establishment composed of liberal fascists in government and a hateful cultural elite, as well as their allegedly conservative kept boys who placed their personal positions and prosperity above the people’s interests. As my upcoming book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy recounts, in the kind of clear, unrestrained prose that goes hand-in-hand with not having to be FCC-language compliant, how the rise of Donald Trump was the inevitable result of a cultural war where our side was desperate for a fighter who would actually take up our banner and win. Remember how Abe Lincoln had to prune the deadwood in the Union Army before he could find a general to lead the fight against the Democrats the last time they tried to win a civil war? Like Ulysses S. Grant, Donald Trump is imperfect, but he fights and he wins.
...Donald Trump was incorrect when he promised that we would get tired of all the winning ‐ well, not really incorrect since he was joking. No, we are not tiring of winning. Not even close. Trump, unlike those foes he has vanquished, actually understands Americans. He knows we won’t ever tire of winning because Americans consider winning to be our natural state.
...But our elites, the snooty people who are supposed to be taking care of our institutions and making them work smoothly for everyone else (in return for prestige, power, and material renumeration) no longer believe in American exceptionalism. This is largely the fault of academia, which the elite controls, training future elitists that their own countrymen suck and that their loyalty should be to an unelected transnational class of like-minded snobs with glowing credentials but no track record of success in actually accomplishing the basic tasks that elites are supposed to accomplish.
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Talked to an old guy from the Korean War the other day. My wife asked him if he likes Trump? He said: "Damn right I do!" A lot of people here in fly-over land feel the same way. He and they like winning. More than that, they love the country.
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.
