SATURDAY NIGHT EDITORS, TOOTS THIELEMANS.

Editors with Papillon. From the album In This Light and on This Evening (2009).





English band from Stafford. Formed in 2002. Frontman is Tom Smith (lead vocals, guitar, piano).



And then I guess quite a few people on both sides of the Atlantic must have heard about the passing of a great musical genius and prominent jazz musician, "Toots" Thielemans, born Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidore Thielemans in 1922 in Brussels. After WWII he got to know Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, amongst others, and this was the start of a successful career in the States.

He died on 22 August 2016 in Braine L'Alleud, a town some 2o kloms south of Brussels.


Here's Bluesette (1962):




But of course, he will be forever remembered for his haunting harmonica in the theme for Midnight Cowboy, the legendary 1969 movie by John Schlesinger and featuring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight:




Toots, thanks for brightening up our days. Rest in Peace. God bless.


Goedenacht.



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BERLIN, GERMANY: IDENTITAERE BEWEGUNG OCCUPIES BRANDENBURGER TOR.

Via our Waffenbruder PI-News: a well-made video showing Identitaere Bewegung youths mounting Berlin's famous Brandenburger Tor and rolling out a banner reading "SECURE BORDERS - A SECURE FUTURE".




PI News concludes with a message for them ID youths:

"Wehrt Euch gegen die zügellose Einwanderung in Eure Länder und gegen die immer mehr voranschreitende Islamisierung! Wehrt Euch gegen eine verantwortungslose Herrscherclique, deren Protagonisten Euch Sicherheit und Zukunft nehmen! Wehrt Euch gegen die Politik des Großen Austauschs, verteidigt Europa!"

Translated:

"Fight against the uncontrolled invasion of your countries and against the ever encroaching islamization! Fight against an irresponsible clique of "elites", of which the protagonists steal your safety and future! Fight against the Big Substitution, defend Europe!"

The enthusiasm of these brave boys and girls is heartwarming. My own kids are still young, but I would be damn proud if in a few years they would join a Belgian ID chapter.

And if out there, among our readers, there are guys and gals in the 15-30 years of age category, and you can't cope anymore with the incessant betrayal of our so-called "leaders" litterally DESTROYING your future, and the future of YOUR offspring, and the future of the generations after them...

... You know what to do.


JOIN.



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"IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN" AND ALL THAT. OH MY.

"Welcome to the marketplace:"





Uhh... what marketplace?

"Choose your state and we'll tell you your next steps". OK, North Carolina e.g. In 2016, about one third of its counties were still covered by three insurers, in one third by two, and in the last third by only one.

In 2017, there will be just one insurer left for the whole of the state! So much for competition and lower premiums. Not many steps to take there.



Even a broken clock is right twice a day. From the New York Times, no less:

"So much for choice. In many parts of the country, Obamacare customers will be down to one insurer when they go to sign up for coverage next year on the public exchanges.

A central tenet of the federal health law was to offer a range of affordable health plans through competition among private insurers. But a wave of insurer failures and the recent decision by several of the largest companies, including Aetna, to exit markets are leaving large portions of the country with functional monopolies for next year.

According to an analysis done for The Upshot by the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform, 17 percent of Americans eligible for an Affordable Care Act plan may have only one insurer to choose next year. The analysis shows that there are five entire states currently set to have one insurer, although our map also includes two more states because the plans for more carriers are not final. By comparison, only 2 percent of eligible customers last year had only one choice.

A similar analysis by Avalere Health, another consulting firm, also highlighted the increase in areas with only one insurance carrier.

The market is still in some flux. Final contracts between insurers and the federal government won’t be signed until late September. That means it is still possible that additional insurers will choose to enter new markets between now and then, and the competitive picture could improve. It is also possible that some carriers will decide to exit. It was just this week that Aetna surprised regulators and others with the news that it was leaving most of the markets where it offered policies on the exchange, leaving it in just four states.

The Obama administration says it is too early to evaluate competition in the Obamacare markets for 2017. Marjorie Connolly, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said: “A number of steps remain before the full picture of marketplace competition and prices are known. Regardless, we remain confident that the majority of marketplace consumers will have multiple choices and will be able to select a plan for less than $75 per month when Open Enrollment begins Nov. 1.”

Many places in the country still have robust choice and competition, including many large population centers like Denver, Los Angeles, New York and Miami. But large areas have limited choice, like the five states that now have only one issuer: Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming. (Our map also shows Kansas and North Carolina with only one, but the picture may change for parts of those states, because additional insurers have said they plan to enter.)

Large sections of other states may also be down to one carrier, including Florida, Utah and Missouri. It also appears that there is one county in Arizona, Pinal County, between Phoenix and Tucson, where no carriers are set to offer health plans in the marketplace.

While the dwindling competition may not be fatal, “it isn’t ideal,” conceded Larry Levitt, a senior executive at the Kaiser Family Foundation. People shopping for plans in the exchanges will be left with fewer insurer choices but also, probably, fewer choices of doctors and hospitals because the companies that remain will most likely offer sharply narrow networks..."

Do you remember Nasty Pelousy saying that "we have to pass Obamacare so that we can see what's in it"?





Well... now you know!



The NYT article continues:

"Evidence from the first years of the marketplace suggests that consumers benefit from more plan choices. According to a study from researchers at the Urban Institute, more competitive markets tended to have lower premiums."

Wow. You got to be kidding me. Competition lowers prices??? Who knew???

"The exodus has left some states in flux, with regulators and remaining insurers trying to stabilize the market. In North Carolina, the exit of the UnitedHealth Group and Aetna has left BlueCross Blue Shield of North Carolina to serve the exchange.

The plan says it lost $405 million in 2014 and 2015 on the exchanges, and its chief executive, Brad Wilson, is concerned about the market. The insurer has sought sharply higher premiums for next year. “Consistently losing money on these plans ultimately puts all of our customers and our business at risk,” he said.

Insurers say the current rush to the exits underscores their contention that changes need to be made to the law. The decline in participation “echoes our calls for Congress and the administration to move forward with solutions that will improve the stability of the market and provide the affordable coverage options that consumers need,” said Clare Krusing, a spokeswoman for the America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group."

I'm not saying that the US's Health Care system did not need some serious adjustments previously. But it's no use replacing a moderately satisfying model with one that's worse. Again, we see here ample proof that when people in power positions of a leftist persuasion touch anything... it goes to bust.





Sure, next November vote Hillary!!! She's perfectly suited for the job!!! Barry said so!!!



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"ASIAN" WOMAN WHO WOUNDED THREE PEOPLE WITH KNIFE IN BRUSSELS WAS FILIPINA MUSLIM.

But don't expect our quality media to tell you that. Some stills followed by a VTM video provided with subtitles, courtesy Vlad Tepes and our buddies over at Gates of Vienna.




She's clearly veiled. She may be from Mindanao's south, where the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) and Abu Sayyaf group are active. Of course, I do not think there's a direct link with these organizations. And true, nobody reported having heard "Allahu Akbar". But what is clear is that we have here again a muslim wreaking havoc among infidels.





She was neutralized by Brussels South Police with a shot in the arm. In the meantime, the three victims have left the hospital. They were far luckier than the hapless Polish woman who was killed in Reutlingen, Germany, and the British woman in Queensland, Australia, who fell victim to more dedicated followers of the prophet.



The VTM video:



Naturally, the AB (Apologization Brigade) was out in full force again blaming "psychological troubles". Even if that is true, does it not begin to strike you that so many Stabbers for Allah seem to be "psychologically troubled"? Might that have something to do with inbreeding, which is rampant in the muslim world?

Some fleshing out yet later on, hopefully.


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INSANE: CANADIAN POLICE NOW AUTHORIZES THE USE OF HIJABS BY FEMALE OFFICERS.

One more item in an endless procession of insane decisions with the aim of destroying the fabric of our western societies: via François Desouche:





CANADA : THE WEARING OF A VEIL AUTHORISED BY THE ROYAL POLICE

"The wearing the islamic veil by muslim female members of the Royal Police of Canada (Gendarmerie Royal du Canada) is allowed as of now, the Canadian government announced on Tuesday 23 August."

"...The decision "to allow the female muslims to wear the hijab [in the service], if they wish so" is aimed at encouraging them "to envisage a career within the Royal Police of Canada", declared Scott Bardsley, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Safety, thereby conforming the information received by the daily La Presse..."

Madness!


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RECOMMENDED READS: DR. GUY MILLIERE "FIRST THE SATURDAY PEOPLE, THEN THE SUNDAY PEOPLE."

A rather frightening article by Professor Dr. Guy Millière of the Université de Paris over at The Gatestone Institute.

"...The slaughter of French priest Father Jacques Hamel on July 26 in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray was significant. The church where Father Jacques Hamel was saying mass was nearly empty. Five people were present; three nuns and two faithful. Most of the time, French churches are empty.

Christianity in France is dying out. Jacques Hamel was almost 86 years old; despite his age, he did not want to retire. He knew it would be difficult to find someone to replace him. Priests of European descent are now rare in France, as in many European countries. The priest officially in charge of the parish of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Auguste Moanda-Phuati, is Congolese.





The reaction of the French bishops was also significant. Speaking in their name, Georges Pontier, chairman of the Conference of Bishops of France, called on Catholics for a day of fasting and prayer. He also asked Muslims living in France to come to church to "share the grief of Christians." He added that Muslims are welcome in France.

The decision to deliver a message of brotherhood is consistent with the spirit of Christianity. The wish to welcome Muslims to France but to leave completely aside that the assassins of Father Jacques Hamel acted in the name of Islam and jihad seem signs of willful blindness, severely pathological denial, and a resigned, suicidal acceptance of what is coming.

The assassins of Father Jacques Hamel are what is coming. One of them, Adel Kermiche, was born in France to immigrant parents from Algeria. His path looks like the path followed by many young French Muslims: school failure, delinquency, shift towards a growing hatred of France and the West, return to Islam, transition to radical Islam. The other, Abdel Malik Petitjean, was born in France too. His mother is Muslim. His father comes from a Christian family. Abdel Malik Petitjean nevertheless followed the same path as Adel Kermiche. A growing number of young French-born Muslims radicalize. A growing number of young French people who have not been educated in Islam nevertheless turn to Islam, then to radical Islam...."

Here is a very telling exerpt. French kids - by which I of course mean Jules, Juliette, Louis, Joséphine, Bernard etc... - are litterally being brainwashed into believing they have to hate themselves for "crimes" committed by their forebears:

"... The French education system does not teach young people to love France and the West. It teaches them instead that colonialism plundered many poor countries, that colonized people had to fight to free themselves, and that the fight is not over. It teaches them to hate France. But it erroneously describes Islam as a religion that brought "justice, dignity and tolerance" wherever it reigned. Seventh-grade students spend the first month of the school year learning what Islamic civilization brought to the world in science, architecture, philosophy and wealth. A few weeks later, they have to memorize texts explaining that the Church committed countless atrocious crimes. Economics textbooks are steeped in Marxism and explain that capitalism exploits human beings and ravages nature. The Holocaust is still in the curriculum, but is taught less and less; teachers who dare to speak of it face aggressive remarks from Muslim students. A 2002 book, The Lost Territories of the Republic (Les territoires perdus de la république), exposed the problem. Since then, the situation has worsened considerably...."

and:

"French mainstream media do their best to hide the truth. Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche are described as troubled and depressed young people who slipped "inexplicably" towards barbarity. Their actions are widely presented as having nothing to do with Islam. The same words were used to depict Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the jihadist who murdered 86 people in Nice on July 14th. These words were used to depict all the jihadists who killed in France during the last few years. Each time, Muslim intellectuals are invited to speak, and invariably explain that Islam is peaceful and that Muslims are guilty of nothing.

The anger expressed by political leaders after the attack in Nice has already faded. Some political leaders in France call for tougher measures, but speak of "Islamic terrorism " very rarely. They know that speaking too much of "Islamic terrorism" could be extremely bad for their future careers.

All political parties, including the National Front, talk about the need to establish an "Islam of France." They never explain how, in the internet age, the "Islam of France could be different from Islam as it is everywhere else.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently said that France would become an example -- a "center of excellence" in the "teaching of Islamic theology."





The horrible French PM Manuel Valls. "Islam has entirely its place in France, in Europe. It's a great challenge for the years that come: show that islam is completely compatible with democracy, with the Republic, with equality between men and women, with dialogue." With a despicable traitor like Valls, who in a normal world should be fired right away and forbidden to ever again hold public office in no matter what capacity, France might just simply surrender like it's 1940 all over again.




"For several days after the attack in Nice, it seemed that the country was on the verge of explosion. This is no longer so. The French population seems resigned.

Manuel Valls was criticized when he argued that the French should learn to live with terrorism. Critics of that view now are rarer. The French sense that Islam in France is here to stay. They see that the risks of riots in lawless zones are huge and that all those in positions of responsibility think and act as if it were too late to reverse the course. Fear fills the air.

The French Jewish philosopher Shmuel Trigano recently published an article entitled, "Sacrificing victims for not having to fight the murderers." The French collectively accept the sacrifice of victims because they feel France will not have the strength and the fortitude to fight ruthless murderers. Most of the French seem helpless.

A book written by Antoine Leiris, the husband of one of the victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015 became a bestseller. It is called, You Will Not Have My Hatred. (Vous n'aurez pas ma haine) The author describes what happened at the Bataclan concert hall as a twist of fate, and say that he feels "compassion" for those who killed his wife.

What is happening today is a continuation of what has been happening here so far this century. In 2001-2003, France experienced a huge wave of anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims supporting the "Palestinian cause." The French government denied that the attacks were anti-Semitic. It also denied that they were perpetrated by Muslims. It chose appeasement, expressed loudly its own support for the "Palestinian cause," and added that the revolt of a "part of the population" was "understandable." It asked Jewish organizations to remain silent. French Jews began to leave France. Many of them recalled an Islamic phrase in Arabic: "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people." In other words, first Muslims attack Jews; then when the Jews are gone, they attack Christians. It is what we have been seeing throughout the Middle East.

Attacks against non-Jews began in 2005: riots broke out all over France. The French government again chose appeasement, and said that the revolt of a "part of the population" would be "heard."

A Jew, Ilan Halimi, was tortured for three weeks and then murdered in Paris in 2006. Then, more Jews were murdered in Toulouse in 2012 and in a Paris suburb in 2015."

Ten years ago, Ilan Halimi was lured by a muslima of Iranian descent, Sorour Arbabzadeh, to an apartment where he was tortured for three weeks by a muslim gang led by Youssouf Fofana.

"... Now more and more often, non-Jews are attacked. The French government has repeatedly talked of war, but each time returns to a policy of appeasement.

Today, appeasement reigns, virtually unchallenged. All French political parties are choosing appeasement over confrontation, and hardly dare to call the danger by its name: radical Islam. The French choose submission: they have no real alternative.

Jews continue to flee. Synagogues and Jewish schools throughout the country are guarded around the clock by armed soldiers. Jews who are still in France know that wearing a skullcap or a Star of David is extremely dangerous. They seem to see that appeasement is a dead end. They often emigrate to the country that appeasers treat as a scapegoat and that Islamists want to destroy: Israel. They know that when in Israel, they might have to confront jihadists like those who kill in France, but they also know that Israelis are more ready to fight to defend themselves.

French non-Jews now see that appeasement will not allow them to be spared.

If they look around them in Western Europe, they see there are no more safe places; they have nowhere else to go. They know that hundreds of thousands of migrants in Germany can easily cross nonexistent borders. They know there are thousands potential jihadists in France, that the worst jihadi crimes in France are still to come, and that the authorities have no will to stop them.

There will be no civil war in France. The jihadists have won. They will kill again. They love to kill. They love death. They say, "we love death more than you love life."

One of the nuns present in the empty church said that after slaughtering Father Jacques Hamel, Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean smiled. They were happy."

Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.



Food for thought.

And an incentive for action.



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