BILL WHITTLE ON WHY CONSERVATISM SUCKS.

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ANDREW BREITBART AND DANIEL HANNAN AT CPAC 2012.

Two must see videos. First Andrew Breitbart:





A guy to follow.


Then Daniel Hannan:





Over here in Europe, watching these videos gives me a glimmer of hope. How great is to hear people loudly and proudly proclaim that they are Conservatives!

Unthinkable here in Europe without being ridiculed and demonized! In Belgium, ONLY ONE party more or less approaches the American ideal and that is, of course, the Vlaams Belang.

The degree to which the general population has been spoonfed the age old tantrums about the VB being 'extreme right', 'undemocratic' and 'a descendant of nazism' is astonishing. Just last week I found myself discussing Belgian politics with a sales representative, who I always considered an intelligent, decent and rational human being. It of course turned around the massive new taxes the new Belgian government has introduced, thereby immediately sending shudders through the entire Belgian economy.

How curious was it to hear this man, halfway through the discussion in which he actually agreed with me that this was a fullblooded leftwing government implementing age-old methods that have always proven NOT to work, refer to the Vlaams Belang as being a 'nondemocratic party'!

But why should I be so surprised? After all, all my life I have heard our state-funded media refer to all other parties than the VB as being the 'democratic parties'! As if the VB and its predecessor the Vlaams Blok, which exist solely because they have people voting for them, are somehow political groupuscules from some faraway South American dictatorship where power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

Anyone meeting with today's VB leadership, and reading its very decent and informative party magazine, or its website for that matter, will see firsthand that the decadelong allegations of the VB being a party of closet nazis are so utterly baseless and ridiculous that you would burst out laughing, were it not that it is so tragic.

Anyway...

... we must carry on, bide our time, and be ready for the fight when all hell brakes loose. In the meantime, we must take heart that our cousins from over the Atlantic still enjoy the privilege and the pleasure of being simply and unapologetically....


...RIGHTWING.




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ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION GLOBALLY AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH, WORLD YAWNS.

Over at The Daily Beast, a compelling article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali:THE GLOBAL WAR ON CHRISTIANS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
Feb 6, 2012 12:00 AM EST
From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith.


"We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.


The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.

The media’s reticence on the subject no doubt has several sources. One may be fear of provoking additional violence. Another is most likely the influence of lobbying groups such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation—a kind of United Nations of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia—and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Over the past decade, these and similar groups have been remarkably successful in persuading leading public figures and journalists in the West to think of each and every example of perceived anti-Muslim discrimination as an expression of a systematic and sinister derangement called “Islamophobia”—a term that is meant to elicit the same moral disapproval as xenophobia or homophobia.

But a fair-minded assessment of recent events and trends leads to the conclusion that the scale and severity of Islamophobia pales in comparison with the bloody Christophobia currently coursing through Muslim-majority nations from one end of the globe to the other. The conspiracy of silence surrounding this violent expression of religious intolerance has to stop. Nothing less than the fate of Christianity—and ultimately of all religious minorities—in the Islamic world is at stake.





From blasphemy laws to brutal murders to bombings to mutilations and the burning of holy sites, Christians in so many nations live in fear. In Nigeria many have suffered all of these forms of persecution. The nation has the largest Christian minority (40 percent) in proportion to its population (160 million) of any majority-Muslim country. For years, Muslims and Christians in Nigeria have lived on the edge of civil war. Islamist radicals provoke much if not most of the tension. The newest such organization is an outfit that calls itself Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sacrilege.” Its aim is to establish Sharia in Nigeria. To this end it has stated that it will kill all Christians in the country.

In the month of January 2012 alone, Boko Haram was responsible for 54 deaths. In 2011 its members killed at least 510 people and burned down or destroyed more than 350 churches in 10 northern states. They use guns, gasoline bombs, and even machetes, shouting “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) while launching attacks on unsuspecting citizens. They have attacked churches, a Christmas Day gathering (killing 42 Catholics), beer parlors, a town hall, beauty salons, and banks. They have so far focused on killing Christian clerics, politicians, students, policemen, and soldiers, as well as Muslim clerics who condemn their mayhem. While they started out by using crude methods like hit-and-run assassinations from the back of motorbikes in 2009, the latest AP reports indicate that the group’s recent attacks show a new level of potency and sophistication.

The Christophobia that has plagued Sudan for years takes a very different form. The authoritarian government of the Sunni Muslim north of the country has for decades tormented Christian and animist minorities in the south. What has often been described as a civil war is in practice the Sudanese government’s sustained persecution of religious minorities. This persecution culminated in the infamous genocide in Darfur that began in 2003. Even though Sudan’s Muslim president, Omar al-Bashir, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which charged him with three counts of genocide, and despite the euphoria that greeted the semi-independence he grant-ed to South Sudan in July of last year, the violence has not ended. In South Kordofan, Christians are still subject-ed to aerial bombardment, targeted killings, the kidnap-ping of children, and other atrocities. Reports from the United Nations indicate that between 53,000 and 75,000 innocent civilians have been displaced from their resi-dences and that houses and buildings have been looted and destroyed...."

The complicity of the mainstream media and leftwing politicians all over the world in deliberately not reporting on this horrendous state, nor taking steps to remedy it, amounts to a crime. When you know that your neighbour is being murdered and you don't alert the police, you are complicit too. It is just the same. In this time and age, there is no excuse anymore for not knowing this. The editors over at the NYT, Le Monde, the LA Times, The Independent, Aftenposten, The Guardian, NRC Handelsblad...

... they must be knowing that this is happening. I know it, and gathering information and offering analysis and background is not even my field of work. Therefore they must know it too.

Yet they choose to completely ignore it. Instead we should be concerned about... islamophobia, racism, and ... wait for it ... the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere.



Spread the message, and prepare for the confrontation.




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SATURDAY NIGHT LANA DEL REY, SISTERS OF MERCY.

Lana del Rey with Video Games.





It ain't bad.



Sisters of Mercy.





Alice.


Goodnight. Sigh.



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IF EUROPE IS TO SURVIVE, AT SOME POINT DEADLY FORCE AGAINST THE MUSLIM ELEMENT MAY BE THE ONLY OPTION LEFT.

As always far too short on time - only two short topics. But to say they are the tip of the iceberg is to defame what's under the water.

First, a video documenting the sorry state a planned debate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles got in after a muslim ULB assistant(!) disrupted one of the speakers. On Tuesday evening, February 7, a debate between Hervé Hasquin, liberal politician, historian and secretary of the Royal Academy and Caroline Fourest, a French essayist, had been scheduled in an ULB auditorium. The theme was 'Has extreme right become acceptable'? This following the publication of a book by Mrs. Fourest on the rise, in France, of the FN, now under the aegis of Marine Le Pen, daughter of (keep in mind that personally, I don't consider Marine Le Pen, nor the FN, as 'rightwing'.). But in the context of this story it is worth remembering that for those not very well informed, the perception that the FN is rightwing is sufficient.





What should have been a serene debate, what should be NORMAL, has been made impossible by a muslim scumbag on the university's payroll no less (!) by the unsavoury name of Souhail Chichah. In the end, Madame Fourest was forced to leave the auditorium, unable to express her opinion.


Still, this is small beer to what's happening in a thousand places all over Europe, in fact everywhere where the adherents of that so-called 'religion' of islam, achieve a toehold. The
following video sheds some light on the situation in Malmo, a Swedish city which now has 25 per cent muslim inhabitants.





In Europe, there is no place for this wicked and evil creed. If our continent is to survive in any meaningful way, if it wants to safeguard what has been achieved at so high a cost throughout the centuries, it will at some point have to resort to armed violence against its muslim parasites. Forced deportation at gunpoint will be the only solution.

Muslims should be left to rot in their asinine, backward countries. We don't need them and we don't want them.



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SCANDAL AT WEST POINT: SUPERINTENDENT LT. GEN. HUNTOON CAVES IN TO CAIR ISLAMISTS, SILENCES GEN. BOYKIN.

Fellow blogger and accomplished engineer/businessman Traveller sent me this Oliver North article. Sorry, I don't have the link.

BLACKLIST
Written by Oliver North and Tom Kilgannon
Friday, 03 February 2012

Blacklist (n): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.

Washington, DC – The definition above, from an old Webster’s dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee unearthed spies and traitors – Alger Hiss among them. But when the HUAC turned its attention to Hollywood writers, directors and actors, civil libertarians cried foul. The American Civil Liberties Union and others insist those on the “Hollywood blacklist” were unfairly persecuted for exercising their constitutionally protected rights to freedom of assembly and speech.
oln2.jpgNow, there’s a new-millennium blacklist for American patriots who fail today’s political correctness test. Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin U.S. Army (Ret.), a highly decorated special operations soldier with 36 years of service in uniform, is the newest name on the roster. The silence from the “civil liberties lobby” is deafening.

It’s often said that our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Guardsmen and Marines serve to “protect our freedoms” and “defend our liberties.” All true. Now consider what took place this week at the United States Military Academy at West Point – an institution responsible for training young men and women to protect America from those who mean us harm. West Point cadets take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Many West Point graduates will deploy to fight radical Islamists who commit acts of terror against Americans and our allies.

Yet when the West Point National Prayer Breakfast convenes February 8, the cadets will be deprived of hearing from a world-renowned expert on counterterrorism. General Boykin was a founding member of the elite Delta Force. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and served as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. But this week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations put General Boykin on the new blacklist. He won’t be at West Point next week.

CAIR lobbied the academy’s superintendent, Lieutenant General David Huntoon, to rescind General Boykin’s invitation. Apparently the self-esteem of Muslim cadets and Allah’s adherents elsewhere would suffer lasting damage if General Boykin – who is unashamed of his Christian faith, an expert on radical Islam and one of the planet’s foremost practitioners of unconventional warfare – were to speak on these matters.

This isn’t the first time Islamists and leftists have intimidated military leaders here at home and demanded the silencing of Christian voices. In 2010, the Pentagon issued – and subsequently withdrew – an invitation for Franklin Graham to speak at the DoD National Day of Prayer. Earlier that year, Tony Perkins, a former Marine and head of Family Research Council, was invited to speak at a prayer luncheon at Andrews Air Force Base. But when Barack Obama subjected our military to open homosexuals, Perkins was deemed too controversial.

Officials at CAIR claim that their opposition to appearances by people like Boykin or Graham is well-intentioned and argue that remarks deemed critical of Islam can precipitate violence. They do have a point.

Last week, author Salman Rushdie withdrew from a “virtual” appearance at India’s Jaipur Literature Festival because Muslim organizations threatened bloodshed. Since publishing “Satanic Verses” in 1988, Rushdie has received numerous death threats, including a fatwa from Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Since then, Rushdie has rarely appeared in public.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders lives under constant threats against his life because of his outspoken views on Islam and his cautions about “Islamification in the Netherlands.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, another Dutch political figure who grew up in Somalia, once practiced Islam before renouncing it. Now in the United States, she authored the screen play for Theo van Gogh’s film Submission, a documentary on abuses women suffer in Islamic societies. The movie brought death threats against Ali. Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam in 2004 by, in writer Theodore Dalrymple’s words, “a young man of Moroccan origin bent on jihad.”

The Bush and Obama administrations both have stressed America is not at war with Islam. That’s understandable. But it makes no sense to deny radical Islamists are at war with us.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan didn’t commit “workplace violence” at Fort Hood when he, according to authorities, killed 13 and wounded dozens of others in 2009. Hasan was tutored by radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki – credited with “guiding” the attacker. Yet the official report on the murderous rampage ignores the connection and is silent about Hasan’s alleged motivation.

This is political correctness run amok. That’s why Mr. Obama bans the term “war on terror” in favor of “overseas contingency operation.” It’s why the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning that returning U.S. veterans present a greater danger to America’s security than Islamic terrorists. And that’s why CAIR and the hard-core left in this country can put names like Boykin, Graham and Perkins on their new blacklist.

Apparently, we can’t expect the U.S. government and the ACLU to defend the First Amendment rights of men such as these from outfits such as CAIR. If that’s the case, it’s time for the American people to demand it – before more patriots like General Jerry Boykin get thrown under the Humvee.

Last Updated ( Friday, 03 February 2012 )

Desk jockey: Lt. Gen. Huntoon, Man of a Gazillion Staff Assignments, caves in to bearded CAIR scoundrels and muslim 'cadets' whose sensitivities are offended. Yes, the rot has spread so far.


Forbidden to speak at West Point: Lt. Gen. Boykin, instrumental, a.o., in raising Delta Force.





Contrast Huntoon to Lt. Gen. Boykin: a distinguished career stretching from Operation Eagle Claw to Operation Iraqi Freedom, in the course of which he was wounded twice, once in Grenada when a .50 round split an armbone in two, and the second time in Mogadishu in 93 during a mortar attack on the US compound there.


Is Boykin a religious nut? As long as General Petraeus is willing to don islamic garb to comfort the REAL religious nuts on America's and the West's battlefields in the War on Islamic Terror, I don't give a hoot. There are those among liberal MSM commentators and Democrat bigshots who suggest Gen. Boykin should see a psychiatrist for his strong religious beliefs. Curiously, these people kept murderously silent when a US Army psychiatrist, also with very strong religious beliefs, butchered 14 of his colleagues shouting Allahu Akbar. But why should we be puzzled by that when even in the Army's ranks itself an outrageous thing like General Casey's 'It would be a tragedy when the Army's diversity was a casualty of the Fort Hood' could be said, with the good - cough - general getting away with it.

Apparently it's not a tragedy when the US Army's diversity that really matters, illustrated by characters like Boykin, suffers. And suffers seriously.

Warning to the US Armed Forces: when the rot sets in at this level, there is serious cause for concern.

AS ALWAYS..., ignore Outlaw Mike's advice at your own peril.



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SATURDAY NIGHT NINE INCH NAILS, NENA.

From Nine Inch Nails' debut album Pretty hate Machine (1989): That's what I get.






It's been some time now since we had some German rock/pop. This is Nur getraumt, a classical Neue Deutsche Welle (the German new wave variant) song from Nena, which scored high all over Europe in 1982.





Being a euro and our next door neighbours being the Germans, I've generally been quite able to receive well NDW numbers, good ones at least. I keep wondering though how Anglosaxons take it.


Dobranoc.


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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: NO NEED TO PANIC ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING.

A compelling article in the WSJ, January 27, 2012:

"...A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about "global warming." Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed.

In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"

In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts.

Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2.

The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2.

The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle. Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2 concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth. This is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2 concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today. Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere."

Among the sixteen signatories to this article, all of them outstanding and renowned scientists, is amongst others Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut (the 'Last But One Man on the Moon'), former US Senator, university professor, and a crack geologist.

Who would you trust more: Mr. Schmitt...





... or Rajendra Pachauri, Head of the IPCC?






If you want to know who I believe, well... I know that the percentage of CO2 is about 0.038 per cent of the atmosphere, and they are talking about an increase representing only the tiniest fraction of THAT as a cause for concern, so I don't even need to say that my *ss is freezing off these days.

Godforsaken carbonized idiots.



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SATURDAY NIGHT HANS ZIMMER, PAVEMENT.

From the Inception soundtrack (2010) by Hans Zimmer: Time.






Pavement's recognizable sound in Cut your hair (1994).






Goedenacht.



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NEVER FELT ANY SYMPATHY FOR THAT COMMIE SCUMBAG NELSON MANDELA. HERE'S WHY.

In South Africa, bound, under Black Rule, to become Zimbabwe v2.0, the gruesome genocide against white farmers continues. And the world yawns.








Where are all those do-goodery assholes against Apartheid now?



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